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Vol. 165 WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2019 No. 54 Senate The Senate met at 10 a.m. and was Week’’ in Iowa. That goes beyond just ward to meeting with the Kentucky called to order by the President pro a flooding situation; it is because of emergency management director later tempore (Mr. GRASSLEY). the catastrophic flooding throughout today to get the latest updates. f our State and to tell everybody that it Unfortunately, my State is not is not over. The National Oceanic and alone—far from it. Many States are PRAYER Atmospheric Administration has currently bearing heavy burdens in the The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- warned of significant spring flooding wake of powerful natural disasters. fered the following prayer: yet to come. Families in Florida and the Carolinas Let us pray. We are seeing increased flows in the are still picking up the pieces from a King of our lives, we acknowledge Missouri River, the Mississippi River, damaging hurricane season. In Ala- Your sovereignty, believing because of and their tributaries. Iowans should re- bama and Georgia, recovery is just be- You we live and move and have our view their insurance policies for gaps ginning after vicious tornadoes. The ef- being. and consider flood insurance. That is fects of serious flooding remain across Show our lawmakers how to use this one of the things Governor Reynolds is the Southeast. In places in the Mid- day’s fleeting minutes to accomplish suggesting. Also, it would be good to west, such as Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Your purposes on Earth. Make our Sen- have a plan in case it is necessary to and Nebraska, many Americans are ators Your instruments of deliverance, evacuate, including important personal still waiting, praying, and working to causing justice to roll down like waters belongings and pets. FEMA’s website, mitigate the destruction from dev- and righteousness like a mighty ready.gov, can help you with that in- astating flooding. Many communities stream. Sanctify their thoughts, words, formation. are still literally under water. and deeds throughout this day and all Iowans know severe weather, includ- I know right now the entire Senate is of their tomorrows. Lord, provide them ing massive snowstorms, flooding, tor- especially mindful of the destruction in with goodness, grace, and wisdom for nadoes, and heavy winds. The key is America’s heartland, so I am grateful the living of these days. that we prepare, help our neighbors, for the efforts of several colleagues to We pray in Your Holy Name. Amen. and stay vigilant. bring forward a package of supple- f I thank Governor Reynolds for alert- mental disaster relief funds to address ing people to the future, as well as wor- the most urgent needs. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE rying about the past. The legislation we are considering The President pro tempore led the Thank you. this week would help growers and pro- Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: I yield the floor. ducers with storm-related crop losses. I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the f It would help local infrastructure— United States of America, and to the Repub- from roads to schools and hospitals— lic for which it stands, one nation under God, RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY resume full operation. It would help indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. LEADER our Nation’s military restore readiness f The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- at bases and installations that were jority leader is recognized. caught in harm’s way. RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME f Thanks to Chairman SHELBY, Sen- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. ators ISAKSON, PERDUE, SCOTT, RUBIO, HYDE-SMITH). Under the previous order, DISASTER FUNDING and others, we will have the oppor- the leadership time is reserved. Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, tunity to deliver critical resources to The Senator from Iowa. in recent months, my home State of the communities facing the long road Mr. GRASSLEY. Madam President, I Kentucky has been hit by severe back to normal. I hope each of our col- ask unanimous consent to speak for 1 weather. Over half of our 120 counties leagues will join me in supporting this minute as in morning business. have reported flood damage. Governor measure, which will do just that. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Bevin has placed the entire Common- objection, it is so ordered. wealth under a state of emergency and f f mobilized resources to help with recov- ery. Local, State, and Federal emer- THE GREEN NEW DEAL FLOODING IN IOWA gency officials have started assessing Mr. MCCONNELL. Now, Madam Mr. GRASSLEY. Madam President, the flood damage. My staff and I are President, on an entirely different mat- Governor Reynolds designated this monitoring the progress to provide as- ter, this week, the American people week as ‘‘Severe Weather Awareness sistance wherever we can. I look for- saw our Democratic colleagues go on

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Under tions of support, after tripping over because Democrats would rather re- the previous order, the Senate will re- one another to prove their devotion to write the rules. sume consideration of the motion to the far-left core of the new Democratic So out of the ash heap of history proceed to H.R. 268, which the clerk Party, the vast majority of our col- came this talk of ‘‘court-packing’’—a will report. leagues across the aisle were unable to notion that would threaten the rule of The senior assistant legislative clerk vote against even an obviously ludi- law and our American judicial system read as follows: crous proposal to tank the U.S. econ- as we have long understood it. It is a Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 15, H.R. omy and to leave American workers truly radical proposal that has been 268, a bill making supplemental appropria- out in the cold. dead and buried by bipartisan con- tions for the fiscal year ending September 30, You might think that after their rad- sensus for almost a century. But now 2019, and for other purposes. ical proposal met with such an inglo- President Obama’s Attorney General, The PRESIDING OFFICER. All rious end, my colleagues might choose Eric Holder, says: ‘‘We should be talk- postcloture time has expired. to pause and take stock. Well, think ing even about expanding the number The question is on the motion to pro- again. Just yesterday, our Democratic of people who serve on the Supreme ceed. colleagues introduced a Senate version Court, if there is a Democratic presi- The motion was agreed to. of Speaker PELOSI’s sweeping legisla- dent.’’ One of our Senate colleagues, f tion to rewrite the rules of American who is currently running for President, politics to benefit one side—new Wash- called this an ‘‘interesting idea that I SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS ington rules for how citizens can exer- would have to think more about.’’ The ACT, 2019 cise political speech, new Washington New York Times reported that at a re- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The systems to funnel taxpayer dollars into cent campaign event, another Demo- clerk will report the bill. the pockets of political campaigns, and cratic candidate said that he is open to The senior assistant legislative clerk an unprecedented Washington intru- the idea after being asked about it by read as follows: sion into State and local election law a member of a new far-left group that A bill (H.R. 268) making supplemental ap- all across our country. is literally named—this is their name; propriations for the fiscal year ending Sep- As I have argued before, it conven- listen to this—‘‘Pack the Courts.’’ tember 30, 2019, and for other purposes. iently turns out that the vast majority I hope the lion’s share of our Demo- Pending: of their proposed changes seem tailored cratic colleagues will speak out force- McConnell (for Shelby) Amendment No. 5, to help more Democrats get elected fully against exhuming this thoroughly of a perfecting nature. and stay elected; hence my name for discredited idea. I hope my colleagues Schumer Amendment No. 6, of a perfecting this legislation: the Democratic politi- will have the courage to look these far- nature. cian protection act. left agitators in the eye and tell them Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, Apparently, our friends are under the that some traditions and some institu- I ask unanimous consent to withdraw impression that if Democrats aren’t tions are more important than partisan Amendment Nos. 5 and 6. winning as many elections as they point-scoring. But given that we have The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without would like, then the entire process by already seen Democrats rush headlong objection, it is so ordered. which we elect our representatives to embrace schemes like the Demo- The amendments were withdrawn. must certainly be broken. If Democrats cratic politician protection act, Medi- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- don’t like an outcome, then the rules care for None, and the so-called Green ator from Alabama. themselves need to be tossed aside. New Deal, I have to say, at this point, This seems to be emerging as a kind of AMENDMENT NO. 201 that kind of courageous statement Mr. SHELBY. Madam President, I pattern on the other side of the aisle. would come as a pleasant surprise. When our Constitution, our institu- call up my amendment No. 201. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The tions, or the American people dis- f appoint our Democratic colleagues, in- Clerk will report. The senior assistant legislative clerk stead of taking the hint and perhaps MEASURE PLACED ON THE read as follows: making their own positions more main- CALENDAR—H.R. 297 stream, they instead look to change The Senator from Alabama [Mr. SHELBY] the rules. Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, proposes an amendment numbered 201. After they failed to defeat the nomi- I understand there is a bill at the desk Mr. SHELBY. Madam President, I nation of Justice Kavanaugh last year, due for a second reading. ask unanimous consent that the read- liberal leaders decided the underlying The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ing be dispensed with. structure of the American judiciary clerk will report the title of the bill for The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without needed to be radically overhauled to the second time. objection, it is so ordered. suit their whims. The senior assistant bill clerk read as (Purpose: In the nature of a sub- They set out to rehabilitate the ab- follows: stitute.) surd notion of ‘‘court-packing’’—a A bill (H.R. 297) to extend the Federal rec- (The amendment is printed in today’s ognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chip- term that since the 1930s has been syn- RECORD under ‘‘Text of Amendments.’’) onymous in American history with the pewa Indians of Montana, and for other pur- poses. CLOTURE MOTION idea of an unprincipled power grab. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I Mr. MCCONNELL. In order to place The idea that Democrats sometimes send a cloture motion to the desk. lose Presidential elections and that Re- the bill on the calendar under the pro- visions of rule XIV, I object to further The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clo- publican Presidents sometimes subse- ture motion having been presented quently appoint Supreme Court Jus- proceedings. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec- under rule XXII, the Chair directs the tices is apparently no longer tolerated. clerk to read the motion. Instead of filling the existing vacan- tion having been heard, the bill will be placed on the calendar. The senior assistant bill clerk read as cies, why shouldn’t the next Demo- follows: cratic President just make up a bunch CLOTURE MOTION of new ones—create a bunch of new f ones—so the far left can stack the We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the Court? Forget about nine Justices. CONCLUSION OF MORNING BUSINESS Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby Forget about judges who don’t wear red move to bring to a close debate on the Sen- robes or blue robes but black robes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Morning ate amendment No. 201 to H.R. 268, making Forget about interpreting and applying business is closed. supplemental appropriations for the fiscal

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The amendment is as follows: the President was told about a coming AMENDMENT NO. 213 TO AMENDMENT NO. 201 Strike ‘‘3 days’’ and insert ‘‘4 days’’ release of stolen emails, and the cam- paign asked Stone to keep them ap- Mr. MCCONNELL. I have an amend- Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous ment at the desk and ask the clerk to consent that the mandatory quorum prised of developments with future re- report. calls for the cloture motions be waived. leases. And we know that during all of The PRESIDING OFFICER. The The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without this, the President was hiding his pur- clerk will report. objection, it is so ordered. suit of a lucrative business deal in Mos- The senior assistant legislative clerk Mr. MCCONNELL. I suggest the ab- cow. Now, these activities may not read as follows: sence of a quorum. amount to a crime, but they certainly The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. MCCON- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amount to serious misconduct that NELL] proposes an amendment numbered 213 clerk will call the roll. to amendment No. 201. The senior assistant bill clerk pro- reached the highest levels of the cam- The amendment is as follows: ceeded to call the roll. paign and this administration, and At the end add the following. Mr. LEAHY. Madam President, I ask they certainly raise questions about ‘‘This act shall be effective 1 day after en- unanimous consent that the order for the President’s baffling relationship actment.’’ the quorum call be rescinded. with Russia and Vladimir Putin. This Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask for the yeas The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without relationship has been baffling to both and nays on my amendment. objection, it is so ordered. Republicans and Democrats. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a That doesn’t even touch on obstruc- MUELLER REPORT tion of justice. Attorney General Barr’s sufficient second? Mr. LEAHY. Madam President, I There appears to be a sufficient sec- letter revealed that there is still non- thought it was exceptionally good news public evidence of the President’s at- ond. on Sunday that Special Counsel Robert The yeas and nays are ordered. tempts to interfere with this investiga- Mueller did not implicate our Presi- tion. The special counsel did not con- AMENDMENT NO. 214 TO AMENDMENT NO. 213 dent in a criminal conspiracy with clude whether the President’s obsessive Mr. MCCONNELL. I have a second-de- Russia to attack our elections. The al- interference in this investigation gree amendment at the desk. ternative, of course, would have been qualifies as obstruction. Yet he stated The PRESIDING OFFICER. The nothing short of catastrophic for our that his report does not exonerate the clerk will report. Republic. President—does not exonerate the The senior assistant legislative clerk I also want to express my apprecia- read as follows: President. That is an extraordinary tion to Mr. Mueller and his team for statement. The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. MCCON- their service to our country for deter- Apparently, Attorney General Barr NELL] proposes an amendment numbered 214 mining the facts of what happened dur- to amendment No. 213. believes there is insufficient evidence ing what was an unprecedented attack to charge obstruction, but Mr. BARR Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous on our democracy. This investigation also believes that it is not obstruction consent that the reading be dispensed endured relentless attacks during its for a President to interfere with an in- with. 22-month existence. In fact, the inves- vestigation by exercising his Article II The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without tigation by Mr. Mueller was attacked powers. Regardless, he believes that objection, it is so ordered. 1,100 times by President Trump alone the only mechanism for holding a sit- The amendment is as follows: during this time according to the New ting President accountable is through Strike ‘‘1 day’’ and insert ‘‘2 days’’ York Times. Congress. AMENDMENT NO. 215 These attacks may have tried to po- Let’s accept all of that. I don’t nec- Mr. MCCONNELL. I have an amend- liticize and undermine Mr. Mueller’s essarily accept all of it, but let’s as- ment to the text of the underlying bill. investigation, but they didn’t deter his sume he is accurate in that. Then I The PRESIDING OFFICER. The course. Anybody that knows Robert would hope he would agree that it is clerk will report. Mueller would know that he would not the judgment of Congress and of the The senior assistant legislative clerk be intimidated by anybody, Republican American people that is of the utmost read as follows: or Democrat. In fact, far from being de- importance in this moment. There is The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. MCCON- terred, Mr. Mueller obtained 37 indict- simply no justification for hiding even NELL] proposes an amendment numbered 215 ments, including against numerous a portion of the Mueller report. The to language proposed to be stricken by close aides of the President. That President has claimed it totally exon- amendment No. 201. marks this special counsel’s investiga- erates him. Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous tion as one of the most productive and With respect to the collusion inves- consent that the reading be dispensed consequential in our history. The tigation, grand jury secrecy can be with. American people and their representa- waived by the courts when there is a The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without tives in Congress now deserve to see particular need that outweighs the in- objection, it is so ordered. the special counsel’s work. terest in secrecy. With respect to the The amendment is as follows: The oversight authority of this body obstruction investigation, executive At the end add the following. is deeply rooted in the Constitution. privilege cannot be used to hide evi- ‘‘This Act shall take effect 3 days after the We would be derelict in our duties if we dence of a potential crime. In fact, if date of enactment.’’ did not do everything within our power you want to hide evidence of a poten- Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask for the yeas to obtain a full report and its under- tial crime under executive privilege, and nays on my amendment. lying evidence. We already know from all they have to do is look at a Su- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a the 37 indictments, and from the testi- preme Court case where that was tried sufficient second? mony received by the Judiciary Com- called United States v. Richard Nixon. There appears to be a sufficient sec- mittee, that this investigation has un- Any claim would likely not survive a ond. covered serious misconduct. We know challenge under United States v. The yeas and nays are ordered. the Trump campaign was informed Nixon. It is hard to imagine that such AMENDMENT NO. 216 TO AMENDMENT NO. 215 that Russia had stolen Democratic hypothetical claims were not waived Mr. MCCONNELL. I have a second-de- emails months before anybody else. We when administration witnesses talked gree amendment at the desk. know that a senior member of the cam- to the special counsel’s office.

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Getting ahead had frequently 209,000 jobs a month over the past 12 States, is instead playing the role of been replaced by getting by. Wages months, exceeding the 2017 average by President Trump’s defense team. If no were stagnant and jobs and opportuni- 30,000 jobs a month. Wage growth is ac- person, however powerful, is truly ties were often few and far between. celerating. Wages are growing at a rate above the law, then no person should So the Republicans and the President of 3.4 percent—the seventh straight be permitted to conceal the results of got right to work. We repealed burden- month in which wages have grown at a such a critical national security inves- some regulations that were rate of 3 percent or greater. Median tigation from public view. hamstringing economic growth, and we household income is at an alltime high. I hope that in the days and weeks passed a comprehensive reform of our Business investment is up, which ahead, the Senate has something to say outdated Tax Code. means more jobs and opportunities for about that. Everyone, Republican and You might ask, Why the Tax Code? American workers. U.S. manufacturing Democrat alike, has a stake in know- Well, the Tax Code has a huge effect on is booming. Small business hiring re- ing what is in that report and seeing American families’ prosperity. It helps cently hit a record high, and the list the whole report. After months and determine how much you bring home goes on. months of work and all the investiga- in your paycheck and how much you This is a big turnaround. tions, all the indictments, and all the have left over to spend or save. It helps After years of economic stagnation grand jury hearings, to say we have to determine what kind of jobs, wages, during the Obama administration, rely on just a four-page summary is and opportunities are available to you. some were predicting that sluggish eco- not enough. I don’t accept that. I would A small business owner struggling to nomic growth would be the new nor- hope that no Senator, Republican or afford a heavy tax bill is unlikely to mal. When President Trump took of- Democrat, would accept it. have the money to hire a new worker fice, the Congressional Budget Office I note that the House of Representa- or to expand her business. A larger predicted the economy would grow at a tives voted unanimously—every Repub- business is going to find it harder to rate of 2 percent in 2018 and 1.7 percent lican and every Democrat—to have the create jobs or improve benefits for em- in 2019. After Republicans cut burden- report released. I note that when we ployees if it is struggling to stay com- some regulations and passed a historic tried to have a similar resolution here, petitive against foreign businesses pay- tax reform bill, the Congressional it was blocked by the Republican lead- ing much less in taxes. Budget Office substantially revised er. I think the Republican leader Prior to the passage of the Tax Cuts that projection, predicting 2.9 percent should turn to all of us and say: Let and Jobs Act, our Tax Code was not growth in 2018 and 2.7 percent in 2019— the American people know the facts. helping American workers. It was tak- and the economy has delivered on that H.R. 268 ing too much from Americans’ pay- prediction. Madam President, I do not see any- checks, and it was making it difficult Importantly, the benefits of our body else seeking recognition. I would for businesses to grow and to create thriving economy are being spread far note, on another matter, the disaster jobs. We passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs and wide. The lowest wage earners saw supplemental appropriations legisla- Act to put more money in Americans’ the fastest wage growth in 2018. The tion has been filed, and there will be pockets, spur economic growth, and ex- Wall Street Journal recently reported: discussions on that. The House of Rep- pand opportunities for American work- All sorts of people who have previously had resentatives has a bill which does a ers. trouble landing a job are now finding work. great deal for the disaster relief for all We cut tax rates for American fami- Racial minorities, those with less education, lies, doubled the child tax credit, and and people working in the lowest-paying jobs Americans who were hurt by the recent are getting bigger pay raises and in many disasters in our country. I proposed nearly doubled the standard deduction. We lowered tax rates across the cases experiencing the lowest unemployment some modification of it, which would rate ever recorded for their groups. They are include all Americans and believe the board for owners of small- and medium- joining manufacturing workers, women in House would have accepted it. sized businesses, farms, and ranches. their prime working years, Americans with I am concerned now that we have be- We lowered our Nation’s massive cor- disabilities, and those with criminal records, fore us a bill that excludes a large porate tax rate, which, up until Janu- among others, in finding improved job pros- number of Americans, those in Puerto ary 1 of last year, was the highest cor- pects after years of disappointment. Rico, people who served nobly in our porate tax rate in the developed world. Tax cuts and other Republican eco- military and helped this country and We expanded business owners’ ability nomic policies are making life better other Americans. They should not be to recover the cost of investments they for American families. So what do excluded for whatever reason. So we make in their businesses, which frees Democrats want to do? Continue with will have a debate on that next week. up cash they can reinvest in their oper- the policies that are bringing relief to I hope very soon, for the American ations and in their workers, and we American families? That would make people, that we can have an honest and brought the U.S. international tax sys- sense. clear resolution that will bring relief tem into the 21st century so American Unfortunately not. Democrats want to those who suffered from disasters businesses are not operating at a com- to raise taxes—by a lot—to pay for the such as fires, hurricanes, and floods petitive disadvantage next to their for- socialist fantasies they are now em- throughout our country. eign counterparts. bracing. Plans such as the Green New I yield the floor. Now we are seeing the results. Our Deal and Medicare for All would result I suggest the absence of a quorum. economy is thriving. Economic growth in massive tax hikes on just about ev- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The in the fourth quarter of 2017 to the eryone. Our economy would suffer and clerk will call the roll. fourth quarter of 2018 was 3.1 percent, American families would see a perma- The senior assistant legislative clerk the strongest growth we have seen lit- nent reduction in their standard of liv- proceeded to call the roll. erally in 13 years. The unemployment ing. Mr. THUNE. Madam President, I ask rate dropped to 3.8 percent in Feb- It is deeply alarming that the Demo- unanimous consent that the order for ruary, the 12th straight month the un- cratic Party is rapidly turning into the the quorum call be rescinded. employment rate has been at or below Socialist Party. It is vitally important The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without 4 percent. That is the longest streak in that we ensure that hard-working objection, it is so ordered. nearly 50 years. The number of job Americans never have to live under ECONOMIC GROWTH openings has once again exceeded the Democrats’ socialist fantasies. Mr. THUNE. Madam President, when number of job seekers. In fact, the De- Republicans are committed to pro- Republicans took office after the 2016 partment of Labor reports that Janu- tecting Americans from any attempt to

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You cannot or should not have est but is not in the interest of the proceeded to call the roll. a situation where Republican Senators American people. Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, I get up and say we need to expand MICK MULVANEY ask unanimous consent that the order healthcare for people, and then they Madam President, President Trump’s for the quorum call be rescinded. say not a peep when their own Presi- actual administration seems to be far The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without dent tries to strip it away from them. to the right of even the mainstream of objection, it is so ordered. President Trump says the Republican the Republican Party. Why does that RECOGNITION OF THE MINORITY LEADER Party wants to be the party of happen? Well, here is one reason. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The healthcare. Well, I say, God help the Mick Mulvaney is now Chief of Staff Democratic leader is recognized. middle class if Republicans are the and was the head of the OMB, but he HEALTHCARE party of healthcare. What, dare I ask, still has a lot of say over that Agency. Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, on is their plan? Let me ask Leader It was reported last night that it was Monday the Trump administration MCCONNELL and every Republican Sen- Mick Mulvaney, against the advice of doubled down on their assault on ator, and I hope their constituents will others, who convinced President American healthcare by supporting an ask them, too, because this is the No. 1 Trump to take this radical position on effort to completely eliminate the issue across the country. healthcare. So we all know who is hold- healthcare law through the courts. We should ask our Republican friends ing the strings, who is putting in Presi- People scratched their heads, saying: and the President: What is your plan to dent Trump’s head these hard-right Are they really doing this after trying deal with prescription drug costs? ideas that his administration contin- for 2 years unsuccessfully and after los- Costs are at an alltime high. Instead, ually effectuates and of which he al- ing the election? they are supporting this lawsuit that most never backs off. We now seem to Yes, they are. The action is no small would impose billions of dollars in pre- be living in the Mick Mulvaney admin- istration. matter. The Trump administration’s scription drug costs on seniors. He is the same person who said we radical support for the wholesale elimi- We should ask President Trump and need to end Medicare as we know it. nation of the healthcare law would Leader MCCONNELL: What is your plan That should send a chill down every send our healthcare system into cer- to get more people covered on high- American’s spine. Let me repeat that. tain chaos. If the Trump administra- quality health insurance that they can The Mick Mulvaney administration, of tion has its way, it would send pre- actually afford at a time when pre- which President Trump is a willing fol- miums soaring for millions of Ameri- miums are still rising because of sabo- lower, if you will, says: We should end cans. It would revoke coverage for tens tage by the Trump administration? Medicare as we know it. of millions more who gained coverage How will they bring relief? Do Americans believe that? No. Do through medical expansions. It would Instead, our Republican colleagues, Republicans believe that? Most of them strike protections for an estimated 133 by their silence, are assenting to a law- do not. Yet this man, Mulvaney—not million adults in America who have suit that would kick tens of millions of elected—puts ideas in President preexisting medical conditions, even people off insurance. Trump’s head, and that is what Presi- people who get coverage from their em- I ask President Trump, Senator dent Trump does. Make no mistake ployer. MCCONNELL, and our Republican col- about it—the ultimate responsibility is Let me say that again. There are 133 leagues: What is your plan to protect President Trump’s, but when you won- million Americans who have pre- people with preexisting conditions? der why the words the President says existing medical conditions. If the Over and over again, the Republicans differ from so many administration Trump administration has its way, the say they support keeping safeguards policies—and it is the policies that are insurance company could just tell for preexisting conditions. Instead, hurting Americans—the reason is those 133 million and their families: We they are supporting this lawsuit or, by Mulvaney. cut you off. We don’t want to pay for their silence, assenting to their party’s Here is what the Mulvaney adminis- your insurance anymore because it is President’s lawsuit that completely tration looks like: extreme budget cuts too expensive. Your daughter has can- wipes away the protections for pre- to the programs that the middle-class cer. Your wife has severe diabetes. existing conditions. families depend on—cuts to the Depart- It is a disgrace. Let’s not forget that The American people deserve answers ments of Education and Transpor- the system would impose billions of because President Trump insisted yes- tation; severe cuts to the Office of dollars in new prescription drug costs terday that he has a ‘‘plan that is far Science; severe cuts to the EPA; cuts on seniors in Medicare. The con- better than ObamaCare.’’ We all know to programs that are most in need, sequences are dire. That is why we are that that is not true. He just talks off SNAP; faster cuts to Medicare; and re- introducing an amendment to ensure the top of his head. He said it at the peated government shutdowns. It was that not a dime of the American peo- lunch. reported yesterday that the adminis- ple’s money goes to the Trump admin- President Trump, what is your plan tration is considering no more Fannie istration’s fight to destroy the entire that is better than ObamaCare? You and Freddie—no more help for the mid- healthcare system. Not one cent of the may not have all of the details, but dle class to buy a home. This is an- Department of Justice should be used give us the main points. other great Mulvaney idea. to hurt Americans like this. When you are President, you have a Mick Mulvaney was one of the five Donald Trump campaigned on ‘‘End responsibility, as people’s lives are at most hard-right people in the House of ObamaCare.’’ Then, the Republican stake. They need healthcare. It is not Representatives. He was one of the au- Party—and even we thought Trump for you to simply say ‘‘we have a better thors of the previous shutdown. His himself—saw they had no replacement. plan,’’ file a lawsuit that gets rid of the views are far, far away from the aver- This repeal and replace had no replace- existing plan, and then give people no age American’s. Donald Trump, who ment. They couldn’t come up with one. inclination—no clue—as to what that gets full blame for Mulvaney’s ideas What is the Republican Party now plan is. because he is enacting them, seems to standing for? Here it is. ‘‘The Repub- Why is this happening? be following him lock, stock, and bar- lican Party will become the party of One, we know that President Trump rel. If the President had actually cam- healthcare,’’ says Donald Trump. Abso- has no fidelity issues. He talks off the paigned on these Mulvaney ideas in lutely not. Here is what his tweet top of his head. He doesn’t know what 2016, he would have been roundly de- should say if he is being honest and the issues are all about. Regarding feated.

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It is not going cated for. ing the request and for standing up for to be a happy opening chapter for the President Trump, your administra- transparency. As Senator FEINSTEIN Attorney General when history looks tion is now the Mulvaney administra- said, a four-page summary from a po- back on what he has done. We should tion. litical appointee is hardly a sufficient make the report public now. That should terrify every single substitute for Special Counsel I yield the floor. American, and it should terrify any Mueller’s 2-year investigation. There The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. ROM- thoughtful Republican Senator. were reports this morning that the NEY). The Senator from Iowa. Make no mistake about it—Donald Mueller report is over 300 pages. All we (The remarks of Mr. GRASSLEY per- Trump’s hard-right administration, have gotten is a four-page summary by taining to the introduction of S. 928 are which so hurts the middle class and so someone who was appointed by the ad- printed in today’s RECORD under helps the narrow, wealthy, special, and ministration and who, before he took ‘‘Statements on Introduced Bills and corporate interests—the brain child of office, felt the President could never— Joint Resolutions.’’) many of these ideas—comes from Mr. almost never—be called for obstruction NOMINATION OF WILLIAM R. EVANINA Mulvaney. He puts it into the cipher of of justice, which is one of the main Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, an- Donald Trump. Donald Trump enacts parts of the Mueller investigation. other thing that I shouldn’t have to it, and the American people suffer. For Mr. Barr to quickly issue a four- come to the floor to talk about—and it PUERTO RICO page report in his attempt to try to ex- will only take me about 3 or 4 min- Madam President, on Puerto Rico, it onerate President Trump and now to utes—is that I am still hearing ques- has been 18 months since Hurricane delay the release of an over 300-page re- tions about my intent to object to the Maria and Hurricane Irma devastated port that has been written by Mueller nomination of William Evanina. These the people of Puerto Rico and the sur- so that the American people and we are the same questions I heard last rounding islands. Senators and Congressmen cannot see year when I initially placed my hold on These were extraordinary disasters what was written has too much of the that required an extraordinary re- Evanina. odor of political expediency to help the By the way, my hold is printed in the sponse, but President Trump has RECORD, and the rules of this Senate hardheartedly said that the island of man who appointed him, President require all Members who put a hold on Puerto Rico has received too much aid. Trump. The American people have a right to a nomination or a bill, within 2 days He complained that the U.S. Govern- know the full scope of the facts behind ment had already given $91 billion in after doing that, to put something in Russia’s interference in our election. relief. the RECORD, and most Senators aren’t Mr. President, stop making up your The American people have a right to following that rule of the Senate. So if own facts, for $90 billion is the amount come to their own conclusions about you have some disagreement about of damage these storms caused. The actions taken by this administration. something and you put a secret hold on people of Puerto Rico are suffering. The American people deserve to have and somebody wants to sit down and They have received a sliver of the fund- full confidence in the integrity of our talk with you to see what is wrong, ing they need. system and in the impartiality of the how are they going to know who it is? It is hard to fathom the depths of rule of law, and only the full release of That is why, in 2011, on a vote of 96 to cruelty that it takes for the President the report can affirm that. 4, Senator WYDEN and I got these rules, to treat the people of Puerto Rico this What I am saying here shouldn’t be so there should be no secret holds in way. They are American citizens. controversial. In the House, it passed the U.S. Senate. The Democrats have taken action. 420 to nothing—the resolution to make So I am back here again. This state- The House passed a comprehensive dis- the full report public—voted for by ment will be the fourth time since aster bill 2 months ago. It would have such partisan defenders of the Presi- June 4, 2018, that I have publicly ex- provided aid to Puerto Rico and to the dent’s, like Representative JORDAN and pressed my reason for this hold here on other States that are hurt. We want to Representative MEADOWS. the Senate floor. It seems to me no one help all of those States, as that is what Transparency, we all know, is all the has been listening to what I have been Americans do, but Donald Trump has more important because the Attorney saying, but what is unusual about told our Senate Republicans: No aid for General has made no secret of his an- that? Puerto Rico. Instead of standing up tipathy toward this investigation and As I have said repeatedly, the Judici- and saying that it is wrong, that it is appears intent on holding the report ary Committee has experienced dif- not fair, they seem to be going along. secret for as long as possible. I guess ficulty in obtaining relevant docu- This is shameful. We have an oppor- his hope is to let the dust settle, and ments and briefings from the Justice tunity to change that by fixing the dis- then no one will pay attention. Well, Department and the Office of the Di- aster bill that is currently on the floor. he is wrong about that. He is pro- rector of National Intelligence. I would tell our Republican friends longing this. Remember, this Attorney Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosen- that we want to help people in the General made clear that he was hostile stein personally—I want to empha- States where there is flooding in the to the special counsel and was opposed size—personally assured me that the Midwest, where there are wildfires in to Mueller’s inquiry into obstruction of Judiciary Committee would receive the West, where there are droughts, but justice. Then he opines about it 2 days equal access to information provided to the bill they are trying to pass here is later without showing anybody any the House Permanent Select Com- never going to pass the House. They backing? That is so wrong. mittee on Intelligence with regard to know that. To get disaster aid for the According to press reports, in his negotiations about the pending sub- country, which is well needed in so phone call yesterday with Mr. NADLER, poenas from that committee related to many places, our Republican friends Mr. Barr would not even commit to re- the 2016 election controversies. are going to have to tell Donald Trump leasing the whole report at any time. I haven’t received equal access, as his cold, cruel-hearted, and divisive He wouldn’t commit to a date. He was promised. policy must fall, his policy of not let- not even willing to disclose how many On August 7, 2018, I wrote to the Jus- ting any of the already allocated aid be pages were in the special counsel’s re- tice Department and pointed out that distributed to Puerto Rico. port, as if that were some kind of state the House Intelligence Committee re- MUELLER REPORT secret. ceived documents related to Bruce Ohr Madam President, on one final mat- As I said, since that conversation, on May 8, 2018, that the Judiciary Com- ter—Mueller—yesterday and for the there have been reports that it is over mittee did not receive.

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RECORD, as follows: Only after Committee staff confronted De- every administration—Republican or U.S. SENATE, partment staff with the misrepresentation Democratic—I am forced to remind COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, were the Ohr documents finally produced to them of that constitutional responsi- Washington, DC, August 7, 2018. this Committee on May 21, 2018. bility of oversight, and that responsi- Hon. ROD J. ROSENSTEIN, Accordingly, no later than August 14, bility cuts both ways. Deputy Attorney General, please produce all records previously pro- The executive branch can’t hide doc- U.S. Department of Justice. duced to HPSCI pursuant to its request and uments from one congressional com- DEAR DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL ROSEN- answer the following questions: mittee, especially one that clearly has STEIN: As we have discussed on several occa- 1. Are the 63 pages of Ohr-related records sions, you agreed to provide the Judiciary produced to this Committee on May 21, 2018, oversight jurisdiction over the matter, Committee equal access to documents pro- the sum total of all responsive Ohr docu- and at the same time provide those duced to the U.S. House of Representatives, ments in the possession of the DOJ or the very same documents to another com- including those pursuant to requests and FBI? If not, when will production of records mittee. subpoenas from the Select Committee on In- responsive to this request be complete? In this case, my colleagues on the telligence related to 2016 election controver- 2. When will DOJ and FBI begin producing Senate Intelligence Committee have sies. documents to this Committee pursuant to Unfortunately, even though you gave me received these documents. I don’t this request from the other eight individ- blame them at all for getting that in- your word that the Committee would receive uals? equal access, the Department has failed to 3. When will the Department provide in formation. I say to them: full speed deliver. On July 12, 2018, the New York Times camera review on equal terms for the mate- ahead with whatever you need to do. reported that the Trump Administration or- rial referenced in the New York Times arti- However, that doesn’t mean this Sen- dered ‘‘more lawmakers be given access to cle? ator has to stand down. It is quite the classified information about an informant Please send all unclassified material di- opposite. I am going to fight until I get the F.B.I. used in 2016 to investigate possible rectly to the Committee. In keeping with the what has been promised to me but, ties between the Trump campaign and Rus- requirements of Executive Order 13526, if any more importantly, promised to 21 sia . . .’’ The article also reported that, of the responsive documents do contain clas- members of the Judiciary Committee. ‘‘[t]he F.B.I. files about the informant will sified information, please segregate all un- now be available to all members of the Sen- classified material within the classified doc- I think it is worthy of note that the ate and House Intelligence Committees, in- uments, provide all unclassified information authorizing resolution that created the stead of to just a group of congressional directly to the Committee, and provide a Senate Intelligence Committee made leaders known as the Gang of Eight.’’ classified addendum to the Office of Senate clear that other committees still have As you are aware, in the authorizing reso- Security. Although the Committee complies authority to review intelligence docu- lution that created the Senate Intelligence with all laws and regulations governing the ments. Committee, the Senate explicitly reserved handling of classified information, it is not For example, S. Res. 400 explicitly re- for other standing Committees, such as the bound, absent its prior agreement, by any Senate Judiciary Committee, the inde- serves for other standing committees, handling restrictions. such as the Judiciary Committee, inde- pendent authority to ‘‘study and review any Thank you in advance for your cooperation intelligence activity’’ and ‘‘to obtain full and with this request. If you have questions, pendent authority to ‘‘study and re- prompt access to the product of the intel- please contact Jason Foster of my Com- view any intelligence activity to the ligence activities of any department or agen- mittee staff. extent that such activity directly af- cy,’’ when such a matter ‘‘directly affects a Sincerely, fects a matter otherwise within the ju- matter otherwise within the jurisdiction of CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, risdiction of such committee’’ and ‘‘to such committee.’’ Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary. obtain full and prompt access to the This Committee has jurisdiction over all federal courts, including the Foreign Intel- Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, the product of the intelligence activities of ligence Surveillance Court (FISC). Based on Department flatout denied that those any department or any agency’’ within public reporting, the new information pro- records had been provided to the House that jurisdiction. vided to the Intelligence Committees ap- Intelligence Committee. The information I seek is connected pears to be relevant to an application to the That wasn’t the truth. to the Foreign Intelligence Surveil- FISC, which is an issue that has already After my staff confronted the Depart- lance Court. That court is within the been subject to extensive oversight by this ment, we eventually received some jurisdiction of the Judiciary Com- Committee. Some of that oversight has been documents. mittee. public, when possible. However, as you know, There is no reason for stonewalling; Now, to be fair, the Justice Depart- the Committee has also conducted its over- sight responsibilities through classified let- there is no reason for lack of coopera- ment has provided access to FISA ap- ters, briefings, and document reviews. We tion—plain and simple. plications and some of the relevant have respected the limitations necessary to In that August 2018 letter, I asked for background materials on more than protect national security information. The additional documents based on my one occasion. One must give credit Department has been responsive to the Com- equal access agreement with Deputy where credit is due. However, if they mittee’s previous oversight requests and has Attorney General Rosenstein. To date, have provided the Judiciary Com- provided access to the FISA application and the Department still hasn’t provided a mittee access to that information, some of the relevant background materials response. what is holding them back from show- on more than one occasion, which is appre- ciated. I later learned that the Justice De- ing us the rest? The secrecy just Yet, my Committee staff have attempted partment has taken the position that doesn’t make any sense, and it is se- to informally work with the Department’s Director Coats has prohibited them crecy that often prevents account- Office of Legislative Affairs to obtain the from sharing the requested records ability. equal access you promised to all of the rel- with the committee. I will not release my hold until the evant materials, but to no avail. For exam- Then, in addition to the outstanding Justice Department upholds its equal ple, on March 23, 2018, the House Intelligence records request, in May 2018, the Direc- access agreement with me and the Ju- Committee requested the records of nine in- tor of National Intelligence and the diciary Committee. dividuals related to Steele, his dossier, or campaign-related applications to the FISC. Justice Department provided a briefing In no way am I questioning Mr. The nine individuals are: in connection with the pending House Evanina’s credentials. Director Coats 1. James Comey, Intelligence subpoena, to which no and others have spoken highly of him. 2. Andrew McCabe, Senate Judiciary Committee member The fact is, if they really do believe in 3. Peter Strzok, was invited. his credentials, then they should 4. Lisa Page, The Judiciary Committee’s attempt produce the requested documents they 5. Sally Moyer, to schedule an equivalent briefing has 6. Bill Priestap, have promised me more than once. 7. Greg Brower, been ignored. I yield the floor. 8. James Baker, The lack of cooperation, then, obvi- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- 9. Bruce Ohr. ously, as any one of the 100 Senators ator from New Jersey.

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We are talking tive branch agencies owe to the U.S. agement Agency to give Puerto Rico about short-term locations for govern- Senate and its committees. ‘‘the A Plus treatment’’ he called for, ment Agencies to provide vital services In doing so, I am having a similar for our fellow citizens in Alabama. For as they await the completion of perma- problem with the State Department as the majority Latino, Spanish-speaking nent reconstruction. it relates to getting information about island of Puerto Rico, there was no A- We should also allow for the contin- actions that have taken place with ref- plus treatment. They got the F-minus ued use of generators to power critical erence to political reprisals and firings treatment. facilities on the island. This would help at the State Department and subject to The painful reality is, nothing can keep the public safe and provide sta- being investigated right now by the in- ever bring the thousands of Americans bility to Puerto Rico’s power grid spector general of the State Depart- who died in Hurricane Maria back, but while it is repaired. We can do this by ment and special counsel. So I can that doesn’t mean the President increasing the Federal cost waivers for share in his concerns about the inabil- shouldn’t try to make things right. He categories A and B to 100 percent, just ity to get information from the execu- has many opportunities to atone for as the House of Representatives’ bill tive branch as a legitimate exercise of his cruel and unfair treatment of the does. oversight. Puerto Rican people. Instead, Presi- Congress has done this many times I rise today, as I have so many times dent Trump seems intent on kicking before—this is not new—after Hurri- in my career, to be the voice for the Puerto Ricans when they are down. canes Katrina, Wilma, Dennis, and people of Puerto Rico in the U.S. Sen- Just last week, he hosted a group of Rita, and Puerto Rico deserves no less. In the bipartisan Budget Act we ate. my Republican colleagues at the White passed last year, we specifically au- On September 20, 2017, Hurricane House and proceeded to complain about thorized FEMA to waive Stafford Act Maria—a powerful category 5 storm— how much Puerto Rico has received. requirements so they could replace and ripped through the center of the island What is so disappointing is that none repair facilities in a way that reflects of Puerto Rico, wiping out its elec- of my colleagues even dared to check today’s industry standards, not their trical grid and leaving millions of the President on this issue. They didn’t previous subpar condition. Yet I keep American citizens disconnected and in receive what he said. They received a hearing of FEMA’s nickel-and-diming the dark. This was preceded by Hurri- fraction of what he said. over what it may fix and what Puerto cane Irma, which also struck the is- This President continues to behave Rico may not fix. land—a double body blow. What ensued as if the people who call Puerto Rico So let’s end the ambiguity. Let’s fix were months of absolute darkness, hun- home are not real Americans. It is al- this language. Let’s send a clear mes- ger, despair, and death. most as if he views himself as the real sage that it was always Congress’s in- While the President played golf in victim here, not the 3,000 American tent to rebuild Puerto Rico stronger Mar-a-Lago, thousands of our fellow mothers and fathers and brothers and and more resilient than ever. Americans were dying due to the lack sisters who perished in Hurricane No one wants to face the same kind of electricity to power oxygen tanks, Maria’s wake. of damage next hurricane season. As it dialysis centers, or refrigerated medi- We in the Senate have an obligation is said, an ounce of prevention is worth cations—problems that, as I said at the to do what is right with this disaster a pound of cure. time, could not be solved with paper supplemental. So let’s properly fund the Army towels. So let me say first that I am glad ev- Corps of Engineers so they can help re- I will never forget this moment, one eryone here agrees Puerto Rico needs a build the Cano Martin Pena, which of the most insulting moments to the fully funded Nutrition Assistance Pro- continues to flood over with raw sew- people of Puerto Rico—a people who gram for the next fiscal year. Still, it age, imperiling 26,000 American lives are a part of the United States, 3.5 mil- is appalling to hear the White House with unsanitary conditions and breed- lion U.S. citizens who have served and call the House of Representatives bill’s ing grounds for mosquito-transmitted worn the uniform of this Nation, whose inclusion of an additional $600 million diseases like Zika. names on the Vietnam Memorial here for nutrition assistance as ‘‘excessive These are the kind of measures that in Washington are disproportionate to and unnecessary.’’ would be stripped from the House bill the number of their population. The There is nothing excessive or unnec- by the pending substitute. It is just not President said: essary about helping 1.35 million strug- right. It is just not right. These 3.5 mil- [They] want everything to be done for gling, low-income Americans in Puerto lion U.S. citizens have worn the uni- them. . . . I hate to tell you, Puerto Rico, Rico—many of them with small chil- form of the United States, have de- but you are throwing our budget out of dren—avoid going hungry. We are talk- fended this Nation, going back to when whack. ing about $649 a month for a family of Congress gave the all-Puerto Rican No other American citizen in any four, just $160 or so a week for the peo- regiment, the ‘‘Borinqueneers,’’ the other of the areas of disaster heard ple who need it the most. highest commendation it can, the Con- anything—anything—near to that. Let’s turn for a moment to what is gressional Gold Medal, but that doesn’t Today we know that nearly 3,000 missing from the Senate legislation. mean anything if you turn your back Americans perished in what is now First, Hurricane Maria created 6 mil- on 3.5 million U.S. citizens. It doesn’t known as one of the worst natural dis- lion cubic yards of debris for the is- mean anything if you treat them as asters to strike our Nation in all of land. A year and a half later, the island second-class citizens. It is just fun- American history. still has approximately 168,000 cubic damentally biased and wrong. Now, let me be clear. We know that a yards of debris stored in temporary Come September, we will have to President cannot prevent a natural dis- sites waiting to be removed. congregate once again to talk about aster, but when the lives of Americans To put that in perspective, a large the island’s crumbling medical infra- are on the line, we expect our Com- dump truck can carry 10 cubic yards. structure and the need to provide Puer- mander in Chief to do everything in That means it would take 16,800 dump to Rico with additional Medicaid fund- their power to come to their aid. These trucks to remove all the garbage cre- ing. We can solve that problem today are the moments that are supposed to ated by the hurricane on a small island by adding critical Medicaid funding for reveal the very best of America. In the that barely measures 100 miles long by the territories. face of disasters of this magnitude, we 35 miles wide. Puerto Rico is clearly a subject of do not turn our backs on our fellow Make no mistake, Puerto Rico has angst and resentment for the Presi- citizens. We face the challenge head- made significant progress, but the crip- dent. I don’t know why, but it is clear- on. We save as many lives as we can. pled economy has made everything ly so. So I suggest we do him a favor,

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It is the United States of Amer- sure that these funds and other like announced that Customs and Border ica. We leave no American behind, and funds are properly disbursed. Protection is facing an ‘‘unprecedented we should leave none of the 3.5 million Last month, Governor Abbott, Sen- humanitarian and border security cri- Americans in Puerto Rico behind. ator CRUZ, and I wrote a letter to the sis all along our Southwest border,’’ I yield the floor. OMB to stop stalling, but so far all we and he provided some alarming statis- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- have heard is crickets. tics. ator from Texas. The amendment we will file will start Yesterday morning, CBP had more HURRICANE HARVEY AMENDMENT a timer on when the Federal Govern- than 13,000 migrants under their care. Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, in 2017, ment must release funds appropriated Under normal circumstances, a high I said on the Senate floor that we need- by Congress. It will give the govern- number is 4,000. They consider 6,000 to ed to come together to help rebuild in ment bureaucracy up to 90 days to get be a crisis, and now they have more the wake of Hurricane Harvey in the the money untangled from all the red- than double that. Yesterday, the Com- Houston area and that our work was tape and to get it to the communities missioner said that we are at a ‘‘break- not complete and more work needed to that desperately need it. This 90-day ing point’’ along the border. be done. That, unfortunately, still is rule wouldn’t just apply to this par- Frankly, because the American peo- true today. ticular block of funding; it would apply ple aren’t acquainted with some of the It is true also for the damage caused to any funds that are now being with- details, they may think that CBP can by other natural disasters during the held by the Office of Management and easily handle 13,000 people in their cus- same timeframe that was appropriated Budget that Congress appropriates to tody on a given day, but, unfortu- by Congress but has not yet found its these States. nately, that is not the case. way to the intended beneficiaries. Al- As I said, last time I checked, Con- CBP’s detention facilities are rel- though we voted to send billions of dol- gress had the power of the purse, not atively small, built for the short-term lars to help Texans still reeling from the Office of Management and Budget. detention of single adults. The current Hurricane Harvey, some of those funds I don’t know about the rest of my col- immigrant surge from Central America are still needlessly caught up in bu- leagues, but I am not OK with letting is primarily of children and family reaucratic redtape. OMB dictate when and how duly appro- units and has put these small facilities This is not just a phenomenon that priated funds are released to the in- at overcapacity levels. Processing affects my State. It affects all of our tended beneficiaries. times have slowed due to the large States. This is not acceptable to me, The disregard of those who are still number of people being processed and and it isn’t acceptable to the people I struggling to rebuild and prepare for the lack of Border Patrol personnel to represent—all 28 million of them—and future storms by the bureaucrats is ap- process them. palling. They know the kinds of hard- it shouldn’t be acceptable to Members As the Chief of the Border Patrol has of the Senate. ships my constituents are facing, and testified before the Senate Judiciary This storm ravaged the Texas coast they know that Hurricane Harvey will Committee, this is intentional on be- and was the largest rain event in not be the last hurricane to hit Texas. half of the transnational criminal orga- American history, with parts of South- It is time to do what is right by our east Texas seeing 60 inches of rain over State and local communities who have nizations that are responsible for about a 5- or 6-day period. It destroyed seen their livelihoods rot in a fleet of transporting people from Central people’s homes, their businesses, and floodwater. America to our borders. This is a mon- our communities. It has now been more than a year eymaking proposition. If you can In the wake of the storm, we all since President Trump signed a bill charge $5,000 or more a head for every pulled together in Congress, in an un- that would have sent roughly $4 billion person you deliver to our border, that usually bipartisan manner, to provide to Texas. Imagine what could have is a big, big deal. These people are not billions of dollars in disaster aid. Like been accomplished with that money in just involved in transporting immi- I said, it wasn’t just for Texas. It was the meantime. They could have re- grants. They are engaged in trafficking for Florida, Puerto Rico, for wildfires paired wastewater treatment facilities of human beings for sex or involuntary out in California, and other places that that haven’t been fully restored. It servitude, and they are also engaged in suffered from natural disasters. could have led to important economic trafficking drugs. The dollars we appropriated, and revitalization projects in decimated I will remind all of us that last year, were signed into law by the President, areas. They could have even relocated 70,000-plus Americans died from drug have helped Texans get back to some or elevated damaged facilities to pre- overdoses—70,000 Americans died from sense of normalcy, and I am grateful to pare for the next storm. But, no—those drug overdoses last year—according to my colleagues for working together projects are still on hold because the the Centers for Disease Control. A sub- with us to make that happen. What has OMB has refused to release the fund- stantial portion of that was part of the not been helpful, however, are the un- ing. opioid crisis, not just prescription necessary delays on the part of the Of- The 2019 hurricane season is fast ap- drugs but also synthetic fentanyl as fice of Management and Budget in get- proaching, and it is critical we get well as heroin. Ninety percent of the ting the roughly $4 billion in mitiga- work done on long-term projects to heroin that comes into the United tion funds into the hands of State and protect my State and the Texas coast States comes across the U.S.-Mexico local communities that desperately against future storms. border. As President Obama himself need them. It is difficult to plan for the future said in 2014, this is truly a humani- I have searched in vain in the Con- with the resources we need being tarian and security crisis, but it is on stitution for where the Office of Man- caught up in bureaucratic limbo. We steroids today. agement and Budget has the power to have been waiting to get to the place On Monday, CBP had the highest to- veto appropriations bills passed by where before Harvey and after Harvey tals of apprehensions in more than a Congress and signed into law by the isn’t such a stark difference. decade, and on Tuesday, they broke President. I can’t find it. Yet they are With the inclusion of my amend- that record. Daily averages for border still the impediment to the execution ment, the clock will start ticking on apprehensions are higher than we have of Congress’s intent to get the money the Office of Management and Budget seen at any time since 2006. to the people who need it. to do its job and ultimately release Last month, CBP apprehended 76,000 The intent of Congress was crystal these hurricane recovery funds. Texas people in 1 month on our southern bor- clear in the February 2018 disaster sup- communities have waited long enough. der—the highest monthly total in over

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CON. RES. 24 Border Patrol has to do something, 40 this flow of unaccompanied minors and Ms. KLOBUCHAR. Madam President, percent of the Border Patrol’s man- family units because, frankly, they are I rise today to discuss transparency in power is now spent processing immi- showing up at the border, and they are our democracy and security for our grants and providing care and trans- turning themselves in. So we need to elections. portation. In other words, they are not act. It has been nearly a week since Spe- engaged in their primary mission, Two weeks ago, Ms. Nielsen, Sec- cial Counsel Mueller’s report was com- which is border security, because they retary of the Department of Homeland pleted and submitted to the Attorney are busy handing out juice boxes and Security, said: ‘‘The situation on our General of the United States. We still diapers to children, as well as proc- southern border has gone from a crisis, have not seen the report. I have urged essing the immigrants who are pro- to a national emergency, to a near sys- the Department of Justice to release viding other transportation. tem-wide meltdown.’’ the report, and the administration The Border Patrol simply doesn’t Our Democratic colleagues have should not delay in producing the re- have the resources, nor should it be ex- called this a fake emergency. They port to Congress. We know the Amer- pected to have the resources, to handle have opposed treating this crisis for ican people want to know what is in this crisis and perform their primary what it is. It is even more than an the report. According to some public duty, which is to protect our border. emergency; it is a total system failure, opinion polls, nearly 90 percent of them We know that detention centers are at and the only people who can fix it are have said they want to know what is in or over capacity, and local charities Congress, working with the President. the report. We also know that 420 Mem- and nongovernmental Agencies are I am not sure how much longer our bers of the House of Representatives strained, as well, and all of our border Democratic colleagues could be in de- voted that the report should be made communities are being overrun by hu- nial when we see this flood of human- public. manity. ity coming across in higher and higher We cannot get ourselves out of the Recently, Senator CRUZ and I were numbers every day. mode of remembering that a foreign down at the Sarita checkpoint to name The issue is staring us in the face. power invaded our election. Some peo- that checkpoint after a heroic Border The numbers confirm what we have ple call it meddling. That is what I do Patrol agent who was killed by two il- said all along: This is a border security when I call my daughter on a Saturday legal aliens. We were approached by and humanitarian crisis. night and ask her what she is doing. I the chief of police from McAllen— Secretary Nielsen made an important call it an invasion of our democracy. somebody who is well respected in law point that our communities, our mem- We have learned from the intel- enforcement circles in our State—who bers of law enforcement, and the immi- ligence heads under both Barack said that because the Border Patrol is grants themselves are paying the price Obama and Donald Trump, including simply unable to process all of these for our inaction. former Senator Coats, who told us that people, and they are being released into We have heard it from people at the this has happened, and, in fact, the those communities or put on a bus and border who know how to fix the prob- Russians are getting even bolder. That sent to places like San Antonio, they lem, and we need to listen. They have is what he told us. That is why I think are increasingly worried about public told us time and again that it will take it is very important, putting every- safety. That is notwithstanding the a combination of technology, physical thing else aside, that we find out the fact that many of our border commu- infrastructure, and boots on the facts in this report. nities are extraordinarily safe, at least ground. It will also take legislative ac- There have been indictments that on our side of the border. If you go on tion to fill the gaps in our laws that we have come out of this investigation— the Mexican side of the border, they know exist and are being exploited by dozens of indictments. They made it are some of the most dangerous cities the cartels. clear that the unprecedented inter- in our hemisphere. I want to commend the men and ference in the 2016 election was de- This is having a profound impact on women of Customs and Border Patrol signed by the Kremlin with the goal of our local communities, on the men and for working around the clock in a making Americans lose faith in our women of the Customs and Border Pa- thankless job but in an important job. election system, whether you are a trol. Frankly, it should be an embar- Frankly, I am embarrassed that they Democrat, a Republican, or an Inde- rassment to us here in this country haven’t seen more support by the peo- pendent. that we haven’t dealt with this in a ple who represent them in Congress. We know from the intelligence heads more timely and more effective way. We have sent them out on a losing and from some of the indictments that Because the cartels have figured this battle unless we can work together have been made public that they did out, people crossing the border today here in Congress to give them the re- this in many ways. We have learned are largely families and unaccom- sources and the legislative fixes they that the Russians tried to hack into panied minors because of the special need. the actual election equipment of 21 way they have to be processed and be- I want to assure these dedicated men States and that in Illinois, they got as cause of a consent decree called the and women that we are trying, but we far as the voter files. What does that Flores decision, which says you can’t need their help to talk to their elected mean? If we could get more facts about detain them for more than 20 days. Representatives here in Congress. We that since that was actually—the hack- That is not enough time to get them in need Ms. PELOSI to consider this the ing of the campaigns and elections was front of an immigration judge in order same humanitarian crisis that Presi- referenced in Attorney General Barr’s to adjudicate their asylum claim, so dent Obama identified back in 2014, four-page letter. Well, if we knew more they are released into the interior of when he called it a humanitarian and facts, it might help Senator LANKFORD the United States. Guess what. Over- security crisis. By any measure, it has and me to pass our bill, the Secure whelmingly, they don’t show up for gotten much, much worse. We need to Elections Act. We have the support of their court hearings because they real- give this crisis the serious attention Senator BURR and Senator WARNER, as ize they have beat the system. The car- that it deserves. well as Senator HARRIS and Senator tels know that because of the money I yield the floor. GRAHAM. Maybe it would help us con- they make. They are exploiting these I suggest the absence of a quorum. vince the leader that we should have a vulnerabilities in our laws and in our The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. vote on the simple concept of having infrastructure. The only people who FISCHER). The clerk will call the roll. backup paper ballots and audits. Maybe

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Also, I ask unanimous consent that the have a situation where there is one major CEOs of these companies are Senate proceed to the immediate con- county or one State in which elections saying they now support this bill. sideration of H. Con. Res. 24, expressing get screwed up because someone The time has come—in fact, we are the sense of Congress that the report of hacked into them. running out of time—to put the rules Special Counsel Mueller should be The other thing that we learned and in place on issue ads and candidate ads. made available to the public and to got confirmed in the four-page letter I believe it is not just selfishly what I Congress, which is at the desk; further, was that we know there was hacking want to get done; it is something that that the concurrent resolution be into a political campaign, right? Well, a lot of people in this Chamber want to agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, we want to know the facts about that. get done, and that is, making sure our and the motions to reconsider be con- Again, as people have noticed, there next election is protected from foreign sidered made and laid upon the table are a lot of people running for office— influence on the propaganda side, on with no intervening action or debate. not just for President but for the U.S. the election security side, and on the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there Senate and the House of Representa- hacking side. Getting the full report objection? tives—and certainly the American peo- will help us make the case. It will help The Senator from Kentucky. ple and the people who work in the us figure out exactly what happened. Mr. PAUL. Reserving the right to ob- Congress have the right to know ex- As I mentioned, there are many peo- ject, I think we all want transparency. actly what happened. That was one of ple—420 in the House of Representa- I think we all want reports to be re- the major reasons we had this inves- tives—who said they want to see it. vealed. We think the American people tigation in the first place. Congress should be able to see the full, deserve to know what happened with There was something else that was unredacted report without delay. We the Russians hacking into Democratic mentioned in the four-page letter that are a coequal branch of government emails and with the Russian involve- we all want to have more details about; and have received unredacted grand ment in trying to affect the outcome of that is, another way Russia tried to in- jury and classified information in the our elections. I think we all want that. fluence our election was through the past. But more than Congress, the pub- What do we know so far? We know spread of false propaganda on the inter- lic should be able to see this. That is that we spent $30 million to investigate net, right? We have now seen the ads. why the House voted 420 to 0—we don’t this, and they have decided and con- We have seen them in sworn hearings. get that kind of vote on a volleyball cluded—after doing hundreds of inter- One of the ones that I will never forget resolution—in support of publicly re- views and thousands of subpoenas, they is one that was Russian sponsored, leasing the report. Members standing have concluded that President Trump which was a picture of an African- in the way of this report becoming pub- did not collude with the Russians, did American woman, and it basically lic will have to explain why to the not conspire with the Russians, did not said—I am paraphrasing—‘‘Why wait in American people. commit a crime with the Russians, and line? You can text your vote for Hil- We know we can do two things at the President has said repeatedly he lary Clinton,’’ with a texting number once in this Chamber or maybe 20 never talked to the Russians. We do on it. That is a crime. That is illegal. things at once. We know the impor- know that. That is what we know so That was one of the ads the Russians tance right now of making sure we far. put into our system. don’t repeal the Affordable Care Act, But now that we know that, in addi- We know that they put false issue which is why 2 nights ago I was here at tion to the Mueller report, we also need ads out there to divide Americans— this very desk until late at night read- to know: Was there malfeasance? Was sometimes from the left, trying to ing 100 letters from people who opposed there misuse of government power? Did make it like they were looking from repealing the Affordable Care Act be- President Obama’s administration get the left, and sometimes from the right. cause of the protection it gives them to involved in an election to actually try They were simply trying to sow discord not get kicked off their health insur- to manipulate and infiltrate the Trump in our great democracy. ance. We know how important it is to campaign to entrap them or try to Our democracy is fragile. Our democ- finally do something about prescrip- spread information that was incorrect? racy is something that we cherish. Our tion drugs. We know how important it We need to know that. democracy must be protected. That is is to work on advancing an optimistic So I am asking the Senator by unani- why, if we could get this full report, economic agenda for the people of this mous consent to accept my amend- that would help us greatly to perhaps country. At the same time, we also ment, which would say that not only step back and look at the Honest Ads have to protect the public’s right to will we see the Mueller report, but we Act. That is a bill which I had with know. We have to protect the security will also see the communications be- Senator McCain and Senator WARNER, in many ways—security of our country tween John Brennan, known to have and we have a number of Republicans abroad, our military—and make sure already lied to the Senate about spying who are actually cosponsoring it in the we are protecting the very democracy on Senate computers, and James Clap- House of Representatives. that is at the core of this country. The per, also known to have lied to the I think getting more details here way to do that is to make sure no for- Senate in testimony over the bulk col- would help to make the case that be- eign power messes with our election. lection of phone records, and their fore the 2020 election—we know that in There are hundreds of pages in this communications with James Comey, 2016 alone, $1.4 billion was spent on report. There are hundreds of people who is known to have illegally leaked internet advertising, on social media who were interviewed. All of us are a information about this investigation to platforms, such as Facebook and Twit- little in the dark, especially those peo- the press—that their communications ter, and we didn’t know who was pay- ple who are not on the committees that become known to all of us. ing for it. We later found out that some receive classified information. There We need to know why they decided of it was in rubles. How obvious can are many people who would like to that the fake Russian dossier was real. you get? And then also we didn’t even know exactly what went down. If I The country had concluded it wasn’t. know what the ads were because they were the secretary of state in one of No media outlet would produce the just vanished from the internet. our States, whether it be the State of Russian dossier because it was so un- So when we first proposed this bill, Arkansas or the State of Arizona, I verifiable. Yet the FBI head and the people said: Oh, you are trying to regu- would want to know what happened be- CIA head kept sending the dossier out late. Well, guess what. Things changed cause I, if I am the secretary of state, to people, having it come back to them after Cambridge Analytica, and we sud- am responsible for my State’s election again, saying: Oh, my goodness, look at denly got growing support for this idea security. what this Senator gave us. It was what

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Was this done to try to fant health. every 2 to 4 years. I don’t care whether elect Hillary Clinton? Was this done Too often in our country, new moth- it is a Democrat President or Repub- with mal intent? ers and their babies—especially women lican President. We should not waste We need to know the truth, and to and babies of color—are dying from the time of the entire country sending get to the truth, we need not only the completely preventable health com- spies into campaigns, making false ac- Mueller report, but we need every plications. Take this statistic to heart: cusations, and tying the country in ounce of information about the people The United States is only 1 of 13 coun- knots for 2 years. Tying us in knots at the very top of our intelligence com- tries in the world where the death rate such that people are at each other’s munity who were promoting the inclu- of new mothers is worse today than it throats and will not talk to each other sion of this fake dossier that most was 25 years ago. How can it be pos- because we spread this false narrative American media outlets had discounted sible that in the United States of that President Trump had something as unverifiable and that turned out to America, mothers are dying at a rate to do with the Russians. It was not be unverifiable. worse than it was 25 years ago? Nation- true. We spent $30 million and now we We based this investigation on a lie. wide, more than 700 women die every know it is not true. We should investigate who the liars year as a result of pregnancy. More So I ask unanimous consent that my were. than 70,000 others experience severe, amendment be added to the current I object. near-fatal complications. In my State resolution. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec- of Illinois, 73 women die every year due We will agree to see the Mueller re- tion is heard. to pregnancy-related complications, The Senator from Minnesota. port as long as the other side will agree and 70 percent of those deaths are pre- Ms. KLOBUCHAR. Madam President, to show us the communications that ventable. if my Republican colleagues don’t want took place in deciding to promote this Not only are we losing these new fake allegation against the President. to read the report and they want to rely on a summary, that is their right, moms, we are losing their babies. We want to know whether there was Every year, more than 23,000 infants misuse of their office. If that is al- and they can make requests in the fu- ture. I am sure they can get all of that die in the United States largely due to lowed, then I will agree to the consent factors that could be prevented. Some request. in the future, but all I am simply ask- ing for right now is that whether you of them are birth defects which could I would ask unanimous consent that be detected in utero, preterm birth, low my amendment be added to the Sen- agreed with this investigation or not, the public have the right to see the birth rate, and maternal complica- ator’s resolution. tions. Here is a startling statistic. The The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there hundreds of pages that may well help United States of America—our home; objection? us understand what Russia did. this great Nation of plenty—ranks 32 Ms. KLOBUCHAR. Reserving the I believe our constitutional duty re- out of 35 wealthy Nations when it right to object, I would simply point quires us to have the report and the comes to infant mortality. Is it pos- out that this entire investigation was American people do not deserve to be sible? If so, what are we going to do started by the Justice Department left in the dark about what the report about it? under the Republican administration, says. and then, of course, guided by Deputy I hope that it will be made public The tragedy of maternal and infant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who very soon, and I hope the Attorney mortality is even more pronounced was appointed by the President. General of the United States under- when you look at mothers of babies of I will note that this is a simple reso- stands there are a number of us who color. Black infants in America are lution to just get the report. We may would like to see a full unredacted re- twice as likely to die as White infants. not agree with the foundation of this port, and there are a whole lot of peo- That racial disparity is greater today investigation, but we are simply trying ple who would like to see it as well. than it was in the year 1850. Nation- to get the fruits of the investigation, I yield the floor. wide, women of color are three to four which I believe will be helpful to this I suggest the absence of a quorum. times more likely than White women Chamber to figure out what we should The PRESIDING OFFICER. The to die as a result of their pregnancy. In do to protect our national security. clerk will call the roll. Illinois, African-American women are We are simply trying to adopt and The bill clerk proceeded to call the six times more likely than White consider the House resolution, which roll. women to die of pregnancy-related again was voted on 420 to 0, including Mr. DURBIN. Madam President, I ask complications. all Republicans present. The House unanimous consent that the order for Something has to be done. That is voted 420 to 0 to see the report. That is the quorum call be rescinded. why, this week, I joined with Congress- why I was simply hoping that we could The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without woman ROBIN KELLY, Senator do this on a bipartisan basis and try to objection, it is so ordered. DUCKWORTH, and others introducing see the report ourselves. MOMMA’S ACT what we call the MOMMA’s Act. First Therefore, I object. Mr. DURBIN. Madam President, if and foremost, our bill would expand The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec- you had to pick a country—anywhere the length of time a new mom can keep tion is heard. in the world—where you faced a serious her Medicaid healthcare coverage. Is there objection to the original re- illness, you are likely to pick the More than half of the babies born my quest? United States. Here we have some of State of Illinois are to mothers who are Mr. PAUL. Reserving the right to ob- the greatest hospitals, doctors, and covered by Medicaid—health insurance ject. some of the greatest research institu- for those who are not wealthy and The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- tions in the world. In some other coun- don’t have access to private health in- ator from Kentucky. tries, they certainly have good medical surance. The Medicaid Program covers Mr. PAUL. The Senator made one care, but if you could only pick one, I more than half of the babies and moth- point that the investigation was begun certainly would pick this country, the ers as they go through the birthing under Republicans of this dossier. United States of America. That is why process. The Mueller report and the Mueller it is kind of surprising to learn that Do you know what happens to Med- aspect of this was begun under Repub- when it comes to some basic indicators icaid under the current law? Two licans, but the actual investigation— of how well we are doing in the United months after the baby is born, the

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On a bipartisan basis, I can tiny. Medicaid Programs, including my own, think of no better way to help babies This Congress—the 116th Congress— are strapped for cash. Our bill will pay and moms than to keep them alive and includes more women than any Con- for itself by increasing Federal tobacco healthy, and that is what the MOMMA gress in our Nation’s history. In the taxes. That is right. This Senator just Act would do. House, America’s first woman Speaker, called for an increase in taxes. You bet WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH Nancy Pelosi, returned to her leader- I did. The last time we dramatically in- Mr. President, on June 26, 1913, on a ship post with 102 women as her col- creased the Federal tobacco tax was to beautiful day in Springfield, IL, Gov- leagues. create the Children’s Health Insurance ernor Edward Dunne signed into law a Here in the Senate, we now have 25 Program. bill making Illinois the first State east women Senators—the most in our Na- Is it worth it for kids to be born of the Mississippi where women could tion’s history. healthy and live to their full terms in vote. The congressional delegation from life? Of course. It was not equal voting rights, to be my home State of Illinois also has Given that Big Tobacco and its sure. more women members than ever be- vaping interest have made billions of The new law gave Illinois women the fore—including the youngest African- dollars at the expense of children and, right to vote only for Presidential elec- American woman ever elected to Con- I might add, of the African-American tors and most local offices—but not for gress: Representative Lauren Under- community, we believe they should Governor, State representatives or wood, but we still have a long way to help pay for this undertaking. As I Members of Congress. Still, it was his- go to reach true gender equality in said, in 2009 that is exactly what we did toric. America. to create the Children’s Health Insur- Word of the milestone sped around This Congress may include record ance Program. the world. numbers of women, but women still Next, the MOMMA Act would im- When the legendary Chicago humani- make up only 25 percent of the Senate prove access to doulas. Too often, tarian Jane Addams—the first Amer- and less than that—a little over 23 per- Black women are not listened to or ican woman to receive the Nobel Peace cent—in the House. Those numbers taken seriously by healthcare pro- Prize—announced the news at an inter- ought to be higher. viders. Doulas can help to provide edu- national suffragette conference in Bu- The number of women serving in cation, advocacy, and support for dapest, delegates roared with approval. State legislatures has quintupled since women whose voices are often ignored. The suffragettes’ battle to achieve 1971. Women now make up nearly 29 To this point, our bill would also im- even limited voting rights was long—it percent of State legislatures today. prove implicit bias and cultural com- took nearly 60 years—and bitterly In Illinois, women make up one-third petency training among healthcare fought. of the General Assembly. That’s The first time the suffragettes took providers. Sadly, the United States is progress, but all States—including Illi- their campaign to Chicago’s street cor- still struggling with racial bias in nois—can and must do a better job of ners, in 1910, they were ignored by healthcare. recruiting, supporting, and electing some and derided by many—including Finally, our bill would improve hos- women leaders. many women. pital coordination and the reporting on Women are making history in other When Illinois suffragettes traveled by maternal health outcomes, and it professions and other ways, too. train to Washington in 1913 to lobby would ensure the widespread adoption More than 200,000 women serve in the President Woodrow Wilson for voting and implementation of services to im- U.S. military today, and America has rights for all American women, their prove care. 1.6 million women veterans. My friend train stopped at Harper’s Ferry, WV— If you have listened to the speech so and fellow Senator from Illinois, this same place where fiery aboli- far, you are probably thinking there is TAMMY DUCKWORTH, is one of those vet- tionist John Brown made his stand one thing he didn’t mention—that erans. She is amazing. She lost both against slavery. many of those African-American As they spoke publicly for voting legs when a Blackhawk helicopter she women are in poverty, that they are rights, the women were pelted with was co-piloting was shot down in Iraq. low-income women. That probably ex- snowballs by men and boys, but they As soon as she healed from her injuries, plains why they don’t have adequate didn’t back down. she asked: ‘‘What else can I do to help care during their pregnancies or ade- In Washington, D.C., suffragettes other veterans and help my country?’’ quate care for their new children. from Illinois and other States encoun- I encourage the Department of De- That is what I had concluded, but it tered angry mobs and police who re- fense to do more to harness the patri- is wrong. The statistics I have given fused to intervene. otism and talent of American women you about racial disparity do not link More than 100 women ended up in by opening more combat roles to up with one’s economic status. Even hospitals. Still, the women didn’t re- women. African-American mothers who have treat. It has been said before, and I agree: high incomes and high educations are In 1914, 200,000 women registered to You can measure a nation’s character facing the same threats of maternal vote in Chicago, and eight women ran and its hopes for a better future by how mortality. It is not driven by income for aldermanic seats. it treats women and girls. or poverty. There is something more to Five years later, on June 10, 1919, Illi- While America has made great the story. Don’t we owe it to ourselves nois became the first State in the Na- progress, in gender equality, especially to look at it? tion to ratify the 19th Amendment to in the last two generations, we still There are issues that divide this the United States Constitution, giving have far to go. Chamber, and one of the issues, of all American women the right to vote It has been nearly 60 years since course, is abortion. There are people in all elections. President Kennedy signed the Equal with differing views on both sides of That is a distinction we are proud of. Pay Act into law in 1963. Yet American the aisle. It is always a contentious de- By 1920, the 19th Amendment was rati- women in general still earn only 80 bate, but can’t we all agree—pro-choice fied by the necessary two-thirds of cents for every dollar earned by men. and pro-life—that we ought to focus on States. For women of color, the gap is even this, on the mothers who are delivering Next year, we will celebrate the 100th greater; African American women earn babies, to make sure that the mom sur- anniversary of the women’s right to only 61 cents, and Latina women earn vives and that the baby survives? That vote in America. only 53 cents for every dollar a White

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:02 Mar 29, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G28MR6.027 S28MRPT1 rfrederick on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with SENATE S2076 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 28, 2019 man makes. These disparities persist The Mueller report needs to be made So when the DOJ decided to not de- even among women and men who do public without delay. That is what we fend the provision for preexisting con- the same or comparable work. That is need to have confidence in the outcome ditions, it left many of us scratching wrong, and we need to close the pay of this investigation. The House of our heads. fairness gap. Representatives voted 420 to 0 for mak- Then, earlier this week, the adminis- Many women across the country still ing the report public. Even the Presi- tration took it even further by lending lack access to affordable healthcare, dent claims he wants the report to be its full-throated support for over- including reproductive health care public, but we are already seeing an ef- turning the ACA in its entirety, which services. fort by the White House and Repub- would result in ripping healthcare Roe v. Wade was decided more than licans to walk back from transparency away from tens of millions of Ameri- 40 years ago, but attacks on access of the Mueller report. cans. have limited a woman’s right to choose On Monday, White House Press Sec- This administration’s actions would in many States, and too many women, retary Sarah Sanders said the White put millions of Americans at risk by especially women of color, are dying House will ‘‘want to make sure we’re getting rid of every last protection during or shortly after childbirth. protecting the office of the presidency; that was enshrined in the law, includ- Here is a sobering fact: The United have to look at things like protecting ing Medicaid expansion and coverage States is one of only 13 countries in the executive privilege and sources and for preexisting conditions that are, world where the maternal mortality methods.’’ without debate, providing lifesaving rate is worse now than it was 25 years Let us be clear—We need to see the and affordable healthcare to folks ago. Every year, more than 700 women full Mueller report, not just summaries across this country. in our Nation—most of them women of and not just page after page of redacted If they, the administration, succeed color—die as a result of their preg- text. The sooner this happens, the in dismantling our healthcare system, nancies, with more than 60 percent of sooner we can reassure the American I guarantee you the cost of healthcare these deaths being completely prevent- people about the integrity of the proc- will rise through the roof. able. ess. The American people deserve no Oh, yes—no, no—they will point to This is unacceptable. Having a baby less. junk plans. There are junk plans out anywhere, especially in the United I yield the floor. there. They are cheap, but they are States, should not be a death sentence. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. called junk for a reason. Just hope, if We must do better. YOUNG). The Senator from Montana. you have a junk plan, you never get The Equal Rights Amendment has AFFORDABLE CARE ACT sick because they are junk. been waiting for passage since the Dismantling this healthcare system 1920s. My home State of Illinois finally Mr. TESTER. Mr. President, the de- cision earlier this week to undo the Af- not only will cause healthcare to go ratified it last year. through the roof—because we are going Here is an idea. Let us work together fordable Care Act—the decision made back to the old system—there is no re- to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment by a bunch of unelected bureaucrats at place here. They will replace it with in this Congress. the Department of Justice—is nothing For the 100th anniversary of women’s short of a slap in the face to our de- the old system. It will imperil the sus- voting rights in America let’s pass the mocracy. tainability of our hospitals across this ERA. If we truly believe in gender The Affordable Care Act was passed country but particularly in rural and equality, let’s put it in writing in the by majorities in the House and the frontier communities. Don’t ask me about this; ask hospital U.S. Constitution. Senate; it was upheld by the Supreme Let’s not just celebrate Women’s His- Court; and it continues to be supported administrators. They will tell you that tory Month; let’s build on women’s his- by folks on both sides of the aisle. if the healthcare bill is repealed, they torical successes and make this an Nonetheless, the Department of Jus- will either have to change the entire even more perfect Union. tice, through the direction of the Presi- way they provide healthcare or close entirely. Once again, it will mean MUELLER REPORT dent of the United States, has decided Last Friday, Attorney General Wil- to undo the ACA and all the things American families are just one dev- liam Barr announced that Special that are in the ACA. astating diagnosis away from bank- Counsel Bob Mueller had submitted a This isn’t the first time. For the last ruptcy, particularly if you live in rural lengthy report from his investigation nearly decade, I have heard a seem- America. to the Attorney General. ingly endless number of speeches on This administration’s heartless deci- On Sunday, Attorney General Barr the floor of this body, and we have seen sion is going to have devastating con- sent another letter to Congress sum- vote after vote after vote after vote, sequences on Montana’s families. Let marizing Mr. Barr’s view of the ‘‘prin- under both Republican and Democratic me give some statistics from a Mon- cipal conclusions’’ of the Mueller re- leadership, to repeal the ACA. It hasn’t tana perspective: port. succeeded. Fifty thousand Montanans who buy This letter is very troubling, particu- So what the Department of Justice their healthcare coverage on the ACA larly because the Attorney General in- decided to do is take the law into their market would lose that. Now, 50,000 is serted his own judgment about poten- own hands and circumvent the legisla- not many people, right? In a State of tial obstruction of justice by the Presi- tive process. I guess they felt they had just over 1 million, that is a lot of peo- dent rather than letting the Mueller no other choice. ple. report speak for itself. It didn’t just happen this week. Last Ninety thousand Montanans who re- I have said repeatedly that I trust summer, they refused to defend a pro- ceive coverage as a result of Medicaid Bob Mueller. I believed he could be vision of the ACA that protects people expansion would lose their coverage. I trusted to do a thorough and fair inves- with preexisting conditions. That is have told the story many times about tigation into what happened with Rus- pretty interesting. a gentleman in Butte, MT, who was sian meddling in the 2016 election. I My best friend in life, other than my fighting diabetes and, by his own ad- still feel that way. wife, has diabetes, and he is somebody mission, mental health problems. This We have now heard Attorney General who has fought diabetes since we were guy was about 45 years old, by the way. Barr’s description of what Special in junior high. His folks didn’t have di- When the legislature expanded Med- Counsel Mueller found, but, respect- abetes, but he did. He still does. icaid 2 years ago, he was able to get fully, that is not good enough. He was not able to have health insur- healthcare to finally get his diabetes The American people need to hear ance that was affordable until the ACA under control, and he was able to see a Special Counsel Mueller’s description came along. He wasn’t even allowed to psychologist to get the tools he needed of what he found. change jobs for fear that when he did to take care of his own mental health. Attorney General Barr is a political get health insurance when he changed It resulted in his ability—for the first appointee. The reason a special counsel jobs, he would lose it and then have to time in his life, he said—to be able to was appointed in this case was to take go uninsured until—until—the ACA get a full-time job and support his fam- politics out of the investigation. came along. ily. He was incredibly proud of that.

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Know, once the ACA is repealed, The reason we are in single-digit pop- tration, a position where she has man- Medicaid expansion is gone. ularity in this body is that we don’t lis- aged nearly 2,000 employees and con- In Montana, we have 152,000 Mon- ten to the people. We listen to a select tractors. tanans with preexisting conditions few who have certain people’s ears in Ms. Nason has won praise from a that before the ACA would disqualify this body, and we don’t make decisions wide variety of groups. Helen Witty is them from coverage for healthcare. If based on what is best for this country the national president of Mothers the ACA is repealed, they could once and the people who live here. This is Against Drunk Driving. This is what again face lifetime caps; so, when you just another example of that. she stated: get sick and need that health insurance It is time the Members of the great- Nicole is a true champion of highway safe- the most, it will not be there because est deliberative body wake up, take the ty and will be an asset to the Department of you would be up against a cap. ACA and improve the things that are Transportation as the Federal Highway Ad- They already have Medicare, where wrong with it, and do our level best to ministration Administrator. On behalf of more than 110,000 Montana seniors rely make sure people can afford to get MADD, I wholeheartedly endorse her for this on Medicare prescription drug plans for sick. It is pretty basic. position. coverage of prescription drugs. That is I yield the floor. The Associated General Contractors going to be gone. It would reopen the I suggest the absence of a quorum. of America had this to say: doughnut hole and make hundreds of The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Ms. Nason is a superb choice to fulfill the thousands responsible for increased clerk will call the roll. Federal Highway Administration’s leader- costs. The legislative clerk proceeded to ship role in improving mobility on our na- I can tell you, in Montana, where call the roll. tion’s highways. poverty is the highest is in Indian Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I ask The Governors Highway Safety Asso- Country. They would lose their assist- unanimous consent that the order for ciation has stated: ance to purchase coverage or cost-shar- the quorum call be rescinded. Throughout her career, Ms. Nason has ing reductions to eliminate out-of- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without demonstrated a clear commitment to public pocket expenses—these are our Native objection, it is so ordered. service and, during her tenure as Adminis- Americans—or those who were able to NOMINATION OF NICOLE R. NASON trator of the National Highway Traffic Safe- get on expanded Medicaid would lose Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I rise ty Administration (NHTSA) a dedication to advancing highway safety. that. today in support of the nomination of These aren’t nameless, faceless folks. Nicole Nason to serve as Administrator Confirming Ms. Nason to be Adminis- These are folks like Donna from Big of the Federal Highway Administration trator of the Federal Highway Admin- Timber, who, after battling cancer, at the U.S. Department of Transpor- istration will be an important step in wouldn’t be able to access quality, af- tation. supporting our Nation’s highways, fordable healthcare without the ACA. The Federal Highway Administration roads, and bridges. They are people like Jeffrey from plays a central role in America’s mo- The Environment and Public Works Great Falls, who has a daughter with bility. The administration is the lead Committee recognized this when we re- special needs and owns a business. He partner to State and local transpor- ported her nomination by voice vote on told me his family and business would tation programs that maintain and im- February 5. That has been nearly 2 both fall apart without the ACA. It prove our Nation’s roads, highways, months ago. It shouldn’t take this long means the many folks in Libby who and bridges. It has been without a Sen- to confirm such a highly qualified rely on quality insurance to access ate-confirmed leadership director for nominee to such an important position. their community health center to ad- far too long. Nicole Nason will be an excellent Ad- dress the unique healthcare challenges America’s transportation infrastruc- ministrator of the Federal Highway their government promised to protect ture faces a number of challenges. Au- Administration. I encourage every Sen- would be gone. thorization of the Federal highway pro- ator to vote to confirm her. Look, I have sat in this body, and I grams are going to expire at the end of I yield the floor. have heard speech after speech after September of 2020. We need to work to- f speech about the ACA, what it does gether in Congress to write and pass a good and what it does not so good, but bipartisan highway infrastructure bill EXECUTIVE SESSION I am telling you, if you want to cause that upgrades America’s roads and a train wreck in healthcare, this is a bridges. EXECUTIVE CALENDAR great way to do it—repeal it and let ev- The Environment and Public Works erybody be on their own—and it is not Committee, which I chair, has already The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under going to be pretty. begun the bipartisan process of draft- the previous order, the Senate will pro- If you start losing rural hospitals in ing this legislation. The Federal High- ceed to executive session to consider rural America, they will not come way Administration needs a strong Ad- the following nomination, which the back. You will see further depopulation ministrator in the office, one who can clerk will report. in rural America—because, by the way, work with Congress on the develop- The legislative clerk read the nomi- that golden hour is called golden for a ment and implementation of highway nation of Nicole R. Nason, of New reason when you get hurt. If that hos- infrastructure legislation. York, to be Administrator of the Fed- pital isn’t there, you are more likely to Nicole Nason is the right person for eral Highway Administration. go live in a more urban population cen- the job. She is well qualified, and The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under ter where healthcare is more expensive. brings impressive experience in trans- the previous order, there will be 15 Nobody in this body has ever said the portation policy to this critically im- minutes of debate, equally divided in ACA was perfect, but I firmly believe it portant position. the usual form. was a lot better than what we had. We Under President Bush, she served as The Senator from Delaware. always have the opportunity to step Administrator of the National Highway Mr. CARPER. Mr. President, I am forth and improve it. Repealing it is Traffic Safety Administration. That is pleased to join my friend and col- not improving it. the Department of Transportation’s league, Senator BARRASSO, to speak on What repealing is, is a campaign top road safety official. behalf of the nomination of Nicole promise. We have heard them before: Before that, she served as the Depart- Nason to serve as Administrator of the We are going to repeal the Affordable ment of Transportation’s Assistant Federal Highway Administration. Care Act, ObamaCare. We are going to Secretary for Government Affairs. In Ms. Nason is currently serving as the build a wall on the southern border, no that role, she played a key part in ne- Assistant Secretary for Administration

VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:39 Mar 29, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G28MR6.031 S28MRPT1 rfrederick on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with SENATE S2078 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 28, 2019 at the State Department. Right now, ther easier or all the more difficult by Meanwhile, increasingly frequent and though, there is no Administrator lead- Congress’s ability or inability and the extreme weather events are continuing ing the Federal Highway Administra- administration’s ability or inability to to erode our transportation networks. tion. In fact, it has been more than 2 responsibly address that 800-pound go- We see it in my State. My guess is that years since we had an Administrator in rilla. we see it in every other State that is charge at that important Agency. The On the topic of paying for infrastruc- represented here. last time our country went this long ture, I was encouraged to hear from Sea level rise threatens the struc- without top leadership at the Federal Ms. Nason at her confirmation hearing tural integrity and longevity of our Highway Administration was more that she believes that ‘‘all options are roads and bridges. Delaware is the low- than 100 years ago, back when the on the table.’’ Those are her words: est lying State in America, and seas Agency was known as the Bureau of ‘‘All options are on the table.’’ I wel- are rising. That is not a good combina- Public Roads. Henry Ford had just in- come those words. tion. troduced the Model T, and the idea of We also discussed several other pol- The challenges are great, but here is speedy and safe transcontinental travel icy-related concerns Ms. Nason will the good news: so are the opportuni- was still outside of our imagination need to begin addressing on day one at ties. The challenges are great, but so and even further from being realized. the Federal Highway Administration. are the opportunities. Today the Federal Highway Adminis- Too many pedestrians, too many Today, I am supporting the nomina- tration oversees more than 220,000 bicyclists, and too many drivers put tion of Ms. Nason because I believe the miles of our National Highway System their lives at risk when they use our key to success at any organization— and some 145,000 bridges. The sad truth roadways. any organization I have ever been a is, many of these roadways and many In 2017, 2 years ago, there were more part of—is its leadership—the Navy, of these bridges are in poor, in some than 37,000 fatalities on our Nation’s the State of Delaware’s Governor, and cases, even dangerous condition, hav- roadways. In that same year, nearly here. Right now, the Federal Highway ing been in use far beyond the intended 7,000 nonmotorized users were killed. Administration needs a top leader, and That is unacceptable. duration of their original design. I believe that in Ms. Nason, they will I was encouraged that during her Moments from now, when Ms. Nason have one. I hope—more than just hope, confirmation hearing, Ms. Nason prom- is confirmed—and I hope she will be I believe she is going to prove to be a ised that she would have a focus on confirmed—to be our Administrator, I safety at the Agency and work closely partner with Congress and work with think she is going to inherit respon- with NHTSA and others to improve in- us to address some of the many chal- sibilities and political realities far formation-sharing with States, local- lenges I have laid out and the many more challenging and complex than ities, and Tribal communities. challenges before us in the months and perhaps all of her predecessors. Too many Americans lack access to years ahead. I call on all of our col- As our next Administrator, Ms. reliable transit or safe places to walk leagues—Democratic, Republican, and Nason will find herself at the center of or to bike. In my State, we have done a couple of Independents—to rise up a national crisis because our highway a lot in the last 20, 25 years. There is a later today when the vote is taken and trust fund is going broke, and the sys- lot more to do, and, frankly, we can vote in favor of her nomination. tem of paying for it is broken. learn from other States, and maybe I suggest the absence of a quorum. Last year, we spent about $11 billion one or two of them can learn from us. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The more from the highway trust fund than Meanwhile, our country’s public safe- clerk will call the roll. we collected in revenues. When that ty networks should connect people to The legislative clerk proceeded to happens, the highway trust fund turns commerce and opportunity in every call the roll. to the general fund, Treasury, and ZIP Code—not just some of them, in Mr. PAUL. Mr. President, I ask unan- says: How about $11 billion? The gen- every ZIP Code. In too many instances, imous consent that the order for the eral fund doesn’t have $11 billion, so disadvantaged communities are spa- quorum call be rescinded. what Treasury does is it issues debt in tially disconnected from commerce and The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without order to finance the hole in the trust opportunity. Lower income neighbor- objection, it is so ordered. fund, the general fund, so we can actu- hoods are often far from good-paying Mr. PAUL. Mr. President, I ask unan- ally fund the hole in the highway trust job opportunities, or safe and depend- imous consent for both sides to yield fund. It is crazy. In fact, to pay for the able transit options don’t exist for back all remaining time. FAST Act, we took $70 billion from the those working outside of an 8 a.m. to 5 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without general fund and other programs. p.m. schedule. Our country’s public objection, it is so ordered. For the next Transportation bill, we transportation networks should lift up The question is, Will the Senate ad- need to find an additional $68 billion— disadvantaged communities—lift them vise and consent to the Nason nomina- $68 billion—just to prevent the high- up. The Federal Highway Administra- tion? way trust fund from going broke for 5 tion must be a strong Federal partner Mrs. FISCHER. I ask for the yeas and more years and to keep our programs in that effort. nays. at the current funding level. Too many drivers lack access to The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a We all know that the current funding charging stations for electric vehicles sufficient second? isn’t sufficient, either. Despite spend- and hydrogen fueling stations for fuel There appears to be a sufficient sec- ing more than we collect, we still cell vehicles. This is especially frus- ond. aren’t spending enough. The backlog of trating for those who have made in- The clerk will call the roll. money to rehabilitate and improve vestments in this technology but may The bill clerk called the roll. highways and bridges in this country not have feasible options to use those Mr. THUNE. The following Senators has grown to $800 billion. The backlog investments. are necessarily absent: the Senator for roads, highways, and bridges is $800 That brings us to the glaring reality from Kansas (Mr. MORAN) and the Sen- billion. The 800-pound gorilla in the of climate change and its worsening ator from Alaska (Mr. SULLIVAN). room is really an $800 billion gorilla. impact on our infrastructure. Our vehi- Further, if present and voting, the We have to figure out how we are cles and travel patterns exacerbate the Senator from Kansas (Mr. MORAN) going to pay to maintain or better yet impacts of climate change, and mobile would have voted ‘‘yea.’’ rebuild and modernize our roads, high- sources are our Nation’s largest source Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the ways, bridges, and transit systems. of greenhouse gas emissions. I want to Senator from New Jersey (Mr. BOOKER) That should be near the top of our to- say that again. Our vehicles and travel and the Senator from Michigan (Ms. do list. It is not just the Senate, not patterns accelerate and exacerbate the STABENOW) are necessarily absent. just the House, not just the Congress, effects of climate change, and mobile The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there not just the administration, but all of sources—our cars, trucks, and vans— any other Senators in the Chamber de- us together. are our Nation’s largest source of siring to vote? Whether or not it is fair, Ms. Nason’s greenhouse gas emissions in this coun- The result was announced—yeas 95, job as Administrator will be made ei- try and on the planet. nays 1, as follows:

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In 2017 alone, we are claring the sense of the Senate that Baldwin Gillibrand Peters talking about $232 billion in goods that No. 1, the United States has and should Barrasso Graham Portman were traded between our two countries. have a close, mutually beneficial trad- Bennet Grassley Reed Blackburn Harris Risch Now, Britain’s impending exit from the ing and economic partnership with the Blumenthal Hassan Roberts European Union presents an enormous United Kingdom without interruption Blunt Hawley Romney opportunity to strengthen and to pre- and, No. 2, that the President, with the Boozman Heinrich Rosen Braun Hirono serve our special relationship. support of Congress, should lay the Rounds As the Brexit deadline approaches, groundwork for a future trade agree- Brown Hoeven Rubio Burr Hyde-Smith Sasse the United States should stand ready ment between the United States and Cantwell Inhofe Schatz and willing to negotiate a free trade the United Kingdom. Capito Isakson Schumer Cardin Johnson agreement with the United Kingdom, Also, the vast majority of resolutions Scott (FL) Carper Jones which is the purpose of the resolution that simply specify a general sense of Scott (SC) Casey Kaine Shaheen that I want to bring before this body the Senate do not normally go through Cassidy Kennedy today. Prior to this, we haven’t been the full-blown legislative committee Collins King Shelby Coons Klobuchar Sinema able to have true free trade with Brit- process. A straightforward assertion of Cornyn Lankford Smith ain, precisely because the UK was a friendship, support, and economic part- Cortez Masto Leahy Tester member of the EU and, therefore, had nership with one of our oldest and clos- Cotton Lee Thune Cramer Manchin Tillis to play by its rules. est allies in the world should not be Crapo Markey Toomey Yet once the UK leaves, it will re- controversial—not in the least. Amer- Cruz McConnell Udall claim the authority to make its own ica’s special relationship with the Daines McSally Van Hollen trade agreements, opening up a window United Kingdom is special because we Duckworth Menendez Warner Durbin Merkley Warren of opportunity for genuine, bilateral make it so—our two peoples, our two Enzi Murkowski Whitehouse free trade with our own country. Such governments. Ernst Murphy Wicker an agreement would advance pros- It is not our job to decide whether or Feinstein Murray Wyden perity on both sides of the Atlantic as Fischer Paul Young not the UK stays in the EU. It is up to an engine of economic liberty. the British people to decide whether to NAYS—1 This resolution—the one I would like stick with the EU or not. It is up to us Sanders to bring up and plan to bring up either to decide whether we stick with the NOT VOTING—4 later today or Monday, based on the British, and we should. We should do Booker Stabenow schedule I am trying to negotiate with that by supporting this resolution Moran Sullivan Senator WYDEN—is a good deal. It is a today. good deal for the United States and for The nomination was confirmed. Thank you, Mr. President. the United Kingdom. I think it is such I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under a no-brainer, in fact, that most Ameri- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- the previous order, the motion to re- cans would probably be surprised to ator from Oklahoma. consider is considered made and laid find out that we don’t already have a WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH upon the table, and the President will free trade agreement with our friends be immediately notified of the Senate’s Mr. LANKFORD. Mr. President, I on the other side of the pond. actions. want to be able to talk about a couple Yet there are some objections to this of subjects today, but I want to be able f resolution. Some of my colleagues have to set the context on these with the LEGISLATIVE SESSION argued that by encouraging a free recognition of Women’s History Month. trade agreement with Britain, we A lot of fairly remarkable ladies in The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- would somehow be meddling in this af- Oklahoma have set American history ate will resume legislative session. fair or picking sides, or that we would and world history into a different pace f somehow be affirming Brexit. Yet this based on what they have done in the SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS resolution that I want to offer and am past. ACT, 2019 suggesting that we call up and pass by I can’t help, when I am talking about unanimous consent, itself, says noth- Women’s History Month, to be able to The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- ing about whether or not Brexit should talk about my own mom, who is a ator from Utah. or should not happen—not at all. That pacesetter in her own leadership. She FREE TRADE RESOLUTION is not a decision that belongs to this was a student, librarian, and mom. She Mr. LEE. Mr. President, for the last 3 body, and it is not a decision that I am went through elementary school librar- years, the world has watched with rapt even suggesting that this body make. ian and high school librarian and then attention as the United Kingdom has It is not ours to make. It is a decision became the director of libraries for a debated and negotiated that country’s for the British people to make—the very large school district. exit from the European Union after the people of the United Kingdom—and She led the way for our family and historic Brexit vote in June of 2016. they, of course, have made it. They community. She even led the American There have been multiple deals pro- have decided to stand on their own. We Association of School Librarians posed since then, and now the deadline should stand with them just as they around the country. She was a pace- for withdrawal fast approaches this have stood beside us in conflict after setter there. Friday. As the special ally of Britain conflict, in cause after cause, defending There are other pacesetters that I for a very long time—a very close ally the dignity of the immortal human would highlight who are Oklahoma for well over 100 years—this is and it soul and the cause of freedom through- pacesetters. The first is Claire Luper. ought properly be of great interest to out the world. Born in Okfuskee County, OK, in 1923, us in the United States of America. Others have claimed that the point of Claire Luper was the first African- Throughout times of change and tu- this measure is somehow to lambaste American student to enroll in the His- mult, the UK has been one of our the EU, but this, too, badly misses the tory Department at the University of staunchest and most loyal allies. We point, which is simply to preserve a Oklahoma. She was a civil rights lead- stood beside each other through two unique and important alliance and to er. She led Americans at lunch world wars and throughout the Cold promote America’s interests in the counters in 1958 as she was seated there War. Now, in the 21st century, the world. and helped to train youth to be seated United States and the United Kingdom Finally, some have suggested that at lunch counters to break through the have become even stronger friends and this resolution that I want to propose racism that was existing in Oklahoma partners, both in the fight against and call up and pass before this body City and in Oklahoma. global terrorism and for freedom, did not go through the Finance Com- Claire Luper herself was arrested 26 peace, and prosperity. mittee. First of all, this is not a com- times for just eating lunch—for just

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She taught in the Oklahoma City President’s budget has been just a doc- we mandate it each year? We would area for 41 years, was a senior adviser ument of ideas. The Senate and the have our 12 spending bills in whatever for the NAACP Youth Council in Okla- House agree together on a budget, set a form they would take, but in every sin- homa City, and is now a member of the number, and then do appropriations gle session of Congress, we would have Oklahoma Hall of Fame. bills. That is how we actually do the to have some conversation about what Another great leader from Oklahoma spending for the Federal taxpayers’ we would do to reduce spending or to is Shannon Lucid. She was raised in dollars. Since 1974, it has typically fix our deficit. It is not an unreason- Bethany, OK. In 1979 she became an as- begun with a budget document from able proposal. It is an opportunity for tronaut in a time period when ladies the Senate and from the House. us to sit and plan, to actually think did not become astronauts. She set the They are working on that budget about things, and to work things out. pace. She was the chief scientist at document right now in the Budget Senator MAGGIE HASSAN and I also NASA from 2002 to 2003. She served as Committee, but here is the difficult have another idea for working through the capsule communicator for numer- thing. In all likelihood, that budget the process. How do we end government ous space missions. She was the first document that will come out of com- shutdowns? How do we stop the per- woman to receive the Congressional mittee will never come to this floor petual cliffs of budgeting issues? There Space Medal of Honor. and will never be voted on because of is a simple way to do that. Jeane Kirkpatrick is another Oklaho- the difficulty we face right now in our The simple way to do that, as odd as man. Born in 1926, she was the first deficit and the challenges the budget it may sound, is for Members of Con- woman appointed to serve as a Perma- will have in order for it to move gress and our staffs, as well as for nent Representative to the United through the process. In all likelihood, members of the staff within the Office States for the United Nations. She this body will deem a budget number, of Management and Budget from the served from 1981 to 1985. She served on where there will be no real plan. It will White House, to not travel if you get to President Ronald Reagan’s Cabinet, just set a budget number and then the end of a budget year and the budget was a political science professor at move on and start heading toward ap- is not done. You can’t leave until the Georgetown University, and was a fel- propriations. work is done, is as simple as I can say low at the American Enterprise Insti- Layer upon layer of debt and deficit it. That may sound overly simplistic, tute. She made Oklahoma proud. will be added to where we are as a na- but I guarantee you, if this body has to Let me tell you about a current one tion. Our simple challenge is, how do work through 2 weeks, no one would now. LaRita Aragon. LaRita Aragon we get around this? have the opportunity to travel. Every- was born in Shawnee, OK, but she was Last year, 16 Members met—eight one would have to be here days and raised in the big town of Dale, just out- Senators, eight House Members; eight weekends. There would be no official side of Shawnee. She became the first Republicans, eight Democrats—to try travel. There would be no opportunity woman to hold the rank of brigadier to strategize how we could change the to head back and see your family. general in the Oklahoma Air National budget process. Though I commend There would be no codels or staffdels or Guard and the first female commander Chairman ENZI of the Budget Com- any kind of other opportunity to leave. of the Air National Guard. mittee and his remarkable work, Each day, we would also have to have Before her military career, she was thought, and incredible staff, once a quorum call and be here until the an elementary school teacher and a again that document will not make a work gets done. Then we would solve principal. After retirement from the difference on this floor, and once again this. military, she returned to education. it will not set us on a long-term path Last December, we had this pro- She served as the director of advanced to getting back to solvency. We have to tracted shutdown that began when programs in the University of Okla- change the process of what we do. Members of Congress left for Christ- homa College of Continuing Education. These 16 Members met all last year mas. They just left with there being an Then, in January 2011, she started serv- to establish a set of ideas of how we unresolved budget issue here. If Sen- ing as secretary of veterans affairs for could change the process, but it failed ator HASSAN’s and my idea were to the State of Oklahoma. She is a re- in December. I am challenging this pass, we would have finished that work markable military leader from our body to step up to it again and to re- last December, and Americans would State and a tremendous role model for engage on some simple sets of ideas of never have experienced that protracted people in our State—boys and girls. how we can get our budget back in bal- government shutdown. Maria Tallchief was born in 1925 in ance and how we can do better plan- We have differences of opinion. It is Fairfax, OK. She was a member of the ning. Though we do budgets and though who we are as Americans, and that is Osage Nation. At age 17, she did a crazy we will do the deeming of a budget what we represent in the U.S. Senate, thing. She moved to New York City to number, there is no real plan for how but we should not punish Federal pursue her dream of becoming a danc- things can get better. We have to get workers and the American people be- er. As her career began to take off, peo- better at planning, so let me give you cause we have not worked out our dif- ple tried to persuade Maria Tallchief to some simple ideas that were birthed ferences here. We should stay until the change her last name so that she out of the conversation last year. work is done, and we should keep nego- wouldn’t face the prejudice of being We hold debt ceiling votes, which are tiating until we are finished. That is a Native American. She refused to do supposedly to limit our debt, but they simple, straightforward way to resolve that. She continued to work and to never do. They did decades ago, but this. prove herself. In 1947 she became the they have not for decades. We will have With our adding a 13th bill to enable first American to dance with the Paris 12 appropriations bills in some form our having to plan for how we will ac- Opera Ballet. She led the way, and she and in some way so as to actually do tually deal with debt and deficit, there set the pace. the spending in the next several will be some moment created every Oklahomans are proud of these ladies months, but there will be no bill to year to compel us to actually be here and many, many others who have done deal with how we can reduce spending. until our work is done as well as hav- great work and made remarkable ad- A simple idea that came out of that ing a more systematic structure of how vances. We are proud of them. conversation last year was this: How we are going to do budgeting. All of LONG-TERM BUDGET PLANNING do we add a 13th bill? these are simple ideas, but they are Mr. President, from recognizing As simple as I can say it, we have 12 ideas that will help us get on top of a Women’s History Month, let me make spending bills. In every single Con- $22 trillion debt and an approaching $1

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We can years, there were 128 cloture votes on They deserve important positions to be figure this out, and we can work to- nominees. promptly filled with capable individ- gether to do it. For 42 different executive branch po- uals, not held open indefinitely out of I yield the floor. sitions, cloture votes have been re- political spite. I suggest the absence of a quorum. quired for the first time in history—the As we all acknowledge, from an insti- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The first time ever. Uncontroversial Assist- tutional perspective, this is completely clerk will call the roll. ant Secretaries and Agencies’ general unsustainable, but if we allow it to per- The senior assistant bill clerk pro- counsels never required cloture votes sist, it seems guaranteed to become ceeded to call the roll. before—ever—until this particular standard operating procedure for every Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I Democratic minority. administration going forward. ask unanimous consent that the order Just compare President Trump’s first Let’s assume 2 years from now that for the quorum call be rescinded. 2 years to President Obama’s. Overall, my side is in the minority, and there is The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. we have confirmed 22 percent fewer a Democratic President. If we allow BOOZMAN). Without objection, it is so nominations for President Trump and this to persist, we will be doing the ordered. sent more than twice as many back to same thing to those guys that they Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, the White House. have been doing to us. It will be the what is the pending business? Take just the Foreign Relations new norm. The PRESIDING OFFICER. H.R. 268, Committee as one example. The share Some of our colleagues who are lead- the supplemental appropriations bill. of nominees sent to the Foreign Rela- ing the systematic obstruction are ac- CLOTURE MOTION tions Committee who were still not tually running for President them- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I confirmed after President Trump’s first selves. Well, these tactics will vir- send a cloture motion to the desk for 2 years was more than three times— tually guarantee that any future H.R. 268. three times—what it was for President Democratic administration is sub- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clo- Obama. jected to the same paralysis. Every- ture motion having been presented To be clear, the lion’s share of all of body will be doing it. under rule XXII, the Chair directs the these are not controversial, high-pro- Is this how the American Govern- clerk to read the motion. file figures. In most cases, they are un- ment is supposed to work from here on The senior assistant legislative clerk ambiguously well-qualified nominees out—whichever party loses the White read as follows: for critical but lower profile jobs. House basically prohibits the new CLOTURE MOTION For example, it took more than 6 President from standing up an adminis- We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- months—6 months—and several tragic tration? ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the railroad accidents that made national We can’t accept this. This just can’t Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby news before a minority of Senators be allowed to continue. We need to re- move to bring to a close debate on H.R. 268, would allow us to confirm the Presi- store the Senate to the way it func- making supplemental appropriations for the dent’s nominee to head the Federal tioned for literally decades. fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for Railroad Administration. That is 6 Remember, the idea that nominees other purposes. would regularly require cloture votes Mitch McConnell, Josh Hawley, John months and several railroad accidents Thune, Shelley Moore Capito, Johnny to get us to confirm the President’s was completely foreign to the Senate Isakson, Mike Crapo, Richard Burr, nominee to head the Federal Railroad until this sad chapter began during the James Lankford, Tom Cotton, Roy Administration. administration of President Bush 41, in Blunt, David Perdue, Mike Rounds, Bill He had worked in railroads as an en- the early 2000s. Cassidy, John Cornyn, Rob Portman, gineer, manager, and executive for 45 As of 1968—1968—cloture had never Steve Daines, John Kennedy. years. Our colleagues on the Commerce been required for any nomination—any S. RES. 50 Committee voice-voted him out of nomination. As of 1978, it had been re- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I committee. Actually, when Democrats quired for two—two as of 1978. come to the floor to discuss the unprec- finally allowed his nomination to come Until 2003, in no conference—none— edented obstruction that has faced to the floor—when they finally allowed had more than 12 cloture motions ever President Trump’s nominees for the that—he was confirmed by voice vote. been needed for nominations. But now, past 26 months—and counting—and to Despite the fact that nobody actually again, President Trump’s chosen nomi- announce that the Senate is going to objected to this nominee, this impor- nees faced 128 cloture votes in the Con- do something about it. tant job was held empty for 6 long gress that just past. So this entire con- The systematic, across-the-board months. It is obstruction for obstruc- versation is a modern aberration. This delay and obstruction that have crip- tion’s sake. hasn’t been going on forever. This is a pled this administration’s nominations It is the same story with even the fairly recent thing. This behavior is are unique in American history. least controversial judicial nominees. new. We need to restore the Senate’s Every Presidential election since Last January, it took more than a tradition in this area. Fortunately, we Adams beat Jefferson in 1796 has left week of floor time to confirm four dis- have a clear roadmap to do just that. some Senators disappointed that their trict judges, all of whom had been In 2013, immediately after President side lost. There is always a losing side, voice-voted out of the Judiciary Com- Obama’s reelection, 78 Senators, in- and they are never happy about it. But mittee the previous autumn, but there cluding me, passed a bipartisan stand- the past 2 years have been the first were still months of delays. Then clo- ing order to speed up the consideration time—the first time ever—that the un- ture votes were required for each, but of many Presidential nominees. Sev- happy party has used Senate procedure once we finally plowed through to the enty-eight Members of this body passed to systematically blockade the new confirmation votes, they were all con- a standing order to help President President’s nominees and prevent him firmed unanimously. Obama speed up the Executive Cal- from even staffing up his administra- There were months of delays and pro- endar. tion. Let me say that again. Since Jan- cedural roadblocks for four bipartisan It reduced the postcloture time for uary 2017, for the first time in the 230- nominees whom not a single Senator most nominations without touching year history of the U.S. Senate, a mi- actually opposed. the Supreme Court, circuit courts, or nority of Senators have used Senate This is not a principled maneuver, the highest levels of the executive procedure to systematically prevent not thoughtful use of minority powers, branch. Essentially everything else got

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You better believe Repub- I urge every one of my colleagues: consider be considered made and laid licans were disappointed we had lost, Let’s get the Senate back to a normal upon the table with no intervening ac- but we did not throw a systematic tan- historical pattern for handling Presi- tion or debate; that no further motions trum. Instead, a sizable number of us dential nominations. Let’s give Presi- be in order; that any statements re- came over and joined the Democrats to dent Trump, as well as all future Presi- lated to the nominations be printed in help the Senate process noncontrover- dents, a functional process for building the Record; that the President be im- sial nominations, as it had for the vast their administrations. Let’s give the mediately notified of the Senate’s ac- bulk of the history of the Senate. I was American people the government they tion, and the Senate then resume legis- a Republican leader in the minority, actually elected, and let’s seize this lative session. and I still supported it. We judged if it chance to do so through the bipartisan The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there was the right thing to do, and we did it. regular order that we are pursuing objection? The standing order passed 78 to 16. here, both in committee and now on Mr. MERKLEY. Reserving the right So, today, I am filing cloture on a the floor. to object, Mr. President. resolution that takes that bipartisan The status quo is unsustainable for The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- effort as its blueprint. This resolution the Senate and for the country. It is ator from Oregon is recognized. from Senator BLUNT and Senator unfair to this President and to future Mr. MERKLEY. The majority leader LANKFORD would implement very simi- Presidents of either party. It cannot has said he is going to put a rule lar steps and make them a permanent stand, and it will not stand. change on the floor, and we are going part of the Senate going forward. Mr. MERKLEY. Mr. President, will to return to historical norm. The his- The Supreme Court, circuit courts, the minority leader yield for a ques- torical norm has been that when such Cabinet-level executive positions, and tion? issues are on the floor, amendments certain independent boards and com- Mr. MCCONNELL. I still have the will be allowed. missions would not change, but for floor. Does the majority leader intend to most other nominations—for literally The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- allow amendments? the hundreds of lower level nomina- jority leader has the floor. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I Mr. MERKLEY. Will the majority tions that every new President understand the Senator from Oregon is leader yield for a question? makes—postcloture debate time would propounding a question. If he would re- be reduced from 30 hours to 2 hours. f peat it, I would appreciate it. This would keep the floor moving. It IMPROVING PROCEDURES FOR THE The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- would facilitate more efficient consent CONSIDERATION OF NOMINA- ator from Oregon. agreements, and, most importantly, it TIONS IN THE SENATE—Motion to Mr. MERKLEY. Referring to histor- would allow the administration—fi- Proceed ical norms, it has been a historical norm to allow amendments on the floor nally, 2 years into its tenure—to staff Mr. MCCONNELL. I move to proceed numerous important positions that re- to Calendar No. 24, S. Res. 50. of this Chamber so that they could be main unfilled with nominees who have The PRESIDING OFFICER. The debated, and I recall very well listen- been languishing. clerk will report the resolution by ing to you complain a great deal about This resolution has come up through title. Harry Reid’s blocking of amendments, the regular order, through the Rules The senior assistant legislative clerk blocking the tree, and he did, in fact, Committee, and next week we will vote read as follows: do that as the majority leader. on it. It deserves the same kind of bi- Motion to proceed to S. Res. 50, a resolu- Then he would negotiate with that partisan vote that Senator SCHUMER tion improving procedures for the consider- whole set of amendments on both sides. and Senator Reid’s proposal received ation of nominations in the Senate. It took some time, but there were back during the Obama administration. CLOTURE MOTION amendments. I understand that many of my Demo- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I We have had a historic lull in amend- cratic colleagues have indicated they send a cloture motion to the desk. ments, and now we are proposing a rule would be all for this reform as long as The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clo- change on how this Chamber operates. it doesn’t go into effect until 2021, ture motion having been presented So isn’t it the right thing to do, before when they obviously hope someone else under rule XXII, the Chair directs the returning to historical norm or trying might be in the White House, but they clerk to read the motion. to restore that sense of making this a are reluctant to support it now. Give The senior assistant legislative clerk functioning Chamber— me a break. That is unfair on its face. read as follows: Mr. MCCONNELL. Is the Senator My Democratic colleagues were more CLOTURE MOTION asking me a question? than happy to support a similar pro- We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- Mr. MERKLEY. Yes.—to allow posal back in 2013 under President ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the amendments when this comes to the Obama. They whisper in our ears pri- Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby floor? I am asking if he would allow vately that they would support it now move to bring to a close debate on the mo- such amendments. tion to proceed to Calendar No. 24, S. Res. 50, if it took effect in 2021, oh, but they Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, let a resolution improving procedures for the me say that we have had a number of can’t support it now, especially under consideration of nominations in the Senate. these unprecedented circumstances, Mitch McConnell, Roy Blunt, Mike bills that were brought to the floor simply because we have a Republican Crapo, Richard C. Shelby, Johnny Isak- open for amendment. One of the things President. son, Lamar Alexander, Pat Roberts, we devolved into here, another unfortu- Fair is fair. Members of this body Ron Johnson, John Barrasso, Steve nate precedent, is Members objecting should only support reforms that they Daines, John Hoeven, John Thune, to time agreements on amendments would be as ready to support in the mi- Mike Rounds, John Boozman, Shelley from either side. So even if the major- nority as they are in the majority. Moore Capito, Tom Cotton, David ity leader calls up a bill and has it open Put another way, if my side is in the Perdue. for amendment, unless Members of the minority 2 years from now, I don’t f Senate in both parties will allow there think this will be unfair, and it will EXECUTIVE SESSION to be time agreements so that we can not disadvantage us in the wake of a actually have votes on amendments, it new Democratic President. This is a gets bogged down. change the institution needs—a change EXECUTIVE CALENDAR I think the complaint of my friend the institution made already, basi- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I from Oregon is legitimate. I have been cally, with a 2-year experiment when ask unanimous consent that the Sen- very frustrated by the fact that when I

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Hancock ment, it is open for amendment. It is I was here in this Chamber in 1976 The following named officers for appoint- just that it requires Senatorial bipar- and during the eighties, seeing this ment in the United States Navy to the grade tisan cooperation to set time agree- body debate issues. I would ask, if my indicated under title 10, U.S.C., section 624: ments to actually have such votes. colleague brings this to the floor as he To be rear admiral (lower half) Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- is planning to do, that he open it up for Capt. Nicholas M. Homan sent—I think I have a UC agreement, a amendments. Get a time agreement. I Capt. Michael J. Vernazza UC pending. will certainly encourage my side to The following named officer for appoint- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there agree to such a thing. ment in the United States Navy to the grade objection to the request with respect to I take your point about it not just indicated under title 10, U.S.C., section 624: the— being a delay. I think there are serious To be rear admiral (lower half) Mr. MERKLEY. Reserving the right possibilities for improving how we Capt. Charles W. Brown to object, I didn’t actually get clarity work that should be debated. I hope my The following named officer for appoint- on whether he will open the floor for colleague will open the floor for ment as Chief of Naval Personnel and ap- amendments when he will bring this amendments. pointment in the United States Navy to the rule change to the floor—whether it I withdraw my objection. grade indicated while assigned to a position will be open in the sense that when one The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without of importance and responsibility under title amendment is completed, a Senator objection, it is so ordered. 10, U.S.C., sections 601 and 5141: can ask for another to be considered or The nominations considered and con- To be vice admiral only the amendments he approves will firmed are as follows: Rear Adm. John B. Nowell, Jr. be allowed to be considered. IN THE MARINE CORPS IN THE AIR FORCE Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, in The following named officers for appoint- The following named officer for appoint- order to guarantee a particular amend- ment in the United States Marine Corps Re- ment in the United States Air Force to the ment would get a vote without con- serve to the grade indicated under title 10, grade indicated while assigned to a position sent, we would have to be able to get 60 U.S.C., section 12203: of importance and responsibility under title votes and vote cloture to advance the To be brigadier general 10, U.S.C., section 601: amendment. Col. Leonard F. Anderson, IV To be lieutenant general I will just reiterate to my friend from Col. William E. Souza, III Maj. Gen. Steven L. Basham Oregon that his complaint is legiti- IN THE NAVY The following named Air National Guard of mate, but it does require, no matter The following named officer for appoint- the United States officer for appointment in what the majority leader says with re- ment in the United States Navy to the grade the Reserve of the Air Force to the grade in- gard to openness of the bill, some level indicated under title 10, U.S.C., section 624: dicated under title 10, U.S.C., sections 12203 of bipartisan cooperation in order to To be rear admiral and 12212: process amendments. We have tried Rear Adm. (lh) Peter G. Stamatopoulos To be brigadier general that on numerous occasions, and Mem- The following named officer for appoint- Col. Steven J. Butow bers on both sides have sort of ment in the United States Navy to the grade IN THE ARMY hunkered down and objected to each indicated under title 10, U.S.C., section 624: The following named officer for appoint- other’s amendments, thereby making To be rear admiral ment in the United States Army to the grade the amendment process, in an open Rear Adm. (lh) Gayle D. Shaffer indicated while assigned to a position of im- fashion, simply impossible. portance and responsibility under title 10, The following named officers for appoint- U.S.C., section 601: I do have a consent agreement pend- ment in the United States Navy to the grade ing. I don’t know whether the Senator indicated under title 10, U.S.C., section 624: To be lieutenant general from Oregon wants to continue to ob- To be rear admiral Maj. Gen. Karen H. Gibson ject to all of these— Rear Adm. (lh) Kelly A. Aeschbach IN THE NAVY Mr. MERKLEY. Reserving the right Rear Adm. (lh) Frank D. Whitworth The following named officers for appoint- to object. The following named officers for appoint- ment in the United States Navy to the grade Mr. MCCONNELL.—nominations, ment in the United States Navy to the grade indicated under title 10, U.S.C., section 624: which would include people from the indicated under title 10, U.S.C., section 624: To be rear admiral Marine Corps, the Navy, the Air Force, Rear Adm. (lh) Blake L. Converse Rear Adm. (lh) James P. Downey and the Army. I was seeking the mili- Rear Adm. (lh) Charles B. Cooper, II Rear Adm. (lh) Shane G. Gahagan tary promotions of these people who Rear Adm. (lh) Donald D. Gabrielson Rear Adm. (lh) Francis D. Morley are serving our country in the Armed Rear Adm. (lh) Gregory N. Harris The following named officer for appoint- Forces. Rear Adm. (lh) Jeffrey T. Jablon ment in the United States Navy to the grade The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there Rear Adm. (lh) Yancy B. Lindsey indicated while assigned to a position of im- Rear Adm. (lh) John F. Meier objection? portance and responsibility under title 10, Rear Adm. (lh) James E. Pitts U.S.C., section 601: Mr. MERKLEY. Reserving the right Rear Adm. (lh) John B. Skillman to object, I will, in fact, make this the Rear Adm. (lh) Karl O. Thomas To be vice admiral last time I reserve the right to object, Rear Adm. (lh) John F. Wade Rear Adm. Ronald A. Boxall simply to make the point that there Rear Adm. (lh) Michael A. Wettlaufer IN THE ARMY are many ideas for improving this The following named officer for appoint- The following named officer for appoint- Chamber that have not had due consid- ment in the United States Navy to the grade ment as Chief of Chaplains, United States eration. indicated under title 10, U.S.C., section 624: Army, and appointment in the United States My colleague has expressed a lot of To be rear admiral (lower half) Army to the grade indicated while assigned frustration over executive nomina- Capt. Dean A. Vanderley to that position under title 10, U.S.C., sec- tions 7036 and 7073: tions. I put forward an amendment in The following named officer for appoint- the minority establishing a 100-day ment in the United States Navy to the grade To be major general clock for amendments to be voted be- indicated under title 10, U.S.C., section 624: Brig. Gen. Thomas L. Solhjem fore this floor once the paperwork is To be rear admiral (lower half) The following named officers for appoint- complete. Others have other ideas, in- Capt. Kenneth W. Epps ment in the United States Army to the grade indicated under title 10, U.S.C., section 624: cluding the ability to have a time at The following named officer for appoint- the start of every 2 years to be able to ment in the United States Navy to the grade To be major general have an open debate on amendments— indicated under title 10, U.S.C., section 624: Brig: Gen. Telita Crosland

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WADE, which nominations were re- PN475 ARMY nomination of Meghan C. ceived by the Senate and appeared in the Gerrity, which was received by the Senate To be lieutenant general Congressional Record of February 25, 2019. and appeared in the Congressional Record of Lt. Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson PN430 AIR FORCE nominations (425) begin- March 5, 2019. The following named officer for appoint- ning BRIAN M. ALEXANDER, and ending PN476 ARMY nomination of Daniel M. Jan- ment in the United States Army to the grade JASON C. ZUMWALT, which nominations sen, which was received by the Senate and indicated while assigned to a position of im- were received by the Senate and appeared in appeared in the Congressional Record of portance and responsibility under title 10, the Congressional Record of February 25, March 5, 2019. U.S.C., section 601: 2019. PN477 ARMY nomination of Randolph To be lieutenant general PN472 AIR FORCE nomination of Latoya Powell, which was received by the Senate D. Smith, which was received by the Senate and appeared in the Congressional Record of Maj. Gen. Leon N. Thurgood and appeared in the Congressional Record of March 5, 2019. The following named officer for appoint- March 5, 2019. PN478 ARMY nomination of Michael J. ment in the United States Army to the grade PN473 AIR FORCE nomination of Lisa Prokos, which was received by the Senate indicated while assigned to a position of im- Marie Ahaesy, which was received by the and appeared in the Congressional Record of portance and responsibility under title 10, Senate and appeared in the Congressional March 5, 2019. U.S.C., section 601: Record of March 5, 2019. PN481 ARMY nomination of Anthony To be lieutenant general PN500 AIR FORCE nominations (3) begin- Bellofigueroa, which was received by the Senate and appeared in the Congressional Maj. Gen. Walter E. Piatt ning JULIE HUYGEN, and ending TOM POSCH, which nominations were received by Record of March 5, 2019. IN THE AIR FORCE the Senate and appeared in the Congres- PN482 ARMY nomination of Sean R. Rich- The following named officer for appoint- sional Record of March 6, 2019. ardson, which was received by the Senate ment in the United States Air Force to the and appeared in the Congressional Record of IN THE ARMY grade indicated while assigned to a position March 5, 2019. of importance and responsibility under title PN305 ARMY nomination of Matthew D. PN483 ARMY nomination of Kahtonna C. 10, U.S.C., section 601: Colsia, which was received by the Senate and Allen, which was received by the Senate and appeared in the Congressional Record of Jan- To be lieutenant general appeared in the Congressional Record of uary 24, 2019. March 5, 2019. Lt. Gen. James C. Slife PN306 ARMY nomination of Deven R. Gas- PN484 ARMY nomination of Angelo N. IN THE ARMY ton, which was received by the Senate and Catalano, which was received by the Senate The following named officer for appoint- appeared in the Congressional Record of Jan- and appeared in the Congressional Record of ment in the United States Army to the grade uary 24, 2019. March 5, 2019. indicated while assigned to a position of im- PN380 ARMY nominations (949) beginning PN485 ARMY nomination of Charles J. Ca- portance and responsibility under title 10, ADRIAN ACEVEDO, and ending G010477, lais, which was received by the Senate and U.S.C., section 601: which nominations were received by the Sen- appeared in the Congressional Record of ate and appeared in the Congressional To be general March 5, 2019. Record of February 6, 2019. PN486 ARMY nomination of Robert T. Lt. Gen. Paul E. Funk, II PN381 ARMY nominations (556) beginning Evans, which was received by the Senate and IN THE NAVY BENJAMIN T. ABEL, and ending G010598, appeared in the Congressional Record of The following named officer for appoint- which nominations were received by the Sen- March 5, 2019. ment in the United States Navy to the grade ate and appeared in the Congressional PN501 ARMY nominations (2) beginning indicated while assigned to a position of im- Record of February 6, 2019. PAULA I. SCHASBERGER, and ending JAN portance and responsibility under title 10, PN382 ARMY nominations (555) beginning E. ALDYKIEWICZ, which nominations were U.S.C., section 601: KWANSAH E. ACKAH, and ending D014862, received by the Senate and appeared in the which nominations were received by the Sen- To be vice admiral Congressional Record of March 6, 2019. ate and appeared in the Congressional IN THE MARINE CORPS Rear Adm. Dee L. Mewbourne Record of February 6, 2019. The following named officer for appoint- PN383 ARMY nominations (51) beginning PN319 MARINE CORPS nominations (2) be- ment in the United States Navy to the grade ALAN ADAME, and ending D013619, which ginning STEVEN M. ANGELINE, and ending indicated while assigned to a position of im- nominations were received by the Senate and Curtis E. Borjas, which nominations were re- portance and responsibility under title 10, appeared in the Congressional Record of Feb- ceived by the Senate and appeared in the U.S.C., section 601: ruary 6, 2019. Congressional Record of January 24, 2019. PN326 MARINE CORPS nominations (2) be- To be vice admiral PN384 ARMY nomination of Elizabeth A. Fields, which was received by the Senate and ginning DAVID F. HUNLEY, and ending Rear Adm. Jon A. Hill appeared in the Congressional Record of Feb- JAMES P. STOCKWELL, which nominations The following named officer for appoint- ruary 6, 2019. were received by the Senate and appeared in ment in the United States Navy to the grade PN433 ARMY nomination of P. J. Fox, the Congressional Record of January 24, 2019. indicated while assigned to a position of im- which was received by the Senate and ap- PN328 MARINE CORPS nomination of portance and responsibility under title 10, peared in the Congressional Record of Feb- John C. Jarvis, which was received by the U.S.C., section 601: ruary 25, 2019. Senate and appeared in the Congressional To be vice admiral PN434 ARMY nomination of Nathan M. Record of January 24, 2019. PN337 MARINE CORPS nominations (2) be- Clayton, which was received by the Senate Rear Adm. Stuart B. Munsch ginning NATHANEAL J. HART, JR., and and appeared in the Congressional Record of NOMINATIONS PLACED ON THE SECRETARY’S ending DUSTIN R. HEFFEL, which nomina- February 25, 2019. DESK PN435 ARMY nomination of Adam P. tions were received by the Senate and ap- IN THE AIR FORCE James, which was received by the Senate and peared in the Congressional Record of Janu- PN288 AIR FORCE nominations (55) begin- appeared in the Congressional Record of Feb- ary 24, 2019. PN340 MARINE CORPS nominations (5) be- ning DANIEL M. ANDERSON, and ending ruary 25, 2019. DENISE M. ZONA, which nominations were PN436 ARMY nominations (33) beginning ginning MATTHEW J. ANDERSON, and end- received by the Senate and appeared in the JASON S. BAKER, and ending RICHARD J. ing ISAAC K. TIBAYAN, which nominations Congressional Record of January 24, 2019. ZEIGLER, which nominations were received were received by the Senate and appeared in PN425 AIR FORCE nomination of Thomas by the Senate and appeared in the Congres- the Congressional Record of January 24, 2019. D. Crimmins, which was received by the Sen- sional Record of February 25, 2019. IN THE NAVY ate and appeared in the Congressional PN437 ARMY nomination of Shelia R. Day, PN487 NAVY nomination of Edward M. Record of February 25, 2019. which was received by the Senate and ap- Prendergast, which was received by the Sen- PN427 AIR FORCE nominations (16) begin- peared in the Congressional Record of Feb- ate and appeared in the Congressional ning SHAWN C. BISHOP, and ending CHRIS- ruary 25, 2019. Record of March 5, 2019. TIAN L. WILLIAMS, which nominations PN438 ARMY nomination of Robert D. PN489 NAVY nomination of Thomas L. were received by the Senate and appeared in Cope, which was received by the Senate and Hinnant, III, which was received by the Sen- the Congressional Record of February 25, appeared in the Congressional Record of Feb- ate and appeared in the Congressional 2019. ruary 25, 2019. Record of March 5, 2019. PN428 AIR FORCE nominations (14) begin- PN439 ARMY nomination of William C. PN490 NAVY nomination of Sanjay ning MICHELL A. ARCHEBELLE, and end- Mitchell, which was received by the Senate Sharma, which was received by the Senate

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I would like to thank Mr. South for The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Throughout the course of his career, his service to our Nation. He is an in- ate will now resume legislative session. he has served his country and his fel- low citizens with great honor. During spiration to all young Montanans wish- f his time in the Navy, he deployed in ing to serve their country.∑ MORNING BUSINESS support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as f a flight surgeon, and he also served as Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous TRIBUTE TO DELORES PIGSLEY faculty dermatologist and Mohs Sur- consent that the Senate be in a period geon at the National Naval Medical ∑ Mr. MERKLEY. Mr. President, this of morning business, with Senators Center and the Walter Reed National month, Women’s History Month, we permitted to speak therein for up to 10 Military Medical Center to support the recognize and celebrate the contribu- minutes each. White House Medical Unit and the Of- tions that women have made to the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without fice of the Attending Physician. betterment of our Nation. Today, I objection, it is so ordered. In Great Falls, Dr. Bingham is one of want to talk about one such remark- f the leading experts on dermatologic able woman from my home State of Or- REMEMBERING ANDREW care. Despite his successful career as a egon: Delores Pigsley. In 1991, Delores Pigsley said, ‘‘You MARSHALL civilian and servicemember, Dr. Bing- ham continues his service to our coun- never quit being an Indian just because Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, thank try in the Air National Guard. your tribe has been terminated.’’ you for the opportunity to recognize a Dr. Bingham is an inspiration to any Delores—Dee to her friends—ought to titan of defense thinking, Andrew Mar- young Montanans seeking to live out a know. As a young child, Delores wit- shall, who passed away at the age of 97 life in service to his or her country. I nessed the termination of her Tribe, on March 26, 2019. congratulate Dr. Bingham for his ex- the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indi- Mr. Marshall was the founding father emplary record of excellence, and I ans, in 1954, and just over two decades of the Department of Defense’s Office thank him for his continued service to later, in 1977, she was the driving force of Net Assessment. From its creation, the people of Montana and our coun- behind the Siletz becoming the first he served as its director for over four try.∑ Tribe in Oregon, and just the second decades, leaving an indelible mark on f tribe in the entire United States to our defense institutions. He finally re- have its Federal status as a sovereign tired in 2015, at the age of 93. TRIBUTE TO CLARE HARMON government restored. In his role, he piloted rigorous anal- ∑ Mr. DAINES. Mr. President, I would For over four decades now, Delores ysis of critical national security issues, like to recognize and congratulate has never slowed down or wavered in rooted in his unparalleled institutional Clara Harmon from Helena for winning her commitment to serving the mem- knowledge. This is why he was often the 2019 Treasure State Spelling Bee. bers of the Siletz Tribe, 32 of those called the ‘Yoda’ of the Pentagon. Clara is an exceptional young woman years as Tribal chairman. His groundbreaking work shaped how who attends school through the Helena As chief negotiator for the Siletz the Department of Defense responds to Area Christian Home Educators. Tribe, Delores passed agreements with long-term challenges and paved the Clara endured 19 rounds of tough Congress, negotiated compacts, and way for a nimbler, more modern force. competition which amounted to 3 1/2 testified here on Capitol Hill before Despite its relatively small budget, hours before she was crowned the vic- Congress. She has worked with the Bu- the Office of Net Assessment has had tor. Clara is a shining example of the reau of Indian Affairs and Indian an outsized impact on military think- best and the brightest Montana has to Health Services on behalf of her Tribal ing. In particular, he foresaw the offer. This May, Clara will be travel- members, and thanks in no small meas- threats posed by the then-Soviet Union ling to National Harbor, MD, to rep- ure to her leadership, the Confederated and, more recently, China. resent Montana at the Scripps Na- Tribes of Siletz Indians, which was Mr. Marshall’s legacy goes beyond tional Spelling Bee. I also want to once on the verge of ceasing to exist, strategic thinking. He also trained the thank Clara’s parents, Charles and now owns and manages a reservation of next generation of defense analysts, in- Dianna Harmon for raising such a tal- over 3,500 acres, with a casino, resorts, cluding the current Vice Chairman of ented and passionate daughter. hotels, a school, and health clinics. the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force All of Montana will be rooting for Delores is many things to many peo- Gen. Paul Selva, ensuring his knowl- Clara as she represents us on the na- ple: a chairman, a leader, a role model, edge lasts into the future. tional stage in May.∑ a wife, a mother, and a grandmother. Our Nation is more secure because of f In spite of all her accomplishments, Mr. Marshall’s important work. We she remains humble, attributing much TRIBUTE TO PHILLIP SOUTH owe a great deal of debt to him, and I of her success to other Tribal council am thankful for the opportunity to ∑ Mr. DAINES. Mr. President, this leaders and to many national Tribal commemorate him today. week I have the honor of recognizing leaders who have served as mentors to f Phillip South of Sheridan, MT, for his her. 100 years of determination, bravery, So this Women’s History Month, let’s ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS and service. take a moment to recognize and to At 100, Philip South has lived thank Delores Pigsley for all that she through 18 presidents, two World Wars, has done for the members of the Siletz TRIBUTE TO DR. JONATHAN L. the Great Depression, and was born Tribe, for Tribes across the country, BINGHAM when there were only 48 States in the and for the people of Oregon. ∑ Mr. DAINES. Mr. President, this United States. Mr. South served his Thank you.∑ week, I have the distinct honor of rec- country heroically in World War II as a f ognizing Dr. Jonathan L. Bingham for rifleman and scout in the U.S. Marine his service in providing quality der- Corps with the renowned First Marine TRIBUTE TO GARY YOHE matologic surgery care to the folks in Division. ∑ Mr. MURPHY. Mr. President, I would Great Falls and his military service in In the Guadalcanal, Phillips survived like to take a moment to pay tribute the Montana Air National Guard. sniper fire and his small regiment of ri- to Gary Yohe, a Connecticut resident

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After receiv- tion, Department of Defense, transmitting, mittee on Health, Education, Labor, and pursuant to law, a report relative to the De- ing his PhD in economics from Yale Pensions. partment’s development of a plan for inte- University, he devoted his career to cli- EC–806. A communication from the Con- grated overhead persistent infrared capabili- mate impact and mitigation research. gressional Relations Officer of the United ties (OSS–2019–0294); to the Committees on He worked as a senior member of the States International Trade Commission, Appropriations; Armed Services; and Select transmitting, pursuant to law, the Commis- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Committee on Intelligence. sion’s Annual Performance Report for fiscal Change, receiving a share of the 2007 EC–794. A communication from the Under year 2018 and Annual Performance Plan for Nobel Prize, served as vice chair of the Secretary of Defense (Research and Engi- fiscal year 2019–2020; to the Committee on National Climate Assessment Develop- neering), transmitting, pursuant to law, a re- Homeland Security and Governmental Af- ment and Advisory Committee under port relative to the funding of Department of fairs. Defense programs under the Defense Labora- President Obama, and has testified be- EC–807. A communication from the Deputy tory Modernization Pilot Program; to the fore the Senate on multiple occasions Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Pro- Committees on Armed Services; and Appro- to explain the risks and impacts of cli- grams, National Marine Fisheries Service, priations. mate change. Professor Yohe continues Department of Commerce, transmitting, pur- EC–795. A communication from the Assist- suant to law, the report of a rule entitled to serve as a member of the New York ant Secretary of Defense (Legislative Af- ‘‘Taking and Importing Marine Mammals; City Panel on Climate Change and has fairs), transmitting legislative proposals rel- Taking Marine Mammals Incidental to Na- been a member of the faculty at Wes- ative to the ‘‘National Defense Authoriza- tional Park Service’s Research and Moni- leyan University for more than 40 tion Act for Fiscal Year 2020’’; to the Com- toring Activities in Southern Alaska Na- years. On a more personal note, he has mittee on Armed Services. tional Parks’’ (RIN0648–BH90) received dur- EC–796. A communication from the Sec- been a great resource to my office, and ing adjournment of the Senate in the Office retary of the Treasury, transmitting, pursu- I hope he will continue to contribute to of the President of the Senate on March 18, ant to Executive Order 13313 of July 31, 2003, public policy after his official retire- 2019; to the Committee on Commerce, a semiannual report detailing telecommuni- Science, and Transportation. ment. cations-related payments made to Cuba pur- EC–808. A communication from the Attor- I would like to congratulate Pro- suant to Department of the Treasury li- ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department fessor Yohe on his retirement from censes; to the Committee on Banking, Hous- of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- Wesleyan University and take this mo- ing, and Urban Affairs. ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ment to thank him for his contribu- EC–797. A communication from the Deputy ‘‘Safety Zone; Mississippi Canyon Block 20, tions to the scientific community.∑ Director, Bureau of Land Management, De- South of New Orleans, LA, Gulf of Mexico’’ partment of the Interior, transmitting, pur- f ((RIN1625–AA08) (Docket No. USCG–2018– suant to law, a report relative to the Bu- 1062)) received in the Office of the President MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE reau’s efforts to better align state and fed- of the Senate on March 25, 2019; to the Com- eral plans for managing Greater Sage-Grouse At 10:09 a.m., a message from the mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- habitat on federal lands; to the Committee House of Representatives, delivered by tation. on Energy and Natural Resources. Mr. Novotny, one of its reading clerks, EC–798. A communication from the Assist- f announced that the House has passed ant Secretary for Legislation, Department of PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS the following bill, in which it requests Health and Human Services, transmitting, the concurrence of the Senate: pursuant to law, the fiscal year 2018 report of The following petition or memorial H.R. 7. An act to amend the Fair Labor the Federal Coordinated Health Care Office; was laid before the Senate and was re- Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effec- to the Committee on Finance. ferred or ordered to lie on the table as tive remedies to victims of discrimination in EC–799. A communication from the Chair- indicated: man of the United States International the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and POM–22. A concurrent resolution adopted Trade Commission, transmitting, pursuant for other purposes. by the Legislature of the State of South Da- to law, the Commission’s Budget Request for kota urging the United States Congress to At 1:25 p.m., a message from the fiscal year 2020; to the Committee on Fi- amend the Social Security Act to allow nance. House of Representatives, delivered by states to provide Medicaid services to those EC–800. A communication from the Direc- Mr. Cole, one of its reading clerks, an- persons presumed innocent in jail awaiting tor, Defense Security Cooperation Agency, nounced that the House has passed the trial; to the Committee on Finance. following bill, without amendment: transmitting, pursuant to law, a report rel- ative to the Arms Export Control Act (OSS– SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 8 S. 863. An act to amend title 38, United 2019–0255); to the Committee on Foreign Re- Whereas, a basic principle of the United States Code, to clarify the grade and pay of lations. States judicial system is that citizens podiatrists of the Department of Veterans EC–801. A communication from the Assist- charged with a crime are innocent until Affairs. ant Secretary, Legislative Affairs, Depart- proven guilty; and The message also announced that ment of State, transmitting, pursuant to Whereas, the United States and South Da- pursuant to Section 1652(b) of the John law, a report relative to the designation of a kota have determined it is right and appro- S. McCain National Defense Authoriza- group as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by priate to care for our most vulnerable citi- tion Act for Fiscal Year 2019, the Mi- the Secretary of State (OSS–2019–0272); to zens through the Medicaid program, and nority Leader appoints the following the Committee on Foreign Relations. county jails are populated by many persons EC–802. A communication from the Assist- who have serious medical conditions and Member of the House of Representa- ant Secretary, Bureau of Legislative Affairs, mental illnesses or who are the parents of tives to the Cyberspace Solarium Com- Department of State, transmitting, pursuant small children who qualify for Medicaid ben- mission: Mr. GALLAGHER of Wisconsin. to law, sixteen (16) reports relative to vacan- efits; and f cies in the Department of State, received in Whereas, the jail population in the United the Office of the President of the Senate on States is growing faster than the prison pop- MEASURES PLACED ON THE March 26, 2019; to the Committee on Foreign ulation, and approximately two-thirds of the CALENDAR Relations. jail population consists of those pending dis- The following bill was read the sec- EC–803. A communication from the Under position who remain innocent until proven ond time, and placed on the calendar: Secretary of the Army, transmitting, pursu- guilty and who are currently not being treat- ant to law, a report entitled ‘‘Annual Report ed equally to those awaiting trial who ob- H.R. 297. An act to extend the Federal rec- to Congress on the Activities of the Western tained bail and were released awaiting adju- ognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chip- Hemisphere Institute for Security Coopera- dication; and pewa Indians of Montana, and for other pur- tion for 2018’’; to the Committee on Foreign Whereas, providing Medicaid services to poses. Relations. persons in jail pending disposition will in- f EC–804. A communication from the Board crease the likelihood that the provision of EXECUTIVE AND OTHER Members, Railroad Retirement Board, trans- services is continuous once the person reen- COMMUNICATIONS mitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to ters the community; and the Board’s budget request for fiscal year Whereas, section 1905(a)(A) of the Social The following communications were 2020; to the Committee on Health, Education, Security Act prevents South Dakota from laid before the Senate, together with Labor, and Pensions. providing Medicaid services to persons in jail

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pending disposition who would otherwise be CARDIN, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mrs. GILLI- Dependent Care Tax Credit and make the covered under the Medicaid policies of South BRAND, Ms. HARRIS, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. credit fully refundable; to the Committee on Dakota: Now, therefore, be it MARKEY, Mr. MERKLEY, Mr. SANDERS, Finance. Resolved, By the Senate of the Ninety- Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, By Mr. YOUNG (for himself, Ms. COR- Fourth Legislature of the State of South Da- and Mr. DURBIN): TEZ MASTO, Mr. SCOTT of South Caro- kota, the House of Representatives concur- S. 921. A bill to prohibit the use of lina, and Mr. BENNET): ring therein, that the Legislature requests chlorpyrifos on food, to prohibit the registra- S. 932. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- the United States Congress to amend the So- tion of pesticides containing chlorpyrifos, enue Code of 1986 to provide for the tax-ex- cial Security Act to allow states to provide and for other purposes; to the Committee on empt financing of certain government-owned Medicaid, services to those persons presumed Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. buildings; to the Committee on Finance. innocent in jail awaiting trial; and be it fur- By Mr. LANKFORD (for himself, Mrs. By Mr. WHITEHOUSE (for himself and ther SHAHEEN, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, and Mr. Ms. MURKOWSKI): Resolved, That the secretary of the senate TILLIS): S. 933. A bill to improve data collection transmit copies of this resolution to the S. 922. A bill to limit the transfer of F–35 and monitoring of the Great Lakes, oceans, Speaker and Clerk of the United States aircraft to Turkey; to the Committee on bays, estuaries, and coasts, and for other House of Representatives, the President and Foreign Relations. purposes; to the Committee on Commerce, Secretary of the United States Senate, the By Mrs. FEINSTEIN (for herself, Ms. Science, and Transportation. United States Secretary of Health and MURKOWSKI, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, Ms. By Mr. LEE (for himself and Mr. PAUL): Human Services, and to the South Dakota KLOBUCHAR, Mr. BENNET, Ms. SMITH, S. 934. A bill to prohibit mandatory or congressional delegation. Ms. HIRONO, Ms. CORTEZ MASTO, Ms. compulsory checkoff programs; to the Com- HARRIS, and Ms. ROSEN): mittee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and For- f S. 923. A bill to fight homelessness in the estry. United States by authorizing a grant pro- REPORTS OF COMMITTEES By Mr. LEE (for himself, Mr. BOOKER, gram within the Health Resources and Serv- Mr. PAUL, and Ms. WARREN): The following reports of committees ices Administration for housing programs S. 935. A bill to prohibit certain practices were submitted: that offer comprehensive services and inten- relating to certain commodity promotion sive case management for homeless individ- programs, to require greater transparency by By Mr. BURR, from the Select Committee uals and families; to the Committee on on Intelligence: those programs, and for other purposes; to Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, Special Report entitled ‘‘Report of the Se- By Mr. CORNYN (for himself and Ms. lect Committee on Intelligence United and Forestry. HASSAN): By Mr. WYDEN (for himself and Mr. States Senate Covering the Period January S. 924. A bill to amend the Child Abuse 3, 2017 to January 3, 2019’’ (Rept. No. 116–20). PAUL): Prevention and Treatment Act to require S. 936. A bill to repeal the authority to ac- Additional views filed. training and education to teachers and other By Mr. HOEVEN, from the Committee on cess on an ongoing basis business records for school employees, students, and the commu- foreign intelligence and international ter- Indian Affairs, without amendment: nity about how to prevent, recognize, re- S. 257. A bill to provide for rental assist- rorism investigations, and for other pur- spond to, and report child sexual abuse in poses; to the Committee on the Judiciary. ance for homeless or at-risk Indian veterans, primary and secondary education; to the and for other purposes (Rept. No. 116–21). By Mr. KENNEDY: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and S. 937. A bill to direct the Secretary of By Mr. GRAHAM, from the Committee on Pensions. Commerce to require institutions of higher the Judiciary: By Mr. CORNYN (for himself, Ms. education and other research facilities to ob- Special Report entitled ‘‘Report on the Ac- SINEMA, Mr. TILLIS, Ms. COLLINS, tain deemed export licenses for foreign na- tivities of the Senate Committee on the Ju- Mrs. FISCHER, and Mr. RUBIO): tionals conducting scientific research at diciary During the 115th Congress’’ (Rept. S. 925. A bill to impose additional sanc- such institutions and facilities, and for other No. 116–22). tions with respect to Iran’s Revolutionary purposes; to the Committee on Banking, By Mr. RISCH, from the Committee on Guard Corps, and for other purposes; to the Housing, and Urban Affairs. Foreign Relations: Committee on Foreign Relations. By Mr. BURR (for himself, Mr. CARDIN, Special Report entitled ‘‘Legislative Ac- By Mr. WYDEN: Mr. BLUNT, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. tivities Report of the Committee on Foreign S. 926. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- TILLIS, Mr. BROWN, and Mr. WICKER): Relations, United States Senate, One Hun- enue Code of 1986 to ensure that kombucha is S. 938. A bill to amend the Intercountry dred Fifteenth Congress’’ (Rept. No. 116–23). exempt from any excise taxes and regula- Adoption Act of 2000 to require the Secretary By Mr. WICKER, from the Committee on tions imposed on alcoholic beverages; to the of State to report on intercountry adoptions Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee on Finance. from countries which have significantly re- Special Report entitled ‘‘Legislative Ac- By Mr. PORTMAN (for himself and Mr. duced adoption rates involving immigration tivities Report of the Committee on Com- BROWN): to the United States, and for other purposes; merce, Science, and Transportation of the S. 927. A bill to amend the National Avia- to the Committee on Foreign Relations. United States Senate During the 115th Con- tion Heritage Act to reauthorize the Na- By Mr. KENNEDY: gress’’ (Rept. No. 116–24). tional Aviation Heritage Area, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Energy and S. 939. A bill to establish limitations re- f Natural Resources. garding Confucius Institutes, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Health, Edu- EXECUTIVE REPORTS OF By Mr. GRASSLEY (for himself and Mr. WYDEN): cation, Labor, and Pensions. COMMITTEE S. 928. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- By Mr. VAN HOLLEN: The following executive reports of enue Code of 1986 to modernize and improve S. 940. A bill to cap the emissions of green- house gases through a requirement to pur- nominations were submitted: the Internal Revenue Service, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Finance. chase carbon permits, to distribute the pro- By Mr. GRAHAM for the Committee on the By Mr. TILLIS (for himself and Mr. ceeds of such purchases to eligible individ- Judiciary. BURR): uals, and for other purposes; to the Com- Wing Chau, of Rhode Island, to be United S. 929. A bill to amend title 28, United mittee on Finance. States Marshal for the District of Rhode Is- States Code, to redefine the eastern and mid- By Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself and land for the term of four years. dle judicial districts of North Carolina; to Mr. BOOKER): Ramona L. Dohman, of Minnesota, to be the Committee on the Judiciary. S. 941. A bill to amend the Communica- United States Marshal for the District of By Ms. ERNST (for herself and Mr. tions Act of 1934 to clarify the obligations of Minnesota for the term of four years. GARDNER): licensees under section 331 of that Act, and (Nominations without an asterisk S. 930. A bill to allow women greater access for other purposes; to the Committee on were reported with the recommenda- to safe and effective contraception; to the Commerce, Science, and Transportation. tion that they be confirmed.) Committee on Finance. By Mr. KING (for himself and Ms. WAR- By Mr. CASEY (for himself, Mrs. MUR- REN): f RAY, Mr. WYDEN, Mr. BROWN, Mr. S. 942. A bill to amend the Federal Election CARDIN, Ms. CANTWELL, Mrs. GILLI- Campaign Act of 1971 to require all political INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND BRAND, Ms. HASSAN, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. committees to notify the Federal Election JOINT RESOLUTIONS MENENDEZ, Ms. STABENOW, Ms. COR- Commission within 48 hours of receiving cu- The following bills and joint resolu- TEZ MASTO, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. VAN mulative contributions of $1,000 or more tions were introduced, read the first HOLLEN, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. BEN- from any contributor during a calendar year, and for other purposes; to the Committee on and second times by unanimous con- NET, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mr. MERKLEY, Mr. REED, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. LEAHY, Rules and Administration. sent, and referred as indicated: and Mr. SCHUMER): By Mr. SCHATZ (for himself, Mr. By Mr. UDALL (for himself, Mr. S. 931. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- JONES, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Ms. HARRIS, BLUMENTHAL, Mr. BOOKER, Mr. enue Code of 1986 to enhance the Child and Ms. KLOBUCHAR, and Mr. WYDEN):

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A bill to promote registered appren- referred (or acted upon), as indicated: Education, Labor, and Pensions. ticeships, including registered apprentice- By Mrs. MURRAY: By Mr. SCHATZ (for himself, Mr. ships within in-demand industry sectors, S. Res. 128. A resolution commemorating LUMENTHAL, Mr. BROWN, Mr. B through the support of workforce inter- the 100th anniversary of the National Parks CARDIN, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. MARKEY, mediaries, and for other purposes; to the Conservation Association; to the Committee Mr. MENENDEZ, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and on Energy and Natural Resources. PETERS, Ms. ROSEN, Ms. SMITH, Ms. Pensions. By Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself, Mr. STABENOW, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, and Ms. By Mr. COTTON (for himself and Mr. BENNET, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. BOOK- WARREN): GRAHAM): ER, Mr. BROWN, Ms. CORTEZ MASTO, S. 944. A bill to enhance the security oper- Ms. DUCKWORTH, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Ms. S. 952. A bill to provide that the Federal ations of the Transportation Security Ad- HARRIS, Mr. HEINRICH, Ms. HIRONO, Communications Commission may not pre- ministration and the stability of the trans- Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. MARKEY, Mrs. vent a State or Federal correctional facility portation security workforce by applying a MURRAY, Ms. ROSEN, Ms. SMITH, Ms. from utilizing jamming equipment, and for unified personnel system under title 5, WARREN, Mr. UDALL, Mr. DURBIN, and other purposes; to the Committee on Com- United States Code, to employees of the Mr. SANDERS): Transportation Security Administration who merce, Science, and Transportation. S. Res. 129. A resolution honoring the ac- are responsible for screening passengers and By Mr. DAINES: complishments and legacy of Cesar Estrada property, and for other purposes; to the Com- S. 953. A bill to designate the facility of Chavez; to the Committee on the Judiciary. mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- the United States Postal Service located at By Ms. DUCKWORTH (for herself, Mrs. tation. 1100 West Kent Avenue in Missoula, Mon- CAPITO, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Mr. By Mr. KENNEDY (for himself and Mr. tana, as the ‘‘Jeannette Rankin Post Office BLUMENTHAL, Ms. WARREN, Ms. CANT- VAN HOLLEN): Building’’; to the Committee on Homeland WELL, and Mrs. FEINSTEIN): S. 945. A bill to amend the Sarbanes-Oxley Security and Governmental Affairs. S. Res. 130. A resolution recognizing the Act of 2002 to require certain issuers to dis- By Mr. BROWN (for himself, Mr. COT- significance of endometriosis as an unmet close to the Securities and Exchange Com- TON, Ms. DUCKWORTH, Mr. GARDNER, chronic disease for women and designating mission information regarding foreign juris- Mr. MARKEY, Mr. MANCHIN, Mr. SCHU- March 2019 as ‘‘Endometriosis Awareness dictions that prevent the Public Company MER, Mr. PORTMAN, Mr. RUBIO, Mr. Month’’; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Accounting Oversight Board from per- TILLIS, Ms. WARREN, and Mr. BEN- By Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself and forming inspections under that Act, and for NET): Mr. BURR): other purposes; to the Committee on Bank- S. Res. 131. A resolution designating April S. 954. A bill to provide grants to State, ing, Housing, and Urban Affairs. 2019 as ‘‘National 9–1-1 Education Month’’; to local, territorial, and Tribal law enforce- By Mr. VAN HOLLEN (for himself and the Committee on the Judiciary. ment agencies to purchase chemical screen- Mr. CARDIN): By Ms. STABENOW (for herself and ing devices and train personnel to use chem- S. 946. A bill to direct the Comptroller Mr. PETERS): General of the United States to complete a ical screening devices in order to enhance S. Res. 132. A resolution honoring the life study on barriers to participation in feder- law enforcement efficiency and protect law of Ted Lindsay; to the Committee on the Ju- ally funded cancer clinical trials by popu- enforcement officers; to the Committee on diciary. lations that have been traditionally under- the Judiciary. By Mr. GARDNER (for himself, Mr. By Mr. MERKLEY: represented in such trials; to the Committee COONS, and Mr. MARKEY): on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. S. 955. A bill to amend the Help America S. Con. Res. 10. A concurrent resolution By Mr. CRAPO (for himself, Mr. UDALL, Vote Act of 2002 to reduce waiting times for recognizing that Chinese telecommuni- Mr. RISCH, Mr. HEINRICH, Mr. BENNET, voters in Federal elections; to the Com- cations companies such as Huawei and ZTE and Mr. BOOKER): mittee on Rules and Administration. pose serious threats to the national security S. 947. A bill to amend the Radiation Expo- By Mr. MERKLEY: of the United States and its allies; to the sure Compensation Act to improve com- Committee on Foreign Relations. pensation for workers involved in uranium S. 956. A bill to amend the Federal Election mining, and for other purposes; to the Com- Campaign Act of 1971 to require the disclo- f mittee on the Judiciary. sure of all donations; to the Committee on ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS By Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself, Ms. Rules and Administration. COLLINS, and Ms. ROSEN): By Mr. MERKLEY: S. 64 S. 948. A bill to provide incentives to physi- S. 957. A bill to amend the Help America At the request of Ms. KLOBUCHAR, the cians to practice in rural and medically un- Vote Act of 2002 to establish minimum re- name of the Senator from North Da- derserved communities, and for other pur- quirements for early voting; to the Com- kota (Mr. CRAMER) was added as a co- poses; to the Committee on the Judiciary. mittee on Rules and Administration. sponsor of S. 64, a bill to prohibit brand By Mr. UDALL (for himself, Mr. By Mr. MERKLEY: name drug companies from compen- MERKLEY, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. SCHU- sating generic drug companies to delay MER, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. S. 958. A bill to amend the National Voter CARDIN, Mr. WYDEN, Ms. BALDWIN, Registration Act of 1993 to save eligible vot- the entry of a generic drug into the Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. COONS, Mr. ers from voter purging, and for other pur- market, and to prohibit biological MARKEY, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. HEIN- poses; to the Committee on Rules and Ad- product manufacturers from compen- ministration. RICH, Mr. KAINE, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. sating biosimilar and interchangeable By Ms. COLLINS (for herself and Mrs. SANDERS, Mr. SCHATZ, Mrs. GILLI- companies to delay the entry of bio- FEINSTEIN): BRAND, Ms. HARRIS, Mr. BROWN, Mr. similar biological products and inter- BENNET, Ms. WARREN, Ms. SMITH, S. 959. A bill to establish in the Smithso- changeable biological products. Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mr. CARPER, Mr. nian Institution a comprehensive women’s KING, Mr. CASEY, Ms. CORTEZ MASTO, history museum, and for other purposes; to S. 151 Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mr. TESTER, Mr. the Committee on Rules and Administration. At the request of Mr. THUNE, the BOOKER, Ms. STABENOW, Ms. By Mr. MERKLEY: name of the Senator from Mississippi DUCKWORTH, Mr. MURPHY, Mrs. SHA- S. 960. A bill to establish a commission to (Mr. WICKER) was added as a cosponsor HEEN, Ms. HASSAN, Mr. PETERS, Ms. develop proposals regarding voting represen- of S. 151, a bill to deter criminal ROSEN, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mrs. MURRAY, tation for citizens of the United States who robocall violations and improve en- Mr. JONES, Mr. REED, Mr. MANCHIN, reside in a territory, commonwealth, or Fed- forcement of section 227(b) of the Com- and Ms. CANTWELL): eral District of the United States; to the S. 949. A bill to expand Americans’ access munications Act of 1934, and for other Committee on the Judiciary. to the ballot box, reduce the influence of big purposes. By Mr. MERKLEY: money in politics, and strengthen ethics S. 164 rules for public servants, and for other pur- S.J. Res. 16. A joint resolution proposing At the request of Mr. DAINES, the poses; to the Committee on Finance. an amendment to the Constitution of the name of the Senator from Connecticut By Ms. STABENOW (for herself, Mr. United States to abolish the electoral col- (Mr. BLUMENTHAL) was added as a co- ROUNDS, Mr. PETERS, Mr. TILLIS, Mr. lege and to provide for the direct election of BURR, and Ms. BALDWIN): the President and Vice President of the sponsor of S. 164, a bill to amend title S. 950. A bill to require the Director of the United States; to the Committee on the Ju- 10, United States Code, to remove the United States Geological Survey to perform diciary. prohibition on eligibility for TRICARE

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Act of 1965 to allow parents of eligible of the Social Security Act to ensure S. 506 military dependent children to estab- more timely access to home health At the request of Mrs. FEINSTEIN, the lish Military Education Savings Ac- services for Medicare beneficiaries name of the Senator from Illinois (Ms. counts, and for other purposes. under the Medicare program. DUCKWORTH) was added as a cosponsor S. 703 S. 317 of S. 506, a bill to support State, Tribal, At the request of Mrs. FEINSTEIN, the At the request of Mr. GRASSLEY, the and local efforts to remove access to name of the Senator from New Jersey name of the Senator from Florida (Mr. firearms from individuals who are a (Mr. BOOKER) was withdrawn as a co- RUBIO) was added as a cosponsor of S. danger to themselves or others pursu- sponsor of S. 703, a bill to amend title 317, a bill to amend title XIX of the So- ant to court orders for this purpose. 10, United States Code, to address cial Security Act to provide States S. 518 health, safety, and environmental haz- with the option of providing coordi- At the request of Ms. CANTWELL, the ards at private military housing units, nated care for children with complex name of the Senator from Massachu- to prohibit the payment by members of medical conditions through a health setts (Mr. MARKEY) was added as a co- the Armed Forces of deposits or other home. sponsor of S. 518, a bill to amend title fees relating to such housing units, and S. 386 XVIII of the Social Security Act to for other purposes. At the request of Mr. LEE, the names provide for Medicare coverage of cer- At the request of Mrs. FEINSTEIN, the of the Senator from Delaware (Mr. tain lymphedema compression treat- name of the Senator from Connecticut COONS) and the Senator from Idaho ment items as items of durable medical (Mr. MURPHY) was added as a cosponsor (Mr. RISCH) were added as cosponsors of equipment. of S. 703, supra. S. 386, a bill to amend the Immigration S. 521 S. 716 and Nationality Act to eliminate the At the request of Mr. BROWN, the At the request of Mr. CARDIN, the per-country numerical limitation for names of the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. name of the Senator from New York employment-based immigrants, to in- HIRONO) and the Senator from Con- (Mrs. GILLIBRAND) was added as a co- crease the per-country numerical limi- necticut (Mr. MURPHY) were added as sponsor of S. 716, a bill to impose sanc- tation for family-sponsored immi- cosponsors of S. 521, a bill to amend tions under the Global Magnitsky grants, and for other purposes. title II of the Social Security Act to re- Human Rights Accountability Act to S. 433 peal the Government pension offset and combat corruption, money laundering, At the request of Ms. COLLINS, the windfall elimination provisions. and impunity in Guatemala, and for name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. other purposes. S. 530 MERKLEY) was added as a cosponsor of S. 778 At the request of Mr. SCHATZ, the S. 433, a bill to amend title XVIII of the At the request of Ms. MURKOWSKI, the name of the Senator from Michigan Social Security Act to improve home name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. (Ms. STABENOW) was added as a cospon- health payment reforms under the WYDEN) was added as a cosponsor of S. sor of S. 530, a bill to establish the Fed- Medicare program. 778, a bill to direct the Secretary of eral Labor-Management Partnership S. 474 Commerce, acting through the Admin- Council. At the request of Mr. WYDEN, the istrator of the National Oceanic and name of the Senator from New York S. 567 Atmospheric Administration, to con- At the request of Mr. CRUZ, the name (Mrs. GILLIBRAND) was added as a co- duct coastal community vulnerability sponsor of S. 474, a bill to amend title of the Senator from Georgia (Mr. assessments related to ocean acidifica- XI of the Social Security Act to re- PERDUE) was added as a cosponsor of S. tion, and for other purposes. 567, a bill clarifying that it is United quire drug manufacturers to publicly S. 802 States policy to recognize Israel’s sov- justify unnecessary price increases. At the request of Mr. DAINES, the ereignty over the Golan Heights. S. 475 name of the Senator from Mississippi At the request of Mr. WYDEN, the S. 610 (Mrs. HYDE-SMITH) was added as a co- name of the Senator from Delaware At the request of Mr. BLUMENTHAL, sponsor of S. 802, a bill to amend part (Mr. COONS) was added as a cosponsor the name of the Senator from Cali- A of title IV of the Social Security Act, of S. 475, a bill to amend title XVIII of fornia (Mrs. FEINSTEIN) was added as a and for other purposes. the Social Security Act to prevent cat- cosponsor of S. 610, a bill to amend S. 803 astrophic out-of-pocket spending on title 9 of the United States Code with At the request of Mr. TOOMEY, the prescription drugs for seniors and indi- respect to arbitration. names of the Senator from Nevada (Ms. viduals with disabilities. S. 622 CORTEZ MASTO), the Senator from S. 476 At the request of Mr. JONES, the Georgia (Mr. ISAKSON), the Senator At the request of Mr. WYDEN, the names of the Senator from Arizona from Nevada (Ms. ROSEN) and the Sen- name of the Senator from Delaware (Ms. MCSALLY), the Senator from Colo- ator from Missouri (Mr. BLUNT) were (Mr. COONS) was added as a cosponsor rado (Mr. GARDNER) and the Senator added as cosponsors of S. 803, a bill to of S. 476, a bill to amend title XI and from Minnesota (Ms. SMITH) were added amend the Internal Revenue Code of XVIII of the Social Security Act to as cosponsors of S. 622, a bill to amend 1986 to restore incentives for invest- provide greater transparency of dis- title 10, United States Code, to repeal ments in qualified improvement prop- counts provided by drug manufactur- the requirement for reduction of sur- erty. ers. vivor annuities under the Survivor S. 817 S. 479 Benefit Plan by veterans’ dependency At the request of Mr. CRAPO, the At the request of Mr. TOOMEY, the and indemnity compensation, and for name of the Senator from Oklahoma name of the Senator from Illinois (Ms. other purposes. (Mr. LANKFORD) was added as a cospon- DUCKWORTH) was added as a cosponsor S. 630 sor of S. 817, a bill to amend the Inter- of S. 479, a bill to revise section 48 of At the request of Mr. BROWN, the nal Revenue Code of 1986 to remove si- title 18, United States Code, and for name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. lencers from the definition of firearms, other purposes. MERKLEY) was added as a cosponsor of and for other purposes.

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RES. 119 serves a lot of credit for working to amend the Public Health Service Act At the request of Mr. BROWN, the reach a bipartisan, bicameral agree- to enhance the national strategy for name of the Senator from Connecticut ment at the end of the last Congress, combating and eliminating tuber- (Mr. BLUMENTHAL) was added as a co- which is reflected in the legislation we culosis, and for other purposes. sponsor of S. Res. 119, a resolution sup- will be introducing this afternoon. I know Senator Hatch put a lot of S. 846 porting the goals of World Tuberculosis work into trying to get this legislation At the request of Mr. CORNYN, the Day to raise awareness about tuber- across the finish line last year. Unfor- names of the Senator from Arkansas culosis. tunately, it wasn’t meant to be, due to (Mr. COTTON) and the Senator from S. RES. 120 both political realities and, maybe, Idaho (Mr. RISCH) were added as co- At the request of Mr. CARDIN, the time constraints—even more so. sponsors of S. 846, a bill to amend title name of the Senator from Montana However, his work helped us get to 49, United States Code, to limit certain (Mr. TESTER) was added as a cosponsor where we are today. In other words, we rolling stock procurements, and for of S. Res. 120, a resolution opposing ef- are advancing a great deal of what Sen- other purposes. forts to delegitimize the State of Israel ator Hatch worked on, and our hope is S. 867 and the Global Boycott, Divestment, that it will allow us to move quickly At the request of Ms. HASSAN, the and Sanctions Movement targeting this year and finally get these com- name of the Senator from Connecticut Israel. monsense reforms of the Internal Rev- (Mr. BLUMENTHAL) was added as a co- S. RES. 123 enue Service enacted into law. sponsor of S. 867, a bill to protect stu- At the request of Mr. RISCH, the Some of the IRS reforms in this leg- dents of institutions of higher edu- names of the Senator from Utah (Mr. islation include establishing a truly cation and the taxpayer investment in ROMNEY) and the Senator from Wyo- independent Office of Appeals within institutions of higher education by im- ming (Mr. BARRASSO) were added as co- the Internal Revenue Service. This will proving oversight and accountability of sponsors of S. Res. 123, a resolution help ensure the playing field is not tilt- institutions of higher education, par- supporting the North Atlantic Treaty ed against taxpayers when those tax- ticularly for-profit colleges, improving Organization and recognizing its 70 payers are in dispute with the Internal protections for students and borrowers, years of accomplishments. Revenue Service. and ensuring the integrity of postsec- AMENDMENT NO. 204 To help bring the Internal Revenue Service into the 21st century, the legis- ondary education programs, and for At the request of Mr. BLUMENTHAL, other purposes. the names of the Senator from New lation also would require the IRS to submit to Congress a plan to redesign S. 879 Jersey (Mr. MENENDEZ) and the Sen- the structure of the Agency to improve At the request of Mr. VAN HOLLEN, ator from New Jersey (Mr. BOOKER) efficiency, enhance cyber security, and the name of the Senator from Wash- were added as cosponsors of amend- ment No. 204 intended to be proposed to better meet taxpayer needs. ington (Mrs. MURRAY) was added as a It also includes a number of provi- H.R. 268, a bill making supplemental cosponsor of S. 879, a bill to provide a sions to protect the taxpayers better appropriations for the fiscal year end- process for granting lawful permanent from tax ID theft and improve tax- ing September 30, 2019, and for other resident status to aliens from certain payer interaction with the IRS, should countries who meet specified eligibility purposes. they become a victim of that crime. requirements, and for other purposes. AMENDMENT NO. 212 This includes creating a single point of S. 894 At the request of Mr. CORNYN, the contact in the IRS to help the tax- At the request of Mr. DURBIN, the names of the Senator from Florida (Mr. payers navigate the bureaucracy and name of the Senator from Maryland SCOTT) and the Senator from South resolve their issues as quickly as pos- (Mr. VAN HOLLEN) was added as a co- Carolina (Mr. GRAHAM) were added as sible. sponsor of S. 894, a bill to authorize cosponsors of amendment No. 212 in- To provide taxpayers with better pro- dedicated domestic terrorism offices tended to be proposed to H.R. 268, a bill tection against becoming such a victim within the Department of Homeland making supplemental appropriations in the first place, the legislation will Security, the Department of Justice, for the fiscal year ending September 30, expand to all taxpayers an IRS pro- and the Federal Bureau of Investiga- 2019, and for other purposes. gram that currently allows victims— tion to analyze and monitor domestic f and only victims—of tax ID theft to ob- tain a personalized PIN that better se- terrorist activity and require the Fed- STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED cures the identity of any taxpayer who eral Government to take steps to pre- BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS vent domestic terrorism. asks for it. By Mr. GRASSLEY (for himself S. 919 The legislation also puts in place new and Mr. WYDEN): safeguards to protect taxpayers against At the request of Mr. CRUZ, the name S. 928. A bill to amend the Internal of the Senator from Michigan (Mr. recent IRS enforcement abuses of so- Revenue Code of 1986 to modernize and called structuring laws. On several oc- PETERS) was added as a cosponsor of S. improve the Internal Revenue Service, 919, a bill to reduce regulatory burdens casions, the IRS used these laws to and for other purposes; to the Com- and streamline processes related to seize bank accounts of small business mittee on Finance. commercial space activities, and for owners when no underlying criminal Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I am activity was present. This includes other purposes. pleased that my colleague, Finance seizing $33,000 from a small business S. CON. RES. 5 Committee Ranking Member WYDEN, owner who operated a small restaurant At the request of Mr. BARRASSO, the will be joining me in introducing the in Arnolds Park, IA, for nearly 40 name of the Senator from North Da- Taxpayer First Act of 2019 later today. years. The IRS—on a whim, taking kota (Mr. CRAMER) was added as a co- This legislation seeks to modernize the $33,000 from that small business— sponsor of S. Con. Res. 5, a concurrent Internal Revenue Service, improve tax- caused the business to close, and the resolution supporting the Local Radio payers’ services, and strengthen tax- owner did nothing wrong in the end. Freedom Act. payer protections. Provisions in our bill will help ensure S. RES. 30 The package of IRS reforms we will these types of abuses never occur At the request of Mrs. FEINSTEIN, the introduce today is the culmination of again. name of the Senator from New Jersey years of work by both the Senate Fi- I would also like to note the improve- (Mr. BOOKER) was added as a cosponsor nance Committee and the House Ways ments to the IRS whistleblower pro- of S. Res. 30, a resolution condemning and Means Committee. It is truly a bi- gram that are contained in the bill.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:31 Mar 29, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00028 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A28MR6.033 S28MRPT1 rfrederick on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with SENATE March 28, 2019 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S2091 In 2006, I authored legislation estab- These are just a few of the provisions family and change their life. Sup- lishing a mandatory Internal Revenue in this bill. There are many others that portive services such as mental and Service whistleblower program. Since will go a long way toward making the physical health care, substance abuse it was established, the IRS whistle- IRS work better for taxpayers. treatment, education and job training, blower program has turned into one of I also know that some of my col- and life skills such as financial literacy the most effective programs addressing leagues have additional ideas that we are critical components. Paired with tax evasion, leading to the recovery of were unable to include in this package. intensive case management, supportive more than $5 billion in taxes that oth- I want them to know that I see this housing models make a difference. erwise would have been lost to fraud. legislation as a first step toward re- One success story is the Downtown Unfortunately, too many IRS whis- forming the IRS and strengthening Women’s Center in Los Angeles. This tleblowers continue to be treated like a taxpayers’ protections. shelter allows homeless and formerly skunk at a picnic. They often wait for I agree there is more that we can do. homeless women to transform their years, and while they are waiting for I am committed to evaluating addi- lives through a combination of perma- years, it is in the dark, with no indica- tional proposals with input from all of nent, supportive housing and workforce tion of whether the information they our colleagues on reforms that could be development. This would not be pos- provided to the IRS would ever lead to included in a package of additional IRS sible without the Center’s partnerships a successful recovery or whether their reforms later this Congress. with the City of Los Angeles, the Los reward is even being processed. But first things first. Companion leg- Angeles County Department of Health, Moreover, they are often putting islation is being introduced in the and other critical stakeholders. I’ve their careers on the line, exposing cor- House, which I hope the Senate will re- visited the Center, and I encourage my porate tax shelters with no protection ceive in the near future. colleagues to do the same to see why should their employer decide to retali- I ask all of my colleagues to join me this model works. ate. and Ranking Member WYDEN in sup- It will take a significant investment Provisions in our bill will help to ad- porting this bipartisan bill. to solve the current homelessness cri- dress these issues by authorizing the sis. The ‘‘Fighting Homelessness with IRS to communicate with whistle- By Mrs. FEINSTEIN (for herself, Services and Housing Act’’ authorizes a blowers, in certain instances, while Ms. MURKOWSKI, Mrs. GILLI- new Federal funding grant program of protecting taxpayer privacy. BRAND, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. $750 million per year, subject to annual What we are really saying is this: BENNET, Ms. SMITH, Ms. HIRONO, appropriations. Grantees must serve You ought to let these whistleblowers, Ms. CORTEZ MASTO, Ms. HARRIS, individuals or families who are home- who are patriotic people, trying to help and Ms. ROSEN): less or at risk of becoming homeless by the Federal Government collect money S. 923. A bill to fight homelessness in providing housing paired with a com- that wouldn’t otherwise be collected— the United States by authorizing a prehensive set of services, and they treat them like the patriotic citizens grant program within the Health Re- must provide a 25 percent match for they are. sources and Services Administration any Federal funds received. The bill would also extend anti-retal- for housing programs that offer com- Because each individual and every iation provisions to IRS whistleblowers prehensive services and intensive case community is unique, the grant pro- that are presently afforded to whistle- management for homeless individuals gram created by this bill would be blowers under other whistleblower and families; to the Committee on flexible in order to work in any region laws—the False Claims Act, which I Health, Education, Labor, and Pen- or for any homeless population. This authored in 1986, as well as the more sions. bill supports the great work already recent Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which came Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Mr. President, I being done across the country, allow- out of another committee that I didn’t rise today to introduce the ‘‘Fighting ing local governmental entities and serve on. Homelessness with Services and Hous- non-profit organizations to expand Finally, the bill includes modifica- ing Act.’’ This bill would help address their capacity and ensure a greater tions to the private debt collection pro- our Nation’s current homelessness cri- reach by putting Federal dollars where gram. I have long been a proponent of sis by establishing a new Federal grant they will make the most effective im- this program as a way to tackle the tax program to increase support for com- pact. gap and to promote tax fairness. It prehensive services paired with hous- This bipartisan legislation is sup- works by assigning certain tax debts, ing. ported by a wide coalition of local gov- which the IRS otherwise would not at- As we have seen with the growing di- ernment, housing, health, and child tempt to collect, to an outside con- versity of our homeless populations— welfare organizations, including the tractor to pursue. families with children, veterans, indi- Child Welfare League of America, Chil- In other words, if the IRS isn’t going viduals with mental health conditions, dren’s Defense Fund, Corporation for to go after all the money that is owed people who simply could not keep up Supportive Housing, Mayors and CEOS to the taxpayers—and we don’t want $1 with increases in rent—our Nation’s for U.S. Housing Investment, National more than what people owe, but we homelessness crisis is not going to re- Alliance to End Homelessness, Na- want every dollar that people do owe— solve itself on its own. tional Association of Counties, Na- if they aren’t going to go after it, we According to the most recent data tional Education Association, National ought to find some way to go after it. available from the U.S. Department of League of Cities, National Low Income That is why we have outside contrac- Housing and Urban Development, there Housing Coalition, NETWORK Lobby tors pursuing some of these issues that are more than 552,000 homeless individ- for Catholic Social Justice, and Treat- the IRS isn’t going to pursue. uals and families in the United States. ment Communities of America. Recent quarterly revenue reports Nearly 25 percent of this population is I particularly want to thank Senator demonstrate the program has the po- in California, with approximately MURKOWSKI for working with me on tential to bring in hundreds of millions 129,972 homeless people sleeping on the this important issue. I hope our col- of dollars in revenue on an annual streets on any given night. leagues will join us in cosponsoring the basis. In a Nation as prosperous as ours, we bill and moving it through the Senate. I understand some of my colleagues, can and we must do better. Our city, Thank you Mr. President. I yield the particularly on the House Ways and county, state, and Federal govern- floor. Means Committee, have been con- ments must work hand-in-hand with cerned that the program has been too the non-profit and private sectors to By Ms. COLLINS (for herself and heavily focused on lower income tax- establish collaborative efforts to sig- Mrs. FEINSTEIN): payers. We listened to these concerns, nificantly address the issue of home- S. 959. A bill to establish in the and we worked to develop a sensible lessness. Smithsonian Institution a comprehen- compromise while yet strengthening The good news is that we have seen a sive women’s history museum, and for the long-term viability of this pro- model that works: supportive housing other purposes; to the Committee on gram. can truly stabilize an individual or Rules and Administration.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:31 Mar 29, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00029 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G28MR6.025 S28MRPT1 rfrederick on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with SENATE S2092 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE March 28, 2019 Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, I am SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS SENATE RESOLUTION 129—HON- pleased to introduce, along with the ORING THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS senior Senator from California, Mrs. AND LEGACY OF CE´ SAR FEINSTEIN, the Smithsonian American SENATE RESOLUTION 128—COM- ESTRADA CHA´ VEZ Women’s History Museum Act. This MEMORATING THE 100TH ANNI- Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself, Mr. bill would establish an American wom- VERSARY OF THE NATIONAL BENNET, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. BOOKER, en’s history museum in our Nation’s PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIA- Mr. BROWN, Ms. CORTEZ MASTO, Ms. Capital. TION DUCKWORTH, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Ms. HAR- American women have made invalu- Mrs. MURRAY submitted the fol- RIS, Mr. HEINRICH, Ms. HIRONO, Ms. able contributions to our country in lowing resolution; which was referred KLOBUCHAR, Mr. MARKEY, Mrs. MUR- every field, such as government, busi- to the Committee on Energy and Nat- RAY, Ms. ROSEN, Ms. SMITH, Ms. WAR- ness, medicine, law, literature, sports, ural Resources: REN, Mr. UDALL, Mr. DURBIN, and Mr. SANDERS) submitted the following reso- entertainment, the arts, and the mili- S. RES. 128 lution; which was referred to the Com- tary. Telling the history of American Whereas on May 19, 1919, a group of sci- mittee on the Judiciary: women matters, and a museum recog- entists, artists, and civic leaders met in S. RES. 129 nizing these achievements and experi- Washington, District of Columbia, and ´ ´ ences is long overdue. founded the National Parks Association, now Whereas Cesar Estrada Chavez was born on known as the National Parks Conservation March 31, 1927, near Yuma, Arizona; In 1999, a Presidential commission on Association; Whereas Ce´sar Estrada Cha´ vez spent his commemorating women in American Whereas Robert Sterling Yard, founder of early years on a family farm; history concluded that an ‘‘appropriate the National Parks Conservation Association Whereas, at the age of 10, Ce´sar Estrada celebration of women’s history in the and first Chief of Education of the National Cha´ vez joined the thousands of migrant farm Park Service, led a 6-member committee to workers laboring in fields and vineyards next millennium should include the develop the articles of incorporation for the throughout the Southwest after a bank fore- designation of a focal point for wom- National Parks Conservation Association closure resulted in the loss of the family en’s history in our Nation’s capital.’’ In ‘‘to further the view of national parks as farm; 2014, Congress took an important step classrooms and museums of nature’’; Whereas Ce´sar Estrada Cha´ vez, after at- toward realizing this goal when it Whereas the National Parks Conservation tending more than 30 elementary and middle passed legislation creating an inde- Association has grown from 1 staff member schools and achieving an eighth grade edu- pendent, bipartisan commission to to a community of organizers, policy ex- cation, left school to work full-time as a study the potential for establishing perts, attorneys, communications profes- farm worker to help support his family; sionals, and more than 1,300,000 members and Whereas, at the age of 17, Ce´sar Estrada such a museum in Washington, DC. supporters, all dedicated— Cha´ vez entered the United States Navy and Following 18 months of study, the bi- (1) to advocating for parks in the United served the United States with distinction for partisan commission unanimously con- States; and 2 years; cluded, ‘‘America needs and deserves a (2) to inspiring future generations to be Whereas, in 1948, Ce´sar Estrada Cha´ vez re- physical national museum dedicated to good stewards of public spaces; turned from military service to marry Helen showcasing the historical experiences Whereas the mission of the National Parks Fabela, whom he had met while working in and impact of women in the country.’’ Conservation Association, ‘‘protecting and the vineyards of central California; enhancing America’s National Park System Whereas Ce´sar Estrada Cha´ vez and Helen I could not agree more. for present and future generations’’, is as rel- Fabela had 8 children; The bill we are introducing takes the evant in 2019 as the mission was in 1919; Whereas, as early as 1949, Ce´sar Estrada next step toward creating this national Whereas, a century after being established, Cha´ vez was committed to organizing farm museum. Incorporating the rec- the National Parks Conservation Associa- workers to campaign for safe and fair work- tion— ing conditions, reasonable wages, livable ommendations of the bipartisan Com- (1) continues to act as a passionate and housing, and the outlawing of child labor; mission, the bill would establish a na- outspoken defender of the national parks of Whereas, in 1952, Ce´sar Estrada Cha´ vez tional museum to collect, study, and the United States; and joined the Community Service Organization, create programs incorporating and ex- (2) represents people from different back- a prominent Latino civil rights group, and hibiting a wide spectrum of American grounds coming together to fulfill a unique worked with the organization to coordinate women’s experiences, contributions, mandate to steward publicly shared land, voter registration drives and conduct cam- and history. The Smithsonian Institu- independent of government and private busi- paigns against discrimination in East Los tion would be the governing body, en- ness; Angeles; Whereas the founders of the National Whereas Ce´sar Estrada Cha´ vez served as suring that this museum is free and Parks Conservation Association envisioned the national director of the Community open to all who visit Washington, DC. national parks as incredible places deserving Service Organization; Following the Commission’s rec- of protection and preservation for all people; Whereas, in 1962, Ce´sar Estrada Cha´ vez left ommendation, the Smithsonian has Whereas the National Parks Conservation the Community Service Organization to es- begun an American Women’s History Association is dedicated to ensuring that all tablish the National Farm Workers Associa- Initiative to increase its research and people can share in that vision, regardless of tion, which eventually became the United programming related to American gender, race, or religious belief; and Farm Workers of America; Whereas the National Parks Conservation Whereas, under the leadership of Ce´sar women, past and present. Association plays a vital role in protecting Estrada Cha´ vez, the United Farm Workers of Mr. President, this year we com- places of unparalleled natural wonder, his- America organized thousands of migrant memorate the 100th anniversary of torical significance, and cultural value with- farm workers to fight for fair wages, health American women’s suffrage and the in the National Park System: Now, there- care coverage, pension benefits, livable hous- fore, be it ing, and respect; decades-long fight for women’s equal- Resolved, That the Senate— Whereas Ce´sar Estrada Cha´ vez was a ity at the ballot box. The story, lead- (1) commemorates the 100th anniversary of strong believer in the principles of non- ers, and lessons of women’s suffrage are the founding of the National Parks Con- violence practiced by Mahatma Gandhi and among the most powerful in our na- servation Association; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; tion’s history. Amid celebrations of (2) recognizes the National Parks Con- Whereas Ce´sar Estrada Cha´ vez effectively that historic moment, I can think of servation Association for 100 years of pro- used peaceful tactics that included fasting few better ways to honor those women tecting and enhancing the National Park for 25 days in 1968, 25 days in 1972, and 38 days and that momentous achievement than System for present and future generations; in 1988 to call attention to the terrible work- (3) applauds the past, present, and future ing and living conditions of farm workers in by passing this legislation. A museum efforts of the National Parks Conservation the United States; dedicated to women’s history would Association to advocate for the National Whereas, through his commitment to non- help ensure that future generations un- Park System; and violence, Ce´sar Estrada Cha´ vez brought dig- derstand what we owe to those Amer- (4) wishes the National Parks Conservation nity and respect to the organized farm work- ican women who have helped build, sus- Association continued success during the ers and became an inspiration to and a re- tain, and advance our society. next 100 years as the National Parks Con- source for individuals engaged in human servation Association strives to engage and rights struggles throughout the world; I urge my colleagues to support this inspire the public to advance the mission of Whereas the influence of Ce´sar Estrada legislation. the National Park System. Cha´ vez extends far beyond agriculture and

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:31 Mar 29, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00030 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A28MR6.039 S28MRPT1 rfrederick on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with SENATE March 28, 2019 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S2093 provides inspiration for individuals working (2) an estimated 1 in 10 women in the SENATE RESOLUTION 131—DESIG- to better human rights, empower workers, United States between the ages of 18 and 49; NATING APRIL 2019 AS ‘‘NA- and advance the American Dream, which in- Whereas medical societies and patient TIONAL 9–1–1 EDUCATION cludes all individuals of the United States; groups have expressed the need for greater MONTH’’ Whereas Ce´sar Estrada Cha´ vez died on April 23, 1993, at the age of 66 in San Luis, public attention and updated resources tar- Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself and Mr. geted to public education about this unmet Arizona, only miles from his birthplace; BURR) submitted the following resolu- Whereas more than 50,000 people attended health need for women; tion; which was referred to the Com- the funeral services of Ce´sar Estrada Cha´ vez Whereas endometriosis occurs when tissue mittee on the Judiciary: in Delano, California; similar to that normally found in the uterus S. RES. 131 Whereas Ce´sar Estrada Cha´ vez was laid to begins to grow outside the uterus; rest at the headquarters of the United Farm Whereas, although endometriosis is one of Whereas 9–1–1 is recognized throughout the Workers of America, known as ‘‘Nuestra the most common gynecological disorders in United States as the number to call in an Sen˜ ora de La Paz’’, located in the Tehachapi the United States, there is a lack of aware- emergency to receive immediate help from law enforcement agencies, fire services, Mountains in Keene, California; ness and prioritization of endometriosis as emergency medical services, and other ap- Whereas, since the death of Ce´sar Estrada an important health issue for women; Cha´ vez, schools, parks, streets, libraries, and propriate emergency response entities; Whereas women can suffer for up to 10 Whereas, in 1967, the President’s Commis- other public facilities, as well as awards and years before being properly diagnosed; scholarships, have been named in his honor; sion on Law Enforcement and Administra- Whereas approximately 1⁄3 to 1⁄2 of all tion of Justice recommended that a ‘‘single Whereas more than 10 States and dozens of women with endometriosis will have dif- communities across the United States honor number should be established’’ nationwide ficulty getting pregnant; the life and legacy of Ce´sar Estrada Cha´ vez for reporting emergency situations, and var- each year on March 31; Whereas endometriosis is a painful and de- ious Federal Government agencies and gov- Whereas March 31 is recognized as an offi- bilitating disorder; ernmental officials supported and encour- cial State holiday in California, Colorado, Whereas endometriosis is associated with aged the recommendation; and Texas, and there is growing support to increased health care costs and poses a sub- Whereas, in 1968, the American Telephone designate the birthday of Ce´sar Estrada stantial burden to patients in the health and Telegraph Company (commonly known Cha´ vez as a national day of service to memo- care system; as ‘‘AT&T’’) announced that it would estab- rialize his heroism; Whereas the total annual direct health lish the digits 9–1–1 as the emergency code Whereas, during his lifetime, Ce´sar Estrada care cost of symptoms associated with endo- throughout the United States; Cha´ vez was a recipient of the Martin Luther metriosis is $56,000,000,000, or nearly $11,000 Whereas Congress designated 9–1–1 as the national emergency call number in the Wire- King Jr. Peace Prize; per patient; less Communications and Public Safety Act Whereas, on August 8, 1994, Ce´sar Estrada Whereas 51 percent of endometriosis pa- of 1999 (47 U.S.C. 615 et seq.); Cha´ vez was posthumously awarded the Presi- tients report that the disease detrimentally dential Medal of Freedom; Whereas section 102 of the ENHANCE 911 affects their performance of their job; Act of 2004 (47 U.S.C. 942 note) declared an Whereas, on October 8, 2012, President Whereas the Centers for Disease Control Barack Obama authorized the Secretary of enhanced 9–1–1 system to be ‘‘a high national and Prevention found that the average num- the Interior to establish a Ce´sar Estrada priority’’ and part of ‘‘our Nation’s home- ber of ‘‘bed days’’ for patients with endo- Cha´ vez National Monument in Keene, Cali- land security and public safety’’; fornia; metriosis was 18 days per year; Whereas it is important that policymakers Whereas President Barack Obama was the Whereas women with endometriosis can at all levels of government understand the last President to honor the life and service of lose 11 hours per work week through lost importance of 9–1–1, how the 9–1–1 system Ce´sar Estrada Cha´ vez by proclaiming March productivity; works, and the steps that are needed to mod- 31, 2016, to be ‘‘Ce´sar Cha´ vez Day’’ and by Whereas, in 2010, endometriosis patients ernize the 9–1–1 system; asking all people of the United States to ob- were hospitalized over 100,000 days because of Whereas the 9–1–1 system is the connection serve March 31 with service, community, and the disease; between the eyes and ears of the public and education programs to honor the enduring Whereas there is a need for more research the emergency response system in the legacy of Ce´sar Estrada Cha´ vez; and and updated guidelines to treat endo- United States and is often the first place Whereas the United States should continue metriosis; emergencies of all magnitudes are reported, the efforts of Ce´sar Estrada Cha´ vez to ensure Whereas the research dollars from the Na- making 9–1–1 a significant homeland security equality, justice, and dignity for all people tional Institutes of Health dedicated to endo- asset; Whereas nearly 6,000 9–1–1 public safety an- of the United States: Now, therefore, be it metriosis has dropped from $16,000,000 in 2010 swering points serve more than 3,000 coun- Resolved, That the Senate— to $6,000,000 in 2019; ties and parishes throughout the United (1) recognizes the accomplishments and ex- Whereas there is an ongoing need for addi- ample of Ce´sar Estrada Cha´ vez, a great hero States; tional clinical research and treatment op- of the United States; Whereas telecommunicators at public safe- tions to manage this debilitating disease; (2) pledges to promote the legacy of Ce´sar ty answering points answer more than Estrada Cha´ vez; and and 200,000,000 9–1–1 calls each year in the United (3) encourages the people of the United Whereas there is no known cure for endo- States; States to commemorate the legacy of Ce´sar metriosis: Now, therefore, be it Whereas a growing number of 9–1–1 calls Estrada Cha´ vez and to always remember his Resolved, That the Senate— are made using wireless and Internet Pro- great rallying cry, ‘‘≠Sı´, se puede!’’, which is (1) designates March 2019 as ‘‘Endo- tocol-based communications services; Spanish for ‘‘Yes, we can!’’. metriosis Awareness Month’’; Whereas a growing segment of the popu- lation of the United States, including indi- f (2) recognizes the importance of endo- metriosis as a health issue for women that viduals who are deaf or hard of hearing or SENATE RESOLUTION 130—RECOG- who suffer from speech or language dis- requires far greater attention, public aware- orders, autism spectrum disorder, cerebral NIZING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ness, and education about the disease; palsy, or anxiety, is increasingly commu- ENDOMETRIOSIS AS AN UNMET (3) encourages the Secretary of Health and nicating with nontraditional text, video, and CHRONIC DISEASE FOR WOMEN Human Services— AND DESIGNATING MARCH 2019 instant messaging communications services (A) to provide information to women, pa- and expects those services to be able to con- AS ‘‘ENDOMETRIOSIS AWARE- tients, and health care providers with re- nect directly to 9–1–1; NESS MONTH’’ spect to endometriosis, including available Whereas Next Generation 9–1–1 promises Ms. DUCKWORTH (for herself, Mrs. screening tools and treatment options, with enhanced accessibility, interoperability, CAPITO, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Mr. a goal of improving the quality of life and flexibility, and features, as well as network health outcomes of women affected by endo- BLUMENTHAL, Ms. WARREN, Ms. CANT- resiliency and reliability; metriosis; Whereas the growth in usage and diver- WELL, and Mrs. FEINSTEIN) submitted the following resolution; which was re- (B) to conduct additional research on endo- sification of means of communication to 9–1– metriosis and possible clinical options; and 1 services, including mobile and Internet ferred to the Committee on the Judici- (C) to update information, tools, and stud- Protocol-based systems, impose unique chal- ary: ies currently available with respect to help- lenges for accessing 9–1–1 and, thus, require S. RES. 130 ing women live with endometriosis; and increased education and awareness about the Whereas 6,500,000 women in the United (4) respectfully requests that the Secretary emergency communications capabilities of States are living with endometriosis; of the Senate transmit an enrolled copy of these different methods of communication; Whereas endometriosis is a chronic disease this resolution to the Secretary of Health Whereas numerous other ‘‘N–1–1’’ and 800 affecting— and Human Services. number services exist for nonemergency sit- (1) 176,000,000 women throughout the world; uations, including 2–1–1, 3–1–1, 5–1–1, 7–1–1, 8– and 1–1, poison control centers, and mental

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CON. RES. 10 emergency response resources and needs to to 4 Stanley Cup championships; be reduced; Whereas, in 1950, Ted Lindsay started one Whereas fifth generation (5G) wireless Whereas parents, teachers, and all other of the most beloved traditions in the NHL by technology promises greater speed and ca- caregivers need to play an active role in 9–1– lifting the Stanley Cup over his head and pacity and will provide the backbone for the 1 education for children, but can do so only skating around the rink after winning the next generation of digital technologies; after first being educated themselves; Stanley Cup Finals; Whereas fifth generation wireless tech- Whereas there are many avenues for 9–1–1 Whereas Ted Lindsay led an effort to orga- nology will be a revolutionary advancement public education, including safety fairs, nize the first National Hockey League Play- in telecommunications with the potential to school presentations, libraries, churches, ers’ Association; create millions of jobs and billions of dollars businesses, public safety answering point Whereas the Detroit Red Wings stripped in economic opportunity; tours or open houses, civic organizations, Ted Lindsay of his captaincy and traded Ted Whereas Chinese companies, including and senior citizen centers; Lindsay to the struggling Chicago Black Huawei, have invested substantial resources Whereas children, parents, teachers, and Hawks in retribution for his actions to in advancing fifth generation wireless tech- the National Parent Teacher Association unionize NHL players; nology and other telecommunications serv- make vital contributions to the education of Whereas Ted Lindsay played 3 seasons with ices around the globe, including subsidies provided directly by the Government of the children about the importance of 9–1–1 the Chicago Blackhawks and helped the People’s Republic of China; through targeted outreach efforts to public team to the playoffs; Whereas Chinese officials have increased and private school systems; Whereas, in 1964, at 39 years of age, Ted leadership roles at the International Tele- Whereas the United States Government Lindsay rejoined the Detroit Red Wings at communications Union, where international should strive to host at least 1 educational the behest of his former teammate, Detroit telecommunications standards are set, and event regarding the proper use of 9–1–1 in Red Wings Coach Sid Abel; companies such as Huawei have increased every school in the country each year; Whereas, in 1966, Ted Lindsay was inducted their influence at the 3rd Generation Part- Whereas programs to promote proper use into the Hockey Hall of Fame, but refused to nership Project (3GPP), whose work informs of 9–1–1 during National 9–1–1 Education attend the men-only ceremony without his global technology standards; Month could include— wife and children, leading to a rules change Whereas Huawei and ZTE have aggres- (1) public awareness events, including con- the following year; sively sought to enter into contracts ferences, media outreach, and training ac- Whereas, in 1977, the Detroit Red Wings throughout the developing world, including tivities for parents, teachers, school admin- named Ted Lindsay as general manager, and throughout Latin America and Africa in istrators, other caregivers, and businesses; Ted Lindsay led the team to the playoffs for countries such as Venezuela and Kenya; (2) educational events in schools and other the first time in 9 years and to a playoff se- Whereas, in 2012, the Permanent Select appropriate venues; and ries win for the first time in 12 years; Committee on Intelligence of the House of (3) production and distribution of informa- Whereas Ted Lindsay appeared in 11 NHL Representatives released a bipartisan report tion about the 9–1–1 system designed to edu- All-Star games during 17 seasons in the NHL naming Huawei and ZTE as national security cate people of all ages on the importance and and recorded 379 goals and 472 assists for 851 threats; proper use of 9–1–1; and points, making him the highest-scoring left Whereas, in 2013, the United States re- Whereas the people of the United States wing at the time. stricted Federal procurement of certain deserve the best education regarding the use Whereas Ted Lindsay generously devoted products produced by Huawei and ZTE and of 9–1–1: Now, therefore, be it his time to charity, driving across Michigan has since expanded restrictions on Federal Resolved, That the Senate— and Ontario to offer advice and encourage- procurement of those products; (1) designates April 2019 as ‘‘National 9–1–1 ment to young hockey players; Whereas, in 2016, the national legislature Education Month’’; and Whereas Ted Lindsay started the Ted Lind- of the People’s Republic of China passed the (2) urges governmental officials, parents, say Foundation, which has raised millions of Cyber Security Law of the People’s Republic teachers, school administrators, caregivers, dollars toward finding a cure for autism; of China, article 28 of which requires ‘‘net- businesses, nonprofit organizations, and the Whereas, in December 2018, the Ted Lind- work operators,’’ including companies like people of the United States to observe the say Foundation pledged $1,000,000 to support Huawei, to ‘‘provide technical support and month with appropriate ceremonies, training the autism outreach efforts of Oakland Uni- assistance’’ to Chinese authorities involved events, and activities. versity; in national security efforts; f Whereas Ted Lindsay was preceded in Whereas, in 2017, the national legislature death by his wife of 27 years, Joanne Lind- SENATE RESOLUTION 132—HON- of the People’s Republic of China passed the say, who died in 2017; National Intelligence Law of the People’s ORING THE LIFE OF TED LIND- Whereas, on March 4, 2019, Ted Lindsay Republic of China, article 7 of which requires SAY died at 93 years of age, after a long career in ‘‘all organizations and citizens’’—including Ms. STABENOW (for herself and Mr. professional hockey that inspired millions of companies like Huawei and ZTE—to ‘‘sup- people; and PETERS) submitted the following reso- port, assist, and cooperate with national in- Whereas Ted Lindsay is survived by his 3 telligence efforts’’ undertaken by the Peo- lution; which was referred to the Com- children, 1 stepdaughter, and many grand- mittee on the Judiciary: ple’s Republic of China; children and great-grandchildren, and by Whereas, in August 2018, the Government S. RES. 132 hockey fans across the United States: Now, of Australia banned Huawei and ZTE from Whereas Robert Blake Theodore Lindsay therefore, be it building the fifth generation wireless net- (referred to in this preamble as ‘‘Ted Lind- Resolved, That the Senate— works of Australia; say’’) was born in Renfrew, Ontario, Canada, (1) honors the life and legacy of Ted Lind- Whereas, in August 2018, Congress re- on July 29, 1925, and was a professional hock- say for his significant contributions to the stricted the heads of Federal agencies from

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Mr. MCCONNELL proposed an HEEN, Mr. PETERS, Mr. COONS, Ms. SMITH, and ment of Japan issued instructions effectively amendment to amendment SA 201 proposed Mrs. FEINSTEIN) submitted an amendment in- banning Huawei and ZTE from official con- by Mr. SHELBY to the bill H.R. 268, making tended to be proposed to amendment SA 201 tracts in the country; supplemental appropriations for the fiscal proposed by Mr. SHELBY to the bill H.R. 268, year ending September 30, 2019, and for other Whereas, on December 7, 2018, a Vice-Presi- supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. purposes. dent of the European Commission expressed SA 214. Mr. MCCONNELL proposed an f concern that Huawei and other Chinese com- amendment to amendment SA 213 proposed panies may be forced to cooperate with Chi- TEXT OF AMENDMENTS by Mr. MCCONNELL to the amendment SA 201 na’s intelligence services to install ‘‘manda- Mr. MCCONNELL proposed an proposed by Mr. SHELBY to the bill H.R. 268, SA 213. tory backdoors’’ to allow access to encrypted supra. amendment to amendment SA 201 pro- data; SA 215. Mr. MCCONNELL proposed an posed by Mr. SHELBY to the bill H.R. Whereas, in January 2019, the Office of the amendment to the bill H.R. 268, supra. 268, making supplemental appropria- Director of National Intelligence issued a SA 216. Mr. MCCONNELL proposed an tions for the fiscal year ending Sep- Worldwide Threat Assessment that describes amendment to amendment SA 215 proposed tember 30, 2019, and for other purposes; concerns ‘‘about the potential for Chinese in- by Mr. MCCONNELL to the bill H.R. 268, supra. as follows: telligence and security services to use Chi- SA 217. Mr. ROMNEY submitted an amend- nese information technology firms as routine ment intended to be proposed to amendment At the end add the following: ‘‘This act shall be effective 1 day after en- and systemic espionage platforms against SA 201 proposed by Mr. SHELBY to the bill actment.’’ the United States and allies’’; H.R. 268, supra; which was ordered to lie on Whereas, in February 2019, the Government the table. SA 214. Mr. MCCONNELL proposed an of New Zealand expressed serious concern SA 218. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amend- about Huawei building the fifth generation ment intended to be proposed to amendment amendment to amendment SA 213 pro- wireless networks of New Zealand; SA 201 proposed by Mr. SHELBY to the bill posed by Mr. MCCONNELL to the amend- Whereas the Department of Justice has H.R. 268, supra; which was ordered to lie on ment SA 201 proposed by Mr. SHELBY to charged Huawei with the theft of trade se- the table. the bill H.R. 268, making supplemental crets, obstruction of justice, and other seri- SA 219. Mr. RUBIO (for himself and Mr. appropriations for the fiscal year end- ous crimes; PERDUE) submitted an amendment intended ing September 30, 2019, and for other Whereas, against the strong advice of the to be proposed to amendment SA 201 pro- purposes; as follows: posed by Mr. SHELBY to the bill H.R. 268, United States and a number of the security Strike ‘‘1 day’’ and insert ‘‘2 days’’ partners of the United States, the govern- supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 220. Mr. RUBIO (for himself and Mr. ments of countries such as Germany have in- SA 215. Mr. MCCONNELL proposed an PERDUE) submitted an amendment intended dicated that they may permit Huawei to amendment to the bill H.R. 268, mak- build out the fifth generation wireless net- to be proposed to amendment SA 201 pro- posed by Mr. SHELBY to the bill H.R. 268, ing supplemental appropriations for works of those countries; supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. the fiscal year ending September 30, Whereas installation of Huawei equipment SA 221. Mr. RUBIO (for himself and Mr. 2019, and for other purposes; as follows: in the communications infrastructure of PERDUE) submitted an amendment intended countries that are allies of the United States At the end add the following. to be proposed to amendment SA 201 pro- would jeopardize the security of communica- ‘‘This Act shall take effect 3 days after the posed by Mr. SHELBY to the bill H.R. 268, date of enactment.’’ tion lines between the United States and supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. those allies; SA 222. Mr. INHOFE (for himself, Mrs. SA 216. Mr. MCCONNELL proposed an Whereas secure communications systems FISCHER, Mr. TILLIS, Mr. SCOTT of Florida, amendment to amendment SA 215 pro- are critical to ensure the safety and defense Mr. RUBIO, and Mr. COTTON) submitted an of the United States and allies of the United posed by Mr. MCCONNELL to the bill amendment intended to be proposed to H.R. 268, making supplemental appro- States; amendment SA 201 proposed by Mr. SHELBY Whereas the North Atlantic Treaty Organi- to the bill H.R. 268, supra; which was ordered priations for the fiscal year ending zation (NATO) and other vital international to lie on the table. September 30, 2019, and for other pur- security arrangements depend on strong and SA 223. Mr. UDALL (for himself and Mr. poses; as follows: secure communications, which could be put HEINRICH) submitted an amendment intended Strike ‘‘3 days’’ and insert ‘‘4 days’’ at risk through the use of Huawei and ZTE to be proposed to amendment SA 201 pro- equipment; and posed by Mr. SHELBY to the bill H.R. 268, SA 217. Mr. ROMNEY submitted an Whereas there has been broad bipartisan supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. amendment intended to be proposed to consensus in Congress for years that Chinese SA 224. Mr. UDALL (for himself, Mr. HEIN- amendment SA 201 proposed by Mr. companies like Huawei and ZTE present seri- RICH, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. REED, Ms. HARRIS, SHELBY to the bill H.R. 268, making ous threats to national and global security: Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Ms. HIRONO, Mrs. FEIN- supplemental appropriations for the Now, therefore, be it STEIN, and Mr. LEAHY) submitted an amend- ment intended to be proposed to amendment fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, Resolved by the Senate (the House of Rep- SA 201 proposed by Mr. SHELBY to the bill and for other purposes; which was or- resentatives concurring), That— H.R. 268, supra; which was ordered to lie on dered to lie on the table; as follows: (1) Chinese telecommunications companies the table. At the appropriate place, insert the fol- such as Huawei and ZTE pose serious threats SA 225. Mr. MCCONNELL (for Mr. BURR lowing: to the national security of the United States (for himself and Mr. MANCHIN)) proposed an SEC. ll. BUDGETING FOR DISASTERS. and allies of the United States; amendment to the resolution S. Res. 69, des- (a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be (2) the United States should reiterate to ignating March 29, 2019, as ‘‘Vietnam Vet- cited as the ‘‘Budgeting for Disasters Act’’. countries that are choosing to incorporate erans Day’’. (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments Huawei or ZTE products in their new tele- SA 226. Mr. SCOTT, of Florida submitted made by this section shall— communications infrastructure that the an amendment intended to be proposed to (1) take effect on the date of enactment of United States will consider all necessary amendment SA 201 proposed by Mr. SHELBY this Act; and measures to limit the risks incurred by enti- to the bill H.R. 268, making supplemental ap- (2) apply with respect to fiscal year 2021, ties of the United States Government or propriations for the fiscal year ending Sep- and each fiscal year thereafter. Armed Forces from use of such compromised tember 30, 2019, and for other purposes; which (c) REPEAL OF EXEMPTION FOR DISASTER networks; was ordered to lie on the table. SPENDING FROM THE ANNUAL BUDGET CAPS.— (3) the United States should continue to SA 227. Mr. COTTON submitted an amend- Section 251(b)(2) of the Balanced Budget and make allies of the United States aware of the ment intended to be proposed to amendment Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 ongoing and future risks to telecommuni- SA 201 proposed by Mr. SHELBY to the bill U.S.C. 901(b)(2)) is amended— cations networks shared between the United H.R. 268, supra; which was ordered to lie on (1) by striking subparagraph (D); and States and such allies; and the table. (2) by redesignating subparagraphs (E) and (4) the United States should work with the SA 228. Mr. SCHUMER (for himself, Ms. (F) as subparagraphs (D) and (E), respec- private sector and allies and partners of the KLOBUCHAR, Mr. HEINRICH, Mr. JONES, Mr. tively. United States, including the European REED, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. DUR- (d) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMEND- Union, in a regularized bilateral or multilat- BIN, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. BOOKER, Ms. MENTS.— eral format, to identify secure, cost-effec- HIRONO, Mr. CASEY, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Ms. (1) Section 254 of the Balanced Budget and tive, and reliable alternatives to Huawei or DUCKWORTH, Mr. MURPHY, Mr. TESTER, Mr. Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 ZTE products. CARPER, Mr. KING, Mr. CARDIN, Mrs. MURRAY, U.S.C. 904) is amended—

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For an additional amount for ‘‘Research, (2) The Department of the Interior and Re- OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE Development, Test and Evaluation, Air lated Agencies Appropriations Act, 1992 OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, MARINE CORPS Force’’, $66,656,000, for necessary expenses re- (Public Law 102–154; 105 Stat. 990) is amend- For an additional amount for ‘‘Operation lated to the consequences of Hurricanes Mi- ed— and Maintenance, Marine Corps’’, chael and Florence: Provided, That such (A) in title I in the matter under the head- $200,000,000, for necessary expenses related to amount is designated by the Congress as ing ‘‘DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR’’ the consequences of Hurricanes Michael and being for an emergency requirement pursu- under the heading ‘‘BUREAU OF LAND MAN- Florence: Provided, That such amount is des- ant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced AGEMENT’’ under the heading ‘‘EMERGENCY ignated by the Congress as being for an Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FIREFIGHTING emergency requirement pursuant to section of 1985. FUND’’ (43 U.S.C. 1474a), by striking ‘‘: Pro- 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND vided further’’ and all that follows and insert- Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. EVALUATION, AIR FORCE ing a period; and OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE For an additional amount for ‘‘Research, (B) in title II in the matter under the head- Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ing ‘‘DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE’’ For an additional amount for ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Air Force’’, $400,000,000, for Force’’, $1,072,000, for necessary expenses for under the heading ‘‘FOREST SERVICE’’ under necessary expenses related to the con- Facilities Sustainment, Restoration and the heading ‘‘EMERGENCY FOREST SERVICE sequences of Hurricanes Michael and Flor- Modernization (FSRM) related to the con- FIREFIGHTING FUND’’ (16 U.S.C. 556e) by strik- ence: Provided, That such amount is des- sequences of Hurricanes Michael and Flor- ing ‘‘: Provided further’’ and all that follows ence: Provided, That such amount is des- and inserting a period. ignated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section ignated by the Congress as being for an (3) Section 430(c)(1) of the Robert T. Staf- emergency requirement pursuant to section ford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assist- 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and ance Act (42 U.S.C. 5189h(c)(1)) is amended— Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. (A) in subparagraph (F), by adding ‘‘and’’ OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE at the end; and For an additional amount for ‘‘Operation SA 219. Mr. RUBIO (for himself and and Maintenance, Air Force’’, $342,012,000, to (B) by striking subparagraph (H). Mr. PERDUE) submitted an amendment remain available for obligation until Sep- (4) The matter under the heading ‘‘DIS- intended to be proposed to amendment ASTER RELIEF’’ under the heading ‘‘FED- tember 30, 2020, for necessary expenses re- ERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGEN- lated to the consequences of Hurricanes Mi- SA 201 proposed by Mr. SHELBY to the CY’’ under chapter II of title I of the Dire chael and Florence: Provided, That such bill H.R. 268, making supplemental ap- Emergency Supplemental Appropriations amount is designated by the Congress as propriations for the fiscal year ending and Transfers for Relief From the Effects of being for an emergency requirement pursu- September 30, 2019, and for other pur- Natural Disasters, for Other Urgent Needs, ant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced poses; which was ordered to lie on the and for Incremental Cost of ‘‘Operation Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act table; as follows: of 1985. Desert Shield/Desert Storm’’ Act of 1992 (42 On page 8, beginning on line 12, strike U.S.C. 5302) is amended by striking ‘‘: Pro- OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE ‘‘Cindy’’ and all that follows through ‘‘cold’’ vided further,’’ and all that follows and in- For an additional amount for ‘‘Operation on line 14 and insert ‘‘Cindy, losses of peach serting a period. and Maintenance, Air Force’’, $738,290,000, to and blueberry crops in calendar year 2017 due (5) Section 2602(e) of the Low-Income Home remain available for obligation until Sep- to extreme cold, blueberry productivity Energy Assistance Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. tember 30, 2020, for necessary expenses for losses in calendar year 2018 as a result of ex- 8621(e)) is amended by striking the second Facilities Sustainment, Restoration and treme cold and hurricane damage in calendar sentence. Modernization (FSRM) related to the con- year 2017, and losses of milk and (6) Section 104(a) of the Wildfire Suppres- sequences of Hurricanes Michael and Flor- aquacultured plants and animals’’. sion Funding and Forest Management Ac- ence: Provided, That such amount is des- tivities Act (43 U.S.C. 17648a–2(a)) is amended ignated by the Congress as being for an SA 220. Mr. RUBIO (for himself and in the matter preceding paragraph (1) by emergency requirement pursuant to section Mr. PERDUE) submitted an amendment striking ‘‘section 251(b)(2)(F)(i) of the Bal- 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and intended to be proposed to amendment anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)(F)(i)), as added SA 201 proposed by Mr. SHELBY to the OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE bill H.R. 268, making supplemental ap- by section 102 of this division’’ and inserting RESERVE ‘‘section 251(b)(2)(E)(i) of the Balanced Budg- propriations for the fiscal year ending For an additional amount for ‘‘Operation et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 September 30, 2019, and for other pur- and Maintenance, Air Force Reserve’’, (2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)(E)(i))’’. $3,505,000, to remain available for obligation poses; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: Mr. RUBIO submitted an until September 30, 2020, for necessary ex- SA 218. On page 3, line 20, strike ‘‘occurring in cal- amendment intended to be proposed to penses related to the consequences of Hurri- canes Michael and Florence: Provided, That endar years 2018 and 2019’’ and insert ‘‘occur- amendment SA 201 proposed by Mr. such amount is designated by the Congress ring during the period beginning on January SHELBY to the bill H.R. 268, making as being for an emergency requirement pur- 1, 2018, and ending on the date of enactment supplemental appropriations for the suant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal- of this Act’’. fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control and for other purposes; which was or- Act of 1985. SA 221. Mr. RUBIO (for himself and dered to lie on the table; as follows: PROCUREMENT Mr. PERDUE) submitted an amendment Strike title III and insert the following: AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE intended to be proposed to amendment SA 201 proposed by Mr. SHELBY to the TITLE III For an additional amount for ‘‘Aircraft bill H.R. 268, making supplemental ap- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Procurement, Air Force’’, $46,000,000, for nec- essary expenses related to the consequences propriations for the fiscal year ending MILITARY PERSONNEL of Hurricanes Michael and Florence: Pro- September 30, 2019, and for other pur- MILITARY PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE vided, That such amount is designated by the poses; which was ordered to lie on the For an additional amount for ‘‘Military Congress as being for an emergency require- table; as follows: Personnel, Air Force’’, $59,629,000, for nec- ment pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of On page 3, line 16, strike ‘‘milk’’ and insert essary expenses related to the consequences the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit ‘‘aquacultured plants and animals, milk,’’. of Hurricanes Michael and Florence: Pro- Control Act of 1985. vided, That such amount is designated by the OTHER PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE SA 222. Mr. INHOFE (for himself, Congress as being for an emergency require- For an additional amount for ‘‘Other Pro- Mrs. FISCHER, Mr. TILLIS, Mr. SCOTT of ment pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of curement, Air Force’’, $84,587,000, for nec- Florida, Mr. RUBIO, and Mr. COTTON) the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit essary expenses related to the consequences Control Act of 1985. submitted an amendment intended to of Hurricanes Michael and Florence: Pro- be proposed to amendment SA 201 pro- RESERVE PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE vided, That such amount is designated by the For an additional amount for ‘‘Reserve Congress as being for an emergency require- posed by Mr. SHELBY to the bill H.R. Personnel, Air Force’’, $7,323,000, for nec- ment pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of 268, making supplemental appropria- essary expenses related to the consequences the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit tions for the fiscal year ending Sep- of Hurricanes Michael and Florence: Pro- Control Act of 1985. tember 30, 2019, and for other purposes;

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Mr. COTTON submitted an as follows: nam in 1955; amendment intended to be proposed to In title III, under the heading ‘‘Operation Whereas, as a result of the incidents in the amendment SA 201 proposed by Mr. Gulf of Tonkin on August 2 and 4, 1964, Con- and Maintenance, Marine Corps’’ strike SHELBY to the bill H.R. 268, making ‘‘$200,000,000’’ and insert ‘‘$381,000,000’’. gress approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolu- tion (Public Law 88–408) by an overwhelming supplemental appropriations for the In title III, under the heading ‘‘Operation fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and Maintenance, Air Force’’ strike majority on August 7, 1964, which provided to ‘‘$400,000,000’’ and insert ‘‘$550,000,000’’. the President of the United States the au- and for other purposes; which was or- thority to use armed force to assist the Re- dered to lie on the table; as follows: SA 223. Mr. UDALL (for himself and public of Vietnam in the defense of its free- At the appropriate place, insert the fol- Mr. HEINRICH) submitted an amend- dom against the Democratic Republic of lowing: Vietnam; ment intended to be proposed to SEC. ll. DECLARATION OF EMERGENCY. Whereas, in 1965, ground combat units of (a) DECLARATION.—The Trafalgar Road Fire amendment SA 201 proposed by Mr. the Armed Forces of the United States ar- in Bella Vista, Arkansas shall be deemed to SHELBY to the bill H.R. 268, making rived in the Republic of Vietnam to join ap- be an emergency under section title V of the supplemental appropriations for the proximately 23,000 personnel of the Armed Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emer- fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, Forces who were already present there; gency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5191 et seq.). Whereas, by December 1965, approximately and for other purposes; which was or- (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Subsection (a) shall 184,000 troops of the Armed Forces of the dered to lie on the table; as follows: take effect as if enacted on August 1, 2018. At the appropriate place in title XI of divi- United States were in Vietnam, and by 1969, sion A, insert the following: the number of such troops reached a peak of SA 228. Mr. SCHUMER (for himself, approximately 549,500, including members of SEC. 11ll. None of the funds appropriated Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. HEINRICH, Mr. or otherwise made available in this division the Armed Forces who were supporting the JONES, Mr. REED, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. for the Army Corps of Engineers, the Depart- combat operations from Thailand, Cambodia, ment of Homeland Security, or the Depart- Laos, Japan, the Philippines, and aboard MENENDEZ, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. ment of Defense may be obligated or ex- Navy vessels; BLUMENTHAL, Mr. BOOKER, Ms. HIRONO, pended to plan, develop, or construct a new Whereas, on January 27, 1973, the Agree- Mr. CASEY, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Ms. physical barrier along the Southwestern bor- ment on Ending the War and Restoring DUCKWORTH, Mr. MURPHY, Mr. TESTER, der of the United States. Peace in Viet-Nam (commonly known as the Mr. CARPER, Mr. KING, Mr. CARDIN, ‘‘Paris Peace Accords’’) was signed, which re- Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. SANDERS, Mr. MAR- Mr. UDALL (for himself, Mr. quired the release of all prisoners-of-war of SA 224. KEY, Mr. WYDEN, Ms. STABENOW, Ms. HEINRICH, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. REED, the United States held in North Vietnam and HARRIS, Mr. BROWN, Ms. WARREN, Mr. Ms. HARRIS, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Ms. the withdrawal of all Armed Forces of the United States from South Vietnam; MERKLEY, Ms. HASSAN, Mrs. SHAHEEN, HIRONO, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, and Mr. Whereas, on March 29, 1973, the Armed Mr. PETERS, Mr. COONS, Ms. SMITH, and LEAHY) submitted an amendment in- Forces of the United States completed the Mrs. FEINSTEIN) submitted an amend- tended to be proposed to amendment withdrawal of combat units and combat sup- ment intended to be proposed to SA 201 proposed by Mr. SHELBY to the port units from South Vietnam; amendment SA 201 proposed by Mr. bill H.R. 268, making supplemental ap- Whereas, on April 30, 1975, North Viet- SHELBY to the bill H.R. 268, making namese forces captured Saigon, the capital propriations for the fiscal year ending supplemental appropriations for the September 30, 2019, and for other pur- of South Vietnam, effectively placing South Vietnam under Communist control; fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, poses; which was ordered to lie on the and for other purposes; which was or- table; as follows: Whereas more than 58,000 members of the Armed Forces of the United States lost their dered to lie on the table; as follows: At the appropriate place in title XI of divi- lives in the Vietnam War, and more than At the appropriate place, insert the fol- sion A, insert the following: 300,000 members of the Armed Forces of the lowing: SEC. 11ll. Notwithstanding section 201 of United States were wounded in Vietnam; NO USE OF FUNDS FOR LITIGATION IN TEXAS V. the National Emergencies Act of 1976 (50 Whereas, in 1982, the Vietnam Veterans UNITED STATES U.S.C. 1621), section 284 or 2808 of title 10, Memorial Wall was dedicated in the District United States Code, section 923 of the Water of Columbia to commemorate the members SEC. lll. None of the funds made avail- Resources Development Act of 1986 (33 U.S.C. of the Armed Forces of the United States able under this Act, or any other Act, may 2293), or any other provision of law, no funds who died or were declared missing-in-action be used by the Department of Justice for the appropriated or otherwise made available in in Vietnam; cost of litigation in opposition to the Pa- this division or prior to the date of the en- Whereas the Vietnam War was an ex- tient Protection and Affordable Care Act actment of this Act may be used for the con- tremely divisive issue among the people of (Public Law 111–148; 124 Stat. 119) in Texas v. struction of barriers, land acquisition, or the United States and a conflict that caused United States, No. 4:18–cv–00167–O (N.D. any other associated activities on the South- a generation of veterans to wait too long for Tex.). ern border of the United States without spe- the public of the United States to acknowl- f cific statutory authorization from Congress. edge and honor the efforts and services of AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO those veterans; SA 225. Mr. MCCONNELL (for Mr. Whereas members of the Armed Forces MEET BURR (for himself and Mr. MANCHIN)) who served bravely and faithfully for the Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I have 4 proposed an amendment to the resolu- United States during the Vietnam War were requests for committees to meet during tion S. Res. 69, designating March 29, often wrongly criticized for the decisions of today’s session of the Senate. They 2019, as ‘‘Vietnam Veterans Day’’; as policymakers that were beyond the control have the approval of the Majority and follows: of those members; and Whereas designating March 29, 2019, as Minority leaders. Strike the preamble and insert the fol- Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph lowing: ‘‘Vietnam Veterans Day’’ would be an appro- Whereas the Vietnam War was fought in priate way to honor the members of the 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Sen- the Republic of Vietnam from 1955 to 1975 Armed Forces of the United States who ate, the following committees are au- and involved regular forces from the Demo- served in South Vietnam and throughout thorized to meet during today’s session cratic Republic of Vietnam and Viet Cong Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War: of the Senate: Now, therefore, be it guerrilla forces in armed conflict with the COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES Armed Forces of the United States, the The Committee on Armed Services is armed forces of allies of the United States, SA 226. Mr. SCOTT of Florida sub- and the armed forces of the Republic of Viet- authorized to meet during the session nam; mitted an amendment intended to be of the Senate on Thursday, March 28, Whereas the Armed Forces of the United proposed to amendment SA 201 pro- 2019, at 9:30 a.m., to conduct a hearing States became involved in Vietnam because posed by Mr. SHELBY to the bill H.R. entitled, ‘‘Department of Energy’s the United States Government wanted to 268, making supplemental appropria- Atomic energy defense program.’’ provide direct support by the Armed Forces tions for the fiscal year ending Sep- COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL to the Government of the Republic of Viet- tember 30, 2019, and for other purposes; RESOURCES nam to defend against the growing threat of which was ordered to lie on the table; The Committee on Energy and Nat- Communism from the Democratic Republic as follows: of Vietnam; ural Resources is authorized to meet Whereas members of the Armed Forces of On page 3, line 16, strike ‘‘milk’’ and insert during the session of the Senate on the United States began serving in an advi- ‘‘milk, timber,’’. Thursday, March 28, 2019, at 10 a.m., to

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Without Whereas, on January 27, 1973, the Agree- during the session of the Senate on objection, it is so ordered. ment on Ending the War and Restoring Thursday, March 28, 2019, at 10 a.m., to The bill (H. R. 276) was ordered to a Peace in Viet-Nam (commonly known as the conduct a hearing entitled, ‘‘Exam- third reading, was read the third time, ‘‘Paris Peace Accords’’) was signed, which re- ining the Federal response to the risks and passed. quired the release of all prisoners-of-war of associated with per and ployfluoralkyl f the United States held in North Vietnam and substances.’’ the withdrawal of all Armed Forces of the VIETNAM VETERANS DAY COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY United States from South Vietnam; The Committee on the Judiciary is Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I Whereas, on March 29, 1973, the Armed authorized to meet during the session ask unanimous consent that the Judi- Forces of the United States completed the of the Senate on Thursday, March 28, ciary Committee be discharged from withdrawal of combat units and combat sup- port units from South Vietnam; 2019, at 10:30 a.m., to conduct a hearing further consideration and the Senate now proceed to S. Res. 69. Whereas, on April 30, 1975, North Viet- on the following nominations: Daniel namese forces captured Saigon, the capital P. Collins, and Kenneth Kiyul Lee, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by of South Vietnam, effectively placing South both of California, both to be a United Vietnam under Communist control; States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Cir- title. Whereas more than 58,000 members of the cuit, James Wesley Hendrix, and Mark The senior assistant legislative clerk Armed Forces of the United States lost their T. Pittman, both to be a United States read as follows: lives in the Vietnam War, and more than District Judge for the Northern Dis- A resolution (S. Res. 69) designating March 300,000 members of the Armed Forces of the trict of Texas, Sean D. Jordan, to be 29, 2019, as ‘‘Vietnam Veterans Day.’’ United States were wounded in Vietnam; United States District Judge for the There being no objection, the com- Whereas, in 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Eastern District of Texas, Wing Chau, mittee was discharged and the Senate Memorial Wall was dedicated in the District to be United States Marshal for the proceeded to consider the resolution. of Columbia to commemorate the members of the Armed Forces of the United States District of Rhode Island, and Ramona Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed who died or were declared missing-in-action L. Dohman, to be United States Mar- in Vietnam; shal for the District of Minnesota. to; the Burr amendment to the pre- Whereas the Vietnam War was an ex- f amble at the desk be agreed to; the pre- tremely divisive issue among the people of amble, as amended, be agreed to; and PRIVILEGES OF THE FLOOR the United States and a conflict that caused the motions to reconsider be consid- a generation of veterans to wait too long for Mr. LEAHY. Madam President, I ask ered made and laid upon the table. the public of the United States to acknowl- unanimous consent that Owen Gomory The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without edge and honor the efforts and services of from my office be granted floor privi- objection, it is so ordered. those veterans; leges for the remainder of today. The resolution (S. Res. 69) was agreed Whereas members of the Armed Forces The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without to. who served bravely and faithfully for the objection, it is so ordered. The amendment (No. 225) was agreed United States during the Vietnam War were f to as follows: often wrongly criticized for the decisions of policymakers that were beyond the control Strike the preamble and insert the fol- APPOINTMENTS of those members; and lowing: Whereas designating March 29, 2019, as The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Whereas the Vietnam War was fought in ‘‘Vietnam Veterans Day’’ would be an appro- Chair, on behalf of the Vice President, the Republic of Vietnam from 1955 to 1975 pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 4355(a), appoints and involved regular forces from the Demo- priate way to honor the members of the the following Senators to the Board of cratic Republic of Vietnam and Viet Cong Armed Forces of the United States who served in South Vietnam and throughout Visitors of the U.S. Military Academy: guerrilla forces in armed conflict with the Armed Forces of the United States, the Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War: the Honorable TAMMY DUCKWORTH of Il- Now, therefore, be it linois (At Large) and the Honorable armed forces of allies of the United States, and the armed forces of the Republic of Viet- JOE MANCHIN III of West Virginia (Com- The preamble, as amended, was nam; agreed to. mittee on Appropriations). Whereas the Armed Forces of the United f States became involved in Vietnam because S. RES. 69 the United States Government wanted to Whereas the Vietnam War was fought in RECOGNIZING ACHIEVEMENT IN provide direct support by the Armed Forces CLASSIFIED SCHOOL EMPLOYEES the Republic of Vietnam from 1955 to 1975 to the Government of the Republic of Viet- and involved regular forces from the Demo- ACT nam to defend against the growing threat of cratic Republic of Vietnam and Viet Cong Communism from the Democratic Republic Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I guerrilla forces in armed conflict with the of Vietnam; ask unanimous consent that the Com- Armed Forces of the United States, the Whereas members of the Armed Forces of mittee on Health, Education, Labor, armed forces of allies of the United States, the United States began serving in an advi- and the armed forces of the Republic of Viet- and Pensions be discharged from fur- sory role to the Government of South Viet- ther consideration of H.R. 276 and the nam in 1955; nam; Senate proceed to its immediate con- Whereas, as a result of the incidents in the Whereas the Armed Forces of the United sideration. Gulf of Tonkin on August 2 and 4, 1964, Con- States became involved in Vietnam because The PRESIDING OFFICER. The gress approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolu- the United States Government wanted to clerk will report the bill by title. tion (Public Law 88–408) by an overwhelming provide direct support by the Armed Forces The senior assistant legislative clerk majority on August 7, 1964, which provided to to the Government of the Republic of Viet- nam to defend against the growing threat of read as follows: the President of the United States the au- thority to use armed force to assist the Re- Communism from the Democratic Republic A bill (H.R. 276) to direct the Secretary of public of Vietnam in the defense of its free- of Vietnam; Education to establish the Recognizing In- dom against the Democratic Republic of Whereas members of the Armed Forces of spiring School Employees (RISE) Award Pro- Vietnam; the United States began serving in an advi- gram recognizing excellence exhibited by Whereas, in 1965, ground combat units of sory role to the Government of South Viet- classified school employees providing serv- the Armed Forces of the United States ar- nam in 1955; ices to students in prekindergarten through rived in the Republic of Vietnam to join ap- Whereas, as a result of the incidents in the high school. proximately 23,000 personnel of the Armed Gulf of Tonkin on August 2 and 4, 1964, Con- There being no objection, the com- Forces who were already present there; gress approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolu- mittee was discharged and the Senate Whereas, by December 1965, approximately tion (Public Law 88–408) by an overwhelming proceeded to consider the bill. 184,000 troops of the Armed Forces of the majority on August 7, 1964, which provided to

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Then in 1934, John rived in the Republic of Vietnam to join ap- (D) promote awareness of the importance Collier, the Commissioner of Indian Af- proximately 23,000 personnel of the Armed of entire communities empowering veterans fairs, recruited Dr. Tantaquidgeon to Forces who were already present there; and the families of veterans in helping the serve as a community worker on the Whereas, by December 1965, approximately veterans readjust to civilian life after serv- Yankton Sioux Reservation in South 184,000 troops of the Armed Forces of the ice in the Armed Forces; and Dakota. For 9 years, she served as a United States were in Vietnam, and by 1969, (E) promote opportunities for veterans of specialist for the newly formed Federal the number of such troops reached a peak of the Vietnam War— Indian Arts and Crafts Board to pro- approximately 549,500, including members of (i) to assist younger veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in re- mote Indian art, encouraging the res- the Armed Forces who were supporting the toration of critically important an- combat operations from Thailand, Cambodia, habilitation from wounds, both seen and un- Laos, Japan, the Philippines, and aboard seen; and cient practices the Federal Govern- Navy vessels; (ii) to support the reintegration of younger ment had prohibited at that time. Whereas, on January 27, 1973, the Agree- veterans into civilian life. Dr. Tantaquidgeon used her strong ment on Ending the War and Restoring f sense of social justice to support Peace in Viet-Nam (commonly known as the women in difficult situations by work- ‘‘Paris Peace Accords’’) was signed, which re- RECOGNIZING THE HERITAGE, ing as the Niantic Women’s Prison li- quired the release of all prisoners-of-war of CULTURE, AND CONTRIBUTIONS brarian in the 1940s. She continued her the United States held in North Vietnam and OF AMERICAN INDIAN, ALASKA life of service to others when her per- the withdrawal of all Armed Forces of the NATIVE, AND NATIVE HAWAIIAN sonal records of correspondence about United States from South Vietnam; WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES Mohegan births, graduations, mar- Whereas, on March 29, 1973, the Armed Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I riages, and deaths played a pivotal role Forces of the United States completed the withdrawal of combat units and combat sup- ask unanimous consent that the Indian in gaining Federal Recognition for the port units from South Vietnam; Affairs Committee be discharged from Mohegans in 1994. Whereas, on April 30, 1975, North Viet- further consideration and the Senate Throughout her amazing 106 years of namese forces captured Saigon, the capital now proceed to the consideration of S. life, she led the way for women, espe- of South Vietnam, effectively placing South Res. 100. cially women of color, to seize new op- Vietnam under Communist control; The PRESIDING OFFICER. The portunities and for everyone to engage Whereas more than 58,000 members of the clerk will report the resolution by in a greater level of discussion and edu- Armed Forces of the United States lost their title. cation about Native American history lives in the Vietnam War, and more than The senior assistant legislative clerk and culture. Her legacy will leave a 300,000 members of the Armed Forces of the positive academic and social impact for United States were wounded in Vietnam; read as follows: A resolution (S. Res. 100) recognizing the years to come. Whereas, in 1982, the Vietnam Veterans The other exceptional woman I wish Memorial Wall was dedicated in the District heritage, culture, and contributions of Amer- of Columbia to commemorate the members ican Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Ha- to remember today is Martha Ann of the Armed Forces of the United States waiian women in the United States. ‘‘Matt’’ Langevin, a Mashantucket who died or were declared missing-in-action There being no objection, the com- Pequot Indian. Born in 1901, she spent in Vietnam; mittee was discharged and the Senate her entire life in Mashantucket and Whereas the Vietnam War was an ex- proceeded to consider the resolution. dedicated her years to researching tra- tremely divisive issue among the people of Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, ditional medicinal uses for indigenous the United States and a conflict that caused today I wish to recognize two remark- plants and herbs. a generation of veterans to wait too long for able female leaders of the Mohegan and Ms. Langevin strongly advocated for the public of the United States to acknowl- the preservation of the Mashantucket edge and honor the efforts and services of Mashantucket Pequot Tribes in honor of National Women’s History Month. Pequot land, culture, and way of life. those veterans; She stood at the forefront of efforts to Whereas members of the Armed Forces Both Tribes have reservations in the defend the Tribe’s lands whenever who served bravely and faithfully for the State of Connecticut and are an inte- State or local government officials United States during the Vietnam War were gral part of our community. The tried to take them away. Her readiness often wrongly criticized for the decisions of women I recognize today represent so to protect her community dem- policymakers that were beyond the control many other Native American women onstrates Ms. Langevin’s indomitable of those members; and who were strong in conviction, fearless Whereas designating March 29, 2019, as determination. ‘‘Vietnam Veterans Day’’ would be an appro- in leadership, and dedicated to pre- She was also an incredibly thought- priate way to honor the members of the serving their Tribal identity. ful, loving friend to many. With three Armed Forces of the United States who Dr. Gladys Iola Tantaquidgeon was a siblings and seven half-siblings, Ms. served in South Vietnam and throughout Mohegan Medicine Woman born in 1899. Langevin was considered a beloved Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War: After learning tribal spirituality and aunt by her nieces and nephews, as well Now, therefore, be it herbalism from her ‘‘grandmothers,’’ as by other Pequot children who stayed Resolved, That the Senate— Dr. Tantaquidgeon studied at the Uni- with her when their parents left to find (1) designates March 29, 2019, as ‘‘Vietnam versity of Pennsylvania, writing in the work. She took excellent care of the Veterans Day’’; field of anthropology and working with children. (2) honors and recognizes the contributions noted anthropologist Frank Speck. She Much of Ms. Langevin’s life focused of the veterans of the Armed Forces of the researched herbal medicine among re- on gardening, preserving food, and United States who served in Vietnam during lated east coast Tribes in order to war and during peace; watching over her ancestral lands. One (3) encourages States and local govern- broaden her Mohegan pharmacopeia. of her most important undertakings ments to designate March 29, 2019, as ‘‘Viet- For her impressive academic achieve- was her constant work to preserve nam Veterans Day’’; and ments, Dr. Tantaquidgeon received Pequot traditions and land, a task she (4) encourages the people of the United honorary doctorates from the Univer- took up with great passion and convic- States to observe Vietnam Veterans Day sity of Connecticut and Yale Univer- tion. An inductee into the Connecticut with appropriate ceremonies and activities sity. She was also inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame, Ms. Langevin that— Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame and will be remembered for her compassion (A) provide the appreciation that veterans received the National Organization for of the Vietnam War deserve; and zeal for continuing traditions and (B) demonstrate the resolve that the peo- Women’s Harriet Tubman Award, the looking after the people and the lands ple of the United States shall never forget Connecticut Education Association’s she loved. the sacrifices and service of a generation of Friend of Education Award, and nu- I applaud both of these women’s im- veterans who served in the Vietnam War; merous Native American honors. mense accomplishments, and I hope my

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Is there lies, and expressing and standing in soli- healthcare if you have a preexisting further debate? darity with the people and Government of condition, and to wipe out the ability New Zealand. Hearing none, the question is on of your children to be on your policy agreeing to the resolution. There being no objection, the com- until the age of 26. That is government The resolution (S. Res. 100) was mittee was discharged, and the Senate by and for this very little circle of agreed to. proceeded to consider the resolution. privilege and power instead of the peo- Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I ple of the United States of America. We consent that the preamble be agreed to ask unanimous consent that the reso- saw it in other ways too. and the motions to reconsider be con- lution be agreed to, the preamble be In 2017, we saw a bill that reached sidered made and laid upon the table agreed to, and the motions to recon- into the Federal Treasury, took $1.5 with no intervening action or debate. sider be considered made and laid upon trillion, and gave almost all of it to The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the table with no intervening action or that small group of people inside that objection, it is so ordered. debate. circle of privilege and power while it The preamble was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ignored the rest of the country. That is (The resolution, with its preamble, is objection, it is so ordered. what happens in corrupt countries. The printed in the RECORD of March 7, 2019, The resolution (S. Res. 124) was power elite reach in, take the Treasury under ‘‘Submitted Resolutions.’’) agreed to. for themselves, and ignore the will of f The preamble was agreed to. the people. MILITARY RETIREE (The resolution, with its preamble, is Every Member of this body took a APPRECIATION DAY printed in the RECORD of March 27, 2019, pledge to the Constitution of the under ‘‘Submitted Resolutions.’’) Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I United States—a Constitution not ask unanimous consent that the Judi- f founded on we the powerful but on we ciary Committee be discharged from ORDER OF BUSINESS the people. So I ask: Are we going to further consideration of S. Res. 118 and honor that oath? If we are going to Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I the Senate proceed to its immediate honor it, it means we have to stand up ask unanimous consent that the filing and end this deep and vast corruption. consideration. deadline for first-degree amendments The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Yesterday, Senator UDALL and I and with respect to the cloture motions clerk will report the resolution by all of my colleagues on this side of the filed during today’s session relating to title. aisle introduced a bill that is designed The senior assistant clerk read as fol- H.R. 268 be at 4 p.m., Monday, April 1, to take on gerrymandering, to take on lows: 2019. voter suppression, and to take on dark The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without A resolution (S. Res. 118) recognizing the money. Let’s talk about gerry- importance of paying tribute to those indi- objection, it is so ordered. mandering. viduals who have faithfully served and re- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- The Supreme Court has never done a tired from the Armed Forces of the United ator from Oregon. thing about it even though it is clearly States, designating April 18, 2019, as ‘‘Mili- Mr. MERKLEY. Mr. President, I ask all about having the powerful choose tary Retiree Appreciation Day’’, and encour- unanimous consent to speak for up to its voters rather than having the vot- aging the people of the United States to 20 minutes. ers choose their Representatives. It is a honor the past and continued service of mili- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without complete shredding of the vision of the tary retirees to their local communities and objection, it is so ordered. the United States. Constitution. The Supreme Court ut- terly failed to act. It has a case before There being no objection, the com- f it now, and it will have another oppor- mittee was discharged, and the Senate VOTER SUPPRESSION tunity, but don’t hold your breath. proceeded to consider the resolution. Mr. MERKLEY. Mr. President, the The time to address gerrymandering Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I most important words in our Constitu- is before it is done. How do you do ask unanimous consent that the reso- tion are the first three. We all know that? You do that with independent lution be agreed to, the preamble be them: ‘‘We the people,’’ written in commissions. Independent commis- agreed to, and the motions to recon- supersize font so we don’t forget what sions have been adopted in States like sider be considered made and laid upon our Constitution is all about—govern- Iowa, and they have been widely re- the table with no intervening action or ment, as Lincoln put it, of, by, and for ceived by the citizens as an issue of debate. the people, or, as Jefferson put it, gov- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without fairness. Yet, across so many States, ernment designed to produce laws that objection, it is so ordered. we have congressional districts that The resolution (S. Res. 118) was reflect the will of the people. are deliberately gerrymandered to agreed to. We don’t see that now. We don’t have favor the parties in power. It has hap- The preamble was agreed to. a government of, by, and for the peo- pened in Democratic States, and it has (The resolution, with its preamble, is ple. Instead, we have a system that has happened in Republican States. You printed in the RECORD of March 14, 2019, been profoundly corrupted. It has been see it sometimes by the crazy configu- under ‘‘Submitted Resolutions.’’) corrupted by gerrymandering. It has rations of the map. Sometimes you see been corrupted by voter suppression f it when a State that is essentially and intimidation. It has been corrupted equally divided between the parties CONDEMNING THE MARCH 15, 2019, by dark and dirty money that has produces congressional Representatives TERRORIST ATTACKS IN CHRIST- flooded our campaigns and wiped out heavily leaning to one side. CHURCH, NEW ZEALAND the voice of millions of Americans. It is hard to remedy after the fact, Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I That is where we are now in this cor- but you can remedy before the fact by ask unanimous consent that the For- rupted state. having independent commissions eign Relations Committee be dis- We have debates on the floor that are across this country. The way you take charged from further consideration of all about helping a small group of peo- that on is you have a group of six indi- S. Res 124 and the Senate proceed to its ple within a circle of power and privi- viduals. They take two from the Demo- immediate consideration. lege rather than having bills that help crats and two from the Republicans The PRESIDING OFFICER. The the citizens of the United States of and two of whom are Independents, and clerk will report the resolution by America. In fact, we have a President they may select a broader set of par- title. who just this week said his goal was to ticipants—maybe an additional three

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Let’s fix the People Act does that we introduced they are adequately staffed? The whole dark money and embrace equal voice. yesterday. strategy of moving polling places at I am concerned that time is short to Now, I will tell you that State by the last minute in order to confuse peo- save our Republic because the money State, and in my State, people ask: ple and the whole strategy of under- has so piled up under this strategy of Why should I fix gerrymandering when staffing polling places in the neighbor- government by and for the powerful that State over there still favors the hoods that you don’t want to have vote that over the last decades, while the other party? It is like waving the white is really evil—evil in that it takes wages and benefits of ordinary people flag on my turf while they are ripping away the vision of our Constitution. have been flat or declining, the wealth us off over there. That is why it should Voter empowerment is the vision; of that small circle of power has gone be done at the Federal level. That is voter suppression is not. So that takes through the roof. why we should pass the For the People us to those polls and to our making In the first three decades after World Act. sure we have a polling protection act. War II, everyone participated. It was This act takes on the issue of voting That is why we need the For the People the spirit of the war. We were all in it fairness. If you really believe in the vi- Act—to take that on. together. Let’s make our government sion of a democratic republic, you be- Then we come to dark and dirty work for all. In the midseventies, it lieve in voter empowerment, not voter money—money flowing in from cor- ended—vast wealth for the wealthy and suppression. Yet what have we seen porations and all kinds of overseas, for- only struggling opportunities or strug- this last November 6? We have seen eign participants. Nothing is being gling conditions for those ordinary strategies to keep college students done here about that. Of course, the vi- Americans. from voting, strategies to keep com- sion laid out by Thomas Jefferson We have to save our Constitution. munities of color from voting, strate- called it equal voice. It meant distrib- Let’s do it. Let’s pass the For the Peo- gies to keep the poor from voting, uted power among the electorate, not ple Act. Let’s have a full and robust de- strategies to prevent Native Americans concentrated power, only with equal bate on this floor so we will all be ac- from voting. Those strategies are born voice. He said it was the mother prin- countable to our citizens and to our from people who don’t believe in the vi- ciple. Only with that do you get bills pledge and our oath to the Constitu- sion of our Constitution. They don’t that reflect the will of the people. We tion of the United States of America. believe it is the foundation for what we are getting bills that reflect a small I yield the floor. have. They see this as just a game to circle of power and privilege, not the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- produce a result, which is a govern- people, because of this dark money ator from Alaska. ment for that small group of people in- concentrating power. f side that circle of power and privilege. When the Koch brothers’ cartel puts TRIBUTE TO LEIF FONNESBECK I am a little more patriotic than that. hundreds of millions of dollars into our I believe in the vision of our Constitu- campaign, the ordinary voter asks: Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I tion, so let’s take on these efforts to Where is my equal voice? I don’t have have come to the floor today to recog- obstruct voting. hundreds of millions of dollars. I will nize a truly exceptional member of the We did have a bill that had vast bi- be lucky if I can give $10 to this can- U.S. Senate—not one who has a vote on partisan support. It was called the Vot- didate and $15 to that candidate. So the this floor but certainly one who has ing Rights Act, and we reauthorized it American people know the system is wielded great influence and who has with vast bipartisan support because rigged—rigged in a profound way by generated great appreciation from not so long ago, both sides of the aisle this dark money. many of us who have had the privilege believed in the vision of our Constitu- Where does this come from? and the honor to serve on the Appro- tion but not now. Unfortunately, now It comes from that same Supreme priations Committee, as you have. we are hearing that our colleagues Court that gutted the Voting Rights Today I am here to speak about an across the aisle like voter intimida- Act, from that same Supreme Court individual who has been serving the tion. We see the Republican States en- that failed to take on gerrymandering. U.S. Senate on the Interior Appropria- gaging in it on a massive scale. It is in- It is the Court that has flipped our tions Subcommittee now for two dec- creasing their power. They want to Constitution on its head and has re- ades, and this gentleman is a friend by hold onto it—to clutch it to their placed we the people with the vision of the name of Leif Fonnesbeck. chests and not let go. Yet, if you be- government by and for that small Leif started with the Interior Appro- lieve in the Constitution, if you believe group of people in a circle of power— priations Committee under the helm of in our country, you would let go. You people like the Koch brothers, who, in Chairman Slade Gorton from the State would say: Let’s appeal to all of the 2014, spent hundreds of millions of dol- of Washington and then also, of course, voters with our vision and not try to lars to change the makeup of this the chairman of the full Appropriations stop them from voting. Chamber. Nobody in my blue-collar Committee at that time, my friend and That is why we need to take down neighborhood has hundreds of millions mentor Ted Stevens. the barriers for voting. That is why we of dollars. They know the system has So it is actually a little bit bitter- need automatic voter registration and been rigged. That is why we need the sweet for me to be speaking about Leif internet registration and same-day reg- For the People Act—to restore the vi- and recognizing his contributions be- istration—so people can sign up to sion of our Constitution. cause after two decades—21 years—Leif vote. It means we need better access to I encourage all red-blooded, patriotic is retiring from public service, and I voting so there isn’t manipulation at Americans to stand up for their Con- understand, certainly, his desire. the precinct places and so there is stitution, to fight for the vision em- Twenty years is a good run. It is a sig- early voting nationwide and the right bodied in Jefferson’s mother principle nificant amount of effort and truly an to choose to vote by mail. of equal voice, distributed power, and admirable career. Now, of course, I am a little biased to remedy the dark money flowing Both Leif and I are born and raised on this because my home State of Or- through our campaigns. Not only is it Alaskans, and you can never take the egon led the Nation in automatic voter vastly corrupting, but it drives vast home out of your heart. It is something registration, and we led the Nation in cynicism because the people see what that is a continual tug, and so I can voting by mail. For those who are wor- is going on. certainly understand his desire to rying about people voting who Let’s fix the gerrymandering on the spend more time at home with the in- shouldn’t be voting, nothing is more front end. It is hard for the courts to do credible Alaskans whom we call friends

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He leaves many that have thing that is Alaska—all things great. partner in navigating the really very such appreciation for his work, his He attended East High School. He difficult, complicated, and complex character, his honesty, and just his left to get his undergraduate degree in process that is required to produce professionalism. finance from here in Washington, DC, funding bills in a manner that is I want to thank him for all of his at Georgetown University, my alma viewed as fair and open and just true to years of dedication, his commitment, mater. He then went on to law school the process. I am just so very, very his service. I wish him and his dog Leo and went out to the University of Ari- grateful to his service to me, to the the best as they go back to Alaska. zona. Then, shortly after he got his law State of Alaska, and, truly, to the U.S. They will be hiking around, wandering degree, he returned home to Anchor- Senate. around the shadow of the Chugach age, thinking that he was going to For 21 years now, Leif’s work on the Mountains. I know, wherever it is that practice law there. Interior Subcommittee has impacted he goes, though, he will be involved in So he wasn’t there for too very long the lives of more Alaskans than he will helping the people of Alaska. when then-Appropriations Committee possibly ever realize. His efforts, par- I look forward to continuing to work Chairman Ted Stevens tapped Leif and ticularly on behalf of Alaska’s Native with Lee in the next chapter of his life. said: Look, I would like to have you communities, as well as our vast nat- It is indeed an honor to be able to come back to Washington, DC, and ural resources, have had and will con- speak about him and his good work work for me on the Senate Appropria- tinue to have a tremendous impact on today. tions Interior Subcommittee. So it was our State and our people. Because of I know we are set to wrap up here. It at that time that Leif made the big his work, more communities have ac- is my colleague from Alaska who usu- move, leaving from Anchorage and cess to clean water through new drink- ally has the last word on a Thursday coming back here to Washington, DC, ing systems. This was something that evening, and he speaks about the Alas- to work with his mentor and my men- Leif really concentrated on. He would kan of the Week. Senator SULLIVAN is tor, Ted Stevens. go out to the villages. He would see not here today and will not be giving There are a lot of stories that go on firsthand what it meant to the health those comments, but I feel I have kind around here. I have enjoyed getting to conditions of families when they don’t of filled in with giving him an Alaska know the great Senator from Vermont, have access to clean and safe drinking of the Week with Leif Fonnesbeck, a Mr. LEAHY, who had a great tenure water and when they don’t have sanita- gentleman who has served our State working with Chairman Stevens on the tion facilities, and he worked to ad- honorably over such period of time. Appropriations Committee, but you dress that. With that, I yield the floor. learn a lot from leaders like that, and More Alaskans are empowered to (Ms. MURKOWSKI assumed the I know that Leif certainly learned a build their economy and create healthy chair.) great deal from the leadership of Sen- communities through investments for (Mr. WICKER assumed the chair.) ator Stevens. new infrastructure and support for pro- He learned the art of the appropria- grams to address domestic violence, f tions process, the art of trying to work substance abuse, and suicide. with people on oftentimes contentious Every year we have been able to help ORDERS FOR MONDAY, APRIL 1, issues and places, but he really, truly those accounts move forward because 2019 learned the art of looking out for the the needs were so desperate and the Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I needs of Alaska and Alaskans while needs were so urgent, and Leif helped ask unanimous consent that when the meeting the needs of the Interior bill. to advance those priorities. Senate completes its business today, it He truly, truly served with distinction Support for rural healthcare clinics adjourn until 3 p.m., Monday, April 1; throughout his tenure on the sub- enabled more Alaskans to have access further, that following the prayer and committee. to care. There were the efforts that he pledge, the morning hour be deemed In addition to being an expert—and went through to help facilitate Native expired, the Journal of proceedings be he really was an expert at his job—he hospitals, whether in Barrow or in approved to date, the time for the two is just a rock-solid guy. He gave solid Nome, and now down in the Bethel re- leaders be reserved for their use later advice, was willing to be helpful, and gion with the joint venture projects, in the day, morning business be closed, had a nature and a generosity that making sure that we have adequate, and the Senate resume consideration of were really key to all those who knew strong staffing packages. Investments H.R. 268; further, that notwithstanding him and who really had the pleasure to in our public lands have helped to pro- the provisions of rule XXII, the cloture work with him. tect Alaska’s tourism industry and our motions with respect to H.R. 268 filed Oftentimes, you can’t say that it is outdoor recreation opportunities. during today’s session of the Senate really a pleasure to work with you. He and I would go back and forth and ripen at 5:30 p.m., Monday, April 1; fi- Well, it was a pleasure—it is a pleas- forth and back as to whether or not the nally, that if cloture is not invoked ure—to work with Leif Fonnesbeck. pedestrian walkway to allow visitors in with respect to the motions filed on Since becoming chairman of the Inte- Brooks Camp to view the bears was too H.R. 268, the cloture motion with re- rior Appropriations Subcommittee, I Taj Mahal of a bridge or whether it was spect to S. Res. 50 ripen at 2:15 p.m., have had the benefit of Leif’s experi- a bridge that was going to be necessary Tuesday, April 2. ence and knowledge of Alaska and of to protect the tourists from the bears The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the appropriations process. I will tell when the bears got disinterested in the objection, it is so ordered. you, when I moved over to Interior to salmon that they were munching on. take that on as chair of that sub- Leif got down in the weeds. He got f committee, it was a little bit daunting into the issues. He knew what was at first. It is an expansive portfolio— going on. ORDER FOR ADJOURNMENT everything from the EPA to manage- His efforts for local governments to Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, if ment of our public lands, to the Indian construct roads and public schools are there is no further business to come be- Health Service, to the BIA. It is all investments that will make a lasting fore the Senate, I ask that it stand ad- over the board, and it is a challenging impact on the State of Alaska and the journed under the previous order. one, including how we are dealing with people who live there. Knowing that There being no objection, the Senate, wildfires and fire borrowing. We have this is a lasting impact that this indi- at 4:33 p.m., adjourned until Monday, some significant, significant chal- vidual, Leif, has made, is just so huge. April 1, 2019, at 3 p.m.

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MUNSCH THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT IN THE ARMY IN THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS RESERVE TO THE IN THE AIR FORCE THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT GRADE INDICATED UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY TO THE GRADE INDICATED AIR FORCE NOMINATIONS BEGINNING WITH DANIEL M. To be brigadier general WHILE ASSIGNED TO A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE AND ANDERSON AND ENDING WITH DENISE M. ZONA, WHICH RESPONSIBILITY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 601: NOMINATIONS WERE RECEIVED BY THE SENATE AND AP- COL. LEONARD F. ANDERSON IV PEARED IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ON JANUARY COL. WILLIAM E. SOUZA III To be lieutenant general 24, 2019. IN THE NAVY MAJ. GEN. KAREN H. GIBSON AIR FORCE NOMINATION OF THOMAS D. CRIMMINS, TO BE COLONEL. THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT IN THE NAVY AIR FORCE NOMINATIONS BEGINNING WITH SHAWN C. IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY TO THE GRADE INDICATED BISHOP AND ENDING WITH CHRISTIAN L. WILLIAMS, UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY TO THE GRADE INDICATED WHICH NOMINATIONS WERE RECEIVED BY THE SENATE To be rear admiral UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: AND APPEARED IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ON FEBRUARY 25, 2019. REAR ADM. (LH) PETER G. STAMATOPOULOS To be rear admiral AIR FORCE NOMINATIONS BEGINNING WITH MICHELL A. THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT ARCHEBELLE AND ENDING WITH SHELLEY A. SHELTON, REAR ADM. (LH) JAMES P. DOWNEY IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY TO THE GRADE INDICATED WHICH NOMINATIONS WERE RECEIVED BY THE SENATE REAR ADM. (LH) SHANE G. GAHAGAN UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: AND APPEARED IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ON REAR ADM. (LH) FRANCIS D. MORLEY FEBRUARY 25, 2019. To be rear admiral THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT AIR FORCE NOMINATIONS BEGINNING WITH PETER N. REAR ADM. (LH) GAYLE D. SHAFFER IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY TO THE GRADE INDICATED FISCHER AND ENDING WITH JONATHAN H. WADE, WHICH WHILE ASSIGNED TO A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE AND NOMINATIONS WERE RECEIVED BY THE SENATE AND AP- THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT RESPONSIBILITY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 601: PEARED IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ON FEBRUARY IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY TO THE GRADE INDICATED 25, 2019. UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: To be vice admiral AIR FORCE NOMINATIONS BEGINNING WITH BRIAN M. To be rear admiral REAR ADM. RONALD A. BOXALL ALEXANDER AND ENDING WITH JASON C. ZUMWALT, WHICH NOMINATIONS WERE RECEIVED BY THE SENATE REAR ADM. (LH) KELLY A. AESCHBACH IN THE ARMY AND APPEARED IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ON REAR ADM. (LH) FRANK D. WHITWORTH FEBRUARY 25, 2019. THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT AIR FORCE NOMINATION OF LATOYA D. SMITH, TO BE THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT AS CHIEF OF CHAPLAINS, UNITED STATES ARMY, AND LIEUTENANT COLONEL. IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY TO THE GRADE INDICATED APPOINTMENT IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY TO THE AIR FORCE NOMINATION OF LISA MARIE AHAESY, TO UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: GRADE INDICATED WHILE ASSIGNED TO THAT POSITION BE COLONEL. UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 7036 AND 7073: To be rear admiral AIR FORCE NOMINATIONS BEGINNING WITH JULIE HUYGEN AND ENDING WITH TOM POSCH, WHICH NOMINA- REAR ADM. (LH) BLAKE L. CONVERSE To be major general TIONS WERE RECEIVED BY THE SENATE AND APPEARED REAR ADM. (LH) CHARLES B. COOPER II BRIG. GEN. THOMAS L. SOLHJEM IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ON MARCH 6, 2019. REAR ADM. (LH) DONALD D. GABRIELSON REAR ADM. (LH) GREGORY N. HARRIS THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT REAR ADM. (LH) JEFFREY T. JABLON IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: REAR ADM. (LH) YANCY B. LINDSEY ARMY NOMINATION OF MATTHEW D. COLSIA, TO BE REAR ADM. (LH) JOHN F. MEIER To be major general MAJOR. REAR ADM. (LH) JAMES E. PITTS ARMY NOMINATION OF DEVEN R. GASTON, TO BE REAR ADM. (LH) JOHN B. SKILLMAN BRIG. GEN. TELITA CROSLAND MAJOR. REAR ADM. (LH) KARL O. THOMAS BRIG. GEN. DENNIS P. LEMASTER ARMY NOMINATIONS BEGINNING WITH ADRIAN REAR ADM. (LH) JOHN F. WADE THE FOLLOWING NAMED ARMY NATIONAL GUARD OF ACEVEDO AND ENDING WITH G010477, WHICH NOMINA- REAR ADM. (LH) MICHAEL A. WETTLAUFER THE UNITED STATES OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT AS TIONS WERE RECEIVED BY THE SENATE AND APPEARED THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT THE DIRECTOR, ARMY NATIONAL GUARD, AND FOR AP- IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ON FEBRUARY 6, 2019. IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY TO THE GRADE INDICATED POINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE ARMY NOMINATIONS BEGINNING WITH BENJAMIN T. UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: OF THE ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 601 AND ABEL AND ENDING WITH G010598, WHICH NOMINATIONS To be rear admiral (lower half) 10506: WERE RECEIVED BY THE SENATE AND APPEARED IN THE To be lieutenant general CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ON FEBRUARY 6, 2019. CAPT. DEAN A. VANDERLEY ARMY NOMINATIONS BEGINNING WITH KWANSAH E. ACKAH AND ENDING WITH D014862, WHICH NOMINATIONS THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT LT. GEN. DANIEL R. HOKANSON WERE RECEIVED BY THE SENATE AND APPEARED IN THE IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY TO THE GRADE INDICATED THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ON FEBRUARY 6, 2019. UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY TO THE GRADE INDICATED ARMY NOMINATIONS BEGINNING WITH ALAN ADAME To be rear admiral (lower half) WHILE ASSIGNED TO A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE AND AND ENDING WITH D013619, WHICH NOMINATIONS WERE RESPONSIBILITY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 601: RECEIVED BY THE SENATE AND APPEARED IN THE CON- CAPT. KENNETH W. EPPS To be lieutenant general GRESSIONAL RECORD ON FEBRUARY 6, 2019. THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT ARMY NOMINATION OF ELIZABETH A. FIELDS, TO BE IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY TO THE GRADE INDICATED MAJ. GEN. LEON N. THURGOOD MAJOR. UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT ARMY NOMINATION OF P. J. FOX, TO BE LIEUTENANT To be rear admiral (lower half) IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY TO THE GRADE INDICATED COLONEL. WHILE ASSIGNED TO A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE AND ARMY NOMINATION OF NATHAN M. CLAYTON, TO BE CAPT. TIMOTHY H. WEBER RESPONSIBILITY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 601: MAJOR. ARMY NOMINATION OF ADAM P. JAMES, TO BE MAJOR. THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT To be lieutenant general ARMY NOMINATIONS BEGINNING WITH JASON S. BAKER IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY TO THE GRADE INDICATED AND ENDING WITH RICHARD J. ZEIGLER, WHICH NOMINA- UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: MAJ. GEN. WALTER E. PIATT TIONS WERE RECEIVED BY THE SENATE AND APPEARED To be rear admiral (lower half) IN THE AIR FORCE IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ON FEBRUARY 25, 2019. ARMY NOMINATION OF SHELIA R. DAY, TO BE LIEUTEN- CAPT. JAMES L. HANCOCK THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT ANT COLONEL. THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT IN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE TO THE GRADE INDI- ARMY NOMINATION OF ROBERT D. COPE, TO BE LIEU- IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY TO THE GRADE INDICATED CATED WHILE ASSIGNED TO A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE TENANT COLONEL. UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: AND RESPONSIBILITY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION ARMY NOMINATION OF WILLIAM C. MITCHELL, TO BE 601: COLONEL. To be rear admiral (lower half) ARMY NOMINATION OF RUBIROSA B. BAGO, TO BE To be lieutenant general MAJOR. CAPT. NICHOLAS M. HOMAN ARMY NOMINATION OF MEGHAN C. GERRITY, TO BE CAPT. MICHAEL J. VERNAZZA LT. GEN. JAMES C. SLIFE MAJOR. THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT IN THE ARMY ARMY NOMINATION OF DANIEL M. JANSEN, TO BE IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY TO THE GRADE INDICATED MAJOR. UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT ARMY NOMINATION OF RANDOLPH POWELL, TO BE IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY TO THE GRADE INDICATED To be rear admiral (lower half) MAJOR. WHILE ASSIGNED TO A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE AND ARMY NOMINATION OF MICHAEL J. PROKOS, TO BE RESPONSIBILITY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 601: CAPT. CHARLES W. BROWN MAJOR. ARMY NOMINATION OF ANTHONY BELLOFIGUEROA, TO THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT To be general BE MAJOR. AS CHIEF OF NAVAL PERSONNEL AND APPOINTMENT IN LT. GEN. PAUL E. FUNK II ARMY NOMINATION OF SEAN R. RICHARDSON, TO BE THE UNITED STATES NAVY TO THE GRADE INDICATED MAJOR. WHILE ASSIGNED TO A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE AND IN THE NAVY ARMY NOMINATION OF KAHTONNA C. ALLEN, TO BE RESPONSIBILITY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 601 MAJOR. AND 5141: THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY TO THE GRADE INDICATED ARMY NOMINATION OF ANGELO N. CATALANO, TO BE To be vice admiral WHILE ASSIGNED TO A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE AND COLONEL. RESPONSIBILITY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 601: ARMY NOMINATION OF CHARLES J. CALAIS, TO BE REAR ADM. JOHN B. NOWELL, JR. LIEUTENANT COLONEL. IN THE AIR FORCE To be vice admiral ARMY NOMINATION OF ROBERT T. EVANS, TO BE COLO- NEL. THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT REAR ADM. DEE L. MEWBOURNE ARMY NOMINATIONS BEGINNING WITH PAULA I. IN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE TO THE GRADE INDI- THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT SCHASBERGER AND ENDING WITH JAN E. ALDYKIEWICZ, CATED WHILE ASSIGNED TO A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY TO THE GRADE INDICATED WHICH NOMINATIONS WERE RECEIVED BY THE SENATE AND RESPONSIBILITY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION WHILE ASSIGNED TO A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE AND AND APPEARED IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ON 601: RESPONSIBILITY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 601: MARCH 6, 2019.

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IN THE MARINE CORPS MARINE CORPS NOMINATION OF JOHN C. JARVIS, TO BE IN THE NAVY MAJOR. MARINE CORPS NOMINATIONS BEGINNING WITH STE- MARINE CORPS NOMINATIONS BEGINNING WITH NAVY NOMINATION OF EDWARD M. PRENDERGAST, TO VEN M. ANGELINE AND ENDING WITH CURTIS E. BORJAS, NATHANEAL J. HART, JR. AND ENDING WITH DUSTIN R. BE LIEUTENANT COMMANDER. WHICH NOMINATIONS WERE RECEIVED BY THE SENATE HEFFEL, WHICH NOMINATIONS WERE RECEIVED BY THE NAVY NOMINATION OF THOMAS L. HINNANT III, TO BE AND APPEARED IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ON SENATE AND APPEARED IN THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMANDER. JANUARY 24, 2019. RECORD ON JANUARY 24, 2019. NAVY NOMINATION OF SANJAY SHARMA, TO BE LIEU- MARINE CORPS NOMINATIONS BEGINNING WITH DAVID MARINE CORPS NOMINATIONS BEGINNING WITH MAT- TENANT COMMANDER. F. HUNLEY AND ENDING WITH JAMES P. STOCKWELL, THEW J. ANDERSON AND ENDING WITH ISAAC K. WHICH NOMINATIONS WERE RECEIVED BY THE SENATE TIBAYAN, WHICH NOMINATIONS WERE RECEIVED BY THE NAVY NOMINATION OF ANGELA TANG, TO BE COM- AND APPEARED IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ON SENATE AND APPEARED IN THE CONGRESSIONAL MANDER. JANUARY 24, 2019. RECORD ON JANUARY 24, 2019.

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