E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record United States th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 116 CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION

Vol. 165 WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 2019 No. 15 Senate (Legislative day of Thursday, January 24, 2019)

The Senate met at 12 noon on the ex- GOVERNMENT FUNDING them, it has gotten down to the basics. piration of the recess and was called to Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, the an- In the St. Louis area, one of the air order by the President pro tempore nouncement this morning that air op- traffic controllers has to drive a long (Mr. GRASSLEY). erations in major cities in this country distance each day. They didn’t have f on the east coast and other places the cash for gasoline. He sold his plas- could be delayed or are interrupted ma in order to fill the tank to go to PRAYER comes as no surprise. work. The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- This last week, I met with air traffic At another air traffic control meet- fered the following prayer: controllers in St. Louis and in Aurora, ing in Aurora, one of the controllers Let us pray. IL. We have over 600 air traffic control- came to me and said that one of his Eternal God, You stand behind life’s lers in Northern Illinois because of colleagues, who had been working for shadows, keeping watch over those who O’Hare, Midway, and so many other some time, came to him and said that call on Your sacred Name. important airports in that region, and, he only had 5 days left that he could Lord, our help comes from You, and of course, in St. Louis, with Lambert continue doing this—working for noth- we need Your sufficient grace to bring airfield and others. They have quite ex- ing—and then he would have to go look an end to this partial government shut- tensive air operations. for other jobs and possibly jeopardize down. They explained to me what is going his future in air traffic control. Lord, don’t permit the weapons on with air traffic controllers. It The stories came to me one after an- formed against America to prosper, for shouldn’t have worried us before the other. There was a young family where You remain our refuge and fortress. shutdown. It should frighten us at this a little child of the family is suffering May our lawmakers not be found want- moment. from medical illnesses of a serious na- ing in this challenging hour of national Currently, air traffic controllers ture. Luckily, they still have health in- turmoil. Help them to courageously work 10-hour shifts. It is a stressful surance when they are not being paid. contend for what is right, as You give job—an important, stressful job. There When it comes to the out-of-pocket ex- them the ability to understand Your is hardly any person more on the front- penses and copayments, they don’t unfolding providence. line of public safety than an air traffic have money for it. We pray in Your strong Name. Amen. controller. They are expected to con- Those are the realities these men and The PRESIDENT pro tempore. centrate—to concentrate exclusively— women face. They are the realities that Please, God, help us. for 10 straight hours on each shift. Be- have to be on their minds every waking f cause of a shortage of air traffic con- moment. We pray, as passengers in trollers, they now are working 6 days a these aircraft, that the only thing on PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE week. their mind is their job. Instead, for The President pro tempore led the If you can only imagine for a mo- many of these people, it is just basi- Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: ment what it is like, and, if you have cally getting by, keeping their family I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the been to an air traffic control tower, together. United States of America, and to the Repub- you know what it is like—at least from A lady came up to me at the airport lic for which it stands, one nation under God, an outside observer’s point of view. at O’Hare and told me that she and a indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. There they are, with a screen full of lot of friends run a food pantry in Oak f dots. In each one of them is an air- Park, which is west of the city of Chi- plane, and in each airplane tens, maybe cago, and she said to me: We have prob- STRENGTHENING AMERICA’S SE- even hundreds of lives, and they are lems. The Federal employees who are CURITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST trying to make certain that nothing coming around now are in desperate ACT OF 2019—MOTION TO PRO- terrible occurs. need of help, and we are running out of CEED—Continued Imagine the added burden they face supplies at our food pantries. RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME now on the 35th day of this government Has it come to that in America, The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. shutdown. As of today, they will have where we have to rely on food pantries BOOZMAN). Under the previous order, missed two pay periods. The last pay- and charity for men and women who the leadership time is reserved. check came last year. I listened to are performing such a vital function as The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- these air traffic controllers explain air traffic control? That is the reality ator from Illinois. what it meant to them. For some of of the situation.

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VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:26 Jan 26, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A25JA6.000 S25JAPT1 dlhill on DSK3GLQ082PROD with SENATE S668 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 25, 2019 Yesterday we had two votes on the world. So many children were going so hood restaurant. There were five of floor of the Senate. I know that every hungry while the government cronies them. They were on the opposition side Federal employee and their families were siphoning off millions of dollars from President Maduro. They were were tuned in, in the hopes that this from the state food aid program. It was careful not to meet or be seen too shutdown would end yesterday, that we infuriating and disgusting. much in public, and I sat and talked to would muster the courage and political I walked down the streets of Caracas them about why they were in politics. will to come together on a bipartisan and saw firsthand Venezuelans emaci- They weren’t even being paid. Maduro basis. We didn’t. We fell short of the 60 ated, waiting in long lines at ATM ma- had decided to stop paying them after votes needed on both of the measures chines, and I asked: Why is it every they were elected, and yet they contin- that were called. hour of the night and day there is a ued to try to serve. There is a ray of hope but only a long line at the ATM machine? Infla- At one point, one of them said to me: small one. The conversations at the tion was so bad in that country that Senator, if you come back next year, I highest level continued last night and people had to wait patiently in line to can tell you that of the five of us, two even into today. My only hope is that max out each day’s withdrawal from will likely be in prison, two will be ex- the President will decide that this their accounts so they would have iled, and one may have disappeared. shutdown has to come to an end. enough money for a roundtrip bus ride That is what happens when you oppose He alone stood in the beginning and the next day. the Maduro regime. said he was proud to claim that he was I walked through one of the private I thought to myself, there is a heavy the author of this shutdown. I don’t see hospitals, and I heard of unimaginable price to pay for politics in our country, how anyone can be proud of what has shortages of key medicines, shortages but it doesn’t get close to what these happened in this country. It is time to even worse in the state hospitals, young people were facing. put it behind us. It is time to move for- where simple blood tests were no Seated at that table that night was a ward with serious negotiations about longer possible. young 35-year-old man. His name was border security and other issues but In fact, just this week, a collabo- Juan Guaido—the same Juan Guaido not at the expense of 800,000 Federal rative and brave Venezuelan media ef- who was recently chosen as President employees. fort entitled ‘‘Petrofraude’’ released a of the Venezuela National Assembly. This last Wednesday, he did a coura- VENEZUELA devastating investigation. It details geous and dangerous thing. He an- Mr. President, last year, my staff how the Venezuelan Government deci- nounced that under the Constitution, prevailed on me to make a trip which I mated the nation’s oil supply to enrich he believed he had the power to take the cronies of President Maduro and really wasn’t sure I should do. It was to control and to call for a free and cred- attempt to buy diplomatic support, all Caracas, Venezuela. I had never been to ible election, and he announced that he while its people were dying of mal- that country, and I was visiting there would be the interim President of Ven- nutrition, and inflation was soaring be- at the invitation of their government. ezuela under that Constitution. Nicolas Maduro was the President of yond 1 million percent. It was a dramatic move. Guaido now Venezuela, and he did not enjoy the When I met President Maduro last finds himself as the interim Ven- very best of reputations, but yet he was year, I told him—this was in April— ezuelan leader—35 years old. willing to see me. that if he proceeded with the planned, What has happened since he made So for several days I went down to rigged election, he would find himself that announcement? The United States Venezuela, met with President Maduro, even more isolated in the world, and he has recognized him, as has Canada, and met with the opposition, met with the would bring even greater suffering on virtually every other country in South American who was being held prisoner his people. He ignored me, and of and Central America, save three, and I by the Maduro regime, and in matter of course, sadly, that is what happened. will spell them out: Bolivia, Cuba, and a few days, got an impression of what In May, he went forward with a bogus Nicaragua which refuse to recognize was happening in Venezuela. election whose illegitimate results him. It is hard to imagine that 30 years were not recognized by many countries The Secretary General of the Organi- ago, Venezuela was one of the most up- in the region. zation of American States has also rec- and-coming countries in South Amer- Maduro also then kicked out Amer- ognized him. ica. It was considered one of most pros- ica’s top diplomats at the time—two of Under article 233 of the Venezuelan perous. Their oil industry was gener- our finest whom I have had the pleas- Constitution, if the Presidency of the ating money in amounts they had ure of meeting and working with on country is deemed unfilled by a vote of never imagined before. The lifestyles of the trip. the National Assembly, then the Na- people were improving. There were a Yet, during my visit, I was also in- tional Assembly President ‘‘shall take lot of things to be said on the positive spired and found some hope. There charge of the Presidency’’ and lead a side of the ledger, but over the span of were brave civic leaders who were look- timely transition back to a legitimate the next 20 or 30 years, things became ing for public service for the right rea- government. tremendously worse. son—healthcare workers, doing the This is what has happened on the Last year, as I had this opportunity best they could with almost nothing, streets of Caracas because of his cour- to travel in Venezuela and meet with and the next generation of young elect- age: The National Assembly passed a then-President Maduro, I met also with ed members of the National Assembly, measure finding that the Office of the members of the elected National As- the only legitimate democratic body Presidency was vacant due to a clearly sembly, civic and humanitarian groups, left in the nation of Venezuela. stolen election. medical professionals, and the excep- These young leaders had notably won So Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colom- tional men and women who were work- election in areas that once supported bia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, ing at the U.S. Embassy. Hugo Chavez, supposedly the patriarch Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, What I found was that this once- of the country and the godfather of the United Kingdom have all recog- proud and relatively wealthy democ- Maduro, but they had prevailed in dis- nized Guaido as Venezuela’s legitimate racy, last year was on the verge of po- tricts that had gone for Chavez in pre- leader, in addition to the United States litical, economic, and humanitarian vious elections because the people in and Canada, I might add. collapse. those areas had grown disillusioned Earlier this week, I also joined in The stories I learned in that short pe- with the years of corruption, repres- support of his effort, calling on him to riod of time were heartbreaking—of sion, and movement toward dictator- fulfill his constitutional role to help children fainting at school because ship by Mr. Maduro. Venezuela return to the community of they were hungry, the return of dis- Among this group of patriotic elected democracies and to do so with a eases that had once been eradicated, a officials were some extraordinary lead- thoughtful and timely transition to a massive outflow of millions of refugees ers with whom I managed to have din- credible election in which the Ven- from Venezuela to neighboring coun- ner one evening. ezuelan people can once again choose tries, some rates of infectious disease We went to a somewhat secret loca- their leaders through a fair, trans- being rivaled only by war zones in this tion on the second floor of a neighbor- parent process.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:54 Jan 26, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G25JA6.001 S25JAPT1 dlhill on DSK3GLQ082PROD with SENATE January 25, 2019 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S669 Yesterday I had the privilege to working and not getting paid—and we The pass interference was not called, speak at length with President Guaido thank them so much for doing so—as and now the Rams will play in the and offer my support for his transition. well as come up with an alternative Super Bowl against the Patriots in- Just as when I met with him last year way to perhaps fund the wall. stead of the Saints, which is kind of a in Caracas, he was deeply thoughtful NFC CHAMPIONSHIP CONTROVERSY shame. It really is a taint upon the and expressed his love of his country Mr. President, with the seriousness Super Bowl. It won’t be the two best that he serves. That couldn’t have been of that, I also want to address one teams; it will be the two teams that more clear in our conversation. other issue that is particularly serious got there, at least in one case, because He knows how much the Venezuelan to folks in Louisiana. I hope it doesn’t someone did not see an obvious call. people have suffered, how the Maduro seem out of place with the shutdown, Now, I don’t just mean to kvetch— regime bankrupted the nation and de- but I can state that to the folks back and obviously all Saints fans continue stroyed its democracy and economy, home, it is something that continues to be upset—but it is actually, if you and how desperate the people of this to disturb them. will, about the integrity of the game. If country are to rejoin the community of I would like to bring up the NFC you speak of the NFL, it almost be- democracies. championship game. The State of Lou- comes a metaphor for that which is the most competitive, the highest quality, I told him we in the United States isiana is outraged because of what hap- where coaches and athletes dedicate stand ready to help, and the Ven- pened in the Superdome last Sunday. themselves, honing their skills to the ezuelan people need our help to rebuild Televisions were broken, Super Bowl absolute highest level. As folks say, if their country’s democracy and econ- boycott concerts scheduled, billboards omy and to help return the millions of you can win in the NFL, you can win were put up in Atlanta, and fans filed anywhere. It is a metaphor. The Venezuelan refugees safely. lawsuits. My colleague in the House of Yesterday the administration Saints—every football team invests Representatives is calling for the NFL heavily in this. Football fans really pledged $20 million of humanitarian commissioner, Roger Goodell, to tes- support to the opposition, to those who come to town on this. tify in front of Congress on the trav- So the question is to the NFL. We are in the streets trying to reclaim de- esty that occurred 5 days ago. have a few questions for you. mocracy in that country. What happened, in my belief and the How are the officials selected for this I support that $20 million and hope belief of many, was the most blatant game? For example, they grade offi- other countries will join us. It is just and consequential blown call in NFL cials after every game. Were the best the beginning of the help they will history. For those who missed it, on officials sent to this game, or was it need. Sunday night during an NFC cham- just a rotation? If it is just a rotation, This once-proud country can return pionship game, the score was tied with how did the referees who officiated this to the community of democracies. It less than 2 minutes to go. It is third game grade? can start to restore the faith of the and long, and the Saints are in position I don’t want this to be too personal, people in their government. It can to score. Drew Brees throws a pass, but if somebody commits a penalty start to answer the basics. which is right there. There is the ball, during a football game, the referee will To think of what they are going there is the receiver, and there is the say: No. 74 was offsides, and the NFL through, to think that children are defender. has accountability in the performance fainting in school because of malnutri- For those not familiar with foot- of everybody in the game. So I think tion and that basic antibiotics are not ball—and I know the Presiding Officer Saints fans would like to have an ac- even available in the hospitals, these played at the University of Arkansas; countability for the referees. are unthinkable developments in any not a bad school, even though it is not Did people look into conflicts of in- modern country in our hemisphere. I a Louisiana school—the defender is not terest? It has been pointed out that the hope this effort, as dangerous as it may looking back at the quarterback. He is referee who missed the call lives in Los be for the new interim President, leads not looking to intercept. He is only Angeles. Is he a diehard Rams fan? to a credible free election and the res- looking to plow through the receiver. Again, how did these referees get toration of democracy in Venezuela. Every drunk sitting on a stool in scored in this game? After every game, I yield the floor. every bar throughout the Nation the referee is kind of given a grade. I suggest the absence of a quorum. looked up at that TV and said: There is Was it an A-plus or a C-minus? And if The PRESIDING OFFICER. The interference. it is a lower score, what was the com- clerk will call the roll. What you don’t see from this picture ment on this particular play? The senior assistant legislative clerk I am showing, though, is there is also Saints coach Sean Payton said the senior vice president of officiating ad- proceeded to call the roll. helmet-to-helmet contact, which is mitted to him in a private phone call Mr. CASSIDY. Mr. President, I ask also a penalty. unanimous consent that the order for It was a twofer. On one play, the Los that the official messed up, but there is still no official statement from the the quorum call be rescinded. Angeles Rams defender committed two NFL. Perhaps they can answer these The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without egregious penalties, and everybody in objection, it is so ordered. questions in an official statement. the Superdome and everybody watch- Football is not only a game; it is part GOVERNMENT FUNDING ing knew it happened—except for him, Mr. CASSIDY. Mr. President, obvi- of our culture. I would state that the the referee. NFL has a responsibility to the mil- ously, the news that is dominating I don’t mean to pick on this referee. lions of fans across the country to en- Washington, DC, and indeed the Nation I am sure he is a nice man, a good fam- sure the integrity of the game and to is the shutdown. ily man, et cetera. But he missed a call answer these questions and perhaps a Yesterday, I joined in a colloquy with with less than 2 minutes that everyone few others. other colleagues, both Democrats and agrees would have changed the course With that, Mr. President, I yield the Republicans, asking that we find some of the game. The Saints would have floor. middle way. The President clearly has had a first down automatically, they I suggest the absence of a quorum. moved. He has offered to reopen the would have drained the clock, they The PRESIDING OFFICER. The government, I am told, if only a down- would have then kicked a field goal, clerk will call the roll. payment will be made to construct the and the game would have been over. The senior assistant legislative clerk wall, and has come forward with a LeBron James, Dez Bryant, Melvin proceeded to call the roll. good-faith effort. Ms. PELOSI—I would Gordon, Richard Sherman, J.J. Watt, Mr. SCHATZ. Mr. President, I ask ask that she, as the Speaker, who and even Hulk Hogan took to Twitter unanimous consent that the order for seems to be the chief negotiating part- to call out this absurd call. the quorum call be rescinded. ner, do the same. The defender said: I interfered with The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without I myself have two pieces of legisla- him. objection, it is so ordered. tion that I will be offering today or He admitted it. GOVERNMENT FUNDING Monday that will ease the burden on I thought I was going to get called, Mr. SCHATZ. Mr. President, this those Federal workers who are still but I didn’t. morning the FAA grounded planes at

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He served as traffic control staff, who are not being flights are delayed, if the elites are im- President pro tempore from 1919 until paid because the President fulfilled his periled or inconvenienced in any way 1925. promise to shut down the government at the all, game over, and shame on us In my nearly four decades here in the 35 days ago. if that is what it takes to shut down Senate, I served alongside seven Presi- The FAA’s website crashed as people this shutdown. dents pro tempore: Senator Thurmond, looked for information. Stocks for air- This entire time, as funding has run of South Carolina; Senator Stennis, of lines took a hit, and air traffic in other out for food banks and domestic vio- Mississippi; Senator Byrd, of West Vir- airports, including Philadelphia and lence shelters, everyone has been fo- ginia; Senator Stevens, of Alaska; Sen- Newark, were delayed because of staff- cused on whether or not Speaker ator Inouye, of Hawaii; Senator LEAHY, ing shortages. We will continue to see PELOSI will win the State of the Union of Vermont; and Senator Hatch, of the ripple effects of this today. It is not exchange with the President, and what Utah. Each served with honor and dis- like if travel in and out of LaGuardia is are the polling numbers, and how are tinction, bringing their own style and disrupted, it will be business as usual Democrats and Republicans positioning substance to this office. at other airports. More flights will be this, and will these polling drops mat- When Senator Byrd was elected to delayed. LaGuardia has resumed oper- ter in 2020? this office, he noted that ‘‘the election ations, but what is clear is that the But the moment the elite of this of a Senator to the office of the Presi- ATC, or the air traffic control staff, is country have a moment of inconven- dent pro tempore has always been con- thin, and they are making game-time ience, this thing seems to be wrapping sidered one of the highest honors of- decisions—go, no go. up, and shame on us. fered to a Senator by the Senate Apparently, we need another re- Everyone is focused on this slow, hor- body.’’ minder that this shutdown is stupid rible train wreck that they can watch I am proud to join the ranks of this and dangerous, that it leaves commu- with some distance. Suddenly, air trav- impressive and respected group of pub- nities and commerce on the edge, be- el stops and everybody freaks out. lic servants and legislators. Article I of cause the voices of those affected al- Shame on us. It is day 35. People have the Constitution directs that a Presi- ready—Native Americans, Coast Guard gone without—without food, medicine, dent pro tempore be chosen by the Sen- servicemembers, FBI agents, IRS em- gas in their car, paychecks—but de- ate. The President pro tempore serves ployees, National Park Service work- layed flights is the straw that breaks as the President of the Senate when ers, and domestic violence victims— the camel’s back. the Vice President is unavailable and weren’t enough. The FAA is unique be- This has to end. But it should never serves a number of other ceremonial cause they have an obligation and the have even started. It shouldn’t have and ministerial functions. authority under the law to make a go- taken a day like this to be, possibly, I appreciate the support of my col- no-go decision based on safety. They maybe not the end, maybe not the be- leagues who elected me to this posi- can look at their staffing numbers and ginning but the beginning of the end of tion. In Federalist No. 62, James Madi- say: We can’t do this safely, so stop. this shutdown. son considered it a virtue that Sen- But the FBI and the Coast Guard don’t I yield the floor. ators have ‘‘more advanced age and a get to say: Hey, hold off, everybody. I suggest the absence of a quorum. longer period of citizenship.’’ Tradi- TSA agents and the TSA itself does The PRESIDING OFFICER. The tionally, the President pro tempore has not have the authority to make a simi- clerk will call the roll. also served as a senior statesman for lar call. They can raise the alarm, but The senior assistant legislative clerk the Senate, standing up for the values they do not have the authority to stop proceeded to call the roll. that make the Senate the world’s people from coming through check- Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I ask greatest deliberative body. Perhaps points. They just have to make do. The unanimous consent that the order for that is why it is customary for a Sen- same goes for all of the families af- the quorum call be rescinded. ator of the majority party with the fected by the shutdown. There is no The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without longest record of continuous service to ‘‘go-no-go’’ decision. They just have to objection, it is so ordered. become President pro tempore. try to make it work. NINETY-FIRST SENATE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE When you have been here as long as The FAA decision demonstrates what Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I I have, you learn some very valuable is happening throughout the govern- come to the floor today to offer a few lessons. You learn that you have to ment and throughout society right reflections in these opening days—now work hard, put your constituents first, now. People are right on the edge. opening weeks—of the 116th Congress. and stand up for your principles. That Some of them have fallen off that edge. On January 3, I was honored to be is also how you happen to get reelected Today, the shutdown became an incon- sworn in as the 91st Senate President by the people of your State. Because venience to the very small percentage pro tempore. As many of you know, I the Senate is not a majoritarian body, of Americans who fly regularly, but, love history. I studied to be a history you also learn that in order to get any- more importantly, today is an indi- teacher, and I have devoted six decades thing important done, you have to seek cator of what is happening to the gov- of my life to public service where, consensus and develop relationships, ernment, of who matters to the govern- maybe, I helped make a little history and develop those relationships on both ment. along the way. I have represented the sides of the aisle. You have to learn the I certainly hope, as lots of pundits, people of Iowa as a legislator since art of negotiation and bipartisan com- and journalists, and politicians have 1958. promise, something that seems to be mentioned, that once air traffic starts At the age of 25, as the youngest leg- missing right now as the government is to slow, once airports get snarled, we islator in the Iowa State House, I never shut down. You also learn that it is not are at the end of this process and the dreamed that one day I would be enough to pass laws. You also have to shutdown will end shortly. I don’t named a constitutional officer in the make sure that those laws are followed know if that is true, but I sure hope it Senate. and that the taxpayer dollars are spent is true. For the last 38 years, it has been my appropriately according to what Con- On another level, it should precipi- great privilege to serve and represent gress intends in the law. tate a little shame, a little introspec- the people of Iowa as a Senator. It is The humorist Will Rogers once said tion about how we got here, because to with great pride on behalf of my home that about all he could say about the fix this now, when airports are snarled, State that I step into this leadership Senate is that it opens with a prayer is to say we were OK with people not role and follow in the footsteps of my and it closes with an investigation. In getting food stamps, we were OK with predecessors as President pro tempore my experience, that is not always a bad Native American health clinics run- of the Senate. In fact, one of those thing because it is by conducting over- ning out of medicine, Federal workers predecessors is from my home State. It sight and investigations that we hold working without two paychecks, and was 100 years ago exactly that Iowa Re- the executive branch responsible to the

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There are seven Republicans and ater for show votes and messaging members, I have fought back—even two Democrats who are new: Senator stunts from either side. We would only when 2 years ago, the new administra- BLACKBURN of Tennessee, Senator vote on plans that stood an actual tion under Trump tried to say that BRAUN of Indiana, Senator CRAMER of chance of being signed by the President only chairmen and ranking members North Dakota, Senator HAWLEY of Mis- and, thus, obviously becoming law. should get this information—because I souri, Senator MCSALLY of Arizona, So I was glad to hear today the Presi- believe that every Senator has a duty Senator ROMNEY of Utah, Senator dent’s announcement that he and our to the taxpayers who sent us here to ROSEN of Nevada, Senator SINEMA of Democratic colleagues have reached an take an active part in congressional Arizona, and Senator SCOTT of Florida. agreement that will immediately re- To my newest colleagues whom I oversight efforts. open the government while providing The Supreme Court observed in Wat- have just named and, of course, to all the room to negotiate a funding bill for of my colleagues who have been around kins v. United States that ‘‘the power the Department of Homeland Security. here for quite a while, I want you to of Congress to conduct investigations Further, negotiations on DHS will be know my door is open. As I tell a lot of is inherent in the legislative process.’’ prioritized over the consideration of new colleagues—and I can repeat it for Oversight helps us to write better bills any other funding bill. With coopera- older colleagues—if you want to know and to be wiser with taxpayer dollars. tion, we can pass legislation opening anything about what CHUCK GRASSLEY It is also how we make the Agencies the government, and we can send the is thinking or doing, just ask me. I will DHS appropriations bill to a conference accountable to the American people. bet, 99 percent of the time, I will be Over time, as our government has today with the House. able to tell you exactly what it is. If I grown in size, Congress has delegated I am glad the closed portions of the can’t, I will be glad to tell you why I Federal Government will reopen and more and more power to the executive can’t tell you. I look forward to work- get back online. I am glad the dedi- branch—probably more power than we ing with each of you in the weeks, cated men and women of the Coast should have. Some of the delegation is months, and years ahead. Guard, law enforcement, the TSA, and necessary for the government to func- With great honor and, of course, hu- all of the other Federal employees will tion efficiently, but there is an inher- mility, I look forward to my service as not have to go longer without pay for ent danger whenever Congress dele- President pro tempore. Like my good their work and will receive their back- gates power to the executive branch, friend and our most recent President pay. I know the pain this episode has especially if we delegate legislative au- pro tempore, ORRIN HATCH, I look for- caused for many Kentuckians and for thority. ward to opening the people’s business people all over our country. They de- When they drafted the Constitution, each day in the Senate. I will then serve this resolution. the Founders of our Nation were right- work the rest of that day to deliver on In going forward, I hope our Demo- fully concerned that those in power my commitment to find solutions to cratic friends will stay true to the would be tempted to abuse power in our country’s most pressing problems, commitment they have stated con- favor of their own interests. As we all to seek common ground with my col- stantly over the past weeks that once studied in high school government, to leagues on both sides of the aisle, and the government was reopened, they prevent this, the Founders divided to exercise rigorous oversight over the would be perfectly willing to negotiate power among three branches of govern- other branches of government. Our Na- in good faith on full-year government ment and set up a system of govern- tion’s most pressing problem today is funding that would include a signifi- ment in which, to paraphrase James that of getting the government opened cant investment in urgently needed Madison in Federalist No. 51: Ambition up. border security measures, including [is] made to counteract ambition. It is I thank my colleagues. physical barriers. through this system of checks and bal- I yield the floor. After all, the only way Federal work- ances between ambitious branches of I suggest the absence of a quorum. ers are going to have stability and cer- government that our fundamental lib- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The tainty beyond the next 3 weeks and the erties are protected. The concentration clerk will call the roll. only way our border is going to have The senior assistant legislative clerk of too much power in the executive real security is if the Democrats will proceeded to call the roll. branch upsets the careful balance of stop playing partisan games and get se- Mr. PERDUE. Mr. President, I ask the separated powers that was envi- rious about negotiating with the Presi- unanimous consent that the order for sioned by our Founders. dent on a long-term compromise. the quorum call be rescinded. As legislators, it is our duty then, as The days ahead will tell us whether The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the Founders rightfully intended, for our Democratic colleagues are actually objection, it is so ordered. us to protect and defend the interests serious about securing our Nation— of our branch of government. So, when f whether they actually mean what they we write laws, we must be careful not RECESS say. The President has called on the to cede too much authority to the ex- Mr. PERDUE. Mr. President, I ask Senate to act on these proposals, and ecutive branch, and we must make sure unanimous consent that the Senate re- now that there has been an agreement that if we have delegated authority, we cess subject to the call of the Chair. between the Democrats and the White conduct rigorous oversight to make The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without House, we can make that happen. sure it is being used appropriately. It is objection, it is so ordered. RECOGNITION OF THE MINORITY LEADER only through rigorous oversight that Thereupon, the Senate, at 1:30 p.m., The PRESIDING OFFICER. The we make sure that the government of recessed until 2:44 p.m., and was reas- Democratic leader is recognized. the people and by the people then sembled when called to order by the Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, works for the people. Presiding Officer (Mrs. CAPITO). the longest shutdown in American his- As President pro tempore, I will as- f tory will finally end today. The Presi- sure my colleagues and my constitu- dent has agreed to our request to open ents that I will bring the same Iowa STRENGTHENING AMERICA’S SE- the government and then debate border work ethic, decency, and integrity to CURITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST security, which is great news for 800,000 this job that I have cultivated through- ACT OF 2019—MOTION TO PRO- Federal workers and millions of Ameri- out my years of public service. Like CEED—Continued cans who depend upon government my President pro tempore prede- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- services. I thank President Trump and cessors, I will work to uphold the dig- ate will come to order. Leader MCCONNELL.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:54 Jan 26, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G25JA6.006 S25JAPT1 dlhill on DSK3GLQ082PROD with SENATE S672 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 25, 2019 As just outlined, we have agreed to Hopefully, it means a lesson has been rather that it will lead to a permanent pass a clean 3-week continuing resolu- learned—shutting down the govern- solution so we can reopen government tion to reopen the government. Also, ment over a policy difference is self-de- beyond February 15 and through the we will pass legislation in the Senate feating. It accomplishes nothing but end of the fiscal year—that is, until that will be related to the Department pain and suffering for the country and September 30—and so that in the fu- of Homeland Security so the House and the American people. That is a lesson ture, we can avoid ever resorting to the Senate can participate in a conference we all must bear in mind when this shutdown of government again. It is committee on that legislation. In the next continuing resolution expires, never good policy. conference, Democrats and Repub- which will make its success more like- Let us work together over these next licans will have the opportunity to ne- ly. We can never hold American work- 3 weeks to come up with a compromise gotiate the details of the Homeland Se- ers hostage again. on border security, and let us show the curity bill, which will include issues of I yield the floor. American people that we can govern ef- border security, humanitarian aid, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- fectively. drug inspection technology, and many ator from Maine. I thank the Presiding Officer. others. We expect the continuing reso- Ms. COLLINS. Madam President, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- lution to clear the House and be signed government shutdowns are never justi- ator from Vermont. by the President today. fied, and I have opposed every one of Mr. SANDERS. Madam President, ob- As soon as the President signs the them. This shutdown—the longest in viously, this is a happy and positive legislation to open the government, we our Nation’s history—has caused real day not only for Federal employees but in Congress will roll up our sleeves. I harm to 800,000 Federal employees and for the American people as we reopen genuinely hope this process will their families. the government, but we should also in- produce something that is good for the Just today, I heard from a Federal dicate there is something absolutely country and acceptable to both sides. employee in Belfast, ME, who has pathetic about what has happened. We don’t agree on some of the specifics worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Let us not forget for a second that 5 of border security—the Democrats are Service for 32 years. He has two chil- weeks ago, the U.S. Senate unani- mously—every Republican, every Dem- against the wall—but we agree on dren with type 1 diabetes, and with the ocrat—voted for essentially the same many things, such as the need for new soaring costs of insulin, he was begin- legislation that will likely pass today technology and the need to strengthen ning to worry about how he would be and that 5 weeks ago we voted to keep security at our ports of entry, and that able to afford insulin for his children. the government open. Then President bodes well for our coming to an even- He was concerned that a prolonged Trump responded to FOX television tual agreement. shutdown would have an adverse im- and other rightwing outlets and an- I believe there is good faith on both pact on his insurance coverage. nounced that he would shut down the sides to reach an agreement, and we The shutdown has also hurt Ameri- will work diligently to achieve one. Be- government unless he got his wall. cans’ access to Federal Agencies and For 5 weeks, think of the suffering, of cause we have set this up as a con- threatened housing assistance for low- ference, Democratic and Republican the uncertainty, of the pain that hun- income families, our seniors, and peo- dreds of thousands of Federal workers leadership from the House and Senate ple with disabilities. It has harmed will be involved, as will the appropri- have been forced to experience—work- small businesses that have contracts ers who have worried about whether ators from those committees. with Federal Agencies for certain serv- Most importantly, this agreement they will be able to pay their mort- ices but that have not been getting means the government will reopen and gages, whether they will be able to feed paid. Thus, their employees have been that 800,000 Federal employees will fi- their kids, whether they will be able to at risk of being laid off. nally get paid. After over a month of go to the doctor when they get sick, That is why I voted twice this week increasing desperation, our dedicated worried about what kind of damage to end the shutdown and reopen the public servants will get the relief and will have been done to their credit rat- government. Although neither proposal paychecks they are entitled to, includ- ings. That is a result of Trump’s shut- received enough votes to pass, we saw ing backpay. down. If my ears heard correctly—and I From the bottom of my heart, I glimmers of hope that have produced think they did—Trump, even today, thank the Federal workers who have results. I note that after the failed just a few minutes ago, announced that worked so selflessly this past month. votes, a bipartisan group of 16 Senators he is prepared to shut down the govern- They should never have to go through came to the floor, and each one of us ment again unless he gets his way. this again. We will do everything we indicated a willingness to compromise. I think the time is long overdue for can to make sure they will not have to. I am pleased that today there is real the American people to tell this Presi- The past month has proven just how progress. The President and Senate Re- dent that he is not a dictator, that he vital government services are to the publicans and Democrats have come to- is not a King, that he is not the des- American people, whether they be air gether and agreed to reopen govern- potic ruler of Saudi Arabia, that he is traffic control, food safety inspections, ment until February 15, while negotia- not his authoritarian friend Vladimir the Coast Guard, national parks, and so tions on border security issues con- Putin of Russia. He is the President of many others. With this agreement, the tinue. That is so important. As the United States, and he cannot and must TSA, the Border Patrol, and FBI Presiding Officer is chair of the Appro- not continue to threaten to shut down agents will all be paid again for pro- priations Subcommittee on the Depart- this government and hold hundreds of tecting our country. Our airports will ment of Homeland Security, I know she thousands of Federal workers hostage. get back on track, and we will resume will be playing a key role in this area. While I am delighted that the govern- the maintenance of our cherished na- Let each of us on the Democratic side ment is going to be reopened and de- tional parks. The IRS will be able to of the aisle, on the Republican side of lighted that Federal employees will get issue tax refunds in a timely manner— the aisle, and in the administration their backpay, I remain concerned all critical for the well-being of the pledge that we will negotiate in good about the over 1 million contract em- American people. faith and work to hammer out a com- ployees—often folks who work for low As Democrats have said all along, the promise on border security so we will wages—who not only have lost pay but, solution to this impasse was to sepa- not face the same situation again on at this point at least, are not protected rate funding the government from our February 15. by any legislation to make sure they disagreements over border security. I, for one, will keep working with my get their backpay. That is something I This agreement endorses that position. colleagues and with the White House to hope we can address. It reopens the government without pre- ensure that hundreds of thousands of The truth is that despite what the conditions, and it gives Democrats and hard-working, patriotic public servants President tells us, there is nobody in Republicans an opportunity to discuss will stay on the job; that this will not the Senate or in the House who is not border security without holding hun- just be a temporary reprieve that will concerned about border security. Some dreds of thousands of American work- allow backpay to be made to them as of us believe that spending, as a down- ers hostage. early as the beginning of next week but payment, $5.7 billion on a wall, with

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It was interesting to see, as I have There is no debate that border secu- Stop telling hundreds of thousands of visited with them and have heard their rity is an important issue, but one of Federal employees that they have to very direct stories, that they are pret- the things that concerns me very come to work when they will not get ty selfless. They are pretty selfless in much—and I say this to the Presiding paid. Stop denying or threatening to saying: As hard as this is on us and as Officer, who is chairman of the Health, deny the American people access to the much as we want to be paid, we want to Education, Labor and Pensions Com- vital services that they need. make sure that others who serve as mittee—is that border security and a Today is a good day in the sense that public servants—our Federal employ- wall are not the only issues facing the I hope and expect that the government ees, whether they are air traffic con- American people. There are 30 million will be reopened, but how sad it is that trollers, whether they are FAA, wheth- Americans who have no health insur- after all of the suffering and all of the er they are TSA, whether they are ance, and many more who are under- uncertainty our Federal employees NOAA, whether they are NIMS—will insured. By far, we pay the highest cost have faced, we are back to exactly also get paid because they, too, are our for prescription drugs of any people on where we were 5 weeks ago when this friends and our neighbors, and they, the face of the Earth. body voted unanimously—every Repub- too, are hurting. Again, we need to Border security is important, and it lican and every Democrat—to keep the make sure we are doing right by all of must be dealt with, but we also have to government open. those who serve our country, who serve deal with a dysfunctional healthcare Thank you. all of us through the good work they do system and, in my view, do what every The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. through the Agencies. other major country does, which is to ALEXANDER). The Senator from Alaska. This has been a harsh and a difficult guarantee healthcare to all people as a Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I time, and it has been particularly pain- right. think it is good that we are standing ful for me, coming from a State where Border security is an important here on the Senate floor and acknowl- we are feeling the direct impacts of issue, but so is the fact that tens of edging the news the President has just this partial shutdown, perhaps more so millions of workers in this country are announced—that the government will than any other State out there. I am working for starvation wages. I was reopen as early as today and that those told that, per capita, there are more just in South Carolina the other day, good, dedicated, and hard-working Fed- Federal employees in Alaska who are and I talked to a waitress. She receives eral employees who have either been directly impacted by this partial shut- $2.25 pay, plus tips. Millions of workers furloughed or who have been working down than in any other State, so I hear in this country are working for starva- without pay for 35 days now will be the urgency. It is not just from our tion wages of $8 or $9 or $10 an hour. We able to get back to work and will be Coast Guard men and women; again, it have to raise the minimum wage to a able to receive just compensation for is from so many Agencies that have a living wage. their work. This is important news. presence. I got a readout just yesterday from I am proud that in the House—I ex- This is good news. This is long-awaited those in the fishing industry who are pect they will pass a minimum wage news. concerned that because permits can’t bill of $15 an hour, and when that bill In fairness, this never should have get issued, because comments can’t be comes to the Senate, I hope we can do happened. I concur with my colleague published in the Federal Register, the the same. from Maine that there is never a good impact to their fisheries and being able Border security is an important reason to have a government shutdown to move forward with the black cod issue, but so is the fact that the sci- in the first place. We have dem- fishery or to move forward with the pot entific community tells us we have a onstrated that we can do it, but it sure cod—they are not going to be able to very short window of opportunity to isn’t something that should be done. do it. So today’s news allows everyone address the global crisis of climate I think the men and women who have to breathe a sigh of relief. But I don’t change. What the scientists have told been so directly and immediately im- want them—whether they are fisher- us is that if we do not boldly reduce pacted are not only relieved this after- men or whether they are that Coast noon, but they are saying: For heaven’s carbon emissions over the next 12 years Guard wife—thinking, am I going to be sake, Congress, make sure you don’t by transforming our energy system able to breathe now for only 3 weeks? put us through this again. away from fossil fuel to energy effi- What happens after that? ciency and sustainable energy, this Count me in that camp of working to We owe it not only to our Federal country—and, in fact, countries all make sure we don’t put these men and workers, but we also owe it to all of over the world—will suffer irreparable women and their families through this America to take the anxiety out of this damage from climate change. again. process. We have to address the crisis of cli- I have been holding Skype sessions I have supported my colleague the mate change. Border security is impor- with the spouses of our active Coast Senator from Ohio in his legislation tant. We have to deal with it, but we Guard in Alaska. Last evening, I had that would permanently end govern- also have to deal with climate change. an opportunity to connect with the ment shutdowns. As an appropriator, I We have to deal with a broken crimi- spouses from Sitka. It is absolutely am not convinced, the way it is draft- nal justice system, which, today, cre- gut-wrenching to hear a young wife, ed, that it is something I am entirely ates a situation where, in America, we who has a baby who is now less than 1 good with, but I want us to take this have more people in jail than any other year old, and her husband, who has off the table. In fact, I believe it was country on Earth. been out at sea for 5 months—he has the Presiding Officer who used the ter- Obviously, if we have learned any- just come home—relay the conversa- minology that a shutdown is like the thing in recent weeks, we have to deal tion of the two of them crying in bed as chemical warfare agent when it comes with an immigration system that ev- they are discussing whether she should to political weapons. erybody acknowledges does not work, leave Sitka with their baby to go back At the end of the day, these are peo- and we have to pass comprehensive im- and live with either his parents or her ple’s lives we are dealing with. These migration reform. parents because they cannot afford to are people’s lives we are messing with My point is that I hope very much we stay in the Coast Guard community when we say that we are going to shut will not continue to be held hostage by that they are in. down the government for this period of this President, who, once again, just an I am scheduled to have yet another time while we try to advance prior- hour ago, has threatened another gov- Skype session with the spouses of our ities. We cannot mess with people’s ernment shutdown in 3 weeks if he Coast Guard men and women from Cor- lives this way. doesn’t get his way. I hope very much dova and Petersburg just 40 minutes We have our work cut out for us, and that there will be serious discussions from now. I think it is going to be a I believe we will rise to this occasion.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:54 Jan 26, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G25JA6.011 S25JAPT1 dlhill on DSK3GLQ082PROD with SENATE S674 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 25, 2019 We must rise to this occasion. I look the full committee, and the leadership, that she is able to do is to take issues forward to doing that. certainly, of our leaders, with the of border security and do what we are I thank the President for his an- President, to working out a good solu- supposed to do, which is to put dif- nouncement today. I thank him for tion here. ferent views together and get a result. giving us the 3 weeks that we re- I firmly believe that border security Now, this wasn’t that long ago, what quested. I thank the majority leader is important. That is reflected in the she just described. It was just last sum- and the minority leader for coming to- bill we passed out of our subcommittee mer that the full Appropriations Com- gether to help advance this. that the Chair and the Senator from mittee of the Senate, which is about a It is going to take all of us—it is Tennessee both voted on in the full third of all of us—almost equally di- going to take the President; it is going committee. We had 10 Democrats who vided, Republicans and Democrats— to take the leadership—working to- voted for that bill, which had border considered President Trump’s budget gether. security, a pedestrian fence, wall, tech- request for border security. It included As a member of the Appropriations nology, and the polar security cutter a request that included physical bar- Committee, I look forward to my con- for our Coast Guard, which is some- riers—a wall. tinuing role in this, but know that we thing very important to Alaska and What was the result? If I have my owe it to the country. We owe it to the the Arctic and to us as Americans for numbers right, I believe the committee country to get this right and get it our safety, and a lot of very reflective recommended about $5.7 billion for bor- right quickly. priorities in there for the rest of the der security, including $1.6 billion for a This is a good start today, and I look country. physical barrier, which is a wall. At forward to working with my col- We can’t lose sight that homeland se- least ten Democrats voted for that. leagues. curity is more than about one struc- You didn’t read about that in the after- I yield the floor. ture or the one placement of a struc- noon news as a big problem because we The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- ture. It is about a full-out array of considered what a comprehensive bor- ator from West Virginia. ways of looking at protecting our coun- der security plan would be for our Mrs. CAPITO. Mr. President, I was try internally, in our transportation southern border under the leadership of just listening and paying close atten- sector, in our energy sectors, and in the Senator from West Virginia, and tion to my colleague from Alaska de- others. she responded to the President’s re- scribing the uselessness and the misery While it sounds like a steep moun- quest. He is, after all, the President. I have march of a government shutdown, par- tain, I embrace this. I embrace the read the Constitution. He does have to ticularly one that has lasted longer ability to play a role and to find a rea- sign the bill for it to become a law. So than any one that has occurred over sonable solution, and we have been we respected the President’s request, the history of this country. I couldn’t granted until February 15 to work this considered it, and voted for it. That is agree more, and I associate myself with out. With that, I have rolled up my where we were on the Senate floor as her comments, having had many con- sleeves. I am getting ready to go to versations, as many of us have, with late as last summer. work with many, many others here in Then the President came along more our TSA agents and with our Coast this body and across the way and at the Guard—yes, West Virginia has a Coast recently and said: We have a crisis on White House. the southern border. We need more Guard presence; I would like to empha- To the American people, I agree that money for border security, and part of size that—with our prison guards and shutdowns are useless. They are pain- that money ought to include physical others who have had just foisted upon ful. Nobody wins. The big discussion is, barriers. them, through no fault of their own, Who is winning here? It is pretty clear That should surprise no one. The last some very difficult decisions and sleep- the American people aren’t winning, four Presidents have said the same less nights, I am sure. and in the end, I don’t think anybody is thing—President Obama, President So while we want to celebrate, there winning. Clinton, President George W. Bush, and is really little cause to celebrate. I With that, I yield my time, and look President George H.W. Bush. We think think it is more of a breath of fresh air forward to getting to work and to find- they were pretty effective Presidents. or a deep sigh of relief. Probably, in the ing the right solution. They all asked for money to build minds of the veterans whom I was with The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. MUR- physical barriers on the southern bor- at the Martinsburg Medical Center this KOWSKI). The Senator from Tennessee. der of the United States—it is 1,954 morning, it is a deep breath and: Well, Mr. ALEXANDER. Madam President, miles long——those four Presidents no kidding. Let’s get back to the busi- I am glad the Senator from West Vir- who came before President Trump. ness of governing and making decisions ginia is on the floor because if someone Those Presidents asked for and Con- and making good decisions for the were to ask where do we go from here, gress approved—Democrats and Repub- country. her work is the best example of that. licans—654 miles of wall along the I chair the Subcommittee on Home- Let’s stop and think about this just a southern border. land Security in the Senate as part of minute. The issue is whether we should This issue has gotten blown way out the Appropriations Committee. I am include in a plan for border security of proportion. As the President just very pleased that the President has some physical barrier. That is the said a few moments ago, he is not ask- made this announcement that our lead- issue. How do you resolve that issue? ing for a wall from sea to shining sea, ers, both Senator MCCONNELL and Sen- That is what we do. and what this Congress has shown, ator SCHUMER, have come together I remember, I went to see Johnny under four Presidents of the United with a commonsense, breathable solu- Cash when I was Governor of Ten- States, and more recently under the tion to give us some space to work nessee, and I didn’t quite know what to leadership of the Senator from West through what we call here regular say to him so I said: How many nights Virginia, is that we can take a Presi- order. For people listening who don’t are you on the road? dent’s request—either a Republican understand what that is, it is what we He said: Oh, about 200. President or a Democratic President, should be doing every day, where I sit I said: Why do you do that? in the case of Clinton and Obama—for down as the chair of the committee, He looked at me and said: That is border security and come up with a with Senator TESTER from Montana, what I do. comprehensive recommendation that who is the ranking member on the This is what we do. Our job is not to attracts the bipartisan support of U.S. committee, and other members of the take a position or to make a speech. Senators and make it a law, and that is committee, and we work things out. I We could do that at home. We could get what we should do in the next 3 weeks. want this, and he wants this. Well, a radio program or a television show. Boy Scouts shouldn’t get a merit maybe pick in the middle, or maybe I No one might watch it, but we could badge for telling the truth, and U.S. will give you this if you give me that. get one. It takes very little courage Senators and Presidents shouldn’t get So I look forward, with the bold lead- and very little skill to take a position a merit badge for keeping the govern- ership of Senator SHELBY and Senator or make a speech, but what the Sen- ment open. That is what we are sup- LEAHY, as chair and ranking member of ator from West Virginia has shown posed to do. But it is good that it is

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As the Senator posed to be so I would be allowed to ing: Please, let’s reopen the govern- from Alaska said, as the Senator from speak. ment, and Senators on the Democratic West Virginia said, and as I have heard I am glad the President did today side, like myself, saying: I am open to almost every Senator say on both sides what he said he would do. The govern- increasing the dollar amount on border of the aisle, we should never ever shut ment should be open, and we should be security. down the government. Shutting down solving the problem. As I said, Boy After the Presiding Officer’s com- the government should be as off limits Scouts and Girl Scouts should not get ments, I rise to welcome the news that in budget negotiations as chemical merit badges for telling the truth, and sanity has prevailed—at least tempo- warfare is in real warfare. I should not Senators and Presidents shouldn’t get rarily. After 35 painful days, we are fi- be able to say to the Senator from it for keeping the government open. nally poised to reopen the government Alaska: If I don’t get my way, I am But it is good that it is open, and now and pay our hard-working Federal em- going to shut the government down, there is a chance for us to work to- ployees. It is not a moment too soon whether it is on Planned Parenthood or gether. because under normal circumstances, military spending or a road in Alaska The Senator from West Virginia has today is supposed to be a Federal pay- or a road in Tennessee or a coal mine been one of the leaders in the last few day, but this morning, thousands of in West Virginia. We have our strong days, along with the Senators from Federal employees went to work one opinions, but we don’t say we are going Alaska and West Virginia, saying: more day knowing full well they would to take our football and go home. We Let’s open the government. Let’s go to not be getting the paychecks they should say: We were elected to make work, and let’s take the proposal for earned. Thousands more have been fur- the government work for taxpayers, comprehensive border security and loughed, waiting for the President and not to shut it down, and we know how make a result. my colleagues to come to their senses to do that. We know how to do that. It is not that unusual for the Presi- to let us reopen the government. The first thing that was wrong with dent—any President—in the middle of For the last 35 days, 800,000 Federal the last few weeks is we accepted the a year to say: We have an unusual workers have been held hostage idea that shutting down the govern- need. The country needs more money. through no fault of their own. Frankly, ment is an acceptable bargaining chip It might be a disaster. It might be a that is just scratching the surface of in a budget negotiation, and it should hurricane. It might be a flood. It might this destructive shutdown. That num- never ever be, and we should resolve be a war. It might be a crisis on the ber of 800,000 doesn’t include the hun- that that should never ever happen. If southern border. Let’s not get hung up dreds of thousands of Federal contrac- this President or the next President or on this wall talk. Let’s remember that tors who are not getting paid. this Speaker of the House or the next the previous four Presidents asked for I know I have talked to my friend the the Speaker of the House tries to do it, and we approved the building of 654 Senator from Alaska and appealed to we should in a bipartisan way say: No, miles along the 1,954-mile southern the common sense and good sense of you can have your strong view, but we border of the United States. That is the Presiding Officer. We have some are not going along with your threat to Democrats and Republicans over 20 legislation that may not be perfect but shut the government down in order to years. would look at trying to make at least get your policy goals. Let’s not forget that last summer, partially whole those low-paid Federal The second thing that was wrong under the leadership of the Senator contractors—folks under $50,000—who, with it was that we didn’t give the job from West Virginia, the Senate Appro- if we don’t find a way to take care of to the people whose job it is to work priations Committee considered the them, will come out of this—more than these things out. For example, the Sen- President’s request and approved $5.7 1 month of their annual salary—with ator from West Virginia showed in her billion for border security, including nothing at all to show for it. leadership of the Appropriations Home- $1.6 billion for a physical barrier. Let’s We also know—and the Senator from land Security Subcommittee that she have the same sort of discussion again Alaska raised this issue with me—that knows how, with her committee mem- in the next 3 weeks. Let’s let the Sen- even if we were to move toward low- bers, to work out differences of opinion ators and the House Members, whose salaried contractors, the solution that on border security. job it is to do it, do it. we announced today and that hopefully Instead, we were having a high dec- I am glad to see this happen. I am will be signed later today really will do ibel debate back and forth between the glad that when I go back to Tennessee nothing to take care of the small busi- President and the Speaker of the or fly out from Tennessee, I am not nesses whose customers were fur- House. He would say one thing on TV, walking through the TSA and seeing loughed or working without pay. and she would come out of her office one of 54,000 TSA workers who have I am thinking about the Senator and refute it in 5 minutes. That is not been working without pay—in our from Alaska, who had the powerful pic- the way you get an agreement. That is State, cheerfully, never complaining, ture on the floor of the brewery in Ko- not the way we ever get an agreement. never saying an angry word to me. One diak, AK. I copied her efforts and went They should leave that to what we call did say he could use some money be- to Port City Brewery in Alexandria—I the regular order and allow us to have cause he wasn’t getting his check, and believe it was yesterday—where not our discussions. I appreciated that. only were they down dramatically in We began to make progress yesterday I am glad that is over. It shouldn’t terms of customers, but they had five when we did something that we know happen again. Let’s get back to work. I new brews they were trying to bring to how to do, which is to vote. The second thank the Senators on the floor—all market, and none of those were ap- thing that happened is the Republican three of them—from Alaska, Virginia, proved. leader, Senator MCCONNELL, and the and West Virginia, for their leadership The truth is, the damage to those Democratic leader, Senator SCHUMER, in getting us where we are today. folks in the private sector is done, and walked back to Senator MCCONNELL’s I yield the floor. I am not sure there is much we can do office and they began to talk. And here The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. to rectify it. Candidly, thinking about we are, less than 24 hours later, with ALEXANDER). The Senator from Vir- here locally, there is no way we can apparently a result. I commend Sen- ginia. undo the harm to the food truck own- ator MCCONNELL and I commend Sen- Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, let me ers—some have had their food trucks ator SCHUMER for taking this issue, first of all echo the comments of my repossessed—who sit outside the going back in the room and talking friend, the Senator from Tennessee. We Smithsonian waiting for the tourists to about it, and getting the Senate back will never fully know what was the come. Those losses are permanent, as

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Imagine were talking just a couple of minutes told me he was closing his doors and that—a win-win proposition coming ago. We know that we can get these laying off 72 workers because he just out of the Halls of Congress. But to do things done. The Senate can be the couldn’t meet the payroll during the that, we have to have enough of the conscience of the Nation. There are 100 shutdown. stunts and the political tit-for-tat that men and women of both parties who Frankly, it is too late for the Presi- we have seen over the past few weeks. are here because they love this coun- dent or any of us to help those folks. In a moment of optimism, if there is try, and they want it to be better. The only thing we can do now is to end anything good that can come from this Now let’s just sit down and do our the shutdown, get the Federal workers shutdown, let’s make it the last time work. Senator SHELBY and I got every and contractors back to work, and try that a President or a Congress uses single appropriations bill last year our darnedest to make sure this never shutting down the government as a ne- through our committee, virtually happens again. gotiating tactic. unanimously in most cases. It worked. We also need to make sure those I have legislation, and it took some We proved it could work. It hadn’t been folks get backpay. Again, I would espe- hard work to come up with the acro- done for years. We proved it could be cially urge that we take a hard look at nym, but the legislation is called the done. making sure those low-wage contrac- Stop STUPIDITY Act. That will make We did not do it with press con- tors, who are suffering so badly right sure that Congress and the White ferences. We did not do it with gim- now, get an opportunity to get their House are the only ones who suffer micks. We did not do it with backpay as well. I am cosponsoring leg- when the Congress and the White histrionics. We did it with hard work, islation sponsored by the Senator from House can’t come to a funding agree- sometimes late into the night. Minnesota, and I hope all my col- ment. Maybe the particulars of that I say that in light of what we have leagues on both sides of the aisle will legislation can change, or maybe even seen during the Trump shutdown. For look at that legislation. responsible Members like the Presiding 35 days, President Trump robbed hun- By reopening the government tempo- Officer would think we don’t need to dreds of thousands of American fami- rarily, we now finally have the oppor- put into law something called the Stop lies of their paychecks and forced dedi- tunity to take a timeout and give both the STUPIDITY Act, so I am open to cated public servants—professionals— parties the space to negotiate a com- changing the name. But the final lan- to turn to food banks and unemploy- promise. We are clearly not there yet, guage in any deal that comes out 3 ment benefits to feed and support their but there is room for common ground. weeks from now should put strong pro- families. Over the weekend, the President pro- visions and strong penalties in place to For 35 days, President Trump denied posed additional funding for screening prevent this tactic from being used by millions of taxpaying Americans access vehicles and cargo coming across the either party or any White House or to public services. For 35 days, Presi- border at points of entry. The DEA Congress in the future. dent Trump inflicted pain on the Amer- says this is how the majority of illegal In my mind, perhaps the best and ican people. drugs come into our country. It is easiest way to do that would be—and I Anyone who has taken the time for something we can work on together. If know there is Republican legislation the briefing knows it has compromised the White House wants to seriously dis- on this—to continue to fund govern- our national security. And for what? cuss providing real, long-term security ment. In my idea, it would say that the The rest of the world looks at us and for Dreamers and TPS recipients, let’s only people who would actually be the sees us as being weak. Our enemies have that conversation as well. I think victims of a shutdown going forward have been able to exploit the fact that we can do it, but it will take time. In would be the Congress and our staff we have had this shutdown. And for the meantime, let’s make sure the and the White House and its staff. A what? President signs today the legislation little bit of common sense tells me All of this pain and suffering is going that will allow our Federal employees that we wouldn’t be here 35 days into to end now, right where it began. and contractors to get back to work. this shutdown if all our staff were ex- On December 19 of last year, the Sen- Before I close, I want to take a mo- periencing the same kind of shortfall ate passed a bill by voice vote to fund ment for self-reflection on what has and economic distress that 800,000 of the government to February 8. Vir- happened over the last 35 days. our fellow Federal workers experi- tually every Republican and every In many ways, we are right back to enced. Democrat supported it, and it is nearly where we were in December, right back The truth is, our Federal workers what the President has proposed today. to where we were when this body near- need to get those paychecks. The truth We in the Senate did that back on De- ly unanimously passed legislation that is, our country can’t afford another cember 19. The President was going to would have prevented this stupid crisis. self-inflicted disaster. Let’s go ahead support it. He was then criticized by For 35 days, this body has refused to and get that CR passed. Let’s go ahead some in the conservative media, and he fill its role as a part and coequal and sit down and negotiate in good thought he had to break his word and branch of government. We can’t let faith on border security. Most impor- precipitate this national crisis. that happen again. tantly, let’s make sure we are never Dozens of Vermonters have contacted I hope the White House will take back in this circumstance again. my office to share the pain the Trump some lessons from this crisis as well. With that, Mr. President, I yield the shutdown inflicted on their lives. They can start by realizing that no one floor. Northfield, VT, is one of our prettiest wins a shutdown. If you shut down the I suggest the absence of a quorum. towns. It is not far from where I was government, the only thing we know The PRESIDING OFFICER. The born. A number of my ancestors settled for a fact is that the American people clerk will call the roll. in that area. lose. I hope the President will also re- The legislative clerk proceeded to A Vermont family there found they alize that you need to empower those call the roll. could not complete their U.S. Depart- around you to help make a deal. The Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I ask ment of Agriculture 502 direct home Vice President came to the Senate unanimous consent that the order for loan, and that closed the door on the with a deal in mid-December. I don’t the quorum call be rescinded. American dream of owning a home, think he even left Capitol Hill before The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without something so many Vermonters dream the President basically took back the objection, it is so ordered. of. Vice President’s deal. Senator GRAHAM Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, no mat- A small business owner in proposed almost exactly this deal that ter how intractable something might Brattleboro, who employs Vermonters

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I heard his remarks a few minutes and it crippled their growth in a com- ernment Employee Fair Treatment Act ago, and I absolutely agree with them. petitive market. of 2019, which would require that all This government functions best when A Vermonter in the Coast Guard was impacted Federal employees receive this body does what the Founders of worried about how he and his ship- compensation for wages lost during the the Constitution said we should do: Go mates would make ends meet. government shutdown—35 days’ worth to regular order; go to conference. These are real people who have suf- of government wages paid back. As Senator BENNET said on the floor fered real consequences, and for what? While that is an important step, the yesterday, our Founders contemplated For what? shutdown has forced many of our Fed- the fact that we are going to have dis- The shutdown was the American cri- eral workers to incur additional costs agreements. That is why we have 100 sis. It was our national emergency— associated with loans, late bill pay- people here. That is why there are 435. not the southern border, where appre- ments, and other effects of their miss- That is why there are nine members of hensions have dropped 75 percent since ing paychecks—paychecks they de- the Supreme Court. We are going to 2000, and the majority of the people ap- pended on for their daily living. have disagreements, but we don’t have prehended at our borders today are That is why today, along with Sen- to shut down the government over families—women and children feeling ators BALDWIN, CARDIN, HIRONO, VAN those disagreements, especially when violence in their own countries. HOLLEN, KAINE, KLOBUCHAR, SHAHEEN, they are political disagreements and In this great country, which we are WARNER, and WYDEN, I have introduced not truly substantive disagreements. all proud to serve, the Trump shutdown the Back Pay Fairness Act. If the Fed- This shutdown has had many costs, should never have happened, and it eral Government can charge you inter- some that we will never be able to never should have dragged on for 35 est for being late on your taxes, then quantify. Some of the losses from the days. we should be paying interest to those President’s misguided shutdown we I hope the President is learning that employees from whom we have bor- just can’t put a cost on, and it is unfor- Congress is a coequal branch of govern- rowed hard-earned dollars over the last tunate that a while back, back in De- ment. The American people are not 35 days. That is only fair. cember, the President of the United I am requesting in this bill that all pawns to be played with for political States said that he wanted to shut interest be paid to the Federal workers gain. down this government; he would own whose paychecks were withheld. The I told Chairman SHELBY that I will this shutdown. more than 5,500 Federal workers in continue my bipartisan work with him It is unfortunate that we had 35 days Alabama did not ask for this shutdown to make responsible investments in the for which he really didn’t take that re- and should not be punished for it. It is American people and border security, sponsibility, and he still didn’t do it only fair that the government pay and I pray that President Trump does today. But the fact is, he could have them back with interest for putting not repeat this national embarrass- avoided it. them out of work indefinitely or forc- ment. We have more than a million con- ing them to work without pay. I am proud to be an American. I am tractors. Senator WARNER and others Federal law often recognizes the im- proud to be a U.S. Senator in a body were talking about the contractors portance of timely payments when it that should be the conscience of the that have millions of dollars—tens of benefits the Federal Government. Nation. But I see how people around millions of dollars—of contracts with When it is the government’s money, we the world are laughing at our country the Federal Government, many of demand that people pay on time. For when the most powerful—the most those in my State of Alabama. example, if you don’t pay your taxes on powerful—Nation on Earth is being I was in Huntsville, AL, today for the time, you can count on a notice letter crippled because of a whim and a tweet. groundbreaking of a Blue Origin plant from the Internal Revenue Service—at That is not the America I know and that is going to build the engines for least when they are open—demanding love. We are a great country. Only we some of the new, manned spacecraft that you pay interest, interest for the can make it less great. that the United States will send into lateness of your payments. It doesn’t The shutdown has damaged us. It has orbit. At a time when we were shutting matter when it is. If you go past a cer- damaged us internally. It has damaged down the U.S. Government, China was tain date, they tack on a penalty on our security. It has damaged our rep- putting a spacecraft on the dark side of top of that—not just interest. the Moon. We should be so embarrassed utation around the rest of the world. Well, when the Federal Government about that. NASA is such an important So I hope we will promptly vote to owes its Federal workers money, it is part of Alabama and our history in this reopen the government and end this only reasonable, responsible, and fair country for what we can accomplish national nightmare. I am prepared to that interest accrues as well. The in- and for what we can do that is good— work. As dean of the Senate, as Vice terest rate in this legislation would be the leaders in the country—and while Chairman of the Appropriations Com- equivalent to the rate that Federal we were shut down and those poor mittee, I am willing to work with my Agencies must pay vendors when they NASA employees laid off and the con- colleagues, both Democrats and Repub- are late. The rate, known as the Treas- tractors dealing with NASA, China— licans, to make sure this foolish esca- ury prompt payment rate, is currently China—was jumping ahead. pade doesn’t happen again. 3.625 percent. I see other Senators on the floor. Again, it is only fair. As David Cox, Well, I was so proud today when we I yield the floor. the American Federation of Govern- started and we broke ground, because The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- ment Employees’ National President we are going to reclaim that right. We ator from Alabama. said: are going to get this government open, Mr. JONES. Mr. President, today is a and we are going to reclaim America’s Federal workers are experiencing serious bittersweet day. I am assuming we are financial hardship from the shutdown. When role in space and technology and the going to vote along with this deal—as I it ends, employees will not only have to pay human imagination that will take us am—to reopen this government, to end more than a month’s worth of overdue bills, beyond our borders here, beyond where the 35-day-old hostage crisis, and that they will also have to pay late fees and pen- we are. truly is the best way to describe it. alties, overdraft fees and interest charges. I visited a number of folks in Hunts- It is a bittersweet day. It is sweet be- The AFGE supports the Back Pay ville this past weekend and heard first- cause our dedicated and committed Fairness Act with interest. Again, it is hand their stories of families, and it Federal workers and contractors will only the right thing to do. was heartbreaking. Members of our be going back to work. It is bitter be- This shutdown, which has lasted for Coast Guard missed paychecks. For the cause, as I think everyone in this body 35 days, could have been avoided. The first time in our Nation’s history,

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They days, the security of the United States, never be held hostage. Yes, people have also do other work. They do wonderful not just on the southern border but the said this is a hostage crisis because work in disaster relief. They do won- entire United States has been at risk that is what it was. Those poor workers derful work around the country in res- because of this government shutdown— have been held hostage, and now we cue operations. cyber security threats from Russia, have a threat again. If we don’t do Members of the Coast Guard missed China, North Korea, you name it. something in 3 weeks, they will do it their paychecks, and I talked to mem- While we may have a crisis on the bor- again. The sad thing is, unlike a hos- bers of the Coast Guard to hear their der—and there are many who might tage crisis that you might see on tele- stories about how their men and dispute that it is a crisis on our south- vision on the news or on television in women were suffering. We should be ern border as opposed to chaos. Every- TV shows, it is the same hostages ashamed of that. one understands there is chaos. Every- every time. Every time this govern- It is not just the Coast Guard. Yes- one understands our border is not as se- ment shuts down, it is the same hos- terday I took five dozen doughnuts to cure as it should be. There are things tages who are taken, and we cannot let the TSA workers at the airport in Bir- we can do to secure that border, and that happen. mingham. You would have thought it they should be done to secure that bor- Senator ALEXANDER said the other was Christmas, they were so happy. In der. thing that we didn’t do is we didn’t do airports yesterday and today, those Everybody—there is no one in this what we were supposed to do. We didn’t TSA agents say: Thank you for doing body who says they are for open bor- have that regular order. We saw all of what you can do. We are here. We are ders. Last year, when the President the political fights play out on TV be- working. That is why they deserve not nominated an individual who used to tween this side or the other side, and only their paychecks, but they deserve work with Customs and Border Patrol we didn’t get back to what this body it with interest. to be head of ICE, I asked him, in his does best, why I came to this body, why The S&P estimated the economic entire career, has he ever heard of any- I am so proud to be a part of this body, cost of this shutdown was $7.1 billion. one who was in the public sector who why I am so proud to be here with Sen- We have been arguing over 5.7, and it ator PATRICK LEAHY, who was in the has already cost this country 7.1. was for open borders. He said: No, sir. It was an important question because U.S. Senate when I was just a staffer Bloomberg said businesses with con- for Senator Heflin. We need to be doing tractors tied to the Federal Govern- we hear so much, and we see so many allegations coming from the other side those things for the American people ment would lose a cumulative $200 mil- and for the people in my State. That is lion a day. The chamber of commerce that we are all for open borders. That is not true. We want to make sure we what we need to be doing. says small government contractors As I listened to the President today, have lost more than $2.3 billion in rev- have secure borders. Let me tell you something, folks. I I appreciated the fact that he is signing enue so far. The administration has ad- this bill that I think will pass both also want to have a heart. I want to mitted economic growth this quarter Houses. I feel confident it will. As I lis- make sure the United States is the will likely be zero because of the shut- tened to him today, I am thinking to moral leader of the world. There are down. myself: Mr. President, you talk about people coming across, and they are Payments to farmers hurt by the good faith, and you want people to President’s tariffs were delayed be- fleeing violence, destruction, and their have good-faith dialogue. They will in cause the Department of Agriculture families are being put in danger in this body, but good faith is a two-way was closed. Now think about that. their home countries. We at least can street—a two-way street. It is not just Farmers in Alabama and elsewhere got try to figure out a way to help them; one side or the other, but it is a two- a double whammy. They got hurt be- that we don’t gas children on the bor- way street. I worry sometimes that the cause of the tariffs and the fact that der; that we don’t separate families President of the United States doesn’t China started retaliating and dried up and put little children in jail; and that always do that. their markets, and soybean farmers we don’t charge people $11 for a tube of We saw last year, when we had a bill couldn’t send their crops anywhere. So toothpaste in what amounts to a pri- for $25 billion that he decided he didn’t the President, in something I sup- vate prison; that we at least can recog- like, after he initially said it was one ported, even though it was a bandaid, nize that we have an element of hu- of the areas he wanted to do. We saw it decided they would give these farmers manity about us; that when people flee in December, when this body came to $12 billion in relief. Farmers don’t like and seek refuge in the United States of the floor and passed unanimously a bailouts. These are hard-working, con- America, they do so for a reason. It is measure to keep the government open, servative folks who don’t like bailouts. because we don’t have to make this that I know would not have come to They don’t want handouts; they want- America great again. We are great. this floor by Senator MCCONNELL had ed their markets back. Then, with this That is why they are coming here, to the President not indicated he would shutdown, half of that money couldn’t get away. We have to make sure we un- sign it and changed in 24 hours. So be disbursed. At a time when those derstand and recognize that. good faith, Mr. President, is a two-way farmers were trying to get their loans What I want to see is that good-faith street. in order and were trying to get ready effort. What I have said from the very I am willing to do that. I have always for spring planting, they couldn’t get beginning is, that good faith the Presi- said that. I heard a lot of people on any money from the Department of Ag- dent talked about today, I want to both sides of this aisle who are ready, riculture. That is shameful. That is make sure—I wanted to open this gov- willing, and able to try to do the things shameful. ernment in December. We are doing we need to do to secure our borders, The tariff exclusion request for busi- today essentially what this body did on but we have to have good faith coming nesses has not been processed, all the December 19—35 days ago, 37 days ago. out of the administration as well. while our Commerce Secretary was We voted unanimously to keep this We have to make sure the adminis- saying he just couldn’t understand why government open and let people talk tration takes care of those families people had to go to food banks. He about the border security; let folks who are trying to get away; that we should be ashamed. We should all be talk about whether we have a threat of will look to maybe try to provide some ashamed that a representative of the a national security emergency. That is help to those countries so they can U.S. Government would say such a what we do, as Senator ALEXANDER stem the tide of that violence and try thing, when it was the administration said on the floor earlier. I agree with to do some things to move these asy- that caused the shutdown. him, and I agree with Senator MUR- lum seekers along and not just build

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Two years for this compromise to open this gov- whose cases she was investigating.’’ In later, when the Appropriation Com- ernment back up. Importantly, I urge her important work for the city of Lou- mittee reorganized, he joined a newly my colleagues and in the House—let’s isville, Detective Mengedoht would al- formed subcommittee responsible for not give these Federal workers just ways give more of herself than was Military Construction and Veterans Af- their backpay, as we passed before, asked. fairs matters. As the lead staff han- let’s do what is right. If we mean what While families throughout Kentucky dling the Department of Veterans Af- we say about how we appreciate our and the Nation celebrated Christmas fairs, Arlington National Cemetery, Federal workers, if we mean what we Eve, Detective Mengedoht was at her the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans say when we call and say how patriotic post, protecting the community. That Claims, the American Battle Monu- they are, let’s do to them what the afternoon, she conducted a traffic stop, ments Commission, and the Armed government would do otherwise. Let’s a routine procedure for any member of Forces Retirement Home, Chad was give them the interest on these 35 days law enforcement. Tragedy struck with- charged with developing, managing, of backpay. Then we will truly fulfill out warning as a semi-truck hit her po- and negotiating the policy and funding our obligations as best we can. lice cruiser. Detective Mengedoht was priorities for the VA. Ultimately, it Importantly, let’s not let this happen killed at the scene, was his job to make sure that Congress again. For God’s sake, do our duty. The heartbreaking incident left the kept its promise to the men, women, Let’s not let this happen again in 3 community shaken. The LMPD lost a and the families who have served our weeks and go through this process once critical member of its force, and Detec- country. Chad has forgotten more about the more. Let’s get to work. Let’s knuckle tive Mengedoht’s family—especially resource and management needs of the down. Let’s secure the borders, but her 9-year-old son, Preston, will never VA than most anyone working in gov- let’s also let this crisis within our bor- be the same. Almost immediately, ex- ernment will ever know, so no one was ders that has been created over the last pressions of condolences and support surprised when he was promoted to be 35 days end forever. Let that crisis go poured into the city. Downtown, the the subcommittee’s clerk in 2017. As city hall clock shone with a blue light, away and never come back. the lead Democratic staffer, Chad ne- Thank you. in honor of the incredible sacrifice our gotiated and helped develop the Mili- I yield the floor. men and women of law enforcement un- tary Construction and Veterans Affairs The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. dertake each and every day to protect appropriations bill. He helped me in my BOOZMAN). The majority leader is rec- the public. The Louisville Metro Police role as the subcommittee’s ranking ognized. Foundation also established a fund in member. He worked with Republican Detective Mengedoht’s name to sup- f staff, stewarding the interests of all port her family. Democratic Senate offices. He managed MORNING BUSINESS At a funeral service filled with trib- the bill across the Senate floor and ne- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I utes to her character, bravery, and in- gotiated a final conference agreement ask unanimous consent that the Sen- tegrity, the Kentucky State Police vol- ate be in a period of morning business, with the House. unteered to take over the shifts of her Chad has become one of the Senate’s with Senators permitted to speak colleagues so they could attend. More foremost experts on budgetary policy therein for up to 10 minutes each. than 3,000 law enforcement officers and appropriations law. His mastery of The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without traveled from around the Common- Senate rules and procedure have made objection, it is so ordered. wealth and the Nation to join the him a formidable legislative tactician f LMPD in saluting Detective and negotiator. His commitment to his REMEMBERING DEIDRE ‘‘DEE Mengedoht. Even in the rain, hundreds work—to the unique collaborative DEE’’ MENGEDOHT of Kentuckians lined the streets to pay process that fulfills the Congress’s con- their respects. stitutional duty to appropriate tax- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, it is To Detective Mengedoht’s family, in- payer dollars—is clear in the many my sad duty today to pay tribute to a cluding her brothers and sisters at the weekends and holidays he missed with fallen Kentucky hero, Louisville Metro LMPD and her parents, her sister, and family and friends to be here to nego- Police Department Detective Deidre Preston, I would like to extend my sin- tiate appropriations bills. It is no won- Mengedoht. Dee Dee, as her friends cere condolences. Her sacrifice bestows der he left an impression on many called her, was tragically killed in the great honor onto all those who wear Members, including those he served di- line of duty on Christmas Eve. Her the LMPD uniform. During this dif- rectly: Senators Byrd, Inouye, Mikul- family and our community are left to ficult time, Elaine and I hope that the ski, LEAHY, Hollings, FEINSTEIN, JOHN- mourn this painful loss and to recog- memories of Detective Mengedoht’s life SON, REED, TESTER, and myself. nize her incredible service to Louis- and her selfless service can provide For his professionalism and commit- ville. much-needed comfort. It is my privi- ment to our country and the people A graduate of Eastern High School lege to remember Detective Deidre who have served in our military, we and the University of Louisville, Detec- Mengedoht’s exemplary service to the owe a great deal to Chad for his service tive Mengedoht chose to dedicate her people of Louisville, and I ask that my in the U.S. Senate. We thank him and life to the service of her community. In Senate colleagues join me in honoring wish him well as he embarks on a new 2011, she joined the LMPD’s training this Kentucky hero. adventure, one we hope will give him academy. Since the day she took her f more time with his family: his wife oath, Detective Mengedoht proved her- Jessica; three daughters Abi, Bella, and TRIBUTE TO CHAD SCHULKEN self worthy of the trust placed in her. Hundley; and his son Griffin. From all With real love for the community Mr. SCHATZ. Mr. President, today, of us in our Senate family, I extend a under her protection, she worked as a we say farewell to a member of our sincere thank you to Chad and his fam- beat officer before earning the rank of Senate family: Chad Schulken. For ily. detective. more than 16 years, Chad has served f For 7 and a half years, Detective the U.S. Senate as a professional staff Mengedoht served the department and member and, most recently, clerk on INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND the people of Louisville. She quickly the Appropriations Committee. JOINT RESOLUTIONS gained the respect of her colleagues, He started his career on the com- The following bills and joint resolu- who recognized a passion for law en- mittee working for Senator Byrd in tions were introduced, read the first

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:54 Jan 26, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G25JA6.021 S25JAPT1 dlhill on DSK3GLQ082PROD with SENATE S680 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 25, 2019 and second times by unanimous con- S. Res. 30. A resolution condemning efforts gan (Mr. PETERS), the Senator from sent, and referred as indicated: to undermine democracy in Hungary and New Hampshire (Mrs. SHAHEEN), the urging President Trump to defend the uni- By Ms. MURKOWSKI (for herself, Ms. Senator from Virginia (Mr. WARNER) versal human rights and democratic norms CORTEZ MASTO, Ms. CANTWELL, Mr. and the Senator from New Hampshire under attack by the Orban government; to SULLIVAN, Mr. COONS, Mr. CRAMER, the Committee on Foreign Relations. (Ms. HASSAN) were added as cosponsors Mr. UDALL, Mr. TESTER, Mr. HEIN- By Mr. CASEY (for himself and Mr. of S. 165, a bill to amend chapter 85 of RICH, Mr. TILLIS, Mr. MERKLEY, and TOOMEY): title 5, United States Code, to clarify Mr. HOEVEN): that Federal employees excepted from S. 227. A bill to direct the Attorney Gen- S. Res. 31. A resolution honoring the life of eral to review, revise, and develop law en- Harris L. Wofford, Jr.; considered and agreed a furlough are eligible for unemploy- forcement and justice protocols appropriate to. ment compensation. to address missing and murdered Indians, f S. 197 and for other purposes; to the Committee on At the request of Mr. HEINRICH, the Indian Affairs. ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS name of the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. By Mr. CASSIDY (for himself and Mr. S. 21 SCHATZ) was added as a cosponsor of S. JONES): S. 228. A bill to amend title XVIII of the At the request of Mr. THUNE, the 197, a bill to provide for the confiden- Social Security Act to restructure the pay- names of the Senator from Texas (Mr. tiality of information submitted in re- ment adjustment for non-emergency ESRD CRUZ) and the Senator from California quests for deferred action under the de- ambulance transports under the Medicare (Ms. HARRIS) were added as cosponsors ferred action for childhood arrivals program; to the Committee on Finance. of S. 21, a bill making continuing ap- program, and for other purposes. By Mr. UDALL (for himself, Mr. propriations for Coast Guard pay in the S. 198 TESTER, Ms. CORTEZ MASTO, Ms. event an appropriations act expires At the request of Mr. WARNER, the SMITH, Mr. HEINRICH, Ms. WARREN, prior to the enactment of a new appro- name of the Senator from Michigan and Mr. SCHATZ): S. 229. A bill to provide advance appropria- priations act. (Mr. PETERS) was added as a cosponsor tions authority for certain accounts of the S. 61 of S. 198, a bill to provide for con- Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of In- At the request of Mr. GRASSLEY, the tinuing appropriations in the event of a dian Education of the Department of the In- name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. lapse in appropriations under the nor- terior and the Indian Health Service of the mal appropriations process, other than Department of Health and Human Services, MERKLEY) was added as a cosponsor of S. 61, a bill to amend the Federal Food, for the legislative branch and the Exec- and for other purposes; to the Committee on utive Office of the President. the Budget. Drug, and Cosmetic Act to allow for By Mr. WYDEN (for himself and Mr. the personal importation of safe and af- S. 205 MERKLEY): fordable drugs from approved phar- At the request of Mr. WYDEN, the S. 230. A bill to require a report on foreign macies in Canada. names of the Senator from Connecticut nationals who flee from the United States (Mr. BLUMENTHAL), the Senator from S. 69 while awaiting trial or sentencing for a Ohio (Mr. BROWN), the Senator from At the request of Mr. CORNYN, the criminal offense committed in the United Nevada (Ms. CORTEZ MASTO), the Sen- States, to establish a list of countries who name of the Senator from North Da- ator from New Hampshire (Ms. HAS- have assisted or facilitated with such depar- kota (Mr. CRAMER) was added as a co- tures, to penalize parties connected to such SAN), the Senator from Michigan (Ms. sponsor of S. 69, a bill to allow reci- STABENOW), the Senator from Min- departures, and to amend the Internal Rev- procity for the carrying of certain con- enue Code of 1986 to prohibit the exclusion nesota (Ms. KLOBUCHAR), the Senator from gross income from certain investments cealed firearms. from Pennsylvania (Mr. CASEY), the made by foreign governments who are identi- S. 72 Senator from Iowa (Ms. ERNST) and the fied on such list; to the Committee on Fi- At the request of Mr. SCHATZ, the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. SMITH) nance. names of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. were added as cosponsors of S. 205, a By Mr. MERKLEY (for himself and Mr. DURBIN), the Senator from Nevada (Ms. bill to amend title XIX of the Social WYDEN): S. 231. A bill to express the sense of Con- ROSEN), the Senator from Michigan Security Act to prevent the gress regarding the likely involvement of the (Mr. PETERS), the Senator from misclassification of drugs for purposes Government of Saudi Arabia in assisting no Vermont (Mr. SANDERS) and the Sen- of the Medicaid drug rebate program. fewer than two Saudi nationals to avoid ator from Oregon (Mr. WYDEN) were S. 222 criminal prosecution in the United States, added as cosponsors of S. 72, a bill to At the request of Mr. JONES, the and to require the Secretary of State to sub- suspend the enforcement of certain names of the Senator from Virginia mit a report to Congress that describes such civil liabilities of Federal employees (Mr. WARNER) and the Senator from involvement, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Foreign Relations. and contractors during a lapse in ap- Hawaii (Mr. SCHATZ) were added as co- By Mr. CARDIN (for himself and Ms. propriations, and for other purposes. sponsors of S. 222, a bill to amend sec- MURKOWSKI): S. 104 tion 1341 of title 31, United States S.J. Res. 6. A joint resolution removing the At the request of Mr. PORTMAN, the Code, to require payment of interest on deadline for the ratification of the equal name of the Senator from North Da- back pay for employees affected by a rights amendment; to the Committee on the kota (Mr. CRAMER) was added as a co- lapse in appropriations. Judiciary. sponsor of S. 104, a bill to amend title S.J. RES. 1 f 31, United States Code, to provide for At the request of Mr. CRUZ, the name SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND automatic continuing resolutions. of the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. AUL SENATE RESOLUTIONS S. 113 P ) was added as a cosponsor of S.J. Res. 1, a joint resolution proposing an The following concurrent resolutions At the request of Mr. BRAUN, his amendment to the Constitution of the and Senate resolutions were read, and name was added as a cosponsor of S. United States relative to limiting the referred (or acted upon), as indicated: 113, a bill to appropriate funds for pay number of terms that a Member of Con- and allowances of excepted Federal em- By Ms. DUCKWORTH (for herself, Mr. gress may serve. DURBIN, Mr. MARKEY, Ms. HASSAN, ployees, and for other purposes. AMENDMENT NO. 53 Mr. KING, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Ms. HARRIS, S. 162 Mr. BROWN, Ms. CANTWELL, Mr. VAN At the request of Mr. CARDIN, the At the request of Ms. SMITH, the HOLLEN, Mr. CARDIN, Ms. BALDWIN, names of the Senator from Arizona Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. names of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. (Ms. SINEMA), the Senator from New BENNET, Mrs. MURRAY, Mrs. FEIN- WYDEN) and the Senator from Oregon Hampshire (Mrs. SHAHEEN) and the STEIN, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Ms. STABE- (Mr. MERKLEY) were added as cospon- Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. HAS- NOW, and Ms. ROSEN): sors of S. 162, a bill to provide back pay SAN) were added as cosponsors of S. Res. 29. A resolution expressing support to low-wage contractor employees, and amendment No. 53 intended to be pro- for the designation of a ‘‘Women’s Health for other purposes. Research Day’’; to the Committee on Health, posed to H.R. 268, a bill making supple- Education, Labor, and Pensions. S. 165 mental appropriations for the fiscal By Mrs. FEINSTEIN (for herself, Mr. At the request of Mr. BLUMENTHAL, year ending September 30, 2019, and for DURBIN, and Mr. MURPHY): the names of the Senator from Michi- other purposes.

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A bill to require a report on ments that help their citizens evade of sex- and gender-inclusive research for foreign nationals who flee from the American justice, and create tough women of different races, ethnicities, ages, United States while awaiting trial or consequences for those governments and socioeconomic status. sentencing for a criminal offense com- and their leaders. f mitted in the United States, to estab- I believe that my colleagues who talk about ‘‘putting America First’’ would SENATE RESOLUTION 30—CON- lish a list of countries who have as- DEMNING EFFORTS TO UNDER- agree that foreign governments cannot sisted or facilitated with such depar- MINE DEMOCRACY IN HUNGARY undermine American laws. I’m all for tures, to penalize parties connected to AND URGING PRESIDENT TRUMP doing more to protecting Americans such departures, and to amend the In- TO DEFEND THE UNIVERSAL from real threats and ensuring that the ternal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMO- victims of these crimes get the justice the exclusion from gross income from CRATIC NORMS UNDER ATTACK they deserve in an American court of certain investments made by foreign BY THE ORBAN GOVERNMENT governments who are identified on law. So I urge my colleagues to join me such list; to the Committee on Fi- in supporting measures that would Mrs. FEINSTEIN (for herself, Mr. nance. hold foreign governments accountable. DURBIN, and Mr. MURPHY) submitted the following resolution; which was re- Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, today I f am introducing the Preserving Amer- ferred to the Committee on Foreign ican Justice Act to ensure that foreign SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS Relations: governments face serious consequences S. RES. 30 if they assist their citizens to escape Whereas the United States and Hungary SENATE RESOLUTION 29—EX- legal accountability in the United have a shared history dating to the times of PRESSING SUPPORT FOR THE States. Lajos Kossuth, whose bust graces the halls of Recently, Oregon’s largest news- DESIGNATION OF A ‘‘WOMEN’S the United States Congress; HEALTH RESEARCH DAY’’ Whereas Hungarians have come to the paper, The Oregonian, uncovered that United States since its founding as immi- five Saudi nationals with criminal Ms. DUCKWORTH (for herself, Mr. grants and refugees, enriching our national charges departed the Nation before fac- DURBIN, Mr. MARKEY, Ms. HASSAN, Mr. fabric; ing justice. These men were arrested KING, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Ms. HARRIS, Mr. Whereas the United States first established for serious crimes including vehicular BROWN, Ms. CANTWELL, Mr. VAN HOL- diplomatic relations with Hungary in 1921; murder of an innocent teenager, sexual LEN, Mr. CARDIN, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. Whereas the United States supported Hun- assault, rape, and child pornography. BLUMENTHAL, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. BENNET, gary’s accession to the North Atlantic Trea- ty Organization in 1999, improving Hungary’s According to news reports, U.S. gov- URRAY EINSTEIN LO Mrs. M , Mrs. F , Ms. K - national security and building upon our com- ernment officials believe the Saudi BUCHAR, Ms. STABENOW, and Ms. ROSEN) mon alliance; government helped these five men with submitted the following resolution; Whereas NATO member states have collec- actions ranging from posting bail to fa- which was referred to the Committee tively identified corruption and poor govern- cilitating their escape from the United on Health, Education, Labor and Pen- ance, including within member states, as States. These reports claiming the sions: ‘‘security challenges which undermine de- mocracy, the rule of law and economic devel- Saudi government is whisking away S. RES. 29 criminals facing justice in Oregon show opment’’; Whereas women constitute 50.8 percent of Whereas Viktor Orban has led the Fidesz a shocking disdain for our Nation’s people in the United States; party since 2003 and has continuously served criminal justice system. Given the dis- Whereas women of different races, as Hungary’s Prime Minister since 2010; turbing similarities in these five cases, ethnicities, ages, and socioeconomic status Whereas, since 2010, the Fidesz government a thorough investigation is essential to experience many diseases and disorders dif- has retained a super majority in Parliament better understand the involvement of ferently than men experience those diseases despite not winning a majority of votes, and the Saudi government. and disorders; Prime Minister Orban has systematically un- When anyone commits a crime in the Whereas those different experiences are re- dermined the Hungarian Constitution, inde- flected in the incidence, prevalence, United States, they must be held ac- pendent media and judiciary; symptomology, and severity of the disease or Whereas Hungary’s 2011 law on religion dis- countable. The Trump administration disorder; criminates against some minority faiths by has failed to explain what, if anything, Whereas the risks and benefits of medical stripping legal recognition from more than it is doing to ensure these men face therapies vary based on the race, ethnicity, 300 previously recognized faiths, violating American justice. That failure is com- age, and socioeconomic status of a woman; their rights to freedom of association and pletely unacceptable. Foreign govern- Whereas women and men have funda- freedom of religion, and has spurred a legal ments cannot disregard our laws and mental biological differences; challenge from a range of religious faiths in abuse diplomatic privileges by helping Whereas, for many years, women of dif- Hungary, including the Hungarian Evan- ferent races, ethnicities, ages, and socio- gelical Fellowship and Mennonite, reform criminals escape. No one is above the economic status were underrepresented in Jewish, and Buddhist congregations; law, and I am committed to making biomedical and clinical research; Whereas, following the 2014 Parliamentary sure the Saudi government under- Whereas the improvement of the health of elections in Hungary, the OSCE noted that stands that it cannot behave this way women relies on sex- and gender-based bio- Fidesz enjoyed an undue advantage because here in Oregon or anywhere in the medical and clinical research; of restrictive campaign regulations, biased United States. Whereas the promise of individualized media coverage, and campaign activities The legislation I introduced today medicine cannot be realized without sex- and that blurred the separation between political would direct the Department of Justice gender-based parity in research; party and the state; to investigate these five cases and Whereas, on January 25, 2016, the National Whereas Prime Minister Orban used his Institutes of Health implemented a policy parliamentary super majority to redraw bring to light the involvement of the requiring federally funded investigators to Hungary’s electoral map and reduce the Saudi government. If the Department consider sex as a biological variable in pre- number of seats in Hungary’s Parliament, of Justice concludes that the Saudi clinical research; and providing an advantage which has allowed government was involved, then my bill Whereas that policy ushered in a new era the Prime Minister to more easily remain in would bar Saudi Arabia’s leaders from of inclusivity and parity in research relating power; the United States until their govern- to the health of women: Now, therefore, be it Whereas the Government of Hungary cre- ment returns the suspects who have Resolved, that the Senate— ated the National Media and Communica- fled. The legislation would also create (1) expresses support for the designation of tions Agency and empowered it to impose a ‘‘Women’s Health Research Day’’; and fines against independent media outlets for a major tax penalty on governments (2) supports efforts— coverage the government finds unbalanced and sovereign wealth funds for any (A) to recognize the importance of bio- or offensive; country that help its citizens escape medical and clinical research to the health Whereas, in November 2018, more than 400 American justice. More broadly, my and well-being of women; media publications, websites, television

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Wofford, Jr.; and Whereas, according to the Department of (2) when the Senate adjourns today, it State’s 2017 report on human rights, Hungary SENATE RESOLUTION 31—HON- stands adjourned as a further mark of re- has passed a series of laws modifying the ju- ORING THE LIFE OF HARRIS L. spect to the memory of Harris L. Wofford, dicial system by restricting the Constitu- WOFFORD, JR. Jr. tional Court, altering the rules for electing Mr. CASEY (for himself and Mr. f Constitution Court justices, and vested the president of the National Office for the Judi- TOOMEY) submitted the following reso- AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED AND ciary, a position appointed by the par- lution; which was considered and PROPOSED liament, with significant decision-making agreed to: SA 54. Mr. MCCONNELL (for Mr. SHELBY) power; S. RES. 31 Whereas, according to a Human Rights proposed an amendment to the joint resolu- Whereas the life of service and commit- tion H.J. Res. 28, making further continuing Watch analysis of Hungary’s judicial reforms ment of Harris L. Wofford, Jr., is an inspira- since 2011, changes to the judiciary have un- appropriations for fiscal year 2019, and for tion to the people of the United States and other purposes. dermined an important check on the govern- people around the world and will be for years ment by curbing the judiciary’s independ- SA 55. Mr. MCCONNELL (for Mr. SHELBY) to come; proposed an amendment to the joint resolu- ence, forcing nearly 300 judges into early re- Whereas Harris L. Wofford, Jr., served in tirement, and imposing limitations on the tion H.J. Res. 31, making further continuing the Army Air Corps during World War II; appropriations for the Department of Home- Constitutional Court’s ability to review laws Whereas Harris L. Wofford, Jr., served on and complaints; land Security for fiscal year 2019, and for the Civil Rights Commission established by other purposes. Whereas the Government of Hungary has President Dwight D. Eisenhower; enacted legislation stigmatizing non-govern- Whereas Harris L. Wofford, Jr., was a f mental organizations that receive financial champion of civil rights and nonviolence and TEXT OF AMENDMENTS support from abroad, drawing a legal chal- helped create and pass the Civil Rights Act lenge from the European Court of Justice; of 1957 (Public Law 85–315; 71 Stat. 634), the SA 54. Mr. MCCONNELL (for Mr. Whereas, in 2017, the Government of Hun- first civil rights legislation since Recon- SHELBY) proposed an amendment to the gary adopted a law on nongovernmental or- struction; joint resolution H.J. Res. 28, making ganizations that, according to the Depart- Whereas Harris L. Wofford, Jr., served as further continuing appropriations for ment of State, ‘‘unfairly burdens a targeted Special Assistant to the President for Civil group of Hungarian civil society organiza- fiscal year 2019, and for other purposes; Rights and Chairman of the Subcabinet as follows: tions, many of which focus on fighting cor- Group on Civil Rights under President John ruption and protecting human rights and F. Kennedy; Strike all after the enacting clause and in- civil liberties’’; Whereas Harris L. Wofford, Jr., played a sert the following: Whereas, in February 2018, more than 250 key role in the formation of the Peace Corps SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. nongovernmental organizations signed a let- and served as the special representative to This joint resolution may be cited as the ter in opposition to Hungary’s ‘‘escalating Africa and director and associate director of ‘‘Further Additional Continuing Appropria- effort to crackdown on the legitimate work operations in Ethiopia; tions Act, 2019’’. of civil society groups in Hungary seeking to Whereas Harris L. Wofford, Jr., partici- SEC. 101. The Continuing Appropriations promote and defend human rights, provide pated in the Selma to Montgomery Civil Act, 2019 (division C of Public Law 115–245) is legal and social services to people in need in Rights marches in 1965 in support of voting further amended— the country, and publicly express dissenting rights for African Americans; (1) by striking the date specified in section opinions in the press and online’’; Whereas Harris L. Wofford, Jr., was a 105(3) and inserting ‘‘February 15, 2019’’; and Whereas, in 2018, the Government of Hun- staunch advocate for higher education and (2) by adding after section 136 the fol- gary adopted amendments to a law on ‘‘aid- served as the President of the State Univer- lowing: ing illegal migration,’’ which criminalizes sity of New York at Old Westbury and the ‘‘SEC. 137. Amounts made available in this the provision of assistance to refugees and President of Bryn Mawr College; Act for personnel pay, allowances, and bene- asylum-seekers, including public advocacy Whereas Harris L. Wofford, Jr., served as fits in each department and agency shall be and humanitarian assistance, and makes the Secretary of Labor and Industry in the Com- available for obligations incurred pursuant distribution of know-your-rights leaflets monwealth of Pennsylvania from 1987 to 1991; to subsection (c) of section 1341 of title 31, punishable by up to one year in prison; Whereas Harris L. Wofford, Jr., served as a United States Code. Whereas, in 2018, the Government of Hun- United States Senator for Pennsylvania from ‘‘SEC. 138. All obligations incurred and in gary introduced a 25 percent tax on organiza- May 8, 1991, to January 3, 1995; anticipation of the appropriations made and tions that engage in disfavored speech re- Whereas Harris L. Wofford, Jr., was an ad- authority granted by this Act for the pur- garding immigration, thereby establishing a vocate for health care access; poses of maintaining the essential level of content-based punishment to restrict free Whereas Harris L. Wofford, Jr., cham- activity to protect life and property and speech; pioned national service and was instru- bringing about orderly termination of Gov- Whereas, in 2017, the Government of Hun- mental in passing the National and Commu- ernment function, and for purposes as other- gary enacted a law requiring the mandatory nity Service Trust Act of 1993 (Public Law wise authorized by law, are hereby ratified detention of all asylum-seekers in ‘‘transit 103–82), which established AmeriCorps, the and approved if otherwise in accord with the camps’’ while their asylum applications are Senior Corps, and Learn and Serve America, provisions of this Act. reviewed and permitting the immediate de- and served as head of AmeriCorps; ‘‘SEC. 139. (a) If a State (or another Federal portation of certain asylum-seekers to Ser- Whereas Harris L. Wofford, Jr., helped es- grantee) used State funds (or the grantee’s bia; tablish the Federal holiday marking the non-Federal funds) to continue carrying out Whereas, in response, the United Nations birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., as a na- a Federal program or furloughed State em- High Commissioner for Refugees said that tional day of service and worked on legisla- ployees (or the grantee’s employees) whose ‘‘this new law violates Hungary’s obligations tion directing the Corporation for National compensation is advanced or reimbursed in under international and EU laws, and will and Community Service to spearhead the ef- whole or in part by the Federal Govern- have a terrible physical and psychological fort marking this day of service; and ment— impact on women, children and men who Whereas, in 2012, Harris L. Wofford, Jr., ‘‘(1) such furloughed employees shall be have already greatly suffered’’; and was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal, compensated at their standard rate of com- Whereas the erosion of democratic institu- the second-highest civilian honor in the pensation for such period; tions and norms in Hungary has been found United States, for his lifetime of humani- ‘‘(2) the State (or such other grantee) shall to be in clear violation of the European tarian work: Now, therefore, be it be reimbursed for expenses that would have Union’s values, resulting in the initiation of Resolved, That— been paid by the Federal Government during sanctions proceedings against the Orban gov- (1) the Senate— such period had appropriations been avail- ernment: Now, therefore, be it (A) notes with deep sorrow and solemn able, including the cost of compensating Resolved, That the Senate— mourning the death of Harris L. Wofford, Jr.; such furloughed employees, together with in- (1) rejects the Government of Hungary’s ef- (B) extends heartfelt sympathy to the en- terest thereon calculated under section forts to undermine the independence of the tire family of Harris L. Wofford, Jr.; 6503(d) of title 31, United States Code; and judiciary, restrict civil society groups, in- (C) honors and, on behalf of the United ‘‘(3) the State (or such other grantee) may fringe on the freedom of the press, and vio- States, expresses deep appreciation for the use funds available to the State (or the

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:54 Jan 26, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A25JA6.008 S25JAPT1 dlhill on DSK3GLQ082PROD with SENATE January 25, 2019 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S683 grantee) under such Federal program to re- The Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019 bringing about orderly termination of Gov- imburse such State (or the grantee), to- (division C of Public Law 115–245) is further ernment function, and for purposes as other- gether with interest thereon calculated amended— wise authorized by law, are hereby ratified under section 6503(d) of title 31, United (1) in section 105— and approved if otherwise in accord with the States Code. (A) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘or’’ at provisions of this Act. ‘‘(b) For purposes of this section, the term the end; ‘‘SEC. 139. (a) If a State (or another Federal ‘State’ and the term ‘grantee’ shall have the (B) in paragraph (3)— grantee) used State funds (or the grantee’s meaning as such term is defined under the (i) by inserting ‘‘except as provided in non-Federal funds) to continue carrying out applicable Federal program under subsection paragraph (4),’’ before ‘‘December’’; and a Federal program or furloughed State em- (a). In addition, ‘to continue carrying out a (ii) by striking the period at the end and ployees (or the grantee’s employees) whose Federal program’ means the continued per- inserting ‘‘; or’’; and compensation is advanced or reimbursed in formance by a State or other Federal grant- (C) by adding at the end the following: whole or in part by the Federal Govern- ee, during the period of a lapse in appropria- ‘‘(4) with respect to appropriations and ment— tions, of a Federal program that the State or funds made available, and other authorities ‘‘(1) such furloughed employees shall be such other grantee had been carrying out granted, pursuant to section 101(5) of this compensated at their standard rate of com- prior to the period of the lapse in appropria- joint resolution for the Department of Home- pensation for such period; tions. land Security, February 15, 2019.’’; and ‘‘(2) the State (or such other grantee) shall ‘‘(c) The authority under this section ap- (2) in section 110, by adding at the end the be reimbursed for expenses that would have plies with respect to any period in fiscal year following: been paid by the Federal Government during 2019 (not limited to periods beginning or end- ‘‘(c) With respect to mandatory payments such period had appropriations been avail- ing after the date of the enactment of this whose budget authority was provided in the able, including the cost of compensating Act) during which there occurs a lapse in ap- Department of Homeland Security Appro- such furloughed employees, together with in- propriations with respect to any department priations Act, 2018 (division F of Public Law terest thereon calculated under section or agency of the Federal Government which, 115–141), subsections (a) and (b) shall be ap- 6503(d) of title 31, United States Code; and but for such lapse in appropriations, would plied by substituting ‘section 105(4)’ for ‘sec- ‘‘(3) the State (or such other grantee) may have paid, or made reimbursement relating tion 105(3)’ each place it appears.’’. use funds available to the State (or the to, any of the expenses referred to in this f grantee) under such Federal program to re- section with respect to the program in- imburse such State (or the grantee), to- volved. Payments and reimbursements under FURTHER ADDITIONAL CON- gether with interest thereon calculated this authority shall be made only to the ex- TINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, under section 6503(d) of title 31, United tent and in amounts provided in advance in 2019 States Code. appropriations Acts. ‘‘(b) For purposes of this section, the term Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I ‘‘SEC. 140. Notwithstanding section 251(a)(1) ‘State’ and the term ‘grantee’ shall have the of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def- ask unanimous consent that H.J. Res. meaning as such term is defined under the icit Control Act of 1985 and the timetable in 28 be considered read a second time and applicable Federal program under subsection section 254(a) of such Act, the final seques- the Senate proceed to its immediate (a). In addition, ‘to continue carrying out a tration report for fiscal year 2019 pursuant to consideration. Federal program’ means the continued per- section 254(f)(1) of such Act and any order for The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without formance by a State or other Federal grant- fiscal year 2019 pursuant to section 254(f)(5) objection, it is so ordered. ee, during the period of a lapse in appropria- of such Act shall be issued, for the Congres- tions, of a Federal program that the State or The clerk will report the joint resolu- such other grantee had been carrying out sional Budget Office, 10 days after the date tion by title. specified in section 105(3), and for the Office prior to the period of the lapse in appropria- of Management and Budget, 15 days after the The senior assistant legislative clerk tions. date specified in section 105(3). read as follows: ‘‘(c) The authority under this section ap- ‘‘SEC. 141. Section 319L(e)(1)(A) of the Pub- A joint resolution (H.J. Res. 28) making plies with respect to any period in fiscal year lic Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d– further continuing appropriations for fiscal 2019 (not limited to periods beginning or end- 7e(e)(1)(A)) shall continue in effect through year 2019, and for other purposes. ing after the date of the enactment of this the date specified in section 105(3) of this Act) during which there occurs a lapse in ap- There being no objection, the Senate propriations with respect to any department Act. proceeded to consider the joint resolu- ‘‘SEC. 142. Section 405(a) of the Pandemic or agency of the Federal Government which, and All Hazards Preparedness Act (42 U.S.C. tion. but for such lapse in appropriations, would 247d–6a note) shall continue in effect through Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous have paid, or made reimbursement relating the date specified in section 105(3) of this consent that the amendment at the to, any of the expenses referred to in this Act.’’. desk be considered and agreed to and section with respect to the program in- SEC. 102. For the purposes of division C of the joint resolution, as amended, be volved. Payments and reimbursements under Public Law 115–245, the time covered by such considered read a third time. this authority shall be made only to the ex- division shall be considered to include the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there tent and in amounts provided in advance in period which began on or about December 22, appropriations Acts. objection? ‘‘SEC. 140. Notwithstanding section 251(a)(1) 2018, during which there occurred a lapse in Without objection, it is so ordered. appropriations. of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def- The amendment (No. 54) was agreed SEC. 103. Subsection (c)(2) of section 1341 of icit Control Act of 1985 and the timetable in title 31, United States Code, is amended by to as follows: section 254(a) of such Act, the final seques- inserting ‘‘, and subject to the enactment of (Purpose: In the nature of a substitute) tration report for fiscal year 2019 pursuant to section 254(f)(1) of such Act and any order for appropriations Acts ending the lapse’’ before Strike all after the enacting clause and in- fiscal year 2019 pursuant to section 254(f)(5) the period. sert the following: SEC. 104. For the purposes of the annual re- of such Act shall be issued, for the Congres- SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. sional Budget Office, 10 days after the date port issued pursuant to section 5 of the Stat- This joint resolution may be cited as the utory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. specified in section 105(3), and for the Office ‘‘Further Additional Continuing Appropria- of Management and Budget, 15 days after the 934) after adjournment of the second session tions Act, 2019’’. of the 115th Congress, and for determining date specified in section 105(3). SEC. 101. The Continuing Appropriations EC. 141. Section 319L(e)(1)(A) of the Pub- whether a sequestration order is necessary ‘‘S Act, 2019 (division C of Public Law 115–245) is lic Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d– under such section, the debit for the budget further amended— 7e(e)(1)(A)) shall continue in effect through year on the 5-year scorecard, if any, and the (1) by striking the date specified in section the date specified in section 105(3) of this 10-year scorecard, if any, shall be deducted 105(3) and inserting ‘‘February 15, 2019’’; and Act. from such scorecard in 2019 and added to (2) by adding after section 136 the fol- ‘‘SEC. 142. Section 405(a) of the Pandemic such scorecard in 2020. lowing: and All Hazards Preparedness Act (42 U.S.C. ‘‘SEC. 137. Amounts made available in this 247d–6a note) shall continue in effect through SA 55. Mr. MCCONNELL (for Mr. Act for personnel pay, allowances, and bene- the date specified in section 105(3) of this SHELBY) proposed an amendment to the fits in each department and agency shall be Act.’’. joint resolution H.J. Res. 31, making available for obligations incurred pursuant SEC. 102. For the purposes of division C of further continuing appropriations for to subsection (c) of section 1341 of title 31, Public Law 115–245, the time covered by such the Department of Homeland Security United States Code. division shall be considered to include the ‘‘SEC. 138. All obligations incurred and in for fiscal year 2019, and for other pur- period which began on or about December 22, anticipation of the appropriations made and 2018, during which there occurred a lapse in poses; as follows: authority granted by this Act for the pur- appropriations. Strike all after the enacting clause and in- poses of maintaining the essential level of SEC. 103. Subsection (c)(2) of section 1341 of sert the following: activity to protect life and property and title 31, United States Code, is amended by

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I further ask that of the 115th Congress, and for determining land Security, February 15, 2019.’’; and the resolution be agreed to, the pre- whether a sequestration order is necessary (2) in section 110, by adding at the end the amble be agreed to, and the motions to under such section, the debit for the budget following: reconsider be considered made and laid year on the 5-year scorecard, if any, and the ‘‘(c) With respect to mandatory payments upon the table with no intervening ac- 10-year scorecard, if any, shall be deducted whose budget authority was provided in the from such scorecard in 2019 and added to Department of Homeland Security Appro- tion or debate. such scorecard in 2020. priations Act, 2018 (division F of Public Law The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without The amendment was ordered to be 115–141), subsections (a) and (b) shall be ap- objection, it is so ordered. engrossed and the joint resolution to plied by substituting ‘section 105(4)’ for ‘sec- The resolution (S. Res. 31) was agreed tion 105(3)’ each place it appears.’’. be read a third time. to. The joint resolution was read the The amendment was ordered to be The preamble was agreed to. third time. engrossed and the joint resolution to (The resolution, with its preamble, is Mr. MCCONNELL. I know of no fur- be read a third time. printed in today’s RECORD under ‘‘Sub- ther debate on the joint resolution, as The joint resolution was read the mitted Resolutions.’’) amended. third time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there Mr. MCCONNELL. I know of no fur- f is no further debate, the joint resolu- ther debate on the joint resolution, as amended. tion having been read the third time, SIGNING AUTHORITY the question is, Shall the joint resolu- The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there tion pass? is no further debate, the joint resolu- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I The joint resolution (H.J. Res. 28), as tion having been read the third time, ask unanimous consent that the major- amended, was passed. the question is, Shall the joint resolu- ity leader be authorized to sign duly Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous tion pass? enrolled bills or joint resolutions today consent that the motion to reconsider The joint resolution (H.J. Res. 31), as through Monday, January 28. be considered made and laid upon the amended, was passed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without table. Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous objection, it is so ordered. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without consent that the motion to reconsider objection, it is so ordered. be considered made and laid upon the f table. f The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ORDERS FOR MONDAY, JANUARY MAKING FURTHER CONTINUING objection, it is so ordered. 28, 2019 APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DE- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I PARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECU- ask unanimous consent that it be in Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I RITY FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019 order at this time for me to request a ask unanimous consent that when the Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I conference with the House on H.J. Res. Senate completes its business today, it ask unanimous consent that H.J. Res. 31. adjourn until 3 p.m., Monday, January 31 be considered read a second time and The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there 28; further, that following the prayer the Senate proceed to its immediate objection? and pledge, the morning hour be consideration. Without objection, it is so ordered. deemed expired, the Journal of pro- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without COMPOUND MOTION ceedings be approved to date, the time objection, it is so ordered. Mr. MCCONNELL. I move to insist for the two leaders be reserved for their The clerk will report the joint resolu- upon the Senate amendment, request a use later in the day, and morning busi- tion by title. conference with the House, and author- ness be closed; further, that following The senior assistant legislative clerk ize the Presiding Officer to appoint leader remarks, the Senate resume read as follows: conferees with respect to H.J. Res. 31. consideration of the motion to proceed A joint resolution (H.J. Res. 31) making I know of no further debate on the to S. 1; finally, that notwithstanding further continuing appropriations for the De- motion. the provisions of rule XXII, at 5:30 p.m. partment of Homeland Security for fiscal The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there on Monday, the motion to proceed to year 2019, and for other purposes. is no further debate, the question is on the motion to reconsider cloture on the There being no objection, the Senate agreeing to the motion. motion to proceed to proceeded to consider the joint resolu- The motion was agreed to. S. 1 on January 8 be agreed to, the mo- tion. APPOINTMENT OF CONFEREES tion to reconsider cloture on the mo- Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous The Presiding Officer appointed Mr. tion to proceed to S. 1 be agreed to, and consent that the amendment at the SHELBY, Mrs. CAPITO, Mr. HOEVEN, Mr. the Senate vote on the motion to in- desk be considered and agreed to and BLUNT, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. DURBIN, and Mr. voke cloture on the motion to proceed, the joint resolution, as amended, be TESTER conferees on the part of the upon reconsideration. considered read a third time. Senate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there f objection? objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. Without objection, it is so ordered. HONORING THE LIFE OF HARRIS L. WOFFORD, JR. The amendment (No. 55) was agreed f to as follows: Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I (Purpose: In the nature of a substitute) ask unanimous consent that the Sen- ADJOURNMENT UNTIL 3 P.M. ate proceed to the immediate consider- Strike all after the enacting clause and in- MONDAY sert the following: ation of S. Res. 31, submitted earlier The Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019 today. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, if (division C of Public Law 115–245) is further The PRESIDING OFFICER. The there is no further business to come be- amended— clerk will report the resolution by fore the Senate, I ask that it stand ad- (1) in section 105— journed under the provisions of S. Res. (A) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘or’’ at title. the end; The assistant legislative clerk read 31 and do so as a further mark of re- (B) in paragraph (3)— as follows: spect for the late Harris Wofford, Jr., (i) by inserting ‘‘except as provided in A resolution (S. Res. 31) honoring the life former Senator for the Commonwealth paragraph (4),’’ before ‘‘December’’; and of Harris L. Wofford, Jr. of Pennsylvania.

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