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Vol. 154 WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2008 No. 61 House of Representatives The House met at 8:30 a.m. and was in the long watches of the night in honor on behalf of Speaker PELOSI, called to order by the Speaker pro tem- places far from home. Bring them sol- Leader BOEHNER and myself to wel- pore (Mr. HOYER). ace in times of deep loneliness and come not only former colleagues but f hope for a joyous homecoming. very good friends. I am particularly May we all know Your peace that pleased to recognize the former Speak- DESIGNATION OF THE SPEAKER passes understanding, Your hope that er of the House, Bob Michel. I know PRO TEMPORE sustains us in times of trial, and Your that’s technically not accurate. I tried The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- love that fills the deepest recesses of to get him the votes to get that office, fore the House the following commu- our hearts. but another person intervened. But we nication from the Speaker: We pray in the Name that is above are certainly pleased to recognize and every name. Amen. WASHINGTON, DC, welcome back the distinguished minor- April 17, 2008. f ity leader to the House, a good friend. I, of course, somewhat parochial, par- I hereby appoint the Honorable STENY H. THE JOURNAL HOYER to act as Speaker pro tempore on this ticularly want to recognize my good day. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The friend, Senator Joe Tydings. When I , Chair has examined the Journal of the first ran for the State Sen- Speaker of the House of Representatives. last day’s proceedings and announces ate, I had a little tiny brochure. On the f to the House his approval thereof. front page of that brochure were two Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the Jour- people—Senator Tydings, who had been PRAYER nal stands approved. elected in 1964 and myself in 1966—both Dr. Alan N. Keiran, Chief of Staff, Of- f former Presidents of the Young Demo- fice of the Senate Chaplain, offered the PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE crats of Maryland, walking down the following prayer: street. So to that extent, if you’re real- Lord God, creator of heaven and The SPEAKER pro tempore. Will the ly upset with my being here, Senator Earth, as we open this legislative day, gentleman from New York (Mr. Tydings has some responsibility for we pause to consider the grandeur of MCNULTY) come forward and lead the that. You can talk to him. Your creative genius. We are struck by House in the Pledge of Allegiance. Also, the first Young Democrats con- the vastness of space and the countless Mr. MCNULTY led the Pledge of Alle- vention I attended, the President of the heavenly bodies that light the night giance as follows: Young Democrats of Maryland was a sky. Likewise, we observe with awe and I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Repub- gentleman named . wonder Your magnificent handiwork in lic for which it stands, one nation under God, Goodloe E. Byron. He served with me the advent of springtime, often being indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. in the State Senate. He came to Con- moved to worship You for the botanic f gress before me, tragically passed away beauty we are privileged to enjoy. To at an extraordinarily young age, and You alone, O God most high, belong all RECESS his wife, as all of you know, succeeded praise and glory. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- him. A friend of mine for 40 years—she We pray for Your grace to guide the ant to the order of the House of Thurs- was 7 at the time when we first met— Members and former Members of this day April 10, 2008, the House will stand . It’s particularly good body on this very special day, as they in recess subject to the call of the to recognize you and to welcome all of serve those who have elected them to Chair to receive the former Members of you back to the House. public office and the Nation we all Congress. The Chair will now recognize the love. Accordingly (at 8 o’clock and 35 min- Honorable Dennis Hertel. It’s a par- We also pray for all those who are at- utes a.m.), the House stood in recess ticular pleasure for me to recognize tending the Pontiff’s mass this morn- subject to the call of the Chair. Dennis Hertel because, as some of you ing, that they would sense Your pres- f know, he came to the Congress the ence in life-changing ways. May Your same year I came to the Congress. He spirit empower people of faith to seek RECEPTION OF FORMER MEMBERS left the Congress not at the request of You with all their hearts and minds. OF CONGRESS the citizens of Michigan but at the re- We pause as well to pray for those in The Speaker pro tempore presided. quest of the citizens who served in the harm’s way and their families. Be with The SPEAKER pro tempore. On be- State legislature. They divided his dis- those wearing the cloth of our Nation half of the House, I consider it a great trict up not in three ways but in four

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Let me say that I am their service to others. thank Leader HOYER, not only for his grateful to you for the kind words, Thank you all very much for this very kind remarks today and for tak- Congressman Rhodes, and grateful to great honor. ing the time to be with us but the fact all of the Members Association for the Mr. RHODES. Senator, thank you that he has always come to help us honor that you have bestowed upon me. very much for your comments. I think with our one day of session here as I think it’s fitting that this ceremony the significance of your comments is former Members of Congress. It’s very, of former Members be held in the the fact that you and Members of the very much appreciated that Leader House Chamber. other body do recognize that it is one HOYER with his busy schedule always I recall very clearly when I was elect- Congress composed of two separate and has time to come forward for us. ed majority leader of the Senate and I equal bodies. We appreciate that por- Mr. Jim Slattery from Kansas, the attended the first official function with tion of your comments as much as any- President of our Association, cannot be the Speaker. Prior to the function, we thing else. with us today because he has left our met and I said, well, we have to decide We do have a scrapbook with remem- position as President of the Former who goes first. He said, yes. We can dis- brances from your former colleagues, Members Association to become a can- cuss that, he said, but I’d just like to both in the House and the Senate, ap- didate for the in call to your attention that the position preciating your service. And, of course, Kansas for the Democratic nomination. of Speaker is mentioned in the Con- the plaque. Now I will read the plaque And so because he is pursuing that wor- stitution and in the laws of the United since I’ve got my glasses on. Actually I thy goal, we have Jay Rhodes, who has States, but nowhere in either the Con- don’t have my glasses on. been our Vice President from Arizona stitution or any law is there any ref- Senator, you’ve got a lot of these. It and done such an excellent job. Jay erence to a majority leader of the just says that we recognize your life- will step up to become President of the United States Senate. He said, but I’m time of service to this body, this body Association and take on those duties perfectly prepared to discuss who being the Congress, not the Senate, and today. should go first. to our country. And we appreciate it The Chair recognizes Jay Rhodes of I said, well, I think you’ve made it very, very much and we appreciate Arizona, the acting President of the rather clear. Ever since then, I have de- your being with us this morning. Association of Former Members of ferred to every Speaker and, in fact, And so I present to you, A, the scrap- Congress. every Member of the House I ever met book; and, B, the plaque—I hope that Mr. RHODES. I apologize for a little because it made such a powerful im- your wall space has room for it—again delay in getting things going. There’s pression on me, about the primacy of from a grateful Nation. been some confusion about the access the House of Representatives in our Thank you very, very much. to the floor of our international guests system of government. Mr. MITCHELL. I guarantee you my who have always been welcomed to the Service in the Congress or in com- wall space will have room for this, a floor during this ceremony but for parable bodies around the world like very prominent place on my wall. some reason that has not occurred, so the Dail in Ireland, where I know there Thank you very much, Jay. they will be in the galleries. I’m sorry are many here today, and from Canada Mr. RHODES. Thank you, sir. about that. That’s not the way we and other countries is, of course, a high Mr. HERTEL. The Chair recognizes wanted things to happen. honor and a great privilege. My service the distinguished majority leader, the Mr. HOYER, thank you very much. in the United States Senate, including gentleman from Maryland (Mr. HOYER). And thank you for giving us access to my 6 years as Senate majority leader, Mr. RHODES. Do you want to recog- the Chamber. We have a very special was one of the highest honors of my nize Mr. HOYER or do you want me to event, if you will, which is to honor a life. I was fortunate thereafter to en- recognize Mr. HOYER? very distinguished statesman, the gage in other public service activities, Mr. HERTEL. We can both recognize former majority leader of the United including 5 years in Northern Ireland Mr. HOYER. States Senate, Senator George Mitch- where I served as chairman of the Mr. RHODES. Mr. HOYER, you’re rec- ell of Maine. As far as I am concerned, peace negotiations and of other activi- ognized. that’s the highest rank that you have ties in bringing to a close the conflict Mr. HOYER. May I use this podium? achieved. You have achieved others, in Northern Ireland. But nothing will Mr. RHODES. You may do whatever but being the majority leader of the ever for me exceed the honor of having you wish, Mr. Majority Leader. Senate is something to behold and been a Member of the United States Mr. HOYER. Let me come over here. something to beholden to. We are Congress. I know that every former I tell a story when I greet, as so proud that you are a member of our As- Member here, indeed all former Mem- many of you have, constituents to the sociation, the Former Members of Con- bers, has shared that view. It was not floor of the House. I tell them the story gress, and we are proud to recognize very long ago, of course, that I served. that few Members of the House did I your service to our country as major- Then as now, there were challenges fac- come with a more negative perception ity leader. As a peacekeeper. I think ing our Nation. Then as now, there of than John Rousselot, as you can you had more success in making peace were differences between the parties. imagine. John Rousselot had quite a in Ireland than you have in baseball. But I hope that now as then the cur- reputation around the country. And I But certainly your work in trying to rent Members will rise to the challenge say that to them for the purpose of uncover and rectify the use and misuse and be able to meet the very important saying that I ended up thinking John of performance-enhancing drugs, espe- problems and address the issues facing Rousselot was one of the really delight- cially in professional baseball, is some- our great country and the world. ful human beings with whom I served, thing that I know you’re proud of and In conclusion, I thank everyone here notwithstanding our deep disagree- we’re proud of. We believe that your very much. You know, for most human ments. Some of you who served during work will have taken our national pas- beings, life is in essence a never-ending his term will recall, as we know, John time and restored its luster. We are search for respect. First and most im- had a problem with his leg, but he used very pleased and happy that you have portant, self-respect and then the re- to delight, as you recall, going over to assisted the country again in a very spect of others. There is no one certain that rostrum and talking to you us. important effort. route to gaining respect, but I have al- You remember that, Bob, I am sure, It’s a great pleasure for me as the ways felt that the best way was very well. He did it, however, not in a President of this Association to wel- through service to others. And so I confrontational way but with a twinkle come you and to present to you our think that Members of Congress, de- in his eye, as if to say, I’m coming over

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A di- duced the majority leader because if Mr. HERTEL. The Chair announces vision has grown. I lament, I really do, there was an award for statesmanship that 26 former Members of Congress Bob Michel’s loss from the House and for an incumbent, I think our majority have responded to their names. from the country’s service in this leader would certainly achieve that. The Chair recognizes the President of body—he still serves our country as all It’s something to always follow the the Association, Mr. Rhodes, the dis- of you do as well—because he was, with model that Tip O’Neill set for us, of tinguished gentleman from Arizona. Tip O’Neill, two unifying leaders who being bipartisan in the ways that affect Mr. RHODES. Thank you, Mr. Hertel. tried to bring us together, not agreeing our country. I remember the great af- For those of you who don’t quite under- necessarily but disagree in a sense of fection that Tip O’Neill had for Bob stand what the cast of characters is trying to get together to solve prob- Michel and how they worked together, here, you would have expected that our lems with our different perspectives even though they fought on issues on a friend Jim Slattery from Kansas would being involved. As all of you know, I daily and weekly basis of importance be standing here as President of the have a deep affection for Bob Michel to our country. I remember Tip O’Neill Association. Jim made a decision to re- for that reason. But I always come telling me about the love he had for turn to Kansas and to run for the Sen- here—before I was majority leader I one of his very best friends, Jerry Ford, ate. He also made the decision that came here—because I want to thank all the President from Michigan, a Repub- that commitment of time and effort of you for the service you have given to lican, who was as partisan as Tip when would not allow him to devote the time our country, the friendship you have he was the minority leader here in the and effort that he had remaining on his given to me and so many others in this House. What I have seen in the distin- term of office as President of the Asso- body. guished majority leader is taking from ciation, so he did resign. The by-laws Some of you I see on a regular basis. the Speakers that I was honored to really don’t say a lot about when an of- The Historical Society obviously mak- serve under, taking the intellectual ficer resigns to run for office again, but ing such a continued contribution. I abilities of Mr. Foley and the partisan they do say when the President is not saw Ben Gilman 2 days ago at a break- aggressiveness of Mr. Wright and the here, the Vice President shall act as fast at which I spoke. But I really wisdom and the common touch of Tip President. And so I am technically the wanted to reiterate the welcome of O’Neill, and that is embodied in our Vice President and I am here acting as Speaker PELOSI to all of you back to distinguished majority leader. He then the President. If anybody wants to the House. carries forth the fact that you can be challenge me, do so now or forever hold I also want to recognize our friends, an active partisan on behalf of your your peace. Within the ordinary course and I’m not sure which one of you are party in your beliefs and at the same of events within the next few days or here, from Great Britain, from Ireland. time reach over and work with the mi- so, I will be elected to be President, As a matter of fact, I think there are 19 nority and understand their viewpoint and then you will have no challenge Irish Parliamentarians here. There are even as you are strong and aggressive whatsoever. But I am here for Jim and a couple from Greece and New Zealand; on the principles that you believe in. I want to acknowledge Jim’s service to Great Britain, as I said; and Canada. So So we thank the distinguished major- the Association, to the Congress and to we have five nations represented who ity leader again for taking the time to the country. He has served this Asso- with the United States have something be with us and for his leadership on be- ciation extremely well. We have made in common with one of them, Great half of our country. great progress, building on progress Britain. And we have much in common The Chair would like to also thank that began about 6 years ago, or more, with all of us. We welcome you to the Mr. MCNULTY from New York. Chair- with Matt McHugh and then with House. You are friends and great allies man MCNULTY has always been very Larry LaRocco and then with Jack at a time of challenge for the global generous with his time, also, with the Buechner. Your association has grown community, both in terms of econom- former Members and we appreciate his in stature and in numbers and in ac- ics, in terms of terrorism, in terms of time today with such a busy schedule. tivities. We’re going to outline a lot of moving our international community The Clerk will take the roll. that activity here for you today. towards a more peaceful resolution of The Clerk called the roll of the It is also a great pleasure for me to its problems. former Members of Congress, and the welcome to our meeting former Parlia- Senator Mitchell. Did he leave? I’m following former Members answered to mentarians from Canada, from the sorry. I should have said that at the be- their names: United Kingdom, from Ireland, from Greece, and from Turkey. We are very, ginning. I was going to invite Senator FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS PARTICIPATING Mitchell, based upon his experience in IN 38TH ANNUAL SPRING MEETING THURSDAY, very honored to have you with us. We Northern Ireland, if he might visit us APRIL 17, 2008 are very honored to have the kind of here and see if he can resolve the dif- Mr. Broyhill of North Carolina association that we have with your re- ferences between the Senate and the Mr. Buechner of Missouri spective associations. We hope to con- House. I thought that might be a very Mrs. Byron of Maryland tinue to have those grow as well. And useful contribution to the country. Mr. DeNardis of Connecticut we will continue to carry out the ac- We’re having some problems. You may Mr. DioGuardi of New York tivities that have made us, I think, a have noticed. The Senate is a strange Mr. Frey of Florida more vibrant and, I think, a more pro- body, Senator Tydings. We’re trying to Mr. Garcia of New York ductive portion, quasi-governmental work with them, but it is very dif- Mr. Gilman of New York portion of the Government of the ficult. Mr. Goodling of Pennsylvania United States. We have accomplished a In any event, I want to welcome all Mr. Hertel of Michigan lot and we have a lot more to do. of you back and thank you for what Mr. Hockbrueckner of New York I look forward very much to a 2-year you have done for our country on both Mr. Hughes of New Jersey term as President. I am going to be as- sides of the aisle, as Americans, not as Mrs. Kennelly of Connecticut sisted very ably by Congressman Republicans or as Democrats but as Mr. Konnyu of Hertel, who will be the Vice President, Americans, and say how honored I am Mr. Kramer of and by Congressman Buechner, who to have the opportunity to join with Mr. Kyros of Maine has graciously agreed to continue in you on this day when you return, to re- Mrs. Long of Louisiana the post of Past President. I don’t member what you have done here, but Mr. McHugh of New York think Jack has a vote, but he does have

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This is an dian and European NGOs. For example, But I’m going to introduce you, be- interesting thing, especially for United former legislators could play a crucial cause I want you to tell the Associa- States politicians going someplace role in aiding a peaceful transition of tion what you and we have been doing where the microscope is always on government following an election. We in the area of democracy building. whatever it is we do. A mere stumble could work with newly elected legisla- Jack, welcome back. It is good to see can sometimes, and I don’t mean phys- tors as they begin their work in a rep- you. ically, but a turn of phrase. resentative democracy. We could share Mr. BUECHNER. If the gentleman One of the things that happens, you our experience when it comes to the will yield, I am glad to be back. I want should know, is that sometimes the nuts and bolts—we all know about the to thank everyone for participating in electoral mechanism, somebody in a nuts in the legislative branch—but, for the programs that we’ve put together country will look at one of our rep- example, the work of committees or re- on the international end of it. In par- resentatives and say, well, what do you lying on a professional staff. In many ticular, something new for the associa- think we should do? The inclination is, countries, there are no professional tion is its participation in the Inter- well, I’d throw that ballot out. Or I’d personnel to work with the legislators. national Election Monitors Institute, accept that ballot. One of the things we I recall one of the first things that hap- the IEMI. It’s a joint project of our as- train our representatives to do is to be pened when I was a new member of the sociation with our sister organizations cool and to step back and to say, it’s Association is we actually helped the in Ottawa and Brussels. I am pleased your election, not our election, and Ukrainian Parliament train what were that some of our Canadian and Euro- we’re just here to make sure that the basically law students and political pean delegates, our colleagues active in world knows what goes on here. Now science students, train somebody to the IEMI, have made the trip to D.C. to you decide what to do with that ballot. work with the Parliament because be with us today. Of course, joining the It’s a very, very powerful thing. there was no one there. And in the Rus- Prime Minister of Great Britain and We have had an international delega- sian Duma in the early stages, if you also the Pope. What a great time to be tion that went to the Morocco elec- wanted to introduce a bill, you had to in Washington, D.C., for the spring- tions. We had 52 observers from 19 actually bring enough paper to print time. countries. We deployed to 12 regions in copies for every member of the Duma. The first goal of our institute is to Morocco and visited 375 polling sta- That was just one of those little things take former legislators, and I am going tions. In addition, observers partici- that starts a democracy rolling, but to use the term ‘‘legislators’’ rather pated in briefings and meetings before you have to deal with it. We believe than Parliamentarians or Members of election day to ascertain the political that via the Institute, we are posi- Congress. I happened to see something and legal climate in which the Moroc- tioning ourselves to play an integral the other day that ‘‘parliament’’ comes can electorate could cast their votes. part in democracy building. from the French word which is basi- We saw a well-organized and trans- Before I yield back the floor, let me cally parle, to talk. Congress comes parent election on September 7. Moroc- recognize Doug Rowland, if you would from the Roman word which is a gath- can authorities had trained polling of- stand up. Doug is the President of our ering of enemies. And I thought, I won- ficials well and ensured that voters Canadian counterpart, our neighbor to der if the Founding Fathers were play- were given the opportunity to cast a the north, but is also the President ing a little joke when they called it a secret ballot without undue influence. currently of the IEMI. He deserves a Congress. These legislators we have There were reported irregularities, but round of recognition. Doug, thank you taken from the EU, from the United the overall impression gathered by for your efforts and for all the mem- States and Canada and we have train- IEMI monitors was that the Govern- bers of the board. ing sessions in proper election moni- ment of Morocco should be congratu- With that, Mr. President, I thank you toring. lated on a free, fair, and transparent for giving me the opportunity to report It’s easy to think that because election process. on the IEMI. you’ve run for office and held office But one of the problems was partici- Mr. RHODES. Jack, thank you very that you know something about elec- pation. An awful lot of people said, you much. tions. Well, you may know something know, even though I’ve got the first op- Jack mentioned that the root mean- about a ridings in Calgary or about a portunity to vote, I think that the ing of the word ‘‘parliament’’ is talk. congressional district in South Caro- King’s going to influence it or the Is- Jack demonstrates the fact that he lina, but that doesn’t mean you know lamic parties are going to be overrepre- really is a parliamentarian, because what you’re doing in Chad, and we’re sented, that they had the same kind of there’s nothing about which he cannot not talking about Florida chads, we’re skepticism that we in the West fre- talk at length. I wonder, though, if you talking about the country of Chad or quently have to encounter, that low know what the root meaning of the someplace that is having an ongoing turnout of 37 percent, but a high num- word Congress is. If you look up Con- uprising by a minority party or a dif- ber of protest votes. One vote we saw gress in a dictionary, the first defini- ferent tribal distincts. The Orange Rev- at the polling station said, I can’t vote tion is sexual intercourse. Then it gets olution taught us a whole lot about for any of these idiots, which is sort of into what you said it was, which is con- what election observations were all the ‘‘none of the above’’ with a little versation amongst others. Fortunately, about. Sometimes it was just sitting more emphasis. But it showed there I think that we mostly do the latter, I and making sure that the guys in was an evidence for further political hope. charge—sometimes gals in charge— reform necessary in Morocco. Former Another of our international pro- were not manipulating the vote. So we Parliamentarians can play a crucial grams is something that I would like have been able to put together these role in encouraging widespread engage- to have our friend Beverly Byron from training sessions and we’ve hosted ment in the process. It is IEMI’s hope Maryland report on. We have done other meetings. We have gotten a 3- that over the next few years leading up quite a number of external programs year grant from the Canadian Inter- to Morocco’s 2012 elections, former leg- that Beverly is an expert on and will national Development Agency. We’ve islators will be invited to assist in de- share her expertise with us, hopefully sent dozens of U.S., Canadian and Eu- veloping reforms such as civic edu- as a Congressman and not as a Parlia- ropean former legislators who have cation or effective political leadership. mentarian. gone through this training and are now In addition to participating in those Mr. HERTEL. The Chair recognizes well-versed in an actual set of respon- missions and conducting several train- the distinguished Congresswoman from sibilities and challenges that come ing sessions, the IEMI has created a Maryland, Beverly Byron.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 03:07 Jun 26, 2008 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 J:\CRONLINE\2008BA~2\2008NE~2\H17AP8.REC H17AP8 mmaher on PROD1PC76 with CONG-REC-ONLINE April 17, 2008 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H2449 Mrs. BYRON. I’m afraid to touch without financial support. Here comes Foreign Minister Taro Aso; and Head of that podium after his remarks. the advertisement: Craig Kennedy and the U.S. Delegation to the Six-Party Mr. RHODES. I don’t blame you. the German Marshall Fund are ex- Talks, Ambassador Chris Hill. The Con- Mrs. BYRON. Let me first of all tremely active. The Marshall Fund has gressional Study Group on Japan is thank our acting temporary Presi- funded this program for many years. funded by the Japan-U.S. Friendship dent—until this afternoon. The Business Advisory Council also do- Commission. Mr. RHODES. Are you going to chal- nates support on the administrative Last but not least we have the Con- lenge me? side of the Study Group and current gressional Study Group on Mexico. It is Mrs. BYRON. Oh, I don’t know. It’s companies such as Airbus, Allianz, a unique organization in that it serves early in the day. I’ve got probably a BASF, Daimler, Deutsche Telekom, as a bipartisan forum of legislators and couple of hours. You can never tell. DHL Americas, EDS, Eli Lilly, congressional staffers to engage in Let me say that I have been tasked Fresenius, Lufthansa, RGIT, SAP, Sie- issue-specific dialogue with Mexican to talk about a program that I think is mens, and Volkswagen, to name but a elected officials and government rep- one that the acting Members and the few. resentatives. By being involved in the former Members have put together and Modeled after the Congressional group, the two countries’ political deci- have worked very hard—the Study Study Group on Germany, the Associa- sion-makers receive a comprehensive Groups on Germany, Turkey, Japan tion has established other Study picture of the issues revolving around and Mexico. I originally thought I was Groups. The Turkish group in 2005. U.S.-Mexico relations. We are working just going to be talking about the Ger- Turkey as we all know is important for closely with the Woodrow Wilson Cen- man Study Group which I have been in- so many reasons: Peace in the greater ter on the Mexico project. terested in and have no problem with Middle East, the expansion of the Euro- These Study Groups are examples of the pronunciation on the German pean Union, the transformation of how the Former Members Association names, but I have Turkey, Japan and NATO. The Study Group on Turkey can provide an educational service to Mexico. And so bear with me as we go brings current Members of Congress to- current Members and working together along. gether with their legislative peers, gov- furthering issues for our Nation. I look The Association serves as the secre- ernment officials and business rep- forward to being a part of the Study tariat for the Congressional Study resentatives in Turkey and serves cur- Groups. I think those of you that are Groups. Germany is the largest and rently as a platform for participants to not involved in it would get a great most active exchange program. It is learn about U.S.-Turkish relations deal of satisfaction in having an oppor- U.S. Members of Congress and Parlia- firsthand. Thanks to funding from the tunity to see that we are still con- mentarians of Germany. It is a bipar- Turkish Coalition of America, the Eco- tinuing as former Members in many of tisan organization, much as this one is, nomic Policy Research Foundation of the areas and issues that we have been and they alternate the Chairs, Demo- Turkey and TOBB, the German Mar- involved in. crats and Republicans, on the U.S. side. shall Fund also funds some of the work I thank you, the new acting-tem- The German group is celebrating its 25- with the Turkish group, and a group of porary-prospective President, for the year anniversary this year. The pri- corporate sponsors, the Study Group on time this morning. Mr. RHODES. Thank you, Congress- mary goal of the Study Group is to es- Turkey has brought important guests woman Byron, very much not only for tablish a dialogue between Members of to Capitol Hill. That includes then your remarks but for your participa- Congress and their counterparts in the Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah tion. It’s very valuable to all of us. As Bundestag. The group has a Distin- Gul, who is now President of Turkey; Beverly has said, the value of these guished Visitors Program where they Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Study Groups is bilateral. I think that bring high-ranking German elected of- Fried; and many delegations of Turkish ficials to the Capitol. Last year, the we and our sitting Members whom we Parliamentarians. involve in these exchanges learn a lot Study Group on Germany organized The Congressional Study Group on and I think that the counterparts in events featuring political leaders such Turkey also conducts an annual U.S.- the other countries also learn from us, as Chancellor Angela Merkel; Dr. Nor- Turkey seminar. In 2007, that con- and we learn basically that many of bert Lammert, President of the Ger- ference took place in Ankara and our problems are very, very similar. man Bundestag; and Minister Sigmar Istanbul. A congressional delegation It’s fascinating and it’s a great experi- Gabriel, Federal Minister for the Envi- met as we did when we were Members ence. ronment. Every year, the Study Group with high-level representatives, includ- I next want to have Matt McHugh brings approximately eight Members of ing Speaker of the Grand National As- come forward and report to you on our Congress together with sometimes an sembly of Turkey Arinc, as well as various student-based exchange pro- equal number, sometimes more, of the Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan. Dis- grams which we loosely call Congress German legislators for several days, fo- cussions included Iraq and Turkey’s bid to Campus. Matt has been intimately cusing on discussions with a predeter- to join the EU. This year’s seminar will involved in the expansion and growth mined agenda. The Parliamentarians take place in May in Memphis in the of the Congress to Campus Program usually are joined by several former district of Representative Steve Cohen. which has been dramatic and a very Members of Congress and former Mem- Members of Congress and their coun- great reward to an awful lot of former bers of the Bundestag. They also have terparts in the Turkish Grand National Members of Congress and hopefully to officials of the two federal govern- Assembly will discuss issues such as, some students out there in the world. ments attending, think-tank and foun- once again, energy security, civil soci- But from time to time, Matt, I think dation representatives, and members of ety, and the Middle East. we learn more than they do. Matt is a the German-American corporate com- The Association also serves as the longtime, very, very valuable member munity. In 2007, the annual Congress- secretariat for the Congressional Study of the Association and we appreciate Bundestag seminar took place in Ham- Group on Japan. This was founded in very much everything that you do for burg, Germany. This year the Study 1993 in cooperation with the East-West us. Group is going to be in Utah for its Center in Hawaii. The Congressional Mr. MCHUGH. Thanks very much, 25th annual seminar and it will be tak- Study Group on Japan is a bipartisan Jay. ing place in the current U.S. president group of 89 Members of the House and As he indicated, my role this morn- of that organization, Rob Bishop’s, dis- Senate. The Japanese Group arranges ing is to present our report on the Con- trict. The upcoming program is going opportunities for Members of Congress gress to Campus Program which as to discuss topics such as NATO, rela- to meet their counterparts in the Japa- many of you know is now run exclu- tions with China, and renewable en- nese Diet in addition to presentations sively by our Association in coopera- ergy. Our program this morning is on by American and Japanese experts tion with the Stennis Center. David the energy issue. I think it’s one that about various aspects of U.S.-Japanese Skaggs, who did such a great job for us we all are very much interested in. relations. Recently featured guests for some years, is now the Secretary of We need to thank the Study Group’s have included Japanese Ambassador to Education in Colorado. But the transi- supporters because it could not operate the United States Ryozo Kato; then tion from his organization, the Council

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It sends bi- grant will enable our Association to the point is to emphasize to the young partisan teams of former Members to reach out to more students and more people that public service is not a ca- colleges, universities and high schools schools, many of whom have not par- reer to be shunned, it’s a career to be across the country to educate the next ticipated in the past. And so on behalf sought. generation of leaders on the impor- of our members, I want to thank Sec- Matt, your leadership on this is tance of civic engagement. The partici- retary Rumsfeld for recognizing the greatly appreciated. pating students benefit from the inter- importance of our reaching out to the My next project is to try to introduce action with our Association members next generation of leaders. a real hero for the Association. It’s dif- whose knowledge and experience, as we We have also continued working with ficult to do because he knows he’s a know, are a unique resource. But at the the People to People Ambassador Pro- hero and will tell you himself if I don’t same time our members benefit, as Jay gram that brings young people to our do it. Lou Frey has served as President has said, through our continued in- Nation’s capital for a week of events of the Association, and for the last 11 volvement in public service and the centered on the concepts of character years Lou has chaired our annual din- ability to engage these young people on and leadership. These students are far ner which, as I think you probably all issues of importance to them. younger than those who participate in know, is the lifeblood of the Associa- During each visit, our bipartisan the Congress to Campus activities, but tion. When it became clear, Beverly, team conducts classes, meets individ- they have already demonstrated a com- that I was going to become President, ually with students and faculty, speaks mitment to the ideals that the Con- I called Lou and I said to him, Lou, to campus media, participates in both gress to Campus Program seeks to pro- you’ve got to do it 2 more years. Lou campus and community forums, and mote. The Association’s involvement said, I can’t. I’m tired. I’m tired of the meets with local citizens. Institutions in this program allows our members whole thing. I don’t want to do it. are encouraged to market our visits to living in the Washington area to speak I said, Lou, please? the entire campus community, not just to these younger students on the im- And he said, Okay, I’m in for 2 more. to those students who are majoring in portance of public service and to an- Lou has not only done the dinner, he political science, history or govern- swer any questions they might have. A has started several other projects for ment. Over the course of 21⁄2 days, hun- number of our members, as you know, us. I would call upon the Honorable dreds of students are exposed to the are working full time still and the Peo- Member from the State of Florida, Mr. former Members’ message regarding ple to People engagements allow them Frey, to enlighten us as to what he has the significance of public service. to continue their public service in this been doing. We would all like to know. There is one more visit scheduled for particular way. The events are typi- Mr. FREY. Thank you, Jay. Thank this academic year, after which we cally held in the early morning at sub- you very much, Mr. President. begin recruiting schools for next year. urban locations. Again, I want to I would first like to also acknowledge The program has made both domestic thank all of our colleagues who have the tremendous work that your prede- and international visits this academic participated in this program. I want to cessor, Jim Slattery, did. He did an in- year, including a visit to campuses in mention in particular our colleague credible job. He worked incredibly the United Kingdom and Canada and, Orval Hansen of . I don’t know if hard. You two worked together to give for the first time, two separate visits Orval is here this morning. If not, he us great leadership as I’m sure that to campuses in Mexico. By the end of deserves recognition, because he has you and Dennis will do the same. I did next week, the program will have made made it to nine of these visits early in start the Statesmanship Dinner 11 26 campus visits in this academic year. the morning to meet with these young- years ago and it was a good idea. The More than 30 members of our Associa- er students, seven of those visits in the only bad one was not figuring out who tion have made visits this academic last month alone. That is enormous was going to be the chairman of it. We year, and I want to take the oppor- dedication, and we are grateful to him still haven’t done too good a job on tunity to thank all of you who have in particular. that. This was our most successful din- participated in the program and cer- I want to conclude by again express- ner. We honored all the women who tainly encourage those of you who have ing appreciation to all of those who have served in the Congress and were not had the opportunity as yet to do have made the Congress to Campus serving in the Congress. Speaker so, it’s a great experience for us. Program such a great success and by PELOSI was kind enough to come and I also want to extend our thanks to encouraging all of my friends here to accept the award. And also Lindy the campuses, the faculty and staff participate. As you know, a democracy Boggs was the honorary chairman members and students who worked so can prosper only if its citizens are en- whom we all dearly love. She and Cokie diligently on each of these visits. With- gaged, and as former legislators we were there. It was a really, really nice out their hard work, these visits would have a particular responsibility, I event. Beverly Byron did a great deal not have been possible. We rely heavily think, to encourage others to do so, of work; Nancy Johnson. Incredible on the universities to take the lead in particularly our young people. group they had to help us raise money. coordinating logistics relating to each Thank you very much. It was the biggest crowd we’ve ever visit and appreciate the time they de- Mr. RHODES. Matt, thank you very had, thanks to the efforts of many of vote to ensuring their students will re- much. I just want to echo what Matt the women who served in the Congress. ceive the benefits of the program. says about the Person to Person pro- As you know, that is our big fund-rais- We have also continued, as I men- gram. I’ve participated in one, which ing event and we use it for a lot of dif- tioned at the beginning, our relation- started at 6:45 a.m. in far out Bethesda. ferent activities. ship with the Stennis Center for Public This is all junior high school kids. At One of the things that we have found Service in the administration of the 6:45 they are up and dressed and in my State, and I’m sure it isn’t true program. Association and Stennis Cen- scrubbed and raring to go. I’m standing in your State, but basically we are ter staff work very closely together on there saying, what am I doing out here civically illiterate. Forty percent of a day-by-day basis to make the pro- at 6:45 in the morning? It’s worth it. the adults in Florida cannot tell you gram such a great success. We appre- I want to emphasize what Matt em- the three branches of government. Sev- ciate both the staff support and the phasized, which is that the purpose of enty-three percent of the fourth grad- steady financial contribution we get this kind of activity is not to say to a ers in a multiple choice test can’t pick from the Stennis Center each area. We kid, this is how you prepare yourself to out the Constitution as our leading look forward to working with them in run for Congress, or to run for public document. I’m talking about my State. the years ahead as well. office. The purpose is to say to them, a I happen to have seen the statistics, I am also pleased to announce that in career in public service is a career and I would suggest that maybe we’re the next academic year for the first worth pursuing. Public service encom- not alone in this area. But in Florida

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How do we people who have given to the country were both Members, but we got to reach out to the teachers so that and now can’t give 100 percent but try know each other a lot better over the they’ll have something to turn to if and give as much as they can back to course of the last couple of years. Jim they’re interested in teaching civics. Of this country. It is certainly needed. I and I did a Congress to Campus visit course, one of the answers is the Inter- don’t think there’s any group of people together to Baker University in Bald- net. What we did last year is we experi- who have more knowledge, who have win, Kansas. It was a very, very re- mented with programs that the former more ability and don’t have any skin in warding experience. I can’t emphasize Members would do on key issues and the game in terms of any personal in- enough what Matt said to you, that if used the Internet to get it out to high volvement in what’s going on. you haven’t done a Congress to Cam- schools and colleges around the coun- I thank each and every one of you for pus, do it. You will profit from it and try. That worked pretty good. This what you’re doing. I think it’s great. I you will benefit from it. And hopefully year we’re going to take it to another think, as the President said, there’s a somebody else will, too. But you defi- step. We’re going to really put together lot more we can do, and we will do. nitely will. You will definitely come a library, if you will, for teachers. Thanks to this organization, a lot of away with the feeling that the genera- We’re working with the Presidential young people and people not only here tion that’s coming up is not all bad. Classroom teachers, we’re going to but with our colleagues, a lot of people There are some good people and there work with the institute that I have, around the world are going to have are some very, very enthusiastic and and the former Members. more idea of what’s going on and why intelligent people who want to con- Let’s take a subject like electoral understanding what we’ve been given tribute. It’s well worth the time. college. We will have a 50-minute les- in this great country is really worth- We have a plaque for Jim. It will read son plan for teachers, 30 minutes will while. just sort of like what I said the plaque be a discussion by the former Members Thank you very much, Mr. President. for Mr. Mitchell read, which is: Thank on that issue, 20 minutes for the teach- Mr. RHODES. Lou, thank you. you very much. We appreciate your ers themselves. We’ll put maybe 50 of I’m going to insert something into participation, your association and these together over the next 3 or 4 the script here that wasn’t here, but your friendship, and we wish you the years so that the teachers all around I’m going to ask you to help us as far best. the country can punch in for free, get as the dinner is concerned because one Now this is a bipartisan organization that lesson plan, and teach civics. How of the greatest conundrums that we and we don’t take sides. I will say to in the world can you have a country face is trying to identify somebody you that I wish Jim Slattery phys- that is as great as ours and the people whom we, A, should honor; B, would ically the best. Not necessarily politi- don’t know what they have? Thomas like to honor; and, C, who will sell ta- cally but physically. I know that he Jefferson said a country that’s half ig- bles. If you have any thoughts and sug- misses us and we miss him, and we’re norant never was and never will be gestions along those lines, we would very, very supportive of his desire to free. We’ve probably lost a couple of greatly appreciate hearing them. return to public service. generations. I’m not sure how we’ll Quickly. I want to thank Dennis Hertel and ever get those back. But we are not A couple of other programs that we Mike Parker and Jack Buechner for going to lose the younger generation. have going that you should know their service to the Association, both We’re going to reach out to them as about. One is a golf tournament. We’ve current and in the future. And I want we’re doing in these programs, the had the golf tournament for quite a few to recognize our professional staff. As stuff that Matt is doing. I think we can years. It brings together sitting Mem- any bureaucracy as we have grown make an incredible difference in terms bers and former Members. This is gen- more successful, we’ve grown more of our young people, not preaching erally not bipartisan. We generally pit staff. We currently have five perma- party but preaching what we have and each other against each other on a par- nent staff, led by Pete Weichlein, what our country’s about. So they’ll tisan basis. But it’s fun. But this year whom you all know; but joined by make a decision. Whatever it will be, we’ve changed the format slightly and Whitney Novak, who is an Executive we may agree or disagree, but at least it is going to be a charitable event, and Assistant; and Tracy Fine, who is a it will be a decision based on some we hope that that will expand it great- Program Officer; and Rebecca facts and on some knowledge. ly. The charity is a fund for disabled Zylberman, who is a Senior Program I want to thank many of you for help veterans, especially veterans from Iraq Officer. It must mean she’s older than with the book we’re writing, the second and Afghanistan. The tournament is on Tracy. I’m not sure what that means. edition of the Former Members book. July 14 at the Army/Navy Club. I en- And Sudha David-Wilp who is without As you know, the first edition is used courage you, A, to participate; and, B, peer in terms of what she does for us in in many colleges. The second one, if to encourage others to participate as putting together the international pro- you haven’t sent your final ideas in on well. I think it’s a cause that we all grams. She is terrific. Once again our your rules of politics, please do. It will would agree is well worthwhile. great welcome to our visitors from go to the publisher in August. We were I should tell you that the Association other countries, from other former honored about a month and a half be- sponsors, on a sporadic basis but gen- Parliaments. fore President Ford died, I had been erally biennially, a study trip for our Before I do the sad thing, which I trying to get him for really a couple of members abroad. Last fall we took really am not enthusiastic about doing, years to do it, he sent us five pages on about 40 of our members to Ireland. In I want to recognize one particular what his political rules of life were, retribution, the former members of the member of our Association, and that’s which will be really interesting. That Irish Parliament have sent 30 of their our former Republican leader, Mr. book will be out certainly in August. members here this week. I don’t know Michel. We appreciate your continued We hope that it will add to what teach- if that’s because of the way we behaved support, your continued activity, your ers can use, not necessarily from an or misbehaved in Ireland. I did not go. continued love of your country and all academic style but as a supplement to I have talked with many of our friends that you do for all of us. Thank you for what really goes on in this wonderful who did go and the one thing that’s being here with us this morning, Bob. place. unanimous is that they had a good Now I need to read the list. It seems I want you to know that, according time. The other thing that’s unani- that this list gets longer and I’m not to , we’re back for mous is they don’t know exactly what sure what that means about all of us, an annual ‘‘schmoozefest’’ and it will they did that was so much fun, but but this is the list of those of our Mem- get ‘‘boozy’’ tonight. I don’t know they had a good time. We appreciate bers who have passed in the course of where the reporter is to listen to all you all being here with us very, very the past year since our last annual these things that this group is doing. much. And we’re coming back. meeting. They are:

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Jennifer Dunn of Washington President for his presentation and his Mr. HERTEL. They are in the gal- John Flynt of Georgia leadership today and commend him, lery. We recognize them now, Mr. Gil- Paul Gillmor of Ohio because this is a record time for our as- man, and we thank them all for com- of Maryland sociation. I think it’s because our asso- ing. Augustus Hawkins of California ciation has gone from having some re- Our proceedings are adjourned. Peter Hoagland of Nebraska tired people that were a bit long-wind- Thank you. William Hungate of Missouri ed to having more and more active peo- Accordingly (at 9 o’clock and 58 min- Henry Hyde of Illinois ple and go right to the point about, as utes a.m.), the House continued in re- Tom Lantos of California we have seen this morning, reporting cess. John Mackie of Michigan on the activities of the Association, f Wiley Mayne of Iowa how we have reached out to the Nation Thomas Meskill of Connecticut and the world as far as leadership for b 1032 of Ohio democracy and public service. AFTER RECESS Joseph G. Minish of New Jersey I want to take a moment just to Parren J. Mitchell of Maryland thank Ken Kramer, a board member, The recess having expired, the House George Sangmeister of Illinois for all his leadership, Ken from Colo- was called to order by the Speaker pro Robert Sweeney of Ohio rado; and Barbara Kennelly for her tempore (Mrs. TAUSCHER) at 10 o’clock Craig Thomas of Wyoming leadership on the board and with our and 32 minutes a.m. Guy Vander Jagt of Michigan association across the board; Mr. Zeliff f of Ohio from New Hampshire for all he’s done PRINTING OF PROCEEDINGS HAD Joseph Waggonner of Louisiana in support of our association. And to go DURING RECESS Robert Young of Missouri. through the list of the people that I would like for you to stand up and made the presentations today: Mr. Mr. BRALEY of Iowa. Madam Speak- let’s have just a moment of silence for Buechner, who’s just done such an ex- er, I ask unanimous consent that the our fallen comrades. cellent job all these years of giving ad- proceedings had during the recess be Thank you. vice and counsel and leading our asso- printed in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Mr. HOYER mentioned that things ciation. Mr. Matt McHugh from New and that all Members and former Mem- aren’t as friendly and as engaging as York who was past President, also who bers who spoke during the recess have they were when we were here. That’s continues to demonstrate and lead in the privilege of revising and extending all true. I have thought many times the area of public service, especially their remarks. sitting out there where you are about for our young people now today. Lou The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there the words that we see in front of us, Frey, who has been with us all these objection to the request of the gen- Justice, Tolerance and Liberty. To the years as past President but chairman tleman from Iowa? extent that we have liberty, and I be- of our Dinner Committee and without There was no objection. lieve that we do, and to the extent that his leadership we would not have the f we have justice and I believe that we opportunity to do the things we are ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER do, we’re lacking in tolerance. I would doing in our country and around the PRO TEMPORE say to all of us that we might take it world with the finances that he has upon ourselves to talk to our sitting helped raise, especially for our Con- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The colleagues from time to time and say gress to Campus Program where we Chair will entertain up to 15 1-minute to them, we wish you guys would get now reach over 60 campuses per year. requests per side. along a little better and work harder And, finally, to thank Doug Rowland f on the business of the country rather from Canada, the past President there A PLAN TO SUPPORT OUR ECON- than on your own reelections and your of their parliamentary association that OMY AND OUR INFRASTRUCTURE own egos. I think that probably is al- we helped with in their infancy but NEEDS most a duty for us, to remind them now he has shown great leadership of that this body doesn’t exist for single the highest order in the IEMI and help- (Mr. BLUMENAUER asked and was individuals, it exists for the body and ing us with training election monitors given permission to address the House it exists for the institution and it ex- not only for ourselves but for other for 1 minute.) ists to forward the business of the former parliamentarians in an inter- Mr. BLUMENAUER. Madam Speaker, country. national organization with the Euro- JOHN MCCAIN has famously said that he I don’t think that that’s outside the pean Union and the association of doesn’t know much about economic purview of the charter of the former former Canadian parliamentarians. issues. But it’s paradoxical that the Members of Congress. That’s not lob- Let me close by just summarizing Republican presidential candidate’s bying an issue. It’s lobbying attitude what Jay, our President, said about our idea for helping a troubled economy is and it’s lobbying getting things done. staff. We simply have the best staff in to put people out of work and make There’s only one way to get into this Washington, D.C. I think we can say traffic congestion worse and freight organization, and that’s to get elected. that in one sentence. movement harder. There are only three ways to leave. The Chair again wishes to thank all His proposal to stop collecting the Two of them are not pleasant. There’s the former Members of the House for gas tax will cut critical funding that nobody sitting here now who took the their presence here today. Before ter- keeps commuters, freight and our econ- way out with your boots on, but sev- minating these proceedings, the Chair omy running. And when the trust fund eral of us who left because we were de- would like to invite those former Mem- is moving into deficit for the first time feated in elections and several of us bers who did not respond when the roll in our history he will only make that chose to resign, or retire, but we are was taken to give their names to the problem worse. former Members of this institution and Reading Clerks for inclusion in the It will also lead to the loss of over I think that we ought to assert our- roll. The Chair wishes to thank the 300,000 highway-related jobs, while selves with our sitting colleagues when other former Members of the House for there’s no evidence that huge oil com- we feel that they are not forwarding their presence here today. Good luck to panies will cut their prices when they the interests of the country as much as you all. get this gas tax ‘‘Holiday’’. It is the

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Many of the people he helped never LAST CURTAIN CALL FOR FREE f knew what he did for them and never SPEECH IN FRANCE had a chance to thank him personally. OLYMPIC TORCH THUGS (Mr. POE asked and was given per- I stand here today on their behalf, be- (Mr. PITTS asked and was given per- mission to address the House for 1 cause I want Mark to know that name- mission to address the House for 1 minute.) less people here are honoring his life- minute and to revise and extend his re- Mr. POE. Madam Speaker, the cur- time of heroic efforts. His lifetime of marks.) tain has dropped on the stage of free service leaves a legacy that challenges Mr. PITTS. Madam Speaker, with the speech in Paris, France for actress future generations of labor leaders to Olympic torch traveling the world Brigitte Bardot. The birthplace of en- continue his efforts to further the right now, we are seeing the Chinese lightenment has now become home to cause of working families. Government’s true repressive colors. conformity and political correctness, Mark may have retired from office, Everywhere it stops, it is accompanied and rigid speech control. but he will never retire from his real by a group of Chinese guards who have In France, if speech is offensive, a passion, speaking out against injustice been called ‘‘thugs’’ in the press. person can be fined and imprisoned. and pushing people to do more to take I am not surprised that Chinese lead- That’s what French prosecutors are care of each other. ers would send secret police along to trying to do to Brigitte Bardot, claim- f protect the torch, but I am surprised ing she incited racial hatred toward the United States would be so the Muslim community. CONGRATULATIONS TO ITALIAN complicit in putting down dissent that Bardot wrote comments in a letter to PRIME MINISTER SILVIO they would allow members of the Chi- Nicolas Sarkozy that offended Mus- BERLUSCONI nese secret police into the United lims. Bardot, an animal rights activist, (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina States to ensure the security of the denounced a Muslim festival that in- asked and was given permission to ad- relay. cluding slaughtering sheep by saying dress the House for 1 minute and to re- Are we so concerned with appeasing she was ‘‘fed up with being led by this vise and extend his remarks.) China that we could not ensure the se- population which is destroying us, and Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. curity of the flame ourselves? destroying France.’’ Madam Speaker, this week Silvio The group designated to protect the Now the French speech control police Berlusconi has been reelected as Prime torch is from the paramilitary People’s claim it’s a crime to speak ill of Mus- Minister of Italy. His coalition won a Armed Police, the same force that lims. So much for freedom of speech in strong majority in the Italian Par- helped to violently quash the recent progressive France. liament. protests in Tibet, now using brute force Speech control is a throwback to the Prime Minister-elect Berlusconi, the to ensure that protestors in cities like Dark Ages when no one could say any- conservative leader of the Forza Italia Paris, London and San Francisco, will thing bad about the king. Gone is the political party and the new People of not interrupt the ceremonial relay. citizen Voltaire’s philosophy of ‘‘I may Freedom party, had been a strong ally Maybe the Chinese need to be re- disapprove of what you say, but I will of the United States in his previous minded that repression and torture are defend it to the death for you to say tenure as Prime Minister. No doubt his not Olympic sports. it.’’ reelection will mean a strengthening of f But today French citizens that speak our partnership with the people of their mind may face the modern day Italy who have so positively influenced IT’S NOT NEARLY ENOUGH Bastille if they offend Muslims or hurt American culture. (Mr. COHEN asked and was given per- their feelings. It looks like the last Berlusconi’s election follows a grow- mission to address the House for 1 curtain call for actress Brigitte Bardot ing line of European leaders, including minute.) and free speech in France. Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany Mr. COHEN. Madam Speaker, as And that’s just the way it is. and President Nicolas Sarkozy of many as 2.8 million Americans could f France, who have run on a platform of lose their homes in the next 5 years greater support for a strong alliance CONGRATULATING MARK SMITH due to the subprime mortgage crisis, with America. Additional presidents ON HIS RETIREMENT AS PRESI- yet the Bush administration refuses to promoting improved friendship with DENT OF THE IOWA FEDERATION properly address the crisis. America have recently been elected in OF LABOR Last month the administration was Indonesia, Serbia, Liberia, Peru, Korea willing to bail out Bear Stearns, but (Mr. BRALEY of Iowa asked and was and Russia. when they announced their plans to given permission to address the House America has earned admiration of overhaul the regulation of financial in- for 1 minute and to revise and extend most nations in the world, as identified stitutions, they failed to properly ad- his remarks.) yesterday by Pope Benedict XVI at the dress any of the needs of families who Mr. BRALEY of Iowa. Madam Speak- White House as he indicated America is face the loss of their homes in the com- er, I rise today to honor my friend and the beacon of liberty and freedom. ing months. my hero, Mark Smith, and to congratu- In conclusion, God bless our troops, The housing crisis demands bold ac- late Mark on his retirement as Presi- and we will never forget September the tion, and this House has already re- dent of the Iowa Federation of Labor. 11th. sponded by passing legislation that Over the past 34 years, Mark has been f would expand affordable mortgage a fierce advocate for Iowa’s working loans opportunities to families at risk families. He started as an instructor at CHILDREN ARE A PRECIOUS of foreclosure. the University of Iowa Labor Center in RESOURCE We’ve also passed bills that would 1974; was elected Secretary-Treasurer (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked raise Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loan of the Iowa Fed in 1979, and served in and was given permission to address limits to increase liquidity in the that position until he was elected the House for 1 minute and to revise mortgage market and that would in- President of the Iowa Federation of and extend her remarks.) crease the supply of affordable housing. Labor in 1997. Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Madam And now we have a plan that would Mark has dedicated his life to the Speaker, as the co-chair of the Con- help 1.5 million homeowners afford cause of working men and women in gressional Children’s Caucus, I have foreclosure. Iowa. Protecting the rights of workers worked on issues dealing with child

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We hear constantly, I well or put documents on the podium Court to make the right and deter- will do this, I will do that, I will do when another Member is under recogni- mined decisions based on individual this, all referring to matters that have tion. cases. We should not judge the parental to be adopted by the United States f rights based upon our opposition to the Congress. And I would remind them b 1045 views of the Fundamental Church of that article I, section 1 of the Constitu- Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. tion says, all legislative powers herein GIVE TAX RELIEF TO THE PEOPLE Just as I supported the return of granted shall be vested in a Congress of WHO REALLY NEED IT Elian Gonzalez to his parents, I now the United States. (Mr. HODES asked and was given per- support the concept that these parents So while we certainly look to the mission to address the House for 1 and children should not be divided and President as a partner in our policies, minute and to revise and extend his re- separated because of our opposition to we know, as we’ve seen over the last marks.) some of the legal practices of their par- couple of years, that this President, Mr. HODES. Madam Speaker, while ents. this White House ignores, the first arti- many of us are standing up for tax cuts We must respect the first amend- cle of the Constitution. for working middle class families, ment, but also the precious right of I would urge all three candidates, there are some on the other side who children and parents being together. whoever is President, whoever he or want to continue to provide tax breaks There must not be a biased determina- she may be in 2009, re-read the Con- to millionaires, billionaires, and even tion. stitution, because this is the people’s to big oil companies earning record The children are still our precious re- House. The founders’ brilliance said profits. For the last 7 years, we’ve source, and if no harm has been done that the people will speak as to the watched these record giveaways to the by their parents then the courts must laws that they will obey through their wealthiest people and corporations act in the best interests of the chil- representatives in Congress. turn our budget surpluses into record dren. I again urge the President, the next deficits. President to re-read the Constitution The administration’s fiscal mess is so f and adhere to article I. Many of us bad that President Bush has borrowed wear this button because we’re very more money from foreign countries FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION ACT concerned that people forget that this than all 42 of his predecessors com- (Mr. PENCE asked and was given per- is their House. bined leaving our children in debt to mission to address the House for 1 f unfriendly foreign leaders. American minute and to revise and extend his re- taxpayers are paying Iraq’s bill while marks.) ENOUGH IS ENOUGH we have serious needs at home. Mr. PENCE. Madam Speaker, 3 years (Mr. KUHL of New York asked and Yesterday, in my home State, New ago, I authored H.R. 2102, the Free was given permission to address the Hampshire, gas prices hit record highs, Flow of Information Act, with my col- House for 1 minute.) and nearly 4,300 New Hampshire fami- league RICK BOUCHER from the State of Mr. KUHL of New York. Madam lies may lose their homes to fore- Virginia. Speaker, it seems that every day we closure. It’s time to help middle class As a conservative who believes in read about gas and diesel prices hitting families caught in the economic limited government, I believe the only a new record high as the pain at the squeeze. check on government power in real pump continues to ravish hard-working Now, I’m committed to changing the time is a free and independent press. Americans of their hard-earned money. way Washington does business by giv- And the Free Flow of Information Act The once nightmare scenario of $4 a ing tax relief to the people who truly is not about protecting reporters, it’s gallon gasoline may soon become an need it. We can’t fix our economy with about protecting the public’s right to even harsher reality. the same policies that led to the eco- know. While we have sat patiently and nomic slide. American people should know, waited for Speaker PELOSI’s common- f Madam Speaker, we’re at a unique mo- sense solution, the cost of gas has ment in the history of this legislation. soared $1.05 since the Democrats took WE NEED TO SEE THE DEMO- The overwhelming bipartisan House the gavel. This increase represents CRATS’ NEW PLAN FOR LOWER passage of the Free Flow of Informa- more than a 43 percent jump in old GAS PRICES tion Act has now been joined with Sen- prices. Enough is enough. (Mr. WESTMORELAND asked and ate action that includes the leadership I’m sure that I’m not the only Mem- was given permission to address the of Senator RICHARD LUGAR, Senator ber of Congress listening to their con- House for 1 minute.) ARLEN SPECTER, Senator PATRICK stituents worry about the con- Mr. WESTMORELAND. Madam LEAHY and others. Senator BARACK sequences of the majority’s inaction on Speaker, April 28, 2006, a press release OBAMA and Senator energy legislation. And while our con- by Anita Lowe: These skyrocketing gas add themselves as cosponsors of the stituents cannot afford to drive to prices are a reflection of the Repub- bill this week, and I heartily welcome work or take their children to school, lican energy plan. We need a long-term the strong endorsement of Senator Democrats have voted four times to strategy to lower gas prices and meet JOHN MCCAIN of this legislation. raise energy taxes in the 110th Con- our energy needs. Yet Republicans I believe there’s now a bipartisan ma- gress. passed up a golden opportunity in jority in both the House and the Sen- Higher energy taxes mean higher gas major energy bills last year. Demo- ate to support this vital legislation and prices, something that our constitu- crats have a plan to give American ensure the vitality of a free and inde- ents do not want or need. families the relief they deserve. Demo- pendent press for generations to come. It is time for Speaker PELOSI to ful- crats, Madam Speaker, have been in We just need one vote in the other fill her promise to the American peo- charge for 16 months and gas prices body. And I believe we’ll put a stitch in ple. Instead of voting to increase taxes have gone up over $1.25 a gallon. this tear in the first amendment free- again, Congress should immediately April 18, 2006, in a press release, then- dom of the press. adopt legislation which will give Amer- Minority Leader NANCY PELOSI: But

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Democrats have a plan to troubling disease and realize a cure. promises of cleaning up Washington lower gas prices taking America in a Madam Speaker, hemophilia is a and cutting spending? Well, it seems new direction. We’re ready to see this daunting condition requiring vigilant they simply got lost in the shuffle of new plan. I don’t understand why the care, but we see a day where patients all of their spending taxpayers’ dollars. Democratic leadership won’t bring out need not fear its pain or its con- the new plan, why there is not an out- sequences. I’m proud to stand today in f cry from their membership to see the support of World Hemophilia Day. PASS A CAP-AND-TRADE SYSTEM new plan. f f (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given WITH ECONOMIC DOWNTURN, IRAQ permission to address the House for 1 MR. PRESIDENT, REAL PEOPLE MONEY CAN BE BETTER SPENT minute.) NEED YOUR HELP TO REDUCE AT HOME Mr. INSLEE. Madam Speaker, I want OIL PRICES (Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of to share a little note of optimism we (Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut asked Texas asked and was given permission heard yesterday in our Global Warming and was given permission to address to address the House for 1 minute.) and Energy Independence Committee. the House for 1 minute.) Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of We had a group of venture capitalists Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut. Madam Texas. Madam Speaker, as taxpayers and investors come before us, and they Speaker, let’s talk about what this filed their income tax this week, many told us that they were supremely con- House has done already without any were probably wondering just how fident that America can create a clean- participation from our Republican col- much of their individual taxes would be energy economy that is based on new leagues or from the President of the invested in Iraq instead of here in the types of technology so we can solve our United States. U.S. at home. Consider that every sin- global warming problem and wean our- We’ve passed legislation cracking gle second, the Bush administration is selves off our addiction of Middle East- down on those who would take advan- spending $4,000 in Iraq. That means ern oil. It was very heartening. But tage of this situation by price gouging that income taxes paid by the average they told us they need one thing to with little to no participation from the taxpayer would not even cover the cost really open up the floodgates of tech- other side of the aisle and a President’s of one second of this war. nology. They need a cap-and-trade sys- threatened veto. We’ve passed legisla- This country is already facing dif- tem to cap carbon dioxide and really tion cracking down on the multi- ficult economic times. We cannot af- spur investment. national oil cartels who would fix ford to continue spending $339 million a The President yesterday gave short prices at much damage to American day on a war that has no strategy for shrift to that. He was disappointing. consumers without little to any help victory. If we invested one day of this We’ve got to provide leadership here to from the other side of the aisle and a sum in America instead, we could give get this job done. His message was sort threatened Presidential veto. And 2.6 million American children access to of a ‘‘can’t-do’’ message for a ‘‘can-do’’ we’ve passed legislation rescinding the medical and dental care, or we could people, we Americans. Let’s get this billions in tax giveaways that the prior hire more than 2,000 more border patrol job done. Pass a cap-and-trade system. Congress gave to the oil companies and agents to protect our borders. And we We will have a burst of new economic turned them around to give them to could send 18,000 more students to col- growth in this country. tax benefits for homeowners and busi- lege. nesses who want to invest in renewable Madam Speaker, at a time when f Americans are getting squeezed at the energy without any help from the MR. CARTER, RECONSIDER YOUR pump and the supermarket and are suf- other side of the aisle and with the PLANS TO MEET WITH HAMAS President threatening a veto. fering in the housing market, Wash- Madam Speaker, people are hurting, ington Republicans need to realize that (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was real people, not oil company execu- we should prioritize the needs of Amer- given permission to address the House tives, and we need both sides of the ica over those of Iraq. for 1 minute and to revise and extend aisle and the President of the United f her remarks.) States working to fix it. Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PROM- f on behalf of my constituents in Ten- ISE OF CLEANING UP WASH- nessee’s Seventh District, I rise to pro- RECOGNIZE WORLD HEMOPHILIA INGTON? test President ’s decision DAY (Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey asked to meet with the leadership of Hamas, (Mr. PRICE of Georgia asked and was and was given permission to address a group designated by the U.S. State given permission to address the House the House for 1 minute.) Department as international terrorists. for 1 minute.) Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey. They see this as an outrageous act, Mr. PRICE of Georgia. Madam Madam Speaker, I come today to the something that is a disgrace to the Speaker, I’m pleased to rise today in floor to point out something that’s men and women who have protected celebration of World Hemophilia Day really already been pointed out in the this Nation. in which we recognize the serious chal- press, and that is, as they say, that the Madam Speaker, Islamo-Fascist ter- lenges of those worldwide who suffer Democrats, unfortunately, have rorism is the plague of our time. Every from hemophilia, a day in which we horrifically failed as the majority American official, past and present, raise awareness to fight for a cure. party getting most anything done. should stand ready to help destroy it Hemophilia is a rare genetic disorder Now, they made promises after prom- and to eradicate its philosophy of hate. in which the blood doesn’t clot causing ises to help the American people, and My constituents feel that by meeting excessive bleeding and easy bruising. maybe it’s no surprise that most of with Hamas, Mr. Carter a former Presi- Without proper treatment, it can lead those promises have come to naught dent, undermines the critical goal and to organ damage, serious joint and and have been broken. only goads the enemy further. muscle problems, and terrible pain. This is most evident by the recent I urge Mr. Carter to reconsider his Those with hemophilia often live in a Democrat budget. It includes a massive ill-conceived plan, join the rest of us in world unknown to others, anxious $683 billion tax increase which only fur- our collective to eradicate Islamo-Fas- about even minor injuries or cuts be- ther burdens our children, kills jobs, cist terrorism and to halt any plan to cause what is minor for most people hurts small businesses, and basically prop up the enemy.

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Once again today, I ment renewed Blackwater’s contract, Americans to consider what is going to want to thank my colleagues on the the Bush administration was at it be best for the people of this country committee on both sides of the aisle again giving more praise to and stop pandering to the environ- and the staff on both sides of the com- Blackwater, the private military con- mental wackos. mittee for working in a manner which tractors. Last Friday, Ambassador We have to develop alternative allowed us to report this bill in very Crocker said contractors ‘‘like sources of fuel. We have to tap into our short order to the House for its consid- Blackwater are absolutely essential.’’ own energy sources. We have to make eration, and on working with the De- But was it absolutely essential for nuclear energy easier to put in place, partment of Education, the Secretary Blackwater to gun down 17 innocent to build reactors, and to make it less of Education, Margaret Spellings, for Iraqis? Was it absolutely essential for a costly to do so. We need to tap into our her cooperation in helping us with this Blackwater employee to kill a guard to own oil sources. If we’re going to lower legislation so that we can assure the the Vice President of Iraq? Was it abso- the cost of gasoline, we have to build parents, families, and students of this lutely essential for a Blackwater heli- more refineries. If we’re going to lower country that there will be no interrup- copter to drop CS gas on a traffic jam the cost of diesel fuel, we’re going to tion in their access to student loans. in Baghdad? have to tap into ANWR and off the gulf As the lending season starts to It has been months, and some in coast. It’s absolutely critical for our progress now, as students are getting cases years, since these incidents and economy to do this. their letters of acceptance, thinking we still don’t have the results of those We need to look for alternative about the next semesters of education investigations. Instead, our govern- sources of energy but we have energy and next year’s education, as that lend- ment has ignored those abuses and re- sources here today. Let’s go get them. ing season comes into its fullness, we newed Blackwater’s contract and then want to make sure that there is no dis- a week later said they are absolutely f ruption. essential. What kind of country do we GENERAL LEAVE We are concerned about a disruption live in where it’s acceptable for the because of the general disruption that Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. is taking place in the Nation’s credit United States government to praise Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous con- and reward a company that kills inno- markets, and specifically, concern sent that all Members have 5 legisla- about whether or not there will be a cent people? tive days in which to revise and extend The only thing that is absolutely es- spillover onto the student loan mar- their remarks and insert extraneous sential is that we end this State De- kets so that students will have dif- material on the bill, H.R. 5715, into the partment’s dependence on private mili- ficulty finding those loans. RECORD. tary contractors now. We have worked with the Depart- The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. f ment of Education, we have worked SCHAKOWSKY). Is there objection to the with the administration, we have WE NEED CAPABILITY TO CREATE request of the gentleman from Cali- worked with the Republican members OUR NEW ENERGY fornia? of the committee and our own caucus (Mr. WAMP asked and was given per- There was no objection. to devise a system of relief that is mission to address the House for 1 f available to the Secretary and to the minute and to revise and extend his re- administration in the event that that ENSURING CONTINUED ACCESS TO marks.) should happen. And really what we’re STUDENT LOANS ACT OF 2008 Mr. WAMP. Madam Speaker, the doing is three things: One, we’re mak- nexus between national security, en- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- ing sure that the existing law and the ergy, and the environment is one of the ant to House Resolution 1107 and rule existing program for such an emer- most important issues of our time. And XVIII, the Chair declares the House in gency, the Lender of Last Resort pro- on energy, I’m an all-of-the-above Re- the Committee of the Whole House on gram, is functioning, that agreements publican. It is wise to conserve, and we the State of the Union for the further are reached between the Secretary of need to promote conservation. It is consideration of the bill, H.R. 5715. Education and the Secretary of Treas- wise to advance energy efficiency tech- b 1100 ury, and we’ve been told by the Sec- nologies. We need to invest. But new retary of Education that she has in- capacity, new energy sources are also IN THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE formed the members of the committee sorely lacking. We need new national Accordingly, the House resolved that that has been done, that the Sec- gas supplies in this country. We need itself into the Committee of the Whole retary meet with the guarantee agen- refinery capacity. We need our own oil, House on the State of the Union for the cies that might stand in the stead of albeit limited. But we’ve got to, num- further consideration of the bill (H.R. those lenders that cannot make those ber one, grow our capability to create 5715) to ensure continued availability loans to make sure that there is a energy in our country to be energy of access to the Federal student loan smooth transition between them and independent. program for students and families, the universities and colleges, and that I want to talk about nuclear energy with Mrs. TAUSCHER (Acting Chairman) that program is in place. because the cars of the future are going in the chair. Also, that schools are aware that to run off of lithium batteries, some The Clerk read the title of the bill. they can apply to qualify for the Direct form of electric. We’ve got to have new The Acting CHAIRMAN. When the Lending program. Many colleges and capacity. We need nuclear energy in Committee of the Whole rose on universities use that today. They may this country to be self-sufficient even Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 34 minutes want to consider that so, again, there on transportation. If we’re going to re- remained in general debate. is smooth transition should the private duce our carbon footprint, don’t leave The gentleman from California (Mr. lending market not be able to come nuclear off the table. MILLER) has 151⁄2 minutes remaining forward with the student loans, they This is a time to come together for and the gentleman from California (Mr. could direct their students to either of new energy technologies, to promote MCKEON) has 181⁄2 minutes remaining. those two programs. an in-tech agenda, to actually balance Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. And, finally, to try and help the pri- the budget again with a robust manu- Madam Chairman, I yield myself such vate sector credit markets for student facturing economy. It’s pro-American. time as I may consume. loans, as this bill does, to give standby

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First, it will allow students tractual agreement will provide the those government loans from the tradi- to receive additional financing that necessary confidence for lenders to not tional lenders in the student loan field will help them stay in school if they only participate in the market, but to so that we might develop some liquid- are denied private, nonfederal loans. continue to originate loans for stu- ity in that market so that they can Second, the bill clarifies aspects of the dents. then take the money they receive from Lender of Last Resort program, easing Some lenders, such as the Pennsyl- the Secretary and make a new tranche participation for students and schools vania Higher Education Assistance of student loans. If she purchases those and ensuring funds will be available Agency, PHEAA, in my home State, loans, that money could only be used should they become necessary. Third, have recently announced that they will to provide a new set of student loans the bill ensures that lenders have the not be originating additional loans due for the students for the coming year. authority to provide PLUS loans to to the unstable market conditions. And we also raised the loan limit for struggling parents who are facing dif- This could result in difficulties for stu- students, for undergraduates, because ficulties with their home mortgage. dents in Pennsylvania, and elsewhere, we understand that the private student And, fourth, the bill grants new flexi- in obtaining the loans they need. loan market is in very rough shape, bility for parents with a new optional It is imperative that Secretary and there are some students who use grace period that permits parents to Spellings at the Department of Edu- private loans to fill a small gap be- defer PLUS loan payments until after cation continue to work with Congress, tween the total cost of their education the children graduate. as well as Secretary Paulson at the De- and what they were able to borrow. We Finally, the bill authorizes the De- partment of Treasury and Chairman think by raising the limit, we will be partment of Education to invest in or Bernanke at the Federal Reserve Bank, able to help most of those students in agree to the future purchase of out- to provide access to capital sources for that situation. standing loans which could free up cap- use in originating and purchasing So this is an important piece of legis- ital and allow lenders to make new loans. lation. It’s legislation that we look to loans in the upcoming school year. Last month, I joined with the major- be acted upon in the Senate in a very I want to thank the chairman for ity of my colleagues in the Pennsyl- timely fashion and then to be sent to moving very rapidly on this situation. vania delegation in sending a letter to the President, we believe, for his signa- That’s not our modus operandi around Secretaries Spellings and Paulson and ture. And then we will have completed here; generally we wait until we’re in Chairman Bernanke requesting that they adopt both a short-term strategy a series of standby authorities and a the middle of a crisis to fix this. I hope to inject revenue into the student loan series of processes that we should be that I’m wrong in thinking that there market and a long-term strategy to able to assure families and students may be a crisis coming, but I think it prevent future capital market disrup- that there will be no major interrup- is very appropriate to take these posi- tions. tion in the student lending for the re- tive steps to ease or prevent a problem While H.R. 5715 is a very important mainder of this year and next year. that could arise very shortly. step in the right direction, the actions With that, I will reserve the balance I again thank the chairman for his of Secretaries Spellings and Paulson of my time. efforts. He has not been well this week, and Chairman Bernanke will continue Mr. MCKEON. Madam Chairman, I but you wouldn’t notice it. He shows up to be critically important to getting yield myself such time as I may con- at every meeting, and he has worked the student loan market fully back on sume. very hard. I hope he takes some time track. Today we are continuing the debate over the weekend to get some rest and I certainly commend Chairman MIL- on H.R. 5715, the Ensuring Continued gets feeling better for next week. LER and Ranking Member MCKEON for Access to Student Loans Act of 2008. I strongly support this bill, and I en- bringing forward this bipartisan piece This bill is a first step to prevent a cri- courage my colleagues to vote for it. of legislation—and, as the ranking sis before it happens in the student Madam Chairman, I reserve the bal- member said, in such a quick fashion— loan program, and its consideration ance of my time. the committee leadership and staff in has come not a minute too soon. Peak Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. getting this bill to the House floor lending season begins in July, and we If I might, I have one additional speak- aimed at providing relief to both stu- cannot, we must not, wait until a stu- er, but the speaker is on his way to the dents and lenders. dent is denied a loan to put mecha- floor. If you want to go ahead, then we Again, I also thank the chairman for nisms in place to deal with the turmoil will have that speaker, and I think we including language in his manager’s in the student loan market. will yield back our time. amendment providing for forward pur- To date, 60 lenders have suspended Mr. MCKEON. Madam Chairman, I chasing agreements. Allowing these their participation in all or part of the am happy to yield 3 minutes at this agreements with the Department of FFEL program. This includes 10 non- time to the gentleman from Pennsyl- Education will help to stabilize market profit State loan agencies affecting vania, ranking member on our Sub- conditions and thereby encourage lend- students in Pennsylvania, Texas, Colo- committee for Healthy Families, Mr. ers to originate more loans. rado, Iowa, Indiana, Massachusetts, PLATTS. I strongly support this legislation Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire Mr. PLATTS. I thank the ranking and encourage a ‘‘yes’’ vote. and . These are not minor member for yielding me the time. Mr. MCKEON. Madam Chairman, I players exiting the program. Nine out I rise in support of H.R. 5715, the En- am happy to yield 3 minutes to the of the top 10 consolidation lenders have suring Access to Student Loans Act. gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. stopped offering these loans, while 20 While not a complete solution to the SHAYS). out of the top 100 originators have current credit crunch that exists in the Mr. SHAYS. I thank the gentleman stopped making Stafford and PLUS student loan market, this bill is a very for yielding. I appreciate the work on loans. These 60 lenders account for 13 important and strong starting point to both sides of the aisle. percent of the total Stafford and PLUS ensure that students can continue to Madam Chairman, I rise today in loan volume and 76 percent of total obtain affordable loans for their edu- support of H.R. 5715, the Ensuring Con- consolidation loan volume. cation. tinued Access to Student Loans Act, In fiscal year 2006, these lenders I am especially pleased that the man- because it is an important legislative originated more than $6.5 billion in ager’s amendment included a provision step to addressing the liquidity short- Stafford and PLUS loans to more than that I was planning to offer as a stand- age in the student loan market. 800,000 students and parents, and more alone amendment to the underlying I would like to thank Chairman MIL- than $55 billion in consolidation loans bill. Specifically, this provision will LER, Ranking Member MCKEON and the to more than 1.8 million borrowers. permit the Secretary of Education to Education and Labor Committee in The bill before us includes necessary enter into forward purchasing agree- general for bringing this legislation to reforms to ensure the Department of ments with student loan lenders when the floor today to ensure continued ac- Education can respond if students have purchasing loans through the newly es- cess to student loans in this time of fi- access problems as lending season gets tablished secondary market. This con- nancial strain.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 03:07 Jun 26, 2008 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 J:\CRONLINE\2008BA~2\2008NE~2\H17AP8.REC H17AP8 mmaher on PROD1PC76 with CONG-REC-ONLINE H2458 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE April 17, 2008 This isn’t a Democratic or Repub- The Acting CHAIRMAN. The gen- that short term delinquencies in mortgage pay- lican issue, this is an American issue, tleman from California is recognized ments don’t prohibit eligible parents from tak- and I’m grateful we were able to work for 91⁄2 minutes. ing federal loans; 225 thousand students in together to take this first step to pro- Mr. MCKEON. Our economy is strug- the state of California alone use need-based tect our Nation’s students. gling, families are dealing with a high- student loans. The fallout of the subprime market er cost of living, rising fuel costs, a It is critical that Congress takes every step and subsequent weakening of the credit struggling mortgage market, and the necessary to ensure the credit crunch does market has destabilized what many threat of higher taxes. The cost of a not prevent even one of them from receiving consider to be sound investments, most college education continues to rise, the education they deserve. notably, student loans. Investors are only now students and families are I urge my colleagues to help keep America not hungry to invest, funds have dried wondering whether they’ll be able to the land of opportunity, and to cast a vote in up, and lenders have been unable to se- get the loans they need to pay their favor of H.R. 5715. cure the capital they need to make new tuition bills. Mr. TIAHRT. Madam Chairman, I rise today loans. All this in the aftermath of re- Like most challenges to our econ- to offer my support for H.R. 5715, the Ensur- ductions in lender subsidies to the Fed- omy, there’s no easy answer to the dif- ing Continued Access to Student Loans Act. eral Family Education Loan Program ficulties in our student loan programs. As many of my colleagues are, no doubt, that were made in the past 3 years and We will need a combination of actions, aware, the rupture of the housing bubble in have created the perfect storm in the maybe some legislatively, others this nation has had a ripple effect across our student loan market. We should re-ex- through regulation, that will increase economy. The student loan industry has not amine the effect of these cuts and af- liquidity and restore confidence among been immune to these economic difficulties. In fect swiftly if we have an over-cut in investors and consumers. fact, in recent months, 57 providers of student any area. What’s more, lenders have This bill is a first step and one that loans have announced that they will no longer backed out of the program before most deserves bipartisan support. It signals offer loans to students. This legislation is a students have even gone to secure their our commitment to a strong Federal good effort on the part of Congress to address loans for next year. family education loan program and this situation. We see the potential for a problem should help ease the minds of students We should delude ourselves by believing that this legislation is a panacea, bringing a ahead, and I believe it is our job in and families, and it does these things complete solution to the circumstances we find Congress to find solutions and alter- without a single cost to the taxpayer. ourselves in today. By and large, the lending natives now, before we see a repeat of I want to again thank Chairman MIL- market will need to take actions of its own to the subprime mortgage market melt- LER for his leadership and bipartisan right the tottering ship. These efforts are down. cooperation on this legislation. I would When we considered the Higher Edu- things that Congress is not, and should not also like to recognize Representatives cation Reauthorization bill back in be, in the business of mandating. But this leg- RUBE´ N HINOJOSA and RIC KELLER, the February, I offered an amendment ex- islation does take steps to protect students chairman and senior Republican on the pressing a Sense of Congress that the and their families by providing assurances that Higher Education Subcommittee, for Departments of Education and Treas- the opportunities to finance a college edu- their role in making this legislation a ury explore options within Federal fi- cation are not jeopardized while the lending reality. nancing institutions to ensure liquid- market is in flux. The staff deserves special recognition ity for the program providers. While I Presently, experts in the field are unsure for their efforts to bring this bill to the am pleased that Chairman MILLER and that the situation is, in fact, a ‘‘crisis,’’ pointing floor so quickly. On my staff I would Ranking Member MCKEON have in- to a number of additional factors that may like to thank Amy Jones along with cluded this language in the bill before have contributed to the narrowing of the mar- Susan Ross and Sally Stroup; on Chair- us today, I wonder if we would be in ket. We will not know for several more man MILLER’s staff, Gaby Gomez, Julie this situation had we worked to ad- months, when requests for student loans Radocchia, and Jeff Appel. reach their peak, just how serious a problem dress this situation back in February. Madam Chairman, this bill is a posi- Lenders who have exited the FFEL we are facing. That is exactly the reason this tive first step. It’s good for students program account for 13 percent of total legislation is the correct approach. It takes and families, it’s good for taxpayers, student loan volume in the FFEL pro- preventive steps to ensure that funding is and it’s good for our economy. I urge gram. What’s worse, we have not en- available to students and their parents, if a cri- my colleagues to vote ‘‘yes.’’ tered the period of time when students sis does arise. It does not create new man- Madam Chairman, I yield back the will call their individual lenders for dates, but instead gives the Secretary of Edu- balance of my time. next year’s loans. We need to act cation the authority to address potential prob- Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. quickly to prevent students from being lems. Madam Chairman, I want to thank Mr. denied loans. Ensuring access to affordable student loans MCKEON for mentioning my staff and While I believe this bill is a good first is of great importance to this nation, to our to Julie Radocchia and also that I step, we need to work with the Treas- economy, and to our millions of students in failed to mention her birthday yester- ury Department to open access to Fed- college. I appreciate the efforts of Mr. MCKEON day when I recognized her service. eral financing institutions like the and Mr. MILLER to bring this legislation to the Mr. BACA. Madam Chairman, I rise today to Federal Home Loan Bank or the Fed- floor in such a timely manner, and hope that voice my strong support for H.R. 5715, the eral Financing Bank. this bill will be enough to stave off larger prob- Ultimately, this is a liquidity issue. Ensuring Student Access to Federal Student lems down the road. While I am pleased the bill provides ad- Loans Act. Mr. COURTNEY. Madam Chairman, I want ditional Federal assistance to students Access to education and equality of oppor- to commend Chairman MILLER for getting out and their families, I am concerned that tunity are rights that every American deserves. ahead of the student lending issue before it we are not getting to the heart of the H.R. 5715 helps to protect these rights—by becomes a full-fledged crisis. In March, the matter. ensuring the turmoil in the U.S. financial mar- Education and Labor Committee heard testi- kets does not keep students from accessing mony from the Secretary of Education, Mar- b 1115 the federal loans they need to pay for college. garet Spellings, and we urged her to take It is alarming to think in this period Because of the current stress in the U.S. steps then to ensure student lending contin- of economic uncertainty we would be credit markets, these protections are nec- gency plans were in place in the event of fur- willing to provide anything less than essary now more than ever. ther troubles. Frankly, I was disappointed to the highest quality education to citi- This responsible bill increases the loan lim- learn that she and her team were only ‘‘moni- zens of our Nation. Access to higher its on federal college loans by $2,000 for un- toring the situation.’’ education is critical to maintaining dergraduate students, and also increases the It is imperative that students have uninter- our global competitiveness. total loan limits available to students over the rupted access to student loans in the event And, again, let me thank both the course of their education. that the mortgage crisis and credit crunch fur- chairman and ranking member. H.R. 5715 also gives parents more time to ther ripple through the economy. Just yester- Mr. MCKEON. Madam Chairman, I begin paying off their federal PLUS loans; and day, Citibank’s student lending division an- yield myself the balance of my time. helps struggling home owners by making sure nounced it was going to stop lending at many

VerDate Aug 31 2005 03:07 Jun 26, 2008 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 9920 J:\CRONLINE\2008BA~2\2008NE~2\H17AP8.REC H17AP8 mmaher on PROD1PC76 with CONG-REC-ONLINE April 17, 2008 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H2459 higher education institutions, though they plans to dramatically scale back their ability to Getting a college education has never been wouldn’t name which ones. This is troubling offer Federal student loans. more important, and this bill will help ensure news since Citibank is the second largest In responding to the student loan credit that students will still have access to the Fed- originator of federal student loans. crunch, some have said, we can make the eral loans they need to pay for college in the I met with the Connecticut Commissioner of State guaranty agencies ‘‘Lenders of Last Re- coming months. Higher Education and the Director of Financial sort,’’ but this system has never been imple- In recent months, uncertainty in the U.S. Aid at the University of Connecticut last month mented, let alone tested. credit markets has made it difficult for some and let me tell you—they are taking this issue Others have said that if lenders stop making lenders in the federally guaranteed student seriously. Financial Aid offices across the loans, students and schools can switch to Di- loan program to secure the capital needed to state are communicating to students and fami- rect Lending. Yet Secretary Spellings recently finance college loans. Because of this, some lies to finalize their education financing now. I testified that Direct Lending can only accom- lenders have scaled back their lending activity. have also personally taken part in getting the modate about one-third of the FFELP loan vol- While no student or college has reported word out to my constituents as well. ume. If that is true, what will happen to the 4.5 any problems accessing Federal student aid to Thankfully, Connecticut students also have million students who may find themselves un- date, it is important that the Federal Govern- backup from the state’s own loan agency, the able to get a Federal student loan? ment take steps to ensure that students will Connecticut Higher Education Supplemental And still others have said that no students continue to have access to funds regardless of Loan Authority, with $31 million to lend. have been denied college loans yet so there what happens in the U.S. credit markets. Right now, we don’t know how deep the ef- is no need to act. A viable Federal Family Education Loan fects will be, but it is prudent that students and I think most of my colleagues agree that the Program is extremely important in my home their parents are given some relief now. This best time to prepare for a hurricane is before state of Texas. The FFELP participants pro- bill will steer borrowers away from costlier pri- the storm hits. vide nearly two-thirds of the student financial vate loans and give parents more time to pay That is why the stated purpose of H.R. 5715 aid awarded annually to Texas postsecondary off PLUS loans. And it is crucial that Secretary is to ensure continued, uninterrupted access education students and parents contrasted to Spellings has the authority now to advance to Federal student loans. One of its provisions only 56 percent nationally. federal funds if necessary. would authorize the Secretary of Education, in Our students can now breathe a sigh of re- The federal government rushed in to bail out consultation with the Treasury, to purchase lief knowing that there will be liquidity and con- Bear Stearns. It is only right that we make student loans if there is not enough loan cap- tinued, uninterrupted access to Federal loans sure that the federal government is ready to ital to meet the needs of students and their thanks to this bill. assist millions of students and families if the families. Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Madam need arises. While I am pleased that the manager’s Chairman, I rise today in support of H.R. Mr. CARNEY. Madam Chairman, I rise amendment includes a provision that will pro- 5715, ‘‘Ensuring Continued Access to Student today in support of H.R. 5715, the ‘‘Ensuring vide borrowers with a continuity of loan Loans Act of 2008’’, introduced by Represent- Continued Access to Student Loans Act of servicers, and thereby keep default rates ative GEORGE MILLER of California. I want to 2008.’’ down, I am concerned that the provision au- thank the Committee on Education and Labor This legislation will go a long way in helping thorizing the Secretary to purchase loans does for its efforts in this important area. to ensure the continued availability of Federal not provide enough information or certainty to Every generation sets out to improve upon student loans. But it is only a first step and the marketplace to help increase access to the previous generation. We teach how chil- more needs to be done so that any student college. Without this information, lenders may dren that if they focus, are responsible, and anywhere in America can attend the college of be financially unable to make new loans to work hard they can be anything. Yet we have his or her choice. new students this fall. provided a false truth for the majority of our Today, 80 percent of all Federal student During the consideration of this legislation children. Rising tuitions in higher education loans are made through the Federal Family by the Rules Committee, I offered an amend- even at our community colleges are keeping a Education Loan Program—commonly known ment that, had it been approved, would have lot of our youth from attending college. For as FFELP. According to the U.S. Department defined the terms under which the Secretary those that are able to attend, they are bur- of Education, 6.8 million college students and of Education could exercise her temporary au- dened by extensive loans just to buy books, their families will borrow nearly $60 billion thority to both purchase student loans and attend class, and maintain housing. from State, non-profit and private lenders who maintain a continuity of servicing in order to Families are sending their children to participate in the Federal student loan pro- minimize any disruption for students and school, trying to qualify for parent loans and gram. schools. wondering how they are going to make the Ninety-five percent of all student loans As this bill makes it way through the legisla- payments when they are struggling to pay made in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania tive process I hope that we will incorporate their mortgage and facing their own issues and nearly all student loans made at schools this language to define the terms under which with possible unemployment. in my district are made through the FFEL pro- the Secretary can exercise her temporary au- In my home State of Texas, families are gram. Unfortunately, earlier this year, the thority to purchase student loans more clearly struggling to assist children with their edu- Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance than what is before us today. cation while they face an unemployment rate Agency—which was the second largest pro- Madam Chairman, I am supporting this im- of 4.3 percent across the State. As of the end vider of Federal student loans in Pennsylvania portant legislation today, but our work is not of last year, Texas was ranked as having the last year—was forced to stop making Federal done. While we may not be in a student loan 20th highest unemployment rate (out of the 50 student loans. PHEAA’s exit, along with oth- crisis today and we certainly do not want to be States). And we are not alone as States grap- ers, from Pennsylvania’s student loan market, alarmist, the responsible thing for Congress to ple with unemployment and a falling housing means that nearly one-third of all borrowers in do is to give the Administration all of the tools market. the Commonwealth must find new lenders for necessary to head off a student loan crisis. If H.R. 5715, Ensuring Continued Access to the upcoming academic year. I am wrong about the direction of the student Student Loans Act, provides much needed In responding to the student loan credit loan market, and we incorporate my amend- support to our families in a time when they crunch, the Administration has said that there ment, we will have a very strong back-up plan most need it by specifically addressing the are 2,000 lenders. That was true, but over the for a rainy day. If I am right and we do noth- needs of parents, students, and even lenders. past few weeks, 52 lenders, including 23 of ing, millions of students could be unable to go The Student loans Act would: the top 100 lenders have simply stopped mak- to college. Increase unsubsidized loan limits for stu- ing Federal student loans. This represents Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Madam Chair- dents: This bill will increase unsubsidized loan over 13 percent of all FFELP loans made last man, I rise today in support of H.R. 5715, The limits by $2,000 for each year of under- year. Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans graduate and graduate school. It also in- Nineteen lenders have stopped making pri- Act of 2008. creases the aggregate loan limits to $31,000 vate education loans. I would also like to thank Chairman MILLER for dependent undergraduates and $57,500 for In just the days since the Education and of the Education and Labor Committee and independent undergraduate students. Labor Committee approved this bill and sent it Chairman HINOJOSA of the Subcommittee on Delayed repayment of parent PLUS loans: to the floor, five major participants in the FFEL Higher Education, Lifelong Learning and Com- Currently PLUS loan borrowers—parents—go program have either stopped making Federal petitiveness for their work on this important into repayment 60 days after disbursement of student loans altogether or have announced piece of legislation. the loan. This bill would give families an option

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In light of the current housing Congressional District of Wisconsin, and a fa- amount determined under paragraph (1), market, the bill temporarily qualifies up to 180- ther of 2 school-aged boys, I recognize the im- plus— day delinquency on home mortgages as an portance of increased access to post-sec- ‘‘(i) in the case of such a student who is a extenuating circumstance, therefore making it ondary education and ensuring that everyone graduate or professional student attending more possible for parents struggling with the who wishes to attend college can afford to do an eligible institution, $14,000; and current housing market to secure loans for so. The ensuring Continued Access to Student ‘‘(ii) in the case of a graduate student en- rolled in coursework specified in sections their children. Loans Act is a step in the right direction, and 484(b)(3)(B) and 484(b)(4)(B), $7,000; Lender of Last Resort flexibility: The bill I encourage my colleagues to join me in sup- except in cases where the Secretary deter- makes clear in statute that the Secretary of porting this important piece of legislation. mines, that a higher amount is warranted in Education has the mandatory authority to ad- Ms. WOOLSEY. Madam Chairman, I rise order to carry out the purpose of this part vance Federal funds to Guaranty Agencies in today in support of H.R. 5715, the Ensuring with respect to students engaged in special- the case that they do not have sufficient cap- Continued Access to Student Loans Act of ized training requiring exceptionally high ital. Further, the bill allows a Guaranty Agency 2008. Everyone deserves access to the best costs of education, but the annual insurable to designate a school (rather than an indi- possible opportunities, which include a college limit per student shall not be deemed to be vidual student) as a ‘‘lender of last resort education. No student should be denied a col- exceeded by a line of credit under which ac- school,’’ in accordance with guidelines set by lege education because he or she can’t afford tual payments by the lender to the borrower will not be made in any years in excess of the Secretary. it. That’s why we must continue to find ways the annual limit. Authority for the Secretary of Education to to increase student access to financial aid to ‘‘(B) AGGREGATE LIMIT.—The maximum ag- purchase FFEL loan assets: The bill gives the ensure that students and their families have gregate amount of loans under this section a Secretary the temporary authority, upon a de- every possible opportunity to acquire a college student described in subparagraph (A) may termination that there is inadequate availability education. borrow shall be the amount described in to meet demand for loans, to purchase loans We can’t let the current credit crisis limit any paragraph (1), adjusted to reflect the in- from FFEL lenders. Such purchases could student’s opportunities to receive a college creased annual limits described in subpara- only be made in the case they are revenue- education. This bill would give the Secretary of graph (A), as prescribed by the Secretary by neutral or beneficial to the Federal Govern- Education the tools to help schools in need regulation. ‘‘(3) LIMITS FOR UNDERGRADUATE DEPEND- ment. find a lender and give students access to the ENT STUDENTS.— Federal Institutions’ participation: The bill in- money they need to attend school. To keep ‘‘(A) ANNUAL LIMITS.—The maximum an- cludes a Sense of the Congress that the Fed- America competitive in the global market, we nual amount of loans under this section an eral Financial Institutions and entities (includ- must continue to ensure that every student re- undergraduate dependent student (except an ing the Federal Financing Bank, the Federal ceives access to the best possible college undergraduate dependent student whose par- Home Loan Banks, and the Federal Reserve) education. ents are unable to borrow under section 428B should consider using, in consultation with the This bill serves as a preventative measure or the Federal Direct PLUS Loan Program) Secretaries of Education and the Treasury, and goes a long way towards averting any may borrow in any academic year (as defined in section 481(a)(2)) or its equivalent shall be available authorities, if needed, to assist in en- possible crisis in July or August when our Na- the sum of the amount determined under suring continued student loan access. tion’s students and their families are looking paragraph (1), plus $2,000. I urge my colleagues to vote for H.R. 5715, for ways to pay for the next school year. I ‘‘(B) AGGREGATE LIMITS.—The maximum Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans urge my colleagues to support H.R. 5715. aggregate amount of loans under this section Act. Let’s support education by allowing for Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. a student described in subparagraph (A) may greater flexibility, eligibility, and participation Madam Chairman, I yield back the bal- borrow shall be $31,000. for students and their families. ance of my time. ‘‘(4) LIMITS FOR UNDERGRADUATE INDE- Mr. KIND. Madam Chairman, I rise today in The Acting CHAIRMAN. All time for PENDENT STUDENTS.— support of the Ensuring Continued Access to general debate has expired. ‘‘(A) ANNUAL LIMITS.—The maximum an- nual amount of loans under this section an Student Loans Act of 2008, a bill to continue Pursuant to the rule, the amendment undergraduate independent student, or an the promise Congress made in 1965 to pro- printed in part A of House Report 110– undergraduate dependent student whose par- vide all Americans, regardless of culture or so- 590 is adopted and the bill, as amended, ents are unable to borrow under section 428B cioeconomic status, greater opportunities to shall be considered as an original bill or the Federal Direct PLUS Loan Program, further their education. This bill recognizes the for the purpose of further amendment may borrow in any academic year (as defined shared benefits to both individual Americans under the 5-minute rule and shall be in section 481(a)(2)) or its equivalent shall be and to the country as a whole of ensuring fu- considered read. the sum of the amount determined under ture generations have the tools necessary to The text of the bill, as amended, is as paragraph (1), plus— follows: ‘‘(i) in the case of such a student attending be successful in a vastly competitive 21st cen- an eligible institution who has not com- tury workforce. H.R. 5715 pleted such student’s first 2 years of under- The opportunity for children to attend institu- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- graduate study— tions of higher education is essential in pre- resentatives of the United States of America in ‘‘(I) $6,000, if such student is enrolled in a paring our future leaders. While the number of Congress assembled, program whose length is at least one aca- students with the academic knowledge, talent, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. demic year in length; or and desire to attend and succeed in college This title may be cited as the ‘‘Ensuring ‘‘(II) if such student is enrolled in a pro- has substantially increased over time, the nec- Continued Access to Student Loans Act of gram of undergraduate education which is essary financial assistance has regrettably not 2008’’. less than one academic year, the maximum annual loan amount that such student may kept pace. We must reverse this trend and up- SEC. 2. INCREASING UNSUBSIDIZED STAFFORD LOAN LIMITS FOR UNDERGRADUATE receive may not exceed the amount that hold the Federal Government’s commitment to AND GRADUATE STUDENTS. bears the same ratio to the amount specified America’s schools and to all of our children. (a) AMENDMENTS.—Subsection (d) of section in clause (i) as the length of such program The recent instability in financial markets 428H of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 measured in semester, trimester, quarter, or has hurt more than just homeowners, and U.S.C. 1078–8(d)) is amended to read as fol- clock hours bears to one academic year; many individuals and their families are finding lows: ‘‘(ii) in the case of such a student at an eli- it difficult to secure student loans to attend col- ‘‘(d) LOAN LIMITS.— gible institution who has successfully com- lege. The ensuring Continued Access to Stu- ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in pleted such first and second years but has paragraphs (2), (3), and (4), the annual and not successfully completed the remainder of dent Loans Act assists future and current stu- aggregate limits for loans under this section a program of undergraduate education— dents by increasing unsubsidized loan limits shall be the same as those established under ‘‘(I) $7,000; or for undergraduate and graduate students, giv- section 428(b)(1), less any amount received by ‘‘(II) if such student is enrolled in a pro- ing parent borrowers more time before they such student pursuant to the subsidized loan gram of undergraduate education, the re- begin paying off their Federal Plus loans and program established under section 428. mainder of which is less than one academic

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year, the maximum annual loan amount that cumstances requirement described in regula- (2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section such student may receive may not exceed tions promulgated by the Secretary to carry 451(a) of such Act (20 U.S.C. 1087a(a)) is fur- the amount that bears the same ratio to the out this section or section 455 if the borrower ther amended by striking ‘‘Such loans shall’’ amount specified in subclause (I) as such re- is 180 or fewer days delinquent on their home and inserting ‘‘Loans made under this part mainder measured in semester, trimester, mortgage payments.’’. shall’’. quarter, or clock hours bears to one aca- SEC. 5. LENDER-OF-LAST-RESORT. (b) TEMPORARY AUTHORITY.—Part D of title demic year; and (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 428(j) of the High- IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 ‘‘(iii) in the case of such a student enrolled er Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1078(j)) is U.S.C. 1087a et seq.) is amended by inserting in coursework specified in sections amended— after section 459 the following new section: 484(b)(3)(B) and 484(b)(4)(B), $6,000 for (1) in the first sentence of paragraph (1), by ‘‘SEC. 459A. TEMPORARY AUTHORITY TO PUR- coursework necessary for enrollment in an striking ‘‘students eligible to receive inter- CHASE STUDENT LOANS. undergraduate degree or certificate program. est benefits paid on their behalf under sub- ‘‘(a) AUTHORITY TO PURCHASE.— ‘‘(B) AGGREGATE LIMITS.—The maximum section (a) of this section who are otherwise ‘‘(1) AUTHORITY; DETERMINATION RE- aggregate amount of loans under this section unable to obtain loans under this part’’ and QUIRED.—Upon a determination by the Sec- a student described in subparagraph (A) may inserting ‘‘students and parents who are oth- retary that there is an inadequate avail- borrow shall be $57,500. erwise unable to obtain loans under this part ability of loan capital to meet the demand ‘‘(5) CAPITALIZED INTEREST.—Interest cap- (except for consolidation loans under section for loans under sections 428, 428B, or 428H, italized shall not be deemed to exceed a max- 428C) or who attend an institution of higher whether as a result of inadequate liquidity imum aggregate amount determined under education in the State that is designated for such loans or for other reasons, the Sec- subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2), (3), or under paragraph (4)’’; retary, in consultation with the Secretary of (4).’’. (2) in paragraph (2)(B), by inserting ‘‘, in the Treasury, is authorized to purchase from (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments the case of students and parents applying for any eligible lender, as defined by section made by this section shall be effective for loans under this subsection because of an in- 435(d)(1), loans originated under sections 428, loans issued on or after July 1, 2008. ability to otherwise obtain loans under this 428B, or 428H on or after October 1, 2003, on SEC. 3. GRACE PERIOD FOR PARENT PLUS part (except for consolidation loans under such terms as the Secretary, the Secretary LOANS. section 428C),’’ after ‘‘lender, nor’’; of the Treasury, and the Director of the Of- (a) AMENDMENT.—Section 428B(d) (20 U.S.C. (3) in paragraph (3)(C)— fice of Management and Budget jointly de- 1078–2(d)) is amended by amending para- (A) in the first sentence, by inserting ‘‘or termine are in the best interest of the United graphs (1) and (2) to read as follows: designates an institution of higher education States, except that any purchase under this ‘‘(1) COMMENCEMENT OF REPAYMENT.—Re- for participation in the program under this section shall not result in any net cost to the payment of principal on loans made under subsection under paragraph (4),’’ after Federal Government, as determined jointly this section shall— ‘‘under this part’’; and by the Secretary, the Secretary of the Treas- ‘‘(A) commence not later than— (B) in the third sentence, by inserting ‘‘or ury, and the Director of the Office of Man- ‘‘(i) 60 days after the date such loan is dis- to eligible borrowers who attend an institu- agement and Budget. bursed by the lender, except as provided in tion in the State that is designated under ‘‘(2) REGULATIONS REQUIRED.—The Sec- clause (ii); and paragraph (4)’’ after ‘‘problems’’; and retary, the Secretary of the Treasury, and ‘‘(ii) if agreed upon by a parent borrower, (4) by adding at the end the following: the Director of the Office of Management the day after 6 months after the date the stu- ‘‘(4) INSTITUTION-WIDE STUDENT QUALIFICA- and Budget shall jointly promulgate emer- dent for whom the loan is borrowed ceases to TION.—Upon the request of an institution of gency regulations and publish such emer- carry at least one-half the normal full-time higher education and pursuant to standards gency regulations promptly in the Federal academic workload (as determined by the in- developed by the Secretary, the guaranty Register concerning the purchases author- stitution); and agency designated for a State shall designate ized by paragraph (1). ‘‘(B) be subject to deferral during any pe- such institution for participation in the ‘‘(3) METHODOLOGY AND FACTORS; JUSTIFICA- riod during which the graduate or profes- lender-of-last-resort program under this TION REQUIRED.—Such regulations shall out- sional student or the parent meets the condi- paragraph. If the guaranty agency designates line the methodology and factors that the tions required for a deferral under section an institution under this paragraph, such Secretary, the Secretary of the Treasury, 427(a)(2)(C) or 428(b)(1)(M). agency shall make loans, in the same man- and the Director of the Office of Manage- ‘‘(2) CAPITALIZATION OF INTEREST.— ner as such loans are made under paragraph ment and Budget shall consider in evalu- ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Interest on loans made (1), to students and parent borrowers of the ating the price at which to purchase loans under this section— designated institution, regardless of whether under sections 428, 428B, or 428H, and shall ‘‘(i) which accrues prior to the beginning of the students or parent borrowers are other- include a justification of how the use of such repayment under paragraph (1)(A)(i), shall be wise unable to obtain loans under this part methodology and consideration of such fac- added to the principal amount of the loan; (other than a consolidation loan under sec- tors used to determine purchase price will and tion 428C).’’. ensure that loan purchases do not result in ‘‘(ii) which accrues prior to the beginning (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments any net cost to the Federal Government. of repayment under paragraph (1)(A)(ii) or made by subsection (a) shall take effect on ‘‘(b) PROCEEDS.—The Secretary shall re- during a period in which payments of prin- the date of enactment of this Act. quire, as a condition of any purchase under cipal are deferred pursuant to paragraph SEC. 6. MANDATORY ADVANCES. subsection (a), that the funds paid by the (1)(B) shall, if agreed upon by the borrower (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 421(b) of the Secretary to any eligible lender under this and the lender— Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. section shall be used in a manner consistent ‘‘(I) be paid monthly or quarterly; or 1071(b)) is amended— with ensuring continued participation of ‘‘(II) be added to the principal amount of (1) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘programs, such lender in the Federal student loan pro- the loan not more frequently than quarterly and’’ and inserting ‘‘programs,’’; grams authorized under part B of this title. by the lender. (2) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘agen- ‘‘(c) EXPIRATION OF AUTHORITY.—The Sec- ‘‘(B) INSURABLE LIMITS.—Capitalization of cies.’’ and inserting ‘‘agencies, and’’; and interest under this paragraph shall not be retary’s authority to purchase loans under (3) by adding at the end the following: this section shall expire on July 1, 2009.’’. deemed to exceed the annual insurable limit ‘‘(6) there is authorized to be appropriated, (c) CONTRACTING AUTHORITY.—Section on account of the borrower.’’. and there are appropriated, out of any 456(b) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section money in the Treasury not otherwise appro- U.S.C. 1087f(b)) is amended by inserting ‘‘or 428(b)(7)(C) (20 U.S.C. 1078(b)(7)(C)) is amend- priated, such sums as may be necessary for purchased’’ after ‘‘loans made’’ each place it ed by striking ‘‘, 428B,’’. the purpose of carrying out section appears in paragraphs (2) and (3). (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments 422(c)(7).’’. made by this section shall be effective for (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments SEC. 8. SENSE OF CONGRESS. loans issued on or after July 1, 2008. made by subsection (a) shall take effect on It is a sense of Congress that, at a time SEC. 4. SPECIAL RULES FOR PLUS LOANS. the date of enactment of this Act. when our economy is fragile and higher edu- Section 428B(a)(3) is amended to read as SEC. 7. TEMPORARY AUTHORITY TO PURCHASE cation and retraining opportunities are more follows: STUDENT LOANS. important than ever— ‘‘(3) SPECIAL RULES.— (a) SPENDING AUTHORITY.— (1) the Federal financial institutions, such ‘‘(A) PARENT BORROWERS.—Whenever nec- (1) AUTHORITY GRANTED.—The first sen- as the Federal Financing Bank and Federal essary to carry out the provisions of this sec- tence of section 451(a) of the Higher Edu- Reserve, and federally chartered private en- tion, the terms ‘student’ and ‘borrower’ as cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087a(a)) is tities such as the Federal Home Loan Banks used in this part shall include a parent bor- amended— and others, should consider, in consultation rower under this section. (A) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ after ‘‘as may be nec- with the Secretary of Treasury and the Sec- ‘‘(B) EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES.—For essary’’; and retary of Education, using available authori- loans made on or after July 1, 2008, and be- (B) by inserting before the period at the ties in a timely manner, if needed, to assist fore July 1, 2009, a lender may determine end of such sentence the following: ‘‘; and (2) in ensuring that students and families can that a borrower meets the extenuating cir- for purchasing loans under section 459A’’. access Federal student loans for academic

VerDate Aug 31 2005 03:07 Jun 26, 2008 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 J:\CRONLINE\2008BA~2\2008NE~2\H17AP8.REC H17AP8 mmaher on PROD1PC76 with CONG-REC-ONLINE H2462 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE April 17, 2008 year 2008–2009, and if needed in the subse- In section 5(a) of the bill— and a Member opposed each will con- quent academic year, in a manner that re- (1) in paragraph (1), strike ‘‘students and trol 5 minutes. sults in no increased costs to taxpayers; and parents’’ and insert ‘‘eligible students and The Chair recognizes the gentleman (2) any action taken as a result of such parents’’; from California. consideration should in no way limit or (2) in paragraph (3)(A), strike the comma Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. delay the Secretary of Education’s authority after ‘‘paragraph (4)’’; and Madam Chairman, I rise in support of to operate the lender-of-last-resort provi- (3) in paragraph (4), strike paragraph (4) of sions of section 428(j) of the Higher Edu- section 428(j) of the Higher Education Act of the manager’s amendment to H.R. 5715, cation Act of 1965 (as amended by this Act), 1965 added by such paragraph of the bill and the Ensuring Continued Access to Stu- nor the authority to purchase Federal Fam- insert the following: dent Loans Act of 2008. The amendment ily Education Loan Program loans, as au- ‘‘(4) INSTITUTION-WIDE STUDENT QUALIFICA- was done on a bipartisan basis with the thorized by section 459A of such Act (as TION.—Upon the request of an institution of input of the senior Republican member, added by this Act). higher education and pursuant to standards Mr. MCKEON. The manager’s amend- The Acting CHAIRMAN. No further developed by the Secretary, the Secretary ment we are considering here today amendment to the bill, as amended, shall designate such institution for partici- makes various technical changes to the shall be in order except those printed pation in the lender-of-last-resort program legislation and additional substantive under this paragraph. If the Secretary des- in part B of the report. Each further ignates an institution under this paragraph, changes to ensure continued access to amendment may be offered only in the the guaranty agency designated for the Federal student loans. order printed in the report, by a Mem- State in which the institution is located Specifically, the amendment makes ber designated in the report, shall be shall make loans, in the same manner as the following changes: It targets loan considered read, shall be debatable for such loans are made under paragraph (1), to limit increases to undergraduate stu- the time specified in the report, equal- students and parent borrowers of the des- dents and families. It clarifies that ly divided and controlled by the pro- ignated institution, regardless of whether only eligible students as defined under ponent and an opponent of the amend- the students or parent borrowers are other- section 435(a) may qualify for these ment, shall not be subject to amend- wise unable to obtain loans under this part loans as with all other Federal student (other than a consolidation loan under sec- ment, and shall not be subject to a de- tion 428C). aid. It clarifies that at the discretion of mand for division of the question. ‘‘(5) STANDARDS DEVELOPED BY THE SEC- the Secretary, a loan may continue to PART B AMENDMENT NO. 1 OFFERED BY MR. RETARY.—In developing standards with re- be serviced by the current lender. And GEORGE MILLER OF CALIFORNIA spect to paragraph (4), the Secretary may re- in regard to school-wide Lender of Last The Acting CHAIRMAN. It is now in quire— Resort eligibility, it specifies that the order to consider amendment No. 1 ‘‘(A) an institution of higher education to Secretary of Education shall determine printed in part B of House Report 110– demonstrate that, despite due diligence on whether a school qualifies and provides 590. the part of the institution, the institution criteria for the Secretary to consider Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. has been unable to secure the commitment in making the determination. It speci- Madam Chairman, I offer an amend- of lenders willing to make loans to a signifi- cant number of students attending the insti- fies that funds received by lenders from ment. tution; loan sales will be used to originate new The Acting CHAIRMAN. The Clerk ‘‘(B) that, prior to making a request under loans. And it clarifies that, at the dis- will designate the amendment. such paragraph for designation for participa- cretion of the Secretary, a loan pur- The text of the amendment is as fol- tion in the lender-of-last-resort program, an chased by the Secretary may continue lows: institution of higher education shall dem- to be serviced by the current lender. Part B amendment No. 1 offered by Mr. onstrate that the institution has met a min- Now more than ever, families deserve GEORGE MILLER of California: imum threshold, as determined by the Sec- every assurance that we are doing all In section 2 of the bill— retary, for the number or percentage of stu- that we can to make sure that they (1) redesignate subsection (b) as subsection dents at such institution who have received (c); and rejections from eligible lenders for loans will continue to be able to access the (2) after subsection (a) insert the following under this part; and low-cost loans they need to pay for col- new subsection: ‘‘(C) any other standards and guidelines lege, regardless of what happens in the (b) STUDENT ELIGIBILITY.—Loan limit in- the Secretary determines to be appro- credit markets. I am confident that our creases authorized by the amendments made priate.’’. efforts, coupled with the proper plan- by this section shall be available only to stu- In section 459A of the Higher Education ning by the Federal Government, will dents who meet the requirements of section Act of 1965, as added by section 7 of the bill— 484(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 provide them with that guarantee. (1) in subsection (a)(1), insert ‘‘, or enter I urge my colleagues to support this U.S.C. 1091(a)). into forward commitments to purchase,’’ In section 428H(d) of the Higher Education after ‘‘is authorized to purchase’’; amendment. Act of 1965, as amended by section 2(a) of the (2) in subsection (b)— Madam Chairman, I reserve the bal- bill— (A) strike ‘‘shall be used’’ and all that fol- ance of my time. (1) in clause (i) of paragraph (2)(A), strike lows through the period and insert the fol- Mr. MCKEON. Madam Chairman, I ‘‘$14,000’’ and insert ‘‘$12,000’’; and lowing: ‘‘shall be used (1) to ensure contin- claim time in opposition, but I will not (2) in subclause (II) of paragraph (4)(A)(i), ued participation of such lender in the Fed- be opposing the amendment. strike ‘‘clause (i)’’ and insert ‘‘subclause (I)’’. eral student loan programs authorized under The Acting CHAIRMAN. Without ob- In section 3 of the bill— part B of this title, and (2) to originate new jection, the gentleman from California (1) in subsection (a), insert ‘‘of the Higher Federal loans to students, as authorized is recognized for 5 minutes. Education Act of 1965’’ after ‘‘428B(d)’’; and under part B of this title.’’; (2) in subsection (b), insert ‘‘of such Act’’ There was no objection. (3) redesignate subsection (c) as subsection Mr. MCKEON. Madam Chairman, I after ‘‘428(b)(7)(C)’’. (d); and In section 4 of the bill, insert ‘‘of the High- yield myself such time as I may con- (4) after subsection (b), insert the following er Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1078- new subsection: sume. 2(a)(3))’’ after ‘‘428B(a)(3)’’. ‘‘(c) MAINTAINING SERVICING ARRANGE- I want to thank Chairman MILLER for In section 428B(a)(3) of the Higher Edu- MENTS.—The Secretary may, if agreed upon his work on this amendment. Like the cation Act of 1965, as amended by section 4 of by an eligible lender selling loans under this underlying bill, this amendment was the bill, strike subparagraph (B) and insert section, contract with such lender for the the following: developed on a bipartisan basis to re- servicing of the loans purchased, provided ‘‘(B)(i) EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES.—For spond to some of the very specific chal- that— loans made on or after July 1, 2008, and be- lenges facing our student loan pro- ‘‘(1) the cost of such servicing arrangement fore July 1, 2009, a lender may determine gram. Although many of the challenges does not exceed the cost the Federal Govern- that extenuating circumstances exist under ment would otherwise incur for the servicing in this amendment are technical in na- the regulations promulgated pursuant to of loans purchased, as determined under sub- ture, they will help to perfect the bill paragraph (1)(A) if an applicant for a loan section (a); and and ensure it has the impact we intend. under this section is delinquent for 180 days ‘‘(2) such servicing arrangement is in the For instance, the purpose of this bill or less on their home mortgage payments best interest of the borrowers whose loans has never been to force a shift from the and is not more than 89 days delinquent on are purchased. the repayment of any other debt. FFEL program to the Direct Loan pro- ‘‘(ii) MASTER CALENDAR INAPPLICABLE.— The Acting CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to gram. That’s why the amendment Section 482 shall not apply to determinations House Resolution 1107, the gentleman clarifies that if the Secretary of Edu- made under clause (i).’’. from California (Mr. GEORGE MILLER) cation does purchase outstanding

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The amendment also ensures the bill ations of the lender-of-last-resort program as Currently, guaranty agencies are pro- will have no cost to taxpayers. From authorized by the amendments made by this vided flexibility from the general lend- the outset Chairman MILLER and I section. The Secretary shall submit a report er prohibitions regarding inducements agreed that it was important to move a on the review and revision required by this and exempted from others when they bill that made meaningful reforms subsection to the Committee on Education act as lenders of last resort. While this without driving up spending. H.R. 5715 and Labor of the House of Representatives flexibility may be necessary, the bill and the Committee on Health, Education, does exactly that. Labor, and Pensions of the Senate within 180 before us would expand the role of With regard to the Lender of Last days after such date of enactment. guaranty agencies acting as lenders of Resort program, the amendment clari- The Acting CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to last resort. And it’s prudent to take an- fies some of the steps that must be House Resolution 1107, the gentleman other look at these regulations to be taken in order to designate school-wide sure that students and taxpayers con- from Wisconsin (Mr. PETRI) and a Mem- participation in this program. These ber opposed each will control 5 min- tinue to be protected. I ask my colleagues to vote ‘‘yes’’ on reforms will be enhanced even further utes. by the amendment that will be offered The Chair recognizes the gentleman this amendment. Madam Chairman, I reserve the bal- shortly by Representative PETRI. from Wisconsin. I appreciate Chairman MILLER’s will- Mr. PETRI. Madam Chairman, I ask ance of my time. Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. ingness to include language proposed unanimous consent that the amend- Madam Chairman, I claim the time in by Representative PLATTS that adds ment be modified by the text that I opposition to the amendment, although greater clarity and flexibility within have placed at the desk. the Secretary’s ability to purchase The Acting CHAIRMAN. The Clerk I do not expect to oppose the amend- loans. Although it was always our in- will report the modification. ment. tent that this new, temporary author- The Clerk read as follows: The Acting CHAIRMAN. The gen- tleman from California is recognized ity would include the concept of a ‘‘for- Modification to part B amendment No. 2 ward purchase agreement,’’ this offered by Mr. PETRI: for 5 minutes. amendment makes it explicit that the At the end of section 5 of the bill, add the Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Secretary can enter into agreements to following new subsection: Madam Chairman, I commend Mr. purchase loans in the future. The (c) REVIEW OF INDUCEMENTS LIMITATIONS.— PETRI for this amendment. He address- amendment also clarifies that lenders Within 90 days after the date of enactment of es an oversight in the legislation in this Act, the Secretary of Education shall re- must reinvest the proceeds from the making sure that the Secretary has the view, and as necessary revise, the Depart- ability to review and revise the regula- sale of loans to the Secretary back into ment of Education’s regulations concerning making new loans to students. prohibited guaranty agency inducements to tions concerning prohibited guaranty Once again, I want to thank Chair- eligible lenders (34 CFR 682.401(e)) to ensure agency inducements to ensure that man MILLER for his work on this that such agency’s do not engage in im- agencies do not engage in improper in- amendment and on the bill as a whole. proper inducements in the expansion of oper- ducements. We don’t think this is a Madam Chairman, I yield back the ations of the lender-of-last-resort program as problem, but we had a problem in the balance of my time. authorized by the amendments made by this past in the rest of the program, and we section. The Secretary shall submit a report Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. passed on a bipartisan basis, the Stu- on the review and revision required by this dent Loan Sunshine Act, and I think Madam Chairman, I yield back the bal- subsection to the Committee on Education ance of my time. and Labor of the House of Representatives this amendment is an important part The Acting CHAIRMAN. The ques- and the Committee on Health, Education, of keeping the integrity of that act and tion is on the amendment offered by Labor, and Pensions of the Senate within 180 the continuity within the student loan the gentleman from California (Mr. days after such date of enactment. program so that all participants in GEORGE MILLER). The Acting CHAIRMAN (during the that program understand that we can- The question was taken; and the Act- reading). Without objection, the read- not condone even an appearance of im- ing Chairman announced that the ayes ing of the modification is dispensed proper relationships. When students appeared to have it. with. and families are borrowing money and Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. There was no objection. making sacrifices for that money, we Madam Chairman, I demand a recorded The Acting CHAIRMAN. Without ob- want to make sure that they get the vote. jection, the amendment is modified. best deal available and they get the The Acting CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to There was no objection. best facts available to them. clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- The Acting CHAIRMAN. The gen- I thank the gentleman for offering ceedings on the amendment offered by tleman from Wisconsin is recognized the amendment. the gentleman from California will be for 5 minutes. Madam Chairman, I yield back the postponed. Mr. PETRI. Thank you, Madam balance of my time. PART B AMENDMENT NO. 2, AS MODIFIED, Chairman. Mr. PETRI. Madam Chairman, I yield OFFERED BY MR. PETRI Under current law, Federal Family such time as he may consume to the The Acting CHAIRMAN. It is now in Education Loan Program guaranty gentleman from California (Mr. order to consider amendment No. 2 agencies are obligated to serve as lend- MCKEON). printed in part B of House Report 110– ers of last resort to borrowers who have Mr. MCKEON. I thank the gentleman 590. been denied a Federal student loan by for yielding. Mr. PETRI. Madam Chairman, I offer two lenders. The legislation we are Madam Chairman, I rise in support of an amendment. considering today puts in place meas- this commonsense amendment. The Lender of Last Resort program The Acting CHAIRMAN. The Clerk ures that will permit an entire higher was never intended to serve as a bail- will designate the amendment. education institution, rather than just out for our student loan system as a The text of the amendment is as fol- individuals, to participate in the Lend- whole. Rather, it was developed as a lows: er of Last Resort program and also clarifies the Secretary of Education’s backstop for individual students on a Part B amendment No. 2 offered by Mr. authority to advance mandatory funds case-by-case basis to be able to access PETRI: At the end of section 5 of the bill, add the to guaranty agencies to serve as the a student loan if they encountered following new subsection: lender of last resort. some rare circumstance in which they (c) REVIEW OF INDUCEMENTS LIMITATIONS.— The amendment I am offering today could not borrow through the standard Within 90 days after the date of enactment of would simply require the Secretary of channels.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 03:07 Jun 26, 2008 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 J:\CRONLINE\2008BA~2\2008NE~2\H17AP8.REC H17AP8 mmaher on PROD1PC76 with CONG-REC-ONLINE H2464 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE April 17, 2008 I, for one, hope that the broad-based (b) STUDY COMPONENTS.—The study re- Also, this bill expands loan avail- Lender of Last Resort authority in this quired under subsection (a) shall be con- ability through higher unsubsidized bill will never be used. After all, the ducted for each major sector of institutions Stafford loan limits. This provision, of higher education over a 5-year time pe- goal of this legislation is to prevent riod. The report shall specifically analyze along with a provision passed under the such a crisis within the loan program the following: Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 which in- before it occurs. But I appreciate the (1) Whether, on average, tuition, fees, and creased loan limits on federally sub- steps being taken to ensure that if the room and board increase, decrease, or remain sidized loans, enables students to re- Lender of Last Resort program ever unchanged in each such sector after the in- ceive more Federal funding, reducing needs to be deployed on a larger scale, creases in Federal loan limits take effect. reliance on higher cost private loans. we will have the infrastructure and (2) Whether the amount of private edu- Although I strongly support these processes in place to allow it. cational loans taken out by students (and provisions, I believe we have an oppor- their parents) at institutions in each such However, because the program was sector to pay tuition, fees, and room and tunity here to determine what impact, simply never intended to be used on a board increase, decrease, or remain un- if any, these changes have on tuition, school-wide basis, we should ensure changed. fees, and room and board costs and pri- that in implementing this authority, (c) REPORT.—Not later than one year after vate loan borrowing by students and we are not unintentionally subverting the date of enactment of this Act, the Comp- parents. current regulations. We also want to troller General shall provide an interim re- The amendment I am offering today ensure that a guaranty agency is not port to the Committee on Education and does just this. The amendment will Labor of the House of Representatives and unnecessarily punished for stepping in the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, provide for a review and evaluation by as a lender if needed. That is why this and Pensions of the Senate including the ini- the Government Accountability Office, amendment requests that the Sec- tial results of the study conducted under this GAO, of these two aspects of higher retary review the regulations with the section. The Comptroller General shall fol- education. Lender of Last Resort program in low up with such Committees after the third Specifically, the GAO study will ex- mind. This program should be imple- year and the fifth year after such date of en- amine institutions of higher education mented in a manner that will be effec- actment. over a 5-year time period to look at tive, efficient, and in the best interest The Acting CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to whether tuition, fees, and room and of students. House Resolution 1107, the gentleman board increase, decrease, or remain I want to thank Representative from Delaware (Mr. CASTLE) and a neutral after the increases in loan lim- PETRI for offering this amendment, Member opposed each will control 5 its take effect, as well as whether the which requires the Secretary to ensure minutes. amount of private educational loans that regulations are updated to reflect The Chair recognizes the gentleman taken out by students and their fami- the new responsibilities that would be from Delaware. lies to pay tuition, fees, and room and Mr. CASTLE. I yield myself such given to guaranty agencies operating board increase, decrease, or remain time as I may consume. neutral. as a lender of last resort for entire The amendment I have offered with schools rather than individual stu- I urge my colleagues to support this Representative WELCH today is meant commonsense amendment to shine dents. to complement the underlying legisla- some light on possible causes of the ris- b 1130 tion and help us better utilize the Fed- ing cost of higher education and also eral student loan program. I am sup- This amendment is consistent with urge support for the base bill to main- portive of H.R. 5715, which I believe our longstanding support for greater tain access to the Federal student loan will help prevent instability in the stu- sunshine, transparency and consumer program. dent loan market and ensure students protections. I thank Mr. WELCH for working with have access to funds for higher edu- I support this amendment, and I urge me on this amendment and for speak- cation. This amendment doesn’t alter its passage. ing in favor of this bill yesterday be- the base bill but can help us learn more Mr. PETRI. I yield back my time. fore the House. And we would just like about rising costs. The Acting CHAIRMAN. The ques- to say that I just think it is so impor- tion is on the amendment offered by As you know, the committee has ac- tively worked to identify causes of ris- tant that we deal with the costs of the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. higher education as well as the financ- PETRI), as modified. ing college costs while tuition rates continue to increase more rapidly than ing of higher education. Hopefully, by The amendment, as modified, was this add-on, we will be able to do at agreed to. household incomes. This rate of in- crease continues to prove to be overly least a little bit of that. PART B AMENDMENT NO. 3 OFFERED BY MR. I reserve the balance of my time. CASTLE burdensome for both students and fam- ilies as they save and borrow to pay for Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. The Acting CHAIRMAN. It is now in Madam Chairman, I rise to claim the order to consider amendment No. 3 higher education. Adding another layer of complexity time in opposition, although I do not printed in part B of House Report 110– is the existing slump in credit markets. expect to oppose the amendment. 590. The Acting CHAIRMAN. The gen- Mr. CASTLE. Madam Chairman, I For this reason, several lending insti- tutions have recently announced that tleman from California is recognized offer an amendment. for 5 minutes. The Acting CHAIRMAN. The Clerk soaring lending costs have caused them to decrease availability of new loans to Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. will designate the amendment. Madam Chairman, Members of the The text of the amendment is as fol- American students. Today, I am pleased Congress has the House, this is an important amend- lows: opportunity to vote on this bipartisan ment. Part B amendment No. 3 offered by Mr. legislation to protect students and This committee, on a bipartisan CASTLE: basis, has struggled with trying to get At the end of the bill, add the following families by ensuring disruptions in the new section: financial markets do not prevent stu- a good handle, if you will, an under- standable handle on the cost of edu- SEC. 9. GAO STUDY ON IMPACT OF INCREASED dents from pursuing their higher edu- LOAN LIMITS. cation goals. cation and the reasons for the in- (a) STUDY REQUIRED.—The Comptroller I believe this legislation can help re- creases in the cost of education, as we General shall conduct a study to evaluate store investor confidence in the mar- watched the cost spiral up in higher the impact of the increase in Federal loan ketplace, provide additional flexibility education much faster than the general limits provided for in section 2 of this Act for parents through a new, optional inflation index. And it is a rising con- and section 8005 of the Deficit Reduction Act grace period for PLUS loan payments cern in families. As their budgets com- of 2005 with respect to the impact on— pete with fuel, food and mortgage pay- (1) tuition, fees, and room and board at in- until after their children graduate, as stitutions of higher education; and well as ensure that parents struggling ments, this obviously becomes a very (2) private loan borrowing by students and with mortgage payments are not auto- serious matter. parents for attendance at institutions of matically denied credit through PLUS Congressman MCKEON and Congress- higher education. loans. man CASTLE have been on this watch

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This problem and trying to carry on a posi- increases by, for instance, increasing extenuating circumstance exemption is tive conversation with the universities loan limits, we may be doing more identical to the one already provided in and colleges so that we can better de- harm than good. the bill for mortgage payment delin- fine those costs that they control, the I think there’s agreement that this quencies. costs that they don’t control, and cer- bill will help borrowers by increasing Housing and health care are the pri- tainly the actions of the States in their unsubsidized borrowing limits. Particu- mary sources of financial hardship for support for the public institutions. I larly for borrowers who are unable to families. Late mortgage payments and think this amendment is very helpful. access higher-cost credit-based private uncollected copayments for doctors’ Congressman WELCH has spoken to loans, this additional Federal loan visits are among the primary reasons me about this during our deliberations availability may be the difference be- for bad debt. But these short-term and of the higher education bill and of the tween enrolling or not. But as we in- temporary extenuating circumstances college loan reduction bill that we crease that type of financial aid, we should not bar parents from assisting passed last year. need to very seriously review the con- their children with attending college. This is an issue that continues to nag sequences of that action. That’s why By adding this amendment to section at us. I think providing some good this amendment calls on the Govern- 4, special rules for PLUS loans, we en- guidance to GAO, with their expertise, ment Accountability Office to deter- sure that hardworking families feeling we have an opportunity to really take mine how the increase in borrowing the strain in this economy of sky- a good look at a cross-section of insti- limits impacts tuition. rocketing health care costs can still af- tutions, what is properly driving the I thank Representative CASTLE along ford to send their children to college. increases in cost and what maybe is with Representative WELCH for their I would like to thank Chairman MIL- improperly driving the increase in cost, leadership on this issue. It’s a good LER, Ranking Member MCKEON, all of and those things that can possibly be amendment. It improves the bill. I urge the members on the Education and brought under control and be reduced a ‘‘yes’’ vote. Labor Committee and the professional by cooperative actions between the in- Mr. CASTLE. I yield back the bal- staff for their work. stitutions, the States, and the Federal ance of my time. Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Government. The Acting CHAIRMAN. The ques- Will the gentlewoman yield? So I strongly support this amend- tion is on the amendment offered by Ms. CASTOR. I yield to the gen- ment, and I want to thank Congress- the gentleman from Delaware (Mr. tleman from California. man CASTLE and Congressman WELCH CASTLE). Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. for offering this amendment. I just want to thank the gentlewoman I yield back the balance of my time. The amendment was agreed to. Mr. CASTLE. Madam Chairwoman, I PART B AMENDMENT NO. 4 OFFERED BY MS. from Florida for introducing this CASTOR amendment. She had talked to me want to thank Chairman MILLER for his kind words. The Acting CHAIRMAN. It is now in about this early on, and it was an over- I think that all of us, including Mr. order to consider amendment No. 4 sight. But she has raised the issue that MCKEON, on whom I will call in a mo- printed in part B of House Report 110– for families that have engaged in seri- ment, would all agree that we need to 590. ous medical encounters, the question of educate our young people as well as we Ms. CASTOR. Madam Chairman, I what the real bill is becomes a matter can, and they need to be able to afford offer an amendment. of serious negotiations that can take it. And anything we can do to help in The Acting CHAIRMAN. The Clerk over a period of time. that area is something that we should will designate the amendment. You get your bill. It says you owe be doing. The text of the amendment is as fol- $65,000. And then it says, but the real I yield to the gentleman from Cali- lows: cost was $45,000, and somebody will pay fornia (Mr. MCKEON) whatever time he Part B amendment No. 4 offered by Ms. $20,000, and you owe whatever is in be- may consume. CASTOR: tween. And then you find out that is Mr. MCKEON. Madam Chairman, I In section 428B(a)(3)(B) of the Higher Edu- really not true, that was the initial thank the gentleman for yielding and cation Act of 1965, as amended by section 4 of billing, and you back over a period of for his longstanding commitment to the bill, insert ‘‘or on medical bill pay- months. Those negotiations, because of addressing the rising costs of college. ments’’ after ‘‘home mortgage payments’’. an unexpected serious medical encoun- This amendment gets to the heart of The Acting CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to ter within a family, should not bar, in the concern that many of us have har- House Resolution 1107, the gentle- these times, those individuals from bored for a long time. It takes a hard woman from Florida (Ms. CASTOR) and being able to access student loans. It look at whether or not an increase in a Member opposed each will control 5 doesn’t mean they’ve lost their in- Federal aid will lead to an increase in minutes. comes. It doesn’t mean any of that at college tuition. Everyone recognizes The Chair recognizes the gentle- that point. that Federal student aid is a good in- woman from Florida. I think it is a very important addi- vestment. Pell Grants, together with Ms. CASTOR. Madam Chairman, this tion to this legislation as we are trying campus-based aid programs, Federal amendment ensures that hardworking to weave together a support system for student loans and other higher edu- families who are feeling the strain of families that must rely on loans for the cation benefits help make a college skyrocketing health care costs can education of their children. education accessible to every American still afford to send their children to I want to thank you very much for student. college. The amendment applies to the offering this amendment. With enactment of the Higher Edu- Federal parent PLUS loans. PLUS Ms. CASTOR. Madam Chairman, I re- cation Act in 1965, these financial aid loans are the non-need-based, federally serve the balance of my time. programs truly did make college more guaranteed, low-interest loans avail- Mr. MCKEON. I claim the time in op- affordable. But beginning in the able to parents for their children’s un- position, although I am not opposed, eighties and in the decades since, col- dergraduate tuition, room and board Madam Chairman. lege tuition has skyrocketed. Despite and other expenses. The Acting CHAIRMAN. Without ob- our best efforts to keep pace by invest- Our neighbors are really getting jection, the gentleman from California ing in student aid, college is becoming squeezed these days. They are socked is recognized 5 minutes. less affordable for many families. Tui- with the rising cost of housing and There was no objection. tion goes up, so we increase financial health care. And many families are Mr. MCKEON. I rise in support of the aid. But when we increase financial very concerned that a college edu- gentlelady’s amendment, and I yield aid, tuition goes up. It’s a vicious cation may be out of reach for their myself such time as I may consume. cycle. And we are losing ground. children due to these rising costs. The purpose of this bill is to address Unfortunately, this pattern has even This amendment allows parents to the unique challenges facing students led some of us to question whether an continue to access low-interest PLUS and families in this time of economic

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IN THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE Foster Royce Foxx Lowey Ruppersberger This amendment is consistent with Accordingly, the House resolved Frank (MA) Lucas Ryan (OH) the spirit of our bill because it recog- itself into the Committee of the Whole Franks (AZ) Lungren, Daniel Ryan (WI) nizes that families also may be grap- House on the State of the Union for the Frelinghuysen E. Salazar pling with medical bills. And as the further consideration of the bill (H.R. Gallegly Maloney (NY) Sali Garrett (NJ) Manzullo Sa´ nchez, Linda chairman explained, sometimes you 5715) to ensure continued availability Gerlach Marshall T. are hit with a bill, and that shows up of access to the Federal student loan Giffords Matheson Sanchez, Loretta as a liability which would put you out program for students and families, Gilchrest Matsui Sarbanes Gillibrand McCarthy (CA) of reach of getting another loan, and, with Mr. BLUMENAUER (Acting Chair- Saxton Gingrey McCarthy (NY) Schakowsky in fact, you may not have that liabil- man) in the chair. Gohmert McCaul (TX) Schiff ity. And until that is clarified, you are The Clerk read the title of the bill. Gonzalez McCollum (MN) Schmidt held in abeyance. And students can’t The Acting CHAIRMAN. When the Goode McCotter Schwartz wait. Committee of the Whole rose earlier Goodlatte McCrery Scott (VA) Gordon McDermott So this is a very important amend- today, amendment No. 4 printed in part Sensenbrenner Granger McGovern Serrano ment that the gentlelady has pre- B of House Report 110–590 offered by Graves McHenry Sessions sented. I thank Representative CASTOR the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Green, Al McHugh Sestak Green, Gene McIntyre for her amendment. It makes the bill CASTOR) had been disposed of. Shays Grijalva McKeon Shea-Porter better. AMENDMENT NO 1 OFFERED BY MR GEORGE . . Gutierrez McMorris Sherman Hall (NY) Rodgers I yield back the balance of my time. MILLER OF CALIFORNIA. Shimkus Hall (TX) McNerney Ms. CASTOR. I would like to thank, The Acting CHAIRMAN. The unfin- Shuler Hare McNulty Shuster again, the gentlemen from California ished business is the demand for a re- Harman Meek (FL) Simpson for their work on this legislation and corded vote on the amendment offered Hastings (FL) Meeks (NY) Sires Hastings (WA) Melancon their work on behalf of students and by the gentleman from California (Mr. Skelton parents across this country. Hayes Mica GEORGE MILLER) on which further pro- Heller Michaud Slaughter I urge adoption of the amendment. ceedings were postponed and on which Hensarling Miller (FL) Smith (NE) I yield back the balance of my time. the ayes prevailed by voice vote. Herger Miller (MI) Smith (NJ) The Acting CHAIRMAN. The ques- Herseth Sandlin Miller (NC) Smith (TX) The Clerk will redesignate the Smith (WA) tion is on the amendment offered by Higgins Miller, Gary amendment. Hill Miller, George Snyder the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. The Clerk redesignated the amend- Hinchey Mitchell Solis CASTOR). ment. Hinojosa Mollohan Souder The amendment was agreed to. Hirono Moore (KS) Space RECORDED VOTE Hobson Moore (WI) Speier Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. The Acting CHAIRMAN. A recorded Hodes Moran (KS) Spratt Madam Chairman, I move that the vote has been demanded. Hoekstra Moran (VA) Stark committee do now rise. A recorded vote was ordered. Holden Murphy (CT) Stearns The motion was agreed to. Holt Murphy, Patrick Stupak The vote was taken by electronic de- Honda Murphy, Tim Sullivan Accordingly, the Committee rose; vice, and there were—ayes 413, noes 0, Hooley Murtha Sutton and the Speaker pro tempore (Ms. CAS- not voting 23, as follows: Hoyer Musgrave Tancredo TOR) having assumed the chair, Mrs. Hunter Myrick Tanner [Roll No. 203] TAUSCHER, Acting Chairman of the Inglis (SC) Nadler Tauscher AYES—413 Inslee Napolitano Taylor Committee of the Whole House on the Israel Neal (MA) Abercrombie Brady (TX) Cuellar Terry state of the Union, reported that that Issa Neugebauer Ackerman Braley (IA) Culberson Thompson (CA) Jackson (IL) Norton Committee, having had under consider- Aderholt Broun (GA) Cummings Thompson (MS) Jackson-Lee Nunes ation the bill (H.R. 5715) to ensure con- Akin Brown (SC) Davis (AL) Thornberry (TX) Oberstar Alexander Buchanan Davis (CA) Tiahrt tinued availability of access to the Jefferson Obey Allen Burgess Davis (IL) Tiberi Johnson (GA) Olver Federal student loan program for stu- Altmire Burton (IN) Davis (KY) Tierney Johnson (IL) Ortiz dents and families, had come to no res- Andrews Buyer Davis, David Tsongas Johnson, E. B. Pascrell Arcuri Calvert Davis, Lincoln Turner olution thereon. Johnson, Sam Pastor Baca Camp (MI) Davis, Tom Udall (CO) Jones (NC) Paul f Bachmann Campbell (CA) Deal (GA) Udall (NM) Jones (OH) Payne Bachus Cannon DeFazio Upton RECESS Jordan Pearce Baird Cantor DeGette Van Hollen Kagen Pence Baldwin Capito Delahunt Vela´ zquez The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Kanjorski Perlmutter Barrett (SC) Capps DeLauro Visclosky ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair Kaptur Peterson (MN) Barrow Capuano Dent Walberg declares the House in recess subject to Bartlett (MD) Cardoza Diaz-Balart, L. Keller Petri Kennedy Pickering Walden (OR) the call of the Chair. Barton (TX) Carnahan Diaz-Balart, M. Walsh (NY) Bean Carney Dicks Kildee Pitts Accordingly (at 11 o’clock and 46 Kilpatrick Platts Walz (MN) Becerra Carson Dingell Wamp minutes a.m.), the House stood in re- Berman Carter Doggett Kind Poe Wasserman Berry Castle Donnelly King (IA) Pomeroy cess subject to the call of the Chair. Schultz Biggert Castor Doolittle King (NY) Porter Waters f Bilbray Chabot Doyle Kingston Price (GA) Watson Bilirakis Chandler Drake Kirk Price (NC) b 1321 Watt Bishop (NY) Christensen Dreier Klein (FL) Pryce (OH) Waxman AFTER RECESS Bishop (UT) Clarke Duncan Kline (MN) Putnam Blackburn Clay Edwards Knollenberg Radanovich Weiner The recess having expired, the House Blumenauer Cleaver Ehlers Kucinich Rahall Welch (VT) Weldon (FL) was called to order by the Speaker pro Blunt Clyburn Ellison Kuhl (NY) Ramstad Boehner Coble Ellsworth LaHood Rangel Weller tempore (Mr. CROWLEY) at 1 o’clock Bonner Cohen Emanuel Lamborn Regula Westmoreland and 21 minutes p.m. Bono Mack Conaway Emerson Lampson Rehberg Wexler Boozman Conyers Engel Langevin Reichert Whitfield (KY) f Bordallo Cooper English (PA) Larsen (WA) Renzi Wilson (OH) ENSURING CONTINUED ACCESS TO Boren Costa Eshoo Larson (CT) Reyes Wilson (SC) Boswell Costello Etheridge Latham Reynolds Wittman (VA) STUDENT LOANS ACT OF 2008 Boucher Courtney Everett LaTourette Richardson Wolf The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Boustany Cramer Fallin Latta Rodriguez Woolsey Boyd (FL) Crenshaw Farr Lee Rogers (AL) Wu ant to House Resolution 1107 and rule Boyda (KS) Crowley Fattah Levin Rogers (KY) Yarmuth XVIII, the Chair declares the House in Brady (PA) Cubin Feeney Lewis (CA) Rogers (MI) Young (FL)

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Waters Bean Feeney Lynch Schwartz Sullivan ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIRMAN Watson Becerra Ferguson Maloney (NY) Scott (GA) Sutton Watt The Acting CHAIRMAN. There are 2 Berman Filner Manzullo Scott (VA) Tanner Waxman minutes left in this vote. Berry Forbes Matheson Sensenbrenner Tauscher Weiner Biggert Fortenberry Matsui Serrano Taylor Bilbray Fossella McCarthy (CA) Sessions Terry Welch (VT) b 1345 Bilirakis Foster McCarthy (NY) Sestak Thompson (CA) Weldon (FL) Messrs. LINDER, GINGREY and Bishop (NY) Frank (MA) McCaul (TX) Shays Thompson (MS) Weller Bishop (UT) Frelinghuysen McCollum (MN) Shea-Porter Thornberry Wexler TANCREDO changed their vote from Blackburn Gallegly McCotter Sherman Tiahrt Whitfield (KY) ‘‘no’’ to ‘‘aye.’’ Blumenauer Garrett (NJ) McCrery Shimkus Tiberi Wilson (OH) So the amendment was agreed to. Blunt Gerlach McDermott Shuler Tierney Wilson (SC) Shuster Towns The result of the vote was announced Boehner Giffords McGovern Wittman (VA) Bonner Gilchrest McIntyre Simpson Tsongas Wolf as above recorded. Bono Mack Gillibrand McKeon Sires Turner Woolsey Stated for: Boozman Gohmert McMorris Skelton Udall (CO) Wu Slaughter Boren Gonzalez Rodgers Udall (NM) Yarmuth Mr. COLE. Madam Chairman, on Thursday, Smith (NE) Upton April 17, 2008, I missed the first vote in a se- Boswell Goode McNerney Young (FL) Boucher Goodlatte McNulty Smith (NJ) Van Hollen ries of two votes. I missed rollcall vote No. Boustany Gordon Meek (FL) NAYS—27 203. Boyd (FL) Granger Meeks (NY) Akin Foxx Lamborn Had I been present and voting, I would have Boyda (KS) Graves Melancon Brady (PA) Green, Al Mica Barrett (SC) Franks (AZ) McHenry voted as follows: Braley (IA) Green, Gene Michaud Brady (TX) Gingrey Miller (FL) Rollcall vote No. 203: ‘‘aye’’ (On agreeing to Brown (SC) Grijalva Miller (MI) Campbell (CA) Hensarling Paul Buchanan Gutierrez Miller (NC) Cannon Herger Pence the Miller, George amendment to H.R. 5715). Cubin Johnson, Sam Poe The Acting CHAIRMAN. There being Burgess Hall (NY) Miller, Gary Burton (IN) Hall (TX) Miller, George Deal (GA) Jordan Price (GA) Duncan King (IA) Tancredo no further amendments, under the rule, Buyer Hare Mitchell Flake Kingston Westmoreland the Committee rises. Calvert Harman Mollohan Accordingly, the Committee rose; Camp (MI) Hastings (FL) Moore (KS) NOT VOTING—21 and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. Cantor Hastings (WA) Moore (WI) Capito Hayes Moran (KS) Berkley Mack Rush WEINER) having assumed the chair, Mr. Capps Heller Moran (VA) Bishop (GA) Mahoney (FL) Shadegg BLUMENAUER, Acting Chairman of the Capuano Herseth Sandlin Murphy (CT) Broun (GA) Marchant Spratt Brown, Corrine Markey Cardoza Higgins Murphy, Patrick Wilson (NM) Committee of the Whole House on the Brown-Waite, Marshall Carnahan Hill Murphy, Tim Wynn State of the Union, reported that that Ginny McHugh Carney Hinchey Murtha Young (AK) Butterfield Pallone Committee, having had under consider- Carson Hinojosa Musgrave Hulshof Peterson (PA) ation the bill (H.R. 5715) to ensure con- Carter Hirono Myrick tinued availability of access to the Castle Hobson Nadler b 1409 Castor Hodes Napolitano Federal student loan program for stu- Chabot Hoekstra Neal (MA) Mr. AKIN changed his vote from dents and families, pursuant to House Chandler Holden Neugebauer ‘‘yea’’ to ‘‘nay.’’ Resolution 1107, he reported the bill, as Clarke Holt Nunes So the bill was passed. amended by that resolution, back to Clay Honda Oberstar Cleaver Hooley Obey The result of the vote was announced the House with sundry further amend- Clyburn Hoyer Olver as above recorded. ments adopted by the Committee of the Coble Hunter Ortiz A motion to reconsider was laid on Whole. Cohen Inglis (SC) Pascrell the table. Cole (OK) Inslee Pastor The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under Conaway Israel Payne Stated for: the rule, the previous question is or- Conyers Issa Pearce Mr. MCHUGH. Madam Speaker, I was un- dered. Cooper Jackson (IL) Perlmutter avoidably detained and missed rollcall No. Is a separate vote demanded on any Costa Jackson-Lee Peterson (MN) Costello (TX) Petri 204. At this time, I wish to note that had I further amendment reported from the Courtney Jefferson Pickering been present, I would have voted ‘‘yea.’’ Committee of the Whole? If not, the Cramer Johnson (GA) Pitts Stated for: Chair will put them en gros. Crenshaw Johnson (IL) Platts Mr. BROUN of Georgia. Madam Speaker, Crowley Johnson, E. B. Pomeroy The amendments were agreed to. Cuellar Jones (NC) Porter on rollcall No. 204, I was unavoidably de- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Culberson Jones (OH) Price (NC) tained. Had I been present, I would have question is on the engrossment and Cummings Kagen Pryce (OH) voted ‘‘nay.’’ third reading of the bill. Davis (AL) Kanjorski Putnam Davis (CA) Kaptur Radanovich PERSONAL EXPLANATION The bill was ordered to be engrossed Davis (IL) Keller Rahall Mr. MAHONEY of Florida. Madam Speaker, and read a third time, and was read the Davis (KY) Kennedy Ramstad on April 17, 2008, I missed votes. third time. Davis, David Kildee Rangel Davis, Lincoln Kilpatrick Regula Listed below are the votes I missed and The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Davis, Tom Kind Rehberg how I would have voted had I been present. question is on the passage of the bill. DeFazio King (NY) Reichert Miller of California Amendment to H.R. The question was taken; and the DeGette Kirk Renzi 5715, rollcall No. 203, I would have voted Speaker pro tempore announced that Delahunt Klein (FL) Reyes DeLauro Kline (MN) Reynolds ‘‘aye.’’ the ayes appeared to have it. Dent Knollenberg Richardson Final Passage of H.R. 5715, rollcall No. Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Diaz-Balart, L. Kucinich Rodriguez 204, the Ensuring Continued Access to Stu- Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas Diaz-Balart, M. Kuhl (NY) Rogers (AL) dent Loans Act of 2008, I would have voted Dicks LaHood Rogers (KY) and nays. Dingell Lampson Rogers (MI) ‘‘yea.’’ The yeas and nays were ordered. Doggett Langevin Rohrabacher Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. The vote was taken by electronic de- Donnelly Larsen (WA) Ros-Lehtinen Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous con- vice, and there were—yeas 383, nays 27, Doolittle Larson (CT) Roskam Doyle Latham Ross sent that, in the engrossment of the not voting 21, as follows: Drake LaTourette Rothman bill H.R. 5715, the Clerk be authorized [Roll No. 204] Dreier Latta Roybal-Allard to correct the table of contents, sec- Edwards Lee Royce tion numbers, punctuation, citations, YEAS—383 Ehlers Levin Ruppersberger Abercrombie Aderholt Allen Ellison Lewis (CA) Ryan (OH) and cross references and to make such Ackerman Alexander Altmire Ellsworth Lewis (GA) Ryan (WI) other technical and conforming

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Madam Speaker, before in the Senate feels strongly about that important vote that was taken yester- I yield to my friend from Maryland, I issue, but he is not sure that he can get day has been negated and that there is would like to join him in his comments the votes. That is the discussion. There some objection to correcting the situa- regarding Lou Costantino, who served is some discrepancy, not much, be- tion, which was a clerical error, appar- us well and ably for a long time. tween the figures, and we are hopeful ently, by unanimous consent on our Lou Costantino was always proud of that we can get a budget conference side. his job, he was proud of his family and committee done. As soon as a con- I am just wondering where that proud of our country. To his wife, ference committee is done, we will re- stands in comparison to the unanimous Doris; his daughter, Edie; and to his port it to the floor. If that is next consent objections that were being ex- son, Louis, Jr., who we got relatively week, it will be on the floor next week. pected of us today. regular reports on, I am sure that the I am in regular communication with Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. sympathy of the House goes out to Mr. SPRATT, the chairman of the Budg- Madam Speaker, I withdraw my unani- them. et Committee, and he is working at it. mous consent request. Madam Speaker, I yield to my friend Mr. BLUNT. I thank the gentleman The SPEAKER pro tempore. The re- from Maryland, the majority leader, for that information. Of course it is a quest is withdrawn. for information about next week’s challenge, but it is a challenge that we f schedule. need to meet in some way usually be- Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman fore we can move with the appropria- MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE for yielding, and I thank him for his tions process. But on appropriations on A message from the Senate by Ms. words about Lou Costantino. All of us the supplemental, there were con- Curtis, one of its clerks, announced will miss Lou. He was a wonderful, flicting reports this week that there that the Senate has passed without good, human being who loved this in- might be a supplemental for Afghani- amendment a bill of the House of the stitution and showed great affection to stan and another supplemental for following title: all of our Members. Iraq, and then there were reports that H.R. 5813. An act to amend Public Law 110– On Monday, the House is not in ses- no, the committee would report out 196 to provide for a temporary extension of sion. On Tuesday, the House will meet one supplemental bill. I am wondering programs authorized by the Farm Security at 12:30 p.m. for morning hour and 2 if the gentleman knows whether there and Rural Investment Act of 2002 beyond p.m. for legislative business. On will be one or two bills, and are we still April 18, 2008. Wednesday and Thursday, the House anticipating a markup of that bill next f will meet at 10 a.m. for legislative week and then floor action following ON THE PASSING OF LOU business. On Friday, no votes are ex- next week? COSTANTINO pected in the House. I yield. We will consider several bills under Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman (Mr. HOYER asked and was given suspension of the rules, including an for yielding. permission to address the House for 1 important bill from the Oversight and I still anticipate that. With reference minute.) Government Reform Committee, H.R. to the gentleman’s question regarding Mr. HOYER. Madam Speaker, ladies 5712, Close the Contractor Fraud Loop- the number of bills, based upon the and gentlemen of the House, we have hole Act. A final list of suspension bills comments of Mr. MURTHA, I have not some extraordinary people who work will be announced by the close of busi- talked to him personally but that have for us. At times this is a very stressful ness tomorrow. been reported, it is my understanding job. They remain even-tempered. They In addition, Mr. Whip, we will con- that he is thinking of one bill, not both remain gentle and kind and good sider H.R. 5819, a bill to improve the an Afghanistan and an Iraq. humored. We have lost one of those Small Business Innovation Research The problem is while there is, I just recently. Maybe you did not know Program and the Small Business Tech- think, pretty universal support for the his name, but you saw him, usually nology Transfer Program, and H.R. effort in Afghanistan as being critical through the center door, or sometimes 2830, the Coast Guard authorization to our fight on terrorism, there is more other doors. His name was Lou bill. disagreement on the Iraq component Costantino. Mr. BLUNT. I thank the gentleman and what we ought to be doing there. As a member of the House security for that. But the way the budget is structured, team for over 28 years, Lou Costantino I have a couple of inquiries about it would be very difficult to consider has been a fixture at the House Cham- other legislation. The 1974 Budget Act them discretely, Afghanistan and Iraq. ber’s front door and was beloved by set a budget deadline of April 15. I am So it is my understanding that Mr. Members and staff who were greeted by well aware that the Congress has sel- MURTHA has recommended and intends him every day. I never failed to come dom met that deadline, I think maybe to pursue it as one bill. through that door that he did not have four times. The latest three were in Mr. BLUNT. I thank the gentleman a kind and gentle world. 1999, 2001 and 2003. But with that dead- for that. That bill needs to be out of He was a ‘‘purveyor of pork,’’ if you line in mind, I wonder if the gentleman the way, along with the budget, before will. He loved sausage, and he allowed has any sense when a budget might be we can get on with the other appro- some of us to share in that sausage. on the floor. priating process. And thinking about I am very sad to report to all of you I would yield. that appropriations calendar, I know that Lou died of a heart attack last that the majority leader was quoted Saturday. He was young, 71 years of b 1415 last week as saying that it is likely we age. Many of you will remember Lou Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman won’t have a lame duck session, a post- for the homemade sausage he made for for yielding. election session this year. I wonder if his friends and colleagues every day. My hope is sooner rather than later. you can comment on that a little more. We will miss Lou. He made this insti- However, as the gentleman knows, we I know privately we have discussed tution a better place. are having, as is so often the case, dif- this, but I saw you in print suggesting MOMENT OF SILENCE ficulty reaching agreement with the that we might not be back after the I would ask you therefore to join me Senate, mainly because the chairman election. I am wondering what your in a moment of silence in remembrance of the Senate Budget Committee has a thoughts are on that.

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We don’t need to have CLINTON or Senator OBAMA, we are whole issue of foreign intelligence sur- that debate here. But I have pledged to going to have a change of administra- veillance, and I hope we are moving to- do everything that I can to bring this tion. I expressed it as a hope, and we ward a conclusion of that important to a conclusion. are going to work toward not having a issue. Mr. HOYER. If the gentleman would lame duck session. I would yield. yield, I want to thank the gentleman Let me go back and answer your Mr. HOYER. As you know because we because I believe he is absolutely sin- question. I think we had a week delay have had an opportunity to discuss it, cere in that effort. He and I have had on the supplemental, and I think the I have essentially been coordinating an opportunity to have discussions. We week of May 5 is the week we are look- this issue on our side with Mr. REYES are going to continue those over the ing at for the supplemental. As you and Mr. CONYERS, and also working coming days, and hopefully we can get know, I said the last week in April, the with Mr. ROCKEFELLER. And you and I this done sooner rather than later. The first week in May. That is the first full had a meeting with Senator BOND, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee week in May, so I guess I am still accu- ranking member on the Republican and the chairman of the Intelligence rate. We are on for that week hopefully side. Committee have both expressed that on the supplemental, which will be I am hopeful that we can have a prop- objective. timely in accomplishing the objective osition passed through the House and Mr. BLUNT. I thank the gentleman. of getting dollars in time before the de- hopefully by the Senate by the Memo- f pletion of the funds that have already rial Day break. That is my time frame. been appropriated. I am working toward that. I have meet- HOUR OF MEETING ON TOMORROW With respect to the appropriations ings tomorrow with respect to the For- Mr. HOYER. Madam Speaker, I ask process, obviously I will be discussing eign Intelligence Surveillance Act. I unanimous consent that when the with Mr. OBEY and with Mr. SPRATT, if am going to have meetings this after- House adjourns today, it adjourn to we fail to pass a budget, we have to noon, and I had meetings yesterday. I meet at 9 a.m. tomorrow. give the Appropriations Committee a am giving it a lot of attention, with The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there figure to mark to. My thought would others as well. As you know, we met objection to the request of the gen- be that we will do as we have done in briefly. I would reiterate to you that tleman from Maryland? years past, deem that the House budget when I have some better fix on where I There was no objection. will be the numbers to which they will think the Senate is willing to go or f mark. But we have not made that deci- where we are willing to go and where sion at this point in time. we can reach agreement, I want to dis- HOUSING CRISIS Mr. BLUNT. I thank the gentleman cuss it with you because I am hopeful (Mr. HALL of New York asked and for that. that we can work together to try to On the idea on a congressional year was given permission to address the make that happen. that will end before the election, I House for 1 minute and to revise and Mr. BLUNT. I thank the gentleman. I know last week we voted in an unusual extend his remarks.) think every day matters in this regard, way to put off the vote on the Colom- Mr. HALL of New York. Madam and certainly going home for another bia trade agreement, and I suppose Speaker, we are in a housing crisis in work period at home without a conclu- that could mean to put it off indefi- the United States, yet the Bush admin- sion here would be the wrong thing for nitely. Without a lame duck session, istration seems determined to ignore us to do. I hope we can meet your goal and that is one of the times when it it. and hopefully meet it earlier than the was thought that we might get back to Losing your home has a deep eco- last day or two that we are here before those trade bills. I’m not aware of any nomic and emotional impact that can the Memorial Day break. real discussion that has gone on this last for years. When the mortgage cri- Mr. HOYER. If the gentleman would week on this Colombia agreement. I sis broadens as wide as it has, entire yield, I share that hope. Again, I share hope we are continuing to look for a communities, not just individuals, face the conviction, which I have expressed way to get that important bill done. dire consequences for the future. I yield to my friend. on numerous occasions, that the law In the Hudson Valley of New York, Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman that currently exists to my under- we have been especially hard hit. Over for yielding. standing, and when I say currently ex- the last 3 months, foreclosures in West- The Speaker has focused on, as I ists, and the authorizations that were chester County were up almost 40 per- think she has been quoted in the press given under the Protect America Act, cent from last year, and they’ve more as saying, we are still looking at TAA are in place and in fact are continuing than tripled since 2005. Putnam Coun- and discussing that with the adminis- to provide opportunities to intercept ty, also in my district, has the single tration. TAA, trade adjustment assist- those communications that the admin- highest foreclosure rate of any county ance, we think that is very important. istration and the intelligence commu- in New York State. There have been some positive discus- nity feel are necessary to focus on. This crisis demands bold action. This sions and indications from the adminis- Having said that, we are trying, I’m Congress has already expanded the tration. In addition, I know the Speak- trying to move ahead as quickly as we Federal loan limits to make Federal er has been discussing additional items can come to agreement. protections available to more home Mr. BLUNT. I want to say in re- with the leadership in the House and buyers, now we need to extend these sponse that I am not quite as con- with Mr. REID, and I think as well with Federal guarantees to more home- fident, and maybe you’re not confident the White House. So I think discus- owners in need. This Congress will not either, that law doesn’t meet all of the sions are ongoing. The Speaker has only protect institutions like Bear circumstances that occur. And even if made it very clear that the action Stearns, but will also protect American it does, that law reaches an anniver- taken from her perception, certainly families who remain at great risk. from my perception, was not the death sary of those particular orders August knell of Colombia. I know that some 1. Again, coming back after Memorial f have interpreted it that way, but I Day, we are suddenly under a situation b 1430 don’t think that the Speaker or I inter- where even those things that we cur- preted it that way. rently believe are covered, we will WELCOMING POPE BENEDICT XVI Mr. BLUNT. I hope we are continuing begin to have a problem in them expir- (Mr. GINGREY asked and was given that. ing. And certainly the things that are permission to address the House for 1

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Madam Speaker, today the ington, D.C. and New York City, the substantiated and misleading state- small town of Hull Texas, population Holy Father, who serves as a wondrous ments about a subject as important 1,800, is mourning the loss of a native example of faith and leadership, will and as serious as nuclear weapons. son who grew up to be a mighty war- help Catholics and all Christians renew Another troubling sign came last rior for the . He their faith by delivering mass to tens month when Admiral William Fallon gave up everything he had to protect of thousands of people. retired. Admiral Fallon was a bulwark everyone else’s freedom. I was honored to have the oppor- against the Iran hawks in the adminis- Army Sergeant Shaun Paul Tousha tunity to attend mass with the Holy tration, and his departure raised fears was killed in Baghdad, Iraq on April 9, Father at the new Nationals Stadium that he was, first, forced to retire, and 2008 when an improvised explosive de- here in D.C. this morning. And, Madam that next, the rush to war was on. vice detonated near his vehicle. Speaker, it was truly a blessed event. And several weeks ago, Vice Presi- Madam Speaker, the IED is the way Despite his relatively short tenure, dent CHENEY said that he has ‘‘high our cowardly enemy fights this war. Pope Benedict XVI has emerged as a confidence’’ that the Iranians have an And in my Congressional district area, vocal and effective leader for Catholics ongoing nuclear enrichment program. Shaun Paul is the 26th area resident throughout the world. Over the past 3 Of course, the most recent national in- that has been killed in Iraq or Afghani- years, His Holiness has stressed the telligence estimate reported that the stan during these wars. need for a return to fundamental Chris- Iranians stopped working on a sus- He was a man from small town Texas tian values in response to what many pected nuclear weapons program 4 who had a playful heart, and he made a years ago. see as the world’s sloping trend toward big impression on everybody that knew And finally, General Petraeus told secularism. him growing up. He died as a war hero Congress last week that Iranian-backed As Pope, he has focused on the im- at the age of 30, and he will forever be special groups now pose the greatest portance and sanctity of human life, recognized as how he lived, that being long-term threat in Iraq. a loving husband, a caring father and a especially the life of the unborn, an For years, the administration told us issue that’s very important to me, both great friend to all those people in rural that the main enemy was al Qaeda or America. as a member of the Catholic Church Sunni insurgents, or Shiite militia. and as a Member of Congress. But Shaun Paul Tousha was born Feb- Now they tell us, forget them; it’s Iran. ruary 11, 1978 in Silsbee, Texas. He every American, regardless of party af- In my mind, this raises legitimate con- filiation or religious belief can find grew up in the town of Hull, Texas, and cerns that the administration may be he was the son of the late Tommy Gene hope in his message of freedom and jus- inventing new excuses to stay in Iraq tice for all people. and Roberta Tousha. He was a husband by trying to convince the American to Christy Tousha, and loving father of Madam Speaker, as a member of St. people to support war against Iran. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Marietta, the two children, Colton and Maycee. Madam Speaker, I too am concerned As a teenager, Shaun played football, Georgia, I humbly welcome Pope Bene- about Iran. The Iranians should stay like most Texas rural boys do. He dict XVI to the United States as he out of Iraq. They should not develop played at Hull-Daisetta High School. continues to spread his message of nuclear weapons. No country should And he also liked to ride horses. And faith, love and service in Christ. develop nuclear weapons. But if we being a cowboy, he enjoyed bull riding. f want Iran to behave well, we must stop His stepmother, Doris Tousha, was SPECIAL ORDERS threatening to attack them. Instead, very proud of Shaun. She described him our first line of defense must be en- as outgoing and an individual who had The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under gagement and aggressive diplomacy. a lot of friends. He was always cutting the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- The absolutely essential first step in up, acting silly, and made friends eas- uary 18, 2007, and under a previous that process must be the redeployment ily. He liked to joke around, and his order of the House, the following Mem- of our troops out of Iraq. How can we personality drew people toward him. bers will be recognized for 5 minutes expect Iraq’s neighbors to cooperate in She said that he may have been a hand- each. stabilizing the region while we insist ful growing up, but she was proud of f on an open-ended foreign occupation the way he turned out. THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S with 140,000 troops and tens of thou- And after graduating from Hull- MIDDLE EAST POLICIES sands of military contractors? Daisetta High School in May of 1996, Ending the occupation will allow us Shaun got a job at a wire company in The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a to launch a broad initiative to bring Dayton, Texas. He worked there for previous order of the House, the gentle- the nations in the region to the table, several years before he heard his Na- woman from California (Ms. WOOLSEY) to address the relevant, the political, tion’s call and joined the United States is recognized for 5 minutes. the economic and the security issues. Army at the age of 22 in February of Ms. WOOLSEY. Madam Speaker, I And Madam Speaker, when it comes 2000. rise to bring to the House’s attention a to Iran’s nuclear challenge, we must His father, Tommy Gene Tousha, was potentially, very dangerous new turn retake the high moral ground in the extremely proud of his son’s decision to in the administration’s policies in the United States of America. When we serve in the Army, and even went with Middle East. In recent weeks the ad- turn our backs on nuclear nonprolifera- him to the local recruiting station ministration has been stirring up the tion, abandon the comprehensive test when he joined up. pot on Iran again, and that has caused ban treaty and develop new nuclear Madam Speaker, General Patton many Americans to worry that the ad- weapons of our own, under what cir- once said ‘‘we should live for some- ministration is getting ready to launch cumstances can we tell another nation thing, rather than to die for nothing.’’ another attack in the region, this time to abandon their nuclear dreams? Shaun sought to live his life in duty to in Tehran. The American people do not want a this country. In fact, there’s more than enough wider conflict in the Middle East. They Shaun attended basic training in Ft. evidence to show that the administra- want our leaders to spend every waking Benning, Georgia and later was sta- tion may be laying the groundwork for moment working to bring peace to the tioned at Ft. Hood, Texas. He was as- military action. In an interview last region. This is not the time for heated signed as a Generator Equipment Re- month, the President said that the Ira- rhetoric, for bullying and new threats. pairman in the 1st Battalion, 66th Ar- nians, and I quote him, he said, ‘‘the It is time to try the one thing we mored Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, Iranians have declared they want to haven’t tried, diplomacy. in Ft. Hood, Texas.

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Shaun realized this, and dur- the Extensions of Remarks.) nizing and achieving peace in the Mid- ing his first tour of duty in Iraq he de- f dle East is not through preemptive at- cided to re-enlist in the United States tacks, but through concern, negotia- Army and make the military his ca- b 1445 tion, and firmness. reer. He served three tours of duty in HONORING THE LIFE OF LOU We must tell the negotiators what Iraq. COSTANTINO America wants to see and provide them When Shaun’s father died in 2002, he the support. We must insist that we The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a helped his stepmother, Doris, through will continue to be a friend of Israel, previous order of the House, the gentle- many difficult times. He took care of we will never step away from her, and woman from Texas (Ms. JACKSON-LEE) his family back home in America. we stand by Israel’s right to exist as a is recognized for 5 minutes. freedom-loving democratic people. Doris said that she was impressed at Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. I thank Shaun’s emotional strength during Let’s say to the Palestinians if they you, Madam Speaker, and I thank you are to move their people beyond the that painful ordeal of the family fa- for your leadership. ther’s death. Doris said that she was refugee camps, then they, too, must As I begin my special order this fight for democracy and two distinct proud that the Army really helped him afternoon, I want to pay tribute to two become a mature individual. separate states. The two-state theory great Americans. One is a friend to us must be put in action, but we can no George Washington once said that all. We know him well as Lou ‘‘discipline is the soul of the Army.’’ longer stand by as an objective by- Costantino. We thank him so very stander. We must be engaged, we must And with Shaun’s character, back- much, and we really know him as Lou. ground and career in the Army, Shaun roll up our sleeves, we must recognize We thank him for his friendship. We that we are very much a part of the was able to overcome even the most thank him for his warmth. We thank trying circumstances because of that peace process in the Middle East. him for taking care of this place, this I remember very well when the Presi- discipline. House. One of Shaun’s best friends, Johnny dent came in and he said, That’s their Lou, you see, was one of the distin- business. My good friends on the other Fregia, described him as a ‘‘good ol’ guished men and women who stand boy that died for his country.’’ They side of the aisle got up and joined him, outside of the house chamber, works That’s their business. It’s our business. became friends when they worked to- with the Sergeant of Arms, is in con- gether in Dayton, Texas. Shaun was And before the lights go out on this junction with the Clerk’s Office. But administration, it would do well for us Johnny’s helper, and he kept work in- really, Lou is part of our family. teresting for Johnny with his humor, in the name of Prime Minister Sharon, He attended and was concerned about who began this process, to get engaged ever-present smile and his constant all of our guests that would come. He good mood. They enjoyed even shoot- and to make sure that we can have was concerned about the Members. He peace in the Middle East, to have an ing pool after work, and Johnny said was equally concerned and passionate that Shaun was pretty good at it. ally in Israel, safe and secure, and to about America. say to the Palestinian people that you Johnny described the high caliber of I consider him a great patriot, a character and love for their country can have good health, you can have great American. He loved this work be- housing, you can have education. that his friend Shaun had and the rest cause he was serving America. of our military men and women pos- I think, Madam Speaker, that this is Lou lost his battle just this past a challenge that the Secretary of State sess. weekend, but we are reminded that Lou Johnny went ahead and said, ‘‘free- should accept; this is a challenge for was with us last week. How truly val- the President to accept. America can dom ain’t free. And sometimes we take iant Lou is in life and in death, and I it for granted. There’s a price to pay, do no less. stand here today to offer my deepest I did not say ‘‘battle.’’ I said ‘‘en- and those guys like Shaun are willing sympathy to his wife, Doris; his daugh- to pay for it. They are willing to lose gage,’’ and be able to be part of the ne- ter, Edie; his son, Lewis, Jr.; and to all gotiation for peace. There is nothing everything they’ve got to keep this of his family members. May he rest in country free.’’ wrong for being considered a peace-lov- peace and may God bless him. ing Nation that promotes peace. Madam Speaker, this is a recent pho- I also take note to acknowledge the tograph of Shaun Paul Tousha right May God bless this Nation and bless happy celebration of the birthday of our soldiers, wherever they may be, as before he died. Shaun Tousha paid the Maya Angelou, poet laureate, teacher, ultimate price with his life, the price they stand on the front lines around mentor, resident of Winston-Salem, the world asking us to promote our for freedom in our country. North Carolina, the author of the 1993 Aristotle once wrote that ‘‘we make ideals and our values, and that is inaugural poem that suggested that peacemakers. war so that we may live in peace.’’ those of us who live in the great land Shaun served in order that we may must come from underneath the rocks f have freedom and have real peace in and shout out and be seen for justice. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a this country. She also wrote the language or the previous order of the House, the gen- Americans, even in this chamber, cry words to a book, ‘‘I Know Why the tleman from North Carolina (Mr. peace, peace. But Madam Speaker, Caged Bird Sings,’’ to talk about what JONES) is recognized for 5 minutes. there can be no peace as long as there it’s like to be isolated, to be contained, (Mr. JONES of North Carolina ad- are people who are trying to kill Amer- to be inhibited as a child growing up in dressed the House. His remarks will ap- icans somewhere in the world. And the deep south. pear hereafter in the Extensions of Re- Shaun Paul tried to protect us from Maya Angelou can be considered a marks.) that threat. great American, certainly a great poet, He had a heart as big as Texas, and certainly a great mentor of men and f we are proud of Sergeant Shaun women, college students, as she taught The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a Tousha. The light of his life has been me at Yale University. I am honored previous order of the House, the gen- extinguished, buy Shaun’s joyful spirit today to be able to say ‘‘thank you’’ to tleman from California (Mr. SCHIFF) is will burn bright forever in the hearts Maya Angelou. recognized for 5 minutes. and minds of his friends, his fellow sol- I now move, Madam Speaker, to (Mr. SCHIFF addressed the House. diers, and the Texans that loved him. something that has been continuing in His remarks will appear hereafter in And that’s just the way it is. this Nation, and very quickly I call the Extensions of Remarks.)

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Madam done, this leadership has done is to in- leading ‘‘dignified lives.’’ Madam Speaker, I note as I come to the well crease the cost of domestic production Speaker, I would like to know what here that it’s now 2:49 p.m. on a Thurs- of oil by increasing taxes. And who part of our American lax immigration day afternoon, a time when across this pays those ultimately? You got it, policy is ‘‘violent.’’ I fail to see how ac- Nation the folks who worked the day Madam Speaker. Americans. cepting more refugees than any other shift are getting ready to complete Whether it is allowing the free and Nation while providing free health their work; the folks who are working fair trade agreement with Colombia to care, free education, free housing and the afternoon or evening shift are get- not come to the floor, to change the free social service benefits to millions ting ready to head off to work or on rules so that it can’t come to the floor of illegal aliens in this country is in their way to work; and the folks who so that we kick in the teeth the only any way degrading to them or undigni- work the midnight shift across the Na- real friend that we have in South fied. tion are probably just rubbing their America, one of the few friends we have I would like to remind the Pope that eyes as they wake up and begin their in South America, a democratically America has long been dedicated to the day or bedding down as they begin elected government; or whether it is, principle of the rule of law, and there is their rest before they get back at it again, not allowing our intelligence absolutely nothing inhumane about again this evening. community to listen to a terrorist on American immigration statutes or the Where is the House of Representa- foreign soil, talking to another ter- robust but civilized enforcement of it. tives? Well, Madam Speaker, you look rorist on foreign soil so that we know around the House of Representatives what the bad guys are going to do be- But perhaps the Pontiff has made and they’ve gone home. They’ve all fore they do it. these comments with a motive more gone home. Now, why is that impor- Madam Speaker, that’s a crisis of broad than simply spreading the gos- tant? Well it’s important, Madam leadership. pel. It’s no secret that the Catholic Church has been having difficulty Speaker, because I think it dem- f onstrates another day demonstrating maintaining its membership levels and The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a a growing number of religions are com- the crisis of leadership that we have in previous order of the House, the gen- this House of Representatives. peting for parishioners. tleman from Arizona (Mr. FRANKS) is Madam Speaker, I come to the well Indeed, the Wall Street Journal re- recognized for 5 minutes. today at this time to document that we cently reported that the ‘‘Catholic (Mr. FRANKS of Arizona addressed are now 62 days into a unilateral disar- Church has long been losing members the House. His remarks will appear mament of the United States of Amer- and as much as a third of the native- hereafter in the Extensions of Re- ica as it relates to folks who want to born Catholic population is diminished. marks.) do us harm all across this world, 62 Meanwhile it has gained members days in which we have not had in place f among foreign-born (mostly Hispanic) the Protect America Act, 62 days in REMARKING ON THE POPE’S VISIT residents.’’ which we have not had in place the ap- AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION Madam Speaker, it’s possible and un- propriate rules and protections for fortunate that the Pope’s immigration communication companies to allow our The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a comments may have had as much to do United States Government to listen previous order of the House, the gen- with spreading the gospel as it does re- and intercept electronic communica- tleman from Colorado (Mr. TANCREDO) cruiting new members to the Church. tion between a foreign individual in a is recognized for 5 minutes. Mr. TANCREDO. Madam Speaker, I I regret that the Pope used some of foreign land who wishes to do America his time with the President to engage harm and another foreign individual in rise today to also welcome Pope Bene- dict XVI to the United States and to in faith-based marketing trying to at- a foreign land who wishes to do us tract new parishioners instead of harm. Washington, D.C., and congratulate him for delivering an important mes- preaching amnesty for illegal aliens to Did you get that, Madam Speaker? try and enlarge the size of the global Non-U.S. citizen, not on U.S. soil, talk- sage on the role that faith plays in the lives of every believer. Catholic congregation. I would urge ing or communicating through elec- the Pope to subscribe to the wisdom of tronic communication to another non- Over the years, the Vatican has been a strong voice for religious freedom, one of his cardinals, Cardinal Biffi. A U.S. citizen, not on U.S. soil, about few years ago, the cardinal told The how to injure Americans either on the for human rights, and was an invalu- able partner in defeating Communism Times of London, ‘‘Countries can battlefield or here in our homeland. choose to let in whoever they want. It’s called the Foreign Intelligence during the Cold War. The Catholic There is no such thing as a right of in- Surveillance Act. The bill was the Pro- Church has long been a source of char- vasion.’’ tect America Act. Sixty-two days ago, ity and benevolence helping some of the leadership in this House of Rep- the world’s most vulnerable people in Madam Speaker, the United States resentatives allowed that to expire. some of the world’s most dangerous already has a legal immigration sys- And why? For some reason, they be- places. tem unparalleled in its generosity. In lieved that lawyers ought to be able to However, as President Bush wel- the meantime, we assist illegal aliens, represent that foreign individual in a comes Benedict XVI to Washington and those affected by them, by reim- foreign land who want to do us harm this week, Americans might be sur- bursing hospitals for costly illegal with the same protections that you and prised to know that the Pope isn’t here emergency room hospital visits, pro- I enjoy as American citizens. just to minister to his flock. He’s here viding free public education to illegal Madam Speaker, when I go home to to lobby for amnesty for illegal aliens. alien children. I would challenge the the Sixth District of Georgia and I tell According to news reports, the Pope Pope to name any other country on people about this, they shake their met with President Bush yesterday to Earth that demonstrates this kind of head and say, what on earth is going add his voice to the open border lobby compassion on such a large scale. on? Where is the leadership? And I by encouraging the President to give I hope, Madam Speaker, that the agree. Where is the leadership? the 20 to 30 million illegal aliens in this American people will welcome the Madam Speaker, there is a crisis of country a free pass to stay here. Pope with open hearts and open arms leadership in this House of Representa- Now, I’m not taking issue with the but that they will reject his demand to tives, whether it is on the Foreign In- Pope’s moral authority. I respect his replace our efforts to achieve genuine telligence Surveillance Act, or the Pro- views on the threats of Islam, the sanc- border security with a faith-based im- tect America Act, to allow our intel- tity of human life. But I don’t think migration system.

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His remarks will appear take this time on the floor today, ciples that not only really created the hereafter in the Extensions of Re- Madam Speaker, to honor this great Nation, but would serve us well, as a marks.)C good man, recognize his genius and the Congress, today to help dig out of that application of his core principles as so- financial hole, to make sure that we f lutions to the core problems our Na- live within our means. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a tion faces today, and in conclusion, to often said that if previous order of the House, the gen- read his first Inaugural Address which we, as a Nation, would only apply core tleman from North Carolina (Mr. was given in this Capitol on March 4, Republican principles to any problem, MCHENRY) is recognized for 5 minutes. 1801 as a reminder of his genius and as the knot will always untie itself. He (Mr. MCHENRY addressed the House. a guideline to really lay out a path for was absolutely right about that. Mr. His remarks will appear hereafter in the solutions that we really need as a Jefferson believed that we should trust the Extensions of Remarks.) Nation today. the good hearts and the good judgment f The financial hole the United States of individual Americans to make the finds itself in today is absolutely un- ADJOURNMENT FROM FRIDAY, right decision. Never entrust the solu- precedented. The Comptroller of the APRIL 18, 2008, TO TUESDAY, tion to a problem to the Federal Gov- United States, David Walker, who just APRIL 22, 2008 ernment except as an absolute last re- left office a few weeks ago, audited the sort. Washington, D.C. will usually foul Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Madam books of the United States and con- it up. And Mr. Jefferson understood Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that cluded that we, as a Nation, are in a $54 that. And it was not because there when the House adjourns tomorrow, it trillion hole, that every living Amer- aren’t good people here. The Nation’s adjourn to meet at 12:30 p.m. on Tues- ican would have to write a check for capital is full of wonderful, good people day, April 22, for morning-hour debate. $175,000 in order to pay off the existing dedicated to representing their dis- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there obligations of the Federal Government. tricts to the best of their ability and objection to the request of the gentle- That includes the $11 trillion national based on their core principles as they woman from Texas? debt to pay off the obligations of Medi- see them. We bring in, in District There was no objection. care, Social Security and Medicaid. All Seven, 25 young people, one junior from f those existing obligations of all the each of the high schools in my district, Federal programs already on the books I have set up a program as a nonprofit DISPENSING WITH CALENDAR are so massive, with the retirement of 501(c)(3), the Bill Archer Student In- WEDNESDAY BUSINESS ON the baby boomers, with the profligate tern Program, to bring one young per- WEDNESDAY NEXT Thelma-and-Louise spending of this son from each of the high schools in Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Madam Democrat Congress, existing financial my district for a full week, all-ex- Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that obligations are so severe that we penses-paid trip to Washington, D.C. so the business in order under the Cal- would, every one of us, have to write a they can see firsthand that the Na- endar Wednesday rule be dispensed check today for $175,000 just to pay off tion’s capital is full of people who have with on Wednesday next. those existing obligations even if Con- good hearts, they’re doing the best The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there gress didn’t create a single new Federal they can to represent their districts objection to the request of the gentle- program. It’s an extraordinary number, from their perspective. woman from Texas? one that is absolutely terrifying and The young people in my district who There was no objection. that not enough Americans know participate in this program meet Mem- f about. bers of Congress, they meet Members of If we, as a Nation, would just adhere the Senate, they meet administration AUTHORIZING THE CLERK TO to the principles of Jeffersonian repub- officials, cabinet members, they meet MAKE CORRECTIONS IN EN- licanism, if we would remember Mr. judges on the Supreme Court, and they GROSSMENT OF H.R. 5715, ENSUR- Jefferson’s vision, his genius, his ad- have an opportunity to see firsthand, ING CONTINUED ACCESS TO STU- herence to the core principles of repub- Mr. Speaker, that the government is DENT LOANS ACT OF 2008 licanism, with a small ‘‘r’’ as he called truly made up of good people doing the Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Madam them, we, as a Nation, can dig our way best they can. And it is just human na- Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that out of that financial hole, we as a Na- ture that when decisions, as Mr. Jeffer- the Clerk be authorized to make tech- tion can return to the prosperity and son said, are removed to Washington, nical corrections in the engrossment of freedom that the Nation has always en- D.C. where the people can’t see them, H.R. 5715 to include corrections in joyed, the level of freedom that our can’t not only see what’s going on, but spelling, punctuation, section num- founders enjoyed. a real voice in what’s going on, when bering, and cross-referencing, and in- It’s disturbing to me, as a Member of those decisions are removed to Wash- sertion of appropriate headings. Congress, to see the ease with which ington they become, by nature, less re- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there programs like the funding for anyone sponsive, less effective in solving the objection to the request of the gentle- in the world who has tuberculosis, problems of the American people. woman from Texas? AIDS or malaria, under a bill that this This government has grown so far be- There was no objection. House passed last week, anyone in the yond what the founders intended that world in a third world nation that has I’m not sure Mr. Jefferson would recog- f malaria, TB or AIDS is entitled, at nize the Federal Government today. b 1500 U.S. taxpayer expense, to $1,200 a year And I know he would be as alarmed as worth of medication. Now, that bill I am, as my colleague, my good friend, THOMAS JEFFERSON passed at a time when we’re in this $54 Congressman ROSCOE BARTLETT, who The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under trillion hole, when we have an $11 tril- will follow me, is with the continued the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- lion national debt, when every one of growth of this government. uary 18, 2007, the gentleman from us owe $175,000 a piece. It’s just unbe- As fiscally conservative as I am, Mr. Texas (Mr. CULBERSON) is recognized lievable to me and utterly irrespon- Speaker, I’ve found in the time that for 60 minutes as the designee of the sible, the continued expansion of the I’ve been here I’ve become even more minority leader. Federal Government, the continued fiscally conservative as I see the record Mr. CULBERSON. Madam Speaker, creation of Federal programs like this growth of this government, as I read this Sunday was the 265th birthday of by this Thelma-and-Louise Democrat David Walker’s report. And I encourage Thomas Jefferson, one of our Nation’s Congress. To grow the Federal Govern- everyone out there to take the time,

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No Child Left Behind is a violation trillion hole that gets $3 to $4 trillion birthday of Thomas Jefferson, to re- of the 10th Amendment, spending deeper every year. member the core principles that Mr. money we didn’t have. I voted against Comptroller Walker says that the Jefferson lived his life by, that he gov- this AIDS in Africa program. I voted United States has about 5 to 10 years to erned this Nation by as our third Presi- against the Medicare Prescription Drug get our financial house in order. That’s dent, to remember the genius of this bill. I voted against, frankly, every sin- an extremely important piece of infor- great, good man and try to apply those gle one of the major spending initia- mation. We have, according to the principles to these massive problems tives that have been proposed since I Comptroller, 10 years tops, probably 5 we have today; to, first of all, live got here in 2001 in recognition that I years, to get our financial House in within our means; to restrict not only just simply will do everything in my order, to begin to get control over the size and power and cost of the Fed- power not to pass on this massive debt these entitlement programs, to begin eral Government, but to roll it back and deficit to my daughter and to her to get on a path to a balanced budget. within the boundaries that the found- kids. It is just inexcusable and unac- We need a constitutional amend- ers originally intended, the narrow ceptable. ment, ultimately, Mr. Speaker, to get scope of responsibility as laid out in I rise today, Mr. Speaker, to honor the budget of the United States bal- the Constitution so beautifully by our Mr. Jefferson and to read into the anced. We have it in Texas, it works founders. RECORD his magnificent first Inaugural beautifully. We also have a ‘‘speed gov- The whole idea of the Federal Gov- Address, his great advice for the Na- ernor’’ in Texas in our State constitu- ernment was that it would only have tion today, for this Congress, for the tion, it’s something we need here at those powers expressly delegated to it Nation, for the executive branch, for the Federal level, where the growth in in the Constitution, that, as the 10th all of us to just take a moment and government cannot exceed natural Amendment says so well, that all contemplate carefully the genius of growth in the economy, that there is power not specifically delegated to the Thomas Jefferson, the wisdom of his essentially a speed governor on spend- Federal Government by the Constitu- core philosophy of republicanism, with ing that prevents the legislative body tion would be reserved to the States a small ‘‘r,’’ that was focused on the from spending more money than is and the people. preservation of individual liberty and brought in by natural growth in the I came out of the State legislature in trusting individual Americans to con- economy, it works well in Texas, along Texas. And the idea behind the State trol that which they could see with with a balanced budget amendment to constitutions, I think my friend, Con- their own eye, as he often liked to say, the United States Constitution, would gressman BARTLETT, served in the shifting power away from Washington do a lot to get us back on the path that Maryland State legislature, the State and back in the hands of locally elected Comptroller Walker points out that we constitutions give the State legisla- officials and individual Americans. must do within the next 5 to 10 years, tures all power that State constitu- Mr. Jefferson also spent much of his or else. tions set aside for the legislatures. It’s time fighting the expansion of power of Comptroller Walker has certified a broad grant of authority. the judiciary. that by 2020, 12 years—young people lis- The Federal Government is delegated tening here today, Mr. Speaker, if responsibility in a very narrow way by b 1515 you’re 18 years old, by the year 2020, the Federal Constitution. And over the John Marshall, the Chief Justice of when you’re 30 years old, Medicare is years, with the terrible War Between the Supreme Court at that time when bankrupt. Social Security is on the the States, the assassination of Abra- he was President, and Mr. Jefferson brink of bankruptcy. ham Lincoln, the Reconstruction Con- locked horns repeatedly. And one of my Treasury bonds, the safest invest- gress, The , the growth of the favorite Jefferson quotes when it came ment in the world, according to the Federal Government with the rapid ex- to the judiciary was Mr. Jefferson Comptroller, according to Moody’s and pansion of power under The New Deal, often said that ‘‘The judiciary ad- Standard and Poor’s, who have already Congress passing laws in areas where vances on noiseless steps like gravity, formally notified the Treasury that they really don’t have any business, as never yielding what they have gained.’’ they’re beginning the process of down- a result, the Federal Government has And that is so true, Mr. Speaker. Not grading U.S. Treasury bonds, Treasury grown so far beyond anything that the only has the Congress, passing laws we bonds by the year 2020 will be graded as founders envisioned that we today face, have no business passing that belong junk bonds if we do not stop growing as David Walker has told us, a $54 tril- within the jurisdiction and control of the government and stop spending lion liability that equals $175,000 for State and local governments, not only money on anything but the bare essen- every living American. has the Congress expanded the size, tials. In our personal lives, Mr. Speak- This obligation, Mr. Speaker, is so power, and cost to the Federal Govern- er, if we have run up too much debt, if massive that if we were to confiscate ment, but an aggressive judiciary has we have a second mortgage on the all the private property of the United repeatedly expanded the scope of its home, if our credit cards are tapped States and sell it off at auction, David power and responsibility. out, in our personal lives we would all Walker estimates that would only pay Also, after the election of 1800 when know what to do, you would quit for about 90 percent of this $54 trillion the Republicans and he, as the leader spending money on anything except obligation. of the Republican Party, took over the the bare essentials to keep a roof over It’s a terrifying number. And the executive branch and won a majority your family’s head, to pay the bills, to number that we often see for the na- in the United States House and in the put groceries on the table, other than tional debt of about $11 trillion work- United States Senate, Mr. Jefferson that, you would just quit spending ing out to about $45,000 a person, that’s said that the Federalists, those who money. But the Federal Government not the real number, folks. The real wanted to concentrate all power in has the ability not only to print number is you, Mr. Speaker, I, every Washington, had ‘‘retreated to the money, but to issue more Treasury living American has to write a check bunkers of the judiciary and turned bonds. And the money that we spend for $175,000 today to pay off that $54 their guns on the people of the United here in Congress that is beyond our trillion liability that we are now de- States.’’ means is paid for by debt passed on to scending on a path like Argentina, the And in so many ways, those judges our kids. It’s just intolerable. dollar becoming like the peso. that Mr. Jefferson was so concerned The Chinese, the foreign investors We, as a Nation, our Treasury bills, about have over time gradually ex- buy our Treasury bonds today and sup- the safest investment in the history of panded the scope of their power where port this profligate spending, but it is the world, becoming junk bonds. It’s in, for example, the State of Missouri,

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They So part of what you will hear Mr. Jef- bonds, raised property taxes, raised were fast personal friends. ferson say to the Nation, I think, is es- taxes on the people of Missouri to pay But in the election of 1800, they had pecially appropriate today, that we do for improvements that that Federal a falling out because of their funda- all that we can to put those partisan judge believed in his ivory tower, in his mental difference of opinion about the distinctions aside. wisdom as Zeus up on Mount Olympus, direction the Nation should go. Mr. But as I read his inaugural address that the people of the city of St. Louis Adams believed in a strong, powerful and as you hear his words, it’s also im- needed to improve their schools. And central government and the concentra- portant for the majority here to re- this judge had the idea that here’s how tion of authority in Washington, D.C. member Mr. Jefferson’s admonition we’re going to do it and you’re going to Mr. Jefferson believed firmly in the that, although the will of the majority pay taxes to pay for it. preservation of our constitutional sep- is in all cases to prevail, that will to be Time after time after time, when aration of powers and the preservation rightful must be reasonable and pro- power is concentrated where the people of the rights of the States and the peo- tect the rights of the minority. Be- can’t see it, where they can’t touch it, ple as the best and most responsible cause this majority, this Thelma and where it’s in the hands of people that guardians of liberty. And that funda- Louise Democrat majority in this Con- are unelected, unaccountable, and in- mental difference of opinion about gress that’s driving America right off a visible to the public, bad decisions are where true power should lie led to their financial cliff, this Thelma and Louise made, Mr. Speaker. The Constitution running against each other for Presi- Democrat majority doesn’t often hold suffers, this Nation suffers, and I think dent. public hearings on bills. They drop bills as a result of drifting too far from the Aaron Burr was running also. And in out here on the floor without public core principles of Jeffersonian Repub- the election of 1800, the electoral col- hearings. There’s no opportunity for licanism, the Nation finds itself where lege wound up being deadlocked. It was amendment. There’s very little oppor- it is today, in a $54 trillion hole where a tie between Aaron Burr and Thomas tunity for debate, just fundamentally we are on a glide path to become like Jefferson, and the House of Representa- destroying the whole purpose of this Argentina, where our treasury bills are tives had to make the final decision. great deliberative body. And denying junk, where our dollar is not valued, Each State being given one vote, there the minority our right to offer amend- and we essentially could be within a was a deadlock, and I think it was 37 ment, our right to be heard in this de- ballots that had to be cast before Mr. decade on the brink of national bank- bate, is, as you will hear Mr. Jefferson Jefferson was finally selected as Presi- ruptcy. It’s unacceptable. We can stop say, oppression, a violation of the most dent. it just like a hurricane can be dealt So they had come through a bitter fundamental principles of this great with, Mr. Speaker. If we see the hurri- election. The Nation had gone right to American Republic. We see it occur on cane coming and know about it, we can the brink of war with France. It was a a daily basis, and it’s a tragic and ter- deal with it. bitter, bitter struggle over whether or rible thing that the Thelma and Louise It’s important to remember that the not the Nation should go to war with Democrat majority has imposed on this people of Britain won the Battle of France. John Adams signed the Alien House, on this Nation, in denying the Britain because Winston Churchill was and Sedition Acts. And by signing the Republican minority our opportunity honest with them and told them how Alien and Sedition Acts, the Federal- to offer amendments and be heard. So dangerous the Nazis were, how severe ists, led by John Adams, had essen- in that sense too, Mr. Jefferson’s words the threat was to their freedom, that tially made it illegal for anyone to have special meaning today. the British people could indeed lose speak out against the President, to I have probably read about 60 percent their island and fall under Hitler’s con- speak out in a way that would hold out of Mr. Jefferson’s works. He is my trol. But the people of Britain had to the President or the Congress to ridi- hero. Mr. Jefferson is my role model in be told the truth. And Winston Church- cule, violating, of course, obviously, all that I do. In representing District ill told them the truth. And I think we, the first amendment, freedom of Seven, I do my very best, Mr. Speaker, as elected officials, owe our constitu- speech. And that, of course, also deep- to apply core Jeffersonian principles, ents the truth about the size and scope ened the separation between Mr. Jeffer- and on every issue I have found no of the $54 trillion liability that has son and Mr. Adams. matter what the problem is, no matter been created over the last 60 years of That election was especially bitter. what the issue is, Mr. Jefferson was Democrat and Republican Congresses. So this inaugural address was given at right. If you apply core Republican Passing that liability on to our chil- a time of deep passionate differences principles, the knot always unties dren and grandchildren is outrageous, between Federalists and Republicans. itself. I have yet to encounter a prob- it’s unacceptable, it’s immoral, it’s And that part of his speech, I think, is lem that Jeffersonian Republican prin- fundamentally wrong. And I hope we also very applicable today. ciples won’t solve. So, Mr. Speaker, I will, all of us, as Members of Congress, Mr. Speaker, you and I are good want to now read into the RECORD take guidance from the genius, the wis- friends. We, all of us, work together in Thomas Jefferson’s first inaugural ad- dom of Thomas Jefferson as he ad- this House as best we can to advance dress on March 4, 1801, at the conclu- dressed the Nation in his first inau- the needs of the Nation. There are per- sion of which I will yield back the re- gural address on March 4, 1801, after sonal friendships, certainly among, for mainder of my hour and turn it over to coming through a bitter election where example, the Texas delegation. One of my good friend and colleague Roscoe the House of Representatives had to my very best friends in Congress, my Bartlett, a fellow dedicated conserv- make the final decision as to who was good friend HENRY CUELLAR, and my ative who is committed to the core to be President. good friend CIRO RODRIGUEZ, who rep- principles of our Constitution. Mr. He, as leader of the Republican resents the border counties, we were BARTLETT is someone I admire deeply, Party, was running against John elected together in 1986 in the Texas a fellow Jeffersonian. Adams, the leader of the Federalist legislature. We remain devoted friends, And before reading Mr. Jefferson’s in- Party, the second President. They had and all of us in the Texas delegation augural address, his greatest speech become fast friends in Paris. Thomas put Texas first. When it comes to the perhaps, I think, and in the opinion of Jefferson and John Adams and Abigail needs of our State, party labels don’t scholars, they believe Mr. Jefferson’s Adams had become just inseparable matter. We’re Texans first and do what first inaugural address is his greatest, friends during their time together in we can to help the State of Texas. And let me also point out, Mr. Speaker, Paris, in Europe. They had become I know that’s true of other State dele- something else important. This good friends, of course, during the time of gations. It’s especially true in Texas. man, at the end of his life, wrote on his

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New England even talked grave, it says on his tombstone that he tion at the time under the Alien and about leaving the Union. was the author of the American inde- Sedition Act when the Adams adminis- In that atmosphere, Mr. Jefferson pendence, the author of the Virginia tration was furiously concentrating stood up on March 4, 1801, and gave the Statute of Religious Freedom, and the power in the hands of the Federal Gov- following speech. father of the . ernment, that the Republicans in the ‘‘Called upon to undertake the duties Mr. Jefferson listed those three things Congress, the Republicans in the State of the first executive office of our because in his mind those were his legislature, and the phalanx of the country, I avail myself of the presence three greatest achievements. He want- State legislatures,’’ as Mr. Jefferson of that portion of my fellow-citizens ed to list on his tombstone those said, ‘‘it was the Republican party that which is here assembled to express my things that he had done for the Amer- truly saved the Republic,’’ and that grateful thanks for the favor with ican people rather than those things being partisan, being the leader of the which they have pleased to look toward that they had done for him. All the of- Republican party, in Mr. Jefferson’s me, to declare a sincere consciousness fices that he had held, the incredible mind, was his greatest accomplishment that the task is above my talents, and array of honors that had been his because it led to the election of 1800 that I approach it with those anxious throughout his life. In fact, Mr. Speak- and the salvation of the Nation. and awful presentiments which the er, there was a wonderful letter that Mr. Jefferson always thought of the greatness of the charge and the weak- Mr. Jefferson wrote towards the end of election of 1800 as the revolution of ness of my powers so justly inspire. his life in February of 1826. He died, of 1800, and by electing a Republican ma- ‘‘A rising Nation, spread over a wide course, on July 4, 1826, 50 years to the jority to the House in 1800, a Repub- and fruitful land, traversing all the minute after he presented the Declara- lican majority to the Senate, a Repub- seas with the rich productions of their tion of Independence to the Conti- lican President, Republicans had been industry, engaged in commerce with nental Congress. Mr. Jefferson held on, elected in State legislatures across the nations who feel power and forget although he was unconscious. He knew Nation, that Mr. Jefferson believed right, advancing rapidly to destinies that he was close to the 4th. He actu- that that election was decisive and al- beyond the reach of mortal eye—when ally breathed his last at about 1 p.m. lowed the core principles of the Con- I contemplate these transcendent ob- on July 4, 1826, at almost the exact mo- stitution to be salvaged and to be pre- jects, and see the honor, the happiness, ment that 50 years earlier the com- served for future generations. and the hopes of this beloved country mittee, Mr. Adams, Dr. Franklin, and And with that in mind, Mr. Speaker, committed to the issue and auspices of Mr. Jefferson, had presented the Dec- Mr. Jefferson stood up in the old Sen- this day, I shrink from the contempla- laration to the Continental Congress. ate Chamber, just across the Rotunda, tion, and humble myself before the Mr. Jefferson had, about 4 months there is a plaque that people can see magnitude of the undertaking. earlier, wrote a letter justifying lot- today in the old Senate Chamber. Mr. ‘‘Utterly, indeed, should I despair did teries, because he couldn’t balance his Jefferson was known for giving speech- not the presence of many whom I see checkbook and Monticello was going to es. And he had a very soft voice. He remind me that in the other high au- have to be sold to pay off his creditors, was a little hard to hear. Eloquent and thorities provided by our Constitution which broke his heart. And someone magnificent writer that he was, he was I shall find resources of wisdom, of vir- had come up with the idea of having a a little hard to hear in public speeches. tue and of zeal on which to rely under lottery to help pay for the debts that And he stood up in the Senate Cham- all difficulties. To you, then, gentle- he had incurred. And, of course, a lot- ber. There was a lot of strong emotion men, who are charged with the sov- tery, being gambling, it really worried in the room, a lot of anger. John ereign functions of legislation, and to Mr. Jefferson. And he wrote a long jus- Adams did not even attend the inau- those associated with you, I look with tification for this lottery that would guration. He was so angry. encouragement for that guidance and sell tickets to save Monticello. And I And as a quick side note, if you have support which may enable us to steer recommend it to people to take a look not seen or not watched the magnifi- with safety the vessel in which we are at because in this long justification, cent HBO series on John Adams, you all embarked amidst the conflicting called Thoughts on Lotteries and it’s should. Having not subscribed to HBO elements of a troubled world. dated, I think, February of 1826, Mr. before, we did subscribe for a couple of ‘‘During the contest of opinion Jefferson lays out all of the great ac- months just for the sole purpose of see- through which we have passed the ani- complishments in his life. After going ing that magnificent production of mation of discussions and of exertions through all the good things that lot- David McCullough’s biography of John has sometimes worn an aspect which teries have done in the past, he says Adams that Tom Hanks is responsible might impose on strangers unused to that for no other reason people buy a for, and a great, good thing that Tom think freely and to speak and to write lottery ticket, they should perhaps re- Hanks has done for the Nation in what they think, but this being now de- member his services to the Nation, and bringing David McCullough’s book to cided by the voice of the Nation, an- he lists all that he had done with his the Nation. It is a magnificent series, nounced according to the rules of the incredible life: Secretary of State, Min- and I recommend it to you. Constitution, all will, of course, ar- ister to France, Vice President, Presi- And you will see in there that John range themselves under the will of the dent of the United States, the author Adams was so upset by his defeat that law, and unite in common efforts for of the Declaration of Independence, he didn’t even attend the inauguration the common good: this incredible list of accomplishments of Thomas Jefferson. And Mr. Jefferson ‘‘All, too, will bear in mind this sa- in his life. therefore stood up and gave this speech cred principle, that though the will of in a very, very tense atmosphere in the the majority is in all cases to prevail, b 1530 old Senate Chamber. There were a lot that will, to be rightful must be rea- And most revealingly, Mr. Speaker, of angry people in the room. The Na- sonable; that the minority possess Thomas Jefferson says at the end of it tion, frankly, at one point, when the 34 their equal rights, which equal law all, listing all of those accomplish- ballots were being cast in that dead- must protect, and to violate will be op- ments, Mr. Jefferson says, ‘‘Of all these lock, there was even discussion of the pression. things that I have done with my life, militia in Virginia going to the old ar- ‘‘Let us, then, fellow-citizens, unite the most important thing that I have mory there in Williamsburg and taking with one heart and one mind. Let us re- ever done was to be a partisan Repub- out weapons, a militia marching on store to social intercourse that har- lican, to head the Republican party.’’ Washington to ensure Mr. Jefferson’s mony and affection without which lib- Because Mr. Jefferson said ‘‘it was election because of this deadlock. erty and even life itself are but dreary the Republicans that I, as the leader of So tensions were high. Partisan feel- things. And let us reflect that having the Republicans in the Senate, and Al- ings were strong. Yet Mr. Jefferson banished from our land that religious bert Gallatin, as the leader of the Re- stood up and gave his inaugural ad- intolerance under which mankind so publicans in the House, that essen- dress, his greatest speech at a time long bled and suffered, we have yet

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Still one thing more, fellow- struction, the touchstone by which to and capable of as bitter and bloody per- citizens—a wise and frugal govern- try the services of those we trust; and secutions. ment, which shall restrain men from should we wander from them in mo- ‘‘During the throes and convulsions injuring one another, shall leave them ments of error or of alarm, let us has- of the ancient world, during the agoniz- otherwise free to regulate their own ten to retrace our steps and to regain ing spasms of infuriated man, seeking pursuits of industry and improvement, the road with alone leads to peace, lib- through blood and slaughter his long- and shall not take from the mouth of erty and safety. lost liberty, it was not wonderful that labor the bread it has earned. This is b 1545 the agitation of the billows should the sum of good government, and this reach even this distant and peaceful is necessary to close the circle of our ‘‘I repair, then, fellow-citizens, to the shore; that this should be felt and felicities. post you have assigned me. With expe- feared by some and less by others, and ‘‘About to enter, fellow-citizens, on rience enough in subordinate offices to should divide opinions as to measures the exercise of duties which com- have seen the difficulty of this the of safety. prehend everything dear and valuable greatest of all, I have learnt to expect ‘‘But every difference of opinion is to you, it is proper you should under- that it will rarely fall to the lot of im- not a difference of principle. We have stand what I deem the essential prin- perfect man to retire from this station called by different names brethren of ciples of our government, and con- with the reputation and with the favor the same principle. We are all Repub- sequently those which ought to shape which bring him into it. licans, we are all Federalists. If there its administration. I will compress ‘‘Without pretensions to that high be any among us who would wish to them within the narrowest compass confidence you reposed in our first and dissolve this Union or to change its Re- they will bear, stating the general greatest revolutionary character, publican form, let them stand undis- principle, but not all its limitations. whose preeminent services had entitled turbed as monuments of the safety ‘‘Equal and exact justice to all men, him to first place in his country’s love with which error of opinion may be tol- of whatever state or persuasion, reli- and destined for him the fairest page in erated where reason is left free to com- gious or political; the volume of faithful history, I ask so bat it. I know, indeed, that some hon- ‘‘Peace, commerce and honest friend- much confidence only as may give est men fear that a Republican govern- ship with all nations, entangling alli- firmness and effect to the legal admin- ment cannot be strong, that this gov- ances with none; istration of your affairs. ernment is not strong enough; but ‘‘The support of the State govern- ‘‘I shall often go wrong through de- would the honest patriot in the full ments in all their rights, as the most fect of judgment. When right, I shall tide of successful experiment, abandon competent administrations of our do- often be thought wrong by those whose a government which has so far kept us mestic concerns and the surest bul- positions will not command a view of free and firm on the theoretic and vi- warks against anti-Republican ten- the whole ground. I ask your indul- sionary fear that this government, the dencies; gence for my own errors, which will world’s best hope, may by possibility ‘‘The preservation of the general gov- never be intentional, and your support want energy to preserve itself? I trust ernment in its whole constitutional against the errors of others, who may not. On the contrary, I believe this, the vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace condemn what they would not if seen strongest government on Earth. I be- at home and safety abroad; in all its parts. The approbation im- lieve it is the only one where every ‘‘A jealous care of the right of elec- plied by your suffrage is a great con- man, at the call of the law, would fly tion by the people—a mild and safe cor- solation to me for the past, and my fu- to the standard of the law, and would rective of abuses which are lopped by ture solicitude will be to retain the meet invasions of the public order as the sword of revolution where peace- good opinion of those who have be- his own personal concern. Sometimes able remedies were unprovided; stowed it in advance, to conciliate that it is said that man cannot be trusted ‘‘Absolute acquiescence in the deci- of others by doing them all the good in with the government of himself. Can sions of the majority, the vital prin- my power, and to be instrumental to he, then, be trusted with the govern- ciple of Republics, from which there is the happiness and freedom of all. ment of others? Or have we found an- no appeal but to force, the vital prin- ‘‘Relying, then, on the patronage of gels in the form of kings to govern ciple and immediate parent of des- your good will, I advance with obedi- him? Let history answer this question. potism; ence to the work, ready to retire from ‘‘Let us, then, with courage and con- ‘‘A well-disciplined militia, our best it whenever you become sensible how fidence pursue our own Federal and Re- reliance in peace and for the first mo- much better choice it is in your power publican principles, our attachment to ments of war till regulars may relieve to make. And may that Infinite Power union and representative government. them; which rules the destiny of the universe Kindly separated by nature and a wide ‘‘The supremacy of the civil over the lead our councils to what is best, and ocean from the exterminating havoc of military authority; give them a favorable issue for your one-quarter of the globe; too high- ‘‘Economy in the public expense, that peace and prosperity.’’ minded to endure the degradations of labor may be lightly burdened; Mr. Speaker, Mr. Jefferson’s first in- others; possessing a chosen country, ‘‘The honest payment of our debts augural address holds so much wisdom with room enough for our descendants and sacred preservation of the public for us today at the start of the 21st to the thousandth and thousandth gen- faith; century, just as it did at the start of eration; entertaining a due sense of our ‘‘Encouragement of agriculture, and the 19th century, as surely his core equal right to the use of our own fac- of commerce as its handmaid; principles are the touchstone by which ulties, to the acquisitions of our own ‘‘The diffusion of information and ar- I measure my work on behalf of the industry, to honor and confidence from raignment of all abuses at the bar of people of District 7. And in reading his our fellow-citizens, resulting not from public reason; magnificent speech today, I want to birth, but from our actions and their ‘‘Freedom of religion; honor this great, good man, to cele- sense of them; enlightened by a benign ‘‘Freedom of the press; brate his 265th birthday, to recognize religion, professed, indeed, and prac- ‘‘And freedom of person under the Thomas Jefferson’s genius, his con- ticed in various forms, yet all of them proceedings of habeas corpus, and trial tribution to this Nation, and to recom- inculcating honesty, truth, temper- by juries impartially selected. mit myself in the service of the people ance, gratitude and the love of man; ‘‘These principles form the bright of District 7 to the core principles of acknowledging and adoring an over- constellation which has gone before us Jeffersonian Republicanism, through ruling Providence, which by all its dis- and guided our steps through an age of which I have absolutely no doubt we pensations proves that it delights in revolution and reformation. The wis- will dig ourselves out of this immense the happiness of man here and his dom of our sages and blood of our he- fiscal hole we find ourselves in and re- greater happiness hereafter—with all roes have been devoted to their attain- store the hope that Mr. Jefferson had these blessings, what more is necessary ment. They should be the creed of our for the future.

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They were created by solar en- my good friend, my colleague, someone nesota, on the 14th day of May, 1957. ergy a very long time ago, he says 50 I admire immensely, a fellow Jeffer- He says, ‘‘In the 8,000 years from the million years ago. It took eons to grow sonian, ROSCOE BARTLETT of Maryland. beginning of history to the year 2000 to their present volume. f A.D.,’’ he was looking ahead, ‘‘world In the face of the basic fact that fos- MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT population will have grown from 10 sil fuel reserves are finite, the exact million to 4 billion.’’ He really missed length of time—I want you to listen to A message in writing from the Presi- that, didn’t he? It is nearly 7 billion. this statement, so insightful—the dent of the United States was commu- He really had a pretty good concept of exact length of time these reserves will nicated to the House by Mr. Sherman what energy was doing for us, but he last is important in only one respect. Williams, one of his secretaries. had underestimated the contribution The longer they last, the more time f that energy would make to the growth that we have to invent ways of living PEAK OIL of our population, because we are now off renewable or substitute energy The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. somewhere near 7 billion people, with sources and to adjust our economy to 90 percent of that growth, more than 90 ALTMIRE). Under the Speaker’s an- the vast changes which we can expect nounced policy of January 18, 2007, the percent, taking place during the last 5 from such a shift. percent of that period, in 400 years. It gentleman from Maryland (Mr. BART- Fifty-one years ago. Tremendous ad- took the first 3,000 years of recorded LETT) is recognized for 60 minutes. vice. He recognized this. And he says Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland. Mr. history to accomplish the first dou- we were living in a golden age. Exactly Speaker, if Thomas Jefferson could be bling of population, 100 years for the how long this golden age lasted would resurrected today, he would be sur- first doubling, but the next doubling be only important in one regard. The prised by many things that he found. will require only 50 years. And, of longer it lasted, the more time we As my good friend from Texas just in- course, it required less than that, be- would have to shift to alternative dicated, he would be enormously sur- cause we are now far more than dou- sources of fuel, because fossil fuels, oil, prised by the size of our Federal Gov- bled. gas and coal, are not infinite. They are ernment, because he had envisioned a The next chart kind of depicts what finite. They will run out. The only country in which we had a very limited Hyman Rickover was talking about. question was not if, it was when will Federal Government. What this shows is the last part of that they run out. He said the longer they But there is something else that I re- 8,000 years of recorded history. We have lasted, the more time we would have to member about Thomas Jefferson that here only about 400 years of it. But if invent ways of living off renewable or would really surprise him today. What you went back the rest of the 8,000 substitute energy sources. he wanted for his new country was a years, the graph would look about the The world has done essentially none largely agrarian society, with just same. The production of energy was of that in the 51 years since he made enough cities to provide the manufac- down there so near zero that it looked that statement and gave that counsel. turing necessary to sustain an agricul- like it was on the zero line. We have behaved in our use of fossil Here we see the beginning of the In- tural economy. He wanted this, he said, fuels as if they were in fact infinite, as dustrial Revolution. It began with because he didn’t want his new country if they would always be there. Tomor- wood, of course. That is the brown line to be blighted by the decadence of cit- row there will be another huge find, there. Then we discovered coal and we ies, as were the countries of Europe and we can just go on using as much produced considerably more energy. and the British Isles that they came energy as we wish for as long as we Then we discovered gas and oil, and, from. He really, really would be quite wish. surprised if he could be resurrected and boy, it shot up. Now, if I had a curve of The next chart is another quote from come to our country today, wouldn’t the growth in population, it would just Hyman Rickover. ‘‘Whether this golden he, where far, far more than half of our track almost precisely this curve in age will continue depends entirely people live in cities far larger than any the increase in energy available. upon our ability to keep energy sup- he could have imagined at that time. This is an interesting curve, and I Mr. Speaker, this, I believe, is the would like to spend just a moment plies in balance with the needs of our 42nd time that I have come here to the looking at it. It is a very steep curve. growing population.’’ And oil is $115 a floor to talk about energy and pri- Now, we can make this curve much less barrel and gas is $3.50 a gallon at the marily about oil. The first time I came steep if we spread out the abscissa and pump because we have not been able to here was a little over 3 years ago. Oil compress the ordinate, and a little keep energy supplies in balance with was just over $50 a barrel then, and I later we will have some curves that are the needs of our growing population was talking about a history that, had that way. But you can still see the es- and our growing economies in this we paid attention to it, would have sentials of what this curve shows you. country and around the world, and we told us that today, or sometime rough- Here is the oil price spike hikes of now have an imbalance between supply ly near this, we would be here with oil the seventies. You will see it resulted and demand. The demand is greater at $115 a barrel, that is what it touched in a worldwide recession that actually than the supply, and whenever that in Asia overnight, and with gasoline at reduced the use of oil. And now, after happens, of course, the price goes up, the pump out there averaging some- recovery from that recession, with a and the price has gone up. where near $3.50 a gallon. great deal more respect for efficiency, The next chart is a quote from one of It was absolutely inevitable that we we are now increasing our use of en- four studies that have been paid for by would be here. It was predicted that we ergy at a very much lesser slope. your government and have been pretty would be here. And with all of these Now, in this chart where we have much ignored by your government. All warnings, we really should have been such a compressed abscissa, that is not four of these studies have said essen- doing something about that, and why as evident. It will be later. Later when tially the same thing, that peaking of we weren’t is a very interesting sub- we come to that I will point to the fact oil is either present or imminent, with ject. that this very steep curve, were it to potentially devastating consequences, There were two speeches given on en- have continued, we would be off the top and we really need to be doing some- ergy in the last century that I think of the chart and we would be in consid- thing about that. will be increasingly recognized, one of erably more trouble relative to energy The Corps of Engineers was one of them as the most important speech than we are today. those studies, the second one, in Sep- given, and the other one the most in- The next chart is another quote from tember of 2005. An earlier one, the sightful speech given. this great speech that Hyman Rickover Hirsch Report, was in February of 2005.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 03:07 Jun 26, 2008 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00034 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 J:\CRONLINE\2008BA~2\2008NE~2\H17AP8.REC H17AP8 mmaher on PROD1PC76 with CONG-REC-ONLINE April 17, 2008 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H2479 Then last year there were two more re- our prominent Americans, Jim Wool- the person who has the dollars. It’s an ports, one by the Government Account- sey, McFarland, Boyden Gray and 27 auction, a bidding process. The person ability Office, and the other by the Na- others to write several years ago a let- who has the dollars buys the oil. tional Petroleum Council. ter to the President saying, Mr. Presi- Why would China be buying up oil if Oil, they said, is the most important dent, the fact that we have only 2 per- they simply come with the dollars and form of energy in the world today. His- cent of the world’s oil reserves, and we you buy all the oil they need on the torically, no other energy source used 25 percent of the world’s oil and world market? Well, it’s hard to get in- equals oil’s intrinsic qualities of import almost two-thirds of what we side another person’s head, but it may extractability, transportability, use is an almost totally unacceptable just be that they are looking to the versatility and cost. It has been really national security risk, and we really day when they will not be able to share cheap. One barrel of oil represents the have got to do something about that. their oil with the world. work output of 12 people working all That’s true that this represents a huge Now, all the oil in all the world is year, 25,000 man-hours of effort. national security risk. shared with all of the world. It’s all a When I first saw that statistic, I said, This was recognized in our next chart huge auction pool and everybody con- gee, that can’t be true. Then I thought by the Secretary of State in a com- tributes and everybody buys. That about it, how far that gallon of gas, ment that she made before a Senate happy day may end. still cheaper than water in the grocery committee just a bit over 2 years, April The next chart. If you had only one store, carries my Prius; about 47–48 5, 2006. ‘‘We do have to do something chart to look at to inform yourself miles. about the energy problem—I can tell about where we are and what the chal- b 1600 you that nothing has really taken me lenge is, I think this would be the I know I could pull my Prius 47, 48 aback more as Secretary of State than chart. This chart shows bars that rep- miles with a come-along and using the politics of the way energy is. I will resent the amount of oil that we dis- guardrails and trees and so forth. How use the word ‘warping’ diplomacy covered year by year. You see that we long would it take me to pull my Prius around the world. We have simply got had huge, huge discoveries back in the 47 miles? to do something about the warping now 1960s and 1970s. Certainly it is true that historically of diplomatic effort by the all-out rush Then from about the 1980s, I am real- no other energy resource equals oil’s for energy supply.’’ In that all-out ly starting about the 1970s on, we pro- qualities. Its quality of energy and the rush, China is scouring the world and gressively found, choppy up and down, quantity of energy in these fossil fuels, buying up oil reserves wherever they but less and less and less oil. That’s in particularly, oil is just incredible. can find them. spite of ever-better techniques for find- That’s one of the big challenges we face The next chart looks again at the ing oil. in finding alternatives for these fossil geopolitical picture. Why is oil just so The solid black line here represents fuels is something that has the quality expensive? Many people believe that the oil that we have used. Here is the and the quantity of the energy in these OPEC is gouging us. Others believe 1970s, and notice the reduction in use fossil fuels. that our oil companies are gouging us. there as a result of a worldwide reces- The next chart is a cartoon that The truth, of course, is that the price sion brought on by the oil price spike asked the question ‘‘Just why is gas so of oil is determined by the relationship hikes then. expensive?’’ You can see here a tiny lit- between the supply of oil and the de- Now, this is an expansion of the ab- tle supply and a huge demand, and mand for oil. scissa—and I indicated earlier we that, of course, is why oil is so expen- Our large companies and the coun- would have a chart where there is a sive. It’s because the demand exceeds tries that are producing oil just happen huge difference in slope. Remember we the supply. to be happy recipients of this con- had that red one just going straight up. This problem is an even more de- fluence of events which demands more If we could compress this abscissa we manding problem than just a supply oil than is available and so the price is could make that one go almost and demand, because as the next chart up. straight up. shows us, the major supplies of oil What this chart looks at is the top 10 But notice how much less the slope is come, as the President said in one of of the oil and gas companies on the after the recession of the 1970s. That’s his State of the Union messages from basis of how much oil they have. You because the world woke up and said, countries that don’t even like us, this see that 98 percent of these top 10 are gee, oil is expensive, isn’t it, and we is a chart which shows what the world all countries, they are not companies. can do better, and let’s be more effi- would look like if the size of the coun- Most of the oil in the world is not cient. try was relative to how much oil it had owned by companies, it’s own by coun- The air conditioner you have today in the ground. tries. LUKOIL, which is kind of an may be two or three more times more You see here that Saudi Arabia domi- independent oil company in Russia, is efficient, as is your refrigerator. We nates the landscape. Saudi Arabia rep- only 2 percent at the top of this bar. now have fluorescent lights, and they resents about 22 percent of all the re- The bar here looks at the top 10 oil are very much more efficient than in- serves of oil in the world, and you see and gas companies on the basis of pro- candescent lights. So this lesser slope how large the reserves are in countries duction. Now, we have huge oil compa- of the curve represents increased effi- like Iraq and tiny little Kuwait and the nies. ExxonMobil, the largest one in ciency. Were it not for that, notice United Arab Emirates. You almost the world, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP, col- where we would be on the curve now, have to have a magnifying glass to see lectively, they produce only 22 percent we would be off the top of the chart them, they are so small. Look how of the oil, and these state-owned fields now, wouldn’t we, if this kept going. huge they are relative to oil, then Iran produce only 78 percent of the oil. By the way, I want to just make one huge. Russia, just a couple of days ago, The next chart I mentioned, China’s observation about exponential growth. Russia had indicated that had they had interest in scouring the world and This is, of course, exponential growth. reached a maximum capacity for pro- looking for oil, wherever you see a dol- Albert Einstein was asked, Dr. Ein- ducing oil. lar sign on this chart, we have bought stein, what will be the next big force The United States, we have 2 percent some oil. Here I see a dollar sign here, we find after nuclear energy? His re- of the known reserves of oil in the I see a dollar sign, not very many of sponse, the most powerful force in the world. We use a fourth of the world’s them. When you see this little Chinese universe is the power of compound in- oil. What I really would like to focus symbol kind of a sign here that’s where terest. on is the size of India and China over China has bought oil. Just 2 percent growth, that’s so ane- their more than a third of the world’s Here is one, they tried to buy Unocal mic, that our market doesn’t like it. It population, and they have less oil than in our country. You see their symbol really kind of teeters, it stutters a lit- we have, and we have only 2 percent of all over the world. They are aggres- tle and doesn’t grow with 2 percent the known reserves of oil in the world. sively buying oil all over the world. growth. Things tend to be pessimistic, The next chart has this in some num- In today’s world it really doesn’t but 2 percent growth doubles in 35 bers, and these numbers inspired 30 of make any difference who owns the oil, years, it’s 4 times bigger in 70 years,

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I asked them, if this will be off the top of the page. other side represent the total amount you can drill ANWR tomorrow, what That was kind of a trauma going of oil that we pump, because he had will you do the day after tomorrow? through the 1970, but we really should only predicted the lower 48, and we And there will be a day after tomor- look back on it and say how lucky we added huge amounts of oil from Alas- row. were that we had a wake-up call be- ka, a fourth of our total production for I think about that. I have 10 kids and cause look what happened? We got the last several years, and from the 16 grandkids and 2 great-grandkids. much more efficient, and so now we are Gulf of Mexico. Even with those hugely They are going to be here the day after in much less trouble than we would large extra supplies, there was still tomorrow. We are leaving them a huge have been had we not had this chalk, just a blip in the slope down the other debt. Check my voting record, it is not and we would have continued along side of Hubbert’s peak. my fault. We are leaving them a huge this curve. Now the same person that predicted debt, and I asked them, Wouldn’t it be The next chart, the next chart is one that the United States would be peak- nice if we left them a little oil. And from the U.S. Corps of Engineers. In ing in 1970. In 1979, he predicted that they smile, and the next thing they are general, all nonrenewable resources the world would be peaking about now. asking, Would you vote to drill in follow a natural supply curve, produc- We have kind of blown, not kind of, ANWR. No, I won’t. Or on our public tion increases rapidly, slows, reaches a we have blown the last 28 years, be- lands or offshore until you commit to peak and then declines at a rapid pace cause by 1980, here we are in 1980, we me that you will use every bit of en- similar to its initial increase. looked back and, boy, M. King Hubbert ergy you get from those sites to invest The major question for petroleum is was right about the United States. We in alternative energy because we have not whether production will peak, this did peak in 1970. In spite of drilling now run out of surplus energy. If we is one of the four studies your govern- more oil wells than all the rest of the had any surplus oil, it wouldn’t be $115 ment paid for and is now ignoring. It’s world put together, we have not been a barrel today, would it. So I will vote not whether the production will peak able to make a liar out of M. King to drill there when I have a commit- but when. Oil is not infinite in its sup- Hubbert. ment that we will use all of the energy ply, it is finite. There is only so much. Today we produce about half of the we get there and invest it in the devel- One day we will reach our maximum oil we produced in 1970. In the lower 48 opment of alternatives. capabilities for producing oil. There we produce way less than half of the oil The next chart is a detailed chart of are many estimates of recoverable pe- that we produced then. our production and decline. Here is troleum reserves giving rise to many what M. King Hubbert predicted of b 1615 estimates of when peak oil will occur Texas and the rest of the United and how high the peak will be. A care- Now in 1979 he predicted that the States. And then we have learned to ful review of all the estimates leads to world would be peaking about now. get some gas from natural gas liquids, the conclusion that world oil produc- The next chart has data from two en- a huge find in Alaska, a big find in the tion may peak within a few short tities in our world that are pretty good Gulf of Mexico, just a blip in the slide years, after which it will decline. at tracking how much oil we pump and down the other side of Hubbert’s peak. Once peak oil curves, then the his- use. By the way, we use all we pump. The next chart shows some projec- toric patterns of world oil demand and There are no big reservoirs of oil wait- tions of what we will find in the future. price cycles will cease. They might ing to be used. I would caution that I Although with really good techniques have gone on to explain what that’s don’t think these entities have the and a lot of energy, we have gone out going to do to our economy. same fidelity in predicting how much there, a lot of incentives, we have The next slide—and I have to go back more we will find in the future, but looked for the last remaining oil depos- more than 50 years to put this in con- they do a very good job of tracking its and we have found less and less and text—on the 8th day of March in 1956, what we’ve used. This is the EIA and less as time goes on. What this curve the most important speech, what I the IEA. The IEA is the International does is smooth out the big bars we saw think will certainly recognize will be Energy Agency. You hear them re- before. Here we are at this point. They the most important speech of the last ferred to. They are the ones that are were projecting how much more we century was given, and this speech was tracking what is going on in Iran with were going to find. We don’t have time, given by a Shell Oil Company scientist, their nuclear thing. And the EIA is the but there is a really interesting meta- M. King Hubbert, to a group of physi- Energy Information Administration morphosis that took place here. cians in St. Paul, Minnesota. and is a part of our own Department of The USGS, in trying to predict how At that time, the United States was Energy. Both of those have oil produc- much more oil we would find, has sev- king of oil. We were producing more tion plateauing; one of them for about eral computer models. They put dif- oil, consuming more oil and shipping 3 years, and the other for about a year ferent data into those models, and they more oil than any country in the and a half. get different results out. They have run world. What M. King Hubbert told What happens when demand keeps many simulations, and they put all of them was that in 16 short years, 14 going up and supply stagnates? This those simulations on a chart and they short years, you are going to reach price curve shows you what happens. get the mean of the simulations. They your maximum production of oil. He We had a comfortable dip here in prices think that they are putting in good made that prediction in 1956. And sure less than a year ago, but now they are data and so they should be getting out enough in 1970, the yellow symbols here skyrocketing, and $115 is off the top of good data. They take the mean of we reached our maximum production. the chart. We need to make a new those, and they say this is the most Now, the actual maximum produc- chart to show where 115. probable amount of oil we will find. tion was a little bit higher, it was the The question I ask myself and audi- Somehow that ‘‘F’’ for frequency, green squares there, and they tended to ences is: If M. King Hubbert was right maybe it was a bad font, but somehow be a little bit higher going down the about the United States, which is a mi- it showed up as a ‘‘P’’ or probability slope on the other side of Hubbert’s crocosm of the world, we did peak in when it got to EIA. And then they peak. Some would have you believe the 1970, and it is clear every year after make some bizarre applications of sta- difference between M. King Hubbert’s that we have less and less oil, why tistics. predictions the gold triangles and the wouldn’t the United States be a micro- They say that the 50 percent prob- oil that we actually pump indicate that cosm of the world, and he predicted the ability, the green one here, which they he didn’t really know what he was world would be peaking about now, say is the mean, and of course 50 per- talking about. why wouldn’t we have done something cent probability is not a mean, it is 50 Well, it did peak in 1970, and it did go about that? Why have we continued to percent probability. They say the 50 down after that. If you aren’t a stat- behave as if gas and oil and coal were percent probability is more likely than

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We have pumped about a tril- Eighty-five percent of all of the en- the IEA and the EIA do a really good lion barrels now. Most experts believe ergy we use is the equivalent of our job of tracking what we produce and we have another trillion barrels to grandparents’ inheritance. We inher- use. I would be careful about accepting pump. This assumes that we are going ited it. It is there in the ground, coal, their prognostications of what we are to have a total of three trillion barrels. oil and gas. And only 15 percent of the going to find. Now if we have one trillion barrels energy we use is something else. The next chart is one from the first remaining of the two original, we have Now this 85 percent is going away. big study that I mentioned, one of the pumped one and if there is a total of We have reached the maximum produc- four that your government paid for and three, that means that they are pre- tion, and if the world is going to follow it is largely ignoring. This is called the suming that we are going to find an- the model of the United States, no Hirsch Report done by SAIC, a huge, other trillion barrels of oil. If we do matter what we do, the production in international, very prestigious, sci- that, by their own calculations it will the world is going to be less and less, entific engineering organization. simply move the peak out from around harder and harder to get, more and I have highlighted this phrase be- 2000 or a little after 2000 to 2016. That more expensive. That has happened in cause it is so shocking. ‘‘The world has is not very far. That is the effect of ex- our country. And in spite of drilling never faced a problem like this. There ponential growth. more oil wells than all of the rest of is no precedent in history to guide us.’’ During the Carter years, every dec- the world together, and in spite of hav- We have never faced a problem like ade we used as much oil as had been ing the best oil people in all of the this. You cannot go back in history and used in all of previous history. That is world, we have not been able to make find any problem that will help you de- a stunning statistic. Thank goodness M. King Hubbert out to be a liar be- cide how you are going to get through for those oil price spike shocks and the cause we still today, with all of that this. The world has never faced a prob- efficiency that resulted from that or technology, with 530,000 producing oil lem like this. else we would be in a really troubled wells, we still are producing only about The next chart. They say that the world today. half of the oil that we produced in 1970. peaking of world oil production pre- What that means is if you use as b 1630 sents the United States and the world much each decade as you use in all of Well, what are the alternatives? with an unprecedented risk manage- previous history, when you have used What will we be using at the end of this ment problem. They say that the eco- half of the world’s oil, which is where magnificent age of oil? nomic, social and political cost will be we are, then you would have 10 years of And Hyman Rickover didn’t know unprecedented. Wow, strong words. The oil remaining. We have slowed down so how long it would last. They were world has never faced a problem like if you do those calculations, the 88 mil- about 100 years into the age of oil. Oil this, unprecedented risk management lion barrels a day, a trillion barrels re- had not peaked then. It wouldn’t peak problem. Nothing like it in history. maining, that comes out to roughly 30 for another 50 years, 51 years or so, so Nothing to guide you. The economic, years. It is not going to be 30 years of he had no idea how long it lasted. But social and political cost will be unprec- constant production and then fall off he said how long it lasted was impor- edented. the cliff because it is going to be hard- tant in only one regard; that the longer The next chart is a schematic. This er and harder to get, more and more it lasted, the more time we would have shows what we have been talking expensive, and getting less and less to plan a rational transition from oil about, a 2 percent rate of growth, dou- each year no matter what we do. to other sustainable renewable sources bles in 35 years. The yellow there is 35 The next chart is a quote, very re- of fuel. years. I think we are about here. No- cent quote, January 22 of this year, by Well, here we are today, and what tice the shortfall occurs a little before the CEO of Shell Oil, Royal Dutch have we done? peaking, although the IEA and the EIA Shell. ‘‘By the year 2100, the world’s The President said in one of his State both have oil peaking, so we may be energy system will be radically dif- of the Union addresses that we are about at that point. ferent from today’s. The world’s cur- hooked on oil. We are indeed. And I Most people when they look at that rent predicament limits our maneu- think that rushing out there to drill in chart say we have to fill that yellow vering room. We are experiencing a public lands, to drill in ANWR, to drill space because we have to have all of step change in the growth rate of en- offshore is exactly the equivalent of the liquid fuels that we would like to ergy demand and Shell estimates after giving a dope addict another fix. As the use. I will submit, Mr. Speaker, that it 2015, supplies of easy-to-access oil and President says, we really, really do is exceedingly unlikely that we will be gas will no longer keep up with de- have to wean ourselves from these fos- able to fill that blank to make up for mand.’’ That may have already hap- sil fuels. the deficit between what we would like pened, as we noted from that former By the way, there are three groups to use and what will be available. Fill- chart and as we see with gas over $10 out there that want to do this for very ing the gap, I think, is not feasible. and oil over $115 a barrel. different reasons. One of those groups And what Hyman Rickover cautioned ‘‘As a result’’ he says, ‘‘society has is the national security group that I 50 years ago, 51 years ago now, we no choice but to add other energy mentioned that is really concerned should note today, and that is we need sources.’’ that we have only 2 percent of the oil, to plan in an orderly fashion to move Have you noticed society doing that and use 25 percent of the oil, and im- from fossil fuels to sustainable renew- at any aggressive clip? port almost two-thirds of what we use. ables because geology will demand it. The next chart, and I want to spend Our second largest importer now is We will move when the oil is not there, some meaningful amount of time look- Saudi Arabia. It was Mexico. They’ve when the gas is not there, and when the ing at what are those alternatives. We fallen back. That really places us in a coal is not there. Then we will have are very much like the young couple very precarious position. moved to alternatives. Whether that is whose grandparents have died and left The President has indicated that we a bumpy ride or a really bumpy ride them a big inheritance. The young cou- really must transition from these fossil will depend on what we do now and in ple has now established a really lavish fuels to renewables. What will they be? the immediate future. life style. They are living it up. Eighty- And here we have a brief listing, and The next chart is a really interesting five percent of all the money they I think that this subtends about all of one because it shows us again this rap- spend comes from their grandparents’ the possible renewables. By the way, idly accelerating use of oil, then the re- inheritance—coal, petroleum, natural we get more than the non fossil fuel en- cession of the 1970s, and a lesser slope gas—and only 15 percent of it comes ergy nuclear power. 8 percent of the 15

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There bigger economy than France has. We’re that law, why we can set aside the law have been some problems producing the largest nuclear power producers in of gravity, and then we won’t have the rice around the world and, anyway, the world. That could and probably kind of problems that we have today these commodities tend to more to- should grow. Only 7 percent in other with energy, will we? That’s an invio- gether. So the four basic foods of the renewables. late law that won’t change. poorest people in the world, they said, The things that I’m very fond of are So why are we talking about hydro- have been driven up drastically, essen- solar and wind. I have a place off-grid, gen if you will never get as much en- tially doubled in price, because we’re and I have solar panels and I have wind ergy out of the hydrogen as it took to making corn ethanol. machines and batteries for storage, and make the hydrogen? For two reasons. Hyman Rickover, by the way, I don’t so I’m a huge fan of solar and wind. One, when you finally burn it, the have that quote here but please do a But these were 1 percent of 7 percent product you get is the oxide of hydro- Google search for Rickover and energy in 2000. They’re really growing, grow- gen. It’s burned hydrogen. We call it speech, and it’ll pop up. He cautioned ing maybe 30, 40 percent a year. That’s water. When you look at water, it’s that you probably shouldn’t be eating huge growth. So they’re four or five burned hydrogen is what it is. And it’s your food. 51 years ago. Maybe we times bigger. .28 percent, big deal be- really clean, isn’t it? should have listened. cause this is only .07 percent. So these And the second thing is it’s a great Geothermal. That’s true geothermal. things that will be important sources candidate for a fuel cell, which is prob- That’s not hooking your heat pump to of energy in the future are now very ably at least two decades off. So you ground temperature, which is a really small, growing; rapidly, but still very don’t hear much talk about hydrogen. good idea. If you think about what It may 1 day be an important part of small. you’re asking that heat pump to do Wood, this is the paper industry and our energy economy, but that day must this winter, if it wasn’t hooked to the timber industry wisely using what await, I think, the development of the ground temperature, you were asking would otherwise be a waste product, fuel cell because if you’re simply going it to cool the outside air, which might and there’s not a huge potential for to put hydrogen in a reciprocating en- have been 10 degrees, so that it could growth there without doing what North gine, why wouldn’t you put the fuel warm up your air in the house. That’s Korea, has done, for instance. They’re from which you made the hydrogen in what you’re doing. just cutting down their forests. your reciprocating engine and save How much easier its job would have Waste energy, that’s very popular. that fuel loss in the transition? And there’s a great facility up here in The second big bubble that broke was been if it had been looking at 56 de- Northern Montgomery County. I’ve the corn ethanol bubble. And I really grees, rather than 10 degrees, because been by. I would be proud to have it by had high hopes for this before I did 56 degrees is what ground temperature my church. It looks really nice. The some back of the envelope computa- in here, it’s mean annual temperature, waste comes in in big containers and in tions, because I saw our farmers who it’s what the water is that comes out of railroad cars and I don’t even see it. were getting too little for their crops, the wells. And they handle it very well. I didn’t huge energy represented in these crops, Now, this summer, if you have an air even smell it when I was there. and I think they will make a meaning- conditioner in your window, and it’s But I want to caution that this huge ful contribution to our energy future. not a heat pump tied to the ground, waste stream is the result, largely the But not in the dimensions that were what that air conditioner is going to be result of profligate use of fossil fuels. anticipated for corn ethanol. trying to do is heating up the 100 de- Look at it. Almost everything in that The National Academy of Sciences, gree air outside so it can cool your waste stream was the result of using and this isn’t ROSCOE BARTLETT, this is house inside. Pretty tough job. oil, gas or coal. It’s a really great idea National Academy of Sciences, al- But if you had tied that air condi- now. Recycle what you can, burn though my back of the envelope com- tioner to ground temperature, now it’s what’s left, better than burying it in putations came to the same conclusion. looking at 56, which looks really cool, the ground somewhere. But that’s not a The National Academy of Sciences says compared to 100, doesn’t it? silver bullet, not a solution to our if we use all of our corn for ethanol, I didn’t understand this phenomenon problem because in an energy-deficient every bit of it, use all of it for ethanol, as a 7-year old, and I grew up without world, this is really going to shrink be- and discounted it for the fossil fuel electricity and an inside toilet on a cause the energy just isn’t going to be input, which is huge, in fact, some peo- farm, and we kept our food in a spring there to create all this waste. ple believe if you really cost account house. And I thought there was some- Conventional hydro. Huge. We’ve all the fossil fuel energy that goes into thing magic in that spring house and I tapped out on that in our country. producing ethanol, more energy goes in didn’t understand it, but I knew it was We’ve probably dammed up some rivers than you get out of this. They were magic because I went in that spring we shouldn’t have dammed up. But using 80 percent, which is probably not house in the summertime and it was so some people believe we could get as bad; that that would displace 2.4 per- cool. And I went in that spring house in much from micro hydro. There’s some cent of our gasoline. That’s all of our the winter time and it was so warm. really good small pelt wheels and tur- corn, displace 2.4 percent of our gaso- Of course, when it was 100 outside, bines and so forth. line. that spring house, which was maybe 65, Alcohol fuel. 1 percent back then. They noted wryly that you could that was Pennsylvania, it’d be a little Now, we’ve had a huge push for alcohol save as much gas if you tuned up your colder than here, maybe 60 or so, that fuel. car and put air in the tires. And by the really seemed cool. In the winter time There have been two big bubbles that way, you would save half your gas if 60 seemed really warm compared to the have broken, two big hopes. One of there was two people in every vehicle zero or 10 degrees outside, so I thought them was the hydrogen economy. You out there instead of one which is in there was something magic in that don’t hear very many people talking most vehicles. You would save half spring house. about it anymore. I think it’s probably your gas if your vehicle got 40 miles The next chart takes a little deeper sunk in that hydrogen is not free for per gallon, rather than 20 miles per gal- look at some of our alternatives. Now, the having. There’s no place you can lon, both of which are very doable with we do have some finite resources, and go, like you can go for coal or gas or a little planning and buying the right we can exploit those, and we will ex- oil and drill a hole and get hydrogen. car, by the way. ploit those, and we should exploit You get hydrogen by using one en- I think was 2 or 3 days ago there was those, but they are finite. Some of ergy source, using another energy a major headline above the fold in the them are huge.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 03:07 Jun 26, 2008 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00038 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 J:\CRONLINE\2008BA~2\2008NE~2\H17AP8.REC H17AP8 mmaher on PROD1PC76 with CONG-REC-ONLINE April 17, 2008 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H2483 The first of these are the tar sands in with the world. Let me tell you why. velop that. I think the probability is Canada. They are huge. There’s as Because if we get oil from coal, we’re low that we will ever be able to exploit much potential oil in those tar sands then not buying some Saudi oil, which that on a commercial scale. as there is in all of the known reserves somebody else can buy, so it has the Now, if you’re sanguine believing of oil in the world, more actually. exact effect of sharing it with the that we’re going to solve our energy So why aren’t we euphoric over that? world. That is inescapable. There is no problem with nuclear fusion, you prob- It’s because it’s very difficult to get. way to avoid that. ably think you can solve your personal The Canadians are now using natural So now that 50 years, since we use a financial problems by winning the lot- gas, which will run out. They’re pump- fourth of the world’s supply, and that tery. You might do it. But the odds of ing water, which will run out. They’re 250 years was at current use rates for you solving your personal financial creating a huge tailings pond, which is us in this country, not the whole world, problems by winning the lottery are kind of an environmental disaster, and now that 50 years, divided by four, about the same as our solving our en- they’re producing a million barrels a shrinks to 121⁄2 years. So if we had 250 ergy problems by using fusion. day. That’s a lot. It’s a little over 1 years of coal and we increased its use But because it is such an incredible percent of what the world uses. We use only 2 percent, converted it to a gas or source, the only thing that gets us about 88 million barrels a day. a liquid and shared it with the world, home free, I happily support, and I But they know it’s not sustainable and we have no alternative, it’ll last would support more money if we had because they’re going to run out of gas, 121⁄2 years. more skilled people out there who they’re going to run out of water, and could be looking at this. b 1645 what they’re now exploiting is kind of The next big bubble that we’re talk- on the surface, and it will soon kind of But the National Academy of ing about now is biomass, and I would duck under an overlay, so they have to Sciences says we haven’t looked at the caution, how much more energy you develop it in situ, and they aren’t quite coal reserves since the 1970s and they think that we can get from wastelands sure how to do that. believe there is more like 100 years at out there that aren’t good enough to So there’s a huge amount of energy current use rates. So that 85 years and grow corn and soybeans on, that we there, potential. But there’s also a 50 years now shrink to something could get from all of our corn and all of huge amount of potential energy in the roughly half of that, and the 121⁄2 years our soybeans? tides. The moon lifts the whole darned sharing it with the world may shrink I would like to take the last couple of ocean 2 or 3 feet. That’s a huge amount to something like 5 or 6 or so years minutes to note a couple of things that of energy. sharing it with the world. we have been doing. But, you know, getting that in your The coal is there. It is huge. But our I have a bill, and this is going to give gas tank is quite another thing. En- use of energy in the world is huge, a prize to the first farm that can be to- ergy, to be effective, must be con- huge. Eighty-eight million barrels a tally energy independent. If our farms centrated, and in the tides it certainly day, each barrel having the energy can’t be energy independent, we’re isn’t concentrated. equivalent of 12 people working all really in trouble, aren’t we? Now in our west we have oil shales, year. That’s an incredible amount of The next chart is a bill, the Drive and they are really huge, maybe even energy. Just look at the road you trav- Act. That will encourage the develop- bigger than the tar sands in Canada. el home on tonight and see the cars ment of vehicles that are more effi- Nobody yet is commercially exploiting there, and that’s replicated 1,000 times cient that are flex-fuel. You can use those. There are some vigorous at- in our country and thousands of times any fuel. Not corn ethanol, but any of tempts today, and there may be some around the world. the alternative fuels. exploitation of those. There’s at least a I was in Beijing a little while ago and I would just like to note that I find trillion barrels, maybe a trillion and a they banned bicycles in parts of Bei- this whole challenge exhilarating. half, two trillion barrels there. And dif- jing. There is no room for them. So There is no exhilaration like meeting ferent experts differ on how much of many cars on the road. I was late to an and overcoming a huge challenge. I that may be recoverable. But, again, appointment in Beijing because of traf- spent some time going over these po- because it’s there, it’s not in your gas fic jams, late to an appointment in tential alternatives. I just want real- tank, we will recover some of that. Moscow because of traffic jams there. I istic expectations. There’s no silver As oil goes up, Goldman Sachs says was there in 1973, and the streets were bullet out there. It’s going to be a lit- by the end of the year it could be 150, almost devoid of cars. You saw a mili- tle of this and a little of that. And $200 a barrel. Who knows? tary vehicle now and then. That’s all America is very good at that. The more expensive oil gets, the you saw then. A whole different world What we need in this country is a more sources there are of oil because now. program that has a total commitment you can now use oil which would have Well, there’s nuclear, and we now get of World War II. I lived through that been prohibitive in cost with oil at 8 percent of our total energy, almost 20 war. I’ll be 82 years old on my next lower prices. percent of our electricity from nuclear birthday, about 6 weeks from now. I Coal. I know a lot of people who say, that could and probably should grow. lived through that war. don’t worry about the future; we have But the nuclear we’re now using, which We need the technology commitment sure supplies of coal. We have 250 years is whitewater reactors using fission- that we had when we put a man on the of coal, at current usage rates. able uranium is limited because there moon, that focus, and we need the ur- Be very careful, calibrate what peo- is a limited supply of fissionable ura- gency of the Manhattan Project. And I ple say when they tell you at current nium. That won’t last forever. think that Americans are up to this use rates. Now, if we had 250 years of There are breeder reactors. Nobody challenge. I think we can lead the coal, and we don’t, I’ll come to that in uses them for energy production. The world in developing the technology to a moment. But if we had 250 years of breeder reactors, as the name implies, take us away from the fossil fuels to coal at current use rates, if you in- make more fuel than they use. You buy these other sources of energy. crease that use only 2 percent, that’s some problems with those, like you The next chart I have already gone not much, we will have to do more have to enrich the fuel and it’s weap- through. I will indulge for just a mo- than that. But if you increase it only 2 on’s grade stuff and you have to move ment with the last chart. This is a percent it shrinks to 85 years. The it around and there’s challenges for great one to end on. power of compound growth. terrorists getting it and such; but you Mr. Speaker, this is a chart that And if you use some of the energy get energy from it. shows how satisfied you are with life coal to make it a gas or a liquid, be- Then there is the only silver bullet and how much energy you use. There cause you can’t put coal in the trunk that gets us home free, and that is nu- are 22 countries, some of them using of your car and go down the road, it clear fusion. I happily vote for the half the energy that we use that are now shrinks to 50 years. roughly $250 million a year that we happier with life than we are. There’s And when one other observation. We spend developing that. We’re joining lots and lots of opportunities out there have no alternative but to share it with other countries in helping to de- to live really well using less energy,

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An Act to amend the Do-not-call family medical emergency. UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. 110– Implementation Act to eliminate the auto- 105) matic removal of telephone numbers reg- f istered on the Federal ‘‘do-not-call’’ registry. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. SPECIAL ORDERS GRANTED YARMUTH) laid before the House the February 28, 2008: following message from the President H.R. 1216. An Act to direct the Secretary of By unanimous consent, permission to Transportation to issue regulations to re- address the House, following the legis- of the United States; which was read duce the incidence of child injury and death and, together with the accompanying lative program and any special orders occurring inside or outside of light motor ve- heretofore entered, was granted to: papers, without objection, referred to hicles, and for other purposes. the Committee on Ways and Means and H.R. 5270. An Act to amend the Internal (The following Members (at the re- ordered to be printed: Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the funding quest of Ms. WOOLSEY) to revise and ex- To the Congress of the United States: and expenditure authority of the Airport and tend their remarks and include extra- In accordance with section Airway Trust Fund, and for other purposes. neous material:) 502(f)(1)(B) of the Trade Act of 1974, as February 29, 2008: Ms. WOOLSEY, for 5 minutes, today. amended (the ‘‘Act’’), I am providing H.R. 5264. An Act to extend the Andean Mr. DEFAZIO, for 5 minutes, today. Trade Preference Act, and for other pur- notification of my intent to add the Mr. SCHIFF, for 5 minutes, today. poses. Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, for 5 min- Solomon Islands to the list of least-de- H.R. 5478. An Act to provide for the contin- veloped beneficiary developing coun- ued minting and issuance of certain $1 coins utes, today. tries under the Generalized System of in 2008. (The following Members (at the re- quest of Mr. PRICE of Georgia) to revise Preferences (GSP) program. In Execu- f tive Order 12302 of April 1, 1981, the Sol- and extend their remarks and include omon Islands was designated as a bene- SENATE BILLS APPROVED BY THE extraneous material:) ficiary developing country for purposes PRESIDENT Mr. TANCREDO, for 5 minutes, today. of the GSP program. After considering The President notified the Clerk of Mr. POE, for 5 minutes, April 24. the criteria set forth in sections 501 the House that on the following dates, Mr. JONES of North Carolina, for 5 and 502 of the Act, I have determined he had approved and signed bills of the minutes, April 24. that it is appropriate to extend least- Senate of the following titles: Mr. PRICE of Georgia, for 5 minutes, developed beneficiary developing coun- January 4, 2008: today. try benefits to the Solomon Islands. S. 2436. An Act to amend the Internal Rev- f GEORGE W. BUSH. enue Code of 1986 to clarify the term of the THE WHITE HOUSE, April 17, 2008. Commissioner of Internal Revenue. ENROLLED BILL SIGNED f January 7, 2008: Ms. Lorraine C. Miller, Clerk of the S. 863. An Act to amend title 18, United House, reported and found truly en- HOUSE BILLS APPROVED BY THE States Code, with respect to fraud in connec- PRESIDENT tion with major disaster or emergency funds. rolled a bill of the House of the fol- lowing title, which was thereupon The President notified the Clerk of February 6, 2008: signed by the Speaker: the House that on the following dates, S. 2110. An Act to designate the facility of he had approved and signed bills of the the United States Postal Service located at H.R. 5813. An act to amend Public Law 110– 427 North Street in Taft, California, as the following titles: 196 to provide for a temporary extension of ‘‘Larry S. Pierce Post Office’’. programs authorized by the Farm Security January 7, 2008: March 6, 2008: and Rural Investment Act of 2002 beyond H.R. 660. An Act to amend title 18, United S. 2571. An Act to make technical correc- April 18, 2008. States Code, to protect judges, prosecutors, tions to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, f witnesses, victims, and their family mem- and Rodenticide Act. bers, and for other purposes. S. 781. An Act to extend the authority of SENATE ENROLLED BILL SIGNED H.R. 3690. An Act to provide for the trans- the Federal Trade Commission to collect Do- fer of the police to the Not-Call Registry fees to fiscal years after The Speaker announced her signa- United States Capitol Police, and for other fiscal year 2007. ture to an enrolled bill of the Senate of purposes. March 11, 2008: the following title: January 8, 2008: H.R. 2640. An Act to improve the National S. 2478. To designate the facility of the S. 793—An act to provide for the expansion Instant Criminal Background Check System, United States Postal Service located at 59 and improvement of traumatic brain injury and for other purposes. Colby Corner in East Hampstead, New Hamp- programs. shire, as the ‘‘Captain Jonathan D. January 28, 2008: f H.R. 4986. An Act to provide for the enact- Grassbaugh Post Office’’. ment of the National Defense Authorization March 12, 2008: ADJOURNMENT Act for Fiscal Year 2008, as previously en- S. 2272. An Act to designate the facility of rolled, with certain modifications to address the United States Postal Service known as Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland. Mr. the foreign sovereign immunities provisions the Southpark Station in Alexandria, Lou- Speaker, I move that the House do now of title 28, United States Code, with respect isiana, as the John ‘‘Marty’’ Thiels adjourn. to the attachment of property in certain Southpark Station, in honor and memory of The motion was agreed to; accord- judgements against Iraq, the lapse of statu- Thiels, a Louisiana postal worker who was ingly (at 4 o’clock and 54 minutes tory authorities for the payment of bonuses, killed in the line of duty on October 4, 2007. p.m.), under its previous order, the special pays, and similar benefits for mem- March 14, 2008: S. 2745. An Act to extend agricultural pro- House adjourned until tomorrow, Fri- bers of the uniformed services, and for other day, April 18, 2008, at 9 a.m. purposes. grams beyond March 15, 2008, to suspend per- January 31, 2008: manent price support authorities beyond f H.R. 5104. An Act to extend the Protect that date, and for other purposes. America Act of 2007 for 15 days. S.J. Res. 25. Joint Resolution providing for EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, February 5, 2008: the appointment of John W. McCarter as a ETC. H.R. 3432. An Act to establish the Commis- citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Under clause 8 of rule XII, executive Smithsonian Institution. sion on the Abolition of the Transatlantic communications were taken from the Slave Trade. March 24, 2008: February 13, 2008: S. 2733. An Act to temporarily extend the Speaker’s table and referred as follows: H.R. 5140. An Act to provide economic programs under the Higher Education Act of 6138. A letter from the Director, Regu- stimulus through recovery rebates to indi- 1965. latory Management Division, Environmental

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Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- transmitting the Administration’s Report on HODES, Mr. WILSON of Ohio, Mr. cy’s final rule — Inert Ingredients: Denial of the Regulatory Flexibility Act, FY 2007, pur- PERLMUTTER, Mr. MURPHY of Con- Pesticide Petitions 2E6491 (N-Acyl suant to 5 U.S.C. 612(a) Public Law 96-354, necticut, Mr. DONNELLY, Mr. WEXLER, Sarcosines and Sodium N-Acyl section 3(a); jointly to the Committees on Mr. SHAYS, Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE Sarcosinates), 7E4810 (Crezasin), and 7E4811 the Judiciary and Small Business. of Florida, Mr. DINGELL, Ms. (Mival) [EPA-HQ-OPP-2002-0201; FRL-8342-4] 6149. A letter from the Chair, Good Neigh- SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. HIN- received February 4, 2008, pursuant to 5 bor Environmental Board, transmitting the CHEY, Mr. FATTAH, Mr. JACKSON of Il- U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Ag- eleventh annual report of the Good Neighbor linois, Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Ms. LEE, riculture. Environmental Board; jointly to the Com- Mr. WU, Ms. MCCOLLUM of Minnesota, 6139. A letter from the Director, Regu- mittees on Transportation and Infrastruc- Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, latory Management Division, Environmental ture and Energy and Commerce. Mr. COURTNEY, Mr. SESTAK, Mr. Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- f SIRES, and Ms. TSONGAS): cy’s final rule — Clothianidin; Pesticide Tol- H.R. 5830. A bill to create a voluntary FHA erance [EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0280; FRL-8346-9] REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON program that provides mortgage refinancing received January 28, 2008, pursuant to 5 PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS assistance to allow families to stay in their U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Ag- homes, protect neighborhoods, and help sta- riculture. Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of bilize the housing market; to the Committee 6140. A letter from the Director, Regu- committees were delivered to the Clerk on Financial Services. latory Management Division, Environmental for printing and reference to the proper By Mrs. GILLIBRAND: Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- calendar, as follows: H.R. 5831. A bill to amend the National De- cy’s final rule — North Dakota: Final Au- fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 Mr. RAHALL: Committee on Natural Re- to provide injured members of the Armed thorization of State Hazardous Waste Man- sources. H.R. 3513. A bill to amend the Or- agement Program Revisions and Incorpora- Forces information concerning benefits; to egon Wilderness Act of 1984 to designate the the Committee on Armed Services. tion by Reference of Approved Hazardous Copper Salmon Wilderness and to amend the Waste Program [EPA-R08-RCRA-2006-0501; By Mrs. GILLIBRAND: Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate seg- H.R. 5832. A bill to amend title 10, United FRL-8524-7] received February 4, 2008, pursu- ments of the North and South Forks of the ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee States Code, to eliminate the requirement Elk River in the State of Oregon as wild or for dependents to reside with members of the on Energy and Commerce. scenic rivers, and for other purposes; with an 6141. A letter from the Director, Regu- Armed Forces to be eligible for TRICARE amendment (Rept. 110–591). Referred to the latory Management Division, Environmental Prime Remote; to the Committee on Armed Committee of the Whole House on the State Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- Services. of the Union. cy’s final rule — Approval and Promulgation By Mr. DEFAZIO: Mr. RAHALL: Committee on Natural Re- H.R. 5833. A bill to amend title 28, United of Implementation Plans and Operating Per- sources. H.R. 831. A bill to provide for the States Code, to provide for the direct pay- mits Program; State of Kansas [EPA-R07- conveyance of certain Forest Service land to ment of attorney fees and costs to the attor- OAR-2007-0829; FRL-8526-2] received February the city of Coffman Cove, Alaska; with an ney representing a prevailing party in cer- 4, 2008, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to amendment (Rept. 110–592). Referred to the tain Social Security Disability Insurance the Committee on Energy and Commerce. Committee of the Whole House on the State and Supplemental Security Income claims, 6142. A letter from the Director, Regu- of the Union. and for other purposes; to the Committee on latory Management Division, Environmental Mr. RAHALL: Committee on Natural Re- the Judiciary. Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- sources. H.R. 3734. A bill to rename the By Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN (for herself, cy’s final rule — Approval and Promulgation Snake River Birds of Prey National Con- Mr. BERMAN, Mr. SMITH of New Jer- of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Maine; servation Area in the State of Idaho as the sey, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. BURTON of Transportation Conformity [EPA-R01-OAR- Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey Na- Indiana, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. INGLIS of 2007-1054; A-1-FRL-8524-9] received February tional Conservation Area in honor of the late South Carolina, and Mr. FORTUN˜ O): 4, 2008, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to Morley Nelson, an international authority H.R. 5834. A bill to amend the North Ko- the Committee on Energy and Commerce. rean Human Rights Act of 2004 to promote 6143. A letter from the Director, Regu- on birds of prey, who was instrumental in the establishment of this National Conserva- respect for the fundamental human rights of latory Management Division, Environmental the people of North Korea, and for other pur- Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- tion Area, and for other purposes (Rept. 110– 593). Referred to the House Calendar. poses; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. cy’s final rule — Final Rule; Ohio; Revised By Ms. SCHAKOWSKY (for herself, Mr. Oxides of Nitrogen (NO ) Regulation, Phase Mr. WAXMAN: Committee on Oversight X and Government Reform. H.R. 3928. A bill to BURGESS, Ms. DEGETTE, Mr. TOWNS, II, and Revised NOX Trading Rule [EPA-R05- Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, Mr. GOR- OAR-2007-1085; FRL-8519-1] received January require certain large government contrac- tors that receive more than 80 percent of DON, Mr. TERRY, Mr. HINOJOSA, Mr. 28, 2008, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to FERGUSON, Ms. BORDALLO, Ms. SOLIS, the Committee on Energy and Commerce. their annual gross revenue from Federal con- tracts to disclose the names and salaries of and Mrs. CAPPS): 6144. A letter from the Director, Regu- H.R. 5835. A bill to provide for increased their most highly compensated officers, and latory Management Division, Environmental planning and funding for health promotion for other purposes; with an amendment Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- programs of the Department of Health and (Rept. 110–594). Referred to the Committee of cy’s final rule — Approval and Promulgation Human Services; to the Committee on En- of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Ohio; the Whole House on the State of the Union. ergy and Commerce. Clean Air Interstate Rule [EPA-R05-OAR- f By Mr. CARNAHAN: 2007-0390; FRL-8519-6] received January 28, H.R. 5836. A bill to amend the Foreign As- 2008, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS sistance Act of 1961 to authorize the Presi- Committee on Energy and Commerce. Under clause 2 of rule XII, public dent to provide assistance to establish part- 6145. A letter from the Director, Regu- bills and resolutions were introduced nerships between businesses and postsec- latory Management Division, Environmental and severally referred, as follows: ondary educational institutions in devel- Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- oping countries in Africa to increase eco- cy’s final rule — Adequacy of Nebraska Mu- By Mr. MANZULLO (for himself and nomic freedom and competitiveness, pro- nicipal Solid Waste Landfill Program [EPA- Mr. SMITH of Washington): mote civil society, and improve the quality R07-RCRA-2006-0878; FRL-8523-2] received H.R. 5828. A bill to enhance the reliability of life in such countries; to the Committee January 28, 2008, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. of information in the Automated Export Sys- on Foreign Affairs. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Energy and tem, and for other purposes; to the Com- By Ms. of California Commerce. mittee on Foreign Affairs. (for herself, Mr. FORTENBERRY, Mr. 6146. A letter from the Executive Director, By Mr. SIRES (for himself, Mr. FRANK CONYERS, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. Office of Compliance, transmitting a copy of of Massachusetts, and Mr. MEEK of SKELTON, Mr. HUNTER, Mr. BERMAN, the 2007 Annual Report of the Office of Com- Florida): Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. BLUMENAUER, pliance, pursuant to Section 301(h) of the H.R. 5829. A bill to improve the Operating Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. Congressional Accountability Act (CAA); Fund for public housing of the Department PERLMUTTER, Mr. PENCE, and Ms. jointly to the Committees on Education and of Housing and Urban Development, and for JACKSON-LEE of Texas): Labor and House Administration. other purposes; to the Committee on Finan- H.R. 5837. A bill to make technical correc- 6147. A letter from the Chairman and Chief cial Services. tions to section 1244 of the National Defense Executive Officer, Farm Credit Administra- By Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts (for Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, tion, transmitting a report on the proposed himself, Ms. WATERS, Mrs. MALONEY which provides special immigrant status for fiscal year 2009 budget; jointly to the Com- of New York, Mr. WATT, Mr. ACKER- certain Iraqis, and for other purposes; to the mittees on Oversight and Government Re- MAN, Mr. MEEKS of New York, Mr. Committee on the Judiciary. form and Agriculture. CLAY, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. AL GREEN of By Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California 6148. A letter from the Chief Counsel for Texas, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Mr. (for himself, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. Advocacy, Small Business Administration, LINCOLN DAVIS of Tennessee, Mr. TIERNEY, and Mr. ANDREWS):

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H.R. 5838. A bill to amend the National Mr. SHADEGG, Mr. WELDON of Florida, California, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. Labor Relations Act to apply the protections Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. DANIEL E. LUN- LEWIS of Georgia, and Mr. PETERSON of the Act to teaching and research assist- GREN of California, Mr. KUHL of New of Minnesota): ants; to the Committee on Education and York, Mr. LAMBORN, Mr. SHIMKUS, H. Con. Res. 330. Concurrent resolution Labor. Mr. GOODE, and Mr. BISHOP of Utah): supporting the goals and ideals of National By Mr. BUYER (for himself, Mr. H.R. 5847. A bill to prohibit United States Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention MATHESON, Mr. ROGERS of Michigan, funding for the 2009 United Nations Durban Month; to the Committee on the Judiciary. and Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas): Review Conference (‘‘Durban II Conference’’) By Mr. HINCHEY (for himself, Ms. H.R. 5839. A bill to amend the Federal or any other activity relating to the plan- BALDWIN, Ms. of Flor- Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to improve ning, preparation, or implementation of a ida, Mrs. CAPPS, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. the safety of drugs; to the Committee on En- follow-up meeting to the 2001 United Nations DELAHUNT, Mr. FARR, Ms. HOOLEY, ergy and Commerce. World Conference Against Racism, Racial Ms. KILPATRICK, Mrs. BONO MACK, By Mr. KANJORSKI (for himself, Ms. Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related In- Mrs. MALONEY of New York, Ms. MAT- BEAN, Mr. ROYCE, Mr. MOORE of Kan- tolerance (‘‘Durban I Conference’’) in Dur- SUI, Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York, Ms. sas, and Ms. PRYCE of Ohio): ban, South Africa; to the Committee on For- NORTON, Ms. PRYCE of Ohio, Mr. H.R. 5840. A bill to establish an Office of eign Affairs. SERRANO, Mr. SNYDER, and Ms. SUT- Insurance Information in the Department of By Mr. HOLT (for himself, Mr. GEORGE TON): the Treasury; to the Committee on Financial MILLER of California, and Ms. MCCOL- H. Con. Res. 331. Concurrent resolution Services. LUM of Minnesota): supporting the goals and ideals of National By Mr. MOORE of Kansas (for himself H.R. 5848. A bill to amend the Higher Edu- Women’s Health Week, and for other pur- and Mr. ROSKAM): cation Act of 1965 to authorize a program to poses; to the Committee on Energy and Com- H.R. 5841. A bill to provide regulatory re- prepare teachers for digital age learners; to merce. lief and improve productivity for insured de- the Committee on Education and Labor. By Mr. MCNERNEY: pository institutions, and for other purposes; By Mr. MELANCON: to the Committee on Financial Services. H.R. 5849. A bill to extend the returning H. Res. 1117. A resolution declaring the By Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts (for worker exemption to the H-2B numerical support of the House of Representatives for himself, Mr. PAUL, Mr. ROHRABACHER, limitation; to the Committee on the Judici- the goals and ideals of Earth Day and for de- Mr. FARR, and Mr. HINCHEY): ary. veloping the scientific and technological ca- H.R. 5842. A bill to provide for the medical By Mr. MILLER of Florida (for himself, pabilities to achieve those goals; to the Com- use of marijuana in accordance with the laws Mr. BOYD of Florida, and Mr. mittee on Science and Technology. of the various States; to the Committee on BONNER): By Mr. FOSTER: Energy and Commerce. H.R. 5850. A bill to amend the Act entitled H. Res. 1118. A resolution honoring the life By Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts (for ‘‘An Act authorizing associations of pro- and achievements of John Archibald Wheeler himself and Mr. PAUL): ducers of aquatic products’’ to include per- and expressing condolences on his passing; to H.R. 5843. A bill to eliminate most Federal sons engaged in the fishery industry as char- the Committee on Science and Technology. penalties for possession of marijuana for per- ter boats or recreational fishermen, and for By Mr. PLATTS (for himself, Mr. sonal use, and for other purposes; to the other purposes; to the Committee on Natural SHAYS, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. PRICE of Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition Resources. North Carolina, and Mr. MCKEON): to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, By Mr. SALAZAR (for himself and Mr. H. Res. 1119. A resolution supporting the for a period to be subsequently determined UDALL of Colorado): goals and ideals highlighted through Na- by the Speaker, in each case for consider- H.R. 5851. A bill to provide for orderly and tional Volunteer Week; to the Committee on ation of such provisions as fall within the ju- balanced development of energy resources Education and Labor. risdiction of the committee concerned. within the Roan Plateau Planning Area of By Mr. ABERCROMBIE (for himself, By Ms. WOOLSEY (for herself, Ms. Colorado, and for other purposes; to the Mr. WESTMORELAND, and Mr. SIMP- ESHOO, Mr. FARR, Mr. HONDA, Ms. Committee on Natural Resources. SON): LEE, Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of California, By Mr. TOWNS (for himself, Mr. H. Res. 1120. A resolution supports the es- Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland, tablishment of an NCAA Division I Football STARK, Mr. THOMPSON of California, Mr. BRALEY of Iowa, Mr. LANGEVIN, Bowl Subdivision Championship playoff sys- and Ms. SPEIER): Mr. REICHERT, Mr. CAMPBELL of Cali- tem in the interest of fairness and to bring H.R. 5844. A bill to provide for the transfer fornia, and Mrs. BONO MACK): parity to all NCAA teams; to the Committee of the decommissioned Naval Security Group H.R. 5852. A bill to prohibit the conducting on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Activity, Skaggs Island, in Sonoma County, of invasive research on great apes, and for Committee on Education and Labor, for a pe- California, from the Department of the Navy other purposes; to the Committee on Energy riod to be subsequently determined by the to the Department of the Interior for conver- and Commerce, and in addition to the Com- Speaker, in each case for consideration of sion into a wildlife refuge for inclusion in mittees on Ways and Means, and Foreign Af- such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- the National Wildlife Refuge System; to the fairs, for a period to be subsequently deter- tion of the committee concerned. Committee on Armed Services. mined by the Speaker, in each case for con- By Mr. BISHOP of Utah: By Mr. EMANUEL (for himself, Mr. sideration of such provisions as fall within H. Res. 1121. A resolution commending Mil- GEORGE MILLER of California, Ms. the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. ler Motorsports Park, the county of Tooele, WOOLSEY, Mrs. MALONEY of New By Ms. TSONGAS: and the State of Utah for hosting the Fed- York, Mr. NADLER, Mr. ACKERMAN, H.R. 5853. A bill to expand the boundary of eration Internationale de Motocyclisme Mr. COSTA, and Mr. POE): the Minute Man National Historical Park in H.R. 5845. A bill to permit leave under the the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to in- (FIM) Superbike World Championship May 29 Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 for clude Barrett’s Farm, and for other purposes; through June 1, 2008; to the Committee on victims of violent crime and domestic vio- to the Committee on Natural Resources. Foreign Affairs. lence and immediate family members of vic- By Mr. VAN HOLLEN: By Mrs. MUSGRAVE: tims of violent crime and domestic violence H.R. 5854. A bill to amend title 36, United H. Res. 1122. A resolution recognizing to attend court proceedings relating to such States Code, to grant a Federal charter to Armed Forces Day; to the Committee on crimes; to the Committee on Education and the Military Officers Association of America, Oversight and Government Reform. Labor, and in addition to the Committees on and for other purposes; to the Committee on By Mr. ROHRABACHER (for himself, Oversight and Government Reform, and the Judiciary. Mr. DELAHUNT, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. House Administration, for a period to be sub- By Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ: COBLE, Mr. COHEN, Mr. DUNCAN, Mr. sequently determined by the Speaker, in H.R. 5855. A bill to establish a program to JONES of North Carolina, Ms. KAP- each case for consideration of such provi- provide grants to help homeowners who are TUR, and Mr. ROYCE): sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the facing foreclosure to receive professional H. Res. 1123. A resolution calling on the committee concerned. counseling; to the Committee on Financial President of the United States not to com- By Ms. ESHOO (for herself, Mr. CAN- Services. mit the United States to any status of forces NON, and Mr. MARKEY): By Ms. BALDWIN (for herself, Mr. POE, agreement or any other bilateral agreement H.R. 5846. A bill to require the Federal Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Mr. with the Republic of Iraq that involves the Communications Commission to auction MORAN of Virginia, Mr. HOLDEN, Mr. continued presence of the United States spectrum for a free and open access ALLEN, Mr. WYNN, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Armed Forces in Iraq unless the agreement broadband service; to the Committee on En- Mr. ELLISON, Mr. NADLER, Ms. includes a provision under which the Repub- ergy and Commerce. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. MOORE of lic of Iraq agrees to reimburse the United By Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey (for Kansas, Ms. MCCOLLUM of Minnesota, States for all costs incurred by the United himself, Mr. POE, Mr. MCCOTTER, Mr. Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mrs. States related to the presence of United MCHENRY, Mr. KING of Iowa, Mr. MALONEY of New York, Ms. MATSUI, States Armed Forces in Iraq after the effec- BROUN of Georgia, Mr. BARTLETT of Ms. DELAURO, Ms. SUTTON, Mr. tive date of the agreement; to the Com- Maryland, Mr. PENCE, Mr. FEENEY, LOEBSACK, Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of mittee on Foreign Affairs.

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H.R. 5467: Mr. SHULER. H.R. 503: Mr. SCOTT of Georgia. H.R. 3186: Mr. ALTMIRE, Mr. BONNER, Mr. H.R. 5498: Mr. GERLACH. H.R. 510: Mr. BACHUS and Mr. MARCHANT. PASTOR, Mr. MCNERNEY, Mr. GENE GREEN of H.R. 5510: Mr. HILL. H.R. 583: Ms. GIFFORDS. Texas, and Mr. ARCURI. H.R. 5534: Mr. BERMAN, Mr. MORAN of Vir- H.R. 643: Ms. PRYCE of Ohio and Mr. DAVIS H.R. 3202: Mr. MEEKs of New York. ginia, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. of Alabama. H.R. 3229: Mr. BERMAN, Mr. ACKERMAN, Ms. BILBRAY, Mr. ALEXANDER, Mr. PALLONE, and H.R. 715: Ms. KILPATRICK. BERKLEY, Mr. BISHOP of New York, Mr. Ms. MATSUI. H.R. 741: Mr. BOUCHER. BLUMENAUER, Mr. BOSWELL, Mr. BRALEY of H.R. 5541: Mr. WALDEN of Oregon. H.R. 821: Mr. LEVIN. Iowa, Mrs. CAPPS, Mr. CAPUANO, Mr. H.R. 5546: Mr. WAMP. H.R. 826: Mr. WAMP. CARDOZA, Mr. CHANDLER, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. H.R. 5548: Mr. TOWNS. H.R. 5552: Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey and H.R. 998: Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of California. DOYLE, Mr. EDWARDS, Mr. EMANUEL, Ms. AGEN H.R. 1076: Mr. CARNEY. ESHOO, Mr. FARR, Mr. FOSTER, Mr. FRANK of Mr. K . H.R. 5611: Ms. PRYCE of Ohio. H.R. 1108: Mr. MURTHA. Massachusetts, Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, H.R. 5613: Ms. WATSON, Mrs. EMERSON, and H.R. 1110: Mr. INSLEE. Ms. HERSETH SANDLIN, Mr. HOLDEN, Mr. Mr. HOBSON. H.R. 1113: Mr. COHEN and Mr. HOLT. HONDA, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Mr. JEF- H.R. 5626: Mr. CARSON and Mr. MCDERMOTT. H.R. 1157: Mrs. CHRISTENSEN. FERSON, Mr. KANJORSKI, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. H.R. 5648: Mr. WALDEN of Oregon. H.R. 1222: Mr. WITTMAN of Virginia. KENNEDY, Mr. LARSON of Connecticut, Mr. H.R. 5656: Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky, Mr. ROG- H.R. 1228: Mr. HONDA. LEVIN, Mr. LOEBSACK, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. ERS of Kentucky, Mr. THORNBERRY, Mr. H.R. 1232: Mr. BRALEY of Iowa. MCINTYRE, Mr. MOLLOHAN, Mr. MOORE of NEUGEBAUER, and Mr. BOUSTANY. H.R. 1245: Mr. TOWNS, Mr. ROSS, and Mr. Kansas, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Mr. PAT- H.R. 5669: Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. BISHOP of DAVIS of Illinois. RICK MURPHY of Pennsylvania, Mr. MURTHA, Georgia, and Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. H.R. 1283: Mr. HULSHOF. Mr. NADLER, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. PASTOR, Mr. H.R. 5673: Mr. ENGLISH of Pennsylvania, H.R. 1295: Mr. MILLER of Florida. PRICE of North Carolina, Mr. RAHALL, Mr. Mr. KUHL of New York, Mr. YOUNG of Alaska, H.R. 1363: Mr. RYAN of Ohio and Mr. SCOTT SCHIFF, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. SNYDER, Mr. and Ms. FALLIN. of Virginia. STARK, Mr. THOMPSON of California, Mr. H.R. 5674: Mr. BOREN. H.R. 1395: Mr. LEVIN. UDALL of New Mexico, Mr. VELA´ ZQUEZ, Ms. H.R. 5676: Mr. MACK, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, H.R. 1419: Mr. MCHUGH, Mr. MITCHELL, and WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. WU, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Mr. HINCHEY. Ms. CASTOR, Mr. DINGELL, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. Florida, Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida, Ms. H.R. 1431: Mrs. SCHMIDT. ETHERIDGE, Mr. GONZALEZ, Mr. GRIJALVA, GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida, Mr. KELLER, H.R. 1552: Mr. WELCH of Vermont. Mr. HARE, Mr. INSLEE, Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of and Mr. Lincoln Diaz-Balart of Florida. H.R. 1576: Mr. WITTMAN of Virginia. C ARTHY California, Mrs. M C of New York, H.R. 5681: Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of California. H.R. 1609: Mr. LATTA, Mrs. BONO MACK, Mr. Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. OBERSTAR, Mr. ORTIZ, H.R. 5700: Mr. CROWLEY. SCOTT of Virginia, and Mrs. MUSGRAVE. Mr. RODRIGUEZ, Mr. ROTHMAN, Ms. LINDA T. H.R. 5716: Mr. GONZALEZ. H.R. 1610: Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ and Mr. ´ SANCHEZ of California, Ms. SHEA-PORTER, Ms. H.R. 5723: Mr. EDWARDS, Mr. NEUGEBAUER, CRAMER. SOLIS, Ms. SUTTON, and Mr. WAXMAN. and Mr. BOUSTANY. H.R. 1621: Mr. RAHALL. H.R. 3232: Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania and H.R. 5728: Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Flor- H.R. 1646: Mr. ISRAEL. Mr. HIGGINS. ida. H.R. 1647: Mr. NEAL of Massachusetts, Mr. H.R. 3341: Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland. H.R. 5731: Mr. JORDAN. COHEN, Mr. HOLT, Mr. LIPINSKI, and Mr. H.R. 3419: Mr. MCDERMOTT. H.R. 5740: Mr. MCCAUL of Texas, Mr. WAX- COSTELLO. H.R. 3457: Mr. GONZALEZ and Mr. MAN, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. KELLER, Mr. GER- H.R. 1655: Mr. COSTELLO and Mr. FILNER. MCCOTTER. LACH, Mr. FOSTER, Mr. STEARNS, Ms. KIL- H.R. 1667: Mr. ISRAEL. H.R. 3544: Mr. WAXMAN and Mrs. MALONEY PATRICK, Mr. GUTIERREZ, Ms. NORTON, and H.R. 1738: Ms. CASTOR and Mr. FOSSELLA. of New York. Mr. FERGUSON. H.R. 1783: Mr. HONDA. H.R. 3622: Mr. ARCURI and Ms. HIRONO. H.R. 5752: Mr. BROUN of Georgia. H.R. 1827: Ms. FOXX and Mr. CAMPBELL of H.R. 3700: Mr. ALLEN. H.R. 5776: Mr. PENCE, Mr. WELDON of Flor- California. H.R. 3800: Mr. DONNELLY. ida, Mr. DOOLITTLE, Mr. KUHL of New York, H.R. 1881: Ms. SLAUGHTER. H.R. 3865: Mr. COBLE, Mr. FARR, Mr. Mr. CHABOT, Mr. SHIMKUS, Mr. WITTMAN of H.R. 1889: Mr. BOREN. ELLISON, and Mr. BOUCHER. Virginia, and Ms. FALLIN. H.R. 1890: Mr. BOREN. H.R. 3976: Mr. BISHOP of New York. H.R. 5782: Mr. BARRETT of South Carolina. H.R. 1930: Mrs. BACHMANN. H.R. 4008: Mr. KELLER. H.R. 5788: Ms. MATSUI and Ms. HIRONO. H.R. 1932: Mr. UDALL of New Mexico and H.R. 4020: Mr. JEFFERSON and Mr. CARSON. H.R. 5794: Mr. BONNER and Mr. POE. Mr. PAYNE. H.R. 4107: Mr. BOUCHER. H.R. 5795: Mr. BROUN of Georgia. H.R. 1940: Mr. WITTMAN of Virginia. H.R. 4114: Mr. DEFAZIO. H.R. 5818: Ms. CLARKE, Ms. MOORE of Wis- H.R. 1967: Mr. PENCE, Mr. SMITH of Ne- H.R. 4202: Mr. COSTELLO. consin, and Mr. WILSON of Ohio. braska, Ms. FALLIN, Mr. WITTMAN of Vir- H.R. 4218: Mrs. CAPPS. H.R. 5825: Mrs. EMERSON, Mr. JOHNSON of Il- ginia, Mr. MCKEON, Mr. TERRY, and Mr. H.R. 4236: Mr. SCOTT of Virginia and Mr. linois, Mr. MACK, Mr. ROGERS of Michigan, LAMBORN. CARNEY. Mr. DAVID DAVIS of Tennessee, Mr. RENZI, H.R. 2032: Mr. JEFFERSON. H.R. 4335: Mr. CAPUANO. Mr. POE, Mr. DUNCAN, and Mr. KNOLLENBERG. H.R. 2054: Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. H.R. 4344: Mr. KUHL of New York. H. Con. Res. 249: Mr. MICA. H.R. 2091: Mr. WU and Mr. LATHAM. H.R. 4450: Mr. BACA, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. H. Con. Res. 257: Mr. SAXTON, Mr. BOREN, H.R. 2138: Mr. MCHENRY, Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ- BOUCHER, and Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Mr. MANZULLO, and Mr. HUNTER. BALART of Florida, Mrs. WILSON of New Mex- H.R. 4460: Mr. HUNTER and Mr. CONAWAY. H. Con. Res. 295: Ms. FALLIN, Mr. LAMBORN, ico, and Mr. GARY G. MILLER of California. H.R. 4544: Mrs. DRAKE, Mr. SIMPSON, Mr. and Mr. FORBES. H.R. 2188: Ms. BALDWIN, Ms. ZOE LOFGREN OBERSTAR, Mr. MILLER of Florida, and Mr. H. Con. Res. 317: Mr. CHABOT, Mr. WILSON of California, and Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. GALLEGLY. of South Carolina, Ms. DELAURO, and Mr. H.R. 2230: Mr. PEARCE. H.R. 4688: Mr. PORTER and Mr. GRIJALVA. PAYNE. H.R. 2241: Mr. PASTOR. H.R. 4879: Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania. H. Con. Res. 318: Mr. INGLIS of South Caro- H.R. 2280: Mr. WALZ of Minnesota. H.R. 4900: Mr. SHUSTER, Mr. MCCRERY, Mr. lina and Mr. Carson. H.R. 2325: Mr. BOREN. HALL of Texas, Mr. KINGston, Mr. ORTIZ, Mr. H. Con. Res. 320: Mr. FILNER, Ms. KAPTUR, H.R. 2330: Mrs. DRAKE, Mr. ENGLISH of BARROW, Mr. THORNBERRY, Mr. TIM MURPHY Mr. FATTAH, and Mrs. NAPOLITANO. Pennsylvania, and Mr. POE. of Pennsylvania, Mr. BONNER, and Mr. H. Con. Res. 323: Mr. FORBES. H.R. 2370: Mr. BRALEY of Iowa. TERRY. H. Con. Res. 328: Ms. DELAURO. H.R. 2611: Mr. ALTMIRE. H.R. 4930: Mr. BOUCHER and Ms. BALDWIN. H. Con. Res. 329: Mr. TIM MURPHY of Penn- H.R. 2676: Mr. BOUCHER. H.R. 4959: Mr. HARE and Mr. STARK. sylvania, Mr. GERLACH, Mr. FEENEY, Mr. H.R. 2744: Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mrs. BONO H.R. 5131: Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of PLATTS, Mr. MCCOTTER, Mr. GOODE, Mr. BUR- MACK, Mr. ROSKAM, Mr. MEEKs of New York, Texas. TON of Indiana, and Mr. JONES of North Caro- Mr. RANGEL, Mr. BECERRA, and Ms. CASTOR. H.R. 5180: Mr. DONNELLY and Ms. EDDIE lina. H.R. 2802: Mr. TOWNS and Mr. KUCINICH. BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. H. Res. 37: Mr. COHEN. H.R. 2833: Mr. DONNELLY. H.R. 5244: Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas and H. Res. 373: Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsyl- H.R. 2878: Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. YARMUTH. vania and Ms. SLAUGHTER.

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H. Res. 795: Mr. VAN HOLLEN. MARCHANT, Mrs. MUSGRAVE, Mr. PITTS, Mr. H. Res. 1056: Mr. HARE and Mr. BRALEY of H. Res. 821: Mr. MILLER of Florida. HOBSON, Mr. BOUSTANY, Mr. AKIN, Mr. Iowa. H. Res. 881: Mr. CAMPBELL of California, GINGREY, Mr. GOODE, Mr. DOOLITTLE, Mr. H. Res. 1062: Mr. FILNER. Mr. FEENEY, Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland, Mr. DUNCAN, Mrs. BONO MACK, Mr. MACK, Mrs. H. Res. 1067: Mr. LOBIONDO and Mr. PENCE, Mr. DAVID DAVIS of Tennessee, Mr. CAPITO, Mr. MCCARTHY of California, Mr. SALAZAR. CHABOT, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. JORDAN, Mr. SALI, Mr. FORTENBERRY, Mr. H. Res. 1070: Mr. CONAWAY. TANCREDO, Mr. ROYCE, Mr. BRADY of Texas, DEAL of Georgia, Mr. LINDER, Mr. PEARCE, H. Res. 1076: Mrs. CUBIN, Mr. SOUDER, Mr. Mr. BROUN of Georgia, Mr. WALBERG, Mr. Mr. HALL of New York, Mr. KELLER, Mr. MIL- PENCE, and Mr. JONES of North Carolina. FLAKE, Mr. REYNOLDS, Mrs. MYRICK, and Mr. LER of Florida, Mr. SNYDER, Mr. BURGESS, H. Res. 1079: Mr. ORTIZ, Ms. GINNY BROWN- STEARNS. Mrs. MCMORRIS RODGERS, Mrs. EMERSON, Mr. WAITE of Florida, Mrs. BACHMANN, Ms. ZOE AVID AVIS H. Res. 923: Mr. D D of Tennessee, LEWIS of California, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. CAS- LOFGREN of California, and Ms. KILPATRICK. Mr. WALBERG, Mr. FRANKs of Arizona, Mr. TLE, Mr. PENCE, Mr. GILCHREST, Mr. PAUL, H. Res. 1081: Mr. HINOJOSA. SHADEGG, Mr. CAMPBELL of California, Mr. Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland, Mr. KUCINICH, H. Res. 1099: Mr. HINOJOSA. KUHL of New York, Mr. PRICE of Georgia, Mr. Mr. REICHERT, Mr. GERLACH, Mr. DENT, Mr. H. Res. 1109: Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. MORAN of CLAY, Mr. ADERHOLT, Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN TOM DAVIS of Virginia, Mr. SAXTON, Mr. Virginia, Ms. LEE, and Mr. ENGEL. of California, Mr. DICKS, Mr. CARNEY, Mr. HAYES, Mr. MCHENRY, Mr. STEARNS, Ms. ROS- H. Res. 1110: Ms. SCHWARTZ, Mr. TIBERI, Mr. FOSTER, Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey, Mr. LEHTINEN, and Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky. REICHERT, Mrs. EMERSON, Mrs. TAUSCHER, SCOTT of Georgia, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHN- H. Res. 937: Ms. FALLIN and Mr. REYES. Mr. SAXTON, Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of SON of Texas, Ms. KILPATRICK, Mr. HILL, Mr. H. Res. 981: Mr. MILLER of North Carolina. Florida, Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky, Mr. BONNER, CLYBURN, Mr. ALTMIRE, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, and Mr. FEENEY. Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Mr. HOEKSTRA, Mr. H. Res. 984: Mr. PASTOR, Mr. DOOLITTLE, H. Res. 1111: Mr. ENGEL, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. NEUGEBAUER, Mr. KLEIN of Mrs. DAVIS of California, Mr. BOYD of Flor- RUPPERSBERGER, Mr. TANNER, Mr. WEXLER, Florida, Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida, ida, Mr. TANNER, Mr. ROSS, Mr. TAYLOR, Mr. Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. ALTMIRE, Mr. Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. FLAKE, Mr. SHULER, Mr. SPACE, Mr. CHANDLER, Mr. COO- SIRES, Mr. HODES, Mr. BRALEY of Iowa, and WELDON of Florida, Mr. PUTNAM, Mr. PER, Mr. MCINTYRE, Mr. HILL, Mr. PATRICK Mr. INSLEE. ROSKAM, Mr. HULSHOF, Mr. WILSON of South MURPHY of Pennsylvania, Mr. COSTA, Mr. H. Res. 1115: Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, Mr. Carolina, Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania, BISHOP of Georgia, Mr. CRAMER, Mr. LINCOLN ARCURI, and Mr. WITTMAN of Virginia. Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts, Mr. COSTELLO, DAVIS of Tennessee, Mr. CARNEY, Mr. BAR- Mr. LATTA, Mr. SHIMKUS, Mr. FEENEY, Mr. ROW, Mr. KENNEDY, Ms. HERSETH SANDLIN, f CRENSHAW, Ms. PRYCE of Ohio, Mr. Mr. ELLSWORTH, Mr. ARCURI, and Mr. HENSARLING, Mr. COLE of Oklahoma, Mr. MAHONEY of Florida. PETITIONS, ETC. H. Res. 992: Mr. PETERSON of Minnesota. LEWIS of Kentucky, Mr. JONES of North Caro- Under clause 3 of rule XII, petitions lina, Mr. LOEBSACK, Mr. CAPUANO, Mr. CON- H. Res. 1002: Mr. KLEIN of Florida, Mr. YERS, Mr. SKELTON, Mr. SHULER, Mr. MITCH- WYNN, Ms. BERKLEY, Ms. LINDA T. SA´ NCHEZ and papers were laid on the clerk’s ELL, Mr. TAYLOR, Mr. DONNELLY, Mr. ELLS- of California, Mr. SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. desk and referred as follows: WORTH, Mr. WILSON of Ohio, Mr. BILBRAY, CUMMINGS, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Mr. CAS- 236. The SPEAKER presented a petition of Mrs. CUBIN, Mr. LAHOOD, Mrs. SCHMIDT, Mr. TLE, Ms. WOOLSEY, Ms. CASTOR, Mr. THOMP- the National Legislative Commission of the BROUN of Georgia, Ms. FOXX, Mr. WESTMORE- SON of Mississippi, Mr. UPTON, and Mr. American Legion, relative to Resolutions LAND, Mrs. DRAKE, Mr. BROWN of South Caro- COSTELLO. with legislative intent for the 110th Congress lina, Mr. BARRETT of South Carolina, Mr. H. Res. 1008: Mr. FILNER and Mr. LATHAM. Second Session; to the Committee on Vet- WAMP, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. LAMBORN, Mr. H. Res. 1054: Mrs. BIGGERT. erans’ Affairs.

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Vol. 154 WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2008 No. 61 Senate The Senate met at 12:45 p.m. and was U.S. SENATE, The bill (H.R. 5813) was ordered to a called to order by the Honorable PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, third reading, was read the third time, CLAIRE MCCASKILL, a Senator from the Washington, DC, April 17, 2008. and passed. State of Missouri. To the Senate: Mr. REID. Madam President, this Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby farm bill has been extended for a short PRAYER appoint the Honorable CLAIRE MCCASKILL, a period of time. The conferees have Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered Senator from the State of Missouri, to per- worked extremely hard. I hope we can the following prayer: form the duties of the Chair. get the conference report to us early Let us pray. ROBERT C. BYRD, next week. It would be a real dis- Almighty God, who has given us this President pro tempore. appointment if we didn’t get this bill good land for our heritage, help us to Mrs. MCCASKILL thereupon assumed done. be a people mindful of Your favor and the chair as Acting President pro tem- f pore. glad to do Your will. Save us from vio- WELCOMING POPE BENEDICT XVI lence, discord, and confusion, from f TO THE UNITED STATES pride and arrogance and from every evil way. RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask Lord, defend our liberties and fashion LEADER unanimous consent that we now pro- ceed to the consideration of S. Res. 519. us into one united people. Empower our The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Senators with the spirit of wisdom that The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- pore. The majority leader is recog- pore. The clerk will report. justice and peace may reign. May they nized. serve You with such faithfulness that The legislative clerk read as follows: America will show forth Your praise f A resolution (S. Res. 519) welcoming Pope among the nations of the Earth. In Benedict XVI to the United States and rec- TEMPORARY EXTENSION OF THE times of prosperity, fill their hearts ognizing the unique insights his moral and FARM SECURITY AND RURAL IN- spiritual reflections bring to the world stage. with thankfulness, and in the day of VESTMENT ACT OF 2002 trouble give them a robust faith in There being no objection, the Senate You. May they keep their attention on Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask proceeded to consider the resolution. You as the only one they must please. unanimous consent that the Senate Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask We pray in the Redeemer’s Name. proceed to the consideration of H.R. unanimous consent that the resolution Amen. 5813. be agreed to, the preamble be agreed The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- to, and the motion to reconsider be laid f pore. The clerk will state the bill by upon the table. title. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE The legislative clerk read as follows: pore. Without objection, it is so or- A bill (H.R. 5813) to amend Public Law 110– dered. The Honorable CLAIRE MCCASKILL led 196 to provide for a temporary extension of The resolution (S. Res. 519) was the Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: programs authorized by the Farm Security agreed to. I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the and Rural Investment Act of 2002 beyond The preamble was agreed to. United States of America, and to the Repub- April 18, 2008. The resolution, with its preamble, lic for which it stands, one nation under God, There being no objection, the Senate reads as follows: indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. proceeded to consider the bill. S. RES. 519 Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask f Whereas Pope Benedict XVI will travel to unanimous consent that the bill be the United States for his first pastoral visit read the third time and passed; that as Pope and will visit Washington, DC, and APPOINTMENT OF ACTING the motion to reconsider be laid upon New York; PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE the table; that there be no intervening Whereas Pope Benedict XVI was elected as The PRESIDING OFFICER. The action or debate; and that any state- the 265th Bishop of Rome on April 19, 2005, clerk will please read a communication ments relating to this matter be print- succeeding the much beloved Pope John Paul II; to the Senate from the President pro ed in the RECORD. Whereas the visit of Pope Benedict XVI tempore (Mr. BYRD). The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- will mark the 9th visit of a pope to the The legislative clerk read the fol- pore. Without objection, it is so or- United States, recognizing the historical im- lowing letter: dered. portance of the Catholic Church in American

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The Senator from Idaho is recog- Whereas Pope Benedict XVI remains com- Boxer amendment No. 4539 (to the text of nized. mitted to ecumenical dialogue and, during the committee substitute to be inserted), to EXTENSION OF THE FARM BILL his trip to the United States, will meet with call for a review by the Department of Jus- Mr. CRAIG. Madam President, I am leaders of world religions and representa- tice of allegations of violations of Federal on the floor to speak about something tives of other Christian denominations and criminal law. Coburn amendment No. 4540 (to amend- the majority leader proposed and that will visit a synagogue in New York City, all we have accepted by unanimous con- demonstrating his commitment to sincere ment No. 4539), relative to the Coconut Road dialogue and unity among all members of the Investigation. sent; that is, a 1-week extension of ex- human family; The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- isting farm policy, the existing farm Whereas Pope Benedict XVI has authored 2 pore. The Senator from Idaho is recog- bill. encyclical letters inviting the world to medi- nized. I come to the floor to speak because tate on the virtues of love and hope, ‘‘Deus Mr. CRAIG. Madam President, I ask last night I put a hold on that UC re- caritas est’’ and ‘‘Spe salvi’’; unanimous consent that I be allowed to quest. I, similar to many Senators— Whereas millions of Americans have dis- and especially American agriculture— covered in Pope Benedict ’s words a renewed speak for up to 10 minutes in morning business. am growing very frustrated and rest- faith in the power of hope over despair and less about the reality that we don’t love over hate; Mrs. BOXER. Madam President, re- Whereas Pope Benedict XVI has been a serving the right to object, I wanted to have a farm bill. As we know, across clear and courageous voice for the voiceless, have a minute before to explain the lay America and in central parts of our working tirelessly for the recognition of of the land. country—certainly in the South— human dignity and religious freedom across Mr. CRAIG. I yield to the chairman spring is here and it is planting season. the globe; and leader of the bill. The farm bill that is current law, Whereas Pope Benedict XVI has spoken out Mrs. BOXER. Madam President, for which we extended a few moments ago, for the weak and vulnerable; the interest of all Members, we have actually expired on September 30 of Whereas Pope Benedict XVI seeks to ad- 2007. vance a ‘‘civilization of love’’ across our been working now since Monday to world; and pass a technical corrections bill, which, It was in July 2007 that the House Whereas Catholics in parishes and schools it seems to me, should have been passed their version, and on December across the Nation, and countless other Amer- passed very quickly. It basically makes 14 we passed ours. Now, we have offered icans as well, eagerly await the visit of Pope some corrections to the last big high- several extensions so the principals— Benedict XVI to the United States: Now, way and transit bill so certain projects the House and Senate Ag committees— therefore, be it that have been held up for technical could work on their differences with Resolved, That the Senate welcomes Pope reasons can go forward, and others that the administration and solve these Benedict XVI on the occasion of his first pas- problems. Yet they have not been able toral visit to the United States and recog- weren’t ready, pushed aside, and an- nizes the unique insights his moral and spir- other can go forward. This will unleash to do it. itual reflections bring to the world stage. about a billion dollars’ worth of impor- Is this symbolic of a dysfunctional Congress that we have been experi- f tant programs for our Nation. These projects have been vetted, and encing for the last several years, where SCHEDULE they have been posted on the Web page we simply cannot grapple with the big Mr. REID. Madam President, we are of the committee, as we must do ac- and responsible basic public policy going to resume consideration of the cording to our new ethics rules. We are issues of our country? It appears to be highway bill very soon. Yesterday, we very pleased it looks like we might be that way. I will blame both sides on filed cloture on the Boxer substitute able to wrap this up in the next few this issue. It is both sides that are at amendment to the underlying bill. hours. fault that they cannot come together Under the rule, Senators have until As far as I am concerned, we are and, if you will, split the difference and 1 p.m. today to file first-degree amend- ready to vote. We have the Coburn solve a problem that is the basic public ments. Senator MCCONNELL and I are amendment and the Boxer amendment, policy for American agriculture. NANCY going to have a consent agreement which deal with a real problem that oc- PELOSI, the Speaker of the House, op- that we will present to the Senate in curred at some point during the poses the tax provision within the bill. the immediate future. SAFETEA–LU consideration years ago. Why? She isn’t a member of the Fi- nance Committee or a member of the f We have corrected the problem in the bill. We want to now have some type of Agriculture Committee. Yes, she is the RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME investigation to find out exactly what majority leader and, therefore, if she The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- went wrong and if there were any opposes it, she could certainly block it, pore. Under the previous order, leader- crimes committed. There were two op- and she can kill farm policy. ship time is reserved. tions. Senator COBURN is setting up a I have worked with Senator HARKIN and Senator SAXBY CHAMBLISS for the f complicated select committee of the House and Senate. We believe strongly last month, and I know they have HIGHWAY TECHNICAL that it creates constitutional prob- worked overtime. This is not a criti- CORRECTIONS ACT OF 2007 lems, and we think it might interfere cism of our colleagues; it is a criticism The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- with a Justice Department investiga- of a dysfunctional system that no pore. Under the previous order, the tion. longer can cut a deal and make basic Senate will resume consideration of And then Senator REID had rec- and important public policy. So here H.R. 1195, which the clerk will report. ommended, I think a far better way to we are, with one more extension. The assistant legislative clerk read get at the problem, which is a Justice SAXBY CHAMBLISS called me this morn- as follows: Department investigation. I have writ- ing and said: LARRY, would you give us A bill (H.R. 1195) to amend the Safe, Ac- ten an amendment to go along with another week? I said I would give them countable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation that. We are hoping to vote on that and 1 more week, but, frankly, this is it; I Equity Act: A Legacy for Users, to make then, hopefully, get to a cloture vote will not accept another extension next technical corrections, and for other pur- and final passage. week on the farm bill, unless the deal poses. So that is the lay of the land, as best has been cut, unless the agreement has Pending: I see it. I wish I had more control over been made and it is simply the proce- Boxer amendment No. 4146, in the nature of this at the moment. If I did, we would dure of putting it in writing and get- a substitute. be voting in 5 minutes on the whole ting it to print and to the President.

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Why are we bickering ranchers in a more efficient fashion in All of the gains I have talked about, over the fine points, when the funda- periods of serious drought and fire and all of the gains that were negotiated mental policy points are in place? other whole farm types of disasters. inside the Senate Agriculture Com- Let’s look at what we have done, be- There is an issue in agriculture and mittee and inside the House Agri- cause we ought to be proud of the work beef production that has been an issue culture Committee could simply be of the new farm bill: Significant in- of considerable contention over time. wiped away because there is no willing- creases in conservation funding for our It is called country-of-origin labeling. ness or ability to come together and working farmlands, including con- The American consumer today, when work together in behalf of American servation, stewardship, and environ- they go to the shelf and pick up a com- agriculture. mental quality incentive programs. modity and look at it, wants to know So I agreed on a 1-week extension. These are programs that encourage where it comes from. Is it a domestic This is not an ultimatum, this is sim- farmers and ranchers to incorporate U.S. product or was it produced some- ply a statement of fact. I cannot agree better tillage practices, thereby se- where else in the world? any longer. American agriculture and questering more carbon and doing their We know we have concern today Idaho’s farmers need to know. They de- part as it relates to reducing green- about certain types of products coming serve to know. They should not be kept house gas emissions. We have added, out of China and other areas, and the in limbo bouncing on the end of a for our dairies, better manure manage- consumer’s right to know the mar- string because the politicians in Wash- ment practices to reduce methane gas keting certainly is important in coun- ington cannot get their act together emissions. Here we are talking about try-of-origin labeling. We finally acqui- and simply cannot agree. We have al- climate change. The President spoke to esced to implement country-of-origin ways come to an agreement on agri- climate change yesterday. Yet we can- labeling by September of this year. I culture. It has always been a bipartisan not come to an agreement on some- don’t know if we can do it if we keep policy. I hope that practice of the past thing that would allow American agri- shoving the farm bill out, keep extend- is a practice that ultimately can domi- culture to advance their practices to ing it and not allowing the operative nate the negotiations over this coming make it work, in their instance, and language to come in place. week. allow a contribution to the climate There are critical tax provisions I hope my colleagues will keep their change carbon emissions issue. within this bill. My colleague, Senator lights on during the weekend. It is There is a provision within the new , has an Endangered Spe- time we work a little overtime to get farm bill that I and Senator STABENOW cies Act compliance in reduction and this done because I am one of several have worked on—literally for 5 years— credits. There are wind energy credits Senators who are simply at a point of to get a new provision in the farm bill and production tax credits for cel- saying: Can’t go there anymore; time to recognize the near 50 percent of lulosic ethanol. Once again, as a nation to finish it; time to tell American agri- gross revenue coming out of agri- that has grown increasingly dependent culture: Here is the new policy. And if culture today, known as specialty on foreign energy sources, we are say- we cannot, then let’s extend the old crops. For the first time, we have a ing to American agriculture in this policy and give them certainty for a new title on specialty crops. If I say at farm bill: Here are some incentives for minimum of at least 1 year. the end of the week—and their work is increased production. I yield the floor and suggest the ab- not done—I am not going to extend it I was recently in Ottawa, Canada, sence of a quorum. any more, I am going to have to forgo looking at a cellulosic ethanol produc- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- this. I am going to forgo it and say to tion plant, hoping it will be brought pore. The clerk will call the roll. the farmers in Idaho and across Amer- south of the border into the United The assistant legislative clerk pro- ica: Let’s do a 2-year extension on ex- States so we can begin to use agricul- ceeded to call the roll. isting policy, or at least 1-year exten- tural residues for the purpose of mak- Mr. WICKER. Mr. President, I ask sion so you know where you are when ing ethanol, lessening the pressure on unanimous consent that the order for you get to planting season, instead of some of our grain crops, especially our the quorum call be rescinded. watching Congress fall all over itself corn crops. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. because they cannot cut a deal. There are provisions in the bill to SALAZAR). Without objection, it is so Isn’t it about time we settle our dif- incentivize biodiesel. Yet those incen- ordered. ferences and show America we can tives are the kind Speaker PELOSI says Mr. WICKER. I request permission to function, that we can work the proc- are nonstarters, they are deal breakers. speak as in morning business for no ess? Have we truly become so dysfunc- How can making our country energy more than 7 minutes. tional and partisan on these fundamen- independent, how can incentivizing the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without tally bipartisan issues that they sim- promotion of the Endangered Species objection, it is so ordered. ply cannot be resolved? On our side, Act within private lands and giving TANKER REPLACEMENT PROGRAM there is a bipartisan effort. I cannot folks the benefit of doing that be a deal Mr. WICKER. Mr. President, on Feb- speak to the House side. I have not breaker? It simply demonstrates how ruary 29, 2008, the U.S. Air Force an- been in the negotiations. I can only see this Congress cannot function today. nounced its award of the KC–45A air re- the results. The results simply don’t We are basically on hold right now. We fueling tanker program, a replacement exist. That is why this Senator is on are not getting our work done in a va- to the aging KC–135 fleet. The two com- the floor today speaking with consider- riety of areas, and agriculture and the petitors in this process were Northrop able frustration over why we have a farm bill is simply a very tragic exam- Grumman-EADS on the one hand and Congress that, months after the expira- ple of that type of effort, or lack there- the Boeing Company on the other. tion of the law, simply cannot get its of. After a 13-month-long process, the Nor- work done. Commodity programs main- As I have said, September 30 of last throp Grumman proposal was selected tain a safety net. Yes, commodity year the policy expired. Current law as the better product for the American prices are high today and farmers are was extended until March 15 and then soldier and also the better value for the profiting. What goes up clearly can, again until tomorrow, and that is why American taxpayer. It should come as and does, come down in the commodity the leader was on the floor today ad- no surprise that this decision amount- markets. A property safety net for vancing it for 1 more week so that agri- ed to a major disappointment for Boe- wheat and barley was in there. It is ex- culture is not without policy in place. ing. Their employees and executives tremely important we do that. This is the 17th. The work has not would understandably have appreciated There are nutritional program in- been done. This Monday, Chairman the economic benefit such an award creases, making the school snack pro- HARKIN said he was fed up. If he is fed would have brought to them.

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This agreement would have been mately 250 notices to Boeing. wise, is not about American jobs versus costly and simply bad public policy. Furthermore, following the formal European jobs. It is about where in the Afterward, the Air Force responded request for proposals in January 2007, United States those jobs will be. with one of the clearest and most the Air Force received no complaints A recent full-page ad in newspapers transparent acquisition processes in from Boeing or anyone else that the across the country represented the history. The Air Force is now able to proposal request was somehow unfair. worst of the misinformation. The ad purchase and own 179 KC–45s for the There were ample opportunities for claimed the Air Force selection ‘‘penal- same price it was going to spend to those concerns to be aired, but no one ized the warfighter and the taxpayer.’’ lease 100 Boeing 767s. said a word in this regard. Considering The facts tell another story. The KC– Compared to the reactions in States this, it is very hard to make a straight- 45A was evaluated to be a superior where Boeing has a presence, the selec- faced claim that the process was not product for the warfighter. It was also tion of Northrop Grumman was greeted open or fair. judged by the Air Force to be a better with enthusiasm in Mobile, AL, and There has also been a high level of value for the taxpayer, providing supe- along the gulf coast of my State of misinformation about the so-called ex- rior military capability across the Mississippi, where thousands of jobs portation of American jobs. Some erro- board at a lower total cost than the will be created locally. The tankers neously claim the Northrop Grumman competing KC–767 aircraft. will be built in Mobile, but the eco- award will outsource thousands of U.S. The U.S. Air Force is not alone in nomic impact will be felt throughout jobs to Europe. This is simply not true. choosing the KC–45A. Our friend and the gulf coast and, in reality, through- No jobs are being exported to Europe. ally, the United Kingdom, recently an- nounced the selection of this same air- out the Nation. Such is the nature of On the contrary, the KC–45A will cre- craft frame as the best solution to the competitive process. One contest- ate thousands of new jobs in America meet their national security require- ant is selected, and the other must deal and will support a total of 48,000 direct ments. The U.K. selection is the fifth with disappointing news. and indirect jobs in 49 States, as I have tanker competition in a row where the It is important for Senators to under- said. stand that the Air Force and the De- More than 230 suppliers across the EADS platform was chosen as the win- fense Department utilized an ex- United States helped make up the 60 ner over all other competitors. Aus- tralia, Saudi Arabia, and the United tremely fair and open acquisition proc- percent U.S. content in the KC–45A Arab Emirates have also recently ess. The Government requested and re- tanker. This will truly be America’s placed orders for this tanker. ceived proposals for the tanker in early tanker, assembled in America by Some are calling for tighter restric- 2007 and then continued with an open American workers and for the protec- tions on the level of international con- review process until Northrop Grum- tion of the American military. The KC– tent in U.S. defense systems. That, to man was announced as the winner in 45A will be fully assembled and milita- my mind, would be a mistake and February of this year. rized for U.S. Air Force operations by would amount to changing the rules in In winning this contract, Northrop American workers in two separate fa- the middle of the game. The U.S. econ- Grumman simply did a better analysis cilities in Mobile. omy is tightly integrated into the glob- and provided a better solution for the No sensitive military technology will al economy, and the aerospace sector is Air Force. The KC–45A carries more be exported to Europe in connection no exception. fuel, more passengers, and more cargo. with this program. Instead, a new aero- There are numerous examples of It will also cost less to produce, pass- space corridor will continue to grow transatlantic cooperation on vital U.S. ing along savings to the American tax- and flourish along the gulf coast re- military programs where foreign sup- payers. By utilizing a broad base of gion. pliers do play essential roles. Some of suppliers in 49 of our 50 States, the The KC–45A tanker will join the the more visible programs include the Northrop Grumman tanker will create Global Hawk, Fire Scout, joint cargo F–35 Joint Strike Fighter produced by 48,000 direct and indirect jobs across aircraft, and the light utility heli- Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, our country. copter production facilities that are al- and British Aerospace; the VH–71 Pres- Despite this, some want to stop this ready successfully producing high-reli- idential helicopter produced by Lock- process from going forward. I have been ability defense systems for our Nation. heed Martin and Augusta Westland, a disturbed by the words and actions of The light utility helicopter, for exam- European consortium; and the Joint Boeing and its supporters. The level of ple, is being built by EADS North Cargo Aircraft produced by L–3, Boe- misinformation injected into this proc- America in Columbus, MS. It is a true ing, and Alenia, built in Florida from ess with the clear intent of derailing success for the Army and for our econ- an Italian airframe. the award is troubling for many rea- omy. The Lakota, as the helicopter is I don’t recall anyone in this Chamber sons—not the least of which is the known, was delivered to the Army 3 or from Boeing expressing concern precedent that would be set by Con- months ahead of schedule. To date, 24 about the level of European participa- gress should it overturn this decision. Lakota helicopters have been delivered tion in the Joint Cargo Aircraft, which The Air Force should be allowed to on or ahead of schedule. The Lakota has only about 60 percent U.S. content, make this acquisition decision based has over 2,000 flight hours, with over a nor did anyone complain about possible solely on the facts and the merits of 90-percent full mission capable rate. In interruption of supplies of spare parts, the two competing proposals, and that addition, EADS North America com- which some have suggested would be a is exactly what it did in choosing the pleted a 314,000-square-foot expansion likely outcome of buying the KC–45A. Northrop Grumman tanker. to its Mississippi facility to manufac- To repeat, Boeing’s Joint Cargo Air- Let’s look at some of the claims ture this helicopter. Perhaps most im- craft is 60 percent U.S. content and 40 made by Boeing and its supporters— portantly, the program is on budget percent international. When this con- first, that the competition was some- and on schedule to deliver a critical tract was awarded, no one raised a sin- how unfair. The Air Force and the De- platform to the American warfighter— gle complaint about that. Now, when fense Department testified recently to just another example of EADS North Boeing loses a competition to a part- the Senate Armed Services Committee America producing a product for our nership with a similar domestic-foreign that the KC–45A tanker competition country’s defense, using American ratio, they make it sound as if the was perhaps the most rigorous, fair, workers. world is coming to an end. and transparent acquisition in DOD There should be no doubt that the It seems to me the level of noise de- history. This open process allowed for a workforce in the gulf coast region is up pends on whose ox is being gored. I

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According to the Bureau of been the Air Force’s top modernization bate equally divided and controlled in Labor Statics 2005 Consumer Expendi- priority for several years. the usual form, and upon disposition of ture Survey, families with two cars If the GAO upholds the Air Force se- these listed amendments, the Senate spent, on average, $2,013 on gasoline. lection and denies Boeing’s protest, proceed to vote on the motion to in- Since that study was released prices that should be the end of it. At that voke cloture on the Boxer substitute, have increased dramatically. Gasoline point, no Member of this body should amendment No. 4146; that if cloture is price increases imply families are now stand in the way of the program mov- invoked on amendment No. 4146, then paying at least $3,065 on gasoline in a ing ahead. Any further efforts to delay the substitute, as amended, if amended, year. the program would not only be harmful be agreed to, the committee-reported A big chunk of that is Federal, State, to our national security but would be substitute, as amended, be agreed to, and local taxes. In fact, the average viewed by many of our foreign partners and the bill then read a third time; and family pays nearly $170 in Federal gas and allies as a major shift in U.S. pol- without further intervening action or taxes. With the growing financial icy. debate the Senate proceed to vote on strains placed on so many Americans’ From an economic point of view, po- passage of H.R. 1195, as amended; that rising food prices and falling home tential retaliation by our European al- the cloture motion on the bill be with- prices, the additional hit of rising fuel lies could have a negative impact on drawn; provided further that after the prices is becoming a breaking point. That is why my colleague, Senator the current $6 billion in annual pur- first vote, all subsequent votes in the JOHN MCCAIN, talked about the need to chases of defense systems from the sequence be limited to 10 minutes each. United States. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without do something, and do something quick- In closing, I would like to acknowl- objection, it is so ordered. ly, and proposed this gas tax holiday in edge that Boeing has every right to The Senator from Arizona. comments he made to the Nation a couple of days ago, and why he has protest this decision to the Govern- GAS TAX RELIEF asked this amendment be introduced ment Accountability Office. Beyond Mr. KYL. Mr. President, about al- on his behalf, as well as Senators WAR- that, however, if this decision is not most 24 hours ago I had asked the NER, BURR, MARTINEZ, LIEBERMAN, and overturned by GAO, any attempt to chairman of the committee about of- GRAHAM. alter this decision through the appro- fering an amendment to this legisla- In an effort to ease some of the hard- priations process or any other legisla- tion. It is clear that as a result of the ship caused by the higher fuel prices tive maneuver would be dangerously agreement that has been worked out that I have indicated, the amendment shortsighted, in my opinion. and the filing of cloture and so on that would merely suspend the 18.4-percent- It would set a damaging precedent it is not going to be possible to get a per-gallon tax on gas and the 24.4-per- that would destroy our contract proc- vote on the amendment I was speaking cent tax on diesel fuel from Memorial ess now and in the future. Frankly, I about. Day to Labor Day. would view such a move as an attack But I would like to talk briefly about As I said, the amendment would not on the competition process itself, not that amendment and indicate that it deplete the highway trust fund bal- only this award. would be offered on behalf of Senator ance. The amendment would offset any The workers along the gulf coast in MCCAIN, my colleague from Arizona, as revenue loss from the suspension of Alabama and Mississippi and this en- well as other Senators, some of whom this tax with Treasury revenues. So tire corridor are ready to proceed with may want to also speak to it briefly. the highway trust found will remain this work for our national defense. We We all know gasoline prices have whole. would all do well to step back and let risen dramatically. And the amend- We all agree that our roads and high- the facts in this situation speak for ment Senator MCCAIN and I and others ways must be maintained to ensure the themselves. That is what the Air Force would offer would provide a temporary safety of the road-traveling public, and did when choosing the Northrop Grum- tax holiday from Memorial Day to this amendment would in no way im- man tanker as the best option for our Labor Day, preventing the Federal pact highway construction. warfighters’ terms and the American Government from collecting the 18.4- It is interesting, last Memorial Day taxpayer and their decision should be percent tax, the gasoline tax, that oth- alone, approximately 32 million Ameri- allowed to stand. erwise motorists would pay. cans traveled by car 50 miles or more I yield the floor and suggest the ab- I assure my colleagues that the high- from home. So suspending the Federal sence of a quorum. way trust fund, which that tax goes excise tax during the summer when The PRESIDING OFFICER. The into, would be kept whole with Federal fuel prices have historically been at clerk will call the roll. revenues from the General Treasury. their highest level would allow mil- The legislative clerk proceeded to So the money we use to build highways lions of Americans to keep a few more call the roll. and bridges and so on would not be af- of their hard-earned dollars and help Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I ask fected by this amendment. them better make ends meet. unanimous consent that the order for Briefly, I think we all feel the pinch Two final comments: There is an ar- the quorum call be rescinded. when we fill up our cars and trucks. gument that this loss should be offset The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without But listen to these statistics. Accord- somehow by programs raising taxes objection, it is so ordered. ing to economy.com, gasoline prices at somewhere else. Of course, I have never Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I ask the pump have increased from $2.22 to understood why, if you are going to unanimous consent that no further $3.33 a gallon, up 50 percent since the provide tax relief to Americans, you amendments be in order to H.R. 1195, start of 2006. would want to provide the tax relief and that at 3:30 p.m. today, the Senate I checked in my home State of Ari- and then tax them in some other way. proceed to vote in relation to Boxer zona yesterday. It was $3.38. There is The Congressional Budget Office, amendment No. 4539, and that the very little that Congress can do in the former Council of Economic Advisers, amendment be modified to be to near term to reduce gas prices other Chairman Martin Feldstein, and Clin- amendment No. 4146; to be followed by than this gas tax holiday. In the long ton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin a vote in relation to Coburn amend- term, we know we have to add more are three of the entities or individuals ment No. 4538, and that Coburn amend- production and refining capacity in our who have said it is unnecessary to off- ment No. 4540 be withdrawn once this country and that we have to encourage set temporary tax cuts when an econ- agreement is entered; that each of supplies to increase. But for right now, omy is slowing. those two amendments be subject to a the one thing that Congress can do, and The $150 billion stimulus bill that 60 affirmative vote threshold, and that do virtually immediately, is to provide passed the Senate by a vote of 81 to 16

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There are 500 important approach and support the Boxer-Reid ask why our amendment would need to projects in it. I have colleagues who approach which I believe is straight- be offset since it aids struggling Amer- want to add more projects. I want to forward. It makes sense. It gets right ican families. say, for the benefit of everyone, there to the heart. If there is a crime, let’s Finally, I heard rumors that Sen- are some very legitimate technical cor- find out about it. ators would like to propose an alter- rections that still need to be done. I On the McCain amendment, I actu- native to what we have produced, a have committed to my colleagues, both ally was looking forward to debating Democratic alternative that was devel- Democratic and Republican—I have it. I hope we will be able to, because oped yesterday afternoon, that would spoken to Senator LINCOLN, Senator there is a lot of dispute about how it effectively raise corporate income LANDRIEU, Senator BEN NELSON, Sen- would actually work in the real world. taxes on oil and gas companies. ator HUTCHISON, only a few moments There is nothing in the McCain amend- Now, I suppose everyone likes to pick ago—that our committee, myself work- ment that tells the oil companies they on oil and gas companies, though we ing with Senator INHOFE and our col- can’t pocket the 18 cents that is going sure want to have some gasoline in the leagues, is going to come up with a fol- to come off. We have seen the oil com- pumps when we decide we need to fill low-on technical corrections bill with panies. In California, in some places, up our cars and trucks, but this pro- the time to ensure it is put together we are over $4. This hurts our hearts. posal eliminates or curtails the so- right. We do have some different ethics We see oil company profits soaring. If called section 199 domestic production rules these days. We want to make sure it were only the cost, they would be deduction for oil and gas companies. we vet everything and everything is having the same profit and passing on What that means in regular English put up on the Web site. We have a num- is effectively raising the corporate in- the cost. But, no, their profits have ber of very important technical correc- come tax rate by 3 percentage points. gone up. We know about the CEO sala- tions still to be done, but we are going That is exactly the wrong medicine at ries and all the rest. to do it in the next 3 weeks in com- There is nothing in the McCain a time when our economy is not doing mittee. We look forward to it. amendment—I would love to talk to well. Let me repeat that. The elimi- I read a very complex unanimous JOHN about that—that would say to the nation of this tax incentive is designed consent request, and I don’t think any- to encourage oil and gas companies to oil companies: Don’t use this as a mo- one within the sound of my voice could ment to raise 18 cents. So where might produce oil and gas in the United possibly follow all of it. So I thought in States so we do not have to go abroad we be? plain English, for the good of myself as We might do this, and we would have and buy it from somewhere else. well as my colleagues, I would say I don’t agree with this approach. to now go to the general fund. All tax- Rather than raising taxes on oil com- where we are. We are going to have a payers would have to pay for this. Let’s panies, we should be encouraging them couple of votes on the issue of Coconut be clear. There is no pay-for in the to explore for oil and to produce oil and Road, which is a real problem for us, McCain amendment—none at all. It gas in the United States, to improve and it has been straightened out in this goes to the Treasury. Who puts money our energy security and, importantly, bill. We fix the problem. But there are in the Treasury? My taxpayers, your to reduce prices for American con- colleagues who want to have an inves- taxpayers, all taxpayers. So taxpayers sumers. Why on Earth would anyone tigation, and we have two alternatives. are now going to pay for this one way actually want to limit domestic pro- One is the Coburn amendment which or the other. We take it away from the duction? Reducing domestic production sets up what I consider a very com- users and the taxpayers pay, and there would only make the United States plicated special select committee with is nothing in it that will ensure that more dependent on foreign oil imports Members from both bodies. It will have the cost won’t be nabbed and grabbed and would likely cause consumers to public hearings. It will review things in by the oil companies. Then they get pay even more at the pump. Besides, a public. It will do all of that. At the end the extra 18 cents, and we have blown a tax increase of the type being proposed of that time, what the committee will $9 billion hole in the Federal budget. It would have the effect of raising prices do is refer something to Justice, if they is amazing how my colleagues could at the pump, as costs obviously would have found a problem. That is the say, it is a time of stress. We have to be passed on to consumers. That would whole point of the select committee. do this. We need to be a little bit more obviously have a reverse impact, the The problem is, if you read the Con- responsible. exact opposite of what we are trying to stitution, you see the debate clause. I am looking forward to this debate. do with a reduction of the gas tax on We believe, from our constitutional I like to pay for things. Maybe I am consumers of gasoline products. scholars on this side, that that whole old-fashioned. I am an old economics Finally, there is a significant prob- committee will fall. It will not be able major. I think it is good to pay for lem with the proposal to repeal section to do its job. The House has told us things. I think we could figure out a 199 for U.S. oil companies. A proposal they don’t see how Senators can inves- way to pay for things. But to say no- to do this passed the House of Rep- tigate House Members and House Mem- body gets hurt when the tab in the resentatives earlier this year. But this bers can investigate Senate Members. McCain amendment is picked up by all very same provision that passed the We think the best way to go, Senator taxpayers is faulty. We will have to House would have the effect of keeping REID and I and others, is to have the make up that $9 billion. We Democrats the 199 tax incentive for CITGO, the oil Justice Department get right in there. think there is a way to do it. We see company owned by the Venezuelan Ours is not a sense-of-the-Senate ap- the profits of the oil companies. We say Government; obviously, not a good idea proach. We require the Justice Depart- to the oil companies: Good for you, but while we are repealing it for American ment to move forward. Instead of hav- there is a point at which, when Ameri- companies, to leave that tax incentive ing a big Senate-House committee, cans are suffering, you have to do a lit- for a competitor of our oil companies with the press flashing pictures and all tle bit more. owned by the Venezuelan Government. the rest, just get to it and ask Justice I, for one, look forward to debating I don’t know whether that was unin- to investigate. We also worry, if there the McCain amendment soon. We will tentional, but that is the effect of the is a big committee—and there won’t be, have that debate. But it isn’t going to amendment. Clearly that is not some- because the House won’t accept it any- be on this bill. For that, I am grateful thing we would want to do. I don’t way—irony of all ironies, the Coconut for this reason: We are bringing this to think we want to hold consumer relief Road fix will fall, because we fix it in a close, and this package is in many hostage to a tax increase. this bill. If this bill falls because of ways a ministimulus. It will unleash $1

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This and Florida and Mississippi, where peo- At the end of the day, we have to rec- $1 billion, when it is unleashed, will ple travel to destinations that are at- ognize this is an opportunity to provide create tens of thousands of good jobs, tractive to come to, I hope we can pass a stimulus to our economy, to help the jobs building highways, bridges, transit this and help the American consumer. Florida economy, and to help the systems. We are very happy, and we ex- I yield the floor. American family to be able to vacation pect to have this vote at 3:30. We will The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- this summer. have first the Boxer amendment, then ator from Florida. The Department of Treasury would the Coburn amendment, then a cloture Mr. MARTINEZ. Mr. President, I am transfer funds under this amendment vote, and then a vote on final passage. pleased to follow my colleague from to make the highway trust fund whole. We should be doing very well. South Carolina. I understand where we So, in other words, it is not going to I ask unanimous consent that Sen- are. This amendment has been with- create a hole in the highway trust ators GRAHAM, MARTINEZ, and WICKER drawn. However, let me touch on this fund. It will not mean a diminution in be recognized for a total of up to 10 issue for a few moments, because it is our commitment to maintaining our minutes and that following their re- so very important that we give this infrastructure. It is simply going to marks, Senator KENNEDY be recognized concept due consideration. In fact, at give families a break between Memo- for up to 20 minutes. some point, the Senate should give it rial Day and Labor Day. What a great The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without an up-or-down vote. A gas tax holiday thing. What a great time of year. For objection, it is so ordered. from Memorial Day to Labor Day, the 4th of July we know millions of The Senator from South Carolina. which has a number of cosponsors, American families are going to set to Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, there would allow American taxpayers to the road—hopefully, set to the road—if are a lot of things going on in Wash- suspend the gas tax during that period they do not have to break to their kids ington that people probably don’t un- of time. The fact is we are not in easy the bad news because of the situation derstand and wonder about. How could times in America today. We have rising today. Because of difficult family budg- my Government not do better than it gas prices, falling home prices, which ets, that kitchen table conversation is doing. This is one of the areas where is resulting in falling home equity op- may also include saying: Children, most people understand what we are portunities for families to utilize their guess what. We have to cancel our va- trying to do and would appreciate any home as a means of defraying other cation to Florida this summer. We effort on their behalf to accomplish re- costs in their family’s life. As food can’t afford to take the family car. The lieving the gas tax for a period of time prices go up, home prices are going price of gas is too high. when a lot of Americans are traveling. down. This would be a way to give the If you believe that a $600 check to The price of gasoline has gone up tre- American family a break. Americans that comes from the Treas- mendously. Unleaded regular has in- AMENDMENT NO. 4538 ury, that is not offset, is a good thing creased 53 cents per gallon this year. Mr. President, I want to take a mo- to help the economy, like 81 of us do, As a matter of fact, a tax holiday of 18 ment and comment on something else. this builds on that concept. cents a gallon gas tax and 24 cents a The distinguished Senator from Cali- The Senator from California asks gallon on diesel fuel from Memorial fornia, Chairman BOXER, commented what we are trying to do. We are trying Day to Labor Day will help American on the issue of Coconut Road. It is in to build on some concepts that have al- families, will help those who make a my State of Florida. I am very con- ready passed the body. We are injecting living driving on the road, moving and cerned about what occurred in the situ- the economy with money so that peo- hauling things through the trucking ation there, which I think is well ple, consumers can buy more to help industry. known to my colleagues in the Senate. stimulate the economy. We have all Why is it important to me as a Sen- The fact is, what happened here is, at agreed on that being a good idea. What ator from Florida? We are a tourism best, a questionable procedure. So the is this doing? This is trying to take a State. A lot of tourists travel to Flor- reason for Senator COBURN’s amend- Federal tax that affects every Amer- ida by car. In fact, the overwhelming ment, which I have cosponsored, and ican who drives a car during a window majority of tourists come to Florida by Senator NELSON has cosponsored—so it of time when many Americans are car. is a bipartisan amendment—is to try to going to be on the road doing a lot of This is the average working family— get at the bottom of it. It is not to try things they have looked forward to and the same people we are trying to help to create a Justice Department inves- planned, to reduce the burden of trav- with this economic stimulus. This is tigation. I do not know if there is any eling, to energize the economy, wheth- allowing a family to throw their kids criminal wrongdoing that has taken er it is in terms of recreational travel in the car and get on one of the inter- place. These are congressional actions or business dealings. That will build on state highways and come down to Flor- which are, frankly, in many ways rep- the concept we have already agreed on. ida and visit the attractions, visit the rehensible in my view but which may Now is the time to put money back beaches this summer, and do what peo- not rise to criminality. into the pockets of consumers, and re- ple do to bring families together, to be So the issue is, why not just inves- lieving the gas tax during this critical able to recreate, to be able to vacation tigate? Let’s find out: How did this time and during this window of time as families together. happen? Because what I would hope we makes perfect sense. I congratulate This is an economic stimulus to the would all want to do is prevent this Senators MCCAIN and KYL. This will State of Florida. The State of Florida from happening in the future. Do we not be a hard sell to anybody out there is in hard times today because of the need to change rules, do we need to who is paying taxes and driving a car. downdraft in the housing economy. So change procedures, or do we need to I hope we can find a way to make this this would act as a tremendous boost, simply allow the public to know who happen. The public would appreciate it. and it would help tremendously the did something like this and what their They are going to appreciate the families who are traveling in Florida motivations were? I am not sure it checks they get. The money will go to and coming to Florida. rises to criminality. That is what the good use. If we could relieve the tax Gas is about $3.38 a gallon for regular Justice Department does. They inves- burden on traveling by 18.6 cents per in the State of Florida right now. It is tigate criminal conduct. I do think it gallon of Federal gas taxes during this a 51-cent increase from what it was a rises to the level of conduct that is not window of time, people would appre- year ago. We get about 75 million tour- becoming to public officials that is not ciate it. They understand why we need ists a year who come to the State of designed to enhance the public trust. to do it. It would be a good thing for Florida. As a result of that, a great The people of southwest Florida, who the Congress, and I appreciate Senators deal of economic activity is generated. have tremendous traffic problems— MCCAIN and KYL putting this concept Over the course of a year, about 25 mil- that I–75 is dramatically important to

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I believe American families to tighten their other very major part of that legisla- the Coburn amendment is appropriate. belts and pay higher gasoline prices? tion. But title VII provided these kinds I do not want to see this be created Do we continue to require American of protections against discrimination. into some inquisition by the Justice farmers and small businesses, who have That legislation passed 73 to 27. Department but simply to get some to use transportation to earn a living, We went on record again when the Members to come together around a to tighten their belts? Age Discrimination in Employment table and say: How did this happen? I think the better answer there is to Act was passed in 1967, with unanimous What happened here? provide 18 cents per gallon of relief for support in the Senate. Equal pay for Let’s give the people of southwest American families, 24 cents per gallon those who are older; you are not going Florida the kind of answers they de- of relief to those who are required to to be able to discriminate against the serve, they demand, and give con- use diesel to earn their livelihoods, and elderly. It was passed unanimously. fidence to the American people that for the Federal Government to tighten The consensus in favor of the Reha- the Congress is acting in the people’s its belt and absorb this $8 billion to $9 bilitation Act of 1973, which outlaws best interests and not at the behest of billion that the Senator from Cali- discrimination based on disability in special interests. fornia talked about. federally funded programs and activi- With that, Mr. President, I appre- The Senator from South Carolina ties, was so strong it passed the Senate ciate the opportunity to comment on mentioned we have already passed a by a voice vote. both of these items, and I yield the much more expensive economic stim- All of us are familiar with the fact floor. ulus measure because we are concerned that if there is going to be a dispute or The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. about the economy. This economy major differences, people are going to CASEY). The Senator from Mississippi. could go either way. We can take ac- call for a rollcall vote, even if there is Mr. WICKER. Mr. President, might I tion to prevent it from sliding into a going to be only a handful of people inquire, how much of the 10 minutes is recession. We have already adopted one against it. In this situation, with re- remaining from the request of the Sen- a few months ago. The McCain plan is gard to fair pay, equal pay, in the areas ator from California? of those people who are working with The PRESIDING OFFICER. A minute another one. I enthusiastically support the concept. I think it is time we give the disabled, the guarantee was going and a half. to be fair pay. It, effectively, in the Re- Americans a break at the pump. This Mr. WICKER. I will do my best. habilitation Act of 1973, passed the would do so during an important period Mr. President, I thank Senator Senate by a voice vote. MCCAIN and Senator KYL for putting as our economy teeters on the edge. In 1990, the Senate passed the Ameri- I hope we continue to have this de- forward this proposal. I was delighted cans with Disabilities Act 91 to 6, and bate, as the Senator from California to see it. I would, frankly, hope that it was signed into law by the first suggested, and adopt it on a bipartisan Democrats and Republicans could come President Bush. The first President basis. together on this issue in a bipartisan Bush has stated—and I have heard him I yield the floor. manner and provide this temporary re- eloquently say it was the most impor- lief for hard-pressed Americans during The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- ator from Massachusetts. tant piece of legislation that passed the summer months. and he signed into law. It had protec- LILLY LEDBETTER FAIR PAY ACT Many people ask us, why are gas tions against discriminating against prices so high? Why is this continuing Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, the those who are disabled individuals. to happen? As we know, there are many Senate must act to pass the Lilly We passed the complex factors involved in that: Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, and we must by an overwhelming margin of 93 to 5. worldwide demand, countries such as do so now. The House has already acted That was a clear vote in favor of fair- China and India increasing their de- on this bill to restore the basic protec- ness. It too was signed into law by the mand for oil and gas at this point; also, tion against pay discrimination as part current President’s father. unstable governments in oil-producing of our Nation’s commitment to equal On this chart is the list where the regions; and Americans’ continued reli- justice and full civil rights for all. Senate has addressed this issue of ance on foreign sources of oil. Protecting these fundamental rights equal pay for equal work. Going back But, also, I must confess the problem and ending discrimination in all forms to 1963, these are the different Presi- being experienced by Americans, in are essential to our success as a nation. dents who signed legislation—including large measure, is due to Federal poli- Republicans and Democrats worked to- President Johnson, President Nixon, cies. In the mid-1990s, President Clin- gether to enact our civil rights laws, President Reagan, President Bush. ton vetoed a proposal to drill in ANWR, and the American people want and de- Look at the overwhelming votes: a even though the residents of the State serve these protections to be imple- clear indication of what the intention of Alaska have asked us for permission mented in full. has been by this Congress in terms of to drill there and have told us they are The guarantee of equal pay was first fairness and justice, and correctly so. satisfied it can be done in an environ- enacted in 1963. When President Ken- Each time we have considered the mentally friendly manner. Also, we nedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, issue, the Senate has taken the high have had the refusal to produce energy he emphasized that protection against road. Once again, we must demonstrate in America when we know it can be pay discrimination is ‘‘basic to democ- that we mean what we say. These im- done in an environmentally safe way, racy,’’ and those words are still true portant laws established the bedrock whether that be the production of more today. principle of equal pay for equal work, crude oil, oil shale, or liquefied coal. In the years that followed, Congress and they have made our Nation a So the Federal Government and this passed other strong, bipartisan laws to stronger and better and fairer land. Congress bear a good bit of the respon- strengthen the guarantee of equal pay In these times of economic hardship, sibility. In light of that, I think we for millions of Americans. Over the working people deserve more than ever have to ask ourselves—Mr. President, years, the Senate has gone on record the chance to earn a fair day’s pay for might I have an additional 11⁄2 min- time and again in favor of fairness and an honest day’s work. Yet, as a result utes? against discrimination. of the Supreme Court’s 5-to-4 deci- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there The was en- sion—5 to 4: one vote—last May in objection? acted after long, difficult, and conten- Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Without objection, it is so ordered. tious debate, but the cause of justice Company, more American workers will Mr. WICKER. Thank you, Mr. Presi- eventually prevailed. That landmark have to endure pay discrimination, dent. legislation included many important without the means to stop it.

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Of the en’s earnings are falling faster than right thing. They understand it, they 80,000 jobs that were lost in this last men’s. We all hear about the falling of respect it, and they want to do the month, 50,000 were construction work- purchasing power among working fami- right thing. So they are not going to be ers. The unemployment rate among lies across this country. We can see it penalized; it will be others who will be women has risen sharply in the past is falling a good deal faster in terms of penalized. year. Minorities are suffering more. the decline in median wages in the year On this final point, as I mentioned Unemployment for African Americans 2007 for women. the different groups affected, this is now well over 9 percent, almost As I mentioned, this legislation also shows pay discrimination hurts all twice the national average. applies in terms of African Americans, kinds of Americans. This orange de- The impact of unfair pay practices is the disability community, age dis- picts the disabled, this is national ori- staggering. Today, as I mentioned, crimination, national origin quotas— gin, 760. These are cases of pay dis- women still earn 23 percent less than all of them. Look what is happening crimination charges, including 2,470 in men; African Americans, 21 percent with the current economic crisis. Mi- terms of the gender; and on race, 2,352; less than White men; and Latinos earn norities are hit hardest by the eco- on age discrimination, 978. So this is 72 cents for every dollar paid to White nomic downturn. So we have the eco- 7,000—these are the cases that are workers. nomic downturn going on, and we have brought. Most estimates are it is in the In fact, the financial security of all this decision which said the employers hundreds of thousands of actual cases working men and women is undermined are going to be able to discriminate that are out there that people don’t by this recession. Workers are suffering against workers on the basis of race, know about. already, and millions increasingly find gender, national origin. It is unbeliev- Lilly Ledbetter didn’t know about their paychecks do not go far enough. able that a Supreme Court of the the fact that she was being short- They don’t deserve to bear the addi- United States, 5 to 4, would overturn 5 changed for years and years and years tional burden of discrimination in their to 6 major pieces of legislation that because people keep the payroll secret. pay. The cost of this discrimination be- were decided overwhelmingly by this Finally, she hears from others who are comes more and more intolerable over body over a 30-year period which say working and who are doing comparable time. Lilly Ledbetter lost tens of thou- we want equal pay for equal work. work, and she gradually puts it to- sands of dollars over the course of her The list goes on. We know, basically, gether that she has been shortchanged. career because every paycheck made women make 77 cents for every dollar Sure enough, she had been short- the burden of the discrimination even paid to men. That is existing. These changed for years and years and years. greater. are the current data of the U.S. census The local jury made the decision to pay There is no doubt that the Supreme in 2007. So this is the current situation, the damages and the Supreme Court Court’s decision in the Ledbetter case generally. What we are trying to do is overruled it and said: You are out of has left employees without one of the change this; to get equal pay for equal luck, Lilly Ledbetter. You should have fundamental protections against pay work. But inherently, this is where we brought your case within 180 days of discrimination that Congress intended are in 2007, and unless we change this, the time you were employed. Even them to have. The Court decision un- it is going to continue or probably even though you didn’t know about it, you dermined their ability to hold employ- grow worse. still should have brought it. Even if ers accountable for such discrimination It is reflected, as we would expect, in you didn’t know about it, tough luck. by imposing serious and unnecessary family income. This chart shows we are You have no remedies. No remedies. No obstacles to ending the discrimination talking about equal pay for women, remedies. It has been going on for against them. and this legislation also applies to Af- years. None. That is fundamentally and Under the Ledbetter case, the time rican Americans and national origin. basically wrong, and that is what we limit for filing of pay discrimination Here we have African-American men are changing. claim begins to run, as I mentioned, receiving 21 percent less pay than We have very strong support for this when an employer decides to discrimi- White men. We find the same for legislation. We have the support of var- nate—not when the worker finds out Latinos. They are affected by this deci- ious groups, including the American about the discriminatory paycheck. sion as well. Latinos receive 72 cents Association of People With Disabil- Employers who conceal their illegal ac- for every dollar earned by White work- ities; the AARP, obviously, because of tion for 180 days are free to discrimi- ers. This shows the distinction, the an- discrimination of the elderly; Business nate. They can pay women less than nual distinction, about $8,000 a year. and Professional Women, the NAACP, men. They can pay African Americans This has been true. United Auto Workers, National Con- less than Whites. They can pay older So we know we are facing a difficult gress of Black Women, the Religious Americans less than younger ones and economic time. We also know the peo- Action Center, U.S. Women’s Chamber pay religious minorities and persons ple who suffer the most are the peo- of Commerce. They understand it and with disabilities less than other work- ple—whether it is women, whether it is see it. The list goes on. I will include a ers. These employees can never, ever African Americans, whether it is more complete list with my remarks obtain relief. Paycheck after paycheck Latino, whether it is disability or for the RECORD. can keep implementing the discrimina- whether it is elderly, all those groups Many people give speeches on fair- tion, and workers have no way to hold are affected by the Ledbetter decision, ness and the need to help people in employers accountable. and in the face of 30 years of this Con- these tough economic times. An impor- Clearly, the decision has opened up a gress saying time and time and time tant way we can do so is by proving we flagrant loophole in our civil rights, again, in a bipartisan way, we are still stand strongly against pay dis- and the Congress cannot let it stand. going to insist on equality of pay for crimination, that we would not allow Under this bill, the 180-day clock re- equal work. That is the issue. That had the rights workers thought they had to starts with every discriminatory pay- been the law. This legislation we are be undone by misguided court deci- check, so employees can challenge on- talking about with Ledbetter, we are sions. Fair treatment for all employees going discrimination, even if their em- trying to go back to what the law was. is especially important now. As I men- ployer successfully hides its true mo- This chart indicates—the light green tioned, our faltering economy is hit- tives at first. is what we would go back to, and the ting working families hard. There were Lilly Ledbetter was one of the few dark green is where the EEOC held the 230,000 jobs lost in the first 3 months of women supervisors at the Goodyear same as we are proposing in this legis- this year. Unemployment rates Tire and Rubber Company in Gadsen,

VerDate Aug 31 2005 02:24 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G17AP6.022 S17APPT1 wwoods2 on PRODPC60 with SENATE S3114 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE April 17, 2008 AL. She worked at the plant for almost abled in Action; Alliance for Justice; Amer- Indiana; AAUW of Iowa; AAUW of Kansas; two decades, constantly fighting to ican Association of People with Disabilities AAUW of Kentucky; AAUW of Louisiana; prove that women could do a job tradi- (AAPD); AARP; American Association of AAUW of Maine; AAUW of Maryland. AAUW of Massachusetts; AAUW of Michi- tionally done by men. She endured in- University Women; American Civil Liberties Union; American Federation of Labor and gan; AAUW of Minnesota; AAUW of Mis- sults from her male supervisors. She Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL– sissippi; AAUW of Missouri; AAUW of Mon- was told the plant didn’t need women. CIO); American Federation of State, County tana; AAUW of Montgomery County; AAUW Yet she persevered and gave the com- and Municipal Employees (AFSCME); Amer- of Nebraska; AAUW of Nevada; AAUW of pany a fair day’s work. She had chil- ican Federation of Teachers (AFT); Amer- New Hampshire; AAUW of New Jersey; dren and both she and her husband ican Humanist Association; American Li- AAUW of New Mexico; AAUW of New York; were working hard to support them. brary Association; Anti-Defamation League; AAUW of North Carolina; AAUW of North She had no idea Goodyear was not liv- Asian American Justice Center; Association Dakota; AAUW of Ohio; AAUW of Oklahoma; ing up to its responsibility to pay her for Women in Science; Bazelon Center for AAUW of Oregon; AAUW of Pennsylvania; Mental Health Law; Business and Profes- AAUW of Rhode Island. fairly. sional Women. AAUW of South Carolina; AAUW of South For almost two decades, the company Center for Inquiry; Center on Women and Dakota; AAUW of Tennessee; AAUW of discriminated against her by using dis- Policy; Clearinghouse on Women’s Issues; Texas; AAUW of Utah; AAUW of Vermont; criminatory evaluations to pay her less Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW); AAUW of Virginia; AAUW of Washington; than her male colleagues who per- Consortium of Citizens with Disabilities AAUW of West Virginia; AAUW of Wisconsin; formed exactly the same duties. Many Rights Task Force; Educational Foundation AAUW of Wyoming; Arizona Coalition of those male colleagues had less se- of America; Easter Seals; Equip for Equality; Against Domestic Violence; Asian American niority and experience than she had, Equal Rights Advocates; Federally Employed Justice Center; Association for Women in Women; Feminist Majority; Healthy Teen but they were still paid more than she Science; Black Women’s Health Imperative; Network; International Union, United Auto BPW/Alabama; BPW/Alaska; BPW/American was for identical work. Workers (UAW); Jobs with Justice; Lawyers’ Samoa; BPW/Arizona; BPW/Arkansas. The jury saw the injustice of Good- Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; BPW/California; BPW/Colorado; BPW/Con- year’s mistreatment of Ms. Ledbetter League of United Latin American Citizens necticut; BPW/Delaware; BPW/District of Co- and awarded her full damages. Five (LULAC); Legal Momentum; Let Justice Roll lumbia; BPW/Florida; BPW/Georgia; BPW/ members of the Supreme Court ignored Living Wage Campaign; MANA—A National Hawaii; BW/Idaho; BPW/Illinois; BPW/Indi- that injustice and ruled Ms. Ledbetter Latina Organization; Mexican American ana; BPW/Iowa; BPW/Kansas; BPW/Ken- was entitled to nothing at all—nothing Legal Defense and Educational Fund tucky; BPW/Louisiana; BPW/Maine; BPW/ at all—because she filed her claim too (MALDEF). Maryland; BPW/Massachusetts; BPW/Michi- NAACP; NAACP Legal Defense & Edu- gan; BPW/Minnesota. late. The Court’s decision gives count- cational Fund, Inc.; National Academy of BPW/Mississippi; BPW/Missouri; BPW/Mon- less employers a free hand to conceal Engineering; National Association for Girls tana; BPW/Montgomery County; BPW/Ne- and continue illegal discrimination and and Women in Sports; National Association braska; BPW/Nevada; BPW/New Hampshire; leaves workers powerless to stop it. of Collegiate Women Athletic Administra- BPW/New Jersey; BPW/New Mexico; BPW/ The bipartisan Fair Pay Restoration tors; National Associations of Commissions New York; BPW/North Carolina; BPW/North Act will restore the clear intent of for Women; National Center for Lesbian Dakota; BPW/Ohio; BPW/Oklahoma; BPW/Or- Congress when we passed the impor- Rights; National Center on Domestic and egon; BPW/Pennsylvania; BPW/Puerto Rico; tant laws I mentioned earlier. It would Sexual Violence; National Coalition for Dis- BPW/Rhode Island; BPW/South Carolina. restore the fair and reasonable rule ability Rights; National Committee on Pay BPW/South Dakota; BPW/Tennessee; BPW/ Equity; National Congress of Black Women, Texas; BPW/Utah; BPW/Vermont; BPW/Vir- that applied in the vast majority of the Inc.; National Council of Jewish Women gin Islands; BPW/Virginia; BPW/Washington; country until May 29 of last year. If we (NCJW); National Council of Women’s Orga- BPW/West Virginia; BPW/Wisconsin; BPW/ pass this bill, we can go back to the nizations; National Disability Rights Net- Wyoming; Abortion Fund; Citizen longstanding rule that the clock begins work; National Education Association; Na- Action of NY; Clearinghouse on Women’s to run for filing a pay discrimination tional Employment Lawyers Association; Issues; Philadelphia CLUW; Connecticut Per- claim on the day a worker receives a National Fair Housing Alliance; National manent Commission on the Status of Women discriminatory paycheck, rather than Gay and Lesbian Task Force; National Orga- Crossrodes; Urban Center; Dads and Daugh- the day the employer first decides to nization for Women (NOW); National Part- ters; Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Vi- discriminate. nership for Women & Families; National olence; Georgia Rural Urban Summit. Senior Citizens Law Center. Hard Hatted Women; Justice Jane; Las By enacting this law, we will restore National Women’s Conference Committee; Animas County CSE; Legal Momentum; Let a rule that reflects how pay discrimi- National Women’s Law Center; National Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign; MANA nation actually occurs in the work- Women’s Political Caucus; NETWORK, A Na- A National Latina Organization; NETWORK, place, and it will give all workers a fair tional Catholic Social Justice Lobby; OWL— A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby; means to stop ongoing discrimination The Voice of Midlife and Older Women; Para- National Capital Area Union Retirees Club; and obtain fair compensation for the lyzed Veterans of America; People For the National Center for Lesbian Rights; National discrimination they have endured. By American Way (PFAW); Religious Action Coalition for Disability Rights; National doing so, we will also be helping to pre- Center; Sargent Shriver National Center on Council of Jewish Women—California; Na- tional Council of Jewish Women—Con- vent employers from engaging in such Poverty Law; Service Employees Inter- national Union (SEIU); The Disability Law necticut; National Council of Jewish discrimination in the first place. Center of Massachusetts; The Impact Fund; Women—Greater Detroit Section; National There is nothing radical about the The WAGE Project, Inc. Council of Jewish Women—Greater New Or- changes this bill will make. It simply U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce; leans; National Council of Jewish Women— restores the law employers and work- USAction; Veteran Feminists of America; Minnesota; National Council of Jewish ers had lived with for many years, Wider Opportunities for Women; WIN Group Women—Northern Virginia; National Coun- until last May 29, the date of the Su- International; Women Employed; Women cil of Jewish Women—Ohio; National Council preme Court’s distressing decision. Work! Women Work! The National Network of Jewish Women—Pennsylvania; National I urge my colleagues to join me in re- for Women’s Employment; Women’s Insti- Council of Jewish Women—Portland; Na- tute for a Secure Retirement; Women’s Law storing the full strength of the antipay tional Council of Jewish Women—Rhode Is- and Policy Project; Women’s Law Project; land; National Council of Jewish Women—St. discrimination laws we have enacted in Women’s Research & Education Institute Louis. the past. Let’s take a clear stand for (WREI); Women’s Sports Foundation; YWCA National Council of Jewish Women—Vir- all working men and women and pass USA; 4ERA.org; 9to5 Atlanta; 9to5 Bay Area; ginia; National Council of Jewish Women— the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. 9to5 Colorado; 9to5 ; 9to5 Poverty West Virginia; National Council of Women’s Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- Network Initiative; ACLU Women’s Rights Organizations; Alabama, NOW; California, sent that this list of supporters be Project; Adrian Middle School; ADA Watch; NOW; Colorado, NOW; Connecticut, NOW; printed in the RECORD. AFSCME; Alliance for Disabled in Action; Fayetteville, NOW; Florida, NOW; Georgia, There being no objection, the mate- Alliance for the Status of Missouri Women. NOW; 1Illinois, NOW; Iowa, NOW; Kansas, AAUW of Alabama; AAUW of Alaska; rial was ordered to be printed in the NOW; Lawrence Chapter, NOW; Los Angeles, AAUW of Arizona; AAUW of Arkansas; NOW; Maryland, NOW; Massachusetts, NOW; RECORD, as follows: AAUW of California; AAUW of Colorado; Minnesota, NOW; Missouri, NOW; Nevada, ORGANIZATIONS IN SUPPORT OF THE FAIR PAY AAUW of Connecticut; AAUW of Delaware; NOW. RESTORATION ACT (S. 1843) AAUW of District of Columbia; AAUW of New Hampshire, NOW; New Jersey, NOW; LCCR; 9to5, National Association of Work- Florida; AAUW of Georgia; AAUW of Hawaii; Oregon, NOW; Santa Fe, NOW; Treasure Val- ing Women; Advocacy, Inc.; Alliance for Dis- AAUW of Idaho; AAUW of Illinois; AAUW of ley, NOW; Utah, NOW; Virginia, NOW; West

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It does not PathWaysPA. House. I think we get ourselves into a seek to intrude upon the constitutional Pennsylvania NOW, Inc.; Pick Up the Pace; problem we should not, constitu- duty of each House of Congress to dis- Planned Parenthood of Nassau County; tionally or morally, by having the cipline its own Members, nor does it Project IRENE; Silver & Brass Music; South House tell us what we should do as far alter the duty of the executive branch Dakota Advocacy Network for Women; UAW as our own Senators. We should not be to faithfully execute laws. 1853 Women’s Committee; Veteran Feminist of America; USAction; West Virginia Wom- telling them what they should be doing The amendment simply memorializes en’s Commission; Wisconsin Women’s Net- regarding House Members. Our Con- the reality that there are serious alle- work; Women Against Sexual Harassment; stitution does not provide the Senate gations that may rise, perhaps to the Women on the Job Task Force, NY; Women’s with authority to direct a House com- level of criminal violations. Institute for a Secure Retirement; Women’s mittee to initiate any kind of action Again, what we are trying to do is Law Center of Maryland, Inc.; Women’s Op- like that. make a Federal case out of this. It is portunity Link of Delaware, Inc.; Women’s The Coburn amendment proposes a entirely appropriate for the Justice De- Research & Education Institute (WREI); committee of Members from both the partment to assume this responsibility. YWCA Greensboro. For these reasons, I urge my col- Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, I sug- House and Senate conduct this inves- leagues to support the Boxer amend- gest the absence of a quorum. tigation. But I believe Senators should ment and oppose the Coburn amend- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. NEL- not and cannot investigate a House ment. I express my appreciation to SON of Nebraska). The clerk will call Member any more than a House Mem- the roll. ber should or could investigate a Sen- Senator BOXER for her hard work on The assistant legislative clerk pro- ator. Although Senator COBURN’s goal this bill and certainly on this amend- ceeded to call the roll. of fully investigating the incident is ment. Those of us who know Senator Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- worthy—and I think everyone shares BOXER know how tenacious she is. We imous consent that the order for the his goal—the Senator’s amendment is have had the good fortune to work to- quorum call be rescinded. at odds with article I of the Constitu- gether for almost 26 years in Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without tion. I have the greatest affection, admira- objection, it is so ordered. If we send this constitutionally dubi- tion, and respect for her as a person Mr. REID. Mr. President, I believe I ous amendment to the House, it could and her legislative skills and abilities. have an obligation to say a few things jeopardize the entire highway tech- They certainly have been made very about the amendments offered by Sen- nical corrections bill. Why do we want apparent with the work done on this ators COBURN and BOXER regarding the to mess with that? We should not. That latest piece of work which we hope will investigation of the Coconut Road con- is why Senator BOXER has proposed be completed in an hour or so from troversy. that the Justice Department review right now. As most of my colleagues know, the allegations of criminal misconduct. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. there are reports that a Member of the I would want everyone to recognize KLOBUCHAR). The Senator from Cali- House of Representatives arranged to that in law, there is this saying: What fornia is recognized. have the text of the 2005 highway bill are you trying to do, make a Federal Mrs. BOXER. Madam President, be- changed during the enrolling process, case out of it? Why do we say that? Be- fore the majority leader leaves the which is quite unusual. This was after cause it puts the fear into people be- floor, I thank him very much because the bill had passed both Houses. Seri- cause they know the Justice Depart- he helped me enormously in this whole ous allegations have been made about ment does a better job than anyone matter of an investigation. What we all the motives of this Member for doing else investigating wrongdoing. want to do is get to the bottom of what this. The facts are not certain, but So what Senator BOXER proposed is happened with this Coconut Road situ- some say they are clear. to let the Department of Justice review ation, where it appears as if there may The junior Senator from Oklahoma the allegation of criminal conduct, have been some activity that merits has done an important service by shin- which is the right way to go, and it is punishment. ing public attention on this matter. not an easy way to go. When we heard that Senator COBURN The facts are not yet all known, as I According to public reports, the Jus- wanted to take on this issue, we wel- have just said, but if these allega- tice Department and the FBI may al- comed that because we do believe we tions—or some of them—are true, this ready be investigating related matters, have a responsibility to regain the is one more example of the corruption and who knows, maybe this precise trust of our people. That is why under that permeated the Congress in recent matter. Senator REID’s leadership we passed years. We have two Members of Con- If violations of Federal criminal law the most far-reaching ethics reforms gress who have gone to prison. We have occur, it is in the province of the Jus- ever. staff members who are in prison. Some tice Department and FBI to investigate I see my friend is in the chair. She is are on probation and have pled guilty. and prosecute. The Boxer amendment part of the new class of Senators who So it is fair to say there was a lot of simply calls on the Justice Department pushed very hard for that legislation. corruption in recent years. to review allegations of impropriety Therefore, when Senator COBURN came Just last year, the new Democratic and find if Federal criminal laws have forward, we believed we certainly Congress passed S. 1, the most sweep- been broken. wanted to do something. But what Sen- ing lobbying reform effort in the his- The Boxer amendment asks the Jus- ator REID, because he is a distinguished tory of our country, in an effort to re- tice Department to act in an appro- attorney, taught me is, there is a store public trust in Congress. These priate manner. In fact, to be precise, it speech and debate clause in the Con- reforms are already changing the way says the Department ‘‘shall act con- stitution, and this investigation with a business is done in Washington. Lobby- sistent with applicable standards and select committee, House Members and ists have less influence, and there is procedures.’’ In effect, we are asking Senate Members investigating each more transparency in the legislative that this be made a Federal case. This other and staff, could fall. process. phrase recognizes the importance of Here is the point, before my friend We all agree that any misconduct in separation of powers that we have in leaves the floor. The irony of all iro- the legislative process should be fully our great country. The language incor- nies is, if, in fact, the Coburn solution investigated. Specifically, we want to porates the principles, privileges, and were to be adopted today and it did go get to the bottom of this alleged mis- responsibilities that guide Congress’s forward, although we think it will conduct involving the Coconut Road exercise of its constitutional authority bring the whole bill down, it wouldn’t.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 02:24 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17AP6.007 S17APPT1 wwoods2 on PRODPC60 with SENATE S3116 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE April 17, 2008 But let’s say it is adopted. Nothing dividual Senators. They have done, and responsibility and lessening the sanc- they do would really lead to anything they continue to do, a remarkably good tity of the individual doctor-patient re- until the end of their hearings. I call it job. lationship. kind of a circus atmosphere where col- There is no one who is in a better po- In the second week of our discussion, leagues would come, flashbulbs in sition today to talk about what is our colleague JOHN THUNE came to the everybody’s face, and they take testi- going on in the Senate with matters of floor and elaborated on a very impor- mony. Nothing of consequence would violations having been alleged than the tant component of this message, which occur, I say to my friend, until the end Senator from California. is that we want to stress a choice of when they decide if there was some- What I think the amendment does is private health plans as a predominant thing the Justice Department needed focus attention on the Justice Depart- factor in American health care versus to look into. ment, just where it should be. I hope Government programs, or the one-size- Why have all that hoopla when you everyone will go along with that fits-all, pushing people more and more can get to the heart of the matter, amendment, Democrats and Repub- in that direction and increasing the which is saying to the Department of licans. dominance of Government in this very Justice: We want you—and this will re- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- major sector of our economy. quire them. It doesn’t say you ‘‘may,’’ ator from Louisiana. Following up on that, I come to the it says you ‘‘shall’’ look into this. If Mr. VITTER. Madam President, I ask Senate floor this week to talk about a the bill did fall, here is the totally unanimous consent to speak as in closely related principle and closely re- irony: The fix to Coconut Road would morning business for up to 15 minutes. lated theme, which is, again, opting for fall. In other words, in the technical The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without individual choice and incentives versus corrections bill, we fix the problem. If objection, it is so ordered. forced enrollment or forcing action this whole thing falls because of the HEALTH CARE upon citizens by the Government. Coburn amendment, then we go back to Mr. VITTER. Madam President, Again, this is a crucial element of our the real problem of somebody changing today I stand on the Senate floor and vision for the dramatic, bold health the route of this particular road or continue a very important discussion care reform we need. building, freeway, whatever it was that that I began with all of my Republican We believe firmly and we believe was going to increase somebody’s prop- classmates in the Senate several weeks strongly that individuals are capable of erty. That would be the worst of all ago. It is about the need for dramatic, choosing their own health insurance worlds. bold, health care reform in this coun- plan and that we must continue to I thank my leader for his help on this try. focus on individuals and empowering matter. He knows when I heard about We adopted this as a class project, if individuals with choices and with in- this amendment, I said to him: Yes, we you will. Again, I thank my colleagues centives, not forcing individuals in a need to look into this, and he wanted Senators THUNE, BURR, DEMINT, MAR- certain direction. So we are opposed to to do it in the right way. He and his TINEZ, ISAKSON, and COBURN for their forcing people to enroll in certain staff have been so helpful in getting us hard work on this important debate, on plans rather than providing incentives to this point where we have a very this important discussion. for individuals to make rational good alternative. I hope everybody Again, the idea is very simple: to put choices that fit their own cir- votes for it. forward our conservative, free-market cumstances. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- principles and what vision that leads to Congress should be pushing reform jority leader. in terms of necessary, bold, trans- that creates those incentives for indi- Mr. REID. Madam President, I hope formative health care reform, and also viduals, for employers, for insurance everyone heard what the chairman of to provide a clear contrast between companies, and for States to come up the Environment and Public Works that vision and the alternative, which with innovative solutions. We Committee just said. If we are unable is clearly in our mind a big government shouldn’t be forcing mandates down to pass this technical corrections bill, solution, a one-size-fits all solution people’s throats, forcing them to enroll which we hope to do in an hour, an that has the government role in health in any particular big government or hour and a half, if we fail to do that, care grow and grow and private indi- other program. The way we can most the fix that was put in the bill, the vidual choice lessened and lessened. effectively maximize this choice and technical correction that was made to In the first week of this discussion on empower the individual is through the take care of the Coconut Road problem the Senate floor, I rose and laid out our Tax Code, creating options for families would not be taken care of. That would broad principles and where we wanted and individuals through the Tax Code be a travesty and a circular road to no- this discussion to lead. Again, as I said that help those families buy insurance, where. that week, I believe there is great con- that create those incentives that make I even hope my friend, Dr. Coburn, sensus in America, almost universal sure it is accessible and affordable for would withdraw his amendment. He consensus that our health care delivery everyone. perhaps will not do that, but I hope system is badly broken and that major Now, as I suggest, Madam President, that everyone, Democrats and Repub- reform needs to take place. But, of I have some pretty fundamental philo- licans—this is not a partisan issue. It course, having said that, the hard part sophical objections to mandating ac- deals with housekeeping that we do. It is figuring out what that change is and tion on people. But in addition to that, is important. how it can work best for the American I have some very practical concerns. If I say to my friend, the chairman of people. we look at other jurisdictions—States, the Environment and Public Works As I said in those introductory com- even other countries—that force these Committee, she also has another job ments, I believe the broad choices are mandates on people, we find they real- that is extremely difficult and ex- clear. Our conservative, free-market ly don’t work in the end. tremely important. She is chairman of vision is to empower the individual, to A few examples. Hawaii—obviously a the Ethics Committee. Having served maximize choice, to help everyone get State—has a mandate that all employ- on that Ethics Committee and having good private insurance that is acces- ers must provide their workers with chaired that committee for a long sible and affordable, to use taxpayer health insurance. Well, they think that time, I know it is a tough job. This dollars where appropriate to help the is a magic wand that just automati- gives me an opportunity publicly to truly poor afford that sort of good pri- cally solves the problem. But it say—and I think all Senators will ex- vate insurance that stresses preventive doesn’t. First of all, unfortunately, it tend this appreciation to her, Senator care and other measures that will bring creates a barrier in many instances to CORNYN and the other four Members down health care costs. But that is a creating jobs, increasing employment, who serve on that most important very different vision from one based on and growing business. So that is a committee, for the dedication and the Government first and foremost, based problem. But even beyond that, it hours they spend away from the cam- on Government programs, one-size-fits- doesn’t insure all workers. In fact, in eras. These are in closed hearings talk- all, growing those programs and in the Hawaii, 10 percent of workers—not un- ing about allegations made against in- process lessening individual choice and employed people, not nonworkers, but

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Again, doctor-patient relationship, and that the speech and debate clause is vio- that creates significant challenges in maximizes choice and creates incen- lated by my amendment. I don’t think actually making that happen and en- tives, and not the wrong choice that that is accurate, but I will take that as forcing that rule. For instance, in the grows big government, that lessens an argument. But for the Boxer amend- province of British Columbia alone, choice, that increases mandates, that ment to pass, the separation of powers more than 40,000 people somehow pushes individuals in a certain direc- will be violated. These are not laws. slipped through the cracks or slipped tion rather than allowing them to un- These are rules of Congress. Yet we are through that mandate. It isn’t a magic derstand what best meets their needs. going to now invite in the executive wand, and it doesn’t get done. Next week, Madam President, we will branch to handle what we refuse to So we believe there is a better way, continue the discussion as another of handle? The cynicism in me says that and that is to maximize choice, em- my Republican Senate classmates maybe we don’t want to know the an- power the individual, and create incen- takes to the floor to talk about an- swer to this question. tives. That will get a great number of other issue in this important debate, We very simply could have had a ma- people enrolled and provide more af- and I look forward to listening and par- jority vote on both of these, and the fordability and access to health care. ticipating in that discussion. one that got the most votes would have We believe, as a part of that, that ex- Madam President, I yield the floor, won. We don’t have the parliamentary isting Government programs can be and I suggest the absence of a quorum. power to force that to happen, and we improved and modernized and made The PRESIDING OFFICER. The do have the concurrent agreement of more efficient. And that is important. clerk will call the roll. the chairwoman of the EPW Com- But we are opposed to attempts which The bill clerk proceeded to call the mittee to have a vote, which I appre- often come up in this body and the roll. ciate. I would not tell her that I do not Mr. COBURN. Madam President, I other body of Congress that try to sig- appreciate that. I do appreciate the op- ask unanimous consent that the order nificantly expand these programs well portunity to have a vote. But the ques- for the quorum call be rescinded. beyond the bounds of how they were tion still remains: What happens if we The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without don’t get 60 votes? Will something hap- originally set up, well beyond the core objection, it is so ordered. constituencies or income levels for pen on this? COBURN AND BOXER AMENDMENTS What I want us to do is restore the which they were established. We be- Mr. COBURN. Madam President, I lieve that is going down the path of big integrity of the enrollment process. If wish to spend a few minutes just to we fail to do that, if we fail to do that government, nationalizing health care, make some observations during this and if we invite the executive branch making government the dominant short debate we are going to have be- into our Houses, we have failed—we force by far, and we don’t want to do fore the amendments are voted on. have failed to live up to our own re- that. We are going to have a vote on the sponsibility in the Senate and in the We also believe that encouraging Boxer amendment and then on the competition in the marketplace is key House, and we have failed to protect Coburn amendment, both trying to get what is truly a separation between us to lowering health care costs. So we to the bottom of a problem. We have and the executive branch in how we are opposed to price controls, profit agreed to a 60-vote margin on both of have gone about it. ceilings, rigid expensive requirements, those, but I wonder what happens to So I thank the good nature and good and mandates that usually end up this issue if neither of those amend- humor of the chairman of the com- doing exactly the opposite. ments gets 60 votes, and why are we mittee for the lively debate we had yes- We believe in recognizing that sen- having a 60-vote margin? Everybody terday. But, someday, somebody will iors have increasingly turned to Medi- agrees that this amendment about a write about this issue, and I am not care Advantage Plans because they postenrollment change to a bill needs sure history is going to be very kind to offer a better value and in many cases to be solved. The mystery surrounding us as we worry about partisan issues, a higher quality of care than tradi- how it happened, where it happened, who gets credit, who didn’t, pointing tional fee-for-service Medicare. So we and why it happened needs to be fingers. are opposed to efforts to dismantle solved. But now we have before us a The fact is, we have a problem that these programs and again lessen hurdle which, in all likelihood, will should be solved by a joint group of choice, lessen individual responsibility eliminate our ability to find out. Members of this body. To say we can’t and choice, and push folks in one cer- It is claimed, and understandably, do that denies the fact that we have in- tain direction—back to a one-size-fits- that my amendment would look into a tegrity. We do have integrity. We do all traditional Medicare fee-for-service. problem in the House. That assump- have honor. We do have commitment. We also believe that taxes should be tion, however, is incorrect because no- And most of all, we want to build the as low as possible and that the Tax body knows exactly where this enroll- confidence of the American people in Code should be changed to put money ment change happened. Some may Congress. I believe that will happen back into families’ hands, which would think they do, but we don’t know that. under my amendment. I am not sure it allow them to purchase their own Second of all, and probably more im- will happen if we don’t pass it. As a health insurance. We are opposed to in- portantly, is the fact that a bill agreed matter of fact, I am certain that if we creasing taxes and using that money to to by both Houses of Congress was don’t have one of these that gets ac- pay for a big government one-size-fits- changed before it got to the President cepted in conference, we will not be all model. without our knowledge. able to claim that. Madam President, I look forward, as There also is the claim that if, in I have heard the statements of the do all of my Republican Senate class- fact, we would have a bipartisan com- chairwoman of the EPW Committee, mates—Senators THUNE and BURR, mittee, with Members of both Houses and I believe her statements. So what- DEMINT, MARTINEZ, ISAKSON, and looking into this, it is somehow prece- ever happens here, it is my hope that COBURN—to continuing this discussion, dent setting. It is not. In 1992, the she will encourage that to happen in continuing this debate. As I said at the House and Senate did combine—not on conference. It won’t be telling the beginning, I believe virtually all of this specific issue—so there is a prece- House what to do; rather, it will be America agrees that the American dent there that no one can deny, that asking them to concur that we ought health care delivery system is badly we looked at rules and processes and to look into this. broken, that we are in desperate need procedures, and we did that without Washington has a problem, and the of not just tinkering around the edges any difficulty. problem is this: We are not believable

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The Sen- AMENDMENT NO. 4539, AS MODIFIED then they will be breaking the law. ator from California. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Mrs. BOXER. Madam President, I the regular order, there will be 2 min- question is on agreeing to the amend- thank my colleague for bringing this utes of debate prior to a vote on issue to our attention. I think he ment. amendment No. 4539, offered by the Mrs. BOXER. I ask for the yeas and knows that in the beginning there were Senator from California, as modified. some voices that said: Let’s not deal nays. Mrs. BOXER. Madam President, we The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a with this. But we worked together, and have a very simple amendment. Some- we did come up eventually with a way sufficient second? times in simplicity is strength. Some- There is a sufficient second. to deal with it. times in simplicity is power. Some- The clerk will call the roll. I think some of our colleagues be- times in simplicity you get to the place The bill clerk called the roll. lieve that where there is a constitu- you want to get. Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the tional issue and a precedent-setting I do not like a lot of words. I believe Senator from Delaware (Mr. BIDEN), issue here involving such a delicate a few words will say it. Look at what the Senator from New York (Mrs. CLIN- matter, such a matter that could lead we say here: TON), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. to a criminal investigation and punish- Consistent with applicable standards and INOUYE), and the Senator from Illinois ment, we ought to have some type of procedures— (Mr. OBAMA) are necessarily absent. consensus on it. But I share his con- which means everybody’s rights are Mr. KYL. The following Senators are cern. protected— necessarily absent: the Senator from Madam President, I ask unanimous Tennessee (Mr. ALEXANDER), the Sen- the Department of Justice shall review alle- consent for an additional minute before ator from Nebraska (Mr. HAGEL), the we go to the regular order. gations of impropriety regarding item 462 in section 1934(c) of Public Law 109–59— Senator from Indiana (Mr. LUGAR), and The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the Senator from Arizona (Mr. That is the Coconut Road project— objection, it is so ordered. MCCAIN). Mrs. BOXER. I think if neither to ascertain if a violation of Federal crimi- Further, if present and voting, the nal law has occurred. amendment gets 60 votes—and I cer- Senator from Tennessee (Mr. ALEX- tainly hope the Boxer amendment does, I think we know enough to warrant ANDER) would have voted ‘‘aye.’’ and I expect it would, but I don’t know, this kind of amendment. I think we The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there it might not—I am already working on know enough to be concerned. I think any other Senators in the Chamber de- an alternative I would talk to my we know enough to say to the Justice siring to vote? friend about right now, which is for us Department: Please pay attention to The result was announced—yeas 64, to communicate in writing very this. Do your work. Make a determina- nays 28, as follows: strongly to the Justice Department tion and get on with it because this is [Rollcall Vote No. 105 Leg.] and tell them how strongly we feel. very serious. YEAS—64 I also wish to make the point that I yield the floor. Akaka Feinstein Reed my friend is right. Someday, somebody The PRESIDING OFFICER. Who Baucus Harkin Reid will write about this. People are al- yields time in opposition? Bayh Isakson Roberts Bingaman ready writing about it because of the The Senator from Oklahoma. Johnson Rockefeller Bond Kennedy Salazar work we are doing on this matter. The Mr. COBURN. Madam President, I Boxer Kerry Sanders Senator and I have been quite forceful will repeat the three points I think are Brown Klobuchar Schumer in the way we feel about this. People important. No. 1 is we do not know Brownback Kohl Smith Bunning Landrieu Snowe are writing about it. My hope is that enough. The next amendment relates Cantwell Lautenberg Specter what we do is not create a new kind of to the Justice Department if we do Cardin Leahy Stabenow select committee. My friend said it has know enough. Carper Levin Casey Lieberman Sununu been done before, and he may be right. No. 2 is I am very hesitant to set a Chambliss Lincoln Tester But why a committee when we can get precedent that invites the Justice De- Coleman Martinez Thune right to the heart of the matter, which partment to come into the Senate and Collins McConnell Vitter is: Was there a crime? If so, let’s get to House to investigate us. Conrad Menendez Voinovich Corker Mikulski Warner the bottom of it. No. 3, and finally, the Justice Depart- Dodd Murray Webb I do want to say, and I say this as ment does not have to do it even if we Dole Nelson (FL) Whitehouse chair of the Ethics Committee of the say they shall. They do not have to do Dorgan Nelson (NE) Wyden Senate, nothing is more important to it. There is no force of law that we can Durbin Pryor me than having a fair Ethics Com- make the Justice Department come NAYS—28 mittee that works hard and is objec- and investigate us. If we did, our fore- Allard DeMint Inhofe tive. Any Member of the Senate can fathers would roll over in their graves. Barrasso Domenici Kyl Bennett Ensign McCaskill make a complaint any day of the week That is what the separation of powers Burr Enzi Murkowski and it automatically is looked at. I is all about. When we go directly to the Byrd Feingold Sessions want to reiterate that. If people have Justice Department, we shirk our re- Coburn Graham Shelby an issue, please, let us know. That is sponsibility to control our own house Cochran Grassley Stevens Cornyn Gregg Wicker why we are there. and bring our own Members under it. Craig Hatch For those of us who care a lot about I urge my colleagues to not support Crapo Hutchison this matter, we do need, if nobody gets this new precedent setting seeking of NOT VOTING—8 60—I hope we will, but if nobody does, the Justice Department, in violation of Alexander Hagel McCain this issue does not go away as far as I the separation of powers, to come into Biden Inouye Obama am concerned. It cannot go away. the Senate and the House to do an in- Clinton Lugar I think it is very important, the way vestigation before we have done our The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under we deal with this, to understand that if own investigation to find out the jot the previous order requiring 60 votes we do something that the House has and tittles. for the adoption of this amendment, constitutional objections to and it I yield the floor. the amendment is agreed to. brings down the technical corrections Mrs. BOXER. I ask for 10 more sec- Mrs. BOXER. Madam President, I bill, the irony of ironies is the Coconut onds. move to reconsider the vote.

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We cause of the Passover holiday, on Mon- necessarily absent: the Senator from have to get our road construction pro- day, there will be no votes. We expect Tennessee (Mr. ALEXANDER), the Sen- grams going. We cannot do it without to have a full, heavy week next week. ator from Nebraska (Mr. HAGEL), the an ‘‘aye’’ vote on this motion. I urge I appreciate the cooperation of Sen- Senator from Indiana (Mr. LUGAR), and you to vote aye. the Senator from Arizona (Mr. ators this week. As indicated, we CLOTURE MOTION should be finished within the next MCCAIN). Further, if present and voting, the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under hour. the previous order, pursuant to rule Senator from Tennessee (Mr. ALEX- AMENDMENT NO. 4538 XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate The PRESIDING OFFICER. There ANDER), would have voted ‘‘yea.’’ The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there the pending cloture motion, which the are now 2 minutes equally divided prior any other Senators in the Chamber de- clerk will state. to a vote on the Coburn amendment. siring to vote? The legislative clerk read as follows: Mr. COBURN. Madam President, we The result was announced—yeas 49, CLOTURE MOTION have voted an invitation to the Justice nays 43, as follows: We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- Department to investigate a rules vio- [Rollcall Vote No. 106 Leg.] ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the lation in either the House or the Sen- YEAS—49 Standing Rules of the Senate, hereby move ate. We have set an amazing precedent. to bring to a close debate on the Boxer sub- Allard Crapo McCaskill What we recommend is a bicameral stitute amendment No. 4146 to H.R. 1195, an Barrasso DeMint McConnell committee made up of four members of Bayh Dole Murkowski act to amend the Safe, Accountable, Flexi- each body, two from each party, that Bennett Domenici Nelson (FL) ble, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A would report back to the appropriate Bond Ensign Roberts Legacy for Users, to make technical correc- Brownback Enzi Sessions tions, and for other purposes. ethics committee or to the Justice De- Bunning Feingold partment, if there is, in fact, an infrac- Shelby , Harry Reid, Charles E. Burr Graham Smith Schumer, Frank R. Lautenberg, Jon Cardin Grassley tion of law. Specter Chambliss Gregg Tester, Mark L. Pryor, Bernard Sand- My hope would be that we would take Stevens Coburn Hatch ers, Benjamin L. Cardin, Jeff Binga- Sununu care of the problems in our own body. Cochran Hutchison man, Patty Murray, Sheldon The House would take care of the prob- Coleman Inhofe Thune Whitehouse, Debbie Stabenow, Bill Collins Isakson Vitter Nelson, John D. Rockefeller, IV, Jack lems in their body and that we would, Warner Corker Klobuchar Reed, Ron Wyden, Dianne Feinstein. in fact, give greater than 36 votes to Cornyn Kyl Wicker this amendment. Craig Martinez The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unan- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Who NAYS—43 imous consent, the mandatory quorum yields time? call is waived. Akaka Johnson Reed The Senator from California. Baucus Kennedy Reid The question is, Is it the sense of the Mrs. BOXER. Colleagues, this is very Bingaman Kerry Rockefeller Senate that debate on amendment No. important. I wish to commend my col- Boxer Kohl Salazar 4146, offered by the Senator from Cali- league for bringing this whole issue to Brown Landrieu Sanders Byrd Lautenberg fornia, to H.R. 1195, the highway tech- the floor of the Senate. But I think we Schumer nical corrections bill, shall be brought Cantwell Leahy Snowe have done something important. We Carper Levin Stabenow to a close? Casey Lieberman have taken his concerns to heart, and Tester The yeas and nays are mandatory Conrad Lincoln Voinovich with a very big vote, we have stated Dodd Menendez under the rule. Webb that the Justice Department is now re- Dorgan Mikulski The clerk will call the roll. quired to open an investigation. Durbin Murray Whitehouse Wyden The assistant legislative clerk called What the Senator does is set up an Feinstein Nelson (NE) Harkin Pryor the roll. elaborate commission of Senators, of Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the NOT VOTING—8 House Members; it is political on its Senator from Delaware (Mr. BIDEN), face. It will only put off the day until Alexander Hagel McCain the Senator from New York (Mrs. CLIN- an investigation is done by Justice. Be- Biden Inouye Obama Clinton Lugar TON), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. cause after having this elaborate com- INOUYE), and the Senator from Illinois The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under mission, Senators investigating House (Mr. OBAMA), are necessarily absent. the previous order requiring 60 votes Members, House Members inves- Mr. KYL. The following Senators are for the adoption of this amendment, tigating Senators, it is unconstitu- necessarily absent: the Senator from tional on its face on the speech and de- the amendment is withdrawn. Mrs. BOXER. I move to reconsider Tennessee (Mr. ALEXANDER), the Sen- bate clause. the vote. ator from Nebraska (Mr. HAGEL), the That will bring down this entire bill. Mr. DURBIN. I move to lay that mo- Senator from Indiana (Mr. LUGAR), and Here is the irony of ironies. If we bring tion on the table. the Senator from Arizona (Mr. this bill down, the fix of Coconut Road The motion to lay on the table was MCCAIN). will fall. We fix the Coconut Road prob- agreed to. Further, if present and voting, the lem in this bill. The PRESIDING OFFICER. There Senator from Tennessee (Mr. ALEX- I urge you, please say no to this idea are now 2 minutes equally divided prior ANDER) would have voted ‘‘yea.’’ because I feel we have done the right to the cloture vote on the substitute The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there thing on this matter. amendment. any other Senators in the Chamber de- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The The Senator from California. siring to vote? question is on agreeing to the amend- Mrs. BOXER. Madam President, we The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 90, ment. are ready. nays 2, as follows: Mr. COBURN. Madam President, I Mr. INHOFE. We are ready. [Rollcall Vote No. 107 Leg.] ask for the yeas and nays. Mrs. BOXER. All we want is an ‘‘aye’’ The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a vote. Let’s get this good bill passed. YEAS—90 sufficient second? There appears to be Let’s unleash $1 billion worth of good, Akaka Bennett Brownback Allard Bingaman Bunning a sufficient second. There is a suffi- important projects into our commu- Barrasso Bond Burr cient second. nities and create tens of thousands of Baucus Boxer Byrd The clerk will call the roll. jobs. Bayh Brown Cantwell

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This is something that we can Conrad Kohl Sessions the existing ADHS system and there- debate as we consider the next highway Corker Kyl Shelby fore does not qualify for ADHS funding. and transit authorization bill. Cornyn Landrieu Smith This amendment would authorize This amendment provides for a nar- Craig Lautenberg Snowe Crapo Leahy Specter Federal ADHS assistance for the 13- row exception to that prohibition. It Dodd Levin Stabenow mile thruway project. For purposes of would allow PENNDOT, in the case of Dole Lieberman Stevens connectivity, it would also authorize a U.S. Route 219 only, to use toll credits Domenici Lincoln Sununu larger 52-mile segment from I–180 near Dorgan Martinez Tester so that this important transportation Durbin McCaskill Thune Williamsport to the intersection of and economic development project can Ensign McConnell Vitter U.S. 11/15 and U.S. 22 near Duncannon move forward. I believe this exception Enzi Menendez Voinovich as part of the ADHS. This will connect to the toll credit prohibition is war- Feingold Mikulski Warner Feinstein Murkowski Webb the 13-mile system to the rest of Penn- ranted at this time because PENNDOT Graham Murray Whitehouse sylvania’s existing ADHS system, but was planning on using them when it Grassley Nelson (FL) Wicker the only segment of this 52-mile addi- entered the environmental and engi- Harkin Nelson (NE) Wyden tion that would be eligible for funding neering phase of this project. Without NAYS—2 under the amendment is the 13-mile the ability to use credits, I am advised DeMint Gregg thruway project. Further the amend- that PENNDOT has no matching funds NOT VOTING—8 ment provides that this addition will available to finance this project. Alexander Hagel McCain not affect Pennsylvania’s Federal Mr. DODD. Mr. President, the Senate Biden Inouye Obama ADHS apportionment. It is important is now debating the SAFETEA–LU Clinton Lugar to note that the amendment does not technical corrections bill. It is regret- The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this provide more funding to Pennsylvania, table that we had to file cloture on the question, the yeas are 90, the nays are it simply gives PENNDOT the ability motion to proceed to this bill in order 2. Three-fifths of the Senators duly to use existing ADHS apportionment to make progress on this legislation. chosen and sworn having voted in the funding for this high-priority project. This is a technical corrections bill. It affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Madam President, I also wish to fixes mistakes made in the heat of pas- Mr. SPECTER. Madam President, I speak to an amendment to the pending sage of SAFETEA–LU, a bill that was have sought recognition to speak to an legislation by myself and Senator 835 pages long. These types of technical amendment to the pending legislation CASEY, regarding the use of ‘‘toll cred- corrections bills are not at all uncom- by myself and Senator CASEY, which its’’ by the Pennsylvania Department mon, and almost always pass with lit- would authorize an addition of lane of Transportation, PENNDOT, with re- tle, if any debate, much less disagree- miles in Pennsylvania to the Appa- spect to construction of the U.S. Route ment. lachian Development Highway System 219 highway improvement project in All of the relevant committees the so that a vital highway project can be Somerset County, PA. Banking Committee, which has juris- constructed. The Somerset County Commissioners diction over the transit title of the bill, The Central Susquehanna Valley have identified the U.S. Route 219 im- the EPW Committee, with highway ju- Thruway project is a proposed 13-mile, provement project as essential to im- risdiction, and the Commerce Com- four-lane limited access highway ex- proving north-south transportation mittee, which oversees highway safe- tending from the Selinsgrove Bypass of mobility and safety in Somerset Coun- ty—have worked together in a bipar- U.S. Routes 11/15 to PA Route 147 in ty. The project involves construction tisan fashion to produce a corrections Northumberland. Because the project of a four-lane, limited access highway bill with broad support. involves construction of a bridge across connecting the towns of Somerset and I thank my colleague and ranking the Susquehanna River, the estimated Meyersdale, PA. A 1999 study con- member on the Banking Committee, cost to construct it is $370 million. The ducted by PENNDOT noted that this Senator SHELBY, for his work in pro- current conditions are a major impedi- section of U.S. Route 219 has a number ducing this title, which passed the ment to north-south travel in Central of deficiencies that cause traffic con- Banking Committee unanimously in Pennsylvania and this project is widely gestion and high accident rates. The May of last year. I also want to com- supported by State and local elected project also promises economic bene- mend EPW Chairman BOXER and Rank- officials. In addition to the traffic fits by linking motorists with a new ing Member INHOFE, as well as Com- problems it will address, the project is business park. PENNDOT received ap- merce Chairman INOUYE and Ranking a major economic development initia- proval to conduct environmental and Member STEVENS, for their hard work tive in the predominately rural region engineering studies in 1999 and planned on developing this highly technical between Williamsport and Harrisburg. on using ‘‘toll credits’’ to match $45 bill. The Pennsylvania Department of million in Federal funds allocated to Unfortunately, despite these efforts, Transportation, PENNDOT, has thus the project through the Appalachian we have been blocked from moving for- far not been able to identify the funds Development Highway System, ADHS, ward by a small handful of our col- necessary to construct this project, program. However, the necessary land leagues. I want to thank the majority and neither has the Federal Govern- was not acquired until 2006, and in the leader for making time in the Senate’s ment. However, it has been suggested meantime, the 2005 SAFETEA–LU bill schedule to debate this bill. that if the 12-mile route were added to prohibited the use of toll credits as a Although this is only a corrections the Appalachian Development Highway non-Federal match requirement to bill, it will have a real impact for our System, ADHS, it would open up a new ADHS funds. local communities, which are strug- source of funds which PENNDOT could Toll credits are a ‘‘soft-match’’ that gling to keep up with the demands of use to construct this project. allow States to substitute previous, crumbling infrastructure. There are The ADHS encompasses 2,600 miles toll-financed transportation spending funds that were authorized in across the Appalachian States and is as a credit toward the match require- SAFETEA–LU to help meet these de- administered by the Appalachian Re- ment. In doing so, it effectively in- mands, but for technical reasons, they gional Commission. The intention of creases the Federal share to 100 per- have not been distributed. This bill will this highway system is to improve the cent, thereby reducing the pot of avail- unlock those funds so that they can be connectivity of economically depressed able Federal funds. With the limited used for the purpose for which they Appalachian regions with metropolitan availability of Federal resources, I can were intended, which is to shore up our areas. Approximately 500 miles of the understand why Congress would have transit systems, our roads and ADHS have yet to be completed, in- an interest in ensuring that States bridges—all of the vital components of

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In the meantime, The funds that would be unlocked by posal to create a National Infrastruc- the administration’s responsibility is passage of this bill will allow for crit- ture Bank, which would leverage pri- to implement the law, and unfortu- ical maintenance and capital improve- vate investment through tax-credit nately they have failed to do so in this ment projects to go forward on our bonds to fund large-scale, regionally or case. roadways; they will allow for dan- nationally significant infrastructure In conclusion, although it is tech- gerous overpasses to be replaced; they projects. I held a hearing on this pro- nical, this is an important bill. It has will allow for transit systems to more posal last month and I intend to hold broad bipartisan support on both sides efficiently meet the needs of their rid- another in the coming weeks. of the Capitol and would allow ur- ers; and they will allow for a greater We have an enormous challenge be- gently needed funds to be distributed degree of safety on our roads and rails. fore us in meeting the infrastructure to the States and local communities And it is important to understand, needs of our nation. The National In- trying to address their transportation this bill does not cost a single penny. It frastructure Bank is not intended to be needs. I commend it to my colleagues allows funds that have already been au- the only tool in our toolbox; neither is and ask for their support. thorized to be distributed as intended. the technical corrections bill we are Mr. BYRD. Madam President, I am The Banking Committee reported the discussing today. proud to support H.R. 1195, a bill to transit title of this bill last May. We But passage of the bill now before the amend the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, worked closely with our colleagues Senate would be an essential step for- Efficient Transportation Equity Act, here in the Senate as well as in the ward in meeting that challenge. It and the benefits that it will provide to House to develop a bipartisan, con- would put an end to the technicalities West Virginia and the rest of the coun- sensus package. I want to again thank that are holding up vital funding for try. However, I must oppose the two my ranking member, Senator SHELBY, road and transit improvements. There amendments offered by Senators for his efforts on this bill; he has is no excuse for any further delay in BOXER and COBURN. Both amendments worked hard to try to get this done getting these funds to the communities have the good intention of ensuring since the last Congress. which need them. open and honest government, but I The Banking Committee’s title of Let me take just a moment to ad- must oppose them because of my con- this bill addresses the drafting errors dress the Administration’s Statement cerns about their implications, particu- contained in the transit title of of Administration Policy opposing one larly as they may impinge on the pow- SAFETEA–LU and makes necessary of the provisions in the transit title of ers of the legislative branch. changes to various project authoriza- this bill, related to the transit New I applaud the Senators for their at- tions so that funds can be released. In Starts program. This program, which tempts to eliminate any waste, fraud, addition, I just want to note that this supports the development and con- and abuse that have plagued the Con- bill recognizes the hard work and lead- struction of new transit systems, is gress in previous years. As chairman of ership of our former colleague, and widely recognized for its focus on per- the Appropriations Committee, I have past chairman of the Banking Com- formance measures and accountability. instituted on-line access to spending mittee, Senator , by Each applicant for New Starts funds bills, so that the public may see where naming the Transit in Parks program, enters a rigorous review process based their tax money is being spent. But which he authored, after him. on statutory rating criteria, including both of these amendments may inap- It is more important than ever that factors such as mobility improvements, propriately expose Congress to scru- we invest in our Nation’s transit sys- environmental benefits, and cost effec- tiny by the executive branch by way of tems. Safe, reliable, and efficient pub- tiveness. In order to more fully capture the Department of Justice. lic transportation is essential if we are the impact that a major transit project Congress is fully capable of pro- to tackle the growing problems of traf- has on communities, Congress in ceeding with its own internal inves- fic congestion, rising gas prices, and SAFETEA–LU added economic devel- tigations. Both Houses have bipartisan global climate change. Transit systems opment and land use effects to the Ethics Committees that may under- provide significant benefits both to statutory list. take these investigations. If criminal transit riders and to others in the com- However, the Federal Transit Admin- activities are discovered in the course munity, including employers, property istration is not applying the statutory of a congressional inquiry, such crimes owners, and automobile drivers. For rating criteria as Congress intended. should then be investigated by the ap- example, when people ride transit, the Instead, the FTA has assigned inordi- propriate Federal authorities. amount of time that transit riders and nate weight to a few statutory factors, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under automobile drivers alike spend in traf- while giving others, such as economic the previous order, the Boxer sub- fic goes down; in fact, the Texas Trans- development and environmental bene- stitute amendment No. 4146, as amend- portation Institute has estimated that fits, only minimal weight. ed, is agreed to. transit saves Americans over $18 bil- The language in the technical correc- The committee substitute, as amend- lion a year by reducing the time they tions bill reiterates Congress’s intent ed, is agreed to. would otherwise waste sitting on in SAFETEA–LU that each of the fac- The question is on the engrossment clogged roadways. tors must be given comparable weight of the amendments and third reading of And, in this era of high gasoline when evaluating New Starts grant ap- the bill. prices, public transportation provides plications. This language passed the The amendments were ordered to be an additional benefit: according to House of Representatives last summer engrossed, and the bill to be read a economists Robert Shapiro and Kevin as part of their technical corrections third time. Hassett, public transportation saves package. The bill was read the third time. more than 855 million gallons of gaso- I say to my colleagues, I could not The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill line a year, helping to reduce our de- disagree more with the position the ad- having been read the third time, the pendence on foreign oil and providing ministration is taking on this point. question is, Shall the bill pass? us with a cleaner, healthier environ- The language in the transit title has Mr. DORGAN. Madam President, I ment. broad bipartisan support, both from ask for the yeas and nays. Transit ridership is at the highest the Banking Committee and from the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a level in 40 years, and strong support for House Transportation and Infrastruc- sufficient second? transit is essential in light of this in- ture Committee. If the Administration There appears to be a sufficient sec- creasing demand. In fact, I strongly be- does not agree with the criteria in- ond. lieve that if we are to keep up with the cluded in SAFETEA–LU for the evalua- The clerk will call the roll. demands of our growing economy, we tion of New Starts projects, I would be The legislative clerk called the roll. must renew our commitment to our happy to consider their views in the Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Nation’s infrastructure, not just in context of the next reauthorization. I Senator from Delaware (Mr. BIDEN),

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Nonmotorized transportation pilot pro- culverts and bridges, as appropriate.’’. I further announce that, if present gram. (d) CORRECTION OF DESCRIPTION OF NATIONAL and voting, the Senator from Louisiana Sec. 107. Correction of Interstate and National CORRIDOR INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT Highway System designations. PROJECT.—Item number 1 of the table contained (Ms. LANDRIEU) would vote ‘‘yea.’’ Sec. 108. Budget justification; buy America. in section 1302(e) of the Safe, Accountable, Mr. KYL. The following Senators are Sec. 109. Transportation improvements. Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A necessarily absent: the Sentor from Sec. 110. I–95/Contee Road interchange design. Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1205) is amended in Tennessee (Mr. ALEXANDER), the Sen- Sec. 111. Highway research funding. the State column by inserting ‘‘LA,’’ after ator from Nebraska (Mr. HAGEL), the Sec. 112. Rescission. ‘‘TX,’’. Senator from Indiana (Mr. LUGAR), and Sec. 113. TEA–21 technical corrections. (e) CORRECTION OF HIGH PRIORITY DESIGNA- the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Sec. 114. High priority corridor and innovative TIONS.— project technical corrections. (1) KENTUCKY HIGH PRIORITY CORRIDOR DES- MCCAIN). Sec. 115. Definition of repeat intoxicated driver IGNATION.—Section 1105(c)(18)(E) of the Inter- Further, if present and voting, the law. modal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of Senator from Tennessee (Mr. ALEX- Sec. 116. Research technical correction. 1991 (105 Stat. 2032; 112 Stat. 189; 115 Stat. 872) ANDER) would have voted ‘‘yea.’’ Sec. 117. Buy America waiver notification and is amended by inserting before the period at the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there annual reports. end the following: ‘‘, follow Interstate Route 24 any other Senators in the Chamber de- Sec. 118. Efficient use of existing highway ca- to the Wendell H. Ford Western Kentucky Park- siring to vote? pacity. way, then utilize the existing Wendell H. Ford Sec. 119. Future interstate designation. Western Kentucky Parkway and Edward T. The result was announced—yeas 88, Sec. 120. Project flexibility. nays 2, as follows: Breathitt (Pennyrile) Parkway to Henderson’’. Sec. 121. Effective date. (2) INTERSTATE ROUTE 376 HIGH PRIORITY DES- [Rollcall Vote No. 108 Leg.] TITLE II—TRANSIT PROVISIONS IGNATION.— YEAS—88 Sec. 201. Transit technical corrections. (A) IN GENERAL.—Section 1105(c)(79) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Akaka Domenici Murkowski TITLE III—OTHER SURFACE Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 2032; 119 Stat. 1213) is Allard Dorgan Murray TRANSPORTATION PROVISIONS Barrasso Durbin Nelson (FL) amended by striking ‘‘and on United States Baucus Ensign Nelson (NE) Sec. 301. Technical amendments relating to Route 422’’. Bayh Enzi Pryor motor carrier safety. (B) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section Bennett Feingold Reed Sec. 302. Technical amendments relating to haz- 1105(e)(5)(B)(i)(I) of the Intermodal Surface Bingaman Feinstein Reid ardous materials transportation. Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (105 Stat. Bond Graham Roberts Sec. 303. Highway safety. 2033; 119 Stat. 1213) is amended by striking ‘‘and Boxer Grassley Rockefeller Sec. 304. Correction of study requirement re- Brown Harkin United States Route 422’’. Salazar Brownback Hatch garding on-scene motor vehicle (f) CORRECTION OF INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE Bunning Hutchison Schumer collision causation. SECTION.—Section 1602(d)(1) of the Safe, Ac- Burr Inhofe Sessions Sec. 305. Motor carrier transportation registra- countable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Byrd Isakson Shelby tion. Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1247) Cantwell Johnson Smith Sec. 306. Applicability of Fair Labor Standards is amended by striking ‘‘through 189 as sections Cardin Kennedy Snowe Act requirements and limitation 601 through 609, respectively’’ and inserting Specter Carper Kerry on liability. ‘‘through 190 as sections 601 through 610, re- Casey Klobuchar Stabenow Chambliss Kohl Stevens TITLE IV—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS spectively’’. (g) CORRECTION OF PROJECT FEDERAL Coburn Kyl Sununu Sec. 401. Conveyance of GSA Fleet Management SHARE.—Section 1964(a) of the Safe, Account- Cochran Lautenberg Tester Center to Alaska Railroad Cor- able, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Coleman Leahy Thune poration. Collins Levin Act: A Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1519) is Vitter Sec. 402. Conveyance of retained interest in St. Conrad Lieberman amended— Voinovich Joseph Memorial Hall. Corker Lincoln Warner (1) by striking ‘‘only for the States of Alaska, Cornyn Martinez Webb TITLE V—OTHER PROVISIONS Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, and Craig McCaskill Whitehouse Sec. 501. De Soto County, Mississippi. South Dakota,’’; and Crapo McConnell Wicker (2) by striking ‘‘section 120(b)’’ and inserting Dodd Menendez Sec. 502. Department of Justice review. Wyden Dole Mikulski TITLE I—HIGHWAY PROVISIONS ‘‘section 120’’. (h) TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT NAYS—2 SEC. 101. SURFACE TRANSPORTATION TECH- AND OPERATIONS DEFINED.—Section 101(a) of NICAL CORRECTIONS. DeMint Gregg title 23, United States Code, is amended by add- (a) CORRECTION OF INTERNAL REFERENCES IN ing at the end the following: NOT VOTING—10 DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES.—Para- ‘‘(39) TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT Alexander Inouye Obama graphs (3)(A) and (5) of section 1101(b) of the AND OPERATIONS.— Biden Landrieu Sanders Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transpor- ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘transportation Clinton Lugar tation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (119 Stat. systems management and operations’ means an Hagel McCain 1156) are amended by striking ‘‘paragraph (1)’’ integrated program to optimize the performance The bill (H.R. 1195), as amended, was each place it appears and inserting ‘‘paragraph of existing infrastructure through the implemen- passed, as follows: (2)’’. tation of multimodal and intermodal, cross-ju- (b) CORRECTION OF DISTRIBUTION OF OBLIGA- risdictional systems, services, and projects de- H.R. 1195 TION AUTHORITY.—Section 1102(c)(5) of the Safe, signed to preserve capacity and improve secu- Resolved, That the bill from the House of Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation rity, safety, and reliability of the transportation Representatives (H.R. 1195) entitled ‘‘An Act Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1158) system. to amend the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, is amended by striking ‘‘among the States’’. ‘‘(B) INCLUSIONS.—The term ‘transportation Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Leg- (c) CORRECTION OF FEDERAL LANDS HIGH- systems management and operations’ includes— acy for Users to make technical corrections, WAYS.—Section 1119 of the Safe, Accountable, ‘‘(i) regional operations collaboration and co- and for other purposes.’’, do pass with the Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A ordination activities between transportation and following amendment: Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1190) is amended by public safety agencies; and SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. striking subsection (m) and inserting the fol- ‘‘(ii) improvements to the transportation sys- (a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as lowing: tem, such as traffic detection and surveillance, the ‘‘SAFETEA–LU Technical Corrections Act ‘‘(m) FOREST HIGHWAYS.—Of the amounts arterial management, freeway management, de- of 2008’’. made available for public lands highways under mand management, work zone management, (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of con- section 1101— emergency management, electronic toll collec- tents of this Act is as follows: ‘‘(1) not more than $20,000,000 for each fiscal tion, automated enforcement, traffic incident year may be used for the maintenance of forest management, roadway weather management, Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. highways; traveler information services, commercial vehicle TITLE I—HIGHWAY PROVISIONS ‘‘(2) not more than $1,000,000 for each fiscal operations, traffic control, freight management, Sec. 101. Surface transportation technical cor- year may be used for signage identifying public and coordination of highway, rail, transit, bicy- rections. hunting and fishing access; and cle, and pedestrian operations.’’.

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(i) CORRECTION OF REFERENCE IN APPORTION- (3) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— (D) by inserting after ‘‘highway safety im- MENT OF HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PRO- (A) METROPOLITAN PLANNING.—Section provement programs’’ the following: ‘‘(and sepa- GRAM FUNDS.—Effective October 1, 2007, section 104(f)(1) of title 23, United States Code, is rately the set aside for the high risk rural road 104(b)(5)(A)(iii) of title 23, United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘replacement and rehabili- program)’’. amended by striking ‘‘the Federal-aid system’’ tation’’. SEC. 102. MAGLEV. each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Federal- (B) EQUITY BONUS PROGRAM.—Subsections (a) FUNDING.—Section 1101(a)(18) of the Safe, aid highways’’. (a)(2)(C) and (b)(2)(C) of section 105 of such title Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation (j) CORRECTION OF AMENDMENT TO ADVANCE are amended by striking ‘‘replacement and reha- Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1155) CONSTRUCTION.—Section 115 of title 23, United bilitation’’ each place it appears. is amended by striking ‘‘Act—’’ and all that fol- States Code, is amended by redesignating sub- (C) ANALYSIS.—The analysis for chapter 1 of lows through the end of the paragraph and in- section (d) as subsection (c). such title is amended in the item relating to sec- serting ‘‘Act, $45,000,000 for each of fiscal years (k) CORRECTION OF HIGH PRIORITY tion 144 by striking ‘‘replacement and rehabili- 2008 and 2009.’’. PROJECTS.—Section 117 of title 23, United States tation’’. (b) CONTRACT AUTHORITY.—Section 1307 of the Code, is amended— (n) METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION PLAN- Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transpor- (1) by redesignating subsections (d) through NING.—Section 134 of title 23, United States tation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (119 Stat. (h) as subsections (e) through (i), respectively; Code, is amended— 1217) is amended by adding at the end the fol- (2) by redesignating the second subsection (c) (1) in subsection (f)(3)(C)(ii) by striking sub- lowing: (relating to Federal share) as subsection (d); clause (II) and inserting the following: ‘‘(e) CONTRACT AUTHORITY.—Funds author- (3) in subsection (a)(2)(A) by inserting ‘‘(112 ‘‘(II) FUNDING.—For fiscal year 2008 and each ized under section 1101(a)(18) shall be available Stat. 257)’’ after ‘‘21st Century’’; and fiscal year thereafter, in addition to other funds for obligation in the same manner as if the (4) in subsection (a)(2)(B)— made available to the metropolitan planning or- funds were apportioned under chapter 1 of title (A) by striking ‘‘subsection (b)’’ and inserting ganization for the Lake Tahoe region under this 23, United States Code; except that the funds ‘‘subsection (c)’’; and title and chapter 53 of title 49, prior to any allo- shall not be transferable and shall remain avail- (B) by striking ‘‘SAFETEA–LU’’ and inserting cation under section 202 of this title and not- able until expended, and the Federal share of ‘‘Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Trans- withstanding the allocation provisions of section the cost of a project to be carried out with such portation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (119 1 202, the Secretary shall set aside ⁄2 of 1 percent funds shall be 80 percent.’’. Stat. 1256)’’. of all funds authorized to be appropriated for (c) ALLOCATION.—Section 1307 of the Safe, Ac- (l) CORRECTION OF TRANSFER OF UNUSED PRO- such fiscal year to carry out section 204 and countable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation TECTIVE-DEVICE FUNDS TO OTHER HIGHWAY shall make such funds available to the metro- Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1217) SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM PROJECTS.— politan planning organization for the Lake is amended by striking subsection (d) and insert- Section 130(e)(2) of title 23, United States Code, Tahoe region to carry out the transportation ing the following: is amended by striking ‘‘purposes under this planning process, environmental reviews, pre- ‘‘(d) ALLOCATION.—Of the amounts made subsection’’ and inserting ‘‘highway safety im- liminary engineering, and design to complete en- available to carry out this section for a fiscal provement program purposes’’. vironmental documentation for transportation year, the Secretary shall allocate— (m) CORRECTION OF HIGHWAY BRIDGE PRO- projects for the Lake Tahoe region under the ‘‘(1) 50 percent to the Nevada department of GRAM.— Tahoe Regional Planning Compact as consented transportation who shall cooperate with the (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 144 of title 23, United to in Public Law 96–551 (94 Stat. 3233) and this California-Nevada Super Speed Train Commis- States Code, is amended— paragraph.’’; sion for the MAGLEV project between Las (A) in the section heading by striking ‘‘re- (2) in subsection (j)(3)(D) by inserting ‘‘or the Vegas and Primm, Nevada, as a segment of the placement and rehabilitation’’; identified phase’’ after ‘‘the project’’ each place high-speed MAGLEV system between Las Vegas, (B) in subsections (b), (c)(1), and (e) by strik- it appears; and Nevada, and Anaheim, California; and ing ‘‘Federal-aid system’’ each place it appears (3) in subsection (k)(2) by striking ‘‘a metro- ‘‘(2) 50 percent for existing MAGLEV projects and inserting ‘‘Federal-aid highway’’; politan planning area serving’’. located east of the using such (C) in subsections (c)(2) and (o) by striking (o) CORRECTION OF NATIONAL SCENIC BYWAYS criteria as the Secretary deems appropriate.’’. ‘‘the Federal-aid system’’ each place it appears PROGRAM COVERAGE.—Section 162 of title 23, (d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made and inserting ‘‘Federal-aid highways’’; United States Code, is amended— by this section take effect on October 1, 2007. (D) in the heading to paragraph (4) of sub- (1) in subsection (a)(3)(B) by striking ‘‘a Na- section (d) by inserting ‘‘SYSTEMATIC’’ before tional Scenic Byway under subparagraph (A)’’ SEC. 103. PROJECTS OF NATIONAL AND RE- GIONAL SIGNIFICANCE AND NA- ‘‘PREVENTIVE’’; and inserting ‘‘a National Scenic Byway, an TIONAL CORRIDOR INFRASTRUC- (E) in subsection (e) by striking ‘‘off-system All-American Road, or one of America’s Byways TURE IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS. bridges’’ each place it appears and inserting under paragraph (1)’’; and (a) PROJECT OF NATIONAL AND REGIONAL SIG- ‘‘bridges not on Federal-aid highways’’; (2) in subsection (c)(3) by striking ‘‘or All- NIFICANCE.—The table contained in section (F) by striking subsection (f); American Road’’ each place it appears and in- 1301(m) of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Effi- (G) by redesignating subsections (g) through serting ‘‘All-American Road, or one of America’s cient Transportation Equity: A Legacy for Users (s) as subsections (f) through (r), respectively; Byways’’. (119 Stat. 1203) is amended— (H) in paragraph (1)(A)(vi) of subsection (f) (p) CORRECTION OF REFERENCE IN TOLL PRO- (1) in item number 4 by striking the project de- (as redesignated by subparagraph (G) of this VISION.—Section 166(b)(5)(C) of title 23, United scription and inserting ‘‘$7,400,000 for planning, paragraph) by inserting ‘‘and the removal of the States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘paragraph design, and construction of a new American Missisquoi Bay causeway’’ after ‘‘Bridge’’; (3)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraph (4)’’. border plaza at the Blue Water Bridge in or (I) in paragraph (2) of subsection (f) (as redes- (q) CORRECTION OF RECREATIONAL TRAILS near Port Huron; $12,600,000 for integrated ignated by subparagraph (G) of this paragraph) PROGRAM APPORTIONMENT EXCEPTIONS.—Sec- highway realignment and grade separations at by striking the paragraph heading and inserting tion 206(d)(3)(A) of title 23, United States Code, Port Huron to eliminate road blockages from ‘‘BRIDGES NOT ON FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAYS’’; is amended by striking ‘‘(B), (C), and (D)’’ and NAFTA rail traffic’’; (J) in subsection (m) (as redesignated by sub- inserting ‘‘(B) and (C)’’. (2) in item number 19 by striking the project paragraph (G) of this paragraph) by striking (r) CORRECTION OF INFRASTRUCTURE FI- description and inserting ‘‘For purposes of con- the subsection heading and inserting ‘‘PROGRAM NANCE.—Section 601(a)(3) of title 23, United struction and other related transportation im- FOR BRIDGES NOT ON FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAYS’’; States Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘bbb provements associated with the rail yard reloca- and minus, BBB (low),’’ after ‘‘Baa3,’’. tion in the vicinity of Santa Teresa’’; and (K) in subsection (n)(4)(B) (as redesignated by (s) CORRECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS TYPO- (3) in item number 22 by striking the project subparagraph (G) of this paragraph) by striking GRAPHICAL ERRORS.— description and inserting ‘‘Redesign and recon- ‘‘State highway agency’’ and inserting ‘‘State (1) Section 1401 of the Safe, Accountable, struction of interchanges 298 and 299 of I–80 and transportation department’’. Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A accompanying improvements to any other public (2) SPECIAL CONDITIONS.—Section 1114 of the Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1226) is amended by roads in the vicinity, Monroe County’’. Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transpor- redesignating subsections (d) and (e) as sub- (b) NATIONAL CORRIDOR INFRASTRUCTURE IM- tation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (Public sections (c) and (d), respectively. PROVEMENT PROJECT.—The table contained in Law 109–59; 119 Stat. 1172) is amended by add- (2) Section 1404(e) of such Act (119 Stat. 1229) section 1302(e) of the Safe, Accountable, Flexi- ing at the end the following: is amended by inserting ‘‘tribal,’’ after ‘‘local,’’. ble, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Leg- ‘‘(h) SPECIAL CONDITIONS.—Any unobligated (3) Section 10211(b)(2) of such Act (119 Stat. acy for Users (119 Stat. 1205) is amended in item or unexpended funds remaining on completion 1937) is amended by striking ‘‘plan administer’’ number 23 by striking the project description of the project carried out under section and inserting ‘‘plan and administer’’. and inserting ‘‘Improvements to State Road 312, 144(f)(1)(A)(vi) of title 23, United States Code, (4) Section 10212(a) of such Act (119 Stat. 1937) Hammond’’. shall be made available to carry out the project is amended— described in section 144(f)(1)(A)(vii) of that title (A) by inserting ‘‘equity bonus,’’ after ‘‘min- SEC. 104. IDLING REDUCTION FACILITIES. after the date on which the Vermont Agency of imum guarantee,’’; Section 111(d) of title 23, United States Code, Transportation certifies to the Federal Highway (B) by striking ‘‘freight intermodal connec- is repealed. Administration the final determination of the tors’’ and inserting ‘‘railway-highway cross- SEC. 105. PROJECT AUTHORIZATIONS. agency regarding the removal of the Missisquoi ings’’; (a) PROJECT MODIFICATIONS.—The table con- Bay causeway.’’. (C) by striking ‘‘high risk rural road,’’; and tained in section 1702 of the Safe, Accountable,

VerDate Aug 31 2005 02:24 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 6333 E:\CR\FM\A17AP6.013 S17APPT1 wwoods2 on PRODPC60 with SENATE S3124 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE April 17, 2008 Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A (26) in item number 983 by striking the project (47) in item number 2663 by striking the Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1256) is amended— description and inserting ‘‘Land acquisition for project description and inserting ‘‘Rosemead (1) in item number 34 by striking the project highway mitigation in Cecil, Kent, Queen Boulevard safety enhancement and beautifi- description and inserting ‘‘Removal and Recon- Annes, and Worcester Counties’’; cation, Temple City’’; figuration of Interstate ramps, I–40, Memphis’’; (27) in item number 1039 by striking the (48) in item number 2671 by striking ‘‘from 2 to (2) by striking item number 61; project description and inserting ‘‘Widen State 5 lanes and improve alignment within rights-of- (3) in item number 87 by striking the project Route 98, including storm drain developments, way in St. George’’ and inserting ‘‘, St. George’’; description and inserting ‘‘M–291 highway outer from D. Navarro Avenue to State Route 111’’; (49) in item number 2743 by striking the road improvement project’’; (28) in item number 1047 by striking the project description and inserting ‘‘Improve safe- (4) in item number 128 by striking ‘‘$2,400,000’’ project description and inserting ‘‘Bridge and ty of culvert replacement on 250th Rd. between and inserting ‘‘$4,800,000’’; road work at Little Susitna River Access road in 460th St. and Cty Hwy 20 in Grandview Town- (5) in item number 154 by striking ‘‘Virginia’’ Matanuska-Susitna Borough’’; ship, Edgar County’’; and inserting ‘‘Eveleth’’; (29) in item number 1124 by striking ‘‘bridge (50) by striking item number 2800; (6) in item number 193 by striking the project over Stillwater River, Orono’’ and inserting (51) in item number 2826 by striking ‘‘State description and inserting ‘‘Improvements to or ‘‘routes’’; Street and Cajon Boulevard’’ and inserting access to Route 108 to enhance access to the (30) in item number 1206 by striking ‘‘Pleas- ‘‘Palm Avenue’’; business park near Rumford’’; antville’’ and inserting ‘‘Briarcliff Manor’’; (52) in item number 2931 by striking ‘‘Frazho (7) in item number 240 by striking ‘‘$800,000’’ (31) in item number 1281 by striking the Road’’ and inserting ‘‘Martin Road’’; and inserting ‘‘$2,400,000’’; project description and inserting ‘‘Upgrade (53) in item number 3047 by inserting ‘‘and (8) by striking item number 248; roads in Attala County District 4 (Roads 4211 roadway improvements’’ after ‘‘safety project’’; (9) in item number 274 by striking the project and 4204), Kosciusko, Ward 2, and Ethel, Attala (54) in item number 3078 by striking the description and inserting ‘‘Intersection improve- County’’; project description and inserting ‘‘U.S. 2/Sultan ments at Belleville and Ecorse Roads and ap- (32) in item number 1487 by striking ‘‘$800,000’’ Basin Road improvements in Sultan’’; proach roadways, and widen Belleville Road and inserting ‘‘$1,600,000’’; (55) in item number 3174 by striking the from Ecorse to Tyler, Van Buren Township, (33) in item number 1575 by striking the project description and inserting ‘‘Improving Michigan’’; project description and inserting ‘‘Highway and Outer Harbor access through planning, design, (10) in item number 277 by striking the project road signage, and traffic signal synchronization construction, and relocations of Southtowns description and inserting ‘‘Construct connector and upgrades, in Shippensburg Boro, Connector–NY Route 5, Fuhrmann Boulevard, road from Rushing Drive North to Grand Ave., Shippensburg Township, and surrounding mu- and a bridge connecting the Outer Harbor to Williamson County’’; nicipalities’’; downtown Buffalo at the Inner Harbor’’; (11) in item number 395 by striking the project (34) in item number 1661 by striking the (56) in item number 3219 by striking ‘‘Forest’’ description and inserting ‘‘Plan and construct project description and inserting ‘‘Sheldon West and inserting ‘‘Warren’’; interchange at I–65, from existing SR–109 to I– Extension in Matanuska-Susitna Borough’’; (57) in item number 3254 by striking the 65’’; (35) in item number 1810 by striking the project description and inserting ‘‘Reconstruct (12) in item number 463 by striking project description and inserting ‘‘Design, engi- PA Route 274/34 Corridor, Perry County’’; ‘‘Cookeville’’ and inserting ‘‘Putnam County’’; neering, ROW acquisition, construction, and (58) in item number 3260 by striking ‘‘Lake (13) in item number 576 by striking the project construction engineering for the reconstruction Shore Drive’’ and inserting ‘‘Lakeshore Drive description and inserting ‘‘Design, right-of-way of TH 95, from 12th Avenue to CSAH 13, includ- and parking facility/entrance improvements acquisition, and construction of Nebraska High- ing bridge and approaches, ramps, intersecting serving the Museum of Science and Industry’’; way 35 between Norfolk and South Sioux City, roadways, signals, turn lanes, and multiuse (59) in item number 3368 by striking the including an interchange at Milepost 1 on I– trail, North Branch’’; project description and inserting ‘‘Plan, design, 129’’; (36) in item number 1852 by striking ‘‘Milepost and engineering, Ludlam Trail, Miami’’; (14) in item number 595 by striking ‘‘Street 9.3’’ and inserting ‘‘Milepost 24.3’’; (60) in item number 3410 by striking the (37) in item numbers 1926 and 2893 by striking Closure at’’ and inserting ‘‘Transportation im- project description and inserting ‘‘Design, pur- the project descriptions and inserting ‘‘Grading, provement project near’’; chase land, and construct sound walls along the paving roads, and the transfer of rail-to-truck (15) in item number 649 by striking the project west side of I–65 from approximately 950 feet for the intermodal facility at Rickenbacker Air- description and inserting ‘‘Construction and en- south of the Harding Place interchange south to port, Columbus, Ohio’’; hancement of the Fillmore Avenue Corridor, (38) in item number 1933 by striking the Hogan Road’’; Buffalo’’; (61) in item number 3537 by inserting ‘‘and the project description and inserting ‘‘Enhance Byz- (16) in item number 655 by inserting ‘‘, safety study of alternatives along the North South antine Latino Quarter transit plazas at improvement construction,’’ after ‘‘Environ- Corridor,’’ after ‘‘Valley’’; Normandie and Pico, and Hoover and Pico, Los mental studies’’; (62) in item number 3582 by striking the Angeles, by improving streetscapes, including (17) in item number 676 by striking the project project description and inserting ‘‘Improving expanding concrete and paving’’; description and inserting ‘‘St. Croix River cross- (39) in item number 1975 by striking the Outer Harbor access through planning, design, ing project, Wisconsin State Highway 64, St. project description and inserting ‘‘Point Mac- construction, and relocations of Southtowns Croix County, Wisconsin, to Minnesota State Kenzie Access Road improvements in Connector–NY Route 5, Fuhrmann Boulevard, Highway 36, Washington County’’; Matanuska-Susitna Borough’’; and a bridge connecting the Outer Harbor to (18) in item number 770 by striking the project (40) in item number 2015 by striking the downtown Buffalo at the Inner Harbor’’; description and inserting ‘‘Improve existing project description and amount and inserting (63) in item number 3604 by inserting ‘‘/Kane Horns Hill Road in North Newark, Ohio, from ‘‘ Borough/Scott Township/Carnegie Creek Boulevard’’ after ‘‘500 West’’; Waterworks Road to Licking Springs Road’’; Borough for design, engineering, acquisition, (64) in item number 3632 by striking the State, (19) in item number 777 by striking the project and construction of streetscaping enhance- project description, and amount and inserting description and inserting ‘‘Akutan Airport ac- ments, paving, lighting and safety upgrades, ‘‘FL’’, ‘‘Pine Island Road pedestrian overpass, cess’’; and parking improvements’’ and ‘‘$2,000,000’’, city of Tamarac’’, and ‘‘$610,000’’, respectively; (20) in item number 829 by striking the project respectively; (65) in item number 3634 by striking the mat- description and inserting ‘‘$400,000 to conduct (41) in item number 2087 by striking the ters in the State, project description, and New Bedford/Fairhaven Bridge modernization project description and inserting ‘‘Railroad amount columns and inserting ‘‘FL’’, ‘‘West Av- study; $1,000,000 to design and build New Bed- crossing improvement on Illinois Route 82 in enue Bridge, city of Miami Beach’’, and ford Business Park access road’’; Geneseo’’; ‘‘$620,000’’, respectively; (21) in item number 881 by striking the project (42) in item number 2211 by striking the (66) in item number 3673 by striking the description and inserting ‘‘Pedestrian safety im- project description and inserting ‘‘Construct project description and inserting ‘‘Improve ma- provements near North Atlantic Boulevard, road projects and transportation enhancements rine dry-dock and facilities in Ketchikan’’; Monterey Park’’; as part of or connected to RiverScape Phase III, (67) in item number 2942 by striking the (22) in item number 923 by striking the project Montgomery County, Ohio’’; project description and inserting ‘‘Redesigning description and inserting ‘‘Improve safety of a (43) in item number 2234 by striking the the intersection of Business U.S. 322/High Street horizontal curve on Clarksville St. 0.25 miles project description and amount and inserting and Rosedale Avenue and constructing a new north of 275th Rd. in Grandview Township, ‘‘North Atherton Signal Coordination Project in East Campus Drive between High Street (U.S. Edgar County’’; Centre County’’ and ‘‘$400,000’’, respectively; 322) and Matlock Street at West Chester Univer- (23) in item number 947 by striking the project (44) in item number 2316 by striking the sity, West Chester, Pennsylvania’’; description and inserting ‘‘Third East/West project description and inserting ‘‘Construct a (68) in item number 2781 by striking the River Crossing, St. Lucie River’’; new bridge at Indian Street, Martin County’’; project description and inserting ‘‘Highway and (24) in item numbers 959 and 3327 by striking (45) in item number 2420 by striking the road signage, road construction, and other ‘‘Northern Section,’’ each place it appears; project description and inserting transportation improvement and enhancement (25) in item number 963 by striking the project ‘‘Preconstruction and construction activities of projects on or near Highway 26, in Riverton and description and inserting ‘‘For engineering, U.S. 51 between the Assumption Bypass and surrounding areas’’; right-of-way acquisition, and reconstruction of Vandalia’’; (69) in item number 2430 by striking ‘‘200 2 existing lanes on Manhattan Road from Base- (46) in item number 2482 by striking ‘‘Coun- South Interchange’’ and inserting ‘‘400 South line Road to Route 53’’; try’’ and inserting ‘‘County’’; Interchange’’;

VerDate Aug 31 2005 02:24 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 6333 E:\CR\FM\A17AP6.013 S17APPT1 wwoods2 on PRODPC60 with SENATE April 17, 2008 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S3125 (70) by striking item number 20; (99) in item number 2002 by striking the (121) in item number 4599 by striking the (71) in item number 424 by striking ‘‘$264,000’’ project description and inserting ‘‘Dowling project description and inserting ‘‘Pedestrian and inserting ‘‘$644,000’’; Road extension/reconstruction west from Min- paths, stairs, seating, landscaping, lighting, and (72) in item number 1210 by striking the nesota Drive to Old Seward Highway, Anchor- other transportation enhancement activities project description and inserting ‘‘Town of New age’’; along Riverside Boulevard and at Riverside Windsor—Riley Road, Shore Drive, and area (100) in item number 2023 by striking the Park South’’; road improvements’’; project description and inserting ‘‘Biking and (122) in item number 1363 by striking the (73) by striking item numbers 68, 905, and 1742; pedestrian trail construction, Kentland’’; project description and inserting ‘‘Design, engi- (74) in item number 1059 by striking ‘‘$240,000’’ (101) in item number 2035 by striking ‘‘Re- neering, right-of-way acquisition, and construc- and inserting ‘‘$420,000’’; place’’ and inserting ‘‘Repair’’; tion of streetscaping enhancements, paving, (75) in item number 2974 by striking ‘‘$120,000’’ (102) in item number 2511 by striking ‘‘Re- lighting, safety improvements, handicap access and inserting ‘‘$220,000’’; place’’ and inserting ‘‘Rehabilitate’’; ramps, parking, and roadway redesign on (76) by striking item numbers 841, 960, and (103) in item number 2981 by striking the Bilbow Street from Church Street to Pugh 2030; project description and inserting ‘‘Roadway im- Street, on Pugh Street from Swallow Street to (77) in item number 1278 by striking ‘‘$740,000’’ provements on Highway 262 on the Navajo Na- Main Street, Jones Lane from Main Street to and inserting ‘‘$989,600’’; tion in Aneth’’; Hoblak Street, Cherry Street from Green Street (78) in item number 207 by striking (104) in item number 2068 by inserting ‘‘and to Church Street, Main Street from Jackson ‘‘$13,600,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$13,200,000’’; approaches’’ after ‘‘capacity’’; Street to end, Short Street from Cherry Street to (79) in item number 2656 by striking (105) in item number 98 by striking the project Main Street, and Hillside Avenue in ‘‘$12,228,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$8,970,000’’; description and inserting ‘‘Right-of-way acqui- Edwardsville Borough, Luzerne County’’; (80) in item number 1983 by striking sition and construction for the 77th Street re- (123) in item number 883 by striking the ‘‘$1,600,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$1,000,000’’; construction project, including the Lyndale Av- project description and inserting ‘‘Design, engi- (81) in item number 753 by striking enue Bridge over I–494, Richfield’’; neering, right-of-way acquisition, and construc- ‘‘$2,700,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$3,200,000’’; (106) in item number 1783 by striking the tion of streetscaping enhancements, paving, (82) in item number 64 by striking ‘‘$6,560,000’’ project description and inserting ‘‘Clark Road lighting, parking, roadway redesign, and safety and inserting ‘‘$8,480,000’’; access improvements, Jacksonville’’; improvements (including curbing, stop signs, (83) in item number 2338 by striking (107) in item number 2711 by striking the crosswalks, and pedestrian sidewalks) at and ‘‘$1,600,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$1,800,000’’; project description and inserting ‘‘Main Street around the 3-way intersection involving Susque- (84) in item number 1533 by striking ‘‘$392,000’’ hanna Avenue, Erie Street, and Second Street in and inserting ‘‘$490,000’’; Road Improvements through Springfield, Jack- sonville’’; West Pittston, Luzerne County’’; (85) in item number 1354 by striking ‘‘$40,000’’ (124) in item number 625 by striking the and inserting ‘‘$50,000’’; (108) in item number 3485 by striking the project description and inserting ‘‘Improve SR project description and inserting ‘‘Design, engi- (86) in item number 3106 by striking ‘‘$400,000’’ neering, right-of-way acquisition, and construc- and inserting ‘‘$500,000’’; 105 (Hecksher Drive) from Drummond Point to August Road, including bridges across the tion of streetscaping enhancements, paving, (87) in item number 799 by striking lighting, safety improvements, parking, and ‘‘$1,600,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$2,000,000’’; Broward River and Dunns Creek, Jacksonville’’; (109) in item number 3486 by striking the roadway redesign on Sampson Street, Dunn Av- (88) in item number 159— enue, Powell Street, Josephine Street, Pittston (A) by striking ‘‘Construct interchange for project description and inserting ‘‘Construct im- Avenue, Railroad Street, McClure Avenue, and 146th St. and I–69’’ and inserting ‘‘Upgrade provements to NE 19th Street/NE 19th Terrace Baker Street in Old Forge Borough, Lacka- 146th St. to I–69 Access’’; and from NE 3rd Avenue to NE 8th Avenue, Gaines- wanna County’’; (B) by striking ‘‘$2,400,000’’ and inserting ville’’; (110) in item number 3487 by striking the (125) in item number 372 by inserting ‘‘, re- ‘‘$3,200,000’’; placement of the Nesbitt Street Bridge, and project description and inserting ‘‘Construct im- (89) by striking item number 2936; placement of a guard rail adjacent to St. Vladi- (90) in item number 3138 by striking the provements to NE 25th Street from SR 26 (Uni- mir’s Cemetery on Mountain Road (S.R. 1007)’’ project description and inserting ‘‘Elimination versity Blvd.) to NE 8th Avenue, Gainesville’’; after ‘‘roadway redesign’’; (111) in item number 803 by striking ‘‘St. Clair of highway-railway crossing along the KO rail- (126) in item number 2308 by striking the County’’ and inserting ‘‘city of Madison’’; road from Salina to Osborne to increase safety project description and inserting ‘‘Design, engi- (112) in item number 615 by striking the and reduce congestion’’; neering, right-of-way acquisition, and construc- project description and inserting ‘‘Roadway im- (91) in item number 2274 by striking ‘‘between tion of streetscaping enhancements, paving, provements to Jackson Avenue between Jericho Farmington and Merriman’’ and inserting ‘‘be- lighting, safety improvements, parking, and tween Hines Drive and Inkster, Flamingo Street Turnpike and Teibrook Avenue’’; roadway redesign, including a project to estab- (113) by striking item number 889; between Ann Arbor Trail and Joy Road, and the lish emergency access to Catherino Drive from (114) in item number 324 by striking the intersection of Warren Road and Newburgh South Valley Avenue in Throop Borough, project description and inserting ‘‘Alger County, Road’’; Lackawanna County’’; (92) in item number 52 by striking the project to reconstruct, pave, and realign a portion of H– (127) in item number 967 by striking the description and inserting ‘‘Pontiac Trail be- 58 from 2,600 feet south of Little Beaver Lake project description and inserting ‘‘Design, engi- tween E. Liberty and McHattie Street’’; Road to 4,600 feet east of Hurricane River’’; neering, right-of-way acquisition, and construc- (93) in item number 1544 by striking ‘‘con- (115) in item number 301 by striking the tion of streetscaping enhancements, paving, nector’’; project description and inserting ‘‘Improvements lighting, safety improvements, parking, roadway (94) in item number 2573 by striking the for St. Georges Avenue between East Baltimore redesign, and catch basin restoration and re- project description and inserting ‘‘Rehabilita- Avenue on the southwest and Chandler Avenue placement on Cherry Street, Willow Street, Eno tion of Sugar Hill Road in North Salem, NY’’; on the northeast’’; Street, Flat Road, Krispin Street, Parrish Street, (95) in item number 1450 by striking ‘‘III–VI’’ (116) in item number 1519 by inserting ‘‘at the Carver Street, Church Street, Franklin Street, and inserting ‘‘III–VII’’; intersection of Quincy/West Drinker/Electric Carolina Street, East Main Street, and Rear (96) in item number 2637 by striking the Streets near the Dunmore School complex’’ after Shawnee Avenue in Plymouth Borough, project description and inserting ‘‘Construction, ‘‘roadway redesign’’; Luzerne County’’; road and safety improvements in Geauga Coun- (117) in item number 2604 by inserting ‘‘on (128) in item number 989 by inserting ‘‘on Old ty, OH’’; Coolidge, Bridge (from Main to Monroe), Skytop Ashley Road, Ashley Street, Phillips Street, (97) in item number 2342 by striking the (from Gedding to Skytop), Atwell (from Bear First Street, Ferry Road, and Division Street’’ project description and inserting ‘‘Streetscaping, Creek Rd. to Pittston Township), Wood (to Bear after ‘‘roadway redesign’’; bicycle trails, and related improvements to the Creek Rd.), Pine, Oak (from Penn Avenue to (129) in item number 342 by striking the I–90/SR–615 interchange and adjacent area and Lackawanna Avenue), McLean, Second, and project description and inserting ‘‘Design, engi- Heisley Road in Mentor, including acquisition Lolli Lane’’ after ‘‘roadway redesign’’; neering, right-of-way acquisition, and construc- of necessary right-of-way within the Newell (118) in item number 1157 by inserting ‘‘on tion of streetscaping enhancements, paving, Creek development to build future bicycle trails Mill Street from Prince Street to Roberts Street, lighting, safety improvements, parking, roadway and bicycle staging areas that will connect into John Street from Roberts Street to end, Thomas redesign, and cross pipe and catch basin res- the existing bicycle trail system at I–90/SR–615, Street from Roberts Street to end, Williams toration and replacement on Northgate, Mandy widening the Garfield Road Bridge over I–90 to Street from Roberts Street to end, Charles Street Court, Vine Street, and 36th Street in provide connectivity to the existing bicycle trail from Roberts Street to end, Fair Street from Milnesville West, and on Hillside Drive (includ- system between the I–90/SR–615 interchange and Roberts Street to end, Newport Avenue from ing the widening of the bridge on Hillside Lakeland Community College, and acquisition East Kirmar Avenue to end’’ after ‘‘roadway re- Drive), Club 40 Road, Sunburst and Venisa of additional land needed for the preservation of design’’; Drives, and Stockton #7 Road in Hazle Town- the Lake Metroparks Greenspace Corridor with (119) in item number 805 by inserting ‘‘on Oak ship, Luzerne County’’; the Newell Creek development adjacent to the I– Street from Stark Street to the township line at (130) in item number 2332 by striking ‘‘Monroe 90/SR–615 interchange’’; Mayock Street and on East Mountain Boule- County’’ and inserting ‘‘Carbon, Monroe, Pike, (98) in item number 161 by striking the project vard’’ after ‘‘roadway redesign’’; and Wayne Counties’’; description and inserting ‘‘Construct False Pass (120) in item number 2704 by inserting ‘‘on (131) in item number 4914 by striking the causeway and road to the terminus of the south West Cemetery Street and Frederick Courts’’ project description and inserting ‘‘Roadway im- arm breakwater project’’; after ‘‘roadway redesign’’; provements on I–90 loop in Mitchell along

VerDate Aug 31 2005 02:24 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 6333 E:\CR\FM\A17AP6.013 S17APPT1 wwoods2 on PRODPC60 with SENATE S3126 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE April 17, 2008 Haven Street from near Burr Street to near Phase II/Part I of a project on Elizabeth Avenue provements in the vicinity of and including Ohlman Street’’; in Coleraine to west of Itasca County State Aid Main, William, and Parsonage Streets in (132) by striking item number 2723; Highway 15 in Itasca County’’; Pittston’’ and ‘‘$1,600,000’’, respectively; (133) in item number 61 by striking the matters (153) in item number 2329 by striking the (169) in item number 2957 by striking the in the State, project description, and amount project description and inserting ‘‘Upgrade project description and amount and inserting columns and inserting ‘‘AL’’, ‘‘Grade crossing streets, undertake streetscaping, and implement ‘‘Design, engineering, land acquisition, right-of- improvements along Wiregrass Central RR at traffic and pedestrian safety signalization im- way acquisition, and construction of a parking Boll Weevil Bypass in Enterprise, AL’’, and provements and highway-rail crossing safety im- garage, streetscaping enhancements, paving, ‘‘$250,000’’, respectively; provements, Oak Lawn’’; lighting, safety improvements, parking, and (134) in item number 314 by striking the (154) in item number 766 by striking the roadway redesign in the city of Wilkes-Barre’’ project description and amount and inserting project description and inserting ‘‘Design and and ‘‘$2,800,000’’, respectively; ‘‘Streetscape enhancements to the transit and construction of the walking path at Ellis Pond, (170) in item number 3283 by striking the pedestrian corridor, Fort Lauderdale, Down- Norwood’’; project description and amount and inserting town Development Authority’’ and ‘‘$610,000’’, (155) in item number 3474 by striking the ‘‘Pedestrian access improvements, including in- respectively; project description and inserting ‘‘Yellow River stallation of infrastructure and equipment for (135) in item number 1639 by striking the Trail, Newton County’’; security and surveillance purposes at subway project description and inserting ‘‘Operational (156) in item number 3291 by striking the stations in Astoria, New York’’ and and highway safety improvements on Hwy 94 amount and inserting ‘‘$200,000’’; ‘‘$1,300,000’’, respectively; between the 20 mile marker post in Jamul and (157) in item number 3635 by striking the mat- (171) in item number 3556 by striking the Hwy 188 in Tecate’’; ters in the State, project description, and project description and amount and inserting (136) in item number 2860 by striking the amount columns and inserting ‘‘GA’’, ‘‘Access ‘‘Design and rehabilitate staircases used as project description and inserting ‘‘Roadway im- Road in Montezuma’’, and ‘‘$200,000’’, respec- streets due to the steep grade of terrain in Bronx provements from Halchita to Mexican Hat on tively; County’’ and ‘‘$1,100,000’’, respectively; the Navajo Nation’’; (158) in item number 716 by striking the (172) by striking item number 203; (137) in item number 2549 by striking ‘‘on project description and inserting ‘‘Conduct a (173) by striking item number 552; Navy Pier’’; project study report for new Highway 99 Inter- (174) by striking item number 590; (138) in item number 2804 by striking ‘‘on change between SR 165 and Bradbury Road, (175) by striking item number 759; Navy Pier’’; and safety improvements/realignment of SR 165, (176) by striking item number 879; (139) in item number 1328 by striking the serving Turlock/Hilmar region’’; (177) by striking item number 1071; project description and inserting ‘‘Construct (159) in item number 1386 by striking the (178) by striking item number 1382; public access roadways and pedestrian safety project description and amount and inserting (179) by striking item number 1897; improvements in and around Montclair State ‘‘Pedestrian and bicycle facilities, and street (180) by striking item number 2553; University in Clifton’’; lighting in Haddon Heights’’ and ‘‘$300,000’’, re- (181) in item number 3014 by striking the (140) in item number 2559 by striking the spectively; project description and amount and inserting project description and inserting ‘‘Construct (160) in item number 2720 by striking the ‘‘Design and Construct school safety projects in sound walls on Route 164 at and near the project description and amount and inserting New York City’’ and ‘‘$2,500,000’’, respectively; Maersk interchange’’; ‘‘Pedestrian and bicycle facilities and street (182) in item number 2375 by striking the (141) in item number 1849 by striking the lighting in Barrington and streetscape improve- project description and amount and inserting project description and inserting ‘‘Highway, ments to Clements Bridge Road from the circle ‘‘Subsurface environmental study to measure traffic-flow, pedestrian facility, and streetscape at the White Horse Pike to NJ Turnpike over- presence of methane and benzene gasses in vi- improvements, Pittsburgh’’; pass in Barrington’’ and ‘‘$700,000’’, respec- cinity of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and the Kos- (142) in item number 697 by striking the tively; ciusko Bridge, resulting from the Newtown project description and inserting ‘‘Highway, (161) in item number 2523 by striking the Creek oil spill’’ and ‘‘$100,000’’; traffic-flow, pedestrian facility, and streetscape project description and inserting ‘‘Penobscot (183) in item number 221 by striking the improvements, Pittsburgh’’; Riverfront Development for bicycle trails, amen- project description and inserting ‘‘Study and (143) in item number 3597 by striking the ities, traffic circulation improvements, and wa- Implement transportation improvements on project description and inserting ‘‘Road Align- terfront access or stabilization, Bangor and Flatbush Ave. between Avenue U and the Ma- ment from IL Route 159 to Sullivan Drive, Brewer’’; rine Park Bridge in front of Gateway National Swansea’’; (162) in item number 545 by striking the Park in Kings County, New York’’; (144) in item number 2352 by striking the project description and inserting ‘‘Planning, de- (184) in item number 2732 striking the project project description and inserting ‘‘Streetscaping sign, and construction of improvements to the description and inserting ‘‘Pedestrian safety im- and transportation enhancements on 7th Street highway systems connecting to Lewistown and provements in the vicinity of LIRR stations’’; in Calexico, traffic signalization on Highway 78, Auburn downtowns’’; (185) by striking item number 99; construction of the Renewable Energy and (163) by striking item number 2168; (186) in item number 398 by striking the Transportation Learning Center, improve and (164) by striking item number 170; project description and inserting ‘‘Construct a enlarge parking lot, and create bus stop, Braw- (165) in item number 2366 by striking the new 2-lane road extending north from Univer- ley’’; project description and inserting ‘‘Design, engi- sity Park Drive and improvements to University (145) in item number 3482 by striking the neering, right-of-way acquisition, and paving of Park Drive’’; project description and inserting ‘‘Conduct a the parking lot at the Casey Plaza in Wilkes- (187) in item number 446 by striking the study to examine multi-modal improvements to Barre Township’’; project description and inserting ‘‘Transpor- the I–5 corridor between the Main Street Inter- (166) in item number 826 by striking ‘‘and tation improvements for development of the Wil- change and State Route 54’’; Interstate 81’’ and inserting ‘‘and exit 168 on liamsport-Pile Bay Road corridor’’; (146) in item number 1275 by striking the Interstate 81 or the intersection of the connector (188) in item number 671 by striking ‘‘and Pe- project description and inserting ‘‘Scoping, per- road with Northampton St.’’; destrian Trail Expansion’’ and inserting ‘‘, in- mitting, engineering, construction management, (167) in item number 2144 by striking the cluding parking facilities and Pedestrian Trail and construction of Riverbank Park Bike Trail, project description and inserting ‘‘Design, engi- Expansion’’; Kearny’’; neering, right-of-way acquisition and construc- (189) in item number 674 by striking the mat- (147) in item number 726 by striking the tion of streetscaping enhancements, paving, ters in the State, project description, and project description and inserting ‘‘Grade Sepa- lighting, safety improvements, parking, and amount columns and inserting ‘‘AL’’, ‘‘Grade ration at Vanowen and Clybourn, Burbank’’; roadway redesign on Third Street from Pittston crossing improvements along Conecuh Valley (148) in item number 1579 by striking the Avenue to Packer Street; Swift Street from RR at Henderson Highway (CR–21) in Troy, project description and inserting ‘‘San Gabriel Packer Street to Railroad Street; Clark Street AL’’, and ‘‘$300,000’’, respectively; Blvd. rehabilitation project, Mission Road to from Main Street to South Street; School Street (190) in item number 739 by striking the mat- Broadway, San Gabriel’’; from Main Street to South Street; Plane Street ters in the State, project description, and (149) in item number 2690 by striking the from Grove Street to William Street; John Street amount columns and inserting ‘‘AL’’, ‘‘Grade project description and inserting ‘‘San Gabriel from 4 John Street to William Street; Grove crossing improvements along Luxapalila Valley Blvd. rehabilitation project, Mission Road to Street from Plane Street to Duryea Borough RR in Lamar and Fayette Counties, AL (Cross- Broadway, San Gabriel’’; line; Wood Street from Cherry Street to Haw- ings at CR–6, CR–20, SH–7, James Street, and (150) in item number 2811 by striking the thorne Street in Avoca Borough, Luzerne Coun- College Drive)’’, and ‘‘$300,000’’, respectively; project description and inserting ‘‘San Gabriel ty’’; (191) in item number 746 by striking ‘‘Plan- Blvd. rehabilitation project, Mission Road to (168) in item number 1765 by striking the ning and construction of a bicycle trail adjacent Broadway, San Gabriel’’; project description and amount and inserting to the I–90 and SR 615 Interchange in’’ and in- (151) in item number 259 by striking the ‘‘Design, engineering, right-of-way acquisition, serting ‘‘Planning, construction, and extension project description and inserting ‘‘Design and and construction of street improvements, of bicycle trails adjacent to the I–90 and SR 615 construction of the Clair Nelson Intermodal streetscaping enhancements, paving, lighting, Interchange, along the Greenway Corridor and Center in Finland, Lake County’’; safety improvements, parking, roadway redesign throughout’’; (152) in item number 3456 by striking the in Pittston, including right-of-way acquisition, (192) in item number 749 by striking the mat- project description and inserting ‘‘Completion of structure demolition, and intersection safety im- ters in the State, project description, and

VerDate Aug 31 2005 02:24 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 6333 E:\CR\FM\A17AP6.013 S17APPT1 wwoods2 on PRODPC60 with SENATE April 17, 2008 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S3127 amount columns and inserting ‘‘PA’’, ‘‘UPMC (216) in item number 3251 by striking the (234) in item number 346 by striking the Heliport in Bedford’’, and ‘‘$750,000’’, respec- project description and inserting ‘‘I–94 and project description and inserting ‘‘Hansen Dam tively; Radio Drive Interchange and frontage road Recreation Area access improvements, including (193) in item number 813 by striking the project, design, right-of-way acquisition, and hillside stabilization and parking lot rehabilita- project description and inserting ‘‘Preliminary construction, Woodbury’’; tion along Osborne Street between Glenoaks design and study of long-term roadway ap- (217) in item number 1488 by striking the Boulevard and Dronfield Avenue’’; proach alternatives to TH 36/SH 64 St. Croix project description and inserting ‘‘Construct a 4- (235) by striking item number 449; River Crossing Project’’; lane highway between Maverick Junction and (236) in item number 3688 by striking ‘‘road’’ (194) in item number 816 by striking ‘‘$800,000’’ the Nebraska border’’; and inserting ‘‘trail’’; and inserting ‘‘$880,000’’; (218) in item number 3240 by striking the (237) in item number 3695 by striking ‘‘in (195) in item number 852 by striking ‘‘Acquire project description and inserting ‘‘Railroad- Soldotna’’ and inserting ‘‘in the Kenai River Right-of-Way for Ludlam Trail, Miami, Flor- highway crossings in Pierre’’; corridor’’; ida’’ and inserting ‘‘Planning, design, and engi- (219) in item number 1738 by striking ‘‘Pav- (238) in item number 3699 by striking ‘‘to im- neering, Ludlam Trail, Miami’’; ing’’ and inserting ‘‘Planning, design, and con- prove fish habitat’’; (239) in item number 3700 by inserting ‘‘and (196) in item number 994 by striking the mat- struction’’; (220) in item number 3672 by striking the ferry facilities’’ after ‘‘a ferry’’; ters in the State, project description, and (240) in item number 3703 by inserting ‘‘or project description and inserting ‘‘Pave remain- amount columns and inserting ‘‘PA’’, ‘‘Con- other roads’’ after ‘‘Cape Blossom Road’’; struct 2 flyover ramps and S. Linden Street exit ing stretch of BIA Route 4 from the junction of (241) in item number 3704 by striking ‘‘Fair- for access to industrial sites in the cities of the BIA Route 4 and N8031 in Pinon, AZ, to the banks’’ and inserting ‘‘Alaska Highway’’; McKeesport and Duquesne’’, and ‘‘$500,000’’, re- Navajo and Hopi border’’; (242) in item number 3705 by striking ‘‘in Cook spectively; (221) in item number 2424 by striking ‘‘Con- Inlet for the Westside development/Williamsport- (197) in item number 1015 by striking the struction’’ and inserting ‘‘preconstruction (in- Pile Bay Road’’ and inserting ‘‘for development project description and inserting ‘‘Mississippi cluding survey and archeological clearances) of the Williamsport-Pile Bay Road corridor’’; River Crossing connecting I–94 and US 10 be- and construction’’; (243) in item number 3829 by striking the tween US 160 and TH 101, MN’’; (222) in item number 1216 by striking the mat- amount and inserting ‘‘$3,050,000’’; (198) in item number 1101 by striking the ters in the State, project description, and (244) by inserting after item number 3829 the project description and inserting ‘‘I–285 under- amount columns and inserting ‘‘PA’’, ‘‘For following: pass/tunnel assessment and engineering and roadway construction improvements to Route interchange improvements in Sandy Springs’’; 222 relocation, Lehigh County’’, and ‘‘3829A CO U.S. 550, New $950,000’’; (199) in item number 1211 by striking the mat- ‘‘$1,313,000’’, respectively; Mexico State ters in the State, project description, and (223) in item number 2956 by striking line to Durango amount columns and inserting ‘‘PA’’, ‘‘Road im- ‘‘$1,360,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$2,080,000’’; (245) in item number 4788 by striking the provements and upgrades related to the Penn- (224) in item number 1256 by striking the mat- project description and inserting ‘‘Heidelberg sylvania State Baseball Stadium’’, and ters in the State, project description, and Borough/Scott Township/Carnegie Borough for ‘‘$500,000’’, respectively; amount columns and inserting ‘‘PA’’, ‘‘Con- design, engineering, acquisition, and construc- (200) in item number 1345 by striking ‘‘to struction of a bridge over Brandywine Creek as tion of streetscaping enhancements, paving, Stony Creek Park, 25 Mile Road in Shelby part of the Boot Road extension project, lighting and safety upgrades, and parking im- Township’’ and inserting ‘‘south to the city of Downingtown Borough’’, and ‘‘$700,000’’, re- spectively; provements’’; Utica’’; (246) in item number 3861 by striking the (225) in item number 1291 by striking the mat- (201) in item number 1501 by striking the project description and inserting ‘‘Creation of a ters in the State, project description, and project description and inserting ‘‘Construction greenway path along the Naugatuck River in amount columns and inserting ‘‘PA’’, ‘‘Enhance and right-of-way acquisition of TH 241, CSAH Waterbury’’; 35 and associated streets in the city of St. Mi- parking facilities in Chester Springs, Historic (247) in item number 3883 by striking the chael’’; Yellow Springs’’, and ‘‘$20,000’’, respectively; project description and inserting ‘‘Wilmington (202) in item number 1525 by striking ‘‘north of (226) in item number 1304 by striking the mat- Riverfront Access and Street Grid Redesign’’; CSX RR Bridge’’ and inserting ‘‘US Highway ters in the State, project description, and (248) in item number 3892 by striking 90’’; amount columns and inserting ‘‘PA’’, ‘‘Improve ‘‘$5,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$8,800,000’’; (203) in item number 1847 by striking the the intersection at SR 100/SR 4003 (Kernsville (249) in item number 3894 by striking project description and inserting ‘‘Improve Road), Lehigh County’’, and ‘‘$250,000’’, respec- ‘‘$5,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$1,200,000’’; roads, sidewalks, and road drainage, City of tively; (250) in item number 3909 by striking the Seward’’; (227) in item number 1357 by striking the mat- project description and inserting ‘‘S.R. 281, the (204) in item number 2031 by striking the ters in the State, project description, and Avalon Boulevard Expansion Project from project description and inserting ‘‘Construct amount columns and inserting ‘‘PA’’, ‘‘Intersec- Interstate 10 to U.S. Highway 91’’; and improve Westside Parkway in Fulton Coun- tion signalization at SR 3020 (Newburg Road)/ (251) in item number 3911 by striking the ty’’; Country Club Road, Northampton County’’, and project description and inserting ‘‘Construct a (205) in item number 2103 by striking ‘‘$250,000’’, respectively; new bridge at Indian Street, Martin County’’; ‘‘$2,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$3,000,000’’; (228) in item number 1395 by striking the mat- (252) in item number 3916 by striking the (206) in item number 2219 by striking ‘‘SR 91 ters in the State, project description, and project description and inserting ‘‘City of Holly- in City of Twinsburg, OH’’ and inserting ‘‘Cen- amount columns and inserting ‘‘PA’’, ‘‘Improve wood for U.S. 1/Federal Highway, north of ter Valley Parkway in Twinsburg, OH’’; the intersection at SR 100/SR 29, Lehigh Coun- Young Circle’’; (207) in item number 2302 by inserting ‘‘and ty’’, and ‘‘$220,000’’, respectively; (253) in item number 3937 by striking the other road improvements to Safford Street’’ after (229) in item number 80 by striking project description and inserting ‘‘Kingsland by- ‘‘crossings’’; ‘‘$4,544,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$4,731,200’’; pass from CR 61 to I–95, Camden County’’; (208) in item number 2560 by striking the (230) in item number 2096 by striking (254) in item number 3945 by striking ‘‘CR 293 project description and inserting ‘‘I–285 under- ‘‘$4,800,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$5,217,600’’; to CS 5231’’ and inserting ‘‘SR 371 to SR 400’’; (255) in item number 3965 by striking ‘‘trans- pass/tunnel assessment and engineering and (231) in item number 1496 by striking the mat- portation projects’’ and inserting ‘‘and air qual- interchange improvements in Sandy Springs’’; ters in the State, project description, and ity projects’’; (209) in item number 2563 by striking the amount columns and inserting ‘‘PA’’, ‘‘Study (256) in item number 3986 by striking the project description and amount and inserting future needs of East-West road infrastructure in project description and inserting ‘‘Extension of Adams County’’, and ‘‘$115,200’’, respectively; ‘‘Construct hike and bike path as part of Sugarloaf Parkway, Gwinnett County’’; (232) in item number 2193 by striking the Bridgeview Bridge replacement in Macomb (257) in item number 3999 by striking County’’ and ‘‘$486,400’’, respectively; project description and inserting ‘‘710 Freeway ‘‘Bridges’’ and inserting ‘‘Bridge and Corridor’’; (210) in item number 2698 by striking the Study to comprehensively evaluate the technical (258) in item number 4003 by striking the project description and inserting ‘‘Interchanges feasibility of a tunnel alternative to close the project description and inserting ‘‘City of Coun- at I–95/Ellis Road and between Grant Road and 710 Freeway gap, considering all practicable cil Bluffs and Pottawattamie County East Belt- Micco Road, Brevard County’’; routes, in addition to any potential route pre- way Roadway and Connectors Project’’; (211) in item number 3141 by striking viously considered, and with no funds to be (259) in item number 4043 by striking ‘‘MP 9.3, ‘‘$2,800,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$1,800,000’’; used for preliminary engineering or environ- Segment I, II, and III’’ and inserting ‘‘Milepost (212) by striking item number 3160; mental review except to the extent necessary to 24.3’’; (213) in item number 3353 by inserting ‘‘and determine feasibility’’; (260) in item number 4050 by striking the construction’’ after ‘‘mitigation’’; (233) in item number 2445 by striking the project description and inserting (214) in item number 996 by striking project description and inserting ‘‘$600,000 for ‘‘Preconstruction and construction activities of ‘‘$2,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$687,000’’; road and pedestrian safety improvements on U.S. 51 between the Assumption Bypass and (215) in item number 2166 by striking the Main Street in the Village of Patchogue; Vandalia’’; project description and inserting ‘‘Design, right- $900,000 for road and pedestrian safety improve- (261) in item number 4058 by striking the of-way acquisition, and construction for I–35 ments on Montauk Highway, between NYS project description and inserting ‘‘For improve- and CSAH2 interchange and CSAH2 corridor to Route 112 and Suffolk County Road 101 in Suf- ments to the road between Brighton and Bunker TH61 in Forest Lake’’; folk County’’; Hill in Macoupin County’’;

VerDate Aug 31 2005 02:24 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 6333 E:\CR\FM\A17AP6.014 S17APPT1 wwoods2 on PRODPC60 with SENATE S3128 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE April 17, 2008 (262) in each of item numbers 4062 and 4084 by of 8th Street North, Stearns C.R. 120 to TH 15 in (306) in item number 4916 by striking striking the project description and inserting St. Cloud’’; ‘‘$1,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$328,000’’; ‘‘Preconstruction, construction, and related re- (283) in item number 4371 by striking the (307) in item number 4924 by striking search and studies of I–290 Cap the Ike project project description and inserting ‘‘Construction ‘‘$3,450,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$4,122,000’’; in the village of Oak Park’’; and ROW of TH 241, CSAH 35 and associated (308) in item number 4960 by inserting ‘‘of (263) in item number 4089 by inserting ‘‘and streets in the city of St. Michael’’; which $50,000 shall be used for a street paving parking facility/entrance improvements serving (284) in item number 4411 by striking project, Calhoun’’ after ‘‘County’’; the Museum of Science and Industry’’ after ‘‘Southaven’’ and inserting ‘‘DeSoto County’’; (309) in item number 4974 by striking ‘‘, Sevier ‘‘Lakeshore Drive’’; (285) in item number 4424 by striking the County’’; (264) in item number 4103 by inserting ‘‘and project description and inserting ‘‘U.S. 93 Evaro (310) in item number 5008 by inserting ‘‘/Kane adjacent to the’’ before ‘‘Shawnee’’; to Polson transportation improvement projects’’; Creek Boulevard’’ after ‘‘500 West’’; (265) in item number 4110 by striking the (286) in item number 4428 by striking the (311) in each of item numbers 5011 and 5033 by project description and inserting ‘‘For improve- project description and inserting ‘‘US 76 im- striking ‘‘200 South Interchange’’ and inserting ments to the road between Brighton and Bunker provements’’; ‘‘400 South Interchange’’; Hill in Macoupin County’’; (287) in item number 4457 by striking the (312) in item number 5021 by striking ‘‘Pine (266) in item number 4120 by striking the mat- project description and inserting ‘‘Construct an View Dam,’’; ters in the project description and amount col- interchange at an existing grade separation at (313) in item number 5026 by striking the umns and inserting ‘‘Upgrade 146th Street to SR 1602 (Old Stantonsburg Rd.) and U.S. 264 project description and inserting ‘‘Roadway im- Improve I–69 Access’’ and ‘‘$800,000’’, respec- Bypass in Wilson County’’; provements on Washington Fields Road/300 tively; (288) in item number 4461 by striking the East, Washington’’; (267) in item number 4125 by striking project description and inserting ‘‘Transpor- (314) in item number 5027 by inserting ‘‘and ‘‘$250,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$1,650,000’’; tation and related improvements at Queens Uni- roadway improvements’’ after ‘‘safety project’’; (268) by striking item number 4170; versity of Charlotte, including the Queens (315) in item number 5028 by inserting ‘‘and (269) by striking item number 4179; Science Center and the Marion Diehl Center, roadway improvements’’ after ‘‘lighting’’; (270) in item number 4185 by striking the Charlotte’’; (316) in item number 5029 by inserting ‘‘and project description and inserting ‘‘Replace the (289) in item number 4507 by striking the roadway improvements’’ after ‘‘lights’’; Clinton Street Bridge spanning St. Mary’s River project description and inserting ‘‘Design, right- (317) in number 5032 by striking the project in downtown Fort Wayne’’; of-way acquisition, and construction of High- description and inserting ‘‘Expand Redhills (271) in item number 4299 by striking the way 35 between Norfolk and South Sioux City, Parkway, St. George’’; project description and inserting ‘‘Improve U.S. including an interchange at milepost 1 on U.S. (318) in item number 5132 by striking the 40, MD 715 interchange and other roadways in I–129’’; project description and inserting ‘‘St. Croix the vicinity of Aberdeen Proving Ground to sup- (290) in item number 4555 by inserting ‘‘Canal River crossing project, Wisconsin State Highway port BRAC-related growth’’; Street and’’ after ‘‘Reconstruction of’’; 64, St. Croix County, Wisconsin, to Minnesota (272) in item number 4313 by striking ‘‘Mary- (291) in item number 4565 by striking the State Highway 36, Washington County’’; land Avenue’’ and all that follows through ‘‘Rd. project description and inserting ‘‘Railroad Con- (319) in item number 5161 by striking the corridor’’ and inserting ‘‘intermodal access, struction and Acquisition, Ely and White Pine project description and inserting ‘‘Raleigh Street streetscape, and pedestrian safety improve- County’’; Extension Project in Martinsburg’’; ments’’; (292) in item number 4588 by inserting ‘‘Pri- (320) in item number 1824 by striking the (273) in item number 4315 by striking vate Parking and’’ before ‘‘Transportation’’; project description and inserting ‘‘U.S. Route 10 ‘‘stormwater mitigation project’’ and inserting (293) in item number 4596 by striking the expansion in Wadena and Ottertail Counties’’; ‘‘environmental preservation project’’; project description and inserting ‘‘Centerway (321) in item number 1194 by striking the (274) in item number 4318 by striking the Bridge and Bike Trail Project, Corning’’; project description and inserting ‘‘Planning, de- project description and inserting ‘‘Roadway and (294) in item number 4610 by striking the pedestrian design and improvements for Penn- sign, and construction of improvements to the project description and inserting ‘‘Preparation, highway systems connecting to Lewiston and sylvania Avenue, Brooklyn’’; demolition, disposal, and site restoration of (322) in item number 2286 by striking the Auburn downtowns’’; Alert Facility on Access Road to Plattsburgh project description and inserting ‘‘Road im- (275) in item number 4323 by striking the International Airport’’; project description and inserting ‘‘MaineDOT provements for Church Street between NY State (295) in item number 4649 by striking the Route 25A and Hilden Street in Kings Park’’; Acadia intermodal passenger and maintenance project description and inserting ‘‘Fairfield facility’’; (323) in item number 1724 by striking the County, OH U.S. 33 and old U.S. 33 safety im- project description and amount and inserting (276) in item number 4338 by striking the provements and related construction, city of project description and inserting ‘‘Construct 1 or ‘‘For road resurfacing and upgrades to Old Lancaster and surrounding areas’’; Nichols Road and road repairs in the more grade-separated crossings of I–75, and (296) in item number 4651 by striking ‘‘for the make associated improvements to improve local Nissequogue River watershed in Smithtown’’ transfer of rail to truck for the intermodal’’ and and ‘‘$1,500,000’’, respectively; and regional east-west mobility between Mile- inserting ‘‘, and construction of an intermodal posts 279 and 282’’; (324) in item number 3636 by striking the mat- freight’’; ters in the State, project description, and (277) in item number 4355 by striking the (297) in item number 4691 by striking the project description and inserting ‘‘Design, engi- amount columns and inserting ‘‘NY’’, ‘‘Road re- project description and inserting ‘‘Transpor- pair and maintenance in the Town of South- neering, ROW acquisition, construction, and tation improvements to Idabel Industrial Park construction engineering for the reconstruction ampton’’, and ‘‘$500,000’’, respectively; Rail Spur, Idabel’’; (325) in item number 3638 by striking the mat- of TH 95, from 12th Avenue to CSAH 13, includ- (298) in item number 4722 by striking the ing bridge and approaches, ramps, intersecting ters in the State, project description, and project description and inserting ‘‘Highway, amount columns and inserting ‘‘NY’’, ‘‘Improve roadways, signals, turn lanes, and multiuse traffic, pedestrian, and riverfront improvements, trail, North Branch’’; NY State Route 112 from Old Town Road to NY Pittsburgh’’; State Route 347’’, and ‘‘$6,000,000’’, respectively; (278) in item number 4357 by striking the (299) in item number 4749 by striking ‘‘study’’ (326) in item number 3479 by striking the project description and inserting ‘‘Design, con- and inserting ‘‘improvements’’; project description and inserting ‘‘Road im- struct, ROW, and expand TH 241 and CSAH 35 (300) in item number 4821 by striking ‘‘high- provements and utility relocations within the and associated streets in the city of St. Mi- way grade crossing project, Clearfield and Clin- city of Jackson’’; chael’’; ton Counties’’ and inserting ‘‘Project for high- (327) in item number 141 by striking ‘‘con- (279) in item number 4360 by striking the way grade crossings and other purposes relating struction of pedestrian and bicycle improve- project description and inserting ‘‘Planning, de- to the Project in Cambria, Centre, Clearfield, ments’’ and inserting ‘‘transportation enhance- sign, and construction for Twin Cities Bio- Clinton, Indiana, and Jefferson Counties’’; ment activities’’; science Corridor in St. Paul’’; (301) in item number 4838 by striking ‘‘study’’ (328) in item number 1204 by striking ‘‘at SR (280) in item number 4362 by striking the and inserting ‘‘improvements’’; project description and inserting ‘‘I–494/U.S. 169 (302) in item number 4839 by striking ‘‘fuel- 283’’; (329) in item number 2896 by striking the interchange reconstruction including U.S. 169/ celled’’ and inserting ‘‘fueled’’; Valley View Road interchange, Twin Cities Met- (303) in item number 4866 by striking project description and inserting ‘‘Improve ropolitan Area’’; ‘‘$11,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$9,400,000’’; streetscape and signage and pave roads in (281) in item number 4365 by striking the (304) by inserting after item number 4866 the McMinn County, including $50,000 that may be project description and inserting ‘‘34th Street re- following: used for paving local roads in the city of Cal- alignment and 34th Street and I–94 interchange, houn’’; including retention and reconstruction of the SE (330) in item number 3017 by striking ‘‘, Pine ‘‘4866A RI Repair and restore $1,600,000’’; Main Avenue/CSAH 52 interchange ramps at I– View Dam’’; railroad bridge 94, and other transportation improvements for (331) in item number 3188 insert after ‘‘Recon- in Westerly the city of Moorhead, including the SE Main struction’’ the following: ‘‘including U.S. 169/ Avenue GSI and Moorhead Comprehensive Rail (305) in item number 4892 by striking the Valley View Road Interchange,’’; Safety Program’’; project description and inserting ‘‘Construct a 4- (332) in item number 1772 by striking the (282) in item number 4369 by striking the lane highway between maverick Junction and project description and inserting ‘‘Reconstruc- project description and inserting ‘‘Construction the Nebraska border’’; tion of Historic Eastern Parkway’’;

VerDate Aug 31 2005 02:24 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 6333 E:\CR\FM\A17AP6.014 S17APPT1 wwoods2 on PRODPC60 with SENATE April 17, 2008 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S3129 (333) in item number 2610 by striking the tlefield land in Monroe County, Port of Mon- Leon Pass overpass, and for projects identified project description and inserting ‘‘Reconstruc- roe’’, and ‘‘$1,200,000’’; respectively; by the Village of Hodgkins as its highest prior- tion of Times and Duffy Squares in New York (355) in item number 3643 by striking the mat- ities’’; City’’; ters in the State, project description, and (373) in item numbers 1310 and 2265 by striking (334) in item number 2462— amount columns and inserting ‘‘MI’’, ‘‘Phase 1 the project descriptions and inserting ‘‘To con- (A) by striking ‘‘of the New Jersey Turnpike, of Monroe County greenway system construc- struct up to 2 interchanges on U.S. Alternate Carteret’’ and inserting ‘‘and the Tremley Point tion, Monroe County’’, and ‘‘$940,000’’, respec- Highway 72/Alabama Highway 20 from Inter- Connector Road of the New Jersey Turnpike’’; tively; state 65 to U.S. Highway 31 in Decatur, Ala- and (356) in item number 3645 by striking the mat- bama, with additional lanes as necessary’’; (B) by striking ‘‘$1,200,000’’ and inserting ters in the State, project description, and (374) in item number 4934 by striking ‘‘connec- ‘‘$450,000’’; amount columns and inserting ‘‘MI’’, ‘‘East tion with Hermitage Avenue’’ and inserting (335) in item number 2871 by striking the County fueling operations consolidation at the ‘‘Hermitage Avenue and pedestrian connec- amount and inserting ‘‘$2,430,000’’; Monroe County Road Commission and enhance- tion’’; (336) in item number 3381 by striking the ment of facilities to accommodate biodiesel fuel (375) in item number 1227 by striking the project description and inserting ‘‘Determine pumps, Monroe County’’, and ‘‘$1,000,000’’, re- project description and inserting ‘‘Construct scope, design, engineering, and construction of spectively; road improvements near industrial park near SR Western Boulevard Extension from Northern (357) in item number 3646 by striking the mat- 209 and CR 345 that improve access to the indus- Boulevard to Route 9 in Ocean County, New ters in the State, project description, and trial park’’; Jersey’’; amount columns and inserting ‘‘MI’’, ‘‘Green- (376) in item number 2507 by striking the (337) in item number 2703 by striking the way trail construction from City of Monroe to project description and inserting ‘‘Texas Depart- project description and inserting ‘‘Upgrading Sterling State Park, City of Monroe’’, and ment of Transportation: for those projects the existing railroad crossings with installation of ‘‘$100,000’’; respectively; Department has identified as its highest prior- active signals and gates and to study the feasi- (358) in item number 1883 by striking the ities’’; bility and necessity of rail grade separation’’; project description and inserting ‘‘Planning for (377) in item number 3903 by striking the (338) in item number 1004 by inserting ‘‘SR 71 the Orangeline High Speed MAGLEV from Los project description and inserting ‘‘Planning, de- near’’ after ‘‘turn lane on’’; Angeles County to Orange County’’; sign, and engineering study to widen (4 lanes) (339) in item number 2824 by striking the (359) in item number 3757 by inserting ‘‘, in- SR 87 from the intersection of US 90 and SR 87 project description and inserting the following: cluding Van Asche Drive’’ after ‘‘Corridor’’; South to the Alabama State line’’; ‘‘Sevier County, TN, SR 35 near SR 449 intersec- (360) in item number 4347 by striking the (378) in item number 56 by striking the project tion’’; project description and inserting ‘‘Alger County, description and inserting ‘‘Bicycle and pedes- (340) in item number 373 by striking the to reconstruct, pave, and realign a portion of H– trian improvements, Oregon’’; project description and inserting ‘‘Widening ex- 58 from 2,600 feet south of Little Beaver Lake (379) in item number 604 by striking the isting Highway 226, including a bypass of Cash Road to 4,600 feet east of Hurricane River’’; amount and inserting ‘‘$11,800,000’’; (380) in item number 1299 by striking the and a new connection to Highway 49’’; (361) in item number 4335 by striking the (341) in item number 1486, by striking the project description and inserting ‘‘Construct an amount and inserting ‘‘$9,800,000’’; (381) in item number 1506 by striking the project description and inserting ‘‘Bridge recon- interchange at I–675 and Warren Avenue near downtown Saginaw’’; amount and inserting ‘‘$5,100,000’’; struction and road widening on Route 252 and (382) in item number 1904 by striking the Route 30 in Tredyffrin Township, PA, in con- (362) in item number 4891 by striking the project description and inserting ‘‘Widening project description and inserting ‘‘Study and junction with the Paoli Transportation Center construct access to intermodal facility in Project’’; U.S. 17 in Charleston County from the Isle of Palms Connector to a point at or near Darrell Azusa’’; (342) in item number 4541 by striking ‘‘of the (383) in item number 3653 by striking the mat- New Jersey Turnpike, Carteret’’ and inserting Creek Trail’’; (363) in item number 3647 by striking the mat- ters in the State, project description, and ‘‘and the Tremley Point Connector Road of the ters in the State, project description, and amount columns and inserting ‘‘MI’’, ‘‘Bicycle New Jersey Turnpike’’; amount columns and inserting ‘‘AL’’, ‘‘Drain- and pedestrian trails in Harrison Township’’, (343) in item number 4006 by striking the age and infrastructure improvements on U.S. 11 and ‘‘$2,900,000’’, respectively; project description and inserting ‘‘Improvement in front of Springville Middle School in Spring- (384) in item number 3447 by striking the to Alice’s Road/105th Street Corridor including ville’’, and ‘‘$1,000,000’’, respectively; project description and inserting ‘‘Carlton, 4th bridge, interchange, roadway, right-of-way, and (364) in item number 3648 by striking the mat- Street Railroad Crossing Improvement Project: enhancements’’; ters in the State, project description, and Construct a safe, at grade crossing of the rail- (344) in item number 2901 by striking the amount columns and inserting ‘‘AL’’, ‘‘Trans- road and necessary bridge, connecting the com- project description and inserting ‘‘Purchase of portation enhancement projects for sidewalks munity’s educational and athletic facilities’’; land and conservation easements within U.S. 24 and streetscaping along Cahaba Road between (385) in item number 2321 by striking the study area in Lucas, Henry, and Fulton Coun- the Botanical Gardens and the Birmingham Zoo project description and inserting ‘‘Design and ties, Ohio’’; in the City of Birmingham’’, and ‘‘$1,075,000’’, construct roadway and traffic signal improve- (345) in item number 2619 by striking the respectively; ments on Stella Street and Front Street, project description and inserting ‘‘Improve ac- (365) in item number 3651 by striking the mat- Wormleysburg, PA’’; and cess to I–55 between Bayless Avenue and ters in the State, project description, and (386) in item number 370 by striking the Loughborough Avenue, including bridge amount columns and inserting ‘‘AL’’, ‘‘Engi- project description and inserting ‘‘Pedestrian 230.06’’; neering and right-of-way acquisition for the paths, stairs, seating, landscaping, lighting, and (346) in item number 1687 by striking the McWrights Ferry Road extension between Rice other transportation enhancement activities project description and inserting ‘‘Construct an Mine Road and New Watermelon Road in Tus- along Riverside Boulevard and at Riverside interchange at I–675 and Warren Avenue near caloosa County’’, and ‘‘$1,075,000’’, respectively; Park South’’. downtown Saginaw’’; (366) in item number 562 by striking ‘‘a des- (b) UNUSED OBLIGATION AUTHORITY.—Not- (347) by striking item number 206; ignated truck route through’’ and inserting withstanding any other provision of law, un- (348) by striking item number 821; ‘‘roadway and sidewalk improvements in’’; used obligation authority made available for an (349) by striking item number 906; (367) in item number 2836 by striking the item in section 1702 of the Safe, Accountable, (350) by striking item number 1144; project description and inserting ‘‘Traffic Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A (351) in item number 1693 by striking the calming and safety improvements to Lido Boule- Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1256) that is re- project description and amount and inserting vard, Town of Hampstead, Nassau County’’; pealed, or authorized funding for such an item ‘‘Plan and implement truck route improvements (368) in item number 1353 by striking the that is reduced, by this section shall be made in the Maspeth neighborhood of Queens Coun- project description and inserting ‘‘Improve the available— ty’’ and ‘‘$500,000’’, respectively; flow of truck traffic in Orrville’’; (1) for an item in section 1702 of that Act that (352) in item number 3039 by striking the (369) in item number 1975 by striking the is added or increased by this section and that is project description and inserting ‘‘Pittsfield project description and inserting ‘‘Hatcher Pass in the same State as the item for which obliga- greenways construction to connect Pittsfield to Ski Development Road in Matanuska-Susitna tion authority or funding is repealed or reduced; the Ann Arbor greenway system, Pittsfield Borough’’; (2) in an amount proportional to the amount Township’’; (370) in item number 1661 by striking the of obligation authority or funding that is so re- (353) in item number 2922 by striking the project description and inserting ‘‘Hatcher Pass pealed or reduced; and project description and amount and inserting Ski Development Road in Matanuska-Susitna (3) individually for projects numbered 1 ‘‘Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge for Borough’’; through 3676 pursuant to section 1102(c)(4)(A) of land acquisition adjacent to I–75 in Monroe (371) in item number 1574 by striking the that Act (119 Stat. 1158). County for wetland mitigation and habitat res- project description and inserting ‘‘Construct (c) TRANSFER OF PROJECT FUNDS.—The Sec- toration, Fish and Wildlife Service’’ and commuter parking structure in the central busi- retary of Transportation shall transfer to the ‘‘$1,800,000’’, respectively; ness district in the vicinity of La Grange Road, Commandant of the Coast Guard amounts made (354) in item number 3641 by striking the mat- and for projects identified by the Village of La available to carry out the project described in ters in the State, project description, and Grange as its highest priorities’’; item number 4985 of the table contained in sec- amount columns and inserting ‘‘MI’’, ‘‘River (372) in item number 3461 by striking the tion 1702 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Ef- Raisin Battlefield for acquisition of historic bat- project description and inserting ‘‘Construct ficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for

VerDate Aug 31 2005 02:24 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00025 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 6333 E:\CR\FM\A17AP6.014 S17APPT1 wwoods2 on PRODPC60 with SENATE S3130 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE April 17, 2008 Users (119 Stat. 1447) to carry out that project, (1) by redesignating paragraphs (2) through (21) in item number 358 by striking ‘‘fuel- in accordance with the Act of June 21, 1940, (5) as paragraphs (3) through (6), respectively; celled’’ and inserting ‘‘fueled’’; commonly known as the ‘‘Truman-Hobbs Act’’, and (22) in item number 374 by striking the project (33 U.S.C. 511 et seq.). (2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol- description and inserting ‘‘Construct a 4-lane (d) ADDITIONAL DISCRETIONARY USE OF SUR- lowing: highway between Maverick Junction and the FACE TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM FUNDS.—Of ‘‘(2) the current application by the Federal Nebraska border’’; the funds apportioned to each State under sec- Highway Administration of the Buy America (23) in item number 402 by striking ‘‘from 2 to tion 104(b)(3) of title 23, United States Code, a test, that is only applied to components or parts 5 lanes and improve alignment within rights-of- State may expend for each of fiscal years 2008 of a bridge project and not the entire bridge way in St. George’’ and inserting ‘‘, St. George’’; and 2009 not more than $1,000,000 for the fol- project, is inconsistent with this sense of Con- (24) in item number 309 by striking the project lowing activities: gress;’’. description and inserting ‘‘Streetscape, road- (1) Participation in the Joint Operation Cen- SEC. 109. TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENTS. way, pedestrian, and parking improvements at ter for Fuel Compliance established under sec- The table contained in section 1934(c) of the the intersection of Meadow Lane, Chestnut tion 143(b)(4)(H) of title 23, United States Code, Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transpor- Lane, Willow Drive, and Liberty Avenue for the within the Department of the Treasury, includ- tation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (119 Stat. College of New Rochelle campus in New Ro- ing the funding of additional positions for motor 1486) is amended— chelle’’; and fuel tax enforcement officers and other staff (1) in item number 436 by inserting ‘‘, Saole,’’ (25) in item number 462 by striking the project dedicated on a full-time basis to participation in after ‘‘Sua’’; description and inserting ‘‘I–75 widening and the activities of the Center. (2) in item number 448 by inserting ‘‘by remov- improvements in Collier and Lee Counties, Flor- (2) Development, operation, and maintenance ing asphalt and concrete and reinstalling blue ida’’. of electronic filing systems to coordinate data cobblestones’’ after ‘‘streets’’; SEC. 110. I–95/CONTEE ROAD INTERCHANGE DE- exchange with the Internal Revenue Service by (3) by striking item number 451; SIGN. States that impose a tax on the removal of tax- (4) in item number 452 by striking ‘‘$2,000,000’’ Section 1961 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexi- able fuel from any refinery and on the removal and inserting ‘‘$3,000,000’’; ble, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Leg- of taxable fuel from any terminal. (5) in item number 12 by striking ‘‘Yukon acy for Users (119 Stat. 1518) is amended— (3) Development, operation, and maintenance River’’ and inserting ‘‘Kuskokwim River’’; (1) in the section heading by striking ‘‘study’’ of electronic single point of filing in conjunction (6) in item number 18 by striking ‘‘Engineering and inserting ‘‘design’’; with the Internal Revenue Service by States and Construction in Merced County’’ and in- (2) by striking subsections (a), (b), and (c) and that impose a tax on the removal of taxable fuel serting ‘‘and safety improvements/realignment of inserting the following: from any refinery and on the removal of taxable SR 165 project study report and environmental ‘‘(a) DESIGN.—The Secretary shall make avail- fuel from any terminal. studies in Merced and Stanislaus Counties’’; able the funds authorized to be appropriated by (4) Development, operation, and maintenance (7) in item number 38 by striking the project this section for the design of the I–95/Contee of a certification system by a State of any fuel description and inserting ‘‘Relocation of the Road interchange in Prince George’s County, sold to a State or local government (as defined Newark Train Station’’; Maryland.’’; and in section 4221(d)(4) of the Internal Revenue (8) in item number 57 by striking the project (3) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub- Code of 1986) for the exclusive use of the State description and inserting ‘‘Kingsland bypass section (b). from CR 61 to I–95, Camden County’’; or local government or sold to a qualified volun- SEC. 111. HIGHWAY RESEARCH FUNDING. (9) in item number 114 by striking ‘‘IA–32’’ teer fire department (as defined in section (a) F–SHRP FUNDING.—Notwithstanding any 150(e)(2) of such Code) for its exclusive use. and inserting ‘‘SW’’ after ‘‘Construct’’; (10) in item number 122 by striking the project other provision of law, for each of fiscal years (5) Development, operation, and maintenance 2008 and 2009, at any time at which an appor- of a certification system by a State of any fuel description and inserting ‘‘Design, right-of-way acquisition, and construction of the SW Arterial tionment is made of the sums authorized to be sold to a nonprofit educational organization (as appropriated for the surface transportation pro- defined in section 4221(d)(5) of such Code) that and connections to U.S. 20, Dubuque County’’; (11) in item number 130 by striking the project gram, the congestion mitigation and air quality includes verification of the good standing of the improvement program, the National Highway organization in the State in which the organiza- description and inserting ‘‘Improvements and rehabilitation to rail and bridges on the System, the Interstate maintenance program, tion is providing educational services. the bridge program, or the highway safety im- (e) PROJECT FEDERAL SHARE.—Section 1964 of Appanoose County Community Railroad’’; (12) in item number 133 by striking ‘‘IA–32’’; provement program, the Secretary of Transpor- the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Trans- tation shall— portation Equity: A Legacy for Users (119 Stat. (13) in item number 138 by striking the project description and inserting ‘‘West Spencer Belt- (1) deduct from each apportionment an 1519) is amended by adding at the end the fol- amount not to exceed 0.205 percent of the appor- lowing: way Project’’; (14) in item number 142 by striking ‘‘MP 9.3, tionment; and ‘‘(c) SPECIAL RULE.—Notwithstanding any Segment I, II, and III’’ and inserting ‘‘Milepost (2) transfer or otherwise make that amount other provision of law, the Federal share of the available to carry out section 510 of title 23, cost of the projects described in item numbers 24.3’’; (15) in item number 161 by striking ‘‘Bridge re- United States Code. 1284 and 3093 in the table contained in section placement on Johnson Drive and Nall Ave.’’ and (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 1702 of this Act shall be 100 percent.’’. inserting ‘‘Construction improvements’’; (1) FUNDING.—Section 5101 of the Safe, Ac- SEC. 106. NONMOTORIZED TRANSPORTATION (16) in item number 182 by striking the project countable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation PILOT PROGRAM. description and inserting ‘‘Improve U.S. 40, Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1779) Section 1807(a)(3) of the Safe, Accountable, M.D. 715 interchange, and other roadways in is amended— Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A the vicinity of Aberdeen Proving Ground to sup- (A) in subsection (a)(1) by striking ‘‘509, and Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1460) is amended by port BRAC-related growth’’; 510’’ and inserting ‘‘and 509’’; striking ‘‘Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota’’ (17) in item number 198 by striking the project (B) in subsection (a)(4) by striking and inserting ‘‘Minneapolis, Minnesota’’. description and inserting ‘‘Construct 1 or more ‘‘$69,700,000’’ and all that follows through SEC. 107. CORRECTION OF INTERSTATE AND NA- grade separated crossings of I–75 and make as- ‘‘2009’’ and inserting ‘‘$40,400,000 for fiscal year TIONAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM DESIGNA- sociated improvements to improve local and re- 2005, $69,700,000 for fiscal year 2006, $76,400,000 TIONS. gional east-west mobility between Mileposts 279 for each of fiscal years 2007 and 2008, and (a) TREATMENT.—Section 1908(a) of the Safe, and 282’’; $78,900,000 for fiscal year 2009’’; and Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation (18) in item number 201 by striking the project (C) in subsection (b) by inserting after ‘‘50 Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1469) description and inserting ‘‘Alger County, to re- percent’’ the following ‘‘or, in the case of funds is amended by striking paragraph (3). construct, pave, and realign a portion of H–58 appropriated by subsection (a) to carry out sec- (b) NATIONAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM.—Section from 2,600 feet south of Little Beaver Lake Road tion 5201, 5202, or 5203 of this Act, 80 percent’’. 1908(b) of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Effi- to 4,600 feet east of Hurricane River’’; (2) FUTURE STRATEGIC HIGHWAY RESEARCH cient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for (19) in item number 238 by striking the project PROGRAM.—Section 5210 of such Act (119 Stat. Users (119 Stat. 1470) is amended by striking description and inserting ‘‘Develop and con- 1804) is amended— ‘‘from the Arkansas State line’’ and inserting struct the St. Mary water project road and (A) by striking subsection (c); and ‘‘from Interstate Route 540’’. bridge infrastructure, including a new bridge (B) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub- SEC. 108. BUDGET JUSTIFICATION; BUY AMERICA. and approaches across St. Mary River, stabiliza- section (c). (a) BUDGET JUSTIFICATION.—Section 1926 of tion and improvements to United States Route (c) CONTRACT AUTHORITY.—Funds made the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Trans- 89, and road/canal from Siphon Bridge to Spider available under this section shall be available portation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (119 Lake, on the condition that $2,500,000 of the for obligation in the same manner as if the Stat. 1483) is amended by striking ‘‘The Depart- amount made available to carry out this item funds were apportioned under chapter 1 of title ment’’ and inserting ‘‘Notwithstanding any may be made available to the Bureau of Rec- 23, United States Code, except that the Federal other provision of law, the Department’’. lamation for use for the Swift Current Creek share shall be determined under section 510(f) of (b) BUY AMERICA.—Section 1928 of the Safe, and Boulder Creek bank and bed stabilization that title. Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation project in the Lower St. Mary Lake drainage’’; (d) APPLICABILITY OF OBLIGATION LIMITA- Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1484) (20) in item number 329 by inserting ‘‘, Tulsa’’ TION.—Funds made available under this section is amended— after ‘‘technology’’; shall be subject to any limitation on obligations

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for Federal-aid highways and highway safety (3) in item number 614 by inserting ‘‘and for (b) CONTENTS.—In conducting the study, the construction programs under section 1102 the NJ Carteret, NJ Ferry Service Terminal’’ after Secretary shall— Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transpor- ‘‘east’’. (1) analyze instances in which safety shoul- tation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (23 U.S.C. SEC. 114. HIGH PRIORITY CORRIDOR AND INNO- ders are used for general purpose vehicle traffic, 104 note; 119 Stat. 1157) or any other Act. VATIVE PROJECT TECHNICAL COR- high occupancy vehicles, and public transpor- (e) EQUITY BONUS FORMULA.—Notwith- RECTIONS. tation vehicles; standing any other provision of law, in allo- (a) HIGH PRIORITY CORRIDORS.—Section (2) analyze instances in which safety shoul- cating funds for the equity bonus program 1105(c) of the Intermodal Surface Transpor- ders are not part of the roadway design; under section 105 of title 23, United States Code, tation Efficiency Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 2032; 119 (3) evaluate whether or not conversion of safe- for each of fiscal years 2008 and 2009, the Sec- Stat. 1212) is amended— ty shoulders or the lack of a safety shoulder in retary of Transportation shall make the re- (1) in paragraph (63) by striking ‘‘and United the original roadway design has a significant quired calculations under that section as if this States Routes 1, 3, 9, 17, and 46,’’ and inserting impact on the number of accidents or has any section had not been enacted. ‘‘United States Routes 1, 9, and 46, and State other impact on highway safety; and (f) FUNDING FOR RESEARCH ACTIVITIES.—Of Routes 3 and 17,’’; and (4) compile relevant statistics. the amount made available by section 5101(a)(1) (2) in paragraph (64)— (c) REPORT.—Not later than one year after the of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient (A) by striking ‘‘United States Route 42’’ and date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users inserting ‘‘State Route 42’’; and shall transmit to Congress a report on the re- (119 Stat. 1779)— (B) by striking ‘‘Interstate Route 676’’ and in- sults of the study. (1) at least $1,000,000 shall be made available serting ‘‘Interstate Routes 76 and 676’’. SEC. 119. FUTURE INTERSTATE DESIGNATION. for each of fiscal years 2008 and 2009 to carry (b) INNOVATIVE PROJECTS.—Item number 89 of (a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subsection (b), out section 502(h) of title 23, United States Code; the table contained in section 1107(b) of the the Secretary of Transportation shall designate, and Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency as a future Interstate Route 69 Spur, the Audu- (2) at least $4,900,000 shall be made available Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 2052) is amended in the bon Parkway and, as a future Interstate Route for each of fiscal years 2008 and 2009 to carry matter under the column with the heading ‘‘IN- 66 Spur, the Natcher Parkway in Owensboro, out section 502(i) of that title. NOVATIVE PROJECTS’’ by inserting ‘‘and contig- Kentucky. Any segment of such routes shall be- (g) TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS.— uous counties’’ after ‘‘Michigan’’. come part of the Interstate System (as defined in (1) SURFACE TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH.—Sec- SEC. 115. DEFINITION OF REPEAT INTOXICATED section 101 of title 23, United States Code) at tion 502 of title 23, United States Code, is DRIVER LAW. such time as the Secretary determines that the amended by striking the first subsection (h), re- Section 164(a)(5) of title 23, United States segment— lating to infrastructure investment needs reports Code, is amended by striking subparagraphs (A) (1) meets the Interstate System design stand- beginning with the report for January 31, 1999. and (B) and inserting the following: ards approved by the Secretary under section (2) ADVANCED TRAVEL FORECASTING PROCE- ‘‘(A) receive— 109(b) of title 23, United States Code; and DURES PROGRAM.—Section 5512(a)(2) of the Safe, ‘‘(i) a driver’s license suspension for not less (2) connects to an existing Interstate System Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation than 1 year; or segment. Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1829) ‘‘(ii) a combination of suspension of all driv- (b) SIGNS.—Section 103(c)(4)(B)(iv) of title 23, is amended by striking ‘‘PROGRAM APPRECIA- ing privileges for the first 45 days of the suspen- United States Code, shall apply to the designa- TION.—’’ and inserting ‘‘PROGRAM APPLICA- sion period followed by a reinstatement of lim- tions under subsection (a); except that a State TION.—’’. ited driving privileges for the purpose of getting may install signs on the 2 parkways that are to (3) UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH.— to and from work, school, or an alcohol treat- be designated under subsection (a) indicating Section 5506 of title 49, United States Code, is ment program if an ignition interlock device is the approximate location of each of the future amended— installed on each of the motor vehicles owned or Interstate System highways. (A) in subsection (c)(2)(B) by striking ‘‘tier’’ (c) REMOVAL OF DESIGNATION.—The Secretary operated, or both, by the individual; and inserting ‘‘Tier’’; shall remove designation of a highway referred ‘‘(B) be subject to the impoundment or immo- (B) in subsection (i)— to in subsection (a) as a future Interstate Sys- bilization of, or the installation of an ignition (i) by striking ‘‘In order to’’ and inserting the tem route if the Secretary, as of the last day of interlock system on, each motor vehicle owned following: the 25-year period beginning on the date of en- or operated, or both, by the individual;’’. ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In order to’’; and actment of this Act, has not made the deter- (ii) by adding at the end the following: SEC. 116. RESEARCH TECHNICAL CORRECTION. minations under paragraphs (1) and (2) of sub- ‘‘(2) SPECIAL RULE.—Nothing in paragraph (1) Section 5506(e)(5)(C) of title 49, United States section (a) with respect to such highway. Code, is amended by striking ‘‘$2,225,000’’and requires a nonprofit institution of higher learn- SEC. 120. PROJECT FLEXIBILITY. ing designated as a Tier II university transpor- inserting ‘‘$2,250,000’’. Section 1935(b)(1) of the Safe, Accountable, tation center to maintain total expenditures as SEC. 117. BUY AMERICA WAIVER NOTIFICATION Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A described in paragraph (1) in excess of the AND ANNUAL REPORTS. Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1510) is amended by amount of the grant awarded to the institu- (a) WAIVER NOTIFICATION.— inserting ‘‘the project numbered 1322 and’’ be- tion.’’; and (1) IN GENERAL.—If the Secretary of Transpor- fore ‘‘the projects’’. (C) in subsection (k)(3) by striking ‘‘The Sec- tation makes a finding under section 313(b) of SEC. 121. EFFECTIVE DATE. retary’’ and all that follows through ‘‘to carry title 23, United States Code, with respect to a (a) IN GENERAL.—Except as otherwise pro- out this section’’ and inserting ‘‘For each of fis- project, the Secretary shall— vided in this Act (including subsection (b)), this cal years 2008 and 2009, the Secretary shall ex- (A) publish in the Federal Register, before the Act and the amendments made by this Act take pend not more than 1.5 percent of amounts made date on which such finding takes effect, a de- effect on the date of enactment of this Act. available to carry out this section’’. tailed written justification as to the reasons that (b) EXCEPTION.— SEC. 112. RESCISSION. such finding is needed; and (1) IN GENERAL.—The amendments made by Section 10212 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexi- (B) provide notice of such finding and an op- this Act (other than the amendments made by ble, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Leg- portunity for public comment on such finding sections 101(g), 101(m)(1)(H), 103, 105, 109, and acy for Users (as amended by section 1302 of the for a period of not to exceed 60 days. 201(o)) to the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Effi- Pension Protection Act of 2006 (Public Law 109– (2) LIMITATION ON STATUTORY CONSTRUC- cient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for 280)) (119 Stat. 1937; 120 Stat. 780) is amended by TION.—Nothing in paragraph (1) shall be con- Users (Public Law 109–59; 119 Stat. 1144) shall— striking ‘‘$8,593,000,000’’ each place it appears strued to require the effective date of a finding (A) take effect as of the date of enactment of and inserting ‘‘$8,708,000,000’’. referred to in paragraph (1) to be delayed until that Act; and SEC. 113. TEA–21 TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS. after the close of the public comment period re- (B) be treated as being included in that Act as (a) SURFACE TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM.— ferred to in paragraph (1)(B). of that date. Section 1108(f)(1) of the Transportation Equity (b) ANNUAL REPORTS.—Not later than Feb- (2) EFFECT OF AMENDMENTS.—Each provision Act for the 21st Century (23 U.S.C. 133 note; 112 ruary 1 of each year beginning after the date of of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Stat. 141) is amended by striking ‘‘2003’’ and in- enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall sub- Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users serting ‘‘2009’’. mit to the Committee on Transportation and In- (Public Law 109–59; 119 Stat. 1144) (including (b) PROJECT AUTHORIZATIONS.—The table con- frastructure of the House of Representatives and the amendments made by that Act) (as in effect tained in section 1602 of such Act (112 Stat. 257) the Committee on Environment and Public on the day before the date of enactment of this is amended— Works of the Senate a report on the projects for Act) that is amended by this Act (other than (1) in item number 1096 (as amended by sec- which the Secretary made findings under sec- sections 101(g), 101(m)(1)(H), 103, 105, 109, and tion 1703(a)(11) of the Safe, Accountable, Flexi- tion 313(b) of title 23, United States Code, dur- 201(o)) shall be treated as not being enacted. ble, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Leg- ing the preceding calendar year and the jus- (c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT TO HIGHWAY acy for Users (119 Stat. 1454)) by inserting ‘‘, tifications for such findings. TRUST FUND.—Subsections (c)(1) and (e)(3) of and planning and construction to Heisley SEC. 118. EFFICIENT USE OF EXISTING HIGHWAY section 9503 of the Internal Revenue Code of Road,’’ before ‘‘in Mentor, Ohio’’; CAPACITY. 1986 are each amended by striking ‘‘Safe, Ac- (2) in item number 1646 by striking ‘‘and con- (a) STUDY.—The Secretary of Transportation countable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation struction’’ and inserting ‘‘construction, recon- shall conduct a study on the impacts of con- Equity Act: A Legacy for Users’’ and inserting struction, resurfacing, restoration, rehabilita- verting left and right highway safety shoulders ‘‘SAFETEA–LU Technical Corrections Act of tion, and repaving’’; and to travel lanes. 2008’’.

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TITLE II—TRANSIT PROVISIONS (4) in subsection (m)(7)(B) by striking ‘‘section (n) SECTION 5338.—Section 5338(d)(1)(B) of SEC. 201. TRANSIT TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS. 3039’’ and inserting ‘‘section 3045’’. such title is amended by striking ‘‘section (a) SECTION 5302.—Section 5302(a)(10) of title (e) SECTION 5311.—Section 5311 of such title is 5315(a)(16)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 49, United States Code, is amended by striking amended— 5315(b)(2)(P)’’. ‘‘charter,’’ and inserting ‘‘charter, sight- (1) in subsection (g)(1)(A) by striking ‘‘for any (o) SAFETEA–LU.— seeing,’’. purpose other than operating assistance’’ and (1) SECTION 3011.—Section 3011(f) of the Safe, (b) SECTION 5303.— inserting ‘‘for a capital project or project admin- Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation (1) Section 5303(f)(3)(C)(ii) of such title is istrative expenses’’; Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1589) amended by striking subclause (II) and inserting (2) in subsections (g)(1)(A) and (g)(1)(B) by is amended by adding to the end the following: the following: striking ‘‘capital’’ after ‘‘net’’; and ‘‘(5) Central Florida Commuter Rail Transit ‘‘(II) FUNDING.—For fiscal year 2008 and each (3) in subsection (i)(1) by striking ‘‘Sections Project.’’. fiscal year thereafter, in addition to other funds 5323(a)(1)(D) and 5333(b) of this title apply’’ and (2) SECTION 3037.—Section 3037(c) of such Act made available to the metropolitan planning or- inserting ‘‘Section 5333(b) applies’’. (119 Stat. 1636) is amended— ganization for the Lake Tahoe region under this (f) SECTION 5312.—The heading for section (A) in paragraph (3) by striking ‘‘Phase II’’; chapter and title 23, prior to any allocation 5312(c) of such title is amended by striking and under section 202 of title 23, and notwith- ‘‘MASS TRANSPORTATION’’ and inserting ‘‘PUB- (B) by striking paragraph (10). standing the allocation provisions of section 202, LIC TRANSPORTATION’’. (3) SECTION 3040.—Section 3040(4) of such Act ECTION (119 Stat. 1639) is amended by striking the Secretary shall set aside 1⁄2 of 1 percent of all (g) S 5314.—Section 5314(a)(3) is funds authorized to be appropriated for such amended by striking ‘‘section 5323(a)(1)(D)’’ and ‘‘$7,871,895,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$7,872,893,000’’. fiscal year to carry out section 204 of title 23, inserting ‘‘section 5333(b)’’. (4) SECTION 3043.— (A) PORTLAND, OREGON.—Section 3043(b)(27) and shall make such funds available to the met- (h) SECTION 5319.—Section 5319 of such title is of such Act (119 Stat. 1642) is amended by insert- ropolitan planning organization for the Lake amended by striking ‘‘section 5307(k)’’ and in- ing ‘‘/Milwaukie’’ after ‘‘Mall’’. Tahoe region to carry out the transportation serting ‘‘section 5307(d)(1)(K)’’. (B) LOS ANGELES.— planning process, environmental reviews, pre- (i) SECTION 5320.—Section 5320 of such title is (i) PHASE 1.—Section 3043(b)(13) of such Act liminary engineering, and design to complete en- amended— (1) in subsection (a)(1)(A) by striking ‘‘intra— (119 Stat. 1642) is amended to read as follows: vironmental documentation for transportation agency’’ and inserting ‘‘intraagency’’; ‘‘(13) Los Angeles—Exposition LRT (Phase projects for the Lake Tahoe region under the (2) in subsection (b)(5)(A) by striking 1).’’. Tahoe Regional Planning Compact as consented ‘‘5302(a)(1)(A)’’ and inserting ‘‘5302(a)(1)’’; (ii) PHASE 2.—Section 3043(c) of such Act (119 to in Public Law 96–551 (94 Stat. 3233) and this (3) in subsection (d)(1) by inserting ‘‘to admin- Stat. 1645) is amended by inserting after para- paragraph.’’. ister this section and’’ after ‘‘5338(b)(2)(J)’’; graph (104) the following: (2) Section 5303(j)(3)(D) of such title is amend- (4) by adding at the end of subsection (d) the ‘‘(104A) Los Angeles—Exposition LRT (Phase ed— following: 2).’’. (A) by inserting ‘‘or the identified phase’’ be- ‘‘(4) TRANSFERS TO LAND MANAGEMENT AGEN- (C) SAN DIEGO.—Section 3043(c)(105) of such fore ‘‘within the time’’; and CIES.—The Secretary may transfer amounts Act (119 Stat. 1645) is amended by striking (B) by inserting ‘‘or the identified phase’’ be- available under paragraph (1) to the appro- ‘‘LOSSAN Del Mar-San Diego—Rail Corridor fore the period at the end. Improvements’’ and inserting ‘‘LOSSAN Rail (3) Section 5303(k)(2) of such title is amended priate Federal land management agency to pay Corridor Improvements’’. by striking ‘‘a metropolitan planning area serv- necessary costs of the agency for such activities described in paragraph (1) in connection with (D) SAN DIEGO.—Section 3043(c)(217) of such ing’’. Act (119 Stat. 1648) is amended by striking ‘‘San (c) SECTION 5307.—Section 5307(b) of such title activities being carried out under this section.’’; Diego’’ and inserting ‘‘San Diego Transit’’. is amended— (5) in subsection (k)(3) by striking ‘‘subsection (E) SACRAMENTO.—Section 3043(c)(204) of such (1) in the heading for paragraph (2) by strik- (d)(1)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (e)(1)’’; Act (119 Stat. 647) is amended by striking ing ‘‘2007’’ and inserting ‘‘2009’’; (6) by redesignating subsections (a) through (2) in paragraph (2)(A)— (m) as subsections (b) through (n), respectively; ‘‘Downtown’’. (A) by striking ‘‘2007’’ and inserting ‘‘2009’’; and (F) BOSTON.—Section 3043(d)(6) of such Act and (7) by inserting before subsection (b) (as so re- (119 Stat. 1649) is amended to read as follows: (B) by striking ‘‘mass’’ and inserting ‘‘pub- designated) the following: ‘‘(6) Boston-Silver Line Phase III, lic’’; ‘‘(a) PROGRAM NAME.—The program author- $20,000,000.’’. (3) by adding at the end of paragraph (2) the ized by this section shall be known as the Paul (G) PROJECT CONSTRUCTION GRANTS.—Section following: S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks Program.’’. 3043(e) of such Act (119 Stat. 1651) is amended ‘‘(E) MAXIMUM AMOUNTS IN FISCAL YEARS 2008 (j) SECTION 5323.—Section 5323(n) of such title by adding at the end the following: AND 2009.—In fiscal years 2008 and 2009— is amended by striking ‘‘section 5336(e)(2)’’ and ‘‘(4) PROJECT CONSTRUCTION GRANTS.—Projects ‘‘(i) amounts made available to any urbanized inserting ‘‘section 5336(d)(2)’’. recommended by the Secretary for a project con- area under clause (i) or (ii) of subparagraph (A) (k) SECTION 5325.—Section 5325(b) of such title struction grant agreement under section 5309(e) shall be not more than 50 percent of the amount is amended— of title 49, United States Code, or for funding apportioned in fiscal year 2002 to the urbanized (1) in paragraph (1) by inserting before the pe- under section 5309(m)(2)(A)(i) of such title dur- area with a population of less than 200,000, as riod at the end ‘‘adopted before August 10, ing fiscal year 2008 and fiscal year 2009 are au- determined in the 1990 decennial census of pop- 2005’’; thorized for preliminary engineering, final de- ulation; (2) by striking paragraph (2); and sign, and construction for fiscal years 2007 ‘‘(ii) amounts made available to any urban- (3) by redesignating paragraph (3) as para- through 2009 upon the completion of the notifi- ized area under subparagraph (A)(iii) shall be graph (2). cation process for each such project under sec- not more than 50 percent of the amount appor- (l) SECTION 5336.— tion 5309(g)(5).’’. tioned to the urbanized area under this section (1) APPORTIONMENTS OF FORMULA GRANTS.— (H) LOS ANGELES AND SAN GABRIEL VALLEY.— for fiscal year 2003; and Section 5336 of such title is amended— Section 3043 of such Act (119 Stat. 1640) is ‘‘(iii) each portion of any area not designated (A) in subsection (a) by striking ‘‘Of the amended by adding at the end the following: as an urbanized area, as determined by the 1990 amount’’ and all that follows before paragraph ‘‘(k) LOS ANGELES EXTENSION.—In evaluating decennial census, and eligible to receive funds (1) and inserting ‘‘Of the amount apportioned the local share of the project authorized by sub- under subparagraph (A)(iv), shall receive an under subsection (i)(2) to carry out section section (c)(104A) in the new starts rating proc- amount of funds to carry out this section that is 5307—’’; ess, the Secretary shall give consideration to not less than 50 percent of the amount the por- (B) in subsection (d)(1) by striking ‘‘sub- project elements of the project authorized by tion of the area received under section 5311 in sections (a) and (h)(2) of section 5338’’ and in- subsection (b)(13) advanced with 100 percent fiscal year 2002.’’; and serting ‘‘subsections (a)(1)(C)(vi) and (b)(2)(B) non-Federal funds. (4) in paragraph (3) by striking ‘‘section of section 5338’’; and ‘‘(l) SAN GABRIEL VALLEY––GOLD LINE FOOT- 5305(a)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 5303(k)’’. (C) by redesignating subsection (c), as added HILL EXTENSION PHASE II.—In evaluating the (d) SECTION 5309.—Section 5309 of such title is by section 3034(c) of the Safe, Accountable, local share of the San Gabriel Valley––Gold Line amended— Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Foothill Extension Phase II project authorized (1) in subsection (d)(5)(B) by striking ‘‘regula- Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1628), as subsection by subsection (b)(33) in the new starts rating tion.’’ and inserting ‘‘this subsection and shall (k). process, the Secretary shall give consideration to give comparable, but not necessarily equal, nu- (2) TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS.—Section project elements of the San Gabriel Valley––Gold merical weight to each project justification cri- 3034(d)(2) of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Ef- Line Foothill Extension Phase I project ad- teria in calculating the overall project rating.’’; ficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for vanced with 100 percent non-Federal funds.’’. (2) in subsection (e)(6)(B) by striking ‘‘sub- Users (119 Stat. 1629), is amended by striking (5) SECTION 3044.— section.’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection and shall ‘‘paragraph (2)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (A) PROJECTS.—The table contained in section give comparable, but not necessarily equal, nu- (a)(2)’’. 3044(a) of such Act (119 Stat. 1652) is amended— merical weight to each project justification cri- (m) SECTION 5337.—Section 5337(a) of title 49, (i) in item 25— teria in calculating the overall project rating.’’; United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘for (I) by striking ‘‘$217,360’’ and inserting (3) in the heading for paragraph (2)(A) of sub- each of fiscal years 1998 through 2003’’ and in- ‘‘$167,360’’; and section (m) by striking ‘‘MAJOR CAPITAL’’ and serting ‘‘for each of fiscal years 2005 through (II) by striking ‘‘$225,720’’ and inserting inserting ‘‘CAPITAL’’; and 2009’’. ‘‘$175,720’’;

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Metropolitan Transportation Authority ‘‘Long Beach Transit, Long Beach, California, (r) CALIFORNIA TRANSIT SERVICES.—The Sec- (LACMTA) for bus and bus-related facilities in for the purchase of transit vehicles and en- retary of Transportation shall use not more the LACMTA’s service area’’; hancement of para-transit and senior transpor- than $3,000,000 of the funds made available for (iii) in item number 71 by inserting ‘‘Metro- tation services’’, ‘‘$128,180’’, ‘‘$133,760’’, use at the discretion of the Secretary for fiscal politan Bus Authority’’ after ‘‘Puerto Rico’’; ‘‘$144,906’’, and ‘‘$150,480’’, respectively; and year 2007 for Federal Transit Administration (iv) in item number 84 by striking the project (xxvi) by adding at the end— Discretionary Programs, Bus and Bus Facilities description and inserting ‘‘Improvements to the (I)(aa) in the project description column ‘‘666. to reimburse the California State department of existing Sacramento Intermodal Facility (Sac- New York City, NY, rehabilitation of subway transportation for actual and necessary costs of ramento Valley Station)’’; stations to include passenger access improve- maintenance and operation, less the amount of (v) in item number 94 by striking the project ments including escalators or installation of in- fares earned, for additional public transpor- description and inserting ‘‘Pacific Transit, WA frastructure for security and surveillance pur- tation services that were provided by the depart- Vehicle Replacement’’; poses’’; and ment of transportation as a temporary sub- (vi) in item number 120 by striking ‘‘Dayton (bb) in the FY08 column and the FY09 column stitute for highway traffic service following the Airport Intermodal Rail Feasibility Study’’ and ‘‘$50,000’’; freeway collapse at the interchange connecting inserting ‘‘Greater Dayton Regional Transit Au- (II)(aa) in the project description column Interstate Routes 80, 580, and 880 near the San thority buses and bus facilities’’; ‘‘667. St. Johns County Council on Aging buses Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, on April 29, (vii) in item number 152 by inserting ‘‘Metro- and bus facilities, Florida’’; and 2007, until the reopening of that facility on June politan Bus Authority’’ after ‘‘Puerto Rico’’; (bb) in the FY06, FY07, FY08, and FY09 col- 29, 2007. The Federal share of the cost of activi- (viii) in item number 416 by striking ‘‘Improve umns ‘‘$57,684’’, ‘‘$60,192’’, ‘‘$65,208’’, and ties reimbursed under this subsection shall be marine intermodal’’ and inserting ‘‘Improve ma- ‘‘$67,716’’, respectively; 100 percent. rine dry-dock and’’; (III)(aa) in the project description column (ix) in item number 457— TITLE III—OTHER SURFACE ‘‘668. The City of Compton, California, for the TRANSPORTATION PROVISIONS (I) by striking ‘‘$65,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$0’’; replacement of buses and paratransit vehicles’’; and and SEC. 301. TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS RELATING TO MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY. (II) by striking ‘‘$67,500’’ and inserting ‘‘$0’’; (bb) in the FY06, FY07, FY08, and FY09 col- (a) CONFORMING AMENDMENT RELATING TO and umns ‘‘$128,180’’, ‘‘$133,760’’, ‘‘$144,906’’, and (x) in item number 458— HIGH-PRIORITY ACTIVITIES.—Section 31104(f) of ‘‘$150,480’’, respectively; and (I) by striking ‘‘$65,000’’ and inserting title 49, United States Code, is amended by strik- (IV)(aa) in the project description column ‘‘$130,000’’; ing the designation and heading for paragraph ‘‘669. City of Los Angeles, California, for the (II) by striking ‘‘$67,500’’ and inserting (1) and by striking paragraph (2). purchase of transit vehicles in Watts and en- ‘‘$135,000’’; and (b) NEW ENTRANT AUDITS.— hancement of paratransit and senior transpor- (xi) in item number 57 by striking the project (1) CORRECTIONS OF REFERENCES.—Section description and inserting ‘‘Wilmington, NC, tation services’’; and 4107(b) of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Effi- (bb) in the FY06, FY07, FY08, and FY09 col- maintenance and operations facilities and ad- cient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for umns ‘‘$128,200’’, ‘‘$133,760’’, ‘‘$144,908’’, and ministration and transfer facilities’’; Users (119 Stat. 1720) is amended— (xii) in item number 460 by striking the mat- ‘‘$150,480’’, respectively. (A) by striking ‘‘Section 31104’’ and inserting PECIAL RULE.—Section 3044(c) of such ters in the project description, FY08 column, (B) S ‘‘Section 31144’’; and and FY09 column and inserting ‘‘460. Mid-Re- Act (119 Stat. 1705) is amended— (B) in paragraph (1) by inserting ‘‘(c)’’ after gion Council of Governments, New Mexico, pub- (i) by inserting ‘‘, or other entity,’’ after ‘‘the second subsection’’. ‘‘State or local governmental authority’’; and lic transportation buses, bus-related equipment (2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 7112 of (ii) by striking ‘‘projects numbered 258 and and facilities, and intermodal terminals in Albu- such Act (119 Stat. 1899) is amended by striking 347’’ and inserting ‘‘projects numbered 258, 347, querque and Santa Fe’’, ‘‘$500,000’’, and subsection (c). and 411’’; and ‘‘$500,000’’, respectively. (c) PROHIBITED TRANSPORTATION.—Section (xiii) in item number 138 by striking ‘‘Design’’ (iii) by striking the period at the end and in- 4114(c)(1) of the such Act (119 Stat. 1726) is and inserting ‘‘Determine scope, engineering, serting: ‘‘, and funds made available for fiscal amended by striking ‘‘the second subsection (c)’’ design,’’; year 2006 for the bus and bus-related facilities and inserting ‘‘(f)’’. (xiv) in item number 23 by striking ‘‘Con- projects numbered 176 and 652 under subsection (d) EFFECTIVE DATE RELATING TO MEDICAL struct’’ and inserting ‘‘Design, engineering, (a) shall remain available until September 30, EXAMINERS.—Section 4116(f) of such Act (119 right-of-way acquisition, and construction’’; 2009.’’. Stat. 1728) is amended by striking ‘‘amendment (xv) in item number 439 by inserting before (6) SECTION 3046.—Section 3046(a)(7) of such made by subsection (a)’’ and inserting ‘‘amend- ‘‘Central’’ the following: ‘‘Design, engineering, Act (119 Stat. 1708) is amended— ments made by subsections (a) and (b)’’. right-of-way acquisition, and construction’’; (A) by striking ‘‘hydrogen fuel cell vehicles’’ (e) ROADABILITY TECHNICAL CORRECTION.— (xvi) in item number 453 by inserting before and inserting ‘‘hydrogen fueled vehicles’’; Section 31151(a)(3)(E)(ii) of title 49, United ‘‘Central’’ the following: ‘‘Design, engineering, (B) by striking ‘‘hydrogen fuel cell employee States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘Act’’ and right-of-way acquisition, and construction’’; shuttle vans’’ and inserting ‘‘hydrogen fueled inserting ‘‘section’’. (xvii) in item number 371 by striking the employee shuttle vans’’; and (f) CORRECTION OF SUBSECTION REFERENCE.— project description and inserting ‘‘Regional (C) by striking ‘‘in Allentown, Pennsylvania’’ Section 4121 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Transportation Commission of Southern Ne- and inserting ‘‘to the DaVinci Center in Allen- Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy vada, Sunset Bus Maintenance Facility’’; town, Pennsylvania’’. for Users (119 Stat. 1734) is amended by striking (xviii) in item number 487 by striking ‘‘Central (7) SECTION 3050.—Section 3050(b) of such Act ‘‘31139(f)(5)’’ and inserting ‘‘31139(g)(5)’’. Arkansas Transit Authority Facility Upgrades’’ (119 Stat. 1713) is amended by inserting ‘‘by ne- (g) CDL LEARNER’S PERMIT PROGRAM TECH- and inserting ‘‘Central Arkansas Transit Au- gotiating the extension of the existing agreement NICAL CORRECTION.—Section 4122(2)(A) of such thority Bus Acquisition’’; between mile post 191.13 and mile post 185.1 to Act (119 Stat. 1734) is amended by striking ‘‘li- (xix) in item number 491 by striking the mile post 165.9 in Rhode Island’’ before the pe- cense’’ and inserting ‘‘licenses’’. project description and inserting ‘‘Pace, IL, riod at the end. (h) CDL INFORMATION SYSTEM FUNDING REF- Cermak Road, Bus Rapid Transit, and related (p) TRANSIT TUNNELS.—In carrying out sec- ERENCE.—Section 31309(f) of title 49, United bus projects, and alternatives analysis’’; tion 5309(d)(3)(D) of title 49, United States Code, States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘31318’’ and (xx) in item number 512 by striking ‘‘Corning, the Secretary of Transportation shall specifi- inserting ‘‘31313’’. NY, Phase II Corning Preserve Transportation cally analyze, evaluate, and consider— (i) CLARIFICATION OF REFERENCE.—Section Enhancement Project’’ and inserting ‘‘Trans- (1) the congestion relief, improved mobility, 229(a)(1) of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety portation Center Enhancements, Corning, NY’’; and other benefits of transit tunnels in those Improvement Act of 1999 (49 U.S.C. 31136 note; (xxi) in item number 534 by striking ‘‘Commu- projects which include a transit tunnel; and 119 Stat. 1743) is amended by inserting ‘‘of title nity Buses’’ and inserting ‘‘Bus and Bus Facili- (2) the associated ancillary and mitigation 49, United States Code,’’ after ‘‘31502’’. ties’’; costs necessary to relieve congestion, improve (j) REDESIGNATION OF SECTION.—The second (xxii) in item number 570 by striking ‘‘Maine mobility, and decrease air and noise pollution in section 39 of chapter 2 of title 18, United States Department of Transportation-Acadia Inter- those projects which do not include a transit Code, relating to commercial motor vehicles re- modal Facility’’ and inserting ‘‘MaineDOT Aca- tunnel, but where a transit tunnel was one of quired to stop for inspections, and the item re- dia Intermodal Passenger and Maintenance Fa- the alternatives analyzed. lating to such section in the analysis for such cility’’; (q) KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, PROPERTY ACQUI- chapter, are redesignated as section 40. (xxiii) in item number 80 by striking the SITION.—The acquisition of property for the city (k) OFFICE OF INTERMODALISM.—Section 5503 project description and amounts and inserting of Knoxville, Tennessee, for the Knoxville, Ten- of title 49, United States Code, is amended— ‘‘Flagler County, Florida–buses and bus facil- nessee, Central Station project shall be deemed (1) in subsection (f)(2) by striking ‘‘Surface ity’’, ‘‘$57,684’’, ‘‘$60,192’’, ‘‘$65,208’’, and to qualify as an acquisition of land for protec- Transportation Safety Improvement Act of ‘‘$67,716’’ respectively; tive purposes pursuant to section 622.101 of title 2005’’, and inserting ‘‘Motor Carrier Safety Re- (xxiv) in item number 135 by striking the 49, Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on authorization Act of 2005’’; and project description and inserting ‘‘Pace Subur- the date of enactment of this Act. The Secretary (2) by redesignating the first subsection (h), ban Bus, IL–Purchase Vehicles’’; of Transportation may allow the costs of such relating to authorization of appropriations, as

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subsection (i) and moving it after the second (c) PREEMPTION CORRECTION.—Section 5125 of SEC. 304. CORRECTION OF STUDY REQUIREMENT subsection (h). title 49, United States Code, is amended— REGARDING ON-SCENE MOTOR VEHI- (l) USE OF FEES FOR UNIFIED CARRIER REG- (1) in subsection (d)(1) by striking ‘‘5119(e)’’ CLE COLLISION CAUSATION. ISTRATION SYSTEM.—Section 13908 of title 49, and inserting ‘‘5119(f)’’; Section 2003(c)(1) of the Safe, Accountable, United States Code, is amended by redesignating (2) in each of subsections (e) and (g) by strik- Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A subsection (e) as subsection (f) and inserting ing ‘‘5119(b)’’ and inserting ‘‘5119(f)’’; and Legacy for Users (Public Law 109–59; 119 Stat. after subsection (d) the following: (3) in subsection (g) by striking ‘‘(b), (c)(1), or 1522) is amended in the second sentence by strik- ‘‘(e) USE OF FEES FOR UNIFIED CARRIER REG- (d)’’ and inserting ‘‘(a), (b)(1), or (c)’’. ing ‘‘shall’’ and inserting ‘‘may’’. ISTRATION SYSTEM.—Fees collected under this (d) RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER LAWS.—Section SEC. 305. MOTOR CARRIER TRANSPORTATION section may be credited to the Department of 7124(3) of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Effi- REGISTRATION. Transportation appropriations account for pur- cient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for (a) GENERAL REQUIREMENTS.—Section 31138 of poses for which such fees are collected and shall Users (119 Stat. 1908) is amended by inserting title 49, United States Code, is amended— be available for expenditure for such purposes ‘‘the first place it appears’’ before ‘‘and insert- (1) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the until expended.’’. ing’’. following: (m) COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE DEFINI- (e) REPORT.—Section 5121(h) of title 49, ‘‘(a) GENERAL REQUIREMENT.— TION.—Section 14504a(a)(1)(B) of title 49, United United States Code, is amended— ‘‘(1) TRANSPORTATION OF PASSENGERS FOR States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘a motor (1) in paragraph (2) by striking ‘‘exemptions’’ COMPENSATION.—The Secretary of Transpor- carrier required to make any filing or pay any and inserting ‘‘special permits’’; and tation shall prescribe regulations to require min- fee to a State with respect to the motor carrier’s (2) in paragraph (3) by striking ‘‘exemption’’ imum levels of financial responsibility sufficient authority or insurance related to operation and inserting ‘‘special permit’’. to satisfy liability amounts established by the within such State, the motor carrier’’ and in- (f) SECTION HEADING.—Section 5128 of title 49, Secretary covering public liability and property serting ‘‘determining the size of a motor carrier United States Code, is amended by striking the damage for the transportation of passengers for or motor private carrier’s fleet in calculating the section designation and heading and inserting compensation by motor vehicle in the United fee to be paid by a motor carrier or motor pri- the following: States between a place in a State and— vate carrier pursuant to subsection (f)(1), the ‘‘§ 5128. Authorization of appropriations’’. ‘‘(A) a place in another State; motor carrier or motor private carrier’’. (g) CHAPTER ANALYSIS.—The analysis for ‘‘(B) another place in the same State through (n) CLARIFICATION OF UNREASONABLE BUR- chapter 57 of title 49, United States Code, is a place outside of that State; or DEN.—Section 14504a(c)(2) of title 49, United amended in the item relating to section 5701 by ‘‘(C) a place outside the United States. States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘interstate’’ striking ‘‘Transportation’’ and inserting ‘‘trans- ‘‘(2) TRANSPORTATION OF PASSENGERS NOT FOR the last place it appears and inserting ‘‘intra- portation’’. COMPENSATION.—The Secretary may prescribe state’’. (h) NORMAN Y. MINETA RESEARCH AND SPE- regulations to require minimum levels of finan- (o) CONTENTS OF AGREEMENT TYPO.—Section CIAL PROGRAMS IMPROVEMENT ACT.—Section cial responsibility sufficient to satisfy liability 14504a(f)(1)(A)(ii) of title 49, United States Code, 5(b) of the Norman Y. Mineta Research and amounts established by the Secretary covering is amended by striking ‘‘or’’ the last place it ap- Special Programs Improvement Act (49 U.S.C. public liability and property damage for the pears. 108 note; 118 Stat. 2427) is amended by inserting transportation of passengers for commercial (p) OTHER UNIFIED CARRIER REGISTRATION ‘‘(including delegations by the Secretary of purposes, but not for compensation, by motor SYSTEM TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.—Section Transportation)’’ after ‘‘All orders’’. vehicle in the United States between a place in 14504a of title 49, United States Code, is amend- (i) SHIPPING PAPERS.—Section 5110(d)(1) of a State and— ed— title 49, United States Code, is amended— ‘‘(A) a place in another State; (1) in subsection (c)(1)(B) by striking ‘‘the a’’ (1) in the subsection heading by striking ‘‘(B) another place in the same State through and inserting ‘‘a’’; ‘‘SHIPPERS’’ and inserting ‘‘OFFERORS’’; and a place outside of that State; or (2) in subsection (f)(1)(A)(i) by striking ‘‘in (2) by striking ‘‘shipper’s’’ and inserting ‘‘(C) a place outside the United States.’’; and connection with the filing of proof of financial ‘‘offeror’s’’. (2) by striking ‘‘commercial’’ each place it ap- responsibility’’; and (j) NTSB RECOMMENDATIONS.—Section 19(1) of pears in subsection (c)(4). (3) in subsection (f)(1)(A)(ii) by striking ‘‘in the Pipeline Inspection, Protection, Enforce- (b) TRANSPORTATION OF PROPERTY.—Section connection with such a filing’’ and inserting ment, and Safety Act of 2006 (49 U.S.C. 60102 31139 of such title is amended— ‘‘under the UCR agreement’’. note; 120 Stat. 3498) is amended by striking (1) by striking ‘‘commercial motor vehicle’’ in (q) IDENTIFICATION OF VEHICLES.—Section ‘‘165’’ and inserting ‘‘1165’’. subsection (b)(1) and inserting ‘‘motor carrier or 14506(b)(2) of title 49, United States Code, is SEC. 303. HIGHWAY SAFETY. motor private carrier (as such terms are defined in section 13102 of this title)’’; and amended by inserting before the semicolon at (a) STATE MINIMUM APPORTIONMENTS FOR (2) by striking ‘‘commercial’’ in subsection (c). the end the following: ‘‘or under an applicable HIGHWAY SAFETY PROGRAMS.—Effective October (c) DEFINITIONS RELATING TO MOTOR CAR- State law if, on October 1, 2006, the State has a 1, 2007, section 402(c) of the title 23, United RIERS.—Paragraphs (6)(B), (7)(B), (14), and (15) form of highway use taxation not subject to col- States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘The an- of section 13102 of such title are each amended lection through the International Fuel Tax nual apportionment to each State shall not be by striking ‘‘commercial motor vehicle (as de- Agreement’’. less than one-half of 1 per centum’’ and insert- fined in section 31132)’’ and inserting ‘‘motor ve- (r) DRIVEAWAY SADDLEMOUNT VEHICLE.— ing ‘‘The annual apportionment to each State hicle’’. (1) DEFINITION.—Section 31111(a)(4) of title 49, shall not be less than three-quarters of 1 per- (d) FREIGHT FORWARDERS.—Section 13903(a) United States Code, is amended— cent’’. of such title is amended to read as follows: (A) in the paragraph heading by striking (b) CONSOLIDATION OF GRANT APPLICATIONS.— ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall reg- ‘‘DRIVE-AWAY SADDLEMOUNT WITH FULLMOUNT’’ Section 402(m) of title 23, United States Code, is ister a person to provide service subject to juris- and inserting ‘‘DRIVEAWAY SADDLEMOUNT’’; amended in the first sentence— (B) by striking ‘‘drive-away saddlemount with (1) by striking ‘‘through’’ and inserting ‘‘for diction under subchapter III of chapter 135 as a fullmount’’ and inserting ‘‘driveaway which’’; and freight forwarder if the Secretary finds that the saddlemount’’; and (2) by inserting ‘‘is appropriate’’ before the person is fit, willing, and able to provide the (C) by inserting ‘‘Such combination may in- period at the end. service and to comply with this part and appli- clude one fullmount.’’ after the period at the (c) TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.— cable regulations of the Secretary and the end. (1) Section 2002(b) of the Safe, Accountable, Board.’’. (2) IN GENERAL.—Section 31111(b)(1)(D) of Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A (e) BROKERS.—Section 13904(a) of such title is such title is amended by striking ‘‘a driveaway Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1521) is amended— amended to read as follows: saddlemount with fullmount’’ and inserting ‘‘all (A) by striking paragraph (2); and ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall reg- driveaway saddlemount’’. (B) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as ister, subject to section 13906(b), a person to be SEC. 302. TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS RELATING (2) and (3), respectively. a broker for transportation of property subject TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS TRANS- (2) Section 2007(b)(1) of such Act (119 Stat. to jurisdiction under subchapter I of chapter PORTATION. 1529) is amended— 135, if the Secretary finds that the person is fit, (a) DEFINITION OF HAZMAT EMPLOYEES.—Sec- (A) by inserting ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon at willing, and able to be a broker for transpor- tion 7102(2) of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, the end of subparagraph (A); tation and to comply with this part and applica- Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy (B) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of subpara- ble regulations of the Secretary.’’. for Users (119 Stat. 1892) is amended— graph (B); and SEC. 306. APPLICABILITY OF FAIR LABOR STAND- (1) by striking ‘‘(3)(A)’’ and inserting ‘‘(3)’’; (C) by striking subparagraph (C). ARDS ACT REQUIREMENTS AND LIM- (2) in subparagraph (A) by striking ‘‘clause (3) Effective August 10, 2005, section ITATION ON LIABILITY. (i)’’ and inserting ‘‘clause (i) of subparagraph 410(c)(7)(B) of title 23, United States Code, is (a) APPLICABILITY FOLLOWING THIS ACT.—Be- (A)’’; and amended by striking ‘‘clause (i)’’ and inserting ginning on the date of enactment of this Act, (3) in subparagraph (B) by striking ‘‘clause ‘‘clauses (i) and (ii)’’. section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of (ii)’’ and inserting ‘‘subparagraph (A)(ii)’’. (4) Section 411 of title 23, United States Code, 1938 (29 U.S.C. 207) shall apply to a covered em- (b) TECHNICAL CORRECTION.—Section is amended by redesignating the second sub- ployee notwithstanding section 13(b)(1) of that 5103a(g)(1)(B)(ii) of title 49, United States Code, section (c), relating to administration expenses, Act (29 U.S.C. 213(b)(1)). is amended by striking ‘‘Act’’ and inserting and subsection (d) as subsections (d) and (e), re- (b) LIABILITY LIMITATION FOLLOWING ‘‘subsection’’. spectively. SAFETEA–LU.—

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(1) LIMITATION ON LIABILITY.—An employer Administrator, fee simple title to real property, TITLE V—OTHER PROVISIONS shall not be liable for a violation of section 7 of including a building, that the Administrator de- SEC. 501. DE SOTO COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI. the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. termines to be suitable as a replacement facility Section 219(f)(30) of the Water Resources De- 207) with respect to a covered employee if— for the parcel to be conveyed under subsection velopment Act of 1992 (106 Stat. 4835; 110 Stat. (A) the violation occurred in the 1-year period (a); and 3757; 113 Stat. 334; 114 Stat. 2763A–220; 119 Stat. beginning on August 10, 2005; and (B) provide such other consideration as the 282; 119 Stat. 2257) is amended by striking (B) as of the date of the violation, the em- Administrator and the Corporation may agree, ‘‘$55,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$75,000,000’’. ployer did not have actual knowledge that the including payment of the costs of relocating the SEC. 502. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE REVIEW. employer was subject to the requirements of occupants vacating the parcel to be conveyed Consistent with applicable standards and pro- such section with respect to the covered em- under subsection (a). cedures, the Department of Justice shall review ployee. (3) PURCHASE PRICE.—If the Administrator re- allegations of impropriety regarding item 462 in (2) ACTIONS TO RECOVER AMOUNTS PREVIOUSLY quires the Corporation to provide consideration section 1934(c) of Public Law 109–59 to ascertain PAID.—Nothing in paragraph (1) shall be con- under paragraph (1)(B), the Corporation shall if a violation of Federal criminal law has oc- strued to establish a cause of action for an em- pay to the Administrator the fair market value curred. ployer to recover amounts paid before the date of the parcel to be conveyed under subsection Mrs. BOXER. Madam President, I of enactment of this Act in settlement of, in (a) based on its highest and best use as deter- move to reconsider the vote and to lay compromise of, or pursuant to a judgment ren- mined by an independent appraisal commis- dered regarding a claim or potential claim based that motion on the table. sioned by the Administrator and paid for by the The motion to lay on the table was on an alleged or proven violation of section 7 of Corporation. the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. agreed to. (d) APPRAISAL.—In the case of an appraisal The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- 207) occurring in the 1-year period referred to in under subsection (c)(3)— paragraph (1)(A) with respect to a covered em- ator from California is recognized. (1) the appraisal shall be performed by an ap- ployee. Mrs. BOXER. Madam President, this praiser mutually acceptable to the Adminis- (c) COVERED EMPLOYEE DEFINED.—In this sec- trator and the Corporation; and is a good day for the Senate. It took us tion, the term ‘‘covered employee’’ means an in- (2) the assumptions, scope of work, and other a while to get here. I will thank staff in dividual— a moment—floor staff as well, and Sen- (1) who is employed by a motor carrier or terms and conditions related to the appraisal as- motor private carrier (as such terms are defined signment shall be mutually acceptable to the ator REID’s staff, Senator INHOFE’s by section 13102 of title 49, United States Code, Administrator and the Corporation. staff, and my own staff. as amended by section 305); (e) PROCEEDS.— Before that, I have two unanimous (2) whose work, in whole or in part, is de- (1) DEPOSIT.—Any proceeds received under consent requests to make. fined— subsection (c) shall be paid into the Federal The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- (A) as that of a driver, driver’s helper, loader, Buildings Fund established under section 592 of ator will state the requests. or mechanic; and title 40, United States Code. UNANIMOUS CONSENT REQUEST—H.R. 2828 (B) as affecting the safety of operation of (2) EXPENDITURE.—Funds paid into the Fed- Mrs. BOXER. Madam President, I ask motor vehicles weighing 10,000 pounds or less in eral Buildings Fund under paragraph (1) shall transportation on public highways in interstate be available to the Administrator, in amounts unanimous consent that the Senate or foreign commerce, except vehicles— specified in appropriations Acts, for expenditure proceed to the immediate consider- (i) designed or used to transport more than 8 for any lawful purpose consistent with existing ation of Calendar No. 403, H.R. 2828, the passengers (including the driver) for compensa- authorities granted to the Administrator; except Foreign Service Victims of Terrorism tion; that the Administrator shall provide to the Com- Act, which will provide compensation (ii) designed or used to transport more than 15 mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure of to relatives of U.S. citizens killed as a passengers (including the driver) and not used the House of Representatives and the Committee result of the bombing of United States to transport passengers for compensation; or on Environment and Public Works of the Senate Embassies in East Africa on August 7, (iii) used in transporting material found by 30 days advance written notice of any expendi- the Secretary of Transportation to be hazardous ture of the proceeds. 1998; that the bill be read the third time, and passed; and that the motion under section 5103 of title 49, United States (f) ADDITIONAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—The Code, and transported in a quantity requiring Administrator may require such additional to reconsider be laid upon the table, placarding under regulations prescribed by the terms and conditions to the conveyance under with no intervening action or debate. Secretary under section 5103 of title 49, United subsection (a) as the Administrator considers The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there States Code; and appropriate to protect the interests of the United objection? (3) who performs duties on motor vehicles States. Mr. DEMINT. I object. weighing 10,000 pounds or less. (g) DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY AND SURVEY.— The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec- TITLE IV—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS The exact acreage and legal description of the tion is heard. SEC. 401. CONVEYANCE OF GSA FLEET MANAGE- parcels to be conveyed under subsections (a) UNANIMOUS CONSENT REQUEST—H.R. 1595 MENT CENTER TO ALASKA RAIL- and (c)(2) shall be determined by surveys satis- Mrs. BOXER. Madam President, I ask ROAD CORPORATION. factory to the Administrator and the Corpora- unanimous consent that the Judiciary (a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the requirements tion. Committee be discharged from further of this section, the Administrator of General SEC. 402. CONVEYANCE OF RETAINED INTEREST Services shall convey, not later than 2 years IN ST. JOSEPH MEMORIAL HALL. consideration of H.R. 1595, the Guam after the date of enactment of this Act, by quit- (a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the terms and World War II Loyalty Recognition Act; claim deed, to the Alaska Railroad Corporation, conditions of subsection (c), the Administrator that the bill be read the third time, an entity of the State of Alaska (in this section of General Services shall convey to the city of and passed; and that the motion to re- referred to as the ‘‘Corporation’’), all right, St. Joseph, Michigan, by quitclaim deed, any in- consider be laid upon the table, with no title, and interest of the United States in and to terest retained by the United States in St. Jo- intervening action or debate. the parcel of real property described in sub- seph Memorial Hall. section (b), known as the GSA Fleet Manage- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there (b) ST. JOSEPH MEMORIAL HALL DEFINED.—In ment Center. objection? this section, the term ‘‘St. Joseph Memorial (b) GSA FLEET MANAGEMENT CENTER.—The Mr. DEMINT. I object. Hall’’ means the property subject to a convey- parcel to be conveyed under subsection (a) is the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objec- ance from the Secretary of Commerce to the city parcel located at the intersection of 2nd Avenue tion is heard. of St. Joseph, Michigan, by quitclaim deed dated and Christensen Avenue in Anchorage, Alaska, Mrs. BOXER. Madam President, we May 9, 1936, recorded in Liber 310, at page 404, consisting of approximately 78,000 square feet of in the Register of Deeds for Berrien County, just heard objection, but we didn’t get land and the improvements thereon. Michigan. objection, finally, to the technical cor- (c) CONSIDERATION.— rections bill. We are happy about that. (1) IN GENERAL.—As consideration for the par- (c) TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—The conveyance cel to be conveyed under subsection (a), the Ad- under subsection (a) shall be subject to the fol- You and I serve together on the Envi- ministrator shall require the Corporation to— lowing terms and conditions: ronment and Public Works Committee. (A) convey replacement property in accord- (1) CONSIDERATION.—As consideration for the We know our work is important be- ance with paragraph (2); or conveyance under subsection (a), the city of St. cause we know that no country can be (B) pay the purchase price for the parcel in Joseph, Michigan, shall pay $10,000 to the great if it doesn’t have an infrastruc- accordance with paragraph (3). United States. ture that is up to par. The occupant of (2) REPLACEMENT PROPERTY.—If the Adminis- (2) ADDITIONAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—The the chair knows more than most what trator requires the Corporation to provide con- Administrator may require such additional sideration under paragraph (1)(A), the Corpora- terms and conditions for the conveyance under it means when a bridge collapses. We tion shall— subsection (a) as the Administrator considers know what that means. So what we are (A) convey, and pay the cost of conveying, to appropriate to protect the interests of the United doing here is a matter of life and death, the United States, acting by and through the States. quite often.

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You made the point For those following this from the that—even though this was not an easy that we should not bog this bill down, outside, I am afraid I might have lost week and this bill took so many twists that we should get it going. some of them. But what it boiled down and turns and we had to work our way I am delighted we had a victory here to was that the Republican minority through many issues—we have arrived with the Water Resources Development was determined that we would burn 1 at the point where it passed. Act. We are pleased. Up and coming, we week of Senate activity on a bill that Let me say how much I enjoyed are going to have a markup in a couple should have taken 5 minutes. They working with my staff and the staff of of weeks, and then we will get to global were determined that we would have a Senator INHOFE. I am going to read the warming. I don’t know how that will succession of rollcall votes on a bill names of those who deserve to be rec- end, but I know it is going to be very which by and large had no controversy. ognized and thanked. From my staff exciting. We hope everybody will par- There was one little issue that could are Bettina Porier, Kathy Dedrick, ticipate in that debate. have been resolved quickly, perhaps in Tyler Rushforth, Jeff Rosato, Erik Is the Senator from Virginia going to an hour, in a good-faith debate with a Olsen, Paul Ordal, and the rest of my speak? vote. They stretched it out for a week. staff. We do work as a team. I will yield the floor. Why are we in this stall? Why do the I thank Senator INHOFE’s staff, and I The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Republicans want to slow us down? It am sure there are more to be thanked, ator from Virginia is recognized. is part of a strategy. Republican fili- but the ones I worked with closely are, (The remarks of Mr. WARNER are busters this Congress, as of today, went of course, Andy Wheeler, chief over printed in today’s RECORD under up to 66; 66 Republican filibusters this there, Ruth Van Mark, James O’Keeffe, ‘‘Morning Business’’.) Congress and still counting. Is that a Mr. WARNER. Madam President, I and Alex Herrgott. We are so grateful lot? Historically, the Senate has never yield the floor and suggest the absence to you for being close to us, staying had more than 57 filibusters in any 2- of a quorum. year period. We have had 66 in a matter close to us, letting us know when there The PRESIDING OFFICER. The were problems. We appreciate that. of a year and 3 or 4 months. So they are clerk will call the roll. about to break all records with filibus- I say to the majority leader, Senator The assistant legislative clerk pro- ters in an attempt to slow down the REID, how much I appreciated his in- ceeded to call the roll. terest in this bill. He really helped us. Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I ask Senate. They can’t even come to a bi- Bob Herbert, of his staff, Ron Wynch, unanimous consent that the order for partisan agreement on a technical cor- and Mike Castellano—we had technical the quorum call be rescinded. rections bill. The Republicans insist on issues and legal issues and they were The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. these filibuster rollcalls on a technical there. TESTER). Without objection, it is so or- corrections bill. Why? If I am leaving anyone out, please dered. First, they want to slow the Senate down as much as possible so we don’t know it is not my intention. So many f others helped us. act on issues that really count. They Mr. CARPER. Will the Senator yield REPUBLICAN FILIBUSTERS don’t want us to take up an energy bill for a moment? Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, today to talk about energy tax credits so Mrs. BOXER. Yes. the Senate had a historic moment. We that we can expand renewable sources Mr. CARPER. The Senator is leaving passed a bill that has been long await- of energy. They don’t want us to take herself out and Senator INHOFE. On be- ed across America—one that was read up a bill to deal with children’s health half of all of us who have been anxious about and heard about. It finally insurance, a bill vetoed twice by Presi- for this day—to see this technical cor- passed this afternoon. It was a bill dent Bush, which would provide health rections bill put together and have the called the technical corrections bill. care protection for many children not result we have had, I thank the Sen- It was a bill that changed and cor- poor enough to qualify for Medicaid, ator for dealing with the competing rected the punctuation and references not fortunate enough to have parents forces and getting the job done. Some- in a highway bill we enacted several with health insurance. They don’t want one said it was ugly, but it is beautiful years ago. It was not that historic. In us to take up important legislation in the end. It is going to be good for fact, it is fairly routine. You see, after dealing with the state of our economy, the folks in all of our States. We you pass a bill that affects the whole legislation to extend unemployment worked together in a bipartisan way, United States and billions of dollars, benefits to the millions of Americans and I am grateful for that. sometimes, on reflection, you find who are out of work. Those numbers Mrs. BOXER. I thank the Senator. some of the facts were wrong, some of are reaching modern records. We know Senator CARPER, from Delaware, is one the words were wrong; and you have to many of these families are struggling of the senior members on the com- clean it up. And so a technical correc- to find a job. We want to extend bene- mittee, whom we love working with. tions bill is very common around here. fits so these people can feed their fami- He is part of our team. We have a great It happens to correct mistakes, to lies while they are looking for work. committee. It is why I like to be a leg- make sure things are done well and Republicans don’t want us to take up islator. done accurately. It is the kind of bill that legislation. So they keep throwing I want to say, in closing, to floor that historically would pass without filibusters in our path, slowing down staff, all of you here, thank you for any debate whatsoever. Many times it the Senate, making sure the Senate your patience. You have to answer would pass by a voice vote late at night never gets to the issues that are criti- questions. The pages have to be avail- when no one is here because there is so cally important. Whether it is funding able to us. You all let us know what is little controversy attached to it. our schools or paying for health care, going on and whether we are doing it So despite what I said at the outset, taking care of unemployed workers, right or wrong. Of course, in par- it is not that historic. But what made providing money for medical research, ticular, I thank Lula, Tim, and Dave. this process historic, and we are re- trying to bring down the high cost of Without the three of you, we could not searching this, but we believe for the gasoline, the high cost of health care have gotten this done. first time in the history of the Senate, and college, they continue to throw Yes, sometimes when you get to this the Republicans initiated not one but filibusters in our path. point, it is a little like making sau- two filibusters on our effort to pass GOP is shorthand for the Republican sage—that is what they say about how this technical corrections bill. Party. It technically used to stand for a bill becomes a law; it is not a pretty We brought this bill to the floor a Grand Old Party. The Republicans in thing. But we got it done. The most week ago today, asked that it pass, and the Senate have created a new GOP.

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That is have to say, if this world food crisis They were willing to put up with this why their message at this point is so continues unabated, the instability of politician, wear their uniforms, come empty. All they can do is say no, no to terrorism may pale in comparison. in from vacation, on the chance they the issues that really count with Amer- In Thailand, local farmers are report- could fill that cup. They stood there ican families. ing theft of their rice crops, as supplies and waited, just to get one meal. Eventually the American people will from other countries are going down The World Food Program has issued speak, in November, in an election. and prices are going up dramatically. an extraordinary emergency appeal be- They will decide whether this Repub- Protests have turned violent in many cause food programs like that one in lican approach of filibusters and stop- places. In Yemen, food prices have dou- Kenya may not last. There is a short- ping progress and stopping change is bled in recent months. Protests and fall of some $500 million in food pro- what they want to see or whether they riots there left at least 12 people dead. grams across the world. Considering want to bring to the Senate new people Protests in Cameroon earlier this year the high cost of food and fuel prices to who can start moving this country for- killed more than two dozen people and transport it, the shortfall is no sur- ward. Eventually the American people led to desperate attempts by the Gov- prise. But it requires immediate ac- have the last word. I am sorry we have ernment to raise wages and reduce cus- tion. The U.S. contribution to the virtually wasted a week and the time toms duties on food products. Rioters World Food Program is important be- of this great institution with more Re- in Burkina Faso looted stores and cause it doesn’t just feed hungry kids. publican filibusters. But it is their burned Government buildings. The It tells the world who we are. strategy; it is their plan. It is the way Prime Minister of Haiti was forced to Right now there are people who are they address the serious issues facing resign following days of deadly vio- not our friends, who are in fact our en- America. lence over rising food prices. Last emies, who are advertising against the f weekend, a U.N. peacekeeper trans- United States. On television sets and porting food for his unit was dragged WORLD FOOD CRISIS other places around the world, there is from his vehicle and shot execution an image of America that is not even Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I fear we style in the Haitian capital by pro- close to the truth. They suggest that are on the brink of a major humani- testers. we are warmongers and selfish people. tarian crisis around the world. Food The risk of unrest is even more trou- We are not. prices are rising beyond the reach of bling in areas such as Darfur, where We have to prove to the world again people in countries as disparate and far the World Food Program is feeding up that our values count, and we will apart as Haiti, Egypt, and Thailand. to 3 million people a day. This is a hu- stand behind them. This global food Food prices and their increase have led manitarian time bomb which threatens crisis is the kind of challenge that to demonstrations, sometimes even to explode at any moment. gives us our opportunity. violent demonstrations in many parts I have seen food aid programs operate It also is important to quell the of the world, creating real threats to overseas, and they can make a big dif- growing security concerns attached the stability of those countries. As ference. I saw one program when I trav- with a global food crisis. Senators JOHN many as 33 countries face a growing eled to a slum in Nairobi, Kenya. It is risk of hunger and social unrest that is a slum of lean-to homes where more KERRY and JOE BIDEN joined me today caused when people are hungry and than 600,000 people live. It is called in sending a letter to President Bush frightened about their future. Quite Kibera. If you saw the movie ‘‘The Con- urging him to support additional fund- simply, I am concerned that we are stant Gardener,’’ much of it was filmed ing for food aid in the fiscal year 2008 steps away from a world food crisis, a in the slum of Kibera in Nairobi, supplemental appropriations bill. The crisis that could have a dramatic im- Kenya. Some people think up to 1 mil- President is going to come to us short- pact on some of the world’s poorest na- lion people live there from time to ly and ask for $108 billion to continue tions. time, some 600,000. Nobody even knows. the war in Iraq and in Afghanistan. He The other week, World Bank Presi- When you visit there, there are peo- will tell us this is an emergency. The dent Robert Zoellick warned: ple as far as the eye can see—kids play- world food crisis is also an emergency. For countries where food comprises about ing in the streets, in the filth, in rail- It is one we should deal with. If we are half to three-quarters of consumption, there way yards, everywhere. really focused on stability and peace in is no margin for survival. But when I visited there, there was a Iraq, we should not ignore the fact that In the United States, the poorest 20 scene that was almost hard to believe. the shortages of food and hunger percent, the poorest one-fifth of our It was near the holiday season. The around the world can lead to insta- population, spends about 16 percent of local schools were on vacation, but bility in many other places. their income on food. It is a lot com- they asked the students to come back As a first step, the Department of pared to many of us. But in the poorest to greet this Senator who was coming Agriculture has committed to pro- nations, those families spend more from America. About 40 or 50 children viding $200 million in emergency food than half of what they earn to feed put on their uniforms, left their vaca- assistance through the Bill Emerson themselves. In Nigeria, families spend tion time at home, to come back to humanitarian trust. Bill Emerson, an average of 73 percent of the money school. It wasn’t to see me; believe me. former Republican Congressman from they earn on food; in Vietnam, 65 per- It was because they promised them the Boothill area of Missouri, was a cent. Even as food prices soar, humani- that if they would come back to school fine fellow. I got to know him when I tarian aid has been forced to scale that day, they would feed them. The served in the House. He really cared back. In Cambodia, the World Food feeding program in that little school is about children and feeding people. So Program, which is largely sustained part of what is known as the McGov- $200 million in his name is certainly and supported by the United States, ern-Dole school feeding program, money well spent. has suspended a feeding program for named after two former great Senators Moving forward, though, we have to 500,000 schoolchildren because of food who served from South Dakota and understand that is not enough. We are shortages. Rising food prices mean Kansas. going to need to add more to make sure hunger, and with hunger and no real I saw the way that food program this crisis doesn’t occur. hope of ending it come panic, despera- worked. There was a noon lunch which We can share our bountiful harvest. tion, and, ultimately civil unrest. consisted of a pot of boiling cereal. It We can help the poorest people in the At any given time, chronic hunger looked a lot like oatmeal or some form world. We can demonstrate in that way threatens the welfare of an estimated of porridge. They ladled it into plastic the finest elements of the American 850 million people in the world. cups. The kids stood in line like they spirit.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 02:24 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00033 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G17AP6.042 S17APPT1 wwoods2 on PRODPC60 with SENATE S3138 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE April 17, 2008 We recently had a hearing, in fact was just a good, fun-loving young Our prayers are with the family of yesterday, before the Senate Appro- man.’’ Despite the longstanding rivalry Lance Corporal Echols today as God priations Committee, where Jim between the University of Michigan comforts them for their tragic loss. We Nussle, who is chairman of the Office of and Michigan State, Tom and his are thinking of his wife Allyson; his Management and Budget, spoke. Jim grandfather went to that Wolverines daughter Julia; his parents Kurt and comes from the State of Iowa. He is a football game together. Rose; his sister Rebecca; his brother former Congressman, former chairman While Tom’s eyes looked north to his Alexander; his grandparents Jerry and of the House Budget Committee. beloved Wolverines, his feet were firm- Sharon Echols and Donald and Mary I asked him about this. I asked him if ly planted in Kentucky. He attended Wight; and many other beloved family the administration would consider, as Cedar Grove Elementary School, members and friends. part of their supplemental appropria- Bernheim Middle School, and Bullitt This U.S. Senate expresses its deep- tions bill, including more money for Central High School, all in est gratitude for LCpl Thomas P. this global food crisis. I am afraid Mr. Shepherdsville. He graduated from Riv- Echols’s life of service. And we express Nussle was adamant in saying they erview High School in Shepherdsville our deepest gratitude for the Echols would not. They would not consider in 2004. family, for nurturing this man, patriot, adding any money to the $108 billion Growing up, Tom belonged to his and marine who answered the call in for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. He school’s football and track teams. He his country’s time of need. played video games and paintball. And said that is all the President has asked f for. in high school he participated in Jun- WEEK OF THE YOUNG CHILD I hope Mr. Nussle will reconsider. I ior ROTC and the drill team, perhaps certainly hope the President will re- preparing himself for the military life Mr. REID. Mr. President, I wish to consider. What is at issue is not a po- he hoped would lie ahead. recognize the Week of the Young Child, Tom chose to pursue service in uni- litical fight. What is at issue is a fight taking place this week, April 13 form by the time high school gradua- for food so some of the poorest people through 19. tion rolled around. His father, Kurt on Earth can survive. The United Sponsored by the National Associa- Echols, remembers his son thinking of States will have a chance to dem- tion for the Education of Young Chil- a career in the Armed Forces as early onstrate to the world our values and dren, the Week of the Young Child is as middle school. Perhaps Tom drew in- what we stand for. I hope we can do held annually to honor young children spiration from his father, a veteran that by adding to this supplemental and those who make a difference in himself. their lives. This year’s theme is ‘‘Bring funding bill enough money to provide Tom ‘‘was a good kid, loved sports, a assistance to people around the world Communities Together for Children— big Michigan fan,’’ Kurt says of his Children Bring Communities To- who face deprivation and starvation be- son, and remembers him as someone cause of the current global food crisis. gether’’. This week presents an oppor- who always enjoyed a good joke. tunity for us all to focus on the needs In the fall of 2004, Tom enlisted in f of the 20 million young children around the U.S. Marine Corps. He was a mem- the country. It shines a light on the MORNING BUSINESS ber of the 1st Battalion, 6th Marine importance of issues like affordable Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I ask Regiment, 2nd Marine Division from childcare for working families, access unanimous consent that the Senate Camp Lejeune, NC, and during his de- to quality early childhood educational proceed to a period of morning busi- ployment to Iraq, his regiment fell programs, and the availability of ade- ness, with Senators permitted to speak under the command of the First Marine quate health care. for up to 10 minutes each. Expeditionary Force, Forward. Tom’s longtime friend Tim As a father and a grandfather, I am The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without troubled by the fact that so many objection, it is so ordered. Zamboroski was sorry to see the child- hood buddy he had grown up with young children in this country live f whisked away to the other side of the with the effects of poverty and inad- equate health and child care every day. HONORING OUR ARMED FORCES world. As kids, Tom and Tim used to play baseball together in the backyard. It is estimated that 24 percent of Amer- LANCE CORPORAL THOMAS P. ECHOLS As men, they would trade e-mails back ican children under the age of 6 live in Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I and forth from America to Iraq. poverty and 24 percent of those chil- rise today because a brave man from ‘‘I think he was pretty happy with dren are without health insurance. In Kentucky has fallen in the far-away serving the country,’’ Tim says. ‘‘I’m addition, although nearly 50 percent of country of Iraq. LCpl Thomas P. going to miss him.’’ When he heard working families rely on outside Echols was tragically killed on Decem- Tom had been killed, Tim says he felt childcare, fees for these programs are ber 4, 2006, during combat operations in as if he had lost a brother. skyrocketing, leaving them out of the city of Ramadi. The Shepherds- Lance Corporal Echols drove reach for too many. The Week of the ville, KY, native was 20 years old. humvees during his first tour in Iraq, Young Child highlights the role of the Lance Corporal Echols was serving and by his second tour had become an Federal, State, and local governments, his second deployment in Iraq. For his infantryman. as well as private organizations and valor as a U.S. Marine, he received sev- While serving in the Marine Corps, he the general public, in alleviating these eral medals, awards, and decorations, also became a husband, after asking problems and working toward a strong- including the National Defense Service Allyson Echols, whom he met in high er, healthier community. Medal, the Navy and Marine Corps school, to marry him. The Week of the Young Child also Commendation Medal, and the Purple Tom and Allyson married during the gives us an opportunity to recognize Heart. week of Thanksgiving in 2005. Allyson and celebrate the programs and organi- Raised in Shepherdsville, in Bullitt now raises the couple’s young daugh- zations that provide vital services to County, Tom was actually born in ter, Julia, who sadly never got to meet young children and their families. For Mount Clemens, MI, and as a result her father. example, the Head Start Program pro- Tom brought with him to Kentucky a Tom was buried at the Zachary Tay- vides comprehensive early education fast and true love for his University of lor National Cemetery in Louisville, and health services to almost 1 million Michigan Wolverines. His grandfather, KY, with full military honors. A large low-income preschool children to help Don Wight, still recalls how his grand- crowd of people came to pay their final them prepare for and succeed in school. son once saved up money for weeks to respects. Sheriffs from both Bullitt Additionally, the Child Care and De- buy tickets to a University of Michigan County and neighboring Jefferson velopment Block Grant, CCDBG, pro- football game. County were there, and Tom’s father vides funding to States for childcare ‘‘I’m an MSU grad, he’s a dyed-in- Kurt remembers with pride that mem- services for low-income families and the-wool University of Michigan fan. bers of a local fire department erected activities intended to improve the Anything he could find that was U of M a large American flag in honor of his overall quality and supply of childcare. memorabilia, he had it,’’ says Don. ‘‘He son. For families transitioning to financial

VerDate Aug 31 2005 02:24 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00034 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G17AP6.043 S17APPT1 wwoods2 on PRODPC60 with SENATE April 17, 2008 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S3139 independence, CCDBG-funded services education helps to break the dev- There being no objection, the mate- play an especially significant role. astating cycle of crime and poverty. rial was ordered to be printed in the Investing in America’s young chil- Nobel Laureate James Heckman’s RECORD, as follows: dren is one of the best steps we can study of at-risk boys who receive qual- THE WHITE HOUSE, take to ensure the future success of our ity early education shows that less OFFICE OF THE PRESS SECRETARY, Nation. I am pleased to recognize the than 10 percent of the boys who partici- April 14, 2008. Week of the Young Child, and I extend pated would be convicted of a crime REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AND FIRST LADY my thanks to those in Nevada—and and less than 2 percent would end up on IN HONOR OF THOMAS JEFFERSON’S 265TH around the country—who provide for welfare—rates significantly lower than BIRTHDAY our young children on a daily basis. those who did not receive such edu- THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Thanks for coming. Please be seated. Welcome to the Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, today cation. Quality early education programs are White House. Laura and I are so honored you I strongly support Senator SALAZAR’s are here. I welcome members of my Cabinet, resolution designating this week, the supportive of young children in ways members of the United States Senate, folks third week in April, as the ‘‘Week of that enable them to become productive who work in the White House, the Governor the Young Child.’’ I hope the resolution members of society. By cultivating of Virginia and Anne Holton. Thank you all represents a new commitment by all of educated, law abiding members of soci- for coming. We’re really happy you’re here. us in Congress to strengthen the serv- ety we help to guarantee our national We’re here tonight to commemorate the ices young children need to become full competitiveness, the stability of our 265th birthday of Thomas Jefferson, here in a room where he once walked and in a home and productive members of our society economy and the fabric of our commu- nities for the years ahead. Early child- where he once lived. In this house, President in the years ahead. Jefferson spread the word that liberty was Last year’s reauthorization of the hood education creates better students, the right of every individual. In this house, Head Start Act was a significant step better workers and better citizens. Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark off on the in the right direction to assure access We must invest in such education for mission that helped make America a conti- to quality early childhood education. sake of our students and our national nental nation. And in this house, Jefferson The act expanded coverage to families well being. We know the best way to was known to receive guests in his bathrobe just above the poverty line and pro- ensure that our students receive qual- and slippers. (Laughter.) Laura said no. ity early education is by giving them a (Laughter.) I don’t have a bathrobe. (Laugh- vided additional flexibility to assist ter.) more poor families as they make the highly qualified teacher. Yet, early childhood educators continue to be With a single sentence, Thomas Jefferson transition to work and struggle to keep changed the history of the world. After up with the rising cost of living in to- overworked and undervalued in our so- countless centuries when the powerful and day’s new economy. We also renewed ciety. Prekindergarten teachers get the privileged governed as they pleased, Jef- our commitment to underserved popu- paid on average less than half what an ferson proclaimed as a self-evident truth lations, such as Native Americans and elementary school teacher gets paid. that liberty was a right given to all people migrant and seasonal farm worker fam- The Bureau of Labor statistics esti- by an Almighty. mates that the average salary of a pre- Here in America, that truth was not fully ilies, and worked to ensure that every realized in Jefferson’s own lifetime. As he teacher in every Head Start classroom school teacher is $21,730—closer to the salaries of school bus drivers, at observed the condition of slaves in America, is highly qualified. Jefferson said, ‘‘I tremble for my country In addition, the reauthorization es- $22,890, than any other group of edu- when I reflect that God is just’’ and ‘‘that his tablished an Early Childhood Edu- cators, all with median salaries over justice cannot sleep forever.’’ Less than 40 cation Advisory Council to assess the $44,000. years after his death, justice was awakened Inadequate wages make it nearly im- needs children in of early childhood in America and a new era of freedom dawned. possible to recruit and retain qualified Today, on the banks of the Tidal Basin, a programs and develop a comprehensive early childhood educators. The number statue of Thomas Jefferson stands in a ro- plan for improving the quality of serv- of childcare providers with bachelor’s tunda that is a memorial to both the man ices provided. That effort will improve degrees declines year after year, and and the ideas that built this nation. There, professional development, upgrade on any day of the week, you will find men neither their wages nor the high rates standards, enhance connections among and women of all creeds, colors, races and re- of turnover are acceptable. We must programs, and improve data collection. ligions. You will find scholars, school- make it a national priority to guar- children and visitors from every part of our States ready to take on the challenge antee that early childhood educators of implementing these needed improve- country. And you will find each of them are paid and supported in a manner looking upward in quiet reflection on the lit- ments qualify for inventive grants to that reflects their valuable contribu- urgy of freedom—the words of Thomas Jef- get that work underway. Together tions to our Nation’s future. ferson inscribed on the memorial’s walls. these reforms strengthen our commit- We have come a long way in assuring The power of Jefferson’s words do not stop ment to provide both quality childcare, that our Nation’s young children have at water’s edge. They beckon the friends of and quality early learning opportuni- liberty on even the most distant shores. access to the supports and services They’re a source of inspiration for people in ties for the Nation’s youth. But there they need, but our mission is far from is still much more to be done. young democracies like Afghanistan and complete. This is no time for com- Lebanon and Iraq. And they are a source of The research is clear—high quality plaining. We must continue to expand hope for people in nations like Belarus and early education makes a profound dif- our support for our nation’s youngest Burma, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Syria, North ference in the lives of children, espe- children, for they truly are America’s Korea and Zimbabwe, where the struggle for cially at-risk children. In fact, many future. Let’s use this ‘‘Week of the freedom continues. experts believe that 85 percent of a Young Child’’ to emphasize that vital Thomas Jefferson left us on July 4, 1826— child’s intellect is established before a fifty years to the day after our Declaration point for communities across our great of Independence was adopted. In one of the child reaches the age of five. Unless we country. begin to educate at-risk children before great harmonies of history, his friend and f rival John Adams died on the very same day. they reach kindergarten, we may lose Adams’ last words were, ‘‘Thomas Jefferson them forever. Students who start THE 265TH ANNIVERSARY OF survives.’’ And he still does today. And he school behind tend to stay behind, and THOMAS JEFFERSON will live on forever, because the desire to early childhood education makes all Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I ask live in freedom is the eternal hope of man- the difference. Those who have access unanimous consent to have printed in kind. to high quality early childhood edu- today’s RECORD a detailed speech. I was And now it’s my pleasure to welcome cation are 30 percent more likely to privileged to go to the White House on Wilfred McClay to the stage. (Applause.) graduate from high school, twice as Monday, when the President cele- * * * * * likely to go on to college, and are 40 brated, with many others, the 265th an- MRS. BUSH: Thank you very much, Mr. McClay and Mr. Wilson. Thank you so—for percent less likely to need expensive niversary of Thomas Jefferson. Those your reflections on Thomas Jefferson’s life special education programs or be held remarks are so prized, particularly in and his contributions to our nation, and back a grade. my State, but all across America, that thanks to each of you for joining us today so But the positive benefits extend be- I wish to put the content of those we can learn more about the legacy of one of yond the classroom. Early childhood speeches in today’s RECORD. America’s most influential founding fathers.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 03:33 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00035 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G17AP6.036 S17APPT1 wwoods2 on PRODPC60 with SENATE S3140 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE April 17, 2008 Thomas Jefferson believed that education I have outlined Thomas Jefferson’s in- at one end is the Rotunda, a great domed is the cornerstone of a free society, so it’s volvement in this building to make a building that housed the library. Based upon therefore little surprise that he viewed the point,—the buildings he lived in, their style, the Pantheon in Rome, considered one of the founding of the University of Virginia as one appearance, the furnishings—rugs, drapes, great and most perfect monuments of antiq- of his top achievements, as we know from chairs—and gardens were critical to him. As uity, Jefferson has taken an ancient symbol, both of your talks. He called the building of he once said: ‘‘Architecture is my delight, the dome of the cosmos to the Romans, the this school the last service he could render and putting up and pulling down one of my dome of the heavens to Christianity, unity his country, saying, ‘‘Could I see it open? I favorite amusements.’’ Jefferson was ob- for our Capitol, and transformed it once would not ask an hour more of life.’’ sessed, wherever he lived, whether in Char- again, it becomes the dome of enlighten- But in fact Thomas Jefferson lived a little lottesville, Williamsburg, or Poplar Forest, ment, of reason, it is the library, the mind of over a year after the University of Virginia all in Virginia, or in Philadelphia during the the university. In his hands the library be- opened its doors. During this time he was in- 1770s, New York, 1790s, or Paris, 1784–89. came the central element—symbol of the volved in the University activities, and he When he was the American Ambassador to modern university. invited students, including a young Edgar the Court of Louis XVI, he remodeled his Jefferson saw his accomplishments in a Allan Poe, to dine with him each Sunday at quarters even though he didn’t own them. very particular way, and he both designed nearby Monticello. Monticello was in a constant state of con- his obelisk shaped tombstone at Monticello Today, Jefferson still shapes the lives of struction, and if any of you have lived and ordered it would contain a very par- the students at the school he founded. The through a house remodeling, you know how ticular statement . . . (He was ‘‘Mr. Control’’ architecture of his academical village en- conducive that is to family harmony. Right? to the end). It contains nothing, nothing . . . courages free study in a collaborative envi- Jefferson lived in a construction zone his en- about public offices he had occupied. What it ronment, and UVA’s philosophy of student tire life. does say is: ‘‘Here was buried Thomas Jeffer- self-governance epitomizes our third Presi- What were Jefferson’s architectural son Author of the Declaration of American dent’s democratic ideals. achievements? He wrote to his close friend Independence of the Statute of Virginia for The 18 men I now introduce are heirs to James Madison (later an occupant of this Religious Freedom and Father of the Univer- this tradition. The Virginia Gentlemen are building): sity of Virginia.’’ Two writings which are UVA’s oldest a cappella vocal ensemble. ‘‘But how is a taste in the beautiful art to fundamental to our American freedoms and They perform for distinguished audiences be formed in our countrymen, unless we the institution by which they would be car- across the country and around the world. To- avail ourselves of every occasion when public ried out. night is their first performance at the White buildings are to be erected, of presenting to JEFFERSON BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION REMARKS House, and we’re happy to have them. them models for their study and imitation? (By Wilfred M. McClay, Apr. 14, 2008) .... You see I am an enthusiast on the sub- Here to perform a few musical selections, Thank you, Mr. President, for your warm ject of the arts. But it is an enthusiasm of including the University of Virginia’s school welcome, and for the great honor of taking which I am not ashamed, as its object is to song, please welcome the Virginia Gentle- part in this celebration of Thomas Jeffer- men. (Applause.) improve the taste of my countrymen, to in- son’s life. crease their reputation, to reconcile them to It is always hard to know where to begin RICHARD GUY WILSON, the rest of the world, and procure them its with Thomas Jefferson. His early biographer COMMONWEALTH PROFESSOR, praise.’’ TJ to James Madison, September 20, James Parton described Jefferson in 1775— ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, 1785. one year before he wrote the Declaration of University of Virginia. This letter of 1785 was on the occasion of Independence—as ‘‘a gentleman of thirty- MR. PRESIDENT, MRS. BUSH, AND LADIES his design of the Virginia State Capitol in two, who could calculate an eclipse, survey AND GENTLEMEN: Thank you—an honor to Richmond. I would argue the Virginia Cap- an estate, tie an artery, plan an edifice, try speak on Thomas Jefferson and his architec- itol—or state house—is his most important a cause, break a horse, dance a minuet, and tural accomplishments. Thomas Jefferson building, a large Roman temple that stands play the violin.’’ And at that point in his knew this house very well,—he was the first on Shockoe Hill in Richmond—originally life, he was just getting warmed up. full time occupant—John Adams resided here overlooking the James River. The Virginia So how can we take his measure? Should for barely 4 months. The house remained un- Capitol is one of the first major public build- we start by recounting his political accom- finished, many rooms—such as this one, were ing constructed after the Revolution, and its plishments over four decades of public serv- large bare brick caverns, there was no grand classical ancestry helped to determine the ice, ranging from his entry into the Virginia staircase, and the floors were rough. Visitors look of American governmental architecture House of Burgesses in 1769 to his retirement recalled that Jefferson kept several tables of for the next several centuries. Instead of red from public life in 1809, after two terms as tools . . . one apparently in this room . . . brick and skimpy classical details Jefferson the third President of the United States? described as ‘‘a long table’’ that contained gave us a governmental image. Or do we stress instead his influence in the hammers, chisels, and other implements, and Thomas Jefferson is sometimes labeled a world of ideas, through his powerful writings the visitors remember him taking the tools ‘‘gentleman’’ or an ‘‘amateur’’ architect but in support of American independence—the to fix locks, pound in nails in window mold- this is a misnomer. Yes, he was self-trained, greatest of these being, of course, the Dec- ings as well as work in the garden. but there were no architectural schools (they laration of Independence itself, with its stir- Jefferson had offered his own designs for were not invented in this country until the ring invocation of the God-given rights of the Executive Mansion or President’s house 1860s), rather he learned from books and he every individual human being—words that as it was known back in 1791–92, along with had the largest architectural library in the changed the course of human history, and plans for the U.S. Capitol; this he projected young republic, and he did the drawings, he continue to do so today? as a great domed structure. But Washington, figured the specifications . . . How many Or Jefferson’s keen and unflagging interest apparently, rejected his schemes and com- bricks? How much timber? How much glass in natural science, as evidenced by his serv- petitions were held. Jefferson served as sec- to order, and he superintended the construc- ice as president of the American Philo- retary of state in the 1st Washington admin- tion. Jefferson designed houses, his own and sophical Society from 1797 to 1815, years that istration and that office—Secretary of those for friends, utilitarian buildings such overlap his entire tenure as President of the State—was a bit different than today, since as shops, farm structures, court houses, a United States? it included internal administration as well jail (we think) and he frequently offered his Or his love of architecture, as embodied in as foreign affairs. Jefferson also offered his wisdom to his colleagues (he was ‘‘Mr. Sug- the graceful neoclassical home Monticello scheme for laying out Washington, D.C., (re- gestion Box’’). But . . . and this makes him that he designed and built for himself near member this is a ‘‘new city’’ and created in an amateur . . . he was never paid, he did it his Virginia birthplace on what was then the the 1790s) and Jefferson’s advice . . . not to all gratis. western edge of settlement? mention his loan of maps . . . is fundamental Although the Virginia State Capitol is his Not to mention his overwhelming passion to the plan along with the great mall devel- most important building—because of its leg- for gadgetry, which invariably impresses oped by Major Pierre Charles L’Enfant. acy. . .his greatest I would argue—is the visitors to Monticello, who nearly always re- To return here to this building—the White ‘‘academical village,’’ of the University of member the revolving bookstand, the dumb- House—(officially so named in 1901), Jeffer- Virginia. It is totally his creation—yes . . . waiter, the copying machine, the automatic son while president designed a number of ad- he did ask for suggestions and advice—as any double doors, the Great Clock, the triple- ditions including wings, the gardens, and wise person does—but it was or is his concept sash window, and countless other gizmos then he commissioned his close friend Ben- of what is the appropriate setting for edu- that the ever-inventive Jefferson himself ei- jamin Henry Latrobe—who he also appointed cation. Jefferson felt that one learned as ther designed or adapted. in 1803 as the Architect of the Capitol—to de- much from your environment as from the And what about his founding of the Univer- sign both the north and south porticos; professor gabbing away in a class room. The sity of Virginia in nearby Charlottesville, Latrobe’s porticos are the most distin- University is great lawn enclosed on 3 sides whose serenely beautiful central grounds he guishing external element of the building. It and open at the end. Pavilions for the profes- also designed? Or his great contributions to took many years to get the porticos built sors and dormitory rooms for the students on the cause of religious and intellectual lib- . . . things were not that different then as the two long sides are tied together by col- erty, which for him were essential to the dig- now on getting government projects under- onnades of classical columns of various or- nity of the individual person, and central to way, and finished. ders and sizes. Dominating the composition the work of a great university?

VerDate Aug 31 2005 02:24 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00036 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17AP6.033 S17APPT1 wwoods2 on PRODPC60 with SENATE April 17, 2008 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S3141 You all probably know that Jefferson, that was an office of ‘‘splendid misery,’’ which empowerment, self-sufficiency, and an inveterate designer, even designed his own ‘‘brings nothing but increasing drudgery & end to cycles of destructive behavior tombstone, and specified the only things it daily loss of friends.’’ and relationships by at-risk girls and was to say about his life: that he wrote the Add to that the fact that he had more than young women. The organization began Declaration and Virginia’s Statute of Reli- a little bit of the recluse in him. Twice he gious Freedom, and that he was Father of withdrew entirely from public life, first in as the National Florence Crittenton the University of Virginia. Of how many the 1780s, after a disappointing term as gov- Mission, founded in 1883 by 19th cen- other men can it be said that their having ernor of Virginia, then the second time at tury philanthropist Charles Crittenton served two full terms as President of the the conclusion of his presidency, when he of New York City a year after his United States—which I think we all agree is left Washington disgusted and exhausted, daughter Florence died at the age of 5. no shabby achievement!—was in the second anxious to be rid of the place. As he wrote a His goal was to assist girls and young or third tier of their accomplishments? friend, ‘‘Never did a prisoner, released from women in trouble, and in the years Some will object that all this praise fails his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shak- that followed, Florence Crittenton to do justice to the flaws in our subject. And ing off the shackles of power.’’ Never was he Homes became famous in communities that is true enough. Should we then begin, as happier than when ensconced in his Monti- is overwhelmingly the fashion today, by em- cello retreat, his ‘‘portico facing the wilder- across the United States and in foreign phasizing Jefferson’s complexity, his con- ness’’ that he loved and found renewal in. countries as well. tradictions, his shortcomings? That might At bottom, I think Jefferson is best under- One of the leading members of the not seem very charitable, or in keeping with stood as a man of letters. Literally. Jeffer- Foundation today is the Crittenton the spirit of the occasion. But it would have son wrote almost 20,000 letters in his life- Women’s Union in Boston, which began the Jeffersonian virtue of honesty. And there time, and it is in these letters that he seems as a Florence Crittenton Home in the are negative aspects of Jefferson’s life and to have felt freest and most fully himself. Al- city in 1896. It was launched by a pio- career that simply cannot be denied. though he complained to John Adams that neering group of women activists who No one can deny that although Jefferson he suffered ‘‘under the persecution of let- opposed slavery in theory, he consistently wanted it to be a ‘‘big sister’’ to ‘‘un- ters,’’ the opposite seems to have been the fortunate New England girls’’ young failed to oppose it in practice, including no- case. This was a man who lived much of his tably in the conduct of his own life at Monti- life inside his own head, and it is in these unmarried mothers in need of shelter cello. letters that he comes most fully alive for us. and moral guidance. No one can deny that Jefferson’s racial He seems to have needed the buffer of letters In the years that followed these two views, particularly as expressed in his book interposed between himself and the world; organizations joined forces and com- Notes on the State of Virginia, are appalling but with that buffer in place, the otherwise bined with other organizations to cre- by today’s standards. awkward and taciturn Jefferson became ate the Crittenton Women’s Union, No one can deny that Jefferson often prac- more open, wonderfully expressive and re- which today empowers low-income ticed a very harsh brand of politics. His fa- sponsive to his correspondents. women in our city by providing safe mously conciliatory words ‘‘We are all Re- It was in his letters to Maria Cosway that publicans, we are all Federalists’’ in his housing, caring support services, edu- we glimpse his passionate nature, and the cation, and workforce development First Inaugural Address were quickly belied struggles between head and heart that pre- by his ferocious partisanship, which was re- occupied much of his inner life. It is in his programs. lentlessly aimed at stigmatizing the Fed- letters to his nephew Peter Carr that we see In addition to using its on-the- eralist party and driving it out of existence. his thoughts as a preceptor and wise guide to ground experience to shape public pol- Nor can one deny that his greatest act as the world’s ways. And it was in his magnifi- icy and achieve social change, President, the Louisiana Purchase, and his cent correspondence with his old rival John Crittenton Women’s Union is also Mas- worst, the Embargo Act, both represented a Adams, a dialogue that spanned fifty years complete repudiation of his most basic prin- sachusetts’ largest provider of transi- until their deaths in 1826, that Jefferson ciples about the dangers of big government tional housing for homeless mothers most fully explored the deeper meaning of and strong executive authority. and their children and the founder of the American experiment. He was constantly These are not small flaws, nor are they the New England’s first transitional home using his correspondence to organize and only ones. We are not wrong to insist upon sharpen his thinking, and it is there that we for victims of domestic violence. The their being remembered, even on this day. see him most fully and vividly. organization continues its innovative Still, the compulsion to criticize Jefferson In any event, it is for his ideas, above all approach to today’s compelling social has gone too far. Jefferson is, I believe, one else, that we honor Jefferson; and for the problems through its focus on work- of the principal victims of our era’s small- cause of human freedom and human dignity force development and post-secondary minded rage against the very idea that im- that he so eloquently championed. His perfect men can still be heroes—and that we school training to enable women to be- failings may weigh against the man, but not badly need such heroes. We have been living come economically self-sufficient. against the cause for which he labored so through an era that feels compelled to cut Its services are further strengthened mightily. That should be a lesson to us the storied past down to the size of the tab- by its unique partnership with the Na- today. Like Jefferson, we are carriers of loid present. Perhaps the time has come for tional Crittenton Foundation, which meanings far larger than we know, meanings that to change. whose full realization cannot be achieved in gathers valuable insights from its na- For when all is said and done, Thomas Jef- tionwide network of frontline agencies ferson deserves to be remembered and re- our lifetime, or even be fully understood by us, but which we are nevertheless charged to and provides a forum to share best vered as a great intellect and great patriot, practices and shape national policies to whose worldwide influence, from Beijing to carry forward as faithfully as we can. Lhasa to Kiev to Prague, has been incalcu- But unlike Jefferson, we have the benefit benefit all young women and girls at lable, and whose belief in the dignity and un- of being able to stand on his shoulders, with risk. realized potential to be found in the minds his words to direct and inspire us. ‘‘We Today, 125 years after Charles and hearts of ordinary people is at the core knew’’ about Jefferson’s faults, said the civil Crittenton began his historic work as a of what is greatest in the American demo- rights leader, Representative John Lewis. an agent for positive change for young cratic experiment. It is in this sense that ‘‘But we didn’t put the emphasis there. We women and girls, Crittenton Women’s put the emphasis on what he wrote in the James Parton was absolutely correct in Union and the National Crittenton making the following proclamation: ‘‘If Jef- Declaration.... His words were so power- ful. His words became the blueprint, the foundation remain true to his vision. I ferson is wrong, America is wrong. If Amer- welcome this opportunity to commend ica is right, Jefferson was right.’’ guideline for us to follow. From those words Of course, we want to know more than Jef- you have the fountain.’’ the Foundation and its extraordinary ferson’s words; we want to feel that we know It is the same fountain that today, 265 members on this special anniversary the man himself. But that is exceptionally years after Jefferson’s birth, still nourishes for their continuing vision and com- hard with Jefferson. He eludes our grasp. He our lives, and shows no sign of running dry. mitment to their goals in Massachu- may well have been the shyest man ever to Today is a good day to drink from it anew. setts and throughout the Nation. occupy the office of President, awkward and f f taciturn except in small and convivial set- tings, such as small dinner parties, where he 125TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NA- TRIBUTE TO YVONNE could feel at his ease, and shed some of his TIONAL CRITTENTON FOUNDA- BRATHWAITE BURKE reticence. TION He loathed public speaking, giving only Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Mr. President, two major speeches while President, and Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, today today I honor Yvonne Brathwaite none on the campaign trail. He often felt marks the 125th anniversary of The Na- Burke, who is retiring at the end of that the work of politics ran against his na- tional Crittenton Foundation, the na- 2008, after a distinguished and illus- ture, and complained that the Presidency tionwide organization that supports trious career spanning 50 years as a

VerDate Aug 31 2005 02:24 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00037 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17AP6.036 S17APPT1 wwoods2 on PRODPC60 with SENATE S3142 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE April 17, 2008 public servant in the State of Cali- cancy in the Fourth Supervisorial Dis- Easter Seals: the lily. The lily makes fornia. trict in Los Angeles County and served us all think of rebirth and new life, I wish to extend to Mrs. Burke, who in that capacity until the end of 1980. which is exactly what Easter Seals pro- served as a Representative of Califor- She also was appointed by the Gov- vides to those they help. It is why the nia’s 37th Congressional District from ernor to serve on the Board of Regents lily has appeared on every Easter 1973 to 1979, my sincere congratulations of the University of California in 1982. ‘‘Seal’’ produced since the 1950s. for the decades of dedicated service Two years later, Mrs. Burke was se- I would be remiss if I thanked Easter that she has given to her Nation, her lected to serve as vice chair of the 1984 Seals Delaware and Maryland’s Eastern State, and her county. U.S. Olympics Organizing Committee. Shore without recognizing its driving She is currently serving as chair of In 1992, she became the first African force for the last half century. Sandra the Los Angeles County Board of Su- American elected to the Los Angeles Tuttle, who has been associated with pervisors and is in the final year of her County Board of Supervisors. the organization for nearly 50 years— fourth term on the board. She played a significant role in the including as its president and CEO For the past 15 years, she has rep- 2000 Democratic National Convention, since 1978—is stepping aside from her resented the Second Supervisorial Dis- hosting an event for hundreds of Afri- formal role. Her leadership has been trict. can American elected officials nation- the engine of this remarkable organiza- Supervisor Burke will be remembered wide. tion; her devotion, professionalism, and as a devoted public servant who Supervisor Burke represents nearly guidance are known to all associated amassed numerous accomplishments 2.5 million residents in the Second Dis- with Easter Seals. and countless awards—in addition to trict of the Nation’s largest county. I wish her the best of luck in all her inspiring women and minorities to pur- Her efforts primarily have focused on future endeavors and thank her from sue careers in public service. improving the lives of children, encour- the bottom of my heart for what she As a product of the Los Angeles Uni- aging economic development, and im- has helped this organization become. fied School District, Mrs. Burke devel- proving transportation throughout Los The lives she has touched are without oped an interest in public speaking and Angeles, as well as promoting public number. She truly is an angel walking participated in several citywide com- social services, health care for the un- among us. petitions during her high school years. insured, and affirmative action for I know I am not the first to thank Her involvement in these events and women and the economically disadvan- Easter Seals in this Chamber, and I many extracurricular activities helped taged. doubt I will be the last. This incredible her to obtain scholarships to the UC In addition, she has taken the lead in organization, started by a few people Berkeley and later at UCLA. establishing a county archives system. trying to make a difference for dis- In 1956, Mrs. Burke received a law de- These are just some of Yvonne Brath- abled children, has blossomed into the gree from the University of Southern waite Burke’s significant accomplish- model for all such groups in America. I California School of Law. ments. thank my local chapter for its work, It was difficult for women, particu- On behalf of the U.S. Senate and the congratulate it on this momentous oc- larly African Americans, to practice State of California, I extend my heart- casion, and hope that its influence will law, because many private law firms felt gratitude for her immeasurable continue to grow for years to come. showed little interest in hiring women contributions throughout her renowned as attorneys. career. f So Mrs. Burke opened her own law of- With sincere best wishes, I congratu- CONGRATULATING THE STATE OF fice in Los Angeles. late Supervisor Burke upon her retire- ISRAEL She specialized in immigration and ment from elective office. civil rights and fought segregation in And I am pleased to join her many Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, it is a real estate law. coworkers; her family: her husband privilege to be able to offer my most Mrs. Burke was active in the civil William, her daughter Autumn and sincere congratulations to the State of rights movement with memberships in stepdaughter Christine; friends; and as- Israel as it celebrates its 60th anniver- various local and national organiza- sociates in wishing her health, happi- sary of independence. I am so proud tions. ness, and continued good fortune in her that Israel has not only survived, but She subsequently landed a staff at- future endeavors. has become one of the most prosperous torney position on the McCone Com- f and successful democracies anywhere mission, which investigated the causes in the world. CONGRATULATING EASTER SEALS of the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles. The Israeli National Anthem, She became a spokesperson for the Mr. BIDEN. Mr. President, I wish Hatikvah, means, ‘‘The Hope.’’ That is underrepresented and, through a grass- today to commend a standout chapter really what the modern State of Israel roots campaign, won her first political of a renowned organization, one that has been about over these 60 years. office in 1966 as a California State has been responsible for bringing light Founded after the horrors of the Holo- assemblywoman. to the lives of countless Americans caust, the Jewish people created a It was a position she held for the throughout its existence. Easter Seals place where their faith and history next 6 years. Delaware and Maryland’s Eastern could be secured and passed from gen- In 1972, Mrs. Burke became the first Shore is celebrating its 60th year of eration to generation. In this place, African American woman—west of the providing critical help to those in need. never again would dictators or fanatics Mississippi River—to be elected to the In 1948, the organization was started be able to systematically persecute, U.S. House of Representatives. to meet the needs of children with dis- terrorize, and murder entire commu- She was selected to serve as vice abilities, and it has grown exponen- nities or an entire people. chair of the 1972 Democratic National tially since then. This chapter served Hope sustained the Jewish people Convention in Miami and later on the 18,000 Delawareans last year through through 3,000 years of persecution that House Select Committee on Assassina- eight locations, and they now have an culminated in the evils of the Holo- tions. annual operating budget of $15 million. caust. And for the last 60 years, that She also was the first Congress- The services provided by the staff same sense of hope for the future has woman to give birth while in office. and volunteers at Easter Seals are well allowed the people of Israel to per- Mrs. Burke did not seek re-election known: speech and hearing therapy, as- severe in the face of continual assaults to Congress in 1978 but instead ran for sistive technology, and job training are on its very existence, whether they are attorney general of California. just a few of the ways they help chil- in the form of war, terrorism, or assas- She won the Democratic nomination, dren and adults with disabilities lead sination. but subsequently was defeated in the independent lives in their commu- As Israel celebrates this milestone, I general election. nities. am proud to say that the United States In 1979, Mrs. Burke was appointed by As we embark on spring this year, it has been by its side, offering support the to fill a va- is appropriate to recall the symbol of and assistance, and watching it grow

VerDate Aug 31 2005 02:24 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00038 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G17AP6.001 S17APPT1 wwoods2 on PRODPC60 with SENATE April 17, 2008 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S3143 into an unparalleled partner in pro- together those survivors and their fam- Thus, today, I ask my colleagues to moting the ideals of democracy, per- ilies to talk about cancer and the join me in honoring these great Ameri- sonal freedom, and human rights. unique circumstances that native peo- cans and thanking them for their devo- The United States has also tirelessly ple face. tion and service to our Nation.∑ supported Israel as it continues to seek Harvey was taken from us too soon. I f lasting peaceful coexistence with its would like to extend my deepest condo- neighbors to bring a permanent end to lences to his family and his friends in MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT years of suffering and senseless vio- this time of great loss and encourage Messages from the President of the lence. And we will continue to be there them to go forward with Harvey’s ef- United States were communicated to to support them in that effort. forts.∑ the Senate by Mr. Williams, one of his When Yitzhak Rabin went before the f secretaries. Knesset in October 1995 to discuss the THE LOUISIANA HONOR AIR f ratification of the Israeli-Palestinian ∑ interim agreement, he said the fol- Mr. VITTER. Mr. President, today I EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED wish to acknowledge and honor a very lowing: As in executive session the Presiding ‘‘Here, in the land of Israel, we re- special group, the Louisiana HonorAir. Louisiana HonorAir is a not-for-profit Officer laid before the Senate messages turned and built a nation. Here, in the from the President of the United land of Israel, we established a state. group that flies as many as 200 World War II veterans a year up to Wash- States submitting sundry nominations The land of the prophets, which be- which were referred to the appropriate queathed to the world the values of ington, DC, free of charge. On April 26, 2008 a group of 99 veterans will reach committees. morality, law and justice, was, after Washington as part of this very special (The nominations received today are two thousand years, restored to its program. printed at the end of the Senate pro- lawful owners—the members of the I want to take a moment to thank all ceedings.) Jewish people. On its land, we have the brave veterans visiting our Capitol f built an exceptional national home and city this trip: state.’’ REPORT RELATIVE TO THE AD- Richard S. Allain; Wilton J. Aucoin, Sr.; MINISTRATION’S INTENT TO ADD Israel is indeed an exceptional nation Henry E. Babineaux; Nolan P. Barras; James state, and this milestone is a great tes- R. Bazet, Sr.; Raymond R. Beadle, Sr.; THE SOLOMON ISLANDS TO THE tament to the hope, faith, and perse- George Beaugh, Sr.; John S. Becnel, Jr.; LIST OF LEAST-DEVELOPED verance of the Jewish people. I offer Charles F. Berard; Dailey J. Berard; Cecile BENEFICIARY DEVELOPING my congratulations to Israel on the M. Beyt; Raymond L. Bienvenu; Dewey D. COUNTRIES UNDER THE GENER- 60th anniversary of its founding. Billodeau; Nelson C. Boudreaux; Jules C. ALIZED SYSTEM OF PREF- Bourgeois; Alby J. Bourque; Roy J. Boutte, ERENCES PROGRAM—PM 44 f Sr.; Adam T. Boyd; Gerald C. Braud; Minos J. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS Breaux. The PRESIDING OFFICER laid be- Charles E. Broussard; Dennis J. Broussard; fore the Senate the following message Taylor J. Broussard, Jr.; Earl H. Brown, Sr.; from the President of the United TRIBUTE TO HARVEY WHITE Leroy M. Burgess; Dracos D. Burke; Leroy J. States, together with an accompanying Coulter; Perry J. Decuir; Alvy A. DeHart; report; which was referred to the Com- WOMAN Rogers DeHart, Sr.; Charles L. ∑ Mr. JOHNSON. Mr. President. I wish DeLahoussaye; Gustave A. Duhon; John N. mittee on Finance: to recognize a distinguished member of Fernandez; William S. Flores; Guy J. Folse; To the Congress of the United States: the Oglala Sioux Tribe, Harvey White Theresa D. Formeller; James T. Fulgham; In accordance with section Woman. Harvey passed away on Mon- Claby J. Gary; Raymond H. George; Joseph C. Glorioso. 502(f)(1)(B) of the Trade Act of 1974, as day, March 31, 2008 following a brave Carlo J. Governale; Bert A. Guiberteau; amended (the ‘‘Act’’), I am providing battle against a rare form of cancer. Lloyd J. Guillory; James S. Hebert; Joseph notification of my intent to add the Though he was only 44, he carried the V. Hebert; Julius M. Hebert; Oddie J. Hebert; Solomon Islands to the list of least-de- wisdom and insight of many elders and Lawrence Lacy; Richard LaFleur; James W. veloped beneficiary developing coun- worked in a positive way to educate Lancios; Alfred S. Landry; Walter J. tries under the Generalized System of native and nonnative people on treaty Latiolais, Sr.; Harold P. LeBlanc; Malcolm Preferences (GSP) program. In Execu- F. LeCompte; Joseph H. LeGrand; Robert R. and water rights. He was often asked to LeJeune; RosaMae Lopez; Ray A. Louviere; tive Order 12302 of April 1, 1981, the Sol- give presentations to adults and Charles T. Mahoney; Frank O. Maness, Jr. omon Islands was designated as a bene- schoolchildren alike about the Fort Salvadore Marchese, Jr.; Edith L. ficiary developing country for purposes Laramie Treaty of 1868 as a way to edu- Mazurek; Mahlen M. Meaux; Chelly P. Men- of the GSP program. After considering cate the public, not only about the his- doza; Woodrow P. Mendoza; Leroy E. Miller; the criteria set forth in sections 501 tory of this region of our country but Leon J. Minvielle, Jr.; Louis P. Monte’; and 502 of the Act, I have determined also about the promises that were George P. Munson; Henry A. Myers, Sr.; that it is appropriate to extend least- Clifford D. Neal; James H. Newcomb, Sr.; made to native people. Stewart L. Newman; Jewell D. Palmer; Ger- developed beneficiary developing coun- In his work as an assistant to the Og- ald F. Patout; Jules G. Patout; Rene L. try benefits to the Solomon Islands. lala Sioux Tribe’s Fifth Member’s of- Patout; Jasper P. Pennington; George W. GEORGE W. BUSH. fice, Harvey’s voice could be heard re- Perry; Irwin M. Pierron. THE WHITE HOUSE, April 17, 2008. Thomas M. Randazzo; Griffin P. Reaux; minding us as Members of Congress of f our duties to uphold those treaty obli- Clyde R. Redmond; Donald A.J. Sanders; Jo- gations. He also served on the board of seph A. Sarradet, Jr.; Clifton O. MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE the Lakota Fund in Kyle and most re- Schexnayder; Francis P. Schwing; George E. Schwing; Jerry E. Shea, Sr.; George C. At 1:04 p.m., a message from the cently as the first director of the Simar; Emile J. Tauzin; Paul A. Traywick; House of Representatives, delivered by Wawokiye Business Institute. The Daniel L. Verret, Sr.; Laines W. Vincent; Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, an- Wawokiye Institute gives specialized RoseMary R. Walker; Johnnie A. Webb; Oli- nounced that the House has passed the assistance to entrepreneurs who are ver A. Williams, Jr.; Robert L. Williams; following bill, in which it requests the working toward realizing their goal of Howard E. Winston. concurrence of the Senate: business success. Through his work and While visiting Washington, DC, these H.R. 2537. An act to amend the Federal presentations on traditional entrepre- veterans will tour Arlington National Water Pollution Control Act relating to neurship, many people around the Cemetery, the Iwo Jima Memorial, the beach monitoring, and for other purposes. world gained a better understanding of Vietnam Memorial, the Korean Memo- f the business instincts of native people rial, and the World War II Memorial. throughout history. This program provides many veterans ENROLLED BILL SIGNED Harvey also led the newly formed Og- with their only opportunity to see the At 2:16 p.m., a message from the lala Lakota Cancer Survivors, Inc., on great memorials dedicated to their House of Representatives, delivered by Pine Ridge, which is an effort to bring service. Ms. Niland, one of its reading clerks,

VerDate Aug 31 2005 02:24 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00039 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G17AP6.005 S17APPT1 wwoods2 on PRODPC60 with SENATE S3144 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE April 17, 2008 announced that the Speaker has signed pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled Iraq may be made available only to the ex- the following enrolled bill: ‘‘Lead; Renovation, Repair, and Painting tent that the Government of Iraq matches Program’’ ((RIN2070–AC83)(FRL No. 8355–7)) such assistance on a dollar-for-dollar basis, H.R. 5813. An act to amend Public Law 110– received on April 11, 2008; to the Committee and for other purposes; to the Committee on 196 to provide for a temporary extension of on Environment and Public Works. Foreign Relations. programs authorized by the Farm Security EC–5853. A communication from the Chief By Mr. DURBIN: and Rural Investment Act of 2002 beyond of the Publications and Regulations Branch, April 18, 2008. S. 2881. A bill to establish national stand- Internal Revenue Service, Department of the ards for discharges from cruise vessels into The enrolled bill was subsequently Treasury, transmitting, pursuant to law, the the waters of the United States, and for signed by the President pro tempore report of a rule entitled ‘‘Coordinated Issue: other purposes; to the Committee on Com- (Mr. BYRD). Section 118—Characterization of Bioenergy merce, Science, and Transportation. Program Payments’’ (Docket No. LMSB–04– By Ms. SNOWE (for herself, Ms. COL- f 0308–019) received on April 15, 2008; to the LINS, and Mr. ISAKSON): ENROLLED BILL SIGNED Committee on Finance. S. 2882. A bill to amend title 10, United EC–5854. A communication from the Assist- States Code, to provide for the presentation At 3:05 p.m., a message from the ant Secretary, Office of Legislative Affairs, of a flag of the United States to the children House of Representatives, delivered by Department of State, transmitting, pursuant of members of the Armed Forces who die in Ms. Niland, one of its reading clerks, to law, a report relative to the International service; to the Committee on Armed Serv- announced that the Speaker has signed Atomic Energy Agency’s programs in ices. the following enrolled bill: Burma, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria; By Mr. ROCKEFELLER (for himself to the Committee on Foreign Relations. S. 793. An act to provide for the expansion and Mr. BYRD): EC–5855. A communication from the Acting and improvement of traumatic brain injury S. 2883. A bill to require the Secretary of Assistant Legal Adviser for Treaty Affairs, programs. the Treasury to mint coins in commemora- Department of State, transmitting, pursuant tion of the centennial of the establishment The enrolled bill was subsequently to the Case-Zablocki Act, 1 U.S.C. 112b, as of Mother’s Day; to the Committee on Bank- signed by the President pro tempore amended, the report of the texts and back- ing, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (Mr. BYRD). ground statements of international agree- By Ms. COLLINS (for herself and Mr. ments, other than treaties (List 2008–44— HATCH): f 2008–54); to the Committee on Foreign Rela- S. 2884. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- tions. MEASURES REFERRED enue Code of 1986 to provide incentives to im- EC–5856. A communication from the Direc- prove America’s research competitiveness, The following bill was read the first tor, Strategic Human Resources Policy Divi- and for other purposes; to the Committee on and the second times by unanimous sion, Office of Personnel Management, trans- Finance. mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule consent, and referred as indicated: By Ms. SNOWE (for herself, Mr. KERRY, entitled ‘‘Suitability’’ (RIN3206–AL08) re- H.R. 2537. An act to amend the Federal Mr. SMITH, and Mr. BROWN): ceived on April 15, 2008; to the Committee on Water Pollution Control Act relating to S. 2885. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- beach monitoring, and for other purposes; to Homeland Security and Governmental Af- fairs. enue Code of 1986 to expand the availability the Committee on Environment and Public of industrial development bonds to facilities Works. EC–5857. A communication from the Staff Director, U.S. Sentencing Commission, manufacturing intangible property; to the f transmitting, pursuant to law, a report enti- Committee on Finance. tled, ‘‘2007 Annual Report and Sourcebook of By Mr. BAUCUS (for himself, Mr. ENROLLED BILL PRESENTED Federal Sentencing Statistics’’; to the Com- GRASSLEY, Mr. SALAZAR, Mr. SCHU- The Secretary of the Senate reported mittee on the Judiciary. MER, Ms. STABENOW, Mr. SMITH, Mr. CRAPO, Mr. ROCKEFELLER, Mr. KYL, that on today, April 17, 2008, she had f and Ms. SNOWE): presented to the President of the S. 2886. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- United States the following enrolled INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS enue Code of 1986 to amend certain expiring bill: provisions; to the Committee on Finance. S. 793. An act to provide for the expansion The following bills and joint resolu- By Mr. BROWN (for himself, Mr. and improvement of traumatic brain injury tions were introduced, read the first KERRY, and Mr. LIEBERMAN): programs. and second times by unanimous con- S. 2887. A bill to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct a survey to f sent, and referred as indicated: determine the level of compliance with na- By Mr. INHOFE: tional consensus standards and any barriers EXECUTIVE AND OTHER S. 2876. A bill to provide for the convey- to achieving compliance with such stand- COMMUNICATIONS ance of approximately 140 acres of land in ards, and for other purposes; to the Com- the Ouachita National Forest in Oklahoma The following communications were mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- to the Indian Nations Council, Inc., of the laid before the Senate, together with mental Affairs. Boy Scouts of America, and for other pur- By Mr. KOHL (for himself, Ms. COL- accompanying papers, reports, and doc- poses; to the Committee on Agriculture, Nu- LINS, and Mrs. LINCOLN): uments, and were referred as indicated: trition, and Forestry. EC–5849. A communication from the Chair- By Mr. REID (for Mrs. CLINTON): S. 2888. A bill to protect the property and man, Federal Financial Institutions Exam- S. 2877. A bill to improve and enhance re- security of homeowners who are subject to ination Council, transmitting, pursuant to search and programs on cancer survivorship, foreclosure proceedings, and for other pur- law, the Council’s Annual Report for fiscal and for other purposes; to the Committee on poses; to the Committee on Banking, Hous- year 2007; to the Committee on Banking, Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. ing, and Urban Affairs. Housing, and Urban Affairs. By Mr. CORNYN (for himself, Mr. AL- By Mr. AKAKA (by request): EC–5850. A communication from the Dep- EXANDER, Mr. BUNNING, Mr. DEMINT, S. 2889. A bill to amend title 38, United uty Secretary, Division of Corporation Fi- Mrs. DOLE, Mr. GRAHAM, Mr. HATCH, States Code, to improve veterans’ health nance, Securities and Exchange Commission, Mr. MARTINEZ, Mr. ROBERTS, and Mr. care benefits, and for other purposes; to the transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of SESSIONS): Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. a rule entitled ‘‘Revisions to Form S–11 to S. 2878. A bill to amend the Labor-Manage- By Mr. MCCAIN (for himself, Mr. KYL, Permit Historical Incorporation by Ref- ment Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to Mr. BURR, Mr. GRAHAM, Mr. MAR- erence’’ (RIN3235–AK02) received on April 15, provide for specified civil penalties for viola- TINEZ, Mr. WARNER, Mr. CHAMBLISS, 2008; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, tions of that Act, and for other purposes; to Mr. LIEBERMAN, and Mr. SUNUNU): and Urban Affairs. the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, S. 2890. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- EC–5851. A communication from the Direc- and Pensions. enue Code of 1986 to provide for a highway tor, Regulatory Management Division, Envi- By Mr. SALAZAR: fuel tax holiday; to the Committee on Fi- ronmental Protection Agency, transmitting, S. 2879. A bill to provide for orderly and nance. pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled balanced development of energy resources By Mr. KENNEDY (for himself, Mrs. ‘‘Approval and Promulgation of Implementa- within the Roan Plateau Planning Area of CLINTON, Mr. OBAMA, Mr. BROWN, Mr. tion Plans; New York’’ (FRL No. 8554–8) re- Colorado, and for other purposes; to the FEINGOLD, and Mr. SCHUMER): ceived on April 11, 2008; to the Committee on Committee on Energy and Natural Re- S. 2891. A bill to amend the National Labor Environment and Public Works. sources. Relations Act to apply the protections of the EC–5852. A communication from the Direc- By Mr. GREGG: Act to teaching and research assistants; to tor, Regulatory Management Division, Envi- S. 2880. A bill to provide that funds made the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, ronmental Protection Agency, transmitting, available for reconstruction assistance for and Pensions.

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Mr. BURR, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. DOMEN- tember 11, 2001, and for other purposes. 1051, a bill to authorize National Mall ICI, Mrs. DOLE, Mrs. HUTCHISON, Mr. S. 400 Liberty Fund D.C. to establish a me- CRAIG, Ms. MURKOWSKI, Mr. THUNE, At the request of Mr. SUNUNU, the morial on Federal land in the District Mr. CHAMBLISS, Mr. ENZI, Ms. MIKUL- name of the Senator from Montana of Columbia at Constitution Gardens SKI, Mr. HATCH, Mr. ROBERTS, and Mr. (Mr. TESTER) was added as a cosponsor previously approved to honor free per- ALLARD): S. Res. 519. A resolution welcoming Pope of S. 400, a bill to amend the Employee sons and slaves who fought for inde- Benedict XVI to the United States and rec- Retirement Income Security Act of pendence, liberty, and justice for all ognizing the unique insights his moral and 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of during the American Revolution. spiritual reflections bring to the world stage; 1986 to ensure that dependent students S. 1445 considered and agreed to. who take a medically necessary leave At the request of Mr. KENNEDY, the By Mrs. FEINSTEIN (for herself, Ms. of absence do not lose health insurance names of the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. COLLINS, Ms. CANTWELL, Mr. coverage, and for other purposes. NOUYE LIEBERMAN, Mrs. CLINTON, Mr. I ) and the Senator from Oregon S. 648 KERRY, Mr. BROWN, Ms. SNOWE, Mr. (Mr. SMITH) were added as cosponsors LEVIN, Mrs. BOXER, and Mr. FEIN- At the request of Mr. CHAMBLISS, the of S. 1445, a bill to amend the Public GOLD): name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. Health Service Act to direct the Sec- S. Res. 520. A resolution designating May COLLINS) was added as a cosponsor of S. retary of Health and Human Services 16, 2008, as ‘‘Endangered Species Day’’; to the 648, a bill to amend title 10, United to establish, promote, and support a Committee on the Judiciary. States Code, to reduce the eligibility comprehensive prevention, research, By Mr. REID (for himself and Mr. age for receipt of non-regular military and medical management referral pro- MCCONNELL): S. Res. 521. A resolution authorizing the service retired pay for members of the gram for hepatitis C virus infection. taking of a photograph in the Chamber of Ready Reserve in active federal status S. 1556 the United States Senate; considered and or on active duty for significant peri- At the request of Mr. SMITH, the agreed to. ods. name of the Senator from New York By Mr. REID (for himself, Mr. MCCON- S. 661 (Mrs. CLINTON) was added as a cospon- NELL, Mr. AKAKA, Mr. ALEXANDER, At the request of Mrs. CLINTON, the sor of S. 1556, a bill to amend the Inter- Mr. ALLARD, Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. BAU- CUS, Mr. BAYH, Mr. BENNETT, Mr. name of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. nal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the BIDEN, Mr. BINGAMAN, Mr. BOND, Mrs. DURBIN) was added as a cosponsor of S. exclusion from gross income for em- BOXER, Mr. BROWN, Mr. BROWNBACK, 661, a bill to establish kinship navi- ployer-provided health coverage to des- Mr. BUNNING, Mr. BURR, Mr. BYRD, gator programs, to establish guardian- ignated plan beneficiaries of employ- Ms. CANTWELL, Mr. CARDIN, Mr. CAR- ship assistance payments for children, ees, and for other purposes. PER, Mr. CASEY, Mr. CHAMBLISS, Mrs. and for other purposes. S. 1605 CLINTON, Mr. COBURN, Mr. COCHRAN, S. 901 ONRAD Mr. COLEMAN, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. At the request of Mr. C , the CONRAD, Mr. CORKER, Mr. CORNYN, At the request of Mr. KENNEDY, the name of the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Mr. CRAIG, Mr. CRAPO, Mr. DEMINT, name of the Senator from Mississippi MURKOWSKI) was added as a cosponsor Mr. DODD, Mrs. DOLE, Mr. DOMENICI, (Mr. WICKER) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1605, a bill to amend title XVIII of Mr. DORGAN, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. ENSIGN, of S. 901, a bill to amend the Public the Social Security Act to protect and Mr. ENZI, Mr. FEINGOLD, Mrs. FEIN- Health Service Act to provide addi- preserve access of Medicare bene- STEIN, Mr. GRAHAM, Mr. GRASSLEY, tional authorizations of appropriations ficiaries in rural areas to health care Mr. GREGG, Mr. HAGEL, Mr. HARKIN, for the health centers program under providers under the Medicare program, Mr. HATCH, Mrs. HUTCHISON, Mr. INHOFE, Mr. INOUYE, Mr. ISAKSON, Mr. section 330 of such Act. and for other purposes. JOHNSON, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. KERRY, S. 911 S. 1693 Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. KOHL, Mr. KYL, At the request of Mr. REED, the At the request of Mr. KENNEDY, the Ms. LANDRIEU, Mr. LAUTENBERG, Mr. names of the Senator from Missouri name of the Senator from North Caro- LEAHY, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. LIEBERMAN, (Mrs. MCCASKILL) and the Senator from lina (Mrs. DOLE) was added as a cospon- Mrs. LINCOLN, Mr. LUGAR, Mr. MAR- Colorado (Mr. ALLARD) were added as sor of S. 1693, a bill to enhance the TINEZ, Mr. MCCAIN, Mrs. MCCASKILL, Mr. MENENDEZ, Ms. MIKULSKI, Ms. cosponsors of S. 911, a bill to amend the adoption of a nationwide interoperable MURKOWSKI, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. NEL- Public Health Service Act to advance health information technology system SON of Florida, Mr. NELSON of Ne- medical research and treatments into and to improve the quality and reduce braska, Mr. OBAMA, Mr. PRYOR, Mr. pediatric cancers, ensure patients and the costs of health care in the United REED, Mr. ROBERTS, Mr. ROCKE- families have access to the current States. FELLER, Mr. SALAZAR, Mr. SANDERS, treatments and information regarding S. 1779 Mr. SCHUMER, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. pediatric cancers, establish a popu- At the request of Mr. TESTER, the SHELBY, Mr. SMITH, Ms. SNOWE, Mr. lation-based national childhood cancer SPECTER, Ms. STABENOW, Mr. STE- names of the Senator from Montana VENS, Mr. SUNUNU, Mr. TESTER, Mr. database, and promote public aware- (Mr. BAUCUS) and the Senator from THUNE, Mr. VITTER, Mr. VOINOVICH, ness of pediatric cancers. New Mexico (Mr. BINGAMAN) were Mr. WARNER, Mr. WEBB, Mr. S. 963 added as cosponsors of S. 1779, a bill to WHITEHOUSE, Mr. WICKER, and Mr. At the request of Mr. MENENDEZ, the establish a program for tribal colleges WYDEN): name of the Senator from Tennessee and universities within the Depart- S. Res. 522. A resolution recognizing the (Mr. CORKER) was added as a cosponsor ment of Health and Human Services 60th anniversary of the founding of the mod- ern State of Israel and reaffirming the bonds of S. 963, a bill to authorize the Sec- and to amend the Native American of close friendship and cooperation between retary of Education to make grants to Programs Act of 1974 to authorize the the United States and Israel; to the Com- educational organizations to carry out provision of grants and cooperative mittee on Foreign Relations. educational programs about the Holo- agreements to tribal colleges and uni- f caust. versities, and for other purposes. S. 999 S. 1780 ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS At the request of Mr. COCHRAN, the At the request of Mr. ROCKEFELLER, S. 22 name of the Senator from Maryland the name of the Senator from Mis- At the request of Mr. WEBB, the (Ms. MIKULSKI) was added as a cospon- sissippi (Mr. WICKER) was added as a names of the Senator from Washington sor of S. 999, a bill to amend the Public cosponsor of S. 1780, a bill to require

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RES. 515 name of the Senator from Maryland of the Senator from Michigan (Mr. At the request of Mr. WHITEHOUSE, (Ms. MIKULSKI) was added as a cospon- LEVIN) was added as a cosponsor of S. the names of the Senator from sor of S. 1951, a bill to amend title XIX 2736, a bill to amend section 202 of the Vermont (Mr. LEAHY), the Senator of the Social Security Act to ensure Housing Act of 1959 to improve the pro- from Massachusetts (Mr. KENNEDY), the that individuals eligible for medical as- gram under such section for supportive Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. sistance under the Medicaid program housing for the elderly, and for other KERRY), the Senator from Vermont continue to have access to prescription purposes. (Mr. SANDERS) and the Senator from drugs, and for other purposes. S. 2744 Washington (Ms. CANTWELL) were S. 2035 At the request of Mr. VOINOVICH, the added as cosponsors of S. Res. 515, a At the request of Mr. SPECTER, the name of the Senator from Georgia (Mr. resolution commemorating the life and name of the Senator from Washington ISAKSON) was added as a cosponsor of S. work of Dith Pran. (Mrs. MURRAY) was added as a cospon- 2744, a bill to amend the Workforce In- f sor of S. 2035, a bill to maintain the vestment Act of 1998 to increase the STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED free flow of information to the public Nation’s competitiveness and enhance BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS by providing conditions for the feder- the workforce investment systems by By Mr. REID (for Mrs. CLINTON): ally compelled disclosure of informa- authorizing the implementation of S. 2877. A bill to improve and enhance tion by certain persons connected with Workforce Innovation in Regional Eco- research and programs on cancer survi- the news media. nomic Development plans, the integra- vorship, and for other purposes; to the tion of appropriate programs and re- S. 2059 Committee on Health, Education, sources as part of such plans, and the At the request of Mrs. FEINSTEIN, her Labor, and Pensions. name was added as a cosponsor of S. provision of supplementary grant as- Mrs. CLINTON. Mr. President, I rise 2059, a bill to amend the Family and sistance and additional related activi- to introduce the Pediatric, Adolescent, Medical Leave Act of 1993 to clarify the ties, and for other purposes. and Young Adult Cancer Survivorship eligibility requirements with respect S. 2755 and Quality of Life Act, legislation in- to airline flight crews. At the request of Mrs. MURRAY, the troduced on the House side by Rep- At the request of Mr. BYRD, his name name of the Senator from California resentatives SOLIS and BONO. was added as a cosponsor of S. 2059, (Mrs. BOXER) was added as a cosponsor The National Cancer Institute esti- supra. of S. 2755, a bill to provide funding for mates that there are more than 10 mil- S. 2279 summer youth jobs. lion cancer survivors in the United At the request of Mr. BIDEN, the S. 2770 States. Advances in medical research name of the Senator from California At the request of Mrs. FEINSTEIN, the have resulted in earlier diagnoses, (Mrs. BOXER) was added as a cosponsor names of the Senator from Connecticut more effective treatments, and im- of S. 2279, a bill to combat inter- (Mr. LIEBERMAN) and the Senator from provements in medical outcomes for national violence against women and Michigan (Mr. LEVIN) were added as co- Americans with cancer. girls. sponsors of S. 2770, a bill to amend the These advances in cancer care are es- S. 2465 Federal Meat Inspection Act to pecially evident when examining our At the request of Mr. KENNEDY, the strengthen the food safety inspection gains for pediatric cancers. The 5-year name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. system by imposing stricter penalties survival rate for children with cancer WYDEN) was added as a cosponsor of S. for the slaughter of nonambulatory has improved markedly over the past 2465, a bill to amend title XIX of the livestock. decades, from 56 percent for those diag- Social Security Act to include all pub- S. 2774 nosed in the mid-1970s to 79 percent for lic clinics for the distribution of pedi- At the request of Mr. LEAHY, the those diagnosed between 1995 and 2000. atric vaccines under the Medicaid pro- name of the Senator from Indiana (Mr. There are now more than 270,000 child- gram. LUGAR) was added as a cosponsor of S. hood cancer survivors in the U.S., and that number is expected to increase as S. 2569 2774, a bill to provide for the appoint- we gain a better understanding of pedi- At the request of Mrs. BOXER, the ment of additional Federal circuit and atric cancers and ways to treat them. names of the Senator from Maine (Ms. district judges, and for other purposes. But in the years that we have made COLLINS) and the Senator from Hawaii S. 2817 these gains in addressing cancer in (Mr. INOUYE) were added as cosponsors At the request of Mr. SALAZAR, the children, we have also learned that of S. 2569, a bill to amend the Public name of the Senator from Maryland many of these survivors experience Health Service Act to authorize the Di- (Mr. CARDIN) was added as a cosponsor what are known as ‘‘late effects’’ re- rector of the National Cancer Institute of S. 2817, a bill to establish the Na- sulting from either the cancer or its to make grants for the discovery and tional Park Centennial Fund, and for treatment. These late effects include validation of biomarkers for use in risk other purposes. things like additional cancers, stratification for, and the early detec- S. 2819 osteoporosis, heart problems and re- tion and screening of, ovarian cancer. At the request of Mr. ROCKEFELLER, duced lung capacity. As many as a S. 2687 the names of the Senator from Hawaii quarter of childhood cancer survivors At the request of Mr. ROCKEFELLER, (Mr. AKAKA) and the Senator from experience late effects that are serious the name of the Senator from Vermont Pennsylvania (Mr. CASEY) were added or life-threatening. We must be doing (Mr. SANDERS) was added as a cospon- as cosponsors of S. 2819, a bill to pre- more to ensure that the quality of life sor of S. 2687, a bill to amend title serve access to Medicaid and the State of children who have survived cancer is XVIII of the Social Security Act to en- Children’s Health Insurance Program as high as possible, and that life-saving hance beneficiary protections under during an economic downturn, and for treatments result in as few long-term parts C and D of the Medicare program. other purposes. side effects as possible. S. 2689 S. RES. 506 It is also important to note that At the request of Mr. SMITH, the At the request of Mr. NELSON of Ne- health care disparities also impact pe- name of the Senator from Mississippi braska, the name of the Senator from diatric cancer care and survivorship. (Mr. COCHRAN) was added as a cospon- Arkansas (Mrs. LINCOLN) was added as African-Americans, Hispanics, and sor of S. 2689, a bill to amend section a cosponsor of S. Res. 506, a resolution Asian/Pacific Islander children have

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We in Colorado are tire designated development areas at to ensure that racial and ethnic dis- blessed to be home to significant en- once. parities are eliminated from cancer ergy resources, and tapping these re- The special protection provisions of care. sources is important to sustain our Na- the bill expand BLM’s designated In a 2005 report, titled ‘‘From Cancer tion’s energy needs and invigorate the ‘‘Areas of Critical Environmental Con- Patient to Cancer Survivor: Lost in Colorado State economy. But in its cern,’’ ACECs, to include the head- Transition’’, the Institute of Medicine, current form, the BLM plan lacks ade- waters of Northwater Creek and the IOM, recommended several measures quate protections for the Roan’s land, East Fork of Parachute Creek above we can take as a nation to improve the water, and wildlife—the very things the confluence with First Anvil quality of life for children and young that support the outfitters, guides, ho- Creek—both of which are critical na- adults who are impacted by cancer. tels and restaurants in the area. And tive cutthroat trout watersheds. The The legislation that I am introducing by proposing to lease all of the unde- bill also permits gas development ac- today will allow us to implement some veloped public lands at once, the BLM tivities on top of the plateau outside of those recommendations, including plan would sell Colorado short. ACECs that are within development expansion of cancer control and sur- Drilling is already happening on corridors along existing ridge-top roads veillance programs, increasing re- roughly half of the plateau that is ei- on slopes not exceeding 20 percent. search in survivorship, and developing ther owned or leased by the natural gas These measures will protect critical model systems of care and monitoring industry. Without question, western elk and mule deer habitat around the for cancer survivors. It will also create Colorado is experiencing a boom in en- base of the plateau, while allowing de- grants to establish childhood cancer ergy development. During the decade of velopment and recovery of the avail- survivorship clinics, and help childhood the 1990s, the average number of com- able natural gas under the Roan. cancer organizations expand and im- pleted gas wells per year in Garfield In 1907, President Teddy Roosevelt prove their work in providing care and County—the home of the Roan—was 80. told a crowd that, ‘‘In utilizing and treatment. The number of completed wells has conserving the natural resources of the I look forward to working with my climbed rapidly since 2000, setting a Nation the one characteristic more es- colleagues in the Senate to ensure that new high each year. In 2006, 840 new sential than any other is foresight. The we address the needs of cancer sur- wells were completed in Garfield Coun- conservation of our natural resources vivors throughout the lifespan, and ty. This rapid expansion of activity has and their proper use constitute the fun- help to improve the quality of life for created new jobs in the region, but has damental problem which underlies al- the many children and families that also stoked new conflicts between the most every other problem of our na- struggle with a cancer diagnosis. energy values and environmental, eco- tional life.’’ President Roosevelt’s wis- logical, and recreation values of these dom—over a century later—is as valu- By Mr. SALAZAR: lands. The impacts of this development able as ever to a Nation committed to S. 2879. A bill to provide for orderly are being felt by landowners and out- protecting its land and water, but that and balanced development of energy re- door enthusiasts alike. Sportsmen have is in dire need of affordable, domestic sources within the Roan Plateau Plan- watched as public hunting areas, habi- sources of energy. ning Area of Colorado, and for other tat, and important watersheds have The Roan is a special place. Pro- purposes; to the Committee on Energy been irreparably degraded as a result of tecting our State’s last few remaining and Natural Resources. widespread development. wild spaces, maximizing oil and gas Mr. SALAZAR. Mr. President, I rise With this level of development occur- leasing revenues from these areas and today to introduce legislation to en- ring we must ensure that the most supporting the communities that sur- sure responsible development of the en- pristine areas of the plateau that re- round them need not be at odds. This ergy resources under Colorado’s Roan main are protected, that oil and gas de- bill will replace BLM’s plan with a bet- Plateau in a manner that minimizes velopment in the region occurs with ter, more balanced approach that will the adverse impacts on its unique eco- minimal disturbance, and that Colo- protect the most critical areas on the logical resources while maximizing the rado receives the best possible finan- top of the Roan and provide the most financial returns to the State of Colo- cial return on any oil and gas leases. benefit to the State of Colorado. rado and to our country. This legisla- Our legislation has three main func- tion was developed jointly with my col- tions that work to address these issues. By Mr. DURBIN: leagues Representative First, it requires phased leasing on top S. 2881. A bill to establish national and Representative , who of the plateau to maximize state reve- standards for discharges from cruise plan to introduce the legislation today nues and better protect wildlife habitat vessels into the waters of the United in the House. and the environment. Second, it en- States, and for other purposes; to the The Roan Plateau, an area of pristine sures protection of critical cutthroat Committee on Commerce, Science, and wilderness in northwestern Colorado, trout watersheds and other wildlife Transportation. rises 3,500 feet out of the Colorado habitat on top and around the base of Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, if I said River Valley. It boasts native cut- the Roan Plateau. Lastly, it contains a there was an industry that generates throat trout streams and has some of conforming amendment to the Transfer millions of gallons of wastewater every the best winter elk and mule deer habi- Act to ensure that Colorado receives day and that can dump that waste with tat left in the heavily developed its fair share of leasing revenues rather virtually no oversight, you might Piceance Basin. The Roan has long than directing this money, as the think that I was recalling the days be- been a favorite destination for hunters Transfer Act specifies, to the Anvil fore the Clean Water Act. The truth is, and anglers. The mule deer, elk, black Points cleanup fund, which is in sur- though, that such an industry exists bear, and native trout that find habitat plus. today. I am talking about cruise ships. on top and at the base of the Roan Pla- The phased leasing provision requires That is why I am introducing the teau are an economic engine all their BLM to lease less sensitive areas out- Clean Cruise Ship Act of 2008. This bill own, drawing tourism and recreation side of cutthroat trout watersheds will require cruise ships to upgrade dollars to towns like Glenwood first, rather than leasing all available their wastewater treatment systems to Springs, Rifle, Silt, and Parachute. development areas at once. In selecting meet the standards of today’s best Recently the Department of Inte- areas for leasing, BLM must take into available technology, which has been rior’s Bureau of Land Management, consideration various factors designed shown to significantly reduce the which oversees the public lands on the to maximize leasing revenues and to amount of pollutants discharged from Roan and the minerals beneath them, minimize the environmental and eco- ships. This technology is already being

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- passengers a year. Some of these ships Under this legislation, the release of resentatives of the United States of America in can carry 3,000 passengers. That is the raw, untreated sewage would be banned Congress assembled, size of a small city. As cities do, these everywhere. No dumping would be al- SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. ships produce massive amounts of lowed of sewage sludge and incinerator (a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as waste—over 200,000 gallons of sewage ash in U.S. waters. All cruise ships the ‘‘Clean Cruise Ship Act of 2008’’. each week; a million gallons of calling on U.S. ports would have to dis- (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of con- graywater from galleys, laundry, and pose of hazardous waste in accordance tents of this Act is as follows: showers; and over 35,000 gallons of oily to the Resource Conservation and Re- Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Findings and purposes. bilge water that collects in ship bot- covery Act. The bill would establish in- Sec. 3. Definitions. toms. spection and enforcement mechanisms Sec. 4. Prohibitions on the discharge of sew- Wastewater from cities, of course, is to ensure compliance. age, graywater, bilge water, highly regulated. America wouldn’t There is one thing at this point I’d sewage sludge, incinerator ash, tolerate anything less. A city cannot like to make clear. Many of us here and hazardous waste. simply dump waste into our water- have been working hard to stop aquatic Sec. 5. Effluent limits for discharges of sew- ways. We’ve seen, of course, what hap- invasive species that slip into our lakes age, graywater, and bilge water. Sec. 6. Alaskan cruise vessels. pens when municipal wastewater treat- and coastal waters in discharged bal- Sec. 7. Inspection and sampling. ment systems are poorly operated or last water. Alien species that have es- Sec. 8. Employee protection. break down. People fall ill, beaches are caped into U.S. waters are causing Sec. 9. Judicial review. closed, and ecosystems are harmed. massive harm. We have to do every- Sec. 10. Enforcement. So what’s the story for waste from thing in our power to prevent new Sec. 11. Citizen suits. cruise ships? Let us start with ‘‘black invasive species from getting loose. Sec. 12. Sense of Congress on ballast water. water’’ sewage—human body wastes With this in mind, many of us have Sec. 13. Sense of Congress on air pollution. Sec. 14. Funding. and other toilet waste. Within three been closely watching court cases sur- Sec. 15. Effect on other law. miles of shore, vessels can discharge rounding the Environmental Protec- SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES. this waste provided that a ‘‘marine tion Agency’s responsibility for regu- (a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the fol- sanitation device’’ is installed. The En- lating ballast water under the Clean lowing: vironmental Protection Agency re- Water Act. That litigation may have (1) Cruise vessels carry millions of people leased a draft report in December, how- implications for cruise ship wastewater through North American waters each year, ever, that concluded that these sys- pollution. showcase some of the most beautiful ocean tems simply don’t work. These sewage I have no intention of interfering areas in the United States, and provide op- treatment devices leave discharges with this court case. Likewise, I want portunities for passengers to relax and enjoy that consistently exceed national efflu- to emphasize that this bill in no way the oceans and marine ecosystems. undermines the provisions of the Clean (2) A single cruise vessel generates a tre- ent standards for fecal coliform and mendous amount of waste each week, includ- other pathogens and pollutants. In Water Act that deal with discharges of ing an estimated 140,000 to 210,000 gallons of fact, fecal coliform levels in effluent pollution into the nation’s waters. I blackwater (sewage) and 1,000,000 gallons of are typically 20 to 200 times greater have always supported the Clean Water graywater (including wastewater from dish- than in untreated domestic waste- Act. It will continue to be an impor- washers, showers, laundry, baths, and wash- water. tant tool that, in conjunction with the basins). Onboard amenities such as photo- Beyond three miles from shore there Clean Cruise Ship Act, can signifi- processing, dry-cleaning, and hairdressing are no restrictions on sewage dis- cantly reduce wastewater pollution also generate hazardous waste streams. charge. Cruise ships are free to dump from cruise ships. (3) In its final report, ‘‘An Ocean Blueprint for the 21st Century’’, released in 2004, the their sewage and foul U.S. waters with The protection of U.S. waters is vital United States Commission on Ocean Policy impunity. to our Nation’s health and economy. found that these waste streams and the cu- The situation for graywater may be There are 4.5 million square miles of mulative impacts caused when cruise vessels even more serious. Except in Alaska, ocean in the U.S. territorial seas—23 repeatedly visit the same environmentally cruise ship graywater requires no percent larger than our Nation’s sensitive areas, ‘‘if not properly disposed of treatment whatsoever before being dis- landmass. That’s more than any other and treated, can be a significant source of charged, and there are no restrictions country has. Cruise ship wastewater pathogens and nutrients with the potential on where that dumping can be done. threatens the very environments that to threaten human health and damage shell- fish beds, coral reefs, and other aquatic life,’’ Yet graywater from sinks, tubs, and family vacationers want to visit. Cur- thus threatening the very environments kitchens contains large amounts of rent regulations and voluntary guide- cruise vessel passengers seek to explore. pathogens and pollutants—amounts lines for the cruise ship industry just (4) The cruise industry has grown by more that would never be tolerated from a aren’t good enough. No other industry than 6 percent annually since 2003 and is pro- land-based business. Fecal coliform is allowed to pollute our waters at will. jected to continue growing. Cruise vessel ca- concentrations, for example, are ten to The cruise ship industry is growing at pacity is also expanding dramatically; today a thousand times greater than those in nearly 5 percent each year, which cruise vessels can transport 5,000 passengers untreated domestic wastewater. These means that the problem is growing, as and crew members, but the next generation of cruise vessels is expected to carry 7,000 pollutants sicken our marine eco- well. passengers and crew members. As the total systems, wash up onto our beaches, and Uncontrolled dumping of cruise ship number of passengers increases and the num- contaminate food and shellfish that pollution must stop. We can achieve ber of passengers per ship increases, the vol- end up on our dinner plates. that goal with the Clean Cruise Ship ume of waste entering these ocean eco- The Clean Cruise Ship Act seeks to Act. I recognize, though, that there systems and the impact of that waste on solve this oversight in the current reg- may be other valid approaches. I en- ocean ecosystems will also increase. ulations, just as Alaska State law has courage my colleagues to work with (5) In a 2005 report requested by the Inter- done. No discharges whatsoever would me to pass legislation this year that national Council of Cruise Lines, the Ocean be allowed within 12 miles of shore. Be- will put a stop to the dumping of haz- Conservation and Tourism Alliance (OCTA) Science Panel recommended that ‘‘[a]ll yond twelve miles, discharges of sew- ardous pollutants along our coasts. To- blackwater should be treated’’, that dis- age, graywater, and bilge water would gether we can clean up this major charging treated blackwater should be be allowed, provided that they meet source of pollution that is harming our ‘‘avoided in ports, close to bathing beaches national effluent limits consistent with waters. or water bodies with restricted circulation,

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flushing or inflow’’, and that blackwater (8) GRAYWATER.—The term ‘‘graywater’’ (1) the effluent of treated sewage, treated should not be discharged within 4 nautical means galley, dishwasher, bath, spa, pool, graywater, or treated bilge water meets all miles of shellfish beds, coral reefs, or other and laundry waste water. applicable effluent limits established under sensitive habitats. (9) GREAT LAKE.—The term ‘‘Great Lake’’ this Act and is in accordance with all other (6) The OCTA Science Panel further rec- means— applicable laws; ommended that graywater be treated in the (A) Lake Erie; (2) the cruise vessel is underway and pro- same manner as blackwater and that sewage (B) Lake Huron (including Lake Saint ceeding at a speed of not less than 6 knots; sludge be off-loaded to approved land-based Clair); (3) the cruise vessel is not less than 12 nau- facilities. (C) Lake Michigan; tical miles from shore; (7) The United States lacks a comprehen- (D) Lake Ontario; or (4) the cruise vessel is not discharging in sive wastewater management policy for (E) Lake Superior. no discharge zones; and large passenger vessels, and a new statutory (10) HAZARDOUS WASTE.—The term ‘‘haz- (5) the cruise vessel complies with all ap- regime for managing wastewater discharges ardous waste’’ has the meaning given that plicable management standards established from large passenger vessels that applies term in section 1004 of the Solid Waste Dis- under this Act. throughout the United States is needed to posal Act (42 U.S.C. 6903). (b) PROHIBITION ON DISCHARGE OF SEWAGE protect coastal and ocean areas from pollu- (11) INCINERATOR ASH.—The term ‘‘inciner- SLUDGE, INCINERATOR ASH, AND HAZARDOUS tion generated by cruise vessels, to reduce ator ash’’ means ash generated during the in- WASTE.—No sewage sludge, incinerator ash, and better regulate discharges from cruise cineration of solid waste or sewage sludge. or hazardous waste may be discharged into vessels, and to improve monitoring, report- (12) NO DISCHARGE ZONES.—The term ‘‘no the waters of the United States. Such sewage ing, and enforcement of standards regarding discharge zones’’ means important ecological sludge, incinerator ash, and hazardous waste discharges. areas including marine sanctuaries, marine shall be off-loaded at an appropriate land- (b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this Act is to protected areas, marine reserves, marine na- based facility. protect the health and beauty of the marine tional monuments, national parks, and na- (c) SAFETY EXCEPTION.— and coastal ecosystems that cruise pas- tional wildlife refuges. (1) SCOPE OF EXCEPTION.—The provisions of sengers enjoy, by— (13) PASSENGER.—The term ‘‘passenger’’ subsections (a) and (b) shall not apply in any (1) prohibiting the discharge of any un- means a paying passenger. case in which— treated sewage, graywater, or bilge water (14) PERSON.—The term ‘‘person’’ means— (A) a discharge is made solely for the pur- from a cruise vessel calling on a port of the (A) an individual; pose of securing the safety of the cruise ves- United States into the waters of the United (B) a corporation; sel or saving a human life at sea; and States; (C) a partnership; (B) all reasonable precautions have been (2) prohibiting the discharge of any sewage (D) a limited liability company; taken to prevent or minimize the discharge. sludge, incinerator ash, or hazardous waste (E) an association; (2) NOTIFICATION OF COMMANDANT.— from a cruise vessel calling on a port of the (F) a State; (A) IN GENERAL.—If the owner, operator, United States into the waters of the United (G) a municipality; master, or other individual in charge of a States; (H) a commission or political subdivision cruise vessel authorizes a discharge de- (3) establishing new national effluent lim- of a State; or scribed in paragraph (1), such individual its for the discharge of treated sewage, treat- (I) an Indian tribe. shall notify the Commandant of the decision ed graywater, and treated bilge water from (15) SEWAGE.—The term ‘‘sewage’’ means— to authorize the discharge as soon as prac- cruise vessels not less than 12 miles from (A) human body wastes; and ticable, but not later than 24 hours, after au- shore in any case in which the discharge is (B) the wastes from toilets and other re- thorizing the discharge. not within an area in which discharges are ceptacles intended to receive or retain (B) REPORT.—Not later than 7 days after prohibited; and human body wastes. the date on which an individual described in (4) ensuring that cruise vessels calling on (16) SEWAGE SLUDGE.—The term ‘‘sewage subparagraph (A) notifies the Commandant ports of the United States comply with all sludge’’— of a decision to authorize a discharge under applicable environmental laws. (A) means any solid, semi-solid, or liquid paragraph (1), the individual shall submit to SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. residue removed during the treatment of on- the Commandant a report that includes— In this Act: board sewage; (i) the quantity and composition of each (1) ADMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘‘Adminis- (B) includes— discharge authorized under paragraph (1); trator’’ means the Administrator of the En- (i) solids removed during primary, sec- (ii) the reason for authorizing each such vironmental Protection Agency. ondary, or advanced waste water treatment; discharge; (2) BILGE WATER.—The term ‘‘bilge water’’ (ii) scum; (iii) the location of the vessel during the means waste water that includes lubrication (iii) septage; course of each such discharge; and oils, transmission oils, oil sludge or slops, (iv) portable toilet pumpings; (iv) such other supporting information and fuel or oil sludge, used oil, used fuel or fuel (v) type III marine sanitation device data as are requested by the Commandant. filters, or oily waste. pumpings (as defined in part 159 of title 33, (C) DISCLOSURE OF REPORTS.—Upon receiv- (3) CITIZEN.—The term ‘‘citizen’’ means a Code of Federal Regulations); and ing a report under subparagraph (B), the person that has an interest that is or may be (vi) sewage sludge products; and Commandant shall— adversely affected by any provision of this (C) does not include— (i) transmit a copy of the report to the Ad- Act. (i) grit or screenings; or ministrator; and (4) COMMANDANT.—The term ‘‘Com- (ii) ash generated during the incineration (ii) make the report available to the pub- mandant’’ means the Commandant of the of sewage sludge. lic. Coast Guard. (17) TERRITORIAL SEA.—The term ‘‘terri- SEC. 5. EFFLUENT LIMITS FOR DISCHARGES OF (5) CRUISE VESSEL.—The term ‘‘cruise ves- torial sea’’— SEWAGE, GRAYWATER, AND BILGE sel’’— (A) means the belt of the sea extending 12 WATER. (A) means a passenger vessel (as defined in nautical miles from the baseline of the (a) EFFLUENT LIMITS.— section 2101(22) of title 46, United States United States determined in accordance with (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 12 months Code), that— international law, as set forth in Presi- after the date of the enactment of this Act, (i) is authorized to carry at least 250 pas- dential Proclamation number 5928, dated De- the Administrator shall promulgate effluent sengers; and cember 27, 1988; and limits for sewage, graywater, and bilge water (ii) has onboard sleeping facilities for each (B) includes the waters lying seaward of discharges from cruise vessels calling on passenger; and the line of ordinary low water and extending ports of the United States. (B) does not include— to the baseline of the United States, as de- (2) REQUIREMENTS.—The effluent limits (i) a vessel of the United States operated termined under subparagraph (A). shall, at a minimum— by the Federal Government; or (18) WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES.—The (A) be consistent with the capability of the (ii) a vessel owned and operated by the gov- term ‘‘waters of the United States’’ means best available technology to treat effluent; ernment of a State. the waters of the territorial sea, the exclu- (B) require compliance with all relevant (6) DISCHARGE.—The term ‘‘discharge’’— sive economic zone, and the Great Lakes. State and Federal water quality standards; (A) means a release, however caused, of and bilge water, graywater, hazardous waste, in- SEC. 4. PROHIBITIONS ON THE DISCHARGE OF SEWAGE, GRAYWATER, BILGE (C) take into account the best available cinerator ash, sewage, or sewage sludge from WATER, SEWAGE SLUDGE, INCINER- scientific information on the environmental a cruise vessel; and ATOR ASH, AND HAZARDOUS WASTE. effects of sewage, graywater, and bilge water (B) includes any escape, disposal, spilling, (a) PROHIBITIONS ON DISCHARGE OF SEWAGE, discharges, including levels of nutrients, leaking, pumping, emitting, or emptying of a GRAYWATER, AND BILGE WATER.—Except as total and dissolved metals, pathogen indica- substance described in subparagraph (A). provided in subsection (c) or section 6, no tors, oils and grease, classical pollutants, (7) EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE.—The term cruise vessel calling on a port of the United and volatile and semivolatile organics. ‘‘exclusive economic zone’’ has the meaning States may discharge sewage, graywater, or (b) MINIMUM LIMITS.—The effluent limits given that term in section 107 of title 46, bilge water into the waters of the United promulgated under subsection (a) shall re- United States Code. 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treated graywater, and treated bilge water pect of cruise vessel operations, equipment, (2) FOREIGN VESSEL.— effluent discharges from cruise vessels, or discharges, including sampling and test- (A) IN GENERAL.—A cruise vessel registered measured at the point of discharge, shall, ing of cruise vessel discharges; and in a country other than the United States to not later than the date described in sub- (B) each cruise vessel that calls on a port which this Act applies may operate in the section (d), meet the following standards: of the United States be subject to an unan- waters of the United States, or visit a port or (1) IN GENERAL.—The discharge shall sat- nounced inspection at least once per year. place under the jurisdiction of the United isfy the minimum level of effluent quality (b) REGULATIONS.— States, only if the cruise vessel has been specified in section 133.102 of title 40, Code of (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after issued a certificate of compliance by the Federal Regulations (or a successor regula- the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commandant. Commandant, in consultation with the Ad- tion). (B) ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATE.—The Com- ministrator, shall promulgate regulations (2) FECAL COLIFORM.—With respect to the mandant may issue a certificate described in that, at a minimum— samples from the discharge during any 30- subparagraph (A) to a cruise vessel only (A) require the owner, operator, master, or day period— after the cruise vessel has been examined (A) the geometric mean of the samples other individual in charge of a cruise vessel to maintain and submit annually a logbook and found to be in compliance with this Act, shall not exceed 20 fecal coliform per 100 mil- including prohibitions on discharges and re- liliters; and detailing the times, types, volumes, flow rates, origins, and specific locations of, and quirements for effluent limits, as determined (B) not more than 10 percent of the sam- by the Commandant. ples shall exceed 40 fecal coliform per 100 explanations for, any discharges from the (C) ACCEPTANCE OF FOREIGN DOCUMENTA- milliliters. cruise vessel; TION.—The Commandant may consider a cer- (3) RESIDUAL CHLORINE.—Concentrations of (B) provide for routine announced and un- tificate, endorsement, or document issued by total residual chlorine in samples shall not announced inspections of— the government of a foreign country under a exceed 10 milligrams per liter. (i) cruise vessel environmental compliance treaty, convention, or other international (c) REVIEW AND REVISION OF EFFLUENT LIM- records and procedures; and agreement to which the United States is a ITS.—The Administrator shall— (ii) the functionality and proper operation (1) review the effluent limits promulgated of installed equipment for abatement and party, in issuing a certificate of compliance under subsection (a) at least once every 5 control of any cruise vessel discharge, in- under this paragraph. Such a certificate, en- years; and cluding equipment intended to treat sewage, dorsement, or document shall not serve as a (2) revise the effluent limits as necessary graywater, or bilge water; proxy for certification of compliance with to incorporate technology available at the (C) require the sampling and testing of this Act. time of the review in accordance with sub- cruise vessel discharges that require the (D) VALIDITY OF CERTIFICATE.—A certifi- section (a)(2). owner, operator, master, or other individual cate issued under this section— in charge of a cruise vessel— (d) COMPLIANCE DATE.— (i) shall be valid for a period of not more (i) to conduct that sampling or testing at (1) IN GENERAL.—The date described in this than 24 months, beginning on the date of subsection is— the point of discharge; and issuance of the certificate; (A) with respect to new vessels put into (ii) to produce any records of the sampling (ii) may be renewed as specified by the or testing; water after the date of the enactment of this Commandant; and (D) require any owner, operator, master, or Act, 2 years after such date of enactment; (iii) shall be suspended or revoked if the other individual in charge of a cruise vessel and Commandant determines that the cruise ves- who has knowledge of a discharge from the (B) with respect to vessels in use as of such sel for which the certificate was issued is not cruise vessel in violation of this Act (includ- date of enactment, 5 years after such date of in compliance with the conditions under ing regulations promulgated under this Act) enactment. to report immediately the discharge to the which the certificate was issued. (2) NEW VESSEL DEFINED.—In this sub- Commandant, who shall provide notification (d) CRUISE OBSERVER PROGRAM.— section, the term ‘‘new vessel’’ means a ves- of the discharge to the Administrator; and (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after sel the keel of which is laid, or that is at a (E) require the owner, operator, master, or the date of the enactment of this Act, the similar stage of construction, on or after the other individual in charge of a cruise vessel Commandant shall establish and carry out a date of the enactment of this Act. to provide to the Commandant and Adminis- program for the placement of 1 or more SEC. 6. ALASKAN CRUISE VESSELS. trator a blueprint of each cruise vessel that trained independent observers on each cruise (a) IN GENERAL.—An Alaskan cruise vessel includes the location of every discharge pipe vessel. shall not be subject to the provisions of this and valve. (2) PURPOSES.—The purposes of the cruise Act (including regulations promulgated (2) DISCLOSURE OF LOGBOOKS.—Upon receiv- observer program established under para- under this Act) until the date that is 10 years ing a logbook described in paragraph (1)(A), graph (1) are to monitor and inspect cruise after the date of the enactment of this Act. the Commandant shall— vessel operations, equipment, and discharges (b) DEFINITION OF ALASKAN CRUISE VES- (A) transmit a copy of the logbook to the to ensure compliance with— SEL.—In this section, the term ‘‘Alaskan Administrator; and (A) this Act (including regulations promul- cruise vessel’’ means a cruise vessel— (B) make the logbook available to the pub- (1) while the vessel is operating in waters gated under this Act); and lic. (B) all other relevant Federal laws, regula- of the State of Alaska, as defined in section (c) EVIDENCE OF COMPLIANCE.— tions, and international agreements. 159.305 of title 33, Code of Federal Regula- (1) VESSEL OF THE UNITED STATES.— (3) RESPONSIBILITIES.—An observer de- tions; and (A) IN GENERAL.—A cruise vessel registered scribed in paragraph (1) shall— (2) that complies with all relevant laws and in the United States to which this Act ap- regulations of the State of Alaska while in plies shall have a certificate of inspection (A) observe and inspect— transit from a port of call outside of the issued by the Commandant. (i) onboard environmental treatment sys- tems; State of Alaska to the waters of the State of (B) ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATE.—The Com- Alaska. mandant may issue a certificate described in (ii) use of shore-based treatment and stor- SEC. 7. INSPECTION AND SAMPLING. subparagraph (A) only after the cruise vessel age facilities; (a) DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF has been examined and found to be in com- (iii) discharges and discharge practices; INSPECTION PROGRAM.— pliance with this Act, including prohibitions and (1) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator shall on discharges and requirements for effluent (iv) blueprints, logbooks, and other rel- promulgate regulations to implement a sam- limits, as determined by the Commandant. evant information, including fuel consump- pling and testing program, and the Com- (C) VALIDITY OF CERTIFICATE.—A certificate tion and atmospheric emissions; mandant shall promulgate regulations to im- issued under this paragraph— (B) have the authority to interview and plement an inspection program, sufficient to (i) shall be valid for a period of not more otherwise query any crew member with verify that cruise vessels calling on ports of than 5 years, beginning on the date of knowledge of vessel operations; the United States are in compliance with— issuance of the certificate; (C) have access to all data and information (A) this Act (including regulations promul- (ii) may be renewed as specified by the made available to government officials under gated under this Act); Commandant; and this section; (B) the Federal Water Pollution Control (iii) shall be suspended or revoked if the (D) immediately report any known or sus- Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) (including regula- Commandant determines that the cruise ves- pected violation of this Act or any other ap- tions promulgated under that Act); sel for which the certificate was issued is not plicable Federal law or international agree- (C) other applicable Federal laws and regu- in compliance with the conditions under ment to— lations; and which the certificate was issued. (i) the Coast Guard; and (D) all applicable requirements of inter- (D) SPECIAL CERTIFICATES.—The Com- (ii) the Environmental Protection Agency; national agreements. mandant may issue special certificates to and (2) INSPECTIONS.—The program shall re- certain vessels that exhibit compliance with (E) maintain a logbook to be submitted to quire that— this Act and other best practices, as deter- the Commandant and the Administrator an- (A) regular announced and unannounced mined by the Commandant, after public no- nually and to be made available to the pub- inspections be conducted of any relevant as- tice and comment. lic.

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(4) ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT.—The program IN PROCEEDINGS UNDER THIS ACT.—No person the employer), deliberately violates any pro- established and carried out by the Com- shall terminate the employment of, or in any vision of this Act. mandant under paragraph (1) shall also in- other way discriminate against (or cause the SEC. 9. JUDICIAL REVIEW. clude— termination of employment of or discrimina- (a) REVIEW OF ACTIONS BY ADMINISTRATOR (A) a method for collecting and reviewing tion against), any employee or any author- OR COMMANDANT; SELECTION OF COURT; data related to the efficiency and operation ized representative of employees by reason of FEES.— of the program; and the fact that the employee or representa- (1) REVIEW OF ACTIONS.— (B) periodic revisions to the program based tive— (A) IN GENERAL.—Any interested person on the data collected under subparagraph (1) has filed, instituted, or caused to be may petition for a review, in the United (A). filed or instituted any proceeding under this States court of appeals for the circuit in (5) REPORT.—Not later than 3 years after Act; or which the person resides or transacts busi- the establishment of the program described (2) has testified or is about to testify in ness directly affected by the action of which in paragraph (1), the Commandant shall sub- any proceeding resulting from the adminis- review is requested— mit to Congress a report describing— tration or enforcement of the provisions of (i) of an action of the Administrator in (A) the results of the program; this Act. promulgating any effluent limit under sec- (B) recommendations for optimal observer (b) APPLICATION FOR REVIEW; INVESTIGA- coverage; and tion 5; or TION; HEARINGS; REVIEW.— (ii) of an action of the Commandant or the (C) other recommendations for improve- (1) IN GENERAL.—An employee or a rep- ment of the program. Administrator in carrying out an inspection, resentative of an employee who believes that sampling, or testing under section 7. (e) ONBOARD MONITORING SYSTEM PILOT the termination of the employment of the PROGRAM.— (B) DEADLINE FOR REVIEW.—A petition for employee has occurred, or that the employee (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after review under subparagraph (A) shall be has been discriminated against, as a result of the date of the enactment of this Act, the made— the actions of any person in violation of sub- Administrator of the National Oceanic and (i) not later than 120 days after the date of section (a) may, not later than 30 days after Atmospheric Administration, in consulta- promulgation of the limit or standard with the date on which the alleged violation oc- tion with the Administrator and the Com- respect to which the review is sought; or curred, apply to the Secretary of Labor for a mandant, shall establish, and for each of fis- (ii) if the petition for review is based solely review of the alleged termination of employ- cal years 2008 through 2013, shall carry out, on grounds that arose after the date de- ment or discrimination. with industry partners as necessary, a pilot scribed in clause (i), as soon as practicable (2) APPLICATION.—A copy of an application program to develop and promote commer- after that date. for review filed under paragraph (1) shall be cialization of technologies to provide real- (2) CIVIL AND CRIMINAL ENFORCEMENT PRO- sent to the respondent. time data to Federal agencies regarding— CEEDINGS.—An action of the Commandant or (A) discharges of sewage, graywater, and (3) INVESTIGATION.— Administrator with respect to which review bilge water from cruise vessels; and (A) IN GENERAL.—On receipt of an applica- could have been obtained under paragraph (1) (B) functioning of cruise vessel compo- tion for review under paragraph (1), the Sec- shall not be subject to judicial review in any nents relating to fuel consumption and con- retary of Labor shall carry out an investiga- civil or criminal proceeding for enforcement trol of air and water pollution. tion of the alleged violation. of such action. (B) REQUIREMENTS.—In carrying out this (2) TECHNOLOGY REQUIREMENTS.—Tech- (3) AWARD OF FEES.—In any judicial pro- nologies developed under the program de- subsection, the Secretary of Labor shall— ceeding under this subsection, a court may scribed in paragraph (1)— (i) provide an opportunity for a public award costs of litigation (including reason- (A) shall have the ability to record— hearing at the request of any party to the re- able attorneys’ and expert witness fees) to (i) the location and time of discharges view to enable the parties to present infor- any prevailing or substantially prevailing from cruise vessels; mation relating to the alleged violation; party in any case in which the court deter- (ii) the source, content, and volume of the (ii) ensure that, at least 5 days before the mines such an award to be appropriate. date of the hearing, each party to the hear- discharges; and (b) ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE.— ing is provided written notice of the time (iii) the state of components relating to (1) IN GENERAL.—In any judicial proceeding and place of the hearing; and pollution control at the time of the dis- instituted under subsection (a) in which re- (iii) ensure that the hearing is on the charges, including whether the components view is sought of a determination under this record and subject to section 554 of title 5, are operating correctly; and Act required to be made on the record after United States Code. (B) shall be tested on not less than 10 per- notice and opportunity for hearing, if any (C) FINDINGS OF SECRETARY.—On comple- cent of all cruise vessels operating in the ter- party applies to the court for leave to intro- tion of an investigation under this para- ritorial sea of the United States, including duce additional evidence and demonstrates graph, the Secretary of Labor shall— large and small vessels. to the satisfaction of the court that the addi- (i) make findings of fact; (3) PARTICIPATION OF INDUSTRY.— tional evidence is material and that there (ii) if the Secretary of Labor determines (A) COMPETITIVE SELECTION PROCESS.—In- were reasonable grounds for the failure to in- that a violation did occur, issue a decision, dustry partners willing to participate in the troduce the evidence in the proceeding be- incorporating an order and the findings, re- program may do so through a competitive fore the Commandant or Administrator, the quiring the person that committed the viola- selection process conducted by the Adminis- court may order the additional evidence (and tion to take such action as is necessary to trator of the National Oceanic and Atmos- evidence in rebuttal of the additional evi- abate the violation, including the rehiring or pheric Administration. dence) to be taken before the Commandant reinstatement, with compensation, of an em- (B) CONTRIBUTION.—A selected industry or Administrator, in such manner and on ployee to the former position of the em- partner shall contribute not less than 20 per- such terms and conditions as the court de- ployee; and cent of the cost of the project in which the termines to be appropriate. industry partner participates. (iii) if the Secretary of Labor determines (2) MODIFICATION OF FINDINGS.—On admis- that there was no violation, issue an order (4) ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT.—The program sion of additional evidence under paragraph denying the application. established and carried out by the Adminis- (1), the Commandant or Administrator— (D) ORDER.—An order issued by the Sec- trator of the National Oceanic and Atmos- (A) may modify findings of fact of the retary of Labor under subparagraph (C) shall pheric Administration pursuant to para- Commandant or Administrator, as the case be subject to judicial review in the same graph (1) shall also include— may be, relating to a judicial proceeding, or manner as orders and decisions of the Ad- (A) a method for collecting and reviewing make new findings of fact, by reason of the ministrator are subject to judicial review data related to the efficiency and operation additional evidence; and under this Act. of the program; and (B) shall file with the return of the addi- (c) COSTS AND EXPENSES.—In any case in (B) periodic revisions to the program based tional evidence any modified or new find- which an order is issued under this section to on the data collected under subparagraph ings, and any related recommendations, for abate a violation, at the request of the appli- (A). the modification or setting aside of any cant, a sum equal to the aggregate amount (5) REPORT.—Not later than 3 years after original determinations of the Commandant of all costs and expenses (including attor- the date of the enactment of this Act, the or Administrator. Administrator of the National Oceanic and neys’ fees), as determined by the Secretary Atmospheric Administration shall submit to of Labor, to have been reasonably incurred SEC. 10. ENFORCEMENT. Congress a report describing— by the applicant for, or in connection with, (a) IN GENERAL.—Any person that violates (A) the results of the program; the institution and prosecution of the pro- a provision of section 4 or any regulation (B) recommendations for continuing the ceedings, shall be assessed against the person promulgated under this Act may be as- program; and committing the violation. sessed— (C) other recommendations for improving (d) DELIBERATE VIOLATIONS BY EMPLOYEES (1) a class I or class II civil penalty de- the program. ACTING WITHOUT DIRECTION FROM EMPLOYER scribed in subsection (b); or SEC. 8. EMPLOYEE PROTECTION. OR AGENT.—This section shall not apply to (2) a civil penalty in a civil action under (a) PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST any employee who, without direction from subsection (c). PERSONS FILING, INSTITUTING, OR TESTIFYING the employer of the employee (or agent of (b) AMOUNT OF ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY.—

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(1) CLASS I.—The amount of a class I civil later than 30 days after the date of issuance (ii) shall not impose additional civil pen- penalty under subsection (a)(1) may not ex- of the order, petition the Commandant— alties for the same violation unless the as- ceed— (I) to set aside the order; and sessment by the Commandant of the civil (A) $10,000 per violation; or (II) to provide a hearing on the penalty. penalty constitutes an abuse of discretion. (B) $25,000 in the aggregate, in the case of (ii) NEW EVIDENCE.—If any evidence pre- (11) COLLECTION.— multiple violations. sented by a petitioner in support of the peti- (A) IN GENERAL.—If any person fails to pay (2) CLASS II.—The amount of a class II civil tion under clause (i) is material and was not an assessment of a civil penalty after the as- penalty under subsection (a)(1) may not ex- considered in the issuance of the order, as sessment has become final, or after a court ceed— determined by the Commandant, the Com- in a proceeding under paragraph (10) has en- (A) $10,000 per day for each day during mandant shall immediately— tered a final judgment in favor of the Com- which the violation continues; or (I) set aside the order; and mandant, the Commandant shall request the (B) $125,000 in the aggregate, in the case of (II) provide a hearing in accordance with Attorney General to bring a civil action in multiple violations. subparagraph (B)(ii). an appropriate district court to recover— (3) SEPARATE VIOLATIONS.—Each day on (iii) DENIAL OF HEARING.—If the Com- (i) the amount assessed; and which a violation continues shall constitute mandant denies a hearing under this sub- (ii) interest that has accrued on the a separate violation. paragraph, the Commandant shall provide to amount assessed, as calculated at currently the petitioner, and publish in the Federal prevailing rates beginning on the date of the (4) DETERMINATION OF AMOUNT.—In deter- mining the amount of a civil penalty under Register, notice of and the reasons for the final order or the date of the final judgment, denial. as the case may be. subsection (a)(1), the Commandant or the (8) FINALITY OF ORDER.— (B) NONREVIEWABILITY.—In an action to re- court, as appropriate, shall consider— (A) IN GENERAL.—An order assessing a class cover an assessed civil penalty under sub- (A) the seriousness of the violation; II civil penalty under this subsection shall paragraph (A), the validity, amount, and ap- (B) any economic benefit resulting from become final on the date that is 30 days after propriateness of the civil penalty shall not the violation; the date of issuance of the order unless, be- be subject to judicial review. (C) any history of violations; fore that date— (C) FAILURE TO PAY PENALTY.—Any person (D) any good faith efforts to comply with (i) a petition for judicial review is filed that fails to pay, on a timely basis, the the applicable requirements; under paragraph (10); or amount of an assessment of a civil penalty (E) the economic impact of the penalty on (ii) a hearing is requested under paragraph under subparagraph (A) shall be required to the violator; and (7)(C). pay, in addition to the amount of the civil (F) such other matters as justice may re- (B) DENIAL OF HEARING.—If a hearing is re- penalty and accrued interest— quire. quested under paragraph (7)(C) and subse- (i) attorneys’ fees and other costs for col- (5) PROCEDURE FOR CLASS I CIVIL PENALTY.— quently denied, an order assessing a class II lection proceedings; and (A) IN GENERAL.—Before assessing a civil civil penalty under this subsection shall be- (ii) for each quarter during which the fail- penalty under this subsection, the Com- come final on the date that is 30 days after ure to pay persists, a quarterly nonpayment mandant shall provide to the person to be as- the date of the denial. penalty in an amount equal to 20 percent of sessed the penalty— (9) EFFECT OF ACTION ON COMPLIANCE.—No the aggregate amount of the assessed civil (i) written notice of the proposal of the action by the Commandant under this sub- penalties and nonpayment penalties of the Commandant to assess the penalty; and section shall affect the obligation of any per- person that are unpaid as of the beginning of (ii) the opportunity to request, not later son to comply with any provision of this Act. the quarter. than 30 days after the date on which the no- (10) JUDICIAL REVIEW.— (12) SUBPOENAS.— tice is received by the person, a hearing on (A) IN GENERAL.—Any person against which (A) IN GENERAL.—The Commandant may the proposed penalty. a civil penalty is assessed under this sub- issue subpoenas for the attendance and testi- (B) HEARING.—A hearing described in sub- section, or that commented on the proposed mony of witnesses and the production of rel- paragraph (A)(ii)— assessment of such a penalty in accordance evant papers, books, or documents in connec- (i) shall not be subject to section 554 or 556 with paragraph (7), may obtain review of the tion with hearings under this subsection. of title 5, United States Code; but assessment in a court described in subpara- (B) REFUSAL TO OBEY.—In case of contu- (ii) shall provide a reasonable opportunity graph (B) by— macy or refusal to obey a subpoena issued to be heard and to present evidence. (i) filing a notice of appeal with the court under this paragraph and served on any per- (6) PROCEDURE FOR CLASS II CIVIL PEN- within the 30-day period beginning on the son— ALTY.— date on which the civil penalty order is (i) the district court of the United States (A) IN GENERAL.—Except as otherwise pro- issued; and for any district in which the person is found, vided in this subsection, a class II civil pen- (ii) simultaneously sending a copy of the resides, or transacts business, on application alty shall be assessed and collected in the notice by certified mail to the Commandant by the United States and after notice to the same manner, and subject to the same provi- and the Attorney General. person, shall have jurisdiction to issue an sions, as in the case of civil penalties as- (B) COURTS OF JURISDICTION.—Review of an order requiring the person to appear and give sessed and collected after notice and an op- assessment under subparagraph (A) may be testimony before the Commandant or to ap- portunity for a hearing on the record in ac- obtained by a person— pear and produce documents before the Com- cordance with section 554 of title 5, United (i) in the case of assessment of a class I mandant; and States Code. civil penalty, in— (ii) any failure to obey such an order of the (B) RULES.—The Commandant may pro- (I) the United States District Court for the court may be punished by the court as a con- mulgate rules for discovery procedures for District of Columbia; or tempt of the court. hearings under this subsection. (II) the district court of the United States (c) CIVIL ACTION.—The Commandant may (7) RIGHTS OF INTERESTED PERSONS.— for the district in which the violation oc- commence, in the district court of the (A) PUBLIC NOTICE.—Before issuing an order curred; or United States for the district in which the assessing a class II civil penalty under this (ii) in the case of assessment of a class II defendant is located, resides, or transacts subsection, the Commandant shall provide civil penalty, in— business, a civil action to impose a civil pen- public notice of, and reasonable opportunity (I) the United States Court of Appeals for alty under this subsection in an amount not to comment on, the proposed issuance of the District of Columbia Circuit; or to exceed $25,000 for each day of violation. each order. (II) the United States court of appeals for (d) CRIMINAL PENALTIES.— (B) PRESENTATION OF EVIDENCE.— any other circuit in which the person resides (1) NEGLIGENT VIOLATIONS.—A person that (i) IN GENERAL.—Any person that com- or transacts business. negligently violates section 4 or any regula- ments on a proposed assessment of a class II (C) COPY OF RECORD.—On receipt of notice tion promulgated under this Act commits a civil penalty under this subsection shall be under subparagraph (A)(ii), the Commandant Class A misdemeanor under title 18, United given notice of— shall promptly file with the appropriate States Code. (I) any hearing held under this subsection court a certified copy of the record on which (2) KNOWING VIOLATIONS.—Any person that relating to such assessment; and the order assessing a civil penalty that is the knowingly violates section 4 or any regula- (II) any order assessing the penalty. subject of the review was issued. tion promulgated under this Act commits a (ii) HEARING.—In any hearing described in (D) SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.—A court with Class D felony under title 18, United States clause (i)(I), a person described in clause (i) jurisdiction over a review under this para- Code. shall have a reasonable opportunity to be graph— (3) FALSE STATEMENTS.—Any person that heard and to present evidence. (i) shall not set aside or remand an order knowingly makes any false statement, rep- (C) RIGHTS OF INTERESTED PERSONS TO A described in subparagraph (C) unless— resentation, or certification in any record, HEARING.— (I) there is not substantial evidence in the report, or other document filed or required (i) IN GENERAL.—If no hearing is held under record, taken as a whole, to support the find- to be maintained under this Act or any regu- subparagraph (B) before the date of issuance ing of a violation; or lation promulgated under this Act, or that of an order assessing a class II civil penalty (II) the assessment by the Commandant of falsifies, tampers with, or knowingly renders under this subsection, any person that com- the civil penalty constitutes an abuse of dis- inaccurate any testing or monitoring device mented on the proposed assessment may, not cretion; and or method required to be maintained under

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this Act or any regulation promulgated (1) IN GENERAL.—The Commandant may (B) CONSENT JUDGMENTS.—No consent judg- under this Act, commits a Class D felony commence a civil action for appropriate re- ment shall be entered in a civil action under under title 18, United States Code. lief, including a permanent or temporary in- this section to which the United States is (e) REWARDS.— junction, for any violation for which the not a party before the date that is 45 days (1) PAYMENTS TO INDIVIDUALS.— Commandant is authorized to issue a compli- after the date of receipt of a copy of the pro- (A) IN GENERAL.—The Commandant or the ance order under this subsection. posed consent judgment by— court, as the case may be, may order pay- (2) COURT OF JURISDICTION.— (i) the Attorney General; ment, from a civil penalty or criminal fine (A) IN GENERAL.—A civil action under this (ii) the Administrator; and collected under this section, of an amount subsection may be brought in the district (iii) the Commandant. not to exceed 1⁄2 of the civil penalty or fine, court of the United States for the district in (e) LITIGATION COSTS.— to any individual who furnishes information which the defendant is located, resides, or is (1) IN GENERAL.—A court of jurisdiction, in that leads to the payment of the civil pen- doing business. issuing any final order in any civil action alty or criminal fine. (B) JURISDICTION.—A court described in brought in accordance with this section, may (B) MULTIPLE INDIVIDUALS.—If 2 or more in- subparagraph (A) shall have jurisdiction to award costs of litigation (including reason- dividuals provide information described in grant injunctive relief to address a violation able attorneys’ and expert witness fees) to subparagraph (A), the amount available for and require compliance by the defendant. any prevailing or substantially prevailing payment as a reward shall be divided equi- SEC. 11. CITIZEN SUITS. party, in any case in which the court deter- tably among the individuals. (a) AUTHORIZATION.—Except as provided in mines that such an award is appropriate. (C) INELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS.—No officer or subsection (c), any citizen may commence a (2) SECURITY.—In any civil action under employee of the United States, a State, or an civil action on the citizen’s own behalf— this section, the court of jurisdiction may, if Indian tribe who furnishes information or (1) against any person (including the a temporary restraining order or preliminary renders service in the performance of the of- United States and any other governmental injunction is sought, require the filing of a ficial duties of the officer or employee shall instrumentality or agency to the extent per- bond or equivalent security in accordance be eligible for a reward payment under this mitted by the eleventh amendment to the with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. subsection. Constitution of the United States) that is al- (f) STATUTORY OR COMMON LAW RIGHTS NOT (2) PAYMENTS TO STATES OR INDIAN leged to be in violation of— RESTRICTED.—Nothing in this section re- TRIBES.—The Commandant or the court, as (A) the conditions imposed by section 4; stricts the rights of any person (or class of the case may be, may order payment, from a (B) an effluent limit or performance stand- persons) under any statute or common law civil penalty or criminal fine collected under ard under this Act; or to seek enforcement or other relief (includ- this section, to a State or Indian tribe pro- (C) an order issued by the Administrator or ing relief against the Administrator or Com- viding information or investigative assist- Commandant with respect to such a condi- mandant). ance that leads to payment of the penalty or tion, an effluent limit, or a performance (g) CIVIL ACTION BY STATE GOVERNORS.—A fine, of an amount that reflects the level of standard; or Governor of a State may commence a civil information or investigative assistance pro- (2) against the Administrator or Com- action under subsection (a), without regard vided. mandant, in a case in which there is alleged to the limitation under subsection (c), (3) PAYMENTS DIVIDED AMONG STATES, IN- a failure by the Administrator or Com- against the Administrator or Commandant DIAN TRIBES, AND INDIVIDUALS.—In a case in mandant to perform any nondiscretionary in any case in which there is alleged a failure which a State or Indian tribe and an indi- act or duty under this Act. of the Administrator or Commandant to en- vidual under paragraph (1) are eligible to re- (b) JURISDICTION.—The district courts of force an effluent limit or performance stand- ceive a reward payment under this sub- the United States shall have jurisdiction, ard under this Act, the violation of which is section, the Commandant or the court shall without regard to the amount in controversy causing— divide the amount available for the reward or the citizenship of the parties— (1) an adverse effect on the public health or equitably among those recipients. (1) to enforce a condition, effluent limit, welfare in the State; or (f) LIABILITY IN REM.—A cruise vessel oper- performance standard, or order described in (2) a violation of any water quality re- ated in violation of this Act or any regula- subsection (a)(1); quirement in the State. tion promulgated under this Act— (2) to order the Administrator or Com- SEC. 12. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON BALLAST (1) shall be liable in rem for any civil pen- mandant to perform a nondiscretionary act WATER. alty or criminal fine imposed under this sec- or duty described in subsection (a)(2); and It is the sense of Congress that action tion; and (3) to apply any appropriate civil penalties should be taken to enact legislation requir- (2) may be subject to a proceeding insti- under section 10(b). ing strong, mandatory standards for ballast tuted in the district court of the United (c) NOTICE.—No action may be commenced water to reduce the threat of aquatic States for any district in which the cruise under this section— invasive species. vessel may be found. (1) before the date that is 60 days after the SEC. 13. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON AIR POLLU- (g) COMPLIANCE ORDERS.— date on which the plaintiff gives notice of TION. (1) IN GENERAL.—If the Commandant deter- the alleged violation— It is the sense of Congress that action mines that any person is in violation of sec- (A) to the Administrator or Commandant; should be taken to enact legislation requir- tion 4 or any regulation promulgated under and ing strong, mandatory standards for air this Act, the Commandant shall— (B) to any alleged violator of the condi- quality with respect to incineration and en- (A) issue an order requiring the person to tion, effluent limit, performance standard, gine activities of cruise vessels to reduce the comply with such section or requirement; or or order described in subsection (a)(1); or level of harmful chemical and particulate air (B) bring a civil action in accordance with (2) if the Administrator or Commandant pollutants. subsection (c). has commenced and is diligently prosecuting SEC. 14. FUNDING. (2) COPIES OF ORDER; SERVICE.— a civil or criminal action on the same matter (a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— (A) CORPORATE ORDERS.—In any case in in a court of the United States (but in any There are authorized to be appropriated to which an order under this subsection is such action, a citizen may intervene as a the Commandant and the Administrator issued to a corporation, a copy of the order matter of right). such sums as are necessary to carry out this shall be served on any appropriate corporate (d) VENUE.— Act for each of fiscal years 2009 through 2013. officer. (1) IN GENERAL.—Any civil action under (b) CRUISE VESSEL POLLUTION CONTROL (B) METHOD OF SERVICE; SPECIFICATIONS.— this section shall be brought in— FUND.— An order issued under this subsection shall— (A) the United States District Court for (1) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established (i) be by personal service; the District of Columbia; or in the general fund of the Treasury a sepa- (ii) state with reasonable specificity the (B) any other district court of the United rate account to be known as the ‘‘Cruise Ves- nature of the violation for which the order States for any judicial district in which a sel Pollution Control Fund’’ (referred to in was issued; and cruise vessel or the owner or operator of a this section as the ‘‘Fund’’). (iii) specify a deadline for compliance that cruise vessel is located. (2) AMOUNTS.—The Fund shall consist of is not later than— (2) INTERVENTION.—In a civil action under such amounts as are deposited in the Fund (I) 30 days after the date of issuance of the this section, the Administrator or the Com- under subsection (c)(5). order, in the case of a violation of an interim mandant, if not a party, may intervene as a (3) USE OF AMOUNTS IN FUND.—The Adminis- compliance schedule or operation and main- matter of right. trator and the Commandant may use tenance requirement; or (3) PROCEDURES.— amounts in the Fund, without further appro- (II) such date as the Commandant, taking (A) SERVICE.—In any case in which a civil priation, to carry out this Act. into account the seriousness of the violation action is brought under this section in a (c) FEES ON CRUISE VESSELS.— and any good faith efforts to comply with ap- court of the United States, the plaintiff shall (1) IN GENERAL.—The Commandant shall es- plicable requirements, determines to be rea- serve a copy of the complaint on— tablish and collect from each cruise vessel a sonable, in the case of a violation of a final (i) the Attorney General; reasonable and appropriate fee for each pay- deadline. (ii) the Administrator; and ing passenger on a cruise vessel voyage, for (h) CIVIL ACTIONS.— (iii) the Commandant. use in carrying out this Act.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 02:24 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00049 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17AP6.028 S17APPT1 wwoods2 on PRODPC60 with SENATE S3154 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE April 17, 2008 (2) ADJUSTMENT OF FEE.— servicemember killed in the service of act of personal commemoration in May (A) IN GENERAL.—The Commandant shall the Nation. 1908, grew year after year. Eventually, biennially adjust the amount of the fee es- The presentation of a remembrance Grafton’s efforts would be recognized tablished under paragraph (1) to reflect flag to the family of a deceased by the entire State of West Virginia in changes in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers published by the Depart- servicemember is a time-honored tradi- 1910. This was the first time a state ment of Labor during each 2-year period. tion for each of the services which recognized Mother’s Day, and many (B) ROUNDING.—The Commandant may commemorates and memorializes the more would soon follow. round the adjustment in subparagraph (A) to service of our men and women in uni- In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson the nearest 1⁄10 of a dollar. form who have made the ultimate sac- declared the first national Mother’s (3) FACTORS IN ESTABLISHING FEES.— rifice to protect the liberties and free- Day, and from that day until now, (A) IN GENERAL.—In establishing fees under doms we cherish. The remembrance mothers have been honored with flow- paragraph (1), the Commandant may estab- flag is a profound symbol of the endur- ers, breakfast in bed, and of course, lish lower levels of fees and the maximum amount of fees for certain classes of cruise ing appreciation of a grateful Nation. those endearing homemade cards by vessels based on— Regrettably, however, there is an little children that are steeped in sen- (i) size; oversight in current law affecting timent—and often covered in glitter, (ii) economic share; and which family members of a deceased macaroni and school paste. (iii) such other factors as are determined servicemember may receive a flag. At My wife Sharon would tell you that to be appropriate by the Commandant and present, the statute authorizes the sec- there is nothing more important than Administrator. retaries of the services to present only these simple gifts—first from our chil- (B) FEE SCHEDULES.—Any fee schedule es- two remembrance flags—one to the dren, and now our grandchildren. They tablished under paragraph (1), including the parents of the deceased servicemember are cherished touchstones. level of fees and the maximum amount of At the same time, we think of our fees, shall take into account— and one to the person authorized to di- (i) cruise vessel routes; rect disposition of the servicemember. mothers as invincible. However, not (ii) the frequency of stops at ports of call In many instances, the person author- even our mothers are immune to age or by cruise vessels; and ized to direct disposition is also a pri- disease. For many families across the (iii) other relevant considerations. mary next of kin of the servicemember. country, Mother’s Day takes on even (4) COLLECTION OF FEES.—A fee established However, in cases where the primary deeper meanings as parents get older. under paragraph (1) shall be collected by the next of kin are the children of the de- In my own life, my mother was a tre- Commandant from the owner or operator of ceased servicemember, which can occur mendous force. Each Mother’s Day was each cruise vessel to which this Act applies. a celebration of her spirit, intellect (5) DEPOSITS TO FUND.—Notwithstanding in extended family situations, authori- any other provision of law, all fees collected ties do not exist for the secretaries of and determination—and all this was under this subsection, and all penalties and the services to provide a remembrance put to the test in her battle with Alz- payments collected for violations of this Act, flag to the children of deceased heimer’s disease. It’s not easy seeing shall be deposited into the Fund. servicemembers. the woman who raised you struggle SEC. 15. EFFECT ON OTHER LAW. The legislation that my colleagues with an illness that robs her of her dig- (a) UNITED STATES.—Nothing in this Act and I are introducing today will rem- nity and quality of life. I know that my restricts, affects, or amends any other law or edy this oversight. We believe that the family is not the only one that has the authority of any department, instrumen- been touched by this disease—and I am tality, or agency of the United States. children of deceased servicemembers (b) STATES AND INTERSTATE AGENCIES.— should also be able to receive a remem- certainly not the only son who could (1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in brance flag in honor of the sacrifice talk in such a deeply personal way paragraph (2), nothing in this Act precludes made by their parent. Clearly, this is about losing a mother. But just like or denies the right of any State (including a the right thing to do. I sincerely hope Anna Jarvis, my sisters and I sought to political subdivision of a State) or interstate that my colleagues will join Senator honor our mother—and perhaps in the agency to adopt or enforce— COLLINS, Senator ISAKSON, and me in process help another mother or grand- (A) any standard or limit relating to the mother or family—by opening the discharge of pollutants by cruise vessels; or supporting this important legislation. (B) any requirement relating to the control Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences or abatement of pollution. By Mr. ROCKEFELLER (for him- Institute. (2) EXCEPTION.—If an effluent limit, per- self and Mr. BYRD): So it is altogether fitting and proper formance standard, water quality standard, S. 2883. A bill to require the Sec- that as we prepare to commemorate or any other prohibition or limitation is in retary of the Treasury to mint coins in that first, historic Mother’s Day cele- effect under Federal law, a State (including commemoration of the centennial of bration in Grafton, that we as a Nation a political subdivision of a State) or inter- the establishment of Mother’s Day; to begin to reconnect with what Anna state agency may not adopt or enforce any the Committee on Banking, Housing, Jarvis was trying to achieve—commu- effluent limit, performance standard, water and Urban Affairs. nity recognition of the role that quality standard, or any other prohibition that— Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, I women play in all our lives. (A) is less stringent than the effluent rise today to pay tribute to the women Today, I am introducing legislation limit, performance standard, water quality of our Nation who have the cherished that authorizes the U.S. Treasury to standard, or other prohibition or limitation title of mother and grandmother. mint commemorative coins to cele- under this Act; or Whether through natural means, adop- brate the centennial of Grafton’s cele- (B) impairs or in any manner affects any tion or foster care, their patience and bration. I am proud to have Senator right or jurisdiction of the State with re- unending well-spring of love and affec- ROBERT C. BYRD as an original cospon- spect to the waters of the State. tion make an incredible difference in sor. The companion bill also has been By Ms. SNOWE (for herself, Ms. the lives of children. introduced in the House of Representa- COLLINS, and Mr. ISAKSON): No treasure, no riches can ever com- tives by my West Virginia colleague, S. 2882. A bill to amend title 10, pare with a profoundly reassuring hug, SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO. The proceeds United States Code, to provide for the the kind words that soothe broken from the sale of these coins won’t go to presentation of a flag of the United spirits, or that reminder, rooted in af- the Government. Instead they will go States to the children of members of fection, that we’re not living up to our to two organizations that are actively the Armed Forces who die in service; to full potential. They inspire, believe and working to make a difference in the the Committee on Armed Services. ultimately profess enormous pride in lives of our Nation’s women who are Ms. SNOWE. Mr. President, I rise us—no matter our successes or failures. battling breast cancer and today with my colleagues Senator COL- That is why it is not surprising that osteoporosis—the Susan G. Komen for LINS and Senator ISAKSON to introduce a young woman from Grafton, West the Cure Foundation and the National legislation that would provide the sec- Virginia, took to the streets of her Osteoporosis Foundation. retaries of the military departments hometown to honor her recently de- Every day can, and should be Moth- the authority to pay the necessary ex- parted mother’s love and life by pass- er’s Day. Through this bill, Americans penses that would accompany the pres- ing out white carnations to all those will now have the chance to show, with entation of a flag to each child of a who passed by. Anna Jarvis’ one simple the purchase of these coins, the high

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Our Nation’s capacity to innovate is ing research that will improve the Under the Basic Credit methodology, a key reason why our economy remains quality of their lives. companies wishing to calculate their the envy of the world, even during I urge my colleagues to support this R&D credit must measure their current these difficult economic times. Knowl- legislation. investments against a base that is edge-based businesses have been at the stuck in the past—literally the tax forefront of this innovation that has By Ms. COLLINS (for herself and years between 1984 and 1988. This period bolstered the economy over the long- Mr. HATCH): is simply not relevant to today’s in- term. For example, science parks have S. 2884. A bill to amend the Internal vestment decisions, and because of helped lead the technological revolu- Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incen- that, fewer and fewer companies get tion and have created more than 300,000 tives to improve America’s research any benefit at all from the Basic Cred- high-paying science and technology competitiveness, and for other pur- it. jobs, along with another 450,000 indi- poses; to the Committee on Finance. By contrast, the Alternative Sim- rect jobs for a total of 750,000 jobs in Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, I rise plified Credit methodology allows com- North America. today to introduce the Research & De- panies to calculate their credit using a It is clear that the promotion of velopment Tax Credit Improvement rolling average of their domestic in- knowledge-based industries can be a Act of 2008, legislation which would ex- vestments over their three most-recent key economic tool for states and local- tend the R&D tax credit for 5 years, tax years. ities. This is especially true for states phase-out the Basic Credit, and raise The value of doing this is evidenced that have seen a loss in traditional the rate of the Alternative Simplified by the fact that most companies have manufacturing. In my home state of Credit from 12 percent to 20 percent by already switched to the Alternative Maine, we lost 28 percent of our total 2010. Simplified Credit, even though it has manufacturing employment over the Those who have followed the ongoing been on the books for less than a year- last decade. I believe that it critical discussions regarding the R&D tax and-a-half, and even though the credit that we provide states and localities credit will recognize that the legisla- rate is only 12 percent compared to the with a wider range of options in pro- tion I am introducing shares the frame- Basic Credit rate of 20 percent. moting economic development. My leg- work of a proposal already put forward The five-year extension I am pro- islation will do just that by expanding by the senior Senator from the State of posing will allow for a smooth transi- the availability small-issue IDBs to Utah, my good friend ORRIN HATCH. tion to the Alternative Simplified new economy industries, such as soft- Senator HATCH has done a superb job Credit, and will bring the R&D tax ware and biotechnology, that have building a consensus around the need credit up-to-date. Companies which proven their ability to provide high- to transition to the Alternative Sim- still rely on the Basic Credit will be al- paying jobs. plified Credit, and to raise that credit lowed to continue that credit for an- These IDBs allow State and local de- to provide a real incentive to the many other two years, just as is con- velopment finance authorities, like the companies that are unable to benefit templated by the legislation that Sen- Finance Authority of Maine, to issue from the Basic Credit structure. I ap- ators HATCH and BAUCUS have worked tax-exempt bonds for the purpose of plaud his efforts in this regard, and I so hard on. raising capital to provide low-cost fi- thank him for lending his support to Investment in research and develop- nancing of manufacturing facilities. the bill I am introducing today. ment is critical to the breakthroughs These bonds, therefore, provide local I also want to note the contribution we need to keep our economy competi- authorities with an invaluable tool to of the distinguished Chairman of the tive, and to create the good, high-pay- attract new employers and assist exist- Finance Committee, Senator BAUCUS, ing jobs the American people deserve. ing one’s to grow. The result is a win- who has worked side-by-side with Sen- The R&D tax credit provides an impor- win situation for local communities ator HATCH on the Research and Devel- tant incentive for this investment, but providing them with much needed jobs. opment tax credit. it needs to be updated so more compa- Consequently, it only makes since to The chief distinction between our nies can benefit from it. While making ensure that these finance authorities two bills is the duration of the credit. the credit permanent is a worthwhile have maximum flexibility in options to The Hatch-Baucus bill proposes a per- goal, the 5-year extension I am pro- grow jobs. manent credit, while my bill would ex- posing today is ‘‘do-able’’, and I urge In addition, my bill provides some tend the R&D tax credit for five years. my colleagues to support it. technical clarity to distinguish be- I certainly share the goal of providing tween the phrases ‘‘functionally re- a permanent R&D tax credit, but I fear By Ms. SNOWE (for herself, Mr. lated and subordinate facilities’’ and that the cost of doing so puts it beyond KERRY, Mr. SMITH, and Mr. ‘‘directly related and acillary facili- our reach. Yet we simply cannot con- BROWN): ties.’’ Until 1988, there was little confu- tinue to play ‘‘stop-and-go’’ with this S. 2885. A bill to amend the Internal sion based on Treasury regulations critical research incentive. Since the Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the going back to 1972 that made it clear R&D tax credit was first enacted in availability of industrial development that ‘‘functionally related and subordi- 1981, Congress has had to extend it a bonds to facilities manufacturing in- nate facilities’’ were clearly eligible for dozen times, and it expired again at the tangible property; to the Committee on financing through private activity tax- end of last year. The constant uncer- Finance. exempt bonds. tainty about the status of the credit Ms. SNOWE. Mr. President, I rise But, Congress enacted the Technical has made it impossible for companies today to introduce legislation that and Miscellaneous Revenue Bond Act to plan their research investments, and would provide State and local develop- of 1988 that imposed a limitation that has seriously diminished the credit’s ment finance authorities with greater not more than 25 percent of tax- ex- role as an incentive for research and flexibility in promoting economic empt bond financing could be used on development here in the U.S. growth that meets the changing reali- ‘‘directly related and ancillary facili- A 5-year extension would give compa- ties of an ever more global economy. ties.’’ While these two phrases appear nies enough time to plan their research Specifically, my bill would expand the to be very similar, they are indeed dis- investments with the credit in mind, definition of ‘‘manufacturing’’ as it tinguishable from each other. Unfortu- restoring the incentive-effect the R&D pertains to the small-issue Industrial nately, the Internal Revenue Service credit has always been intended to pro- Development Bond, IDB, program to has blurred this distinction between vide. Just as important, the time frame include the creation of ‘‘intangible’’ the phrases which has had an adverse I am proposing, coupled with the in- property. I am pleased to be joined by impact on the way facilities are able to crease in the rate to 20 percent will colleagues from both sides of the aisle utilize tax-exempt bond financing. My

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Congress can direct this investment avenues of economic development if Expanding the current definition of toward the U.S.—rather than over- Americas to compete in a changing and manufacturing to include ‘‘knowledge seas—by supporting clean energy tax increasingly global economy and my based’’ companies would promote eco- incentives. legislation is one small step in further- nomic development in our local com- These incentives include tax credits ance of that goal. I urge my colleagues munities as well as nationwide. This for wind and solar power, efficient to join me in supporting this bill. legislation is supported by the Council buildings and appliances, and clean re- Mr. President I ask unanimous con- of Development Finance Agencies. newable energy bonds. sent that the text of the bill be printed In addition to expanding the defini- These provisions are not only good in the RECORD. tion of manufacturing, the legislation energy policy. They also create jobs. There being no objection, the text of clarifies that a manufacturing facility This package would also extend wind the bill was ordered to be printed in includes functionally related and sub- and solar provisions. the RECORD, as follows: ordinate facilities as part of the facil- The American solar industry employs S. 2885 ity. 20,000 Americans. With a long-term ex- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- This legislation will provide a boost tension of the solar tax credit, that resentatives of the United States of America in to the economy by fostering develop- number would triple. Congress assembled, ment in technology. I urge my col- The American wind industry ex- SECTION 1. EXPANSION OF AVAILABILITY OF IN- leagues to support this common sense panded by 45 percent in 2007. It contrib- DUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BONDS TO change. uted about 30 percent of the new power FACILITIES MANUFACTURING IN- capacity in America last year. TANGIBLE PROPERTY. By Mr. BAUCUS (for himself, Mr. These job-creating industries are (a) EXPANSION TO INTANGIBLE PROPERTY.— GRASSLEY, Mr. SALAZAR, Mr. growing fast. We should support them. (1) IN GENERAL.—The first sentence of sec- tion 144(a)(12)(C) of the Internal Revenue SCHUMER, Ms. STABENOW, Mr. We know what happens when we don’t. Code of 1986 (defining manufacturing facil- SMITH, Mr. CRAPO, Mr. ROCKE- For example, the tax credit for pro- ity) is amended— FELLER, Mr. KYL, and Ms. duction of renewable energy was en- (A) by inserting ‘‘, creation,’’ after ‘‘used SNOWE): acted in 1992, starting the growth of re- in the manufacturing’’, and S. 2886. A bill to amend the Internal newable power in the U.S. (B) by inserting ‘‘or intangible property Revenue Code of 1986 to amend certain But since 1999, this credit has expired which is described in section 197(d)(1)(C)(iii)’’ expiring provisions; to the Committee three times. And when it expires, clean before the period at the end. on Finance. energy suffers, leading to declines be- (2) CLARIFICATION.—The last sentence of tween 73 percent and 93 percent in wind section 144(a)(12)(C) of such Code is amended Mr. BAUCUS. Mr. President, today I to read as follows: ‘‘For purposes of the first am introducing a tax package that energy investment. sentence of this subparagraph, the term would extend relief from the alter- We need to keep this credit going to ‘manufacturing facility’ includes— native minimum tax and extend other ensure consistent investment in the ‘‘(i) facilities which are functionally re- much-needed individual and business wind power industry. lated and subordinate to a manufacturing fa- provisions. This package would also promote en- cility (determined without regard to this When the economy is turning down, ergy efficiency. Efficiency is the low- clause), and Americans need certainty about their hanging fruit in the energy debate. We ‘‘(ii) facilities which are directly related taxes. Families and businesses need to can make big strides toward energy and ancillary to a manufacturing facility know what the tax law is. independence and a clean environment (determined without regard to this clause) by getting more for our energy buck. if— That is why my bill provides a one ‘‘(I) such facilities are located on the same year patch for the AMT. The patch will For example, ENERGY STAR—a vol- site as the manufacturing facility, and hold the number of taxpayers subject untary labeling program designed to ‘‘(II) not more than 25 percent of the net to the AMT at 4.2 million. We will not promote energy-efficient products— proceeds of the issue are used to provide such let more taxpayers fall into the alter- saved businesses, organizations, and facilities.’’. native minimum tax. consumers an estimated $14 billion in (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments Last year, Congress did not put a 2006. made by this section shall apply to bonds patch in place until December. We Efficiency also creates jobs. The issued after the date of the enactment of this American Solar Energy Society re- Act. must act sooner this year. Through this bill, Congress can act. ported that in 2006, the efficiency in- Mr. KERRY. Mr. President, today, That is why my package contains a 2- dustry created 8 million jobs, over half Senator SNOWE and I are introducing year extension of provisions that ex- of them in manufacturing. legislation that would expand the pired at the end of last year. The government plays a key role in availability of the Industrial Develop- These include the qualified tuition sustaining the efficiency industry, ment Bond, IDB, program. The small- deduction to give families relief from through tax incentives for efficient issue IDB program has given State and high tuition costs. commercial buildings, homes, and ap- local governments a low-cost source of My package also includes the teacher pliances. financing to create and retain jobs in expense deduction. This deduction This package would also extend the manufacturing plants. gives teachers some of the money that clean renewable energy bonds, or Over the years, numerous techno- they spend on school supplies to edu- CREBs. logical advances have driven software cate our children. CREBs passed in the Energy Policy and biotechnology to the forefront of The package also includes the State Act of 2005. CREBs spurred more than our economy. According to the U.S. and local sales tax deduction for those 700 new wind, biomass, solar, and hydro Census Bureau, there are more than 400 States without an income tax. projects. The number of projects far ex- biotechnology companies in Massachu- The bill offers an extension of the re- ceeded the funding available to pay for setts alone, employing more than 42,000 search and development credit. This them. and paying more than $5 billion in an- credit gives an incentive to businesses But CREBs funding lapsed at the end nual salaries. to invest in research. It helps to keep of 2007. That halted development of Currently, the small-issue IDB pro- America competitive in the global new projects and the green-collar jobs gram is limited only to manufacturing economy. that go with them. We must keep these facilities. As our economy continues to My package will also extend provi- projects going. evolve, so must our policies. Our legis- sions that expire this year for an addi- The CREBs provision was written for lation would allow IDBs to be used for tional year. non-taxable entities like rural co-ops. high-technology and biotechnology The bill extends much-needed energy Those non-taxable entities cannot use uses. The definition of manufacturing provisions. other tax incentives in this package.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 02:24 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00052 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17AP6.065 S17APPT1 wwoods2 on PRODPC60 with SENATE April 17, 2008 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S3157 I’ve listed just a few of the important Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- Sec. 309. Basis adjustment to stock of S cor- energy items in this extenders bill. sent that the text of the bill be printed porations making charitable There are more. And I plan to build in the RECORD. contributions of property. upon this package as it makes its way There being no objection, the text of Sec. 310. Increase in limit on cover over of rum excise tax to Puerto Rico through the legislative process, with the bill was ordered to be printed in and the Virgin Islands. edits and additional items. The Fi- the RECORD, as follows: Sec. 311. Parity in the application of certain nance Committee has been working to S. 2886 limits to mental health bene- that end for the better part of a year. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- fits. Last June, the Finance Committee resentatives of the United States of America in Sec. 312. Extension of economic develop- passed a roughly $30 billion energy-tax Congress assembled, ment credit for American package, with a resounding bipartisan SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; AMENDMENT OF 1986 Samoa. vote. A majority of the Senate voted CODE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. Sec. 313. Extension of mine rescue team for that bill. (a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as training credit. But we were just shy of getting the the ‘‘Alternative Minimum Tax and Extend- Sec. 314. Extension of election to expense ers Tax Relief Act of 2008’’. advanced mine safety equip- required 60 votes. ment. We tried again in December, with a (b) AMENDMENT OF 1986 CODE.—Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in Sec. 315. Extension of expensing rules for slimmer package. That time, we fell this Act an amendment or repeal is ex- qualified film and television short of the required 60 by just one pressed in terms of an amendment to, or re- productions. vote. peal of, a section or other provision, the ref- Sec. 316. Deduction allowable with respect We then tried in February, as part of erence shall be considered to be made to a to income attributable to do- economic stimulus bill. We offered a section or other provision of the Internal mestic production activities in package very similar to what passed Revenue Code of 1986. Puerto Rico. last week. That amendment got 58 (c) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of con- Sec. 317. Extension of qualified zone acad- tents of this Act is as follows: emy bonds. votes. Sec. 318. Indian employment credit. Sec. 1. Short title; amendment of 1986 Code; Last week, this body passed, by a Sec. 319. Accelerated depreciation for busi- table of contents. solid 88–8 vote, a package of energy-tax ness property on Indian res- extenders, similar to the package con- TITLE I—ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAX ervation. sidered during the economic stimulus RELIEF Sec. 320. Railroad track maintenance. debate. Sec. 101. Extension of alternative minimum Sec. 321. Seven-year cost recovery period for A vote of 88 to 8 might suggest that tax relief for nonrefundable per- motorsports racing track facil- there is smooth sailing ahead on en- sonal credits. ity. ergy-tax legislation. But I’m afraid Sec. 102. Extension of increased alternative Sec. 322. Expensing of environmental reme- minimum tax exemption that’s not the case. diation costs. amount. Sec. 323. Extension of work opportunity tax The day before the Senate passed its TITLE II—INDIVIDUAL TAX PROVISIONS credit for Hurricane Katrina housing bill, including the energy-tax employees. package, the House Ways and Means Sec. 201. Election to include combat pay as earned income for purposes of TITLE IV—EXTENSIONS OF ENERGY Committee passed its own housing re- the earned income credit. PROVISIONS lief bill. Sec. 202. Distributions from retirement Sec. 401. Extension of credit for energy effi- The Ways and Means bill restated the plans to individuals called to cient appliances. House’s position on pay-go. The House active duty. Sec. 402. Extension of credit for nonbusiness requires that the most of the tax pack- Sec. 203. Deduction for State and local sales energy property. age be offset. taxes. Sec. 403. Extension of credit for residential How did the Ways and Means Com- Sec. 204. Deduction of qualified tuition and energy efficient property. mittee offset the bill? Largely with a related expenses. Sec. 404. Extension of renewable electricity, provision called ‘‘basis reporting.’’ Sec. 205. Deduction for certain expenses of refined coal, and Indian coal elementary and secondary President Bush included this in his 2009 production credit. school teachers. Sec. 405. Extension of new energy efficient budget proposal. Sec. 206. Modification of mortgage revenue In other words, the House paid for a home credit. bonds for veterans. Sec. 406. Extension of energy credit. tax package with an item already sup- Sec. 207. Tax-free distributions from indi- Sec. 407. Extension and modification of cred- ported, at least in principle, by the vidual retirement plans for it for clean renewable energy President. charitable purposes. bonds. While I believe that this Congress Sec. 208. Treatment of certain dividends of Sec. 408. Extension of energy efficient com- should have paid for energy-tax legisla- regulated investment compa- mercial buildings deduction. tion with the offsets passed by Finance nies. Sec. 209. Stock in RIC for purposes of deter- TITLE V—TAX ADMINISTRATION Committee last year, it’s not clear that mining estates of nonresidents Sec. 501. Permanent authority for under- passing that package gets us any fur- not citizens. cover operations. ther to extending these important tax Sec. 210. Qualified investment entities. Sec. 502. Permanent disclosures of certain incentives. Sec. 211. Qualified conservation contribu- tax return information. That is why I have been working on tions. Sec. 503. Disclosure of information relating offsets that can pass both bodies and be TITLE III—BUSINESS TAX PROVISIONS to terrorist activities. signed by the President. That is what I Sec. 301. Extension and modification of re- TITLE I—ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAX will continue to do to get these impor- search credit. RELIEF tant energy items—as well as other Sec. 302. New markets tax credit. SEC. 101. EXTENSION OF ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM vital extenders—passed. Sec. 303. Subpart F exception for active fi- TAX RELIEF FOR NONREFUNDABLE By taking care of this now, we can nancing income. PERSONAL CREDITS. (a) IN GENERAL.—Paragraph (2) of section spend more of our time on other things Sec. 304. Extension of look-thru rule for re- lated controlled foreign cor- 26(a) (relating to special rule for taxable like tax reform. porations. years 2000 through 2007) is amended— I plan to hold several hearings and Sec. 305. Extension of 15-year straight-line (1) by striking ‘‘or 2007’’ and inserting roundtables to cuss tax reform. We cost recovery for qualified ‘‘2007, or 2008’’, and began this week. I’m serious about sim- leasehold improvements and (2) by striking ‘‘2007’’ in the heading thereof plifying our tax code. I am serious qualified restaurant improve- and inserting ‘‘2008’’. about helping the American people. ments. (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments Congress should do more than just Sec. 306. Enhanced charitable deduction for made by this section shall apply to taxable extend legislation. Congress needs to contributions of food inventory. years beginning after December 31, 2007. work on new policy, new legislation, Sec. 307. Extension of enhanced charitable SEC. 102. EXTENSION OF INCREASED ALTER- deduction for contributions of NATIVE MINIMUM TAX EXEMPTION and new ideas. And by enacting this book inventory. AMOUNT. legislation, we can turn to those im- Sec. 308. Modification of tax treatment of (a) IN GENERAL.—Paragraph (1) of section portant goals. I urge my colleagues to certain payments to controlling 55(d) (relating to exemption amount) is support this package. exempt organizations. amended—

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(1) by striking ‘‘($66,250 in the case of tax- amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 2007’’ and ‘‘(ii) APPLICABLE PERCENTAGE.—For pur- able years beginning in 2007)’’ in subpara- inserting ‘‘December 31, 2009’’. poses of the calculation under clause (i), the graph (A) and inserting ‘‘($69,950 in the case (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment applicable percentage is— of taxable years beginning in 2008)’’, and made by this section shall apply to distribu- ‘‘(I) 14 percent, in the case of taxable years (2) by striking ‘‘($44,350 in the case of tax- tions made in taxable years beginning after ending before January 1, 2009, and able years beginning in 2007)’’ in subpara- December 31, 2007. ‘‘(II) 16 percent, in the case of taxable graph (B) and inserting ‘‘($46,200 in the case SEC. 208. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN DIVIDENDS years beginning after December 31, 2008.’’. of taxable years beginning in 2008)’’. OF REGULATED INVESTMENT COM- (c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Subpara- (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments PANIES. graph (D) of section 45C(b)(1) (relating to made by this section shall apply to taxable (a) INTEREST-RELATED DIVIDENDS.—Sub- special rule) is amended by striking ‘‘Decem- years beginning after December 31, 2007. paragraph (C) of section 871(k)(1) (defining ber 31, 2007’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, TITLE II—INDIVIDUAL TAX PROVISIONS interest-related dividend) is amended by 2009’’. (d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments SEC. 201. ELECTION TO INCLUDE COMBAT PAY AS striking ‘‘December 31, 2007’’ and inserting EARNED INCOME FOR PURPOSES OF ‘‘December 31, 2009’’. made by this section shall apply to amounts THE EARNED INCOME CREDIT. (b) SHORT-TERM CAPITAL GAIN DIVIDENDS.— paid or incurred after December 31, 2007. (a) IN GENERAL.—Subclause (II) of section Subparagraph (C) of section 871(k)(2) (defin- SEC. 302. NEW MARKETS TAX CREDIT. 32(c)(2)(B)(vi) (defining earned income) is ing short-term capital gain dividend) is Subparagraph (D) of section 45D(f)(1) (re- amended by striking ‘‘January 1, 2008’’ and amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 2007’’ and lating to national limitation on amount of inserting ‘‘January 1, 2010’’. inserting ‘‘December 31, 2009’’. investments designated) is amended by (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Paragraph (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments striking ‘‘and 2008’’ and inserting ‘‘2008, and (4) of section 6428, as amended by the Eco- made by this section shall apply to dividends 2009’’. nomic Stimulus Act of 2008, is amended to with respect to taxable years of regulated in- SEC. 303. SUBPART F EXCEPTION FOR ACTIVE FI- read as follows: vestment companies beginning after Decem- NANCING INCOME. ‘‘(4) EARNED INCOME.—The term ‘earned in- ber 31, 2007. (a) EXEMPT INSURANCE INCOME.—Paragraph come’ has the meaning set forth in section SEC. 209. STOCK IN RIC FOR PURPOSES OF DE- (10) of section 953(e) (relating to application) 32(c)(2) except that such term shall not in- TERMINING ESTATES OF NON- is amended— clude net earnings from self-employment RESIDENTS NOT CITIZENS. (1) by striking ‘‘January 1, 2009’’ and in- which are not taken into account in com- (a) IN GENERAL.—Paragraph (3) of section serting ‘‘January 1, 2010’’, and puting taxable income.’’. 2105(d) (relating to stock in a RIC) is amend- (2) by striking ‘‘December 31, 2008’’ and in- (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments ed by striking ‘‘December 31, 2007’’ and in- serting ‘‘December 31, 2009’’. made by this section shall apply to taxable serting ‘‘December 31, 2009’’. (b) EXCEPTION TO TREATMENT AS FOREIGN years ending after December 31, 2007. (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment PERSONAL HOLDING COMPANY INCOME.—Para- SEC. 202. DISTRIBUTIONS FROM RETIREMENT made by this section shall apply to decedents graph (9) of section 954(h) (relating to appli- PLANS TO INDIVIDUALS CALLED TO dying after December 31, 2007. cation) is amended by striking ‘‘January 1, ACTIVE DUTY. SEC. 210. QUALIFIED INVESTMENT ENTITIES. 2009’’ and inserting ‘‘January 1, 2010’’. (a) IN GENERAL.—Clause (iv) of section (a) IN GENERAL.—Clause (ii) of section SEC. 304. EXTENSION OF LOOK-THRU RULE FOR 72(t)(2)(G) is amended by striking ‘‘December 897(h)(4)(A) (relating to termination) is RELATED CONTROLLED FOREIGN 31, 2007’’ and inserting ‘‘January 1, 2010’’. amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 2007’’ and CORPORATIONS. (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment inserting ‘‘December 31, 2009’’. (a) IN GENERAL.—Subparagraph (B) of sec- made by this section shall apply to individ- (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment tion 954(c)(6) (relating to application) is uals ordered or called to active duty on or made by subsection (a) shall take effect on amended by striking ‘‘January 1, 2009’’ and after December 31, 2007. January 1, 2008. inserting ‘‘January 1, 2010’’. SEC. 203. DEDUCTION FOR STATE AND LOCAL SEC. 211. QUALIFIED CONSERVATION CONTRIBU- (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment SALES TAXES. TIONS. made by this section shall apply to taxable N ENERAL (a) I G .—Subparagraph (I) of sec- (a) IN GENERAL.—Clause (vi) of section years of foreign corporations beginning after tion 164(b)(5) is amended by striking ‘‘Janu- 170(b)(1)(E) (relating to termination) is December 31, 2007, and to taxable years of ary 1, 2008’’ and inserting ‘‘January 1, 2010’’. amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 2007’’ and United States shareholders with or within (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment inserting ‘‘December 31, 2009’’. which such taxable years of foreign corpora- made by this section shall apply to taxable (b) CONTRIBUTIONS BY CORPORATE FARMERS tions end. years beginning after December 31, 2007. AND RANCHERS.—Clause (iii) of section SEC. 305. EXTENSION OF 15-YEAR STRAIGHT-LINE SEC. 204. DEDUCTION OF QUALIFIED TUITION 170(b)(2)(B) (relating to termination) is COST RECOVERY FOR QUALIFIED AND RELATED EXPENSES. amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 2007’’ and LEASEHOLD IMPROVEMENTS AND (a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (e) of section QUALIFIED RESTAURANT IMPROVE- inserting ‘‘December 31, 2009’’. 222 (relating to termination) is amended by MENTS. (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments striking ‘‘December 31, 2007’’ and inserting (a) IN GENERAL.—Clauses (iv) and (v) of sec- made by this section shall apply to contribu- ‘‘December 31, 2009’’. tion 168(e)(3)(E) (relating to 15-year prop- tions made in taxable years beginning after (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment erty) are each amended by striking ‘‘January made by this section shall apply to taxable December 31, 2007. 1, 2008’’ and inserting ‘‘January 1, 2010’’. years beginning after December 31, 2007. TITLE III—BUSINESS TAX PROVISIONS (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments SEC. 205. DEDUCTION FOR CERTAIN EXPENSES SEC. 301. EXTENSION AND MODIFICATION OF RE- made by this section shall apply to property OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SEARCH CREDIT. placed in service after December 31, 2007. SCHOOL TEACHERS. (a) EXTENSION.—Section 41(h) (relating to SEC. 306. ENHANCED CHARITABLE DEDUCTION (a) IN GENERAL.—Subparagraph (D) of sec- termination) is amended— FOR CONTRIBUTIONS OF FOOD IN- tion 62(a)(2) (relating to certain expenses of (1) by striking ‘‘December 31, 2007’’ and in- VENTORY. elementary and secondary school teachers) is serting ‘‘December 31, 2009’’ in paragraph (a) IN GENERAL.—Clause (iv) of section amended by striking ‘‘or 2007’’ and inserting (1)(B), 170(e)(3)(C) (relating to termination) is ‘‘2007, 2008, or 2009’’. (2) by redesignating paragraph (2) as para- amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 2007’’ and (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment graph (3), and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2009’’. made by subsection (a) shall apply to taxable (3) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol- (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment years beginning after December 31, 2007. lowing new paragraph: made by this section shall apply to contribu- SEC. 206. MODIFICATION OF MORTGAGE REV- ‘‘(2) TERMINATION OF ALTERNATIVE INCRE- tions made after December 31, 2007. ENUE BONDS FOR VETERANS. MENTAL CREDIT.—No election under sub- SEC. 307. EXTENSION OF ENHANCED CHARI- (a) QUALIFIED MORTGAGE BONDS USED TO section (c)(4) shall apply to amounts paid or TABLE DEDUCTION FOR CONTRIBU- FINANCE RESIDENCES FOR VETERANS WITHOUT TIONS OF BOOK INVENTORY. incurred after December 31, 2007.’’. REGARD TO FIRST-TIME HOMEBUYER REQUIRE- (a) EXTENSION.—Clause (iv) of section (b) MODIFICATION OF ALTERNATIVE SIM- MENT.—Subparagraph (D) of section 143(d)(2) 170(e)(3)(D) (relating to termination) is PLIFIED CREDIT.—Paragraph (5)(A) of section (relating to exceptions) is amended by in- amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 2007’’ and 41(c) (relating to election of alternative sim- serting ‘‘and after the date of the enactment inserting ‘‘December 31, 2009’’. plified credit) is amended to read as follows: of the Alternative Minimum Tax and Ex- (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—Clause (iii) of tenders Tax Relief Act of 2008 and before ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.— section 170(e)(3)(D) (relating to certification January 1, 2010’’ after ‘‘January 1, 2008’’. ‘‘(i) CALCULATION OF CREDIT.—At the elec- by donee) is amended by inserting ‘‘of (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment tion of the taxpayer, the credit determined books’’ after ‘‘to any contribution’’. made by this section shall apply to bonds under subsection (a)(1) shall be equal to the (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments issued after the date of the enactment of this applicable percentage (as defined in clause made by this section shall apply to contribu- Act. (ii)) of so much of the qualified research ex- tions made after December 31, 2007. SEC. 207. TAX-FREE DISTRIBUTIONS FROM INDI- penses for the taxable year as exceeds 50 per- SEC. 308. MODIFICATION OF TAX TREATMENT OF VIDUAL RETIREMENT PLANS FOR cent of the average qualified research ex- CERTAIN PAYMENTS TO CONTROL- CHARITABLE PURPOSES. penses for the 3 taxable years preceding the LING EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS. (a) IN GENERAL.—Subparagraph (F) of sec- taxable year for which the credit is being de- (a) IN GENERAL.—Clause (iv) of section tion 408(d)(8) (relating to termination) is termined. 512(b)(13)(E) (relating to termination) is

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DEDUCTION ALLOWABLE WITH RE- PROVISIONS TABLE CONTRIBUTIONS OF PROP- SPECT TO INCOME ATTRIBUTABLE SEC. 401. EXTENSION OF CREDIT FOR ENERGY ERTY. TO DOMESTIC PRODUCTION ACTIVI- EFFICIENT APPLIANCES. (a) IN GENERAL.—The last sentence of sec- TIES IN PUERTO RICO. (a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (b) of section (a) IN GENERAL.—Subparagraph (C) of sec- tion 1367(a)(2) (relating to decreases in basis) 45M (relating to applicable amount) is is amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 2007’’ tion 199(d)(8) (relating to termination) is amended— amended by striking ‘‘calendar year 2006 or and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2009’’. 2007’’ each place it appears in paragraphs (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment (1) by striking ‘‘first 2 taxable years’’ and (1)(A)(i), (1)(B)(i), (1)(C)(ii)(I), and made by this section shall apply to contribu- inserting ‘‘first 4 taxable years’’, and (1)(C)(iii)(I), and inserting ‘‘calendar year tions made in taxable years beginning after (2) by striking ‘‘January 1, 2008’’ and in- 2006, 2007, 2008, or 2009’’. December 31, 2007. serting ‘‘January 1, 2010’’. (b) RESTART OF CREDIT LIMITATION.—Para- (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments SEC. 310. INCREASE IN LIMIT ON COVER OVER OF graph (1) of section 45M(e) (relating to aggre- made by this section shall apply to taxable RUM EXCISE TAX TO PUERTO RICO gate credit amount allowed) is amended by AND THE VIRGIN ISLANDS. years beginning after December 31, 2007. inserting ‘‘beginning after December 31, (a) IN GENERAL.—Paragraph (1) of section SEC. 317. EXTENSION OF QUALIFIED ZONE ACAD- 2007’’ after ‘‘for all prior taxable years’’. EMY BONDS. 7652(f) is amended by striking ‘‘January 1, (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments 2008’’ and inserting ‘‘January 1, 2010’’. (a) IN GENERAL.—Paragraph (1) of section made by this section shall apply to appli- (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment 1397E(e) is amended by striking ‘‘and 2007’’ ances produced after December 31, 2007. made by this section shall apply to distilled and inserting ‘‘2007, 2008, and 2009’’. SEC. 402. EXTENSION OF CREDIT FOR NONBUSI- spirits brought into the United States after (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment NESS ENERGY PROPERTY. December 31, 2007. made by this section shall apply to obliga- (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 25C(g) (relating SEC. 311. PARITY IN THE APPLICATION OF CER- tions issued after the date of the enactment to termination) is amended by striking ‘‘De- TAIN LIMITS TO MENTAL HEALTH of this Act. cember 31, 2007’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, BENEFITS. SEC. 318. INDIAN EMPLOYMENT CREDIT. 2009’’. (a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (f) of section (a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (f) of section (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment 9812 (relating to application of section) is 45A (relating to termination) is amended by made by this section shall apply to property amended— striking ‘‘December 31, 2007’’ and inserting placed in service after December 31, 2007. (1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of para- ‘‘December 31, 2009’’. SEC. 403. EXTENSION OF CREDIT FOR RESIDEN- graph (2), (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment TIAL ENERGY EFFICIENT PROPERTY. (2) by striking the period at the end of made by this section shall apply to taxable Section 25D(g) (relating to termination) is paragraph (3) and inserting ‘‘, and before the years beginning after December 31, 2007. amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 2008’’ and date of the enactment of the Alternative inserting ‘‘December 31, 2009’’. Minimum Tax and Extenders Tax Relief Act SEC. 319. ACCELERATED DEPRECIATION FOR BUSINESS PROPERTY ON INDIAN SEC. 404. EXTENSION OF RENEWABLE ELEC- of 2008, and’’, and RESERVATION. TRICITY, REFINED COAL, AND IN- (3) by adding at the end the following new (a) IN GENERAL.—Paragraph (8) of section DIAN COAL PRODUCTION CREDIT. paragraph: 168(j) (relating to termination) is amended Section 45(d) (relating to qualified facili- ‘‘(4) after December 31, 2009.’’. by striking ‘‘December 31, 2007’’ and insert- ties) is amended by striking ‘‘January 1, (b) AMENDMENT TO THE EMPLOYEE RETIRE- ing ‘‘December 31, 2009’’. 2009’’ each place it appears in paragraphs (1), MENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974.—Section (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), and (10) and in- 712(f) of the Employee Retirement Income made by this section shall apply to property serting ‘‘January 1, 2010’’. Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. 1185a(f)) is placed in service after December 31, 2007. SEC. 405. EXTENSION OF NEW ENERGY EFFI- amended by inserting ‘‘, and before the date CIENT HOME CREDIT. SEC. 320. RAILROAD TRACK MAINTENANCE. of the enactment of the Alternative Min- Subsection (g) of section 45L (relating to (a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (f) of section imum Tax and Extenders Tax Relief Act of termination) is amended by striking ‘‘De- 45G (relating to application of section) is 2008, and after December 31, 2009’’ after ‘‘De- cember 31, 2008’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, amended by striking ‘‘January 1, 2008’’ and cember 31, 2007’’. 2009’’. inserting ‘‘January 1, 2010’’. (c) AMENDMENT TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH SEC. 406. EXTENSION OF ENERGY CREDIT. SERVICE ACT.—Section 2705(f) of the Public (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by this section shall apply to expendi- (a) SOLAR ENERGY PROPERTY.—Paragraphs Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300gg-5(f)) is (2)(A)(i)(II) and (3)(A)(ii) of section 48(a) (re- amended by inserting ‘‘, and before the date tures paid or incurred during taxable years beginning after December 31, 2007. lating to energy credit) are each amended by of the enactment of the Alternative Min- striking ‘‘January 1, 2009’’ and inserting imum Tax and Extenders Tax Relief Act of SEC. 321. SEVEN-YEAR COST RECOVERY PERIOD ‘‘January 1, 2010’’. FOR MOTORSPORTS RACING TRACK 2008, and after December 31, 2009’’ after ‘‘De- (b) FUEL CELL PROPERTY.—Subparagraph FACILITY. cember 31, 2007’’. (E) of section 48(c)(1) (relating to qualified (a) IN GENERAL.—Subparagraph (D) of sec- (d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments fuel cell property) is amended by striking tion 168(i)(15) (relating to termination) is made by this section shall apply to benefits ‘‘December 31, 2008’’ and inserting ‘‘Decem- amended to read as follows: for services furnished on or after the date of ber 31, 2009’’. ‘‘(D) APPLICATION OF PARAGRAPH.—Such the enactment of this Act. (c) MICROTURBINE PROPERTY.—Subpara- term shall apply to property placed in serv- SEC. 312. EXTENSION OF ECONOMIC DEVELOP- graph (E) of section 48(c)(2) (relating to MENT CREDIT FOR AMERICAN ice after the date of the enactment of the Al- qualified microturbine property) is amended SAMOA. ternative Minimum Tax and Extenders Tax by striking ‘‘December 31, 2008’’ and insert- (a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (d) of section Relief Act of 2008 and before January 1, ing ‘‘December 31, 2009’’. 2010.’’. 119 of division A of the Tax Relief and Health SEC. 407. EXTENSION AND MODIFICATION OF FFECTIVE ATE Care Act of 2006 is amended— (b) E D .—The amendment CREDIT FOR CLEAN RENEWABLE EN- (1) by striking ‘‘first two taxable years’’ made by this section shall apply to property ERGY BONDS. and inserting ‘‘first 4 taxable years’’, and placed in service after the date of the enact- (a) EXTENSION.—Section 54(m) (relating to (2) by striking ‘‘January 1, 2008’’ and in- ment of this Act. termination) is amended by striking ‘‘De- serting ‘‘January 1, 2010’’. SEC. 322. EXPENSING OF ENVIRONMENTAL REME- cember 31, 2008’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments DIATION COSTS. 2009’’. made by this section shall apply to taxable (a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (h) of section (b) INCREASE IN NATIONAL LIMITATION.— years beginning after December 31, 2007. 198 (relating to termination) is amended by Section 54(f) (relating to limitation on SEC. 313. EXTENSION OF MINE RESCUE TEAM striking ‘‘December 31, 2007’’ and inserting amount of bonds designated) is amended— TRAINING CREDIT. ‘‘December 31, 2009’’. (1) by striking ‘‘$1,200,000,000’’ in paragraph Section 45N(e) (relating to termination) is (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment (1) and inserting ‘‘$1,600,000,000’’, and amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 2008’’ and made by this section shall apply to expendi- (2) by striking ‘‘$750,000,000’’ in paragraph inserting ‘‘December 31, 2009’’. tures paid or incurred after December 31, (2) and inserting ‘‘$1,000,000,000’’. SEC. 314. EXTENSION OF ELECTION TO EXPENSE 2007. (c) MODIFICATION OF RATABLE PRINCIPAL ADVANCED MINE SAFETY EQUIP- SEC. 323. EXTENSION OF WORK OPPORTUNITY AMORTIZATION REQUIREMENT.— MENT. TAX CREDIT FOR HURRICANE (1) IN GENERAL.—Paragraph (5) of section Section 179E(g) (relating to termination) is KATRINA EMPLOYEES. 54(l) is amended to read as follows: amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 2008’’ and (a) IN GENERAL.—Paragraph (1) of section ‘‘(5) RATABLE PRINCIPAL AMORTIZATION RE- inserting ‘‘December 31, 2009’’. 201(b) of the Katrina Emergency Tax Relief QUIRED.—A bond shall not be treated as a

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These periencing both the primary and sec- tence of section 54(e)(2) is amended by strik- scams are another consequence of the ondary effects. It is important that we ing ‘‘subsection (l)(6)’’ and inserting ‘‘sub- mortgage crisis that is plaguing our address fraud at the front end of the section (l)(5)’’. country. lending process, as well, as for those (d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments For most people, their home is their who face foreclosure. I hope that we made by this section shall apply to bonds greatest asset. When a homeowner falls can work together to move this legisla- issued after the date of the enactment of this behind in their mortgage payments, it tion forward. Act. is a great emotion strain. Scam artists SEC. 408. EXTENSION OF ENERGY EFFICIENT prey on an owner’s desperation and By Mr. AKAKA (by request): COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS DEDUC- S. 2889. A bill to amend title 38, TION. give them a false sense of security, Section 179D(h) (relating to termination) is claiming they can help ‘‘save their United States Code, to improve vet- amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 2008’’ and home.’’ The types of scams vary, but erans’ health care benefits, and for inserting ‘‘December 31, 2009’’. the end result is that the homeowner is other purposes; to the Committee on TITLE V—TAX ADMINISTRATION left in a more desperate situation than Veterans’ Affairs. SEC. 501. PERMANENT AUTHORITY FOR UNDER- before. Mr. AKAKA. Mr. President, today I COVER OPERATIONS. There are three types of prevalent introduce legislation requested by the (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 7608(c) (relating scams. The first is ‘‘phantom help,’’ Secretary of Veterans Affairs, as a to rules relating to undercover operations) is where the ‘‘rescuer’’ claims that they courtesy to the Secretary and the De- amended by striking paragraph (6). call the homeowner’s lender and re-ne- partment of Veterans Affairs. Except (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by this section shall apply to oper- gotiate the loan for a fee. Often the in unusual circumstances, it is my ations conducted after the date of the enact- homeowner will pay the fee and the practice to introduce legislation re- ment of this Act. ‘‘rescuer,’’ will abandon the home- quested by the Administration so that SEC. 502. PERMANENT DISCLOSURES OF CER- owner without performing any inter- such measures will be available for re- TAIN TAX RETURN INFORMATION. vention. The second is a ‘‘rent-to-own’’ view and consideration. (a) DISCLOSURES TO FACILITATE COMBINED scheme which is set up to fail. A home- This ‘‘by-request’’ bill would address EMPLOYMENT TAX REPORTING.— owner will sign over the title of the a range of issues. On the health care (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 6103(d)(5) (relating house and make monthly payments to side, it would allow VA to contract to disclosure for combined employment tax with community residential care pro- reporting) is amended— the scammer in order to help rebuild grams for veterans with serious trau- (A) by striking ‘‘REPORTING’’ in the heading their credit. However, the monthly thereof and all that follows through ‘‘The payments are extremely high and often matic brain injury. It would also elimi- Secretary’’ in subparagraph (A) and insert- result in the homeowner violating the nate copayments for all hospice care. ing ‘‘REPORTING.—The Secretary’’, and contract and being evicted. Finally, a Further, it would expand continuing (B) by striking subparagraph (B). homeowner may be tricked into un- education benefits for physicians and (2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments knowingly signing over the title of dentists. Finally, it would allow the made by this subsection shall apply to dis- their house and power of attorney to Secretary to disclose the names and closures after the date of the enactment of addresses of certain VA patients with- this Act. the scammer and the scammer will out prior written consent to collect (b) DISCLOSURES RELATING TO CERTAIN PRO- then sell the house to a third party. GRAMS ADMINISTERED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF The scam artist might give the home- payment from third-party health plans. VETERANS AFFAIRS.— owner a small amount of money, but On the benefits side, this legislation (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 6103(l)(7)(D) (re- often only a fraction of the actual sell- would permanently authorize VA to lating to programs to which rule applies) is ing price. use data provided by the IRS and the amended by striking the last sentence. As one can clearly see, these scams Social Security Administration to (2) TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.—Section are well crafted and extremely com- verify the incomes of recipients of 6103(l)(7)(D)(viii)(III) is amended by striking plicated. Catie Doyle, the Chief attor- needs-based benefits from VA. VA uses ‘‘sections 1710(a)(1)(I), 1710(a)(2), 1710(b), and this data to ensure that it does not dis- 1712(a)(2)(B)’’ and inserting ‘‘sections ney for Legal Aid Society of Mil- 1710(a)(2)(G), 1710(a)(3), and 1710(b)’’. waukee, testified before the Special burse benefits and payments to individ- SEC. 503. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION RELAT- Committee on Aging, describing the uals who do not legally qualify to re- ING TO TERRORIST ACTIVITIES. difficulties and problems lawyers are ceive them. (a) DISCLOSURE OF RETURN INFORMATION TO facing when trying to help victims of This legislation would also provide a APPRISE APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS OF TER- these scams. One major problem she cost-of-living increase for VA dis- RORIST ACTIVITIES.—Clause (iv) of section pointed out was that lawyers have to ability compensation for service-con- 6103(i)(3)(C) (relating to termination) is nected veterans and dependency and in- amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 2007’’ and piece together both state and federal laws to untangle these scams. demnity compensation for survivors. inserting ‘‘December 31, 2009’’. I am introducing this bill for the re- (b) DISCLOSURE UPON REQUEST OF INFORMA- The Foreclosure Rescue Fraud Act view and consideration of my col- TION RELATING TO TERRORIST ACTIVITIES.— that Senators COLLINS, LINCOLN and I Subparagraph (E) of section 6103(i)(7) (relat- are offering will remedy Ms. Doyle’s leagues at the request of the Adminis- ing to termination) is amended by striking concerns. While there are some states tration. As chairman of the Committee ‘‘December 31, 2007’’ and inserting ‘‘Decem- that have foreclosure rescue scam laws on Veterans’ Affairs, I have not taken ber 31, 2009’’. or are in the process of enacting them, a position on this legislation. (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments many homeowners still go unprotected Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- made by this section shall apply to disclo- from these predators. This legislation sent that the text of the bill and a let- sures after the date of the enactment of this ter of support be printed in the Act. will require that all contracts between a foreclosure consultant be in writing RECORD. There being no objection, the mate- By Mr. KOHL (for himself, Ms. and fully disclose the nature of the rial was ordered to be printed in the COLLINS, and Mrs. LINCOLN): services and the exact amount. Addi- RECORD, as follows: S. 2888. A bill to protect the property tionally, the bill prohibits up-front fees and security of homeowners who are from being collected and prohibits a S. 2889 subject to foreclosure proceedings, and ‘‘consultant’’ from obtaining the power Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- for other purposes; to the Committee resentatives of the United States of America in of attorney from a homeowner. Congress assembled, on Banking, Housing, and Urban Af- I also have a letter of support from a SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; REFERENCES TO TITLE fairs. variety of consumer groups including 38, UNITED STATES CODE. Mr. KOHL. The legislation I have in- the Center of Responsible Lending, (a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as troduced with Senators COLLINS and Consumer Federation of America, Na- the ‘‘Veterans Health Care Act of 2008’’.

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(b) REFERENCES.—Except as otherwise ex- for the payment of disability compensation rates of disability compensation and depend- pressly provided, whenever in this Act an and dependency and indemnity compensa- ency and indemnity compensation. Two of amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of tion by the Secretary, as specified in sub- the proposals are discussed in further detail an amendment or repeal to a section or other section (b). below. provision, the reference shall be considered (b) AMOUNTS TO BE INCREASED.—The dollar This Administration advocates focusing to be made to a section or other provision of amounts to be increased pursuant to sub- greater attention on the long-term residen- title 38, United States Code. section (a) are the following: tial rehabilitation needs of veterans with SEC. 2. SPECIALIZED RESIDENTIAL CARE AND (1) COMPENSATION.—Each of the dollar traumatic brain injuries who do not require REHABILITATION FOR CERTAIN VET- amounts in effect under section 1114 of title nursing home care but are unable to live ERANS. 38, United States Code; independently in their homes. In furtherance Section 1720 is amended by adding at the (2) ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION FOR DEPEND- of that policy, our bill would authorize the end the following new subsection: ENTS.—Each of the dollar amounts in effect Secretary, in carrying out the Department of ‘‘(g) The Secretary may contract with ap- under section 1115(1) of such title; Veterans Affairs (VA) community residential care program, to contract for specialized res- propriate entities to provide specialized resi- (3) CLOTHING ALLOWANCE.—The dollar dential care and rehabilitation services to a amount in effect under section 1162 of such idential care and rehabilitation services for veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom or title; and/or Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) Operation Iraqi Freedom who the Secretary (4) NEW DIC RATES.—Each of the dollar who: (1) suffer from traumatic brain injury, determines suffers from a traumatic brain amounts in effect under paragraphs (1) and (2) have an accumulation of deficits in ac- injury, has an accumulation of deficits in ac- (2) of section 1311(a) of such title; tivities of daily living and instrumental ac- tivities of daily living and instrumental ac- (5) OLD DIC RATES.—Each of the dollar tivities of daily living that affects their abil- tivities of daily living, and who, because of amounts in effect under section 1311(a)(3) of ity to care for themselves, and (3) would oth- these deficits, would otherwise require ad- such title; erwise receive their care and rehabilitation mission to a nursing home even though such (6) ADDITIONAL DIC FOR SURVIVING SPOUSES in a nursing home, which exceeds their nurs- care would generally exceed the veteran’s WITH MINOR CHILDREN.—The dollar amount ing needs. This authority would provide the nursing needs. in effect under section 1311(b) of such title; Department with a far more appropriate SEC. 3. REIMBURSEMENT FOR CERTAIN CON- (7) ADDITIONAL DIC FOR DISABILITY.—Each treatment setting for the provision of long- TINUING EDUCATION. of the dollar amounts in effect under sub- term rehabilitation services. VA estimates Section 7411 is amended to read: sections (c) and (d) of section 1311 of such the discretionary cost of this proposal to be ‘‘The Secretary shall provide full-time title; $1,427,000 in fiscal year 2009 and $79,156,000 board-certified physicians and dentists ap- (8) DIC FOR DEPENDENT CHILDREN.—Each of over a 10-year period. pointed under section 7401(1) of this title the the dollar amounts in effect under sections In 2004, Congress amended the law to elimi- opportunity to continue their professional 1313(a) and 1314 of such title. nate copayment requirements for hospice education through VA sponsored continuing (c) DETERMINATION OF INCREASE.— care furnished in a VA nursing home. The education programs. The Secretary may re- (1) The increase under subsection (a) shall bill contains a provision to exempt all hos- imburse the physician or dentist up to $1,000 be made in the dollar amounts specified in pice care from copayments by amending 38 per year for continuing professional edu- subsection (b) as in effect on November 30, U.S.C. § 1710 to eliminate co-payment re- cation not available through VA sources.’’. 2008. quirements for veterans receiving VA hos- SEC. 4. COPAYMENT EXEMPTION FOR HOSPICE (2) Except as provided in paragraph (3), pice care either in a VA hospital or at home CARE. each such amount shall be increased by the on an outpatient basis. The provision would (a) Section 1710(f)(1) is amended by adding same percentage as the percentage by which provide equitable treatment for all veterans ‘‘(except if such care constitutes hospice benefit amounts payable under title II of the receiving such care and would also align VA care)’’ after ‘‘nursing home care’’; Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 401 et seq.) are with the Medicare program, which does not (b) Section 1710(g)(1) is amended by adding increased effective December 1, 2008, as a re- impose co-payments for hospice care (regard- ‘‘(except if such care constitutes hospice sult of a determination under section 215(i) less of setting). There are no costs associated care)’’ after ‘‘medical services’’. of such Act (42 U.S.C. 415(i)). with enactment of this proposal. Projected discretionary revenue loss is estimated to be SEC. 5. UPDATE OF VOLUNTARY HIV TESTING (3) Each dollar amount increased pursuant POLICY. to paragraph (2) shall, if not a whole dollar $149,000 in fiscal year 2009 and $1,400,000 over Section 124 of the Veterans’ Benefits and amount, be rounded down to the next lower 10 years. The Office of Management and Budget ad- Services Act of 1988 (title I of Public Law whole dollar amount. vises that the transmission of this legisla- (d) SPECIAL RULE.—The Secretary may ad- 100–322, as amended; 38 U.S.C. 7333 note) is re- tive package is in accord with the Presi- just administratively. consistent with the pealed. dent’s program. increases made under subsection (a), the SEC. 6. DISCLOSURE OF MEDICAL RECORDS. Sincerely yours, rates of disability compensation payable to (a) LIMITED EXCEPTION TO CONFIDENTIALITY JAMES B. PEAKE, M.D. OF MEDICAL RECORDS.—Section 5701 is persons within the purview of section 10 of Public Law No. 85–857 (72 Stat. 1263) who are amended by adding at the end of the fol- By Mr. MCCAIN (for himself, Mr. not in receipt of compensation payable pur- lowing new subsection: KYL, Mr. BURR, Mr. GRAHAM, ‘‘(1) Under regulations that the Secretary suant to chapter 11 of title 38, United States Mr. MARTINEZ, Mr. WARNER, shall prescribe, the Secretary may disclose Code. the name or address, or both, of any indi- (e) PUBLICATION OF ADJUSTED RATES.—At Mr. CHAMBLISS, Mr. LIEBERMAN, vidual who is a present or former member of the same time as the matters specified in and Mr. SUNUNU): the Armed Forces, or who is a dependent of section 215(i)(2)(D) of the Social Security Act S. 2890. A bill to amend the Internal a present or former member of the Armed (42 U.S.C. 415(i)(2)(D)) are required to be pub- Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a Forces, to a third party, as defined in section lished by reason of a determination made highway fuel tax holiday; to the Com- 1729(i)(3)(D) of this title, in order to enable under section 215(i) of such Act during fiscal mittee on Finance. the Secretary to collect reasonable charges year 2009, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs Mr. MCCAIN. Mr. President, I am under section 1729(a)(2)(E) of this title for shall publish in the Federal Register the pleased to be joined today by Senators amounts specified in subsection (b), as in- care or services provided for a non-service- KYL, BURR, GRAHAM, MARTINEZ, WAR- creased pursuant to subsection (a). connected disability.’’ NER, CHAMBLISS, LIEBERMAN, WICKER (b) DISCLOSURES FROM CERTAIN MEDICAL THE SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, and SUNUNU in introducing legislation RECORDS.—Section 7332(b)(2) is amended by Washington, March 18, 2008. that would provide all Americans with adding at the end the following new subpara- Hon. RICHARD B. CHENEY, graph: ‘‘(F) To a third party, as defined in President of the Senate, a ‘‘gas tax holiday’’ this summer. This section 1729(i)(3)(D) of this title, to collect Washington, DC. bill would suspend the 18.4 cents-per- reasonable charges under section DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: We are transmitting gallon Federal tax on gasoline and the 1729(a)(2)(E) of this title for care or services a draft bill, ‘‘To amend title 38, United 24.4 cents-per-gallon tax on diesel fuel provided for a non-service-connected dis- States Code, to improve veterans’ health from Memorial Day to Labor Day. ability.’’ care benefits and for other purposes,’’ We re- Today, this legislation was put for- SEC. 7. PERMANENT AUTHORITY TO CARRY OUT quest that the bill be referred to the appro- ward on the Senate floor as an amend- INCOME VERIFICATION. priate committee for prompt consideration ment to the Highway Technical Correc- Section 5317 is amended by striking sub- and enactment. Enclosed with the bill is a tions bill, but it was blocked from section (g). sectional analysis that describes each provi- being considered. I now call on my col- sion, provides a rationale for the provision, SEC. 8. INCREASE IN RATES OF DISABILITY COM- leagues on both sides of the aisle to PENSATION AND DEPENDENCY AND and provides estimates of the costs, savings INDEMNITY COMPENSATION. and revenues that would result from enact- come together to support this proposal (a) RATE ADJUSTMENT.—The Secretary of ment. Our draft bill includes proposals con- that would provide immediate relief to Veterans Affairs shall, effective on December tained in the President’s FY 09 budget re- all Americans suffering from the high 1, 2008, increase the dollar amounts in effect quest, to include a cost-of living increase in price of gas.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 04:22 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00057 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17AP6.049 S17APPT1 wwoods2 on PRODPC60 with SENATE S3162 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE April 17, 2008 Mr. President, hardworking Amer- classrooms every day, educating stu- BURR, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. DOMENICI, Mrs. ican families are facing many difficult dents in colleges and universities DOLE, Mrs. HUTCHISON, Mr. CRAIG, Ms. challenges due to the current economic across the country. Their numbers are MURKOWSKI, Mr. THUNE, Mr. realities facing our country. Now, more increasing as the number of full time CHAMBLISS, Mr. ENZI, Ms. MIKULSKI, than ever, they find themselves having faculty dwindles. Often, teaching and Mr. HATCH, Mr. ROBERTS, and Mr. AL- to choose between basic needs to pro- research assistants are now doing the LARD) submitted the following resolu- vide for their families, and this is being same job as junior faculty members. tion; which was considered and agreed greatly exacerbated by rising gasoline In fact, the classroom is a workplace to: prices, which have risen by more than for these scholars. It’s where they earn S. RES. 519 58 percent in the last 14 months. That the money they need to pay to put food Whereas Pope Benedict XVI will travel to is why I am pleased to be joined by so on their tables and a roof over their the United States for his first pastoral visit many of my colleagues in offering a heads. They deserve the right to stand as Pope and will visit Washington, DC, and proposal to provide some needed relief together and make their voice heard in New York; for every person who will be filling Whereas Pope Benedict XVI was elected as their workplace. Like other employees, the 265th Bishop of Rome on April 19, 2005, their gas or diesel tanks this summer. they should have the right to join a succeeding the much beloved Pope John Paul In the past year, the price of un- union and improve their working con- II; leaded regular gas has increased 53 ditions. Obviously, better wages and Whereas the visit of Pope Benedict XVI cents per gallon. Diesel fuel prices na- working conditions for them also will mark the 9th visit of a pope to the tionwide are now over $1.30 more per means better education for their stu- United States, recognizing the historical im- gallon more than this time last year. dents. portance of the Catholic Church in American With the growing financial strains life, the deep faith and charity of its mem- In 2004, however, a decision by the bers, and the responsibilities of the United placed on so many Americans—rising National Labor Relations Board food prices and falling home prices— States in world affairs; changed the law and denied funda- Whereas Pope Benedict XVI has spoken ap- the additional hit of rising fuel prices mental workplace rights and protec- provingly of the vibrance of religious faith in is becoming the breaking point. tions for teaching and research assist- the United States, a faith nourished by a In an effort to ease some of the hard- ants. This ruling stopped an active or- constitutional commitment to religious lib- ship caused by the higher fuel prices, ganizing movement in its tracks and erty; our bill would suspend the Federal tax deprived thousands of teaching and re- Whereas Pope Benedict XVI remains com- on gas and the tax on diesel fuel from mitted to ecumenical dialogue and, during search assistants of their right to orga- Memorial Day to Labor Day. Last Me- his trip to the United States, will meet with nize and bargain over their wages and morial Day, alone, approximately 32 leaders of world religions and representa- working conditions. million Americans traveled by car 50 tives of other Christian denominations and It is hardly the only bad decision by will visit a synagogue in New York City, all miles or more from home. Suspending the National Labor Relations Board demonstrating his commitment to sincere the federal excise tax during the sum- under the Bush administration, which dialogue and unity among all members of the mer, when fuel prices have historically has been the most anti-worker, anti- human family; been at the highest annually, would Whereas Pope Benedict XVI has authored 2 labor, anti-union NLRB in history. The allow Americans to keep a few more of encyclical letters inviting the world to medi- Board has let workers down at every their hard-earned dollars. tate on the virtues of love and hope, ‘‘Deus Now, let me be clear: this bill would turn. It has blocked efforts to gain caritas est’’ and ‘‘Spe salvi’’; not harm the Highway Trust Fund. union representation, undermined Whereas millions of Americans have dis- This bill would ensure that the High- workers’ attempts to improve their pay covered in Pope Benedict ’s words a renewed and benefits, and exposed them to pen- faith in the power of hope over despair and way Trust Fund remains whole during love over hate; this ‘‘gas tax holiday’’ by transferring alties for seeking to improve their working conditions. Whereas Pope Benedict XVI has been a monies from the General Treasury. We clear and courageous voice for the voiceless, all agree that our roads and highways The National Labor Relations Board working tirelessly for the recognition of must be maintained and improved to is supposed to protect the rights of human dignity and religious freedom across ensure the safety of the road-traveling American workers, but it is failing the globe; public, and this amendment would do teaching and research assistants, just Whereas Pope Benedict XVI has spoken out nothing to impact highway construc- as it has failed so many others. By for the weak and vulnerable; tion. passing the Teaching and Research As- Whereas Pope Benedict XVI seeks to ad- vance a ‘‘civilization of love’’ across our So, my colleagues have an oppor- sistants Collective Bargaining Rights Act, Congress will give these workers world; and tunity to take meaningful action to Whereas Catholics in parishes and schools ease some of the financial burdens that back the rights that the National across the Nation, and countless other Amer- are impacting all hardworking Ameri- Labor Relations Board has taken away. icans as well, eagerly await the visit of Pope cans every time they fill up their gas This legislation amends the definition Benedict XVI to the United States: Now, or diesel tanks. Let’s put some acton of employee under the National Labor therefore, be it behind the usual rhetoric around here Relations Act to explicitly include Resolved, That the Senate welcomes Pope and vote to ease their tax burden this teaching and research assistants at pri- Benedict XVI on the occasion of his first pas- vate universities and colleges and re- toral visit to the United States and recog- summer. nizes the unique insights his moral and spir- stores the law to where it was before itual reflections bring to the world stage. By Mr. KENNEDY (for himself, the Bush board’s anti-worker decision. f Mrs. CLINTON, Mr. OBAMA, Mr. This bill is a significant step forward BROWN, Mr. FEINGOLD, and Mr. in restoring workers’ rights, and I urge SENATE RESOLUTION 520—DESIG- SCHUMER): my colleagues to join in supporting NATING MAY 16, 2008, AS ‘‘EN- S. 2891. A bill to amend the National this important legislation. DANGERED SPECIES DAY’’ Labor Relations Act to apply the pro- f Mrs. FEINSTEIN (for herself, Ms. tections of the Act to teaching and re- COLLINS, Ms. CANTWELL, Mr. SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS search assistants; to the Committee on LIEBERMAN, Mrs. CLINTON, Mr. KERRY, Health, Education, Labor, and Pen- Mr. BROWN, Ms. SNOWE, Mr. LEVIN, Mrs. sions. SENATE RESOLUTION 519—WEL- BOXER, and Mr. FEINGOLD) submitted Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, it is the following resolution; which was re- important for Congress to do more to COMING POPE BENEDICT XVI TO THE UNITED STATES AND REC- ferred to the Committee on the Judici- guarantee graduate students the right ary: to organize and to bargain over their OGNIZING THE UNIQUE INSIGHTS HIS MORAL AND SPIRITUAL RE- S. RES. 520 wages and working conditions as teach- Whereas, in the United States and around ing and research assistants, so I am in- FLECTIONS BRING TO THE WORLD STAGE the world, more than 1,000 species are offi- troducing legislation today to do so. cially designated as at risk of extinction and More than ever in modern education, Mr. BROWNBACK (for himself, Mr. thousands more also face a heightened risk teaching and research assistants are in CASEY, Mr. MCCAIN, Mr. COLEMAN, Mr. of extinction;

VerDate Aug 31 2005 02:24 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00058 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17AP6.061 S17APPT1 wwoods2 on PRODPC60 with SENATE April 17, 2008 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S3163 Whereas the actual and potential benefits Based on the success of last year, I SENATE RESOLUTION 522—RECOG- that may be derived from many species have am confident that the events of this NIZING THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY not yet been fully discovered and would be year’s Endangered Species Day will OF THE FOUNDING OF THE MOD- permanently lost if not for conservation ef- ERN STATE OF ISRAEL AND RE- forts; continue to foster increased commu- Whereas recovery efforts for species such nication and awareness about many of AFFIRMING THE BONDS OF CLOSE FRIENDSHIP AND CO- as the whooping crane, Kirtland’s warbler, the most endangered species by encour- OPERATION BETWEEN THE the peregrine falcon, the gray wolf, the gray aging such activities as school field whale, the grizzly bear, and others have re- UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL trips to the zoo or attending a lecture sulted in great improvements in the viabil- Mr. REID (for himself, Mr. MCCON- ity of such species; at the local library. In my city of San NELL, Mr. AKAKA, Mr. ALEXANDER, Mr. Whereas saving a species requires a com- Francisco, the Golden Gate National ALLARD, Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. BAUCUS, bination of sound research, careful coordina- Recreation Area and the Farralones tion, and intensive management of conserva- Mr. BAYH, Mr. BENNETT, Mr. BIDEN, Mr. tion efforts, along with increased public National Marine Sanctuary plan to BINGAMAN, Mr. BOND, Mrs. BOXER, Mr. awareness and education; hold special tours and viewings of en- BROWN, Mr. BROWNBACK, Mr. BUNNING, Whereas 2⁄3 of endangered or threatened dangered species to commemorate this Mr. BURR, Mr. BYRD, Ms. CANTWELL, species reside on private lands; special day. Mr. CARDIN, Mr. CARPER, Mr. CASEY, Whereas voluntary cooperative conserva- Mr. CHAMBLISS, Mrs. CLINTON, Mr. tion programs have proven to be critical to Endangered Species recovery pro- COBURN, Mr. COCHRAN, Mr. COLEMAN, habitat restoration and species recovery; and grams in California are examples of the Ms. COLLINS, Mr. CONRAD, Mr. CORKER, Whereas education and increasing public conservation and management efforts Mr. CORNYN, Mr. CRAIG, Mr. CRAPO, Mr. awareness are the first steps in effectively that have helped significantly restore informing the public about endangered spe- DEMINT, Mr. DODD, Mrs. DOLE, Mr. cies and species restoration efforts: Now, populations of California condor, the DOMENICI, Mr. DORGAN, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. therefore, be it least Bell’s vireo songbird, and the ENSIGN, Mr. ENZI, Mr. FEINGOLD, Mrs. Resolved, That the Senate— California gray whale. Over 300 species FEINSTEIN, Mr. GRAHAM, Mr. GRASSLEY, (1) designates May 16, 2008, as ‘‘Endangered classified as either endangered or Mr. GREGG, Mr. HAGEL, Mr. HARKIN, Species Day’’; and threatened currently call California Mr. HATCH, Mrs. HUTCHISON, Mr. (2) encourages schools to spend at least 30 INHOFE, Mr. INOUYE, Mr. ISAKSON, Mr. minutes on Endangered Species Day teach- home, and efforts to protect them will JOHNSON, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. KERRY, Ms. ing and informing students about— ensure that they continue to do so. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. KOHL, Mr. KYL, Ms. (A) threats to endangered species around Despite these success stories, we need the world; and LANDRIEU, Mr. LAUTENBERG, Mr. (B) efforts to restore endangered species, to be aware that more can be done. At LEAHY, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. LIEBERMAN, Mrs. including the essential role of private land- this time, we have more than 5,000 LINCOLN, Mr. LUGAR, Mr. MARTINEZ, owners and private stewardship in the pro- threatened species in the U.S. and Mr. MCCAIN, Mrs. MCCASKILL, Mr. tection and recovery of species; and abroad, which receive protection. One MENENDEZ, Ms. MIKULSKI, Ms. MUR- (3) encourages organizations, businesses, small step is to increase awareness KOWSKI, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. NELSON of private landowners, and agencies with a Florida, Mr. NELSON of Nebraska, Mr. shared interest in conserving endangered about the seriousness of the cir- species to collaborate in developing edu- cumstances facing many of these en- OBAMA, Mr. PRYOR, Mr. REED, Mr. ROB- cational information for use in schools; and dangered species and educating the ERTS, Mr. ROCKEFELLER, Mr. SALAZAR, Mr. SANDERS, Mr. SCHUMER, Mr. SES- (4) encourages the people of the United public about them. States— SIONS, Mr. SHELBY, Mr. SMITH, Ms. (A) to become educated about, and aware I am introducing this bill with the SNOWE, Mr. SPECTER, Ms. STABENOW, of, threats to species, success stories in spe- hope that Endangered Species Day can Mr. STEVENS, Mr. SUNUNU, Mr. TESTER, cies recovery, and opportunities to promote spark the wonder and interest in our Mr. THUNE, Mr. VITTER, Mr. VOINOVICH, species conservation worldwide; and youth to continue the conservation ef- Mr. WARNER, Mr. WEBB, Mr. (B) to observe the day with appropriate WHITEHOUSE, Mr. WICKER, and Mr. ceremonies and activities. forts we have begun, but still are far from finishing. WYDEN) submitted the following reso- Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Mr. President, I lution; which was referred to the Com- rise today to introduce a resolution to I urge my colleagues to join me in mittee on Foreign Relations: establish the third annual Endangered supporting this resolution. S. RES. 522 Species Day on May 16, 2008. I am in- Whereas on November 29, 1947, the United troducing this resolution with Sen- f Nations General Assembly voted to partition ators COLLINS, CANTWELL, LIEBERMAN, the British Mandate of Palestine and create CLINTON, KERRY, BROWN, SNOWE, LEVIN, SENATE RESOLUTION 521—AU- a Jewish state; BOXER, and FEINGOLD whose co-spon- THORIZING THE TAKING OF A Whereas on May 14, 1948, the people of sorship I appreciate. PHOTOGRAPH IN THE CHAMBER Israel proclaimed the establishment of the sovereign and independent State of Israel, I want to commend my constituent, OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE Mr. David Robinson, who first sug- and the United States Government estab- gested the establishment of an Endan- Mr. REID (for himself and Mr. lished full diplomatic relations with Israel; Whereas the desire of the Jewish people to gered Species Day. Mr. Robinson is an MCCONNELL) submitted the following establish an independent modern State of example of people who really do make resoultion; which was considered and Israel is an outgrowth of the existence of the a difference. agreed to: historic kingdom of Israel established in the The designation of Endangered Spe- Land of Israel 3,000 years ago, with the city cies Day will provide many wonderful S. RES. 521 of Jerusalem as its capital; Whereas for over 2,000 years, there has opportunities for the public to famil- Resolved, That paragraph 1 of Rule IV of been continuous Jewish presence and resi- iarize themselves with the status and the Rules for the Regulation of the Senate recovery efforts of endangered species dence in the land comprising the modern Wing of the United States Capitol (prohib- State of Israel; in our country and around the world. iting the taking of pictures in the Senate Whereas the establishment of the modern Last year, more than 50 events were Chamber) be temporarily suspended for the State of Israel as a homeland for the Jewish held across the country to highlight sole and specific purpose of permitting the people followed the slaughter of more than endangered species success stories. The Senate Photographic Studio to photograph 6,000,000 European Jews during the Holo- Governor of Maine, and the cities and the United States Senate in actual session caust; counties of Santa Barbara, San Diego, on Tuesday, June 3, 2008, at the hour of 2:15 Whereas since its establishment 60 years and San Francisco also declared state p.m. ago, the modern State of Israel has rebuilt a and local Endangered Species Days. nation, forged a new and dynamic demo- SEC. 2. The Sergeant at Arms of the Senate cratic society, and created a thriving eco- Zoos and aquariums across the coun- is authorized and directed to make the nec- nomic, political, cultural, and intellectual try, such as the Roger Williams Zoo essary arrangements therefor, which ar- life despite the heavy costs of war, ter- and the San Diego Wild Animal Park, rangements shall provide for a minimum of rorism, and unjustified diplomatic and eco- also held educational events. disruption to Senate proceedings. nomic boycotts against the people of Israel;

VerDate Aug 31 2005 04:22 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00059 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17AP6.060 S17APPT1 wwoods2 on PRODPC60 with SENATE S3164 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE April 17, 2008 Whereas the people of Israel have estab- On this historic occasion, Jews and those folks in Nevada who have worked lished a vibrant, pluralistic, democratic po- non-Jews from around the world will so hard to put on events to honor the litical system, including freedom of speech, come together to celebrate 60 years of 60th anniversary of Israeli independ- association, and religion; a vigorously free press; free, fair and open elections; the rule Israeli independence. Out of the dark ence. of law; a fully independent judiciary; and shadows of the Holocaust, which In the spirit of continuing the tradi- other democratic principles and practices; claimed the lives of over 6 million tion of strong U.S.-Israel relations, I Whereas Israel has developed some of the Jews, and many others, the state of urge this entire chamber to wish all leading universities in the world, and 8 Israel was reborn on the very same those who choose to celebrate this oc- Israeli citizens have been awarded the Nobel lands where the Jewish people had casion another 60 years of happiness Prize; maintained a continuous presence for and prosperity. My best wishes for a Whereas Israel has developed an advanced, more than 2 millennia. safe and peaceful anniversary celebra- entrepreneurial economy, is among the world’s leaders in the high-tech industry, As an American, I am so proud that tion. and is at the forefront of research and devel- the United States has stood by Israel, f our closest of allies, from the very be- opment in the field of renewable energy AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED AND sources; ginning of its modern existence. On Whereas Israel regularly sends humani- May 14, 1948, the date on which the peo- PROPOSED tarian aid, search-and-rescue teams, mobile ple of Israel proclaimed the establish- SA 4542. Mr. LAUTENBERG submitted an hospitals, and other emergency supplies, to ment of the sovereign and independent amendment intended to be proposed to help victims of disasters around the world, state of Israel, the United States was amendment SA 4146 proposed by Mrs. BOXER including the 1994 Rwandan civil war, the right there to offer our unwavering to the bill H.R. 1195, to amend the Safe, Ac- 1998 bombing of the United States Embassy countable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation in Kenya, the 1999 earthquakes in Turkey, support and establish full diplomatic Equity Act: A Legacy for Users to make the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 hur- ties with our new friend. Sixty years technical corrections, and for other pur- ricanes along the southern coast of the later, I want the new generations of poses; which was ordered to lie on the table. United States, and the 2007 fires in Greece; Israelis and Jewish-Americans to know SA 4543. Mr. LAUTENBERG submitted an Whereas Israel has absorbed millions of that America reaffirms its commit- amendment intended to be proposed by him Jews from countries throughout the world ment to the U.S.-Israel alliance and to the bill H.R. 1195, supra; which was or- and fully integrated them into Israeli soci- pledges to strengthen the bonds we dered to lie on the table. ety; SA 4544. Ms. LANDRIEU (for herself and Whereas Israel has bravely defended itself have forged throughout the decades. Mr. VITTER) submitted an amendment in- from repeated terrorist and military attacks Yom Ha’atzmaut, the Israeli Inde- tended to be proposed by her to the bill H.R. since its independence; pendence Day, falls on May 8th this 1195, supra; which was ordered to lie on the Whereas successive leaders of Israel have year, the same day the world tradition- table. sought to achieve peace with Israel’s Arab ally celebrates the Allied victory over SA 4545. Ms. LANDRIEU submitted an neighbors; Nazism. Because of America’s commit- amendment intended to be proposed to Whereas Israel has established peaceful bi- ment to defeating European fascism, amendment SA 4146 proposed by Mrs. BOXER lateral relations with neighboring Egypt and the histories of the United States and to the bill H.R. 1195, supra; which was or- Jordan and has made its desire to establish dered to lie on the table. peaceful relations with all Arab states abun- Israel will be forever linked. For it was SA 4546. Mr. SPECTER (for himself and dantly clear; from the ashes of World War II that our Mr. CASEY) submitted an amendment in- Whereas for 6 decades, the United States great country rose to become a global tended to be proposed to amendment SA 4146 and Israel have maintained a special rela- superpower at the same time a beacon proposed by Mrs. BOXER to the bill H.R. 1195, tionship based on mutually shared demo- of democracy and hope was established supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. cratic values, common strategic interests, in the Holy Land. SA 4547. Mr. STEVENS (for himself and and moral bonds of friendship and mutual re- Today, we face a new set of chal- Ms. MURKOWSKI) submitted an amendment spect; lenges to peace and freedom. As we intended to be proposed by him to the bill Whereas the American people feel a strong H.R. 1195, supra; which was ordered to lie on affinity for the Israeli people based on com- have so many times before, the United the table. mon values and shared cultural heritage; and States and Israel will stand together to SA 4548. Mr. SPECTER (for himself and Whereas the United States continues to re- combat those who seek to undermine Mr. CASEY) submitted an amendment in- gard Israel as a strong and trusted ally and the right of a Jewish state to exist. tended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. an important strategic partner: Now, there- The Middle East remains an extremely 1195, supra; which was ordered to lie on the fore, be it volatile region with a series of ongoing table. Resolved, That the Senate— violent conflicts, so it is a great com- SA 4549. Ms. MURKOWSKI submitted an (1) recognizes the historic significance of amendment intended to be proposed to fort to know that we have a strong the 60th anniversary of the reestablishment amendment SA 4146 proposed by Mrs. BOXER of the sovereign and independent State of partner in such a strategically impor- to the bill H.R. 1195, supra; which was or- Israel as a homeland for the Jewish people; tant part of the globe. dered to lie on the table. (2) reaffirms the bonds of friendship and co- In a region long dominated by auto- SA 4550. Mr. GRAHAM submitted an operation which have existed between the cratic and monarchic traditions, Israel amendment intended to be proposed by him United States and Israel for the past 60 has been a paragon of democratic plu- to the bill H.R. 1195, supra; which was or- years, and commits to strengthening those ralism. Over the course of its modern dered to lie on the table. bonds; existence, Israeli society has defended SA 4551. Mr. SMITH submitted an amend- ment intended to be proposed to amendment (3) commends the people of Israel for their the principles we, as Americans, hold remarkable achievements in building a new SA 4146 proposed by Mrs. BOXER to the bill state and a pluralistic, democratic society in in such high esteem: freedom of speech, H.R. 1195, supra; which was ordered to lie on the face of terrorism, as well as hostility, os- religion, and the press, an independent the table. tracism, and belligerence from many of their judiciary, and free market capitalism. SA 4552. Mr. DODD (for himself, Mr. SHEL- neighbors; Israel’s strong democracy, despite BY, and Mr. SCHUMER) submitted an amend- (4) reaffirms its support for Israel’s right being constantly under siege from ment intended to be proposed by him to the to defend itself against threats to its secu- neighboring states and terrorist enti- bill H.R. 1195, supra; which was ordered to lie rity and existence; ties, shows a remarkable commitment on the table. SA 4553. Mrs. HUTCHISON (for herself, Mr. (5) reaffirms its enduring support for Israel to the ideals of freedom and democ- as Israel pursues peace with its neighbors; CORNYN, Ms. LANDRIEU, Mr. STEVENS, Mrs. and racy. LINCOLN, Ms. MURKOWSKI, Mr. MARTINEZ, and (6) extends the warmest congratulations Millions of Americans will undoubt- Mr. COLEMAN) submitted an amendment in- and best wishes to the State of Israel and the edly commemorate this momentous tended to be proposed to amendment SA 4146 Israeli people for a peaceful, prosperous, and anniversary, including thousands in proposed by Mrs. BOXER to the bill H.R. 1195, successful future. my home State of Nevada. I am very supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. REID. Mr. President, I come to fortunate to hail from a part ofthe SA 4554. Mr. CARDIN (for himself, Mr. country with such a dynamic Jewish WARNER, Ms. MIKULSKI, and Mr. WEBB) sub- the floor today with the distinct honor mitted an amendment intended to be pro- of introducing a resolution with my community; one that is committed to posed by him to the bill H.R. 1195, supra; friend Senator MCCONNELL commemo- promoting the interests of our great which was ordered to lie on the table. rating the 60th anniversary of the State in any way they can. I would like SA 4555. Mr. KENNEDY submitted an founding of the modern State of Israel. to offer special congratulations to all amendment intended to be proposed to

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Mr. BAUCUS submitted an amend- the following: from its intersection with United States ment intended to be proposed by him to the paving’’; Routes 22 and 322 near Duncannon, Pennsyl- bill H.R. 1195, supra; which was ordered to lie (3) in item number 1483 by striking the vania; on the table. project description and inserting ‘‘Lapalco (B) extend northward, crossing the Susque- SA 4558. Mr. KYL (for himself, Mr. MCCAIN, Boulevard Improvements in Jefferson Par- hanna River north of Shamokin Dam, Penn- Mr. WARNER, Mr. BURR, Mr. MARTINEZ, Mr. ish’’; and sylvania; LIEBERMAN, Mr. GRAHAM, Mr. WICKER, and (4) in item number 614 by inserting ‘‘and (C) merge onto Pennsylvania Route 147; Mr. CHAMBLISS) submitted an amendment in- for and tended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. (D) proceed northward to the connection 1195, supra; which was ordered to lie on the SA 4546. Mr. SPECTER (for himself with Interstates 80 and 180 north of Milton, table. and Mr. CASEY) submitted an amend- Pennsylvania. f ment intended to be proposed to (3) EFFECT ON APPORTIONMENTS.—The mile- amendment SA 4146 proposed by Mrs. age and the estimate of the costs to com- TEXT OF AMENDMENTS BOXER to the bill H.R. 1195, to amend plete Corridor P–1 shall not affect apportion- SA 4542. Mr. LAUTENBERG sub- the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Effi- ments made to Pennsylvania to complete the mitted an amendment intended to be cient Transportation Equity Act: A Appalachian development highway system. proposed to amendment SA 4146 pro- (4) FEDERAL SHARE.—Federal assistance au- Legacy for Users to make technical thorized under section 14501 of title 40, posed by Mrs. BOXER to the bill H.R. corrections, and for other purposes; United States Code, shall not be more than 1195, to amend the Safe, Accountable, which was ordered to lie on the table; 80 percent of the cost of developing a 13-mile Flexible, Efficient Transportation Eq- as follows: segment of Corridor P–1 designated by the uity Act: A Legacy for Users to make On page 8, between lines 17 and 18, insert Secretary of Transportation. technical corrections, and for other the following: purposes; which was ordered to lie on (l) USE OF TOLL CREDITS.—Section 120(j)(1) SA 4549. Ms. MURKOWSKI submitted the table; as follows: of title 23, United States Code, is amended— an amendment intended to be proposed On page 124, between lines 7 and 8, insert (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘A to amendment SA 4146 proposed by the following: State’’ and inserting ‘‘Subject to subpara- Mrs. BOXER to the bill H.R. 1195, to (s) DEFINITION.—Section 14504a(a)(5) of title graph (D), a State’’; and amend the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, 49, United States Code, is amended by strik- (2) by adding at the end the following: Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A ing ‘‘title.’’ and inserting ‘‘title, except car- ‘‘(D) EXCEPTION.—Subparagraph (A) shall Legacy for Users to make technical not apply to the use of Appalachian develop- riers that the unified carrier registration corrections, and for other purposes; plan board of directors deems appropriate.’’. ment highway system funds for any highway project relating to United States Route 219 which was ordered to lie on the table; SA 4543. Mr. LAUTENBERG sub- (Corridor N) in Somerset County, Pennsyl- as follows: vania.’’. On page 20, strike lines 13 and 14 and insert mitted an amendment intended to be the following: proposed by him to the bill H.R. 1195, SA 4547. Mr. STEVENS (for himself (19) in item number 777 by striking the to amend the Safe, Accountable, Flexi- and Ms. MURKOWSKI) submitted an project description and amount and inserting ble, Efficient Transportation Equity amendment intended to be proposed to ‘‘Akutan Airport access’’ and $3,500,000’’, re- Act: A Legacy for Users to make tech- the bill H.R. 1195, to amend the Safe, spectively; nical corrections, and for other pur- On page 31, strike lines 20 through 23 and Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Trans- insert the following: poses; which was ordered to lie on the portation Equity Act: A Legacy for table; as follows: (98) in item number 161 by striking the Users to make technical corrections, project description and amount and inserting On page 92, strike lines 15 and 16 and insert and for other purposes; which was or- ‘‘Construct False Pass causeway and road to the following: dered to lie on the table; as follows: the terminus of the south arm breakwater paving’’; project’’ and ‘‘$1,000,000’’, respectively; (3) in item number 1663 by inserting ‘‘and On page 119, after line 2, insert the fol- construct intermodal facilities and fixed lowing: (s) PROJECT MODIFICATION.—The descrip- SA 4550. Mr. GRAHAM submitted an guideways in Jersey City’’ after ‘‘right-of- tion for item 422 in section 3044(a) of the amendment intended to be proposed by way’’; and Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Trans- him to the bill H.R. 1195, to amend the (4) in item number 614 by inserting ‘‘and portation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users for Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient (Public Law 109–59) in amended to read as Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy SA 4544. Ms. LANDRIEU (for herself follows: ‘‘People Mover Public Transpor- for Users to make technical correc- tation System buses and bus facilities, An- tions, and for other purposes; which and Mr. VITTER) submitted an amend- chorage, Alaska’’. ment intended to be proposed by her to was ordered to lie on the table; as fol- the bill H.R. 1195, to amend the Safe, SA 4548. Mr. SPECTER (for himself lows: Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Trans- and Mr. CASEY) submitted an amend- On page 107, line 4, strike ‘‘and’’ and all portation Equity Act: A Legacy for ment intended to be proposed by him that follows through line 5, and insert the Users to make technical corrections, to the bill H.R. 1195, to amend the Safe, following: and for other purposes; which was or- (B) by striking paragraph (10); and Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Trans- (C) in paragraph (15), by striking ‘‘South dered to lie on the table; as follows: portation Equity Act: A Legacy for Carolina Department of Transportation On page 110, after line 20, insert the fol- Users to make technical corrections, Light Rail study’’ and inserting ‘‘South lowing: and for other purposes; which was or- Carolina Department of Transportation Cor- (e) PROJECT MODIFICATION.—The descrip- dered to lie on the table; as follows: ridor Study’’. tion for item 67 in section 3044(a) of the Safe, At the appropriate place, insert the fol- Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transpor- lowing: SA 4551. Mr. SMITH submitted an tation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (Pub- amendment intended to be proposed to lic Law 109–59) is amended to read as follows: SEC. ll. APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT HIGH- WAY SYSTEM. amendment SA 4146 proposed by Mrs. ‘‘Union Passenger Terminal Planning and (a) MILEAGE EXTENSION.—Section 14501(a) BOXER to the bill H.R. 1195, to amend Master Plan and Infrastructure Improve- of title 40, United States Code is amended by ments in Orleans Parish, Louisiana’’. the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Effi- striking ‘‘three thousand and ninety miles’’ cient Transportation Equity Act: A SA 4545. Ms. LANDRIEU submitted and inserting ‘‘3,142 miles’’. Legacy for Users to make technical (b) DEVELOPMENT OF MULTI-LANE HIGH- corrections, and for other purposes; an amendment intended to be proposed WAY.— to amendment SA 4146 proposed by (1) AUTHORIZATION.—A multi-lane highway, which was ordered to lie on the table; Mrs. BOXER to the bill H.R. 1195, to to be designated as Corridor P–1, shall be de- as follows: amend the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, veloped in Pennsylvania along the route de- At the appropriate place in the bill, insert:

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Corvallis.’’’ On page 107, line 4, strike ‘‘and’’ and all ‘‘(2) Each such Federal grant shall be for 50 that follows through line 5, and insert the percent of the net project cost of the project SA 4552. Mr. DODD (for himself, Mr. following: involved, and shall be provided in cash from SHELBY, and Mr. SCHUMER) submitted (B) by striking paragraph (10); and sources other than Federal funds or revenues an amendment intended to be proposed (C) in paragraph (15), by striking ‘‘South from the operation of public mass transpor- by him to the bill H.R. 1195, to amend Carolina Department of Transportation tation systems. Consistent with the terms of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Effi- Light Rail study’’ and inserting ‘‘South the amendment to the Compact described in Carolina Department of Transportation Cor- subsection (d)(1), any funds so provided shall cient Transportation Equity Act: A ridor Study’’. Legacy for Users to make technical be solely from undistributed cash surpluses, On page 114, line 21, strike ‘‘; and’’ and in- replacement or depreciation funds or re- corrections, and for other purposes; sert a semicolon. serves available in cash, or new capital. which was ordered to lie on the table; On page 114, strike line 22 and insert the ‘‘(c) APPLICABILITY OF REQUIREMENTS FOR as follows: following: MASS TRANSPORTATION CAPITAL PROJECTS (xxvi) in item number 422 by striking the On page 117, after line 12, insert the fol- RECEIVING FUNDS UNDER FEDERAL TRANSPOR- project description and inserting ‘‘People lowing: TATION LAW.—Except as specifically provided Mover Public Transportation System buses (8) MODIFICATION OF TERMS OF SECTION in this section, the use of any amounts ap- and bus facilities, Anchorage, Alaska’’; 5338(B)(2)(E) OF TITLE 49, UNITED STATES CODE.— propriated pursuant to the authorization (xxvii) in project number 67 by striking the Of the funds authorized for fiscal year 2007 in under this section shall be subject to the re- project description and inserting ‘‘Union section 5338(b)(2)(E) of title 49, United States quirements applicable to capital projects for Passenger Terminal Planning and Master Code, $213,600,000 that is not otherwise des- which funds are provided under chapter 53 of Plan and Infrastructure Improvements in Or- ignated for specific projects under section title 49, United States Code, except to the ex- leans Parish, Louisiana’’; and 3044(a) of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Ef- tent that the Secretary of Transportation (xxviii) by adding at the end— ficient Transportation Equity Act: a Legacy determines that the requirements are incon- sistent with the purposes of this section. for Users (Public Law 109-59) shall be allo- SA 4554. Mr. CARDIN (for himself, cated by the Federal Transit Administration ‘‘(d) AMENDMENTS TO COMPACT.—No Mr. WARNER, Ms. MIKULSKI, and Mr. in accordance with the ‘‘Bus and Bus Facili- amounts may be provided to the Transit Au- thority pursuant to the authorization under ties Discretionary Program Grants Notice of WEBB) submitted an amendment in- this section until the Transit Authority no- Availability and Solicitation of Grant Appli- tended to be proposed by him to the tifies the Secretary of Transportation that cations’’ published in the Federal Register bill H.R. 1195, to amend the Safe, Ac- each of the following amendments to the on March 23, 2007 (FR 13968-13971). Such allo- countable, Flexible, Efficient Trans- Compact (and any further amendments cation shall be made within 90 days of enact- portation Equity Act: A Legacy for which may be required to implement such ment of this Act, and the Federal Transit Users to make technical corrections, amendments) have taken effect: Administration shall notify the appropriate and for other purposes; which was or- ‘‘(1)(A) An amendment requiring that all Congressional committees of such allocation dered to lie on the table; as follows: payments by the local signatory govern- 3 days before publication of the Federal Reg- At the end of the amendment, insert the ments for the Transit Authority for the pur- ister notice. Allocations of funds pursuant to following: pose of matching any Federal funds appro- this paragraph shall be published in the Fed- SEC. ll. NATIONAL CAPITAL TRANSPORTATION priated in any given year authorized under eral Register not later than 90 days after en- AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2008. subsection (a) for the cost of operating and actment of this Act. (a) SHORT TITLE; FINDINGS.— maintaining the adopted regional system are (1) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be SA 4553. Mrs. HUTCHISON (for her- made from amounts derived from dedicated cited as the ‘‘National Capital Transpor- funding sources. self, Mr. CORNYN, Ms. LANDRIEU, Mr. tation Amendments Act of 2008’’. ‘‘(B) For purposes of this paragraph, the STEVENS, Mrs. LINCOLN, Ms. MUR- (2) FINDINGS.—Congress finds as follows: term ‘dedicated funding source’ means any KOWSKI, Mr. MARTINEZ, and Mr. COLE- (A) Metro, the public transit system of the source of funding which is earmarked or re- MAN) submitted an amendment in- Washington metropolitan area, is essential quired under State or local law to be used to tended to be proposed to amendment for the continued and effective performance match Federal appropriations authorized SA 4146 proposed by Mrs. BOXER to the of the functions of the Federal Government, under this Act for payments to the Transit bill H.R. 1195, to amend the Safe, Ac- and for the orderly movement of people dur- Authority. countable, Flexible, Efficient Trans- ing major events and times of regional or na- ‘‘(2) An amendment establishing the Office tional emergency. portation Equity Act: A Legacy for of the Inspector General of the Transit Au- (B) On 3 occasions, Congress has authorized thority in accordance with section 3 of the Users to make technical corrections, appropriations for the construction and cap- National Capital Transportation Amend- and for other purposes; which was or- ital improvement needs of the Metrorail sys- ments Act of 2008. dered to lie on the table; as follows: tem. ‘‘(3) An amendment expanding the Board of On page 39, lines 24 and 25, strike ‘‘in Clif- (C) Additional funding is required to pro- Directors of the Transit Authority to include ton’’. tect these previous Federal investments and 4 additional Directors appointed by the Ad- On page 49, line 18, strike ‘‘160’’ and insert ensure the continued functionality and via- ministrator of General Services, of whom 2 ‘‘169’’. bility of the original 103-mile Metrorail sys- shall be nonvoting and 2 shall be voting, and On page 57, strike lines 8 through 11 and in- tem. requiring one of the voting members so ap- sert the following: (b) FEDERAL CONTRIBUTION FOR CAPITAL pointed to be a regular passenger and cus- (250) in item number 3909 by striking the PROJECTS FOR WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN tomer of the bus or rail service of the Tran- project description and inserting ‘‘S.R. 281, AREA TRANSIT SYSTEM.—The National Cap- sit Authority. the Avalon Boulevard Expansion Project ital Transportation Act of 1969 (sec. 9–1111.01 ‘‘(e) AMOUNT.—There are authorized to be from Interstate 10 to U.S. Highway 90’’; et seq., D.C. Official Code) is amended by appropriated to the Secretary of Transpor- On page 78, strike lines 3 and 4 and insert adding at the end the following: tation for grants under this section an aggre- the following: ‘‘AUTHORIZATION OF ADDITIONAL FEDERAL CON- gate amount not to exceed $1,500,000,000 to be (386) in item number 273, by striking the TRIBUTION FOR CAPITAL AND PREVENTIVE available in increments over 10 fiscal years project description and inserting ‘‘Improve- MAINTENANCE PROJECTS beginning in fiscal year 2009, or until ex- ments to on/off ramp system from I–10 to ‘‘SEC. 18. (a) AUTHORIZATION.—Subject to pended. Ryan Street (LA 385), including installation the succeeding provisions of this section, the ‘‘(f) AVAILABILITY.—Amounts appropriated of an exit ramp for eastbound traffic on I–10, Secretary of Transportation is authorized to pursuant to the authorization under this sec- incorporating, as necessary, portions of make grants to the Transit Authority, in ad- tion— Front Street and Ann Street, and including dition to the contributions authorized under ‘‘(1) shall remain available until expended; repair and realignment of Lakeshore Drive, sections 3, 14, and 17, for the purpose of fi- and and to include the expansion of Contraband nancing in part the capital and preventive ‘‘(2) shall be in addition to, and not in lieu Bayou Bridge’’; maintenance projects included in the Capital of, amounts available to the Transit Author- (387) in item number 3735 by striking the Improvement Program approved by the ity under chapter 53 of title 49, United States project description and inserting ‘‘Widening Board of Directors of the Transit Authority. Code, or any other provision of law. existing Highway 226, including a bypass of ‘‘(b) USE OF FUNDS.—The Federal grants ‘‘(g) ACCESS TO WIRELESS SERVICES IN MET- Cash and a new connection to Highway 49’’; made pursuant to the authorization under RORAIL SYSTEM.—

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‘‘(1) REQUIRING TRANSIT AUTHORITY TO PRO- (B) TERM OF SERVICE.—The Inspector Gen- who has authority to take, direct others to VIDE ACCESS TO SERVICE.—No amounts may eral shall serve for a term of 5 years, and an take, recommend, or approve any personnel be provided to the Transit Authority pursu- individual serving as Inspector General may action, shall not, with respect to such au- ant to the authorization under this section be reappointed for not more than 2 addi- thority, take or threaten to take any action unless the Transit Authority ensures that tional terms. against any employee or member as a re- customers of the rail service of the Transit (C) REMOVAL.—The Inspector General may prisal for making a complaint or disclosing Authority have access within the rail system be removed from office prior to the expira- information to the Inspector General, unless to services provided by any licensed wireless tion of his term only by the unanimous vote the complaint was made or the information provider that notifies the Transit Authority of all of the members of the Board of Direc- disclosed with the knowledge that it was (in accordance with such procedures as the tors of the Transit Authority, and the Board false or with willful disregard for its truth or Transit Authority may adopt) of its intent shall communicate the reasons for any such falsity. to offer service to the public, in accordance removal to the Governor of Maryland, the (E) INDEPENDENCE IN CARRYING OUT DU- with the following timetable: , the Mayor of the Dis- TIES.—Neither the Board of Directors of the ‘‘(A) Not later than 1 year after the date of trict of Columbia, the chair of the Com- Transit Authority, the General Manager of the enactment of the National Capital mittee on Government Reform of the House the Transit Authority, nor any other mem- Transportation Amendments Act of 2008, in of Representatives, and the chair of the Com- the 20 underground rail station platforms mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- ber or employee of the Transit Authority with the highest volume of passenger traffic. mental Affairs of the Senate. may prevent or prohibit the Inspector Gen- ‘‘(B) Not later than 4 years after such date, (3) DUTIES.— eral from carrying out any of the duties or throughout the rail system. (A) APPLICABILITY OF DUTIES OF INSPECTOR responsibilities assigned to the Inspector ‘‘(2) ACCESS OF WIRELESS PROVIDERS TO SYS- GENERAL OF EXECUTIVE BRANCH ESTABLISH- General under this subsection. TEM FOR UPGRADES AND MAINTENANCE.—No MENT.—The Inspector General shall carry (4) POWERS.— amounts may be provided to the Transit Au- out the same duties and responsibilities with (A) IN GENERAL.—The Inspector General thority pursuant to the authorization under respect to the Transit Authority as an In- may exercise the same authorities with re- this section unless the Transit Authority en- spector General of an establishment carries spect to the Transit Authority as an Inspec- sures that each licensed wireless provider out with respect to an establishment under tor General of an establishment may exer- who provides service to the public within the section 4 of the Inspector General Act of 1978 cise with respect to an establishment under rail system pursuant to paragraph (1) has ac- (5 U.S.C. App. 4), under the same terms and section 6(a) of the Inspector General Act of cess to the system on an ongoing basis (sub- conditions which apply under such section. 1978 (5 U.S.C. App. 6(a)), other than para- ject to such restrictions as the Transit Au- (B) CONDUCTING ANNUAL AUDIT OF FINANCIAL graphs (7), (8), and (9) of such section. thority may impose to ensure that such ac- STATEMENTS.—The Inspector General shall be (B) STAFF.— cess will not unduly impact rail operations responsible for conducting the annual audit (i) ASSISTANT INSPECTOR GENERALS AND or threaten the safety of customers or em- of the financial accounts of the Transit Au- OTHER STAFF.—The Inspector General shall ployees of the rail system) to carry out thority, either directly or by contract with appoint and fix the pay of— emergency repairs, routine maintenance, and an independent external auditor selected by (I) an Assistant Inspector General for Au- upgrades to the service. the Inspector General. dits, who shall be responsible for coordi- ‘‘(3) PERMITTING REASONABLE AND CUS- (C) REPORTS.— nating the activities of the Inspector Gen- TOMARY CHARGES.—Nothing in this sub- (i) SEMIANNUAL REPORTS TO TRANSIT AU- eral relating to audits; section may be construed to prohibit the THORITY.—The Inspector General shall pre- (II) an Assistant Inspector General for In- Transit Authority from requiring a licensed pare and submit semiannual reports summa- vestigations, who shall be responsible for co- wireless provider to pay reasonable and cus- rizing the activities of the Office in the same ordinating the activities of the Inspector tomary charges for access granted under this manner, and in accordance with the same General relating to investigations; and subsection. deadlines, terms, and conditions, as an In- (III) such other personnel as the Inspector ‘‘(4) REPORTS.—Not later than 1 year after spector General of an establishment under the date of the enactment of the National section 5 of the Inspector General Act of 1978 General considers appropriate. Capital Transportation Amendments Act of (5 U.S.C. App. 5). For purposes of applying (ii) INDEPENDENCE IN APPOINTING STAFF.— 2008, and each of the 3 years thereafter, the section 5 of such Act to the Inspector Gen- No individual may carry out any of the du- Transit Authority shall submit to the Com- eral, the Board of Directors of the Transit ties or responsibilities of the Office unless mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- Authority shall be considered the head of the the individual is appointed by the Inspector mental Affairs of the Senate and the Com- establishment, except that the Inspector General, or provides services procured by the mittee on Oversight and Government Reform General shall transmit to the General Man- Inspector General, pursuant to this subpara- of the House of Representatives a report on ager of the Transit Authority a copy of any graph. Nothing in this clause may be con- the implementation of this subsection. report submitted to the Board pursuant to strued to prohibit the Inspector General ‘‘(5) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the this paragraph. from entering into a contract or other ar- term ‘licensed wireless provider’ means any (ii) ANNUAL REPORTS TO LOCAL SIGNATORY rangement for the provision of services provider of wireless services who is operating GOVERNMENTS AND CONGRESS.—Not later than under this subsection. pursuant to a Federal license to offer such January 15 of each year, the Inspector Gen- (iii) APPLICABILITY OF TRANSIT SYSTEM PER- services to the public for profit.’’. eral shall prepare and submit a report sum- SONNEL RULES.—None of the regulations gov- (c) WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA TRAN- marizing the activities of the Office during erning the appointment and pay of employ- SIT AUTHORITY INSPECTOR GENERAL.— the previous year, and shall submit such re- ees of the Transit System shall apply with (1) ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICE.— ports to the Governor of Maryland, the Gov- respect to the appointment and compensa- (A) IN GENERAL.—The Washington Metro- ernor of Virginia, the Mayor of the District tion of the personnel of the Office, except to politan Area Transit Authority (referred to of Columbia, the chair of the Committee on the extent agreed to by the Inspector Gen- in this subsection as the ‘‘Transit Author- Government Reform of the House of Rep- eral. Nothing in the previous sentence may ity’’) shall establish in the Transit Author- resentatives, and the chair of the Committee be construed to affect clauses (i) and (ii). ity the Office of the Inspector General (re- on Homeland Security and Governmental Af- (C) EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES.—The General ferred to in this subsection as the ‘‘Office’’), fairs of the Senate. Manager of the Transit Authority shall pro- headed by the Inspector General of the Tran- (D) INVESTIGATIONS OF COMPLAINTS OF EM- vide the Office with appropriate and ade- sit Authority (referred to in this subsection PLOYEES AND MEMBERS.— quate office space, together with such equip- as the ‘‘Inspector General’’). (i) AUTHORITY.—The Inspector General may ment, supplies, and communications facili- (B) DEFINITION.—In subparagraph (A), the receive and investigate complaints or infor- ties and services as may be necessary for the ‘‘Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Au- mation from an employee or member of the operation of the Office, and shall provide thority’’ means the Authority established Transit Authority concerning the possible necessary maintenance services for such of- under Article III of the Washington Metro- existence of an activity constituting a viola- fice space and the equipment and facilities politan Area Transit Authority Compact tion of law, rules, or regulations, or mis- located therein. (Public Law 89–774). management, gross waste of funds, abuse of (5) TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS.—To the extent (2) INSPECTOR GENERAL.— authority, or a substantial and specific dan- that any office or entity in the Transit Au- (A) APPOINTMENT.—The Inspector General ger to the public health and safety. thority prior to the appointment of the first shall be appointed by the vote of a majority (ii) NONDISCLOSURE.—The Inspector Gen- Inspector General under this subsection car- of the Board of Directors of the Transit Au- eral shall not, after receipt of a complaint or ried out any of the duties and responsibil- thority, and shall be appointed without re- information from an employee or member, ities assigned to the Inspector General under gard to political affiliation and solely on the disclose the identity of the employee or this subsection, the functions of such office basis of integrity and demonstrated ability member without the consent of the employee or entity shall be transferred to the Office in accounting, auditing, financial analysis, or member, unless the Inspector General de- upon the appointment of the first Inspector law, management analysis, public adminis- termines such disclosure is unavoidable dur- General under this subsection. tration, or investigations, as well as famili- ing the course of the investigation. arity or experience with the operation of (iii) PROHIBITING RETALIATION.—An em- (d) STUDY AND REPORT BY COMPTROLLER transit systems. ployee or member of the Transit Authority GENERAL.—

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(1) STUDY.—The Comptroller General shall scribed by the Secretary under section 5103 Storage Tank Trust Fund under 9508, an conduct a study on the use of the funds pro- of title 49, United States Code; and amount equal to the reduction in revenues to vided under section 18 of the National Cap- (3) who performs duties on motor vehicles the Treasury by reason of this subsection ital Transportation Act of 1969 (as added by weighing 10,000 pounds or less. shall be treated as taxes received in the this section). SA 4556. Mr. BAUCUS submitted an Treasury under this section or section 4041.’’. (2) REPORT.—Not later than 3 years after amendment intended to be proposed by (2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment the date of the enactment of this Act, the him to the bill H.R. 1195, to amend the made by this subsection shall take effect on Comptroller General shall submit a report to Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient the date of the enactment of this Act. the Committee on Government Reform of Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy (b) FLOOR STOCK REFUNDS.— the House of Representatives and the Com- (1) IN GENERAL.—If— mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- for Users to make technical correc- (A) before the tax suspension date, a tax mental Affairs of the Senate on the study tions, and for other purposes; which referred to in section 4081(f)(2) of the Inter- conducted under paragraph (1). was ordered to lie on the table; as fol- nal Revenue Code of 1986 has been imposed lows: under such Code on any liquid, and SA 4555. Mr. KENNEDY submitted an On page 85, line 18, insert ‘‘sediment con- (B) on such date such liquid is held by a amendment intended to be proposed to trol and’’ after ‘‘Boulder Creek’’. dealer and has not been used and is intended amendment SA 4146 proposed by Mrs. SA 4557. Mr. BAUCUS submitted an for sale, BOXER to the bill H.R. 1195, to amend amendment intended to be proposed by there shall be credited or refunded (without the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Effi- him to the bill H.R. 1195, to amend the interest) to the person who paid such tax cient Transportation Equity Act: A (hereafter in this subsection referred to as Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient the ‘‘taxpayer’’), against the taxpayer’s sub- Legacy for Users to make technical Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy sequent semi-monthly deposit of such tax, an corrections, and for other purposes; for Users to make technical correc- amount equal to the excess of the tax paid which was ordered to lie on the table; tions, and for other purposes; which by the taxpayer over the amount of such tax as follows: was ordered to lie on the table; as fol- which would be imposed on such liquid had On page 131, beginning with line 13, strike lows: the taxable event occurred on the tax sus- through line 17 on page 13, and insert the fol- On page 86, line 14, strike the period at the pension date. lowing: end, insert a semicolon, and insert the fol- (2) TIME FOR FILING CLAIMS; CERTIFICATIONS (1) LIMITATION ON LIABILITY.—An employer lowing: NECESSARY TO FILE CLAIMS.— shall not be liable for a violation of section (26) by striking item number 234; and (A) IN GENERAL.—No credit or refund shall 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 (27) in item number 236, by striking be allowed or made under this subsection— U.S.C. 207) with respect to a covered em- ‘‘$10,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$17,000,000’’. (i) unless claim therefor is filed with the ployee if the employer proves that— Secretary before the date which is 6 months (A) the violation occurred in the one-year SA 4558. Mr. KYL (for himself, Mr. after the tax suspension date, and (ii) in any case where liquid is held by a period beginning on August 10, 2005; MCCAIN, Mr. WARNER, Mr. BURR, Mr. (B) as of the date of the violation, the em- dealer (other than the taxpayer) on the tax MARTINEZ, Mr. LIEBERMAN, Mr. ployer did not have actual knowledge that suspension date, unless the taxpayer files section 4142 of Public Law 109–59 changed the GRAHAM, Mr. WICKER, and Mr. with the Secretary— applicability of section 13(b)(1) of the Fair CHAMBLISS) submitted an amendment (I) a certification that the taxpayer has Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. intended to be proposed by him to the given a credit to such dealer with respect to 213(b)(1)); and bill H.R. 1195, to amend the Safe, Ac- such liquid against the dealer’s first pur- (C) the employer’s primary reliance on sec- countable, Flexible, Efficient Trans- chase of liquid from the taxpayer subsequent tion 13(b)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act portation Equity Act: A Legacy for to the tax suspension date, and of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 213(b)(1)) led to the viola- Users to make technical corrections, (II) a certification by such dealer that such dealer has given a credit to a succeeding tion. and for other purposes; which was or- (2) ACTIONS TO RECOVER AMOUNTS PRE- dealer (if any) with respect to such liquid VIOUSLY PAID.—Nothing in paragraph (1) dered to lie on the table; as follows: against the succeeding dealer’s first pur- shall be construed to establish a cause of ac- Strike all after the first word and insert chase of liquid from such dealer subsequent tion for an employer to recover amounts the following: to the tax suspension date. paid, or agreed to be paid, before the date of lll. HIGHWAY FUEL TAX HOLIDAY. (B) REASONABLENESS OF CLAIMS CER- enactment of this Act in settlement of, in (a) TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF HIGHWAY TIFIED.—Any certification made under sub- compromise of, or pursuant to a judgment FUEL TAXES ON GASOLINE AND DIESEL FUEL.— paragraph (A) shall include an additional rendered regarding a claim or potential (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 4081 of the Inter- certification that the claim for credit was claim based on an alleged or proven viola- nal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to imposi- reasonably based on the taxpayer’s or deal- tion of section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards tion of tax on gasoline, diesel fuel, and ker- er’s past business relationship with the suc- Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 207) occurring in the osene) is amended by adding at the end the ceeding dealer. one-year period referred to in paragraph following new subsection: (3) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this sub- (1)(A) with respect to a covered employee. ‘‘(f) TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF TAXES ON section— (c) COVERED EMPLOYEE DEFINED.—In this GASOLINE AND DIESEL FUEL.— (A) the terms ‘‘dealer’’ and ‘‘held by a deal- section, the term ‘‘covered employee’’ means ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—During the applicable pe- er’’ have the respective meanings given to an individual— riod, each rate of tax referred to in para- such terms by section 6412 of such Code; ex- (1) who is employed by a motor carrier or graph (2) shall be reduced to zero cents per cept that the term ‘‘dealer’’ includes a pro- motor private carrier (as such terms are de- gallon. ducer, and fined by section 13102 of title 49, United ‘‘(2) RATES OF TAX.—The rates of tax re- (B) the term ‘‘tax suspension date’’ means States Code, as amended by section 305 of ferred to in this paragraph are— May 26, 2008. this Act); ‘‘(A) the rate of tax otherwise applicable to (4) CERTAIN RULES TO APPLY.—Rules similar (2) whose work, in whole or in part, is de- gasoline under clause (i) of subsection to the rules of subsections (b) and (c) of sec- fined— (a)(2)(A), determined with regard to sub- tion 6412 of such Code shall apply for pur- (A) as that of a driver, driver’s helper, section (a)(2)(B) and without regard to sub- poses of this subsection. loader, or mechanic; and section (a)(2)(C), (c) FLOOR STOCKS TAX.— (B) as affecting the safety of operation of ‘‘(B) the rate of tax otherwise applicable to (1) IMPOSITION OF TAX.—In the case of any motor vehicles weighing 10,000 pounds or less diesel fuel under clause (iii) of subsection liquid on which tax would have been imposed in transportation on public highways in (a)(2)(A), determined with regard to sub- under section 4081 of the Internal Revenue interstate or foreign commerce, except vehi- section (a)(2)(B) and without regard to sub- Code of 1986 during the applicable period but cles— section (a)(2)(C), and for the amendment made by subsection (a), (i) designed or used to transport more than ‘‘(C) the rate of tax otherwise applicable to and which is held on the floor stocks tax 8 passengers (including the driver) for com- diesel fuel under paragraph (1) of section date by any person, there is hereby imposed pensation; 4041(a) with respect to fuel sold for use or a floor stocks tax in an amount equal to the (ii) designed or used to transport more used in a diesel-powered highway vehicle. tax which would be imposed on such liquid than 15 passengers (including the driver) and ‘‘(3) APPLICABLE PERIOD.—For purposes of had the taxable event occurred on the floor not used to transport passengers for com- this subsection, the term ‘applicable period’ stocks tax date. pensation; or means the period beginning on May 26, 2008, (2) LIABILITY FOR TAX AND METHOD OF PAY- (iii) used in transporting material found by and ending on September 1, 2008. MENT.— the Secretary of Transportation to be haz- ‘‘(4) MAINTENANCE OF TRUST FUND DEPOS- (A) LIABILITY FOR TAX.—A person holding a ardous under section 5103 of title 49, United ITS.—In determining the amounts to be ap- liquid on the floor stocks tax date to which States Code, and transported in a quantity propriated to the Highway Trust Fund under the tax imposed by paragraph (1) applies requiring placarding under regulations pre- section 9503 and to the Leaking Underground shall be liable for such tax.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 02:24 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00064 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17AP6.075 S17APPT1 wwoods2 on PRODPC60 with SENATE April 17, 2008 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S3169 (B) METHOD OF PAYMENT.—The tax imposed (e) BENEFITS OF TAX REDUCTION SHOULD BE thorized to meet during the session of by paragraph (1) shall be paid in such man- PASSED ON TO CONSUMERS.—It is the policy of the Senate to conduct a hearing on ner as the Secretary shall prescribe. Congress that— Thursday, April 17, 2008, at 2 p.m., in (C) TIME FOR PAYMENT.—The tax imposed (1) consumers immediately receive the ben- room SD366 of the Dirksen Senate Of- by paragraph (1) shall be paid on or before efit of the reduction in taxes resulting from the date which is 6 months after the floor the amendment made by subsection (a), and fice Building. stocks tax date. (2) transportation motor fuels producers The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without (3) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this sub- and other dealers take such actions as nec- objection, it is so ordered. section— essary to reduce transportation motor fuels Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- (A) HELD BY A PERSON.—A liquid shall be prices to reflect such reduction, including considered as ‘‘held by a person’’ if title immediate credits to customer accounts rep- imous consent that the order for the thereto has passed to such person (whether resenting tax refunds allowed as credits quorum call be rescinded. or not delivery to the person has been made). against excise tax deposit payments under The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without (B) GASOLINE AND DIESEL FUEL.—The terms the floor stocks refund provisions of sub- objection, it is so ordered. ‘‘gasoline’’ and ‘‘diesel fuel’’ have the respec- section (b). tive meanings given such terms by section f 4083 of such Code. f (C) FLOOR STOCKS TAX DATE.—The term AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO MEET ‘‘floor stocks tax date’’ means September 2, COMMITTEE ON FINANCE VETERANS’ BENEFITS ENHANCE- 2008. Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, I ask MENT ACT—MOTION TO PROCEED (D) APPLICABLE PERIOD.—The term ‘‘appli- unanimous consent that the Com- cable period’’ means the period described in mittee on Finance be authorized to CLOTURE MOTION section 4081(f)(3) of such Code. (4) EXCEPTION FOR EXEMPT USES.—The tax meet during the session of the Senate Mr. REID. Mr. President, I spoke to imposed by paragraph (1) shall not apply to on Thursday, April 17, 2008, at 10 a.m., the minority leader last evening and gasoline or diesel fuel held by any person ex- in 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building. indicated to him that I was going to clusively for any use to the extent a credit The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without move to the Veterans’ Benefits Act. As or refund of the tax imposed by section 4081 objection, it is so ordered. a result of that, I have no alternative— of such Code is allowable for such use. COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS not speaking to him but not having (5) EXCEPTION FOR FUEL HELD IN VEHICLE TANK.—No tax shall be imposed by paragraph Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, I ask heard back—I have no alternative but (1) on gasoline or diesel fuel held in the tank unanimous consent that the Com- to file cloture on this matter. Other- of a motor vehicle. mittee on Foreign Relations be author- wise, of course, another day would be (6) EXCEPTION FOR CERTAIN AMOUNTS OF ized to meet during the session of the lost. So I am disappointed that I need FUEL.— Senate on Thursday, April 17, 2008, at 3 to file this. This is a veterans’ benefits (A) IN GENERAL.—No tax shall be imposed p.m. to hold a working coffee meeting enhancement bill. I would hope that on by paragraph (1)— Monday, we could have Senator AKAKA (i) on gasoline (other than aviation gaso- with His Excellency Ahmed Aboul line) held on the floor stocks tax date by any Gheit, Foreign Minister of the Arab and his ranking member be allowed to person if the aggregate amount of gasoline Republic of Egypt. move to this legislation. We have al- held by such person on such date does not ex- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ready announced there will be no votes ceed 4,000 gallons, and objection, it is so ordered. tomorrow or on Monday. It would sure (ii) on diesel fuel held on such date by any COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS be good if we could do that. person if the aggregate amount of diesel fuel held by such person on such date does not ex- Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, I ask In view of the situation we have here, ceed 2,000 gallons. unanimous consent that the Com- I have no alternative but to move to The preceding sentence shall apply only if mittee on Indian Affairs be authorized proceed to S. 1315, and I send a cloture such person submits to the Secretary (at the to meet on Thursday, April 17, 2008, at motion to the desk. time and in the manner required by the Sec- 10:30 a.m., in room 562 of the Dirksen The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clo- retary) such information as the Secretary Senate Office Building to conduct a ture motion having been presented shall require for purposes of this subpara- hearing on the National Indian Gaming under rule XXII, the Chair directs the graph. Commission. (B) EXEMPT FUEL.—For purposes of sub- clerk to read the cloture motion. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without paragraph (A), there shall not be taken into The assistant legislative clerk read objection, it is so ordered. account fuel held by any person which is ex- as follows: empt from the tax imposed by paragraph (1) AD HOC SUBCOMMITTEE ON STATE, LOCAL, AND by reason of paragraph (4) or (5). PRIVATE SECTOR PREPAREDNESS AND INTE- CLOTURE MOTION (C) CONTROLLED GROUPS.—For purposes of GRATION We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- this paragraph— Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, I ask ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the (i) CORPORATIONS.— unanimous consent that the Ad Hoc Standing Rules of the Senate, hereby move (I) IN GENERAL.—All persons treated as a Subcommittee on State, Local, and to bring to a close debate on the motion to controlled group shall be treated as 1 person. Private Sector Preparedness and Inte- proceed to Calendar No. 336, S. 1315, the Vet- (II) CONTROLLED GROUP.—The term ‘‘con- gration of the Committee on Homeland erans’ Benefits Enhancement Act. trolled group’’ has the meaning given to such Harry Reid, Daniel K. Akaka, Barbara term by subsection (a) of section 1563 of such Security and Governmental Affairs be Boxer, Patty Murray, Byron L. Dorgan, Code; except that for such purposes the authorized to meet during the session Edward M. Kennedy, Christopher J. phrase ‘‘more than 50 percent’’ shall be sub- of the Senate on Thursday, April 17, Dodd, Benjamin L. Cardin, Patrick J. stituted for the phrase ‘‘at least 80 percent’’ 2008, at 2 p.m. to conduct a hearing en- Leahy, Bernard Sanders, Sherrod each place it appears in such subsection. titled, ‘‘Focus on Fusion Centers: A Brown, Amy Klobuchar, Richard Dur- (ii) NONINCORPORATED PERSONS UNDER COM- Progress Report.’’ bin, Ken Salazar, Sheldon Whitehouse, MON CONTROL.—Under regulations prescribed Max Baucus, Daniel K. Inouye. by the Secretary, principles similar to the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without principles of clause (i) shall apply to a group objection, it is so ordered. Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- of persons under common control where 1 or SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE imous consent that on Tuesday, April more of such persons is not a corporation. Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, I ask 22, following a period of morning busi- (7) OTHER LAW APPLICABLE.—All provisions unanimous consent that the Select ness, the Senate resume consideration of law, including penalties, applicable with Committee on Intelligence be author- of the motion to proceed and the time respect to the taxes imposed by section 4081 of such Code shall, insofar as applicable and ized to meet during the session of the until 12 noon be equally divided and not inconsistent with the provisions of this Senate on April 17, 2008, at 2:30 p.m. to controlled between the leaders or their paragraph, apply with respect to the floor hold a closed hearing. designees; that at noon, the Senate stock taxes imposed by paragraph (1) to the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without proceed to a vote on a motion to in- same extent as if such taxes were imposed by objection, it is so ordered. voke cloture on the motion to proceed such section 4081. SUBCOMMITTEE ON WATER AND POWER to S. 1315; further, that the mandatory (d) SECRETARY.—For purposes of this sec- quorum be waived. tion, the term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Sec- Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, I ask retary of the Treasury or the Secretary’s unanimous consent that the Sub- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without delegate. committee on Water and Power be au- objection, it is so ordered.

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RECOGNIZING ALISHA D. PRATHER new Galveston National Laboratory projected Gordy, Sr., donated the land for a new field. FOR HER CONTRIBUTIONS AND to open in November of this year. As Alisha Today, there are 449 players registered in the SERVICE TO THE COMMITTEE ON says, it’s the opportunity to build something Delmar Little League, with over half of the SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY from the ground up. players hailing from Delaware. In addition, the We’re quick to point out that she did just league has hosted several state level tour- HON. BART GORDON that with our press operation here at the Com- naments. The Delmar Little League estab- lished a female softball division in 1982 and OF TENNESSEE mittee, and we extend our sincere thanks to her for a job well done. the baseball league is now open to young IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES f women, as well. Thursday, April 17, 2008 I acknowledge the Delmar Little League for IN HONOR OF THE 50TH ANNIVER- Mr. GORDON of Tennessee. Madam 50 years of promoting physical fitness and SARY OF THE DELMAR LITTLE Speaker, I rise today to recognize a talented community involvement amongst young peo- LEAGUE individual who has been a dedicated member ple in the State of Delaware. I am confident of our Committee staff—Alisha D. Prather. that the league will continue to do so for many Alisha came to the Committee as the com- HON. MICHAEL N. CASTLE more years to come. munications director for the minority staff at OF DELAWARE the beginning of the 108th Congress. She IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES f filled a newly created position since the minor- Thursday, April 17, 2008 ity staff had functioned without a press person PACCAR: TRADER OF THE YEAR for some years. Mr. CASTLE. Madam Speaker, it is with Her degree in Telecommunications from great pleasure that I rise today to recognize Baylor University and a Master’s in Commu- the Delmar Little League, which will celebrate HON. DAVID G. REICHERT nication Studies from the University of Lou- its opening day and 50th anniversary on April OF WASHINGTON isiana at Lafayette meant Alisha was well pre- 19. For one half-century. the Delmar Little pared for the job. She also came to us with a League has been providing the only organized IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES great deal of work experience on Capitol Hill summer activity open to all youths in the town Thursday, April 17, 2008 under her belt. of Delmar, Delaware. From the start, the challenge Alisha faced The Delmar Little League was chartered in Mr. REICHERT. Madam Speaker, I want to on the Committee was taking technical, sci- 1958 under the leadership of Epperson congratulate PACCAR, Inc. for earning the entific information and translating it into an in- ‘‘Eppie’’ Culver, who also became the league’s 2008 Governor’s Trader of the Year Award in teresting and informative message for the first president and one of the league’s first Washington State for expanding the State’s American public. She succeeded. With her coaches. The league was initially organized international trade. PACCAR, headquartered quick intellect and some long hours, Alisha into four teams: the Vets, sponsored by the in my congressional district, is a global leader soon produced an organized press shop, Delmar VFW Memorial Post 8276, the Moose, in the design, manufacture and customer sup- building enormous credibility with our science sponsored by Moose Lodge No. 582, the Fire- port of light-, medium- and heavy-duty trucks. constituencies, the public and the media. men, sponsored by the Delmar Fire Depart- In addition, PACCAR provides financial serv- One of her first projects as the new commu- ment, and the Lions, sponsored by the Delmar ices and informational technology for the ac- nications director was to shepherd the minority Lions Club. The inaugural season was offi- tual truck makers—all while conducting its website through a top to bottom redesign. She cially dedicated on August 15, and the first business with the health and safety of the did an outstanding job. The website received games were played on a corner lot provided planet in mind. a Congressional Management Foundation by the Delmar Fire Department. That year, With 22,000 employees worldwide and Gold Mouse Award in 2006, recognizing the using equipment given to the league by the 2,500 in Washington State, PACCAR is a local site as one of the best web sites on Capitol Delmar Kiwanis Club, the four teams only business with a truly global reach. In 2007, Hill. Alisha did it again in 2007 when our Com- played against each other: they did not com- PACCAR had $15.2 billion in net income, sell- mittee website received another Gold Mouse pete with any other teams outside of the ing products and services in more than 100 Award and was judged to be the number one league. countries, while setting record industry sales committee website in Congress. By the 1959 season, the Delmar Little for commercial vehicles above 15 tons in With our move to the Majority in 2007, League had grown to 60 boys, and the league Western and Central Europe. Alisha undertook the task of meeting the press had its own field on which to play. The league needs of a growing staff and an increasingly held a contest to decide on the name of the I also want to recognize PACCAR for its busy Committee agenda, while assuring that park. The winning entry was submitted by leadership and innovation in energy independ- my media needs and the needs of our active James Mills, and Pote Field was dedicated on ence and environmentally friendly business Membership were well attended. June 19, 1959. The new location was named practices. The company truly represents the Prior to her time with us, Alisha worked for for Monroe Pote, or ‘‘Mr. Baseball’’, as he was spirit of the Pacific Northwest region by con- 8 years as the communications director for known in Delmar. Mr. Pote is credited with es- ducting business within and very often ex- Representative Chris John of Louisiana. For tablishing the first organized baseball team in ceeding regulatory environmental standards, several years, Alisha also served as the com- Delmar in 1922, along with many other sports harnessing the power and efficiency of solar munications coordinator for the Blue Dog Coa- teams and organizations for the young men of energy and, perhaps most importantly, con- lition. his town. Mr. Pote became an inspiration and serving energy utilizing breakthrough hybrid Alisha leaves the Hill after 111⁄2 years here, a father figure to many of the boys that he technology. and she will be missed. She’s heading to coached. 1959 proved to be a milestone year PACCAR is a leader in truck design and Texas which takes her that much closer to her for the league in scoring, as well: the first manufacture. It is an American company from home State of Louisiana. Although a huge fan home run was scored by Gary Wooten on the Pacific Northwest with a global impact. It of Capitol Hill and the Washington, DC area, May 30 and the first grand slam by John Ehr- is also a wonderful example of American busi- Alisha has always had an interest in spending lich on June 23. The league formed its original ness leading the way in energy independence some time closer to home. First All-Star Team in 1960. and environmentally-friendly business prac- We wish her well as she takes on a new The league moved to its present facilities in tices and I offer its employees my sincere con- challenge—Director of Communications for the 1962, when the park’s namesake. William gratulations and appreciation.

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VerDate Aug 31 2005 04:27 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17AP8.001 E17APPT1 smartinez on PROD1PC64 with REMARKS E642 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks April 17, 2008 RECOGNIZING THE ACHIEVEMENTS niversary. For the past 50 years, Bayview Ele- before returning to his dorm room. Nearly 2 OF THE SOUTHERN ILLINOIS mentary School has been providing students hours later, Cho went to a post office to mail UNIVERSITY DEBATE TEAM with the skills, knowledge, and preparation writings and video footage to NBC News. He they need to succeed both inside and outside was sure to inform the press because he HON. JERRY F. COSTELLO the classroom. wanted the infamy and power. This coward OF ILLINOIS Instrumental to the success of Bayview Ele- carried chains, locks, a hammer, a knife, two IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mentary is the hard work of the teachers, ad- guns, nineteen 10- and 15-round magazines, ministrators, parents and other volunteers and almost 400 rounds of ammunition. He was Thursday, April 17, 2008 within the community who are committed to on a murderous mission. Mr. COSTELLO. Madam Speaker, I rise providing these children with a topnotch edu- Two hours after his first killings, Cho contin- today to acknowledge the outstanding accom- cation. The faculty at Bayview truly cares for ued his murder spree at Norris Hall. He plishments of the debate team at Southern Illi- the well-being of their students, and their dedi- chained the three main entrance doors shut, nois University in Carbondale, Illinois. Directed cation to improving the quality of education in placed a note on the doors that said if the by Dr. Todd Graham, the team of Kevin their classrooms will benefit these students for door was opened a bomb would explode, and Calderwood, a junior in political science from generations to come. then went up to the second floor to begin the Chesterfield, MO, and Kyle Dennis, a senior in I would also like to recognize Ms. JoEllen massacre. Cho peeked into the classroom economics from Blue Springs, MO, won the Scott, the principal of Bayview Elementary twice, to view his prey. He entered Professor national championship in the 54-team National School, whose hard work and excellent lead- G.V. Loganathan’s classroom, killing the pro- Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence. ership have helped make this school the suc- fessor and then killing 9 of the 13 students. It is important to note that this was a very cess it is today. I am confident that Bayview Two other students were injured and only 2 select competition. A team must qualify for the Elementary School will continue to produce students survived unharmed. Cho then walked national championship tournament by doing well-rounded and motivated students for the across the hall to Christopher James Bishop’s well throughout the year. While only 54 teams next 50 years and beyond. classroom where he killed Bishop and 4 other competed, more than 300 attempted to qualify. f students. Cho wounded 6 others. Cho contin- The debate program also entered teams in ued down Norris Hall, shooting students and the National Parliamentary Debate Association DEACON ASPINWALL professors. He returned to the classrooms tournament. That tournament is held at the several times. Cho’s spree continued for 10 to end of March at the United States Air Force HON. 12 minutes. He fired at least 174 rounds. Academy in Colorado Springs, CO, and in- OF COLORADO The 2 hour murderous massacre taught us cludes over 250 universities and colleges. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that universities must have a coordinated, Among the 500 debaters competing, Kevin Thursday, April 17, 2008 quick system to notify students, staff, and the won the top spot in the individual awards, so- entire university community of a pending dan- lidifying his position as one of the best debat- Mr. PERLMUTTER. Madam Speaker, I rise ger. I’m an original cosponsor on the Virginia ers in the country. Kyle took home third place today to recognize and applaud Deacon Tech Victims Campus Emergency Response overall in the individual awards. Aspinwall who has received the Arvada Wheat Policy and Notification Act, which would re- In addition, the team of Katie Thomas, from Ridge Service Ambassadors for Youth award. quire universities to notify students and em- Fort Collins, CO, and Adam Testerman, from Deacon Aspinwall is a senior at Arvada High ployees within 30 minutes after campus secu- Springfield, MO, won fifth place as a team School and received this award because his rity or law enforcement determines that an overall. Also participating in the debate pro- determination and hard work have allowed him emergency exists on campus. It is unfortunate gram was Nicholas Deml of La Crosse, WI. to overcome adversities. that it took a tragedy to teach us this lesson. Graduate students Benjamin Haas, from Pop- The dedication demonstrated by Deacon This country continues to mourn the lives of lar Bluff, MO, and Brian Norcross from San Aspinwall is exemplary of the type of achieve- the 32 victims from Virginia Tech. We will Diego, CA, assisted Dr. Graham with team ment that can be attained with hard work and never forget them. And that’s just the way it is. preparation. perseverance. It is essential that students at f Not surprisingly, the debate program’s suc- all levels strive to make the most of their edu- cesses throughout the season resulted in a cation and develop a work ethic that will guide PERSONAL EXPLANATION great deal of recognition from peers at other them for the rest of their lives. universities. Ryan Lawrence, a debater from I extend my deepest congratulations once HON. KAY GRANGER the University of California at Berkeley and the again to Deacon Aspinwall for winning the Ar- OF TEXAS top debater last year, commented to Dr. vada Wheat Ridge Service Ambassadors for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Graham that he would still hold his head high Youth award. I have no doubt he will exhibit Thursday, April 17, 2008 if beaten by Southern Illinois because he and the same dedication he has shown in his high his teammates considered it ‘‘the smartest, school career to his college career and future Ms. GRANGER. Madam Speaker, on rollcall hardest-working and best debate team in the accomplishments. Nos. 147, 153, 154, 155, 164, 165, 174, 178, country.’’ f 179, and 181 I am not recorded because I Madam Speaker, Southern Illinois University was absent due to illness. VIRGINIA TECH MASSACRE has a proud tradition in teaching, research and Had I been present, I would have voted public service. It is widely recognized that ‘‘no.’’ graduates who are well prepared become HON. TED POE f leaders in their fields. I urge my colleagues to OF TEXAS IN HONOR OF THE SPELLING join me in congratulating the debate team, fac- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CHAMPIONS OF THE MULTI-RE- ulty and students at Southern Illinois Univer- Thursday, April 17, 2008 GIONAL STATE SPELLING BEE sity for their continuing commitment to excel- lence. Mr. POE. Madam Speaker, today marks the 1 year anniversary of the Virginia Tech mas- f HON. MICHELE BACHMANN sacre. One year ago, students on the campus OF MINNESOTA HONORING THE 50TH ANNIVER- woke up and went to class. It was another IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SARY OF BAYVIEW ELEMEN- seemingly ordinary day. But a mentally-ill cow- TARY SCHOOL ard, hungry for control and infamy, followed Thursday, April 17, 2008 through on his premeditated rampage. Mrs. BACHMANN. Madam Speaker, last HON. On April 16, 2007, there were two separate month, students from all over Minnesota met OF FLORIDA attacks, 2 hours apart on the campus of Vir- at the St. Cloud Holiday Inn Hotel and Suites IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ginia Tech. The murderer, Seung-Hui Cho, to compete for the honor of traveling to Wash- killed 32 people and wounded many. ington in May for the Scripps National Spelling Thursday, April 17, 2008 The first attack occurred at West Ambler Bee. I commend all of the students who par- Mr. KLEIN of Florida. Madam Speaker, I Johnston Hall. Cho entered the co-ed dor- ticipated for their extraordinary commitment to rise today to honor Bayview Elementary mitory, home to 894 students, at 7 a.m. Fif- academics and their brilliance and poise under School in Fort Lauderdale, FL on its 50th An- teen minutes later, he murdered two victims pressure.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 04:27 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A17AP8.004 E17APPT1 smartinez on PROD1PC64 with REMARKS April 17, 2008 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E643 In particular, I share in all of Minnesota’s educations and make a mark in the workplace. ages. Their goal is for all activities and gath- pride in 8th Grader Catherine Cojocaru of Holy Many careers have been started or enhanced erings to have a spiritual dimension and reg- Spirit Catholic School in Rochester, Min- through this unique educational resource. As ular participation in these programs helps de- nesota, who will be participating in the Na- the University Center moves beyond its first velop a community within the church. tional Spelling Bee for the second year in a decade, the best is truly yet to come. Going beyond themselves, St. Mary of row. Madam Speaker, it is an honor to represent Vernon believes in serving the needs of their I also wish to commend the winners of the the University Center in the U.S. House of surrounding community. Through outreach Central Minnesota Regional Spelling Bee who Representatives, and I urge you to join me in programs, people feel welcome in the church competed amongst 56 students in grades 5 to congratulating the Lone Star College Sys- at all times. To maximize their impact, they 8 from 34 different school districts. These stu- tem—University Center on this momentous oc- also partner up with other congregations and dents earned a spot at the State Bee: Ali casion. community efforts. Fuller of Chisago Lakes, Christina Huling of f This year we pause to celebrate the Annandale, Matt Schultz of St. Michael- church’s 30th Anniversary and their impact on Albertville, and Peter Doyle of Rocori. The skill RECOGNIZING THE OPENING OF our community. I commend St. Mary’s for their these young men and women showed is truly THE TREATY ROOM AND THE accomplishments over the years and know awe-inspiring. They are a real example for us CROSSROADS OF DESTINY EX- they will continue to do great things in the all. HIBIT AT THE GARST MUSUEM years to come. IN GREENVILLE, OHIO f f HONORING THE LONE STAR COL- HON. JOHN A. BOEHNER IN HONOR OF GERRET AND LEGE SYSTEM UNIVERSITY CEN- OF OHIO TATIANA COPELAND TER ON ITS 10TH ANNIVERSARY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, April 17, 2008 HON. MICHAEL N. CASTLE OF DELAWARE HON. KEVIN BRADY Mr. BOEHNER. Madam Speaker, I rise to OF TEXAS recognize the grand opening of the Treaty IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Room and the Crossroads of Destiny Exhibit Thursday, April 17, 2008 Thursday, April 17, 2008 at the Garst Museum in Greenville, Ohio Mr. CASTLE. Madam Speaker, it is with Mr. BRADY of Texas. Madam Speaker, I One of most significant historical moments great pleasure that I rise today to recognize rise today very proud to honor and congratu- in Darke County was the signing of the Treaty Mr. and Mrs. Gerret and Tatiana Copeland for late the Lone Star College System University of Greene Ville, which ended forty years of their momentous gift to Christiana Care Health Center in The Woodlands, Texas, on its 10th conflict over the upper Ohio Valley and System’s Center for Heart and Vascular anniversary. opened the door for western settlement, lead- Health. The Copelands’ gift will enable The University Center broke ground in June ing to Ohio’s statehood. This exhibit tells the Christiana Care to purchase a Stereotaxis re- of 1996 under the theme of ‘‘common ground story of life on the frontier: war, resolution, mote navigation system that can more effec- for the common good.’’ Partner universities, loss, progress and the growth of a nation. tively target problem areas in the heart while which include: Prairie View A&M University, While Darke County is no longer the West- still preserving healthy tissue, thereby pro- Sam Houston State University, Texas A&M ern edge of the United States, its citizens re- viding the people of Delaware with the best University, Texas Southern University, Univer- tain the finest qualities of frontier settlers: gen- treatment available for a potentially fatal dis- sity of Houston and University of Houston- erous hearts, a zeal for public service and the order. Downtown, began offering courses in Sep- passionate patriotism that General Anthony Stereotaxis is used to treat Atrial Fibrillation, tember of 1997, and facilities were opened in Wayne, General William Henry Harrison, a common heart condition that occurs when January of the next year. Since that time, the Meriwether Lewis and William Clark exhibited the heart rhythm becomes irregular, possibly University Center has indeed honored the vi- more than two centuries ago. leading to blood clots and eventual stroke. It is my pleasure to congratulate The Garst sion of providing multi-level quality higher edu- The current procedure—which involves insert- Museum, the Darke County Historical Society cation instruction to a diverse population of ing a catheter through the artery, identifying and the citizens of Darke County on the grand citizens from north Houston, north Harris and the areas of the heart that trigger the irregular opening of this new exhibit. Montgomery counties. heartbeat, and destroying those areas—puts Over the past decade, the Center has expe- f healthy tissue in the heart at risk, is time con- rienced phenomenal growth. Student enroll- CONGRATULATING ST. MARY OF suming, and has only a 50 percent success ment and the number of courses offered has VERNON ON THEIR 30TH ANNI- rate. The Stereotaxis equipment, which will be grown four-fold. In 1997, the Center served VERSARY housed in a new surgical suite named for 374 students in 65 classes. Today, over 2,300 Gerret and Tatiana, uses computer technology students participate in 255 classes. Fifty-two HON. MARK STEVEN KIRK to create three-dimensional images of the thousand students have been served in ten heart and veins, allowing the cardiologist to di- OF ILLINOIS years with no signs that growth will stop. rect a magnetic catheter with greater precision IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES This unique partnership between the six and less chance of damaging the patient’s Texas universities and the five colleges of the Thursday, April 17, 2008 heart. These features should increase proce- Lone Star College System has created amaz- Mr. KIRK. Madam Speaker, I rise today to dure success rates to as high as 90 percent. ing educational opportunities for the students honor the 30th Anniversary of St. Mary of In addition, the Stereotaxis procedure is short- of the region. Through this partnership, stu- Vernon, a well-established church located in er than the traditional procedure; thus, the pa- dents at the University Center can complete the 10th district of Illinois. tient should require less sedation, less post- baccalaureate degrees, master’s degrees and In 1978, Father John Finnegan went to Lake surgery medication, and recover at a taster continuing professional studies in over 65 pro- County to establish a new parish in the rate. This type of cutting-edge equipment is grams without having to drive long distances. Vernon Hills area. The first Mass took place available in only 100 hospitals worldwide. Having such programs right in their own back- on August 15, 1978, in a rented space at The Copelands are no strangers to philan- yard is an opportunity that the enrollment Hawthorn Jr. High School. Three years later, thropy: they have been generously supporting numbers clearly tell us is just too good to pass in 1981, the church moved into their new Wor- various causes in Delaware for many years, up. ship Center which doubled as a building for most notably the arts. Their gift to Christiana The University Center is not only an asset Mass as well as for social and community ac- Care, however, is very personal. In 2006, fol- to our community now, but the sky is the limit tivities. In December of 2005, the church lowing a cardiac catheterization, Gerret under- for its future impact. By offering convenient ac- moved into a new church building, fulfilling went heart bypass surgery to treat blockage in cess to top quality instructors and innovative their dream. Despite the acquisition, the con- six of his arteries. Due to the extraordinary teaching, the opportunity for students to gregation takes pride in the fact that it is the skill of the dedicated team of doctors at achieve their higher education goals in my dis- people inside the church’s walls that make St. Christiana Care, Gerret has since made a full trict has never been so strong. Mary of Vernon what it is. recovery. He and Tatiana hope that their do- I consistently hear from employers that Uni- The parishioners of St. Mary of Vernon are nation will help others benefit from the same versity Center students take their outstanding dedicated to the Catholic education for all exceptional care.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 04:27 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A17AP8.008 E17APPT1 smartinez on PROD1PC64 with REMARKS E644 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks April 17, 2008 I thank and acknowledge Gerret and ference they compete in. Six of the ten ‘‘Cinderella story,’’ an underrated team that Tatiana Copeland for their commitment to aid- schools that participate in the BCS bowls qual- defies expectations, upsets traditionally strong ing the fight against heart disease. Their gift ify by becoming the regular season champion opponents and competes deep into the tour- grants Delaware residents access to the latest of a BCS automatically-qualifying conference: nament. This year it was Davidson College, a technology used to treat life-threatening heart the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big 10, member of the Southern Conference, which problems, undeniably bettering countless lives Big 11, Big Fast, Pacific–10. and the South- was seeded tenth in its region and made it to and transforming cardiac care for the people eastern Conference (SEC). The four others the Elite Eight, beating former champion of Delaware. are determined based on rankings, conference Georgetown University, the University of Wis- f standings, and in some cases, selected by consin and Gonzaga University along the way. bowl officials. There is also a rule prohibiting This scenario is highly unlikely in the BCS A PROCLAMATION HONORING JUS- more than one non-BCS school from com- system, as there is little chance for a non-BCS TIN MCCAULEY FOR WINNING peting in a single year. school to even be offered an invitation to play. THE OHIO DIVISION IV STATE These unfair eligibility requirements produce Non-BCS schools, the University of Hawaii in BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP effects that go far beyond restricting access to 2008 and Boise State University in 2007 were playing for the national championship. The undefeated going into the BCS and were not HON. ZACHARY T. SPACE BCS generates hundreds of millions of dollars even given the opportunity to play for the na- OF OHIO of revenue annually, and this money is dis- tional championship. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES proportionately awarded to BCS conferences. Something must be done to ensure that Of the more than $217 million generated by Thursday, April 17, 2008 money and opportunity are evenly distributed the 2006–2007 post-season bowls, $185 mil- among all college football programs. Congress Mr. SPACE. Madam Speaker: lion, or 85 percent went to the BCS schools, should act in the interest of all the athletes, Whereas, Justin McCauley showed hard which represent 66, or 55 percent of Division coaches, staff and supporters to guarantee work and dedication to the sport of basketball; I schools. Money generated by the post-sea- parity and competition in college football. The and son games help schools cover costs for their current system leaves much to be desired and Whereas, Justin McCauley was a supportive athletic departments, facilities, equipment, re- I urge my colleagues to join me in support of member of the team; and cruitment, and other sports programs. Non- this resolution calling for the NCAA Division I Whereas, Justin McCauley always displayed BCS schools must use their general funds to national champion to be determined by a play- dedication to the sport of basketball and the cover costs of their athletic departments, off. Tuscarawas County Rockets Special Olympics which takes funding from academic and ad- f basketball team; now, therefore, be it ministrative needs. Resolved, That along with his friends, fam- The lopsided distribution of BCS revenue re- BRITTANY PADGETT ily, and the residents of the 18th Congres- sults in two tiers within the NCAA Football sional District, I congratulate Justin McCauley Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division 1), those HON. ED PERLMUTTER on supporting the Tuscarawas County Rockets with access to the BCS, and those without. OF COLORADO Special Olympics basketball team during their Those without are unable to change their situ- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES quest to win the Ohio Division IV State Bas- ation as the money and prestige associated ketball Championship. We recognize the tre- with the BCS makes it highly unlikely that a Thursday, April 17, 2008 mendous hard work and sportsmanship he non-BCS school will be able to compete for Mr. PERLMUTTER. Madam Speaker, I rise has demonstrated during the 2007–2008 bas- the same recruits, coaches, sponsorships, na- today to recognize and applaud Brittany ketball season. tional television exposure, and the revenue it Padgett who has received the Arvada Wheat f generates. This disparity keeps them in the Ridge Service Ambassadors for Youth award. second-class status and must be changed. Brittany Padgett is a senior at Wheat Ridge INTRODUCTION OF NCAA FOOT- Questions about the legality of the BCS High School and received this award because BALL CHAMPIONSHIP EQUITY have also arisen. Legal scholars have ana- her determination and hard work have allowed RESOLUTION lyzed the anti-trust aspects of the BCS, and her to overcome adversities. some have concluded that the BCS violates The dedication demonstrated by Brittany HON. NEIL ABERCROMBIE the Sherman Anti-Trust Act under the Rule of Padgett is exemplary of the type of achieve- OF HAWAII Reason test. This requires that the competitive ment that can be attained with hard work and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES benefits of the system outweigh the anti-com- perseverance. It is essential that students at Thursday, April 17, 2008 petitive effects. However, the anti-competitive all levels strive to make the most of their edu- effects of the financial gain and recruiting ad- cation and develop a work ethic that will guide Mr. ABERCROMBIE. Madam Speaker, vantage of the BCS schools can easily out- them for the rest of their lives. today I have joined with my colleagues Con- weigh the pro-competitive benefits of arrang- I extend my deepest congratulations once gressman SIMPSON of Idaho and Congress- ing for the top two ranking BCS teams to play again to Brittany Padgett for winning the Ar- man WESTMORELAND of Georgia in introducing for the national championship. vada Wheat Ridge Service Ambassadors for a resolution to end disparity in college sports Many have called for the end of or change Youth award. I have no doubt she will exhibit that is an unintended consequence of the to the BCS, and the current system is only the the same dedication she has shown in her Bowl Championship Series (BCS). This resolu- latest reincarnation. The NCAA has, on mul- high school career to her college career and tion declares the BCS an illegal restraint on tiple occasions, studied and considered mov- future accomplishments. trade, and demands that the US Department ing to a playoff to determine the national f of Justice take the proper actions to inves- champion. Successful BCS school football tigate and end the unfair BCS system. It also coaches and presidents have called for a play- RECOGNIZING FLORENCE CRITTEN- encourages the National Collegiate Athletic off system, as have presidents of non-BCS TON SERVICES ON THE 125TH AN- Association (NCAA) to establish a true football schools. Congress has held multiple hearings NIVERSARY OF THE NATIONAL playoff system to determine the national colle- questioning the fairness of the BCS and states CRITTENTON FOUNDATION giate football champion in the interest of parity have introduced and passed legislation calling and sportsmanship. for changes to the system. HON. NANCY E. BOYDA The BCS is fundamentally unfair. Non-BCS NCAA football is the only college team sport OF KANSAS schools, those in conferences not automati- without a playoff determining the national IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cally qualified for the BCS bowls, are at a dis- champion. While the NCAA Basketball Cham- advantage prior to the first kickoff of the sea- pionship’s format will not transfer perfectly to Thursday, April 17, 2008 son. Non-BCS schools must basically have college football, it is an ideal system. All Divi- Mrs. BOYDA of Kansas. Madam Speaker, I perfect seasons, and must be the best of over sion I schools start the season with an equal am pleased today to recognize Florence 50 schools to even be considered to play in a chance of making it to the playoffs. The cham- Crittenton Services in Topeka. Kansas, on the BCS bowl, while schools that belong to con- pionship is decided on the court by the players occasion of the 125th Anniversary of The Na- ferences that are automatically-qualified for and their talent, not rankings and their sched- tional Crittenton Foundation. BCS bowls (BCS schools) must only be the ule before the tournament. The basketball Florence Crittenton Services in Topeka, one best of 8–12 schools, depending on the con- championship also allows for a nearly annual of the 22 Crittenton agencies nationwide, is

VerDate Aug 31 2005 04:27 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A17AP8.012 E17APPT1 smartinez on PROD1PC64 with REMARKS April 17, 2008 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E645 justifiably proud of their more than 100 years October 1, 1963, ushering in a new era of in- THE 2008 COOPERATIVE of service to the State of Kansas’ most vulner- novative services and support. CONSERVATION AWARD able girls and young women. Through its active participation with The Na- In 1900, this agency began in Topeka with tional Crittenton Foundation and the Crittenton HON. DAVID G. REICHERT a contribution of just $100, which was given to Family of Agencies, the Florence Crittenton OF WASHINGTON provide much-needed community services and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES shelter to young women in the community. Agency in Knoxville continues to strengthen It is worth our time to take a moment and communities and have a positive impact on Thursday, April 17, 2008 realize just how much that small $100 con- East Tennessee. Mr. REICHERT. Madam Speaker, I want to tribution has created. In closing, Madam Speaker, I ask that my congratulate Mount Rainier National Park, the Today, 100 years later, Florence Crittenton colleagues join me in recognizing the National Student Conservation Association, SCA, the Services provides not just shelter, but cutting Crittenton Foundation and Knoxville’s Florence Washington’s Trails Association, WTA, the Na- edge, comprehensive services to Kansas’ Crittenton Agency on this historic occasion tional Parks Conservation Association, NPCA, most vulnerable girls and young women. Cur- and thank them for their ongoing commitment Washington’s National Park Fund, and The rently, Florence Crittenton is the only Psy- to our communities and to our country. Mountaineers for being awarded the 2008 Co- chiatric Residential Treatment Facility in Kan- operative Conservation Award, CCA, from the sas that serves female clients only. Department of the Interior. The CCA is the f Many people who know the Crittenton name Department of Interior’s highest award pre- associate it with support for unwed mothers. TRIBUTE TO SAMMY GEORGE OF sented to private citizens and organizational While this is an important part of the Crittenton CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE partners who support the agency’s mission legacy. the program has evolved over time to and demonstrate significant contributions to its meet the increasingly complex and acute programs. needs of at-risk young women and their fami- HON. ZACH WAMP The award was given to the coalition for lies all across Kansas. their outstanding efforts in rebuilding damaged Most importantly, this array of services to OF TENNESSEE trails, campgrounds and other facilities at girls and young women in Kansas provides IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mount Rainier following the disastrous floods opportunities for growth and support that and windstorms during the winter of 2006. The would not exist otherwise. I am proud to ac- Thursday, April 17, 2008 coalition named their efforts the Mount Rainier knowledge Florence Crittenton Services of Recovery Initiative and enlisted the help of Kansas for their long-standing and worthwhile Mr. WAMP. Madam Speaker, today I rise to more than 700 people from all over the coun- efforts that give girls the tools and skills to honor Sammy George of my hometown of try to rebuild and solidify some of the most change the course of their lives. Chattanooga, Tennessee, as he departs the beautiful trails, campgrounds and habitats in On this historic occasion, I ask my col- broadcasting industry at the height of his ca- the country. The work they did was truly re- leagues to join me in honoring Florence reer with 35 years of service. Mr. George has markable. Their dedication is appreciated by Crittenton Services in Topeka for their ongoing been an outstanding leader at home, in the in- residents of the Pacific Northwest and the commitment to at-risk girls, young women and dustry and within our community. Now that he residents of the Eighth District, the district I their families. will be spending more time with his family and represent. f friends, I want to take a moment to recognize The work by the coalition, along with count- less volunteers, will be enjoyed for years to HONORING THE 125TH ANNIVER- his tremendous accomplishments and thank him for all he has done in Chattanooga. come by the thousands of visitors to Mount SARY OF THE NATIONAL Rainier. With all the coalition has accom- CRITTENTON FOUNDATION Alter serving in the U.S. Marines in Vietnam, plished, their efforts continue by expanding Sammy returned to his hometown of West their reach outside Mount Rainier to other HON. JOHN J. DUNCAN, JR. Blocton, Alabama, where he worked as a disc areas in Washington State affected by ex- OF TENNESSEE jockey, DJ. He moved to Chattanooga in 1985 treme weather utilizing the success of their IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to become the general manager of the upstart Mount Rainier Model. Again, congratulations Thursday, April 17, 2008 radio station WUSY US–101 where he has re- the SCA, the WTA, the NPCA, Washington’s mained for more than 22 years. National Park Fund and The Mountaineers for Mr. DUNCAN. Madam Speaker, I rise today their dedication to the natural wonders of the to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Na- During his term, the station has won count- less awards and has been recognized for its Pacific Northwest and urge them to continue tional Crittenton Foundation, a national organi- in their efforts. zation dedicated to supporting and empow- distinction and excellence These include nine f ering young women and girls at-risk. Country Music Association Station of the Year More than a century ago, founder Charles awards, four R&R Station of the Year awards, THE CITY OF ROCK PORT, Crittenton and his colleague, Dr. Kate Waller one Academy of Country Music Station award, MISSOURI Barrett, began an international movement to a National Association of Business, NAB, Mar- help homeless, pregnant women and their ba- coni for Personality of the Year and the NAB HON. SAM GRAVES bies. Today, the unique partnership between Crystal award. OF MISSOURI The National Crittenton Foundation and the Most importantly, Sammy has focused his IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Crittenton Family of Agencies carries on this talent and energy on helping those in need. mission through a national network of affiliated Thursday, April 17, 2008 He has humbly led our community in raising independent, local organizations. Mr. GRAVES. Madam Speaker, I proudly As a leading member of the Crittenton Fam- millions of dollars for charitable causes, includ- rise to recognize, the City of Rock Port, Mis- ily of Agencies, the Florence Crittenton Agen- ing $5 million for the St. Jude Children’s Re- souri, the first community in the United States cy in Knoxville, Tennessee has worked tire- search Hospital and $800,000 of supplies for of America whose energy source is totally lessly to ensure that the children, families, and Hurricane Katrina victims. wind powered. pregnant young women of East Tennessee Sammy retires as the market manager for Rock Port, where Lewis and Clark camped have the best possible services. I am proud to Clear Channel/Chattanooga where he oversaw in 1804, the county seat of Atchison County— have such an upstanding organization located three popular radio stations: WUSY US–101, named after United States Senator David in my congressional district. WLND 98.1 The Legend, and WRXR Rock Atchison—and the home of the annual Atch- Founded in 1896 under the proud leader- 105. After taking some much deserved time ison County Fair, has come a long way to be ship of Mrs. Annie McGhee McClung, the off, he will bring his wealth of experience to the undisputed leader of energy innovation by Knoxville organization experienced a period of becoming the first community in our Nation to Northwest Georgia Bank where he will be decline during wars and the , be totally energy independent of foreign re- vice-president for new business. but the challenges facing young women and sources. girls remained. Seeing the great need that still Sammy George is a man of integrity, loyalty Named for the soil that it is built on, Loess existed, seven Knoxville community leaders and outstanding leadership, and I am proud to Hills Wind Farm is located on agricultural signed a second Charter of Incorporation on recognize him today. lands within the city limits of Rock Port. The

VerDate Aug 31 2005 04:27 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A17AP8.015 E17APPT1 smartinez on PROD1PC64 with REMARKS E646 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks April 17, 2008 four wind turbines that make up the Loess RECOGNIZING THE FLORENCE attention to raising sons Kyle and Scott and Hills Wind Farm will produce 16 million kilo- CRITTENTON HOME IN LEX- volunteering in the community. One of her vol- watt hours of electricity per year. Rock Port INGTON, KENTUCKY unteer projects she was most proud of was will truly be the first community in America ca- helping to bring childcare to migrant families in pable of meeting its entire annual electricity HON. BEN CHANDLER Skagit County so children wouldn’t have to be demands from wind power. OF KENTUCKY in the fields while their parents were in the As a long standing supporter of wind en- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fields picking fruit and vegetables. It was dur- ergy, I am a proud to report the first 100 per- ing her years as a volunteer for the local Thursday, April 17, 2008 cent wind-powered community in the United Democratic Party that she met Lloyd Meeds. States is in the Sixth Congressional District of Mr. CHANDLER. Madam Speaker, it is with Her volunteer efforts for Rep. Meeds led to a Missouri. great pleasure that I recognize the 125th anni- job helping his constituents, first in the district Madam Speaker, I ask that you and the en- versary of the National Crittenton Foundation, office and then in Washington. DC. Ms. tire United States House of Representatives an organization that supports empowerment Thiessen and Swift both worked for Rep. join me in celebrating with the City of Rock and self-sufficiency for young women at risk. Meeds and when Swift was elected, she be- Port, Atchison County and the great State of In particular, I want to celebrate the work of a came office manager and ultimately his Chief Missouri in being the ‘‘true’’ leader for this Na- leading member of the Crittenton Family of of Staff. tion for energy independence. Agencies: The Florence Crittenton Home in Ms. Thiessen was respected and admired Lexington, Kentucky. by all who worked in the office. She set high f Established in 1894, The Florence standards and expected top-quality work from Crittenton Home in Lexington is a private non- all staff in the Swift office. Her hand was in DESIREE LAWRENCE profit residential treatment facility that provides nearly every issue that Swift worked on comprehensive services to girls who have throughout his tenure in Congress, from his HON. ED PERLMUTTER been abused, neglected, abandoned or are Motor Voter bill, which eventually became law, OF COLORADO experiencing pregnancy and parenting in the to the various projects that he sponsored face of mental health and behavioral chal- around the 2nd District, such as the 88th IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lenges. Every day, this dedicated organization Street Interchange on I–5 and the return of Thursday, April 17, 2008 strives to provide a stable, safe and nurturing passenger rail service between Seattle and Mr. PERLMUTTER. Madam Speaker, I rise atmosphere to help its clients achieve the per- Vancouver, BC. She knew the issues, she today to recognize and applaud Desiree Law- sonal growth and family stability necessary to knew the district, and she made sure every- rence who has received the Arvada Wheat thrive as adults. thing ran smoothly for Rep. Swift and his leg- Ridge Service Ambassadors for Youth award. Originally known as the Lexington House of islative staff. Desiree Lawrence is a student at Wheat Ridge Mercy, the Florence Crittenton Home opened Her writing and grammatical skills were the High School and received this award because its doors on September 3, 1894 in response to envy of the entire office. I’ve been told that her determination and hard work have allowed community concern about the lack of support both she and Rep. Swift were terrific editors, her to overcome adversities. for the city’s girls. Over the years, with help but her eagle eyes would rarely let a mis- The dedication demonstrated by Desiree from community partners including the Fayette spelled word or typo slip by in any of the cor- Lawrence is exemplary of the type of achieve- County Board of Education, the University of respondence that went out of the office. Out- ment that can be attained with hard work and Kentucky, the Keeneland Foundation, the Jun- side of the office, her ability to work a cross- perseverance. It is essential that students at ior League of Lexington, numerous churches word or any type of word puzzle was leg- all levels strive to make the most of their edu- and dedicated volunteers, the Florence endary! cation and develop a work ethic that will guide Crittenton Home has provided important social She was one of the first to arrive in the of- them for the rest of their lives. services to thousands of Kentucky’s young fice each day and usually the last to leave at I extend my deepest congratulations once women. night. She took young staffers under her wing again to Desiree Lawrence for winning the Ar- The National Crittenton Foundation and and often pushed them to better themselves in vada Wheat Ridge Service Ambassadors for Lexington’s own Florence Crittenton Home are their careers—whether that meant going back Youth award. I have no doubt she will exhibit to be commended as organizations that allow to school or taking another job. Many of the same dedication and character to all her Kentucky’s young women to believe in and Swift’s former staffers whom Ms. Thiessen future accomplishments. empower themselves. It is with this ongoing helped nurture have gone on to become state contribution in mind that I recognize them both legislators, CEOs, judges, attorneys, public af- on this special occasion. fairs officers, top congressional staff, archi- f f vists, and teachers. I am fortunate that my A PROCLAMATION HONORING RA- own district director for many years worked CHEL RUSSELL FOR WINNING TRIBUTE TO JANET ELIZABETH with and was mentored by Ms. Thiessen. THE OHIO DIVISION IV STATE THIESSEN Janet Thiessen was an independent woman BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP who made her way in a world that was, at that HON. RICK LARSEN time, often dominated by men. She rose from HON. ZACHARY T. SPACE OF WASHINGTON an unpaid volunteer to the Chief of Staff for a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES veteran congressman, all on her own. Her in- OF OHIO Thursday, April 17, 2008 tellect, political skills, loyalty, sense of humor IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and kindness served her well in her career on Thursday, April 17, 2008 Mr. LARSEN of Washington. Madam Speak- Capitol Hill and in life. She will be greatly er, I rise today to pay tribute to a woman who missed. Mr. SPACE. Madam Speaker: spent more than 20 years working for the peo- f Whereas, Rachel Russell showed hard work ple of the 2nd District of Washington State. and dedication to the sport of basketball; and Janet Elizabeth Thiessen, who passed away HONORING THE GRAND OPENING Whereas, Rachel Russell was a supportive last month at the age of 78, was at the side OF THE LEWIS LIBRARY AND team player; and of former Congressman Al Swift, throughout TECHNOLOGY CENTER Whereas, Rachel Russell always displayed the years he represented the 2nd District from sportsmanship on and off of the court; now, 1978 until 1995. HON. JOE BACA therefore, be it Ms. Thiessen’s service to the 2nd District OF CALIFORNIA Resolved, that along with her friends, family, didn’t begin with Rep. Swift; she first worked IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and the residents of the 18th Congressional for his predecessor, Congressman Lloyd District, I congratulate Rachel Russell on win- Meeds, as a caseworker in the district office Thursday, April 17, 2008 ning the Ohio Division IV State Basketball and later as a member of his DC staff. Mr. BACA. Madam Speaker, on April 19, Championship. We recognize the tremendous After graduating from Western Washington 2008, the city of Fontana and neighboring cit- hard work and sportsmanship she has dem- State College, Ms. Thiessen started out her ies in the region will gather to celebrate the onstrated during the 2007–2008 basketball career as a teacher. When she and her hus- grand opening of the Lewis Library and Tech- season. band moved to Skagit County, she turned her nology Center located in Fontana, CA.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 04:27 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\K17AP8.001 E17APPT1 smartinez on PROD1PC64 with REMARKS April 17, 2008 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E647 The idea for the Lewis Library and Tech- In addition to this emphasis, I believe it im- CA; Fields, Jonelle, TX; Forsman, Camille, nology Center was birthed out of the need to perative that a final bill exempts from liability MN; Fox, Elizabeth, CA; Frahm, Jonathan, create a library that would house the needs of the telecommunications companies who par- GA; Frahm, Laura, GA. the growing community. City officials and local ticipated in the Bush administration’s requests Gamble, Allison, AL; Gay, Carissa, OR; developers believed that a more techno- for information on customer records. I join the Gilley, Rebekah, AL; Gillson, Kennan, MN; logically advanced library was necessary to National Sheriffs’ Association, the International Gillson, Kirsten, MN; Greenwood, Karen, CT; enhance personal, professional, recreational Association of Chiefs of Police, the Fraternal Grier, Anna, GA; Grindall, Rachel, WA; Hanes, and lifelong learning goals, a task that was un- Order of Police, members of the 9/11 Com- Austin, AL; Haueisen, Michelle, WA; Heath, attainable through the already existing ‘‘Emer- mission and the Florida State Attorney Gen- Joshua, PA; Heath, Krystal, PA. ald Street’’ Library. eral Bill McCollum in urging this protection. A Hilton, Alex, VA; Hollinger, Seanna, NE; The Lewis Library and Technology Center is provision as such will ensure that the coopera- Hubbard, Micah, AR; Hug, Ruth, WA; Hung, the first significant new building in the region. tive relationships that law enforcement and the Daniel, CA; Hung, Rachel, CA; Hung, Re- This library creates not only a new awareness private sector have will continue to facilitate becca, CA; Hung, Sharon, CA; Hynes, Joy, IN; for the city, but a newfound awareness and critical information exchanges that protect this Jefferies, Megan, MI; Johnson, Amanda, WI; appreciation for the Inland Empire Region. Nation and its citizens. Johnson, Rebekah, IL. specifically the San Bernardino County area. I am confident that Congress will continue Jorgensen, Andrew, PA; Jorgensen, Rachel, In addition to representing a new image for the role intended by our forefathers to oversee PA; Kallberg, Luke, IL; Kallberg, Naomi, IL; the city and the region, the Lewis Library and the past, current and future actions of the ex- Krauter, Jocelyn, PA; Ku Isabelle, NJ; Kulp, Technology Center provides accessibility to ecutive branch, particularly in regard to these Jarita, WI; LaLone, Douglas, PA; Langemann, surrounding cities like Rancho Cucamonga, bedrock issues that make the United States Christy, CO; Lawrence, Ian, AL; Lehman, Re- Rialto, Colton, Ontario, Bloomington and San the greatest country in the world. Our intel- gina, PA; Leskowat, Catherine, OK. Bernardino. ligence community deserves updated direction Leskowat, Naomi, OK; Levendusky, Angie, Fontana is the 5th fastest growing city in the and guidance on these issues backed by the OK; Levendusky, Dr. Tim, OK; Lewis, Mai, WI; State and the 8th fastest growing city in the force of law, and I urge our leaders to con- Lindley, Jessica, IL; Lindley, Sarah, IL; Little, Nation—population 183,640 and growing. Fon- tinue their good work. Lauren, NJ; Llewellyn, Chad, MD; Lukachick, tana is also a melting pot with 12 percent f Anna, LA; Lukachick, David, LA; Lyons, Han- Black, 60 percent Hispanic, 25 percent White, HONORING VOLUNTEERS nah, IL. with a wide variety of cultures and languages. Lyons, Mary, IL; Lyons, Naomi, IL; Lyons, Roughly 41 percent of our 42,000 school-age Roy, IL; Mally, Grace, IA; Mally, Harold, IA; children in the classrooms are designated HON. SAM JOHNSON Mally, Rebekah, IA; Mally, Sarah, IA; Mally, ‘‘English Language Learners.’’ That’s 17,176 OF TEXAS Stephen, IA; Malm, Ben, MN; Marshall, Dallas, kids who need your help. The library will fulfill IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OK; Marshall, Ezra, OK. the community’s desire for improved library Thursday, April 17, 2008 Marshall, James, OK; Marshall, Johnathan, services as well as establish an icon for a ma- OK; Marshall, Louanne, OK; Marshall, turing and growing city. Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Madam Speaker, it is my privilege to bring before this Thaddaeus, OK; Mason, Christina, AR; The Lewis Library and Technology Center Matchak, Jacob, CA; Mattix, George, IL; will for years to come be symbolic of the city’s Congress the following outstanding people who have voluntarily served orphans, public Mattix, Pattie, IL; McCray, Jo, AR; McCray, Dr. diversity and will be representative of the ad- Kevin, AR. vancements that have been made in Fontana. school children, college students, juvenile delinquents, and needy families under the offi- Meng, Christine, NC; Meng, Ethen, NC; The library will be a historic monument for the Meng, Grace, NC; Meng, Justin, NC; Meng, city and the region. cial invitation and authority of government agencies in Austria, China, Indonesia, South Stephen, NC; Neu, Daniel, KS; Newhook, An- It is on behalf of the children of our commu- drew, PA; Newhook, Trevor, PA; Newhook, nity and our region that we recognize this Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, New Zea- land, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Tyler, PA; Nicholson, Benjamin, TX; Noland, great work and give tribute to the grand open- Katerine, MA. ing of the Lewis Library and Technology Cen- Singapore, Taiwan and Ukraine. The excellent O’Conner, Adam, LA; Payne, Ashia, MD; ter. character demonstrated by these people, as Payne, Nikolai, IA; Pennel, Corrie, DE; Peter- f well as their commitment to the principles upon which our Nation was founded, have not son, Joy, FL; Phariss, Erik, TX; Phariss, Ken, THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE only attracted the attention of leaders, parents, TX; Phariss, Sacha, TX; Phariss, Susana, TX; SURVEILLANCE ACT the media, and students, but it has also Pierpont, Holly, MI; Plattner, Tessa, AZ. brought honor to the United States of America Randall, Erin, TX; Richmond, Kristen, OH; HON. and to the Lord Jesus Christ who they serve. Ross, Charles, GA; Ross, Mary, GA; Ross, Rebecca, GA; Sachse, Jennifer, TX; Samaha, OF FLORIDA Bair, Aileen, IL; Bair, Robert, IL; Beiler, James, SC; Sanborn, Diane, FL; Sanders, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Krista, PA; Bisson, Hannah, OH; Bollinger, Lauren, OH; Brown, James, NY; Chen, Anna, Charity, AL; Sater, Jonathan, ID. Thursday, April 17, 2008 NY; Chen, Faith, NY; Chen, Grace, NY; Chen, Seale, Susanna, TX; Searle, Shawn, CA; Mr. BOYD of Florida. Madam Speaker, I Karen, NY; Chen, Dr. Stephen, NY; Chen, Sellin, Tammy, KS; Shepherd, Gracie, GA; want to commend the House and Senate lead- Timothy, NY. Sherrer, Katherine, NC; Shoemaker, Richard, ership on their negotiations throughout the last Christensen, Edith, GA; Christiansen, Alissa, OK; Simpson, Jerry, OH; Simpson, Nichole, year on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance OK; Christiansen, Chad, OK; Clawson, Laura, OH; Snyder, Benjamin, MA; Staddon, Donald, Act. They have worked diligently on this issue MN; Clayton, Philip, NC; Coffing, Dominique, WV; Steinbach, Jeff, CA. and I rise today to encourage them to finalize NM; Connelly, Sarah, AZ; Conzatti, Dena, WA; Stewart, Andrew, OH; Stewart, Lucas, OH; a version of the bill that protects the civil lib- Cook, Aaron, SC; Cook, Kristi, SC; Cooper, Stonecypher, Esther, IN; Stonecypher, Caleb, erties of our citizens, provides comprehensive Gloria, TX; Cooper, Josiah, TX. IN; Stonecypher, Debra, IN; Stonecypher, Eliz- guidelines for our intelligence community and Copu, Carmen, IL; Copu, Joy, IL; Copu, abeth, IN; Stonecypher, Leah, IN; reaffirms the importance of private industry co- Paul, IL; Copu, Peter, IL; Copu, Rebecca, IL; Stonecypher, Maurice, IN; Straub, Nathan, operation in government investigations. Copu, Stefana, IL; Copu, Valen, IL; Copu, Vic- WA; Straub, Teresa, WA; Strickler, Ruth, PA. The right to privacy has long been regarded tor, IL; Copu, William, IL; Crisp, Heather, OH; Sullivan, Andrei, NC; Sullivan, John David, as an inherent American value and it is our Cyrus, Lauren, MI; Dalrymple, Hannah, GA. NC; Sullivan, Roslyn, NC; Sullivan, Sarah, NC; Government’s responsibility to strike a balance DeBoer, Rachel, IL; DePriest, Amy, MO; Sullivan, Tom, NC; Taylor, Luisa, CA; Turner, between protecting that constitutionally pro- Dornink, Melody, MN; Dudley, Juliana, PA; Jane, GA; Vaccaro, Jeanette, MT; Van Ry, tected right and securing the country against Dudley, Wesley, PA; Ehnis, Nathan, MI; Ehnis, Sheralee, WA; Waller, Adam, IL. future terrorist attacks. I have been pleased to Shannon, MI; Eng, Emily, NC; Eng, Michelle, Waller, Brian, IL; Waller, David, IL; Waller, support the Democratic led efforts towards NC; Estes, Autumn, FL; Estes, Curtis, FL; Derrick, IL; Waller, Lydia, IL; Waller, Matthew, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act reauthor- Estes, Daniel, FL. IL; Waller, Rachelle, IL; Waller, Rebecca, IL; ization that have made it clear that these Estes, Mildred, FL; Farr, Roger, TX; Farr, Waller, Samuel, IL; Waller, Sarah, IL; Waller, rights are to be at the forefront of actions Sue, TX; Freehan, Benjamin, WA; Feig, Joel, Sue, IL; Waterman, Kaylan, MI; Wenstrom, taken by Government officials. WI; Feig, Zachary, WI; Fernandez, Jonathan, Angela, FL; Wenstrom, Brittany, FL.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 04:27 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A17AP8.020 E17APPT1 smartinez on PROD1PC64 with REMARKS E648 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks April 17, 2008 Wenstrom, Chris, FL; Wenstrom, James, physical education teachers: Mr. Patrick Fine, deeply appreciate her service and wish her FL; Wenstrom, Kimberly, FL; Wenstrom, Mat- Ms. Liesa Hartin, Mr. Mike Kaiser, and Mr. and her loved ones a wonderful celebration as thew, FL; Wenstrom, Michelle, FL; Whitten, Steve Musial. Principal Jill Ramsey and the they commemorate her many years of service. Susannah, IN; Williams, Arnah, IN; Williams, Chesterfield Elementary School has success- Burton, CT; Williams, Sue, CT; Winkler, Kath- fully renewed its STARS status. The criteria f ryn, NY; Yaste, Alexander, IN; and Zaloum, for STARS recognition is based on the Na- Kristina, IN. tional Standards for Physical Education, spe- CONGRATULATING GIRL SCOUT f cifically, educationally and developmentally ap- GOLD AWARD RECIPIENTS propriate instructional strategies and teaching A PROCLAMATION HONORING ROB- skills, adequate facilities and equipment that ERT EASLICK FOR WINNING THE are safe and appropriate for the age and abili- HON. RAY LaHOOD OHIO DIVISION IV STATE BAS- ties of the students and that enable students OF ILLINOIS KETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP to participate in the maximum amount of ac- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tive time on task, and classes taught by cer- HON. ZACHARY T. SPACE tified physical educators. Thursday, April 17, 2008 OF OHIO A quality school physical education program Mr. LAHOOD. Madam Speaker, today I am IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is the foundation for helping all children de- proud to recognize seven outstanding young Thursday, April 17, 2008 velop the knowledge, skills, and confidence women who have earned the Girl Scout Gold Mr. SPACE. Madam Speaker: that promote lifelong physical activity. By im- Award. The Gold Award is the highest offered Whereas, Robert Easlick showed hard work proving the quality of school physical edu- by the Girl Scouts. cation programs across the country, we will and dedication to the sport of basketball; and I am honored to extend my congratulations Whereas, Robert Easlick was a supportive have a direct effect on the health of America’s children. to Ms. Kellie Poland, Ms. Marlene Smith, Ms. team player; and Andreanna Haun, Ms. Heather Graham, Ms. Whereas, Robert Easlick always displayed I want to thank the fine educators of Ches- Nikita Garman, Ms. Mindy Merdian, and Ms. sportsmanship on and off of the court; now, terfield Elementary School for their commit- Alexis Moore, all Gold Award winners. These therefore, be it ment to the health and education of our future Resolved, that along with his friends, family, generations and congratulate them on the suc- young women join an elite group of Girl and the residents of the 18th Congressional cessful renewal of their STARS status in 2008. Scouts, as last year only about 5 percent of eligible Scouts earned the prestigious Gold District, I congratulate Robert Easlick on win- f ning the Ohio Division IV State Basketball Award. Each of these young women’s accom- Championship. We recognize the tremendous CONGRATULATING WANDA JENSEN plishments demonstrates their ability to suc- hard work and sportsmanship he has dem- FOR HER MANY YEARS OF SERV- cessfully meet a challenge and achieve a truly onstrated during the 2007–2008 basketball ICE AS STICKNEY TOWNSHIP difficult goal. They have shown leadership in season. DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEEWOMAN their communities and, through their efforts, have had a positive impact on the lives of oth- f HON. DANIEL LIPINSKI ers. The Girl Scouts can be proud today, as GENEVIEVE MARTINEZ OF ILLINOIS I am, of these fine young women, who, with character and confidence, have shown the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES courage to achieve the highest of honors HON. ED PERLMUTTER Thursday, April 17, 2008 OF COLORADO available to them, the Gold Award. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. LIPINSKI. Madam Speaker, I rise today I applaud their dedication and thank them Thursday, April 17, 2008 to honor Wanda Jensen as she retires from for their service to our communities. I encour- over 40 years of service as Stickney Township age them to continue to be positive examples Mr. PERLMUTTER. Madam Speaker, I rise Democratic committeewoman. Throughout her for those around them, and, again, I offer my today to recognize and applaud Genevieve tenure, Mrs. Jensen served her community sincere congratulations. Martinez who has received the Arvada Wheat commendably and I am pleased to recognize Ridge Service Ambassadors for Youth award. her for her long and admirable record of public f Genevieve Martinez is a student at Wheat service. Ridge Middle School and received this award A longtime resident of the Third District, FERNANDA MARTINEZ because her determination and hard work Mrs. Jensen has demonstrated true commu- have allowed her to overcome adversities. nity spirit with an unwavering devotion to serv- The dedication demonstrated by Genevieve ing the public. Her service to Stickney as a HON. ED PERLMUTTER Martinez is exemplary of the type of achieve- Democratic committeewoman since 1966 is OF COLORADO ment that can be attained with hard work and but one example of her deep community in- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES perseverance. It is essential that students at volvement. A true pillar of the community, all levels strive to make the most of their edu- Wanda has served as a Stickney Township Thursday, April 17, 2008 cation and develop a work ethic that will guide trustee for more than 30 years, all the while Mr. PERLMUTTER. Madam Speaker, I rise them for the rest of their lives. devoting extra time to organizations such as I extend my deepest congratulations once today to recognize and applaud Fernanda the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts. Martinez who has received the Arvada Wheat again to Genevieve Martinez for winning the As a testament to her success at bringing Ridge Service Ambassadors for Youth award. Arvada Wheat Ridge Service Ambassadors for the community together, Mrs. Jensen is the Fernanda Martinez is a student at Jefferson Youth award. I have no doubt she will exhibit proud founder of a local fashion show that has High School and received this award because the same dedication and character to all her been running for 41 years. Over time, this her determination and hard work have allowed future accomplishments. event has evolved into a popular community her to overcome adversities. f gathering that sells out every year. TRIBUTE TO PRINCIPAL JILL Amidst her many commendable contribu- The dedication demonstrated by Fernanda RAMSEY AND TEACHERS MR. tions to the Third District, Mrs. Jensen raised Martinez is exemplary of the type of achieve- PATRICK FINE, MS. LIESA 4 children and now enjoys the pleasure of a ment that can be attained with hard work and HARTIN, MR. MIKE KAISER AND large family, which has grown to include 14 perseverance. It is essential that students at MR. STEVE MUSIAL grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren. Mrs. all levels strive to make the most of their edu- Jensen is also a devoted member of St. Albert cation and develop a work ethic that will guide HON. W. TODD AKIN the Great Catholic Church. them for the rest of their lives. I rise today, Madam Speaker, to commend I extend my deepest congratulations once OF MISSOURI the dedication and service of Wanda Jensen again to Fernanda Martinez for winning the Ar- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES as she retires from her post as Stickney vada Wheat Ridge Service Ambassadors for Thursday, April 17, 2008 Township Democratic committeewoman. I am Youth award. I have no doubt she will exhibit Mr. AKIN. Madam Speaker, I rise today to proud to have in the Third District such an ex- the same dedication and character to all her recognize and honor Principal Jill Ramsey and emplary model of a devoted public servant. I future accomplishments.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 04:27 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17AP8.023 E17APPT1 smartinez on PROD1PC64 with REMARKS April 17, 2008 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E649 IN HONOR OF ELEANOR WASSON Whereas, Travis Glasgow showed hard born. In 1949, Mrs. Hardy became a parish- work and dedication to the sport of basketball; ioner at St. Mathilda Catholic Church. She re- HON. SAM FARR and mained a devout and extremely active mem- OF CALIFORNIA Whereas, Travis Glasgow was a supportive ber of this parish until she became ill just last IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES team player; and year. Thursday, April 17, 2008 Whereas, Travis Glasgow always displayed Mrs. Hardy contributed immeasurably to the sportsmanship on and off of the court; now, growth and service of St. Mathilda Parish dur- Mr. FARR. Madam Speaker, I rise today, therefore, be it ing her life. Bishop Flynn appointed her as the with my colleagues ANNA ESHOO and DENNIS Resolved, that along with his friends, family, first Extraordinary Minister of the Eucharist at KUCINICH to honor the memory of an opti- and the residents of the 18th Congressional St. Mathilda. She also served as Lector and mistic, vivacious woman whose positive out- District, I congratulate Travis Glasgow on win- Parish Council President for several years. For look and zeal for life inspired many. Eleanor ning the Ohio Division IV State Basketball 50 years, Mrs. Hardy was an active member Wasson, a driving force behind WomenRise Championship. We recognize the tremendous of the Knights of Peter Claver (KPC) Council for Global Peace, passed away peacefully on hard work and sportsmanship he has dem- #92. Mrs. Hardy spent 26 of those years serv- April 6, 2008. She was 100 years old. Miss Wasson grew up in Los Angeles, Cali- onstrated during the 2007–2008 basketball ing as the Grand Lady of KPC. fornia and was raised by a loving, supportive season. In 1987, Mrs. Hardy was the recipient of the family. In her life she was always conscious of f Martin Luther King, Jr. Award from the Dio- cese of Lafayette. In 2002, she received the the importance of giving back to the commu- PERSONAL EXPLANATION nity. She devoted her life to fighting for polit- Bishop’s Medal for devoted service to her ical and social causes in the United States church and society. and abroad. Miss Wasson was an active vol- HON. LOUISE McINTOSH SLAUGHTER It is clear that Mrs. Hardy was an indispen- unteer, working three decades as a coordi- OF NEW YORK sable component of her community. She came nator of Volunteer Services for UCLA, and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of age and lived her adult life during the most tumultuous and influential political period in later, creating her own organization. Miss Thursday, April 17, 2008 Wasson helped introduce volunteerism to the American history. Mrs. Hardy’s life exemplifies rest of the world through the creation of Inter- Ms. SLAUGHTER. Madam Speaker, I was that of many African-Americans during this national Volunteer Education, which was de- unavoidably detained and missed Rollcall century, their struggle for human rights and signed to teach foreign countries to recruit and votes 192, 199, 200, and 201. Had I been civic freedom, and their strength and persever- train large numbers of volunteers. present, I would have voted ‘‘yea’’ on rollcall ance. A feminist ahead of her time, Miss No. 192, ‘‘yea’’ on rollcall No. 199, ‘‘yea’’ on These important men and women are sel- Wasson’s activism and longevity was fueled rollcall No. 200, and ‘‘yea’’ on rollcall No. 201. dom recognized for their greatness. Mrs. Har- by her uplifting outlook on life. Miss Wasson f dy’s life is one to be remembered and admired was noted for the ability to befriend people as an example of the true work and inner for- from all over the world and from diverse walks PERSONAL EXPLANATION titude that keeps this country together. These of life. Her warm heart led her to treat each in- individuals dedicated their lives to the service dividual with equal respect and friendliness; HON. KAY GRANGER of their God and community in the face of in- noting that having plenty of friends attributed OF TEXAS credible odds. Each and every one of them to her own longevity. Above all, she led her IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES had a unique story, a special impact, and a life believing in the universal power of love, Thursday, April 17, 2008 loving family. Mrs. Pinkie Parker Hardy was a and that we all had power, providing that member of mine. every action was motivated by love. Ms. GRANGER. Madam Speaker, on rollcall On a very personal level, Mrs. Hardy was Later in her life, Miss Wasson was drawn to Nos. 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 156, 157, 158, ‘‘family’’ to me. She shared her deep religious the beauty of California’s Central Coast. She 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 166, 167, 168, 169, faith, her wonderful Creole cooking (especially moved to Santa Cruz in 1989, where she con- 170, 171, 172, 173, 175, 176, 177, 180, and her gumbo) and her insights as a strong, yet tinued to cultivate her spirit of volunteerism, 182 I am not recorded because I was absent gentle African-American woman with me on contributing much to a local environmental or- due to illness. several occasions. To know ‘‘Mrs. Pinkie’’ was ganization. EarthSave. There, she continued Had I been present, I would have voted to love her. to make friends and spread her contagious ‘‘aye.’’ Mrs. Pinkie Parker Hardy will be sorely optimism with Santa Cruz locals. Old age f missed by all those who loved her and were could not stop Miss Wasson as she continued honored to have her kindness and spirit touch HONORING MRS. PINKIE PARKER her activist lifestyle up until her recent pass- their lives. Her memory and legacy will live on HARDY ing. Her memories live on, along with her book through her seven children, five daughters-in- ‘‘28,000 Martinis and Counting,’’ which details law, 22 grandchildren, 34 great-grandchildren, her centenarian life of ‘‘living, learning, and HON. BARBARA LEE and four great-great-grandchildren as well as loving.’’ OF CALIFORNIA innumerable relatives and friends. Eleanor is survived by her daughters Joan IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Today, California’s 9th Congressional Dis- Smith and Diane Wright; along with numerous Thursday, April 17, 2008 trict salutes and honors Mrs. Pinkie Parker beloved family members and friends. Hardy. We extend our deepest condolences to Madam Speaker, I would like to extend our Ms. LEE. Madam Speaker, I rise today to her family and children. Thank you for sharing Nation’s deep gratitude for Eleanor’s service honor the extraordinary life of Mrs. Pinkie her great spirit with so many people over the to the United States and her own local com- Parker Hardy. We lost our beloved Mrs. Pinkie last century. May her soul rest in peace. munity. I know I speak for every Member of Hardy on April 3, 2008. She led a full and vi- f Congress in offering our condolences to Joan, brant life during her 91 years on this earth, Diane and the entire Wasson family for the raising a loving family and mentoring many in A PROCLAMATION HONORING loss of their beloved mother, grandmother and her church and community. KERSHAL ZEHNDER FOR WIN- great-grandmother. On May, 19, 1916, Pinkie Parker was born NING THE OHIO DIVISION IV f in Washington, Louisiana to Alice White and STATE BASKETBALL CHAMPION- A PROCLAMATION HONORING John Parker. During Pinkie’s life, she wit- SHIP TRAVIS GLASGOW FOR WINNING nessed many of the Nation’s most turbulent THE OHIO DIVISION IV STATE and controversial moments. Growing up in the HON. ZACHARY T. SPACE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP south in the first quarter of the last century, OF OHIO Pinkie was self-educated and she devoted her IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES energies to her community, her family, and her HON. ZACHARY T. SPACE faith. She was a lifelong resident of Eunice, Thursday, April 17, 2008 OF OHIO Louisiana. Mr. SPACE. Madam Speaker: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In 1936, at the age of 20, Pinkie Parker Whereas, Kershal Zehnder showed hard Thursday, April 17, 2008 married Herman Joseph Hardy. From this lov- work and dedication to the sport of basketball; Mr. SPACE. Madam Speaker: ing union, five sons and two daughters were and

VerDate Aug 31 2005 04:27 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A17AP8.027 E17APPT1 smartinez on PROD1PC64 with REMARKS E650 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks April 17, 2008 Whereas, Kershal Zehnder was a supportive meet stringent standards in order to receive $48,700,000 in debt payments to multilateral team player; and the forgiveness. financial institutions in 2008—money that Whereas, Kershal Zehnder always displayed These standards would ensure countries re- could be better spent on providing for its peo- sportsmanship on and off of the court; now, ceiving assistance do not acquire new debt or ple. therefore, be it encourage bad actors within their government. In light of this devastating global food crisis Resolved, That along with his friends, fam- Countries would not be eligible for assistance and the crisis in Haiti, we must urge the Sec- ily, and the residents of the 18th Congres- if they lack transparency in their budget, com- retary of the Treasury to do all that he can to sional District, I congratulate Kershal Zehnder mit human rights violations, support inter- expedite the complete and immediate on winning the Ohio Division IV State Basket- national terrorism, have excessive levels of cancelation of Haiti’s debts to all international ball Championship. We recognize the tremen- military funding, or fail to cooperate on inter- financial institutions. dous hard work and sportsmanship he has national narcotics control issues. The bill fur- This is a reasonable amendment that re- demonstrated during the 2007–2008 basket- ther provides that external financing needs of sponds to an urgent need, and I urge my col- ball season. these countries are met through grants rather leagues to support it. f than loans to prevent them from falling victim f to exploitive lending in the future. THE 125TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE QUIANNE HOLMES Debt relief for the most severely disadvan- NATIONAL CRITTENTON FOUNDA- taged throughout the world concerns us all as TION HON. ED PERLMUTTER global citizens and numerous constituents in OF COLORADO my district have reached out to me expressing their overwhelming support for this compas- HON. SHEILA JACKSON-LEE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sionate bill. I am proud to be a member of the OF TEXAS Thursday, April 17, 2008 committee that passed this bill with a favor- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. PERLMUTTER. Madam Speaker, I rise able recommendation and of this House which Thursday, April 17, 2008 today to recognize and applaud Quianne has moved this legislation today. H.R. 2634 Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Madam Holmes, who has received the Arvada Wheat helps our world’s neediest individuals, many of Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me today Ridge Service Ambassadors for Youth award. which have suffered under repressive regimes, in celebrating the 125th Anniversary of the Na- Quianne Holmes is a senior at Wheat Ridge move forward and use their countries’ future tional Crittenton Foundation, an organization High School and received this award because capital on important economic growth activities that supports empowerment, self-sufficiency, her determination and hard work have allowed and health care. and an end to cycles of destructive behaviors her to overcome adversities. f and relationships for at-risk and system-in- The dedication demonstrated by Quianne volved girls, young women and their families. JUBILEE ACT FOR RESPONSIBLE Holmes is exemplary of the type of achieve- On this historic occasion, I am particularly LENDING AND EXPANDED DEBT ment that can be attained with hard work and honored to recognize the ongoing contribution CANCELLATION OF 2008 perseverance. It is essential that students at of one of the leading members of the Founda- all levels strive to make the most of their edu- SPEECH OF tion’s Family of Agencies, DePelchin Chil- cation and develop a work ethic that will guide dren’s Center in Houston, which proudly them for the rest of their lives. HON. BARBARA LEE serves my home district and other children I extend my deepest congratulations once OF CALIFORNIA and families from across Texas. again to Quianne Holmes for winning the Ar- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DePelchin Children’s Center has strong vada Wheat Ridge Service Ambassadors for Wednesday, April 16, 2008 roots in our community. More than 120 years ago, Charles Crittenton, the well-known Amer- Youth award. I have no doubt she will exhibit The House in Committee of the Whole the same dedication she has shown in her House on the State of the Union had under ican philanthropist, visited Houston and in- high school career to her college career and consideration the bill (H.R. 2634) to provide spired a group of local activists to establish future accomplishments. for greater responsibility in lending and ex- one of the country’s first maternity homes, a panded cancellation of debts owed to the refuge for young unmarried mothers. In re- f United States and the international finan- sponse to changing community needs, the JUBILEE ACT FOR RESPONSIBLE cial institutions by low-income countries, Crittenton Home significantly expanded its LENDING AND EXPANDED DEBT and for other purposes: services over the years, merging with CANCELLATION OF 2008 Ms. LEE. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in sup- DePelchin Children’s Center in 1983. port of the Hastings amendment to H.R. 2634 Recognizing that a child’s needs are best SPEECH OF which expresses the sense of Congress that met in a family environment, DePelchin Chil- ´ Haiti’s debts should be immediately forgiven. dren’s Center strives to strengthen the lives of HON. ANDRE CARSON This amendment seeks to empower a nation children and families by providing a continuum OF INDIANA that has endured a turbulent past and has of services to prevent and resolve social and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fought courageously to achieve a relative emotional crises. Each year, the agency pro- Wednesday, April 16, 2008 measure of stability. vides more than 30 programs for over 26,000 The House in Committee of the Whole As the world has experienced a 40 percent vulnerable children and families each year in House on the State of the Union had under rise in global food prices since mid–2007, multiple locations in Harris, Montgomery, consideration the bill (H.R. 2634) to provide Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Brazoria, Galveston, Fort Bend and Waller for greater responsibility in lending and ex- Hemisphere, has keenly felt this increase on a counties. In addition to teen parenting and panded cancellation of debts owed to the greater scale. Eighty percent of Haiti’s popu- independent living services, DePelchin offers United States and the international finan- lation lives on less than $2 a day. The cost of foster care, adoption, prevention, residential, cial institutions by low-income countries, staple foods which Haiti’s economy depends and an array of other services designed to and for other purposes: on, such as rice, beans, fruit, and condensed meet its clients’ complex needs. Mr. CARSON. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong milk, has gone up 50 percent in the past year. The unique partnership between DePelchin support of H.R. 2634, the Jubilee Act. This bill The high cost of food in Haiti has led to Children’s Center and The National Crittenton seeks to help those struggling under the most anti-government protests and riots, in which at Foundation is an additional strength for Hous- grievous economic circumstances abroad. It least 5 people have died and 40 people have ton’s children and families. This ongoing col- reflects a strong bipartisan effort to assist in been wounded. These extreme reactions to laboration was and is based on Charles full debt cancellation for 24 of the world’s the humanitarian crisis will jeopardize Haiti’s Crittenton’s and Dr. Kate Waller Barrett’s be- poorest countries. security and the capacity of its democratic in- lief that the most effective way to address Under this bill, introduced by Congress- stitutions to govern effectively. To put it sim- compelling national social issues was through woman WATERS, debt relief would be ex- ply, Haiti’s democracy cannot survive if it is a network of affiliated independent, local orga- tended to countries not currently eligible under unable to ensure that its people have access nizations supported by a national body. the IMF’s Heavily Indebted Poor Countries to basic food commodities at a reasonable I am proud of the work The National program. Nine of these countries would re- price. Crittenton Foundation and DePelchin Chil- ceive immediate assistance under this act The Hastings amendment reinforces the dren’s Center continue to do on behalf of vul- while the remaining countries would have to point that Haiti is scheduled to send nerable children and families across the state

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During this time she CRITTENTON FOUNDATION for too many families who want broadband. In was the backbone of her wonderful family as just the last year, the average cost of a well as a trusted political advisor to her hus- HON. ED PASTOR broadband connection has risen $2 per month, band. After her husband’s life was tragically OF ARIZONA or nearly five percent. These troubling figures cut short, it was Miss Dorothy who stepped in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES must change and that’s why I’ve introduced and completed the remainder of his term as the WIN Act. This legislation mandates that Thursday, April 17, 2008 Desha County Sheriff—a role that was only fit- the Federal Communications Commission ting for a person dedicated to her community Mr. PASTOR. Madam Speaker, I rise today (FCC) auction certain spectrum that is cur- and committed to public service. to ask my colleagues to join me in commemo- rently lying fallow. After Miss Dorothy completed her time as rating the 125th anniversary of the National The winner of the auction would be required Sheriff, her political journey in Arkansas con- Crittenton Foundation and the Crittenton Fam- to build and complete a network within 10 tinued as she was selected by then-Governor ily of Agencies. I do so because this network years which must provide coverage to at least Bill Clinton to serve on his staff. Her friendly of organizations deserves recognition for the 95 percent of our country. The licensee would style and warm smile became so contagious profound role they have played in allowing be required to provide service for free to con- around the office that she was asked to con- girls and young women to realize their full po- sumers and public safety users. The WIN Act tinue working for Arkansas’s next two gov- tential. also requires the licensee to deny access to ernors. Her numerous years spent working in In particular, I would like to draw attention to obscene and indecent material on the free the Governor’s office established her as a leg- the Florence Crittenton Services of Arizona in service tier. endary figure in Arkansas history. Phoenix. For more than a century, this organi- The results of the 700 MHz auction dis- Miss Dorothy was a great ambassador for zation has provided valuable services, edu- appointed many of us who hoped that a new Desha County and Southeast Arkansas as cation and community-based programs to help entrant would emerge. Seventy percent of the she worked tirelessly to create a strong sense Arizona children and teens overcome the auctioned spectrum went to only two carriers. of community in everything she did. I was truly issues of abuse, neglect, teen pregnancy and While the auction required under this legisla- honored and humbled to be able to speak at mental health problems. Through its com- tion is open to anyone, it is my hope that the Miss Dorothy’s funeral, and I will always cher- prehensive network of services and support bold conditions of requiring free, family friendly ish the fond memories I have of her. It is with systems, this organization provides a refuge service will encourage the entry of a new na- great admiration and heartfelt respect that I where vulnerable youth, ages 12 to 21, pros- tional broadband service provider. will remember a lady who was a mother figure per from the assistance of a caring community The public airwaves are a national resource to an entire state, and whose class and dignity and discover the possibility of a bright new fu- that should he utilized to benefit the public. will always represent what Southern Hospi- ture in spite of their challenging past experi- For far too long our nation’s carriers have tality should be. ences. stockpiled spectrum, gamed building-out re- I send my deepest condolences to her As society has experienced dramatic quirements, and provided poor service to con- daughter Dorothy Lee Moore Paige and her changes in the last 100 years, the Phoenix sumers. This bill attempts to remind licensees husband David of Davis, California; her son home has changed too, but its goal of giving that they do not own the public waves in fee State Representative Robert S. Moore Jr. and every girl it serves safety, hope, and oppor- simple. As licensees, they hold spectrum in a his wife Beverly of Arkansas City; and to her tunity has remained constant. I commend the public trust. This is an agreement that obli- four grandchildren, six great-grandchildren and Florence Crittenton board members, staff and gates them to utilize this spectrum in the pub- numerous friends across the state. Miss Doro- volunteers for their compassion and dedication lic interest in exchange for their exclusive con- thy will be greatly missed in Desha County to excellence, ensuring that their services con- trol. and throughout the state of Arkansas, and I tinue to grow to meet the needs of the girls it The Innovation Agenda made a commitment will continue to keep her family in my thoughts serves, and for becoming one of the state’s to spur affordable access to broadband and and prayers. leading experts in gender-specific services. this bill will go a long way to providing uni- It is with great pride that I congratulate the versal broadband access. I encourage my col- f Florence Crittendon Services of Arizona and leagues to join me and Rep. CANNON in sup- its nationwide community of Crittendon sister port of this legislation. A PROCLAMATION HONORING organizations on their successful efforts to em- f JOHN CALSON FOR WINNING THE power at-risk girls to rise above the negative IN MEMORY OF DOROTHY PRICE OHIO DIVISION IV STATE BAS- circumstances they have been exposed to and KETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP become productive and self-sufficient citizens MOORE who understand the value of always treating themselves and others with respect. HON. MIKE ROSS HON. ZACHARY T. SPACE f OF ARKANSAS OF OHIO IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES UPON INTRODUCTION OF THE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WIRELESS INTERNET NATION- Thursday, April 17, 2008 Thursday, April 17, 2008 WIDE FOR FAMILIES ACT OF 2008 Mr. ROSS. Madam Speaker, I rise today to Mr. SPACE. Madam Speaker: honor the memory of my dear friend Dorothy Moore of Arkansas City, Arkansas, who Whereas, John Calson showed hard work HON. ANNA G. ESHOO and dedication to the sport of basketball; and OF CALIFORNIA passed away April 9, 2008, at the age of 97. Whereas, John Calson was a supportive IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Dorothy Moore, affectionately known as ‘‘Miss Dorothy’’ to all that knew her and team player; and Thursday, April 17, 2008 throughout the state of Arkansas, was a tre- Whereas, John Calson always displayed Ms. ESHOO. Madam Speaker, today Rep. mendous woman and an inspiration to every- sportsmanship on and off of the court; now, CHRISTOPHER CANNON and I introduced the one who called her a friend. Raised on her therefore, be it Wireless Internet Nationwide for Families Act family’s farm in Southeast Arkansas during the Resolved, that along with his friends, family, of 2008 (WIN) which, if enacted, would foster Depression and the Great Flood of 1927, she and the residents of the 18th Congressional the deployment of a new nation-wide wireless learned the importance of small town values District, I congratulate John Calson on winning broadband network. such as hard work, honesty, compassion for the Ohio Division IV State Basketball Cham- By every measure, the U.S. is losing the others, and reverence for all which she exem- pionship. We recognize the tremendous hard international broadband race and our competi- plified throughout her life and were evident in work and sportsmanship he has demonstrated tiveness as a nation is at stake. More than all she did. during the 2007–2008 basketball season.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 04:27 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A17AP8.033 E17APPT1 smartinez on PROD1PC64 with REMARKS E652 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks April 17, 2008 ALIA SHEYA INTRODUCTION OF THE TEACHING HONORING 108 YEARS OF SILENT AND RESEARCH ASSISTANT COL- SERVICE HON. ED PERLMUTTER LECTIVE BARGAINING RIGHTS OF COLORADO ACT HON. JOE COURTNEY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF CONNECTICUT Thursday, April 17, 2008 HON. GEORGE MILLER IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF CALIFORNIA Mr. PERLMUTTER. Madam Speaker, I rise Thursday, April 17, 2008 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES today to recognize and applaud Alia Sheya, Mr. COURTNEY. Madam Speaker, last who has received the Arvada Wheat Ridge Thursday, April 17, 2008 week, I had the honor of participating in a Service Ambassadors for Youth award. Alia Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Madam wreath laying ceremony at the United States Sheya is a student at Drake Middle School Speaker, I am pleased to introduce the Teach- Navy Memorial to mark the 108th anniversary and received this award because her deter- ing and Research Assistant Collective Bar- of the submarine force. The ceremony, held in mination and hard work have allowed her to gaining Rights Act. This legislation will restore front of the memorial’s ‘‘Lone Soldier,’’ was a overcome adversities. the right of graduate assistants to organize moving tribute to the proud heritage of our The dedication demonstrated by Alia Sheya and bargain for better wages and working con- submarine force and the dedicated subma- is exemplary of the type of achievement that ditions under the National Labor Relations Act, riners who have silently protected our Nation can be attained with hard work and persever- NLRA. for more than 100 years. And, over the last ance. It is essential that students at all levels Graduate assistants across this country weekend, I was proud to attend Naval Sub- strive to make the most of their education and have seen their workloads dramatically in- marine Base New London’s annual submarine develop a work ethic that will guide them for crease in recent years. As many colleges and birthday ball. the rest of their lives. universities try to cut costs they have relied on For over a century, sailors have embarked I extend my deepest congratulations once graduate students to take on a larger role and on dangerous service in a place where human again to Alia Sheya for winning the Arvada more responsibility: They teach classes, de- life was never meant to exist in order to si- Wheat Ridge Service Ambassadors for Youth velop course curriculum, grade student pa- lently protect our Nation. There is an irony to award. I have no doubt she will exhibit the pers, and provide counseling. One reason for the fact that while our Nation owes much of its same dedication and character to all her future this trend is simple—graduate student teach- security over the past century to the sub- accomplishments. ers are paid a fraction of what faculty earn. marine force, most Americans will never truly f Confronted with this economic reality, grad- know all that the ‘‘silent service’’ has done to IN RECOGNITION OF CARROLL uate assistants, many of whom have families protect us. SHELBY to support, have sought to exercise their right 2008 is an especially important year in the to organize and bargain collectively for a bet- history of the submarine force, as it marks the ter deal. 50th anniversary of the USS Nautilus’ (SSN– HON. JOE KNOLLENBERG Right on cue, as it has done with millions of 571) journey across the North Pole in 1958, OF MICHIGAN other workers, the Bush NLRB quickly stripped an unprecedented achievement by our sailors IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES away the right of graduate teaching students at a critical time for our Nation. The men Thursday, April 17, 2008 to join a union and have a voice at the bar- aboard her on her historic journey set the Mr. KNOLLENBERG. Madam Speaker, I gaining table. The National Labor Relations pace for all those who followed in their foot- rise today to recognize Carroll Shelby. a true Board’s, NLRB, 2004 decision in Brown Uni- steps. visionary in the automotive industry, to honor versity overturned prior precedent and found Much has changed about our submarine his receipt for the Automotive Industry Execu- that graduate assistants are not employees force and the role of our submariners since tive of the Year’s Lifetime Achievement Award. under the NLRA and therefore not afforded the USS Holland (SS–1) first set sail in 1900. Born January 11, 1923 in Texas, Carroll the rights and protections of the Act. This de- In World War I and World War II, our sub- Hall Shelby served admirably in the U.S. Air cision has stripped away the right of over marines were not much more than surface Force as a flight instructor and test pilot during 51,000 teaching assistants, research assist- ships that could submerge for a short period World War II. After his service with the mili- ants and proctors to bargain for better wages before surfacing. Yet, in very dangerous con- tary, Shelby began what would become a and working conditions at 1.561 private univer- ditions and with high casualty rates, subma- decorated and distinguished career as a pro- sities. riners sank an estimated 6 million tons of fessional automobile racer. Named Sports Thousands of graduate assistants continue enemy merchant ships and sank nearly one- Illustrated’s Driver of the Year in 1956 and to light for the right to join a union. At public third of the Japanese Navy’s warships. The 1957. Carroll Shelby was also inducted into universities in 14 States, graduate assistants cost of their efforts were high: 52 submarines both the International MotorSports Hall of are already afforded the right to join unions. and over 3,600 men, at a rate of nearly one Fame and the Automobile Hall of Fame. According to the Coalition of Graduate Em- in four, were lost in the war. But their sacrifice Mr. Shelby’s influence on the racing world ployee Unions, there are approximately 23 helped bring us to victory and proved the sub- as a driver was only exceeded by his impact unions on more than 60 campuses in the marine’s role in the defense of our Nation. as an automotive designer, securing his leg- United States, including the University of In the Cold War, submariners played a key acy as an industry luminary through the many Michigan, the University of Massachusetts, role as a critical strategic deterrent in our pro- innovations and designs that have shaped and and the University of California. tracted struggle with the Soviet Union. Silently reshaped the cars we drive today. Some of The Teaching and Research Assistant Col- patrolling in waters across the world, our at- the most beautiful and powerful cars ever lective Bargaining Rights Act is simple. It will tack and ballistic missile submarine crews made, including the Ford GT40, the Ford amend Section 2(3) of the NLRA to clarify that helped to secure an uneasy peace by ensur- Shelby Mustangs, and the Dodge Viper, are the term ‘‘employee’’ includes any graduate ing that we were ready to respond at any mo- the product of his vision and expertise. student who is performing work for compensa- ment. There were no victory medals when it Beyond his achievements in the automotive tion at the direction of the institution. As em- was over, no parades for the countless young realm, Carroll Shelby has demonstrated his ployees, these workers would have the right to men who served on these critical yet silent compassion through his commitment to the organize and bargain collectively under the front lines, but there is no doubt our Nation is Carroll Shelby Children’s Foundation, a charity NLRA. This bill restores prior precedent. As forever indebted to them and the era they he established to help children in need of the NLRA covers only private sector workers, helped us overcome. heart and kidney transplants. His work with State schools are not affected by the Brown And, as the Cold War ended and new chal- this foundation has helped many families and University decision or this legislation. lenges emerged, the modern attack submarine has fueled research that will help save even The Teaching and Research Assistant Col- fleet, consisting of the Los Angeles- and Vir- more lives throughout the future. lective Bargaining Rights is about fundamental ginia-class, emerged as our Nation’s front line Madam Speaker, I am proud to recognize fairness and justice. It will restore the right to defense Today, our submariners are no less the achievements and service of Carroll Shel- thousands of hardworking graduate employees critical than the eras preceding us. We use by. His many contributions to the automotive to bargain for better wages and working condi- submarines extensively around the globe, industry and the country represent his commit- tions. I urge all of my colleagues to support using their stealth to covertly gather intel- ment to excellence, and I wish congratulations this country’s graduate teaching assistants ligence briefed at the highest levels of our for receiving this prestigious award. and support this legislation. government. They are adapting and growing

VerDate Aug 31 2005 04:27 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\K17AP8.019 E17APPT1 smartinez on PROD1PC64 with REMARKS April 17, 2008 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E653 to meeting the security challenges of the 21st income tax returns by midnight, many will be IN SPECIAL RECOGNITION OF NOR- century, and every day they remind us that confounded, confused and, yes, perhaps even MAN M. WALKER IN CELEBRA- submarines are, and will remain, at the core of cranky because of our unbelievably com- TION OF HIS RETIREMENT AS our Nation’s defense. plicated tax code, and, I don’t think there’s a CHIEF OF POLICE, CITY OF DEFI- From the Holland, to the Nautilus, and to person in this body who will blame them. ANCE, OHIO the newest boats in the fleet, the USS North Carolina (SSN–777) and USS New Hampshire Our tax code is a maze of complexity that HON. ROBERT E. LATTA (SSN–778), the capabilities and technologies creates confusion and, yes, unfairness. In fact, OF OHIO on board may have changed dramatically, but between 2001 and 2006—when our Repub- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES one thing has always stayed the same: The lican colleagues controlled the Congress and strength of any submarine has always come the White House—they added more than Thursday, April 17, 2008 down to those who command and serve 10,000 pages to the Internal Revenue Code Mr. LATTA. Madam Speaker, I rise today to aboard her. and regulations. pay a very special tribute to one of the truly In my travels over the past year, I have met It now takes people an average of 34 hours outstanding individuals from Ohio’s Fifth Con- countless commanding officers and sailors— gressional District, Mr. Norman Walker. On many of them young men doing some of the to complete a 1040 long form. It’s no wonder that 62 percent of Americans rely on a tax Friday, April 18. 2008, Norman Walker will re- most important work on behalf of our secu- tire after thirty years of service on the City of professional to prepare their returns. rity—who selflessly dedicate their lives in dan- Defiance’s Police Department. gerous service. The Democratic majority has been focused Over the last three decades, Norman Walk- Our sailors serve in the harshest of condi- for years on making our Tax Code fairer and er has certainly been an indispensible asset to tions around the globe, on long tours away simpler—and doing so in a fiscally responsible the City of Defiance and to the northwest Ohio from their families literally stacked on top of way, but this issue also demands Presidential law enforcement community. His strong com- their crewmates, often cut off from the rest of leadership. We know that from experience. mitment to sound principles and honest lead- the world. They make up the smallest portion ership has guided his nearly fifteen years of The last real tax reform occurred 22 years of our Navy and their achievements are most service as Chief of Police. Mr. Walker’s com- ago when President Reagan and Dan Rosten- often secret. But, there is no doubt that each mitment to the law enforcement creed of ‘‘to and every one of them loves what they do on kowski, then Chairman of the Ways and serve and protect’’ was instilled in him as he behalf of the security of our Nation. Means Committee, came together to stream- worked his way through every rank in the Defi- Every submariner today serves upon the line our Tax Code. ance Police Department. Without question, Mr. foundation built by those that came before them. At the core of their service over the past When a new President takes office in Janu- Walker has given unselfishly of his time and century has been a legacy is one of devotion, ary 2009, I believe that this should be an talents in order that the citizens of the City of bravery and innovation. Without a doubt, to- issue near the top of the agenda—particularly Defiance might have a safe community in day’s submarine force is living up to that leg- an effort to reform the dreaded alternative which to work and raise their families. acy and building one of their own for those minimum tax. Norman Walker embodies the spirit of American public service and through his work- who come after them to follow. Today, we will consider the ‘‘Taxpayer As- This is an exciting time for the submarine man-style approach put his vision for a mod- sistance and Simplification Act,’’ which makes ern rural police department into action to es- force. It is a time of great possibility and of small, but important reforms to our Tax Code. new challenges. But, after spending time with tablish the City of Defiance’s police depart- sailors in the mess hall of a submarine sub- Among other things, this bill will: ment as it model for the region. His dedication to community-oriented policing has empow- merged below the ice to building relationships Strengthen taxpayer protections from iden- ered not only his fellow officers, but commu- with officers at the top of the chain of com- tity theft and tax fraud; mand, I am confident that our submariners will nity residents as well, to play an active role in continue the proud legacy built by those who Expand assistance for low-income tax- their own safety and have a voice in how their came before them. payers; police department can continually provide bet- I ask all my colleagues to join with me in ex- Close tax loopholes that allow Government ter service to the residents of Defiance, Ohio. tending our deep appreciation to those who contractors to set up sham companies in for- Madam Speaker, it has often been said that have, and continue to, silently serve our Na- eign jurisdictions to avoid paying Social Secu- America succeeds due to the remarkable ac- complishments and contributions of her citi- tion, their families, and to all our Armed rity and Medicare taxes; and Forces serving today around the globe. zens. It is evident that Mr. Walker has devoted End the private collection of Federal income f himself to the preservation of a free and just taxes. society where the rule of law is respected by PERSONAL EXPLANATION Just this morning, the Washington Post re- all who call this great land their home. For ported that the Internal Revenue Service ex- that, we owe him a debt of gratitude that mere HON. JOHN CONYERS, JR. pects to lose more than $37 million by using words cannot sufficiently express. OF MICHIGAN private debt collectors to pursue tax scofflaws. Madam Speaker, at this time, I would ask IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES my colleagues of the 110th Congress to join Thursday, April 17, 2008 That’s right—private companies hired to col- me in honoring Norman Walker. On the occa- lect tax revenue that the IRS does not have Mr. CONYERS. Madam Speaker, I missed sion of his retirement as the City of Defiance’s the resources to pursue actually cost the Fed- rollcall vote 200 yesterday, Wednesday, April Chief of Police, we thank him for his dedicated eral Government—i.e., taxpayers—more than 16, 2008, as I was attending to other business service and we wish him well in all of his fu- in the Capitol. Had I been present, I would they bring in. ture endeavors. have voted in the following manner: ‘‘Yes’’ on Furthermore, let me say that there clearly is f motion that the Committee rise, H.R. 5715, the something wrong with our Tax Code when the SHUMET DEMIE Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans costs of noncompliance—the so-called ‘‘tax Act. gap’’—is an estimated $345 billion a year. The HON. ED PERLMUTTER f reality is, this tax gap is only going to be nar- OF COLORADO rowed and closed when we get serious about TAXPAYER ASSISTANCE AND IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES real tax reform. SIMPLIFICATION ACT OF 2008 Thursday, April 17, 2008 Until that day, Mr. Speaker, we must do SPEECH OF what we can to make our tax laws fairer and Mr. PERLMUTTER. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize and applaud Shumet simpler. This legislation is an important step in HON. STENY H. HOYER Demie who has received the Arvada Wheat OF MARYLAND that regard. Ridge Service Ambassadors for Youth award. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I urge my colleagues on both sides of the Shumet Demie is a senior at Pomona High Tuesday, April 15, 2008 aisle to vote for this bill, and, in the months School and received this award because her Mr. HOYER. Madam Speaker, today, as mil- ahead, to come together—like we did in determination and hard work have allowed her lions of Americans prepare to file their Federal 1986—in support of real tax reform. to overcome adversities.

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In the 2004 election, while wide- taught Physical Education for 15 years. His them for the rest of their lives. spread usage of electronic voting machines contributions to physical education were rec- I extend my deepest congratulations once helped standardize our nation’s voting system ognized because of his innovative approach to again to Shumet Demie for winning the Ar- and prevented some of the problems that oc- physical education and wellness. Rather than vada Wheat Ridge Service Ambassadors for curred with punch-card ballots in the 2000 just focusing on activities students can do on Youth award. I have no doubt she will exhibit election, there were reports of voting irregular- the track and in the gym during that particular the same dedication she has shown in her ities, some of which were due to glitches in school day, Mr. Krause exposed students to a high school career to her college career and electronic voting machine software. This is lifetime of physical activity such as biking, hik- future accomplishments. why it is absolutely necessary to make avail- ing and climbing with positive results and f able paper receipts that each voter can verify ever-increasing interest from students and ad- for themselves. ministrators. Mr. Krause takes responsibility A PROCLAMATION HONORING To this end, I am also a cosponsor of H.R. for the lifetime fitness of his students, not just ELIZABETH LIPPENCOTT FOR 811, the Voter Confidence and Increased Ac- the years they are enrolled in his class. WINNING THE OHIO DIVISION IV cessibility Act. The legislation would require Apart from his work at Tahoma High, Mr. STATE BASKETBALL CHAMPION- voting systems to produce a voter-verified Krause is a National Board Certified Teacher SHIP paper record suitable for a manual audit who has presented numerous workshops and equivalent or superior to that of a paper ballot conferences and supervises pre-service teach- HON. ZACHARY T. SPACE box system. ers at regional universities throughout Wash- OF OHIO A few years ago, I held a town hall meeting ington State. The work he is doing to better IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES on electronic voting at Santa Clara University the fitness level and overall wellness of young people is a wonderful anecdote for relieving Thursday, April 17, 2008 to expand my knowledge and public aware- ness of direct recording electronic (DRE) de- pressure on an increasingly expensive health Mr. SPACE. Madam Speaker: vices. The program provided much insight into care system. Whereas, Elizabeth Lippencott showed hard the development of DREs but it also left many I again congratulate Mr. Tracy Krause for work and dedication to the sport of basketball; unanswered questions about their security and the recognition he received from the NASPE, and reliability. Since then, I have supported legisla- encourage him to continue in his important Whereas, Elizabeth Lippencott was a sup- tion that seeks to ensure a voter verifiable work and thank him for the lives he has al- portive team player; and record and greater openness in the testing ready permanently changed for the better. Whereas, Elizabeth Lippencott always dis- and certification process of DREs. f played sportsmanship on and off of the court; Even as secure technology is developed, PERSONAL EXPLANATION now, therefore, be it voter verifiable records will sustain the high in- Resolved, that along with her friends, family, tegrity of our voting processes. It is imperative and the residents of the 18th Congressional that Congress helps support those states and HON. ROBERT J. WITTMAN District, I congratulate Elizabeth Lippencott on counties that are willing to use paper ballots to OF VIRGINIA winning the Ohio Division IV State Basketball strengthen our democracy until electronic sys- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Championship. We recognize the tremendous tems that produce a paper trail are available, Thursday, April 17, 2008 hard work and sportsmanship she has dem- and to ensure that all American votes cast will Mr. WITTMAN. Madam Speaker, I was not onstrated during the 2007–2008 basketball be counted. season. present in the House chamber for votes on f April 3, 2008. f PERSONAL EXPLANATION If I had been present, I would have voted EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOR ‘‘yes’’ on rollcall No. 159, a motion to recom- SECURE ELECTIONS ACT OF 2008 mit H.R. 4847, the United States Fire Adminis- HON. tration Reauthorization Act, with instructions to SPEECH OF OF FLORIDA amend the bill (forthwith) to provide liability HON. MICHAEL M. HONDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES protection to firemen that provide inspection Thursday, April 17, 2008 services or advice on the use of child safety OF CALIFORNIA seats to their communities. Mr. MAHONEY of Florida. Madam Speaker, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I would also have voted ‘‘yes’’ on rollcall No. on April 17, 2008, I missed votes because I Tuesday, April 15, 2008 160, final passage of H.R. 4847, the United was attending my daughter Bailey’s equestrian States Fire Administration Reauthorization Act. Mr. HONDA. Mr. Speaker, while I was un- event. Bailey is competing today at the 2008 fortunately absent for the vote on H.R. 5036 Varsity Equestrian National Championship in f due to commitments in my home state of Cali- Waco, Texas. She is a senior at Oklahoma NATIONAL LANDSCAPE fornia, I would have voted in support of this State University and has been a member of CONSERVATION SYSTEM ACT legislation had I been present. I am deeply the OSU equestrian team since her freshman dismayed that the bill failed to pass by a wide year. SPEECH OF margin. f As an original cosponsor of H.R. 5036, the HON. ROB BISHOP Emergency Assistance for Secure Elections TRACY KRAUSE: PHYSICAL EDU- OF UTAH IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Act, I thank Congressman HOLT for his vig- CATION TEACHER OF THE YEAR orous efforts to provide emergency support to Wednesday, April 9, 2008 states and counties that wish to ensure that all HON. DAVID G. REICHERT The House in Committee of the Whole votes are accurately counted through the use OF WASHINGTON House of the State of the Union had under of paper ballots. This bill would provide assist- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES consideration the bill (H.R. 2016) to establish ance to states and counties that voluntarily the National Landscape Conservation Sys- choose to use paper-based voting systems. Thursday, April 17, 2008 tem, and for other purposes: States would be able to seek federal reim- Mr. REICHERT. Madam Speaker. I want to Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Mr. Chairman, I would bursements for emergency paper ballots that congratulate Mr. Tracy Krause being recog- like to submit for the Record portions of an ar- are offered in the event of technological fail- nized as the National Physical Education ticle from the Tucson Weekly that was pub- ures. The bill would make funding available for Teacher of the Year. The award was pre- lished on February 15, 2007. the development of procedures to conduct sented on April 11, 2008, at the National As- FOLLOWING THE AMNESTY TRAIL hand-counted audits or to hand-count the re- sociation for Sport and Physical Education Leo W. Banks follows one of Arizona’s sults of elections. (NASPE) Hall of Fame Banquet. The NASPE most popular illegal alien crossing routes

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The BLM has towed 300 vehicles a learned of the trouble when a male illegal border smuggling routes will hunker down to year out of the monument since 2000. came to their house, his thigh covered in wait for the worst. They know their lives These load-outs, as well as the constant blood, evidently splatter from someone else’s will get miserable in a hurry. foot traffic, destroy habitat and threaten wound. In rapid Spanish, he repeated words The word amnesty possesses remarkable cultural sites and endangered species. The like, ‘‘Pow! Pow!’’ and ‘‘911’’ and ‘‘muerta’’ power on the Mexican side of the line. It has trash left behind requires pickup crews to and ‘‘mujer,’’ while gesturing of blood pour- the same effect as a starter’s pistol. have biohazard training and armed guards ing from someone’s chest. Cindy grubbed her Bang! Let the land rush begin. watching them as they work. medical kit, and she and Bob and this man It happened after Jan. 7. 2004. when Bush Even worse, Vic Brown says that MS–13, jumped into a pickup and raced to the scene. floated his idea for a temporary worker pro- the notoriously vicious Salvadoran gang, Here is what she wrote next: gram. The idea was broadly viewed in Mexico might be operating on the monument, based ‘‘I called 911 and attended to the woman, as amnesty, and the Border Patrol’s own sur- on suspicious tattoos law enforcement has who was shot in the shoulder with a bullet vey proved it. In the weeks following the seen on smugglers arrested there. The Border wound coming out that soft spot at the bot- proposal, the agency quietly questioned Patrol’s public information office in Tucson tom of her throat. The 911 dispatcher was si- crossers apprehended at the southern border wouldn’t return a call to talk about MS–13 in multaneously responding to a similar call and found the president’s plan had caused a the monument. from the Asarco Silverbell Mine, which is big spike in illegal crossings. Forty-five per- Says Vic Brown: ‘‘We’re trying to maintain about a 10-mile drive south. As soon as I cent said they’d entered our country ‘‘to get some semblance of a national monument out could see the woman was in stable condition. Bush’s amnesty.’’ there, and to be quite honest, we’re not able I crossed the street and assessed the motion- Nowhere will the coming stampede be more to do it, because undocumented immigrants less man on the other side. evident than on the smuggling routes that have targeted the area. I’ve watched it de- ‘‘I felt no pulse on his still-warm throat. begin at the border at Sasabe, 65 miles grade from when I got there in 1992, and in His eyes were closed. I grubbed his wrist, and it cold. Then I saw the back of his head was southwest of Tucson, curl up through the the last 5 years, it has gotten progressively shot open. He was gone. There was no bleed- Altar Valley and continue all the way to the worse.’’ Ironwood Forest National Monument, a full The Copings bought their land here in 1995, ing at the scene, so I assume this shooting 75 miles north of the border. and since then, they’ve been eyewitnesses to took place earlier, and these four people The 129,000–acre Ironwood, located west of the explosion of the smuggling trade. In the were unloaded. ‘‘The woman, Sebastiana, whom I later Marana and south of Eloy, is a desert para- mid-’90s. it was mainly small family groups found out is 24 years old, began shivering in dise of giant saguaros and spooky black-rock that crossed at Sasabe and walked the 75 the morning’s chill. I found no signs of con- peaks worthy of a gothic novel. President miles north to the monument, then an addi- tinued bleeding. Her wound had been hur- Bill Clinton declared it a Federal monument tional 18–20 miles to their pickup at Eloy. riedly dressed with someone’s cotton coat in June 2000. They rarely used coyotes. stuffed up under her shirt. It was a gaping 2- But the smugglers have turned this signa- In 2000, the Copings began seeing vehicles, inch-wide gash between the two bullet holes, ture Arizona landscape into a criminals’ often Ford F–150 pickups, parked at the side but it had stopped bleeding. She was alert playground. The land here is crisscrossed of the road. They usually had dark windows, and breathing, even able to talk. She had a with trails so packed from use, they shine no license plates and the keys resting on a smaller wound to her abdomen. I elevated white under the sun. Another Monument tire. The illegals would drive themselves out her feet, and Bob made two trips back to the resident, Cindy Coping, uses Google Earth to to I–10, then Phoenix. house for wool blankets to keep her warm. zoom in on the Amnesty Trail, which comes The abandoned-truck phase gave way in ‘‘A younger (undocumented) woman, up clear as a bell on her monitor. about 2003 to the huge load-out phase. The Linda, at the scene had blood covering her What’s it like to live here? Copings began seeing SUVs with five to eight cheek and circling one eye. She indicated no If you’re out on the land a lot, expect to illegals sitting on the roof, as Bob says, pain, so this was perhaps someone else’s find the corpses of those who’ve made the ‘‘like wasted college students,’’ or on the blood. She indicated that something had terrible decision to cross this desert. Includ- hood, forming a narrow tunnel through grazed her face, possibly a bullet. In the ing the three murders last week, seven bod- which the driver can see. dark, it appeared she’d been punched in the ies were found on the Ironwood in the three Some of these illegals have told the eye, but after it got light. I could see it was months prior to this writing. Copings they already had jobs lined up in just dried blood on her face. The first official One photo, taken sometime in 2000 by my places such as North Carolina, and curried to arrive on scene was a Pima County deputy anonymous photographer, shows the skull of plane tickets out of Sky Harbor in Phoenix. who told us that someone had walked into a presumed illegal, with other human bones Cell phones revolutionized the smuggling Asarco with four fingers shot off.’’ in the foreground. Next to the skull, not pic- racket, allowing illegals to call ahead to ar- The e-maiI goes on. It ends with Cindy and tured, stands a saguaro-rib cross, probably range a pickup in the Ironwood, often elimi- Bob retreating to their house and locking built by companions after the deceased went nating the longer walk to Eloy. Independent the gate, another case of Arizona citizens down. walkers are gone now. ‘‘Everybody we see sealing themselves off from the horrors this For those trying to keep cattle on their now is somebody’s customer,’’ says Bob. invasion has brought to our state. land, the smugglers have made living in the The business has become sophisticated, But heartrending encounters are not un- Ironwood a nightmare. At this writing, commercial and very dangerous. Cindy, 50, a usual in the Ironwood. In November, a man rancher Emilio Figueroa says he has 18 head former engineer at Hughes, used to check in his mid-50s showed up at the Copings’ cor- of cattle, valued at $800 each, on Tohono fences alone on horseback, but she quit, rals and said he’d been drinking his urine for O’odham land immediately west of the afraid of what she might encounter. ‘‘Some- four days. Cindy made him macaroni and monument. They got out when coyotes cut times I’ll be at the house alone, and 20 cheese and watched him gobble it down. As his fence. Now the tribe is refusing to let illegals will walk down the road,’’ she says. he ate, he broke down in retching sobs. him onto Indian land to retrieve them. He’s ‘‘It’s intimidating. They sound like an army The man said he owned a small farm with out $14,000. marching.’’ 70 pigs in Colima, Mexico, and had seven sons For Cindy’s husband, Bob, a 58–year-old re- Bob says the number of load-outs in the living in Phoenix. Breaking her rule of not tired Raytheon engineer, one of the defining Ironwood increased last spring before and allowing strays to use the phone, Cindy al- aspects of life on the Ironwood is a par- after demonstrators took to the streets in lowed him to call them to pick him up. He ticular sound he can hear, literally, a mile Tucson and elsewhere to demand a rewrite of waited and waited, but no one in his family away. ‘‘I’ll be out working and I’ll hear, American law to accommodate illegal aliens came for him. ‘wappa-wappa-wappa’, and I know it’s a load- and their corporate partners. The atmos- That night, he slept in the bed of one of the out truck coming down the road with a flat phere, including talk of amnesty, created an pickups. In the morning, he gave Cindy sev- tire,’’ he says. explosion in traffic. In April, the Copings eral necklaces—depicting Jesus, the Virgin The smugglers keep driving on the flat counted eight load-outs in one day. of Guadalupe and other images—then left, until the rubber flies off. Even then, they When the National Guard was sent to the and Cindy isn’t sure in which direction he don’t stop. They keep driving on the tire’s border, the free-for-all ended abruptly, if went. She never called the Border Patrol to rim until that, too, falls off or disintegrates. briefly. ‘‘We saw helicopters overhead, mili- pick him up. Sometimes the drive train falls out first. tary-type aircraft, and we didn’t a see a load- ‘‘They usually don’t come if it’s one or two These smuggler vehicles, most stolen from out for two weeks,’’ Bob says. ‘‘The traffic strays,’’ she says. ‘‘But mostly I didn’t have Phoenix, often travel at night without head- probably dropped 90 percent.’’ the heart. I couldn’t do it after all he’d been lights, with tape over the brake lights, and But the numbers have risen again signifi- through.’’ they’ve been clocked tearing through the cantly, and in recent e-mails, the Copings Cindy figures she and Bob have made six monument’s dirt roads at 89 mph. This en- have told me the big load-outs have returned such ‘‘rescues’’ over the years, She has no

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While into the Visa Waiver Program, making it easier immunize her from contact with hepatitis A. his passing is a tragedy, he truly touched the for Korean travelers to visit the United States At the time, she was working with Pima lives of those around him, and the Rincon as tourists or as students, or for business or County Search and Rescue, and that agency Tribe has been left much better because of his family purposes. I can attest that many of my recommended that its personnel get immu- leadership and guidance. He will be remem- constituents are looking forward eagerly to Ko- nized for the more worrisome, and poten- bered and missed. rea’s inclusion in the Visa Waiver Program, tially fatal, hepatitis B. It is spread through which will bring with it many economic benefits contact with the blood of an infected person, f and Cindy has had contact with bleeding aside from—and in addition to—those benefits CELEBRATING THE U.S.-KOREA that will accrue from the U.S.-Korea Free Third World people. FRIENDSHIP AND ALLIANCE She hasn’t gotten the second shot yet. ‘‘If Trade Agreement. I were taking the best care of myself. I’d get Madam Speaker, I have just barely touched the B shot, too,’’ says Cindy. ‘‘I probably HON. DIANE E. WATSON on the many important issues that will be dis- still will.’’ OF CALIFORNIA cussed this week while President Lee is in It’s easy to understand her anxiety, and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Washington. The South Korean President’s her belief that she is on her own against this visit gives us a special reason to address invasion—because, in spite of what she calls Thursday, April 17, 2008 these topics, but it does not mean that the the dedicated Border Patrol agents on the Ms. WATSON. Madam Speaker, it has been ground, Cindy knows that the American gov- conversation will end when he returns home. ernment has neither the will nor desire to my privilege to represent California’s 33rd I know from experience that my colleagues on control this border. Congressional District with the largest number the Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee The same year she got the shots, a Border of Korean American constituents in the Nation. on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environ- Patrol agent told Cindy that while traveling The Korean Americans who live in my district ment will be exploring these issues in depth in in Guatemala, he walked by a travel agency and other neighborhoods in Los Angeles— the weeks and months to come. in Guatemala City and saw in its front win- and, for that matter, across the country—have We welcome the opportunity to hear directly dow a map showing the 1,800-mile route to made incalculable contributions to American from President Lee his own views and the the United States—with her little house in life and society. the Ironwood as a landmark. views of his government on these matters that But Cindy just shrugged at that disturbing My purpose in mentioning the Korean Amer- affect both South Korea and the United news. After so many years of living on the ican community—which now numbers more States. Amnesty Trail, she’s no longer capable of than 2 million people nationwide—stems from f surprise. the arrival this week of President Lee Myung- f Bak of the Republic of Korea, who comes to RELATING TO THE CONSIDER- Washington to meet with President Bush, our ATION OF H.R. 5724, UNITED THE PASSING OF RINCON congressional leadership, senior government STATES-COLOMBIA TRADE PRO- CHAIRMAN VERNON WRIGHT officials, business executives, and Korean MOTION AGREEMENT IMPLEMEN- American leaders. I wish to take this oppor- TATION ACT HON. DARRELL E. ISSA tunity to welcome President Lee and wish him SPEECH OF OF CALIFORNIA well as he makes his first official overseas trip. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The United States and the Republic of HON. DAVID G. REICHERT Korea have shared a long and successful alli- Thursday, April 17, 2008 OF WASHINGTON ance. South Korea is a key partner in the Six- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. ISSA. Madam Speaker, I rise today to Party Talks aimed at assuring that North honor the life of Rincon Band of Luiseno Indi- Korea does not develop and deploy nuclear Thursday, April 10, 2008 ans Chairman Vernon Wright. Chairman weapons that could create a strategic imbal- Mr. REICHERT. Mr. Speaker, last week’s Wright passed away on Thursday, April 10, ance in northeast Asia. The people of South unprecedented vote to change the rules and 2008, of liver cancer at the age of 53—far too Korea know better than anyone what the con- delay considering the Colombia Free Trade soon for a man that had so much left to give sequences of a nuclear-armed North Korea Agreement was one of the most disappointing to his tribe and community. could be. moments I have had as a Member of the Born in San Diego, California to Vernon Hol- South Korea and the United States have House of Representatives. lis Wright and Beverly Wright, Chairman also been political, diplomatic, and economic I was disappointed that the Majority would Wright was a lifelong resident of the area. partners since the founding of the alliance 125 so blatantly play election-year politics and After graduating from San Diego High School years ago. While our two countries were cater to special interests at the expense of and Palomar College, he studied at the brought dramatically together through the Ko- good economic policy. Gemological Institute of America and operated rean War, which ended in an armistice 55 I was disappointed that my Democratic col- a jewelry shop in Escondido, California until years ago, we have worked together consist- leagues in Washington State—the most trade- becoming politically active with the Rincon ently in a much less dramatic way since then. dependent State in the Nation—rejected my tribe in the 1990s. For instance, South Korea and the United call for a united delegation effort to bring the In 2006, he was elected chairman of the States are close business partners with over FTA to the floor, and instead followed the 650-member tribe, after serving as a council $80 billion in annual bilateral trade volume. In Speaker at the expense of our region’s needs. member and vice-chairman for several years. fact, South Korea is the seventh largest trad- With our economy lagging, and in light of how As chairman, he did a number of good things ing partner of the United States. Goods and important this agreement is to large employers for the tribe and surrounding community. He services move between our two countries on in our State like Boeing and Microsoft, I can- worked hard over the years to heal internal a daily basis. not understand the thinking behind their posi- strife that dwelled within the tribe and helped The pending U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agree- tion. to mend disagreements with the Bureau of In- ment will not bring with it just economic bene- But more than anything, I was disappointed dian Affairs. He also brought the community fits, many of which were described in a recent that the House was denied the opportunity to together through his leadership and helped to study released by the U.S. International Trade consider a trade measure of critical impor- usher in the tribe’s current economic success. Commission, but also positive geopolitical and tance to our economy and to our workers. Not long before his passing, some tribal geostrategic consequences. I traveled to Colombia two weeks ago to members had begun calling him ‘‘Chief,’’ a title Approving the U.S.-Korea Free Trade see firsthand the progress the country is mak- that hadn’t been used on the reservation for Agreement will strengthen our relationship with ing, and it is remarkable. I met with union decades. This informal honor was appropriate one of our most important and indispensable members who support and union members for Chairman Wright, because he worked tire- allies in Asia and give the United States a per- who oppose it. And let me say a word about lessly for the benefit of his tribe. Months be- manent economic foothold in the most dy- that: The unions who oppose the FTA rep- fore his passing, he devoted countless hours namic and fastest growing region in the world. resent workers who are unaffected by it. The

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I saw the broad support from the Colom- f bian people for this agreement and the progress the country has made to protect and CHARLES HITCHBORN HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH promote human rights. I returned even more OF OHIO convinced that we must pass this agreement HON. SAM GRAVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to grow our economy, create jobs, and support OF MISSOURI Thursday, April 17, 2008 a strategic ally. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The Colombia FTA would grow our econ- Mr. KUCINICH. Madam Speaker, I rise omy by opening new markets for American Thursday, April 17, 2008 today in honor of Leonard M. Calabrese, who businesses and farmers while bringing fair- Mr. GRAVES. Madam Speaker, it is with through his service to the Catholic Church of ness to our existing trade relationship. Virtually great pride and pleasure that I rise today to has dedicated his life to serving as all of Colombian goods enter America duty- recognize the outstanding service and leader- a community organizer on behalf of the poor, free, while American goods face tariffs. With ship of Chuck Hitchborn on the occasion of his the vulnerable and the voiceless. so many jobs tied to trade in Washington, retirement as Mayor of the City of Smithville, For over 20 years, Mr. Calabrese has common sense says we must level the playing Missouri. served as executive director of the Commis- field. Chuck served four years as Mayor of Smith- sion on Catholic Community Action (CCCA), The FTA will also support democracy in an ville. Before that, he served six years on the the Social Action Office for Catholic Charities unstable region. It’s imperative for Americans Smithville Board of Aldermen. In addition to Services, for the Diocese of Cleveland. Prior to view free trade agreements not just as a his service in Smithville, Chuck also served to his appointment as executive director, Len mutual economic benefit, but also as a core eight years as a city council member in Arrow- served as a volunteer board member for nine component of our country’s diplomacy and se- head, Colorado. Chuck has been married to years. Founded in 1969, the CCCA works to curity. Colombia stands tall as a beacon of de- his wife, Joan, for 57 years. Together they protect and promote human dignity through mocracy in the face of Hugo Chavez’s anti- have two children, five grandchildren, and ten empowering the poor and the often voiceless American policies. And Colombia remains a grandchildren with two more on the way. In his minority groups by promoting and ensuring key ally in efforts to combat the illegal drug spare time, he is an avid quilter and enjoys their full participation in society. Through his trade. What message does it send to our allies gardening. He gets his greatest enjoyment leadership at the Commission, he is able to around the world if we ask so much of them, from working with kids and supporting work with many other local organizations to then turn our backs on them at a crucial mo- Smithville’s local student organizations and educate, mobilize and raise the consciousness ment? Why do so many Members come down athletes. of the community, especially among Catholics. here to talk about working together with other Chuck has served the Smithville community Len Calabrese has a multifaceted back- countries in foreign policy, but do not want to in many other ways as well. He has been a ground and a very impressive record in serv- do so in trade? Trade is foreign policy. member and past President of the Rotary Club ing our community. He was an associate pro- Delaying the Colombia FTA signals to our and is also a current member of the Smithville fessor for several higher learning institutions allies that America is closed for trade, and en- R–II School District Foundation. Some of such as John Carroll University, University of courages our rivals to exploit new markets. It Chuck’s accomplishments include the down- Akron, Northwestern University and St. Mary also derails the consideration of other pending town sewer replacement project, the approval Seminary. He was also a consultant for sev- trade agreements like one with Korea, Wash- of Smithville Commons and the addition of the eral mayors and the Ohio Senate, and board ington State’s fourth largest trading partner. veterans memorial in downtown Smithville. member for several institutions such as Cuya- This is absolutely the wrong message to send Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join hoga County Public Library, Immigrant Minor- in this time of economic uncertainty. with me in commending Chuck Hitchborn for ity Business Alliance, The City Club of Cleve- Regardless of your views of the FTA, the his dedicated service to the people of Smith- land and the greater Cleveland Round Table House deserves to debate it under the rules of ville, Missouri. I know Chuck’s colleagues, of Civic Leaders, Greater Cleveland Inter-Reli- consideration this chamber agreed to when it family and friends join with me in thanking him gious Task Force on Central America just to approved trade promotion authority. Let’s stop for his commitment to others and wishing him name a few. playing political games that cater to special in- happiness and good health in his retirement. I have had the opportunity and privilege to terests, and let’s start working together, as f work closely with Len Calabrese in a number Democrats and Republicans, to pass the trade of capacities. In the aftermath of the tragedy measures that are important to our economy A PROCLAMATION HONORING of September 11, 2001, Len worked with the and our workers. JENNY HOSTETLER FOR WIN- community at large to allay fears expressed f NING THE OHIO DIVISION IV against immigrants. He has helped many new- STATE BASKETBALL CHAMPION- XIA LANIEL comers from abroad with his welcoming touch SHIP and his help with the necessary networking to succeed in business. He represented the HON. ED PERLMUTTER CCCA in the Sustainable Communities Sym- OF COLORADO HON. ZACHARY T. SPACE posium and other collaborations with the inner IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF OHIO IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES city and suburbs of Cleveland. Thursday, April 17, 2008 Len’s talent to mobilize the community and Thursday, April 17, 2008 Mr. PERLMUTTER. Madam Speaker, I rise to advocate for the social welfare of others is today to recognize and applaud Xia Laniel Mr. SPACE. Madam Speaker: manifested through his new position as presi- who has received the Arvada Wheat Ridge Whereas, Jenny Hostetler showed hard dent of Caritas Connection, a nonprofit organi- Service Ambassadors for Youth award. Xia work and dedication to the sport of basketball; zation that works to connect Catholic charities, Laniel is a student at Drake Middle School and health care, nursing homes and colleges. He and received this award because her deter- Whereas, Jenny Hostetler was a supportive will also serve as director of Ministering To- mination and hard work have allowed her to team player; and gether, a national umbrella of Catholic Char- overcome adversities. Whereas, Jenny Hostetler always displayed ities USA, Catholic Health Care, the Associa- The dedication demonstrated by Xia Laniel sportsmanship on and off of the court; now, tion of Catholic Colleges and Universities, Na- is exemplary of the type of achievement that therefore, be it tional Catholic Education Association and var- can be attained with hard work and persever- Resolved, that along with her friends, family, ious organizations of the laity. ance. It is essential that students at all levels and the residents of the 18th Congressional Madam Speaker and colleagues, please join strive to make the most of their education and District, I congratulate Jenny Hostetler on win- me in recognition of Leonard M. Calabrese, develop a work ethic that will guide them for ning the Ohio Division IV State Basketball who has dedicated his life to serving his the rest of their lives. Championship. We recognize the tremendous church and the greater Cleveland community.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 04:27 Apr 18, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A17AP8.050 E17APPT1 smartinez on PROD1PC64 with REMARKS E658 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks April 17, 2008 Let his advocacy on behalf of the welfare of Most of Skagit Valley Hospital’s facilities are Motivated by his passion for health and others serve as inspiration for all those in pur- located in Mount Vernon, Washington, but in wellness, Dr. Mintz pioneered a new medical suit of social change. recent years the hospital has expanded geo- specialty with his work in age management f graphically to serve more families in rural and medicine. He became famous within that field underserved areas. Its Community Health for his innovative ideas about the relationship ACKNOWLEDGING MARY KATE Centers in Stanwood, Washington and between declining levels of certain hormones RIDGEWAY’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO Camano Island, Washington bring healthcare and chronic diseases associated with aging. TENNESSEE AGRICULTURE services closer to patients who need them. Dr. Mintz pioneered the idea that maintaining The fine work of Skagit Valley Hospital has certain hormones within physiological ranges HON. JOHN S. TANNER been supported by the generosity of both the in combination with exercise and a healthy OF TENNESSEE Skagit Valley Hospital Foundation and the diet can optimize wellness as people age. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Skagit Hospice Foundation. Together, these Dr. Mintz cofounded and served as CEO Thursday, April 17, 2008 organizations have raised and donated over and President of Medicon, Inc., the world’s $9 million to improve Skagit Valley Hospital Mr. TANNER. Madam Speaker, I rise today largest radiology management company. His and support patients and their families. to recognize the accomplishments of my friend inventive thinking stimulated the creation of For fifty years, Skagit Valley Hospital has Mary Kate Ridgeway, who recently began an Cenegenics Medical Institute, the largest age been a pillar of our community and the North- exciting new opportunity as director of the management medicine organization in the west Washington healthcare system. Please Henry County office of the University of Ten- world. Although headquartered in Las Vegas, join me in celebrating the 50th Anniversary of nessee Agriculture Extension Service. Her Cenegenics Medical Institute has offices in the Skagit Valley Hospital and thanking its new position will allow Mary Kate to continue South Carolina, Florida, Hong Kong, and dedicated staff for their tireless efforts. more than 30 years of service to family farm- South Korea with service reaching more than ers in Henry County and across Tennessee. f 12,000 patients. Mary Kate is originally from Obion County. VALENTINA BROWN Madam Speaker, I am proud to honor the Her husband Don is deputy director of the life and memory of Alan P. Mintz, M.D. Dr. Northwest Tennessee Economic Development Mintz lived his life according to his favorite HON. ED PERLMUTTER maxim by Henry David Thoreau, ‘‘Go con- Council. Don represented the 75th district in OF COLORADO fidently in the direction of your dreams . . . the Tennessee House of Representatives, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES where he served with distinction as the Demo- Live the life you have imagined.’’ Dr. Mintz cratic Caucus Chairman and Chairman of the Thursday, April 17, 2008 clearly fulfilled this statement and will be House Transportation Committee. Their son, Mr. PERLMUTTER. Madam Speaker, I rise missed by the many lives he touched. John Penn, who several years ago worked in today to recognize and applaud Valentina our Washington office, and his wife Melissa Brown who has received the Arvada Wheat f Ridge Service Ambassadors for Youth award. have two children, Walker and Jackson. CONGRATULATING THE STATE OF With bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Valentina Brown is a student at Wheat Ridge ISRAEL ON ITS UPCOMING 60TH family and consumer science education from Middle School and received this award be- ANNIVERSARY the University of Tennessee at Martin, Mary cause her determination and hard work have Kate is also active in other important organiza- allowed her to overcome adversities. tions in our community, including as secretary The dedication demonstrated by Valentina HON. VITO FOSSELLA of Helping Hand Incorporated and co-chair of Brown is exemplary of the type of achieve- OF NEW YORK the Lifeline blood board. ment that can be attained with hard work and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Madam Speaker, I appreciate you and our perseverance. It is essential that students at colleagues joining me as we thank Mary Kate all levels strive to make the most of their edu- Thursday, April 17, 2008 Ridgeway for her long service to the agricul- cation and develop a work ethic that will guide Mr. FOSSELLA. Madam Speaker, I rise tural community in west Tennessee and con- them for the rest of their lives. today to congratulate the State of Israel on the gratulate her on her new position as county di- I extend my deepest congratulations once upcoming 60th anniversary of its founding and rector for the University of Tennessee Agri- again to Valentina Brown for winning the Ar- condemn former President Carter’s meetings culture Extension program. vada Wheat Ridge Service Ambassadors for with the terrorist leaders of Hamas. f Youth award. I have no doubt she will exhibit It is odd that former President Carter would the same dedication and character to all her defend his meeting with this terrorist organiza- CELEBRATING THE 50TH ANNIVER- future accomplishments. SARY OF SKAGIT VALLEY HOS- tion as an opportunity to measure their willing- f PITAL ness to accept peace overtures. The founding PAYING TRIBUTE TO ALAN P. charter of Hamas calls for the destruction of MINTZ, M.D. Israel; this should be answer enough for the HON. RICK LARSEN former President. By acknowledging these OF WASHINGTON leaders the former President provides legit- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. JON C. PORTER imacy to the terrorist actions committed Thursday, April 17, 2008 OF NEVADA against the State of Israel. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. LARSEN of Washington. Madam Speak- For decades Israel and the United States er, on April 9th, 1958, Skagit Valley Hospital Thursday, April 17, 2008 have shared a strategic partnership in devel- opened its doors and began a tradition of pro- Mr. PORTER. Madam Speaker, I rise today oping technologies that save lives both on the viding high-quality healthcare to the residents to add to my tribute to Alan P. Mintz, whose battlefield and in our hospitals. of Northwest Washington. I rise today to com- life I honored on June 27, 2007. Dr. Mintz, Madam Speaker, for the past 60 years, mend Skagit Valley Hospital on its 50th Anni- M.D. passed away on June 3, 2007. Israel has been a bastion of democracy in a versary and thank the more than 1,200 em- Born in Chicago, Alan P. Mintz graduated region dominated by authoritarian regimes. As ployees, 250 physicians, 450 volunteers and from the University of Chicago and earned a the only country in the Middle East with free countless community supporters who continue doctor of medicine degree from the University elections, free press, freedom of religion, and to work to fulfill the hospital’s goal of being of Illinois—School of Medicine. Prior to his the protection of minority rights, Israel con- ‘‘the best regional, community hospital in the postgraduate training in radiology, in which he tinues to uphold the values that make it a true Northwest.’’ later specialized, Dr. Mintz served as a physi- Western-style democracy. Over the last fifty years, Skagit Valley Hos- cian in the U.S. Navy. Dr. Mintz was a highly Madam Speaker, it gives me great pleasure pital has grown dramatically and expanded the respected professional in the field of radiology to congratulate the State of Israel on its up- services it offers to patients. After opening a and served as a Diplomate of the American coming 60th anniversary and I look forward to 220,000 square foot expansion in June of Board of Radiology, was board certified in ra- the continued partnership between our two 2007, the hospital now boasts 137 beds, a diology, nuclear medicine and radiation ther- great nations. I hope our colleagues will join Level III Trauma Center, and cutting-edge Kid- apy, and was also appointed chairman of the me in offering our best wishes to our ally in ney, Diagnostic Imaging and Comprehensive Department of Radiology for several Chicago- the Middle East for 60 more years of pros- Cancer Care Centers. area hospitals. perity.

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HIGHLIGHTS Senate passed H.R. 1195, Highway Technical Corrections. Senate By 49 yeas to 43 nays (Vote No. 106), Coburn Chamber Action Amendment No. 4538 (to Amendment No. 4146), Routine Proceedings, pages S3105–S3170 to create a bipartisan, bicameral special committee to Measures Introduced: Sixteen bills and four resolu- investigate the improper insertion of an earmark for tions were introduced, as follows: S. 2876–2891, and Coconut Road into the conference report of the 2005 S. Res. 519–522. Pages S3144–45 highway bill after both chambers of Congress had approved identical versions of the conference report. Measures Passed: (A unanimous-consent agreement was reached pro- Farm Security and Rural Investment Act Ex- viding that the amendment, having failed to achieve tension: Senate passed H.R. 5813, to amend Public 60 affirmative votes, be withdrawn). Law 110–196 to provide for a temporary extension Pages S3106, S3411–18, S3119 of programs authorized by the Farm Security and During consideration of this measure today, Senate Rural Investment Act of 2002 beyond April 18, also took the following action: 2008, clearing the measure for the President. By 90 yeas to 2 nays (Vote No. 107), three-fifths Page S3105 of those Senators duly chosen and sworn, having Welcoming Pope Benedict XVI to the United voted in the affirmative, Senate agreed to the motion States: Senate agreed to S. Res. 519, welcoming to close further debate on Boxer Amendment No. Pope Benedict XVI to the United States and recog- 4146 (listed above). Pages S3119–20 nizing the unique insights his moral and spiritual Authorizing Photograph in Senate Chamber: reflections bring to the world stage. Pages S3105–06 Senate agreed to S. Res. 521, authorizing the taking Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transpor- of a photograph in the Chamber of the United States tation Equity Act: A Legacy For Users: By 88 yeas Senate. Page S3170 to 2 nays (Vote No. 108), Senate passed H.R. 1195, Measures Considered: to amend the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users to Veterans’ Benefits Enhancement Act—Agree- make technical corrections, after taking action on the ment: Senate began consideration of the motion to following amendments proposed thereto: proceed to consideration of S. 1315, to amend title Pages S3106–36 38, United States Code, to enhance life insurance Adopted: benefits for disabled veterans. Page S3169 By 64 yeas to 28 nays (Vote No. 105), Boxer A motion was entered to close further debate on Modified Amendment No. 4539 (to Amendment the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill, No. 4146), to call for a review by the Department and, in accordance with the provisions of Rule XXII of Justice of allegations of violations of Federal of the Standing Rules of the Senate, and pursuant to the unanimous-consent agreement of Thursday, April criminal law. Pages S3106, S3118–19 Boxer Amendment No. 4146, in the nature of a 17, 2008, a vote on cloture will occur at 12 noon on Tuesday, April 22, 2008. Page S3169 substitute. Pages S3106, S3121 Withdrawn: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached pro- Coburn Amendment No. 4540 (to Amendment viding that on Tuesday, April 22, 2008, following No. 4539), relative to the Coconut Road Investiga- a period of morning business, Senate resume consid- eration of the motion to proceed to consideration of tion. Pages S3106, S3110–11 D453

VerDate Aug 31 2005 04:53 Jun 26, 2008 Jkt 069060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0627 Sfmt 0627 J:\CRONLINE\2008BA~2\2008NE~2\D17AP8.REC D17AP8 mmaher on PROD1PC76 with CONG-REC-ONLINE D454 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST April 17, 2008 the bill, and the time until 12 noon be equally di- U.S. BUREAU OF RECLAMATION vided and controlled between the two Leaders, or Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Sub- their designees. Page S3169 committee on Water and Power concluded a hearing Message from the President: Senate received the to examine the United States Bureau of Reclamation, following message from the President of the United focusing on issues associated with aging water re- States: source infrastructure, after receiving testimony from Transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to Senator Reid; Robert W. Johnson, Commissioner, the Administration’s intent to add the Solomon Is- Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; lands to the list of least-developed beneficiary devel- Mayor Todd Cutler, Fernley, Nevada; Major General oping countries under the Generalized System of Charles I. McGinnis, USA (Ret.), United States Preferences program; which was referred to the Com- Army Corps of Engineers, Charlottesville, Virginia, mittee on Finance. (PM–44) Page S3143 on behalf of the National Research Council; Thomas Nominations Received: Senate received the fol- F. Donnelly, National Water Resources Association, lowing nominations: Arlington, Virginia; Wesley Randal Reed, St. Mary Kelly Harrison Rankin, of Wyoming, to be Rehabilitation Working Group, Chinook, Montana; United States Attorney for the District of Wyoming and Tony Willardson, Western States Water Coun- for the term of four years. cil, Midvale, Utah, on behalf of the Western Gov- 1 Air Force nomination in the rank of general. ernors’ Association (WGA). 1 Navy nomination in the rank of admiral. NOMINATIONS Page S3170 Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing Messages from the House: Page S3143 to examine the nominations of Deanna Tanner Measures Referred: Page S3144 Okun, of Idaho, to be a Deputy United States Trade Representative, with the rank of Ambassador, who Enrolled Bills Presented: Page S3144 was introduced by Senator Roberts, David Gustafson, Executive Communications: Page S3144 of Virginia, Richard T. Morrison, of Virginia, and Additional Cosponsors: Pages S3145–46 Elizabeth Crewson Paris, of the District of Colum- bia, who was introduced by Senator Grassley, each to Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions: be a Judge of the United States Tax Court, and Eric Pages S3146–64 M. Thorson, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, Additional Statements: Page S3143 and Edwin Eck, of Montana, to be a Member of the Amendments Submitted: Pages S3164–69 Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board, both of the Department of the Treasury, after the nominees Authorities for Committees to Meet: Page S3169 testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Record Votes: Four record votes were taken today. (Total—108) Pages S3118, S3119, S3119–20, S3122 FUSION CENTERS Recess: Senate convened at 12:45 p.m. and recessed Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Af- at 6:40 p.m., until 9:30 a.m. on Friday, April 18, fairs: Ad Hoc Subcommittee on State, Local, and 2008. (For Senate’s program, see the remarks of the Private Sector Preparedness and Integration con- Majority Leader in today’s Record on page S3170.) cluded a hearing to examine the national strategy for information sharing relating to fusion centers-col- laborative efforts to detect, prevent, investigate, and Committee Meetings respond to criminal terrorist activity, focusing on a recent progress report from federal, state, and local (Committees not listed did not meet) agencies, after receiving testimony from Eileen R. Larence, Director, Homeland Security and Justice FAA SAFETY AND MODERNIZATION Issues, Government Accountability Office; Vance E. Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Trans- Hitch, Chief Information Officer, Department of portation, Housing and Urban Development, and Justice; Jack Thomas Tomarchio, Deputy Under Sec- Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine retary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) safety Analysis; Captain Charles W. Rapp, Maryland Co- and modernization performance, after receiving testi- ordination and Analysis Center (MCAC), Baltimore; mony from Robert A. Sturgell, Acting Adminis- Matthew Bettenhausen, California Governor’s Office trator, Federal Aviation Administration; and Calvin of Homeland Security, Sacramento; and Russell M. L. Scovel, III, Inspector General, Department of Porter, Iowa Department of Public Safety, Des Transportation. Moines.

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Rept. 110–590) that makes technical and conforming changes; states that loan MILITARY MORALE-WELFARE-RECREATION limit increases available under this Act are available Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Mili- only to students meeting the requirements of section tary Personnel held a hearing on Military Resale and 484(a) of the HEA; targets the loan limit increases Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) overview. to those students and families in most need; in re- Testimony was heard from the following officials of gard to school-wide lender-of-last-resort eligibility, the Department of Defense: Leslye A. Arsht, Deputy specifies that the Secretary of Education shall deter- Under Secretary, Military Community and Family mine whether a school qualifies and provides criteria Policy; MG John A. Macdonald, USA, Deputy Com- for the Secretary to consider in making the deter- manding General, U.S. Army Installation Manage- mination; specifies that funds received by lenders ment Command and Commander, Family and Mo- from loan sales be used to originate new loans; clari- rale, Welfare and Recreation Command; RADM fies that the Secretary has the authority to enter into Robert J. Bianchi, USN, Commander, Navy Ex- forward commitments to purchase new loans; and change Service Command; BG Keith L. Thurgood, clarifies that, at the discretion of the Secretary, a USAR, Commander, Army and Air Force Exchange loan purchased by the Secretary may continue to be Service; Timothy R. Larsen, Director, Personal and serviced by the current lender (by a recorded vote of Family Readiness Division, Headquarters, U.S. Ma- 413 ayes with none voting ‘‘no’’, Roll No. 203). rine Corps; Richard Page, Acting Director, Defense Commissary Agency; John Baker, Fleet and Family Pages H2466–67 Readiness Program Director, Navy Installations H. Res. 1107, the rule providing for consideration Command; and Arthur J. Myers, Director of Serv- of the bill, was agreed to on Wednesday, April 16th. ices, Headquarters, U.S. Air Force. Recess: The House recessed at 11:45 a.m. and re- convened at 1:21 p.m. Page H2466 MISSILE DEFENSE PROGRAMS BUDGET Moment of Silence: The House observed a moment Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Stra- of silence in memory of Lou Costantino, an employee tegic Forces held a hearing on the Fiscal Year 2009 of the Office of the Sergeant at Arms. Page H2468 National Defense Authorization Budget Request for Meeting Hour: Agreed that when the House ad- Missile Defense Program. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Department of Defense: journs today, it adjourn to meet at 9 a.m. tomorrow, John J. Young, Jr., Under Secretary, Acquisition, and further, when the House adjourns on that day, Technology, and Logistics; Charles E. McQueary, Di- it adjourn to meet at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April rector, Operational Test and Evaluation; LTG Henry 22nd for morning hour debate. Pages H2469, H2473 A. Obering, III, USAF, Director, Missile Defense Calendar Wednesday: Agreed to dispense with the Agency; and LTG Kevin T. Campbell, USA, Com- Calendar Wednesday business of Wednesday, April manding General, U.S. Army Space and Missile De- 23rd. Page H2473 fense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command. Presidential Message: Read a message from the President wherein he provided notification of his in- CREDIT CARDHOLDERS’ BILL OF RIGHTS tent to add the Solomon Islands to the list of least- Committee on Financial Services: Subcommittee on Fi- developed beneficiary developing countries under the nancial Institutions and Consumer Credit held a Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program— hearing on H.R. 5244, Credit Cardholders’ Bill of referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and Rights. Testimony was heard from Senators Levin ordered printed (H. Doc. 110–105). Page H2484 and Wyden; Martin J. Gruenberg, Vice Chairman, FDIC; the following officials of the Department of Senate Message: Message received from the Senate the Treasury: Julie L. Williams, Chief Counsel and today appears on page H2468. First Senior Deputy Comptroller; and John Bowman, Quorum Calls—Votes: One yea-and-nay vote and General Counsel, Office of Thrift Supervision; and one recorded vote developed during the proceedings Sandra Braunstein, Director, Division of Consumer of today and appear on pages H2466–67, H2467. and Community Affairs, Board of Governors, Federal There were no quorum calls. Reserve System; and public witnesses.

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PREVENTING NUCLEAR IRAN ing and Small Businesses. Testimony was heard from Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on the C. Stephen Allred, Assistant Secretary, Land and Middle East and South Asia and the Subcommittee Minerals Management, Department of the Interior; on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade held a and public witnesses. joint hearing on Between Feckless and Reckless: U.S. Policy Options to Prevent a Nuclear Iran. Testimony REAUTHORIZING—SMALL BUSINESS was heard from Jeffrey Feltman, Principle Deputy INNOVATION AND SMALL BUSINESS Assistant Secretary, Bureau for Near Eastern Affairs, TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PROGRAMS Department of State; and Daniel Glaser, Deputy As- Committee on Small Business: Ordered reported, as sistant Secretary, Terrorist Financing and Financial amended, H.R. 5819.SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Crimes, Department of the Treasury. Act. MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES GREENING WASHINGTON AND THE Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime, NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION Terrorism and Homeland Security held a hearing on the following bills: H.R. 5464, A Child is Missing Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Sub- Alert and Recovery Center Act; H.R. 2352, School committee on Economic Development, Public Build- Safety Enhancements Act of 2007; H.R. 1783, Elder ings, and Emergency Management held a hearing on Justice Act, and H.R. 5352, Elder Abuse Victims First in a Series: Greening Washington and the Na- Act of 2008. Testimony was heard from Representa- tional Capital Region. Testimony was heard from tives Emanuel, Sestak, Rothman and Klein of Flor- David Winstead, Commissioner, Public Building ida; and public witnesses. Service, GSA; George Hawkins, Director, Depart- ment of the Environment, District of Columbia; and MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES public witnesses. Committee on Natural Resources: Ordered reported the f following bills: H.R. 5541, amended, Federal Land Assistance, Management and Enhancement Act; H.R. 3522, to ratify a conveyance of a portion of the Joint Meetings Jicarilla Apache Reservation to Rio Arriba County, State of New Mexico, pursuant to the settlement of ARMENIA AND MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE litigation between the Jicarilla Apache Nation and ACCOUNT Rio Arriba County, State of New Mexico, to author- Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: Com- ize issuance of a patent for said lands, and to change mission concluded a hearing to examine Armenia the exterior boundary of the Jicarilla Apache Res- and the United States, focusing on Organization for ervation accordingly, and for other purposes; S. Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSEC) negotia- 2457, To provide for extensions of leases of certain tions on Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia’s qualifica- land by Mashantucket Pequot (Western Tribe); H.R. tions for assistance from the Millennium Challenge 1575, amended, Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Account, after receiving testimony from Matthew Chippewa Indians Reafirmation Act; and H.R. 3490, Bryza, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Euro- amended, Tuolumne Me-Wuk Land Transfer Act of pean and Eurasian Affairs; Vigen Sargsian, Assistant 2007. to the President of the Republic of Armenia, MEAT INDUSTRY SAFETY/TRANSPARENCY Yerevan, Armenia; and Arman Grigorian, Williams- Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: Sub- burg, Virginia. committee on Domestic Policy held a hearing on f After the Beef Recall: Exploring Greater Trans- parency in the Meat Industry. Testimony was heard COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR FRIDAY, from Richard Raymond, Under Secretary, Food Safe- APRIL 18, 2008 ty, Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA; Lisa (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated) Shames, Director, Natural Resources and the Envi- ronment, GAO; and public witnesses. Senate No meetings/hearings scheduled. PUBLIC LANDS USE Committee on Small Business: Held a hearing on Main- House taining Public Lands for Hunting, Fishing, Ranch- No committee hearings are scheduled.

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Next Meeting of the SENATE Next Meeting of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 9:30 a.m., Friday, April 18 9 a.m., Friday, April 18

Senate Chamber House Chamber Program for Friday: Senate will be in a period of morn- Program for Friday: The House will meet in pro forma ing business. session at 9 a.m.

Extensions of Remarks, as inserted in this issue

HOUSE Farr, Sam, Calif., E649 McCotter, Thaddeus G., Mich., E659 Fossella, Vito, N.Y., E658 Mahoney, Tim, Fla., E654 Abercrombie, Neil, Hawaii, E644 Gordon, Bart, Tenn., E641 Miller, George, Calif., E652 Akin, W. Todd, Mo., E648 Granger, Kay, Tex., E642, E649 Pastor, Ed, Ariz., E651 Baca, Joe, Calif., E646 Graves, Sam, Mo., E645, E657 Perlmutter, Ed, Colo., E642, E644, E646, E648, E648, Bachmann, Michele, Minn., E642 Honda, Michael M., Calif., E654 E650, E652, E653, E657, E658 Bishop, Rob, Utah, E654 Hoyer, Steny H., Md., E653 Poe, Ted, Tex., E642 Boehner, John A., Ohio, E643 Issa, Darrell E., Calif., E656 Porter, Jon C., Nev., E658 Boyd, Allen, Fla., E647 Jackson-Lee, Sheila, Tex., E650 Reichert, David G., Wash., E641, E645, E654, E656 Boyda, Nancy E., Kans., E644 Johnson, Sam, Tex., E647 Brady, Kevin, Tex., E643 Kirk, Mark Steven, Ill., E643 Ross, Mike, Ark., E651 Carson, Andre´, Ind., E650 Klein, Ron, Fla., E642 Slaughter, Louise McIntosh, N.Y., E649 Castle, Michael N., Del., E641, E643 Knollenberg, Joe, Mich., E652 Space, Zachary T., Ohio, E644, E646, E648, E649, E649, Chandler, Ben, Ky., E646 Kucinich, Dennis J., Ohio, E657 E651, E654, E657, E659 Conyers, John, Jr., Mich., E653 LaHood, Ray, Ill., E648 Tanner, John S., Tenn., E658 Costello, Jerry F., Ill., E642 Larsen, Rick, Wash., E646, E658 Wamp, Zach, Tenn., E645 Courtney, Joe, Conn., E652 Latta, Robert E., Ohio, E653 Watson, Diane E., Calif., E656 Duncan, John J., Jr., Tenn., E645 Lee, Barbara, Calif., E649, E650 Westmoreland, Lynn A., E659 Eshoo, Anna G., Calif., E651 Lipinski, Daniel, Ill., E648 Wittman, Robert J., Va., E654

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