Congressional Record United States Th of America PROCEEDINGS and DEBATES of the 115 CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION

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Vol. 164 WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2018 No. 6 House of Representatives The House met at 10 a.m. and was through the massive tax cut, the larg- ricultural products directly to farm co- called to order by the Speaker pro tem- est transfer of wealth in our Nation’s operatives. There is a story about one pore (Mr. SMITH of Nebraska). history, which will be paid for on the gentleman in there who felt that this f backs of our children and grand- could put him out of business. It is children with increased debt and bene- going to sting large agribusinesses like DESIGNATION OF SPEAKER PRO fiting people who in the main don’t Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland. TEMPORE need it—I said at the time that each The new provision could reshape parts The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- week after this bill passed, if it did, we of the agriculture economy and sharply fore the House the following commu- would have a series of embarrassing reduce many farmers’ taxes as well as nication from the Speaker: stories about mistakes and oversight scrambling these individual businesses. WASHINGTON, DC, and special interest provisions that John Power, a North Dakota ac- January 10, 2018. were stuck into it. countant who was the accountant for I hereby appoint the Honorable ADRIAN Well, actually, the fact is that that the small grain operator who is going SMITH to act as Speaker pro tempore on this was somewhat understated because we to be hammered, said: ‘‘It is kind of day. are seeing, literally, every day people hard to imagine they intended to make PAUL D. RYAN, understand what was tucked in the Speaker of the House of Representatives. farming tax free. Fixing it becomes dif- bill: mistakes, oversight, and special ficult because they don’t think it’s f interest provisions. something that can be fixed with regu- MORNING-HOUR DEBATE For example, there is a provision in lation.’’ the bill that was, we were told, de- There are a variety of these provi- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- signed to help small craft brewers. sions that are a result of not following ant to the order of the House of Janu- That is important to me and the people what we call ‘‘regular order,’’ without ary 8, 2018, the Chair will now recog- I represent, and there is broad support having hearings on the provision, of al- nize Members from lists submitted by for minor provisions that would be able lowing lobbyists and staff to be able to the majority and minority leaders for to help them by reducing their tax li- draft the bill on the fly without having morning-hour debate. ability. But the provision that ended members of the committee—not just The Chair will alternate recognition up in the final bill has massive oppor- Democrats, but Republicans—fully between the parties. All time shall be tunities to benefit large producers—a know what was in it. That is legisla- equally allocated between the parties, little bit for small craft brewers, but tive malpractice. It is one of the rea- and in no event shall debate continue for large, international distillers, an sons why, despite giving over $3 trillion beyond 11:50 a.m. Each Member, other opportunity to reconfigure how they do of tax cuts, the bill remains unpopular. than the majority and minority leaders business to take advantage of multiple and the minority whip, shall be limited opportunities for that tax break. Americans are nervous about increas- to 5 minutes. There was an article yesterday talking our national debt over $2 trillion, f ing about how the tax rate for Amer- and they know that the benefits for av- ican companies that manufacture over- erage citizens are going to go away in TAX BILL RAMIFICATIONS seas, the tax on that activity will be a few years and some are actually The SPEAKER pro tempore. The half as much as if they were manufac- going to see tax increases, but the ben- Chair recognizes the gentleman from turing in the United States, providing efits for the top 1 percent and the larg- Oregon (Mr. BLUMENAUER) for 5 min- an incentive to offshore jobs at a time est corporations are permanent. utes. when most of us would like to make People know that it is not fair, that Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, sure that it is, here at home, at least, it is unnecessary, and that it is going one of the phrases one often hears is, ‘‘I a level playing field, not to disadvan- to have more and more problems here, hate to say I told you so.’’ And it is de- tage people manufacturing here at not just in States like mine where citi- livered with a feigned sincerity, but home. zens are no longer going to be able to usually people actually like to say, ‘‘I And, of course, there is another story fully deduct their State and local told you so.’’ in today’s Wall Street Journal, ‘‘Tax taxes, property taxes, resulting in sig- I must confess that I have some of Law’s Effect Fuels Farm Outcry,’’ be- nificant inequity, in scrambling prop- those feelings myself, as repeatedly cause there was a provision inserted in erty values, not just in Oregon, but it during the few hours the Ways and the bill that would give farmers a more is across the country where people are Means Committee met, rushing lucrative deduction when they sell ag- going to be facing these problems.

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VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A10JA7.000 H10JAPT1 H86 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 10, 2018 CELEBRATING PASSAGE OF THE for millions of workers. Quite simply, work passionately and unrelentingly TAX CUTS AND JOBS ACT this bill provides the kind of tax relief for the very vision of our country that The SPEAKER pro tempore. The that Americans deserve. inspires so many around the world, for Chair recognizes the gentleman from We challenged the status quo and the that more perfect Union that we know Pennsylvania (Mr. THOMPSON) for 5 special interests who said it couldn’t be is still ahead of us, for that society minutes. done, and we did it. And the American that remembers that we are all better Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. people won. off when we are all better off. Mr. Speaker, it has been nearly 10 f Dr. King would remind us that jus- years since the Great Recession offi- CELEBRATING MARTIN LUTHER tice is what love looks like in public. cially began, when our economy KING, JR., DAY He would call on us to move into that slumped and unemployment climbed to The SPEAKER pro tempore. The plane of higher education, that plane of levels not witnessed since the early moral consciousness where we simply 1980s, but last month Congress paved Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. JAYAPAL) for 5 min- cannot stand by as injustice occurs the way to create a tax system that is around us. fair, simpler, and one that establishes utes. an environment where our country can Ms. JAYAPAL. Mr. Speaker, I rise He would call on us to address eco- unleash our full potential. today in honor of the upcoming holiday nomic inequality by raising the min- Too many Americans are living pay- remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, imum wage and enacting real tax re- check to paycheck and have been for Jr. form whose benefits accrue to the too long. Stagnant wages, growing As a lifelong activist fighting for im- masses and not to the top 1 percent and debt, and the inability to save have migrants, civil and human rights, and the wealthiest corporations. plagued so many. That is why our tax now as a Member of Congress, Dr. King Dr. King would call on us to pass the overhaul is so important. This truly is has been a deep and central inspiration Dream Act and support the futures of a once-in-a-generation opportunity throughout my life. His work has 1.5 million young people across the that we could not afford to pass up. helped me to make possible the path country. He would call on us to expand The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will touch that I have taken, from being a 16- and support the Affordable Care Act every household in the Nation and year-old immigrant girl who came to and healthcare for everyone so that no every corner of our economy. As soon this country by herself for college, to one is one healthcare crisis away from as February, Americans will see more serving, now, as the first Indian-Amer- bankruptcy. money in their paychecks. When it ican woman elected to the United Our work is still to fight for justice comes time to file their 2018 taxes, our States House of Representatives—and and build that beloved community tax system will be so simple that 9 out it is the courage and the fight of Dr. where each of us has a place to stand of 10 Americans will be able to file on King that made my journey possible. regardless of the color of our skin or a postcard. The standard deduction will I knew of Dr. King first because of where we live or how much money we be doubled for individuals and joint fil- his connection to Mahatma Gandhi, a have in our pockets, and in this be- ers. Middle class families will also have great leader from my own birth coun- loved community, we would tackle the a significant increase to the child tax try of India. Like Gandhi, Dr. King was legacies of racism and implicit bias credit to help parents with the costs of a once-in-a-generation leader. Like that we all carry with us with courage raising children. Gandhi, the problems that Dr. King And, Mr. Speaker, for those pursuing tackled were once seen as insurmount- and with fortitude. We would work to- opportunity through education, Amer- able problems, institutional barriers of gether to build that community that ica’s students, the graduate tuition race and class that seemed as if, if inspires us and to leave a world to our voucher exemption and student loan taken on, would topple society as we children that makes us proud, and, interest deduction remain in our tax knew it, tall walls of tradition and most importantly, we operate always reform package. I, and many of my col- practice that kept our society seg- from a place of generosity and abun- leagues, urged the conference com- regated and divided. dance rather than fear and scarcity. mittee to keep these provisions intact. But that did not stop him from From that jail cell in Alabama, Dr. Our Tax Code should provide incen- speaking out, organizing, and leading a King wrote: ‘‘We are caught in an ines- tives for greater opportunity. For growing movement that reminded the capable network of mutuality, tied in a many, this is realized through higher leaders of our country of the very single garment of destiny,’’ or, as the education. The student loan interest dream that made America possible: great civil rights leader Reverend Jo- deduction helps make higher education that all men and women were created seph Lowery once said to me during more affordable, and based on the most equal and that we should be judged by the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride: recent yearly data available, 12 million the content of our character and not ‘‘We may have come over on different taxpayers benefited from that deduc- the color of our skin. ships, but we are all in the same boat tion. Dr. King’s gift was in his unique abil- now.’’ I advocated keeping this provision as ity to bring truth, compassion, and jus- To make a difference, to truly serve well as the graduate tuition voucher tice together for a better future and to the people, it only takes courage and exemption and other higher education remind us of how much we share even coming together as a collective, across tax credits as a part of the Tax Cuts across our differences. He followed the aisle, across rural and urban, and Jobs Act because they truly do Gandhi’s principles of nonviolent re- across Black, White, and Brown. Dr. make a difference in the lives of so sistance, also known as satyagraha: King showed us what that really looks many Americans. It makes financing ‘‘satya’’ meaning truth, and ‘‘graha’’ like, and he died because he was com- an education possible for many low- meaning adherence to truth. pelled to stand for making a reality and middle-income individuals. Satyagraha then meant insistence on In addition to education, another truth, and that is what Dr. King from a dream of what was possible only great cornerstone of the American preached and acted upon: truth about in a country as great as the United Dream is homeownership, and, proudly, ending segregation and discrimination, States of America. the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will con- truth about ending the war in Vietnam, Today, as we remember and honor tinue to provide tax relief to current truth about lifting up sanitation work- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we re- and aspiring homeowners alike. ers and ending poverty, truth, ulti- member, too, that if we are coura- Mr. Speaker, there are many accom- mately, that it is love and not hate geous, if we put people over politics, plishments in this historic tax over- that builds our character and our col- our actions have the power to change haul, including lowering the corporate lective society. lives, to push that moral arc of the uni- tax rate, which will put our job cre- If Dr. King were here with us today, verse more quickly towards justice. As ators on a level playing field with their he would call on us to have faith in our Dr. King said: ‘‘We must make the global competitors. This has already fight for justice and to substitute cour- pledge that we shall always march led to increased bonuses and pay raises age for caution. He would call on us to ahead. We cannot turn back.’’

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.003 H10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H87 b 1015 And to that, I wish you all the best cybersecurity center, an entrepreneur- CONGRESSMAN TIBERI’S here in the United States Congress. ship and innovation hub, and many FAREWELL ADDRESS God bless you, and God bless America. other more exciting spaces. It will also f empower the business school to offer 48 The SPEAKER pro tempore. The undergraduate and graduate degrees. SHIELD OUR DREAMERS FROM Chair recognizes the gentleman from Most importantly, with its expanded DEPORTATION Ohio (Mr. TIBERI) for 5 minutes. classrooms and robust technology in- Mr. TIBERI. Mr. Speaker, it has The SPEAKER pro tempore. The frastructure, this new facility will keep truly been the most remarkable honor Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from St. Thomas at the forefront of business to serve the people of Ohio’s 12th Con- Florida (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN) for 5 min- education and will enable the univer- gressional District in central Ohio. utes. sity to continue preparing new genera- It all started in 1999, on my parents’ Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, tions of south Florida business leaders. front porch, the house that I grew up we will all certainly miss the gen- I thank Gus Machado for his gen- in, in a middle class neighborhood in tleman from Ohio (Mr. TIBERI). He is a erous gift and every member of the St. Columbus called Forest Park. There, as wonderful Member, and we have en- Thomas family who has worked so hard the son of Italian immigrants, I joyed his service to our country. to make this dream a reality. learned how blessed I truly was to be Mr. Speaker, last night, a U.S. Dis- RECOGNIZING THE LEGACY OF PARKER THOMSON an American; first in my family to trict Court Judge ordered the adminis- Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I graduate from high school, to go to tration to continue accepting renewal rise today in recognition of Parker high school, work my way through col- applications for DACA recipients. Al- Thomson, a renowned attorney and lege at The Ohio State University. though this is welcome news, this civic leader from Miami who recently See, my mom and dad believed that should not undercut the urgency for us passed at the age of 85. Mr. Thomson America was an incredible opportunity. here in Congress to pass a permanent was known for his work defending the With hard work and a good education, legislative solution to shield our First Amendment during his time with you could do anything. With their sac- DREAMers from deportation. his law firm, Paul & Thomson. rifices and their hard work, I am here This week, I, again, had the great Parker was a leader in advocating for before you today, and for their sac- honor of meeting another great group our south Florida environment, in- rifices, I am forever grateful. of bright and hardworking young im- volved in cases to protect the Ever- Leaving this Congress was not an migrants from my district whose glades and our pristine beaches. easy decision. The speech that I made DACA permits will expire in the com- As the founding chair of the Miami- in 1999, on their front porch, still holds ing weeks and the coming months. De- Dade Performing Arts Center Trust, true today, the reason why I ran, to spite their circumstances, despite liv- Mr. Thomson helped lead the charge help those constituents, not only help ing in fear and uncertainty about what for the creation of the state-of-the-art them here in Washington, but help their future holds, each one of these in- Adrienne Arsht Center for the Per- them cut through the red tape, to help dividuals has demonstrated great reforming Arts. Parker’s commitment to that veteran, to help that widow on So- solve and perseverance to continue the his community was also visible cial Security. fight. through his advocacy for The Under- But leaving was important for my They visit Members of Congress, they line project to renovate public spaces family. It was important to support share their unique stories, they provide in Miami, which is led by his daughter, them, to be with them more. My col- the facts about their contributions in another pillar of our community, new leagues understand that. The sacrifices our communities, and they implore us generation, Meg Daly. that we make, they make more. We put to give them the opportunity to stay in Mr. Thomson represented the spirit our names on the ballot, our spouses what they consider to be their home, of hard work and served as a mentor to don’t, our children don’t. the United States. To my colleagues, thank you for your Our DREAMers have suffered long coworkers and friends. Parker Thom- friendship, your mentorship, and, cer- enough, Mr. Speaker, and it is time son has left a legacy of service to his tainly, your wisdom over the years. I that we act and take this issue to the community, one that future genera- will miss you. finish line. Human lives are, indeed, at tions should seek to emulate. To my supporters, who spent count- stake. Our DREAMers can’t live from f less hours knocking on doors, putting court decision to court decision. NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT up signs, going on bus tours, I couldn’t As Congress has returned this week APPRECIATION DAY have done it without you. Thank you. to begin our second session, I am here, To my team, both back in Ohio and once again, to urge us all to bring to The SPEAKER pro tempore. The here in D.C., both past and present, the floor a legislative solution to give Chair recognizes the gentleman from thank you for helping me serve and our DREAMers the opportunity to Illinois (Mr. BOST) for 5 minutes. succeed for the people of Ohio’s 12th work here, to study here in this great Mr. BOST. Mr. Speaker, this week, District. country that they know as home. I am we celebrate National Law Enforce- The late, great Woody Hayes said: confident that we have the votes, Re- ment Appreciation Day. Law enforce- ‘‘You win with people.’’ You are my publicans and Democrats, for the ment officers answer the call to public people, and we have won together so House and the Senate to pass this per- service. They enter into situations that many battles. I could not have done manent legislative fix. We can, and we put their lives on the line. When the this without you. Forever Team Tiberi must, make this happen now. Let us natural human response to danger is to you all will be. not wait any longer. run away, these brave men and women run toward it, and they do this to pro- Most importantly, for my wife, CELEBRATING THE GROUNDBREAKING FOR THE Denice; our four daughters, Angelina, ST. THOMAS UNIVERSITY GUS MACHADO tect their communities. Cristina, Daniela, and Gabriela, thank SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Our law enforcement officers occupy you for all your support over the years. Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I that thin blue line between good and I will look forward to seeing you much rise today to congratulate St. Thomas evil. They stand between us and those more. University as it breaks ground on Jan- who wish to do us harm and harm to Finally, to the constituents of the uary 24 on the new home for the Gus our families. 12th Congressional District, what an Machado School of Business. This new To the 780,000 police officers across honor, a humbling honor, to serve you facility will empower St. Thomas Uni- this country who put on the badge for the last 17 years. For a kid who versity to continue its decades-long every day, thank you, and God bless. grew up in Columbus, Ohio, in a middle commitment to providing an excellent, CONGRATULATING HELEN HAWKINS class family, it has truly been an amaz- yet affordable, business education to Mr. BOST. Mr. Speaker, I also rise ing journey. This speech is not good- students in south Florida. today to congratulate Helen Hawkins bye; this speech is see you soon around The new business school complex will of Edwardsville, Illinois, for being in- the corner. include a state-of-the-art trading room, ducted into the Senior Illinoisans Hall

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.005 H10JAPT1 H88 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 10, 2018 of Fame. The recognition commemo- United States, or under the Territorial mitteewoman and businesswoman; rates the achievements and contribu- Clause, to use the constitutional term. Charlie Rodriguez, State chairman for tions of citizens age 65 and older. In- Our residents are subject to a second the DNC and former senate president; ductees are selected through a state- class citizenship. For all these years, Alfonso Aguilar, president of the wide nomination and judging process. the Federal Government has denied Latino Partnership for Conservative The program distinguishes individuals equal rights to all Puerto Ricans who Principles; and Ivan ‘‘Pudge’’ Rodri- in the areas of community service, edu- have, in war and peace, made countless guez, a Major League Baseball player cation, the work force, and the arts. contributions to our Nation; who have inducted into the Hall of Fame. Helen is a true public servant who bravely fought in every conflict since Puerto Rico has come to this House has devoted many years to serving the the Great War, defending our demo- today to claim the American Dream residents of Madison County and cratic values, yet they are being denied and to fulfill its destiny, to obtain Nameoki Township. Her no-nonsense the right to vote for their Commander- equality within the Nation, and to un- style may have ruffled some feathers in-Chief and have full representation in leash our full potential. Statehood will throughout the years, but she has this Congress. make Puerto Rico stronger, but we, to- never been afraid to fight for her con- A large number of them have made gether, will make the United States a stituents. the ultimate sacrifice, and when they more perfect Union. Helen, thank you for your public do, their casket is flown back, covered f service. in an American flag with 50 stars, and HONORING SERGEANT MAJOR without the one representing them. HONORING BOB BUTLER ROBERT HAWKINS Mr. BOST. Mr. Speaker, I also rise Puerto Rico has experienced long- today to honor the longest serving standing inequities under Federal laws, The SPEAKER pro tempore. The mayor in the State of Illinois, Bob But- which now the whole world has been Chair recognizes the gentleman from ler, who is a very good friend of Mar- able to witness firsthand following the Minnesota (Mr. WALZ) for 5 minutes. Mr. WALZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today ion. Now, he is a very good friend, but, devastation caused by Hurricane to recognize Sergeant Major Robert whenever he first took office, he didn’t Maria. Hawkins of the United States Army for know me well because I was only 21⁄2 b 1030 his extraordinary dedication to duty years old. He was first elected in April Before that, hundreds of thousands of and service to our Nation. Sergeant of 1963, and Bob is retiring this month Puerto Ricans have already rejected Major Hawkins will soon transition after 55 years of service. this discrimination, choosing, instead, from his current assignment as an Bob has always been a straight to buy their equality with a one-way Army Congressional Legislative Liai- shooter and a good public servant. His airline ticket to Florida or simply son Officer in the House of Representa- progrowth agenda has helped turn Mar- changing their State ZIP Code. tives to serve in the Office of the As- ion into a regional powerhouse along I– Without the equal rights and respon- sistant Secretary of the Army for Ac- 57 in the State of Illinois. In fact, the sibilities that are only available quisition, Logistics, and Technology. industrial park in Marion is named through statehood, Puerto Rico will A native of Alexandria, Virginia, Ser- after him, and Bob fondly refers to the never truly recover and prosper from geant Major Hawkins began his mili- city of Marion as the hub of the uni- the hurricane effects. That is the rea- tary career as an airborne infantryman verse. He represents the dedication to son we demand and deserve statehood in 1990. He subsequently served in as- public service that should serve as an for Puerto Rico now. The islands over- signments to the Republic of Panama; inspiration to all of us. whelmingly voted for statehood in 2012 Fort Myers, Florida; Schofield Bar- Mayor Bob Butler, we honor you, and by a margin of 61 percent, and in June racks, Hawaii; Fort Polk, Louisiana; wish you a happy and well-deserved re- of last year, 97 percent of the islands Fort Bliss, Texas; Fort Campbell, Ken- tirement. voted again for statehood. tucky; and three times at Fort Bragg, RECOGNIZING SAM AND EVA JONES That is the request that brought me North Carolina. Mr. BOST. Mr. Speaker, I also rise here. That is what brings, today, the Sergeant Major Hawkins has served today to recognize Sam and Eva Jones Governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo in multiple leadership and staff posi- of Marion, Illinois. This remarkable Rossello´ , Puerto Rico Senate President tions throughout his distinguished ca- couple was first married on September Thomas Rivera Schatz, House Speaker reer. His combat deployments include 27, 1936. Now, if you think about that, Johnny Mendez, and all other elected one tour in Iraq in support of Oper- that was 80 years ago. officials from the island who have ation Iraqi Freedom and three tours of Sam worked for Central Illinois come here to witness today’s historic combat in Afghanistan in support of Power Service until he retired in 1978. introduction of the Puerto Rico shadow Operation Enduring Freedom. Eva worked at Norge in Herrin and delegation to this Congress. That dele- In 2014, Sergeant Major Hawkins was later as a cook for Washington Elemen- gation will demand that the United selected as a fellow in the Army Con- tary School. Pillars of the community, States recognize the will of the people gressional Fellowship Program. He sub- they were longtime members of First of Puerto Rico to become a State. sequently served 12 months as a de- Baptist Church in Marion and the This long-awaited action is in accord fense legislative fellow in my congres- Williamson County Farm Bureau. In with the precedents set forth by the sional office, representing the First 1993, their farm was honored as Family Tennessee Plan, adopted by the terri- Congressional District of Minnesota. Farm of the Year by the Farm Bureau. tories of Tennessee, Michigan, Oregon, While working on our team, I came Sadly, Eva passed last month, at the California, Iowa, Kansas, and Alaska, to know Sergeant Major Hawkins as a age of 101. My prayers are with Sam which followed a similar path to even- shining example of the Army values set and the entire Jones family. Thank tual admission as States. forth in the Noncommissioned Officer’s you for making southern Illinois a It is my honor to introduce this dele- Creed. ‘‘Competence’’ is indeed Ser- wonderful place to live. God bless you. gation of seven members—three Repub- geant Major Hawkins’ watchword, and f licans, three Democrats, one Inde- his commitment to doing what good pendent, divided into two Senators, NCOs do, accomplishing every mission, PUERTO RICO’S SHADOW five Members to the House—as we be- while taking care of his teammates, DELEGATION TO CONGRESS come a State. was second to none. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Pedro Rossello´ , former Governor of For the next 2 years, Sergeant Major Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Puerto Rico, serves as the chair of the Hawkins served as a Congressional Puerto Rico (Miss GONZA´ LEZ-COLO´ N) for delegation; Carlos Romero Barcelo´ to Legislative Liaison Officer in the 5 minutes. the senate, former Governor and a United States Army House Liaison Di- Miss GONZA´ LEZ-COLO´ N of Puerto former Member of the house; Luis vision. As the primary link between Rico. Mr. Speaker, today, after almost Fortun˜ o, former Governor and a former House Members, their staff, and the 120 years under the American flag, Member of this House; Zoraida committees, along with the Army, he Puerto Rico remains as a colony of the Fonalledas, Puerto Rico national com- has provided insight and understanding

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.006 H10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H89 of Army policies, actions, operations, nities and friends on both sides of the service to our country. He is in God’s and requirements. His firsthand knowl- aisle. hands now. May he rest in eternal edge of the military, its culture, and Representative Winn served on the peace. its tradition has been of tremendous House Committee on Foreign Affairs f value to congressional offices. for many years, ultimately becoming HONORING THE LIFE AND LEGACY Sergeant Major Hawkins was espe- the ranking member on the committee. OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING cially effective in his service to Mem- During his time working on the For- bers and staff as he escorted them on eign Affairs Committee, the United The SPEAKER pro tempore. The fact-finding and oversight delegations States grappled with major world Chair recognizes the gentleman from within and outside the United States. events such as the Cold War, the Viet- Texas (Mr. AL GREEN) for 5 minutes, Members and staff found him to be a nam war, and conflict in the Middle Mr. AL GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speak- thoughtful, intelligent, dedicated sol- East. In addition to his role on the For- er, I rise today in the well of the Con- dier in the very best traditions of eign Affairs Committee, he also rep- gress of the United States of America America’s Armed Forces. resented the U.S. as a congressional as a proud, liberated Democrat. A lib- Mr. Speaker, it has been a pleasure representative to the United Nations, erated Democrat, by my definition, is to know and serve with Sergeant Major appointed by President Reagan. In all one who cannot only speak truth to Hawkins during his time as Army Con- of these roles, he was an excellent rep- power, but can also speak about power. So I rise today, Mr. Speaker, to gressional Fellow and Congressional resentative of our country to the rest honor and celebrate the life and legacy Legislative Liaison Officer in the of the world. of Dr. Martin Luther King. And in so House of Representatives. Larry took tremendous pride in serv- doing, I want to encourage persons to On behalf of a grateful nation, it is ing the people of the Third District. not only read the masterpiece that Dr. my honor to recognize the selfless serv- Constituent service was always one of King wrote when he was in the Bir- ice and sacrifice of Sergeant Major his top priorities, and he believed that mingham jail, but also read the letter Robert ‘‘Bobby’’ Hawkins and his fam- solving problems for his constituents that he was responding to. ily. I wish Sergeant Major Hawkins the was one of his most important respon- This letter was written by eight per- very best as he begins a new chapter of sibilities. If someone had an issue with sons, in my opinion, none of whom dedicated service to our Nation in the a Federal agency, Larry and his staff were bigots, none of whom taught or United States Army. would make sure that it got resolved. preached hate; eight persons who were f This principle of valuing and serving of the religious community; eight per- each individual constituent in the dis- TRIBUTE TO FORMER sons who were beyond reproach, high trict is one that I try to follow to this CONGRESSMAN LARRY WINN, JR. moral standards, impeccable character. day trying to fill his shoes. You need to read the letter that Dr. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The He lived a great life outside of Con- King was responding to, the letter that Chair recognizes the gentleman from gress as well. Larry was an alumnus of was written by eight members of the Kansas (Mr. YODER) for 5 minutes. the University of Kansas school of clergy. And when you read this letter, Mr. YODER. Mr. Speaker, I rise journalism and a proud Jayhawk. I as you go through it, you will get to today to honor and remember the life have even heard that he taught lifelong the last paragraph. of a long-time public servant in this Wildcat current Senator PAT ROBERTS I shall read the last paragraph and body, one of my predecessors, former how to ‘‘Wave the Wheat.’’ excerpt from it, if you will, not in its Third District Congressman from Kan- When World War II began, he was un- entirety, but I shall read an excerpt sas, Representative Larry Winn. able to join the military due to the loss from the last paragraph, and then I Larry passed away on New Year’s Eve of one of his legs in an accident; how- want to contemporize the excerpt from at the remarkable age of 98, and he will ever, he still served his country admi- the last paragraph. be dearly missed by his family and the rably by building airplanes in Kansas Read it in its entirety. Read the let- people of the Third District. Larry will City. Other accomplishments of his inter from the Birmingham jail. But, my long be remembered in our community cluded serving as the director of the friends, please read the letter that he and in the Halls of Congress as a de- National Association of Home Builders was responding to. If you do not read voted public servant. and the founding of the Kansas City, this letter, you cannot totally appre- Representative Winn served in this Kansas, Chamber’s Congressional ciate the message that Dr. King was body for 18 years, from 1967 to 1985. His Forum, which I have the privilege of conveying. time in the House spanned across nine regularly addressing and is still going Here is what I shall read as an ex- Congresses and five Presidential ad- on today, starting its 50th year. cerpt. It reads: ‘‘When rights are con- ministrations, from Lyndon B. Johnson Larry was a mentor to me and so sistently denied, a cause should be to Ronald Reagan. He served alongside many aspiring elected officials in Kan- pressed in the courts and in negotia- some of the great statesmen of his sas, dispensing valuable advice, and old tions among local leaders, and not in time. war stories to help guide us along. He the streets.’’ Larry’s freshman class in the House had a gift for humor and an ease with I just want to contemporize that sen- included later President George H.W. people that served him well in all of his tence. Bush. Larry and his wife, Joan, became endeavors. And most of all, he was a In the courts, let somebody else take good friends with the Bushes, and Joan great man. care of this problem. There are other and Barbara Bush were proud members While we will mourn the loss of people who are prepared for this. They of a club for congressional spouses Larry, I take comfort knowing that he know best how to handle this. Let called the 66 Club. is now being reunited with Joan, his someone else do what we could take Larry became close friends with and beloved wife of 73 years, who passed upon ourselves the duty to do. Let greatly respected President Gerald away in 2015. Larry also leaves behind someone else be responsible for liberty Ford, who once visited the Third Dis- a large and loving family. His legacy and justice for all. Let someone else be trict and drew a huge crowd in my will live on through his four children— responsible for government of the peo- hometown of Overland Park. Larry Winn III, Douglas Winn, Janet ple, by the people, for the people. Let Larry also represented our State, Payne, and Cynthia Burr—plus 8 grand- someone else do it. along with one of our most prominent children and 16 great-grandchildren. Contemporizing this language, let Kansans ever, Senator Bob Dole. Larry’s legacy will live on in other the special prosecutor do it. The spe- Larry was known as a congenial public servants whom he mentored and cial prosecutor will give us a decision Member who worked to find consensus inspired. He left an indelible mark on that we can appreciate, that we can and develop strong relationships with this body, and because of his leadership take forth, that we can then claim has his colleagues on both sides of the here, Kansas and the United States is given us the foundation to do some- aisle. While he spent his entire time in better off for it. thing significant. Congress in the minority party, he On behalf of the United States Con- Mr. Speaker, these were persons of made a priority of seeking out opportu- gress, we are thankful for Larry Winn’s honorable standing, great stature.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.008 H10JAPT1 H90 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 10, 2018 They meant well, but they wanted to that article I say that student loan I remember reading an article about let someone else do what they them- debt in the United States is now $1.48 3 years ago in The Post which said that selves could have had a hand in doing. trillion. That incredible sum is a heavy student tuition had gone up 41⁄2 times Mr. Speaker, Dr. King was a man who drag on the economy and a burden on the rate of inflation since 1985. Now the believed that bigotry and hatred must young people, and Federal intervention cost of higher education has soared to be confronted, and he understood this in education is the cause. such great heights that universities are one basic premise: those who will tol- It wasn’t always this way. bragging if they hold the annual in- erate bigotry and hatred, they will do In June of 1965, I began working as a creases to 2 or 3 percent. They never very little to change it. They will find salesman at the Sears store in Knox- consider reductions, not even miniscule reasons why they can’t change bigotry ville, receiving a 10-cents-an-hour raise ones. Thus we have another example of and hatred when given the oppor- over my job as a bag boy at the A&P. how Big Government liberalism helps tunity. At Sears, my wage was $1.25 an hour. I the few at the top while harming the There is always an excuse. It won’t was required to wear a suit and tie, and many down below. be the Good Samaritan response: If I I was very proud of that job. The Federal student loan program don’t help people who are being dis- I worked full time that summer and has made the owners of some loan serv- criminated against, who are being usually around 20 hours a week after I icing companies very wealthy and has kicked off of jobs because they are began my freshman year at the Univer- been a boon to most college adminis- LGBTQ, who can’t get loans because of sity of Tennessee in late September. trators and tenured professors; and all their ethnicity, because of religiosity— After I had worked at Sears for 6 of this at great expense to students and invidious religiosity, I might add. They months—I didn’t realize I had been their families. are being barred, banned. there 6 months—I was called to the of- When the Knoxville News Sentinel fice for the first time. I was very con- b 1045 lists the highest paid people in east cerned, to put it lightly. I met David Tennessee each year, they are almost They won’t look to see what is hap- Weaver, who was my same age, 18, at all at TVA or UT. Yet the pattern con- pening to them. What they will do is the escalator. I told him: I bet I was hit tinues to repeat: Liberals find a very ask: What will happen to me if I step by one of those Hallmark shoppers— small group of people who are having out there and try to help them? one of the mystery shoppers Sears had trouble paying for something, then in- I don’t think they are persons of ill at the time. He told me he had just sist that the only solution is to let the will. I think that they are persons who been called by a very angry woman to Federal Government ‘‘help.’’ But when- mean well. But I ask people to under- whom he had sold the wrong color of ever the Federal Government sub- stand the context of this time by un- paint. David said that he was scared sidizes something, the costs simply ex- derstanding and reviewing the context and that he had diabetes, and when he plode because most of the incentives or of the time that Dr. King lived in and got too nervous, he would pass out. I pressures to hold costs down vanish. review that letter from the Bir- can remember that conversation as if Finally, Mr. Speaker, I would say mingham jail—the masterpiece—but it happened yesterday. this is why Mark Cuban, the Shark also read the letter that he was re- Much to our relief, we had been Tank star, has said: If you want to sponding to. called to the office so management make college really expensive, make it Those who will tolerate bigotry will could give us good news: because we free. do little to change it. had been working at Sears for 6 f f months, they were giving us a nickel- STUDENT LOAN DEBT an-hour raise. RECESS It shocks students at the University The SPEAKER pro tempore. The of Tennessee today when I tell them The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Chair recognizes the gentleman from that tuition my freshman year was $90 ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair Tennessee (Mr. DUNCAN) for 5 minutes. per quarter, $270 for the academic year. declares the House in recess until noon Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee. Mr. By my senior year, it was $405. I re- today. Speaker, in today’s Washington Post, member hearing our minority leader, Accordingly (at 10 o’clock and 51 minutes a.m.), the House stood in re- there is a major story on the front page Mr. HOYER, say that when he started at of the Style Section about a young the University of Maryland, it was $87 cess. woman name Sarah Pool. a semester. Almost no one left college f One of the headlines says: ‘‘Sarah in those days with debt unless they had Pool, 31, has a baby and a job, and loves bought a car or made some other major b 1200 them both, but she fears she will be purchase. Students certainly did not go AFTER RECESS paying off student loans till the day into debt for tuition because they The recess having expired, the House she dies.’’ could all work part time, as I did, and was called to order by the Speaker at She got loans totaling $60,000 but now pay all their school expenses. owes $69,000. She is quoted as saying: ‘‘I Now, over 44 million Americans carry noon. keep paying, but it is like pouring into student loan debt—some of those debts f a bucket with no bottom.’’ reaching into the six figures. Mr. Speaker, for several years, I have Readers Digest recently published an PRAYER been speaking out about how harmful article in the December/January issue The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick the Federal student loan program has entitled ‘‘The Student Debt Racket.’’ J. Conroy, offered the following prayer: become for many, many hundreds of The authors quote one student who Dear God, we give You thanks for thousands of students and families owes $90,000 as saying: ‘‘My loans are a giving us another day. around this country. black cloud hanging over me. I am a We ask Your special blessing upon In May of 2015, I wrote an article for student debt slave.’’ the Members of this people’s House. the Washington Examiner newspaper Colleges and universities began heav- They face difficult decisions and dif- with ideas about how to bring down the ily promoting student loans in the late ficult times, with many forces and in- cost of college. In that article, I quoted sixties and early seventies. They were terests demanding their attention. hedge fund manager James Altucher, able to tamp down opposition to tui- In these days, give wisdom to all who wrote: ‘‘We are graduating a gen- tion and fee increases by telling stu- Members, that they might execute eration of indentured students.’’ dents: Don’t worry, we will just get you their responsibilities to the benefit of An Ohio University economist, Rich- a loan. all Americans. ard Vedder, wrote a book several years Then, because loans were available, Bless them, O God, and be with them ago entitled ‘‘Going Broke By Degree.’’ many schools began raising tuition at and with us all this day and every day In the February issue of Chronicles two and three times the rate of infla- to come. May all that is done be for magazine, which will be out in just a tion each year, and have continued to Your greater honor and glory. few days, I have another article; and in do so. Amen.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.010 H10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H91 THE JOURNAL LET’S TAKE CARE OF AMERICA’S families, and I look forward to con- The SPEAKER. The Chair has exam- CHILDREN tinuing to work toward bigger pay- ined the Journal of the last day’s pro- (Mr. CICILLINE asked and was given checks, more jobs, and a prosperous ceedings and announces to the House permission to address the House for 1 economy. his approval thereof. minute.) f Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the Jour- Mr. CICILLINE. Mr. Speaker, there is COMPACT IMPACT RELIEF no greater responsibility that we have nal stands approved. (Ms. BORDALLO asked and was than the health and well-being of Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, pur- given permission to address the House America’s children. The Children’s suant to clause 1, rule I, I demand a for 1 minute.) vote on agreeing to the Speaker’s ap- Health Insurance Program has been a Ms. BORDALLO. Mr. Speaker, today proval of the Journal. huge success. In just a few weeks, fund- I am proud to reintroduce my Compact The SPEAKER. The question is on ing for this program will run out in my Impact Relief Act with my colleagues the Speaker’s approval of the Journal. home State of Rhode Island. from Hawaii and the Northern Mari- This is a program that has provided The question was taken; and the anas as original cosponsors. Our bill Speaker announced that the ayes ap- health insurance to 9 million children would provide relief to Guam and other peared to have it. from working families in this country, States and territories required by the Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I ob- 27,000 children and pregnant women in Federal Government to provide local ject to the vote on the ground that a my home State of Rhode Island. It has public services to more than 76,000 mi- quorum is not present and make the always been a bipartisan issue. This grants under the Compacts of Free As- point of order that a quorum is not program has been a huge success. It sociation. present. brought the rate of uninsured children Guam remains the top destination The SPEAKER. Pursuant to clause 8, down from almost 14 percent when the for Compact migrants from the three rule XX, further proceedings on this program began to 41⁄2 percent today. freely associated States. Our island ac- question will be postponed. And why haven’t we reauthorized commodates nearly 18,000 out of a pop- The point of no quorum is considered this program yet that ensures the ulation of just 175,000. withdrawn. health and well-being of America’s As the United States looks to renew children? f the Compacts after 2023, Congress must We just passed—or the Republicans increase mandatory Compact impact PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE just passed—a $1.5 trillion tax cut for funding to affected jurisdictions like The SPEAKER. Will the gentleman the richest people in this country, the Guam. Congress should provide the biggest corporations, unpaid for. But from New York (Mr. ESPAILLAT) come funding level recommended by the Gov- forward and lead the House in the we can’t manage to find money to re- ernment Accountability Office, as I Pledge of Allegiance. authorize the Children’s Health Insur- have called for repeatedly. Mr. ESPAILLAT led the Pledge of ance Program? In the meantime, I hope this House I urge the Republican leadership in Allegiance as follows: will act on the practical policy changes this Chamber to bring a clean reau- included in my Compact Impact Relief I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the thorization bill to the floor so we can United States of America, and to the Repub- Act. lic for which it stands, one nation under God, reauthorize this effective and impor- f indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. tant program and take care of Amer- ica’s children. HIGHLIGHTING THE COURAGE AND f PERSEVERANCE OF SONIA f ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER WARSHAWSKI WASHINGTON BUSINESSES GIVING (Mr. YODER asked and was given The SPEAKER. The Chair will enter- BACK permission to address the House for 1 tain up to 15 requests for 1-minute (Mr. NEWHOUSE asked and was minute and to revise and extend his re- speeches on each side of the aisle. given permission to address the House marks.) f for 1 minute.) Mr. YODER. Mr. Speaker, I rise Mr. NEWHOUSE. Mr. Speaker, we are IN MEMORY OF ROCKY FAWCETT today to highlight the courage and per- already seeing the positive impact of severance of Sonia Warshawski, one of (Ms. STEFANIK asked and was given tax reform. More than 100 businesses the few remaining Holocaust survivors permission to address the House for 1 and corporations are giving back to in the Kansas City community and a minute.) their employees and their communities constituent of mine. Now 91 years old, Ms. STEFANIK. Mr. Speaker, I rise as a direct response to the passage of as a Polish teenager, she was forced today in memory of Lewis County Leg- the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. into concentration camps, ripped from islator Rocky Fawcett. Rocky was a This historic tax reform legislation her family, and even had to watch as dedicated public servant who never has paved the way for a better Amer- her mother walked into the gas cham- stopped believing in the potential of ican business environment, and hard- ber. Lewis County. Rocky was involved in working people are benefiting from the Her life is being highlighted in a re- many local causes and organizations, contributions of major employers and cent documentary showing in Amer- such as the Cornell Cooperative Exten- service providers, including in my ican movie theaters called ‘‘Big sion, the Lewis County Chamber of home State of Washington. Sonia,’’ co-directed by her grand- Commerce, and the Lewis County De- Boeing announced a total investment daughter, Leah Warshawski. This beau- velopment Corporation. of $300 million dedicated to corporate tiful film tells the story of her struggle To all who knew him, Rocky was in- giving, employee training, and infra- and heartbreak and the power of love telligent, driven, and deeply devoted to structure improvement. Alaska Air- to overcome hate. public service. Simply put: Rocky lines provided $1,000 bonuses for more I have known Sonia for years as a Fawcett set the gold standard for what than 20,000 employees. Washington friend, but also as a customer, as she it means to be a legislator. Federal is increasing salaries by 5 per- runs the small tailoring business start- Rocky was a dear friend and he al- cent for employees making under ed by her husband, John, who is also a ways greeted me with a huge smile and $100,000, investing in training, tech- Holocaust survivor. a hug during my many constituent out- nology upgrades, and making a $5 mil- Sonia’s story reminds us of the un- reach events throughout Lewis County. lion philanthropic contribution. Pa- speakable evil that she and others in I invite Members to join me in keep- cific Power has committed to passing the Holocaust had to endure and that ing his wife, Mary, and his family in the company’s benefits on to their con- we must never forget today. But her your thoughts and prayers. May we sumers, which include ratepayers in story as a survivor also reminds us of continue to honor his memory by being the Fourth Congressional District. humanity’s beauty and kindness and passionate advocates for our commu- These benefits and tax relief will the power to endure and overcome un- nities in Lewis County and beyond. have a lasting effect on Washington speakable tragedy.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.013 H10JAPT1 H92 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 10, 2018 Thank you for sharing your inspira- Costello (PA) Kelly (PA) Raskin Larsen (WA) Messer Tsongas tional story with America, Big Sonia. Cramer Kennedy Ratcliffe Larson (CT) Payne Turner Crawford Kihuen Reed Lewis (GA) Pocan Wagner f Crist Kildee Reichert Lucas Posey Walker Cuellar Kilmer Rice (SC) Lynch Renacci Walz STAND WITH THE DREAMERS Curbelo (FL) King (IA) Roby Mast Rooney, Thomas Watson Coleman Curtis King (NY) Roe (TN) McHenry J. Wilson (FL) (Mr. ESPAILLAT asked and was Davidson Kinzinger Rogers (AL) McNerney Russell Young (AK) given permission to address the House Davis (CA) Knight Rogers (KY) Meeks Scalise for 1 minute.) Davis, Rodney Krishnamoorthi Rohrabacher DeGette Kuster (NH) Rokita Mr. ESPAILLAT. Mr. Speaker, I rise Delaney Kustoff (TN) Rooney, Francis b 1239 today to say to DREAMers, their par- DeLauro Labrador Ros-Lehtinen ents, and TPS holders from El Sal- DelBene LaHood Roskam Messrs. BIGGS, GROTHMAN, vador, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Honduras: Demings LaMalfa Ross EVANS, CARBAJAL, DeSantis Lamborn Rothfus KRISHNAMOORTHI, Mses. BLUNT I stand with you. DeSaulnier Lance Rouzer To date, over 15,000 young people DesJarlais Langevin Roybal-Allard ROCHESTER, PINGREE, and Mr. have lost DACA due to congressional Deutch Latta Royce (CA) HECK changed their vote from ‘‘yea’’ Diaz-Balart Lawrence Ruiz to ‘‘nay.’’ inaction, and the lives of over 800,000 Dingell Lawson (FL) Ruppersberger young people are being used as a bar- Donovan Levin Rush Messrs. CROWLEY, AL GREEN of gaining chip. Duffy Lewis (MN) Rutherford Texas, CORREA, NADLER, and Duncan (SC) Lieu, Ted Ryan (OH) SERRANO changed their vote from For what? A wall? Duncan (TN) Lipinski Sanford So stop playing with the people’s Dunn LoBiondo Schiff ‘‘nay’’ to ‘‘yea.’’ lives. Enough is enough. Let’s pass the Emmer Loebsack Schneider So the motion to adjourn was re- Dream Act now. Eshoo Lofgren Schrader Estes (KS) Long Schweikert jected. f Esty (CT) Loudermilk Scott (VA) The result of the vote was announced Evans Love Scott, Austin as above recorded. MOTION TO ADJOURN Farenthold Lowenthal Scott, David Faso Lowey Sensenbrenner Stated against: Mr. ESPAILLAT. Mr. Speaker, I Ferguson Luetkemeyer Sessions move that the House do now adjourn. Fitzpatrick Lujan Grisham, Sherman Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Speaker, I was un- The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Fleischmann M. Shimkus able to make votes due to an off Hill meeting. Flores Luja´ n, Ben Ray Shuster Had I been present, I would have voted ‘‘Nay’’ JODY B. HICE of Georgia). The question Fortenberry MacArthur Simpson is on the motion to adjourn offered by Foster Maloney, Sinema on rollcall No. 5. the gentleman from New York (Mr. Foxx Carolyn B. Sires Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Speaker, had I been Frankel (FL) Maloney, Sean Smith (MO) present, I would have voted ‘‘No’’ on Mr. ESPAILLAT). Frelinghuysen Marchant Smith (NE) The question was taken; and the Gaetz Marino Smith (NJ) ESPAILLAT’s Motion to Adjourn. Had I been Speaker pro tempore announced that Gallagher Marshall Smith (TX) present, I would have voted ‘‘Nay’’ on rollcall the noes appeared to have it. Garamendi Massie Smith (WA) No. 5. Garrett Matsui Smucker Mr. ESPAILLAT. Mr. Speaker, on Gianforte McCarthy Soto that I demand the yeas and nays. Gibbs McCaul Speier f The yeas and nays were ordered. Gohmert McClintock Stefanik Goodlatte McCollum Stewart The vote was taken by electronic de- Gottheimer McEachin Stivers ABOLISH HUMAN TRAFFICKING vice, and there were—yeas 51, nays 331, Gowdy McKinley Swalwell (CA) DAY not voting 49, as follows: Graves (GA) McMorris Taylor Graves (LA) Rodgers Tenney [Roll No. 5] (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was Graves (MO) McSally Thompson (CA) given permission to address the House YEAS—51 Green, Gene Meadows Thompson (PA) Griffith Meehan Thornberry for 1 minute.) Bonamici Grijalva Rice (NY) Grothman Mitchell Tiberi Brady (PA) Gutie´rrez Richmond Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Guthrie Moolenaar Tipton Capuano Hastings Rosen Handel Mooney (WV) Titus Keisha was 16 years old when she ran Castor (FL) Jackson Lee Sa´ nchez Harper Moulton Torres away from a foster family to avoid Castro (TX) Jayapal Sarbanes Hartzler Mullin Trott Clarke (NY) Jeffries being sexually assaulted by that fam- Schakowsky Heck Murphy (FL) Upton Correa Johnson (GA) ily. She thought she was finally safe Serrano Hensarling Neal Valadao Courtney Johnson, E. B. Sewell (AL) Herrera Beutler Newhouse Vargas from abuse when she met a man named Crowley Khanna Shea-Porter Hice, Jody B. Noem Veasey Mastur D. Doyle, Michael Lee Slaughter Higgins (LA) Nolan Vela F. McGovern Mastur D promised her that he would Suozzi Hill Norman Visclosky Ellison Meng Himes Nunes Walberg return her to her biological family. But Engel Moore Takano Holding O’Halleran Walden Espaillat Nadler Thompson (MS) he lied. He forced her to have sex with Hoyer O’Rourke Walorski Gallego Napolitano Tonko other men for money. Now she found Hudson Olson Walters, Mimi Gomez Norcross Vela´ zquez Huffman Palazzo Wasserman herself to be a trafficked victim of the Gonzalez (TX) Pallone Waters, Maxine Huizenga Palmer Schultz sex slave trade. Green, Al Pelosi Hultgren Panetta Weber (TX) Mr. Speaker, she was arrested for NAYS—331 Hunter Pascrell Webster (FL) Hurd Paulsen Welch prostitution. After her second arrest, Abraham Black Carbajal Issa Pearce Wenstrup authorities finally rescued her from Aderholt Blackburn Ca´ rdenas Jenkins (KS) Perlmutter Westerman the trafficking scourge and provided Aguilar Blum Carson (IN) Johnson (LA) Perry Williams Allen Blumenauer Carter (GA) Johnson (OH) Peters Wilson (SC) her a way out of that situation. Amash Blunt Rochester Carter (TX) Johnson, Sam Peterson Wittman My legislation, the Abolish Human Amodei Bost Cartwright Jones Pingree Womack Arrington Boyle, Brendan Chabot Jordan Pittenger Woodall Trafficking Act, will increase prosecu- Babin F. Cheney Joyce (OH) Poe (TX) Yarmuth tions for perpetrators of human traf- Bacon Brady (TX) Chu, Judy Kaptur Poliquin Yoder Banks (IN) Brat Cicilline ficking, like Mastur D, and hold those Katko Polis Yoho accountable for their crimes of sex Barletta Bridenstine Clark (MA) Keating Price (NC) Young (IA) Barr Brooks (AL) Clay Kelly (MS) Quigley Zeldin slavery. Barraga´ n Brooks (IN) Clyburn We must support victims of human Barton Brown (MD) Coffman NOT VOTING—49 Beatty Brownley (CA) Cohen trafficking and put their predators Bera Buchanan Cole Adams Davis, Danny Granger where they belong: behind bars. Tomor- Bergman Buck Collins (GA) Bass DeFazio Hanabusa Beyer Bucshon Collins (NY) Butterfield Denham Harris row is Abolish Human Trafficking Day, Biggs Budd Comstock Cleaver Dent Higgins (NY) our society must prosecute the traf- Bilirakis Burgess Connolly Comer Doggett Hollingsworth fickers and rescue victims of this Bishop (GA) Bustos Cook Conaway Fudge Jenkins (WV) scourge on America. Bishop (MI) Byrne Cooper Culberson Gabbard Kelly (IL) Bishop (UT) Calvert Costa Cummings Gosar Kind And that is just the way it is.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.015 H10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H93 ANNIVERSARY OF APPROVING b 1245 are deeply grateful and indebted to WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE AMEND- FIX OUR TAX CODE him. MENT TO THE U.S. CONSTITU- Thank you, Sergeant Reid. (Mr. CA´ RDENAS asked and was TION f given permission to address the House (Mrs. LAWRENCE asked and was for 1 minute and to revise and extend BRING DREAM ACT TO HOUSE given permission to address the House his remarks.) FLOOR for 1 minute.) Mr. CA´ RDENAS. Mr. Speaker, I rise (Mrs. DAVIS of California asked and Mrs. LAWRENCE. Mr. Speaker, 100 today to speak about the tax scam that was given permission to address the years ago today, this House passed a was voted for by 100 percent of Repub- House for 1 minute.) constitutional amendment granting licans and signed by President Trump. Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speak- women the right to vote. 274 Members We all know that this bill puts mid- er, college students everywhere are en- voted for it, but 136 voted against it. dle class families out in the cold. This joying the last days of vacation before One Representative said: ‘‘Important tax scam raised taxes on 86 million heading back to school. But for thou- issues cannot be decided by women’s American families. It robs our ability sands of people, this break was spent fears and tears and emotions. They to help American veterans, children, trying to figure out how to stay in the have to be decided by the real, manly and seniors. Republicans have slashed only home they have ever known. men of America.’’ taxes on the wealthiest among us, and There have been multiple stories of One hundred years later, unfortu- now they want us to slash, cut, deci- young DREAMers being detained over nately, we hear similar comments. To mate Medicare, Medicaid, and Social this holiday break. These are stellar get our rights and to protect our Security. students who attend elite schools, like rights, the battle continues. But 2018, Some of my colleagues would have us UC San Diego and UC Berkeley. They Mr. Speaker, is the year of the women. believe that this bill is about pros- are now sitting in detention facilities, We will never give up our rights, we perity for all. unable to go back to school and con- will never give up our votes, and we Prosperity for whom? tinue their education. will never, ever give up our voice. It is a tax giveaway to billionaires Is this the America that our fore- Mr. Speaker, we have history slap- and millionaires. fathers fought for, one where bright ping us in the face. We, as a body, need Does slashing tax revenue create students sit in detention facilities in- to recognize and respect women’s prosperity for communities like Flint, stead of classrooms, questioning if they rights in this House and in America. Michigan, where American families can ever make the contribution to our continue to suffer through a water cri- United States of America that they f sis, a crisis that my Republican col- dream of? leagues claim they can’t find the fund- Mr. Speaker, I once again plead with MORE MONEY, LESS PROBLEMS ing to help our American brothers and you, with all due respect, to please sisters who are suffering? bring the Dream Act to the floor. The (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina Republicans want us to believe this American people overwhelmingly sup- asked and was given permission to ad- bill is fiscally responsible, but we all port it. dress the House for 1 minute and to re- know there is nothing fiscally respon- f vise and extend his remarks.) sible about taking healthcare away Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. from millions of Americans while bal- HONORING THE LIFE OF THOMAS Speaker, yesterday, I was grateful to looning our country’s deficit by as S. MONSON learn that Tidewater Boats is investing much as $2 trillion. (Mr. CURTIS asked and was given $8.3 million to expand their manufac- Mr. Speaker, we need to fix our Tax permission to address the House for 1 turing facility in Lexington, South Code, not leave American families out minute.) Carolina, creating 100 new jobs. in the cold. Mr. CURTIS. Mr. Speaker, I rise This news is on top of Aflac announc- f today to pay tribute to a beloved ing they will be expanding their 700 worldwide leader, Thomas S. Monson, employees in Columbia, South Caro- RECOGNIZING SERGEANT THOMAS who served as the president and proph- lina, and doubling their employee REID, JR. et of The Church of Jesus Christ of 401(k) matching funds. (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given Latter-day Saints until his passing last On the same day Republicans passed permission to address the House for 1 week. historic tax cuts, AT&T, led by Pam minute.) From an early age, President Monson Lackey, announced they are providing Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, I rise led a faithful life serving those most in 200,000 employees a $1,000 bonus. today to honor and thank Sergeant need and seeking out those who often Comcast will be providing $1,000 bo- Thomas Reid, Jr., for his 45 years of went unnoticed. His loving service nuses to 100,000 employees. BB&T, a service with the Cincinnati Police De- spanned over half a century. valued corporate citizen led by Mike partment. On a personal note, while I was Brennan, will be raising their employee A lot has changed since he joined the mayor of Provo, our historic taber- wages to $15 an hour and providing a department back in 1972, after serving nacle burned down in a tragic fire. The $1,200 bonus for 27,000 employees. in Vietnam, but one thing has re- devastating loss of such a treasured Boeing of Charleston announced they mained the same. For 41⁄2 decades, Ser- building in our community was pal- will be donating $100 million to char- geant Reid continued to dedicate him- pable. ities that focus on education, local self to keeping our community safe. But President Monson had the un- communities, veterans, and military During his time on the force, Ser- mistakable foresight to know that personnel. geant Reid led by example and passed something even more remarkable could The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is not his knowledge and experience on to his one day stand in its place. I will never only for businesses. I appreciate that fellow officers, often advising them to forget the audible gasp from thousands next month American families will see ‘‘treat others as you want to be treat- of church members when President more of their own money in their pay- ed.’’ Monson announced that, from the check. Sergeant Reid retired at the end of ashes of the tabernacle, a new temple In conclusion, God bless our troops, December as the Cincinnati Police De- would be built in its stead. and we will never forget September the partment’s longest-serving member, Today, that temple stands as an ex- 11th in the global war on terrorism. and his leadership and guidance will be traordinary reminder of his unmatched Best wishes to DARRELL ISSA and missed. The city of Cincinnati is a bet- leadership that led us from loss and Kathy Issa for their dedicated service ter place because of his service, and his sorrow to hope and joy. as they announce retirement. We look legacy and impact will be felt in our My wife, Sue, and I express our deep- forward to their continued service for community for years to come. For est condolences to President Monson’s the American people. that, Mr. Speaker, we Cincinnatians family and the many members of the

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.017 H10JAPT1 H94 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 10, 2018 church around the world that grieve at NAYS—311 Walorski Wenstrup Yarmuth Walters, Mimi Westerman Yoder the loss of this important leader. Abraham Foxx McMorris Wasserman Williams Yoho Aderholt Frankel (FL) Rodgers Schultz Wilson (SC) Young (AK) Aguilar Frelinghuysen McSally f Weber (TX) Wittman Young (IA) Allen Gallagher Meadows Webster (FL) Womack Zeldin Amash Garamendi Meehan Welch Woodall SUPPORTING PROTECTED STATUS Amodei Garrett Mitchell Arrington Gianforte Moolenaar NOT VOTING—66 ´ (Mr. GUTIERREZ asked and was Babin Gibbs Mooney (WV) Adams Doggett Pascrell given permission to address the House Bacon Gohmert Moulton Bass Fudge Payne Banks (IN) Goodlatte Mullin Beatty Gabbard Quigley for 1 minute.) Barletta Gosar Murphy (FL) ´ Beyer Gaetz Renacci Mr. GUTIERREZ. Mr. Speaker, on Barr Gottheimer Neal Bishop (GA) Granger ´ Richmond Monday, President Trump took action Barragan Gowdy Newhouse Blunt Rochester Hanabusa Barton Graves (GA) Noem Rooney, Thomas to undocument 200,000 immigrants Boyle, Brendan Higgins (NY) J. Bera Graves (LA) Nolan F. Jackson Lee from El Salvador, who have TPS and Bergman Graves (MO) Norman Rush Brady (TX) Jenkins (WV) Russell have been working regularly and re- Biggs Green, Gene Nunes Brown (MD) Johnson (GA) Scalise Bilirakis Griffith O’Halleran Butterfield Jordan newing their documents in the U.S. for Scott (VA) Bishop (MI) Grothman O’Rourke Calvert Kelly (IL) more than 20 years. He said the same Scott, David Bishop (UT) Guthrie Olson Carson (IN) Kind thing to 58,000 Haitians. They need to Black Handel Palazzo Clarke (NY) Langevin Shuster leave in another 16 months. This is the Blackburn Harper Palmer Cleaver Larsen (WA) Sinema same thing that happened with the Blum Harris Panetta Clyburn Larson (CT) Stefanik Blumenauer Hartzler Paulsen Stewart DREAMers. He made them undocu- Cummings Lawson (FL) Bost Heck Pearce Davis, Danny Lewis (GA) Taylor mented, 800,000 of whom are working. Brat Hensarling Perlmutter DeFazio Mast Trott Mr. Speaker, I am tired of coming to Bridenstine Herrera Beutler Perry DeLauro McHenry Turner work here and meeting people in the Brooks (AL) Hice, Jody B. Peters Demings McNerney Walden Brooks (IN) Higgins (LA) Peterson Denham Meeks Walz cafeteria and people who are sweeping Brownley (CA) Hill Pingree Dent Messer Wilson (FL) floors and doing all kinds of work here Buchanan Himes Pittenger in the Capitol who now are in fear of Buck Holding Poe (TX) b 1316 Bucshon Hollingsworth Poliquin losing their legal protected status and Budd Hoyer Polis Messrs. POLIQUIN, HUFFMAN, being able to work here in this country Burgess Hudson Posey WENSTRUP, and Mrs. NOEM changed because they are undocumented. They Bustos Huffman Price (NC) their vote from ‘‘yea’’ to ‘‘nay.’’ Byrne Huizenga Raskin Mr. KIHUEN changed his vote from want to make people who are working, Carbajal Hultgren Ratcliffe yes, right here in the Capitol of the Ca´ rdenas Hunter Reed ‘‘nay’’ to ‘‘yea.’’ United States undocumented. Carter (GA) Hurd Reichert So the motion to adjourn was re- For that, I call upon us to do the Carter (TX) Issa Rice (SC) jected. Cartwright Jeffries Roby The result of the vote was announced work that we were sent here to do and Chabot Jenkins (KS) Roe (TN) to protect people. We shouldn’t be Cheney Johnson (LA) Rogers (AL) as above recorded. sending 58,000 Haitians back to the Chu, Judy Johnson (OH) Rogers (KY) f Cicilline Johnson, Sam Rohrabacher poorest country in this hemisphere Clark (MA) Jones Rokita IF YOU DON’T WANT A TAX CUT, from the richest country. That is Clay Joyce (OH) Rooney, Francis YOU CAN MAIL IT BACK TO THE unfathomable and unconscionable and Coffman Katko Ros-Lehtinen IRS we shouldn’t do it. Cohen Keating Roskam Cole Kelly (MS) Ross (Mr. BABIN asked and was given per- Collins (GA) Kelly (PA) Rothfus mission to address the House for 1 f Collins (NY) Kennedy Rouzer Comer Kildee Roybal-Allard minute.) Comstock Kilmer Royce (CA) Mr. BABIN. Mr. Speaker, some folks MOTION TO ADJOURN Conaway King (IA) Ruiz in Washington are upset because we ´ Connolly King (NY) Ruppersberger just passed the largest tax cut in Mr. GUTIERREZ. Mr. Speaker, I Cook Kinzinger Rutherford move that the House do now adjourn. Cooper Knight Ryan (OH) American history. They think that this The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Costa Krishnamoorthi Sanford money is Washington’s money and that Costello (PA) Kuster (NH) Schiff politicians and bureaucrats should de- BOST). The question is on the motion Cramer Kustoff (TN) Schneider to adjourn offered by the gentleman Crawford Labrador Schrader cide how to spend it. from Illinois (Mr. GUTIE´ RREZ). Crist LaHood Schweikert I couldn’t disagree more. You and I The question was taken; and the Cuellar LaMalfa Scott, Austin know that this money belongs to the Culberson Lamborn Sensenbrenner American people. It came out of their Speaker pro tempore announced that Curbelo (FL) Lance Sessions the noes appeared to have it. Curtis Latta Sherman wallets. Mr. GUTIE´ RREZ. Mr. Speaker, on Davidson Levin Shimkus Under our new law, we put hard- that I demand the yeas and nays. Davis (CA) Lewis (MN) Simpson working families first by helping them Davis, Rodney Lieu, Ted Sires cope with the costs of raising children The yeas and nays were ordered. DeGette Lipinski Smith (MO) The vote was taken by electronic de- Delaney LoBiondo Smith (NE) by doubling the child tax credit. vice, and there were—yeas 54, nays 311, DelBene Loebsack Smith (NJ) We also help small businesses by cut- DeSantis Lofgren Smith (TX) not voting 66, as follows: ting their taxes so that they can com- DeSaulnier Long Smith (WA) pete with foreign companies and create [Roll No. 6] DesJarlais Loudermilk Smucker Deutch Love Soto jobs right here in America. YEAS—54 Diaz-Balart Lowenthal Speier For those folks who don’t think that Bonamici Hastings Pocan Dingell Lucas Stivers they need an average extra $1,500 or Brady (PA) Jayapal Rice (NY) Donovan Luetkemeyer Swalwell (CA) more a year to spend, or who think Capuano Johnson, E. B. Rosen Duffy Lujan Grisham, Tenney Castor (FL) Kaptur Sa´ nchez Duncan (SC) M. Thompson (CA) that politicians and bureaucrats can Castro (TX) Khanna Sarbanes Duncan (TN) Luja´ n, Ben Ray Thompson (PA) spend their money better, I have a good Correa Kihuen Schakowsky Dunn Lynch Thornberry solution: go ahead and drop your new Courtney Lawrence Emmer MacArthur Tiberi Serrano refund check in the mail. Send it to the Crowley Lee Sewell (AL) Eshoo Maloney, Sean Tipton Doyle, Michael Lowey Estes (KS) Marchant Titus Internal Revenue Service. The IRS will Shea-Porter F. Maloney, Esty (CT) Marino Torres Slaughter be glad to take your money. Ellison Carolyn B. Evans Marshall Upton Suozzi Engel McGovern Farenthold Massie Valadao f Takano Espaillat Meng Faso Matsui Vargas TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS Gallego Moore Thompson (MS) Ferguson McCarthy Veasey Gomez Nadler Tonko Fitzpatrick McCaul Vela (Mr. GOMEZ asked and was given Gonzalez (TX) Napolitano Tsongas Fleischmann McClintock Visclosky permission to address the House for 1 Green, Al Norcross Vela´ zquez Flores McCollum Wagner Grijalva Pallone Waters, Maxine Fortenberry McEachin Walberg minute and to revise and extend his re- Gutie´rrez Pelosi Watson Coleman Foster McKinley Walker marks.)

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Mr. Speaker, I rise DACA, close to 16,000 young people Dingell Kuster (NH) Rice (SC) Donovan Kustoff (TN) Roby today in opposition to the Trump ad- have lost their protected status and Duffy Labrador Roe (TN) ministration’s decision to end tem- face daily risk of deportation; given Duncan (SC) LaHood Rogers (AL) porary protected status, TPS, for more the fact that we have pleaded with Re- Duncan (TN) LaMalfa Rogers (KY) than 200,000 Salvadorans. publican leadership on the urgency of Dunn Lamborn Rohrabacher Emmer Lance Rokita TPS holders are thoroughly vetted finding a permanent legislative solu- Eshoo Latta Rooney, Francis legal residents who have contributed to tion that will protect DREAMers; Estes (KS) Lawrence Ros-Lehtinen our economy and to our communities given the fact that the contradictions Esty (CT) Lawson (FL) Ross for almost two decades. Most TPS re- and confusion in the negotiations going Evans Levin Rothfus Farenthold Lewis (MN) Rouzer cipients now call the United States on to craft a legislative fix continue to Faso Lieu, Ted Roybal-Allard home. Many are parents to children abound; and given the fact that this Ferguson Lipinski Royce (CA) who are American citizens, and tearing House has the opportunity to vote on a Fitzpatrick LoBiondo Ruiz these families apart is a heartless and clean Dream Act, we must act now on Fleischmann Loebsack Ruppersberger Flores Lofgren Rush cruel act. a permanent solution that will protect Fortenberry Long Rutherford In their decision, this administration DREAMers. Foster Loudermilk Ryan (OH) claims they reviewed the disaster-re- Foxx Love Sanford lated conditions on which the original f Frankel (FL) Lowenthal Schiff Frelinghuysen Lucas Schneider determination was made; however, MOTION TO ADJOURN Gallagher Luetkemeyer Schweikert they failed to consider the current re- Garrett Lujan Grisham, Scott (VA) alities that make El Salvador one of Mr. GRIJALVA. Mr. Speaker, I move Gianforte M. Scott, Austin ´ the most dangerous countries in the that the House do now adjourn. Gibbs Lujan, Ben Ray Sensenbrenner The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Gohmert Lynch Sessions world. This irresponsible decision will Gonzalez (TX) MacArthur Sewell (AL) drop hundreds of thousands of people question is on the motion to adjourn Goodlatte Maloney, Sean Sherman into violence and disaster. offered by the gentleman from Arizona Gosar Marchant Shimkus (Mr. GRIJALVA). Gottheimer Marino Simpson Sending 200,000 Salvadorans, many Gowdy Marshall Sinema from my district, to a dangerous for- The question was taken; and the Graves (GA) Massie Sires eign country is inhumane. Mr. Speak- Speaker pro tempore announced that Graves (LA) Matsui Smith (MO) er, I urge my colleagues to imme- the noes appeared to have it. Graves (MO) McCarthy Smith (NE) Mr. GRIJALVA. Mr. Speaker, on that Green, Gene McCaul Smith (NJ) diately pass the American Promise Act Griffith McClintock Smith (TX) so that we can correct this despicable I demand the yeas and nays. Grothman McCollum Smith (WA) action. The yeas and nays were ordered. Guthrie McEachin Smucker The vote was taken by electronic de- Handel McKinley Soto f vice, and there were—yeas 62, nays 324, Harper McMorris Speier PAYING TRIBUTE TO PHILLIP Harris Rodgers Stefanik not voting 45, as follows: Hartzler McSally Stewart LYONS [Roll No. 7] Heck Meadows Stivers (Mr. GIANFORTE asked and was YEAS—62 Hensarling Meehan Swalwell (CA) Hice, Jody B. Mitchell Taylor given permission to address the House Bass Gutie´rrez Pelosi Higgins (LA) Moolenaar Tenney for 1 minute and to revise and extend Bonamici Hastings Pocan Hill Mooney (WV) Thompson (CA) his remarks.) Brady (PA) Jackson Lee Rice (NY) Holding Moulton Thompson (PA) Mr. GIANFORTE. Mr. Speaker, I rise Capuano Jayapal Richmond Hollingsworth Mullin Thornberry Castor (FL) Johnson (GA) Rosen Hoyer Murphy (FL) Tipton today to pay tribute to a member of Castro (TX) Johnson, E. B. Sarbanes Hudson Neal Titus the Greatest Generation, a Montanan Clarke (NY) Khanna Serrano Huffman Newhouse Torres whose service to our Nation and Mon- Cleaver Kihuen Shea-Porter Huizenga Noem Trott Correa Lee Slaughter Hultgren Nolan Upton tana stretched across eight decades. Courtney Lewis (GA) Suozzi Hunter Norman Valadao Born and raised in Butte, Phillip Crowley Lowey Takano Hurd Nunes Vargas DeFazio Maloney, ‘‘Herk’’ Lyons answered the call to Thompson (MS) Issa O’Halleran Veasey Doyle, Michael Carolyn B. Jeffries O’Rourke Vela serve following the attack on Pearl Tiberi F. McGovern Jenkins (KS) Olson Visclosky Harbor. He joined the Navy and served Tonko Ellison Meeks Johnson (LA) Palazzo Walberg Tsongas as a submariner in both World War II Engel Meng Johnson (OH) Palmer Walden Vela´ zquez and the Korean war. Espaillat Moore Johnson, Sam Panetta Walker Wasserman Fudge Nadler Jones Pascrell Walorski Phil became active with military Schultz Gallego Napolitano Jordan Paulsen Walters, Mimi Waters, Maxine service organizations in the 1950s, serv- Gomez Norcross Joyce (OH) Pearce Walz ing in leadership roles in the American Green, Al Pallone Watson Coleman Kaptur Perlmutter Weber (TX) Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Grijalva Payne Welch Katko Perry Webster (FL) Disabled American Veterans, among NAYS—324 Keating Peters Wenstrup Kelly (IL) Peterson Westerman others. Abraham Brady (TX) Cole Kelly (MS) Pingree Williams Phil was known as ‘‘Mr. DAV.’’ He Aderholt Brat Collins (GA) Kelly (PA) Pittenger Wilson (SC) logged more than 50,000 miles, 16,000 Aguilar Bridenstine Collins (NY) Kennedy Poe (TX) Wittman Allen Brooks (AL) Comer hours, and carried more than 1,700 fel- Kildee Poliquin Womack Amash Brooks (IN) Comstock Kilmer Polis Woodall low veterans to appointments. Amodei Brown (MD) Conaway King (IA) Price (NC) Yarmuth On behalf of all Montanans, I honor Arrington Brownley (CA) Connolly King (NY) Raskin Yoder the memory of Phil, and I extend my Babin Buchanan Cooper Kinzinger Ratcliffe Yoho Bacon Buck Costa Knight Reed Young (IA) condolences to his daughter, Debbie, Banks (IN) Bucshon Costello (PA) Krishnamoorthi Reichert Zeldin his family, his friends, and all those Barr Budd Cramer ´ whom his service touched. Barragan Bustos Crawford NOT VOTING—45 Barton Byrne Crist f Beatty Calvert Cuellar Adams Hanabusa Rooney, Thomas Bera Carbajal Culberson Barletta Herrera Beutler J. ACT NOW ON A PERMANENT SOLU- Bergman Ca´ rdenas Curbelo (FL) Blum Higgins (NY) Roskam TION TO PROTECT DREAMERS Beyer Carson (IN) Curtis Burgess Himes Russell Biggs Carter (GA) Davidson Butterfield Jenkins (WV) (Mr. GRIJALVA asked and was given Sa´ nchez Bilirakis Carter (TX) Davis, Danny Cook Kind Scalise permission to address the House for 1 Bishop (GA) Cartwright Davis, Rodney Cummings Langevin Schakowsky minute and to revise and extend his re- Bishop (MI) Chabot DeGette Davis (CA) Larsen (WA) Schrader Bishop (UT) Cheney Delaney Denham Larson (CT) Scott, David marks.) Black Chu, Judy DeLauro Dent Mast Shuster Mr. GRIJALVA. Mr. Speaker, given Blackburn Cicilline DelBene DeSantis McHenry Turner that each day that Congress delays ac- Blumenauer Clark (MA) Demings Doggett McNerney Wagner tion on the Dream Act, 122 people lose Blunt Rochester Clay DeSaulnier Gabbard Messer Bost Clyburn DesJarlais Gaetz Posey Wilson (FL) their DACA protected status—since Boyle, Brendan Coffman Deutch Garamendi Quigley Young (AK) September 5, when Trump eliminated F. Cohen Diaz-Balart Granger Renacci

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.022 H10JAPT1 H96 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 10, 2018 b 1346 marijuana that has now been called Central Pennsylvania Institute of Messrs. MITCHELL and HARPER into jeopardy through a Federal over- Science and Technology for their changed their vote from ‘‘yea’’ to reach. fourth consecutive first-place win at ‘‘nay.’’ Effectively, Attorney General Ses- the Pennsylvania Farm Show. So the motion to adjourn was re- sions has left the entire fate of not just CPI students again took home the jected. the industry and those who work in it top prize this year in the agricultural The result of the vote was announced but also consumers in my State in the education landscape exhibits. In total, as above recorded. hands of 93 U.S. attorneys, including eight schools entered this competition the one for our State who, if they wake at the Farm Show, which is the Na- PERSONAL EXPLANATION up on the wrong side of the bed one tion’s largest indoor agricultural Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, morning, could engage in a mass en- event. on Wednesday, January 10, 2018, I missed forcement action against residents of Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the fol- rollcall votes 5–7 on the motions to adjourn Colorado who are following our State lowing students who are a part of the ´ from Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. GUTIERREZ, and Mr. law. winning team: Charlee Marshall, Alexis GRIJALVA. I was attending meetings off-cam- I call on President Trump to over- Witherite, Landon Wagner, Jarod Wil- pus and was not able to return for these unex- turn his attorney, and I call upon this liams, Robert Ficarro, and Calen pected votes that were not on the House body to put the appropriate funding re- McCool. schedule. If I had been present for these strictions, based on the McClintock- The students have learned from CPI’s votes, I would have voted: ‘‘Nay’’ on rollcall Polis amendment, into the final fund- horticulture and landscaping instruc- vote 5 on the motion to adjourn from Mr. ing bill in the next few weeks to pre- tor Joe Luther. Just a couple of weeks ESPAILLAT, ‘‘Nay’’ on rollcall vote 6 on the mo- vent the Department of Justice from ago, Mr. Luther was named the Na- ´ tion to adjourn from Mr. GUTIERREZ, and ‘‘Nay’’ using funds given to them by Congress tional Career and Technical Education on rollcall vote 7 on the motion to adjourn to contravene State law in jurisdic- Teacher of the Year. from Mr. GRIJALVA. tions that have chosen to regulate Mr. Speaker, as co-chair of the Con- f marijuana. gressional Career and Technical Edu- INCLUDE E-VERIFY IN f cation Caucus, I am most proud of these CPI students and Mr. Luther for IMMIGRATION REFORM PACKAGE RECOGNIZING THE BICENTENNIAL being four-time first-place champions OF SPENCER COUNTY, INDIANA (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was at the Pennsylvania Farm Show. given permission to address the House (Mr. BUCSHON asked and was given I congratulate them, and I know that for 1 minute and to revise and extend permission to address the House for 1 they will continue this fine tradition of his remarks.) minute and to revise and extend his re- being the team to beat at the Pennsyl- Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, marks.) vania Farm Show. Congress should include an E-Verify Mr. BUCSHON. Mr. Speaker, I rise f employment eligibility verification today in recognition of an important program in any immigration reform milestone in Indiana history, the bi- PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION package. E-Verify is the most effective centennial of Spencer County, Indiana. OF S. 140, AMENDING THE WHITE deterrent to illegal immigration be- Founded in 1818 by Captain Spier MOUNTAIN APACHE TRIBE cause it shuts off the jobs magnet and Spencer, this rural county along the WATER RIGHTS QUANTIFICATION saves jobs for hardworking Americans. Ohio River was the boyhood home of ACT OF 2010 It is no surprise that E-Verify receives Abraham Lincoln. Years later, when Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, by direction the most public support—82 percent—of recalling his time in Spencer County, of the Committee on Rules, I call up any proposed immigration reform. the man who became our 16th Presi- House Resolution 681 and ask for its The E-Verify legislation, the Legal dent stated quite succinctly: ‘‘There, I immediate consideration. Workforce Act, approved by the Judici- grew up.’’ The Clerk read the resolution, as fol- ary Committee, has the support of the In addition to the Lincoln Boyhood lows: U.S. Chamber of Commerce and immi- National Memorial and a scenic state H. RES. 681 gration enforcement groups. It pro- park, Spencer County is home to St. Resolved, That upon adoption of this reso- vides employers with an efficient and Meinrad Archabbey and Indiana’s pre- lution it shall be in order to consider in the workable system to verify their em- mier tourist destinations, Holiday House the bill (S. 140) to amend the White ployees’ work status, and the require- World and Splashin’ Safari. Wildly rec- Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quan- ment for employers to verify their ognized as the world’s first theme park, tification Act of 2010 to clarify the use of workers only applies to new employees, Holiday World draws hundreds of thou- amounts in the WMAT Settlement Fund. All not existing workers. sands of visitors to the county each points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. An amendment in the nature Members should hesitate to support year. any immigration reform package that of a substitute consisting of the text of Rules Today, strategically connected to the Committee Print 115-54 shall be considered does not include requiring employers world by Interstate 64, US 231, rail, and as adopted. The bill, as amended, shall be to use E-Verify. Congress should put the Ohio River, Spencer County has be- considered as read. All points of order the interests of American workers come a leader in agriculture, manufac- against provisions in the bill, as amended, first. turing, maritime and ground logistics, are waived. The previous question shall be f steel production, power generation, and considered as ordered on the bill, as amend- world class family entertainment. ed, and on any further amendment thereto, LET STATES REGULATE to final passage without intervening motion I proudly salute the citizens and the MARIJUANA except: (1) one hour of debate equally divided wonderful hometowns of Spencer Coun- among and controlled by the chair and rank- (Mr. POLIS asked and was given per- ty on this notable occasion. ing minority member of the Committee on mission to address the House for 1 f Education and the Workforce and the chair minute and to revise and extend his re- and ranking minority member of the Com- marks.) CONGRATULATING CENTRAL mittee on Natural Resources; and (2) one mo- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I was grave- PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTE OF tion to recommit with or without instruc- ly concerned last week when Attorney SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY tions. General Sessions removed the guidance LANDSCAPING STUDENTS The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. of the Cole memo regarding the way (Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania HULTGREN). The gentleman from Okla- that the Department of Justice treats asked and was given permission to ad- homa is recognized for 1 hour. marijuana in jurisdictions where it is dress the House for 1 minute and to re- Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, for the pur- legal for medicinal or commercial cir- vise and extend his remarks.) pose of debate only, I yield the cus- cumstances. I happen to represent one Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. tomary 30 minutes to the gentleman of those States, the State of Colorado, Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratu- from Colorado (Mr. POLIS), pending which has a regulatory system for late the landscaping students at the which I yield myself such time as I

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.024 H10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H97 may consume. During consideration of among those excluded from the phrase case. By some reports, States could run this resolution, all time yielded is for ‘‘employer.’’ This is simply an egre- out of funding in the next few weeks. the purpose of debate only. gious act of bureaucratic overreach. In fact, in Colorado, our own budget ex- GENERAL LEAVE Let me be clear. In this case, acting perts predict the State will run out of Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani- on its own, the NLRB expanded its ju- children’s health insurance money by mous consent that all Members have 5 risdiction. Neither the existing admin- the end of February. Cancellation let- legislative days to revise and extend istration at the time nor Congress ters are literally scheduled to go out at their remarks. asked or ordered the NLRB to take this the end of this month. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there action. Mr. Speaker, this simply isn’t a way objection to the request of the gen- The impacts of labor strife on Tribal to govern, crisis to crisis, ignoring the tleman from Oklahoma? governments and economies are more real issues people care about in order There was no objection. harmful than on other governments be- to consider special interest legislation. Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, on Tuesday, cause there is no effective tax base in Republican leadership and the Trump the Rules Committee met and reported Tribal communities. Indian lands are administration continue to refuse to a rule for consideration of a very im- held in trust by the United States and work on finding a bipartisan solution portant measure. The resolution pro- are not subject to taxation. The high for the hundreds of thousands who have vides for consideration of S. 140, to unemployment rates and legal restric- Deferred Action for Childhood Ar- amend the White Mountain Apache tions make income taxation an rival—or DACA recipients—who are in Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act unfeasible option. limbo. We can simply put that bill on of 2010 to clarify the use of amounts in As a result, the businesses operated the floor today, the Dream Act, and I the White Mountain Apache Tribe Set- by Tribal governments, gaming oper- feel it would pass. tlement Fund. This bill also includes ations, Tribal agriculture, energy and We have the votes to do so, Mr. the text of S. 249, a bill to provide that timber operations, and other Tribal Speaker. Let’s simply have a vote. It is the pueblo of Santa Clara may lease for government enterprise constitute the a purely manufactured crisis. 99 years certain restricted land; and sole source of revenue that is used to I am happy to say we will be giving H.R. 986, the Tribal Labor Sovereignty fund essential government services for the opportunity for Members of this Act of 2017. Tribes. body to defeat the previous question The rule provides for 1 hour of de- This bill has drawn bipartisan sup- and move to a vote on the Dream Act, bate, 30 minutes of which will be equal- port in our effort to reverse the deci- shortly. My colleague, Mr. CORREA, has ly divided and controlled by the chair sion of the NLRB. In the 114th Con- joined us to offer that motion in a few and ranking member of the Natural Re- gress, the same language passed the minutes. sources Committee, and 30 minutes of House of Representatives by a vote of Many of my colleagues on the other which will be equally divided and con- 249–177. side of the aisle often say that the real trolled by the chair and ranking mem- deadline for a DACA solution isn’t b 1400 ber of the Education and the Workforce until March, but, in reality, every day, Committee. This bill will strengthen Tribal sov- already over 100 Deferred Action recipi- Mr. Speaker, the first two items are ereignty and correct this overreach, di- ents lose their protected status, are un- noncontroversial; however, I am very recting the NLRB to enforce the able to work with their situation unre- pleased that within S. 140, the Tribal NLRA, National Labor Relations Act, solved. Labor Sovereignty Act is included. as it was originally intended. In the For those DACA recipients, the dead- This language would allow Tribal gov- end, Mr. Speaker, all we are doing here line isn’t March. The deadline has al- ernments to be excluded from require- today with this bill is affirming what ready passed, hence, the urgency. Now ments for employers under the Na- was Congress’ original intent. The is the time to pass the Dream Act, to tional Labor Relations Act. When NLRA does not have jurisdiction over allow these DACA recipients to con- President Franklin Roosevelt signed Tribal governments. tinue to live and work and serve in the the NLRA into law in 1935, Congress Mr. Speaker, I urge support of the only Nation that many of them have wisely excluded governments, all gov- rule and the underlying legislation. ever known their whole lives. ernments, from the definition of ‘‘em- Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of All the while, congressional Repub- ployer.’’ my time. licans still refuse to work with Demo- At the bill signing of the NLRA, Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield my- crats on a long-term government fund- President Roosevelt said: ‘‘This Act de- self such time as I may consume. ing solution. Here we are less than 10 fines, as a part of our substantive law, I thank the gentleman for yielding days from another government shut- the right of self-organization of em- me the customary 30 minutes. down. The Federal Government con- ployees in industry for the purpose of Mr. Speaker, over 3 months ago, the tinues to move from quick spending collective bargaining, and provides funding for the Children’s Health In- patch to quick spending patch, costing methods by which the Government can surance Program, or CHIP, expired. taxpayers more in the long run by pre- safeguard that legal right.’’ Today, families throughout the coun- venting our agencies from doing the The President made clear in his try, including 90,000 children in my planning necessary to improve effi- speech at that time that the intent of home State of Colorado, face great un- ciency. the law is that it should apply only to certainty about the future of their Today we are only 5 legislative days workers in the private sector. Tribes healthcare. away—9 actual days—from a govern- are governments and should be treated When CHIP was first passed, over 20 ment shutdown and the huge negative as such. The intent of the law was and years ago, it was done in a bipartisan repercussions that would follow. As a is clear: Tribal governments supervise manner, and, until recently, CHIP has former businessowner, I know, first- the employees within their govern- always been a bipartisan, nondivisive hand, the value of long-term budgeting ments and enterprises, not the Federal issue. It is unfortunate to see that, and stability. Millions of Americans Government. today, here, we are in this body under know how to plan their family budget From 1935 until 2003, nearly seven Republican leadership and, somehow, and their home budget. Why can’t Con- decades, the National Labor Relations even children’s health insurance has gress do it for the country? Board agreed and interpreted the stat- become a political football while we Instead of working on a long-term ute in a way that did not apply to In- while away our time, our precious leg- budget solution, the House is spending dian Tribes because they were govern- islative time, on bills that have passed its time on other legislation. Here we ments. In 2004, the NLRB abruptly this body before and don’t go any- have a bill that undermines workers’ changed course and, for the first time, where. rights and their protections under the held the act applicable to Indian In our most recent Band-Aid for gov- National Labor Relations Act. Tribes. The NLRB did this by high- ernment funding, House Republicans In addition to this controversial bill, lighting the fact that the act did not made a claim that CHIP was extended there are two attached pieces of legis- expressly include Tribal governments until March 31, but that wasn’t the lation that were originally separate

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.027 H10JAPT1 H98 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 10, 2018 bills that easily could have gone on the sociation, Conservation Colorado, and Native American enterprises, of the suspension calendar and would have many municipalities and local busi- right to collectively bargain. largely been noncontroversial. They nesses. It will help sustain our rec- Without the right to self-governance, passed on unanimous consent in the reational economy in Eagle and Sum- we would not have the strong commu- Senate and in the House Natural Re- mit Counties, protect watersheds, and nities present across the country sources Committee, but their fate is preserve important wildlife corridors today. Without the right to collective put in jeopardy by putting them onto a and tourism opportunities. bargaining, we would not have the controversial bill. These are the kinds of bills that we strong and growing economy that sup- The first bill amends the White should be moving forward from the ports our middle class. This legislation Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Natural Resources Committee, not con- simply does not succeed in balancing Quantification Act of 2010. To clarify, troversial bills that actually take away both of these values. that is a separate economic develop- the rights of American citizens, includ- I also want to point out that Presi- ment fund known as the WMAT settle- ing Native American citizens. dent Trump agrees with me, or at least ment fund that can be accessed to And, while we are not today, we he did last time he commented on this cover potential cost overruns for this should never be moving forward on 25 years ago. In 1993, at a hearing be- rural water project. Natural Resources Committee bills fore the House Committee on Natural The Interior Department has said it that actually whittle away at the pub- Resources regarding the Indian Gaming is unsure if the settlement fund could lic lands we all own and the Antiq- Regulatory Act, then private citizen be used for additional costs, and so this uities Act by shrinking monuments Trump testified regarding the legal clarifies that water-related economic like Bears Ears or making it easier to barriers facing labor unions at that development projects would specifi- destroy lands we cherish and value. time to organize workers employed at cally include the planning, design, and All I ask is that we separate out Tribal casinos. His testimony said, in construction of the rural water system. these two Natural Resources bills, send part: ‘‘At present, even union workers This legislation could have passed and, them to the suspension calendar, and in States like New Jersey would have likely, could have become law but, in- not let them be put in jeopardy by no federally or State protected rights stead, has been put into jeopardy by affixing them to the fundamental un- or the ability to organize in casinos on affixing it to a bill that is unlikely to derlying legislation which is controver- Tribal lands. The unions hope to do go anywhere. sial, namely, the Tribal labor bill. That something about this. They hope to The second uncontroversial bill that is the bill that is the main controver- gain the right to recognition, the right is wrapped up is regarding the author- sial bill in this package. to organize if they so choose. Quite ity of pueblos. It concerns two New And, of course, I stand here as a sup- frankly, I hope they have better luck Mexican pueblos and simply clarifies porter of the rights of every American than we have had so far.’’ that they could lease their lands that to organize. I am a supporter of work- Mr. Speaker, the last time the Presi- are held in trust by the Federal Gov- ers’ rights, and I am also a strong sup- dent commented on this, it is clear ernment for 99 years. This legislation porter of Tribal sovereignty, not only that he also believed that workers on ensures Native Americans have the principles under American law, but the Tribal land should have the right to right to their lands that they deserve. right thing to do. collectively bargain. I hope that his ad- It respects their sovereignty and na- I, like many of my colleagues, place ministration would not be supportive tions in a noncontroversial way. a great deal of importance in Tribal of this legislation if it were to move I am fully supportive of these two self-determination, autonomy, local through Congress, which it is unlikely technical and simple pieces of legisla- control, and independent governance to do. tion, but, unfortunately, because they for our nations. In fact, I have been the Instead of policies that benefit those are attached to a bill that isn’t going champion of sovereignty, and I have at the top, I have a number of ideas anywhere, are very unlikely to become long voted in favor of legislation that that I will be talking about later that law. allows Tribal discretion in the judicial we can move forward to empower work- These are the types of bills that processes and in education. ers and help make sure that the 21st could go straight to the suspension cal- But, of course, the right to organize century economy works for everyone. endar and straight through the Senate is an inalienable right of every Amer- Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of and should be signed by the President, ican, protecting our workers, including my time. but, instead, they are being put in jeop- Native American workers, to fight for Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield my- ardy by lumping them in with a bill a safe working environment regardless self such time as I may consume. that is unlikely to become law. of what entity owns the company they Mr. Speaker, my good friend from There are so many of these types of work for. Legislation balancing these Colorado covered a lot of ground, so let Natural Resources Committee bills two competing principles is possible. me try to respond to some of that area from both Democrats and Republicans Reconciling these two priorities can because a lot of it doesn’t have a whole that should be making their way for- be difficult, but I think that there is a lot to do with the legislation until the ward as stand-alone items. way to do it. Instead, this bill drives a final phase of his remarks. I am glad, for instance, that one that wedge between issues or groups that In terms of CHIP, we actually agree. I authored, my Bolt’s Ditch and the have a history of working strongly to- I think that’s something—and, frankly, WEDGE Act—actually, two that I au- gether, such as Native Americans and this House should be proud it passed a thored—were put forward and passed labor unions. CHIP bill on a bipartisan basis months by this House and not attached to We can balance critical rights to sov- ago. Our real problem is the United other controversial legislation. ereignty with the protections that are States Senate simply hasn’t produced I am also reintroducing, soon, a bi- due to every American citizen regard- legislation. It doesn’t have to accept cameral bill that I also consider non- less of their race, ethnicity, cultural our legislation. It just needs to pass a controversial, the Continental Divide practices, membership in an Indian na- CHIP bill so we can go to conference Wilderness, Recreation and Camp Hale tion, or governing structures. This leg- and bargain. Legacy Act bill. It would preserve over islation does not find the right balance. I am pleased that both sides, frankly, 90,000 acres of wilderness and recre- It hurts workers of all stripes and col- have worked to make sure that, when ation lands in Summit and eastern ors, including many Native American we have done extensions of government Eagle Counties, and is endorsed by workers. spending as we work through some of local businesses, commissioners, and Workers have the right to collec- these knotty issues, we continue to towns across the area. tively bargain; otherwise, workplaces fund CHIP. I think the leadership on It was crafted with input from dozens become unsafe, sexual harassment can both sides of the aisle have been clear of stakeholder groups, including the go unchecked, and the income gap con- about that, and I think we will. But, Wilderness Society, Vail Resorts, the tinues to widen. This legislation would again, it will be great when the Senate Outdoor Industry Association, the strip Native Americans and non-Native finally passes a bill or we make this International Mountain Bicycling As- Americans, many of whom work for part of a larger spending bill.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.028 H10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H99 In terms of my friend’s points about are not strictly governmental. They of over 100 aspiring Americans every the Dream Act, I am honestly heart- run municipal golf courses. They do day who are unable to do what you and ened at the discussion that took place water parks. None of these things are I take for granted, Mr. Speaker, which at the White House yesterday. I think necessarily inherently government. is simply go to work the next day. there is a genuine desire to come to an They are not forced to comply with Every day that we fail to act, approxi- agreement on DACA. But the real issue this. So we should extend to Tribal mately 122 DREAMers lose their legal there is border security in addition to government, which we historically ability to work. legal status. have done, the exact same status and Mr. Speaker, even Republicans have These folks, obviously, I think, de- rights in this regard as we do to State called for a vote on this critical issue. serve legal status; but you also have to and local governments. At the end of last year, 34 Republican fix the problem, and the problem is on We would all be pretty upset if the colleagues sent a letter to Speaker the border. So the outline of the deal is Federal Government decided it would RYAN urging a vote before the year’s there if people approach it in good interject itself in this way into the af- end, a vote that never happened, a vote faith on both sides of the aisle. I take fairs of any individual State or any of my colleague, Mr. CORREA, is giving us the fact that we had leadership in both the individual localities that we rep- a chance to take now. parties meeting with the President yes- resent. How much longer will this body be terday as a good sign in that regard. b 1415 complicit in the Trump administra- In terms of the budget, we probably tion’s assault on DREAMers? have at least some areas of agreement. Working for a public entity is dif- It is time we listen to the vast major- My friend didn’t vote for it, but it is ferent. You certainly have rights, but ity of Americans and the majority of worth noting, the House passed every there are restrictions. You have cer- this body and act to protect coura- single appropriations bill before the tain rights, like the right to strike, geous, aspiring Americans like the September 30 deadline. We have been that in most States and most localities group from Colorado I met with yester- waiting now for over 120 days for the do not exist. Tribes should have the day. United States Senate to just pass a sin- same right to make those sorts of deci- Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con- gle appropriations bill. sions for themselves. Again, they resent to insert the text of my amend- We are in discussions with them now, sent and have resented historically the ment in the RECORD, along with extra- and I think at some point, when there violation of their sovereignty. In this neous material, immediately prior to is an agreement as to what the top line case, a regulatory agency without the the vote on the previous question. number is—and I think we might not authority of this body and without the The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there be too far away from that—then we authority of the administration that objection to the request of the gen- will be able to proceed. But again, this existed at that time acted on its own. tleman from Colorado? House has done its work. Just as it did What the Indian nations and Indian There was no objection. on CHIP, it produced legislation on Country have come and asked is: Re- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 time, and it is prepared to sit down and store us the sovereignty that you his- minutes to the gentleman from Cali- negotiate with the Senate whenever torically accorded us. fornia (Mr. CORREA) to discuss our pro- the Senate decides it can get around to That is all this legislation does. posal. getting its job done. The last point, my friend says this is Mr. CORREA. Mr. Speaker, recently, In terms of the National Labor Rela- unlikely to become law. I beg to dis- my daughter came home from high tions Act, the Tribal sovereignty por- agree. Not only did this pass the House school accompanied by two of her good tion of this bill, let me point out a cou- on a bipartisan vote in the last Con- friends. These young ladies are about ple of things. gress, but this Congress it has been re- 16 years of age. They wanted to sit My friend does have an excellent ported out of the Senate Committee on down and talk to me a little bit, so we record, honestly, in terms of support Indian Affairs on a bipartisan vote. sat down and we spoke. After a while, on Native American issues. This is just There is every reason to believe this. I learned these young ladies were very an issue where we disagree. There will We will see what the administration nervous and very scared. They were be Republicans and Democrats who op- does. But I suspect views change over DREAMers. pose this legislation. There will be Re- 25 years, and I would hope the adminis- They had a basic question for me, publicans and Democrats who support tration is supportive of this. As a mat- which was: What can we do? What can this legislation. ter of fact, as I recall, I think they you do for us? It is not really purely a partisan issued a statement to that effect. Very, very tough questions. After a question at all, but it is worth noting, So, regardless, let’s do our job. Let’s moment I answered them: Continue to the Indian community is united on this continue to do the job we did in the study hard. Continue to follow the law. issue. The National Congress of Amer- last Congress when, on a bipartisan Be good students and don’t give up ican Indians, over 150 Tribal organiza- basis, Republicans and Democrats alike hope. tions and individual Tribes have come decided Tribal sovereignty was an im- At the same time I told them: Don’t and asked the Congress to correct this portant issue. We should work together worry about Washington, D.C. I am oversight. to defend it and to expand it. In this going to Washington to fight for you. The fact that this happened in the case, we are working to reclaim some- That is what we are doing here today, way it did, that is, the National Labor thing that a Federal agency took away, myself and my colleagues, fighting for Relations Board acted on its own to ex- acting on its own, over a decade ago. DREAMers, fighting to make sure that tend its jurisdiction, had no instruc- So the solution to this is long overdue. they have a shot at the American tions from Congress to do that, had no Mr. Speaker, I would certainly urge Dream. request from the administration to do my friends to support the rule and, Now, I am happy to say today that that, they just decided they would do it more importantly, the underlying leg- DREAMers enjoy support of not only all, that is my definition of a regu- islation, and I reserve the balance of Democrats, but Republicans as well on latory body run amuck. my time. this floor. For almost 70 years, the NLRB recog- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield my- Why? nized that it did not have jurisdiction self such time as I may consume. Because all of us know who DREAM- in this area and did not try and do it. Mr. Speaker, when we defeat the pre- ers are. DREAMers are hardworking in- This is a very new thing. It aroused op- vious question, I will offer an amend- dividuals. They serve in our military. position in Indian Country imme- ment to the rule—not just any amend- They are soldiers, police officers, fire- diately. ment, but an amendment to bring up fighters, nurses, teachers, and, of Again, we don’t apply these stand- the bipartisan, bicameral bill, H.R. course, they are also our neighbors. ards to any State government or any 3440, the Dream Act. DREAMers also are very good immi- local government. We have lots of It is far past time that we consider grants. They pay their taxes and follow State governments and lots of local this urgent piece of legislation, the the law. governments involved in activities that lack of which is tearing apart the lives Do you know what?

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That is a key tenet that cadets passing in review, all saluting what their rights are, and interfere needs to be balanced with, of course, the flag of the United States, all tak- with their ability to operate their own Tribal sovereignty, which I am a ing the Pledge of Allegiance to our businesses, which are absolutely indis- strong supporter of. country and to our flag. pensable to supporting their govern- If the discussion were simply about Do you know something? mental activities. Tribal employees, it would be a dif- A lot of those cadets were DREAM- We do not give Tribes the power to ferent discussion. To be clear, it is ers. tax. They can’t tax their own land. about businesses that are owned by Mr. Speaker, today we have the They can’t tax their own citizens. If Tribes, and we simply don’t have an chance to do what is right. We have a they are not successful economically, analogy on the State and local side chance to do our job. Let the Dreamer they have to rely on the limited re- with very few exceptions. I am sure legislation come before us for a vote sources given by the Federal Govern- there is one somewhere. But, in gen- and let’s give the DREAMers the opment to do everything from protecting eral, municipalities and counties are portunity to earn the American Dream. their citizens to providing healthcare not the owners of operating businesses Mr. Speaker, let’s not live with re- that compete in the private sector. grets. Let’s not look back 5, 10, 15 years for their citizens and to making sure Now, I want to talk about what is from now and say what we could have, that there is appropriate education for possible with regard to enhancing the should have, would have. Now is the their citizens. They ought to be able to rights of workers and labor. Instead of time to act. Now is the time to vote for do what other governments do and earn these kinds of policies that take away our DREAMers. money and run their own affairs. I ask my colleagues to please vote We allow States to do that. We allow the rights of workers, including Native against the previous question so that localities to do that. For almost 70 American workers, we should be mov- we can immediately bring up the years, we allowed Indian Tribes to do ing forward on policies that put work- Dream Act to vote for justice and eq- that. Then we took it away from them. ers first. uity. They are not even asking for some- My bill, the Giving Workers a Fair Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield my- thing new. They are just asking for Shot Act, would do that. The bill would self such time as I may consume. something that was taken from them, provide reasonable solutions to address Again, Mr. Speaker, I certainly re- in terms of their authority and sov- the growing inequality in the United spect my friend’s right to bring up a ereignty, to be restored to them. States by helping workers and ensuring subject that they think is important Mr. Speaker, again, I go back to urg- that companies follow the law, empha- and is important, and it is appropriate ing the passage of the underlying legis- sizing the need for corporate account- that they use their time to do that. lation. I hope that we continue to work ability. I would remind them that there is a on these other issues that my friends It would remove unfair obstacles to negotiation underway. I think the have brought up. We are working on forming a union, enhance transparency issue here is less about DACA probably them in areas like CHIP, like the from employers, and increase penalties and more about border security. The DACA question, and like the border se- for violating our labor laws, which are issues are naturally paired together. curity question. strong but often not enforced. These young people came here through But let’s also take our time and pass First, all too often, employers fre- no fault of their own. They are not re- this very important piece of legislation quently drag their feet on a newly sponsible for any sort of criminal act. and restore to Indian Tribes what the formed union’s first contract for But they were transported across a National Labor Relations Board took months, sometimes for years, often very porous border. away from them over a decade ago. with the goal of avoiding an agree- So to ensure that we are not here Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of ment. Sometimes that means a newly again doing the same thing again, my time. certified union that the voters have strengthening that border at the same Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield my- voted in fails to receive a first con- time that we provide legal status self such time as I may consume. tract. seems the appropriate thing to do. I Mr. Speaker, I want to address some My bill would set up a first-contract suspect neither is achievable without of the things that my colleague, Mr. arbitration system where the union or the other linked together. COLE, said. The big difference here be- the employer has the option of seeking So I take it that the two sides are ne- tween Tribal-owned and -run busi- mediation if they feel one party is not gotiating. I am not involved in those nesses and State and local govern- responding adequately to a negotiation negotiations. I am not a member of the ments is that State and local govern- request. relevant committees, but I think the ments are not generally in the business It would also ensure that no taxpayer two sides are involved in that negotia- of owning/operating companies. With funds are used for union busting or per- tion. My hope is that they come to an very few exceptions, we don’t have a suaders, activities like planning and agreement and that we can have a socialist form of government in this implementing activities that deter em- large, bipartisan victory and a piece of country where cities or States are ac- ployees from joining or forming a legislation that we are all proud of. tually operating businesses in competi- union. Again, it simply makes sure But I suspect it is going to take some tion with the private sector. that no taxpayer funds are used for give-and-take on each side to achieve Tribes, in addition to their Tribal that explicit purpose. that. workers, which are more analogous to Third, the bill updates the National I do want to go back, though, to the State or local workers—and it is an ap- Labor Relations Act’s definition of principal underlying legislation here propriate discussion—also happen to ‘‘supervisor.’’ Too often, workers are and ask my friends—many of whom, by own businesses, which is fine, and they reclassified as supervisors for effec- the way, will support this legislation. produce revenue for the Tribes, which tively gerrymandering bargaining There will be considerable Democratic is great. However, they should play by units. This updated definition helps support for this. But I would hope— the same economic rules as other busi- prevent that sort of manipulation and and, again, I understand this is an issue nesses, which in no way impede busi- would make it easier for employees to of competing goods, but sovereignty is nesses from succeeding in our country. be able to form a union if they so not something we should grant to Of course, many of these Tribal- choose. States and localities and deny Indian owned businesses are the main source Fourth, the bill reaffirms the impor- Tribes. of support and income for Tribes. If our tance for the government to protect We should not have a double standard labor laws work for any other business, workers from having their rights vio- here. If we need to make changes they should also work for them. lated by increasing criminal and civil

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Members on both sides of the aisle Under the Indian Civil Rights Act of Finally, the legislation empowers share; namely, the government’s use of 1965, there is absolutely nothing that a shareholders and creates new account- section 702 information against Amer- Tribal government can do that would ability for CEOs and executives by pre- ican citizens in investigations that contravene the guaranteed rights in venting the CEO and chairman at a have nothing to do with national secu- the United States Constitution for all publicly traded company from being rity and does not require a warrant or Americans. the same person. We would all love to the due process of our Constitution. So to suggest that they are somehow work for ourselves, but that is not in Instead, the bill codifies the ability violating the rights of American work- the long-term economic interest of the of the government to access the con- ers, I think, is to mischaracterize who shareholders, the customers, or the tent of our emails and telephone calls they are and how they have acted. workers. without a warrant. It creates an un- What they have said is, if we are sov- The bill also expands insider trading precedented and unworkable ‘‘op- ereign, if the Federal Government says restrictions for executives to 1 year tional’’ warrant, which is merely win- that State governments and local gov- after they leave a company. dow dressing but does nothing to ad- ernments are allowed to regulate their In my district and across Colorado, dress the legitimate concerns. own workforces, then Tribal govern- people are clamoring for proactive poli- These massive flaws could have been ments are allowed to do the same. cies that actually help address the in- addressed, had we proceeded under reg- I want to disagree also with my come gap and put the needs of middle ular order, but this version was re- friend. There are lots of municipal golf class families and workers first. Poli- ported only from the Intelligence Com- courses in the United States. There are cies like the Giving Workers a Fair mittee and bypassed the Judiciary lots of municipal water slides. There Committee, which was cut out of nego- Shot Act would do that. are park systems. You can go to the tiations when they agreed to go along Now, this legislation that we are see- State of Virginia and it happens to own with the Intelligence Committee rail- ing here today is not the only con- the liquor business in the State. It has roading their committee. That is why I troversial legislation we are seeing this decided it is going to make that a signed a bipartisan letter with dozens week. Unfortunately, the next rule up State function. We don’t regulate those of our Members demanding FISA be will be one that takes away our con- employees. handled under regular order. So the idea that just because it is a stitutional rights as Americans. I am proud to have offered the money-making activity, that we then The FISA reauthorization legislation amendment that will be considered has been described as a compromise, somehow treat it differently, we don’t later with Representatives LOFGREN but that is not the case. do that to any locality or any State in and AMASH and others that would pro- the country. b 1430 vide a better path to keep American We just had an unelected Federal citizens safe and protect our privacy This legislation is not the necessary agency decide on its own it was going and ensure that American companies FISA reform bill that many in Con- to do that to Indian Tribes. It is not gress, including myself, have called for, can remain competitive abroad. It will protect our constitutional rights and doing it to anybody else, just to Tribes. which is why I and so many of my col- I would submit that that is fundamen- leagues on both sides of the aisle are keep us safe. My amendment, which is based off tally unfair. Again, nobody’s rights are opposed to it in its form and support the USA RIGHTS Act, ends backdoor taken away. Every American citizen the Amash-Polis amendment, cospon- searches, ends reverse targeting, bans has exactly the same right. sored by many others. ‘‘abouts’’ collections, and strengthens But if you were to go to work for the It is also why the current FISA reau- FISA court oversight and trans- Federal Government, you don’t have thorization bill is opposed not only by parency. I think these are all common- precisely the same rights you do in the privacy and civil liberties groups and sense and necessary changes that private sector. The same thing is true consumers but also technology compa- Americans have been demanding for here. If you choose to go to work for a nies and job creators across the polit- years. Tribal government, you live within ical spectrum. Businesses are, right- Mr. Speaker, I ask all of my col- that regime. That regime has to com- fully, afraid that, if this bill passes, it leagues to oppose the FISA reauthor- port with the Constitution and the will make it even harder for American ization and support the Amash-Lofgren laws of the United States, and you companies to engage in international amendment when they are brought have not lost your action rights in Fed- commerce. forth shortly. eral court if you think there is a viola- Many countries in Europe, for exam- Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of tion. ple, will simply refuse to do business my time. So I think, frankly, this is a case with a technology company that is Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield my- that is crystal clear. You treat every- housed in the U.S. because they are self such time as I may consume to re- body the same way, every govern- afraid of what will happen to their citi- spond to a couple of my friend’s points. mental unit the same way. That is all zens’ data, perhaps even in contraven- Let me begin by disagreeing respect- the Tribes are asking for. tion of their own stronger privacy fully with my friend’s assertion that Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the laws. people are having their rights stripped gentleman from Texas (Mr. BURGESS), a This bill does not make any steps in away. distinguished member of both the the direction of reform that are nec- The only people losing their rights Rules Committee and the Energy and essary. It falls short on several here are Indian Tribes. That is what Commerce Committee. grounds. In fact, in some ways, it happened when the NLRB did what it Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, I thank makes the FISA program worse by did. Without the direction of Congress the gentleman for yielding, and I thank codifying the ‘‘abouts’’ collections or the administration, it decided on its him for his work as the chairman of term that refers to the NSA searching own it would treat Indian Tribal gov- the Appropriations Subcommittee that through the internet traffic to collect ernments different than it treated deals with funding public health as not only communications to or from an other governments. So it is those well as medical research. intelligence target but also those that rights to the Tribal governments that I heard some comments about exten- simply mention an identifier used by a we are busy trying to restore. sion of the funding for the Children’s target, even though that has been de- My friend, who, again, is very good Health Insurance Program at the be- clared unconstitutional twice. It could on Indian issues, as a rule, and I under- ginning of the debate, and I wanted to

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.033 H10JAPT1 H102 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 10, 2018 come to the floor and remind people expecting another child. Both Carla differently. Sometimes deadlines are that the Energy and Commerce Com- and her husband work full time. Carla like alarm clocks here, but those mittee did do its work as far as con- works at a local childcare center. Her things are underway. tinuing the funding for the Children’s husband works at a local retail store. What we are talking about today is Health Insurance Program. It com- Even with their two full-time in- also an effort that has been waged by pleted its work. We delayed a little bit comes, like many Americans, they felt Indian nations for over a dozen years at the request of committee Demo- the Children’s Health Insurance Pro- to try and reclaim part of their sov- crats, we delayed a little bit at the re- gram was the only medical coverage ereignty that was unjustly taken away quest of the ranking member of the full for them, and Carla enrolled in CHIP. from them. committee, but we did deliver a prod- Carla is due to deliver her baby in I am going to disagree with my friend uct the first part of October. March of this year, but she worries very profoundly. Nobody’s rights have That product passed the floor of this that, when the baby comes, she won’t been taken away. Every American’s House late October, early November. It have medical coverage anymore. Unfor- rights are guaranteed by the Constitu- passed with, of course, almost every tunately, Carla is right to worry. Right tion of the United States. The Indian Republican vote and over two dozen now, Colorado is expected to run out of Civil Rights Act of 1965 makes it abun- Democratic votes. It was, indeed, a bi- CHIP funding at the end of February, dantly clear no Tribe can do anything partisan effort. just a few weeks before Carla is due. in contravention and restrict the It funded the Children’s Health Insur- That is why this issue is so urgent, rights of Americans. ance Program for 5 years, which was Mr. Speaker. For the tens of thousands The only people who have lost rights the Democratic request; the funding of children and pregnant women, like in this whole discussion and episode levels were requested by the Demo- Carla, we can’t wait another minute to have been Tribal governments who had crats; and it was offset in a responsible provide a permanent extension of the their right to regulate their labor af- way. Children’s Health Insurance Program. fairs, the same way we allow States That bill is pending over in the But instead of finding a bipartisan fix and localities to do it, taken away United States Senate, and I, frankly, for the Children’s Health Insurance from them. do not understand why the Senate mi- Program or for deferred action or to It wasn’t taken away from them by nority leader will not release that bill keep the government open, instead, an act of this Congress. We never for a vote by his Senators because it is, here we have yet another bill that peo- passed legislation. It wasn’t taken after all, Democratic Senators who rep- ple will have different opinions on, and away from this because the administra- resent States around this country that I feel that it undermines workers’ tion ordered some agency of the execu- are going to suffer as a consequence of rights and is not supportive in the way tive branch to do something. It was not passing this bill. that I would be of the rights of our na- taken away because, acting in a rogue Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I yield my- tions. It is, unfortunately, another ex- manner, the National Labor Relations self the balance of my time. ample of misguided priorities. Board, on its own, decided it would ex- Mr. Speaker, I also want to address We have precious little time—I be- pand its legal authority. something my friend, Mr. COLE, said. lieve 4 days—until the funding of the Well, that is great. They may have a Again, I am sure you can find a few government expires. We should have case to make. But that is not what instances in municipal and State gov- acted on the Children’s Health Insur- they are supposed to do. They are sup- ernment, but I am sure the gentleman ance Program last year. We should posed to operate within the authority would agree that, relative to size, they have acted on deferred action last year. Congress gives them. If they think are very few and far between. Even We need to act now. they need a grant of additional author- most municipal golf courses are run by Mr. Speaker, for that reason, I op- ity, they come to Congress and ask for private operators under contract to pose the underlying bill, I urge a ‘‘no’’ that grant of additional authority. municipalities. I am sure the gen- vote on the rule, and I yield back the They don’t simply, on their own, decide tleman can find a couple that aren’t. balance of my time. they will willy-nilly violate the rights I have interacted with businesses in Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield my- of a sovereign Native American nation. my district that are owned by Tribal self the balance of my time. That is exactly what happened in this nations, and I worked with them. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend, and case. Frankly, the Tribes have been ex- There are a number of provisions in I want to stress that, while we disagree traordinarily patient in pursuing the law that help them. I support those. on this, I appreciate his efforts in Na- remedy to this. But I do believe that workers don’t tive American issues. He has a record I think we ought to, today, take the give up their rights simply because that, I think, is an excellent record opportunity to rectify a wrong that an they work for a company that happens overall. We just disagree very pro- agency of the executive branch did to be owned by a Tribal nation, as op- foundly in this case. without the consent of Congress or posed to an American or even a Native I will say this: if you happened to even without the consent of the Presi- American citizen of our country who, just casually turn on the coverage of dent of the United States at the time in their personal capacity, is the owner the debate at any point, you might and allow Tribes to reclaim the author- of a company and would not have the wonder what we were debating about. ity that they exercised for over 70 same ability to deprive workers of In the course of the debate, we have years. their rights as a company that was talked about CHIP, we have talked If we think we need to do something owned by his or her Tribe. about the DREAMers, we have talked different in that regard, that is a fair So, again, we want to make sure we about the budget, we have talked about point to make. If we do, it needs to be support Tribal autonomy. And I do. FISA. We have spent a lot of time talk- the same for State governments and Perhaps there is a bill to be had here, ing about a lot of different things other local governments. You don’t single but it is simply not this bill. than the information at hand. I don’t Tribes out of sovereign entities and im- I want to share a story of one of my begrudge my friend. He feels very pas- pose something on them that doesn’t constituents from Fort Collins, Colo- sionately about those areas. apply to everybody else that is a sov- rado, that I think will bring this back It is interesting to me that, on the ereign of the United States of America. to what our body should be doing. FISA issue, for instance, we will actu- Mr. Speaker, in closing, I encourage I understand there are arguments on ally have a debate tomorrow. The all Members to support the rule, but I both sides of this. I understand there amendment my friend supports will be recognize my friends probably will not, are people on both sides of the aisle in order tomorrow. We will have an op- and that is fair enough. That is normal who have concerns and also who sup- portunity to do that. partisan debate. port this bill. But it is not the urgency I think there are good faith efforts But with S. 140, the House is taking that we face with regard to deferred ac- underway on both sides on the DACA steps to strengthen Tribal sovereignty. tion or child health insurance. issue and on the issue of FISA, particu- This body actually has a pretty good In July of 2017, Carla and her husband larly on the issue of the budget as well. record. I worked with my friends across from Fort Collins found out they were Again, I wish this place worked a little the aisle when we passed the Violence

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.035 H10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H103 Against Women Act, which had a very THE VOTE ON THE PREVIOUS QUESTION: WHAT The question was taken; and the important component giving Tribes IT REALLY MEANS Speaker pro tempore announced that back some of the jurisdiction that they This vote, the vote on whether to order the the ayes appeared to have it. needed to regulate domestic abuse and previous question on a special rule, is not Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, on that I sexual assault on their own territory. merely a procedural vote. A vote against ordering the previous question is a vote demand the yeas and nays. b 1445 against the Republican majority agenda and The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- My friends were overwhelmingly sup- a vote to allow the Democratic minority to offer an alternative plan. It is a vote about ant to clause 8 of rule XX, further pro- portive and helpful in that measure. It what the House should be debating. ceedings on this question will be post- would not have happened without Mr. Clarence Cannon’s Precedents of the poned. them, so I know in many cases we do House of Representatives (VI, 308–311), de- agree. But in this case, under this bill, scribes the vote on the previous question on f Tribal governments will be able to be the rule as ‘‘a motion to direct or control the consideration of the subject before the House PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION excluded from the requirements for being made by the Member in charge.’’ To OF S. 139, RAPID DNA ACT OF 2017 employers under the NLRA, just like defeat the previous question is to give the Mr. COLLINS of Georgia. Mr. Speak- State and local governments. opposition a chance to decide the subject be- er, by direction of the Committee on This legislation will reverse the bu- fore the House. Cannon cites the Speaker’s reaucratic overreach of the NLRB and ruling of January 13, 1920, to the effect that Rules, I call up House Resolution 682 clarify the law once and for all. This ‘‘the refusal of the House to sustain the de- and ask for its immediate consider- bill is a commonsense solution that mand for the previous question passes the ation. will clarify the original intent of Con- control of the resolution to the opposition’’ The Clerk read the resolution, as fol- in order to offer an amendment. On March lows: gress that the NLRA does not have ju- 15, 1909, a member of the majority party of- H. RES. 682 risdiction over Tribal governments. fered a rule resolution. The House defeated I applaud my colleagues on both sides the previous question and a member of the Resolved, That upon adoption of this reso- of the aisle for this work. We will actu- opposition rose to a parliamentary inquiry, lution it shall be in order to consider in the ally have a split decision over this. asking who was entitled to recognition. House the bill (S. 139) to implement the use There will certainly be some Repub- Speaker Joseph G. Cannon (R–Illinois) said: of Rapid DNA instruments to inform decisions about pretrial release or detention and licans supporting my friend’s position, ‘‘The previous question having been refused, the gentleman from New York, Mr. Fitz- their conditions, to solve and prevent violent but by and large, I think this House gerald, who had asked the gentleman to crimes and other crimes, to exonerate the in- will do what it did the last time it con- yield to him for an amendment, is entitled to nocent, to prevent DNA analysis backlogs, sidered this legislation, and that is, on the first recognition.’’ and for other purposes. All points of order a bipartisan basis, pass the law. The Republican majority may say ‘‘the against consideration of the bill are waived. This time, given the action of the vote on the previous question is simply a An amendment in the nature of a substitute Senate Indian Affairs Committee, we vote on whether to proceed to an immediate consisting of the text of Rules Committee have every reason to believe the legis- vote on adopting the resolution.... [and] Print 115-53 shall be considered as adopted. has no substantive legislative or policy im- lation will be picked up and sent to the The bill, as amended, shall be considered as plications whatsoever.’’ But that is not what read. All points of order against provisions President’s desk, where I am confident they have always said. Listen to the Repub- in the bill, as amended, are waived. The pre- it will be signed. lican Leadership Manual on the Legislative vious question shall be considered as ordered The material previously referred to Process in the United States House of Rep- on the bill, as amended, and on any further by Mr. POLIS is as follows: resentatives, (6th edition, page 135). Here’s amendment thereto, to final passage without AN AMENDMENT TO H. RES. 681 OFFERED BY how the Republicans describe the previous intervening motion except: (1) one hour of MR. POLIS question vote in their own manual: ‘‘Al- debate, with 40 minutes equally divided and At the end of the resolution, add the fol- though it is generally not possible to amend controlled by the chair and ranking minority lowing new sections: the rule because the majority Member con- member of the Permanent Select Committee SEC. 2. Immediately upon adoption of this trolling the time will not yield for the pur- on Intelligence and 20 minutes equally di- resolution the Speaker shall, pursuant to pose of offering an amendment, the same re- vided and controlled by the chair and rank- clause 2(b) of rule XVIII, declare the House sult may be achieved by voting down the pre- ing minority member of the Committee on resolved into the Committee of the Whole vious question on the rule . . . When the mo- the Judiciary; (2) the further amendment House on the state of the Union for consider- tion for the previous question is defeated, printed in the report of the Committee on ation of the bill (H.R. 3440) to authorize the control of the time passes to the Member Rules accompanying this resolution, if of- cancellation of removal and adjustment of who led the opposition to ordering the pre- fered by the Member designated in the re- status of certain individuals who are long- vious question. That Member, because he port, which shall be in order without inter- term United States residents and who en- then controls the time, may offer an amend- vention of any point of order, shall be con- tered the United States as children and for ment to the rule, or yield for the purpose of sidered as read, shall be separately debatable other purposes. The first reading of the bill amendment.’’ for the time specified in the report equally In Deschler’s Procedure in the U.S. House shall be dispensed with. All points of order divided and controlled by the proponent and of Representatives, the subchapter titled against consideration of the bill are waived. an opponent, and shall not be subject to a de- ‘‘Amending Special Rules’’ states: ‘‘a refusal General debate shall be confined to the bill mand for division of the question; and (3) one to order the previous question on such a rule and shall not exceed one hour equally di- motion to commit with or without instruc- [a special rule reported from the Committee vided and controlled by the chair and rank- tions. on Rules] opens the resolution to amending minority member of the Committee on ment and further debate.’’ (Chapter 21, sec- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- the Judiciary. After general debate the bill tion 21.2) Section 21.3 continues: ‘‘Upon re- tleman from Georgia is recognized for 1 shall be considered for amendment under the jection of the motion for the previous ques- hour. five-minute rule. All points of order against tion on a resolution reported from the Com- provisions in the bill are waived. At the con- Mr. COLLINS of Georgia. Mr. Speak- mittee on Rules, control shifts to the Mem- er, for the purpose of debate only, I clusion of consideration of the bill for ber leading the opposition to the previous amendment the Committee shall rise and re- question, who may offer a proper amendment yield the customary 30 minutes to the port the bill to the House with such amend- or motion and who controls the time for de- gentleman from Florida (Mr. HAS- ments as may have been adopted. The pre- bate thereon.’’ TINGS), pending which I yield myself vious question shall be considered as ordered Clearly, the vote on the previous question such time as I may consume. During on the bill and amendments thereto to final on a rule does have substantive policy impli- consideration of this resolution, all passage without intervening motion except cations. It is one of the only available tools time yielded is for the purpose of de- one motion to recommit with or without infor those who oppose the Republican major- bate only. structions. If the Committee of the Whole ity’s agenda and allows those with alter- rises and reports that it has come to no reso- native views the opportunity to offer an al- GENERAL LEAVE lution on the bill, then on the next legisla- ternative plan. Mr. COLLINS of Georgia. Mr. Speak- tive day the House shall, immediately after Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield back er, I ask unanimous consent that all the third daily order of business under clause the balance of my time, and I move the Members have 5 legislative days to re- 1 of rule XIV, resolve into the Committee of vise and extend their remarks and to the Whole for further consideration of the previous question on the resolution. bill. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The include extraneous material on House SEC. 3. Clause 1(c) of rule XIX shall not question is on ordering the previous Resolution 682, currently under consid- apply to the consideration of H.R. 3440. question. eration.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.036 H10JAPT1 H104 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 10, 2018 The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there Reauthorization Act will extend the Mandatory internal procedures objection to the request of the gen- Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as targeting and minimization tleman from Georgia? or FISA, Title VII for 6 years while in- procedures also govern the collection, There was no objection. creasing oversight of its implementa- use, and dissemination of information, Mr. COLLINS of Georgia. Mr. Speak- tion at every level and providing more and they are in place at each agency er, I am pleased to bring forward this robust privacy protections for Ameri- that uses FISA section 702. rule on behalf of the Rules Committee. cans. The FISA Amendments Reauthoriza- The rule provides for consideration of Section 702 of FISA has proven to be tion Act expands upon the internal pro- S. 139, the FISA Amendments Reau- an invaluable tool for collecting for- tections by requiring each agency to thorization Act. eign intelligence and providing insight also adopt querying procedures to con- The rule provides for 1 hour of de- into the plans and intentions of our en- trol how each agency searches its data- bate, with 40 minutes equally divided emies. It is one of the National Secu- base for 702-acquired communications. and controlled by the chair and rank- rity Administration’s most important This brings me to the judicial ing member of the House Permanent operational authorities. branch. Under current law, the tar- Select Committee on Intelligence, and It permits the government to con- geting and minimization procedures 20 minutes equally divided and conduct targeted surveillance of foreign must be approved annually by the For- trolled by the chairman and ranking persons located outside the United eign Intelligence Surveillance Court, of member of the Judiciary Committee. States, with the compelled assistance FISC, which is made up of a rotating The rule also provides for a motion of electronic communication service group of Article III judges. to recommit. providers, to acquire foreign intel- The FISC, with the aid of amicus cu- Additionally, the rule makes in order ligence information. riae briefs and technical experts, en- an amendment offered by Mr. AMASH, Mr. Speaker, this program’s impor- gages in exhaustive review and consid- representing ideas from Members of tance to national security cannot be eration of section 702’s implementation both sides of the aisle. overstated. While many of the exam- for compliance with the Constitution Yesterday, the Rules Committee re- ples of its successes are classified in and the law. ceived testimony from numerous mem- nature, I can tell you here today that This legislation will enhance the bers, including Intelligence Committee it has helped protect the homeland and FISC’s considerations of privacy issues by providing the FISC with the author- Chairman NUNES and Ranking Member the American people. One declassified example that I can ity to compensate amicus briefs and SCHIFF. We also heard from Judiciary share with Members concerns the story technical experts. Committee Ranking Member NADLER, of Hajji Iman, who rose through the Finally, there is Congress, where we Congressman FARENTHOLD, Congress- ranks of ISIS, eventually becoming the come to. The Committee on the Judici- man AMASH, Congresswoman LOFGREN, terrorist organization’s second in com- ary and the Committee on Intelligence and also Congressman POE. have conducted multiple oversight In addition to the vigorous debate on mand. For more than 2 years, the intel- hearings and meetings in both classi- this legislation before the Rules Com- ligence community searched for Iman. fied and unclassified settings. Numer- mittee, both the Judiciary Committee During that period, the NSA used their ous insights came from those hearings, and Intelligence Committee held mark- section 702 programs to target his com- and the legislation that will be consid- ups on legislation to reauthorize sec- munications and his close associates. ered under today’s rule reflects them tion 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Their resourcefulness, together with well. The bill makes a number of im- Surveillance Act. these 702 resources, eventually led provements that will enhance the con- Today we have the opportunity to them to him. gressional oversight in coming years. pass an important piece of legislation Mr. Speaker, the gentleman was a But, Mr. Speaker, it is time to re- that will enhance our national security terrorist. He was a murderer. Mr. member one more group that remains and strengthen protections of Ameri- Speaker, Mr. Iman was killed by U.S. critical to protecting Americans’ lib- cans’ privacy. special forces on March 24, 2016, during erties: American men and women Mr. Speaker, I publicly thank Chair- an attempt to apprehend him. themselves. man GOODLATTE and Chairman NUNES We may not see every victory that This legislation will improve trans- for their important work on this legis- the 702 program delivers on behalf of parency and public oversight of FISA lation. As a result of their efforts, the innocent Americans, but these initia- section 702 by requiring the Director of legislation we will consider today will tives help protect Americans every National Intelligence and the Attorney protect the privacy rights of individual day. General to conduct a declassification Americans without hindering the intel- Let us pause to note, however, that review and publicly release the FISA ligence community’s ability to gain with the broad authority granted by a section 702 minimization procedures valuable intelligence about the program like 702 to collect foreign in- every year. schemes and identities of our enemies. telligence information to fight our for- Mr. Speaker, the most important re- Our government’s most fundamental eign enemies, it must come with expan- form contained in this legislation con- responsibilities are to defend the sive safeguards against abuse of that stitutes the most substantial reform to American people from harm and to pro- authority and expansive oversight of the program since its inception. tect their liberties. The value that we its use. Under this legislation, the FBI will place on these duties is reflected by the To ensure that the authorities under be required, when conducting a crimi- fact that they are enshrined in the pre- section 702 do not come into conflict nal investigation of a U.S. person, to amble to the Constitution. with the liberty and privacy interests obtain a warrant from the FISC prior To provide for our common defense, of the American people, the FISA to accessing the content of the commu- the dedicated men and women of the Amendments Act expands substan- nications that were acquired using 702. intelligence community work tire- tially on the already extensive safe- Section 702 information is collected lessly to defeat the efforts of our for- guard. for the purpose of foreign intelligence eign adversaries, whether they are ter- Mr. Speaker, as I have said, each operations, and this critical new re- rorists, hostile foreign states, or nu- branch of government is responsible for quirement forecloses the possibility clear proliferators. protecting the liberties of the Amer- that FBI agents investigating Ameri- Our Constitution tasks each branch ican people. In the executive branch, cans for traditional crimes would be of government—legislative, executive, there are extensive internal controls able to use 702 information in such do- and judicial—with constantly working that require agency heads and the At- mestic investigations. to protect the liberty of every Amer- torney General to review and approve In addition to the numerous safe- ican. of actions under 702. Additionally, the guards currently in place and added by With the bill provided for by this inspector general for the intelligence this legislation, Americans are guaran- rule, the Chamber will be considering community and the Department of Jus- teed their right of privacy by the legislation that will help us better tice are tasked with comprehensive re- Fourth Amendment to the United achieve both. The FISA Amendments view of this program’s implementation. States Constitution.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.040 H10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H105 I took an oath to uphold and defend tending it to January 19 of this year, The legislation before us today will the Constitution, and the oath guides coincidentally, the same date the gov- allow such collection to resume, but every action I take in this Chamber. ernment will possibly shut down. only if the NSA first devises a way of The FISA Amendments Reauthoriza- Mr. Speaker, as a former judge and doing so that addresses privacy con- tion Act ensures that the Fourth the former vice chairman of the House cerns, obtains permission from the For- Amendment rights of Americans are Permanent Select Committee on Intel- eign Intelligence Surveillance Court, upheld and includes additional safe- ligence, I do occupy a unique vantage and Congress does not object after a 30- guards on top of constitutionally guar- point in the ongoing debate between day review period. anteed rights. the need to steadfastly protect the Now, this may seem to be a better Mr. Speaker, we have reviewed the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution option than what I am sure many, if importance of the FISA Amendments while also ensuring that those in the not most, Republicans wanted, which is Reauthorization Act in stopping ter- intelligence community have the tools the full-scale reimplementation of rorist attacks and protecting the they need to keep our country safe ‘‘abouts’’ collection, but considering American people, but this point bears from those who wish to do us grave how much difficulty the majority has repeating: this program allows the gov- harm. in simply keeping the lights on around ernment to obtain the communication Putting the finer points on this de- this place, I think it is fair to question of foreigners outside the United States, bate aside for a moment, I can tell you their ability to provide meaningful including foreign terrorist threats, in with complete certainty that such a oversight in just 30 days. Again, this is support of the counterterrorism efforts debate deserves to be lengthy and thor- simply evidence for the need to return worldwide. It has allowed us to respond ough, neither of which have happened back to regular order under which bills to threats to our country. here. are fully and fairly considered. Now let me tell you a little bit about I was concerned to learn, if not a bit Regardless of where one comes down what the 702 program is not. It is not a dismayed, that the House Intelligence on this issue, I can assure you that subcommittee which has oversight ju- bulk collection of data. It cannot be there are Members on both sides of the risdiction of the National Security used to target Americans and it cannot aisle that are sick and tired of being Agency did not hold a single hearing on be used to target individuals located shut out of important policy discus- today’s bill. In fact, the full committee inside the United States. sions concerning subjects like those be- did not even hold a single hearing on Mr. Speaker, the FISA Amendments fore us today. this important piece of legislation. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of Reauthorization Act is an example of Think about that. As the Repub- my time. what Congress can accomplish when we licans approached the need to discuss Mr. COLLINS of Georgia. Mr. Speak- work together to find solutions to our the reauthorization of one of the more er, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman Nation’s weightiest challenges. important tools to fight terrorism from Wisconsin (Mr. SENSENBRENNER), Mr. Speaker, before I close my open- that, simultaneously, brings along le- a fellow member of the Judiciary Com- ing, I also will acknowledge that there gitimate and important Fourth mittee and former chair of that com- is a lot of difference of opinion, as Amendment concerns, the majority, in mittee. there should be, on this bill. But at the all their wisdom, thought it prudent to Mr. SENSENBRENNER. Mr. Speak- end of the day, progress has been made, hold exactly zero hearings on such an er, I rise today in opposition to S. 139, protections have been implemented, important matter. That is a brazenly which is the FISA Amendments Reau- and the security of our country must inept way to govern. be taken into account. That is why this To add insult to injury, I am told thorization Act. bill needs to pass and any amendments that members of the committee were I have stood on this floor debating that were brought forward need to fail. given about 36 hours to read the bill be- the PATRIOT Act after 9/11. I fought We need to push this forward and fore having to vote it out of com- for reforms in 2015 with the USA Free- begin the process in continuing to pro- mittee. dom Act. And now here we are debating tect our private citizens’ personal re- A side note here: the bill they were the latest need to balance privacy and sponsibilities and liberties, but also, at given 36 hours to review is not actually security. the same time, making sure that our the bill we have before us today be- Since Congress last reauthorized sec- intelligence communities and those en- cause the majority had to use a Rules tion 702, we have learned a great deal trusted with the sacred duty of pro- Committee print to fix some of the about the operation of this program. tecting this country have the tools most troublesome parts of the original These revelations have highlighted the they need to do that. Anything else bill in order to obtain my friend Rank- risks that it poses to privacy and civil would be less than what we should be ing Member ADAM SCHIFF’s support. liberties. This program needs to be re- here. Mr. Speaker, without a doubt, that formed, but, Mr. Speaker, this is not Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of support did not come easily, and im- the bill to do it. my time. portant changes were made to the bill Rather than provide meaningful re- Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I yield as it was presented to the committee in forms, the FISA Amendments Reau- myself such time as I may consume. its original form. thorization Act would reauthorize sec- Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman For example, Mr. SCHIFF was able to tion 702. However, as we are all well from Georgia (Mr. COLLINS), my friend, ensure the Republicans’ unmasking aware, the program routinely sweeps for yielding me the customary 30 min- language was removed from today’s up millions of innocent Americans’ utes for debate. bill. The removal of such language en- emails. Mr. Speaker, I stand here today with sures that one of the Republicans’ most The warrant requirement in this bill the rest of my Democratic colleagues heinous political stunts is not codified applies to only fully predicated, official in utter amazement at the dizzying into law. This was and is a significant investigations and not to the hundreds dysfunction exhibited by our friends improvement. of thousands of searches the FBI runs across the aisle. For reasons beyond Moreover, the Republicans removed every day just to run down a lead or understanding, we have to vote on the the controversial expansion of the defi- check out a tip. The loopholes are too reauthorization of section 702 of the nition of ‘‘agent of foreign power,’’ great to ensure proper protections. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act which concerned privacy and tech- In this morning’s Washington Post, because late last year the Republican nology groups. on page A4, an article says, in part, leadership chose to prioritize massive Today’s bill also addresses what is FBI officials told aides of the gen- tax cuts for their wealthy donors over known as ‘‘abouts’’ collection. This is tleman from New York (Mr. NADLER), the safety of American citizens. the collection of communications that last week ‘‘that under the proposed are not to or from a target but, rather, bill, they anticipate rarely, if ever, b 1500 communications that merely reference needing permission from the Foreign Like so many other important issues, the target. The NSA, itself, shut down Intelligence Surveillance Court to re- House Republicans decided to punt on this collection method earlier this view query results, according to one of the reauthorization of 702 by simply ex- year. the aides.’’ And this was not denied by

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Although Committee, the gentleman from Cali- vast amount of information being col- the gentlewoman spoke of this in the fornia (Mr. SCHIFF). lected—we can’t go into the details of sense that the existing orders would We are going to hear an awful lot that in an open session, just that we stay in place, she fails to mention, and about warrants on the floor and how have been told by Admiral Rogers the others have failed to talk about, that this fixes the problem, but here the scope of this—and that the database any new orders or even currently exist- FBI has said in no uncertain terms to that is so-called incidentally collected ing orders are being enforced by the in- one of our congressional aides that because of the architecture of the telligence community, which is set they are never going to have to use internet could be searched for Ameri- under that sort of pale of direction this warrant requirement, which was cans without a warrant is not con- that they want. drafted by the Justice Department that sistent with the protections outlined in So I guess if you are satisfied pro- has opposed warrants all along. If ever the Fourth Amendment to the Con- tecting the country with existing or- we have seen the fox not only watching stitution. ders and existing threats that lasted the henhouse but inside the henhouse, The Amash amendment, which is ba- yesterday, but I will guarantee you this is it. It isn’t even a fig leaf being sically the USA RIGHTS Act, ends somebody else woke up this morning small or otherwise. It is simply a way these backdoor searches by requiring a wanting to do us harm. I want the in- to divert the attention of this Congress warrant. It ends reverse targeting. It telligence community to be able to ad- away from what is really going on. bans the ‘‘abouts’’ collection and pro- dress that in a way that is prudent and Furthermore, the bill would provide hibits the collection of domestic com- proper, which is what I feel like is hap- a path for the NSA to restart the prac- munications, prevents the misuse of in- pening here. tice of ‘‘abouts’’ collection, which has formation on Americans, and is some- The other issue here is, and I want to been described by the ranking member. thing that we should support. make this very clear, there are strong The proposal grants some committees Now, in a letter to the Senate in Oc- opinions, and I respect the gentle- 30 days to review any effort to turn tober, a coalition of groups said this: woman from California immensely, I have relayed and have had similar con- ‘‘abouts’’ collection back on, giving The USA RIGHTS Act, which is essentially Congress little or no say on this mat- the Amash amendment, is markedly superior cerns that she has had over the process ter. We all know that we can’t do any- to all current legislative proposals to reau- and I have voted with her several times thing in 30 days around here, and yet thorize section 702. to move forward, but we have moved the bill restricts us from doing that. Who said that? forward, and there are, I believe, pro- Finding a bipartisan and balanced so- The American Civil Liberties Union tections in this bill. So when we also talk about, as we go lution is very possible. I know because and FreedomWorks, the NAACP, but forward, and there is going to be a lot I have done it twice with the PATRIOT also the Project On Government Over- of passionate rhetoric, who is looking Act and the Freedom Act. sight, and Color of Change. This is a The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. out for whom and reminding us of our broad, left-right coalition that has ROGERS of Kentucky). The time of the oaths, I took the oath here, just as the come together, even though there are gentleman has expired. gentlewoman did, when we started this many things we disagree on, because Mr. COLLINS of Georgia. Mr. Speak- new session, but I also took another we agree on one thing: When we took er, I yield an additional 30 seconds to oath in the United States Air Force the gentleman from Wisconsin. an oath to defend the Constitution on and also served in Iraq and also serve Mr. SENSENBRENNER. The House our first day of this session, we didn’t in that time since currently in the Judiciary Committee passed the USA take that oath to defend the Constitu- military, and we have that oath as Liberty Act with bipartisan votes. This tion when it is convenient or when we well. bill fails to do these necessary reforms. feel like it. No. We took that oath to I will not take a backseat to anyone The program should be reauthorized if defend the Constitution every day, in who can consciously disagree about done in the right way. This bill is the every way, and with every bill. And where we are. This is a good bill. This wrong way. It is time for Congress to without the Amash amendment, this is something that I would love to see in put the F for ‘‘foreign’’ back into bill falls short. different ways changed, but this is the FISA. There is no F for ‘‘foreign’’ in Just a note on where we are in the arc of where we are now in protecting this bill. timing. It is true that this has been de- our country. Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I yield layed, I would say unconscionably de- Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the 4 minutes to the distinguished gentle- layed, for this proceeding. But we have gentlewoman from Wyoming (Ms. CHE- woman from California (Ms. LOFGREN), more time than has been suggested. NEY). my friend from the Judiciary Sub- Under the existing act, it provides Ms. CHENEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise in committee on Immigration and Border that, if there is an existing order from support of reauthorizing FISA 702. Security. the FISA court, that order remains in It is interesting, Mr. Speaker, to hear Ms. LOFGREN. Mr. Speaker, I agree effect even if the underlying bill lapses. my colleagues on the other side of the with Mr. SENSENBRENNER for the rea- We have an order that extends into late aisle talk about unconscionable delay- sons he has outlined that this bill April. So we have a deadline, but it is ing tactics or talking about the need should not become law. However, I am not this week and it is not next week. for regular order. I would point out, also speaking in favor of the Amash We owe it to our constituents and we Mr. Speaker, that just today on this amendment that has been put in order owe it to our obligation to the Con- floor, we have watched, once again, our that would fix the problems that he has stitution to get this right. colleagues on the other side of the aisle so eloquently outlined. When JIM SENSENBRENNER, who is playing games. We have had this par- Before 702 was enacted into law, the someone whom nobody is going to ticular debate now delayed by the NSA and the FBI would need to get a question his conservative credentials, games that their Members have been probable cause warrant to collect this and when Judge POE, ZOE LOFGREN, and playing over the course of the last sev- information. We made a major change JERRY NADLER come to the same agree- eral hours with motion after motion to that allows this information to be col- ment on the Constitution, I would hope adjourn. That is, Mr. Speaker, what I lected when a foreigner is commu- that our colleagues would listen. Vote believe is unconscionable. nicating with an American, and when for the Amash amendment, and, if it This is a bill that is a bipartisan bill. you go to the ‘‘abouts’’ collection, does not pass, vote against the bill. The ranking member of the Intel- which the underlying bill would codify, ligence Committee as well as the chair- even when that doesn’t occur, when b 1515 man of the Intelligence Committee there is merely discussion of a for- Mr. COLLINS of Georgia. Mr. Speak- worked very hard to come to agree- eigner. That is not what I think our er, I yield myself such time as I may ment on this bill. Constitution requires. And we did not consume. I would argue, if anything, Mr. outsource to the judicial branch or the Mr. Speaker, before I yield to my Speaker, the bill goes too far in terms executive branch the decision on what next speaker, there are a couple of of beginning the process that we can- the Constitution requires us to do. things to clarify here. not begin of putting walls up.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.042 H10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H107 All of us lived through 9/11, and we I am also amused that they are in the by all three branches of our govern- know, Mr. Speaker, that one of the majority, and she accuses us of delay- ment to protect the privacy and civil things that we saw that day was what ing, when, in fact, this measure was liberties of all Americans. can happen when we make it much scheduled 2 or 3 months ago and could As we have seen, both in our country more difficult for our law enforcement have been brought to the floor, but, no, and abroad, proper surveillance and and our intelligence agencies to con- they were busy about tax cuts, and so law enforcement is vital to protect us nect the dots, much more difficult for they didn’t get around to allowing for against terror attacks, especially lone them to stop terrorist attacks against this important matter to be brought to attacker scenarios. As terror groups this Nation. the floor. like ISIS continue to lose territory in Mr. Speaker, this is a bill that goes Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the Iraq and Syria, our intelligence com- directly towards those issues. This is gentlewoman from California (Ms. LOF- munity has warned that we will see one of the most important pieces of GREN) to respond to the gentleman more of these one-off attacks as op- policy and of authority that the Na- from Georgia. posed to more traditional conspiracies. tional Security Agency has. I think it Ms. LOFGREN. Mr. Speaker, I just At a hearing of the Homeland Secu- is very important for people who are wanted to respond. rity Committee, I asked FBI Director listening to this debate to recognize The NSA will not go dark, and I Chris Wray about this program as part that this authority is an authority think it is important that we under- of our national security posture. He that allows surveillance of foreign na- stand that. said, despite the high volume of tionals on foreign territory, not in the We are collecting the content of threats, there are few dots that can ac- United States. phone calls, emails, text messages, vid- tually be connected in regard to these I would urge my colleagues, particu- eos, pictures of Americans, putting it ‘‘more loosely organized situations.’’ larly when we have got a bill that is a in a database and querying it, search- Information already lawfully obtained bipartisan product, that is a product ing it without a probable cause war- by the FBI is crucial in, as he said, un- that has been worked on and agreed to rant. That is the state today, and that derstanding ‘‘which threats are real in a bipartisan manner, that it is un- will continue until reform is done. It and which ones are more aspirational.’’ conscionable for them to delay, uncon- will not go dark. I thought it was im- Section 702 allows the national secu- scionable for them to hold the Nation’s portant to make that clear. rity professionals to query information security hostage. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman, We are seeing it, Mr. Speaker, not I know he wanted to yield to my col- to determine whether a tip from State just with respect to this particular league from the Judiciary Committee, or local law enforcement or others is piece of legislation, but we are seeing to have the chance to clarify that. credible, and it begins the process of it, Mr. Speaker, with respect to the en- Mr. COLLINS of Georgia. Mr. Speak- marshalling resources to head off po- tire negotiations underway today over er, I yield myself such time as I may tential threats. the budget for the Nation. consume. Allowing section 702 to expire would We have seen a situation where, as Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the gentle- leave America vulnerable at a time they did today, they are trying to ac- woman from California attempting to when we need this protection the most. cuse us of holding DACA hostage, of clarify. As Director Wray clearly stated: ‘‘If 702 holding DACA individuals hostage. Again, I stand by my statement. The is walked back, we will be . . . starting That is not what is happening, Mr. simple fact is, it is the statement it to rebuild the wall that existed before Speaker. will not go dark, but the issue is we go 9/11.’’ The Democrats in this House, Mr. further here in the collection hap- Mr. Speaker, with today’s terror Speaker, are, in fact, holding our na- pening, but how we use that and how landscape, we cannot go backwards tional security hostage, and they are we deal with that in a national secu- when proven, legal means exist to keep doing it with respect to the funds that rity context, there is an interesting Americans safe. our military needs as well. issue here, and there is an issue that I urge my colleagues, Democrat and We are a nation today that is facing could keep us from doing what we need Republican alike, to support this vital grave and growing threats. We are a to do. national security measure. The safety nation that is putting tremendous de- Again, this is the debate that we can and security of the families we rep- mands on our intelligence service, on have, this is the debate that we need to resent depend on the passage of this our intelligence professionals, and on have on this floor, but there is a dif- measure. Let us get this done for them. our men and women in uniform. I think ference of opinion here. In this in- Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I yield that every Member of this body who stance, I think with the pervasive ef- 4 minutes to the gentlewoman from forts put in place, I believe that this decides to play games, rather than do Texas (Ms. JACKSON LEE), the ranking what is right and what is necessary and program is one worth keeping. member of the Judiciary Sub- what our constitutional obligation and Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the committee on Crime, Terrorism, Home- our oath requires, ought to think as gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. land Security, and Investigations and a they are doing that: What does it mean FITZPATRICK), a former FBI special good friend of mine. to the mothers and fathers across this agent. Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, let Nation who have children who are de- Mr. FITZPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, I me thank the gentleman from Florida ployed for the defense of the Nation, rise today in strong support of reau- for his astute assessment and analysis the mothers and fathers across this Na- thorizing section 702 of the Foreign In- in his earlier remarks today, particu- tion who know that we are sending telligence Surveillance Act, which is larly sharing with us his experience on their children into harm’s way? due to expire. the Intelligence Committee, and I The Democrats in this body, Mr. As a 14-year FBI special agent, in- thank him for mentioning the fact that Speaker, consistently continue to hold cluding significant time as a counter- I serve as the ranking member on the up the funding that our military needs terrorism agent, I am an eyewitness to Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and, in this case in particular, to hold the importance of this program and the and Investigations Subcommittee. up the reauthorization of this crucial deliberate and lawful manner in which piece of policy. it is used. In that capacity, that committee cer- So, Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong sup- The fact is, section 702 is a critical tainly encounters not only our Na- port of the reauthorization of this bill. tool that the intelligence community tion’s law enforcement but many of the Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I yield uses properly to target non-U.S. per- issues dealing with terrorism, includ- myself such time as I may consume. sons located outside of the United ing the work on homeland security. Mr. Speaker, I am amused by my States to acquire information that is With that in mind, I want to simply friend from the Rules Committee’s as- vital to our Nation’s security. say to my colleagues and, certainly, to sertion that today, because of protests Equally as important, this crucial my good friend, who served and dedi- with reference to DACA, members of program has operated under strict cated his life to the FBI for 14 years, my party were protesting that concern. rules and has been carefully overseen none of us over the past couple of

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The served, I have worked with almost United States. government’s use of section 702 infor- every FBI Director, and agents, par- Additionally, the Foreign Intelligence Sur- mation against United States citizens ticularly the SACs in my particular ju- veillance Court is indispensable and must in investigations that have nothing to risdiction, and have been engaged in play a meaningful role in ensuring compli- do with national security, that is the discussions on the resources and needs ance with the law. crux of our advocacy for both the of that organization. Mr. Speaker, Legislation must ensure that the FISC is empowered to act as an Article III court Amash amendment, joined by myself again, we thank them for their service. should act, which means the court should op- and ZOE LOFGREN and TED POE and I would offer to say that the position erate neither as a rubber stamp nor a bottle- many others—it is not to undermine I take today is to protect the FBI and neck. The function of the court is to validate the security of this Nation. It is to give to protect the American people. the lawful exercise of executive power on the substance to those families who sac- Mr. Speaker, I include in the RECORD, one hand, and to act as the guardian of indi- rifice and send their young men and interestingly enough, an article writ- vidual rights and liberties on the other. women to faraway places. ten by SHEILA JACKSON LEE, ‘‘Pro- Congress should reject any proposal that The warrant requirement contained grants amnesty to any telecommunications tecting America, protecting Ameri- in the bill is riddled with loopholes and cans,’’ dated October 16, 2007. company or other entity or individual that helps federal intelligence agencies spy ille- applies only to fully predicated official [From the POLITICO, Oct. 16, 2007] gally on innocent Americans. FBI investigations, not to the hundreds PROTECTING AMERICA, PROTECTING Amnesty will have the unintended con- of thousands of searches that the FBI AMERICANS sequence of encouraging telecommunications runs every day to run down a lead or (By Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee) companies to comply with, rather than con- check out a tip. Nearly two centuries ago, Alexis de test, illegal requests to spy on Americans. S. 139 exacerbates existing problems The only permissible path to legalization Tocqueville observed that the reason democ- with section 702 by codifying the so- racies invariably prevail in any martial con- of conduct in this area is full compliance with the requirements of the Foreign Intel- called bulk collection, a type of sur- flict is because democracy is the govern- veillance that was shut down after it mental form that best rewards and encour- ligence Surveillance Act. ages those traits that are indispensable to Finally, authorization to conduct foreign twice failed to meet the Fourth martial success: initiative, innovation, re- surveillance gathering on U.S. soil must Amendment scrutiny. sourcefulness and courage. never be made permanent. The threats to S. 139 is universally opposed by tech- The United States would do well to heed de America’s security and the liberties of its nology companies, privacy and civil Tocqueville and recognize that the best way people will change over time and require liberties groups across the political to win the war on terror is to remain true to constant vigilance by the people’s representatives in Congress. spectrum. our democratic traditions. If it retains its Let me read briefly what the Amash democratic character, no nation and no loose In short, it makes much more sense to confederation of international villains will enact legislation that protects Americans, amendment really says. It is not some- defeat the United States in the pursuit of its rather than one that protects America, as thing that would stop security, surveil- vital interests. the administration’s proposal claims to do. lance, and work in its tracks. What it A major challenge facing the Congress At bottom, America is its people connected does is, ‘‘Except as provided in sub- today is to ensure that in waging its war on to each other, and to past and future genera- paragraph C or D, no officer, agent, or terror, the administration does not succeed tions, as in Abraham Lincoln’s unforgettable employee of the United States may phrase, by ‘‘the mystic chords of memory in winning passage of legislation that will conduct a query of information ac- weaken the nation’s commitment to its stretching from every heart and hearth- democratic traditions. stone.’’ quired under subsection A in an effort This is why the upcoming debate over con- America, in other words, is Americans to find communications of or about a gressional approval authorizing the adminis- coming together in a community of shared particular person if there is reason to tration to conduct terrorist surveillance on values, ideals and principles. It is those believe such person is a United States U.S. soil is a matter of utmost importance. I shared values that hold us together. It is our person,’’ protecting the First Amend- offer some thoughts on the principles that commitment to those values that the terror- ment freedom of speech and all of that, should inform that debate. ists wish to break because that is the only but matched with the important In the waning hours before the August re- way they can win. cess, the House acceded to the Bush adminis- Thus, the way forward to victory in the amendment of the Fourth Amendment, tration’s request and approved the woefully war on terror is for this country to redouble which, of course, is unreasonable misnamed ‘‘Protect America Act,’’ which its commitment to the values that every search and seizures. gives the federal government enlarged pow- American will risk his or her life to defend. b 1530 ers to conduct electronic surveillance of It is only by preserving our attachment to American citizens under the guise of con- these cherished values that America will re- An application by the Attorney Gen- ducting surveillance of foreign terrorists. main forever the home of the free, the land eral to a judge of the Foreign Intel- Fortunately, the authority conferred by of the brave and the country we love. ligence Surveillance Court that de- the PAA expires next February. Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, scribes the determination of the Attor- It is therefore incumbent on the Congress to act expeditiously to amend the PAA so that article suggests that we have the ney General is probable cause to be- that it achieves the only legitimate goals of responsibility to protect America and lieve that such communications pro- a terrorist surveillance program, which is to Americans. I would make the point to vide evidence of a crime, such person is ensure that Americans are secure in their my good friend, who mentioned that a foreign power or an agent of a foreign persons, papers and effects, but terrorists men and women or families sending power. This is a minimal standard. throughout the world are made insecure. their young people over to battle- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The The best way to achieve these twin goals is grounds, they are absolutely right, and time of the gentlewoman has expired. to follow the rule of law. And the exclusive those young people who are going over Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I yield law to follow with respect to authorizing foreign surveillance gathering on U.S. soil is to battlegrounds are going over on the an additional 30 seconds to the gentle- the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. basis of freedom. Their parents sac- woman from Texas. Enacted by Congress in 1978, the exclu- rificed, these loved ones sacrificed Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, sivity of FISA was undisputed. Any legisla- their young people because they be- this is a minimal standard of which tion authorizing terrorist surveillance pro- lieve so much in the freedom of this every American should expect and is grams which the administration seeks to Nation. owed. It is a minimal standard upon conduct must explicitly affirm that FISA is Well, I will tell you that section 702 which we stand the Constitution. the sole basis of lawful authority for conducting foreign surveillance gathering on and the underlying bill, there is no We are missing what our role is here. U.S. soil. freedom in this particular bill, and It is not to rush through a FISA bill That FISA remains the exclusive source of that is why we need to address the that has been delayed by my Repub- authority does not mean that the law cannot question in a thoughtful manner. I lican friends. More importantly, it is to

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.045 H10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H109 do right by the American people. We Although FISA is designed for intelligence DeTocqueville, the most astute student of are not doing right by the American gathering, and not for the collection of criminal American democracy, observed nearly two people. evidence, the law applies to activities to which centuries ago, the reason democracies invari- I remember fighting against reverse a Fourth Amendment warrant requirement ably prevail in any military conflict is because targeting, a major issue in our work on would apply if they were conducted as part of democracy is the governmental form that best the Freedom Act and the PATRIOT a criminal investigation. rewards and encourages those traits that are Act. Now, today—in 2017, going into Most commonly, authorization for a wiretap indispensable to success: initiative, innovation, 2018—in 2018, it is important to remem- or physical search under FISA is obtained by courage, and a love of justice. ber that 9/11 was to not turn terror on application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveil- The best way to keep America safe and Americans; it was to protect us from lance Court (‘‘FISC’’ or the ‘‘FISA court’’). strong is to remain true to the valued embed- terrorism and to withstand that with Section 702 is part of the FISA Amend- ded in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. the upholding of the Constitution. ments Act (FAA), a successor to the Bush Ad- The bill before us does not strike the proper Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to ministration’s unlawful warrantless wiretapping balance between our cherished liberties and oppose the underlying bill. program that ended in January 2007. smart security. Mr. Speaker, as a senior member of the Ju- The FAA adds a new Title VII to FISA that We can do better; we should reject this rule diciary Committee, I rise in opposition to the grants the government the authority to monitor and the underlying bill and bring to the floor rule for S. 139, the ‘‘FISA Amendments Reau- electronic communications of non-U.S. per- for debate and vote H.R. 3989, the USA Lib- thorization Act of 2017,’’ and the underlying sons abroad. erty Act. bill. Section 702 authorizes the Attorney General Mr. COLLINS of Georgia. Mr. Speak- S. 139 reauthorizes Section 702 of the For- and the Director of National Intelligence ‘‘to er, I yield myself such time as I may eign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which is acquire foreign intelligence information’’ from consume. scheduled to expire on January 19, 2018. ‘‘persons reasonably believed to be located Just real briefly, I think one of the Although Section 702 is a critical national outside the United States.’’ issues here is this discussion of riddled security tool set to expire on January 19, Although the FAA prohibits the intentional with loopholes and riddled with any- 2018, events of the recent past strongly sug- targeting of persons in the United States, the body. It is just a reminder that agen- gest that Section 702 should not be reauthor- FAA had been in place for only a few months cies not already defined in this cannot ized without necessary and significant reforms when the New York Times reported that the just do random searches of this data- that are not included in the legislation before NSA had ‘‘overcollected’’ domestic commu- base. This is something that we have us. nications, a practice described as significant just—again, let’s just push back on the So as the Ranking Member of the Judiciary and systematic, even if unintentional. facts of the case. Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Subsequently, the Director of the Office of Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of Security, and Investigations, I oppose the rule National Intelligence stated that ‘‘it is not rea- my time. and underlying bill for several compelling reasonably possible to identify the number of Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I yield sons: people located in the United States whose 4 minutes to the distinguished gen- 1. S. 139 fails to address the core concern communications may have been reviewed tleman from Washington (Mr. HECK). of Members of Congress and the American under the authority of the FAA.’’ Mr. HECK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today public—the government’s use of Section 702 Section 702 provides that the government to ask my colleagues to say ‘‘pause,’’ information against United States citizens in ‘‘may not intentionally target a person reason- take a step back, reject the rule, and investigations that have nothing to do with na- ably believed to be located outside the United give ourselves a chance to, frankly, do tional security. States if the purpose of such acquisition is to it better. 2. The warrant ‘‘requirement’’ contained in target a particular, known person reasonably FISA reauthorization is inarguably the bill is riddled with loopholes and applies believed to be in the United States.’’ one of the most consequential votes we only to fully predicated, official FBI investiga- Mr. Speaker, Section 702 of the Foreign In- will take in this Congress because the tions, not to the hundreds of thousands telligence Surveillance Act was enacted to constitutional stakes are so high. Civil searches the FBI runs every day to run down protect the liberty and security of Americans, liberties are the core of our Bill of a lead or check out a tip. not to diminish their constitutional rights. Rights, and we are asked to take ac- 3. S. 139 exacerbates existing problems That is why Section 702 should not be reau- tion that affects them in the name of with Section 702 by codifying so-called ‘‘about thorized with reforms to prevent the govern- keeping us safe. I get that. collection,’’ a type of surveillance that was ment from using information against its polit- But it is critical that we get it right. shut down after it twice failed to meet Fourth ical opponents or members of religious, ethnic, I think we can do better. To make deci- Amendment scrutiny. or other groups. sions of this magnitude, we should 4. S. 139 is universally opposed by tech- One way to do that is without interfering have the most robust process possible, nology companies, privacy, and civil liberties with the national security objectives of 702 full and open debate, and input from groups across the political spectrum, from the surveillance is simply to require the FBI to ob- the stakeholders, thoughtful delibera- ACLU to FreedomWorks. tain a warrant before reading communications tions by the Members. The process for Mr. Speaker, the bill before us comes from by Americans, when it finds those communica- this bill thus far has decidedly not been the Intelligence Committee, where it was tions by targeting that American and searching that, has not been great. It was written passed on a strict party-line vote. and rewritten in secret and with mini- This stands in stark contrast to H.R. 3989, its 702 databases. Enforcing the warrant requirement would mal debate or stakeholders’ input. the USA Liberty Act, I the bipartisan bill re- prevent the misuse of Section 702 to conduct But—this is a big but—I am actually ported by the Judiciary Committee after mul- ‘‘backdoor searches’’ where government agen- optimistic because I have seen a tiple hearings, an open markup process, and cies, including individual FBI agents, may change in the last few days and I think a bipartisan vote of approval. we have an opportunity here. The ad- The USA Liberty Act enjoys much broader search the communications collected under ministration is suddenly engaged, and support, contains meaningful reforms to the section 702 for communications by an indi- we are seeing vibrant debate from Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and is vidual American, read those communications stakeholders in the technology sector, far superior to the bill before us. and disseminate them within the government, FISA was enacted in 1978 to provide the all without any external oversight, much less a civil liberties advocates. Members have Executive Branch with a statutory framework judicial warrant, simply by claiming a ‘‘foreign had very serious discussions, including for gathering ‘‘foreign intelligence information’’ intelligence’’ purpose. here on the floor today, but in the from U.S. persons. Mr. Speaker, all Americans want to find a Halls, offering amendments to rules, FISA authorizes special court orders for four common-ground where common-sense rules unfortunately, which are not being al- purposes: and regulations relating to fighting terrorism at lowed—save one. 1. electronic surveillance; home and abroad can exist while still pro- We are being asked to shut all that 2. physical searches; tecting the cherished privacy and civil liberties down, that opportunity, and push 3. the installation and use of pen registers which Americans hold close to our collective through an extension that will run for and trap and trace devices; and hearts. 6 years. Frankly, stop and think: 6 4. demands for the production of physical Mr. Speaker, I noted in an op-ed published years in the world of technology is an items. way back in October 2007, that as Alexis eternity.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00025 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.047 H10JAPT1 H110 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 10, 2018 So, for all these reasons, I ask my the people’s House, yet the people’s Tax reform was well thought out and fellow Members to join me in opposing representatives continuously are shut is helping Americans in all districts, this rule and, instead, allow the House out of policy discussion after discus- including my friend’s, and I believe we an opportunity to work its will, to sion. They are shut out of writing bill will continue to hear more about that take a little more time, and to do it after bill, and they are shut out of of- as the day progresses. better because we really do need to fering any meaningful amendments. But today, again, as many times, we wrestle with privacy, with what pri- Quite simply, Mr. Speaker, if the peo- are focused on a bill that has serious vacy means in a world where our entire ple’s representatives are shut out, then debate. It has the reality of some that personal lives are stored somewhere the people are shut out. If you look can take and look at one thing and see online as ones and zeros. Frankly, that around at how the majority is running a difference, and I agree with my is happening at an even faster pace this place, through a historically friends on that. But that is why we are than it is now. closed process, the result is not at all having this debate. That is why there We need to debate how the Fourth pretty. will be an amendment on this bill that Amendment protects us against search I have some advice for my Repub- I oppose and that others will. Some and seizures applying to our digital lican friends. If, like this side of the will support it. records. We are all being rendered into aisle, you spent more time working on But I tell you one that does not sup- nothing but a massive storehouse of policies that help the American people port it: the current administration ones and zeros. instead of the wealthy and rich cor- does not support the amendment. The The tensions or balance between civil porations who are, I might add, doing current administration supports the liberties and national security is a de- just fine, you would likely not only see bill, and the relevant committees that bate as old as this country, but they more legislative successes, but you have worked on this bill support the are not mutually exclusive. They are would be able to spend more time on underlying bill. hard—they are darn hard—but they are important issues like this critically Number two, one of the issues that not mutually exclusive and they are important issue, the extension of sec- we have talked about today and one of not impossible. tion 702. the things we have to be very careful of I know well how many threats we Mr. Speaker, as is clearly evident, is going back to something that was face around the world and I don’t take Democrats remain ready to work in a supported by both parties, and that is them lightly. The fact that we have bipartisan manner to accomplish all the recommendations of the 9/11 Com- not faced another major terrorist at- that remains left to do for the Amer- mission report that said that we have tack since 9/11 is a testament to the ican people. We are ready to fund the to take seriously the foreign—I respect skill and the hard work of the intel- government and provide for smart in- greatly my friend, former speaker on ligence community, and I tip my hat to vestments for the future of our coun- our side, who disagrees with this bill, them. I am absolutely committed to try. but this is about foreign surveillance. giving them the tools they need to We are ready to pull the hundreds of This is the foreign part of this, and we keep us safe, consistent with our con- thousands of DREAMers out of unnec- have got to make sure that we have stitutional rights. essary limbo and provide them with that capability. But we live in an era of the most the status they deserve. We are ready Really, this bill—if you continue, and powerful spying tools the world has to go forward with comprehensive im- especially looking at the amendment ever known. Twenty-five years ago migration. We are ready to provide the and where others want to go—would conversations were ephemeral. They funding and authorization needed to build walls that led to the very prob- were conducted in person or over the give millions of low-income children lems that we expressed before 9/11. phone. But now they occur over email the health insurance they need. We are Then there is this last case that con- or chat and they are archived forever. ready to fix our roads and our bridges tinually comes up, and it was about the Our medical, financial, and legal and our railways and air trafficking. ‘‘about collection,’’ which is no longer records are all online; so are our We are here and waiting, but time is being done and practiced. It has been photos. Our cell phones track us every- running out. said: Well, we are just codifying it, and where we go. Mr. Speaker, I urge a ‘‘no’’ vote on they can bring it back willy-nilly. The data available on us is unprece- the rule, and I yield back the balance Let’s remind ourselves of what actu- dented, and the fundamental principle of my time. ally has to happen. They have to actu- of the Bill of Rights is that we have the Mr. COLLINS of Georgia. Mr. Speak- ally decide that, one, they can, and right to keep our data private. We need er, I yield myself such time as I may they have to bring it to the FISC, the new safeguards to ensure that. consume. court. Oh, wait. Hold on here a second. So, by rejecting this rule, we have a Mr. Speaker, I appreciate my friend Let’s think about what just happened chance to do it better. In so doing, both from Florida, my cohort on the Rules here. They have to bring it back to the keep us safe and protect our constitu- Committee, but I will just also say I very court that said: Oh, we have got a tional rights. appreciate his advice. But also, as a re- concern about this and why they have For these reasons, Mr. Speaker, I minder back to my friend from Florida, suspended it. urge my colleagues to reject the rule. But, Mr. Speaker, let’s also talk Mr. COLLINS of Georgia. Mr. Speak- we have spent time talking about about why this even occurred, to start er, I would like to ask how much time things that matter and things that with, with the court. It was because is remaining on both sides, and then were messed up. In fact, we spent a lot of time in this the agencies, the intelligence commu- also inquire of my good friend from House and passed a healthcare bill be- nities, self-reported an issue that they Florida if he has any more speakers. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- cause people in my district called me needed to look at. It was not hidden. It tleman from Georgia has 9 minutes re- regularly over the holiday, as the new was self-reported to the court. This is maining. The gentleman from Florida year approached, saying: We can’t get the protections built into this legisla- insurance, or the insurance that I am tion. has 91⁄2 minutes remaining. Mr. COLLINS of Georgia. Does the provided, no doctor will accept. Now, we can debate whether they go gentleman from Florida have any more We have spent time on that. I believe far enough or they are not enough or speakers? that is real. they are properly billed. This is sort of Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I would We spent time in this body over the like a debate that needs to happen. advise that I have no further speakers past few years working on a bill called But be careful where we go here, to and I am prepared to close. Dodd-Frank that, in my district, deci- let the American people be led to be- Mr. COLLINS of Georgia. Mr. Speak- mated community banks and made lieve that things that are happening er, I reserve the balance of my time. lending harder and made businesses are not really happening. Do not let it Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I yield have more trouble trying to hire people be led to believe that there are not myself such time as I may consume. to put them to meaningful work. Yes, things in place set up by even friends Mr. Speaker, the United States we are spending time on things that who have spoken today, maybe even House of Representatives is known as were not well thought out. against this, that were put in place to

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Rooney, Francis Smith (NJ) Webster (FL) Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance Rooney, Thomas Smith (TX) Wenstrup For years, the five years that I have of my time, and I move the previous J. Smucker Westerman been in this body and worked on the question on the resolution. Ros-Lehtinen Stefanik Williams Judiciary Committee, we have pushed The previous question was ordered. Roskam Stewart Wilson (SC) this envelope, pushing it for protection Ross Stivers Wittman The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Rothfus Taylor Womack while, at the same time, balancing our question is on the resolution. Rouzer Tenney Woodall national security needs. I will never The question was taken; and the Royce (CA) Thompson (PA) Yoder say, for the most part, that there is a Speaker pro tempore announced that Russell Thornberry Yoho perfect bill ever to hit this floor. I the ayes appeared to have it. Rutherford Tiberi Young (AK) would think that my friend would Sanford Tipton Young (IA) Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, on that Schneider Trott Zeldin probably agree with me on that. I demand the yeas and nays. Schweikert Upton So you have to find the balance and The yeas and nays were ordered. Scott, Austin Valadao ask: What is the aim of the bill? What The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- is it doing? And how did it go about. NAYS—181 ant to clause 8 of rule XX, this 15- I believe this strikes that balance. Aguilar Gomez O’Halleran minute vote on adoption of House Res- You can have disagreement, but at Barraga´ n Gonzalez (TX) O’Rourke olution 682 will be followed by 5-minute the end of the day, my question to you Bass Gottheimer Pallone votes on: Beatty Green, Al Panetta is: Is your push to make something Ordering the previous question on Bera Green, Gene Pascrell better willing to turn out the lights or House Resolution 681; and Beyer Grijalva Payne go dark on watching those who wish to Bishop (GA) Gutie´rrez Pelosi do us harm? Adoption of House Resolution 681, if Blumenauer Hastings Perlmutter Don’t bank on the fact that the intel- ordered. Blunt Rochester Heck Peters Bonamici Higgins (NY) Peterson ligence community will just continue The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were—yeas 233, nays Boyle, Brendan Himes Pingree on under what has been happening and F. Hoyer Pocan not look at what could happen, even as 181, not voting 17, as follows: Brady (PA) Huffman Polis we are in this Chamber debating this [Roll No. 8] Brown (MD) Jackson Lee Price (NC) Brownley (CA) Jayapal Quigley bill. I want them to be able to see YEAS—233 Bustos Jeffries Raskin clearly the threats to this country. I Abraham Diaz-Balart Kelly (MS) Butterfield Johnson (GA) Rice (NY) want them to use the processes in place Aderholt Donovan Kelly (PA) Capuano Johnson, E. B. Richmond to protect American citizens in this Allen Duffy King (IA) Ca´ rdenas Jones Rosen Amash Duncan (SC) King (NY) process, which they are doing, which, Carson (IN) Kaptur Roybal-Allard Amodei Duncan (TN) Kinzinger Cartwright Kelly (IL) Ruiz by the way, was highlighted by the fact Arrington Dunn Knight Castor (FL) Kennedy Ruppersberger of the self-report that led to the unbal- Babin Emmer Kustoff (TN) Castro (TX) Khanna Rush Bacon Estes (KS) Labrador Chu, Judy Kihuen Ryan (OH) anced collection being stopped. Banks (IN) Farenthold LaHood Clark (MA) Kildee Sa´ nchez Barletta Faso LaMalfa b 1545 Clarke (NY) Kilmer Sarbanes Barr Ferguson Lamborn But I never would want to put the se- Barton Fitzpatrick Lance Clay Krishnamoorthi Schakowsky curity of this country in doubt when Bergman Fleischmann Latta Cleaver Kuster (NH) Schiff Biggs Flores Lewis (MN) Clyburn Langevin Schrader they cannot look or they are on shaky Bilirakis Fortenberry LoBiondo Cohen Larsen (WA) Scott (VA) legal ground of what they can and can- Bishop (MI) Foxx Long Connolly Larson (CT) Scott, David not do to protect us. This goes back to Bishop (UT) Frelinghuysen Loudermilk Cooper Lawrence Serrano a time in our country’s history where Black Gaetz Love Correa Lawson (FL) Sewell (AL) Blackburn Gallagher Lucas Costa Lee Shea-Porter we have technology—it was just said Blum Garrett Luetkemeyer Courtney Levin Sherman recently—that is changing. I want Bost Gianforte MacArthur Crist Lewis (GA) Sinema them to have the ability to continue Brady (TX) Gibbs Marchant Crowley Lieu, Ted Sires this process under the supervision of a Brat Gohmert Marino Cuellar Lipinski Slaughter Bridenstine Goodlatte Marshall Davis (CA) Loebsack Smith (WA) plan that is put in place. Where those Brooks (AL) Gosar Mast Davis, Danny Lofgren Soto need to be adjusted, they can be ad- Brooks (IN) Gowdy McCarthy DeFazio Lowenthal Speier Buchanan Granger McCaul justed. DeGette Lowey Suozzi Buck Graves (GA) McClintock Delaney Lujan Grisham, Swalwell (CA) Are there other needs that need to be Bucshon Graves (LA) McKinley addressed? Yes, there are. The Intel- Budd Graves (MO) McMorris DeLauro M. Takano ´ ligence Committee chairman and I Burgess Griffith Rodgers DelBene Lujan, Ben Ray Thompson (CA) Byrne Grothman McSally Demings Lynch Thompson (MS) have spoken on those already. The Ju- Calvert Guthrie Meadows Deutch Maloney, Titus diciary Committee, also, is looking Carter (GA) Handel Meehan Dingell Carolyn B. Tonko into these. But at this point in time, Carter (TX) Harper Messer Doggett Maloney, Sean Torres this bill is one that I believe strikes Chabot Harris Mitchell Doyle, Michael Massie Tsongas Cheney Hartzler Moolenaar F. Matsui Vargas the balance that is critical for our in- Coffman Hensarling Mooney (WV) Ellison McCollum Veasey telligence and law enforcement com- Cole Herrera Beutler Mullin Engel McEachin Vela munities to have the tools they need to Collins (GA) Hice, Jody B. Murphy (FL) Eshoo McGovern Vela´ zquez do their jobs, for our civil liberties and Collins (NY) Higgins (LA) Newhouse Espaillat Meeks Visclosky Comer Hill Noem Esty (CT) Meng Walz right to privacy, fundamental to our Comstock Holding Norman Evans Moore Wasserman identity as Americans. I believe the un- Conaway Hollingsworth Nunes Foster Moulton Schultz Cook Hudson Olson derlying bill strikes that proper bal- Frankel (FL) Nadler Waters, Maxine Costello (PA) Huizenga Palazzo Fudge Napolitano Watson Coleman ance. Cramer Hultgren Palmer Gallego Neal Welch As we go forward, these are the de- Crawford Hunter Paulsen Garamendi Norcross Yarmuth bates, Mr. Speaker, we need to have in Culberson Hurd Pearce Curbelo (FL) Issa Perry this Chamber. At the end of the day, it Curtis Jenkins (KS) Pittenger NOT VOTING—17 is about getting the bill and the proc- Davidson Johnson (LA) Poliquin Adams Hanabusa Nolan ess right so that we can achieve the Davis, Rodney Johnson (OH) Posey Carbajal Jenkins (WV) Poe (TX) aims that need to be achieved. Denham Johnson, Sam Ratcliffe Cicilline Keating Scalise Dent Jordan Reed Cummings Kind Turner As we move forward, I would say this DeSantis Joyce (OH) Reichert DeSaulnier McHenry Wilson (FL) is what happened, this is how we work, DesJarlais Katko Renacci Gabbard McNerney

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00027 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.049 H10JAPT1 H112 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 10, 2018 b 1613 or, more importantly, you always climate of civility in the Congress and Ms. SPEIER and Mr. GOTTHEIMER know where you stand with him. to hold our colleagues accountable for changed their vote from ‘‘yea’’ to But most of all, as our dean, DON behavior beneath the standards of this ‘‘nay.’’ YOUNG is loyal to this institution. body. Mrs. MCMORRIS RODGERS, Mr. That, we all know. Decades on, DON I told DON I would tell you this story SCHNEIDER, Mrs. MURPHY of Flor- YOUNG believes as much as anyone in when I just congratulated him. He has ida, and Mr. BILIRAKIS changed their the value of the work that we do here. been very helpful to us in making the vote from ‘‘nay’’ to ‘‘yea.’’ As DON, himself, so characteristically Presidio go from an Army post to a So the resolution was agreed to. put it: ‘‘those who think . . . I might special kind of national park. I hope he The result of the vote was announced retire, you can forget it. I like what I considers establishing the Presidio in as above recorded. do.’’ San Francisco part of his legacy. We A motion to reconsider was laid on DON YOUNG is a man of this institu- would love to welcome him and honor the table. tion. He believes in this institution. He him in San Francisco anytime he is Stated against: believes in the work that we do. ready for that. So, on this, his 16,374th day in the Mr. KEATING. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. But in the course of our conversa- House, we extend our congratulations 8 on H. Res. 682, the rule providing for con- tions over those times, I noticed one to DON, to Anne, and to their entire ON sideration of S. 139, the FISA Amendments day that D had on this beautiful tie. family. Reauthorization Act of 2017, I am not re- It had a bald eagle and a baby seal on I thank DON YOUNG for his service to corded due to my attendance at a briefing on it. It had these beautiful animals on it. Alaska and to this country. airport security. Had I been present, I would I said: DON, what a lovely, beautiful en- have voted ‘‘no.’’ f vironmental tie you have on. He said: I call it lunch. f HONORING CONGRESSMAN DON Again, we know that DON YOUNG will YOUNG b 1615 always honor the important obliga- (Ms. PELOSI asked and was given HONORING DON YOUNG AS DEAN tions, as he always has, and now his permission to address the House for 1 OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA- new obligation as dean of the House of minute.) TIVES Representatives. That is historic. Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, I rise to I congratulate him and thank him for (Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin asked and join our distinguished Speaker in hon- his service. was given permission to address the oring Congressman DON YOUNG, who as- f House for 1 minute.) cends to the position of dean of the Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives fol- SERVING THE PEOPLE OF ALASKA I rise today for a very happy purpose, lowing nearly 45 years of proud service (Mr. YOUNG of Alaska asked and was and it is to recognize the Honorable on behalf of the people of Alaska. Con- given permission to address the House DON YOUNG of Alaska as the new dean gressman YOUNG also holds the distinc- for 1 minute.) of the House of Representatives. tion of serving as the first dean of the Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Speaker, The tradition of having a dean dates House from the Republican Party in 80 first, let me thank the Speaker and the back centuries to the House of Com- years. minority leader for their introductions. mons. It is an honor that goes to our Congratulations. I have been in the House for 45 years, longest continuously serving Member. On behalf of the Democratic Caucus, with nine Speakers and nine Presi- DON YOUNG is one of only 28 Ameri- I extend my congratulations to DON; dents. I have been in this House with cans in the history of this Nation to his wife, Anne; and his entire family. 2,000 Members who have left. I love this serve more than 40 years in this House. Despite our differences, it is clear body. As you can see, he has a very bright fu- that DON cares deeply about our Na- I can suggest one thing: My greatest ture ahead of him. tion. DON serves because, in his words, honor has been being able to achieve DON, I want to be clear at the outset he is ‘‘enthusiastic about meeting peo- results for my State. I am the only that there are limits to the dean’s du- ple and trying to solve their prob- Congressman from the whole State of ties. For instance, you cannot hang a lems.’’ Alaska, and I love it. It is my responsi- bearskin in the House Chamber. You As a former teacher, he is an advo- bility to represent the State and this still cannot reserve seats. cate for quality education for all. As a House as the single person to do the job The dean has the responsibility of former U.S. Army tank operator, he be- that I have been asked to do. swearing in the Speaker. Remember, lieves in ensuring that servicemem- One of the things that I have enjoyed that is swearing in the Speaker, not bers, families, and veterans have the is the friendships. I don’t think there is swearing at the Speaker. care they have earned. In honor of his an enemy in the House. I worked across This milestone is not just a matter of late, beloved wife, Lu Young, he has the aisle. Jimmy Oberstar and I never longevity, but the word that comes to been a champion for the Native chil- had an adversarial vote at any one mind when you think of DON YOUNG is dren of Alaska. time on the Transportation and Infra- ‘‘loyalty.’’ This man is fiercely loyal. The motto of the State of Alaska is structure Committee. Now, when DON YOUNG is fiercely loyal to Alaska. ‘‘North to the future.’’ In his commit- George Miller was the minority mem- He fights hard for what he believes is ment to progress and better futures for ber, we had a lot of arguments and a right. Just look at ANWR. I know it is the people of Alaska, DON honors those lot of disagreements, but we hunted to- controversial. We have been talking words. gether and we ate together. about doing tax reform for 30-plus The dean of the House has the honor I believe in bipartisanship. I believe years here. DON YOUNG has been work- of administering to the Speaker, as the in this body to lead this Nation. Nine ing on ANWR for 45 years. When we Speaker indicated, the oath of office, Presidents, the House has its job to do passed H.R. 1 in the House, that was which begins: ‘‘I will support and de- regardless of who the President is. the 13th time he passed an ANWR bill, fend the Constitution of the United I thank my wife, who is in the audi- and it finally made it into law. States against all enemies, foreign and ence up there in the gallery. A man Achievements like this just don’t domestic.’’ As dean, Congressman gets lucky usually once in his life. I happen overnight. They require leaders YOUNG will now have the special re- got lucky twice. My past wife was with willing to carry the torch, come what sponsibility not only of defending the me for 461⁄2 years. My new wife has been may. As we all know, DON YOUNG is not Constitution, but of defending the in- with me about 8 years now. I want the the kind of guy that is going to let tegrity and dignity of this institution, State to pay her because she keeps me anything—or anyone—get in his way. which he has done all along. alive. And she likes what I do. He is loyal to his family and his Following in the footsteps of great I want to thank my colleagues. Being friends, which includes many, many leaders before him—Sam Rayburn, the dean will not change me. I will still Members of this body. He can be direct, John Quincy Adams, Carl Vinson—it is holler, ‘‘Vote.’’ I will sometimes get but you always know where he stands, now DON’s solemn duty to help foster a out of line. But in doing so, remember,

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00028 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.052 H10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H113 it comes from my heart, and my heart Pittenger Russell Trott ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE is in this House. Poe (TX) Rutherford Upton The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Poliquin Sanford Valadao f Posey Schweikert Wagner DUNN) (during the vote). There are 2 Ratcliffe Scott, Austin Walberg minutes remaining. PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION Reed Sensenbrenner Walden OF S. 140, AMENDING THE WHITE Reichert Sessions Walker b 1633 MOUNTAIN APACHE TRIBE Renacci Shimkus Walorski Rice (SC) Shuster Walters, Mimi So the previous question was ordered. WATER RIGHTS QUANTIFICATION Roby Simpson Weber (TX) ACT OF 2010 The result of the vote was announced Roe (TN) Smith (MO) Webster (FL) as above recorded. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Rogers (AL) Smith (NE) Wenstrup Rogers (KY) Smith (NJ) Westerman The SPEAKER pro tempore. The BYRNE). Without objection, 5-minute Rohrabacher Smith (TX) Williams question is on the resolution. voting will continue. Rokita Smucker Wilson (SC) The question was taken; and the There was no objection. Rooney, Francis Stefanik Wittman Speaker pro tempore announced that The SPEAKER pro tempore. The un- Rooney, Thomas Stewart Womack J. Stivers Woodall the ayes appeared to have it. finished business is the vote on order- Ros-Lehtinen Taylor Yoder RECORDED VOTE ing the previous question on the reso- Roskam Tenney Yoho Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I demand a lution (H. Res. 681) providing for con- Ross Thompson (PA) Young (AK) recorded vote. Rothfus Thornberry Young (IA) sideration of the bill (S. 140) to amend A recorded vote was ordered. the White Mountain Apache Tribe Rouzer Tiberi Zeldin Royce (CA) Tipton The SPEAKER pro tempore. This Water Rights Quantification Act of will be a 5-minute vote. 2010 to clarify the use of amounts in NAYS—181 The vote was taken by electronic de- the WMAT Settlement Fund, on which Aguilar Garamendi O’Halleran vice, and there were—ayes 227, noes 181, the yeas and nays were ordered. Barraga´ n Gomez O’Rourke not voting 23, as follows: The Clerk read the title of the resolu- Bass Gonzalez (TX) Pallone tion. Beatty Gottheimer Panetta [Roll No. 10] The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Bera Green, Al Pascrell AYES—227 Beyer Green, Gene Payne Abraham Fitzpatrick Marshall question is on ordering the previous Bishop (GA) Grijalva Pelosi Aderholt Fleischmann Massie Blumenauer Hastings Perlmutter question. Allen Flores Mast This will be a 5-minute vote. Blunt Rochester Heck Peters Amash Fortenberry McCarthy The vote was taken by electronic de- Bonamici Higgins (NY) Peterson Amodei Foxx McCaul Boyle, Brendan Himes Pingree vice, and there were—yeas 234, nays Arrington Gaetz McClintock F. Hoyer Pocan Babin Gallagher McKinley 181, not voting 16, as follows: Brady (PA) Huffman Polis Bacon Gianforte McMorris [Roll No. 9] Brown (MD) Jackson Lee Price (NC) Banks (IN) Gibbs Rodgers Brownley (CA) Jayapal Quigley Barletta Gohmert McSally YEAS—234 Bustos Jeffries Raskin Barton Goodlatte Meadows Abraham DeSantis Johnson, Sam Butterfield Johnson (GA) Rice (NY) Bergman Gosar Meehan Aderholt DesJarlais Jones Capuano Johnson, E. B. Richmond Biggs Gowdy Messer Allen Diaz-Balart Jordan Ca´ rdenas Kaptur Rosen Bilirakis Granger Mitchell Amash Donovan Joyce (OH) Carson (IN) Keating Roybal-Allard Bishop (MI) Graves (GA) Moolenaar Amodei Duffy Katko Cartwright Kelly (IL) Ruiz Bishop (UT) Graves (LA) Mooney (WV) Arrington Duncan (SC) Kelly (MS) Castor (FL) Kennedy Ruppersberger Black Graves (MO) Mullin Babin Duncan (TN) Kelly (PA) Castro (TX) Khanna Rush Blackburn Griffith Newhouse Bacon Dunn King (IA) Chu, Judy Kihuen Ryan (OH) Blum Grothman Noem Banks (IN) Emmer King (NY) Cicilline Kildee Sa´ nchez Bost Guthrie Norman Barletta Estes (KS) Kinzinger Clark (MA) Kilmer Sarbanes Brady (TX) Handel Nunes Barr Farenthold Knight Clarke (NY) Krishnamoorthi Schakowsky Brat Harper Olson Barton Faso Kustoff (TN) Clay Kuster (NH) Schiff Bridenstine Harris Palazzo Bergman Ferguson Labrador Brooks (AL) Hartzler Palmer Cleaver Langevin Schneider Biggs Fitzpatrick LaHood Buchanan Hensarling Paulsen Clyburn Larsen (WA) Schrader Bilirakis Fleischmann LaMalfa Buck Herrera Beutler Pearce Cohen Larson (CT) Scott (VA) Bishop (MI) Flores Lamborn Bucshon Hice, Jody B. Perry Connolly Scott, David Bishop (UT) Fortenberry Lance Lawrence Budd Higgins (LA) Pittenger Black Foxx Latta Cooper Lawson (FL) Serrano Burgess Hill Poe (TX) Blackburn Frelinghuysen Lewis (MN) Correa Lee Sewell (AL) Byrne Holding Poliquin Blum Gaetz LoBiondo Costa Levin Shea-Porter Calvert Hollingsworth Posey Bost Gallagher Long Courtney Lewis (GA) Sherman Carter (GA) Hudson Ratcliffe Brady (TX) Garrett Loudermilk Crist Lieu, Ted Sinema Carter (TX) Huizenga Reed Brat Gianforte Love Crowley Lipinski Sires Chabot Hultgren Reichert Bridenstine Gibbs Lucas Cuellar Loebsack Slaughter Cheney Hunter Renacci Brooks (AL) Gohmert Luetkemeyer Davis (CA) Lofgren Smith (WA) Coffman Hurd Rice (SC) Brooks (IN) Goodlatte MacArthur Davis, Danny Lowenthal Soto Cole Issa Roby Buchanan Gosar Marchant DeFazio Lowey Speier Collins (GA) Jenkins (KS) Roe (TN) Buck Gowdy Marino DeGette Lujan Grisham, Suozzi Collins (NY) Johnson (LA) Rogers (AL) Bucshon Granger Marshall Delaney M. Swalwell (CA) Comer Johnson (OH) Rogers (KY) Budd Graves (GA) Massie DeLauro Luja´ n, Ben Ray Takano Comstock Jones Rohrabacher Burgess Graves (LA) Mast DelBene Lynch Thompson (CA) Conaway Jordan Rokita Byrne Graves (MO) McCarthy Demings Maloney, Thompson (MS) Cook Joyce (OH) Rooney, Francis Calvert Griffith McCaul Deutch Carolyn B. Titus Costello (PA) Katko Rooney, Thomas Carter (GA) Grothman McClintock Dingell Maloney, Sean Tonko Cramer Kelly (MS) J. Carter (TX) Guthrie McKinley Doggett Matsui Torres Crawford Kelly (PA) Ros-Lehtinen Chabot Handel McMorris Doyle, Michael McCollum Tsongas Culberson King (NY) Roskam Cheney Harper Rodgers F. McEachin Vargas Curbelo (FL) Kinzinger Ross Coffman Harris McSally Ellison McGovern Veasey Curtis Knight Rothfus Cole Hartzler Meadows Engel Meeks Vela Davidson Kustoff (TN) Rouzer Collins (GA) Hensarling Meehan Eshoo Meng Vela´ zquez Davis, Rodney Labrador Royce (CA) Collins (NY) Herrera Beutler Messer Espaillat Moore Visclosky Denham LaHood Russell Comer Hice, Jody B. Mitchell Esty (CT) Moulton Walz Dent LaMalfa Rutherford Comstock Higgins (LA) Moolenaar Evans Murphy (FL) Wasserman DeSantis Lamborn Sanford Conaway Hill Mooney (WV) Foster Nadler Schultz DesJarlais Lance Schweikert Cook Holding Mullin Frankel (FL) Napolitano Waters, Maxine Diaz-Balart Latta Scott, Austin Costello (PA) Hollingsworth Newhouse Fudge Neal Watson Coleman Donovan Lewis (MN) Sensenbrenner Cramer Hudson Noem Gallego Norcross Welch Duffy LoBiondo Sessions Crawford Huizenga Norman Duncan (SC) Long Shimkus Culberson Hultgren Nunes Duncan (TN) Loudermilk Shuster Curbelo (FL) Hunter Olson NOT VOTING—16 Dunn Love Simpson Curtis Hurd Palazzo Adams Hanabusa Scalise Emmer Lucas Smith (MO) Davidson Issa Palmer Carbajal Jenkins (WV) Turner Estes (KS) Luetkemeyer Smith (NE) Davis, Rodney Jenkins (KS) Paulsen Cummings Kind Wilson (FL) Farenthold MacArthur Smith (NJ) Denham Johnson (LA) Pearce DeSaulnier McHenry Yarmuth Faso Marchant Smith (TX) Dent Johnson (OH) Perry Gabbard McNerney Ferguson Marino Smucker Gutie´rrez Nolan

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00029 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.054 H10JAPT1 H114 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 10, 2018 Stefanik Valadao Wilson (SC) HOUR OF MEETING ON TOMORROW nized group or community which is recognized Stewart Wagner Wittman as eligible for the special programs and services Stivers Walberg Womack Mr. LAMALFA. Mr. Speaker, I ask provided by the United States to Indians be- Taylor Walden Woodall unanimous consent that when the Tenney Walker cause of their status as Indians. Yoder House adjourns today, it adjourn to ‘‘(16) The term ‘Indian’ means any individual Thompson (PA) Walorski Yoho Thornberry Weber (TX) meet at 9 a.m. tomorrow. who is a member of an Indian tribe. Young (AK) ‘‘(17) The term ‘Indian lands’ means— Tiberi Webster (FL) Young (IA) The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there Tipton Wenstrup ‘‘(A) all lands within the limits of any Indian Zeldin objection to the request of the gen- Trott Westerman reservation; Upton Williams tleman from California? ‘‘(B) any lands title to which is either held in There was no objection. trust by the United States for the benefit of any NOES—181 f Indian tribe or Indian or held by any Indian Aguilar Garamendi O’Halleran tribe or Indian subject to restriction by the Barraga´ n Gomez O’Rourke b 1645 United States against alienation; and Bass Gonzalez (TX) Pallone ‘‘(C) any lands in the State of Oklahoma that Beatty Gottheimer Panetta AMENDING THE WHITE MOUNTAIN are within the boundaries of a former reserva- Bera Green, Al Pascrell APACHE TRIBE WATER RIGHTS tion (as defined by the Secretary of the Interior) Beyer Green, Gene Payne QUANTIFICATION ACT OF 2010 Bishop (GA) Grijalva Pelosi of a federally recognized Indian tribe.’’. Blumenauer Hastings Perlmutter Mr. LAMALFA. Mr. Speaker, pursu- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The bill, Blunt Rochester Heck Peters ant to House Resolution 681, I call up Bonamici Higgins (NY) Peterson as amended, shall be debatable for 1 Boyle, Brendan Himes Pingree the bill (S. 140) to amend the White hour equally divided among and con- F. Hoyer Pocan Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights trolled by the chairs and ranking mi- Brady (PA) Huffman Polis Quantification Act of 2010 to clarify nority members of the Committee on Brown (MD) Jackson Lee Price (NC) Brownley (CA) Jayapal Quigley the use of amounts in the WMAT Set- Education and the Workforce and the Bustos Jeffries Raskin tlement Fund, and ask for its imme- Committee on Natural Resources. Butterfield Johnson (GA) Rice (NY) diate consideration. The gentleman from California (Mr. Capuano Johnson, E. B. Richmond The Clerk read the title of the bill. LAMALFA), the gentleman from Ari- Ca´ rdenas Kaptur Rosen Carson (IN) Keating Roybal-Allard The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- zona (Mr. GRIJALVA), the gentleman Cartwright Kelly (IL) Ruiz ant to House Resolution 681, an amend- from Michigan (Mr. WALBERG), and the Castor (FL) Kennedy Ruppersberger ment in the nature of a substitute con- gentleman from Virginia (Mr. SCOTT) Castro (TX) Khanna Rush sisting of the text of Rules Committee each will control 15 minutes. Chu, Judy Kihuen Ryan (OH) Cicilline Kildee Sa´ nchez Print 115–54 is adopted, and the bill, as The Chair recognizes the gentleman Clark (MA) Kilmer Sarbanes amended, is considered read. from California (Mr. LAMALFA). Clarke (NY) Krishnamoorthi Schakowsky The text of the bill, as amended, is as GENERAL LEAVE Clay Kuster (NH) Schiff A Cleaver Langevin Schneider follows: Mr. L MALFA. Mr. Speaker, I ask Clyburn Larsen (WA) Schrader S. 140 unanimous consent that all Members Cohen Larson (CT) Scott (VA) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- may have 5 legislative days in which to Connolly Lawrence Scott, David revise and extend their remarks and in- Cooper Lawson (FL) Serrano resentatives of the United States of America in Correa Lee Sewell (AL) Congress assembled, clude extraneous material on S. 140. Costa Levin Shea-Porter SECTION 1. USE OF FUNDS IN WMAT SETTLE- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there Courtney Lewis (GA) Sherman MENT FUND FOR WMAT RURAL objection to the request of the gen- Crist Lieu, Ted Sinema WATER SYSTEM. tleman from California? Crowley Lipinski Sires (a) AUTHORIZATION OF WMAT RURAL WATER There was no objection. Cuellar Loebsack Slaughter SYSTEM.—Section 307(a) of the White Mountain Davis (CA) Lofgren Smith (WA) Mr. LAMALFA. Mr. Speaker, I yield Davis, Danny Lowenthal Soto Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act myself such time as I may consume. DeFazio Lowey Speier of 2010 (Public Law 111–291; 124 Stat. 3080) is Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of S. DeGette Lujan Grisham, Suozzi amended in the matter preceding paragraph (1) 140, as amended, which consists of Delaney M. Swalwell (CA) by inserting ‘‘, (b)(2),’’ after ‘‘subsections (a)’’. three sections promoting Tribal self- DeLauro Luja´ n, Ben Ray Takano (b) FUNDING.—Section 312(b)(2)(C)(i)(III) of DelBene Lynch Thompson (CA) the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights governance and sovereignty over their Demings Maloney, Thompson (MS) Quantification Act of 2010 (Public Law 111–291; lands, resources, and businesses belong- Deutch Carolyn B. Titus ing to Indian Tribes. Dingell Maloney, Sean Tonko 124 Stat. 3093) is amended by striking the period Doggett Matsui Torres at the end and inserting the following: ‘‘, in- Section 1 of S. 140 amends current Doyle, Michael McCollum Tsongas cluding the planning, design, and construction law to ensure the completion of a Trib- F. McEachin Vargas of the WMAT rural water system, in accordance al water system in Arizona. It makes a Ellison McGovern Veasey with section 307(a).’’. technical amendment to the White Engel Meeks Vela SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF PUEBLO OF SANTA CLARA Eshoo Meng Vela´ zquez Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights LAND ELIGIBLE FOR 99-YEAR LEASE. Espaillat Moore Visclosky Quantification Act of 2010 to clarify Subsection (a) of the first section of the Act of Esty (CT) Moulton Walz that authority exists for any necessary Evans Murphy (FL) Wasserman August 9, 1955 (commonly known as the ‘‘Long- Foster Nadler Schultz Term Leasing Act’’) (25 U.S.C. 415(a)), is cost overruns associated with the Frankel (FL) Napolitano Waters, Maxine amended— Tribe’s rural water system, provided it Fudge Neal Watson Coleman (1) by striking ‘‘Indians,,’’ and inserting ‘‘In- falls within the existing authorization Gallego Norcross Welch dians,’’; level. NOT VOTING—23 (2) by inserting ‘‘Ohkay Owingeh pueblo,’’ This provision provides the White after ‘‘Cochiti,’’; Adams Garrett McNerney Mountain Apache Tribe and the De- Barr Gutie´rrez Nolan (3) by inserting ‘‘the pueblo of Santa Clara,’’ partment of the Interior certainty that Brooks (IN) Hanabusa Scalise after ‘‘Pojoaque,’’; there will be sufficient funds to com- (4) by striking ‘‘the the lands’’ and inserting Carbajal Jenkins (WV) Turner plete the rural water system. Cummings Johnson, Sam Walters, Mimi ‘‘the land’’; DeSaulnier Kind Wilson (FL) (5) by striking ‘‘lands held in trust for the Section 2 of S. 140 is identical to S. Frelinghuysen King (IA) Yarmuth Pueblo of Santa Clara,’’; and 249, a bill referred to the Sub- Gabbard McHenry (6) by striking ‘‘lands held in trust for Ohkay committee on Indian, Insular and Alas- ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE Owingeh Pueblo’’. ka Native Affairs, which I chair. The The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. SEC. 3. DEFINITION OF EMPLOYER. Natural Resources Committee reported BYRNE) (during the vote). There are 2 Section 2 of the National Labor Relations Act S. 249 favorably on July 24, 2017, by minutes remaining. (29 U.S.C. 152) is amended— unanimous consent. (1) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘or any In- Section 2 amends what is commonly b 1641 dian tribe, or any enterprise or institution known as the Long-Term Leasing Act, So the resolution was agreed to. owned and operated by an Indian tribe and lo- to authorize two Indian pueblos in New cated on its Indian lands,’’ after ‘‘subdivision The result of the vote was announced thereof,’’; and Mexico to lease their restricted fee as above recorded. (2) by adding at the end the following: lands for up to 99 years, subject to the A motion to reconsider was laid on ‘‘(15) The term ‘Indian tribe’ means any In- approval of the Secretary of the Inte- the table. dian tribe, band, nation, pueblo, or other orga- rior.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00030 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A10JA7.019 H10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H115 Such leases may be for a variety of This political stunt seems doomed to opportunities for their citizens, is a nonmineral development purposes. fail. The only thing it will accomplish Federal bureaucracy further meddling While current law generally authorizes is wasting everyone’s time. with their efforts. Indian Tribes, subject to the approval Meanwhile, a list of bills that are Quite frankly, Mr. Speaker, I believe of the Secretary, to lease their trust critical to Tribes across the country sit that subjecting Native American and restricted lands, the terms of the in the Natural Resources Committee Tribes to National Labor Relations leases may not exceed 25 years. and are just ignored by the majority. Board rules is yet another sign that This bill would authorize the pueblos For example, we could be moving leg- some still want the Federal Govern- of Santa Clara and Ohkay Owingeh to islation that would protect and pre- ment to interfere with Tribal decision- lease their restricted fee lands for serve Native American cultural arti- making. terms of up to 99 years. facts, or legislation that would address I have sponsored the Tribal Labor Congress has amended the Long- issues at Indian Health Service, or leg- Sovereignty Act, and this House has Term Leasing Act more than 40 times islation to codify meaningful and ro- passed it multiple times. to adjust the terms and conditions of bust Tribal consultation process; or we I am proud that many South Dakota leases of Indian lands and to authorize could be here today passing the bipar- Tribes have long supported the bill, in- leases of specific Indian lands by their tisan bill known as the ‘‘clean’’ cluding the Cheyenne River Sioux Indian owners for a term of up to 99 Carcieri fix. Tribe, the Oglala Sioux Tribe, and the years, subject to the approval of the These bills deserve attention. They Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Asso- Secretary. are promoted by not only Indian Coun- ciation. While the Natural Resources Com- try, but many, many Members in a bi- I urge my colleagues to withdraw the mittee does not have jurisdiction over partisan fashion in this House. heavy hand of government and again section 3 of S. 140, I wish to express my I hope we can move past these petty support Tribal sovereignty. full support for promoting Tribal self- political games soon, which people are, Mr. GRIJALVA. Mr. Speaker, may I governance by giving Tribes parity rightfully, sick of having to see. inquire as to how much time I have re- with States and local governments for Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues maining. the purposes of the National Labor Re- across the aisle to change course and The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- lations Act. stop blocking consensus bills from tleman from Arizona has 13 minutes re- Tribal self-governance, or sov- moving through this body by con- maining. Mr. GRIJALVA. Mr. Speaker, I yield ereignty, means that a Tribe may joining them with divisive, contentious the balance of my time to the gen- make its own laws and be governed by proposals. tleman from Virginia (Mr. SCOTT), the them. Since President Nixon launched Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of ranking member of the Education and the era of Indian self-determination, my time. the Workforce Committee, and I ask Tribes have shown that when they as- Mr. LAMALFA. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 unanimous consent that he may consume management and control over minutes to the gentlewoman from trol that time. South Dakota (Mrs. NOEM). their affairs, they actually outperform The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there Mrs. NOEM. Mr. Speaker, I thank the the Federal Government. objection to the request of the gen- Thus, section 3 of S. 140 will continue chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, today, I rise in support tleman from Arizona? and enhance the policies of Tribal self- There was no objection. determination that have almost always of S. 140. Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, enjoyed strong bipartisan, bicameral I strongly support this bill, but I I yield myself such time as I may con- support for these measures. want to speak today about one par- sume. S. 140, as amended, is fully consistent ticular piece of it—the Tribal Labor Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to S. with promoting this important Tribal Sovereignty Act—which I helped intro- 140. economic opportunity and freedom to duce, along with Mr. ROKITA. As has been pointed out, buried in do as they see fit. Mr. Speaker, I often stand in this section 3 of this otherwise non- Mr. Speaker, I urge a ‘‘yes’’ vote on House to oppose interference from the controversial water and lands bill is the bill, and I reserve the balance of heavy hand of the Federal Government, the text of H.R. 986, the Tribal Labor my time. and this is no different. Sovereignty Act. This nongermane pro- Mr. GRIJALVA. Mr. Speaker, I yield In 2004, the National Labor Relations vision would strip thousands of em- myself such time as I may consume. Board, unilaterally, decided that it ployees of their rights and protections Today, we are debating a bill package needed to meddle in the affairs of Trib- under the National Labor Relations that follows a very familiar playbook ally owned businesses on Tribal lands. Act at Tribal enterprises located on for House Republican leadership. This is a board that was set up to over- Tribal lands. This bill package is just the latest see union elections but has become the At issue in the Tribal Labor Sov- attempt by my Republican colleagues bureaucratic arm of big labor. ereignty Act are two solemn and deep- to push a highly partisan agenda by By further expanding its jurisdiction, ly rooted principles: combining that divisive proposal with the National Labor Relations Board First, the right that Indian Tribes noncontroversial items. threatened the foundation of Indian possess in matters of local self-govern- Today’s bill includes two bills that law, the principle of Tribal sov- ance; passed Senate and House Natural Re- ereignty, and the limits of a small Fed- Second, the rights of workers to or- sources Committee by unanimous con- eral Government. ganize unions, bargain collectively, sent. Since the Obama administration im- and engage in concerted activities for One of these bills would make a tech- plemented this incredible government mutual aid and protection. nical correction to a previously passed overreach, dozens of Tribes have sup- Rather than attempting to balance Tribal water settlement, and the other ported legislation to clarify that the these two important principles, the bill would clarify that two pueblos in New NLRB’s jurisdiction does not extend to chooses sovereignty for some over the Mexico should receive equal treatment Tribes. The conservative, small govern- human rights of others. I would note when leasing their lands. ment legislation we consider today that the approximately 75 percent of Unfortunately, instead of quickly would make that necessary correction. workers employed at Tribal casinos are passing these bills and suspensions and Native American Tribes around the not members of the Tribes running the sending them to the President to be country, and especially in my home casino, but this bill would strip labor signed into law, House Republican State of South Dakota, are plagued rights of hundreds of thousands of leadership has decided to take those with grinding poverty, high unemploy- these workers as well as those who are two bills hostage and combine them ment, substance abuse, and poor actually members of the Tribes. with a highly divisive bill that is likely healthcare. They continually seek eco- In doing so, this legislation would not going anywhere—H.R. 986, section 3 nomic development through self-deter- abandon the carefully drawn balance of this legislation—which I do not sup- mination, and the last thing that they between Tribal sovereignty and work- port. need, when trying to improve economic ers’ rights that was adopted in the San

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00031 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.060 H10JAPT1 H116 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 10, 2018 Manuel decision by a Republican-led Mr. LAMALFA. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 Tribal sovereignty for Native Ameri- National Labor Relations Board in minutes to the gentleman from New cans. However, this legislation does not 2004. Perhaps prompted by litigation, Mexico (Mr. PEARCE). properly reconcile the competing inter- the board ruled that the National Mr. PEARCE. Mr. Speaker, I thank ests between sovereign rights and the Labor Relations Act will only apply if the gentleman from California for rights of workers. it does not impact the exclusive rights yielding and for his work on this bill. At least 75 percent of employees at of self-governance in purely intramural As he mentioned in the opening Tribal casinos are not Tribal members. matters or abrogate rights guaranteed statements, there is a provision in the In some cases, as few as 1 percent of by treaties. bill that allows the Santa Clara Ohkay the employees are members of the The San Manuel decision is based on Owingeh 99-year leasing program to Tribes operating the casino. These legal principles governing Federal laws move forward. That is in resolution to workers have no say in the decision- of general applicability with respect to the long-standing problems that we making of Tribal governments. Indian Tribes that have been upheld by face there. So just a significant provi- Workers have the right to organize, appeals courts for over 30 years. That sion that affects these two units but to collectively bargain, and to protect is why courts have ruled that Tribes also the underlying concept that we their right to fight for a safe work- must comply with labor and employ- are going to recognize the sovereignty place, fair pay to provide a living for ment laws such as the Fair Labor of our Tribes. themselves and their families, and Standards Act; the Occupational Safe- As many people know, some of the good benefits. They should not be ty and Health Act; the Employee Re- Tribes are faced with just very difficult stripped of these rights simply due to tirement Income Security Act, ERISA; poverty conditions throughout the his- the geography of the workplace. and the employer mandate of the Af- tory of their Tribes since they have Federal law and Tribal sovereignty fordable Care Act. been on the reservations, and I work should be able to coexist at Tribal casi- Yet this bill singles out the National with close friends of mine who are try- nos without stripping workers of their Labor Relations Act on the grounds ing to solve these problems and to find rights under the National Labor Rela- that Tribes must be given parity with resolution to long-term prosperity on tions Act. Mr. LAMALFA. Mr. Speaker, I re- State and local governments which the Indian reservations. serve the balance of my time. statutorily are exempt from the NLRA. So when the National Labor Rela- Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, Maybe States and localities should tions Board reversed its long-standing I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman have been considered, but the statutes status of recognizing the sovereignty of from California (Mr. TAKANO), the are clear that they are exempt. our nations—70 years they had recog- ranking member of the Subcommittee This is not a reason why Tribes nized that. In 2004, they simply re- on Workforce Protections. should be exempt from an otherwise versed it without much explanation, Mr. TAKANO. Mr. Speaker, I thank generally applicable law. Furthermore, without any warning, and certainly Ranking Member SCOTT for yielding. State and local governments are cov- without precedent. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposi- ered under title VII of the Civil Rights b 1700 tion to S. 140, which would strip pro- Act; whereas, Tribes are expressly ex- tections from workers who are em- empt. It has caused things to be much more ployed by a Tribally-owned business For employees of Tribal enterprises, difficult, especially in States like New but are not Tribal members. This in- therefore, unions are the sole protec- Mexico. So the Tribal leaders are say- cludes protection from harassment and tion under Federal law against dis- ing: We should be sovereign. We should discrimination in the workplace. crimination, including sexual harass- be allowed to make these sorts of deci- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, ment, because they can negotiate a col- sions ourself without the Federal Gov- which prohibits employers from dis- lective bargaining agreement that en- ernment coming in and putting the bu- criminating against employees, does forces employees’ rights to be free from reaucracy there. not apply to Tribal enterprises. A non- such conduct. The underlying concept of the bill is Tribal worker employed by a Tribally- Democrats and Republicans together one that simply says we want pros- owned casino, for example, cannot file have insisted that our trading partners perity on Native American lands, we a harassment or discrimination claim abide by and enforce basic labor rights want their sovereign actions to take in Federal court or with the Equal Em- anytime we do a trade deal. And Con- care of themselves, to move themselves ployment Opportunity Commission. In- gress has repeatedly required these ob- forward. That is what the entire Nation stead, collective bargaining agree- ligations in trade agreements, but says is the American Dream. Let’s let ments fill the gap by including provi- today the House will vote on a bill that that occur for the Native Americans in sions that enforce their right to a fair takes away the assurance that employ- this country. I think the provisions of workplace. ees have for the freedom of association the bill are very important. By stripping their collective bar- if they are employed in many Tribal We have been working for 6 years gaining rights, this legislation elimi- casinos. now in Native American housing, an- nates the only recourse that these This creates a fair question: Would other way to help move prosperity into workers have against discrimination this legislation place the United States Native American lands. Again, I sup- and harassment. This is one of the Government in breach of any of the port the concept of the bill. many unacceptable consequences of trade agreements that are now in ef- Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, this bill. fect? According to the International I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman Now, I have two letters. One from the Labor Organization, in an opinion on a from the Northern Mariana Islands International Brotherhood of Team- similar bill a few years ago, it would, (Mr. SABLAN), the ranking member of sters and one from the American Fed- in fact, put us in breach of trade agree- the Subcommittee on Health, Employ- eration of State, County, and Munic- ments. ment, Labor, and Pensions. ipal Employees, both of which raise We should be able to fashion com- Mr. SABLAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong objections to the majority’s at- promises that, frankly, protect both opposition to S. 140 because it includes tempt to exclude workers from the workers’ rights and Tribal sovereignty, H.R. 986, the Tribal Labor Sovereignty rights enshrined in the National Labor but what is before us today fails that Act of 2017. Relations Act. test. There is no principled basis for The effect of this legislation would Mr. Speaker, I include these letters stripping hundreds of thousands of be to strip employees who work at in the RECORD. workers from the right to join a union businesses owned and operated by an INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD and negotiate better wages simply be- Indian Tribe and located on Indian OF TEAMSTERS, cause they happen to work in a com- lands of the protections afforded by the Washington, DC, December 6, 2017. National Labor Relations Act. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, mercial enterprise on Tribal lands. Washington, DC. Mr. Speaker, I urge a ‘‘no’’ vote on I am a Chamorro, one of the native DEAR REPRESENTATIVE: On behalf of the 1.4 the bill, and I reserve the balance of people of the Northern Marianas, and I million members of the International Broth- my time. fully appreciate the importance of erhood of Teamsters, I am again writing to

VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:12 Jan 23, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00032 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD18\H10JA8.REC H10JA8 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H117 express our strong opposition to H.R. 986, the no protection. Workers cannot be left with- act in order to countermand what the Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act. This legisla- out any legally enforceable right to form National Labor Relations Board has tion would exempt all Tribally-owned and unions and bargain collectively just because done on its own would be a mistake. It -operated commercial enterprises on Indian they are employed at tribally owned enter- would be wrongheaded, in that if we lands broadly defined from the National prise. Labor Relations Act (NLRA). We urge you to Finally, the United States requires its are going to have the types of rela- vote no when the House considers this legis- trading partners to implement and abide by tions, these government-to-government lation. internationally recognized labor standards, relations with Indian Tribes in this If H.R. 986 were to become law, hundreds of while H.R. 986 deprives workers at these trib- country, that level of respect, then thousands of workers at these enterprises, al enterprises of these core rights—the right Congress needs to act, Congress needs including Teamsters, would be stripped of to organize and bargain collectively. to maintain that relation. their protections and rights under the To focus solely on the NLRA raises the So for local governments, State gov- NLRA, including the right to organize and question of the true motivation for this leg- ernments to have this protection from collective bargaining. It would deprive both islation. It is regrettable that the principle the NLRA and the Tribes not to, then Tribal members and non-member employees of tribal sovereignty is being used to cloak of the right to form or join unions and to an attack on the basic rights of workers to we would be making a severe mistake bargain collectively for better wages, hours, organize and bargain collectively. The Team- to not take action here today with this and working conditions. We should be work- sters Union respects tribal sovereignty. How- legislation. ing to expand the rights and ability of work- ever, we do not believe that this principle Mr. Speaker, I urge strong support ers to earn a decent living for themselves should be used to deny workers their collec- for all portions of S. 140 today, and I and their families and to secure a safe and tive bargaining rights and freedom of asso- yield back the balance of my time. healthy workplace. ciation. We urge you to oppose the Tribal Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, While Tribal casinos have been the focus of 1 Labor Sovereignty Act and to VOTE NO on I yield 2 ⁄2 minutes to the gentlewoman discussion, this legislation affects not just H.R. 986 when the legislation comes to a vote from Illinois (Ms. SCHAKOWSKY). casino workers. Since the 1980’s Tribes have in the House of Representatives. Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. Speaker, I expanded business interests beyond casinos. Sincerely, They now operate many different revenue thank the gentleman for yielding. JAMES P. HOFFA, I respect and support Tribal sov- producing commercial enterprises—construc- General President. tion companies, mining operations, and ereignty. I also support workers’ rights power plants, to hotels, water parks and ski AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, to unionize and collective bargaining resorts, to name a few. COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOY- to improve their workplace and the In 2004, the National Labor Relations EES, AFL–CIO, lives of their families. Those rights Board (NLRB) (in San Manuel) ruled that Washington, DC, January 9, 2018. must be balanced, but they are not in Tribal casino workers should have NLRA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, this bill. protections. Shortly after the San Manuel Washington, DC. Union members have a collective decision, legislation, in the form of amend- DEAR REPRESENTATIVE: On behalf of the 1.6 voice to fight for higher wages, better ments, was twice offered to block the NLRB million members of the American Federation from enforcing the San Manuel decision. benefits, safer workplaces, fewer inju- of State, County and Municipal Employees ries, fewer deaths, lower rates of gen- These amendments were rejected. Since (AFSCME), I am writing to urge to oppose S. then, the NLRB has proceeded in a measured 140, as currently amended to expand the ex- der-based violence. fashion asserting jurisdiction on a case-by- emption of employers under the National After Unite Here, a union, found that case basis. The NLRB will not assert juris- Labor Relations Act (NLRA). 58 percent of hotel workers and 77 per- diction where it would interfere with inter- S. 140, as amended, is Just another attempt cent of casino workers in the nal governance rights in purely intramural at passing the so-called Tribal Sovereignty Chicagoland, where I am from, had matters or abrogate treaty rights. Other- Act, which would deny protection under the been sexually harassed, they won a wise, the NLRB will protect workers’ rights NLRA to many workers employed by tribal- contract that includes panic buttons to at tribally owned enterprises by asserting ju- owned and -operated enterprises on Indian protect workers. risdiction. With its case-by-case approach, land. A great majority of these workers are San Manuel takes a careful approach to bal- Labor rights are fundamental, but not Native Americans and in recent years under this bill, workers at Tribally- ancing of tribal sovereignty interests with there has been a substantial expansion of en- Federal labor law. terprises that would be impacted by this leg- owned businesses, casinos and hotels, It should be noted that other important islation, including not only casinos, but min- construction, and other industries federal laws that protect workers apply to ing operations, power plants, saw mills, ski would lose those rights. Indian businesses, such as the Occupational resorts, high-tech firms, hotels, and spas. Remember, three out of four workers Safety and Health Act, the Fair Labor AFSCME supports the principle of sov- employed in Tribal casinos are not Standards Act, the Employee Retirement In- ereignty for tribal governments, but does not Tribal members. Those workers could come Security Act, and Title III of the believe that this principle should be used to Americans with Disabilities Act. Indeed, end up with no way to bargain for fair deny workers their collective bargaining wages, appeal unfair disciplinary ac- courts have denied attempts to gain exemp- rights and freedom of association. We oppose tions on numerous occasions ruling commer- tion, or act against sexual harassment. any effort to exempt on an across-the-board Looking at a similar bill in the last cial tribal enterprises should not be excluded basis all tribal enterprises from the NLRA, from such laws. NLRA rights and protections without regard to a specific review of all the Congress, the International Labour Or- should not be treated differently. circumstances, as is currently provided by ganization stated: ‘‘It would appear Proponents assert that they are seeking National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) likely that an exclusion of certain the same exemption as state and local gov- standards. Workers must not be left without workers from the National Labor Rela- ernments. However, this is inaccurate, The any legally enforceable right to form unions tions Act and its mechanisms would NLRA only exempts actual government em- and bargain collectively, especially in in- ployees and not private sector employees give rise to a failure to ensure to these stances where they are working for commer- workers their fundamental freedom of performing contracted out government func- cial operations competing with other busi- tions. Also, a substantial majority of work- association rights absent any assur- nesses. ances that there were Tribal labor laws ers at these enterprises are not Indian or AFSCME strongly urges you to oppose S. Tribe members, and thus have no ability to 140, as amended, when it comes before the that provide the same rights to all influence tribal governance, since non-tribal House for a vote. workers.’’ members are prohibited from petitioning a Sincerely, Mr. Speaker, there is no such re- tribe. SCOTT FREY, quirement in this bill. Protect workers. The bill could also undermine enforcement Director of Federal Government Affairs. Reject this unfair and unbalanced bill. of existing labor contracts and the decision Mr. Speaker, I include in the RECORD workers made to organize and bargain col- Mr. TAKANO. Mr. Speaker, I strong- lectively. When a collective bargaining ly urge my colleagues to oppose this the opinion from the International agreement expires, a Tribe could unilater- legislation. Labour Office. ally terminate the relationship with the Mr. LAMALFA. Mr. Speaker, I yield INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE, union without consequence under the NLRA. myself such time as I may consume. Gene`ve 22. The employer’s obligation. to bargain could Mr. Speaker, in summary, this Fed- Mr. R.L. TRUMKA, be eliminated. eral Government has had a very spotty President, AFL–CIO, Employees of tribal enterprises have no Washington, DC. constitutional rights to protect against em- record over the many decades of its DEAR MR. TRUMKA: I acknowledge receipt ployers. Only the NLRA gives them free treatment of Native American Indian of your letter dated 22 October 2015 request- speech rights. Absent the NLRA they have Tribes in this Nation, and for us to not ing an informal opinion and guidance from

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00033 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A10JA7.025 H10JAPT1 H118 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 10, 2018 the International Labour Organization in re- protection from unfair labour practices, Congress has the opportunity here to spect of a Bill being considered by the United workers on tribal territories would be left stand up for sovereign rights of Native States Congress. without any remedy for violation of their Americans and the businesses they own In particular, you have raised concerns fundamental freedom of association rights, about the Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act short of a constitutional battle. Further- and operate on their lands. These (H.R. 511) which you state would deny pro- more, the exclusion proposed, with no ave- Tribes have created their own system tection under the National Labor Relations nue for federal review or overarching mecha- of labor protections for employees and Act (NLRA) of a large number of workers nism for appeal should there be an alleged employers consistent with their lands employed by tribal-owned and tribal-oper- violation of freedom of association, would and traditions, and it is not for Wash- ated enterprises located on tribal territory give rise to discrimination in relation to the ington bureaucrats to tamper with and ask for the informal opinion of the Office protection of trade union rights which would those protections. as to whether such an exclusion of workers affect both indigenous and non-indigenous employed on tribal lands would be in con- workers simply on the basis of their work- I urge my colleagues to support the formity with the principles of freedom of As- place location. sovereignty of all Native American sociation which are at the core of the ILO Given the concerns that you have raised, it Tribes and pass the underlying bill. Constitution and the ILO’s Fundamental would be critically important that, at the Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of Principles and Rights at Work. very least, a complete legal and comparative my time. In conformity with the regular procedure review be undertaken to support assurances Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, concerning requests for an informal opinion that all rights, mechanisms and remedies for from the International Labour Office in re- the full protection of internationally recog- I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman spect of draft legislation and its possible im- nized freedom of association rights are avail- from Wisconsin (Mr. POCAN). pact on international labour standards and able to all workers on all tribal lands. In the Mr. POCAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to principles, the views set out below should in absence of such assurances, it would appear oppose the bill before us that takes no way be considered as prejudging any com- likely that an exclusion of certain workers away National Labor Relations Act ments or observations that might be made from the NLRA and its mechanisms would protections for hundreds of thousands give rise to a failure to ensure to these work- by the ILO supervisory bodies within the of workers. framework of their examination of the appli- ers their fundamental freedom of association cation of ratified international labour stand- rights. I support Tribal sovereignty. In my ards or principles on freedom of association. In accordance with ILO procedure con- home State of Wisconsin, I am proud Your links to committee reports of the cerning requests for informal opinions on the Ho-Chunk Nation is in my district. congressional majority and minority and draft legislation, this communication will Potawatomi, Oneida, Menominee, St. other background information have enabled also be brought to the attention of the Croix, Stockbridge-Munsee, Lac du United States Government and the rep- the Office to consider the views of the par- Flambeau, Lac Corte Oreilles, Red ties both for and against the proposed resentative employers’ organization, the US amendment and they all appear to confirm Council for International Business. Cliff, Bad River, and other Tribes all recognition of the United States’ obligation Yours sincerely, reside in my home State, and I am glad to uphold freedom of association and collec- CORINNE VARGHA, to support the autonomy of those Trib- tive bargaining. While the proponents of the Director of the al nations. But this bill isn’t about Bill assert that this can be achieved through International Labour Standards Department. Tribal sovereignty. It is about going the labour relations’ regimes autonomously Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I yield after workers’ rights. determined by the tribal nations, the oppo- myself as much time as I may con- Look at the track record of the ma- nents—and you yourself in your request— sume. jority in this Congress. The Repub- maintain that excluding tribal lands from Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong licans have continued to go after work- the NLRA will in effect result in a loss (or at support of S. 140, the Tribal Labor Sov- the very least inadequate protection) of their ers’ rights, as they have so far. They trade union rights. Not only do you refer to ereignty Act, a provision in the pend- have repealed the rule that required tribal labour relations ordinances which in ing legislation that will end the Na- companies seeking large Federal con- your view provide inadequate protections in tional Labor Relations Board’s alarm- tracts to disclose violations of labor this regard, but you also refer to instances ing overreach into businesses operated law. They made it harder for people where there are no tribal labour relations or- on sovereign Tribal lands. whose jobs are shipped overseas to get dinances at all. In March of 2017, the Subcommittee unemployment insurance. They have While elements of indigenous peoples’ sov- on Health, Employment, Labor, and ereignty have been invoked by the pro- made it harder for workers whose em- Pensions, which I have the privilege of ployers don’t offer retirement plans to ponents of this Bill, the central question re- chairing, held a hearing on this legisla- volves around the manner in which the save for retirement. They have re- United States Government can best assure tion and heard from Native American pealed an OSHA rule requiring employ- business leaders on how the NLRB’s ar- throughout its territory the full application ers to maintain accurate records of se- bitrary use of its jurisdiction had been of the fundamental principles of freedom of rious workplace injuries for 5 years, harming businesses large and small on association and collective bargaining. From while the administration drastically an ILO perspective, while the variety of Tribal lands. mechanisms for ensuring freedom of associa- Leaders of the Native American com- reduces the number of OSHA inspec- tion and collective bargaining rights may munity testified before the sub- tors. differ depending on distinct sectoral consid- committee on how the NLRB had med- This bill isn’t about meaningful sov- erations or devolution of labour competence, dled in the day-to-day operations and ereignty. It is about selective sov- it is critical that the State (the national au- ereignty, because it only goes after thority) takes ultimate responsibility for en- management of Native American businesses, often dragging out matters for labor rights. suring respect for freedom of association and If this were a bill about sovereignty, collective bargaining rights throughout its years. territory. To make matters worse, the pro- it would include a number of other As you have indicated, the 2004 San Manuel ceedings led by the NLRB are creating areas that Tribes are compelled to fol- Indian Bingo and Casino decision assures burdensome legal costs for businesses low in addition to the National Labor possible recourse to the National Labor Re- who are seeking to provide high-qual- Relations Act: the Occupational Safety lations Board (NLRB), an overarching mech- ity goods and services to Native Amer- and Health Act; the Employee Retire- anism aimed at ensuring the protection of ican communities. ment Income Security Act, ERISA; the freedom of association, while also maintain- Family and Medical Leave Act; and the ing deference to the sovereign interests of While members of the NLRB have the tribal nations so as to avoid touching on changed and have begun to make great public accommodations of Americans exclusive rights of self-governance. progress in reversing some of the with Disabilities Act, just to start. Full abdication of review via an exclusion Board’s most damaging decisions, Con- If this bill was about sovereignty, it from the scope of the NLRA for all workers gress needs to make it clear that Trib- would exempt OSHA and ERISA and employed on tribal lands as described might al labor sovereignty must be safe from the FMLA and the ADA, for starters. make it very difficult for the United States future Washington overreach. But it doesn’t do that. This bill only Government to assure the fundamental trade The Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act exempts labor protections for hundreds union rights of workers. In cases like those mentioned where there are no tribal labour will clarify the National Labor Rela- of thousands of workers, Tribal mem- relations ordinances, undue restrictions on tions Act and reverse the troubling en- bers and nonmembers, because the ma- collective bargaining, excessive limitations croachment of the Federal Government jority in this Congress isn’t really wor- on freedom of association rights or lack of on Tribal lands. ried about sovereignty. It is concerned

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Tribes are en- ance in purely intramural matters’’ or ‘‘ab- bill to the floor that covers all exempt- gaged in a variety of commercial enterprises, rogate Indian treaty rights.’’ The NLRB has ed areas, and that is a bill that I could from mining and energy development, to taken a nuanced view on this matter and has support. But that is not what is in manufacturing and construction. Over time, ruled on a case-by-case basis. Congressional front of us today. it is reasonable to expect that tribal enter- interference is not justified. Mr. Speaker, I include in the RECORD prises will expand and compete more aggres- Supporters of the bill argue that the bill letters of opposition from the Inter- sively with non-Native companies in a wide creates parity for the tribes with state and national Union of Operating Engineers, variety of commercial sectors, without any local governments who are not covered under the United Auto Workers, United Food concern for the rights of workers. the NLRA. However, there are some signifi- Tribal labor law is woefully inadequate— cant differences. Tribes are exempt from em- and Commercial Workers, and Unite virtually non-existent in most tribes around ployment laws (Title VII of the Civil Rights Here. the country. It is no replacement for the na- Act) that apply to state and local govern- INTERNATIONAL UNION OF tion’s basic legal framework that protects ments, whereas private sector contractors OPERATING ENGINEERS, workers’ rights. Eliminating the NLRA for work extensively on behalf of state and local Washington, DC, January 8, 2018. tribal enterprises will strip away freedoms governments and generally must comply Hon. PAUL D. RYAN, guaranteed to Americans today, including with the NLRA. Non-tribal members cannot Washington, DC. hundreds of thousands of workers at tribal petition a tribe for labor legislation, while Hon. NANCY PELOSI, casinos who are not Native American. S. 140 workers employed by a state or local govern- Washington, DC. (115–54) would immediately eliminate the ment have a voice with their elected leaders. DEAR SPEAKER RYAN AND LEADER PELOSI: rights of thousands of Operating Engineers This is significant because 75 percent of Na- The International Union of Operating Engi- in workplaces all over the United States. tive American gaming employees are not neers opposes the Tribal Labor Sovereignty The International Union of Operating En- tribal members. At Foxwoods, where the Act, legislation contained in S. 140 (115–54) gineers opposes S. 140 (115–54), which elimi- UAW represents the workers, well over 98 that would eliminate the labor protections nates nearly one-million workers’ individual percent of employees and patrons are not currently guaranteed to hundreds of thou- right to take collective action to improve tribal members. Hundreds of tribal gaming sands of American workers. Indeed, if en- their working conditions, and respectfully facilities make tens of billions in revenue acted into law, this bill would constitute the urges you to oppose it when it comes to the annually, and these employees are working biggest rollback in labor law since the pas- floor of the House of Representatives on for what is simply a commercial operation sage of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947. Wednesday. competing with non-tribal businesses. The International Union of Operating En- Thank you for your consideration. At a time of growing wealth inequality and gineers (IUOE) represents nearly 400,000 men Sincerely, a shrinking middle class, the last thing Con- and women across North America. Members JAMES T. CALLAHAN, gress should do is deprive workers of their le- of the International Union of Operating En- General President. gally enforceable right to form unions and gineers maintain and operate Native Amer- bargain collectively. We urge you to oppose ican and non-Native American gaming facili- INTERNATIONAL UNION, UNITED S. 140. ties around the United States, from Con- AUTOMOBILE, AEROSPACE AND AG- Sincerely, necticut to California, and this legislation RICULTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS JOSH NASSAR, would have a dramatic effect on their lives OF AMERICA—UAW, Legislative Director. and livelihoods. The IUOE is the second-big- Washington, DC, January 9, 2018. gest union in the hospitality sector. But this DEAR REPRESENTATIVE: On behalf of the UFCW, legislation extends beyond casinos and gam- more than one million active and retired Washington, DC, January 9, 2018. ing. IUOE members work in mining and en- members of the International Union, United To All Members of the U.S. House of Rep- ergy facilities on Native American lands in a Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Im- resentatives. number of locations, and those workers even- plement Workers of America (UAW), I urge tually could lose their rights as a result of you to vote against S. 140, because it in- DEAR REPRESENTATIVE: On behalf of the 1.3 this legislation. cludes provisions from the Tribal Labor Sov- million members of United Food and Com- In a few short words, this bill changes cur- ereignty Act (H.R. 986). This misguided bill mercial Workers International Union rent law by exempting the National Labor would deny protection under the National (UFCW), I am writing to express our strong Relations Act from tribal enterprises on Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to hundreds of opposition to the Tribal Labor Sovereignty tribal lands. Today, the National Labor Re- thousands of workers employed by tribal ca- Act as rolled into a bill that will be reported lations Board (Board) implements a case-by- sinos. This legislation could also impact doz- as S. 140. case review of whether labor law applies to ens of other businesses, including power UFCW is proud to represent 1,000 members tribal enterprises. plants, mining operations, and hotels. at casinos that operate on tribal lands. The precedent-setting case that comes UAW believes strongly in tribal sov- These workers have joined together to bar- from the San Manuel Band of Mission Indi- ereignty and has a strong record of sup- gain collectively for good wages, decent ben- ans is instructive. The Tribe operated a porting civil rights. This bill, however, is efits, and a voice on the job. Passage of the 92,000–sq.ft. casino (over two acres), with misleading. It is an attack on fundamental Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act would take 1,400 employees. Only five of the workers collective bargaining rights and would strip that voice away. were Native American. The Board deter- workers in commercial enterprises of their We support sovereignty for tribal govern- mined that this large commercial establish- rights and protections under the NLRA. ments, but the Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act ment should not receive the exemption from Under the terms of this bill, when a labor is so broad that it would prevent any worker labor law provided to states and local gov- contract expires, a tribe could unilaterally from exercising their freedom of association ernment because its operations were fun- terminate the bargaining relationship with under the National Labor Relations Act damentally different than a government. The the union without legal consequence under (NLRA). The vast majority tribal casino San Manuels were not providing a public the NLRA, because the employer’s obligation workers are not tribal members and there- good to members of the tribe. They were not to bargain could be eliminated. As a result of fore have no voice in tribal policy and are behaving like a government. Instead, the having a union and a legally binding con- not protected under tribal law. Board determined that when the tribal oper- tract, hundreds of dealers have been pro- Most federal laws protecting the workplace ation in question is commercial in nature, moted to benefited and supervisory positions apply to tribal businesses including the Em- employs significant numbers of non-Indians, because of provisions in the contract that ployee Retirement Income Security Act and caters to a non-Native American clien- maintain minimum percentages of full-time, (ERISA), Occupational Safety and Health tele, ‘‘the special attributes of sovereignty part-time, and supervisory positions. Work Act (OSHA), the Fair Labor Standards Act are not implicated.’’ The Board determined rules, wages, and benefits have all improved (FLSA), and NLRA. The NLRA should not be that private labor law applies to the San because of the right to collectively bargain. treated any differently than these other im- Manuel casino, just as it would with any This bill would jeopardize these hard-fought portant laws that protect workers. other commercial operation. Federal courts gains. There are many differences between state have supported this interpretation. Sov- The Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act seeks to and local governments and tribal businesses. ereignty does, however, apply to govern- overturn a decision by the National Labor State and local governments do not operate mental functions of the tribe, just as they Relations Board (NLRB) in San Manuel In- multi-billion dollar commercial Enterprises, would with any state government. dian Bingo and Casino, 341 NLRB No. 138 nor manage enterprises where the majority If passed, the exemption from labor law (2004). In that decision, the Board concluded of the employees and customers are from would unfairly advantage commercial tribal that applying the NLRA would not interfere outside of the jurisdiction. If working people operations at the expense of non-Native with the tribe’s autonomy and the effects of don’t like state and local government policy

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00035 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.065 H10JAPT1 H120 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 10, 2018 they can change management by voting for are delighted to listen to that and committee on Energy and Water Devel- different lawmakers, while non-tribal em- work for a solution here. opment, and Related Agencies. ployees and customers have no meaningful Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I rise in way to influence tribal policy. opposition to this bill. Congress should be working to expand the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. rights of American workers, not take them FOXX), the chairwoman of the Edu- It was in 1935 that this body enacted away. We urge you to stand up for American cation and the Workforce Committee. the National Labor Relations Act. It guaranteed basic rights to private sec- workers and oppose the Tribal Labor Sov- b 1715 ereignty Act. tor workers to organize into trade Sincerely, Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, I rise today unions, to engage in contractual bar- ANTHONY M. PERRONE, in support of the adoption of the Tribal gaining for decent wages and better International President. Labor Sovereignty Act, an important conditions at work, and to take joint and long overdue provision included in action, if necessary. UNITE HERE!, this legislation before us today. But in 1935, just like today, here, Las Vegas, NV For nearly 70 years, the National DEAR REPRESENTATIVE: UNITE HERE rep- 2018, the Republican Party and busi- resents over 275,000 hardworking men and Labor Relations Board respected the ness interests vehemently opposed pas- women in the hospitality industry and sovereignty of Native American Tribes sage of any laws that help workers. strongly urges you to oppose the Tribal throughout the country and allowed Little has changed. Once again our Re- Labor Sovereignty Act (H.R. 986). the Tribes to adjudicate labor issues publican colleagues trample on the Like most Americans, our members have a within the laws and standards of each backs of workers. deep respect for Native Americans and their Tribe. However, in 2004, the NLRB This legislation rolls back proven role in shaping our nation. Our members also began to change its longstanding prac- have a deep and abiding respect for the protections that allow wages to rise in rights of American workers and to uphold tices and adopted subjective tests to places like California, and their casi- the laws that govern our nation and all of its determine when it wanted to assert its nos, from $10 an hour to $13 an hour. citizens. jurisdiction in matters involving Na- Now, these modest pay increases have This brings me to H.R. 986. This bill would tive American Tribes. helped elevate the workers who work exempt all businesses owned and operated by These subjective tests are applied on in those casinos above the Federal pov- Indian nations from the National Labor Re- an arbitrary, case-by-case basis and are erty level. lations Act (NLRA). Tribal businesses, in- having an impact on Tribal businesses Who has ever tried to buy a house in cluding but not limited to Indian-owned ca- that are operated on sovereign Tribal sinos, have workforces and customers that California or tried to live on $13 an are almost all non-Indian. If this bill were to lands. Tribal business leaders have hour or $10 an hour? You are not talk- become law, American citizens working for been asking Congress to respect their ing about a whole lot of money there, Native American businesses would lose their sovereign rights and end the NLRB’s especially from a party that just gave U.S. rights under the NLRA, including ‘‘full inconsistent and misguided decisions $1 trillion away to the people at the freedom of association’’ and ‘‘self-organiza- when it comes to labor decisions deal- very top. tion’’ without ‘‘discrimination.’’ Over the ing with Tribal businesses. But with this bill, our Republican last 30 years, as Indian enterprises entered The Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act, colleagues chose to strip these hun- the stream of interstate commerce, a num- sponsored by Representative TODD ber of federal laws protecting the workplace dreds of thousands of workers, the ma- have been applied to Indian businesses: Em- ROKITA, a member of the Education jority of whom are not members of ployee Retirement Income Security Act and the Workforce Committee, stops Tribes but work in those casinos, of de- (ERISA), Occupational Safety and Health the NLRB from picking winners and cent wages and their right to a voice in Act (OSHA), Fair Labor Standards Act losers when it comes to matters deal- the workplace. (FLSA), and National Labor Relations Act ing with Tribal businesses and ends the Wow. (NLRA). Congress should not treat the rights bureaucratic overreach conducted by Beneath their sheepskin costumes Americans have under the NLRA any dif- the NLRB in recent years. hides another Republican attack on ferently than these other important laws Most importantly, this legislation worker rights in this country, this that protect American workers. Much has been made of the need for this protects the sovereignty Native Ameri- time under the guise of Tribal sov- bill to give tribal governments ‘‘parity’’ with cans deserve and ensures that Tribes ereignty. state and local governments. This compari- have control over their own labor rela- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The son is misleading, if not absurd. States and tions and, ultimately, determine what time of the gentlewoman has expired. local governments do not typically operate works best for workplaces on Tribal Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. I yield the multi-billion dollar commercial enterprises. lands. gentlewoman from Ohio an additional 1 States and local governments do not typi- Bipartisan support for Tribal sov- minute. cally run enterprises where the over- Ms. KAPTUR. Let me remind my col- whelming majority of the government’s em- ereignty has been reaffirmed time and ployees are from outside of their jurisdiction again by Congress, and for more than leagues though, throughout our Na- and the overwhelming majority of customers 180 years, the Supreme Court has held tional Labor Relations Board’s history, are also from outside of their jurisdiction. In that Tribes possess a nationhood status it has never and will not assert juris- a state or locality, if the citizens who live and retain inherent powers of self-gov- diction where it would interfere with a there don’t like the government’s policies, ernment. It is time that we strip Tribe’s internal governance rights in they can vote for people to change those unelected bureaucrats of the power purely intramural matters. policies. The non-tribal employees and cus- they abuse and respect the rights of So I urge my colleagues to oppose tomers have no meaningful way to influence this bad bill. tribal policies. Native American Tribes. Mr. Speaker, I include in the RECORD In this time of incredible income inequal- I wish to thank Representative TODD ity in our country, Congress should be work- ROKITA for introducing and cham- the strong opposition to it from the ing to expand the rights of American work- pioning the Tribal Labor Sovereignty United Steelworkers of America and ers, not finding ways to take them away. Act and urge Members to support this from the Communications Workers of H.R. 986 is no different than the laws signed important clarification to Federal law. America. As a proud daughter of labor, by Governors Scott Walker (R-WI) and Rick Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to stand here today in oppo- Snyder (R-MI): they attack the basic rights will you advise as to how much time is sition to this bill. of workers to organize and collectively bar- UNITED STEELWORKERS, gain. left on both sides. Please stand up for American workers and The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Pittsburgh, PA, January 9, 2018. join our union to oppose H.R. 986. YODER). The gentleman from Virginia Re United Steelworkers oppose inclusion of anti-worker H.R. 986, Tribal Labor Sov- Sincerely, has 151⁄2 minutes remaining. The gen- ereignty Act of 2017 in S. 140. D. TAYLOR. tleman from Michigan has 91⁄2 minutes Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I appre- remaining. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, DC. ciate the fact of those in opposition, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, DEAR REPRESENTATIVE: On behalf of the but 150 Tribes and individuals from the I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman 850,000 members of the United Steelworkers Native Americans that are asking for from Ohio (Ms. KAPTUR), the ranking (USW), we strongly urge you to oppose S. 140 this stand in support of this, and we member of the Appropriations Sub- on the House floor this week. Rather than

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GERARD, tions Act, Tribal sovereignty was commercial enterprises operated on Indian International President. upheld and Tribes were given the equal lands from the protections of the National right to self-governance enjoyed by our Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and would au- JANUARY 9, 2018. State and local governments. For the thorize over 567 distinct and separate labor DEAR REPRESENTATIVE: On behalf of the Tribes in my district, sovereignty law jurisdictions in the United States. members and officers of the Communications meant the freedom to advance their To be absolutely clear, this legislation Workers of America (CWA), I am writing to own economic development and provide strips workers—both Native American and express our strong opposition to S. 140. CWA non-Native American—of their NLRA protec- has no objections whatsoever to Sections 1 critical government services to their tions. While some organizations have falsely and 2 of the bill as amended. Unfortunately, Tribal members. attempted to paint tribal governments as these non-controversial, sensible bills have With the NLRB’s San Manuel deci- similar entities to states (which are exempt been hijacked to also pass H.R. 986, a bill sion, unelected bureaucrats tossed from the NLRA), tribal governments are sub- that would strip hundreds of thousands of aside this longstanding precedent and stantially different than states in one key workers at tribal-owned and -operated enter- began to assert themselves in Tribal democratic principal: state governments prises of their protections for the right to matters on an arbitrary, case-by-case bargain collectively. allow workers an ability to vote for their basis. The agency granted itself the legislators no matter their ancestry, while H.R. 986 seeks to overturn a National most tribal governments require blood quan- Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision in right to navigate Tribal law and decide tum or lineal descent to determine who is el- San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino, which when a Tribal enterprise is for com- igible for membership or citizenship. applied the National Labor Relations Act mercial purposes, a requirement that Simply put, if H.R. 986 becomes law by in- (NLRA) to a tribal casino enterprise. The would never be imposed on revenue- clusion in S. 140, U.S. citizens working in the NLRB’s finding in San Manuel adopted a test generating activities of State and local United States for tribal commercial enter- to determine whether the NLRA is applica- governments. prises would not be able to vote for the elect- ble to businesses operating on tribal lands— As the Federal bureaucracy expands if it would ‘‘touch exclusive rights of self- ed representatives who set their labor laws. its own power, Tribes face legal confu- These workers will lose the ability to peti- governance in purely intramural matters’’ or tion the government that oversees their ‘‘abrogate Indian treaty rights,’’ the NLRA sion and uncertainty, hindering their working conditions. would not apply, but otherwise the decision self-sufficiency and the ability to pro- The gaming industry, which is an employer will be based on a series of factors including vide for their members. for approximately 246 of the 567 federally rec- whether an entity is a purely commercial en- The Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act re- ognized American Indian tribes; has over terprise or employs or caters to individuals stores the well-established legal stand- 600,000 casino workers on tribal lands, the who are not tribal members. ard of Tribal sovereignty. As State and overwhelming majority of whom are not Na- The San Manuel test balances two crucial local governments are excluded from issues—tribal sovereignty and the right of tive Americans. In 2011 before the Senate In- the Federal requirements of the NLRA, dian Affairs Committee, the National Indian workers to bargain collectively. The test en- Gaming Commission testified that the vast sures that truly internal matters of self-gov- this bill simply ensures Tribal govern- majority of employees (up to 75 percent) ernance will continue to be handled by sov- ments receive equal treatment, not were non-tribal members. ereign tribes, while also ensuring that the lesser status. It provides our Tribes Our union understands the importance of fundamental rights of workers to organize with needed clarity that, when an en- the principle of tribal sovereignty; however and advocate for their own interests are terprise is owned and operated by the the fundamental human rights of employees properly respected. H.R. 986 would overturn Indian Tribe and located on Tribal are not the exclusive concern of tribal enter- this balance by exempting any enterprise or land, Tribal sovereignty will be pro- prises or tribal governments. As the Inter- institution owned and operated by an Indian national Labor Organization highlighted in a tribe and located on its land from the re- tected. letter on a previous version of this bill, ‘‘it is quirements of the NLRA—or any other guar- I am proud to be a cosponsor of this critical that the State (the national author- antee of workers’ fundamental right to orga- bipartisan legislation, and I am glad it ity) takes ultimate responsibility for ensur- nize and collectively bargain. was included in this package, which I ing respect for freedom of association and The practical impact of H.R. 986 would be urge my colleagues to support. collective bargaining rights throughout its to exempt a broad swath of businesses from Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, territory’’. That is why we believe the cur- the NLRA, even though, in many cases, they I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman are purely commercial enterprises. For rent test set by the NLRB is the best course from Maryland (Mr. HOYER), the Demo- many of these companies—particularly casi- of action until labor laws are strengthened cratic whip. in the United States. nos—the majority of their workforces are In 2004, the NLRB under the Bush Adminis- not members of the tribe employing them Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, what a sad tration ruled for the first time that Tribal and therefore do not have full access to instate of affairs. There are scores of casino workers should have the benefit of ternal, tribal mechanisms for grieving issues critically important issues that need to NLRA protections, San Manuel, 341 NLRB or petitioning for change in tribal policies. be considered by this House, not the No. 138 (2204). Yet, since the San Manuel rul- This is why the International Labour Orga- least of which is funding our governing, the NLRB has asserted jurisdiction on a nization stated in 2015 that ‘‘it would appear ment. We failed to do that, and now we case-by-case basis. In 2015, the NLRB de- likely that an exclusion of certain workers are confronted with a bill that is recy- from the NLRA and its mechanisms would clined jurisdiction citing the 1830 Treaty of cled, and we have added two natural re- Dancing Rabbit Creek and 1866 Treaty of give rise to a failure to ensure these workers Washington stating: their fundamental freedom of association sources bills on it that could have ‘‘We have no doubt that asserting jurisdic- rights.’’ passed unanimously. tion over the Casino and the Nation would I urge you to oppose S. 140 as amended and I am a big defender of Native Tribes’ effectuate the policies of the Act. However, instead work to advance an agenda that pro- rights and sovereignty, and I know because we find that asserting jurisdiction tects both workers’ fundamental human that my colleagues on both sides of the would abrogate treaty rights specific to the right to organize and tribal sovereignty. aisle remain committed to their sov- Nation.’’ Chickasaw Nation Windstar World CWA will consider including votes on this ereignty as well. This bill, however, is Casino, 362 NLRB 109 92015). bill in our Congressional Scorecard Thank Similarly the NLRB declined jurisdiction: you in advance for your consideration. about undermining the National Labor ‘‘. . . when an Indian tribe is fulfilling a Sincerely, Relations Act, not about Tribal sov- traditionally tribal or governmental func- SHANE LARSON, ereignty. tion that is unique to its status, fulfilling Legislative Director, That act, the National Labor Rela- just such a unique governmental function Communications Workers of America (CWA). tions Act, safeguards workers’ rights [providing free health care services solely to Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I yield to organize and bargain collectively. tribal members],’’ Yukon Kuskokwim Health 2 minutes to the distinguished gen- Most of my friends on the other side of Corporation, 341 NLRB 139 (2004). The NLRB has developed a reasonable and tleman from Minnesota (Mr. LEWIS). the aisle are not for that. I know that. responsible test to determine jurisdiction. Mr. LEWIS of Minnesota. Mr. Speak- I have seen them vote that way. H.R. 986 creates significant confusion and ju- er, I thank my colleague from Indiana No matter where you work, the basic risdictional issues over labor law enforce- (Mr. ROKITA) for introducing this very protections for American workers, ment and grossly undermines worker’s important legislation that restores a however, ought to apply. It is already

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This was a court of our land Defeat this bill. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to that made this decision. Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I yield support this legislation. Instead of undermining workers’ 3 minutes to the gentleman from Ten- Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, rights, this House ought to be moving nessee (Mr. ROE), a gentleman who had I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman forward with policies that help our a distinguished record of supporting from New Jersey (Mr. NORCROSS). workers and their families make it in and helping and enabling workers. Mr. NORCROSS. Mr. Speaker, the America as part of a strong middle Mr. ROE of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, I land of opportunity is right here. It is class. That means raising wages. It rise today in strong support of S. 140 called the United States of America. means making childcare more afford- and its inclusion of H.R. 986, the Tribal But, unfortunately, there is not always able. It means expanding access to op- Labor Sovereignty Act. a level playing field when it comes to portunities like higher education, There are more than 560 federally that land of opportunity. This year is homeownership, and a secure retire- recognized Native American Tribes the 83rd anniversary of the National ment. Those are the issues that Demo- across the United States, and each of Labor Relations Act, the act that gave crats continue to be focused on. these Tribes has a unique history and workers a voice, a voice in the work- That is not what this bill focuses on. distinct culture that have helped shape place. It gave them the ability to bar- Instead, Republicans are focused not on who we are today as a nation. Each gain—along with their employers—a helping workers, but trying to pit one Tribe has an inherent right to self-gov- living wage, pensions, the ability to re- group, Tribes, against another group, ern, just like any other sovereign gov- tire with dignity. workers. That is not what we ought to ernment does. But today, we are really debating have in this country. That right to self-governance is root- how to hurt workers—that somehow And they are attaching popular, non- ed in the Constitution and has been re- you get treated outside of the reserva- controversial natural resources bills to affirmed by courts for almost 200 years. tions in a humane way, where casinos this legislation. They have nothing to Because of it, Tribal leaders are able to are operating in a very profitable way, do with this legislation and would pass make decisions that affect their people but you cross that line, and you are overwhelmingly. I am going to vote against this bill, in a way that makes the most sense for being treated differently. You are being and I hope they will bring the natural their Tribe and best protects the inter- treated less than and doing it all under resources bills back so we can pass ests of their members—or, rather, they the guise of Native American sov- those, as everybody wants to do. should be able to make those decisions. ereignty. This is not the kind of regular order We are here today because, for the The vast majority of casinos on their Speaker RYAN promised when he took past 14 years, the National Labor Rela- properties are treated with respect by the gavel and that Republicans prom- tions Board has ignored longstanding employees. But they were able to get ised when they took the majority. labor policy and involved itself in Trib- to some folks to introduce this piece The SPEAKER pro tempore. The al activities. Since its 2004 San Manuel that somehow let them try to do it dif- time of the gentleman has expired. Indian Bingo and Casino decision, the ferently on that line. When we cross it, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. I yield the Board has used a subjective test to de- you are less than. We can take advan- gentleman from Maryland an addi- cide on a case-by-case basis whether a tage of you, and we see that happen tional 2 minutes. Tribal business or Tribal land is for time after time. Mr. HOYER. As I said at the begin- commercial purposes, and, if it is, the I have been before the NLRB many ning, we are bringing this bill to the Board has asserted its jurisdiction over times, had cases. I won many, but I floor, a retread. This is not new legisla- that business. also lost them. But I always felt as if I tion that they are offering. The only b 1730 was treated fairly. And that is what we thing new about it is they put two nat- should be doing here, treating employ- ural resources bills attached to it. Among its other provisions, the bill ees, no matter where you are in this We should be focused, as I said be- under consideration would amend the great country, fairly. It has been a dec- fore, on reaching agreement on appro- National Labor Relations Act to reaf- ade since we raised the minimum wage. priation bills, on caps, on protecting firm that the NLRB cannot assert its And somehow, we are just looking for DREAMers, on making sure that CHIP authority over enterprises or institu- no reason to hurt employees. children aren’t left aside, not this bill. tions owned or operated by a Tribe on The SPEAKER pro tempore. The But those bills aren’t scheduled today, Tribal land. It very simply reasserts a time of the gentleman has expired. and they are not scheduled next week legal standard that was in place for Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, as far as I know. Maybe the majority decades and returns to Tribes the abil- I yield an additional 1 minute to the leader will give me better information ity to manage their own labor relations gentleman from New Jersey. tomorrow. as a sovereign right has. Mr. NORCROSS. Mr. Speaker, we In fact, what we really ought to be I want to thank my friend and fellow want to respect the sovereign nations, working on now, as I say, are those ap- member of the Education and the but we can’t pick and choose the way propriation bills. But, under the Re- Workforce Committee from Indiana we treat them. Certainly, everybody publican majority, we are still stuck (Mr. ROKITA) for his leadership on this who works in this great country de- working on fiscal year 2018 when we are issue and for continuing to work on serves an opportunity to be treated already nearly halfway through. those in Congress who have helped lead fairly. I urge my colleagues not to oppose the fight to protect Tribal sovereignty Mr. Speaker, I include in the RECORD Tribal sovereignty, not to oppose the over the years. a letter from the Transport Workers rights of our Native American brothers It is time for all of us to join that Union of America that talks about and sisters. We are for them, but not to fight and stand with the Native Amer- being fairly treated. be pitted against workers making a de- ican community and restore to Indian TRANSPORT WORKDERS UNION OF cent, acceptable wage so they can live Tribes the ability to govern their own AMERICA, AFL–CIO, with some quality of life. labor relations. January 10, 2018. It is not enough to give the upper 1 Mr. Speaker, I am not sure how you VOTE ALERT: VOTE NO ON THE TRIBAL LABOR percent a huge tax cut and pretend support Tribal sovereignty, which, by SOVEREIGNTY ACT (S. 140) that you are helping the middle class, definition, is a sovereign state, but not DEAR REPRESENTATIVE: On behalf of the the workers. In fact, in this bill, you allow Tribes to self-govern. I don’t un- Transport Workers Union of America (TWU), are doing exactly the opposite. derstand that, and I also don’t under- AFL-CIO, we write urging you to oppose the

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We urge you to oppose the Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act by voting NO on S. today and last Congress from this side I yield myself the balance of my time. 140. of the aisle who stood up for the rights Mr. Speaker, I include in the RECORD The Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act would of sovereign nations, our friends, Na- a letter in opposition to the bill from exempt from the protections of the National tive Americans, and who made very the AFL–CIO. Labor Relations Act (NLRA) workers em- clear the issue before us today. AFL–CIO LEGISLATIVE ALERT ployed by tribal-owned and -operated com- It was mentioned by the naysayers mercial enterprises located on tribal lands. AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR on the other side of the aisle that the AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL OR- Under this bill, the NLRA rights and protec- NLRA, the National Labor Relations tions would be denied to more than 600,000 GANIZATIONS, tribal casino workers, the vast majority of Act, started in 1935. If you go back to Washington, DC, January 9, 2018. DEAR REPRESENTATIVE: The AFL-CIO urges whom are not Native American. that legislation—and it still exists This bill would overturn a 2004 decision by today in the same form—you see that you to oppose the Tribal Labor Sovereignty the Bush Administration’s National Labor Federal, State, and local governments Act, H.R. 986, which would deny protection Relations Board (Board), in which the Board under the National Labor Relations Act are exempted from the act for good (NLRA) to a large number of workers em- applied the NLRA to a tribal casino (San reason. Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino, 341 NLRB ployed by tribal-owned and -operated enter- This was supposed to always be a pri- prises located on Indian land. Among these No. 138 (2004)). In reaching this decision, the vate sector labor relations act and bill. Board applied a test: the NLRA will not workers are over 600,000 tribal casino work- apply if its application would ‘‘touch exclu- Now, we can argue the pros and cons of ers, the vast majority of whom are not Na- sive rights of self-governance in purely in- that all day long, but that is not the tive Americans. In recent years, the number tramural matters.’’ And, the NLRA will not debate here today. The fact of the mat- and type of enterprises affected has grown apply if it would ‘‘abrogate Indian treaty ter is that governments were specifi- well beyond the gaming industry, and would rights.’’ The Board also considered other fac- now include mining operations, power cally exempted. plants, smoke shops, saw mills, construction tors, including that the casino in question Mr. Speaker, why does that not in- was a typical commercial enterprise that ca- companies, ski resorts, high-tech firms, ho- clude our Native American friends who tels, and spas. Many of these are commercial tered to non-Native American customers and have sovereign nations? You know, I employed non-Native Americans. While the businesses that compete with non-Indian en- Board asserted NLRA protections in the San took my two boys—Kathy and I took terprises. As proposed, the Tribal Labor Sov- Manuel decision, it ruled the opposite way, my two boys, Ryan and Teddy, to a ereignty Act would strip all workers in these denying its jurisdiction in a companion case water park this year and last year— enterprises of their rights and protections (Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation, 341 two different cities in my district. under the NLRA. The House bill, introduced by Representa- NLRB No. 139 (2004)). Those cities operated the water park. tive Rokita, would overturn a decision by We understand the importance of tribal They owned it. We paid the fee. We the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) sovereignty and support the principle in true went in. We used it. in San Manuel Indian Bingo & Casino, 341 self-governance matters. But the funda- The employees who worked there— NLRB No. 138 (2004), which applied the NLRA mental human rights of employees are not to a tribal casino enterprise. In San Manuel, the exclusive concern of tribal enterprises or and they were excellent—were exempt the NLRB looked to Supreme Court and cir- tribal governments. While proponents of the from the NLRA. Yet the Democrats cuit court precedent to articulate a test for bill falsely compare tribal governments to who pander to groups left and right are whether the NLRB should assert jurisdiction state governments, they miss a glaring now saying that they are for the sov- over tribal enterprises, whether located on truth: while state governments are exempt ereign rights of the government, of our tribal lands or outside them. (Before San from NLRA protections, their workers are Native American Tribes, but they say Manuel, NLRB jurisdiction was determined eligible to vote for those who set their labor this isn’t that bill. No, it is. It is that based solely on location: On tribal land, the laws. But the vast majority of the 600,000 ca- simple. NLRB would forego jurisdiction; off tribal sino workers who would be impacted by the You are either for their sovereignty, land, the NLRB would assert jurisdiction. Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act are not Native Under the San Manuel test, the NLRA will Americans, and therefore have no voice in Mr. Speaker, or you are not. And that not apply if its application would ‘‘touch ex- the selection of those setting tribal policy is all this bill does. It doesn’t choose clusive rights of self-governance in purely nor the ability to petition the tribal govern- between friends. The Democrats do not intramural matters.’’ Nor will the NLRA ment to protect their rights. need to worry. It is either you are for We object to a sweeping exemption of all apply if it would ‘‘abrogate Indian treaty people in believing in their own destiny rights.’’ The Board in San Manuel also con- tribal enterprises from the NLRA, and be- and manifesting it, or you think that lieve the test used by the Board to determine sidered other factors, including whether the you have to subject them to your will. casino in question was a typical commercial whether the NLRA is applicable should re- That is all this bill is about. main. Unfortunately, the Tribal Labor Sov- enterprise, employed non-Native Americans, ereignty Act has been packaged with unre- By the way, I think it is absolutely and catered to non-Native American cus- lated bills in an attempt to pressure support ridiculous—Dr. ROE asked the question. tomers. In San Manuel, the Board concluded that for this particular bill. While TWU has no I won’t ask the question. I will put it in applying the NLRA would not interfere with position on the other bills contained in S. statement form. I think it is absolutely the tribe’s autonomy, and the effects of the 140, we urge you vote NO in opposition to the ridiculous that some Members, Mr. NLRA would not ‘‘extend beyond the tribe’s Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act. Speaker, can come to the floor of the business enterprise and regulate intramural Mr. NORCROSS. Mr. Speaker, I ask House today and say that this is not an matters.’’ However, the test articulated in Members to really look inside yourself. important bill, that the rights of the San Manuel provides a careful balancing of Is this the best way to treat employ- governments of sovereign nations tribal sovereignty interests with the NLRA’s ees? Is this how we help lift up all of aren’t important, and that there are federal labor law protections. In a com- those workers? I think not, and I urge other things to do. panion case, Yukon Kuskokwim Health Members to reject this attempt to hurt Yet, three times today, the Demo- Corp., 341 NLRB No. 139 (2004), the Board workers and not protect sovereignty. crats motioned to adjourn the House, tipped the balance the other way and didn’t assert jurisdiction. Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I have wasting precious legislative time. This The AFL-CIO supports the principle of sov- the pleasure of yielding 3 minutes to bill is supported by more than 150 ereignty for tribal governments, but does not the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Tribes. The chamber of commerce sup- believe that employers should use this prin- ROKITA), the sponsor of this legislation, ports the bill. Four Democrats cospon- ciple to deny workers their collective bar- as well as the chair of the Sub- sor the bill, and I thank each of them gaining rights and freedom of association. committee on Early Childhood, Ele- for it. Last Congress, the bill passed While the AFL-CIO continues to support the mentary, and Secondary Education. the House with bipartisan support. concept of tribal sovereignty in truly inter- Mr. ROKITA. Mr. Speaker, I thank nal, self-governance matters, it is in no posi- And, Mr. Speaker, I suspect it will tion to repudiate fundamental human rights the chairman for yielding. I rise in again today. that belong to every worker in every nation. strong support of this bill which in- Let’s get this job done. Let’s support Workers cannot be left without any legally cludes a provision identical to the leg- our Native American friends. Let’s sup- enforceable right to form unions and bargain islation that I have been cosponsoring port the sovereignty of the govern- collectively in instances where they are

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00039 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A10JA7.030 H10JAPT1 H124 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 10, 2018 working for a tribal enterprise which is sim- Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I yield Suspending the rules and passing ply a commercial operation competing with myself the balance of my time. H.R. 4567; and non-tribal businesses. Mr. Speaker, this has been a telling Agreeing to the Speaker’s approval of The International Labour Organization (ILO), an agency of the United Nations, has debate. Again, I think the key question the Journal, if ordered. confirmed this view in response to a question here, as has been asked by so many col- The vote was taken by electronic de- about whether excluding (from the NLRA) leagues: Are Native American Tribes vice, and there were—ayes 239, noes 173, workers employed on tribal lands would con- government entities; are they sov- not voting 19, as follows: form with principles of freedom of associa- ereign? The only answer that we can [Roll No. 11] tion. These values are at the core of the ILO respond with is: Absolutely, yes. They AYES—239 Constitution and the ILO’s Declaration on are sovereign. This is not an issue de- Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. bating NLRB or NLRA. It is going back Abraham Gosar Olson The Director for the International Labour Aderholt Gowdy Palazzo Standards Division wrote that in the absence to what we have established already Aguilar Granger Palmer of tribal ordinances offering full protection that, in fact, a sovereign nation, just Allen Graves (GA) Paulsen like a State or local government, is Amash Graves (LA) Pearce of internationally recognized rights, ‘‘it is Amodei Graves (MO) Perry critical that the State (the national author- free from the intervention of NLRB. Arrington Griffith Peterson ity) takes ultimate responsibility for ensur- In this case, a sovereign nation has Babin Grothman Pittenger ing respect for freedom of association and that right. Just as a reminder, over 150 Bacon Guthrie Poe (TX) collective bargaining rights throughout its Native American organizations have Banks (IN) Handel Poliquin Barletta Harper territory.’’ In other words, if the tribes asked for this legislative effort to be Posey themselves don’t guarantee these basic Barr Harris Ratcliffe achieved. Why? Because it was working Barton Hartzler rights—and many do not, the U.S. govern- Reed Bergman Heck Reichert ment must not abdicate its responsibility to fine up until 2004, and NLRB then came arbitrarily in—sometimes yes, some- Beyer Hensarling Renacci protect them. Biggs Herrera Beutler Rice (SC) Notwithstanding the importance of the times not—intervening, but, ulti- Bilirakis Hice, Jody B. Roby principle of tribal sovereignty, the funda- mately, they were changing the system Bishop (MI) Higgins (LA) Roe (TN) mental human rights of employees are not in place. Bishop (UT) Hill Rogers (AL) the exclusive concern of tribal enterprises or Black Holding Rogers (KY) While we are moving back to letting Blackburn Hollingsworth tribal governments. In fact, the vast major- Rohrabacher the sovereignty reign in these Native Blum Hudson ity of employees of these commercial enter- Rokita American Tribes, yet we need to make Brady (TX) Huizenga Rooney, Francis prises, such as casinos, are not Native Amer- it very clear for the future and not go Brat Hultgren Rooney, Thomas icans. They therefore have no voice in set- Bridenstine Hunter J. ting tribal policy and no recourse to tribal back to what has precipitated this Brooks (AL) Hurd Roskam governments for the protection of their change. Buchanan Issa Ross rights. The bill amends the National Labor Buck Jenkins (KS) Rothfus The AFL-CIO opposes any effort to exempt Bucshon Johnson (LA) Rouzer Relations Act to clarify that the law Budd Johnson (OH) on an across-the-board basis all tribal enter- Royce (CA) does not apply to any enterprise or in- Burgess Johnson, Sam Ruiz prises from the NLRA, without undertaking Byrne Jones stitution owned and operated by an In- Russell a specific review of all the circumstances—as Calvert Jordan Rutherford dian Tribe and located on Tribal land. Ca´ rdenas Kelly (MS) current NLRB standards provide. Where the Sanford It protects the sovereignty of Native Carter (GA) Kelly (PA) enterprise employs mainly Native American Schrader Carter (TX) Kildee employees with mainly Native American American Tribes, reaffirming they are Schweikert Chabot Kilmer customers, and involves self-governance or afforded the same rights and protec- Scott, Austin Cheney King (IA) Sensenbrenner intramural affairs, leaving the matter to tions enjoyed by State and local gov- Coffman Knight Sessions tribal governments may be appropriate. ernment. Cole Kustoff (TN) Sewell (AL) However, where the business employs pri- Collins (GA) Labrador It ensures Tribes have control over Shimkus marily non-Native American employees and Collins (NY) LaHood their labor relations and can determine Simpson caters to primarily non-Native American Comer LaMalfa what is best for the workplaces. It Smith (MO) customers, there is no basis for depriving Comstock Lamborn eliminates legal confusion and uncer- Conaway Latta Smith (NE) employees of their rights and protections Smith (TX) tainty that is hindering the ability of Cook Lewis (MN) under the National Labor Relations Act. Correa Lieu, Ted Smucker Sincerely, Tribal governments to serve their citi- Cramer Long Stefanik WILLIAM SAMUEL, Director, zens. Crawford Loudermilk Stewart Government Affairs Department. Mr. Speaker, that is what it does. It Cuellar Love Stivers Taylor Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, reasserts and reaffirms what we have Culberson Lucas Curbelo (FL) Luetkemeyer Tenney a lot has been said about State and already said in law. And for that rea- Curtis Lujan Grisham, Thompson (PA) local being exempt and Tribes not son, I ask my colleagues to support Davidson M. Thornberry this legislation. DelBene Luja´ n, Ben Ray Tiberi being exempt. Well, that was a decision Tipton Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance Denham Marchant made way back when. The law specifi- Dent Marino Trott cally exempts State and local. Maybe of my time. DeSantis Marshall Upton it should; maybe it didn’t; but it did. The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time DesJarlais Massie Valadao Vela Tribes were not specifically exempted. for debate has expired. Deutch Mast Diaz-Balart McCarthy Wagner So in conclusion, this bill will strip Pursuant to House Resolution 681, Duffy McCaul Walberg hundreds of thousands of employees of the previous question is ordered on the Duncan (SC) McClintock Walden the right to join a union. Where some bill, as amended. Duncan (TN) McCollum Walker The question is on the third reading Dunn McMorris Walorski Tribes have Tribal labor ordinances Emmer Rodgers Walters, Mimi that are fair and workable, others do of the bill. Estes (KS) McSally Walz not. And at least one expressly pro- The bill was ordered to be read a Farenthold Meadows Weber (TX) hibits the formation of unions. third time, and was read the third Faso Meehan Webster (FL) time. Ferguson Meeks Wenstrup There is no principal basis for exclud- Fleischmann Messer Westerman ing these workers from coverage under The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Flores Mitchell Williams labor law just because they happen to question is on the passage of the bill. Fortenberry Moolenaar Wilson (SC) work in a commercial enterprise on The question was taken; and the Foxx Mooney (WV) Wittman Speaker pro tempore announced that Frelinghuysen Moore Womack Tribal lands. If this bill will come into Gallagher Mullin Woodall law, it will be the first rollback of the ayes appeared to have it. Garrett Newhouse Yoder workers’ rights under Federal law in RECORDED VOTE Gianforte Noem Yoho Gibbs Norman Young (AK) over 70 years, and it may well place the Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I de- Gohmert Nunes Young (IA) United States in violation of several mand a recorded vote. Goodlatte O’Halleran Zeldin international trade agreements. A recorded vote was ordered. For that reason, Mr. Speaker, I urge The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- NOES—173 my colleagues to oppose the legisla- ant to clause 8 of rule XX, this 15- Barraga´ n Bishop (GA) Bost Bass Blumenauer Boyle, Brendan tion, and I yield back the balance of minute vote on passage of S. 140 will be Beatty Blunt Rochester F. my time. followed by 5-minute votes on: Bera Bonamici Brady (PA)

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00040 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A10JA7.034 H10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H125 Brown (MD) Gutie´rrez Pallone the gentleman from New York (Mr. McMorris Rice (SC) Speier Brownley (CA) Hastings Panetta Rodgers Richmond Stefanik Bustos Higgins (NY) Pascrell KATKO) that the House suspend the McSally Roby Stewart Butterfield Himes Payne rules and pass the bill, as amended. Meadows Roe (TN) Stivers Capuano Hoyer Pelosi This will be a 5-minute vote. Meehan Rogers (AL) Suozzi Carson (IN) Huffman Perlmutter Meeks Rogers (KY) Swalwell (CA) Cartwright Jackson Lee Peters The vote was taken by electronic de- Meng Rohrabacher Takano Castor (FL) Jayapal Pingree vice, and there were—yeas 415, nays 0, Messer Rokita Taylor Castro (TX) Jeffries Pocan not voting 16, as follows: Mitchell Rooney, Francis Tenney Chu, Judy Johnson (GA) Polis Moolenaar Rooney, Thomas Thompson (CA) Cicilline Johnson, E. B. Price (NC) [Roll No. 12] Mooney (WV) J. Thompson (MS) Clark (MA) Joyce (OH) Quigley YEAS—415 Moore Ros-Lehtinen Thompson (PA) Clarke (NY) Kaptur Raskin Moulton Rosen Thornberry Clay Katko Rice (NY) Abraham Culberson Hoyer Mullin Roskam Tiberi Cleaver Keating Richmond Aderholt Curbelo (FL) Hudson Murphy (FL) Ross Tipton Clyburn Kelly (IL) Ros-Lehtinen Aguilar Curtis Huffman Nadler Rothfus Titus Cohen Kennedy Rosen Allen Davidson Huizenga Napolitano Rouzer Tonko Connolly Khanna Roybal-Allard Amash Davis (CA) Hultgren Neal Roybal-Allard Torres Cooper Kihuen Ruppersberger Amodei Davis, Danny Hunter Newhouse Royce (CA) Trott Costa King (NY) Rush Arrington Davis, Rodney Hurd Noem Ruiz Tsongas Costello (PA) Kinzinger Ryan (OH) Babin DeFazio Issa Norcross Ruppersberger Upton Courtney Krishnamoorthi Sa´ nchez Bacon DeGette Jackson Lee Norman Rush Valadao Crist Kuster (NH) Sarbanes Banks (IN) Delaney Jayapal Nunes Russell Vargas Crowley Lance Schakowsky Barletta DeLauro Jeffries O’Halleran Rutherford Veasey Davis (CA) Langevin Schiff Barr DelBene Jenkins (KS) O’Rourke Ryan (OH) Vela Davis, Danny Larsen (WA) Schneider Barraga´ n Demings Johnson (GA) Olson Sa´ nchez Vela´ zquez Davis, Rodney Larson (CT) Scott (VA) Barton Denham Johnson (LA) Palazzo Sanford Visclosky DeFazio Lawrence Serrano Bass Dent Johnson (OH) Pallone Sarbanes Wagner DeGette Lawson (FL) Shea-Porter Beatty DeSantis Johnson, E. B. Palmer Schakowsky Walberg Delaney Lee Sherman Bera DesJarlais Johnson, Sam Panetta Schiff Walden DeLauro Levin Sinema Bergman Deutch Jones Pascrell Schneider Walker Demings Lewis (GA) Sires Beyer Diaz-Balart Jordan Paulsen Schrader Walorski Dingell Lipinski Slaughter Biggs Dingell Joyce (OH) Payne Schweikert Walters, Mimi Doggett LoBiondo Smith (NJ) Bilirakis Doggett Kaptur Pearce Scott (VA) Walz Donovan Loebsack Smith (WA) Bishop (GA) Donovan Katko Pelosi Scott, Austin Wasserman Doyle, Michael Lofgren Soto Bishop (MI) Doyle, Michael Keating Perlmutter Scott, David Schultz F. Lowenthal Speier Bishop (UT) F. Kelly (IL) Perry Sensenbrenner Waters, Maxine Ellison Lowey Suozzi Black Duffy Kelly (MS) Peters Serrano Watson Coleman Engel Lynch Swalwell (CA) Blackburn Duncan (SC) Kelly (PA) Peterson Sessions Weber (TX) Eshoo MacArthur Takano Blum Duncan (TN) Kennedy Pingree Sewell (AL) Webster (FL) Espaillat Maloney, Thompson (CA) Blumenauer Dunn Khanna Pittenger Shea-Porter Welch Esty (CT) Carolyn B. Thompson (MS) Blunt Rochester Ellison Kihuen Pocan Sherman Wenstrup Evans Maloney, Sean Titus Bonamici Emmer Kildee Poe (TX) Shimkus Westerman Bost Engel Fitzpatrick Matsui Tonko Kilmer Poliquin Simpson Williams Boyle, Brendan Eshoo Foster McEachin Torres King (IA) Polis Sinema Wilson (SC) F. Espaillat Frankel (FL) McGovern Tsongas King (NY) Posey Sires Wittman Brady (PA) Estes (KS) Fudge McKinley Vargas Kinzinger Price (NC) Slaughter Womack Brady (TX) Esty (CT) Gallego Meng Veasey Knight Quigley Smith (MO) Woodall Brat Evans Garamendi Moulton Vela´ zquez Krishnamoorthi Raskin Smith (NE) Yarmuth Bridenstine Farenthold Gomez Murphy (FL) Visclosky Kuster (NH) Ratcliffe Smith (NJ) Yoder Brooks (AL) Faso Gonzalez (TX) Nadler Wasserman Kustoff (TN) Reed Smith (TX) Yoho Brooks (IN) Ferguson Gottheimer Napolitano Schultz Labrador Reichert Smith (WA) Young (AK) Brown (MD) Fitzpatrick Green, Al Neal Waters, Maxine LaHood Renacci Smucker Young (IA) Brownley (CA) Fleischmann Green, Gene Norcross Watson Coleman LaMalfa Rice (NY) Soto Zeldin Grijalva O’Rourke Welch Buchanan Flores Buck Fortenberry Lamborn NOT VOTING—16 Lance NOT VOTING—19 Bucshon Foster Adams Hanabusa Scalise Budd Foxx Langevin Adams Hanabusa Scott, David Carbajal Jenkins (WV) Shuster Burgess Frankel (FL) Larsen (WA) Brooks (IN) Jenkins (WV) Shuster Cummings Kind Turner Bustos Frelinghuysen Larson (CT) Carbajal Kind Turner DeSaulnier McHenry Butterfield Fudge Latta Wilson (FL) Cummings McHenry Wilson (FL) Lawrence Gabbard McNerney DeSaulnier McNerney Byrne Gallagher Gaetz Nolan Yarmuth Calvert Gallego Lawson (FL) Gabbard Nolan Lee Gaetz Scalise Capuano Garamendi b 1816 Ca´ rdenas Garrett Levin b 1809 Carson (IN) Gianforte Lewis (GA) So (two-thirds being in the affirma- Lewis (MN) Carter (GA) Gibbs tive) the rules were suspended and the Messrs. CROWLEY, KATKO, and Carter (TX) Gohmert Lieu, Ted SMITH of New Jersey changed their Cartwright Gomez Lipinski bill, as amended, was passed. Castor (FL) Gonzalez (TX) LoBiondo The result of the vote was announced vote from ‘‘aye’’ to ‘‘no.’’ Loebsack ´ Castro (TX) Goodlatte as above recorded. Messrs. HECK, BEN RAY LUJAN of Chabot Gosar Lofgren New Mexico, and ZELDIN changed Cheney Gottheimer Long A motion to reconsider was laid on their vote from ‘‘no’’ to ‘‘aye.’’ Chu, Judy Gowdy Loudermilk the table. Cicilline Granger Love So the bill was passed. Clark (MA) Graves (GA) Lowenthal f The result of the vote was announced Clarke (NY) Graves (LA) Lowey as above recorded. Clay Graves (MO) Lucas THE JOURNAL A motion to reconsider was laid on Cleaver Green, Al Luetkemeyer The SPEAKER pro tempore. The un- Clyburn Green, Gene Lujan Grisham, the table. Coffman Griffith M. finished business is the question on f Cohen Grijalva Luja´ n, Ben Ray agreeing to the Speaker’s approval of Cole Grothman Lynch the Journal, which the Chair will put DHS OVERSEAS PERSONNEL Collins (GA) Guthrie MacArthur de novo. ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 2017 Collins (NY) Gutie´rrez Maloney, Comer Handel Carolyn B. The question is on the Speaker’s ap- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The un- Comstock Harper Maloney, Sean proval of the Journal. finished business is the vote on the mo- Conaway Harris Marchant The question was taken; and the Connolly Hartzler Marino tion to suspend the rules and pass the Cook Hastings Marshall Speaker pro tempore announced that bill (H.R. 4567) to require a Department Cooper Heck Massie the ayes appeared to have it. of Homeland Security overseas per- Correa Hensarling Mast Ms. CHENEY. Mr. Speaker, on that I Costa Herrera Beutler Matsui sonnel enhancement plan, and for other Costello (PA) Hice, Jody B. McCarthy demand the yeas and nays. purposes, as amended, on which the Courtney Higgins (LA) McCaul The yeas and nays were ordered. yeas and nays were ordered. Cramer Higgins (NY) McClintock The SPEAKER pro tempore. This The Clerk read the title of the bill. Crawford Hill McCollum will be a 5-minute vote. Crist Himes McEachin The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Crowley Holding McGovern The vote was taken by electronic de- question is on the motion offered by Cuellar Hollingsworth McKinley vice, and there were—yeas 231, nays

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00041 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A10JA7.031 H10JAPT1 H126 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 10, 2018 178, answered ‘‘present’’ 1, not voting Curbelo (FL) Keating Richmond where he led the school’s swim team 21, as follows: Davis, Rodney Khanna Rogers (AL) through an undefeated season in 1971. DeFazio Kihuen Rohrabacher [Roll No. 13] Delaney Kilmer Rokita Mr. Ruelf is honored in the Swimming Denham Kinzinger Ros-Lehtinen Hall of Fame for his accomplishments YEAS—231 DeSantis Knight Rosen at both Boca Ciega High School and Diaz-Balart Krishnamoorthi Abraham Garamendi Napolitano Roskam Dixie Hollins High School in Florida. Aderholt Garrett Newhouse Doyle, Michael LaHood Rouzer Aguilar Gianforte Noem F. Lance Roybal-Allard Mr. Ruelf was an outstanding patriot, Emmer Larson (CT) Allen Gibbs Norman Ruiz and he will be dearly missed by all in Eshoo Latta Amodei Gonzalez (TX) Nunes Ryan (OH) Espaillat Lee his community. His example of leader- Arrington Gosar O’Rourke Sa´ nchez Esty (CT) Levin ship through service is one we can all Babin Granger Olson Sarbanes Farenthold Lewis (GA) learn from. Bacon Griffith Palazzo Schakowsky Banks (IN) Grothman Faso Lieu, Ted To Mr. Ruelf, along with the others Panetta Fitzpatrick LoBiondo Schiff Barletta Guthrie Pascrell Schrader from that Greatest Generation era, I Barr Handel Flores Loebsack Perlmutter Foxx Lofgren Scott, Austin thank you, my family thanks you, and Beatty Harper Peters Sensenbrenner Bilirakis Harris Fudge Lowey our Nation thanks you for the life you Pingree ´ Sewell (AL) Bishop (UT) Hartzler Gallagher Lujan, Ben Ray Pocan Sinema lived, for your service to your country, Black Heck Gallego Lynch Poe (TX) Sires community, and for making this world Blackburn Hensarling Gohmert MacArthur Polis Blumenauer Higgins (LA) Gomez Maloney, Slaughter a better place. Posey Blunt Rochester Himes Gottheimer Carolyn B. Soto Quigley f Bonamici Hollingsworth Gowdy Maloney, Sean Stivers Reichert Brady (TX) Huffman Graves (GA) Mast Suozzi HONORING CONGRESSMAN ROBERT Roby Brat Hultgren Graves (LA) McGovern Swalwell (CA) WEYGAND Bridenstine Issa Roe (TN) Graves (MO) McKinley Tenney Brooks (IN) Jackson Lee Rogers (KY) Green, Al McSally Thompson (CA) (Mr. LANGEVIN asked and was given Brown (MD) Johnson (GA) Rooney, Francis Green, Gene Mitchell Thompson (MS) ´ permission to address the House for 1 Buchanan Johnson (LA) Rooney, Thomas Gutierrez Neal Thompson (PA) Bucshon Johnson, E. B. J. Hastings Norcross Tipton minute and to revise and extend his re- Budd Johnson, Sam Ross Herrera Beutler O’Halleran Torres marks.) Bustos Joyce (OH) Rothfus Hice, Jody B. Pallone Upton Mr. LANGEVIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise Higgins (NY) Palmer Byrne Kaptur Royce (CA) Valadao Hill Paulsen today to honor a great Rhode Island Calvert Kelly (IL) Ruppersberger Vargas Holding Payne public servant, educator, and dear Carter (TX) Kelly (MS) Russell Veasey Cartwright Kelly (PA) Rutherford Hoyer Pearce friend, my predecessor, Congressman Hudson Perry Vela Castro (TX) Kennedy Sanford Vela´ zquez Robert Weygand. Schneider Huizenga Peterson Chabot Kildee Visclosky Schweikert Hunter Pittenger During his time in government, Bob Cheney King (IA) Walberg Scott (VA) Hurd Poliquin served as a Rhode Island State legis- Chu, Judy King (NY) Watson Coleman Cicilline Kuster (NH) Scott, David Jayapal Price (NC) Welch lator from 1985 to 1993, Lieutenant Gov- Clark (MA) Kustoff (TN) Serrano Jeffries Raskin Wittman ernor from 1993 to 1997, and United Clarke (NY) Labrador Sessions Jenkins (KS) Ratcliffe Woodall Clay LaMalfa Shea-Porter Johnson (OH) Reed States Representative for the Second Jones Renacci Yoder Cole Lamborn Sherman Congressional District of Rhode Island Jordan Rice (NY) Young (AK) Collins (GA) Langevin Shimkus Katko Rice (SC) Zeldin from 1997 to 2001. Collins (NY) Larsen (WA) Simpson Bob has always fought passionately Comer Lawrence Smith (MO) ANSWERED ‘‘PRESENT’’—1 Comstock Lawson (FL) Smith (NE) for the people of the State of Rhode Is- Tonko Conaway Lewis (MN) Smith (NJ) land, and in the decades since, he has Cook Lipinski Smith (TX) NOT VOTING—21 shared his wealth of knowledge with Cooper Long Smith (WA) the students at the University of Rhode Cramer Loudermilk Smucker Adams Goodlatte Nolan Crawford Love Speier Butterfield Grijalva Pelosi Island, dedicating himself to preparing Carbajal Hanabusa Rush Cuellar Lowenthal Stefanik the next generation of leaders. Cummings Jenkins (WV) Scalise Curtis Lucas Stewart As he retires from that position, I Davidson Luetkemeyer DeSaulnier Kind Shuster Takano Davis (CA) Lujan Grisham, Gabbard McHenry Turner want to say that Bob served for the Taylor Davis, Danny M. Gaetz McNerney Wilson (FL) Thornberry right reasons: to make a positive dif- DeGette Marchant Tiberi ference in his community and improve DeLauro Marino b 1823 Titus DelBene Marshall the lives of the people around him. Demings Massie Trott So the Journal was approved. I am proud to call him my prede- Dent Matsui Tsongas The result of the vote was announced Wagner cessor in the Halls of Congress, my DesJarlais McCarthy as above recorded. dear friend and mentor to this day, and Deutch McCaul Walden Dingell McClintock Walker f I happily congratulate him on his re- Doggett McCollum Walorski tirement from URI. HONORING JERRY RUELF Donovan McEachin Walters, Mimi I know that, in one way or another, Duffy McMorris Walz (Mr. YOHO asked and was given per- Duncan (SC) Rodgers Wasserman Bob will continue to serve his commu- Duncan (TN) Meadows Schultz mission to address the House for 1 nity as he always has: with integrity, Dunn Meehan Waters, Maxine minute and to revise and extend his re- passion, and wisdom. Ellison Meeks Weber (TX) marks.) f Engel Meng Webster (FL) Mr. YOHO. Mr. Speaker, I rise in Estes (KS) Messer Wenstrup HONORING OFFICERS COREY Evans Moolenaar Westerman honor of Mr. Jerry Ruelf, an American Ferguson Mooney (WV) Williams hero from Ocala, Florida, who passed HELMS AND DYLAN COLE Fleischmann Moore Wilson (SC) away this year on January 7. (Mr. PITTENGER asked and was Fortenberry Moulton Womack Foster Mullin Yarmuth At the age of 17, Mr. Ruelf joined the given permission to address the House Frankel (FL) Murphy (FL) Yoho 101st Airborne Division during World for 1 minute and to revise and extend Frelinghuysen Nadler Young (IA) War II and received many decorations his remarks.) NAYS—178 for his courageous actions overseas, Mr. PITTENGER. Mr. Speaker, I rise among which are the Distinguished today in honor of Officers Corey Helms Amash Boyle, Brendan Cleaver Barraga´ n F. Clyburn Flying Cross and the Purple Heart. I and Dylan Cole of the Monroe, North Barton Brady (PA) Coffman had the distinct honor several years Carolina, Police Department, who, on Bass Brooks (AL) Cohen ago to present him with a collection of December 26, risked their lives to save Bera Brownley (CA) Connolly Bergman Buck Correa medals, which required him to get a two families trapped in a burning Beyer Burgess Costa larger jacket. home. Biggs Capuano Costello (PA) Following the end of the war, Mr. Officer Helms was first to arrive but Bishop (GA) Ca´ rdenas Courtney Ruelf continued to serve the American was pushed back by the thick cloud of Bishop (MI) Carson (IN) Crist Blum Carter (GA) Crowley people as a teacher at Dixie Hollins smoke. Officer Cole arrived next, and Bost Castor (FL) Culberson High School in St. Petersburg, Florida, together, the two men attempted to

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Unable to has opened Brewsky’s in Hattiesburg helped him become an influential and find a ladder, Monroe’s two heroes dis- and Patio 44 in Hattiesburg and Biloxi. trusted writer and editor in Savannah. regarded their own safety by charging His restaurants continue to fuel the Since those first stories, he has cov- into the burning home and up the economies of my district. ered the most important topics in Sa- stairs before carrying and guiding the The success that Ron has had in such vannah over the past decades, includ- young families to safety. a short amount of time is a testament ing interviews with the infamous Jim Officers Cole and Helms rescued two to his entrepreneurial spirit and his Williams, photos of running back Her- adult sisters and their children, ages 3 hard work, persistence, and determina- schel Walker, and stories about polit- years, 10 months, and 5 months. There tion. And, of course, he has a great ical elections. were no injuries as a result. partner: his wife, Caitlin, and their Mr. Barton not only knows the Officers Corey Helms and Dylan Cole beautiful family. unique character of Savannah better are living examples of what it means to Next time you are in south Mis- than anyone in our area, but he has serve and to protect. Please join me in sissippi, be sure to stop by Mugshots also contributed greatly to its develop- honoring these two brave officers and Grill & Bar and have yourself a deli- ment over the last 39 years. all the men and women of the Monroe cious peanut butter burger. His regular contributions to the Sa- Police Department who work on our Mr. Speaker, I congratulate Ron on vannah Morning News will be missed. I behalf every day. God bless them. his 14th anniversary. thank him for his dedication to making Savannah a better place to live. f f f b 1830 DREAMERS DREAM OF THE GREATNESS OF AMERICA OPPOSE OFFSHORE DRILLING DACA (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was (Mr. PANETTA asked and was given (Mr. PAYNE asked and was given given permission to address the House permission to address the House for 1 permission to address the House for 1 for 1 minute and to revise and extend minute and to revise and extend his re- minute and to revise and extend his re- her remarks.) marks.) Mr. PANETTA. Mr. Speaker, last marks.) Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, a week, the Trump administration an- Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, Congress little clarity I think is very important nounced a proposal to open our Na- must stop deferring the American on a very, very important issue. tion’s Federal waters to potential oil Dream for bright young people simply I would like to call 140,000 young peo- and gas exploration. because they were brought here as chil- ple in my State DREAMers because Immediately, leaders and lawmakers dren. they dream of the greatness of Amer- from the West Coast to the East Coast, DACA recipients represent the best ica. The status that they are under is and Republicans and Democrats from of our Nation. These are young people something called DACA, which was in- the leftwing to the rightwing came out who are in school, got their education, stituted by President Barack Obama against such a proposal for offshore oil or served in our Armed Forces. These because this Republican Congress could drilling. are people who never committed a fel- not provide legislative relief, so he saw ony offense or significant mis- Being from the central coast of Cali- the lives that were being impacted. In fornia, I know how important our demeanor. These are people who pose a few months, however, the present no threat to public safety. These are oceans and our coastlines are for our President, who feigns not knowing economy, our businesses, our commu- people who just want to live the Amer- what happened, was the individual who ican Dream, and each day that passes nities, and our families. That is why we removed that DACA status. have long fought to protect our coast without Congress voting on the Dream So let me be very clear: it is a dire Act darkens their futures. from drilling with zoning laws and lim- situation, and the reason is because iting onshore oil infrastructure to the Mr. Speaker, if it is numbers my es- there are individuals whose status is teemed colleagues on the other side of designation of the Monterey Bay Na- now expiring or has already expired, tional Marine Sanctuary, and legisla- the aisle want, I have got them. De- therefore, they are living in limbo. porting DACA recipients would cost tion to protect our oceans and coasts. These are doctors, lawyers, teachers, I believe that, in Congress, we will the U.S. economy $400 billion. Deport- and young people with families. work to uphold those laws and legacy ing the 5,300 eligible people for DACA It is crucial that we move quickly for of protection and preservation, but the in my district alone would cost the a DACA fix, and we do it without im- Trump administration needs to hear economy $140 million. pacting family reunification or diver- from you. So I ask my constituents and Aren’t we supposed to be growing the sity visas. We do it out of humanity, all Americans to share why they also economy, not shrinking it? caring, and respect. Let’s do it now. oppose this proposal for oil drilling off f Let’s do it for America. our coast. Participate in the public CONGRATULATING MUGSHOTS f comment period that is now open until GRILL & BAR ON THEIR 14TH AN- RECOGNIZING TOM BARTON March 9, for it is your opportunity to speak directly to the administration, NIVERSARY (Mr. CARTER of Georgia asked and to stand up for your community, and to (Mr. PALAZZO asked and was given was given permission to address the protect our environment and our fu- permission to address the House for 1 House for 1 minute and to revise and ture. minute and to revise and extend his re- extend his remarks.) marks.) Mr. CARTER of Georgia. Mr. Speak- f Mr. PALAZZO. Mr. Speaker, I rise er, I rise today to recognize the long- WELCOME HOME, LONNIE today to congratulate Ron Savell and time editorial page editor of the Sa- EICHELBERGER the entire Mugshots Grill & Bar staff vannah Morning News, Mr. Tom Bar- (Mr. OLSON asked and was given per- on 14 years of successful business. ton, who officially retired on January mission to address the House for 1 On January 10, 2004, the first 5, after 39 years of service. minute and to revise and extend his re- Mugshots Grill & Bar was opened in He began his time in Savannah writ- marks.) Hattiesburg, Mississippi, near the cam- ing for the former Savannah Evening Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, the men pus of my alma mater, the University Press covering crime and police sto- and women who defend our country of Southern Mississippi. While the ries. His first stories included a murder have one sacred creed: leave no one be- original, unfortunately, burned down trial of an elderly woman and a man hind, and they all come home. in 2011, there are now more than 18 res- who violated city code by killing a It took 72 years and 234 days, but taurant locations spanning three chicken and leaving its remnants on today, at Houston’s VA cemetery, Lon- States. city sidewalks. nie Eichelberger came home. Ron is a fellow USM Golden Eagle These stories quickly taught Mr. At 16, Lonnie left China Spring, that continues to expand his businesses Barton lessons in journalism while his Texas, to fight the Nazis and Adolph

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00043 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.079 H10JAPT1 H128 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 10, 2018 Hitler in Germany in World War II. He ity of Americans will now see a tax de- County Farm Bureau in my district on was a Buffalo Soldier, the all-Black crease. In fact, the average family of their 100th annual meeting. This on the 92nd Division of our Army. He never re- four in Minnesota’s Second District, heels of their centennial of being in turned to see his family. which I am proud to represent, will see business in Tehama County. His remains were found in Italy in a tax cut of $3,154. They are headquartered in Red Bluff, 1945, but they could not be identified. Then they claim that reducing taxes California. They have been an organi- So Lonnie, for 17 years, was known as on businesses would never benefit zation very dedicated, obviously, to ‘‘Unknown X–193.’’ Americans, but employers have already farming, ranching, and agriculture in In 2016, his remains were identified. responded by giving a combined total all its forms in Tehama County and its At 11:15 a.m. this morning, Texas time, of $1 billion in bonuses and wage in- neighboring counties as partners as Lonnie was laid to eternal rest. creases to their employees. That well. Welcome home, soldier. equates to over 1 million Americans Just last month, it was actually rec- f and counting getting a bonus. ognized as the Midsize Farm Bureau of Finally, they said the Tax Cuts and the Year, according to the California SMEAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE Jobs Act would never jump-start eco- Farm Bureau Federation Annual Meet- AUTHORS OF THE INFAMOUS nomic growth. Well, now, after two ing. DOSSIER EXPOSING TRUMP’S quarters of well over 3 percent growth, The Farm Bureau is very important RUSSIA CONNECTIONS approaching 4 percent, it is as if the op- and very involved in the fiber of rural (Mr. HUFFMAN asked and was given ponents of the tax reform bill are left communities with ag production, farm- permission to address the House for 1 telling the American people: Are you ing, ranching, hay, and all those oper- minute.) going to believe me or your own eyes? ations that make what agriculture Mr. HUFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, char- The fact of the matter is our oppo- needs go round, as well as the activi- acter assassination is Donald Trump’s nents rely on hyperbole, but the facts ties at the fair with the kids, and with favorite trick when people make him speak for themselves. their future. The Farm Bureau, indeed, look bad. This month, Trump and his f is an important part of the future of allies have been desperately smearing agriculture and feeding people in this the authors of the infamous dossier, FUNDING FOR CHIP country. which exposes disturbing facts about (Mr. MCEACHIN asked and was given Mr. Speaker, again, I congratulate Trump’s Russia connections. By at- permission to address the House for 1 Tehama County Farm Bureau’s mem- tacking Chris Steele and Fusion GPS, minute.) bership, board, and leadership for hang- they are trying to divert attention Mr. MCEACHIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise ing in there and serving that group of from the damning content of the dos- again today pleading with my col- people for 100 years. sier and also to impugn the FBI for leagues that we must come together to f launching its investigation. support a long-term funding solution b 1845 Here is the problem: the dossier for the traditionally bipartisan Chil- didn’t start the FBI investigation. It dren’s Health Insurance Program, com- NON-METRO AREA AGENCY ON was a Trump policy adviser, George monly known as CHIP. AGING Papadopoulos, boasting to an Aus- Mr. Speaker, there is a family in (Ms. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM tralian diplomat that Russia had sto- Chesapeake, a locality in my district, of New Mexico asked and was given len emails to interfere in our election. that demonstrates the dire challenges permission to address the House for 1 That was 2 months before those stolen families across Virginia and this coun- minute and to revise and extend her re- emails were put online, and that try face without CHIP. marks.) smacks of collusion. CHIP serves as a lifeline for this fam- Ms. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM of Thankfully, our Australian allies ily with four children, ages 8, 7, 4, and New Mexico. Mr. Speaker, a few years shared this information with the FBI 2. Before this family had access to ago, New Mexico decimated its behav- and the investigation began. The dos- CHIP, these children did not have ioral health system when it terminated sier came along and corroborated what health insurance or well child visits nearly every behavioral health pro- the FBI had already heard. with a doctor. The parents limited the vider in the State. There is another problem with this 7- and 8-year-old children to indoor ac- In fact, thousands of New Mexicans smear campaign: It wasn’t just the FBI tivities because they were afraid the did not have access to medicine, coun- that took the dossier seriously. Sen- children might break a bone or sustain selors, or treatment, increasing their ator JOHN MCCAIN deemed it credible a serous injury. risks of substance abuse, health issues, enough to turn it over to the FBI. The mother also missed visits to the and homelessness. This is a serious document, corrobo- doctor’s office for vital prenatal care Many New Mexicans suffered, were rated by a host of other evidence, and because she was worried about doctor incarcerated, or died because of the the truth is coming out, Mr. Speaker. bills. The parents missed work and State’s negligence. Today, we are po- The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. kept the children home during flu sea- tentially seeing an even more cata- FASO). Members are reminded to re- son because they could not afford a strophic State-created crisis in the frain from engaging in personalities to- doctor’s visit. making. ward the President. With CHIP, the mother and children Just a few weeks ago, the State an- f all have health insurance, they are up nounced it intended to cancel its con- to date on their wellness exams, and tract with the Non-Metro Area Agency TAX REFORM the children play outside again. on Aging, which manages and oversees (Mr. LEWIS of Minnesota asked and Mr. Speaker, for the health of my critical services like adult daycare, was given permission to address the constituents and millions of other meal services, caregiving, transpor- House for 1 minute and to revise and Americans, we must immediately come tation, and respite care for vulnerable extend his remarks.) together for long-term funding for seniors and their families. Mr. LEWIS of Minnesota. Mr. Speak- CHIP. Decimating the current system with- er, it has only been a few weeks since f out public hearings, due process, or Congress passed the historic tax reform having a public plan to ensure the con- bill, but I am afraid it has got to be CONGRATULATING TEHAMA tinuity of services will disrupt these very tough for the opponents and our COUNTY FARM BUREAU lifesaving safety net programs that friends across the aisle because, well, (Mr. LAMALFA asked and was given serve nearly 80,000 seniors; and these you have to wonder: At some point, permission to address the House for 1 seniors are going to suffer because of don’t they tire of being wrong so often? minute and to revise and extend his re- this reckless and hasty decision. You might recall some claim before marks.) I have written to HHS demanding we passed the bill that it would raise Mr. LAMALFA. Mr. Speaker, I rise that they immediately investigate the taxes on the middle class, yet a major- today to congratulate the Tehama State’s negligent behavior.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00044 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.081 H10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H129 HUMAN RIGHTS FOR THE IRANIAN Isn’t this economic madness? HONORING THE MEMORY OF PEOPLE f CANDICE BOWERS (Ms. TENNEY asked and was given CHILDREN’S HEALTH INSURANCE (Mr. KIHUEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 PROGRAM FUNDING permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his re- minute and to revise and extend her re- (Mr. RUIZ asked and was given per- marks.) mission to address the House for 1 marks.) Ms. TENNEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise minute and to revise and extend his re- Mr. KIHUEN. Mr. Speaker, today I today in support of the dramatic strug- marks.) rise to remember the life of Candice gle for freedom and human rights that Mr. RUIZ. Mr. Speaker, nearly 9 mil- Bowers. we are witnessing in the country of lion children across the Nation, more Candice was a single mother to her Iran. than 55,000 in my district alone, rely on three children: Kurtis, Katie, and her The oppressive, theocratic regime in the Children’s Health Insurance Pro- recently adopted daughter, Ariel. Iran has a bloody track record of gram for their healthcare. She was a hardworking waitress who abuses and has long neglected its citi- The deadline to fund CHIP passed and was selfless and always ensured she zens’ most basic rights and needs. Congress has failed to provide long- was able to take care of her family. The Government of Iran has squan- term funding for the program, kicking Candice had a loving heart, a big smile, dered the precious resources of its peo- the can down the road and leaving par- and an infectious laugh. ple by supporting proxy armies ents worried about whether or not She went to the Route 91 music fes- throughout the Middle East and wreak- their child will get the healthcare they tival in Las Vegas with her best friend ing havoc across the globe instead of need, because they are no longer cov- so she could take some rare time for providing for the basic needs of its citi- ered, in the middle of a flu season no herself. zens. Courageous Iranians are proving less. Candice was known for her strength, each day that they are no longer will- For decades, Republicans and Demo- fierce loyalty, and generosity. She ing to accept the indignities and re- crats have come together to fund the would give her last dollar to anyone pression from the ruling elite. bipartisan and noncontroversial CHIP. who was in need. It is tragic, but not shocking, to see It is unacceptable that this time I would like to extend my condo- the regime in Iran respond to the re- around, Republican leaders proposed lences to Candice’s family and friends. cent wave of protests with violence, paying for CHIP by cutting other crit- Please know that the city of Las Vegas cutting off communications, media, ical public health programs that CHIP and the whole country grieve with you. and, predictably, blaming the United recipient kids rely on, like vaccines. States of America. This is unconscionable. f I am a cosponsor of H. Res. 676, a res- Stop using children’s healthcare as a olution passed by the House of Rep- partisan weapon. Kids and parents de- HONORING THE MEMORY OF LISA resentatives yesterday in support of serve better. We must put our chil- HANSEN the rights of the people of Iran to ex- dren’s needs above partisanship and (Mr. TONKO asked and was given press themselves freely, and con- provide for the health of our children permission to address the House for 1 demning the oppressive Iranian regime with a bipartisan, long-term funding minute and to revise and extend his re- for its crackdown on legitimate pro- solution for CHIP. marks.) tests. f Mr. TONKO. Mr. Speaker, I rise to I stand with the brave Iranians who SOCIAL SECURITY honor the memory of an extraordinary are facing down the violent and brutal ADMINISTRATION BACKLOG constituent, Lisa Hansen. regime for the sake of liberty. (Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Penn- Lisa was an Air Force veteran, a f sylvania asked and was given permis- longtime civil servant, and an inspiration to many as an ovarian cancer sur- OFFSHORING GOP TAX SCAM sion to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) vivor. (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsyl- In the final years of her career, Lisa permission to address the House for 1 vania. Mr. Speaker, I rise to call atten- worked as a defense contractor at the minute.) tion to a dangerous backlog at the So- legendary Arsenal in Watervliet, New Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I rise to cial Security Administration that is York. highlight another scam in the GOP tax harming millions of Americans across During her 14-year battle with can- giveaway just signed into law. Presi- the Nation, especially in and around cer, Lisa became an expert in cancer dent Trump promised in November: the city of Philadelphia. research and treatment. She used that ‘‘Factories will be pouring back into Philadelphians face the longest knowledge and experience to become this county.’’ delays in the Nation, where thousands an advocate and a mentor to fellow Really? of applicants wait as long as 26 months, survivors. The Republican tax scam taxes earn- on average, for a basic preliminary Ovarian cancer will affect 1 in 75 ings of foreign subsidiaries of U.S. hearing. Last year alone, 9,000 Ameri- women. There is no diagnostic tool for firms at half the rate of what is earned cans died awaiting an SSA benefits de- it. Raising awareness is one of the best here in the United States by those termination. and only ways to get women diagnosed same companies. If that isn’t an invita- In 1974, we made a promise to be sooner. tion for more job outsourcing, I don’t there for our elderly, blind, and dis- Lisa made it her personal mission to know what is. abled Americans who have little or no reach as many women as possible in The corporate tax rate, which Repub- income. They, in turn, rely upon the New York’s capital region and beyond licans slashed at the expense of the Social Security Administration to ap- through her leadership at Caring To- middle class, Social Security, and prove their eligibility and administer gether, Inc. She also participated in Medicare, is now at 21 percent; but the these life-sustaining benefits. the Survivors Teaching Students pro- rate at which American companies’ On Monday, I led a letter with my gram, sharing personal experiences overseas subsidiaries will be taxed is Democratic colleagues from the Phila- with medical and nursing students. half that much, 10.5 percent. delphia area and New Jersey demand- Lisa passed away on January 6. We Why does the Republican tax bill ing answers from the SSA’s leadership. will remember her passion and selfless incentivize U.S. companies to move Today I rise to stand up for the mil- dedication to ovarian cancer research profits and capital overseas? lions of Americans who are on their and the extraordinary power in her Call President Trump, let him know, own, suffering from a crisis of public voice and in her story. because that is what he just did. service that threatens their ability to Thank you for a lifetime of service to The Republican bill does nothing to afford basic necessities through no others, Lisa. You will be sorely missed, address the job outsourcing crisis. It fault of their own. I will not stand but thank you for the inspiration you makes it worse. down until this problem is fixed. have provided to so many.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00045 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K10JA7.084 H10JAPT1 H130 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 10, 2018 LEAVE OF ABSENCE erating Wireline Broadband Deployment by ployees for fiscal year 2016, pursuant to 31 Removing Barriers to Infrastructure Invest- U.S.C. 501 note; Public Law 105-270, Sec. By unanimous consent, leave of ab- ment [WC Docket No.: 17-84] received Decem- 2(c)(1)(A); (112 Stat. 2382); to the Committee sence was granted to: ber 21, 2017, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); on Oversight and Government Reform. Ms. ADAMS (at the request of Ms. Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to 3665. A letter from the Management and PELOSI) for January 8 through January the Committee on Energy and Commerce. Program Analyst, FAA, Department of 11 on account of recovering from sur- 3653. A letter from the Director, Defense Transportation, transmitting the Depart- gery. Security Cooperation Agency, Department of ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- Defense, transmitting a report of defense ar- tives; Airbus Airplanes [Docket No.: FAA- f ticles and services associated with six (6) 2017-0476; Product Identifier 2016-NM-110-AD; ADJOURNMENT Presidential Determinations, pursuant to 22 Amendment 39-19111; AD 2017-24-07] (RIN: U.S.C. 2318(b)(2); Public Law 87-195, Sec. 2120-AA64) received December 29, 2017, pursu- Ms. TENNEY. Mr. Speaker, I move 506(b)(2) (as amended by Public Law 96-92, ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104- that the House do now adjourn. Sec. 5(b)); (93 Stat. 702); to the Committee on 121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee The motion was agreed to; accord- Foreign Affairs. on Transportation and Infrastructure. ingly (at 6 o’clock and 55 minutes 3654. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, 3666. A letter from the Management and Legislative Affairs, Department of State, Program Analyst, FAA, Department of p.m.), under its previous order, the Transportation, transmitting the Depart- transmitting Transmittal No. DDTC 17-043, House adjourned until tomorrow, ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- pursuant to the reporting requirements of Thursday, January 11, 2018, at 9 a.m. tives; CFM International S.A. Turbofan En- Section 36(c) of the Arms Export Control gines [Docket No.: FAA-2017-1044; Product f Act; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Identifier 2017-NE-38-AD; Amendment 39- 3655. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, 19110; AD 2017-24-06] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received Legislative Affairs, Department of State, ETC. December 29, 2017, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. transmitting Transmittal No. DDTC 17-046, Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 pursuant to the reporting requirements of Stat. 868); to the Committee on Transpor- communications were taken from the Section 36(c) of the Arms Export Control tation and Infrastructure. Speaker’s table and referred as follows: Act; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. 3667. A letter from the Management and 3656. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, 3646. A letter from the Assistant Secretary Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Legislative Affairs, Department of State, of the Navy, Manpower and Reserve Affairs, Transportation, transmitting the Depart- transmitting Transmittal No. DDTC 17-012, Department of Defense, transmitting notice ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- pursuant to the reporting requirements of of the anticipated use of Selected Reserve tives; Airbus Airplanes [Docket No.: FAA- Section 36(c) of the Arms Export Control units that will be ordered to active duty, 2017-0709; Product Identifier 2016-NM-200-AD; Act; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 12304b(d); Public Law Amendment 39-19115; AD 2017-25-01] (RIN: 3657. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, 112-81, Sec. 516(a)(1); (125 Stat. 1396); to the 2120-AA64) received December 29, 2017, pursu- Legislative Affairs, Department of State, Committee on Armed Services. ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104- transmitting Transmittal No. DDTC 16-088, 3647. A letter from the Executive Sec- 121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee pursuant to the reporting requirements of retary, Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health on Transportation and Infrastructure. Section 36(c) of the Arms Export Control 3668. A letter from the Management and Care Board of Actuaries, Department of De- Act; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Program Analyst, FAA, Department of fense, transmitting the Department’s 2017 3658. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, Transportation, transmitting the Depart- Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund Legislative Affairs, Department of State, ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- Report, pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 1114(c); Public transmitting Transmittal No. DDTC 16-140, tives; Airbus Airplanes [Docket No.: FAA- Law 106-398, Sec. 713(a)(1) (114 Stat. 1654A- pursuant to the reporting requirements of 2017-0708; Product Identifier 2017-NM-035-AD; 180); to the Committee on Armed Services. Section 36(c) of the Arms Export Control Amendment 39-19113; AD 2017-24-09] (RIN: 3648. A letter from the Under Secretary, Act; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. 2120-AA64) received December 29, 2017, pursu- Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, De- 3659. A letter from the Acting Chairman, ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104- partment of Defense, transmitting a letter Federal Maritime Commission, transmitting 121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee stating that additional time is needed to col- the Commission’s Performance and Account- on Transportation and Infrastructure. lect, compile, and analyze submissions for ability Report for FY 2017, pursuant to 31 3669. A letter from the Management and the third quarter inventory of activities per- U.S.C. 3515(a)(1); Public Law 101-576, Sec. Program Analyst, FAA, Department of formed report; to the Committee on Armed 303(a)(1) (as amended by Public Law 107-289, Transportation, transmitting the Depart- Services. Sec. 2(a)); (116 Stat. 2049); to the Committee ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- 3649. A letter from the Assistant to the on Oversight and Government Reform. tives; Fokker Services B.V. Airplanes [Dock- Board, Board of Governors of the Federal Re- 3660. A letter from the Acting General et No.: FAA-2017-1097; Product Identifier serve System, transmitting the Board’s final Counsel, General Services Administration, 2013-NM-015-AD; Amendment 39-19117; AD rule — Federal Reserve Bank Capital Stock transmitting a notification of an action on 2017-25-03] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received Decem- [Regulation I; Docket No.: R-1560] (RIN: 7100- nomination, change in previously submitted ber 29, 2017, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); AE 68) received December 22, 2017, pursuant reported information, and discontinuation of Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, service in acting role, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. the Committee on Transportation and Infra- Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on 3349(a); Public Law 105-277, 151(b); (112 Stat. structure. 3670. A letter from the Management and Financial Services. 2681-614); to the Committee on Oversight and Program Analyst, FAA, Department of 3650. A letter from the Acting Secretary, Government Reform. Transportation, transmitting the Depart- Department of Health and Human Services, 3661. A letter from the General Counsel, ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- transmitting a Renewal of Determination of National Endowment for the Humanities, tives; The Boeing Company Airplanes [Dock- a Public Health Emergency from the con- transmitting a notice of a discontinuation of et No.: FAA-2017-0340; Product Identifier sequences of Hurricane Maria on the Terri- service in acting role, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. tory of the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Com- 2017-NM-002-AD; Amendment 39-19114; AD 3349(a); Public Law 105-277, 151(b); (112 Stat. 2017-24-10] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received Decem- monwealth of Puerto Rico, pursuant to 42 2681-614); to the Committee on Oversight and U.S.C. 247d(a); July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, ber 29, 2017, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Government Reform. Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to Sec. 319(a) (as amended by Public Law 107- 3662. A letter from the Chairman, National the Committee on Transportation and Infra- 188, Sec. 144(a)); (116 Stat. 630); to the Com- Transportation Safety Board, transmitting structure. mittee on Energy and Commerce. the Board’s report on competitive sourcing 3671. A letter from the Management and 3651. A letter from the Director, Regula- efforts for FY 2017, pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 501 Program Analyst, FAA, Department of tions Policy and Management Staff, Depart- note; Public Law 108-199, Sec. 647(b); (118 Transportation, transmitting the Depart- ment of Health and Human Services, trans- Stat. 361); to the Committee on Oversight ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- mitting the Department’s final rule — Safe- and Government Reform. tives; Fokker Services B.V. Airplanes [Dock- ty and Effectiveness of Health Care 3663. A letter from the White House Liai- et No.: FAA-2017-1098; Product Identifier Antiseptics; Topical Antimicrobial Drug son, Office of Elementary and Secondary 2012-NM-216-AD; Amendment 39-19116; AD Products for Over-the-Counter Human Use Education, Department of Education, trans- 2017-25-02] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received Decem- [Docket No.: FDA-2015-N-0101] (RIN: 0910- mitting a notification of a nomination, pur- ber 29, 2017, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); AH40) received December 22, 2017, pursuant suant to 5 U.S.C. 3349(a); Public Law 105-277, Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, 151(b); (112 Stat. 2681-614); to the Committee the Committee on Transportation and Infra- Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee on on Oversight and Government Reform. structure. Energy and Commerce. 3664. A letter from the Chairman, Securi- 3672. A letter from the Management and 3652. A letter from the Associate Bureau ties and Exchange Commission, transmitting Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Chief, Wireline Competition Division, Fed- the Commission’s summary of the inven- Transportation, transmitting the Depart- eral Communications Commission, transmit- tories of commercial and inherently government’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- ting the Commission’s final rule — Accel- mental activities performed by federal em- tives; Airbus Airplanes [Docket No.: FAA-

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A letter from the Management and mittee of the Whole House on the state of Mrs. MURPHY of Florida): Program Analyst, FAA, Department of the Union. H.R. 4754. A bill to amend the Small Busi- Transportation, transmitting the Depart- Mr. WALDEN: Committee on Energy and ness Act to provide prospective construction ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- Commerce. H.R. 453. A bill to deem the Step contractors with information about an agen- tives; Rolls-Royce plc Turbofan Engines 2 compliance date for standards of perform- cy’s policies on the administration of change [Docket No.: FAA-2017-1117; Product Identi- ance for new residential wood heaters, new orders to allow such contractors to make in- fier 94-ANE-39-AD; Amendment 39-19112; AD residential hydronic heaters, and forced-air formed business decisions regarding the pric- 2017-24-08] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received Decem- furnaces to be May 15, 2023 (Rept. 115–508). ing of bids or proposals, and for other pur- ber 29, 2017, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Referred to the Committee of the Whole poses; to the Committee on Small Business. Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to House on the state of the Union. By Mr. DAVIDSON: the Committee on Transportation and Infra- Mr. WALDEN: Committee on Energy and H.R. 4755. A bill to amend the Federal Re- structure. Commerce. H.R. 1917. A bill to allow for judi- serve Act to bring the non-monetary policy 3674. A letter from the Management and cial review of any final rule addressing na- related functions of the Board of Governors Program Analyst, FAA, Department of tional emission standards for hazardous air of the Federal Reserve System into the ap- Transportation, transmitting the Depart- pollutants for brick and structural clay propriations process, and for other purposes; ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- products or for clay ceramics manufacturing to the Committee on Financial Services. tives; Airbus Airplanes [Docket No.: FAA- before requiring compliance with such rule By Ms. TENNEY: 2017-0622; Product Identifier 2016-NM-192-AD; (Rept. 115–509). Referred to the Committee of H.R. 4756. A bill to amend the Federal Re- Amendment 39-19120; AD 2017-25-06] (RIN: the Whole House on the state of the Union. serve Act to establish a blackout period for 2120-AA64) received December 29, 2017, pursu- DISCHARGE OF COMMITTEE public communications by the Federal Open ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104- Pursuant to clause 2 of rule XIII, the Market Committee, and for other purposes; 121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to the Committee to the Committee on Financial Services. Committee on Foreign Affairs dis- By Mr. PITTENGER: on Transportation and Infrastructure. charged from further consideration. 3675. A letter from the Management and H.R. 4757. A bill to amend the Federal Re- Program Analyst, FAA, Department of H.R. 2504 referred to the Committee of serve Act to modify the appointment process Transportation, transmitting the Depart- the Whole House on the state of the for presidents of Federal Reserve Banks; to ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- Union. the Committee on Financial Services. tives; Fokker Services B.V. Airplanes [Dock- Pursuant to clause 2 of rule XIII, the By Ms. TENNEY: et No.: FAA-2017-1103; Product Identifier Committees on Foreign Affairs, Nat- H.R. 4758. A bill to amend the Federal Re- 2014-NM-063-AD; Amendment 39-19128; AD ural Resources, Agriculture, Oversight serve Act to require the Federal Open Mar- ket Committee to establish interest rates on 2017-25-14] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received Decem- and Government Reform, Transpor- ber 29, 2017, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); balances maintained at a Federal Reserve tation and Infrastructure, and Ways Bank by depository institutions; to the Com- Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); to and Means discharged from further the Committee on Transportation and Infra- mittee on Financial Services. structure. consideration. H.R. 3548 ordered to be By Mr. WILLIAMS: H.R. 4759. A bill to amend the Federal Re- 3676. A letter from the Chief, Publications printed. serve Act to revise the membership of Fed- and Regulations Branch, Internal Revenue f eral Open Market Committee, and for other Service, transmitting the Service’s IRB only purposes; to the Committee on Financial rule — Revenue Procedure 2018-3 received De- TIME LIMITATION OF REFERRED Services. cember 21, 2017, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. BILL By Mr. GOODLATTE (for himself, Mr. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104-121, Sec. 251; (110 Pursuant to clause 2 of rule XII, the MCCAUL, Mr. LABRADOR, Ms. Stat. 868); to the Committee on Ways and following action was taken by the MCSALLY, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, and Means. Speaker: Mr. CARTER of Texas): 3677. A letter from the Regulations Coordi- H.R. 4760. A bill to amend the immigration nator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid H.R. 3548. Referral to the Committee on laws and the homeland security laws, and for Services, Department of Health and Human Armed Services extended for a period ending other purposes; to the Committee on the Ju- Services, transmitting the Department’s in- not later than March 23, 2018. diciary, and in addition to the Committees terim final rule — Medicare Program; Medi- f on Education and the Workforce, Homeland care Shared Savings Program: Extreme and PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, Uncontrollable Circumstances Policies for Armed Services, Oversight and Government Performance Year 2017 [CMS-1702-IFC] (RIN: Under clause 2 of rule XII, public Reform, Agriculture, Transportation and In- 0938-AT51) received December 22, 2017, pursu- bills and resolutions of the following frastructure, and Natural Resources, for a ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); Public Law 104- titles were introduced and severally re- period to be subsequently determined by the 121, Sec. 251; (110 Stat. 868); jointly to the ferred, as follows: Speaker, in each case for consideration of Committees on Energy and Commerce and By Mr. COFFMAN: such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- Ways and Means. H.R. 4750. A bill to terminate the granting tion of the committee concerned. f of temporary protected status to aliens, to By Ms. BORDALLO (for herself, Ms. provide for adjustment of status for former REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON HANABUSA, Ms. GABBARD, and Mr. temporary protected status holders, and for SABLAN): PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS other purposes; to the Committee on the Ju- H.R. 4761. A bill to address the challenges Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of diciary. of providing public services to citizens of the committees were delivered to the Clerk By Mr. FASO (for himself and Ms. Freely Associated States residing in the for printing and reference to the proper FUDGE): United States, and for other purposes; to the H.R. 4751. A bill to reauthorize the Soil and Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in calendar, as follows: Water Resources Conservation Act of 1977, addition to the Committees on Education Mr. MCCAUL: Committee on Homeland Se- and for other purposes; to the Committee on and the Workforce, Natural Resources, For- curity. H.R. 3548. A bill to make certain im- Agriculture. eign Affairs, Oversight and Government Re- provements to the security of the inter- By Mr. BUDD: form, Agriculture, and Ways and Means, for national borders of the United States, and H.R. 4752. A bill to establish an Inde- a period to be subsequently determined by for other purposes; with an amendment pendent Financial Technology Task Force, the Speaker, in each case for consideration (Rept. 115–505, Pt. 1). Ordered to be printed. to provide rewards for information leading to of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- Mr. BISHOP of Utah: Committee on Nat- convictions related to terrorist use of digital tion of the committee concerned. ural Resources. H.R. 2504. A bill to ensure currencies, to establish a FinTech Leader- By Mrs. DEMINGS: fair treatment in licensing requirements for ship in Innovation Fund to encourage the de- H.R. 4762. A bill to require the United the export of certain echinoderms (Rept. 115– velopment of tools and programs to combat States Postal Service to designate a single, 506, Pt. 1). Referred to the Committee of the terrorist and illicit use of digital currencies, unique ZIP code for particular communities; Whole House on the state of the Union. and for other purposes; to the Committee on to the Committee on Oversight and Govern- Mr. BISHOP of Utah: Committee on Nat- Financial Services. ment Reform. ural Resources. S. 1285. An act to allow the By Mr. LUCAS: By Ms. MENG: Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, H.R. 4753. A bill to amend the Federal Re- H.R. 4763. A bill to require the pursuit of and Siuslaw Indians, the Confederated Tribes serve Act to require the Vice Chairman for technologies to remove space debris; to the

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:39 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00047 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\L10JA7.000 H10JAPT1 H132 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 10, 2018 Committee on Science, Space, and Tech- Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises’’ in order By Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia: nology. to ‘‘provide for the . . . general Welfare of H.R. 4764. By Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia: the United States.’’ Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 4764. A bill to amend the Consumer By Mr. DAVIDSON: lation pursuant to the following: Financial Protection Act of 2010 to establish H.R. 4755. Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution. an Office for Under-Banked and Un-Banked Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mrs. TORRES: Consumers; to the Committee on Financial lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 4765. Services. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8. ‘‘The Con- Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mrs. TORRES (for herself, Mr. gress shall have Power to . . . make all laws lation pursuant to the following: ENGEL, Mr. RASKIN, Mr. MCGOVERN, which shall be necessary and proper for car- According to Article 1: Section 8: Clause and Ms. GABBARD): rying into Execution the foregoing Powers, 18: of the United States Constitution, seen H.R. 4765. A bill to amend the Arms Export and all other Powers vested by this Constitu- below, this bill falls within the Constitu- Control Act to prohibit the removal of cer- tion in the Government of the United States, tional Authority of the United States Con- tain items under category I, II, or III of the or in any Department or Officer thereof.’’ gress. United States Munitions List for purposes of By Ms. TENNEY: Article 1: Section 8: Clause 18: To make all transferring the item to or controlling the H.R. 4756. Laws which shall be necessary and proper for item under any portion of the Commerce Congress has the power to enact this legis- carrying into Execution the foregoing Pow- Control List of dual-use items in the Export lation pursuant to the following: ers, and all other Powers vested by this Con- Administration Regulations; to the Com- Article I, Section 8, Clause 18: The Con- stitution in the Government of the United mittee on Foreign Affairs. gress shall have power . . . To make all Laws States, or in any Department or Officer By Mr. RENACCI (for himself, Mrs. which shall be necessary and proper for car- thereof. DAVIS of California, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. rying into Execution the foregoing Powers, f LANGEVIN, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Mr. and all oher Powers vested by this Constitu- CARSON of Indiana, Ms. SEWELL of tion in the Government of the United States, ADDITIONAL SPONSORS Alabama, Mr. VARGAS, Mrs. DEMINGS, or in any Department or Officer thereof. Mr. PAYNE, Mr. COSTA, Mr. RASKIN, By Mr. PITTENGER: Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors Ms. NORTON, Ms. BASS, and Mr. HAS- H.R. 4757. were added to public bills and resolu- TINGS): Congress has the power to enact this legis- tions, as follows: lation pursuant to the following: H. Res. 683. A resolution recognizing Janu- H.R. 82: Mr. PALMER. The explicit power of Congress to establish ary 2018 as ‘‘National Mentoring Month’’, H.R. 422: Mr. BUCSHON, Mr. KELLY of Penn- an uniform Rule of Naturization, and uni- and for other purposes; to the Committee on sylvania, Mr. LANCE, and Mr. GRAVES of Mis- form Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies Education and the Workforce. souri. throught the United States as enumerated in f H.R. 506: Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ, Mr. ROUZER, Mr. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4, of the United TED LIEU of California, Mr. CICILLINE, and CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY States Constitution. Mr. MEADOWS. Additionally, Article 1, Section 7, Clause 2 STATEMENT H.R. 547: Mr. CARBAJAL. of the Constitution allows for every bill H.R. 592: Ms. ADAMS. Pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII of passed by the House of Representatives and H.R. 719: Mr. COLLINS of Georgia, Mr. the Rules of the House of Representa- the Senate and signed by the President to be SMITH of Missouri, Mr. WESTERMAN, Mr. HEN- tives, the following statements are sub- codified in to law; and therefore implicitly SARLING, Mr. LAHOOD, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. mitted regarding the specific powers allows Congress to amend any bill that has ROTHFUS, Mr. GRAVES of Louisiana, Mr. been passed by both chambers and signed in granted to Congress in the Constitu- KUSTOFF of Tennessee, Mr. BISHOP of Michi- to law by the President. tion to enact the accompanying bill or gan, Mr. DAVIDSON, Mr. KING of Iowa, Mr. By Ms. TENNEY: joint resolution. BISHOP of Utah, and Mr. WOMACK. H.R. 4758. By Mr. COFFMAN: Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 850: Mr. CHABOT, Mr. STEWART, and H.R. 4750. lation pursuant to the following: Mr. GIBBS. Congress has the power to enact this legis- Article I, Section 8, Clause 18: The Con- H.R. 936: Mr. STIVERS, Mr. AMODEI, Mr. lation pursuant to the following: gress shall have power . . . To make all Laws GIBBS, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. COSTELLO Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4 states that which shall be necessary and proper for car- of Pennsylvania, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mrs. ‘‘Congress shall have the power to establish rying into Execution the foregoing Powers, WALORSKI, and Mr. CLAY. an uniform rule of naturalization.’’ and all other Powers vested by this Constitu- H.R. 982: Ms. STEFANIK and Mr. THOMPSON By Mr. FASO: tion in the Government of the United States, of Pennsylvania. H.R. 4751. or in any Department or Officer thereof. H.R. 1038: Mr. GALLAGHER. Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mr. WILLIAMS: H.R. 1178: Mrs. HANDEL. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 4759. H.R. 1227: Mr. SWALWELL of California and Article I, Section 8 of the United States Congress has the power to enact this legis- Mr. EVANS. Constitution lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 1243: Ms. GABBARD. By Mr. BUDD: Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 (‘‘To regulate H.R. 1316: Mr. GALLAGHER. H.R. 4752. Commerce with foreign Nations, and among H.R. 1322: Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Congress has the power to enact this legis- the several States, and with the Indian H.R. 1360: Mr. BISHOP of Michigan. lation pursuant to the following: Tribes’’). H.R. 1406: Mr. CORREA and Ms. BASS. Article I, Section 8, Clause 3, providing the By Mr. GOODLATTE: H.R. 1409: Ms. JAYAPAL, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. power to ‘‘regulate commerce with foreign H.R. 4760. OLSON, and Mr. BUCSHON. nations, and among the several states.’’ Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 1542: Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD. By Mr. LUCAS: lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 1606: Mr. NEWHOUSE. H.R. 4753. Clause 4 of Section 8 of Article I of the H.R. 1749: Mr. FERGUSON. Congress has the power to enact this legis- Constitution—The Congress shall have H.R. 1841: Mr. SMITH of Washington. lation pursuant to the following: Power to establish a uniform Rule of Natu- H.R. 1972: Mr. LANCE. Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the Con- ralization, and uniform Laws on the subject H.R. 1987: Mr. SHERMAN, Ms. MENG, Mr. stitution states that Congress shall have the Bankruptcies throughout the United States. POLIS, and Mr. DEUTCH. power ‘‘to regulate Commerce with foreign By Ms. BORDALLO: H.R. 2000: Ms. MATSUI. Nations, and among the several States, and H.R. 4761. H.R. 2001: Ms. MATSUI. with the Indian Tribes.’’ Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 2147: Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana, Mr. Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Con- lation pursuant to the following: STIVERS, Ms. STEFANIK, and Mr. THOMPSON of stitution states the Congress shall have the Article I Section 8 Pennsylvania. power ‘‘to make all Laws which shall be nec- Article IV Section 3 H.R. 2267: Ms. WILSON of Florida, Mr. essary and proper for carrying into Execu- By Mrs. DEMINGS: SERRANO, Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, and tion the foregoing Powers, and all other H.R. 4762. Mr. JEFFRIES. Powers vested by this Constitution in the Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 2345: Mr. YOUNG of Alaska, Mr. PERL- Government of the United States, or in any lation pursuant to the following: MUTTER, and Ms. PINGREE. Department or Officer thereof.’’ Article I, Section 8 H.R. 2452: Mr. STIVERS. By Mr. BACON: By Ms. MENG: H.R. 2482: Mr. SHERMAN. H.R. 4754. H.R. 4763. H.R. 2528: Ms. JAYAPAL. Congress has the power to enact this legis- Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 2683: Mr. WILLIAMS. lation pursuant to the following: lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 2723: Mrs. MIMI WALTERS of California Article I, Section 8, clause 1 provides Con- Article I, Section 8 of the United States and Mr. GOWDY. gress with the power to ‘‘lay and collect Constitution. H.R. 2740: Mr. ROSS.

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H.R. 2832: Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania, Mr. H.R. 4099: Mrs. DAVIS of California, Mr. H.R. 4610: Mr. HOLDING. CHABOT, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. VALADAO, and Mr. TAKANO. H.R. 4635: Mr. COLE. POSEY, Mr. WEBSTER of Florida, and Mr. H.R. 4124: Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. BRAT, and Mr. H.R. 4647: Ms. BONAMICI and Ms. KUSTER of GOWDY. KHANNA. New Hampshire. H.R. 2845: Mr. MCEACHIN. H.R. 4143: Mr. LAWSON of Florida, Mr. VIS- H.R. 4660: Mr. STEWART, Mr. DUFFY, Mr. H.R. 2996: Mr. GOWDY and Mr. MOONEY of CLOSKY, and Mr. FITZPATRICK. GRAVES of Missouri, Mr. LATTA, and Mr. West Virginia. H.R. 4179: Ms. TSONGAS and Mrs. NAPOLI- MITCHELL. H.R. 3030: Mr. SCHNEIDER. TANO. H.R. 3067: Mr. MESSER. H.R. 4215: Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. H.R. 4681: Mr. GALLAGHER. H.R. 3145: Ms. SEWELL of Alabama. H.R. 4229: Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. BARR, Mr. H.R. 4693: Ms. SHEA-PORTER. H.R. 3174: Mr. FITZPATRICK and Ms. ROSEN. REED, Mr. HECK, and Mr. BISHOP of Michigan. H.R. 4704: Mr. AL GREEN of Texas and Mr. H.R. 3232: Mr. MARSHALL. H.R. 4236: Ms. STEFANIK and Mr. THOMPSON BILIRAKIS. H.R. 3272: Mr. CARBAJAL, Mr. SCHRADER, of Pennsylvania. H.R. 4712: Mrs. ROBY, Mr. RATCLIFFE, Mrs. and Mr. PAYNE. H.R. 4253: Mr. KIHUEN. BLACK, Mr. GROTHMAN, Mr. LABRADOR, Mr. H.R. 3307: Mr. SMITH of Washington. H.R. 4256: Mr. HIMES and Mr. DONOVAN. LOUDERMILK, Mr. BRAT, Mrs. HANDEL, Mr. H.R. 4265: Mr. LOBIONDO. H.R. 3492: Ms. ROSEN. PEARCE, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. HULTGREN, Mr. H.R. 3528: Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania, H.R. 4268: Mr. QUIGLEY. MCCLINTOCK, Mr. MOONEY of West Virginia, Ms. STEFANIK, and Mr. COLLINS of New York. H.R. 4274: Mr. MOONEY of West Virginia and Mr. ROGERS of Alabama, Mr. JENKINS of West H.R. 3566: Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania Mr. RUSSELL. Virginia, Mr. CURTIS, Mr. SAM JOHNSON of and Ms. STEFANIK. H.R. 4311: Mr. CUELLAR. Texas, Mr. YOHO, Mr. BROOKS of Alabama, H.R. 3602: Ms. MATSUI. H.R. 4392: Ms. MCCOLLUM. Mr. RENACCI, and Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsyl- H.R. 3637: Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. H.R. 4444: Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. VEASEY, Ms. vania. H.R. 3692: Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. PINGREE, Mr. BEYER, Mr. MOULTON, and Mr. H.R. 3782: Ms. PINGREE. GARAMENDI. H.R. 4715: Mr. NOLAN, Mr. VARGAS, and Ms. H.R. 3790: Mr. KELLY of Mississippi and Mr. H.R. 4479: Mr. THOMAS J. ROONEY of Flor- MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM of New Mexico. GROTHMAN. ida. H.R. 4736: Mr. LONG and Mr. HULTGREN. H.R. 3792: Miss RICE of New York. H.R. 4494: Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN, Mr. THOMP- H.R. 4737: Mr. CURBELO of Florida. H.R. 3826: Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. SON of Pennsylvania, Mr. PAULSEN, Mr. H.R. 4747: Mr. GALLAGHER, Mr. JONES, and H.R. 3931: Ms. BONAMICI and Mr. MOULTON. LAHOOD, Mr. TAYLOR, Mr. BISHOP of Michi- Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. H.R. 3964: Ms. STEFANIK and Mr. THOMPSON gan, and Mr. YOUNG of Iowa. H. Res. 35: Mr. COHEN. of Pennsylvania. H.R. 4507: Mr. OLSON, Mr. GOODLATTE, and H. Res. 613: Mr. DELANEY. H.R. 3976: Mr. WITTMAN, Mr. NEWHOUSE, Mr. BABIN. ´ and Mr. WALZ. H.R. 4547: Mr. STEWART, Mr. HOLDING, Mr. H. Res. 661: Ms. BARRAGAN, Mr. HECK, and H.R. 4075: Ms. STEFANIK and Mr. THOMPSON SESSIONS, Ms. SHEA-PORTER, Mr. ROSKAM, Mr. CORREA. of Pennsylvania. Mr. DOGGETT, and Mr. SMITH of Missouri. H. Res. 673: Mr. KING of New York. H.R. 4079: Ms. GABBARD. H.R. 4584: Mr. MEADOWS. H. Res. 675: Mr. BISHOP of Michigan.

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Vol. 164 WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2018 No. 6 Senate The Senate met at 9:30 a.m. and was appoint the Honorable RAND PAUL, a Senator uting these changes directly to tax re- called to order by the Honorable RAND from the Commonwealth of Kentucky, to form. perform the duties of the Chair. PAUL, a Senator from the Common- In fact, 100,000 employees of Amer- wealth of Kentucky. ORRIN G. HATCH, President pro tempore. ican Airlines are each receiving a $1,000 f Mr. PAUL thereupon assumed the tax reform bonus; U.S. Bank is raising PRAYER Chair as Acting President pro tempore. its minimum wage to $15 and is also giving $1,000 bonuses to 60,000 employ- The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- f ees; 29,000 employees of Nationwide In- fered the following prayer: RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME surance are also receiving bonuses, and Let us pray. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- 33,000 are getting an increase in their O God, our Savior, help our law- retirement match. These are just a few makers to see eternity beyond time, re- pore. Under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. of the 100-plus companies that have al- maining loyal to You in all things. ready announced new benefits for Awaken in them a desire to represent f American workers as a direct result of Your purposes in our Nation and world. CONCLUSION OF MORNING tax reform. These are only the imme- Give them grace, O God, to love and to BUSINESS diate benefits. even pray for those who would strive to hurt them. May nothing blind them to The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Mainstream economists agree that in Your truth, as You lead them through pore. Morning business is closed. the months and years to come, the permanent changes we made in the way the night of mortality to the light that f never fades. Lord, keep them calm in we tax businesses will make our econ- EXECUTIVE SESSION the quiet center of their lives, so that omy more vibrant and more competi- they may find serenity in life’s swirl- tive. That means greater investment and higher wages for American working stresses. And Lord, fill us all with EXECUTIVE CALENDAR Your peace, as we strive to understand ers. Of course, all this is in addition to others as we would wish to be under- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- the direct effects the tax cuts them- stood. pore. Under the previous order, the selves will soon have on family budg- We pray in Your Holy Name. Amen. Senate will proceed to executive ses- ets. sion to resume consideration of the fol- f The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will re- lowing nomination, which the clerk duce income tax rates and significantly PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE will report. expand key deductions. We took money The Presiding Officer led the Pledge The legislative clerk read the nomi- out of Washington and put it right of Allegiance, as follows: nation of Thomas Lee Robinson back in the pockets of middle-class I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the Parker, of Tennessee, to be United Americans. Starting as early as Feb- United States of America, and to the Repub- States District Judge for the Western ruary, the IRS will withhold less from lic for which it stands, one nation under God, District of Tennessee. paychecks, and workers will get to de- indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY LEADER posit more of their hard-earned money f The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- right into their own bank accounts. In APPOINTMENT OF ACTING pore. The majority leader is recog- 2018 alone, for a typical family of four PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE nized. earning just over 70,000, the Tax Cuts TAX REFORM and Jobs Act could mean a tax savings The PRESIDING OFFICER. The of more than $2,000. clerk will please read a communication Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, we to the Senate from the President pro have been talking all week about the Nearly every day, reports come out ways our historic tax reform law is im- about a new way this historic tax re- tempore (Mr. HATCH). The legislative clerk read the fol- mediately helping middle-class fami- form bill is helping Americans. Here is lowing letter: lies. It has been less than a month a subject that is particularly relevant since Congress passed and the Presi- around many kitchen tables this win- U.S. SENATE, dent signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, ter: utility bills. All around the coun- PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, Washington, DC, January 10, 2018. but already more than 1 million Ameri- try, utility companies that will benefit To the Senate: cans are on track to receive special bo- from our new tax cuts are already dis- Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, nuses, permanent raises, and other ben- cussing plans to pass their savings on of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby efits, and their employers are attrib- to customers.

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VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A10JA6.000 S10JAPT1 S114 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 10, 2018 Major power companies in Illinois, for both defense and urgent domestic make progress on each of these issues Maryland, and Massachusetts are al- priorities, a healthcare package, dis- through a budget that lifts the spend- ready proposing plans to give their cus- aster aid, an agreement to protect the ing caps equally for defense and non- tomers tens of millions of dollars in re- Dreamers, and to provide additional defense. lief by lowering the rates they charge border security. The Republican majority, which con- for energy. And get this: According to The path forward on some of these veniently forgot its long history of op- CNBC, a South Carolina electric and issues is very clear. There are signifi- posing deficits when passing a $1.5 tril- gas utility is planning to give a cash cant bipartisan majorities that would lion tax bill, cannot, in good con- payment directly to its customers, vote to extend CHIP, or the Children’s science, turn around and complain averaging $1,000 per household. More Health Insurance Program, and com- about deficits here. So let’s make the are following suit. In Montana, Lou- munity health centers. There seems to investments we all know are essential isiana, and Indiana, regulators are al- be a growing consensus on how we can in both our military and in our middle ready working with utilities to deter- pass the 702 FISA Court program. class. mine how households will benefit from I am also confident that we could as- Even on the most challenging issue the tax savings. In my own State of semble a disaster aid package that ad- we face, the fate of the Dreamers, there Kentucky, the Public Service Commis- dresses the needs of all of the States appears to be a path forward. Yester- day’s immigration meeting at the sion directed a number of the electric, and Territories—Texas, Florida, Lou- White House was encouraging for two gas, and water companies to track isiana, California, the Western States reasons. First, practically everyone at their savings and make plans to cut that have been plagued by fires, Puerto the table—including some of the most rates for consumers. Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands—as As any mother or father who has to well as modifying what the Forest conservative voices on immigration, balance a checkbook and pay bills Service does so they don’t spend all of like the Senator from Iowa—agreed that we must resolve the future of every month can attest, this is wel- their money simply fighting forest Dreamers by passing DACA protections come news for middle-class families. fires and not do the job they are in- into law. That is a very positive devel- These reductions will be especially tended to do, which is to prevent future forest fires by careful forestry pro- opment. helpful to the most vulnerable in our Second, President Trump appeared to grams. society. endorse a narrow deal to protect the According to data from the Depart- Even where the path is murkier, the Dreamers, leaving the thornier issues ment of Health and Human Services, outlines of a deal exist. If we don’t lift for a later debate on comprehensive energy costs eat up a significantly the spending caps in short order, the immigration reform—a debate that, sharp ax of sequestration will fall on higher percentage of household income personally, I would welcome, the soon- the military side of the budget and on for poor families than for other fami- er the better. lies. In other words, for a software en- the domestic side of the budget. That is But first, we have to do this narrow gineer in Silicon Valley, a lower heat- a scenario everyone wants to avoid. deal. President Trump also backed off The majority leader continues to in- ing or air conditioning bill may go un- his demand that a DACA deal include noticed, but for workers who clean that sist that we should raise the budget an expensive and ineffective border office overnight, this relief will make a caps unequally, sparing our military wall across the entire length of the real difference. but not critical domestic programs southern border. Of course, the devil is A drop in utility bills effectively that create jobs, grow our economy, in the details. We Democrats have re- amounts to progressive tax relief. This and help the middle class. We Demo- peated time and again that we are is just another example of how the Tax crats believe we absolutely must pro- ready, willing, and eager to support an Cuts and Jobs Act is rapidly proving to vide the resources our men and women effective, practical border security be a serious asset to poor and middle- overseas need to protect our country. measure in a deal that enshrines DACA class families—precisely the people We believe that strongly, but we also into law. The President yesterday whom my Democratic friends in the know that there are many important seemed to agree with that. We agree House and Senate loudly claimed would issues here at home—combating the with that. For these reasons, the meet- get nothing at all from this bill. opioid crisis, improving veterans’ ing was encouraging. It has been 3 weeks—3 weeks—lower healthcare, shoring up pensions for Last night, a Federal judge ruled utility bills, 1 million special tax re- millions of hard-working Americans against the Trump administration’s form bonuses and pay raises, and this who are approaching retirement, and handling of the termination of the is only the beginning. dealing with rural development and DACA Program. Let me be very clear. A Republican majority in the House rural broadband. These items are all The ruling last night in no way dimin- and a Republican majority in the Sen- crucial to the middle class. ishes the urgency of resolving the ate and President Trump listened to The deadly scourge of opioid addic- DACA issue. On this we agree with the the facts instead of the political spin. I tion has contributed to the first con- White House, which says the ruling am proud that we passed this historic secutive-year decline in life expectancy doesn’t do anything to reduce bill and gave families across America in the great United States of America Congress’s obligation to address this the tax relief they have waited decades since the early 1960s. That is an as- problem now. A court case, of course, is to receive. tounding and alarming fact that should no guarantee of lasting security. A I suggest the absence of a quorum. rouse everyone in this Chamber to ac- higher court can quickly overturn it. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- tion. It is not occurring in most of our Unsurprisingly, the Department of Jus- pore. The clerk will call the roll. Western country allies. tice responded to the ruling last night The legislative clerk proceeded to Some of our veterans have been wait- by saying that it ‘‘will continue to vig- call the roll. ing in line for healthcare at veterans orously defend [this] position, and Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I ask hospitals for over a year. These men looks forward to vindicating its posi- unanimous consent that the order for and women served our country bravely. tion in further legislation.’’ So the fact the quorum call be rescinded. We have a solemn responsibility to remains that the only way to guar- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. COT- serve them when they come home, and antee the legal status for Dreamers is TON). Without objection, it is so or- we are not living up to that responsi- to pass DACA protections into law and dered. bility right now. to do it now. For that reason, a resolu- RECOGNITION OF THE MINORITY LEADER Over a million Americans paid into tion to the DACA issue must be part of The Democratic leader is recognized. pension plans with the expectation a global deal on the budget. FUNDING THE GOVERNMENT that they could retire with basic dig- We cannot tolerate delay. Delay is a Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, we nity. For so many of them—teamsters, tactic employed by those who do not have barely over a week to negotiate a miners, food workers—pensions have wish to see a deal. Let me just say, broad package of must-pass items, in- fallen short, and a lifetime of careful promises that maybe in the future we cluding an extension of government savings may be ripped away from pen- will do it—particularly on immigra- funding, a deal to lift the spending caps sioners at the last moment. We could tion—have vanished by the wayside.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10JA6.001 S10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S115 Unless DACA is on a must-pass deal—a ernment by the Republican majority in When children do not have insurance, must-pass bill—in terms of a global 2017. It was not ‘‘We the People’’ but we they don’t get that dental benefit to agreement, people are rightfully skep- the powerful and we the privileged. take care of those cavities. They don’t tical that it will ever happen. Some- How about we have a new year’s reso- get that medical exam. They don’t get how, somewhere, someone will say: I lution that pays attention to the vision those inoculations, those vaccinations. can’t do it. of our Constitution, to that vision of They don’t get treatment when they Let’s not forget that the House has government of, by, and for the people? are injured because their parents can’t been a graveyard even for immigration Ben Franklin once wrote in his ‘‘Poor afford to take them to the doctor. They proposals that have had bipartisan con- Richard’s Almanac’’: don’t get treatment when they are sick sensus here in the Senate. So it must Be at war with your vices, for the same reason. Let’s take care of be on a must-pass bill. Otherwise, we At peace with your neighbors, children’s healthcare. are not going to get it. And let every New Year find you a better This is not a partisan issue. It was Congressional negotiators and the man. forged in a bipartisan manner, and it valiant group here in the Senate led by Every new year is a chance to recre- should be so today. Senators DURBIN and GRAHAM are fo- ate and reenvision where we are head- What also expired on September 30 of cused on this issue right now. The ed. Certainly, it is a big vice to use this last year was the legislation author- meeting they had yesterday—I talked Chamber, in contravention of our Con- izing support for our community to both Senators DURBIN and GRAHAM stitution, to pursue policies for the health clinics. Community health clin- last night and this morning—provides a powerful and privileged rather than for ics are the front door to healthcare for clearer picture of the parameters of the the people. So let’s set that vice aside millions of Americans. It is that friend- deal. The iron is hot. We should strike and have a bipartisan year, dedicated ly place in your rural community, in now. Delay will snuff out the hope of to making a foundation for families to your urban neighborhood, where you getting an agreement that both sides thrive and jobs and education and can go through the front door and get can live with. Let us press forward. healthcare and a healthier planet. assistance. Each side is going to have to give. Right now, we should have an imme- Talking about millions of Americans I am confident, though, that both diate new year’s checklist of things to who go through those front doors, sides can come to an agreement on bor- get done, and that checklist starts there are more than 1,400 clinics across der security. I am convinced now both with the budget. We have just 9 days the country. These are popular in rural sides want to find a consensus on until funding runs out for the Federal areas. They are popular in urban areas. DACA. Some will support a deal enthu- Government, and we all know from ex- They are popular in red States. They siastically, others reluctantly, but, perience what that means—parks shut are popular in blue States. There is nonetheless, an agreement is within down, medical research stops, pass- nothing partisan about it, but the lead- reach. We ought to get it done through ports don’t get processed, and busi- ership of this body has no interest, has the Senate, through the House, and nesses can’t check in on their I–9 appli- seen no urgency in reauthorizing the onto the President’s desk for signature cations for employees. That is the type ability for those health centers to stay now. So let’s get the job done. of conduct that happens in banana re- open. I yield the floor. publics—basically, in countries that In Oregon we saw, as a result of the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- don’t have a competent system of gov- Affordable Care Act, 30 more health ator from Oregon. ernment. It should not happen in the clinics established. We saw a lot more resources go into both mental illness ISSUES BEFORE THE SENATE United States of America. and into drug abuse during a period in Mr. MERKLEY. Mr. President, here We are deep into the financial year, which the opioid crisis joined the meth we are at the start of a new year. Last which started on October 1. October crisis and afflicted both rural and year, the Republican majority decided passed. November passed. December urban areas. Lots of folks come to this to dedicate the year to government by passed. We are well into January and floor and say: We have to take on and for the powerful and the privileged, still the majority leadership of this opioids. It is not just on the left-hand but how about this year, 2018? We pay body is unable to put together a proc- side of the aisle, but it is also on the attention to our Constitution, which ess that addresses just key, funda- right-hand side of the aisle. People starts with that vision of government, mental issues. Why is that? Because base virtually their entire campaigns not for the powerful, not for the rich, they were so distracted by delivering on taking on opioids. Yet the Repub- trillions of dollars to the richest of not for the privileged, not for the well lican leadership says this isn’t impor- Americans and trying to destroy connected, not for the wealthy but for tant. Let me tell you, this is impor- healthcare for millions of Americans the people of the United States. It is a tant, and we need to get it done. vision where power is distributed, and that they didn’t tend to the fundamen- Then let’s turn to the Dream Act. power comes up from each individual tals that need to be tended to. Let’s Dreamers are those children raised in citizen to create policies for their gen- take care of those things now. our communities, now 16 through their eral welfare. The Children’s Health Insurance Pro- midtwenties. They are productive Last year, we saw this complete dedi- gram. Here we are. It expired on Sep- members of our communities. They cation to trying to wipe out healthcare tember 30 of last year. Nine million have gone through our high schools or for 20 million to 30 million Americans children across America depend on this are in high school now. They are in col- in order to provide tax benefits for the insurance. This insurance was crafted lege. They are working. They are con- richest. How big were those tax bene- in a bipartisan manner. It was forged tributing. They know no other country fits? Well, if you add up the provisions in an agreement between Senator than ours. that are dedicated to the powerful cor- HATCH, a Republican, and Senator KEN- Across both sides of the aisle we hear porations and those benefits for the NEDY, a Democrat, who had very dif- folks say: We want to take care of wealthiest 10 percent, and most of that ferent visions of America but who them and establish a structure for this, goes to the wealthiest 1 percent, those could agree that families who didn’t a legal structure for the Dreamers. provisions stack up to over $2 trillion— qualify for Medicaid and weren’t afflu- The President yesterday hosted a bi- $2 trillion. ent enough to buy insurance for their partisan conversation at the White It is very hard to get your hands children could still have insurance for House to say: Let’s get this done. He around $2 trillion. Those are not num- their children. These are the working expressed his support. In fact, everyone bers we use in ordinary conversation. poor of America, the struggling work- in the room expressed support for get- Let’s take that down to the amount of ers of America. ting this done. money per man, woman, and child—per It was forged in a bipartisan manner, Each one of these—the budget, the citizen in America. Well, that is about but this year my Republican colleagues children’s healthcare, the health cen- $6,000—$6,000 taken from the commu- decided to make these children a bar- ters, the Dream Act—are bipartisan ef- nity funds for every man, woman, and gaining chip for their effort to get forts. These are things that should child in America to deliver to the more for the privileged and the power- have been addressed long ago if my Re- wealthiest Americans. That was gov- ful. That has to end. publican colleagues instead weren’t so

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10JA6.002 S10JAPT1 S116 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 10, 2018 obsessed with decimating healthcare proved for thinning, if we can pass the ican people by making sure our mili- for millions of Americans and ripping funds to get it done. tary is adequately funded. off the National Treasury to deliver So let’s take this on in 2018. Let’s The Budget Control Act signed into benefits to the wealthiest Americans. dedicate 2018 to that vision in our Con- law in 2011 was what I would call a nec- Let’s get this done for our Dreamers. stitution of ‘‘we the people.’’ Let’s stop essary evil. The Budget Control Act More than 100 a day are losing their passing legislation targeted specifi- provided that we would have a bipar- status, which means they can no longer cally to help out the richest at the ex- tisan, bicameral negotiation and try to legally work in our country. It mat- pense of everyone else in America. come up with a grand bargain. ters. It is urgent. It is productive for Let’s turn over a new leaf from cam- That was what President Obama our communities. It is bipartisan. Let’s paigns and policies and legislation by liked to talk about a lot—the grand get it done. and for the privileged and the powerful bargain. But some people suggested How about disaster relief? We cer- to honor the vision of our Constitution, that was kind of like a unicorn, some- tainly saw a powerful punch against the vision of our Nation, a Nation of thing that people describe but no one our States from the raging forest fires laws which distributes power that pro- has ever seen—a grand bargain. I wish in the West to the hurricanes in the duces policies by and for the people of it weren’t true. South and Southeast. Hurricanes have the United States of America, for mak- The Budget Control Act said that in hit Texas and Florida and Puerto Rico ing families stronger, for building the absence of a grand bargain, we and the Virgin Islands—massive de- those foundations of jobs and would have budget caps or sequestra- struction. Fires have scourged States healthcare and education and a healthy tion imposed on discretionary spending from Montana to Idaho, to Washington, planet. above certain levels. It proposed sepa- to Oregon, to California. Those fires Thank you, Mr. President. rate budget caps for defense and non- burned well into the winter months of The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- defense, and if the budget caps are ex- November and December. jority whip. ceeded, there is an automatic enforce- These afflictions hit Democrats and FUNDING OUR MILITARY ment mechanism called sequestration Republicans, red States and blue Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I admit which imposes across-the-board cuts, States. Why don’t we get this done? I wasn’t here during the entirety of the which I mentioned a moment ago. These are basic, bipartisan, let’s-get-it- comments from our friend, and I saw The purpose of this sequestration—or done agendas. Let’s get it done now. his to-do list. The only thing missing these across-the-board cuts—is to do Let’s make sure, when we are ad- from that to-do list was to fund our something in the absence of us doing dressing the impact of those storms in military—or at least I didn’t see it on what we should do; in other words, we the South and those hurricanes—Har- there. In all fairness, maybe he men- should take it upon ourselves to figure vey, Irma, and Maria—we simulta- tioned that in his comments. out what the appropriate spending lev- neously recognize the destructive im- We now have 9 days to reach an els should be for defense and non- pact forest fires have had that have agreement to keep the government defense, and then we should act to ap- been scourging the West. They have de- funded, to keep the lights on, to keep propriate that money. But this is basi- stroyed a lot of the infrastructure in paying the salaries of our government cally a fail-safe mechanism, which op- the forest that needs to be replaced. employees, and, of course, to fund our erates as a result of our failure to deal They have affected a lot of commu- military, which ought to be our No. 1 with this in a proactive way, and it has nities that need economic help recov- priority. If we think about things that hit our defense spending much, much ering. government must do, funding our na- harder than domestic spending. Certainly, it made us recognize that tional defense is the only thing that we As we know, neither our defense we have millions of acres of forests can do and that government can do. spending nor tax cuts are the cause of that can become much more fire resil- There are a lot of other things that our deficits and debt. It is the 70 per- ient if they are thinned, if we get rid of government does that are optional or cent of spending that happens in the the fuel buildup on the floor of the for- maybe things we would like to do, but Federal Government on autopilot. It is ests. When they become more resilient, funding our military is the No. 1 pri- the entitlements that have been going they stop the forest fires. ority—or should be. up well in excess of 5 percent a year Thinning is a win-win. It produces a As the Senate majority leader men- and are causing instability and unpre- steady supply of sawlogs for the mill tioned earlier this week, our Demo- dictability in those important pro- and stops forest fires when they are cratic colleagues persist in the notion grams, such as Medicare and Social Se- raging. There was a forest fire headed that we should only increase defense curity, but at the same time racking right for Sisters, OR, and it hit an area spending if we increase nondefense up huge deficits and debt that future that had been thinned. Guess what. It spending by the same amount. The par- generations are going to have to pay stopped. The trees were farther apart. ity that the minority leader and the back. Somebody is going to have to pay The fuels were removed from the floor other Democrats call for doesn’t make it back, and it won’t be the present of the forest. any sense, though. It is apples and or- generation because we won’t be around Now we have created a real fire haz- anges. They act as though all govern- then. It is simply immoral to continue ard with our clear-cut strategy of years ment spending is exactly alike and en- to see this happen without trying to past—the forestry grows very close to- joys or should enjoy the same priority, deal with it. gether, often replanted. Trees are all and that is just not true. We know that But back on the matter of the Pen- the same height. It is very easy for the from our own family budgets or from a tagon, as one op-ed writer put it in the fire to get into the canopy, and once in small business. There are things we Washington Post last month—he said: the canopy, every tree is touching the must do, things we want to do, and The Pentagon and the welfare state have next tree. It rages on, and there is no things we will do if there is money left been locked in brutal combat for decades, break. over. But our friends across the aisle, and the Pentagon has gotten clobbered. . . . But a natural forest is very different. who are obstructing our ability to get Welfare programs—Social Security, Medi- We can more effectively replicate the to negotiated budget caps and fund our care, food stamps and other benefits—dwarf fire-resistant nature of a natural forest military, act as though all of that is defense spending. by thinning these overgrown, second- the same, that must do, want to do, In the 1950s and 1960s, defense spend- growth forests. We can then create and what you will do if you have ing was roughly 8 to 10 percent of our that supply of saw logs, keep our mills money left over—that those are all ex- economy. In 2016, it was just 3 percent. open, keep our people working, and actly the same, and that is just not the That is a huge change. strengthen our economies in rural case. It is not the case in our family James Clapper, the former Director America. We can do it by funding this budgets, in our small business budgets, of National Intelligence, said that in reduction, these thinning programs in nor is it the case for the Federal budg- his 50 years in the intelligence commu- acreage that has already gone through et. Not everything is a priority. But we nity, he had never seen a more diverse the environmental process. In Oregon, do know that the No. 1 priority must array of threats confronting the United we have 1.6 million acres already ap- be the safety and security of the Amer- States around the world—never in his

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10JA6.004 S10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S117 50 years of experience. So we are sim- 600-foot merchant vessel off the coast it is a very real and present threat to ply asking our military and our na- of Singapore. Seven sailors died when American wages and workers. It is a tional security personnel to do too the Fitzgerald collided with another threat to our intellectual property much with too little. vessel off the coast of Japan. And the edge and the innovation that we are It is no surprise that Secretary of De- USS Lake Champlain collided with a the best in the world at, but they are fense James Mattis said last June that boat near Korea—although thankfully all too eager to steal it, copy it, and to ‘‘for all the heartache caused by the that time no lives were lost. This harm the jobs and the investment in loss of our troops during [our] wars ought to be a wake-up call to all of us. those businesses here in the United [abroad], no enemy in this field has Many have drawn credible correla- States. done more to harm the readiness of our tions between these accidents that Of course, when it comes to China, military than sequestration.’’ have taken the lives of our military there is the threat to human rights in More recently, General Mattis said servicemembers and our readiness fail- nondemocratic nations like Venezuela that so far our continuing resolutions ures, citing studies like the 2015 inde- and Zimbabwe, which China often has have not done even greater damage to pendent investigation by the Govern- no qualms supporting. our readiness thanks to certain addi- ment Accountability Office. That study With this diverse array of dangers, tional or supplemental funding that we determined that the Navy’s mandate to we simply can’t afford to straitjacket voted on. But at the same time, he so- keep ships afloat in the Pacific was our military by arbitrarily cutting the berly cautioned that there could be shortchanging crew training and de- amount of money we appropriate to real impact—and it won’t be positive, grading the condition of our ships—in fund it. But that is what is going to it will be negative—if the problem per- other words, additional readiness fail- happen unless we act—and act quickly. sists and if the Department of Defense ures. The current continuing resolution ex- doesn’t have a real budget sometime These accidents, by the way, are hap- pires on the 19th of this month. this month. pening at the same time our national The truth is, even if we are able to His remarks echo that of practically security threats are not going away, as come up with negotiated budget caps every service chief. Together, their General Clapper’s comments would infor defense and nondefense spending, views mean we have to act. I don’t dicate. we are probably going to have to have know who else we would listen to if we We have seen North Korea continue a short-term continuing resolution to are not going to listen to the Secretary to improve its nuclear and long-range give the Appropriations Committees of Defense and our service chiefs when ballistic missile capabilities beyond time to put that into bill text. In other it comes to national security because the estimates of our intelligence com- words, we can’t just snap our fingers that is their job, and we ought to take munity—much faster—and detonate once the decision has been made. It is their advice and heed their counsel. what is widely considered to be a hy- going to take some time to actually Cuts in defense spending have real drogen bomb recently. put it on paper. consequences. Much less money is We have seen large-scale protests in The bottom line is, if we want to re- available for training and necessary Iran—and I hope they continue—expos- turn to having the strong military that maintenance, for example. The length ing the instability of a regime that we have always had, if we want to con- of deployments for our troops grows, continues to use its proxies to advance tinue to lead in the world, if we want and our soldiers are stretched thin. Our its aims throughout the broader Middle to continue to be a force for peace and military is forced to operate beyond its East; in other words, the No. 1 state stability, we have to maintain our normal capabilities. sponsor of international terrorism— military strength. That was the lesson The former Air Force Chief of Staff Iran. We ought to encourage the people we had to learn again during the last recently described the Air Force as the of Iran to continue to rise up in protest administration when we saw America smallest, oldest equipped, and least and to change the regime there into retreat from its leadership in the ready force across the full spectrum of one that does not prey on its neighbors world. operations in our service history. in the region. There are countries, tyrants, bullies, Those are chilling remarks—or should We have seen a growing China—some- and dictators all too willing to fill the be. More than half of all Marine Corps thing that more and more people are void left by American retreat, and one fixed and rotary-wing aircraft were un- realizing is a threat. I know that when way we retreat is when we don’t fund able to fly by the end of 2016. I have no we deal with countries like China, fre- the readiness of our military, when we doubt that we can turn that around quently we deal with them in the com- are not ‘‘ready to fight tonight,’’ as very quickly if Congress were to step mercial context where we see a busi- General Brooks has said, and we need up to its responsibilities and ade- ness that hires people and we see in- to start with ending this cycle of con- quately fund the military, but that is vestments here in the United States. tinuing resolutions and defense seques- the status quo unless we act. The Navy But what we need to recognize is that tration. fleet currently stands at 275 of the 350 they don’t do business the way the So I come to the floor today to call ship requirement. Of our 58 Army bri- United States does business. Sitting at on my colleagues from all across this gade combat teams, only 3—3 out of the top of every company in China, in Chamber, but specifically across the 58—are ready for combat. the board room of every Chinese com- aisle, to quit holding our military hos- Our enemies shouldn’t take any company, is the Communist Party. They tage to other unrelated demands, and I fort in these numbers because, as I operate on an all-of-government basis. urge this body to come together in said, the United States always pulls to- And it is not just the government; it is agreement on new budget caps as soon gether and Congress always acts when also what we would consider the pri- as possible. they see a national emergency. But it vate sector. But, in truth, there is no I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum. shouldn’t take an emergency for us to private sector in China; it is all an arm The PRESIDING OFFICER. The do our job and to make sure that our of the government. It is posing a rising clerk will call the roll. military is adequately funded and is threat to American wages and labor as The senior assistant legislative clerk ready to fight. As General Brooks in they erode our industrial base by steal- proceeded to call the roll. Seoul, South Korea, said, their motto ing our technology. And because of Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President, I ask is ‘‘ready to fight tonight.’’ That is the loopholes in the Committee on Foreign unanimous consent that the order for kind of world we live in. Investment in the United States—the the quorum call be rescinded. Last summer was the perfect exam- so-called CFIUS process—they are now The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. SUL- ple of why, when we draw attention to able to tailor financial arrangements LIVAN). Without objection, it is so or- these numbers, we are not just blowing through joint ventures and others in a dered. smoke. Operational accidents in the way to capture our dual-purpose, cut- Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President, I ask South Pacific exposed our readiness ting-edge technology. They then copy unanimous consent to speak as in failures in a dramatic fashion and in a it in China and erode our defense indus- morning business. tragic fashion. Ten sailors died when trial base here in the United States, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the USS John S. McCain collided with a along with the jobs that go with it. So objection, it is so ordered.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10JA6.006 S10JAPT1 S118 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 10, 2018 CHIP AND COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS and Medicaid, the uninsured rate healthcare they need. They deserve Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President, I come among children is now at an all-time that. to the floor today to talk about an low. Jeopardizing this accomplishment I yield the floor. issue that is critical to patients and by letting CHIP twist in the wind is I suggest the absence of a quorum. families in my home State of Wash- simply unacceptable. This Republican- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ington and across the country. Today, controlled Congress has also failed to clerk will call the roll. parents are wondering if they will be renew other investments that our fami- The legislative clerk proceeded to able to get the healthcare their kids lies rely on for the care they need—pro- call the roll. need, and communities are wondering grams such as community health cen- Mr. NELSON. Madam President, I if they will be able to provide it. ters, which serve 25 million patients, ask unanimous consent that the order That is unacceptable. particularly in our rural and poorer for the quorum call be rescinded. Congress has to swiftly and fully re- communities; the National Health The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. store the Children’s Health Insurance Service Corps, which brings doctors ERNST). Without objection, it is so or- Program, or CHIP, and funding for and other healthcare providers to un- dered. other services families need, like com- derserved areas through scholarships (The remarks of Mr. NELSON per- munity health centers, which have and loan repayment; and the Teaching taining to the introduction of S. 2292 been waiting more than 100 days for a Health Center Graduate Medical Edu- are printed in today’s RECORD under long-term solution. They should do so cation Program, which brings primary ‘‘Statements on Introduced Bills and without making deep cuts to successful care and dental residencies to commu- Joint Resolutions.’’) prevention programs in the Centers for nities in need. Leaving these programs Mr. NELSON. I yield the floor. Disease Control and Prevention that without long-term extensions a minute The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- tackle avoidable conditions like heart longer is utterly irresponsible because ator from New Mexico. disease and diabetes. this lack of certainty for them is al- Mr. HEINRICH. Madam President, I Democrats have wanted to get this ready bringing a negative impact on ask unanimous consent to speak as in done for months. By focusing on push- our communities. morning business. ing through partisan tax reform at the For example, the Northeast Wash- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without end of the year, Republicans instead ington Health Programs serve some of objection, it is so ordered. put massive corporations and the most the rural areas in my State, in- DACA wealthiest ahead of making sure our cluding Ferry County, which has fewer Mr. HEINRICH. Madam President, I children and their families have the than four people per square mile. They rise today to stand up for the hundreds healthcare they need. I hope they are are struggling to hire needed medical of thousands of young immigrants now ready to give these issues their staff and managers because of this unknown as Dreamers, whose lives Presi- full and immediate attention. In case certainty that is now there. Ferry dent Trump has thrown into terrifying they aren’t, I want to make sure they County cannot wait. uncertainty. know exactly what this is about. The Community Health Association Immigrant communities have long It is about children like Stella. Stel- of Spokane runs 12 health center sites helped write the economic, social, and la lives in Washington State. She is 5 and sees more than 70,000 patients a cultural story of my home State of years old. She has two brothers. She year. They recently began offering very New Mexico and, for that matter, the has a love of the outdoors, especially much needed opioid addiction treat- entire Nation. That is certainly true swimming and kayaking. She has a ment. If Congress does not reauthorize for Dreamers, undocumented immi- typical kindergartner’s boundless en- the community health center funding, grants who arrived in the United ergy and excitement. But Stella was those efforts will be jeopardized and ex- States as children and are vital mem- born with spina bifida, an issue with pansions will be halted. Spokane can- bers of communities across New Mex- how her spinal cord was formed. In the not wait. ico. past year of dealing with that condi- Yakima Neighborhood Health Serv- Over the years, I have had the privi- tion, Stella’s family went through 5 ices served over 22,000 patients in 2016. lege of meeting many of New Mexico’s catheters a day, almost 2,000 in total. Almost all of those patients were below estimated 7,000 Dreamers. I have met They went on 10 different occasions to 200 percent of the Federal poverty line. with students who grew up here and are have MRI scans. They went to get her If Congress does not act soon, three now striving to become doctors, sci- new leg braces. Given the cost of all different clinics, including a clinic in entists, teachers, and even serve in our that, they went through their $5,000 de- one of the poorest cities in Wash- military. These young people are our ductible in the first 5 weeks of the ington, will be at risk. Yakima cannot children’s classmates. They are our year. That is right. It took just 5 wait. next-door neighbors. They are our col- weeks. Additionally, this year Stella is I have heard additional stories of leagues. They are family members, and also scheduled to have bladder and kid- similar hardships from across my many are truly rising stars. In fact, I ney surgery. State. North Olympic Healthcare Net- would argue that these Dreamers are As one can imagine, the expenses are work has had to put expansions on be- the future of a great America. really adding up. Even with both par- havioral healthcare on hold. Another Every day these young people add to ents working, covering Stella’s health center in Washington may have the strength of our economy, to the vi- healthcare needs would be an unimagi- to reconsider building a new children’s tality of our country. More than 97 per- nable task. Fortunately, Stella does dental residency program. A center cent of DACA recipients are in school qualify for health insurance through serving Whatcom County may have to or in the workforce. CHIP. CHIP has helped her family af- cancel a project for medical, dental, The DACA Program allowed them to ford the treatment she needs, including and behavioral healthcare facilities as work legally, to get driver’s licenses, physical therapy. well. to go to college, to serve in our mili- Stella’s story is just one of many ex- Across the country there are a lot of tary and give back to their commu- amples of families who rely on this pro- examples for community health cen- nities. DACA helped almost 70 percent gram. There are 60,000 children in ters just like the ones I mentioned. of recipients secure a job with better Washington State who are now insured Healthcare that people of all ages and pay, and better pay leads to real in- through CHIP. Nine million families backgrounds rely on is being put in vestments in our communities and our nationwide rely on it to help address jeopardy, all because Republicans economy. the healthcare needs of their children. prioritized tax cuts for those at the top After their DACA applications were Yet Congress has taken over 102 days before the health needs of millions of approved, nearly two-thirds of recipi- and counting to restore it. There is no people at the end of last year. ents reported buying their first car, excuse for this inaction. It is far past time to show these fam- and almost one in six reported buying Families who rely on the CHIP Pro- ilies that we are willing to work to get a new home. DACA recipients also paid gram are not alone in needing our im- this done. We need to give them the billions of dollars in Federal, State, mediate attention. Thanks to CHIP peace of mind that they can get the and local taxes. Why on Earth would

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10JA6.008 S10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S119 we kick out these contributors to our President Trump and congressional to rest easy, knowing they will be able economy and our country? Republicans wasted an entire year try- to stay and to contribute to literally The economic impact of removing ing to take away American’s the only Nation they have ever called nearly 700,000 workers from the U.S. healthcare and then rushing through home. workforce would be staggering. It tax breaks for the superwealthy in the Thank you. would cost our economy nearly half a final weeks of the year. By squandering I suggest the absence of a quorum. trillion dollars in GDP loss over the an entire year, they pushed Dreamers The PRESIDING OFFICER. The next decade. But passing the Dream aside and put their lives in jeopardy. clerk will call the roll. Act could add an estimated $281 billion I voted to fund the government The legislative clerk proceeded to to the U.S. economy over the next 10 through the holidays in hopes that call the roll. years. That, to me, sounds like putting Congress could finally reach an agree- Mr. LEAHY. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for America first. ment to pass the Dream Act. We also the quorum call be rescinded. I stand with these Dreamers, and I urgently need to reauthorize the Chil- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without always have. One of my first actions dren’s Health Insurance Program, fix objection, it is so ordered. when I was in the House of Representa- wildfire disaster funding, provide dis- FUNDING THE GOVERNMENT tives was to sign on as an original co- aster relief for Puerto Rico, which is Mr. LEAHY. Madam President, just sponsor of the Dream Act, which would still recovering from Hurricane Maria. last week we began the second session create a pathway to legal status and Taking care of these long-neglected of the 115th Congress. We are now safe- citizenship for Dreamers who pursue and bipartisan priorities is the bare ly into 2018, and we should be talking higher education or serve our Nation in minimum of governance. Republican about what we can accomplish for the uniform. This commonsense, compas- leaders in Congress need to take this American people in the new year. We sionate, and responsible policy is long opportunity seriously, especially if simply face a long list of unfinished overdue for a generation of young they expect our support. business from 2017—last year—and, un- Americans. I will be fighting every step of the fortunately, we have a very short win- Since President Trump made the way to pass the Dream Act, and I en- dow in which to get it done. heartless decision to end DACA, I have courage all of my colleagues to do the We are 4 months into fiscal year 2018, held his administration accountable for same. and we still don’t have a budget deal. I their mishandling of renewal applica- Since President Trump shamefully am vice chairman of the Appropria- tions for DACA recipients. My office pulled the rug out from under Dream- tions Committee. We should have had has assisted Dreamers in New Mexico ers when he hastily ended the DACA this done long before now. Our agencies through the DACA renewal process and Program, I have spent time meeting are operating under last year’s funding is actively participating in meetings with Dreamers in New Mexico, as well levels. They have little flexibility to with communities and local advocacy as here in Washington. You cannot handle the problems they face today. groups throughout the State. hear their stories without realizing We still haven’t reauthorized the I introduced legislation to safeguard how morally bankrupt the administra- Children’s Health Insurance Program, Dreamers’ private information, such as tion’s current policy is. It is impossible what we call CHIP, so that puts the addresses and telephone numbers, so for me to convey the desperation and healthcare of 9 million children at risk. the Trump administration can’t use the fear they are feeling every day that These are American children. those to target them or their families passes without our passing the Dream Nearly 800,000 Dreamers live under for deportation. Act. uncertainty and fear of deportation, When my office learned that the De- Now is the time to give these young living in the country they have known partment of Homeland Security had ar- Americans a permanent place in this most of their lives. I don’t know how bitrarily rejected hundreds of renewal great Nation. Enough is enough. Their anybody, Republican or Democrat, applications that arrived late because patience has worn thin with the Presi- could call this acceptable. they were delayed by the Postal Serv- dent and congressional Republicans Now, I know the Republicans control ice, I pressed the administration to using them as political bargaining the House, they control the Senate, take immediate action to reverse its chips. It is immoral to play politics and they control the White House. decision. I am pleased to say that with the lives of these young Ameri- They are in charge. They have to show Dreamers whose applications were re- cans. responsibility and show leadership on jected due to Postal Service delays I will say it again. Congress abso- these issues, but instead of addressing were allowed to resubmit their renew- lutely must pass the Dream Act, and these issues, last year the Republican als for DACA. In fact, just last week, we have an opportunity to do it now. leadership spent time rolling back sen- the first two DACA recipients in New We should not stop once we pass the sible regulations designed to protect Mexico, who brought this to my atten- Dream Act. Leaders in Congress have the American consumer, designed to tion with the help of Catholic Char- waited far too long to finally address protect our environment, and designed ities, were told that they could move our Nation’s overall broken immigra- to protect people from harassment in forward with their DACA renewal ap- tion system. I still continue to believe the workplace. They rolled those all plications. that our Nation urgently needs Con- back, and then they passed a massive President Trump’s decision means gress to pass comprehensive immigra- tax cut for big corporations and the that until Congress passes the Dream tion reform, which includes a visa pro- wealthiest of Americans. Act, these young members of our com- gram that meets the needs of our econ- We Democrats have been calling for munities still face deep uncertainty omy. It is a tough but fair path to earn bipartisan budget talks since June—7 about whether they will be able to stay citizenship for the estimated 11 million months ago. We have passed three con- in school, keep working and contrib- people in our country who are undocu- tinuing resolutions since September of uting to our economy, and remain in mented and a plan that ensures com- last year to give us more time to strike the Nation that they call home. munity safety and security at our bor- a deal on the budget and Dreamers and Congress must pass the Dream Act ders. CHIP and disaster funding. These are now. Threatening to deport these When I think about immigration, I just to name a few, but they are enor- young people who grew up in America always wonder how different my own mously important to the people who and want to contribute to their Nation life would be if America had turned my are experiencing the disasters or who will not fix our broken immigration father away when he immigrated here have children who need healthcare or system. Making the American people as a young boy. Our Nation’s enduring who are Dreamers. Yet, on the 102nd foot the bill to build an unnecessary spirit has been built by the hard work day of the fiscal year, there are only 9 and wasteful border wall—which fami- and the dreams of so many striving days until the next fiscal cliff, and we lies in New Mexico’s border commu- young immigrants like my father in don’t have a budget deal. nities have told me they do not want the 1930s and like so many Dreamers President Trump said months ago nor do they need—will not fix our bro- today. No Member of Congress should that the country could use a good gov- ken immigration system. be able to rest until Dreamers are able ernment shutdown. I don’t agree with

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It is able demands, such as $18 billion of people that a government shutdown one over the other. It is hard to have American tax dollars to build a wall on would be good for him politically. In somebody say that with a straight face the southern border, in exchange for all of my years in the Senate—I have in the wake of the President signing a Dreamers. The $18 billion wall is last been here under Republican and Demo- tax bill to add $1.5 trillion to our Na- century’s solution. It does nothing for cratic Presidents alike—I have never tion’s debt and to benefit primarily this century. heard such damaging rhetoric come large corporations and the wealthiest If they really believe Mexico is going from the President of the United Americans. You can’t make the argu- to pay for it, I have a solution. Open a States. ment that we can’t afford to take care bank account and, as Mexico sends us Nobody wants a government shut- of our domestic needs. It is simply not money, then use it to build a wall. down—nobody. It is devastating to peo- credible. Don’t ask the American taxpayers, who ple not only throughout the govern- Budget negotiations are not the only are strapped at home, to pay for some- ment but to people throughout the place where Republicans haven’t en- thing the President says the Mexicans whole country. However, that seems to gaged in a productive way. President will pay for. Open an account, find out be what they are vying for. Trump’s decision to end the DACA Pro- if they are telling the truth, let the For months, I have been calling for a gram has put nearly 800,000 Dreamers money come into the account, and then bipartisan budget deal that is based on in this country in an untenable posi- build it. parity—equal increases for defense and tion. The decision was as cruel as it But, worse, don’t use the Dreamers as nondefense programs—that would pro- was senseless. It may make a tweet negotiable commodities. They are not vide relief from sequestration. I agree that people look at, but if you are one commodities. They are human beings. with the Republicans and Democrats of those Dreamers and you are on your They are people who deserve to have who say military readiness has suffered way to school and are expecting a their dreams. Let’s pass a bill—we under sequestration but so has our Na- scholarship to college and you don’t could do it this week—protecting tion’s economy, so has our educational know if you are going to be in this Dreamers now. Republicans control the system, so has our infrastructure, and country tomorrow, that is not a tweet. House, the Senate, and the White so has our care for our veterans. The President should have worked House. This is their government. We have a week and a half before the If we want to combat the problems with Congress. He should have found a next continuing resolution expires. We caused by sequestration, we have to permanent legislative solution while have a lot to do. Let’s get serious. raise the caps on both sides of the ledg- keeping DACA protections in place. I Let’s get to work. I am willing to work er. Fixing one side of the equation will believe he terminated the program here every day, every night, right not address the needs of our Nation under false pretenses, yielding to through the weekend. Let’s get it done. and, even worse, will actually short- xenophobic voices in his administra- We are not doing it for us. We are doing change our military. tion, and last night a Federal judge it for all the American people. Let’s do If we don’t invest in our economy, if issued an order that said just that: Ter- it for all the American people—not for we don’t invest in the education of our minating DACA was not required under special interests, not for one party. youth, the military will not have ex- the law—far from it. But a court order Let’s do it for all the American people. pert, qualified soldiers, the men and that only temporarily halts the admin- It could be done, if we want to. women on whom they rely. If we don’t istration from dismantling DACA pro- There being no objection, the mate- invest in our diplomacy, our Nation vides little comfort to Dreamers. They rial was ordered to be printed in the and the world become less safe. If we live each and every day uncertain of RECORD, as follows: don’t improve our cyber security de- the future and with fear of deportation. fenses and our physical infrastructure, Now, I have heard Members of the MISSION: READINESS, we become soft targets for those who COUNCIL FOR A STRONG AMERICA, Senate trying to decide at what time May 30, 2017. would do us harm, both in this country we are going to finish voting for the MEMBERS OF CONGRESS: As retired admirals and outside this country. If we don’t week. Their big fear is this: Are we and generals, we know from our experience care for our veterans, we are not going going to make our flight home? that no matter how much we spend to build to have young men and women who are Dreamers have to worry if their our military and procure the latest and willing to serve. flight is going to be out of this country greatest technology, we will never be a se- This week, the majority leader came and back to a country they don’t even cure nation if we do not have qualified and to the floor making the case for in- know. They worry if they will have to skilled men and women to fill the ranks of creased defense spending. He asked us our Armed Forces. Therefore, investing in leave the country they know and love. education for our youngest children, which is to listen to our nonpartisan military Dreamers are Americans in every the foundation of our future national secu- leaders about what they think is need- way, except on paper. They were rity, is essential. Accordingly, we urge Con- ed to keep this country safe. I couldn’t brought here as children, through no gress to prioritize investments in early agree more. fault of their own. They are law-abid- childhood programs, including funding for To that end, I have two letters signed ing members of our community. They Head Start, the Child Care and Development by a combined 560 retired admirals, attend school. They serve as doctors Block Grant (CCDBG), and Preschool Devel- generals, and other former military and teachers. They defend our home- opment Grants in FY18 Labor, Health and members. I ask unanimous consent to land as brave men and women in uni- Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill. have these letters printed in the form. Mission: Readiness is the national security RECORD following my remarks. This is a crisis of the President’s own organization of retired top military leaders I have no idea what these admirals’, making. Now, Congress needs to pick that recognize the strength of our military generals’, and others’ political parties up the pieces. I hope, after the meeting depends on our people. The stunning fact is are, but they make the case that we yesterday, we will be allowed to pick that today, 71 percent of young adults ages have to increase our investment in do- up the pieces. We have spent months 17 to 24 cannot qualify for military service mestic priorities—including education trying to find a path forward, but you because they are too poorly educated, medi- and childcare, as well as diplomacy—if cally or physically unfit, or have a disquali- can’t find one if the administration fying record of crime or drug abuse. if these we are going to keep our country safe keeps moving the goalposts. issues are not addressed, the Nation risks a and support our military. Secretary of We need to address the fate of the shortage of qualified recruits—one that will Defense Mattis said even more bluntly: Dreamers now. You can take a poll in leave the country vulnerable for years to If we do not fully fund the State De- this country. The American people come.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10JA6.011 S10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S121 Mounting research shows that the early rorism on the battlefield, but it needs strong Unfortunately, Senate Majority Leader years of life have an incredible impact on civilian partners in the battle against the Mitch McConnell (R–Ky.) ratcheted up educational attainment, behaviors and drivers of extremism—lack of opportunity, threats of a government shutdown last week health. High-quality early interventions can insecurity, injustice, and hopelessness. by insisting on ending the long-standing, bi- help vulnerable children succeed in school, We recognize that America’s strategic in- partisan agreement over parity for defense stay on the right side of the law and achieve vestments in diplomacy and development— and non-defense spending. This principle of a healthy weight in the long-term. These like all of U.S. investments—must be effec- parity is enormously important for working outcomes open the doors for many career tive and accountable. Significant reforms families and is something that cannot be ter- paths, including military service. have been undertaken since 9/11, many of minated. If we do not act, funding for edu- Long-term studies of early education pro- which have been embodied in recent legisla- cation, child care, health care, nutrition as- grams show impressive differences in chil- tion in Congress with strong bipartisan sup- sistance, affordable housing and other impor- dren’s educational outcomes. A recent anal- port—on human trafficking, the rights of tant domestic programs will be at a 40-year ysis of Head Start outcomes, comparing sib- women and girls, trade and energy in Africa, low as a percentage of our economy. lings who did versus did not attend the pro- wildlife trafficking, water, food security, and As the middle class continues to shrink, gram, found participants showing increased transparency and accountability. cuts to non-defense spending would cause probability of graduating from high school, We urge you to ensure that resources for even worse economic pain to working fami- attending college, and receiving a postsec- the International Affairs Budget keep pace lies, the elderly, children, the sick and the ondary credential. High-quality state pre- with the growing global threats and opportu- most vulnerable. Meanwhile, as Trump and school programs have also demonstrated nities we face. Now is not the time to re- the Republicans demand an unbelievable $100 lasting effects on students’ elementary- treat. billion increase in military spending over school performance. New Jersey’s preschool cc: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. the next two years, the Defense Department program, for example, found that children in cc: Secretary of Defense James Mattis. has been inoculated from budget cuts over the program were three-quarters of a year cc: National Security Advisor H.R. the past several years because of the Over- seas Contingency Operations loophole—a ahead in math and two-thirds of a year McMaster. special account not subject to spending caps ahead in literacy in the fourth and fifth Signed by a combined 121 retired admirals, established by Congress in 2011. grades. generals, and other former military mem- Providing parity in these budget negotia- While Congress faces tough spending bers. choices ahead to secure and protect our Na- tions means, among other things, fully fund- tion, we know that the backbone of our mili- Mr. LEAHY. Madam President, I ing—without offsets—the Children’s Health tary is, and will always be, our women and yield the floor. Insurance Program for 9 million kids and men in uniform. As a matter of national se- I suggest the absence of a quorum. community health centers for 27 million curity, in order to grow the pool of eligible The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Americans. It means increased funding for recruits, Congress must prioritize invest- clerk will call the roll. the Social Security Administration and the ments in early childhood programs, includ- Veterans Administration so they can provide The senior assistant legislative clerk guaranteed benefits to seniors and veterans ing funding for Head Start, the Child Care proceeded to call the roll. and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), and who have earned them. It means keeping our Mr. LEAHY. Madam President, I ask obligations to more than 1.5 million workers Preschool Development Grants. Signed by a combined 424 retired admirals, unanimous consent that the order for and retirees who are about to lose a large generals, and other former military mem- the quorum call be rescinded. part of the pensions they were promised. It bers. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without means addressing the crisis of student debt, objection, it is so ordered. expanding child care, improving our crum- bling infrastructure in rural America and FEBRUARY 27, 2017. Mr. LEAHY. Madam President, my protecting our national parks. It means pro- Hon. PAUL RYAN, colleague from Vermont, Senator BER- Speaker of the House, viding help in the national struggle against NIE SANDERS, wrote what I feel was a House of Representatives. opioid and heroin addiction. terrific op-ed about why we should not Furthermore, as part of the budget nego- Hon. NANCY PELOSI, tiations, we must also provide adequate dis- Minority Leader, and do not need to close down the gov- aster relief to Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico House of Representatives. ernment, why we can do our work and and the Virgin Islands, as well as assistance Hon. MITCH MCCONNELL, why we should, and that people rely on to the Western states recovering from ter- Majority Leader, us, too. rible wildfires. U.S. Senate. Madam President, I ask unanimous Finally, Trump added even more fuel to Hon. CHUCK SCHUMER, consent that the op-ed be printed in the fire when he decided to use 800,000 Minority Leader, the RECORD. ‘‘dreamers’’ as a bargaining chip for an $18 U.S. Senate. billion wall that the overwhelming majority DEAR SPEAKER RYAN, MINORITY LEADER There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the of Americans do not want. These dreamers PELOSI, MAJORITY LEADER MCCONNELL, AND are young people who have lived in this RECORD, as follows: MINORITY LEADER SCHUMER: As you and your country for almost their entire lives. They colleagues address the federal budget for Fis- [From the Washington Post, Jan. 8, 2018] go to school. They work. They serve in the cal Year 2018, we write as retired three and IT’SONREPUBLICANS TO STOP A SHUTDOWN U.S. military. The United States is their four star flag and general officers from all (By Bernie Sanders) home; they know no other. For Trump and branches of the armed services to share our the Republican leadership to allow their I do not know why President Trump and strong conviction that elevating and legal status to expire, and to subject them to the Republican Party—which controls the strengthening diplomacy and development deportation, would be one of the cruelest White House, the Senate and the House—are alongside defense are critical to keeping acts in modern American history. It must so willing to shut down the government. America safe. not be allowed to happen. We know from our service in uniform that Maybe they think it will be good for them This is not just my viewpoint. It’s what many of the crises our nation faces do not politically. Maybe they believe the chaos the American people want. A recent have military solutions alone—from con- created by a government shutdown would be Quinnipiac University poll showed that 77 fronting violent extremist groups like ISIS a welcome distraction from the ongoing Rus- percent of the American people, including a in the Middle East and North Africa to pre- sia investigation being conducted by special large majority of Republicans, support pro- venting pandemics like Ebola and stabilizing counsel Robert S. Mueller III. Whatever the viding legal protections for the dreamers. weak and fragile states that can lead to motives of the Republican leadership, one The Republican Congress must act. A clean greater instability. There are 65 million dis- thing is clear: A government shutdown Dream Act must be signed into law as part of placed people today, the most since World would be disastrous for the American people. any budget agreement. War II, with consequences including refugee A shutdown would harm tens of millions of The American people are increasingly dis- flows that are threatening America’s stra- working-class families who would be unable gusted with a government that protects the tegic allies in Israel, Jordan, Turkey, and to access vital services. It would disrupt the interests of the wealthy and the powerful, Europe. lives of hundreds of thousands of federal em- while ignoring the needs of the vulnerable. The State Department, USAID, Millen- ployees who would not receive the paychecks The U.S. government must do more than nium Challenge Corporation, Peace Corps they expected. It would endanger members of provide huge tax breaks to billionaires, cal- and other development agencies are critical the U.S. military who are putting their lives lously deport young people, greatly expand to preventing conflict and reducing the need on the line defending our nation. military spending, end net neutrality, deny to put our men and women in uniform in Congress has a responsibility to the Amer- the reality of climate change and threaten to harm’s way. As Secretary James Mattis said ican people to prevent a shutdown and work cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, while Commander of U.S. Central Command, in a bipartisan manner to reach a fair budget education and nutrition programs. We must ‘‘If you don’t fully fund the State Depart- agreement that addresses the very serious pass a budget agreement that addresses the ment, then I need to buy more ammunition.’’ problems facing the working people of our needs of Americans and not just billionaire The military will lead the fight against ter- country. campaign contributors.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A10JA6.003 S10JAPT1 S122 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 10, 2018 Mr. LEAHY. Madam President, I sug- There is more good news coming receiving $1 million total in bonuses. gest the absence of a quorum. every day, with more announcements Previously, this business had actually The PRESIDING OFFICER. The today. It is exactly what Republicans planned to increase the share of health clerk will call the roll. said would happen. It is happening for insurance costs that its employees The senior assistant legislative clerk people who work at banks, who work at would have to pay because health in- proceeded to call the roll. insurance companies, who work at air- surance costs have gone up. Mr. BARRASSO. Madam President, I lines. It is happening for people who Health insurance prices have sky- ask unanimous consent that the order work at big companies, such as AT&T, rocketed ever since ObamaCare was for the quorum call be rescinded. Visa, and Comcast, but it is also hap- passed. Companies have struggled with The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without pening for people who work at smaller how to deal with these rising costs. objection, it is so ordered. companies, such as a winery in Cali- Many have tried to pass these on to the TAX REFORM fornia and an aviation company in employees. Mr. BARRASSO. Madam President, Texas. These are businesses and people This company in Nevada has said when we were debating the tax relief in communities who are important that because of the Republican tax re- law at the end of last year, it was a parts of their communities and doing lief law, they are canceling their plans very familiar debate in many ways. important jobs. The employees work to raise insurance costs—canceling Republicans came to the floor with hard, and now they are getting a share their plans to raise the costs. That is facts and figures on how much extra of the relief the Republicans had pre- more money in employees’ pockets. money people were going to see in their dicted they would get all along. And The owner of the business said: ‘‘We pockets and their paychecks. Demo- they are not just getting cash bonuses. want to be sure that our extended fam- crats came to the floor with the same ily is taken care of.’’ That is the way old tired line that you always hear There is a bank in Massachusetts called Berkshire Hills Bancorp. They these people think of the people who them talk about—the millionaires and work for them—as part of their ex- billionaires. announced last week that the people tended family. That is how employers Republicans pointed out economic working there will be getting a $1,000 are responding to tax relief all around studies that showed that workers right bonus and will also see the minimum now pay more than 70 percent of the wage raised to $15 an hour. the country, and that is what we said cost of corporate taxes. We talked More is being invested in employee would happen. We also predicted that one way busi- about a study by the Tax Foundation development and training programs. nesses might deal with lower taxes that predicted that if we passed the tax When you invest more in employee de- would be to cut prices for consumers, relief bill, the average family would ac- velopment and training programs, that let people who use their services or buy tually see a gain of about $2,600 a year means people are going to have addi- their products keep more of their hard- in their after-tax income. It was partly tional skills that make them even because of getting the tax cut and part- more productive, better at their jobs, earned money. Americans are starting ly because their employers would then and qualify for even higher wages. to see that prediction come true in the pass on much of the tax cut in higher This bank in Massachusetts is also form of lower utility bills. Gas, elec- wages. Democrats didn’t believe it. contributing an extra $2 million to its tric, and water utilities across the They said that only rich people would charitable efforts, including scholar- country are getting ready to cut their benefit and that businesses would ships. That helps improve the commu- rates because the taxes are going down never share their tax savings with the nities where the workers live and under the law. Customers of the power workers. The Democratic leader said where they raise their families. company in Baltimore are going to re- that ‘‘tax cuts like these benefit the Democrats said it is not going to ceive millions of dollars in the form of wealthy and the powerful to the exclu- happen. It has happened. It is hap- lower rates. It has been a cold winter sion of the middle class.’’ pening every day. They said that busi- on the east coast, and a lower electric Here we are. It is the month after we nesses would keep the money for them- bill is going to be good news for a lot passed the tax relief bill, the tax reduc- selves. That is not what we are seeing of people in that area. Customers are tion bill, and the tax simplification all across the country. also likely to see the same thing in bill, and the question is, Who was Ms. WARREN, the senior Senator from Missouri, South Carolina, and Lou- right? The very day the tax bill passed Massachusetts, went on PBS. The sen- isiana. in Congress, AT&T came out and said ior Senator from Massachusetts said These are the kinds of effects we are it was giving its workers a bonus. It that the idea that tax relief would lead seeing all across the country, in var- said that 200,000 hard-working employ- to higher wages was, in her words, ‘‘the ious ways. It is all good news for con- ees were going to get an extra $1,000 big lie that Republicans have been sell- sumers, all good news for people at each directly because of the new tax re- ing’’ for decades. She said that tax re- home as a result of the tax reduction, lief, tax reduction, tax cut bill. The lief was ‘‘an insult to working families tax relief, tax cuts passed by Repub- Tax Foundation predicted that they across America.’’ licans and signed by President Trump. would eventually get an extra $2,600, I would point out to Senator WARREN Americans are getting the benefits of and these people are already getting that many of the people who work at tax relief. They are getting the benefit $1,000 each on day one. this bank are in her home State of of regulatory relief and the pro-growth That has opened the floodgates to Massachusetts. People have gotten policies of Republicans in Congress and other companies doing the exact same wage increases. People have gotten ad- the Trump administration. People are thing and employees around the coun- ditional money spent on training so seeing it in their daily lives. The poll- try experiencing the exact same thing. they can become more valuable and ing company Gallup said that as soon Businesses started sharing the tax sav- make even more money. People have as Donald Trump was elected Presi- ings with rank-and-file, middle-class seen the minimum wage in that busi- dent, economic confidence in this coun- workers, and it started on day one—not ness go up. The workers getting these try soared. That is what the polls just the wealthy and the powerful, as bonuses and raises in their pay are her found. It has stayed positive almost Senator SCHUMER has predicted. Over constituents. Does she think these peo- without interruption ever since. It is 120 companies have said they are rais- ple are feeling insulted? Does she be- the exact opposite of what polls were ing wages, giving out bonuses, and in- lieve they have been insulted by get- showing during the previous 8 years, in vesting in their workers because of the ting a $1,000 bonus and getting an in- the previous administration. That was tax law. It adds up to over $980 mil- crease in their salaries and having in- during the so-called economic recov- lion—$980 million in the pockets of vestments in terms of additional train- ery. hard-working men and women around ing? Is that an insult to those people? Why are people so optimistic now? It the country. How many people are see- I don’t think so. I bet they are feeling is because you can’t open a newspaper ing that? By last count, almost 1 mil- pretty glad to be supported and valued or turn on a television without seeing lion hard-working Americans—over by their employer. more good news about the economy. 970,000 hard-working Americans have There is another business in Nevada, New employment numbers came out already gotten the good news. South Point Casino. Workers there are last Friday. CNN had a headline: ‘‘U.S.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10JA6.014 S10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S123 economy added 2 million jobs in 2017.’’ Now, just a couple of years ago, I re- and shelter ourselves from fiber grown The Washington Post’s headline was member a very intense conversation I in Arkansas, as we are the third in the ‘‘Trump’s first-year jobs numbers were had with a beginning farmer in North- Nation in cotton production and the very, very good.’’ Bloomberg reported east Iowa. When he was purchasing his fifth largest softwood lumber-pro- that the Christmas shopping season insurance through the State exchange, ducing State. You could keep going was ‘‘probably the best one in a dec- the cost had more than doubled. He down the list, and you would find Ar- ade.’’ People are feeling confident. was shaking he was so upset about it, kansas as one of the Nation’s top 10 They are seeing higher wages, they are and he explained to me the additional producers of a number of agricultural seeing cash bonuses, and soon they will cost of that individual policy was his commodities. start seeing the tax cut in their pay- truck payment. There was no room in Clearly, ensuring that Washington checks. his budget for the additional cost of helps create an economic environment The American people know that Re- that insurance policy so he had to that allows the agricultural industry publicans have kept our promise. We make that choice: Do I purchase to thrive is extremely important to my are cutting regulations, cutting taxes, through the individual exchange or do home State of Arkansas. When Presi- putting more money back in their I make my truck payment? Fortu- dent Trump signed the Tax Cuts and pockets. That is what hard-working nately, within this bill, we have that Jobs Act into law, his signature pro- Americans have asked us to do, and relief. He can make that choice, and vided much needed tax relief to Amer- that is what we are going to continue the choice is his on whether he makes ica’s farmers. More than 94 percent of to do. that truck payment and forgoes the in- farms are organized as passthrough I yield the floor. surance or whether now he can do businesses, which means they are im- I suggest the absence of a quorum. without that type of insurance and not pacted by the same tax provisions as The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. be fined because he was too poor to af- individual filers. Lower tax rates TILLIS). The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to ford it. across the board and a 20-percent de- call the roll. In addition, the bill dramatically ex- duction from their taxable income Mrs. ERNST. Mr. President, I ask pands section 179 expensing and allows means immediate savings, which can unanimous consent that the order for 5 years of 100 bonus depreciation. Both be reinvested to help grow their oper- the quorum call be rescinded. of these changes will foster much need- ations. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ed investment in farms throughout Ninety seven percent of the farms in objection, it is so ordered. Iowa. Arkansas are family owned, and the Mrs. ERNST. Mr. President, I rise to The law also preserves a number of vast majority of them will now be ex- discuss the positive impact the Tax important tax provisions for farmers, empt from the estate tax—the death Cuts and Jobs Act will have on Iowa including the interest deduction, cash tax. This is a big deal. It will help keep farmers. accounting, and the use of like-kind those farms and ranches in the family Of course, our Iowa agricultural exchanges for property. for generations to come. economy is really important, and those Last, but certainly not least, the Tax Finally, farmers and ranchers will be men and women who are serving as Cuts and Jobs Act doubles the Federal able to expense 100 percent of their cap- farmers, ranchers, and growers in the estate tax exemption while preserving ital investments, such as equipment, State of Iowa mean the world to me, the stepped-up basis. The death tax can over the next 4 years. In his address to coming from a farm my family had in have a devastating impact on family the Farm Bureau earlier this week, the Southwest Iowa. farms. Over 90 percent of farm assets President called this the ‘‘sleeper’’ in We all understand this has been a cannot be sold easily without losing the bill. He is right. People don’t real- very challenging time for farmers in value. Especially as we continue to ex- ize and there hasn’t been enough talk our rural communities. The commu- perience a downturn in that ag econ- about how beneficial this provision will nity I come from in Southwest Iowa omy, family farmers are sometimes be for our family-run agricultural oper- has just 10,000 people in our county. left with no choice but to sell land or ations. The substance of the Presi- Many of them have faced the chal- the equipment they use to farm that dent’s Farm Bureau speech tilted heav- lenges of the economic downturn. Since land when they are forced to pay that ily toward our efforts to bring stability their peaks in 2012, corn prices have de- tax. and predictability to the economy. clined by 60 percent and soybean prices The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is a big As we have witnessed over the course have declined by 47 percent. My neigh- step in the right direction for agri- of the previous administration, uncer- bors are hurting, folks. Farm income culture. I am thankful to the President tainty is devastating to our economy. has nearly been cut in half since 2013. for his leadership and to my colleagues There are few industries that are inher- A lot of our producers are hurting, in the Senate and the House for helping ently more affected by uncertainty especially our young and beginning get this long-needed bill done. On be- than agriculture. This is why we have farmers who have gotten their start half of agriculture, thank you. taken steps to eliminate some of the just in maybe the last 10 years or so, I suggest the absence of a quorum. punitive, needless regulations that cre- but, fortunately for our farmers, our The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ate uncertainty for our farmers and ranchers, and our growers, tax relief is clerk will call the roll. our ranchers. on its way. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act The legislative clerk proceeded to It is also why my colleagues and I on will provide sweeping tax cuts for call the roll. the Agriculture Committee, under the farmers and rural communities, allow- Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. President, I ask steadfast leadership of Chairman ROB- ing our producers to keep more of unanimous consent that the order for ERTS, are working hard to reauthorize those hard-earned dollars. the quorum call be rescinded. the farm bill. Programs are authorized About 95 percent of farms are orga- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without by the farm bill that are absolutely nized as passthrough businesses, such objection, it is so ordered. vital to farmers, ranchers, and con- as sole proprietorships, partnerships, Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. President, I rise sumers. These programs will provide and S corps. These businesses are taxed to highlight the positive impacts our more certainty in rural America to ad- under individual tax rules and will ben- historic tax reform law will have on dress the challenges ahead. Finally, it efit from lower tax rates for every in- the agricultural community. is why we took great care to ensure come bracket. On top of that, they will Agriculture is Arkansas’ largest in- that the agricultural industry will see see significant relief through a new 20- dustry by far, adding $16 billion to our the benefits of tax reform. Establishing percent deduction on passthrough busi- economy every year and accounting for a tax code that works for our farmers ness income. The law also provides re- approximately one in every six jobs. and ranchers, as opposed to against lief from the costly individual mandate We are the top rice-producing State in them, is vital to their ability to plan which forced many farmers to choose the Nation, No. 2 in the Nation in for the future and invigorate our rural between buying an expensive broiler chicken production, and the communities. ObamaCare plan through their State third largest producer of catfish in the I am proud of our efforts to pass this exchange or being fined. United States. We could also clothe landmark tax reform law, and I am

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10JA6.016 S10JAPT1 S124 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 10, 2018 confident it will have lasting, positive The senior assistant legislative clerk The bill clerk read as follows: effects for our economy. proceeded to call the roll. CLOTURE MOTION With that, I yield back. Mr. BURR. Mr. President, I ask unan- We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- I suggest the absence of a quorum. imous consent that the order for the ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The quorum call be rescinded. Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby clerk will call the roll. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without move to bring to a close debate on the nomi- The legislative clerk proceeded to objection, it is so ordered. nation of Michael Lawrence Brown, of Geor- call the roll. Mr. BURR. Mr. President, I ask unan- gia, to be United States District Judge for Mr. ISAKSON. Mr. President, I ask imous consent to begin the series of the Northern District of Georgia. unanimous consent that the order for votes. Mitch McConnell, Deb Fischer, John Bar- the quorum call be rescinded. rasso, John Thune, Roger F. Wicker, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without James M. Inhofe, Johnny Isakson, The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. COT- objection, it is so ordered. Mike Crapo, Tom Cotton, Chuck Grass- TON). Without objection, it is so or- The question is, Will the Senate ad- ley, Thom Tillis, Mike Rounds, Mi- dered. vise and consent to the Parker nomina- chael B. Enzi, James Lankford, NOMINATION OF MICHAEL BROWN tion? Lindsey Graham, Pat Roberts, Todd Mr. ISAKSON. Mr. President, I am Mr. BURR. I ask for the yeas and Young. honored and privileged to come to the nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unan- floor of the Senate today to talk about The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a imous consent, the mandatory quorum Michael Brown, appointed by President sufficient second? call has been waived. Donald Trump to be a district judge on There appears to be a sufficient sec- The question is, Is it the sense of the the U.S. District Court for the North- ond. Senate that debate on the nomination ern District of Georgia. The clerk will call the roll. of Michael Lawrence Brown, of Geor- Mr. Brown is an outstanding citizen Mr. CORNYN. The following Senator gia, to be United States District Judge of our State. He is married to a won- is necessarily absent: the Senator from for the Northern District of Georgia, derful lady and has three wonderful Arizona (Mr. MCCAIN). shall be brought to a close? children. He is a graduate of Marist Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the The yeas and nays are mandatory School, a graduate of Georgetown Uni- Senator from New Jersey (Mr. BOOKER) under the rule. versity, and a graduate of the Univer- is necessarily absent. The clerk will call the roll. sity of Georgia Law School, magna The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there The assistant bill clerk called the cum laude, in 1994. any other Senators in the Chamber de- roll. He has a record of practicing law in siring to vote? Mr. CORNYN. The following Senator the private sector that is unparalleled, The result was announced—yeas 98, is necessarily absent: the Senator from having worked for both King & Spald- nays 0, as follows: Arizona (Mr. MCCAIN). ing and also Alston & Bird. [Rollcall Vote No. 5 Ex.] Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the King & Spalding produced many of YEAS—98 Senator from New Jersey (Mr. BOOKER) the judges on the bench of the United Alexander Gardner Nelson is necessarily absent. States of America with distinguished Baldwin Gillibrand Paul The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Barrasso Graham records, not the least of which is the Perdue TOOMEY). Are there any other Senators Attorney General under President Bennet Grassley Peters Blumenthal Harris in the Chamber desiring to vote? Jimmy Carter, Griffin Bell, an out- Portman Blunt Hassan Reed The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 97, standing Attorney General from our Boozman Hatch Risch nays 1, as follows: State. They also produced Sam Nunn, Brown Heinrich Roberts [Rollcall Vote No. 6 Ex.] Burr Heitkamp Rounds an outstanding Member of the Senate. Cantwell Heller They produced many judges in our Rubio YEAS—97 Capito Hirono Sanders Cardin Hoeven Alexander Gardner Paul State. Many were also produced from Sasse Carper Inhofe Baldwin Gillibrand Perdue the firm where he practices now, which Schatz Casey Isakson Barrasso Graham Peters Schumer is Alston & Bird. Cassidy Johnson Bennet Grassley Portman Scott It is a privilege for me to talk about Cochran Jones Blumenthal Harris Reed Shaheen Collins Kaine Blunt Hassan Risch Michael for many reasons. Most impor- Shelby Coons Kennedy Boozman Hatch Roberts tantly, he comes with a background of Smith Corker King Brown Heinrich Rounds Stabenow Burr Heitkamp experience in the private sector. He has Cornyn Klobuchar Rubio Sullivan Cantwell Heller been recommended by the U.S. Cham- Cortez Masto Lankford Sanders Tester Capito Hoeven ber of Commerce as one of the great Cotton Leahy Sasse Crapo Lee Thune Cardin Inhofe lawyers in the United States of Amer- Tillis Carper Isakson Schatz Cruz Manchin Schumer ica in business matters. One of the Daines Markey Toomey Casey Johnson Scott Donnelly McCaskill Udall Cassidy Jones things our courts need is a tempered Shaheen Duckworth McConnell Van Hollen Cochran Kaine balance of business and consumers. Shelby Durbin Menendez Warner Collins Kennedy There is no question that someone who Enzi Merkley Warren Coons King Smith is not a voice for business as a judge Ernst Moran Whitehouse Corker Klobuchar Stabenow but has experience in business as a Feinstein Murkowski Wicker Cornyn Lankford Sullivan Fischer Murphy Wyden Cortez Masto Leahy Tester judge will make a tremendous dif- Flake Murray Young Cotton Lee Thune ference. I know he will in the Northern Crapo Manchin Tillis District of Georgia. NOT VOTING—2 Cruz Markey Toomey Daines McCaskill I thank the President for nominating Booker McCain Udall Donnelly McConnell Van Hollen Duckworth Michael and making this appointment. The nomination was confirmed. Menendez Warner Durbin Merkley To the Members of the Senate, I urge The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under Warren Enzi Moran Whitehouse you to join me in voting for Michael the previous order, the motion to re- Ernst Murkowski Brown for the Northern District of consider is considered made and laid Feinstein Murphy Wicker Georgia to be our next judge there. He upon the table and the President will Fischer Murray Wyden Young will be a great judge on the bench. It be immediately notified of the Senate’s Flake Nelson will be a great decision for us, and it action. NAYS—1 will continue the growth and improve- f Hirono ment of outstanding jurists confirmed NOT VOTING—2 by this Senate in this year 2018. CLOTURE MOTION I yield back. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant Booker McCain I suggest the absence of a quorum. to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate the pending cloture motion, vote, the yeas are 97, the nays are 1. clerk will call the roll. which the clerk will state. The motion is agreed to.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10JA6.018 S10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S125 EXECUTIVE CALENDAR and conflict and climate change as a Pacific that has at times been cut off The PRESIDING OFFICER. The direct hazard to military installations by flooding from access points to its clerk will report the nomination. and infrastructure, from the Naval Sta- munitions storage complex. If you have The bill clerk read the nomination of tion Norfolk to faraway facilities like a military facility that can’t get access Michael Lawrence Brown, of Georgia, Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. to its munitions storage, you have a to be United States District Judge for In 2008, the National Intelligence problem. This is the picture of the flooded the Northern District of Georgia. Council reported more than 30 U.S. entryway, and this is the picture of the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- military installations facing risk from similar entryway under normal cir- ator from Rhode Island. rising sea levels. A vulnerability assessment directed by the ‘‘2010 Quad- cumstances, able to be traveled. CLIMATE CHANGE rennial Defense Review’’ found that at A 2014 typhoon caused flash flooding Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, around 3 feet of sea level rise, 128 mili- here that trapped and imperiled Amer- the Trump administration has come up tary installations are at risk. Natu- ican personnel. The point is, when cli- with a name for its energy policy. The rally, many of those belong to the mate change effects inhibit military energy policy amounts to, basically, a Navy—indeed, 56 out of those 128. It is base operations, defense preparedness big, fat cascade of gifts and special fa- a significant share of the Navy’s global requires climate preparedness. vors for oil, gas, and coal companies, footprint, totaling around $100 billion Naval Station Norfolk, the largest which, in turn, make big political con- in value. Navy base in the world, is a poster tributions. Trump officials call the pol- In 2011, the National Academy of child for the devastation that awaits icy ‘‘energy dominance.’’ More accu- Sciences report, ‘‘National Security our coastal military bases if we con- rately, its name would probably be Implications of Climate Change for tinue to pump out the greenhouse gas ‘‘fossil fuel industry political domi- U.S. Naval Forces,’’ recommended the emissions that are driving sea level nance’’ or one might actually call it continued review of how sea level rise rise. A tide gauge operated at the base ‘‘ignorance dominance’’ since the ad- and changes in storm frequency and in- since 1927 has shown nearly 15 inches of ministration willfully ignores sci- tensity would affect coastal installa- vertical sea level rise so far. In the entific understanding, basic economics, tions. broader Hampton Roads metro area, market theory, and even the warnings The National Defense Authorization home not only to the Navy but also to of our national security community. Act, which we just passed, directs the facilities of the Air Force, the Marine The situation is not pretty from an Department of Defense to study how Corps, the Coast Guard, NASA, and environmental point of view. EPA Ad- climate change will affect our most NOAA, high tides are already regularly ministrator Scott Pruitt is busily try- vulnerable military bases over the next forcing seawater back through storm drains and flooding roadways. ing to roll back rules that limit, for in- 20 years, including ‘‘the effects of ris- DOD’s own environmental research stance, emissions of methane, which is ing sea tides, increased flooding, program, the Strategic Environmental a more powerful greenhouse gas than drought, desertification, wildfires, carbon dioxide. He is considering walk- Research and Development Program, thawing permafrost,’’ as well as how used Norfolk as its case study for sea ing back fuel efficiency standards that climate change may drive new require- save drivers money at the pump. Presi- level rise and extreme storm risks to ments for combatant commanders. coastal DOD installations. The study dent Trump withdrew the United The law includes a sense of Congress States from the Paris climate accord found a ‘‘tipping point’’ of about a half statement that ‘‘climate change is a di- meter, 1.6 feet, of sea level rise, at and was promptly ignored by every rect threat to the national security of other nation on Earth. which point ‘‘the probabilities of dam- the United States and is impacting sta- age to infrastructure and losses in mis- Last month, on the Interior Sec- bility in areas of the world both where retary’s recommendation, Trump took sion performance increased dramati- the United States Armed Forces are cally.’’ This is mapping of the flood big areas of the Bears Ears and Grand operating today, and where strategic Staircase-Escalante National Monu- hazard around Naval Station Norfolk. implications for future conflict exist.’’ This tipping point at which the mis- ments, in Utah, away from the public That is a sense-of-Congress state- sion performance losses increase dra- and opened them, instead, to big min- ment that has passed this Republican- matically is only a few decades away. ing and oil and gas interests. Zinke has controlled Senate and the Republican- Retired RADM David Titley, a former even proposed to open almost all U.S. controlled House and was signed into oceanographer and navigator of the coastlines to drilling by oil and gas law by this administration. Thank you Navy and leader of its Climate Change companies. That includes drilling in to the author of this language, my Task Force, said Norfolk has about 10 protected areas in the Arctic, drilling friend and fellow Rhode Islander, Con- to 15 years to get serious about sea up and down the Atlantic coast, ex- gressman JIM LANGEVIN. level rise in the region before ‘‘we’re panded drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, Even the U.S. Government Account- really cutting it close.’’ and drilling along the Pacific coast- ability Office has engaged. The inde- In 2017, CAPT Dean Vanderley, who line. The plan even includes Georges pendent oversight agency issued a re- leads infrastructure engineering at the Bank and other crucial fishing grounds port titled, ‘‘Climate Change Adapta- Norfolk Naval base, admitted that sea for New England. tion: DoD Needs to Better Incorporate level rise is ‘‘something where I don’t This drilling scheme is likely dead on Adaptation into Planning and Collabo- know that we’ve fully defined the prob- arrival. Republican Governors in New ration at Overseas Installations.’’ lem. And we have definitely not fully Jersey, Maryland, and Florida have all I think that title gives away the defined the solution.’’ denounced the plan, as have Florida’s punch line. Surveying our bases and in- Retired CAPT Joe Bouchard, a Democratic and Republican Senators. stallations across the world, GAO former base commander, told It even runs into objections from the found that weather and climate change InsideClimate News that Naval Station Pentagon. When President Obama con- pose operational and budgetary risks Norfolk would need significant im- sidered opening the southern Atlantic to infrastructure. GAO recommended provements to nearly every piece of in- coast to drilling 2 years ago, the De- that DOD’s climate planning efforts be frastructure, from electrical and drain- fense Department told the Obama ad- expanded and increased; specifically, age systems to pier improvements, not ministration that offshore energy de- that the Secretaries of the Army, to mention a seawall. He estimated velopment could interfere with mili- Navy, and Air Force require defense in- this work could cost more than $1 bil- tary readiness and missile testing. stallations to ‘‘systematically track lion and take as long as a decade to Given the dominance of fossil fuel po- the costs associated with extreme complete. That is just one base with $1 litical interests in this administration, weather events and climate change’’ billion and a decade’s worth of work. the whole Trump energy dominance and that DOD better coordinate ad- The DOD has identified over 128 bases scheme, of course, neglects the warn- dressing climate change risks across that would be at significant risk with 3 ings of our national security experts different DOD installations. feet of sea level rise. I think NOAA’s about climate change—climate change This picture in the GAO report shows current estimate is for 6 feet of global as an accelerant of global instability an unnamed military facility in the sea rise by the end of the century.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10JA6.025 S10JAPT1 S126 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 10, 2018 Even though our President is clueless It would be a misrepresentation and also France, Germany, Russia, and China, about the basics of climate change, his an insult to Iranian people to say they only as well. Secretary of Defense understands and had economic demands. . . . People had eco- By all accounts, the JCPOA is work- acknowledges the risks. In response to nomic, political and social demands ing as intended, and Iran is verifiably congressional questioning last year, That is according to President meeting its commitments under the Secretary Mattis said, ‘‘Climate Ruhani. deal. It is important to remember what change is impacting stability in areas Acknowledging the need for reform, the JCPOA was designed to do and of the world where our troops are oper- Ruhani continued: what it is now achieving. The JCPOA ating today. . . . It is appropriate for We cannot pick a lifestyle and tell two commits Iran to never seeking to de- the Combatant Commands to incor- generations after us to live like that. It is velop or acquire a nuclear weapon; ef- porate drivers of instability that im- impossible. The views of the young genera- fectively cuts off all pathways for Iran tion about life and the world is different to achieve a nuclear weapon during the pact the security environment in their than ours. areas into their planning.’’ period covered by the agreement; and Well, for political reasons, the White Now is the time to support the Ira- increases the time it would take for House can’t acknowledge the problem nian people in their quest for a govern- Iran to acquire enough material for one so the recently published ‘‘National Se- ment that is more representative and nuclear bomb from 2 to 3 months to at curity Strategy’’ totally disregards all supportive of their interests. Unfortu- least 1 year. When this agreement was of these recommendations. It will not nately, some have suggested that our signed, they were within months of even mention the forbidden words. We response should be to withdraw from having that capability. It dramatically know these words are forbidden in the the JCPOA, an action that I believe reduces Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium and the number of installed Trump administration because over would only serve to embolden the centrifuges. It has prevented Iran from and over again the memos leak out hardliners in Iran and leave the United producing weapons-grade plutonium about people being told don’t say the States more isolated from our allies. and has subjected Iran to robust moni- words ‘‘climate change.’’ Withdrawing from the JCPOA and re- toring by the IAEA to verify its com- Instead, with all these warnings from imposing nuclear-related sanctions on Iran would immediately change the pliance. GAO, from senior military officials, Withdrawing from the JCPOA at this from the National Intelligence Council, narrative inside of Iran, uniting reformists and hardliners alike in their point would provide no benefit and from a decade of Quadrennial Defense would actually leave us more isolated Reviews, and the testimony of Sec- opposition to what they view as a hostile United States. and less able to deal with the various retary Mattis—instead of listening to challenges posed by Iran. The crippling that, Trump parrots climate change de- While some would argue that the recent protests in Iran are symptomatic sanctions regime that brought Iran to nial talking points that come from the the negotiating table in the first place phony fossil fuel front groups. It is pa- of what they view as a flawed JCPOA, I would suggest otherwise. In reality, only worked because the international thetic. Calling this deliberate igno- community was united in its deter- the nuclear deal exposed one of the Ira- rance ‘‘energy dominance’’ may be a mination to keep Iran from achieving a nian regime’s central vulnerabilities— fine fossil fuel flourish, but it is com- nuclear weapon. If we withdraw from namely, that the regime can no longer pletely disconnected from actual safe- the JCPOA unilaterally—and in the ab- simply blame sanctions imposed by the ty, security, and military readiness— sence of a clear violation of the deal by and don’t get me started on what the United States and the international Iran—there is no reason to believe that fossil fuel industry’s systematic cor- community for its economic woes at our partners in the P5+1 would join us. ruption of our democracy means for home. It is becoming clearer to the Ira- In fact, French President Macron has America’s fabled status as that ‘‘city nian people that it is actually the re- said that there is ‘‘no alternative’’ to on a hill.’’ gime’s corruption, financial mis- the JCPOA and told the U.N. General I yield the floor. management, funding of malign activi- Assembly that ‘‘renouncing it would be I suggest the absence of a quorum. ties, and hegemonic ambitions that are a grave error.’’ The PRESIDING OFFICER. The at the root of their government’s in- General Dunford, Chairman of the clerk will call the roll. ability to enable job creation and to Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Armed The legislative clerk proceeded to ensure that necessities like food and Services Committee last year: call the roll. gasoline remain affordable. I believe that the U.S. would incur damage Mr. REED. Mr. President, I ask unan- In the coming days, the President vis-a-vis our allies if we unilaterally with- imous consent that the order for the has several important decisions to draw from the JCPOA. Our allies will be less quorum call be rescinded. make with respect to the JCPOA. In likely to cooperate with us on future mili- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without October, President Trump acknowl- tary action to prevent Iran from acquiring a objection, it is so ordered. edged that Iran is meeting its commit- nuclear weapon and less likely to cooperate with us on countering other destabilizing as- IRAN ments under the JCPOA, but he chose pects of Iranian behavior that threaten our Mr. REED. Mr. President, I rise not to certify that continued sanctions collective interests. today to discuss my thoughts on recent relief is ‘‘appropriate and propor- Our sanctions may snap back but not protests in Iran and the important up- tionate’’ to the actions taken by Iran those imposed by the rest of the world, coming decisions by the President with with respect to terminating its illicit many of whom have begun building respect to the Joint Comprehensive nuclear program. By the end of this economic ties to Iran since the JCPOA Plan of Action, or the JCPOA. week, President Trump is again re- was signed. Our international partners While I am mindful that we have lim- quired to decide whether to issue such would then blame us, not Iran, for the ited visibility into Iran and continue to a certification. I expect he will again failure of the deal. learn more about the circumstances choose not to do so. Some, including President Trump, and motivations of the recent protests, The more consequential decision for have argued that we can and should one thing is clear: A significant portion the President this week will be wheth- dissolve the JCPOA and renegotiate a of the Iranian people are not satisfied er to continue waivers of nuclear-re- better deal. This is a highly unrealistic with their government and are increas- lated sanctions, as he is required to do proposal. We were only able to achieve ingly willing to make their dissatisfac- under the JCPOA. Choosing not to con- the JCPOA after years of sustained tion heard. It is important that we sup- tinue such waivers would immediately multilateral diplomatic efforts and the port their right to peacefully express snap back U.S. nuclear-related sanc- imposition of aggressive international their views and demand that the Ira- tions, thereby putting the United sanctions in concert with our partners. nian Government respond with con- States in violation of the JCPOA. Let It will likely be impossible to replicate structive dialogue, rather than force. me be clear. This would be a unilateral those conditions if the United States It was notable that Iranian President action on behalf of the United States unilaterally withdraws from the Ruhani implicitly recognized the valid- that would put us in violation of an JCPOA. ity of the protests earlier this week international agreement, not just with Contrary to President Trump’s belief, when he reportedly said: Iran but with the United Kingdom, threatening to walk away from the

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10JA6.026 S10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S127 deal actually weakens our ability to less there’s a material breach, would would empower Iranian hardliners and address the JCPOA’s perceived flaws by have impact on others’ willingness to dramatically undermine the reform- alienating our partners. Instead, we sign agreements.’’ minded protests we should be seeking should remain committed to the Many have criticized the JCPOA as a to empower. Worse still, it would leave JCPOA and lead the international com- ‘‘flawed deal.’’ For example, concerns us more isolated in the international munity in imposing additional sanc- have been raised that certain provi- community and, by extension, less able tions, where necessary, to change other sions sunset after a period of years, to address the range of national secu- Iranian behaviors—namely, their re- thereby delaying rather than perma- rity challenges posed by Iran, North spect for human rights, ballistic mis- nently preventing Iran from achieving Korea, and our other potential adver- sile development efforts, and other ma- a nuclear weapon. If the concern is saries. lign activities. that Iran may seek to resume nuclear We must not abdicate the JCPOA or We must also seek to help enable the weapons development activities after American leadership on these issues. Iranian people to make their choices these sunsets—a concern that I share— Therefore, I urge the President to stay heard, including by encouraging the the appropriate course of action is not the course with respect to the JCPOA, adoption of social media and other to throw out the deal but to work with while also rallying the international means of communication. We could our international partners to ensure community to take effective actions start by building upon general licenses that necessary restrictions on the intended to change other unacceptable issued by the Obama administration JCPOA are appropriately extended or behaviors by the Iranian regime to sup- designed to encourage the export of supplemented. press dissent at home and sow insta- communications technology to Iran. As I noted before, Iran has com- bility abroad. We must not squander Secretary Mattis told the Armed mitted in perpetuity not to develop or this opportunity by making the story Services Committee at his confirma- seek to acquire nuclear weapons. We about the United States rather than tion hearing: ‘‘When America gives her should not take them at their word; we the courageous Iranians who at great word, we have to live up to it and work should verify their adherence to this risk to themselves have taken to the with our allies.’’ commitment, just as we are doing streets to demand a better future. If the President decides this week not under the JCPOA. If at any point in the I yield the floor. to continue nuclear-related sanctions future we have evidence to suggest Iran I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. relief for Iran, he will be effectively is taking steps that would indicate a choosing to restart the Iranian nuclear GARDNER). The clerk will call the roll. violation of that commitment, we The senior assistant legislative clerk program, thereby making military con- should use that information to rally proceeded to call the roll. flict with Iran more likely. the P5+1 and other international part- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I Withdrawing from the deal would ners to take a unified stand against ask unanimous consent that the order also be a devastating blow to our ef- such efforts. Unilaterally withdrawing for the quorum call be rescinded. forts toward diplomacy with North from the JCPOA would seriously dam- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. LEE). Korea—and for that matter, any future age our ability to exert such leadership Without objection, it is so ordered. diplomatic efforts to constrain aggres- in the future. ORDER OF PROCEDURE sive behavior by our adversaries. Why Again, according to General Dunford, Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I would any nation engage with us in se- in the absence of the JCPOA, Iran ask unanimous consent that at 12 noon rious dialogue to resolve differences if would likely resume its nuclear weap- tomorrow, all postcloture time on the they fear we will later withdraw unions program and ‘‘a nuclear-armed Iran Brown nomination be considered ex- laterally, even when the other parties would likely be more aggressive in its pired and the Senate vote on confirma- are complying with the agreement? actions and more dangerous in its con- tion of the Brown nomination with no Regardless of whether you supported sequences.’’ General Dunford also told intervening action or debate; further, the JCPOA before it was signed, the the committee that ‘‘the intel commu- that if cloture is invoked on the Counts truth is that it has removed the great- nity assessment is, in fact, that Iran is nomination, all postcloture time be est threat we faced from Iran while in compliance right now [with the considered expired at 1:45 p.m. tomor- also preserving all other means to ad- JCPOA], and therefore, I think we row and the Senate vote on confirma- dress Iran’s malign activities. Let should focus on addressing the other tion of the Counts nomination with no there be no doubt—Iran continues to be challenges: the missile threat they intervening action or debate; finally, a state sponsor of terrorism and an pose, the maritime threat they pose, that if confirmed, the motions to re- abuser of human rights. Iran continues the support of proxies, terrorists, and consider with respect to the Brown and to destabilize the region through its the cyber threat they pose.’’ I whole- Counts nominations be considered development of ballistic missiles and heartedly agree with General Dunford’s made and laid upon the table and the support of proxies in Iraq, Syria, Leb- assessment. President be immediately notified of anon, Yemen, and elsewhere. If Iran be- Our troops in Iraq and Syria are op- the Senate’s action. haves this way without a nuclear weap- erating in close proximity to Iranian- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without on, imagine how much worse a nuclear- aligned militias, including those who objection, it is so ordered. armed Iran would be. previously targeted American troops. The Senator from Oklahoma. Fortunately, our nonnuclear sanc- Unilaterally withdrawing from the MISSILE DEFENSE tions on Iran remain in place and are JCPOA could embolden these hardline Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, for unaffected by the JCPOA. In fact, Con- militias and possibly result in Iran giv- about 20 years now, I have viewed the gress authorized additional sanctions ing them a green light to begin tar- development and deployment of a lay- in July to help deal with these issues. geting U.S. forces once more. ered ballistic missile defense shield as The administration should work with Furthermore, while I have full con- probably singularly the most vital our international partners and use all fidence in our military’s ability to thing we could be doing around here. tools at its disposal, including by fight and win wars when necessary, we People are aware of that now. Adver- ramping up nonnuclear sanctions, cannot escape the reality that military saries, like North Korea and others, where necessary, to counter Iran’s un- contingencies to respond to both a nu- have ballistic missiles, and they are in- acceptable behavior in these other clear-armed North Korea and Iran creasing their range capability. Iran is areas. would result in massive loss of life and getting almost everything. One of the Abrogating the JCPOA only invites national treasure and greatly stress problems you have is that you get another nuclear crisis like the one we our military’s capacity and capabili- countries like North Korea developing are currently facing with North ties. missile capabilities, and if they have Korea—a concern echoed by General In conclusion, I will return to where it, then other adversaries have it. I am Dunford when he appeared before the I began. Now is not the time to impose talking about Yemen and all the rest of Armed Services Committee and said: a self-inflicted wound upon our foreign them. ‘‘It makes sense to me that our holding policy and standing in the world. Uni- It is important for us to commu- up agreements that we have signed, un- laterally withdrawing from the JCPOA nicate to the American people that the

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10JA6.031 S10JAPT1 S128 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 10, 2018 threat we face is probably the most im- up. It was kind of funny because I re- range if it had a full payload, a load of minent threat we have had in the his- member being there with one of our a nuclear warhead. tory of this country. Today, it is the strongest allies. The system they set We don’t know if they had one or not, greatest threat we have had certainly up was one where they had a radar sys- but that doesn’t give me much com- in my lifetime. tem in the Czech Republic, and they fort. They also questioned whether or I have come to the floor and spoken had a rocket system—a ground-based not it could sustain the reentry back on this issue in 2001, 2009, 2012, and this interceptor—in Poland, right next into the atmosphere. will be the fourth time this year. Over door. I remember when Vaclav Klaus The point is that they now have that the last 30 years, we have witnessed the was the President of the Czech Repub- capability, and that is something we missile defense programs go through lic, one of our strongest supporters, have to keep in mind as we are making dramatic investment periods, followed and he said to me at that time: Now, if decisions, because we have decisions to by extreme starvation and cancella- we go ahead and put our system in the make, and that is what we are doing tions—I am talking about in the Czech Republic and in Poland, can you right now in trying to decide how we United States—depending on who hap- assure me that if we incur the wrath of are going to keep the government from pens to be President at the time. Russia, we are not going to end up shutting down and develop some kind Remember, of course, when Reagan being embarrassed and have the rug of a budget plan that is going to serve came in and people made fun of him pulled out from under us? us well. with ‘‘Star Wars’’ and tried to defame I said: There is not a chance in the TAX REFORM him in any way they could. Yet he was world that would happen. Mr. President, let me mention some- able to be persistent and start a pro- Well, that did happen. In fact, it was thing else that I think is very signifi- gram, and we should be very thankful a total of 44 ground-based interceptors cant because I heard today a lot of peo- we have it today. That was followed in that were fielded. That was in Alaska ple criticizing and not really under- 1989 by President Bush. He continued and California, on the west coast. We standing what happened with the tax that program. went through this where they pulled plan that was passed. We are already However, in 1993, when President the rug out from under Poland, as well getting the results of it. It is kind of Clinton was in office, the first thing he as the Czech Republic. Then, in April, exciting. I don’t recall anything in my did was to cut $2.5 billion out of the came our first Obama defense cuts, career where we got the results as Bush missile defense budget request for which began disarming America and quickly as we got and we are getting fiscal year 1994. He also terminated the dismantling our layered missile de- right now. We heard Minority Leader Reagan-Bush Strategic Defense Initia- fense system. This is critical because SCHUMER call the tax plan ‘‘a punch in tive and downgraded the National Mis- we put this in for the reason that we the gut to the middle class.’’ In an op- sile Defense Program to a research and perceived the threat to be coming in ed piece in the New York Times, Sen- development program. He cut 5-year from the east as opposed to the west ator ELIZABETH WARREN and Senator missile defense funding by 54 percent, coast, and the very system that would BERNIE SANDERS said: ‘‘The Republican from $39 billion to $18 billion. have protected us was taken down by agenda on health care and taxes is . . . I say this because these times are President Obama. widely disliked by the American peo- changing. Continuing with his adminis- I would say, due to his overall re- ple’’ and a ‘‘tax giveaway to the tration in 1996, he cut the funding and duced budget requests in defense, there wealthy.’’ I think it is important that people slowed down the development of were not enough Aegis ships. I already understand that not only is middle- THAAD and the Navy Theater Wide mentioned how we are using those class America going to benefit from Systems. To remind ourselves of how today in defense of many of our allies, this, but they already have. One mil- important that was at that time and including Japan. Since Kim Jong Un lion Americans are counting on receiv- the cuts he made to that and how crit- took power in 2009, he has already con- ing raises and bonuses from this tax re- ical that was, THAAD right now is the ducted more than 80 ballistic missile form. In my State of Oklahoma, thou- only thing we have to join forces with tests. That is far more than his father sands of employees will be receiving South Korea to be able to knock down and his grandfather conducted. and have already received large com- something coming from North Korea to North Korea has conducted six nu- pensation increases, bonuses—Express South Korea. The Aegis system is a de- clear tests of increasingly powerful Employment Professionals in Okla- fensive system that we could share weapons. The latest test was in Sep- homa City, American Airlines, South- with Japan. Without these systems, tember of last year. The major test ac- west Airlines, and AT&T. In fact, Sen- they would be wide open. That was tually came after that, and that was on ator ROY BLUNT was coming back on a 1996. November 28. On November 28, he dem- plane, the same one I was on, and the In 1999, the last of the Clinton years, onstrated that he had the range of the he delayed by at least 2 years the flight attendant was talking about how United States and the central part of she had already received a $1,000 bonus. Space Based Infrared System, which is our country. In other words, it was a very complicated system that knocks Then, the rest of them chimed in and stated by others who observed that he said: We have too. down incoming missiles. Then, in 2000, now has the capability of reaching any That is already happening. Right now Bush came in. By the end of 2008, Presi- target in mainland United States. we have a list of 123 major corporations dent Bush had succeeded in fielding a There were some scientists who did that have already given an average of missile defense system capable of dean analysis of what they did on Novem- $1,000 for every employee they have, fending all 50 States. One of the things ber 28. They made it very clear. David predicated on the assumption that the he did that was most significant—and Wright, an analyst for the Union of tax plan is going to increase the econ- this is in the final years of his adminis- Concerned Scientists, wrote that—this omy, and that is exactly what is going tration—was to recognize the fact that is something that happened on Novem- to happen. we have had ground-based interceptors ber 29—that yesterday’s test indicates I am confident that this is actually in our country for a number of years. that North Korea can now hold the happening today. I have to say this, In fact, there are 44 ground-based inter- United States well within missile though, because more people still try ceptor systems. Unfortunately, they range. He said: ‘‘Such a missile would to say: Well, we can’t give tax reduc- are all on the west coast because that have been more than enough range to tions to people and still increase rev- is where we thought the threat would reach Washington, DC, and in fact any enue to do all of these things we need be. We discovered at that time, during other part of the continental United to do with our national defense and the Bush administration, that the States.’’ with our infrastructure programs. threat was from both sides because we Here is the scary part of this. Those That is not true. recognized that Iran was developing who are not wanting to believe that I am going to repeat one that I have the capabilities, as well as North Korea the threat is real and the threat is done before on this, but people seem to and others. So in order to protect East- there are saying: Well, we don’t know not understand. It is easy to say: Well, ern United States as well as Central that the missile he demonstrated on if you reduce taxes, you are going to Europe, we had the system that was set November 28 could have reached that reduce revenue.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10JA6.037 S10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S129 That is not the way it works. I re- 55. Gardner Company economic studies found that workers ‘‘bear a member very well what happened. I 56. Gate City Bank substantial burden’’ of the corporate income was not in this position, of course, but 57. GetFoundFirst.com tax. The Congressional Budget Office con- 58. Great Southern Bancorp cluded in 2006 that workers pay more than 70 in 1991, when Ronald Reagan was Presi- 59. HarborOne Bank percent of the cost of corporate taxes. dent, at that time he had the most far- 60. Hartford Financial Services Opponents of tax relief countered that a reaching reduction in taxes. Remem- 61. Hawaii National Bank corporate rate cut would help only the ber, the top rate was reduced from 70 62. IAT Insurance Group wealthy—a claim being knocked down more percent to 30 percent, and the other 63. INB Bank each day. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer brackets came down proportionately. 64. InUnison Inc. said that ‘‘history shows tax cuts like these Yet at the time he did that, in 1981, the 65. JetBlue benefit the wealthy and the powerful to the exclusion of the middle class.’’ As a wave of total amount of revenue coming into 66. Jordan Winery 67. Kansas City Southern companies across the country began an- the United States was $469 billion. As a 68. Kauai Cattle nouncing bonuses and giving raises to work- result of that, it increased revenue to 69. Melaleuca ers, it became clear that tax relief is putting $750 billion. That is huge, and it shows 70. Mid-AM Metal Forming more money in the pockets of the hard-work- that it really happens. The reason it 71. Move It Or Lose It Moving ing Americans who Republicans said would happens is that for each 1-percent in- 72. National Bank Holdings Corp. win because of the law. crease in the economy, it produces in- 73. Nationwide Insurance The same day the House and Senate passed the bill, December 20, AT&T Inc. issued a creased revenue of some $3 trillion. 74. National Guardian 75. Navient press release saying: ‘‘Once tax reform is That is what happened then, and that 76. Nelnet signed into law, AT&T plans to invest an ad- is what is going to happen now. People 77. Nephron Pharmaceuticals ditional $1 billion in the United States in are rejoicing today. 78. Northpoint Apartments 2018 and pay a special $1,000 bonus to more I ask unanimous consent that a sheet 79. OceanFirst Financial than 200,000 AT&T U.S. employees—all that outlines all of these companies 80. Ohnward Bancshares union-represented, non-management and that are giving large bonuses as a re- 81. Old Dominion Freight Line front-line managers. If the President signs the bill before Christmas, employees will result of the tax bill be printed in the 82. Pinnacle Bank 83. Pioneer Credit Recovery ceive the bonus over the holidays.’’ RECORD. 84. PNC Financial Services So far, at least 123 companies have an- There being no objection, the mate- 85. Regions Financial nounced they are giving employees bonuses rial was ordered to be printed in the 86. Renasant Bank or otherwise increasing compensation due to RECORD, as follows: 87. Resident Construction the tax cut legislation. Notable examples in- 88. Riverbend Communications clude: COMPANIES INCREASING COMPENSATION, SO FAR American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, 89. Riverbend Management, Inc. 1. AAON and JetBlue announced $1,000 bonuses for 90. Riverbend Ranch 2. AT&T their employees (a total of more than 200,000 3. AccuWeather 91. Riverbend Services people). American’s bonuses will exclude of- 4. Advance Financial 92. Rush Enterprises ficers; Southwest’s and JetBlue’s include all 5. Aflac 93. Sheffer Corporation employees. American said it would pay bo- 6. Alaska Air Group 94. Sinclair Broadcast Group nuses ‘‘in light of this new tax structure.’’ 7. American Airlines 95. Smith Chevrolet JetBlue said that ‘‘our Crewmembers should 8. American Bank 96. Smith Honda be the first to benefit.’’ Southwest said it 9. American Savings Bank 97. Smith RV would put the savings from tax relief ‘‘to 10. Americollect 98. South Point Casino work . . . to reward our hard-working Em- 11. Aquesta Financial Holdings 99. Southwest Airlines ployees.’’ 12. Associated Bank 100. Steel Design AT&T announced $1,000 bonuses to its 13. Atlas Air Worldwide 101. Stifel Financial Corp. 200,000 employees. It also said that it will in- 14. Ball Ventures 102. Summit State Bank crease capital expenditures by $1 billion in 15. Bancorp South 103. SunTrust Banks, Inc. 2018. 16. Bank of America 104. TCF Financial Corp. Comcast announced a $1,000 bonus for more 17. Bank of Colorado 105. The Flood Insurance Agency than 100,000 employees. In addition, it plans 18. Bank of Hawaii 106. The Travelers Companies to invest $50 billion in its infrastructure in 19. Bank of the James 107. Territorial Savings Bank the next five years. Comcast said the bo- 20. Bank of the Ozarks 108. Texas Capital Bank nuses are ‘‘[b]ased on the passage of tax re- 21. Berkshire Hills Bancorp 109. Tokio Marine HCC form and the FCC’s action on broadband.’’ 22. BB&T 110. Total System Services Nationwide Insurance announced a $1,000 23. Carl Black Automotive Group 111. Turning Point Brands bonus for 29,000 employees and increased 24. Central Bancompany, Inc. 112. Unity Bank 401(k) matching. The company told its em- 25. Central Pacific Bank 113. U.S. Bancorp ployees: ‘‘The combination of the new tax 26. Charlie Bravo Aviation 114. Visa legislation, including a reduced corporate 27. Charlotte Pipe and Foundry 115. Washington Federal tax rate, and our associates’ ongoing com- 28. Citizens Financial Group 116. Webster Financial mitment to our members, community and 29. Colling Pest Solutions 117. Wells Fargo On Your Side promise are the reasons we’re 30. Comcast 118. Western Alliance Bancorp making this investment that further en- 31. Comerica Bank 119. Western & Southern Financial hances the already robust benefits we offer 32. Commerce Bank 120. Willow Creek Woodworks to attract and retain the best talent.’’ 33. Community Trust Bancorp 121. Windsor Federal Savings PNC Financial Services announced $1,000 34. Copperleaf Assisted Living 122. Yancey Bros. bonuses for 47,500 employees as well as $1,500 35. Cornerstone Holdings 123. Zions Bancorp to be added to existing pension accounts. 36. Dayton T. Brown Inc. TAX RELIEF PAYS AMERICAN WORKERS The company also will raise its base pay rate 37. Delaware Supermarkets Inc. to $15 per hour. PNC’s CEO said: ‘‘The tax re- Almost immediately after Congress passed 38. DePatco, Inc. form law creates an opportunity to reward the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, American work- 39. Dime Community Bancshares our employees who are working hard each ers at dozens of firms began to see the effects 40. Eagle Ridge Ranch day to serve our customers, build strong re- in the form of bonuses and raises. For sup- 41. EastIdahoNews.com lationships in our communities and create porters of tax relief this was good news, 42. Elite Roofing Systems (Idaho) long-term value for our shareholders.’’ 43. Elite Clinical Trials, Inc. though not altogether a surprise. During de- U.S. Bank announced a $1,000 bonus for 44. Emkay, Inc. bate over the law, economists cited research nearly 60,000 employees and enhanced health 45. Ennis, Inc. that workers bear most of the burden of the care offerings in the 2019 enrollment period. 46. Express Employment Prof. corporate income tax via reduced wages. The It will also raise base pay rate to $15 per 47. Fifth Third Bancorp remainder is borne by consumers and inves- hour. The bank said that these decisions 48. FirstCapital Bank of Texas tors. A significant cut in the corporate rate were ‘‘a result of the tax reform package.’’ 49. First Farmers Bank & Trust would provide real benefits to workers. 50. First Financial Northwest, Inc. One study by scholars at the American En- Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, I yield 51. First Hawaiian Bank terprise Institute concluded that a 1 percent the floor. 52. First Horizon National Corp. increase in the corporate tax rate is associ- I suggest the absence of a quorum. 53. Flemington Car & Truck ated with a 0.5 percent decrease in real The PRESIDING OFFICER. The 54. Fort Ranch wages. A 2007 Treasury Department survey of clerk will call the roll.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10JA6.038 S10JAPT1 S130 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 10, 2018 The legislative clerk proceeded to tion about the diversity visa lottery, story, then they can no longer demon- call the roll. the President lost track of what is ize you. Ms. HIRONO. Mr. President, I ask really at stake here—the inspiring I couldn’t agree more. unanimous consent that the order for young people whose lives he has left Fighting to protect Dreamers is the quorum call be rescinded. hanging in the balance. about much more than the law. It is The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Before the holidays, it was heart- about compassion and basic human de- objection, it is so ordered. ening to see so many Dreamers from cency. Late last night, Dreamers won a DACA all across the country taking direct ac- temporary reprieve when a district Ms. HIRONO. Mr. President, every tion in the halls of Congress to fight court judge in San Francisco issued a Member of this body is only a few gen- for their futures. I spoke with a num- preliminary injunction to reinstate the erations removed from the immigrant ber of these young people, like Victor DACA Program for existing enrollees. experience. At some point in the recent from Houston, who traveled for days to The judge said that ending DACA in past, each of our ancestors made the make his voice heard in Congress. the way the administration ended it courageous decision to leave his home Victor’s parents were seasonal farm- was arbitrary and capricious. This was in search of a better life in America. workers who traveled to the straw- an important victory, for now. It is Each of them took a risk. They didn’t berry fields of Florida every year. They just a temporary injunction, a tem- know what awaited them in this coun- settled down in Houston and saved porary reprieve. So I agree with my try, but they believed that through money for a car and an apartment. Democratic leader that we cannot their own hard work and determina- They sent for Victor and his sister allow this decision to make us think tion, they could succeed. when he was only 4 years old. that we are out of the woods, not at all. My mother took a huge risk when Victor spent most of his childhood It cannot dim our resolve to pass the she brought my brothers and me to this not even knowing his immigration sta- Dream Act. The fight continues. country. Leaving her entire family be- tus. It wasn’t until he came home one I yield the floor. hind, she packed our belongings into day with a permission slip to join his I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The one suitcase, and we set sail for Ha- middle school class on a trip to Spain clerk will call the roll. that his mom told him that he was un- waii. We grew up poor, but Mom The legislative clerk proceeded to documented. Learning what it meant worked so hard every day to build a life call the roll. for us in this country. She worked min- to be undocumented—that if he trav- Mr. KAINE. Mr. President, I ask imum-wage jobs with no health insur- eled to Spain he couldn’t come home— unanimous consent that the order for ance. We moved apartments and was really hard for Victor, but he tried the quorum call be rescinded. schools every few years. Eventually, we to put it from his mind. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without were able to bring my grandparents to As the years passed, it got harder for objection, it is so ordered. Hawaii from Japan. So I understand as Victor to grapple with his status. He Mr. KAINE. Thank you, Mr. Presi- an immigrant how important family loved going to school, but he knew as dent. unification is to immigrant families. an undocumented immigrant that his I rise as many of my colleagues have I share my story not because I think options after he graduated from high this afternoon, and I have risen on the it is particularly extraordinary but be- school were limited. He developed de- same topic often to talk about our cause it is a story that millions of fam- pression, and his grades suffered. But a Dreamers. ilies in our country share. The same few months after graduation, President Usually, when I have risen in the hopes that drove my mom to risk ev- Obama created the DACA Program, past, I have told stories about Virginia erything to bring us to America are re- and Victor successfully applied for it. Dreamers. We have about 13,000 Dream- flected in the stories of millions of im- Victor told me that even though he ers in Virginia. I have highlighted sto- migrant families across the country, had DACA, he was still too afraid to ries of Dreamers from Latin America, and they are reflected in the lives of talk about his status with anyone. Dur- Africa, Sweden, and Asia. One of the Dreamers, whose futures are now at ing the 2016 election, this changed. He students I talked about, Gloria risk because of the President’s decision confronted his friends who voted for Oduyoye, just graduated from William to end the DACA Program. Donald Trump and shared what losing & Mary Law School within the last More than 15,000 young people have DACA would mean for him. month and thus became the first already lost their protection from de- On September 5, Victor knew there Dreamer to be a law school graduate in portation as a result of the President’s would be an announcement about his Virginia and one of the few Dreamers decision, and 122 more will lose DACA future. He put his phone away and who attained a law degree in the protection every single day. It was started cleaning his house to distract United States. I talked about her with this sense of urgency in mind that him from what was about to happen. story. I joined a bipartisan group of my col- Eventually he ran out of distractions Today I decided not to talk about leagues at the White House yesterday and sat down to watch Attorney Gen- stories of individuals again but to try to find a path forward to protect the eral Jeff Sessions’ DACA announce- to put it in context, with the message Dreamers. The President took great ment. Victor began to cry. In the days really being that the time is now to pains to appear reasonable and eager to that followed, Victor started having make a decision. We don’t need more make a deal, but we left yesterday’s panic attacks—sometimes as many as information. We just need the will to meeting without much clarity about five to seven per day. He was afraid to act and do what I think is the right and where he stood. get in the car because he didn’t want to the fair thing to do because we have Only a few days ago, the President hurt anyone if he got a panic attack been at this discussion now—it is hard threatened to hold Dreamers hostage while driving. A few weeks later, Vic- to believe we have been at this discus- until he got $18 billion to build the tor showed up for his first United We sion for 16 years. wall. I would call that his vanity Dream event in Houston. There he met The American public—Democrats, project. In response to my question at fellow Dreamers and allies committed Republicans, and Independents—over- yesterday’s meeting, the President ap- to fighting for him. He told me that it whelmingly support a permanent solu- peared to demonstrate some flexibility was amazing to see so many people tion for Dreamers. It is not that we on this issue, but after the Freedom show up in support and solidarity. need to know anything more to solve Caucus spent yesterday afternoon Victor made himself a promise that this. We have been talking about it for warning of a potential betrayal on so- once the Dream Act passes, he is going a very long time. called ‘‘amnesty,’’ the President re- to go back to school to study psy- I want to encourage Members of this affirmed in a tweet his hard-line posi- chology so that he can help LGBT body and in the House who are involved tion that funding for the wall must be youth like him. Before he left, Victor in the negotiation to come to an agree- part of any deal on Dreamers. said something really insightful. He ment and provide permanent protec- Between insisting on building an un- said that it is really important for peo- tion for the Dreamers before next Fri- necessary wall, demonizing family re- ple to come out of the shadows to tell day so that we can protect this com- unification, and peddling misinforma- their stories because once you tell your munity, which is frightened because

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10JA6.040 S10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S131 they are so worried about being de- tisan working group, coming through fear of deportation. I don’t live under ported or losing their ability to work, committee, coming to the floor with the fear of my job being taken away be- to go to school, losing the ability to amendments. It passed this body with cause of my status. I don’t live under protect their families. But it is more 68 votes in favor. the fear of my kids not being able to than just protecting people because It was evidence of the naivete of a get instate tuition and instead having they are frightened; it is protecting young Senator at the time that I as- to pay out-of-state or not being able to them because, as I have seen in Vir- sumed, of course, something was going afford it at all. It is not a fear I walk ginia and in every State, they so enrich to happen because it passed here with around with every day. It is hard to put this country. 68 votes. I knew the House wouldn’t do yourself in somebody else’s shoes and The first version of the DREAM Act, exactly what we did, but I thought experience the fear and even terror it is hard to believe, was introduced in they would do something, and we they are feeling when you yourself 2001. The Senator from Illinois, Mr. would be conferencing it. But alas, I don’t have that same exposure. DURBIN, who has been a champion of was naive; that was not to happen. I have spent a lot of time listening to this and has my deepest admiration for We are now in a different place, and these young people and their parents in his persistence in this endeavor, intro- we have the ability to act. Northern Virginia and Richmond, espe- duced the first version of the DREAM I supported President Obama’s ac- cially, where I live, and the fear they Act together with the senior Senator tions in June of 2012 to protect Dream- feel is very palpable, and the panic from Utah, Mr. HATCH. ers—the DACA Program; and then they feel is very palpable, and I under- The bill has evolved since then. It later, the DAPA Program. I felt that stand why. I think part of our job wasn’t exactly the same as we are con- those actions were completely in ac- should not be to increase anxiety and templating now, but it was the first cord with earlier Executive actions fear; part of our job should be—when version of the bill. It sought to repeal Presidents had taken in the area of im- we can, when it is the right thing to do, a provision of the 1996 immigration re- migration. when it is within our grasp—to take form that prohibited undocumented Since June of 2012, 800,000 young peo- action and provide clarity and cer- immigrants from eligibility for higher ple have achieved Dreamer status. tainty so people will know what their education. Instead, what the bill, in its Some of them aren’t so young any- status is. I think the time for that is original version, did 17 years ago was more. I sometimes refer to them as stu- now after 16 years. to grant permanent resident status to dents and kids, but they are in the Maybe the most important thing I young, undocumented immigrants with military, they are parents, they are am saying is that this is not a new a high school degree or equivalent GED teachers, and they are active in their issue. It is not that we need another who fulfilled certain residence require- communities. As I said, there are 13,000 week or another month or another year ments and did not have criminal in my State. DACA has allowed them to figure out the answer. The first bill records. That was the start of this dis- to continue their education, to work was introduced in 2001, and I think Jan- cussion. We are still looking for the legally, and to remain in the only uary 19, 2018, is ample time for us to permanent answer. country they have ever known. now get this right and make it either The DREAM Act first almost passed I will say I was disappointed when part of the spending bills that we will in 2007. It attained more than a major- President Trump in September an- do at year-end or part of a stand-alone ity vote in the Senate, but it didn’t get nounced that he would terminate the bill that we could embrace as a body. to the 60-vote threshold, so that was in- program in 6 months—in March. I felt I was heartened by some of the com- sufficient for passage. In 2010, the like it was the breaking of a promise to ments by the President, as reported House passed the DREAM Act, but the these young people because he had yesterday, during the meeting with bi- Senate again failed to approve it with said, even as a candidate and then as partisan leadership at the White House a 60-vote threshold. President, that Dreamers were good about this. We can do it, and the time In 2013, just a few months after I kids and that they wouldn’t have any- is right to do it now. So I would ask my colleagues and especially urge all those came to the Senate, we contemplated, thing to worry about from him. debated, discussed, voted upon com- I will say there was one aspect of in the negotiations to make this deci- prehensive immigration reform in what the President said—I can’t just be sion and provide these wonderful young June. I was kind of proud then. I was a critical without pointing out that people with certainty about their fu- young Senator, had been here a couple there was one thing about what he said ture. Mr. President, I yield the floor. of months and stood in my chair and that I thought was right. He said: And The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- offered a speech on the floor of the Sen- Congress should fix it. I agreed with ator from Minnesota. ate in Spanish to describe what was in President Trump on that. I wish he Ms. KLOBUCHAR. Mr. President, I the bill for the 45 million Americans hadn’t terminated the program, but he join my colleague from Virginia, as who get their news every day in the was right that this is something for well as Senator DURBIN, who has been Spanish language. After I was finished Congress to fix because anything done working so hard to get this done, to describing it, people came up to me and by Executive action, even fully within stand up for the Dreamers. I give my said: Has anybody ever done that be- the power of a President to take it, is strong support once again for taking fore? And I said: Frankly, I don’t know. subject to being changed by another action on the Dream Act. We need to It turned out that it was the first Executive. The lives and futures of take up this bill. time in the history of the body that a these young people are such that we As Senator KAINE just noted, I was speech had been given in a language shouldn’t be scaring them about also heartened, after the meeting at other than English. But what was im- whether they are protected or maybe the White House, by the fact that this portant about that moment in June of back to being protected depending President understands—he said he un- 2013 was not the speech; it was the upon who was the occupant of the derstands that we can’t wait until vote. The package was comprehensive. White House. March to get this done, that we need to It included not just the DREAM Act That Presidential announcement in get this done soon. For me, the easiest but border security, assistance for em- March, although I was disappointed, on way to do this is by passing the Dream ployers to determine the immigration that core piece of it, that Congress Act. bona fides of those applying for work. should fix it, I think President Trump The Federal court decision in Cali- These are reforms—an approval for was right and I think he is right. I fornia yesterday will provide some people here on temporary protected think this is something that Congress temporary relief, as every single day status from El Salvador, Honduras, must fix, should fix, can fix, and we more and more kids fall out of status. Nicaragua, Somalia, Sudan, and Haiti have all the information about it to fix That sounds like a legal term, but for to become permanent residents and it right now. them, it changes their whole life. These then convert that into a path to citi- It has been difficult and a little bit are kids who literally believed our gov- zenship. That comprehensive immigra- heartbreaking to talk to these young ernment. They were told: You register. tion reform bill, in my view, represents people and their families about the You sign up. We are going to allow you the Senate working at its best: a bipar- fears they have. I don’t live under the to stay.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10JA6.042 S10JAPT1 S132 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 10, 2018 And then, in one little moment and time is ticking by. Time is ticking. On my mom’s side, the Swiss side, with a signature, that all changed. The American public is with us. This is my grandpa came over and ended up at Their lives changed. So it is now our not one of these issues where the public Ellis Island when he was 18 years old, obligation in the Senate to get this says: What are they doing? This makes and they had reached the cap on Swiss done. no sense. No. A recent poll found that immigrants. That might sound amus- We have already seen the harmful ef- 86 percent of Americans support action ing, but that was the case. He then fects of the administration’s decision to allow the Dreamers to stay here in somehow got himself to Canada—I to end the Deferred Action for Child- the United States. So I am very hope- think he said he was going to live hood Arrivals Program, and the situa- ful that we can come together on a bi- there—came back through—because he tion will continue to get worse until we partisan agreement. wanted to be in our country—came take action. This is not just a small The Dream Act was based on one back through, ended up in Wisconsin, thing. I have met these kids. Ninety- simple principle, and that is that you like all good Swiss, with my other rel- seven percent of them either work or should have the opportunity—this set atives on my grandma’s side, worked at are in school. The average age they of people, 800,000 people who came over a cheese factory, and was an alien for were when they were brought to this here through no fault of their own, 20 years. He finally applied for citizen- country is 61⁄2 years old. should have that opportunity to call ship when World War II was breaking A few months back, I stood in front this country home, as they have been out, and that is when they found out of a Catholic church with our arch- doing for so many years. that, in fact, he maybe had come into bishop of the Twin Cities, Archbishop Passing the Dream Act isn’t just the the country two different ways. But Hebda, and a number of his parish- morally right thing to do, it is the eco- back then, they listened to his story, ioners and a number of the priests from nomically right thing to do. One recent and they gave him citizenship. Other- that church to talk about what this study estimated that ending deferred wise, he would have been deported—I meant in people’s lives—kids brought action for childhood arrivals would think it was 3 weeks before the U.S. over through no fault of their own. cost the country over $400 billion over joined World War II—as a Swiss Ger- My favorite example of a Dreamer, the next 10 years. It would cost my man. Instead, he married my grandma Senator KAINE and Mr. President, is State more than $376 million in annual back then, they had my mom and my Joseph Medina. He was brought over— revenue. We are proud to be the home mom’s brother, and here I am. and he didn’t know this at the time—as of more than 6,000 Dreamers. I am on the shoulders of those immi- a baby. His parents had died, and he Since it was established in 2012, it grants. So when I see these Dreamers, was brought over to Sleepy Eye, MN, has helped, as I have noted, nearly I see my own family, and I hope everywhere he was raised. This was a long 800,000 young people who have lived in one in this Chamber sees the same time ago. When he got to be the right the United States since childhood to thing—the American dream. That is age, he decided that he wanted to serve have better lives. Think about that— why, Mr. President, I stand with the our country, and he signed up to serve 800,000 people. As I mentioned, 97 per- Senator from Virginia, Mr. KAINE, with in World War II. cent of them are in school or in the Senator DURBIN, and so many of my Well, back then, he went to the mili- workforce, and 72 percent of them are colleagues who have been working on tary, to the Army, and said: I want to currently in school pursuing a bach- this for so long on both sides of the sign up. elor’s degree or higher. More than 100 aisle. There has been leadership on They said: Well, it turns out—I don’t students applied to medical school last both sides of the aisle. So let’s get this know what term they used back then, year. Nearly 100 of them are currently done, let’s pass the Dream Act, and but he was undocumented. And when I enrolled in medical school at a time let’s never forget that we all come first met him at the young age of 99, as when we need more doctors, particu- from somewhere. he explained to me, back then, all you larly in rural areas. Those are the Thank you. did was you went to Canada for a day, facts. I yield the floor. with our country’s OK, and slept in a I note that at the meeting at the hotel for a night, which is what he did, White House, the President actually The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. and then came back. Then he was made said that when this got done, he want- TILLIS). The Senator from Connecticut. legal, and the Army signed him up, and ed to pursue comprehensive immigra- Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, a he ended up going over and serving in tion reform. It is something that we number of us are here today with a the Pacific. He came back to this coun- have done before on a bipartisan basis very simple, straightforward demand. try, met his wife, got married, had a in the Senate, and I believe that is We must act now to pass a Dream Act. son, and that son served in the Viet- where we need to turn now. Very simply, the honor and integrity of nam war. We talk about the economic sense of this Chamber are at stake. A few years ago, when he was 99, I the Dreamers. Look at our country The young people who would be cov- got to bring him to Washington, and overall. Seventy of our Fortune 500 ered under the Dream Act are Ameri- we stood in front of the World War II companies are headed by immigrants. cans in all but name. They came here Memorial. There he stood. He had Twenty-five percent of our U.S. Nobel as children. They grew up as Ameri- never seen it before, and he would Laureates were born in other coun- cans. They go to our schools, serve in never go again. He just died at the age tries. Immigrants have been an eco- our military, and support our economy. of 103. He stood there with two Dream- nomic engine for this country. They work hard and they give back and ers, suburban high school kids from Everyone in this Chamber came from they believe in the American dream. Minnesota who wanted to join the Air somewhere. Their relatives came from Deporting Dreamers would be cruel and Force, but they couldn’t do it. They somewhere. My grandparents on my irrational, inhumane, and, very simply, didn’t have that right status. They mom’s side came from Switzerland, and repugnant to basic American values. were Dreamers too. They had been on my dad’s side my great-grand- Just think of Jonathan Gonzalez- brought over as young kids. parents came from Slovenia. They Cruz. He is a college student at South- To me, that just brought it all home. worked in the mines. They worked so ern Connecticut State University. I This is a war hero, someone who served hard just to send my dad to college. had the privilege of meeting him in De- our country, and this is the kind of They saved money in a coffee can in a cember. His story has stuck with me. person we are talking about when we basement. I am here today with great- His story haunts me when I think of talk about the Dreamers. His last act grandparents who came straight from the moral imperative of this Nation to of patriotism in the last few years of Slovenia, a grandfather who worked in pass the Dream Act. his life was to continue to push so that a mine, a dad who grew up there and Jonathan was born in Mexico. He other kids could serve their country was the first one in the family to go to came to this country when he was just just as he had and just as his son had. college and get a 2-year degree and 4 years old. The United States is home While we have not reached an agree- then a 4-year degree, and I literally for him. It is the only country he has ment yet on this bill, the reports on stand here on the shoulders of these ever known. He received a full scholar- the bipartisan meeting are hopeful. But immigrants. ship to attend Southern Connecticut

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10JA6.044 S10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S133 State University, and he is set to grad- reverse his cruel, unconscionable pol- Medicare and Social Security taxes uate this spring with an honors degree icy. alone. In my home State of Con- in economics and math. A Federal judge has struck down necticut, we stand to lose $300 million His dream is to attend law school, President Trump’s order as unconstitu- in economic benefits a year. but due to the uncertainty surrounding tional, but a Dream Act is no less nec- Now is the time to abandon the myth DACA, he has decided to delay apply- essary today than it was yesterday. that the Dreamers work on the side- ing, knowing he will be unable to re- Congress should waste no time in swift- lines of American society. They are ceive scholarships without his DACA ly passing clean legislation—a clean part of the fabric of this Nation. Their status. He could attend, but he can’t Dream Act to protect these young peo- lives are woven into the great tapestry pay for it with scholarships unless he ple. of America. They drive our economy. has that DACA status. When DACA was adopted in 2012, it They give back to our communities. Jonathan first became compelled to changed the lives of young people like The administration has thrown a speak up and tell his story after his fa- Jonathan. It opened new vistas. It pro- ticking time bomb into their lives, but ther was deported, and they were un- vided Dreamers with the opportunity it is also a ticking time bomb in this able to even say goodbye. Despite his to get driver’s licenses, to attend col- Chamber. We have the power to defuse own struggles, Jonathan is a pas- lege, to become productive members of it. In doing so, we can give hope to sionate advocate for his community, our economy. hundreds of thousands of members of and he actively works for Connecticut Importantly, when DACA was adopt- our society and reaffirm the greatness Students for a Dream. That organiza- ed, we made that promise to these of our country. At stake is nothing less tion, Connecticut Students for a young people. We promised that if they than the character of our country, and Dream, is a group of students who help came forward and provided the United that is why there is such bipartisan empower and advocate on behalf of States of America with information, support for the Dream Act, as evi- other undocumented students. In fact, some of the most personal information denced yesterday in the Cabinet Room today, Jonathan is in DC to help ensure any of us have—information about when the President met with Members that the voices of students are, in fact, their addresses, employment, dates of of the Congress on both sides of the heard. Jonathan is a volunteer peer birth, their families—we would not use aisle. mentor through that organization be- that information against them. They In the Dreamers, we see ourselves. cause he is so passionate about raising had a place here under DACA. They We see relatives who came to this graduation rates and ensuring that all had rights—moral, if not legal. That country years ago, many of them as students like himself have the support promise is now about to be broken. teenagers. My father fled Germany at they need to succeed. Great countries keep those promises. 17 years old with nothing more than During his senior year, Jonathan has The United States is the greatest coun- the shirt on his back, speaking no been interning at an immigration law try in the history of the world. It English, knowing virtually no one firm, and he is glad to be helping oth- should not be breaking promises to in- here. Like him, they believe in Amer- ers gain legal status in this country. nocent young men and women who ica’s promise, America’s dream, and we The irony is not lost on him—and know only this country, who believe in should believe in the Dreamers. should not be lost on us—that he, him- the American dream, who believe in Thank you, Mr. President. self, could face deportation this year. If America’s promises, who believed those I yield the floor. Jonathan is not permitted to stay—if promises when they offered that infor- I suggest the absence of a quorum. Congress does not act and he loses his mation and now are relying on the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The DACA protection—Connecticut and good faith of America. The rescission clerk will call the roll. this Nation will be the losers. Con- of DACA threatens to tear apart fami- The bill clerk proceeded to call the necticut and this Nation will lose an lies, destroy lives, create disarray, and roll. educated and compassionate public derail futures. We are a country that is Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I ask service-minded individual who gives better than this rescission. We are a unanimous consent that the order for back to his community, to his fellow country that keeps promises, and Con- the quorum call be rescinded. students, and to our State. He is just gress must now act to protect these The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without one example of the estimated 10,000 young people. objection, it is so ordered. like him in Connecticut—and at least DACA protections are set to expire in Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I come 700,000 around the country—who could 2 months. Already, tens of thousands of to the floor today to speak about the lose their status in March if Congress DACA recipients are estimated to have Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals fails to act now. lost their protection from removal. The Program, known as DACA. That was an Very simply, we have an obligation longer Congress takes to act, the Executive order of President Obama’s to do our job and provide permanent longer these young people, who were which provided temporary legal status status and a path to citizenship for the promised the American dream, con- to immigrant students and young peo- Dreamers. The hopeful news is, there is tinue with anguish, with targets on ple if they registered with the govern- broad bipartisan support for affording their backs. ment, paid a fee, and passed a criminal the Dreamers protection against mass, Continued waiting means instability and national security background draconian deportation. Our challenge is to the job market because companies check. It was for 2 years and renew- to make sure that what we do here re- are forced to hire replacements for able. flects that broad bipartisan support in DACA recipients and train new work- Young people who are protected by this Chamber and around the country ers in anticipation of the March dead- DACA are known by some as Dreamers. because America knows it has made a line. It could mean a massive ejection They came to the United States as promise. It made a promise to those of qualified, hard-working people vital children. They grew up singing the Dreamers, and great countries do not to our economy. ‘‘Star Spangled Banner’’ and pledging break promises. This kind of massive deportation by allegiance to our flag. They believed Last night, a Federal district court plane, by boat, by car, by foot would be that they were Americans, but legally, issued a preliminary injunction order- unprecedented. We have never seen they are not. The average DACA recipi- ing DHS—the Department of Homeland anything like it before. As I have said ent came to the United States at the Security—to resume accepting renewal repeatedly, this kind of mass, draco- age of 6 and has been here for approxi- applications. Once again, the courts nian deportation would be a humani- mately 20 years. have served as a bulwark for basic tarian nightmare, a betrayal of Amer- It was 7 years ago that I sent a letter rights under rule of law, but this re- ica. to President Obama. I was joined in prieve is no final remedy. We must re- If Congress fails to pass the Dream that letter, incidentally, by Senator double our determination to protect Act, we will lose nearly $500 billion Dick Lugar, a Republican from Indi- these young people from draconian, over the next 10 years. Let me repeat. ana. In that letter, I asked President mass deportation—a continuing threat We will lose $500 billion over the next Obama: Can you find a way to protect as long as President Trump refuses to 10 years. We will lose $25 billion in these young people?

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10JA6.045 S10JAPT1 S134 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 10, 2018 We passed the Dream Act on the floor ship. In July of last year, I introduced achieving young people in DACA contribute of the House. We passed it on the floor the most recent version with my col- in many ways to our nation. Many are study- of the Senate. We have never managed league, Senator LINDSEY GRAHAM of ing to become scientists, engineers, medical to pass it in both Chambers in the South Carolina. We need to pass the doctors and entrepreneurs. Given the administration’s decision, we urge Congress to same year. And the President created Dream Act, and we need to do it now, craft legislation that provides long-term pro- the DACA Program. before January 19. tection for these young people who seek to The DACA Program has been a suc- Over the years, I have come to the continue their education and contribute to cess. Approximately 800,000 Dreamers floor to tell the story of the Dreamers. society. . . . Our nation needs an immigra- have come forward and received DACA I can give a pretty nice speech here, tion policy that advances U.S. innovation protection. Let’s allow them to be part but these stories tell the story of this and prosperity, and stays true to of America as teachers, as nurses, as issue more than anything I can add to foundational American goals that seek con- engineers, as first responders, and even them. These stories show what is at tributions to society from all. serving in the U.S. military. stake when we consider the fate of The Presiding Officer and I had a But on September 5 of this last year, DACA and the Dream Act. unique invitation yesterday. I would 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions Today, I want to tell you about this just say that as a Member of the House announced that the Trump administra- young lady. Her name is Evelyn and of the Senate, I have never been in- tion was setting out to repeal DACA, to Valdez-Ward. This is the 107th Dreamer vited to a meeting quite like the one put an end to it. That same day, Presi- story I have told on the floor. Evelyn we had yesterday with the President in dent Trump called on Congress to come was 6 months old when her family the Cabinet Room of the White House. up with a solution to legalize DACA. brought her from Mexico to Houston, It was the President’s idea. I don’t He challenged us. He said to the U.S. TX. She was quite a good student. She know if it was a spur-of-the-moment Senate and House: Pass a law. If this is graduated 11th in her high school class idea, but it is one that came together a good idea, pass a law. of 650. She took all advanced placement very quickly in a few days. It has been more than 4 months since classes and was a member of the Na- I think there were almost 26 of us— the President issued that challenge. tional Honor Society. She was a mem- Democrats, Republicans, House and The Republican leadership of Congress ber of the color guard in the marching Senate Members—who were called to- has not proposed any legislation to le- band and regularly volunteered at gether by President Trump. I was kind galize DACA as the President asked. homeless shelters and animal shelters. of surprised, but there I was sitting The deportation clock is ticking for It wasn’t until she began to apply for right next to the President of the these young people who are protected. college that she finally learned her im- United States. It was only the third Already, 15,000 have lost their DACA migration status. She wasn’t like the time we had ever spoken. The other status. Beginning on March 5—the other students with whom she had two times, incidentally, were about deadline that initially was imposed by grown up and shared classrooms and DACA and the Dream Act, as you can President Trump—every day for the experiences. Evelyn is undocumented, probably guess. He invited me to sit next 2 years, 1,000 DACA young people but it didn’t stop her—she was going to next to him as we talked about this will lose their ability to work legally pursue college. issue. in the United States and will be subject One of her teachers believed in her Then he did something that was real- to being deported from this country. because she was such a bright student ly unusual. I have been to some meet- Who are they? Some 20,000 of them and wrote her a letter of recommenda- ings with the President in the Cabinet are teachers in our schools who would tion to go to college. She was accepted Room with President Obama and Presi- lose the right to work legally and have into the University of Houston. She re- dent George W. Bush. Usually, what to leave their classrooms. Nurses would ceived multiple awards while in col- happens is, the cameras come in, the leave their patients. First responders lege, including the Excellence in SI President says a few words, then the would leave their posts. And 900 sol- Leadership and Mentoring Award, the staff tells them to leave, and they re- diers would lose their ability to volun- American Society of Plant Biology luctantly pull out and leave. Yesterday teer to risk their lives for America’s Award for Outstanding Research, and was quite different. The President told future. the Outstanding Biology Leadership the press they could stay, and they did, This isn’t just a looming humani- Award. for almost an hour. The conversations tarian crisis; it is an economic crisis. The summer after her freshman year, between the President of the United More than 91 percent of DACA Dream- she was offered a great research oppor- States and Members of Congress were ers are gainfully employed and paying tunity through the National Science shared with the American people. I had taxes. Many of them are students; yet Foundation. Because of DACA, she was never seen anything quite like it. they are still gainfully employed be- allowed to work legally in the United I kind of liked it, to be honest with cause they don’t qualify for Federal as- States, and she was able to pursue this you. I think there was a lot of candor sistance for higher education, so they important research. That opportunity in the room. People were expressing have to work jobs, sometimes many was in plant water transport research their points of view, and there were jobs. in California. This is where Evelyn fell many different points of view, but I The nonpartisan Institute on Tax- in love with ecology and plants. think I came away from that meeting ation and Economic Policy reports She graduated magna cum laude in with more hope than ever that we can that DACA-eligible individuals con- 2016 with a bachelor of science in biol- do something about DACA and the tribute an estimated $2 billion a year ogy. Today, she is a second-year Ph.D. Dream Act. The President told us he in State and local taxes. The Cato In- student at the University of California, would like to see it done. He added, stitute, a conservative operation in Irvine, in the Department of Ecology though, there were things he wanted to Washington, estimates that ending and Evolutionary Biology. She is re- be a part of it. One of them dealt with DACA and deporting DACA recipients searching the effects of climate change border security, which has been a pri- will cost the economy $60 billion and on the interactions between plants and ority for all of us from the beginning. result in a $280 billion reduction in eco- soil. Evelyn’s dream is to continue her We want to establish—both political nomic growth over the next decade. research as a scientist and to become parties want to establish that we are Poll after poll shows overwhelming an advocate for strategies to mitigate committed to border security, and we bipartisan support for the Dreamers. climate change. are. How you define it, what it costs, FOX News found that 79 percent of In September, the American Associa- and how it is implemented—some of Americans support a path to citizen- tion for the Advancement of Science these things we can define in our agree- ship for Dreamers, including 63 percent wrote a letter opposing the White ment; others will be left to future ef- of Trump voters. House decision to rescind DACA. Here forts by Congress and the President. The answer is clear. It was 16 years is what they said: Then he talked about the family uni- ago that I first introduced the DREAM Many DACA students make significant fication, and that is an issue that is Act—bipartisan legislation to give contributions to the scientific and engineer- very delicate. It is one that, as my col- these young people a path to citizen- ing enterprise in the United States . . . high- leagues can imagine, really hits home.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10JA6.047 S10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S135 It is very personal as to whether a REMEMBERING MATT HILLYARD cleared of mines and other UXO. Inter- member of a family can bring someone Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, today I national donors and UXO affected they love—some relative in their fam- wish to pay tribute to a remarkable countries increased support in 2016 for ily—to the United States. Even if they man whose smile and beautiful soul UXO clearance programs by $40 million decide to bring them—incidentally, touched the lives of everyone he met. above the previous year to $564.5 mil- they may be waiting 30 years, in the Matthew Hillyard passed away peace- lion. The United States was, like pre- case of those who are seeking entry fully at his family home on January 4, vious years, by far the largest donor. into the United States through family 2018, to the grief of not only his family It is also encouraging that, since visas; 80 years, from China; 160 years and close friends but to everyone who March 1, 1999, when the international from Mexico. Some of these things are knew him in the Utah Legislature. treaty banning antipersonnel land- unrealistic and will never happen, but Matt, the loving son of Lyle and mines came into force, 163 countries to talk about family unification really Alice Hillyard, was born with Down have joined. That is an extraordinary strikes home with a lot of families. syndrome. His parents were told he achievement for a treaty that owes its I want to hear the President’s point would not live past adolescence; yet he existence to the vision and persever- of view, but I want to deal with this in defied the odds and packed a lot of life ance of hundreds of advocacy, human the most sensitive and sincere way. We into 42 years on Earth. Matt never let rights, arms control, humanitarian or- don’t want to flood the United States his disability define him; instead, he ganizations, and journalists, around with people who are any danger to us, shared his special light with everyone the world, and the leadership of former No. 1, or nonproductive citizens, but we who caught his eye. Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd certainly want to see families unified. Matt’s father, Lyle, has served as a Axworthy; yet despite this progress There is a question about diversity Utah lawmaker since 1981. The father- and substantial declining in the past visas. I will not go into it because it is and-son duo became a fixture of the few years, the number of innocent peo- a long story—the creation of this pro- Utah Legislature. When things got ple maimed and killed by mines has gram, where it is today, and where it tense on the senate floor, Matt’s inno- steadily increased. There are several explanations for might be in the future. cence stood as a light to other law- this. Rebel groups like ISIS routinely Here is what I do believe after yester- makers, defusing tension and stress use landmines and other improvised ex- day’s meeting. I believe President Don- during the most heated debates. He plosive devices. The wars in Syria, ald Trump called for that meeting be- made friends with people from all Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen have cause he wanted to let the American walks of life—be they legislators, secu- been largely responsible. It may never people know he was serious. He wanted rity guards, or schoolchildren visiting be possible to completely eradicate the to show them he could be a President the capitol. Matt’s smile and his big use of landmines by rebel groups, for presiding over a table with 24, 25 Mem- hugs were legendary, and people would the weapon is so cheap to manufacture bers of Congress from both political often line up to be the recipient of his while causing such harm. parties and tackle a sensitive, delicate, affection. challenging issue. He wants to show But the major powers that have not I had the privilege of enjoying Matt’s joined the treaty—the United States, the American people he can lead. I hugs and greetings on many occasions, want to help him lead if the goal is to Russia, China, Pakistan, and India— and I never left his side without feeling also share the blame. Antipersonnel make sure DACA and the Dreamers ul- I had been in the presence of a truly re- timately have their chance to be part landmines, which are designed to be markable son of our Heavenly Father. triggered indiscriminately by the vic- of America’s future. Legislative bodies across our country I am willing to work in good faith tim, whether an unsuspecting farmer would be well-served with the steady or an enemy or friendly combatant, with the President to compromise, presence of someone like Matt, a kind whatever it takes, to bring this for- have no place in the arsenals of modern soul who gives love and unwavering militaries. It is hypocrisy to claim on ward. There are so many lives hanging friendship to all. in the balance, and this is one of the one hand, as our military does, I believe there is a special place in that it uses every precaution to avoid them—this wonderful, brilliant young Heaven for Matt, who personified the woman who wants to make not only harming civilians and prides itself on pure love of Christ. He lived a life of its precision weapons, and on the other the world a better place but America a sweet innocence, friendship, and love. better place. She simply wants the hand to insist on the right to use a His warm embrace and sweet smile will weapon that is the antithesis of precise chance to be here and be part of Amer- be greatly missed by all. It is my great- ica’s future. We can give her no less. and overwhelmingly harms civilians. est hope that his family and all who I have spoken more times than I can I yield the floor. knew him will find joy and peace in the I suggest the absence of a quorum. count about the scourge of anti- memories we have shared with this ex- personnel landmines and the need for The PRESIDING OFFICER. The traordinary man. clerk will call the roll. the United States to join the Mine Ban The senior assistant legislative clerk f Treaty so we are no longer an excuse for other countries not to join. Our proceeded to call the roll. LANDMINES Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I military has not used landmines for ask unanimous consent that the order Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, according more than two decades. In fact, U.S. for the quorum call be rescinded. to Landmine Monitor, which is the policy now strictly limits the use of The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without world’s best source of data on the pro- antipersonnel mines to the Korean Pe- objection, it is so ordered. duction, use, export, stockpiling, and ninsula, but we do not need them. clearance of landmines, cluster muni- What we need is the best protection for f tions, and other unexploded ordnance, our troops to maneuver safely through 2016 was a terrible year for casualties minefields. We should have banned LEGISLATIVE SESSION caused by mines and other UXO. these indiscriminate weapons a long In 2016, the Monitor recorded 8,605 time ago, and we would have if land- casualties, of which at least 2,089 peo- mines were blowing off the arms and ple were fatalities. That is the highest legs of children in this Nation the way MORNING BUSINESS number since 1999, and it includes the they are in others, but we have learned Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I most casualties of children ever re- that the Pentagon is not in the habit of ask unanimous consent that the Sen- corded. Civilians represented 78 percent giving up weapons, even if they are ate proceed to legislative session for a of recorded casualties in 2016. There are weapons that deserve to be relegated to period of morning business, with Sen- still 61 countries that are known to be the dustbin of history. That decision ators permitted to speak therein for up contaminated with landmines. will only be made by a President who is to 10 minutes each. On the positive side, approximately willing to do what is morally right. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without 232,000 landmines were destroyed in Landmines have been aptly described objection, it is so ordered. 2016, and 66 square miles of land were as weapons of mass destruction in slow

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10JA6.048 S10JAPT1 S136 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 10, 2018 motion. President Trump reacted with The grim reality, though, is that the land Anne was born in Baltimore and anger and disgust, as he should have, mine and cluster munitions treaties are un- raised in Parkville. She was the daugh- when Syria’s President Assad used dercut by the refusal of some of modern war- ter of Basil T. Irby, a sales representa- chlorine gas against his own people. He fare’s most powerful players to sign them. tive for the Baltimore Stationery Co., Among those countries are China, Iran, should react the same way toward anti- Israel, North Korea, Russia and Saudi Ara- and Jean Craig, a homemaker. She at- personnel landmines and set an exam- bia. And the United States. The Pentagon tended St. Thomas More School and ple for the rest of the world. has long insisted that eliminating cluster was a 1979 graduate of the old Seton I ask unanimous consent that a Jan- bombs could put soldiers at risk. As for land High School in Charles Village. She re- uary 6, 2018, New York Times editorial mines, they are deemed by Washington to be ceived a diploma from what was then on this subject be printed in the a useful tool in the demilitarized zone sepa- Villa Julie College and earned a bach- RECORD. rating North and South Korea—a first-line elor’s degree from the University of defense for the South against a possible inva- There being no objection, the mate- Baltimore. Early in her career, she rial was ordered to be printed in the sion. But given the North’s nuclear buildup, a mined DMZ seems to be a Cold War vestige worked for the Baltimore Jewish Coun- RECORD, as follows: of diminished value. cil and then became a lobbyist for As- [From the New York Times, Jan. 6, 2018] Washington is not immune to inter- sociated Catholic Charities of Balti- WHY DO LAND MINES STILL KILL SO MANY? national suasion. Land mines are so stig- more. (By the Editorial Board) matized that American forces have barely Anne joined my office in 1990 when I The world is rolling backward, and at a used them since the 1991 Persian Gulf war. was a Member of the U.S. House of disturbingly faster pace, in the struggle to The United States stockpile, estimated at Representatives and remained a mem- limit carnage from land mines and other three million mines, is significantly reduced from pre-treaty years; it’s puny compared ber of my team when I became a U.S. booby-trap explosives. The most recent num- Senator. She was a dedicated case- bers, covering 2016, are appalling. with the 26 million mines that Russia has on Known casualties that year came to 8,605, hand, according to the International Cam- worker in my Baltimore office and was including 2,089 deaths, according to a new re- paign to Ban Landmines. Similarly, Amer- an invaluable resource to my staff and port by Landmine Monitor, a research arm of ican reliance on cluster munitions, which the citizens of Maryland. She was an the International Campaign to Ban Land- peaked in the early stages of the 2003 Iraq indefatigable advocate for veterans and mines. The toll was nearly 25 percent higher war, has all but disappeared. their families and helped them navi- than the 6,967 maimed and dead counted a In 2014 the Obama administration even sig- naled it might be willing to join the anti- gate a complicated system to obtain year earlier, and more than double the 3,993 disability, medical, and educational in 2014. And these numbers are almost as- mine treaty. Regrettably, that step never suredly an undercount. ‘‘In some states and came. It might have been a moral statement benefits. She also helped veterans ob- areas, numerous casualties go unrecorded,’’ encouraging others to follow suit. Now, with tain much-needed medical appoint- Landmine Monitor said. President Trump openly disdainful of inter- ments and lost medals. In addition to Much of the 2016 mayhem stemmed from national agreements, the likelihood of Wash- her work with veterans, she also conflicts in Afghanistan, Libya, Ukraine and ington’s signing the treaty would seem to be worked tirelessly to help Marylanders about zero. The Pentagon, under his ulti- Yemen, but people in 56 countries and other save their homes as the foreclosure cri- areas were killed or wounded by improvised mate control, recently authorized the mili- explosive devices and other ordnance placed tary to restock older cluster munitions, sis spread across the State during the by governments or, more commonly, by in- whose immediate failure rate can be high, recession. surgent groups. The sheer indecency of it is leaving bomblets that can explode and kill Anne was very knowledgeable about self-evident. Nearly 80 percent of the victims civilians even years later. the agencies and personnel available to were civilians; children accounted for 42 per- For countries like Afghanistan, Libya, serve the needs of my constituents. cent of civilian casualties in situations Ukraine and Yemen, the risks may endure Agency professionals knew Anne and where the ages were known. long after the guns go silent. Vietnam pro- respected her willingness to assist vides an example. Since the war there ended One subset of the menace, cluster muni- those constituents in need. Anne con- tions, is singularly vicious. A single cluster in 1975, at least 40,000 Vietnamese are be- bomb can contain dozens, even hundreds, of lieved to have been killed and another 60,000 sidered her position in my office as a baseball-size bomblets that spray in all di- wounded by American land mines, artillery career, not just ‘‘a job.’’ She was a true rections, ripping apart anything in their shells, cluster bombs and other ordnance professional who wanted to make life path. All too often, they fail to detonate that failed to detonate back then. They later better for as many people as she could. right away and thus become time bombs that exploded when handled by scrap-metal scav- That is the essence of public service. imperil unwary civilians who pick them up, engers and unsuspecting children. Anne would be best described as a including curious children. Cluster muni- The lesson is stark for today’s war-torn ‘‘gentle soul.’’ She was a devoted care- tions alone caused 971 known casualties in countries. They could reap the same whirl- wind in coming decades. giver to her parents and close family 2016, more than twice the toll of the previous members. She was a huge football fan. year, according to Cluster Munition Monitor. (At the request of Mr. SCHUMER, the I think the only person she ever had a Most victims were Syrians, nearly all of following statement was ordered to be ‘‘beef’’ with was John Elway. The Bal- them civilians, but Saudi Arabia has also printed in the RECORD.) used American-supplied cluster bombs in timore Colts drafted him in 1983, but he Yemen. f refused to play for the Colts, so they Perhaps the saddest part of all this is that VOTE EXPLANATION had to trade him to Denver. Even for well over a decade the world seemed to ∑ Mr. BOOKER. Mr. President, I was though she was from Baltimore, she have gotten a grip on what are referred to later cheered hard for the team from generically as the ‘‘explosive remnants of necessarily absent for the votes on the war.’’ Thanks to an international treaty that confirmation of Executive Calendar Washington after the Colts left town came into force in 1999—now signed by 163 No. 371 and the motion to invoke clo- under the cover of darkness on March countries and banning the production, stock- ture on Executive Calendar No. 389. 29, 1984. She spent many Mondays talk- piling and transfer of land mines—casualties On vote No. 5, had I been present, I ing about how her team fared on Sun- declined steadily worldwide. They reached a would have voted yea on the confirma- day. In addition to her love of football, low of 3,450 in 2013, compared with 9,228 in tion of Executive Calendar No. 371. Anne enjoyed a good book and a hot 1999. (A companion treaty outlawing cluster On vote No. 6, had I been present, I cup of coffee. She would often visit munitions, joined by 119 countries, went into Washington’s Politics and Prose book- effect in 2010.) As the death and injury toll would have voted yea on the motion to for 2016 shows, nearly all that hard-won invoke cloture on Executive Calendar store to pick up the latest bestseller or progress has been erased by the brutal con- No. 389.∑ meet her favorite author. She fre- flicts of recent vintage. f quented Baltimore’s Woodlea Bakery The picture is not irredeemably bleak. The and was known for bringing their Landmine Monitor said that 32 donors, led REMEMBERING ANNE MICHELE donuts and cakes to the office for the by the United States, contributed nearly $480 IRBY rest of the staff and visitors. million in 2016 for mine clearance and victim Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, today, Ralph Waldo Emerson said, ‘‘To aid. That was an increase of 22 percent from with sadness in my heart, I wish to pay laugh often and much; To win the re- the year before. More than 232,000 antipersonnel mines were reportedly destroyed tribute to a very special person, Anne spect of intelligent people and the af- in 2016, and about 66 square miles—an area Michele Irby, a member of my staff for fection of children; To earn the appre- nearly the size of Brooklyn—were cleared of over 25 years and a dear friend who ciation of honest critics and endure the explosive hazards. died on December 18, 2017. betrayal of false friends; To appreciate

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10JA6.036 S10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S137 beauty, to find the best in others; To flights carried mail, cargo, and pas- uge for Native Americans who had con- leave the world a bit better, whether sengers throughout the entire State. verted to Christianity along the banks by a healthy child, a garden patch, or While Cliff Everts was a pilot by of the Clinton River. In March 1780, a redeemed social condition; To know trade, he was also a very savvy entre- Christian Clemens purchased a dis- even one life has breathed easier be- preneur and was well known for his tillery, which is considered the first cause you have lived. This is to have many business ventures, but he is best building on the site of the future city succeeded.’’ known for Everts Air Fuel. Cliff start- of Mount Clemens. The next year, he Anne Irby left us much too soon, but ed this business in the 1980s flying a C– bought 500 acres for development, and she succeeded. She touched so many 46. The C–46 is a World War II era high- the site became known as High Banks. lives and helped so many people and altitude, multiengine aircraft. He On January 15, 1818, Macomb County families across the State. She will be quickly built the fleet, running his was formally organized as the third remembered for putting the concerns of business on the philosophy that pro- county in the Michigan territory and others before her own. Many people viding for the unique needs of Alaskans was named in honor of General Alex- wake up every day hoping to make a can be done both efficiently and ander Macomb, a highly decorated vet- difference. We can all take comfort in affordably by Alaskans. eran of the War of 1812. High Banks was knowing that Anne Irby actually did Cliff’s son, Robert, began his own platted as the Village of Mount aviation business called Everts Air make a difference. I send my deepest Clemens and named the county seat. condolences to her sister Donna Jean Cargo. Between Everts Air Cargo and Rodgers, her other family members, Everts Air Fuel, the pair owned 21 air- Starting in the early 1800s and con- and her friends. We are all grieving. planes. I understand that there are six tinuing until 1840, settlers began mov- I salute Anne for a job extraor- C–46 aircraft remaining in revenue ing into the interior of the county and dinarily well done and pledge today service. The Everts enterprises fly four carved out farms from the hardwood that she will always be a member of of the six, and that is a testament to forests. Families began focusing on ag- ‘‘Team Cardin.’’ how well they treat their equipment. riculture as the roots of county vil- f They are also known for treating their lages and towns began to be established people exceptionally well. by this time. Germans, Belgians, and ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS Alaska was good to Cliff Everts. Cliff other Europeans also began joining the was great to Alaska. In recognition of original French and English settlers REMEMBERING CLIFF EVERTS his achievements, Cliff amassed numer- during this time. During the 1870s, ous awards and recognitions. In 2007, mineral baths brought international ∑ Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I Cliff received the Federal Aviation Ad- fame to Mount Clemens as many would like to take a moment to re- ministration’s Master Pilot Award. In thought the waters had healing powers, member and pay tribute to a pioneer of 2011, the general aviation side of Fair- though interest in the spas eventually Alaska aviation, Cliff Everts, who banks International Airport, what we died out in the early 20th century. passed away in December at the age of call ‘‘East Ramp,’’ was dedicated in 95. One of the greatest compliments Cliff’s honor. In 2012, the Alaska Air Between 1920 and 1930, Macomb Coun- you can pay to a longtime Alaskan is Carriers Association designated Cliff as ty saw its first population spike when to refer to that individual as a pioneer. an ‘‘Aviation Legend.’’ Cliff was also it more than doubled from 38,000 to Yes, Cliff was a pioneer, but that un- inducted into the Alaska Aviation Hall 77,000. This was caused by the estab- derstates the reverence with which he of Fame. He holds the Alaska Aviation lishment of Selfridge Field in 1917, now is held in Alaska’s aviation commu- Entrepreneur Award. All appropriate the Selfridge Air National Guard Base, nity. He is indeed an icon of Alaska recognition for a man best known for and the beginning of the migration of aviation. these words, ‘‘Flying has been my life, automotive workers moving out of the Place yourself in a remote Alaskan and I can’t see joy in doing anything city of Detroit. During the 1940s and village in the dead of winter. The out- else.’’ 1950s, the suburbs again saw a popu- door temperature is minus 25 degrees, On Saturday, January 13, Alaskans lation increase but the largest instance and the village is running short of fuel. from all walks of life will come to- of growth occurred between 1950 and Imagine the sound of a fuel plane land- gether in Fairbanks to celebrate the 1970, when more than 440,000 moved to ing on your village’s gravel runway, de- life of Cliff Everts. Cliff’s friends and Macomb County and helped make it livering thousands of gallons of fuel admirers will be joined by his wife one of Michigan’s largest counties. needed to sustain daily life in the bush Betty and their large family. On behalf Today Macomb County encompasses and power remote work sites. Deliv- of my Senate colleagues, let me take 27 local municipalities that nearly 1 eries such as this make life in rural this opportunity to share our condo- million Michiganders call home. Like Alaska possible. This is the legacy of lences with Betty and the family and our country, its people come from dif- Cliff Everts. to thank Cliff Everts for his out- ferent backgrounds and ethnicities and Originally born in New York, Cliff’s standing life of service to aviation and share many different cultures. There passion for flying began at a young Alaska.∑ are robust urban clusters, a prosperous age. He took his first flight at 12 years f manufacturing and economic industry old. As a teenager, he delivered news- throughout that is home to more than papers to pay for his flying lessons. MACOMB COUNTY, MICHIGAN, 18,000 businesses, and beautiful natural Cliff trained on a Taylorcraft, a high- BICENTENNIAL features and agricultural lands in the winged, two-seater aircraft, and was ∑ Mr. PETERS. Mr. President, today I north. All of this has contributed to soloing within just 6 months. wish to recognize the 200th anniversary Macomb County having over 865,000 Later Cliff joined the Civilian Pilot of Macomb County, MI. Situated along residents, making it the third most Training Program, supporting wartime Lake Saint Clair in the southeast cor- populated county in our great State. efforts during World War II. It was not ner of Michigan, Macomb County is long thereafter that he made the deci- built on industry and entrepreneurship Macomb County has been an integral sion to leave New York, to accept a po- and populated with dedicated citizens part of Michigan and our great Nation sition flying as a copilot for Alaska and entrepreneurs. for 200 years. As a fifth generation Star Airlines in Anchorage. Alaska French fur trappers were the first Michigander living in the southeast Star Airlines was a predecessor of to- Europeans to arrive in the area during Michigan area, I am honored to ask my day’s Alaska Airlines. the 17th century, and when they recog- colleagues to join me in celebrating Having grown to love Alaska, Everts nized the possibilities presented to this significant milestone for one of embraced the pioneer spirit and accept- them within the area’s marshes, they Michigan’s most important and storied ed another position flying for Wien Air- sought new opportunities for trade. counties and all those fortunate lines in Fairbanks. He continued to fly Moravian missionaries later estab- enough to call it home. I wish Macomb for Wien Airlines for 35 years, logging lished the first organized, non-native County continued growth and pros- over 30,000 hours of flight time. His settlement in the area in 1782 as a ref- perity for many years to come.∑

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00025 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10JA6.033 S10JAPT1 S138 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 10, 2018 MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT levels, and for other purposes; to the Com- and second times by unanimous con- mittee on Foreign Relations. sent, and referred as indicated: Messages from the President of the H.R. 1486. An act to amend the Homeland United States were communicated to Security Act of 2002 to provide funding to se- By Mrs. MCCASKILL: S. 2285. A bill to require mailing addresses the Senate by Ms. Cuccia, one of his cure non-profit facilities from terrorist at- to correspond with the physical address at tacks, and for other purposes; to the Com- secretaries. which the mail will be delivered; to the Com- mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- f mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- mental Affairs. mental Affairs. EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED H.R. 3202. An act to require the Secretary By Mr. CORKER (for himself, Mrs. of Homeland Security to submit a report on As in executive session the Presiding FEINSTEIN, Mr. ISAKSON, and Mr. cyber vulnerability disclosures, and for other COONS): Officer laid before the Senate messages purposes; to the Committee on Homeland Se- S. 2286. A bill to amend the Peace Corps from the President of the United curity and Governmental Affairs. Act to provide greater protection and serv- States submitting sundry nominations H.R. 3320. An act to direct the Secretary of ices for Peace Corps volunteers, and for which were referred to the appropriate State to develop a strategy to regain ob- other purposes; to the Committee on Foreign server status for Taiwan in the World Health committees. Relations. Organization, and for other purposes; to the (The messages received today are By Mr. MARKEY (for himself and Ms. printed at the end of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. H.R. 4433. An act to amend the Homeland WARREN): S. 2287. A bill to repeal the medical device proceedings.) Security Act of 2002 to require the Under excise tax, and for other purposes; to the f Secretary for Management of the Depart- Committee on Finance. ment of Homeland Security to achieve secu- MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE By Mr. CRUZ: rity of sensitive assets among the compo- S. 2288. A bill to amend title 38, United At 10:07 a.m., a message from the nents of the Department of Homeland Secu- States Code, to require the Secretary of Vet- rity, and for other purposes; to the Com- House of Representatives, delivered by erans Affairs to submit an annual report to mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- Mr. Novotny, one of its reading clerks, Congress relating to the use of official time mental Affairs. announced that the House has passed by employees of the Department of Veterans H.R. 4555. An act to authorize the partici- the following bills, in which it requests Affairs, to limit the instances in which offi- pation in overseas interagency counterter- cial time may be granted for certain pur- the concurrence of the Senate: rorism task forces of personnel of the De- poses to employees of the Department, and H.R. 535. An act to encourage visits be- partment of Homeland Security, and for for other purposes; to the Committee on Vet- tween the United States and Taiwan at all other purposes; to the Committee on Home- erans’ Affairs. levels, and for other purposes. land Security and Governmental Affairs. H.R. 1486. An act to amend the Homeland H.R. 4559. An act to conduct a global avia- By Ms. WARREN (for herself and Mr. Security Act of 2002 to provide funding to se- tion security review, and for other purposes; WARNER): S. 2289. A bill to create an Office of Cyber- cure non-profit facilities from terrorist at- to the Committee on Commerce, Science, security at the Federal Trade Commission tacks, and for other purposes. and Transportation. H.R. 3202. An act to require the Secretary H.R. 4561. An act to provide for third party for supervision of data security at consumer of Homeland Security to submit a report on testing of transportation security screening reporting agencies, to require the promulga- cyber vulnerability disclosures, and for other technology, and for other purposes; to the tion of regulations establishing standards for purposes. Committee on Commerce, Science, and effective cybersecurity at consumer report- H.R. 3320. An act to direct the Secretary of Transportation. ing agencies, to impose penalties on credit State to develop a strategy to regain ob- H.R. 4564. An act to require a threat assess- reporting agencies for cybersecurity server status for Taiwan in the World Health ment on current foreign terrorist fighter ac- breaches that put sensitive consumer data at Organization, and for other purposes. tivities, and for other purposes; to the Com- risk, and for other purposes; to the Com- H.R. 4433. An act to amend the Homeland mittee on Foreign Relations. mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Af- Security Act of 2002 to require the Under H.R. 4569. An act to require counterter- fairs. Secretary for Management of the Depart- rorism information sharing coordination, By Ms. CANTWELL (for herself and ment of Homeland Security to achieve secu- and for other purposes; to the Committee on Mr. GARDNER): S. 2290. A bill to improve wildfire manage- rity of sensitive assets among the compo- Homeland Security and Governmental Af- ment operations and the safety of fire- nents of the Department of Homeland Secu- fairs. fighters and communities with the best rity, and for other purposes. H.R. 4577. An act to establish a working available technology; to the Committee on H.R. 4555. An act to authorize the partici- group to determine ways to develop a domes- Energy and Natural Resources. pation in overseas interagency counterter- tic canine breeding network to produce high By Mr. CRUZ: rorism task forces of personnel of the De- quality explosives detection canines, and for S. 2291. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- partment of Homeland Security, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Com- enue Code of 1986 to make permanent the in- other purposes. merce, Science, and Transportation. dividual tax rates in effect for taxable years H.R. 4559. An act to conduct a global avia- H.R. 4581. An act to require the Secretary 2018 through 2025; to the Committee on Fi- tion security review, and for other purposes. of Homeland Security to develop best prac- nance. H.R. 4561. An act to provide for third party tices for utilizing advanced passenger information and passenger name record data for By Mr. NELSON: testing of transportation security screening S. 2292. A bill to amend the Outer Conti- technology, and for other purposes. counterterrorism screening and vetting operations, and for other purposes; to the Com- nental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit oil and H.R. 4564. An act to require a threat assess- gas preleasing, leasing, and related activities ment on current foreign terrorist fighter ac- mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- mental Affairs. in certain areas of the Outer Continental tivities, and for other purposes. Shelf off the coast of Florida, and for other H.R. 4569. An act to require counterter- f purposes; to the Committee on Energy and rorism information sharing coordination, Natural Resources. and for other purposes. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES H.R. 4577. An act to establish a working The following reports of committees f group to determine ways to develop a domes- were submitted: SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND tic canine breeding network to produce high By Mr. THUNE, from the Committee on SENATE RESOLUTIONS quality explosives detection canines, and for Commerce, Science, and Transportation, The following concurrent resolutions other purposes. with an amendment in the nature of a sub- H.R. 4581. An act to require the Secretary stitute: and Senate resolutions were read, and of Homeland Security to develop best prac- S. 1693. A bill to amend the Communica- referred (or acted upon), as indicated: tices for utilizing advanced passenger infor- tions Act of 1934 to clarify that section 230 of By Mr. FLAKE: mation and passenger name record data for that Act does not prohibit the enforcement S. Res. 371. A resolution expressing the counterterrorism screening and vetting oper- against providers and users of interactive sense of the Senate on the value of the bilat- ations, and for other purposes. computer services of Federal and State eral relationship between the United States f criminal and civil law relating to sex traf- and Mexico; to the Committee on Foreign Relations. MEASURES REFERRED ficking (Rept. No. 115–199). f f The following bills were read the first and the second times by unanimous INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS consent, and referred as indicated: JOINT RESOLUTIONS S. 819 H.R. 535. An act to encourage visits be- The following bills and joint resolu- At the request of Mrs. MURRAY, the tween the United States and Taiwan at all tions were introduced, read the first name of the Senator from Maryland

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00026 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A10JA6.007 S10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S139 (Mr. CARDIN) was added as a cosponsor (Ms. COLLINS) was added as a cosponsor hibit oil and gas preleasing, leasing, of S. 819, a bill to amend the Fair of S. 1873, a bill to require the Sec- and related activities in certain areas Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide retary of Veterans Affairs to carry out of the Outer Continental Shelf off the more effective remedies to victims of a program to establish peer specialists coast of Florida, and for other pur- discrimination in the payment of in patient aligned care teams at med- poses; to the Committee on Energy and wages on the basis of sex, and for other ical centers of the Department of Vet- Natural Resources. purposes. erans Affairs, and for other purposes. Mr. NELSON. Mr. President, I must S. 1006 S. 2007 say, I have seen political games being At the request of Mr. MERKLEY, the At the request of Mr. FLAKE, the played with trying to drill off of the name of the Senator from Minnesota name of the Senator from Minnesota coast of Florida. Not only am I ap- (Ms. SMITH) was added as a cosponsor (Ms. KLOBUCHAR) was added as a co- palled—I have recoiled at this political of S. 1006, a bill to prohibit discrimina- sponsor of S. 2007, a bill to amend the game—but unfortunately I am not sur- tion on the basis of sex, gender iden- Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to in- prised because of what we have seen tity, and sexual orientation, and for crease the exclusion for educational as- happen in the last 15 hours. other purposes. sistance programs. It all started late last week when the S. 1124 S. 2186 Department of the Interior released a At the request of Mr. HATCH, the new 5-year drilling plan. It virtually At the request of Mr. COONS, the name of the Senator from New Hamp- name of the Senator from Massachu- had all of the coastal waters—the shire (Mrs. SHAHEEN) was added as a co- Outer Continental Shelf of the entire setts (Ms. WARREN) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1124, a bill to grant the sponsor of S. 2186, a bill to modernize United States—included in this plan, Director of the United States Marshals laws and policies, and eliminate dis- including that area of Florida that is Service authority to appoint criminal crimination, with respect to people liv- off limits to drilling in law—a law that investigators in the excepted service. ing with HIV/AIDS, and for other pur- Republican Senator Mel Martinez and I S. 1218 poses. passed back in 2006 that keeps drilling At the request of Ms. HEITKAMP, the off of the gulf coast of Florida until the S. 2274 name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. year 2022. At the request of Mr. CARDIN, the CRAPO) was added as a cosponsor of S. This new proposal would open up 1218, a bill to promote Federal employ- name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. nearly all of the Federal waters to ment for veterans, and for other pur- WYDEN) was added as a cosponsor of S. drilling, including all of the coastal poses. 2274, a bill to provide for the compensa- waters of Florida, both the west tion of Federal employees affected by S. 1358 coast—gulf coast—and the east coast— lapses in appropriations. At the request of Mr. CASSIDY, the the Atlantic—and also the Straits of name of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. S. RES. 363 Florida, those waters that come around MORAN) was added as a cosponsor of S. At the request of Mr. NELSON, the the Florida Keys, which is the Gulf 1358, a bill to amend the Internal Rev- name of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Stream that comes right up the south- enue Code of 1986 to provide for the DURBIN) was added as a cosponsor of S. east coast of Florida. The Gulf Stream treatment of certain direct primary Res. 363, a resolution expressing pro- then goes out across the Atlantic, past care service arrangements and periodic found concern about the growing polit- Bermuda, and ends up in Northern Eu- provider fees. ical, humanitarian, and economic cri- rope. S. 1588 sis in Venezuela and the widespread Well, our colleagues have heard this At the request of Mr. CARDIN, the human rights abuses perpetrated by Senator many times come and talk name of the Senator from Minnesota the Government of Venezuela. about how keeping oil rigs away from (Ms. SMITH) was added as a cosponsor S. RES. 367 Florida’s coast is an issue that is im- of S. 1588, a bill to secure Federal vot- At the request of Mr. CRUZ, the portant to our State because of our ing rights of persons when released names of the Senator from Texas (Mr. tourism economy but also because of from incarceration. CORNYN) and the Senator from Wyo- the military missions on the west S. 1650 ming (Mr. BARRASSO) were added as co- coast—the gulf—as well as the Atlan- At the request of Ms. HIRONO, the sponsors of S. Res. 367, a resolution tic. name of the Senator from Connecticut condemning the Government of Iran As a Floridian, this Senator has been (Mr. MURPHY) was added as a cosponsor for its violence against demonstrators fighting this fight ever since the mid- of S. 1650, a bill to authorize the Sec- and calling for peaceful resolution to 1980s when Secretary of the Interior retary of Health and Human Services the concerns of the citizens of Iran. James Watt intended to drill off the to award grants to support the access S. RES. 368 east coast of Florida where we were of marginalized youth to sexual health At the request of Mr. CORKER, the launching our space shuttle, dropping services, and for other purposes. names of the Senator from New Hamp- the solid rocket boosters, and where we S. 1693 shire (Ms. HASSAN), the Senator from were launching our military rockets, At the request of Mr. PORTMAN, the Illinois (Mr. DURBIN), the Senator from taking our clandestine satellites into name of the Senator from Delaware Virginia (Mr. WARNER), the Senator orbit and dropping the first stages. (Mr. CARPER) was added as a cosponsor from Hawaii (Ms. HIRONO) and the Sen- That is how I beat it back in the 1980s, of S. 1693, a bill to amend the Commu- ator from Pennsylvania (Mr. CASEY) but lo and behold, here we are again in nications Act of 1934 to clarify that were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 368, the same place. section 230 of that Act does not pro- a resolution supporting the right of all We know you can’t allow drilling in hibit the enforcement against pro- Iranian citizens to have their voices the Straits of Florida right off the viders and users of interactive com- heard. Florida Keys because an oilspill there puter services of Federal and State At the request of Mr. CARDIN, the would be in the Gulf Stream, and that criminal and civil law relating to sex names of the Senator from Massachu- Gulf Stream hugs the coast of south- trafficking. setts (Ms. WARREN), the Senator from east Florida. Can you imagine what it S. 1774 New York (Mr. SCHUMER) and the Sen- would do to the beaches of the Florida At the request of Mr. HATCH, the ator from North Carolina (Mr. TILLIS) Keys, Miami Beach, and all up the Gold name of the Senator from Mississippi were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 368, Coast of Florida, all the way to Palm (Mr. COCHRAN) was added as a cospon- supra. Beach, all the way north to Fort sor of S. 1774, a bill to provide protec- f Pierce, where then the Gulf Stream tions for workers with respect to their heads farther in a northeasterly direc- right to select or refrain from selecting STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED tion out into the Atlantic? representation by a labor organization. BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS Well, let me show you what is hap- S. 1873 By Mr. NELSON: pening in the gulf coast. All of this in At the request of Mr. BLUMENTHAL, S. 2292. A bill to amend the Outer yellow is what is off limits in the Gulf the name of the Senator from Maine Continental Shelf Lands Act to pro- of Mexico as a result of the 2006 law.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00027 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A10JA6.012 S10JAPT1 S140 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 10, 2018 There is an obvious reason for all of all up and down the gulf coast of Flor- What about your statement—it also this—because this line is known as the ida. included another caveat, Mr. Sec- Military Mission Line. Everything east By the way, over on the east coast— retary. You said you were ‘‘removing of here is the largest testing and train- had that oil ever gotten into a current Florida from consideration for any new ing area in the world for the U.S. mili- called the Loop Current that comes oil and gas platforms.’’ Well, all of us tary. That is why we put this off limits down and becomes the Gulf Stream, know that platforms are different from to oil activity. that oil would have ruined the tourism wellheads. So tell me, Mr. Secretary, Oh, by the way, the testing and train- industry all along Florida’s southeast does that mean there will still be drilling mission for the entire Department coast, from the Keys to Miami Beach, ing off the coast of Florida, but the of Defense is located right here at and all the way up to Fort Pierce, FL. platforms themselves might be located Eglin Air Force Base, which is where Floridians feel fairly strongly about just to the west of the Military Mission they brought all the pilot training for this. That is why we were fortunate, Line, and the wellhead is going to be many nations for the F–35, the new over a decade ago, in a bipartisan way, underneath and far from that prohib- super stealth jet fighter. to pass a law to keep all of that area I ited line? Mr. Secretary, does your Guess what is going on down here in just showed you off limits. We knew change of heart mean that the adminis- Panama City at Tyndall Air Force what would happen to our tourism— tration now supports the bipartisan ef- Base. That is where we have all the what people subsequently found out forts of the Florida delegation to ex- pilot training for our F–22, another one with the Deepwater Horizon oilspill— tend the moratorium on drilling in the of our stealth fighters. and we knew what would happen to Eastern Gulf? That is the bill that I am Down here in Key West, we have the threaten our national security by ham- introducing today, and it has been in- Key West Naval Air Station. They pering our ability to do our training troduced by Congressman Castor in the bring in the squadrons of F–18s for the and testing. House of Representatives. Navy at Boca Chica, which is where the So, voila, all of a sudden, the Trump For every day that goes by without airbase is, and within 2 minutes of lift- administration announces last week answers to these essential questions, ing off the runway, they are over re- that it is going to drill off all of Flor- the Secretary needs to add that much stricted airspace to do their testing ida. I have sponsored legislation in the more time to the public comment pe- and training. past. I have introduced bills to expand riod. By the way, what about the rest of the moratorium on the gulf coast. I The Secretary’s promise last night at the Navy? They bring their amphibious have sponsored other legislation to the Tallahassee Airport, one day after ships in here, going onto the beaches protect Florida. And today I am intro- publishing in the Federal Register that up there by Eglin Air Force Base. And ducing another bill that would be a Florida is off limits—right now those all of the activity is not just on the permanent ban on drilling off of Flor- are just empty words because the only surface; the testing and training mis- ida’s coast for exactly the reasons I real thing out there that exists is the sion is also subsurface because that is have just said. law that prevents drilling off the gulf part of the Navy’s mission as well. Last week, when the Secretary of the coast of Florida for the next 5 years. There is ample opportunity to test Interior, Secretary Zinke, announced The Secretary has proposed a 5-year because from here to here is 300 miles. that they were opening up nearly all plan to drill the rest of Florida and to From here to here is about 300 miles. Federal waters, including all of those start drilling in 2023 off the gulf coast So there is plenty of room to do this around Florida, we, of course, went of Florida. testing. This is the largest testing and into fighting mode again. We will fight There is also a law called the Outer training area in the world. this, and it will be defeated. It turns Continental Shelf Lands Act, which But painfully, over time, we have out that was just a political stunt be- spells out a very specific process for de- found another reason, and that was cause late yesterday—1 day after offi- veloping lease sales in Federal waters. over here off of Louisiana. A little over cially publishing the plan in the Fed- With all of this rush, and now saying a decade ago, there was an oilspill. It eral Register—Secretary Zinke flew to that Florida is ‘‘off the table,’’ I fear wasn’t any little oilspill; it was the Florida, met with the Governor of this announcement of Secretary Deepwater Horizon, the BP well that Florida for 20 minutes at the Tallahas- Zinke’s is going to discourage Florid- spewed at the surface. At the bottom of see Airport, and suddenly announced ians from commenting on the proposal the ocean, which was a mile below the that he had now decided to take Flor- that was published just this Monday— surface, it spewed out 5 million barrels ida ‘‘off the table.’’ That sounds like a the one that opened up Florida’s entire of oil before they got it stopped. That political stunt. coastline to drilling—because Florid- was a rig that did not work. There was While many in Florida have seen ians have been given false assurances supposed to be what is called a blowout right through this shameless political that they are all in the clear. That preventer that was to go in and clamp stunt, it has opened up a long list of brings us back to this political stunt: off the well, and there was a blowout. other questions that I have now asked Design a plan for the entire United It was defective. It didn’t close off that Secretary Zinke to answer in a letter I States, publish it on Monday, and take well at the wellhead 5,000 feet below sent today. it back on Tuesday for Florida for po- the surface of the gulf. As a result, 5 What exactly does ‘‘off the table’’ litical reasons. million barrels of oil spilled. mean? Is it the whole Eastern Gulf? Floridians should be aware and they What happened to Florida’s economy, Half of it? Is it 125 miles off the coast? should make their objections known not even to speak of all the fishing Does it mean both coasts of Florida? because if they don’t, then the admin- over in Louisiana and Alabama and Does it mean just one? What about the istration will try to say that they Mississippi? I will tell you what hap- Straits of Florida, Secretary Zinke? never heard objections from Floridians. pened to Florida’s economy. Oil came What about the seismic surveys? You It goes on and on—more political as far east as Pensacola Beach. Photo- all have said you are proceeding with games. graphs of oil completely covering the that. Are those off the table too? If you Floridians aren’t the only ones who sugary white sands of Pensacola Beach are going to take Florida waters ‘‘off need to know what this means. What went around the world. So what did the table’’ in this little political stunt about all the other States that have people do? For an entire tourist season, that was done 1 day after the Federal been affected? Did you hear that there they didn’t come to any of the beaches Register published this proposed rule, is an uproar among the Governors of of the gulf coast because they thought does that mean you are going to elimi- other coastal States that are in this there was oil on the beach. nate the seismic surveys? There is no drilling plan of the administration? Painfully, that experience—not even reason to expose marine life and endan- They asked: Why, one day later, would to speak of what has been done to our gered species to the harmful impacts of you go to Florida and say ‘‘We are environment and how much oil is still seismic surveys if there aren’t any ac- eliminating it,’’ but, Secretary Zinke, sloshing around down there on the bot- tual plans to drill in the area. So, Mr. you didn’t exempt my State—all the tom of the gulf—painfully, that experi- Secretary, are you taking those off the way from Maine in the North, all the ence got in the minds of the businesses table? way to Florida on the Atlantic coast,

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00028 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10JA6.029 S10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S141 all the other Gulf States, and then to Whereas Mexico has been an important States depend on Mexico’s cooperation be- the west coast of the United States, partner in stanching the flow of illegal mi- cause, among other matters, more than 90 California all the way up to the State grants from Central America bound for the percent of heroin in the United States comes of Washington? It is more games. United States, by deporting hundreds of from Mexico; People in Maryland, people in Massa- thousands from Mexico before they reach the (6) stresses the importance of the North United States border; American Free Trade Agreement to the chusetts, people in the Carolinas are Whereas Mexico is second to only Canada United States economy and to the bilateral really upset. They ask: Why don’t you in energy trade with the United States, pro- relationship between the United States and eliminate the drilling that you are provides crude oil to the United States, and im- Mexico; and posing off my State? What about out in ports rapidly growing volumes of both petro- (7) encourages the President to work to- California and Oregon and the State of leum products and natural gas from the ward modernization of the North American Washington? United States; Free Trade Agreement in a way that The administration and Secretary Whereas recent changes to Mexico’s Con- strengthens the Agreement so that it can Zinke shouldn’t be playing politics stitution allow for further cooperation be- continue to provide benefits to the peoples of tween the United States and Mexico to de- with an issue that is so important to the United States and Mexico and the impor- velop North American energy resources to tant bilateral relationship between the all of our futures, especially so to Flor- the benefit of both countries; United States and Mexico. ida’s future. Whereas, in 2015, the largest share of busi- f f ness and tourist travelers to the United States were from Mexico; AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS Whereas the number of United States citi- MEET zens living in Mexico has steadily increased and exceeded 1,000,000 in 2017, making United Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I SENATE RESOLUTION 371—EX- States citizens in Mexico the world’s largest have 2 requests for committees to meet PRESSING THE SENSE OF THE United States expatriate community; during today’s session of the Senate. SENATE ON THE VALUE OF THE Whereas Mexico is an active participant in They have the approval of the Majority BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP BE- international affairs through its membership and Minority leaders. TWEEN THE UNITED STATES in the United Nations and the Organization of American States, and hosted the G–20 Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph AND MEXICO Leaders’ Summit in 2012; 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Sen- Mr. FLAKE submitted the following Whereas the United States and Mexico ate, the following committees are au- resolution; which was referred to the maintain a robust education exchange pro- thorized to meet during today’s session Committee on Foreign Relations: gram called the United States-Mexico Bilat- of the Senate: eral Forum on Higher Education, Innova- S. RES. 371 COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC tion, and Research that strengthens student WORKS Whereas the United States and Mexico mobility between the United States and share a nearly 2,000-mile long border that Mexico, aiming to send 100,000 Mexican stu- The Committee on Environment and spans 4 States of the United States and 6 dents to the United States and 50,000 United Public Works is authorized to meet Mexican states; States students to Mexico by 2018; during the session of the Senate on Whereas for more than a century the Whereas the Mexico-United States Entre- Wednesday, January 10, 2018, at 10 a.m. United States and Mexico have maintained preneurship and Innovation Council is a bi- to conduct a hearing entitled ‘‘Amer- and fostered diplomatic ties that in 2017 lateral initiative comprised of public and ica’s Water Infrastructure Needs and allow for close cooperation and collaboration private sector representatives designing new on efforts to strengthen security measures initiatives alongside public policies to en- Challenges.’’ along the border, combat drug trafficking hance regional competitiveness that COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY and illegal immigration, and facilitate cross- strengthens the high-impact entrepreneur- The Committee on the Judiciary is border trade; ship system in North America; authorized to meet during the session Whereas the United States and Mexico Whereas the North American Free Trade of the Senate on Wednesday, January have enjoyed economic ties for more than a Agreement was negotiated 25 years before 10, 2018, at 10 a.m., to conduct a hearing century that culminated with the implemen- the date of agreement to this resolution, tation of the North American Free Trade prior to the advancement of new tech- on the following nominations: Kurt D. Agreement in 1994, which opened the Mexi- nologies and economies, such as the E-com- Engelhardt, of Louisiana, to be United can market to the United States and Canada, merce sector, that are not addressed in the States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Cir- creating the largest single free trade area in Agreement’s chapters; and cuit, Barry W. Ashe, to be United the world; Whereas approximately 80 percent of Mexi- States District Judge for the Eastern Whereas before the North American Free co’s exports go to the United States and 47 District of Louisiana, Howard C. Niel- Trade Agreement was in effect, in 1993, percent of Mexico’s imports come from the son, Jr., to be United States District United States trade in goods with Mexico United States, making the United States was worth approximately $82,000,000,000, and Mexico’s most significant trading partner: Judge for the District of Utah, and in 2016, United States trade in goods with Now, therefore, be it James R. Sweeney II, to be United Mexico was worth approximately Resolved, That the Senate— States District Judge for the Southern $525,000,000,000; (1) values the bilateral relationship be- District of Indiana. Whereas the United States has invested ap- tween the United States and Mexico and the f proximately $1,800,000,000 in the Me´rida Ini- many benefits derived from cooperation on tiative, which focuses on the disruption of security, combatting transnational crime, PRIVILEGES OF THE FLOOR organized criminal groups, institutionalizing energy, economic engagement, and cultural the rule of law, creating a 21st-century bor- engagement; Mr. REED. Mr. President, I ask unan- der, and building resilient communities; (2) recognizes that implementation of the imous consent that Summer Lockerbie Whereas cooperation between the United North American Free Trade Agreement in and Stephen Popick, fellows in my of- States and Mexico to fight drug trafficking 1994, and the resulting increase in trade, has fice, be granted privileges of the floor and organized crime has grown significantly provided a platform on which cooperation for the remainder of this session of the since the implementation of the Me´rida Ini- with Mexico on so many levels has been pos- Congress. tiative and security cooperation has intensi- sible; The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without fied since 2008 as trade between the United (3) recognizes that Mexico is an essential objection, it is so ordered. States and Mexico has boomed; partner for the United States in regional se- Whereas the United States intelligence curity and encourages the President to con- f community has worked effectively with its tinue to strengthen ties between the United REQUIRING THE COMPTROLLER counterparts in Mexico to assist in the ar- States and Mexico to help advance United rest of top criminals and drug traffickers, States regional interests; GENERAL OF THE UNITED notably Joaquı´n ‘‘El Chapo’’ Guzma´ n who (4) understands that the relationship be- STATES TO CONDUCT A STUDY was extradited to the United States by Mex- tween the United States and Mexico is AND SUBMIT A REPORT ico in 2017; strengthened by interaction between people Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I Whereas Mexico has assisted the United from the United States and Mexico and eco- ask unanimous consent that the Sen- States in extraditing criminals and fugitives nomic interaction; of United States law captured in Mexico and (5) encourages United States drug enforce- ate proceed to the immediate consider- such cooperation has increased substan- ment agencies to continue developing strong ation of Calendar No. 282, S. 875. tially, with 12 extraditions in 2000 and 79 in cooperative measures with Mexico since ef- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The 2016; forts to stem the drug trade into the United clerk will report the bill by title.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00029 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G10JA6.030 S10JAPT1 S142 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 10, 2018 The senior assistant legislative clerk quired by the Universal Service Administrative The bill (S. 875), as amended, was or- read as follows: Company; dered to be engrossed for a third read- (2) an analysis of the financial impact of A bill (S. 875) to require the Comptroller ing, was read the third time, and those filing requirements on covered carriers General of the United States to conduct a passed. participating in a Universal Service Fund pro- study and submit a report on filing require- gram; and f ments under the Universal Service Fund pro- (3) recommendations, if any, on how to con- grams. solidate redundant filing requirements for cov- ORDERS FOR THURSDAY, There being no objection, the Senate ered carriers participating in a Universal Serv- JANUARY 11, 2018 proceeded to consider the bill, which ice Fund program. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I had been reported from the Committee (c) RULEMAKING.— (1) NEW OR ONGOING RULEMAKING.—Except as ask unanimous consent that when the on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- Senate completes its business today, it tation, with an amendment to strike provided in paragraph (3), not later than 60 days after the date on which the report is sub- adjourn until 10 a.m. on Thursday, Jan- all after the enacting clause and insert mitted under subsection (b), the Commission uary 11; further, that following the in lieu thereof the following: shall— prayer and pledge, the morning hour be SECTION 1. STUDY AND REPORT ON FILING RE- (A)(i) initiate a rulemaking to consolidate redeemed expired, the Journal of pro- QUIREMENTS UNDER UNIVERSAL dundant filing requirements for covered carriers ceedings be approved to date, the time SERVICE FUND PROGRAMS. participating in a Universal Service Fund pro- for the two leaders be reserved for their (a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— gram; and (1) the term ‘‘Administrative Procedure Act’’ (ii) incorporate into the rulemaking under use later in the day, and morning busi- means subchapter II of chapter 5 of title 5, clause (i), and as part of that rulemaking seek ness be closed; finally, that following United States Code; comment on, the recommendations described in leader remarks, the Senate proceed to (2) the term ‘‘Commission’’ means the Federal subsection (b)(3), if any, except to the extent executive session and resume consider- Communications Commission; that doing so would violate the requirements of ation of the Brown nomination. (3) the term ‘‘covered carrier’’ means an eligi- the Administrative Procedure Act; or The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ble telecommunications carrier or service pro- (B) incorporate into an ongoing rulemaking objection, it is so ordered. vider that receives universal service support relating to consolidating redundant filing re- under sections 214(e) and 254 of the Communica- quirements of the Commission, and as part of f tions Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 214(e) and 254) for that rulemaking seek comment on, the rec- the provision of service under a Universal Serv- ommendations described in subsection (b)(3), if ADJOURNMENT UNTIL 10 A.M. ice Fund program; and any, except to the extent that doing so would TOMORROW (4) the term ‘‘Universal Service Fund pro- violate the requirements of the Administrative Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, if gram’’ means each program of the Commission Procedure Act. there is no further business to come be- set forth under part 54 of title 47, Code of Fed- (2) WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE.—In a rule- eral Regulations, or any successor thereto, in- making in which the Commission is required fore the Senate, I ask unanimous con- cluding— under paragraph (1) to seek comment on the rec- sent that it stand adjourned under the (A) the Connect America Fund set forth under ommendations described in subsection (b)(3), if previous order. subpart D of that part; any, the Commission shall also seek comment on There being no objection, the Senate, (B) the Lifeline program set forth under sub- and consider whether the benefit of each rec- at 6:42 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, part E of that part; ommendation is outweighed by any potential in- January 11, 2018, at 10 a.m. (C) the E-Rate program set forth under sub- creased risk of waste, fraud, and abuse in the part F of that part; Universal Service Fund program affected by the f (D) the Rural Health Care program set forth recommendation. NOMINATIONS under subpart G of that part; (3) PREVIOUS RULEMAKING.—Paragraph (1) (E) the Remote Areas Fund set forth under shall not apply if, on or before the date on Executive nominations received by subpart J of that part; which the report is submitted under subsection the Senate: (F) the Connect America Fund Broadband (b), the Commission completes a rulemaking to DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Loop Support program set forth under subpart consolidate redundant filing requirements for K of that part; covered carriers participating in a Universal PAUL C. NEY, JR., OF TENNESSEE, TO BE GENERAL COUNSEL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, VICE JEN- (G) the Mobility Fund set forth under subpart Service Fund program. NIFER M. O’CONNOR. L of that part; and Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I (H) the High Cost Loop Support for Rate-of- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Return Carriers program set forth under subpart ask unanimous consent that the com- HOLLY W. GREAVES, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, mittee-reported substitute amendment TO BE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, ENVIRONMENTAL M of that part. PROTECTION AGENCY, VICE BARBARA J. BENNETT, RE- (b) STUDY AND REPORT.—Not later than 18 be agreed to, the bill, as amended, be SIGNED. months after the date of enactment of this Act, considered read a third time and the Comptroller General of the United States passed, and the motion to reconsider be f shall conduct a study and submit to the Com- considered made and laid upon the CONFIRMATION mission, the Committee on Commerce, Science, table. Executive nomination confirmed by and Transportation of the Senate, and the Com- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without mittee on Energy and Commerce of the House of the Senate January 10, 2018: objection, it is so ordered. Representatives a report, which shall include— THE JUDICIARY (1) an analysis of the filing requirements for The committee-reported amendment in the nature of a substitute was THOMAS LEE ROBINSON PARKER, OF TENNESSEE, TO covered carriers participating in a Universal BE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE WESTERN Service Fund program, including any filings re- agreed to. DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE.

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IN RECOGNITION OF THE CAREER to serving his community and the great State HONORING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF SPECIAL AGENT-IN-CHARGE of Maryland. OF DR. EUGENE G. ARTHURS CJ HYMAN Judge Pak is retiring after 31 years of splen- did government service. For more than 23 HON. SUZAN K. DelBENE HON. TREY GOWDY years, Judge Pak served as an Administrative OF WASHINGTON OF SOUTH CAROLINA Patent Judge with the U.S. Patent Trial and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Appeal Board (PTAB), where he adjudicated Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Wednesday, January 10, 2018 more than 6,000 patent cases and personally Ms. DELBENE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Mr. GOWDY. Mr. Speaker, I include in the issued over 2,000 opinions. Judge Pak has honor Dr. Eugene G. Arthurs, a visionary lead- RECORD the following Proclamation in honor of also served on the PTAB New Judge Training er, dedicated scholar, and passionate advo- a friend and an exceptional Special Agent-in- Committee, the PTAB Publication Committee, cate for science and technology, on the occa- Charge at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, the Board of Patent Appeals, the Patent Acad- sion of his retirement from SPIE, the inter- Firearms and Explosives. I want to recognize emy Course Review Committee, and the U.S. national society for optics and photonics. Dr. the career of Special Agent-in-Charge CJ Patent and Trademark Office Diversity Coun- Arthurs led SPIE from its headquarters in Bel- Hyman, who retired in December after more cil. lingham, WA. During his tenure, SPIE grew to than 30 years of distinguished service at the 19,000 members and 264,000 constituents ATF. Judge Pak embodies the spirit of the Amer- representing optics and photonics experts and Whereas, Special Agent-in-Charge Hyman ican Dream and the immigrant success story. industry leaders in 166 countries, making Bel- began his career with the ATF in 1987, as a In 1971, he immigrated with his family from lingham the home to a top international sci- Special Agent in Charlotte, North Carolina. South Korea to Alabama, where he worked at entific society. There Special Agent Hyman played an integral the local Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. Dr. Arthurs’ distinguished career as a physi- role in the forming of the Charlotte Violent In high school, he played nose guard on the cist, educator, CEO, and global photonics Crime Task Force, in which he investigated football team, but it was his extraordinary skill community leader provided him with the op- and prosecuted narcotics and firearms traf- on the tennis court that ultimately earned him portunity to share his passion for the science ficking as well as robberies, kidnappings, and and beauty of light with students, researchers, a scholarship to Auburn University. After earn- homicides. Special Agent Hyman would be se- and politicians across the globe. He was one lected to lead the task force for five years, ing a degree in chemical engineering, Chung of the driving forces behind the launch of the during which time he supervised and led the attended the Columbus School of Law at the National Photonics Initiative (NPI), an alliance investigation of Eric Rudolph after he bombed Catholic University of America, where he be- of top scientific societies uniting industry and an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, in came a moot court champion. academia to raise awareness of photonics. He 1998. Prior to his appointment to the Patent Trial has been a tireless spokesperson for the need Whereas, over the course of 30 plus years, and Appeal Board, Pak was an intellectual of the science and technology community to Special Agent-in-Charge Hyman served in nu- property counsel at Praxair, Inc. and Union engage with policymakers. merous other leadership positions including as Before he joined SPIE in 1999, he spent 25 Carbide Corporation, where he worked on a the Resident Agent-in-Charge in the Green- years working in photonics in the United King- ville, South Carolina Field Office for ten years wide range of issues including domestic and dom and the United States. He was the first and as the Special Agent-in-Charge of the foreign patent procurement, litigation, trade se- member of his family to get a science degree, Charlotte Field Division, encompassing both crets, antitrust, and licensing. He also served receiving his Bachelor of Science with honors North and South Carolina. In each position as a Primary Patent Examiner and an Assist- in physics and his doctorate in applied physics that Special Agent-in-Charge Hyman has held ant Patent Examiner at the U.S. Patent and from Queens University Belfast. He taught throughout his career, he has provided out- Trademark Office for more than eight years. optoelectronics at Queens and conducted re- standing leadership and integrity in his service Judge Pak is a widely-respected community search at the Imperial College of London be- to the Carolinas. fore immigrating to the United States in 1980. leader who has volunteered his time and in- Whereas, 31 December 2017, Special I would like to thank Dr. Arthurs for his com- Agent-in-Charge Hyman officially retired from vested his energy in a number of state and mitment and dedication to the field. He has the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and local causes. He has served as Co-Chair of been an asset to the science policy commu- Explosives, having faithfully served this great the NAACP Montgomery County’s Multicultural nity, and his guidance in the creation of the nation for more than 30 years. Be it Partnership Committee, Board Member of the NPI provided a solid foundation in photonics Resolved, That I, Trey Gowdy, do congratu- Senior Executive Association, member of Ger- advocacy work. I wish him the best and hope late Special Agent-in-Charge CJ Hyman, his mantown Police Advisory Committee, member he continues to find inspiration in his future wife Leslie, their two children, Josh and Casey of the Maryland Attorney General’s Advisory endeavors. for their unwavering commitment and devotion Council, and as a Maryland Higher Education f to service of our great nation and thank them Commissioner. for their unwavering loyalty, dedication and IN RECOGNITION OF MR. GREGORY contributions to the Carolinas and the Fourth In recognition of his passionate commitment O. DIAS, JR. Congressional District of South Carolina. to public service, Judge Pak has received the President’s Volunteer Service Award, the f HON. DAVID G. VALADAO Maryland Governor’s Volunteer Service OF CALIFORNIA HONORING JUDGE CHUNG PAK Award, Progressive Maryland’s Progressive IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Leader Award, and the Montgomery County Wednesday, January 10, 2018 HON. JAMIE RASKIN Police Department’s Award of Appreciation. OF MARYLAND He was also inducted into the Montgomery Mr. VALADAO. Mr. Speaker, I, along with IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES County Human Rights Hall of Fame. my colleague, Representative DEVIN NUNES, rise today to honor the life of Mr. Gregory O. Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me Dias, Jr., affectionately known as ‘‘Butch,’’ Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to in thanking Judge Chung Pak for a long and who unexpectedly passed away on December recognize my constituent and friend, Judge distinguished career in public service and in 16, 2017. Chung Pak, for his extraordinary career in celebrating his dedication to his community Mr. Gregory O. Dias, Jr. was born in Han- public service and his exemplary commitment and our country. ford, California on December 31, 1948. His

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VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:56 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\K10JA8.001 E10JAPT1 E22 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 10, 2018 maternal grandfather bestowed the nickname THERE IS LIGHT John, your roommate in the Hanoi Hilton ‘‘Butch’’ upon him at a young age and it stuck Bud Day, with him his entire life. Butch was the first HON. PETE SESSIONS up in Heaven, born son of Gregory O. and Vivian M. Dias. is watching over you on this very night. OF TEXAS Because, John has always come armed with He attended Kit Carson Elementary School IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES his light. and Hanford Union High School before attend- Wednesday, January 10, 2018 No matter the battle, ing California State University, Fresno. He was No matter the fight, involved with his family’s farm operation most Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in Either way John, the world still wins. of his life, eventually helping his parents form honor of a great American Hero, The Eagle of Continuing as the leader of the Senate, as their family business, Gregory O. Dias and The Senate and his coming battle. Our hopes America’s friend Sons Dairy and Farming Incorporated. Butch and prayers are with JOHN MCCAIN. I ask that Or as an Angel in The Army of our Lord helped his parents grow the business into this poem penned in his honor by Albert Carey whose time so begins many dairies and farms throughout Kings and Caswell be included in the RECORD. To watch over us again and again To fight that battle against the darkness Tulare Counties. There is darkness And there is light which we must win In 1974, Butch married Alice Vander Tuig in John, win that war. Hanford, California. While growing their busi- Coming out of the darkness burning ever so bright Win that fight! ness, the couple had three children, Rachelle, With the kind of faith of our Fathers, which For you have blessed this great Nation with Darren, and Gregory. Eventually, Butch and built this Nation ignites all of your light his wife acquired Delta View Dairy Farming, Of hope, faith, honor, service, and courage But, my money’s on you John, which they renamed Rachelle’s Jerseys in ever so bright because in the end the darkness does not honor of their daughter, Rachelle, who lost her Now, there is a battle, match the light, life in a tragic car accident. And there is a fight The kind brilliance which emanates from Looming out in the darkness on the floor of your great soul on this very night. A third-generation dairy farmer, Mr. Dias God bless you our Son in your upcoming was a great farmer and a true leader within the Senate on this very night With all of our Nation’s prayers in sight fight the industry. He was passionate about farm- As once again, As you bless our hearts once again, ing, the land, and the animal and enjoyed America’s Son, her Hero, her friend, we look upon your light. working with his two sons Greg and Darren John McCain is in the battle for his life. There is light. every day. In addition to agriculture, Butch en- As this great leader’s heart once again must Amen. joyed traveling the world. somehow ignite f He traveled the world learning about other But, where there is darkness, cultures and making friends, all while pro- there is the light. COMPACT IMPACT RELIEF ACT moting California agriculture abroad. Butch en- And you’ll find men like John McCain, joyed talking, visiting, entertaining, and cook- this Top Gun whose soul burns ever so very HON. MADELEINE Z. BORDALLO bright OF GUAM ing. He was a ‘‘barbecue specialist’’ who often Coming out of the darkness burning so IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES volunteered to cook for family events and bright community activities. His barbecue was re- Who out of this darkness will bring his light, Wednesday, January 10, 2018 nown throughout the Central Valley. He be- The kind which built this great Nation to its Ms. BORDALLO. Mr. Speaker, I reintroduce lieved one should give back to his community, very height the Compact Impact Relief Act to address the and led by example, contributing extensively As has John been armed with throughout the costs of providing local public services to mi- to the surrounding community. generations, grants under the Compacts of Free Associa- Mr. Dias was involved in numerous organi- with ‘‘The Faith of His Fathers’’ so all in tion. zations throughout his life: 4–H Mid Valley plain sight Who have fought and served this Nation with I am very pleased to have the support of Chapter, Hanford FFA, State Champion Milk all of their might our colleagues from Hawai’i and the Northern Judging Team, Kings County Herd Improve- Like Father Like Son, as has John always Mariana Islands, as original cosponsors. ment Association, California Milk Advisory this one Under the Compacts, an unlimited number Board, Dairyman’s Cooperative Creamery as- Courageously served this Nation, of citizens from three Freely Associated States starting with his ancestor serving under sociation, California Dairy Research Council, (FAS)—the Marshall Islands, the Federated U.S. Jersey Association, Luso-American, Delta George Washington As his Grandfather and Father, States of Micronesia, and Palau—may live View School District, Widgeon Land and Cat- and work in the United States. tle, Exeter Duck Club and Farm Credit West. the first Admiral team serving this Nation as one Compact migrants effectively enjoy the Butch also bravely served his country in the All too has John all in his life’s work in what same freedoms of movement and to work as Vietnam War as a member of the United he has done lawful permanent residents, like green card States Navy. Showing us all, holders, in our country do. Butch is survived by his wife Alice, their the definition of courage as one of America’s As such, our bill seeks to allow Compact mi- sons; Darren and his wife Tabitha, and Greg- Greatest of Sons grants to participate in select federal pro- ory and his wife Melanie. Butch loved his chil- Not as The Lion of The Senate but as an Eagle this one grams, if they meet the program criteria, the dren and was blessed to become a grand- same way that green card holders can under father to their children, Nixon, Wren, Hudson, Who throughout the years has soared on the floor of the Senate, current law. Bristol, and Reed. Importantly, our bill ensures that federal re- Mr. Speaker, today we ask our colleagues battling for each and every one Crossing the aisle, sources are not diverted from U.S. citizens in the United States House of Representatives this man of such style when it had to be done and nationals in order to accommodate Com- to join us in honoring the life of Mr. Gregory Leading everyone pact migrants. O. ‘‘Butch’’ Dias, Jr. Our thoughts and prayers Now there’s a battle Economic conditions and the reality of cli- are with his family and friends during this dif- And there’s a fight mate change for Pacific island nations have Upon, the Senate floor on this very night ficult time. driven more and more Compact migrants to f With America’s Hero heart burning bright Coming out of this darkness shining his light the United States. PERSONAL EXPLANATION To teach us all what is magnificent and what Guam remains the primary destination for is right Compact migrants, followed closely by Ha- HON. BILL FOSTER Now, it’s fourth and long wai’i. As America’s Son’s heart beats strong. According to the most recent Census Bu- OF ILLINOIS My money is on John, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES reau figures, more than 76,000 FAS citizens Whose life sings like a song, reside in the United States, including nearly Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Who has always come out of the darkness, 18,000 on Guam. With the heart of a champion and an eagle to Mr. FOSTER. Mr. Speaker, I was not which it belongs. I appreciate that the Compacts remain im- present for votes Tuesday, January 9, 2018. No matter the battle, portant to American strategic interests in the Had I been present, I would have voted: Roll No matter the fight, Asia-Pacific region, including Guam’s security. Call No. 2, Aye; Roll Call No. 3, Aye; and Roll Even as a POW, this Hero came out of that I also know—firsthand—the significant con- Call No. 4, Aye. darkness shining bright. tributions that Compact migrants make to

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:56 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A10JA8.001 E10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E23 Guam and other communities as far away as and Tuesday, January 9, 2018, due to a family policies, programs, and activities of the De- Springdale, Arkansas. emergency. partment of Defense. Today, we refer to this Many citizens of the Freely Associated If I had been able to vote, I would have important legislation as the National Defense States serve proudly in the United States mili- voted as follows: Authorization Act. Crafting this bill is no easy tary. On the Quorum Call for establishing a task, and it couldn’t be done without the However, insufficient support from the fed- quorum in the House of Representatives for countless hours of work put in by the House eral government causes serious strain on local the Second Session of the 115th Congress, I Armed Services Committee staff and the attor- jurisdictions with significant Compact migrant would have answered ‘‘present.’’ neys at the House Office of Legislative Coun- communities. On H. Res. 676, supporting the rights of the sel. Today, I rise to honor a member of the The costs borne by GovGuam and other people of Iran to free expression, condemning legislative counsel team to thank him for his local governments are simply unsustainable. the Iranian regime for its crackdown on legiti- 31 years of service to the House of Rep- Congress must act to provide federal relief mate protests, and for other purposes, I would resentatives, and especially to the House to Guam and other jurisdictions required to have voted ‘‘yea.’’ Armed Services Committee. serve these underprivileged Compact migrant On H.R. 4564, the Post-Caliphate Threat A graduate of the University of Wisconsin communities. Assessment Act of 2017, I would have voted Law School, Greg Kostka joined the House Mr. Speaker, that is exactly what the Com- ‘‘yea.’’ Office of Legislative Counsel in 1986 and has pact Impact Relief Act would do. On H.R. 4581, the Screening and Vetting had a hand in the drafting of each National Our bill includes novel policy changes that Passenger Exchange Act of 2017, I would Defense Authorization Act since the Fiscal would provide additional federal resources for have voted ‘‘yea.’’ Year 1989 bill. While Greg’s focus areas have Guam, Hawai’i, and other states and terri- f been in military personnel, military justice, mili- tories. tary construction, and readiness, he is known In particular, the Compact Impact Relief Act IN HONOR OF PHYLLIS HAHN’S by his colleagues as someone capable of ensures that Guam—and other territories—can RECOGNITION FOR HER OUT- drafting in virtually any area of defense law if utilize fully important federal programs includ- STANDING WORK SUPPORTING called upon. And from 2016 to 2017, Greg ing: Job Corps centers funded by the U.S. De- OUR VETERANS served as the defense team lead in the Office partment of Labor; national and community of Legislative Counsel. service programs like AmeriCorps and the HON. LIZ CHENEY Greg’s expertise and interest in the military extended beyond his time drafting legislation Youth Conservation Corps; and an accurate OF WYOMING in his office. As an amateur historian of the 10-year census that counts Compact migrant IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES residents. Civil War, Greg wrote an unofficial history of Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Our bill would permit Guam and other af- the role of the Third U.S. Regular Infantry dur- fected jurisdictions to apply costs spent pro- Ms. CHENEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ing the American Civil War. I understand that viding public services to Compact migrants to- extend my congratulations to Phyllis Hahn on he also participated in Civil War reenactments. ward the non-federal portion required to pro- being recognized with twin Certificates of Greg was a regular participant in annual vide Medicaid to Americans. Commendation for her outstanding coopera- legislative update programs for the military’s The bill also classifies Compact migrant tion and participation in serving our veterans. Judge Advocate Generals and accompanied schoolchildren as ‘‘federally connected stu- Inspired by her family’s long tradition of mili- committee staff on visits to several military in- dents’’ to make local schools serving them eli- tary service and the deep national patriotism stallations. Greg brought his expertise and in- gible for impact aid funding from the U.S. De- and commitment to supporting our armed terest with him every day, and his work partment of Education. forces she grew up with during World War II, showed that he cared deeply about the men Importantly, our bill authorizes additional Phyllis has been dedicated to assisting and and women who serve in uniform. funding so that Compact migrant students do honoring our veterans for almost 70 years. Greg’s professionalism and institutional not take resources away from school districts Phyllis joined the American Legion Auxiliary knowledge have been greatly appreciated by receiving federal impact aid currently. Unit No. 1 at 15 and the Veterans of Foreign his colleagues in the Office of Legislative Next, our bill requires comprehensive as- Wars Auxiliary No. 3511 one year later be- Counsel as well as by Members and staff who sessments of: the Compacts and their imple- cause she was too young to serve in the mili- have had the pleasure of working with him mentation; the economies of jurisdiction af- tary herself. Since then, she has been an ac- over the years. After 31 years of dedicated fected by the Compacts and the three Freely tive and faithful member of both organizations, service to the House of Representatives, Greg Associated States; and the unique health currently serving as the president of the Amer- announced his retirement from the Office of needs of Pacific Islanders. ican Legion Auxiliary and treasurer of the Legislative Counsel on December 31, 2017. On behalf of all the Members and staff of As the United States looks to renew the VFW Auxiliary. the House Armed Services Committee, I offer Compacts ahead of their expiration in fiscal Phyllis’ patriotism and dedication to sup- my sincere gratitude to Greg for his expertise year 2023, the federal government cannot porting our veterans is exceptional. She un- and wise counsel over the years and wish continue to force local jurisdictions to shoulder derstands the needs of our former servicemen him, and his wife Jeanine, all the best in his the substantial costs of accommodating Com- and is committed to giving them the assist- retirement. pact migrants. ance they need and deserve. Phyllis has Guam and other states and territories af- made an excellent example to her friends, her f fected by Compact migrants need to be reim- family, and people across our state. HONORING GUS FRANK, CHAIRMAN bursed fairly for the costs of serving these un- Again, Mr. Speaker, I would like to extend OF THE FOREST COUNTY POTA- derprivileged communities. my congratulations to Phyllis Hahn for her rec- WATOMI EXECUTIVE COUNCIL Congress must increase mandatory funding ognition, and thank her for her commitment for Compact impact to the level recommended and many contributions to our veterans and to HON. SEAN P. DUFFY by the Government Accountability Office our great state. OF WISCONSIN (GAO), as I have called for consistently. f IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In the meantime, I urge this House to pass Wednesday, January 10, 2018 the practical policy changes included in my RECOGNIZING GREG KOSTKA IN Compact Impact Relief Act into law. HONOR OF HIS RETIREMENT Mr. DUFFY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to FROM THE HOUSE OFFICE OF f honor Gus Frank, Chairman of the Forest THE LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL County Potawatomi Executive Council, who PERSONAL EXPLANATION recently announced that he is retiring after 20 HON. ADAM SMITH years of dedicated service to his tribe. Gus HON. GENE GREEN OF WASHINGTON has worked tirelessly for the benefit of his OF TEXAS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES people—and he’s always done it with a smile IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES on his face. I’m proud to have worked with Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Gus for several years on many issues affect- Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Speaker, ing our communities and I’m proud to call him Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, each year for the past 57 years the Congress a friend. I congratulate him on his retirement. I was unable to vote on Monday, January 8, has passed annual legislation to authorize the Gus has truly earned it.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:56 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A10JA8.004 E10JAPT1 E24 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 10, 2018 HONORING CARRIE STUART OF guide them throughout the remainder of their After a few months of recovery in a hospital, PENNSYLVANIA FOR MORE THAN lives. Phil was sent to a Displaced Persons camp in 20 YEARS OF SERVICE TO HER In addition to her position at the high school, Germany where he was elected to the gov- COMMUNITY Ann took on the role of Director of Music at erning council. It was there that he met and the First United Methodist Church in Conroe. married his wife, Ruth Fajerman Markowicz, HON. SCOTT PERRY There, Ann uncovered her passion for music who was also a Holocaust survivor, and they OF PENNSYLVANIA ministry, began performing for her church’s had a son, Allen Markowicz. The Markowicz IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES congregation, and worked tirelessly to serve marriage and the birth of their son were the her community. Her love for the people of first of each in the camp. Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Conroe led her to join the Conroe Lions Club, After waiting for five years, the family was Mr. PERRY. Mr. Speaker, today I extend my where she worked in her community for over permitted to immigrate to the United States in sincere congratulations to my constituent, thirty years. 1950, and upon arriving in Toledo, Ohio, Phil Carrie Stuart, on more than 20 years of serv- In 1984, Ann became the director of the found employment, sometimes working two or ice with the Gettysburg Adams Chamber of Conroe Chorale. Ann took the Chorale, now three jobs at a time while studying the newly Commerce. known as the Montgomery County Choral So- growing field of television and electronics. In Carrie began her tenure at the Gettysburg ciety, to new heights. She organized commu- less than 10 years Phil and his wife Ruth es- Adams Chamber of Commerce as a tem- nity concerts and traveled with the group on tablished a successful business, Phil’s TV and porary employee, but later became the full- multiple international trips, taking their per- Appliance, and added two daughters to their time Office Manager. In 2008, she was named formances and concerts across Europe. family, Sylvia and Diane. the organization’s president. Ann’s passion for her students, her church, Phil eventually resumed his study of Torah. During her tenure, the Chamber created a her community, and her music led her to posi- He wrote a well-received memoir, My Three dialogue with other economic organizations in tively influence the lives of everyone who Lives. A musical oratorio which was inspired Adams County to attract new businesses and crossed her path. She made a lasting impact by Mr. Markowicz’s life and philosophical grow the local economy, instituted new pro- on the people of Conroe, and I was honored writings, Tikvah (Hope), has been performed grams to benefit Chamber members, invested to call her my friend. at the Toledo Museum of Art; in Champaign- thousands of dollars back into the local com- I join Ann’s family, friends, and the thou- Urbana, Illinois; at Bowling Green State Uni- munity, and worked with the business and sands of people she impacted over her life- versity; at the Detroit Holocaust Memorial Mu- education community to identify critical work- time in recognizing and honoring her many seum; in North Carolina; at the Jewish Theater force development needs. years of service to the Conroe Community. of the South in Atlanta; and was part of the Carrie also has been an active member of Ann passed away on November 13, 2017, and Martin Luther King Memorial Week cere- many community service organizations, includ- she will be sorely missed. monies in Atlanta in 2006. Phil was a featured ing the United Way of Adams County, Main f interviewee on the award-winning documen- Street Gettysburg, the Adams Economic Alli- tary Bearing Witness: The Voices of Our Sur- ance, and many others. HONORING THE LIFE OF PHILIP vivors. Carrie Stuart’s tireless dedication and pro- MARKOWICZ Phil spoke on the Holocaust and on Torah fessionalism has touched the lives of count- at various venues, including Universities, sec- less people and challenges all with whom she HON. MARCY KAPTUR ondary schools, religious institutions, seminars serves to be the best. She continues to build OF OHIO and Public Television. He was invited to lead an impressive legacy of service to our commu- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES religious services, read from the Torah and its nity. Wednesday, January 10, 2018 accompanying Haftorah, and present sermons. On behalf of Pennsylvania’s Fourth Con- Phil served as a president of the Tarbuth Soci- gressional District, I thank and congratulate Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ety, one of the Torah study groups in which he Carrie Stuart on her 20 years of service and recognize the extraordinary life of Philip participated, and was a member of Congrega- look forward to working with her in the years Markowicz, who was a resident of Sylvania, tion B’nai Israel in Sylvania, Ohio and the ahead. Ohio and Aventura, Florida. Phil was also a Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center Synagogue renowned author and lecturer on the Holo- f in Aventura, Florida. caust and Judaism as a survivor of the Holo- In addition to his wife, Ruth, he was pre- IN HONOR OF ANN ELIZABETH LEE caust. As a business leader, he founded Phil’s ceded in death by his daughter, Diane TV and Appliance in Toledo, Ohio. Markowicz; his brother, Henry Markowicz; and HON. KEVIN BRADY Phil was born in 1924 in Przerab, Poland the rest of his family in the Holocaust. OF TEXAS where he attended the Przedborz Yeshiva and Phil will ultimately be remembered for his IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES was known as a Bible and Talmud prodigy, dedication to his family, and we offer his chil- and had the intention of becoming ordained as Wednesday, January 10, 2018 dren, Dr. Allen and Sylvia, his nine grand- a rabbi. children and nine great-grandchildren, and his Mr. BRADY of Texas. Mr. Speaker, today I Unfortunately, the 1939 Nazi Invasion of Po- friends our prayers. May they find comfort in rise to honor the life of Ann Elizabeth Lee, a land shutdown the Przedborz Yeshiva and as the poignant and profound memories of what longtime resident of Conroe, TX, and a de- a teenager through the first years of World Phil endured and survived, and what his life voted educator, community leader, and friend. War II Phil was confined in the Lodz Ghetto has embodied for generations to come. working as a slave laborer under Nazi rule. He Born in Austin, TX, Ann Lee discovered her f natural talent and love for music at an early spent all of his nonworking time in intensive age. After relocating with her family to Taylor, study of many of the classic works of history, SUPPORTING H.R. 535 AND H.R. 3320 TX, Ann worked to improve her musical abili- philosophy and political thought, ties and became heavily involved in music supplementing his orthodox religious studies. HON. LOIS FRANKEL programs, such as the Honors Band, Stage When the Lodz Ghetto was dismantled, Phil OF FLORIDA Band, and the choir at Taylor High School. was deported by the Nazis to the Auschwitz- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Upon her graduation, Ann attended Sam Birkenau death camp. He realized that staying Houston State University, where she majored there meant certain death and he sneaked Wednesday, January 10, 2018 in Music Education and continued to refine her into an outside work detail, avoiding the gas Ms. FRANKEL of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I talent. Ultimately, Ann graduated magna cum chambers and crematoria. Along with his rise in support of two measures, H.R. 535 and laude, ranking in the top ten percent of her brother, Henry, he survived slave labor con- H.R. 3320. class. centration camps, disease, beatings and star- Both of these measures are aimed at In 1977, Ann moved to Conroe, TX, where vation, culminating in a death march, until he strengthening our bonds with Taiwan, a part- she began a new chapter of her life as the was liberated by the American forces in the ner in every sense of the word—in trade, in choral director for Conroe High School—a po- spring of 1945. His body was wracked with ty- technology, and in culture. Over the last dec- sition she held for eight years. Throughout her phus and tuberculosis and he weighed only 87 ade, Taiwan has emerged as a vibrant and lib- time in Conroe, Ann worked with countless pounds. He and his brother were the only sur- eral democracy of more than 23 million peo- young men and women, instilling in them a vivors of the Holocaust—their entire family had ple, and remains a key ally in the Asia Pacific love for music and a discipline that would perished. region. I support H.R. 535, which would

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:56 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A10JA8.009 E10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E25 strengthen U.S.—Taiwan relations by encour- hard work and dedication can not only be a principles has been an asset to the Committee aging travel between the two nations by high- rewarding journey, but also help shape the fu- and its Members as they carry out the Com- level officials, and H.R. 3320, which directs ture of one of America’s most important indus- mittee’s important service to the House and the Secretary of State to develop a plan to re- tries. the public. gain Taiwan’s observer status in the World Mr. Speaker, please join me in congratu- On behalf of a grateful Committee, we thank Health Organization. lating Ms. Coleman on reaching this incredible him for his service and wish him all the best Adoption of these bills would underscore the milestone in her career and wishing her luck in his transition to the next phase of his ca- United States’ commitment to our relationship in her continued role at Norfolk Southern. reer. with Taiwan, and I encourage my colleagues f f to support them as well. HONORING PATRICK MCMULLEN REPORT TO CONGRESS REGARD- f ING THE ARIZONA BALANCED IN HONOR OF EUGENE AND RUTH HON. SUSAN W. BROOKS BUDGET AMENDMENT PLANNING ANN YINGER’S 50TH WEDDING CONVENTION OF INDIANA ANNIVERSARY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, January 10, 2018 HON. PAUL A. GOSAR HON. LIZ CHENEY OF ARIZONA OF WYOMING Mrs. BROOKS of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, I IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES rise to thank Patrick McMullen for his service Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Wednesday, January 10, 2018 to the Committee on Ethics. Since 2011, Pat- rick’s skill as a lawyer and manager has been Mr. GOSAR. Mr. Speaker, it is with great Ms. CHENEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to integral to the Committee’s important work en- satisfaction and pride that I report the outcome extend my congratulations to Eugene and forcing the House ethics rules. of the first formally authorized national Con- Ruth Ann Yinger on their 50th Wedding Anni- Patrick served as an Investigative Counsel vention of State Legislatures to convene in versary. for the Committee during the 112th and 113th 156 years. The ‘‘Arizona Balanced Budget This significant benchmark is a symbol of Congresses. In that role he worked tirelessly Amendment (BBA) Planning Convention’’ was their commitment to each other and to their to provide the Committee Members with fair held September 12–15, 2017 in the chamber family. I am happy to join their friends and and creative advice on difficult issues. of the Arizona House of Representatives. The family in extending my best to them on this In the 114th Congress Patrick rose to be- purpose of the convention was to discuss and special occasion. come the Committee’s Director of Investiga- plan for an eventual Article V—convention of Again, Mr. Speaker, I would like to extend tions. In this role, he has managed a team of states to propose a federal balanced budget my congratulations to Eugene and Ruth Ann nonpartisan attorneys and investigators that amendment to the Constitution. on the celebration of their 50th Wedding Anni- successfully handled a busy docket of inves- The convention was formally called by the versary. I wish them the best today and for tigations. Throughout that time, he instilled in Arizona legislature’s passage of HCR2022 many more blessed years to come. his team a dedication to uncovering the truth sponsored by the Arizona Speaker of the f with care and impartiality. House, J.D. Mesnard, on March 16, 2017. RECOGNIZING MS. MARIE COLE- At the House Ethics Committee, we are re- Pursuant to that resolution, the purpose of the MAN’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE sponsible for protecting the integrity of the convention was to create a proposed set of U.S. RAIL INDUSTRY House of Representatives. The staff works rules for adoption by and to govern a future every day to increase the American people’s single subject Article V convention to propose HON. LOU BARLETTA confidence in Congress. The work of the Eth- a BBA. Additionally, delegates were instructed to address the logistics involved in preparing OF PENNSYLVANIA ics Committee is done confidentially so people for and participating in an upcoming Article V IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES do not often know everything happening behind the scenes by our incredible, non-par- BBA convention. This report is intended to in- Wednesday, January 10, 2018 tisan staff. As Patrick prepares to leave the form the work of the Arizona BBA Planning Mr. BARLETTA. Mr. Speaker, it is my great Committee, I appreciate this opportunity to Convention and highlight areas of importance. honor to recognize Ms. Marie Coleman for her recognize the great work he and his team The Arizona BBA Planning Convention has many years of service to the U.S. Rail Indus- have done. He truly has been a leader in our created a roadmap for future conventions to try. On January 10, 2018, Marie will have office and in increasing confidence in Con- draw upon when they convene, and has pro- dedicated 50 years of service to several gress. vided a sense of security to those who ques- prominent American railroads. With decades While I am saddened by his departure from tioned the ability of State delegates to hold a of success serving the people of Pennsylvania the Committee, I wish him well in his future convention that would address solely its single and Americans across the country, I know I endeavors. purpose and nothing more. It was an impor- will neither be the first, nor the last, to applaud f tant endeavor that deserves proper cata- her distinguished professional accomplish- loguing in the appropriate annals to include ments. HONORING PATRICK MCMULLEN the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, the Library of Ms. Coleman began her career in 1968 with Congress, the National Archives, State Librar- the Pennsylvania Railroad. Shortly thereafter, HON. THEODORE E. DEUTCH ies, and the participating State Legislatures’ she moved to work for Penn Central, where OF FLORIDA records. I submit this congressional report and she remained from the time of its founding IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ask that you consider the work of the dele- until April 1976, when, through an Act of Con- gates as legitimate and pertinent. Wednesday, January 10, 2018 gress, it was included in a merger to form the In keeping with the traditions of past na- Consolidated Rail Corporation. There, she Mr. DEUTCH. Mr. Speaker, I rise to thank tional conventions, the Arizona BBA Planning served in numerous roles for more than a dec- Patrick McMullen for his service to the Com- Convention has encouraged delegations to ade from 1976 to 1998. In the 20 years since, mittee on Ethics. Patrick has been a dedicated create a report of the convention to their state. she has served the Norfolk Southern railroad public servant, and has worked hard to ensure Georgia, Michigan and Minnesota, among oth- system. that all House Members, officers, and staff ers, are states whose delegates have provided A lifelong Pennsylvanian, Ms. Coleman is a meet the highest ethical standards. a comprehensive assessment. We encourage proud railroader who has served under 11 dif- During his tenure with the Committee’s in- them to submit their work to the above ar- ferent CEOs. Her unwavering dedication vestigations team, the Committee has con- chives as well, and hope to preserve this work throughout her career helped bring an industry ducted more than 225 investigations. As Di- and encourage more national conventions on back from the brink of extinction to become a rector of Investigations, he has helped the a variety of topics in the future. powerful catalyst for American economic Committee assemble and has overseen a ter- Therefore, I include in the RECORD a report growth. There is no doubt that Ms. Coleman’s rific team of nonpartisan attorneys and profes- to Congress in regard to Arizona balanced service to the U.S. Rail Industry contributed to sional staff who make this possible. budget amendment: its success. Patrick’s commitment to conducting fair, It is with great confidence that I believe We can all look to Ms. Marie Coleman as thorough, and nonpartisan investigations and each member of Congress possesses the same an example of how one person’s professional leading the investigations team with these depth of gratitude for the work of our

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:56 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A10JA8.012 E10JAPT1 E26 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 10, 2018 Founding Fathers as those of us who at- The Phoenix convention was instructive in authorized to speak and vote on behalf of tended this first fully authorized convention preparing for a future Article V BBA conven- their state Legislature. Delegates who were of states since the Civil War. We are all tion. We learned much about the process of not listed on their State’s approved delega- tasked with the grand responsibility to gov- communicating with the state legislatures tion list were not seated. The meeting con- ern the people. In doing so, we reach with and the need to continue to educate them on sisted of officially approved delegates from one hand into the future to focus on pro- the logistics of a convention. We were en- 19 state legislatures, with delegates from tecting the prosperity of our children’s chil- couraged from the manner in which the dele- three additional states observing. Commit- dren, and with our other hand we reach to gates conducted themselves that any future tees established to fulfill the requirements of the past to learn and explore what happened convention, like Phoenix, will stick to its HCR2022 were as follows: The Rules Drafting so that we are better able to protect and pre- task and never ‘‘run away’’ as Article V Committee; The Planning Committee, which serve the vision of those who built this great naysayers assert. The nature of delegate ap- was divided into two sub-committees: A Sub- Republic. pointment process and the rules, in addition One such visionary was Col. George Mason, to numerous other safeguards, simply won’t committee on Ethics which was formed to who insisted that the States should also be allow for it. address the impact and management of out- able to propose amendments to the Constitu- As a result of the Arizona convention, inside influence on the convention process and tion. He imagined that there would come a cluding the establishment of the Phoenix A Subcommittee on Delegates and Cor- time when the Legislatures would be called Correspondence Commission, the states as a respondence to assist in planning for a future upon to take appropriate action, and that group are positioned to assist Congress in BBA convention. A synopsis of the product there ought to be a second mechanism to up- counting the number of live Article V BBA of the Rules Committee is as follows: Pro- date our founding document should the need applications in place, in assisting with iden- duced a model set of rules for an Article V arise. This method has recently gained inter- tifying a time and location for a future BBA convention to propose a BBA. Some compo- est and popularity across the country, and convention to be held, in addressing any nents of the set of model rules were as fol- for several years State Legislators have been legal issues which may arise concerning the lows: The Article V convention shall be lim- examining the viability of such an exercise. calling of such a convention, in preparing ited in scope to the balanced budget amend- It can be legitimately argued that the time language for an appropriate resolution to be George Mason envisioned is before us. The ment. Governing rules provide for appro- passed by Congress fulfilling its mandatory priate order and conduct during a BBA Arti- momentum is increasing and the reality of obligation to call the convention when the an Article V Convention of States is becom- cle V convention which include, but are not threshold number of states have applied and limited to, the following: Duties of the offi- ing ever apparent. Greater Legislators than I to otherwise assist Congress in performing were aware of the need to prepare the way in cers. A quorum is a majority of the states in its duties pursuant to Article V of the United attendance. Each state shall be given only advance, and it has been an honor to join States Constitution. one vote, as has been the precedent in all them in that effort. We hope to work to- At present, twenty-eight (28) states have gether with Congress to restore fiscal ac- passed (and not rescinded) Article V applica- preceding state conventions. Order of busi- countability through the requirement of a tions calling for a convention to propose a ness and names of committees. The cost of balanced budget, and preparing a proposed balanced budget amendment. As we approach the convention to be divided equally among set of rules for the Balanced Budget Amend- the two-thirds threshold triggering the call the states in attendance. ment Convention is our gift to future dele- of a convention, we stand ready to work co- A synopsis of the Planning Committee is gates to make that process easier. operatively with Congress in moving forward We present this report to you in hopes that as follows: Recommendations for protecting with this historic endeavor. you will consider the work that has been ac- the integrity of an Article V Convention. I authored the resolution calling for a Bal- Non-delegates should not be permitted on complished thus far. The Phoenix Cor- anced Budget Amendment Planning Conven- respondence Commission was created as an the Chamber Floor, Members’ Lounge, etc., tion in Phoenix because I love this country. outgrowth of this convention, and as a and should only be permitted in public areas. I believe it to be the greatest nation that has founding member of that Commission, I look Any interaction of Convention leadership ever existed, but I am greatly concerned that forward to beginning the conversation need- and staff with non-delegate individuals or or- our country is not on a sustainable fiscal ed to prepare for the much-anticipated Arti- ganizations that pertains to Convention path. Contrary to what some would like us cle V Convention of States. business or process should be strictly prohib- to believe, the responsibility to get our fiscal ‘‘We face the most predictable economic ited, with the exception of the press. Conven- crisis in history.’’ That was the conclusion of house in order does not just rest with Con- gress, nor is Congress the end-all-be-all for tion communications should only include of- Erskine Bowles, co-chair of the National ficial activities. States should consider ex- Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Re- governing this country. In fact, a critical responsibility of the tending their ethics restrictions (i.e. lob- form (Simpson-Bowles Commission), to the states in this great Union is in helping to bying, food, gifts, etc.) to delegates serving U.S. Senate Budget Committee on March 8, within a convention, in addition to any eth- 2011. At the time of this ominous warning to keep our federal government in check. That ics standards imposed by Convention rules. the nation in 2011, the national debt had just value of Federalism was a bedrock principle Sub-Committee on Delegates and Cor- eclipsed $14 trillion. It took 206 years for our that our Founding Fathers captured in the nation to amass $1 trillion in debt; it has in- design of government put forth in the Con- respondence reported the following: In an- creased by over $6 trillion in the just the last stitution of the United States, over two cen- ticipation of the call for a convention for seven years. Had Congress acted on the com- turies ago. I believe it is time for the states proposing amendments, states are strongly mission’s proposal, it would have reduced the to start flexing our constitutional muscles, encouraged to enact delegate selection legis- national debt by $4 trillion over a decade and just as our Founding Fathers envisioned. lation at the earliest opportunity. The Phoe- put Social Security solidly on the road to And one vital tool for facilitating that, was nix Correspondence Commission (PCC) was solvency. Congress ignored this unequivocal instilled by our Founders in Article V of the created. The PCC will consist of commis- national wake up call. ‘‘The fiscal path we Constitution. That is, the power of the states sioners appointed by the states to carry out are on today is simply not sustainable,’’ to propose amendments, especially as a the following functions to organize a conven- Bowles said. ‘‘This debt and these deficits means of constraining the power of the fed- tion for proposing amendments: Creating a that we are incurring on an annual basis are eral government. In 1798, then Vice President single point of contact to act as a liaison like a cancer and they are going to truly de- Thomas Jefferson, in correspondence with a with Congress. Track all applications for a stroy this country from within unless we state legislator, wrote, ‘‘I wish it were pos- convention for proposing amendments. Cre- sible to obtain a single amendment to our have the common sense to do something ate a process to suggest to Congress a time Constitution. I would be willing to depend on about it.’’ States are exercising the common and place for a convention for proposing that alone for the reduction of the adminis- sense to do something about it. Acting under amendments. Provide a process for legal rep- tration of our government; I mean an addi- Article V of the U.S. Constitution, 28 of the resentation, if necessary. Perform tasks as tional article taking from the Federal Gov- required 34 States have now called for a con- needed to organize the convention. Each ernment the power of borrowing.’’ While it vention of states to propose a balanced budg- state is strongly encouraged to appoint a et amendment to the Constitution in order might be more than two centuries late, I commissioner to the PCC to communicate on to avert this ‘‘most predictable economic hope that soon we will be able to give Presi- all matters associated with a convention for crisis in history.’’ In September of 2016, at dent Jefferson his wish—for our own sake proposing amendments with any or all of the the call of the Arizona Legislature, 19 States All fifty state legislatures were invited to convened in their official capacity to propose attend the Arizona BBA Planning Conven- following: State Legislators, United States rules for conducting an Article V balanced tion. The Arizona planning committee ac- Citizens, Convention Organizers, State Con- budget convention of states. tively sought a delegation from each state gressional Delegations, and Congress. The We call upon Congress, the States, and peo- and was fully inclusive in their efforts to members of the PCC will be initially com- ple of good faith everywhere to extend their host a bi-partisan event. HCR2022 specifi- prised of one member appointed from each utmost efforts to support this constitutional cally required that the delegations be chosen delegation present at this Arizona Balanced remedy for curing the national fiscal ‘‘can- by resolution of the legislature or by formal Budget Amendment Planning Convention, cer’’ before the exponentially increasing na- joint appointment by the leadership in both until such time as each commissioner’s state tional debt ‘‘destroy[s] this nation from houses of their respective state legislatures. formally appoints a commissioner to the within.’’ This was to ensure that the delegation was PCC or declines to do the same.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:56 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A10JA8.017 E10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E27 CONGRATULATING BRIGADIER MORE MONEY, LESS PROBLEMS obstacles were making it difficult to graze on GENERAL CHRISTOPHER their federal allotments. In many instances, FINERTY UPON HIS PROMOTION HON. JOE WILSON their allotted animal unit months (AUMs) had TO BRIGADIER GENERAL OF SOUTH CAROLINA been significantly reduced and in some cases IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES completely eliminated. The trend going forward was not positive. HON. KAY GRANGER Wednesday, January 10, 2018 It became clear to me that providing oppor- OF TEXAS Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speak- tunities for the ranching families to continue er, yesterday, I was grateful to learn that Tide- their livelihoods would be critical to a final out- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES water Boats, led by Jimmy Metts, is investing come. A final bill would need to provide area Wednesday, January 10, 2018 $8.3 million to expand their manufacturing fa- ranchers with options that could help them cility in Lexington, South Carolina. This invest- reset their grazing operations and provide Ms. GRANGER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ment will create 100 new jobs. greater certainty for them in the future. thank Brigadier General Christopher E. Finerty This news is on top of AFLAC announcing To meet this need, we developed a program for his outstanding service to our country and that they will be expanding their 700 employ- in which area ranchers could voluntarily retire congratulate him on his promotion to Brigadier ees in Columbia, South Carolina, managed by individual allotments that might not be eco- General in the United States Air Force. Gen- Daniel Lebish, and doubling their employee nomically viable to their ongoing ranching op- eral Finerty has worked closely with me, the 401K matching funds. erations in exchange for compensation from a Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and On the same day Republicans passed his- private third party. across Capitol Hill to inform and advise the toric tax cuts, AT&T led by Pam Lackey an- This program specified that agreements Congress so that we may ensure a strong and nounced they are providing 200,000 employ- were to be voluntary, that ranchers would be ready National Guard. He has also helped the ees a $1,000 bonus. Comcast, whose leader paid for all of the AUMs on their allotment and Pentagon work more productively with Con- in South Carolina is Douglas Guthrie, will be that funding would come from third party pri- gress, promoting a strong and efficient na- providing $1,000 bonuses to 100,000 employ- vate entities and not the federal government. tional defense. ees. BB&T, a valued corporate citizen led by Mr. Speaker, I’m pleased to say that last General Finerty has done this work self- Mike Brennan, will be raising their employee month marked the completion of the initial lessly. He quietly, but tenaciously advocates wages to $15 an hour and providing a $1,200 phase of voluntary retirements. for the Chief of the National Guard Bureau’s bonus for 27,000 employees. In the past year, four families have retired priorities to make the National Guard a ready, Boeing of Charleston, led by Joan Robin- five allotments and received over $1.35 million capable force for operations m the homeland son-Berry, announced they will be donating in private compensation. Some of these allot- and overseas. $100 million to charity that focuses on edu- ments were proving difficult to use and were cation, local communities, veterans and mili- marginally viable in their traditional operations. General Finerty’s promotion grows from a Through our program, the ranchers were paid career of accomplishments and experience. tary personnel. But the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is not only for every AUM on each allotment. Prior to becoming the head of the National On the conservation side, over 126,000 Guard Bureau’s Office of Legislative Liaison, for businesses. I appreciate that next month, American families will see more of their own acres of pristine and ecologically important where he works directly for the Chief of the areas that include winter and summer range National Guard Bureau, General Finerty was money in their paychecks. In conclusion, God Bless our Troops, and for elk and deer, important sage grouse habi- Vice Commander of the Air National Guard we will never forget September 11th in the tat, and some of the highest elevation spawn- Readiness Center and simultaneously the Global War on Terrorism. ing habitat for ocean-going salmon and Commander of the 201st Mission Support Best wishes to Chairman DARRELL ISSA and steelhead found anywhere will no longer be Squadron, which together oversee personnel Kathy Issa for their dedicated service as they grazed. These were high conflict areas that and policy across the country. He has pre- announce their retirement. We look forward to have experienced past litigation and would vious tours in the National Guard Bureau’s their continued service for the American peo- probably see future litigation or regulation. legislative liaison office, the Air Force congres- ple. I am very pleased to say that the voluntary sional budget liaison office, and on the Air Na- f retirement program has been a success and a tional Guard staff. He logged over 3,300 hours win for both the ranchers and for conservation. piloting HH–60 rescue helicopters and flew 45 IN RECOGNITION OF A SUCCESS- While the initial third party funding for the vol- combat missions. General Finerty is a 1992 FUL IDAHO CONSERVATION PRO- untary retirement program has expired, the graduate of the United States Air Force Acad- GRAM mechanism still exists for ranchers to retire al- emy. lotments in the future, should they so choose. General Finerty dedicates all of his time and HON. MICHAEL K. SIMPSON In doing so, they will be free to enter into new energy to his work, with two exceptions—his OF IDAHO agreements with new terms. These future children, Ryan and Kate. General Finerty’s IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES agreements will be of their own accord be- first priority are his children, and no father tween the ranchers and conservation interests. could be more devoted. Kate and Ryan inspire Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Mr. Speaker, I would like to recognize the and strengthen him Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to following organizations and individuals for their Please join me in congratulating General recognize an important conservation program contributions to the voluntary retirement pro- Finerty on his well-earned promotion and in taking place in central Idaho that was created gram. expressing our gratitude for his selfless serv- as part of the Sawtooth National Recreation The Idaho Conservation League were the ice. Area and Jerry Peak Wilderness Additions backbone behind the voluntary grazing retire- Act. I also want to acknowledge the out- ment program. The legislation provided the f standing cooperation between Idaho conserva- mechanism for the voluntary retirements and tionists and ranchers that have made this pro- they provided the muscle, resources, and ex- PERSONAL EXPLANATION gram a success. pertise to carry out this initial batch of retire- The signing of the law in 2015 created three ments. new wilderness areas totaling over 429 square I want to give special thanks to Rick John- HON. RON KIND miles. This jewel in the heart of Idaho was son, the Executive Director of the Idaho Con- protected for future generations to enjoy. It OF WISCONSIN servation League. Rick worked very closely also returned significant amounts of wilder- with my staff and me as we developed the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ness study areas back to multiple use allowing program. He made sure the grant funding was Wednesday, January 10, 2018 individuals and families to engage in outdoor in place prior to passage of the legislation so and recreational activities for years to come. that promises made to the ranchers would be Mr. KIND. Mr. Speaker, I was unable to When I began working on the Boulder-White kept after the bill became law. Rick has been have my votes recorded on the House floor on Clouds bill nearly 20 years ago, ranchers on a true friend and partner from start to finish in Tuesday January 9, 2018. Had I been present, the East Fork of the Salmon River were facing this process. I would have voted in favor of H.R. 4581, H.R. significant headwinds to their traditional way of A very big thanks and well done go to John 4564 and H. Res. 676. life. Lawsuits, federal regulations, and other Robison, Public Lands Director of the Idaho

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:56 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A10JA8.018 E10JAPT1 E28 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 10, 2018 Conservation League. John facilitated each re- tion to his family and community. David is sur- gime involved in significant corruption and se- tirement from start to finish. He worked with vived by his partner, Alexandra Jones; sons, rious human rights abuses. multiple people and agencies and exhibited George David Jones, III and Jeffrey Flynn I urge the Administration to use targeted great professional skill and patience in getting Jones. Mr. Speaker, I ask that you extend sanctions and work to convene emergency each retirement completed. His outstanding your thoughts and prayers to David’s family sessions of the United Nations Security Coun- work with various parties under short dead- and friends as they mourn the loss of their cil and the United Nations Human Rights lines was critical to the success of this pro- loved one. I pray that God is with David’s fam- Council to condemn the ongoing human rights gram. ily and friends during this difficult time. violations perpetrated by the Iranian regime I also want to thank the ranching families on f and establish a mechanism by which the Se- the East Fork of the Salmon River. They are curity Council can monitor such violations. great people, who with their past generations, SUPPORTING THE RIGHTS OF THE Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and its have made significant contributions to the re- PEOPLE OF IRAN TO FREE EX- Basij militia have been sanctioned by the gion and to our country. When we first met to- PRESSION United States for planning and carrying out se- gether 17 years ago they told me their con- rious human rights abuses against the Iranian SPEECH OF cerns and we came up with an idea of how we people, including for the cruel and prolonged might go forward. They put their trust in me HON. SHEILA JACKSON LEE torture of political dissidents, behavior that is and I believe we came up with a plan to give OF TEXAS absolutely intolerable. them an opportunity to help put them in a bet- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The regime has routinely violated the human rights of Iranian citizens, including on- ter place. It has been a pleasure and honor to Tuesday, January 9, 2018 work with each family and I can proudly say going, systematic, and serious restrictions of that I believe the promises we made have Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise freedom of peaceful assembly and association been kept. today to express my continued support for the and freedom of opinion and expression, in- I would also like to recognize the U.S. For- people of Iran and continued support for free- cluding the continuing closures of media out- est Service and the Bureau of Land Manage- dom of speech as it is encapsulated in H. lets, arrests of journalists, and the censorship ment (BLM) for their assistance in processing Res. 676, a resolution supporting the rights of of expression in online forums such as blogs the retirements. In particular, I want to thank the people of Iran to free expression and con- and websites. Kit Mullen, Sawtooth National Forest Super- demning the Iranian regime for its crackdown The Department of State’s 2016 Human visor; Kirk Flannigan, Sawtooth National on legitimate protests. Rights Report on Iran noted: Recreation Area Ranger; Andrea Cox, Super- On Sunday, January 7, 2018, I stood in pro- severe restrictions on civil liberties, in- visory Rangeland Management Specialist, test with Iranian-Americans on the streets of cluding the freedoms of assembly, association, speech, religion, and press. Sawtooth National Forest; Ed Cannady, Houston to take a stand for human rights in Iran. Other human rights problems included Recreation Manager, Sawtooth National For- abuse of due process combined with use of est; Chuck Mark, Salmon-Challis National For- At that event, I stated ‘‘It is time for freedom capital punishment for crimes that do not est Supervisor; Kurt Pindel, Challis-Yankee to take over’’ and I stand by that statement meet the requirements of due process, as Fork District Ranger; Faith Ryan, Range and here in Congress and add that separation of well as cruel, inhuman, or degrading treat- Weeds Program Lead, Salmon-Challis Na- church and state is essential for a free and ment or punishment; and disregard for the tional Forest, Tim Murphy, BLM State Director democratic Iran. physical integrity of persons, whom authori- On December 28, 2017, popular protests ties arbitrarily and unlawfully detained, tor- (retired); and Todd Kuck, Field Manager, BLM tured, or killed. Challis Field Office. They each did great work against the Iranian regime began in the city of For a country that once enjoyed great pride and we could not have completed the retire- Mashad and rapidly spread throughout the in its freedom of thought, the information in ments without them. country, in the most significant antigovernment Finally, I would like to note that without this protests in Iran since June 2009. this Report comes with sadness. On December 29, 2017, the Department of voluntary grazing retirement program, the The protesters have expressed numerous State strongly condemned the arrest of peace- Boulder-White Clouds and Jerry Peak wilder- economic grievances, including the regime’s ful protesters and noted that ‘‘Iran’s leaders ness bills would never have become law. The widespread corruption and the Revolutionary have turned a wealthy country with a rich his- program was a lynchpin to the compromise Guard Corps’ control of the country’s econ- tory and culture into an economically depleted that allowed us to protect one of the most pris- omy. Protesters have decried the regime’s costly, rogue state whose chief exports are violence, tine areas of Idaho. It seems apparent that the bloodshed, and chaos.’’ cost of the program was small in comparison destabilizing activities abroad, including its support for terrorist groups such as Hezbollah On January 1, 2018, the Secretary of State to the benefits that future generations will re- for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the ceive when they enjoy the remarkable beauty and the murderous Assad regime in Syria. Reports indicate that more than 1,000 Ira- United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, stated that: and serenity of the Boulder-White Clouds and nians have been arrested and almost two The UK is watching events in Iran closely. Jerry Peak. We all owe a great deal of thanks dozen killed in connection with the protests. We believe that there should be meaningful to those who provided the resources for the The Iranian regime has shut down mobile debate about the legitimate and important program and to the ranchers who put their issues the protesters are raising and we look internet access and has blocked and pres- to the Iranian authorities to permit this. trust in allowing it to go forward. sured companies to cut off social media appli- On January 2, 2018, the French Foreign f cations used by activists to organize and pub- Ministry stated that: IN REMEMBRANCE OF GEORGE licize the protests. Congress has provided authority to license French authorities are closely monitoring DAVID JONES, II the situation in Iran. the provision of communications technology to Demonstrating freely is a fundamental HON. ROBERT J. WITTMAN Iran to improve the ability of the Iranian people right. The same is true for the free movement of OF VIRGINIA to speak freely. I encourage the Administration to expedite information. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the license of communications technology to France expresses its concern over the large number of victims and arrests. Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Iran to improve the ability of the Iranian people Mr. WITTMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in to speak freely and I call on companies to re- On January 1, 2018, a spokesman for the remembrance of George David Jones, II. ject requests by the regime to cut off the Ira- Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated David was a resident of the First District of nian people from social media and other com- that: Virginia and my hometown, Montross. David munications platforms. We call on the Iranian authorities to up- was a self-employed farmer who served the On January 1, 2018, regime officials threat- hold and respect democratic and human rights and ‘‘We are encouraged by the Ira- community as a member of the Westmoreland ened to crack down, with Brigadier General nian people who are bravely exercising their County Volunteer Fire Department. Addition- Esmaeil Kowsari of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard basic right to protest peacefully. ally, David was a member of the Westmore- Corps stating, ‘‘If this situation continues, the Canada will continue to support the funda- land Hunt Club, Virginia Dog Hunting Alliance, officials will definitely make some decisions mental rights of the Iranians, including free- Pantico Run Hunt Club, and Eastern Virginia and at that point this business will be fin- dom of expression. Young Farmers Association. ished.’’ As hypocrisy has it, Iran is a member of the I had the pleasure of knowing David for Congress has provided authority to des- United Nations, voted for the Universal Dec- many years and was a witness to his dedica- ignate and sanction elements of the Iranian re- laration of Human Rights, and is a signatory to

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:56 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A10JA8.021 E10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E29 the International Covenant on Civil and Polit- ship successes. Mr. Howard served as the Baggen; Karen Wing; Vicki Parrish and her ical Rights, among other international human Chairman of the King George County Board of husband Albert; and Susan Hoshaw and her rights treaties. Supervisors for multiple terms and dedicated husband Don; 16 grandchildren; 11 great- In violation of these and other international 21 years to serving the county in local govern- grandchildren; and so many close, cherished obligations, Iranian regime officials continue to ment. family and friends. violate the fundamental human rights of the I would like to thank Mr. Howard for his f Iranian people. many contributions throughout his 21-year ca- Today, I rise with my colleagues in Con- reer. I wish him and his wife, Sheila, the best PERSONAL EXPLANATION gress to stand with the people of Iran that are of luck in their future endeavors. engaged in legitimate and peaceful protests f HON. SANFORD D. BISHOP, JR. against an oppressive, corrupt regime. OF GEORGIA IN MEMORY OF CLIFF EVERTS I rise in support of H. Res. 676 which con- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES demns the Iranian regime’s serious human Wednesday, January 10, 2018 rights abuses against the Iranian people, sig- HON. DON YOUNG nificant corruption, and destabilizing activities OF ALASKA Mr. BISHOP of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I re- abroad. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gret that I was unavoidably absent Tuesday afternoon, January 9, on very urgent family I call on all democratic governments and in- Wednesday, January 10, 2018 stitutions to clearly support the Iranian peo- medical business. Had I been present for ple’s right to live in a free society. Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Mr. Speaker, I rise three votes which occurred, I rise to urge the Iranian regime to abide by today in memorial to a dedicated husband, I would have voted ‘‘Aye’’ on H. Res. 676, its international obligations with respect to proud father, pioneer of aviation and entrepre- Roll call vote No. 2; human rights and civil liberties, including free- neurship, and importantly, a great Alaskan. On I would have voted ‘‘Aye’’ on H.R. 4564, doms of assembly, speech, and press. December 7, 2017, Alaska lost one if its hard- Roll call vote No. 3; and The Iranian regime must do the right thing est working and most dedicated fathers, Mr. I would have voted ‘‘Aye’’ on H.R. 4581, and respect the proud history and rich culture Cliff Everts. Roll call vote No. 4. of the Iranian nation. Cliff Everts is a keepsake original forged f The people of Iran want nothing more than from rare earth. He matriculated from New to promote the establishment of basic free- York but had the spirit of an Alaskan Wolf, the TRIBUTE TO NORMA AND ROY doms that build the foundation for the emer- business acumen of a Rockefeller, and the BULLOCK gence of a freely elected, open, and demo- fortitude of a Sourdough. His smile could light cratic political system. up a room and his sense of humor warmed HON. DAVID YOUNG I whole-heartedly support H. Res. 676 and any room he happened to grace. In thinking of OF IOWA continue fighting for a free Iran. that astounding smile and infectious laugh, I IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES f am reminded of one of his famous quotes and something he said the last time I saw him Wednesday, January 10, 2018 PERSONAL EXPLANATION ‘‘Dude, that was sick!’’ It’s how he lived his Mr. YOUNG of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I rise life. today to recognize and congratulate Norma HON. JAMES B. RENACCI In reflecting upon Cliff’s many accomplish- and Roy Bullock of Creston, Iowa, on the very OF OHIO ments and his life, one could go on for days special occasion of their 60th wedding anni- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES about all he did. I can speak to his service to versary. They celebrated their anniversary on his customers and how he always found a November 3, 2017. Wednesday, January 10, 2018 way to deliver cargo ranging from reindeer to Norma and Roy’s lifelong commitment to Mr. RENACCI. Mr. Speaker, had I been homebuilding materials (beat that Home each other and their family truly embodies our present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call Depot), or start a business to sell ice cream to Iowa values. As they reflect on their 60th anni- No. 2, YEA on Roll Call No. 3, and YEA on Alaskans! He did so at the best price with the versary, may their commitment grow even Roll Call No. 4. best service to those customers. I can speak stronger, as they continue to love, cherish, f to all of his service to the community. How and honor one another for many years to much he cared for Alaskans and loved Alaska. come. TO RECOGNIZE JAMES B. HOWARD However, what gives me the most pleasure Mr. Speaker, I commend this great couple ON HIS RETIREMENT FROM THE and puts a massive smile on my face, is Cliff’s on their 60th year together and I wish them KING GEORGE COUNTY BOARD dedication and his love for his wife and six many more. I ask that my colleagues in the OF SUPERVISORS children. Whenever anyone asked what made United States House of Representatives join Cliff happy or what made Cliff such a success, me in congratulating them on this momentous HON. ROBERT J. WITTMAN it was always his family. He always shined occasion and in wishing them both nothing but OF VIRGINIA when he talked about them and you could see continued success. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES how he would glow whenever he thought f about them or saw them in person. You just Wednesday, January 10, 2018 do not find that in most people but you always TRIBUTE TO DONNA AND ROGER Mr. WITTMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to knew it with Cliff. CANDEE recognize Mr. James B. Howard, a citizen of Suffice to say that Cliff will live in infamy in King George County and Virginia’s First Dis- our hearts and souls. I hope that Cliff’s family HON. DAVID YOUNG trict, on his retirement from the King George and especially his wife Betty can take comfort OF IOWA County Board of Supervisors. Mr. Howard in the bond they have with him; always. I hope IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES served his community well as a member of the the precious memories the family has of their Board of Supervisors for the James Monroe precious Cliff will one day bring them comfort, Wednesday, January 10, 2018 District from 1976 to 1978. Additionally, Mr. and that they will come to find, in the lovely Mr. YOUNG of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I rise Brown served as a member of the King words of Hugh Orr: today to recognize and congratulate Donna George County School Board from 1988 to ‘‘They are not dead who live in lives they and Roger Candee of Carlisle, Iowa, on the 1991, and the County Supervisor for the leave behind. In those whom they have very special occasion of their 60th wedding James Monroe District from 2000 to 2009 and blessed, they live a life again, and shall live anniversary. They celebrated on November 9, 2014 to 2017. through the years eternal life, and shall grow 2017. During his tenure, Mr. Howard furthered the each day more beautiful, as time declares Donna and Roger’s lifelong commitment to education of our youth through leading the de- their good, forgets the rest, and proves their each other and their family truly embodies our velopment of Sealston Elementary School, immortality.’’ Iowa values. As they reflect on their 60th anni- construction of the new King George High Please join me in expressing our heartfelt versary, may their commitment grow even School, the expansion of the King George appreciation for Cliff and our sympathies for stronger, as they continue to love, cherish, Middle School, and renovation of the Potomac his wife, Betty; son, Robert Everts and his wife and honor one another for many years to Elementary School, in addition to other leader- Paula; his daughters, Melanie Moyer; Debbie come.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:56 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A10JA8.023 E10JAPT1 E30 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 10, 2018 Mr. Speaker, I commend this great couple receiving the Jason Award, given by Chil- sional life. Chris grew up in Nebraska and on their 60th year together and I wish them dren’s Square U.S.A. The award is presented graduated from Grand Island High School. He many more. I ask that my colleagues in the to individuals, couples, organizations, and holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree from the United States House of Representatives join businesses that exemplify and demonstrate an University of Maryland and a Master’s degree me in congratulating them on this momentous extraordinary degree of caring, contribution, from Walden University. After high school occasion and in wishing them both nothing but and commitment to children, families, and their Chris joined the U.S. Army and had a distin- continued success. communities. guished military career, receiving the Legion of f Kate and Boyd have been committed to Merit, our nation’s sixth highest military honor. strengthening families and their community Chris is also active in several community and TRIBUTE TO THE DOWLING through their personal activities. Kate’s willing- nonprofit organizations including serving as CATHOLIC FOOTBALL TEAM ness to give her time and talents to a variety the Executive Director of KANEKO, an arts of organizations has been of great benefit to and culture nonprofit that provides world class HON. DAVID YOUNG the Council Bluffs community, and Boyd’s exhibitions, programs, and workshops. OF IOWA commitment to helping those that cannot help Mr. Speaker, I applaud and congratulate IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES themselves has not gone unnoticed. These Chris for receiving this outstanding award and two Iowans are excellent examples as to what Wednesday, January 10, 2018 I am proud to recognize him today. I ask that makes our great state such an extraordinary my colleagues in the United States House of Mr. YOUNG of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I rise place to live. Representatives join me in congratulating him today to recognize and congratulate the Mr. Speaker, I applaud and congratulate and in wishing him nothing but continued suc- Dowling Catholic High School football team for Kate and Boyd for receiving the Jason Award cess. their fifth straight state title at this year’s 4A for their contributions and commitment to the f Iowa High School Football Championships. Council Bluffs community. I am proud to rep- Members of the team include: Jayson Mur- resent them in the United States Congress TRIBUTE TO DONNA AND RON ray, Michael Keough, Zach Wafters, Lucas and I ask that my colleagues in the United MARTIN Paskach, Marcus Miller, Connor Jackman, States House of Representatives join me in Sam Ingoli, Quentin Wellmaker, Ashton congratulating Kate and Boyd and in wishing HON. DAVID YOUNG Brown, Jack Keough, Spencer Smith, Zach them nothing but continued success. OF IOWA Prey, Blake Clark, Jonas Thompson, Austin f IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Knoblach, Brandon Waechter, Max Bocken, Owen Shiltz, Matt Moore, John Schmidt, Con- TRIBUTE TO SHERYL AND LEROY Wednesday, January 10, 2018 nor Ibach, Drew Peterson, Ryan Adam, Chase LESTER Mr. YOUNG of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I rise Hauschilt, Colton Sanders, Teagan Johnson, today to recognize and congratulate Donna Xavier Chiodo, Malik McGregor, Joe Scavo, HON. DAVID YOUNG and Ron Martin of Greenfield, Iowa, on the Josh Paskach, Andrew Feltz, Drake OF IOWA very special occasion of their 50th wedding Rupperecht, Grant Jameson, Michael Rodri- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES anniversary. They celebrated their anniversary guez, Nick Bordenaro, Deng Kodak, Jack Ber- Wednesday, January 10, 2018 on October 28, 2017. tram, Mitchell Riggs, Drew Snedegar, Max Donna and Ron’s lifelong commitment to Mr. YOUNG of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I rise Beh, Daniel Critelli, Levi Hummel, Christian each other and their family truly embodies our today to recognize and congratulate Sheryl Ousley, Christian Firestine, Adam Topping, Iowa values. As they reflect on their 50th anni- and LeRoy Lester of Council Bluffs, Iowa on Nate Collins, Nolan Sinnott, Nate Rea, Alex versary, may their commitment grow even the very special occasion of their 60th wed- Kirton, Anthony Scavo, Mitch Goff, Matt stronger, as they continue to love, cherish, ding anniversary. They married on November English, Riley Fitzpatrick, Sean Pallardy, Zach and honor one another for many years to 8, 1957 at United Methodist Church in Council Calvert, Ben Means, Greg Hagen, Tom Nolan, come. Bluffs. Michael Ortega, Tom Derry, Adam Kroll, Wyatt Sheryl and LeRoy’s lifelong commitment to Mr. Speaker, I commend this great couple Grubb, Sean Pattschull, Zach Ross, Tyler each other and their family truly embodies on their 50th year together and I wish them Holmes, Charlie Nank, Nick Leon, Jesse Iowa values. As they reflect on their 60th anni- many more. I ask that my colleagues in the Alger, Charlie Johnson, Jack Lyman, Anthony versary may their commitment grow even United States House of Representatives join Coppola, Matt Stillwell, Zach Roering, Collin stronger, as they continue to love, cherish, me in congratulating them on this momentous Cook, Mason Heckman, Jack Rude, Connor and honor one another for many years to occasion and in wishing them both nothing but Kriegshauser, Rex Kromkowski, Zach Stacy, come. continued success. John Waggoner, Jake Calvert, Jack Scholz, Mr. Speaker, I commend this great couple f Reilly Smidt. on their 60th year together and I wish them Coaches: Tom Wilson, Jim Williams, Grant TRIBUTE TO DONNABELLE AND many more. I ask that my colleagues in the MARVIN REYNOLDS Bousum, Jay Campbell, Craig McClain, Adam United States House of Representatives join Jack, Andy Pollock, Jeff Motz, Fred Tiernan, me in congratulating them on this momentous Ryan Van Veen, Aundra Meeks. occasion and in wishing them nothing but the HON. DAVID YOUNG Mr. Speaker, I am proud to represent these best. OF IOWA remarkable players, coaches and school in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES f United States House of Representatives. Their Wednesday, January 10, 2018 months of hard work culminated in this re- TRIBUTE TO CHRIS HOCHSTETLER markable achievement. I ask that my col- Mr. YOUNG of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I rise leagues join me in congratulating them for HON. DAVID YOUNG today to recognize and congratulate Donnabelle and Marvin Reynolds of Redfield, winning this year’s 4A Iowa High School Foot- OF IOWA Iowa, on the very special occasion of their ball Championship and in wishing them all IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nothing but continued success. 60th wedding anniversary. They celebrated Wednesday, January 10, 2018 f their anniversary on November 10, 2017. Mr. YOUNG of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I rise Donnabelle and Marvin’s lifelong commit- TRIBUTE TO KATE CUTLER AND today to recognize and congratulate Chris ment to each other and their family truly em- BOYD LITTRELL Hochstetler of Council Bluffs, Iowa for receiv- bodies our Iowa values. As they reflect on ing the Jason Award, given by Children’s their 60th anniversary, may their commitment HON. DAVID YOUNG Square U.S.A. The award is presented to indi- grow even stronger, as they continue to love, OF IOWA viduals, couples, organizations and busi- cherish, and honor one another for many IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nesses that exemplify and demonstrate an ex- years to come. traordinary degree of caring, contribution, and Mr. Speaker, I commend this great couple Wednesday, January 10, 2018 commitment to children, families, and their on their 60th year together and I wish them Mr. YOUNG of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I rise communities. many more. I ask that my colleagues in the today to recognize and congratulate Kate Cut- Chris received this honor for his vision, United States House of Representatives join ler and Boyd Littrell of Council Bluffs, Iowa for courage, and will in his personal and profes- me in congratulating them on this momentous

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:56 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A10JA8.029 E10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E31 occasion and in wishing them both nothing but Childhood and Family Support Services at dering and other forms of illicit fi- continued success. FAMILY, Inc. nance, focusing on Administration per- spectives on reforming and strength- f Mr. Speaker, I applaud and congratulate Amy for receiving this outstanding award. I ening Bank Secrecy Act enforcement. SD–538 TRIBUTE TO BARB AND LARRY ask that my colleagues in the United States WYNN Committee on Commerce, Science, and House of Representatives join me in congratu- Transportation lating Amy for receiving this award and in To hold hearings to examine terrorism HON. DAVID YOUNG wishing her nothing but continued success in and social media. OF IOWA all her future endeavors. SR–253 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES f Committee on Energy and Natural Re- Wednesday, January 10, 2018 sources SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS Subcommittee on Water and Power Mr. YOUNG of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I rise Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, To hold hearings to examine the Bureau today to recognize and congratulate Barb and agreed to by the Senate of February 4, of Reclamation’s title transfer process Larry Wynn of Creston, Iowa, on the very spe- 1977, calls for establishment of a sys- and potential benefits to Federal and cial occasion of their 50th wedding anniver- tem for a computerized schedule of all non-Federal stakeholders. sary. meetings and hearings of Senate com- SD–366 Barb and Larry’s lifelong commitment to Committee on Environment and Public mittees, subcommittees, joint commit- Works each other and their family truly embodies our tees, and committees of conference. To hold hearings to examine America’s Iowa values. As they reflect on their 50th anni- This title requires all such committees water infrastructure needs and chal- versary, may their commitment grow even to notify the Office of the Senate Daily lenges, focusing on Federal panel per- stronger, as they continue to love, cherish, Digest—designated by the Rules Com- spectives. and honor one another for many years to mittee—of the time, place and purpose SD–406 come. of the meetings, when scheduled and Committee on Finance Mr. Speaker, I commend this great couple any cancellations or changes in the To hold hearings to examine the nomina- on their 50th year together and I wish them meetings as they occur. tions of Dennis Shea, of Virginia, to be many more. I ask that my colleagues in the As an additional procedure along a Deputy United States Trade Rep- resentative (Geneva Office), with the United States House of Representatives join with the computerization of this infor- me in congratulating them on this momentous rank of Ambassador, and C. J. mation, the Office of the Senate Daily Mahoney, of Kansas, to be a Deputy occasion and in wishing them both nothing but Digest will prepare this information for United States Trade Representative continued success. printing in the Extensions of Remarks (Investment, Services, Labor, Environ- f section of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ment, Africa, China, and the Western on Monday and Wednesday of each Hemisphere), with the rank of Ambas- TRIBUTE TO AMY HOFFMANN week. sador. Meetings scheduled for Thursday, SD–215 HON. DAVID YOUNG January 11, 2018 may be found in the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, OF IOWA Daily Digest of today’s RECORD. and Pensions To hold hearings to examine facing 21st IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES century public health threats, focusing Wednesday, January 10, 2018 MEETINGS SCHEDULED on our nation’s preparedness and response capabilities. Mr. YOUNG of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I rise JANUARY 16 today to recognize and congratulate Amy Hoff- SD–430 10 a.m. Committee on Homeland Security and mann of Avoca, Iowa for her selection as the Committee on Energy and Natural Re- Governmental Affairs 2017 Parent Educator of the Year by the Par- sources To hold hearings to examine Medicaid ents as Teachers National Center. The award To hold an oversight hearing to examine and the opioid epidemic, focusing on was presented at the Teachers International the domestic and global energy outlook unintended consequences. Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. from the perspective of the Inter- SD–342 Amy is a Parent Educator for FAMILY, Inc. national Energy Agency. 2 p.m. The Parent Educator of the Year award is SD–366 Committee on Veterans’ Affairs given to those who exemplify the practices Committee on the Judiciary To hold hearings to examine the state of To hold an oversight hearing to examine and mission of Parents as Teachers. FAMILY, the Department of Veterans Affairs, fo- the Department of Homeland Security. cusing on a progress report on imple- Inc., and Parents as Teachers work together SH–216 menting 2017 Department of Veterans to provide public health and family support Affairs reform legislation. services for women, children, and families in JANUARY 17 SR–418 Pottawattamie and Mills County. Amy has 10 a.m. 2:30 p.m. been involved with this program for 18 years Committee on Banking, Housing, and Committee on Indian Affairs and through her service she has provided Urban Affairs To hold an oversight hearing to examine 4,586 family visits, assisted 165 families and Business meeting to consider the nomi- breaking new ground in agribusiness touched the lives of 298 children. Amy said nations of Jerome H. Powell, of Mary- opportunities in Indian Country. she finds ways to get families involved in the land, to be Chairman of the Board of SD–628 Governors of the Federal Reserve Sys- Committee on the Judiciary community by offering social and group con- tem, and Randal Quarles, of Colorado, Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism nections, which help build relationships. ‘‘This to be a Member of the Board of Gov- To hold hearings to examine the long- award is an honor to our community and no ernors of the Federal Reserve System; term care needs of first responders in- one is more deserving of this award than to be immediately followed by a hear- jured in the line of duty. Amy’’ stated Jean Bohnker, Director of Early ing to examine combating money laun- SD–226

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:56 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A10JA8.035 E10JAPT1 Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Daily Digest Senate Judge for the Western District of Texas, all post-clo- Chamber Action ture time be considered expired at 1:45 p.m., and Routine Proceedings, pages S113–S142 Senate vote on confirmation of the nomination of Measures Introduced: Eight bills and one resolu- Walter David Counts III, with no intervening action tion were introduced, as follows: S. 2285–2292, and or debate. Page S127 S. Res. 371. Page S138 A unanimous-consent agreement was reached pro- Measures Reported: viding for further consideration of the nomination, S. 1693, to amend the Communications Act of post-cloture, at approximately 10 a.m., on Thursday, 1934 to clarify that section 230 of that Act does not January 11, 2018. Page S142 prohibit the enforcement against providers and users Nomination Confirmed: Senate confirmed the fol- of interactive computer services of Federal and State lowing nomination: criminal and civil law relating to sex trafficking, By a unanimous vote of 98 yeas (Vote No. EX. with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. 5), Thomas Lee Robinson Parker, of Tennessee, to be Rept. No. 115–199) Page S138 United States District Judge for the Western Dis- Measures Passed: trict of Tennessee. Pages S124, S142 Universal Service Fund Filing Requirements: Nominations Received: Senate received the fol- Senate passed S. 875, to require the Comptroller lowing nominations: General of the United States to conduct a study and Paul C. Ney, Jr., of Tennessee, to be General submit a report on filing requirements under the Counsel of the Department of Defense. Universal Service Fund programs, after agreeing to Holly W. Greaves, of the District of Columbia, to the committee amendment in the nature of a sub- be Chief Financial Officer, Environmental Protection stitute. Pages S141–42 Agency. Page S142 Brown Nomination—Agreement: Senate re- Messages from the House: Page S138 sumed consideration of the nomination of Michael Lawrence Brown, of Georgia, to be United States Measures Referred: Page S138 District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia. Additional Cosponsors: Pages S138–39 Pages S124–42 Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions: During consideration of this nomination today, Pages S139–41 Senate also took the following action: By 97 yeas to 1 nay (Vote No. 6), Senate agreed Additional Statements: Page S137 to the motion to close further debate on the nomina- Authorities for Committees to Meet: Page S141 tion. Page S124 Privileges of the Floor: Page S141 A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that at 12 noon, on Thursday, January 11, Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. 2018, all post-cloture time on the nomination be (Total—6) Page S124 considered expired, and Senate vote on confirmation Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and of the nomination of Michael Lawrence Brown, with adjourned at 6:42 p.m., until 10 a.m. on Thursday, no intervening action or debate; and that if cloture January 11, 2018. (For Senate’s program, see the re- is invoked on the nomination of Walter David marks of the Majority Leader in today’s Record on Counts III, of Texas, to be United States District page S142.)

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VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:23 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0627 Sfmt 0627 E:\CR\FM\D10JA8.REC D10JAPT1 D26 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST January 10, 2018 Senators McCain and Reed are ex-officio members of Committee Meetings each subcommittee. (Committees not listed did not meet) AMERICA’S WATER INFRASTRUCTURE BUSINESS MEETING Committee on Environment and Public Works: Com- Committee on Armed Services: Committee announced mittee concluded a hearing to examine America’s the following subcommittee assignments: water infrastructure needs and challenges, after re- Subcommittee on Airland: Senators Cotton (Chair), ceiving testimony from Senator Cassidy; Nicole T. Inhofe, Wicker, Tillis, Sullivan, Cruz, Sasse, King, Carter, Specialist in Natural Resources Policy, Con- McCaskill, Blumenthal, Donnelly, Warren, and gressional Research Service, Library of Congress; Peters. Scott Robinson, Port of Muskogee, Fort Gibson, Oklahoma; Julie A. Ufner, National Association of Subcommittee on Cybersecurity: Senators Rounds (Chair), Counties, and Steve Cochran, Restore the Mississippi Fischer, Perdue, Graham, Sasse, Nelson, McCaskill, River Delta, both of Washington, D.C.; and Wil- Gillibrand, and Blumenthal. liam D. Friedman, Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities: Sen- Authority, Alexandria, Virginia, on behalf of the ators Ernst (Chair), Wicker, Fischer, Perdue, Cruz, American Association of Port Authorities. Heinrich, Nelson, Shaheen, and Peters. Subcommittee on Personnel: Senators Tillis (Chair), NOMINATIONS Ernst, Graham, Sasse, Gillibrand, McCaskill, and Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a Warren. hearing to examine the nominations of Kurt D. Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support: Sen- Engelhardt, of Louisiana, to be United States Circuit ators Inhofe (Chair), Rounds, Ernst, Perdue, Scott, Judge for the Fifth Circuit, and Barry W. Ashe, to Kaine, Shaheen, and Hirono. be United States District Judge for the Eastern Dis- trict of Louisiana, who were introduced by Senator Subcommittee on SeaPower: Senators Wicker (Chair), Cassidy, Howard C. Nielson, Jr., to be United States Cotton, Rounds, Tillis, Sullivan, Scott, Hirono, Sha- District Judge for the District of Utah, and James heen, Blumenthal, Kaine, and King. R. Sweeney II, to be United States District Judge for Subcommittee on Strategic Forces: Senators Fischer the Southern District of Indiana, who was introduced (Chair), Inhofe, Cotton, Sullivan, Cruz, Graham, by Senators Donnelly and Young, after the nominees Donnelly, Heinrich, Warren, and Peters. testified and answered questions in their own behalf. h House of Representatives Oregon, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Chamber Action Oregon, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 16 pub- and the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indi- lic bills, H.R. 4750–4765; and 1 resolution, H. Res. ans to lease or transfer certain lands (H. Rept. 683 were introduced. Pages H131–32 115–507); Additional Cosponsors: Pages H132–33 H.R. 453, to deem the Step 2 compliance date for Reports Filed: Reports were filed today as follows: standards of performance for new residential wood H.R. 3548, to make certain improvements to the heaters, new residential hydronic heaters, and forced- security of the international borders of the United air furnaces to be May 15, 2023 (H. Rept. States, and for other purposes, with an amendment 115–508); and (H. Rept. 115–505, Part 1); H.R. 1917, to allow for judicial review of any H.R. 2504, to ensure fair treatment in licensing final rule addressing national emission standards for requirements for the export of certain echinoderms hazardous air pollutants for brick and structural clay (H. Rept. 115–506, Part 1); products or for clay ceramics manufacturing before S. 1285, to allow the Confederated Tribes of Coos, requiring compliance with such rule (H. Rept. Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians, the Confed- 115–509). Page H131 erated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:23 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0627 Sfmt 0627 E:\CR\FM\D10JA8.REC D10JAPT1 January 10, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST D27 Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he require a Department of Homeland Security overseas appointed Representative Smith (NE) to act as personnel enhancement plan, by a 2⁄3 yea-and-nay Speaker pro tempore for today. Page H85 vote of 415 yeas with none voting ‘‘nay’’, Roll No. Recess: The House recessed at 10:51 a.m. and re- 12. Page H125 convened at 12 noon. Page H90 Quorum Calls—Votes: Seven yea-and-nay votes and Journal: The House agreed to the Speaker’s approval two recorded votes developed during the proceedings of the Journal by a yea-and-nay vote of 231 yeas to of today and appear on pages H92, H94, H95, 178 nays with one answering ‘‘present’’, Roll No. H111, H113, H113–14, H124–25, H125, and 13. Pages H91, H125–26 H125–26. There were no quorum calls. Motion to Adjourn: Rejected the Espaillat motion Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and ad- to adjourn by a yea-and-nay vote of 51 yeas to 331 journed at 6:55 p.m. nays, Roll No. 5. Page H92 Motion to Adjourn: Rejected the Gutie´rrez motion Committee Meetings to adjourn by a yea-and-nay vote of 54 yeas to 311 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE UPDATE ON nays, Roll No. 6. Page H94 THE FINANCIAL IMPROVEMENT AND Motion to Adjourn: Rejected the Grijalva motion AUDIT REMEDIATION (FIAR) PLAN to adjourn by a yea-and-nay vote of 62 yeas to 324 Committee on Armed Services: Full Committee held a nays, Roll No. 7. Page H95 hearing entitled ‘‘Department of Defense Update on Rapid DNA Act—Rule for Consideration: The the Financial Improvement and Audit Remediation House agreed to H. Res. 682, providing for consid- (FIAR) Plan’’. Testimony was heard from David eration of the bill (S. 139) to implement the use of Norquist, Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) Rapid DNA instruments to inform decisions about and Chief Financial Officer, Department of Defense. pretrial release or detention and their conditions, to solve and prevent violent crimes and other crimes, to A FURTHER EXAMINATION OF FEDERAL exonerate the innocent, and to prevent DNA analysis RESERVE REFORM PROPOSALS backlogs, by a yea-and-nay vote of 233 yeas to 181 Committee on Financial Services: Subcommittee on nays, Roll No. 8, after the previous question was or- Monetary Policy and Trade held a hearing entitled dered without objection. Page H111 ‘‘A Further Examination of Federal Reserve Reform Meeting Hour: Agreed by unanimous consent that Proposals’’. Testimony was heard from public wit- when the House adjourns today, it adjourn to meet nesses. at 9 a.m. tomorrow, January 11th. Page H114 SANCTIONS AND FINANCIAL PRESSURE: Amending the White Mountain Apache Tribe MAJOR NATIONAL SECURITY TOOLS Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to clarify the use of amounts in the WMAT Settlement Committee on Foreign Affairs: Full Committee held a Fund: The House passed S. 140, to amend the hearing entitled ‘‘Sanctions and Financial Pressure: White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quan- Major National Security Tools’’. Testimony was tification Act of 2010 to clarify the use of amounts heard from public witnesses. in the WMAT Settlement Fund, by a recorded vote UPCOMING ELECTIONS IN THE WESTERN of 239 ayes to 173 noes, Roll No. 11. Pages H124–25 HEMISPHERE: IMPLICATIONS FOR U.S. Pursuant to the Rule, an amendment in the na- POLICY ture of a substitute consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 115–54 shall be considered as Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on the adopted. Page H114 Western Hemisphere held a hearing entitled ‘‘Up- H. Res. 681, the rule providing for consideration coming Elections in the Western Hemisphere: Im- of the bill (S. 140) was agreed to by a recorded vote plications for U.S. Policy’’. Testimony was heard of 227 ayes to 181 noes, Roll No. 10, after the pre- from public witnesses. vious question was ordered by a yea-and-nay vote of MISCELLANEOUS MEASURE 234 yeas to 181 nays, Roll No. 9. Pages H113–14 Committee on the Judiciary: Full Committee held a Suspension—Proceedings Resumed: The House markup on H.R. 506, the ‘‘Preventing Crimes agreed to suspend the rules and pass the following Against Veterans Act of 2017’’; and ratification of measure. Consideration began Tuesday, January 9th. subcommittee assignments. Subcommittee assign- Department of Homeland Security Overseas Per- ments were ratified. H.R. 506 was ordered reported, sonnel Enhancement Act: H.R. 4567, amended, to as amended.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:23 Jan 11, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 0627 Sfmt 0627 E:\CR\FM\D10JA8.REC D10JAPT1 D28 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST January 10, 2018 MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES S. 1393, to streamline the process by which active Committee on Natural Resources: Full Committee held duty military, reservists, and veterans receive com- a markup on H.R. 219, the ‘‘Swan Lake Hydro- mercial driver’s licenses. Signed on January 8, 2018. electric Project Boundary Correction Act’’; H.R. (Public Law 115–105) 801, the ‘‘Route 66 National Historic Trail Designa- S. 1532, to disqualify from operating a commer- tion Act’’; H.R. 1220, to establish the Adams Me- cial motor vehicle for life an individual who uses a morial Commission to carry out the provisions of commercial motor vehicle in committing a felony in- Public Law 107–62, and for other purposes; H.R. volving human trafficking. Signed on January 8, 2711, the ‘‘National Memorial to Fallen Educators 2018. (Public Law 115–106) Act’’; H.R. 3133, the ‘‘Streamlining Environmental S. 1766, to reauthorize the SAFER Act of 2013. Approvals Act of 2017’’; and S. 117, the ‘‘Alex Signed on January 8, 2018. (Public Law 115–107) Diekmann Peak Designation Act of 2017’’. H.R. H.R. 267, to redesignate the Martin Luther King, 219, H.R. 3133, and S. 117 were ordered reported, Junior, National Historic Site in the State of Geor- without amendment. H.R. 801, H.R. 1220, and gia. Signed on January 8, 2018. (Public Law H.R. 2711 were ordered reported, as amended. 115–108) MISCELLANEOUS MEASURE f Committee on Science, Space, and Technology: Full Com- COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY, mittee held a markup on H.R. 4675, the ‘‘Low Dose JANUARY 11, 2018 Radiation Research Act of 2017’’. H.R. 4675 was (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated) ordered reported, as amended. Senate HOME LOAN CHURNING PRACTICES AND Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to exam- HOW VETERAN HOMEBUYERS ARE BEING ine United States policy in Syria post-ISIS, 10 a.m., AFFECTED SD–419. Committee on Veterans’ Affairs: Subcommittee on Eco- Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider nomic Opportunity held a hearing entitled ‘‘Home S. 2152, to amend title 18, United States Code, to pro- Loan Churning Practices and How Veteran Home- vide for assistance for victims of child pornography, and the nominations of Stuart Kyle Duncan, of Louisiana, to buyers are Being Affected’’. Testimony was heard be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, from Jeffrey London, Director, Loan Guaranty Serv- David Ryan Stras, of Minnesota, to be United States Cir- ice, Veterans Benefits Administration, Department of cuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, Fernando Rodriguez, Veterans Affairs; and public witnesses. Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas, Elizabeth L. Branch, of Georgia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit, Joint Meetings Annemarie Carney Axon, to be United States District No joint committee meetings were held. Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, R. Stan f Baker, to be United States District Judge for the South- ern District of Georgia, Jeffrey Uhlman Beaverstock, to NEW PUBLIC LAWS be United States District Judge for the Southern District (For last listing of Public Laws, see DAILY DIGEST, p. D15) of Alabama, Liles Clifton Burke, to be United States Dis- trict Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, Thomas H.R. 560, to amend the Delaware Water Gap Na- Alvin Farr, to be United States District Judge for the tional Recreation Area Improvement Act to provide Eastern District of North Carolina, Charles Barnes Good- access to certain vehicles serving residents of munici- win, to be United States District Judge for the Western palities adjacent to the Delaware Water Gap Na- District of Oklahoma, Michael Joseph Juneau, to be tional Recreation Area. Signed on January 8, 2018. United States District Judge for the Western District of (Public Law 115–101) Louisiana, Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, to be United States H.R. 1242, to establish the 400 Years of African- District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, Emily American History Commission. Signed on January 8, Coody Marks, to be United States District Judge for the 2018. (Public Law 115–102) Middle District of Alabama, Terry Fitzgerald Moorer, to H.R. 1306, to provide for the conveyance of cer- be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Alabama, Mark Saalfield Norris, Sr., to be United tain Federal land in the State of Oregon. Signed on States District Judge for the Western District of Ten- January 8, 2018. (Public Law 115–103) nessee, William M. Ray II, to be United States District H.R. 1927, to amend title 54, United States Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, Eli Jeremy Code, to establish within the National Park Service Richardson, to be United States District Judge for the the African American Civil Rights Network. Signed Middle District of Tennessee, Holly Lou Teeter, to be on January 8, 2018. (Public Law 115–104) United States District Judge for the District of Kansas,

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and Brian Allen Benczkowski, of Virginia, Jeffrey Bossert United States Marshal for the Southern District of Iowa, Clark, of Virginia, and Eric S. Dreiband, of Maryland, all of the Department of Justice, 10 a.m., SD–226. each to be an Assistant Attorney General, Joseph D. Select Committee on Intelligence: to receive a closed brief- Brown, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern Dis- ing on certain intelligence matters, 2 p.m., SH–219. trict of Texas, Matthew D. Krueger, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Norman House Euell Arflack, to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Kentucky, and Ted G. Kamatchus, to be No hearings are scheduled.

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Next Meeting of the SENATE Next Meeting of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 10 a.m., Thursday, January 11 9 a.m., Thursday, January 11

Senate Chamber House Chamber Program for Thursday: Senate will continue consider- Program for Thursday: Consideration of S. 139—FISA ation of the nomination of Michael Lawrence Brown, of Amendments Reauthorization Act. Georgia, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, post-cloture, and vote on confirmation of the nomination at 12 noon. Following disposition of the nomination of Michael Lawrence Brown, Senate will vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of Walter David Counts III, of Texas, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Texas. If cloture is invoked on the nomination, Senate will vote on confirmation of the nomination at 1:45 p.m.

Extensions of Remarks, as inserted in this issue

HOUSE Foster, Bill, Ill., E22 Renacci, James B., Ohio, E29 Frankel, Lois, Fla., E24 Sessions, Pete, Tex., E22 Barletta, Lou, Pa., E25 Gosar, Paul, Ariz., E25 Simpson, Michael K., Idaho, E27 Bishop, Sanford D., Jr., Ga, E29 Gowdy, Trey, S.C., E21 Smith, Adam, Wash., E23 Bordallo, Madeleine Z., Guam, E22 Granger, Kay, Tex., E27 Valadao, David G., Calif., E21 Brady, Kevin, Tex., E24 Green, Gene, Tex., E23 Brooks, Susan W., Ind., E25 Jackson Lee, Sheila, Tex., E28 Wilson, Joe, S.C., E27 Cheney, Liz, Wyo., E23, E25 Kaptur, Marcy, Ohio, E24 Wittman, Robert J., Va., E28, E29 DelBene, Suzan K., Wash., E21 Kind, Ron, Wisc., E27 Young, David, Iowa, E29, E29, E30, E30, E30, E30, E30, Deutch, Theodore E., Fla., E25 Perry, Scott, Pa., E24 E30, E31, E31 Duffy, Sean, P., Wisc., E23 Raskin, Jamie, Md., E21 Young, Don, Alaska, E29

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