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Vol. 153 WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2007 No. 23 House of Representatives The House met at 10 a.m. WELCOMING THE REVEREND KENN the war. Even in the supplemental that The Reverend Kenn Hucks, Pastor, HUCKS he proposed, he fails to acknowledge Immanuel Baptist Church, Lebanon, (Mr. COOPER asked and was given the additional cost of the troops and Tennessee, offered the following pray- permission to address the House for 1 support personnel that will be required er: minute.) by the troop surge. Folks, the numbers Our Father, we offer to You our Mr. COOPER. Madam Speaker, we simply don’t add up. greatest praise and thanksgiving for were privileged today to have deliver I am disappointed that the budget another day to serve You and our fel- our opening prayer the Reverend Kenn fails to include ample funding for the low man. Thank You for the grace and Hucks from Lebanon, Tennessee, Im- Everglades restoration and beach re- nourishment, which are an important blessing to live in this great land. manuel Baptist Church, formerly in asset and resource in our country. The Grant to every American in this BART GORDON’s district, and now in my Everglades and our beaches in Florida great assembly a craving for Your wis- district. We are also privileged to have are not only important to Floridians, dom, the courage to express it, and the his beautiful wife Kim with us today but also national treasures enjoyed by commitment to never turn away from sitting in the family gallery. what is right. millions of Americans each year. This is a church that started in 1947 It is time for our government to step Bring true and lasting peace to our with just a few dozen members, and world. Allow spiritual renewal to sweep up to the plate and fulfill its commit- now it is in the top 1 percent of the ment to the Everglades, our beaches, our great land, and help us to truly be- Tennessee Baptist and the Southern and all our other natural assets; I am come one Nation under God that is in- Baptist Conventions, due to a long line going to fight to make this happen. divisible, with liberty and justice for of inspirational pastors, the latest of President Bush’s priorities are out of all. whom is Kenn Hucks, who joined the step, and as we continue to debate his Help each of us to humble ourselves congregation, was called to the min- budget, I am confident Congress will under Your mighty hand and truly love istry in 2002. We appreciate his great restore funding to many of the pro- our neighbor as our self. spiritual leadership in our community, grams our American families deserve Protect our Armed Forces, prosper and we appreciate his being with us and depend on. our workforce, and prescribe the path today. f of Your will for all of America and for f every American. In our Savior’s name, ELIMINATING PREVENTABLE amen. BUSH BUDGET HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATED IN- f (Mr. KLEIN of Florida asked and was FECTIONS given permission to address the House (Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania THE JOURNAL for 1 minute.) asked and was given permission to ad- The SPEAKER. The Chair has exam- Mr. KLEIN of Florida. Madam Speak- dress the House for 1 minute and to re- ined the Journal of the last day’s pro- er, I would like to speak about the vise and extend his remarks.) ceedings and announces to the House budget this morning and the concern Mr. TIM MURPHY OF Pennsylvania. her approval thereof. that I have that the budget President I would like to welcome my colleague Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the Jour- Bush has proposed makes it very clear from Pittsburgh in his first time in the nal stands approved. that his priorities are out of touch Speaker’s chair. f with everyday Americans. President Mr. Speaker, more people die each Bush would rather maintain his tax year from infections they pick up in PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE cuts for the wealthiest in our commu- hospitals than from AIDS, breast can- The SPEAKER. Will the gentleman nities, while leaving seniors, veterans cer or auto accidents. The Centers for from Indiana (Mr. HILL) come forward and working families behind. Disease Control reports these health and lead the House in the Pledge of Al- He also believes that his budget will care-associated infections contribute legiance. rid our Nation of debt in 5 years, even to 90,000 deaths per year, with annual Mr. HILL led the Pledge of Alle- though he wants to keep spending bil- costs exceeding $50 billion. Medicare giance as follows: lions of dollars in Iraq and maintain costs for patients who contract an in- I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the these tax cuts for the most wealthy. fection while hospitalized is five times United States of America, and to the Repub- Further, President Bush continu- higher than for patients without these lic for which it stands, one nation under God, ously fails to be up front with the infections. For Medicaid patients, costs indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. American people about the true cost of are 14 times higher.

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VerDate Aug 31 2005 04:02 Feb 08, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A07FE7.000 H07FEPT1 mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with HOUSE H1276 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE February 7, 2007 Many hospitals have dramatically re- open, the more likely they are to be more than 600 forested counties and duced infection rates by implementing fair. More courts throughout the vast- 4,400 school districts across our great patient safety procedures. I will be in- ness of America are expanding on this country. troducing the Healthy Hospitals Act to public trial concept by allowing unob- For Wallowa County, Oregon, this provide financial incentives to hos- trusive cameras in the courtroom. This means the road department and the pitals for savings gained from elimi- allows citizens to view court pro- sheriff search and rescue budgets will nating these infections, and require ceedings. When I was a judge in Texas, be slashed in half. There are more than public reporting of infections so health I allowed cameras to film criminal 700 miles of roads in Wallowa County care providers and patients can work trials, including a capital murder case. maintained by a current staff of 14. together to save lives and money. We I found that this enhanced the concept Soon only seven will try and keep up need patient-centered health care that of a fair public trial. with this responsibility; that is one promotes patient choice, patient safety Those that have never been a trial person for every 100 miles of road in and patient care quality. lawyer or a trial judge say that law- Wallowa County. That is the same dis- To learn more about eliminating pre- yers play to the cameras; but lawyers tance as between Washington, DC, and ventable health care-associated infec- don’t play to the cameras, they play to Richmond, Virginia. County Commis- tions, I invite my colleagues to visit the jury or the court. sioner Mike Hayward says, ‘‘Impact to my Web site at Murphy.house.gov. So open Supreme Court proceedings our roads and rescue services will put f to cameras. Let America see what our citizens and visitors at risk.’’ PRESIDENT’S BUDGET CONTINUES takes place. And to those judges who Loss of the county payments pro- TO SHORTCHANGE VETERANS are opposed to this openness, maybe gram will also have a significant nega- AND MILITARY RETIREES they shouldn’t be doing what they do tive impact on more than 18 county when the camera is not rolling. governments across America whose (Mr. WILSON of Ohio asked and was And that’s just the way it is. Payment in Lieu of Taxes funds could given permission to address the House f be reduced by as much as 20 percent. for 1 minute.) This Congress must keep the Federal Mr. WILSON of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, KUCINICH 12-POINT PLAN FOR Government’s word to the people who we have an obligation as a government IRAQ live in timbered communities and pass to provide assistance to the men and (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given H.R. 17. Time is running out for them. women who have bravely served our permission to address the House for 1 f Nation in our military; but once again, minute and to revise and extend his re- President Bush sent us a budget this marks.) BUSH SLASHING FUNDING TO EDU- week that significantly shortchanges Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, we are CATION AND JOB TRAINING PRO- veterans health care. sacrificing our entire domestic agenda GRAMS IN 2008 BUDGET While our brave troops are fighting for an illegal war in Iraq. (Mr. HILL asked and was given per- abroad as of right now, the President When you look at the President’s mission to address the House for 1 proposes a $3.5 billion cut in veterans budget, reductions in education and minute and to revise and extend his re- health care over the next 5 years. His health care over a period of time will marks.) budget also provides less than veteran cause many necessary programs to be Mr. HILL. Mr. Speaker, the Presi- service organizations say is needed to cut for the American people. Mean- dent’s budget serves as a blueprint as meet the growing needs of veterans, in- while, the White House is discussing to what his priorities will be for the cluding the fact that we have a grow- whether or not to bring refugees from upcoming year. ing robust amount of veterans with the Iraq to the United States. At a time when our economy is be- Iraq-Afghanistan war. Now, think about it a minute. We are coming increasingly competitive, it is For the fifth year in a row, the budg- prosecuting an illegal war in Iraq, we essential that we fully fund education et raises health care costs on 1.3 mil- are illegally occupying the country, we programs across the board. Unfortu- lion veterans, imposing $4.9 million in are building permanent bases in Iraq, nately, education is not prioritized in increased copayments on prescription and now we are talking about bringing the President’s budget. drugs, and new enrollment fees on vet- refugees here. The real humanitarian Funding for No Child Left Behind re- erans over the next 10 years. The budget also increases TRICARE thing to do would be to end the war by mains about $15 billion below the level health care premiums for the Nation’s ending the occupation, closing the promised when the bill was first signed military retirees, and includes several bases and bringing our troops home. into law in 2001. How can we hold our other changes in military health care That is exactly what my 12-point schools accountable when the Presi- that have been rejected by Congress in plan would do. I reached it with the dent refuses to provide the funds need- previous years. help of people from the international ed to improve many of these schools? If these proposals are not successful community, the U.N., people who have The President finally makes good on during the 2008 fiscal year, the budget experience in peacekeeping. They say a 6-year-old promise to increase the for military health care will continue we can bring in an international secu- amount of money given to low-income to be underfunded by at least $1.8 bil- rity force once we get agreement from students through the Pell Grant pro- lion. the countries in the region, and we can gram, but it comes at a price. The Mr. Speaker, America’s veterans de- bring our troops home. President proposes recalling all Per- serve better, and they will get it from We have to stop this disaster in Iraq, kins loans and eliminating nine other this Democratic House. bring our troops home, end the occupa- higher education assistance programs. tion. At a time when college is becoming f f more out of reach for many Americans, CAMERAS IN THE SUPREME we should be looking to strengthen all CONGRESSIONAL INACTION JEOP- COURT college assistance programs so more ARDIZES WALLOWA COUNTY (Mr. POE asked and was given per- high school seniors have a chance to ROADS, RESCUE SERVICES AND mission to address the House for 1 attend. PILT minute.) Mr. Speaker, Democrats, this one in- Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, the Supreme (Mr. WALDEN of Oregon asked and cluded, will once again make education Court is the most powerful Court in the was given permission to address the a priority for our Nation’s students. world. These nine black-robed individ- House for 1 minute and to revise and f uals rule on constitutional matters extend his remarks.) that affect all Americans for lifetimes. Mr. WALDEN of Oregon. Mr. Speak- AFGHANISTAN The third branch of government holds er, the failure of Congress to reauthor- (Mr. PITTS asked and was given per- its session in public, as it ought to be. ize the Secure Rural Schools and Com- mission to address the House for 1 The theory behind public court pro- munities Self-Determination Act minute and to revise and extend his re- ceedings is that the more public and amounts to another breach of faith to marks.)

VerDate Aug 31 2005 23:44 Feb 07, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07FE7.002 H07FEPT1 mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with HOUSE February 7, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H1277 Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, I rise to diers fighting this war on terror. They enormous damage in my Congressional stress the importance today of our guard our border every single day and district. Yet even in the darkest times, partnership with the people of Afghani- protect our country from terrorists, the victims of the storm were envel- stan. from human traffickers, from drug oped in the incredible generosity of its The 9/11 attacks were planned in Af- traffickers. neighbors. By Saturday, over 1,400 vol- ghanistan, and a number of those who Former Border Patrol agents Ignacio unteers provided 22,000 meals and planned it are still at large, including Ramos and Jose Compean were re- snacks and distributed 1,000 health Osama bin Laden. President Hamid cently convicted of shooting a drug kits. Karzai’s leadership is vital, as is his smuggler while they were patrolling Tim Miller and his three sons helped continuing work to bring stability and and protecting the border. Then they the Suggs family gather their belong- security to Afghanistan; he is an im- were sentenced to a decade in prison. ings after the storm left. Tim Miller portant ally in the global war on ter- You may have read that our own U.S. said, ‘‘I’m just doing what I can to rorism. Unfortunately, reports suggest Attorney had this drug smuggler help.’’ that progress in Afghanistan continues brought from Mexico, gave him immu- Villages resident Al Seiden said, ‘‘De- to be undermined by Taliban and ter- nity to testify against our agents, and spite our house being destroyed . . . if rorist forces operating out of Pakistan. then the smuggler was released. you look around, there are at least Mr. Speaker, we cannot allow Af- Now the drug smuggler is suing the eight people, volunteers, friends and ghanistan to become a failed state U.S. Government for damages. As soon neighbors who have come in and helped again; therefore, we must ensure that as Agent Ramos began his sentence in us . . . The spirit of this community is terrorist operations in Afghanistan a Federal prison, he was assaulted by unbelievable.’’ stop and terrorist sanctuaries and safe drug smugglers and drug users who Wendy Spencer, the COE of the Gov- havens across the border in Pakistan were inmates in that prison. Ramos ernor’s Commission on Volunteerism are eliminated. And we need more co- was doing his duty, protecting Ameri- adds, ‘‘We are receiving so many offers operation from Pakistan. Let’s not ne- cans from the thugs and the drug to help, which is wonderful. Our goal is glect the situation in Afghanistan. We smugglers. Now we have failed to pro- to maximize this generosity to be as ef- do so at our peril. tect him. fective as it can be for meeting the f f needs of the tornado survivors now and in the weeks and months to come.’’ BUSH ADMINISTRATION NOT PRE- BUSH WANTS TO MAKE TAX CUTS Congratulations to all these volun- PARED TO SEND TROOPS TO FOR WEALTHY PERMANENT teers. Great job. IRAQ WITH PROPER SUPPLIES WHILE INCREASING TAXES ON 30 MILLION f (Mr. SARBANES asked and was given AMERICAN HEART MONTH permission to address the House for 1 (Mr. BUTTERFIELD asked and was minute and to revise and extend his re- given permission to address the House (Mrs. CAPPS asked and was given marks.) for 1 minute.) permission to address the House for 1 Mr. SARBANES. Mr. Speaker, as we Mr. BUTTERFIELD. Mr. Speaker, minute and to revise and extend her re- know, President Bush wants to send last month during his State of the marks.) another 22,000 young American men Union message, President Bush said Mrs. CAPPS. Mr. Speaker, I would and women into harm’s way in Iraq in that it is possible to balance the budg- like to take this opportunity to ac- the face of overwhelming opposition, et without raising taxes, but that is knowledge American Heart Month, even within his own party and his own not the case. The President’s health which is observed each year through- administration. Now we are learning care proposal would increase taxes on out February. I anticipate that many that the military does not have all the more than 30 million Americans. of my colleagues will attend events in equipment needed to safely send these You didn’t hear that during the State their districts commemorating Heart troops to Iraq. The Washington Post of the Union address, but the President Month, as I will. reported last week that the increase in wants to tax Americans who have what As we do, I urge all of us to pay spe- troop levels will create major logistical he calls gold-plated health coverage. cial attention to the effects of heart hurdles for the Army and Marine The overwhelming majority of these disease on women. The good news is Corps, which are short thousands of ve- Americans are middle class workers that heart disease deaths are beginning hicles, armor kits and other equip- who oftentimes accepted better health to decline among women. ment. Even the Army’s Deputy Chief of care coverage over pay increases dur- The bad news remains, however, that Staff for Force Development said, ‘‘We ing negotiations with their employers. heart disease is still the number one don’t have the armor kits and we don’t Many of these workers either need the killer of women in this country. Al- have the trucks,’’ and it will take substantial coverage for themselves or though awareness among women about months for the Army to obtain the nec- a sick family member. their risks for heart disease is increas- essary supplies. The President’s tax increase proposal ing, awareness remains particularly This is simply one more piece of evi- is the latest assault on employer-pro- low among minority women. dence that the administration’s pro- vided health care. Employers with Let’s take the opportunity during posal to increase troops in Iraq is ter- older and sicker workers pay higher in- American Heart Month to talk with ribly misguided. It is another example surance premiums, not because they the women in our lives and in our com- of how the rhetoric of supporting the have gold-plated insurance, but be- munity about their risks for heart dis- troops is not matched by the reality. cause their insurance companies ease and the preventive steps they can charge them for more coverage. At a take to decrease these risks. f time when 1 million more Americans f b 1015 are becoming uninsured every year, the SUPPORT THE METHAMPHET- administration should not provide em- FORMER BORDER PATROL AGENTS AMINE REMEDIATION RESEARCH ployers another reason to drop their IGNACIO RAMOS AND JOSE ACT OF 2007 health care coverage for their workers. COMPEAN f (Mr. WALZ of Minnesota asked and (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was was given permission to address the given permission to address the House HOPE SHINES AFTER THE House for 1 minute.) for 1 minute and to revise and extend DISASTER Mr. WALZ of Minnesota. Mr. Speak- her remarks.) (Mr. STEARNS asked and was given er, I rise today in support of H.R. 365, Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, you permission to address the House for 1 the Methamphetamine Remediation know, we are discussing national secu- minute and to revise and extend his re- Research Act of 2007. In Minnesota, rity every single day on the floor of marks.) methamphetamine usage has increased this House, and our Border Patrol Mr. STEARNS. Mr. Speaker, this dramatically over the past decade. agents seem to be the forgotten sol- weekend, a deadly tornado inflicted With that being said, legislators, law

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Meth production, which occurs last week, the White House received a in a democratic debate of ideas. most often in residential homes, leaves new National Intelligence Estimate The Republican Senate leadership is behind dangerous toxic waste. In fact, from our intelligence agencies that even blocking the voices in their own according to the Minnesota Depart- confirms what we already know: The party by filibustering debate on any ment of Health, meth production situation in Iraq is bad and likely to resolution dealing with the war in Iraq, leaves behind up to 7 pounds of dan- get worse. The NIE report concluded including the McCain-Graham resolu- gerous chemical waste for every pound that the U.S. has little control over the tion supporting the President’s troop of meth produced. This waste presents day-to-day developments in Iraq and surge and the Warner-Levin resolution a health risk to future residents and an that there is a strong possibility of fur- in opposition to it. The consideration environmental risk to the surrounding ther deterioration. of these resolutions, especially the bi- area. The report also refutes the Presi- partisan Warner-Levin resolution, would serve as the basis for the first In 2005, in Minnesota, 88 major meth dent’s claim that we could begin to see real debate on the President’s flawed labs were discovered, each of which progress from his troop escalation Iraq war policy since the war began presented significant risk. Although within the next 6 months. Instead, the nearly 4 years ago. Minnesota has strong local and State President’s own intelligence experts Mr. Speaker, the American people de- guidelines for dealing with meth lab re- expressed deep doubts that the Iraqis serve a democratic discussion of ideas mediation, the Federal Government will be able to gain any real control on the issue that is most important to can still play an important role in over their militias within the next 18 them. Next week we will have a debate making our communities safer. months. They also stressed that the major se- here in the House that will allow each H.R. 365 will direct the EPA to re- curity problem is not the presence of al of us to speak our minds on the Presi- search and establish important vol- Qaeda but instead is the Iraqi-on-Iraqi dent’s plan, and I would hope that the untary guidelines for meth lab remedi- violence. The intelligence officials Senate leadership would allow the ation. Furthermore, the bill will bring make clear that the political accom- same debate over in the other Cham- together local and State agencies, or- modations are crucial to reducing sec- ber. ganizations and individuals to share tarian tensions, but the report con- f their best strategies for cleaning up cludes that the parties are unwilling or meth labs and determining when they unable to make them at this point. ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER are inhabitable. PRO TEMPORE f Mr. Speaker, this legislation is a nec- The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. ADMINISTRATION DOESN’T HAVE essary step toward improving the meth DOYLE). Pursuant to clause 8 of rule lab remediation process nationwide. It ENOUGH SUPPLIES FOR TROOP XX, the Chair will postpone further will help local, State and Federal law ESCALATION PLAN proceedings today on motions to sus- enforcement safely move forward after (Mr. SIRES asked and was given per- pend the rules on which a recorded vote discovering a meth lab, and it will mission to address the House for 1 or the yeas and nays are ordered, or on make local communities dealing with minute.) which the vote is objected to under the methamphetamine problem cleaner Mr. SIRES. Mr. Speaker, as Presi- clause 6 of rule XX. and healthier. I encourage its passage. dent Bush moves forward with his un- Recorded votes on postponed ques- popular plan to send an additional tions will be taken later today. 22,000 troops to Iraq, it is crucial that f f this Congress take a hard look at how METHAMPHETAMINE REMEDI- AMERICAN HEART MONTH this surge affects our national security throughout the rest of the world. ATION RESEARCH ACT OF 2007 (Ms. BORDALLO asked and was Last week, General James Conway, Mr. GORDON of Tennessee. Mr. given permission to address the House the Marine Corps Commandant, told Speaker, I move to suspend the rules for 1 minute and to revise and extend the House Armed Services Committee and pass the bill (H.R. 365) to provide her remarks.) that if troops were needed somewhere for a research program for remediation Ms. BORDALLO. Mr. Speaker, Feb- else in the world, the response would be of closed methamphetamine production ruary marks the 44th annual American a lot slower than we might like. Army laboratories, and for other purposes. Heart Month, an effort to raise aware- Chief of Staff Peter Schoomaker went The Clerk read as follows: ness of the single largest cause of death as far as saying that pooling resources H.R. 365 for troops in Iraq limits our ability to for both men and women in this coun- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- try, heart disease. Like the country as respond to emerging strategic contin- resentatives of the United States of America in a whole, heart disease is the leading gencies. Congress assembled, Mr. Speaker, after hearing all these cause of death on my island of Guam. SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. warnings from military officials about However, heart disease is increas- This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Meth- the President’s escalation plan, Con- ingly becoming an issue for Pacific Is- amphetamine Remediation Research Act of gress must step in and voice its opposi- lander women. In fact, a recent Centers 2007’’. tion in the name of protecting our na- for Disease Control study indicates SEC. 2. FINDINGS. tional security. The days of rubber that heart disease is responsible for 214 The Congress finds the following: stamping the President’s war plans are (1) Methamphetamine use and production deaths per 100,000 women on Guam. over. is growing rapidly throughout the United This is a staggering rate, and only States. f through greater awareness and edu- (2) Materials and residues remaining from cation can we begin to confront this STIFLING IRAQ DEBATE IN the production of methamphetamine pose challenge. SENATE novel environmental problems in locations I urge everyone, Mr. Speaker, to take where methamphetamine laboratories have (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given been closed. this opportunity to battle this disease permission to address the House for 1 (3) There has been little standardization of by educating others about the benefits minute.) measures for determining when the site of a of healthy living and the risk factors Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, democ- closed methamphetamine laboratory has contributing to heart disease. racy is based on the free exchange of been successfully remediated.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 23:44 Feb 07, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07FE7.005 H07FEPT1 mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with HOUSE February 7, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H1279 (4) Initial cleanup actions are generally SEC. 5. TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER CONFERENCE. Tennessee (Mr. GORDON) and the gen- limited to removal of hazardous substances (a) CONFERENCE.—Not later than 90 days tleman from Florida (Mr. MARIO DIAZ- after the date of enactment of this Act, and and contaminated materials that pose an im- BALART) each will control 20 minutes. mediate threat to public health or the envi- at least every third year thereafter, the Ad- The Chair recognizes the gentleman ministrator shall convene a conference of ap- ronment. It is not uncommon for significant from Tennessee. levels of contamination to be found through- propriate State agencies, as well as individ- out residential structures after a meth- uals or organizations involved in research GENERAL LEAVE amphetamine laboratory has closed, par- and other activities directly related to the Mr. GORDON of Tennessee. Mr. tially because of a lack of knowledge of how environmental, or biological impacts of Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that to achieve an effective cleanup. former methamphetamine laboratories. The all Members may have 5 legislative (5) Data on methamphetamine laboratory- conference should be a forum for the Admin- days to revise and extend their re- related contaminants of concern are very istrator to provide information on the guide- marks and to include extraneous mate- lines developed under section 3 and on the limited, and cleanup standards do not cur- rial on H.R. 365, the bill now under con- rently exist. In addition, procedures for sam- latest findings from the research program described in section 4, and for the non-Fed- sideration. pling and analysis of contaminants need to The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there be researched and developed. eral participants to provide information on (6) Many States are struggling with estab- the problems and needs of States and local- objection to the request of the gen- lishing remediation guidelines and programs ities and their experience with guidelines de- tleman from Tennessee? to address the rapidly expanding number of veloped under section 3. There was no objection. methamphetamine laboratories being closed (b) REPORT.—Not later than 3 months after Mr. GORDON of Tennessee. Mr. each year. each conference, the Administrator shall Speaker, I yield myself such time as I submit a report to the Congress that summa- SEC. 3. VOLUNTARY GUIDELINES. may consume. rizes the proceedings of the conference, in- (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF VOLUNTARY GUIDE- Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. cluding a summary of any recommendations LINES.—Not later than one year after the or concerns raised by the non-Federal par- 365, the Methamphetamine Remedi- date of enactment of this Act, the Adminis- ticipants and how the Administrator intends ation Research Act. This is the same trator of the Environmental Protection to respond to them. The report shall also be legislation which passed the House a Agency (in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Ad- year ago, but was not enacted into law. ministrator’’), in consultation with the Na- made widely available to the general public. tional Institute of Standards and Tech- SEC. 6. RESIDUAL EFFECTS STUDY. Unfortunately, the need for this legis- nology, shall establish voluntary guidelines, (a) STUDY.—Not later than 6 months after lation is just as strong today as it was based on the best currently available sci- the date of enactment of this Act, the Ad- then. entific knowledge, for the remediation of ministrator shall enter into an arrangement We have a terrible problem with former methamphetamine laboratories, in- with the National Academy of Sciences for a methamphetamine in Tennessee and study of the status and quality of research cluding guidelines regarding preliminary site the Nation as a whole. One side effect assessment and the remediation of residual on the residual effects of methamphetamine laboratories. The study shall identify re- of the methamphetamine epidemic is contaminants. the chemical waste dump left behind (b) CONSIDERATIONS.—In developing the search gaps and recommend an agenda for voluntary guidelines under subsection (a), the research program described in section 4. by meth cooks. H.R. 365 focuses on the Administrator shall consider, at a min- The study shall pay particular attention to cleanup needs for former meth labs, a imum— the need for research on the impacts of tremendous problem facing commu- (1) relevant standards, guidelines, and re- methamphetamine laboratories on— nities across the country. quirements found in Federal, State, and (1) the residents of buildings where such The Drug Enforcement Agency re- local laws and regulations; laboratories are, or were, located, with par- ported more than 12,500 domestic meth (2) the varying types and locations of ticular emphasis given to biological impacts on children; and lab seizures in 2005 alone. These meth former methamphetamine laboratories; and labs, most often found in residential (3) the expected cost of carrying out any (2) first responders. proposed guidelines. (b) REPORT.—Not later than 3 months after settings, are contaminated, not only (c) STATES.—The voluntary guidelines the completion of the study, the Adminis- with methamphetamine but also with should be designed to assist State and local trator shall transmit to Congress a report on other toxic residue associated with the governments in the development and the im- how the Administrator will use the results of production of meth. These chemical plementation of legislation and other poli- the study to carry out the activities de- residues pollute the inside of a resi- scribed in sections 3 and 4. cies to apply state-of-the-art knowledge and dence and also threaten septic and SEC. 7. METHAMPHETAMINE DETECTION RE- research results to the remediation of former water systems. The meth epidemic has methamphetamine laboratories. The Admin- SEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PRO- istrator shall work with State and local gov- GRAM. not only devastated families, it has ernments and other relevant non-Federal The Director of National Institute of also left thousands of potentially toxic agencies and organizations, including Standards and Technology, in consultation waste dumps spread across the coun- through the conference described in section with the Administrator, shall support a re- try. 5, to promote and encourage the appropriate search program to develop— Right now, there are unsuspecting adoption of the voluntary guidelines. (1) new methamphetamine detection tech- nologies, with emphasis on field test kits and families living in homes that were once (d) UPDATING THE GUIDELINES.—The Admin- illegal meth labs. Dangerous and hid- istrator shall periodically update the vol- site detection; and untary guidelines as the Administrator, in (2) appropriate standard reference mate- den toxic substances on these sites consultation with States and other inter- rials and validation procedures for meth- threaten the health of these families, ested parties, determines to be necessary and amphetamine detection testing. with children being the most vulner- appropriate to incorporate research findings SEC. 8. SAVINGS CLAUSE. able to the devastating long-term ef- and other new knowledge. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to fects of exposure. SEC. 4. RESEARCH PROGRAM. affect or limit the application of, or any ob- H.R. 365 addresses the specific prob- The Administrator shall establish a pro- ligation to comply with, any State or Fed- lem of determining the level of cleanup gram of research to support the development eral environmental law or regulation, in- cluding the Comprehensive Environmental required to ensure that a former meth and revision of the voluntary guidelines de- lab is safe for occupation. scribed in section 3. Such research shall— Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (1) identify methamphetamine laboratory- of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.) and the Solid I want to stress that H.R. 365 is not a related chemicals of concern; Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.). Federal mandate. Rather, it requires (2) assess the types and levels of exposure SEC. 9. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. the EPA to develop model, voluntary, to chemicals of concern identified under (a) ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY.— health-based cleanup guidelines for use paragraph (1), including routine and acci- There are authorized to be appropriated to by States and localities if they desire. dental exposures, that may present a signifi- the Environmental Protection Agency to In addition, H.R. 365 authorizes this cant risk of adverse biological effects, and carry out this Act $1,750,000 for each of the to initiate a research program to de- fiscal years 2007 and 2008. the research necessary to better address bio- velop meth detection equipment for logical effects and to minimize adverse (b) NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY.—There are authorized to be ap- field use. human exposures; This will help law enforcement (3) evaluate the performance of various propriated to the National Institute of methamphetamine laboratory cleanup and Standards and Technology to carry out this agents detect active meth labs faster remediation techniques; and Act $750,000 for each of the fiscal years 2007 and assist in measuring the levels of (4) support other research priorities identi- and 2008. contamination in former meth labs. fied by the Administrator in consultation The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Finally, H.R. 365 requires a study by with States and other interested parties. ant to the rule, the gentleman from the National Academy of Sciences on

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The bill is endorsed ters in the Congressional Record as part of problem. by the National Association of Coun- the consideration of the bill on the House We also have to deal with the harm- ties, the National Sheriffs’ Association, floor. I value your advice and expertise and ful residue that this horrible substance the Fraternal Order of Police, the Na- welcome it any time you wish to share it on leaves behind in homes. Those sub- tional Narcotics Officers’ Associations’ legislation that has been referred to the stances cause harm to human beings Coalition, the National Association of Committee on Science and Technology. and to their health for years to come. Sincerely, Realtors, the National Multi-Housing This legislation focuses on the cleanup BART GORDON, Council and the National Apartment Chairman. of the former meth labs. Association. H.R. 365 addresses the significant H.R. 365 is not the complete solution COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE, contamination associated with these to the methamphetamine epidemic. Washington, DC, February 6, 2007. labs and would provide voluntary Unfortunately, there will always be Hon. BART GORDON, guidelines to clean up the former labs. people who decide to harm themselves Chairman, Committee on Science, House of Rep- And, again, as I said a little while ago, by using methamphetamines, dan- resentatives, Rayburn House Office Build- these meth labs are present all over the gerous drugs such as meth or manufac- ing, Washington, DC. DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: I write with regard to United States in residential areas, in turing dangerous drugs such as meth. H.R. 365, a bill to provide for a research pro- places that one would never think this b 1030 gram for remediation of closed methamphet- could happen. amine production laboratories. You intro- H.R. 365 aims to protect innocent Currently, Mr. Speaker, there are no duced it on January 10, 2007, and it is sched- national guidelines or regulations on people whose lives are endangered by uled for floor consideration tomorrow under these illegal activities. how to clean up and remediate a resi- the procedure for suspending the rules. dential meth lab for reoccupation of Mr. Speaker, I want to thank Rank- As you know, I support passage of the bill, ing Member HALL, Representative WU, and I do not intend to object to its consider- people. States and localities are strug- and Representative CALVERT for work- ation on the House floor. I want to make gling to protect the public and also the ing with me on this legislation in the clear, however, that my support is provided law enforcement officers and the first past Congress, and for sponsoring this with the understanding that you and I agree responders, and they are trying to find legislation for reintroduction in the that the referral and consideration of the bill a solution that is practical also for the does not in any way serve as a jurisdictional 110th Congress, as well as I want to property owners. precedent as to our two committees. Many of the ingredients used in the thank Mike Quear for the good staff I request that you send to me a letter con- work that has helped bring this bill be- firming our agreement and that, as part of manufacture of this product are highly fore us. the consideration of the bill on the House dangerous and toxic, and are believed This bill is an important component floor, you insert our two letters in the Con- to damage the skin, the eyes and the in helping our local communities com- gressional Record. If you wish to discuss this lungs of even people who move into a bat the meth problem. I would urge ev- matter further, please contact me or have house where there used to be a lab. Mr. eryone to vote ‘‘yes’’ on this bill. your staff contact Jonathan Cordone, Dep- Speaker, I look forward to hopefully Mr. Speaker, I would like to place uty Chief Counsel to the Committee, at ext. the passage of this legislation and the 5–2927. Senate sending it to the desk of the two letters in the RECORD. Sincerely, COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND President for his signature. JOHN D. DINGELL, TECHNOLOGY, Chairman. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of Washington, DC, February 7, 2007. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time. Hon. JOHN D. DINGELL, Mr. GORDON of Tennessee. Mr. Chairman, Committee on Energy and Commerce, my time. House of Representatives, Rayburn House Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Flor- Speaker, let me first compliment Mr. Office Building, Washington, DC. ida. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such DIAZ-BALART for a good explanation of DEAR CHAIRMAN DINGELL: Thank you for time as I may consume. the bill and the threats that go with your willingness to allow floor consideration Mr. Speaker, I also rise in support of this. of H.R. 365, the Methamphetamine Remedi- H.R. 365, the Methamphetamine Reme- I now would like to yield 2 minutes ation Research Act of 2007, to proceed to the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. unimpeded. As you may know, this bill ad- diation Research Act of 2007, that was CARNAHAN), a member of our Science dresses very important environmental re- introduced by our colleague Mr. GOR- search issues and is a priority for our caucus; DON, who is obviously the chairman of Committee. approximately half of the House Democratic the Science and Technology Com- Mr. CARNAHAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise Caucus has cosponsored the legislation. mittee, along with ranking member in strong support of H.R. 365, the Meth- I have been cognizant of the jurisdictional Mr. HALL, Mr. CALVERT, and also Mr. amphetamine Remediation Research limits of the Committee on Science and WU. Act of 2007. This bill will be an impor- Technology since I began writing this legis- tant tool in the methamphetamine epi- lation. Therefore, I instructed my staff to I want to especially thank Congress- work with the Office of the Parliamentarian man CALVERT for his steadfast leader- demic that is sweeping across our to assure a sole referral to the Committee on ship on this issue for such a long time. country. Science in the 109th Congress and to the He has really been the voice on this Mr. Speaker, I want to thank Chair- Committee on Science and Technology in issue in Congress for a long time, and man GORDON for moving these bills so the 110th Congress. I am pleased that they has worked with everybody on both quickly through the Science Com- were successful in both Congresses in keep- sides of the aisle on this legislation. mittee so that we may continue the ing the bill within the Science and Tech- As Mr. GORDON said, he stated just a antimeth initiatives in this new Con- nology Committee’s black letter jurisdiction gress. The bill charges the EPA with over environmental research and develop- while ago, this legislation is very simi- ment and standardization of weights and lar to the legislation that passed the the development of health-based guide- measures. Science Committee and the House in lines to assist State and local authori- I acknowledge that your committee, if it the 109th Congress. Mr. Speaker, it ties in cleaning up former meth lab had so chosen, would have had the right to passed by a voice vote then. This one sites. request a sequential referral of this legisla- also, though, addressed changes made According to the 2006 National Drug tion, both in the 109th Congress and in the by the Senate in that bill that passed Threat Survey of State and Local Law 110th Congress. Since this did not occur, I the Congress before. Enforcement, meth was named most am unable to predict whether the Speaker would have given the Committee on Energy Over the past decade this issue, the often the greatest drug threat. Well, I and Commerce a formal referral. I would like spread of methamphetamine, has been am proud to say that my home State of to make it clear that I recognize that se- plaguing really everyplace around the Missouri has been a leader nationwide quential referrals sometimes do occur at this country. It has been killing individ- on issues such as expansion of stem cell

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Jefferson County, in the heart of per pound of methamphetamine devel- permission to revise and extend his re- my district, has the highest number of oped. marks.) meth lab incidents in Missouri, report- The Drug Enforcement Agency esti- Mr. BOSWELL. Mr. Speaker, I rise ing 259 incidents in 2005 alone. mates that more than 68 percent of all today in strong support of H.R. 365, and I have seen firsthand the negative meth labs are located in ordinary I associate myself with the remarks and harmful impact of this in my dis- homes in rural and residential areas. just made. Well said. It is a scourge to trict. I have met with law enforcement State and local agencies need all of the our country. throughout my district and com- resources and tools that we can provide I want to thank Chairman GORDON pliment them on their aggressive and them to remediate the contamination and Ranking Member HALL of the innovative programs. that remains after meth labs are dis- Science and Technology Committee for But the large amount of meth lab in- mantled so that innocent families are their hard work on this important cidents in Missouri means that police, not in danger. piece of legislation. I also want to firefighters and other first-line re- Although we are all aware that more thank the Meth Caucus leadership, sponders are exposed to meth labs in needs to be done to win the fight Messrs. CANNON, CALVERT and LARSEN, the line of duty. While some States against this devastating drug, I am who I have worked with. have already passed laws to require convinced that H.R. 365 will be an im- Meth has wreaked havoc on our com- cleanup of meth labs, Missouri and portant step and will be welcomed by munities. Every district in our Nation many others have not. our communities. has in some way felt the impact of This bill is vital, because we need the So I thank Chairman GORDON for his what methamphetamine can do to fam- EPA to create these voluntary guide- good work, and I encourage all of my ilies, the burden it places on local law lines for first responders nationwide. colleagues to pass this commonsense enforcement and public health, and the This bill would be beneficial in deter- legislation. toxic effect it has on the environment. mining the effects of meth exposure. In Mr. GORDON of Tennessee. Mr. In my State of Iowa alone, we had addition to creating guidelines for Speaker, I thank Mr. CALVERT for co- roughly 350 meth lab busts last year. cleanup, the bill would also require the sponsoring this legislation last session Although this number is significantly National Academy of Sciences to study as well as this session, and for his work down from 1,500 busts in 2004, it still the long-term impacts on first respond- as cochair of the important Meth- presents a tremendous problem for my ers, children and property owners. Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Flor- amphetamine Caucus. State. I personally thank Marvin Van ida. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to I now yield 2 minutes to my friend L REEN Haaften of Marion County, our recent the gentleman from California (Mr. from Texas (Mr. A G ), an alum- nus of the Science Committee. drug czar, for his great work and lead- CALVERT). Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Speaker, I am Mr. AL GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speak- ership in this cause. In order to effec- proud to join Chairman GORDON, Mr. er, it was a preeminent privilege to tively continue our efforts to eradicate HALL and Mr. WU as the lead sponsors serve with the gentleman on the meth from our communities, we need of H.R. 365, the Methamphetamine Re- Science Committee when he was a every piece of information available. mediation Act of 2007. chairperson in waiting, and I am hon- This legislation will increase the pool Mr. Speaker, we were very close to ored to call you Mr. Chairman today. of information that local law enforce- sending this legislation to the Presi- Mr. Speaker, this is a serious prob- ment and others rely upon. dent for signature at the end of the last lem. I beseech, I urge, I implore, I beg Mr. Speaker, I am particularly Congress, so I greatly appreciate the that my colleagues would support this pleased that this legislation takes the chairman keeping this issue at the legislation, H.R. 365. necessary steps to coordinate the de- forefront of this Congress and for steer- 365 is an appropriate number for this velopment of meth detection equip- ing the bill quickly through the legislation, because this is a 365/24/7 ment with emphasis on field detection Science and Technology Committee at problem. And this problem must be equipment. I believe having reliable the start of the 110. dealt with. This is a dangerous drug to equipment in the field will not only Mr. Speaker, I also thank the com- produce. It is toxic. It is poisonous. It strengthen meth-related cases, it will mittee’s majority and minority staffs is deadly. It can explode. Twenty per- increase the safety of our law enforce- who have diligently worked together cent of all labs are discovered because ment officers, enabling them to take and with the Senate over the last few of fire or explosion. necessary steps to protect themselves years to develop and revise this legisla- And as bad as this is, there is a sin- from the toxic environment caused by tion. ister side to this drug. Innocent people the production of methamphetamine. As a founder and cochairman of the are being harmed by virtue of this drug Furthermore, the study commis- Congressional Caucus to Fight and being in residential property that land- sioned by the legislation exposes the Control Methamphetamine, I know the lords are not aware of. And when these long-term effects of exposure of meth meth epidemic in our country shows no innocent persons move in with their labs on children and first responders. deference to district or party line. This children, the residue from this product This help is long overdue. I am proud is an issue everyone can agree is is causing damage to the liver, damage this legislation addresses the issue. wreaking havoc on communities across to the lungs, may cause cancer, and it Mr. Speaker, as a cosponsor of H.R. our Nation. creates problems in the neurological 365, I strongly urge my colleagues to As mentioned by my colleagues, H.R. system. support and pass this measure. 365 focused its efforts on procedures Mr. Speaker, we must act now. These Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Flor- and standards needed to decontaminate labs are in all 50 States. No State is be- ida. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance a site where a methamphetamine lab is yond the scope of this problem. Two- of my time. found so our communities can more thirds of the residential settings are Mr. GORDON of Tennessee. Mr. thoroughly remediate these sites. victimized with these labs. Between Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the The creation of voluntary health- 2003 and 2005, the DEA pointed out that former youngest attorney general in based remediation guidelines for 47,000 lab incidents occurred. We must the Nation, who saw firsthand the former meth labs, created by the Envi- act now if the innocent are to be pro- problem with methamphetamine in ronmental Protection Agency, will pro- tected from this deadly assassin. I beg Kentucky (Mr. CHANDLER). tect and ensure the health of our citi- that we all support this important Mr. CHANDLER. Mr. Speaker, I come zens and the surrounding environment. piece of legislation. to the floor today in support of my

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Mr. Speaker, I would like gle State in our country, and unfortu- So I strongly support this bill, and to thank Chairman GORDON for intro- nately it has had a disproportionate ef- urge my colleagues to support it. ducing this important piece of legisla- fect on my home State of Kentucky, as Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Flor- tion, the Methamphetamine Remedi- I know it has also in Tennessee. ida. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance ation Research Act. Law enforcement officials, in my of my time. In my home State of Indiana and view, have done an incredible job in Mr. GORDON of Tennessee. Mr. throughout our country, meth labs are fighting the meth epidemic. According Speaker, Oregon has long had a terrible a growing problem, and we all know to the Office of Drug Control Policy, in problem with methamphetamines, and this. In Jackson County, Indiana, June of last year, there were almost 57 a real fighter there has been Ms. where I grew up and raised my family, percent fewer methamphetamine lab HOOLEY, and I yield 2 minutes to her. 64 meth labs were found there in 2003. Ms. HOOLEY. Mr. Speaker, and Mr. seizures in Kentucky than in the pre- That was the fourth highest total in Chairman, thank you so much for all of vious years; however, our State still the State. your leadership on this issue. I applaud These meth labs pose a serious threat ended the year with well over 500 meth you. to the safety and physical well-being of lab incidents. In my three decades of public service, communities and particularly our Na- Our law enforcement officials cannot I don’t think I have ever seen a prob- tion’s children. This bill will provide do it alone. Fighting production of lem as pervasive or as damaging as the States with specific guidelines and ad- meth is not the last battle we face methamphetamine epidemic that is vice on the most effective way to de- when dealing with this terrible drug. sweeping our country. Meth is a seri- contaminate a meth lab. In addition, We have to take it a step further. ous threat to public health and safety, this bill will also help keep our local b 1045 not only because of the highly addict- law enforcement safe during a meth lab Meth is highly volatile, and because ive nature of the drug and what it does cleanup. it is often produced in homes, apart- to the user, but also the ease of produc- I would like to thank our law en- ments or hotel rooms, this drug can tion and the danger of toxic chemicals forcement agents who I have had threaten the health of whomever may used to manufacture it. many, many conversations with about These toxic chemicals cause signifi- occupy that space later. We must en- this growing problem in America and cant property damage from residue sure that the environments of our fam- Indiana. I want to thank them for contamination in the floors and the ilies are free of the remnants of meth working to dramatically lower the walls of the house, to fires, even deadly production. We must take the nec- number of meth labs in Indiana to explosions. Chemicals used to make essary steps so that the authorities fewer than 1,000 for the first time since meth are highly flammable and toxic. know how to best clean former sites 2002. We need to continue to support It is estimated, for every pound of and develop new technologies for de- our local law enforcement and give meth produced, we have 6 to 7 pounds them the knowledge and tools they tecting this harmful drug. And, Mr. of toxic waste. need to make sure our communities Speaker, that is exactly what this bill And meth addicts don’t care where stay safe. does. the toxic chemicals end up, often Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Flor- I encourage my colleagues to support dumping the waste down the drain or ida. Mr. Speaker, I reserve my time. this fine piece of legislation and help onto the ground, leaving it to contami- Mr. GORDON of Tennessee. Mr. our communities in their fight against nate the community’s water supply Speaker, no Member of this Congress this truly difficult epidemic. and their soil. has done more to fight this epidemic of Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Flor- In conversations with local health of- methamphetamine than the cochair- ida. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance ficials in my district, they have man of the Methamphetamine Caucus, of my time. stressed to me the harmful health ef- Mr. LARSEN. I thank him for his good Mr. GORDON of Tennessee. Mr. fects that living not only in the former work and yield him 1 minute. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to a former meth houses but even next door to one Mr. LARSEN of Washington. Mr. DA from New York State who, once can have on people, particularly chil- Speaker, I rise in full support of H.R. again, has seen this epidemic firsthand dren and the elderly. 365, and I want to thank Chairman and has dealt with it there, and now, as Because the meth epidemic began in GORDON, Mr. HALL and my fellow co- a new Member of Congress, he is deal- the west coast before moving east, Or- chairs of the Meth Caucus, Mr. CAL- ing with it on a national basis, Mr. egon has long been a leader in the fight VERT, Mr. BOSWELL and Mr. CANNON for ARCURI. against meth and the destruction it their work in drafting this bill, getting Mr. ARCURI. Mr. Speaker, as a brings to our communities. We have it to the floor here today. former DA from upstate New York, I been a leader in developing standards Meth is literally a chemical cocktail. know firsthand the scourge that meth- for the cleanup of meth labs, setting It is made from hazardous caustic sub- amphetamine has laid upon our rural standards for decontamination and cer- stances. In the process of cooking a areas. And I represented a district that tifying that a property has been batch of meth, those chemicals seep was both urban and rural, and I saw cleaned by a State-licensed contractor into the interior of a home, and often that methamphetamines did to the before it is sold or rented. Oregon’s innocent families move into these rural areas what crack cocaine did to standards have been seen as the high- houses and apartments completely un- the urban areas. And I think that it is est in the Nation. I would encourage aware that their new home was once imperative that we take these steps the EPA to look at Oregon as they de- used to cook meth. It isn’t until they that we are taking to fight velop national standards. But we need become ill that they know something methamphetamines. a consistent Federal standard that is is terribly wrong. The difference, however, between based on research and best practices. The DEA reported over 12,000 meth methamphetamines and crack is that When the cost to clean up a small, lab busts in 2005 in 49 States. There are there is a derivative effect that meth- single family home can easily reach currently no Federal standards or amphetamine has, and that is that it $15,000, we need to make sure that we health-based guidelines to determine affects the people who live in the are spending our money wisely by when a former lab is safe to inhabit. households of people who produce using the best possible remediation This bill will create the research methamphetamines and law enforce- methods. This bill will help us do this. both to know when a home is safe to ment officers when they go into those I urge my colleagues to support H.R. reinhabit and the health impacts of ex- areas. So it is very important that this 365. posure to a lab. We owe it the children

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Mr. Speaker, I rise today in While some states including my home State meth bill like this one brought to the support of H.R. 365, the Methamphetamine of California have taken the initiative to pass floor, and I urge all of my colleagues to Remediation Research Act of 2007. This criti- laws that outline methamphetamine laboratory vote ‘‘yes.’’ cally important piece of legislation helps detect cleanup procedures, there are currently no Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Flor- and safely dispose of Methamphetamine pro- federal standards for cleaning up these poten- ida. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance duction sites across this nation. tially toxic sites. Mr. Speaker, the time is long of my time. The issue of illegal methamphetamines is a overdue for us to take action to seek out and Mr. GORDON of Tennessee. Mr. top health concern for me and my constituents shut down these labs in a safe and healthy Speaker, our final speaker is the gen- in the 12th district of California. According to way. H.R. 365, The Methamphetamine Reme- tleman from Texas (Mr. DOGGETT) and the National Drug Intelligence Center’s Feb- diation Research Act of 2007 will do just that I yield him 11⁄2 minutes. ruary 2005 National Drug Threats Assessment by creating a road map to assure the safety of Report, the level of methamphetamine con- Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, as an our children and first responders. active member of the Congressional sumption in San Francisco is critically high The bill authorizes $1.75 million in funding Caucus to Fight and Control compared with that of most other cities in the for the Environmental Protection Agency Methamphetamines, and a sponsor of United States. (EPA) to research best practices programs for this bill, I am pleased that early in this Mr. Speaker, let me start by emphasizing detection and proper sanitation of meth- Congress we are addressing a killer the extreme danger that methamphetamines amphetamine labs. It will also specifically au- that strikes fear in the hearts of par- pose on today’s youth. Methamphetamine is a thorize $750,000 for the National Institute of ents and exacts great cost from our drug concocted from a variety of household Standards and Technology in collaboration communities. items including gasoline, paint thinner, battery with the EPA to research and develop meth- Over 10 million Americans age 12 and acid, propane, and lighter fluid among other amphetamine detection equipment. Thirdly, older are reported to have tried meth- things, cooked together to form a powder or the bill will direct the EPA to work with the Na- amphetamine. In 2005, in Texas alone, crystal like substance that is either smoked, tional Academy of Sciences to study the long some 250-plus meth labs were seized. ingested or injected. term health effects of methamphetamine lab- Their dangers are not limited to the According to the Office of National Drug oratory exposure to children and first respond- criminal manufacturers of this wretch- Control Policy methamphetamines are a highly ers. ed drug or the consumers of this poi- addictive drug that can cause progressive so- son. Rather, these highly toxic labs cial and occupational deterioration and lead to Mr. Speaker, the war against meth is being represent a much wider threat. Even episodes of violent behavior, paranoia, anx- waged on many fronts. This bill is a critical the remains of the illicit production of iety, confusion, and insomnia. Habitual usage step to ensuring that law enforcement agen- a meth lab can, by themselves, produce can lead to physical complications such as in- cies and first responders are provided with the life-threatening injuries, death, and de- flammation of the heart lining, damaged blood best information and ability to mitigate the nu- vessels, skin abscesses, as well as variety of struction of property. merous detrimental effects caused by meth- Our votes today supporting the Meth- cardiovascular problems that ultimately can amphetamine production. I urge all of my col- amphetamine Remediation Research lead to death. Doctors have equated damage leagues to join me in supporting this legisla- Act are votes to protect our families, to the brain caused by methamphetamine use tion in an effort to rid our communities of this with brain damage caused by Alzheimer’s dis- our neighborhoods, and support our law epidemic. ease, stroke, and epilepsy. Psychotic symp- enforcement organizations as they at- Mr. PEARCE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to toms can sometimes persist for months or tack the destructive impact of meth support H.R. 365, the Methamphetamine Re- years after drug use has ceased. labs. We must continue to work with search Remediation Act. Methamphetamines According to the 2005 National Survey on represent a tremendous growing threat to the local, State and Federal law enforce- Drug Use and Health an estimated 10.4 mil- ment to ensure that we are combating fabric of our society. Last year, I held more lion Americans aged 12 or older used meth- than 40 town hall meetings across Southern this scourge at every level—that our amphetamine at least once in their lifetimes. local officials have the technology, the New Mexico, listening to law enforcement, The Drug Abuse Warning Network estimates health officials, recovering addicts, and other funding, and the support they need to that in 2004 methamphetamine was involved detect these labs, close them down and experts. Time and time again I heard horror in 73,400 emergency room visits. stories about whole families in my district de- clean them up. Mr. Speaker, in addition to the horrific ef- stroyed by methamphetamines. It is our duty I applaud the leadership of Chairman fects that methamphetamine has on the as members of the United States Congress to GORDON and all those who have worked human body the caustic nature of the produc- protect America from all enemies foreign and on this piece of legislation. We took tion of the drug has enormously detrimental domestic. Mr. Speaker, methamphetamines some action last year and there is effects on the environment. This horrendous are one the greatest domestic threats that our much more action which is necessary, drug is produced in what is often referred to but this is a very important next step as ‘‘Meth Labs.’’ These laboratories can exist nation faces. We must confront its production, in our efforts against meth. virtually anywhere, in fact methamphetamine its trafficking, its abuse, and its effect on the Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Flor- laboratories have been found in all 50 states. land itself. ida. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 30 sec- They are overwhelmingly hidden amongst resi- Meth is a problem concentrated in the West onds. dential communities and pose a detrimental and Southwest, but be aware that this great I just want to also thank the chair- risk to millions of Americans. It is estimated evil is moving across America, and soon no man of the Science and Technology that methamphetamine production creates ap- one will be able to say it is not their problem. Committee, the gentleman from Ten- proximately six pounds of waste for every one As meth spreads across our nation it leaves a nessee (Mr. GORDON), for putting this pound of product. If not properly cleaned, this trail of destroyed lives, families, homes, com- on the top of his agenda, at the top of highly volatile waste product leaves a toxic munities, property and public lands in its his priorities. It is an important issue, residue that can threaten the health of who- wake. H.R. 365 the Methamphetamine Re- and I want to thank him for doing that. ever may come in contact with it. search Remediation Act of 2007 will set need- Mr. Speaker, we have no further re- According to the Drug Enforcement Agency ed standards for the clean-up of property and quests for time, and so I would yield (DEA) there were more then 47,000 reported public lands destroyed by methamphetamines. back the balance of my time. Meth Lab incidents between the years 2003 Unlike other drugs, the cooking of Mr. GORDON of Tennessee. Mr. and 2005. Nearly one in five of those were methamphetamines is hazardous to everything Speaker, it certainly is nice to see a fires or explosions caused by the highly toxic that it touches and can render houses and good bipartisan piece of legislation and potentially flammable ingredients used to property uninhabitable. H.R. 365 will address pass through this House. It is a good create the drug. the environmental impact of way to start. I appreciate the coopera- Even after these Meth Labs are discovered methamphetamines, and how to recover our tion of everybody involved. by authorities and shut down, and the crimi- properties and lands.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 23:44 Feb 07, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\K07FE7.013 H07FEPT1 mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with HOUSE H1284 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE February 7, 2007 In the Second District of New Mexico half- neurotransmitters—chemical substances pro- the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. million dollar homes have been left uninhabit- duced in nerve cells—which communicate GORDON) that the House suspend the able, and state parks have become unusable. throughout the body. The foremost rules and pass the bill, H.R. 365. This destruction occurs because of meth- neurotransmitter affected by methamphet- The question was taken. amphetamine cooking and the dumping of amine is dopamine, which is involved with our The SPEAKER pro tempore. In the meth related chemicals. I fear that natural reward system. This is known as the opinion of the Chair, two-thirds being unsuspecting New Mexicans will encounter automatic nervous system. For example, a pat in the affirmative, the ayes have it. these environmental hazards and endanger on the back for a job well done, getting enjoy- Mr. GORDON of Tennessee. Mr. their lives. H.R. 365 The Methamphetamines ment from family and social interactions, and Speaker, on that I demand the yeas Research Remediation Act of 2007, will pro- the feeling that our lives are meaningful, all and nays. vide communities across America with the rely on dopamine transmission. The yeas and nays were ordered. proper information and procedures on how to With properties that target the nervous sys- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- clean up meth labs and reclaim the land they tem, it should be no surprise that side affects ant to clause 8 of rule XX and the have poisoned. of meth include extreme paranoia, violent be- Chair’s prior announcement, further This bill is the first in many steps we should havior, rapid weight loss, tooth loss, halluci- proceedings on this question will be take to track and fight Meth in our commu- nations, unexplained voices, pale complexion, postponed. nities. I have introduced H.R. 304, the CLEAN speech impediments, Parkinson’s disease-like f TOWN Act to help in our battle against meth. symptoms, depression, insomnia, suicide con- RECOGNIZING THE WORK AND AC- As we talk about this bill, I hope my col- templation, and schizophrenia. It is important COMPLISHMENTS OF MR. BRITT leagues will examine my legislation that has to mention these various symptoms and health ‘‘MAX’’ MAYFIELD, DIRECTOR OF tremendous promise to help change the way problems because without proper clean-up un- THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CEN- we fight drugs and drug dealers. I urge all my seen chemicals can spread from one home TER’S TROPICAL PREDICTION colleagues to join me in fighting Meth and help through entire neighborhoods, creating an un- CENTER UPON HIS RETIREMENT us save America’s families. known danger to current and future owners. Mr. GINGREY. Mr. Speaker, as Congress Considering the numerous dangers caused Mr. GORDON of Tennessee. Mr. debates measures to clean up meth labs, I be- by methamphetamines, I believe it is more im- Speaker, I move to suspend the rules lieve it is important to offer a physician’s per- portant than ever to make sure our law en- and agree to the resolution (H. Res. 72) spective to help some people understand why forcement community has the laws, equip- recognizing the work and accomplish- this drug is so dangerous. Also called crank, ment, and training necessary to protect our ments of Mr. Britt ‘‘Max’’ Mayfield, Di- blue acid, speed, and ice, meth is a popular communities from this drug. Mr. Speaker, I rector of the National Hurricane Cen- drug because it is cheap, easy to manufac- want to congratulate the House of Represent- ter’s Tropical Prediction Center upon ture, and acts as a powerful stimulant. An in- atives for the passage of today’s Methamphet- his retirement. vestment of just a few hundred dollars in over- amine Remediation Research Act of 2007, The Clerk read as follows: the-counter medications and chemicals can which includes substantive legislation that will H. RES. 72 produce thousands of dollars worth of meth- establish voluntary guidelines to assist state Whereas Mr. Britt ‘‘Max’’ Mayfield is amphetamine, which can be cooked in some- and local governments in the development known as the ‘‘Walter Cronkite of Weather’’, thing as small as a suitcase. and implementation of policies for the clean-up trustworthy, calming, and always giving the The average meth ‘‘cook’’ annually teaches of former methamphetamine laboratories. facts straight; Whereas Mr. Mayfield is a Fellow of the an average of ten people how to make the Mr. COSTELLO. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support drug. Typical ingredients include over-the- American Meteorological Society and a na- of H.R. 365, the Methamphetamine Remedi- tionally and internationally recognized ex- counter cold and asthma medications con- ation Research Act to initiate standards for pert on hurricanes, and has presented papers taining ephedrine or pseudoephedrine, in addi- methamphetamine (meth) cleanup in our at national and international scientific tion to red phosphorous, hydrochloric acid, neighborhoods. As a cosponsor of H.R. 365, I meetings, lectured in training sessions spon- drain cleaner, battery acid, lye, lantern fuel, believe this legislation is necessary in order to sored by the United Nations World Meteoro- and antifreeze. protect unsuspecting families from the dangers logical Organization, and provided numerous In fact, users of this drug are often not of illegal meth labs and provide the necessary interviews to electronic and print media aware that they are potentially ingesting toxic tools for law enforcement to detect labs worldwide; chemicals. The toxic fumes emitted during Whereas in 2006, Mr. Mayfield received the throughout our communities. Government Communicator of the Year manufacturing are highly flammable, even ex- As a member of the Congressional Caucus Award from the National Association of Gov- plosive, and can suffocate plants, animals, to Fight and Control Methamphetamine and a ernment Communicators, a national not-for- and even people. For my colleagues con- former law enforcement official, I am actively profit professional network of government cerned about the environment, each pound of working with my colleagues to decrease meth- employees who disseminate information meth produced leaves behind five or six amphetamine use. In my home state of Illinois, within and outside the government, as well pounds of toxic waste. Meth ‘‘cooks’’ often there were 1,189 methamphetamine laboratory as the prestigious Neil Frank Award from pour leftover chemicals and byproduct sludge seizures reported in 2005, many in my district the National Hurricane Conference; down drains in nearby plumbing, storm drains, in Southern Illinois. In order to combat meth, Whereas in 2005, Mr. Mayfield received a Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious or directly onto the ground, creating long-term I believe we need a comprehensive plan to Service from President George W. Bush and hazards: the chemical waste can remain in our deal with the environmental, health, and law was named ABC Television Network’s ‘‘Per- soil and groundwater for years. The average enforcement challenges facing our commu- son of the Week’’ after Hurricane Katrina; cost to clean up a methamphetamine labora- nities because of the growing use of this dan- Whereas in 2004, the Federal Coordinator tory ranges between $2,000 and $3,000. How- gerous drug. for Meteorological Services and Supporting ever, this does not include the ancillary costs Mr. Speaker, the national guidelines this bill Research presented the Richard Hagemeyer of cleaning up a former laboratory. creates will help protect our communities by Award to Mr. Mayfield at the Interdepart- In February 2005, the Atlanta Police, U.S. ensuring that dangerous meth labs are mental Hurricane Conference for his con- Drug Enforcement, the MCS drug taskforce, tributions to the hurricane warning program cleaned properly and efficiently. It is my con- of the United States; and other law enforcement agencies discov- tinued hope that by raising national awareness Whereas also in 2004, the National Acad- ered Georgia’s first ‘‘super lab’’ at a house in about meth and providing increased federal emy of Television Arts and Sciences Smyrna, Georgia, which is in the Congres- resources to combat the drug problem, we can Suncoast Chapter recognized Mr. Mayfield sional District I represent. With 39 pounds of make significant progress to overcome meth- with the Governor’s Award, more commonly meth-crystal and 250 gallons of the drug in liq- amphetamine use. This legislation is a critical known as an ‘‘Emmy’’, for extraordinary uid form, one mistake could have destroyed step we can take toward this goal and I urge contributions to television by an individual an entire neighborhood due to the explosive my colleagues to support H.R. 365. not otherwise eligible for an Emmy; volatility of the materials. Mr. GORDON of Tennessee. Mr. Whereas in 2000, Mr. Mayfield received an Outstanding Achievement Award at the Na- No longer just the addictive scourge of Speaker, I have no further requests for tional Hurricane Conference and in 1996 the 1970’s biker gangs, meth is a very real prob- time, and I yield back the balance of American Meteorological Society honored lem that affects our children and neighbors in my time. him with the Francis W. Reichelderfer very real ways. The drug works directly on the The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Award for exemplary performance as coordi- brain and spinal cord by interacting with question is on the motion offered by nator of the National Hurricane Center’s

VerDate Aug 31 2005 00:34 Feb 08, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A07FE7.003 H07FEPT1 mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with HOUSE February 7, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H1285 hurricane preparedness training for emer- tropical storms and eight hurricanes. commend my colleague from Florida gency preparedness officials and the general Likewise, on August 29, 2005, Hurricane (Mr. MAHONEY) for introducing this public; Katrina made landfall near New Orle- timely and very good resolution. Whereas Mr. Mayfield and his colleagues ans, devastating the gulf coast region have been recognized by the Department of As a Floridian, I am keenly aware, Commerce with Gold Medals for work during of the United States. In the days that Mr. Speaker, of the wrath that Mother Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and Hurricane Isa- followed, we learned that Katrina had Nature can throw our way when she is bel in 2003, and a Silver Medal during Hurri- left nearly 80 percent of the Crescent so inclined to do so, especially when it cane Gilbert in 1988; City under water, caused an immeas- comes to hurricanes. We all recall that, Whereas Mr. Mayfield was also awarded a urable amount of damage, displaced for example, in a time of just 2 years, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis- thousands of families and resulted in 2 short years, Florida had eight hurri- tration Bronze Medal for creating a public- the deaths of nearly 1,500 people. private partnership to support the disaster While hurricanes cannot be pre- canes that actually hit and made land- preparedness of the United States; and vented, accurate storm forecasting has fall on the State of Florida. Whereas Mr. Mayfield is the current Chair- helped millions of people prepare for Mr. Mayfield has worked and strived man of the World Meteorological Organiza- tion Regional Association-IV, which sup- them and prepare for evacuation. The to improve the warning lead times, to ports 26 members from Atlantic and eastern individual responsible for providing the increase the understanding of the track Pacific countries: Now, therefore, be it public with these accurate and easy-to- of where the hurricanes are going, and Resolved, That the House of Representa- understand forecasts was Mr. Mayfield, also particularly the intensity of those tives— who retired from the National Hurri- hurricanes. (1) honors Mr. Britt ‘‘Max’’ Mayfield’s com- cane Center on January 3 of this year. Mr. Speaker, one of the things that mitment to improving the accuracy of hurri- Born in Oklahoma, Mr. Mayfield always struck me was that, as these cane forecasting as Director of the National began his forecasting career with the storms were coming our way, coming Hurricane Center’s Tropical Prediction Cen- Air Force in 1970 after graduating from ter; towards the United States, Director the University of Oklahoma with a de- (2) thanks Mr. Mayfield for his service, Mayfield would actually personally get which has undoubtedly helped to save count- gree in mathematics. In 1972, he re- ceived his master’s degree in meteor- on the phone. This was not something less lives and the property of citizens around that was required by his job. He would the world; ology from Florida State University. (3) commends Mr. Mayfield’s dedication to Mr. Mayfield joined the National pick up the phone and call Governors expanding educational opportunities for Weather Service as a satellite mete- and call mayors and tell them, Hey, State and local emergency management offi- orologist in Miami. During his 34-year this is a real storm. It is coming your cials; career at the center, Mr. Mayfield way. Get ready. I don’t see that you are (4) acknowledges the critical role that Mr. served as a senior forecaster, deputy di- ready enough. Get ready. And he would Mayfield has played in forecast and service rector and then director. make sure that those governments improvements over his 34-year career; Mr. Mayfield has received numerous were prepared and evacuating the peo- (5) recognizes the unwavering support of ple that they needed to evacuate to Mr. Mayfield’s family in supporting his ca- awards for his work in the field of me- reer; teorology. In 1996, the American Mete- make sure that the people were safe. (6) wishes Mr. Mayfield continued success orological Society presented him with He and his staff have helped protect in his future endeavors; and the Francis W. Reichelderfer Award for the lives and the property of millions (7) recognizes the support and work of the exemplary performance as coordinator of people in our country and even of staff of the National Hurricane Center’s of the National Hurricane Center’s hur- other countries, countries throughout Tropical Prediction Center during Mr. ricane preparedness training for emer- the Caribbean. Mayfield’s tenure as Director of the Center. gency preparedness officials and the The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- general public. He is the epitome of a dedicated pub- ant to the rule, the gentleman from He has also received an Outstanding lic servant, Mr. Speaker. He has re- Tennessee (Mr. GORDON) and the gen- Achievement Award at the 2000 Na- ceived many awards, including in 2005 tleman from Florida (Mr. MARIO DIAZ- tional Hurricane Conference for devel- he received the Presidential Rank BALART) each will control 20 minutes. oping and expanding educational op- Award for Meritorious Service from The Chair recognizes the gentleman portunities for the State and local President George W. Bush. from Tennessee. emergency management officials. After more than 30 years of distin- GENERAL LEAVE In addition, the U.S. Department of guished service to weather forecasting Mr. GORDON of Tennessee. Mr. Commerce has recognized Mr. Mayfield and hurricane forecasting, Mr. Max Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that with gold medals for his work during Mayfield retired in January of 2007. I all Members have 5 legislative days to hurricanes Andrew, Isabel, and a silver know that the residents of south Flor- revise and extend their remarks and to medal during Hurricane Gilbert. ida and of the entire country and all include extraneous material on H. Res. b 1100 the Caribbean will miss his calm, clear 72, the resolution now under consider- Maybe more important than the voice when those hurricanes are ation. threatening our shores. His retirement The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there many awards, however, are the count- marks the end of an exceptional career, objection to the request of the gen- less lives that have been saved by the and his successors at the National Hur- tleman from Tennessee? work of Mr. Mayfield and his team at There was no objection. the National Hurricane Center. The ricane Center will clearly have very Mr. GORDON of Tennessee. Mr. Nation is truly grateful to Mr. large shoes to fill as Max and his wife Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that Mayfield; his wife, Linda; for a lifetime Linda now prepare to spend a little bit the gentleman from Florida (Mr. of love and dedication to the National of time, hopefully a lot of time, with MAHONEY) be allowed to control the Hurricane Center, and the people in their families, because, again, Max has time on our side. Mr. MAHONEY has this great country are thankful for his been on call 24/7, and we are used to taken the lead on this bill, and I appre- service. seeing him on TV, and one always won- ciate him doing so. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of dered does that man ever sleep? The The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there my time. answer is, Mr. Speaker, that when objection to the request of the gen- Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Flor- there was a storm coming, no, he and tleman from Tennessee? ida. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such his staff did not sleep. Well, now he is There was no objection. time as I may consume. going to be spend a little more time Mr. MAHONEY of Florida. Mr. Mr. Speaker, I rise also in support of with his wife Linda and his family. House Resolution 72, recognizing the Speaker, I yield myself such time as I I know that my colleagues will join may consume. incredible work and the accomplish- Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support ments of Mr. Max Mayfield, the direc- this Congress in wishing both him and of this resolution honoring Max tor of the National Hurricane Center, his wife and his family all the best. We Mayfield, former director of NOAA’s the Tropical Protection Center, again, know they will enjoy their time to- National Hurricane Center. of the National Hurricane Center, gether. In less than 2 years, my home State which is located in Miami, Florida. He But on a personal note I just want to of Florida suffered damage from four has recently retired. I want to also say, Max, thank you for a life well

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Mr. MAHONEY of Florida. Mr. and have saved lives in communities The question was taken; and (two- Speaker, I reserve the balance of my around the country and around the thirds being in the affirmative) the time. world. rules were suspended and the resolu- Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Flor- I am not alone in my esteem for Mr. tion was agreed to. ida. Mr. Speaker, I will now yield 2 Mayfield. The American Meteorology A motion to reconsider was laid on minutes to the gentleman from Florida Society, the National Association of the table. (Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART). Government Communicators, ABC Tel- f evision, the National Academy of Tele- Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of COMMENDING THE UNIVERSITY OF Florida. Mr. Speaker, I have got some vision Arts and Sciences, the National Hurricane Conference, the Department NEBRASKA-LINCOLN VOLLEY- very important visitors in my office at BALL TEAM FOR WINNING NCAA this time, but I mentioned to them, of Commerce, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and DIVISION I WOMEN’S VOLLEY- and I know they understand, that I BALL CHAMPIONSHIP wanted to come down to speak a President George W. Bush have all pre- minute on someone who has long been sented Max with formal awards for his Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speak- south Florida’s treasure and really be- outstanding achievements and service er, I move to suspend the rules and came the national treasure, Max to his craft and to society. And those agree to the resolution (H. Res. 99) Mayfield, who has saved countless are just the formal awards. They do commending the University of Ne- lives. not include the many personal ‘‘thank braska-Lincoln volleyball team for And with his demeanor and profes- yous’’ that he has received from the winning the NCAA Division I Women’s sionalism even in those extraordinarily very people he has spent his life serv- Volleyball Championship, as amended. tense moments, Mr. Speaker, when ing, and from the people whose lives he The Clerk read as follows: storms are approaching or have ar- has helped save. H. RES. 99 rived, Max was that great sea of tran- My colleagues, in Congress we think Whereas the University of Nebraska-Lin- quility that helped our communities we are busy, and, indeed, we are. But I coln Husker volleyball team won the 2006 wherever those storms were approach- understand that in the thick of storm NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Na- tional Championship at the Qwest Center in ing through those tense moments. And season, Mr. Mayfield sometimes did more than 100 interviews in 1 day. Now, Omaha, Nebraska, on December 16, 2006; he is really an extraordinary human Whereas Husker junior Sarah Pavan was being with a wonderful team. So my that is busy. I am certain he is looking forward to retirement. chosen as the Nation’s top collegiate female heart goes out to that team that he volleyball player, winning the 2006-07 Honda I am pleased to express my deepest helped build and is still there doing Sports Award for volleyball; gratitude to Max Mayfield and to his great work. Whereas Pavan was named the ESPN the endlessly supportive family for sharing And to Max, as he begins this new Magazine Academic All-American of the him with us for this time. chapter in his life, Godspeed, with our Year, becoming Nebraska’s 234th Academic Max, God bless you and the work you All-American and the program’s 29th Aca- profound gratitude for having helped so have done. I wish you calm weather demic All-American in volleyball, totals many for so many years with your very and smooth sailing in your retirement. that lead the Nation; important work, Max Mayfield. Mr. MAHONEY of Florida. Mr. Whereas the Huskers completed the 2006 Mr. MAHONEY of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my season with a record of 33–1; Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time. Whereas Husker head coach John Cook has time. Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Flor- lead the team to 2 national championships; Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Flor- ida. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 30 sec- Whereas the Husker volleyball team made its sixth appearance in the NCAA finals; ida. Mr. Speaker, I would now like to onds. yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Whereas the 2006 Huskers are only the We do a lot of important work in third team in the history of the NCAA to Michigan (Mr. EHLERS). Congress, and we pass a lot of good res- lead the American Volleyball Coaches Asso- Mr. EHLERS. Mr. Speaker, I rise olutions for good people, but rarely can ciation poll for an entire season; today to congratulate Mr. Britt ‘‘Max’’ you actually say that here is a person Whereas the entire Husker volleyball team Mayfield on an exemplary career of who has saved thousands upon thou- should be commended for its determination, service to his fellow citizens, and to sands upon thousands of lives in his work ethic, attitude, and heart; wish him well in his much-deserved re- work. He is truly a fine, wonderful pub- Whereas the University of Nebraska is tirement. lic servant, and it is wonderful to be building an impressive legacy of excellence in its volleyball program; and In his 34 years of service to the Na- able to have the opportunity to now tion, Max Mayfield has personified the Whereas the University of Nebraska support and vote on this fine resolu- volleyball players have brought great honor dedication and excellence that make tion. to themselves, their families, their univer- the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Mr. Speaker, I have no further re- sity, and the State of Nebraska: Now, there- Administration’s National Weather quests for time, and I yield back the fore, be it Service one of the crown jewels of the balance of my time. Resolved, That the House of Representa- Federal Government. Mr. MAHONEY of Florida. Mr. tives— Since he began forecasting weather Speaker, I would like to thank Chair- (1) commends the University of Nebraska- for the Air Force in 1970 and over more Lincoln Husker volleyball team for winning man GORDON and his staff and my col- the 2006 NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball than three decades with the National leagues who have helped me put to- National Championship; and Weather Service, Max has helped push gether this resolution and to honor Mr. (2) recognizes the achievements of the forward the science of forecasting to Mayfield. players, coaches, students, and staff whose help make our Nation a safer place. I would just like to conclude by say- hard work and dedication made the Cham- But just making better forecasts has ing that we wish Mr. Mayfield a won- pionship possible. never been enough for Max, because a derful retirement with his wife Linda The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- forecast does no good if no one hears it. and their three kids. And, again, I ant to the rule, the gentlewoman from Mr. Mayfield has also dedicated his ca- would like to congratulate him for his California (Mrs. DAVIS) and the gen- reer to making sure that his always- exemplary service and his distin- tleman from Michigan (Mr. EHLERS) improving forecasts got out quickly, as guished career at the National Weather each will control 20 minutes. quickly as possible, to the people who Service and National Hurricane Center. The Chair recognizes the gentle- need them. He understands not only The Nation is going to miss him. woman from California.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 04:02 Feb 08, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07FE7.019 H07FEPT1 mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with HOUSE February 7, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H1287 GENERAL LEAVE Mr. EHLERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield as Head Coach John Cook, who led the Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speak- myself such time as I may consume. team with skill and discipline. Under er, I ask unanimous consent that Mem- Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to rise Coach Cook’s leadership, the team fin- bers may have 5 legislative days to in- in support of House Resolution 99. This ished the season with an astounding sert material relevant to House Resolu- resolution honors the top-ranked Uni- record of 33–1. Not only did Coach Cook tion 99 into the RECORD. versity of Nebraska women’s volleyball lead this team to a national champion- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there team for their victory over the second- ship, but this is his third time in that objection to the request of the gentle- ranked Stanford University Cardinals. leadership seat. woman from California? The Huskers rallied to defeat Stanford The University of Nebraska women’s There was no objection. 3–1 for their third NCAA Division I volleyball team is a shining example of Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speak- women’s volleyball championship in the best that Nebraska has to offer. er, I yield myself such time as I may front of a record crowd of 17,209 fans at Again, I would like to congratulate the consume. the Quest Center in Omaha. team. (Mrs. DAVIS of California asked and Led by four All-Americans, including Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speak- was given permission to revise and ex- national player of the year Sarah er, I reserve the balance of my time. tend her remarks.) Pavan, the Huskers won the school’s Mr. EHLERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speak- ninth Big 12 title in 11 years with a 19– myself such time as I may consume. er, I want to congratulate the Univer- 1 Big 12 record, and a 33–1 overall Mr. Speaker, first of all, I want to sity of Nebraska-Lincoln for winning record. This is the second national title thank the previous speaker for com- the NCAA Division I Women’s Volley- that the team has won with head coach mending me for my support of Ne- ball Championship. John Cook leading the team. braska athletes. That is certainly true, On December 16, 2006, the University I extend my congratulations to except for one time when I was invited of Nebraska-Lincoln Huskers volley- Coach John Cook, all of the hard- to speak to a conference at the Univer- ball team won the 2006 NCAA Division working players, the fans and the Uni- sity of Nebraska. At this conference, I I Championship by defeating the Stan- versity of Nebraska. I am happy to join was speaking on teaching better math- ford University Cardinals at the Qwest my good friends and colleagues, Rep- ematics in elementary schools. Then I Center in Omaha, Nebraska. resentatives SMITH, FORTENBERRY, and saw a huge billboard as I was driving I want to extend my congratulations TERRY, in honoring this exceptional into Lincoln to give the speech, and I to head coach John Cook, head assist- team and all of its accomplishments, saw how badly they needed my speech ant coach Lee Meas, assistant coach and wish all involved success in the fu- on mathematics, because there was a Charlene Johnson-Tagaloa, and the di- ture. big billboard that announced ‘‘Wel- rector of volleyball operations Lindsay My only regret, since I enjoy playing come to the University of Nebraska. Wischmeier. Also supporting the team volleyball myself, is that I never had Home of the number one football team was athletic director Steve Pederson the opportunity to watch them play in in America.’’ Well, that year, of course, and the University of Nebraska-Lin- person. But it would have been a real Michigan was the number one team, coln chancellor Harvey Perlman. pleasure, had I been able to. but Nebraska refused to concede that. The Huskers, Mr. Speaker, had an ex- I ask my colleagues to support this Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to ceptional record of 33–1 and had four resolution. yield 3 minutes to another gentleman All-Americans on their team. Junior Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of from Nebraska (Mr. TERRY). Sarah Pavan also won the 2006–2007 my time. Mr. TERRY. Mr. Speaker, yes, we Honda Sports Award. This award is Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speak- enjoy, ranking member, former chair- given to the Nation’s top collegiate fe- er, I reserve the balance of my time. man, Michigan Stater, having that 1997 male volleyball player. Pavan was also Mr. EHLERS. Mr. Speaker, on behalf national championship trophy promi- named the ESPN Magazine Academic of Mr. SMITH, the sponsor of this reso- nently displayed when you walk into All-American of the Year. lution, I apologize on his behalf that he the athletic facilities. It is too bad that And I also want to extend my con- is unable to be here, but he dearly we weren’t able to leave that game on gratulations to the Stanford Univer- wanted to be here to speak on this res- the field back then, but I am sure that sity Cardinals. The Cardinals had a olution. In his absence, I am next Nebraska would have won by 30 or 40 record of 30–4. The Cardinals were the pleased to yield 3 minutes to another points. PAC–10 Conference champions and were gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Now, I have to defend the football honored by four women receiving All- FORTENBERRY). team, Mr. Speaker, when challenged American honors. Mr. FORTENBERRY. Mr. Speaker, I like that. thank the gentleman from Michigan But I am so proud of our women’s b 1115 for his time and his commendations of volleyball team and to be a cosponsor Student athletes, as we know, bal- the University of Nebraska volleyball with ADRIAN SMITH of this resolution. ance a rigorous school workload with team. What an incredible achievement. Our the many practices and games in which Mr. Speaker, I rise to also thank volleyball team started the season they compete. Representative ADRIAN SMITH for origi- ranked number one with high expecta- So I am proud of all the student ath- nally sponsoring this resolution con- tions and ended the season number one letes for their dedication to their gratulating all the members of the in a hard-fought duel with Stanford, school work and their sport. The NCAA volleyball team. I am pleased to co- the number two rated team in the Na- promotes its 380,000 student athletes to sponsor this resolution as well to bring tion. And some even had the audacity work with numerous service organiza- attention to the national successes of to think that Stanford was a better tions, including the American Red this team out of Lincoln. team. But, boy, it was the match of a Cross, Habitat for Humanity and the Just a month ago, as it was men- century, two titans battling it out. And American Cancer Society. tioned, the team won the 2006 NCAA the University of Nebraska in the fifth Winning the national championship Division I women’s volleyball cham- game prevailed for the national cham- and finishing the season with a 33–1 pionship. I am very proud of the Husk- pionship. record has brought positive national er team and particularly proud to say Not only are we proud of the Univer- recognition and attention to the Uni- that this team represents all of Ne- sity of Nebraska women’s volleyball versity of Nebraska-Lincoln, and I braska. team for their play on the court but know that the fans of the university Mr. Speaker, success isn’t something also those in attendance. My home- will cherish this moment as they look that just happens. It takes fore- town of Omaha hosted the national forward to the 2007 season. thought, hard work, persistence and championship tournament, and we now Mr. Speaker, once again, I congratu- dedication, and the members of the hold the record for attendance for a late the University of Nebraska-Lin- Huskers women’s volleyball team cer- women’s volleyball match in America; coln for their success. tainly earned it. 17,200 fans attended each session. I Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of Every member of the team should be think that speaks well of the sports en- my time. commended for her dedication, as well thusiasm in Nebraska.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 04:02 Feb 08, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07FE7.023 H07FEPT1 mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with HOUSE H1288 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE February 7, 2007 I also want to acknowledge one of the instruments they had used in Africa, or prac- American spiritual as a national treas- players on that team, Sarah Pavan, a tice their traditional religious beliefs, relied ure. From 1619 to 1865, enslaved African junior, who has become the second on their strong African oral tradition of Americans created their own unique player in NCAA history to be named songs, stories, proverbs, and historical ac- form of expression known today as counts to create this original music, now the American Volleyball Coaches Asso- known as spirituals; spirituals. As African Americans were ciation Player of the Year and Aca- Whereas Calvin Earl, a noted performer not allowed to speak their native lan- demic All-American of the year from and educator on African American spirituals, guages or play African musical instru- ESPN Magazine. That is truly a stu- remarked that the Christian lyrics became a ments, spirituals were incorporated dent athlete. metaphor for freedom from slavery, a secret into the English language and the I urge all of my colleagues to join the way for slaves to ‘‘communicate with each Christian religious faith. These spir- Nebraska delegation today in recog- other, teach their children, record their his- ituals were the strong African oral tra- nizing the outstanding play of our tory, and heal their pain’’; dition of songs, stories, proverbs and Whereas the New Jersey Historical Com- volleyball team, the coaching and the mission found that ‘‘some of those daring historical accounts. Spirituals have support that this volleyball team has and artful runaway slaves who entered New been a part of American culture from from its fans in Nebraska. Jersey by way of the Underground Railroad times of slavery to today, and their Mr. EHLERS. Mr. Speaker, I have no no doubt sang the words of old Negro spir- legacy is clear in today’s gospel music. further speakers, so I am pleased to ituals like ‘Steal Away’ before embarking on Spirituals were also sung during the yield back the balance of my time. their perilous journey north’’; civil rights movement in the 1960s. Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speak- Whereas African American spirituals Songs that we are familiar with, such er, I am just going to close on this res- spread all over the United States, and the as ‘‘We Shall Overcome’’ and ‘‘March- songs we know of today may only represent olution and thank my colleagues for a small portion of the total number of spir- ing ’Round Selma,’’ were heard in the bringing it to the floor. This is House ituals that once existed; South to unite African Americans in Resolution 99, which commends the Whereas Frederick Douglass, a fugitive the struggle for civil rights. University of Nebraska-Lincoln volley- slave who would become one of the leading Some of the more commonly known ball team for winning the NCAA Divi- abolitionists of the United States, remarked songs, including ‘‘Swing Low Sweet sion I women’s volleyball champion- that the spirituals ‘‘told a tale of woe which Chariot’’ and ‘‘The Gospel Train,’’ used ship. It has been fun for me to listen to was then altogether beyond my feeble com- language which described religious ac- my colleagues as they commend this prehension; they were tones loud, long, and tivities but had a second meaning re- deep; they breathed the prayer and com- spectacular team. And even though I plaint of souls boiling over with the bitterest lating to the Underground Railroad. am a Californian, I still want to let anguish. Every tone was a testimony against Calvin Earl, a noted performer and them know that this is a wonderful ac- slavery and a prayer to God for deliverance educator of African American spir- complishment, and particularly, I ap- from chains. . . .’’; and ituals, stated that the lyrics used in plaud the women athletes that were Whereas the American Folklife Preserva- spirituals became a metaphor for free- part of this contest. tion Act (Public Law 94–201; 20 U.S.C. 2101 dom from slavery, and they were a se- Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance note) finds that ‘‘the diversity inherent in cret way for slaves to communicate of my time. American folklife has contributed greatly to with each other, teach their young, the cultural richness of the nation and has The SPEAKER pro tempore. The fostered a sense of individuality and identity record their history and heal their question is on the motion offered by among the American people’’: Now, there- pain. the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. fore, be it Frederick Douglass, a fugitive slave DAVIS) that the House suspend the Resolved, That the House of Representa- who became one of the United States’ rules and agree to the resolution, H. tives— leading abolitionists, stated that spir- Res. 99, as amended. (1) recognizes that African American spir- ituals ‘‘told a tale of woe which was The question was taken; and (two- ituals are a poignant and powerful genre of then altogether beyond my feeble com- music that have become one of the most sig- prehension’’ and that ‘‘every tone was thirds being in the affirmative) the nificant segments of American music in ex- rules were suspended and the resolu- istence; a testimony against slavery and a tion, as amended, was agreed to. (2) expresses the deepest gratitude, rec- prayer to God for deliverance from A motion to reconsider was laid on ognition, and honor to the former enslaved chains.’’ the table. Africans in the United States for their gifts This resolution is endorsed by the to our Nation, including their original music f NAACP and the National Council of and oral history; and Negro Women, and I want to add my RECOGNIZING THE AFRICAN (3) requests that the President issue a voice to theirs in support of helping to AMERICAN SPIRITUAL AS A NA- proclamation that reflects on the important preserve a treasured, a really treasured TIONAL TREASURE contribution of African American spirituals to American history, and naming the African piece of American history. Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speak- American spiritual a national treasure. I urge my colleagues to resoundingly er, I move to suspend the rules and The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- pass this resolution. agree to the resolution (H. Res. 120) ant to the rule, the gentlewoman from Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of recognizing the African American spir- California (Mrs. DAVIS) and the gen- my time. itual as a national treasure. tleman from Michigan (Mr. EHLERS) Mr. EHLERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield The Clerk read as follows: each will control 20 minutes. myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support H. RES. 120 The Chair recognizes the gentle- of House Resolution 120, recognizing Whereas beginning in 1619, when slavery woman from California. was introduced into the European colonies, GENERAL LEAVE African American spirituals as a na- enslaved Africans remained in bondage until Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speak- tional treasure. 1865, when the United States ratified the 13th er, I request 5 legislative days during Simply defined, spirituals are the amendment to the Constitution; which Members may insert material songs created and first sung by African Whereas during that period of the history relevant to H. Res. 120 into the RECORD. Americans during the times of slavery. of the United States, the first expression of The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there These songs should be celebrated as a that unique American music was created by objection to the request of the gentle- part of the American culture today, for enslaved African Americans who— they are the source from which gospel, (1) used their knowledge of the English lan- woman from California? guage and the Christian religious faith, as it There was no objection. jazz and blues evolved. The lyrics of had been taught to them in the New World; Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speak- these songs are tightly linked with the and er, I yield myself such time as I may lives of their authors and were inspired (2) stealthily wove within the music their consume. by the message of Jesus Christ and the experience of coping with human servitude (Mrs. DAVIS of California asked and Gospel of the Bible. and their strong desire to be free; was given permission to revise and ex- b 1130 Whereas, as a method of survival, enslaved tend her remarks.) African Americans who were forbidden to Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speak- The most pervasive message con- speak their native languages, play musical er, I rise today to recognize the African veyed by spirituals is that of an

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The Old Testament Scriptures that America’s most remarkable and endur- It was from Calvin that I learned are referenced in their songs spoke of ing musical accomplishments. Name about this remarkable tradition, how deliverance in this world, and they be- the modern music form, and it owes a spirituals enabled slaves to teach their lieved God would deliver them from debt to the spiritual. Jazz, blues, rock children, record their history, and sur- bondage just as he had delivered the and roll, gospel all trace their origins reptitiously communicate with one an- people of Israel. to this particular musical heritage. other. Indeed, songs such as ‘‘Wade in These spirituals are different from Today people around the world play, the Water,’’ ‘‘The Gospel Train,’’ and hymns and psalms, because their cre- listen to, and find the deepest of inspi- ‘‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot’’ all ref- ators used them as a way of sharing the ration in the music of Africans who erence the Underground Railroad. An- hard condition of being a slave while lived their lives in slavery. other, ‘‘Follow the Drinking Gourd,’’ also singing about their love and faith In so many ways this is a uniquely even contained a coded map to the Un- in God. They used the songs to teach American music, one born of our derground Railroad. As these songs their young, to record their history, uniquely American experience, remind- were spontaneous, their authors are and to heal their pain. These songs ing us who we are, where we come not known, though they were the inspi- awakened possibilities in their lives from, and all that we are capable of as ration for the writers of the first gospel and inspired so many to dream. a society and as a Nation. songs, from Charles Albert Tindley to Because the slaves were forbidden to The African American spiritual is as Harry Thackert Burleigh to John Rosa- learn how to read and write, they had poignant and powerful a genre of music mond Johnson. to find ways to communicate secretly. as any in history. And throughout his- Mr. Speaker, no less than Frederick The spirituals were a medium for sev- tory the African American spiritual Douglass remarked that such spirituals eral layers of communication and has been kept alive through that oral ‘‘told a tale of woe which was then al- meaning. tradition. For certain, this was so be- together beyond my feeble comprehen- Throughout the 20th century the fore the abolition of slavery in 1865 sion. They were tones loud, long, and spirituals experienced a renaissance as when these songs provided comfort and deep. They breathed the prayer and African Americans documented their an outlet for spiritual yearning for so complaint of souls boiling over with struggles for equality. During the 1950s many, but also in the years imme- the bitterest anguish. Every tone was a and 1960s, before and during rallies for diately following abolition when few testimony against slavery and a prayer civil rights, demonstrators often sang wished to sing African American spir- to God for deliverance from chains.’’ spirituals such as, ‘‘We Shall Over- ituals, so acute was the pain and an- Indeed, in so many ways the African come,’’ and, believe it or not, ‘‘This guish they called to mind. American spiritual embodies who we Little Light of Mine,’’ one of my favor- Thankfully there were some who rec- are as Americans. The impact it has ite songs in my childhood. ognized in the power of these songs the made on the cultural heritage of Amer- The lyrics of these new spirituals collective experiences from which they ica, and indeed every American, is in- dealt with improvement and with a came and their intrinsic cultural and calculable. I thank all who have al- new kind of freedom. Many of them musical value. And by the late 19th and lowed us to bring this resolution for were inspired by social problems such early 20th century, the spiritual was consideration today. I urge my col- as segregation, drug and alcohol abuse, kept alive by churches and singing leagues to support honoring this na- and a basic lack of human equality. groups like the Fisk Jubilee Singers, tional treasure and this timeless re- Today the congregation of my church who traveled and performed these re- minder of the enduring human spirit. in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and so markable pieces in the face of hostility many other churches in our commu- and intolerance. Indeed, in 1872, the Ju- Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speak- nity and across the country, continues bilee Singers sang at the World Peace er, I am pleased to recognize the gen- to sing these spirituals. They inspire in Festival in Boston and were invited to tleman from New Jersey (Mr. SIRES) us the human struggle for freedom and perform at the White House that year for 2 minutes. remind us of the lessons of history. by no less than President Grant him- Mr. SIRES. Mr. Speaker, I rise in I am honored to stand here today in self. support of H. Res. 120, which recognizes support of House Resolution 120 to ex- Today African American spirituals the African American spiritual as a na- press the deepest gratitude and rec- are not only performed in spirituals tional treasure. The slave Africans who ognition to the former enslaved Afri- and concert halls across the world, came to the European colonies were can Americans for their gifts to our they are also studied by sociologists forbidden to speak their native lan- Nation, including their spiritual music and musicologists across the country. guages, use African musical instru- and oral history. I ask my colleagues The University of Denver’s Spirituals ments, or practice their spiritual be- to support this resolution. Project puts it aptly in its mission liefs. To keep their African traditions Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of statement: ‘‘Spirituals uplift in times alive through songs and stories, the my time. of crisis, heal, comfort, inspire, and in- slaves created a new kind of music. Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speak- still hopes and dreams, thereby trans- Today these are known as spirituals. er, I am pleased to recognize the gen- forming individuals, communities, and Mr. Calvin Earl, my constituent from tlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. whole societies.’’ Jersey City, has devoted his entire life DELAURO) for 5 minutes. And in much the same spirit of the to educating people about the history Ms. DELAURO. Mr. Speaker, I rise Fisk Jubilee Singers, I want to say and the importance of African Amer- today in support of legislation that thank you to a good friend, a musicolo- ican spirituals. He started a program would recognize the African American gist himself, for bringing to my atten- called The Gifts from My Ancestors. spiritual as a national treasure, and tion the need for the Congress to honor Through songs, dances, and story- would like to say thank you to my col- this vital piece of our national herit- telling, this program has helped people league from Georgia (Mr. LEWIS) with age, Calvin Earl. As the youngest of experience the story of enslaved Afri- whom I introduced this legislation in nine children in North Carolina, Calvin can Americans. the Congress, as well as my colleagues taught himself the guitar at age 7, Mr. Speaker, I commend Mr. Earl for on the floor this morning, the gentle- forming his first rhythm and blues his work, and I believe it is time to rec- woman from California and the gen- group while serving in the Army before ognize the importance of these spir- tleman from Michigan, and also the spending several decades performing ituals and preserve them for future chairman, Mr. MILLER, for bringing the jazz and big band music. Since 1989, generations by voting in favor of H. bill to the floor. Calvin has dedicated himself to pre- Res. 120.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 00:31 Feb 08, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07FE7.032 H07FEPT1 mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with HOUSE H1290 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE February 7, 2007 Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speak- honor and preserve it and spread its Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance er, I am pleased to recognize the gen- wonderful message all around the of my time. tleman from Illinois (Mr. DAVIS) for 2 world. The African American spiritual Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speak- minutes. is part of God’s great heritage. er, I am happy to close on House Reso- Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I Mr. Speaker, I am proud that today this lution 120. House will honor one of America’s oldest and want to thank the gentlewoman from b 1145 California for yielding. I rise in strong most unique cultural treasures, the African support of H. Res. 120, recognizing the American spiritual. No music in the world com- I want to thank my colleagues for African American spiritual as a na- municates as much as the African American their eloquence in speaking to this res- tional treasure. spiritual. It is music borne of suffering. Music olution. Truly, the African American Growing up in the rural South in the that expresses anguish, unity, and hopeful spiritual is a national treasure. It must 1950s, we grew up on what was then transcendence. Our reverence and deep grati- be embraced as such, enjoyed and en- called the Negro spiritual, and many of tude for this music is only surpassed by our hanced, always in our thoughts and in these songs, of course, had great mean- shame over the conditions that gave it rise. our history because it has played such ing, especially the lyrics. I remember, What we are doing today is wholly appro- a critical part to so many thousands ‘‘Follow the Old Man’’ that is ‘‘Coming priate—and long overdue. and thousands and thousands of people. to Carry Me to Freedom’’ if you ‘‘Fol- Mr. Speaker, I am particularly proud to rep- And so I thank everyone for being here low the Drinking Gourd.’’ Well, gourds resent Fisk University, a fine American college today and for presenting that to us. supposedly grew northward, and if you with a tremendous sense of history and pur- Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. followed the direction of the gourd, you pose. Fisk was founded in the wake of the Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of would get out of the slave South back Civil War to educate all students, regardless of this resolution to recognize the African Amer- during slavery and the abolitionist pe- color. It was a costly and controversial mis- ican spiritual as a national treasure. riod, and you would be headed north. sion, and in order to keep the school’s doors Till the passage of the 13th Amendment, Af- And so not only did these songs sound open, a group of students embarked on a rican Americn slaves were prevented from good, not only were they spiritually fundraising tour in October 1871. This choral speaking their native languages, playing musi- uplifting as one that I heard on this ensemble soon became known as the Fisk Ju- cal instruments they had used in Africa, and past Sunday at the Second Baptist bilee Singers. They earned renown all over practicing their traditional religious beliefs. De- Church in Maywood, Illinois, but they the world, singing for U.S. presidents and spite attempts to strip away the history and also were didactic; they were teaching poets, European royals and American intellec- identity of these individuals, they relied on a and inspirational. tuals alike. strong oral tradition to pass down stories and So I commend the gentlewoman from But most of all, Mr. Speaker, in their 135 family narratives in the form of original songs, Connecticut for her introduction of years of existence, the Fisk Jubilee Singers now known as spirituals. this great resolution and urge its sup- have exposed people across the globe to the These African American spirituals came to port. African American spiritual. They have re- represent a part of history that many tried to Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speak- minded us all of our country’s shared history, silence through oppression and slavery. These er, I am pleased to recognize the gen- and they have told, in vivid word and tune, the songs are a part of the spirit that could not be tleman from Tennessee (Mr. COOPER) story of a People. From ‘‘Wade in the Water’’ destroyed by the institution of slavery. And for 2 minutes. to ‘‘Go Down, Moses,’’ and many songs be- while the spirituals we know today likely rep- Mr. COOPER. Mr. Speaker, I thank tween and since, the African American spir- resent only a small portion of the total number, the gentlewoman from California for itual is a vital piece of American culture. they remain an important link to the past as yielding. Today we honor that tradition and those we teach new generations the meaning of our I would like to lend my voice and groups who keep it alive—groups like the Fisk roots. praise of the African American spir- Jubilee Singers. For African Americans, identifying their his- itual and a group that I consider to be The word ‘‘jublilee,’’ Mr. Speaker, rooted in tory and researching genealogy becomes the leading practitioners of today and the Hebrew Scriptures, came to signify the challenging due to a lack of organized proclamation of freedom from slavery. Today for the last 135 years, namely the Fisk records. Many are left with piecing together let this House rededicate itself to that powerful Jubilee Singers. records of their ancestors left from former message and to those who have lifted their As the Representative from Nash- slave owners. Through song we can identify voices to express the pain of bondage and re- ville, Tennessee, I have the honor of with our past, and the African American spir- demptive promise of freedom—of jubilee— representing Fisk University, which, itual is oe of the few remaining bastions of Af- throughout our Nation’s history. under the able leadership of President Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speak- rican American tradition and history though Hazel O’Leary, is achieving new er, we have no further speakers. art. heights and excellence. The Fisk Jubi- Mr. EHLERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield I urge my colleagues to honor our history by lee Singers have been there since 1871, myself such time as I may consume. voting for this importance piece of legislation. singing some of the most beautiful It always amazes me how the Lord Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, music in the world and a music that is manages to turn evil to good. And this I rise in support of H. Res. 120, to recognize laden with a God-given message. is a good example of that; how under the African American spiritual as a national No other music that I am familiar the terrible abuse and sin of slavery treasure. with covers the range from agony to came the beautiful spirituals that we When slavery was introduced into the Euro- inspiration, from the depths of human are honoring in this particular resolu- pean colonies in 1619, the dark days that fol- misery and despair all the way up to tion. It is a real national treasure. It is lowed ignited the faith and hope of our ances- religious bliss. This is remarkable something that I grew up with. tors that one day their descendants would live music, and I would suggest to you if I recall my family, in which we had a in freedom and helped them bear the unbear- you haven’t heard the Fisk Jubilee number of musicians. Very frequently able burden of bondage. Singers sing it under the able direction we were singing Negro spirituals, and To help our ancestors tolerate the incor- of Dr. Paul Kwami, you have not fully in groups at church we would sing rigible injustices they suffered as slaves, they lived. This is a truly remarkable group Negro spirituals, and yet look where gathered together in unity and sang spiritual and a remarkable inspirational mes- this music came from, out of the ter- songs. Their strong faith in God was displayed sage. rible black mark on the history of this through song and gave them hope that they So let’s praise today the anonymous country when we had slavery over half would one day be free from the bondage of African American genius that has al- the Nation. And yet the human re- slavery. There was a transportation that took lowed these songs to flourish and sur- sponse guided by God came out of these place when those songs were sung, for that vive some of the toughest conditions people and produced this beautiful, moment they were carried away with their on our planet, and let’s honor groups beautiful music. It is a heritage we all tunes from the problems and injustices they like the Fisk Jubilee Singers that keep have, it is a heritage we must enjoy faced in their daily lives and could sing aloud that tradition alive and fresh for each and, above all, a heritage that we must to God who they depended on for help. new generation. Yes, Mr. Speaker, this honor, as we are honoring in this reso- Frederick Douglass, a fugitive slave who is truly a national treasure. We need to lution today. would become one of the leading abolitionists

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The Small businesses rely heavily on the prayer to God for deliverance from chains. question is on the motion offered by SBA and its programs to start and run ...’’ the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. their ventures. As the sole Federal Unfortunately their plight for freedom from DAVIS) that the House suspend the agency charged with assisting this Na- slavery would not end until 1865 when the rules and agree to the resolution, H. tion’s 26 million small businesses, it is United States ratified the 13th amendment to Res. 120. critical that the SBA is able to meet the constitution, but our fight for equality The question was taken. their needs. against injustices, though easier today, still The SPEAKER pro tempore. In the While the original bill would have ex- tarries on. The singing of these African Amer- opinion of the Chair, two-thirds being tended the agency until December 31, ican spirituals is just as much a part of Amer- in the affirmative, the ayes have it. 2007, we will support this bill in order ica as our flag and should be celebrated and Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speak- to ensure the agency’s programs can seen as a thread in the fabric of our rich and er, on that I demand the yeas and nays. operate through the end of July with diverse nation. The yeas and nays were ordered. no disruptions. As such, we move to Many slaves were not allowed to learn to The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- pass H.R. 434 today. I look forward to working with Rank- read and write but they were allowed to have ant to clause 8 of rule XX and the ing Member Steve Chabot to draft a bi- their faith and their song. It was these two Chair’s prior announcement, further partisan bill that will ensure the SBA things that became a foundation in the African proceedings on this question will be can adequately and efficiently respond American community and intertwined, was postponed. to the needs of entrepreneurs. Our Na- used as a method of survival, as a means to f cope with human servitude and echoed their tion’s main job creators, small busi- strong desire to be free. It was in these songs TEMPORARY EXTENSION OF AU- nesses, deserve nothing less. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of that an oral history of their plight was commu- THORIZATION OF PROGRAMS UNDER SMALL BUSINESS ACT my time. nicated to each other, taught to their children, Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, I yield recorded their sad history and healed their AND SMALL BUSINESS INVEST- MENT ACT OF 1958 myself such time as I might consume. broken hearts. This bill simply, as the chairwoman The Old Negro spiritual is still alive today. Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ. Mr. Speaker, I indicated, extends all the programs, in- The influence of these songs is felt in gospel move to suspend the rules and concur cluding pilot programs, the authorities and the many popular genres of music that in the Senate amendments to the bill or provisions of the Small Business Act evolved from gospel. African American spir- (H.R. 434) to provide for an additional and the Small Business Investment Act ituals spread all over the United States, and temporary extension of programs under as they are presently constituted until the songs we know of today may only rep- the Small Business Act and the Small July 31 of this year. The programs and resent a small portion of the total number of Business Investment Act of 1958 authorities of the Small Business Ad- the spirituals that once existed. through December 31, 2007, and for ministration expired on February 2. We I thank my colleague, Ms. DELAURO, for in- other purposes. would have preferred a longer exten- troducing this important legislation, to ensure The Clerk read as follows: sion, but the other body insisted on a that we celebrate, treasure and recognize the Senate amendments: shorter extension date of July 31. African American spiritual as a national treas- Strike out all after the enacting clause and Passage of this bill will hopefully ure and I urge my colleagues to join me in insert: give the Small Business Committees in supporting this resolution. SECTION 1. ADDITIONAL TEMPORARY EXTENSION both the House and the Senate the Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, I OF AUTHORIZATION OF PROGRAMS time necessary to work in a bipartisan rise today to express my strong support for H. UNDER THE SMALL BUSINESS ACT AND THE SMALL BUSINESS INVEST- manner on a more comprehensive SBA Res. 120, which recognizes the African Amer- MENT ACT OF 1958. reauthorization bill. ican spiritual as a national treasure. The Afri- (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1 of the Act entitled Many of the programs of the SBA do can American spiritual is both an expression ‘‘An Act to extend temporarily certain authori- not operate under a direct appropria- of culture and faith, and a symbol of the path ties of the Small Business Administration’’, ap- tion. This legislation will reaffirm to triumph in our democracy. proved October 10, 2006 (Public Law 109–316; 120 their legality to operate, including the The African American spiritual originated Stat. 1742), is amended by striking ‘‘February 2, Advisory Committee on Veterans Busi- with many cultures in Africa, and became one 2007’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘July ness Affairs. 31, 2007’’. of the few forms of expression that the African Mr. Speaker, this bill is quite simple. slaves were able to maintain while held in (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on February It contains the exact same language, bondage in America. The spirituals not only 2, 2007. with only the date changed, that served to uplift, but also served as a secret Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘An Act to passed the House last month by an code to direct those enslaved to freedom. provide for an additional temporary exten- overwhelming vote of 413–2. Lyrics from songs like ‘‘Steal Away (to Jesus)’’ sion of programs under the Small Business Again, I look forward to working in a and ‘‘Wade in the Water’’ were guides for Act and the Small Business Investment Act bipartisan manner with Chairwoman those who planned to escape and served as of 1958 through July 31, 2007, and for other VELA´ ZQUEZ and other committee mem- instructions to allow those escaping to avoid purposes’’. bers to produce a good, fiscally respon- being traced by slave catchers. Spirituals such The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- sible SBA reauthorization bill that can as ‘‘Follow the Drinking Gourd’’ were also ant to the rule, the gentlewoman from eventually be signed into law by the means of secretly communicating maps and New York (Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ) and the President. I especially want to thank directions for escaping slaves to reach the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. CHABOT) Chairwoman VELA´ ZQUEZ for her gra- network of the Underground Railroad. After each will control 20 minutes. ciousness in agreeing to bring up this the abolition of slavery in the United States in The Chair recognizes the gentle- bill in such a quick manner. 1865, the African American spiritual remained woman from New York. I urge my colleagues to support H.R. an important expression of culture, faith, and Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ. Mr. Speaker, I 434 with the Senate amendments so social justice, especially during the Civil Rights yield myself as much time as I may that our Nation’s small businesses will movements across the Nation in the 1950s consume. see no interruption of service from the and 1960s. Mr. Speaker, today we will consider SBA over the next 5 months while we And so today, also in honor of Black History H.R. 434 as it came back to us from the work to adopt a comprehensive reau- Month, I ask my colleagues to join me in cele- Senate. This bill extends the authoriza- thorization bill. brating the African American spiritual and the tion of the Small Business Administra- Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of legacy left to us by those who fought for free- tion and its programs through July 31, my time.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 04:02 Feb 08, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A07FE7.007 H07FEPT1 mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with HOUSE H1292 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE February 7, 2007 Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ. Mr. Speaker, I former competitor Darrell Waltrip to state battle with lung cancer. He was a great have no further speakers at this time, that ‘‘Benny Parsons was the kindest, sweet- race car driver, known to his friends as and I yield back the balance of my est, most considerate person I have ever BP. He spent his early years in North time. known. He was a great champion, a great Carolina, where he began his career in ambassador for our sport but more than Mr. CHABOT. We also have no fur- that, he was a great person. He exemplified sports playing high school football. ther speakers, and we yield back the that good guys can be winners too.’’: Now, Shortly after high school, his family balance of our time. therefore, be it moved to Detroit where his father ran The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Resolved, That the House of Representa- a taxicab company. He helped his fa- question is on the motion offered by tives— ther and drove cabs and also worked at the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. (1) recognizes Benny Parsons as one of the a local gas station. greatest race car drivers ever to participate VELA´ ZQUEZ) that the House suspend the In a town known as Motor City, in the sport of auto racing and recognizes his rules and concur in the Senate amend- many contributions to the Nation through- Benny’s interest and experience in ments to the bill, H.R. 434. out his lifetime; automobiles and racing thrived. He The question was taken; and (two- (2) honors Benny Parsons for transcending quickly became a real huge race fan. thirds being in the affirmative) the the sport of auto racing to become a role As the story goes, he lucked out rules were suspended and the Senate model as both a talented competitor and when a truck towing a race car pulled amendments were concurred in. mentor and as a loving husband and father; into the station for a fill-up, and after A motion to reconsider was laid on and talking with the truck driver, he was the table. (3) extends its deepest condolences to the invited to join him on his way to near- family of Benny Parsons. f by Mount Clemens Speedway. Once The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- they arrived at the track, the race car HONORING THE LIFE OF BENNY ant to the rule, the gentleman from Il- driver who was supposed to drive the PARSONS linois (Mr. DAVIS) and the gentleman car did not show up, and so BP offered Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I from Indiana (Mr. BURTON) each will to drive the car, and that was his first move to suspend the rules and agree to control 20 minutes. race. The Chair recognizes the gentleman the resolution (H. Res. 69) recognizing It is hard to believe that somebody from Illinois. and honoring Benny Parsons and ex- would go from a gas station to a race pressing the condolences of the House GENERAL LEAVE car and get in it right away. I am from of Representatives to his family on his Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I Indianapolis, Indiana. The Indianapolis death. ask that all Members may have 5 legis- 500 is driven there, and I cannot imag- lative days in which to revise and ex- The Clerk read as follows: ine anybody without any past experi- tend their remarks. ence getting into a race car and driving H. RES. 69 The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there Whereas Benny Parsons was born in Wilkes objection to the request of the gen- it and doing well, but BP did. County, North Carolina, on July 12, 1941, and tleman from Illinois? b 1200 resided in the towns of Ellerbe and Concord, There was no objection. In 1964, Benny Parsons drove in his North Carolina in the Eighth Congressional Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I District; first official NASCAR race. Only a year yield myself such time as I may con- Whereas Benny Parsons was the son of later, he received the Rookie of the Hazel and the late Harold Parsons and the sume. Year award from the Auto Racing Club Mr. Speaker, today we honor and re- brother of Steve, Phil and Patty; of America, in one year. He would go member the life of Benny Parsons and Whereas Benny Parsons started racing in on to win the ARCA championship in 1963 at the Mt. Clemens Speedway in Mt. his contribution to the racing commu- both 1968 and 1969. He had an impres- Clemens, Michigan; nity. Mr. Parsons was a legendary sive record in racing during 1971 and Whereas Benny Parsons was the Auto- NASCAR driver and TV analyst. His 1972, and his points earned him the mobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) thoughtful insights as an announcer NASCAR championship in 1973. Rookie of the Year in 1965 and ARCA Cham- earned him the nickname The Pro- pion in 1968 and 1969; He also won the Daytona 500 in 1975 fessor, and his achievements as a driver Whereas Benny Parsons was the first and the 1980 World 600 championship at include a Winston Cup NASCAR cham- ARCA Champion inducted into the Inter- Charlotte, and he continued on to win national Sports Hall of Fame; pionship. Born in Wilkes County, North Caro- the National Speedway USA, the Texas Whereas Benny Parsons made his Winston World Speedway and his career final Cup debut in 1970 and had his first Winston lina, he developed a penchant for cars Cup victory at South Boston Virginia Speed- and racing with his father. At the age victory at the Coca-Cola 500 in Atlanta, way in 1971; of 18, he moved to Detroit where he Georgia. Overall, he had 283 top-10 fin- Whereas Benny Parsons was Winston Cup drove taxis and worked at a service ishes and won 21 major races. Champion in 1973; station. Soon thereafter he started his After he finished his last race in 1988, Whereas Benny Parsons had an extraor- NASCAR career. In 1971, he won his he switched gears from driving to com- dinary career as a National Association for mentating. He started out reporting Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) driver, first race, and in 1973 won the NASCAR championship. Mr. Parsons battled from the pits during his final years of winning 21 races, including the 1975 Daytona racing but began full time for both 500; with drivers like Richard Petty and Whereas in 1982 Benny Parsons qualified Carl Yarborough throughout his racing ESPN and TBS in 1988. His firsthand for the NASCAR Winston 500 at Talladega career that stretched over 20 years. knowledge of the sport captivated his Superspeedway at 200.175 miles per hour, the After Parsons retired from racing in audiences. He could talk from the pro- first NASCAR qualification run over 200 1988, he became a commentator and a spective of both a fan and a driver, and mph; recognized voice for NASCAR. His was skilled at sharing his insights Whereas in 1998 Benny Parsons was named through his broadcasts. one of the 50 Greatest Drivers in NASCAR work helped NASCAR become one of the most widely watched sports in As the NASCAR industry grew more History; popular and was televised more fre- Whereas after a successful career as a driv- America and taught many newcomers er, Benny Parsons developed a successful ca- to understand and enjoy racing. Earlier quently, he commentated for both NBC reer in broadcasting, further expanding his this year Mr. Parsons succumbed to and TNT. Parsons received an ACE sport through his insight and commentary; complications from lung cancer. award in 1989 and an ESPN Emmy Whereas Benny Parsons was known for his So I urge my colleagues to rise in award in 1986. His talent as an an- kindness by all who had the good fortune to support of H. Res. 69. nouncer earned him the new nickname, meet him; Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of The Professor. It is a long way from Whereas Benny Parsons was a loving hus- my time. race car driver to professor, but he band to his wife Terri and an exceptional fa- earned it. ther to his sons Kevin and Keith; Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speak- Whereas Benny Parsons was a man of er, I yield myself such time as I may When he spoke, audiences listened strong faith and character; and consume. and learned from him. In the summer Whereas Benny Parsons passed away on We are very sorry to hear about of 2006, Parsons began to have trouble January 16, 2007, prompting friend and Benny Parsons losing his life and his breathing. His doctors diagnosed him

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Benny Parsons was the champion Indianapolis Colts for win- 16 of this year from complications from first stockcar driver to go over 200 ning Super Bowl XLI and for bringing lung cancer. miles an hour, and he turned that the City of Indianapolis and the State His career encompassed four decades speed into incredible success on the of Indiana their first Lombardi Trophy. of racing, followed by nearly two dec- track. Benny won 21 major races, in- The Clerk read as follows: ades of announcing. Among other cluding the Daytona 500 and, in 1973, H. RES. 130 awards, he was inducted into the Inter- earned the highest honor in NASCAR, Whereas on February 4, 2007, in Miami, national Motor Sports Hall of Fame in the Winston Cup. Florida, the Indianapolis Colts defeated the 1994, the Court of Legends at Lowe’s Chicago Bears by a score of 29 to 17 in Super Motor Speedway in 1994, and the Motor Benny’s work and contribution did not end on the race track. Upon his re- Bowl XLI to win the National Football Sports Hall of Fame of America in 2005. League (NFL) Championship; In 1998, he was named one of NASCAR’s tirement from racing, Benny Parsons Whereas this is the first Super Bowl win 50 greatest drivers. entered broadcasting, where he further for the Indianapolis Colts following an over- Benny Parsons, known for his lovable expanded the sport through his insight all season record of 16–4 and a regular season personality and his positive attitude, and his down-home commentary. record of 12–4; Benny was a fan favorite and became Whereas the Colts won their fourth Amer- will be greatly missed by all of those in ican Football Conference (AFC) South Title the NASCAR community and family. known as The Professor for his relaxed and uncanny style of commentary. this year and the AFC championship title Mr. Speaker, I ask all Members to with a stunning come-from-behind 38–34 vic- join me by supporting this resolution. Besides being a champion and Hall of tory over the New England Patriots on Janu- We have a NASCAR race, the Brick- Famer, Benny Parsons was most re- ary 21, 2007; yard 400, in Indianapolis, and we are vered by his colleagues and fans for his Whereas Tony Dungy, in his fifth season going to miss Benny Parsons there. We generous nature and lovable person- with the Colts, is the first African-American wish his family well. ality. head coach to win the Super Bowl and is one of the most respected coaches in the league, Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of Benny told me he was always grate- cultivating Championship success for the my time. ful for the support the people of Rich- team and boasting 10-plus victories and play- Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I mond County gave him. Despite his off appearances in his first four seasons with have no further speakers and would ask fame, my conversations with Benny the Colts; if the gentleman would want to yield seemed to flow around eating at the Whereas Colts Owner and Chief Executive back his time. Officer Jim Irsay, who assumed ownership of Dixie Burger and talking Raider foot- the Colts in 1997, has helped revitalize the Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speak- ball in Richmond County. He main- er, we have one more speaker who is Colts franchise along with Colts President tained a home there even after settling Bill Polian whose name is synonymous with not yet here, but since he is not here, in my hometown of Concord. pro football success; we would like to have permission to To the people of North Carolina’s Whereas quarterback Peyton Manning, have his remarks put in the RECORD. Eighth District, Benny Parsons will al- who had 25 completions for 247 yards, was se- Mr. Speaker, we yield back the bal- lected as the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of ance of our time. ways be a hometown boy as well as a Super Bowl XLI; and Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. I thank the champion. I ask that you join me today Whereas the entire Colts franchise has be- gentleman from Indiana. This seems to in extending your sympathy to Benny’s come a model of professionalism, goodwill, be the day for Indiana and Indianap- wife, Terri; his sons, Kevin and Keith; and community service in representing the City of Indianapolis and the State of Indiana olis. and his entire family in the racing community. and brings pride to Hoosiers and Colts fans Mr. BURTON of Indiana. I would just everywhere: Now, therefore, be it ask my colleague from Illinois, isn’t Mr. Speaker, I ask to observe a mo- Resolved, That the House of Representa- every day the day for Indiana? ment of silence in honor of Benny Par- tives congratulates the National Football Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. I would urge sons’ legacy of giving. League champion Indianapolis Colts for win- support for this resolution. Mr. Speaker, I yield back for a life ning Super Bowl XLI and for bringing the Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speak- City of Indianapolis and the State of Indiana well lived. their first Lombardi Trophy. er, may I reclaim my time? Mr. HAYES Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I just arrived. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without want to thank the gentleman from ant to the rule, the gentleman from Il- objection, the gentleman from Indiana North Carolina. We have no further linois (Mr. DAVIS) and the gentleman reclaims his time. speakers. from Indiana (Mr. BURTON) each will There was no objection. As I indicated earlier, NASCAR rac- control 20 minutes. Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speak- ing is one of the most watched sports The Chair recognizes the gentleman er, I yield as much time as he may con- in America, and I am amazed at the from Illinois. sume to the gentleman from North number of people who participate. I GENERAL LEAVE Carolina (Mr. HAYES). would urge passage of this resolution. Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I Mr. HAYES. I thank my friends Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance ask unanimous consent that all Mem- DANNY DAVIS and DAN BURTON. of my time. bers may have 5 legislative days in Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor The SPEAKER pro tempore. The which to revise and extend their re- the life of Benny Parsons, a friend, a question is on the motion offered by marks. true friend and a legend in the racing the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there community. Benny passed away in Jan- objection to the request of the gen- DAVIS) that the House suspend the uary; a great loss to all our commu- rules and agree to the resolution, H. tleman from Illinois? There was no objection. nity. Res. 69. Benny was born and raised in the Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I foothills of North Carolina. After lit- The question was taken; and (two- will defer my opening remarks, and erally stumbling into the racing indus- thirds being in the affirmative) the first shall be first. And I am going to try while working for his dad’s service rules were suspended and the resolu- yield such time as she might consume station in Detroit, Michigan, Parsons tion was agreed to. to the first lady of Indiana, Represent- returned to Ellerbe, North Carolina in A motion to reconsider was laid on ative JULIA CARSON, who is the sponsor Richmond County to drive for car the table. of this resolution.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 04:02 Feb 08, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07FE7.043 H07FEPT1 mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with HOUSE H1294 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE February 7, 2007 Ms. CARSON. I do thank you very supported this team through the years. Mr. Speaker, this is obviously a bit- much, Representative DAVIS, for your I want to thank Lovie Smith, class act; ter pill to swallow, especially given the courtesy and your indulgence, espe- Chicago Bears; and all my friends in fact that I represent the Chicago Bears, cially being from Illinois, the Chicago Chicago for a wonderful Super Bowl. who happen to be in my district, the Bears. And the Bears have been over- You go, Colts. stadium that they use. We were antici- come by the Colts. If you watch the I yield back to DANNY, and I won’t pating great thrills and great delights, Animal Planet channel, you can see take my district away from him right and for a brief moment we did, in fact, that the Colts are not to be pushed now. have that. But then someone said to around. So I want to thank you very Thank you, Mr. BURTON. me that we came in like lions and went Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I much for your courtesy. out like lambs. reserve the balance of my time. I come to the floor today to join my I guess that is exactly what hap- Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speak- colleague, DANNY BURTON. We have er, I yield myself such time as I may pened. This past Sunday, Tony Dungy contiguous districts. I am fighting over consume. and the Indianapolis Colts beat Lovie mine because the Colts’ headquarters You know, there are a lot of reasons Smith and his Chicago Bears 29–17 in a and the team is in my district, but I to thank Tony Dungy and Peyton Man- wet Super Bowl XLI. am sure he doesn’t mind that at all. I ning and the whole team for the great The slippery conditions made for sev- heard the wonderful remarks that he victory they had last Sunday. I sat in eral muffs and miscues throughout the made yesterday about the Colts, about the rain for about 5 hours and watched game, including a Romo-like botched Tony Dungy and Bill Polian and Jim them, and I didn’t feel a drop of rain hold during the extra point after the Irsay. I want to thank him for it. because they did such a great job. Colts’ first touchdown. I come today to congratulate the In- I might have felt a drop of rain in the The Bears got off to a quick start dianapolis Colts, who are in my dis- first part when Devin Hester ran 92 with Devin Hester returning the open- trict. See, we have good things in my yards for the opening kickoff touch- ing kickoff for a TD, and Rex Gross- district. They are not all drive-by down. It kind of scared everybody to man hitting Muhsin Muhammad with a shootings. The Indianapolis Colts have death who were Colts fans, but we all 4-yard pass in the first quarter for an- made us extremely proud. Here is a had faith in Peyton Manning and the other seven points. man, Tony Dungy, who incurred major Colts, and we knew that they wouldn’t After this the Bears’ offense sort of tragedy, who hung out about a week or give up, especially after watching them fizzled, and the Colts took advantage two, and then he came back and got coming back from the biggest deficit in with Peyton Manning leading several back on the plate. I admired him for championship history to defeat New drives that ended in Adam Vinatieri’s that. He sets an example for a lot of England 2 weeks before. field goals and a TD pass to Reggie our young kids to follow that your set- But the reason I want to thank them Wayne. Joseph Addai and Dominic backs can be your setups and your today is for my Illinois colleagues. I Rhodes also both contributed some stumbling blocks can be your stepping want Coach Dungy and Peyton Man- hard runs with a combined rushing stones. ning and the whole team to know, from total of 190 yards and a touchdown. On Tony Dungy was determined to lead. my colleagues in Illinois, I want a the other side of the ball, the Colts He lead in a very positive way. He deep-dish pizza, a pound of cheese cake were the better defense, causing five could have stayed out, moaned and and a bunch of DVDs for our troops turnovers. groaned about what had happened, but over in Iraq. So I want to thank them As noted last week, this game made he didn’t do that. He incurred his spir- very much for making sure I didn’t history with two African American ituality and kept on moving. have to pay for all that other stuff, but coaches facing each other for the title, I heard somebody mention the my colleague on the other side of the and Tony Dungy being the first black NASCAR a few minutes ago. We lost aisle does. coach to win a Super Bowl. Paul Dana in NASCAR out in Indianap- Let me be serious for just a moment. Of course, I want to congratulate olis, and he fought successfully to get We are very, very thrilled to have a Coach Dungy on a job well done, and race cars to use ethanol. In 2008, all the Super Bowl champion in Indianapolis, adding to the celebration of Black His- race cars of NASCAR will be fired up we waited for a long, long time. And it tory Month. I also want to commend and fueled up by ethanol. I want to be came at a time when we had some of Peyton Manning for his leadership of sure and mention that. the finest people that have ever been the team. I want to thank Representa- on a football team playing in Indianap- I rise today to recognize the Indian- tive CARSON’s staff for their hard work, apolis Colts, the Super Bowl cham- olis. It came at a time when we had one especially Kathleen Taylor, who did pions. The path they took was not of the finest coaches who ever coached such a quick job of putting all of this easy, but they made it look easy be- football in Indianapolis. And not only together so that we did not have to cause they operated as a team. I think is Tony Dungy a great coach, but he is delay. that is an illustration of what we can a great American and a very patriotic And so with serious regret on the become if we operate in unison as a man and a good Christian fellow. And part of the Chicago Bears, I commend team. When one member faltered, two everybody in Indianapolis really re- and congratulate the Indianapolis others would be there to fill the gap. spects him. Colts and urge support for this resolu- Peyton Manning has been a gen- And after a long season, they filled the tion. tleman on and off the field. The whole gap on a rain-soaked field in Miami to Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of team has. I can name everybody on the my time. claim the title of world champions. team. And I just want to say, on behalf Tony Dungy, game MVP Peyton Man- Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speak- of the Congress, me and JULIA CARSON, er, it sure is nice to hear the gen- ning and Robert Sanders have all my colleague who represents Indianap- earned the title of champions. tleman from Illinois extol the virtues olis, and STEVE BUYER and others, that I am proud that Indianapolis was rep- of the Indianapolis Colts. I really ap- we are very, very proud of the Colts. preciate that, DANNY. resented by a very classy team with We hope they bring us another Super I am very happy to yield to my col- character. In a day when so many ath- Bowl next year, but even if they don’t, league from Indiana, another great letes are questionable examples, this we are very, very thrilled. They have Colts fan, Congressman STEVE BUYER, 2 team shows that you can be an active done Indianapolis proud, and we are citizen and a winner at the same time. very proud to talk about them here minutes. Mr. BUYER. Mr. Speaker, I am This is a championship of firsts. This today. is the first Super Bowl win for the Indi- Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of pleased to stand here to honor the Indi- anapolis Colts, and the first time an my time. anapolis Colts and Super Bowl cham- African American head coach led the pions. The Colts are a team that I be- team to an NFL title. b 1215 lieve represent the best of profes- Congratulations, Indianapolis Colts, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I sionalism and goodwill. and team owner Jim Irsay and Presi- yield myself such time as I might con- My congratulations to Tony Dungy dent Bill Polian and all those who have sume. for his accomplishments in leading the

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Coach, you have also demonstrated After a sloppy start in a rainy Miami kind of serious work ethic, humility, that nice guys can win. that included a kickoff returned for a commitment to getting the job done I also commend the passionate Indi- touchdown and an interception by the without a lot of flash and a lot of fan- anapolis Colts who braved single-digit Bears, the Colts found themselves in an fare that really characterizes the peo- temperatures to welcome back home early hole. But the Dungy-led team re- ple of Indiana. for the first time to the city of Indian- fused to give up and charged back to As Congressman BURTON said, I also apolis and the State of Indiana the take a 16–14 halftime lead, with Reggie had the privilege, along with my wife Vince Lombardi Trophy. Wayne and Dominic Rhodes providing Karen, of witnessing some history, not Mr. Speaker, I also learned some- touchdowns. only the first world championship to thing, though, that I think America The Colts dominated the second half come to Indianapolis, but also I saw should know about the Super Bowl. of the game on both sides of the ball, the first African American coach lead a You see, the teams that actually play surrendering only three points while team to the Super Bowl, and to see two the Super Bowl actually get 17 percent bolstering their lead. Cornerback Kel- great teams led by two African Amer- of the tickets. Those tickets go to vin Hayden, who was playing in place ican coaches shatter that glass ceiling, those fans of the two teams, and they of injured starter Nick Harper, put the that for reasons of culture and habit are upper deck, end zone seats, which game nearly out of reach in the fourth had somehow been long established, in means that all of the prime seats of the quarter when he intercepted Rex Gross- that stadium for that great champion- Super Bowl go to all of the other own- man’s pass and returned it for 56 yards ship game. ers. So what I am most hopeful is that for a touchdown. You know, Mr. Speaker, it is said Safety Bob Sanders, who forced a America takes note here that actually that attitude reflects leadership, and I fumble earlier in the game, clinched it the fans of the teams that get to play believe that Coach Tony Dungy really on the ensuing drive with an intercep- the Super Bowl really do not get to see personifies just the type of leadership tion of his own, and Colts kicker Adam much of their team in a Super Bowl. that deserves rewarding in the NFL Vinatieri, the NFL’s all-time leader in And so what happens here is the city and is heralded in the State of Indiana. career Super Bowl field goals, contrib- who wants a Super Bowl in their city, Let me say that Coach Dungy should uted the remainder of the team’s scor- they trade seats for votes. And so it is be admired not only for that calm, ing. like, hey, if I want the Super Bowl in I am proud to congratulate the Super steady leadership on the sidelines, but Detroit, and you are the team owner in Bowl MVP Peyton Manning. With his also his career off the field is equally Detroit, I will give you 1,500 seats at performance, Manning silenced all of impressive. Since his time in Tampa the 35-yard line. the critics who throughout his career Bay, he brought his commitment to By the end of the first quarter with claimed that he could not win the big Christian values to young people all of the rain, you had over 10,000 game. They do not get any bigger than through the Fellowship of Christian empty seats. You say, what happened this. Athletes. He launched Mentors for Life, to the fans? Well, those are people Manning threw for 247 yards and a a program that provided tickets to there who wanted to see a football touchdown, while leading his team to young people for home games and their game, but do not necessarily like to sit victory. Manning was aided in the mentors. And I was there about a year in the rain because they didn’t like ei- backfield by the two-pronged running ago when Coach Dungy, one of many ther team. attack of Rhodes and rookie Joe Addai, such occasions around the country, So we need to redo how they do the who combined to rush for 190 yards. spoke in Anderson, Indiana, to a sta- Super Bowl and actually sit the fans The Colts excelled on the field at the dium full of young people about his where they can enjoy the game. So Super Bowl, but what makes it truly a profound faith in Christ and about his hopefully that is taken into account. pleasure to cheer for is the dignity and belief in the relationship of character To Coach Dungy, the entire team, class the team displayed throughout to success. the owner Jim Irsay, the dedicated the season. I believe that this starts at But we also celebrate Peyton Man- staff of the Colts organization and the top with Coach Dungy. Karen ning, the man awarded with Most Valu- thousands of Colts fans, I offer my con- Crouse of the New York Times summed able Player in the Super Bowl, and of gratulations to the Colts for the Super up the Colts’ coach best when she course now a man who others have said Bowl victory over my father’s beloved wrote, and I quote, ‘‘Dungy has the has minted his reputation as one of the Chicago Bears. Go Colts. most victories of any NFL coach since greatest quarterbacks of all time. He Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, 1999 with a record of 90–38. But the bot- personifies a humility and a work ethic of course maybe the NFL could learn tom line is not what defines him. His that I believe are rightly celebrated. from the House and realize that there life has been about opening people’s Let me close by saying, as Peyton should be no trading of seats for votes, eyes so they may see talent and not Manning remarked on being selected and that would make the disposition a skin color; spirituality and not celeb- MVP, he said, ‘‘I am excited, but I am bit different. rity; integrity and not self-interest. He proud to be on this team.’’ I yield 3 minutes to Representative has helped a lot of people see more I would like to close my remarks BRAD ELLSWORTH from Indiana. clearly,’’ and I could not agree more. today by asking unanimous consent to Mr. ELLSWORTH. Mr. Speaker, I Go Colts. add to the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD the rise today to extend my congratula- Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speak- names of all of the members of the tions to the Super Bowl champions, the er, I yield 5 minutes to another great Colts’ offense, defense, substitutions Indianapolis Colts. The NFL season Colts fan, Congressman MIKE PENCE. and the coaching staff, because this came to a triumphant close Sunday (Mr. PENCE asked and was given per- truly was a team effort. It was men and night in Miami. But I am most proud mission to revise and extend his re- women in the head offices, and on the that the Colts began their history run marks.) fields, on the training staff, and the to this Super Bowl in Indiana’s Eighth Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, today I rise catching staff that brought this world District last August on the training in this bipartisan gathering with championship home to our capital city. fields of Rose-Hulman Institute of thanks to the leadership of Congress- They have our praise, our congratu- Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana. woman JULIA CARSON to congratulate lations. On Sunday, Coach Dungy, along with the world champion Indianapolis Colts. Offense: Reggie Wayne—Wide Receiver, Lovie Smith of the Bears, became the I congratulate the gentlewoman from Tarik Glenn—Offensive Tackle, Ryan Lilja— first African American head coaches to Indianapolis for her leadership on this Offensive Guard, Jeff Saturday—Center, walk the sidelines on the Super Bowl. resolution and its eloquent drafting. Jake Scott—Offensive Guard, Ryan Diem—

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Mr. Speak- new level. backer, Gary Brackett—Linebacker, Rob er, I am very happy to yield 3 minutes Congratulations, Indianapolis Colts. Morris—Linebacker, Nick Harper—Defensive to another Colts fan who is a friend of Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, Back, Jason David—Defensive Back, Antoine Peyton Manning from Tennessee, the now it is my pleasure to yield 3 min- Bethea—Defensive Back, and Bob Sanders— great Congressman from that State utes to the distinguished gentleman Defensive Back. (ZACH WAMP). from Indiana ( Mr. HILL). Substitutions: Adam Vinatieri—Kicker, Mr. WAMP. Mr. Speaker, I thank the Terrance Wilkins—Wide Receiver, Hunter Mr. HILL. Mr. Speaker, I was in my Smith—Punter, Kelvin Hayden—Defensive gentleman for yielding, and everyone office just a few minutes ago watching, Back, Marlin Jackson—Defensive Back, from Illinois and Indiana for bringing doing my work in my office, but I DeDe Dorsey—Running Back, Dominic us to this moment. caught my colleagues talking about Rhodes—Running Back, Dexter Reid—Defen- Mr. Speaker, it is a privilege to rep- the victorious Indianapolis Colts, and I sive Back, Matt Giordano—Defensive Back, resent the State of Tennessee in com- couldn’t resist coming down here. I Justin Snow—Tight End, Rocky Boiman— ing to congratulate the Indianapolis don’t have any prepared remarks, but I Linebacker, Keith O’Neil—Linebacker, Colts. Few people would know this, but want to come to the floor today to also Freddy Keiaho—Linebacker, Tyjuan last Thursday here in Washington was extend my congratulations to the Indi- Hagler—Linebacker, Dylan Gandy—Offensive our annual prayer breakfast, where we Guard, Dan Klecko—Defensive Tackle, Bo anapolis Colts. Schobel—Defensive End, Charlie Johnson— bring people from all around the world My wife and my three daughters had Offensive Tackle, Bryan Fletcher—Tight for our prayer breakfast. And Dr. the opportunity to see the Colts win End, Aaron Moorehead—Wide Receiver, Josh Francis Collins of the Human Genome the AFC championship at Indianapolis. Thomas—Defensive End, and Darrell Reid— Project was the speaker, and he just And at the time, I thought it was good Defensive Tackle. did an extraordinary job. enough that we just made it to the Coaching Staff: Tony Dungy—Head Coach, But what people wouldn’t know was Super Bowl. But that wasn’t good Jim Caldwell—Assistant Head Coach/Quar- that before we invited Dr. Francis Col- terbacks, Clyde Christensen—Receivers enough for Peyton Manning and Coach, Leslie Frazier—Special Assistant to lins, we actually extended an invita- Marvin Harrison and the rest of the Head Coach/Defensive Backs, Richard How- tion to Tony Dungy. But Tony Dungy Colts and Tony Dungy. They wanted ell—Assistant Strength Coach, Gene Huey— knew when we extended that invitation the ring. And they stepped up to the Running Backs Coach, Ron Meeks—Defen- where he was going to be the following plate and took it to another level. And sive Coordinator, Pete Metzelaars—Offensive Sunday, and he told us. Sorry, I can’t I watched in amazement how they held Quality Control, Tom Moore—Offensive Co- come speak at the National Prayer steady when the chips were down, espe- ordinator, Howard Mudd—Offensive Line Breakfast because I will be preparing cially when they were playing against Coach, Mike Murphy—Linebacker Coach, to play in the Super Bowl. And boy, Russ Purnell—Special Teams Coach, Diron the Patriots, and how they held steady Reynolds—Defensive Quality Coach, John was he preparing. when the Chicago Bears scored that Teerlinck—Defensive Line Coach, Ricky Many people know the connections to touchdown right off the bat. They Thomas—Tight End Coach, Jon Torine— Tennessee here with this Super Bowl didn’t panic. They showed true leader- Strength and Conditioning Coach, and Alan because of Peyton Manning, because he ship, and I am so proud of the Colts, Williams—Defensive Backs Coach. played his college football at the Uni- and I am proud of the fact that I had Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I versity of Tennessee. And I dare say, the opportunity to extend congratula- yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from other than the State of Indiana, and tions to them. Indiana (Mr. DONNELLY). maybe Mississippi, the State of Ten- I think Marvin Harrison and Peyton Mr. DONNELLY. Mr. Speaker, I want nessee was cheering for the Indianap- Manning are the best one-two punch in to congratulate Congresswoman CAR- olis Colts in greater numbers than any the history of the NFL. These two SON on her resolution, to add my name State in the Union because of Peyton players are magnificent athletes, but to it, and to also say I come from a Manning, because he is our favorite son they are also magnificent human unique place, and that my district is because of where he played his college beings in who they are and how they not far from Chicago. Our beautiful dis- football. lead. And I couldn’t be more happy. trict has numbers of Bears fans in it as To this very day, he owns real estate I also have to say something about well as Colts fans. And so to the Bears in Chattanooga. He plays his golf in the Chicago Bears. They are a great fans from Michigan City, Laporte, and Chattanooga. We see him a lot. He is football team. We beat a great football South Bend, I say a season well done; married to a Chattanooga girl. We are team. And Rex Grossman, who is the one step short is still a heck of a year. very proud of that. quarterback of that team, has caught a We are incredibly proud of the Bears, You wouldn’t know also that R.V. lot of heat recently for what he did. but we are also beaming about our Brown, who was the chaplain for the But he took the Chicago Bears to the world champion Indianapolis Colts who Tampa Bay Buccaneers, is one of Coach Super Bowl, and that is a feat in itself. did it in a way to reflect what our Dungy’s closest friends and the person And I single him out because I be- State’s values are: dignity, hard work, to whom we extended the invitation. lieve it was his dad or his uncle that I class, and a never-give-up attitude. We are so very proud of these relation- actually played football against in To Peyton Manning, to Joseph Addai, ships. Bloomington, Indiana, where Rex to all of the outstanding players, and What about Lovie Smith? He coached Grossman actually is. So I consider especially to Coach Tony Dungy, Tony at the University of Tennessee as well. him a constituent. Bloomington is in Dungy and Lovie Smith come from a So all of these great players and coach- my district. It is great to applaud him long tradition of fine men like Sherm es that really represented the goodness for his accomplishments. I applaud the Lewis, men like Eddie Robinson, and to of America on Sunday and in the days Chicago Bears, and I applaud the Indi- see Tony Dungy as the first African leading into Sunday have some kind of anapolis Colts for all the good things American coach to win the Super Bowl Tennessee connections. that they have done for the State of In- was a tremendous moment. But he will But I just want to close with this diana. not be the last. There will be many, thought. Proverbs 16:15 says this: Good- Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speak- many more. But his name will be tempered leaders invigorate lives. They er, might I inquire of my colleague, do etched in history forever. And as a are like spring rain and sunshine. you have any more speakers? man, we can only look at Tony and And I have got to tell you that Tony Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. No, I don’t be- hope that we can be as fine in image Dungy and Lovie Smith are good-tem- lieve we do. and in value to our sons and daughters pered leaders straight from that scrip- Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Well, if he as he has been to all of us. ture. They have invigorated lives, and has no more speakers, I am prepared to

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Mr. Speaker, I But I still want my deep-dish pizza, f yield myself such time as I may con- my cheesecake, and I want to make sume. sure those DVDs get to the troops in ANTITRUST MODERNIZATION COM- Mr. Speaker, I support H.R. 742, the Iraq. MISSION EXTENSION ACT OF 2007 Antitrust Modernization Commission Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I move Extension Act of 2007. of my time. Our Nation’s first antitrust laws were Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 742) to amend the Antitrust Mod- enacted at the turn of the 20th century. to close, I will just simply say that, of The Antitrust Modernization Commis- course, Eli’s has the best cheesecake in ernization Commission Act of 2002, to extend the term of the Antitrust Mod- sion Act of 2002 created a commission the world, and Representative BURTON, ernization Commission and to make a to examine how to update our antitrust you shall be able to partake of that. laws in light of the new technologies But also, let me say that we will con- technical correction. that have developed in recent years. gratulate all of the players, all of the The Clerk read as follows: The Antitrust Modernization Com- owners, all of those who made these H.R. 742 mission, or AMC, was required to two great teams. I have never seen two Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- produce a report 3 years after the date men who have given more to a sport resentatives of the United States of America in of its first meeting on April 2, 2004. than Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith. Congress assembled, Mr. Speaker, I am happy to report Not only are they masters of the game, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. that the AMC will submit its rec- not only are they great coaches and This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Antitrust ommendations to Congress and the leaders, but they exemplify the best of Modernization Commission Extension Act of President by the statutory deadline of human beings, the best that you could 2007’’. April 2, 2007. possibly be, and that is what they have SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF TERMINATION. The AMC is required to terminate 30 done for the game of football. That is Section 11059 of the Antitrust Moderniza- what they have done for America. And tion Commission Act of 2002 (15 U.S.C. 1 days after submitting its report. How- note) is amended— I am sure that Americans all over the ever, the commission has requested an (1) by striking ‘‘30 days’’ and inserting ‘‘60 extension of its authorization by an ad- Nation will be cheering them on for days’’; and years and years to come. ditional 30 days so that it can effec- (2) by striking ‘‘section 8’’ and inserting tively conclude its operations. This ad- Mr. Speaker, I yield to Representa- ‘‘section 11058’’. tive JULIA CARSON for the last word. ditional 30 days will allow the AMC to The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- properly archive its records and trans- Ms. CARSON. Mr. Speaker, I am ant to the rule, the gentleman from pleased that all of the delegation of In- fer property to other agencies. Michigan (Mr. CONYERS) and the gen- diana has come to the floor to speak on Pursuant to that request, H.R. 742 ex- tleman from Texas (Mr. SMITH) each tends the authorization of the AMC by behalf of this worthy resolution. will control 20 minutes. Tony Dungy, if you don’t mind, I will 30 days and also makes a small tech- The Chair recognizes the gentleman single him out, exhibits the kind of nical correction to the original author- from Michigan. character that we would all like our ization statute. This bill will not delay Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I yield men to exhibit. Young men, who were the submission of the AMC’s report to myself as much time as I may con- jumping up and down at the Colts Congress nor will it require the appro- sume. Super Bowl, can learn so much about priation of any additional funds. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this how far you get in this world by dis- Mr. Speaker, I am happy to cospon- measure cosponsored with me by the playing strength, by displaying hon- sor this bill, along with the chairman distinguished ranking member of the esty and integrity and loving the Lord. of the Judiciary Committee, to allow Judiciary Committee, Mr. LAMAR That is what Tony Dungy does. the AMC to wrap up its important He belongs to Northside New Era SMITH, to extend the Antitrust Mod- work without imposing any additional Church in Indianapolis, which is a lit- ernization Commission by 30 days so cost on the American taxpayer. tle church on a hill. It is not a big, pa- that it may have time to wrap up and I urge my colleagues to join me in latial church that swings around city finalize its report and shut down its op- supporting this legislation. blocks; just a little church on a hill. erations. Mr. Speaker, I do not believe I have And the members there love him. This modernization commission deal- any others who want to comment on And I notice that he took many of ing with antitrust has been in exist- this legislation, and so, because of the young people from Northside New ence since 2002 and was created with that, I will yield back the balance of Era to Miami, which was an experience the purpose of examining whether the my time. that they will never replicate. need exists to modernize the antitrust Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I con- So I want to thank the Dungy family. laws. It began meeting in 2004 and for tinue to yield myself as much time as His wife, when the church has an event, the past 3 years has been studying I may consume. she is right there with her little apron many aspects of antitrust law, includ- The reason we have this commission on cooking, too. ing how these laws operate in a mod- is because there are acknowledged to So it shows you that you can’t think ern, information-driven economy. be some serious considerations, some too highly of yourself. And Tony Also, they were charged with exam- problems that we need to examine in Dungy certainly doesn’t do that. He ining the intersection between anti- the area of antitrust law. thinks highly of the Lord and of all the trust law and intellectual property b 1245 people that he serves. And I am just law; about immunities and exemptions happy that I lived long enough to see that are enjoyed under our current The antitrust laws were derived from this major event happen on behalf of antitrust law; the relationship between the Sherman Act of over a century ago, the district that I represent. the Federal and State antitrust law en- and they are very important, and they Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I forcement; the application of antitrust have helped us in terms of developing yield back the balance of my time. laws in regulated industries; and the an economy that is in some respects The SPEAKER pro tempore. The merger review process. I look forward the envy of the entire planet. question is on the motion offered by to reviewing the commission’s final re- But there has been so much activity the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. port, which is due in April of this year. in the antitrust area that there has DAVIS) that the House suspend the I anticipate that the Judiciary Com- been some concern whether or not we rules and agree to the resolution, H. mittee will take a close look at the have gone overboard. This past year is Res. 130. recommendations contained in the re- the fourth largest in the history for

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They are customers. attorney general received more than 500 re- troubling: SBC and AT&T, a $16 billion- The telecommunications industry is one key ports of price gouging. At first blush, it would valued merger; AT&T and BellSouth, industry that has experienced significant con- seem that these increases go far beyond any- an $86 billion merger; Verizon and MCI, solidation. This year, AT&T acquired BellSouth thing justified or relating to the market disrup- an $8.5 billion merger; Sprint and Corp.—after just last year acquiring SBC—in a tions caused by Hurricane Katrina. The FTC’s Nextel, $36 billion; Cingular and AT&T deal that creates a telecom behemoth with report on this phenomenon was less than sat- Wireless, about $47 billion worth of $117 billion in revenue. isfactory. coming together; Kmart with Sears, This has particular consequences in the We have also seen significant consolidation Roebuck; Hewlett-Packard and area of net neutrality. For people who innovate in the health insurance industry. In recent Compaq; NBC Universal and NBC and in the area of technology, and for those who years, Aetna agreed to acquire Prudential Vivendi; Morgan Chase and Bank One; enjoy those innovations, this free and open Health Care, the fifth largest for-profit health Procter & Gamble buys $54 billion in access to the Internet has been a boon. New care company, at the same time it was in the new acquisition; the Bank of America applications are being developed every hour midst of completing its purchase of New York with FleetBoston. We have got some- and are able to be instantly distributed on the Life. In 1996 Aetna was also permitted to ac- thing that needs far more consider- Web. These new applications—coupled with quire U.S. Health Care. As a result of these ation. new content, such as broadband television— acquisitions, Aetna became the largest health And I want to praise the former have the potential to offer a new array of care provider in the nation. chairman of the Judiciary Committee, choices to consumers. Recent years have seen more than a dozen the gentleman from Wisconsin, who Unfortunately, some telecommunications health insurance competitors eliminated helped us create the special outside companies have a different vision for the Inter- through mergers and acquisitions. A study of committee to aid us, and we look for- net. They have floated the idea of charging market concentration by the Robert Wood ward to their reports. And I join the websites for access. Those who pay will get Johnson Foundation found that ‘‘both the gentleman from Texas in helping to de- faster and more reliable delivery of their con- group and individual [health insurance] mar- velop the time needed for us to get the tent to web surfers. Those who do not will see kets are heavily dominated by a relatively few report. the delivery of their content degraded. large insurers.’’ Business consumers of health We on the Judiciary Committee feel The antitrust laws can help ensure that net- care have become increasingly alarmed by this is a hugely important subject. And work neutrality, the bedrock of the growth of this concentration, with Charles Blankenstein, we want to particularly praise the vice the Internet, remains in place. a health expert at William Mercer Consulting, chairman of the commission, Attorney In the media, the FCC’s relaxed cap on warning that employers are ‘‘bear[ing] the cost Jon Yarowsky, who himself was a ownership in national and local broadcast mar- of these acquisitions’’ as ‘‘choice in the mar- former member of the House Judiciary kets, and relaxed cross-ownership restrictions ketplace is rapidly diminishing.’’ staff for a considerable number of between broadcasters and newspapers, has In the airline industry, lagging profits have years. enabled concentrated wealthy interests to con- led to a marked trend toward further consoli- Mr. Speaker, the bill we are considering trol a large portion of the media in some dation. Because air travel is a vital portion of today is a modest one, but I want to empha- areas. Consumers are thereby often deprived the nation’s transportation infrastructure, we size that the issue it relates to is of utmost im- of a diversity of viewpoints and voices in news can’t simply turn a blind eye and chalk this up portance. and entertainment. to economic bad times. Often these mergers For over a century, the antitrust laws have Imagine a world where you wake up, read have the potential to reduce the flight options provided the ground rules for fair competition. the local newspaper, turn on the television to available to consumers, and ultimately may They are our economic bill of rights. Antitrust watch the news, drive to work and listen to the lead to higher ticket prices. principles are necessary to preserve competi- radio, pass a few billboards containing adver- In this environment, vigorous antitrust en- tion and to prevent monopolies from stifling in- tisements, return home later at night and turn forcement is particularly important. We need to novation. Competition produces better prod- on your cable to watch a movie or some be able to rely on the federal antitrust enforce- ucts, lower prices, and wider choices—all to sports—only to find that each of those media ment agencies—the Antitrust Division in the the benefit of consumers. outlets is owned by the same company. It may Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade The cornerstone premise of our antitrust sound farfetched, but it is not. This is the Commission. We need to be able to have con- laws is essentially a conservative notion: that world we are evolving into. In this world, in- fidence that they are doing everything they free and unfettered competition will produce stead of ten voices with ten different view- should to protect competition in our economy the best results for consumers. To the extent points, there may only be three. The antitrust and the benefits it brings to us all. that anticompetitive conduct or conditions laws may be our only hope of preventing this. That is why active oversight of antitrust have hindered this healthy process, the anti- The story is even bleaker for independent must and will be an important part of the work trust laws are there to arrest those violations broadcasters, and for minority participation in of the Judiciary Committee. We will ask these and remedy the competitive harms. the media industry. As of 2001, minorities agencies about merger enforcement, and why In the Sherman Act, we prohibit contracts or owned only 3.8 percent of the full-power com- they do not seem to be challenging an merg- conspiracies that restrain trade, and exclu- mercial radio and television stations in the na- ers. We will ask them about their policy on sionary or predatory conduct that sabotages tion, and only 1.9 percent of TV stations. If civil non-merger enforcement against monopo- the efforts of rivals. For egregious violations, ownership of the media is controlled by four or lization and other anticompetitive business ar- there are high fines and prison terms. There five conglomerates, minority-owned stations rangements. And we will ask them about their are also treble damages for victims. and programming that appeals to minority in- commitment to prosecute criminal antitrust vio- And we have supplemented those protec- terests could become a thing of the past. lations. tions in the Clayton Act, by giving the antitrust In the home appliance industry, Whirlpool The Committee will also create a task force, enforcement agencies the power to challenge Corp., the largest maker of home appliances, as we did in the last Congress, so that we can anticompetitive mergers in their incipiency, to merged with Maytag Inc., the third largest. The more closely examine competitive develop- prevent their harmful effects from ever taking deal cost $1.8 billion and produced a company ments in important industries, including tele- place. that manufactures much of Sears’ Kenmore communications, pharmaceuticals, and insur- The competitive landscape in the United line as well as the brands Jenn Air, ance, as well as topics such as interoperability States has been undergoing dramatic change KitchenAid, Amana, and Magic Chef, and con- of new technologies, credit card interchange in recent years. Technological and market in- trols as much as 70 percent of the U.S. mar- fees, and transparency in standard setting. novation has come at us at breakneck speed. ket for large home appliances such as wash- As we prepare for the work ahead in this We have witnessed a wave of consolidation in ers and dryers. vital area, we will look forward to reading the some of our key industries. According to In the oil industry, we’ve seen massive in- Antitrust Modernization Commission’s final re- Thomson Financial, this past year was the creases in gasoline prices. After Hurricane port, and reviewing its assessment of the state

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Judge Heaney said, I said to my The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Heaney. men, and there were only a few of us question is on the motion offered by He was appointed judge of the U.S. left, we will go back to the beach; they the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth will have landed supplies, and we can CONYERS) that the House suspend the Circuit on November 3, 1966. He took be replenished. So they turned around, rules and pass the bill, H.R. 742. senior status in December 31, 1988; fi- and he stopped and choked and said, The question was taken; and (two- nally retired last August after 40 years and that is when I saw the carnage, thirds being in the affirmative) the on the bench. But that is only part of thousands killed. rules were suspended and the bill was the story. But they returned, got supplemental passed. Gerald Heaney was born January 29, ammunition, went back up that beach- A motion to reconsider was laid on 1918, in Goodhue, a rural community in head, and their job was to then circle the table. southeastern Minnesota. He grew up in around La Pointe du Hoc, which is a f a farming community, learned the val- straight, rocky cliff. Rangers are going ues of rural America, went to my col- to scale La Pointe du Hoc from below, RECESS lege which I attended many years and Heaney and his Ranger group were The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- later, College of St. Thomas, where he to distract the Germans, take out the ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair graduated and went on to the Univer- gunnery and make it safe, and they declares the House in recess subject to sity of Minnesota where he got his law did. They attacked. They took out the call of the Chair. degree in 1941, but then started a new powerful German machine gun Accordingly (at 12 o’clock and 50 chapter in the life of Gerald Heaney. implacements and long-range artillery. minutes p.m.), the House stood in re- He enlisted in the Army in World For that heroism at La Pointe du cess subject to the call of the Chair. War II. He was trained as a United Hoc, Judge Heaney was awarded the f States Army Ranger, and he was on the Silver Star, the second highest award landing craft at 6:30 in the morning on our Government gives to our military b 1334 Omaha Beach in Normandy. personnel, but that was not the end. AFTER RECESS I interviewed Judge Heaney for the They continued all across France and The recess having expired, the House Library of Congress project on World into Germany. was called to order by the Speaker pro War II veterans. They are attempting By 1945, they had gotten to the Elbe, tempore (Mr. POMEROY) at 1 o’clock at the Library to get the personal and there the British units, Russian and 34 minutes p.m. views of those who participated in units and American units met, but f World War II, and he told this story: they postponed the formal meeting ‘‘We were all herded into the landing until the following morning where they GERALD W. HEANEY FEDERAL craft. At 6:30 we arrived close to the would have a flag-raising ceremony. BUILDING AND UNITED STATES beach. We could not quite get into the And as Judge Heaney said, he looked COURTHOUSE AND CUSTOM- beach because of the obstacles that the over, and the Russians had a flag, the HOUSE Germans had placed under water and British had a flag; he said, where is Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, I move also had proximity bombs that would ours? They did not have a flag. No one to suspend the rules and pass the bill blow up ships. They were having trou- had thought to bring a flag. They just (H.R. 187) to designate the Federal ble getting the vessels in, so they could fought their way courageously across building and United States courthouse not get to the beach, but they got into Europe. and customhouse located at 515 West relatively shallow water. And the door So Judge Heaney, Gerald Heaney, by First Street in Duluth, Minnesota, as went down on the landing craft, and then Captain Heaney, went into the the ‘‘Gerald W. Heaney Federal Build- the captain stood up and said, everyone village nearby and bought red, white ing and United States Courthouse and ashore, and he was cut down by gun- and blue cloth and found seamstresses Customhouse’’. fire. And the first lieutenant stood up in the village who could sew that into The Clerk read as follows: and said, everyone ashore, and he was an American flag with 48 stars at the H.R. 187 cut down by gunfire. And then,’’ said time. He still has that flag. He brought Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- Judge Heaney, ‘‘that left me, Second it with him for the Labor Day celebra- resentatives of the United States of America in Lieutenant Gerald Heaney, in charge, tion this year at Park Point in Duluth, Congress assembled, and I looked up and said, we are not and there was not a dry eye in the SECTION 1. DESIGNATION. going out that door; everybody over crowd. The Federal building and United States the side.’’ That is the man, that is the courage, courthouse and customhouse located at 515 How many lives he saved we will that is the strength. He went on to be West First Street in Duluth, Minnesota, never know, but they got into water appointed a U.S. circuit court judge by shall be known and designated as the ‘‘Ger- that was too deep for them to touch Lyndon Johnson, and displaying the ald W. Heaney Federal Building and United the bottom. They tried to swim. They same courage that he showed for his States Courthouse and Customhouse’’. were sinking. They all cut off their country in defense of liberty and free- SEC. 2. REFERENCES. backpacks loaded with their food and dom, he presided over the case to de- Any reference in a law, map, regulation, segregate the St. Louis school system. document, paper, or other record of the supplemental ammunition and made it United States to the Federal building and to the shore. He wrote the opinion and has written a United States courthouse and customhouse I was privileged to be in the group of book about not only the opinion, but referred to in section 1 shall be deemed to be Speaker HASTERT on the 60th anniver- the 20 years that he presided over the a reference to the ‘‘Gerald W. Heaney Fed- sary of D-Day and stood at that beach, continuing desegregation of the St. eral Building and United States Courthouse at that shoreline, and looked up at Louis schools in his capacity as circuit and Customhouse’’. where the German gun implacements court judge. It is entitled, ‘‘Unending The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- were located. It is an awesome crossfire Struggle. The Long Road to an Equal ant to the rule, the gentleman from site, fearsome. Education in St. Louis,’’ with Dr. Minnesota (Mr. OBERSTAR) and the gen- Men were cut down right and left as Susan Uchitelle, who was a law clerk tleman from Missouri (Mr. GRAVES) they crawled and inched their way up. for Judge Heaney. each will control 20 minutes. By 3:30 in the afternoon, they had made He writes, Our involvement in the St. The Chair recognizes the gentleman progress of just about a mile, circled Louis public school case over a period from Minnesota. around the German guns, which was of 18 years convinced us that, after

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No one has attempted to pull tion for championing equal justice for At the end of the war Judge Heaney re- together the rich material written over underprivileged and vulnerable citi- turned home and entered private practice in the period from 1820 to the 1980s. zens. Judge Heaney retired after 40 Duluth. During that time he was instrumental It is all compiled in this remarkable years of service on August 31, 2006. in improving the state education system, and document of how one court case I support this legislation, Mr. Speak- served on the board of regents for the Univer- changed the lives of children, of gen- er, and I urge my colleagues to do the sity of Minnesota. He was instrumental in erations of children, of an entire com- same. helping develop for the Duluth school system munity, made life better for not only Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance the same pay scale for both men and women. African Americans but all citizens liv- of my time. In 1966 he was appointed by President ing in St. Louis. Mr. OBERSTAR. I want to say, once Johnson to the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals. In that capacity he has been a champion in b 1345 again, what a great privilege this is to author this legislation, bring it from protecting the rights of the disadvantaged. He I know that as I have traveled to that the Committee on Transportation and was devoted to making sure that every person city from time to time to meet people, Infrastructure, which I have the honor had an equal opportunity for an education, a Gerald Heaney is nearly revered. He is to chair, and bring it to the House floor job, and a home. He firmly believes the poor, enormously respected. His courage and and pay tribute to a truly great heroic the less educated, and less advantaged de- standing and his steadfastness, just as American who served his country in serve the protection of the Constitution. he pursued the German forces across war, in peace, on the bench and in the As a hard working, well prepared, and fair France and Germany, he pursued jus- hearts of our fellow citizens. minded jurist he left his legal imprimatur on tice in the name of all of our fellow In addition to my statement on the Floor school desegregation cases, bankruptcy law, citizens as a sitting judge. today, I want to include in the CONGRESSIONAL prisoner treatment, and social security law. It is most fitting that we should des- His public service is discerned by industry, ignate the courthouse where he spent a RECORD this passage from ‘‘Unending Strug- gle: The Long Road to an Equal Education in brilliance, and scholarly excellence. His com- great deal of his office hours. Although passion and dedication to those of us who are his cases were heard in St. Louis, in St. Louis’’ by Judge Gerald W. Heaney and Dr. Susan Uchitelle: the most disadvantaged is unparalled. the courthouse there, his office hours Judge Heaney is most deserving of this Unless additional resources are provided to were in the Federal building and the honor. I ask my colleagues to join me in sup- courthouse and customhouse in Du- the St. Louis public schools, they will fail, leading to a demand by some parents for al- porting this bill. luth, a venerable facility that was built ternative educational opportunities. . . Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance during the Depression years and, like Excellent public schools are essential in a of my time. Judge Heaney’s work, will withstand democracy. Experience has demonstrated The SPEAKER pro tempore. The the test of time for generations to that urban city schools educate and will con- question is on the motion offered by come. tinue to educate most school-age children. the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of Moreover, public schools have an obligation OBERSTAR) that the House suspend the my time. to educate all children—rich and poor, black, rules and pass the bill, H.R. 187. Mr. GRAVES. Mr. Speaker, I yield brown, and white, gifted or special. Unless The question was taken; and (two- myself such time as I may consume. children are well educated and well trained, thirds being in the affirmative) the Though many have made light of the they will be unable to take their place as full participants in our vibrant democracy. rules were suspended and the bill was schedule we have had for the past few Segregated housing, a long history of dis- passed. weeks, the grueling schedule of naming crimination in education and employment, A motion to reconsider was laid on a lot of Federal buildings, it doesn’t and the historic lack of opportunity for Afri- the table. mean that any of these individuals are can Americans to participate fully and f any less deserving or should not be equally in all aspects of life make the task GENERAL LEAVE honored. ahead a challenging one. Today in committee in the Transpor- This is but one simple passage from the Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, I ask tation Committee, we named a court- works of Judge Heaney. I urge my colleagues unanimous consent all Members have 5 house in Missouri, my home State, to join me in supporting H.R. 187. legislative days within which to revise after Rush Hudson Limbaugh, Sr., who H.R. 187 is a bill to designate the federal and extend their remarks on the bill practiced law in the State of Missouri building and United States Courthouse located just passed. for over 80 years and was highly re- at 515 West First St., Duluth, Minnesota as The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there vered. Today on the floor, we are hon- Judge ‘‘Gerald W. Heaney Federal Building objection to the request of the gen- oring somebody that, going through his and United States Courthouse and Custom- tleman from Minnesota? accomplishments and what he has done house.’’ Gerald Heaney was appointed Judge There was no objection. in life, is somebody that truly should of the United States Court of Appeals for the f be recognized. Eighth Circuit on November 3, 1966. He took REPEALING PROHIBITION ON USE H.R. 187, which was introduced by senior status on December 31, 1988, and re- OF CERTAIN FUNDS WITH RE- Representative OBERSTAR of Min- tired on August 31, 2006, after over 40 years SPECT TO LOS ANGELES TO SAN nesota, chairman of the Transportation of distinguished service to his country and the FERNANDO VALLEY METRO RAIL Committee, designates the Federal citizens of Minnesota. I rise in strong support PROJECT, CALIFORNIA building and the United States court- of this bill. Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, I move house and customhouse at 515 West Judge Heaney was born on January 29, to suspend the rules and pass the bill First Street in Duluth, Minnesota, as 1918 in Goodhue, a rural community in the (H.R. 238) to repeal a prohibition on the the Gerald W. Heaney Federal Building southeastern part of Minnesota. As a child use of certain funds for tunneling in and United States Courthouse and Cus- growing up in a farming community Judge certain areas with respect to the Los tomhouse. The building honors Judge Heaney learned the value of a close family, Angeles to San Fernando Valley Metro Heaney’s dedication to public service. honesty, and hard work. These qualities have Rail project, California. As the gentleman from Minnesota marked not only his personal life but also his The Clerk read as follows: pointed out, he served with great dis- life as a public servant. He was educated at H.R. 238 tinction during the Army in World War the College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, and re- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- II and acquired a law degree from the ceived his law degree from the University of resentatives of the United States of America in University of Minnesota law school Minnesota in 1941. Congress assembled, after his time. Judge Gerald W. Heaney Gerry Heaney is a decorated WorId War II SECTION 1. REPEAL OF PROHIBITION. engaged in private practice then just veteran. He was a member of the distin- The second sentence of section 321 of the after the war, from 1946 to 1966. guished Army Ranger Battalion and partici- Department of Transportation and Related

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H.R. 238 undoes something The Chair recognizes the gentleman colleagues in the House to agree with that should never have been done in from Minnesota. the proposal coming from the com- the first place. In November 2005, a Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, I yield mittee. panel of engineering experts reported myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, H.R. 238 is noncontroversial that tunneling along the Wilshire Bou- This bill will repeal a prohibition on legislation. In the last Congress, it was re- levard Corridor can be done safely if the use of Federal transit funds for ported unanimously by the House Transpor- proper procedures and appropriate tunneling in certain areas for construc- tation Committee and passed the House by techniques are used. tion of the San Fernando Valley Metro voice vote. This bill, H.R. 238, will repeal the Rail project in Southern California. H.R. 238 would repeal a law enacted in current prohibition on tunneling in Many of us can remember the trag- 1985 that prohibits subway tunneling in a part that corridor. This legislation was first edy over 20 years ago caused by an ex- of Los Angeles I represent. I authored the introduced by Congressman WAXMAN in plosion due to the buildup of methane 1985 legislation after a methane gas explosion December of 2005 as H.R. 4653 and was gas, which ignited after accumulating demolished a Ross Dress-for-Less store in the passed by the House in September of over a long period of time, on the Third Third and Fairfax area of Los Angeles. 2006. However, the Senate failed to act Street Corridor in the Wilshire-Fairfax After the explosion, serious safety concerns on the legislation, which is the reason District of Los Angeles. It just rocked were raised about the city’s plans to extend we are back here on the floor today. the entire area. The explosion damaged the subway in this area due to underground a building structure, injured 22 people. pockets of methane gas. In recent years, ex- I do support H.R. 238, and I urge its A preliminary investigation pointed to perts have indicated that technologies have passage. the ignition of underground pockets of been developed that could make tunneling in Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of pressurized gas. the area safe. my time. The incident raised a great many In 2004, the Los Angeles City Council Mr. OBERSTAR. I want to supple- safety concerns related to tunneling in passed a motion urging a reversal of the 1985 ment the remarks of the gentleman the area to build the Metro Rail sys- law, and in February 2005 the Los Angeles from California, my colleague from tem. The Los Angeles City Council cre- Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s board Missouri, the ranking member on the ated a task force at the time to inves- voted to renew discussions of the subway’s subcommittee, that we now believe tigate the explosion to determine the expansion in this area. that the city council has resolved the cause of the accident, to make rec- As a result, I worked with Mayor Antonio issues. The mayor has put in place the ommendations to avoid further inci- Villaraigosa to select a panel of scientific ex- process by which the tunneling can dents. perts to conduct an independent safety review. continue in all safety to both those The results of the investigation iden- These experts made a unanimous determina- doing the tunneling and those above tified two methane risk zones to assure tion in a November 2005 report that tunneling ground and now advance the urgently that the safety concerns on construc- in the methane gas area can be done safely needed transit project in Los Angeles tion of that segment of the Metro Rail if proper procedures and appropriate tech- into the San Fernando Valley area. So were fully addressed. A provision was nologies are used. I urge the passage of H.R. 238. included in the fiscal year 1986 trans- H.R. 238 simply lifts the Federal tunneling Mr. GRAVES. Mr. Speaker, I yield portation appropriations bill to pro- prohibition that has been in place since 1985. back the balance of my time. hibit the use of Federal funds until I urge my colleagues to support it. safety concerns had been properly ad- Mr. GRAVES. Mr. Speaker, I yield Mr. OBERSTAR. Mr. Speaker, I yield dressed. myself such time as I may consume. back the balance of my time. The gentleman who took that cause Mr. Speaker, H.R. 238 repeals a 21- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The to the committee, to the House, the year-old prohibition on the use of Fed- question is on the motion offered by gentleman from California, my col- eral transit funds to tunnel in the San the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. league, we were elected in the same Fernando Valley area west of Los An- OBERSTAR) that the House suspend the year, 1974, Mr. WAXMAN, has been vigi- geles. rules and pass the bill, H.R. 238. lant on this issue and vigorous in his In 1985, an explosion of naturally oc- The question was taken; and (two- pursuit of safety for the people of Los curring methane gas blew up a depart- thirds being in the affirmative) the Angeles County. ment store in the Wilshire Boulevard rules were suspended and the bill was Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he Corridor in Los Angeles, injuring 22 passed. may consume to the gentleman from people. As the gentleman from Min- A motion to reconsider was laid on California (Mr. WAXMAN). nesota aptly pointed out, concerned the table. Mr. WAXMAN. Thank you very much about the safety of tunneling in the for yielding to me. area of Los Angeles, the city council f Mr. Speaker, this bill is non- created a task force to investigate the controversial. It relates to a situation explosion. The task force identified in Los Angeles where prohibition was methane risk zones along the Wilshire ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER put in place to prevent tunneling in an Boulevard Corridor. PRO TEMPORE area that has been designated as a high The fiscal year 1986 transportation The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- risk for methane gas explosions. The appropriations bill included a legisla- ant to clause 8 of rule XX, proceedings bill before us would repeal that prohi- tive provision that prohibits the use of will resume on motions to suspend the bition about tunneling, because, at the Federal transit funds associated with rules previously postponed. request of Mayor Villaraigosa, we the Los Angeles project for tunneling Votes will be taken in the following agreed to convene a panel of experts to in or through an identified methane order: risk zone. The appropriations provision assure us that it is technically feasible H.R. 365, by the yeas and nays; to handle the tunneling in a very safe was written very broadly, binding fu- manner, that the technology is there ture funds provided by Congress and af- H. Res. 120, by the yeas and nays; and that we need not fear the tun- fecting all parts of the Metro Rail sub- H.R. 482, by the yeas and nays. neling as we might have, appropriately way project, including future exten- The first electronic vote will be con- so, in the mid-1980s. sions. The prohibition prevented any ducted as a 15-minute vote. Remaining In 2004, the L.A. City Council passed transportation planners in the Los An- electronic votes will be conducted as 5- a motion urging reversal of this 1985 geles area from considering any trans- minute votes.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 02:08 Feb 08, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00027 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A07FE7.022 H07FEPT1 mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with HOUSE H1302 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE February 7, 2007 METHAMPHETAMINE REMEDI- Latham Nunes Shuler pending the rules and agreeing to the ATION RESEARCH ACT OF 2007 LaTourette Oberstar Shuster resolution, H. Res. 120. Lee Obey Simpson The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Levin Olver Sires The Clerk read the title of the resolu- pending business is the question of sus- Lewis (CA) Ortiz Skelton tion. Lewis (GA) Pallone Slaughter The SPEAKER pro tempore. The pending the rules and passing the bill, Lewis (KY) Pascrell Smith (NE) question is on the motion offered by H.R. 365. Linder Pastor Smith (NJ) The Clerk read the title of the bill. Lipinski Payne Smith (TX) the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. LoBiondo Pearce Smith (WA) DAVIS) that the House suspend the The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Loebsack Pelosi Snyder Lofgren, Zoe Pence rules and agree to the resolution, H. question is on the motion offered by Solis Lowey Perlmutter Res. 120, on which the yeas and nays the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Souder Lucas Peterson (MN) Space are ordered. GORDON) that the House suspend the Lungren, Daniel Peterson (PA) Spratt This will be a 5-minute vote. rules and pass the bill, H.R. 365, on E. Petri Stark which the yeas and nays are ordered. Lynch Pickering The vote was taken by electronic de- Mack Pitts Stearns vice, and there were—yeas 426, nays 0, The vote was taken by electronic de- Stupak Mahoney (FL) Platts not voting 9, as follows: vice, and there were—yeas 426, nays 2, Maloney (NY) Poe Sullivan Manzullo Pomeroy Sutton [Roll No. 79] not voting 7, as follows: Tancredo Marchant Porter YEAS—426 [Roll No. 78] Markey Price (GA) Tanner Abercrombie Cole (OK) Graves YEAS—426 Marshall Price (NC) Tauscher Matheson Putnam Taylor Ackerman Conaway Green, Al Abercrombie Clyburn Goode Matsui Radanovich Terry Aderholt Conyers Green, Gene Ackerman Coble Goodlatte McCarthy (CA) Rahall Thompson (CA) Akin Cooper Grijalva Aderholt Cohen Gordon McCarthy (NY) Ramstad Thompson (MS) Alexander Costa Gutierrez Akin Cole (OK) Granger McCaul (TX) Rangel Thornberry Allen Costello Hall (NY) Alexander Conaway Graves McCollum (MN) Regula Tiahrt Altmire Courtney Hall (TX) Allen Conyers Green, Al McCotter Rehberg Tiberi Andrews Cramer Hare Altmire Cooper Green, Gene McCrery Reichert Tierney Arcuri Crenshaw Harman Andrews Costa Grijalva McDermott Renzi Towns Baca Crowley Hastings (FL) Arcuri Costello Gutierrez McGovern Reyes Turner Bachmann Cubin Hastings (WA) Baca Courtney Hall (NY) McHenry Reynolds Udall (CO) Bachus Cuellar Hayes Bachmann Cramer Hall (TX) McHugh Rodriguez Udall (NM) Baird Culberson Heller Bachus Crenshaw Hare McIntyre Rogers (AL) Upton Baker Cummings Hensarling Baird Crowley Harman Baldwin Davis (AL) Herger McKeon Rogers (KY) Van Hollen Baker Cubin Hastings (FL) Barrett (SC) Davis (CA) Herseth McMorris Rogers (MI) Vela´ zquez Baldwin Cuellar Hastings (WA) Barrow Davis (IL) Higgins Rodgers Rohrabacher Visclosky Barrett (SC) Culberson Hayes Bartlett (MD) Davis (KY) Hill McNerney Ros-Lehtinen Walberg Barrow Cummings Heller Barton (TX) Davis, David Hinchey McNulty Roskam Walden (OR) Bartlett (MD) Davis (AL) Hensarling Meehan Ross Bean Davis, Lincoln Hinojosa Barton (TX) Davis (CA) Herger Walsh (NY) Becerra Davis, Tom Hirono Meek (FL) Roybal-Allard Walz (MN) Bean Davis (IL) Herseth Meeks (NY) Ruppersberger Berkley Deal (GA) Hobson Becerra Davis (KY) Higgins Wamp Berman DeFazio Hodes Melancon Rush Wasserman Berkley Davis, David Hill Mica Ryan (OH) Berry DeGette Hoekstra Berman Davis, Lincoln Hinchey Schultz Biggert Delahunt Holden Michaud Ryan (WI) Waters Berry Davis, Tom Hinojosa Millender- Salazar Bilbray DeLauro Holt Watson Biggert Deal (GA) Hirono McDonald Sali Bilirakis Dent Honda Watt Bilbray DeFazio Hobson Miller (FL) Sa´ nchez, Linda Bishop (GA) Diaz-Balart, L. Hooley Waxman Bilirakis DeGette Hodes Miller (MI) T. Bishop (NY) Diaz-Balart, M. Hoyer Weiner Bishop (GA) Delahunt Hoekstra Miller (NC) Sanchez, Loretta Blackburn Dicks Hulshof Welch (VT) Bishop (NY) DeLauro Holden Miller, Gary Sarbanes Blumenauer Dingell Hunter Bishop (UT) Dent Holt Miller, George Saxton Weldon (FL) Blunt Doggett Inglis (SC) Blackburn Diaz-Balart, L. Honda Mitchell Schakowsky Weller Boehner Donnelly Inslee Blumenauer Diaz-Balart, M. Hooley Mollohan Schiff Westmoreland Bonner Doolittle Israel Blunt Dicks Hoyer Moore (KS) Schmidt Wexler Bono Doyle Issa Boehner Dingell Hulshof Moore (WI) Schwartz Whitfield Boozman Drake Jackson (IL) Bonner Doggett Hunter Moran (KS) Scott (GA) Wicker Boren Dreier Jackson-Lee Bono Donnelly Inglis (SC) Moran (VA) Scott (VA) Wilson (NM) Boswell Duncan (TX) Boozman Doolittle Inslee Murphy (CT) Sensenbrenner Wilson (OH) Boucher Edwards Jefferson Boren Doyle Israel Murphy, Patrick Serrano Wilson (SC) Boustany Ehlers Jindal Boswell Drake Issa Murphy, Tim Sessions Wolf Boyd (FL) Ellison Johnson (GA) Boucher Dreier Jackson (IL) Musgrave Sestak Woolsey Boyda (KS) Ellsworth Johnson (IL) Boustany Duncan Jackson-Lee Myrick Shadegg Wu Brady (PA) Emanuel Johnson, E. B. Boyd (FL) Edwards (TX) Nadler Shays Wynn Brady (TX) Emerson Johnson, Sam Boyda (KS) Ehlers Jefferson Napolitano Shea-Porter Yarmuth Braley (IA) Engel Jones (NC) Brady (PA) Ellison Jindal Neal (MA) Sherman Young (AK) Brown (SC) English (PA) Jones (OH) Brady (TX) Ellsworth Johnson (GA) Neugebauer Shimkus Young (FL) Brown, Corrine Eshoo Jordan Braley (IA) Emanuel Johnson (IL) Brown-Waite, Etheridge Kagen Brown (SC) Emerson Johnson, E. B. NAYS—2 Ginny Everett Kanjorski Brown, Corrine Engel Johnson, Sam Flake Paul Buchanan Fallin Kaptur Brown-Waite, English (PA) Jones (NC) Burgess Farr Keller Ginny Eshoo Jones (OH) NOT VOTING—7 Burton (IN) Fattah Kennedy Buchanan Etheridge Jordan Butterfield Feeney Kildee Davis, Jo Ann Norwood Royce Burgess Everett Kagen Buyer Ferguson Kilpatrick Hastert Pryce (OH) Burton (IN) Fallin Kanjorski Calvert Filner Kind Murtha Rothman Butterfield Farr Kaptur Camp (MI) Flake King (IA) Buyer Fattah Keller Campbell (CA) Forbes King (NY) Calvert Feeney Kennedy b 1423 Cannon Fortenberry Kingston Camp (MI) Ferguson Kildee So (two-thirds being in the affirma- Cantor Fossella Kirk Campbell (CA) Filner Kilpatrick Capito Foxx Klein (FL) Cannon Forbes Kind tive) the rules were suspended and the Capps Frank (MA) Kline (MN) Cantor Fortenberry King (IA) bill was passed. Capuano Franks (AZ) Knollenberg Capito Fossella King (NY) The result of the vote was announced Cardoza Frelinghuysen Kucinich Capps Foxx Kingston Carnahan Gallegly Kuhl (NY) Capuano Frank (MA) Kirk as above recorded. Carney Garrett (NJ) LaHood Cardoza Franks (AZ) Klein (FL) A motion to reconsider was laid on Carson Gerlach Lamborn Carnahan Frelinghuysen Kline (MN) the table. Carter Giffords Lampson Carney Gallegly Knollenberg Castle Gilchrest Langevin Carson Garrett (NJ) Kucinich f Castor Gillibrand Lantos Carter Gerlach Kuhl (NY) Chabot Gillmor Larsen (WA) Castle Giffords LaHood RECOGNIZING THE AFRICAN Chandler Gingrey Larson (CT) Castor Gilchrest Lamborn Clarke Gohmert Latham Chabot Gillibrand Lampson AMERICAN SPIRITUAL AS A NA- Clay Gonzalez LaTourette Chandler Gillmor Langevin TIONAL TREASURE Cleaver Goode Lee Clarke Gingrey Lantos Clyburn Goodlatte Levin Clay Gohmert Larsen (WA) The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Coble Gordon Lewis (CA) Cleaver Gonzalez Larson (CT) pending business is the question of sus- Cohen Granger Lewis (GA)

VerDate Aug 31 2005 02:08 Feb 08, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00028 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07FE7.061 H07FEPT1 mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with HOUSE February 7, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H1303 Lewis (KY) Ortiz Simpson AMERICAN RIVER PUMP STATION Lantos Napolitano Shea-Porter Linder Pallone Sires PROJECT TRANSFER ACT OF 2007 Larsen (WA) Neal (MA) Sherman Lipinski Pascrell Skelton Larson (CT) Neugebauer Shimkus LoBiondo Pastor Slaughter The SPEAKER pro tempore. The un- Latham Nunes Shuler Loebsack Paul Smith (NE) finished business is the question of sus- LaTourette Oberstar Shuster Lofgren, Zoe Payne Smith (NJ) Lee Obey Simpson Lowey Pearce Smith (TX) pending the rules and passing the bill, Levin Olver Sires Lucas Pelosi Smith (WA) H.R. 482. Lewis (CA) Ortiz Skelton Lungren, Daniel Pence Snyder The Clerk read the title of the bill. Lewis (KY) Pallone Slaughter E. Perlmutter Solis Linder Pascrell Smith (NE) Lynch Peterson (MN) The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Souder Lipinski Pastor Smith (NJ) Mack Peterson (PA) LoBiondo Paul Smith (TX) Space question is on the motion offered by Mahoney (FL) Petri Loebsack Payne Smith (WA) Spratt the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Maloney (NY) Pickering Lofgren, Zoe Pearce Snyder Stark Manzullo Pitts NAPOLITANO) that the House suspend Lowey Pelosi Solis Stearns Marchant Platts the rules and pass the bill, H.R. 482, on Lucas Pence Souder Markey Poe Stupak Lungren, Daniel Perlmutter Space Sullivan which the yeas and nays are ordered. Marshall Pomeroy This will be a 5-minute vote. E. Peterson (MN) Spratt Matheson Porter Sutton Lynch Peterson (PA) Stark Matsui Price (GA) Tancredo The vote was taken by electronic de- Mack Petri Stearns McCarthy (CA) Price (NC) Tanner vice, and there were—yeas 425, nays 0, Mahoney (FL) Pickering Stupak McCarthy (NY) Putnam Tauscher not voting 10, as follows: Maloney (NY) Pitts Sullivan McCaul (TX) Rahall Taylor Manzullo Platts Sutton McCollum (MN) Ramstad Terry [Roll No. 80] Marchant Poe Tancredo McCotter Rangel Thompson (CA) YEAS—425 Markey Pomeroy Tanner McCrery Regula Thompson (MS) Marshall Porter Tauscher McDermott Rehberg Thornberry Abercrombie Cleaver Gohmert Matheson Price (GA) Taylor McGovern Reichert Tiahrt Ackerman Clyburn Gonzalez Matsui Price (NC) Terry McHenry Renzi Tiberi Aderholt Coble Goode McCarthy (CA) Putnam Thompson (CA) McHugh Reyes Tierney Akin Cohen Goodlatte McCarthy (NY) Rahall Thompson (MS) McIntyre Reynolds Towns Alexander Cole (OK) Gordon McCaul (TX) Ramstad Thornberry McKeon Rodriguez Turner Allen Conaway Granger McCollum (MN) Rangel Tiberi McMorris Rogers (AL) Udall (CO) Altmire Conyers Graves McCotter Regula Tierney Rodgers Rogers (KY) Udall (NM) Andrews Cooper Green, Al McCrery Rehberg Towns McNerney Rogers (MI) Upton Arcuri Costello Green, Gene McDermott Reichert Turner Baca Courtney McNulty Rohrabacher Van Hollen Grijalva McGovern Renzi Udall (CO) Bachmann Cramer Gutierrez Meehan Ros-Lehtinen Vela´ zquez McHenry Reyes Udall (NM) Bachus Crenshaw Hall (NY) Meek (FL) Roskam Visclosky McHugh Reynolds Upton Baird Crowley Hall (TX) Meeks (NY) Ross Walberg McIntyre Rodriguez Van Hollen Baker Cubin Hare Melancon Roybal-Allard Walden (OR) McKeon Rogers (AL) Vela´ zquez Baldwin Cuellar Harman Mica Ruppersberger Walsh (NY) McMorris Rogers (KY) Visclosky Barrett (SC) Culberson Hastings (FL) Michaud Rush Walz (MN) Rodgers Rogers (MI) Walberg Millender- Ryan (OH) Barrow Cummings Hastings (WA) McNerney Rohrabacher Walden (OR) Wamp Bartlett (MD) Davis (AL) Hayes McDonald Ryan (WI) Wasserman McNulty Ros-Lehtinen Walsh (NY) Miller (FL) Salazar Barton (TX) Davis (CA) Heller Meehan Roskam Walz (MN) Schultz Bean Davis (IL) Hensarling Miller (MI) Sali Waters Meek (FL) Ross Wamp Miller (NC) Sa´ nchez, Linda Becerra Davis (KY) Herger Watson Meeks (NY) Roybal-Allard Wasserman Miller, Gary T. Berkley Davis, David Herseth Melancon Ruppersberger Schultz Watt Miller, George Sanchez, Loretta Berman Davis, Lincoln Higgins Mica Rush Waters Waxman Mitchell Sarbanes Berry Davis, Tom Hill Michaud Ryan (OH) Watson Weiner Mollohan Saxton Biggert Deal (GA) Hinchey Millender- Ryan (WI) Watt Welch (VT) Moore (KS) Schakowsky Bilbray DeFazio Hinojosa McDonald Salazar Waxman Weldon (FL) Moore (WI) Schiff Bilirakis DeGette Hirono Miller (FL) Sali Weiner Moran (KS) Schmidt Weller Bishop (GA) Delahunt Hobson Miller (MI) Sa´ nchez, Linda Welch (VT) Moran (VA) Schwartz Westmoreland Bishop (NY) DeLauro Hodes Miller (NC) T. Weldon (FL) Murphy (CT) Scott (GA) Wexler Bishop (UT) Dent Hoekstra Miller, Gary Sanchez, Loretta Weller Murphy, Patrick Scott (VA) Whitfield Blackburn Diaz-Balart, L. Holden Miller, George Sarbanes Westmoreland Murphy, Tim Sensenbrenner Wicker Blumenauer Diaz-Balart, M. Holt Mitchell Saxton Wexler Murtha Serrano Wilson (NM) Blunt Dicks Honda Mollohan Schakowsky Whitfield Musgrave Sessions Wilson (OH) Boehner Dingell Hooley Moore (KS) Schiff Wicker Myrick Sestak Wilson (SC) Bonner Doggett Hoyer Moore (WI) Schmidt Wilson (NM) Nadler Shadegg Wolf Bono Donnelly Hulshof Moran (KS) Schwartz Wilson (OH) Napolitano Shays Woolsey Boozman Doolittle Hunter Moran (VA) Scott (GA) Wilson (SC) Neal (MA) Shea-Porter Wu Boren Doyle Inglis (SC) Murphy (CT) Scott (VA) Wolf Neugebauer Sherman Wynn Boswell Drake Inslee Murphy, Patrick Sensenbrenner Woolsey Oberstar Shimkus Yarmuth Boucher Dreier Israel Murphy, Tim Serrano Wu Obey Shuler Young (AK) Boustany Duncan Issa Murtha Sessions Wynn Olver Shuster Young (FL) Boyd (FL) Edwards Jackson (IL) Musgrave Sestak Yarmuth Boyda (KS) Ehlers Jackson-Lee Myrick Shadegg Young (AK) NOT VOTING—9 Brady (PA) Ellison (TX) Nadler Shays Young (FL) Brady (TX) Ellsworth Jefferson Bishop (UT) Norwood Radanovich Braley (IA) Emanuel Jindal NOT VOTING—10 Davis, Jo Ann Nunes Rothman Brown (SC) Emerson Johnson (GA) Hastert Pryce (OH) Royce Costa Norwood Royce Brown, Corrine Engel Johnson (IL) Davis, Jo Ann Pryce (OH) Tiahrt Brown-Waite, English (PA) Johnson, E. B. ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE Hastert Radanovich Ginny Eshoo Johnson, Sam Lewis (GA) Rothman The SPEAKER pro tempore (during Buchanan Etheridge Jones (NC) Burgess Everett Jones (OH) b 1439 the vote). Members are advised that Burton (IN) Fallin Jordan there are less than 2 minutes remain- Butterfield Farr Kagen So (two-thirds being in the affirma- ing in this vote. Buyer Fattah Kanjorski tive) the rules were suspended and the Calvert Feeney Kaptur bill was passed. Camp (MI) Ferguson Keller The result of the vote was announced b 1430 Campbell (CA) Filner Kennedy Cannon Flake Kildee as above recorded. So (two-thirds being in the affirma- Cantor Forbes Kilpatrick A motion to reconsider was laid on tive) the rules were suspended and the Capito Fortenberry Kind the table. Capps Fossella King (IA) resolution was agreed to. Capuano Foxx King (NY) f The result of the vote was announced Cardoza Frank (MA) Kingston ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER as above recorded. Carnahan Franks (AZ) Kirk Carney Frelinghuysen Klein (FL) PRO TEMPORE A motion to reconsider was laid on Carson Gallegly Kline (MN) The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- the table. Carter Garrett (NJ) Knollenberg Castle Gerlach Kucinich ant to clause 8 of rule XX, the Chair Stated for: Castor Giffords Kuhl (NY) will postpone further proceedings Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Mr. Speaker, on roll- Chabot Gilchrest LaHood today on the motion to suspend the Chandler Gillibrand Lamborn call No. 79 I was unavoidably detained. Had I Clarke Gillmor Lampson rules on which a recorded vote or the been present, I would have voted ‘‘yea.’’ Clay Gingrey Langevin yeas and nays are ordered, or on which

VerDate Aug 31 2005 02:08 Feb 08, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00029 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A07FE7.025 H07FEPT1 mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with HOUSE H1304 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE February 7, 2007 the vote is objected to under clause 6 of and legacy of Rafael Jose´ Diaz-Balart for his This week Florida International Uni- rule XX. numerous contributions to democracy, and versity Law School will be dedicated in Any record vote on the postponed recognizes the Florida International Univer- the name of Rafael Diaz-Balart Hall, a question will be taken tomorrow. sity dedication of the Rafael Diaz-Balart tribute to their grandfather. The key- Hall at the College of Law as an appropriate f tribute in his memory. note address will be given by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, RECOGNIZING AND HONORING THE The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- and there will be countless Federal, LIFETIME CONTRIBUTIONS OF ant to the rule, the gentleman from Il- ´ State and local municipal elected offi- RAFAEL JOSE DIAZ-BALART linois (Mr. DAVIS) and the gentleman cials. Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I from Florida (Mr. KELLER) each will This honor to the Diaz-Balart family move to suspend the rules and agree to control 20 minutes. is a testimony to the American Dream. The Chair recognizes the gentleman the resolution (H. Res. 131) recognizing Here is a family in a bloodline that left from Illinois. and honoring the lifetime contribu- Cuban exile, but came to the United tions of Rafael Jose´ Diaz-Balart on the GENERAL LEAVE States to make this country better. dedication of the Rafael Diaz-Balart Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I The entire family has contributed Hall at the Florida International Uni- request 5 legislative days during which not only to the south Florida commu- versity College of Law. Members may insert material relevant The Clerk read as follows: nity, but the entire State of Florida, to H. Res. 131 into the RECORD. and also this great country of ours, H. RES. 131 The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there which is the United States of America. Whereas a native of Santiago de Cuba, objection to the request of the gen- I think the House is full within its Rafael Jose´ Diaz-Balart completed his stud- tleman from Illinois? right to be able to recognize this great ies at the University of Havana with a law There was no objection. degree in 1919; American for what he was able to do in Whereas soon after joining the Bar, he be- Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I his contributions to those that not came a municipal judge in the city of Palma ask unanimous consent to yield the only serve here in the House of Rep- Soriano, where he served with distinction for time to Representative MEEK from resentatives, but serve in the fields of four years until, by civil service examina- Florida for the purpose of managing journalism and in business. I am hon- tion, he obtained the post of civil law notary the Democratic side of the bill. ored to bring this to the floor at this in the town of Banes in eastern Cuba; The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there time. Whereas, while maintaining his law prac- objection to the request of the gen- tice, Rafael Jose´ Diaz-Balart was elected Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of City Council President and Mayor of Banes; tleman from Illinois? my time. Whereas he was later elected Congressman There was no objection. Mr. KELLER of Florida. Mr. Speak- and transferred his law practice to the city The SPEAKER pro tempore. The er, I yield myself as much time as I of Holguı´n and subsequently to Havana, Chair recognizes the gentleman from may consume. where he founded the law firm of Diaz- Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support Balart, Diaz-Balart and Amador, with his Mr. MEEK of Florida. Mr. Speaker, it of H. Res. 131, a resolution recognizing son, Rafael Lincoln, and Rolando Amador; is an honor to come before the House Whereas, years later, also by examination, and honoring the lifetime contribu- ´ today in support of Resolution 131, to tions of Rafael Jose´ Diaz-Balart, on the Rafael Jose Diaz-Balart assumed the post of ´ Land Registrar, a prominent achievement recognize Rafael Jose Diaz-Balart, dedication of the Rafael Diaz-Balart for lawyers in many civil law countries, in- grandfather of two of our great col- Hall at the Florida International Uni- cluding Cuba; leagues here in this great House, LIN- versity College of Law. Whereas Rafael Jose´ Diaz-Balart lived in COLN and MARIO DIAZ-BALART. I would like to thank my friend Mr. exile after 1959, and became a proud citizen Rafael Diaz-Balart was a native of MEEK for introducing this important of the United States; Santiago de Cuba and completed his resolution. Whereas along with his son, Rafael Lincoln law degree at the University of Havana Diaz-Balart, Rafael Jose´ Diaz-Balart com- The founding of the Florida Inter- menced law school at the University of Ma- in 1919. Soon after he joined the bar, national University College of Law did drid, Spain, and in 1965, at age 66, earned a Rafael Diaz-Balart became the munic- not become possible until 2000. The col- second Law Degree; ipal judge in the city of Palma Soriano, lege of law received full accreditation Whereas Rafael Jose´ Diaz-Balart died in where he served with great distinction. from the American Bar Association in Miami, Florida in 1985; Four years later, he earned a post of December 2006. Whereas Rafael Jose´ Diaz-Balart instilled civil law notary in the town of Banes The law school is home to 382 law not only in his son, but in his four grandsons in eastern Cuba, where he was later a sense honor and service, which led them to students and 25 faculty members. The become prominent members of American so- then elected city council president and Rafael Diaz-Balart Hall was designed ciety; mayor of the city. by the renowned architect and dean of Whereas his son, Rafael Lincoln, was a Upon his election to the Cuban House architecture at Yale University, Rob- prominent member of the Cuban House of of Representatives, he founded the law ert A.M. Stern. It incorporates two in- Representatives, and his grandsons, Lincoln firm of Diaz-Balart, Diaz-Balart and terior courtyards, an atrium, a reading Diaz-Balart and Mario Diaz-Balart were Amador in Havana, with his son, elected to the United States House of Rep- room, an auditorium, a legal clinic, Rafael Lincoln, MARIO and LINCOLN’s and two teaching courtrooms. In addi- resentatives in 1992 and 2002, respectively, father, and Rolando Amador. Years Jose Diaz Balart became a prominent jour- tion, the hall will have two additional nalist as the Washington bureau chief for later, he earned the post Land Reg- rooms solely for expanding inter- Telemundo Network and was the first United istrar, a prominent achievement for national and foreign law collections. States journalist to host daily Spanish and lawyers in Cuba. Of particular interest to the students English language newscasts, and Rafael Diaz After the 1959 coup, Rafael Diaz- and the school are volumes focusing on Balart became a prominent Miami invest- Balart lived in exile and became a international organization and Carib- ment banker; proud citizen of the United States. In bean and Latin American law. Whereas, on February 10, 2007, Florida exile, Rafael Jose´ Diaz-Balart entered International University will dedicate the law school at the University of Madrid, b 1445 Rafael Diaz-Balart Hall as the new home of the College of Law; and in 1965, at age 66, earned his second Rafael Diaz-Balart, for whom the hall Whereas Rafael Diaz-Balart Hall will pro- law degree. was named, was born in Cuba and vide a state-of-the-art facility for teaching, While Rafael Diaz-Balart had many earned a law degree from the Univer- research, and study, as well as scholarly and great accomplishments, his greatest of sity of Havana in 1919. He later served social interaction; and all may have been the honor and sense as a lawyer, a judge, president of the Whereas the Rafael Diaz-Balart Hall was of duty that he instilled his son Rafael city council and was eventually elected designed by the internationally renowned ar- Lincoln and his four grandsons: LIN- mayor of the city of Banes and then chitect Robert A. M. Stern, Dean of the COLN and MARIO, whom I proudly serve was elected congressman. Diaz-Balart School of Architecture at Yale University: ´ Now, therefore, be it with here in the House; also Jose, who went into exile in 1959 and earned his Resolved, That the House of Representa- is a prominent journalist; and Rafael, a second law degree from the University tives honors the lifetime accomplishments successful businessman in Miami. of Madrid in 1965. He died in Miami in

VerDate Aug 31 2005 04:03 Feb 08, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00030 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07FE7.068 H07FEPT1 mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with HOUSE February 7, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H1305 1985. Mr. Diaz-Balart is also the grand- in 1919. While maintaining his law I particularly want to thank the father of two distinguished Members of practice, he was also elected city coun- sponsor of this resolution for, again, Congress, MARIO and LINCOLN DIAZ- cil president and mayor of Banes, and this honor to our grandfather and our BALART. later as a member of the Cuban House family, our entire family, that this I congratulate the Florida Inter- of Representatives, similar to our House is giving all of us today. national University College of Law on body. But when I think of families who receiving its full American Bar Asso- Following the 1959 communist take- have public service in their back- ciation accreditation and the inaugura- over by Fidel Castro, Rafael Jose´ Diaz- ground, our dear friend Congressman tion of this beautiful new hall. Balart fled to the United States to live KENDRICK MEEK comes from a family of Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of in exile with his family. Shortly fol- deep service to our country. As I said my time. lowing, he proudly became a citizen of recently in a public meeting in Miami, Mr. MEEK of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I the United States. Along with his son, the matriarch of the Florida congres- yield such time as she may consume to Rafael Lincoln, he commenced law sional delegation and particularly the one of my great colleagues from the school at the University of Madrid, South Florida Members congressional Florida delegation (Ms. WASSERMAN Spain, and in 1965, at the age of 66, delegation is Congresswoman Carrie SCHULTZ). earned a second law degree. He sadly Meek, who was not only a fine Member Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Mr. passed away in Miami, Florida, in 1985. of this institution and also was a mem- Speaker, I thank both of my good He, like my father Enrique Ros and ber of the Florida legislature for many friends from Florida, Mr. KELLER and so many others who fled Cuba due to years, but she is an icon in the history Mr. MEEK. It is my privilege to join Castro’s tyrannical regime in the last of our Nation. She is one of those who with my colleagues in honoring the life 50 years, Rafael dreamt of a free Cuba, has broken through, her entire life, and legacy of the Diaz-Balart family, a country where human rights are re- that glass ceiling, not once, not twice, and particularly Rafael Diaz-Balart, spected, where political prisoners are but many, many times. Then, of who distinguished himself not just in freed, with a democratic, multi-party course, her son, KENDRICK, who is a the Cuban House of Representatives, political system that flourishes and a tough fighter for issues that he be- but by becoming a wonderful citizen of free market economy that thrives, thus lieves in and for the people he rep- the United States of America and con- allowing the Cuban people and their resents and who I am honored to call a tributing his subsequent generations of foreign economic partners to own their dear friend of mine. his family to the history of the State businesses and to prosper. None of So I am deeply honored, Congress- of Florida and to the United States by those things are allowed today. man. I am deeply honored for all of lending his two grandsons to the I am so glad that this Saturday, Feb- this. On behalf of the Diaz-Balart fam- United States House of Representa- ruary 10, the Florida International ily, I just want to thank you for this tives. University College of Law will dedicate deep honor, this deep privilege. It is a Mr. Speaker, across this country we its new law center as the Rafael Diaz- day that we will not soon forget. have a wonderful history of naming in- Balart Hall. We are also proud of the Again, just thank you all very much. stitutions like law centers after our gi- many accomplishments of FIU, Florida Mr. MEEK of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I ants, and Florida is no exception. The International University, my alma yield myself such time as I may con- Shepard Broad Law Center at Nova mater, and we think this is a positive sume. Southeastern University is named after step forward. Mr. Speaker, it is very interesting a Florida giant. The University of Flor- So I ask my colleagues to join us in when you look at this resolution, be- ida Law Center, the Holland Building, commemorating the life of a great pa- cause it is the American Dream. Some is named after a Florida giant. And triot, Rafael Jose´ Diaz-Balart, a tre- Americans don’t have the opportunity now the law center at Florida Inter- mendous mentor, a loving husband, a to have a resolution brought before the national University will be named after father and one of the most outstanding House of Representatives honoring the a Cuban-American, a Florida giant, members of the South Florida commu- memory of their bloodline, their father Rafael Diaz-Balart, and it is my privi- nity, a freedom fighter from his first to and their grandfather and their entire lege to join my colleagues in honoring his last breath. family. But I can tell you that, in the his legacy and his life today. I urge my colleagues to vote ‘‘yes’’ words of my grandmother, saying Mr. KELLER of Florida. Mr. Speak- on House Resolution 131. ‘‘isn’t God good,’’ this resolution dis- er, I yield such time as she may con- Mr. MEEK of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I plays the American Dream. sume to the gentlewoman from Florida reserve my time. As we start to look at this resolu- (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN), the ranking mem- Mr. KELLER of Florida. Mr. Speak- tion, as we start to reflect on the con- ber of the Foreign Affairs Committee, er, I yield such time as he may con- tributions of the Diaz-Balart family to and the first Hispanic woman elected sume to the grandson of Rafael Diaz- the United States of America, to find in the history of the United States Balart, my friend and colleague, the that it not only didn’t start totally Congress. gentleman from Florida (Mr. MARIO with Rafael Jose´ Diaz-Balart, but he Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I DIAZ-BALART). had a lot to do with the pilgrimage to thank the gentleman for yielding. I Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Flor- the United States of America and the thank my good friend Mr. MEEK of ida. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the contributions that his grandchildren Florida for presenting this resolution gentleman from Florida, Mr. KELLER. I have made and that his son made in for us today. want to thank all of those colleagues this society, that have made America I rise in strong support of this resolu- who have spoken here today. On behalf better. It has brought us together in tion, which honors the life of Rafael of my brother, Congressman LINCOLN many ways. Jose´ Diaz-Balart, a prominent attor- DIAZ-BALART, who is actually now in a Understanding a story of some of the ney, an elected official in pre-Castro committee and cannot be here, I want issues facing America right now, as Cuba, who is also the grandfather, as to particularly thank Congressman some folks may feel about recent im- we have heard, of our esteemed South KENDRICK MEEK for this profound and migrants to this country, this is a per- Florida Congressional colleagues, LIN- deep honor. fect example to set up on the pedestal COLN DIAZ-BALART and MARIO DIAZ- Congressman MEEK, I have to tell of how those that come to our country BALART, as well as their two other you, there are not a lot of secrets in with the will and desire to serve this brothers, Jose´ Diaz-Balart, a very well this process, but somehow you kept country, not to pull from this country, known television personality and news this a secret, and I am not quite sure but to serve on behalf of this country, anchor, and Rafael Diaz-Balart, a how you were able to do this, because what can happen. prominent South Florida businessman. both my brother and I didn’t know We have four individuals that are the Their grandfather, Rafael Jose´ Diaz- about this until very, very recently. grandchildren of the very man that we Balart, was a native of Santiago de That is something that is frankly un- are recognizing here in the House of Cuba, and completed his studies at the usual, for anything to be kept a secret Representatives, this great country of University of Havana with a law degree in this process. ours, individuals fought to allow us to

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Res. 131. region as recommended by the Iraq and one is at the top of journalism as The question was taken; and (two- Study Group and countless leaders in it relates to Spanish language inter- thirds being in the affirmative) the both political parties, the President is national television, and another is a rules were suspended and the resolu- making veiled threats that are becom- prominent businessman in South Flor- tion was agreed to. ing increasingly worrisome. The boil- ida. I think this is a time that the A motion to reconsider was laid on ing caldron of violence in the Middle House is rightfully recognizing these the table. East is growing hotter, and to many great Americans for what they were f people, the policies and pronounce- able to do. ments of the President concerning Iran Mr. Speaker, to Mr. DIAZ-BALART and b 1500 are seen as throwing gasoline on the to Mr. KELLER and to all of my col- AMERICAN HEART MONTH fire. leagues here, it is a great honor to As the situation worsens in Iraq, the bring this before the House, because I (Ms. FALLIN asked and was given President talks more and more about believe everyone can understand the permission to address the House for 1 Iran, as if the attention of the Amer- reason why we are here, and it is justi- minute.) ican people and the world can so easily fied. But this could be one of many ex- Ms. FALLIN. Madam Speaker, as you be diverted. That is not going to work amples of families that have contrib- know, February is American Heart this time. The focus of the American uted to our country. I know they will Month. It is a time when we here in people, indeed the focus of the world, is continue to do so, and I know their Congress and the people across Amer- on the U.S. occupation of Iraq and the children’s children will continue to do ica can reaffirm their commitment to disastrous war the President continues so, and this moment in history will fighting heart disease, the number one to wage and escalate. We know he is just be one beacon of light to show how killer in Oklahoma and the entire raising the stakes in Iraq. Many fear appreciative we are for not only the United States. Iran is not behind. And we see an irony Diaz-Balart family for their contribu- Nearly 80 million American adults in that. tions but other families like them. suffer from some form of heart-related Leaders in the Middle East I met Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of illness. Every 35 seconds, an American with recently in Jordan blame Paul my time. dies from that illness. Heart disease Bremer, the President’s first adminis- Mr. KELLER of Florida. Mr. Speak- kills more Americans than the number trator in Iraq, believing Bremer, unwit- er, I yield myself such time as I may two, three and four leading causes of tingly or otherwise, handed Iraq to the consume. death combined. regime in Iran. He did it with disas- Mr. Speaker, I would totally agree Madam Speaker, heart disease is a trous decisions. with my colleague, Mr. MEEK, that the big problem for women just as it is for First, he dismantled the Iraqi army. Diaz-Balart family has made America a men, if not more so. In 1984, more That left the border between Iraq and much better place for all of our chil- women than men died from heart dis- Iran unguarded and open to the infil- dren to grow up. I have been very hon- ease. In Oklahoma, 19 women die every tration of weapons and insurgents to ored to serve with both LINCOLN and day of a heart-related illness. foment violence in Iraq. MARIO DIAZ-BALART, and I know they Last Friday, millions of men and Bremer gave the Shi’a effective con- both have a lot of pride in their grand- women participated in National Wear trol by mandating they receive a ma- father. Red Day to honor the many women jority of seats in reconstituting an I am very happy that Mr. MEEK in- who have been touched by heart dis- Iraqi government. troduced this resolution honoring ease. This was a great gesture, remind- These decisions opened the border Rafael Diaz-Balart. Mr. MEEK also ob- ing us of the importance of fighting the and at the same time tightened rela- viously has a lot of pride in the blood- disease. And we can fight it by exer- tionships between Iranian Shi’a and line he has with the famous Congress- cising, maintaining health, eating Iraqi Shi’a. It set the stage for Iran’s woman Carrie Meek. I was reminded of healthy and refraining from smoking. influence to grow stronger and strong- her just this past weekend when I was Madam Speaker, I encourage all my er inside Iraq and unleashed a torrent down in Miami for the football game on colleagues and all Americans to re- of violence, pitting Iraqi against Iraqi Sunday and I parked on Carrie Meek member the millions of people affected with American soldiers caught in the Boulevard down there. cross fire. Is there any wonder that by heart disease this month and to I explained to the parking lot attend- many Iraqis believe their nation is Wear Red Day for heart disease. By ant that I served with Carrie Meek and being handed over to Iran by the U.S.? raising awareness of this disease, we I am friends with her son, KENDRICK Now, many believe the President’s can improve the lives of millions of MEEK. He said, Yeah, man. That will be saber rattling toward Iran has less to thirty bucks. It only gets you so far. men and women in this country. do with its efforts to develop a nuclear But I have a lot of pride in knowing f weapon and more to do with his failure both of these families. SPECIAL ORDERS to understand the region and contain Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance Iran from the outset of the war. my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Thoughtful people in the United States Mr. MEEK of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I SOLIS). Under the Speaker’s announced and around the world fear the Presi- yield myself such time as I may con- policy of January 18, 2007, and under a dent is compounding the trouble, not sume. previous order of the House, the fol- confronting the problems in a troubled Mr. Speaker, in closing, I just would lowing Members will be recognized for region. Where does all this saber rat- like to thank Mr. MILLER of the Edu- 5 minutes each. tling go? History shows us the way. cation Committee, also the majority f In less than one generation, we have leader’s office and the Speaker’s office done what we vowed never to do again: THE MIDDLE EAST for allowing us to bring this resolution We have allowed a President to stam- so that it can be timely for the dedica- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a pede the Nation into a hopeless war, tion this weekend when the good peo- previous order of the House, the gen- not because we had to but because he ple of Florida and this great country tleman from Washington (Mr. wanted to. This President believed he and the Supreme Court Justice will MCDERMOTT) is recognized for 5 min- could have victory by saying it was so. honor the memory of Rafael Jose´ Diaz- utes. We have seen the tragic consequences Balart at the naming of the hall of the Mr. MCDERMOTT. Madam Speaker, of that. law school. the President and his administration There are so many parallels between Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance would be wise to avoid making Iran the the Iraq debacle and Vietnam; it is un- of my time. next Iraq. Despite that, the demonizing believable. The President and many

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Madam Speaker, chances during their life because they much so that an earlier President did tragically this happened last Saturday know, if they don’t make it in that not merely escalate the war, he ex- evening to Agent Ramos who was beat- business or something else they are panded it into Laos and Cambodia, se- en in prison by a group of Mexican na- trying to do, at least they have got a cret bombing that did not shorten the tionals. foundation there for their later years. Vietnam War or offer a path to resolu- Mr. President, the safety of these So we should not jeopardize Social Se- tion. men is in jeopardy and time is running curity; the President should not bor- My fear is that we will forget all the out. You alone have the authority to row and spend the entire Social Secu- lessons of the Vietnam War. It is time correct this injustice by pardoning rity surplus just before the baby to ask the question: Is Iran the next these two men. Mr. President, please boomers retire. Laos or Cambodia? do not delay your review of the facts of But even after he does that, the With things going badly in Iraq, will this case. President’s budget does not achieve the President continue to ignore the Madam Speaker, my colleagues and I balance. Far from it. The President’s lessons of history and order the Amer- will soon be sending a fifth letter to budget assumes there will be no cost ican military not merely to escalate the President concerning these agents. for the war in Iraq or the war in Af- but to expand the war beyond Iraq? I We are asking the President to please ghanistan after 2009. I guess he has a wish a question like this did not have expedite his consideration of a pardon withdrawal plan he has not told us to be asked, but we cannot watch Iraq, for these two men and help these fami- about. consider Vietnam, and not worry that a lies realize that America is a country What about the much vaunted war on President who refuses to learn from that believes in justice. Madam Speak- terror? No money in the future budgets history or admit mistakes is not er, I want to repeat that phrase very for that. He assumes all that goes doomed to repeating the same mis- quickly: America is a country that be- away, you know, the incredible takes. lieves in justice. amounts of money we are spending Military action is not the answer in Mr. President, please help these two there. Iraq, in Iran or Gaza, or any other flash Border agents. They deserve our praise, He further assumes that if we cut point in the Middle East. We need to not to be in prison. Please, Mr. Presi- taxes more for the wealthy, that the dispatch an army all right, an army of dent, help them out now. government will get more revenues. diplomats armed not with bullets but f Now, isn’t that a beautiful world? If we with ideas, with resolve and with a could just eliminate taxes for the book of American history in every ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER wealthy, I guess we would go back to briefcase. PRO TEMPORE having surpluses for the Federal Gov- The way out of Iraq must begin here The SPEAKER pro tempore. Mem- ernment under the bizarre economic on Capitol Hill, because down the bers are reminded to address their re- theories followed by these street at the White House, they are marks to the Chair. neoconservatives who thus far have only talking about more ways in and, f been proven to be pretty wrong on a we fear, other places to go. This war host of things, starting with Iraq and THE PRESIDENT’S BUDGET must end now, and there should be a on down to their bizarre theories that, binding resolution to indicate that to The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a as you reduce revenues, your revenues the President and to the American peo- previous order of the House, the gen- increase. They don’t. ple. tleman from Oregon (Mr. DEFAZIO) is Plain and simple, the wealthiest f recognized for 5 minutes. among us have to start paying their Mr. DEFAZIO. Well, finally, I have fair share to support this country par- AMNESTY FOR U.S. BORDER PA- some grounds for agreement with the ticularly in a time of crisis. Why TROL AGENTS RAMOS AND President, at least rhetorically. He shouldn’t they sacrifice? Like the COMPEAN says he is committed to balancing the young men and women, many of whom The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a budget by 2012. Unfortunately, after are in the National Guard because they previous order of the House, the gen- that statement, our disagreements needed an income. Yes, they wanted to tleman from North Carolina (Mr. begin. serve our country, but they also needed JONES) is recognized for 5 minutes. First and foremost, he forgets or ne- the income; many of whom are in the Mr. JONES of North Carolina. glects to tell the American people that military, yes, because they want to Madam Speaker, 3 weeks ago, two U.S. he achieves this so-called balance by serve our country but also because Border Patrol agents entered Federal borrowing $1.2 trillion of Social Secu- they hope to get those education bene- prison. Agents Ramos and Compean rity surplus, spending it and replacing fits and some training to do better never should have been sent to prison. it with IOUs. when they come out. These agents were convicted last Remember, just last year, the Presi- But the wealthiest, they are given a spring for shooting a Mexican drug dent was shocked, shocked, when he total buy. They have been given tax smuggler who brought 743 pounds of went to Parkersburg, West Virginia, cuts, the first tax cuts in a time of war marijuana across our southern borders that the Social Security trust fund in the history of the United States of into Texas. Members of Congress and consisted of nothing but IOUs. America. But the President doesn’t countless American citizens have re- Now, the Federal Government is think we should ask anything of the peatedly petitioned President Bush to pretty good for its debts unless you run wealthy, and he pretends that if we ex- pardon these agents. At the House up such a mountain of debt and you cut tend their tax breaks forever, if we Democratic Caucus last week, the revenues so much with tax cuts for the eliminate taxes on estates worth over President said, and I quote the Presi- wealthy that you can’t afford to meet $5 million, then in fact the government dent, ‘‘We want our Border Patrol those obligations; you can’t afford to will have more revenues. Unfortu- agents guarding the borders from cash in the bonds or the IOUs to Social nately, it is not true. It will increase criminals and drug dealers and terror- Security. And I believe that is his long- the deficit wildly beyond the numbers ists.’’ term plan, to bankrupt Social Secu- in his budget. Agents Ramos and Compean were rity, Medicare and other New Deal pro- So he borrows all of the Social Secu- protecting the American people from grams that this administration viscer- rity surplus, robs the trust funds, an illegal drug dealer. Mr. President, ally hates because they don’t encour- spends the money, replaces it with we are calling on you today, as you age people to stand on their own. They IOUs, cuts taxes for the rich people. pledged you would last month, to take say it would be a more productive soci- How else does he pretend to get the a sober look at this case. ety if we just didn’t have all those so- balance? By cutting Medicare.

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Medicare and Medicaid, we could fully Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks for the The careless support for this inter- fund those programs and just ask to re- Iranian people and her government, national war on terrorism has per- store a fraction of the taxes on people even though he lacks real power, in mitted the U.S. to intervene militarily who earn over $300,000 a year and have order to stir up hatred and generate and to bring about regime change in estates more than $5 million, but the popular support for an attack on Iran? three countries: Iraq, Afghanistan, and President does not want to do that. We completely ignore the leaders of Somalia. Now we are provoking Iran so He goes on through the entire budget Iran’s National Security Council who we can have an excuse to do the same slashing. Again, I agree with what he have made reasonable statements thing there. But who knows, maybe we said. Unfortunately, he did not deliver. about the United States and are open will have to deal with a regime change He said he would increase Pell Grants. to direct talks with us? in Pakistan first, a regime change that His budget does not increase Pell That our threats and sanctions will not be to our liking. Grants. It does not increase oppor- against Iran compound the problem by Let us hope Congress comes to its tunity for young people to go to col- unifying the Iranians against us and senses soon and starts to defund our lege. He does not take on the student undermining the moderates who are fa- interventionist policies before we go loan programs where, if we converted vorable toward America? broke. Time is short. The latest accusations against Iran from a bank subsidy program to a na- f sound like a replay of the same charges tional direct student loan program, The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a against Iraq 5 years ago? like I got when I went to college, we previous order of the House, the gen- could give lower interest rates and But not only does Iran not have a nu- clear weapon, it has no significant tleman from California (Mr. GEORGE make money for the taxpayers. No, he MILLER) is recognized for 5 minutes. would rather give 17 cents of every dol- military power; it is a Third World na- tion that could be wiped off the face of (Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California lar of every loan to the banks as profits addressed the House. His remarks will and subsidies and take it out of the the Earth by the U.S. or by Israel if it ever attempted hostilities toward us? appear hereafter in the Extensions of pockets of the students. Remarks.) This is not an opportunity budget, it One thing for sure, the Iranians are is not an honest budget, and it will not suicidal? f But our policies toward Pakistan, take this country further down the HONORING NATIONAL BLACK HIV/ India and North Korea serve as a great road toward bankruptcy. That will be AIDS AWARENESS DAY 2007 George Bush’s legacy. incentive for nations to seek a nuclear weapon, and thus gain respect at home The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a f and abroad while greatly lessening the previous order of the House, the gentle- DOES ANYBODY CARE? HAS odds of being attacked by us? woman from California (Ms. ANYBODY NOTICED? The promoters of military confronta- MILLENDER-MCDONALD) is recognized The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. tion, who glibly criticize those who do for 5 minutes. Ms. MILLENDER-MCDONALD. SOLIS). Under a previous order of the not support preemptive, aggressive war House, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. are themselves the most extreme diplo- Madam Speaker, today we mark the seventh year that we commemorate PAUL) is recognized for 5 minutes. matic isolationists, refusing any dia- Mr. PAUL. Madam Speaker, does logue with our enemies or potential en- National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness anybody care, has anybody noticed, emies? Day. This is a bittersweet accomplish- that: There is no definition for victory in ment. While I am proud to say that Our policy toward Iran is hostile and Iraq, and our goals are constantly awareness of this epidemic’s effect on provocative, and thus war seems inevi- changing, while the supporters of the the black community has grown over table? war refuse to recognize that a war these 7 years, it pains me to admit that That we have seized Iranians in Iraq, without purpose, by definition, cannot this disease continues to affect African who claim they are diplomats, and now be won? Americans at a disproportionately we have announced that any Iranians That it is now argued that after 4 large and growing rate. found in Iraq may be shot? years of killing, we cannot leave Iraq I consider the fight against the HIV/ Has anybody noticed that large num- because a worse chaos would ensue? AIDS epidemic to be one of the most bers of Iranians go back and forth into That the U.S. naval buildup in the pressing issues of our time and of my Iraq for many reasons, including fam- Persian Gulf has ominous overtones, tenure here as a Member of Congress. ily, religious and medical reasons, and none peaceful? This issue attracted my concern years probably for their own security as The world is preparing for a signifi- ago when I became aware of the stag- well? cant escalation of hostilities in the re- gering rate at which infants contract Iraq Prime Minister Maliki has ex- gion, but are the American people pre- HIV from their mothers during birth or pressed opposition to the surge of U.S. pared? breast-feeding. troops? Most Americans in the November I helped to raise awareness of this That the violence in Iraq has sharply election asked for something quite dif- important issue when I came to Con- escalated since Saddam Hussein was ferent? gress in 1996 through the introduction hanged? Our proxy war to bring about regime of and authorizing a bill and going to That the American electorate voted change in Somalia and gain control of the Appropriations Committee to tar- for deescalation of the war, and yet the the Horn of Africa scarcely has been get the mother-to-child transmission. war is being expanded with no new noticed by the American public or the At that time, it was mother-to-child strategic goals? politicians in Washington? transmission internationally, and That Iraqi officials, from the govern- That few observers noticed that we President Bush eventually incor- ment we installed, have held concilia- have placed in power some of the same porated aspects of my legislation in tory talks with Iranian officials, some- warlords who humiliated us in 1993 in PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency thing we refuse to do? Mogadishu? Plan for AIDS Relief. That our own CIA acknowledges that That the empty slogan ‘‘War on Ter- While mother-to-child transmission Iran is not likely to have a nuclear ror’’ has no meaning and, therefore, it continues to be a pressing problem weapon for at least 10 more years? has no end? abroad, we have shown some success in

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No. 110–9) on the That night, Officer Cho unknowingly So today we focus on the HIV epi- resolution (H. Res. 133) providing for became Fernandez’s target. Fernandez demic among African Americans. The consideration of the bill (H.R. 547) to attacked him and smashed Cho twice statistics are staggering, and it high- facilitate the development of markets over the head with a baseball bat. lights the growing impact this epi- for alternative fuels and Ultra Low Meanwhile, Officer Patrick Lynch, demic has on African Americans. Sulfur Diesel fuel through research, de- another rookie, who was also out of the In 1985, blacks accounted for 25 per- academy just 2 months and assigned to cent of AIDS diagnosed, whereas in 2005 velopment, and demonstration and data collection, which was referred to the latenight foot patrol, was on pa- they accounted for 50 percent of new trol. Around 1:00 a.m., Officer Lynch diagnoses. This statistic is all the more the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. came face-to-face with the menacing staggering because in 2005 African Fernandez, armed with a baseball bat, Americans only made up 12 percent of f The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a standing over Officer Cho ready to the population of this country. strike him a third time, even though In 2005, 75 out of every 100,000 African previous order of the House, the gen- Officer Cho was on the ground. Americans had AIDS, compared to only tleman from Indiana (Mr. BURTON) is So seeing Officer Cho on the ground, 7.5 out of every 100,000 whites. recognized for 5 minutes. Perhaps more disturbing, African (Mr. BURTON of Indiana addressed unconscious, with the bat-wielding out- American women and children suffer at the House. His remarks will appear law standing over him, Officer Lynch a rate that is even greater than that of hereafter in the Extensions of Re- charged after the suspect, and then he African Americans overall. marks.) radioed for backup. Responding to his calls for assistance was Officer Chris- Black women accounted for 67 per- f cent of new AIDS cases among women tine Smith, a 26-year-old, yes, that is in 2005, compared to 16 percent among NYPD’S FINEST right, rookie within NYPD. white women. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a She, like Officers Cho and Lynch, had In 2005, young African Americans ac- previous order of the House, the gen- only been out of the academy for 2 counted for only 15 percent of U.S. tleman from Texas (Mr. POE) is recog- months, and she was on foot patrol just teens, yet they accounted for 75 per- nized for 5 minutes. a few blocks away. She had given up a cent of new AIDS cases. Mr. POE. Madam Speaker, the NYPD career in teaching to become a peace In 2002, HIV was the number one is one of the most recognizable police officer. cause of death for black women be- departments not only in the United Together, this dynamic duo quickly tween the ages of 25 and 34, and this is States, but the world. caught the outlaw and held him and why, Madam Speaker, that I started Nearly 38,000 strong, these brave men charged him with serious crimes. the first-of-its-kind AIDS Walk for mi- and women protect and serve the great- Their bravery and heroism has nority women and children and dedi- er New York metropolitan area and its earned these three rookies commenda- cated that to minority women and chil- citizens. Being a peace officer in New tions from NYPD Police Commissioner dren. We celebrated 10 years last year York City is a dangerous job. It has al- Raymond Kelly. It has also earned because of the staggering statistics ways been a dangerous job, and New them the respect of their fellow offi- that we are still faced with, and we will York peace officers risk their lives cers and the gratitude of the entire not stop until we eradicate this dread- daily. city. ful disease. It is ravishing the commu- The starting salary for a peace offi- Officer Cho received numerous skull nities of Latinos, especially Latinas, cer in New York City is $25,000, and fractures and required 20 stitches, but African American women and both our once they graduate from the academy, eventually he will recover. The crimi- children. it is only $32,000, almost poverty wages nal will be facing a jury in New York The devastating effects of this epi- in one of the most expensive cities in City for his crimes against New York demic have not escaped the notice of the country to live in. City’s finest, the NYPD. African American communities, in part Yet, each year’s recruiting classes, Lawmen and women like Officers due to the success of the National young men and women choose to wear Lynch, Smith and Cho are a rare breed, Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. Half the blue uniform and badge of NYPD. but they are the Americans who wear of the African Americans say the HIV/ They choose to serve New York City the badge to protect and to serve. So, AIDS is a more urgent problem than it and its citizens with honor and brav- today, we thank rookies Lynch, was a few years ago, and indeed, it is. ery. Schmid and Cho and the thousands Half of African Americans also believe Madam Speaker, I have had the op- other peace officers in this country for that the U.S. is losing ground in the portunity as a former judge in Texas to their daily valor, courage and sense of fight against this epidemic domesti- address NYPD peace officers, and after duty to the people. These individuals cally. we got through the language barrier, I fight the local thugs, child molesters, Today is an important day in the ef- found them to be dedicated keepers and robbers, killers and street terrorists. fort to increase awareness of the HIV/ protectors of the law. They do our work for us. They are what AIDS epidemic in the African Amer- Officer Patrick Lynch, Christine stands between us, the law and the law- ican community. However, awareness Schmidt and Joseph Cho are three of less, and we thank them for that. is not enough. We must work toward the valiant PD police officers from New And that’s just the way it is. solutions to reduce and eventually York City. Little did they know that in eradicate not only the racial dispari- the early morning hours of February 5, f ties of HIV/AIDS, but the disease itself. just a few days ago, they would make b 1530 To do so we must increase funding for and become a cut above the rest of us. domestic HIV/AIDS programs, particu- It all started with a guy by the name THE SURGE AND IRAQI FORCES larly those that target minorities. We of Danny Fernandez. He was broke, and The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. must strengthen our efforts to educate he was in debt, so he decided how he SOLIS). Under a previous order of the the public, particularly young people. was going to get some money to pay House, the gentlewoman from West We must work harder to encourage HIV his debt and pay off other expenses, Virginia (Ms. WOOLSEY) is recognized testing, and we must also work to care and he wanted to commit many serious for 5 minutes. for those who already have contracted felony crimes ranging from robbery to Ms. WOOLSEY. Madam Speaker, you this devastating illness. attempted murder. will recall that the hallmark of the

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Participants compete in local from the day the President announced H.R. 508 will have our troops home in events conducted by affiliated BASS escalation, says that the primary ele- 6 months, leaving behind no permanent federation national clubs. Local event ment of the strategy is to let the Iraqis military bases and turning over control winners proceed to their State finals lead. of the Iraqi oil to the Iraqi people. We where each State then determines two Well, the escalation has begun, and will not abandon Iraq. We will continue to represent their State at the national not only are they not leading, we are to be a partner in the reconciliation semifinals. From the national lucky if they even show up. That is and reconstruction, but it is time for semifinals, only 10 contenders advance right. Reportedly, as many as 50 per- us to end the military occupation that on to the national championship. Since cent of the Iraqi troops expected and has failed so tragically. There are no its inception, over 1.5 million youth needed for the Baghdad operation good answers here, but one thing is for have participated in the program, and aren’t reporting to duty. This doesn’t sure: There is nothing more our sol- over $2 million in cash prizes and schol- bode well, Madam Speaker. American diers can do to bring peace to the arships have been awarded. troops will now bear the brunt of what streets of Baghdad or any other part of I would again like to congratulate promises to be deadly, violent, urban Iraq. If anything, our continued pres- Taylor and thank him for proudly rep- warfare. ence is aggravating an already combus- resenting West Virginia at the 2007 Bassmaster CastingKids National We are now finding out that the esca- tible situation, which, in fact, we cre- Semifinals Championship and wish him lation will be twice as large as the ated. We created this situation with the best of luck in becoming an accom- President has said, requiring 48,000 ad- our invasion in the first place. Madam ditional troops, as opposed to 21,000, as plished angler. Speaker, it is time for Iraqis to defend Madam Speaker, the other youth I originally announced by the President. Iraq, and it is time for American troops would like to talk about today is Kevin Now, if Iraqis aren’t prepared for the to come home. Templan of Charlestown, West Vir- fight, it is easy to imagine still more f ginia. Kevin became the first member U.S. soldiers being sent into the grind- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a of Boy Scout Troop 82 to achieve the er. The surge has barely begun, and al- previous order of the House, the gen- rank of Eagle Scout. His commitment ready, it is failing. tleman from California (Mr. DREIER) is to family and community and church It is clear, furthermore, that the recognized for 5 minutes. played an integral part in this achieve- Maliki government is powerless to live (Mr. DREIER addressed the House. ment. Kevin worked on a beautifi- up to its promises. Maliki himself owes His remarks will appear hereafter in cation project at Saint Peter’s Catholic much of his political authority to one the Extensions of Remarks.) Cemetery for his Eagle Scout project. of Iraq’s most powerful militia leaders. f He is recognized by the Boy Scout So how, exactly, is he going to keep National Honor Society, Order of the Iraqi communities safe from the mili- HONORING TAYLOR SIAS AND Arrows, for adhering to the traditions tias? KEVIN TEMPLAN and values of scouting. A senior at Jef- On their way out the door, General The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a ferson County High School, Kevin is a Abizaid and General Casey warned that previous order of the House, the gentle- drummer in the Cougar Marching increasing force levels just absolves woman from West Virginia (Mrs. Band. He attends Saint James Greater Iraqis of the responsibility for their CAPITO) is recognized for 5 minutes. Catholic Church where he will soon be own security, and they were absolutely Mrs. CAPITO. Madam Speaker, I rise a member of the Knights of Columbus. right. today to talk about two outstanding Kevin enjoys reading, origami and In the State of the Union address, the youths in my district and to highlight, spending time with his younger brother President said, and I quote him, ‘‘ ... I think, something that we do too rare- and sister. it’s time for [the Iraqi] government to ly here and across America. We talk a The Templan family recently moved act. They have promised to deploy lot about our young people in their to my district from Bryan, Texas, and more of their own troops to secure teens playing video games, not getting we welcome them. I would like to take Baghdad . . . They pledged that they involved in their communities, not try- this opportunity to extend a warm will confront violent radicals of any ing new sports, not enjoying the out- West Virginia welcome to Kevin and faction . . . and they need to follow doors. his family. Jefferson County is fortu- through.’’ Today I am very privileged to talk nate to host such an accomplished If they don’t, where is the ‘‘or else’’ about two such individuals in my dis- young leader. It is a pleasure to serve in the President’s words, and where are trict who are breaking the mold and such devoted young citizens like Kevin the consequences if they don’t meet are, I think, achieving at high levels, in West Virginia’s Second District. these benchmarks and honor these but they are also doing it by enjoying f commitments? the great outdoors and also bringing The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a Madam Speaker, it is time for fewer strength to their communities. previous order of the House, the gen- carrots and more sticks. Edward First, I would like to recognize Tay- tleman from Minnesota (Mr. ELLISON) Luttwak of the Center for Strategic lor Sias from Weston, West Virginia, is recognized for 5 minutes. and International Studies put it suc- for representing our State in the 2007 (Mr. ELLISON addressed the House. cinctly. He said, ‘‘it’s time for the Bassmaster CastingKids National His remarks will appear hereafter in Iraqis to make their own history.’’ Or, Semi-Finals Competition in Gadsden, the Extensions of Remarks.) in the words of Luttwak’s New York Alabama. f Times op-ed piece yesterday, he said, Taylor is a sixth grade student at The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a ‘‘To Help Iraq, Let It Fend for Itself. ‘‘ Robert L. Bland Middle School in Wes- previous order of the House, the gen- There is only one solution, a quick ton and is a three-time State cham- tleman from Wisconsin (Mr. KAGEN) is military withdrawal from Iraq. I have a pion. Taylor previously competed in recognized for 5 minutes. bill that was sponsored by 33 other the 2004 semifinals in Tulsa, Oklahoma, (Mr. KAGEN addressed the House. Members of Congress that will do pre- and in the 2005 semifinals in Orlando, His remarks will appear hereafter in cisely that. H.R. 508, the Bring Our Florida. The Bassmaster CastingKids the Extensions of Remarks.) Troops Home and Iraq Sovereignty challenge is to flip, pitch and cast a f Restoration Act will do exactly what hookless lure into a bull’s eye target. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a we need. It will take our troops out of Sounds kind of hard to me. previous order of the House, the gen- harm’s way and force Iraqis to secure BASS developed the Bassmaster tleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. their own country. We won’t leave CastingKids program in 1991, open to ENGLISH) is recognized for 5 minutes.

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Under a helping us break the silence here on America we have a pandemic that is previous order of the House, the gentle- Capitol Hill with regard to the dev- just killing many of our communities. woman from California (Ms. LEE) is astating cases and the situation of Af- At that conference many of our civil recognized for 5 minutes. rican Americans in America as it re- rights organizations recommitted Ms. LEE. Madam Speaker, today is lates to HIV and AIDS, and recognizing themselves to making the stamping Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, a day the inability of our traditional pro- out of HIV and AIDS a top priority in when we urge African Americans to get grams to serve the minority commu- terms of their overall objectives. educated, get involved and get tested. nities. On Monday, the House passed my reso- The Minority AIDS Initiative was f lution H. Con. Res. 35, recognizing the specifically designed to build capacity The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. goals and the ideals of Black HIV/AIDS and to expand HIV/AIDS outreach ac- SOLIS). Under a previous order of the Awareness Day. tivities so that we can target programs House, the gentleman from Kansas (Mr. The global HIV/AIDS pandemic is and services, target them directly to TIAHRT) is recognized for 5 minutes. simply devastating black America, Af- those who need them. It took us 8 (Mr. TIAHRT addressed the House. rica and the Caribbean in dispropor- years, but I am happy to say that, last His remarks will appear hereafter in tionate numbers to the rest of the year, we finally codified the Minority the Extensions of Remarks.) world. With 40 million people infected AIDS Initiative by passing the Ryan f around the world, over 1 million of White Treatment Modernization Act at LIFT THE RESTRICTION ON MEM- which are right here in the United the end of the Congress last year, BER TRAVEL ON PERSONAL AIR- States, this disease is as much a prob- which included the Minority AIDS CRAFT lem in South Africa as it is in my dis- Initiative. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a trict in Alameda County. b 1545 In the United States, among young previous order of the House, the gen- But now, of course, what do we have people, among women, and among men, tleman from New Mexico (Mr. PEARCE) to do? We have got to fully fund it. We African Americans are at the most risk is recognized for 5 minutes. need a minimum of $61 million, and of getting infected with HIV, of devel- Mr. PEARCE. Madam Speaker, I ap- that is just a drop in the bucket. We oping AIDS and of dying of this dis- preciate the opportunity to address the need billions of dollars to address this ease. The unfortunate reality is that to group today. I represent the southern pandemic. And at the same time we be black in America is to be at greater district of New Mexico, New Mexico 2. have got to go further. We have got to risk of HIV and AIDS. I come with a chart today, and with a get to the real factors that are ulti- The numbers are staggering, but let map of the district. mately driving the epidemic in the Af- me just mention a few specifically. Ac- Now, if you can visualize, I live all rican American community: poverty cording to CDC, in 2005, African Amer- the way on the east side of the State, and discrimination, the lack of afford- ican women accounted for 66 percent of Hobbs, New Mexico. We are about 3 able housing, the disproportionate all new HIV/AIDS cases among women. miles from the Texas border and rep- rates of incarceration among black resent all of the way to Arizona. Now, Compared to white women, African men, poor access to care, and limited it is almost a 9- to 91⁄2-hour drive to American women were 25 times more cultural competency for health service come across to the Silver City area, likely to be infected. Today, AIDS is providers. the number one, number one cause of All of these deserve our attention and then if we have to go further north death among African American women and deserve action. We can start to get up into the Zuni area, it takes an addi- between the ages of 25 and 34. That is, at one of these factors by ending really tional 2 to 3 hours. quite frankly, just mind boggling. what this is, is a head-in-the-sand ap- So each time I go home is a lot of Black gay men are also heavily af- proach to HIV prevention that is turn- miles. On a 3-day weekend, we have fected by this disease. In 2005, CDC sur- ing our prisons, really turning our pris- made up to 1,000 miles. On the 10-day veyed black gay men in five United ons into a breeding ground for this dis- breaks, we have been known to make States cities and found that 46 percent, ease. up to 2,500 miles with events all of the 46 percent were HIV positive. The situ- We need to provide routine, but rig- way across. And then on our first 30- ation is just as stark in my own dis- orous opt-out HIV testing that is day break, our August break in my trict. In Alameda County, over 6,600 linked with treatment for all incarcer- first year here, we had 29 different cases of AIDS have been diagnosed ated persons. Congresswoman WATERS, motel rooms and about 6,500 miles that since 1980, and nearly 4,000 people have I am sure she will talk about her bill in we made to cover this large district. died. Of those numbers, African Ameri- her presentation. But this is, again, a Now, my particular approach today cans represent well over 40 percent of major step in the right direction. We is to talk about a rule that the new the cumulative AIDS cases and AIDS have got to pass Congresswoman WA- majority put into place when we voted deaths in the county. TERS’ bill, my bill, H.R. 178, which is on January 4, 2007. I will read from In 1998, we became the first county in called the Justice Act. This would those rules, House Resolution 6, sec- the nation to declare a state of emer- allow condoms in our prisons and de- tion 207, rule 23, item 15(a). A Member, gency in the African American commu- mand accountability in stopping the Delegate or Resident Commissioner nity. We tapped into the emergency spread of HIV and other sexually trans- may not use personal funds, official funds and started a community-wide mitted infections among incarcerated funds or campaign funds for a flight on task force that included local AIDS persons. a nongovernment airplane that is not service organizations, elected officials We have got to do this. This is a cri- licensed by the FAA to operate for and county health departments. To- sis. And we have to do this part, our commission or hire. gether, this task force sought to pro- part, in Congress to make sure that Now, in the FAA there are basically vide a focused and very targeted re- this happens. We must continue to two categories of operating for hire. sponse to the AIDS epidemic within work with advocates and health pro- There is the category of airlines. Those the African American community in viders and faith communities to raise operate under section 121 of the FAA Alameda County. awareness, to get tested and to get ac- rules. The second section that is pre- At the same time, here in Congress, tive in our communities. dominately used is section 135; that is, with the leadership of my colleague, We participated last year with the the charters. Those are the private air- Congresswoman MAXINE WATERS, who International Aids Conference in To- craft that are used that you call, and

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That RECORD the Lou Dobbs comments last An aide in Hastert’s office said yesterday is determined by our districting proc- night that she could take a circus with that the former speaker used the plane for ess. So everybody represents the same her. So we will submit those. official business but not for political travel. number of people, but it requires a lot H. RES. 6 RULES RESTRICTIONS ON MEMBERS He did at times transport his wife and staff more ground for me to represent 600,000 TRAVEL when he was flying to and from Illinois. people, so I have a small aircraft, a SEC. 207. FURTHER LIMITATION ON THE USE OF Brendan Daley, a spokesman for Pelosi, four-place aircraft, single engine, that FUNDS FOR TRAVEL. said that she will not use the plane for polit- I use to fly around the district. Rule XXIII is further amended by redesig- ical travel. Now, when it takes me 9 hours to nating clause 15 (as earlier redesignated) as [Feb. 5, 2007] drive across this district, I can make it clause 16, and by inserting after clause 14 the following new clause: SOURCE: STANDARD PLANE NOT BIG ENOUGH in about 21⁄2 in that small aircraft. 15. (a) A Member, Delegate, or Resident FOR ... SUPPORTERS AND OTHER MEMBERS That is about the size of a Volkswagen. Commissioner may not use personal funds, ‘‘The Department of Defense offered If I get in, the ceiling is just barely official funds, or campaign funds for a flight Speaker Pelosi the same aircraft’’ as the one above my head. My knees are touching. on a nongovernmental airplane that is not li- used by Hastert, said one senior Republican And if people get in the rear seats, censed by the Federal Aviation Administra- who has spoken extensively with Defense De- their knees are absolutely up against tion to operate for compensation or hire. partment officials about Pelosi’s requests. us. So this is not like some limousine ‘‘(b) In this clause, the term ‘campaign ‘‘She found it was not big enough for staff, service. funds’ includes funds of any political com- supporters and other Members.’’. This is just basically a small aircraft mittee under the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, without regard to whether the [From the Examiner, Feb. 5, 2007] with a 210 horsepower engine, very eco- committee is an authorized committee of the nomical. I would use the same gallons Member, Delegate, or Resident Commis- COLUMNIST: SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI NOW of gas to fly across the district as I sioner involved under such Act.’’. WANTS TO BE CUT IN ON THE TAKE would to drive across it. But according ‘‘Well, that didn’t take long. After cam- to the rules that are adopted by the [From CNN, Feb. 5, 2007] paigning against the ‘waste, fraud, and new majority, we cannot any longer 42 BUSINESS CLASS SEATS, A FULLY-ENCLOSED abuse’ of the Bush administration, House use this. I cannot even pay for this out STATE ROOM, AN ENTERTAINMENT CENTER Speaker Nancy Pelosi now wants to be cut in on the take. of my own pocket to serve the con- CORRESPONDENT: ‘‘It’s clear skies for Nancy stituents of New Mexico. It is against Pelosi. The Pentagon is providing the House ‘‘The woman who five months ago said, the rules. I will be held in violation of speaker with an Air Force plane large ‘‘Democrats are committed to a new direc- enough to accommodate her staff, family, tion in the way our government does busi- House rules. And why they did it, I do ness so taxpayers’ money is handled respon- not know. It affects as many people in supporters and members of the Californian delegation when she travels around the coun- sibly,’’ is dunning the White House to put an their party as it does ours. try. . . . Air Force jet at her disposal—reportedly, not Now, given that backdrop, it is very ‘‘Pelosi wants routine access to a larger only for her use, but for her family’s as well. interesting to see that the Speaker of plane. It includes 42 business class seats, a ... the House now wants a 42-place aircraft fully-enclosed state room, an entertainment ‘‘But all of this luxury doesn’t come cheap. to transport her. She was given the ac- center, a private bed, state-of-the-art com- Hourly operating costs for an Air Force C– cess to a Lear jet-type aircraft that the munications system and a crew of 16. . . . 32—the planes that typically carry the vice former Speaker used, 12 seats, 5 crew ‘‘It would be 42 people, and clearly she president, the first lady, and Cabinet offi- cials—are about $15,000 an hour. members, and those are very com- won’t be the only one on this plane. She wants to have members of the congressional ‘‘So for one of those planes to fly the fortable, plush seats. But now then she delegation. And her critics will say, look, speaker home to San Francisco, drop her off, is wanting a 42-person aircraft with a this is a very nice perk that she can share and fly back and get her, would cost tax- crew of 16. with her colleagues and use as leverage, payers around $300,000—while round-trip The cost of flying that aircraft is should she need to.’’ commercial fares start at $233. That doesn’t $22,000 per hour. The cost for her to LOU DOBBS: ‘‘Well, it’s really a fas- qualify as ‘‘waste and abuse’’? round-trip back and forth to California cinating thing: 42. She could take a circus is going to be an astounding $420,000. with her, for crying out loud.’’ [From the Washington Times, Feb. 5, 2007] Now, we just voted for an omnibus [From the Washington Post, Feb. 6, 2007] SOURCE: PELOSI AIDES PRESSING THE POINT OF where we took funds away from our HER SUCCESSION military, and yet she is asking the PELOSI CATCHES NONSTOP FLIGHTS HOME Amid rumblings from conservatives that ‘‘The sources, who include those in Con- military to not only take funds away gress and in the administration, said the from the troops, but also to fund this she is seeking special treatment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) will receive use of Democrat is seeking regular military flights $420,000 trip, presumably every week- an Air Force jet larger than the one used by not only for herself and her staff, but also for end, because all of us try to go home her predecessor, Rep. J. Dennis Hastert, so relatives and for other members of the Cali- every weekend. she can fly nonstop to her home in San Fran- fornia delegation. A knowledgeable source At the same time she has taken a cisco. called the request ‘carte blanche for an air- constitutional provision for me to use Ever since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the craft any time.’ my private property, to use my own speaker, who is next in line for the presi- ‘‘ ‘They [Pelosi aides] are pressing the funds, my own aircraft, and I cannot do dency after the vice president, has been point of her succession and that the [Depart- ment of Defense] needs to play ball with the that because she has made it against given use of a government plane for security reasons. Hastert (R-Ill.), who had flown com- speaker’s needs,’ one source said. . . . the rules. mercially before the attacks, was the first to ‘‘U.S. Air Force travel for VIPs such as Now, we were told when the Demo- have use of a plane. But the one he traveled members of Congress is first-rate. The planes cratic majority took over that there in was too small to make it to California are staffed with stewards who serve meals was going to be a new way of doing without refueling. and tend an open bar.’’ business, and we are finding out what Yesterday, the House sergeant-at-arms that way of doing business is today. We issued a statement saying that the leader- [From Fox News Channel, Feb. 5, 2007] are finding the willingness to limit ship is awaiting word from the Air Force on the rules for using the plane. It is unclear, PELOSI SEEKS MILITARY PLANE FOR MERE people from using personal assets, ‘‘152-MILE TRIP’’ TO DEMOCRAT RETREAT while on the other hand reaching for for example, who can travel with Pelosi and whether she can return home from a polit- ‘‘Pelosi’s office also inquired about a mili- these extraordinarily large perks. ical event on taxpayer-funded plane. tary plane for the 152–mile trip to a Demo- Madam Speaker, I would request Pelosi’s office requested the guidelines, cratic party congressional conference in Wil- unanimous consent to submit for the triggering a story in the Washington Times liamsburg, Virginia last week. No plane was RECORD the actual words of the rule. in which sources questioned whether she was provided.’’

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Many who serve in this Con- Awareness Day was organized on Feb- the same terms and conditions as other gress today were mentored by Leo ruary 23, 2001, with the message: Get routine health screening. McCarthy, going back many years. educated, get involved, get tested. The Routine HIV/AIDS screening will As recently as Saturday night when I National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness allow thousands of African Americans spoke to Leo, he was optimistic about Day dates back to 1999 when the Cen- and other infected individuals to find the future. He said, ‘‘My morale is ters for Disease Control and Preven- out about their infection, begin life-ex- high. I am surrounded by my children tion’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention tending treatment and avoid spreading and my grandchildren,’’ and of course funded five national nonprofit organi- the virus to others. I also very soon his wife, whom he adored, Jackie. zations known then as the Community will reintroduce the Stop AIDS in Pris- ‘‘They are with me, and I am not get- Capacity-Building Coalition, which are on Act, a bill to require routine HIV/ ting better as quickly as I would like, Concerned Black Men, Incorporated, of AIDS screening of all Federal prison but I am happy.’’ Philadelphia; Health Watch Informa- inmates upon entry, and prior to re- My husband, Paul, and I and indeed tion and Promotion Services, Jackson lease from prison. The bill would also our entire family, extend our deepest State University; Mississippi Urban require HIV awareness education for sympathy and condolences to many Research Center; National Black Alco- all inmates and comprehensive treat- who loved Leo, especially his wife, holism and Addictions Council; and Na- ment for those inmates who test posi- Jackie, who he adored, and his chil- tional Black Leadership Commission tive. dren, Sharon, Conna, Adam and Niall. on AIDS. Madam Speaker and Members, we I also want to recognize our former On February 23, 2001, the CCBC orga- here today come on the floor of Con- mayor of San Francisco, Art Agnos, nized the first annual National Black gress, all of us, to speak about this be- who was a dear friend of Leo and a HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. The date cause it is a pandemic. It is a pandemic great comfort to him in his last was changed to February 7, the fol- in the world that must be dealt with. months. I know Congresswoman ESHOO lowing year, that was in 2002, and now We must lead the way here in the and I were regular visitors to Leo it is recognized on February 7 of each United States of America. McCarthy’s bed side, and he followed year. And for those of us whose commu- the proceedings of Congress with great Madam Speaker and Members, many nities are being overtaken by HIV and interest right up until the last day. members of the Congressional Black AIDS, we must stand up and be count- I hope it is a comfort to his family, Caucus and many Members of Congress ed. We must ask for the money. We as I said, whom he adored, that so have joined in the struggle and the must demand the resources. We must many people are praying for them at fight to find a cure to prevent HIV and take our heads out of the sand. We this sad time and that are mourning AIDS. I need to congratulate all of must call on all of the members of our his loss. these Members right in the CBC. I need community to accept personal respon- I just wanted to make our colleagues to congratulate BARBARA LEE, and ED sibility. We must get our churches in- aware of the loss of Leo McCarthy, a TOWNS, and DONNA CHRISTENSEN, and volved, all of our social clubs and orga- great person, a great friend, a great Mr. CUMMINGS, and ELEANOR HOLMES nizations. Today we make a special ap- American. He served our country in the NORTON, and DIANE WATSON, and so peal to them. military, he served our country in the many more for the years of work that f legislature. He served our country by they have put in on dealing with HIV teaching our young people. He will be and AIDS, and HIV and AIDS in the ON THE PASSING OF LEO T. sorely missed. minority community. MCCARTHY That is why back in 1998 I worked to f establish the Minority Aids Initiative The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a with the support of the Congressional previous order of the House, the gentle- b 1600 woman from California (Ms. PELOSI) is Black Caucus and the Clinton adminis- IRAQ STUDY GROUP tration. The Minority Aids Initiative recognized for 5 minutes. provides grants for HIV/AIDS treat- Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, this week The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. ment and prevention programs that the State of California and indeed the SOLIS). Under a previous order of the serve minority communities and en- Nation has lost a great leader. Leo House, the gentleman from Virginia ables health care providers and com- McCarthy was a statesman, he was a (Mr. WOLF) is recognized for 5 minutes. munity-based organizations to expand great champion for justice, and he was Mr. WOLF. Madam Speaker, before I their capacity to serve these commu- a dear friend and purposeful mentor to begin, I would also like to second what nities. me. As speaker of the California State the Speaker said with regard to Leo The initiative received an initial ap- House and Lieutenant Governor, Leo McCarthy. He was also a member of the propriation of $166 million in fiscal McCarthy promoted a values-based National Commission on Gambling, year 1999, and was funded at slightly agenda to educate our children, grow which I was the author of. And he came less than $400 million in the most re- our economy and protect our environ- by my office a number times. And I was cent spending cycle. ment. actually going to put his bio in the However, the AIDS virus has contin- After he left office as the head of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. So I thank the ued to spread in the minority commu- Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Speaker for that comment, and second nities, and more needs to be done. This Service and the Common Good at the it. year I am calling for at least $610 mil- University of San Francisco, Mr. Madam Speaker, I was the author of lion in funding to expand the Minority MCCARTHY taught children and stu- the amendment to set up the Iraq Aids Initiative, and redouble our ef- dents about promoting justice accord- Study Group. I felt that more should be forts to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic ing to the highest ethical standard. He done to look at what we were doing in which has been especially devastating was brilliant, he was principled and Iraq, and so we put together a group to African Americans and other com- committed to the future. and picked 10 people. It was chaired by munities of color. I am proud to have called Leo a former Secretary of State Jim Baker But it is important to remember that friend for more than 30 years. He en- and former Congressman Lee Ham- HIV/AIDS affects us all. Over 1 million couraged me not only to support can- ilton, head of the 9/11 Commission. Also

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But the of the House and Chief of Staff, in the negotiations with enemies result not from Study Group too casually assumes that the Clinton administration, Leon Panetta; the talks themselves but from the diplo- U.S. can secure ‘‘Syria’s full cooperation former Secretary of Defense, in the matic strategy that accompanies them. The with all investigations into political assas- Clinton administration, Bill Perry; Group’s recommendations deserve support, sinations in Lebanon.’’ The ‘‘full coopera- former Senator, and Governor from my but must be effectively integrated into tion’’ of a sovereign state in such situations State, Chuck Robb; and at one time, up President Bush’s strategy of ending state- must be negotiated, rather than made a pre- condition. Convincing Israel to give up the until the end, a month before, current sponsored terror. The arguments against negotiating with Golan Heights will also be difficult, and Syr- Secretary of Defense Gates, former Syria and Iran were also made against nego- ia’s help in securing the release of Israeli head of the CIA. tiating with the Soviet Union, and by some soldiers seized by Hamas and Hezbollah is a This group was provided the oppor- of the same people. Soviet misconduct easily good place to start. While the security tunity to, in depth, to take a look at matches that of Syria or Iran in aggression, threat posed by returning the Golan has what was going on in Iraq and to de- oppression, murder, support for terrorist largely been worked out in prior negotia- velop some recommendations. The res- groups and mendacity. President Reagan tions, the challenge posed by Syria’s claim olution that I have introduced as challenged Soviet behavior by supporting to access to the Sea of Galilee, and the groups fighting communist intervention, meaning of a ‘‘full and secure peace agree- House Con. Res., that puts the Con- ment’’ will require great of forts. Still, gress on record in support of the rec- building the military, strengthening NATO, condemning human-rights violations, com- bringing Syria into a responsible nation- ommendations of the Iraq Study hood is an objective well worth pursuing. mencing a missile-defense program, and con- The anger and scorn heaped on the Study Group. veying the message of freedom in every way Now, here’s a group that has taken 9 Group for advocating negotiations with possible. George Shultz supported these ef- Syria echo the opposition to negotiating months to analyze extensive hearings. forts but sought to negotiate with the Sovi- Also there were 45 military and diplo- with the Soviet Union. But Syrian behavior ets in an attempt to increase stability, re- must be addressed, not just condemned. matic experts, retired and active duty, duce nuclear weapons, attain freedom for op- Egypt, too, wrongfully supported terrorism of all political persuasions, along with pressed groups, and enhance understanding. against Israel after the 1967 war, and key congressional leaders that came up To make negotiations possible the U.S. launched the 1973 war, to get back the Sinai. with these recommendations. So I am adopted specific policies, including: Yet, the U.S. properly urged Israel to nego- asking Members to support my resolu- Regime acceptance. The U.S. refrained tiate with Egypt, and the peace between from activities aimed at destroying the So- tion when it comes up next week in them serves the interests of both countries. viet regime it was seeking to influence, Similarly an agreement to return the Golan support of this. while vigorously denouncing its political and Secondly, it makes a major effort in exchange for peace would have the support moral legitimacy. of most Israelis and the current Israeli gov- and encourages the administration to Limited linkage. Negotiations on human ernment, and would be consistent with gov- adopt also a diplomatic effort in addi- rights, arms control, regional issues and bi- erning Security Council resolutions and the tion to what it is doing. We urge the lateral relations were pursued without link- principle that precludes acquiring territory administration to engage Syria the age to Soviet conduct, enabling negotiations by force. same way that President Reagan dur- to proceed while the U.S. responded firmly The Study Group is probably right that through deeds. Iran is unlikely to agree to negotiate with ing the 1980s, when we were defeating Rhetorical restraint. Reagan vigorously communism, President Reagan, God the U.S. to bring stability to Iraq. The dis- criticized the Soviet system and its behav- trust between the U.S. and Iran suggests bless him, one of the greatest presi- ior, but promised not to ‘‘crow’’ when the So- that negotiations between them should com- dents we have ever had, gave the fa- viets agreed to U.S. proposals, enabling So- mence on limited issues, in a noncontrover- mous speech in Orlando about the evil viet leaders to avoid being seen as sial forum. The U.S./Iran Tribunal in The empires. But he was also having his ad- capitulating to U.S. demands. Hague might well work. Iran resents that ministration engage with the Soviet Self-Interest. U.S. negotiating policy was many of its significant claims against the Union. And when Ronald Reagan then based on convincing the Soviets to act in U.S. remain unresolved there after over 20 their own best interests. years. The U.S. should offer to negotiate gave his speech, saying, ‘‘Mr. Gorba- The Study Group’s ‘‘external’’ strategy for chev, tear down that wall,’’ Reagan these claims on an expedited basis. As Iraq contains several elements necessary for progress is made, the dialogue would likely also had emissaries going to Moscow to successful diplomacy: the need for both in- expand to include such issues as Afghani- engage. centives and ‘‘disincentives’’; negotiations stan, Iraq, commercial matters and human- Those of us in the Congress, when we ‘‘without preconditions’’; and negotiations rights concerns. (During my negotiations used to go behind the Soviet Union, the that are ‘‘extensive and substantive,’’ requir- with Iran as legal adviser between 1985 and Berlin Wall in the Soviet Union, during ing a balancing of interests. The general in- 1990, we resolved many cases and discussed the 1980s would always meet with the centives identified by the Group are un- other issues; my interlocutor eventually likely, however, to lead to constructive dis- dissidents, would always attempt to agreed, for example, that the fatwa against cussions. While Syria and Iran should realize Salman Rushdie could not be enforced in any meet with the leadership of the govern- that preventing a breakdown in Iraq is in ment on behalf of freedom, on behalf of state outside Iran.) A successful negotiation their interests, they see great advantages in will include Iranian demands, such as an end liberty. having the U.S. lose strength and credibility to efforts at regime change. Major change in President Reagan was self-confident in a costly effort to help a state they are re- Iran is in fact more likely to result from nor- in what he believed. He believed that to lieved to see powerless. The notion that they malization and internal activities, than by engage the Soviets was not a sign of will help in order to have ‘‘enhanced diplo- opposition groups seeking to overthrow the weakness. It was a sign of strength. matic relations’’ with the U.S. assumes that regime. Madam Speaker, I would like to put states, will do what they know the U.S. Finally, any effort to negotiate with Syria in the RECORD an article from the Wall wants simply because Washington will not or Iran will fail if based only on incentives. Street Journal by Abraham D. Sofaer, otherwise talk to them. The pronouncements The Study Group’s proposal lacks a program that accompany this Bush policy exemplify of sufficient pressure to make diplomacy po- who was counselor to Secretary of the sort of rhetoric that discourages co- tentially successful. James Baker was able State Schultz, who also explains how operation. The possibility of obtaining U.S. to convene the Madrid Conference in 1991 Reagan engaged with the Soviets and assistance in joining the WTO would be a only after the U.S. had expelled Saddam Hus- how it is appropriate now how he would real incentive in an ongoing negotiation, but sein from Kuwait. The effort to impose sanc- engage with Syria. it is not a credible incentive in the context tions on Iran for its nuclear program should I am hopeful and I ask all Members of hostile confrontation and proliferating continue as forcefully as possible. Multilat- to support the resolution when it sanctions. eral sanctions helped get Libya to abandon comes up. The incentives proposed for negotiating its quest for nuclear weapons. A clear warn- with Syria are, by contrast, concrete and ing that Syria and Iran must end all forms of [From the Wall Street Journal, Dec. 20, 2006] substantial. Syria are, by contrast, concrete state-sponsored terrorism, as now required A REAGAN STRATEGY FOR IRAN AND SYRIA and substantial. Syria would benefit eco- by Security Council resolutions, must be a (By Abraham D. Sofaer) nomically from a stable Iraq, and getting central element of U.S. negotiating policy, The Iraq Study Group’s recommendation back the Golan Heights would give President backed with meaningful preparations for ac- that the Bush administration drop its pre- Bashar Assad’s standing a much needed tion. The power of the U.S. to inflict damage

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I affirm, and we all difficult to contemplate military action Brain Trust of the Congressional Black must stand to affirm that HIV and against Syria or Iran, continued sponsorship Caucus but as an African American AIDS in the African American commu- of terror against other states will eventually provoke the American people, if not the woman with daughters and grand- nity and communities of color has long international community, to exercise their daughters, this issue is particularly sa- been a state of emergency, and from right of self-defense through affordable wars lient. The numbers are particularly today forward we must respond with of destruction instead of costly nation-build- disturbing, and our inaction as a coun- compassion and justice. And we, the ing exercises. try inspires me to stand here today and representatives of the people who are No one can convey this message more ef- call on my colleagues to stand up and infected and affected, as all of us are, fectively than George Bush, who remains de- do more. must act. termined to prevent a future of state-spon- I also rise today, Madam Speaker, sored terror. He should accept the Study f not only to observe National Black Group’s sound message on negotiating with HONORING THE LIFE OF RAY HIV Awareness Day but to encourage enemies but supplement it with the tough- BECK ness that effective diplomacy demands. my colleagues in Congress on both The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a f sides of the aisle to do the same in a manner that is consistent with the previous order of the House, the gen- IN OBSERVANCE OF NATIONAL day’s intent. That intent is to get edu- tleman from Georgia (Mr. GINGREY) is BLACK HIV/AIDS AWARENESS DAY cated, to get tested and to get in- recognized for 5 minutes. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a volved. Mr. GINGREY. Madam Speaker, I previous order of the House, the gentle- We know that, as members of the rise today to pay tribute to the mem- woman from the Virgin Islands (Mrs. Congressional Black Caucus, almost all ory of football all-star and community CHRISTENSEN) is recognized for 5 min- of whom have been tested, we have a hero Ray Beck, who passed away re- utes. key role to play. I urge all of my col- cently in Cedartown, Georgia. Mrs. CHRISTENSEN. Madam Speak- leagues to embrace these objectives Mr. Beck is a football legend both in my home State of Georgia and across er, today I rise to observe National today, February 7, and beyond. The the Nation. After 4 years as a star on Black HIV and AIDS Awareness Day. HIV epidemic in the United States will the Cedartown High School football In doing so, I ask my colleagues and I not be conquered until we not only en- team, Ray attended Georgia Tech, my ask the Nation this question: How courage but also embrace the alma mater, to play guard for the leg- many more reports on the HIV/AIDS destigmatization of the disease among epidemic in the United States and its endary coach Bobby Dodd. not only African Americans but also In 1951, he was named an All-Amer- disproportionate, detrimental and dev- all people living and struggling with ican by the American Football Coaches astating impact on the African Amer- HIV/AIDS. How one gets infected is ir- Association and the Football Writers ican community must be published be- relevant. HIV affects all people the Association. That same year, he helped fore we, as a Congress and as a Nation, same way. And we, along with all lead Georgia Tech to an 11–1 record and acknowledge, observe and uphold the Americans, should extend a hand of an Orange Bowl victory over Baylor objectives of National Black HIV and compassion, understanding, fellowship University. AIDS Awareness Day? and, most of all, action to help. After college, Beck was drafted by African Americans have been and Madam Speaker, in this new time the New York Giants. He was part of continue to be the hardest hit by this with new opportunities, we need to le- the 1956 World Championship Team. epidemic. Today, HIV/AIDS kills Afri- verage ourselves as Members of Con- And Madam Speaker, that team in- can Americans during the most produc- gress to fully fund the Minority AIDS cluded the likes of Y.A. Tittle, Kyle tive years of life, robbing them of their Initiative to at least $610 million, al- Rote and Sam Huff. They led the Gi- opportunity to follow their dreams and though we should be asking for more in ants to a 56–7 victory over the Chicago pursue their destinies and to con- order to really build the capacity in Bears, a far more lopsided score than tribute, not only to their families and the minority communities that are the Indianapolis Colts achieved this their communities but to our society hardest hit by the epidemic. That in- past weekend. and our Nation. What’s more, the num- cludes the Latino community as well. On the football field, Ray was known bers are not improving. We should expand voluntary testing, as a team player, someone who gave African Americans have a HIV diag- especially among incarcerated, ex-of- his all to the game. Because of his tre- nosis rate that is more than eight fenders and other high-risk groups, and mendous work ethic he was inducted times that of whites. African Ameri- ensure that all individuals who need it into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame cans, who are represented in about 13 are enrolled in adequate HIV/AIDS re- and the College Football Hall of Fame. percent of the population, account for lated care. But Ray was more than just a foot- nearly 50 percent of all new HIV infec- We should also work together to re- ball player. He was an active and en- tions, and more than 40 percent of all duce the social determinants of health thusiastic supporter of the Cedartown individuals currently living with AIDS, that put people at greater risk for HIV community. The same attitude that and 40 percent of all AIDS deaths. The infection. And we should expand access made him a star on the field made him AIDS case rate among African Ameri- to culturally appropriate substance a hero in his community. There is cans is nearly 10 times, 10 times higher abuse prevention programs as well as hardly an organization in Cedartown than that among whites. to drug treatment and recovery serv- that hasn’t been touched by Beck’s Particularly affected by HIV and ices. generosity. AIDS are African American women. In Madam Speaker, the budget that was Madam Speaker, he was chairman of fact, in 2002, AIDS was the leading released on Monday clearly the Cedartown Development Authority. cause of death for African American deprioritizes the health and health care He was president of the Cedartown women age 25 to 34 years of age. Afri- needs of all people with HIV and AIDS Chamber of Commerce, a member of can American women today are rep- and their families. However, our new the Polk Medical Center Advisory resented in about 7 in 10 new AIDS political climate has brought us a new Board, a board member of the Georgia cases among women and are roughly 25 day, and we, therefore, must leverage Motor Trucking Association. more times more likely than their ourselves to redeclare HIV and AIDS as But perhaps he will be best remem- white counterparts to be infected with a state of emergency. We must demand bered for a charity golf tournament he HIV. that this administration responds to arranged with his long time friend, Doc Madam Speaker, often as Members of this emergency with adequate funding Ayers. This annual event raised thou- Congress we take to the floor to dis- and resources instead of tax breaks to sands of dollars for Polk County, for cuss and debate an issue that resonates the wealthy. The lives of far too many charities such as children’s literacy with us, not only because of our con- people literally depend on it. and all the way to local food banks. stituents who are affected but because And so, today, Madam Speaker, I am It is a little wonder Beck was named we personally identify and are dis- proud to stand with my colleagues to Citizen of Excellence by the Cedartown

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A number of President’s entire budget is balanced Cedartown, and his contributions to bills are moving through the process, on the backs of 33 million American both will live on as his legacy. I send and the American people are being families who will be forced to pay high- my deepest, deepest condolences to his served, with a new attitude of the U.S. er taxes through the alternative min- wife, Claire, and to his whole family. I House of Representatives, especially imum tax. This was a tax that was put know all of Polk County mourns your 110th Congress, that we will work as on years and years ago to make sure loss. every American does. We will punch in that wealthy Americans had to at least Madam Speaker, as a younger gen- at the beginning of the week and punch pay a base level, the minimum level, of eration looks to sport stars as heroes out at the end of the week and work on taxes. Regardless of how much you and role models, I hope they come the weekends sometimes. So that is a make, you had to pay this much. And across men like Ray Beck. He was com- good attitude to have, especially when through that process over the years, mitted to his team and committed to you have two wars going on. You have that AMT started creeping and creep- his community. He gave his all on the the President passing on a budget that ing and creeping into middle-class fam- field and then gave back to the town the American people don’t see eye to ilies now to the point where it may go where he was raised. He was generous eye with, nor this Congress sees eye to past the $100,000 point, meaning that if with his time, his wisdom and his en- eye with. But we will work those issues you make $100,000 or possibly even less, ergy, and Cedartown, Georgia, is a far, out, and we will talk about them a lit- you will be forced to pay this alter- far better place because of him. tle further as we move along. native minimum tax. The President did Madam Speaker, I ask that you join One of the other things that I think not deal with that. We are going to me in honoring the legacy of Ray Beck. that we can touch on are some of the have to fix that because the alternative findings, that now these committees is it means a tax increase on 33 million f are meeting and we have some level of Americans. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a oversight, Madam Speaker, that we are Cuts to health care and to our sen- previous order of the House, the gentle- going to find out some things that have iors, Madam Speaker. The President’s woman from Ohio (Ms. KAPTUR) is rec- been happening in Iraq or what has not budget cuts Medicare and Medicaid by ognized for 5 minutes. been happening in Iraq. over $100 billion over 5 years, $300 bil- (Ms. KAPTUR addressed the House. We are also going to learn more lion over the next 10 years. And these Her remarks will appear hereafter in about the President’s budget as we are two key components of our health the Extensions of Remarks.) move along. And I am having a copy of care system in the United States of f the budget brought to us here on the America that cover about 80 million Americans. There have also been cuts The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a floor because I want to make sure that to home energy assistance for poor previous order of the House, the gentle- the American people and definitely the Members get an opportunity to see this families. As cold as it is today here in woman from Texas (Ms. JACKSON-LEE) Washington, D.C., and across the coun- is recognized for 5 minutes. big document. Yesterday and today the try, the President submits a budget (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas ad- Ways and Means Committee held hear- ings and had the Secretary of the that cuts that by about 18 percent. dressed the House. Her remarks will There are a couple other things I appear hereafter in the Extensions of Treasury and now the Office of Man- want to talk about here, Mr. MEEK, and Remarks.) agement and Budget Director here be- fore the committee today. And there I am glad you are paying attention and f are a lot of questions that are being asking me to help you out here today. asked, and very few are being an- We have seen this tremendous change APPOINTMENT OF MEMBER TO swered. And we will talk about a little in the economy over the past couple of CONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVE of that today. decades where we went from basically a COMMISSION ON THE PEOPLE’S But once again, I yield to my good national economy to an immediate REPUBLIC OF CHINA friend Mr. RYAN from Niles, Ohio. I am global superpower post-World War II. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- glad that you are here and am looking And with that there have been tremen- ant to 22 U.S.C 6913, and the order of forward to talking about some of the dous changes. the House of January 4, 2007, the Chair issues that are facing this Congress and Here is one of the key components announces the Speaker’s appointment the American people. that have affected us, and as capital of the following Member of the House Mr. RYAN of Ohio. It is an honor to moves and globalization occurs, wheth- to the Congressional-Executive Com- be with you, Mr. MEEK. And I appre- er we like it or not, Mr. MEEK, here is mission on the People’s Republic of ciate that you were on the floor today what has happened. This is a chart that China: passing legislation commemorating a indicates the new global workforce. Mr. LEVIN, Michigan, Chairman. fine citizen down in Florida, a leader in And the increase, from the left side, that community. And I want to thank 1985 to 2000, the increase from about 2 f you for taking the time to come out. billion people that were considered in There are so many issues that we the global workforce to almost 6 billion 30-SOMETHING WORKING GROUP need to discuss today, Mr. MEEK. The people. That means China has been The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under President submitted his budget this added to the list. That means India has the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- week to the Congress, and we are going been added to the list. That means Cen- uary 18, 2007, the gentleman from Flor- to have to go through that with a fine- tral American countries have been ida (Mr. MEEK) is recognized for 60 min- tooth comb and recognize some of the added to the list. And now all of a sud- utes as the designee of the majority mistakes that are in there and correct den we have expanded the global labor leader. them. supply, which has driven down wages Mr. MEEK of Florida. Madam Speak- And as I said the other night here, for people here in the United States. er, it is an honor to be here on the floor Madam Speaker, the only thing that This is a major issue that we have to once again on behalf of the 30-Some- stands between President Bush’s budg- deal with. thing Working Group. I am glad to be et, which would have been passed post And, Mr. MEEK, as you know, Speak- joined by my good friend, Mr. RYAN, the election, is Speaker PELOSI. And so er PELOSI was kind enough to appoint from Niles, Ohio, who has joined me on we have got a real opportunity here to me to the Appropriations Committee, a number of occasions here. We have make things right and to make some and today we had a meeting with our joined one another. real progress. chairman Mr. OBEY, and he said we

VerDate Aug 31 2005 04:03 Feb 08, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00042 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07FE7.097 H07FEPT1 mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with HOUSE February 7, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H1317 want our committee to be about the fu- dress some of these problems: Boost Let me go further on in that defini- ture, and we want our committee to the minimum wage, cut student loan tion of ‘‘devolution of taxation.’’ Here solve future problems. And that is real- interest rates in half, and allow drug in Washington, D.C., we have made a ly what we need to deal with here. prices to be negotiated so that we will paradigm shift in this House to use the Here is another issue. As we have had actually reduce the burden that is philosophy of pay as we go. We want to the increase in labor, most Americans being placed on people. show how we are going to pay for it if have been losing ground, Madam So, Mr. MEEK, I think there has been we are going to fund it, not pay for it Speaker. And if you look at real me- a lot that has been done. There has and continue to work on this chart and dian household income, and this comes been a lot that has been done here on borrowing from foreign nations and from the New Democratic Network behalf of the American people just in owing foreign nations money, as the Web page, this is from the U.S. Census the first 100 hours, and we are going to Republican Congress did and the Presi- Bureau. Real median household in- continue to move on global climate dent did. What we want to do is do it in come: In 1999, it was $47,500, real me- change, global warming. We are going a responsible way. dian household income. It was, in 2005, to continue to move on alternative en- But as we start talking about devolu- $46,500. That real median household in- ergy. We are going to move on research tion of taxation, when you cut opportu- come is dropping, not rising. And so and development. We are going to con- nities for local government, and some this is an issue that the President’s tinue to provide the kind of oversight statistics have shown that as it relates budget does not address, but we are that the American people deserve in to this budget, from the Center on going to have to address this, and we order to fix some of these problems. Budget and Policy Priorities, they esti- have already made great strides to do Mr. MEEK of Florida. Reclaiming my mate the total aid to States and local this. time, Mr. RYAN, I am just so glad you Two other charts I want to share governments will decline, has declined had those charts to really spell out $12.7 billion. So we pass this on to the with Mr. MEEK, Madam Speaker, real what the President’s budget wants to quickly is people say, well, if you are States, and they have to fill the gap do to Americans versus for Americans. that we are not willing to fill, or obvi- productive, you will make more. The And I think it is very, very impor- top line here in the red is the increase ously the President is not willing to tant that we continue to march on and in productivity; the blue line is the me- fill, that we are going to try to do our do the things that we need to do to rep- dian income. As productivity has in- best to fill here in this House of Rep- resent the American people, Madam creased by 15 percent, wages have actu- resentatives. They have to rob from Speaker. The reason why we come to ally gone down. So the tie between pro- Peter to pay Paul. Well, who is Peter? ductivity and wages no longer exists the floor to point some of these issues Nine times out of ten, it is a person because of this new global market that out, this is an unopened copy of the that is trying to educate him or herself we are in, which is a major public pol- budget that we received this week here or their family, or grandparents that icy issue, Madam Speaker. in the Capitol, in the House of Rep- are trying to educate their children, And then, finally, the share of na- resentatives and in the Senate, and it that the tuition at the State university tional income in 2003 and 2004. This is is our job to look through this budget system is going to up. and see what is good and what is bad the change. The change. The bottom 99 b 1630 percent, their share of national income for the American people. went down 2 percent. The top 1 percent, The American people delivered this The assistance for the elderly in a they went up 2 percent. And the top .01 people’s House a change. The change said State may end up being cut. percent went up 1 percent. So you can for accountability, the change for over- Health care to children and other op- see that the bottom, the 99 percent sight, and the change to be able to portunities that States like to provide hasn’t benefited from what is going on make sure that this country moves in for the citizens of their State will end here, and the top 1 percent has. So the the right direction. America said they up being cut because they have to fill question is what do we do, and what want to move in a new direction. We the gap that the Federal Government have we already done? said we wanted to move them in a new is not filling. If you look at what the new Demo- direction and that we were going to be Then, on top of that, it continues to cratic majority has already done, Mr. a part of that atmosphere. roll down, because, by constitution, by MEEK, they have already, in the first The reason why we are pointing these all State constitutions, they have to 100 hours, made strides to try to rectify things out, Madam Speaker, is because balance. They don’t have the preroga- this. Passed the minimum wage to try we want to make sure the Members tive of saying, we will put it on a credit to give the American people a pay raise know the work we have before us not card or borrow from a foreign nation. to $7.25 an hour, and that means thou- only on the Ways and Means Com- They have to balance their budget. So sands of dollars a year depending on mittee, but also on the Budget Com- they balance their budget on the backs how many minimum-wage workers or mittee. Every Member of this House, of local government. Then the local how many minimum-wage jobs you their said committees are having hear- government has to figure out how they perform. It could mean a couple thou- ings now, need it be the Secretary of are going to raise money, be it needed sand dollars a year. In addition to that, Education or the Secretary of Labor or for education, school districts, or need- we have cut student loan interest rates even the EPA Administrator, to come ed for local county or city commis- in half for both parent loans and stu- before their said committees of juris- sions. Then they end up putting some dent loans, which will save the average diction to talk about why they sub- sort of levy or penny tax or referendum person taking out a loan about $4,400. mitted certain things in the budget, on the local communities and voting So you add the minimum wage. And in need it be the environment or edu- for transportation needs or voting for addition to that, we were able, in the cation or justice or what have you. parks and recreation. first 100 hours, through the leadership But I think it is very, very important The reason why that is happening of Speaker PELOSI, to also repeal cor- to point out how this budget continues more and more in U.S. cities is because porate welfare and invest that money to move in the wrong direction, the of the kind of budget that the Presi- in new alternative energy sources. We President’s budget, as it relates to the dent sent to the Hill on the backs of passed the stem cell research bill, and growth of our country and the health the American people. alternative energy and stem cells are of our local communities and States. I Now, what else is in this budget? You going to open up two new sectors of the learned a term about 8 years ago when have to think about, this budget is economy. And then in addition to that, I was in the State legislature, and it is standing for the individuals that are we were able to pass and give permis- called ‘‘devolution of taxation.’’ Cut not even asking for tax cuts to be made sion to the Secretary of Health and the taxes at the Federal level, and pass permanent on behalf of wealthy Ameri- Human Services to negotiate down unfunded mandates down to the States cans. drug prices on behalf of the Medicare and local government. And in this Mr. RYAN of Ohio. If the gentleman recipients. budget I see the President continues to will yield, I think this is very illus- So this package, the first 100-hour embrace that philosophy, devolution of trative of your point. Here we said ear- package, has done a lot to try to ad- taxation. lier, the share of the national income

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So now down to the point that every Member vorite charts out right now just to il- these are the same people who have to understands his or her responsibility in lustrate what past budgets have done, vote on property tax issues. These are the House of Representatives. Madam Speaker, and where it left this the same people who have to vote on li- So, if you want to be on the side of Congress in spending the majority of braries. These are the same people that the super, super billionaires and mil- its money, not on the priority that the have to vote on the penny sales tax to lionaires, you make that choice. If you majority of the American people would keep their counties running. So I think want to be on the side of the American like us to balance on but because of they are getting squeezed from all people that work hard every day, to bad management. sides. give them some sort of break so hope- Mr. RYAN of Ohio. I appreciate your Then, when you look at what the top fully they can pay for tuition to make insight, Mr. MEEK. You have talked 1 percent have benefited from the sure their children can make it about this, and we have been talking globalization of America and the abil- through college, and, as Mr. RYAN said, about this for a long time. ity to be in the stock market and ben- in the first 100 hours, we dealt with a We would love to come in, as the efit from that, and get tax cuts and the lot of that. We dealt with the minimum Democrats did in January and swore in tax loopholes and everything else, the wage, which is now coming back from Speaker PELOSI, and come in and bump bottom line is, Mr. MEEK, the bottom the Senate that will be over here in the the Pell Grant up two thousand bucks 99 percent have not benefited from all House either today or tomorrow, or is and eliminate student loans altogether of this. already here. We dealt with the issue of as far as paying interest on them and Mr. MEEK of Florida. Mr. RYAN, once all kinds of other things we would like being able to make a reverse about face again, thank you for your charts, sir, to do. But we are limited by the kind of on the interest rates that the previous because we need to make sure the budget that we have inherited from the Congress put on students and their Members know exactly what was hand- President in a 6-year presidency and a ed down from the President of the families. We rolled that back. There are a number of things that we 14-year Republican control of this United States to this Congress and the Chamber. have already put through the process, work that we have cut out. Here is what they are doing: The 2008 pay-as-you-go principles here in this Some tough decisions are going to budget authority says that the red on have to be made, Madam Speaker. House, to put this country on the right the left, $230 billion or $240 billion a Some millionaire may not get all of track. year, is going to be spent just paying Yes, tough decisions have to be made. the tax break they have been waiting the interest on the money that this But, at the same time, we have to be and counting on from the President of country has borrowed; not to pay down responsible, and we can’t just rely on the United States. We have hard- the debt, but just to pay the interest working Americans out there looking sound bites as though, well, that will payments. We are going to have to for a break. We have small businesses get us past the process. spend $230 billion because of that. Look I believe that we can make it to the out there looking for a break. Mean- how that just dwarfs other priorities in promised land, not through doing the while, the President says, make my the budget of the United States. original thoughts permanent because I same thing expecting different results, The next one is education. The next had a rubber stamp Congress in the but having the kind of oversight and one is veterans. The next one is home- 109th and 108th and so on, that did having the kind of foresight and watch- land security. All pale in comparison what I said do, continue that, and let’s ing out for these individuals. to what we are forced to spend to pay cut assistance to State and local gov- Weatherization. You mentioned the interest on the money we are bor- ernments. Let’s cut the COPS Pro- weatherization, Mr. RYAN, as it relates rowing. gram. Let’s cut Medicaid benefits. to keeping our most frail and poor As Mr. MEEK has said in his previous Let’s make life harder for veterans as warm during the wintertime. The chart, this money, over $1 trillion, has it relates to their benefits and the clin- President is asking to keep a tax cut come from foreign interests. This ics that are open out there, that we permanent for super billionaires but President and the Republican Congress just did something about in the con- cut weatherization assistance for a borrowed more in 4 years from foreign tinuing resolution. Let’s continue that lady on fixed income in Detroit, Michi- interests than all of the previous Presi- philosophy. gan. dents and Congresses combined. Com- But for those individuals that are I am just trying to understand the bined. This is the net result, the inter- being driven and buying new cars every balance here and the priorities as we est that we have to pay on the debt. other year, let’s continue to make life start to look at this. The President is So what has happened is that we have wonderful for them. And, by the way, asking for a cut in a number of the De- a huge number; $2.102 trillion in 2006 is let me send an escalation of more partment of Justice programs, Madam the amount of foreign held debt, $2 tril- troops over to Iraq, where we just had Speaker, that assist local sheriffs and lion. That is unacceptable in the most a hearing just yesterday here in the police chiefs in combating and pre- powerful, wealthiest country on the House of Representatives that we are venting crime. The COPS Program, ze- face of this Earth. now getting down to the nitty gritty roed out. So we have seen what has happened on what happened to $8 billion that no The President last week, Mr. RYAN, since the Clinton administration had one can account for that was cash had an announcement come out that some sanity. We had a $5.6 trillion pro- money. Very little of it can be ac- we are going to move for the maximum jected surplus. It went down $8.4 tril- counted for, very little. Eighty percent Pell Grant. Then the budget comes out, lion. Now we are in a $2.8 trillion def- can’t be accounted for. Let’s continue and it is the same level of what he has icit. We have some real problems. to practice that philosophy in Iraq. recommended over the last 4 years. So, So when it goes to making the in- So, Mr. RYAN, the only, I guess, com- the words don’t match the action. vestments that we want to make in fort that I have at this moment is the So our job here in the House, Madam education, the investments that we fact that the American people voted to Speaker and Members, is to make sure want to make in health care, SCHIP, move in a new direction, Madam that even if the President makes a the COPS Program, making sure young Speaker, and we are willing to take commitment to the American people kids are covered, have some form of them in that direction. But, at the and we agree with that commitment, health care coverage, Madam Speaker, same time, Mr. RYAN, the philosophy of that we have to find some room in this we are limited by the budget that we the 30-Something Working Group, we budget, which I know that Chairman have been handed. want to make sure that every Member SPRATT and other members of the Unfortunately, we can’t start from understands their responsibility. Budget Committee and members of scratch, but there are some decisions

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Maybe about, because it is complex tax policy, and important issue. they do. Some do. And some work hard. and you have to dig a little bit into And I want to say to the distin- Just because you wear a white collar that income tax form to figure out how guished gentleman from Ohio, having doesn’t mean you don’t work hard. But much it is going to hit you. But it is watched the Ohio election process; if what we are saying is, that group of going to hit you. there was a State that spoke loudly people benefit the most from the lav- b 1645 about a decided necessity of change, it ishness that this country has given certainly was Ohio, and the rest of us And unless we do something about it, them, the roads and the bridges and followed. And I can’t imagine that we we are not just going to have a tax de- the safety and the security provided by would be facing this budget but for crease for those at the top, we are defense, the stable markets in which to mistakes and missteps that have been going to have a big tax increase for invest money, in which many, many made in foreign policy, for example the those in the middle. And as we know, do, into the stock market. This is all this budget does nothing to help the Iraq war and funding that has been provided for by the stability that costs that all the middle-class families somewhat misplaced. But the good news is, and that is comes out of this institution, and are facing. Their premiums go up every what I wanted to just focus on for a therefore they owe a little bit back. year from their employer, as the cost Now, even if you don’t believe that, moment, that we now have the oppor- of higher education spirals, as we our alternative, we have a decision to tunity; Speaker PELOSI know, a 41 percent increase since 2001. , the leadership, make: Either we borrow this money INGELL AXMAN This budget does nothing, little if Chairman D , Chairman W from the Chinese, the Japanese and the nothing, to help those families. on the health issues, we now have an OPEC countries, which gets us to that So, Mr. RYAN, this is a double wham- opportunity to address the American chart where there is $2 trillion in for- my for American taxpayers. Not only people and to, frankly, make sure that eign-held debt by this country, or we are we sucking money out of the budg- we listen. ask those people who are making mil- et by giving away tax breaks to the I want to start very briefly on track- lions and millions of dollars a year, Mr. very wealthiest, but we are then very ing the reauthorization of the Ryan MURPHY, to pay their fair share, to step explicitly hammering those in the mid- White bill that was authorized in the up to bat and help us solve this prob- dle income. last Congress. But an authorization lem that we have so we don’t have to But here is the good news. We know goes nowhere unless there is, if you put the future of our kids and our what the good news is, is that, as you will, the funding that is necessary. And grandkids in the hands of Communist have said, in previous years that budg- so I just wanted to briefly highlight China. et which stands in front of Mr. MEEK the fact that we have a continuing Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut. Mr. would have been delivered to Congress AIDS crisis in the United States which Speaker, I thank my friend from Ohio. and would have had a little cursory really requires a focused and concerted As you dig deeper into this budget, Mr. look by the Members here and would effort at funding. And I don’t believe RYAN, what you find is the financial have sailed out basically intact, at that with the President’s budget, these gimmickry involved in the President’s least when it comes to those priorities. enormous tax cuts, we will be able to claim that this budget will be balanced This year it is very different. And by address the fact that there are now by 2012 is accomplished by forgetting the grace of the American people that over 1 million people in the United about this little thing that hides in our sent a new Democratic Congress here, States living with AIDS, and that par- Tax Code called the Alternative Min- that budget is going to have a very, ticular communities, African Ameri- imum Tax. That is a difficult concept very hard look, and it is going to look cans and Hispanics, are disproportion- for some people to understand, but it is very, very different when it leaves ately affected by HIV/AIDS, and they not going to be so difficult for millions here, Mr. RYAN. account for nearly 50 percent of the of middle-class families to figure out Mr. RYAN of Ohio. And you are people living with HIV/AIDS. when, next year and the year after right. In years gone by, they would That means that we need more Fed- that, they are going to be hit for the have greased that sucker up, and it eral funds made available to help in first time with a massive new tax in- would have flown through the House the minority health initiatives, the crease. and the Senate, who knows what kind AIDS initiatives, and we need more The Alternative Minimum Tax was of changes. It wasn’t until in the last funds to encourage testing for as many introduced first to try to make sure year or so that the Republican major- people as possible. So I cite that as a that those at the highest end of income ity at that point couldn’t even agree challenge to this budget that is going scales were forced to pay some type of with each other. So we have had to to impact many of us extremely nega- income tax. But because we haven’t ad- come in and clean up with the con- tively. justed that number over the years, tinuing resolution, which we made Then I would encourage my col- more and more middle-class families some great advances with veterans and leagues from the various States, 50 are going to fall into that trap. some other issues that we were able to States, to take a litmus test or to take Mr. RYAN, you are exactly right. You deal with. a thermometer and measure the tem- and Mr. MEEK and Ms. WASSERMAN But when you look at it, we don’t perature of the President’s budget SCHULTZ have talked about the fact want to get into, and you are exactly against the health of your State. that, during a time in which we are ex- right, there is going to be an increase Let me just share with you what is pending vast amounts of money over- in taxes if the President’s budget over going to happen to the State of Texas. seas while we have major overdue in- the next few years stays, because that We have a sizable young population, vestments here at home, we are giving alternative minimum tax is going to the State of Texas. Most of our popu- away this multi-billion dollar tax cut creep in and is going to creep in to av- lation is under the age of 25; we have to the richest 1 percent of Americans. erage American families’ lives, middle- an extensive population of under 5, and That is wrong. We need to reinvest income families. And so I appreciate we need, if you will, a refocus on the that money back into our infrastruc- you making that point. domestic agenda for this country. ture, back into education and energy We have been joined by a special I am looking forward to Chairman and all of the things that help regular guest who periodically jumps in and SPRATT’s, the Budget Committee’s re- families. joins with the 30-something Working forming of the President’s budget be- But what we need to tell people Group, the gentlewoman from Texas. I cause this is what will happen to about is, this budget not only decreases would be happy to yield. Texas: Two million Texans could see

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Our that we have taken in past Congresses, will not work. students cannot be whacked again, and especially the last two that I have been The President’s health care proposal they can’t take the burden again. involved in, Mr. RYAN. But the way the will squeeze Texas middle class of more So I am hoping that, in addition to President’s budget has been drawn up, cost and less coverage. So the Presi- cutting the Department of Homeland with cuts of 20 percent to first re- dent’s health insurance proposal, which Security, which we will obviously not sponder grants and high-threat and is opposed by my public health system, tolerate because we are certainly not, high-density areas, and a cut in State Harris County, who says, ‘‘Are you try- we have not met the test of the 9/11 grants as relates to training and buy- ing to close our doors?’’ We will see a Commission Report, this budget needs ing equipment and conducting exer- squeeze on the middle class; 5.5 million fixing, it needs a fixing, and we need to cises for their first responders by 64 uninsured in the State of Texas will be rally around the American people’s percent, for many of the Members on impacted. voice of health care, education, secu- both sides of the aisle that talk a lot Let me give three other points. Huge rity, and the environment and afford- about the war on terror, we have to Medicare cuts which we are seeing in able energy before we allow this budget make sure we are prepared. the President’s budget would endanger to come to the floor of this House. And All of these things, all of these 2.5 million Texan Medicare bene- I hope that we will have the oppor- speeches that people come to the floor ficiaries’ access to quality care and im- tunity to be able to work our will, the and make, Members of Congress, this pose new taxes on seniors. The one will of the American people, and work budget is not in the spirit of those thing our seniors said on the prescrip- our will on behalf of seniors, on behalf speeches. And I think it is important tion benefit part D, no more burdens, of those suffering with AIDS in minor- that those Members on both sides of no more doughnut holes. And that is ity populations and other, on behalf of the aisle, and I would say mainly with what the President’s budget gives us. the working middle-class families that my Republican colleagues, that they In addition, one of the greatest trage- struggle every day, that we would start preparing their leadership now on dies of the President’s budget is the cut choose them over outrageous tax cuts the things that they can vote for. And in the State grants for children’s that have been proposed by this Presi- I know that making tax cuts perma- health insurance could add some 1.4 dent’s budget. nent for the superbillionaires is not million children to the uninsured ranks And I thank the distinguished gentle- something that is going to fly back in Texas. Now, they say that they are men for allowing me to participate and home. going to leave this to the States. The to acknowledge that these policies are Now, I was thinking about staying in States need to find out how to handle not family-friendly. And I look forward the majority always, which is not a bad idea, but if that was my paramount this. This is, this is, this is comedic. to a budget coming to this floor that reason for being here on this floor, This is joking. This is completely im- we pass, the majority, Democrats, with then I wouldn’t say out loud that they possible. I am lacking for words. We our friends on the other side of the need to start telling their minority are fighting in our State to be able to aisle, that will be family-friendly, chil- party, on the Republican side of the insure children who need to be insured, dren-friendly, those who are suffering aisle, that there is things that I have and you are telling us we will give you, from various diseases, education- to vote for. I am not willing to cut vet- the State, a certain amount of money, friendly, environment-friendly, and eran benefits. I am not willing to not and it is how you do it. It is not how we certainly a new day in energy by the do the things that we need to do for the do it. We can’t do it without the fund- budget that we put forward on this children of America. I am not willing ing. So you are going to deepen the floor. to not give the middle class a tax cut hole of health disparities by suggesting Mr. RYAN of Ohio. We thank the or give billionaires a tax cut. I am not that we cut off 1.4 million uninsured gentlewoman. As we have been saying willing to cut local government assist- children in the State of Texas. in the last few weeks here and the last ance, especially in the area of home- I would ask my colleagues to check few days especially, that years ago land security and other areas of law en- the temperature of their State by tak- that budget would come and get forcement. I am not willing to do those ing a thermometer and measuring the greased up and come right through this things because I don’t think my con- President’s budget against the needs of Chamber and on to the other side of stituents will send me back to Con- the American people. In Texas, 1.6 mil- Capitol Hill and get signed into law, gress. lion veterans could be hurt by VA fund- with the tax cuts for the top 1 percent That is the kind of discussion they ing shortfalls. And I spent time with and cuts to the kids. And now NANCY need to be having with their leader- homeless veterans in my community at PELOSI stands between that budget and ship, because one thing that I have stand-down. I have homeless veterans the American people, and we are going seen, Madam Speaker, especially with in shelters in my community, as many to make sure, and our friend from Flor- the past votes that we have taken on of us do, but I see many of my home- ida. So we thank you for joining us. It the minimum wage, on taking big-time less veterans under our bridges. We is always a special treat for our friend subsidies from oil companies, on the can’t afford any more cuts in veterans to come down from Texas. And I would whole issue of cutting tuition, on the health coverage because they are al- be happy to yield to our friend from issue of a few of the other packages ready paying the maximum amount. Florida, who is standing to be recog- that we passed, but on the main issue Let me conclude by suggesting that nized. as it relates to how we are going to we likewise have made a commitment, Mr. MEEK of Florida. Thank you, move from this point of pay as you go, 30-something and 30-something-plus, Mr. RYAN, for yielding to me. And I I have noticed that the leadership on have made a commitment to America’s just think it is important that we have the Republican side have voted oppo- youth. We want to ensure that the this dialogue here on the floor, Ms. site of the majority of the Members of doors of our institutions are open. And JACKSON-LEE, just to make sure that the House, with some Republicans join- just today I heard the fact that in our we prepare the Members for the deci- ing us on those votes, or we are voting own community in Houston, we don’t sions that have to be made. together. I hate to say joining us, be- enough seats in colleges to be able to We talk about bipartisanship a lot, cause it seems like it is something that help educate young people. This may and I have my information here to talk was a last-minute thought. be a phenomenon across American in about some of the votes that we have many communities, and that means we moved on this floor in a bipartisan na- b 1700 are closing the door to higher edu- ture, and I know I will have it in a No, they were great ideas, and they cation to our children. Well, the budget minute, that kind of set a tone through need to be passed, and they were passed that the President has put forward, aid this Chamber that we can work to- overwhelmingly.

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A number of Republicans voted licans voting for a budget that comes about the votes that they cannot and against it. Medicare prescription drug before this floor that this House ham- the votes that they will take. price negotiating, 24 Republicans mers out. Now, I have watched in the 109th joined 231 Democrats; 170 Republicans Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut. I am Congress the moderate Members on the voted against it. College Student Loan not sure that I believe the people were Republican side who went to their lead- Relief Act, 232 Democrats voted for it, Tivo-ing, but if they were, it was only ership and tried to make things hap- 124 Republicans voted for it, super- because of your eloquence when you pen, and you know something, if the majority Members of the House, 71 Re- talk about issues like bipartisanship, leadership would have listened to some publicans, hard-core holdouts, on the because you should be right to crow. of the moderate Members of the Repub- bipartisan spirit. Held out again on Mr. MEEK of Florida. Please mention lican Party on the other side of the creating long-term energy alternatives Mr. RYAN’s name. He gets a little jeal- aisle, maybe, just maybe, the majority for the Nation Act; 228 Democrats ous when folks started mentioning the on the Democratic side would not be as voted for it, 36 Republicans voted for fact I make a good argument on bipar- wide as it is. it, 159 Republicans voted against it. tisanship, so, please. Now, the American people want us to I am saying all of this, and I am not Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut. I hear move as one, not just as Democrats and trying to speak fast on this, Madam people talk about him as well. Republicans. They want us to move in Speaker, I am just saying that if we Mr. RYAN of Ohio. Will the gen- a responsible way that will lead this are going to come together as a coun- tleman yield? I have family members country in a new direction; not in a try, and we are going to work in a bi- who have Tivo’d, okay. Democratic direction, not in a Repub- partisan way, now here I am in the ma- Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut. So lican direction, not in an Independent jority saying that it is important that here is what those of us who are new to direction, but in a new direction. we work in a bipartisan way. this Chamber sort of see from the out- Mr. RYAN of Ohio. For America. Madam Speaker, I know the officers side, and I think it probably matches Mr. MEEK of Florida. Which is good of the House who have witnessed many up with what Mr. RYAN and Mr. MEEK and as American as apple pie and of these 30-something sessions that we keep seeing from the inside. Chevy trucks and what have you. But I have had in the minority. They were What used to happen here was that think it is important that we say this like some of them Tivo’d it when we the agenda that came before the House out loud, because when we get around were on break because they just heard was decided essentially by folks sitting budget time, there is a lot of inter- it so many times, and they wanted to in the third floor of the Republican Na- esting things that are said on the floor. hear it again. If I have said it once, I tional Committee, a bunch of Repub- Some Members are even gaveled down have said it 30 times: Bipartisanship lican Party insiders who decided that for some of these statements because can only be allowed when the majority they were going to put a Republican they try to justify a good or bad vote. allows it. agenda on the floor. They were going With the continuing resolution that Now we have the will and the desire to put a party agenda on the floor at was passed, we saw a little spike in by the Speaker of the House of Rep- the exclusion of the minority party. Members having to reflect back on to resentatives that has said that she So what you saw, for those us that the rules, the Parliamentarian running wants to move in a bipartisan way, and turned on C–SPAN late at night when around the floor saying, you cannot we still have Republicans that are say- we were not watching the 30-some- say that, you cannot do this. Before we ing, no, we do not; we want to be dif- things, we saw votes go up on the get all animated and excited about this ferent, even when we are wrong. And screen. And everybody sees those C– budget, I just want to make sure that that is not the philosophy that the SPAN votes where they have got Re- the Members understand that you have American people have embraced. I do publicans in one column, Democrats in to start having that discussion with not care if it is a Republican voter or the other column. You see all the Re- your party leaders, especially on the Independent voter or Democratic voter, publicans voting one way, all the Republican side of the aisle. the American spirit will prevail, and Democrats voting the other way, vote Now, let us just look at this. On the that is what happened last November. after vote after vote, because what was 9/11 Commission, 68 Republicans voted So we have some individuals that are being put before this House was a Re- with 231 Democrats to do what the bi- saying, we are willing to continue to publican agenda. Occasionally you partisan Commission said we should do hold on to the old way versus moving would have some people slide over, but in protecting America, but the shock- in a new direction. I am not trying to by and large that is what you saw. ing part is that 128 Republicans decided be offensive. I am just saying, I am Here is the difference. The agenda not to vote with the majority of the reading the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD and that was part of the first 100 hours and Members of the House, Republicans and the vote chart. I am trying to encour- the agenda that was behind the con- Democrats. What is going on there? age folks to work in a bipartisan way. tinuing resolution, as Mr. MEEK says, if The American people cannot under- So let us have the discussion now in we have anything to do with it, the stand that overwhelmingly. the Budget Committee, in the Ways agenda that will underlie the budget Minimum Wage Act, 82 Republicans and Means Committee, and discussions that finally arrives before this body is voted with the majority of the super- in committees of jurisdictions stand- not going to be a Democratic agenda. majority and every last Democrat, 233, ing. Let us have those arguments, but It is not going to be a Democratic voted to give the American people a let us come together on the fiber of the budget. It is going to be a people’s pay raise after years and years and budget and for us to be fiscally sound agenda. It is going to be a budget that years, and as you can see here, Madam and for us to be able to move this coun- comes from the voices and the concerns Speaker, over the years under the Re- try in a new direction. and the hopes and the fears of people publican Congress, Member of Congress That has nothing to do with what the back in all of our districts, Republicans did not have a problem in giving them- Republican leadership may believe and Democrat. selves a pay raise until the Democratic what is right or the Democrat leader- That is why you see on the 100 hours majority put a stop to it, saying that ship believes what is right. It is what is agenda and even on the continuing res- we will not agree to a pay raise until right for America. olution, which is probably maybe the the American people get one. But 116 So we are willing to do that. most controversial piece of legislation Republicans voted against it for people Pollwise, the American people are on that came before that, even on the con- who were making $5.15 an hour. It re- the side of doing things that we are tinuing resolution, the bill that kept minds me of the President saying, let trying to outline here and that we are the Federal Government going for the

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I want to give out sions are made above my pay grade, And for someone who spent the last 2 Speaker PELOSI’s e-mail, 30-Something but I can honestly say that we have nu- years in my district campaigning to Working Group e-mail, merous debates on this floor, which I come here, talking to people that were [email protected], or think have been significant and monu- so utterly frustrated with what was you can come to our Web site, mental, especially in the first 100 happening in Washington, yes, people www.speaker.gov/30something. hours, as we have talked about here. I were angry about the agenda here from Mr. MEEK of Florida. I thank Mr. don’t exactly know how to respond to issue to issue. They were upset that RYAN for doing such an outstanding you. I think we do have adequate de- people were not listening to them job. I thought Mr. MURPHY had the as- bate here, depending on what the issue about their concerns on rising energy signment, but I can see you have taken of the day is, both sides getting an op- prices, rising health care prices, why responsibility to do that. portunity to do that. they could not send their kids to col- Madam Speaker, we would like to We get our hours and talk about the lege. But they were maybe more thank the Speaker and the majority things that we want to talk about, and overarchingly concerned with the tone leader and majority whip and others you get your hour to talk about what this place had taken, and I think that for allowing the 30-Something Working you want to talk about. There can be, is our lasting legacy, because, as I Group to come to the floor once again. I am sure, some discussion. If there is think I said the first time that I got to It was an honor to address the House of room for us, as we push certain poli- talk with you both on this floor, our Representatives. cies, that is what we are here to talk legacy as a Congress may be that we f about. That is the issue of the day. have some small role in restoring peo- Mr. KING of Iowa. Reclaiming my ple’s faith in government. REPUBLICAN STUDY COMMITTEE time. When we go around and talk to ele- The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Mr. RYAN of Ohio. You are welcome mentary schools, we are talking to to respond to that. SOLIS). Under the Speaker’s announced some of the most cynical 10-year-olds Mr. KING of Iowa. Reclaiming my policy of January 18, 2007, the gen- you have ever seen, because all they time. If the gentleman would be inter- tleman from California (Mr. CAMPBELL) think government is is a bunch of peo- ested, I would suggest you take it up is recognized for 60 minutes as the des- ple fighting with each other, yelling at above that pay grade and see if you ignee of the minority leader. each other, disagreeing instead of come back with a positive response. I Mr. CAMPBELL of California. agreeing. didn’t check with anybody above me. I Madam Speaker, I would like to take So what we do here is we are going to happened to be able to claim some time this first moment to recognize my col- start putting those middle-class fami- on the floor and make that decision. lies first. That is what this budget will league from Iowa (Mr. KING). I offer that openly with the best in- be about. If we can do it with Repub- Mr. KING of Iowa. Madam Speaker, I tentions. I think 2 hours would be a licans, and when you do it with Demo- thank Mr. CAMPBELL for yielding to very good thing for all of us to have crats, in the end we make people be- me, and I appreciate Mr. RYAN sticking that discussion. The offer is there. I lieve a little bit again in government. around after the Special Order and the leave it on the table, and I thank the And for those of us who are in this 30- work that you have done. Over the last gentleman. something caucus who might be around 2-plus years, we spent a lot of hours Mr. RYAN of Ohio. I appreciate the long enough to hopefully see govern- here on the floor together. It occurred gentleman making the offer. Last year ment do a few more good things over to me as I arrived on the floor— or 2 years ago, we were asking for op- the next 10, 20, 30, 40 years, that could Mr. RYAN of Ohio. Not necessarily portunities to speak on the floor. We be one of the most important things we together, but on the floor. Not nec- weren’t given that opportunity, but I can do. essarily together. will take it to the leadership, and we Mr. RYAN of Ohio. I appreciate that. Mr. KING of Iowa. I would concede will take that under consideration. As we are wrapping things up, I found that point that not necessarily to- Mr. KING of Iowa. Reclaiming my it interesting, I saw as we are talking gether, but on the floor. We have been time, I would point out that, as we about budget priorities and the kind of together in some other things as well. have had exchanges here during special investments that we want to make as a But the point that occurred to me as orders, I am one who has yielded, espe- country, looking at what the Federal I arrived here on the floor this after- cially to Uncle BILL from Massachu- Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has to noon is we often do not commingle our setts. I would point that out. That is a say and what he said yesterday and was policies. We have an argument that is matter of record. We can continue in quoted in the Wall Street Journal and set separate on this side and on that that vein, I would hope. a lot of other media outlets. side, and it occurred to me that Lin- Mr. RYAN of Ohio. In spite of your Focusing on, and I will say, and I will coln and Douglas had some effective age discrimination, we will take it quote, he said, Ben Bernanke said, The debates that were very, very instruc- under consideration. best way to narrow the gap between tive, and it helped the people under- Mr. KING of Iowa. Thank you very high-income and low-wage workers in stand the distinctions between the much, Mr. RYAN. the U.S. would be to strengthen edu- policies. I yield back to the gentleman from cation and training programs. So as I mull this around in my mind, California. That is our call, and that is the mis- it occurs to me to offer an invitation Mr. CAMPBELL of California. Thank sion for us, to make sure that average that if our side could set aside an hour you, Mr. KING. people have the skills and the tools and Special Order, and if your side would be We are talking about the budget this the opportunity with the increase in interested in setting aside an hour Spe- evening, and a number of things about the Pell Grants, with what we already cial Order, we could merge those to- the budget. The problem out there: We did by cutting student loan interest gether and then perhaps three from have a deficit. The problem is not that rates in half for both parent and stu- your side, three from our side, and we people are taxed too little; it is the dent loans, cutting that in half and could spend 2 hours with an open de- government is spending too much. giving thousands of dollars back to bate type of a format so that we could I didn’t just make that up. I didn’t those families. Those are the kinds of have a free exchange with the best of come up with that now. I am para- things that we need to continue to do, attitude and comity. I think that phrasing the words of President Ronald and No Child Left Behind and every- would be a very good thing to do for Reagan and comments he made several thing else. the people across this country as they decades ago. But it is every bit as true So we need to make sure that as we review what is going on here on the today as it was then. The reason that reform these systems, we also provide floor. we have a deficit, the issues with our the resources, as we started this, for I would ask your opinion on that. government budget, are not that people

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I thank the gen- that this year it continues at the rate tax, and you pay whichever one is tleman from California for yielding to that the increases have begun this greater. me both times here this afternoon. year, 46 percent since 2003. The alternative minimum tax only Mr. Speaker, taking up the issue of Let me put that in a way maybe that kicks in if it results in more tax than the budget that is coming before us and folks listening can understand even the regular tax. The reason that would this sense of responsibility and debates more clearly. If you are making $50,000 happen is because you pay a high rate. that I have had this year and debates a year in 2003, in order for your income By definition, if you are not in one of that I recall I had in the national to keep up with what the Federal Gov- the highest tax brackets, the alter- media that I had with members of the ernment’s income has been, you would native minimum tax cannot apply to other party, and some of them took the have to be making over $72,000 today, you. oath that they would be willing to sup- not bad. I bet most of you out there lis- If you were to compare the capital port a balanced budget without raising tening, if you were making $50,000 back gains tax, alternative minimum tax, taxes; I don’t hear any of that talk in 2003, would be pretty happy if you and look at which one is more for the here on the Democrat side of the aisle. had gotten raises to be at $72,000 or rich, it would certainly be the alter- Nobody is stepping forward, and say- $73,000 today. But that is where the native minimum tax. Yet you just ing, yes, I remember what I said, I Federal Government is. heard the Democratic colleagues on the didn’t mean it, or even, I remember But what’s interesting is, that is not other side of the aisle just say that the what I said. They seem to have forgot- because taxes were increased. That 46 capital gains, the dividends, all these ten what they said. percent increase in revenue is because tax reductions that were in 2003 are They do say they want to balance the taxes were decreased, because there terrible and are hurting the economy, budget. But we also know from listen- were tax cuts in 2003. and they are hurting people, and they ing to Mr. RANGEL, there isn’t any one Because there were tax cuts in 2003, a are only for the super billionaires. But, of the Bush tax cuts that he would not whole bunch of good things happened: yes, they insist on doing something to want to eliminate, which would result More people are working. The unem- get rid of the alternative minimum in a tax increase. ployment rate is down. Business in- tax, which, by definition, can only hit Yet we have the strongest economy vestment is up. Gross domestic product people in the highest tax brackets, can that we have had in my lifetime, the is up, and millions and millions of new only create more tax for them. most consecutive quarters of growth. jobs have been created. All that since You can’t have it both ways, Demo- We have a very healthy unemployment these tax cuts that are so demagoged crats, you cannot have it both ways. If rating of about 4.5 percent, and that by the other side. Now, the people who eliminating or reducing the alternative has been staying low. Inflation has spoke in the hour before me here were minimum tax is good policy, then so is been staying low. Interest has been talking about tax cuts for the rich, and reducing the tax on capital gains and staying low. Every economic indicator I think they said super billionaires or on dividends and on the marriage pen- that is low when it is good is low. something like that. alty and all the other rate reductions Every economic indicator that is high Let us talk about what these tax re- that we did back in 2003. when it is good, it is high. The stock ductions were. One of them was a re- Now, the President released a budget market has reached any number of all- duction in the tax on capital gains and this week. The budget he released bal- time highs. dividends. Let’s see. Over 50 percent of ances in 5 years without raising taxes. These Bush tax cuts, the 2001 cuts Americans now own stocks or have The other side of the aisle, the major- and the 2003 cuts were essential and been investing in the stock market. So ity here spent the last 2 days saying necessary to keep us out of a depres- I guess over 50 percent of Americans how terrible it is. I am trying to figure sion and a recession at a time when the must be hyper billionaires because cap- out what is so bad. Is balancing the dot.com bubble had burst, when our fi- ital gains and dividends tax cuts saved budget in 5 years bad? I would rather nancial centers were attacked on Sep- them money. balance it in 2; I would rather balance tember 11, and we had to go to war and Almost 70 percent of Americans own it in 1, sure. spend hundreds of billions of dollars to homes. When you sell your home at I don’t think balancing the budget in protect the American people, of which some point, you might be subject to a 5 years is that bad of an objective, and there has been no significant attack capital gains tax. I guess almost over it balances it without raising taxes. against Americans by terrorists in our 70 percent of Americans are hyper bil- Ah, that is really the part they don’t country since that time. lionaires or the super rich. like, balancing the budget without Who would believe that our economy Or perhaps the marriage penalty re- raising taxes. They don’t want that to would be this strong, our safety would duction, which saved money for every happen because they want to raise be this good, that there are so many married taxpayer. I guess that means taxes, because a 46 percent income things sitting where they are today? everyone who is married is a hyper bil- growth since 2003 is not good enough, But we need to step forward and make lionaire type of rich. because increases in jobs, increases in progress. I can tell you frankly that I Not true, but what is particularly in- the economy, increases in gross domes- was not thrilled by the proposal here teresting is that these tax reductions, tic product, that is not good enough, several years ago, 3 years ago, that we these tax rate reductions, saved Ameri- because they want to spend more, more were going to cut the deficit in half in cans at all income levels money, and it and more and more. They want to tax, 5 years. That was not enough for me. resulted in the economy growing, and they want to spend. Now, I believe that President Bush which is why you have had this 46 per- The new Democrats are the same as has offered a budget, and I think that cent increase in revenue. the old Democrats. You are seeing it on we will see the House Republicans offer But even with that 46 percent in- this floor, in this hall, today, this week a budget that will reach balance within crease in revenue, we still have a def- and this month. Unfortunately, I am 5 years. That is a balance without dy- icit, because we are spending too much. afraid you are going to see it in the namic scoring, and the increase that Now, the other side does have a tax months going forward. we are seeing in the revenue because of that they don’t like, which is inter- So what is the problem with bal- this dynamic economy indicates that esting. It is the alternative minimum ancing the budget without tax in- could well happen within the next 3 tax. creases? That is what we want to do. years. I expect it will happen in the Now, I stand before you as a Member That is what the President wants to do. next 3 years. of Congress, yes, but also as a certified But, unfortunately it is not what the I am an individual, though, who public accountant and an individual other side wants to do. would be willing to sign on to a budget

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They passed a bill some of this growth, we could be at budget deficit has declined by about 18 last week that they said did not have balance today, except that we have percent, year on year. There is a lot of any earmarks or any special projects. been facing the war, and we took the progress happening on this budget def- In fact, it had hundred of millions of hit from the burst in the dot.com bub- icit because of the growth in the econ- dollars of earmarks that they could ble. So we are pulled together here omy, because of those tax cuts, and be- have taken out; in fact, voted against now, and the principle needs to be, slow cause we, the prior couple of budgets, taking them out. this growth in discretionary, non- were beginning to start to control But I did want to review very briefly, defense discretionary spending. We are spending. It is something we haven’t before I mentioned a word or two about doing that, and we have effectively done, well, frankly, a lot, lately. But the budget and the economy, these done that. We have kept it at below the we are starting to in the last couple of wonderful Six for ’06 programs that rate of inflation or at the rate of infla- years. Isn’t that right, Mr. KING? they passed. And of course they are tion. Mr. KING of Iowa. It is interesting to celebrating them as if they were law. The biggest problem we have is the me, the statistics that you put out on However, the Senate has not acted on constant growth in entitlements called that data, that if you believe in a free any of these, so, in fact, they have not Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid to market economy, you understand that become law. And thank goodness they a lesser degree, and, of course, the in- description intuitively. You under- have not become law, because what terest that goes up on that. You will stand there is going to be dynamic this highlights is the hypocrisy of our see a budget comes from Republicans growth that is stimulated because good friends on the other side of the that gets us to a balanced budget with- there is a return on investment. aisle. in 5 years. I am grateful that that is If you don’t believe in the free mar- They talk about passing all of the 9/ coming out. ket economy, then you think somehow 11 Commission recommendations. In But, again, I believe that if we can that people that make money and cre- fact, that is not what they did. That is give the investors the confidence that ate jobs are evil, and they should be not what the bill did that they brought we can continue the Bush tax cuts, the punished for their productivity. When to the floor. In fact, they did not pass 2001 and the 2003 tax cuts, then I think you punish productivity and tax it, you some of the most important rec- that you will see this economy con- get less of it. That was another Reagan ommendations that allow for commu- tinue to grow, and you will see the statement. What you tax you get less nication between committees here that of. What you subsidize you get more of. budget balanced before the 5 years are make it so all America would be safer. We are going to see productivity up. They talk about the minimum wage more highly taxed. We get less produc- But if we turn this over to the other increase. In fact, what they would do if tivity, and this economy will slow side, if we turn it over to the Chairman they increased it in the way that they down. of the Ways and Means Committee, wanted to is to decrease the number of who wants to see the end of all of those b 1730 jobs on America and propose this un- tax cuts, we will see the goose that I point also that if we could freeze funded mandate on American small lays the golden egg slaughtered and on our spending at current levels, some- businesses, which actually cuts the the field of class warfare. time in the middle of fiscal year 2010 level of employment in our Nation. The Now, we know that what you tax you we would be looking at a surplus. That Senate has recognized that, and they get less of. The Federal Government is something else to consider. are working to try to correct the dam- has the first lien on all taxation in Mr. CAMPBELL of California. Mr. age that the Democratic House has America. We tax everything that Speaker, we all understand how much done. moves, that produces. We tax labor. We we would rather have the private mar- They denied completely the proven tax interest, investment, dividends kets than us making decisions, than results. I am a physician, practiced capital gains, you name it, all the way some nameless, faceless bureaucrat medicine for over 20 years before com- down the line. Then the alternative somewhere close to where we are all ing to Congress. And the Democratic minimum tax sits there and sneaks up sitting right now, someone here in majority here denied the proven results on people and grabs people, and it is Washington. Someone who fully under- of adult and cord stem cell research on creeping down into the lower brackets stands that is my colleague who will be a bill that they passed here earlier. I over and over again. speaking next, Dr. PRICE from the suspect the Senate will have to correct So to make this call, I would say State of Georgia. Dr. PRICE. the damage that they have done there this, extend those tax cuts. The Amer- Mr. PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I as well. ican people need to clamor in order to thank my good friend from California As a physician I recognize the impor- extend the Bush tax cuts. If that can for yielding and for organizing this and tance of doctors and patients making happen, the confidence in this economy his leadership on this issue. I appre- health care decisions by themselves will continue. We will get this budget ciate your perspective and your exper- without governmental intervention. balanced. tise as a CPA practicing before you And what our good friends on the other The other side wants a balanced came to Congress. I know that you side of the aisle did was, in fact, work budget, too, because they called for have the knowledge that all of us to fix prices in the area of Medicare one. But they want to raise your taxes should utilize as we talk about budget prescription drugs, which would de- to do it. I guarantee you, that is the and the economy. crease the number of drugs available only way that they can balance this You know, I was sitting over in my for seniors and, in fact, harm seniors, I budget, and that is the effort that they office and listening to our good friends believe, in the health care that they re- are down on. I stand with the remarks on the other side of the aisle as they ceive. And consequently I think the made by the gentleman from Cali- were discussing their issues before. I Senate is going to have to work on fix- fornia, and I appreciate very much him could not help but being amused by ing that. taking the leadership to come to the their comments. And you sense that One of the remarkable hypocritical floor and yielding to me. they are trying to lay the groundwork things that they did in their discussion Mr. CAMPBELL of California. Mr. now for a budget that they are going to points about decreasing student loans, KING, one second, before you leave, fig- propose, and they are going to propose in fact that is not what they did at all. ures, we talk about the progress we it obviously with more spending, be- What they did was pass a bill that kind have made on this budget so far. The cause that is what our friends on the of tracks down, decreases the interest 12-month budget deficit, the last 12 other side of the aisle do. on student loans, and then for 6 months

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He served as a companies, not foreign oil companies, ship and the information that he has mentor to me and to many others in Mr. Speaker, not foreign oil companies. been bringing to the floor of the House this House. And I know that everyone, They tax domestic oil companies so today and to the American people. Be- Mr. Speaker, here has CHARLIE and that domestic oil costs more, foreign cause we are challenged with solving Gloria in their thoughts and prayers. oil costs less. So what will happen is these problems and difficulties that we He said today that he is turning it that Americans will be more reliant on have as a Nation, we ought to do it to- over to the Lord’s hands, and I know foreign oil. gether. We are proposing the kind of that he can be in no better place than So it is a remarkable, remarkable positive and uplifting messages that I that. I look forward to working with culture of hypocrisy and misinforma- think all America can embrace. I ap- CHARLIE again. I look forward to him tion, disinformation, I call it Orwellian preciate the time. getting back. government, that our good friends on Mr. CAMPBELL of California. Thank Mr. Speaker, it is appropriate that the other side of the aisle have pro- you, Dr. PRICE. we are talking about the budget and moted. It is as though the people on the the economy here today, because CHAR- I do want to mention some of eco- other side, the Democrats, the facts of LIE was a great champion, is a great nomic issues that you had talked about what is going on in the economy, what champion, for the taxpayers of this before, the good news, remarkable news is going on in the budget, what tax cuts country, fighting for smaller govern- in the economy: economic growth, 3.4 do, what they do not do, it just does ment, less spending and lower taxes. percent growth in GDP over the last not fit with what they want to do, In these hallowed halls we hear the year; business investment up for 14 which is tax more and spend more. word ‘‘compassion’’ when we are talk- straight quarters; job growth of 7.2 mil- You know, I could put all of you here, ing about spending other people’s lion new jobs since the summer of 2003; keep you in this room where there is money, when we are talking about dis- low unemployment rate, 4.5, 4.6 percent no windows, and tell you tomorrow bursing the hard-earned tax dollars of unemployment rate. That is a rate morning that the sun did not rise. Now, American workers. Mr. Speaker, we talk about how im- lower than the average of the 1960s, you would have no proof that the sun portant this spending is, how much it 1970s, 1980s and 1990s combined. did not rise, but it is very likely that is going to help people. Certainly there Tax revenues, tax receipts are up. it, in fact, did rise. And the fact that I is no end to the good and well-meaning Deficit reduction you mentioned, Mr. keep you in this room and do not let you see it does not mean that the sun projects that we could fund. We all CAMPBELL, the latest numbers that are want well and qualified students to out on the 12-month rolling deficit, the did not rise. That is what they are doing. And we have the resources they need to go to budget deficit, down to $188 billion. are trying to open the windows so peo- college. We all want to find an answer That is the lowest that it has been ple can see, no, you know what, the sun to cover the 47 million people who do since 2002. And a steady increase in did rise this morning. Tax cuts do not have health insurance. We all want labor productivity. stimulate the economy. The budget is to see the benefits that come from new So one would think that if our moving towards balance. But the prob- roads, expanded public transportation, friends on the other side of the aisle lem is spending. infrastructure improvements and eco- were interested in a good economy, Mr. PRICE of Georgia. Exactly. I ap- nomic development projects. We all they would look at this economy and preciate the gentleman’s comments be- scrape and fight to ensure that our they would say, well, how did that hap- cause they are absolutely true. That is constituents get their fair share of the pen? What made that happen? Were why I call it Orwellian politics, bumper Federal pie. there actions that were taken by the sticker politics, because just because But as we consider the massive Federal Government and Congress that they say it is so does not make it so. I spending obligations that our govern- resulted in those good numbers? appreciate your comments. I know we ment faces in coming years, everyone Well, in fact, there were. And they have got some other colleagues who are in this House, Republican and Demo- happened in 2001 and 2003, as my friends interested in shedding light and bring- crat, liberal, moderate, conservative, know, and those were the tax reduc- ing truth and facts to the issues re- can agree that we cannot stay on our tions, the appropriate tax reductions garding the budget and the economy. present course. on the American people, capital gains, Mr. CAMPBELL of California. Well, Mr. Speaker, as the baby-boomers dividends, tax reductions, and a de- we do have other speakers. The next near retirement, we will soon face a crease in income tax for the vast ma- one is from Georgia (Mr. WESTMORE- scenario where there will not be jority of Americans. What that did, as LAND). enough workers to support the entitle- it did under President Reagan and as it Mr. WESTMORELAND. Mr. Speaker, ment spending slated for Medicare and did under President Kennedy, what before I begin my remarks, I would like Social Security. We have talked often that did was to stimulate the economy to call on my fellow Members to keep in recent years about the funding in a way that resulted in the numbers the gentleman from Georgia, Congress- shortfall that Social Security faces. We that we have seen. man CHARLIE NORWOOD, in your know that Social Security will run out And so our good friends on the other thoughts and prayers. As many of you of money in less than 50 years. side of the aisle would do well to study know, CHARLIE has suffered from can- Perhaps we have focused on Social history. They would do well to study cer for some time and has fought val- Security because it seems to be the history. They would do well to learn iantly, just as he did when he recovered more manageable problem. As dire as from history as they try to formulate from a lung transplant several years the Social Security situation is, our their budget and make certain that ago. shortfall in the Medicare program is they appreciate, as we do on this side Today CHARLIE announced that he is eight times larger. That should con- of the aisle, that Washington does not going to decline further treatment and cern not just Members of Congress, but have a revenue problem, it has got a return home to Augusta, Georgia, all Americans. spending problem. where he will receive hospice care in The Medicare shortfall will affect not We look forward to working with our his home. CHARLIE NORWOOD has served just retirees and those retiring in the good friends on the other side of the the people his entire life. He has served next 10 years, it also is of concern to aisle in decreasing Washington’s spend- his Nation as a soldier in Vietnam. He the younger generations. How will they ing, solving those difficult challenges served Augusta, Georgia, but also as a pay for their parents’ health care and that we have, as my good friend from dedicated father to his children, and a long-term care without the guarantees Iowa mentioned just a little bit ago, in husband to his loving wife Gloria. of Medicare?

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These are serious questions that de- this economy grow. I appreciate this Another exciting fact about our econ- mand serious answers. That is why I time he has yielded me. omy, the deficit has been cut in half 2 think we need to refine what we con- Mr. CAMPBELL of California. I years ahead of schedule. And we did it sider compassionate in this House. I thank very much the gentleman from by keeping taxes low. I think that is would argue that it is compassionate Georgia for his remarks, with which I what the people of northeast Ten- for us to do a much better job of mak- can fully associate. But there are peo- nessee, good commonsense, hard- ing tough decisions on spending in to- ple who have been in Congress less working people, want to have happen. day’s Congress to save programs not time than I have, and one of them will Keep our taxes low. Let us keep the only for present generations, but for be our next speaker here, Mr. DAVIS, money in our district. Let us provide the future generations of Americans. the gentleman from Tennessee. I would for our families. And as we do that, the Quite frankly, to maintain current like you to yield time to Mr. DAVIS economy will grow. As the economy benefits after the baby-boomers retire from Tennessee, one of our freshmen. grows, we take care of the Federal Gov- would require crippling levels of tax- Mr. DAVID DAVIS of Tennessee. ernment. ation that would grind our economy to Thank you, Mr. CAMPBELL. Thank you I think we need to look at govern- a halt and put all of our Federal pro- for your leadership and bringing this ment much like we look at a family grams at risk. In our effort to be com- important debate. sitting around a family table back in passionate today, we are spending to- And thank you, Mr. Speaker, for al- east Tennessee. People do have tight morrow’s money. At our present rate lowing me to rise. One of my favorite budgets. Unlike the Federal Govern- we are going to leave future genera- people in Washington all through his- ment, though, people back in east Ten- tions with nothing but IOUs. tory was President Ronald Reagan. nessee have to make tough decisions. The best thing that we can do to save Most of us know that the anniversary When they have a tough budget, they Medicare and Social Security for fu- of his birth was just this week; 96 years can’t say, well, I will just go out and ture generations is to reduce the ago President Reagan was born. And he raise my taxes and have somebody send growth of the programs and maintain once said, we don’t have a $1 trillion me some more money so I can spend the growing economy that allows us to debt because we haven’t taxed enough. more. What they do in east Tennessee sustain tax revenues and keep these We have a $1 trillion debt because we and across America is they have to important entitlements afloat. spend too much. And I think that is make decisions about, well, I can’t The tax cuts of the past 6 years have important for this Congress to under- spend as much as I used to. And if we served this purpose. I think the gen- stand. I think that is a commonsense continue to do the right things, they tleman from California and the gen- approach that the people of America will have that money back home. tleman from Iowa have explained that can understand. It is about spending. It The President, once again, in his very well. Last year the Federal Treas- is not about taxing. We overspend, we budget is calling for making the 2001 ury took in more money than it ever don’t overtax. I think that is very im- and the 2003 tax relief provisions per- has before, because our tax policies portant. manent. The administration projects have allowed Americans to keep more As a matter of fact, if we continue on total revenue growth to grow 5.4 per- of their money, and they have allowed the pace that we have today, our reve- cent per year if we keep those tax cuts U.S. businesses to flourish and expand nues are outpacing us, and we continue in place. despite the strain caused by the tech- to do that, we have our revenues out- Tax cuts are critical to maintaining nology bubble, the tragedy of Sep- pace our spending over the next 5 our present healthy economy. We sim- tember 11, and the cost of the war on years, President Bush’s budget will be ply have a choice. We have a choice of terror. balanced by the year 2012, and we can a bigger economy or bigger govern- Mr. Speaker, the tax cuts boost the do that without raising taxes. Now, to ment. That is the choice we have. And economy. In order to preserve the tax me, that is an exciting prospect to be I certainly hope that my colleagues cuts, we have to reduce our spending. able to balance the budget without here on the House floor will understand Certainly we have to cut back on ear- raising taxes. And we do that at the how important it is to allow people marks and local projects, and I cer- same time maintaining the successful back home to keep more of their tainly hope we heed President Bush’s pro-business economic policies that we money and keep government small and call to cut the number of earmarks in put in place. I think that is very im- allow families to take care of them- half. portant. And it is not just Republicans selves. But that is not going to be enough. saying that. It is the Congressional To reach the goal of a balanced budg- We must curtail the growth of entitle- Budget Office. It has actually given us et, we need to hold the line on spend- ment spending, or else cuts elsewhere data to support the data that we have ing. We need to reduce earmarks. And in the budget will never offset those ex- in front of us. Just last week, the CBO I think we need to pass line item ve- ploding costs. We have to fund our na- supported the fact that tax cuts of 2003 toes to crack down on worthless pork tional priorities, but we must be more helped boost the Federal revenues by 68 barrel spending. I don’t think the Con- selective in what we consider prior- percent. Cut taxes, bring in more rev- gress has done a good enough job on ities. enue, allow people across America and that. from the First District of Tennessee to I know there was a bill passed just b 1745 keep more money in their pockets. As last week and said there was no ear- We took an important step last year they do that, they spend it back in marks. Well, reading through the data, when we saved $40 billion in the Deficit their districts. It circulates through I am from east Tennessee, and I didn’t Reduction Act. That legislation re- the economy. It helps the Federal Gov- realize we had a rainforest in Iowa. quired courageous leadership, and we ernment. You do it by keeping taxes That is interesting for me to know. I are going to need more of that kind of low, not overtaxing. And we need to do didn’t study that back in school in east leadership in the future. that at the same time we keep fiscal Tennessee. Maybe someone else can ex- So to sum it up, the tax cuts boost restraint in place. Our economy has ac- plain that to me when they get up to the economy. A strong economy fills tually grown through 21 straight quar- speak. But that is an earmark that was Federal coffers, and tax revenues allow ters. That is a good thing. We don’t in the resolution that passed last week. us to fund programs important to all want to go back on that. We want to We are being disingenuous with the Americans so long as we learn to live make sure that we stand strong, keep American people. And the American within our means. our tax cuts in place, keep our econ- people are smart. They will catch on to

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And we bring this debate to the American peo- Bush’s budget, Medicare will grow 5.6 have appropriately dubbed the work ple. And you know, the gentlelady is so percent. Now, back in east Tennessee, that the Democrats are doing as the right. This debate really reduces down that is not a cut. That is a growth of ‘‘Hold on to your wallet Congress’’ be- to a very fundamental issue. Do you 5.6 percent in Medicare. So please, do cause they are definitely coming to a want more government and less oppor- not be fooled. Do not be fooled. There pocket near you. And they want more tunity, or do you want more oppor- is not a rainforest in Iowa, and Medi- of your money. That is one thing that tunity and less government? care is not being cut. you can basically take that IOU to the People in this institution need to re- I think if people continue to use com- bank. They are going to try to cash it member that every time they vote for mon sense, they will support the Con- in. It is in the form of your hardearned more money for some government pro- gress. They want the Congress to do dollars. So [email protected]. We gram, they are taking money away the right thing. It goes right back to invite everybody to work with us from some family program. what Ronald Reagan said. We don’t through this process. We want to be In many respects, Mr. Speaker, this have a $1 trillion debt because we certain that we have your ideas. And isn’t a debate about how much we are haven’t taxed enough. We have a $1 we know, as the gentleman from Ten- going to spend on health care or how much we are going to spend on edu- trillion debt because we spend too nessee was saying, as Ronald Reagan, cation. It is a debate about who is much. And I ask my colleagues to so many times has said, government going to do the spending. Republicans make sure we don’t spend too much in doesn’t have a revenue problem. It has want families to do the spending. We this Congress. Thank you for allowing a spending problem. Government never gets enough of your money. You know, want small businesses to do the spend- me to take part. ing. And yet, our friends on the other Mr. CAMPBELL of California. I one of the things that I have repeat- side of the aisle, the Democrats, they thank the gentleman from Tennessee. edly done in my town hall meetings is want government to do more of the And, you know, we don’t have a to say, how much is enough? How much is enough for government to tax? What spending. rainforest in Iowa right now. But if the Now, as I am fond of saying, people budget passed by the Democrats in this is the ceiling? When are they going to say, we have got it, we are flush with are entitled to their own opinions, but House, when was it, last week, were to they are not entitled to their own money? We all know that, and I will become law, then we will have a facts. As a member of the Budget Com- yield to the gentleman for comment. rainforest in Iowa, and it will be built mittee, I just came from a hearing ear- with $50 million of your money. That is Mr. CAMPBELL of California. As you say, one of the great differences be- lier this morning on our annual budget you people watching. It will be tax that was quite instructive. We heard money taken from you to pay to build tween us and them, we talked about it being your money, their money, the accusations of massive tax cuts. a rainforest in Iowa. Well, it is kind of interesting, be- People’s money, the taxpayers’ money. Now, Democrats have only been in cause when you look at the record, Your money, watching on television, charge for a little longer than 30 days, when we have provided tax relief to the they talk about it like it is their and already they have made it easier to American people, guess what? We have raise taxes. They raise taxes on domes- money, like it is the government’s ended up with more tax revenue. We tic oil and gas producers. I mean, I to- money. have the greatest amount of tax rev- Mrs. BLACKBURN. If the gentleman tally don’t get that when here we are enue that we have ever had in the his- will yield, that is an excellent point, trying to become less reliant on foreign tory of the United States of America. because every dollar we spend is not oil, and we have gas prices where they And in 2004, after the pro-growth tax ours. It is not the government’s. It is are, and they are going to tax domestic relief, tax receipts were up 5.5 percent. the taxpayers’. And this is a govern- oil and gas producers. And, of course, Well, how did that add to the deficit, ment of, by and for the people. It is not when they tax them, they spend the Mr. Speaker? a government of the government. money on an entirely new program, In 2005, tax receipts were up 14.5 per- And our friends across the aisle, cent. Well, how did that add to the def- and then on top of that then they pass through the New Deal, through the this budget which allows this icit? In 2006, 11.8 percent. And now in great society, putting all of these pro- the first quarter of the first quarter of rainforest in Iowa to go through and grams that sound good, that really an- spends another $10 billion, which in- 2007, they are up approximately 7.2 per- swered a lot of questions and needs, cent. creases the deficit not reduces it. you know, they put these in place, and But I don’t need to explain any of Now I am not here to tell you that then it grows and grows and grows. every time you engage in tax relief, this to our next speaker, the And then you have a big, big bureauc- gentlelady from Tennessee (Mrs. you get more tax revenues, but, guess racy, and the bureaucracy becomes un- what? Facts don’t lie. BLACKBURN). I would like to yield to responsive. And the constituents want the gentlelady from Tennessee. You are entitled to your opinion. You accountability with that. are not entitled to your own facts. Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, how I had at one point said, you know, it pleased I am to join the gentleman When you allow small businesses and reminded me very much of The Little American families to keep more of from California and my Republican Shop of Horrors, that stage play that Study Committee colleagues in this what they earn so that they can save we have all seen. And the plant grows and invest and create more jobs, guess special order hour. As we talk about and grows and grows, and then finally the budget and we really begin to focus what? They go out and do it. So that is it says, feed me more, Seymour, and it myth number one that somehow by al- on some of the components in this envelops everything because that is lowing American people to keep more budget, you know, I think that many of what the government is saying to the of what they have earned, that some- my Republican Study Committee col- American taxpayer, feed me more. how that is adding to the deficit. leagues are interested in digging into We have an expert who is with us on this document, and their constituents so many of our family budget matters, b 1800 are well served by that, like the gen- our Republican Study Committee, The deficit has dropped. The Amer- tleman from Tennessee talking about RSC, chairman, Mr. HENSARLING of ican people are not overtaxed. Govern- his First District constituents who are Texas, and I will yield to the gen- ment spends too much. logging on to his Web site, who are tleman from Texas. Now, we have another myth in the looking at this budget. And certainly Mr. HENSARLING. Well, I thank the debate that I heard in the Budget Com- we want to direct people to the Repub- gentlelady for yielding, and I want to mittee this morning, and that is talk

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The budget cuts ington talks about cutting a budget, For all the complexities of this proc- that this Congress, Republican Con- what they mean is that the budget ess, the fact of the matter is that what gress, has done in the past have been isn’t growing quite as fast as I want it we are doing is nothing different than progressive budget cuts. That means it to grow, and so, therefore, that is a what every family in America has to do helps the average-income family more cut. I mean, that is like somebody’s every day of their lives. They have to than anybody else. And I get the static child coming up to him and saying, look at the amount of money that they information not from the CBO or these Dad, I would like an extra dollar a expect to have and get over the next 12 other experts. I get this information week in allowance. And you say, Well, months and decide what are their pri- from nobody else but the New York you know what? Maybe you deserve an orities, where are they going to spend Times. And they have looked at the increase in your allowance, Daughter. I it, how are they going to spend it. Now, budget cuts that we have done, and will give you 75 cents. And they say, there are some differences, of course. I they proved the point for us; that if Gee, Dad, that is a 25 percent cut. I guess there are three of them between you are making less than $50,000, that wanted a dollar extra a week, and you what we are doing and what the aver- you saw the percent change in your av- are only giving me 75 cents. Well, the age family budget is. First of all, it is erage tax bill by a 48 percent reduction. point is you are getting 75 cents more. on the scale. We are doing things here So the lowest incomes under the pro- So we are going to hear the usual on a mammoth scale compared to the gressive tax cuts help the lowest-in- misleading rhetoric about all these average homeowner. come people the most. If you are mak- budget cuts. But guess what? Since Years ago there used to be a $1,000 ing between $50,000 and $100,000, a 21 President Bush came into office, and I bill. I don’t think there is a $1,000 bill percent reduction; $100,000 to $200,000, a know we will hear about this one, total anymore. I think they did away with 17 percent reduction; $200,000 to antipoverty spending is up 41 percent, that. But if you took a $1,000 bill and $500,000, it flows into a 10 percent re- one of the most dramatic increases in you stacked them up, you would need duction. So you see the trend. the history of America. That is assum- 1,000 of those $1,000 bills just to get up What we have done in the past is help ing that you think that somehow gov- to $1 billion; and then if you had that the average taxpayer in the State of ernment is ultimately going to solve stack of $1,000 bills, you would need New Jersey around $200,000. What we this problem. And if you look at almost 1,000 of those stacks to get up to $1 tril- must do now is make those tax cuts every major budget area and don’t just lion. And we are looking at a $3 trillion permanent and do as a family budget, look at what has happened under the budget. So we are looking here at a size live within our means. Bush administration, as long as Repub- that is different. Mr. CAMPBELL of California. I licans have been in control of Congress, Also, families realize that their fam- thank the gentleman from New Jersey. look for the last 10 years, you can see ily budget has a finite amount of Wow, what a shock. The other side says energy up almost 200 percent; edu- money that they deal with, whereas we they are tax cuts for the rich, and they cation spending, elementary and sec- look at it slightly differently because are not, unless making under $50,000 ondary education, 100 percent. So, we know we can always borrow and makes you rich. again, you are entitled to your own spend and print more money. Now if we can go to the other side of opinions, but you are not entitled to And, finally, one other major dif- the country, I yield to a great defender your own facts. That simply does not ference in what we do here than the of taxpayers and taxpayers’ rights, Mr. equate into a cut. family budget is that we are spending JEFF FLAKE, the gentleman from Ari- So we will have increased debates as other people’s money. So many times zona. we go through and talk about this people come down to the floor and say Mr. FLAKE. Mr. Speaker, I thank budget. But what is most exciting is we have to be compassionate for this the gentleman for yielding and putting that because of the economic program or that, but we have to realize together this Special Order. And I just progrowth tax relief provided by a Re- at the end of the day it is not our have a minute, but I would like to sub- publican Congress, we have over 7 mil- money we are taking out of the pocket. mit a statement for the RECORD and to lion people who now have paychecks It is the American taxpayers’ dollars point out how important it is. who used to not have paychecks. We that are coming out of the pocket to I am glad so many are making the have one of the highest levels of home- pay for these programs. So that is distinction between tax relief and ownership in the history of America. where the difference is. spending, overall government spending. We have the highest stock market we But at the end of the day, it is all the You simply can’t assume that spending have had in a long time. And these peo- same in the sense that we have to live money on a teapot museum ought to be ple want to raise taxes on the Amer- within the boundaries, just like a fam- treated the same as leaving money in ican people. ily should. At least that is what the people’s pockets. You simply can’t Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey. Mr. American taxpayer is looking at and equate them the same. You can’t score Speaker, will the gentleman yield? asking us why we don’t. Why don’t we them the same. Whenever we have tax Mr. HENSARLING. I would be happy live within a confined budget like they relief, we have increased revenue. As to yield. do? And why don’t we go one step fur- the gentleman from Texas correctly Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey. Mr. ther, as many families do? Just as pointed out, those are the facts, and it Speaker, I appreciate those latter many families save for their children’s has happened again and again and points. And it gets to the question of education for the future, why can’t we again. people who hear our discussions of why get to the point of actually having a So I am glad that so many are saying is this all-important to me? Over the balanced budget where we can set aside that tonight, and, again, I will submit last several days, as we have begun to some dollars for the future genera- a statement for the RECORD. look at the President’s budget as he tions? I applaud the President’s commitment to submitted it to Congress, we have Now, I, like my colleague from Texas balancing the budget by 2012 without raising heard from the experts, we have heard who just spoke, also serve on the Budg- taxes. I also support the attention given to cut- the debates, we have heard the speech- et Committee. And I have to be honest ting entitlement growth. Mandatory entitlement es, we have heard talk of the CBO, the with you that what we have heard spending eats up 50 percent of the almost $3 OMB, dynamic scoring, static scoring, there from the other side of the aisle is trillion budget and is growing at an alarming a whole list of other acronyms and that they are laying the groundwork, rate. technicalities and the like. But you from their comments at least, to do However, I am concerned that Members will have to really at some point in time two things, to attack the budget on the erode these savings by proposing to increase step back from all the Byzantine make- point of taxing and spending. They are entitlement programs and, in order to adhere

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This is why it is extremely that it would cost the economy over a says, what makes it tough for us to important to consider how tax cuts have actu- 10-year period something like $1.3 tril- compete is the things you guys do, and ally affected revenues over the last couple of lion. he pointed right to our Senator. years. So what I would like to say to my It is the things the politicians do. It For example, the Joint Committee on Tax- friends on the other side of the aisle in is the high taxes. It is the high regula- ation estimated that the cost of the 2003 and particular as I wrap up quickly, and I tion. It is the ridiculous spending we 2004 tax cuts would equal $296 billion in lost know time is limited, on the defense have heard others talk about here over revenues for fiscal years 2003 to 2005. budget, please, please do not cut future the last hour. Those are the things that However, tax revenues actually finished fis- combat systems. Don’t cut our missile make it tough on the families and tax- cal year 2005 at $124 billion above the ad- defense system to pay for some social payers of this great country to com- justed baseline, meaning that 42 percent of programs when the defense of this Na- pete; to start their business; to go after the projected revenue loss had been re- tion is so important at this time of their goals, their dreams; to pursue couped. That number still continues to grow war. those things that have meaning and each year. With that, I really appreciate my col- significance to them as a family. And I am hopeful, as we proceed on It is irresponsible to assume that by elimi- league giving me the opportunity to this debate over the next weeks, sev- nating tax relief the government will see an in- weigh in tonight. eral months, that we will remember crease in revenues. I believe the opposite is Mr. CAMPBELL of California. Mr. the business owners and the families true. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from out there who are making it and doing We must take into account the increased Georgia. And I would just like to say to the things that make this country the capital that tax relief produces, which trans- everyone who is watching and listen- greatest Nation in the world. lates into more investments and savings, more ing, you have been listening for the I appreciate the time we have had jobs, and, ultimately, more income tax reve- last hour to members of the Republican here. I appreciate the gentleman from nues. Study Committee. You will be hearing California and this opportunity to This is why I will soon reintroduce my bill to a lot from us because we want to watch share with the American people. require the CBO and Joint Committee on Tax- out for your money and your interests, f ation to include dynamic scores in their anal- not the government and the govern- ysis of all revenue bills, and encourage my ment’s interests. HEALTH CARE colleagues to cosponsor it. To close things I would like to yield The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. We cannot continue to make policy deci- to another new Member of Congress, HILL). Under the Speaker’s announced sions based on predictions that simply do not the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. JORDAN). policy of January 18, 2007, the gen- take into consideration fundamental economic Mr. JORDAN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I tleman from New Jersey (Mr. PALLONE) principles that have been proven time and thank the gentleman from California is recognized for 60 minutes. again. for yielding. Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, this Mr. CAMPBELL of California. Mr. I just want to follow up on the gen- evening I am joined by some of my col- Speaker, I thank the gentleman from tleman from Georgia’s comments. He is leagues who are new Members, and we Arizona. exactly right about the defense portion are going to talk about the President’s And now from the great desert of this budget. It is critical at this health care proposals and also what he Southwest to the South, I yield to Dr. time with the terror threat that we articulated both in his State of the GINGREY, the gentleman from Georgia. face that we do what is right by the de- Union Address, and more recently last Mr. GINGREY. Mr. Speaker, I thank fense budget. In 1945, 38 percent of Monday when he gave us his budget the gentleman from California for gross domestic product was spent on message. yielding. the defense. Today it is 3.8 percent at a And my concern, as always, is that And I want to take just a second to time, as I said earlier, where we have President Bush has prioritized, or says join my colleagues from Georgia and terrorists around the world who want he wants to prioritize, health care as particularly the two that are on the to do our families and our country an issue and particularly deal with the floor tonight, Dr. PRICE and Represent- harm. problem of the uninsured. And we cer- ative WESTMORELAND, in saying to our Normally when we talk about budg- tainly recognize that under his watch colleague CHARLIE NORWOOD that we ets, and folks have pointed this out, we as President for the last 6 or 7 years are praying for you, buddy. All of us get focused on the numbers, on the that the problem of the uninsured has from Georgia, but every Member of this data, on the policy, and I think all too grown greater in this country. There body on both sides of the aisle are often we forget about the people, the are more uninsured than ever. But at praying that the miracle of God’s heal- families out there who are impacted by the same time the proposals that the ing will deliver you back to us soon, our decision. And I am hopeful over the President puts forward, in particular and we think about you constantly. next few weeks that we really focus on the amount of money that has been al- Mr. Speaker, this hour is a great op- the impact our decisions are going to located in his budget for some of these health care needs, does not go along, portunity for us to discuss the budget. have on families and taxpayers and essentially, with the rhetoric that he And I had an opportunity this morning business owners. to be on the C–SPAN program, and the I am reminded of a story of a con- has been using, saying that he wants to host said to me, Congressman, are you stituent of ours a few years ago who cover the uninsured and prioritize the aware of the fact that one of the Mem- wanted to meet with our U.S. Senator. concerns of the uninsured. And, again, I always say my effort is bers of the other body has rec- And our constituent is a successful not to chastise the President. I appre- ommended that maybe we need some- businessman in the manufacturing sec- ciate the fact that President Bush is thing called a war tax to pay for our tor, and we were discussing the whole prioritizing health care and talking Operations Iraqi and Enduring Free- issue of trade and competing with about it, because he has the bully pul- dom? And I said to the host, I know China and India. And we sat down with pit, and to the extent that he is out that has probably been done in the his- our United States Senator, and our there talking about health care, it tory of this country. Maybe it was nec- constituent took the piece that they gives us an opportunity in the Congress essary to fund a previous war. But the make, and he had taped to that piece to address the issue. thing about this President and this ad- two pennies, and he took that manu- ministration is because of these eco- factured piece of steel and he slid it b 1815 nomic principles of cutting taxes and across the table to our Senator, and he But it is unfortunate that the pro- growing revenue, fortunately, Mr. said, Senator, those two pennies, those posals in the budget that he proposes

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I know he Republican majority, it is very dif- debate, this goes to the heart of it, be- and I were both watching the debate by ficult to address any unmet needs, cause the bottom line is, if you want to our Republican colleagues in the last whether it be health care or whatever, expand and deal with the problem of hour. I know he would like to address because of the deficit and the constant the uninsured, some of them are people some of those concerns. having to pay back on the debt. that are not going to be able to afford I yield to the gentleman from Colo- I wanted to say something about to buy their own health insurance. If rado. what you mentioned in response to our you don’t have any money because you Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I Republican colleagues. I have been just keep racking up this huge debt, thank my friend, Congressman here a long time, almost 20 years now, you are not going to be able to cover PALLONE. I am in my 19th year. When I first the people. So it directly relates. We did have a chance to hear our started in 1988, the Democrats were in I just wanted to give these statistics friends from the Republican side of the the majority. about where we have been in the last aisle. They talked about how they There were a group of Republicans few years. If you look at this, the point who used to come down every night could manage the budget, how this I have been trying to make is under the doing special orders, just like we are, President’s budget was great and good President’s watch for the last 6 or 7 and they would have the pages bring for America. But last November, the years, not only have the number of un- people of this country cut through the this huge digital clock that literally insured gone up, but the cost of health smoke and mirrors of the Republican was the whole length of the well, from care and health insurance keeps rising. budgets, and they asked for and voted this chart over to where my colleague Therefore, it has just become unaf- for a change in direction of this coun- from Colorado is, and there would be fordable for a lot of Americans. two or three pages that would bring try. This chart says that workers are now Let’s just start with where this Re- this big digital clock down. They would paying an average of $1,094 more in an- publican President and the Republican go on and rail about the deficit and the nual health care premiums for their Congress left off last fall when we had deficit was going up so much a day. families than they did in the year 2000. the elections. Under George Bush, This literally went on for like 6 years You can see the problem with the af- under this presidency, we have had an- while I was down here, from when I fordability of health care. other $3.9 trillion added to the debt of first started in 1988 until 1994. Then the next chart has the number this country. The debt on each one of In 1994, the Republicans took the ma- of uninsured in 2001, 41.2 million, and us now is about $29,000 per person and jority under Newt Gingrich. The digital rising every day under this White clock disappeared, and all we heard the number of uninsured in 2006, 47 mil- House and the Republican Congress. were constant spending and going deep- lion. One million more Americans be- There was nowhere near a balanced er into debt, and nobody in the Repub- come uninsured each year under the budget at any time over the last few lican Party ever mentioned the deficit President’s watch. The chart over there, I will leave to years, just continuing to dig us deeper again as it continued to climb in those and deeper and deeper into debt. years, and particularly now under the gentleman to explain. Mr. PERLMUTTER. Our chart in this The people of this country saw it. President Bush. For the life of me, I They didn’t want anymore of that, be- don’t understand where this whole tra- instance shows the number of unin- cause they understand that, right now, ditional Republican philosophy, which sured now exceeds the cumulative pop- because of that debt that has been in- was to care how you spent the money ulation of 24 States plus the District of curred over the last few years, the in- and you didn’t want to go into debt, Columbia, so all of those States that terest that we pay on our debt now just disappeared from their ideology. are in red and the District of Columbia, dwarfs what we spend on education, In fact, I have to say, in the last we have more people who don’t have in- veterans’ benefits and homeland secu- campaign, because you mentioned it, surance. Under the budgets that have rity, to just name a few, because we are President Clinton was actually at an been proposed by the President and spending so much, because we borrowed event that I attended in New Jersey, have been passed or just sort of glossed so much. The President and White and I am not sure I can repeat exactly over by the prior Congresses, we have House has proposed a budget where we what he said. But essentially he said seen an assist to the wealthiest people continue to borrow and spend and drive that he watched the Republican party in this country, while at the same time our country farther and farther into under their congressional majority in the people in the middle, the hard- debt. the 12 years or so that they were in the working people of this country, have They talked about how they could majority go from this party of prin- found themselves finding it harder and manage the budget so much better. My ciples that was worried about not get- harder to make ends meet and have friends here know they didn’t even fin- ting involved in wars that were not in health insurance for themselves and ish the budget. We had to take a mess the interest of the United States, wor- their families. that was left over by the Republican rying about the debt and spending Mr. PALLONE. Just briefly, I want Congress and really the White House money, to a party that just abandoned to yield to the gentlewoman, and I where they didn’t finish their business. all these ideals. have my colleague from the Virgin Is- We had to deal with it last week to try He actually said, right now, the lands here, too. The problem with what to get our budget in order. Democrats cover both the left and the President has proposed, both in the The Democratic Congress really is right ideologically, because we are still State of the Union and the budget mes- changing the way business is being concerned about the problems of the sage on Monday, there are really two done here in our Nation’s Capital be- average person in that we want to major ways to cover more of these un- cause we are addressing budget prob- cover people who don’t have health in- insured. One is, you do something with lems. And we are going to show that we surance. We want to make sure people the employer-based system, which is really do believe in making health care can afford to send their kids to college. traditionally the way most people get a priority and not just giving lip serv- But at the same time, we have covered their insurance, on the job, so it is ice to it. the area where we don’t want to get in- easier for employers to provide health So I would like to yield back to Mr. volved in foreign wars or foreign entan- insurance and for their employees to PALLONE or to our friend, Representa- glements that are not in our interest. contribute to it. tive CASTOR, for their comments, and And, most importantly, we are the The other, of course, is to build on then I would like to talk about how the ones most worried about the debt and existing Federal programs, whether it President’s health care budget affects trying to make sure we are not spend- be Medicaid or Medicare or SCHIP, the the people in Colorado, my fair State. ing a lot of money. program for kids, to expand eligibility

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They are asking our ‘‘and they lived happily ever after,’’ be- The problem that I wanted to point hardworking doctors to take a cut as cause the cuts that we are seeing are out tonight, and we will get into it well. leaving our seniors, our disabled, and more, is that between the State of the What that does in my community in our children and pregnant women who Union address and the budget message, Tampa Bay is it discourages the best are about to bring children into the what the President has proposed to- doctors from participating in Medicare. world without the access to the kind of tally really does nothing to affect ei- You see, I want my seniors to have the health care that they need. ther of those areas. He is basically best medical care. I want them to see Beyond that, as we look at health talking about taxing employer-spon- the best doctors, and I want those good disparities for people of color, African sored benefits, group plans, if they are doctors to stay in the Medicare system. Americans, Latino Americans, Native a good plan, and sending people into This would also hurt our children, Americans, Asian Pacific Islanders, the individual market with some kind our kids back home. My colleague from there is nothing in the budget that ad- of a tax break. Generally speaking, New Jersey knows this very well, that dresses the gaps in health care for that is not very helpful because it is under the State Children’s Health In- these populations. And certainly, if we going to penalize the people who have a surance Program, we have a lot of are ever going to reduce the sky- good employer-sponsored plan and at needs. The States, our local commu- rocketing cost of health care, we need the same time push people into the in- nities, the Feds, we have been doing a to focus on prevention and comprehen- dividual market where they probably pretty good job. But, do you know sive systems of care that help people to cannot afford to buy a good policy. what? We can do a whole lot better. We stay healthy. And we also have to look Then with the budget message on Mon- must do a lot better. at the social determinants of health day, we got all these cuts in Medicaid, So it was very disappointing to re- care. You can’t live in rundown hous- SCHIP, the government programs that ceive this budget from the White House ing and polluted neighborhoods and be we would like to see expanded to cover that says: Do you know what? Even healthy. So we have a lot of things to more of the uninsured. though we are making such progress, address. So, between the two, he is addressing and we have such tremendous needs in And going beyond the cuts that you the problem but coming with proposals this country for children to be able to have already talked about in Medicare that, in my opinion, actually make it go in and see a doctor, get their immu- and Medicaid and SCHIP, there are so worse. nizations, get some advice on how to many other areas that are being cut as I yield now to the gentlewoman from take care of themselves, they say we well that further undermines what we Florida. I am glad she is with us to- are not going to do that. need to do to provide good quality com- Their priorities are out of whack. In- night. prehensive health care for people in stead, I think it is a blatant political Ms. CASTOR. I thank my colleague this country. Some of them, funding statement that we are going to con- from New Jersey, who has been such a for training: In the President’s budget, tinue these tax cuts for the wealthiest leader for the American people for ac- again, nursing training is cut $88 mil- among us, and we are going to sock it cess to better health care. He is abso- lion; the National Health Service Corps to the most vulnerable, our seniors and lutely right, that the President’s ac- is cut; health profession training pro- our kids. tions don’t match his words. I have Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I appre- grams that bring some of the underrep- also been combing through the Presi- ciate the gentlewoman’s remarks. You resented minorities to serve our in- dential budget proposal. One of my brought it home. It is hard sometimes creasingly diverse population are cut hometown newspapers said that the to talk about the budget. The budget $135 million, and it has already been Presidential budget should begin with at the Federal level is a very complex cut in 2006; $143 million for children’s these words: ‘‘Once upon a time,’’ as in thing. But we have to give an expla- vaccines is cut, vaccines, one of the a fairy tale. I am a mom with two nation, I think, about what the Presi- bulwarks of prevention in this country; young daughters at home. We do a lot dent’s proposal is doing, which is really mental health programs cut $159 mil- of reading at night and try to get the the opposite. It is not going to make it lion; rural health cut $143 million. homework done. We will do reading of So instead of helping, and you right- easier to cover the uninsured, it is fairy tales. This, what the White House ly point out that the proposal, the only going to make it more difficult. has sent over, is a political fairy tale. I now yield to the gentlewoman from proposal that we have heard with re- Unfortunately, it is going to hurt a lot the Virgin Islands, who is a physician spect to health care in this country, of folks. It is going to hurt a lot of our and who has been very active in the the President’s proposal and tax cred- constituents back home. I thought we whole health care issue for a number of its does more to harm the system than could explain that a little bit. years here in the Congress, particu- help the system. And then, in addition Oftentimes we talk in such technical larly on the whole health care dispari- to that, undermining the safety net of terms in government. When we talk of ties issue, which is another thing that Medicaid, Medicare, and SCHIP, as well Medicaid and people say Medicaid, we haven’t really talked about so much as cutting some of the programs that sometimes they get Medicaid and in this Congress, but has to be ad- provide the services that would be Medicare mixed up. dressed. there to keep people healthy. Medicaid, these are pregnant women, So this budget is a terrible budget. I infants, children in families earning b 1830 know that we are under very, very about $25,000 a year, foster kids, medi- I thank my colleague for yielding, tight fiscal constraints with huge un- cally needy adults, a lot of our senior and I want to thank Congressman precedented deficits, huge debts, but citizens in nursing homes. So when you PALLONE for his leadership on health somehow the people are counting on us hear there are Medicaid cuts, I would care for a number of years. And we are to improve health care in this country. like us to really put a face on that and really happy that you are going to be And improving health care in this say they are going after the most vul- chairing the Health Subcommittee, and country really improves productivity. nerable in this country, infants, poor we look forward to addressing all these It keeps our country strong, and it is a kids, foster kids and seniors in nursing issues with you. matter of national security. And the homes. But certainly, as you were saying, as health of our people is the health of Also the budget sent over from the we look at how we can expand access to our Nation, and we have to find a way White House will hurt our seniors. The health care and bring more Americans to restore these cuts in the budget and White House proposes to cut Medicare. under coverage, we can’t start by cut- close the gaps in health care, expand Now, I am from Florida, and a lot of ting what has been the backbone of access to more Americans; and in doing folks retire down to Florida. They have health care, Medicare and Medicaid, so, we really will be helping our coun- worked hard all their lives, and this is SCHIP. Those need to be really try. really one of the only benefits that we strengthened. Mr. PALLONE. I appreciate the gen- can give them, in addition to Social As we look at the President’s budget, tlewoman’s comments, and I know how Security. So what the White House which is very disappointing and one much you have worked on this issue

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Now, there millions of people, 48 million, who other words, it was basically a con- is a slight increase for the Indian don’t have access to affordable health tinuing resolution that didn’t add any Health Service, but he took out the care, in this country. money and used the previous year’s whole urban Indian issue. And we find His State of the Union was very up- budget as a baseline. And even with a lot of American Indians now gravi- lifting. He should be commended for that, we were able to increase money tating toward urban areas, and he just bringing up the subject of providing ac- for veterans’ health, for Ryan White, cut out the whole program for them. cess to health care for everyone. But which deals with HIV, for global AIDS, I want to yield to some of the other his policy, as we talked about last for the National Institutes of Health. Members. But if we could just, because week, raises taxes and offers no hope of The emphasis and the priority was on it is hard to explain this whole thing lowering the cost of health care for in- trying to provide more money for with the President’s tax initiatives, surance costs or prescription drug health care even as we were cutting but I think we should spend a little costs. And, more recently, with his other things, and we did that. time on it. In his State of the Union 2,500 page budget, which I haven’t fin- The reality is that President Bush’s Address, what he basically said is that, ished all the fine print yet, he has budget that we got this week, which is for the people who are in employer- shown us his values once again. for next year, because the last year’s sponsored health insurance, which still The first thing he did was to cut ben- budget has not been passed in the Sen- most Americans get their health insur- efits to veterans and make it much ate and gone to his desk yet, didn’t ance that way, a lot of them either more difficult for veterans to get the even take into consideration, and in through their union or individually well-deserved benefits that they have many of the cases, those health care with their employers have bargained, if earned and that they deserve. items that he put in this budget are you will, to have a very good health What did he do? He is asking for $3.4 less than what we adopted in that con- care package that is comprehensive; billion to come from veterans who have tinuing resolution. and what basically he is saying is, if it already earned their benefits, but now So here we are trying to make every- is too good, I will call it the Cadillac they have to kick it in. They are going thing right, and we are not getting any proposal, then we are going to tax you to have to pay for their benefits that help either from the Republicans last because you don’t need such great they have already earned. There are in- year when they were in the majority or health coverage. And then, at the same creasing copayments for veterans in now from the President and the Repub- time, whatever money we are going to their budget. I don’t know where he is licans on the other side. And for them save on that, we are going to use by coming from on this, but he can’t be to even come down here tonight and giving a tax break for those who go and coming from Wisconsin. talk about the budget or the deficit is try to buy insurance through the indi- Mr. PERLMUTTER. My friend from absurd given their record. vidual market. But the problem with Wisconsin is so right on this subject. It I yield back. that is, you know, the individual mar- really is, where are your values? They Mr. KAGEN. Thank you very much, ket is very volatile, very insecure, no are reflected in a budget. Now, as I said Congressman PALLONE. And what Con- guarantee that you can even buy a pol- earlier, they didn’t pass a budget last gressman PERLMUTTER says is true. icy. So most of these people that are year. But last week, we passed a budg- Really, let’s ask the right question. A uninsured are not in a position to buy et, and we wanted to show this country lot of times in your career, being an at- a policy in the individual market. So how much veterans mean to this coun- torney, you have to ask the right ques- even if they get a break, it is probably try. And instead of cutting benefits, we tion to get the truth out of somebody. not going to mean that much to them raise benefits for our veterans. So what kind of Nation are we, and in that they would actually be able to buy We are changing the direction of this which direction shall we move? Are we a good policy. So why would you sac- Nation because we know what the val- a Nation that values and treasures rifice people who have a good policy ues of this Nation are, and they aren’t those who have served in harm’s way in and tax them to pay for people to go reflected in the President’s budget. our military? I think we are. Are we a into the individual market, which is They weren’t reflected by the Repub- Nation that values the health and edu- one that you may not be able to even lican’s failure to deal with a budget cation of our children and the mothers get into anyway because it is expensive last year. But they were reflected in that care for them? I think that we are. or there are all kinds of problems with what we did last week in taking a And that is really where Democrats eligibility. So that is the biggest con- budget that hadn’t been dealt with by differ from our opposition party. I real- cern. I don’t know if anybody wants to the prior Congress and showing the ly believe that our core values resonate talk about that, but that is why I world, showing this country, showing with everyone, not just in Wisconsin think his proposal for employer spon- your State, my district, that we care where I come from but everywhere, in sored care just makes no sense. If any- about our veterans. And in this budget Florida as well. body wants to address that, otherwise, that the President has given to us for I yield to Congresswoman CASTOR. I will yield to you, and you talk about next year, again, this President has cut Ms. CASTOR. We talked earlier whatever you would like. The gen- veterans benefits and medical benefits about how the White House budget pro- tleman from Wisconsin. over the next 5 years. posal we received this week is a fairy Mr. KAGEN. I thank you for yielding I would like to yield back to my tale, but its impact on our veterans and thank you for putting on this op- friend from Wisconsin. really is a nightmare. The State of portunity, making it possible for some Mr. PALLONE. If you could just Florida where I am from, we have the of us to express not just our views but yield to me for a second. I really appre- second highest number of veterans in the views of the people back home that ciate you bringing this up because I the country, and in my district, I have we represent. think it is so much on point. And I the busiest VA center in the country, Mr. PALLONE. I should mention that know there is a lot of confusion. the James Haley Center, which saw you are a physician as well. We have a fiscal year that goes from over 1.5 million vets last year. That is Mr. KAGEN. But I don’t want you to October to October. Last year, when more than the population of the State hold it against me. And I won’t hold it the Republicans were in the majority, of Kansas we saw at the Haley Center against Mrs. CHRISTENSEN that you they didn’t deal with the budget at all. in Tampa. have ‘‘M.D.’’ behind your name. They literally left at the end of the ses- The Haley Center is specialized for But if you ask around the Chamber sion in their lame duck in December current Iraq war vets injured, coming and ask around back home, everyone and said, we can’t pass the budget, we back, that are suffering the IED blasts, that I know understands that how you can’t deal with the appropriations, so spinal cord injuries, brain injuries. And spend your money and where you spend we are going to go home, and we will in Florida, out of all the VA medical your money is a reflection of your val- leave it to the next Congress. So lit- centers, Haley, the busiest, we have

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How can we say we are going know about the program, the applica- be a Congress that was dedicated to our to step back from that responsibility? tion is difficult, who knows. children, and certainly, as everybody How can the White House send us a So you are talking about what, has pointed out, this budget that the budget that steps back, at a time maybe $60 billion over the next 5 years President has sent out is just going in where they are escalating the war in if you want to keep, to keep those that the opposite direction. Iraq, they are going to deescalate the are in the program and expand it to I would say, too, that in the Virgin commitment to our veterans? I don’t those who are eligible, and we are not Islands we do not get full SCHIP, we do think so. even talking about expanding eligi- not get full Medicare, and therefore, a In this Democratic Congress, we are bility. lot of the services that even, mean- going to take a new direction. There is He comes in, the President, in his while limited in the States, you take new leadership in Washington, DC. And budget with $5 billion. That would not for granted, we are not even able to I am proud to be joined by some of the even allow us to keep up with the kids provide to our residents. Our veterans new Members, my colleagues, tonight, that are currently in the program. as well have to travel to Puerto Rico and also join with the efforts of leaders These are not kids that are really poor for their veterans care, and the cuts like my colleague from New Jersey. and the parents are not working. These will cut deeply into their ability to And I yield back. are working parents. I think the eligi- travel to Puerto Rico to get the care Mr. PALLONE. I appreciate your bility is up to like $38,000 for a family that they need. comments. And I really think it is im- of four. They are working, but they So, having just laid to rest two sol- portant that we keep stressing how we cannot get health insurance on the job. diers in the Virgin Islands, we are very want to prioritize these health care We went into that before, and so they sensitive to this issue, and we really needs, and there are so many, whether try to tap into this Federal program. have to sit down and work on this it is veterans or children or whatever it Well, the Secretary said, well, we budget and ensure that our children, is. think $5 billion is enough, and if it is our veterans, our seniors receive the I just want to give you a couple sta- not, well, then the States will have to kind of health care that they need and tistics. And I know it gets so bureau- take care of it. You know, the States deserve, and that we put that invest- cratic to say, what is he doing up here are not in a position, I mean, they al- ment also to close the gaps in health with these statistics? ready have a hard enough time coming care for people in our rural commu- up with the money under the current nities and people of color in this coun- b 1845 match without having to go beyond try. When we talk about the uninsured, that. So I just use that as an example. Mr. PALLONE. I appreciate the gen- the biggest groups still are the kids, The SCHIP, the kids health care pro- tlewoman’s comments. and the gentlewoman from the Virgin gram, is for those kids whose parents I just wanted to mention one more Islands knows how much over the years are working and who are making a lit- thing. The President in his budget mes- what this SCHIP or kid care program, tle more money and are not eligible for sage highlighted this SCHIP program, that we have tried to prioritize that, Medicaid, which is for kids that are ac- this kid care program, saying they are send the money back to the States, use tually at the poverty level, like less going to get another $5 billion, which, their help to try to insure a lot of these than $20,000 for a family of four. as I said, is not enough to keep up with kids. Mr. PERLMUTTER. Would the gen- the kids currently in the program. I just use my State, but you could tleman yield? I think the gentlewoman But at the same time the Medicaid use any State. In my State right now from Virgin Islands has something to program, which deals with those who for this SCHIP or kid care program, we say on this, too, but a couple of things. really are in poverty and whose parents have more kids that are eligible, mean- In Colorado, on the point you are probably are not working because they ing that they could theoretically sign talking about, the SCHIP for kids, we are disabled or whatever their situa- up, or their parents could sign up, for have 176,000 kids who are at risk in this tion is, covers even more kids than the this program than are currently en- instance, and based on the President’s SCHIP, because SCHIP was put in place rolled, even though the program has budget, we cannot keep up with them. to try to supplement Medicaid. been around for a while, and that is We cannot continue to provide them So I asked this question of the Sec- true in almost every State. with the care that they deserve. retary. I did not even get a response, What we were hoping was that the And as some of you know, I have a because in the President’s budget Med- President, in saying he wanted to deal daughter with a chronic illness, and icaid, which covers 23 million children, with the uninsured, and knowing that luckily, through my law firm, we had a SCHIP only covers 6.6-. So Medicaid the biggest group of uninsured is chil- good insurance program for all the covers 23-, SCHIP covers 6.6-. They her- dren, believe it or not, that he would trips to the emergency room and the ald the fact that they are giving $5 bil- simply provide funding to at least en- different things like that. So we see on lion in extra dollars to SCHIP which roll those kids that are not enrolled the one hand poorer kids, uninsured does not even keep up with inflation, who are currently eligible for the pro- kids that are at risk, they are not but in the same time over the 5 years, gram. I am not even talking about ex- going to be served, and under this they cut Federal funding for Medicaid panding eligibility to kids who would President’s budget, as you were saying, by $25.7 billion, and Medicaid covers, not be eligible right now. those of us who were fortunate enough what did we say, five times as many We got some statistics because we to have a good insurance policy for kids and five times the cut. So we are had a hearing with the Secretary of kids with chronic illnesses or whatever not even talking about the poor kids Health and Human Services earlier this might affect us, we are going to be here. He is just saying, well, forget week, and the number of children, if taxed on this. them. I mean, I am not even addressing you want to just enroll those who are The President has said this budget, the problem of the poor kids and what currently eligible, we figure it would and some of his people have said this is happens to them. take about $12- to $14 billion over 5 a balanced budget with no new taxes I yield to the gentleman. years to keep up with medical inflation over a 5-year period. Well, it is not a Mr. KAGEN. Well, the question then to prevent current enrolled children balanced budget, and there are new comes up, it is not just about values; it from losing their coverage. I am talk- taxes on a lot of people, as you said, is about choices. So, if we are not going ing about the ones that are now in the who have contracted for, worked for to be spending our hard-earned tax dol- SCHIP program, $12- to $14 billion over good insurance policies, and at the lars for the good health of children, 5 years just to make sure that they are same time he says we are going to help children who are in need, where are we still funded, those that are in it, and the underinsured and the uninsured. going to spend that money? Where does then at least another $35- to $45 billion What we see under the budget, it gets the budget choose to spend it? Not here over 5 years to reach eligible but unin- cut as well. in our country, but in the sands of Iraq.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 02:51 Feb 08, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00059 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07FE7.121 H07FEPT1 mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with HOUSE H1334 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE February 7, 2007 And I would suggest to you and ev- Most hospitals that I am familiar that we are headed in the wrong direc- eryone listening that we really cannot with in Wisconsin are running margins tion still, even though the difference solve our health care problems, we of profit anywhere from 3 to 5 percent, makers, the three of us that just got really cannot solve many of the prob- if they are profitable. So it is very dif- the opportunity to serve here in Con- lems we are facing until we begin to ficult to make it. gress, have arrived. bring an end to that involvement in But to summarize Medicare, it is Ms. CASTOR. You all are absolutely that civil war in Iraq. I do not think over 40,000 pages of rules and regula- right. It is very difficult to understand any day should go by that we do not all tions. I do not know that there is any- why the White House wants to sock it stand up and ask the question where do one that fully understands it, and just to our safety net hospitals. Have you you want to spend your hard-earned think of it as a mess, and it does need all been to the emergency room lately, money, here at home or in the sands of to be repaired. But I think the more tried to get in? The long lines? People Iraq? important point is institutions, hos- are ending up in our emergency rooms You are quite correct; the budget the pitals, research centers, educational fa- for their primary care because they President has proposed is deficient, is cilities are not being compensated, and have the flu. They are clogging the neglectful to those who are most at the people that will suffer are those yet emergency rooms. risk, the children in poverty, and if you to become aged, because we are not I was a county commissioner before I are not healthy, if you are not well fed, really adequately funding higher edu- was elected to Congress, and the brave you cannot go to school and learn any- cation for the physicians’ training and men and women in fire rescue said they thing. If you do not get your education, their fellowships and the nurses’ posi- would transport to the emergency you are not going to build a better fu- tions. room. It would be so busy and so full, ture that we all require. So there are a lot of problem to go they would have to stay with the emer- Mr. PALLONE. Can I just ask you, after. I will not put you to sleep with gency patient in the EMS truck for because I know you are a physician, the data. hours because the emergency room was when we talk about some of these pro- Mr. PALLONE. Well, the one thing clogged. grams like Medicaid, SCHIP, Medicare, that I keep hearing, of course, with the We have a crisis in this country, and and I know the gentlewoman from hospitals is their ability to care for it is inexplicable that the Bush admin- Florida brought it up. I know it is hard what they call uncompensated care. istration would say by administrative a lot of times when you are on the floor One of the things that the President rule and through this budget that has and you talk about doctors and they proposed both in the State of the Union been sent to the Congress this week are not getting enough money for and his budget was to take money from that we are going to cut money to Medicare. They will say the doctors are the hospitals that get what they call those hospitals that provide the char- all making a lot of money; why are you disproportionate share, DSH. I hate to ity care in our country. bringing that up? use these acronyms because it gets so b 1900 The reality is we are getting to a cri- bureaucratic, but your hospitals that sis now where many physicians simply In my district, in the Tampa Bay have a disproportionate share of people area, the impact on Tampa General will not accept payment from some of that do not have health insurance, the these programs because the reimburse- Hospital, which is a level one trauma uncompensated care. center, $64 million. The great All Chil- ment rate has gotten so low. Over the years, we have provided Now, you mentioned Medicare, be- dren’s Hospital across the bay in Saint more funding for those hospitals cause that is the big one for seniors Petersburg, $31 million; the great St. through Medicare and other Federal and the disabled, and how a lot of doc- Joseph’s Hospital, another $20 million. programs so that they can cover the tors now are not even looking to take I would like to go back to SCHIP and uninsured. Again, the President says Medicare, but when you talk about also talk about the real-world, chil- we will give the States more money by Medicaid, which I mentioned before, dren’s health insurance, because a few cutting the payments to these dis- that has gotten to the point of no re- months ago, I ran into a friend of mine proportionate share hospitals. turn. from high school, haven’t seen her Could I yield to you? Do doctors even In my home State of New Jersey, I since I graduated 20-something years take Medicaid in Wisconsin anymore? mean, that is absurd. We have State ago, and I saw her at a children’s Mr. KAGEN. Yes, they do. We go into legislators and the Governor now that health insurance discussion. medicine, most of us, because we care are talking about trying to provide She told me her story. Her name is about people. We seek to solve prob- some kind of comprehensive health in- Nan Dorton, and she lives in Tampa. lems for people. surance so nobody in New Jersey goes She is married and has three kids. Her The model at our clinic was how can without health insurance. The only husband went through a tough time, we help you today. So we take people, way to do that is if the Federal Gov- and he lost his job, so they lost their and we take all people, but the real ernment provides some additional help health insurance. They didn’t know question is this: Is Medicare able to in some of the ways we discussed to- what to do. It was very, very tough pay for the cost of producing the serv- night, but if you start cutting back on times. They didn’t know about chil- ice at an institution? They do not. So the funding that is going to these hos- dren’s health insurance in Florida that cost is shifted to others who can pitals that cover all these uninsured called KidCare or Healthy Kids, be- afford to pay, and those prices are sky people, it is like robbing Peter to pay cause the State has cut back under high. Paul, I guess is the expression. It just Governor Jeb Bush and the Republican So many of the problems that we does not work. legislature and they don’t do any more face, government has not really had its So I yield to the gentleman. outreach, so it is hard to find out about feet put to the fire saying, you know, Mr. KAGEN. It does not have to be it. you should pay for the cost of pro- that way. With the money we have al- Fortunately, he got a job. They were ducing the service, at least for the ready spent in Iraq, we could immunize provided with health insurance overhead plus a margin of profit; you every human on Earth with every vac- through the employer. But you know should pay for the entire cost of pro- cine that we know about for the next 95 how much it costs for that family to ducing a medication or a vaccine, or it years. We could have sent 14 million have the kids covered, $700 a month. will not be there. children, our children, to a college edu- She said it was hard to choose whether There are two ways to get rid of any- cation. We could have built over 100, to put food on the table or take the thing. Let us take cigarettes as the ex- maybe 150, hospitals in each and every kids to the doctor and sign them up for ample. If you want to get rid of ciga- State in the Union. There is a lot we health insurance. She said, you live in rettes, tax the heck out of it or do not could be doing with the money we are constant fear of your child having to pay for it. It will be gone. The same is spending overseas in Iraq, and it is all go to the hospital. true in health care. If you do not pay about values, and it is all about But then she found out about chil- for the service, the institution at the choices, and we are really getting to a dren’s health insurance and KidCare, hospital, it cannot stand. It cannot bal- tipping point, I believe, not just in our and signed them up. She said it revolu- ance its budgets. economy, but people feel it in their gut tionized their lives because under these

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I appreciate the gen- asked one of my colleagues to see him. all of us in our health insurance? That tleman’s comments. We referred him to a tertiary care cen- is going to save us because that family I yield to the gentleman from Wis- ter. Several weeks ago, he died of a is healthier today, and we are going to consin again. cancer of the sinus. save that money later on down the Mr. KAGEN. Would my colleague It is not bad enough that you have to road. agree with me that we will never cut find these people knocking on doors, Mr. PALLONE. You are absolutely and run from our veterans? trying to get elected to office to right. I appreciate the fact that you Mr. PERLMUTTER. Absolutely, I change things. It is not bad enough talk about how, by covering kids or will agree. We are not going to cut and that he died without any money or by even adults, you save money in the run from our veterans. We are going to getting care delayed. emergency room or in hospitalization fulfill the promises that we have made To me, the bad thing was he died of or whatever it is. But also, you men- to them for the services that they pro- the same cancer that my golden re- tioned the outreach, because I talked vided to our country. triever did. But my golden retriever earlier about how you have more kids Mr. KAGEN. Would my colleague got better health care than Jerry in that are eligible for this children’s agree that we will support the troops, this country at this time. Jerry didn’t health care program than are even in but not this failed policy? make it. it. The reason is because a lot of States Mr. PERLMUTTER. Your colleague We will never know if by being seen have cut back on outreach, so they would agree with that, that our troops early and diagnosed early, having the don’t tell people that they can apply. are giving us the greatest service, the availability of the tests, the radiation, They don’t even know about it. Some greatest sacrifices, and they deserve the chemotherapy, if he would not be States may even be doing it on purpose better policies from those who are here today. Don’t think that it was op- because they want to save money in leading them, particularly, the White portunistic for me to tell this story, he the short run. So that is why we talk House and the administration. Our didn’t even live in my district. about reauthorizing this and expanding military is doing great, and we have Jerry is like many, many other peo- it. You even need money for the out- got to live up to that greatness that ple today, who have just fallen off the reach, which is clearly not in the budg- they are providing. edge into the crack of the sidewalk; is et. Mr. KAGEN. One of the things that I not being forgotten. Our party, this I yield to the gentleman from Colo- learned by listening to people on the time, will change health care, not rado. campaign trail, perhaps the greatest State by State, but across the country Mr. PERLMUTTER. I thank my lesson, came from a Native American, and guarantee access to care for every- friend from New Jersey. Just for me, an outspoken woman, Gwenn Carr, who one. this past election was, the people want- said, Dr. KAGEN, it is not doctors that I will share with you this story that ed a new direction. They wanted determine who lives and who dies, it is I tell often about Jenny, a single moth- checks and balances back in this coun- politicians. It is politicians that take er of two asthmatic children, who came try. They wanted a different perspec- us to war based on lies and deception. to see me, and I wrote some prescrip- tive to be brought to the values of this It is politicians that prevent people tions for the children to get medicine Nation. As my friend from Wisconsin from having access to affordable health for their asthma. They were missing and my friend from New Jersey, my care that they require. school. friend from Florida said, this budget I will share with you a story of Jerry When she returned a month later, the that the President has presented re- Gajeske. Jerry Gajeske I discovered by children were still sick. I said, Jenny, flects his values, but I don’t think it knocking on his door. It was not even you know, this is good medicine but it reflects the values of this country. on his door. It was in Waupaca, Wis- only works if you put it in their Just as we did last week with the consin, with a college student who 2 mouth. She took the same prescrip- concurrent, with the continuing resolu- days earlier in a dialysis center fainted tions out of her purse and said, here tion, with the budget that we passed because of the blood that was available they are. I went to the pharmacy, I last week, we are going to reflect what for the eye to see. stood at the counter, and I could see I believe are the values of this country, We were at the door, and I knocked, the medicine, but I couldn’t afford to whether it is with veterans. And I just a gentleman came and said, ha, are you put it in their mouth. What are you notice, in the President’s proposed a real doctor? I said, yes, sir, I am, but going to do? I said, well, I am going to budget, he is increasing medical care I am running for Congress now. He run for Congress because I couldn’t fees for military retirees. The budget said, well, if you are a real doctor, help her in the office. increases enrollment fees and would you take a look at my cousin? I think, by working together, we can deductibles under TRICARE. I can tell I said, sure. Because there were bark- build a better future and a better Na- you, as I have gone around, my area, ing dogs, I asked him to come out on tion for everyone by changing our Golden, Colorado, Brighton, Aurora, the porch. While he went out to re- health care system now, not later. wherever it might be in the suburbs of trieve his cousin, I turned to my assist- Mr. PALLONE. I appreciate your Denver, those military retirees are al- ant, I said, Katie, are you going to be comments, because I know, as a physi- ready complaining about increases in okay with this because you don’t know cian and someone so caring, that you TRICARE and cuts in benefits that what this is going to be. ‘‘Doc, what really understand how these problems come with respect to that, that we could it be’’? relate to individuals. haven’t fulfilled the promises that we Well, his cousin came to the door and I also appreciate the fact that you have made for the great service that we stepped out into the sunlight and had brought up the issue of priorities, be- have received from these men and an obvious tumor protruding like a cause when we spend so much on the women in our Armed Services. softball at the side of his sinus pushing war in Iraq, as you say, we don’t have Now, you know, what are our troops his eye into the orbit. I said, sir, I can the money, and the gentleman from in Afghanistan and Iraq to expect? We tell you it is not an allergy because I Colorado talked about the deficit. The are going to provide them with the best am an allergist, but what did your doc- fact of the matter is that the President care and the best service that we can. tor say? He said, well, I saw my doctor and the Republicans built up this def- And we have got to show prior military several months ago. I could afford him, icit for so long, and now it makes it retirees that same respect. We have got but I couldn’t afford the tests. The more difficult for us to find the funds to do it for our troops now. I question tests were going to cost thousands of to pay to cover the uninsured in the the President’s budget on these things. dollars. But I had lost my job. I had no same way that we are spending all this

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Sutton claims that he had no choice appreciate the fact that, in his State of By the way, according to the pros- but to prosecute the two Border Patrol the Union Address and also in the ecuting attorney, pursuing fleeing sus- agents because, according to Sutton, budget message, that the President was pects without a supervisor’s permission they broke the law when they violated prioritizing health care and pointing is against Border Patrol policy. these procedures concerning the dis- out that we have a big problem with This, in and of itself, is an insane pol- charge of their weapons at this fleeing the uninsured. icy. The drug smuggler who they were suspect. But unless the solutions and the pursuing abandoned his vehicle and No. Even if procedures were not fol- money are there to lead us down the fled toward Mexico on foot but was lowed, Sutton could have granted im- path of covering the uninsured or low- intercepted by Agent Compean. Once munity to the law enforcement officers ering health care costs, then it is not again, ignoring several commands by and thrown the book at the drug smug- going to be good enough to just say Agent Compean to stop, a physical al- gler. That was his choice. He chose the that is a problem. tercation ensued with Compean ending side of the drug smuggler and threw I think, as you say, when we talk up in a ditch. the book at the Border Patrol agents. about going in a new direction, it While seeing his opportunity, the This was an indefensible decision, and means that the Democrats and the smuggler then ran toward the border, now Sutton lies to us and to the Amer- Democratic majority are determined to which was nearby. According to Agent ican people, suggesting that he did not not only highlight that these problems Compean’s sworn testimony, while run- have a choice, that he had to pros- exist and that we need to cover the un- ning, the suspect turned and pointed ecute. insured to reduce cost, but to come up with something shiny in his left hand. Well, the facts don’t back him up. with solutions that practically are Believing his life was in danger, Agent And what happened after this man got going to make a difference. That is Compean opened fire. Hearing gun- away? After the incident the drug why I am so happy that not only are shots, Agent Ramos came to his side, smuggler contacted Renee Sanchez, a you both here tonight speaking, but and he, too, shouted for the smuggler childhood friend for advice. just that you are here, because all the to stop. Now, why did she contact Renee new Members and particularly the new Sanchez? Because Renee Sanchez hap- 1915 Democratic Members, I think, are b pens to be a current Border Patrol going to make it possible to address But instead of obeying his command, agent in Arizona. And instead of turn- these problems in a practical way. the illegal drug smuggler once again ing in this drug smuggler, turning the I would conclude, again, by thanking turned as he ran and again pointed drug smuggler over to the authorities both of you and everyone who joined us something shiny at the officers. for prosecution, this law enforcement tonight, because we are moving in a Ramos, believing it to be a weapon, officer, Agent Sanchez, he is sworn to new direction, and it is going to make fired one shot. After disappearing into uphold the laws of the United States, a difference. Thank you. the banks of the Rio Grande, the smug- but he chose to personally intervene on f gler reappeared on the Mexican side behalf of his childhood friend who was FREE BORDER PATROL AGENTS where he jumped into a waiting van. a known mule for the drug cartels. IGNACIO RAMOS AND JOSE Unbeknownst to the officers, Ramos’s He was also called as a character wit- COMPEAN bullet may have hit the illegal drug ness on the drug smuggler’s behalf dur- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under smuggler in the left buttocks. ing the trial. Mr. Sanchez contacted Minutes after the shooting, seven the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- the Department of Homeland Security, uary 18, 2007, the gentleman from Cali- other agents were on the scene, includ- who in turn decided to open an inves- ing two supervisors. When the aban- fornia (Mr. BILBRAY) is recognized for tigation into the conduct of Ramos and 60 minutes. doned van was examined, 743 pounds of Compean. What? What? You have got a Mr. BILBRAY. Mr. Speaker, tonight marijuana were found. The payload was drug smuggler with 750 pounds of nar- I am privileged to yield to the second seized, and one would think congratu- cotics who is being thwarted from best surfer in Congress, Mr. DANA lations would have been in order. making his delivery, and that he com- ROHRABACHER of the great State of Agent Ramos and Compean are heroes, plains that he was shot at, and our California, and I yield to him whatever right? They are responsible for taking Government decides to investigate the time he may consume. off the streets $1 million worth of drugs law enforcement officers. Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, bound for our communities. Good job Mr. Sutton had every chance to focus today we discuss a black mark on this fellows, right? Wrong. his enormous prosecutorial powers on administration, a vile crime against At this moment Agents Ramos and the drug dealer, but he chose to target two law enforcement officers whose job Compean, not the illegal drug smug- the law enforcement officers. He chose has been protecting our families and gler, are languishing in a Federal pris- to turn a procedural violation into a communities and keeping control of on serving 11- and 12-year sentences. criminal act rather than prosecuting a America’s borders. This sad episode This is the worst miscarriage of justice career drug smuggler. started back on February 17, 2005, just that I have seen in my 25 years of pub- As part of their investigation, the another routine day for Border Patrol lic service. It is a nightmare for the Department of Homeland Security Of- agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose two Border Patrol agents and their fice of Inspector General sent a special Compean. Both were Border Patrol vet- families, these Border Patrol agents agent to Mexico to offer the drug erans with unblemished service who willingly risk their lives pro- smuggler immunity in exchange for records. Agent Ramos, in fact, had tecting us for 5 and 10 years. testimony against the Border Patrol been nominated for Border Patrol The whole rotten episode turned jus- officers. The smuggler was then Agent of the Year. tice on its head. The book was thrown brought back to the United States and As they did their rounds that day 2 at our heroes who protect us, while the given free medical care at all tax- years ago, a trip sensor at the border drug smugglers got immunity. Accord- payers’ expense. was discovered, and Agent Compean ing to the U.S. attorney, Johnny Sut- Now, one has to wonder if Mr. Sut- then discovered footprints and drag ton, a Bush appointee and a longtime ton, our U.S. attorney, would have marks, a usual indication of a drug friend of the President, Ramos and even spent one-tenth of that effort try- load being smuggled across the river. Compean are not heroes. In fact, he ing to find this criminal himself and He then spotted a vehicle and radioed considers those two officers to be track him down in Mexico so that he the description and then followed the criminals, charging them with assault could be extradited and punished for suspect. The suspect realized he had with serious bodily injury, assault with smuggling narcotics into our country. been made and turned around to rush a deadly weapon, discharge of a firearm No. No effort was made to do that. In- back towards Mexico. while committing a crime of violence, stead, an expensive Herculean effort

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In short, the initial decision to granted immunity if they were not in- details about that, our U.S. attorney prosecute the two Border Patrol agents volved in the incident, and this whole believed the drug dealer, who swears instead of the drug smuggler was inde- thing calls into question what effect that Compean, for example, in the al- fensible. Period. that this threat that was held over tercation just fell down. Sutton’s only defense, to cover up their head had on the truthfulness of You know, you would be surprised this horrendous decision, has been to their testimony. how many police officers just fall down lie and to demonize the two Border Pa- The U.S. attorney’s version of what in the middle of trying to enforce the trol agents. Well, it just does not jive. happened that day relies almost exclu- law when dealing with professional According to that investigative re- sively on the testimony of the drug criminals like the ones that Compean port, Agent Compean’s sworn state- smuggler. Despite the fact that there and Ramos were dealing with. Just fell ment, in his sworn statements he re- were seven other agents, including two down. Yeah. peatedly stated he believed the drug supervisors on scene within minutes, You believe that, but you do not be- smuggler had a weapon and felt threat- no report of the shooting was ever lieve these guys with an unblemished ened. The Border Patrol training filed, even though the Border Patrol record of 5 and 10 years of protecting manuals allow for this type of deadly regulations require the supervisors to the American people. So even though force to be used when an agent fears file the report. this investigation determined that all imminent bodily injury or death. Both Agents are only required to orally seven officers on the scene knew about of the officers say they saw this drug notify their supervisors, and Ramos or heard the shooting, the U.S. attor- smuggler turn and point what they be- and Compean justifiably believed that ney granted those officers immunity lieved to be a weapon in their direction their supervisors were totally aware even though it was their job to report while he was running away. The wound that there was a shooting. They were the incident. created by the bullet corroborates within about 50 feet or 100 feet of what But of course they did not think it their version of the events. was going on. So, as a matter of fact, was an incident, they thought it was So we have the prosecutor, even with the agents, those agents are prohibited closed, the guns went off. They did not the direction of the trajectory of the from actually filing a written report, want to spend 5 hours filling out paper- bullet as indicated by the wound, but as in INS firearms policy, section 12B, work. Well, guess what? It was their the prosecutor is ignoring the fact that 1G states: Ensure that supervisory per- job to do it. Actually one of them was it backs up the Compean and Ramos sonnel or investigative officers are actually promoted after all of this. position. aware that employees involved in a But the U.S. attorney decided to During the trial an Army doctor, a shooting incident shall not be required prosecute the Border Patrol agents, prosecution witness I might add, testi- or allowed to submit a written state- and in doing so, he had to intimidate fied that the drug smuggler’s body was ment of the circumstances surrounding these supervisors by saying that he was bladed away from the bullet that the incident. All written statements going to charge them and giving them struck him. That is consistent with the regarding the incident shall be pre- immunity unless they went along with motion of a left-handed person running pared by the local investigative offi- this legal lynching of Ramos and away while pointing backwards, caus- cers and shall be based on an interview Compean. ing his body to twist. of the employee. That is what their b 1930 Once again, this corroborated regulations state. Ramos’s and Compean’s belief that the Yet U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton If this incident would have been kept smuggler had a weapon. And that was a continues to claim that the officers in perspective, all seven supervisors reasonable belief considering the smug- filed a false report to cover up their and agents who were failing to report a gler was transporting over $1 million of crime. They are not even permitted to shooting that may or may not have drugs that day. And I am sure, of file a report, much less a false report. been consistent with regulations gov- course, drug dealers with $1 million And they were not asked by their su- erning the discharge of weapons, but worth of drugs are not armed. pervisors who heard the shots. just keep this all in perspective, they Now, it is important to understand So the supervisors decided not to ask might have deserved a disciplinary ac- that only three individuals were eye- questions about it, probably because tion, maybe a week without pay or witnesses to the crucial events of that had they then officially known about some mark on their record; that would day, the two accused Border Patrol the incident, they would have had to have been the end of it. But the pen- agents and a self-admitted drug smug- fill out about 5 hours’ worth of paper- alty for not reporting a shooting is a 5- gler. Those are the only two people work. This is about bureaucratic re- day suspension. That is the maximum who saw what happened. The other quirements of the people at the border. penalty. This was an issue of a proce- Border Patrol agents who responded to If one shot is fired, on their own time dural violation, not criminality, and the scene testified under immunity, they end up having to work about 5 there is a serious question about the and quite often contradicting them- hours. viability of those procedures which are selves; however, the most important Because it looked like the incident mandated by the policy. This, of thing when thinking about their testi- was over, all of them, including the su- course, flows directly from the insane mony is their view of the events was pervisors, decided to just close the border policy, and it led directly to completely obscured by a levee at the book. Was that a good decision? Well, this unconscionable situation. road, which is about 12 feet higher than probably not, considering that you Over 78 Members of Congress have ex- the road on which they stood, and have an out-of-control prosecutor try- pressed concern, if not outrage, at the about 8 feet higher from the spot on ing to find something to prosecute our troubling aspects of this case. Our re- the other side of the levee where defenders about. peated attempts for Presidential inter- Ramos and Compean stood and where By no means did their actions rise to vention or even to communicate with they fired their pistols. the level of criminality, what might be the President have been ignored. Our So let me make it very clear what I considered an unauthorized discharge pleas to keep the officers out of jail on just said. None of the other agents of their weapons, because, of course, bond pending their appeal have been could possibly have seen what tran- they could not absolutely prove they denied. The President could have just spired between Ramos and Compean knew that the drug dealer had a weap- had the prosecutor go to the judge and and this drug smuggler, even if they on. Well, if they could not absolutely say, please, let these guys stay out at climbed on top of their vehicles. It was prove it, then according to the U.S. At- least until their appeal. No, no. It was

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Instead, the President, after we ap- jeopardize other prosecutions or inves- Well, of course, this was not an un- pealed to try to get him to look at this, tigations, so the jury was kept from armed man. You know, we are not the President dug in his heels, sent that information. And, in fact, that in- talking about a nun or some tourist Tony Snow out to chastise us, you formation has been expunged from the who happened to stray across the bor- know. We were trying to save Ramos record, so we can’t get that informa- der. This was a professional drug smug- and Compean, and then we were told by tion. But we know it happened. And gler who works for a drug cartel, a de- Tony Snow to take a closer look at the they play word games with us to say, livery man to deliver vile drugs into facts. well, he really wasn’t arrested. He was our communities to corrupt our chil- Well, we have taken a closer look at apprehended. No, this man was caught dren and destroy the lives of our fami- the facts. We also know what hap- again with 1,000 pounds of drugs. Do lies. These Border Patrol agents were pened. There has been a publicity cam- you think the jury should have known up against this man, not just a man, a paign that has been put out to destroy that? Would that have been something criminal of this level. And of course, and demonize Ramos and Compean important for the jury to know when they didn’t, as I just said, they didn’t even as they languish in prison, be- they are deciding on the lives of these shoot him in the back. One bullet, we cause the Federal prosecutor knows he two brave Americans? Well, it is some- think, maybe from the gun of one of is the one who made the mistake. He thing that the jury never knew. these officers, actually shot him in the made the initial decision to grant im- The jury also never knew that the buttocks, but the medical officer said munity to the drug dealer, rather than drug dealer, after the bullet fragment that he was turned around. So it was for a procedural mistake by the Border was removed from his body, he was like he had something that he was Patrol agents. He made that decision. taken by an investigator, and the bul- pointing with his hand, which could It is a horrendous decision, and he is let was taken by the investigator and well have been a gun. So it wasn’t in trying to cover it up and destroying spent the night at the home of this the back. It was in the buttocks, and it the lives of these two Border Patrol agent. confirms what the law enforcement of- agents in the process. That is what he Well, let me tell you something. You ficers were saying. has to do. So he has gone on the air don’t take evidence and break the Now, let me say, remember this, this waves and lied to the public to dis- chain of custody of evidence. He took is really important. There is no way to credit these agents. the bullet into his home, and he took know that this drug dealer, whether he We found out today, for example, this witness into his home. Any lawyer was armed or not. Mr. Sutton chose to that the Department of Homeland Se- will tell you that this is the type of believe the drug dealer, but how do we curity lied to Congress trying to cover sloppiness that taints the evidence and know he wasn’t armed that day? The up for their lies to Congress. What hap- disqualifies a prosecution. two agents claimed they said they saw pened is five Members of Congress were It is also significant to mention that something in his hand. They have to briefed. We will hear about this later of those 12 jurors, three of them later take the word of the drug smuggler. on tonight from another Member of submitted sworn affidavits alleging Now, he has been smuggling drugs Congress. They were told that that they had been misled by the jury since he was 14, and his family in an Compean had claimed he was going to foreman into believing that, if the ma- interview said he always was armed. go out and shoot a Mexican. Now, here jority of people wanted to vote guilty, There is no question. He was a member is Compean, Jose Compean, right? they had to also vote guilty, that a of the drug cartel. These are two Mexican American, hung jury was not going to be allowed But Mr. Sutton, our U.S. attorney, proud Hispanics, and they were going by the judge. They felt pressured to takes his word over the word of our de- to go out and shoot a Mexican. And vote guilty, and they have since signed fenders. He has turned reality on its this is from five or six areas that were affidavits and made statements that head. He has sided with a drug smug- just total lies given to Members of Con- they would have changed their vote. gler over two men who risk their lives gress looking into this. And then they They believed these men to be inno- every day to protect us, and now he were questioned, when the Department cent, and some of them actually broke must destroy them and vilify them in of Homeland Security investigators down in tears when they heard that order to protect this horrendous deci- were questioned, they said, oh, yes, we they could have actually saved these sion that he made to go with the bad have all of this proved in various re- men had they stuck to their guns. But guys rather than the good guys. ports. And so they asked for them, they were told that the judge, these are There is no evidence, for example, those reports. And today it was just de- not lawyers, these are simple people; that Mr. Sutton claims they were cor- termined that for 4 months the Depart- they were told they had to go along rupt. The Wall Street Journal printed ment of Homeland Security has been with the majority. an editorial saying these are corrupt lying to Members of Congress because And when the judge heard this, and law enforcement officers. Corrupt. The those reports never existed. There was the judge heard that there was evi- Wall Street Journal vilified these two nothing to substantiate the charges, dence, he knew that this evidence had men. Of course the Wall Street Jour- the horrendous charges that were made been kept from the jury, he, even after nal, of course, has a policy, an editorial against Compean and Ramos. knowing this, denied the request that policy of an open border policy. But Well, what we hear now is, well, you the two agents be permitted to stay now, to back up their guy, their open have got to just forget it because the out on bond until their appeal was borders guy, they vilify these officers jury has spoken. That is what Mr. Sut- made. with a total falsehood. There has never ton and the prosecutor want to say. Well, let’s look at this. There is no been a charge of corruption against ei- That is the end of it. That is the last doubt that Johnny Sutton had a ther one of these two agents. They word. choice. This U.S. attorney decided to have never been charged with corrup- Well, let’s look at what the jury prosecute the good guys and gave im- tion. They have, in fact, a totally clean knew about and whether or not this munity to the bad guys when he could work record. was a fair trial. The drug dealer we are have done it the other way around. But And, yes, Ramos had some family talking about, in between the time he he chose not to. And now he is engaged problems a few years ago. And let’s was shot and all of this was going on, in this propaganda campaign against make it clear what has happened. An- and Ramos and Compean are waiting to these two men. other part of this vilification campaign be tried, he was caught again, this time Well, the prosecution’s only witness is that Mr. Sutton, even though he was with 1,000 pounds of marijuana that he of course, the major witness testified not permitted to bring this up in the

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And our crimi- ney is all about. prints that he could have used on that nal justice system is breaking down in The family situation for Mr. Ramos van. Plus we had agents Ramos and California. We have American citizens was recognized as an aberration. The Compean who identified him as the guy who are being victimized. They are fact is, Ramos has been recognized as a who jumped out of that van. They being murdered and raped and robbed solid and respected officer, and this is could have prosecuted the drug smug- by criminal illegal immigrants every why he was nominated for Border Pa- gler. But they chose to prosecute our day. But these elitists don’t care, and trol agent of the year. heroes, our defenders. our President doesn’t seem to care. And of course the U.S. attorney says, Well, did Ramos and Compean make The only heroes in this entire immi- oh, well, that is not true. He never be- mistakes? Well, maybe they did. gration mess, the only heroes are the came Border Patrol agent of the year. Should they have been punished and thin green line of the Border Patrol. That is the type of dishonest commu- reprimanded for them? Maybe. Should And the elites now have decided they nication that calls into question his they have been charged with a crime? have to brutally smash two of them in entire decision-making process. No one Absolutely not. And by doing so, the order to warn the others not to get in has ever claimed he was Border Patrol Justice Department has demoralized the way of their open border policy. agent of the year. But he was nomi- our Nation’s defenders. And what does The public has every right to be nated for that, and that means some- that mean to us? That means that our angry about this case, and I join them thing. defenders cannot now count on their in this outrage. Let me note that today So our U.S. attorney has found that government to support them even when I received 304,000 petitions that were he is just compelled to vilify these peo- they are up against a drug smuggler signed by citizens of this country for ple. So what is the real significance of who may very well be armed. the President of the United States ask- this case? The U.S. attorney’s des- ing for pardon. As we know, Officer b 1945 picable prosecution of these border Ramos was attacked last night or the agents has put all of our border agents What does that mean for the rest of night before. He was brutally attacked on notice: Any use of force to protect us? That means we have absolutely lost in prison. And this should do nothing America, to secure our borders, if you control of our border. Border agents but ask for another plea. This man’s do that, use any force, you will go to are put in a situation on a daily basis life is in danger. Compean’s life was in prison and your life will be destroyed that they must make a split-second de- danger. We knew that. That is why and you will be shown no mercy. cision. they should have been out until their The consequences of the Ramos and By the way, this is the first time appeal is heard. Compean case extend far beyond the Compean has ever used his weapon in We are pleading with the President. destruction of these two men and their the 5 years of service. He is being por- The American people are asking the families. And yes, it is horrible that trayed as some trigger-happy Border President to pay attention. Please par- these families are being driven into Patrol agent? Well, these agents don’t don these men. Give them a chance. If destitution. The Compeans have lost have a second chance when someone they are murdered in prison, the Presi- their home. Their kids and the family, aims something at them. So this policy dent will be held accountable. The all their family is shattered. They have that you can’t fire until you are in the President is accountable of the fact no health insurance. sights of a drug smuggler’s gun is a But what are the consequences for that Ramos was beaten up. death warrant to our defenders. Iron- us? What does it mean for our families? This case shows the insanity of this ically, Ramos and Compean thought I will tell you what it means: It means administration’s border policy and per- that the drug smuggler was aiming at that our southern border is now open, haps the hidden agenda of this border them. Interestingly, as I say, Compean not just to an invading army of illegal policy. No guest worker program, no had never fired his weapon before. immigrants but to drug dealers and to amnesty program is going to be fea- These are the facts. These are the terrorists. sible if we cannot control our borders. Let’s ask ourselves this question: facts that have enraged the public, If this country cannot stop an illegal What if that van that they found all causing Americans to wonder what in alien drug smuggler, this country has the drugs in, what if it turned out to be God’s name is their government doing? no border controls whatsoever. a dirty bomb that they discovered, a What is their President thinking? How And let me end my comments by this dirty bomb headed towards a major can our President be so mean-spirited following statement: Our job is to city that would have destroyed the and arrogant not to hear the pleas watch out for the interests of the peo- lives of hundreds of thousands if not from so many of our citizens, even ple of the United States. The people of millions of Americans? Instead of 750 from Members of Congress, for some the United States and many of these pounds of drugs, which is bad enough, type of mercy for Ramos and Compean, illegals who stream across our border what if it was a dirty bomb? And what who had risked their lives to defend us are wonderful people. The vast major- if the drug dealer turned out to be a for so long? ity are wonderful people. But we have terrorist instead of a Mexican na- Well, there is a hidden agenda here. to be concerned about the interests of tional? That is what this is all about. Very our people who are suffering because of Well, those two men would have been powerful economic interests in this this out-of-control illegal immigration invited to the White House to be con- country want cheap labor. They want flow. gratulated. It is clear there is a larger open borders. They want cheap labor United States, who is it? It is us, U.S. and a hidden agenda at play here. And from illegals to come here so they can Who are we? We are Mexican American Ramos and Compean simply are pawns depress the wages of working Ameri- people just like Ramos and Compean. who got in the way. cans. We are Irish Americans. We are black Johnny Sutton is a dishonest and Well, the out-of-control flow of ille- Americans. We are people who came overzealous prosecutor who has lied to gal immigrants is a nightmare to reg- here from every corner of the world. us about this case. And he is on the ular Americans, not this one group of And if we don’t have a consideration wrong side of the law by siding with elitists. But the policymakers here in for Americans over and above what we drug smugglers, letting them go free Washington and their elite corporate care about people in other countries, while he is prosecuting two men for interests are so arrogant and so smug then we will not have an America that criminal activity when it may just well that they do not care about the suf- our Founding Fathers dreamed about. have been a procedural matter. fering of the American people. They We are losing our country. And if we His claim of not being able to pros- don’t care. These elites don’t care that lose control of the southern border, the ecute the drug smuggler is ludicrous. illegal immigrants are shutting down terrorists and the drug dealers and the

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Mr. Speaker, I appre- next few days, you will grant a pardon Mr. BILBRAY. Mr. Speaker, I appre- ciate the gentleman from California. to these two men. ciate the chance to be able to present And at this time, Mr. Speaker, I And with that, Mr. Speaker, I want this issue before this body. I think would like to yield to the gentleman to thank my friend for this brief time. that, as the Congressional Immigration from the great State of North Carolina And that is all I needed was this brief Caucus has pointed out, there is an (Mr. JONES). time. issue here that obviously the American Mr. JONES of North Carolina. Mr. Mr. BILBRAY. I appreciate the gen- people are interested in and we were BILBRAY, I want to thank you very tleman from North Carolina. able to present tonight. much for yielding. You will soon be the And at this time I yield to the gen- I just have to close with a few com- leading the Immigration Caucus here tleman from the Volunteer State, the ments. One is the fact that the White in Washington, D.C., that is involved great State of Tennessee, Chat- House has discussed that there are pro- with many Members from both parties tanooga’s favorite son, Congressman cedures they have to go through. I and who are concerned about the fu- WAMP. think it is quite clear to anyone who ture of this great Nation. Mr. WAMP. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate reads the Constitution that the White To my friend Mr. ROHRABACHER, I the gentleman’s yielding to me. House, the President, does not have to want to thank him for his passionate I came to the Capitol tonight to ac- go through any procedure except to the feelings tonight. The American people tually take the eighth-graders from decide either to pardon or not to par- had to feel that. Silverdale Baptist Church on a Capitol don. I want to say to you, Mr. BILBRAY tour here, which I am going to do We hear a lot over the years of Exec- and Mr. ROHRABACHER, that we have for downstairs in a few minutes. But this utive privilege. Executive privilege. the last 7 months, a large number of is a very important issue that really And every White House since George us, have been fighting for these two strikes to the heart of what our prior- Washington has loved to discuss the border agents. ities are in this country today. concept of Executive privilege. But I am not going to try to repeat any- My responsibilities here in Wash- with that privilege goes Executive re- thing that has been said. I want to be ington and in this Congress are, as the sponsibility. And the White House short in my time because of the limited ranking member of the Appropriations bears the responsibility and the sole re- time that is left tonight. But I want to Committee, charged with resourcing sponsibility to issue pardons where say that, as Mr. ROHRABACHER articu- the legislative branch. We ask Capitol there has been a miscarriage of justice. lated every aspect of this case, there is Police officers and the Sergeant at And I think the consensus is among nothing I could add to it except this: Arms personnel to stand in harm’s way many of us that this is exactly the We have written, at least myself alone, on our behalf. I have got to tell you all kind of situation that the Founding four letters to the President of the across the country we are asking men Fathers had in mind when they pro- United States going back to August 21 and women of all ethnic backgrounds, posed that the Executive and only the of 2006. We have a letter today, which all religions, all cultures who are proud Executive would have this power, and will be the fifth letter. Many of these to be called Americans to stand in this unencumbered power, separate letters by me personally have been harm’s way on behalf of our civilian from other procedures, to be able to signed by at least 30 to 40 Members of population and, in this case, our elect- right a wrong when the justice system Congress. Mr. ROHRABACHER had one ed leadership in this country. And you has failed. I think that this is a chance back in December signed by 50 Mem- can’t ask them to do that and then that we can talk about. bers. And I want to join him very brief- send the wrong signals by not standing But the thing that concerns me, Mr. ly. Why will this administration not with them when they are doing their Speaker, as being a Member who was listen to the truth? job. And I know that people are enti- born and raised on the border, I think And I am not going to try to articu- tled to due process, but this is one of that what has happened in Texas with late anything that has already been those obvious cases where the Presi- this case reflects the total lack of un- said, but these men are heroes in this dent needs to get involved and take de- derstanding of just how out of control country. I don’t know how these His- cisive action. our borders are. panic Americans, and that is what they My district director in Chattanooga’s I hear people again and again in the are, a great part of America, Hispanic son works for Border Patrol on the Federal Government say that there are Americans, Compean and Ramos, how southern border. It is a difficult job. not the resources down at the border to their families could believe in America These people are harassed. Their lives be able to enforce the laws against tonight, with their loved ones who are on the line all the time. It is a drug smugglers, that there just isn’t tried to fight drug traffickers in this tough, nasty business. It does not al- enough money and manpower to be country. Their husbands tonight, ways go perfectly, but if we are ever able to address the problem, that we Ramos and Compean, are in the Fed- going to recruit new people to serve must allow these people to go free. eral prisons. And as was said by Mr. and to stand in the gap on behalf of our Well, Mr. Speaker, if there was ROHRABACHER, Mr. Ramos last Satur- country, we have to stand behind the enough money to go down into Mexico, day night was beaten up by Mexican people that do. I don’t think we have find a drug smuggler, negotiate a back- nationals. done that. I do not think due process room deal with this drug smuggler, I close my brief comments tonight by has, frankly, been served here. And I bring the drug smuggler back, and give saying to the President of the United think the President should take action, them amnesty not just once but twice, States, please listen to the Members of and I was proud to join on the letters if there were enough resources to cut Congress. But more important than the asking the President to do this. this kind of deal and make this kind of Members of Congress, listen to the Thoughtful people from all across the effort to make sure that two Border American people. For the last 8 months country are saying what in the world is Patrol agents get convicted, my God, they have been calling talk shows going on? How could this happen? And aren’t there enough resources to use throughout this great Nation and say- I want that next generation of Border the same effort to go after the drug ing to the President of the United Patrol agents to be recruited and know smugglers? And I really ask that we States please pardon these men. that their country is not going to leave consider that. And when I heard Tony Snow answer them hanging and leave them in Fed- I would just like to say that tonight the question a month ago and said that eral prison for doing their job. It is we were able to spend almost an hour this is nonsensical, Mr. Snow, wake up dangerous. Our country needs to stand discussing an issue that is very near

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Ms. of advice and consent to ratification of the mind the American people how out of PELOSI, for 5 minutes, today. Convention on the Prohibition of the Devel- control and absurd the situation has Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, for 5 minutes, opment, Production, Stockpiling, and Use of become in a lot of ways. today. Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, adopted by the Senate of the United States We hope, as the Congressional Immi- f gration Caucus, Mr. Speaker, that over on April 24, 1997, and Executive Order 13346 of ENROLLED BILL SIGNED July 8, 2004, certification pursuant to Condi- the next few months that Wednesday tion 7(C)(i), Effectiveness of the Australia night will be spent as a night where Mrs. Haas, Clerk of the House, re- Group; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. those of us who are concerned about ported and found truly enrolled a bill 531. A letter from the Assistant Secretary the illegal immigration issue and the of the House of the following title, for Legislative Affairs, Department of State, out-of-control border will spend an which was thereupon signed by the transmitting the annual inventory of U.S. hour every Wednesday night reporting Speaker: Government-sponsored international ex- to the American people of what is changes and training programs, as well as H.R. 434. An act to provide for an addi- the FY 2006 report on the activities of the going on, on this most critical issue tional temporary extension of programs Interagency Working Group on U.S. Govern- that Democrats and Republicans both under the Small Business Act and the Small ment-Sponsored International Exchanges care about. Business Investment Act of 1958 through and Training (IAWG); to the Committee on July 31, 2007, and for other purposes. b 2000 Foreign Affairs. f 532. A letter from the Chief, Administra- If there was ever a situation and ever tive Law Division, Central Intelligence an issue where partisanship should be ADJOURNMENT Agency, transmitting a report pursuant to put aside and being an American Mr. BILBRAY. Mr. Speaker, I move the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998; to the Committee on Oversight and Govern- should be first, it is time that we find that the House do now adjourn. a way to work together on the immi- ment Reform. The motion was agreed to; accord- 533. A letter from the Secretary, Mis- gration issue. I call on you and every- ingly (at 8 o’clock p.m.), the House ad- sissippi River Commission, Department of one that has the honor of working in journed until tomorrow, Thursday, the Army, Department of Defense, transmit- this House of the people to join to- February 8, 2007, at 10 a.m. ting a copy of the annual report in compli- gether to address that. I invite you and ance with the Government in the Sunshine every Member of the House to join the f Act covering the calendar year 2006, pursu- Immigration Caucus, so that we can EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ant to 5 U.S.C. 552b(j); to the Committee on work together for the good of all Amer- ETC. Oversight and Government Reform. icans. 534. A letter from the Assoc. Gen. Counsel Under clause 8 of rule XII, executive for General Law, Department of Homeland f communications were taken from the Security, transmitting a report pursuant to LEAVE OF ABSENCE Speaker’s table and referred as follows: the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998; to the Committee on Oversight and Govern- 524. A letter from the Director, Defense Se- By unanimous consent, leave of ab- ment Reform. sence was granted to: curity Cooperation Agency, transmitting 535. A letter from the Assoc. Gen. Counsel Transmittal No. 07-13, pursuant to the re- Mr. ROYCE (at the request of Mr. for General Law, Department of Homeland porting requirements of Section 36(b)(1) of Security, transmitting a report pursuant to BOEHNER) for today on account of ill- the Arms Export Control Act, as amended, ness. the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998; to pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 2776(a); to the Com- the Committee on Oversight and Govern- f mittee on Foreign Affairs. ment Reform. 525. A letter from the Assistant Secretary SPECIAL ORDERS GRANTED 536. A letter from the Assoc. Gen. Counsel for Legislative Affairs, Department of State, for General Law, Department of Homeland By unanimous consent, permission to transmitting the annual report relating to Security, transmitting a report pursuant to address the House, following the legis- the prevention of nuclear proliferation from the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998; to lative program and any special orders January 1 to December 31, 2005, pursuant to the Committee on Oversight and Govern- heretofore entered, was granted to: 22 U.S.C. 3281(a); to the Committee on For- ment Reform. (The following Members (at the re- eign Affairs. 537. A letter from the Assoc. Gen. Counsel 526. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- for General Law, Department of Homeland quest of Mr. MCDERMOTT) to revise and ment of the Treasury, transmitting a six extend their remarks and include ex- Security, transmitting a report pursuant to month periodic report on the national emer- the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998; to traneous material:) gency with respect to Cote d’Ivoire that was the Committee on Oversight and Govern- Ms. WOOLSEY, for 5 minutes, today. declared in Executive Order 13396 of Feb- ment Reform. Mr. MCDERMOTT, for 5 minutes, ruary 7, 2006, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1641(c); to 538. A letter from the Assoc. Gen. Counsel today. the Committee on Foreign Affairs. for General Law, Department of Homeland Mr. DEFAZIO, for 5 minutes, today. 527. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- Security, transmitting a report pursuant to Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California, for ment of the Treasury, transmitting a six the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998; to 5 minutes, today. month periodic report on the national emer- the Committee on Oversight and Govern- gency with respect to Liberia that was de- Mr. ELLISON, for 5 minutes, today. ment Reform. clared in Executive Order 13348 of July 22, Mr. KAGEN, for 5 minutes, today. 539. A letter from the Assoc. Gen. Counsel 2004, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1641(c); to the for General Law, Department of Homeland Ms. LEE, for 5 minutes, today. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Security, transmitting a report pursuant to Ms. WATERS, for 5 minutes, today. 528. A letter from the Deputy Director, De- the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998; to Ms. MILLENDER-MCDONALD, for 5 min- fense Security Cooperation Agency, trans- the Committee on Oversight and Govern- utes, today. mitting the Agency’s reports containing the ment Reform. Ms. NORTON, for 5 minutes, today. 30 September 2006 status of loans and guaran- 540. A letter from the Senior Associate Ms. KAPTUR, for 5 minutes, today. tees issued under Section 25(a)(11) of the General Counsel, Office of the Director of Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, for 5 min- Arms Export Control Act; to the Committee National Intelligence, transmitting a report utes, today. on Foreign Affairs. pursuant to the Federal Vacancies Reform (The following Members (at the re- 529. A letter from the Assistant Secretary Act of 1998; to the Committee on Oversight for Legislative Affairs, Department of State, quest of Mr. TIAHRT) to revise and ex- and Government Reform. transmitting pursuant to Section 620C(c) of 541. A letter from the Senior Associate tend their remarks and include extra- the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as General Counsel, Office of the Director of neous material:) amended, and in accordance with section National Intelligence, transmitting a report Mr. WOLF, for 5 minutes, today. 1(a)(6) of Executive Order 13313, a report pre- pursuant to the Federal Vacancies Reform Mr. JONES of North Carolina, for 5 pared by the Department of State and the Act of 1998; to the Committee on Oversight minutes, February 12, 13, and 14. National Security Council on the progress and Government Reform.

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Mouse (RIN: 1018-AU46) received January 25, By Mr. REYNOLDS: By Mr. CHABOT (for himself, Mr. 2007, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the H.R. 867. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- LAMPSON, Mrs. BIGGERT, and Mr. Committee on Natural Resources. enue Code of 1986 to make permanent the CRAMER): 543. A letter from the General Counsel, Of- provision for penalty-free withdrawals from H.R. 876. A bill to modernize and expand fice of Justice Programs, Department of Jus- individual retirement plans for qualified re- the reporting requirements relating to child tice, transmitting the Department’s final servist distributions; to the Committee on pornography, to expand cooperation in com- rule — Grants for Correctional Facilities Ways and Means. bating child pornography, and for other pur- [OJP (OJP)-Docket No. 1382] (RIN: 1121-AA41) By Mr. DOGGETT (for himself, Mr. poses; to the Committee on the Judiciary. received January 23, 2007, pursuant to 5 BECERRA, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. By Mr. DELAHUNT: U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on the DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. H.R. 877. A bill to amend the Adams Na- Judiciary. FILNER, Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, tional Historical Park Act of 1998 to include 544. A letter from the Assistant Secretary Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. HINOJOSA, Mr. the Quincy Homestead within the boundary for Legislative Affairs, Department of State, HOLT, Mr. KIND, Mr. LARSON of Con- of the Adams National Historical Park, and transmitting certification to Congress re- necticut, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mr. for other purposes; to the Committee on Nat- garding the Incidental Capture of Sea Tur- MCDERMOTT, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. ural Resources. tles in Commercial Shrimping Operations; MEEK of Florida, Mr. MOORE of Kan- By Mr. EMANUEL (for himself, Mr. jointly to the Committees on Natural Re- sas, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. NEAL of JONES of North Carolina, Mr. BISHOP sources and Appropriations. Massachusetts, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. of New York, Mr. DOGGETT, Mr. f PASCRELL, Ms. SCHWARTZ, Mr. SHER- DAVIS of Alabama, Ms. JACKSON-LEE MAN, Mr. STARK, Mr. THOMPSON of REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON of Texas, Mr. SIRES, and Ms. HIRONO): California, Mrs. JONES of Ohio, Ms. H.R. 878. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS VELA´ ZQUEZ, and Mr. RODRIGUEZ): enue Code of 1986 to require broker reporting Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of H.R. 868. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- of customer’s basis in securities trans- committees were delivered to the Clerk enue Code of 1986 to allow a married couple actions, and for other purposes; to the Com- for printing and reference to the proper who operates a unincorporated business as mittee on Ways and Means. co-owners to file separate self-employment calendar, as follows: By Mr. FEENEY: tax returns; to the Committee on Ways and H.R. 879. A bill to amend the Help America Mr. GORDON of Tennessee: Committee on Means. Vote Act of 2002 to require individuals to Science and Technology. H.R. 365. A bill to By Mr. TOM DAVIS of Virginia (for present a government-issued photo identi- provide for a research program for remedi- himself, Mr. WALZ of Minnesota, Mr. fication as a condition of voting in elections ation of closed methamphetamine produc- HARE, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. for Federal office, to prohibit any individual tion laboratories, and for other purposes POE, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Mr. from tabulating votes in an election for Fed- (Rept. 110–8). Referred to the Committee of MCINTYRE, Mrs. MILLER of Michigan, eral office unless the individual has been the Whole House on the State of the Union. Mr. MCCAUL of Texas, and Mrs. Mr. WELCH of Vermont: Committee on subject to a criminal background check, and CHRISTENSEN): for other purposes; to the Committee on Rules. House Resolution 133. Resolution pro- H.R. 869. A bill to amend title 10, United viding for consideration of the bill (H.R. 547) House Administration. States Code, to revive previous authority on By Mr. FORBES (for himself, Mr. to facilitate the development of markets for the use of the Armed Forces and the militia WOLF, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. COBLE, Mr. alternative fuels and Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel to address interference with State or Federal FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. GALLEGLY, fuel through research, development, and law, and for other purposes; to the Com- Mr. GOODLATTE, Mr. PENCE, and Mr. demonstration and data collection (Rept. mittee on Armed Services. SMITH of Texas): 110–9). Referred to the House Calendar. By Mr. GILLMOR (for himself, Ms. H.R. 880. A bill to amend title 18, United DEGETTE, and Mr. TAYLOR): f States Code, to reduce violent gang crime H.R. 870. A bill to amend the Public Health and protect law-abiding citizens and commu- PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Service Act to provide liability protections nities from violent criminals, and for other for employees and contractors of health cen- Under clause 2 of rule XII, public purposes; to the Committee on the Judici- ters under section 330 of such Act who pro- bills and resolutions were introduced ary. vide health services in emergency areas; to and severally referred, as follows: By Mr. WELDON of Florida (for him- the Committee on Energy and Commerce. self and Mrs. MALONEY of New York): By Mr. NORWOOD (for himself, Mr. By Mr. WEXLER: MCKEON, Mr. KLINE of Minnesota, Mr. H.R. 871. A bill to amend title 18, United H.R. 881. A bill to amend the Federal Food, BOEHNER, Mr. PUTNAM, Mr. AKIN, Mr. States Code, to strengthen enforcement of Drug, and Cosmetic Act to reduce human ex- BARTLETT of Maryland, Mr. BISHOP of spousal court-ordered property distributions, posure to mercury through vaccines; to the Utah, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. BONNER, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Committee on Energy and Commerce. Mr. BOUSTANY, Mr. BRADY of Texas, the Judiciary. By Mr. GORDON (for himself, Mr. SES- Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida, By Mr. BRALEY of Iowa: SIONS, Mr. ALLEN, Ms. JACKSON-LEE Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. CALVERT, H.R. 872. A bill to authorize the Secretary of Texas, Mr. HAYES, Mr. ENGLISH of Mr. CAMPBELL of California, Mr. of Agriculture to make competitive grants Pennsylvania, Mr. MCNULTY, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. COBLE, Mr. CONAWAY, to community colleges and advanced tech- COHEN, Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York, Mr. CRENSHAW, Mrs. CUBIN, Mr. nology education centers partnering with Mrs. CAPPS, Mr. CHANDLER, Mr. SEN- CULBERSON, Mr. DEAL of Georgia, Mr. community colleges to support the education SENBRENNER, Mr. LARSEN of Wash- MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Florida, Mr. and training of technicians in the fields of ington, Mr. HOLT, Mr. PRICE of Geor- DOOLITTLE, Mr. FEENEY, Mr. FLAKE, bioenergy and other agriculture-based, re- gia, Mr. MCCAUL of Texas, Mr. DENT, Ms. FOXX, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, newable energy resources, and for other pur- Mr. SOUDER, and Ms. ROYBAL-AL- Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey, Mr. poses; to the Committee on Education and LARD): GILCHREST, Mr. GINGREY, Mr. Labor. H.R. 882. A bill to amend title XVIII of the GOHMERT, Mr. HAYES, Mr. By Mr. ACKERMAN (for himself and Social Security Act to improve access to HENSARLING, Mr. HERGER, Mr. INGLIS Mrs. MALONEY of New York): emergency medical services and the quality of South Carolina, Mr. ISSA, Mr. SAM H.R. 873. A bill to amend the Truth in of care furnished in emergency departments JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. KELLER, Mr. Lending Act to prohibit fees by creditors for of hospitals and critical access hospitals by KING of Iowa, Mr. KINGSTON, Mr. payments on credit card accounts by elec- establishing a bipartisan commission to ex- LAMBORN, Mr. LATHAM, Mr. LEWIS of tronic fund transfers, and for other purposes; amine factors that affect the effective deliv- Kentucky, Mr. MANZULLO, Mr. to the Committee on Financial Services. ery of such services, by providing for addi- MARCHANT, Mr. MCHENRY, Mrs By Mr. CARDOZA: tional payments for certain physician serv- MCMORRIS RODGERS, Mr. MILLER of H.R. 874. A bill to amend title 18, United ices furnished in such emergency depart- Florida, Mrs. MUSGRAVE, Mr. PEARCE, States Code, to provide an additional penalty ments, and by requiring reports on certain Mr. PENCE, Mr. PITTS, Mr. PRICE of for public officials who abuse their office in emergency department information as a con- Georgia, Mr. ROGERS of Michigan, furtherance of a felony; to the Committee on dition of participation in the Medicare Pro- Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. SHADEGG, Mr. the Judiciary. gram, and for other purposes; to the Com- SIMPSON, Mr. SOUDER, Mr. SULLIVAN, By Mr. CARDOZA: mittee on Energy and Commerce, and in ad- Mr. WESTMORELAND, Mr. WICKER, and H.R. 875. A bill to amend the Federal Fi- dition to the Committee on Ways and Means, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina): nancial Management Improvement Act of for a period to be subsequently determined

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by the Speaker, in each case for consider- SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. SAXTON, Ms. JACK- to be subsequently determined by the Speak- ation of such provisions as fall within the ju- SON-LEE of Texas, Ms. BERKLEY, Mr. er, in each case for consideration of such pro- risdiction of the committee concerned. STARK, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. PLATTS, visions as fall within the jurisdiction of the By Ms. HERSETH: Mrs. MALONEY of New York, Mr. committee concerned. H.R. 883. A bill to enhance and provide to GALLEGLY, Mr. WILSON of South By Ms. SCHWARTZ (for herself and Mr. the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Angostura Irriga- Carolina, Mr. CAMPBELL of Cali- RAMSTAD): tion Project certain benefits of the Pick- fornia, Mrs. CAPPS, Mr. COHEN, Mr. H.R. 898. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- Sloan Missouri River basin program; to the MARCHANT, Mr. NADLER, Mr. enue Code of 1986 to allow employers to Committee on Natural Resources. DEFAZIO, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. WAXMAN, claim a work opportunity credit for hiring By Mr. KING of New York (for himself, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. LOBIONDO, Mr. military service personnel returning from Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Mr. KUCINICH, Mr. ROGERS of Michigan, service in Iraq or Afghanistan; to the Com- LANGEVIN, Mr. MCCAUL of Texas, Ms. Mr. FILNER, Ms. LEE, and Mr. SMITH mittee on Ways and Means. HARMAN, Mr. REICHERT, Ms. JACKSON- of New Jersey): By Mr. SCOTT of Virginia (for himself LEE of Texas, Mr. SHAYS, Mr. ROGERS H.R. 891. A bill to ensure that domestic dog and Mr. CHABOT): of Alabama, Mr. DENT, Mr. DAVID and cat fur is prohibited from being im- H.R. 899. A bill to provide a mechanism for DAVIS of Tennessee, Mr. PASCRELL, ported, exported, manufactured, sold, or ad- the determination on the merits of the Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky, and Mr. vertised in the United States and to require claims of claimants who met the class cri- MCNULTY): the labeling of all fur products under the Fur teria in a civil action relating to racial dis- H.R. 884. A bill to provide for the establish- Products Labeling Act; to the Committee on crimination by the Department of Agri- ment of the Science and Technology Home- Ways and Means, and in addition to the Com- culture but who were denied that determina- land Security International Cooperative Pro- mittee on Energy and Commerce, for a pe- tion; to the Committee on the Judiciary. grams Office, and for other purposes; to the riod to be subsequently determined by the By Mr. SERRANO (for himself, Mr. Committee on Homeland Security. Speaker, in each case for consideration of FORTUN˜ O, Mr. RAHALL, Mr. YOUNG of By Mr. LANTOS (for himself, Mr. ACK- such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- Alaska, Mr. HOYER, Mr. BLUNT, Mr. ERMAN, and Mr. SHERMAN): tion of the committee concerned. WAXMAN, Mr. CANTOR, Mr. KENNEDY, H.R. 885. A bill to support the establish- By Mr. PITTS: Mr. PUTNAM, Ms. BORDALLO, Mr. ment of an international regime for the as- H.R. 892. A bill to establish and provide for MCCOTTER, Mr. KIND, Mr. BROWN of sured supply of nuclear fuel for peaceful the treatment of Individual Development Ac- South Carolina, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. means and to authorize voluntary contribu- counts, and for other purposes; to the Com- FLAKE, Mr. ABERCROMBIE, Mr. RENZI, tions to the International Atomic Energy mittee on Ways and Means. Mr. SALAZAR, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Agency to support the establishment of an By Mr. POE: Mr. WEXLER, Mr. DENT, Mr. CROWLEY, international nuclear fuel bank; to the Com- H.R. 893. A bill to provide for loan repay- Ms. PRYCE of Ohio, Mr. ENGEL, Ms. mittee on Foreign Affairs. ment for prosecutors and public defenders; to ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. WU, Mr. POE, Mrs. By Mr. LARSEN of Washington (for the Committee on the Judiciary. TAUSCHER, Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of himself, Mr. INSLEE, and Mr. DICKS): By Mr. PRICE of North Carolina (for Florida, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, H.R. 886. A bill to enhance ecosystem pro- himself and Mr. CASTLE): Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. tection and the range of outdoor opportuni- H.R. 894. A bill to amend the Federal Elec- SMITH of Washington, Mr. FEENEY, ties protected by statute in the Skykomish tion Campaign Act of 1971 to apply certain Mr. BAIRD, Mr. MACK, Mrs. MALONEY River valley of the State of Washington by requirements regarding the disclosure of of New York, Mr. KUHL of New York, designating certain lower-elevation Federal identifying information within communica- Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, Mr. KEL- lands as wilderness, and for other purposes; tions made through the Internet, to apply LER, Mr. MOLLOHAN, Mr. SAXTON, Mr. to the Committee on Natural Resources. certain disclosure requirements to MORAN of Virginia, Mrs. MILLER of By Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York (for prerecorded telephone calls, and for other Michigan, Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of herself and Ms. PRYCE of Ohio): purposes; to the Committee on House Admin- California, Mr. THOMPSON of Mis- H.R. 887. A bill to provide for Project istration. sissippi, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, GRAD programs, and for other purposes; to By Mr. REYNOLDS (for himself, Ms. Mr. DOYLE, Mr. COBLE, Mr. MEEHAN, the Committee on Education and Labor. BERKLEY, Mr. SHAYS, Mr. KIRK, Mr. Mr. WELLER, Mr. CUELLAR, Mr. By Mr. MEEKS of New York (for him- NORWOOD, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. SOUDER, BOUSTANY, Mr. CLAY, Mr. MCKEON, self and Mr. FEENEY): Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. TERRY, Mr. Mr. FATTAH, Mr. TOM DAVIS of Vir- H.R. 888. A bill to provide for the admis- LAMBORN, Mr. MCNULTY, Mr. CANTOR, ginia, Mr. JEFFERSON, Mr. DOOLITTLE, sion to the United States of nonimmigrant Mr. KING of Iowa, and Mr. BURTON of Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. PAUL, Mr. business facilitation visitors; to the Com- Indiana): MCNULTY, Mr. GERLACH, Mr. OLVER, mittee on the Judiciary. H.R. 895. A bill to take certain steps to- Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida, By Mrs. MILLER of Michigan: ward recognition by the United States of Je- Mr. CALVERT, Ms. WASSERMAN H.R. 889. A bill to amend the Nonindige- rusalem as the capital of Israel; to the Com- SCHULTZ, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. PE- nous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Con- mittee on Foreign Affairs. TERSON of Minnesota, Mr. MICA, Mr. trol Act of 1990 to establish vessel ballast By Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin (for himself TAYLOR, Mr. ENGLISH of Pennsyl- water management requirements, and for and Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin): vania, Mr. WYNN, Mr. GILCHREST, Mr. other purposes; to the Committee on Trans- H.R. 896. A bill to amend part D of title IV LEWIS of Georgia, Mr. PEARCE, Mr. portation and Infrastructure, and in addition of the Social Security Act to provide for the HINCHEY, Mr. MCCAUL of Texas, Mr. to the Committee on Natural Resources, for pass through of all child support collected on COSTA, Mr. CASTLE, Ms. KILPATRICK, a period to be subsequently determined by behalf of families receiving assistance under Mr. RODRIGUEZ, and Mr. CARDOZA): the Speaker, in each case for consideration the program of block grants to States for H.R. 900. A bill to provide for a federally of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- temporary assistance for needy families; to sanctioned self-determination process for the tion of the committee concerned. the Committee on Ways and Means. people of Puerto Rico; to the Committee on By Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California By Ms. SCHAKOWSKY (for herself, Mr. Natural Resources. (for himself, Mr. HINOJOSA, Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, Mr. By Ms. SLAUGHTER (for herself, Mrs. BISHOP of New York, Mr. COURTNEY, WEXLER, Mr. FRANK of Massachu- CAPITO, Mrs. CAPPS, Mrs. BIGGERT, Mr. YARMUTH, Mr. TIERNEY, Mrs. setts, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. PAYNE, Ms. Ms. BORDALLO, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, DAVIS of California, Mr. GRIJALVA, CORRINE BROWN of Florida, Mr. Ms. CLARKE, Mr. SHAYS, Mr. CON- Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. MICHAUD, BRADY of Pennsylvania, Mr. STARK, YERS, Mrs. DAVIS of California, Ms. Mr. MCDERMOTT, Ms. MATSUI, and Ms. SHEA-PORTER, Mr. JOHNSON of DELAURO, Mr. ELLISON, Mr. Mr. VAN HOLLEN): Georgia, Mr. COHEN, Ms. WOOLSEY, GRIJALVA, Ms. HARMAN, Ms. JACKSON- H.R. 890. A bill to establish requirements Mr. HARE, Mr. ELLISON, Mrs. LEE of Texas, Mrs. JONES of Ohio, Mr. for lenders and institutions of higher edu- MALONEY of New York, Mr. LARSON of Connecticut, Ms. LEE, Mrs. cation in order to protect students and other CUMMINGS, Mr. FATTAH, Mr. MALONEY of New York, Ms. MCCOL- borrowers receiving educational loans; to the GRIJALVA, and Ms. JACKSON-LEE of LUM of Minnesota, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Committee on Education and Labor, and in Texas): Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Ms. WOOLSEY, and addition to the Committee on Financial H.R. 897. A bill to require the Secretary of Mr. KENNEDY): Services, for a period to be subsequently de- Defense, Secretary of State, Secretary of the H.R. 901. A bill to amend the Elementary termined by the Speaker, in each case for Interior, and the Administrator of the and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to di- consideration of such provisions as fall with- United States Agency for International De- rect certain coeducational elementary and in the jurisdiction of the committee con- velopment to provide to Congress copies and secondary schools to make available infor- cerned. descriptions of contracts and task orders in mation on equality in school athletic pro- By Mr. MORAN of Virginia (for him- excess of $5,000,000 for work to be performed grams, and for other purposes; to the Com- self, Mr. FERGUSON, Mr. GEORGE MIL- in Iraq and Afghanistan; to the Committee mittee on Education and Labor. LER of California, Mr. SHAYS, Ms. ZOE on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the By Mr. UDALL of Colorado (for him- LOFGREN of California, Ms. Committee on Armed Services, for a period self, Mr. EDWARDS, and Mr. PEARCE):

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H.R. 902. A bill to facilitate the use for irri- Virginia, Ms. CARSON, Mr. CLEAVER, of Texas, Ms. KAPTUR, Ms. KILPATRICK, Mr. gation and other purposes of water produced Mr. JEFFERSON, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. KIRK, Mr. KUCINICH, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. LEWIS in connection with development of energy CUMMINGS, Ms. CORRINE BROWN of of Georgia, Mr. MCCOTTER, Mr. PASTOR, Mr. resources; to the Committee on Natural Re- Florida, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Mr. REYES, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, sources. BISHOP of Georgia, Mr. BRADY of Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. SPRATT, Mr. THOMPSON By Mr. UDALL of Colorado: Pennsylvania, Mrs. JONES of Ohio, of Mississippi, and Ms. WOOLSEY. H.R. 903. A bill to provide for a study of op- Mr. RUSH, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Mr. H.R. 36: Mr. ALLEN. tions for protecting the open space charac- SESTAK, Mrs. DRAKE, Mr. THOMPSON H.R. 42: Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, and Mr. teristics of certain lands in and adjacent to of Mississippi, Mr. FILNER, Mr. MEEK GONZALEZ. the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests of Florida, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, H.R. 43: Mr. HARE. in Colorado, and for other purposes; to the and Mr. HASTINGS of Florida): H.R. 73: Mr. NORWOOD, Mr. JOHNSON of Illi- Committee on Natural Resources. H. Res. 135. A resolution expressing the nois, Mr. MILLER of Florida, Mr. JONES of By Mr. UDALL of Colorado (for himself sense of the House of Representatives that a North Carolina, Mr. MCCOTTER, Mr. PETER- and Mr. PERLMUTTER): National Historically Black Colleges and SON of Minnesota, and Mr. LAHOOD. H.R. 904. A bill to better provide for com- Universities Week should be established; to H.R. 89: Mr. LAHOOD. pensation for certain persons injured in the the Committee on Education and Labor. H.R. 137: Mr. FATTAH. course of employment at the Rocky Flats By Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York: H.R. 238: Mr. SHERMAN. site in Colorado; to the Committee on the H. Res. 136. A resolution commending the H.R. 241: Mr. PLATTS. Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee Girl Scouts of the United States of America H.R. 269: Mr. SPRATT, Mr. REHBERG, and on Education and Labor, for a period to be on the occasion of their 95th anniversary, for Mrs. CAPITO. subsequently determined by the Speaker, in providing quality age-appropriate experi- H.R. 303: Mr. KANJORSKI, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. each case for consideration of such provi- ences that prepare girls to become the lead- BOOZMAN, Mr. KILDEE, and Mr. LAHOOD. sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the ers of tomorrow and for raising issues impor- H.R. 312: Mr. POE and Mr. GONZALEZ. committee concerned. tant to girls; to the Committee on Oversight H.R. 314: Mr. HALL of Texas. By Mr. UDALL of Colorado: and Government Reform. H.R. 353: Mr. HALL of New York. H.R. 905. A bill to increase accountability By Mr. NADLER (for himself, Mr. H.R. 358: Mr. SPRATT, Mr. SHULER, Ms. and equity in the Federal budget; to the WEINER, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. KAPTUR, Mr. CUMMINGS, and Mr. WALSH of Committee on Oversight and Government WAXMAN, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. ACKERMAN, New York. H.R. 365: Mr. BOOZMAN, Mr. OBEY, Mr. Reform, and in addition to the Committees Mrs. MALONEY of New York, Mr. HOLDEN, Ms. KILPATRICK, and Ms. MCCOLLUM on Ways and Means, and Rules, for a period COHEN, Mr. WEXLER, Mr. JOHNSON of of Minnesota. to be subsequently determined by the Speak- Georgia, Mr. HOLT, Ms. KILPATRICK, H.R. 370: Mr. WILSON of Ohio. er, in each case for consideration of such pro- and Mr. HASTINGS of Florida): visions as fall within the jurisdiction of the H. Res. 137. A resolution honoring the life H.R. 411: Mr. PUTNAM, Mr. SULLIVAN, Mr. committee concerned. and six decades of public service of Jacob GARRETT of New Jersey, Mr. MCCOTTER, Mrs. By Mr. UDALL of Colorado (for himself Birnbaum and especially his commitment BONO, Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida, and Mr. INGLIS of South Carolina): freeing Soviet Jews from religious, cultural, Mr. CANTOR, Mr. PORTER, Mr. MCCAUL of H.R. 906. A bill to promote and coordinate and communal extinction; to the Committee Texas, Mr. JORDAN, Mr. FOSSELLA, and Mr. global change research, and for other pur- on Foreign Affairs. SALI. poses; to the Committee on Science and H.R. 450: Mr. REICHERT. By Mr. ROSS (for himself, Mr. SNYDER, Technology, and in addition to the Com- H.R. 455: Mr. STARK, Mr. HALL of New Mr. BERRY, and Mr. BOOZMAN): York, and Mr. FATTAH. mittee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be H. Res. 138. A resolution recognizing the H.R. 491: Mr. ISRAEL, Mr. BOOZMAN, and Ms. subsequently determined by the Speaker, in importance of Hot Springs National Park on CORRINE BROWN of Florida. each case for consideration of such provi- its 175th anniversary; to the Committee on H.R. 511: Mr. ALEXANDER, Mr. WESTMORE- sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the Natural Resources. committee concerned. LAND, Mr. SOUDER, Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART By Mr. PAUL (for himself and Mr. MIL- f of Florida, Mr. JORDAN, Mr. RYAN of Wis- LER of Florida): PRIVATE BILLS AND consin, Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky, Mr. H.J. Res. 23. A joint resolution proposing ADERHOLT, Mr. SAXTON, Mr. HELLER, Mr. an amendment the Constitution of the RESOLUTIONS CAMPBELL of California, Mr. CANNON, Mr. United States relative to abolishing personal Under clause 3 of rule XII, private FRELINGHUYSEN, Mr. KNOLLENBERG, Mr. income, estate, and gift taxes and prohib- bills and resolutions of the following TIAHRT, Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of Cali- iting the United States Government from en- titles were introduced and severally re- fornia, Mr. REGULA, Mr. SMITH of Texas, Mr. gaging in business in competition with its ferred, as follows: TIBERI, Mr. KINGSTON, Mr. REHBERG, Mrs. citizens; to the Committee on the Judiciary. MUSGRAVE, and Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey. By Mr. PALLONE: By Mr. LANTOS: H.R. 566: Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Ms. KIL- H. Con. Res. 60. Concurrent resolution ex- H.R. 907. A bill for the relief of Denes and PATRICK, and Mr. MEEK of Florida. pressing support for the goals of Veterans Gyorgyi Fulop; to the Committee on the Ju- H.R. 583: Mr. GORDON and Mr. ETHERIDGE. Educate Today’s Students (VETS) Day, and diciary. H.R. 584: Mr. FILNER and Mr. COHEN. for other purposes; to the Committee on Vet- By Mr. LANTOS: H.R. 589: Mr. SMITH of Washington and Mr. erans’ Affairs. H.R. 908. A bill for the relief of Kuan-Wei REICHERT. By Mr. WELCH of Vermont Liang and Chun-Mei Hsu-Liang; to the Com- H.R. 608: Mr. SHIMKUS, Mr. STEARNS, Mr. H. Res. 133. A resolution providing for con- mittee on the Judiciary. MILLER of Florida, Mrs. CUBIN, and Mrs. sideration of the bill (H.R. 547) to facilitate f BONO. the development of markets for alternative H.R. 620: Mr. COHEN, Mr. EHLERS, Mr. fuels and Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel fuel ADDITIONAL SPONSORS MITCHELL, Mr. UDALL of Colorado, Mr. SIRES, through research, development, and dem- Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors Ms. WATERS, and Ms. BALDWIN. H.R. 634: Mr. ALEXANDER, Mr. BAKER, Ms. onstration and data collection. were added to public bills and resolu- By Mr. CARNEY (for himself, Mr. BILI- BORDALLO, Mrs. BOYDA of Kansas, Mr. BUR- RAKIS, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, tions as follows: GESS, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Mr. CAMPBELL of Mr. ROGERS of Alabama, Mr. MARKEY, H.R. 18: Ms. BEAN, Ms. BERKLEY, Mr. BER- California, Mrs. CAPPS, Mr. CARNAHAN, Ms. Mr. KING of New York, Mr. DICKS, Mr. MAN, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Mr. BISHOP of DELAURO, Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Flor- MCCAUL of Texas, Ms. HARMAN, Mr. New York, Mr. BOYD of Florida, Mr. BRADY of ida, Mr. DINGELL, Mr. DOGGETT, Mr. DOYLE, DAVID DAVIS of Tennessee, Mrs. Pennsylvania, Mr. BRALEY of Iowa, Ms. Mr. EDWARDS, Mr. EHLERS, Mr. ETHERIDGE, LOWEY, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, CORRINE BROWN of Florida, Mr. BURGESS, Mr. Mr. HOLT, Mr. ISSA, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Mr. CAPUANO, Ms. CARSON, Texas, Mr. JOHNSON of Illinois, Mr. KIND, Mr. CUELLAR, and Mr. AL GREEN of Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Mr. CLAY, Mr. CLEAVER, LIPINSKI, Mr. MCCARTHY of California, Ms. Texas): Mr. CLYBURN, Mr. COHEN, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. MCCOLLUM of Minnesota, Mr. MCCOTTER, Ms. H. Res. 134. A resolution recognizing and DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. DAVIS of Alabama, Mr. MILLENDER-MCDONALD, Mr. MORAN of Vir- honoring the employees of the Department DENT, Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida, ginia, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. of Homeland Security for their efforts and Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Florida, Mr. DIN- RYAN of Ohio, Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin, Ms. contributions to protect and secure the Na- GELL, Mr. DOYLE, Mrs. DRAKE, Mr. EHLERS, LINDA T. SA´ NCHEZ of California, Mr. SCOTT of tion; to the Committee on Homeland Secu- Mr. EMANUEL, Mr. ENGLISH of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Mr. STUPAK, Ms. SUTTON, Mr. rity. Mr. FATTAH, Mr. GERLACH, Mr. GILCHREST, UDALL of Colorado, and Mr. YARMUTH. By Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, Mr. GONZALEZ, Mr. H.R. 651: Mr. CARTER. Texas (for herself, Mr. HALL of Texas, GRIJALVA, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Ms. H.R. 652: Mr. CARTER. Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Ms. HERSETH, Ms. NORTON, Mr. ISRAEL, Mr. JACK- H.R. 653: Ms. HIRONO and Mrs. MYRICK. KILPATRICK, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, SON of Illinois, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, H.R. 656: Mr. KING of New York and Ms. Mr. HOLT, Mr. SPRATT, Mr. SCOTT of Mr. JEFFERSON, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON SHEA-PORTER.

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H.R. 663: Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of H. Res. 113: Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. ROYCE, credited to, and form a part of, the Fund in Texas and Mr. HALL of New York. and Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. accordance with section 9602 of the Internal H.R. 676: Mr. COHEN and Mr. SERRANO. H. Res. 128: Mr. GRIJALVA and Mrs. CAPPS. Revenue Code of 1986. H.R. 677: Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Mr. H. Res. 130: Mr. JOHNSON of Illinois, Mr. (4) USE OF AMOUNTS IN FUND.—Amounts in THOMPSON of Mississippi, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. TOWNS, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Mr. PAYNE, the Fund shall be made available to the Sec- RUSH, Mrs. JONES of Ohio, Mr. BOSWELL, Mr. Mr. HINOJOSA, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. BOSWELL, retary of Energy, subject to the availability RUPPERSBERGER, Mr. REYES, Mr. DAVIS of Il- Mrs. JONES of Ohio, Ms. KILPATRICK, Mr. of appropriations, to carry out the grant pro- linois, and Ms. SUTTON. CLEAVER, Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida, Mr. gram under subsection (b). H.R. 678: Mr. ROTHMAN. GONZALEZ, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Mr. (b) ALTERNATIVE FUELS GRANT PROGRAM.— H.R. 684: Mr. HARE. BUTTERFIELD, Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Mr. (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days H.R. 687: Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. COHEN, and FATTAH, Mr. BACA, Mr. THOMPSON of Mis- after the date of enactment of this Act, the Mr. PLATTS. sissippi, Ms. CASTOR, Mr. SHULER, Ms. Secretary of Energy, acting through the H.R. 688: Ms. PRYCE of Ohio, Mr. YOUNG of HOOLEY, Mr. YARMUTH, Mr. JEFFERSON, Mr. Clean Cities Program of the Department of Alaska, and Mr. FOSSELLA. RUSH, Mr. AL GREEN of Texas, Ms. MOORE of Energy, shall establish and carry out a pro- H.R. 690: Mr. LARSON of Connecticut, Mr. Wisconsin, Mr. COHEN, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. gram under which the Secretary shall pro- SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, Mr. CLAY, Mr. WYNN, Mr. ELLISON, Mr. vide grants to expand the availability to con- WOLF, Mr. JEFFERSON, and Mrs. CAPITO. CARNAHAN, Mr. SHAYS, Mr. KUCINICH, Mr. sumers of alternative fuels (as defined in sec- H.R. 699: Mr. MANZULLO, Mr. SULLIVAN, and MEEK of Florida, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, tion 32901(a) of title 49, United States Code). Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. DUNCAN, Mr. (2) ELIGIBILITY.— H.R. 703: Ms. DEGETTE. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. BECERRA, Mr. LINCOLN (A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in H.R. 710: Mr. WYNN, Mr. BURGESS, Mr. DAVIS of Tennessee, Ms. WATSON, Mr. TAN- subparagraph (B), any entity that is eligible RUPPERSBERGER, Mr. WESTMORELAND, Mrs. NER, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. CAPUANO, Mr. to receive assistance under the Clean Cities CAPPS, Ms. DEGETTE, and Mr. WEXLER. MEEKS of New York, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE Program shall be eligible to receive a grant H.R. 722: Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. LAHOOD, Mr. under this subsection. H.R. 731: Mr. GERLACH and Mr. ROSKAM. MELANCON, and Ms. WATERS. (B) EXCEPTIONS.— H.R. 743: Mr. GILLMOR and Mr. MANZULLO. H. Res. 131: Mr. WELDON of Florida and Mr. (i) CERTAIN OIL COMPANIES.—A large, H.R. 746: Mr. HALL of New York. YOUNG of Florida. vertically-integrated oil company shall not H.R. 748: Mr. PASTOR, Mr. SOUDER, Mr. f be eligible to receive a grant under this sub- TERRY, Mr. GERLACH, Mr. SHIMKUS, Ms. LO- section. RETTA ANCHEZ OM AVIS S of California, Mr. T D AMENDMENTS (ii) PROHIBITION OF DUAL BENEFITS.—An en- of Virginia, and Mr. LOBIONDO. Under clause 8 of rule XVIII, pro- tity that receives any other Federal funds H.R. 753: Mr. DAVID DAVIS of Tennessee, for the construction or expansion of alter- Mr. DUNCAN, Mr. WAMP, Mr. LINCOLN DAVIS posed amendments were submitted as follows: native refueling infrastructure shall not be of Tennessee, Mr. COOPER, Mr. GORDON, Mrs. eligible to receive a grant under this sub- BLACKBURN, and Mr. TANNER. H.R. 547 section for the construction or expansion of H.R. 757: Mr. MCDERMOTT. OFFERED BY: MR. ROGERS OF MICHIGAN the same alternative refueling infrastruc- H.R. 759: Mr. KUHL of New York and Mr. ture. MOORE of Kansas. AMENDMENT NO. 1: Redesignate section 6 as (C) ENSURING COMPLIANCE.—Not later than H.R. 777: Mr. PAYNE. section 7 and insert after section 5 the fol- lowing: 30 days after the date of enactment of this H.R. 784: Mr. WOLF, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. SCOTT Act, the Secretary of Energy shall promul- of Virginia, Ms. FOXX, Mr. MCKEON, Ms. SEC. 6. ENERGY SECURITY FUND AND ALTER- NATIVE FUEL GRANT PROGRAM. gate regulations to ensure that, before re- SCHWARTZ, Mr. KIND, Ms. HERSETH, Ms. ceiving a grant under this subsection, an eli- (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF FUND.— SCHAKOWSKY, and Mr. WAMP. gible entity meets applicable standards re- H.R. 811: Mr. BISHOP of New York, Mr. (1) IN GENERAL.—There is established in the lating to the installation, construction, and MCDERMOTT, Mr. WALDEN of Oregon, Mr. Treasury a fund, to be known as the ‘‘Energy expansion of infrastructure necessary to in- CUELLAR, and Mr. HINOJOSA. Security Fund’’ (referred to in this section crease the availability to consumers of alter- H.R. 822: Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Ms. as the ‘‘Fund’’), consisting of— native fuels (as defined in section 32901(a) of CORRINE BROWN of Florida, Mr. CUMMINGS, (A) amounts transferred to the Fund under title 49, United States Code). Mr. MEEKS of New York, Mr. BRADY of Penn- paragraph (2); and (3) MAXIMUM AMOUNT.— sylvania, Mr. MCNULTY, and Ms. KILPATRICK. (B) amounts credited to the Fund under (A) GRANTS.—The amount of a grant pro- H.R. 845: Mr. FORBES. paragraph (3)(C). vided under this subsection shall not exceed H.R. 846: Mr. FORBES. (2) TRANSFERS TO FUND.—For fiscal year $30,000. H.R. 851: Mr. PENCE. 2008 and each fiscal year thereafter, the Sec- (B) AMOUNT PER STATION.—An eligible enti- H.R. 852: Mr. DICKS and Mr. WESTMORE- retary of the Treasury, subject to the avail- ty shall receive not more than $90,000 under LAND. ability of appropriations, shall transfer to this subsection for any station of the eligible H.J. Res. 16: Mr. WELDON of Florida. the Fund an amount determined by the Sec- entity during a fiscal year. H.J. Res. 19: Mr. GOODE. retary of the Treasury to be equal to 50 per- (4) USE OF FUNDS.— H. Con. Res. 37: Mr. GOODE. cent of the total amount deposited in the (A) IN GENERAL.—A grant provided under H. Con. Res. 53: Mr. ENGLISH of Pennsyl- general fund of the Treasury during the pre- this subsection shall be used for the con- vania. ceding fiscal year from fines, penalties, and struction or expansion of alternative fueling H. Con. Res. 55: Mr. GONZALEZ. other funds obtained through enforcement infrastructure. H. Res. 53: Mr. WATT, Mr. GENE GREEN of actions conducted pursuant to section 32912 (B) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—Not more Texas, Mr. ELLISON, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. SCOTT of title 49, United States Code (including than 3 percent of the amount of a grant pro- of Virginia, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Ms. MOORE of funds obtained under consent decrees). vided under this subsection shall be used for Wisconsin, and Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. (3) INVESTMENT OF AMOUNTS.— administrative expenses. H. Res. 69: Mr. SHULER, Mrs. DRAKE, Mr. (A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the MILLER of Florida, Mr. GINGREY, Mr. MILLER Treasury shall invest in interest-bearing ob- H.R. 547 ISHOP ligations of the United States such portion of North Carolina, and Mr. B of Geor- OFFERED BY: MR. BURGESS gia. of the Fund as is not, in the judgment of the H. Res. 107: Mr. CHABOT, Mrs. MALONEY of Secretary of the Treasury, required to meet AMENDMENT NO. 2: Page 4, line 17, strike New York, Mr. WEXLER, Mr. BROWN of South current withdrawals. ‘‘and’’. Carolina, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. ENGEL, Mrs. (B) SALE OF OBLIGATIONS.—Any obligation Page 4, line 18, redesignate paragraph (3) as TAUSCHER, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. acquired by the Fund may be sold by the paragraph (4). MCNULTY, Mr. MARSHALL, Mr. DOYLE, Mr. Secretary of the Treasury at the market Page 4, after line 17, insert the following WAXMAN, Mr. KIRK, Mr. FOSSELLA, Mr. NOR- price. new paragraph: WOOD, Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida, Mr. (C) CREDITS TO FUND.—The interest on, and (3) issues with respect to increased volatile SHAYS, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. BERMAN, the proceeds from the sale or redemption of, emissions or increased nitrogen oxide emis- Mr. MACK, and Mr. KING of Iowa. any obligations held in the Fund shall be sions; and

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Vol. 153 WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2007 No. 23 Senate The Senate met at 10 a.m. and was a Senator from the State of Maryland, to been going on over the last few days. called to order by the Honorable BEN- perform the duties of the Chair. As we all know, the President, in giv- JAMIN L. CARDIN, a Senator from the ROBERT C. BYRD, ing a speech, said he wanted to move a State of Maryland. President pro tempore. significant number more of American Mr. CARDIN thereupon assumed the troops to Iraq. As a result of that, PRAYER chair as Acting President pro tempore. there have been efforts made to have The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- f the Senate vote on whether that is ap- fered the following prayer: propriate. We have been unable to ar- RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY rive at that point, which is somewhat Let us pray. LEADER Almighty God, whose loving hand has surprising because the people who sustained our Nation, help us to find The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- helped write the amendment voted our refuge in a personal commitment pore. The majority leader is recog- against proceeding to debate on that to Your plan for our lives. Give us the nized. amendment. People whose names are associated with that amendment de- wisdom to trust You to guide our steps f cided not to proceed to vote on that and to lead us to a desired destination. SCHEDULE amendment. Bless our lawmakers. Let the con- Mr. REID. Mr. President, the Senate I think it speaks volumes that there tagion of Your presence bind them to- has been almost nothing said by the gether. Speak to them above the noise will begin morning business in just a few minutes, with the time until 2 p.m. minority about supporting the surge. and prattle of impulsive rhetoric so There have been no speeches over here that they will know and do Your will. equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees. The supporting the surge. In fact, late yes- Lift them above the valley and the terday there was a proposal to not even mists of struggle to the mountain of first 30 minutes this morning will be controlled by the minority, and then have a vote on supporting the surge. trust and confidence in Your power. That is where we are. The House is the majority will control, of course, Give them the courage to seek first going to take up this matter next the next 30 minutes. We are going to do Your rule and righteousness. week. They will send this over to us, the best we can to alternate back and We pray in Your sacred Name. Amen. and in due time we will try to get to forth. f this matter. But it is pretty clear that Yesterday, we had a nice debate. one reason for the slowdown here is to PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE When a Democrat wasn’t here, a Re- allow the President to move troops publican moved in and vice versa. It The Honorable BENJAMIN L. CARDIN over there. The more troops moved worked out well with the time. led the Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: over there prior to this vote, the more I announced last night that I in- I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the difficult it is to say don’t send the tended to have the Senate proceed this troops—when he has already sent United States of America, and to the Repub- afternoon to executive session to con- lic for which it stands, one nation under God, them. But there are other ways to ap- indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. sider a number of Executive Calendar proach this issue in Iraq. nominations. I had spoken to the Re- Just a matter of hours ago, a Sea f publican leader prior to making that Knight helicopter was shot down over APPOINTMENT OF ACTING announcement and told him I wanted Baghdad, the fifth helicopter shot down PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE to consider GEN George Casey and in the last 2 weeks. We don’t know how ADM William Fallon to be voted on The PRESIDING OFFICER. The many Americans are dead in this latest today or tomorrow. I expect there will incident. We do not know because the clerk will please read a communication be debate with respect to the Casey to the Senate from the President pro military has not announced it. We do nomination. We have had word that on know these Sea Knight helicopters— tempore (Mr. BYRD). the minority side there are a number of they are called CH–46s—are used by the The assistant legislative clerk read statements they wish to have made, the following letter: Marines primarily as a cargo and troop and I am confident there will be some transport, and they carry as many as 25 U.S. SENATE, over here, also. We will make a deci- combat-loaded troops. PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, sion at a later time whether we should Washington, DC, February 7, 2007. We also know that the administra- To the Senate: have time agreements or just move for- tion submitted its budget, requesting Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, ward with these. another $245 billion in the war in Iraq of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby Let me just say a few words about and other matters relating to the mili- appoint the Honorable BENJAMIN L. 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Don’t agree to that, you have to as to how many hundred-dollar bills it only did he want us to limit ourselves agree to that. takes to make 363 tons, and they really to one, he wanted to pick which one. Of In the end, the leaders have to decide don’t know exactly how much money course, in the Senate, that is just not how we go forward in a fair and an open that is, but it is around $12 billion, possible. This is a deliberative body. It way, and the rest of us have to support most of which is not accounted for. I insists on having votes on a wide vari- that decision. The majority has strong guess $12 billion, when you compare it ety of proposals. Certainly, when we power in the House of Representatives, to $500 billion, is not very much, but I were in the majority last year, we had and a good bit in the Senate. But I think the American people understand to vote on a lot of things we might not think the most difficult job in the city that 363 tons of cash, hundred-dollar have liked to have voted on in order to is the job of being majority leader, the bills, is a lot of money. advance a particular proposal. That is job that Senator REID has right now We also know from reading the morn- the way the Senate works. because he doesn’t have a Rules Com- ing paper that the Associated Press re- At whatever point the majority mittee. He is not the President. He ports: would like to begin the debate again on can’t give an order and have the bu- Iraq, we will certainly be happy to reaucracy move, not that the bureauc- More Americans have been killed in com- bat in Iraq over the last 4 months than in have it. I particularly wish to thank racy ever moves. He has to work with any comparable stretch since the war began. Senator GREGG for his very important the minority. He has to find a way to contribution to this debate. That is a move things forward. To say the war isn’t going well is an vote we will have at some point, on Some people say: Oh, that is the understatement. To say there is a civil some measure, when we return to the process. Look, the process is substance war going on in Iraq is an understate- subject of Iraq. because if you can’t figure out how to ment. I really think it is unfortunate With regard to the continuing resolu- get it done, you never get to the sub- that we have been unable to vote on tion, let me just say to the majority stance. This is not an autocracy. No whether the surge should take place. leader, he has suggested that I survey one person possesses unlimited power. Senators have not been allowed to cast our members and see what amend- You have got to give to get a little. their vote on this issue, and because of ments we might like to offer, since he You can’t have a deal where you say: that, we are going to move on to the has indicated amendments may or may No, no, you can’t offer but one amend- continuing resolution this afternoon— not be allowed on that proposal. I ment; and, by the way, it has to be late this evening, I should say, after we would say to him we are paring that this. finish these two important Executive down and hope to be able to get him— If we were going to do anything, we Calendar matters. we have about seven; we are going to should have gone with more, not less. f try to pare that down to three, submit So I don’t get it. If this is the big, im- those amendments to the majority portant, serious issue we all say it is, RECOGNITION OF THE leader, and hope they might be allowed surely we could have worked out a way REPUBLICAN LEADER when we do move to the continuing to proceed. Well, I guess the one thing The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- resolution. we could say is, we will get back to pore. The Republican leader is recog- Mr. REID. Mr. President, I say to my this. We are going to get back to it in nized. friend, we would also see what amend- many different ways. But at least in ments, if any, we want to offer on this the future, when we get to the debate, f side—maybe three and three or what- it is going to be a serious debate about INSIST ON A FAIR PROCESS ever we can come up with that appears something that is real. We were talking about taking up res- Mr. MCCONNELL. Listening to my to move the ball along. good friend, the majority leader, Mr. MCCONNELL. I yield the floor. olutions that had no binding effect. It The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- should remind us all that the debate we was a feel-good deal. Yeah, we are pore. The Republican whip is recog- had anticipated having this week—and going to take a pop at the President. nized. I might say Members on our side were Yeah, we support the troops, but no, we don’t support the troops. certainly prepared to have the debate— f Oh, yes, thank you very much, Gen- would not have had any impact on the RESOLUTIONS PROCEDURE eral Petraeus, 81 to nothing, you are surge. These were nonbinding resolu- Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I was confirmed. Go over to Iraq. Oh, and by tions. I would not argue that they were pleased to hear just a moment ago the the way, we don’t agree with what you not significant, because Senators suggestion that maybe we go to the are going to try to do. We don’t support would have been put on record. But we Omnibus appropriations bill in such a the plan. How did we get into that? were certainly prepared for the debate. way that would allow some amend- At least at some point, men and What we were not prepared to do is to ments to be offered on both sides. That women of strong principle and beliefs have a process that denied our side is good. That is the way it ought to be. are going to offer up amendments that other options in addition to the Levin That is why I have been surprised and, are going to say: Support the troops, proposal. frankly, disappointed that we have not stick with the plan or pull out. High As we were frequently reminded last been able to come to some sort of tail it out. Get out of there now. And year by Democratic Senators, the Sen- agreement about how to proceed to then we will have a real debate and we ate is different from the House. In the these resolutions dealing with the will have real votes. That is what, Senate, a minority of at least 41 can in- President’s plan to take action in Iraq under our Constitution, we should be sist on a process that is fair. and have a full debate on the sub- doing, actually. Senate Republicans were united, in- stance. I think the proposal that Senator cluding members of our conference who Of the plan and the resolutions, I GREGG had, made eminent good sense. support the Levin proposal, in insisting don’t think there is any excuse for the Let’s show we support the troops. Gee on a fair process. We started out with fact that we have come to the point whiz, why is that a bad idea? The five different options, gradually pared where we are throwing up our hands American people don’t want to send them down to two—the McCain-Lieber- and saying: I can’t have it my way, you our troops into harm’s way around the man-Graham proposal and the Gregg can’t have it your way, therefore, we world or even in Baghdad without proposal relating to supporting the will have it no way. knowing we are behind them. troops. My good friend, the majority If this were the Super Bowl, whether So what is the problem? The problem leader, objected to allowing us to have you were Grossman or Manning, you is that it was able to get 80, I don’t

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What if you are in plan. What is your plan? It is your done with order. a brigade that is pulling out of Texas country, your Government. When are Nobody wants to play games. Nobody now or pulling out of Kentucky or that you going to ante up and kick in, in a should be trying to say: Oh, if you has landed in Kuwait? We don’t support way that brings leadership and order don’t do it this way, or my way, you them. There are too many nuances. out of all of this? are trying to shut down the Govern- Let me get away from process and So the second part of the President’s ment. Nobody should be saying we are talk about substance. We have a prob- plan is for different rules of engage- going to filibuster if we don’t get ev- lem in Iraq. A lot of people now have ment. It is for a requirement that some erything we want. shifted their position and are saying: political achievements be reached. This is the Senate. You have got to Well, I voted for it earlier, but I am That is why I like the McCain-Lieber- give everybody their chances. You have against it now. Yeah, it has gotten man-Graham proposal. I like bench- to have some order out of the chaos. tough, so I don’t like it. marks. So the question is: It is one This is sort of similar to Baghdad. Everybody says change the status thing to lay down benchmarks, but Sometimes we get divided up into prov- quo. I had a chance to talk to some what if they don’t meet them? Then, inces. I appreciate the efforts that have world leaders recently in Switzerland you decide. If we conclude it would not been made, but the important thing is and they were saying: My goodness, work, that they can’t govern them- not the process in the Senate. The im- you can’t do that, can’t do this, can’t selves, then we have to go with the portant thing is what our men and do something else. next plan. Somebody said: Well, this is women are going to be trying to do in I said: Here is the choice: Stay, leave the last plan. It is never the last plan. Iraq. Let’s give this plan a chance. or do what? There is always another plan. I yield the floor. They said: No, you can’t leave. You But the politics, I think, we can be The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- have to stay. Well, what do you pro- successful. We certainly have to try. I pore. The majority leader is recog- pose? Deafening silence. The President do think that regional solutions—get- nized. understood we had to change the status ting particular provinces under control quo. Action had to be taken. A plan or particular sectors under control, Mr. REID. Mr. President, I appreciate had to be developed. He proposed a getting generals in for different sec- the advice and counsel of my friend plan. He met with us. He came to the tors—makes good sense. But also the from Mississippi. He certainly has the Congress. He spoke at the State of the economy. Look at America where you experience to offer suggestions, having Union: Here is what I propose to do. have people who are not working. Their served in various capacities in leader- Give this plan a chance. Give the plan life is insecure. They get into trouble. ship. I have been with him. He is a a chance. I understand that 40 percent of the pleasant man to work with, and I like And General Petraeus, maybe the young men in Baghdad don’t have a him very much. But I would suggest, General Grant of this war, or the Gen- job. There has to be a better job done this morning, that we not use Super eral Washington of a previous war— of getting the money—the oil money— Bowl terminology and Manning and this is the man of the hour, and I hope fairly distributed and done in an eco- Grossman because I think, if we do and pray the good Lord will guide him nomic way that will create jobs so that that, we would find we would have a lot in the right way because he has a seri- these young men and women will not of objection if suddenly we looked ous challenge before him. be bored and looking for ways to kill around and Grossman was using a base- But this is not just about a surge, al- themselves. ball or basketball rather than a foot- though that is a part of the plan. This Mr. President, we should have found ball. I think what they have tried to do is a plan with at least three other key a way to go forward with this debate. I is change the rules in the middle of the components. But ask yourself, we say don’t quite understand what is going game, and they are playing around to the Iraqis: You have to get a polit- on. Maybe we are all having to learn a with this procedural argument. ical solution. Everybody is saying: No, little different roles of who is in the I have to acknowledge to my friend we will never get a military solution majority and who is in the minority from Mississippi that the people over without a political and economic solu- and how it works. I know for sure that there who are trying to make the tion. in some respects it is easier to be in President not look bad had a little vic- Well, yeah. But how do you get a po- the minority than to in the majority. tory because they have been able to litical solution in chaos? How can you The majority leader has to be—he stall and stall. As a result of that, sol- get a political solution when your cap- has to be tough. He has to eat a little diers are being shipped, as we speak, ital is being blown up every day by in- crow every now and then. He has to be without the Senate having to take a surgents of all stripes? You have got to prepared to say to the Republicans: We vote on whether that surge should take get a grip on security. It is similar to will find a way to work this out. You place. So in that respect, their stalling here in our Nation’s Capital. We have to keep poking at it. Somehow or has probably benefited the President. couldn’t have orderly Government if another, we didn’t want to do it this As far as process, we have worked we didn’t have order. So we are going time. I don’t know. Maybe everybody is through the ethics bill, the minimum to try to send in the best we have, going to leave the field and say we wage bill, and even though there were under the best general we have, and get won. This is not about winning or los- cloture motions filed and cloture not some control of the violence and the ing. This shouldn’t be about the polit- invoked, finally, we were able to get chaos in Baghdad and then give the ical winner or who won the PR battle. those things passed. But I think debate Iraqis a chance to deal with the poli- We are playing with lives. America’s on the surge would have been very im- tics. finest. I think we should support them, portant. We have been denied that. I Am I convinced all of this is going to as Senator GREGG proposes. We need to understand the rules of the Senate. work? I don’t know. I am not the best give the plan the President has devel- My friend from Mississippi also says expert in the world. I have been on the oped a chance because nobody else has we should be doing something that is Armed Services Committee, I have come up with a better plan, other than real. I tried to talk about something been on Intelligence. I have been pull back at the borders. What good is real this morning. More American around awhile. But I am not going to that? Which way are we going to shoot? troops were killed in combat in Iraq impose my military judgment on a To me, that is the worst of all worlds. over the past 4 months than in any man such as General Petraeus. But We can make this work, but the comparable stretch since the war let’s see if the politics will not work. President, General Petraeus, our began—334 dead American soldiers,

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And is it not dent, whether you support a commit- saying what the President is doing is true, also, that we agreed to the Demo- ment of more troops or you don’t sup- the right thing to do, because it hasn’t cratic leader’s request that we offer port a commitment of more troops, been the right thing to do, what the only one amendment but that we just once the troops are on the ground in President has been doing, and he wants ask we be able to choose our amend- the fight, we are going to give them to continue more of the same. ment, and they be able to choose their the financial support, the logistical I understand we are now at a point amendment? support, the equipment that they need where we are going to talk about a cou- Mr. MCCONNELL. The Senator is en- in order to protect themselves and pur- ple of important nominations. We are tirely correct. We kept paring down the sue their mission effectively. going to try to get our fiscal house in options that we wanted to offer in the Members do not have to support the order, which is not in order, because course of this debate on the most im- President to support this language. It unless we do something by February 15, portant issue in the country. And at is not designed to state the President basically the Government closes. This the end, as the Senator from New is right or the President is wrong. It is is very unusual. I have spoken with the Hampshire just suggested, we were simply language designed to say that distinguished Republican leader, and down to two: one that the majority an American soldier deserves the sup- one thing we are going to work on to- leader and most of his party favor—and port of the Congress of the United gether this year, once we get out of some of ours—and the amendment of States. That is an elementary responsi- this situation with the continuing res- the Senator from New Hampshire in bility of this Senate. olution, is to work together to try to support of the troops. The fact that the Democratic leader- pass appropriations bills. That is good Apparently, the majority wanted to ship will not allow Members to vote on for the institution and good for the tell us which amendment we would this simple statement of support for country. We are going to try to do offer. American troops is a transgression on that. It may require some late nights Mr. GREGG. I thank the Republican the purposes of the Senate, which is to and long weeks, but we are going to do leader. express itself relative to the actions of that. We have 13 appropriations bills, Mr. MCCONNELL. I thank the Sen- our soldiers in the field and how we and we are going to work very hard to ator from New Hampshire. will support them. get them passed. I yield the floor. It is literally impossible to address So I am terribly disappointed we the debate on Iraq without addressing f haven’t had the opportunity to vote on the most fundamental issue, which is Senator WARNER’s and Senator LEVIN’s RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME whether our troops are going to be sup- resolution, and on the McCain resolu- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- ported when they are asked to defend tion, but we have heard enough about pore. Under the previous order, the us in the field. The idea that we can de- that. We are not going to be able to do leadership time is reserved. couple the support for the troops from that, and we will move on to other the issue of policy is absurd on its face, f things. and the position of the Democratic The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- MORNING BUSINESS leadership that we should not address pore. The minority leader is recog- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- the issue of supporting the troops when nized. pore. Under the previous order, there we address the issue of whether the Mr. MCCONNELL. Briefly, it is hard will be a period for the transaction of tactics being pursued by the military for me to remember how many times morning business until 2 p.m. with the commanders in the field are correct— we were told by the other side last year time equally divided between the two which doesn’t happen to be the respon- that you come to the Senate to cast leaders or their designees, alternating sibility of Congress; that is the respon- tough votes, but I don’t think Senator sides when appropriate, with the first sibility of the commanders—is by na- GREGG’s vote was a tough vote. Why 30 minutes under the control of the mi- ture inconceivable, inconsistent, and would it be a tough vote to vote on nority, the second 30 minutes under the simply not defensive. supporting the troops? To me, that is control of the majority, during which In fact, it is so absurd on its face that I would simply quote the national com- an easy vote. We all will be forced, be- the Senator from New York, Mr. SCHU- mander of the American Legion, Mr. cause of the process in the Senate, to MER, and the Senator from Massachu- Paul Morin, who says: cast votes we don’t like. If you are in setts, Mr. KENNEDY, be recognized for the majority, you get more of those 15 minutes each. We will not separate the war from the war- than when you are in the minority. I The Senator from New Hampshire. rior. can’t imagine being, in effect, afraid of That is what this is about: whether f voting on the Gregg amendment to the Democratic leadership takes the support the troops. That would be one IRAQ truly indefensible position that in a de- of the easiest votes we ever cast around Mr. GREGG. Mr. President, I want bate on the issue of Iraq, we do not dis- here. to, once again, state the situation. It cuss the support for the person we are Let me conclude by saying I am dis- has been very well stated by the Re- asking to go out and defend this Na- appointed, as other members of my publican leader. The simple fact is, we, tion. party in the Senate are disappointed, as members of the minority, requested What this really comes down to is we are not having the Iraq debate this the right to offer an alternative to the very simple. This resolution would week. The distinguished minority proposal of the majority. That is not have received broad bipartisan support whip, in his remarks, summed it up an unusual event in the Senate. In fact, in this Senate. That is because there quite well. We will continue to talk it is the purpose of the Senate to de- are very few Members in this Senate— about this important subject. There is bate different approaches. I would guess virtually none—who no more important subject in the coun- What we asked as an alternative was don’t believe that our obligation as a try right now. I know we will be debat- very simple, straight forward language. Senate, as a legislative body which ing other proposals in the coming Let me read it again. It simply stated: funds the military, that our obligation months. is to give the soldiers in the field what It is the sense of the Congress that Con- Mr. GREGG. Will the Senator yield? gress should not take any action that will they need in order to defend them- Mr. MCCONNELL. I yield. endanger the United States military forces selves and carry out their mission. Mr. GREGG. I was just wondering if in the field, including the elimination or re- So rather than have a vote on our the Republican leader, and I ask this duction of funds for troops in the field, as amendment which would have received question through the Chair, believes such action with respect to funding would a large majority in this Senate—much

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We are not having a vote be- to believe there are some who have How inconsistent and indefensible is cause more people would vote for my simply given up, who don’t believe that statement: I don’t have the votes; amendment than would vote for their there is any chance of success in Iraq. therefore, I will not allow a vote to amendment, and they don’t want to The problem is, those who have ex- happen. But it is your fault that I am embarrass their membership by having pressed such defeatism, who in this not allowing the vote to happen. Real- to have them vote for my amendment contest of wills say we simply lost ly? That only makes sense if you hap- even though there is nothing con- ours, have not talked one bit about the pen to be a true partisan and believe troversial about it, unless you consider consequences of giving up, the huge hu- this debate should be a partisan debate. supporting troops in the field, giving manitarian crisis that would occur, the Somehow my language has been de- them what they need to fight and de- ethnic cleansing that would occur, the scribed as ‘‘partisan,’’ and the other fend themselves, to be controversial. fact that another failed state in the language has been described as ‘‘bipar- It is an ironic situation. I thank the Middle East, as in Afghanistan before tisan,’’ but the other language has Republican leader for having offered it, could serve as a launching pad for fewer votes than my language. No, this me the opportunity to bring this recruiting and training and exporting is not true. It is simply a fact that the amendment forward and for making it of terrorist attacks. other side of the aisle does not wish to fairly clear that we as a membership Standing here and suggesting that put their membership in a position of are willing to be reasonable; that we defeat is something we will accept is, voting for a simple resolution that only ask for a vote on something that to my view, not a responsible position calls for the support of our troops. we think is important while they ask to take. That is an unfortunate statement on for a vote on something they think is So I disagree with those who simply where the Democratic Party is today important. say we have no chance to turn things relative to support for the efforts of I yield the floor. around. There are those who say ad soldiers in the field. It is hard for me to The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. nauseam that there is ‘‘no military so- conceive that there are folks within MCCASKILL). The Senator from Texas. lution in Iraq.’’ I would commend to the community of interest in Wash- Mr. CORNYN. How much time does them an article that was written by ington who feel so strongly about their the minority have remaining in morn- Victor Davis Hanson that is entitled dislike for the President or his policies ing business? ‘‘Give Petraeus a Chance.’’ Mr. Hanson that they are unwilling to go on record The PRESIDING OFFICER. Twenty says: in support of the soldier who is fighting and one-half minutes. . . . in fact, only a military blow to the in- for us on the streets of Baghdad. But Mr. CORNYN. Madam President, surgency will allow the necessary window for the government to gain time, trust, and con- that is the essence of the problem. would you advise me when I have used fidence to press ahead with reform and serv- That is why we are not going to have a 6 minutes, and I will defer to my other ices. vote in the Senate. It is not that the colleagues. So, as General Petraeus said, we are Republican membership has in some The PRESIDING OFFICER. The engaged in a test of wills. How could it way stalled this process. The Repub- Chair will advise the Senator. possibly be that we have lost our own lican leader has gone out of his way, he Mr. CORNYN. Madam President, the will to protect America’s national se- has gone well beyond what many in our majority leader this morning said curity, to prevent a regional conflict party believe maybe we should have within my hearing that there is no sup- that will inevitably, if it occurs, cost done in trying to be accommodating to port for the surge. I don’t know why he us more in treasure and blood? How is the insistence of the Democratic lead- would say that because, in fact, not it that America could possibly have ership that there be no opposition to only have Members of this Senate lost its will? the one item that they want to bring to unanimously supported, through the I think the Senator from New Hamp- the Senate floor. confirmation hearing of GEN David shire made a good point a moment ago In my experience in the Senate, when Petreaus, one of the people who cer- when he said the reason why the ma- something is brought to the floor of tainly will be instrumental in exe- jority leader has now taken us off of the Senate as controversial as the dis- cuting that surge, but that is what we this issue—which, again, is his sole pre- cussion of how we pursue a war and a have been debating for these last rogative as majority leader; that is the war policy, there are going to be a lot weeks, indeed, months: what the new power a majority leader has—that the of amendments. But the Senate leader- plan should be in Iraq, to deal with reason we have not been given a chance ship, under the Democratic leader, has what is, obviously, an unacceptable to vote on the Gregg amendment that said, no, not only will there not be a status quo. says we will not cut off funds, we will lot of amendments, there will only be I am tempted to wonder out loud if, not fail to support our troops on the one amendment from our side, and we rather than talking about issues that mission they have volunteered to un- on the Democratic side will pick the really matter—such as the issue that dertake, and which we have sent them amendment on the Republican side the Senator from New Hampshire has on—the real reason, as the Washington that they can offer, and we will let asked for a vote on but been denied, Post reported, Senator GREGG’s amend- them offer that but nothing else. whether we will support our troops and ment was not allowed to be voted on is The Republican leader, in an attempt refuse to cut off funding while we send because his amendment is likely the to be responsive, said, OK, if there are them in harm’s way—we are seeing a ‘‘only measure that could attract 60 only going to be two amendments, we bunch of spin doctoring going on. votes.’’ will pick the amendment. And the But when the majority leader says The USA Today said the majority amendment will simply say that there is no support for the surge, I leader opposed allowing a vote on the whether you support the President, would simply disagree because, in fact, amendment because it could have re- whether you support his policies, at at least one of the amendments that sulted in a situation where the Senate least you can say you support the has been offered that we have been de- would have been on record opposing troops, the soldiers who are asked to go nied an opportunity to vote on, as the cuts in funding for the troops but not out and protect America and walk the majority leader has done what he is en- the President’s policy. streets of Baghdad. titled to do, which is to move on to I think it is absolutely imperative— But that was a bridge too far for the other subjects and to set the Senate whether it is today or tomorrow or Democratic leader, a bridge too far for agenda, one of those amendments next week or next month, or all of the the Democratic membership because would, in fact, support General above—we make it very clear we will they did not want to take that vote Petreaus and the plan he has taken not ever cut off our support for the even though that would have been a bi- upon himself to execute in Iraq that we men and women who have undertaken partisan vote and would have received are sending, over a period of time, addi- this dangerous mission.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:21 Mar 13, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2007SENATE\S07FE7.REC S07FE7 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S1660 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 7, 2007 When I went out to Walter Reed on open debate, unlimited debate, the serve an answer to that question. And Monday to visit some of the injured ability to get your ideas and your they certainly deserve that reassur- veterans of the Iraq conflict, I could amendments and your resolutions to ance. not help but be struck by the sort of the floor with very few limits. So I Let’s have that fair debate, and let’s surreality of that. Here are young men thought, particularly in the context of have it now. and women who have lost limbs, and this very serious situation in Iraq, we Madam President, I yield the floor. many, unfortunately, have lost their needed an open debate, we needed more The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- lives volunteering to protect us and to ideas, not fewer, we needed every sig- ator from Florida. bring stability to the Middle East and nificant vote that should be taken. Mr. MARTINEZ. Madam President, it to allow the Iraqis a better life. They So that was my preference: unlimited is interesting that we would be pre- have risked it all, and some have paid debate. But the majority leader re- paring today to have a debate that will that ultimate sacrifice. Yet here in the jected that, only would allow very lim- not be taking place, and it will not be Senate—— ited votes, very limited debate. At the taking place because it is the preroga- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- end of the day—again, it was not my tive of the leadership to set the agenda ator has used 6 minutes. first choice, but at the end of the day, of what we do discuss and debate. the minority leader said: OK, you want Mr. CORNYN. Madam President, I I agree with my colleagues who have two votes—only two votes—OK. Let’s would ask for 1 remaining minute by requested an opportunity to have a full focus on two proposals. Let’s have just unanimous consent. airing of the views, to have a full de- two votes. But our choice for our one The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without bate, to have an opportunity to express proposal will be the Gregg amendment objection, it is so ordered. our support for the men and women in Mr. CORNYN. And here we are in the because we feel so strongly about sup- the field, in addition to whatever else Senate this week debating about non- porting our troops in the field. And we might want to debate on this topic binding resolutions and avoiding the then the majority leader said no, I of the most important issue facing our tough votes on whether we will cut off can’t accept that. I need to choose your country today. funds to support this mission. Instead, proposal. I need to choose what you But getting beyond the procedural we engage in the continued surreal en- want to put up for a vote. and the tit for tat that so often sig- vironment of this Senate by saying: That is not the tradition of the Sen- nifies what Washington is about, what OK, now we have confirmed General ate. And, more importantly, that is not fundamentally is this debate about? It Petraeus, one of the people who is treating this very serious issue, the is about the global war on terror. It is going to execute this plan in Iraq. But dominant concern among all Ameri- about the events that unfolded in our now, today, we are going to also vote cans, bar none, properly. We need to country on the morning of September on Admiral Fallon, the head of Central debate this issue now. We need to vote 11, 2001, and the aftermath of all of Command, General Petraeus’s com- on this issue now. Again, I urge the that, the things that have occurred as mander, who will also be in charge of majority leader to come back to the our Nation has responded to the at- this mission, and GEN George Casey, floor and engage in this debate this tacks that were brought upon our who has been in charge of coalition week—now—because the country is shores, as we have sought to carry out forces. Do you know what I predict? We concerned now about Iraq. The country this difficult mission, but one in which will confirm, as we did General has questions, understandably, now we must not waiver, which is this war Petraeus, Admiral Fallon and General about the President’s plan. And our on terror. Casey, and yet there are some who troops in the field have questions and stand up here in the Senate and else- uncertainty now about whether we will As a result of this war on terror, our where and have the temerity to say: be standing shoulder to shoulder with troops are in Iraq today, where they We support you, but we do not support them no matter what policy is adopted. have removed a dictator from power the mission we have asked you to exe- Again, I think the minority leader’s and where they have confronted the cute. proposal yesterday bent over back- enemy, which regardless of how some- I yield the floor. wards—compromise and compromise one might have felt about the original The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- and compromise—to reach an ability to decision to go into Iraq, today we are ator from Louisiana. have this debate we must have on the there and we are engaging an enemy Mr. VITTER. Madam President, I ask floor of the Senate. We wanted far that is the very enemy that attacked that the Chair inform me when I have more than two proposals debated. We us here on 9/11. used 6 minutes. wanted far more than two votes. But It is known that in Al Anbar Prov- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- we accepted the majority leader’s num- ince it is fundamentally an al-Qaida ator will be notified. ber. We accepted the majority leader’s operation. So to send additional rein- Mr. VITTER. Thank you, Madam parameters of just two proposals, just forcements to Al Anbar Province to de- President. two votes. But surely the minority gets feat al-Qaida in Iraq is in the best in- Madam President, clearly, without to choose one of those two proposals to terests of this Nation. It is in our na- doubt, without question, the war in discuss, particularly given that this tional interest to pacify, to bring some Iraq is the leading concern of the Gregg proposal has broad bipartisan peace to Baghdad, which is the capital American people, as well it should be. support. city of Iraq, which is essential to the It is a very difficult situation, and a So let’s have this Iraq debate that we peace and security of that nation, of situation that will define our future must have. Let’s have key votes that that budding democracy that is at- and our security for years to come. Be- we must have. And let’s do it now. I tempting to put itself on its feet, and cause it is the dominant, the leading urge the majority leader, again, not to to bring some stability to that capital concern of the American people, with- give up, not to reject this very reason- city by additional reinforcements of out any close second, I think it is im- able compromise, bending over back- American troops in a new plan I think perative we have a debate and votes on wards by the minority leader to agree is reasonable. this crucial question. to his number of two. Let’s take that We cannot get so focused on whether I would urge the majority leader to up. Let’s have this debate. Let’s have some in this body cannot work with come back to the floor and engage in crucial votes. The American people de- this President, do not want to support this debate and move forward with this serve that, given the very tough situa- any of his policies. But let’s look at the discussion and accept the very reason- tion in Iraq. And our men and women people who are going to carry out this able compromise of the minority leader in uniform sure as heck deserve that. policy, the generals who are going to in narrowing down all of the universe They sure as heck deserve to hear from be in the field. of ideas and resolutions to simply two. us: OK, we know some of you are for In the past few days, as has been I will freely admit that is not my the President’s surge plan; we know stated, we have approved by a near— first preference in terms of this debate. some of you are against it. But what well, I guess it was unanimous; it was I had always heard before coming here about supporting whatever troops are 81 to 0, I believe—the sending of Gen- 2 years ago that the Senate was about put in the field? They sure as heck de- eral Petraeus as our new commander of

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Why sessments would be very dire of what i’s, cross all the t’s, and do all of the le- would we not stand behind our men and would take place if we were to be out of galistic parsing that we want. The mi- women who are willing to go into the region: an escalation of violence, a nority is blocking a vote on the issue harm’s way to carry out this plan and diminished chance for stability, no that the American people wish to hear see if they have an opportunity to suc- chance for positive change. us on: Do you support or oppose the es- ceed? The estimates suggest that a key aim calation? It is that simple. The goal of this new plan is three- in Iraq is to stabilize the situation The minority’s action ratifies the fold. First, we have to have some sta- from the standpoint of violence, President’s escalation. And any Sen- bility in Baghdad. We have to continue enough to let the political changes ator who voted to prevent the Warner to defeat al-Qaida in Al Anbar Prov- that have to happen take place. I am resolution from coming to the floor is ince. But then beyond that there are going to quote from the estimate. It saying to his or her constituents: I sup- other elements to the plan. There obvi- says from the public version: port that escalation. ously needs to be a political reconcili- If strengthened, Iraqi security forces more We know what is going on. The mi- ation. There needs to be a political set- loyal to the government, supported by coali- nority is torn between loyalty to their tlement. But that will never take place tion forces, are able to reduce levels of vio- President and following the will of if there is not some modicum of sta- lence and establish more effective security their voters. I have not seen a single for Iraq’s population, and Iraqi leaders can State where, at least from the polling bility, if we do not bring down the sec- have an opportunity to begin the process of tarian violence and other violence in political compromise necessary for longer- data, the public supports the esca- Iraq to a manageable level. term stability, political progress, and eco- lation. There should be a simple vote, We then have an opportunity for the nomic recovery. and not as an end to this debate but as political settlement to take place be- Isn’t that a better way? Isn’t that a beginning to this debate. The minor- tween the Shias and Sunnis, and the what we all want, what the Senate ity is tying itself in a pretzel so that Kurds in the north, so they can all should be on record as supporting—this there will not be a vote. come together and begin to bind as a opportunity for our troops to be suc- Now, the Gregg resolution is missing new nation, as a new country, as a new cessful, and not only to be in harm’s two words. Look at it. Read it. It government—a government, by the way fighting for our country, but also doesn’t have the word ‘‘surge,’’ and it way, that has only been in place about to know that the Senate stands behind doesn’t have the word ‘‘escalation.’’ It 9 months. them, will not cut off their funds, will is ambiguously worded so that it tries In addition to that, we then have a stand with them as they go into battle, to tie support for the troops with the third angle to this, which I think is so and will stand with them as they do escalation, but without saying so. It is vitally important, which is the eco- the hard work of freedom—work done a resolution that is intended to befud- nomic reconstruction, the economic by many other generations of America dle, perplex, obfuscate, and to hide. development, the opportunity for there any time they have been called upon to The good news is that the American to be jobs, for there to be opportunities stand for freedom, stand for the rule of people don’t follow the details of all of for folks to find a way to make a better law, and to give this budding new de- this debate. They don’t have the time. life for themselves and their children, mocracy an opportunity to take hold They are busy with their lives, their so they can reach their aspirations, and take root. families, their jobs, the joys and sor- and do it in an atmosphere of freedom, Madam President, I am disappointed rows of life. But they follow the big do it in an atmosphere of democracy that today we will not have an oppor- picture. The big picture is simple: Sen- and respect for one another. That is tunity to have a fuller debate, that I ator REID has labored mightily to have the goal. won’t have the opportunity to be on a clear, unobstructed, unobliterated What would happen if we do not give record with a vote reflecting where I vote on whether you support or oppose this plan a chance, if we do not see if stand, which all of us should be willing the escalation. it has an opportunity to carry out and to do—take a stand, take a position The minority leader, backed by all have an opportunity for success? What supporting our troops. but two of his membership, has said we is the alternative? Well, we would then I personally would also be in support do not want to vote; we want to let the have failed in this test of wills. Our en- of this plan which I believe gives us the President go forward with the esca- emies have clearly stated they believe best opportunity for success, which is lation, without taking responsibility if they kill enough Americans, if they the only plan out there. Those who for it. The public is seeing that. The cause enough grief to our mothers, if would not give this plan a chance owe public understands. they cause enough harm to our troops, the American people an alterative but My good friend from Mississippi was we will not stand up, we will move on, one that would have a reasonable talking in the hallway. He said the job we will find an easier way, and we will chance for success. Success is what we of the Senate is to take the tough not resist those who would bring the are after. A victory in this part of the votes. You bet it is. It is not whether destruction of our country upon us. world would send a strong message to we are saying we support the troops— Their stated aims are very clear. our enemies. So I am disappointed we which everybody agrees that we do—in They want us out of the Middle East. will not vote today. an ambiguously designed amendment They want to be able to get America I hope the majority leader will recon- to support escalation and get their out of the Middle East. They do not sider and come back to have an earnest way, and those against it get their want us there because they know we debate and take the votes that are nec- way. The bottom line is simple: the are what stands between them and the essary to be taken. tough vote is ‘‘yes’’ or ‘‘no’’ on the es- opportunity of creating a radical Is- I yield the floor and suggest the ab- calation. lamic new caliphate in that region of sence of a quorum. Again, I salute our majority leader. the world, and the danger that would The PRESIDING OFFICER. The He has done everything to try to bring all bring about. clerk will call the roll. that vote to the floor. The minority The new intelligence estimate on The bill clerk proceeded to call the leader has done everything to obstruct Iraq we have seen gives a window into roll. that vote. The good news is that we what would happen if we had a precipi- Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, I will have plenty of further opportunity tous withdrawal over the next 12 to 18 ask unanimous consent that the order to get that vote and, make no mistake months. It would not be a pretty pic- for the quorum call be rescinded. about it, this majority, in the belief ture. Sectarian violence would ensue. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without that the escalation is wrong, in the be- Unquestionably, we would have a Shia- objection, it is so ordered. lief that there is no strategy in Iraq

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Is that the Senator’s under- mission, the generals on the ground, ratchet up the pressure on the Presi- standing? and the political leaders in that coun- dent so that he changes his strategy. Mr. SCHUMER. Yes, indeed. try have said what is necessary now is The number of people in America Mr. KENNEDY. The third part of the a political resolution, a political deci- who believe that our strategy in Iraq is Senator’s speech, which I hope our col- sion, and we find an administration succeeding gets smaller every day. I leagues will listen to, is the reference that has effectively discarded that as think it is below 1 in 4 right now, to the independent study by Baker and an option and is going to the military which means that close to a majority Hamilton, where a bipartisan rec- option. of Republicans don’t agree with the ommendation said that such an activ- As I understand, the Senator believes strategy. Obviously, if the President ity would not make sense. we ought to have a political resolution, came here 3 years ago and said we are So does it make sense when we have political courage by the parties in going to have our troops on Haifa that kind of lineup, so to speak, where power there; that we here and the U.S. Street patrolling a civil war between we have the military, the background troops can’t care more about the free- the Sunnis and Shiites—how many peo- of surges, the independent study made dom of the Iraqis than the Iraqi people ple would have voted for that? How by Republicans and Democrats alike— and they have to stand up, step up, and many Americans would have supported we are faced now with a surge, so we be willing to make their judgments. it? But that is exactly what we are have to take action and express our- Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, doing. The vast majority of the troops selves. Doesn’t it make sense for this the Senator is exactly right. And I will that the President is asking for will body to express itself on that par- add one other point to his very pre- continue to do just that and only that. ticular policy issue? Isn’t that the re- scient comments. Let us say we have So this debate is coming only to a sponsible thing to do? this surge and then troops leave after a temporary close. One thing stands out Mr. SCHUMER. Indeed. I thank my certain amount of time—some say the clearly: the Republican minority is al- colleague for asking the question. end of the summer, some say it will go lowing the President to go forward Again, the minority says it is our job on 3, 4, 5 years. What is going to hap- with the escalation. It is supporting to take some tough votes. Here, here. pen then if we don’t have a political so- the escalation but doesn’t want to vote We want to take what is a tough vote lution the good Senator asks about? to say so. My colleagues, that will not for some: Are you for the surge? Are The Sunni and Shia will resume fight- wash. The American people are too you for the escalation or are you ing, and we will have accomplished nothing. We will have seen the lives of smart. They are too concerned. They against it? They are doing everything some of our brave men and women be are too worried about the brave men they can to avoid it. But as my good taken from them, American soldiers. and women over there risking their friend from Massachusetts has so aptly We will have created more havoc in lives as Sunnis shoot at Shiites and pointed out, the bottom line is that Iraq. And we will have, again, delayed Shiites shoot at Sunnis. To hold the now is the time to go on record—now, the very political solution my friend minority’s feet to the fire, we will be before most of the troops are there; from Massachusetts talks about, which resolute in making sure that happens. now, when we can ratchet up pressure on the President to change his policy, is essential. The Gregg resolution is obfuscatory. If there had been a change in Govern- as the independent study group said, It is designed to give people cover who ment, if there had been a change in and so many generals have said. I don’t want to say yes or no. But make strategy, perhaps—I can’t say because I might add, from the press reports, the no mistake about it, the people want a don’t know what it would be, given this Prime Minister of Iraq doesn’t want yes or a no. They want us to act on administration hasn’t changed any- that yes or no as we come forward with them. We are almost in Alice in Won- thing—maybe the American people, the supplementary budget request next derland here. maybe some on this side of the aisle I will say one other thing. The good month. And this majority, limited as it would say: Give it a chance. But to news is simple: the American people may be, will endeavor to do just that. send more of our brave troops over Mr. KENNEDY. Will the Senator get it. They know that the war in Iraq there when there is no change in strat- yield for a question? doesn’t have a strategy. They know it egy, when it is just increasing policing Mr. SCHUMER. I am happy to yield is headed toward a dead end. They of a civil war, and when, at the end of to my colleague from Massachusetts. know that policing a civil war makes this so-called surge, this escalation, Mr. KENNEDY. First of all, I com- no sense, and they know what we are nothing will have changed, the Amer- mend the Senator from New York for trying to do, which is forcing a ‘‘yes’’ ican people have every right to ask: To an excellent presentation. As I under- or ‘‘no’’ vote—get a ‘‘yes’’ or ‘‘no’’ vote what end? stand it from his comments, the prin- and move forward to change that strat- That is what we are asking. That is cipal question before the country now egy. No amount of wordsmithing on why we want a simple vote. And that is is the whole issue of a surge and the the other side is going to change that why today is going to go down in his- certain timeliness of it. We know that fact. tory as a day when this Republican mi- the President was able to extend, for Today, the Republican minority said: nority in this House said to the Presi- example, marines in place over there We are for the surge, and we will let dent: We are supporting your surge. We and get a certain number of troops over the President go forward and do it. don’t want to vote on it, but we are al- there, but we know this is something I yield to my colleague for another lowing it to happen. We are encour- that is going to happen in the future. A question. aging it to happen. And the very chunk of the troops are going over in Mr. KENNEDY. Just a final point. rubberstamp nature, when the minor- February, another group in March, and Madam President, the Senator has ity was in the majority, that brought another group in April. stated it well. Basically, the rec- them to such trouble in November of In the Armed Services Committee ommendations of those generals I men- 2006 is simply continuing. yesterday, we learned it is not just the tioned—and General Abizaid said he Mr. KENNEDY. Madam President, 20,000 the President talked about, but had inquired of all the combat com- will the Senator yield for a final point? that number is going to be exceeded. manders—all of the combat com- Mr. SCHUMER. I yield to my col- We heard from General Pace. manders—whether there should be an league from Massachusetts. As I understand what the good Sen- enhanced presence in Baghdad, and he Mr. KENNEDY. Madam President, I ator has said, we have had four surges testified before the Armed Services had the opportunity to read the na- previously over there. This concept, Committee that we should not. tional intelligence report on Monday. this idea, has been utilized previously But isn’t the point the Senator is There has been both an intelligence re- and none were successful. Secondly, as making is to underline what all of the port and a declassified report. Even in

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:21 Mar 13, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2007SENATE\S07FE7.REC S07FE7 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY February 7, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1663 the declassified report, would the Sen- made up of extraordinary men and President intends to cut by $50 billion ator say, in his evaluation of the best women and families. They are weath- over the next 10 years. In Massachu- of the intelligence community that has ering through this extreme, extraor- setts, 880,000 citizens depend on Med- been reviewing this situation that dinary tragedy. icaid, and this budget places them at every aspect of that intelligence report Sixty-four brave soldiers from Massa- risk. is basically in support of the conclu- chusetts have been lost, killed, and It comes from our children’s edu- sions the Senator has outlined here? this is the overriding, overarching cation. The President’s budget This is not something just the Sen- issue in question: What can we do after underfunds the No Child Left Behind ators from New York or Massachusetts 4 years where our service men and reforms by almost $15 billion. In my are making up. This is a conclusion women have done everything we have State of Massachusetts, these cuts which has been made by the intel- asked them to do? They have served in would leave behind more than 51,000 ligence agencies about what the nature Iraq longer than it took to end World children. Nationwide, we have 3.5 mil- of the battle is in Baghdad today. War II, to sweep through Africa, to lion children who are not participating Mr. SCHUMER. I thank the Senator. cross Western Europe, cross through in the program whatsoever. Yet they Once again, he is right on the money. the Pacific, and they are still out will have a requirement to meet suffi- He is right on the money. there. Many of us believe, as we men- ciency in the year 2012. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- tioned a few moments ago, that the so- It comes from our youngest children. ator has consumed his 15 minutes lution lies not in the increasing surge By cutting $107 million from the Head under the order. but in a political resolution and deter- Start Program, the President fails to Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, I mination and decisions made by the give the youngest children a strong ask unanimous consent that I be given Iraqis for their own future. It is, after start in life. This is a program which is 1 more minute to finish my point, and all, their country. tried, tested, and true. then I will yield the floor. Let me talk for a few minutes about It comes from our students with spe- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the other costs of this war, the $200 bil- cial needs. When we passed the Individ- objection, it is so ordered. lion which is in the President’s budget uals with Disabilities Education Act, Mr. SCHUMER. The Senator is right for the war in Iraq and what the impli- we made a promise to disabled children on the money, and it is, again, a pat- cations of that will be, so that Ameri- and their families that they were to re- tern. The experts—intelligence, mili- cans can understand more completely ceive the education they deserve. tary, diplomatic—tell the administra- the costs. President Bush’s budget breaks that tion what they are doing is wrong, tell It comes from children’s health, as promise by cutting funding to IDEA by the administration that all the signs the President’s budget underfunds the $290 million. We made the commitment on the ground point to a policy that is CHIP program by $8 billion. That pro- we were going to provide 40 percent of failing, and they keep their head in the gram has been extremely successful in all the funding. We are now at about 18 sand and just go forward. It is a trag- providing health care to low-income percent of funding, and we are reducing edy. It is a tragedy when truth is not children. that. It is shifting the burden onto the exalted and when there is a desire to Will the Chair let me know when I families and the local communities. stifle debate, as has happened in the have 2 minutes remaining? It comes from school safety. Our chil- administration and is happening on the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- dren ought to be able to go to school floor of the Senate today. ator will be so notified. without fearing violence, but this We all love this country, everyone in Mr. KENNEDY. Yet there are still budget cuts funding for Safe and Drug- this Chamber, regardless of politics, more than 8 million children in Amer- Free Schools. With all the challenges but at least for me—and I dearly love ica with no health coverage, and there of schools and violence in schools, it America—every day we delay hurts us is a health care crisis for our Nation’s cuts back the funding for Safe and a little more and a little more and a children. But what does the President Drug-Free Schools. little more. We dig ourselves deeper in propose to do about it? His budget will It comes at the expense of our teach- a hole from which it will be harder and make the crisis even worse by cutting ers. Over the next decade, this Nation harder to extricate ourselves. 400,000 children from the Children’s will need to hire 2 million more teach- Madam President, I yield the floor. Health Insurance Program. ers, but this budget cuts funding for The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. KLO- It comes from our seniors and our teacher quality grants. BUCHAR). The Senator from Massachu- disabled citizens. The President’s budg- It comes at the expense of students. setts. et cuts $66 billion from Medicare, At a time when college costs are sky- Mr. KENNEDY. Madam President, which is a lifeline to millions of retir- rocketing, the President’s budget com- how much time do I have? ees and disabled Americans. If the pletely eliminates the Perkins Loan The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- President has his way, more than Program, which over 500,000 students ator has 14 minutes. 700,000 people in Massachusetts who depend on to help them afford a college Mr. KENNEDY. I thank the Chair. rely on Medicare could see the quality education. We know that a college de- Madam President, to pick up where of their care go down. gree is a ticket to a bright and better the good Senator from New York It comes from those battling mental future, but this budget closes the col- stopped, we had yesterday at Saint illnesses. Each year, 25 percent of lege door instead of opening it wider. Francis Xavier in Hyannis, MA—I was Americans suffer from some sort of There are already 400,000 young people unable to attend because I was here in mental illness. We owe it to them and who are qualified to get into our fine the Senate—the funeral of a young their families to do all we can to en- community colleges, public colleges, serviceman who was lost. At the end of sure they are able to lead full and pro- and private colleges and don’t do so be- last week, a young serviceman named ductive lives. Yet the President’s budg- cause of a lack of funding. Callahan from Woburn, MA—his fourth et cuts mental health assistance by It comes from our workers who are time in Iraq, a father of four—was lost. $159 million. looking for good jobs to support their Woburn, MA, is a very interesting It comes from Hurricane Katrina vic- families because the President’s budget blue-collar community. They had the tims. Despite massive ongoing needs on slashes $1 billion from programs that highest percentage of casualties in the the gulf coast, the President’s budget train Americans for jobs. Madam Presi- Vietnam war of any community in my offers no additional assistance to help dent, listen to this: In Massachusetts State. They had high school class after people rebuild their lives. alone, there are 25,000 people waiting to high school class that joined the Ma- It comes from the Nation’s defense be enrolled in job training programs. rines and suffered devastating casual- against epidemics, such as the flu, as In Boston, there are 25 applicants for ties in Vietnam. It is also a storybook the President proposes to slash funding each job training slot. There are 78,000 community on civic action—water con- for the Centers for Disease Control by jobs that are out there today that are tamination in that community re- $165 million. looking for trained people, 25 people for sulted in the deaths of a number of It comes from Medicaid, our health every training slot, 275,000 people who children there. But the community is care lifeline for the poor, which the are unemployed. What is wrong with

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Where is rise for a few moments to address the lives. They come from families who the surge to address that problem? No subjects that have been discussed for need help putting food on the table. wonder the American people are grow- the last 30 minutes. First of all, I rise The President wants to cut the Food ing angrier and angrier as the war in particular to lend my support to Stamp Program by $600 million, leav- wages on. They expect Congress to be Senator MCCONNELL who has seen to it ing nearly 300,000 families wondering an effective restraint on the President that the Senate is able to fully express where they are going to find the next and his abuse of the War Powers Act. itself on the issues before us in Iraq. No meal for themselves and their children. Opposition to the escalation is clear one should be confused about this de- I have had the chance to visit our ab- already. How much clearer does it have bate. There are many opinions here, solutely spectacular food bank in Bos- to be before Republicans in Congress and every one of them deserves the ton, and they talk about the increased and the President finally respond to right to be expressed. numbers that they already have. This the voice of the American people? Secondly, I rise in support of the is going to even put more pressure on When will this war be brought to an President’s plan, and I am going to ex- those food banks and more pressure on end? An escalation now would be an plain why in just a second. First, how- those families. It comes from the poor immense mistake, compounding the ever, the Senator from New York made struggling against the bitter cold, as original misguided decision to invade a statement a minute ago that I want the budget cuts 17 percent of the fund- Iraq. Public support for the war does to open my remarks with. ing for the Low Income Home Energy not exist. There is no support for this The Senator from New York said not Assistance Program, which helps low- escalation. We have surged our forces many people are paying attention to income families afford to heat their four times in the past, and each time what we debate on the floor of the Sen- homes. the situation hasn’t changed. ate, that they are too busy working in In my State, if you use home heating The President cannot continue to their daily lives. That may very well be oil you need to fill your tank generally unilaterally impose his failing policy right, but I want to tell you who is lis- three times a winter—three times a on Americans who have already re- tening to every word. First, it is the winter. Families are down now where jected it. Congress has the responsi- men and women in our Armed Forces, they are only able to fill—the needy bility to stop the President from send- their families, and their loved ones. All who qualify for this—less than half a ing more of our sons and daughters to you have to do is go to Iraq, where I tank for the whole winter. We know die in this civil war. The legislation on have been many times, go to any mess what is happening. People make the which the Democrats seek a vote is our hall or almost any command post, and choices between the prescription drugs first effort to meet that responsibility. CNN and Fox are streaming con- It is our chance to go on record in op- they need, the food they need, and the stantly. Our men and women watch position to the surge. It is a clarion heat they need for their homes. We are what we say, so what we say on this call for change. floor is important. The resolutions we cutting that program by 17 percent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Perhaps most tragically of all, the send, binding or not, should not send ator from Massachusetts has 2 minutes money for the war in Iraq comes from mixed signals. remaining. There is another audience that lis- our veterans themselves. Nearly half Mr. KENNEDY. I thank the Chair. the troops returning from Iraq will re- Last week, the new National Intel- tens to what we say, and they are our quire health care services to cope with ligence Estimate confirmed the night- enemies. They listen as well. Those the physical or mental toll of the war. mare scenario unfolding for our troops networks are their intelligence agen- Yet the President’s budget underfunds in Iraq. The country is sliding deeper cies. The messages we send should not veterans’ health. It provides only half into an abyss of civil war, with our be a message which relays a lack of the increase in funding required for the brave men and women caught in the confidence to our troops or to our Com- VA to keep pace with the needs of our middle of it. The prospects for halting mander in Chief. veterans. the escalating sectarian violence is I am on the Foreign Relations Com- In Massachusetts alone, there are bleak, with greater chaos and anarchy mittee. I have spent 20 of the last 28 453,000 veterans who have served our looming and many additional U.S. cas- hours of committee meetings listening country when they were called to duty, ualties inevitable. to experts from a variety of resources, and we have a moral obligation to do It is abundantly clear that what we and two things became quite clear. all we can for them. need is not a troop surge but a diplo- There were varying opinions on wheth- This is the cost of this war. This is matic surge, working with other coun- er a surge would work. Some thought all for a war that never should have tries in the region. Sending more it would conclusively; many thought it happened, for a war that should be troops into the Iraq civil war is not the would not. Most gave it varying de- brought to an end. Yet this administra- solution to Iraq’s political problems. grees of potential success. Without ex- tion is allowing it to go on and on, with Not only does President Bush fail to ception, however, everyone I heard tes- mistake after mistake after mistake. see that reality, but he is also going tify, when asked the question: What This terrible war is having an effect out of his way to deny and defy it. would be the ramifications of with- not only on our troops, who are paying Congress needs to express its opposi- drawal or redeployment, everyone, in the highest price, but on our children, tion to this strategy. If the President one degree or another, said there would our elderly, our schools, our workers, refuses to change course, we must act be tens of thousands of lives lost, and and the poor here at home. to change it ourselves to protect our possibly millions, and the sectarian vi- While the President forges ahead troops and end this misguided war. The olence that we are trying to quell now with a surge in Iraq, the American peo- war today is not the war Congress au- could spread through the region. ple need a surge here at home. Ameri- thorized 4 years ago. It is now a civil The way I see it, we have two choices cans see the cost of health care and the war. The war today is not about right now at this stage of the game. cost of college going up. What about a Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction Choice one is an opportunity for suc- surge in our health and education poli- or alleged relationship with al-Qaeda, cess. Choice two is a recipe for disaster. cies to meet those needs? Americans it is Iraqi against Iraqi. Iraq is at war I choose the opportunity for success. I here at home worry about their eco- with itself, and American soldiers are think the message we ought to send to nomic security, about their jobs and caught in the middle. our troops is that we support them, we stagnant wages, how they can support Madam President, it is time for the wish them Godspeed, and we pray for themselves on their wages. How about Members of this body to stand up and their success.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:21 Mar 13, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2007SENATE\S07FE7.REC S07FE7 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY February 7, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1665 A second message we need to send, tant it is that the message that we tained American military presence was which this debate has very helpfully send not be mixed, not be one of a po- not going to solve the problems in Iraq done, is a message to al-Malaki and the litical message but be a message of over the long term.’’ assembly in Iraq and the people of Iraq commitment and resolve. We got the President’s plan and the that we came to their country with I will support the President not out President’s plan was more of the same, three objectives, two of which we have of partisanship, not out of blind loy- stay the course but with more U.S. secured. One objective was to seek out alty, but I will support the President military presence. We had 3 weeks of the weapons of mass destruction the because the evidence submitted in all hearings before the Foreign Relations entire world believed were there. Sec- of the hearings in the Foreign Rela- Committee. Military expert after mili- ond was to allow a constitution to be tions Committee told me we have two tary expert, foreign policy expert after written and a free election to be held. choices: We can choose an opportunity foreign policy expert, told us that Both of those things have been accom- to succeed or we can subscribe to a rec- there is a deterioration in Iraq and our plished. ipe for failure. I choose success, and I policies are not working and we need to The last most elusive goal that we pray God’s blessings on our men and move in a new direction. We need to had was to secure the nation and train women in the Armed Forces of the come to grips with the fact that the the Iraqi military so it could carry on United States. Iraqis must stand up and defend their that security and let that fledgling de- Madam President, I yield the floor. own country and we must engage the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- mocracy go forward. That third goal, international community much more which has been elusive, has gotten ator from Maryland is recognized. Mr. CARDIN. Thank you, Madam aggressively. closer. The President’s strategy to send I congratulate Senator WARNER and President. additional troops to Anbar and to Madam President, as a new Member Senator LEVIN for coming forward with Baghdad requires the absolute coopera- of this body, I must tell you that I am a compromise resolution that allows us tion of the Iraqis and the commitment frustrated and disappointed. I am dis- to go on record opposed to the in- of their military to assist side by side. appointed that the Republicans are creased American military presence in If they blink and look the other way, blocking a vote on whether we support Iraq. I do not agree with everything they will have failed themselves. If we or oppose the President’s plan to add that is in that resolution, but I do blink and we look the other way, we additional troops to Iraq. I can tell you think it clearly puts the Senate on will have failed not only them but we that is the issue of the day. That is record against the increased surge of will have failed the people of our coun- what my constituents are asking of us, American troops in Iraq, and that is try. and I think they have a right to expect our responsibility. That is what we Make no mistake about it, the war in that the Members of this body are will- should be doing. We should not hide be- Iraq that we are now in is not the war ing to go on record either for or hind procedural roadblocks to avoid we entered, but it is the war we are in, against the President’s plan to add ad- voting on that issue. That is the most and those are the words of our Presi- ditional troops to Iraq. important issue facing this Nation dent. Regardless of where mistakes I have listened to my colleagues. I today, and we should be willing to vote may have been made, those of us, and have listened to my colleagues in com- on that issue. It is not about the Presi- I am one of those, who voted to support mittee, and I have listened to my col- dent of the United States. It is about this when we went into Iraq did not leagues on this floor, and I think the this body carrying out its responsi- vote for failure. I hope and I pray that majority of us want to go on record op- bility. That is what each of us has a re- our soldiers will be successful, that al- posing the surge. Both Democrats and sponsibility to do. Malaki and the Iraqi military will Republicans oppose it. I think there is Why am I so much against the in- come through and perform, and I am a bipartisan group that can provide the crease in the U.S. military presence in going to do everything I can to give consensus in this body to go on record Iraq? Let me first start with the num- them that support because I choose an against the surge. bers. The President said the surge opportunity for success over a recipe Several months ago, the President would involve 21,500 additional Amer- for failure. said we were going to have a new plan ican troops in Iraq. That is not the With regard to the mistakes that in Iraq. Shortly after that, the Iraq case. Michael Gilmore, the Assistant have been made, I want to be crystal Study Group came out with its report. Director for National Security at the clear because there are some awfully To me, this has been the best analysis Congressional Budget Office, testified selective memories on the floor of the of the situation that we have before us. yesterday before our Budget Com- Senate. I remember what I believed The study group is composed of distin- mittee, and he said it is not going to be when I voted to go into Iraq. I remem- guished members, and it was a creation 21,500, it is going to be closer to 48,000 ber what the National Intelligence Es- of the Congress. Secretary Baker, who additional American troops because timate said. And I remember the hor- cochaired the group, served in three ad- the 21,500 are the frontline combat ror of 9/11 and the fear of weapons of ministrations and has broad experience troops. You need the support staff in mass destruction. We voted to do what in government. Mr. Hamilton, who order to support the 21,500. every other member of the United Na- served in the other body on the Foreign The budget the President submitted tions voted on in Resolution 1441, and Relations Committee, the Committee to us said that is going to cost about that was to seek out what the world on International Relations it is called $5.6 billion, but CBO now says it is thought was there. While we didn’t find over there, has served with great dis- going to be closer to $20 to $27 billion the smoking gun, we found a lot of the tinction both as chairman and ranking of additional cost, just with the surge, components and a lot of the evidence. member. The other members of the in addition to what we are already We found the 400,000 bodies in mass committee—they said we cannot win in spending. The President claims his graves and the tyranny of a horrible Iraq through our military efforts. That budget is to balance in 5 years, but he dictator in Saddam Hussein. We ac- is not going to bring success in Iraq. has no cost for the Iraq war beyond complished our goal of deposing him The Iraqis must step forward and de- 2008. and allowing the Iraqis to determine a fend their own country and we must The numbers speak for themselves. free democratic society. move forward with new diplomatic ef- The President is asking us to go along In the critical days of this battle, it forts. We need ‘‘a new diplomatic offen- with stay the course but at a higher is time for us to stand forward and sive’’ is what they called it, and they cost, both in American military pres- stand strong and give this opportunity said: We need to start that before De- ence and the costs to American tax- for success that the President has pro- cember 31, 2006. The ability of the payers in this country. posed a chance to succeed, rather than United States to influence events with- The situation in Iraq is deterio- subscribe to a recipe of failure. These in Iraq is diminishing. We still have rating. Every person who has come be- are trying times, and I respect the not seen that new offensive diplomatic fore us who is an expert in this area opinions of every Member of this body effort. has acknowledged that. There is a civil expressed on this floor, but remember GEN George Casey said, ‘‘It has al- war in Iraq, and Americans have paid a who our audiences are and how impor- ways been my view that heavy and sus- very heavy price for our commitment

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:21 Mar 13, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2007SENATE\S07FE7.REC S07FE7 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S1666 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 7, 2007 in Iraq—over 3,000 dead and many more payer dollars in Iraq. We need the week when that kind of an elder states- with life-changing injuries. There have international community to help us. In man of our country, Henry Kissinger, been hundreds of billions of dollars short, we need a new direction, a plan came before the Senate Foreign Rela- spent. That represents missed opportu- that includes bringing some of our tions Committee and in a very real and nities in America—money we need to combat troops home, to make it clear important way, and in a bipartisan strengthen our military and national to the Iraqis we are not going to be way, said: Let’s not forget our perspec- defense. We have used our National there indefinitely, to make it clear to tive. While for the short term and for Guard and reservists. We should be sup- the international community we ex- the moment we are focused on Iraq, as porting them, improving the quality of pect the Iraqis to take care of their we should be, let’s not fail to recognize life for our soldiers and for our vet- own security needs. That is what we that since World War II, we have been erans. Our soldiers have served with need. in the Middle East to bring stability to great distinction and valor. We owe it But first things first. Let’s take a the region for a safer, more stable to them to get it right. We owe it to vote on the President’s plan. Let’s get Western World. them to do everything we can for a suc- that done. Let’s stop using procedural I don’t think there is any question cessful outcome in Iraq. That is why it roadblocks to prevent a vote in this about that. He was frank about it when is our responsibility, on behalf of our body but to vote for or against the he stressed diplomacy as an important soldiers, to take up this issue. President’s plan to bring more troops tool. I have long advocated frank, open We have lost our focus in the war to Iraq. talks amongst our friends and neigh- against terror, we have weakened U.S. Then we should consider additional bors around the world, not only about influence internationally, and, yes, we options to make it clear it is our re- the region but about the role of Iraq have lost other opportunities beyond sponsibility to help bring about a new within the region and what we must do. defense because those hundreds of bil- direction for American involvement in However, Dr. Kissinger also stressed lions of dollars we spent could have Iraq. that, under the present conditions in been spent to balance our budget, could I yield the floor. Iraq, withdrawal or the signs of with- have been spent to increase our com- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- drawal is simply not an option for mitment to national priorities such as ator from Idaho is recognized. America’s forces. So anyone who comes to the floor today and says: Oh, but it education and health care and the envi- Mr. CRAIG. Madam President, I have is an option and we ought to start now, ronment. But we have lost those issues. been on the floor of the Senate for the The first order of business for us last half hour, listening to my col- or we ought to send all the signals to should be to go on record against in- league in what is, in fact, a very impor- our friends and neighbors around the world that we are beginning to pull creasing the American military pres- tant debate for this country. I say that, back, is going against a trend that I ence in Iraq. That should be our first even though the wringing of hands think is critically important. They order of business. But then we need to would suggest that somehow the de- could set in motion the kind of activity do more. I opposed the war from the be- bate is being blocked and the will of in Iraq that could bring about a phe- ginning. I voted against it in the other the Senate has been thwarted. I sug- nomenal genocide and the possibility body. I have been a critic of the Presi- gest quite the opposite. It has become of neighbors tumbling in on top of dent in the management of the war, in a finger-pointing in a procedural way. neighbors to create conflict in the Mid- I believe the Republican leader came his failure to properly engage the dle East that could bring down the to the floor yesterday and said let’s international community both before whole of the region. If that were to have a couple of votes, several votes; and after going into Iraq, and the deci- happen, then I am quite confident that sion made by someone in the White you can vote up or down on the Levin- those who want to withdraw would find House to take out the Iraqi security Warner resolution; you can vote up or themselves in a very precarious situa- forces when we went in, that was a down on the Gregg resolution. It was tion. What do we do? Do we go back in mistake. I have been pretty consistent then the leadership on the majority with greater force to stabilize the re- against the President, but we need to side, the Democratic side, blocked it. I gion, when friendly, moderate Arab na- do more than pass this resolution. I think the American people are wise to tions are now tumbling into war be- think we should take up this resolution the tactics at hand. They are not un- cause we would no longer stand or we first. This is the first order of business. aware, and they are frustrated by what would no longer force, through a diplo- But then we need to do more. is going on in Iraq today. Clearly, we matic process, those countries of the The Iraqis have a responsibility to are focused. Whether it is the Congress world to come together to work with take care of their own security needs of the United States or a vast majority us, to cooperate? in the midst of a civil war. We need to of the American people, we are becom- While most agree that the current engage the international community ing increasingly critical of a war that situation in Iraq must be dealt with po- with a diplomatic and political initia- has frustrated many of us. litically—and we have heard that time tive so the Government of Iraq has the The Senator from Maryland voted and again—and economically, our mili- confidence of the ethnic communities. against it. He said so a few moments tary involvement is critical to provide This is sectarian violence. We need to ago. I voted for it. At the same time, I the Iraqis the stability they need in change the way the Iraqis are doing grow increasingly critical, as do many this new democratic process. I don’t business and help them through diplo- of the citizens of my State, as to what mind pegging timelines a little bit and matic efforts. We need to engage the will be the future, what will be our suc- I don’t mind thresholds and measure- international community. We need cess and/or failure and at a cost of how ments and I think it is important we more assistance in training Iraqi secu- many more American lives. not only send that message but that we rity forces. You can’t do it all by I am critically concerned that this get it done, we get it done for the sake Americans; we need the international Government in Iraq now stand up. We of our position in Iraq and certainly community. We need the international have allowed them to form and to forcing the Iraqi Government to community to help us with the human- shape and to vote. They now have a move—those are all phenomenally im- itarian crisis that is in Iraq. The num- Constitution. They now must lead. In portant issues. ber of refugees, displaced individuals, leading, I hope it could be to stability Let me stress two last facts. It is is in the millions. We need the help of to the region and that it will not offset quite simple. The 116th from Idaho, the the international community to deal and throw out of balance what the free largest deployment of Idaho’s troops in with the humanitarian crisis. You are world looks at and says is very impor- this war, was there and served and not going to have peace in Iraq until tant and that is, of course, the war on served honorably and proudly and the you deal with that. terror and the general stability of the work they did was phenomenally im- We need the help of the international Middle East. portant and we are proud of them. Let community on the infrastructure im- Indeed, I think much has been lost in me also suggest that while many will provements, the economy of Iraq. The the debate around this country as to say the general we now send to Iraq is American taxpayers cannot do it alone, the significance of the Middle East the best military mind we have avail- and we have wasted a lot of our tax- itself. I was extremely pleased last able at the moment, the author of the

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:21 Mar 13, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2007SENATE\S07FE7.REC S07FE7 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY February 7, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1667 Army’s war handbook on terror, we are Dr. Kissinger stressed diplomacy, chief, who is responsible to the Amer- saying to General Petraeus: You are something I have long advocated in ican people to lead our military in the best there is, go forth and be suc- this conflict and frankly for any con- times of peace and times of war. It is cessful, but, oh, by the way, we don’t flict. I don’t believe there is one Mem- no mistake that the founding fathers agree with the mission—what kind of a ber of Congress who takes the decision gave the power to declare war to the mixed message is that we now send to lightly to send out troops into combat Congress, but the power to lead the our military? unless we all firmly believe it is a last military to the President. Our soldiers The Senator from Georgia was right. option. I know I certainly didn’t, and I should not have to follow 535 Congres- The world is listening to this debate. know that an overwhelming majority sional ‘‘generals’’ who hold up critical Our men and women in uniform are lis- of both Senators and Congressmen be- funding while they second-guess tac- tening to this debate. The enemies of lieved that as well when we authorized tical decisions of the commander in the cause are listening and saying: Oh, the use of force in Iraq back in 2002. chief and military leaders. the Senate of the United States is get- However, Dr. Kissinger also stressed Over the last few weeks a lot has ting cold feet. Our opportunities are at that under the present conditions in been made of the troop reinforcement hand. All we have to do is wait them Iraq, withdrawal is not an option for President Bush outlined to the Amer- out. All we have to do is accelerate the American forces. Such a withdrawal ican people. Prior to his speech, I and violence, and they will turn out the would have long reaching consequences several other Members of Congress met lights in the green zone and go home. on the war on terror worldwide, could with the President to discuss the cur- Then the world, at least the Iraqi lead to widespread genocide in Iraq and rent situation in Iraq. I made it very world, will erupt in a civil conflict, a possible neighboring countries, as well clear that Idahoans and I cannot con- civil war of phenomenal proportion. as severe economic consequences for tinue to support the status quo; and he Those are the realities we deal with all Middle Eastern countries. It is clear agreed. President Bush has spent the today. I hope this Senate stays on that such a circumstance would man- last many months working with his na- point. This is an issue that is critical date international forces be sent back tional security advisers, commanding to the future of our country, to the fu- into Iraq, but the costs at that point officers in Iraq, Members of Congress ture of the free world, to the region of would be grave. and experts in the field of military the Middle East, to any kind of sta- While most agree that the current issues in order to revise our national bility we hope could be brought there. situation in Iraq must be dealt with po- strategy with regards to Iraq and come I hope we have the votes—and they litically and economically, our mili- up with a new strategy for victory. ought to be up or down—and I don’t tary involvement is critical to pro- Make no mistake, the onus is now on mind being on the record at all. They viding the Iraqis the stability they the Iraqi people and the Iraqi govern- need to be substantive, they need to need to let their new democracy take ment to act, and I was extremely have the force and effect of law, just root. If we pull our troops out of Iraq pleased to hear President Bush reit- not the ring of the politics of the now, or deny them much needed rein- erate that fact. The efforts of our sol- Chamber, because that is what we are forcements as some would like to do, diers have given the Iraqi people a getting today—a heavy dose of politics we risk losing Baghdad and possibly great opportunity to live in a free and and very little substance. the entire country to full blown civil stable country, but they must stand up We hide behind procedure? I don’t war. Under those circumstances, the and accept that responsibility. think so. Let us bring these issues for- government of Iraq would fall, and Iran My home State of Idaho has shared ward. The Craig resolution? Up or and Syria would strengthen their grip some of the burden of this war in Iraq. down. Levin-Warner? Up or down. What on the Middle East, endangering the The 116th Brigade Combat Team served is wrong with those votes? That is national security of America and our courageously for twelve months in what we were sent here to do. I would allies worldwide. Kirkuk and surrounding areas, and hope our leadership could bring us to It is my hope that diplomatic efforts they have since returned home to their that. will continue in a more aggressive families. I had the opportunity to visit So, to reiterate: fashion to bring the international com- them in Iraq and was extremely proud Many people around the country, in- munity to the realization of a failed of the feedback on these soldiers I re- cluding myself, have taken a much State in Iraq, and the real con- ceived from Iraqi government officials, more critical look at the way the war sequences that we all face should our civilians, and U.S. military leaders. I in Iraq has been handled. However, efforts fall short of stabilizing Baghdad would also like to spotlight all Ida- through all the hardships our soldiers and the country as a whole. Because hoans who are serving in the Armed face day-to-day on the streets of Bagh- the consequences are so high, I do not Forces in Iraq, Afghanistan and else- dad and elsewhere in Iraq, it still re- believe that our soldiers’ withdrawal where. I am eternally grateful for their mains evident to me that our success from Iraq should be placed on any service and I will continue to provide in Iraq and the success of the current timetable, and we need to reassure our them with all the support I can give. Iraq government, is critical to the se- soldiers and commanders in Iraq that It is my hope that Members of Con- curity of our Nation, the stability of we will continue to support their ef- gress will not pursue antiwar politics the Middle East, and the fight against forts. After all, they are operating in to the detriment of our soldiers in the terrorism worldwide. Iraq, but the work they are doing will field. Our soldiers have been fighting Indeed, much has been lost in the de- have a far reaching effect to stabilize courageously in Iraq, Afghanistan and bates around this country as to the sig- the Middle East. elsewhere around the world to protect nificance of the greater Middle East Over the past few weeks, there have each and every American life, and I be- stability when looking at the situation been many who have been outspoken lieve it is incumbent for the Congress in Iraq. Our country has maintained a about their disapproval of the Presi- to stand behind them. Numerous bills presence in that region of the world dent’s new plan for Iraq. Not being an and resolutions have been proposed in since World War II, and it should not expert in military tactics, I do not be- the Senate to disapprove of their mis- be a surprise to anyone that many lieve it is my role as a U.S. Senator to sion, cap troop levels, withhold funding countries there depend and rely on our play general for our soldiers as some for the reinforcements, or even com- presence there, both economically and are. Instead, I believe it is my duty in pletely de-fund the troops serving in for their own national security. After Congress to provide our soldiers with Iraq. I cannot and will not support any reviewing the recent transcript of Dr. the resources and funding they require legislation that I see as unproductive Henry Kissinger before the Senate For- to do their job with the best equipment to our current efforts in Iraq, because I eign Relations Committee, I agreed possible, while also pledging my believe it places our forces in greater with many of Dr. Kissinger’s views on unending moral support for the work danger and could embolden our en- the current situation in Iraq as it re- they do each and every day to keep emies to continue their attacks against lates to the Middle East as a whole, Americans safe both at home and innocent Iraqis, Americans and our al- and the severe consequences the inter- abroad. lies. national community will face should Every 4 years the citizens of America In testimony before the Senate Intel- we fail in Iraq. go to the polls to elect a commander in ligence Committee in January of this

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:21 Mar 13, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2007SENATE\S07FE7.REC S07FE7 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S1668 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 7, 2007 year, General Hayden, the Director of sight with respect to U.S. military en- right of recognition—and that, of the CIA, responded to a question re- gagements. However, I do not believe course, is not understood either—but if garding what would happen if we pulled we should cripple the Commander in the majority leader is on the floor and out now from Iraq. Director Hayden re- Chief’s ability to work with our mili- seeks recognition, he gets it ahead of sponded, Three very quick areas: tary leadership to defeat our enemies, everybody else. And if the majority No. 1, more Iraqis die from the disorder in- and passing a resolution condemning leader offers what is called a first-de- side Iraq. No. 2, Iraq becomes a safe haven, the President’s new plan for Iraq would gree amendment to the bill, which is perhaps more dangerous than the one Al do precisely that. Instead, I support substantively identical to the bill but Qaeda had in Afghanistan. And finally, No. 3, resolutions that call for the support of only a technical change, and then the conflict in Iraq bleeds over into the the American people and Congress to again seeks recognition and gets it and neighborhood and threatens serious regional give the President’s plan a chance to offers a second-degree amendment to instability. work. Mistakes have been made, un- the bill, which is substantively the He went on to state that this directly questionably, and the violence in Bagh- same but only a technical change, then and immediately threatens the United dad and Anbar province has grown to a no other Senator may offer any addi- States homeland because it: level that few predicted, but I am not tional amendment. That is a practice provides Al Qaida that which they are at- yet ready to throw in the towel on this which has been engaged in consistently tempting to seek in several locations right President’s new plan and our soldiers’ by both parties for decades, undercut- now, be it Somalia, the tribal area of Paki- ability to assist in stabilizing Iraq be- ting the basic approach of the Senate, stan or Anbar province—a safe haven to rival which enables Senators to offer amend- that which they had in Afghanistan. fore they even get a chance to try. Madam President, I yield the floor. ments and get votes. During his confirmation hearing be- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- The Congressional Research Service fore the Senate Armed Services Com- ator from Pennsylvania is recognized. has tabulated the statistics going back mittee, GEN David Petraeus supported f to the 99th Congress in 1985 and 1986 President Bush’s plan to increase troop when Senator Dole used this procedure levels in Baghdad and Anbar province. PROCEDURAL TACTICS on five occasions. In the 100th Con- In response to questioning before that Mr. SPECTER. Madam President, gress, Senator BYRD, then the majority committee, General Petraeus made it thank you for the recognition. I have leader, used this procedure on three oc- clear he believes that the reinforce- sought recognition to discuss the pro- casions. In the 103d Congress, the next ment of soldiers into Baghdad and cedural situation which confronts the majority leader, Senator Mitchell, used Anbar in Iraq will bolster the Iraqis’ Senate at the present time and to dis- this procedure on nine occasions. When ability to stabilize their government cuss a proposed rule change which Senator Dole became leader again in and defeat the insurgency, instead of would deal with this kind of a problem. the 104th Congress, he used this proce- allowing them to continue to buck that We have pending a motion to proceed dure on five occasions. In the 106th responsibility, as some have asserted. on S. 470, which proposes a disagree- Congress, Senator LOTT, then the ma- Many in Congress have stated pub- ment with the President’s plan to send jority leader, used it nine times. In the licly that this is the last chance the 21,500 additional troops to Iraq. Under 107th Congress, Senator Daschle, then United States has to get it right in the Senate rules, a motion to proceed the majority leader, used it once. He Iraq. If that is the case, I feel there is is debatable, and when we deal with an was only majority leader for about 18 no general better qualified to be in issue of the magnitude of what is hap- months. In the 108th Congress, Senator charge of our ground forces and get pening in Iraq today and the Presi- Frist used it three times, and in the things turned around on the ground dent’s proposal to send additional 109th Congress five times. than General Petraeus. I recognize that troops, it is obviously a matter of great Now, my suggestion is that the par- the American people have grown weary moment. The eyes and ears of the ties ought to declare a truce on this over the last months since the violence country are focused on the Senate. The procedural war of filling the tree which has escalated in Iraq, but I remain op- eyes and ears of the world are focused undercuts the basic thrust of Senate timistic that the Iraqi government, on the Senate. procedure to allow Senators to offer with the aid of our soldiers, can turn So far, what is happening is largely amendments. But the majority leaders things around. misunderstood, but the starting point continue to use it, which they have a I had the pleasure of meeting General is that a motion to proceed is debat- right to under the current rules, which Petraeus during one of my two trips to able. But before debate even began, the is why I am suggesting a change in the Iraq and was very impressed by his majority leader filed a motion for clo- rules. But it will take a little time to knowledge of the situation and his ex- ture, which means to cut off debate. change the rules. We can’t do it imme- pertise in counterinsurgency. I have no Now, a cloture motion would be in diately for the Iraq debate. But it doubt that General Petraeus is the order, but why before the debate has would be my hope that there would be right man to lead our forces in Iraq and even started? The cloture motion is de- a public understanding of what we are I believe that he will overcome the new signed to cut off debate after debate doing, because the most effective proc- challenges he now faces. Let us not has gone on too long. But what lies be- ess in our governmental operations is send the right man and then tell him it hind the current procedural status is public understanding and public pres- is the wrong job. an effort by the majority leader to do sure. We call it a political question. We In closing, while I share the concerns what is called filling the tree, which is call it public understanding to have of many of my colleagues regarding the a largely misunderstood concept, not transparency or an understanding of situation in Iraq, I will support the understood at all by the public gen- what we do, and then the public can President’s plan to provide the rein- erally and even not understood fully by say yea or nay with what is happening, forcements necessary to provide sta- many Members of this body. But the and that is a tremendous force to lead bility in Baghdad and Anbar province. Senate is unique from the House, and Senators and Members of the House of I am hopeful that this plan will give the Senate has been billed as the Representatives to take action, to call the Iraqi government the best chance world’s greatest deliberative body, be- it the right thing, or to take action to stand on their own two feet and cause Senators have the right to offer consistent with sound public policy. make the positive strides necessary to amendments. Now, what is happening today is that take control of the security situation In the House of Representatives they charges are being leveled on all sides. and function as a stable government. It established what is called a rule, and There has been a lot of finger-pointing is this Senator’s personal opinion that they preclude Members from offering with most of the Democrats saying the resolutions condemning the President’s amendments unless it satisfies the Republicans are obstructing a vote—a new way forward send the wrong mes- Rules Committee. In the Senate, gen- debate and a vote on the Iraqi resolu- sage to our soldiers, the Iraqi people, erally a Senator doesn’t have to satisfy tions. And Republicans are saying: and especially our enemies. anybody except his or her own con- Well, we are insisting on our right to I certainly appreciate and support science in offering an amendment. But debate the motion to proceed. We don’t the role of Congress to provide over- if the majority leader, who has the think you should file cloture before the

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Senator WARNER, common parlance to ‘‘fill the tree.’’ of the subject matter, and to have an who is the principal proponent of the But if you ask virtually anybody what opportunity for Senators to vote on a amendment to debate and vote, Sen- is filling the tree, they are going to variety of resolutions or amendments. ator HAGEL, an outspoken critic of the think about an orchard; they are not Ordinarily, we come to agreement on President—doesn’t that say something? going to think about Senate procedure. those matters. Right now we are up I hope we can bring sufficient public But it is called filling the tree. I have against the continuing resolution, clarity to the issue that the majority described it succinctly and briefly to which is about to expire. leader and the Democrats will rethink outline exactly what the procedure is I would suggest we have plenty of their position. As long as the Repub- to stop Senators from offering amend- time to do it all if we start to work a licans are being blamed for not having ments. little earlier. We are on morning busi- debate and a vote, we are not going to There is a clue here that Senator ness until 2 o’clock, which means we have debate and a vote. If the public WARNER—who is the principal pro- can express ourselves and it is not understands both parties are at fault, ponent of the Warner resolution, the wasted time, but it is not the most pro- equal blame on both sides, then there Warner-Levin resolution, which picks ductive time. We don’t come to work may be some movement and some ac- up the substance of the bill which is until late on Monday. We don’t work commodation. currently pending, S. 470—Senator on Friday. Most Americans work a 5- It does not take long for the Amer- day week. Some Americans work 6 and WARNER votes against cloture, and he ican people to see the morass and pro- is the principal proponent of dis- 7 days. So we have time. And we could cedural shenanigans going on and say: agreeing with the President’s plan. work in the evenings, too, when we are We don’t care whether you are a Demo- Well, that ought to tell us something: facing a time limit, or we could have a crat or Republican, the American peo- continuing resolution which was ex- that Senator WARNER is not trying to ple are sick and tired of the bickering tended, so that debate could be put off. stifle debate on a vote on his own ini- that goes on in this Chamber and in But now it is in doubt what is going to tiative, on his own resolution. Senator the House of Representatives. They ex- happen. It is controlled by the major- HAGEL also—who has been character- pressed themselves in the last election. ity, and by the majority leader, and ized as the most outspoken critic of If we cannot do a better job in explain- that is the right of the majority and President Bush’s plan to have a surge— ing ourselves and finding a way to the right of the majority leader. work through and address the sub- voted against cloture. That ought to There have been pronouncements tell us something: that Senator HAGEL that we are not going to come back to stantive problems, the enormous prob- is not trying to defeat debate on a vote this debate and that it is politically ad- lems facing this country—and the No. 1 on what he seeks to accomplish. vantageous for the Democrats to blame today is Iraq—we may all find our- So it would be my hope there would the Republicans for blocking debate on selves seeking new employment. I yield the floor. be a truce. Let me say candidly that I the vote, and that will be the public The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- think there is very little chance there posture. But it is my hope there will ator from New Jersey is recognized. is going to be a truce in the Senate on yet be a recognition of what is going using this procedural rule. It has been Mr. LAUTENBERG. Madam Presi- on. I would be glad to debate anybody dent, we just heard a debate about de- used on both sides. It has been used by who cares to discuss the issue as to bates. It strikes me that this word war Democrats and Republicans when it whether my representations are accu- we are conducting here doesn’t get to suits the partisan advantage of one rate or inaccurate; that the majority the fact that we are losing people every party or another, and suiting the par- leader has the right exercised by ma- day in Iraq—27 Americans died in a tisan party advantage of one party or jority leaders of both parties for at weekend—and our friends on the other another is not consistent with sound least the last two decades to preclude side want to discuss the rules and the public policy and the public interest. amendments being offered and to pre- Right now this debate is being waged process instead of being able to agree clude any consideration by what Re- in the newspapers, it is being waged on that there was a nonbinding resolution publicans have to say on this issue. the talk shows, it is being waged on the We have a Member of the opposite being proposed about whether you Sunday shows, even some of it is being party on the Senate floor. I would be want to see this surge—a la esca- waged on the floor of the Senate, but glad to debate that subject with him lation—of the war in Iraq. Our friends by and large not understood. now. were so conscience-stricken that they I spoke on the subject on Monday, Before the week is up, I will offer a wanted to resort to more words and outlining the rules morass, and largely resolution to change the Senate rules amendments. Why couldn’t we have misunderstood, even by senior mem- to preclude this procedure in the fu- just passed or discussed that non- bers of my own staff not understood. ture, but in the public interest, there binding resolution, let it go, and let You have the Democrats—and I think ought to be a truce declared on it that the debate then continue? Bring on the we ought to rise above the partisan- won’t be used by either side to the dis- debates. But, no, this is the press rela- ship, Democrats and Republicans—say- advantage of the other. The real party tions battle which was just discussed ing they have the high ground and they being disadvantaged is the party of the by our colleague. intend to keep it. Well, I think they American people. That is where the im- That is not what we are looking for. are winning the public relations battle. pact is. We are looking to save lives, American Let’s be candid about it. Democrats are In conclusion—the two most popular lives, but we can’t get to the subject winning the public relations battle. words of any presentation—I hope we because there is a question about what Most people think what is going on, be- can explain, as a starting point, discus- the rules ought to be. The rules ought cause we are opposing ending debate, sions we have in the Senate and follow to be the decency of our consciences— Republicans are opposing ending de- up with explanations in the media, let us make decisions that will save bate, is that we do not want to have which really carries the message to the lives and ease the pain on American the debate and we do not want to have American people. Some people are families. the vote. watching on C–SPAN. I have a family This was an unfortunate dynamic we That is not factually correct. Sen- very interested in the speeches I make saw this week: Republican colleagues ator WARNER, who is proposing it, and from time to time—two sisters and a determined to block the opportunity Senator HAGEL, who is one of the brother-in-law. I talked to them Mon- for the Senate to vote on the Presi- sharpest critics of the President’s plan, day night, and they had no idea what I dent’s war escalation policy for Iraq. and other Senators who are critics of was saying. My staff does not under- Just when the American people want the President’s plan, have voted stand what I am saying. this Congress to stop the President’s against cutting off debate because it is The essence is, the rules being exer- misguided plan, our colleagues on the a big issue which ought to be debated, cised by the majority, by the Demo- other side are hard at work to shut

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We are more body who understands English knows When the Republicans were in the anxious, in many ways, because we that the real definition of ‘‘surge’’ as majority, they said a vote against the called for equipment to be available to used here means ‘‘enlarge’’ or ‘‘esca- President’s policy was cut-and-run, but protect our troops. We called for vehi- late.’’ now the American people are asking cles to be properly armored. We called From this war, we have more than the question, What is the alternative? for the body armor to be developed. 700 Americans who have lost limbs, Stay and die? But we didn’t hear any complaints more than 29,000 suffer from post-trau- In November, the American people about the misdeeds of the contractors matic stress disorder, and over 3,000 spoke with the most effective means who weren’t doing what they were sup- have perished in Iraq, 74 of whom have they have; that is, the ballot box. They posed to be doing. They were not even ties to my home State of New Jersey. said no. They said they want a change. monitored. We are going to talk about Yet President Bush dismisses the in- They voted for a voice against the that. credible cost of this war in lives, inju- President. Now the Republican minor- Our friends in the minority can delay ries, and resources essential for the ity is blocking Congress from speaking. this debate, and I hope the American health and well-being of our people at The President and the minority in public understands what is going on— home, domestic programs. the Senate cannot continue to ignore delay the debates, don’t let us come to After all the previous failures and in- the will of the American people. We al- the conclusion, don’t let the President competence by this administration, ready saw the President ignore his own see that a majority of this Senate does why should the American people allow chosen Iraqi Study Group. First he ap- not want this escalation to take place. the President to do whatever he choos- They will delay this debate and vote points them; then he challenges them es in this war, this war which has de- or ignores them. He ignored the advice for now, but it is going to happen even- stroyed thousands of families’ lives? tually. It will happen because the of GEN John Abizaid, who thinks this Look at the President’s record on Iraq: escalation is a bad idea. He ignored American people are understandably false intelligence on weapons of mass frustrated with the President’s conduct former Secretary of State Colin Pow- destruction; no posted invasion plan ell, who said more troops are not the and mishandling of this war. because the administration was con- Our children are taught a lesson in answer. vinced that we would be greeted with school: If you do things wrong and you When do we say enough is enough? sweets and flowers in a Utopian cele- don’t pass your courses, don’t change Well, I think that time is past due. bration. The President’s team decided your ways, don’t listen to advice, you Outside my office, to remind us all— to fire the entire Iraqi Army, dis- get an F on your report card. In the I am very sensitive to veterans mat- missing 500,000 trained troops who view of many of the American people— ters, to our military, not just because might have been helpful to us in fight- most of the American people—Presi- I served but because they are there to ing this insurgency. Then the Bush ad- dent Bush has gotten an F on his re- protect us. And they do a splendid job, ministration helped create further sec- port card on the handling of the situa- even when they are asked to do more tion in Iraq. But he and the Vice Presi- tarian division by simply banning than the numbers they should have are dent refuse to be held accountable, and members from serving in the new Iraqi not in place, and the equipment has his allies in the Senate are blocking us Government. The administration has not been quite what it ought to be, from holding him accountable. It is not allied itself with an Iraqi Prime Min- delays in producing that. We display a a good lesson for our Nation’s young ister who supports a militia leader memorial outside my office showing people. They see that if they don’t do named Sadr who controlled a terrorist the ‘‘Faces of the Fallen,’’ which says: their work, they fail the course, and militia which disagrees with the for- ‘‘Let Us Never Forget.’’ There are al- the President has not done his work, mation of a stable government. most 3,000 faces outside the door to my and he ought not to get a positive We all saw the waste, fraud, and office. We have them on easels. It was grade for his job thus far. abuse of taxpayer funds by contractors our construction. The name, age, rank, The American people don’t want Con- such as Halliburton. The Iraqi recon- battalion affiliation, and the cause of gress to grant unlimited power to the struction inspector general said that death of each of these Nation’s fallen President and his incompetent crew. nearly $3 billion in U.S. taxpayer dol- servicemembers is inscribed with their Our troops have done a magnificent lars for Iraqi reconstruction has been photo on the memorial. If you look, job, but it is the President and failed lost—lost, vanished, $3 billion. That is you see the ages and how young they leadership at the Pentagon that have not sloppy, that is incompetence. So it were and what they must have meant let them down. is understandable that a giant major- to the families they left behind. Who can forget Secretary Rumsfeld’s ity of the American people are against Friends and visitors search these quote: this escalation. The other side of the photos daily for knowledge of people You go to war with the Army you have, aisle obviously does not want to vote they might know and miss. As they not the Army you might want or wish to consistent with the American people’s search, as they review these pictures, have at a later time. wishes or their prayers. Taxpayers are some write notes in a book of reflec- Frankly, it is a slur, in my view, footing a massive bill for these mis- tions that we have out there. A woman against the troops we have, those cou- takes. from Englewood, NJ, wrote: rageous people over there fighting The administration gave Halliburton a no-bid contract thought to be worth How do we measure their sacrifice? We are right now or at that time. It is a ter- so fortunate to have these brave men and rible message to send to our soldiers. $50 million—well, it surged to $2.5 bil- women. Who can forget when the insurgency lion—to operate Iraqi’s oil infrastruc- first started and our troops were get- ture. And what has that contract yield- A woman from Minnesota says: ting attacked with roadside bombs, ed in oil? Less oil 4 years after the in- This display brings tears to my eyes, to see when President Bush said ‘‘bring ’em vasion than Iraq was producing before how many lives have been lost. Please stop on’’? I wore our Nation’s uniform in the war. Halliburton was forced to pay more boards from being added and bring those who would find themselves memorial- World War II, in Europe, and I can say back $50 million after a fine was lev- ized here home safely. none of us wanted our Commander in eled against them by the Department A Californian simply wrote: Chief taunting the enemy, inviting of Defense. That is why the American them to come on out and fight and people say no surge for Halliburton. Bring them home! maybe kill us. No. To be in harm’s way I was a member of the Department of These are what the American people and have your commander make such a Homeland Security committee in the want, and we ignore them at our own statement from the safety and security previous Congress. I wrote five letters peril. We prevent a vote on this mo- of the White House is appalling. to the chairman asking we have hear- mentous issue at our own peril as well.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:21 Mar 13, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2007SENATE\S07FE7.REC S07FE7 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY February 7, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1671 I close, saying to my colleagues on cies of the United States of America. that. Chaos and ethnic cleansing, death the other side, please stop the insinu- We have committed to funding the pol- to those who put their lives on the line ations that we on this side of the aisle icy that is now being executed. We for freedom and democracy would like- do not want to support our troops. have confirmed the general who will ly result, and more. Bad things would Nothing could be further from the execute that policy. Therefore, that is occur. We have had testimony on that. truth. Many of us, myself included, what we are about. That is the action So to even those few now here in this have been there to meet with our we have taken. Senate who voted against the use of troops and see what they need and see But, in general, let me say this one force, and to our newer Members of the what they want and listen to their more thing because it touched my Senate who are on record as being op- tales of the days they spend in harm’s heart. Less than 30 minutes ago, right posed to the policy, I say let’s get to- way. We want to support them. We sa- out here, I met an Alabamian whose gether. Let’s see how we can deal with lute them. They honor their obligation son is at Fort Benning, a first lieuten- the problems we now face so our Na- to their country, even though we, in ant in the U.S. Army, an infantry offi- tion and its policies can be successful. many cases, disagree with the mission. cer. He thanked me for not going along Few decisions are totally right or to- And when we fool ourselves into be- with this negative resolution idea, and tally wrong. Sometimes things go bet- lieving that all we have to do is to put said: Senator, these soldiers are ter than expected. Sometimes they do more people in harm’s way and we will ‘‘watching what you do like a hawk.’’ not go as well. The test of a healthy get a stabilized government there, we Don’t think what we do is just a gam- and strong nation is how it handles ad- find, in many instances, the recruits bit to embarrass the President. We face versity. they have in the army there are just many difficult decisions, pressures. We To those who oppose our efforts in not capably trained, don’t have the wrestle with competing interests and Iraq, I would say that it would be a de- will, in many instances, to take up the emotions in this Senate. We have high fensible position, I have to say, if you fight. And we want to put more of our hopes and dreams for America. We do feel that strongly about it, to vote to people in there? not all agree, and we should not. Ours cut off funds that would in effect force I think what ought to be done—as is, at its best, a democracy where ro- an immediate withdrawal. But, in many others here do—is to start to bust and intelligent debate informs our truth, even when Senators truly be- whittle down our presence, leave decisions. It makes us better. And we lieve our efforts in Iraq were a mis- enough of a resource there to help should respect one another even while take, a mature patriotic assessment of train those people, maybe instill some we disagree. But this is a big deal. the short and long-term consequences courage in their view of what their re- Lives are at stake. But this is what de- of such a withdrawal must be consid- sponsibilities are, get enough people in mocracy is about. I want to be sure ered. the flow—the Iraqi people—and plan to that when I say I believe someone is Immediate withdrawal is not a good get them home as soon as we prac- making a mistake, I am not attacking option. It is not a good option. That is tically can. their character. obviously why so many of our Demo- With that, I yield the floor. In the end, if a democracy cannot cratic colleagues who are not happy The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. reach a decision on important issues, with this war have not proposed such a MENENDEZ). The Senator from Ala- act decisively and execute those deci- step. bama. sions, it will be weak and it will fall The one thing that is not acceptable Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. President, I wish prey to the cruel, the despotic, and the is to take action—to take any action to share some thoughts about the situ- strong. In order to avoid indecisiveness or concrete steps—to further the Presi- ation we find ourselves in. I do feel and weakness, there are some impor- dent’s policy and then to vote for a res- some obligation to comment on the na- tant common principles we must share. olution that makes it less likely to ture of the debate we are having, al- They are built, I believe, on love of succeed. This is especially true when though I do not want to descend into country and a sincere belief in and ad- this Congress has committed our mili- partisanship. miration for this great Republic we tary personnel to this task, placing I would say that Senator SPECTER, I serve. That is the unifying principle. them in harm’s way to execute the believe, is absolutely correct when he An extended, dangerous, and costly mission this Republic has given them. says the Republican Members of this war in Iraq is not what we had hoped Our military personnel have placed body are not afraid to vote. They are would occur when over three-fourths of their very lives, their every waking prepared to vote on the Warner resolu- the Members of this body—and I was moment, on the line to achieve the tion. They are prepared to vote on the here—voted to authorize the use of mission that is assigned to them. They McCain resolution. They will vote on force against Saddam Hussein. Cer- are doing that every day. I have been the Judd Gregg resolution. But the tainly, I had hoped and have always fa- there five times. We have a moral re- problem is the Democratic leadership vored bringing troop levels down as sponsibility to them that must not be only wants one vote, and that is a vote soon as we can. The difficulties we face lightly broken. on their resolution. So we have had a have caused, understandably, much That commitment also goes to those vote. Less than 50 voted to go forward. unease and frustration in our country. many allies who have supported us, our So I do not see how we are at a point Things have not been going well. That friends in the region, and the good and where it can be suggested the members is a true fact. The circumstances are decent Iraqis who voted for and stood of this side are afraid to have a vote. grave, and our efforts in Iraq could fail, up for democracy and freedom. Why are they afraid to have two as General Casey and his replacement, If this is a true concept—and I be- more votes, I would ask? I am not General Petraeus, have made clear, al- lieve it is—then I urge, with respect afraid to vote. I know how I would vote though, in truth, these professionals and with deep sincerity, that my col- on those amendments. I am going to have also made it clear they believe we leagues do not give their support to vote against the amendment that dis- can and will succeed if we carry out the any resolution that is likely to make approves of the policies we are sending new policy that is now being projected our praiseworthy goal of a free and sta- our troops to execute. And I am going in Iraq. ble Iraq more difficult to achieve. to vote for the other amendments of A congress of a nation, constructed A resolution that is not binding but MCCAIN and GREGG—if I had the like ours, that aspires to be a great na- adversely impacts our efforts, with all chance. That is a minimum. There may tion and a great congress must con- due respect, is a vote that cannot be be others. Senator SPECTER indicated sider how it should respond to such dif- justified. Other than perceived personal he would like to vote on something ficult circumstances in this winter of political benefits, or ‘‘making a state- else. our discontent. How, now, should we ment,’’ what benefit does such a vote But in truth, as I have said before, I think about the tough challenges we provide our Nation’s efforts? It has no am not happy about this whole resolu- face? impact. Negative resolutions, there- tion process. We are not in the business First, I believe the results of a failure fore, can only place our soldiers, whom of resolutions here. We are in the busi- and a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq we sent to execute this policy, at ness of funding or not funding the poli- are grave and ominous. No one disputes greater risk. It can only place them at

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I believe we through. Let’s pull back from this not be done. Let’s meet with General need to give General Petraeus a precipice—not just from this vote but Pace and General Casey and Secretary chance. from votes in Congress that may come Gates; let’s read the periodic reports We have lost over 3,000 lives in our in the future. Let’s reassert our time- that General Petraeus will be sending Iraq effort. The losses, in my view, are honored tradition that ‘‘politics stops and spend more time keeping up with less than expected during the initial at the water’s edge,’’ that politics must the situation on the ground in Iraq, assault on Baghdad in Iraq and far never place soldiers at unnecessary rather than on polling numbers in our more than I expected in the aftermath. risk. Let us not go down the road of States. If we then reach a point of no Much of this, I am sure, was the result passing resolutions whose only purpose return, when our honest and best judg- of errors we made. Much arises from is to emote, to express doubt about our ment is that success is not possible, the inherent difficulties of the tasks Nation’s decided policy during a time then we can join with those few who that were underestimated. Of that, of great challenge and risk. are prepared to cast votes to force an there can be no doubt. But no Govern- A Senate of a great nation doesn’t end to our deployment in Iraq. That is ment agency even comes close to our use a toothless resolution to vent. what we are supposed to do. military in being brutally honest and What good does such a thing do? Sure- Certainly, at this point, none can doing after-action reports and self- ly, we all understand, as did our honestly say that we know what the evaluations. That is going on now and Founders, that there can only be one outcome will be. I wish I could give full will continue for years. They are a policy, one Commander in Chief, and assurance of success, but I cannot. We magnificent force. I can only believe one Congress. The Congress can cut off do know this is a very difficult time. that if we truly support them, as a funds and stop it, if they are so strong- Al-Qaida is still active, despite heavy great Senate and a great Congress ly committed to do so. But we are not losses and an inability—we may thank should when they are executing the doing that. the Lord—to attack us again on our policies we have directed them to exe- How have we slid into such a muddle? homeland, so far. The Iraqi Govern- cute, they will be successful. I further The answer is that politics seems to ment has not been strong and decisive, believe it is premature for us to with- have taken over everything around and violence, especially in Baghdad, draw. We owe it to those State Depart- here; it infects our very being, even has steadily increased. The al-Qaida at- ment officials, other Government agen- during war. It is a dangerous trend. We tack on the Samarra Mosque last Feb- cies, NGOs, patriotic Iraqi civilians are used to ‘‘splitting the difference’’ ruary, designed to create sectarian vio- who voted for a new and better Iraq, to here. Compromise is the nature of the lence in the country, succeeded in the Iraqi security forces who have game, we are told, and indeed it is. You sparking a spate of sectarian killing taken more casualties than we have, to favor a $100 million program, perhaps, and reprisals that continue today. those international allies who have and I oppose it; and maybe we end up Still, General Abizaid and General stood with us in Iraq and, most of all, compromising on $50 million. The thing Casey, our former commander, and to our military personnel who have may have worked at $50 million, or it General Petraeus, our new commander, given their heroic best to accomplish might have been a failure at $50 mil- know the true situation there better our Nation’s just and decent goals in lion. Who knows? But we compromise. than we do. General Abizaid has been Iraq, to give this new policy and Gen- But that is about money. This is about there four years, I believe, and General eral Petraeus a chance. I think they war, about the life and death of people, Casey, 30 months. They have lived it. can and will do it. But I do not doubt as fine as you can find in this country, They have studied it. They sincerely the difficulties and I do not doubt there who volunteered to serve us. believe and have publicly stated, under is uncertainty. Some may say it is not certain that oath, that this surge of American If, heaven forbid, our efforts do not negative resolutions will weaken the troops, with a surge of Iraqi troops and prevail, it will be appropriate to com- resolve of our friends and hurt the mo- the new tactics to be employed, can pletely rethink our commitment to rale of our soldiers and embolden our lead to the goals that we seek—a sta- Iraq. So why do we want to pass a reso- enemies. Logic, however, says it will. ble, peaceful, and prosperous Iraq. It lution? Senator REID says he wants to Maybe you disagree. But how can it be can be successful. We should not be provide Senators a chance to show otherwise? Logic says it will. General overly negative. Indeed, I asked this their disapproval of the President’s Petraeus said it well a few days ago. question of General Petraeus. A few policy. With respect, Senator REID Negative resolutions will likely have days ago in his testimony, he said he has—I know it is unwitting and unin- negative consequences on our policy would not take this job if he didn’t be- tentional—crossed the line there. It is and place at greater risk the lives and lieve he would succeed. General clear that this resolution, which has no health of our soldiers. What other pur- Petraeus commanded the 101st Air- binding effect and is only a political pose is there for this resolution, other borne Division when they went into document, is not necessary, does not than to somehow ratchet up the effort northern Iraq, in Mosul. He did a fabu- help, and I totally oppose it. It is to force an abandonment of the policy lous job. They jokingly called him the wrong, in my view. we have funded and we are now exe- ‘‘mayor of Mosul.’’ We toured the area While our soldiers are courageously cuting. the projects he had worked to estab- placing their lives on the line for us, Indeed, the whole world will think lish. He understands the need of walk- and while there is no serious sugges- such a resolution that expresses only ing the streets and talking with the tion that we should cut off the funds ‘‘feelings’’ represents a weakening of Iraqi people and encouraging them to for the surge the Commander in Chief American will, even while the actual take over their country. He came has ordered and which the Baker-Ham- policy we are funding is to increase our home, and then they asked him to go ilton group suggested might be nec- strength and commitment to the Iraq back and train the Iraqi security forces essary, a toothless resolution is the effort. Think about it. As their founda- and he agreed to do so. He left his fam- wrong thing to do. I am certainly glad tions, these negative resolutions can ily again and went back and spent a it did not garner many votes. only be described as totally contradic- year in Iraq. I am sure he knows every So can we, for a while at least, stand tory to our policy that we are at this top general by name in the Iraqi Army, united in our good and worthy efforts moment executing. New troops are or virtually all of them. He spent an- to help the people of Iraq achieve a de- moving there right now. Some have al- other year there doing that. Then he cent, peaceful and stable Government? ready arrived in Iraq. Have you not came back and he spent a year drafting Can’t we do that? The challenge re- heard that? and writing the Department of Defense mains great. The costs are high. I say

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Just a few years ago, nearly the sional, and realistic evaluation of what killed since the war began, 17 of whom entire world stood at America’s side to do next will fall into our hands. We are from Montana, there have been following the attacks on September 11. should complete that task effectively, more than 23,000 wounded in Iraq and That good will has long since been giving our best effort and judgment to Afghanistan. Many will come home squandered. it. missing one or more limbs. Others will And finally, an exit strategy? The I yield the floor. return home to battle posttraumatic President has proposed sending 21,500 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- stress disorder. more troops into Iraq as a strategy for ator from Nevada is recognized. Last week, I joined several of my col- victory. Staying the course by esca- Mr. ENSIGN. Mr. President, I ask leagues, along with two Iraqi war vet- lating this war only spells disaster. unanimous consent that the Senator erans, and called on the administration This country should no longer tol- from Montana be recognized next for to get serious about funding for vet- erate, nor can it afford, an open-ended up to 15 minutes, to be followed by my- erans health care. I renew that call conflict that has claimed more than self for up to 10 minutes. today for permanent mandatory full 3,000 lives, injured more than 23,000, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there funding of VA health care. There is no and cost the United States taxpayers $2 objection? reason veterans should be forced to billion every week. Recently, the President proposed Mr. INHOFE. Reserving the right to come to us every year hat in hand and sending 21,500 more troops into down- object, I further ask unanimous con- beg for funding. It should be perma- town Baghdad. But according to the sent that after the completion of the nent, and it should be fully funded. Congressional Budget Office, that actu- remarks of the Senator from Nevada, Right now, it is neither. ally means almost 50,000 additional and after one other Democrat, I be rec- Our country’s veterans do not seek, troops when you include the 28,000 ognized for up to 10 minutes. nor do they expect, recognition from troops needed to provide critical sup- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there their Commander in Chief, nor the port to those combat troops. This could objection? American people. But we owe them not cost up to $27 billion to sustain over Without objection, it is so ordered. only the recognition but also the prom- the next year. That would be more The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- ise that we will care for them and their than three times the largest estimate ator from Montana is recognized. families when they return. of troop escalation costs provided by Mr. TESTER. Mr. President, I rise Following the gulf war, the Chairman the Bush administration. today on behalf of the thousands of of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, GEN Colin The addition of almost 50,000 Amer- Montanans who have lost faith in the Powell, outlined his plan for efficient ican troops means more American way this administration is conducting and decisive military action, now re- young men and women without ade- the war in Iraq. ferred to as the Powell doctrine. quate body armor riding in ill-armored Our troops have given more than The Powell doctrine clearly outlines humvees into one of the most dan- most of us can imagine. This adminis- what U.S. military action should look gerous combat zones in history. Histor- tration has asked much of them. They like: ical data from this war tells us that should be commended for their per- Military action should be used only sending 21,500 troops into Iraq will formance in a war that has been mis- as a last resort and only if there is a mean that between 300 and 500 addi- managed from the get-go. clear risk to the national security by tional soldiers will die in Iraq than if In 1972, deep into the Vietnam war, the intended target. this escalation were not to occur. the great Senator, the great states- Force, when used, should be over- Adding more troops is not a strategy, man, Senator Mike Mansfield, whose whelming and disproportionate to the it is a tactic, and it is not a new one. seat I am now honored to hold, spoke force used by the enemy. There have been four such troop esca- of a great nation. When times demand There must be strong support for the lations in Iraq so far, and to what end? it, it is wise for us to take a step back campaign by the general public. What benefit has been realized by this and look at those who served before us. And last, there must be a clear exit country, the Iraqi people, or the re- Standing not far from where I stand strategy from the conflict in which the gion? today, Senator Mansfield said: military is engaged. The long-awaited National Intel- Mr. President, it does no great nation any One by one, this administration has ligence Estimate, prepared collectively harm to admit that a mistake has been violated every principle of the Powell by 16 intelligence agencies for the made. And sometimes when nations and men doctrine and, as a result, we are lost in President, was released last week. It will do so, they will be the bigger and the Iraq and alone in the world. paints a bleak picture of the deterio- better for it. Clear risk to national security? Prior rating situation in Iraq, and it de- Many years later, Mansfield would to the invasion, the administration scribes the urgent need for conditions say that when he was gone, he wanted claimed that Iraq’s nuclear capabilities to be reversed measurably to stop the to be forgotten. We have not forgotten made it a grave threat to America’s na- violence and widespread polarization of Mike Mansfield, and we must not for- tional security, allegations that proved the Iraqi society. get his measured approach to diplo- to be false. So I call on the President to heed the macy, his steady hand, and the lesson Overwhelming force? The administra- grave warnings of the National Intel- that admitting a mistake is the first tion was unprepared for the dangers of ligence Estimate, to listen to his own step in correcting it. urban combat, for improvised explosive Iraq Study Group, the Congress, and It is time we debate the facts of this devices, and continues to send troops the American people. situation so this country’s leaders can into harm’s way without proper armor. Last month, my colleague Senator make the right decisions. It is unconscionable that these soldiers BAUCUS called on the administration to I have said for more than a year that are being sent into battle without all map a new course in Iraq. Senator BAU- this war is being conducted without a of the tools they need to be safe and CUS said we must not escalate the con- plan for success and there is no end in successful. It is unacceptable to send flict, we must train Iraqi troops to sight. For too long, this body has re- them there with no plan for, or defini- stand up for themselves, we must start fused to ask the tough questions, to de- tion of, success. bringing our troops home as soon as bate the merits of this war, and has not Public support? Perhaps the most possible, and we must engage Iraqi’s held the President accountable for the significant difference between the first neighbors and the world community. deteriorating situation in Iraq. gulf war and the war in Iraq is the lack He was right then; he is right today. Disturbingly, recent reports confirm of support from our allies. Like World The solution for a new course in Iraq that our invasion of Iraq has created War II, the gulf war was successful be- will not be solely a military one.

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I think I re- sponded to the question before: That if the of this complexity and magnitude. forces in Iraq by sending additional military commanders in Iraq said, we need, The President needs to set a timeline American soldiers and marines to for X number of months, 20-plus, 25,000, to give the Iraqi people military con- Baghdad and Al Anbar Province in an troops to do this mission, and with a reason- trol of their country. It should be the effort to bring stability to that volatile able certainty of success, I would have to lis- Iraqi Army—not Montanans, not Amer- part of that country. ten to that proposal, certainly. icans—disarming bombs and guarding For some time now, Senators have Well, Mr. President, within the last 2 bridges. The administration needs to been clamoring for President Bush to weeks, there have been additional de- reinvest in special forces and human send additional troops to Iraq. They velopments that would seem to add intelligence if we are to win the real criticized him for trying to accomplish weight to the argument that this tem- war on terror. our goals in Iraq without committing porary reinforcement of our troops cur- Nearly 4 years have passed, more sufficient resources to get the job done. rently in Iraq is not only warranted than a half a trillion dollars have been Look, the President has recognized but necessary to the overall national spent, more than 3,000 American sol- that a change in strategy is absolutely purpose. Those developments are the diers have died since the President an- necessary. Many have previously called unanimous confirmation by this Sen- nounced that major combat operations for this same strategy. But it appears ate of General Petraeus, who is to be- in Iraq had ended and told us: ‘‘Mission to this Senator that because it is the come the new commander—he is the Accomplished.’’ President’s plan, some Senators are new commander of the Iraqi multi- Funding for this war and its success predisposed against it. or failure should have been debated A simple review of newspaper and national force—also, the testimony of long ago. It is time for a real debate on Sunday talk show transcripts reveals the Iraq Study Group cochairman, rel- the direction and strategy of this war, some Senators appear to have sup- ative to the President’s plan, before starting with the President’s proposal ported the surge before they were the Senate Committee on Foreign Re- for escalation. against the surge. Senator KERRY on lations, and the public release of the The President must also tell the NBC’s ‘‘Today’’ program on June 29, National Intelligence Estimate report American people what success means 2005: on the prospects for Iraq’s stability. and how it should be quantified. If suc- We don’t have enough troops in Iraq.... During his confirmation hearing, cess is free elections in Iraq, then we There aren’t enough people on the ground. General Petraeus, also the author of should have been gone 2 years ago. If . . . The way you honor the troops and the the Army’s new counterinsurgency success is toppling Saddam Hussein, way you provide a policy to America is to do manual, stressed the fact that he could then we should have been gone 3 years everything possible to win. not succeed in providing needed secu- ago. If it is something else, then the Senator DURBIN on December 21, 2006: rity for the citizens of Baghdad and Al administration needs to be honest with If we need initially some troops in Bagh- Anbar Province without the additional the American people and identify a dad, for example, to quiet the situation, troops called for in the President’s clear and achievable outcome. make it more peaceful so that our soldiers plan. I support the Warner-Levin resolu- start coming home, then I would accept it. General Petraeus further testified at tion opposing the President’s plan to Mr. President, that is exactly what his hearing that it was his opinion that escalate the war in Iraq. But I want to General Petraeus has said, and Sec- any resolution which stated the Senate be clear: I view the Warner-Levin reso- retary Gates before the Armed Services did not support the strategy to be car- lution as only a first step. We have a Committee said the same thing. It is ried out by our men and women in uni- duty to debate the escalation on its an initial surge to try to get Baghdad form in Iraq would be harmful to their merits and let both sides be heard. under control so we can begin bringing morale. Are we going to support Gen- This week’s efforts to delay a vote on our troops home. eral Petraeus or not? The one resolu- Warner-Levin do nothing to make our Senator DODD on December 18, 2006, tion before us, I believe, is not sup- troops safer. Blocking an up-or-down said: porting General Petraeus and the vote on this resolution does nothing to I’d be willing to support some additional troops. bring this bloody war any closer to its people if we needed it in order to get the job Last week, the Senate Committee on done. close. Foreign Relations held a hearing on I have been here not too long—just a He further said: America’s interests in Iraq, at which month—and I am still learning the Show me some demonstrable evidence that the witnesses were the Iraq Study ropes, but make no mistake, we should they are coming together as a people—Shias Group cochairman, former Secretary of deliberate, we should not rush to judg- and Sunnis—sitting down and recognizing that they have an obligation to come to- State James Baker, and former Con- ment or sentence, but that does not gether as a people. Then I’d be willing to gressman Lee Hamilton. Secretary mean we should not debate. support some additional people if we needed Baker referenced the Iraq Study For 3 days we have been debating it in order to get the job done. Group’s report in articulating that about whether we should debate the Senator LEVIN in January of 2007 group’s position on additional troops to President’s plan to escalate the war in said: Iraq. He stated: Iraq. I have been all over Montana in A surge would be worth considering. The We could support a short-term redeploy- the last couple of years, and every- American people are skeptical about getting ment or surge of American combat forces to where I went people were and continue in deeper . . . But if it is truly conditional stabilize Baghdad or to speed up the training to be deeply concerned about the war. upon the Iraqis actually meeting milestones and equipping mission if the U.S. Com- They didn’t all agree, but there was al- and if it’s part of an overall program of troop mander in Iraq determines such steps would ways a lively and passionate debate. reduction that would begin in the next four be effective. The only two conditions are Not a single person told me we should to six months, it’s something that would be short-term and commander in Iraq deter- debate about whether to have a debate. worth considering. mines it would be effective. Both of those conditions have been met. Our troops, the American people, and Once again, in testimony before the the Iraqi people deserve an open and Senate Armed Services Committee yes- Mr. Hamilton made it clear his belief honest discussion. We need to ask the terday, that is exactly what Secretary that the President’s plan ought to be tough questions, we need to demand Gates said, that it is a temporary surge given a chance. He said: the answers, and we need to bring our in order to try to bring the troops We did not, in the Iraq Study Group report, troops home as safely and as quickly as home. come to the conclusion that it was hopeless possible. Senator BIDEN on June 29, 2005, said: and, therefore, we should just pull out imme- I thank the Chair. There’s not enough force on the ground diately. I yield the floor. now to mount a real counterinsurgency. The much anticipated and just re- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Senator JACK REED, in a press con- leased National Intelligence Estimate ator from Nevada. ference on November 29, 2006, said: report entitled ‘‘Prospects for Iraq’s

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:21 Mar 13, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2007SENATE\S07FE7.REC S07FE7 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY February 7, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1675 Stability: A Challenging Road Ahead’’ There are always uncertainties in war. we will be fighting them in Philadel- was quite candid in its assessment that Let us all pray, for all our sakes, that phia, in Pittsburgh, in Kansas City, in if coalition forces are withdrawn with- this new way works. Los Angeles, and in Seattle. We will be in the next 12 to 18 months, we will see Last week, I stood here and spoke playing defensive until, once again, significant increase in the scale and about what I thought needed to be done just as occurred after 9/11, our resolve scope of sectarian conflict in Iraq. in Iraq. I acknowledged that mistakes hardens and we summon up the cour- Mr. President, we need to accept the have been made in this war and that I age to destroy the enemy. And we must fact that we are engaged in a struggle did not believe we should be playing because the alternative is what hap- of biblical proportions. In true Amer- politics while our soldiers and marines pened to Rome: Factions of internal ican fashion, though, we are doing the are deployed and fighting against an strife kept the great power tied up for right thing. We are attempting to free enemy bent on destroying our country so long that it lost its strength, its a people from a life of tyranny and vio- and our way of life. I called on my fel- will, and its resolve. The period fol- lence. We are also in a struggle against low Senators then to set party dif- lowing was known as the Dark Ages, the forces of evil who are bent on our ferences aside and focus on winning and this is indeed what al-Qaida seeks. destruction. Do we pack up and leave, this war. I am here again this after- Our country represents the light of even though every voice of reason tells noon making that same plea. freedom and democracy. Yet I fear we us that Iraq would implode into a ter- Mr. President, I yield the floor. have begun a terrible introspective and rorist state used by al-Qaida as a The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- downward cycle. Our resolve lasts for a launching pad against the infidels, ator from Oklahoma. few months, maybe a year, but all it reminiscent of Afghanistan under the Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, I notice takes is enough time and then we Taliban? And those infidels, they there are no other Members here, so I break. Our enemy knows this. We can think, are us. ask unanimous consent that I be recog- look to our mission in Somalia in 1933, As Senator MCCAIN has reminded us nized for up to 15 minutes as in morn- at our reaction to the bombings in Leb- time and again, Iraq is not Vietnam. ing business. anon at the Khobar Towers and in Viet- When we left South Vietnam, the Viet The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without nam. I am not saying we necessarily Cong did not pursue us back to our objection, it so ordered. should have stayed in Vietnam, but I shores. Al-Qaida is not the Viet Cong. Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, the Sen- am saying we must recognize that Al-Qaida has sworn to destroy us and is ator from Nevada expressed my feel- while this introspection guarantees our committed to bringing their brand of ings in a much more articulate way freedom, it is also our greatest weak- terror to America. than I ever could, and one of the last ness. President Bush never said the strug- things he said is: Mistakes have been There have been no major terrorist gle for freedom in Iraq would be easy. made in this war. I would suggest mis- attacks on U.S. soil since 9/11. There But since the President is the one who takes have been made in every war. have been attempts, and we know we said that, maybe it doesn’t ring quite Winston Churchill once said: have thwarted over 10 operations. How- as true to some. Maybe by quoting an- Never, never, never believe any war will be ever, we also know these were rel- other who spoke passionately about smooth and easy. Always remember, however atively underdeveloped and small in similar struggles for freedom, the point sure you are that you could easily win, that scale. I wish to ask a dark question: could be made more clearly. Back in there would not be a war if the other man did Why has al-Qaida not struck again? Be- 1857, Frederick Douglass spoke about not think he also had a chance to win. cause they cannot? We have stepped up the struggle he knew for freedom. He This statement was made many years our security, but they have shown their said: ago, but it is relevant today. Today, we destructive creativity in the past. Be- The whole history of the progress of human face an enemy who is determined, cause they are focused on Iraq and Af- liberty shows that all concessions yet made adaptive, and willing to go to any ghanistan? Perhaps. But I would sug- to her august claims have been born of ear- means of terror and violence to win. He gest another option. What if they have nest struggle. If there is no struggle, there is cannot be negotiated with, and he will chosen not to. What if they have real- no progress. Those who profess to favor free- not be satisfied until the entire world dom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men ized the strategy of restraint, pricking who want crops without plowing up the is brought under his dreadful ideology. us just enough to launch ourselves at ground. They want rain without thunder and We have seen this kind before. We them, and then they fade back. We ex- lightning. They want the ocean without the saw it with Stalin, with Pol Pot, and pend ourselves attacking new enemies, awful roar of its many waters. with Hitler, but never before has an building countries, and undermining We are introducing freedom to a enemy metastasized this way. There is each other. Politics and personal rep- country and a region that has no his- no centralized headquarters we can utations create an impetus of their tory of such freedoms. We cannot ex- bomb, no one leader we can eliminate. own. pect to spread freedom and democracy We will continue to strike terrorism We should debate. That is exactly to this region simply by wishing it so. where it appears and track down its what the Senate body is intended to do. We currently have soldiers and ma- leaders but know this will not end the But do not undermine. The new com- rines in harm’s way. We have a plan be- conflict. Victory will come the way it mander in Iraq, General Petraeus, has fore us that will aid their mission. always has. We will destroy the en- stated that a resolution of disapproval That mission is to achieve success and emy’s belief he can win. would hurt his efforts. This is the new leave behind a stable and democratic Any resolution against the Presi- guy. Let us keep in mind that we voted Iraq. Yet there are those among us who dent’s plan does two things: It tells the unanimously to confirm General want to cut and run. There are some enemy, No. 1, that they have been suc- Petraeus to take over that very dif- among us who simply want to cut and cessful; and, No. 2, it gives them pa- ficult job. When asked by Senator LIE- walk. And then there are others who tience to wait us out. They are a very BERMAN about the effect a resolution of want to have it both ways. They want patient people. We have already done disapproval would have on our troops to express their opposition to the idea ourselves damage by bringing the issue and our enemies, General Petraeus of sending additional troops to Iraq to the public eye. Do you believe they stated that: without having to do anything that do not watch our news; that they are This is a test of will at the end of the day. might actually translate their opposi- not scouring our media for any hope or A commander in such an endeavor would ob- tion to a reality on the ground. any chink in our resolve? Don’t be so viously like the enemy to feel there is no I belong to another group of think- naive. Their very survival depends on hope. ers. I belong to a group who believes it. This is the only way they can hope That is what General Petraeus said. General Petraeus’s plan deserves a to win. If we cannot destroy their will, He went on to say he does need more chance. I believe the temporary surge we will destroy them. troops and he believes the new plan can in the number of soldiers and marines This sounds brutal and not very rec- work. in Baghdad and Al Anbar is our best onciling, but I intend it that way. I recognize there have been mistakes chance at getting this right. None of us There is a clear choice and no other op- made in Iraq, as we have talked about. knows for sure whether it will work. tion. If we do not fight them in Iraq, The President has also recognized this.

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The vote should stand our soldiers in harm’s way and the that happen. by itself, not shrouded by other meas- American people they are pledged to I yield the floor. ures that are designed not to address protect. I think we all agree it would The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- the concerns of American people but be disastrous to leave Iraq precipi- ator from Rhode Island. simply to give the President additional tously. If we do, we know we can ex- Mr. REED. Mr. President, we have cover. pect increased levels of violence, the come to a critical crossroads with re- spect to our operations in Iraq. After What has happened since the last 3- spread of extremist ideology, and Iraq plus years, from the invasion of Iraq— itself collapsing into anarchy. the Iraq Study Group spent months considering the issue of the best policy indeed, preceding the invasion of Iraq, A personal friend of mine, who actu- in this Senate, under the control of the ally was a commander at Fort Sill in going forward, suggesting a phased re- deployment along with other measures, Republicans, has not done a good job at Oklahoma, General Maples, stated all of oversight, of investigation, of that: diplomatic measures that would en- hance the security of the United States asking critical questions. Where was Continued Coalition presence is the pri- the Republican leadership, in the fall mary counter to a breakdown in central au- and protect our soldiers there in Iraq, thority. Such a breakdown would have grave the President had the opportunity to of 2002 and early 2003, when they should consequences for the people of Iraq, stability accept those recommendations. It was have been asking a simple question: in the region, and the U.S. strategic interest. a bipartisan panel of eminent Ameri- What if we win the conventional bat- John Negroponte and the CIA Director, cans—James Baker and Lee Hamilton tle? What about the occupation? Where General Hayden agree with that, as does is the plan? Where are the resources? General Petraeus. So it is not too late to and so many others. The President spe- cifically rejected them, not just in sub- How many Americans will it take to avoid this. I don’t think it is time to start secure a large country with a popu- cutting our losses and just hope it goes stance but in tone. In his speech a few away. We have heard the President ask for weeks ago, he declared that he had lation of about 26 million people, with our support. learned very little from the Iraq Study a history of intersectarian tensions, Let me share, on a personal note, Group, that he was not committed to a with a history of a colonial past under that I have had the occasion to be in phased redeployment, he was com- the British that has established, some Iraq more than any other Member of mitted to an escalation of approxi- would say artificially, the boundaries either the House or the Senate, some 12 mately 20,000 troops and a change in of this nation? Those questions were times now, and the first thing I do is tactics in Baghdad. not asked seriously and consistently talk to the troops. The troops come up I think he had the opportunity at and, as a result, this administration to me, and the first question they ask that moment to do several things. made huge mistakes when it came to is: Why is it the media doesn’t like us? First, he could have accepted the wis- the issue of how to successfully trans- Why is it they are constantly under- dom of the Iraq Study Group. But, late a conventional victory against the mining our efforts here? Why is it the more important, he could have commu- Iraqi military forces into a successful American people don’t understand or nicated to the American public that his transition to a stable country. Now we appreciate what we are doing? I say, policy was based on the reality in Iraq, see Iraq enthralled in doubt and vio- yes, the American people do, but a lot that he had learned from a series of lence that seems to be unable to be of the politicians don’t act that way. mistakes he and his administration quenched. Our American forces are in I have been very much concerned had made, and that he could have sus- the middle of that. about this, and I believe any resolu- tained a way forward in Iraq. He didn’t It is interesting, when we come to tion, and we are talking about five or do that, and I think the American peo- this point, to look seriously at the Na- six resolutions now, any resolution ple reacted as they should have re- tional Intelligence Estimate. One of that is a resolution of retreat would be acted, with declining confidence in his the grave deficiencies we recognize a resolution of surrender. leadership and, frankly, posing the fun- today—some of us recognized it in Oc- I think it is ludicrous for any Mem- damental question of, How does one tober of 2002—is that the intelligence ber to say I support the troops but I sustain any policy when 70 percent of being used to sell this operation was don’t support their mission. You try to the U.S. population considers it to be flawed. Now I think we have a much explain that to them. I talked to the erroneous and not in the best interests more precise and carefully adjusted troops in Fallujah. In all this discus- of this country going forward? I believe view of what is happening in Iraq sion about, do we need to be training the President squandered the last op- today. the Iraqis to be fighting their own portunity he had to rally people behind If you look at the NIE, it presents to war—sure we do. That is what we have his policy. us some profound contradictions. been doing. We have been doing that Now we are in the midst of a debate, First, and I agree with this assess- since we arrived on the scene in Iraq, we hope, about that policy. We are ment, is that the violence today is and they are very proud and they are being stymied in terms of bringing this principally the result of sectarian con- taking the frontal positions right now. to the floor in a clear and clarion vote flict. The accelerators that raise the The Iraqis are doing a good job. Their that tells the American people where training has been good. Their equip- we stand as individual Senators with tempo of this violence can be found in ment is not good, but it is getting bet- respect to the President’s plan for esca- the insurgent groups, al-Qaida in Iraq, ter, it is improving. lation. We are being frustrated in the some of these Shia militias, but the un- I stood there at the last election in sense that there is an attempt to derlying battles today are between sec- Fallujah when our marines were there present other issues and not the issue tarian groups. The NIE describes this and I talked, through an interpreter, to of the moment, the issue under debate. as a winner-take-all approach, as an the Iraqi security forces, and they said There is no debate about our support existential battle between Shias—who they are very proud. We are going to be for American soldiers around the globe feel a sense of insecurity given the his- in a position—please stay with us until and marines and sailors and airmen tory, particularly the last decade, of we can hold our own here, and that and airwomen. We support them. We total oppression by a Sunni minority— won’t be too long. I know that is true. think their mission should be changed and Sunnis, who feel a sense of entitle- I know they have come up with the to protect them and to advance the in- ment that is going to be frustrated by numbers, now, that would be equal to terests of our country, but there is no the new, emerging order in Iraq. These about 10 divisions. I believe this can stinting in our support of these valiant existential battles, as the NIE indi- happen. young Americans. cates, are in a sense self-sustaining. This is very serious. Politics has The issue which divides this Senate But here is where the confusion, the crept into this thing. But any support and the issue which captures the feel- conflict, the contradiction comes

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If it is half a brigade leadership has been so lacking. We point where it is truly self-sustaining and they are all privates and corporals, have to, I think, have a diplomatic pol- and our forces in the middle of it are that is not an effective fighting force, icy to complement anything we do unable to be a moderating force at all? or if it is half a fighting brigade and within Iraq. We haven’t done that and My view and the view of so many they are all majors and lieutenant it does not appear to be part of the others is that when you look at this colonels, that is not an effective fight- President’s agenda. situation on the ground and you con- ing force. So we are seeing a situation, We have a situation which is grievous sider what can be done, the decisive ac- even in military terms, where this and which I think requires something tions must be those of the Iraqi Gov- surge is probably lacking significantly more than simply more of the same, ernment. They are political actions; in terms of the size of the force. and that is just about what the Presi- that the presence of our military forces In addition, we all understand that dent is offering. This is not a brand is important but not decisive. Cer- there is a divided command. One of the new diplomatic initiative; this is not a tainly the size of our military forces is key issues in any military operation is large-scale economic push to com- probably not as decisive as actions that unity of command. There is an Iraqi plement military action; this is a mod- must be undertaken by the Maliki gov- commander who is selected probably est increase of forces, although I think ernment reining in the militias, truly for his political reliability more than this increase is not justified, together trying to reach out beyond this huge his tactical or technical skill. There is with new tactics in Baghdad. But sectarian chasm for reconciliation. also a situation in that our new tactics again, I don’t think that is going to be sufficient action. We have to start These political, economic, and social require significantly more enablers. looking beyond the next several weeks decisions are not going to be made sim- These enablers are the translators, the and down the next several months and, ply because we have increased our pres- civil affairs officers, the combat serv- ice support officers to supply these out- indeed, the next several years. ence in Baghdad by 20 percent or we The strategy that I think is inevi- posts now in each neighborhood. In have changed the tactics. table is a phased redeployment of our Another aspect of this debate is the fact, the Government Accountability forces and renewed diplomatic activity. concentration, almost exclusively, on Office has done a report indicating that It represents a focus on missions that the military aspects of the President’s if a 21,000 increment is made, it might are more central to the defense of the plan. That, frankly, has been one of the turn out to be closer to 50,000 if you United States. The first is continue to great shortcomings and faults of the truly have all the support troops you aggressively go after those inter- administration—and of this and pre- need to get the job done. national terrorists, the al-Qaida units. There are so many shortcomings in vious Congresses, I should say—in We have done that. We continue, as the just the political and military aspects terms of our approach in Iraq. Any military indicates, to obtrude them of this plan. So I believe, again, this is military commander on the ground will very successfully. In fact, there are an opportunity, a moment we have to tell you that they are buying time and similarities of that mission to the re- address this plan, this proposal of the that time has to be used for economic cently conducted operations in Soma- President’s, in a very serious way and progress and political progress. The lia where we sent in aircraft with some take a stand on it one way or the component in the President’s plan that liaison from local Ethiopian forces on I heard stresses an increase of 20,000 other. I hope we can do that. I hope we the ground to go out and take out iden- soldiers, but where is the progress in can do that in the intervening days, tified terrorists there. That mission terms of not only Iraqi decisionmakers certainly before the end of this month, should continue in Iraq and frankly in making tough decisions but American or the end of, I hope, this week. Somalia and many other places where Now, I think there are other aspects advisers—State Department officials, we can identify and find international that are important to consider when USAID officials, Justice Department terrorists. officials—going over there to help start we talk about the situation as we go Second, we have a continuing obliga- the other side, the other part of the forward. I will go back to the point I tion, I think, to strengthen the Iraqi process, the economic progress, the so- think hindered us consistently security forces. Ultimately it is their cial progress, the political mentoring? throughout our operations in Iraq, and battle. We have made some progress That has never been the case. As a re- that is despite the extraordinary valor with the Army, but we have to make sult, our strategy has failed consist- and technical skill of our military more progress. That is a mission we ently. forces, they have never been truly com- should undertake and continue. Unless this plan has complementary plemented by non-Department of De- Third, there is the obligation, I and reinforcing elements—military, po- fense personnel, by the State Depart- think, to maintain the territorial in- litical, and economic—it, too, will fail. ment officials, by the Agriculture offi- tegrity of Iraq, to make sure the locals I do not see, frankly, the complemen- cials. I can recall visiting Fallujah do not take advantage of what is a tu- tary political and economic support twice in the middle of Anbar Province. multuous situation within Iraq. That, necessary to carry off this plan. Those marines are doing a magnificent too, I think, is a valid mission, and it What we have is 20,000 troops. If you job along with many Army units that can be performed much differently look at the doctrine—and it is inter- are there. There is one State Depart- than we are proposing to conduct this esting because General Petraeus, the ment official in Fallujah who is mission in Baghdad, by redeploying designated commander, is one of the charged with mentoring, with advice, forces within Iraq. In fact, it was inter- principal authors of this new doc- with reconstruction, with all of these esting yesterday before the Armed trine—that doctrine today would call things. That is not adequate, and I Services Committee when Secretary for 120,000 troops in Baghdad based don’t see any indication in the Presi- Gates was asked, and I think it was by upon the size in Baghdad. We are send- dent’s proposal that is going to change. Senator WARNER: Is this the last ing an additional 20,000, which means This is all about, again, trying to take chance? If this fails, then all is lost? I our presence, American presence, is a military solution to what is a com- think he quite authoritatively and about 30,000 troops. The Iraqis have plicated military, political, and eco- thoughtfully said: No, of course, we committed to roughly 55,000 troops, nomic problem. It hasn’t worked for 3 have to have contingencies. Of course, which brings us to a total of 85,000, but years, it is not likely to work, and I there are other approaches we can that still is roughly 35,000 troops short think we have to take a stand on that take. Of course, there are other mis- of the doctrine. proposal. sions that can be assigned. In addition, I don’t think anyone One of the other consequences I One of the dangers and one of the considers that the Iraqi forces can think that is ensuing from this focus persistent aspects of the President’s

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It we need for X number of months 20 plus, Senate then proceed to executive ses- seems hollow now when we think back 25,000 troops to do this mission and within sion to consider the nomination of to it. What was left out of the equa- reasonable certainty was assessed, I would GEN George W. Casey, Jr. tion, of course, was what was already have to listen to that proposal, sir. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there being done: international inspectors of Well, I have listened to that proposal objection? the United Nations on the ground in and I find it wanting. I find it wanting, Without objection, it is so ordered. Iraq looking for weapons of mass de- based on the doctrine of the U.S. Army Mr. REED. Mr. President, I yield the struction, supposedly the source of our as it has evolved today. I find it want- floor. great conflict with the Iraq regime. ing because of the lack of complemen- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- There are other things that could tary and civilian support for that pro- ator from Kansas is recognized. have been done, too, much short of an posal. I find it wanting because of the f invasion. There were, in fact, reports of lack of any serious indication that the terrorist activities. Zarqawi was in the Government of Iraq will make those IRAQ Kurdish region. What would have pre- tough political decisions. So I have Mr. ROBERTS. Mr. President, last vented the United States from launch- considered it as I said I would, but I Friday I had the privilege of attending ing a very discrete military operation don’t think it is the right way to pro- and speaking before a ‘‘Farewell Din- against Zarqawi in the fall of 2002 in ceed. Not at all. ner’’ in honor of LTG David Petraeus the Kurdish area, an area we were help- Now, I am not alone, and I don’t at the Command and Staff College of ing to protect by our overflights of air- think it would be a shock to anyone to the U.S. Army at Fort Leavenworth, craft? Nothing, except, I believe, the suggest this issue of escalation has KS. administration didn’t want to give up a prompted criticism from a wide group To say the least, it was quite an good rhetorical device: this supposed of individuals. GEN Colin L. Powell, evening of tribute in behalf of the gen- terrorist presence in a part of Iraq that former Secretary of State, said in De- eral and his wife, who has become ad- Saddam did not control. cember: mired and beloved serving as the Com- Again, here now, it is back to the manding General of the Army’s Intel- false choices: Surge 20,000 troops or I am not persuaded that another surge of lectual Center. I estimate there were watch the country collapse as we leave troops into Baghdad for the purposes of sup- pressing this sectarian violence, this civil around 250 officers and their wives and precipitously next week. That is not war, will work. many from the Leavenworth commu- the choice. The choice is missions that nity to pay tribute to General and Mrs. are more effectively aligned with our Again, I think General Powell’s in- national security interests: going after sights and experience are very critical Petraeus, to wish them well, and to ex- terrorists, training Iraqi security at this moment. press pride and confidence in the gen- forces, protecting the territorial integ- The Joint Chiefs indicated, at least eral’s immediate mission. He left for rity of Iraq, complemented with active as reported in the Washington Post in Iraq this past Monday, 2 days ago. diplomatic actions, complemented December, using anonymous White Throughout the evening I had the op- with, we hope, progress by the Iraqis House sources, that they were opposed, portunity to again visit with David themselves in political decision- that White House officials are aggres- Petraeus, his feelings about his new making. That, I think, is the way to sively promoting the concept over the mission, his impressive knowledge with go. unanimous disagreement of the Joint regard to the war in Iraq, the history of We have, again, I think a very dif- Chiefs of Staff. That is in December. the region, and his understanding with ficult situation before us. It requires Time Magazine reported that General regard to the nature of past wars of in- not only debate, but I think it requires Abizaid said he opposes more troops be- surgency and the insurgency we face in at this moment a decision by the Sen- cause it would discourage Iraqis from Iraq. While at the Command and Staff ate on a very simple proposal: where taking responsibility for their own se- school, he wrote the Army’s new man- we stand with respect to the Presi- curity. Here is a general, an officer who ual on counterterrorism. Let me say as dent’s proposal for escalation. Now, has served for decades, the most knowl- a former marine who helped write a others have come to the floor and edgeable individual when it comes to similar manual years ago for the U.S. pointed out past statements that have Middle East military-political issues Marine Corps, I find this man unique in been made with respect to increasing within the United States Army, within his knowledge and his command abil- American forces. I have been open to the Department of Defense, and that is ity. these arguments. Frankly, at this junc- his opinion. I made a few remarks at the dinner, ture I don’t feel persuaded. In the past, Robert Gates—before he became Sec- and being a Senator, why, the remarks when someone had asked me: Would retary of Defense, or before he was con- turned into a speech with some addi- you increase the size of forces in Iraq, firmed, according to two administra- tional strongly held beliefs that I had certainly in those first few days after tion officials asking not to be named— penciled out in addition to my prepared the invasion, and after July of 2003 Robert Gates expressed his skepticism remarks in behalf of General and Mrs. when I visited Iraq and found there about a troop surge in Iraq on his first Petraeus. I thought twice about saying were thousands of weapons dumps that day on the job—excuse me; he was Sec- some very frank and candid views, but were not being protected, I came back retary of Defense—at a Pentagon meet- as everybody knows, marines don’t here and I think, along with Senator ing overseeing the Air Force, Army, hold back. So concluding my com- HAGEL, was one of the first to call for Navy, and Marines. ments, I was glad I said what I said in an increased size of our Army so we We are not alone. There have been that virtually everybody in the room— could deploy more forces to Iraq. But some perhaps eleventh-hour conver- all 250—told me that I had said what that window has closed very dramati- sions for this surge, but I think there they could not say. Those who wear cally and nothing, frankly, was done by are a number of individuals with sig- their officer rank on their shoulders or the administration to respond to those nificant experience and insight, un- their enlisted stripes on their sleeves concerns. questioned patriots, who question this in most cases do not comment on pol- I have said publicly that if a com- proposal. icy decisions or politics no matter how mander in the field came to me and f strongly they feel. They follow orders said: We need additional forces, I would and they serve their country. look at that proposal very carefully. In ORDER OF PROCEDURE I feel somewhat the same trepidation fact, in a press conference I was asked: Mr. President, I see there are other today. However, I believe my remarks So in no way would you be on board with speakers on the floor, so at this time I to the general, his officer corps, vet- the McCain plan to surge in with, you know, ask unanimous consent that at 2 p.m., erans of previous wars, are dead on to

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He must have led by ex- our adversaries will read every word the issue of vital national security, and ample. and try to figure out and analyze each I think most in the Senate wish we As most military historians know, Grant sentence of these resolutions. And I could do just that and do it with com- was discharged from the Army for drinking. suspect they will scratch their heads ity, cooperation and, yes, in bipartisan He went back home to Illinois. He failed in and try to discern the sense and the fashion. The American people, who are farming. And he failed in running a mer- reading of a resolution that states sup- concerned and frustrated and angry cantile store. Four months into the war, he port for the troops and our new com- about the war, would certainly appre- joined the Illinois Volunteer Regiment, was mander with new rules of engagement reinstalled as an officer. Lincoln chose Grant ciate that, but that is not the case. over many, many others. with a limited timeframe for achieving This issue is wrapped around a par- As an aside, Sherman was a good friend of and reporting benchmarks of progress tisan and political axle procedure. My Grant and was discharged for ‘‘insanity.’’ but that opposes the mission. That friends across the aisle insist that we When he came back to the Army, he made a mixed message should cause quite a bit debate and vote on one of the three famous remark about his friend: ‘‘He was of head scratching among the esti- nonbinding resolutions regarding the with me when I was insane and I was with mated 31 terrorist organizations we war in Iraq, and only that resolution. him when he was drunk.’’ have planning various attacks around They wanted to debate and vote on the Then, of course, there was Ike. Selected by the world. General Marshall and agreed to by Franklin However, my real concern is that the Warner resolution and call it a day. Roosevelt, he was picked due to his par- The Warner resolution supports the ticular talent of getting people, some with Senate is not considering or even talk- troops but not the mission. Let me re- tremendous egos, to come together in com- ing about the probable consequences of peat that: It supports the troops but mon cause. Eisenhower was picked over 30 to these actions, let alone our responsibil- not the mission. That is a most unique 40 senior officers. ities should they happen. I make it position, to say the least, and that is Then, just as now, our Nation stands at a clear, I don’t question the intent, pur- about as far as my colleagues across critical crossroads. Now, just as then, the pose, or patriotism of any Senator, re- the aisle wish to wade in the waters of freedom of many thousands of people is at gardless of the resolution, but I do withdrawal at this particular time. stake. Also at stake is the safety and secu- question judgment and the law of unin- rity of the United States of America. I also mention it might be helpful if tended effects. Bluntly put, with all of we could consider the Feingold resolu- Now, remember, these remarks came this debate with regard to nonbinding tion. Senator FEINGOLD’s resolution ac- at a dinner for General Petreaus at the resolutions, we appear like lemmings, tually does something and should be U.S. Army Command and Staff College splashing in a sea of public concern, considered in the Senate, as well. Oth- at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. So I frustration, and anger over the war in ers wish to debate and vote upon the said to the general: General Petreaus, Iraq. I understand that. McCain resolution and the Gregg reso- you and I have not been personally ac- In this regard, I should stress, I do lution, but we are being denied that op- quainted over a long period of years. not know of anybody in this Senate or portunity. Yet in our relatively short span of time the House of Representatives or anyone Now, to those in the press—of which I have come to know you well. I have in America who does not want our I see none—those covering this debate had many stimulating and enjoyable troops home at the earliest possible within the media, how on Earth can conversations with you over a wide date, and stability in Iraq, if possible. you describe this situation by writing range of issues—Lawrence of Arabia, That is not the issue. headlines in 15-second news sound the British experience in Iraq—so I When all of this confetti settles—and bites, stating Republicans had voted to know full well you are exactly the it is settling, apparently, because we stifle debate on the war? Yes, let’s de- right man for the job at the right time. are going to a continuing resolution bate and vote on the Warner resolu- Our brave young men and women in and we will not have a vote on any of tion. That is entirely proper and right. uniform deserve nothing but the very the resolutions—the end result of all But let’s also debate and vote on reso- best leadership, and they are getting it this frenzy will be: General, you and lutions offered by Senators MCCAIN and with General Petreaus. the troops have our solid support, but GREGG and, perhaps, FEINGOLD. By the I told him: You have captured Amer- we don’t support your mission. How- way, I intend to vote for McCain and ica’s imagination and enter this job ever, press on, and good luck. Gregg if I get the chance. I do not with an enormous reservoir of good- What kind of message is that? This is share the resolution in regard to Sen- will. not a profile in courage. This is not the ator FEINGOLD, but I defend his honor However, it is a paradox of enormous Senate’s finest hour. If we are going to to introduce it and to debate it. irony that the Senate confirmed Gen- debate and vote on nonbinding resolu- We are not stifling or shutting down eral Petreaus without a dissenting tions, let’s at least consider resolutions debate. They are. Hello up there. Is vote—not one—a vote of confidence that will send a clear message or that there any way you can discern that? I unique given today’s controversy, tur- can be of useful purpose. In that re- can help you. I majored in journalism. moil, and times. gard, we should consider the McCain I used to be a newspaper editor. This is Yet, at the same time, the same Sen- resolution that lists benchmarks of like playing baseball with one strike ators who give you their vote of con- progress, that General Petreaus has and you are out. What happened to my fidence are now in the business of pro- told me would be useful in his discus- other two strikes? Well, sorry, back to posing what I call ‘‘confetti resolu- sions with Prime Minister Maliki, cer- the dugout. We are going to go to the tions,’’ supporting you and the troops tainly the Gregg resolution that sup- continuing resolution. We run this ball but not the mission you are about to ports funding for our troops in harm’s game. undertake. That, to me, is unprece- way. But that is the killer in this de- In any case, in my remarks last Fri- dented for the Senate and, to me, it is bate because my colleagues across the day at Fort Leavenworth, I said to astounding. These resolutions are non- aisle do not want to vote on the Gregg General Petreaus and the crowd that binding. They have no legislative im- resolution. Now we are not going to was assembled in his honor: pact. They are the so-called sense-of- vote on any resolution. The only thing Throughout our history as a Nation there the-Senate resolutions—meaningless we voted on was cloture. have been numerous times when a Com- except for the message you wish to As a matter of fact, I think we should mander in Chief badly needed a Commanding send to the Executive and the folks vote on a resolution, as I said before, General with keen intellect and raw courage. back home or for whatever purpose you proposed by Senator FEINGOLD, a reso- However, I do not think that it is a slight ex- aggeration to suggest the last time one was might have a sense-of-the-Senate reso- lution that certainly does something. I this badly needed was 144 years ago, the year lution. With all due respect, we have do not agree with his resolution, but he 1853, when President Lincoln covered Gen- crossed the Rubicon with regard to is at least forthright and has the cour- eral Grant. sending mixed messages to our allies, age and sends a clear message.

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No what do we do? dinner honoring GEN David Petraeus one is talking about the consequences Sixth, we can expect a perceived, if and his wife Holly at our Leavenworth of what will happen if we simply with- not real, lack of American resolve in Command and Staff College in Kansas draw. And we may just do that because the eyes of adversaries and potential last Friday prior to David Petraeus I do not believe this war can or should adversaries around the world, resulting leaving for Iraq this Monday. I closed be sustained if we do not see progress in additional national security threats. those remarks by saying I was con- in the next 6 months. Read Putin and Belarus; Kim Jong Il, fident that under his leadership, this I would also like to point out that with his penchant for missile launches new mission with new rules of engage- most of the time deadlines for with- on the Fourth of July; read Hugo Cha- ment, our chances of success were drawal that have been proposed or are vez—the Southern Hemisphere’s new greater because failure is not in David in the nonbinding resolutions mirror Castro—nationalizing his oil produc- Petraeus. It never has and it never will exactly the same time period that Gen- tion and directly involved in five dif- be. So America’s destiny and God’s eral Petreaus told the Committee on ferent countries. What about American blessings are riding on the shoulders of Armed Services he would follow in re- resolve? What do we do? GEN David Petraeus. And I closed by porting whether this new effort is mak- I realize in today’s climate the obvi- saying I was proud to offer him my full ing measurable progress along the lines ous answer to ‘‘What do we do?’’ is sim- support and to call him a friend. of the benchmarks within the McCain ply to blame President Bush. But the So I say to the leadership, with all resolution. The obvious question is, point is that globally and over the long due respect, and to all of my col- Who can make a better judgment? Who term, this is not a Bush issue or a leagues, let us end this business of non- can better make that judgment, Gen- Democratic or Republican issue or even binding resolutions and get these con- eral Petreaus, in theater, or Senators how you feel about Iraq or the views of fetti resolutions behind us. Vote on all conducting theater? the so-called international community. four. Vote on all three. But let’s not We have not discussed the difficult Even as we argue about whether we have the headlines that Republicans policy decisions that will confront us if debate and vote on one resolution or are trying to shut down debate on Iraq. it becomes necessary to withdraw or three—or apparently just have a vote That is just not the case. We should even how to withdraw. The reality is, on cloture and say that is the end of vote in regard to the Warner resolu- what will we do when certain con- it—terrorist organizations and their tion, the McCain resolution, the Gregg sequences take place? These are the second-generation affiliates—guided resolution, and as far as I am con- possible, if not probable, consequences and inspired—are plotting attacks cerned the Feingold resolution, if we we should be confronting, debating, against the United States and through- must. We have all had a chance now to and explaining to the American people out the world, even as I speak. It is ob- discuss the war. We need to vote on the and the media, even if some have a deaf vious we cannot really sustain the sta- three resolutions—maybe four—and ear. First, a dramatic increase in sec- tus quo in Iraq. But while we debate come together with bipartisan commit- tarian violence quickly escalating to a how to proceed, they are not giving up. ment—a difficult and perhaps impos- civil war, not the civil war that people Now, given the fact there were at sible task but a task that must be un- say exists today but a real civil war least five successful attacks killing dertaken for the sake of our national and a humanitarian disaster far more Americans—and others that, thank security. devastating than what is happening God, were not successful—before Presi- Mr. President, how much time do I now; Shia versus Shia, Sunni versus dent Bush came to office and before have remaining? Sunni, Shia versus Sunni. What do we military action in Iraq and given the The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- do? fact that this threat will face the next pore. The Senator has 10 minutes 23 Second, given a civil war and a strug- President—yes, the next President— seconds. gle for control, we can expect an incur- and future world leaders, surely, surely Mr. ROBERTS. Mr. President, I yield sion of Sunni troops from other Middle we can figure out it makes no sense to the 10 minutes 23 seconds to my col- Eastern countries to prevent an Ira- fight each other when the terrorists, league and my friend, Senator THUNE. nian takeover of Iraq and the very real then and now and in the future, do not The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- possibility of an Iraq led by Muqtada kill according to party affiliation, na- pore. The Senator from South Dakota al-Sadr whose street appeal will endan- tionality, race, age, or gender. If you is recognized. ger their own governments. When that were on one of those planes the terror- Mr. THUNE. Thank you, Mr. Presi- happens, the war becomes regional. ists were planning to send—nine of dent. What do we do? them—over the Atlantic to American Mr. President, I thank my colleague Third, we can expect an Iraq domi- cities, and they went down and ex- from Kansas for yielding and commend nated by Iran, thus completing a Shia ploded in an American city or simply him on an incredibly eloquent and in- crescent with Iran and Iraq and Syria went down in the ocean, it would not sightful explanation of the events of and Lebanon—and Lebanon is going make any difference if you were Demo- the day, why what we are doing in Iraq through its own problems, to say the cratic, Republican, liberal, conserv- is so important. He is someone who has least. Today, countries such as Jordan, ative, or anything—you would be dead. 10 years of experience on the Armed Saudi Arabia, and Egypt are talking It would not make any difference. Services Committee. Has served as about building their own nuclear pro- We do not need a Republican ap- chairman of the Intelligence Com- grams, given Iran’s nuclear ambitions proach to national security and the mittee. He has a great depth of knowl- and their progress. Iran just refused in- war. We do not need a Democratic ap- edge when it comes to national secu- spectors from the IAEA. With the pos- proach to national security and the rity matters, foreign policy, and par- sibility of Shia Muslims and Sunni war. We need an American approach to ticularly with respect to the current Muslims each working to achieve nu- our national security and the war and debate about the Middle East. So I clear capability and weapons, what our individual freedoms. thank him for his great comments. does Israel do? What do we do? This is a time to engage in honest di- I just want to point out that with re- Fourth, Iraq will become a safe haven alog to work together and think spect to this debate, I had watched, as for terrorists. This time, it is for real. through and agree on strategy that will everyone else did, I think, yesterday No, not the 2002 NIE, National Intel- defeat our enemies and make the what unfolded on the floor. I believe ligence Estimate, that we all agree was American people safe—look at those what happened in the last 24 hours has an egregious error. What do we do? consequences of our actions that we demonstrated what a charade this Fifth, in their eyes, with defeat of have not even discussed on what may whole Iraqi resolution process has the ‘‘Great Satan’’ only months away— happen—and, yes, bring our troops been.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:21 Mar 13, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00026 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2007SENATE\S07FE7.REC S07FE7 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY February 7, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1681 This is serious business. This is the to those who have sacrificed so much throated debate. Well, we saw what a most serious business we will deal with to achieve success in that mission al- hoax that was yesterday. The agenda in the Senate. Young Americans are ready to make sure we give this strat- was exposed, and the charade about a fighting and dying in Iraq. I would say, egy an opportunity to work. full-throated debate came to a crashing having been to Iraq on three different I mentioned yesterday that I at- halt. occasions—most recently about 6 tended a couple of National Guard wel- The American people and the Mem- weeks ago—things in Baghdad are not coming-home ceremonies over the bers of this body deserve a debate. This going well. There are other parts of weekend in my home State of South is the most important issue of our Iraq where we have made much better Dakota, one of which was Charlie Bat- time. As I said earlier, young Ameri- progress, even in some parts of western tery, a unit which was deployed to Iraq cans are fighting and dying in Iraq. But Iraq where we have gotten some buy-in for over a year and a unit which was if we are going to debate this issue in from some of the local sheiks who have hit incredibly hard. They were in a the Senate, let’s make this debate decided to participate in the demo- very dangerous area in Baghdad going about substance, not about political cratic process and support the effort to about the mission of trying to train statements. Let’s make sure all the provide security in that region of Iraq. the Iraqi security police in that area. views in this body are heard. But the fact is, things in Baghdad are Because of some IEDs, we lost four of We tried to do that yesterday by es- not good. those young men. And their families— sentially agreeing to what the Demo- What that has prompted is a change as I visit with them—cannot help but cratic leadership had asked for; that is, in strategy. We have undertaken a new show the pain they are experiencing two resolutions, the Warner resolution, strategy. That strategy, of course, is and yet the incredible sense of loyalty which I happen to disagree with and something where the Democrats in the and duty they feel to their country and would vote against, and an alternative Senate—less Senator LIEBERMAN—and to the missions and what we are trying resolution that would address the issue a handful of Republicans have decided to accomplish in Iraq. Two others of of funding. The Democrats objected to to put together a resolution to oppose. those were soldiers, one seriously in- that. I hope that if this issue reemerges That resolution, in my view, is an ab- jured, another also injured, both recov- on the floor of the Senate that it not solutely wrong way to approach what ering from those injuries. But the be a one-sided debate, it be a full de- we are trying to accomplish in Iraq point, very simply, is there is a cost to bate, so the American people and those today, but it is obviously their prerog- what we are trying to accomplish in families who have sacrificed so much ative to be able to do that. I think they Iraq. Many of our troops have already for this cause get the debate they de- ought to get a vote on it. I will not borne that cost. The point, very sim- serve and an opportunity to have their vote with them. I disagree, as I said, ply, is their sacrifice should not be in views heard on the floor of the Senate. intensely with that resolution and its vain. Mr. President, I thank you and yield message. I know many of my col- The troops we are sending now into back the remainder of my time. leagues on the other side intend that this region are going whether we like it The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- message to be different than it is per- or not and irrespective of what the pore. The Senator from New Jersey is ceived by our troops and by our en- Senate does. The Senate will be send- recognized. emies, but I think what we have to ing them a vote of no confidence if we Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. President, the contend with here when we send a mes- adopt a resolution saying: We support question that should be before the Sen- sage like that is, how is that perceived you, but we do not believe you can ate is: Do you support the President’s by those audiences that are going to be achieve victory, we do not believe you escalation of the war? Don’t confuse it. impacted by it and, namely, our troops, can accomplish your mission there in Don’t obfuscate it. Let’s have a clean the young men and women who wear Iraq, we do not believe you can win. vote. The only charade that is being the uniform, and, of course, obviously, On the substance, that resolution is a played is by those who do not want to the enemy they are trying to fight? It bad idea, but, more importantly, it have a clean vote on this most funda- is the absolute wrong message to send seems to me it was designed more as a mental question. at the very time our troops are em- political statement. That came into As a Senator, John F. Kennedy wrote barking on a new mission. full view yesterday when the Repub- a Pulitzer Prize-winning book titled This may be our last shot at success lican leader gave the Democratic lead- ‘‘Profiles in Courage.’’ His book told in Iraq. We have a new commander, er exactly what they had wanted, the stories of eight Senators from both GEN David Petraeus, whom my col- which was a debate here on the floor of sides of the aisle who took a stand league from Kansas just mentioned. We the Senate on two resolutions. We in- based on principle and risked their ca- have new rules of engagement on the sisted on more resolutions. As my col- reers to do so. Today, almost 50 years ground in Baghdad, and we have new league from Kansas said, we wanted to later, I believe we, too, must take a conditions for the Iraqis to meet. They have a debate on the Warner resolu- stand based on principle. Today, I be- have to take on the militias. There are tion, on the McCain resolution, on the lieve all of us who walk on the same military benchmarks they have to Gregg resolution, even on the Feingold floor where Senator John Kennedy meet. There are economic benchmarks. resolution. As I said, we could all de- once stood should heed his words when They have to figure out a way to divide cide how we are going to vote, but we he said: the oil revenues. They have agreed to would enter into that debate. And The true democracy, living and growing invest $10 billion in infrastructure. there ought to be, if there is going to and inspiring . . . will not condemn those There are political benchmarks they be a debate in the Senate, a full debate. whose devotion to principles leads them to have to meet, holding provincial elec- But, frankly, the Democrats objected unpopular courses, but will reward courage, tions. to even debating two resolutions, the respect honor, and ultimately recognize There have been resolutions offered Warner resolution and the alternative right. on the floor that address those bench- Gregg resolution, because that would Today is an opportunity for every marks but at the same time express have forced them to vote on funding, a Member of the Senate to be a profile in support for this mission. Everyone vote they did not want to have. courage. Frankly, I am disappointed in agrees on the consequences of failure. The American people deserve a full my Senate colleagues who voted As, again, my colleague from Kansas so debate, not a one-sided debate, not a against debating Senator WARNER’s very eloquently pointed out, it would debate in which one side dictates the resolution on Iraq. With their vote, all be a humanitarian disaster in Iraq— terms. This ought to be a debate about they have done is delay honest debate possible genocide, possible full-blown the full range of options that are avail- on a failed foreign policy that has been civil war at a minimum regional insta- able, the full views of the Members of misguided since the beginning. I don’t bility, Shiite versus Shiite, Sunni this body who represent their constitu- believe this Senate should turn its versus Shiite; an increase in Iranian encies across this country. back on the American people and cast power on the Arabian peninsula. I do I heard one of my colleagues say— their lot with the President in his esca- not know if this new strategy is going last week, I think it was, on the Demo- lation of the war in Iraq. I believe to work, but I do know this: We owe it cratic side—they wanted a full- those who support the President’s ill-

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We have seen countless plans ported the administration’s war—a war lation plan for the administration, from this administration with bench- of choice, not of necessity; a war based General Keane, told the Senate Foreign marks after benchmarks that are never on fiction, not on fact; a war fought Relations Committee that he doesn’t met. without enough troops from the very know if we can count on the Prime The Iraq Study Group said, in rec- beginning and designed with no plan to Minister, and he admits that Prime ommendation 21, that if the Iraqi Gov- win the peace. I didn’t vote for the war, Minister Maliki is an unknown quan- ernment doesn’t make progress toward and I certainly would not vote for an tity. milestones, ‘‘the United States should escalation of the war. I don’t know and certainly don’t be- reduce its political, military, or eco- I was in the minority when I voted lieve that we should put the lives of nomic support for the Iraqi govern- against the war in 2002. I was in the mi- the sons and daughters of America on ment.’’ nority, again, when I voted last year to the line based on the hope—the hope— Yet when I asked Secretary Rice transition and bring our troops home that Maliki will do the right thing. The what would happen if the Iraqis failed over a period of time. But the majority escalation plan will not work because to meet the much-heralded bench- of the American people sent a clear it depends upon Iraqis, we are told by marks, she didn’t list any con- message this last November. They said the administration, to take the lead. sequences. Instead she told me: the President’s plan for the Iraq war The administration keeps saying that I don’t think you go to Plan B. You work has failed. The American people elect- is an Iraqi plan, with the Iraqis taking with Plan A. ed the Senate and this Congress to the lead. But the truth is, everyone Plan A hasn’t been working. I will change the course in Iraq. It is about doubts that the Iraqi troops will actu- say it again: Benchmarks without con- time we started listening because it is ally show up. sequences are just aspirations. And clear the President has not. He didn’t Many of the troops Prime Minister they are aspirations that have failed listen to his generals. He didn’t listen Maliki promised will be Kurds. Yet an time and time again. The escalation to the Iraq Study Group. He didn’t lis- NPR story quotes General Dennis plan, as a consequence, will break the ten to anyone who disagreed with him. Chapman, who is commander of a team back of our National Guard and Re- And he certainly has not listened to of American military advisers in Iraqi serves. the American people. That is the only Kurdistan, saying that there have al- Let me be clear: The President’s es- explanation for an Iraq plan that is ready been desertions from Kurdish calation plan cannot be implemented simply more of the same. troops and that out of the battalion of without using the National Guard and As one of the witnesses before the 1,600 Kurdish soldiers going to Bagh- Reserves far beyond what they already Senate Foreign Relations Committee dad, he only expects a few hundred to have been used. There simply aren’t said: report for duty. enough troops. We have already seen When you’re in a hole, stop digging. Over and over again, we heard from the tours of National Guard troops ex- experts testifying before the Senate tended. A week ago, I was informed The President’s escalation plan will Foreign Relations Committee that that the New Jersey Army National not work. Look at the news over the there simply aren’t enough Iraqi troops Guard troops currently stationed in past few days as the first wave of the who are loyal to Iraq as a nation and to Iraq will see their tours extended by new escalation troops has arrived. At Maliki as Prime Minister. 125 days as result of President Bush’s least 130 people were killed and over 300 A recent New York Times article policy. I fully expect to see more ex- wounded on Sunday, in the deadliest painted a frightening picture of what a tended deployments in the future. single bomb blast since the U.S. inva- joint American-Iraqi patrol looks like. The escalation is going to hurt our sion almost 4 years ago. The U.S. mili- The article highlights the lack of troop security at home by keeping those Na- tary tells us that the four U.S. heli- strength and training of Iraqi forces tional Guard and Reserve troops away copters that have crashed in the past 2 and the confusion that comes with hav- in Iraq. Those who return home leave weeks were actually shot down, with a ing underprepared Iraqi troops take the their equipment in Iraq, resulting in fifth one down today. And Iraqi insur- lead. To quote from the article: severe equipment shortages for our Na- gents are using new tactics to shoot . . . As the sun rose, many of the Iraqi tional Guard at home. In fact, Larry down our helicopters. The Brookings Army units who were supposed to do the ac- Korb, an expert from the Center for Institute says the number of daily at- tual searches of the buildings did not arrive American Progress, says the units re- tacks by insurgents and militias has on time, forcing the Americans to start the turned home so depleted that the Ma- gone from approximately 32 in Novem- job on their own. When the Iraqi units fi- rines have been referring to this phase nally did show up, it was with the air of a ber of 2003 to 185 in November of 2006, as ‘‘the postdeployment death spiral.’’ with Iraqi civilian deaths going from class outing, cheering and laughing as the Americans blew locks off doors with shot- That is why it is time to transition our 1,250 to 4,000 in that same period. mission and set a timeframe to get our Michael O’Hanlon, an expert from guns . . . Many of the Iraqi units who showed up late troops out of Iraq. Brookings, said that Iraq has become never seemed to take the task seriously, Staying in Iraq isn’t in the national ‘‘one of the 3 or 4 most violent places searching haphazardly, rifling through per- interest or national security interest of on earth.’’ And this escalation and vio- sonal CD collections in the apartments. the United States. Our troops are lence has happened while U.S. troops In the article, a lieutenant colonel of caught in the middle of a civil war they were there and in spite of previous U.S. the Third Stryker Brigade Combat can’t solve. Increasing troops will only troop surges. You only have to look to Team talked about the difficulty of put more of them directly into a sec- the past to see that the President’s es- conducting such operations. He said: tarian Iraqi fight. Keeping our troops calation plan will not work. In fact, This was an Iraqi-led effort and with that there or adding more troops is trying this escalation plan is based on false come challenges and risks. It can be orga- to solve a political problem with a assumptions and failed ideas. nized chaos. military solution. To quote one of the witnesses who The escalation plan will not work be- In one briefing, General Pace, Chair- testified before the Senate Foreign Re- cause similar escalation plans have al- man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said: lations Committee recently: ready failed in Iraq, when the enemy We need to get the Iraqis to love their This plan is just stay-the-course plus 20,000 simply waited us out. We tried a troop children more than they hate their troops. escalation and it didn’t work, when we neighbors. The escalation plan will not work be- sent 12,000 troops to Baghdad last sum- That is a powerful truism. The prob- cause it depends on Prime Minister mer and death and violence on the lem is, you don’t get Iraqis to love

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It is about a host of other closer to Europe than the United of implementing all of the remaining 9/ things, things that cannot be accom- States. 11 Commission recommendations to se- plished through military might. So by setting a date certain for our cure our homeland. Staying would only continue to em- troops to leave, we actually motivate Yet we need to look beyond the eco- power and embolden Iran, a country the Iraqis, Iraq’s neighbors, and the nomic costs of this war at its true cost: that has turned out to be the biggest international community to take the 3,099 American lives, to date. That is winner in our war with Iraq. Dr. Paul necessary steps to stabilize Iraq. invaluable. It is priceless. More will die Pillar pointed out recently: But setting a date certain and get- in the days ahead if we do not change Among the neighbors, the largest winner ting our troops out of Iraq in a safe and the course in Iraq. We now have more has been Iran. The war has not only toppled orderly way is not enough. I believe we than 23,000 sons and daughters of Amer- the dictator who initiated an earlier war must do more. ica who are wounded in ways that will that killed hundreds of thousands of Ira- What we need now is a surge in diplo- affect their lives forever. We have a nians; it has also crippled what had been the macy. That will involve much more real obligation to all of those who are larger regional counterweight to Iranian in- than a few trips to the region. We must wounded and their families, and to the fluence. Meanwhile, the all-consuming pre- occupation that the Iraq war has become for actively engage with Iraq’s neighbors survivors of those who suffered the ul- the United States, along with the growing in the international community. timate sacrifice. Yet we look at a budg- unpopularity of the war among Americans, But I cannot close without discussing et that does not meet that responsi- probably has made Iranian leaders less fear- the cost of this war in Iraq. Some say bility. ful than they otherwise might have been they want to have a talk about, or Today, we should be debating the about forceful U.S. action, including mili- votes, not about the escalation but President’s escalation plan, particu- tary action, against Iran. about whether there are resources for larly since we recently learned from Our presence in Iraq only continues the troops. I think we should have a the CBO that the escalation proposed to serve as a battle cry for terrorists real, honest debate that will come in by President Bush would easily cost around the world. According to last the budget process about what this war more than triple what the administra- year’s National Intelligence Estimate is costing. Let’s have a real, honest de- tion has told us. on international terrorism, the war in bate about the administration’s lack of Let me be clear for those who may Iraq has become ‘‘a cause celebre’’ for honesty in telling the American people have not heard about the Congressional jihadists’’ and is ‘‘shaping a new gen- what this war costs. Budget Office report. That report says eration of terrorist leaders and Our expenditures in Iraq will saddle the President’s escalation plan of 21,000 operatives.’’ our Nation’s finances and our chil- troops actually only includes combat Let me be clear, because of how this dren’s future. We spend over $8 billion troops and not all of the other troops war was entered into—weapons of mass a month in Iraq; we spend $2 billion a necessary for force operations. The destruction that never existed—be- week in Iraq; we spend $280 million Congressional Budget Office estimates cause of how it was executed, there are every day in Iraq; we spend $11.5 mil- this could mean an additional 28,000 now no good options left for us in Iraq. lion an hour in Iraq. support personnel, and that the cost But I do believe the first steps toward The Congress has already appro- could go as high as $29 billion. Now, to stabilizing Iraq is to set a date certain priated $379 billion for Iraq, and Presi- deviate from that would be to deviate for troops to leave. It is only by setting dent Bush is now asking for an addi- from every standard operating proce- a date certain for our troops to leave tional $179 billion. Yet the Secretary of dure the Defense Department has had that Iraqis will have to take responsi- Defense announced to the Budget Com- to support the men and women in the bility for security in their own country mittee, on which I serve, that he is not theater; it would be to deviate from and work out their political power going to come before the committee to every historical perspective. Yet that struggles. Right now as much as they justify this spending. To me, that is is not what they included in the budget dislike us being there, we still bear the simply outrageous. sent to the Congress. true burden for trying to stop the vio- The Special Inspector General for I am also deeply concerned that the lence. The Iraqis have little incentive Iraq Reconstruction released a new re- administration has left open the possi- to work out their turf wars over polit- port saying the Bush administration bility of yet another emergency supple- ical power as long as we are in the cannot account for critical defense ma- mental to fund this war in fiscal year country. Iraq’s political leadership will teriel, including over $36 million in 2008. All that means is we are putting never make the hard choices, com- weapons. Hearings in the other body it upon the next generation of Ameri- promises, and negotiations necessary revealed that the administration can- cans, which is how most of the costs of to achieve a government of national not account for over $8 billion that was this war have taken place—we are put- unity, as long as they believe we will sent in cash bundles of $400,000 into a ting it on the backs of the next genera- stay in an endless occupation, in which war region, without any controls. They tion of Americans and not even being the lives of Americans will be shed and cannot account for over $8 billion. Now responsible for paying for it. We do all national treasure will be expended. the administration wants the Congress of this while we have the greatest tax It is only by setting a date certain to hand over another blank check. cuts for some of the wealthiest people for our troops to leave that Iraq’s Let me put our Iraq spending into in the Nation, and at a time when the neighbors will start to take responsi- perspective. Nation is at war. That has never been bility for ending the chaos inside Iraq. For what we spend in less than 2 seen before in the Nation’s history. Right now the violence has not reached months for operations in Iraq, we could The administration has never been the tipping point to get Iraq’s neigh- fully fund No Child Left Behind next honest with the American people about bors involved. Ultimately, it is not in year, ensuring that every school dis- the cost of the war. It is time for that their national security interest to have trict in the United States has the funds to end. This Senate must demand an the conflict spill across their borders promised to them to meet the goals of honest accounting before we hand this and to have Iraq disintegrate. But by the law. administration any more money or, setting a date certain to leave, we cre- For what we spend in less than 2 even more importantly, any more ate a new incentive for Iraq’s neighbors months in Iraq, we could make up the troops. to help quell the violence. It is only by shortfall in the SCHIP program to help In the end, it is in honor of those setting a date certain for our troops to cover children who would otherwise be men and women who have given the leave that the international commu- uninsured. greatest sacrifice in the line of duty nity will take a responsible role in For what we spend in 4 days in Iraq, that we must change the course in Iraq. Right now the international com- we could substantially improve secu- Iraq. It is in honor of their courage we

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Com- hope that Prime Minister Maliki will the previous order, the Senate will pro- pounding those mistakes was the effect get it right? How many more American ceed to executive session to consider of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib attrib- lives will we lose before we realize this the following nomination, which the uted, in part, to ambiguities in what plan will not work? And if it were your clerk will report. was considered permissible in the in- son or daughter, how long would you be The assistant legislative clerk read terrogation of prisoners fostered by willing to wait? How long would you be the nomination of General George W. that very same civilian leadership in willing to listen to the counsel of pa- Casey, Jr., to be Chief of Staff, United the administration, the White House, tience, of delay, of only one more States Army. and the Pentagon, where the advice of chance, of stay the course? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- uniformed military lawyers was over- I know I certainly am not willing to ator from Michigan. ruled. Those critical mistakes were wait any longer. Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, I support made in the year before General Casey I believe there is a difference between GEN George Casey’s confirmation to be deference to the Commander in Chief took command and had severe adverse the next Chief of Staff of the United and blind loyalty. I cannot support consequences which he inherited. States Army. His nomination was ap- blind loyalty that sends more of Amer- General Casey’s focus in Iraq was on proved by the Armed Services Com- ica’s sons and daughters to die for a training and equipping Iraqi security mittee by a vote of 19 to 6. war of choice, to die for a continuing forces to bring them as quickly as pos- Through a long and distinguished ca- failed policy. In my mind, that is irre- sible to a level where they could re- reer, he has held positions of increasing sponsible and I believe the very essence lieve American forces from the burden of the constitutional framework this responsibility, culminating in that of of providing the security that Iraqis country was founded on requires us to Commanding General of multinational should be providing for themselves. He act. That is what the majority leader forces in Iraq, in which capacity he was not alone in seeing this was a pri- 1 wants to do. It is time for some real served for over 2 ⁄2 years. ority. It was also the focus of his boss, profiles in courage. I urge my col- Prior to that command, he was Vice the Central Command commander, leagues to allow us to have an up-or- Chief of Staff of the Army, which was General Abizaid, and his subordinates, down vote on the President’s esca- preceded by an assignment as Director the Corps commander, Lieutenant Gen- lation, and to support the Warner- of the Joint Staff, and before that as eral Chiarelli, and the commanders of Levin resolution. I hope, beyond that, Director of Strategy, Plans, and Pol- that training effort, Generals Petraeus at a later time, to support future bind- icy, J–5, on the Joint Staff. and later Dempsey. General Casey put ing actions to stop the failed policy in General Casey is an infantryman, it this way: having commanded at all levels up to Iraq. The longer we in the United States forces I started today by reminding all of us and including division command. As an continue to bear the main burden of Iraq’s of the words of John F. Kennedy and assistant division commander, he security, it lengthens the time that the Gov- the profiles in courage he detailed in served in Bosnia, and earlier in his ca- ernment of Iraq has to take the hard deci- this Senate. He said: reer he served in Cairo as a U.N. mili- sions about reconciliation and dealing with In whatever arena of life one may meet the tary observer with the U.N. Truce Su- the militias. And the other thing is that they challenge of courage, whatever may be the pervision Organization. He also served can continue to blame us for all of Iraq’s sacrifices he faces if he follows his con- a tour of duty as a congressional liai- problems, which are at base their problems. science—the loss of his friends, his fortune, son officer. Those are wise words. General Casey his contentment, even the esteem of his fel- General Casey knows Iraq and the recognized there is no military solu- low man—each man [and I add each woman] tion to the situation in Iraq, that only must decide for himself the course he will challenges the Army faces there. He follow. The stories of past courage can define also knows the Pentagon and the chal- a political solution enabled by Iraqi that ingredient—they can teach, they can lenges he will face there. General Casey politicians making the essential polit- offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But has the knowledge to perform his pri- ical compromises can save the Iraqis they cannot supply courage itself. For this, mary responsibilities as Chief of Staff, from themselves. General Casey is not each man must look into his own soul. which is the training and equipping of alone. There actually seems to be an I ask each Member of the Senate to soldiers and caring for them and their agreement among most observers that look into your own soul and your own families. an Iraqi political settlement is a key to conscience, allow us to move to the There is some opposition to General ending the violence in Iraq. The dif- Warner-Levin resolution, allow us to Casey’s nomination because he is iden- ference of opinion exists on whether have a vote against the escalation of tified with the administration’s failed Iraqi politicians need breathing space, troops in Iraq. The Nation is waiting Iraq strategy, and I agree that strategy as President Bush has said, to reach re- and they are watching, and there is ac- has not been successful. As a matter of quired political compromises or wheth- countability to be had. fact, I have argued as forcefully as I er, as many of us believe, Iraqi politi- With that, I yield the floor and sug- know how that strategy has not been cians need to be pressured to make gest the absence of a quorum. successful and that we need to change those compromises and that the addi- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- course in Iraq. tion of 21,000 more troops doesn’t make pore. The clerk will call the roll. It is appropriate to hold military a political compromise more likely, it The assistant legislative clerk pro- leaders responsible for their own fail- just gets us in deeper into a civil con- ceeded to call the roll. Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, I ask ures, but the principal failures that flict. unanimous consent that the order for have led to the chaos in Iraq were deci- It has been said that General Casey the quorum call be rescinded. sions of the civilian leaders. General was too optimistic about the possi- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Casey had to deal with the con- bility of troops being reduced, having SANDERS). Without objection, it is so sequences of a myriad of flawed poli- predicted in the spring and summer of ordered. cies, including having insufficient 2006 and then subsequently predicting forces at the outset of the operation, that reduction toward the end of 2006 f failing to properly plan for postwar and into 2007 was possible. He did make CONCLUSION OF MORNING stability operations, disbanding the those predictions, and I think he was BUSINESS Iraqi Army, then trying to build a new clearly overly optimistic. He has made The PRESIDING OFFICER. Morning army, initially using civilian contrac- a number of mistakes, but the key fun- business is closed. tors, and an overly extensive damental flaws were the mistakes

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:21 Mar 13, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00030 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2007SENATE\S07FE7.REC S07FE7 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY February 7, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1685 made, the wrong judgments of the ci- General Casey: present in the neighborhoods of Bagh- vilian leadership of this country, not I’m not exactly sure when in November it dad. the uniformed military leaders of this was, but it was. Once again, although I disagree with country. Senator LEVIN: the plan, I view that as a satisfactory Was he too optimistic? Yes. Is he still So you’ve changed your view since Novem- explanation for why he now supports too optimistic? I believe he is. When ber? the additional troops. Not to the same extent that the President has proposed asked about whether he agreed with General Casey: what the President finally said the or decided upon, but to the extent of As I described in my opening testimony, two brigades. He said the additional other day, that we are on a road to Senator, in mid November was when the re- slow failure—the President finally evaluation of the plan was taking place. So brigades will give additional flexi- stepping up to acknowledging the re- I suspect John and I talked before that. And bility. He doesn’t have any problem ality in Iraq—General Casey said he be- that does reflect my general view on addi- with that, but he testified that was not lieved we are still on a road to slow tional U.S. forces in Iraq. what his recommendation was. success. That is how optimistic he is. Senator LEVIN: So his emphasis on building up Iraqi security forces to relieve Americans of I am not going to hold that against It reflects a general view, but then there him. I think he is wrong in that exces- was some kind of a reevaluation which took the tasks that Iraqis should be doing sive optimism, but we expect our mili- place in mid November. for themselves is a critical part of any tary leaders to be enthusiastic and General Casey: strategy in Iraq that has a chance of success, and it is key to the ultimate positive about the missions they are That’s right, Senator. We’re constantly re- assigned—the missions that they are evaluating how we’re doing and what we U.S. military disengagement. The real assigned—by their civilian leaders. We need. key to a stable and secure Iraq and a viable Iraq is a political solution that expect them to be confident and to in- Senator LEVIN: spire their soldiers with the impor- can only be reached by the leaders in But that position that General Abizaid Iraq, the politicians. And what Amer- tance of those missions, to keep their stated was your position when you spoke to morale high, and General Casey did him in early November presumably still re- ican political leaders need to do, in my that. mains your general view. judgment, is to pressure those politi- He has also increased and decreased cians to make that happen. General Casey: That was never General Casey’s re- troops—both—depending on the mis- That’s correct. sions assigned to him by the civilian sponsibility. General Casey never had leaders. Senator LEVIN: the responsibility of doing what is As he testified, he requested addi- Well, if that’s your general view, what is critically essential politically, which is tional troops on six occasions for spe- the change? Why are you modifying your to put pressure on the Iraqi politicians cific missions, such as to provide secu- general view for this surge? to reach a political settlement. He is a rity for the elections or otherwise deal General Casey: military man. He is a military man with spikes of violence. However, What has changed, Senator, are several who, by his own acknowledgment, has mindful of the stress on soldiers and things: One, the development of a plan, a made a number of mistakes. Indeed, he their families and on the deteriorating new plan that was conceived by the Iraqis listed a number of mistakes for us that and worked in concert with us; so there is a he has made and that he takes respon- readiness of the nondeployed units in plan that laid out requirement for those the Army and the Marine Corps, he sibility for. But the fundamental mis- forces. So just to say do you need more takes which have led to the chaos in also sought opportunities for reduc- forces is one thing; to say do you need more tions—both directions. forces to execute this plan is quite another. Iraq, which did not allow us to help to One of the real questions I had to And we do need an additional two brigades to create in Iraq a stable and viable coun- face in addressing this nomination was implement that plan. try, which is the goal of all of us, those whether General Casey changed his I think he is giving us a straight- fundamental mistakes were the mis- tune when it came to this surge of ad- forward answer to that question. His takes made by the civilian leaders of ditional troops that is being requested general view is, and was before the new this country. To hold him accountable or being sent by the President. I plan was adopted, that we did not need or responsible, and to vote against him pressed him on this issue at his nomi- more forces in Iraq; that it took the because of the major mistakes which nation hearing before the Armed Serv- Iraqis off the hook. There was a new led to this chaos through not the uni- ices Committee. plan which was adopted by the admin- formed leaders’ mistakes but through I want to read the exchange between istration, by the Commander in Chief, our civilian leaders’ mistakes, it seems General Casey and myself at his hear- by the civilian leadership of this coun- to me, is inappropriate and unfair, and ing within the last week. try. That plan requires that we not just I will vote for his confirmation. I asked General Casey the following: Mr. President, I yield the floor. clear neighborhoods but that we then The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- We asked General Abizaid back in Novem- remain in neighborhoods in Baghdad. ber when he appeared before this committee ator from Arizona. Do I think that is a wise plan? I do Mr. MCCAIN. Mr. President, I rise to whether he needed more troops or whether not. I am going to vote against the he supported more troops going to Iraq. And express opposition to the nomination this is just last November. And this is what surge. I think it gets us in deeper mili- of General George Casey to be the next he said. He said that he met with every divi- tarily. This is a military officer who Chief of Staff of the Army. sional commander, General Casey, the Corps has been given a new plan and has been I admire General Casey’s patriotism commander, General Dempsey. ‘‘We all asked what are the requirements for and his long service to our country. I talked together. And I said, in your profes- that new plan which has been adopted have concluded, based on his role as sional opinion, if you were to bring in more by the civilian leaders of this country. commander of the multinational forces American troops now, does it add consider- And when given a new plan by the in Iraq, that I cannot support his nomi- ably to our ability to achieve success in Commander in Chief, he very properly Iraq? And they all said no. And the reason is nation. because we want Iraqis to do more. It’s easy said that is going to require some addi- Let me first make clear that General for the Iraqis to rely upon us to do this work. tional troops. Casey has had a long and distinguished I believe— Again, we are going to debate the career in the U.S. Army and is deserv- This is General Abizaid speaking— plan, the wisdom of it, I hope one of ing of the utmost respect and gratitude that more American forces prevent the these days. We are going to debate the for the contributions he has made to Iraqis from doing more, from taking more re- wisdom of whether this surge makes this Nation’s defense over his long ca- sponsibility for their own future.’’ sense. But given a new plan, given that reer. At his nomination hearing on I continued in my questioning of decision, what General Casey is saying February 1, I stated my appreciation to General Casey: is that his general view about the lack him and his family for their extraor- Now, General Abizaid said that he spoke to of the wisdom of increasing the mili- dinary service and personal sacrifice, you and that his opinion reflected your opin- tary presence in Iraq has to be modi- as well as the support they have pro- ion and all the other commanders. Was that fied when there is a new requirement, a vided to the men and women in uni- true when he said it? new plan which requires us to be form and their families. I emphasized

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That is why we give them ous—lack of success in achieving our My view of winning is that we are broadly positions of responsibility because we goals in Iraq, this nomination should on track to accomplishing our objectives, place in their trust our most precious bear unusual weight in our delibera- with Iraqi security forces that are capable of asset: American blood. tions. All of the Armed Services, and maintaining domestic order and denying Iraq During his own nomination hearing particularly our ground forces, are un- as a safe haven for terrorists. And I believe on January 23, Lieutenant General dergoing difficult changes to adjust to we are on track to get there by December of Petraeus stated that five additional 2005. the global war on terror. The next brigades were required to implement Chief of Staff of the Army will be faced I repeat that: the President’s new military strategy with enormous challenges in matters I believe we are on track to get there by and that he could not accomplish his relating to recruiting, training, and re- December of 2005. mission if he didn’t have these addi- tention of soldiers, the continuing or- Almost a year later, in September of tional troops. I, for one, worry that ganizing of the Army, and require- 2005, General Casey repeated: five brigades may still be insufficient ments for the procurement of weapon We have a strategy and a plan for success to accomplish all we are asking our systems. The next Chief of Staff must in Iraq, and we are broadly on track in troops to do in Iraq and would prefer be able to evaluate ongoing strategy achieving our goals. that we are on the side of too many and be able to react with sound advice Last October of 2006, he stated, before troops rather than too few, as has been when unforeseen challenges are en- the Armed Services Committee, I be- the case in the past. countered. Perhaps most importantly, lieve: General Casey, however, confounding the next Chief of Staff must be uncon- The idea that the country is aflame in sec- the experts, said in his hearing: strained in evaluating the past while tarian violence is just not right. General We do need an additional two brigades to giving advice for the future. Casey said: I do not subscribe to the civil implement that plan. I have questioned in the past, and war idea. Not five, not more than five, but just question today, a number of the deci- Mr. President, we have hearings to two. sions and judgments that General try to get an honest, unvarnished opin- General Casey said the additional three brigades the Department will Casey has made over the past 21⁄2 years. ion of how our Armed Forces are doing, During that time, conditions in Iraq what their needs are, what their mis- send ‘‘merely gives General Petraeus have grown remarkably and progres- sions are, and of course because we are great flexibility.’’ Remember, we are putting this per- sively worse, and the situation now can in a war, what is happening in Iraq. We son, who still doesn’t believe we need best be described as dire and deterio- are not on the ground there. We visit five brigades, in the position to be the rating. I regret that our window of op- frequently, but we rely to a large de- one who is implementing the policy. portunity to reverse momentum may gree, obviously, on the judgment and Given this and other judgments, I don’t be closing. the recommendations and the evalua- see in this nominee an accurate assess- The bombing at the Golden Mosque tions of our military leaders. This is ment of the situation in Iraq or what is in Samarra last February sparked sec- the opening statement of GEN George required to avoid catastrophe there. tarian violence throughout Iraq and in W. Casey before the Armed Services My colleague from Michigan says, Baghdad, in particular. Yet in the face Committee on 23 June of 2005: well, it is all the civilian commanders’ Thank you, Mr. Chairman . . . of this dramatic change in the Iraqi se- fault. I will put plenty of blame on the curity environment, our military strat- Remember, this is 23 June 2005. civilian commanders and I have for egy—and I emphasize military strat- . . . In the past year, the Iraqis, supported many years, but somehow to absolve egy—remained essentially unchanged. by the coalition, have established an interim the military commander on the ground Instead of conducting a traditional in- government, neutralized the Shia insur- there, conducting the operations, of gency, eliminated terrorist and insurgent surgency campaign, our troops focused any responsibility flies in the face of on training and equipping Iraqis, hop- safe havens across Iraq, mobilized their secu- rity forces to confront the insurgency . . . everything I ever learned in my life- ing, in vain, that they could do the job. time of involvement with the military. After repeated elections and political How could he possibly give that kind Recently, I noticed in the paper there events demonstrated that the demo- of assessment? Senator LEVIN says, was a submarine with four sailors who cratic process would not, on its own, well, we should have put pressure on were washed overboard. I believe they bring down the level of violence, our the Iraqis. Well, maybe we should have were later rescued. The commander of troops did not begin focusing on pro- put pressure on the Iraqis, but it was the submarine was relieved. I still re- tecting the population. Instead, the co- pretty obvious to even the most member in my earliest youth, when the alition and Iraqi forces launched Oper- uninitiated that the Iraqis weren’t per- captain was asleep in the cabin and the ation Together Forward in June 2006. forming. They weren’t performing. USS Missouri ran aground in the This operation, aimed at securing In his nomination hearing last mudflats someplace south of here, he Baghdad, failed. Yet the coalition Thursday, I asked General Casey about was relieved that day of his command. launched Operation Together Forward these and other statements he has We put people in positions of respon- II in August in a very similar fashion. made, both publicly and privately, that sibility and hold them responsible and The result, predictably, was a similar seem entirely at odds with the situa- we try to reward them as much as we failure. tion as most observers find it. I noted, can when they succeed, with the ap- I am not going to go over the many for example, that in recent days, the proval of a grateful nation. But we also times I complained about a failed Secretary of Defense, General Pace, hold them responsible for failure. strategy. A number of times I asked and Admiral Fallon, the new head of My friend from Michigan and I have our leaders, both civilian and military, Central Command, have all stated that a very different view of the responsibil- why they were continuing to pursue the United States is not winning in ities of commanders in the field, which this failed strategy. I continued to give Iraq and that we have had a failed is why, during World War II and other speeches denouncing this strategy and strategy. These were clear-cut, real- wars, we have relieved commanders in predicted we would end up in the dire istic statements. But General Casey the field because they were not accom- circumstances we are in today. It is all disagreed, saying I do not agree that plishing the mission and, if they didn’t a matter of responsibility—a matter of we have a failed policy. I do not believe like the mission, they didn’t speak up responsibility. that the current policy has failed. to get the mission changed, and if they General Casey, more than any other He may be the only person in Amer- embraced a failed mission, then they individual, has been the architect of ica who believes that. This is a judg- were held even more responsible.

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He finally tlefield, so today we should hold com- Commander, he has been a three star described that mistakes were made. And manders responsible for performance general—because he believes it is slow then he said, ‘‘Yes, one could define that, on the battlefield. progress instead of slow failure, when doing what we’re doing, as maybe a slow fail- I yield the floor. ure.’’ we have a Commander in Chief who The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- just a few months ago said we are abso- In other words, Senator LEVIN was ator from Michigan. lutely winning in Iraq, absolutely win- asking General Casey if what has hap- Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, a couple ning? pened in Iraq was a ‘‘slow failure,’’ as of quick comments on my good friend’s And George Casey, now it is all piled stated by the President of the United statement. First, no one suggests that on him. He is the only one in America States. General Casey: the commanders be absolved from any who seems to think we are winning in I didn’t—I actually don’t see it as slow fail- responsibility. In fact, when we asked Iraq. Well, he doesn’t think we are win- ure. I actually see it as slow progress. General Casey what mistakes had been ning in Iraq; he thinks we are slowly In the last 4 weeks I believe we have made, he listed a number of mistakes making progress in Iraq, to use his had five helicopters shot down. Casual- in his own answers, including: words. Do I agree with him? No. I think ties have spiked to a very high level. I We underestimated the ability of al-Qaida, this policy has been a failure right saw in one of the newspapers this the Sunni insurgents, to provoke sectarian from the beginning. Going in was a morning that over the past 3-month pe- conflict and failed to preempt the attack mistake. It was a mistake that was riod they have been perhaps as high or against the Golden Mosque in Samarra; we based on arrogance, it was based on a the highest of any time in the war. And thought that as more security forces were trained and equipped we would be able to misunderstanding of history, it was we are in a situation of slow progress? based on a misreading of what the Judgment. Judgment. Judgment. We gradually shift ever increasing security re- sponsibilities to them and thus reduce our threat was, it was based on a lot of expect people who are placed in posi- forces proportionately. This is occurring mistakes. Disbanding the Iraqi Army? tions of responsibility to exercise good slower than we originally projected. We were Look what it has led to. Not having a judgment. slow to anticipate the extent of the radical plan for the aftermath? Look what it There is a lot I could say in response Shia death squads. has led to. These are the fundamentals. to the statement of my friend from He has acknowledged mistakes have These are the transcendent mistakes Michigan concerning no responsibility been made. But the fundamental mis- which have created the chaos in Iraq, whatsoever for the failures in the takes which have been made which and George Casey inherits that. hands of the commander on the ground caused us to be in the situation we are He makes his own mistakes at a to- in Iraq. I mean, on its face it is a rath- in were not George Casey’s. Every com- tally different level, degree, than these er unusual interpretation of the re- mander makes mistakes. There is no fundamental mistakes. Suddenly we sponsibility we give to our com- commander I know of who would say say he is not qualified to be a chief of manders on the ground. Of course the he or she did not make mistakes. No staff of the Army because he was a ultimate responsibility rests with ci- one is absolving General Casey of the commander who inherited that mess vilian leadership. Of course it does. mistakes, which he is the first to ac- and made his own mistakes of a much That is how our democracy is shaped. knowledge. The question is whether he lower degree, obviously. Much too opti- But we don’t absolve anybody in the is going to be held accountable—not for mistic. He is a commander of troops, chain of command, civilian or military, his mistakes but for the fundamental trying to keep morale up. So he is opti- for the responsibility for failure and it mistakes which were made by the civil- mistic, I believe he is overly opti- is widely believed by everyone, perhaps ian leadership of this Nation. That is mistic, history has proven he is overly with the exception of General Casey, the question. optimistic. But to say we are trying to that the policy in Iraq is a failure and When my friend says General Casey absolve him of mistakes when he ac- that is why we are trying a new strat- must be the only one in America who knowledges his own mistakes as any egy in hopes that we prevail in very doesn’t think this policy is a failure, good commander will, learning from difficult conditions. There is an old saw let me give you a couple of other Amer- mistakes—he listed his mistakes; it is about those who ignore the lessons of icans who seem to think the same way. his list—no one is absolving him. We history are doomed to repeat them. Let’s start with the President of the are simply saying he should not be car- During the Vietnam war there was fail- United States, last October, when he rying the load of the mistakes the ci- ure. General Westmoreland, then head said: ‘‘We are absolutely winning in vilian leadership of this country has of forces in Vietnam, was brought back Iraq.’’ made, which has helped to create such and made Chief of Staff of the Army That is the Commander in Chief. ‘‘We chaos in Iraq. even though our policy and strategy in are absolutely winning in Iraq.’’ I yield the floor. Vietnam had failed. Ask anyone who How about another person, the Vice The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- was a young officer in those days in the President of the United States, within ator from Arizona. United States Army or Marine Corps. the last year? ‘‘The insurgency is in its Mr. MCCAIN. Mr. President, I repeat, It was a blow to their morale because last throes.’’ in case Senator LEVIN didn’t hear me, I they were held responsible for their To say that General Casey is the only have criticized the policies and, placed performance on the field of battle. We person in America who has made state- responsibilities on the President, the are holding our men and women, both ments that are overly optimistic, to Vice President and the former Sec- officer and enlisted, responsible for put it mildly, in terms of what is going retary of Defense for the last 3 years their behavior on the field of battle, as on in Iraq, when he is trying to carry over a failed policy in Iraq. The dif- to whether they succeed or fail. But out the policies of the administration, ference Senator LEVIN and I seem to now, in this particular instance, a keep the morale of his troops, and now, have is I also hold responsible the com- failed commander is now, again, unfor- after November the President now says manders in the field for giving accu- tunately, being promoted to a greater we are on a road to slow failure, after rate information, for providing rec- position of responsibility. We are, the American public told the President ommendations that will help to win a again, repeating the lessons of history of the United States that we are on a conflict rather than subscribing and because we ignore them. road to slow failure, now what we are continuing to this day, to this very day I intend to vote against the nomina- saying is: OK, the President acknowl- to support a policy everyone acknowl- tion of General Casey and I hope my edges we are on a road to slow failure edges has failed. colleagues will as well. I say that with unless we adopt his policy of a surge. By the way, I said today says are all due respect to the honorable service What General Casey is saying, hon- failed—not quotes from a month ago or

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But I hold the President: to use the Armed Forces ists, undermines our efforts to per- the entire chain of command respon- of the United States as he determines suade other nations to join us, and sible down to the commanders in the to be necessary and appropriate in opens the door to attacks here at field. order to defend the national security of home. We must stand firm. We must He says just a few days ago: the United States against the con- stand strong. I don’t see it as slow failure. I actually see tinuing threat posed by Iraq. Thus, I support the President’s plan it as slow progress. I remind my colleagues that we did to move forward in trying to secure The unclassified NIE we have read, so because of two important reasons— Baghdad. the National Intelligence Estimate on the same two reasons offered by the One of the keys to success in Iraq, I Iraq says, ‘‘We are not making President to the American public. believe, is obtaining a sincere commit- ment from the Iraqi Prime Minister to progress.’’ It says, ‘‘We are losing.’’ First, Saddam Hussein was in breach We are going to make the chief of of more than a dozen United Nations get the Iraqi government to play a staff of the Army the guy who thinks Security Council resolutions. He re- much stronger role in the destiny of that ‘‘We are making slow progress’’ as fused to cooperate with U.N. weapons Iraq. President Bush is confident that we opposed to the National Intelligence inspectors even after a decade of sanc- now have that commitment and I think Estimate, which is agreed on by our en- tions, and rejected proposal after pro- that this will have a major impact on tire intelligence establishment, that posal to verify that he did not have our new efforts to bring stability to we are losing. So, of course, we hold such weapons. Second, after September 11, it was Baghdad. people responsible. Of course we do. Do I am supportive of this new strategy clear that America could not afford to I hold our former Secretary of Defense because it contains a much stronger allow imminent threats to our Nation responsible? Absolutely. Absolutely. If commitment from Iraqis, in terms of go unopposed. At the time, Iraq rep- he were up for another job, I would be their share of force strength and their resented a dangerous crossroad be- standing here on the floor objecting to financial share of the costs of the war, tween terrorism and weapons of mass it. and includes new thresholds for the Do I hold others in the administra- destruction. In the context of Saddam’s Iraqis to meet. To date, the Iraqis have tion responsible? Absolutely. But this hostile intentions, it was a nexus that become too reliant on U.S. troops and is a leader who is up for an increased we could not ignore. U.S. dollars. This plan shows a new When critics attempt to cover up responsibility and he has failed in his commitment from the Iraqis to step up their support for the use of force mission, and that is what it is all to the plate and fight for their coun- about. An honorable and decent man against Iraq, they damage U.S. credi- try’s future. who has served his country, but the bility overseas and send mixed mes- I am optimistic that the President’s message throughout the military now sages to our servicemembers. Even shift in direction was needed, and may is, unfortunately, as it was with Gen- more dangerously, they encourage an have already resulted in two positive eral Westmoreland, ‘‘Even though you enemy who believes America will give results: fail, you are going to be promoted.’’ up when the fighting gets tough. No. 1, Iraq’s prime minister dropped To somehow say the commander in Of course, there is no doubt that the his protection of an anti-American the field is in some way not responsible strategic imperatives in Iraq have cleric’s Shiite militia after U.S. intel- in any way for the ‘‘mistakes’’ I think changed since 2002. I will readily admit ligence convinced him the group was flies in the face not only of the record that this fight is one that we fully rec- infiltrated by death squads; and but the tradition we have in the United ognize. But that in no way diminishes No. 2, recently, U.S. forces arrested States of America, of placing the com- the importance of our mission there the top aide to radical cleric al-Sadr in manders in the field in positions of re- now. We have a vital national interest a raid. I think this signals that the im- sponsibility and making them account- to remain in Iraq and help maintain a portant change in our strategy shows able for their performance and how secure and stable nation. hope for success and that Iraq is ready they carry out those responsibilities. The terrorists have made it abun- to come forward with a renewed com- I am sure the Senator from Michigan dantly clear that Iraq is central in mitment to solving its problems. and I will continue to disagree for some their war against the civilized world. Mr. President, I enter in the RECORD period of time because we have a philo- They are committed to fighting there the following newspaper articles de- sophical difference, a fundamental dif- and will not stop unless we defeat scribing these accounts. ference of opinion. If you want to them. If we have to fight, it is pref- [From the Washington Post, Jan. 20, 2007] blame everything on the civilian lead- erable to fight on their own soil. KEY AIDE TO SADR ARRESTED IN BAGHDAD— ership, who are of course responsible, They have also made it clear that IRAQI-LED OPERATION PART OF BROADER PUSH who of course history will judge very they will not stop with Iraq. They will (By Ernesto Londono) harshly, that is one way of looking at strike Iraq’s neighbors as they did in U.S.-backed Iraqi forces arrested a top aide it. If you say that responsibility is Jordan and Lebanon. They will strike to anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada al- shared down to the commanders in the Europe as they did in the Madrid bomb- Sadr in eastern Baghdad on Friday, amid ings. And, they will not hesitate to growing signs of stepped-up efforts to quell field, as I do, then you probably have a Sadr and his supporters. different view. strike America again as they did on U.S. military officials said in November I yield the floor. September 11. that Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia represents The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- And yet now, in this body, we are de- the greatest threat to Iraq’s security. U.S. ator from Colorado is recognized. bating another resolution, but one that and Iraqi forces are preparing a renewed ef- Mr. ALLARD. Mr. President, I ask does not hold any legal weight; a reso- fort to pacify Baghdad, including the deploy- unanimous consent to speak as in lution that would tie the hands of our ment of additional U.S. troops. soldiers in the field by limiting their Abdul Hadi al-Daraji, Sadr’s media direc- morning business. tor in Baghdad, was arrested at his house in The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without options, lower their morale, and harm the neighborhood of Baladiyat, near the objection, it is so ordered. their efforts in Iraq. I am convinced Mahdi Army stronghold of Sadr City, shortly Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, I have no that a long-term stable Iraq is in the after midnight, said Sadr spokesman Abdul objection at all. I am just curious as to best interest of our national security, Razak al-Nadawi. about how long. I am not in any way and as I have said many times before, The spokesman said a guard was killed trying to influence the length of time. the price of failure in Iraq is too great during the operation. At least two other aides were taken into custody, according to Mr. ALLARD. Let me just say I am to walk away now. a statement released by the U.S. military. anticipating somewhere around 12 or 15 We should not forfeit our progress in The statement did not identify Daraji by minutes. Iraq to meet arbitrary deadlines name, but said the main suspect was in- Mr. LEVIN. I thank my colleague. whether they are in the short or in the volved in the assassination of numerous

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:21 Mar 13, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00034 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2007SENATE\S07FE7.REC S07FE7 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY February 7, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1689 members of Iraq’s security forces and is ‘‘af- ‘‘We gave the political side a great chance, In the Middle East, there is great concern filiated with illegal armed group cells tar- and we have now to use the authority of the that Iraq’s civil war could spill over into geting Iraqi civilians for sectarian attacks.’’ state to impose the law and tackle or con- neighboring countries. The military said the arrest was the result of front people who break it.’’ When Rice visited Kuwait this week, offi- an ‘‘Iraqi-led’’ operation. U.S. officials have said that renewed mili- cials told her that the U.S. needed to start Nadawi said ‘‘the occupation forces are tary operations should go hand in hand with talks with Syria and Iran in order to ease provoking Sadr . . . by these daily oper- efforts at political reconciliation between the violence in Iraq. But the White House ations or every-other-day operations.’’ The warring Shiites and Sunnis. has resisted the suggestion, also put forward spokesman added that the cleric’s followers Maliki said if Iraqi security forces were by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group. ‘‘are the only ones demanding and putting a given sufficient training and equipment, U.S. rhetoric directed at Iran has become timetable for the occupation withdrawal.’’ they could stabilize the country enough to more aggressive even as Iraq is working to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who allow the withdrawal of U.S. troops starting strengthen its ties with its eastern neighbor has been pressured by the Bush administra- in three to six months—a period in which and largest trade partner. tion to bring the Mahdi Army and other Shi- President Bush’s proposed troop buildup When American forces detained five Ira- ite militias under control, was not fore- would still be underway. nians in northern Iraq last week, some Iraqi warned about the arrest, said Ali Dabbagh, a He said if better U.S. training and supplies officials were angered by what they saw as spokesman for Maliki. Dabbagh said the had come earlier, lives could have been U.S. interference in their foreign affairs. prime minister was not notified about every saved. In the interview, Maliki asserted his gov- impending high-profile arrest. ‘‘I think that within three to six months ernment’s independence from U.S. interests ‘‘No one is untouchable for the security our need for the American troops will dra- in the region. But he underscored that the forces,’’ Dabbagh said. ‘‘At the same time, no matically go down,’’ Maliki said. ‘‘That’s on U.S. and Iraqi governments shared basic one was interested to go into a fight with the the condition that there are real strong ef- goals for his country: stability and pros- Sadr movement.’’ Sadr, whose supporters forts to support our military forces.’’ perity. The U.S.-Iraq security plan involves send- hold 30 seats in parliament, is a key sup- ‘‘The success that can be achieved in Iraq ing 21,500 more American troops to Iraq and porter of Maliki, who is a Shiite, but the will be a success for President Bush and the 8,000 to 10,000 Iraqi forces to Baghdad in an cleric is also widely seen as an instigator of United States, and vice versa,’’ Maliki said. effort to quell the civil war between Sunnis the country’s sectarian violence. ‘‘A failure here would be a failure for Presi- and Shiites that on average kills more than Neither Dabbagh nor the U.S. military said dent Bush and the United States.’’ whether Daraji had been charged with a 100 people a day. He took issue with Bush’s contentions dur- Maliki said Iraqi security forces this week crime. ‘‘Definitely, if he’s not charged, he ing a PBS interview Tuesday that Maliki’s had detained 400 Shiite militiamen affiliated will be released in a respectful way,’’ government ‘‘has still got some maturation with Sadr, a radical Shiite cleric whose fol- Dabbagh said. to do,’’ and that it had botched Hussein’s lowers constitute part of Maliki’s political Sadr said in an interview with an Italian execution by allowing Shiite guards to taunt base. He offered no further details. newspaper published Friday that a crack- the former leader and videotape his hanging. down had begun and that 400 of his men had RETURN TO POLITICAL FORM Maliki said that Hussein and his codefend- been arrested, according to the Associated The interview, which took place in a pavil- ants were given a fair trial, and that it was Press. ion inside the heavily fortified Green Zone, his government’s constitutional prerogative Maliki told reporters this week that 430 was a return to the freewheeling style that to carry out the death penalty. He said Hus- Mahdi Army members had been arrested in characterized Maliki’s political manner be- sein was shown greater respect than the recent days, but Nadawi said Thursday that fore he became prime minister last year. former president gave to his rivals. the arrests stretched back to August 2004. When asked whether the Bush administra- Maliki appeared to bristle at Bush’s criti- In the interview, Sadr said his militiamen tion needed him now more than he needed cism, but he acknowledged that ‘‘mistakes would not fight back during the Muslim holy the administration, Maliki laughed had happened.’’ He said he had personally month of Muharram, which started Friday uproariously, calling it an ‘‘evil question.’’ given orders to his deputies to treat Hussein for Sunnis and begins Saturday for Shiites, Throughout, Maliki appeared confident with respect before and after he was hanged. saying it was against the faith to kill at that and seemed to relish the chance to respond He said the pressure Bush was feeling time. to statements by Bush and U.S. officials, in- might have prompted the critical remarks. ‘‘Let them kill us. For a true believer cluding allegations that his government had ‘‘Maybe this has led to President Bush say- there is no better moment than this to die: botched the hanging of deposed leader Sad- ing that he’s sorry, or he’s not happy, ahout Heaven is ensured,’’ he was quoted as saying. dam Hussein and had not done enough to the way the execution happened.’’ ‘‘After Muharram, we’ll see.’’ stop the sectarian violence. Also on Friday, the U.S. military reported Commenting on a recent statement by Sec- Significant developments like these the death of an American soldier killed retary of State Condoleezza Rice, he said, are exactly the type of results the Thursday by an improvised explosive device. ‘‘Rice is expressing her own point of view if President is working toward. Iraqi offi- The soldier, who was not identified pending she thinks that the [Iraqi] government is on cials must do more to defend their notification of relatives, was traveling in a borrowed time,’’ humorously suggesting that country and President Bush is making convoy conducting an escort mission in a it might be the Bush administration that is that clear. In turn, we must remain neighborhood in northwest Baghdad when on borrowed time. ‘‘I understand and realize that inside the steadfast in our resolve to show the the blast occurred. Three other soldiers were Iraqis that we will honor this renewed injured. American administration there is some kind of a crisis situation, especially after the re- commitment by allowing the plan to [From the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 18, 2007] sults of the last election,’’ he said. proceed without trying to weaken it Maliki said suggestions by Bush officials MALIKI PLEDGES TO TREAT MILITANTS WITH before it has a chance to work. that the U.S. did not fully support his gov- Our new Commander in Iraq, General AN IRON FIST ernment played into the hands of insurgents. (By Louise Roug) ‘‘I believe such statements give a morale David H. Petraeus, has testified before Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki prom- boost to the terrorists and push them toward the Senate Armed Services Committee ised Wednesday to crack down on Shiite making an extra effort, making them believe that he would not be able to get his job Muslim militias and Sunni Arab insurgents, they have defeated the American adminis- done without an increase in troops. warning that no one—not even political ally tration,’’ Maliki said. ‘‘But I can tell you, Think about that Mr. President. Just Muqtada Sadr—would be above the law. they haven’t defeated the Iraqi govern- two weeks ago, the Senate unani- ‘‘We will not allow any politicians to inter- ment.’’ mously approved General Petraeus to fere with this Baghdad security plan . . . CONCERN ALL AROUND head our efforts in Iraq, but some in whether they are Sunnis or Shiites, Arabs or The widening split between the U.S. and this body would now restrict his efforts Kurds, militias or parties, insurgents or ter- Iraqi governments comes at an inopportune by scuttling the new strategy before rorists,’’ Maliki said in a rare interview. time. The prime minister’s comments appeared Maliki has promised to carry out a secu- the General has been given opportunity to align his government’s security plan with rity plan to halt the civil war, but his gov- to perform. the Bush administration’s call to confront ernment has been riddled with sectarian Why would we support him and rec- Shiite militias. But in other remarks, Maliki fighting and corruption. ognize his stellar career with a unani- underscored his differences with the U.S., The Bush administration is under fire in mous nomination vote, but say we suggesting that American miscalculations the U.S. over the Iraq security plan. The would rather not give him the troops had worsened the bloodshed in Iraq, and strategy to send more American troops is to get the job done we have sent him warning that his patience for political nego- being resisted by many Democrats, who con- over there for? tiation with warring factions was wearing trol the House and the Senate. thin. In Washington on Wednesday, a group of General Petraeus also testified that ‘‘When military operations start in Bagh- senators introduced a nonbinding resolution the adoption of a Congressional resolu- dad, all other tracks will stop,’’ Maliki said. opposing the troop buildup. tion of disapproval of our efforts in

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Mr. President, I enter in the RECORD exchanges at the hearing did not appear to Too much is at stake to simply aban- the following media report regarding have any ill effect on the prospects for the don Iraq at this point; the price of fail- General Petraeus’ Senate confirmation confirmation of General Petraeus, and Mr. ure is too great. hearing. McCain said he hoped the commander would I wish we could move forward and [From the New York Times, Jan. 24, 2007] ‘‘catch the next flight’’ to Iraq after winning have legitimate votes on when we Senate confirmation. should leave or if we should reduce GENERAL SAYS NEW STRATEGY IN IRAQ CAN When their questions focused on the mili- WORK OVER TIME tary plan, senators elicited several new de- funding for the effort. But unfortu- (By Michael R. Gordon) tails. General Petraeus said Lt. Gen. Ray- nately we won’t proceed to those votes Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus, President mond T. Odierno, the day-to-day commander due to a decision of the Democratic Bush’s new choice as the top commander in of American troops in Iraq, advised that in leadership. Iraq, told senators on Tuesday that the new order to carry out the new strategy, five ad- Let me remind the American people, military strategy to secure Baghdad can ditional brigades were needed in Baghdad it is the majority leadership which de- work, and that he had asked that the addi- and two additional battalions were needed in termines the schedule here in the Sen- tional troops the administration promised be Anbar Province in western Iraq. ate. It is the Democratic leadership deployed as quickly as possible. Under the current deployment schedule, it In his first public comments about Mr. will be May before all five of the brigades are that does not want to have a real de- Bush’s plan to send some 21,500 troops, the in Iraq, but General Petraeus hinted that he bate on Iraq. I would welcome an open general described the situation in Iraq as would like them sooner, saying that he had and fair debate over our future involve- ‘‘dire’’ but not hopeless. He asserted that the asked the Pentagon to dispatch them ‘‘as ment in Iraq and the Middle East. ‘‘persistent presence’’ of American and Iraqi rapidly as possible.’’ Personally, I cannot and will not sup- forces in strife-ridden Baghdad neighbor- General Petraeus acknowledged that the port a proposal that would at this time hoods was a necessary step, but also cau- guidelines in the military’s counterinsur- condemn the new strategy our Com- gency manual implied that 120,000 troops tioned that the mission would not succeed if mander in Chief has advocated for—a the Iraqi government did not carry out its would be needed to secure Baghdad. But he program of political reconciliation. reasoned that the roughly 32,000 American strategy that requires our full support ‘‘The way ahead will be neither quick nor troops that would be deployed in the capital in order for it to succeed. I would rath- easy, and undoubtedly there will be tough under the plan would be enough, because the er have an opportunity to vote on Sen- days,’’ he told the Senate Armed Services total number of American and Iraqi security ator GREGG’s amendment in support of Committee. ‘‘We face a determined, adapt- personnel would be about 85,000, while the what our troops are trying to accom- able, barbaric enemy. He will try to wait us use of civilian contractors to guard govern- plish rather than a resolution that does out. In fact any such endeavor is a test of ment buildings would reduce troop require- nothing but diminish morale, sow con- wills, and there are no guarantees.’’ ments. But much of the hearing focused not on de- If the troops are sent according to the cur- fusion and discord without achieving tails of the strategy about to unfold in Iraq, rent schedule, General Petraeus said the anything but short term political pan- but rather on the political debate within the United States would know by late summer if dering. If we are going to debate, let’s Senate over resolutions that would signal the plan to clear contested neighborhoods of have a real debate. disapproval of the new strategy. insurgents and militias, hold them with Mr. President, I yield the floor, and I When Senator JOHN MCCAIN, Republican of American and Iraqi security forces and win suggest the absence of a quorum. Arizona, who has long favored sending more public support through reconstruction was The PRESIDING OFFICER. The troops to Iraq, asked if approval of a Senate working. He said he would raise the issue of sus- clerk will call the roll. resolution assailing Mr. Bush’s new strategy The legislative clerk proceeded to could hurt the morale of American troops, pending troop reinforcements with his mili- the general replied, ‘‘It would not be a bene- tary superiors if the Iraqi government ap- call the roll. ficial effect, sir.’’ peared to have not lived up to its commit- Mr. REED. Mr. President, I ask unan- Asked by Senator JOSEPH I. LIEBERMAN of ments. But he suggested that withholding imous consent that the order for the Connecticut, who also backs the plan, if a assistance from specific Iraqi institutions quorum call be rescinded. resolution would also ‘‘give the enemy some that fall short would have a greater influ- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without encouragement’’ by suggesting that the ence. The general also said that a decision to objection, it is so ordered. American people are divided, General withdraw American troops within six Mr. REED. Mr. President, I rise Petraeus replied, ‘‘That’s correct, sir.’’ months would lead to more sectarian attacks today to comment on the nomination That answer sparked admonishments by and increased ‘‘ethnic cleansing.’’ critics of Mr. Bush’s strategy, who insisted General Petraeus acknowledged that he of George Casey to be Chief of Staff of that the point of the Senate resolutions is to had concerns about the absence of a unified the U.S. Army. I have had the occa- put pressure on the government of Prime command structure. Under the new plan, the sion, as so many others have had, to Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq to fol- Iraqi Army and police units will be under di- visit Iraq on numerous occasions to low through on its political program and rect Iraqi command. The American Army talk to General Casey. I knew of him take more responsibility for its own secu- units that work with them will be under a before his appointment to Iraq. I think rity. parallel American command. To ensure prop- you have to first begin assessing his er coordination, American officers are trying ‘‘We know this policy is going forward,’’ tenure in Iraq by understanding the said Senator HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, to establish joint command posts. Democrat of New York. ‘‘We know the troops Senator Levin said his committee had re- situation as he arrived. He arrived are moving. We know that we’re not likely peatedly asked the administration to make after the CPA—the Coalition Provi- to stop this escalation. But we are going to available a list of the security and political sional Authority—under Mr. Bremer do everything we can to send a message to ‘‘benchmarks’’ the Iraqi had agreed to meet. had made systematic and fundamental our government and the Iraqi government He warned that the committee would use its mistakes with respect to the occupa- that they had better change, because the subpoena power or hold up military nomina- tion. He arrived, in fact, after our na- tions if benchmarks were not provided. enemy we are confronting is adaptable.’’ tional command authority entered a Senator JOHN W. WARNER, the Virginia Re- By insisting on that the benchmarks be publican who is promoting a resolution op- provided, Mr. Levin seemed to be trying to country and attempted an occupation posing Mr. Bush’s troop reinforcement plan, position himself to argue that the ‘‘surge’’ of without a plan. That, I think, can be cautioned General Petraeus to be sure that ‘‘reinforcements be suspended if the Iraqis attributed to many people but not to ‘‘this colloquy has not entrapped you into fell short of meeting commitments. George Casey. Without this plan, they some responses that you might later regret.’’ There is no doubt that we face ex- were improvising constantly, both on By the end of the hearing, General tremely difficult challenges in Iraq and the military side and on the civilian Petraeus sought to extricate himself from we have not made enough progress. The side. the political tussle by insisting that as a citizens of Iraq must be willing to fight The chief master of improvisation military man he did not want to take a posi- tion on the Senate debate. ‘‘There are a for their own freedom. The President was Ambassador Jerry Bremer. He and number of resolutions out there,’’ he said. recognizes this and his new plan is the his colleagues decided to disband the ‘‘Learning that minefields are best avoided result of increased commitments from Iraqi Army without any alternative ap- and gone around rather than walked through the Iraqi Prime Minister. proach to retaining individuals, paying

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:21 Mar 13, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00036 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2007SENATE\S07FE7.REC S07FE7 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY February 7, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1691 them, or directing them into useful role. He made progress, but that I yield the floor. services. He also embarked on a very progress today is hampered—but ham- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- elaborate debaathification program. pered not by his role, certainly, alone— ator from South Carolina. In this time it became increasingly but by strategic decisions that were Mr. DEMINT. I ask unanimous con- more obvious that our forces, because made by the President, by the Sec- sent I be allowed to speak 10 minutes of the misguided and poor decisions by retary of Defense, and by many others. in morning business. the President and the Secretary of De- Interestingly enough, too, this nomi- Mr. LEVIN. Reserving the right to fense, were engaging in an occupation nation is not strictly the result of the object, of course, I will not—did I un- without sufficient resources. This be- President’s work, but it is also that of derstand the Senator to say 10 min- came most obvious in Abu Ghraib, an Bob Gates who, I think, is an indi- utes? We don’t have any shortage of incident that shocked the conscience of vidual of competence and character time, so I am not trying to restrict the the world, shocked America particu- who has already created a new tone Senator in any way. I just want to larly. Again, this all preceded George and a good tone in the Department of plan. Casey. Defense. Secretary Gates thought long Mr. DEMINT. Ten minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. When he arrived on the ground he and hard about this, and in some re- MCCASKILL). Without objection, it is so had a situation of chaos, both adminis- spects to suggest that Casey is the ordered. tratively and also a situation in which wrong person for this job is to question Mr. DEMINT. Madam President, I the leadership of this Nation—not the the judgment of Bob Gates. At this take a few minutes today, despite my officers but the civilian leadership— point, I am not quite ready to do that. hoarse voice, to discuss the fiscal year I will support General Casey’s nomi- had grossly miscalculated in terms of 2007 spending resolution that we will be nation. He has an important role to successfully stabilizing this country. debating next week. Over the intervening months, Gen- play in the Army, an Army that be- The operations of the Federal Gov- eral Casey established some degree of cause of this administration has been ernment are currently being funded by administrative routine, some degree of severely strained. All of the non- a temporary spending measure that ex- planning. He, along with colleagues deployed units in the United States are pires on February 15, and the proposed such as General Petraeus, started an not combat ready. There is a huge per- resolution will fund the Government Iraqi training program. Once again, to sonnel turmoil caused by extended de- for the rest of the year. understand what he saw when he came ployments overseas. The ability of the It is important we understand how in, I can recall, as can many of my col- Army to modernize is sincerely com- we got to this point. Last year, we did leagues, going up and being briefed by promised by operations in Iraq and Af- not debate and pass all of our annual Secretary Rumsfeld and others about ghanistan. He has to face all these spending bills before the November the 200,000 Iraqi security forces. In fact, problems. elections. When we came back after the they usually pulled out a big pie chart There is something else he has to election for the lameduck session, a which each week was designed to show face, too—and, again, it goes right few Members worked successfully to the slice of American forces as growing back to the top. It is the selective real- stop Congress from passing a last- smaller and smaller. That was a total ism of this President and his Cabinet minute, foot-tall omnibus spending fiction. These people could not be and his civilian leadership. I was bill—like this one—that would have found. When they were found, they amazed to look at the budget released been filled with thousands of wasteful were not trained. Again, that is what yesterday, the budget that General earmarks. As a result, we passed an George Casey inherited. Casey will have to operate with, to find earmark-free stopgap spending meas- If people are trying to lay blame and out that this administration is esti- ure that, if continued, would have accountability on someone, George mating the cost of operations in Iraq— saved the American taxpayer some $17 Casey is somewhere in the middle or not in this fiscal year but the following billion. the end of the line. It begins at the top, one, starting October 1, 2008—at a mere There were several media reports last with the President of the United States $50 billion. Yes, I say a mere $50 billion year that said Republicans were trying whose policies were flawed, with imple- because this year we will spend about to push this debate into the future so mentation that was incompetent. A $240 billion; yet next year it will re- Democrats would have to clean up this large part of the burden should be markably be brought to $50 billion, al- mess. That may have been true for shared by Secretary Rumsfeld whose though General Pace told me in my some, but it was never true for me. My personality, whose temperament added questioning that they operate with the goal has always been to stop wasteful further to the chaos that we saw in assumption at the Pentagon they will earmarks. I am happy to work with Iraq. I think we could also include Sec- spend at least $84 billion. Members in either party to get that retary Wolfowitz and other civilians— Where is this $200 billion, or $34 bil- done. That is why I offered to work Doug Feith, Steve Cambone all of them lion, disappearing? It is disappearing with the Democratic leader to pass a misguided and impervious to the re- into the fiction that this administra- clean resolution this year that would ality of the ground in Iraq. tion is trying to project, not just about not contain any new earmarks and that Yet just a few weeks ago, as Sec- Iraq but the deficit reduction, their tax would keep spending at last year’s lev- retary Rumsfeld left, he was lauded by cut plans—all of these things. And Gen- els. the President of the United States and eral Casey will have to work with that While the Democratic leader did not the Vice President as the greatest Sec- budget. work with me on this measure, I am retary of Defense we have ever had. And there are those in the Senate de- pleased to say that it does not contain That is really accountability. manding we vote not to cut off funds any new earmarks. Let me say that This nomination is difficult in some for troops. We are not going to cut off again so that there won’t be any confu- respects because in that chaotic and funds. But I tell you what. If the Presi- sion. There are no new earmarks in difficult and challenging assignment, dent’s budget is to be believed, come this spending resolution. I applaud the General Casey would be the first to October 1 of 2008 there will be a huge Democrats for continuing the progress admit that his performance was not reduction in funds for those troops in we started last year. without flaws. That is one of the ap- Iraq—but, then again, do we believe the As my colleagues can see, this resolu- pealing aspects of General Casey. He President on this or many other issues? tion is only 137 pages. That can be com- has a certain candor and honesty that I will vote for General Casey. I think pared to where we were headed before he has generated throughout his entire he should be criticized for short- we were able to stop the earmarks. It is career. comings that he admits readily, but he a major improvement over the last om- Today, we are debating his nomina- should not be condemned because he nibus spending bill we passed that has tion. I will support that nomination. I was carrying out a strategy and a pol- over 1,600 pages. will support it not because he suc- icy that was seriously flawed when he Let me make another point clear if I ceeded in every endeavor but because arrived on the ground in Iraq. He has could. This resolution does not stop the he gave his last ounce of effort and en- done his best to do the job he was administration from enacting the hun- ergy to a very difficult and challenging given. dreds and even thousands of earmarks

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This resolution says—the one we does not intend to allow amendments, and-run strategy would set the stage are considering next week—that the which is very unfortunate since we for a regionwide conflict between gulf earmarks contained in fiscal year 2006, have plenty of time to consider and de- states, Arab countries, and Iran and its in the committee reports in 2006, shall bate them. The current stopgap spend- sphere of influence, and not just a re- have no legal effect. That is a good ing measure lasts for another week, gional war but a bigger one. Such a war thing, but those earmarks had no legal and the House can easily take up our would have enormous implications for effect anyway. The administration was final bill and pass it in a matter of the war on terrorism and stability not bound by them last year and is not hours. I am glad there are no new ear- around the world. We cannot withdraw bound by them now. marks written into the text of this res- from the Middle East and leave behind Also, this resolution is completely si- olution, and I thank my colleagues for the kind of chaos in which al-Qaida lent with respect to the earmarks in that, but if we are not allowed to fix thrives. If Arabs feel compelled to fiscal year 2007 in those committee re- other problems in this resolution, I will counter an Iranian threat, the govern- ports. I am not sure why these reports not be able to support it. ments are likely to become more rad- were left out of this measure, but it ap- As I am sure many of my colleagues ical, not more moderate. We recognized pears to be a glaring mistake. remember, I came to the floor a few in the aftermath of September 11 that The supporters of this resolution say weeks ago and had a spirited and im- winning the war on terror requires the it is earmark-free. While that is tech- portant debate with the Democratic emergence of moderate governments nically true, earmarks can still sneak leader on how the Senate will disclose across the Middle East. Withdrawing in the back door. I praise Democrats earmarks. We worked through that from Iraq would amount to pushing the when they call for a moratorium on governments of the region toward the earmarks, but this resolution does not issue and came to a bipartisan agree- arms of Islamist radicals and under- actually achieve that goal. That is why ment that resulted in earmark disclo- mine the core of our counterterrorism I am sending a letter to the President sure rules that were unanimously ap- strategy since 9/11. This is not the way today asking him to do his part by pro- proved. It was a clear example of how to go. hibiting anyone in his administration this body can and should work to- gether. I believe we can do that again We must acknowledge that we cannot from giving preference to any earmark afford to lose in Iraq because such a request that is not legally binding. We on this resolution. I hope the Demo- cratic leader will reconsider his posi- loss would reverse the gains we have need to put a stop to committee report made in the war on terror and extend earmarks. We need to end the practice tion and work with us to allow a lim- the war on terror for years to come. On where a Member calls up a Federal ited number of amendments. the other hand, I am not convinced agency and threatens its funding if it Madam President, I yield the floor that a troop surge into Iraq will usher does not fund that Member’s pet and the remainder of my time. in the sort of peace we need to take the project. I suggest the absence of a quorum. Our Federal agencies need to be free The PRESIDING OFFICER. The place of the consequences I have just to use American tax dollars in ways clerk will call the roll. discussed. I have no doubt our forces are capa- that meet true national priorities rath- The assistant legislative clerk pro- ble of winning any and every individual er than serving one special interest or ceeded to call the roll. battle in which they engage. I have another. The President has the power Mr. BROWNBACK. Madam President, been with the troops. I have been with to stop secret earmarks. He said in his I ask unanimous consent that the order State of the Union that he wants to for the quorum call be rescinded. the troops within the past month. They stop them. I hope he will do so. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without are strong. They are determined. They This spending resolution has several objection, it is so ordered. are courageous. And they are doing a other flaws. For example, it uses budg- Mr. BROWNBACK. Madam President, fabulous job. I believe strongly they et gimmicks to hide its true cost. The I ask unanimous consent to speak as in are capable of defeating the al-Qaida proponents say it does not exceed the morning business for 15 minutes. insurgency in Iraq and, as they have budget, but that is less than honest. Mr. LEVIN. No objection. demonstrated recently, they are quite First, it cuts spending on national de- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without capable of defeating Iranian agents fense programs with the expectation objection, it is so ordered. seeking to foment violence and insta- that funds will be added as emergency The Senator from Kansas. bility inside of Iraq. What they cannot spending later this year. This is not Mr. BROWNBACK. Madam President, do, what our troops cannot do, is the time to cut defense and security I wish to address the body and my col- achieve a political solution between spending while adding social programs. leagues about Iraq, the complex situa- Iraq’s sectarian groups. That is a polit- It is not honest to hide spending this tion that exists there today, the reso- ical problem which requires a political way. Second, the resolution also pays lution we were not able to address on solution. As I found out during my re- for new spending by cutting funding in the floor this week. My hope is we will cent travels to Iraq, the sectarian vio- budget accounts that are already be able to address this resolution in the lence is the overwhelming cause of empty. These are phony offsets, and very near future. Iraq’s difficulties. Additional troops on they should not be used. Iraq is one of the most important the streets simply will not make Sunni This resolution not only pretends to and, certainly, complex subjects we and Shia trust each other. reduce spending in places where it does will ever debate on this floor. For ex- I say this with great respect to Gen- not, it also fails to reduce spending ample, there are some Members of this eral Petraeus, who is a friend, whom where it should. First, the resolution body who want to reduce this to an ei- we have confirmed to be the com- leaves out thousands of congressional ther/or decision: surge into Iraq or mander of the multinational forces in earmarks worth billions of dollars. withdraw from it. But the issue cannot Iraq. I met with General Petraeus sev- Rather than passing those savings be discussed in such oversimplified eral times during his tenure when he along to American taxpayers, it spends terms, I do not believe. Our decisions, was commander at Fort Leavenworth them on other programs. Second, this whatever they end up being, carry con- in my home State of Kansas. He is a resolution fails to eliminate a number sequences far beyond the number of bright, articulate, and outstanding of- of programs which were proposed for troops who are deployed within Iraq’s ficer. I believe he is well qualified to termination by the President and borders. Those who favor a withdrawal take on this extraordinarily difficult agreed to last year by the House and or a phased withdrawal from Iraq must assignment. I voted to confirm him be- the Senate Committee on Appropria- wholly appreciate those consequences. cause he is the right man for such a tions. These programs should be termi- We have heard that withdrawal from difficult position, and I wish him God- nated, but this resolution fails to do so. Iraq would leave a safe haven for ter- speed.

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But I supported the move us away from consensus and fur- bility, he sent us a commander he be- overall report because it could have ther from victory. lieves will serve well under his overall been something we could use to build Madam President, the Senate needs direction, and I could not agree more. bipartisan support for a new strategy to express itself on the subject of Iraq. The Senate has the right, if it choos- in Iraq. I hope we can get to a vote on a resolu- es, to express its opinion of the Presi- If we cannot rally around that report, tion that will have strong bipartisan dent’s actions. And we do so. It is en- perhaps we can rally around a Senate support that achieves the goals I have tirely possible for the Senate to ex- resolution that can gain strong bipar- outlined and sustains our commit- press its disapproval of the President’s tisan support, uniting us here to win ments for as long as it takes to win in strategy without taking steps to un- over there. Many of us have been work- Iraq. We need to have an open process. dermine the commander or the troops. ing toward this goal. Many of us sup- We need to be able to vote on various I have indicated that I do not support port a resolution or resolutions that resolutions. This is the most important the President’s surge plan, but I did provide responsible opposition to the issue facing our country. We should not attempt to undermine the Com- surge. We do not want to see funds have a full, open debate and debate mander in Chief or our soldiers in the withdrawn from our troops, nor do we about it a long time and vote on sev- field by voting against General believe in withdrawing from Iraq. I eral resolutions that people see as key. Petraeus, who is very well qualified for hope the party now in the majority in We need to address this, and we need to command, nor will I attempt or sup- this Chamber will articulate exactly do it now. We can win. We must pull port efforts to undermine our troops by what it can support. together. withdrawing their funding. This is the There has been a lot of discussion in Madam President, I thank the Chair essence of disagreeing at home while the last several days about funding for and suggest the absence of a quorum. being united overseas. our troops. I am concerned that al- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The A Senate debate over strategy is con- ready there are plans to use the supple- clerk will call the roll. sistent with our constitutional roles to mental and the regular appropriations The assistant legislative clerk pro- voice opinion and oversee the executive process to restrict funding for oper- ceeded to call the roll. branch. Denying promotions of quali- ations in Iraq. Our troops face the Mr. COCHRAN. Madam President, I fied leaders or cutting funding to the threat of real casualties daily. They ask unanimous consent that the order troops in the field would not only be ought not be casualties of our debates for the quorum call be rescinded. inappropriate but irresponsible. on Iraq. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Let me now turn to those things I have indicated my support for the objection, it is so ordered. which I endorse wholeheartedly. Warner resolution because it respon- Mr. COCHRAN. Madam President, I First, I support our troops. They are sibly articulates an opposition to the ask unanimous consent that I be per- brave, as I have stated, dedicated, and surge while guaranteeing our troops in mitted to speak for up to 15 minutes as talented. They deserve not only our ad- the field have the support they deserve in morning business. miration and gratitude but our very from this body and from the American The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without best efforts to help them achieve their public. This is a responsible approach. I objection, it is so ordered. mission. And I support that mission. hope that whatever resolution reaches Mr. COCHRAN. Madam President, Our troops are vital to prevent the the floor includes a promise of support there has been much debate and discus- kind of regional instability I spoke of for our troops. I will not support pro- sion about President Bush’s plan for a earlier. They are crucial to denying posals that do not include such provi- new way forward in Iraq. In fact, there radical Islamic extremists a safe haven sions. We need this debate, and we need was much discussion between the from which they can launch further at- to vote on this. President and his team of military and tacks. They are essential to providing I believe there is a way we can come civilian advisers prior to his making the training necessary for the Iraqi se- together across the aisle. I think we the decision to change course and out- curity forces to take charge of their can be clear about our priorities. The line a new strategy to help bring sta- own country’s security. first priority I think we can agree on is bility to the country and to hasten the As I have said, we cannot afford to getting the Iraqis to work and agree on day when our troops could come home. lose this fight. Iraq is the key front in a political solution to the sectarian vi- There is no easy answer and no easy the war on terrorism. We must remain olence occurring between Sunnis and solution to the situation in Iraq and in Iraq as long as it takes to ensure Shias. We must encourage the Iraqis to the Middle East. The President’s deci- that Iraq can fend off external threats reach a political equilibrium, elimi- sion was informed by input from many in a tough neighborhood as well as nating the motivation for sectarian sources, including his national security take full responsibility for its own in- strife. We should make sure Iraq’s bor- advisers, civilian and military, mem- ternal security and prevent the estab- ders are secure. We should chase the bers of his Cabinet, his intelligence ex- lishment of terrorist safe havens with- foreign fighters out of Iraq and deny perts, as well as Members of Congress, in its territory. But I fully understand the terrorists safe haven. And we foreign leaders, and others with foreign we cannot sustain this kind of long- should limit the influence of Iran. policy experience. In the end, it was term commitment in Iraq that will I believe we can sustain this kind of the President who decided this new likely be necessary unless we have bi- military strategy for the necessary strategy and that this new strategy partisan support here at home. We time to come, preserving our interests had the best chance of success. must be united here if we are to while we put pressure on Iraq’s various He acknowledged, and we all know, achieve victory over there. groups to reach a political settlement. there is no guarantee of success. But This principle was at the foundation For this reason, I have indicated sup- the dangers are too great to not try to of the efforts of the Baker-Hamilton port for the resolution, as I stated, put create an opportunity to provide an in- commission, which sought to bring forward by Senator WARNER. I believe creased level of stability in Iraq. A people together on a way forward that it is the most constrictive resolution temporary deployment of additional could have broad support. I supported we will consider. It outlines the impor- U.S. troops in Iraq to support the Iraqi the commission’s report as something tance of winning in Iraq, opposes the security forces will provide a new win- we could rally around together. I do surge, offers reasonable political and dow of opportunity for Iraqi political not agree with every part of that re- military goals, and praises the efforts and economic initiatives to take hold port. Some recommendations, such as of our men and women in uniform. This and reduce sectarian violence. those linking the Arab-Israeli conflict resolution moves us toward the kind of The President and his military and with the problems in Iraq, just do not consensus needed for success. civilian advisers reviewed last year’s

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I will Negroponte stated: mistakes will not be repeated. quote from Dr. Kissinger’s testimony . . . I believed, and still believe, that it is Prime Minister Maliki has assured us at that hearing in the Senate: possible for Iraq to make a successful transi- that more Iraqi troops will be engaged The disenchantment of the American pub- tion to democracy. What I would like to say in the fight and that political restric- lic with the burdens it has borne largely is that my belief that success in Iraq re- tions will be removed. In addition, the alone for nearly four years has generated mains possible is based on my experience in Prime Minister of Iraq has committed growing demands for some type of unilateral dealing with Iraq as U.S. Ambassador to the to take responsibility for security for withdrawal, usually expressed as bench- U.N. and Ambassador to Iraq, and as Direc- marks to be put to the Baghdad government tor of National Intelligence. all Iraq provinces by November, to that, if not fulfilled in specific timeframes, We know there are challenges in Iraq work to pass legislation to share oil would trigger American disengagement. revenues equitably among Iraqi citi- But under present conditions, withdrawal and in the region. And the President zens, and to spend $10 billion of Iraqi is not an option. American forces are indis- has developed a new strategy for deal- reserve funds for reconstruction and pensable. They are in Iraq not as a favor to ing with the problem, which I applaud. initiatives that will create jobs. He will its government or as a reward for its con- This includes involving the Govern- duct. They are there as an expression of the also work toward demobilizing mili- ment in Iraq and the military forces American national interest to prevent the and the police in Iraq in a more aggres- tias, holding provincial elections, and Iranian combination of imperialism and fun- reforming debaathification laws, which damentalist ideology from dominating a re- sive way. Together they have worked should help improve the civil structure gion on which the energy supplies of the in- with our military and diplomatic lead- so the Government can meet the needs dustrial democracies depend. An abrupt ership to come up with a new plan of its people and help promote eco- American departure would greatly com- that, if it is not undermined by the nomic growth. plicate efforts to stem the terrorist tide far Congress, has a chance of succeeding. Last week the National Intelligence beyond Iraq; fragile governments from Leb- During the January 23 hearing before anon to the Persian Gulf would be tempted Estimate, entitled ‘‘Prospects for the Senate Armed Services Committee into preemptive concessions. It might drive on the nomination of General David Iraq’s Stability: A Challenging Road the sectarian conflict in Iraq to genocidal di- Ahead,’’ was delivered to Congress. I mensions beyond levels that impelled U.S. Petraeus to be Commander of the Mul- will not speak to the 90-page classified intervention in the Balkans. Graduated tinational Forces-Iraq, General report. But there were some unclassi- withdrawal would not ease these dangers Petraeus said: fied judgments provided to us that I until a different strategy was in place and I believe this plan can succeed if, in fact, can mention. Within this National In- showed progress. For now, it would be treat- all of those enablers and all the rest of the telligence Estimate, this information ed within Iraq and in the region as the fore- assistance is, in fact, provided. runner of a total withdrawal, and all parties He, also, indicated this: is provided to support these conclu- would make their dispositions on that basis. sions: President Bush’s decision should, there- It will not be easy, but if we could get If strengthened Iraqi security forces, more fore, not be debated in terms of the ‘‘stay the them to where they are shouting instead of loyal to the government and supported by course’’ strategy he has repeatedly dis- shooting, that would be a very substantial Coalition forces, are able to reduce levels of avowed in recent days. Rather, it should be improvement. violence and establish more effective secu- seen as the first step toward a new grand Madam President, it is obvious to me rity for Iraq’s population, Iraqi leaders could strategy relating power to diplomacy for the we need to do what we can to help sta- have an opportunity to begin the process of entire region, ideally on a nonpartisan basis. bilize this situation and bring our The purpose of the new strategy should be political compromise necessary for longer- troops home. As a beginning point for term stability, political progress, and eco- to demonstrate that the United States is de- nomic recovery. termined to remain relevant to the outcome this strategy, for it to work, we should Nevertheless, even if violence is dimin- in the region; to adjust American military show a commitment by our country to ished, given the current winner-take-all atti- deployments and numbers to emerging reali- success. I support this new initiative, tude and sectarian animosities infecting the ties; and to provide the maneuvering room and I think we should give it a chance political scene, Iraqi leaders will be hard for a major diplomatic effort to stabilize the to work. pressed to achieve sustained political rec- Middle East. Of the current security threats This does not mean we should not onciliation in the timeframe of this Esti- in Iraq—the intervention of outside coun- monitor the situation or that the plan mate. tries, the presence of al-Qaida fighters, an Coalition capabilities, including force lev- extraordinarily large criminal element, the should not be adjusted as new develop- els, resources, and operations, remain an es- sectarian conflict—the United States has a ments occur. But we need to move for- sential stabilizing element in Iraq. If Coali- national interest in defeating the first two; ward in hopes of stabilizing Iraq, stabi- tion forces were withdrawn rapidly during it must not involve itself in the sectarian lizing the region, and in hopes of bring- the term of this Estimate, [that is 12 to 18 conflict for any extended period, much less ing our troops home at an early date. months] we judge that this almost certainly let itself be used by one side for its sectarian The President deserves our support in would lead to a significant increase in the goals. this effort, and I intend to support him. scale and scope of sectarian conflict in Iraq, Madam President, it is clear to me I yield the floor and suggest the ab- intensify Sunni resistance to the Iraqi gov- from Dr. Kissinger’s comments that it sence of a quorum. ernment, and have adverse consequences for is truly in our national interest to sup- national reconciliation. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The If such a rapid withdrawal were to take port the President’s new strategy to clerk will call the roll. place, we judge that the ISF [Iraqi Security help provide a new opportunity for po- The bill clerk proceeded to call the Forces] would be unlikely to survive as a litical and economic solutions in Iraq roll. nonsectarian national institution: neigh- and for more effective diplomatic ef- Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, I ask boring countries—invited by Iraqi factions or forts in the Middle East region. Of unanimous consent that the order for unilaterally—might intervene openly in the course, we know there are no guaran- the quorum call be rescinded. conflict; massive civilian casualties and tees of success. But according to the The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. forced population displacement would be National Intelligence Estimate, the OBAMA). Without objection, it is so or- probable; AQI [al-Qaida in Iraq] would at- tempt to use parts of the country—particu- perspective of one of our most experi- dered. larly al-Anbar province—to plan increased enced foreign policy experts, Dr. Kis- Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, I ask attacks in and outside of Iraq; and spiraling singer, included maintaining the cur- unanimous consent to speak for 5 min- violence and political disarray in Iraq, along rent course or withdrawal without ad- utes as in morning business on Iraq. with Kurdish moves to control Kirkuk and ditional stability in Iraq will be harm- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without strengthen autonomy, could prompt Turkey ful to our national interests and to the objection, it is so ordered. to launch a military incursion. entire region. Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, this Madam President, these statements Over the last few weeks, there have whole debate regarding what the Sen- remind me of prepared testimony pre- been a number of hearings in which the ate should do and how to send the right

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Those who many votes should we have to express The reason the Senate is not the don’t understand it are in denial be- the differences we have in this body? If House is because we have a chance for cause it clearly has not been the suc- the Warner-Levin resolution—I respect the minority; we have a chance to have cess we were hoping for. both authors, but I just disagree with a healthy, full debate. We were asking The new strategy we are about to the message it sends—if Warner-Levin for two votes, not one. If you are going embark on, the Petraeus doctrine, for is ever adopted by this body, the head- to vote on Warner-Levin, fine, I will lack of a better word, I do believe has lines throughout this world will be: come to the floor and take the respon- the best chance left for us to succeed, Senate condemns surge. Baghdad lost. sibility for opposing it, vote against it, and additional troops in Iraq can make The resolution disapproves of sending and argue vehemently that it under- a huge difference. We have been able to more troops. I believe we need more cuts our efforts in Iraq. But there was clear in the past but never hold. We troops in the short term to bring about another vote being proposed on the don’t need any more combat power to political reconciliation. But it is not Judd Gregg amendment that simply clear. We have won every battle we only me saying it. It is General said we will not cut off funding, we will have ever been in with the insurgents. Petraeus, the commander. I think the not cap troops as a statement of this But we have been unable to hold the message from the resolution considers body. It would have gotten 70 votes. territory. Mr. President, 17,500 more his efforts lost before they have had a And the reason we couldn’t have those troops in Baghdad would allow us to chance to be implemented. It is a lack two votes, in my opinion, is because the Democratic left—and we have them hold territory for the purpose of polit- of resolve in terms of the enemy. The on the right—would have ginned up and ical reconciliation. enemy will see this as a lack of resolve gone nuts over the idea that the Demo- The ultimate question for the body is on our part, and no good comes from it cratic caucus would not cut off funding how to bring out the best in the Iraqi because it doesn’t stop the troops. for a war that the Democratic left political leadership. Some say we need Secondly, it says you can continue thought should have ended last week. to send a strong message that we are operations in Anbar, the Sunni area I know what it is like. I have been going to leave at a date certain, threat- where al-Qaida is operating, but you through this on immigration. Once en to cut off funding for the Iraqi mili- can’t go into Baghdad. Baghdad is a your base gets mad at you, it is not tary, quit providing security to polit- mess. Baghdad is a very violent place pleasant, but you can’t build policies ical leaders in Iraq. where they have sectarian violence oc- around bloggers. My answer is that democracy is hard curring. The question is: Do we stop it So I am glad the Senate did not take without being shot at. The reason we now or let it grow bigger? There are 6 a single vote that was designed to em- don’t solve immigration, Social Secu- million people in Baghdad. The night- barrass a single political element in rity, and other emotional problems is mare I worry about is an open civil the country. If we are going to debate because in our own country we get war, where we have a bloodletting that Iraq on the floor of the Senate, we locked down by pretty extreme voices will bring in Sunni Arab nations to should be willing to take more than who have political action committees come to the aid of their Sunni broth- one vote. Two votes is not too much to and run 527 ads. ers, Iran will get involved in the south ask. The problem the Iraqi political lead- of Iraq, and nothing good will come of Where we go from here, I don’t know. ership has to deal with is a violent that. I can’t promise success from this new country, to the point where it is hard The reason we are having this sec- strategy, but I can promise the con- to get political compromise. It is tough tarian violence is because al-Qaida sequences of failure, and these young to go to Baghdad and do an oil-sharing struck the mother lode when it bombed men and women who will leave to go revenue agreement among Sunnis, the Golden Mosque in Samarra, the off as part of this new strategy, I know Kurds, and Shias when 100 of your con- third most holy religious site in the every Member of the Senate wishes stituents have been shot in the head Shia religion. That has created sec- them well and prays for their safety. and left out in the street that day. tarian fighting that has gotten out of But I do hope as they leave, we do not So I believe precondition to political control. take any action to undercut their ef- reconciliation is better security and For decades, Sunnis and Shias mar- forts because of 2008 politics. The war the better security can only be ried and lived together in Baghdad and in Iraq is much bigger than the next achieved by going into militia strong- other places. The Shia population was election. holds that were previously off limits, terribly oppressed during the Saddam I yield the floor. I suggest the ab- by more combat capability on the Hussein regime, but the Shia majority sence of a quorum. ground to hold territory cleared, and had remarkable restraint up until the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The by putting the Iraqi troops out front bombing of the mosque, which was al- clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk proceeded to call the with a sufficient support network be- Qaida inspired. I don’t want to give in roll. hind them and American hands to give to acts of terrorism that bring out the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- them the capacity they are lacking worst in people. ator from Virginia. today to deal with the insurgency. Our goal is not to get the oil from Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I ask The McCain-Graham-Lieberman reso- Iraq; it is not to create a puppet state unanimous consent that the order for lution understands a million troops for the United States in Iraq. It is to the quorum call be rescinded. won’t matter if the Iraqi political lead- bring out the best in the Iraqi people, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ership doesn’t reach political consensus to allow the moderates in the region a objection, it is so ordered. on oil, rule of law, and on a million chance to conquer and defeat the ex- Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, during other problems they have. But the tremists who have no place for any- the course of the afternoon, a group of benchmarks in our resolution are an body other than only their way of Republican Senators have been meet- acknowledgment that it takes political doing business, including us. ing, including our final meeting with compromise in Iraq to bring about sta- We can’t kill enough of the terrorists our distinguished Republican leader, bility, but we cannot have that polit- to win, but we surely can empower the MITCH MCCONNELL, and our assistant ical compromise with this level of vio- moderates so they have a chance of Republican leader, Senator LOTT. We lence. winning. now have a letter signed by seven Sen- The resolution also talks about a I am glad we did not take a vote in ators: myself, Senator COLLINS, Sen- failed state in Iraq and the con- isolation on Warner-Levin. It would ator SMITH, Senator VOINOVICH, Sen- sequences to this country. They are have been 50-something votes, less than ator SNOWE, Senator HAGEL, and Sen- long lasting and far reaching. A failed 60, and the headlines throughout the ator COLEMAN. The letter is addressed

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Had we properly assumed the I would like to now read the text of And we did not anticipate, because difficulties that we would have faced, the letter to place it into the Record: we apparently did not plan for this, we should have been prepared for a pe- Dear Leaders: The war in Iraq is the most that a political and leadership vacuum riod of instability, during which the pressing issue of our time. It urgently de- created by the fall of Saddam would in- neighbor to the east, Iran, would not serves the attention of the full Senate and a vite the influence of Iran, whose inter- sit idle. full debate on the Senate floor without ests in Iraq are anything but chari- I say this because I cannot support delay. We respectfully advise you, our leaders, table. the administration today without hon- that we intend to take S. Con. Res. 7 and The mistakes that we have read so estly assessing what happened in the offer it, where possible, under the Standing much about—the failure to secure mas- preparation and implementation of this Rules of the Senate, to bills coming before sive ammunition dumps, the peremp- war over 4 years ago. the Senate. tory disbanding of the Iraqi army, the And now, 4 years later, the Senate On January 10, 2007, the President stated, sweeping de-Baathification policies has determined to take up an increas- with respect to his Iraq strategy, ‘‘if Mem- that alienated many Sunnis not di- ingly partisan debate over what to do bers have improvements that can be made, rectly responsible for the Saddam’s we will make them. If circumstances change, to prevent losing the Iraq war. we will adjust.’’ In a conscientious, respect- tyranny—all of these mistakes derive And we are now debating a variety of ful way, we offered our resolution consistent from our failure to think about what what I hope will be non-binding resolu- with the President’s statement. would happen in Iraq the day after Sad- tions in response to the President’s an- We strongly believe the Senate should be dam fell. It was a much more profound nouncement to surge 21,500 troops into allowed to work its will on our resolution as mistake than not sending enough the Iraq conflict. well as on the concepts brought forward by troops; we simply did not imagine that other Senators. Monday’s procedural vote This is an extremely somber moment we would be facing problems that in the history of this nation. We find should not be interpreted as any lessening of would require more troops. our resolve to go forward advocating the ourselves in the midst of a war that it concepts of S. Con. Res. 7. Thinking of what was the most fun- appears some still do not fully under- We will explore all of our options under the damental criticisms of our failures to stand. It is a war whose dynamics and Senate procedures and practices to ensure a anticipate the terror of September 11, I politics are completely in flux, and full and open debate on the Senate floor. The am reminded of the 9/11 Commission’s with the consequences of both our ac- current stalemate is unacceptable to us and conclusion that we did not have the to the people of this country. tions in the field—as well as in our pol- imagination to prepare for that attack. itics right here—being profound for the Mr. President, for reference purposes, In Iraq, where our imagination failed Iraqi people, the Middle East region a copy of S. Con. Res. 7 is printed in again, a thorough understanding of and our national security. Iraqi history and society should have the RECORD of Monday, February 5, 2007 Make no mistake: What we do com- helped. at page 51556. municate is America’s political will, Mr. President, I yield the floor, and I I am not talking about rehashing the and our political will is directly re- suggest the absence of a quorum. history of imperialists, who would The PRESIDING OFFICER. The argue to justify their creation of the lated to the morale of our troops. clerk will call the roll. unnatural state of Iraq, or who would Those who seek to, for rhetorical pur- The assistant legislative clerk pro- argue about the superiority of one sect poses only, assert their support of the ceeded to call the roll. over the other. troops while communicating their op- Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I ask I am not talking about the history as position to their mission cannot sever unanimous consent the order for the told by anthropologists, who argue this natural connection between polit- quorum call be rescinded. about ancient fights and long-sim- ical will and morale. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without mering disputes. While it is always good for the Sen- objection, it is so ordered. A thorough study and understanding ate to debate great matters of war and Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, in the de- of Iraq would have required us—and the peace—and, indeed, there are no more bate over whether we should be sup- top policymakers of this administra- important matters—the imbalance be- porting or withdrawing our support tion—to understand the complexity of tween partisan rhetoric and sub- from the President’s plan to surge over Iraqi society as it was in 2003. And if we stantive direction on this question has 20,000 more troops into Iraq, I am had done so, we would have had the been, to my mind, unsettling. A per- acutely aware of one overriding irony. imagination to prepare for the many ilous state of war in Iraq is not im- Those who are seeking to begin the contingencies that quite naturally de- proved by the partisan level of debate withdrawal from Iraq are committing veloped when we so boldly sought to here. the same conceptual error that many change the status quo. I have watched the course of this of the same critics have accused the We know that we had next to no in- conflict with increasing concern and administration of committing when telligence on Iraq—and if you have dismay. they made their flawed plans for the read the latest NIE on Iraq put out last As I said, I have been profoundly dis- invasion of Iraq. They are not thinking Friday, you will be dismayed, as I am, appointed in realizing the errors we about what will happen on the day to read that we have very little more have made in implementing this war. after we begin our withdrawal. intelligence today. I have been greatly dismayed in the Let me say that the situation in But how about open source knowl- failure of the Iraqi people to resist the which we find ourselves today in Iraq is edge on which we could have made descent into sectarian violence, and certainly in part due to the adminis- more careful assessments of what to their failure to demand leadership from tration’s failure to anticipate many expect the day after the tyrant top- their elected leaders. variables in the Iraqi theater, in the re- pled? I have been horrified by the level of gion, and in Iraqi society. Those who It was a tragic mistake to underesti- barbarism. I have not been surprised, I prepared only for the military defeat of mate the role of criminality underpin- must say, by the Sunni jihadists, whose Saddam’s forces committed such a pro- ning Saddam’s regime in its last de- barbarism should be well known by found error that it will be a lesson crepit days, a criminality that was un- now, but by Shia militias, who, oper- learned in the history books long after leashed immediately after we invaded ating under a government dominated we are gone. and which has added great complexity by the Iraqi Shia for the first time in We did not prepare for the vehemence to the conflict among the many armed modern Iraq’s history, seem to operate with which certain elements of the dis- groups in Iraq today. without restraint or morality by their placed Sunni elite would fight to retain But we should not have underesti- authorities in their nihilistic persecu- their status quo. mated the reluctance with which the tion of their real and perceived en- We did not anticipate how fractured Sunnis would accept their new de- emies. I can understand the sense of re- and weak the oppressed Shia society of classed position in Iraq. venge one must feel when one has been

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Senate debate this war. caution and humility. But, I can make The American people have been From the day we passed a resolution one prediction here, particularly to shocked by this level of brutality as authorizing the use of force to remove those on the other side of the aisle: well—but we shouldn’t call it mindless, Saddam Hussein the fall of 2002, it has Iraq will be a central issue before this because in the diabolic minds of the been fitting to debate this war, and we Congress, and before the next adminis- Sunni al-Qaida and ex-Baathist per- have, through many floor speeches and tration, in 2009. petrators, it has a reason: to push Iraq amendments to authorizing or appro- We cannot make it go away before into chaos. In the minds of the bloody priating legislation. Whether it is fit- then. There is no way that a with- Shia militia leaders like Moqtada al- ting that we respond to the President’s drawal begun now will leave a new ad- Sadr, there is also a rationale: Their latest change in military strategy with ministration free from the policy prob- militias complete the cyclical logic of these resolutions is another matter. lems presented by Iraq. barbarism. I have paid a great deal of attention So we should liberate ourselves right In this cycle is perpetuated a nihi- to the hearings held before the Senate now from seeking partisan advantage, listic violence that will so destabilize Foreign Relations Committee and the because as much as some may wish to Iraq that the Sunni jihadists will be Senate Armed Services Committee. I walk away from Iraq, its relevance to able to create a safehaven where they thank and commend the chairmen and our security and standing is not going will expand their reach and refocus on ranking minority members of both to diminish. Not for a long time. I will support the President’s plan for their long-term goals. They are suc- committees for the many opportunities this surge, and I will support any reso- ceeding, and if they succeed they will for substantive review they have lution that articulates such support, focus on us. sought to present to us and to the provided I can agree with all of its lan- In this cycle is perpetuated a nihi- American public. listic violence that will so destabilize Dozens of substantive testimonies guage. In doing so, I am acutely aware Iraq that the Shia will be left so vic- have been submitted, and the ques- that the situation we are addressing is timized and subject to militia rule that tioning has been, in many cases, direct at least in some part a function of pol- Iran will further assert its influence to and detailed. icy failures committed by this admin- undermine this fledgling nation. If As a member of the Senate Select istration. Admitting this, I have to say that I post-Saddam Iraq succeeds, its success Committee on Intelligence, I have also am unaware, through my reading of would provide the Shia world with an had the opportunity to listen to the American military and diplomatic his- alternate model to the corrupt and fail- opinions of the leaders of the intel- tory, of any conflict in the midst of ing regime in Tehran. If it fails, Tehran ligence community, and I have read the which our leaders saw clearly the end. will have a field in which to meddle for reports coming from Iraq including, Rarely have outcomes been perceivable years. most recently, the National Intel- through the shifting tactics and cir- The Iraqi Shia, so traumatized by ligence Estimate released last Friday. cumstances that war presented in the years of oppression under Saddam, and The public needs to be reminded: moment of greatest chaos. There are no silver bullets, no glowing traumatized—let us be perfectly honest Many times, in hot wars and cold assessments, no confident predictions. about this—by America misleading wars, we have reassessed and changed Surrounding this debate, there is a them and neglecting them in their policy. hour of need immediately after the level of political taunting amongst Retroactive analysis and account- first gulf war—have failed to stand up ourselves that I find troubling. ability are important—sometimes it is and present political figures who can From the majority leader, I hear pub- critical to understand minor and major assert leadership instead of political lic pronouncements of 21 Republican mistakes in order to correct flawed impotence. seats to be defended in 2008—and I find policy—but the challenge is to seek the Iran is not a passive player here, no. it disturbing that anyone would ques- policy amongst the realistic options It is not in Iran’s interest for the tion that a Senator of any party would that will best deliver us to our goals Iraqi Shia to build a strong, inde- hinge his or her voice on such momen- for the future, not to sink in self-satis- pendent, Shia Arab state. tous policy problems for the purpose of fying denunciations of the past. It is not in Iran’s interest to have the personal political survival. I have read each of these resolutions seminaries of Najaf and Karbala re- Does anyone doubt that the Novem- carefully. I oppose the original Biden turned to their central position in the ber election in 2008 is a world away amendment, because I fundamentally world of Shia scholarship, possibly from the carnage of Iraq today? disagree with it. eclipsing Qum. To have this occur Can anyone predict with certainty Its first resolution clause states: would lessen the legitimacy Iran des- what the situation will be in Iraq al- It is not in the national interest of the U.S. perately needs as ideological cover for most 2 years from now? to deepen its military involvement in Iraq, Persian supremacy. The Iraqi Shia, I do not like the rhetoric of ‘‘cut and particularly by escalating the United States Arabs who were the rank-and-file can- run’’ any more than I like the rhetoric military force presence in Iraq. non fodder in the 8-year war against accusing members of my party for I deeply disagree. Iran, are now left open to Iran’s med- ‘‘heading for the tall grass.’’ Not only does this set up a potential dling by their own weak government. Lives are in balance and we should constitutional conflict between the ex- The Sunnis, Iraqi and others not be throwing around glib rhetoric. ecutive and legislature as to who runs throughout the region, are quick to In that sense, the exclamation of a foreign policy in a war, its intent is to tell us we have fallen into a preexisting member of my party 2 weeks ago that inhibit the President from trying to and ancient conflict between the Arabs we should all be accountable on these improve the situation in Iraq at a per- and the Persians, and the Iraqi Shia resolutions or go be shoe salesmen has ilous time. Further, to maintain the and their seemingly hapless leaders are a certain urgency, although I do not status quo in Iraq, as this clause im- caught in between. And that is where condescend to the working man, a good plies, is to guarantee greater chaos in we find ourselves today. many of whom are fighting in this war Iraq. Now the Senate is to respond to the as we speak. If the opponents of the President policy advanced by the President be- Nor do I believe that if I go and buy want to force a withdrawal, shouldn’t fore the Nation on January 10. a pair of shoes from a good shoe sales- they say so directly? We are to express approval or dis- man today that those shoes will not The second clause of the original approval to the President’s initiative last longer and give better value than Biden resolution stated:

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That was our strategy, involvement that could have saved The nations of the region with whom which we tried mightily, from 2004 hundreds of thousands of civilian lives. we are close do support the peace and until last year: to let politics lead the If a soft partition could be achieved reconciliation in Iraq. And those na- way to security. But the forces of in- without bloodshed, I would support tions want us to remain in Iraq until surgency and chaos overwhelmed the that in Iraq, although no one has fig- the situation is stabilized. Kuwait, Jor- fledgling political process and now we ured out how to do that, yet, and it re- dan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia—none of clearly realize we have to implement mains unclear whether Iraqis them- those governments want us to leave and achieve security before we can re- selves, particularly urbanized Iraqis, Iraq the way it is now. But Syria and gain political process. desire this or could survive a bloody Iran and al-Qaida, too—they want us to Am I the only one here who finds it partition. leave, and leave behind chaos they can ironic that critics of the administra- But I repeat: If I could imagine a exploit. tion who support this resolution appear nonviolent partition implemented by My colleague and good friend, Sen- to be advocating a policy that has an international organization that ator WARNER, has made an effort to failed? would have the support of the Iraqi write a resolution that smoothed away The next clause reads: people, I would rather find the billions some of the aspects of the original Greater concerted regional and inter- to do that than the billions to fight a Biden legislation which I find I cannot national support would assist the Iraqis in war. In the case of finding financial re- support. achieving a political and national reconcili- sources for soft partition, I would ex- In particular, the senior Senator ation. pect we would have a somewhat better from Virginia recognizes, in the first This is not a policy option, but a response from the international com- clause, the President’s foreign policy dreamer’s delusion. It is true, in the munity than we are having now. prerogative, while somewhat ambigu- abstract, that international support The next resolution clause states: ously also stating that the resolution’s would be greatly beneficial to the The U.S. should transfer, under an appro- intent is not ‘‘to question or con- Iraqis. But if you look at the region, priately expedited timeline, responsibility travene’’ the President’s constitutional this dream of international coopera- for internal security and halting sectarian authority as Commander in Chief of tion is not based on reality. Aspira- violence in Iraq to the Government of Iraq the Armed Forces of the United States. tions should not substitute for harsh and Iraqi security forces. I say ‘‘ambiguously,’’ because Sen- reality. But just because we want to shed ator WARNER’s first resolution clause is Then the resolution states: ourselves of this war does not mean we remarkably similar to Senator BIDEN’s: Main elements of the mission of the U.S. can immediately stand up Iraqi secu- The Senate disagrees with the plan to aug- forces in Iraq should transition to helping rity forces. We have been trying to do ment our forces and urges the President to ensure the territorial integrity of Iraq, con- that, and it is taking time. This clause consider all options and alternatives for duct counterterrorism activities, reduce re- is, in effect, purely aspirational. It achieving the strategic goals set forth below. gional interference in the internal affairs of makes us feel good, but it doesn’t It seems to me, however, that adding Iraq, and accelerate training of Iraqi troops. change the reality on the ground. troops to meet the goals the President But, we are conducting counterter- The final clause states: has set—achieving a zone of security in rorist activities, and the fight in al- The U.S. should engage nations in the Mid- Baghdad from which the Iraqi political Anbar for which the President has re- dle East to develop a regional, internation- leadership can assert its leadership and quested a small number of this surge is ally-sponsored peace and reconciliation proc- implement essential policies—is a exactly for that. But this resolution ess for Iraq. major option that the Warner resolu- disapproves of that, if you are to re- Mr. President, who are the players in tion precludes. read the first clause. We are accel- the Middle East who are both: (a) sym- Further, Senator WARNER’s resolu- erating training, but we have learned pathetic to the Iraqi cause, and (b) tion strongly supports our efforts that, if you are going to do it right, strong enough to be effective? against Sunni jihadists, including al- you can’t speed it up beyond a certain No country meets both of these sim- Qaida, in Anbar Province, as I do. point. ple conditions. Senator WARNER and the cosponsors To paraphrase my colleague, the vice They aren’t there. It is too typical of of his resolution, however, do not want chairman of the Intelligence Com- the critics of this administration to to see us in between the various sects mittee, Senator BOND, who has said of substitute the process of diplomacy for fighting in Baghdad. rushed intelligence assessments: the substance of hard policy choices. I have to ask: If we are to encourage If you want it bad, you’re going to get it Now, I do not oppose diplomacy. It is the anti-al-Qaida Sunni elements in . . . bad. a legitimate tool in the tool kit. But Anbar to join us in a fight to eradicate If we rush the training, as we have diplomacy must always be part of a al-Qaida, what credibility do we have seen, we’re going to get ineffective re- broader policy. Before I would support to do so if we are standing by while sults. If our training of the Iraqi secu- this administration’s diplomatic initia- Sunni jihadists target Shia in Baghdad, rity forces is to be effective and suc- tive toward Iran, I would want to see a and Shia militias slaughter Sunnis in cessful, we need to take the time to do comprehensive Iran policy. However response? it right. late in the day, the administration ap- Part of how we got here is by not I am all for reducing regional inter- pears to to be forming such a policy, imagining the way the perpetrators of ference, but to do so might mean exer- and it appears to include elements of sectarian strife calculate. We can’t cising power and influence, and critics confrontation and competition, as well continue to fail to understand this dy- of this President have a conniption if as a clearly stated solicitation for namic, nor to believe that we can ig- you suggest anything other than a dip- more constructive relations, as any nore it. lomatic tea party with Syria or Iran. sound and sophisticated policy should. I will support the President’s surge And I do not consider it wise to com- If we are to sit down with Iran while strategy because I believe there is a mit to the territorial integrity of Iraq. Iran is continuing with a program for reasonable chance—reasonable, not We should be agnostic about this ques- nuclear development, continues to be guaranteed—that a strong military tion, and recent history should keep us the No. 1 state sponsor of terrorism in presence that has open rules of engage- humble against knee-jerk commit- the world, continues to undermine the ment to attack insurgents, militias ments to territorial lines drawn by im- stability in Lebanon, and is working and other criminal elements may cre- perial powers. A previous Bush admin- against the coalition’s forces in Iraq, I ate a zone of calm and security for istration fumbled on the wrong side of would want those Iranian diplomats Baghdad. This goal is to create the

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Today the critics are not strategic blunders now fill an entire li- eralism, economic development and thinking of the day after we withdraw. brary shelf of books, and they are cer- other critical issues to entice the ma- Today, however, we need to recognize tainly too numerous for me to list in jority of the Iraqis into believing there that worse than the vanity about easy the time allotted here. is an alternative to civil war. victory committed in 2003 is the denial Through these 4 years, there has also Such a period of calm, if achieved, is of calamitous defeat that would occur been another abdication of responsi- essential not only for the political sys- if we leave before we make every at- bility. That was the failure of this Con- tem to assert itself, but for us to com- tempt to stabilize the country. gress to engage in its Constitutional plete the majority of our training of For this reason, I will support the ad- obligation of oversight and account- Iraqi security forces. ministration, but I will do so under no ability. While our troops have stood If we are to succeed, we won’t be able casual assumptions or glib assurances. valiantly on the frontlines, the Con- to do it alone. The Iraqi Sunnis are I will also do so by demanding that gress has stood on the sidelines. De- going to have to lead in defeating the the administration be much more fending a partisan position trumped foreigners who are terrorizing them in forthcoming in its plans for the day U.S. national security interests and their homes in western Iraq and lead- after—the day after we complete our the welfare of our troops in the field. ing the attacks against Shia in Bagh- surge into Baghdad, the day after we Many Members attempted to raise the dad. can honestly assess that Baghdad has debate, and we were unable to do so be- The Sunnis will have to lead in been pacified, and heaven forbid, the cause of the majority’s refusal to hold ejecting al-Qaida, as they have begun day after we assess that the chaos un- the administration accountable. to do so. leashed and manipulated by the forces In the election last year, the Amer- The Sunnis, not the Shia, are going of destruction are prohibiting a mean- ican people decided the status quo was to have to definitively expose and de- ingful and comprehensive success. no longer acceptable. So we have a new feat the former Baathists who have not I am not conceding defeat, nor pre- Congress, and it is past time we in this accepted that the Baath era is over. paring for withdrawal. Chamber do our duty to balance the The Sunni will have to address this I am supporting a strategy for suc- President and provide a check against challenge, not the Shia. cess. So far, President Bush—who has a his failed policy in Iraq. As there is a And the Shia, not the Sunni, are lot to answer for the mistakes that majority in our country against the going to have to lead in ending the ter- have been made—is offering the only President’s failed policy in Iraq, there ror of the Shia militias. way to try to leave Iraq in better shape is a bipartisan majority in this Senate The Shia are going to have to defeat than it is now. against it, as well. The resolution be- those who claim to advance the Shia He has my support, and I urge my fore the Senate reflects that bipartisan cause by revenge, by torture, by barba- colleagues to join me. consensus as it also reflects the senti- rism. If the Maliki government fails to Mr. President, I yield the floor. ments of the overwhelming majority of muster the political will to do so, we The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Americans. cannot impose it from the outside. CANTWELL). The Senator from New But a partisan minority seeking to Perhaps the Iraqi government can fi- York is recognized. shield the administration’s continuing nally make progress toward building Mrs. CLINTON. Madam President, we failure in Iraq seeks to thwart the bi- institutions that will sustain a unified are all well aware in this Chamber that partisan majority and the will of the Iraq, toward passing legislation that our country finds itself in a deepening American people. This is not a debate will divide Iraq’s enormous natural re- crisis in Iraq, and we find ourselves at about abstractions. I have seen the sources equitably among the three a moment of decision in the Senate. consequences of our involvement in ethnicities, that will open the civil so- Nearly 4 years ago, our President Iraq, as have many of my fellow Sen- ciety to Sunnis, instead of punishing rushed us into war in Iraq, a war now ators. Three weeks ago, I visited Iraq them indiscriminately for their domi- longer than American involvement in to express gratitude to our soldiers, to nance during the Baath era. World War II, which next month will meet with Iraqi leaders and U.S. com- Perhaps. actually exceed the length of our own manders and our troops on the ground. But if not, this Nation and this ad- Civil War. For 4 years, Members on What I saw and what I did not see un- ministration should not be irrationally both sides of the aisle have watched derscored my concerns. I saw American wedded to the notion of a unitary state with shock and dismay as our Presi- service men and women performing of Iraq. We need to imagine all options, dent has made mistake after misjudg- their duty admirably, but I did not see rather than cling to ideas which may ment after miscalculation. Even before a strategy that, under the current cir- have departed from the realm of rea- the invasion ended, the administration cumstances, has much chance of suc- sonable options. rejected the voluminous plans drawn cess. The collective analysis of our in- I will support this surge because the up by the State Department to deal telligence community in the latest Na- option right now of withdrawing leaves with the chaotic aftermath. The suc- tional Intelligence Estimate is that the three critical questions unanswered: cessful examples of the U.S. experience term ‘‘civil war’’ does not adequately No. 1: How do we continue the fight in Bosnia and Kosovo during the 1990s capture the complexity of the conflict against foreign Sunni extremists, in- were summarily rejected. State De- in Iraq. The bipartisan Baker-Hamilton cluding al-Qaida, in the west of Iraq? partment and other American officials Commission said the situation in Iraq No. 2: Are we to leave a fractured with experience in nation-building is grave and deteriorating. Yet the Shia substate unstable enough for Iran were blackballed in favor of inexperi- President’s response to the bipartisan to exert expansionist influence, there- enced ideologues who were selected on commission and the latest National In- by strengthening Tehran? the basis of political litmus tests, in- telligence Estimate does not match the No. 3: Are we prepared as a nation to cluding answering questions about urgency that is described. The so-called see a bloodbath ensue, in Baghdad and whether they were for or against Roe v. surge is not a new strategy but a tactic elsewhere, that may make other Amer- Wade and whether they had voted for that has been tried and failed. ican foreign policy failures—Budapest George W. Bush. The absence of leadership on the part in 1956, Vietnam in 1975, the Shia Despite the urgent warnings of Army of the President leaves Congress no slaughter after we ejected Saddam Chief of Staff Rick Shinseki and other choice but to demonstrate the leader- from Kuwait in 1991—pale in compari- senior military commanders, the nec- ship that the American people and the son? essary number of troops to ensure secu- reality on the ground demand. The pre- As I said at the beginning of this rity and stability was not sent at the vious two Congresses abdicated their speech, the critics’ attempts to set the start of the conflict. Our men and duty. We must not. Every single day stage for withdrawal commits the same women in uniform were ordered into our feet sink deeper into the sands. strategic blunder they legitimately ac- harm’s way without the necessary body Every day the crisis worsens. To hide cuse the Bush administration of mak- armor or armored vehicles, a mortal from this debate with our troops in ing in its implementation of the Iraq error I have tried to correct time and such danger is wrong, plain and simple.

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But a partisan mi- There is a big difference between U.S. funds, taxpayer funds, be used to nority acting at the behest of the ad- calling for the end of this war and train members of sectarian militias ministration is standing in the way. doing the difficult, painstaking work of who are responsible for so much of the This amounts to a gag rule on our de- building the political will within the violence in Iraq. Unfortunately, it ap- mocracy, contrary to the national se- Congress to take action. We, in the pears our funds to Iraqi security forces curity interests of the United States. Senate, entrusted by our constituents may be going to the people we are try- Even though America voted for a new to cast tough votes, should not have ing to restrain. direction in Iraq, even though the ma- the luxury of standing outside the A news report last week in an article jority of Senators opposes escalation in arena and lobbing criticism from with- entitled ‘‘Mahdi Army Gains Strength Iraq, we cannot get the Republicans to in. through Unwitting Aid of U.S.’’ reports allow us to take a symbolic vote to Once we pass this resolution, we that: should go further. Rather than an esca- condemn the escalation, much less a . . . the U.S. military drive to train and real vote to stop it. This resolution de- lation of U.S. troops, which will not contribute to fundamentally changing equip Iraq’s security forces has unwittingly serves a debate. It deserves a vote. It strengthened Muslin cleric Muqtada al- deserves passage. the conditions on the ground, we Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia, which has been There are those in the Senate who in- should put pressure on the Iraqi Gov- battling to take over much of the capital voke our grave troops, suggesting that ernment in a way that they will under- city as American forces are trying to secure a debate on the most important issue stand there are consequences to their it. facing our country and facing our empty promises and their continued in- According to this new report, U.S. troops would somehow undermine the action. Army commanders and enlisted men mission and weaken our Nation. It is a Last week, the National Intelligence who are patrolling East Baghdad, said pernicious, shameful argument and it Counsel released the unclassified key al-Sadr’s militias had heavily infil- judgments of the National Intelligence is dead wrong. Our democracy is trated the Iraqi police and Army units Estimate on Iraq. That presents the stronger than that and the American that they’ve trained and armed. Said consensus views of the U.S. intel- people and our troops deserve better one soldier: ligence community. It underscores the than that. need for a political solution. The NIE They’ll wave at us during the day and Our troops understand we are debat- shoot at us during the night. ing this war. We are debating it not states that in the coming 12 to 18 We need to inform the Iraqi Govern- just in this Senate, we are debating it months, the overall security situation ment, in no uncertain terms, that in kitchen table conversations, around will continue to deteriorate at rates comparable to the latter part of 2006. there are consequences, that we will water coolers, and standing in line at And it goes on further to say that even take funds away from their troops—not supermarkets. We are debating this if violence is diminished, given the cur- from our troops, many of whom still war everywhere Americans gather. In- rent winner-takes-all attitude and sec- lack armored vehicles and counter- deed, our troops are debating this war. insurgency measure devices and com- The American people understand it is tarian animosities infecting the polit- munications equipment. And we will the policy that undermines our na- ical scene, Iraqi leaders will be hard- pressed to achieve sustained political not fund the Iraqis if our troops are tional security interests, not a vote reconciliation in the timeframe of the going to enter into sectarian battles disapproving the policy. This debate and this resolution have estimate, namely, a year to a year and where some of the participants have re- merit and purpose and it will, if per- a half. Even if the intelligence experts ceived American training and support. mitted to go forward, begin the process argue the escalation results in greater Third, I would hold the administra- of changing the policy; otherwise, why security, their best judgment is that tion accountable for their empty prom- the bloodshed and violence will con- would the administration and my col- ises as well. My bill requires the Bush tinue to spiral out of control. leagues on the other side of the aisle administration to certify that Iraq has So what should we do? Many believe, disarmed the militias, has ensured that fight so hard to prevent us from having and we have been arguing for this and a debate and a vote? Because they un- a law has finally been passed for the voting for this for more than a year equitable sharing of oil revenues; that derstand this will be the first step to and a half, that we have to chart a new restore our strength and renew our the Iraqi Government, under American course that emphasizes greater Iraqi influence and even pressure, has made leadership around the world, to begin responsibility. I still believe that is the redeploying our troops out of Iraq and the constitutional changes necessary path we should be taking. Instead, the to ensure rights for minority commu- start on the long road of undoing the President has chosen a very narrow damage brought by the President to nities; that the debaathification proc- course that relies heavily on American ess has been reversed to allow teachers, America’s leadership around the world. military force. If you believe the escalation is the professionals, and others who joined I will be introducing legislation that the Baath Party as a means to get a right strategy, cast your vote for it. If I think offers a better alternative. you believe, as the majority in this job to serve in the new Iraqi Govern- First, my legislation will cap the num- ment. Chamber believes, that escalation is ber of troops in Iraq as of January 1st I would also require the administra- not the right strategy, then cast your and will require the administration to tion to engage in a regional diplomatic vote against it. But standing on the seek congressional authorization for initiative, including all of Iraq’s neigh- sidelines is no way to stand up for the any additional troops. The President troops. has finally said, this is not an open- bors, to address Iraq’s future and to un- Now, there are many—both in the ended commitment in Iraq, but he is derstand and convey clearly that the Chamber and outside—who wish to go providing the Iraqis with an open- United States expects Iraq’s neighbors further than this resolution and look ended presence of American troops. to be partners in the stability and se- for ways to bind the actions of the Second, as a means to increase our curity of the new Iraqi state. President and to require him to change leverage with the Iraqi Government If these conditions are not met or are course. I understand and agree with the and to clearly send a message that not on their way to being met within 6 frustration that has afflicted many there are consequences to their inac- months, a new congressional authoriza- Members in dealing with the Presi- tion, I would impose conditions for tion requirement would be triggered. dent’s policy. However, if we can get a continued funding of the Iraqi security Finally, I would prohibit any spend- bipartisan vote against escalation, it forces and the private contractors ing to increase troop levels unless and will be the first time the Senate has working for the Iraqis. until the Secretary of Defense certifies exercised its constitutional responsi- My legislation would require certifi- that our American troops will have the bility to be a check and balance on the cation that the security forces were proper training and equipment for

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:21 Mar 13, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00046 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2007SENATE\S07FE7.REC S07FE7 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY February 7, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1701 whatever mission they are ordered to and military strategy available to him, other concerning a particular issue. There fulfill. but it is about our democracy itself. are many half-truths that are spoken, which Yesterday, I read the classified re- We should consider this resolution, tend to lead the reader in a given direction. port outlining the findings by the De- Our world-wide media has led us astray on and I hope we will. Our duty is rooted many Middle East subjects. They tend to be partment of Defense inspector general in the faith entrusted to us by our con- over zealous to ensure what is being written about the problems that have been stituents and enshrined in our Con- follows the point they are attempting to faced by our troops getting the equip- stitution. When we think about the pa- make or stays within the bounds of being po- ment they desperately need in combat triotism and bravery, the humor and litically correct or meet their organization’s areas such as Iraq. resolve, the optimism and strength of marketing goals for selling air time or copy. The inspector general did not have our soldiers, marines, airmen, and sail- They sometimes convince the reader to be- lieve and support a particular political agen- the full cooperation of the Department ors, our Active Duty, our Guard, and da. In many cases these misleading and un- of Defense. It is heartbreaking that the Reserve, I think it humbles us all. But balanced reports cause the reader to be con- inspector general could conclude that it comes out of this great democratic vinced that what is being said is the truth. the U.S. military still has failed to tradition that we are all blessed to be On the other hand, there are some excellent equip our soldiers in Iraq and Afghani- a part of. articles, books and writings that exist on the stan, especially for the kind of warfare I hope we have the opportunity in the subject but they have been overlooked or ig- they are confronting, with IEDs and in- next days to do our duty just as the nored to some degree by both academia and the media because of political correctness surgents who are attacking them in men and women who are serving us coupled with political sensitivity for fear of asymmetric, unconventional warfare. have done and are doing theirs. offending major non-western religion, reign- This report comes on the heels of an A week ago, I was privileged to go to ing political and ideological orthodoxies, or article in the Washington Post last San Antonio for the opening of a re- a mix of both. So the question is how do we week titled ‘‘Equipment for Added markable center called the Center for get to the truth of the Middle East conun- Troops Is Lacking: New Iraq Forces the Intrepid. It is a new state-of-the- drum? Must Make Do, Officials Say.’’ The For many Americans (as well as other na- art facility devoted to the rehabilita- tionalities) they simply rely on what the Washington Post story raised serious tion and recovery of our wounded he- newspaper, radio or TV is telling them. They questions about the adequacy of the roes. It was funded by contributions do not question or seek other sources on any supply of up-armored HMMWVs and from more than 600,000 Americans. It given event or subject being discussed. They trucks. was not built by our Government. It make no attempt to understand the totality One of our generals is quoted as say- was built by our citizens. of the area of interest they just swing with ing he does not have the equipment our It is not only going to be a place of the ‘‘news of the day’’ from their favorite forces need, and they will have to go great hope and healing for the brave news media or TV station. Then we have the politicians and their army of supporters who into battle with what they have. men and women who have given their will do and say what they think John Q. On my way back from Iraq and Af- full measure, but it will also stand as a Public wants to hear in order to glean their ghanistan, I stopped at Landstuhl Hos- symbol of our democracy, of our val- vote. They twist and slant the news to meet pital in Germany to visit with some of ues, of people coming together across their agenda. As we approach the 2008 Presi- our wounded soldiers. I met with one our country—a unique partnership that dential election this aspect has become the young man who was lying in his bed you find nowhere else in the world ex- norm and is simply misleading the American with injuries he had suffered from one cept here. people, causing great harm to our chances of of the shape charges, these new more achieving the National objectives through- As I sat on the stage during the cere- out the world as well as showing, indirectly, advanced, more sophisticated com- monies for the opening of this new re- lack of support for the members of our mand-controlled IEDs, the improvised habilitation center, I watched the hun- armed forces who are serving in harms way explosive devices. He told me that the dreds of young men and women who supporting these objectives. This, I consider armored, fully equipped HMMWV had had been injured march in, and in some personal aggrandizement and, unquestion- saved his life and that of the lives of cases wheeled in, to take their place in ably, it is not in the best interest of the his buddies who were with him. But he the audience. I believe they are owed country. There are others, thank goodness, who do also told me that not everybody he this debate. And certainly all those take the time and energy to study the sub- served with had that kind of protection who are currently serving, and the ject pro and con and attempt to be objective because there were not enough of those thousands who are on their way to and analyze the big picture along with the armored vehicles to go around. carry out this escalation strategy, de- day to day events as they occur. Likewise, I do not believe the Congress can serve it even more. there are some very knowledgeable Middle shirk its responsibility. It is past time So I hope we will have a chance to East analysts who have made it their life’s we live up to our constitutional respon- express the will of our constituents, endeavor to understand the intricacies of the sibility. If I had been President in Oc- situation, various cultures, religion and poli- our deeply held opinions, and partici- tics of this volatile region of the world. tober of 2002, I would have never asked pate in a debate that is historic and Many of these people are not in the govern- for authority to divert our attention necessary. That is the least we can do. ment. In my opinion, we should be listening from Afghanistan to Iraq, and I cer- Mr. COBURN. Madam President, I to and incorporating their thoughts and ex- tainly would never have started this ask unanimous consent that an anal- perience into any decisions concerning that war. But we are where we are, and this ysis of the consequences of our actions region of the world. These dedicated, unbi- Congress must deliver a strategy to in Iraq entitled ‘‘Now What?’’ by Army ased ‘‘subject matter experts’’ should be con- help us end this war in the right way Retired LTG Jerry Max Bunyard be sulted regularly for opinions and rec- ommendations. and begin returning our troops home. printed in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. Based upon this multitude of diverse infor- So on this most important issue of There being no objection, the mate- mation one has to sort the wheat from the our time, I call on my colleagues not to rial was ordered to be printed in the chaff. This requires some personal knowl- hide from this debate but to welcome RECORD, as follows: edge of the Middle East and Iraq war as well it, to welcome the opportunity to set NOW WHAT? as the writer or speaker providing informa- tion concerning the area of interest. One forth whatever one’s opinions might be (By Jerry Max Bunyard) because this debate is about more than must do his homework in order to place the At church every Sunday, the Fort Belvoir, information in ‘‘categories’’ to establish a our policy in Iraq. It is about the role VA Installation Chaplain uses the question prioritization of credible information. Once and responsibility of this august insti- ‘‘now what?’’ to get the congregation to ana- this task is completed then one only uses tution. Great debates in our past have lyze the message he just delivered and find a that information and ‘‘files’’ the rest. not only moved public opinion but way to apply it to their lives. I believe as Throughout this paper I will use quotes or furthered the progress of our country. citizens and leaders of this nation we are at information from whom I consider credible This debate is not merely about a point in the continuing War in Iraq that we sources and will footnote where the com- whether the President should escalate must ask the same question; ‘‘Now What?’’ ments or quotes originated. Today we have been bombarded with facts, The purpose of this paper is to provide my troops into Iraq, whether he has failed figures, commentaries, interpretations, and two cents worth on how to answer the ques- to grasp the complexity of the situa- subjective thoughts concerning the Middle tion of ‘‘Now What’’ relative to what we tion we confront in Iraq, and to take East activities. Depending on the writer, at- should be thinking about and doing con- every diplomatic, political, economic, tempts are made to sway you one way or the cerning the Iraqi situation or, better yet, the

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Only by understanding and place into perspective the consequences rather say, ‘‘Divided we stand, united, we the refugee crises, terrorism, radicalization of the various choices that are now before us. fall.’’ In this remark Jefferson was setting of neighboring populations, copycat seces- forth with classic terseness an idea that has THE CHALLENGE sions and foreign interventions that such come to be regarded as essentially American: I cautioned earlier about politicians and wars frequently spark can we begin to plan the separation of Church and State. This for how to cope with them in the months and how they use or misuse information. How- idea was not entirely new; it had some prece- years ahead . . . massive refugee flows are a ever, there is at least one exception in the dents in the writings of Spinoza, Locke, and hallmark of major civil wars . . . refugee political arena, Senator Joseph Lieberman the philosophers of the European Enlighten- camps often become a sanctuary and recruit- (I–CT) who very clearly summed up the cur- ment. It was in the United States, however, ing grounds for militias, which use them to rent Iraqi situation and the challenge that that the principle was first given the force of faces Iraq, the United States and the free law and gradually, in the course of two cen- launch raids on their homelands . . . ter- world in general. Based on his long term in- turies, has become a reality. rorism finds new homes during civil wars terest in the region, the wars (both past and Another very important aspect of this . . . radicalism is contagious as civil wars current), and the information gleaned from overall issue is to address the total Middle tend to inflame the passions of neighboring his trip to Iraq in December of 2006, he pro- East environment. An important consider- populations . . . the problem worsens when- vided the following comments upon his re- ation is the countries that border Iraq and ever ethnic or religious groupings also spill turn: what impact our actions and those of others across borders . . . Iraq’s neighbors are just ‘‘Because of the bravery of many Iraqi and may have on these specific countries. Shown as fractured as Iraq itself . . . should Iraq coalition military personnel and the recent next is a map of the Middle East countries. fragment, voices for secession elsewhere will coming together of moderate political forces The countries directly adjacent to Iraq are gain strength . . . the first candidate for se- in Baghdad, the war is winnable. We and our Iran, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Kuwait and cession is obviously Kurdistan . . . another Iraqi allies must do what is necessary to win Saudi Arabia. critical problem of civil wars is the tendency it. George Friedman describes the dilemma of neighboring states to get involved, turn- The American people are justifiably frus- that now faces the United States as it re- ing the conflicts into regional wars . . . cov- trated by the lack of progress, and the price lates to the potential influence of Iran on ert foreign intervention is proceeding apace paid by our heroic troops and their families the outcome of the Iraqi war. ‘‘The Iraq war in Iraq, with Iran leading the way . . . Iran has been heavy. But what is needed now, es- has turned into a duel between the United has set up an extensive network of safe pecially in Washington and Baghdad, is not States and Iran. For the United States, the houses, arms caches, communications chan- despair but decisive action—and soon. goal has been the creation of a generally pro- nels and proxy fighters, and will be well-posi- ‘‘The most pressing problem we face in American coalition government in Bagh- tioned to pursue its interests in a full-blown Iraq is not an absence of Iraqi political will dad—representing Iraq’s three major ethnic civil war. The Sunni powers of Jordan, Ku- or American diplomatic initiative, both of communities. For Iran, the goal has been the wait, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are fright- which are increasing and improving; it is a creation of either a pro-Iranian government ened by Iran’s growing influence and pres- lack of basic security. As long as insurgents in Baghdad or, alternatively, the division of ence in Iraq and have been scrambling to and death squads terrorize Baghdad, Iraq’s Iraq into three regions, with Iran domi- catch up . . . Turkey may be the most likely nascent democratic institutions cannot be nating the Shiite south.’’ country to overtly intervene in Iraq . . . expected to function, much less win the trust THE COSTS OF DISENGAGEMENT none of Iraq’s neighbors thinks that it can of the people. The fear created by gang mur- The next logical step would be to under- afford to have the country fall into the ders and mass abductions ensures that power stand as best as possible, the implications of hands of the other side . . . an Iranian ‘‘vic- will continue to flow to the very thugs and not continuing our efforts in Iraq and, in so tory’’ would put the nation’s forces in the extremists who have the least interest in doing, what this would mean to the United heartland of the Arab world, bordering Jor- peace and reconciliation.’’ States, in the future. One of the best anal- dan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Syria—sev- Senator Lieberman brought out very sa- yses I have found thus far comes from two lient points—the war is winnable; American men outside the government who have sig- eral of these states poured tens of billions of people are frustrated by lack of progress; nificant experience in Middle East studies. dollars into Saddam Hussein’s military to price paid by troops and families has been Over the years Daniel Bynum and Kenneth prevent just such an occurrence in the 1980s heavy; what is needed, especially in Wash- Pollack have gained an excellent under- . . . similarly, a Sunni Arab victory (backed ington and Baghdad, is not despair but deci- standing of that region. In August of 2006 by the Jordanians, Kuwaitis and Saudis) sive action—and soon; most pressing problem they published an article titled, ‘‘What would put radical Sunni fundamentalists on is the lack of basic security. Next,’’ and have followed that up with a 130 Iran’s doorstepa nightmare scenario for To me, that captures the status that con- page report titled, ‘‘Things Fall Apart’’ that Tehran . . . add in, too, each country’s inter- tinues to exist at present. was published in January 2007 by the Brook- est in preventing its rivals from capturing So, this sets the stage as to the situation ings Institution’s Saban Center for Middle Iraq’s oil resources . . . if these states are we find ourselves in today. Now what do we East Policy. This latest report states: ‘‘Iraq unable to achieve their goals through clan- do about it and how? is rapidly sliding into all-out civil war that destine intervention, they will have a power- BACKGROUND is likely to spill over into neighboring coun- ful incentive to launch a conventional inva- Before getting into the current Middle tries, resulting in mass deaths and refugees, sion.’’ East issues and possible courses of action it serious disruption of oil supplies and a dras- George Friedman provides his assessment is necessary one have a general under- tic decline in US influence.’’ of Iran’s concern if Iraq is able to stabilize In the August 2006 article, Bynum and Pol- standing of the key religious aspects along its government and the country in general. lack state: with a basic knowledge of the Jewish, Arab, ‘‘ . . . The consequences of an all-out civil He also indicates what the Iranians are doing and Islamic history. war in Iraq could be dire. Considering the ex- to counter the U.S. efforts to accomplish sta- Religion has once again become a force periences of recent such conflicts, hundreds bilizing Iraq. that no government can safely ignore. The of thousands of people may die. Refugees and ‘‘A stable Iraq under U.S. influence rep- United States and other Western countries displaced people could number in the mil- resents a direct threat to Iran, while a frag- experts have failed to recognize the impor- lions. And with Iraqi insurgents, militias and mented or pro-Iranian Iraq does not. There- tance of faith as it relates to world affairs. organized crime rings wreaking havoc on fore, the Iranians will do whatever they can One, if not the most, important aspects to be Iraq’s oil infrastructure, a full-scale civil to undermine U.S. attempts to create a gov- considered when discussing the Middle East war could send global oil prices soaring even ernment in Baghdad. Tehran can use its in- and the growing dominance of the Islam reli- higher. fluence to block a government, but it can- gion concerns the differences of opinion be- ‘‘However, the greatest threat that the not—on its own—create a pro-Iranian one. tween Islam and the Western World view of United States would face from civil war in Therefore, Iran’s strategy is to play spoiler separation of Church and State. Iraq is from the spillover—the burdens, the and wait for the United States to tire of the Bruce Feiler states ‘‘Abraham, the great instability, the copycat secession attempts patriarch of the Hebrew Bible, is also the unending conflict. Once the Americans leave, and even the follow-on wars that could the Iranians can pick up the chips on the spiritual forefather of the New Testament emerge in neighboring countries. Welcome to and the grand holy architect of the Koran. table. Whether it takes 10 years or 30, the the new ‘new Middle East’—a region where Iranians assume that, in the end, they will Abraham is the shared ancestor of Judaism, civil wars could follow one after another, Christianity, and Islam. He is the linchpin of win. None of the Arab countries in the region like so many Cold War dominoes. has the power to withstand Iran, and the the Arab-Israeli conflict. He is the center- ‘‘And unlike communism, these dominoes Turks are unlikely to get into the game.’’ piece of the battle between the West and Is- may actually fall.’’ lamic extremists. He is the father—in many There are other consequences of civil war The National Intelligence Estimate on cases, the purported biological father—of 12 as explained by Bynum and Pollack. A top- Iraq, released 2 February 2007, warns that

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The oil industry, agriculture and ance and reconstruction aid—including bil- most certainly would lead to a significant in- other agencies would be franchised to U.S. lions of dollars in Iraqi funds—offering jobs crease in the scale and scope of sectarian companies to redevelop with royalties going and the prospect of better lives.’’ conflict in Iraq, intensify Sunni resistance to to the governor-general to defray the costs Stephen Hadley continues his explanation the Iraqi government and have adverse con- of the occupation and security campaign. of the totality of the President’s plan by ex- sequences for national reconciliation. Addi- This C/A could take decades before they are plaining the key strategic shifts that are tionally, if such a rapid withdrawal were to ready to become an independent nation of major changes from previous approach: take place, we judge that the [Iraqi Security Iraqis—no longer Kurds, Arabs and other mi- ‘‘Reinforcing our military presence is not Force] would be unlikely to survive as a non- norities but Iraqis. Complicating this C/A is the strategy—it is a means to an end and sectarian national institution; neighboring Islam and the differences that exist within part of a package of key strategic shifts that countries . . . might intervene openly in the the various interpretations of Islam. In my will fundamentally restructure our approach conflict; massive civilian casualties and opinion, this C/A would never be supported to achieving our objectives in Iraq. forced population displacement would be by either Americans or Arabs/Iraqis and, ‘‘Building on experience elsewhere in the probable. The report also says that the al therefore, is discarded for further discussion. country, the new strategy doubles the num- Qaeda terrorist group in Iraq would try to Stay the Course—The third is to ‘‘stay the ber of provincial reconstruction teams ‘‘use parts of the country’’—particularly al- course,’’ which falls in the unacceptable cat- (PRTs) in Iraq. These civilian-led units will Anbar province—to plan increased attacks in egory, based on the failure to date, plus the target development aid where it is needed and outside of Iraq. Additionally, Turkey votes from the recent elections and the sen- and help the Iraqi government extend its could launch a military incursion if there timents of Congress. This C/A is not sup- reach to all corners of the country. were no U.S. or allied troops to block Kurd- ported by the Administration, Congress or ‘‘Because close civilian-military coopera- ish attempts to control northern Iraq. the Defense Department. Therefore, it is not tion is key to success, 10 new civilian PRTs ALTERNATIVE COURSES OF ACTION (C/A) AND considered viable and will be discarded for will be embedded with U.S. combat brigades. SUPPORTING BASE further discussion. The new strategy incorporates other essen- Presidential Proposal—The fourth C/A fol- tial elements of the Baker-Hamilton report, Many alternatives and options have sur- lows what the President is proposing. That is such as doubling the number of troops em- faced over the past several weeks and to provide support to the Iraqi government bedded with Iraqi forces, using benchmarks months. The repercussion of exercising cer- in order for it to, as quickly as possible, es- to help us and the Iraqis chart progress, and tain alternatives have been looked at in con- tablish a unified democratic federal Iraq launching a renewed diplomatic effort to in- siderable depth with some alarming results that can govern and defend itself and serve crease support for the Iraqi government and that not only impact what goes on in Iraq, as an ally in the War on Terror. As I under- advance political reconciliation.’’ but the impact they could have on the entire stand it, these have been the U.S. strategic DISCUSSION Middle East. goals and objectives from the outset. In my opinion, there are at least four al- Stephen Hadley, Presidential security ad- Earlier in this paper the Byman-Pollack ternatives that have been put on the table in visor, described the President’s proposal as report identified consequences of an all-out respect to the way ahead in Iraq. These are follows: civil war in Iraq. In their ‘‘what to do about not new but have been identified by different ‘‘The Baker-Hamilton report explained it’’ part of their report they had the fol- sources. that failure in Iraq could have severe con- lowing to say: Cut and Run—The first C/A being consid- sequences for our national interests in a crit- ‘‘Much as Americans may want to believe ered was initiated by Congressman Murtha ical region and for our national security here that the United States can just walk away in what has been termed as the ‘‘cut and at home. In my many conversations with from Iraq should it slide into all-out civil run’’ scenario. There are other variations of members of Congress and foreign policy ex- war, the threat of spillover from such a con- this C/A but, essentially, they all boil down perts, few have disagreed. flict throughout the Middle East means it to get the troops out of Iraq as quick as you ‘‘Most people agree that we must focus on can’t. Instead, Washington will have to de- can—some say immediately others say six fighting al-Qaeda. The president’s strategy vise strategies to deal with refugees, mini- months others say by the end of the year steps up this fight—particularly in Anbar mize terrorist attacks emanating from Iraq, (2007). This is easy to say but carries with it province, where al-Qaeda seeks a sanctuary. dampen the anger in neighboring populations tremendous implications and ramifications. The administration also agrees that we must caused by the conflict, prevent secession In my opinion, this C/A would simply em- accelerate the training of Iraqi security fever and keep Iraq’s neighbors from inter- bolden the terrorists to include Iran, Syria forces. The president’s strategy does this— vening. The odds of success are poor, but, and other countries that are supportive of with benchmarks to track progress and bol- nonetheless, we have to try. terrorism. At the same time it would demor- ster the size and effectiveness of those ‘‘The United States, along with its Asian alize our friends in the region. Once again it forces. Training and supporting Iraqi troops and European allies, will have to make a would place America in everyone’s minds as will remain our military’s essential and pri- major effort to persuade Iraq’s neighbors not a feckless country that does not have the mary mission. to intervene in its civil war. Economic aid will to see actions through to completion. ‘‘But the president’s review also concluded should be part of such an effort, but will not How many times do we have to learn that that the strategy with the best chance of suffice. For Jordan and Saudi Arabia, it may lesson? This would be a strategic defeat for success must have a plan for securing Bagh- require an effort to reinvigorate Israeli-Pal- American interests with potentially cata- dad. Without such a plan, the Iraqi govern- estinian peace negotiations, thereby address- strophic consequences both in the Middle ment and its security institutions could frac- ing one of their major concerns—an effort East region and elsewhere. Thus, this C/A ture under the pressure of widespread sec- made all the more important and complex in could lead to Iran expanding their influence tarian violence, ethnic cleansing and mass light of the recent conflict between throughout the region and utilizing Hamas killings. Chaos would then spread through- Hezbollah and Israel. For Iran and Syria, it and Hezbollah in Syria, Lebanon, Palestinian out the country—and throughout the region. may be a clear (but not cost-free) path to- territories and Jordan. What Arab friends The al-Qaeda movement would be strength- ward acceptance back into the international the U.S. may have would feel abandoned and ened by the flight of Sunnis from Baghdad community. it would place their governments in jeop- and an accelerated cycle of sectarian blood- ‘‘When it comes to foreign intervention, ardy. No longer could they look to the U.S. letting. Iran would be emboldened and could Iran is the biggest headache of all. Given its as a reliable ally or guarantor of peace and be expected to provide more lethal aid for ex- immense interests in Iraq, some involvement stability in this critical region. The implica- tremist groups. The Kurdish north would be is inevitable. For Tehran, and probably for tions are that the effects of pulling out of isolated, inviting separation and regional in- Damascus, the United States and its allies Iraq would spread over into the energy re- terference. Terrorists could gain pockets of probably will have to put down red lines re- sources and transit choke points vital to the sanctuary throughout Iraq from which to garding what is absolutely impermissible— global economy. How this would all play out threaten our allies in the region and our se- such as sending uniformed Iranian military is unknown but these are potential outcomes curity here at home. units into Iraq or claiming Iraqi territory. of pursuing this C/A. ‘‘The new plan for Baghdad specifically Washington and its allies will also have to Annexation of Iraq—The second C/A would corrects the problems that plagued previous lay out what they will do if Iran crosses any be the annexation of Iraq by American efforts. First, it is an Iraqi-initiated plan for of those red lines. Economic sanctions would forces, which means the U.S. would govern taking control of their capital. Second, there be one possibility, but they could be effec- with a military governor-general and local will be adequate forces (Iraqi and American) tive only if the European Union, China, India commanders, and a long-term commitment to hold neighborhoods cleared of terrorists and Russia all cooperate. On its own, the made that no matter the cost in resources and extremists. Third, there is a new oper- United States could employ punitive mili- (people and dollars) the U.S. would defend, ational concept—one devised not just to pur- tary operations, either to make Iran pay an assist, and help develop those who put their sue terrorists and extremists but to secure unacceptable price for one-time infractions

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:21 Mar 13, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00049 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2007SENATE\S07FE7.REC S07FE7 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S1704 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 7, 2007 or to persuade it to halt ongoing violations going on here in the United States relative common language that could win a clear ma- of one or more red lines. to the Iraq War. The November 2006 elections jority within the Senate, but, at this writing ‘‘A full-scale war in Iraq could result in started a fire storm of various anti-war fac- it appears that may not happen. hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions tions rising to the surface and demanding we These non-binding resolutions, regardless of refugees streaming across the nation’s pull out of the war immediately or within a of which side of the aisle they come from, borders. The level of killings and displace- short period of time. With the Democrats are not constructive—they change nothing, ment from other major civil conflicts—such taking over both sides of the Congress we take responsibility for nothing, and hurt as those in Bosnia, Congo, Lebanon and now have a political confrontation as to who both morale and whatever semblance of na- Rwanda—suggests the toll in Iraq could can get his or her resolution to pass both tional unity the USA might project. They surge even higher if conditions there deterio- sides of the Congress. Lately, the Congress is aid and abet the enemy just like the discus- rate further.’’ awash with resolutions. Senator Obama sub- sions that occurred during the Vietnam War. David Dolan, a reputable journalist and au- mitted legislation 30 January, which would If we set deadlines or propose certain number thor, who has spent the last 27 years living remove all combat brigades from Iraq by of troops be withdrawn by a certain date and working in Israel, provides his assess- March 31, 2008. This timetable for completing then this gives the enemy a timetable to ment of what is viewed from the lens of the a withdrawal puts him at odds with other work to in respect to holding off until the Israeli military analysts concerning the tur- leading rivals for the Democratic nomina- Americans leave. It certainly doesn’t take a moil that exists today in the Middle East tion. Senator Hillary Clinton supports cap- rocket scientist to figure that one out. Rhet- and the prognosis for the coming year. ping the number of troops at their levels of oric influences perceptions, and perceptions ‘‘Israeli military analysts said the main Jan. 1, 2007. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (Conn.) can drive responses. reason for growing regional instability is has proposed a similar troop cap. But neither Unless Congress can find the intestinal for- stepped up Iranian meddling throughout the has embraced a timetable for a troop re- titude to assert its true Constitutional au- Middle East. They noted that the oil-flushed moval. Former Senator and Vice Presi- thority and actually freeze or even mandate theocratic Muslim regime in Tehran is dential candidate in 2004 and now a Presi- a drawdown in spending on operations in pumping copious amounts of financial aid dential candidate for 2008, John Edwards (D– Iraq and use of funds to move troops individ- and weapons to its Syrian, Lebanese NC), has been outspoken in his opposition to ually or as units to Iraq, this is just a lot of Hizbullah and Palestinian Hamas and Is- Bush’s new plan and has called for the imme- hypocritical political theater—attempting to lamic Jihad allies, along with material aid diate withdrawal of 40,000 to 50,000 troops. look assertive while in fact denying respon- going to Iranian-backed Shiite militias oper- But he, too, has stopped short of setting a sibility and showing the lack of commitment ating next door in violence-torn Iraq. Com- firm date by which all would be removed. and fecklessness of America—once again. J. ing against the ominous backdrop of Iran’s New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is the only D. Pendry said, ‘‘Our enemies, just as en- escalating nuclear uranium enrichment pro- other prominent Democrat in the field to set emies past, know that winning a war with gram, the mullah’s meddling is succeeding in a withdrawal timetable, declaring that the United States is not about combat as- destabilizing the entire region, adding to troops ‘‘can and should’’ be brought home by saults, but about wearing down the will of growing prospects that major portions of the the end of 2007. The Obama plan, called the the American people to continue to support tense Middle East will erupt into full-scale Iraq War De-escalation Act of 2007, would the fight. Because they’re winning the war of warfare during 2007.’’ begin a troop withdrawal no later than May wills, they wouldn’t dare attack inside the The Brookings Institution Saban Center 1, 2007, but it includes several caveats that country. Our enemies know that our weak Analysis Number 11, released 29 January could forestall a clean break: It would leave link in fighting a war is our politics, media, 2007, examines the history of some dozen re- a limited number of troops in place to con- and the socialist elites who ally with them cent civil wars to reveal the general patterns duct counterterrorism activities and train in waging war against the American will to by which such conflicts can ‘‘spill over’’ into Iraqi forces. (The question one must ask in sustain a fight.’’ neighboring states, causing further civil respect to this proposal is how could you General David Petraeus, the new U.S. com- wars or regional conflicts. Historically, six leave a small contingent of U.S. forces in a mander of the forces in Iraq, explained in patterns of spillover have been the most country rife with civil war?) And the with- hearings before Congress, that reinforcing harmful in other cases of all-out civil war: drawal could be temporarily suspended if the U.S. troops is necessary for this new plan to refugees; terrorism; radicalization of neigh- Iraqi government meets a series of bench- succeed. Any plan that limits our ability to boring populations; secession that breeds se- marks laid out by the Bush administration. reinforce our troops in the field is a plan for cessionism; economic losses; and neighborly That list includes a reduction in sectarian failure—and could hand Baghdad to terror- interventions. The purpose of this review violence; the equitable distribution of oil ists and extremists before legitimate Iraqi was to determine what policy options the revenue; government reforms; and demo- forces are ready to take over the fight. Gen- United States could employ to try to contain cratic, Iraqi-driven reconstruction and eco- eral Petraeus made clear his disdain for the spillover effects of a full-scale Iraqi civil nomic development efforts. Senator Obama’s ideas that are very much in vogue in Wash- war. It is recognized that with each passing proposal also would reverse Bush’s troop-in- ington these days: getting out of Iraq alto- day, Iraq sinks deeper into the abyss of civil crease plan. gether, or the current favorite of the Demo- war. President Bush has proposed one last- On the other side of the aisle the Repub- cratic leadership: passing resolutions critical chance effort to quell the fighting and licans have their own versions of resolutions. of the war. jumpstart a process of political reconcili- A resolution by Sen. John McCain (R–AZ) In the Congressional confirmation hearing ation and economic reconstruction. Com- and Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R–S.C.) de- Sen. John McCain asked what would happen ments coming from this review state: manding tough benchmarks for progress in if we were to leave Iraq. Gen. Petraeus point- ‘‘Should this last effort fail, the United Iraq was supposed to garner overwhelming ed to ‘‘the very real possibility of involve- States is likely to very quickly have to de- Republican support, being a more palatable ment of countries from elsewhere in the re- termine how best to handle an Iraq that will alternative to language by Sen. John W. gion, around Iraq, entering Iraq to take sides be erupting into Bosnia- or Lebanon-style Warner (R–Va.) that would state opposition with one or the other groups.’’ He added that all-out civil war. The history of such wars is to the troop buildup. Instead, rival measures there ‘‘is the possibility, certainly, of an that they are disastrous for all parties, but continue to proliferate. Sen. Judd Gregg (R– international terrorist organization truly the United States will have little choice but N.H.) said he is circulating language that getting a grip on some substantial piece of to try to stave off disaster as best it can.’’ would forbid a cutoff of funding for troops in Iraq.’’ In response to questions from Sen. These tasks will be difficult and will re- the field under any circumstance, similar to McCain and Sen. Joe Lieberman, Gen. quire the deployment of large ground forces another proposal by Sen. Johnny Isakson (R– Petraeus added that resolutions of dis- to accomplish them. Ending an all-out civil Ga.). Sen. John Cornyn (R–Tex.) is shopping approval for the war would be unhelpful to war requires overwhelming military power around a measure that would demand that American troop morale and would encourage to nail down a political settlement. The the president’s policies be given a chance to our enemies in Iraq. Byman-Pollack report of 2006 states: work while calling for the reversal of per- During the recent confirmation hearing of ‘‘It took 30,000 British troops to bring the ceived war-related mistakes, such as the Admiral Fallon to be the Central Command Irish civil war to an end, 45,000 Syrian troops wholesale purging of Baath Party members Commander Sen. Carl M. Levin (D–Mich.), to conclude the Lebanese civil war, 50,000 from the Iraqi government and the failure to the committee chairman, proposed to hold NATO troops to stop the Bosnian civil war, ensure equitable oil-revenue sharing among the Iraqi leaders accountable to meeting and 60,000 to do the job in Kosovo. Consid- Iraqi groups. ‘‘Resolutions are flying like benchmarks, Admiral Fallon said he believed ering Iraq’s much larger population, it prob- snowflakes around here,’’ Sen. Specter said. that imposing ‘‘edicts’’ or ‘‘deadlines’’ would ably would require 450,000 troops to quash an There may be more in the wings of Congress be unconstructive. He also suggested a need all-out civil war there. Such an effort would that have yet to surface but, at this writing, to lower American expectations for Iraq, in- require a commitment of enormous military these appear to be the ones being discussed. dicating that U.S. goals for Iraq following and economic resources, far in excess of what Meanwhile, the two camps promoting com- the 2003 invasion were unrealistically ambi- the United States has already put forth [and peting resolutions of opposition—one headed tious. planned future increases].’’ by Senators Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D–Del.) and Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican said, MEANWHILE, BACK IN THE USA Chuck Hagel (R–Neb.) and the other by Sen- ‘‘Congress is sending mixed messages to the This discussion would be incomplete if we ator Warner (R–Va.) and Senator Levin (D– troops, to voters and to the world with a ‘‘no did not discuss the home front and what is Mich.)—initially appeared to be closing in on confidence’’ vote that carries no force . . . We

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:21 Mar 13, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00050 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2007SENATE\S07FE7.REC S07FE7 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY February 7, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1705 can’t claim to support the troops and not most likely, use military force to sort this purposeful dynamism. General Petraeus will support their mission,’’ he said in a floor out—assuming the free world has the will be issuing a progress report on Iraq every speech 31 January. ‘‘If we don’t support the and determination to do so. The free world two weeks. He’ll report on what progress we mission, we shouldn’t be passing nonbinding would have no leverage via the UN to do any- are having on de-Baathification, disarming resolutions. We should be doing everything thing in respect to sanctions against Iran et the Shia militias, on taking the fight to the in our power to stop it . . . we should send al as they would just thumb their nose at bad guys in a very methodical way. them the message that, yes, we believe you them. It is a ‘‘pay me now or pay me later’’ To lose this war is to lose our soul, the can succeed and it’s important to our na- situation and it appears at present that Con- soul of our country, the soul of America. If tional security that you do.’’ gress and much of the American public are we lose in Iraq, it is inevitable that the ter- We also hear from Congress and others just sticking their heads in the sand and rorists and radical Islamists will be here. about how ‘‘we support the troops’’ but also hoping it will all go away. We continue to The war will come to our shores and threat- we hear anti-Iraq war and anti-surge over- debate the overwhelming importance of oil. en the freedoms we so dearly cherish. It is tones. If Congress and the American public Unfortunately, our efforts to find substitutes not too late to resolve to win instead. We truly support the troops then they must pro- will not pay off in a big way for most likely still have an enormously strong hand to play vide the full support. It is incoherent and ir- another 15–20 years. and we must play it. responsible to say one supports the troops A stronger and more pointed discussion The alternative of pursuing the President’s but not the war. How can Congress on one needs to occur in this country relative to the proposal is the only viable alternative we hand unanimously approve the appointment radical/militant Islamists. Our enemy is not have at present time. The Brookings Insti- of General Petraeus to command the troops only terrorists. Terrorism is a symptom, not tute recent report states: ‘‘If there is any- in Iraq and execute the war plan and, at the the basic cause. Our true enemy is radical or thing that should make us recognize the same time, refuse to support the war effort militant Islam and their goals and objectives need to stay engaged in Iraq, it is the likely and provide resolutions restricting the nec- are to take over the world by jihad and im- impact that such a war could have on the essary troops and wherewithal to accomplish pose on EVERYONE their beliefs, which in- Persian Gulf region (if not the entire Middle the task they have assigned to him? This clude living by the law of Shari’a under their East) and the enormous difficulties we will simply does not pass the common sense test. interpretation of the Koran. Daniel Pipes face in trying to contain that impact. If we It is simply a cop out! said, ‘‘The problem at hand is not the reli- cannot prevent such a full-scale civil war, Summarization—America cannot win a gion of Islam but the totalitarian ideology of then containment, as awful as it threatens counter-insurgency campaign in a Muslim militant Islam. Islam is one of the world’s to be, might still prove to be our least bad territory as long as it is ruled by Muslims. major religions in terms of duration, extent, options.’’ That is why the effort must be led by the and numbers of adherents; as a faith, it has Mr. AKAKA. Madam President, ear- Muslims (Iraq) in order to win their own meant very different things over fourteen lier this week the Senate had an oppor- counter-insurgency campaign. Absolutely, centuries and several continents. Two com- tunity to begin debate on Iraq and the we must assist them and apply more forces mon points one can note are that: Islam is, current plan proposed by President but the Iraqi leaders are the ones who have more than any other major religion, deeply Bush. While I and 48 of my colleagues to gain the confidence of the populace as political in the sense that it pushes its ad- well as subdue and disassemble the militias, herents to hold power; and once Muslims supported moving forward with this particularly that of Al Sadr. If Maliki and gain power, there is a strong impetus to important debate, others in this Cham- his government do not take the lead and in- apply the law of Islam, the Shari’a.’’ There is ber elected to prevent discussion on an sist on the breakup of the militias then we no separation of Church and State. Under issue of national importance. are wasting our time, soldier’s lives and bil- their belief they are one in the same. I understand that there are doubts as lions of dollars to help reconstruct that Anyone who has any knowledge about the to what is the proper course of action country. The world is watching to see what Islamic goals and objectives knows full well to pursue in Iraq. We all wish for vic- course of action Maliki takes and whether that they are not going away and will con- we will continue to provide support. If this tory. We all wish for an end to the tinue their pursuit to control the entire death and destruction. None of us want fails we will have least tried to make it world and have it under the Islamic law/reli- work. I don’t know how long we continue gion and, in the meantime, kill us infidels to waste additional lives in futile mis- this support—probably a year to eighteen along the way. We have been told that Islam sions, or futile gestures. We all wish for months to see if it is going to work and then is the religion of peace, and that the vast a stable, democratic Iraq—and I would decide if it is being successful or not. If not, majority of Muslims just want to live in add to that Afghanistan, as this con- then we execute a strategic withdrawal re- peace. Although this unqualified assertion flict is being waged on more than one moving our troops, equipment, and supplies. may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is front. We all share those common de- Concurrently we must have made plans for meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel bet- sires and none of us, none of us can pre- dealing with the aftermath of our with- ter, and meant to somehow diminish the drawal—a point which no politicians are dict the future. But what we can do is specter of fanatics rampaging across the to apply our wisdom and judgement as talking about right now. This action will globe in the name of Islam. The fact is, in embolden Iran and Syria plus others and the Middle East, the fanatics rule Islam at to what is the best course of action for then the ‘‘global’’ terrorist and economic this moment in history. The ‘‘peaceful ma- the United States to take. That task is problems will start to build. The predictions jority’’ is the ‘‘silent majority’’ and it is our solemn duty. of all-out civil war will prevail and the spill- cowed and extraneous. Peace-loving Muslims We cannot perform that duty with all over to adjacent countries will most likely have been made irrelevant by their silence. the honesty and clarity that this great occur. How will the United States address Not a pretty picture at all!! body—the United States Senate—is this situation Madam Speaker of the House/ Mr. President of the Senate? CONSEQUENCES OF CURRENTLY PROPOSED known for if we cannot begin debate. ACTIONS NEED TO BE REVISITED PROBABLE SCENARIO FOLLOWING A COLLAPSE OF Denying an open discussion of the The proposed Congressional alternatives of IRAQI GOVERNMENT AND US WITHDRAWAL issues of grave importance to our na- capping the number of troops, cutting off ‘‘Responsible’’ Middle East experts say tional security does not serve our Na- funds for the war, withdrawal within six that if we withdraw it will be a blood bath to tion well. months or a year or sending our troops to start with and then the ‘‘Middle East region’’ We are at a great turning point and ‘‘control the borders and search out terror- will turn into a haven for terrorists that will the consequences of this policy must be ists but don’t get involved in Baghdad’’ is ir- be controlled by Iran and Syria—primarily rational thinking. If that is what they think debated. Future generations will be af- Iran—all under the guise of Islam and in we should be doing then we should withdraw fected by the course of action our Na- preparation for the return of the 12th Imam. completely now and turn the country over to tion takes in the Middle East. No one This in turn will cause our quasi Arab these radical Islamists, terrorists, thugs and can say with certainty which path will friends, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait (and criminals and let them kill each other off lead us toward light and which could perhaps a few others) to begin making alli- and watch Iran come in behind us and take ances with Iran in fear for their own country lead us toward a darker future. But control. Then, watch Congress and the Amer- and lives therein. these courses of action demand debate. Then, guess what? Terrorism will spread ican public howl and complain about how Right now our Nation’s wealth is like wild fire and Iran et al will now control ‘‘we lost the war.’’ Sometime later this being poured into a growing maelstrom the majority of the world oil reserves (which would come back to haunt us here in the US in the Middle East—a storm that is en- when we start having our fair share of ter- can be used for terrorist activities) and the gulfing the lives of our most talented rest of the world will start experiencing an rorists attacks and encroachment of radical Islamists on our soil. soldiers, a storm that is exhausting our economic disaster just over the price of oil. national treasure and sinking us deeper One may rest assured that President Chavez SO, NOW WHAT? in Venezuela will chime right in there with I submit that in lieu of the defeatist atti- into a debt that our grandchildren and them and raise the price of his oil as well. tude shown by so many in the Congress and great-grandchildren will be paying off. The OPEC will be overtaken by Iran et al the media, that this is no time to feel des- It means our Nation’s education, envi- and the free world will have no choice but to, perate. What we need is a sense of mission, a ronment, health, and transportation

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:21 Mar 13, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00051 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2007SENATE\S07FE7.REC S07FE7 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S1706 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 7, 2007 systems are eroding for a lack of basic grade indicated under title 10, U.S.C., section was created by the Intelligence Reform resources. 624: and Terrorism Prevention Act 2004. Again, the consequences of this pol- To be brigadier general That legislation drew on recommenda- icy must be debated. In Iraq, there is a Col. Douglas J. Robb, 0000 tions from the congressional and com- clear choice: support the President’s The following named officers for appoint- mission reports on the 9/11 terrorist at- policy of full steam ahead and continue ment in the Reserve of the Air Force to the tacks, the Senate Intelligence Com- the current policy of putting American grade indicated under title 10, U.S.C., section mittee report on Iraq prewar intel- soldiers in harm’s way or shift strategy 12203: ligence, the Report of the Joint Inquiry and make it clear that it is time for To be major general by the House and Senate Intelligence the Iraqi government to govern and Brigadier General Frank J. Casserino, 0000 Committees into the events of 9/11, and Iraqi troops to protect the Iraqi people. Brigadier General Stephen P. Gross, 0000 the recommendations of numerous Brigadier General Clay T. McCutchan, 0000 other commissions and reviews going In any case, whatever policy advo- Brigadier General Frank J. Padilla, 0000 cated—whether one supports staying back 50 years. Brigadier General Loren S. Perlstein, 0000 The creation of the DNI was an im- in, getting out now, or getting out Brigadier General Jack W. Ramsaur, II, 0000 later—those choices deserve to be fully Brigadier General Bradley C. Young, 0000 portant step. We now have, for the first time, an individual whose primary job and completely debated and voted on in To be brigadier general the United States Senate. is to run the intelligence community Colonel Frank E. Anderson, 0000 as a whole. Until the creation of the I urge my colleagues on the other Colonel Patrick A. Cord, 0000 side to support a full and open debate Colonel Craig N. Gourley, 0000 DNI, the old Director of Central Intel- on the President’s Iraq policy. Colonel Donald C. Ralph, 0000 ligence wore two hats—as the head of Madam President, I yield the floor Colonel William F. Schauffert, 0000 the Intelligence Community and as the and suggest the absence of a quorum. Colonel Jack K. Sewell, Jr., 0000 Director of the Central Intelligence The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Colonel Richard A. Shook, Jr., 0000 Agency. But this structural change, Colonel Lance D. Dndhjem, 0000 while important, was only the first clerk will call the roll. Colonel John T. Winters, Jr., 0000 The assistant legislative clerk pro- step to reforming intelligence. The DNI IN THE ARMY ceeded to call the roll. must make the 16 agencies of the intel- The following named officer for appoint- Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask ligence community work as one toward ment in the United States Army to the grade a common goal. Director Negroponte unanimous consent that the order for indicated while assigned to a position of im- the quorum call be rescinded. has started the community down that portance and responsibility under title 10, path. It is going to be up to Admiral The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without U.S.C., section 601: McConnell to move us further along. objection, it is so ordered. To be lieutenant general Mr. REID. Madam President, it is my A quick review of his resume will Lt. Gen. James M. Dubik, 0000 show even the casual observer that Ad- understanding we are now in executive EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT session; is that right? miral McConnell is incredibly well J. Michael McConnell, of Virginia, to be qualified for this critical position. He The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- Director of National Intelligence, jority leader is correct. retired from the Navy as Vice Admiral NOMINATIONS PLACED ON THE after 29 years of service. Most of his f SECRETARY’S DESK service during this distinguished career EXECUTIVE CALENDAR IN THE AIR FORCE was as an intelligence officer. PN200 AIR FORCE nominations (6) begin- While on active duty he served as Di- Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask ning MICHAEL D. JACOBSON, and ending unanimous consent that the Senate rector of Intelligence on the Joint TERRILL L. TOPS, which nominations were Staff during the Persian Gulf War. This proceed to the consideration of Execu- received by the Senate and appeared in the made him the principal intelligence ad- tive Calendar Nos. 16 through 22, and Congressional Record of January 18, 2007. visor to the chairman of the Joint all nominations on the Secretary’s PN201 AIR FORCE nominations (11) begin- Chiefs, GEN Colin Powell. He went on desk; that the nominations be con- ning STUART C. CALLE, and ending EDWIN to become the Director of the National firmed; the motions to reconsider be O. RODRIGUEZPAGAN, which nominations were received by the Senate and appeared in Security Agency, our Nation’s largest laid upon the table; that any state- the Congressional Record of January 18, 2007. intelligence agency. ments be printed in the RECORD; that f Upon retiring from the Navy, Admi- the President be immediately notified ral McConnell went to work for Booz NOMINATION OF JOHN M. of the Senate’s action, and the Senate Allen Hamilton where he has been a MCCONNELL TO BE DNI return to legislative session. senior vice president for intelligence The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, and national security. He also is cur- objection, it is so ordered. today the Senate has confirmed the rently chairman and chief executive of- The nominations considered and con- nomination of VADM Mike McConnell ficer of the Intelligence and National firmed are as follows: to be the next Director of National In- Security Alliance, an industry group IN THE NAVY telligence. It is hard for me to imagine that works with the Government look- The following named officer for appoint- a better choice than Admiral McCon- ing for ways to solve some of our com- ment in the United States Navy to the grade nell. plex intelligence problems. He has the indicated while assigned to a position of im- The Senate Select Committee on In- requisite Government experience sup- portance and responsibility under title 10, telligence received Admiral McCon- U.S.C., section 601: plemented by a decade in the private nell’s nomination to replace John sector. To be admiral Negroponte on January 22, 2007. He In his appearance before the Intel- Adm. William J. Fallon, 0000 completed all the requisite paperwork ligence Committee last week I think it THE AIR FORCE and the committee held a hearing with is fair to say that he impressed all The following named officer for appoint- Admiral McConnell on February 1. The members of the committee with his ment in the United States Air Force to the committee met on February 6, and knowledge of the issues and the dif- grade indicated under title 10, U.S.C., section voted unanimously to report the nomi- ficulty of the task ahead. But I was 624: nation to the Senate with a favorable particularly encouraged by his answers To be major general recommendation. to questions about the relationship Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Travis, 0000 I am pleased that the Senate has with Congress. The following named officer for appoint- moved quickly to act on this rec- It is no secret that I have not always ment in the United States Air Force to the ommendation. I think this swift con- been happy with the level of access the grade indicated under title 10, U.S.C., section sideration of the nomination is rec- intelligence committee has had to ma- 624: ognition of both the importance of this terials it needs to do its job. On some To be brigadier general position and of the qualifications of of the most important and sensitive Col. David H. Cyr, 0000 Admiral McConnell. programs in the Intelligence Commu- The following named officer for appoint- As my colleagues know, the position nity, we have been frustrated in our at- ment in the United States Air Force to the of Director of National Intelligence tempts to do oversight because we have

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:21 Mar 13, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00052 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2007SENATE\S07FE7.REC S07FE7 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY February 7, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1707 not been able to get documents and he earned a master of arts degree in na- prepositioning force future, MPFF, Mo- other information critical to under- tional security affairs, and at the Na- bile Landing Platform, MLP, and joint standing and therefore evaluating tional War College, where he earned a high speed vessel, JHSV. Rear Admiral these programs. In other cases the ad- master of science degree in national se- Hamilton’s extraordinary legacy of ministration has placed burdensome curity strategy. He is also a graduate service will be clearly reflected not and unwarranted limits on access by of the Defense Systems Management only in the improved warfighting capa- Senators and staff. College, and a designated surface war- bility of this Nation, but also in the Vice Chairman Bond and I are mak- fare officer and joint specialty officer. safety, readiness, and quality of life of ing a concerted bipartisan effort to Rear Admiral Hamilton served in a our sailors and marines. deal with these questions. And we are variety of assignments at sea, where he On the eve of Rear Admiral Hamil- making headway. One issue that we consistently excelled as a leader of the ton’s change of command ceremony, I both raised with Admiral McConnell at highest caliber. His positions included offer my congratulations to him, his his hearing has now been resolved. We combat information center officer wife Debbie and his children Chip, also have seen movement, if not com- aboard USS Hawkins, DD 873, mission Mike, and Christina. Rear Admiral plete satisfaction, in other areas. Ad- fire control officer aboard USS Coontz, Hamilton will be greatly missed, and I miral McConnell’s answers convinced DDG 40, and operations officer aboard know I speak for all my colleagues in me that he will be an ally in this area. USS Callaghan, DDG 994. In September expressing our heartfelt appreciation It is my view that the intelligence 1986, he became the executive officer to him. He is a man of extraordinary community needs to view Congress as a aboard USS Fox, CG 33, where his lead- honor, courage, and commitment, who partner in supporting intelligence ac- ership played a key role in the success always shot straight regardless of risk tivities that protect America and I of Operation Earnest Will, ensuring the or possible peril. He is a credit to both think he will do that. safe passage of tankers and merchant the Navy and the United States of I thank all of my colleagues for sup- vessels during the fiercest days of the America. We wish our friend the best of porting support the confirmation of Iran-Iraq conflict. In February 1991, he luck in future endeavors, and congratu- Admiral McConnell and I look forward assumed command of USS O’Brien, DD late him on the successful completion to working with him in his new role as 975, where he was hailed by his subordi- of an unprecedented tour of duty. Director of National Intelligence. nates and superiors for his extraor- f dinary leadership. f Rear Admiral Hamilton has also ex- VOTE EXPLANATION LEGISLATIVE SESSION celled in a variety of key staff posi- Mr. BROWNBACK. Madam President, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- tions, where he helped define and exe- I regret that on January 24, 30, and 31, ate will now return to legislative ses- cute key elements of our national secu- I was unable to vote on certain provi- sion. rity strategy. These assignments in- sions of H.R. 2, the Fair Minimum cluded serving as the arsenal ship pro- Wage Act of 2007. I wish to address f gram manager; head of the Fleet Intro- these votes, so that the people of the MORNING BUSINESS duction and Lifetime Support Direc- great State of Kansas, who elected me torate, program executive officer for to serve them as Senator, may know Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask Theater Surface Combatants; two tours my position. unanimous consent that there now be a with the Office of the Chief of Naval Regarding vote No. 22, the motion to period of morning business, with Sen- Operations as Anti-Submarine Warfare invoke cloture on the Gregg amend- ators allowed to speak therein for up to Program analyst, OP–91, and Head of ment (No. 101), I would have supported 10 minutes each. the AEGIS Destroyer Section, OP–355. Senator GREGG’s amendment and The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without He also served in the Office of the would have voted to bring debate to a objection, it is so ordered. Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisi- close. My vote would not have altered f tion and Technology as military staff the result of this motion. Regarding vote No. 23, the motion to RECOGNIZING REAR ADMIRAL specialist for naval warfare. On May 15, 2003, Rear Admiral Ham- invoke cloture on H.R. 2, I would not CHARLES HAMILTON ilton assumed command of PEO Ships, have voted to invoke cloture on H.R. 2. Mr. LOTT. Madam President, I rise then a newly established organization My vote would not have altered the re- today to recognize Rear Admiral responsible for acquisition and support sult of this motion. Charles ‘‘Charlie’’ S. Hamilton, upon of the Navy’s entire nonnuclear surface Regarding vote No. 34, the motion to the completion of his current tour of fleet, including boats and craft, special invoke cloture on the Baucus sub- duty as the Program Executive Officer, mission ships, and foreign military stitute amendment (No. 100), I would Ships, PEO Ships. Since assuming the sales. In this capacity, he skillfully have supported ending the debate on position nearly 4 years ago, Rear Admi- planned and executed current and fu- the Baucus substitute amendment. My ral Hamilton has worked with Congress ture shipbuilding programs that will vote would not have altered the result on numerous issues of vital importance carry our surface Navy well into the of this motion. to our Navy and our Nation. His suc- 21st century. Regarding vote No. 37, on the motion cesses and accomplishments have been During his tenure, 16 major surface to table the Kyl amendment (No. 209), significant and many. Rear Admiral ships were delivered to the U.S. Navy I supported Amendment No. 209 from Hamilton has earned my deep respect and 300 boats and craft were delivered my colleague Senator KYL and would and that of my colleagues through his to U.S. and foreign navies. To place have voted against the tabling motion. exceptional competence, integrity, and that in perspective, it is my under- Regarding vote No. 38, I would have innate ability to cut through bureauc- standing that Rear Admiral Hamilton supported the motion to waive the racy in order to get the job done. successfully shepherded the design and Budget Act with respect to the Kyl Today, it is my pleasure to recognize construction of more types of new Amendment (No. 115) to the Baucus some of Rear Admiral Hamilton’s ships than has ever been accomplished substitute amendment (No. 100) to H.R. many accomplishments, and commend under a single flag officer since the 2. My vote would not have altered the his service to the Navy, the Congress, passage of the Naval Act of 1794. These result of this motion. and our grateful Nation. new classes of surface ships included Regarding vote No. 39, the motion to Rear Admiral Hamilton was born in San Antonio, LPD 17, Lewis and Clark, invoke cloture on H.R. 2, as amended, I Amityville, NY. He entered military T-AKE 1, Makin Island LHD 8; Freedom, would have supported ending the de- service in 1974 as an ensign after re- LCS 1, and Zumwalt, DDG 1000, classes bate on H.R. 2. My vote would not have ceiving a bachelor of science degree in of ships. altered the result of this motion. Zoology from Duke University where In addition, he tirelessly strove to fa- Madam President, I regret that I was he was a member of the Navy ROTC cilitate the realistic consideration of unable to vote the afternoon of Janu- program. He continued his education at next-generation architectures as well ary 30 on the confirmation of the nomi- the Naval Post Graduate School, where as ship concepts such as maritime nation of both Judge Lisa Godbey

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:21 Mar 13, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00053 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2007SENATE\S07FE7.REC S07FE7 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S1708 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 7, 2007 Wood and Judge Philip Gutierrez to be Dr. Merrell’s watch. Construction on a ployees of Flowers Foods and their U.S. district judges. In neither case new economic development training families on a job well done.∑ would my vote have altered the out- center is also currently underway—the f come of these confirmations; however, product of a collaboration with 3D Sys- I wish to address these confirmations tems Corporation. TRIBUTE TO RICHARD SHAPIRO so that the people of the great State of Like the relationship with 3D Sys- ∑ Ms. MIKULSKI. Madam President, I Kansas, who elected me to serve them tems, Dr. Merrell also championed join my colleagues in saluting Richard as U.S. Senator, may know my posi- partnerships with regional construc- H. Shapiro, the executive director of tion. tion companies and other manufac- the Congressional Management Foun- Regarding vote No. 35, the confirma- turing businesses to address practical dation. As Rick moves on to new chal- tion vote on the nomination of Lisa job-training issues. In the last year, lenges, I want to thank him for his re- Godbey Wood, of Georgia, to be United York Tech has also joined with utility markable service to the U.S. Senate. States District Judge for the Southern companies and contractors in the Caro- Rick Shapiro is responsible for bring- District of Georgia, Executive Calendar linas to help meet the growing need for ing 21st century management skills to No. 6): I support the confirmation of entry-level line workers in the region. an institution build on 18th century Ms. Godbey Wood. For efforts like these York Tech was Regarding vote No. 36, the confirma- recognized as a Bellweather Awards Fi- rules and practices. We still have spit- tion vote on the nomination of Philip nalist in 2006 for its unique approach to toons in the Senate—yet we also have S. Gutierrez, of California, to be United industry alliances. The United States blackberries. States District Judge for the Central Department of Education has even ac- Rick Shapiro helped us wrestle with District of California, Executive Cal- knowledged York Tech for its innova- issues that our Founding Fathers endar No. 7: I support the confirmation tive approach to meeting the local and didn’t even dream about. How do you of Mr. Gutierrez. national workforce needs in the area of answer thousands of e-mails a week? How do you hire, train, and retain ex- f manufacturing. Dr. Merrell even promoted distance cellent staff? How do you set goals and ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS learning, namely online instruction, al- measure progress—so that promises lowing countless students the oppor- made can be promises kept? How do you ensure that state and Washington TRIBUTE TO DENNIS MERRELL tunity to reach educational goals with- out giving up their jobs. As such the offices communicate, coordinate and ∑ Mr. GRAHAM. Madam President, American Association of Community cooperate? Whenever I had a question today I ask the Senate to join me in Colleges named York Tech the number about managing my office, I turned to recognizing Dr. Dennis Merrell on the one digital-savvy college among the Rick Shapiro—and my staff did the occasion of his retirement from York country’s largest and urban commu- same. Technical College in Rock Hill, SC. Dr. nity colleges. Under Rick Shapiro’s leadership, the Merrell officially stepped down last Dr. Merrell’s community service out- Congressional Management Foundation week as president of York Tech fol- side of his work at York Tech includes has helped Members to set up their of- lowing over 30 years of service at the leadership roles at the Rock Hill and fices, upgrade office systems, and ad- vocational college. For the last seven- York County Economic Development just to new ways of connecting with teen of those thirty years, Dr. Merrell Boards, the Rock Hill Rotary Board, constituents. His book ‘‘Setting led York Tech as the school’s presi- the Charlotte Area Education Consor- Course’’ is a must-read for all new dent. He leaves York Tech having tium Board, and the York County Red Members of Congress. He was the first transformed the college into a powerful Cross Board, among a host of other to compile and analyze information source of economic development and technical education organizations. from individual offices—to enable Sen- manufacturing workforce creation for York Tech is sure to miss Dr. ators to learn from the best practices South Carolina and the country. Merrell’s leadership and vision, but I of others. After serving 2 years in the military, am confident that the school will build Rick Shapiro is a part of our Senate Dr. Merrell earned a bachelor’s degree on his impressive legacy. In conclusion, family. In fact, he met his wife Trudy in business and computer science from I ask that the Senate join me in wish- Vincent when she was my legislative Winthrop University and a master’s de- ing Dr. Merrell a healthy and happy re- director. Their daughter Abby has been gree in computer science from Virginia tirement.∑ spotted selling Girl Scout cookies Tech. He joined the faculty at York around the Capitol. f Tech to teach computer technology Rick Shapiro has made a lasting im- and programming in 1976 and in time IN RECOGNITION OF FLOWERS pact on the U.S. Senate. I ask my col- became chair of the Computer Tech- FOODS leagues to join me in thanking him for nology Division. Eventually Dr. ∑ Mr. ISAKSON. Madam President, his service. While he is stepping down Merrell was named the college’s Vice today I wish to recognize Flowers from the Congressional Management President of Instruction. He served in Foods of Thomasville, GA, which has Foundation, I look forward to great that capacity until he was appointed just been named by Forbes magazine as things from Rick in the years ahead.∑ president of the school in 1989 following this year’s ‘‘Best-Managed’’ publicly f the death of his predecessor, Dr. Baxter traded food company. This honor Hood. comes on top of a record fourth quarter MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT To deliver true quality technical edu- and a record year for Flowers Foods. Messages from the President of the cation, Dr. Merrell understood that Flowers Foods has clearly set a United States were communicated to York Tech would need to rely on re- standard of excellence for which all of the Senate by Ms. Evans, one of his sources outside of those provided by us should strive. Operating out of secretaries. State and local government. To that Thomasville, GA, since 1919, Flowers end, Dr. Merrell developed a culture of Foods has a proven record of success f industry partnerships from which the and dedication not only to its cus- school has tremendously benefited dur- tomers and employees but also to the EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED ing his tenure. Under Dr. Merrell’s State of Georgia. I have watched as As in executive session the Presiding leadership, enrollment in the college’s this company has grown over the years Officer laid before the Senate messages continuing education programs nearly to the point where it now serves almost from the President of the United doubled. Six buildings including a child 40 percent of the U.S. population. I ex- States submitting sundry nominations development center, library, student pect its continued success to serve as a which were referred to the Committee services building, continuing education shining example to businesses across on Armed Services. center, institute for manufacturing Georgia and the United States. (The nominations received today are productivity, and science and tech- I want to commend chief executive printed at the end of the Senate pro- nology building were all constructed on officer George E. Deese and all the em- ceedings.)

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:21 Mar 13, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00054 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2007SENATE\S07FE7.REC S07FE7 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY February 7, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1709 MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE H.R. 386. An act to authorize the Secretary and second times by unanimous con- of the Interior to convey certain buildings sent, and referred as indicated: At 11:11 p.m., a message from the and lands of the Yakima Project, Wash- By Mrs. BOXER: House of Representatives, delivered by ington, to the Yakima-Tieton Irrigation Dis- Ms. Niland, one of its reading clerks, S. 510. A bill to specify that the 100 most trict; to the Committee on Energy and Nat- populous urban ares of the United States, as announced that the House has passed ural Resources. determined by the Secretary of Homeland the following bills, in which it requests H.R. 512. An act to establish the Commis- Security, shall be eligible for grants under the concurrence of the Senate: sion to Study the Potential Creation of the the Urban Area Security Initiative of the De- National Museum of the American Latino to H.R. 161. An act to adjust the boundary of partment of Homeland Security, and for develop a plan of action for the establish- the Minidoka Internment National Monu- other purposes; to the Committee on Home- ment and maintenance of a National Mu- ment to include the Nidoto Nai Yoni Memo- land Security and Governmental Affairs. seum of the American Latino in Washington, rial in Bainbridge Island, Washington, and By Mrs. CLINTON (for herself, Ms. MI- DC, and for other purposes; to the Com- for other purposes. KULSKI, Mr. KERRY, and Mr. LIEBER- mittee on Energy and Natural Resources. H.R. 235. An act to allow for the renegoti- MAN): ation of the payment schedule of contracts f S. 511. A bill to provide student borrowers with basic rights, including the right to between the Secretary of the Interior and EXECUTIVE AND OTHER the Redwood Valley County Water District, timely information about their loans and the and for other purposes. COMMUNICATIONS right to make fair and reasonable loan pay- H.R. 356. An act to remove certain restric- The following communications were ments, and for other purposes; to the Com- tions on the Mammoth Community Water mittee on Health, Education, Labor, and laid before the Senate, together with Pensions. District’s ability to use certain property ac- accompanying papers, reports, and doc- quired by that District from the United By Mr. HATCH: uments, and were referred as indicated: S. 512. A bill to authorize the Secretary of States. the Interior to study the feasibility of en- H.R. 386. An act to authorize the Secretary EC–721. A communication from the Execu- larging the Arthur V. Watkins Dam Weber of the Interior to convey certain buildings tive Director, Commodity Futures Trading Basin Project, Utah, to provide additional and lands of the Yakima Project, Wash- Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, water for the Weber Basin Project to fulfill ington, to the Yakima-Tieton Irrigation Dis- the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Electronic Fil- the purposes for which that project was au- trict. ing of Notices of Exemption and Exclusion thorized; to the Committee on Energy and H.R. 512. An act to establish the Commis- Under Part 4 of the Commission’s Regula- Natural Resources. sion to Study the Potential Creation of the tions’’ ((RIN3038–AC33)(72 FR 1658)) received By Mr. LEAHY (for himself and Mr. National Museum of the American Latino to on February 6, 2007; to the Committee on Ag- riculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. BOND): develop a plan of action for the establish- S. 513. A bill to amend title 10, United ment and maintenance of a National Mu- EC–722. A communication from the Chair- man and President of the Export-Import States Code, to revive previous authority on seum of the American Latino in Washington, the use of the Armed Forces and the militia DC, and for other purposes. Bank of the United States, transmitting, pursuant to law, the Bank’s annual report on to address interference with State or Federal its operations for fiscal year 2006; to the law, and for other purposes; to the Com- At 4:23 p.m., a message from the mittee on Armed Services. House of Representatives, delivered by Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. By Mr. NELSON of Florida (for himself Ms. Niland, one of its reading clerks, EC–723. A communication from the Chair- and Mr. MARTINEZ): S. 514. A bill to extend Federal recognition announced that the House agrees to man, Council of the District of Columbia, to the Muscogee Nation of Florida; to the the amendments of the Senate to the transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on Committee on Indian Affairs. bill (H.R. 434) to provide for an addi- D.C. Act 16–674, ‘‘National Association for By Mr. GRASSLEY (for himself, Mr. tional temporary extension of pro- the Advancement of Colored People Grant OBAMA, Mr. BIDEN, and Mr. KEN- Authority Temporary Act of 2007’’ received grams under the Small Business Act NEDY): and the Small Business Investment Act on February 6, 2007; to the Committee on S. 515. A bill to provide a mechanism for of 1958 through December 31, 2007, and Homeland Security and Governmental Af- the determination on the merits of the fairs. for other purposes. claims of claimants who met the class cri- EC–724. A communication from the Chair- teria in a civil action relating to racial dis- man, Council of the District of Columbia, crimination by the Department of Agri- At 4:48 p.m., a message from the transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on House of Representatives, delivered by culture but who were denied that determina- D.C. Act 16–676, ‘‘School Without Walls De- tion; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Ms. Niland, one of its reading clerks, velopment Project Temporary Amendment By Mr. PRYOR (for himself, Mr. WAR- announced that the pursuant to 22 Act of 2007’’ received on February 6, 2007; to NER, and Mrs. LINCOLN): U.S.C. 6913, and the order of the House the Committee on Homeland Security and S. 516. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- of January 4, 2007, the Speaker ap- Governmental Affairs. enue Code of 1986 to make permanent the op- points the following Member of the EC–725. A communication from the Chair- tion of including combat pay when com- House of Representatives to the Con- man, Council of the District of Columbia, puting earned income; to the Committee on transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on Finance. gressional-Executive Commission on D.C. Act 16–677, ‘‘D.C. Housing Authority the People’s Republic of China: Mr. By Ms. LANDRIEU: Rent Supplement Temporary Amendment S. 517. A bill to amend the Emergency Sup- LEVIN of Michigan, Chairman. Act of 2007’’ received on February 6, 2007; to plemental Appropriations Act for Defense, f the Committee on Homeland Security and the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Re- Governmental Affairs. covery, 2006 to authorize the Federal Emer- MEASURES REFERRED EC–726. A communication from the Chair- gency Management Agency to provide addi- The following bills were read the first man, Council of the District of Columbia, tional assistance to State and local govern- transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on and the second times by unanimous ments for utility costs resulting from the D.C. Act 16–675, ‘‘Fiscal Year 2007 Operating provision of temporary housing units to consent, and referred as indicated: Cash Reserve and Revised Revenue December evacuees from Hurricane Katrina and other H.R. 161. An act to adjust the boundary of Allocation Temporary Act of 2007’’ received hurricanes; to the Committee on Homeland the Minidoka Internment National Monu- on February 6, 2007; to the Committee on Security and Governmental Affairs. ment to include the Nidoto Nai Yoni Memo- Homeland Security and Governmental Af- By Ms. SNOWE (for herself and Mrs. rial in Bainbridge Island, Washington, and fairs. MURRAY): for other purposes; to the Committee on En- EC–727. A communication from the Sec- S. 518. A bill to amend the Education ergy and Natural Resources. retary of Transportation, transmitting, pur- Sciences Reform Act of 2002 to require the H.R. 235. An act to allow for the renegoti- suant to law, the Inspector General’s semi- Statistics Commissioner to collect informa- ation of the payment schedule of contracts annual report on the Department for the pe- tion from coeducational secondary schools between the Secretary of the Interior and riod ending September 30, 2006; to the Com- on such schools’ athletic programs; to the the Redwood Valley County Water District, mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and and for other purposes; to the Committee on mental Affairs. Pensions. Energy and Natural Resources. f By Mr. MCCAIN (for himself, Mr. SCHU- H.R. 356. An act to remove certain restric- MER, and Mr. KYL): tions on the Mammoth Community Water INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND S. 519. A bill to modernize and expand the District’s ability to use certain property ac- JOINT RESOLUTIONS reporting requirements relating to child por- quired by that District from the United nography, to expand cooperation in com- States; to the Committee on Energy and The following bills and joint resolu- bating child pornography, and for other pur- Natural Resources. tions were introduced, read the first poses; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:21 Mar 13, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00055 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2007SENATE\S07FE7.REC S07FE7 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S1710 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 7, 2007 By Mrs. MURRAY (for herself and Ms. kota (Mr. THUNE) was added as a co- (Ms. MIKULSKI) was added as a cospon- CANTWELL): sponsor of S. 85, a bill to amend the sor of S. 446, a bill to amend the Public S. 520. A bill to enhance ecosystem protec- Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Health Service Act to authorize capita- tion and the range of outdoor opportunities Streets Act of 1968 to clarify that terri- protected by statute in the Skykomish River tion grants to increase the number of valley of the State of Washington by desig- tories and Indian tribes are eligible to nursing faculty and students, and for nating certain lower-elevation Federal lands receive grants for confronting the use other purposes. as wilderness, and for other purposes; to the of methamphetamine. S. 450 Committee on Energy and Natural Re- S. 231 At the request of Mr. ENSIGN, the sources. At the request of Mrs. FEINSTEIN, the name of the Senator from Georgia (Mr. By Ms. KLOBUCHAR: name of the Senator from Minnesota S. 521. A bill to designate the Federal CHAMBLISS) was added as a cosponsor of (Ms. KLOBUCHAR) was added as a co- S. 450, a bill to amend title XVIII of the building and United States courthouse and sponsor of S. 231, a bill to authorize the customhouse located at 515 West First Street Social Security Act to repeal the medi- in Duluth, Minnesota, as the ‘‘Gerald W. Edward Byrne Memorial Justice As- care outpatient rehabilitation therapy Heany Federal Building and United States sistance Grant Program at fiscal year caps. 2006 levels through 2012. Courthouse and Customhouse’’; to the Com- S. 481 mittee on Environment and Public Works. S. 336 At the request of Mr. CONRAD, the By Mr. BAYH (for himself and Mr. At the request of Mr. DURBIN, the name of the Senator from Montana VOINOVICH): name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. (Mr. TESTER) was added as a cosponsor S. 522. A bill to safeguard the economic BROWN) was added as a cosponsor of S. health of the United States and the health 336, a bill to require the Secretary of of S. 481, a bill to recruit and retain and safety of the United States citizens by the Army to operate and maintain as a more qualified individuals to teach in improving the management, coordination, Tribal Colleges or Universities. and effectiveness of domestic and inter- system the Chicago Sanitary and Ship S. 502 national intellectual property rights en- Canal dispersal barriers, and for other forcement, and for other purposes; to the purposes. At the request of Mr. CRAPO, the Committee on the Judiciary. S. 355 names of the Senator from Florida (Mr. By Mr. VITTER: At the request of Mr. DOMENICI, the MARTINEZ) and the Senator from Ala- S. 523. A bill to amend the Emergency Sup- names of the Senator from Tennessee bama (Mr. SESSIONS) were added as co- plemental Appropriations Act for Defense, (Mr. ALEXANDER) and the Senator from sponsors of S. 502, a bill to repeal the the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Re- Minnesota (Mr. COLEMAN) were added sunset on the reduction of capital gains covery, 2006 to authorize the Federal Emer- rates for individuals and on the tax- gency Management Agency to provide addi- as cosponsors of S. 355, a bill to estab- tional assistance to State and local govern- lish a National Commission on Entitle- ation of dividends of individuals at cap- ments for utility costs resulting from the ment Solvency. ital gains rates. provision of temporary housing units to S. 357 S. 504 evacuees from Hurricane Katrina and other At the request of Mrs. FEINSTEIN, the At the request of Mr. SMITH, the hurricanes; to the Committee on Homeland name of the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. name of the Senator from Arkansas Security and Governmental Affairs. AKAKA) was added as a cosponsor of S. (Mrs. LINCOLN) was added as a cospon- By Mrs. BOXER: S. 524. A bill to provide emergency agricul- 357, a bill to improve passenger auto- sor of S. 504, a bill to amend the Inter- tural disaster assistance for agricultural pro- mobile fuel economy and safety, reduce nal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish ducers, manufacturers, and workers in the greenhouse gas emissions, reduce de- long-term care trust accounts and State of California; to the Committee on Ag- pendence on foreign oil, and for other allow a refundable tax credit for con- riculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. purposes. tributions to such accounts, and for f S. 413 other purposes. SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND At the request of Mrs. CLINTON, the f name of the Senator from Maryland SENATE RESOLUTIONS STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED (Mr. CARDIN) was added as a cosponsor The following concurrent resolutions of S. 413, a bill to amend the Bank BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS and Senate resolutions were read, and Holding Company Act of 1956 and the By Mrs. BOXER: referred (or acted upon), as indicated: Revised Statutes of the United States S. 510. A bill to specify that the 100 By Ms. SNOWE (for herself and Mrs. to prohibit financial holding companies most populous urban areas of the MURRAY): and national banks from engaging, di- United States, as determined by the S. Res. 74. A resolution designating each of rectly or indirectly, in real estate bro- Secretary of Homeland Security, shall February 7, 2007, and February 6, 2008, as kerage or real estate management ac- be eligible for grants under the Urban ‘‘National Women and Girls in Sports Day’’; tivities, and for other purposes. Area Security Initiative of the Depart- to the Committee on the Judiciary. ment of Homeland Security, and for By Mr. LUGAR (for himself and Mr. S. 439 BAYH): At the request of Mr. REID, the name other purposes; to the Committee on S. Res. 75. A resolution congratulating the of the Senator from Massachusetts Homeland Security and Governmental Indianapolis Colts on their victory in Super (Mr. KERRY) was added as a cosponsor Affairs. Bowl XLI; considered and agreed to. of S. 439, a bill to amend title 10, Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I rise f United States Code, to permit certain today to introduce the ‘‘Urban Area retired members of the uniformed serv- Security Initiative Improvement Act,’’ ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS ices who have a service-connected dis- which addresses eligibility for the De- S. 57 ability to receive both disability com- partment of Homeland Security’s At the request of Mr. INOUYE, the pensation from the Department of Vet- Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) names of the Senator from New York erans Affairs for their disability and ei- grant program. (Mrs. CLINTON) and the Senator from ther retired pay by reason of their This bill will improve the existing New York (Mr. SCHUMER) were added as years of military service or Combat- grant award process by broadening the cosponsors of S. 57, a bill to amend Related Special Compensation. number of urban areas eligible to title 38, United States Code, to deem S. 442 apply. In Fiscal Year 06, the Depart- certain service in the organized mili- At the request of Mr. DURBIN, the ment of Homeland Security made arbi- tary forces of the Government of the names of the Senator from Louisiana trary decisions about areas’ need for Commonwealth of the Philippines and (Ms. LANDRIEU) and the Senator from homeland security funding, threat- the Philippine Scouts to have been ac- Maine (Ms. SNOWE) were added as co- ening the eligibility of eleven worthy tive service for purposes of benefits sponsors of S. 442, a bill to provide for areas to apply for future grants. under programs administered by the loan repayment for prosecutors and The eligibility of Sacramento and Secretary of Veterans Affairs. public defenders. San Diego, in my State of California, S. 85 S. 446 were threatened in this way. Sac- At the request of Mr. MCCAIN, the At the request of Mr. DURBIN, the ramento is the capital of the most pop- name of the Senator from South Da- name of the Senator from Maryland ulous State in the Nation and home to

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This is no trafficked international border, a busy exceed a percentage of their incomes, ordinary dam. It is roughly 14 miles port, tourist attractions, and major as well as access to fair interest rates long and encloses a reservoir con- military installations. and fees. This bill would also give stu- taining more than 200,000 acre-feet of My bill would ensure that the 100 dents the right to shop in a free mar- water. most populous urban areas of the coun- ketplace for their lender and to borrow Thousands of Utahns rely on the try are eligible to apply for UASI without exploitation. Finally, the bill water provided by the reservoir. And grants each year. The Department of will give students access to better in- the Weber Basin is one of Utah’s fast- Homeland Security would then have formation about their loans to provide est growing areas, making the need to the discretion to award funds to as students with better options during re- find additional water resources even many applicants as it deems worthy payment. more pressing. In my view, expanding and needy. The unfortunate truth is that stu- the dam is a simple and inexpensive The bill would also require that the dent loan debt may even prevent bor- way to increase water storage capacity Department employ a ‘‘sensitivity rowers from pursuing a higher degree. in an area that desperately needs it. analysis’’ in its grant process, to deal According to the Nellie Mae Corpora- Moreover, last year, the Watkins with uncertainty in the mathematical tion, 40 percent of college graduates Dam began to leak slightly. If the dam models that it uses to evaluate the risk cite alarming student loan debt as the were to breach, it would flood many of terrorism for urban areas. The De- reason for not pursuing a graduate de- hundreds of acres of farm and grazing partment’s leadership could make bet- gree. Most disturbingly, the burden of land, which would spell an agricultural ter-informed policy decisions if it used student loan debt alone can force grad- disaster. This legislation would provide a sensitivity analysis to better under- uates out of important, but low-paying the resources and the opportunity to stand the effects of policy judgments in professions, such as social workers, address quickly that looming problem, estimating risk each year. teachers and police officers. Our Nation as well. I urge my colleagues to consider and cannot remain competitive in the glob- I urge my colleagues to support this pass this bill, with its important impli- al economy if these trends continue. bill. cations for making our Nation more se- I am happy to report that two of the I ask unanimous consent that the cure against terrorism. provisions from the Student Borrower text of the bill printed in the RECORD. Bill of Rights Act of the 109th Congress There being no objection, the text of By Mrs. CLINTON (for herself, were enacted into law through the the bill was ordered to be printed in Ms. MIKULSKI, Mr. KERRY, and Emergency Supplemental Appropria- the RECORD, as follows: Mr. LIEBERMAN): tions Act for Defense 2006. These provi- S. 512 S. 511. A bill to provide student bor- sions, a repeal of the single holder rule Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- rowers with basic rights, including the and consolidation between loan pro- resentatives of the United States of America in right to timely information about their grams, will enable borrowers to choose Congress assembled, loans and the right to make fair and lenders with acceptable income-sen- SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. reasonable loan payments, and for sitive repayment terms when consoli- This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Arthur V. other purposes; to the Committee on dating student loans. Watkins Dam Enlargement Act of 2007’’. Health, Education, Labor, and Pen- We need to make sure that student SEC. 2. FINDINGS. sions. loans do not prevent students from fol- Congress finds the following: (1) Arthur V. Watkins Dam is a feature of Mrs. CLINTON. Mr. President, I rise lowing their dreams. It is in our Na- today to introduce legislation to give the Weber Basin Project, which was author- tion’s economic interest to provide stu- ized by law on August 29, 1949. rights to student borrowers. The Stu- dent borrowers with effective rights to (2) Increasing the height of Arthur V. Wat- dent Borrower Bill of Rights Act will make repayment of student loans easi- kins Dam and construction of pertinent fa- provide student borrowers with five er. cilities may provide additional storage ca- basic rights to protect them when try- The rights found in my bill are long pacity for the development of additional ing to repay their loans. overdue. I urge my colleagues to join water supply for the Weber Basin Project for Students are borrowing now more me in supporting the Student Borrower uses of municipal and industrial water sup- ply, flood control, fish and wildlife, and than ever to pay for higher education. Bill of Rights. Need-based grant aid has stagnated SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF FEASIBILITY STUDY. while college costs have grown, result- By Mr. HATCH: The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, is au- ing in more students borrowing and at S. 512. A bill to authorize the Sec- thorized to conduct a feasibility study on higher levels. In 1993, less than one-half retary of the Interior to study the fea- raising the height of Arthur V. Watkins Dam of students graduating from 4-year col- sibility of enlaring the Arthur V. Wat- for the development of additional storage to leges and universities had student kins Dam Weber Basin Project, Utah, meet water supply needs within the Weber loans. Now two-thirds are faced with to provide additional water for the Basin Project area and the Wasatch Front. this debt. Weber Basin Project to fulfill the pur- The feasibility study shall include such envi- Unlike other debt, young people take poses for which that project was au- ronmental evaluation as required under the out student loans to invest in them- thorized; to the Committee on Energy National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and a cost allocation selves. Because these loans help to pay and Natural Resources. as required under the Reclamation Project for college, student loans can help peo- Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, not long Act of 1939 (43 U.S.C. 485 et seq.). ple earn more money over the course of ago, Utahns suffered a long and dev- their lifetimes and offer students astating drought, from which we have By Mr. LEAHY (for himself and greater choices in their careers. Stu- not fully recovered. The drought has Mr. BOND): dent borrowers must take the responsi- instilled in us the need to plan for the S. 513. A bill to amend title 10, bility of repaying their debt seriously future and ensure sound management United States Code, to revive previous so that future generations of students of our water resources. For that rea- authority on the use of the Armed can have the chance to invest in them- son, I rise to introduce an important Forces and the militia to address inter- selves. bill that will help make better use of ference with State and Federal law, However, too many borrowers in New Utah’s scarce water supply. and for other purposes; to the Com- York, and around the country, are The Arthur V. Watkins Dam Enlarge- mittee on Armed Services. overly burdened or treated unfairly as ment Act of 2007 would authorize the Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, last year, they repay their student loans. That is Bureau of Reclamation to conduct a Congress quietly made it easier for this

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In addition to the cases of in- should not object to bringing the law Authorization Bill, it has now become surrection, the Act can now be invoked back to its original form. easier to bypass longtime posse com- to restore public order after a terrorist Repeal of the recent changes to the itatus restrictions that prevent the attack, a natural disaster, a disease Insurrection Act will help ensure that Federal Government’s use of the mili- outbreak, or—and this is extremely our National Guard and larger emer- tary, including a federalized National broad—‘‘other condition.’’ Restoring gency response capabilities remain Guard, to perform domestic law en- public order has suddenly become an strong. Repeal is crucial to ensuring forcement duties. That change runs entirely new purpose for the Insurrec- that our Governors and local officials counter to our founding principles, to tion Act. And, as if to underscore this remain in control and that they are the optimal use of our superb National fundamental change, the conference consulted when anyone considers over- Guard here at home, and to whatever committee changed the name of the riding their authority. Repeal is simply sensible reforms are needed to improve Act from ‘‘Insurrection’’ to ‘‘Enforce- essential to ensuring the military is our Nation’s emergency response capa- ment of the Laws to Restore Public not used in a way that offends and en- bilities. Order.’’ dangers some of our more cherished Today Senator BOND and I are intro- This significant change was made values and liberties. ducing legislation to repeal these un- without consulting the Nation’s Gov- We enter this effort with the strong warranted and perilous changes, which ernors, mayors, sheriffs, or the Na- support of Governors and of the Na- were made to a little-known law called tional Guard Adjutants General. It was tional Guard community, including the the Insurrection Act. Our amendment made without consulting the other rel- National Governors Association, the replaces every word, comma, and pe- evant policy committees in the Senate National Guard Association, the Adju- riod from the original act and returns and the House. It was merely slipped tants General Association, and the En- it to its original form. Repealing this in, at the Administration’s request, as listed Association of the National ill-considered change in the Insurrec- rider to a bill that was hundreds of Guard. I ask unanimous consent that tion Act would allow Congress to have pages long. And when the Nation’s support letters from the National Gov- a more orderly, thoughtful, open and Governors learned of the change and ernors Association, the Adjutants Gen- consultative discussion on whether expressed their strong opposition, they eral Association, and the Enlisted As- such sensitive and massive powers were ignored, and this facilitation of sociation of the National Guard be should be changed, if at all. It is dif- presidential ability to federalize the printed at this point in the RECORD. ficult to see how any Senator could dis- National Guard—even over the objec- I ask unanimous consent that the agree with the advisability of having a tions of the Nation’s Governors—re- text of the bill be printed in the more transparent and thoughtful ap- mained in the bill that was signed into RECORD. proach to this sensitive issue. law by President Bush. Last year’s Insurrection Act rider re- The Insurrection Act is a Recon- Now this President and future Presi- flects the general lack of close over- struction-era law that provides the dents can more easily take control of sight that has taken a toll on our sys- major exemption from posse com- the National Guard and use our entire tem of government. I hope the days of itatus—the legal doctrine that bars the military apparatus for law enforcement rubberstamping are over, and I hope use of the military for law enforcement at home. In a situation like another the Senate will quickly remedy this directed at the American people here Katrina or even a more contained inci- situation by considering and passing at home. The Insurrection Act is de- dent like a terrorist incident, the the bill that we introduce today. signed to ensure that Federal laws are President will be able to bring in Fed- There being no objection, the mate- enforced and to ensure that American eral troops and take away control from rial was ordered to be printed in the citizens’ basic constitutional rights are the Governors, the Emergency Man- RECORD, as follows: respected and protected. When the In- agers, the Sheriffs, and the State Adju- surrection Act is invoked, the Presi- tants General who know their commu- NATIONAL GUARD ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES, INC., dent can—without the consent of the nities best and are responsible for re- Washington, DC, February 7, 2007. respective governors—federalize the sponding. Hon. PATRICK LEAHY, National Guard and use it, along with What we should be doing instead is U.S. Senate, Washington, DC. the entire military, to carry out law buttressing the response abilities of Hon. CHRISTOPHER BOND, enforcement duties. Treading as this these local and State officials. We U.S. Senate, Washington, DC. does across basic constitutional issues should ensure every State has a state- DEAR SENATORS LEAHY AND BOND: The Na- relating to separation of power and to of-the-art emergency operations cen- tional Guard Association of the United state and local sovereignty, this is a ter, that our first responders have the States (NGAUS) is pleased to support your best equipment and training, and that efforts to repeal those provisions of Section sweeping grant of authority to the 1076 of the John Warner National Defense President. Because the use of the mili- the National Guard has adequate Authorization Act (Public Law 109–364) en- tary for domestic law enforcement is so equipment and available people at acted in the 109th Congress. sensitive an issue, the Act has been in- home to provide support. Any Federal We believe those provisions removed the voked only sparingly since it was en- assets—military or otherwise—that governors of the several states from their acted. might come into a State should be in a constitutional role as the commanders in The primary reason that the law has supporting and not commanding role. chief of their respective states’ National been invoked so rarely is that there The local officials who know their Guard forces in responding to domestic has been an inherent tension in the communities are in the best positions emergencies, in both an unnecessary and un- warranted manner. way it was crafted. Before it was to control the situation, not the Presi- We further believe that the exploitation of changed last year, the law was purpose- dent or the military. the language of the Insurrection Act as a fully ambiguous about when the Presi- Some have argued that the changes surreptitious method to gain special presi- dent could invoke the Act in cases be- made were only a clarification of exist- dential authority where clearly the Congress yond a clear insurrection or when a ing law or that the Insurrection Act al- has never intended the federal executive to state clearly violated Federal law in ready gave the power to the President hold sway is ‘‘creative’’ but ‘‘poor’’ public its actions. Because there was this use- to use the military for law enforcement policy. Please spare no effort to reverse this ful ambiguity—a constructive friction in an emergency. I strongly disagree dangerous precedent. in the law—a President until now with that explanation, and so do the Thank you for your reasoned and forth- Governors, Adjutants General, and a right protection of the prerogatives of the would have to use the power with great governors and the National Guard. caution, and with the impetus for ap- host of other officials. They see it, as Sincerely, propriate consultation. Senator BOND and I see it, as a tangible STEPHEN M. KOPER, Yet by the time committee work was and troubling expansion of the Presi- Brigadier General (Ret), completed in the House and the Senate dent’s powers and a parallel reduction President.

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NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION, legislation that repeals all language con- and Washington is too far removed from the Washington, DC, February 5, 2007. tained in the John Warner National Defense challenges in each state. We look forward to Hon.PATRICK J. LEAHY, Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 that working with your staff as this legislation U.S. Senate, Washington, DC. significantly altered existing law known as works its way into law. Hon. CHRISTOPHER ‘‘KIT’’ BOND, the Insurrection Act. Working for America’s Best! U.S. Senate, Washington, DC. The language in the NDAA seriously upset MSG MICHAEL P. CLINE, USA (Ret), DEAR SENATOR LEAHY AND SENATOR BOND: the delicate balance between Governors and Executive Director. Section 1076 of the John Warner National De- the President in determining the authority fense Authorization Act (Public Law 109–364) under which the National Guard will be used unnecessarily expanded the President’s au- to respond to domestic conditions endan- S. 513 thority to federalize the National Guard dur- gering citizens. The language significantly Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- ing certain emergencies and disasters. The broadens the President ability to declare resentatives of the United States of America in nation’s governors opposed the inclusion of martial law and mobilize the National Guard Congress assembled, this section in the bill because responsibility under national command without consulting for responding to disasters and other local with the Governors. It may in fact cause fac- SECTION 1. REVIVAL OF PREVIOUS AUTHORITY emergencies to assure the security and tions to pressure the President into ill ad- ON USE OF ARMED FORCES AND MI- wellbeing of our residents along; with man- vised actions because the constructive ambi- LITIA TO ADDRESS INTERFERENCE WITH STATE OR FEDERAL LAW. aging the Guard within a state must rest guity of the original language which encour- with the governor. The changes made in Sec- ages consultation with Governors no longer (a) REPEAL OF AMENDMENTS MADE BY PUB- tion 1076 of the National Defense Authoriza- exists. For the National Guard this can mean LIC LAW 109–364.—Section 1076 of the John tion Act undermine governors’ authority being federalized prematurely thereby losing Warner National Defense Authorization Act over the Guard, place the safety and welfare important capabilities available under State for Fiscal Year 2007 (Public Law 109–364), and of citizens in jeopardy and should be re- Active Duty and Title 32. the amendments made by that section, are pealed. The National Guard has proven capable of repealed. Unless activated in purely federal service, operating flexibly and responsively when re- (b) REVIVAL OF PREVIOUS AUTHORITY.—The the National Guard is and should remain tained under governor control. This is well provisions of chapter 15 of title 10, United under state control with governors as com- documented from the airport security mis- States Code, that were amended by section manders-in-chief. The dual mission of the sion in the aftermath of 9/11 to sending 6,000 1076 of the John Warner National Defense Guard, a combat ready force that can be National Guard Soldiers and Airmen to the Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007, as called on by the President and a first re- southwest border in 2006 (with over 50,000 cit- such provisions were in effect on the day be- sponder in domestic emergencies or disasters izen-soldiers rapidly deployed under EMAC fore the date of the enactment of the John under the command and control of the gov- and Title 32 to support Hurricane Katrina re- Warner National Defense Authorization Act ernor, requires that federal law clearly delin- covery sandwiched in between). The lan- for Fiscal Year 2007, are hereby revived. eate chains of command for each mission. guage in NDAA 2207 would likely discourage (c) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.— The changes made to the ‘‘Insurrection Act’’ using the National Guard in these innova- by Section 1076 of the National Defense Au- (1) HEADING AMENDMENT.—The heading of tive, responsive, and cost effective ways. chapter of 15 of title 10, United States Code, thorization Act are likely to confuse the NDAA 2007 enabled something completely is amended to read as follows: issue of who commands the Guard during a unnecessary without committee or floor de- domestic emergency. By granting the Presi- bate in either legislative chamber and with ‘‘CHAPTER 15—INSURRECTION’’. dent specific authority to usurp the Guard explicit opposition from the Governors. Your (2) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.—(A) The tables during a natural disaster or emergency with- bill restores the Insurrection Act to a proper of chapters at the beginning of subtitle A of out the consent of a governor, Section 1076 balance. Expect willing and energetic sup- title 10, United States Code, and at the be- could result in confusion and an inability to port from the AGAUS. ginning of part I of such subtitle, are each respond to residents’ needs because it calls Sincerely, amended by striking the item relating to into question whether the governor or the ROGER P. LEMPKE, chapter 15 and inserting the following new President has primary responsibility during Major General item: a domestic emergency. President. The Insurrection Act, prior to passage of ‘‘15. Insurrection ...... 331’’. (B) The table of sections at the beginning the National Defense Authorization Act EANGUS, of chapter 15 of such title is amended by served the nation well as an extraordinary Alexandria, VA, February 6, 2007. striking the item relating to section 333 and remedy that allowed the President to take Hon. PATRICK LEAHY, inserting the following new item: control of the Guard in the most rare and ex- U.S. Senate Washington, DC. ceptional of cases. Despite the role of gov- Hon. CHRISTOPHER BOND, ‘‘333. Interference with State and Federal ernors as commander-in-chief of the Guard U.S. Senate Washington, DC. law.’’. in their states, Section 1076 of the National The Enlisted Association of the National Defense Authorization Act was drafted with- Guard of the United States (EANGUS) is the By Mr. GRASSLEY (for himself, out consultation with governors and without only military service association that rep- Mr. OBAMA, Mr. BIDEN, and Mr. full discussion or debate regarding the rami- resents the interests of every enlisted soldier fications of such a change on domestic emer- and airmen in the Army and Air National KENNEDY): gency response. We urge Congress to repeal Guard. With a constituency base of over S. 515. A bill to provide a mechanism the provision in Section 1076 of the Act and 414,000 soldiers and airmen, their families, for the determination on the merits of open a dialogue with governors regarding and a large retiree membership, EANGUS en- the claims of claimants who met the how to best enhance the effectiveness of the gages Capitol Hill on behalf of courageous class criteria in a civil action relating Guard in responding to domestic disasters Guard persons across this nation. and emergencies. On behalf of EANGUS, and the soldiers and to racial discrimination by the Depart- Sincerely, airmen it represents, I’d like to commu- ment of Agriculture but who were de- GOVERNOR MICHAEL F. nicate our support for legislation to repeal nied that determination; to the Com- EASLEY, the changes to the Insurrection Act as mittee on the Judiciary. Co-Lead on the Na- passed in Public Law 109–364, Section 1076, Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I am tional Guard. and to restore the authority of the Gov- introducing the Pigford Claims Rem- GOVERNOR MARK SANFORD, ernors as our founding fathers designed over Co-Lead on the Na- 230 years ago. edy Act of 2007. This bill establishes a tional Guard. Public Law 109–364 stripped the nation’s new cause of action for those African- Governors of their rightful authority to use American farmers who filed late claim ADJUTANTS GENERAL ASSOCIATION OF the militia of the United States (to wit, the petitions as required by the Pigford v. THE UNITED STATES, National Guard) in times of natural disasters Glickman Consent Decree, but whose Washington, DC. 2001, February 7, 2007. and major public emergencies. Congress petitions were rejected. Hon. PATRICK LEAHY, made this move without any consultation U.S. Senate, Washington, DC. with those Governors, duly elected by the These rejections have effectively Hon. KIT BOND, people of this great nation. It was an obvious barred African-American farmers from U.S. Senate, Washington, DC. knee-jerk reaction to the events surrounding the one process that was established to The Adjutants General Association of the Hurricane Katrina in 2005, yet without merit. bring closure to the claims of discrimi- United States (AGAUS) represents the 54 Ad- We applaud you for taking legislative steps nation by African-American farmers, jutants General of the fifty states, three ter- to repeal this law, and to restore to the Gov- many of which have been pending for ritories, and District of Columbia who are re- ernors their rightful authority over the mili- decades. sponsible for training and readiness of Army tia when not in Federal service. The people and Air National Guard units under their ju- of America have a unspoken need for the Na- My bill attempts to remedy what ap- risdiction. We are united in support of your tional Guard in times of public emergencies, pears to be a lack of sufficient notice,

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This is real money— cause of action that will assist those tory and perspective on this: In 2003 I make or break money—to many of putative claimants whose claims have approached the distinguished chairman these families that are already under never been evaluated on the merits. of the Senate Finance Committee, Sen- enormous stress. Studies conducted by the USDA re- ator CHUCK GRASSLEY, and ranking I want to work in bipartisan fashion vealed the depth and impact of this dis- member of the committee, Senator and permanently extend this tax provi- parate treatment. In 1994, the Depart- MAX BAUCUS, and asked them to join sion. This bill corrects the problem and ment of Agriculture commissioned a me in an effort to get a fresh look at lets our troops, risking life and limb, study to analyze the treatment of mi- the overall picture of how our Tax Code know that while they are away fight- norities and women in farm programs treats our military. ing for us we will be here in the Senate and payments. I was very pleased when they agreed fighting for them and their families. In 1997, Secretary Glickman commis- to work with me, and was delighted to sioned the Civil Rights Action Task jointly request an expedited study by By Mr. MCCAIN (for himself, Mr. Force to look into allegations of racial the General Accounting Office, GAO. It SCHUMER, and Mr. KYL): discrimination in the agency’s loan was an honor to work with them and S. 519. A bill to modernize and expand program. In conjunction with this the their staffs throughout this process. the reporting requirements relating to Inspector General conducted its own The GAO raised many interesting child pornography, to expand coopera- investigation into the allegations of findings but there was one especially tion in combating child pornography, disparate treatment. important issue that demanded our im- and for other purposes; to the Com- Each report confirmed what African- mediate attention. In a nutshell serv- mittee on the Judiciary. American farmers already experienced ice men and women who were serving Mr. MCCAIN. Mr. President, I am first hand. USDA failed to act to ade- in combat zones and receiving non- pleased to be joined today by Senator quately address these past wrongs. It taxable combat pay were not able to SCHUMER in introducing the Securing took a class action lawsuit filed by Af- also take advantage of the Earned In- Adolescents From Exploitation-Online rican-American farmers in 1997 to get come Tax Credit, EITC, and the Child Act of 2007, otherwise known as the USDA to respond. Care Tax Credit. SAFE Act. This bill would clarify and The resulting Pigford v. Glickman The result was that thousands of our strengthen the requirement that has Consent Decree was believed to be a men and women serving in combat— been a Federal law for almost a decade turning point in this unfortunate his- serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, and for electronic communications pro- tory. Hopes were high that African- around the globe—were seeing a reduc- viders to report images of child pornog- American farmers would finally be tion or elimination of their EITC or raphy to the National Center for Miss- compensated for the history of injus- child credit and in effect losing money. ing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) tice. The consent decree was intended In other words, the Tax Code had the and then law enforcement. Simply put, to provide a swift resolution for the impact of penalizing them because this bill is designed reduce the sexual claims of discrimination that had gone they are serving in combat zones. exploitation of our children, and pun- unaddressed for decades. The GAO report characterized this ish those who cause them physical and Yet, in a sad twist, the process that result as an ‘‘unintended consequence.’’ emotional harm through sexual exploi- was created to provide a forum for I saw it as just plain wrong and I am tation. those whose claims had been shut out, pleased to introduce legislation to fix This bill would state specifically has itself shut out more than 75,000 Af- this glitch. what information must be reported by rican American farmers who wish to In 2004, we passed the Tax Relief for electronic communications providers have their claims of discrimination Americans in Combat Act. The bill al- to NCMEC; impose higher penalties on heard. lowed men and women in uniform serv- companies that do not report child por- Hearings before the House Sub- ing in combat to include combat pay nography; and require the Department committee on the Constitution re- for the purpose of calculating their of Justice to report on the number of vealed that almost 76,000 farmers who earned income and child tax credit ben- investigation and convictions of sex of- submitted late claim petitions were de- efits. In other words, they would be fenders and purveyors of child pornog- nied entry because they could not show able to continue receiving their right- raphy. In addition, the bill would make that extraordinary circumstances pre- ful combat pay exclusions while having the use of the Internet for the exploi- vented them from filing a timely com- the ability to take full advantage of tation of a child an aggravating factor plaint. other tax credits. to the underlying offense that would Despite the lack of knowledge about However, this legislation only made add 10 years imprisonment to a con- the consent decree, which was cited by permanent the child tax credit benefit, victed offender’s sentence. more than half of these petitioners, while the earned income tax credit pro- Almost 20 years ago, President lack of notice was not deemed an ex- vision must be continuously extended. Reagan inaugurated the opening of the traordinary circumstance under the As of December 2006, the earned in- National Center for Missing and Ex- consent decree. So these petitioners come provision was extended for an- ploited Children, and called on the Cen- are left without any recourse to have other year, but I believe we must work ter to ‘‘wake up America and attack their claims of discrimination heard on to permanently resolve this glitch and the crisis of child victimization.’’ the merits. These people should be al- ensure our men and women in combat Today, thanks to the efforts of NCMEC lowed to have their case heard. are fairly treated. and many others in the public and pri- I urge my colleagues to support this I would like to take the opportunity vate sectors, America is more con- important legislation. to thank cosponsors Senator JOHN scious of the dangers of child exploi- WARNER and Senator BLANCHE LINCOLN tation. Unfortunately, our children By Mr. PRYOR (for himself, Mr. for their leadership and assistance to still face significant threats from those WARNER, and Mrs. LINCOLN): help gamer support for this bill. who see their innocence as an oppor- S. 516. A bill to amend the Internal The urgency of this situation is high- tunity to do harm. The continuing vic- Revenue Code of 1986 to make perma- lighted especially when you focus on timization of our children is readily nent the option of including combat those of our troops which this really and all too painfully apparent in the pay when computing earned income; to affects. We’re talking about troops resurgence of child pornography in our the Committee on Finance. that tend to be in combat for more world via the Internet. Mr. PRYOR. Mr. President, I rise than 6 months, those in lower pay Technology has contributed to the today to urge my colleagues to make grades, those who are married with greater distribution and availability,

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:21 Mar 13, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00060 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2007SENATE\S07FE7.REC S07FE7 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY February 7, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1715 and, some believe, desire for child por- identify a law enforcement jurisdic- tion of the 21st century; however, it nography. Cyberspace is host to more tion. So potentially valuable investiga- has also allowed these children to be than one million images of tens of tive leads are left to sit in the victimized again and again as these im- thousands of children subjected to sex- CyberTipline database with no action ages are widely distributed via the ual abuse and exploitation, according taken.’’ This is unacceptable. Internet. The fight to protect our chil- to a report by the Texas State legisla- This bill would address the problem dren from exploitation has moved from ture. The same report estimated that by requiring that reporting companies the playground to the Internet, and we the over 14 million pornography sites convey a defined set of information to must update our laws to reflect this re- on the Internet house an estimated one the Center, which is in large part the ality. million pornographic images of chil- information that is provided to NCMEC To address the international nature dren with 200 new images being posted today by the nation’s leading Internet of child pornography, the bill would daily. service providers. Among other things, permit NCMEC to share reports with According to ECPAT International, a the bill would require electronic com- foreign law enforcement agencies, sub- group dedicated to eliminating the sex- munications providers to report spe- ject to approval by the Department of ual exploitation of children, the pro- cific information about any individual Justice. In addition, the legislation duction and distribution of abuse im- involved in producing, distributing, or would state the sense of Congress that ages of children is estimated to be at receiving child pornography. In addi- the executive branch should make least a 3 billion dollar business annu- tion, it would require reporting compa- child pornography a priority when en- ally in the U.S. alone. Of all the child nies to provide NCMEC with the geo- gaging in negotiations or talks with pornography images on the Internet, 55 graphic location of the involved indi- foreign countries. percent are generated from the United vidual such as the individual’s physical The bill would authorize $25 million States, according to the same group, address and the IP address from which for our Nation’s Internet Crimes but these images are also produced the individual connected to the Inter- Against Children Task Forces, which is around the world. net. identical to the amount requested by Just today, the Associated Press re- To ensure that law enforcement offi- the Administration in its FY 2008 budg- ported that Austrian authorities un- cials have better odds of prosecuting et. NCMEC, the National Sheriffs Asso- covered a major international child involved individuals, the bill would ciation, and others believe that such pornography ring involving more than also require online service providers to funding would significantly improve 2,360 suspects from 77 countries, includ- preserve all data that they report to the efforts of local, State and Federal ing over 600 in the United States, who NCMEC for at least 180 days. The bill law enforcement officials dedicated to paid to view videos of young children would help to ensure greater compli- identifying and prosecuting those who being sexually abused. According to au- ance with the child pornography re- use the Internet to prey upon our Na- thorities, the children shown in the porting requirements under Federal tion’s children. videos were under the age of 14 and law by increasing the penalties three- Lastly, in order to aid law enforce- could be heard screaming in fear. fold for knowing failure to report child ment, the bill would reiterate the posi- This investigation would not have pornography to NCMEC. It would also tion of the Administration that all sup- happened without the good work of an move the reporting requirement from pliers of web site domain names should employee of a Vienna-based Internet title 42, which relates to the public’s investigate and correct inaccurate data file hosting service who noticed the health and welfare, to title 18, our Fed- regarding registered domain names so pornographic material during a routine eral criminal code. This is to under- that law enforcement can more easily check and then approached authorities. score that a breach of the reporting ob- locate the hosts of such vile pictures of The employee blocked access to the ligations constitutes a violation of children. To aid Congress in under- videos while recording the I.P. address- criminal law. In addition, the legisla- standing the need for more resources or legislation to combat the proliferation es of people who continued to try to tion would eliminate the legal liability and distribution of child pornography, download the material, and gave the of online service providers for actions the bill would require the Department details to authorities. Within a 24-hour taken to comply with the child pornog- of Justice to report on the number of period, investigators recorded more raphy reporting requirements. investigations, prosecutions and con- than 8,000 hits from 2,361 computer I.P. The goal of this legislation, is to en- victions of crimes involving the sexual addresses in 77 countries ranging from sure more thorough reporting of child exploitation of children. Algeria to South Africa. pornography to NCMEC. I expect that This is the second bill Senator SCHU- The Federal Government already has more and better information provided MER and I have introduced this session a system in place for electronic com- to the Center will lead to a greater to protect our nation’s children. Last munications providers to report these number of prosecutions and enhanced month, we introduced the Keeping the images to NCMEC. The Center is di- protection of our children. However, let Internet Devoid of Sexual-Predators rected by law to relay that information me stress that this bill does not require Act of 2007, known as the KIDS Act, to local, State and Federal law enforce- surveillance by electronic communica- which would establish a database of e- ment agencies. This reporting system tions providers or require that they mail addresses and other Internet iden- has been useful, but it is in need of sev- monitor the content of any commu- tifying information of convicted sex of- eral vital improvements. nication. The legislation also does not fenders. The database information Today, Federal law requires elec- require electronic communications would then be available to commercial tronic communication service pro- providers to affirmatively seek out social networking sites for the purpose viders to report child pornography they child pornography. Rather, it requires of screening their sites’ to ensure con- discover to NCMEC through the online service providers to report child victed sex offender are not using the CyberTipline, but the current reporting pornography when they become aware site to prey on children. system does not specify exactly what of it, either through a report from a Protecting our children is a top pri- information should be reported. This subscriber or user, or through a dis- ority for all members of Congress. I failure to set forth specific reporting covery of the material by an employee. look forward to working with my col- requirements makes the current stat- As a result, the reporting requirement leagues to eradicate the victimization ute both difficult to comply with and would protect children while not im- and exploitation of our children, the tough to enforce. This omission may posing a financial or administrative most innocent members of society, by have led to less effective prosecution of burden on online service providers. enacting the KIDS Act and the SAFE child pornographers. During a Senate To emphasize the heinous nature of Act. Commerce Committee hearing I these crimes, this bill would make the chaired last September, NCMEC testi- use of the Internet in the commission By Mrs. MURRAY (for herself and fied that, ‘‘because there are no guide- of a crime of child exploitation an ag- Ms. CANTWELL): lines for the contents of these reports, gravating factor that would add 10 S. 520. A bill to enhance ecosystem some [companies] do not send customer years to the offender’s sentence. The protection and the range of outdoor op- information that allows NCMEC to Internet is likely the greatest inven- portunities protected by statute in the

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:21 Mar 13, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00061 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2007SENATE\S07FE7.REC S07FE7 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S1716 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 7, 2007 Skykomish River valley of the State of In addition, our bill ensures that the There being no objection, the text of Washington by designating certain public will have access to these re- the bill was ordered to be printed in lower-elevation Federal lands as wil- markable, protected places. It’s esti- the RECORD, as follows: derness, and for other purposes; to the mated that 2.4 million people live near- S. 520 Committee on Energy and Natural Re- by in King, Snohomish and Skagit Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- sources. counties. Our bill will ensure they have resentatives of the United States of America in Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President, I rise new recreational opportunities in the Congress assembled, today to reintroduce the Wild Sky Wil- Wild Sky Wilderness. In this hectic, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. derness Act, a bill to protect some of fast-paced time, more and more people This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Wild Sky Washington’s most unique and remark- and their families are turning to out- Wilderness Act of 2007’’. able public lands for families today and door recreation on our public lands. SEC. 2. ADDITIONS TO THE NATIONAL WILDER- for future generations. This bill will provide new opportunities NESS PRESERVATION SYSTEM. For more than six years, citizens, for the public to use this land by di- (a) ADDITIONS.—The following Federal community leaders, groups and organi- recting the U.S. Forest Service to de- lands in the State of Washington are hereby zations have worked together with designated as wilderness and, therefore, as velop a series of hiking and equestrian components of the National Wilderness Pres- Representative Rick Larsen and me to trails. make this proposal a reality. I am ervation System: certain lands which com- In addition to the environmental pro- prise approximately 106,000 acres, as gen- proud to offer our bill here in the Sen- tections and recreational opportuni- erally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Wild Sky ate on their behalf. This is the fourth ties, the Wild Sky Wilderness Area will Wilderness Proposal’’ and dated February 6, time I’ve introduced this bill, and I’m be good for the local economy. Every 2007, which shall be known as the ‘‘Wild Sky really excited about finally moving climber, hiker, hunter and angler set- Wilderness’’. this bill across the finish line this year. ting out for the Wild Sky Wilderness (b) MAPS AND LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS.—As The Wild Sky Wilderness Act reflects will be stopping at hotels, camp- soon as practicable after the date of enact- the best values of my home State of ment of this Act, the Secretary of Agri- grounds, restaurants, and stores in the culture shall file a map and a legal descrip- Washington—environmental protec- gateway communities of Index, tion, stewardship of our land, and com- tion for the wilderness area designated under Skykomish, Monroe, Miller River, this Act with the Committee on Energy and munity partnership. It also respects Startup, Grotto, Baring, Sultan, and Natural Resources of the Senate and the the economic and recreational inter- Gold Bar. Committee on Resources of the House of ests of the people of Snohomish Coun- Over the years, so many people have Representatives. The map and description ty. Our bill will protect an important worked hard to make this bill possible. shall have the same force and effect as if in- area while keeping it accessible for I can’t name all of them, but I do want cluded in this Act, except that the Secretary recreation and enjoyment today and to recognize one great leader who is of Agriculture may correct clerical and typo- for generations to come. not with us to see the progress she graphical errors in the legal description and For many years, I’ve been concerned map. The map and legal description shall be helped make possible, Karen Fant. on file and available for public inspection in by the rapid growth taking place in Anyone involved in wilderness protec- Western Washington. It’s no surprise the office of the Chief of the Forest Service, tion knows the legacy that Karen has Department of Agriculture. that more people want to live and work left us through her years of advocacy SEC. 3. ADMINISTRATION PROVISIONS. in the region, but we need to make sure for our state’s natural places. Early on, (a) IN GENERAL.— that development does not destroy the Karen recognized the need to bring to- (1) Subject to valid existing rights, lands natural beauty that is such an impor- gether and involve local people in ef- designated as wilderness by this Act shall be tant part of our State’s identity and forts to protect wilderness. She co- managed by the Secretary of Agriculture in our quality of life. We also need to en- founded and directed the Washington accordance with the Wilderness Act (16 sure that growth and development do U.S.C. 1131 et seq.) and this Act, except that, Wilderness Coalition, and she was in- with respect to any wilderness areas des- not destroy native species of plants and strumental in forming a statewide animals that have flourished here for ignated by this Act, any reference in the Wil- community of wilderness advocates. derness Act to the effective date of the Wil- centuries. To those who knew her—and espe- So several years ago, I began to con- derness Act shall be deemed to be a reference cially those lucky enough to sample to the date of enactment of this Act. sider new wilderness legislation. I her famous cookies—Karen provided (2) To fulfill the purposes of this Act and learned that we haven’t added any new never-ending inspiration and enthu- the Wilderness Act and to achieve adminis- wilderness areas in Washington state siasm to continue working to protect trative efficiencies, the Secretary of Agri- since 1984. I knew that if we were going wilderness and wild lands in the Pacific culture may manage the area designated by to protect public land, I wanted to do it this Act as a comprehensive part of the larg- Northwest and beyond. er complex of adjacent and nearby wilderness in an inclusive way by seeking input I cannot summarize Karen’s amazing from local communities and stake- areas. four decades of service, but I think holders and working with them to de- (b) NEW TRAILS.— some of her many friends said it best velop a sound proposal. I am proud to (1) The Secretary of Agriculture shall con- when they wrote: sult with interested parties and shall estab- say that the fruits of our labor are now ‘‘There are thousands of miles of trails and lish a trail plan for Forest Service lands in before the United States Senate. My millions of acres of wilderness that are pro- order to develop— partner in the House of Representa- tected due to her work and the work of oth- (A) a system of hiking and equestrian tives, Congressman Larsen, and I ers she organized to make a difference. As we trails within the wilderness designated by worked alongside all of the local stake- walk these trails and gain renewal from this Act in a manner consistent with the holders every step of the way to select these lands, we should all remember the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.); and these particular areas in the Mt. work we shared and the fun and camaraderie (B) a system of trails adjacent to or to pro- Baker-Snoqualmie Forest. we all experienced with Karen.’’ vide access to the wilderness designated by The Wild Sky Wilderness will protect With Karen’s passing, we’ve lost a this Act. wildlife and promote clean water by (2) Within two years after the date of en- pioneer in the fight to protect our wild actment of this Act, the Secretary of Agri- preserving the landscapes that host spaces, but thankfully she’s left a clear culture shall complete a report on the imple- many native plants and animals. We trail and a generation of inspired, em- mentation of the trail plan required under can still find many of the species that powered advocates to continue her this Act. This report shall include the identi- have historically called this area work. fication of priority trails for development. home, but their populations are much I urge my colleagues to help my (c) REPEATER SITE.—Within the Wild Sky smaller today. If these animals are State take a great step forward in pro- Wilderness, the Secretary of Agriculture is going to be here centuries from now, tecting our environment, improving authorized to use helicopter access to con- we must protect their habitats. This recreation and supporting economic de- struct and maintain a joint Forest Service and Snohomish County telecommunications wilderness designation is especially velopment by supporting the Wild Sky repeater site, in compliance with a Forest critical for threatened species of salm- Wilderness Act. Service approved communications site plan, on, steelhead and trout, and it will pro- I ask unanimous consent that the for the purposes of improving communica- tect the upper reaches of water to en- text of this bill be printed in the tions for safety, health, and emergency serv- sure prime habitat and clean water. RECORD. ices.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:21 Mar 13, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00062 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2007SENATE\S07FE7.REC S07FE7 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY February 7, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1717 (d) FLOAT PLANE ACCESS.—As provided by SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS SENATE RESOLUTION 75—CON- section 4(d)(1) of the Wilderness Act (16 GRATULATING THE INDIANAP- U.S.C. 1133(d)(1)), the use of floatplanes on OLIS COLTS ON THEIR VICTORY Lake Isabel, where such use has already be- IN SUPER BOWL XLI come established, shall be permitted to con- SENATE RESOLUTION 74—DESIG- Mr. LUGAR (for himself and Mr. tinue subject to such reasonable restrictions NATING EACH OF FEBRUARY 7, BAYH) submitted the following resolu- as the Secretary of Agriculture determines 2007, AND FEBRUARY 6, 2008, AS to be desirable. tion; which was considered and agreed ‘‘NATIONAL WOMEN AND GIRLS to: (e) EVERGREEN MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT.—The IN SPORTS DAY’’ S. RES. 75 designation under this Act shall not preclude the operation and maintenance of the exist- Ms. SNOWE (for herself and Mrs. Whereas, on Sunday, February 4, 2007, the Indianapolis Colts defeated the Chicago ing Evergreen Mountain Lookout in the MURRAY) submitted the following reso- Bears by a score of 29–17 to win Super Bowl same manner and degree in which the oper- lution; which was referred to the Com- XLI; ation and maintenance of such lookout was mittee on the Judiciary: Whereas Colts owner and chief executive occurring as of the date of enactment of this officer Jim Irsay and the Irsay family have Act. S. RES. 74 worked to build the Colts organization not Whereas women’s athletics are one of the only into a championship caliber team, but SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION FOR LAND ACQUISITION. most effective avenues available for women also a group dedicated to service in commu- (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Agri- of the United States to develop self-dis- nities across the State of Indiana; culture is authorized to acquire lands and in- cipline, initiative, confidence, and leadership Whereas Tony Dungy is the first head terests therein, by purchase, donation, or ex- skills; coach of African-American descent to lead a change, and shall give priority consideration Whereas sports and fitness activities con- team to victory in the Super Bowl; to those lands identified as ‘‘Priority Acqui- tribute to emotional and physical well-being; Whereas Peyton Manning, having thrown Whereas women need strong bodies as well for 247 yards and made 1 touchdown, was sition Lands’’ on the map described in sec- as strong minds; named the game’s Most Valuable Player; tion 2(a). The boundaries of the Mt. Baker- Whereas the history of women in sports is Whereas the Colts’ defense and special Snoqualmie National Forest and the Wild rich and long, but there has been little na- teams were able to force 5 turnovers and to Sky Wilderness shall be adjusted to encom- tional recognition of the significance of limit the Bears to 17 points; pass any lands acquired pursuant to this sec- women’s athletic achievements; Whereas Colts president Bill Polian, widely tion. Whereas the number of women in leader- considered the ‘‘architect’’ of much of the Colts’ recent success, and the Colts manage- (b) ACCESS.—Consistent with section 5(a) of ship positions as coaches, officials, and ad- ment have assembled a group of players and the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1134(a)), the ministrators has declined drastically since the passage of title IX of the Education coaches that has worked together to win 4 Secretary of Agriculture shall ensure ade- straight championships in the Southern Di- quate access to private inholdings within the Amendments of 1972 (Public Law 92-318; 86 Stat. 373); vision of the American Football Conference; Wild Sky Wilderness. Whereas there is a need to restore women Whereas the Colts’ regular season record of (c) APPRAISAL.—Valuation of private lands to leadership positions in athletics to ensure 12–4 marks the team’s fourth straight year shall be determined without reference to any a fair representation of the abilities of with at least 12 wins, and makes the Colts restrictions on access or use which arise out women and to provide role models for young only the second team to achieve such con- sistent success in the history of the National of designation as a wilderness area as a re- female athletes; Football League; Whereas the bonds built between women sult of this Act. Whereas the Colts are committed to com- through athletics help to break down the so- munity leadership, working to help those in SEC. 5. LAND EXCHANGES. cial barriers of racism and prejudice; Indiana communities who are disadvantaged Whereas the communication and coopera- The Secretary of Agriculture shall ex- and underserved, through the generosity of tion skills learned through athletic experi- change lands and interests in lands, as gen- the Irsay family and player groups such as ence play a key role in the contributions of erally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Chelan the Peyback Foundation and D.R.E.A.M. an athlete at home, at work, and to society; County Public Utility District Exchange’’ Alive, Inc.; Whereas women’s athletics has produced and dated May 22, 2002, with the Chelan Whereas tens of thousands of fans braved such winners as Flo Hyman, whose spirit, bitterly cold temperatures to line the streets County Public Utility District in accordance talent, and accomplishments distinguished of Indianapolis, Indiana for a victory parade with the following provisions: her above others and who exhibited the true (1) If the Chelan County Public Utility Dis- and the rally that followed in the RCA meaning of fairness, determination, and Dome; and trict, within ninety days after the date of en- team play; actment of this Act, offers to the Secretary Whereas Hoosiers from across Indiana and Whereas parents feel that sports are equal- the Nation have rallied together to cheer the of Agriculture approximately 371.8 acres ly important for boys and girls and that within the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Colts not just for winning, but for winning sports and fitness activities provide impor- the right way, with dignity and profes- Forest in the State of Washington, the Sec- tant benefits to girls who participate; retary shall accept such lands. sionalism: Now, therefore, be it Whereas early motor-skill training and en- Resolved, That the Senate congratulates (2) Upon acceptance of title by the Sec- joyable experiences of physical activity retary of Agriculture to such lands and in- the Indianapolis Colts on their victory in strongly influence life-long habits of phys- Super Bowl XLI. terests therein, the Secretary of Agriculture ical fitness; shall convey to the Chelan County Public Whereas the performances of female ath- f Utility District a permanent easement, in- letes in the Olympic Games are a source of cluding helicopter access, consistent with inspiration and pride to the people of the AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED AND such levels as used as of date of enactment, United States; PROPOSED to maintain an existing telemetry site to Whereas the athletic opportunities for monitor snow pack on 1.82 acres on the male students at the collegiate and high SA 233. Mr. SMITH (for himself, Mr. STE- Wenatchee National Forest in the State of school levels remain significantly greater VENS, and Mr. CRAPO) submitted an amend- Washington. than those for female students; and ment intended to be proposed by him to the (3) The exchange directed by this Act shall Whereas the number of funded research joint resolution H.J. Res. 20, making further be consummated if Chelan County Public continuing appropriations for the fiscal year projects focusing on the specific needs of Utility District conveys title acceptable to 2007, and for other purposes; which was or- women athletes is limited and the informa- the Secretary and provided there is no haz- dered to lie on the table. tion provided by these projects is imperative ardous material on the site, which is objec- SA 234. Mr. COBURN submitted an amend- to the health and performance of future tionable to the Secretary. ment intended to be proposed by him to the women athletes: Now, therefore, be it (4) In the event Chelan County Public Util- joint resolution H.J. Res. 20, supra; which ity District determines there is no longer a Resolved, That the Senate— was ordered to lie on the table. need to maintain a telemetry site to monitor (1) designates each of February 7, 2007, and SA 235. Mr. COBURN submitted an amend- the snow pack for calculating expected run- February 6, 2008, as ‘‘National Women and ment intended to be proposed by him to the off into the Lake Chelan hydroelectric Girls in Sports Day’’; and joint resolution H.J. Res. 20, supra; which project and the hydroelectric projects in the (2) encourages local and State jurisdic- was ordered to lie on the table. Columbia River Basin, the Secretary shall be tions, appropriate Federal agencies, and the SA 236. Mr. COBURN submitted an amend- notified in writing and the easement shall be people of the United States to observe ‘‘Na- ment intended to be proposed by him to the extinguished and all rights conveyed by this tional Women and Girls in Sports Day’’ with joint resolution H.J. Res. 20, supra; which exchange shall revert to the United States. appropriate ceremonies and activities. was ordered to lie on the table.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 21:21 Mar 13, 2014 Jkt 081600 PO 00000 Frm 00063 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\2007SENATE\S07FE7.REC S07FE7 mmaher on DSKCGSP4G1 with SOCIALSECURITY S1718 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 7, 2007 TEXT OF AMENDMENTS propriations Resolution, 2007 (Public Law mittee on Energy and Natural Re- 109–289, division B) is amended by striking SA 233. Mr. SMITH (for himself, Mr. sources be authorized to hold a hearing the date specified in section 106(3) and insert- during the session of the Senate on STEVENS, and Mr. CRAPO) submitted an ing ‘March 1, 2007’.’’. amendment intended to be proposed by Wednesday, February 7, 2007, at 9:30 him to the joint resolution H.J. Res. 20, f a.m. in room SD–366 of the Dirksen making further continuing appropria- AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO Senate Office Building. The purpose of tions for the fiscal year 2007, and for MEET the hearing is to consider the Presi- other purposes; which was ordered to dent’s Proposed budget for FY 2008 for COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, NUTRITION, AND the Department of Energy. lie on the table; as follows: FORESTRY On page 25, between lines 13 and 14, insert Mr. TESTER. Mr. President, I ask The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the following: unanimous consent that the Com- objection, it is so ordered. ‘‘SEC. 20125. (a) In addition to amounts oth- mittee on Agriculture, Nutrition and erwise appropriated or made available in this COMMITTEE ON FINANCE Forestry be authorized to conduct a division, $400,000,000 is appropriated to make Mr. TESTER. Mr. President, I ask full committee hearing during the ses- safety net payments for fiscal year 2007 unanimous consent that the Com- sion of the Senate on Wednesday Feb- under section 101 of the Secure Rural mittee on Finance be authorized to ruary 7, 2007, at 9:15 am in SD–106, Schools and Community Self-Determination meet during the session on Wednesday, Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 500 note; Public Law Dirksen Senate Office Building. The February 7, 2007, at 10 a.m., in 215 Dirk- 106–393). purpose of this hearing will be to dis- sen Senate Office Building, to hear tes- ‘‘(b) Notwithstanding any other provision cuss the United States Department of of this Act, each amount provided by this Agriculture Farm Bill Proposal with timony on ‘‘The President’s Fiscal Act is reduced by the pro rata percentage re- Secretary of Agriculture, Michael Year 2008 Budget Proposal.’’ quired to reduce the total amount provided Johanns. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without by this Act by $400,000,000. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. SA 234. Mr. COBURN submitted an objection, it is so ordered. COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ADMINISTRATION amendment intended to be proposed by COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN Mr. TESTER. Mr. President, I ask him to the joint resolution H.J. Res. 20, AFFAIRS unanimous consent that the Com- making further continuing appropria- Mr. TESTER. Mr. President, I ask mittee on Rules and Administration be tions for the fiscal year 2007, and for unanimous consent that the Com- authorized to meet during the session other purposes; which was ordered to mittee on Banking, Housing, and of the Senate on Wednesday, February lie on the table; as follows: Urban Affairs be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on 7, 2007, at 10 a.m., to conduct a hearing On page 65, line 8, strike ‘‘: (1)’’ and all on the Hazards of Electronic Voting— that follows through ‘‘or (2)’’ on line 10. Wednesday, February 7, 2007, at 10 a.m. to mark up an original bill entitled Focus on the Machinery of Democracy. SA 235. Mr. COBURN submitted an ‘‘Public Transportation Terrorism Pre- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without amendment intended to be proposed by vention Act of 2007;’’ immediately fol- objection, it is so ordered.

him to the joint resolution H.J. Res. 20, lowing the executive session, the Com- SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE making further continuing appropria- mittee will meet in open session to tions for the fiscal year 2007, and for conduct a hearing on ‘‘Preserving the Mr. TESTER. Mr. President, I ask other purposes; which was ordered to American Dream: Predatory Lending unanimous consent that the Select lie on the table; as follows: Practices and Home Foreclosures.’’ Committee on Intelligence be author- ized to meet during the session of the At the appropriate place, insert the fol- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without lowing: objection, it is so ordered. Senate on February 7, 2007 at 2:30 p.m. SEC. ll. AIDS DRUG ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND to hold a closed hearing. Notwithstanding any other provision of TRANSPORTATION The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without this Resolution, of the amount appropriated Mr. TESTER. Mr. President, I ask objection, it is so ordered. to the Department of Commerce to carry out unanimous consent that the Com- the Advanced Technology Program, $75,000, SUBCOMMITTEE ON PRIVATE SECTOR AND CON- mittee on Commerce, Science, and SUMER SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL WARMING AND 000 shall be transferred to the Health Re- Transportation be authorized to hold a sources and Services Administration to WILDLIFE PROTECTION hearing during the sessions of the Sen- carry out the AIDS Drug Assistance Pro- Mr. TESTER. Mr. President, I ask ate on Wednesday, February 7, 2007, at gram. unanimous consent that the Sub- 10 a.m., in room 253 of the Russell Sen- committee on Private Sector and Con- SA 236. Mr. COBURN submitted an ate Office Building. The purposes of the sumer Solutions to Global Warming amendment intended to be proposed by hearing is to discuss climate change re- and Wildlife Protection be authorized him to the joint resolution H.J. Res. 20, search and scientific integrity. to meet during the session of the Sen- making further continuing appropria- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ate on Wednesday, February 7, 2007. tions for the fiscal year 2007, and for objection, it is so ordered. other purposes; which was ordered to COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL The agenda to be considered: Global lie on the table; as follows: RESOURCES Warming and Wildlife. Strike all after the resolving clause and in- Mr. TESTER. Mr. President, I ask The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without sert the following: ‘‘That the Continuingh Ap- unanimous consent that the Com- objection, it is so ordered. FOREIGN TRAVEL FINANCIAL REPORTS In accordance with the appropriate provisions of law, the Secretary of the Senate herewith submits the following re- ports for standing committees of the Senate, certain joint committees of the Congress, delegations and groups, and select and special committees of the Senate, relating to expenses incurred in the performance of authorized foreign travel:

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Martha Scott Poindexter: United States ...... Dollar ...... 10,228.70 ...... 10,228.70 India ...... Rupee ...... 1,285.24 ...... 1,285.24 Elizabeth Croker: United States ...... Dollar ...... 10,228.70 ...... 10,228.70 India ...... Rupee ...... 1,285.24 ...... 1,285.24 Total ...... 2,570.48 ...... 20,457.40 ...... 23,027.88 SAXBY CHAMBLISS, Chairman, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, Jan. 4, 2007.

CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR FOREIGN TRAVEL BY MEMBERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE U.S. SENATE, UNDER AUTHORITY OF SEC. 22, P.L. 95–384—22 U.S.C. 1754(b), COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS FOR TRAVEL FROM OCT. 1 TO DEC. 31, 2006

Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Paul Grove: United Arab Emerites ...... Dirham ...... 842.00 ...... 842.00 Afghanistan ...... Afghani ...... 300.00 ...... 300.00 China ...... Yuan ...... 322.00 ...... 322.00 Japan ...... Yen ...... 800.00 ...... 800.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 11,318.00 ...... 11,318.00 Tom Hawkins: United Arab Emerites ...... Dirham ...... 842.00 ...... 842.00 Afghanistan ...... Afghani ...... 300.00 ...... 300.00 China ...... Yuan ...... 322.00 ...... 322.00 Japan ...... Yen ...... 800.00 ...... 800.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 11,318.00 ...... 11,318.00 Jonathan Kamarck: Russia ...... Ruble ...... 1,746.00 ...... 300.00 ...... 2,046.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 903.00 ...... 903.00 Ellen Stein: Russia ...... Ruble ...... 1,746.00 ...... 300.00 ...... 2,046.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 903.00 ...... 903.00 Rachel Jones: Russia ...... Ruble ...... 1,746.00 ...... 300.00 ...... 2,046.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 903.00 ...... 903.00 Heideh Shahmoradi-Holley: Russia ...... Ruble ...... 1,746.00 ...... 300.00 ...... 2,046.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 903.00 ...... 903.00 Tim Rieser: Vietnam ...... Dollar ...... 995.00 ...... 45.00 ...... 1,040.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 5,358.00 ...... 5,358.00 Katherine M. Kaufer: Germany ...... Dollar ...... 850.00 ...... 850.00 Romania ...... New Leu ...... 507.42 ...... 507.42 Bulgaria ...... Lev ...... 464.00 ...... 464.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,442.55 ...... 6,442.55 Sid Ashworth: Germany ...... Dollar ...... 850.00 ...... 850.00 Romania ...... New Leu ...... 507.42 ...... 507.42 Bulgaria ...... Lev ...... 464.00 ...... 464.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 7,278.55 ...... 7,278.55 Brian T. Wilson: Germany ...... Dollar ...... 850.00 ...... 850.00 Romania ...... New Leu ...... 507.42 ...... 507.42 Bulgaria ...... Lev ...... 464.00 ...... 464.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 7,278.55 ...... 7,278.55 Galen Fountain: Kenya ...... Shilling ...... 1,974.00 ...... 1,974.00 Uganda ...... Shilling ...... 664.59 ...... 664.59 Italy ...... Euro ...... 2,007.00 ...... 2,007.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 9,130.83 ...... 9,130.83 Jessica Frederick: Kenya ...... Shilling ...... 1,974.00 ...... 1,974.00 Uganda ...... Shilling ...... 664.59 ...... 664.59 Italy ...... Euro ...... 2,007.00 ...... 2,007.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 9,130.83 ...... 9,130.83 Dianne Preece: Kenya ...... Shilling ...... 1,974.00 ...... 1,974.00 Uganda ...... Shilling ...... 664.59 ...... 664.59 Italy ...... Euro ...... 2,007.00 ...... 2,007.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 9,130.83 ...... 9,130.83 Fitzhugh Elder: Kenya ...... Shilling ...... 1,974.00 ...... 1,974.00 Uganda ...... Shilling ...... 664.59 ...... 664.59 Italy ...... Euro ...... 2,007.00 ...... 2,007.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 9,130.83 ...... 9,130.83 Warren Harper: Kenya ...... Shilling ...... 1,974.00 ...... 1,974.00 Uganda ...... Shilling ...... 664.59 ...... 664.59 Italy ...... Euro ...... 2,007.00 ...... 2,007.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 9,130.83 ...... 9,130.83 Stacy McBride: Kenya ...... Shilling ...... 1,974.00 ...... 1,974.00 Uganda ...... Shilling ...... 664.59 ...... 664.59 Italy ...... Euro ...... 2,007.00 ...... 2,007.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 9,130.83 ...... 9,130.83 Senator Richard J. Durbin: Pakistan ...... Rupee ...... 309.00 ...... 309.00 Qatar ...... Rial ...... 338.00 ...... 338.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 8,705.41 ...... 8,705.41 Michael Daly: Pakistan ...... Rupee ...... 309.00 ...... 309.00 Qatar ...... Rial ...... 338.00 ...... 338.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 8,705.41 ...... 8,705.41 Scott O’Malia: Switzerland ...... Franc ...... 864.00 ...... 864.00 France ...... Euro ...... 347.00 ...... 347.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,495.76 ...... 6,495.76

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Drew Willison: Switzerland ...... Franc ...... 864.00 ...... 864.00 France ...... Euro ...... 347.00 ...... 347.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,495.76 ...... 6,495.76

Total ...... 49,560.80 ...... 137,792.97 ...... 1,245.00 ...... 188,598.77 THAD COCHRAN, Chairman, Committee on Appropriations, Feb. 2, 2007.

CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR FOREIGN TRAVEL BY MEMBERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE U.S. SENATE, UNDER AUTHORITY OF SEC. 22, P.L. 95–384—22 U.S.C. 1754(b), COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES FOR TRAVEL FROM OCT. 1 TO DEC. 31, 2006

Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Ambrose R. Hock: United States ...... Dollar ...... 8,143.20 ...... 8,143.20 Kuwait ...... Dinar ...... 611.42 ...... 611.42 Elaine A. McCusker: United States ...... Dollar ...... 8,143.38 ...... 8,143.38 Kuwait ...... Dinar ...... 604.55 ...... 604.55 Evelyn N. Farkas: United States ...... Dollar ...... 12,487.00 ...... 12,487.00 Djibouti ...... Franc ...... 365.00 ...... 365.00 Kenya ...... Shilling ...... 227.00 ...... 227.00 Michael J. McCord: United States ...... Dollar ...... 8,869.00 ...... 8,869.00 Italy ...... Dollar ...... 263.00 ...... 28.00 ...... 6.00 ...... 297.00 Spain ...... Dollar ...... 82.00 ...... 82.00 United Kingdom ...... Dollar ...... 202.00 ...... 37.00 ...... 239.00 Lucian L. Niemeyer: United States ...... Dollar ...... 8,600.35 ...... 8,600.35 Italy ...... Dollar ...... 777.69 ...... 78.95 ...... 856.64 Spain ...... Dollar ...... 75.55 ...... 75.55 United Kingdom ...... Dollar ...... 132.65 ...... 132.65 Gregory T. Kiley: United States ...... Dollar ...... 8,600.40 ...... 8,600.40 Italy ...... Dollar ...... 645.50 ...... 645.50 Spain ...... Dollar ...... 158.00 ...... 158.00 United Kingdom ...... Dollar ...... 617.00 ...... 617.00 Senator Jeff Sessions: Jordan ...... Dinar ...... 258.00 ...... 258.00 Israel ...... Dollar ...... 709.00 ...... 709.00 Arch Galloway: Jordan ...... Dollar ...... 258.00 ...... 258.00 Israel ...... Dollar ...... 709.00 ...... 709.00 Charles S. Abell: Jordan ...... Dollar ...... 305.00 ...... 305.00 Israel ...... Dollar ...... 665.00 ...... 665.00 Senator Bill Nelson: Israel ...... Shekel ...... 791.42 ...... 113.86 ...... 905.28 Jordan ...... Dinar ...... 102.09 ...... 2.82 ...... 104.91 Lebanon ...... Pound ...... 5.00 ...... 18.00 ...... 23.00 Saudi Arabia ...... Riyal ...... 434.96 ...... 95.57 ...... 530.53 Bahrain ...... Dinar ...... 110.84 ...... 7.95 ...... 118.79 Kuwait ...... Dinar ...... 35.82 ...... 1.67 ...... 37.49 Pete Mitchell: Israel ...... Shekel ...... 797.52 ...... 10.77 ...... 808.29 Jordan ...... Dinar ...... 111.19 ...... 2.82 ...... 114.01 Lebanon ...... Pound ...... 5.00 ...... 0.00 ...... 5.00 Saudi Arabia ...... Riyal ...... 406.75 ...... 3.07 ...... 409.82 Bahrain ...... Dinar ...... 117.10 ...... 7.95 ...... 125.05 Senator John McCain: Kuwait ...... Dollar ...... 309.00 ...... 309.00 Pakistan ...... Dollar ...... 35.00 ...... 35.00 Israel ...... Dollar ...... 36.00 ...... 36.00 Senator Susan M. Collins: Kuwait ...... Dollar ...... 309.00 ...... 309.00 Afghanistan ...... Dollar ...... 5.00 ...... 5.00 Pakistan ...... Dollar ...... 70.00 ...... 70.00 Israel ...... Dollar ...... 156.00 ...... 156.00 Senator Lindsey O. Graham: Kuwait ...... Dollar ...... 309.00 ...... 309.00 Senator Lindsey O. Graham: United States ...... Dollar ...... 4,509.10 ...... 4,509.10 Senator John Thune: Kuwait ...... Dollar ...... 406.00 ...... 406.00 Afghanistan ...... Dollar ...... 75.00 ...... 75.00 Pakistan ...... Dollar ...... 339.00 ...... 339.00 Israel ...... Dollar ...... 434.00 ...... 434.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 25.00 ...... 25.00 Michael J. Kuiken: Niger ...... Dollar ...... 324.00 ...... 324.00 Nigeria ...... Dollar ...... 1,127.00 ...... 1,127.00 Chad ...... Dollar ...... 640.00 ...... 640.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 12,403.04 ...... 12,403.04 Total ...... 15,086.05 ...... 71,862.42 ...... 403.48 ...... 87,351.95

JOHN WARNER, Chairman, Committee on Armed Services, Jan. 31, 2007.

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Valerie West: Austria ...... Euro ...... 138.00 ...... 138.00 Italy ...... Euro ...... 747.00 ...... 747.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,014.98 ...... 6,014.98 Garret Graves: Republic of Kenya ...... Shilling ...... 1,333.00 ...... 1,333.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 7,942.00 ...... 7,942..00 Floyd Deschamps: Republic of Kenya ...... Shilling ...... 1,315.00 ...... 1,315.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 7,854.74 ...... 7,854.74

Total ...... 3,533.00 ...... 21,811.72 ...... 25,344.72 TED STEVENS, Chairman, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Dec. 31, 2006.

CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF EXPENDITURE OF FOREIGN CURRENCIES AND APPROPRIATED FUNDS FOR FOREIGN TRAVEL BY MEMBERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE U.S. SENATE, UNDER AUTHORITY OF SEC. 22, P.L. 95–384—22 U.S.C. 1754(b), COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES FOR TRAVEL FROM OCT. 1 TO DEC. 31, 2006

Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Kathryn Clay: Japan ...... Dollar ...... 839.84 ...... 839.84 Dollar ...... 8,287.13 ...... 8,287.13 Kenya ...... Dollar ...... 1,440.00 ...... 1,440.00 Dollar ...... 7,476.31 ...... 7,476.31 Total ...... 2,279.84 ...... 15,763.44 ...... 18,043.28 PETE V. DOMENICI, Chairman, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Feb. 1, 2007.

CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR FOREIGN TRAVEL BY MEMBERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE U.S. SENATE, UNDER AUTHORITY OF SEC. 22, P.L. 95–384—22 U.S.C. 1754(b), COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS FOR TRAVEL FROM JULY 1 TO SEPT. 30, 2006

Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Stephen Higley: United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,411.23 ...... 6,411.23 Belgium ...... Euro ...... 310.00 ...... 310.00 Michael Goo: United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,326.23 ...... 6,326.23 Belgium ...... Euro ...... 310.00 ...... 310.00 Bettina Poirier: United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,326.23 ...... 6,326.23 Belgium ...... Euro ...... 310.00 ...... 310.00 Total ...... 930.00 ...... 19,063.69 ...... 19,993.69 JAMES M. INHOFE, Chairman, Committee on Environment and Public Works, Jan. 26, 2007.

CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR FOREIGN TRAVEL BY MEMBERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE U.S. SENATE, UNDER AUTHORITY OF SEC. 22, P.L. 95–384—22 U.S.C. 1754(b), COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS FOR TRAVEL FROM OCT. 1 TO DEC. 31, 2006

Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Frank Fannon: United States ...... Dollar ...... 7,002.00 ...... 7,002.00 Brazil ...... Real ...... 2,224.00 ...... 2,224.00 John Shanahan: United States ...... Dollar ...... 8.166.68 ...... 8,166.68 Kenya ...... Shilling ...... 1,440.00 ...... 1,440.00 Stephen Higley: United States ...... Dollar ...... 8,451.85 ...... 8,451.85 Kenya ...... Shilling ...... 1,728.00 ...... 1,728.00 Marc Morano: United States ...... Dollar ...... 10,447.31 ...... 10,447.31 Kenya ...... Shilling ...... 1,728.00 ...... 1,728.00 Michael Goo: United States ...... Dollar ...... 7,869.14 ...... 7,869.14 Kenya ...... Shilling ...... 2,016.00 ...... 2,016.00 Eric Thu: United States ...... Dollar ...... 7,869.14 ...... 7,869.14 Kenya ...... Shilling ...... 2,016.00 ...... 2,016.00 Total ...... 11,152.00 ...... 49,806.12 ...... 60,958.12 JAMES M. INHOFE, Chairman, Committee on Environment and Public Works, Jan. 26, 2007.

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Senator Norm Coleman: Bahrain ...... Dinar ...... 214.92 ...... 189.92 ...... 404.84 United Arab Emirates ...... Dirham ...... 800.00 ...... 775.00 ...... 1,575.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 8,682.53 ...... 8,682.53 Senator Russ Feingold:. Kenya ...... Shilling ...... 600.00 ...... 600.00 Ethiopia ...... Birr ...... 700.00 ...... 700.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 9,172.00 ...... 9,172.00 Senator Chuck Hagel:. Japan ...... Yen ...... 208.00 ...... 208.00 Vietnam ...... Dollar ...... 251.00 ...... 251.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 8,969.00 ...... 8,969.00 Senator John Kerry: Egypt ...... Dollar ...... 366.40 ...... 366.40 Jordan ...... Dollar ...... 969.00 ...... 969.00 Syria ...... Dollar ...... 875.32 ...... 875.32 Israel ...... Dollar ...... 217.00 ...... 217.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 10,963.18 ...... 10,963.18 Senator Richard Lugar: Latvia ...... Dollar ...... 378.00 ...... 378.00 Austria ...... Dollar ...... 476.00 ...... 476.00 United Kingdom ...... Dollar ...... 546.00 ...... 546.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,756.77 ...... 6,756.77 Jay Branegan: Germany ...... Euro ...... 1,677.50 ...... 1,677.50 Cameroon ...... CFA ...... 344.30 ...... 344.30 Nigeria ...... Dollar ...... 868.00 ...... 708.00 ...... 1,576.00 Senegal ...... CFA ...... 96.21 ...... 464.00 ...... 560.21 United States ...... Dollar ...... 11,384.43 ...... 11,384.43 Isaac Edwards: Norway ...... Krone ...... 316.00 ...... 50.00 ...... 366.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,059.00 ...... 6,059.00 Paul Foldi: United Kingdom ...... Pound ...... 80.00 ...... 80.00 Switzerland ...... Franc ...... 1,666.00 ...... 1,666.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,358.99 ...... 6,358.99 Grey Frandsen: Niger ...... CFA ...... 364.00 ...... 364.00 Nigeria ...... Naira ...... 1,041.00 ...... 1,041.00 Chad ...... CFA ...... 479.00 ...... 479.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 12,403.04 ...... 12,403.04 Grey Frandsen: Kenya ...... Shilling ...... 714.00 ...... 714.00 Ethiopia ...... Birr ...... 672.00 ...... 672.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 9,172.00 ...... 9,172.00 Frank Lowenstein: Egypt ...... Dollar ...... 366.40 ...... 366.40 Jordan ...... Dollar ...... 969.00 ...... 969.00 Syria ...... Dollar ...... 875.32 ...... 875.32 Israel ...... Dollar ...... 217.00 ...... 217.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 8,278.43 ...... 8,278.43 Carl Meacham: Dominican Republic ...... Peso ...... 560.00 ...... 560.00 Panama ...... Balboa ...... 1,180.00 ...... 1,180.00 Venezuela ...... Bolivares ...... 320.00 ...... 320.00 Chile ...... Peso ...... 540.00 ...... 540.00 Peru ...... Nuevo Sol ...... 576.00 ...... 576.00 Ecuador ...... Dollar ...... 512.00 ...... 512.00 Guyana ...... Dollar ...... 92.00 ...... 92.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,499.00 ...... 6,499.00 Thomas Moore: Austria ...... Euro ...... 1,128.00 ...... 1,128.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 5,917.35 ...... 5,917.35 Austria ...... Euro ...... 700.00 ...... 700.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 5,093.90 ...... 5,093.90 Kenneth Myers, Jr.: Latvia ...... Dollar ...... 378.00 ...... 378.00 Austria ...... Dollar ...... 476.00 ...... 476.00 United Kingdom ...... Dollar ...... 546.00 ...... 546.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,756.77 ...... 6,756.77 Kenneth Myers, III: Latvia ...... Dollar ...... 378.00 ...... 378.00 Austria ...... Dollar ...... 476.00 ...... 476.00 United Kingdom ...... Dollar ...... 546.00 ...... 546.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,756.77 ...... 6,756.77 Janice O’Connell: Jordan ...... Dollar ...... 639.00 ...... 639.00 Syria ...... Dollar ...... 195.31 ...... 195.31 Israel ...... Dollar ...... 346.00 ...... 346.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 7,300.23 ...... 7,300.23 Michael Phelan: Germany ...... Euro ...... 1,488.00 ...... 70.00 ...... 986.00 ...... 2,544.00 Chad ...... Franc ...... 928.00 ...... 462.00 ...... 1,390.00 Ethiopia ...... Birr ...... 822.00 ...... 885.00 ...... 1,707.00 Kenya ...... Shilling ...... 1,152.00 ...... 1,114.00 ...... 2,266.00 Djibouti ...... Franc ...... 478.00 ...... 150.00 ...... 628.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 13,241.97 ...... 60.00 ...... 13,301.97 Rexon Ryu: Japan ...... Yen ...... 162.00 ...... 162.00 Vietnam ...... Dollar ...... 283.00 ...... 283.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 8,969.00 ...... 8,969.00 Jennifer Simon: Switzerland ...... Franc ...... 1,676.00 ...... 1,676.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,350.00 ...... 6,350.00 Jordan Talge: Bahrain ...... Dinar ...... 214.92 ...... 195.55 ...... 410.47 United Arab Emirates ...... Dirham ...... 800.00 ...... 763.00 ...... 1,563.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 9,554.04 ...... 9,554.04 Caroline Tess: Israel ...... Dollar ...... 1,191.00 ...... 1,191.00 Syria ...... Dollar ...... 273.00 ...... 273.00 Qatar ...... Dollar ...... 160.00 ...... 160.00 Saudia Arabia ...... Dollar ...... 430.00 ...... 430.00 Bahrain ...... Dollar ...... 523.00 ...... 523.00 Kuwait ...... Dollar ...... 146.00 ...... 146.00

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

United States ...... Dollar ...... 8,860.15 ...... 8,860.15 Bernard Toon: Dominican Republic ...... Peso ...... 560.00 ...... 560.00 Panama ...... Balboa ...... 1,180.00 ...... 1,180.00 Argentina ...... Peso ...... 3,348.00 ...... 3,348.00 Equador ...... Dollar ...... 512.00 ...... 512.00 Guyana ...... Dollar ...... 92.00 ...... 92.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,865.40 ...... 6,865.40 Patrick Garvey: Jordan ...... Dinar ...... 1,414.00 ...... 25.00 ...... 360.00 ...... 1,799.00 Kuwait ...... Dinar ...... 50.00 ...... 50.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 9,487.91 ...... 9,487.91 Keith Luse: Sri Lanka ...... Rupee ...... 357.00 ...... 357.00 Cambodia ...... Riel ...... 382.19 ...... 382.19 Thailand ...... Baht ...... 1,340.00 ...... 1,340.00 Burma ...... Kyat ...... 247.50 ...... 247.50 United States ...... Dollar ...... 3,756.63 ...... 3,756.63 Christopher Stevens: Lebanon ...... Dollar ...... 154.00 ...... 154.00 Syria ...... Dollar ...... 850.00 ...... 850.00 Jordan ...... Dollar ...... 546.00 ...... 546.00 Israel ...... Dollar ...... 1,589.00 ...... 1,589.00 Saudi Arabia ...... Dollar ...... 638.00 ...... 638.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 11,995.98 ...... 11,995.98 Puneet Talwar: Switzerland ...... Dollar ...... 838.00 ...... 838.00 Lebanon ...... Dollar ...... 504.00 ...... 504.00 Syria ...... Dollar ...... 250.00 ...... 250.00 United States ...... Dollar ...... 7,168.01 ...... 7,168.01 Total ...... 51,876.29 ...... 224,727.48 ...... 5,940.47 ...... 282,544.24 RICHARD G. LUGAR, Chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations, Jan. 22, 2007.

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Senator Arlen Specter: United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,933.43 ...... 6,933.43 United Kingdom ...... British Pound ...... 72.05 ...... 72.05 India ...... Rupee ...... 1,546.59 ...... 1,546.59 Qatar ...... Riyal ...... 311.71 ...... 311.71 Syria ...... Pound ...... 355.59 ...... 355.59 Israel ...... Shekel ...... 1,028.80 ...... 1,028.80 Italy ...... Euro ...... 163.82 ...... 163.82 Scott Boos: United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,330.30 ...... 6,330.30 United Kingdom ...... Pound ...... 230.00 ...... 230.00 India ...... Rupee ...... 2,009.77 ...... 2,009.77 Qatar ...... Riyal ...... 387.00 ...... 387.00 Syria ...... Pound ...... 250.00 ...... 250.00 Israel ...... Shekel ...... 1,191.00 ...... 1,191.00 Italy ...... Euro ...... 233.00 ...... 233.00 Total ...... 7,779.33 ...... 12,580.16 ...... 20,359.49 ARLEN SPECTER, Chairman, Committee on Judiciary, Jan. 29, 2007.

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Adam Briddell: United States ...... Dollar ...... 657.86 ...... 657.86 Italy ...... Euro ...... 2,240.00 ...... 2,240.00 Total ...... 2,240.00 ...... 657.86 ...... 2,897.86 MICHAEL B. ENZI, Chairman, Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Dec. 20, 2006.

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Edward B. Pusey: United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,375.96 ...... 6,375.96 Germany ...... Euro ...... 656.00 ...... 656.00

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Luxembourg ...... Euro ...... 369.00 ...... 369.00 Italy ...... Euro ...... 645.00 ...... 645.00 Dahlia Melendrez: United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,355.96 ...... 6,355.96 Germany ...... Euro ...... 656.00 ...... 656.00 Luxembourg ...... Euro ...... 369.00 ...... 369.00 Italy ...... Euro ...... 645.00 ...... 645.00 Total ...... 3,340,00 ...... 12,731.92 ...... 16,071.92 LARRY E. CRAIG, Chairman, Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Dec. 11, 2006.

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Paul Matulic ...... 1,125.00 ...... 1,125.00 Dollar ...... 8,568.82 ...... 8,568.82 ...... Thomas J. Pack ...... 1,140.75 ...... 1,140.75 Dollar ...... 8,568.82 ...... 8,568.82 Gregory Thielmann ...... 1,272.00 ...... 1,272.00 Dollar ...... 7,619.77 ...... 7,619.77 David Grannis ...... 1,463.00 ...... 1,463.00 Dollar ...... 8,581.77 ...... 8,581.77 Jennifer Wagner ...... 1,736.00 ...... 1,736.00 Dollar ...... 8,568.82 ...... 8,568.82 Todd Rosenblum ...... 828.00 ...... 828.00 Dollar ...... 1,966.00 ...... 1,966.00 Eric Rosenbach ...... 2,372.00 ...... 2,372.00 Dollar ...... 8,441.00 ...... 8,441.00 Evan Gottesman ...... 1,172.00 ...... 1,172.00 Dollar ...... 9,123.77 ...... 9,123.77 Lorenzo Goco ...... 1,612.00 ...... 1,612.00 Dollar ...... 3,151.18 ...... 3,151.18 Randall Bookout ...... 1,730.00 ...... 1,730.00 Dollar ...... 3,151.18 ...... 3,151.18 Louis Tucker ...... 1,780.00 ...... 1,780.00 Dollar ...... 3,704.20 ...... 3,704.20 Nancy St. Louis ...... 1,839.00 ...... 1,839.00 Dollar ...... 6,079.78 ...... 6,079.78 Christopher White ...... 1,839.00 ...... 1,839.00 Dollar ...... 6,079.78 ...... 6,079.78 Darren Dick ...... 1,839.00 ...... 1,839.00 Dollar ...... 6,079.78 ...... 6,079.78 Melvin Dubee ...... 2,375.00 ...... 2,375.00 Dollar ...... 8,441.00 ...... 8,441.00 Michael Davidson ...... 2,420.00 ...... 2,420.00 Dollar ...... 8,440.86 ...... 8,440.86 John Dickas ...... 2,447.00 ...... 2,447.00 Dollar ...... 8,441.00 ...... 8,441.00 Total ...... 28,989.75 ...... 115,007.53 ...... 143,997.28 PAT ROBERTS, Chairman, Committee on Intelligence, Jan. 26, 2007.

CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR FOREIGN TRAVEL BY MEMBERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE U.S. SENATE, UNDER AUTHORITY OF SEC. 22, P.L. 95–384—22 U.S.C. 1754(b), CODEL FRIST FOR TRAVEL FROM NOV. 30 TO DEC. 2, 2006

Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Senator William H. Frist, M.D. Mexico ...... Pesos ...... 514.00 ...... 514.00 Stephen Rademaker: Mexico ...... Pesos ...... 510.00 ...... 510.00 Anna M. Gallagher: Mexico ...... Pesos ...... 590.00 ...... 590.00 Delegation Expenses:* Mexico ...... Pesos ...... 6,211.63 ...... 6,211.63 Total ...... 1,614.00 ...... 6,211.63 ...... 7,825.63 WILLIAM H. FRIST, Majority Leader, Dec. 13, 2006. * Delegation expenses include payments and reimbursements to the Department of State, and the Department of Defense under the authority of Sec. 502(b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended by Sec. 22 of P.L. 95–384, and S. Res. 179 agreed to May 25, 1977.

CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR FOREIGN TRAVEL BY MEMBERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE U.S. SENATE, UNDER AUTHORITY OF SEC. 22, P.L. 95–384—22 U.S.C. 1754(b), CODEL FRIST FOR TRAVEL FROM SEPT. 30 TO OCT. 5, 2006

Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Senator William H. Frist, M.D.: Pakistan ...... Rupee ...... 199.22 ...... 199.22

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Kuwait ...... Dinar ...... 260.00 ...... 260.00 Senator Mel Martinez: Pakistan ...... Rupee ...... 199.22 ...... 199.22 Kuwait ...... Dinar ...... 260.00 ...... 260.00 Amy Call: Pakistan ...... Rupee ...... 184.00 ...... 184.00 Kuwait ...... Dinar ...... 260.00 ...... 260.00 Eric Ueland: Pakistan ...... Rupee ...... 184.00 ...... 184.00 Kuwait ...... Dinar ...... 260.00 ...... 260.00 John Klemmer: Pakistan ...... Rupee ...... 184.00 ...... 184.00 Kuwait ...... Dinar ...... 260.00 ...... 260.00 Anna Gallagher: Pakistan ...... Rupee ...... 184.00 ...... 184.00 Kuwait ...... Dinar ...... 260.00 ...... 260.00 Delegation Expenses:* Estonia ...... Kroon ...... 1,237.55 ...... 1,237.55 Pakistan ...... Rupee ...... 2,138.01 ...... 2,138.01 Afghanistan ...... Afghani ...... 1,007.12 ...... 1,007.12 Kuwait ...... Dinar ...... 2,933.67 ...... 2,933.67 Iraq ...... Dinar ...... 924.32 ...... 924.32 Jordan ...... Dinar ...... 2,034.36 ...... 2,034.06 Total ...... 2,694.44 ...... 10,274.73 ...... 12,969.17 WILLIAM H. FRIST, Majority Leader, Dec. 13, 2006. * Delegation expenses include payments and reimbursements to the Department of State, and the Department of Defense under the authority of Sec. 502(b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended by Sec. 22 of P.L. 95–384, and S. Res. 179 agreed to May 25, 1977.

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

H. Knox Thames: United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,822.24 ...... 6,822.24 Poland ...... Zloty ...... 1,041.00 ...... 1,041.00 Dorothy Douglas Taft: United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,500.26 ...... 6,500.26 Poland ...... Zloty ...... 1,288.37 ...... 1,288.37 Kyle Parker: United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,687.91 ...... 6,687.91 Poland ...... Zloty ...... 1,719.93 ...... 1,719.93 Erika Schlager: United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,844.51 ...... 6,844.51 Poland ...... Zloty ...... 3,679.52 ...... 3,679.52 Cliff Bond: United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,798.23 ...... 6,698.23 Poland ...... Zloty ...... 3,821.00 ...... 3,821.00 Ron McNamara: United States ...... Dollar ...... 6,500.26 ...... 6,500.26 Poland ...... Zloty ...... 1,740.00 ...... 1,740.00 Janice Helwig: Germany ...... Euro ...... 486.33 ...... 486.33 Poland ...... Zloty ...... 3,457.00 ...... 3,457.00 Shelly Ham: United States ...... Dollar ...... 12,028.98 ...... 12,028.98 Kazakhstan ...... Tenge ...... 795.00 ...... 795.00 United Kingdom ...... Pound ...... 1,420.00 ...... 1,420.00 Kyle Parker: United States ...... Dollar ...... 9,664.55 ...... 9,664.55 Tajikistan ...... Somoni ...... 595.00 ...... 595.00 Kyrgyzstan ...... Som ...... 466.00 ...... 466.00 H. Knox Thames: United States ...... Dollar ...... 7,249.17 ...... 7,249.17 Tajikistan ...... Somoni ...... 682.00 ...... 682.00 Kyrgyzstan ...... Som ...... 718.45 ...... 718.00 Shelly Ham: United States ...... Dollar ...... 5,608.32 ...... 5,607.32 Kyrgyzstan ...... Som ...... 932.00 ...... 932.00 Sean Woo: United States ...... Dollar ...... 8,341.28 ...... 8,341.28 Laos ...... Kip ...... 444.00 ...... 444.00 Thailand ...... Baht ...... 218.00 ...... 218.00 South Korea ...... Won ...... 1,680.00 ...... 1,680.00 Total ...... 24,697.27 ...... 83,531.54 ...... 108,228.81 SAM BROWNBACK, Chairman, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Jan. 9, 2007.

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Marcel Lettre II: United States ...... Dollar ...... 9,506.05 ...... 9,506.05 United Arab Emirates ...... Dirham ...... 1,030.00 ...... 1,030.00 United Kingdom ...... Pound ...... 312.37 ...... 312.37

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Per diem Transportation Miscellaneous Total U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name and country Name of currency Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency

Oman ...... Rial ...... 309.00 ...... 309.00 Total ...... 1,651.37 ...... 9,506.05 ...... 11,157.42 HARRY REID, h Democratic Leader, Jan. 24, 2007. CONGRATULATING THE INDIANAP- Bears by a score of 29–17 to win Super Bowl minutes under the control of the ma- OLIS COLTS FOR WINNING XLI; jority, with Senator WYDEN allocated SUPER BOWL XLI Whereas Colts owner and chief executive 20 minutes of that 30 minutes and Sen- officer Jim Irsay and the Irsay family have ator NELSON of Florida the following 10 Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask worked to build the Colts organization not unanimous consent that the Senate only into a championship caliber team, but minutes; that the next 30 minutes be now proceed to the consideration of S. also a group dedicated to service in commu- under the control of the Republicans; Res. 75, which was submitted earlier nities across the State of Indiana; further, that at the close of morning today. Whereas Tony Dungy is the first head business, the Senate proceed to execu- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without coach of African-American descent to lead a tive session and resume consideration objection, it is so ordered. The clerk team to victory in the Super Bowl; of the nomination of GEN George Whereas Peyton Manning, having thrown will report. Casey; that there be 30 minutes of de- for 247 yards and made 1 touchdown, was bate remaining on the nomination, The legislative clerk read as follows: named the game’s Most Valuable Player; A resolution (S. Res. 75) congratulating the Whereas the Colts’ defense and special with the time equally divided and con- Indianapolis Colts on their victory in Super teams were able to force 5 turnovers and to trolled between Senators LEVIN and Bowl XLI. limit the Bears to 17 points; MCCAIN or their designees; that upon There being no objection, the Senate Whereas Colts president Bill Polian, widely the use or yielding back of time, with- proceeded to consider the resolution. considered the ‘‘architect’’ of much of the out further intervening action or de- Mr. LUGAR. Madam President, I am Colts’ recent success, and the Colts manage- bate, the Senate proceed to vote on pleased to join my colleague Senator ment have assembled a group of players and confirmation of the nomination; that coaches that has worked together to win 4 BAYH in submitting a resolution con- upon disposition of the nomination, the straight championships in the Southern Di- gratulating the Indianapolis Colts on vision of the American Football Conference; motion to reconsider be laid upon the their historic season, culminating Sun- Whereas the Colts’ regular season record of table, the President be immediately day in a thrilling victory over the Chi- 12–4 marks the team’s fourth straight year notified of the Senate’s action, and the cago Bears in Super Bowl XLI. with at least 12 wins, and makes the Colts Senate resume legislative session and Like so many of my fellow Hoosiers, only the second team to achieve such con- then proceed to consideration of Cal- I have enjoyed cheering on the Colts sistent success in the history of the National endar No. 18, H.J. Res. 20, the con- since the Irsay family brought them to Football League; tinuing funding resolution. Indianapolis almost a quarter of a cen- Whereas the Colts are committed to com- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without tury ago. Over the years Colts owner munity leadership, working to help those in Indiana communities who are disadvantaged objection, it is so ordered. and CEO Jim Irsay and president Bill and underserved, through the generosity of Mr. REID. Madam President, I appre- Polian have brought together a re- the Irsay family and player groups such as ciate the ability to move forward on markable group of dedicated profes- the Peyback Foundation and D.R.E.A.M. this joint resolution. The distinguished sionals such as Tony Dungy and play- Alive, Inc.; Republican leader and I are going to ers who through their hard work and Whereas tens of thousands of fans braved spend some time tomorrow talking dedication to community service are a bitterly cold temperatures to line the streets about amendments to this joint resolu- credit to the Colts organization, the of Indianapolis, Indiana for a victory parade tion. The Republican leader has been City of Indianapolis, and the State of and the rally that followed in the RCA Dome; and consistent in asking for amendments Indiana. Whereas Hoosiers from across Indiana and to the continuing resolution, and staff Special recognition should be given the Nation have rallied together to cheer the has exchanged paper on this matter. to Tony Dungy as the first head coach Colts not just for winning, but for winning We are going to see what we can do to of African-American descent to lead the right way, with dignity and profes- meet the demands of the Republicans. his team to victory in the Super Bowl. sionalism: Now, therefore, be it I have enjoyed following Coach Dungy Resolved, That the Senate congratulates f remarkable leadership and appreciate the Indianapolis Colts on their victory in Super Bowl XLI. the example he sets for all Hoosiers. PROGRAM I am hopeful that each of my col- f leagues in the Senate will join Senator Mr. REID. Madam President, the ORDERS FOR THURSDAY, Senate just entered into an agreement BAYH and me in congratulating the FEBRUARY 8, 2007 Colts on this signal achievement. which establishes parameters for the Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask final debate on the nomination of Gen- unanimous consent the resolution be unanimous consent that when the Sen- eral Casey. The vote on confirmation agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, ate completes its business today, it will occur around 11:30 a.m. tomorrow. and the motion to reconsider be laid stand adjourned until 10 a.m., Thurs- We don’t know the exact time because upon the table. day, February 8; that on Thursday, fol- it is according to how much time is The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without lowing the prayer and pledge, the Jour- used by the leaders, and other matters objection, it is so ordered. nal of proceedings be approved to date, may get in the way. The resolution (S. Res. 75) was agreed the morning hour be deemed expired, After we dispose of that nomination, to. and the time for the two leaders be re- the Senate will begin consideration of The preamble was agreed to. served for their use later in the day; the continuing funding resolution. As I The resolution, with its preamble, that there then be a period for the indicated, the Republican leader and I reads as follows: transaction of morning business for 60 have had discussions about this CR, S. RES. 75 minutes, with Senators permitted to and we will continue to have discus- Whereas, on Sunday, February 4, 2007, the speak therein during the period for sions as we move forward with this Indianapolis Colts defeated the Chicago morning business, with the first 30 most important legislation.

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ALDO J. DOMENICHINI, 0000 MELINDA B. HENNE, 0000 ADJOURNMENT UNTIL 10 A.M. DANIEL K. FLOOD, 0000 MICHAEL J. HIGGINS, 0000 TOMORROW SPENCER J. FRINK, 0000 PATRICK E. HILL, 0000 MARK D. GOODWIN, 0000 MARK A. HINTON, 0000 Mr. REID. Madam President, if there TIMOTHY P. GREYDANUS, 0000 DUNCAN G. HUGHES, 0000 DOUGLAS J. GRIDER, 0000 KATHRYN G. HUGHES, 0000 is no further business to come before MICHAEL D. GRINKEMEYER, 0000 JAMES E. HUIZENGA, 0000 the Senate today, I ask unanimous BRIAN H. HALL, 0000 GREGORY S. HYLAND, 0000 BARTLETT H. HAYES, 0000 CONSTANCE L. JACKSON, 0000 consent that the Senate stand ad- WOODSON S. JONES, 0000 JOHN F. JAMES, 0000 journed under the previous order. BRIAN S. KENDALL, 0000 SAMUEL O. JONES IV, 0000 JOSEPH J. LEGAN, 0000 SARAH S. JONES, 0000 There being no objection, the Senate, JOHN T. MANSFIELD, 0000 ROBERT F. KACPROWICZ, 0000 at 6:59 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, BRIAN F. MCCRARY, 0000 WARREN R. KADRMAS, 0000 KEITH H. MORITA, 0000 PATRICK S. KELLEY, 0000 February 8, 2007, at 10 a.m. DIANE C. NAPOLI, 0000 GREGORY A. KENNEBECK, 0000 f RANDALL H. NEAL, 0000 ROBERT S. KENT, 0000 SANDRA S. OSSWALD, 0000 CHETAN U. KHAROD, 0000 RORY G. OWEN, 0000 STEVEN M. KINDSVATER, 0000 NOMINATIONS WILLIAM B. PERRY, 0000 TODD T. KOBAYASHI, 0000 TOD S. RUSSELL, 0000 PETER J. KOBES, 0000 Executive nominations received by ROBERT A. SCHMITZ, 0000 DONALD C. KOWALEWSKI, 0000 the Senate February 7, 2007: GARY N. STOKES, 0000 ROBERT J. KOWALSKI, JR., 0000 CHARLES S. TEDDER, 0000 DONALD J. LANE, 0000 IN THE ARMY GUILLERMO J. TELLEZ, 0000 JANICE M. LANGER, 0000 WILLIAM A. THOMAS, JR., 0000 HENRY K. K. LAU, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT WILLIAM E. VENANZI, JR., 0000 JIMMY J. S. LAU, 0000 AS THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS/COMMANDING GENERAL, LORNA A. WESTFALL, 0000 DAVID P. LAUGHLIN, 0000 UNITED STATES ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, AND AP- CRYSTINE M. LEE, 0000 POINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT ADMIRADO A. LUZURIAGA, 0000 STATES ARMY, WHILE ASSIGNED TO A POSITION OF IM- TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES AIR WALTER M. MATTHEWS, 0000 PORTANCE AND RESPONSIBILITY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: JOHN D. MCARTHUR, 0000 SECTIONS 601 AND 3036: To be lieutenant colonel JEFFREY D. MCNEIL, 0000 To be lieutenant general ANITA L. MCSWAIN, 0000 WILLIAM R. BAEZ, 0000 EVAN R. MEEKS, 0000 LT. GEN. ROBERT L. VAN ANTWERP, JR., 0000 ROBERT K. BOGART, 0000 MICHAEL L. MILLER, 0000 TIMOTHY D. BONNIWELL, 0000 DANIEL I. MIRSKI, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT MATTHEW J. BRONK, 0000 TERENCE B. MITCHELL, 0000 IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY TO THE GRADE INDICATED SOTO D. CANDELARIO, 0000 ANDREW E. MOORE, 0000 UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: RENEE D. CARLSON, 0000 PATRICK M. MUEHLBERGER, 0000 To be brigadier general WILLIE T. CHI, 0000 DAVID W. MUNITZ, 0000 MARGARET A. CURRY, 0000 CABOT S. MURDOCK, 0000 COL. MARC L. WARREN, 0000 DANNY R. ELLER, 0000 JEFFREY G. NALESNIK, 0000 CHRISTOPHER A. GARZA, 0000 SALLY W. NALESNIK, 0000 IN THE MARINE CORPS KATHLEEN A. GATES, 0000 JUSTIN B. NAST, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT MARTIN E. JORDAN, 0000 DOUGLAS A. NELSON, 0000 IN THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS RESERVE TO THE JAMES F. KNOWLES, 0000 STEPHEN L. NELSON, JR., 0000 GRADE INDICATED UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: RICHARD A. MCCLURE, 0000 THOMAS C. NEWTON, 0000 EVERETT S. ONG, 0000 WILFREDO J. NIEVES, 0000 To be brigadier general ERIC R. SCHMIDT, 0000 STEVEN L. OLSEN, 0000 DARRELL S. SMITH, 0000 DONALD T. OSBORN, 0000 COL. TRACY L. GARRETT, 0000 BRENT A. SONDAY, 0000 JOSEPH A. OUMA, 0000 IN THE NAVY COREY M. STANLEY, 0000 ROBERT G. PATTERSON, 0000 BRYAN K. TALLENT, 0000 CHRISTOPHER P. PAULSON, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT RICHARD A. VANDERWEELE, 0000 BARAK PERAHIA, 0000 IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY TO THE GRADE INDICATED JAMES E. VANGILDER IV, 0000 KENNY J. PETERSON, 0000 WHILE ASSIGNED TO A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE AND JOHN K. WALTON, 0000 JOSEPH A. POCREVA, 0000 RESPONSIBILITY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 601: MICHAEL D. WEBB, 0000 MANOJ RAVI, 0000 LYRAD K. RILEY, 0000 To be admiral THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT JOY A. N. RODRIGUEZ, 0000 TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES AIR ADM. TIMOTHY J. KEATING, 0000 DAVID M. ROGERS, 0000 FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: ROBERT J. SCHIMMEL, 0000 IN THE AIR FORCE To be lieutenant colonel KEITH E. SCHLECHTE, 0000 JAMES M. SCOTT III, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT KENT D. ABBOTT, 0000 MELINDA D. SCREWS, 0000 TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES AIR JAYE E. ADAMS, 0000 GUY M. SHOAF, 0000 FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: PER K. AMUNDSON, 0000 FERNANDO SILVA, 0000 To be colonel DINA M. ANDREOTTI, 0000 PETER T. SIPOS, 0000 CHESTER P. BARTON III, 0000 PAMELA D. SMITH, 0000 GINO L. AUTERI, 0000 KRISTEN J. BEALS, 0000 BRANDON T. SNOOK, 0000 PETER G. BREWER, 0000 RACHEL L. BECK, 0000 JOHN B. STETSON, 0000 JAMES J. BURKS, 0000 CELESTE S. BLANKEN, 0000 ROBERT T. SULLIVAN, 0000 LINNES L. CHESTER, JR., 0000 DAVID E. BLOCKER, 0000 GREGORY B. SWEITZER, 0000 LESLIE L. DIXON, 0000 KENNETH J. BOOMGAARD, 0000 DEREK A. TAGGARD, 0000 KEVIN W. GLASZ, 0000 CHRISTOPHER J. BORCHARDT, 0000 MICHAEL A. TALL, 0000 THOMAS S. HAINES, JR., 0000 LINDA R. BOYD, 0000 NATHAN L. TAYLOR, 0000 MARK A. KOPPEN, 0000 KIMBERLY R. BRADLEY, 0000 STEVEN B. TAYLOR, 0000 LESLIE K. NESS, 0000 JOSEPH V. BROWNE, 0000 ROBERT E. THAXTON, 0000 BRUCE D. PETERS, 0000 KEVIN BRYAN, 0000 NICOLE M. THOMAS, 0000 BRIAN L. RIGGS, 0000 DAVID S. BUSH, 0000 ALICIA L. TSCHIRHART, 0000 MARK S. WHITE, 0000 MARK E. CAMPBELL, 0000 DANIEL R. TUCKEY, 0000 GLENN A. YAP, 0000 THOMAS J. CANTILINA, 0000 ANTHONY P. TVARYANAS, 0000 JESUS E. ZARATE, 0000 ALESIA C. CARRIZALES, 0000 LAURENCE A. ULISSEY, 0000 SCOTT C. CARRIZALES, 0000 GINA G. VITIELLO, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT JAMES A. CHAMBERS, 0000 ANTHONY W. WALDROUP, 0000 TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES AIR ARTEMIO C. CHAPA, 0000 CRAIG A. WARDELL, 0000 FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: MOLINDA M. CHARTRAND, 0000 DANIEL J. WATTENDORF, 0000 To be colonel JOHN H. CHOE, 0000 LEE D. WILLIAMES, 0000 DIXON L. CHRISTIAN, 0000 PAMELA M. WILLIAMS, 0000 BRIAN E. BERGERON, 0000 VALERIE J. CLEGG, 0000 WILLIAM E. WINTER III, 0000 DOUGLAS B. CURRY, 0000 JASMIN K. COLE, 0000 BRUCE A. WOODFORD, 0000 DOUGLAS E. FORD, 0000 JOSEPH CONNOLLY III, 0000 EDWARD B. WOODWARD, 0000 LEE A. FULSAAS, 0000 JOHN J. COTTON, 0000 YI YANG, 0000 JAY D. GRAVER, 0000 MITCHELL W. COX, 0000 ROBERT R. YORK, 0000 SCOTT R. GREENING, 0000 STEVEN J. CYR, 0000 JEFFREY M. YOUNG, 0000 TIMOTHY C. KIRKPATRICK, 0000 MONICA A. DALRYMPLE, 0000 SHAWN P. ZARR, 0000 STEVEN L. KLYN, 0000 PIERRE ALAIN L. DAUBY, 0000 JIANZHONG J. ZHANG, 0000 ALLAN S. PARKE, 0000 EDWIN P. DAVIS, JR., 0000 AN ZHU, 0000 JOHN K. PAUL III, 0000 YVONNE M. DIETRICH, 0000 MICHAEL E. POTH, 0000 REYNOLD R. M. DLIMA, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED INDIVIDUALS FOR APPOINT- GLENN L. TERRY, 0000 PETER G. DREWES, 0000 MENT IN THE GRADES INDICATED IN THE REGULAR AIR FRANCESCA VASTAFALLDORF, 0000 RITA L. DUBOYCE, 0000 FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 531(A): JAMES A. WIMSATT III, 0000 CASEY E. DUNCAN, 0000 To be lieutenant colonel LOLO WONG, 0000 JAMES M. EGBERT, JR., 0000 CHRISTINE R. ERDIELALENA, 0000 ANTHONY J. PACENTA, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT JOYCE P. FIEDLER, 0000 BARNEY E. SELPH, 0000 TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES AIR DOUGLAS S. FILES, 0000 To be major FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: VAL W. FINNELL, 0000 To be colonel MICHAEL L. GALLENTINE, 0000 GWENDOLYN A. FINLEY, 0000 ARTHUR J. GAMACHE, JR., 0000 CHARLES J. MALONE, 0000 BRIAN D. AFFLECK, 0000 VINOD K. GIDVANIDIAZ, 0000 JIMMIE D. BAILEY II, 0000 STEPHEN A. GILL, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT JAMES R. BENNION, 0000 HOWARD R. GIVENS, 0000 TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES AIR KEITH E. BRANDT, 0000 PAUL D. GLEASON II, 0000 FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: GERRY L. BROWER, 0000 SANDRA L. GRAVES, 0000 To be major JEFFREY N. DAVILA, 0000 KERYL J. GREEN, 0000 PAUL S. DOAN, 0000 PATRICK M. GROGAN, 0000 TANSEL ACAR, 0000

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LAURA A. AESCHLIMANN, 0000 JUSTIN L. CUMMINGS, 0000 BENJAMIN E. MONTGOMERY, 0000 COURTNEY A. ANDERSON, 0000 MATTHEW J. DARLING, 0000 ZACHARY R. MUCHER, 0000 DEBORAH ASHCRAFT OLMSCHEID, 0000 EVERETT J. DE LEON, 0000 JOHN J. MURDOCK, 0000 AREZOO BARANI, 0000 PATRICK D. DEAN, JR., 0000 SCOTT R. NASPINSKY, 0000 ELHAM BARANI, 0000 ADAM M. DEBIN, 0000 CUONG M. NGUYEN, 0000 STEVEN W. BLACK, 0000 KAYLYNN DECARLI, 0000 NEIL B. NIPPER, 0000 ERIC W. BLUDAU, 0000 STEVEN D. DEMARTINI, 0000 ERIK V. NOTT, 0000 SETH R. BRIGGS, 0000 MICHAEL V. DEMASI, 0000 LANCE M. NUSSBAUM, 0000 BRYAN E. CARDON, 0000 MICHAEL J. DERR, 0000 ERIK D. OBERG, 0000 JASON A. CARTER, 0000 JUSTIN F. DEVITO, 0000 ELIZABETH A. OCONNOR, 0000 JACK K. CHUNG, 0000 ERIN M. DOLAN, 0000 KEVIN W. ODONNELL, 0000 PAUL M. CREER, 0000 KENDRA L. DOLAN, 0000 MARY J. M. ODTOHAN, 0000 MICHAEL J. DAILEY, 0000 JOHN R. DORSCH, 0000 JASON F. OKULICZ, 0000 JOHN C. DAVIS, 0000 ELIZABETH DUNCAN, 0000 DEREK A. OLDHAM, 0000 PEGGY L. DICKSON, 0000 ANTHONY M. DURSO, 0000 KRISTINA E. ORIO, 0000 WILLIAM J. DICKSON, 0000 MARYANN J. ELACATE, 0000 PETER J. OSTERBAUER, 0000 KERRI FONT, 0000 ROBERT L. EMERY, 0000 TREMIKAE R. OWENS, 0000 JEFFREY A. FORD, 0000 RICHARD ENDORF, 0000 STEPHEN R. GASPAROVICH, 0000 KELLY M. ENGLUND, 0000 PAUL C. PALECEK, 0000 USHA S. GOKHALE, 0000 GREGORY A. ERICKSON, 0000 VASUDHA A. PANDAY, 0000 SHANNON K. GRABARKEWITZ, 0000 JEFFREY S. FAIT, 0000 TARANG V. PATEL, 0000 JEREMY D. HAMAL, 0000 KEVIN A. FAJARDO, 0000 CHRISTINE M. PATTON, 0000 SHANE R. HANSON, 0000 MARION B. FARNSWORTH, 0000 THOMAS B. PAYNTER, 0000 JOSHUA M. HETHCOX, 0000 JACQUELINE S. FERNANDES, 0000 NATHAN H. PEKAR, 0000 FRED P. KREY, 0000 CECELIA M. FICEK, 0000 MARIA E. PEREZJOHNSON, 0000 SCOTT J. LAFONT, 0000 IRENE FOLARON, 0000 JOHN K. PLEMMONS, 0000 BEN S. LEE, 0000 LEELEE E. FRANCISCO, 0000 ANDREA M. PORROVECCHIO, 0000 DAVID R. LUKE III, 0000 JULIE A. FREILINO, 0000 PAUL PUCHTA, 0000 JAMES F. MASON, 0000 BRIAN L. FRENCH, 0000 BRADLEY S. PUTTY, 0000 CHRIS Y. MAYEDA, 0000 TRAVIS W. GERLACH, 0000 AARON R. QUINN, 0000 ROBERT B. MCLEOD, 0000 DANIELLE L. GIDDINS, 0000 ROLANDO Y. RAMOS, 0000 ROGER L. MILLER, 0000 MATTHEW C. GILL, 0000 CARL S. RAMSEY, 0000 BRIAN G. MIN, 0000 TERRY A. GODFREY, 0000 JENNIFER R. RATCLIFF, 0000 JEFFREY A. MOELLER, 0000 ERIKA G. GONZALEZ, 0000 LANCE D. REAL, 0000 MICHELLE M. MOFFA, 0000 ANNE GRAY, 0000 CHRISTOPHER M. REED, 0000 LEON A. NIEH, 0000 ELIZABETH A. GREENE, 0000 DAVID G. REEL, 0000 JAMES W. PLEDGER II, 0000 DAVID S. GROUNDS, 0000 LUCIENNE L. REIDDUNCAN, 0000 BRIAN RHEUDE, 0000 BRANDON T. GROVER, 0000 JOHN S. RENSHAW, 0000 MARK D. ROBERTS, 0000 ALAN D. GUHLKE, 0000 RICHARD D. RHODES, 0000 JEREMY F. SCARPATE, 0000 GREGORY D. GUTKE, 0000 DEVIN A. RICKETT, 0000 DONALD R. SCHMITT, 0000 PATRICK A. HAGEMAN, 0000 IAN C. RIDDOCK, 0000 DANIEL J. SIMON, 0000 CHARLES J. HAGGERTY, 0000 HEATHER D. RIGGS, 0000 ERIC D. SMITH, 0000 LENONIE M. HANLEY, 0000 JON K. B. RIGGS, 0000 JUAN M. TEODORO, 0000 MELISSA E. HANNA, 0000 JANELLE L. ROBERTSON, 0000 STUART P. THOMPSON, 0000 RYAN D. HANSON, 0000 JON M. ROBITSCHEK, 0000 SCOTT E. THOMSON, 0000 HERBERT J. HARMAN, 0000 JONATHAN M. ROGERS, 0000 CHAD M. WATTS, 0000 KIRBY G. HARVEY, JR., 0000 JOHN RUSHTON, 0000 AMY E. WESTERMAN, 0000 STEVEN D. HELD, 0000 MICHAEL J. RUSSELL, 0000 BRANDON H. WILLIAMS, 0000 GIAN P. HERNANDEZ, 0000 TOMEKA D. RUSSELL, 0000 DAVID A. ZIMLIKI, 0000 ERIC A. HIGH, 0000 RAFAEL SANTIAGO, 0000 WILLIAM M. HILTON, 0000 TAMAR E. SAUTTER, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT BRADLEY S. HOCHSTETLER, 0000 TREVOR J. SCHAR, 0000 TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES AIR BRIAN K. HOGAN, 0000 TANJA R. SCHERM, 0000 FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: FAWN S. HOGAN, 0000 CARRIE A. SCHMID, 0000 To be major ROBERT L. HOLMES, 0000 MELISSA SCHOENWETTER, 0000 JESSICA G. HORNE, 0000 ERICH W. SCHROEDER, 0000 BRIAN G. ACCOLA, 0000 STEPHANIE E. HORTON, 0000 DANIEL R. SCHULTEIS, 0000 DERICK H. ADAMS, 0000 MATTHEW D. HOWELL, 0000 ERIK R. SCHWALIER, 0000 SAMUEL E. AIKELE, 0000 LARA F. HUFFMAN, 0000 TROY M. SCHWARTZ, 0000 NIMA A. ALINEJAD, 0000 JONATHAN C. JACKSON, 0000 ANDREW D. SEDIVY, 0000 ANDREW T. ALLEN, 0000 NORRIS J. JACKSON, 0000 CARRIE L. SELVARAJ, 0000 CANDENA L. ALLENBRAND, 0000 HANS C. JENKINS, 0000 JAMES D. SENECHAL, 0000 JOSHUA B. ALLEY, 0000 CASEY JIMENEZFERREIRA, 0000 AALOK D. SHAH, 0000 GREGORY W. ANDERSON, 0000 KEITH J. JOE, 0000 TAVIS M. SHAW, 0000 MARK A. ANDERSON, 0000 ROY L. JOHNSON III, 0000 ERIC SHERMAN, 0000 PETER I. ANDERSON, 0000 ANDREA R. JUDY, 0000 JEFFREY W. SIMMONS, 0000 SHANE K. ANDERSON, 0000 CARRIE A. JUDY, 0000 SUSANNAH L. SIMONE, 0000 FLORIN D. ANDRECA, 0000 JEREMY S. KENNEDY, 0000 CHRISTY R. SKIBICKI, 0000 JONATHAN L. ARNHOLT, 0000 JESSICA A. KENT, 0000 BENJAMIN D. SMITH, 0000 AARON S. ASHABRANER, 0000 MATTHEW R. KEYSOR, 0000 BRENT W. SMITH, 0000 MICHAEL S. ATHA, 0000 DAVID D. KIM, 0000 CHRISTIAN J. SMITH, 0000 NORMAN D. BAKER, JR., 0000 GARY S. KIM, 0000 JEANINE A. SOMMERVILLE, 0000 TIMOTHY P. BALLARD, 0000 KELLY S. KING, 0000 THOMAS D. SPRINKLE, 0000 ROBERT L. BALTZER, JR., 0000 SCOTT A. KING, 0000 JENNINGS R. STALEY, 0000 ERIC W. BARNES, 0000 KRISTI N. KINSEY, 0000 ERIC S. STOVER, 0000 ANDY S. BARNETT, 0000 DAVID J. KIRBY, 0000 JONATHAN L. STREETER, 0000 JASON BARNETT, 0000 SARAH V. KRINGER, 0000 IVETTE E. SUBER, 0000 JOHN P. BARON, 0000 DAVID E. KUHLMAN, 0000 DREW N. SWASEY, 0000 MICHAEL J. BENCA, 0000 TRISTAN T. LAI, 0000 JASON SWEENEY, 0000 RONALD M. BERNARDIN III, 0000 JEFFREY M. LAMMERS, 0000 WILLIAM D. TALLEY, JR., 0000 JONATHAN M. BISHOP, 0000 DANIEL R. LAMOTHE, 0000 ARLO M. TAN, 0000 DAVID J. BONILLA, 0000 FRANCESCA M. LANE, 0000 PEI Y. TANG, 0000 EDWARD J. BORMAN, 0000 THOMAS M. LARGE, 0000 GREGORY H. TAYLOR, 0000 LANCE H. BORUP, 0000 BRIAN D. LAYTON, 0000 AARON S. THAKER, 0000 JEFFEREY L. BOWDEN, 0000 DEWAYNE C. LAZENBY, 0000 THOMAS J. THERRIEN, 0000 KENNETH J. BRASLOW, 0000 BENJAMIN D. LEDERER, 0000 ELSA THOMAS, 0000 REBEKAH G. BRISCOE, 0000 VINCENT J. LEE, 0000 MONICA J. TILLMAN, 0000 MATTHEW W. BROWN, 0000 MICHELLE K. LEGGETT, 0000 JUSTIN J. TINGEY, 0000 SANDRA BRUNO, 0000 AARON D. LEIS, 0000 CHRISTOPHER M. TSUEDA, 0000 STEPHEN A. BURKY, 0000 RUSSELL L. LEMMON, 0000 JOHN M. TUDELA, 0000 TREVER M. BURNETT, 0000 MARK R. LENTHE, 0000 MARISSA M. VALENCIA, 0000 ANTOINETTE T. BURNS, 0000 MICHELLE R. LESTER, 0000 LOUIS M. VARNER, 0000 CASSANDRA J. BURNS, 0000 ADRIAN G. LETZ, 0000 GUY C. VENUTI, 0000 GLENN D. BURNS, 0000 HUI L. LI, 0000 FRANKLIN D. WADDELL, 0000 KENT D. BURR, 0000 MATTHEW B. LIPPSTONE, 0000 CLAUDINE T. WARD, 0000 GEORGE J. BUSE, 0000 JOSEPH D. LOVE, 0000 CHRISTOPHER M. WEBBER, 0000 DAVID M. CALL, 0000 FRANK L. LOYD IV, 0000 BENJAMIN D. WEINTRAUB, 0000 CHRISTOPHER N. CARAGAN, 0000 SEAN MACDERMOTT, 0000 DAVID J. WEITZ, 0000 JEFFREY J. CARLSON, 0000 MATTHEW M. MALAN, 0000 SUK C. WHANG, 0000 MICHAEL C. CAROZZA, 0000 VALERIE J. MALLOY, 0000 BRIAN K. WHITE, 0000 LYDIA CARPENTER, 0000 KENNETH A. MARRIOTT III, 0000 BRYAN M. WHITE, 0000 YOVANNI CASABLANCA, 0000 BRYANT R. MARTIN, 0000 ANNETTE L. WILLIAMS, 0000 HEATHER X. CERESTE, 0000 JOSHUA MATTISON, 0000 JON P. WINKLER, 0000 CHRISTY Y. H. CHAI, 0000 LENA M. MAYES, 0000 OLIVER J. WISCO, 0000 EDWARD CHAMPOUX, 0000 OLIVER MAYORGA, 0000 JESSICA M. WRIGHT, 0000 MICHAEL J. CHASE, 0000 DEIRDRE M. MCCULLOUGH, 0000 MATTHEW W. WRIGHT, 0000 MICHAEL CHEN, 0000 JOSEPH H. MCDERMOTT, 0000 DARRELL M. ZAUGG, 0000 MARC A. CHILDRESS, 0000 KERI J. MCHUGH, 0000 SCOTT M. ZELASKO, 0000 JARED A. CHUGG, 0000 MARIEFRANCE M. MCINTEE, 0000 ALEXANDER J. ZENZICK, 0000 TRICIA L. CLARK, 0000 GREGORY M. MEIS, 0000 DAVID H. ZONIES, 0000 PETER M. CLIFTEN, 0000 KENT A. MELDRUM, 0000 FRANCIS J. CLORAN, 0000 MICHAEL MICHEL, 0000 IN THE ARMY JASON G. COISMAN, 0000 MARVIN J. MIKESKA, 0000 AMY E. COLEMAN, 0000 CHRISTINA M. MILLHOUSE, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED ARMY NATIONAL GUARD OF DEAN R. CRANNEY, 0000 AASIF H. MIRZA, 0000 THE UNITED STATES OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT TO PETER J. CRONIN, 0000 JENNIFER M. MOHR, 0000 THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE ARMY SCOTT J. CROSBY, 0000 NISHA N. MONEY, 0000 UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 12203 AND 12211:

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BUCKLEY, 0000 To be major WILLIAM A. HALL, 0000 JESS A. CALOHAN, 0000 ROMICO D. CAUGHMAN, 0000 DENNIS R. BELL, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT MEKEISHA M. CAULK, 0000 MICHAEL BERECZ, 0000 TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY ERIC K. CHA, 0000 STEPHANIE L. BOYD, 0000 MEDICAL SPECIALIST CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., MONIQUE R. COURTSCARTER, 0000 RONALD L. BURKE, 0000 SECTIONS 624 AND 3064: PAUL M. CRUM, 0000 TAYLOR B. CHANCE, 0000 To be major PATRICIA L. DAVIS, 0000 MARK G. CHAPPELL, 0000 STEVEN W. DAVIS, 0000 MATTHEW J. ENROTH, 0000 DAVID W. ADMIRE, 0000 THOMAS J. DERION, 0000 GERRI L. FLETCHER, 0000 SUZANNE A. AKULEY, 0000 JODY L. DUGAI, 0000 CHAD D. FOSTER, 0000 DOUGLAS W. AVILLA, 0000 ROBERT P. DUPREY, JR., 0000 MICHELLE E. GOODNIGHT, 0000 LORIE Y. BARKER, 0000 JAMES A. EADS, 0000 MARGARET A. HANSON, 0000 RACHELLE M. BESEMAN, 0000 CHRISTOPHER L. ERKKILA, 0000 CARY HONNOLD, 0000 WILLIAM J. BOWMAN, 0000 PAUL F. ESTES, 0000 BRYAN D. HUX, 0000 KIMBERLY D. BRENDA, 0000 CARABALLO D. ESTRADA, 0000 GWYNNE E. KINLEY, 0000 ALEXANDER K. BRENNER, 0000 DARRELL B. EVANS, 0000 NORMAN KREISELMEIER, 0000 TRACY H. BROWN, 0000 BRETT W. EVERS, 0000 ERIC LOMBARDINI, 0000 BRIAN E. BURK, 0000 JONATHAN F. FELLION, 0000 ANDREW L. MCGRAW, 0000 RICHARD CAPO, 0000 STACEY L. FERREIRA, 0000 AUDREY C. MCMILLANCOLE, 0000 RONALD A. CARDEN, 0000 ELIZABETH A. FINDLEY, 0000 RACHEL S. MOULTON, 0000 PAUL T. CIECHOSKI, 0000 CHARLES M. FISHER, JR., 0000 ROBERT PAUL, 0000 LARRY P. CLIFTON, 0000 JAMES R. FOX, 0000 CONNIE W. SCHMITT, 0000 JACQUELINE L. COLEY, 0000 TAMARA S. FUNARI, 0000 TRACY H. SCHMITT, 0000 ROBERT F. COLLINS, 0000 KRISTEN J. GOODWIN, 0000 KRISTIE L. SOUDERS, 0000 TIMOTHY S. CONGDON, 0000 KENNETH R. GORE, 0000 BRETT J. TAYLOR, 0000 PETER J. CONTOS, 0000 AMY J. HADSALL, 0000 APRIL ULMER, 0000 KYLE G. COOPER, 0000 GREGORY D. HALL, 0000 KENT J. VINCE, 0000 THEODORE W. CROY III, 0000 ROBIN R. HARROLD, 0000 SAEZ J. CRUZ, 0000 CARLA M. HERRERA, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT JOHN P. DANA, 0000 JENISE L. HILLS, 0000 TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY CHARLES K. DEAN, 0000 DANIELLE T. HOCKEY, 0000 MEDICAL SERVICE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SEC- JOHN F. DETRO, 0000 LAURA M. HUDSON, 0000 TIONS 624 AND 3064: JAMES C. DICKINSON, 0000 TODDY F. INGRAM, 0000 To be major GAIL A. EVANS, 0000 BONNIE J. JEANICE, 0000 SCARLETT A. FOSTER, 0000 JACK M. JENKINSON, 0000 RONALD J. AQUINO, 0000 JAMES C. FULTON, 0000 JIMMIE C. JOHNSON II, 0000 ORTIZ E. ARROYO, 0000 MICHAEL S. GAGNET, 0000 JAROLD T. JOHNSTON, JR., 0000 CAROL A. ASADOORIAN, 0000 MICHAEL K. GARCIA, 0000 JERROMY L. JONES, 0000 ROBERT T. ASHBURN, 0000 FLORIE GONZALES, 0000 JOHN D. KEENER, 0000 PRINCESS L. ATUNRASE, 0000 JAY M. HARDY, 0000 MARK C. KILLEBREW, 0000 SEREKA L. BARLOW, 0000 PAUL J. HAWKENSON, 0000 JOHNNY KING III, 0000 MICHAEL F. BELENKY, 0000 NEIL T. HEDDEN, 0000 JULIE E. LEE, 0000 ALVIN BLACKMON III, 0000 CHRISTOPHER L. HINTZ, 0000 JENNIFER D. LORILLA, 0000 JEFFERY K. BLACKWELL, 0000 FREDDIE C. HOBSON, 0000 CHRISTINE M. LUDWIG, 0000 GERALD L. BONNER, JR., 0000 KEVIN M. HOUCK, 0000 THERESA C. MACK, 0000 MICHAEL W. BOYE, 0000 KENNETH E. HYDE, 0000 BRUCE MATHEWS, 0000 DAVID A. BOYER, 0000 RODERICK KELLY, 0000 TERRY MATHEWS, 0000 PATRICK J. BRADY, 0000 TOMMY W. LAIRD, JR., 0000 DENISE A. MCFARLAND, 0000 DANIEL D. BRIDON, 0000 SHELENA I. LAY, 0000 WILLIAM J. MEEK II, 0000 BURKE L. BRISTOW, 0000 ESTHER L. LAZO, 0000 ELBRIDGE A. MERRITT, 0000 ALAN D. BRYANT, 0000 IAN E. LEE, 0000 VIVIANNA MESTAS, 0000 PATRICK M. CAREY, 0000 ANDREW E. LEIGH, 0000 CARRIE B. MILES, 0000 CLAYTON A. CARR, 0000 DAVID S. LEVY, 0000 GENERA D. MILLER, 0000 PHILLIP W. CHRISTY, 0000 LARRY T. LINDSAY, 0000 MICHAEL K. MOHAMMADI, 0000 DAMON P. CLEATON, 0000 SUE L. LOVE, 0000 RANDALL L. MOORE, 0000 JAMES F. COLE, 0000 ROBERTO E. MARIN, 0000 ANNE M. MORGAN, 0000 JUSTIN D. COLE, 0000 STEPHANIE A. MEYER, 0000 TINA M. MORGAN, 0000 GARY S. COOPER, 0000 JOHN A. MILLWARD, 0000 LELAND B. MORGANS, 0000 JASON B. CORLEY, 0000 ROBERT D. MONTZ, 0000 JOHN A. MURPHY, JR., 0000 MATTHEW T. COX, 0000 KEARY J. MUDIE, 0000 TINA J. MURRY, 0000 JAMES E. CRAIG, 0000 ROBERT P. NUTTER, 0000 LISA K. MUTZIG, 0000 GARRICK L. CRAMER, 0000 ARNE E. OAS, 0000 STACEY E. NAPPER, 0000 RICHARD L. CURTIS, 0000 EDWARD B. OBRIAN, 0000 JAMES R. NOLIN, 0000 LORNETTE D. DALLAS, 0000 DAWN L. ORTA, 0000 KELLIE J. NORRIS, 0000 COREY V. DAUGHTREY, 0000 JAMES G. PAIRMORE, 0000 DORENE A. OWEN, 0000 JASON S. DAVIS, 0000 MARLIN D. PAYNE, JR., 0000 TROY J. PALMER, 0000 LANA G. DAVIS, 0000 EVAN J. PETERSEN, 0000 SHARON Z. PARKER, 0000 CLARISSA DEJESUSMORALES, 0000 ANN M. PIERCE, 0000 KIM L. PARKS, 0000 DAVID A. DERRICK, 0000 LANCE J. PLATT, 0000 BRANDI L. PECK, 0000 MICHAEL DESENA, 0000 KEITH A. POWELL, 0000 CLAUDIA A. PETERSON, 0000 DAVID L. DOUGLAS, 0000 JAMES L. PULLIAM, 0000 CLAUSYL J. PLUMMER, 0000 JAMES A. EDDIS III, 0000 MARC C. RACITI, 0000 AMBER L. POCRNICH, 0000 JASON FAIRBANKS, 0000 JERRY L. RIDER, 0000 PRENTICE R. PRICE, 0000 MATTHEW A. FARISHON, 0000 CHARLES A. ROBERTS, 0000 RIKKINA G. PULLIAM, 0000 SEAN P. FARLEY, 0000 LAWRENCE A. ROBINSON, 0000 RODOLFO G. QUINTANA, JR., 0000 GLEN J. FIORENZA, 0000 JOSEPH T. SENESI, 0000 THOMAS O. RAWLINGS, 0000 LEE C. FREEMAN, 0000 HOLLIS L. SMITH, JR., 0000 WESLEY A. REYNOLDS, 0000 OSCAR S. FRIENDLY, 0000 JORGE E. SMITHLEON, 0000 ARMI T. RHODES, 0000 BRADY A. GALLAGHER, 0000 LEANDRO SOLIS, JR., 0000 SHERRI K. RIBBING, 0000 JAMES H. GERLACH, 0000 CAMERON C. STOKES, 0000 LAURA E. RICARDO, 0000 KATHLEEN M. GIBSON, 0000 KERRYN L. STORY, 0000 CHERYL C. RIVERA, 0000 GEORGE O. GILBERT, JR., 0000 MARK D. THELEN, 0000 SONYA R. ROBERTS, 0000 JACOB H. GIN, 0000 RONNA L. TRENT, 0000 AMY K. ROY, 0000 PAUL C. GRAVES, 0000 FRANKLIN L. TUCKER, 0000 PERRY C. RUIZ, 0000 ANTHONY D. GRAY, 0000 BETH A. VANDERPOOL, 0000 JEFFREY D. RUMFIELD, 0000 NIZAMETTIN GUL, 0000 JOSEPH W. WALBERT, JR., 0000 RANDALL M. SCHAEFER, 0000 MICHAEL HAEDT, 0000 ROY E. WALLACE, 0000 JODELLE M. SCHROEDER, 0000 VERONICA L. HAGER, 0000 SHELDON WATSON, 0000 DARIN S. SCHWARTZ, 0000 JAMES T. HAMACHER, 0000 RHONDA WYNDER, 0000 BENJAMIN E. SEELEY, 0000 MICHELLE HANNON, 0000 KATHLEEN E. YANCOSEK, 0000 DAWN M. SEELEY, 0000 SHIRLEY L. HARP, 0000 ARTHUR F. YEAGER, 0000 PAUL A. SEXTON, 0000 DARIN L. HARPER, 0000 D000041 JACK D. SHAPIRO, 0000 ANDREW J. HARTMAN, 0000 GREGORY V. SHUMATE, 0000 BERNARD HARVEY, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT LEILANI A. SIAKI, 0000 CORY L. HEINEKEN, 0000 TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY JERREMIE V. SIEGFRIED, 0000 KENNETH S. HELGREN, 0000 NURSE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 624 AND ANN C. SIMS, 0000 ROBERT C. HOERAUF, 0000 3064: KEVIN E. SNYDER, 0000 TIMOTHY J. HUNT, JR., 0000 To be major WARREN A. STEWART, 0000 RAYMOND J. JABLONKA, 0000 TINA M. STREKER, 0000 DOUGLAS R. JACKSON, 0000 JAMES A. ADAMEC, 0000 MICHAEL G. SWINDLE, 0000 FREDERICK C. JACKSON, 0000 ELIZABETH E. ADAMS, 0000 BING TANWINTERS, 0000 MARY A. JOHNSON, 0000 RICHARD C. ALES, 0000 MEEMIE J. THA, 0000 TAMMIE M. JONES, 0000 JEFFREY M. ALLERDING, 0000 KENNETH J. THOMPSON, 0000 STEVIE T. JORDAN, 0000 MAEVELYN A. ANDALIS, 0000 BRADLEY C. TIBBETTS, 0000 NICOS KARASAVVA, 0000 LARRY B. ARAMANDA, 0000 PAUL R. WARE, 0000 ALEXANDER K. KAYATANI, 0000 JESSICA J. ARENS, 0000 KEITH A. WARHURST, 0000 AMY S. KING, 0000

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ANTHONY M. KING, 0000 RAYMOND D. SPIAK, JR., 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT DANNY KITTRELL, JR., 0000 ERIC SPOTTS, 0000 IN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE TO THE GRADE INDI- CLEMENS S. KRUSE, 0000 SCOTT J. STOKOE, 0000 CATED UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: THOMAS M. LANDINO, 0000 KEVIN L. STRAIT, 0000 KENDRA L. LAWRENCE, 0000 SCOTT F. SWANDAL, 0000 To be brigadier general JOHN W. LEE, 0000 NICOLA A. THOMPSON, 0000 COL. DAVID H. CYR SEAN C. LESTER, 0000 ARISTOTLE A. VASELIADES, 0000 JACQUELINE N. LEWIS, 0000 RICHARD VELAZQUEZ, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT DANIEL M. LIEDL, 0000 CARYN R. VERNON, 0000 IN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE TO THE GRADE INDI- ROBERT A. LINDSAY, 0000 GEORGE C. WALKER, 0000 CATED UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: ROBERT G. LOWEN, 0000 KENNETH L. WALTERS, 0000 PETER B. MARKOT, 0000 LAWANDA D. WARTHEN, 0000 To be brigadier general WINICO M. MARTINEZ, 0000 HANS H. WEI, 0000 COL. DOUGLAS J. ROBB JAMES N. MASTERSON, 0000 STATON W. WEST, 0000 CHRISTOPHER D. MAYHUGH, 0000 JO A. WHISENHUNT, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT YVETTE M. MCCREA, 0000 DANIEL M. WOODLOCK, 0000 IN THE RESERVE OF THE AIR FORCE TO THE GRADE INDI- DARRYL A. MCGUIRE, 0000 TODD M. YOSICK, 0000 CATED UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: DAVID S. MCILWAIN, 0000 HASSAN ZAHWA, 0000 To be major general SEAN A. MCMURRY, 0000 PATRICK A. ZENK, 0000 STEVEN A. MEADOW, 0000 DAVID R. ZINNANTE, 0000 BRIGADIER GENERAL FRANK J. CASSERINO MARK D. MELLOTT, 0000 REBECCA A. ZINNANTE, 0000 BRIGADIER GENERAL STEPHEN P. GROSS MICHAEL S. MENDENHALL, 0000 JOHN P. ZOLL, 0000 BRIGADIER GENERAL CLAY T. MCCUTCHAN SCOTT C. MENKING, 0000 D0000 BRIGADIER GENERAL FRANK J. PADILLA WANDA L. MICHAELS, 0000 D0000 BRIGADIER GENERAL LOREN S. PERLSTEIN DAVID R. MILLER, 0000 BRIGADIER GENERAL JACK W. RAMSAUR II DANIEL MISIGOY, 0000 f BRIGADIER GENERAL BRADLEY C. YOUNG SHELLEY N. MIZELLE, 0000 HEIDI P. MON, 0000 To be brigadier general JAMES A. MORRISON, 0000 CONFIRMATIONS JITTAWADEE MURPHY, 0000 COLONEL FRANK E. ANDERSON BERNADETTE A. NITER, 0000 Executive nominations confirmed by COLONEL PATRICK A. CORD MARCO A. OCHOA, 0000 the Senate Wednesday, February 7, COLONEL CRAIG N. GOURLEY TERRIE L. PITTMAN, 0000 COLONEL DONALD C. RALPH MATOS J. PIZARRO, 0000 2007: COLONEL WILLIAM F. SCHAUFFERT MARK C. PLOOSTER, 0000 EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT COLONEL JACK K. SEWELL, JR. PETER J. PRESLEY, 0000 COLONEL RICHARD A. SHOOK, JR. JOSE F. QUESADA, 0000 J. MICHAEL MCCONNELL, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE DIREC- COLONEL LANCE D. UNDHJEM MCKINLEY N. RAINEY, 0000 TOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE. COLONEL JOHN T. WINTERS, JR. PETER A. RAMOS, 0000 THE ABOVE NOMINATION WAS APPROVED SUBJECT TO LYLE D. RASMUSSEN, JR., 0000 THE NOMINEE’S COMMITMENT TO RESPOND TO RE- IN THE ARMY DEVON O. REED, 0000 QUESTS TO APPEAR AND TESTIFY BEFORE ANY DULY THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT JEFFREY L. REIBESTEIN, 0000 CONSTITUTED COMMITTEE OF THE SENATE. CRAIG D. RENNARD, 0000 IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY TO THE GRADE INDICATED CABRERA E. REYES, 0000 IN THE NAVY WHILE ASSIGNED TO A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE AND DANIEL E. REYNOLDS, 0000 RESPONSIBILITY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 601: RANDALL W. RHEES, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT FRANK E. RIGGLE, JR., 0000 IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY TO THE GRADE INDICATED To be lieutenant general WHILE ASSIGNED TO A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE AND SHANE A. ROACH, 0000 LT. GEN. JAMES M. DUBIK CODY R. ROBERSON, 0000 RESPONSIBILITY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 601: JASON L. ROBERTS, 0000 IN THE AIR FORCE ADMINDA L. RODRIGUEZ, 0000 To be admiral DAVID L. ROLLINS, 0000 ADM. WILLIAM J. FALLON AIR FORCE NOMINATIONS BEGINNING WITH MICHAEL D. PHILLIP D. ROOKS, 0000 JACOBSON AND ENDING WITH TERRILL L. TOPS, WHICH KURT E. SCHAECHER, 0000 IN THE AIR FORCE NOMINATIONS WERE RECEIVED BY THE SENATE AND AP- TIMOTHY A. SHARPE, 0000 PEARED IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ON JANUARY JEFFREY S. SIGMON, 0000 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT 18, 2007. MICHAEL S. SMITH, 0000 IN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE TO THE GRADE INDI- AIR FORCE NOMINATIONS BEGINNING WITH STUART C. SAUDIA D. SMITH, 0000 CATED UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: CALLE AND ENDING WITH EDWIN O. RODRIGUEZPAGAN, NELSON S. SO, 0000 To be major general WHICH NOMINATIONS WERE RECEIVED BY THE SENATE EDWARD SONAK, 0000 AND APPEARED IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ON STEPHEN T. SPEER, 0000 BRIG. GEN. THOMAS W. TRAVIS JANUARY 18, 2007.

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IN RECOGNITION OF ARTHUR A. years of service he has given the people of ideal of integrity and character he fought for JUTTON ON HIS RETIREMENT Central New York. I know that although not then and inspires today. here in Washington, Art will find a way to stay f HON. JAMES T. WALSH involved. The work he accomplished was done INTRODUCTION OF BILL FOR COM- OF NEW YORK with the highest level of professionalism, a vig- MISSION ON UNFAIR TAX IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES orous work ethic, and most importantly a lov- BREAKS AND SUBSIDIES Wednesday, February 7, 2007 ing heart. On behalf of my constituents, the constituents of the aforementioned former Mr. WALSH of New York. Madam Speaker, members and all of the wonderful staff with HON. MARK UDALL I rise today with great pride, to honor some- whom he worked with, I personally thank Art OF COLORADO one who is very close to me and for whom I Jutton for all he has done. We will miss him. have the greatest respect; Mr. Arthur A. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Jutton. Known as Art or Mr. Jutton to his col- f Wednesday, February 7, 2007 leagues, Art served as my Chief of Staff since RECOGNIZING THE 92ND BIRTHDAY Mr. UDALL of Colorado. Madam Speaker. I my first day in office until his recent retirement OF DANNY QUILL am today introducing another bill intended to this month. As one of the longest serving staff help reduced waste and inequity in the Fed- members here in the House of Representa- HON. PATRICK J. MURPHY eral budget. tives, there are very few Hill staffers and There has been much discussion of indi- Washington professionals who did not know or OF PENNSYLVANIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES vidual spending items—‘‘earmarks’’—re- have the utmost respect for him. I cannot quested by individual members. They are not begin to describe all the contributions that Art Wednesday, February 7, 2007 all bad, but I agree that some need closer has made throughout what seems like an end- Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania. Madam scrutiny. That’s why I have introduced a bill, less tenure here on Capitol Hill. Speaker, I am proud to rise before you today H.R. 595, the Stimulating Leadership in Cut- Art began his career working for former to recognize the 92nd birthday of Danny Quill, ting Expenditures, or ‘‘SLICE’’ Act, to give the Congressman John Terry back in 1970. He decorated World War II veteran and Sergeant President a constitutionally sound version of a served as Mr. Terry’s District Representative of Arms for the Yardley VFW Post 6393. Mr. line-item veto that can force Congress to re- until 1972. Art then worked for former Con- consider individual spending items. gressman Bill Walsh, my father, as his Field Quill is the oldest and longest standing mem- Representative from 1972 to 1978. In 1978, ber of the Yardley VFW Post and the But we need to recognize that earmarks are Art moved down to Washington D.C. to serve Knowles-Doyle American Legion Post 317. His not the whole story. Much waste and inequity as the Administrative Assistant to former Con- service to this country began in 1942, and in the budget results not from 1-year spending gressman Gary Lee until 1982. In 1983, Art ever since he has inspired generations of men items, but from ongoing tax breaks and sub- became the Administrative Assistant to former and women who have had the privilege of sidies that are built into the budget and will Congressman Gerry Solomon and served in knowing him. persist unless and until there are changes in that post until 1988 when he became my Chief Mr. Quill was originally assigned to Wash- relevant law. of Staff. For the most part, all of the Members ington, D.C. with the 176th Infantry Division Like earmarks, not all tax breaks and sub- of Congress that Art has served have rep- responsible for protecting President Franklin sidies are bad—in fact, I think many are good resented the Central New York region. As a D. Roosevelt. Following this assignment, Pri- for our country and deserve to continue or Central Yorker himself, Art has helped all of vate First Class Quill was transferred to Fort even be expanded. One example would be us work diligently on behalf of the people of Benning, Georgia, where he served as a ma- the tax breaks and other provisions to promote that region and also for the greater good of chine gun instructor. Mr. Quill began his tour renewable energy and to help Americans be- the country. overseas with the 91st Infantry Division in Afri- come more efficient in their use of energy. During his time in government, Art became ca, but was quickly transported to Italy. And there are other examples as well. a pillar of strength among those with whom he Alongside Polish and English Army regi- But there is also an array of direct sub- worked with. From his first days until his last ments, Mr. Quill, a member of the 5th Army, sidies, tax breaks and indirect assistance cre- minute, Art carried a work ethic second to saw his first combat near Naples under the ated for the special benefit of a relatively small none and was an everlasting source of knowl- command of General Mark Clark. From there, number of beneficiaries, sometimes at the ex- edge. In the late 1970s, he started the New Madam Speaker, PFC Quill engaged in heavy pense of others. York State Republican Administrative Assist- combat as a machine gunner during cam- Too often, such provisions have persisted ant Association. This group would meet once paigns through Appennino Mountains and Po because of the phenomenon that once made a month for a breakfast to discuss the issues Valley. Madame Speaker, so extreme and it nearly impossible for Congress to close that were not only on the political forefront, but deadly was the fighting there, PFC Quill suf- unneeded military bases—the cost of each primarily issues that affected the citizens of fered the loss of 13 assistant ammunition one is relatively small in overall terms, but New York State. These meetings have since loaders, along with many other men serving very important to a few States or Congres- turned into the New York Republican Chiefs of beside him. sional Districts, with the result that the poten- Staff breakfasts that continue to this day. Over His bravery and courageous service earned tial budgetary benefit of a reform is not great the years, Art became a mentor to all staff that Mr. Quill a Combat Infantry Badge, Three enough to overcome the strong opposition was lucky enough to have worked with him. Bronze Stars, a European Campaign Medal, a from its defenders. Though sticking true to his beliefs, he had an European-African Campaign Medal, a World So, the bill I am introducing today would re- uncanny ability to maintain an open mind and War Two Victory Medal, and a Good Conduct solve this dilemma in the same way that an adjust with the times as they changed. Medal. earlier Congress resolved the similar problem Art not only created close relationships with When Mr. Quill returned home, his sense of of eliminating unneeded military bases. It staffers, but with all the employees of the duty held strong, so with the same passion he would do that by establishing an independent, House of Representatives. Every morning, began serving his community, a role he has bipartisan, and expert commission to review bright and early, you could find Art in the Ray- played now for the better half of a century. For special-interest tax breaks and subsidies to burn cafeteria sharing a cup of coffee with the such enduring commitment to his family, see which should be ended or revised. Superintendent’s staff. It was these early friends and neighbors; to the men and women But this would not be just another commis- morning talks that Art credited as the source of his community and his country, Mr. Quill de- sion to produce another report fated only to for the most useful information and inside tips. serves the utmost respect and unconditional gather dust on congressional shelves. Instead, Madam Speaker, I am happy for Art on his admiration. Madam Speaker, Mr. Quill stands like the special commissions that have re- retirement and extremely proud of the 37 as an ever-steady example of the American viewed military bases, it would be key to a

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Subsidies, or ‘‘CUTS Commission’’, would be considered under procedures limiting the Report—Commission’s preliminary report consist of five members. Its chair would be a time for debate. Similar procedures would would be reviewed by GAO; final report person named jointly by the Speaker and the apply to conference reports after each Cham- would go to Congress with recommendations Senate majority leader. The Speaker and the ber had acted. for changing or eliminating subsidies cov- ered by commission’s review. Any rec- majority leader of the Senate would each pick In short, Congress could not ignore con- sensus recommendations by the Commission. ommendation backed by at least 4 commis- one other member, and so would the minority sion members would have to be introduced as leaders in each Chamber. Members would be It would have to debate them and then vote legislation. chosen on the basis of their expertise and to on whether to adopt them. Action by Congress—Committees would be represent a fair balance of views. POTENTIAL FOR SAVINGS limited in amending bills to adopt rec- The Commission’s job would be to identify It is not possible to say exactly how much ommendations by at least 4 of the 5 commis- and evaluate payments, benefits, services, or this bill will save the taxpayers—that depends sion members and would have to report them tax breaks to see if they meet the test of a on what the Commission might recommend for floor action with time limits on debate. So, Congress would have to act on those rec- reasonable expectation that they will bring a and how many of their recommendations Con- ommendations. return to the public at least equal to the value gress would approve. I have seen estimates of the cost to the taxpayers. that the kinds of subsidies and tax breaks cov- f SCOPE OF REVIEW ered by this bill could be costing tens of bil- The scope of this review would not include lions of dollars annually just in terms of spe- IN TRIBUTE TO FATHER ROBERT payments made to or tax breaks benefiting in- cial-interest spending programs, not to men- F. DRINAN: MAN OF GOD, POLIT- dividuals, to state or local government or In- tion special tax breaks—such as provisions to ICAL LEADER, AND EDUCATOR dian tribes, or Native corporations organized suspend the tariffs on certain items—many of under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement which are of particular benefit to just one or a SPEECH OF Act, or to nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations. few companies. So, I think the potential is HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL It also would not cover support for research considerable. OF NEW YORK and development based on peer-reviewed or EQUITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES other open, competitive and merit-based pro- And as important as the savings that could cedures where the subject is in the public in- come from enactment of my bill is the in- Monday, February 5, 2007 terest and the work is not likely to be done, or creased budget equity and congressional ac- Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to done with equal benefit to the public, by the countability that it would promote. Special-in- pay tribute to the life of Father Robert F. private sector. terest subsidies, whether through spending or Drinan, his enduring faith, and lifelong commit- Similarly, the review would not include pay- tax breaks, are great for the beneficiaries but ment to human rights. Father Drinan passed ments or tax breaks primarily benefiting public they aren’t always great for the taxpayers and on January 28, 2007, at his residence in the health, safety or protection of the environment; they often are harmful to competing compa- Georgetown University Jesuit community in the development and use of renewable en- nies or other entities that don’t get the benefit Washington, DC. He was 86 years old and ergy; improved energy efficiency; or education. of the subsidies. had recently been ill with pneumonia and con- Finally, the Commission would not review So, trimming or eliminating that kind of sub- gestive heart failure. matters of national security, including home- sidies could save money and would remove Father Drinan was an unwavering defender land security, compliance with trade agree- inequities—and requiring those of us in Con- of the civil and human rights of all Americans. ments or treaties, or procurement contracts— gress to stand up and be counted on whether His commitment to these principles was an- and could not propose new programs or taxes to trim or eliminate some of them would in- chored by his religious conviction and a funda- or the termination of federal agencies. crease our accountability to the taxpayers, to mental belief in the rights of all people to be RECOMMENDATIONS those hurt by the subsidies, and to the Amer- respected and protected by their governments The Commission would have a year to com- ican people. and elected leaders. It was this conviction that plete its work. Within that time, it would first For these reasons, Madam Speaker, I think led Father Drinan to politics in 1970 when he prepare a preliminary report for review by the this bill deserves the support of our col- sought a seat in the U.S. House of Represent- Government Accountability Office, GAO, and leagues. For their benefit, here is an outline of atives. During his tenure in Congress, Father then a final report to Congress. its major provisions. Drinan was an outspoken opponent of the The Commission’s report would specify OUTLINE OF COMMISSION ON UNFAIR TAX Vietnam war and was the first person to call which changes in subsidies the commission is BREAKS AND SUBSIDIES (‘‘CUTS’’) BILL for the impeachment of President Nixon. Fa- recommending—and any recommendation Commission—5 members: chair appointed ther Drinan was re-elected four times, serving supported by at least four of the five members jointly by House Speaker and Senate Major- from 1971 until 1981. He stepped down in ac- of the Commission would be assured of ity Leader, plus one each appointed by House cordance with a directive from Pope John Paul prompt consideration by Congress. Speaker, Senate Majority Leader, and House and Senate Minority Leaders. Members to be II, barring priests from holding public office. LEGISLATIVE ACTION ON RECOMMENDATIONS chosen on basis of expertise and to reflect di- Father Drinan was the first Roman Catholic Under the bill, recommendations with that verse views. No Federal employees on the priest to serve as a voting member of the U.S. high degree of bipartisan support on the com- commission, but agencies can detail people Congress. I had the honor of serving with him mission would have to be introduced as bills, to provide technical expertise. on the Judiciary Committee during the Water- and each committee to which they were re- Duration—Commission would have one gate proceedings. He was a man of deep con- ferred would have a 20-day deadline to report- year to complete its review and report to victions, a passionate leader and a good Congress. ing them. Scope of Review—Commission would re- friend. Long after he left Congress, Father A committee could consider only amend- view payments, benefits, services, and tax Drinan continued to be a vocal supporter of ments that would terminate or reduce an in- breaks provided to companies, joint ven- human rights. Through his words and his ac- equitable subsidy, except that the tax-writing tures, associations, etc. but not to individ- tions he demanded morality in our political committees could offset revenue increases uals, state or local governments, Indian leadership. Ever committed to his work, Father with broad-based tax cuts, they could not use tribes and Alaska Native Corporations, or Drinan spent the past 21 years as a professor limited tax breaks of the kind that would have tax-exempt nonprofits. Review would not at the Georgetown Law Center where he fo- been subject to a line-item veto under the cover support for research and development cused on legal ethics and international human based on open, merit-based competition if it Line-Item Veto Act of 1996. If a committee is consistent with public interest and federal rights. failed to meet the deadline for reporting, it agency purposes and private sector cannot We all mourn the loss of Father Robert F. would be discharged. reasonably be expected to do it as well. Also Drinan, a man who committed his life to stand- Bills reported from committees would go to outside scope of review: matters involving ing up for what he believed. He will be greatly the Rules Committees of each Chamber. If public health or safety or the environment; missed.

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OF MISSOURI made her Hollywood acting debut in 1968 in In times of war it may be easy to get carried IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the film, ‘‘If He Hollers, Let Him Go.’’ The fol- away and put labels on those around us, as- Wednesday, February 7, 2007 lowing year she starred with Elvis Presley in suming what their political ideals are based Mr. GRAVES. Madam Speaker, I proudly his 1969 film ‘‘Change of Habit’’ and as Sid- solely on their national origin or religious back- pause to recognize Grant Sampson, a very ney Poitier’s wife in the 1970 film ‘‘They Call ground. But as we have seen in World War II, special young man who has exemplified the Me MISTER Tibbs!’’ As she told the Wash- such assumptions are unjust and can lead to finest qualities of citizenship and leadership by ington Post in 1969, she found movie acting disastrous consequences for a group of indi- taking an active part in the Boy Scouts of ‘‘a more rewarding kind of work than singing. viduals. America, Troop 314, and in earning the most When I’m working in a club, I must go from I thank my colleague, Mr. INSLEE, for intro- prestigious award of Eagle Scout. one song to another rapidly and I don’t have ducing this important legislation, to ensure that we never let such unjust practices occur in Grant has been very active with his troop, much time to express myself emotionally. In a this great Nation again. I urge my colleagues participating in many scout activities. Over the movie, you can concentrate on one scene at to join me in supporting this resolution. many years Grant has been involved with a time.’’ scouting, he has not only earned numerous In 1969, Barbara McNair expanded her love f of performing onscreen by becoming the host merit badges, but also the respect of his fam- HONORING THE TOWN OF WOL- ily, peers, and community. of her own syndicated variety series, The Bar- bara McNair Show. While the show was on COTT ON ITS 200TH ANNIVER- Madam Speaker, I proudly ask you to join SARY me in commending Grant Sampson for his ac- the air for only two seasons, as one of the few complishments with the Boy Scouts of Amer- television shows of the period to have a black ica and for his efforts put forth in achieving the host, it marked a tremendous step forward for HON. JAMES T. WALSH highest distinction of Eagle Scout. African-Americans in general and African- OF NEW YORK American women in specific. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES f Barbara McNair retained a devoted following Wednesday, February 7, 2007 CELEBRATING THE MEMORY OF and continued to perform until shortly before BARBARA McNAIR her passing. While Ms. McNair is no longer Mr. WALSH of New York. Madam Speaker, with us, her music and contributions to break- I rise today in recognition of the 200th anniver- ing down the race and gender barriers on tele- sary of the town of Wolcott. This small town HON. JOHN CONYERS, JR. vision live on. rests on the shore of Lake Ontario and cur- OF MICHIGAN rently has a population just under 4,700. f IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Named after Gov. Oliver Wolcott of Massa- chusetts, Wolcott was founded in 1807. The Wednesday, February 7, 2007 BAINBRIDGE ISLAND JAPANESE AMERICAN MONUMENT ACT OF original town of Wolcott included what are now Mr. CONYERS. Madam Speaker, on Satur- 2007 the present day towns of Huron, Rose, Butler, day, February 4, 2007, after a long battle with and Wolcott. At that time, the area was part of throat cancer, pioneering singer and actress SPEECH OF Seneca County. Barbara McNair passed away. I rise today to In 1806, one of Wolcott’s first settlers, Jona- remember and memorialize this important HON. SHEILA JACKSON-LEE than Melvin, purchased 500 acres in what American. OF TEXAS would eventually become the village of Wol- Born March 4, 1934, in Racine, Wisconsin, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cott. Mr. Melvin built a gristmill and sawmill Ms. McNair began performing at an early age. Tuesday, February 6, 2007 along with a frame house for his family, which Encouraged by a family that saw her potential, he painted black. Known to be a very gen- Barbara McNair began singing at 5 years old Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, erous man, Mr. Melvin donated land for the in the local churches. She would later go on I rise in support of H.R. 161, to adjust the construction of a local school and church. to study at the American Conservatory of boundary of the Minidoka Internment National One of the landmarks of Wolcott is the stat- Music in Chicago and thereafter attended the Monument in Idaho to include the Nidoto Nai ue of Venus Rising from the Sea. In 1913 the University of California, Los Angeles, before Yoni (‘‘Let it not happen again’’) memorial. statue was placed at the four corners in Wol- moving to New York City to pursue her dream This memorial commemorates the Japanese cott at the site of the old town pump. Con- of becoming an entertainer. Americans of Bainbridge Island, Washington, structed of cast iron, the fountain has been a A 1957 engagement at New York’s Village who were the first to be forcibly removed from landmark in Wolcott for over eight decades. Vanguard earned her the notice which would their homes and relocated to internment Venus Rising from the Sea is one of only eight eventually lead to her first Broadway perform- camps during World War II. such statues in America. ance in the play ‘‘The Body Beautiful’’ a year In 1942, 120,000 people of Japanese an- Production of iron was one of Wolcott’s later. She went on to star in the Broadway cestry were forcibly removed from their homes early main industries. The town was one of musical ‘‘No Strings’’ in 1963. While Barbara and placed in internment camps—two-thirds of the two principle locations of the iron industry McNair continued to gain a following as a these were American citizens, none of which for western New York. The Wolcott furnace nightclub singer throughout the early 1960s, had ever shown disloyalty to the American was located north of the village of Wolcott her big break came with a win on Arthur cause. Forced to live under harsh conditions, along the west bank of Wolcott Creek, on Godfrey’s television show, Talent Scouts. Her the last internment camp closed 4 long years what is now Furnace Road. The Wolcott fur- appearance on the show led to bookings at later. nace was put into operation in 1821. The iron The Purple Onion and the Cocoanut Grove. These innocent Americans were treated un- was formed into castings and hauled to Clyde, Reviewing a nightclub appearance in late justly by their own government during a time once the Erie Canal was constructed and 1965, a New York Times writer commented of war, simply because of their national origin, began serving as the major transportation hub that the ‘‘strikingly beautiful’’ McNair ‘‘does not and such a crime against them must not go for bringing Wayne County products to market. have to depend on looks alone. She is a high- unnoticed. The memorial is rightly named with The furnace remained operational until 1869 ly knowledgeable performer who projects an the words, ‘‘Let it not happen again,’’ for it is when the last run of iron making in Wolcott aura of beauty, a warm personality and an ap- important to remember the past mistakes of was completed. Today, Wolcott’s main indus- pealing sense of fun.’’ She soon became one our government in an effort to avoid future tries are fruit farming and food processing. of the country’s most popular headliners and a ones. On behalf of the constituents of the 25th guest on such television variety shows as The As we recognize this, we must strive to en- District of New York, I congratulate the town of Steve Allen Show, Hullabaloo, The Bell Tele- sure that all Americans know about these mis- Wolcott on its 200th anniversary.

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For the information of our col- Wednesday, February 7, 2007 The bill is intended to help local commu- leagues, I am attaching a fact sheet about this Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania. Madam nities identify ways to protect the Front Range bill. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to one of Mountain Backdrop in the northern sections of COLORADO NORTHERN FRONT RANGE America’s most prominent 20th century au- the Denver-metro area, especially the region MOUNTAIN BACKDROP PROTECTION STUDY ACT thors, James A. Michener. just west of the Rocky Flats Environmental Generally: The bill would help local com- Born on February 3, 1907 and raised in Technology site. The Arapaho-Roosevelt Na- munities preserve the Front Range Mountain Doylestown, PA by his adopted family, this tional Forest includes much of the land in this Backdrop in the northern sections of the great man would have been 100 years old this backdrop area, but there are other lands in- Denver-metro area in a region generally west weekend and I find it fitting to commemorate volved as well. of the Rocky Flats Environmental Tech- nology site. his great contributions to our society on this Rising dramatically from the Great Plains, the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains pro- Front Range Mountain Backdrop: The day. backdrop consists of the mountainous foot- The author of over 40 great works, Mich- vides a scenic mountain backdrop to many hills, the Continental Divide and the peaks ener is one of the United States’ most impor- communities in the Denver metropolitan area in between that create the striking visual tant literary figures and one of the 8th district’s and elsewhere in Colorado. The portion of the backdrop of the Denver-metro area and most notable sons. His most famous work, range within and adjacent to the Arapaho- throughout Colorado. Development in the Tales of the South Pacific, was based on his Roosevelt National Forest also includes a di- Denver-metro area is encroaching in the experiences while serving in the U.S. Navy verse array of wildlife habitats and provides Front Range backdrop area, and thus ad- during World War II. This descriptive account many opportunities for outdoor recreation. The versely affecting the esthetic, wildlife, open open-space character of this mountain back- space and recreational qualities of this geo- of soldiers’ lives during the war was awarded graphic feature. Now is the time to shape the the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for its great ability to drop is an important esthetic and economic future of this part of the Front Range. There show the human side of war. asset for adjoining communities, making them is a real but fleeting opportunity to protect Throughout his career, Madam Speaker, Mr. attractive locations for homes and businesses. both protect Rocky Flats—a ‘‘crown jewel’’ Michener continued to explore the human side But rapid population growth in the northern of open space and wildlife habitat—and to as- of our American experience with many stirring Front Range area of Colorado is increasing sist local communities to protect the scenic, novels, including The Bridges at Toko-Ri, recreational use of the Arapaho-Roosevelt Na- wildlife, and other values of the mountain Alaska, Chesapeake, and Centennial. These tional Forest and is also placing increased backdrop. pressure for development of other lands within What the bill does: excellent glimpses into our national history Study and Report: The bill requires the and character illustrate the genius of Mr. Mich- and adjacent to that national forest. Forest Service to study the ownership pat- ener, who in 1977 was awarded the Presi- We can see this throughout Colorado and terns of the lands comprising the Front dential Medal of Freedom, our nation’s highest especially along the Front Range. Homes and Range Mountain Backdrop in a region gen- civilian honor. shopping centers are sprawling up valleys and erally west of Rocky Flats, identify areas Although most of his works were literary, along highways that feed into the Front that are open and may be at risk of develop- Mr. Michener was truly a man of the world, a Range. This development then spreads out ment, and recommend to Congress how these citizen servant, and a promoter of the arts. along the ridges and mountain tops that make lands might be protected and how the federal government could help local communities Madam Speaker, from running for Congress up the backdrop. We are in danger of losing to development many of the qualities that and residents to achieve that goal. in 1962, to serving on the Advisory board for Lands Covered: The bill identifies the NASA, to his appointment as cultural ambas- have helped attract new residents. So, it is im- lands in southern Boulder, northern Jeffer- sador to numerous countries, Mr. Michener portant to better understand what steps might son and eastern Gilpin Counties in the Sec- has left an indelible mark on our Nation. be taken to avoid or lessen that risk—and this ond Congressional District; specifically, an Indeed, he has also left a strong mark on bill is designed to help us do just that. area west of Rocky Flats and west of High- the 8th district of Pennsylvania, where he do- Already, local governments and other enti- way 93, south of Boulder Canyon, east of the nated large sums of money directed to the ties have provided important protection for Peak-to-Peak Highway, and north of the Golden Gate Canyon State Park road. promotion of the arts. In 1988, the James A. portions of this mountain backdrop, especially in the northern Denver-metro area. However, What the bill would not do: Michener Art Museum opened in Doylestown, Affect Local Planning: The bill is designed PA, promising to preserve and display the rich some portions of the backdrop in this part of to complement existing local efforts to pre- artistic heritage of the Bucks County region. Colorado remain unprotected and are at risk serve open lands in this region west of Rocky With the help of many donors who shared in of losing their open-space qualities. This bill Flats. It will not take the place of—nor dis- Mr. Michener’s vision this museum stands acknowledges the good work of the local com- rupt—these existing local efforts. today as one of the great collections of Penn- munities to preserve open spaces along the Affect Private Property Rights: The bill sylvanian art. backdrop and aims to assist further efforts merely authorizes a study. It will not affect Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join along the same lines. any existing private property rights. me in commemorating this fixture of American The bill does not interfere with the authority f of local authorities regarding land use plan- literary history. Truly, James A. Michener was SUPPORTING THE GOALS AND an experienced traveler, a dedicated citizen ning. It also does not infringe on private prop- erty rights. Instead, it will bring the land pro- IDEALS OF NATIONAL BLACK and an inspiring writer. HIV/AIDS AWARENESS DAY In commemoration of the centennial of his tection experience of the Forest Service to the table to assist local efforts to protect areas birth, I am proud and honored to remind this SPEECH OF body of his many contributions to our Nation. that comprise the backdrop. The bill envisions f that to the extent the Forest Service should be HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL involved with federal lands, it will work in col- OF NEW YORK REINTRODUCTION OF THE COLO- laboration with local communities, the state IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RADO NORTHERN FRONT RANGE and private parties. MOUNTAIN BACKDROP PROTEC- Madam Speaker, I strongly believe it is in Monday, February 5, 2007 TION STUDY ACT the national interest for the Federal Govern- Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ment to assist local communities to identify urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle HON. MARK UDALL ways to protect the mountain backdrop in this to fully support the goals and ideals of Na- OF COLORADO part of Colorado. The backdrop beckoned set- tional Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. In IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tlers westward and presented an imposing im- 2005, African Americans accounted for nearly pediment to their forward progress that sug- 50 percent of all new HIV infections, despite Wednesday, February 7, 2007 gested similar challenges ahead. This first ex- representing nearly twelve percent of the total Mr. UDALL of Colorado. Madam Speaker, posure to the harshness and humbling maj- population. The HIV/AIDS infection rate today I am again introducing the Colorado esty of the Rocky Mountain West helped de- among Black men is six times that of white

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SAM GRAVES sula’s branch of the National Association for siderable attention and resources to support OF MISSOURI the Advancement of Colored People, and held the efforts of National Black HIV/AIDS Aware- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES seats on the boards of many Christian, cul- ness Day and its mission to build capacity and tural, and women’s organizations. Verna was increase the awareness, participation and sup- Wednesday, February 7, 2007 a role model and inspiration to countless port for HIV prevention, care and treatment Mr. GRAVES. Madam Speaker, I proudly young women and minorities in her local Mon- among African Americans in particular. For pause to recognize Matthew Helm, a very spe- terey County, and was recognized with a num- these many reasons, I urge you to support the cial young man who has exemplified the finest ber of awards, including the Outstanding passage of H. Con. Res. 35, National Black qualities of citizenship and leadership by tak- Woman of Achievement Award and the Out- HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. ing an active part in the Boy Scouts of Amer- standing Equal Opportunity Officer award. While a cure for HIV/AIDS remains just be- ica, Troop 138, and in earning the most pres- She is survived by her sister Eloise Wells of yond our reach, there are many known factors tigious award of Eagle Scout. Marina, her brother Thomas Woolfolk of Chi- that contribute to the devastating effects that Matthew has been very active with his cago, grandson Joseph Sloan, Jr. of Atlanta, HIV/AIDS continues to have in the African troop, participating in many scout activities. along with numerous beloved family members, American community in particular. For exam- Over the many years Matthew has been in- including two great great nieces, one great ple, we know that the stigmatization sur- volved with scouting, he has not only earned great nephew, and three godchildren. Many of rounding those with HIV/AIDS deters many numerous merit badges, but also the respect her family are also based in Seaside or Mon- from being tested and learning about treat- of his family, peers, and community. terey County, which will ensure her legacy is ment needed to prolong their lifespan. We Madam Speaker, I proudly ask you to join continued and her work remembered in the also know that economic issues such as the me in commending Matthew Helm for his ac- district. need for more inexpensive housing, substan- complishments with the Boy Scouts of Amer- Madam Speaker, on behalf of the House, I tial increases in livable wages and affordable ica and for his efforts put forth in achieving the would like to extend our Nation’s deepest health care, weakens community ties making it highest distinction of Eagle Scout. thanks for Verna’s service to the United States difficult to build capacity, disseminate informa- f and her local community. Her dedication and tion and target interventions. It is also evident commitment opened the door to equal oppor- IN HONOR OF VERNA M. tunity for many to whom that door would have that funds are needed to support these initia- WOOLFOLK-SLOAN tives, perform meaningful outreach and pro- otherwise been closed, and I know that I vide organizations with the resources nec- speak for every member of Congress when I essary to serve this vulnerable population. HON. SAM FARR say that it is our honor to recognize her today. It is important for us to increase knowledge OF CALIFORNIA f IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES about preventative measures, educational TOM MARTIN techniques, capacity building and outreach to Wednesday, February 7, 2007 find targeted solutions to the problem of HIV/ Mr. FARR. Madam Speaker, I rise today to HON. JANE HARMAN AIDS in the Black Community. In the State of speak in honor of Verna M. Woolfolk-Sloan, New York alone there are 33,747 Black Ameri- OF CALIFORNIA who passed away on Wednesday, January 31, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cans living with HIV/AIDS. Sadly, this number at the age of 81. Verna lived in Central Cali- will continue to grow at exponential rates with- fornia’s Monterey County for more than 50 Wednesday, February 7, 2007 out the attention, care and resources sup- years. In that time she built a great record of Ms. HARMAN. Madam Speaker, every once ported by the National Black HIV/AIDS Aware- personal, professional, and community in a while, someone great comes along who ness Day. While it is important to direct re- achievement in advancing equal employment flawlessly fills a position and epitomizes the sources to Black Americans and others who opportunity for women and minorities. role he or she performs. Tom Martin, long-time are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS, Verna was born in Providence, Kentucky aide and Field Representative to Los Angeles we must remember that HIV/AIDS does not and received straight A’s throughout school, County Supervisor Don Knabe, is such a per- discriminate. It is estimated that between indicative of professional successes to come. son. 1,039,000 and 1,185,000 infected persons live She graduated as class Valedictorian from Tom spent almost 35 years working in state in the United States and approximately 40,000 Rosenwald High School. Verna married Ser- and local government, retiring only after a seri- new infections occur each year. Those af- geant First Class Robert D. Sloan and they ous health condition forced him from the job fected belong to all gender, racial, ethnic, reli- traveled throughout the United States and he loved. These many years of public service gious, socio economic and regional configura- Germany with their son Joseph. They first set earned him the well-deserved nickname ‘‘God- tions. Those affected are mothers and fathers, down roots in Seaside with her husband’s father of Field Deputies.’’ It’s widely acknowl- sisters and our brothers, bosses, friends, and 1955 posting to Fort Ord. A lifelong learner, edged that few people in the region have done children. Verna studied at Monterey Peninsula College, as much as Tom has for so many. And his up- The devastating effect of HIV/AIDS impacts was awarded high honors in a Masters De- beat demeanor is always matched with seem- us all. Confronting this international crisis will gree in Business Administration from Golden ingly effortless action. For Tom, helping peo- require the collective efforts of researchers, Gate University, and later completed a Ph.D. ple has always been second-nature. legislators, clergy members, community activ- in Organizational Psychology from Inter- I do not think I have ever seen Tom without ists and organizations, and all others com- national University. a smile on his face, or heard him say ‘‘no’’ to mitted to reducing the force of HIV/AIDS. We Verna’s motivation for education and equal someone. From 1969 until his retirement in must work together to find solutions that are opportunity came from her paternal grand- 2005, Tom worked to improve the lives of his scaleable and make possible innovations that parents, former slaves, who established neighbors and enhance the community. During result in value adding and sustainable positive Woolfolk School as the first Black secondary that time, the South Bay saw many changes, changes. school in Kentucky. These principles guided but one thing remained constant: Tom was al- Observance of the National Black HIV/AIDS her civil service career, which she began in ways there to listen and to assist those who Awareness Day provides an opportunity for 1956 as a simple typist, before climbing the came to him with their problems, concerns, governments, national AIDS programs, career ladder as an accountant, manager, and and ideas. churches, community organizations and indi- ultimately Director of the U.S. Army’s Equal No item was too small for Tom when it viduals to communicate the importance of the Opportunity Office, which monitored and came to helping others and he seemed to in- fight against HIV/AIDS. If we have any hope of oversaw equal employment opportunity pro- volve himself in everything. He ensured that ending conversations about the injurious ef- grams at Fort Ord and Fort McArthur. Here, the lights would be promptly fixed in Marina fects of HIV/AIDS, we must immediately de- she was the highest-ranking civilian employee del Ray. He made limiting growth at LAX and vote the time, energy and resources needed at these bases. its modernization a priority. And he was instru- to educate, treat and prevent against future Retiring after forty years of civil service em- mental in engineering the land swap that transmission. ployment gave Verna an opportunity to be- saved Los Angeles Air Force Base in the most

VerDate Aug 31 2005 01:30 Apr 19, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\RECORD07\E07FE7.REC E07FE7 hmoore on PRODPC68 with CONG-REC-ONLINE E282 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks February 7, 2007 recent base closure round. Over the years, national interests, and ways to gain influence agreement remains about how much is the re- Tom worked closely with me and my office using the power of diplomacy and negotiation? sult of human activities. I think this bill de- and grew to be a personal friend. Without constructive, alternative policies, serves the support of people on both sides of But I never saw ‘working’ with Tom as work. without viable tools that leaders of nations and that argument. Each meeting, each conversation was more of leaders of human kind can reach for, peace We need to move beyond debates about an interaction with an old friend than official will always be a vanishing ideal that holds no whether global change is occurring and allo- business. His personal generosity integrated substance. If we truly believe that peace is our cating responsibility for the changes. I con- itself into the way he approached his job and ultimate goal, then we must use the resources tinue to believe fervently that we must do all how he lives his life. of this great nation to that end. We must use we can to soften our impact on the environ- Today, I honor his career and his service to the brilliance of American intelligence to de- ment and to slow the pace of global change. the community. And I wish Tom improving velop the methods and mechanisms of peace, But we are going to have to deal with climate health and Jeri and Tom many, many more even more actively than we develop the mech- change with some mix of mitigation and adap- years of happiness together. anisms of war. That’s why we need a Peace tation. We must acknowledge the interdepend- f Academy that will create a diplomatic corps ence of our social, economic and environ- armed with the tools of peaceful influence. mental systems and learn to anticipate and DEPARTMENT OF PEACE We are all one people, Madam Speaker. adjust to changes that will inevitably occur. We are one family, the human family, and we In its 2003 review of the Administration’s HON. JOHN LEWIS must find a way to understand each other, to draft strategic plan for the USGCRP, the Na- OF GEORGIA make peace, and learn to live together. tional Academy of Sciences (NAS) acknowl- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES f edged the need for research to evaluate strat- Wednesday, February 7, 2007 egies to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of THE GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH global change, and the Academy rec- Mr. LEWIS of Georgia. Madam Speaker, I AND DATA MANAGEMENT ACT ommended that the plan be revised to en- rise today to support the establishment of a OF 2007 hance efforts to support decision-making. The Department of Peace and Nonviolence as a Global Change Research and Data Manage- cabinet-level office of the executive branch of HON. MARK UDALL ment Act of 2007 reorients the program to ac- our government. I agree with Representative OF COLORADO complish these goals. KUCINICH that war and the threat of war have IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The NAS praised the Administration for in- dominated international relationships for much cluding the development of decision support Wednesday, February 7, 2007 too long. As a participant in the Civil Rights tools in the strategic plan, but criticized the Movement, as a human being who has faced Mr. UDALL of Colorado. Madam Speaker, plan for its failure to ‘‘recognize the full diver- the barrel of a loaded gun armed only with the today I am pleased to introduce the Global sity of decision makers’’ and for failing to ‘‘de- philosophy of peace, it has been my belief for Change Research and Data Management Act scribe mechanisms for two-way communica- many years that war is obsolete as a tool of of 2007 with my colleague from South Caro- tion with stakeholders.’’ our foreign policy. But I realize that position lina, Mr. INGLIS. This bill updates the existing The Global Change Research and Data may be too progressive for many of my col- law that formally established the U.S. Global Management Act would address these criti- leagues to accept. Change Research Program (USGCRP) in cisms by requiring the Administration to iden- But maybe, just maybe at this moment in 1990. This bill is also similar to the Global tify and consult with members of the user our nation’s history, when we find ourselves Change Research and Data Management Act community in developing the USGCRP re- struggling with the hopeless legacy of vio- that I introduced in the 107th and 108th Con- search plan. The bill would also mandate the lence, maybe, just maybe we might be willing gresses. involvement of the National Governors Asso- to consider the methods of peace as an intel- Over the past decade, the USGCRP has ciation in evaluating the program plan from the ligent, strategic alternative to war. At this very significantly advanced our scientific knowledge perspective of the user community. These moment our sons and daughters are battling of Earth’s atmosphere and climate and has steps would help to ensure that the informa- in the middle of an unnecessary war, a war provided us with a wealth of new data and in- tion needs of the policy community will be met we started, hoping that we could force democ- formation about the functioning of our planet. as generously as the funding needs of the racy to grow. However, the program has not produced academic community. But Mahatma Gandhi once said that vio- sufficient information, both in terms of content The 1990 law outlined a highly specific or- lence begets violence. And a recipient of the and format, to be the basis for sound deci- ganizational structure for the USGCRP. Our Nobel Prize for Peace, Martin Luther King, Jr., sions. The program has focused nearly all of bill would eliminate this detailed organizational once said if we as a people want peaceful its resources and efforts on scientific inquiry. structure and provide the President with the ends, we must use peaceful means. When will Only one broad assessment of the impact of flexibility to assemble an Interagency Com- the warring factions in Syria, Lebanon, Israel, global change on society has ever been at- mittee and organizational structure that will Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and the United States tempted by the program, and that assessment best deliver the products Congress is request- be willing to say they have spilled enough in- was completed nearly 7 years after its Con- ing. Our bill would, however, retain many of nocent blood? When will they say it is time for gressionally mandated deadline. The local, the key features of current law—the require- us to lay down the tools and instruments of state, regional, and national policymakers re- ments for a ten-year strategic plan, for peri- war? Today, can we hear the words of Gan- sponsible for managing resources, fostering odic assessments of the effects of global dhi, perhaps stronger now than ever before, economic development, and responding to change on the natural, social, and economic ‘‘We must choose non-violence or non-exist- natural disasters need information to guide systems upon which we depend, and for in- ence’’? their decisions. In my view, it is critical that creased international cooperation in global Are we finally willing to hear the words of Congress reorient the USGCRP toward a change science. Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘‘We must learn to live user-driven research endeavor. Our bill would establish a new interagency as brothers and sisters or perish as fools’’? The recent release of the policy summary working group to coordinate federal policies on Can we, the most powerful nation in the world, from the Fourth Assessment Report by the data management and archiving. Advances in use our influence, to raise these questions Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change computer, monitoring, and satellite tech- and give peace a chance? (IPCC), Working Group I, has helped solidify nologies have vastly expanded our ability to Madam Speaker, as a nation and as a peo- the growing scientific consensus that our cli- collect and analyze data. We must do a much ple we have researched, written about, stud- mate is changing. This international effort had better job of managing and archiving these im- ied, constructed, deployed and spent trillions government support from around the world, in- portant data resources to support the work of of dollars on the best ways to destroy human- cluding strong involvement from the U.S., and current and future scientists and policymakers. ity. We have used the power of fear to domi- is a summary of the latest science about our I would like to thank Mr. INGLIS from South nate world affairs. What would happen if the climate. It reports that the Earth is warming— Carolina for cosponsoring of this bill. Crafting most powerful nation on earth took the lead sea temperatures are rising, glaciers are melt- a new approach for the USGCRP is a non- and through this Department of Peace decided ing, and air temperatures worldwide are in- partisan issue—increasing access to better to put even half of those resources toward de- creasing. and more relevant science is something that veloping ways to sustain humanity, ways to Most of the public and policy makers also we all can agree will help us make better deci- keep the peace in spite of competing inter- agree that the climate is changing, but dis- sions.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 01:30 Apr 19, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\RECORD07\E07FE7.REC E07FE7 hmoore on PRODPC68 with CONG-REC-ONLINE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E283 As is clear from the current debate in re- ports have fallen sharply in recent years. At In the end, Barbados sold a mere $32 mil- sponse to the release of the IPCC report, we the same time, this country bought large lion in goods to the U.S. while it imported have yet to agree on how much more informa- amounts of sodium hydroxide and peroxide close to $400 million. Its deficit with the eco- from the U.S. nomic colossus in the north was $360 million. tion, if any, is needed before we take actions Then there is the coastal state, which Between them their trade rose by 10 percent, to slow the effects of human activities on glob- often sells more sweaters, pullovers, vests reaching $424.7 million. al change. These are tough policy questions and other garments to the U.S. than it buys Guyana was another Caribbean state whose that we will continue to wrestle with. This bill American made T-shirts and tank tops? trade with the U.S. rose in 2005. Exports does not offer specific policy direction, but it Finally, list the island whose Cricket went up marginally, by less than two percent World Cup construction could boost its trade does affirm the need for the continued strong but the amount of U.S.-made goods jumped with the U.S. by 26 percent, reaching $175 million, less federal support for global change research, If you identified Trinidad and Tobago as and it does map out a new emphasis on the the Caribbean nation, one of the 16 Western than half of what Barbados bought and close production of information needed to inform Hemisphere nations with a healthy trade to 10 percent of Jamaica’s imports of Amer- these important policy debates. As the world’s balance with the economic giant next door, ican commodities, which were valued at $1.6 billion. leader in science and technology, it is incum- you would be right on the money. But if your answer about the exporter of $45 million in Guyana’s key exports were aluminum ores bent on us to develop solutions that will pro- and concentrate valued at just under $50 mil- tect our planet’s resources and permit contin- lobsters and crabs to Florida and other parts of the U.S. as the Dominican Republic you lion; $32 million in live crustaceans; and $11 ued economic and social progress for our Na- would be away off base. Actually, the coun- million in diamonds. Interestingly, the top tion and for the world. try was the Bahamas. U.S. commodity exported to Guyana was f On the other hand Jamaica’s textile indus- listed as ‘‘charitable items,’’ with a value of try was not a strong exporter in 2005, the lat- about $42 million. UNITED STATES CARIBBEAN ECO- est year for which there was trade data. Ex- As for Guyana’s neighbors, the Census Bu- NOMIC RELATIONSHIP—AC- ports of Jamaica-made garments plunged to reau’s data stated that in 2005: KNOWLEDGMENT OF IMPOR- $55.5 million down from $82 million the year St. Lucia-U.S. trade rose by almost 40 per- TANCE before. However, it did export $23.5 million in cent in 2005, reaching $167 million. The U.S. beer, up by 82 percent over 2004 but bought had a surplus of $107 million. $113 million in sodium hydroxide and per- U.S. trade with Antigua jumped by almost HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL oxide, a 119 percent jump. It exported 60 per- 50 percent, reaching $149 million. U.S. export OF NEW YORK cent more aluminum ores and concentrate to went up by 51 percent and Antigua’s by less IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the U.S. in 2005 than it did in 2004. Those ex- than two percent. ports amounted to almost $69 million. Wednesday, February 7, 2007 Like Jamaica, Haiti exports large amounts St. Kitts-Nevis exported $49 million to the Mr. RANGEL. Madam Speaker, I stand be- of textiles but unlike its Caricom partner, U.S. fore you today to acknowledge the importance the French-speaking republic exported al- That was more than the combined totals of of the economic relationship between the most $100 million more in garments to the Dominica $3.3 million, Grenada $5.8 million; United States and the Caribbean and to enter U.S. than it bought, $169 million in exports St. Antigua’s $4.4 million and Vincent’s $15.6 as compared with $124 million in imports of million. into the RECORD an article from the Carib T-shirts, tank tops and knit or crocheted It exported more than Barbados did to the News by Tony Best entitled ‘‘A Picture of U.S.- items. But the U.S. turned around and sold U.S. Electrical supplies, transformers and Barbados Trade.’’ an extra $52.4 million in miscellaneous knit- other power supplies, electric motors, gen- For many years, the United States has cul- ted or crocheted fabrics to Haiti. erators and sets accounted for more than $36 tivated a trade relationship with the Caribbean Barbados, which will play host to the million of the total. that goes far beyond rum. As a result, both Cricket World Cup final in April, is experi- The Bahamas, whose negative trade pic- encing a construction boom and analysts be- the U.S. and the Caribbean have benefited. In ture of $1 billion made it Caricom’s largest, lieve the major sporting event could trigger was third on the list of Western Hemisphere recent years, trade in the areas of natural gas, more trade with the U.S. garments, seafood, sodium hydroxide, per- The picture of Caribbean-U.S. trade was countries with large trade deficits. oxide, and textiles are noteworthy. sketched from U.S. Census Bureau data and Barbados was fourth on the trade deficit A focus on Trinidad and Tobago is particu- published in a guide on U.S. trade in the ridden partners of the U.S. followed by Haiti, larly important because Trinidad and Tobago Western Hemisphere distributed by World Antigua, Belize, St. Lucia, Suriname, Gre- is an abundant energy producing nation with City, a journal that emphasizes global trade. nada, Guyana, St. Kitts-Nevis, and St. Vin- cent. 60 percent of the oil reserves in the Carib- What the figures and analyses show, ac- cording to trade specialists, is that as Carib- bean. The U.S. receives the majority of its nat- bean nations continue their efforts to diver- f ural gas imports from this resource rich nation sify their economies, export trade with the and imported over $1.7 billion of various en- U.S. hasn’t come close to reducing the domi- RECOGNIZING WILL GORMAN FOR ergy commodities in 2005. That is remarkable. nant role played by the U.S. ACHIEVING THE RANK OF EAGLE In turn, the U.S. has exported approximately Energy-rich Trinidad and Tobago is by far SCOUT $491 million in industrial commodities such as the most successful Caribbean exporter and computers, cell phone transmission equip- that’s attributed to the fact that the twin-is- land nation is the largest natural gas sup- HON. SAM GRAVES ment, and lab furnaces, just to name a few, to plier to the U.S., which bought $3.3 billion in Trinidad and Tobago. liquefied natural gas from the ethnically di- OF MISSOURI Another key trade area is with textiles. The verse country. Trinidad controls 60 percent IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nation of Haiti exported $169 million in gar- of Caribbean’s oil reserves. In 2005, for in- ments, while the U.S. reciprocated with im- stance, it sold $3.3 billion in petroleum gases Wednesday, February 7, 2007 ports of $124 million. to the U.S.; $1.2 billion in ammonia; $1.2 bil- Mr. GRAVES. Madam Speaker, I proudly The Caribbean U.S. trade relationship con- lion in crude oil; $972 million in non-crude oil; $714 million in acyclic alcohols; and $101 pause to recognize Will Gorman, a very spe- tinues to grow and provide mutually beneficial cial young man who has exemplified the finest benefits for both the U.S. and the Caribbean million in nitrogenous fertilizers. On the other side of the trade ledger, the qualities of citizenship and leadership by tak- nations. U.S. exported almost $250 million in machin- ing an active part in the Boy Scouts of Amer- A PICTURE OF U.S.-BARBADOS TRADE ery to Trinidad, over $46 million in electrical ica, Troop 214, and in earning the most pres- (By Tony Best) equipment for line telephony; $36 million in tigious award of Eagle Scout. computers; and $29 million in ‘‘transmission How solid is your knowledge of U.S.-Carib- Will has been very active with his troop, par- bean trade? To find out take the trade test. apparatus for cellular phones. Add another First question: Name the Caricom state $28 million in industrial or lab furnaces and ticipating in many scout activities. Over the which has a whopping $6 billion trade surplus ovens; $84 million in low value shipments; many years Will has been involved with scout- with the U.S.? and $18 million in iron or steel tubes and ing, he has not only earned numerous merit Second query: Identify the country which pipefittings and it would become clear that badges, but also the respect of his family, exports tens of millions of dollars in live Trinidad and Tobago’s industrial base is ex- peers, and community. crustaceans—mostly aquatic species with a panding. Madam Speaker, I proudly ask you to join hard shell and many legs, such as lobsters, In much the same way that Jamaica’s oil crabs and shrimp—every year but ends up imports from the U.S. skyrocketed to unbe- me in commending Will Gorman for his ac- with a $1 billion deficit with the U.S. lievable levels in 2005, Barbados saw its re- complishments with the Boy Scouts of Amer- How about the nation whose beer exports fined oil imports rise by 127 percent, going to ica and for his efforts put forth in achieving the went through the roof but its garment ex- almost $18 million. highest distinction of Eagle Scout.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 01:30 Apr 19, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\RECORD07\E07FE7.REC E07FE7 hmoore on PRODPC68 with CONG-REC-ONLINE E284 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks February 7, 2007 RESOLUTION HONORING THE EM- Latinos and Latinas and World War Two Oral often separated into special education classes PLOYEES OF THE DEPARTMENT History.’’ making their social life somewhat isolated. To OF HOMELAND SECURITY After serving her community as an educator address this issue, Best Buddies has estab- for nearly two decades, Mrs. Barrera retired in lished several programs at different levels, HON. CHRISTOPHER P. CARNEY 2000, and is enjoying her time with her hus- from Best Buddies Middle Schools and a Peer OF PENNSYLVANIA band and their grandchildren. It is because of Buddy system in High Schools, to Best Bud- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES her work that the youth in the community were dies Colleges. All three programs use the able to realize their potential to create a new founding principles of this organization, allow- Wednesday, February 7, 2007 and better future for themselves. ing students with and without intellectual dis- Mr. CARNEY. Madam Speaker, our Nation Madam Speaker, I am honored to have had abilities to create friendships and bonds that must remain vigilant against all threats to the the opportunity to recognize the dedication of will last a lifetime. homeland, including acts of terrorism and nat- Mrs. Placida Pen˜a Barrera to her community, The success of Best Buddies can be attrib- ural disasters. Department of Homeland Secu- and ask you to join me in honoring her on her uted to the indelible experiences, not only for rity employees stand willing, ready, and able birthday. I thank you for your time. those with intellectual disabilities, but for the to respond should catastrophe strike. They f many volunteers and buddies involved with work long hours to deter, detect, and prevent this tremendous program. I am proud that the acts of terrorism against the homeland. PERSONAL EXPLANATION main headquarters is located in South Florida, As protectors of our Nation’s borders, air- in my Congressional district, and I look for- ports, seaports, rail lines, and other transit HON. MARY BONO ward to supporting Best Buddies as it con- systems, they are always on call. Together OF CALIFORNIA tinues to grow and positively affect so many with other agencies and departments of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lives. f Federal Government, they work with State, Wednesday, February 7, 2007 local, and tribal partners to enhance prepared- Mrs. BONO. Madam Speaker, yesterday, IN RECOGNITION OF GILBERT ness at all levels of Government. RIVERA On January 24th, the Department of Home- February 6, 2007, I was unable to attend sus- land Security marked its fourth anniversary. pension votes due to personal illness. ´ The Department, which has more than Were I present for the rollcall votes, I would HON. NYDIA M. VELAZQUEZ OF NEW YORK 208,000 employees, plays a vital role in ensur- have voted in the following manner for the fol- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing the Nation’s security and preparing the lowing votes: American people for future catastrophes. 1. Rollcall Vote No. 76, H.R. 161, the Bain- Wednesday, February 7, 2007 In light of this anniversary, it is fitting and bridge Island Japanese American Monument Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ Madam Speaker, I rise appropriate for the House of Representatives Act of 2007—Vote: ‘‘Yea.’’ today on the floor of the U.S. House of Rep- to take a moment to honor the employees of 2. Rollcall Vote No. 77, H.R. 386, the resentatives to recognize the life and contribu- the Department for their contributions in pro- Yakima-Tieton Irrigation District Conveyance tions of a tremendous community advocate, tecting the homeland and the sacrifices they Act of 2007—Vote: ‘‘Yea.’’ businessman, and cherished friend, Gilbert Ri- make to protect the American people. f vera. In 1957, Gilbert Rivera migrated from Puerto f HONORING BEST BUDDIES Rico with his mother, father and twelve broth- HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MRS. PLACIDA ˜ ers and sisters to Bedford Stuyvesant with lit- PENA BARRERA HON. ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN tle money, and a dream to one day own his OF FLORIDA own business. HON. HENRY CUELLAR IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES After graduating from Automotive High OF TEXAS Wednesday, February 7, 2007 School and serving in the U.S. army, Gil start- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ed a small construction firm. But with his drive Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Madam Speaker, I Wednesday, February 7, 2007 and determination, the company did not stay would like to call your attention to Best bud- small for long and overtime grew to become Mr. CUELLAR. Madam Speaker, I rise today dies, an organization founded the same year one of the largest Hispanic owned contracting to honor Mrs. Placida Pen˜a Barrera on her I was first elected to Congress, in 1989. If and building supply businesses in New York reaching the milestone of her 80th birthday. Best Buddies has one message, it can be ar- City. AM&G’s diverse portfolio of projects in- She is one of the most inspiring members of ticulated by its founder, Anthony K. Shriver, cludes landmarks admired by preservationists, the community in the City of Laredo and in the who lives in Miami and has stated ‘‘that every such as Carnegie Hall, Erasmus Hall HS, and State of Texas. person has a gift. And that every person can Columbia University as well as residential Mrs. Placida Pen˜a Barrera was born on July contribute.’’ This message is emblematic of buildings on Fifth Avenue. 13, 1926, in the City of Guerra in the great what makes America successful and, in turn, But despite his good fortune, Gil never for- State of Texas. She moved to Roma, Texas, has made Best Buddies a thriving international got his roots. He stayed in Brooklyn, placing a and commuted to Rio Grande City to attend organization serving thousands of deserving premium on working to better neighborhoods high school, where she graduated in 1945. individuals every year. and communities, and continuing to create Five years later, she met Raymundo Barrera The main concept behind this organization jobs for young people. and together they raised six children. She was is simple, yet profoundly effective. Best Bud- One of the many things that made Gilbert committed to being the best mother for her dies establishes one-on-one friendships be- Rivera unique was that he used his success to children. tween people with and without intellectual dis- improve the lives of everyone he touched. He With her husband’s retirement, she decided abilities. This simple concept allows those who was a socially conscious, philanthropic man to work as a clerk for the Laredo Independent are often excluded because of their dif- who was a loyal and generous supporter of School District, while also taking classes at ferences, the opportunity to engage socially the causes he believed in. He founded the Texas A&M International University. Placida and become integrated into society. Best Bud- Hispanic Business Group to advocate for graduated from Texas A&M International Uni- dies’ efforts in our communities are commend- greater business opportunities for Hispanic versity in 1978, at the age of 52 with a degree able and I encourage all Americans to em- owned businesses with corporate America and in teaching. brace this organization, its ideals and initia- was actively involved with numerous commu- Mrs. Barrera has worked consistently to up- tives. nity organizations, including the Brooklyn lift the lives of children in Laredo, Texas, Best Buddies also opens doors and pro- Chamber of Commerce, Brooklyn Botanic Gar- through her 22 years of teaching at United vides opportunities for people with disabilities. dens, Brooklyn Bridge Park, and the scholar- Independent School District. While there, she Through the support of this organization, many ship fund for young Latinos. established the Laredo chapter of the NASA’s are able to attain jobs allowing them to earn During his time with us, he walked upon this Young Astronauts program. For her work, she an income, pay taxes and work alongside oth- earth and used the power of his beliefs and was awarded certificates of appreciation. She ers in our workforce. For students, Best Bud- determination to instill hope and inspiration, and her husband were also recognized by the dies’ initiatives at schools and colleges are not only to his family but in all who knew him. Department of Journalism at the University of helping the intellectually disabled integrate so- Therefore, Madam Speaker, I rise with my col- Texas at Austin for their publication of ‘‘U.S. cially with their peers. In the past, many were leagues in the House of Representatives to

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INTRODUCTION OF ‘‘MORE WATER or other agriculture, municipal purposes, or to AND MORE ENERGY ACT’’ Section Four—provides that within exist- benefit fish and wildlife. ing authorities and subject to appropriation Now, remember that in the West we usually of funds, the Interior Department is to pro- HON. MARK UDALL measure water by the acre-foot—the amount vide financial assistance for development of OF COLORADO that would cover an acre to the depth of one facilities to demonstrate the feasibility, ef- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES foot—and an acre-foot is about 32,8560 gal- fectiveness, and safety of processes to in- lons, so an additional 75 billion gallons is crease use of produced water for irrigation, Wednesday, February 7, 2007 municipal or industrial uses, or other pur- Mr. UDALL of Colorado. Madam Speaker, I more than 230,000 acre-feet—more water, in- poses without adversely affecting water am today again introducing legislation to facili- deed. quality or the environment. The section tate the use of water produced in connection And at the same time making produced specifies that assistance is to be provided for with development of energy resources for irri- water available for surface uses, instead of at least one project in (1) Colorado, Utah, or gation and other uses in ways that will not ad- just reinjecting it into the subsurface, can help Wyoming; (2) New Mexico, Arizona, or Utah; (3) California; and (4) Texas. Assistance to versely affect water quality or the environment. increase the production of oil and gas. At least year’s hearing, this was illustrated any facility cannot exceed $1 million and The bill is similar to one I introduced in the cannot be used for operation or maintenance. 109th Congress (as H.R. 5011) that passed by the testimony of Dr. David Stewart, a reg- istered professional engineer from Colorado. The section specifies that assistance under the House last year but on which the Senate this bill can be in addition to other federal did not complete legislative action. It is co- He cited the example of an oil field in Cali- assistance under other provisions of law. sponsored by Representative PEARCE of New fornia from which an estimated additional 150 Section Five—requires the Interior Depart- Mexico, who is the ranking Republican mem- million barrels of oil could be recovered if ment to—(1) consult with the Department of Energy, EPA, and appropriate Governors and ber on the Natural Resources Committee’s water were removed from the subsurface res- ervoir. And he pointed out that where oil re- local officials; (2) review relevant informa- Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Re- tion developed in connection with other re- sources and also by Representative EDWARDS covery is thermally enhanced, a reduced amount of underground water means less search; (2) include as much of that informa- of Texas. I greatly appreciate their support. tion as Interior finds advisable in the report The bill’s purpose is to help change an en- steam—and so less cost—is needed to re- required by section 1; (3) seek the advice of ergy-industry problem into an opportunity, not cover the oil. people with relevant professional expertise just for oil and gas producers but for everyone The potential for having both more water and of companies with relevant industrial else who would benefit from increased sup- and more energy is also illustrated by the ex- experience; and (4) solicit comments and sug- ample of a project near Wellington, Colorado, gestions from the public. plies of usable water. Section Six—specifies that nothing in the Especially in the arid west, that covers ev- that treats produced water as a new water re- source. An oil company is embarking on the bill is to be construed as affecting—(1) the eryone—not least our hard-pressed ranchers effect of any State law, or any interstate au- and farmers. project to increase oil production while a sepa- thority or compact, regarding the use of The focus of the bill is what’s called ‘‘pro- rate company will purchase the produced water or the regulation of water quantity or duced water’’—the underground water ex- water to supplement existing supplies, eventu- quality; or (2) the applicability of any Fed- tracted in connection with development of en- ally allowing the town of Wellington and other eral law or regulation. ergy sources like oil, natural gas or coalbed water users in the area to have increased Section Seven—authorizes appropriation methane. It would do two things: water for drinking and other purposes. of—(1) $1 million for the study required by In view of its potential for leading to both section 1; and (2) $5 million to implement First, it would direct Reclamation and the section 4. USGS to identify the obstacles to greater use ‘‘more water’’ and ‘‘more energy’’ I was of produced water and how those obstacles pleased but not surprised that last year the f could be reduced or eliminated without ad- Administration, through the Interior Depart- IN RECOGNITION OF RIGHTING versely affecting water quality or the environ- ment, testified that it ‘‘agrees that the goals of HISTORICAL UNTRUTHS, RUTH J. ment. the bill are commendable and the needs that SIMMONS FORCES BROWN TO Second, it would provide for federal help in could be addressed are real’’ and that the ATONE FOR INVOLVEMENT IN building 3 pilot plants to demonstrate ways to roles the bill would assign to the Bureau of SLAVERY treat produced water to make it suitable for ir- Reclamation and the USGS are consistent rigation or other uses, again without adversely with the missions and expertise of those agen- HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL affecting water quality or the environment. cies. OF NEW YORK At least one of these pilot plants would be In view of all this, Madam Speaker, I submit IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in Colorado, Utah, or Wyoming. At least one that this bill—and its promise of helping pro- Wednesday, February 7, 2007 would be in one of the three States of New vide our country with both more water and Mexico, Arizona or Nevada. And there would more energy—deserves the support of the Mr. RANGEL. Madam Speaker, I rise today be at least one each in California and Texas. House. to enter into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD an This is to assure that, together, the plants For the benefit of our colleagues, here is a article in the Washington Post discussing a would demonstrate techniques applicable to a summary of the bill’s provisions: Brown University committee’s call for the insti- variety of geologic and other conditions. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS OF THE ‘‘MORE tution to make amends by building a memo- Under the bill, the federal government could WATER AND MORE ENERGY ACT’’ rial, creating a center for the study of slavery pay up to half the cost of building each plant, Section One—provides a short title (the and injustice and increasing efforts to recruit but no more than $1 million for any one plant. ‘‘More Water and More Energy Act of 2007’’), minority students, particularly from Africa and No federal funds could be used for operating sets forth several findings regarding the the West Indies. It is good to see the subject the plants. basis for the bill, and states the bill’s pur- of slavery and the question of reparations The bill’s goal is reflected in its title—the pose: ‘‘to facilitate the use of produced water being addressed with integrity and grace. for irrigation and other purposes without ad- The article announces the findings of the ‘‘More Water and More Energy Act of 2006.’’ versely affecting water quality or the envi- The extent of its potential benefits was ronment, and to demonstrate ways to accom- university’s Committee on Slavery and Justice. shown by the testimony of Mr. David Templet plish that result.’’ Appointed three years ago by Brown’s presi- at a hearing on the similar bill of mine the Section Two—defines terms used in the dent, Ruth J. Simmons, the committee re- House considered last year. bill. cently investigated Brown’s historical legacy, Mr. Templet testified in support of that bill Section Three—requires the Interior De- focusing specifically on its involvement in the on behalf of the Domestic Petroleum Council partment (through the Bureau of Reclama- transatlantic slave trade. The descendant of and several other groups, including the Colo- tion and the U.S. Geological Survey) to con- slaves and the first African American president duct a study to identify the technical, eco- rado Oil & Gas Association. He noted that pro- nomic, environmental, legal, and other ob- of an Ivy League institution, Ruth Simmons duced water is the most abundant byproduct stacles to increasing the extent to which has been steadfast in her commitment to un- associated with the production of oil and gas, water produced in connection with energy covering the truths of Brown’s past in ways with about 18 billion barrels being generated development can be used for irrigation and that are academically and historically rigorous by onshore wells in 1995. other purposes without adversely affecting and just.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 01:30 Apr 19, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\RECORD07\E07FE7.REC E07FE7 hmoore on PRODPC68 with CONG-REC-ONLINE E286 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks February 7, 2007 Arguably one of the most traumatic events School was endowed by money its founder TRIBUTE TO PHILLIP BRADLEY in western history, the issue of slavery con- earned selling slaves for the sugar cane fields BELCHER FOR THE AWARD OF tinues to instigate debate. Most recently ques- of Antigua. And at Yale, three scholars re- EAGLE SCOUT tions of reparations, repairing the lives of ported in 2001 that the university relied on slave-trading money for its first scholar- those forced into the barbarous institution of ships, endowed professorship and library en- HON. SAM GRAVES slavery, often discussed in the form of repay- dowment. OF MISSOURI ing debts owed to descendants of slaves, Dr. Simmons issued a letter in response to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES have proven divisive at best and controversial the report, soliciting comments from the at least. Although not called reparations, as Brown community and saying she had asked Wednesday, February 7, 2007 reported in the article, the committee’s rec- for the findings to be discussed at an open Mr. GRAVES. Madam Speaker, I proudly ommendations are substantive and represent forum. She declined to give her own reac- pause to recognize Phillip Belcher, a very spe- a form of repair. The committee’s findings tion, saying, ‘‘When it is appropriate to do cial young man who has exemplified the finest offer an example of the many ways that con- so, I will issue a university response to the qualities of citizenship and leadership by tak- versations and inquiries around reparations recommendations and suggest what we might do.’’ ing an active part in the Boy Scouts of Amer- may be had in intelligent and sensible ways. She said ‘‘the committee deserves praise ica, Troop 1433, and by earning the most As stated in the article, the argument for demonstrating so steadfastly that there prestigious award of Eagle Scout. around reparations is not about a simple mon- is no subject so controversial that it should Phillip has been very active with his troop, etary gain, rather at the core of the debate is not be submitted to serious study and de- participating in many scout activities. Over the the need to acknowledge a part of our history bate.’’ years Phillip has been involved in scouting, he that not anyone has fully come to terms with. Initial reaction to the recommendations has earned 31 merit badges and held numer- It is important that we recognize and cham- seemed to be appreciative. ous leadership positions, serving as Senior pion Brown’s lead. This issue is central to who ‘‘It sounds to me like this makes sense,’’ Patrol Leader and Den Chief for Cub Scouts. we are as a people and to who we are as a said Rhett S. Jones, a longtime professor of Phillip is a member of the Tribe of Mic-O-Say history and Africana studies at Brown. ‘‘I did country. and is in the Order of the Arrow. [From the New York Times, Oct. 19, 2006] not expect the committee would emerge say- ing, Well, you know, Brown should write a For his Eagle Scout project, Phillip built con- PANEL SUGGESTS BROWN U. ATONE FOR TIES check. crete stairs at the Rolling Hills Community TO SLAVERY ‘‘I never thought that was in the cards. I’m Church. (By Pam Belluck) not sure I think it’s even appropriate that a Madam Speaker, I proudly ask you to join BOSTON, OCT. 18.—EXTENSIVELY DOCU- university write a check, even though it’s me in commending Phillip Belcher for his ac- MENTING Brown University’s 18th-century ties pretty widely agreed on that Brown would complishments with the Boy Scouts of Amer- to slavery, a university committee called not be where it is if it were not for slave Wednesday for the institution to make ica and for his efforts put forth in achieving the money. These recommendations seem to me highest distinction of Eagle Scout. amends by building a memorial, creating a to be appropriate undertakings for the uni- center for the study of slavery and injustice versity.’’ f and increasing efforts to recruit minority Brown’s ties to slavery are clear but also students, particularly from Africa and the INTRODUCTION OF THE HIGH complex. The university’s founder, the Rev. SCHOOL ATHLETICS ACCOUNT- West Indies. James Manning, freed his only slave, but ac- The Committee on Slavery and Justice, ap- cepted donations from slave owners and trad- ABILITY ACT pointed three years ago by Brown’s presi- ers, including the Brown family of Provi- dent, Ruth J. Simmons, a great-grand- daughter of slaves who is the first black dence, RI. At least one of the Brown broth- HON. LOUISE McINTOSH SLAUGHTER ers, John, a treasurer of the college, was an president of an Ivy League institution, said OF NEW YORK active slave trader, but another brother, in a report: ‘‘We cannot change the past. But IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES an institution can hold itself accountable for Moses, became a Quaker abolitionist, al- the past, accepting its burdens and respon- though he ran a textile factory that used Wednesday, February 7, 2007 cotton grown with slave labor. sibilities along with its benefits and privi- Ms. SLAUGHTER. Madam Speaker, I am University Hall, which houses Dr. leges.’’ proud to rise today to introduce the High The report added, ‘‘In the present instance Simmons’s office, was built by a crew with this means acknowledging and taking re- at least two slaves. School Athletics Accountability Act. As oppor- sponsibility for Brown’s part in grievous ‘‘Any institution in the United States that tunities for girls and women to participate in crimes.’’ existed prior to 1865 was entangled in slav- sports and athletics have been made increas- The committee did not call for outright ery, but the entanglements are particularly ingly available, women’s participation has reparations, an idea that has support among dense in Rhode Island,’’ Dr. Campbell said, grown exponentially. Nearly 2.6 million high some African-Americans and was a con- noting that the state was the hub through school girls now participate in organized troversial issue at Brown several years ago. which many slave ships traveled. sports, as opposed to 294,015 in 1971 before But the committee’s chairman, James T. The issue caused friction at Brown in 2001, Campbell, a history professor at Brown, said Title IX was enacted. Athletic participation has when the student newspaper, the Brown brought with it confidence and camaraderie he believed the recommendations ‘‘are sub- Daily Herald, printed a full-page advertise- stantive and do indeed represent a form of ment produced by a conservative writer, list- among young women, giving them memories repair.’’ ing ‘‘Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slav- and friends that will last a lifetime. The committee also recommended that the ery Is a Bad Idea And Racist Too.’’ Despite our progress, persistent attacks university publicly and persistently ac- The advertisement, also run by other col- against equality for women’s sports require knowledge its slave ties, including during lege newspapers, prompted protests by stu- that we continue to protect the rights our na- freshmen orientation. Dr. Campbell said he dents who demanded that the paper pay tion’s young women deserve. Currently high believed that the recommendations, if car- ‘‘reparations’’ by donating its advertising fee ried out, would represent a more concrete ef- schools are not required to disclose any data or giving free advertising space to advocates on equity in sports, making it difficult for high fort than that of any other American univer- of reparations. sity to make amends for ties to slavery. schools and parents to ensure fairness in their The Brown committee was made up of 16 ‘‘I think it is unprecedented,’’ Dr. Camp- faculty members, students and administra- athletics programs. The High School Athletics bell said, adding that a few other univer- tors, and its research was extensive. Accountability Act requires that high schools sities and colleges have established memo- ‘‘The official history of Brown will have to report basic data on the number of female and rials, study programs or issued apologies, male students in their athletic programs and but not on the scale of the Brown rec- be rewritten, entirely scrapped,’’ said Omer ommendations. It was not clear how much Bartov, a professor on the committee who the expenditures made for their sports teams. the committee’s recommendations would specializes in studying the Holocaust and The data will help high schools improve oppor- cost to carry out. genocide. tunities for girls in sports, and thereby help ‘‘We’re not making a claim that somehow The report cites examples of steps taken high schools and parents of schoolchildren Brown is uniquely guilty,’’ Dr. Campbell by other universities: a memorial unveiled foster fairness in athletic opportunities for girls said. ‘‘I think we’re making a claim that this last year by the University of North Caro- and boys. Ultimately better information will en- lina, a five-year program of workshops and is an aspect of our history that not anyone courage greater participation of all students in has fully come to terms with. This is a crit- activities at Emory University, and a 2004 ical step in allowing an institution to move vote by the faculty senate of the University athletics. forward.’’ of Alabama to apologize for previous faculty Without information about how athletic op- Even in the North, a number of univer- members having whipped slaves on campus. portunities and benefits are being allocated at sities have ties to slavery. Harvard Law Katie Zezima contributed reporting. the high school level, female students may be

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TESTIMONY TO SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS dents, which translate into many lost opportu- The income tax opened the door to the era COMMITTEE nities for athletic scholarships. Other studies (and errors) of Big Government. I hope my (By Newt Gingrich) show that student athletes tend to graduate at colleagues will help close that door by cospon- Chairman Biden, Ranking Member Lugar, higher rates, perform better in school and are soring the Liberty Amendment. and members of the committee: Thank you less likely to use drugs and alcohol. Women for allowing me to testify. f This is an extraordinarily important series athletes also tend to have more confidence, HIRE A VETERAN WEEK of hearings on a topic of enormous national better body image, and higher self-esteem importance. than female non-athletes—critical attributes The United States finds itself in a global that help them succeed throughout their lives. HON. TODD TIAHRT struggle with the forces of Islamic fascism We must give our schools the tools they need OF KANSAS and their dictatorial allies. From a fanatic American near Chicago to identify inequities in their programs so that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES current and future generations of women can who attempted to buy hand grenades to Wednesday, February 7, 2007 launch a personal Jihad in a Christmas mall, enjoy the benefits of sports. Mr. TIAHRT. Madam Speaker, I rise to sup- to 18 Canadians arrested for terrorist plots, Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to to the Scotland Yard disruption of a plot in join me in this effort to help girls move toward port H. Con. Res. 5, a resolution supporting Britain to destroy ten civilian airliners in equality in athletics at every level and in every ‘‘Hire a Veteran Week.’’ Supporting our troops one day that if successful would have shat- community across the nation. should not be confined just to the battlefield; tered worldwide confidence in commercial f supporting our troops extends beyond their aviation and potentially thrown the world time in active duty. The liberties we enjoy into a deep economic contraction. INTRODUCTION OF THE LIBERTY today were earned through the bravery and We are confronted again and again with a AMENDMENT sacrifice of patriotic Americans. America must worldwide effort to undermine and defeat the system of law and order which has created never turn her back on her veterans. more prosperity and more freedom for more HON. RON PAUL Historically, unemployment of veterans is people than any previous system. OF TEXAS higher than in the civilian populations. This is The threats seem to come in four different IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a national tragedy. Veterans are hard-working, forms: self-sacrificing patriots. Unfortunately, many First, from individuals who are often self Wednesday, February 7, 2007 employers simply do not understand the skills, recruited and randomly inspired through the Mr. PAUL. Madam Speaker, I am pleased to capabilities, and tremendous value that vet- internet, television and charismatic social introduce the Liberty Amendment, which re- and religious friendships. erans bring to any workplace. Through efforts Second, from organized non state systems peals the 16th Amendment, thus paving the such as ‘‘Hire a Veteran Week,’’ coupled with of terror of which Al Qaeda, Hezbollah and way for real change in the way government those of the Departments of Defense, Vet- Hamas are the most famous. Additional collects and spends the people’s hard-earned erans Affairs and Labor, Veteran Service Or- groups have sprung up and provide con- money. The Liberty Amendment also explicitly ganizations, and various non-profit groups, we tinuity, training, and support for terrorism. forbids the federal government from per- will bring attention to the benefit of hiring vet- Third, from dictatorships in the Middle forming any action not explicitly authorized by erans. East most notably Iran and Syria who have the United States Constitution. I am very pleased to see that the unemploy- been consistently singled out by the State The 16th Amendment gives the federal gov- Department (including in 2006) as the largest ment rate for veterans has fallen by one-third funders of state supported terrorism in the ernment a direct claim on the lives of Amer- since 2005. Although the unemployment rate world. These dictatorships are investing in ican citizens by enabling Congress to levy a is still higher than the civilian population, these more advanced conventional weapons and in direct income tax on individuals. Until the pas- new numbers are clear evidence that progress chemical and nuclear weapons. sage of the 16th amendment, the Supreme is being made. As with most progress, we Fourth, from a strange assortment of anti- Court had consistently held that Congress had must not be content to rest on past accom- American dictatorships including North no power to impose an income tax. plishments. I will not be happy until every vet- Korea, Venezuela and Cuba. Income taxes are responsible for the trans- This coalition of the enemies of freedom eran who wants to work is able to make a has growing power around the world. Its formation of the federal government from one good living for themselves and their families. leaders are increasingly bold in their explicit of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose To those companies that have hired a vet- hostility to the United States. tentacles reach into almost every aspect of eran, I say, ‘‘thank you.’’ I have never met a To take just two recent examples: American life. Thanks to the income tax, today business owner who has regretted hiring a Ahmadinejad of Iran has said ‘‘[t]o those who the federal government routinely invades our veteran, and appreciate their willingness to un- doubt, to those who ask is it possible, or privacy, and penalizes our every endeavor. derstand the value of our veterans and make those who do not believe, I say accomplish- ment of a world without America and Israel The Founding Fathers realized that ‘‘the room for them in their organization. power to tax is the power to destroy,’’ which is both possible and feasible.’’ He has also While I say it all the time, I can never say said that Israel should be ‘‘wiped off the is why they did not give the federal govern- it enough. ‘‘Thank you’’ to the men and map.’’ Chavez of Venezuela, just last week in ment the power to impose an income tax. women of our Armed Forces for guaranteeing a joint appearance with the Iranian leader in Needless to say, the Founders would be horri- freedom for all Americans. May God bless Latin America, announced a multi billion fied to know that Americans today give more you, and may God bless America. dollar fund to help countries willing to fight to end ‘‘American imperialism.’’ than a third of their income to the federal gov- f ernment. Both of these statements were on tele- Income taxes not only diminish liberty, they IRAQ POLICY vision and are not subject to misinterpreta- tion. retard economic growth by discouraging work Similarly there are many web pages and and production. Our current tax system also HON. PETER HOEKSTRA other public statements in which various forces Americans to waste valuable time and OF MICHIGAN terrorists have described in great detail their money on complacence with an ever-more IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES commitment to killing millions of Ameri- complex tax code. The increased interest in cans. I described these publicly delivered flat-tax and national sales tax proposals, as Wednesday, February 7, 2007 threats in a speech on the fifth anniversary well as the increasing number of small busi- Mr. HOEKSTRA. Madam Speaker, I believe of 9/11 which I gave at the American Enter- nesses that questioning the Internal Revenue that Congress should continue to encourage prise Institute. The text of this speech is at- tached as an appendix to this testimony. Service’s (IRS) ‘‘withholding’’ system provides an open and robust debate about its Iraq pol- These threats might be ignored if it were further proof that America is tired of the lab- icy. I found former Speaker Newt Gingrich’s not for the consistent efforts to acquire nu- yrinthine tax code. Americans are also in- recent testimony before the Senate Foreign clear and biological weapons by these en- creasingly fed up with an IRS that continues to Relations Committee on the situation in Iraq of emies of freedom

VerDate Aug 31 2005 01:30 Apr 19, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD07\E07FE7.REC E07FE7 hmoore on PRODPC68 with CONG-REC-ONLINE E288 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks February 7, 2007 I first wrote about the extraordinary in- But if we do not succeed in Iraq, we will in America’s recent conflicts. They are a crease in the threat to our civilization from leave behind a Middle East which will endan- major reason we have done so badly in Iraq. nuclear weapons in the hands of terrorists in ger America in the future. The gap between the President’s recent pro- Window of Opportunity in 1984. Attached to [F]ailure in one part of the world could posals and the required rethinking and this testimony is a copy of the relevant lead to disaster here at home. It’s important transforming of our non-combat instruments pages from this book. for our citizens to understand that as tempt- of power is simply breathtaking. It is not accurate to suggest today that ing as it might be, to understand the con- No military leader I have talked with be- people were not aware of terrorism or were sequences of leaving before the job is done, lieves military force is adequate to win in not warning about the threat to America’s radical Islamic extremists would grow in Iraq. Every one of them insists that the ci- very survival prior to 9/11. strength. They would be emboldened. It vilian instruments of power are more impor- Many sophisticated observers and profes- would make it easier to recruit for their tant than the combat elements. They all as- sional military and intelligence officers have cause. They would be in a position to do that sert that they can hold the line for a while been issuing these warnings for two decades. which they have said they want to do, which with force but that holding the line will ulti- What has been amazing to watch has been is to topple moderate governments, to spread mately fail if we are not using that time to the absolute inability of our system of gov- their radical vision across an important re- achieve progress in nonmilitary areas. ernment to analyze the problem and react ef- gion of the world. This failure of the non-combat bureauc- fectively. If we were to leave before the job is done, racies cannot be solved in Iraq. The heart of It is this collapse of capacity for effective- if we were to fail in Iraq, Iran would be the problem is in Washington and that ness which is at the heart of our current di- emboldened in its pursuit of nuclear weap- brings us to the third weakness in the cur- lemma. ons. Our enemies would have safe havens rent strategy. The United States is now in a decaying from which to launch attacks. People would The third weakness in the current strategy mess in Afghanistan and an obviously unac- is its inability to impose war-time decision- ceptable mess in Iraq. look back at this moment in history and say, what happened to them in America? How making and accountability in Washington. While this language may seem harsh to de- The interagency process is hopelessly bro- come they couldn’t see the threats to a fu- fenders of the current policy, it is sadly an ken. ture generation? accurate statement of where we are. This is not a new phenomenon. I first The consequences of failure are clear: Rad- Efforts to think through and solve the wrote about it in 1984 in Window of Oppor- ical Islamic extremists would grow in problems of Afghanistan and Iraq have to be tunity when I asserted: undertaken in a context of looking at a strength and gain new recruits. They would [W]e must decide what sort of executive- wider range of challenges to American lead- be in a better position to topple moderate branch planning and implementation system ership around the world and potentially to governments, create chaos in the region, and are desirable. our very survival as a country. These larger use oil revenues to fund their ambitions. At a minimum, we will need closer rela- challenges are described in my attached Iran would be emboldened in its pursuit of tionships between the intelligence agencies, presentation entitled ‘‘The Real World and nuclear weapons. Our enemies would have a the diplomatic agencies, the economic agen- The Real War’’. safe haven from which to plan and launch at- cies, the military agencies, the news media With these caveats I want to focus on the tacks on the American people. On September and the political structure. There has to be challenge of Iraq. the 11th, 2001, we saw what a refuge for ex- a synergism in which our assessment of what TWO VERY HARD PATHS FORWARD IN IRAQ tremists on the other side of the world could is happening relates to our policies as they America is faced with two very hard paths bring to the streets of our own cities. For the are developed and implemented. Both anal- forward in Iraq. safety of our people, America must succeed yses and implementation must be related to We can accept defeat and try to rebuild our in Iraq. the new media and political system because position in the region while accommodating Iraq is a central component of defeating all basic policies must have public support if the painful possibility that these enemies of the extremists who want to establish safe they are to succeed. freedom in Iraq—evil men, vicious mur- haven in the Middle East, extremists who Finally, once the professionals have mas- derers, and sadistic inflictors of atrocities would use their safe haven from which to at- tered their professions and have begun to will have defeated both the millions of Iraqis tack the United States, extremists and radi- work in systems that are effective and co- who voted for legal self government and the cals who have stated that they want to top- ordinated, those professionals must teach American people and their government. ple moderate governments in order to be able both the news media and the elected politi- Alternatively we can insist on defeating to achieve assets necessary to effect their cians. No free society can for long accept the the enemies of America and the enemies of dream of spreading their totalitarian ide- level of ignorance about war, history, and the Iraqi people and can develop the strate- ology as far and wide as possible. the nature of power which has become the gies and the implementation mechanisms This is really the calling of our time, that norm for our news media and our elected necessary to force victory despite the incom- is, to defeat these extremists and radicals, politicians. An ignorant society is on its way petence of the Iraqi government, the and Iraq is a component part, an important to becoming an extinct society. unreliability of Iraqi leaders, and the inter- part of laying the foundation for peace. In 1991 my concern for replacing the bro- ference of Syria and Iran on behalf of our en- The inherent contradiction in the adminis- ken interagency system with an integrated emies. tration strategy is simple. If Iraq matters as system of effective coordination was height- Both these paths are hard. Both involve much as the President says it does (and here ened when General Max Thurmond who had great risk. Both have unknowable difficul- I agree with the President on the supreme planned and led the liberation of Panama ties and will produce surprise events. importance of victory) then the United told me unequivocally that the interagency Both will be complicated. States must not design and rely on a strat- process was broken. Yet either is preferable to continuing to egy which relies on the Iraqis to win. In 1995 that process was reinforced when accept an ineffective American implementa- On the other hand if the war is so unimpor- General Hartzog described the failures of the tion system while relying on the hope that tant that the fate of Iraq can be allowed to interagency in trying to deal with Haiti. the Iraqi system can be made to work in the rest with the efforts of a new, weak, untested As early as 2002 it was clear that the inter- next six months. and inexperienced government then why are agency had broken down in Afghanistan and THE INHERENT CONFUSION IN THE CURRENT we risking American lives. I gave a very strong speech in May 2003 at STRATEGY Both propositions cannot be true. the American Enterprise Institute criti- There are three fundamental weaknesses in I accept the President’s analysis of the im- cizing the process. the current strategy. portance of winning in Iraq and therefore I By the summer of 2003 it was clear the First, the strategy relies on the Iraqis am compelled to propose that his recently interagency was failing in Iraq and by Sep- somehow magically improving their per- announced strategy is inadequate. tember and October 2003 we were getting formance in a very short time period. Yet The second weakness is that the current consistent reports from the field of the gap the argument for staying in Iraq is that it is strategy debate once again focuses too much between the capability of the combat forces a vital AMERICAN interest. If we are seek- on the military and too little on everything and the failure of the civilian systems. ing victory in Iraq because it is vital to that has not been working. The one instru- No senior officer in the Defense Depart- America then we need a strategy which will ment that has been reasonably competent is ment doubts that the current interagency win even if our Iraqi allies are inadequate. the combat element of American military cannot work at the speed of modern war. We did not rely on the Free French to defeat power. That is a very narrow definition and They will not engage in a fight with the Na- Nazi Germany. We did not rely on the South should not be expanded to include the non- tional Security Council or the State Depart- Koreans to stop North Korea and China dur- combat elements of the Department of De- ment or the various civilian agencies which ing the Korean War. When it mattered to fense which also have a lot of difficulties in fail to do their job. But in private they will American vital interests we accepted all the performing adequately. assert over and over again that the inter- help we could get but we made sure we had The great failures in the Iraq and Afghani- agency system is hopelessly broken. enough strength to win on our own if need stan campaigns have been in non-combat It was very disappointing to have the be. power. Intelligence, diplomacy, economic President focus so much on 21,500 more mili- President Bush has asserted that Iraq is a aid, information operations, support from tary personnel and so little on the reforms vital American interest. In January 2007 the civilian elements of national power. needed in all the other elements of the exec- alone he has said the following things: These have been the great centers of failure utive branch.

VerDate Aug 31 2005 01:30 Apr 19, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD07\E07FE7.REC E07FE7 hmoore on PRODPC68 with CONG-REC-ONLINE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E289 The proposals for winning in Iraq outlined ment so it can be an operationally effective Rosa Navejar truly represents the spirit of below follow from this analysis. system. engagement, passion and success. KEY STEPS TO VICTORY IN IRAQ 15. The Agency for International Develop- I congratulate my friend Rosa for this award. ment is hopelessly unsuited to the new re- 1. Place General Petraeus in charge of the And I thank her for her efforts. quirements of economic assistance and de- Iraq campaign and establish that the Ambas- velopment and should be rethought from the f sador is operating in support of the military ground up. The Marshall Plan and Point commander. IN HONOR OF D. WAYNE HOLDEN & 2. Since General Petraeus will now have re- Four were as important as NATO in con- SHERMAN L. TOWNSEND sponsibility for victory in Iraq all elements taining the Soviet Empire. We do not have of achieving victory are within his purview that capability today. and he should report daily to the White 16. The President should issue executive House on anything significant which is not orders where possible to reform the imple- HON. MICHAEL N. CASTLE working or is needed mentation system so it works with the speed OF DELAWARE 3. Create a deputy chief of staff to the and effectiveness required by the 21st cen- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tury. President and appoint a retired four star Wednesday, February 7, 2007 general or admiral to manage Iraq imple- 17. Where legislation is needed the Presi- mentation for the Commander in Chief on a dent should collaborate with Congress in Mr. CASTLE. Madam Speaker, it is with daily basis. honestly reviewing the systems that are fail- great pleasure that I rise today to recognize 4. Establish that the second briefing (after ing and developing new metrics, new struc- Mr. D. Wayne Holden and Mr. Sherman L. the daily intelligence brief) the President tures and new strategies. Townsend for their distinguished contributions will get every day is from his deputy chief of 18. Under our Constitution it is impossible to my home state of Delaware. In 2001, the staff for Iraq implementation. to have this scale of rethinking and reform without deep support from the legislative Delaware Community Foundation established 5. Establish a War Cabinet which will meet an award, now known as the Allen Cup once a week to review metrics of implemen- branch. Without Republican Senator Arthur Vandenburg, Democratic President Harry Award, in order to honor the achievements of tation and resolve failures and enforce deci- philanthropic leaders that posses the vision sions. The President should chair the War Truman could never have developed the con- Cabinet personally and his deputy chief of tainment policies that saved freedom and ul- and drive to affect meaningful change through- staff for Iraq implementation should prepare timately defeated the Soviet Empire. The out Delaware, and more specifically in the the agenda for the weekly review and meet- President should ask the bipartisan leaders central and southern regions of my home ing. of Congress to cooperate in establishing a state. I cannot think of two more deserving re- 6. Establish three plans: one for achieving joint Legislative-Executive working group cipients. victory with the help of the Iraqi govern- on winning the war and should openly brief Wayne Holden, a Dover, Delaware native, ment, one for achieving victory with the pas- the legislative branch on the problems which has always been deeply passionate about im- are weakening the American system abroad. sive acquiescence of the Iraqi government, proving his community. Many of his philan- one for achieving victory even if the current Only by educating and informing the Con- gress can we achieve the level of mutual un- thropic projects are carried out through The Iraqi government is unhappy. The third plan Thank You Fund, a donor-advised fund that may involve very significant shifts in troops derstanding and mutual commitment that and resources away from Baghdad and a this long hard task will require. he and his wife, Betsy, started through the process of allowing the Iraqi central govern- Thank you for this opportunity to share Delaware Community Foundation (DCF). The ment to fend for itself if it refuses to cooper- these proposals. Holdens are responsible for supporting numer- ate. f ous charitable organizations ranging from the 7. Communicate clearly to Syria and Iran Nature Conservancy to the DCF Youth Philan- that the United States is determined to win HONORING FORT WORTH HISPANIC thropy Board. in Iraq and that any further interference CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PRESI- Wayne has also played a pivotal role in pre- (such as the recent reports of sophisticated DENT ROSA NAVEJAR serving the quality of Delaware’s communities. Iranian explosives being sent to Iraq to tar- At a time when the Schwartz Center for the get Americans) will lead to direct and ag- HON. KAY GRANGER Arts and the Dover Art League experienced gressive countermeasures. serious financial instability, Wayne donated his 8. Pour as many intelligence assets into OF TEXAS own leadership skills and financial resources the fight as needed to develop an over- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES whelming advantage in intelligence prepara- in order to save these organizations. Through tion of the battlefield. Wednesday, February 7, 2007 his work as First Vice President at Merrill 9. Develop a commander’s capacity to Ms. GRANGER. Madam Speaker, today I’m Lynch in Dover, Wayne has been able to in- spend money on local activities sufficient to honored to recognize the accomplishments of spire others to create charitable legacies and enable every local American commander to Rosa Navejar, winner of the 2006 Coors His- thus furthered his own philanthropic mission of have substantial leverage in dealing with improving Delaware. local communities. panic Leader of the Year Award. This wonderful award goes to a good Sherman Townsend, has worked alongside 10. Establish a jobs corps or civil conserva- Wayne on the Board of the Delaware Commu- woman who has had a great career. Thirty tion corps of sufficient scale to bring unem- nity Foundation and also in business as the ployment for males under 30 below 10 percent years ago, Rosa Navejar’s professional jour- First Vice President for Investment at Merrill (see the attached oped by Mayor Giuliani ney began in the banking industry where her Lynch. Throughout his many endeavors, Sher- and myself on this topic). command of Spanish and her commitment to 11. Expand dramatically the integration of man has been successful at building a legacy all customers set her apart. She always of leadership and charity within his community. American purchasing power in buying from viewed her work as not just a job but as a Iraqi firms pioneered by Assistant Secretary As an active board member of the DCF since Paul Brinkley to maximize the rate of recov- mission. Throughout her career, she took time 1986, he has helped the foundation grow and ery of the Iraqi economy. to mentor young people many of whom are flourish. His noble efforts have secured $2 mil- 12. Expand the American Army and Marine now leaders themselves. lion grants, established a $3.3 million endow- Corps as much as needed to sustain the In 2001, Rosa left banking to make history ment and lead to partnerships with organiza- fights in Iraq and Afghanistan while also as the first female Hispanic to lead the Fort tions such as the United Way. being prepared for other contingencies and Worth Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. She Sherman’s philanthropic spirit shines brightly maintaining a sustainable rhythm for the helped revitalize and reshape the Chamber as in all aspects of his life. In addition to advising families and the force. a force for good throughout the community. 13. Demand a war budget for recapitaliza- and helping his clients build charitable leg- tion of the military to continue moderniza- Under her leadership, the Fort Worth Hispanic acies, he and his family have established a tion while defeating our enemies. The cur- Chamber has grown in size and influence. fund which supports many important organiza- rent national security budget is lower as a Perhaps the greatest example of this is the tions such as, the Children’s Beach House, percentage of the economy than at any time Hispanic Leadership Development Course. Meals on Wheels, and the Bayhealth Founda- from Pearl Harbor through the end of the This unique program trains today the Hispanic tion. Sherman has further demonstrated his Cold War. It is less than half the level Tru- leaders of tomorrow. dedication to the community through his in- man sustained before the Korean War. In life, there are those who seek to make a 14. The State Department is too small, too volvement on the University of Delaware undercapitalized and too untrained for the profit. And then there are people like Rosa Board of Trustees, paying particular attention demands of the 21st century. There should be Navejar: those who seek to make a difference. to the development of scholarships for stu- a 50 percent increase in the State Depart- Thanks to her life, legacy and leadership, our dents and the School of Nursing. ment budget and a profound rethinking of community is stronger, better and more united I could speak for hours and still not do the culture and systems of the State Depart- than ever before. these two men justice. Their contributions will

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It will gather to honor their 150th anniversary, I ask Foundation warm wishes as they bestow this allow all of us in South Dakota to better use all my colleagues to join me in wishing them honor upon such deserving recipients. our natural resources, while keeping our sol- continued prosperity. f emn commitment to deal fairly and honorably f with the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Lakota INTRODUCTION OF THE OGLALA people of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. PAYING TRIBUTE TO WHMI RADIO, SIOUX TRIBE ANGOSTURA IRRI- I ask for your help and support in moving it HOWELL, MI, ON ITS 50TH ANNI- GATION PROJECT REHABILITA- forward. VERSARY TION AND DEVELOPMENT ACT f HON. MIKE ROGERS McCLATCHY COMPANY SESQUI- OF MICHIGAN CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY HON. STEPHANIE HERSETH IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF SOUTH DAKOTA Wednesday, February 7, 2007 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. DORIS O. MATSUI Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Madam Speaker, Wednesday, February 7, 2007 OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I rise to honor the accomplishments of WHMI Ms. HERSETH. Madam Speaker, today I radio in Howell, Michigan, on the occasion of Wednesday, February 7, 2007 am pleased to introduce the Oglala Sioux the station’s 50th anniversary celebration Tribe Angostura Irrigation Project Rehabilita- Ms. MATSUI. Madam Speaker, I rise today scheduled for one week from today, on Feb- tion and Development Act. This legislation au- in recognition of the McClatchy Company’s ruary 14, 2007. thorizes much-needed efficiency improve- 150 years of journalism in Sacramento. On Serving Livingston County since Valentine’s ments to the irrigation facilities at the Angos- this date in 1857, the first issue of the Daily Day, February 14, 1957, WHMI has grown tura Unit, a Federal Bureau of Reclamation Bee was published in Sacramento marking the through the past five decades into a modern dam on the Cheyenne River in South Dakota. historic establishment of what is now the sec- broadcast station serving the fastest-growing These improvements will restore critical water ond largest newspaper company in the United county in Michigan. resources and promote economic develop- States. Headquartered in Sacramento, the Awards for broadcast excellence and com- ment on the nearby Pine Ridge Indian Res- McClatchy Company and the Sacramento Bee munity service fill a wall at the station’s state- ervation. have earned a legacy of providing reliable of-the-art facility, exhibiting innumerable testi- This bill provides important resources to the news for Sacramentans and the nation. monies to the commitment of WHMI and its citizens of South Dakota and the Lakota peo- The rise of the McClatchy Company began service to its community, listeners, and sup- ple of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. It with founding editor James McClatchy who porters. authorizes funds to carry out the Bureau of moved west from New York during the height Today, under the ownership of Greg and Reclamation’s recommended improvements to of the Gold Rush. The company’s newspapers Marcia Jablonski, WHMI broadcasts a classic the irrigation facilities at the Angostura dam. would be owned and operated by McClatchy rock hits format with local news, sports, traffic, The dam provides substantial economic bene- family members for the next 130 years. James and weather via a signal that covers all of Liv- fits to many South Dakotans. It provides irriga- McClatchy helped craft the company’s values ingston County and reaching into the outskirts tion to 12,218 acres of land which benefits of quality journalism, free expression and com- of the Detroit, Ann Arbor, Flint and Lansing ranchers and agricultural producers in the munity service. markets. area, and it supports an important recreational The Sacramento Bee was one of the first When the station was launched in 1957, the boating and fishing industry which is enjoyed newspapers on the West Coast. In the news- Valentine’s Day start-up was very fitting as the by many of our citizens. paper’s first editorial, McClatchy explained the call letters, WHMI, stand for ‘‘Heart of Michi- Until now, however, the Angostura dam has name of the newspaper: ‘‘The name of The gan.’’ The theme was drawn from an adver- failed to provide any of these economic bene- Bee has been adopted as being different from tising campaign of the late 1950s that pro- fits to the members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe that of any other paper in the state and as moted Livingston County as a good place to who live just 20 miles downstream of the dam also being emblematic of the industry which is live. WHMI has grown with the community and on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The to prevail in its every department.’’ Over the today reflects the pulse of Livingston County Oglala Sioux Tribe has long relied on the re- years, the McClatchy Company expanded on life. Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues to sources provided by the Cheyenne River, that name and characterization by establishing join me in honoring WHMI’s 50th anniversary which forms part of the northern boundary of the Fresno Bee in 1922 and acquiring the Mo- and in recognizing the station’s contributions its reservation. Long before the dam was con- desto Bee in 1927. to the community it serves. The station, its structed as part of the Pick-Sloan Missouri In recent times, the McClatchy Company owners and its staff are truly deserving of our River Basin Project, the tribe relied on the has continued to expand its portfolio. In 2006, respect and admiration. river as an important economic resource. it acquired 32 daily newspapers when it pur- f Since it was completed, however, the dam has chased Knight Ridder. Today, the McClatchy taken an enormous toll on the tribe. The dam Company is the second largest newspaper INTRODUCTION OF THE STUDENT curbed the Cheyenne River’s natural flow, re- company in the United States and publishes LOAN SUNSHINE ACT OF 2007 ducing water quality on the reservation, dimin- 32 newspapers in 16 different states with un- ishing natural riparian habitats, adversely im- paralleled market success. These achieve- HON. GEORGE MILLER pacting fish and wildlife and forcing important ments were evident in 1999, when the OF CALIFORNIA tribal agricultural enterprises to shut their McClatchy Company revenues exceeded $1 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES doors. billion. By 2004, the McClatchy Company en- The bill implements the Bureau of Reclama- tered its 20th consecutive year of daily circula- Wednesday, February 7, 2007 tion’s preferred alternative in its revised water tion growth, an achievement unmatched by Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Madam management plan for the Angostura Unit, any other newspaper company in the United Speaker, I rise to introduce the Student Loan which calls for improved efficiencies in irriga- States. Sunshine Act of 2007, a bill that aims to pro- tion operations that will free up additional Throughout the decades, the McClatchy tect students and families from the predatory water resources for both existing water users Company newspapers have been honored for practices of unethical student loan lenders. and the tribe. In addition, the legislation would their journalistic integrity through numerous This comes on the heels of an announce- authorize the creation of a trust fund to com- awards. McClatchy’s flagship newspaper, the ment made last week by the Attorney General pensate the tribe for the devastating economic Sacramento Bee, has earned numerous dis- of New York, expanding an ongoing investiga- impacts and loss of natural resources caused tinctions, including Pulitzer prizes for Editorial tion into the activities of lenders and their rela- by the operation of the dam. The fund will be writing, Beat Reporting and twice for the Pub- tionships with colleges and universities across used to promote economic and infrastructure lic Service Gold Medal. the country. development on the Pine Ridge Indian Res- Madam Speaker, I am honored to pay trib- The allegations are quite troubling and are ervation and enhance the education, health ute to the McClatchy Company for its distin- worthy of the attention of every state as well

VerDate Aug 31 2005 01:30 Apr 19, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\RECORD07\E07FE7.REC E07FE7 hmoore on PRODPC68 with CONG-REC-ONLINE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E291 as the Federal government in the interest of HONORING CATHOLIC SCHOOLS paratory, Fenwick High School, Holy Trinity protecting students and limited taxpayer funds. WEEK High School, St. Ignatius College Prep., St. At issue here, Mr. Speaker, is the practice Joseph High School, Trinity High School. of lenders buying their way into colleges and HON. DANNY K. DAVIS f universities through excessive ‘‘inducements,’’ OF ILLINOIS TRIBUTE ON THE RETIREMENT OF or what some might term bribery. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Over the last year stories have surfaced JUDGE DIANE KARPINSKI with lenders offering exotic vacations to em- Wednesday, February 7, 2007 ployees of colleges as well as offering to run Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Madam Speaker, the HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH student aid offices during high volume times. theme of the 33rd annual Catholic Schools OF OHIO These activities often result in lenders se- Week is ‘‘Good News in Education,’’ and there IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES curing a coveted place on a college’s ‘‘pre- is much good news to share. There are over Wednesday, February 7, 2007 ferred lender list.’’ 7500 Catholic schools nationwide educating While some may see this as not so troubling over 2 million students. Catholic high schools Mr. KUCINICH. Madam Speaker, I rise or not the business of government, I beg to have an impressive graduation rate, with 97 today to honor Judge Diane Karpinski of differ. When these activities directly result in percent of students going to college. Chicago Ohio’s 8th District Court of Appeals who is re- limited options for students and families in de- boasts the second largest Catholic school sys- tiring after a long and illustrious career. Actu- ciding how to pay for college, I believe it is not tem in the country, with 102,000 students and ally, Judge Karpinski has had two careers. only our business but our responsibility to do 5,400 teachers in 258 schools. In Chicago, as After earning both bachelor’s and master’s de- something. in other urban areas, Catholic schools play an grees in English from Ohio State University, Preferred lender lists are, for the most part, important role in providing quality academic she taught for 19 years, first at Ohio State and a non-issue with some colleges and univer- training to children and youth. later at Cleveland State University. Then, upon sities. These institutions have indeed done the Yet, Catholic schools do more than educate, graduation from Cleveland-Marshall College of work of looking for the best deal in the interest they emphasize discipline and service—two Law in 1980, Judge Karpinski worked for thir- of students and families and can justify why critical elements to raising responsible youth. teen years as an Assistant Attorney General lenders have a place on their preferred lender In a society where many individuals place pri- for the State of Ohio, trying more than 1600 list. macy on their personal needs, Catholic cases at the trial level and practicing exten- But this is the exception rather than the rule. sively in the appellate courts of five different Entry into a school’s preferred lender list schools focus on preparing students to con- districts in northern Ohio and at the Ohio Su- means more than just having a coveted spot tribute to society by considering the needs of preme Court. She was elected in 1995 to a and a near guarantee of business, it means others. The close involvement of parents, a six-year term as judge in the Court of Appeals there are opportunities for lenders to prey on cornerstone of Catholic education, makes of the 8th District of Ohio and subsequently students and families and offer them private clear that education is not something that oc- re-elected to a second term. She was ap- loans. curs only within the school house. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that From Chicago to across this nation, Catholic pointed as a visiting judge on the Ohio Su- students are taking out loans in record number schools have provided education and service preme Court for a series of significant cases and doing so before having exhausted all of to those who have been traditionally left be- on automatic license suspension. their options with federal student loans. hind in our society. They have taken in poor Judge Karpinski has demonstrated a strong Why is this a problem? Private loans carry and neglected children and released to the na- commitment to her professions, first as a interest rates as high as 19 percent—com- tion leaders and champions. For this I want to teacher and also as an attorney. Active in the pared to federal loans that are offered at 6.8 commend the Catholic school system in Amer- Cuyahoga County Bar Association, she served percent. ica. It is a beacon of hope to neighborhoods on its Certified Grievance and the Court of Ap- Something must be done about the prac- and communities throughout the nation. peals Committees. Since 1998 she has been tices by lenders to limit choice for students as Catholic schools, however, like all other a Trustee of the Cuyahoga Bar. She is also a well as encourage students to take out high- components of education, Madam Speaker, member of the Cleveland Bar Appellate Court interest and risky private loans before ex- are facing difficult times. I would hope that as Committee. In 2001, she was the first to chair hausting all of their borrowing options through the year goes on and as we discuss and de- a new committee of the Ohio State Bar Asso- the federal programs. bate education, we commit to putting as many ciation: On the Independent Judiciary and Un- To begin the process of addressing this, I resources into education as we possibly can, just Criticism of Judges. Because of her dual join my colleagues from the Education and ensuring the vitality of the institution, knowing professions, she is often invited to lecture on Labor Committee, RUBEN HINOJOSA, TIM that the investment secures the success of the appellate writing. BISHOP, JOE COURTNEY and JOHN YARMUTH in future generations. Judge Karpinski values her community and introducing the Student Loan Sunshine Act. So I graciously thank our teachers, coun- her Polish ethnic heritage. With her two sis- The legislation: Requires full disclosure of spe- selors, nuns, and priests in our Catholic ters, Mercedes Spotts and Gloria Joy Battisti, cial arrangements that lenders and institutions schools for their years of dedicated service. I she was a founding trustee of the East Side of higher education have to offer loan products offer heartfelt appreciation for their enormous Catholic Shelter for the Homeless. For years at the institution; Bans lenders from offering dedication to our nation’s children, and I urge she has sung in Our Lady of Peace Church gifts worth more than $10 to college employ- them to continue to strive for excellence as Choir, and for one summer was its interim or- ees, including travel, lodging, entertainment, they prepare our young people’s hearts and ganist. After studying Polish at the Alliance of and in-kind services that lenders provide to minds to lead the nation. Poles for three years, she joined a team of college financial aid offices; Requires full dis- Again, I salute the Catholic schools for their teachers who traveled to Gdansk to teach closure of the reasons why an institution of outstanding contributions, and I would like to English in the summer of 1993. Continuing her higher education has selected a lender for its recite for the record those in my district, which mother’s interest in ethnic affairs, especially in ‘‘preferred lender’’ list, including any special are as follows: the Cleveland Cultural Garden Federation, arrangements the lender has with the school; Chicago Jesuit Academy, Divine Infant Judge Karpinski volunteered her services as Encourages borrowers to maximize their bor- Jesus School, Divine Providence School, St. its counsel. She was a long-time member of rowing through the government’s loan pro- Bernardine School, St. Edmund School, St. the American Polish Women’s Club, has grams before taking out alternative loans and Jerome School, St. Stanislaus Kostka, St. Eliz- chaired the Budget and By-Laws Committees direct-to-consumer loans with higher interest abeth School, St. Helen School, Children of at Alliance of Poles Conventions, and served rates. Peace School, Santa Lucia School, St. Pius V as Treasurer of Group 88 of the Polish Wom- The legislation has also been introduced by School, St. Therese School, Visitation School, en’s Alliance. For two years she was a judge Senators EDWARD KENNEDY and RICHARD St. Domitilla School, Ascension School, St. for the Polonia Foundation Scholarship Com- DURBIN in the Senate. Giles School, St. Luke School. mittee and currently is a member of the Foun- It is clear that we need to take steps to ad- St. Vincent Ferrer School, Old St. Mary’s, dation Board. dress the complex activities of lenders and St. Angela School, St. Malachy School, St. Madam Speaker and colleagues, please join their relationships with institutions. The Stu- Nicholas Cathedral, San Miguel-Comer Cam- me in recognizing the great accomplishments dent Loan Sunshine Act is a necessary first pus, Frances Xavier Warde, Our Lady of the of Judge Diane Karpinski and her tremendous step in starting the dialogue at the national Westside, St. Catherine/St. Lucy, Immaculate commitment to the people of Northeast Ohio. level. Conception School, Archbishop Quigley Pre- Let us wish her tremendous success in her

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As a result, there SPEECH OF am today again introducing a bill to make it are at best incomplete records and many inac- more likely that red tape and missing docu- curacies in the exposure records that do exist. HON. JOHN CONYERS, JR. ments will not frustrate Congress’s attempt to No lung counter for detecting and meas- OF MICHIGAN provide compensation and care for some nu- uring plutonium and americium in the lungs IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES clear-weapons workers made sick by on-the- existed at Rocky Flats until the late 1960s. Monday, February 5, 2007 job exposure to radiation. Without this equipment the very insoluble The bill is cosponsored by my colleague oxide forms of plutonium cannot be detected Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, today I rise in from Colorado, Mr. PERLMUTTER. I appreciate and a large number of workers had inhalation support of H. Con. Res. 35—Supporting the his support and that of Senator KEN SALAZAR, exposures that went undetected and goals and ideals of National Black HIV/AIDS who is introducing a similar bill in the Senate. unmeasured. Awareness Day. While we do not yet have a The bill would revise the part of the Energy Exposure to neutron radiation was not mon- cure, and HIV/AIDS continues to consume the Employees Occupational Injury Compensation itored until the late 1950s and most of those lives of Black people, their values and their Act (‘‘the Act’’) that specifies which covered measurements through 1970 have been found worth here in the United States and in other workers are part of what the law designates to be in error. In some areas of the plant the parts of the world, we know Black AIDS Day as the ‘‘Special Exposure Cohort.’’ neutron doses were as much as 2 to 10 times can help to mobilize our communities to help The revision would extend this ‘‘special ex- as great as the gamma doses received by shift and turn this epidemic around. posure cohort’’ status to Department of Energy workers but only gamma doses were re- In the past decades and sadly still today, employees, Department of Energy contractor corded. HIV infection rates continue to escalate at an employees, or atomic weapons employees— As a result of these and other shortcomings, alarming pace among Black men and women all terms defined by the current law—who some Rocky Flats workers have been denied as shown by reports year after year. Although worked at the Rocky Flats site, in Colorado, compensation under the Act despite having Blacks make up around 13 percent of the pop- for at least 250 days prior to January 1, 2006. worked with tons of plutonium and having ulation of the United States, they represent 49 The result would be to help provide the known exposures leading to serious health ef- percent of the total AIDS cases reported in Act’s benefits to any of those workers who fects. this country, according to the Centers for Dis- contracted a radiation-linked cancer specified Since early in my tenure in Congress I have ease Control and Prevention (CDC). Sixty-four in the Act after beginning employment at worked to make good on promises of a fairer percent of all American women living with HIV/ Rocky Flats. deal for the nuclear-weapons workers who AIDS are black, and this disease has become As the law now stands, before a Rocky helped America win the Cold War. That was the leading cause of death for black women Flats worker suffering from a covered cancer why enactment and improvement of the com- ages 25 to 34. Every day, 72 African Ameri- can receive benefits, it must be established pensation Act has been one of my top prior- cans are infected with HIV in the U.S. that the cancer is as likely as not to have re- ities. I saw this as a very important matter for While poverty plays a role and access to sulted from on-the-job exposure to radiation. our country—and especially for many Colo- health care and lack of information are factors, That sounds like a reasonable require- radans because our state is home to the we cannot deny that the main reason for this ment—and it would be appropriate for Rocky Rocky Flats site, which for decades was a key plague is the silence, the closed-mouth social Flats if we had adequate documentation of ra- part of the nuclear-weapons complex. conservatism, of a people still ill at ease dis- diation exposures for the years when it was Now the site’s military mission has ended cussing sexuality, homosexuality, drug use producing nuclear-weapons components as and the last of the Rocky Flats workers have and other realities. Instead, we mouth piety, well as for the more recent time when DOE completed the job of cleaning it up for closure. prayers and platitudes. and its contractors have been working to clean And just as they worked to take care of the We now recognize National Black HIV/AIDS it up and prepare it for closure. site, we in Congress need to take care of Awareness Day, as declared six years ago by However, in fact there were serious short- them and the others who worked there in the the Community Capacity Building Coalition, an comings in the monitoring of Rocky Flats past. affiliate of the Centers for Disease Control and workers’ radiation exposures and in the nec- That was the purpose of the compensation Prevention, and we cannot remain still. We essary recordkeeping—to say nothing of the act. I am very proud that I was able to help must work together to ensure that programs slowness of the current administrative process achieve its enactment, but I am also aware for prevention remain adequately funded and for making the required determinations con- that it is not perfect. The bill being introduced that programs such as Ryan White CARE Act cerning links between exposure and employ- today will not remedy all the shortcomings of can be used for early detection of HIV so we ment. the current law, but it will make it better. can use all tools available to us to fight this So there is a risk that a significant number For the benefit of our colleague, I am at- epidemic. Everyone should be encouraged to of Rocky Flats workers who should be able to taching an outline of the bill’s provisions. get tested for HIV, learn more about the dis- benefit from the Act will not obtain its benefits OUTLINE OF ROCKY FLATS SPECIAL COHORT ease and how it is transmitted, seek medical in a timely manner or will be denied them en- BILL advice if infected, and become involved in tirely. Section 1: Short Title, Findings, and Purpose local community efforts to educate people and The bill would prevent this miscarriage of Subsection (a) provides a short title, fight this disease. justice, by recognizing that Rocky Flats work- ‘‘Rocky Flats Special Cohort Act.’’ It is also important that Blacks are at the ers have been plagued by the same kinds of Subsection (b) sets forth several findings forefront of clinical research to achieve cul- administrative problems that entangled work- regarding the need for the legislation. turally appropriate results for treatment in our ers at some other locations—administrative Subsection (c) states the bill’s pur- communities. Some of the biggest challenges problems that were addressed through inclu- pose: ‘‘to revise the Energy Employees we face, particularly in the Black community sion in the Act of the provisions related to the Occupational Illness Compensation Act today are the misperceptions of and lack of ‘‘Special Exposure Cohort.’’ of 2000 to include certain past Rocky knowledge about HIV/AIDS, and fear related My understating of the need for this bill Flats workers as members of the spe- to clinical research. came from meeting with Rocky Flats workers cial exposure cohort.’’ I encourage my colleagues in the Congres- and their representatives and by consulting Section 2: Definition of Member of Special Expo- sional Black Caucus and the rest of Congress experts. I have particularly benefited from the sure Cohort to stay committed in their effort in whatever great experience and expertise of Dr. Robert Subsection (a) amends section 3621(14) of way possible to combat this epidemic which Bistline. Dr. Bistline has served as Program the Energy Employees Occupational Injury has taken too many lives, too early, and un- Manager of the Energy Department’s Over- Compensation Act (EEOICPA). The effect of necessarily. sight of Radiation Protection Program at the the amendment is to provide that a person

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I It attracted fans and performers from all over January 1, 2006 would be a ‘‘member of the Special Exposure Cohort.’’ Under EEOICPA, have known Lorraine Miller a number of years, the world, including some of the foremost in- a member of the special exposure cohort suf- and am certain that she will prove to be an terpreters of the West Coast school of cool fering from one of the cancers specified in outstanding Clerk. jazz like Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan. The the Act is covered by the Act if the cancer On February 15, 2007, Lorraine Miller will Hermosa Beach Jazz Walk is a living, breath- was contracted after the person began em- be sworn in as the 35th Clerk of the House, ing standing ovation to those legendary artists ployment at a covered facility. and notably the first African-American Clerk. In who enriched the region with their mellow Subsection (b) provides that someone em- this position she will be responsible for the sounds. This historic musical heritage is cele- ployed by the Energy Department or any of legislative operations of the House floor, the its contractors for an aggregate of at least brated each year with the Annual Jazz Stroll 250 work days at Rocky Flats before January voting system, oversight, and supervision of Dedication and concert. 1, 2006 may apply for compensation or bene- more than 100 staffers. But Hermosa Beach is much more than the fits under EEOICPA even if the person had A native of Forth Worth, and a fellow Texan, sum of its remarkable parts, it is also home to previously been denied compensation or ben- Lorraine Miller began her career with the U.S. many hardworking, talented and conscientious efits under the Act. This is to make clear House with the office of then Majority Leader, individuals and families. I am thinking of peo- that the subsection (a)’s change in the law Jim Wright. Following her service with Speak- ple like the kids from Hermosa Valley will apply to people who had applied pre- er Wright, she went onto serve on the staffs School—now college age!—who joined me in viously. of Speaker Foley and Congressman JOHN Manhattan shortly after 9/11 to present a me- f LEWIS. In addition, during the Clinton Adminis- morial quilt at the New York Firefighters Mu- COMMISSION TO STUDY THE PO- tration she served as Deputy Assistant to the seum, or civic leaders like retiring Mayor Sam TENTIAL CREATION OF THE NA- President for Legislative Affairs for the House. Edgerton, Councilmember and former Mayor TIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMER- She has also held high-level positions at the J.R. Revitzsky, the police and firefighters, and ICAN LATINO ACT OF 2007 Federal Communications Commission and the so many others whose thoughtful planning and Federal Trade Commission. Currently, Lor- vision have allowed the city to flourish year SPEECH OF raine Miller serves as a Senior Advisor to after year. HON. SILVESTRE REYES Speaker PELOSI, and president of the Wash- It is an honor for me to represent this re- ington D.C. chapter of the NAACP. OF TEXAS markable coastal community, and a privilege Lorraine Miller has dedicated her career to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to celebrate 100 years of Hermosa Beach his- public service and I can think of no one better tory. Tuesday, February 6, 2007 to serve as Clerk. I am certain that she will f Mr. REYES. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong serve the House with distinction. The recogni- support of H.R. 512, a bill introduced by my tion she is receiving is imminently well de- PERSONAL EXPLANATION good friend, Rep. XAVIER BECERRA (D–CA), served, and I wish her all the success in the expressing Congressional support for the es- years ahead. HON. MARK UDALL tablishment of a commission to study the po- f OF COLORADO tential creation of a National Museum of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HERMOSA BEACH TURNS 100 American Latino. Wednesday, February 7, 2007 As a Hispanic American and a former chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, I know HON. JANE HARMAN Mr. UDALL of Colorado. Madam Speaker, the importance of creating a museum to honor OF CALIFORNIA on Monday, February 5, I was unavoidably de- and preserve the history of Latino Americans. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tained in Colorado and so was not present for We need to celebrate the diverse history, art, Wednesday, February 7, 2007 two votes: music, and literature of the Latino culture. We Rollcall No. 74, on passage of H. Res. 94— Ms. HARMAN. Madam Speaker, many con- Supporting the goals and ideals of National also need to make strides in increasing public gressional districts have fine beaches, but the awareness of the important contributions that Consumer Protection Week; had I been town of Hermosa Beach in my district is the present, I would have voted ‘‘yea.’’ Latino Americans have made in the United official birthplace of surfing in California. States. The establishment of this commission Rollcall No. 75, on passage of H. Con. Res. Originally purchased in 1900 by the 35—Supporting the goals and ideals of Na- and subsequent museum would be an impor- Hermosa Beach Land and Water Company, tant step towards reaching this goal. tional Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day; had I the area consisted of little more than giant been present, I would have voted ‘‘yea.’’ Mr. Speaker, as you are well aware, accord- sand dunes and grain fields. It has since de- f ing to the United States Census Bureau, His- veloped into a serene beach community with panic Americans constitute fourteen percent of a population of over 18,000 residents, hun- HAPPY NEW YEAR TO THE ORGA- the total United States population and are the dreds of shops, fine restaurants and a quiet, NIZATION OF CHINESE AMERI- largest growing minority with a current popu- laid-back beach atmosphere. CANS lation of 41.3 million Americans. In fact, the Hermosa Beach celebrates its centennial 16th Congressional District of El Paso, Texas this year, and will observe this most important HON. JASON ALTMIRE is eighty-two percent Hispanic American. El milestone with a series of events, including a Pasoans have a rich history which contributes OF PENNSYLVANIA ribbon cutting-ceremony for the newly ex- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to the tapestry of American culture. panded Museum of the Hermosa Beach His- The establishment of a National Museum of torical Society; a luncheon in honor of long- Wednesday, February 7, 2007 the American Latino is important to my con- time Hermosa Beach residents; a car show Mr. ALTMIRE. Madam Speaker, I would like stituents and Hispanics across the nation. displaying automobiles from each decade, and to wish the membership of the Organization of Mr. Speaker, I ask all my colleagues to join the on-going ‘‘100 Acts of Beautification’’ Chinese Americans a healthy and happy New me in supporting this important bill. Project—chaired by Public Works Commis- Year for the year 4705, the year of the pig. f sioner and former member of my staff Michael The New Year is a time for reflection and CONGRATULATING LORRAINE C. DiVirgilio. thanksgiving for the joys of life and loved ones MILLER ON HER APPOINTMENT Hermosa Beach is the site of the Surfer’s and I am thankful for the richness that this or- AS CLERK TO THE U.S. HOUSE Walk of Fame, where the sport’s pioneers and ganization brings to my region. Chinese Amer- OF REPRESENTATIVES innovators are honored. I am a proud member icans have made great contributions to west- of the Congressional Surfer Caucus and dis- ern Pennsylvania and to our Nation as a HON. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON play my local ‘‘Jane’s’’ surfboard in my Wash- whole and I am honored for this opportunity to ington office. As the Beach Boys sang in wish them a wonderful year in 4705. OF TEXAS I ask my colleagues in the United States IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1963, ‘‘Catch a wave and you’re sitting on top of the world / Don’t be afraid to try the great- House of Representatives to join me in wish- Wednesday, February 7, 2007 est sport around.’’ ing the members of the Organization of Chi- Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. Jazz music is also a key component of nese Americans a very happy and prosperous Madam Speaker, I rise today to congratulate Hermosa Beach’s culture. In the 50’s and New year.

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To hold hearings to examine the ‘‘Stern 2:30 p.m. Review of the Economics of Climate Commerce, Science, and Transportation This title requires all such committees Change’’ examining the economic im- to notify the Office of the Senate Daily Fisheries and Coast Guard Subcommittee pacts of climate change and stabilizing To hold an oversight hearing to examine Digest—designated by the Rules Com- greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. recent setbacks to the Coast Guard mittee—of the time, place, and purpose SD–106 Deepwater Program. of the meetings, when scheduled, and Environment and Public Works SR–253 To hold hearings to review and report any cancellations or changes in the FEBRUARY 15 meetings as they occur. the recommendations of the United States Climate Action Partnership Re- 9:15 a.m. As an additional procedure along port. Foreign Relations with the computerization of this infor- SD–406 To hold hearings to examine the nomina- mation, the Office of the Senate Daily Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions tions of Ryan C. Crocker, of Wash- Digest will prepare this information for To hold hearings to examine The Healthy ington, to be Ambassador to the Repub- printing in the Extensions of Remarks Families Act, focusing on safeguarding lic of Iraq, and William B. Wood, of section of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Americans’ livelihood, families and New York, to be Ambassador to the Is- on Monday and Wednesday of each health with paid sick days. lamic Republic of Afghanistan. SD–430 SD–628 week. Homeland Security and Governmental Af- Meetings scheduled for Thursday, 9:30 a.m. fairs Armed Services February 8, 2007 may be found in the To hold hearings to examine the Home- To hold hearings to examine the current Daily Digest of today’s RECORD. land Security Department’s budget re- and future readiness of the Army and quest for Fiscal Year 2008. Marine Corps; there is a possibility of a MEETINGS SCHEDULED SD–342 closed session in SR–222 following the Appropriations open session. FEBRUARY 9 Interior and Related Agencies Sub- SH–216 9:30 a.m. committee Commerce, Science, and Transportation Armed Services To hold oversight hearings to examine Aviation Subcommittee To receive a briefing on the Department the Outer Continental Shelf oil and To hold hearings to examine the Admin- natural gas royalty management by of Defense Inspector General’s report istration’s proposal to reauthorize the the Department of the Interior. on the activities of the Office of Spe- Federal Aviation Administration (Part SD–124 cial Plans prior to the war in Iraq; to 1). Small Business and Entrepreneurship be followed by a closed session in SR– SR–253 To hold hearings to examine alternatives 232A. Energy and Natural Resources SR–222 for easing small business health care costs. To hold hearings to examine the Presi- FEBRUARY 12 SR–428A dent’s proposed budget request for fis- cal year 2008 for the Department of the 2:30 p.m. FEBRUARY 14 Energy and Natural Resources Interior. Energy Subcommittee 10 a.m. SD–366 To hold hearings to examine rec- Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 10 a.m. ommendations on policies and pro- To hold hearings to examine the semi- Finance grams to improve the energy efficiency annual monetary policy report to the To hold hearings to examine the Admin- of buildings and to expand the role of Congress. istration trade agenda for 2007. electric and gas utilities in energy effi- SD–106 SD–215 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions ciency programs. FEBRUARY 28 SD–366 Business meeting to consider Mental Health Parity Act of 2007, Head Start 2:30 p.m. FEBRUARY 13 for School Readiness Act, and any Commerce, Science, and Transportation 9:45 a.m. pending nominations. Science and Space Subcommittee Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry SD–430 To hold hearings to examine the Presi- To hold hearings to examine challenges Judiciary dent’s budget for the National Aero- and opportunities relating to rural de- To hold hearings to examine judicial se- nautics and Space Administration velopment. curity and independence. (NASA). SR–328A SH–216 SR–253

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HIGHLIGHTS House Committees ordered reported 16 sundry measures. Senate Nominations Received: Senate received the fol- Chamber Action lowing nominations: Routine Proceedings, pages S1655–S1730 2 Army nominations in the rank of general. Measures Introduced: Fifteen bills and two resolu- 1 Marine Corps nomination in the rank of general. tions were introduced, as follows: S. 510–524, and 1 Navy nomination in the rank of admiral. Routine lists in the Air Force, Army. S. Res. 74–75. Pages S1709–10 Pages S1727–30 Measures Passed: Messages from the House: Page S1709 Congratulating Super Bowl Champions Indian- apolis Colts: Senate agreed to S. Res. 75, congratu- Messages Referred: Page S1709 lating the Indianapolis Colts on their victory in Executive Communications: Page S1709 Super Bowl XLI. Page S1726 Additional Cosponsors: Page S1710 Casey Nomination: Senate began consideration of Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions: the nomination of General George W. Casey, Jr., to Pages S17110–17 Page S1684 be Chief of Staff, United States Army. Additional Statements: Page S1708 A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached providing for further consideration of the nomination Amendments Submitted: Pages S1717–18 at approximately 11 a.m., on Thursday, February 8, Authorities for Committees to Meet: Page S1718 2007; that there be 30 minutes of debate time re- Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m., and ad- maining on the nomination with the time equally journed at 6:59 p.m., until 10 a.m., on Thursday, divided and controlled between Senators Levin and February 8, 2007. (For Senate’s program, see the re- McCain, or their designees; and that upon the use, marks of the Majority Leader in today’s Record on or yielding back of time, Senate vote on the con- page S1726.) firmation of the nomination. Pages S1726–27 Continuing Appropriations: A unanimous-consent Committee Meetings agreement was reached providing that Senate begin consideration of H.J. Res. 20, making further con- (Committees not listed did not meet) tinuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, fol- lowing the vote on the confirmation of the nomina- FARM BILL PROPOSAL tion of General George W. Casey, Jr., to be Chief Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Com- of Staff, United States Army. Pages S1726–27 mittee concluded a hearing to examine the Depart- Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the fol- ment of Agriculture farm bill proposal, after receiv- lowing nominations: ing testimony from Michael Johanns, Secretary of J. Michael McConnell, of Virginia, to be Director Agriculture. of National Intelligence. LENDING PRACTICES AND HOME 19 Air Force nominations in the rank of general. FORECLOSURES 1 Army nomination in the rank of general. 1 Navy nomination in the rank of admiral. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine preda- Routine lists in the Air Force. Page S1730 tory lending practices and home foreclosures, after D148

VerDate Aug 31 2005 05:00 Feb 08, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0627 Sfmt 0627 E:\CR\FM\D07FE7.REC D07FEPT1 jcorcoran on PROD1PC62 with DIGEST February 7, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST D149 receiving testimony from Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., Rain- Kelly, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Thomas E. bow PUSH Coalition, and Delores King, both of Lovejoy, H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Eco- Chicago, Illinois; Harry Dinham, National Associa- nomics, and the Environment, Washington, D.C. tion of Mortgage Brokers, McLean, Virginia; Jean Constantine-Davis, AARP Foundation, Hilary BUDGET Shelton, National Association for the Advancement Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing of Colored People (NAACP), and Douglas G. Dun- to examine the President’s Fiscal Year 2008 budget can, Mortgage Bankers Association, all of Wash- proposal for the Department of Health and Human ington, D.C.; Martin Eakes, Center for Responsible Services, after receiving testimony from Michael O. Lending and Center for Community Self-Help, Dur- Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services. ham, North Carolina; and Amy Womble, Pittsboro, North Carolina. BUSINESS MEETING BUDGET: FISCAL YEAR 2008 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Af- Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hear- fairs: On January 24, 2007, Committee announced ing to examine the President’s Fiscal Year 2008 the following subcommittee assignments for the budget proposal, after receiving testimony from Rob- 110th Congress: ert J. Portman, Director, Office of Management and Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations: Senators Budget. Levin (Chairman), Carper, Pryor, Obama, McCaskill, Tester, Coleman, Coburn, Domenici, Warner, and CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH Sununu. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Committee concluded a hearing to examine climate the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia: Sen- change research and scientific integrity, after receiv- ators Akaka (Chairman), Levin, Carper, Pryor, ing testimony from William Brennan, Acting Direc- Landrieu, Voinovich, Stevens, Coburn, and Warner. tor, U.S. Climate Change Science Program, National Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Gov- Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Depart- ernment Information, Federal Services, and International ment of Commerce; Richard A. Anthes, University Security: Senators Carper (Chairman), Levin, Akaka, Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Col- Obama, McCaskill, Tester, Coburn, Stevens, orado, on behalf of the National Academies; Rick Voinovich, Domenici, and Sununu. Piltz, Government Accountability Project, Wash- Ad Hoc Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sec- ington, D.C.; F. Sherwood Rowland, University of tor Preparedness and Integration: Senators Pryor (Chair- California, Irvine, Departments of Chemistry and man), Akaka, Landrieu, Obama, McCaskill, Tester, Earth System Science; Thomas R. Knutson, Prince- Sununu, Voinovich, Coleman, Domenici, and War- ton, New Jersey; and James R. Mahoney, Ashburn, ner. Virginia. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery: Senators DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Landrieu (Chairman), Carper, Pryor, Stevens, and Domenici. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee Senators Lieberman and Collins are ex officio concluded a hearing to examine the President’s pro- members of each of the Subcommittees. posed budget request for fiscal year 2008 for the De- partment of Energy, after receiving testimony from ELECTRONIC VOTING Samuel W. Bodman, Secretary of Energy. Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee GLOBAL WARMING AND WILDLIFE concluded a hearing to examine the hazards of elec- PROTECTION tronic voting systems, focusing on the accuracy, reli- Committee on Environment and Public Works: Sub- ability, and security of voting machines and tech- committee on Private Sector and Consumer Solutions nology, including proposals for a voter verifiable to Global Warming and Wildlife Protection con- paper audit trail (VVPAT), after receiving testimony cluded a hearing to examine global warming and from Senator Nelson (FL); Representative Holt; wildlife, focusing on informing the Committee and Conny B. McCormack, Los Angeles County, Nor- the United States Senate on issues related to these walk, California; David J. Becker, People for the issues, after receiving testimony from Roger Mann, American Way, and Warren Stewart, VoteTrustUSA, College of William and Mary Virginia Institute of both of Washington, D.C.; Britain J. Williams, Marine Science, Gloucester Point; David H. Stalling, Kennesaw State University, Tucker, Georgia; Dan S. Trout Unlimited, Missoula, Montana; A. Lee Foote, Wallach, Rice University, Houston, Texas; Connie University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada; Brendan P. Schmidt, Election Consulting Services, Spring Hill,

VerDate Aug 31 2005 05:00 Feb 08, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0627 Sfmt 0627 E:\CR\FM\D07FE7.REC D07FEPT1 jcorcoran on PROD1PC62 with DIGEST D150 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST February 7, 2007 Kansas; and Michael Waldman, New York Univer- INTELLIGENCE sity School of Law Brennan Center for Justice, New Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed York, New York. hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community. Committee recessed subject to the call. h House of Representatives NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Champion- Chamber Action ship; Pages H1286–88 Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 41 pub- Recognizing the African American spiritual as a lic bills, H.R. 866–906; 2 private bills, H.R. national treasure: H. Res. 120, to recognize the Af- 907–908; and 8 resolutions, H.J. Res. 23; H. Con. rican American spiritual as a national treasure, by a Res. 60; and H. Res. 133–138 were introduced. 2⁄3 yea-and-nay vote of 426 yeas with none voting Pages H1342–44 ‘‘nay,’’ Roll No. 79; Pages H1288–91, H1302–03 Additional Cosponsors: Pages H1344–45 Providing for an additional temporary extension Reports Filed: Reports were filed today as follows: of programs under the Small Business Act and the H.R. 365, to provide for a research program for Small Business Investment Act of 1958 through remediation of closed methamphetamine production July 31, 2007: Concur in Senate amendments to laboratories (H. Rept. 110–8) and H.R. 434, to provide for an additional temporary ex- H. Res. 133, providing for consideration of the tension of programs under the Small Business Act bill H.R. 547, to facilitate the development of mar- and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 kets for alternative fuels and Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel through July 31, 2007—clearing the measure for the fuel through research, development, and demonstra- President; Pages H1291–92 tion and data collection (H. Rept. 110–9). Recognizing and honoring Benny Parsons and Page H1342 expressing the condolences of the House of Rep- Chaplain: The prayer was offered by the guest resentatives to his family on his death: H. Res. 69, Chaplain, Rev. Kenn Hucks, Pastor, Immanuel Bap- to recognize and honor Benny Parsons and to express tist Church, Lebanon, Tennessee. Page H1275 the condolences of the House of Representatives to his family on his death; Pages H1292–93 Suspensions: The House agreed to suspend the rules and pass the following measures: Congratulating the National Football League champion Indianapolis Colts for winning Super Methamphetamine Remediation Research Act of Bowl XLI: H. Res. 130, to congratulate the Na- 2007: H.R. 365, to provide for a research program tional Football League champion Indianapolis Colts for remediation of closed methamphetamine produc- for winning Super Bowl XLI and for bringing the tion laboratories, by a 2⁄3 yea-and-nay vote of 426 City of Indianapolis and the State of Indiana their yeas to 2 nays, Roll No. 78; Pages H1278–84, H1302 first Lombardi Trophy; Pages H1293–97 Recognizing the work and accomplishments of Amending the Antitrust Modernization Com- Mr. Britt ‘‘Max’’ Mayfield, Director of the Na- mission Act of 2002, to extend the term of the tional Hurricane Center’s Tropical Prediction Antitrust Modernization Commission and to make Center upon his retirement: H. Res. 72, to recog- a technical correction: H.R. 742, to amend the nize the work and accomplishments of Mr. Britt Antitrust Modernization Commission Act of 2002, ‘‘Max’’ Mayfield, Director of the National Hurricane to extend the term of the Antitrust Modernization Center’s Tropical Prediction Center upon his retire- Commission and to make a technical correction; ment; Pages H1284–86 Pages H1297–99 Commending the University of Nebraska-Lin- Gerald W. Heaney Federal Building and coln volleyball team for winning the NCAA Divi- United States Courthouse and Customhouse Des- sion I Women’s Volleyball Championship: H. Res. ignation Act: H.R. 187, to designate the Federal 99, amended, to commend the University of Ne- building and United States courthouse and custom- braska-Lincoln volleyball team for winning the house located at 515 West First Street in Duluth,

VerDate Aug 31 2005 05:00 Feb 08, 2007 Jkt 059060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 0627 Sfmt 0627 E:\CR\FM\D07FE7.REC D07FEPT1 jcorcoran on PROD1PC62 with DIGEST February 7, 2007 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST D151 Minnesota, as the ‘‘Gerald W. Heaney Federal Build- land Security and Justice Issue Team, GAO; and a ing and United States Courthouse and Custom- public witness. house’’; Pages H1299–H1300 NATIONAL DEFENSE BUDGET REQUEST Repealing a prohibition on the use of certain Committee on Armed Services: Held a hearing on the funds for tunneling in certain areas with respect Fiscal Year 2008 National Defense Budget Request to the Los Angeles to San Fernando Valley Metro from the Department of Defense. Testimony was Rail project, California: H.R. 238, to repeal a pro- heard from the following officials of the Department hibition on the use of certain funds for tunneling in of Defense: Robert M. Gates, Secretary; and GEN certain areas with respect to the Los Angeles to San Peter Pace, USMC, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. Fernando Valley Metro Rail project, California; and Page H1300 TREASURY DEPARTMENT FY 2008 BUDGET Recognizing and honoring the lifetime contribu- Committee on the Budget: Held a hearing on the Treas- tions of Rafael Jose Diaz-Balart on the dedication ury Department Fiscal Year 2008 Budget. Testi- of the Rafael Diaz-Balart Hall at the Florida mony was heard from Henry M. Paulson, Jr., Sec- International University College of Law: H. Res. retary of the Treasury. 131, to recognize and honor the lifetime contribu- STRENGTHENING AMERICA’s MIDDLE tions of Rafael Jose Diaz-Balart on the dedication of CLASS—ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS the Rafael Diaz-Balart Hall at the Florida Inter- Committee on Education and Labor: Held a hearing on national University College of Law. Pages H1304–06 Strengthening America’s Middle Class: Finding Eco- Recess: The House recessed at 12:50 p.m. and re- nomic Solutions to Help America’s Families. Testi- convened at 1:34 p.m. Page H1299 mony was heard from public witnesses. Suspension—Proceedings Resumed: The House FOREIGN INVESTMENTS IN THE U.S. agreed to suspend the rules and pass the following measure which was debated on Tuesday, February 6: Committee on Financial Services: Held a hearing enti- tled ‘‘Committee on Foreign Investment in the American River Pump Station Project Transfer United States (CFIUS), One Year After Dubai Ports Act of 2007: H.R. 482, to direct the Secretary of the World.’’ Testimony was heard from Clay Lowery, Interior to transfer ownership of the American River Assistant Secretary, Department of the Treasury; Pump Station Project, by a 2/3 yea-and-nay vote of former Representative Steve Bartlett of Texas; and 425 yeas with none voting ‘‘nay,’’ Roll No. 80. public witnesses. Page H1303 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS BUDGET Congressional-Executive Commission on the Peo- ple’s Republic of China—Appointment: The Committee on Foreign Affairs: Held a hearing on Inter- Chair announced the Speaker’s appointment of the national Relations Budget for Fiscal Year 2008. Tes- following Member of the House of Representatives timony was heard from Condoleezza Rice, Secretary to the Congressional-Executive Commission on the of State. People’s Republic of China: Representative Levin, HOMELAND SECURITY DEPARTMENT Chairman. Page H1316 CHALLENGES Amendments: Amendments ordered printed pursu- Committee on Homeland Security: Held a hearing enti- ant to the rule appear on page H1345. tled ‘‘An Overview of Issues and Challenges Facing Quorum Calls—Votes: Three yea-and-nay votes de- the Department of Homeland Security.’’ Testimony veloped during the proceedings of today and appear was heard from the following officials of the GAO: on pages H1302, H1302–03, H1303. There were no David M. Walker, Comptroller General; and Nor- quorum calls. man Rabkin, Managing Director, Homeland Security and Justice; and Richard L. Skinner, Inspector Gen- Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and ad- eral, Department of Homeland Security. journed at 8 p.m. MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES Committee Meetings Committee on the Judiciary: Ordered reported the fol- lowing bills: H.R. 545, Native American Meth- HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS amphetamine Enforcement and Treatment Act of Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Home- 2007; H.R. 137, amended, Animal Fighting Prohi- land Security held a hearing on Using Risk to De- bition Enforcement Act of 2007; and H.R. 740, To termine Homeland Security Investments. Testimony amend title 18, United States Code, to prevent caller was heard from William Jenkins, Director, Home- ID spoofing.

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COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION located at 555 Independent Street, Cape Girardeau, Committee on Natural Resources: Met for organizational Missouri, as the ‘‘Rush Hudson Limbaugh, Sr., purposes. United States Courthouse;’’ H.R. 399, To designate The Committee also approved an Oversight Plan the United States Courthouse to be constructed in for the 110th Congress. Jackson, Mississippi, as the ‘‘R. Jess Brown United States Courthouse;’’ H.R. 429, To designate the IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION United States courthouse located at 225 Cadman Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: Held a Plaza East, Brooklyn, New York, as the ‘‘Hugh L. hearing entitled ‘‘Iraqi Reconstruction: Reliance on Carey United States Courthouse;’’ H.R. 430, amend- Private Military Contractors and Status Report.’’ ed, To designate the United States bankruptcy court- Testimony was heard from Tina Ballard, Assistant house located at 271 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, Under Secretary, Procurement and Policy, Depart- New York as the ‘‘Conrad Duberstein United States ment of the Army; and public witnesses. Bankruptcy Courthouse;’’ H.R. 478, To designate ADVANCED FUELS INFRASTRUCTURE the Federal building and United States courthouse RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACT; located at 101 Barr Street in Lexington, Kentucky, OVERSIGHT PLAN as the ‘‘Scott Reed Federal Building and United States Courthouse;’’ H.R. 544, To designate the Committee on Rules: Granted, by a voice vote, an open United States courthouse at South Federal Place in rule providing 1 hour of general debate on H.R. Sante Fe, New Mexico, as the ‘‘Santiago E. Campos 547, Advanced Fuels Infrastructure Research and De- United States Courthouse;’’ and H.R. 584, amended, velopment Act, equally divided and controlled by To designate the headquarters building of the De- the chairman and ranking minority member of the partment of Education in Washington, D.C., as the Committee on Science and Technology. The rule Lyndon Baines Johnson Federal Building. waives all points of order against consideration of the The Committee approved an Oversight Plan for bill except those arising under clauses 9 or 10 of the 110th Congress. rule XXI. The rule makes in order the Committee on Science and Technology amendment in the nature OMB FY 2008 BUDGET REQUEST of a substitute now printed in the bill as an original Committee on Ways and Means: Held a hearing on the bill for the purpose of amendment. The amendment President’s Fiscal Year 2008 for the OMB. Testi- in the nature of a substitute shall be considered for mony was heard from Ronald J. Portman, Director, amendment by section with each section considered OMB. as read. The rule authorizes the Chair to accord pri- ority in recognition to Members who have pre-print- SUBCOMMITTEE ORGANIZATION ed their amendments in the Congressional Record. Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on So- Finally, the rule provides one motion to recommit cial Security met for organizational purposes. with or without instructions. Testimony was heard f from Chairman Gordon; and Representatives Hall of Texas, Burgess and King of Iowa. COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY, The Committee adopted an Oversight Plan for the FEBRUARY 8, 2007 110th Congress, and authorized its transmission to (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated) the Committee on Oversight and Government Re- form and the Committee on House Administration. Senate Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transpor- MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES; OVERSIGHT tation, Treasury, the Judiciary, and Housing and Urban PLAN Development, and Related Agencies, to hold hearings to Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Ordered examine the President’s budget request for Fiscal Year reported the following bills: H.R. 720, Water Qual- 2008 for the Department of Transportation, 9:30 a.m., ity Financing Act of 2007; H.R. 569, Water Quality SD–138. Investment Act of 2007; H.R. 700, Healthy Com- Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: busi- munities Water Supply Act of 2007; H.R. 798, To ness meeting to consider an original bill entitled ‘‘Public Transportation Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007’’, Time direct the Administrator of General Services to in- to be announced, S–216, Capitol. stall a photovoltaic system for the headquarters Committee on the Budget: to hold hearings to examine the building of the Department of Energy; H.R. 799, President’s Fiscal Year 2008 budget and revenue pro- amended, Appalachian Regional Development Act posals, 10 a.m., SD–608. Amendments of 2007; H.R. 802, amended, Mari- Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to time Pollution Prevention Act of 2007; H.R. 342, hold hearings to examine the present and future of public amended, To designate the United States courthouse safety communications, 10 a.m., SR–253.

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Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: to hold hear- Elizabeth Lioi, to be United States District Judge for the ings to examine issues relating to labor, immigration, law Northern District of Ohio, 10 a.m., SD–226. enforcement, and economic conditions in the Common- Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings to wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 9:30 a.m., examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH–219. SD–366. Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to exam- House ine the President’s foreign affairs budget; there is a possi- Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Agri- bility of a business meeting to consider the nomination culture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administra- of John D. Negroponte, of New York, to be Deputy Sec- tion, and Related Agencies, on Food Safety: Shedding retary of State, 9:15 a.m., SD–106. Light on a Broken System, 1 p.m., 2362A Rayburn. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to Subcommittee on Homeland Security, on Secretary of hold hearings to examine No Child Left Behind reauthor- Homeland Security, 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn. ization, focusing on strategies that promote school im- Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Re- provement, 10 a.m., SH–216. lated Programs, on oversight of Assistance Programs in Committee on Indian Affairs: business meeting to con- Iraq, 2 p.m., 2359 Rayburn. sider S. 322, to establish an Indian youth telemental Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Seapower health demonstration project, S. 375, to waive application and Expeditionary Forces, hearing on acquisition over- of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assist- sight of the U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat System, 3 p.m., ance Act to a specific parcel of real property transferred 2212 Rayburn. by the United States to 2 Indian tribes in the State of Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee on Oregon, S. 398, to amend the Indian Child Protection Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions, hearing on and Family Violence Prevention Act to identify and re- Strengthening America’s Middle Class Through the Em- move barriers to reducing child abuse, to provide for ex- ployee Free Choice Act, 10:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn. aminations of certain children, and S. 481, to recruit and Committee on Energy and Commerce, hearing on the De- retain more qualified individuals to teach in Tribal Col- partment of Energy’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2008, 10 leges or Universities; to be followed by an oversight hear- a.m., 2123 Rayburn. ing on diabetes in Indian Country, focusing on the Spe- Committee on Foreign Affairs, hearing on The Escalating cial Diabetes Program for Indians, 9:30 a.m., SR–485. Crisis in Darfur: Are There Any Prospects for Peace? Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider 10:30 a.m., 2172 Rayburn. S. 188, to revise the short title of the Fannie Lou Hamer, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, hearing Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act entitled ‘‘Management of Massive Homeland Security Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006, S. 214, Contracts: Deepwater and SBInet,’’ 10 a.m., 2154 Ray- to amend chapter 35 of title 28, United States Code, to burn. preserve the independence of United States attorneys, S. Committee on Science and Technology, hearing on The State 316, to prohibit brand name drug companies from com- of Climate Change Science 2007: The Findings of the pensating generic drug companies to delay the entry of Fourth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental a generic drug into the market, S. 236, to require reports Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group I Re- to Congress on Federal agency use of data mining, S. Res. port, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn. 36, honoring women’s health advocate Cynthia Boles Committee on Small Business, hearing entitled ‘‘The Small Dailard, S. Res. 37, designating March 26, 2007 as ‘‘Na- Business Administration’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2008,’’ tional Support the Troops Day’’ and encouraging the peo- 10 a.m., 2360 Rayburn. ple of the United States to participate in a moment of Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, hearing silence to reflect upon the service and sacrifice of mem- entitled ‘‘FY 2008 President’s Budget Request for De- bers of the Armed Forces both at home and abroad, and partment of Transportation and Environmental Protection the nominations of Marcia Morales Howard, to be United Agency,’’ 2 p.m., 2167 Rayburn. States District Judge for the Middle District of Florida, Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, hearing on the VA’s Nora Barry Fischer, to be United States District Judge budget request for Fiscal Year 2008, 9:30 a.m., 334 Can- for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Norman Randy non. Smith, of Idaho, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Committee on Ways and Means, hearing on the Presi- Ninth Circuit, John Alfred Jarvey, to be United States dent’s budget proposals for the Department of Health and District Judge for the Southern District of Iowa, and Sara Human Services, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.

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Next Meeting of the SENATE Next Meeting of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 10 a.m., Thursday, February 8 10 a.m., Thursday, February, 8

Senate Chamber House Chamber Program for Thursday: After the transaction of any Program for Thursday: Consideration of H.R. 547— morning business (not to extend beyond 60 minutes), Advanced Fuels Infrastructure Research and Development Senate will continue consideration of the nomination of Act (Subject to a Rule). General George W. Casey, Jr., to be Chief of Staff, United States Army, and after a period of debate, vote on confirmation of the nomination; following which, Senate will begin consideration of H.J. Res. 20, Continuing Ap- propriations.

Extensions of Remarks, as inserted in this issue

HOUSE Graves, Sam, Mo., E279, E281, E283, E286 Paul, Ron, Tex., E287 Harman, Jane, Calif., E281, E293 Rangel, Charles B., N.Y., E278, E280, E283, E285 Altmire, Jason, Pa., E293 Herseth, Stephanie, S.D., E290 Reyes, Silvestre, Tex., E293 Bono, Mary, Calif., E284 Hoekstra, Peter, Mich., E287 Rogers, Mike, Ala., E290 Carney, Christopher P., Pa., E284 Jackson-Lee, Sheila, Tex., E279 Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana, Fla., E284 Castle, Michael N., Del., E289 Johnson, Eddie Bernice, Tex., E293 Conyers, John, Jr., Mich., E279, E292 Kucinich, Dennis J., Ohio, E291 Slaughter, Louise McIntosh, N.Y., E286 Cuellar, Henry, Tex., E284 Lewis, John, Ga., E282 Tiahrt, Todd, Kans., E287 Davis, Danny K., Ill., E291 Matsui, Doris O., Calif., E290 Udall, Mark, Colo., E277, E280, E282, E285, E292, E293 Farr, Sam, Calif., E281 Miller, George, Calif., E290 Vela´ zquez, Nydia M., N.Y., E284 Granger, Kay, Tex., E289 Murphy, Patrick J., Pa., E277, E280 Walsh, James T., N.Y., E277, E279

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