January 20, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 519 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES—Thursday, January 20, 2011

(Legislative day of Thursday, January 20, 2011)

The House met at 9 a.m. and was SPENDING AND FOREIGN AID will be devastating. The number of un- called to order by the Speaker. (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was insured in my district will increase by 104,000 people; 326,000 residents would f given permission to address the House for 1 minute.) yet again be vulnerable to insurers’ de- PRAYER Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, fi- vious practices, such as lifetime limits nally Congress says it will rein in out- and rescission; and insurers could once The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. of-control spending. My neighbors in more deny coverage for up to 294,000 in- Coughlin, offered the following prayer: Texas are a little cynical and say, dividuals in my district alone, includ- Lord God, in You we discover infinite ‘‘Prove it.’’ One suggestion I keep hear- ing 35,000 children with a preexisting possibilities. May sincere prayer lead ing is regarding foreign aid. My friend, condition. to determined action. May those who Sammy Mahan, a towing service oper- Madam Speaker, we should con- are doubtful or cynical be renewed in ator, told me to quit giving money to centrate on creating jobs, not repealing patriotism. May those who feel power- dictators. Well, there’s a thought. health reform for middle class Ameri- less look within for deeper strength. There are 192 countries, and the cans. May those who are most sensitive and United States gives money to roughly f loving find authentic ways to express 150 of them. With our economic times, themselves. May those filled with com- HONORING THE GUARDIANS OF 15 million unemployed and the debt plaints learn satisfying dialogue in an- THE NATIONAL CEMETERY IN monster looming over us, it’s time we other. May those caught in dependen- BUCKS COUNTY, PA reevaluate the citizen money we give ces and compulsions be freed. May away. (Mr. FITZPATRICK asked and was those overwhelmed with complexity Someone has said that ‘‘foreign aid is given permission to address the House take one step forward. May those with taking money from the poor people in for 1 minute and to revise and extend limited resources build upon personal rich nations and giving it to rich peo- his remarks.) gifts. May those who think themselves ple in poor nations’’. And many of Mr. FITZPATRICK. Madam Speaker, incapable be supportive and encourage these receivers of taxpayer money I rise today to honor a group that has others. May those who believe deeply don’t even like us. As my friend, the made a difference in our country, the discern signs that dreams do come true gentleman from Texas, Mr. LOUIE GOH- Guardians of the National Cemetery in and prayers are answered. MERT says, ‘‘We don’t need to pay them Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This is a Lord, may a whole new generation to hate us. They’ll do it on their own.’’ group comprised entirely of volunteers uncover creative responses to that We even give money away to China. who have assumed the mission and ever-present challenge: ‘‘Ask not what We should reevaluate the money we duty of performing many of the sacred your country can do for you, but what give each nation. I suspect Israel and functions of the National Cemetery in you can do for your country.’’ maybe a few others would and should Washington Crossing, Bucks County. Amen. receive U.S. help, but the rest need to Today, the Guardians, led by their President, Antonio Albano, are 250 f go it on their own. After all, we should take care of America first. members strong. Among this proud THE JOURNAL And that’s just the way it is. group are the visionaries that fought to bring the National Cemetery to its f The SPEAKER. The Chair has exam- current location in Bucks County. ined the Journal of the last day’s pro- DON’T REPEAL HEALTH CARE They worked tirelessly through the se- ceedings and announces to the House REFORM lection process with the VA not only to his approval thereof. (Mr. SIRES asked and was given per- select the site, but also to prove that Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the Jour- mission to address the House for 1 there will always be a dedicated group nal stands approved. minute.) of individuals willing and able to pro- f Mr. SIRES. Madam Speaker, yester- vide the necessary services to those day was an unfortunate day in this who rest in this solemn place and to PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Chamber. The majority party voted to their families. After the VA made the wise decision The SPEAKER. Will the gentleman bring our Nation back to a system where insurance companies’ needs are to locate the cemetery in Bucks Coun- from Texas (Mr. POE) come forward and ty, the Guardians immediately began lead the House in the Pledge of Alle- placed before those of middle class the work they have become known giance. Americans. The truth is that millions of Ameri- for—organizing services on Memorial Mr. POE of Texas led the Pledge of cans are already benefiting from health Day and Veterans Day, as well as plac- Allegiance as follows: care reform. Insurers are no longer al- ing wreaths on the graves of our vet- I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the lowed to discriminate against children erans. These are just some of the United States of America, and to the Repub- lic for which it stands, one nation under God, and others who are sick; small busi- things the Guardians do to bring com- indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. nesses are receiving billions of dollars fort to the bereaved and to honor those in tax credits; and seniors are saving who have served us. f money on prescription drugs and are Madam Speaker, honoring the work receiving free preventive care through of the Guardians of the National Ceme- ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER Medicare, including 72,000 seniors in tery is particularly fitting today, Jan- The SPEAKER. The Chair will enter- my district alone. uary 20, 2011, because today marks the tain five 1-minute speeches on each If repealed, these benefits will be re- 1-year anniversary of the first veteran side. moved and the impact on my district laid to rest at the Washington Crossing

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VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:20 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\H20JA1.000 H20JA1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD 520 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 January 20, 2011 National Cemetery, a place that the form. The measure we are voting on rotunda. And I think it’s very impor- Guardians have now helped to make today will not deprive seniors of care. tant, Madam Speaker, as we do that to hallowed ground. It will not create long waiting lines for remember not only John F. Kennedy’s Tonight, the Guardians will gather to the sick. It will not burden future gen- commitment to our Nation’s security, mark this occasion and pay tribute to erations of Americans with massive but to once again underscore his pas- the veterans who have been laid to rest debt. sionate commitment to our economic at the National Cemetery. I am hon- Madam Speaker, this is the kind of security by his implementation of pro- ored to make note of their achieve- health care reform Americans want to growth economic policies that were ments here on the floor of the House see. It’s a solution for our families who replicated 30 years ago today when this morning and will be honored to be need to preserve the doctor-patient re- Ronald Reagan became President of among them this evening. lationship. the United States and pursued the f In conclusion, God bless our troops, same kinds of pro-growth policies that and we will never forget September the President John F. Kennedy pursued. HEALTH CARE REPEAL AND JOBS 11th in the global war on terrorism. I hope very much, Madam Speaker, (Mr. BACA asked and was given per- f that we can learn from the lessons of both of these great Presidencies. mission to address the House for 1 LOOKING AT THE VIOLENCE IN minute.) TUCSON Mr. BACA. Instead of focusing on cre- f ating new jobs and helping middle class (Mr. YARMUTH asked and was given families, our Republican friends want permission to address the House for 1 HEALTH INSURANCE REPEAL minute.) to turn back the clock. We all know (Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia asked and Mr. YARMUTH. Madam Speaker, in this week’s vote to repeal and replace was given permission to address the the wake of the tragedy in Tucson 10 the health reform is nothing but polit- House for 1 minute and to revise and days ago, there has been a lot of soul ical fiction, with no intention of doing extend his remarks.) searching, a lot of introspection, and a anything to improve health care. It’s Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Madam lot of commentary about what was be- just a smoke screen. The reality is that Speaker, yesterday’s action of repeal- hind the tragedy there and what moti- a repeal of reform will be bad for our ing the health care reform, cynically vated Jared Loughner to take the ac- economy and worse for American fami- called the Job-Killing Health Care Act tion he did. lies and businesses. by my friends on the other side of the It’s become the judicious and kind of In my district alone, repealing health aisle, is definitely an ironic mis- the politically correct thing to say, Oh, care reform would discriminate against nomer—job killing—when the health it was just one madman doing some- the 305,000 people who suffer from pre- reform is poised to create 4 million new thing. We can’t ascribe responsibility existing conditions—129 million na- jobs. The number of jobs created by re- to anything else. tionwide. It would eliminate tax cred- peal? Zero. I think that’s too easy. I think that’s its for 10,000 small businesses, kick So we’re not about protecting jobs on a cop-out. 5,000 young adults off their parents’ in- the other side of the aisle. We are The fact is that Jared Loughner did surance plans—and 1.2 million nation- about protecting insurance companies’ not try to attack the community col- wide—and it throws more than 5,000 bottom line. seniors back into the doughnut hole of lege that threw him out, any of the em- ployers who had fired him, or anybody higher drug costs—2.7 million nation- f wide. in his family. He singled out GABRIELLE GIFFORDS, an elected official of the Let’s stand with American families REMEMBERING ASHLEY TURTON and say ‘‘yes’’ to more jobs and ‘‘no’’ to United States Government. And one all efforts to repeal health reform. has to wonder whether all of the talk (Mr. MCGOVERN asked and was in recent years about tyrannical gov- given permission to address the House f ernments and the demonization of poli- for 1 minute.) b 0910 ticians did not in some way guide that Mr. MCGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I madman to her instead of another tar- rise to celebrate the life of Ashley NEXT STEP: REAL REFORM TO get. Turton. Ashley had an incredible ca- OBAMACARE I think we need to not just write this reer both in the public and private sec- (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina off as a senseless tragedy and an inex- tors and was respected by so very many asked and was given permission to ad- plicable one. We need to delve into it people of every political persuasion. dress the House for 1 minute and to re- more deeply and decide whether the She was a wonderful mother of three vise and extend his remarks.) rhetoric that’s out there in the media children, and her death is especially Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. environment had something to do with difficult for those of us on Capitol Hill Madam Speaker, yesterday the House this tragic event. because we got to know Ashley passed a bill that repealed the liberal f through her work as ROSA DELAURO’s unconstitutional health care takeover. chief of staff. She was part of our fam- I would like to congratulate my col- TWO GREAT PRESIDENCIES ily. She was a woman of great skill and leagues who voted in favor of the re- (Mr. DREIER asked and was given a woman of great personality. peal of the job-killing health law act. permission to address the House for 1 We also know her husband, Dan The winning margin was new conserv- minute and to revise and extend his re- Turton, who also worked on the Hill ative Members elected in November to marks.) for many years and served as the chief truly promote limited government and Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, let of staff to the House Rules Committee. expanded freedom. every nation know, whether it wishes He currently works for the White Our work is not yet complete. Today, us well or ill, that we shall pay any House. the House will be voting on true, real price, bear any burden, support any I attended, along with hundreds and health care reform authored by Chair- friend, oppose any foe to assure the hundreds of others, Ashley’s memorial man DAVID DREIER—reform that can survival and the success of liberty. service last Friday here in Washington, make health care accessible, reform Madam Speaker, those are among the DC. Those who eulogized Ashley cap- that will make health care affordable, brilliant words that 50 years ago today tured her spirit, her determination, reform that will not eliminate small were delivered by President John F. and her great compassion. businesses. Kennedy as he was inaugurated. In 3 She was a remarkable woman and I hope all Members will work to- hours we are going to be marking that will never be forgotten. And our pray- gether for this kind of health care re- inaugural with a ceremony in the great ers are with Dan and Ashley’s family.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:20 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\H20JA1.000 H20JA1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD January 20, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 521 INSTRUCTING CERTAIN COMMIT- vote last night, saw repeal of the care system. We owe the American peo- TEES TO REPORT LEGISLATION health care bill. ple nothing short of a rigorous and REPLACING THE JOB-KILLING Having taken that action to wipe the thorough debate. But if we conduct HEALTH CARE LAW slate clean, we’re now moving on to the that debate in good faith, Madam far more challenging task of crafting Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, pursu- Speaker, grounded in the recognition real solutions for the American people ant to House Resolution 26, I call up that we all hope to achieve the same to ensure that we can drive down the the resolution (H. Res. 9) instructing outcome, I believe that we, in a bipar- costs of health insurance and health tisan way, Democrats and Republicans certain committees to report legisla- care. tion replacing the job-killing health together, can come up with real solu- This resolution instructs the four tions. care law, and ask for its immediate committees of jurisdiction to draft leg- consideration. Now, we saw the day before yesterday islation that brings about meaningful that the President said that he is will- The Clerk read the title of the resolu- health care reforms. Furthermore, this tion. ing and eager to work with Repub- resolution lays out 12 clear guidelines licans on the issue of health care. The text of the resolution is as fol- that define what real reform is. Some lows: That’s a sentiment that I, and I know of these guidelines are simply common- my colleagues on this side of the aisle, H. RES. 9 sense principles, such as the need for share wholeheartedly. This resolution, Resolved, That the Committee on Edu- reform that doesn’t hurt job creation H. Res. 9, puts us on a path towards cation and the Workforce, the Committee on or the need to eliminate duplicative doing just that. It will begin this criti- Energy and Commerce, the Committee on wasteful spending. the Judiciary, and the Committee on Ways But if there is one overarching prin- cally important process. So I hope very much that we will and Means, shall each report to the House ciple for true reform, it’s that we can- legislation proposing changes to existing law not pick winners and losers. Real re- have strong, bipartisan support for this within each committee’s jurisdiction with form must be accessible to every Amer- resolution. I will say that we have an provisions that— amendment that will be coming for- (1) foster economic growth and private sec- ican. If a family is forced to give up a ward, a Democratic amendment that tor job creation by eliminating job-killing the Rules Committee has made in policies and regulations; health plan that is working for them, (2) lower health care premiums through in- can we call that reform? If a small order, I am happy to say, that will add creased competition and choice; business must lay off employees to to that list that our friend Mr. MATHE- (3) preserve a patient’s ability to keep his comply with new mandates, can we call SON has provided. And I will also say or her health plan if he or she likes it; that reform? If a doctor is forced to that contrary to the argument that has (4) provide people with pre-existing condi- close her family practice because the been put out there that we don’t have tions access to affordable health coverage; cost of malpractice insurance is pro- solutions, there is a wide range of pro- (5) reform the medical liability system to hibitive, can we call that reform? If posals that exist. And we look forward reduce unnecessary and wasteful health care to having this committee process vig- spending; government bureaucrats make deci- (6) increase the number of insured Ameri- sions that should be left to doctors and orously pursue just that. cans; patients, can we call that reform, Madam Speaker, I reserve the bal- (7) protect the doctor-patient relationship; Madam Speaker? Obviously not. ance of my time. (8) provide the States greater flexibility to Our goal is to increase access to qual- Mr. MCGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I administer Medicaid programs; ity health care for every single Amer- yield myself 4 minutes. (9) expand incentives to encourage personal ican, including those with preexisting Madam Speaker, I rise in very strong responsibility for health care coverage and conditions. H. Res. 9, that we’re going opposition to this resolution and very costs; to be considering here today, puts us strong opposition to the very closed (10) prohibit taxpayer funding of abortions on the path to do just that. process in which we are discussing this and provide conscience protections for As I said at the outset, this is a tre- health care providers; resolution. Once again, I am deeply dis- (11) eliminate duplicative government pro- mendous challenge. Achieving the goal appointed that instead of working to grams and wasteful spending; or, of meaningful health care reform, create jobs and strengthen the econ- (12) do not accelerate the insolvency of en- which we all share, will demand an omy, the new Republican majority con- titlement programs or increase the tax bur- open and collaborative process. The tinues to focus on reopening old den on Americans. four committees of jurisdiction have a wounds and fighting old battles. The The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mrs. great deal of work ahead of them. This resolution before us today is allegedly EMERSON). Pursuant to House Resolu- is a process in which we all must con- the replace component of the Repub- tion 26, the resolution is debatable for tribute—Democrats and Republicans licans’ repeal and replace strategy. I 1 hour equally divided and controlled alike. say allegedly, Madam Speaker, because by the chair and ranking minority We have good ideas that are coming this resolution is not a serious legisla- member of the Committee on Rules or from both sides of the aisle, and I be- tive effort. It is a series of talking lieve that they will be considered their designees. The amendment print- points. It is a press release. ed in part B of House Report 112–2, if through this deliberative process. What this resolution does is ask the offered by the gentleman from Utah These ideas must be shared, analyzed, committees of jurisdiction to hope- and debated. If we all participate in (Mr. MATHESON) or his designee, shall fully, maybe someday, if they would be this open and transparent process, I be- be considered read, and shall be sepa- so kind, to report legislation to the lieve that we can address the health rately debatable for 10 minutes equally House that meets certain vague goals. care challenges that we face in an ef- divided and controlled by the pro- Instead of repeal and replace, this is re- fective and meaningful way. ponent and an opponent. Ultimately, we all hope to arrive at peal and relax. Trust the Republicans The Chair recognizes the gentleman the same place. We all share the same to do the right thing. No thank you, from California (Mr. DREIER). goal, that is, access to quality care for Madam Speaker. Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I yield all. That’s what House Republicans Yesterday, this House voted, without myself such time as I may consume. want to achieve, and that’s what my a single hearing or markup, without a Madam Speaker, today we begin the Democratic colleagues want to achieve single amendment, to eliminate the Af- process of implementing health care as well. And that’s what President fordable Care Act in its entirety. The reform. I underscore that. Imple- Obama wants to achieve. We all have Members who voted for that bill voted menting health care reform is what we our own views on how we get there. to return to the days when insurance begin today. companies could discriminate against This resolution, H. Res. 9, initiates b 0920 people based upon preexisting condi- the second step of a two-part process, In this body alone we have 435 views tions. They voted to eliminate the ban which, as we all know with the 245–189 on the best way to reform our health on annual and lifetime limits on care.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:20 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\H20JA1.000 H20JA1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD 522 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 January 20, 2011 They voted to eliminate the ability for Everyone has acknowledged that this aisle. And I have no doubt that provi- young people to stay on their parents’ measure is flawed. The President said sions are going to come forth from our insurance plans up to the age of 26. in his press conference right after the committees that I am going to vote They voted to reopen the doughnut election it was flawed. We have had the ‘‘no’’ on, but my colleagues on the left hole in Medicare. Basically, they voted courts already throw the mandate out. and on the right are both going to vote for a tax increase on senior citizens We need to deal with the problem even ‘‘yes’’ on, and it’s going to pass. And who need prescription drugs. They before this measure is being imple- that’s the way the process ought to be, voted to eliminate tax credits for small mented. So it seems to me to be abso- one provision at a time, one idea at a businesses who want to do the right lutely essential that we proceed with time. Tort reform, insurance reform, thing and provide health insurance for this work. putting patients back in charge of their workers. All of that, Madam With that, I am happy to yield 2 min- those decisions, putting doctors back Speaker, would have the force of law. utes to a hardworking member from in charge of those relationships. All of that was done with real legisla- our Rules Committee, the gentleman Mr. MCGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I tive language. But not the resolution from Lawrenceville, Georgia (Mr. yield myself 15 seconds. before us today. WOODALL). Madam Speaker, I think our objec- Instead of real language that would Mr. WOODALL. Thank you, Mr. tion is not with the idea of having a se- provide real benefits to real Ameri- Chairman. rious debate on these issues. There are cans, this resolution is simply a collec- Madam Speaker, I have been a Mem- areas where we can come together and tion of empty promises. And the ironic ber of this body for 2 weeks and 2 days, hopefully make the bill even better. thing is that most of the provisions in- and I could not be prouder to be on the Our objection is the fact that my cluded in the resolution were actually House floor today in support of the friends on the other side voted to re- addressed in the Affordable Care Act. chairman’s resolution. For the entire peal everything, voted to allow insur- According to this resolution, we last year in my district we have been ance companies to once again discrimi- should, quote, ‘‘lower health care pre- focused on one thing and one thing nate against people with preexisting miums through increased competition only, since March of 2010, and that is conditions. and choice.’’ Well, the Affordable Care the repeal of the President’s health The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Act already does that. Of course, many care bill. time of the gentleman has expired. Mr. MCGOVERN. I yield myself an of us argued for a public option, which You know, before March of 2010 my district cared about health care re- additional 15 seconds. would have lowered premiums even fur- They voted to take away the benefit ther with increased competition and form. We talked about tort reform, we talked about putting patients back in from senior citizens that we put in choice, but my Republican friends there to help try to close the doughnut didn’t want to have anything to do charge of decisions. We talked about ending the tax preference that busi- hole in the prescription drug bill. And with that. what do they do in terms of replacing The resolution before us today says nesses get so that we can purchase in- it? They come not with an alternative; we should ‘‘preserve a patient’s ability surance on our own and own those poli- they come with a press release. That’s to keep his or her health plan if he or cies as we do our other insurance poli- not serious legislating. That’s politics she likes it.’’ Well, the Affordable Care cies. But the moment this bill was signed into law, the moment the Presi- as usual. Act already does that. Increase the Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to dent’s bill was signed into law that dis- number of insured Americans? Well, we the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. did that by 30 million people. Protect cussion stopped and the repeal discus- PALLONE). the doctor-patient relationship? We did sion began. And with the repeal yester- Mr. PALLONE. Madam Speaker, I am that. And so on and so on. day, we now begin anew the discussion just amazed. I listened to the gen- On the critical issue of people with of how properly to reform the system. tleman from Georgia who just spoke, preexisting conditions, however, it’s in- And I am anxious to have that discus- and he said that in his district all of teresting to see the language that my sion. the focus is on health care and health You know, we learned a lot in our Republican friends use in this press re- care repeal. Well, I don’t know, when I time in the minority. One of those lease that they call a resolution. They go home all I hear in my district is jobs things we learned is that bringing sim- say they support, and I quote, ‘‘provide and the economy. People are concerned ple, straightforward resolutions to the people with preexisting conditions ac- about the economy. They want us to floor is better for the process. It’s bet- cess to affordable health coverage.’’ create jobs, they want us to focus ter for the American people. The Well, that sounds nice. But what we did mostly on that issue, not on repeal of Speaker has made that commitment. in the Affordable Care Act was to actu- health care. ally ban insurance companies from dis- We continue that commitment today criminating against those people. I will with these instructions to go back to b 0930 be very interested to see how my Re- the drawing board and bring things for- The other problem I have with the publican friends handle that critical ward one at a time. gentleman from Georgia’s comments is issue and how much influence the big Now, I sat through 10 hours of hear- he seems to think that because the insurance lobby has around here now ings in the Rules Committee, where House passed this repeal yesterday that they’re in charge. And the dough- folks came forward and said go ahead that the health reform is repealed. nut hole? The resolution is absolutely and repeal the bill, but save this one Well, let me tell everyone it’s not, and silent on the doughnut hole. provision. Let’s have this one provision this is just a ruse. This bill, this health Madam Speaker, health care is of stay. Go ahead and repeal the bill, but reform wasn’t repealed. The Senate vital importance to every single Amer- keep this other one provision. We now isn’t even going to take it up. The ican. It is a big deal. And to treat have that opportunity. We have now President has said that he would never health insurance reform as just an- repealed the bill here in the House, and sign a repeal bill. other opportunity for happy talk and we have the opportunity to bring those So the Republicans are just wasting wishful thinking is not the way to do provisions forward one by one. their time, rather than focusing on business in the people’s House. And I will tell you what, I am not what we should be focusing on, the jobs I urge my colleagues to reject this going to like all those provisions. And and the economy. They keep talking resolution. some of those provisions are going to about this false repeal that is never I reserve the balance of my time. pass the House. And that’s the way it going to happen. Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I yield ought to be. You shouldn’t have a one- Now, I also wanted to say something myself 15 seconds. size-fits-all, take-it-or-leave-it kind of about what Mr. DREIER said before. He I do so to say to my friend that I ap- system. You ought to be able to have talked about increasing access, in- preciate his very conciliatory remarks. that discussion on both sides of the creased choices. That’s not what goes

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:20 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\H20JA1.000 H20JA1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD January 20, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 523 on if this bill was ever repealed. The There is no question we must resolve major Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I yield choice is now for people who have pre- challenges such as pre-existing conditions, myself 30 seconds. existing conditions, they can’t get in- portability and cost. But we can deal with Madam Speaker, everyone has ac- surance. They have to pay more if they these by breaking down barriers between knowledged that the legislation that try to get it, or the kids that are on States, liability reform and tax incentives. We has passed is flawed. Everyone has ac- the policies that would be taken off if certainly do not need IRS-enforced mandates. knowledged that. The President of the we had the repeal, or the people that Despite the loud and clear protests of the United States, when he said that the would again face lifetime caps. American people, the Democrat leadership of 1099 issue imposing mandates on small You don’t have choices under the old the House and Senate rammed through a job- businesses needed to be rectified in his system because you were denied care destroying health care act last year. It created first news conference after the elec- through the insurance companies’ dis- a large and costly new government bureauc- tion, recognized that there were prob- crimination. The only way you have racy that gets between doctors and patients. lems. choices and access is under the health The law includes hundreds of new burden- We had, the day before yesterday, the reform that this House and this coun- some taxes, regulations, and mandates on distinguished assistant minority lead- try have put into law where you are businesses and individuals. er, the former majority whip, Mr. CLY- guaranteed you get insurance, even if There is no doubt in my mind that sup- BURN, say that he believes that Repub- you have a preexisting condition. You porters of this massive bill would have passed licans and Democrats should work to- don’t have to worry about lifetime a government-run single payer system if they gether to improve this bill. We have al- caps. You can put your kids on the could have gotten away with it. What they did ready had a Federal court determine policies. pass was a first step towards total government that it is unconstitutional to impose So don’t talk to me about choices run healthcare. The same kind of healthcare this mandate. Madam Speaker, we need and access. People don’t have choices system that Great Britain is trying to abandon, to work together to resolve the very, and access with those discriminatory because it doesn’t work. very great challenges that we have policies that would be put back in We must stop America from going down the ahead of us. place by the insurance companies. As path of a government-run, single-payer I reserve the balance of my time. they continue to raise premiums, more healthcare system. Mr. MCGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I and more people will not have access to Yesterday the House acted on our promise yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from health care and have access to health to repeal Obamacare, and today we must vote Texas (Mr. DOGGETT). insurance. The only way you have ac- to start the process of replacing it with com- Mr. DOGGETT. Madam Speaker, cess and choices is if we keep the mon sense, affordable solutions. with last year’s important health in- health reform in place. Mr. MCGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I surance reform law, we provided real Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I am yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from guarantees to American families happy to yield 2 minutes to my very, New Jersey (Mr. ANDREWS). against insurance monopoly abuses. very good friend and California col- Mr. ANDREWS. I thank my friend Today, Republicans tell these families, league, the dean of our delegation, Mr. from Massachusetts. ‘‘Forget the binding guarantees. We LEWIS. Madam Speaker, well, we could have have 12 platitudes for you.’’ Mr. LEWIS of California. I very much a bill on the floor today that expands This isn’t a Republican prescrip- appreciate my colleague yielding. Madam Speaker, I think the entire fair trade for American companies, but tion—this is a placebo. And for the public knows that America has had in we don’t. We could have a bill on the American middle class, it’s a very bit- place for a long time one of the finest floor today that finds ways to stop ter pill indeed. health care delivery systems in the sending a billion dollars to the Middle Yesterday, House Republicans, in a world. It’s the envy of many. East to buy oil every day and instead remarkable measure, with one vote, de- That is not to say that it’s perfect. create jobs producing energy in Amer- cided to increase the national debt, re- That’s not to say that we don’t have ica, but we don’t. We could have a bill duce the solvency of the Medicare major challenges like preexisting con- on the floor today talking about ways Trust Fund, raise insurance premiums, ditions and like questions of port- to regenerate our real estate market and charge seniors more for their ability. But, indeed, if the people who and get people buying and selling health care. put in place a health care plan last houses again, but we don’t. During the last 12 years that these year had had their way, they abso- What we have is an empty promise Republicans were in charge, 6 of them lutely would have taken the next step; that someday, somehow, the new ma- with near total domination of the gov- that is, to have a centralized, govern- jority will come to the floor with a bill ernment here in Washington under the ment-run health care system. That’s that will fix the health care problem. Bush-Cheney administration, they the pattern of their future. Quoting from Speaker JOHN BOEHNER, failed to enact even one of these 12 At this moment, Great Britain, he said on June 18, 2002, ‘‘Instead of fo- platitudes in this flimsy 2-page excuse which had such a thing in place for cusing on new health care mandates of a bill. Twelve health care platitudes some time, is attempting to back off of that will increase costs on employers up now, missing in action for 12 years. their system and have more relation- and swell the ranks of the uninsured, Who wouldn’t be for some of them? ships between physicians and their pa- Senate Democrats should focus on pro- They are broad platitudes that propose tients. Indeed, they are doing that be- viding access to health insurance for something that they apparently kept cause their system does not work. the 39 million of Americans who re- hidden under a bushel for the last 16 It’s very important that we not allow main without health coverage. That years and now will unveil. Well, I think the former majority to take their next should be our first priority.’’ it will just be the same old tired, re- step; that is, to have government-run So at a time when Republicans had a jected, retread Republican proposals to health care. With that, yesterday, we majority in this House, a President in give more income tax breaks to those passed a repeal that will take us to the White House, and for most of the at the top. conference with the Senate, and, in time a majority in the Senate, their If you believe that they have got turn, today we are beginning the proc- first priority, which was to deal with something new to offer to genuinely re- ess of reexamining where we have been the health care problem, they didn’t form our health care system in a way to make certain that we put in place do. That’s the standard against which that will help middle-class Americans health care that is positive for all we should measure today’s promise. It instead of health insurance monopo- Americans, not health care that’s run doesn’t leave much room for much op- lies, I think you will want to buy some by the IRS. timism. of that Republican ice cream that helps Madam Speaker, our health care system is I would say, instead of focusing on you lose weight. Our families don’t the envy of much of the world. That does not yet another empty promise, let’s focus need Republican platitudes; they need mean it is perfect. on putting Americans back to work. real help.

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They face threats agree on, like allowing young adults to licans should be working with us to from big banks and from big insurance stay on their parents’ plan. This was build on and improve the health care monopolies. included in the Republican alternative system. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The last year, and it should be included in Not to mention, every potential time of the gentleman has expired. the replacement bill this year. minute spent in committee focusing on Mr. MCGOVERN. I yield the gen- Mr. MCGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I redundant legislation is another tleman 1 additional minute. want to thank the gentleman for his minute that we are not helping Amer- Mr. DOGGETT. Our middle-class comments in recognizing the fact that ican families and businesses emerge families are threatened not only from the provision that allows parents to from this recession. Democrats have the challenges of government, but from keep their children on their insurance pledged to measure all legislation by the big pharmaceutical monopolies until they are 26 is a good idea. But he the proposal’s success at creating jobs, that charge our people more than any- voted yesterday, along with all the Re- strengthening the middle class and place in the world, from the giant in- publicans, to repeal that, to take that bringing down the deficit. surance monopolies. And sometimes, away. And this press release that Unfortunately, the Republican ma- sometimes our families need govern- they’re now saying is a bill on the jority’s hasty vote to repeal the Afford- ment to come down on our side because House floor here doesn’t even address able Care Act fails on all such ac- otherwise those giant economic forces that issue. counts. The American people deserved So I wish the gentleman would have will take advantage of our families by and got real reform. This vague resolu- actually voted with his convictions writing out the very protection that tion stating so-called Republican prin- yesterday and voted against repeal, be- the sick and injured need the most, ciples on health care reform is like giv- cause what he did, if, in fact, this bill protection that they write into the fine ing the American people a wish sand- becomes law, will deny parents to be print of an insurance policy that no or- wich. There’s nothing between the able to keep theirs kids on their insur- dinary person can understand, where bread, but we wish there was. ance until they are 26. Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I yield they are told that they are not covered I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman anymore, that they have a preexisting myself 15 seconds to say to my very from Florida (Ms. WASSERMAN good friend that the fact of the matter condition, that you have reached your SCHULTZ). policy limits and cannot get the care Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. is the Republicans sent association that your doctor says is vital to sus- Madam Speaker, I rise today to oppose health plans to make sure that small tain your life, that this policy just the Republicans’ cynical attempt to re- businesses could drive the cost of doesn’t cover sick people or that it can place the health care reform law. health insurance down to the Senate, be rescinded. Yesterday’s decision to repeal the Af- and our friends in the other body in the I say we need to provide people gen- fordable Care Act was truly damaging other party killed that measure. We uine protection. That’s what we did to the American people, but today’s de- put into place for seniors access to af- last year. That’s what they want to cision to tout the central reforms of fordable prescription drugs. And so we eliminate this year. Let’s be on the the Affordable Care Act as Republican have worked diligently to make this side of the people, not the 12 Repub- ideas is simply baffling. If the provi- happen. lican platitudes to benefit insurance sions in H. Res. 9 were really the Re- With that, I am happy to yield 1 monopolies. publicans’ priorities, they would leave minute to my good friend from Fort Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I yield the Affordable Care Act intact because Myers, Florida (Mr. MACK). 1 minute to one of the hardworking all of these provisions exist in the cur- Mr. MACK. I thank the gentleman members of this brand-new class that rent law. for yielding. has come in carrying this strong mes- If we all agree on the importance of Madam Speaker, yesterday was a sage, the gentleman from Columbus, keeping young adults on their parents’ great day for democracy and freedom Ohio (Mr. STIVERS). insurance, prohibiting insurance com- in this country. Yesterday, the Repub- panies from dropping coverage for the lican-led Congress voted to repeal a b 0940 sick and strengthening Medicare, then health care law that was passed by the Mr. STIVERS. I thank the gentleman this spectacle is a colossal waste of Democrats that would mandate, that for yielding. time that we don’t have. If Republicans would force people to buy something Madam Speaker, I voted for the re- really want to guarantee these con- even if they didn’t want to. It’s uncon- peal of the health care bill yesterday sumer protections to the American stitutional, it’s un-American, and it is because I think doing otherwise would people, they would not stage partisan not what this country stands for. have been supporting the status quo, antics with this kind of resolution. Now we are hearing a lot of our col- and that’s unacceptable. I believe there Even when Republicans had control leagues on the other side talk about are some good ideas that were in the of the entire government for 6 years, how we want to strip away this and we original health care bill that can be they did nothing to reform our Na- want to strip away that and we are used and improved; but some of those tion’s health care system. And during playing games and this resolution is a ideas are in H. Res. 9 today that in- that time, premiums skyrocketed, the game. Well, let me remind you that it struct the committees on next steps on number of uninsured Americans grew was the President of the United States health care. to 47 million, and those with insurance in his State of the Union that talked However, there is one idea that I saw their benefits decimated. Of about tort reform, which was not in- think we need to add to that list. I course, it would have been great to cluded in ObamaCare. We intend to in- think we need to add the allowing of have the Republicans as willing part- clude tort reform in this Congress. We young folks to stay on their parents’ ners during the last 2 years as we also believe that association health insurance through H. Res. 9. In this worked hard to pass the Patient Pro- plans are very important to ensure tough economy, many students are un- tection and Affordable Care Act. Unfor- that more people have access to health able to find jobs right out of school. As tunately, they insisted on being the care, something that your side of the a member of the State senate, I spon- Party of No even as we incorporated so aisle failed to do. sored a bill that would allow those up many of their party’s ideas into the There are real ways to do common- to age 30 to stay on their parents’ plan, law. sense reforms. It is not by having the

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Madam Speaker, I dress their comments to the Chair and publicans to ensure that we rectify this yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman not to others in the second person. flawed bill. The distinguished assistant from Maryland (Ms. EDWARDS). Ms. EDWARDS. Madam Speaker, I Mr. MCGOVERN. Thank you, Madam minority, the former majority whip, Speaker, for maintaining decorum in Mr. CLYBURN, said in a program earlier am actually disappointed that I am the House. We appreciate it. this week that he looked forward to standing on the floor of the House of I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman working with Republicans in a bipar- Representatives today yet again de- from New York (Mr. WEINER). tisan way to address this. fending and protecting the rights of the Mr. WEINER. Madam Speaker, we With that, Madam Speaker, I yield 1 American people to health care. It is such a shame that yesterday and are seeing today that after 75 or so minute to my good friend from Allen- the day before for 7 hours our Members hours of markup, hundreds of hours of town, Pennsylvania (Mr. DENT). on the other side of the aisle spent hearings, 16 months of long debate, Mr. DENT. Madam Speaker, yester- their time deciding for the American thousands upon thousands of meetings day the House voted to repeal the mis- people to take away the ability of par- and town halls, the Republicans come guided health care law of 2010, which is ents to provide health care for their to Washington and don’t know what seriously flawed, both in its structure young people up to age 26. they want to do in health care yet. My and its practical implementation. I They spent 7 hours, other than find- constituents should understand, and keep hearing discussion about the Af- ing jobs, trying to make sure that the Speaker should understand, that fordable Care Act. If one believes the small businesses who are providing this resolution says, go back and figure Affordable Care Act will not add to the health care don’t get a tax credit any- out what we want to do. deficit, I think that one is apt to be- more for the health care that they are Ladies and gentlemen, I would re- lieve just about anything. But today providing for their employees. mind you that last year during the we have the opportunity to direct the They spent 7 hours trying to strip health care debate, the Republicans committees to produce practical and away the ability of our seniors to make had a chance to offer an alternative. effective reforms. sure that they don’t have to reach into They didn’t. Now they come to Wash- I urge my colleagues to join me in their own pockets, deeper pockets, not ington and say, oh, let’s have the com- supporting this resolution and commit deep anymore, to pay for prescription mittees go try to figure this all out. to working together to enact meaning- drugs. Yesterday they were the Party of No, ful reforms that will lower health care Yesterday and the day before they and today they are the party of ‘‘we costs, expand access to affordable in- spent 7 hours debating whether it is a don’t know how to go.’’ surance coverage, and foster economic good idea for insurance companies to Who are these Republicans? After growth and jobs. be able to deny people health care for months and months and months of the The current law is simply unwise and preexisting conditions when they know national debate, you can go into any unsustainable. I believe we must re- that at least 129 million of us, 65 per- coffee shop, any church basement, just place the misguided policies of the cur- cent or so of us, actually have pre- about any card game in this country rent law with reforms that will address existing medical conditions. and people have solid ideas about what rising health care costs. Specifically, I So it is really disappointing that they think about health care. But not support medical liability reforms to re- here we are yet again with the Repub- the Republicans. They’ve got a resolu- duce the practice of defensive medi- licans saying we took it all away in tion today that says, hey, committees, cine. I believe Congress must provide one day, and now we are going to think go try to figure this stuff out, it’s com- Americans with more options for af- about some of it that we might replace plicated. fordable health coverage, such as low- again. And by the way, I don’t know, cost catastrophic plans for younger in- Well, we have created a health care Madam Speaker, if I read it correctly, dividuals, patient-driven health care law for the American people that is but I don’t think there are any dead- savings accounts, cross-state pur- about affordability and accessibility. lines. I don’t think there are any dead- chasing and effective high-risk pools or And I know that the Democrats are lines. I will eat this rostrum if they reinsurance models as a backstop. going to stand on the side with the come back with legislation that actu- Again, I urge my colleagues to sup- President, implementing the law. And ally accomplishes the things that they port this resolution, and let’s get on thank goodness for the American peo- just repealed yesterday. It’s not going with this serious debate. ple. They should know that the Repub- to happen. Mr. MCGOVERN. I yield 10 seconds to licans didn’t do anything yesterday And this is the fundamental problem the gentleman from New York (Mr. other than putting a whole bunch of that I believe the majority party now WEINER). stuff on a piece of paper that has no has: they have the campaign slogans Mr. WEINER. I just want to respond chance of going anywhere. The paper is all down. I just heard the gentleman to the distinguished chairman. The not even worth the ink that is printed from Florida do one: ‘‘unconstitu- President did not say anything about on it. tional.’’ They have the campaign slo- this dastardly flawed bill. He said we Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, as a gans locked. And I have to give them should ‘‘implement and improve.’’ You native of the Show-Me State, I am very credit, they were successful with them. say ‘‘repeal and replace.’’ You put that pleased to yield 1 minute to my friend They came here, we’re against, we’re to a vote of the American people. Im- from St. Elizabeth, Missouri (Mr. against, we’re against. Well, now here plement and improve is the way we LUETKEMEYER). it is. Unlike past Congresses that come build important legislation in this Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Madam Speak- in all geared up for the things they country. er, I am proud to rise in support of this want to do, they’re all geared up with resolution, a bill that would direct a resolution saying, hey, go figure out b 0950 committees to craft new health care what it is that we should do. Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I yield legislation and which would help steer The American people deserve a lot myself 5 seconds to respond. our country back in the right direc- better than this. They deserve com- Madam Speaker, let me say to my tion. A serious fix for what ails health prehensive health care that saves them friend that the President did say that care in America will entail more than money. That’s what was repealed yes- he is willing and eager to work with tweaking the law; it means replacing terday. Republicans to rectify the problems the health care bill with real reform.

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You As I go about my district and talk to instead of tax hikes. want to talk about market, that is how my employers, they tell me that in- As a nurse for over 40 years, my top you get there, with exchanges. stead of premiums going down, they priority will be making sure our plan Replace, repeal—how bizarre is that? have actually gone up 25–40 percent. honors the doctor-patient relationship Americans have a protection. Yester- And instead of improving access to that is so sacred in medicine because day, our Republican colleagues voted care, we actually have doctors retiring there is no place for a government bu- to remove their protections. They gave in record numbers. reaucrat in an individual’s health care to the insurance companies once again True reform would be passing signifi- decision. the power to regulate their lives. We cant lawsuit reform so doctors can As a member of the Ways and Means cannot allow that to happen. This step faithfully perform their jobs of taking Committee, I am excited to work with today is just Alice in Wonderland. care of their patients. I also support in- Chairman DAVE CAMP and my fellow GENERAL LEAVE creasing access to insurance by allow- committee members on a new way for- Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I ask ing small businesses to pool together ward to responsible health care reform. unanimous consent that all Members to get the best plan for their employ- Let’s do the work that the American have 5 legislative days in which to re- ees. people sent us here to do. vise and extend their remarks on H. All along Republicans have offered a Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, may I Res. 9. commonsense approach to improving inquire of my friend if he has any fur- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there our health care system and in a way ther speakers on his side? objection to the request of the gen- that controls cost and provides the Mr. MCGOVERN. I have further tleman from California? quality of care that Americans deserve. speakers, but there is a time discrep- There was no objection. Today’s vote is an important step in ancy; so I will let you catch up. Mr. DREIER. I would like to yield 1 realizing that goal. Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, let me minute to my hardworking colleague Mr. MCGOVERN. Madam Speaker, just say that I don’t have other speak- from Lincoln, Nebraska (Mr. FORTEN- how much time remains? ers here yet. I have others on their way BERRY). The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- over to the floor. I understand the dis- tleman from Massachusetts has 121⁄4 b 1000 parity that exists in the timing, and I minutes remaining. The gentleman Mr. FORTENBERRY. I thank the could talk for all that period of time, from California has 151⁄4 minutes re- gentleman for the time. maining. but I don’t want the gentleman to suf- Madam Speaker, health care reform, Mr. MCGOVERN. At this time I re- fer through that. So I reserve the bal- the right type of reform, is important serve the balance of my time. ance of my time. to me and important to every Amer- Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I am Mr. MCGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I ican. The right type of reform will ac- very happy to yield to one of the other yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from tually reduce costs and improve health new Members who comes with a very California (Mr. GARAMENDI). care outcomes while we protect vulner- Mr. GARAMENDI. Madam Speaker, strong message here. She is a nurse, able persons. However, the current as I am sitting here listening to this, I and she is from Gallatin, Tennessee. I health care law, as we all know, is a am thinking this must be something yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman complicated mess that is going to shift like Alice in Wonderland. This is the from Tennessee (Mrs. BLACK). costs to more unsustainable govern- most bizarre debate I have heard in a Mrs. BLACK. I thank the gentleman ment spending and actually reduce long, long time. for yielding. health care liberties. Madam Speaker, I rise on behalf of We need jobs. We need to be focusing America deserves better. the people of middle Tennessee who on the American economy. This par- Following yesterday’s vote in sup- spoke loud and clear this last year that ticular resolution has no sense of re- port of the repeal of this law, I believe they do not want the Federal Govern- ality. I have heard debates here and it is important to craft a new common- ment dictating their health care. The discussions on the floor about associa- sense policy that provides new insur- plan that was signed into law by the tion health plans. I know about asso- ance models for families, farmers, and President was supposed to increase ac- ciation health plans. I was the insur- small business owners. Yet, as to any cess to health care and lower costs for ance commissioner for 8 years in Cali- model that we craft, the replacement American families. However, in the fornia, having to deal with these non- must continue to build upon a culture months since the bill passed, it has insurance programs that left hundreds, of health and wellness, allow newly in- been shown to do neither. We now indeed thousands of people, holding the sured persons to keep their current know that the health care bill not only bag when the association health plans coverage and also retain protections increases premiums for families but went belly up. It doesn’t make any for preexisting conditions. This will be hinders job creation and is filled with sense. important. unintended consequences that not only California has had tort reform for 30 So now the hard work begins; but diminish the quality of our health care years. We have in the law today in this time we have the opportunity to system but also do great damage to our America a protection for every indi- get it right. economy, and increase our deficit. vidual in America from the onerous Mr. MCGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I This new Congress was sent here to hands of the insurance companies that yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman follow a more responsible path. have continued over the years to deny from Wisconsin (Ms. MOORE). Through commonsense, market-based benefits, to make the doctor decisions, Ms. MOORE. I thank the gentleman solutions, we can replace a flawed and to literally put people’s lives at for yielding. health care bill to have the best health risk—it’s called the Patients’ Bill of Madam Speaker, I rise as the incom- care system in the world. Rights, and our Republican colleagues ing co-chair of the Congressional Wom- I am eager to take part in drafting want to repeal that. We have a law en’s Caucus to talk to you a little bit the new Republican plan and focusing that is in place. It should be imple- about the impact that repealing this on rolling back the individual man- mented. health care law will have on women. date, eliminating the onerous demands The cost issues that have been dis- As you all may be aware, women are on small businesses, and actually low- cussed here on the floor are really a twice as likely to be dependent upon ering the cost for families and increas- discussion about what has taken place their spouses for health care, and they ing access to quality, personalized in the past. The law has yet to be im- are less likely than men to have em- health care. plemented with regard to cost contain- ployer-sponsored insurance. For single

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They don’t like Of course, all of us have heard stories would also challenge my friends on the ObamaCare, but they do want some- from our districts about the dev- other side of the aisle to listen to the thing to be done. astating impact the repeal of this law American people and to join our efforts We must have real national tort re- will have on women, and I heard such a to work towards better solutions to our form to reduce the costs of defensive story just yesterday: Nation’s health care challenges. medicine. Meet Nicole Lipski. She is 25 years Mr. MCGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I We must encourage medical innova- old, is working part time, and is going yield 11⁄2 minutes to the gentlewoman tion to deal with the FDA approval to school part time; but, because of the from Texas (Ms. JACKSON LEE). process that covers any new discovery health care law, was able to remain on Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. I thank in paperwork, costing $1 billion a drug her dad’s insurance. Lucky for her, be- my good friend from Massachusetts for just to get it through the FDA process. cause just last week she had an in- yielding. We must open up more options for in- fected pancreas and had to have her Madam Speaker, let me say that the surance carriers, allowing someone gallbladder removed in emergency sur- good news is that the only thing that who is frustrated with the service or gery, which cost $13,000 that, fortu- occurred last evening was simply a the cost or quality of his carrier to fire nately, was covered by her parents’ in- vote, because the law of the land is them and to get a new insurance pro- surance. still the Patient Protection and Afford- vider. You know, this law outlaws gender able Care Act. I hope that the Presi- We must reject price fixing as a cost- rating as insurance companies, of dent’s words are not twisted, because I cutting solution. course, charge women higher premiums agree with him: we are all willing to We must allow every American to than men for coverage. It also has a work together to do the right thing, choose their own doctors, even pay disparate impact on women with re- which is to amend a bill. their doctors directly if they choose to I don’t understand the understanding spect to preexisting conditions—when do that. of my friends on the other side of the you consider that being a victim of do- We must give senior Americans more aisle. Repealing the law of the land has mestic violence is considered to be a nothing to do with questioning some of choices in physicians who accept Medi- preexisting condition. the provisions. Frankly, they’re not care patients. Now, you don’t have to be a Harvard even listening to a distinguished doc- We must provide States with greater economist to know that this law is not tor, Senator Frist, the former majority flexibility; and we must deal with port- a job killer, but we do have a Harvard leader, who said this bill—our bill—is ability, high risk, and preexisting con- economist to back us up. the law of the land, and it is the funda- ditions. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The mental platform upon which all future Republicans have friends and family time of the gentlewoman has expired. efforts to make that system better for who are dealing with the same medical Mr. MCGOVERN. I yield the gentle- that patient and that family will be issues that Democrats deal with. Suf- woman an additional 15 seconds. fering, disease, and pain have no re- Ms. MOORE. David Cutler, a pro- based. What is there not to understand? spect for political affiliation. We just fessor of applied economics at Harvard, Amend the bill. Don’t repeal it. believe that, if you are sick and hurt- released a new study on January 7, In fact, Senator Frist said if the bill ing, you should contact your doctor, finding that repealing the health care were on the floor, he would have voted not Washington, DC, to see what to do law would destroy 250,000 to 400,000 jobs for it. I spoke to some students the next. annually, and many of these jobs will other day, and they asked about doc- Let’s surprise America. Let’s work be women’s jobs—CNAs, LPNs, x ray tors. This bill has in it scholarships for together, and let’s get something done. techs, RNs, and the cleaning woman medical professionals, the bill that we Let’s show them that, even with a di- who cleans up the emergency room. have. vided House and Senate, we can reject This law is a game changer and a life- In fact, the issue, of course, is one the gravitational pull of politics, that saver for women’s health and employ- that you cannot dispute: this bill saves we can put aside our differences, and ment opportunities for women. lives, so much so that the Republican that we can work together for the good Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I am majority leader ran to the media to of those who are most vulnerable. happy to yield 1 minute to my good promise seniors that they wouldn’t lose Mr. MCGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I friend from Cherryville, North Carolina the $250 that our bill, the patient pro- yield myself 20 seconds. (Mr. MCHENRY). tection bill, guaranteed them so that I just want to respond to the gen- Mr. MCHENRY. Thank you, Chair- they would have some cover, some tleman who just spoke. We hear these man DREIER, for yielding. cushion, for their prescription drugs. distortions over and over and over Madam Speaker, last night House Re- So, my friends, I know we are doing again. We heard them during the cam- publicans took a major step in keeping the right thing. We are all willing to paign, distortions that were per- our pledge to America by passing the amend, but how ridiculous it is that petrated by my friends on the other repeal of ObamaCare. Now we must you would repeal the law of the land or side of the aisle and by their allies in work to replace this budget-busting attempt to do so. I know the President the insurance industry, and that, some- law with sensible, market-based poli- still has his veto pen—because this bill how, what we passed was a bill that cies that actually lower costs for fami- will save lives. wouldn’t allow you to keep your own lies and small businesses and expand Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I yield health insurance. That’s just wrong. access to affordable care. 11⁄2 minutes to one of our new Members, What we passed was a bill that actu- Small businesses are the job creators the gentleman from Oklahoma City ally provides competition and insures that hold the key to our economic re- (Mr. LANKFORD). tens of millions more Americans. covery. They cannot afford the hun- Mr. LANKFORD. Thank you for Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to dreds of billions of dollars in new taxes yielding time. the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. in the ObamaCare law and the new em- Madam Speaker, the repeated dia- ELLISON). ployer mandate as well. Our small busi- tribe from Members on the other side nesses need certainty in the Tax Code of the aisle that somehow they are the b 1010 and certainty in the regulations com- only individuals in this Chamber who Mr. ELLISON. Madam Speaker, re- ing out of Washington. ObamaCare care about the health of American fam- peal and replace? What about protect only makes matters worse. ilies demonstrates again the deep-seat- and improve? What about improving I look forward to an open and trans- ed partisanship that we must work to the bill that is there right now rather parent debate in this Congress on alter- defeat. than repealing and replacing?

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They just want to repeal. Why? solved that. We have not solved that Mr. WOODALL. I thank the chair- To protect the insurance industry. I anxiety. We have not solved that inde- man. can’t see any other reason why they cision, because we’ve only gotten one- Madam Speaker, I would just say to are doing this. half of it done. We’ve gotten it passed my friend that I absolutely voted no on The Affordable Care Act is a good in the House, but we’ve still got to every single one of those Rules Com- bill; and can it be better? Of course it take it to the Senate and we’ve still mittee amendments in the name of re- can be better. But that’s not what got to take it to the White House. pealing the bill yesterday, and now we’re talking about doing today. We’re Now again, in the spirit of giving today I have returned to speak in favor talking about taking away benefits credit where credit is due, I told folks of this resolution so that you can work that Americans have in their hand. The throughout my campaign that I with the committee leadership to bring Republican Caucus is snatching away thought the President identified ex- each and every one of those provisions people who want to get their children actly the right two health care chal- to this floor for a vote again for the on their health care insurance who are lenges, rising costs and access, and very first time. For the very first time. under 26 years of age; snatching away then came up with exactly the wrong I’m glad to support you in having that free preventative care for seniors; solutions to those problems. Now we opportunity and I’m pleased to be here snatching out of the hands of families talk about what’s going to happen to in support of this resolution today. whose children are trying to be able to folks when the doughnut hole change ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE get care who may have a preexisting goes away. Well, did we have a chance The SPEAKER pro tempore. The condition; snatching out of the hands last year? And I’m new to Congress. Chair must ask Members to bear in of seniors who are filling in the dough- Did we have a chance in the last Con- mind the principle that proper cour- nut hole. They are taking away a ben- gress to vote on that standalone dough- tesy in the process of yielding and re- efit Americans have right now. This is nut hole closure? I don’t believe we did. claiming time in debate—and espe- wrong and it’s a shame. Did we have a chance in the last Con- cially in asking another to yield—helps The fact is the Democratic Caucus gress to vote on a standalone pre- to foster the spirit of mutual comity when we had the White House and both existing conditions solution? I don’t that elevates our deliberations above Houses of Congress, within 2 years we believe we did. Did we have a chance in mere argument. The Chair recognizes the gentleman brought to the American people a the last Congress to talk about kids from Massachusetts. health care bill. When the Republican under the age of 26 and what they can Mr. MCGOVERN. May I inquire, Caucus has the House for 6 years, be- do? We did not. But what we do, we Madam Speaker, how much time I have tween 2000 and 2006, they don’t do any- have this resolution today that is remaining. thing other than do a big fat giveaway going to give us, for the first time, the The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- to PhRMA. opportunity as a nation to vote on tleman from Massachusetts has 4 min- Mr. DREIER. I yield myself 15 sec- those provisions one by one, because utes remaining. onds, Madam Speaker, just to say as I the only option Congress had last time Mr. MCGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I had said to my friend earlier, it’s inter- under Democratic leadership to vote yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from esting that they continue to say that for a doughnut hole solution, to vote Virginia (Mr. MORAN). we did nothing. Associated health for preexisting condition solutions, to Mr. MORAN. I thank my very, very plans, which Democrats and Repub- vote for insurance for kids under the good friend from Massachusetts. licans like, designed to drive down the age of 26, was to do it with the uncon- Madam Speaker, what troubles me cost for small businesses to provide stitutional mandate, a trillion dollars with this debate, and I would particu- health insurance, was submitted from in new spending, and hundreds of new larly address myself to my colleagues this Republican House to the other bureaucracies. on the other side of the aisle, is that body. The Democrats, in fact, killed Mr. MCGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I we took two votes yesterday. One was that measure. So attempts were made yield myself 20 seconds. to provide coverage for ourselves; the to put into place real reform. I would remind the gentleman, be- next really to deny it to our constitu- With that, back by popular demand, cause he’s on the Rules Committee ents. That I find troubling, because we the Rules Committee member from with me, that we could have had a all have the right for guaranteed cov- Lawrenceville, Georgia, for 2 minutes, chance to vote on all those things indi- erage regardless of preexisting condi- Mr. WOODALL. vidually and in fact he did have a tions. We have a choice of easy-to-com- Mr. WOODALL. Thank you for yield- chance to vote as to whether or not we pare health insurance plans. We have ing, Mr. Chairman. could vote on them individually on the coverage for early retirees. Women Madam Speaker, I return to the well floor, but he and the other Republicans have equal premium coverage. We have because I wonder if folks have the same on the Rules Committee voted each access to affordable care; low-cost pre- small business people in their district and every one of those protections ventive service. All of these things for that I have in my district. I wonder if down. They voted against protecting ourselves but then voted to deny it to folks are doing the same listening in people against preexisting conditions. our constituents. I find that troubling. their district that I’m doing in my dis- They voted against closing the dough- Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I re- trict. We are here today to respond to nut hole. They voted against allowing serve the balance of my time. exactly what folks have been asking people under 26 to be able to stay on Mr. MCGOVERN. I yield myself the for. their parents’ health insurance. balance of my time. Now to give credit where credit is The SPEAKER pro tempore. The The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- due, last year before the last Congress time of the gentleman has expired. tleman from Massachusetts is recog- expired, Democrats and Republicans Mr. MCGOVERN. They voted against nized for 31⁄2 minutes. came together to extend for 1 year, and everything. Mr. MCGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I would have liked to have seen it ex- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- what is before the House today is not a tended longer, but to extend for 1 year tleman’s time has expired. serious legislative effort. It’s a series the tax cuts that our small business Mr. DREIER. Will the gentleman of sound bites that mean nothing. Com- men and women were demanding. But yield? mittees don’t have to do anything.

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Speaker BOEHNER is quoted in The Hill I will just say one thing. When my March 23 imposes a three-quarter of $1 basically saying that he’s not going to friends say, well, we can just do a little trillion tax increase on working Ameri- hold any of these committees account- bit of this and a little bit of that, you cans. Now, what does that do to create able. They can do it if they want to; really can’t, because it’s kind of like a jobs and get our economy growing? Ob- whatever. If they don’t, so be it. What domino effect. Everything has an im- viously, it undermines our shared pri- we are dealing with here today really is pact. ority of creating jobs and getting our kind of a political ploy, not a serious So this is a serious debate. And if economy back on track. legislative effort to replace anything. there is some indignation on this side We know that with the $14 trillion My friends on the other side of the of the aisle, it is because we know that national debt that we have and deficits aisle have gotten up over and over and this is a big deal, and real people who down the road we need to do what we over again and said, we’re really with have real challenges affording their can to rein in that spending, tackling you on preexisting conditions, we’re health care and dealing with the com- entitlements and dealing with issues really with you on the doughnut hole, plexities of the health care system and like the one that we’re facing today. we’re with you on allowing parents to the inequities of the health care sys- Now, having said that, we all know keep their kids on their insurance until tem are now getting some relief, and that Democrats and Republicans alike they’re 26. But yet they’re really not. they will be hurt by what you are want to ensure that every single Amer- Because if they were, they wouldn’t doing. ican has access to quality, affordable have voted yesterday to repeal all So let’s be honest here. What hap- health insurance so that they can have those protections. And if they were pened yesterday was my friends on the access to quality health care. And I un- really with us, then we would be talk- other side of the aisle went on record derscore the word ‘‘quality,’’ because if ing about today coming to the House as saying, We’re against everything. one looks at the important research floor with a series of initiatives that Today, we’re going to pass a resolu- and development that takes place in would actually continue to protect tion, I guess, that doesn’t do anything, the United States of America, I believe those benefits for consumers. But they doesn’t even require committees to do that the measure that was signed last voted to repeal all of that. anything, but it’s just for all these March 23 and that we voted in this nice, feel-good sound bites. That’s not House to repeal yesterday, that that b 1020 a serious legislative effort. That’s why measure undermines the very impor- I want to know, how could anybody people are cynical. tant pursuit of research and develop- in this House, how could anybody, in We can do better. I urge my col- ment to deal with many of the diseases light of the protections that have been leagues to vote ‘‘no’’ on this. that are out there. put in place, go back to an individual Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I yield So, Madam Speaker, I’ve got to say who is now able to get health insurance myself the balance of my time. that we all say we want every Amer- because we prohibited insurance com- Madam Speaker, there was a very ican to have access to quality, afford- panies from discriminating against powerful and resounding message that able health care, and everyone has ac- them for a preexisting condition, how came last November 2, and that is the knowledged that that bill that was can you go to them and say, well, we’re imperative for us to create jobs and get signed last March 23 is in fact flawed. going to change our mind; we’re not this economy growing. In his news conference right after the going to do that anymore? The American people are hurting. In election, the President of the United How do you go to senior citizens who my State of California, we have a 12.5 States said that he believed that we are struggling with that doughnut percent unemployment rate. Part of need to address the so-called 1099 provi- hole—and we’ve begun to close it—how the area I represent has a 15.5 percent sions that impose, again, an onerous do you go to them and say we’re going unemployment rate in the Inland Em- mandate on small businesses, under- to raise your taxes? How do you do pire in southern California. It is essen- mining their ability to create jobs—ex- that? tial that we focus our attention on cre- actly what I was saying earlier. How do you go to a parent whose ating jobs, and I believe the step that I quoted the distinguished assistant child can remain on their health insur- we are taking today is going to be minority leader, the former majority ance because we’ve extended it to allow very, very important as we pursue that whip, Mr. CLYBURN, who on a program them to stay on it until they’re 26 and goal. earlier this week said Republicans and say, well, that doesn’t matter any- Now, why is that? When we look at Democrats need to work together to more? It just doesn’t make sense. what passed last year, was signed last rectify some of the problems that exist That’s not what people voted for in March 23 by the President, it was a with this measure. the last election. They didn’t vote for measure that imposes mandates on And, as I said, it was 2 days ago that you to repeal all of those things. What small businesses, jeopardizing their the President of the United States they voted against was this distortion ability to hire new workers. It’s a wrote his editorial in The Wall Street of a health care bill that you put out measure that imposes dictates on doc- Journal in which he talked about the there, my friends on the other side of tors, a regulatory structure which un- need to reduce the regulatory burden the aisle, that was very well funded by dermines their potential to hire new that is imposed on the private sector so the most expensive advertising cam- employees. It is a measure which, in we can get our economy going and cre- paign funded by the insurance compa- many ways, jeopardizes our potential ate jobs. And he also said on that same nies in the history of our country, this to grow the economy because it is a day that he is willing and eager, distortion out there. Everybody was dramatic expansion of the entitlement Madam Speaker—willing and eager—to against that distortion. That is not the programs which Democrats and Repub- work with Republicans to rectify some reality. licans alike say need to be addressed if of the problems that exist in this meas- As the months have gone by and as we’re going to create jobs and get our ure. the reality has become clear to people, economy back on track. Now, I heard my friend Mr. MATHE- as they have seen the benefits and the One of the things that I think is im- SON this morning, on National Public protections, as people have been able to portant to note is that people have said Radio, state that there was not a plan wrest control of their health care from that repeal of the health care bill in out there, and that’s the reason that, the insurance industry, as consumers fact is going to cost $230 billion based having voted against the bill, he did realize they have more and more on those CBO numbers that came out. not vote for repeal, because there’s not rights, as there are more and more pro- Well, only in Washington, D.C., can one a plan out there. I heard that at 7:35 tections that are built into law to pro- cut a $2.7 trillion expenditure and have this morning on WAMU. Mr. MATHESON tect people of all ages, people say, well, it labeled as a cost. made that statement. But the fact of we don’t want you to change that; we Why is it a cost? It’s a cost because the matter is, unlike the plan that was want that to be saved. the measure that was signed last signed into law March 23 of last year

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It has already put in place These problem areas include: virtually every Member of this House important consumer protections, reduces pre- Reversing the more than $500 billion in to be involved. scription drug costs to seniors by closing the Medicare cuts that threaten the availability of We have 12 items. And I’m happy to Medicare Part D donut hole, and provides tax health care for our Nation’s seniors; say that under this rule we have made credits for small business owners who provide Eliminating the Federal mandates that indi- in order Mr. MATHESON’s amendment insurance coverage. And Washington Repub- viduals must purchase health insurance, and that we will be considering in just a licans just want the American people to trust the penalties imposed upon those who do not; few minutes that will add a 13th item that they will come up with a plan—without a Eliminating the Federal mandates on busi- to deal with the so-called ‘‘doc fix.’’ So single detail, without a timeline, without any nesses that do not provide employees with that, again, underscores our desire to track record of addressing this crisis in our health insurance, and the penalties imposed work in a bipartisan way to address Nation. upon those who do not; some of the concerns that are there. There are certainly areas where we can im- Eliminating the more than $700 billion in Now, what is it that we say needs to prove this historic reform legislation. In fact, fees and taxes which threaten to stifle our be done? And, frankly, the President of the House voted in the last Congress to repeal economy and the creation of new jobs at a the United States has indicated some the 1099 provision on small businesses— time when our Nation and our State of Florida struggle to get people back to work. of these he supports. House Republicans opposed that effort. But Madam Speaker, in addition to these con- We need to make sure that people do the American people don’t want to go back- cerns is the overall concern about the short- have a chance to purchase insurance wards by repealing these new rights, and term and long-term cost of the current health doing so without a specific plan to replace it across State lines, which is now, under care law. Much has been made of predictions is simply irresponsible. It’s time to stop playing McCarran-Ferguson, denied. by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Of- shell games and start working to move Amer- We need to make sure that we put fice that repeal of this legislation would actu- into place associated health plans— ica forward. Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues vote ally increase the Federal deficit. But CBO’s again, a provision that passed the Re- former Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin wrote in publican House but was killed by nay on this resolution. Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Madam Speaker, I The New Your Times just two days prior to it Democrats in the Senate when we last being signed into law that ‘‘In reality, if you were in the majority. rise in support of House Resolution 9, a meas- ure that directs a number of House commit- strip out all the gimmicks and budgetary We need to do everything that we can games and rework the calculus, a wholly dif- to allow for pooling to deal with pre- tees to begin the process of drafting and re- porting to the House individual bills to improve ferent picture emerges: The health care reform existing conditions. legislation would raise, not lower, Federal defi- We need to make sure that we expand our Nation’s health care system. As you know, the House voted yesterday to cits by $562 billion.’’ medical savings accounts that provide He goes on to say, ‘‘Even worse, some incentives for people to put dollars repeal the health care reform law that Con- gress approved last year and which has deep- costs are left out entirely. To operate the new aside to plan for their health care programs over the first 10 years, future Con- needs. ly divided our country. The one thing made clear from that debate is there are a number gresses would need to vote for $114 billion in And one of the things that the Presi- additional annual spending. But this so-called dent of the United States said in his of areas where all sides agree that we should look first to begin reforming our Nation’s discretionary spending is excluded from the State of the Union message 1 year ago Congressional Budget Office’s tabulation.’’ right here in this Chamber, we need to health care system. These areas include: Preserving the rights of patients and families It is no wonder that this legislation is so deal with meaningful lawsuit abuse re- costly because it creates 160 boards, bu- form so that we can have attention fo- to keep their health plan if they like it; Ensuring that people with pre-existing med- reaucracies and commissions and this 2,700 cused on patients and doctors and not ical conditions have access to affordable page legislation will require more than 10,000 on trial lawyers. health care coverage; pages of new Federal regulations to imple- So I would say to my friend from Preventing insurance companies from drop- ment fully. Utah, those are five items that are part ping coverage for patients who are sick; It is this cost to the American taxpayer, this of our plan that I believe can enjoy Allowing young adults to remain on the cost to American businesses, and the uncer- strong bipartisan support. health insurance policies of their parents; tainty this legislation creates throughout so b 1030 Reforming our nation’s medical liability sys- many sectors of our economy and the health tem to lower health care costs by reducing the care industry that we seek to correct through And so, Madam Speaker, I urge my burden of medical liability policies and elimi- this two-pronged effort this week. colleagues to support H. Res. 9 so that nating wasteful health care spending; Madam Speaker, we all can agree that our we can proceed with a bipartisan con- Protecting doctor—patient relationships; Nation can do a better job at providing health sideration of this very important goal Lowering health care premiums through in- care coverage and services to the American that we share of creating jobs, getting creased competition and choice and by mak- people. Many agree that we can also do a our economy back on track, and ensur- ing health care policies available across state better job at bringing about these changes ing that every single American has ac- lines; through a more open and deliberate legislative cess to quality, affordable health insur- Providing incentives to employers to provide process. ance. health care coverage, rather than fines and In the end, our goal is to provide a more pa- Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Madam Speaker, I rise penalties on those who do not. tient centered health care system in which we in opposition to this resolution. The House Re- The legislation we consider today directs preserve the vitally important doctor-patient re- publican majority has brought this resolution to our committees to look at these issues bill by lationship rather than a government centered the House floor claiming that they will take ac- bill so the House can debate each issue one health care system in which the government tion to replace the health reform bill that they by one, giving all the members of the House injects itself into the system, mandates certain voted to repeal yesterday—yet again, with no opportunity to provide their input. provisions, penalizes individuals and busi- specifics. But the Republican record on tack- Madam Speaker, one of the reasons the na- nesses, and threatens to get in the middle of ling the issues with our health care system is tion is so divided over the health care bill en- doctor-patient decisions. clear. Between the years 2000 and 2006, acted last year is that the House did not have We as a nation can improve the quality and health insurance premiums doubled—went up the opportunity for a full and open debate on delivery of health care for the American peo- 100 percent—and the profits of the major this important issue. We voted to repeal last ple and that effort begins in earnest this week health insurance companies quadrupled. What year’s legislation to give us as a nation the op- with the adoption of this resolution. did the Congress do during those years to portunity to start over and to do it right this Mr. HECK. Madam Speaker, I rise in sup- stop those skyrocketing premiums? Nothing. time. port of House Resolution 9, instructing the

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While I applaud the majority’s intention serious problems: more than $500 billion in This resolution is also a grave error in public to finally present their own comprehensive so- cuts to Medicare, and $150 billion in cuts to policy. lutions to the health care crisis in this country, Medicare Advantage; crippling taxes and man- It is important to appreciate what has been I note that they don’t need a resolution by the dates on small business that cost Americans has excluded from the instructions to our com- entire House to do so. Committees can de- jobs; and overreaching Federal policies that mittees for changes in the health laws. velop legislation on their own at any time. place bureaucrats between patients and their As I stated have stated earlier in the debate Moreover, I reject the idea that the Patients doctor. As a physician, I see firsthand the on repeal of the Affordable Care Act, under Protection and Affordable Care Act must be need to improve our country’s health care sys- the directions to us in this resolution, there will ‘‘replaced.’’ The PPACA represents a century tem. What was signed into law last year did be: of effort by people of all political persuasions include some good ideas, such as: allowing No prohibition on discrimination against over to give people the peace of mind that comes dependent children to stay on their parents’ in- 100 million Americans with pre-existing condi- from knowing they have access to affordable surance until the age of 26; eliminating lifetime tions; care. No law is ever perfect. Certainly, all leg- caps on coverage; and covering individuals No prohibition on insurance companies can- islation can all be improved and I welcome the with pre-existing conditions. However, these celling your coverage when you get sick; opportunity to further the progress made by policies were coupled with unsustainable No prohibition on lifetime caps and annual the 111th Congress on health care reform. spending that saddles Americans with debt, limits; Furthermore, current law meets most, if not and compromises their access to quality No required coverage for young adults on all, of the goals identified in today’s resolution. health care. The American people deserve their parents’ policies; Since health care reform passed, the economy better, which is why we need to go back to the No assistance to seniors struggling to afford has grown, more than a million jobs have drawing board and develop solutions that pro- the cost of drugs in the donut hole; been created and thousands of small busi- vide stability and security for those with health No free annual check-ups and preventive nesses have used tax credits to begin offering care, options for those without, and rein in spi- care in Medicare; employees coverage for the first time. In order raling costs for everyone. I urge my col- No tax credits for families and small busi- to foster competition and choice, the Depart- leagues to vote yes on this Resolution, so that nesses to pay for health insurance. ment of Health and Human Services recently we can get Americans back to work and give All of these reforms are in the law today. established a website where people can com- them the health care system they deserve. None of these reforms will survive if this reso- pare policies and when the exchanges launch Mr. WAXMAN. Madam Speaker, I rise in lution passes and the committees of jurisdic- in 2014, individuals and small businesses will strong opposition to this resolution. tion follow this terribly flawed blueprint. select from a wide range of carriers competing The certain result of what the Republican I strongly oppose this resolution and urge its for their business. Patients now have the right leadership in the House is proposing to do will defeat. to choose their own primary care physician be to saddle millions of Americans with higher Mr. SESSIONS. Madam Speaker, I rise and women don’t have to ask permission to health insurance costs, less coverage, less today in support of H. Res. 9 and the promise see an obstetrician. Insurance carriers cannot competition, and higher costs on small busi- of providing health care solutions that bring arbitrarily deny care and patients have a ro- nesses and employers across the country. American’s access to quality affordable health bust right to repeal when company bureau- This resolution is both unnecessary and a care of their choice. This resolution shows that crats override doctors. Children cannot be de- grave error in public policy. my Republican colleagues and I are com- nied coverage for pre-existing conditions and It is unnecessary because, by the resolu- mitted to the future of health care in this Na- soon all Americans will enjoy that protection. tion’s very terms, the Affordable Care Act is tion. Allowing the appropriate committees to When PPACA is fully implemented, 32 mil- responsive to each and every one of the ob- provide solutions for our Nation’s health care lion people will have coverage who never had jectives outlined in the resolution for respon- problems is the first step to that commitment. it before, millions more will be able to afford sible health legislation. I look forward to exploring and expanding coverage more easily, and seniors will not pay For example: We are instructed to write high risk pools to create universal access to so dearly for prescription drugs. All of these changes to existing law that will ‘‘foster eco- those with pre-existing conditions; real and actions can be done while extending Medicare nomic growth and private sector job creation.’’ meaningful tort reform so doctors do not have solvency by twelve years by reducing waste, In the wake of enactment of the Affordable to practice defensive medicine; the creation of fraud and abuse and while slashing the deficit Care Act, health is among the fastest growing small business health plans that generate larg- by $1.4 trillion over the next twenty years. employment sectors in the United States, with er insurance pools and drive down health care The Republican plan introduced in the a third of the job growth in the entire country costs. We should be rewarding innovation and House last session would cover just 3 million last year—over 340,000 jobs in health care allowing States more flexibility to create effi- more Americans by 2019—leaving 51 million and social assistance. cient and successful ways in dealing with their Americans uninsured in 2019. That plan re- The Affordable Care Act is a jobs creation uninsured populations; allowing for greater duced the deficit by $68 billion over the next law and repeal is a jobs loss bill. portability for individuals to purchase health 10 years—far less than the law we passed— The resolution calls for changes in law that care across State lines; encouraging the Na- and offered none of the cost savings and con- ‘‘lower health care premiums through in- tion as a whole to live healthier lives. Lastly, sumer protections that make health care re- creased competition and choice.’’ This is ex- it is absolutely essential to give every Amer- form work for all Americans. I sincerely hope actly what consumers will get from the health ican the same tax advantage that Unions and Republicans offer more substantial solutions exchanges in the Affordable Care Act—more corporations enjoy in the purchase of health this session. competition and choice than they have today. insurance. Finally, one goal of today’s resolution that I The resolution calls for laws that will ‘‘in- There is no shortage of great ideas on how must take issue with is the provision regarding crease the number of insured Americans.’’ to reform our health care delivery system, and abortion. Nothing in the PPACA allows for tax- The Affordable Care Act already does that— most of them steer clear of creating new enti- payer funded abortions and I would strenu- by some 32 million Americans. tlement programs that will bankrupt our coun- ously object to any new laws that further re- Consumers can keep their health plans— try. In the wake of record debt and deficits stricted a woman’s right to choose or allow just as called for in the resolution. now is the time to work together for common medical professionals to deny legitimate serv- The law encourages reform of the medical sense solutions that provide individuals the ac- ices based on their own religious beliefs. liability system—just as called for in the reso- cess to quality health care without threatening There is no reason why the healthcare options lution. the doctor patient relationship. I am a proud for women—participating in insurance ex- The resolution calls for those with pre-exist- cosponsor of the Resolution we are discussing changes should be any different than they are ing conditions to have access to affordable on the floor today and I look forward to voting for women who can afford coverage on their health coverage. The Affordable Care Act pro- for it later today. own.

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The rate formula used to set Medicare pay- port. Clerk will designate the amendment. ments for doctors. And it requires that Back in November of 2009, we passed The text of the amendment is as fol- Congress adopt a permanent fix to a permanent fix, a doctors’ fix. But be- lows: what has previously been an ongoing cause we could not get any Republican Amendment printed in part B of House Re- problem. support—any real Republican support— port 112–2 offered by Mr. MATHESON: It’s the right thing to do on behalf of we had to continue to rely on short- In paragraph (11) of the resolved clause, doctors and patients. It’s the right fis- term fixes. We did however, as you strike ‘‘or,’’. cal policy as we look for ways to make know, at the end of the last session In paragraph (12) of the resolved clause, health care funding more sustainable pass a 1-year fix, which is in effect now. strike the period and insert ‘‘; or’’. and more predictable. And as we begin But I do think that this is a very Add after paragraph (12) of the resolved the year looking towards improve- clause the following: commendable response that Mr. (13) enact a permanent fix to the flawed ments in this extremely complex and MATHESON has, and I certainly intend Medicare sustainable growth rate formula yet highly personal and important to support it. used to determine physician payments under issue of health care, I think that adopt- But the difficulty is that the many title XVIII of the Social Security Act to pre- ing this amendment would be a good years when the Republicans were in the serve health care for the nation’s seniors and step to move in that direction. majority, they had the opportunity to to provide a stable environment for physi- I ask all of my colleagues to support pass a permanent fix and to deal with cians. this amendment in a bipartisan way. this issue, and they always kicked the The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- I reserve the balance of my time. can down the road and then did not co- ant to House Resolution 26, the gen- Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I operate with us on a bipartisan basis tleman from Utah (Mr. MATHESON) and would like to claim the time in opposi- when we were in the majority to try to a Member opposed each will control 5 tion to the Matheson amendment. achieve a permanent fix. minutes. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- I certainly intend to work with the The Chair recognizes the gentleman tleman from California is recognized Republicans to do that, but they are from Utah. for 5 minutes. the reason we don’t have it now. Mr. MATHESON. I yield myself such Mr. DREIER. I claim time in opposi- Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I was time as I may consume. tion to the amendment to say that I mistakenly under the impression that Madam Speaker, I rise today to offer support the amendment, Madam the gentleman from Utah had ex- an amendment to H. Res. 9. Speaker. hausted his 5 minutes, so I would like Although I do not support a whole- I believe that as you look at the list to reclaim the remaining time that I sale repeal of the legislation, I do be- of 12 items that we have in H. Res. 9, have. lieve that there are some bipartisan they are not to be limited at all. And I The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without improvements that can be made to the think that by virtue of our making the objection, the gentleman may reclaim existing law, and I think now is the Matheson amendment in order to deal the time. time for all of us in Congress to roll up with the so-called doc fix issue, we There was no objection. our sleeves and work together. have made it very clear that we are al- Mr. DREIER. Thank you, Madam The goal of this amendment is pretty ready beginning at this juncture to Speaker. straightforward. It is set up to main- work in a bipartisan way in our quest I reserve the balance of my time. tain adequate health care service, to to create jobs, get our economy back Mr. MATHESON. I have no further stabilize the business practice of doc- on track, and ensure that every single speakers. I again want to thank you for tors, and to take into account the long- American has access to quality afford- the opportunity to have this amend- term economic health of this country. able health care. ment considered, and I urge support of We all agree that the doctor-patient And so this is, again, the beginning all of my colleagues. relationship is a fundamental part of of a very important process. And I’m I reserve the balance of my time. quality health care, but we have found very pleased that Mr. MATHESON has Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, as we that we have a flawed formula when it been able to play a role in fashioning know under the structure, I have comes to setting reimbursement levels. H. Res. 9. claimed time in opposition to the And every year it threatens the ability And Madam Speaker, I hope very amendment, but I will state once again of doctors to care for their patients, much that with the President of the that I am supportive of the Matheson and it threatens the ability of patients United States saying that he is willing amendment. I urge my colleagues, to see their doctors. and eager to work with Republicans to Democrats and Republicans alike, to Members of Congress on both sides of rectify the problems that exist with come together and vote for adding the aisle and stakeholders throughout the passed health care bill and the fact what would be item number 13, which the health care community, physi- that Mr. CLYBURN, the assistant minor- will be the beginning of wide-ranging cians, senior citizens—they all recog- ity leader, has said that he wants to reform to ensure that every single nize that we have a flawed policy. work in a bipartisan way to deal with American has access to quality health How many times in the past have we these issues, will lead to strong bipar- insurance so that we can again get our come together in a bipartisan way over tisan support for Mr. MATHESON’s economy back on track and focus on the years in the House of Representa- amendment and for the underlying res- job creation and growth. tives to provide a temporary patch to olution. With that, I again urge support of the this problem without fixing the under- With that, I yield back the balance of Matheson amendment. lying problem? my time. I yield back the balance of my time. In 2010 alone, Congress took five dif- Mr. MATHESON. I yield 1 minute to Mr. MATHESON. Madam Speaker, I ferent votes to delay a scheduled cut my colleague from New Jersey (Mr. yield back the balance of my time. without stepping up and dealing with a PALLONE). The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- permanent fix to the problem. By an Mr. PALLONE. Madam Speaker, I ant to House Resolution 26, the pre- overwhelming vote just a few weeks rise in support of Mr. MATHESON’s vious question is ordered on the ago, Congress supported a 1-year delay amendment. amendment and on the resolution.

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The question is on the amendment Jordan Murphy (CT) Schmidt PERSONAL EXPLANATION offered by the gentleman from Utah Kaptur Murphy (PA) Schock Keating Myrick Schrader Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, I inadvertently (Mr. MATHESON). Kelly Nadler Schwartz voted ‘‘no’’ on the Matheson amendment to H. The question was taken; and the Kildee Napolitano Schweikert Res. 9, which would instruct the committee of Speaker pro tempore announced that Kind Neal Scott (SC) jurisdiction to include a permanent fix to the King (IA) Neugebauer Scott (VA) the ayes appeared to have it. King (NY) Noem Scott, Austin Medicare physician payment formula in legis- Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, on Kingston Nugent Scott, David lation to replace the Patient Protection and Af- that I demand the yeas and nays. Kinzinger (IL) Nunes Sensenbrenner fordable Care Act. I intended to vote ‘‘yes’’ on Kissell Nunnelee The yeas and nays were ordered. Serrano the Matheson amendment. Kline Olson Sessions The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Kucinich Olver Sewell I have always been a strong supporter of ant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair Labrador Owens Sherman having the most optimal Medicare reimburse- Lamborn Palazzo Shimkus will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum Lance Pallone ment rate for our nation’s physicians. This is Shuler time for electronic voting on the ques- Landry Pascrell because the level of Medicare reimbursement Shuster Langevin Pastor (AZ) tion of adopting the resolution if that Simpson rates to physicians does have a significant im- Lankford Paul question arises without intervention of Sires pact on the quality and level of health care Larsen (WA) Paulsen Slaughter a motion to recommit. Larson (CT) Pearce physicians will provide to our nation’s senior The vote was taken by electronic de- Latham Pelosi Smith (NE) citizens and disabled. Smith (NJ) vice, and there were—yeas 428, nays 1, LaTourette Pence The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Latta Perlmutter Smith (TX) not voting 5, as follows: Lee (CA) Peters Smith (WA) LATOURETTE). The question is on the [Roll No. 15] Lee (NY) Peterson Southerland resolution, as amended. Levin Petri Speier The question was taken; and the YEAS—428 Lewis (CA) Pingree (ME) Stark Ackerman Chu Gallegly Lewis (GA) Pitts Stearns Speaker pro tempore announced that Adams Cicilline Garamendi Lipinski Platts Stivers the ayes appeared to have it. Aderholt Clarke (MI) Gardner LoBiondo Poe (TX) Stutzman Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, on that I Akin Clarke (NY) Garrett Loebsack Polis Sullivan Alexander Clay Gerlach Lofgren, Zoe Pompeo Sutton demand the yeas and nays. Altmire Cleaver Gibbs Long Posey Terry The yeas and nays were ordered. Amash Clyburn Gibson Lowey Price (GA) Thompson (CA) The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a Andrews Coble Gingrey (GA) Lucas Price (NC) Thompson (MS) Austria Coffman (CO) Gohmert Luetkemeyer Quayle Thompson (PA) 5-minute vote. Baca Cohen Gonzalez Luja´ n Quigley Thornberry The vote was taken by electronic de- Bachmann Cole Goodlatte Lummis Rahall Tiberi vice, and there were—yeas 253, nays Bachus Conaway Gosar Lungren, Daniel Rangel Tierney 175, not voting 6, as follows: Baldwin Connolly (VA) Gowdy E. Reed Tipton Barletta Cooper Granger Lynch Rehberg Tonko [Roll No. 16] Barrow Costello Graves (GA) Mack Reichert Towns YEAS—253 Bartlett Courtney Graves (MO) Maloney Renacci Tsongas Barton (TX) Cravaack Green, Al Manzullo Reyes Turner Adams Crenshaw Hayworth Bass (CA) Crawford Green, Gene Marchant Ribble Upton Aderholt Critz Heck Bass (NH) Crenshaw Griffin (AR) Marino Richardson Van Hollen Akin Culberson Heller Becerra Critz Griffith (VA) Markey Richmond Vela´ zquez Alexander Davis (KY) Hensarling Benishek Crowley Grijalva Matheson Rigell Visclosky Altmire Denham Herger Berg Cuellar Grimm Matsui Rivera Walberg Amash Dent Herrera Beutler Berkley Culberson Guinta McCarthy (CA) Roby Walden Austria DesJarlais Holden Berman Cummings Guthrie McCarthy (NY) Roe (TN) Bachmann Diaz-Balart Huelskamp Walsh (IL) Biggert Davis (CA) Gutierrez McCaul Rogers (AL) Bachus Dold Huizenga (MI) Walz (MN) Bilbray Davis (IL) Hall McClintock Rogers (KY) Barletta Dreier Hultgren Wasserman Bilirakis Davis (KY) Hanabusa McCollum Rogers (MI) Barrow Duffy Hunter Schultz Bishop (GA) DeFazio Hanna McCotter Rohrabacher Bartlett Duncan (SC) Hurt Waters Bishop (NY) DeGette Harman McDermott Rokita Barton (TX) Duncan (TN) Issa Watt Bishop (UT) DeLauro Harper McGovern Rooney Bass (NH) Ellmers Jenkins Black Denham Harris McHenry Ros-Lehtinen Waxman Benishek Emerson Johnson (OH) Blackburn Dent Hartzler McIntyre Roskam Webster Berg Farenthold Johnson, Sam Blumenauer DesJarlais Hastings (FL) McKeon Ross (AR) Weiner Biggert Fincher Jones Bonner Deutch Hastings (WA) McKinley Ross (FL) Welch Bilbray Fitzpatrick Jordan Bono Mack Diaz-Balart Hayworth McMorris Rothman (NJ) West Bilirakis Flake Kelly Boren Dicks Heck Rodgers Roybal-Allard Westmoreland Bishop (UT) Fleischmann King (IA) Boswell Dingell Heinrich McNerney Royce Whitfield Black Fleming King (NY) Boustany Doggett Heller Meehan Runyan Wilson (FL) Blackburn Flores Kingston Brady (PA) Dold Hensarling Meeks Rush Wilson (SC) Bonner Forbes Kinzinger (IL) Brady (TX) Donnelly (IN) Herger Mica Ryan (OH) Wittman Bono Mack Fortenberry Kissell Braley (IA) Doyle Herrera Beutler Michaud Ryan (WI) Wolf Boren Foxx Kline Brooks Dreier Higgins Miller (FL) Sa´ nchez, Linda Womack Boustany Franks (AZ) Labrador Broun (GA) Duffy Himes Miller (MI) T. Woodall Brady (TX) Frelinghuysen Lamborn Brown (FL) Duncan (SC) Hinchey Miller (NC) Sanchez, Loretta Woolsey Brooks Gallegly Lance Buchanan Duncan (TN) Hinojosa Miller, Gary Sarbanes Wu Broun (GA) Gardner Landry Bucshon Edwards Hirono Miller, George Scalise Yarmuth Brown (FL) Garrett Lankford Buerkle Ellison Holden Moore Schakowsky Yoder Buchanan Gerlach Latham Burgess Ellmers Holt Moran Schiff Young (FL) Bucshon Gibbs LaTourette Burton (IN) Emerson Honda Mulvaney Schilling Young (IN) Buerkle Gibson Latta Butterfield Engel Hoyer Burgess Gingrey (GA) Lee (NY) Calvert Eshoo Huelskamp NAYS—1 Burton (IN) Gohmert Lewis (CA) Camp Farenthold Huizenga (MI) Conyers Calvert Goodlatte Lipinski Campbell Farr Hultgren Camp Gosar LoBiondo Canseco Fattah Hunter NOT VOTING—5 Campbell Gowdy Long Cantor Filner Hurt Canseco Granger Lucas Costa Payne Young (AK) Capito Fincher Inslee Cantor Graves (GA) Luetkemeyer Giffords Ruppersberger Capps Fitzpatrick Israel Capito Graves (MO) Lummis Capuano Flake Issa Carter Griffin (AR) Lungren, Daniel Cardoza Fleischmann Jackson (IL) b 1100 Cassidy Griffith (VA) E. Carnahan Fleming Jackson Lee Chabot Grimm Mack Carney Flores (TX) So the amendment was agreed to. Chaffetz Guinta Manzullo Carson (IN) Forbes Jenkins Chandler Guthrie Marchant Carter Fortenberry Johnson (GA) The result of the vote was announced Coble Hall Marino Cassidy Foxx Johnson (IL) as above recorded. Coffman (CO) Hanna Matheson Castor (FL) Frank (MA) Johnson (OH) Stated for: Cole Harper McCarthy (CA) Chabot Franks (AZ) Johnson, E. B. Conaway Harris McCaul Chaffetz Frelinghuysen Johnson, Sam Mr. COSTA. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 15, Cravaack Hartzler McClintock Chandler Fudge Jones had I been present, I would have voted ‘‘aye.’’ Crawford Hastings (WA) McCotter

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I want to thank, at the outset, not Mulvaney Rogers (KY) Terry A motion to reconsider was laid on only the gentleman but the Speaker as Murphy (PA) Rogers (MI) Thompson (PA) the table. well for the respect and consideration Myrick Rohrabacher Thornberry Stated for: Neugebauer Rokita Tiberi they have given during this current Noem Rooney Tipton Mr. JOHNSON of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, un- tragic situation that confronted us in Nugent Ros-Lehtinen Turner fortunately I was unable to vote on H. Res. 9 Tucson and the critical injuries sus- Nunes Roskam Upton and wished to express my intentions had I Nunnelee Ross (AR) Walberg tained by our colleague, GABBY GIF- Olson Ross (FL) Walden been able to vote. FORDS. I want to thank Mr. CANTOR in Palazzo Royce Walsh (IL) I had been in the middle of an Agriculture particular for his very strong state- Paul Runyan Webster Committee Public Forum with Secretary ment, as well as the Speaker’s very Paulsen Ryan (WI) West Vilsack when the first votes were called. I Pearce Scalise Westmoreland strong statement, that an attack on Pence Schilling Whitfield went down on the floor with my notes, as I any individual who serves is an attack Peterson Schmidt Wilson (SC) was the next in line to ask the Secretary ques- on all of us irrespective of party or phi- Petri Schock Wittman tions, and while I was reviewing my notes and losophy. I think we all have raised Pitts Schweikert Wolf Platts Scott (SC) Womack questions mistakenly missed the second vote prayers for the victims who lost their Poe (TX) Scott, Austin Woodall in the series. lives, their families, prayers for those Pompeo Sensenbrenner Yoder Had I been present to vote on rollcall No. who are either in the process of recov- Posey Sessions Young (FL) 16, to pass H. Res. 9, Instructing certain com- Price (GA) Shimkus Young (IN) ering or are now out of danger, and of mittees to report legislation replacing the job- course for our beloved colleague, Con- NAYS—175 killing health care law, I would have voted gresswoman GIFFORDS, as well. Ackerman Gonzalez Pallone ‘‘yes.’’ So I want to thank the gentleman for Andrews Green, Al Pascrell Stated against: his leadership and the Speaker’s lead- Baca Green, Gene Pastor (AZ) Ms. BROWN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, on ership in joining with our leader and Baldwin Grijalva Pelosi rollcall No. 16, I intended to vote ‘‘no.’’ myself in leading the House in what I Bass (CA) Gutierrez Perlmutter thought was a very appropriate and Becerra Hanabusa Peters f Berkley Harman united response to that tragedy. Pingree (ME) b 1110 Berman Hastings (FL) Polis We are heartened by the progress Bishop (GA) Heinrich Price (NC) LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM that Congresswoman GIFFORDS is mak- Bishop (NY) Higgins Quigley Blumenauer Himes ing, and we look forward to her quick Rahall (Mr. HOYER asked and was given Boswell Hinchey return. Rangel permission to address the House for 1 Brady (PA) Hinojosa Reyes Now, Mr. CANTOR, if I can, next week Braley (IA) Hirono minute.) Richardson we are scheduled to leave on Wednes- Butterfield Holt Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I yield to Richmond day. I know there has been an articula- Capps Honda the majority leader, the gentleman Rothman (NJ) tion of an intent to try to get out by Capuano Hoyer from Virginia, for the purpose of in- Cardoza Inslee Roybal-Allard noon on the days that we leave. Would Rush quiring about the schedule for the com- Carnahan Israel you expect that to be the case this next Carney Jackson (IL) Ryan (OH) ing week. ´ week? Carson (IN) Jackson Lee Sanchez, Linda Mr. CANTOR. I thank the gentleman Castor (FL) (TX) T. I yield to the gentleman. Chu Johnson (GA) Sanchez, Loretta from Maryland, the Democratic whip, Mr. CANTOR. First of all, I thank Cicilline Johnson, E. B. Sarbanes for yielding. the gentleman for his kind statements Clarke (MI) Kaptur Schakowsky Mr. Speaker, on Monday, the House Clarke (NY) Keating Schiff regarding the expressions of grief and Clay Kildee Schrader will meet at noon for morning hour and support that I think all Members of Cleaver Kind Schwartz 2 p.m. for legislative business with this body have expressed to GABBY GIF- Clyburn Kucinich Scott (VA) votes postponed until 6:30 p.m. FORDS, her family, and her staff. Our Cohen Langevin Scott, David On Tuesday, the House will meet at Connolly (VA) Larsen (WA) thoughts and prayers remain with all Serrano 10 a.m. for morning-hour debate and Conyers Larson (CT) Sewell of them, and certainly to the victims Cooper Lee (CA) Sherman noon for legislative business. The and their families. And certainly they Costa Levin Sires House will recess no later than 5 p.m. all know that we are thinking of them. Costello Lewis (GA) Slaughter Courtney Loebsack to allow a security sweep of the House Mr. Speaker, as far as the schedule is Smith (WA) Chamber prior to the President’s State Crowley Lofgren, Zoe Speier concerned, if you will recall, the com- Cuellar Lowey Stark of the Union address. The House will mitment on our schedule was the fin- Cummings Luja´ n Sutton meet again at approximately 8:35 p.m. ishing time would be 3 p.m. on the last Davis (CA) Lynch Thompson (CA) Davis (IL) Maloney in a joint session with the Senate for day we are here. We specifically had in- Thompson (MS) DeFazio Markey the purpose of receiving an address dicated that January is going to be a Tierney DeGette Matsui from the President of the United little different and an exception due to DeLauro McCarthy (NY) Tonko Deutch McCollum Tsongas States. the organizing processes, State of the Dicks McDermott Van Hollen On Wednesday, the House will meet Union, et cetera. The expectation is to ´ Dingell McGovern Velazquez at 10 a.m. for legislative business. begin that in February, as was origi- Visclosky Doggett McNerney During the week, the House will con- nally expressed; although, we do intend Donnelly (IN) Meeks Walz (MN) Doyle Michaud Wasserman sider at least one bill under suspension to try to be as expeditious as possible Edwards Miller (NC) Schultz of the rules, which will be announced on Wednesday. The exact timing of our Ellison Miller, George Waters by close of business tomorrow. In addi- departure and finishing up depends on Engel Moore Watt Eshoo Moran Waxman tion, we will consider H. Res. 38, a reso- the actual rule coming from the Rules Farr Murphy (CT) Weiner lution reducing non-security spending Committee, including the amendment Fattah Nadler Welch to fiscal year 2008 levels or less, and a debate and the structure for the Presi- Filner Napolitano Wilson (FL) bill of the public’s choosing—via the dential election fund bill. We expect an Frank (MA) Neal Woolsey Fudge Olver Wu YouCut program—to reduce Federal announcement by the Rules Committee Garamendi Owens Yarmuth spending and the deficit by termi- chairman later today on that.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:20 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\H20JA1.000 H20JA1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD January 20, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 535 Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman your second page, it says ‘‘the remain- no hearings by the Appropriations for his comment. der of fiscal year 2011 that assumes Committee, no hearings by the Ways Given that response, can I ask the non-security spending at fiscal year and Means Committee, or by any other gentleman: Would he expect there to be 2008 levels or less.’’ committee involved in fiscal matters an open rule with reference to that The implication in that, it seems to as to what the ramifications of that bill? me, is that Mr. RYAN unilaterally can cap will be to individual programs or Mr. CANTOR. The gentleman under- set a number which has not been individual Americans. stands, as the Rules Committee chair- agreed to by the House, but under the I share the gentleman’s view and man presides over the Rules Com- power granted in this resolution would have voted consistently, as I voted for mittee and entertains the submission bind the House to a number to which it the balanced budget amendment, as the of amendments. As to exactly, I can’t had never agreed. gentleman knows, last we considered answer that right now, and that will be Is that an accurate reading of that? it, to bring our fiscal house into order. determined by the Rules Committee. Could, in fact, under this resolution I think neither party can necessarily Mr. HOYER. Not only do I recall that Mr. RYAN set a number that is less take sole responsibility for doing so or as being a fact, I also recall it as an an- than, as your resolution says, 2008 not doing so when it comes to fiscal swer that I used to give the gentleman numbers? balance. on a regular basis. Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, I say to But I do tell my friend that, with re- But I am certainly hopeful, as he was the gentleman that the resolution pro- spect to transparency and openness and hopeful, given the representations of vides for the capping of spending levels to the inclusion of all the Members of transparency and openness, that there at ’08 levels. the body, it is, I think, not consistent The gentleman also knows that the would be opportunities to amend. I with that objective to give to one per- Speaker has been very consistent in his know that Mr. VAN HOLLEN spoke to son, however brilliant that person is— statements, saying that we are going that in the Rules Committee, and I and I happen to have great respect, as to have an open rule process when it would hope that we could see that pol- the gentleman knows and as I have comes to spending bills. In fact, that is icy which has been expressed by your said so publicly in the press, for Mr. what we said during the last campaign RYAN, who I think is a very positive, side pursued in this instance as well as season in the Pledge to America. future instances. I thank the gen- So, in working with that commit- effective, important Member of this tleman for his response. ment as well as the language of this body; but I am not for giving any one Let me ask the gentleman: There was resolution, the budget chairman, Mr. person in this body the authority to unilaterally set the number at which some criticism raised when we passed a RYAN, will be instructed to enter into we will fund America’s government for budget enforcement resolution that we the RECORD a cap of spending levels for hadn’t passed a full budget. In that the remainder of the fiscal year to be the next 7 months. budget enforcement resolution, as you placed at 2008 levels. I yield to my friend to see if he might recall, A, we articulated a specific Mr. HOYER. So would it be therefore have a response to that because, in his number; and, B, that number was voted accurate that the ‘‘or less’’ is super- responses to me—and I understand the on by the entire House. fluous and is not intended to give Mr. cap—but at any number below that, at 2007, 2006, 2005 levels, it seems to me b 1120 RYAN the authority to set a figure at less than 2008 levels? this resolution authorizes Mr. RYAN to It is my understanding that the prop- Mr. CANTOR. I would say to the gen- set such figures as he unilaterally de- osition that will be put before the tleman I disagree with that character- termines is an appropriate figure. In House next week will provide and give ization of the language ‘‘or less,’’ and his mind, that may be an appropriate unilateral authority to the chairman of would just say that, again, the Speaker figure; but it is not necessarily the the Budget Committee to set a number is committed to an open process on same figure that this body voting in a and that that number will not be voted spending bills. I assume that we will transparent, open way might select. upon by the House pursuant to the au- see coming to the floor every attempt Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, I will just thority granted in that resolution. and effort to try and maintain some respond to the gentleman by saying we Is that an accurate reading of that sense that this Congress is going to be are in the position we are in because resolution? a cut-and-grow Congress and that we the majority that he participated in in Mr. CANTOR. To be clear, once the are about trying to find savings every- the last Congress failed to live up to its House adopts the resolution next week, where we can so that we can get this obligation in passing a budget and in the resolution will then instruct Chair- country back onto a trajectory of fiscal even passing any appropriations bills man RYAN to cap non-security discre- sustainability. short of a continuing resolution. That’s tionary spending for the remainder of So I say to the gentleman, no, this is why we are here today, because there is fiscal year 2011 at fiscal year 2008 lev- not something that we intend to be a mess that has been created from the els. That is the purpose of our adopting meaningless, that we are serious. The last majority, and we are trying to the resolution, acting as the House as a cap is consistent with our commitment clean that up. whole, instructing Chairman RYAN to to the people of this country that the We have committed to a transparent cap non-security discretionary spend- levels of spending for the remainder of and open process; and I have said to the ing at 2008 levels for the remainder of the fiscal year will not exceed 2008. It gentleman that, when the CR comes to this fiscal year. is our hope that we can continue to the floor, we will see Members on both Again, Mr. Speaker, I’d say to the find additional savings so that, yes, we sides of the aisle have an opportunity gentleman, I know he shares with me could even find ourselves below ’08 lev- to amend the continuing resolution ac- the realization that people across this els; but the cap is 2008 levels. cording to the way they think that we country—families, businesses—are hav- Mr. HOYER. The point that I am try- ought to be saving taxpayer dollars. ing to face some tough choices. We ing to make, and perhaps not as clearly So, again, I disagree with the gentle- started this Congress, I think, to- as I need to make it, is that what we man’s assertion that somehow there is gether, committed to demonstrating are in that resolution giving is to one a lack of transparency here. We have that we are willing to make those person—one person—in this Congress said all along the cap on our spending tough choices—thus, the resolution for the authority, without consideration will be at 2008 levels for the remainder next week. by this House, to set the number, with- of the fiscal year. If this House works Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman out hearings, on what we will, as you its will and if Members on either side for his response. articulate, cap spending levels at for are able to gain the majority of votes I do not want to be argumentative, fiscal year 2011. in this House to achieve even more but I have just received your amended As I understand it, there have been spending below the 2008 levels, then copy of the resolution, and as I read on no hearings by the Budget Committee, that will be the will of this House.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:20 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\H20JA1.000 H20JA1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD 536 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 January 20, 2011 Again, the gentleman understands tion of leadership, et cetera. We are Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, I would well why we are where we are, and we waiting for your side in some in- begin by saying to the gentleman, as look forward to working together to go stances. But we hear from committee he knows, it’s unclear when the Fed- and produce a spending resolution here chairmen things are working well, so eral Government will actually hit the that begins to address the mess that we hope that committees will be up debt ceiling, and we will be closely was left before. and organized to have hearings. monitoring that date. But before we Mr. HOYER. Let me ask the gen- But in order for us to deliver on our reach that date, it is very, very impor- tleman: Is the gentleman representing commitment that we are going to bring tant that we prove that this Congress to me that this resolution will, in fact, up a spending cut bill every week, this is willing to cut spending. And the result in 2008 levels of expenditure so body will be considering a bill pro- House, as the discussion today indi- that Members, who are being asked to viding for cutting the Presidential cates, will be taking those necessary vote on this, will have a certitude of election fund that has been in exist- steps each week that we are here, lead- the number on which they are voting— ence for some time. As the gentleman ing up to an eventual vote. In fact, I that’s my only question—so that they well knows, this tends to be of some would call on the leader on the other will know on what authorization they controversy in some quarters. There side of the Capitol, Mr. REID, to follow are giving, what budget direction they are those who believe that this is an suit. are giving, to the members of the Ap- attempt to drive this country towards The continuing resolution vote gives propriations Committee? a public finance system for campaigns. us the first real opportunity to dem- Mr. CANTOR. The budget directive is Obviously there are those in this coun- onstrate our commitment to cutting 2008 levels or less. As the gentleman try who believe that’s what should hap- spending. The debt limit will be an- well knows, the intention is to allow pen. But knowing full well the con- other opportunity for this Congress to the Appropriations Committee to do its troversy, I’m sure we will have a ro- cut spending. And as I think the gen- work, to report a resolution to the bust debate. And I am looking forward, tleman knows, I have said repeatedly floor. The body will work its will ac- Mr. Speaker, to as many cuts to this that we will not accept an increase in cording to the insistence of the major- fund as the gentleman’s side may offer the debt limit without serious spending ity and the Speaker that we have an and look forward to a robust debate on cuts and reforms, and I look forward to open process on spending bills. the issue. joining with the gentleman debate on Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman. b 1130 this House floor. Hopefully we can have And let me ask again, does the gen- the Senate join us, as well as the Presi- It is our hope that we can work to tleman intend, once the committees dent, towards that end. achieve even greater savings for the are up and running—I understand in a Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman. taxpayers of this country. transition it takes some time—that the It’s my understanding, from the gen- Mr. HOYER. I understand that, and I cuts that you are going to propose on a tleman’s response, that if in the eyes of thank the gentleman. I know that he weekly basis will have been subjected you or Mr. BOEHNER or your side of the has indicated that we are going to be to committee oversight and hearings, aisle serious spending cuts have not considering what I believe to be a $52 with the public having an opportunity been effected, that you would oppose million cut—that’s important money— to testify on the consequences of those the extension of the debt limit. to reach your $100 billion. However, if cuts? Is that what I hear you saying? you do it at that level per week, of Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, I say to Mr. CANTOR. I would say to the gen- course, you will take approximately 50 the gentleman again, yes, it is our in- tleman this: We have been charged years to get to $100 billion if we con- tention to have a full and open debate with an obligation by the people of this sider one every week that we are in on all of these issues. As the gentleman country to get our fiscal house in session. recalls, this process began last June, or order. We intend to be very deliberate My presumption is that you will be in the spring or so, that we said we and focused on cutting spending while informing us of those opportunities to were going to redirect the focus to making sure we are doing all we can to cut as well, giving us opportunities on make sure that we are in line with the grow the economy and the private-sec- our side. There may well be Members will of the people, and that is trying to tor jobs. It is our intent to prove that on our side who want to join in making do everything we can to remind all of this House and this Congress—hope- sure that we spend our money as effec- us of the import of cutting spending, fully Leader REID will follow suit—will tively and efficiently as possible. But and therefore this process begins. But deliver on that commitment. we also know and the commissions yes, to the gentleman’s question about The public, as the gentleman knows that have reported know that while hearings, we welcome that and would all too well, is tired of business as these types of expenditures are impor- expect that. usual. They don’t want to see this tant to review, I don’t know that there Mr. HOYER. Good. I appreciate that country continue to incur debt as it have been any hearings on this response. has in the past without some indica- YouCut. I know that this has been in Lastly, I ask my friend, one of the tion that things are changing, without response to the Web page question that significant issues that will be con- some indication that serious spending you have propounded to people—I don’t fronting us in the coming months will cuts have been implemented and re- know how many responses you have re- be the extension of the debt limit to forms effected, and that will be our in- ceived to that. But are you intending ensure that America continues to pay tent. to have hearings in relevant commit- the bills that it has incurred and there- Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman tees on future propositions to cut? fore maintain fiscal stability not only for that response. And I hate to keep Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, I would in this country but throughout the pressing him, but if his hopes are not say to the gentleman, first of all, as far world. The Speaker and you have both realized—and I don’t know the answer as the $520 million—not $52 million—is made, I think, very positive comments as to whether they will be, but at some concerned, as he knows that is manda- on the fact that, as unwanted as such a point in time we will be confronted tory spending, that is not discretionary vote may be, it is, nevertheless, as the with an alternative of whatever the spending, and would be different and Speaker pointed out, an adult vote— facts may be with respect to what we apart from the commitment that we that I took to mean a responsible are able to pass through this House, just spoke about at ’08 levels. vote—to ensure the fiscal stability of the Senate, and get signed by the I would also say to the gentleman our country. President, we will be confronted with that we will be glad to have hearings Does the gentleman anticipate a the consequences of our past behavior, once committees are organized. As the clean up-or-down vote on that issue and I underline ‘‘our,’’ o-u-r, spending gentleman knows, it’s been a little bit when it becomes timely to vote on that that we have incurred. And I don’t slow in upstart just given the transi- issue sometime in March of April? want to go through the entire debate

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:20 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\H20JA1.000 H20JA1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD January 20, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 537 that you and I always go through, so I A motion to reconsider was laid on Shraddha Batra won’t do it, but we will be confronted the table. Bethany Blakeman Christopher Michael Tydingco Borja with, as the Speaker says, an adult mo- f ment as to whether or not we will, in Derek Kristopher Bowdle FAREWELL TO THE PAGES Taylor Brooks light of the consequences of past be- Hunter Layne Chapman havior, take actions necessary to pre- (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given Fernando Chavez, Jr. clude America from defaulting on its permission to address the House for 1 Josilyn Chowen debts. And I simply ask the gentleman, minute and to revise and extend his re- Joseph Cortes will we have the opportunity to have marks.) Nicholas Dellasanta an up-or-down vote on that issue under Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, today we Hannah Elizabeth Dillman the circumstances where we have will be saying farewell to the pages Domine´ Ezechukwu reached, as the gentleman points out— who have served this House so well. Melissa Lynn Finno They are standing in the back of the Megan Fleming we don’t know the exact date—the ex- Gerardo Flores tent of present authority? Chamber here now. We wish to thank Ashley Nicole Flowers Mr. CANTOR. I would say to the gen- you for your service. Hector Javier Garcia tleman, Mr. Speaker, that the vote on I’ve been on the Page Board for about Derek Gartee the debt limit comes within the con- 30 years. Speaker Tip O’Neill appointed Megan Greeley text of our demonstrating a commit- me to that board, and this has been a Kallie A. Hargrove ment to cut spending, to effect re- tremendous group of pages. You’ve Kaitlin Elaine Hinojosa forms. And the President as well as the worked hard, you’ve worked well, and Kathryn Elizabeth Hopper you’ve worked honorably. Peter Alex Kanjorski gentleman’s side here in this House John D. Kohler have said both that they would like to You’ve seen history. You’ve seen a Ra’Nisa Kyles see and join us in cutting spending. change of party control of this House. Olga Lefebvre This debt-limit vote comes in the con- You’ve seen our joys and our sorrows. Josiah Lippincott text of all that we are going to be able You witnessed the sorrow we all experi- Schaeffer Mallory to do over the next several months. enced and you experienced when a Gomez J. Martin And we’ve got to be demonstrating Member of this House was attacked Jacqueline McGrath that or frankly the public will not back in her district. Hannah Mery Meghan Myhill want us to accept any notion that There is a program called Close Up where people come to Washington, peo- Diona Okunbo we’re going to continue business as Rachel Olivares usual unless we’ve demonstrated that ple your age, to observe the Congress, Tyler Olkowski things are changing. That’s why I con- and they learn a lot. It’s a great pro- Cemal Ozgur tinue to say to the gentleman that we gram. But no one sees the Congress as Joshua L. Perry will not accept an increase in the debt close up as you do. And we appreciate Tyler Jacob Petersen limit without serious spending cuts the fact that you recognize that as a Brendan J. Pfaller and reforms. great responsibility and a great honor, Levi Andrew Phillips Alexis Robbins Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman. and you will go back home and tell others about this Congress. William Douglas Rodenberg f Caroline Saca I think you can tell them that every- Nicole Marie Santeiro b 1140 one who serves in this Congress, even Kameron Simmons though we may have differences—some- Everett Sotelo ADJOURNMENT TO MONDAY, times very sharp differences—the one Camden Scott Wiggins JANUARY 24, 2011 thing that does bind us together is that f Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, I ask everyone here in this Congress loves COLOMBIA FLOODING DISASTER unanimous consent that when the this country. House adjourns today, it adjourn to Go back and tell them that we are (Mr. CICILLINE asked and was given meet at noon on Monday next for imperfect people trying to make a permission to address the House for 1 morning-hour debate and 2 p.m. for leg- more perfect Republic. minute and to revise and extend his re- islative business. I yield, Mr. Speaker, to my colleague marks.) The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there on the Page Board, the gentleman from Mr. CICILLINE. Mr. Speaker, I rise objection to the request of the gen- Utah (Mr. BISHOP). today to express my thoughts and tleman from Virginia? Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Thank you, Mr. prayers to the people of Colombia in There was no objection. KILDEE. I appreciate it. light of the devastating flooding, heavy rain, and destructive landslides that, f Mr. Speaker, the young men and women who are standing behind the even as I speak, continue to ravage PROVIDING FOR A JOINT SESSION bar and at the back of our Chamber that country. OF CONGRESS TO RECEIVE A here today are great young men and This natural disaster, ongoing for MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT women who have served us well over several months now, has taken more Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, I send to this past semester. We appreciate you. than 300 lives and damaged or de- the desk a privileged concurrent reso- Both Ms. Keating and Ms. Sampson stroyed more than 2,000 homes. In lution and ask for its immediate con- have said this is probably the best be- total, more than 2 million victims have sideration. haved group of pages we’ve ever had. I been affected by the flooding, and some The Clerk read the concurrent reso- don’t know if you want to take it fur- reports are calling this the worst nat- lution, as follows: ther than that, but you have done a ural disaster in Colombia’s history. My district in northern Rhode Island H. CON. RES. 10 great job and we appreciate you. Mr. KILDEE. I want to thank Mr. is home to many wonderful Colombian Resolved by the House of Representatives (the families. In fact, Colombians make up Senate concurring), BISHOP and Ms. FOXX, who also served That the two Houses of Congress assemble on this committee. We have enjoyed the fourth largest Latino group in in the Hall of the House of Representatives our work, and you’ve made our work Rhode Island, most of whom have loved on Tuesday, January 25, 2011, at 9 p.m., for very enjoyable. ones in the affected areas of their na- the purpose of receiving such communica- DEPARTURE CEREMONY PAGE NAMES FALL tive country. tion as the President of the United States CLASS OF 2010 So on behalf of the people of the shall be pleased to make to them. Haley Alderete First District of Rhode Island, I would The concurrent resolution was agreed Carissa A. Almendarez like to express my sympathies to all of to. Alexandra Baker those who have been affected by this

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:20 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\H20JA1.000 H20JA1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD 538 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 January 20, 2011 devastating flooding. We remember States, now seen as an invader and oc- The only value that can come of this is those who have died and express our cupier. to recognize that our policies are sympathies to those who have lost Continuous bombing and crippling flawed and they need to be changed. loved ones, been injured, or lost their sanctions against Iraq during the 1990s, Without this, history will record that homes as a result of this destruction. the appearance that the U.S. did not the sacrifices were all in vain. I express my wishes for a rapid recon- care about the plight of the Palestin- A policy of peace, friendship, and trade is struction of the damaged areas and re- ians, and our military bases in Saudi far superior to one of occupation, entangling turn to safety for the families affected Arabia led to attention-getting attacks alliances, and sanctions which guarantee war. by this tragic natural disaster. against the United States. The 1998 em- We should pursue such a policy for moral rea- f bassy attacks in Kenya and Tanzania and the attack on the USS Cole in the sons. But if we don’t, we will nevertheless be SPECIAL ORDERS year 2000 were warnings that the war forced to change our ways for economic rea- The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. was far from over. The horrible tragedy sons. It’s time to bring our troops home. BENISHEK). Under the Speaker’s an- of 9/11 shouldn’t have been a surprise, nounced policy of January 5, 2011, and and many believe it was preventable. f under a previous order of the House, Currently, the war has morphed into the following Members will be recog- a huge battle for control of the Persian HONORING SARGENT SHRIVER nized for 5 minutes each. Gulf region and central Asia. This in- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a f volves Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and Iran. Foolish previous order of the House, the gen- PERPETUAL WAR IS EXPENSIVE policies lead to foolhardy conflicts. tleman from Maryland (Mr. HOYER) is The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a Foolhardy conflicts lead to recognized for 5 minutes. previous order of the House, the gen- unsustainable costs and a multitude of Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to tleman from Texas (Mr. PAUL) is recog- unintended consequences. To name a honor a great American, my friend Sar- nized for 5 minutes. few, we have spent trillions of dollars gent Shriver, a son of Maryland, who Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, perpetual based on the false pretense of defending passed away this week at the age of 95. war is expensive. We have been mili- freedom and our Constitution. The no- He was a public servant who lived a full tarily involved in the Persian Gulf re- tion has been further solidified that life dedicated to promoting justice and gion now for 20 years. Experts have war no longer needs to be declared by opportunity in America and, indeed, predicted that the cost of this contin- Congress and can be pursued as a pre- throughout the world. uous and expanding war will reach $6 rogative of the President. We are now As the first director of the Peace trillion. seen by the world not as a peacemaker, Corps, Mr. Shriver skillfully launched The hostilities and our overt involve- but rather a troublemaker and aggres- an organization that has strengthened sor. ment in Iraq can be dated back to Jan- respect for America across the world Thousands of American servicemem- uary 16, 1991, when the defensive Oper- and has for half a century exposed gen- bers have been killed and tens of thou- ation Desert Shield became the offen- erations of Americans to the world be- sands wounded, with a sharp increase sive Operation Desert Storm. Though yond their borders. Sargent Shriver the end of the Persian Gulf war was de- in service-connected suicides. Over also made his mark as the director of clared on April 6, 1991, with a U.S. mili- 500,000 veterans are seeking medical important anti-poverty programs and tary victory, the 20-year war was just treatment and disability benefits. Mil- as the leader of the Special Olympics beginning. lions of citizens have been killed, movement, a movement that he joined The U.S. and Britain have had an in- wounded, and displaced in the coun- his extraordinary bride, Eunice Ken- tense interest in controlling the oil of tries on the receiving end of our bombs, nedy Shriver, in heading. the Middle East dating back to the drones, sanctions, and occupation. The overthrow of the Ottoman Empire dur- region has suffered huge environmental In the words of his biographer, Scott ing World War I. This interest ex- damage as a consequence of our mili- Stossel: ‘‘Often the things that Sargent panded during World War II with FDR’s tary occupation. Shriver accomplished, starting the promise to protect the puppet govern- Christians from Iraq have suffered Peace Corps in just a few months, or ments in the Persian Gulf region, espe- the worst rout in the history of Chris- getting 500,000 kids into Head Start cially Saudi Arabia. tendom. Iran and Iraq are now better programs its first summer when the ex- Though this arrangement never sat allies than ever, with strong anti- perts said that 10,000 kids was the max- well with the citizens in the region, a American sentiment. Iraqi political imum feasible, were things that every- fairly decent relationship remained be- stability is a joke. Ending hostilities in one beforehand had said were not real- tween the Arab people and the Amer- Afghanistan is a dream. China and Iran istic, or were downright impossible, ican public. But animosity continued have been drawn into a closer alliance Sarge Shriver did.’’ against the United States. America’s to build with our ever-present military Sarge Shriver had a gift for what one uncontrolled deficits are senselessly involvement in Iraq. of the old War on Poverty colleagues fueled by needless militarism. We are called ‘‘expanding the horizons of the b 1150 now much poorer and less safe. There possible.’’ I am reminded of Robert Our military assistance to the Muja- was no al Qaeda in Iraq before we in- Kennedy’s quote that he used so often hedeen in the 1980s, now the Taliban, vaded in 2003. Today there is. No weap- helped the Muslim defenders, one of ons of mass destruction were ever that ‘‘some men see things as they are whom was Osama bin Laden, oust the found in Iraq. and say, ‘Why?’ ’’ Robert Kennedy said: Soviets from Afghanistan. At that time War always leads to government ‘‘I dream things that never were and we were still not seen as occupiers, and growth and the sacrifice of civil lib- ask, ‘Why not?’ ’’ Sarge Shriver mir- the radical Muslims, encouraged by the erties. In the past 10 years, this has rored that quote. May we all learn U.S., were expected to direct all their been particularly costly to us, with the from his example. May we honor his efforts toward the Communist threat. acceptance of military tribunals, tor- legacy of public service by expanding That all changed with the breakup of ture, assassinations, abuse of habeas our own horizons of the possible, by the Soviet system and the end of the corpus, and PATRIOT Act-type legisla- caring for those who need our help here Cold War when, as the lone superpower tion. Senseless war and senseless de- and around the world. left standing, we named ourselves the struction and death should not be Sargent Shriver brought to American world’s policeman. It was then that the rationalized as providing a great serv- life a singular commitment to service. resentment by Arabs and Muslims be- ice in protecting our freedoms, our His good work and his historic example came directed toward the United Constitution, or maintaining peace. will long outlive his 95 years.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:20 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\H20JA1.000 H20JA1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD January 20, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 539 HEALTH CARE REFORM AND Consider the fact that Dr. Anthony friendship. She later stepped in as my REGENERATIVE MEDICINE Atala at the Institute for Regenerative chief of staff and was nothing less than The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a Medicine at Wake Forest University transformative in that role. Ashley’s previous order of the House, the gentle- has been able successfully to grow leadership and drive was inspiring, and woman from North Carolina (Ms. FOXX) bladders for bladder replacement sur- she was a mentor for many young staff- is recognized for 5 minutes. geries from the recipient’s own cells. ers, not only in my office, but across Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, voters all b 1200 the Hill. As one former staffer remem- across the country have rejected the bered, ‘‘Her work ethic could not be Yet despite several successful bladder ‘‘government knows best’’ philosophy matched. She exemplified class, always transplants, the FDA insists that the that prevailed during last year’s health cool under pressure.’’ care debate. In contrast, my Repub- institute go through additional costly lican colleagues and I believe that clinical trials on animals and spend Ashley was on the floor day and American innovation and reduced gov- millions of dollars on testing that is night, always deepening her under- ernment intervention are keys to suc- clearly unnecessary based on his suc- standing of the Congress as an institu- cessful health reform that reduces cess with the human transplant sur- tion and how it operated. She was a health care costs. After all, reducing geries. bright, articulate, and incredibly dedi- the costs of health care should be the This sort of Federal regulatory bur- cated young woman who built a distin- primary focus of any health care re- den is stifling innovation in America, guished reputation during her time on form bill. Unfortunately, the highly and the government takeover of health the Hill and was respected by col- flawed health care bill that passed last care backed by the Democrats last year leagues and by Members alike on both year does not bring down the cost of imposes still more job and innovation- sides of the aisle, a fact that was re- health care. It drives costs up. If we are destroying regulations on health re- flected in the many phone calls I re- ever going to fix health care, we must search. ceived and the statements that were focus on reducing costs. Regenerative medicine has the poten- issued in her memory. For instance, it’s estimated that 1 tial to improve the health of our citi- Ashley met her husband, Dan, on the percent of the most seriously ill in zens and return them healthy and Hill; and looking back, it was obvious America account for more than 25 per- whole to the workforce. It holds the that these two would wind up together. cent of all health care expenditures. promise of hundreds of billions of sav- What if we could improve the care of ings in health care costs and, unlike They shared a seriousness of purpose these patients and at the same time re- ObamaCare, will create jobs focused on and liberal values, yet they were not duce costs? We can. We can by har- developing these technologies across flashy about any of this and avoided nessing the power of innovation and the Nation. Congress would be wise to the spotlight. The love that they health research in groundbreaking strip away the bureaucracy and red shared was palpable, the kind that we fields like regenerative medicine. tape that is stifling innovation in fields all dream of finding. I remembered her Regenerative medicine is a highly like regenerative medicine that could unbridled excitement about their wed- specialized field that focuses on devel- lower costs and improve the lives of all ding and her dreams of starting her oping technologies to replace or regen- Americans. own family. erate organs and tissues using the pa- f Ashley truly enjoyed the simpler tient’s own cells. These treatments HONORING ASHLEY WESTBROOK things in life, family and close friends. would reduce the cost of chronic dis- TURTON She cherished spending time with Dan eases by up to $275 billion a year and The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a and their three children, Shaw, Lane would dramatically improve the lives and Mason Grace. Neighbors have often of older Americans suffering from ter- previous order of the House, the gentle- recalled seeing her and Dan wheeling rible, chronic illnesses. woman from Connecticut (Ms. the kids around the neighborhood. Her The cost of chronic disease is only DELAURO) is recognized for 5 minutes. going to increase if we don’t focus on Ms. DELAURO. Mr. Speaker, words children were her joy, the light of her innovations like regenerative medicine cannot describe the depths of my grief life. She wanted nothing more than the that can revolutionize how we treat ill- as I rise today to pay tribute to the life very best for them, a childhood filled nesses. These costs are going to spiral of my former staffer and dear friend, with love, encouragement, and support. ever higher mainly because we are in Ashley Westbrook Turton, who was It is difficult to imagine that they will the midst of a major aging of our popu- taken from us in a tragic accident last grow up not knowing her as well as we lation. Demographers estimate that in week. To say that she was taken from did. the next 20 years, people in the age us too soon is an understatement. Ash- I, like so many others, have not yet range of 65 to 74 years old will increase ley worked for me for 7 years, first as come to terms with the reality that from 6 percent of the population to my press secretary and later my chief Ashley is lost to us. The idea that I about 10 percent of the population, al- of staff. However, she was much more will not get a call or email or text from most doubling. At the same time, peo- than a former staffer. She was family. her, just a couple of lines to say hello, ple over the age of 75 will increase from Ashley was, quite simply, remark- is inconceivable to me. I simply cannot 6 percent to 9 percent of the total popu- able. A native of North Carolina, she imagine my life without her in it. lation. This demographic shift will in- was known for her soft Southern ac- exorably drive up the costs of health cent, bright smile, professionalism, and Ashley was an exceptional young care as more elderly receive treatment determination to get things done. After woman whose kind heart, quick wit, for chronic diseases like late-stage graduating from the University of unwavering loyalty, and unparalleled Parkinson’s disease, kidney failure, North Carolina, she first made her professionalism touched the lives and heart failure, or diabetes. mark working for Governor Jim Hunt hearts of all those fortunate enough to Regenerative medicine has the poten- and then Attorney General Mike have known her. And so it is with the tial to revolutionize the treatment of Easley, combining politics, policy, and heaviest of hearts that I rise today to all these diseases. But that may not communication. She soon brought her extend my deepest sympathies to her happen. Why not? It’s simple. The same talents to Washington, and she was husband, Dan; her parents, Jim and kinds of bureaucracy, regulations, and good at it. Ashley was committed to Diane Westbrook; her brother, Blair; red tape that are stuffed into every public service and to making a dif- Dan’s parents, Tom and Cathy; and corner of the ObamaCare law are hold- ference in the lives of others. Ashley’s children, Shaw, Lane and ing back the widespread adoption of Ashley started in my office in 2000 as Mason Grace. Ashley’s absence has left major medical breakthroughs in this my press secretary, and we quickly a hole in all of our hearts that will field. formed a bond of mutual respect and never be filled.

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Mr. Speaker, Having heard from so many of my truly keep costs low while removing America lost one of her greatest public constituents on this issue, I believe the government from the patient-doc- servants this week. Sargent Shriver that it is essential that we repeal the tor relationship. dedicated his life to others. He was the government takeover of health care We have a great deal of work ahead, driving force behind the creation of that raises costs, increases taxes, im- Mr. Speaker, but I’m committed to Head Start and Upward Bound, opening poses burdensome mandates on small continuing to find the health care solu- the door to education for countless businesses, and jeopardizes quality tions that are in the best interest of all children. He was passionate about serv- medical care for our people. central and Southside Virginians. I rise today to share an example of ice, and through his stewardship of the f the real-life implications that the new Peace Corps and VISTA, gave millions health care law has had on one doctor GOVERNMENT OVERSPENDING of others the opportunity to serve. in the Fifth District of Virginia. Sarge and his wife, Eunice, were vision- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under ary advocates for people with disabil- b 1210 the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- uary 5, 2011, the gentleman from Mis- ities, and today the Special Olympics His story is not unique. No doubt souri (Mr. AKIN) is recognized for 60 empowers young people with intellec- there are many others in central and minutes as the designee of the major- tual disabilities around the world. Southside Virginia, as well as across Sargent Shriver’s courage under fire the Nation, who are dealing with simi- ity leader. Mr. AKIN. Mr. Speaker, it is a treat earned him a Purple Heart for his serv- lar, negative ramifications of this law. to be able to join you and my col- ice in the Navy during World War II. His story is an important one to tell. After directing the Peace Corps and the It’s a story of the hardships this legis- leagues today, and at the beginning of Kennedy administration and helping lation has caused to the people who a new year, take on a subject that we launch the War on Poverty in the have dedicated their lives to serving have been aware of and increasingly Johnson administration, Sargent others. conscious of, the problems relative to Shriver applied his formidable talents In 1999, this doctor took a huge risk our economy, to jobs, but particularly to our Foreign Service as ambassador when he decided to sell his home and to the Federal Government and its vo- to France from 1968 to 1970. In 1994, move to Charlottesville to buy and op- racious appetite to overspend. President Clinton awarded Sargent erate an Urgent Care Center. The chal- I’m joined by a number of distin- Shriver the Presidential Medal of Free- lenges he faced in starting up his own guished colleagues today. I think it dom, our Nation’s highest civilian practice did not come without sac- should be an interesting discussion. honor. rifice. It was over a year before he took We’re going to try to keep it simple Despite all these accolades and well- home his first paycheck. He and his and look at the big picture and look at deserved recognition, those who knew wife lived on savings and retirement the choices that America faces. Sargent Shriver knew that he consid- money and did not know if their busi- Along those lines, here is a sort of a ered his work its own reward. His life ness would make it until 2004, 5 years by-the-numbers projection for this was a tireless crusade for peace and later. His sacrifice and hard work year, 2011. And you see sort of a bar justice, willing to lend a hand wherever proved to be a model for success. Now graph, these tubes here. This top one is one was needed and building institu- he has over 40,000 charts and 30 employ- $3.834 trillion, that’s $3.8 trillion, and tions that could carry his work into ees, and he provides high quality care that’s what it’s expected that the Fed- the future. to more than 16,000 patients. The aver- eral Government is going to spend, $3.8 ‘‘When our deeds match our ideals,’’ age charge per patient visit remains trillion. The problem here is this other Sargent Shriver would say, ‘‘we will be low, while the services rendered pro- little thing here. This is the income living life as it ought to be lived.’’ Sar- vide good quality care, proving that projection. And that’s $2.6, if you round gent Shriver lived life as it ought to be health care at the primary level does a trillion. So 2.6 versus 3.8, which, you lived. not have to come with an overly expen- can tell by the length of them that we I extend my deepest sympathies to sive pricetag. are spending more money than we are his five children, Mark, Robert, Maria, However, this doctor has made it taking in. People that have tried to Timothy and Anthony, and to their clear in no uncertain terms that the run a budget at home understand that’s families. I hope they are comforted by fear and uncertainty regarding the new a very easy thing to have happen, to the thoughts and prayers of all those health care law threatens both the spend more money than what you have who knew, admired, or were helped by present and future success of his prac- coming in. And the Federal Govern- Sargent Shriver. His legacy—the chil- tice. Due to the tax hikes, added regu- ment has that problem, and it has it dren given a head start, the volunteers lations and bureaucracy, and overall big-time. In this case, the difference whose lives were changed and who government intrusion, the doctor is no between the two is more than $1 tril- changed lives in their service around longer sure he can afford to stay in lion. the globe, and the individuals with dis- business, which means over 16,000 pa- And so that’s what we’re going to abilities now treated with the dignity tients in the area served by his prac- take a look at. And what can we do and respect that they deserve—that tice may lose access to this reliable about it isn’t so much a matter if you legacy is with us today and will con- and affordable care. are a liberal or a conservative really, tinue for years and decades and more What a crushing blow to the the fact is it’s mathematics. We’re to come. innovators that are seeking new ways spending a whole lot more than we’re to provide quality medical care to taking in. And so that is the problem f their fellow man. What a crushing blow we’re going to take a look at. When HEALTH CARE to the entrepreneurial spirit for those you do that year after year, spend The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a who are seeking to succeed. And what more than you take in, you start to de- previous order of the House, the gen- a crushing blow to the very spirit upon velop a debt. In our case, we’ve got a tleman from Virginia (Mr. HURT) is which our Nation was founded. This is $14 trillion debt. So you have a deficit recognized for 5 minutes. just one example of why it is critical of $1.6 trillion, but you keep adding Mr. HURT. Mr. Speaker, the repeal of and necessary to repeal the govern- these things every year, and pretty the health care law and beginning the ment takeover of health care. soon you build this debt up. And the

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Yet we see policies what we have, but we’ve been doing a challenges. consistently coming out of the admin- bad job of controlling our spending. And I’m glad that I don’t have to istration and out of the previous Con- In the past, we have also cranked up solve all this problem, but we have got gress that continue to punish the job this debt. The effect of that is that one some very smart people that are going creators. of the things that comes as far as to join and talk a little bit about this, Take Ohio for example. Since the spending is your cost of the debt serv- what are our alternatives and what giant stimulus bill was passed in the ice, so the more that you borrow, the should we be doing. previous session of Congress, only more you have to pay interest on your The first is a freshman who is al- three States have lost more jobs than debt, and therefore it just compounds ready distinguishing himself in the the State I come from, from the great the situation, making it worse. So Congress, BILL JOHNSON. He is from State of Ohio. Unemployment in the that’s the lineup. Ohio. We are thankful that Ohio sent district that I represent is another So let’s take a look at, well, where one of their great sons here, somebody symptom of that disease. We cannot are we spending all this money? And who first of all has a background as a continue down this track of spending one of the things that people that are chief information officer in a global and borrowing and punishing job cre- looking at numbers take a look at is manufacturing company. ‘‘Information ators and expect America to pull three fairly big what are called entitle- officer’’ means people that deal with through this economic crisis that we ments. Entitlements mean that some- the transfer of data and information, find ourselves in. Mr. AKIN. BILL, once again you are where along the line, the Congress but also the data processing side of a right on track and right on topic. This passed a law, and the law works like a company, which is really the commu- is so important because down here in little machine. It just spits money out. nications and lifeblood of a company. Washington, DC, there are really two And anybody who meets certain pa- He is also somebody who served our very different schools of thought on rameters, the machine will just give country faithfully as an officer in the this; aren’t there? There are some peo- them some money. And that’s called an United States Air Force. ple, and I think they are people prob- entitlement. And so depending on what BILL JOHNSON, it’s a treat to have ably who come from your background the entitlement is, it just spends you on the floor. We’re glad you got as executives in companies, people who money. And Congress doesn’t have to elected. You’ve heard the opening here. had responsibility and had your own do anything. The money just gets We’ve got a bit of a problem. In fact, small business, and you understand spent. And it is called an entitlement. we’ve got a problem that’s so big that what it takes to make a small business The three big ones, of course, are a lot of people are kind of—in Missouri work. And the mind-set of those people Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Secu- we have an expression, hunker down when you get into trouble over spend- rity. And if you project over time how like a toad in a hailstorm. A lot of peo- ing is that you have to either increase much money those entitlements are ple look at this and they go, oh, my your revenue somehow or you are going to spend, you find that they are goodness, what are we going to do? going to have to cut back your spend- growing. They are growing because of So let’s talk about that for a minute. ing. people such as myself, a baby boomer. Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio. Well, Mr. But there is a whole other school of The baby boomers are getting older, Speaker, and to my distinguished col- thought down here which to me is kind and there’s a whole lot of them, and league from Missouri, thank you so of weird because I come from the busi- there are not as many people working very much for the opportunity to be ness world, too, and the theory is that to pay into the system. And so the cost here. You’re exactly right, and you’ve somehow you can get the economy of these entitlements go up. pointed it out so well. We have a dis- going by spending a ton of money, and And as you see in this chart right ease here in Washington, and that dis- that is what the ‘‘stimulus’’ bill that here, this is the typical revenue that ease is called ‘‘overspending.’’ And it we passed 2 years ago, it was supposed we get from taxes coming in. It is run- is, by and large, what has brought us to create I don’t know how many hun- ning at 18 percent. You can see it goes economically to where we are today. dreds of thousands of jobs. The projec- up and down as we have more or less And the debt that we see is the symp- tions in terms of the numbers of jobs it taxes depending on who is in charge of tom of that disease. was going to produce, it actually lost the White House and the Congress. But It’s amazing to me how many in D.C., more than what they projected it was it averages now, over since 1965, it’s how many in the administration and in going to do. averaging about 18 percent. And you the previous Congress, really believe At the time, I stood on the floor with see this point out here at 2052 where that we can borrow, tax, and spend our a bunch of other people who came here these three entitlements are going to way back to prosperity. As a business- with a business background and said, use up the entire budget. There won’t man, as a graduate from a business Hey, this thing isn’t going to work. be any money for anything else other school—I have a minor in business ad- Don’t spend this money. than just these three things. ministration—I don’t think that there It was at least theoretically excused Unfortunately, this chart is opti- is a business theory in place that says under the Keynesian sort of idea that if mistic because this is only including that you can prosper that way. the government spends a lot of money, these three entitlements. We have it ‘‘stimulates’’ the economy and ev- 1220 other entitlements also. And in fact, at b erything will be okay. It is like grab- this point we have come really pretty Mr. AKIN. Let me just stop you. I bing your belt loops of your boots and close to it even today. want to cut in on you. lifting up and flying around the Cham- So our entitlement spending, when What you are saying is most busi- ber here. It is a bizarre idea. And it was you look at the big bar chart up here, nessmen, if you tell them we are hav- tried by that guy Henry Morgenthau pretty much, of our income—about $2.5 ing trouble with overspending so what who worked for FDR. They tried it for trillion, pretty much that income is we are going to do is spend some more, 8 years, spending money like mad. He spent today on various entitlements. they are going to laugh you out of the appeared before the House Ways and It’s not just Medicare, Medicaid, and shop; is that basically what it boils Means Committee and said: It just Social Security. But there are two down to? doesn’t work. Now, that was 1938 he other categories, miscellaneous enti- Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio. That’s right. told Congress it doesn’t work to spend tlements, that would be things like You know, that kind of thinking has money like that.

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Well, we have another gentleman maximum rate of income tax at 2 per- Of course you in Ohio with your man- here, coming a little farther from the cent, even though we only applied a 0.5 ufacturing background, we are just west, Congressman BISHOP, who is join- percent income tax. I think if people killing jobs. Somehow there is this dis- ing us. He is also a guy who has had would look at their paychecks today, connect. You can punish companies some experience in the business world, they would see it slightly different and then you are surprised there are no and also as a teacher and a leader here from that original time. jobs. It is sort of bizarre. on the floor. He has represented his dis- Mr. AKIN. As I recall, gentleman, at I yield again, BILL. trict on some armed services kinds of that time, weren’t there people who Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio. Thanks. issues and is somebody who has really said that income tax could possibly get You hit the nail on the head. We are earned the respect of his colleagues and as high as 5 percent and they were punishing the job creators. I mentioned has done a great job in setting up some laughed off the floor of the Congress, in Ohio, only three States have lost of the new rules that have been estab- that income taxes could get as high as more jobs since that stimulus bill went lished for this Congress. 5 percent? Am I right on that? into effect. Now, I don’t know the Congressman BISHOP, I would be de- b 1230 exact number today, but in November, lighted to have you join us. You have around election time, Ohio had lost heard what we are talking about. We Mr. BISHOP of Utah. It is alarming, over 400,000 jobs. have a problem. We are spending too but that is actually accurate. As we Mr. AKIN. Are a lot of those manu- much money, and the question is what found out in that experience, the best facturing, BILL? should we do about it. tax is, obviously, something paid by Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio. Absolutely. Mr. BISHOP of Utah. I thank the somebody else. It was estimated when Absolutely. gentleman from Missouri for allowing that original income tax was in place And here is what puzzles me: I don’t me to have some time here, and I ap- that 80 percent of it would actually understand why more don’t realize that preciate the comments of the gen- come from only four States. Appar- when you let families and businesses tleman from Ohio illustrating what ently, four States were fighting it, and keep more of their hard-earned money, happens in the States. I think often- the rest of the States kind of liked it. that builds economic confidence. That times we should be looking to the Unfortunately, there was—and I’m builds buying power. They invest. They States as an example of what does and not impugning anybody here—a Rep- spend more. That’s what gets an econ- what does not work, and we can emu- resentative from Missouri at the time omy going. They begin to become inno- late those concepts here in Wash- who actually did say that a new dawn vative. ington. has broken with this new income tax Let me give you an example. Ohio You are right, as you initially said, and that, actually, the government borders on a State that has no sales tax we have a severe budget problem. would be more careful with people’s on clothing. One of the first things I There are really only two ways of try- money now that we are taking it di- saw when I started looking at how I ing to reconcile that budget problem: rectly from them than in the past when could help the State of Ohio was: How We can either raise taxes or we can cut we simply ran government by taxes can we keep that sales tax revenue in spending. coming from tariffs or land sales. the State of Ohio? So we started doing I think it is interesting to look at Mr. AKIN. We’re not proud of every- the research. We found out that 17 some other States. Cal Thomas had a body from Missouri, gentleman. States have sales tax holiday pro- wonderful article this morning—maybe Mr. BISHOP of Utah. That certainly grams. it was last night—that talked about does not represent your thinking any- So I built a grassroots effort to put a comparing what other States have way. sales tax holiday program in place in done. So we see the State of Illinois, Mr. AKIN. No. Ohio. Without going into excruciating another midwestern State whose solu- Mr. BISHOP of Utah. What happened detail, having a sales tax holiday tion to their problem was to raise the is, within a short period of time, using around back-to-school time and a sales personal income tax 67 percent and World War I as the excuse, that top tax holiday around Christmastime their corporate tax rate by over 46 per- rate was not at 2 percent or at 5. It was promised to bring upwards of $250 mil- cent. at 75 percent. Now, what we found out lion in additional sales tax revenue Mr. AKIN. May I interrupt. You said is the actual amount of money coming into the State coffer, keep retail jobs, raise the personal income tax in Illi- into the country was in a decline, not and let Ohio families keep more of nois. Was it by 6 percent? in an incline. their money. It was amazing what that Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Sixty-seven is So, when President Coolidge came program would do. Yet we could not what I heard, and 46 percent on cor- into power and initiated the first tax get those on the other side of the aisle porate taxes. And let’s face it, cor- cuts by reducing the rates across the in Ohio to understand that and to buy porate taxes are paid by consumers board, the amount of revenue coming into that concept. It is a simple eco- anyway. So you get hit with it coming into the country actually increased. nomic concept. or going. The same thing happened when Presi- Mr. AKIN. Just interrupting again, You can compare that with what dent Kennedy tried it, President what you’re really saying is that you other States have done, like the neigh- Reagan, and President Bush, because can get more revenue in a State if you boring State of Indiana or Wisconsin, what we found out was that people back off on taxes? Virginia, New Jersey, my home State with money are not stupid. They had Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio. Absolutely. of Utah, which decided to solve their money for a reason and that it was not Mr. AKIN. That is an interesting con- problem simply by reducing their that they were avoiding their taxes. cept, and I would like to pick that spending. I am told that Indiana, since They had just found an alternative way theme up. That is something we really 2004, reduced spending by 40 percent. of investing—in the case of World War need to understand. Mr. AKIN. Whoa, 40 percent. That is I, it was a lot of municipal funds that I assume you were a member of the a number. were going in there that were not Ohio Legislature at one time? Mr. BISHOP of Utah. And it will be taxed—or they simply did not invest Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio. No, I was not. interesting to see if the Illinois experi- their money. They sat on it until such I built a grassroots effort to try to ad- ence will replicate what happened in time as they actually had control of dress that problem. We were successful Indiana and those other States I listed, their money again.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:20 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\H20JA1.000 H20JA1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD January 20, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 543 So the bottom line here is, if we look more revenue? It seemed like such an We’re losing jobs like mad, and we’ve at the tax pot, or proposal, as a way of odd thing. Then I started sort of puz- got some problems with unemploy- solving our problem, all we do when we zling it in my mind a little bit. ment. Here are a couple of times where allow taxes to increase is allow Con- I thought, Let’s say that someone we gained some jobs just for a quarter, gress to actually spend more. were to appoint you to be king for a but these are by the quarter. We’re los- It’s like going on a diet, which I des- year, but the only thing you can tax is ing jobs. Then—boom—we put this tax perately need. I may change my diet to a loaf of bread. So you start thinking, cut in place, and look what happens in my only eating good food; but if I eat Huh, how do I get the most revenue for terms of job creation. We created a whole lot more of good food, it’s not my country out of a loaf of bread?—be- 168,000 jobs, and here we’ve lost 100,000. going to really solve the problem. cause I’m a political guy, and I have to So, first of all, GDP goes up. Job cre- There is another problem, too, that pay the bills of the Federal Govern- ation goes up, so people go back to goes onto the spending side, which is I ment. work. can actually be full and malnourished So you start thinking. You say, Well, Here is the key point: look what hap- at the same time. If I only eat potatoes I think I’ll put a one penny tax on pens here to Federal revenues. We have as a diet, I may be full; but I’m not every loaf of bread that people eat. No cut taxes here, and Federal revenues helping my body. one will notice the penny, and I’ll take are shooting up. Now, that seems like When we look at the spending side, in a certain amount of money. Then you’re defying the law of gravity, but which is really the only option that we you start scratching your head and what happened was those taxes were have, and when we don’t look at it in a saying, What if I went the other way? stalling our economy. way of looking at how we are spending, Let’s say I taxed a loaf of bread at $10 So when you’ve got a recession and all we’re doing is malnourishing us. All a loaf. Boy, then I’d get a lot more when you’ve got unemployment the the CRs we passed last year, without money in that way. Yeah, but the trou- way we do, what you’ve got to do, this actually doing a real budget or a real ble is nobody would buy any bread. would suggest, is you have got to cut appropriations act, may have flat-lined Common sense would say somewhere taxes, give the money back to the peo- our spending, but it didn’t help us out. between a penny and $10 there is some ple you’re talking about, BILL, who It was like eating potatoes all the point in there at which you’re going to own those companies. Let them in- time, which in moderation are good; get the maximum tax you can get on a vest—build additional wings on a build- but if that’s the only consumption you loaf of bread; and as soon as you go be- ing, new products, new technology— have, we are making serious problems. yond it, your revenue is actually going and when that happens, you pull out of Mr. AKIN. I think what I’m hearing to fall off because people will stop buy- the recession, and it helps you with you say, gentleman, is that America ing it, and there just won’t be any your revenues. has been getting high on junk food. At more bread market going on. The bottom line is, when you take a least you have an economic analogy. So the point of the matter is that look, going back to our original ques- Is that where you’re going? there is an optimum level that you can tion of how do we get out of the prob- Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Well, so am I, tax. When you go beyond it, you stall lem that we are spending too much and I have to admit I love potato chips; the economy and destroy the Federal money, the answer is, if you start tax- but, yes, that’s where we’re going. revenues. Now, that may seem like a ing, you’re going to drive us further What we need to do is, I think, what theory, but, in fact, it’s true. It is what into a recession, making the problem this Congress is looking at, which is to happened. worse. So, really, tax increases do not try and readjust what we are doing and I’d like to just run through a couple work to fix the problem that we’ve got look at our spending levels, which is of charts here. going here. why 2008 spending will be a starting This happened in 2003. In the second I wanted to jump over, BILL, and point to adjust and look at what we are quarter of 2003, in May, we passed a big allow you to piggyback some. doing. We have to look at our spending tax decrease in capital gains, dividends BILL JOHNSON, from Ohio, is a great in prioritization so we’re not just and the death tax. What that did was it freshman Member. Congratulations to spending everything. We have to look freed up a lot of money for, BILL, who those in the State of Ohio for sending at what our responsibility as a govern- you’ve been talking about—the people us some good people down here. ment is, and we have to look at the who own businesses. The death tax ties BILL, please jump in. spending side seriously. up a whole lot of money because, you Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio. Well, you’ve As the gentleman from Ohio stated know, somebody dies, and you just made so many points there. and you stated with your charts, if we hammer him and put a small business I’m a businessman. After my mili- do not take the spending side seriously or farm out of business. Capital gains tary career, I founded two small busi- as the solution to our problem, we will and dividends, they’re all money that nesses. Before I came to Congress, I never find a solution to our problem; was being tied up because of our Tax was the chief information officer for a and the end result will be disastrous Code. So when we reduced those business, a global manufacturing com- for this country. taxes—this is what happened on this pany; and I sat at the table with our Mr. AKIN. I appreciate your thoughts black line. I’ve got three charts here. executive leadership team, and we and particularly the direction that This black line is when we cut capital talked about how do we increase the you’re taking, because my argument gains, dividends and death taxes. value to our shareholders; how do we would be the problem that we’ve point- The first thing: look at the gross do- make our company more profitable; ed out with overspending cannot be mestic product of our country. You can how do we put ourselves in a position solved with increasing taxes, and I’d see it’s spotty in here. We were in a re- to be able to invest and grow. like to talk about that for a minute. cession. The amount of money we were There are two sides to that formula. My good friend from Ohio, just hold taking in was not good in these early On one side, you’ve got spending. On for a second. I’d like to try to illus- years. the other side, you’ve got revenue. trate something. Here is what happens when we do the There is a balancing act. Controlling When I first came here a couple of tax cut: spending, we’ve talked about. We’ve years back, people talked about the You see that there is a jump from 1.1 got to stop the out-of-control spending Laffer curve and the idea that you percent GDP to 3.5, so GDP goes up here in Washington, and we’re going to could have the government take more when we cut taxes. That tells us, hey, address that in this Congress. money in by reducing taxes. the economy is going. It’s doing better. Now, I’m an engineer by training, What else happens? Let’s take a look b 1240 and to me that seemed counter- at the chart. It’s the same thing. But how do we increase the revenue? intuitive. How in the world can the This is May of 2003. This is job losses. That is what you’ve been talking about government lower tax rates and take in Everything below the line is a job loss. here for the last few minutes. And

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It is Now when we did our research on the thing. People made fun of him, that it the primary function of the Federal sales tax holiday back in 2009, what we was trickle-down economics and all Government, in our preamble to the learned is there were 17 States that had that kind of stuff; but the fact of the United States, ‘‘provide for the na- already implemented a sales tax holi- matter was the economy became tional defense.’’ day which validated the concept that strong, and he had to have a strong We were spending 7.4 percent of GNP you just referred to. Take one State, economy to face the threats of Com- in ’65, which has now dropped down to for example, implemented their sales munism in the Soviet Union. not quite 5 percent of GNP. And we tax holiday in the very first year. In And ultimately he bankrupted the have the problem now with the two the month that they implemented that USSR because of the fact that our wars, with all of our equipment aging. sales tax holiday they saw an overall— economy was strong enough that they So we’re having a whole lot of trouble now there were adversaries that said couldn’t keep up with us in the arms trying to stay competitive, particu- you can’t take that sales tax revenue race, and he basically got them to the larly with China and a lot of their new out of the coffer at a time when we are point of ‘‘tear down this wall.’’ But it developments, with national defense struggling to meet the State budget. was based on this same principle of the because the entitlements are just going Fortunately, sound minds prevailed fact that he had tremendously cut the nuts. and they were able to get the bill taxes which allowed the American And so the problem is that we’re through. And in the month that they economy to surge and allow free enter- going to have to take a look at entitle- passed that bill and they had that sales prise and the businessmen to start ments, not just Social Security, Medi- tax holiday, their overall sales tax rev- making some money. care and Medicaid, but there are other enues did not decline; they went up We’re doing the exact opposite. At ones too. You’ve got food stamps, nearly 5 percent. the Federal level, our income tax is the you’ve got public housing, and you also Mr. AKIN. So what happened—let me second highest income tax in the whole have the debt service. All of this, when see if I understand this. The sales tax world. That doesn’t make a whole lot you put it together, is using almost all holiday was not a total cutting of all of sense. of the money coming in in a given the sales tax; it just reduced it much Now, I want to go to this problem a year. That says we had better get seri- lower. little different angle from it, and that ous about doing some cutting. Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio. That’s right. is, we’ve talked about we’re spending And once again, I will come back do Mr. AKIN. And by reducing the tax, too much money. We’ve talked about, you, Congressman JOHNSON, if you their revenue increased. Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio. Well, what it really, that raising taxes is not the so- would like to comment on that aspect was, it eliminated sales tax on certain lution, which means then, by defini- of where we are. items like back-to-school items, things tion, you’ve got to cut spending. Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio. Well, you hit that people had to have to get their Well, what are we spending money the nail on the head again. National kids back in school, to put them in col- on? I think that’s something we need defense is our number one priority; it lege and those kinds of things—cloth- to take a look at here. And I’ve got a has to be. In fact, the oath of office ing, school supplies, computers. For ex- chart. Before I had the chart that that you and I took on January 5, vir- ample, many States included com- showed Medicare, Medicaid, and Social tually the same oath of office that the puters in those sales tax holidays. Security. And these things people call President takes, it says that we swore Over the next year, they saw another entitlements because we passed a law a or affirmed to support and defend the nearly 5 percent increase in the overall long time ago, and it just spits money Constitution of the United States sales tax revenues. By the third year, out, more and more money out over against all enemies foreign and domes- they saw a nearly 8 percent increase in time. This chart suggests if you keep tic. That requirement to provide for sales tax revenues. And over a 3-year your taxes at 18 percent, at a certain the national defense is the number one period, they were looking at close to 20 point, at 2052, these things get so big, most important thing that we in the percent overall sales tax revenue in- they squeeze the rest of the budget out. Congress, in the administration are re- creases over that 3-year period. The trouble is this chart is optimistic. quired to do, keep America safe, keep Mr. AKIN. By cutting taxes. The problem with the chart is it America free, protect Americans and Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio. Because what doesn’t include all of the entitlements. American interests around the world. happened was when people got a tax There are a lot of entitlements that are There is no question that we must in- break on things that they had to have, not on that chart. vest in those programs that are going they would channel those savings into But here, take a look at this, what to support our troops in the field. And buying things that they wanted to have has happened since 1965. I think this I agree with you that we must look at and that they had been saving up for also adds perspective to what’s going the proper balance between defense with their families. And other States on in terms of our spending. In 1965, en- spending and other spending to make started coming across the border to titlements were 2.5 percent of gross do- sure that we achieve what we have take advantage of that holiday. It’s a mestic product. It starts here. The red been charged by the American people simple concept that we need others to line goes up to the point now that in to do. understand: when you let families and 2010 the entitlements have gone from Mr. AKIN. As a good Air Force man, businesses keep more of their money 2.5 to 9.9 percent. That’s a four-times I knew you would come up with the and you put the decision about how increase to 2010. The trouble is that’s right answer. The point of the matter they spend that money in their hands, just Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Se- is if you don’t have national security, America prospers. curity. you don’t have any other kind of secu- Mr. AKIN. Well, I really appreciate The additional entitlements would go rity. that. That’s a real-life example, some- up even further. This is probably say- Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio. Well, I often thing that you worked on looking at ing that since ’65, we’ve had probably ask my constituents, what is our num- different States. And it was the same about a five-times increase in entitle- ber one job? What is the President’s principle of what we’ve seen. ments. And what’s happened in return number one job? Is it to keep us safe, Now, the idea of cutting taxes in a to national security and defense? The or is it to keep us free? And of course recession and cutting Federal spending U.S. Constitution says the most basic you get a number of different hands

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You know, just even hear- be truly safe. stamps, and they have unemployment. ing you talk about that, somehow that b 1250 And the other party is saying we want gets me excited. jobs and paychecks. And that’s kind of You know, I think about it. God And safety is obviously pretty close the choice. And if you want jobs and made all of these different people, and on the same level. And they play into paychecks, you’ve got to have a free all of us are different. And from the one another. But our national defense, enterprise economy. day that you grow up as a little kid flowing down from our national secu- If you want the government to just you start thinking about stuff that rity strategy, our national strategy, subsidize you and live off of welfare, you’d like to do, whether you want to that’s paramount. that’s a different perspective. be a fireman or a doctor or an Indian Mr. AKIN. I very much appreciate So what we’re seeing is this growth chief, you know, people kind of talk your perspective. We’re joined by another great fresh- in entitlements, this number is low on about that. man coming from pretty near by Mis- this chart because it doesn’t have food And you never really know for most souri, from the great State of Kansas, stamps, it doesn’t have public housing, people, they don’t really know where and it doesn’t have the debt service. their life is going to go, what they’re Congressman YODER. It’s a treat to have you on the floor. And as you’ve When you put that all together, we’re going to achieve or accomplish. But heard, we’ve been pontificating here a right at the point where the money there’s something inside human nature little bit about how are we going to coming in is just barely paying for all that has this idea once you start to get deal with this. You know, the Federal of these entitlements and the debt the idea that you can dream and do Government is spending a whole lot service. You put that together, that’s something cool. more than we take in. So we’ve got to not a good picture. So people have these crazy ideas. And deal with that problem. We’ve been And the solution I think most Ameri- America was full of these crazy people talking about the fact that taxing isn’t cans—I bet you that’s what your elec- and all of these crazy ideas. They a good solution because if you raise tion was about, the fact that we want didn’t know the ideas were impossible, taxes, you drive your revenues down. It to have jobs, and we want to see a and they kept trying and trying, and means we’re going to have to do some strong America. We want to see an finally the idea becomes maybe vague- cutting. So that’s a tough subject. America that’s free. We want to see a ly possible and then pretty soon, it ac- But I appreciate a little bit of com- Federal Government that doesn’t en- tually happens. mon sense from the great State of Kan- slave us, doesn’t tame us, put us in vel- You take the crazy guy who built sas. vet chains of a welfare state, but rath- lightbulbs. What’d he build, a hundred, Congressman YODER. er that allows us to rise the way Amer- two or three hundred lightbulbs? And Mr. YODER. I appreciate the con- icans have always risen to the chal- somebody said, Boy, you’ve got to be gressman from Missouri’s indulgence lenges that each one of us, the dreams discouraged, Thomas Edison. He said, for a little time here. we have in our heart to make those No, I’ve got a couple hundred ways not I’ve been watching this conversation happen, to have a chance to fail or to to make lightbulbs. So I’m even closer you’ve been having on the floor, the succeed. And that’s what made Amer- to the right solution. You’ve got to be gentleman has, along with the gen- ica such an incredible place. a little bit pretty entrepreneurial to tleman, and it seems like we’re in the And I appreciate, Congressman have that perspective. middle of an ideological battle in this YODER, your standing up for those So America, if you think about it, country. On the one hand, you have basic American principles and values. this great country was built one dream folks on the left that argue that gov- And I think what that means is we’re at a time by all these people. And one ernment is the solution to all the prob- going to have to deal with this level of of the great things, Congressman lems our country is facing. Unemploy- spending. YODER, that you do and Congressman ment, their argument is that we need Congressman JOHNSON, back to Ohio. JOHNSON, is you have a chance to serve to create more government jobs, that Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio. I wanted to your people. Washington can solve these problems. comment on what you said and what What’s going to happen—because And out in Kansas we know that it is the gentleman here said about what you’re both freshmen—what you’re the private sector. It’s the individual makes America great. going to find is that through the years, that creates jobs in this country. We When people stop to consider that all these people from your district, know that it’s hard work and deter- this little sapling of a Nation in terms you’ll run into them, and you’ll see mination. And you can’t substitute of age, 230-plus years old, virtually— some sort of a little warehouse some- that with government bureaucrats or and we’re a baby compared to many of where and all of a sudden you realize government mandates. You can’t man- the other nations in the world—yet that thing is a thundering success. date or regulate someone into pros- every modern convenience, virtually Some guy’s dream just happened there. perity. It just doesn’t happen. And every modern convenience known to And we have a chance to see all of that’s a real battle that’s happening in mankind was birthed right here in this these people around us that have expe- this country right now, and I think country. And why was that? It was be- rienced that American dream. And it is this is a challenge that we’ve really got cause of that system of free enterprise cool. But it doesn’t happen by a whole to face in this Congress based on individual freedom. The abil- lot of redtape and taxes. On the one hand we have more enti- ity to pursue our dreams, the ability to Congressman YODER, please jump in. tlement spending, greater deficits, innovate that created this free enter- Mr. YODER. I think what the gen- higher taxes. On the other hand you’ve prise system that we’ve come to know. tleman is speaking about is the Amer- got free enterprise, economic freedom, It did not come about in the Halls of ican dream. It’s the American free en- prosperity. And to me, that’s the real Congress. It was not discovered in the terprise system. It’s the essence of essence of this challenge: Are we going deliberation rooms of courtrooms. what makes America what it is. And to to create a free enterprise country or It was discovered around the camp- watch and to see it under threat here are we going to be an entitlement soci- fires and around the dining room ta- in Washington, it angers and it frus- ety? bles, the kitchen tables, the fields, the trates Americans. Mr. AKIN. In a way, I think you’ve factories. As America came along, we And that’s what we saw this last really framed things. I appreciate your learned when individuals are allowed to year, Americans coming out to town

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And that’s just in the first cou- to prosperity. don’t need that many of them. So these ple of weeks. The road to prosperity is built brick are all things that are on the table. I’m looking forward to both of you by brick by hardworking Americans So the proposal that’s being made by gentlemen in the months ahead really out in Kansas and out in Ohio and out the study committee has been, instead charting that course back to the Amer- in Missouri and all across this country of having the graph of the discre- ican Dream. as they work to put a little of their tionary spending going this way, non- If you would like to add—I think we own money in and build a business or defense, they are going to try to are pretty close on time. If you would to take care of their family. They work flatline that at about 400. like to conclude, a couple of comments, hard. Sweat equity. That’s what built So there are a lot of things going on. either one. this country. It’s an exciting time. We realize we are Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio. I will just And when they see the folks in Wash- going to have to get efficient in gov- sum up with this, because I think you ington believe that that money isn’t ernment, and we have to basically go have hit the nail on the head. We can the people’s money, it’s Washington’s back to where we started. cure this disease. It’s called stopping money—and in fact, the folks in Wash- The government was to be the serv- the out-of-control spending. And at ington, they don’t even spend the ant of the people. It wasn’t supposed to every opportunity, we should seek money they’re given; they spend as be the master. We didn’t expect the ways to allow American families and much as they want, regardless of how government to pay for everything for American businesses to keep more of much money we have. So part of this job situation, this us and keep us as little dependents. We their hard-earned money. That’s going American prosperity situation, it simply wanted it to get out of the way. to result in economic confidence. comes back to spending. And what we We wanted it to defend our right to life That’s going to result in investment. do here on the floor of the United and liberty and the pursuit of happi- That’s going to result in increased con- States House of Representatives and ness, and, beyond that, to leave us sumer confidence, and it’s going to in- how we advocate and stand up for those alone. Don’t bury us with redtape and crease and create jobs, and we know people that sometimes aren’t always government regulations and taxes and that. heard, that’s what we have to do here. uncertainties, which we have seen, I urge my colleagues—I thank you Mr. AKIN. I’m glad that you’re join- which have created all the unemploy- for this time, and I urge my colleagues ing us in that. In fact, there is a Con- ment. to join with me in supporting the legis- gressman JORDAN from the great State I appreciate two great patriots join- lation and those policies that are going of Ohio who was, I believe, holding a ing me on the floor today kicking to accomplish those goals: cutting the press conference not so long ago talk- around where we are. spending, letting Americans keep more ing about what are some of the things I am very encouraged by our first of their hard-earned money, and ulti- that we’re going to cut, because people week or two. First week or two we mately creating jobs and putting ask us, you know, what are you going started by cutting congressional budg- America back to work. And I want to to cut? ets. We read the Constitution on the thank you for the opportunity today. Well, one of the things is we’re going floor. We put together a rule that says Mr. AKIN. Boy, that’s a fantastic, to reduce the nondefense discretionary every single bill has to be proven to be straightforward approach to where we spending to 2008 levels. Well, what’s constitutional or else it doesn’t even have to go. You take a look at it. that worth? Well, that’s a lot of money get out of the hopper. And then, of Unfortunately, the gentleman who that you can save that way. We’re course, we took a look at one of the was here from Utah before, those of us going to reduce the budget office of biggest jumps in entitlement spending who are in the ‘‘over 60’’ category rec- every congressman. That was our first that America could ever take, which ognize, when it comes to weight, week. Your first week here. We cut the was ObamaCare. And we voted just yes- there’s two problems: It’s either what congressional budget offices by 5 per- terday to repeal the whole thing. you eat or how much exercise you get. cent. That’s just to let people know I will tell you, gentlemen, I know And you can’t really change that very we’re serious. that you were involved back in your much. The Federal budget problem is Then we read the U.S. Constitution own States because you were worried the same way. It’s either how much on the floor of the House to say any about the fact: If the Federal Govern- you’re going to spend or how much you bill you introduce now has got to be ment can’t manage Medicare and Med- can tax. And what’s happened is we consistent with the Constitution. icaid without it breaking the budget, just can’t tax anymore, and we’re But we’ve got another whole series of what’s going to happen if they take going to have to deal with the spend- things that we’re going to do to try to over all of health care? ing. reduce spending, some of them—there I think what people understand in These are some of the items in the is $25 billion in unused Federal prop- America intuitively is the fact that if proposal that was being made in the erty. So what are we going to do with you look at American health care, the press conference today. $80 billion, this that? Why not sell some real estate? front end of it’s good. If you get sick, is nonsecurity. That means not the de- Let’s get rid of it. $123 billion is allo- where do you want to get sick? In fense discretionary spending. We’re cated to programs to which govern- America, if you have to. The trouble going to cut that back to the 2008 level. ment auditors can find no evidence of with health care is: How do we pay for That’s just going back a couple years success. The one that I find amusing is, the it? That part’s broken. So the point to knock that back. That saves $80 bil- Department of Energy was designed so isn’t to scrap the whole thing and turn lion. $45 billion, that’s a repeal of we wouldn’t be dependent on foreign it over to the government, which is unspent stimulus funds. That stimulus oil. And the department’s grown like what ObamaCare did. Instead, we’re bill that created all of the unemploy- mad, and we’re more dependent on for- going to fix the things that are broken, ment that did not work. There is some eign oil than we ever were. but leave the free enterprise part up of that money still left. We take 45 front, which gives us the best health there. b 1300 care in the world. Two, almost 3 trillion, that’s the That needs a good question. Elimi- You guys were here voting for that. nondefense discretionary spending to nate duplicative programs, among And for those of us that were fighting 2006 levels. And also to eliminate the

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I think people are starting also another area that we have got. We around and not having a job. What we to understand this is going to mean have not dealt with that. That created want is we want Americans to be able some changes. There are going be the economic crisis we are in. We have to follow the dreams that are in their changes in our behavioral pattern and not dealt with the cause of the prob- heart, you know. And the mentality of the fact that we have just got to start lem. the fact that anybody looks like cutting back on government and we You put this all together, you are at they’re having fun, we want to tax just can’t continue to let the thing run about $2.46 trillion for 10 years, which them, that just doesn’t make any sense the way we have. the result of that comes out at at all. The bottom line, as we get back to it, flatlining some of the nondefense dis- And sometimes it seems like it’s such I want to restate the problem, and the cretionary. Does that solve the prob- a gloomy perspective to think of Amer- problem is this, that when you put lem? No, it really doesn’t. It helps, but ica as a country which is nothing but those entitlement programs with the still the bottom line is we’re going to the government’s going to take care of debt service together, we are spending have to deal with those entitlements you. You know, the Soviet Union years almost the same amount of money as that are totally out of control. and years ago, they had this basic idea what we take in in revenue. That’s not You guys have got a lot on your the government’s going to provide you a penny for defense or discretionary plates. It’s a big job. It’s going to be an with a home; it’s going to provide you spending at all. That’s where we are. exciting couple years. And I would rec- with food; it’s going to provide you That’s pretty sobering. ognize Congressman YODER, if you with medical care; it’s going to provide That’s why the challenge is signifi- would like to make a couple of closing you with an education; the govern- cant. We are not going to get there comments. I think we have got about ment’s going to provide you with a job. overnight. We are not going to balance another 5 minutes or so. That was their formula, and it didn’t the budget in 1 year. Mr. YODER. I thank the gentleman. work worth a hoot. And the Soviet I don’t even think the most conserv- And I think what the Congressman Union collapsed. It’s in the dustbin of ative guy in Congress would think that from Missouri is discussing, these spe- history. we could do that, that there is any cific points of how we could reduce And here what are we doing? We’re probability that America could adjust spending and how we could bring the trying to look at the government to that rapidly. Federal budget back towards a bal- provide you food and a home and an But we can balance a budget and we anced budget, which is what Americans education. The government’s going to must. The fact is we have to take want us to do, we’ve all seen across provide you health care and the gov- steady steps, one at a time, and move this country, Americans have, what ernment’s going to provide you a job, forward on this because of the fact that happens in Washington. They spend as or if you don’t have a job, they’ll pay we are protecting that most precious much as they want, regardless of how you anyway. That’s a formula that idea that America has been that hope much money they have, and that has to didn’t work. There’s no point in going and that bright light on a hill for peo- stop. down that blind alley again. ple all around the world. This is an opportunity this year, with So what we are coming back to again The aspect of America and the Amer- a new Congress and new energy and is the thing that’s just so exciting ican Dream, there is something that I new enthusiasm on behalf of the Amer- about our country. It’s a country of talked about sometimes when I was ican people, it’s a chance to stand up exceptionalism. It’s a country that’s doing some campaigning. I like to and say, We’re tired of the over- led the world. It’s a country that is a throw into the mix there the concept spending. We’re tired of trillions of dol- source of hope for people all around the that in following the dream that’s in lars being spent on programs for which world as they take a look at our coun- your heart, it takes a certain amount some of which we can’t find real tan- try. of courage. Those people like Thomas gible results. We’re tired of duplication Edison, the people that came by the b 1310 of programs. We’re tired of endless bu- Statue of Liberty with the shirt on reaucracy and red tape. It was interesting, during the days of their back and a little change in their Americans want to see action and Ronald Reagan, that he got a message pocket, it took guts to do that. It’s they want to see bold proposals, such out of some of the concentration camps going to take guts to go where we have as what you are outlining there, to up in Siberia and gulag and different to go. But with courage and God’s show that we can actually, truly cut places that were really rough. And the blessing we can do it, gentlemen. spending. We have heard folks on this people were thirsty for news of what God bless you all. floor say we can’t cut spending, that it was happening with America and they f will hurt too much. Well, what hurts is were praying for us, because they real- this $14 trillion debt, this legacy we are ized that we were a source of hope and REPEAL OF HEALTH CARE leaving to our children and our grand- inspiration to the rest of the world. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under children. This is an immoral legacy There was a group of our Founders, the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- that we’re passing along to the next came over on a boat, it was called the uary 5, 2011, the gentleman from Iowa generation. Lion. It was 1630—it was some of the (Mr. KING) is recognized for 30 minutes. And I think what the gentleman from Puritans under Winthrop—and they Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I ap- Ohio is standing up for, and the gen- wrote something called ‘‘The Model of preciate the honor to be recognized tleman from Missouri, is that this is Christian Charity.’’ It was a long, sort here on the floor of the House of Rep- the time to say enough is enough. It’s of a long Puritan-type document. But resentatives. time to stand up and to start cutting it said something about we must con- Listening to my colleagues in the spending and reining in this out-of-con- sider that we should be a city on a hill, previous hour has been very interesting trol government. a light to the people around the world. to me and, I think, informative to the Mr. AKIN. You know, the thing And that was where Reagan picked American people at the same time. We that’s exciting to me and encouraging that up in his speeches. Of course, it are here now today, the first day after to me, it’s not just you gentlemen, but came out of the Bible that we should be the House has voted to repeal the fact that you came here because a city on a hill, a light to people of the ObamaCare.

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He setts to the United States Senate. pushed through this House, and we had got too concerned about spending too I would like to take you back, if I to vote to repeal yesterday, that much money and he pulled back. could, Mr. Speaker, to that time. spends a lot more money. Mr. Speaker, And in pulling back, that brought Where we were a year ago today, 13, 14, you don’t solve the problem of spend- about, according to our current Presi- 15 months ago. In fact, I would like to ing too much money by spending a lot dent, a recession within a depression. dial us all the way back to, let’s say, more money. And unemployment numbers went up the beginning of August of 2009. That would be the health care equiv- in the second half of the 1930s because That was the time that the town hall alent of Keynesian economics, wouldn’t they should have borrowed and given meetings lit up all across this country. it, Mr. Speaker, Keynesian economics away and spent more money at the And as we watch and the intensity of being that philosophy of John Maynard Federal Government level. the issue of the health care policy un- Keynes, who was an economist and a b 1320 folded before us here in the House of very influential one in that period of Representatives, the national debate, time when Franklin Delano Roosevelt And he convinced me on that day the media debate, the talk in the coffee was elected to be our President of the that this President would not make shops and across the backyard fence United States, and a similar economic that mistake. And we’re talking, Mr. and in our churches and in our daily time of downward spiral. Their belief Speaker, all within the confines of lives was focusing on health insurance was that you could borrow money and Keynesian economics, which I want to and health care policy in America. send that money out into the public make it very clear I completely dis- I would remind you, Mr. Speaker, and and get people to spend that money; agree with that philosophy. The Presi- those listening into this conversation and if you do that, it would stimulate dent does not. And he did not, by his we are having, that the President of the economy. view, make the mistake that FDR did. In fact, John Maynard Keynes, per- the United States had consistently said He has continued to push for more bor- haps facetiously, in fact—I believe it that we were in an economic downward rowing and more spending and growth was facetiously—but I think it’s wor- spiral. We were in a bad economic fix. in the debt and the deficit. And we con- thy to tell the story that he told—he If you remember Henry Paulson com- tinue to see unemployment numbers said, I can solve the economic problems ing to this Capitol on September 19 of that push at double digits, 9.8 percent, here in the United States. I can solve 2008, and telling us that he needed $700 then down to 9.4 percent. And it looks the unemployment in America by billion right now without any strings like that may be a permanent condi- doing this, go out to an abandoned coal attached to solve what he predicted tion until we can get free enterprise to mine, drill a whole bunch of holes out could likely be the collapse of credit kick back in again. into that abandoned coal mine. Fill and currency globally, and this Con- But this is the approach economi- those holes up full of cash, U.S. green- cally. The President sees this in a gress, over my objections, most vocif- backs. Then fill the abandoned coal erous, and votes, did send that money downward spiral when he takes the mine full of garbage. oath of office and goes out and pushes to Henry Paulson; and some of it got Now think of that image, Mr. Speak- to spend more and more and more spent the way he intended to. er, an abandoned coal mine with holes money. But this fear of this economy drilled in a random pattern all across And, yes, Mr. Speaker, there will be brought about to some degree an in- the face of the abandoned coal mine, crease in the number of Democrat seats deep holes shallow holes, big holes, those who are sitting at home or per- in the House of Representatives, and it small holes, fill them full of cash. Then haps in the gallery who are thinking, contributed to the election of Barack backfill the holes, fill the abandoned but some of this started under George Obama as President, and he has said coal mine up with garbage. W. Bush’s Presidency. And it did, Mr. that he inherited some of the worst Then he said, turn the entrepreneurs Speaker. But it was all supported by economic times ever. loose. The entrepreneurs will go in— Barack Obama. And it was signifi- And the President of the United now I have to fill in the blanks, be- cantly accelerated after the election States told this country over and over cause that’s the only part of the quote and the inauguration of Barack Obama. again we are in an economic problem that I know—the entrepreneurs would And so his approach to solving the and a downward spiral, and he said, then go in and start to dig the garbage economic problem was borrow more first, we couldn’t fix the economy un- out, haul garbage out to make way to money, spend more money, drive this less we first fixed health care in Amer- dig into the holes to come up and pull Nation into debt believing that he ica. So he made that an issue that went up the cash. Somebody has to support could stimulate an economy that some- into the middle of the economic calam- the industry of the people that are how would come back and pay the ity, conditions that we had. hauling the garbage out and digging taxes to offset the interest and the I didn’t accept that analysis; but he back down into the holes. overhead that this government now also said that the problem with health Somebody has to exchange the cash, has. That’s the Keynesian approach. care was we spend too much money in the garbage-covered cash for clean Well, he used the same approach relation to other countries in the cash. It’s like an industry that would when it comes to health care, the world, in relation to the overall size of begin in a similar way that a gold-min- Keynesian approach to health care, our economy, in relation to the indi- ing town might begin if somebody dis- which is this thought: we spend too vidual dollars that are spent on indi- covers gold in Colorado, California, or much money on health care. We can’t vidual patients. maybe even Iowa one day. afford it. We have too many people un- There is some degree of truth to that, But the idea was if you could get insured. So let’s go out here and im- in fact, I think a significant degree, money into people’s hands, they would pose a health insurance policy on an- but in areas that the President didn’t spend it and it will create multiple other 32 million or 47 million Ameri- want to address. So he said we have to iterations of an economic activity; and cans and send the IRS in to enforce the fix our economy, and we can’t fix it un- John Maynard Keynes believed that law so that they compel every Amer- less we first fix the problem with would stimulate the economy. The ican to buy a health insurance policy health care. That includes when they President believes this also, our cur- that is either produced or approved by use that term, that means health in- rent President, Mr. Speaker. the Federal Government. Remember,

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We could have fought this. ination process between Barack Obama anybody from Hawaii. Well, why do I His answer was, pray, and pray for a and Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton say they come from every State? I met victory in the special election in Mas- carried the best credentials of her pro- people from Alaska. People from Ha- sachusetts. That was my email back on posals on health care into that cam- waii went to MICHELE BACHMANN’s of- the morning of December 24 from that paign. Barack Obama had to offset her fice as she was out working against the exchange. And I thought, I don’t think strong liberal health care credentials ObamaCare bill and presented and laid I have the audacity to pray for an with some of his own. That’s what on her desk a lei that they brought intervention in a Senate election in ginned this up. This is what convinced from Hawaii. They came from every Massachusetts. How could there pos- America that we were in a health care State to peacefully petition the gov- sibly be a Republican victory in Massa- crisis, and the President grabbed it and ernment for redress of grievances ex- chusetts? We know the politics of Mas- went into the arena of an economic cri- actly in a constitutional fashion. sachusetts, and it’s 100 percent Demo- sis using the Rahm Emanuel philos- Fifth of November, 2009, on a Thurs- crats—was—in each of their eight con- ophy which is ‘‘never let a crisis go to day we did a huge press conference out gressional seats and in their two Sen- waste’’ and sought to bring about the on the West Lawn of the Capitol with ate seats and had been for a long time. beginnings of socialized medicine here numbers of people that ranged in the So I thought about that and delib- in the United States. 30,000 to 40,000 people, small side, up to erated on it and thought, that’s the That’s the foundation and the back- perhaps 50 to 60,000 people, outside, only real choice that I have. drop for what we have; and that calling for this Congress to listen to And I found myself in Massachusetts brought about town hall meetings in them, to keep this Congress’ hands off the last 3 days of the SCOTT BROWN August of 2007 and early September, I of their health care. election; and I found a lot of patriots in would add, that were jam packed all Well, still their hearts were hard- Massachusetts, residents of Massachu- across this country. My town hall ened; and we had another press con- setts, tea party groups, constitutional meetings have never been so full. I had ference the following Saturday just 3 conservatives, 9/12 Project people, inde- some that were standing room only. days later that had thousands of people pendents that are constitutionalists Senator GRASSLEY in the same area at it. And still on that Saturday night with a cause and discerning Democrats that I represent had to take one of his they brought a vote to the floor that that have come over from the other meetings outdoors because there moved the ObamaCare legislation out side. I met a couple that had always wasn’t room for people inside the huge of the House of Representatives, down walked the streets for Democrats, a building that they had set aside for the the Hall all the way through the end of union couple, both husband and the town hall meeting. That’s just a part of the Capitol into the United States Sen- wife. And they told me that they were Iowa, but that’s a snapshot of the ate. That was November 7, a Saturday done, that they were working for the broader picture of the entire United night of 2009. Republican side, and they would al- States. And the Senate took it up, and they There was intensity. We saw it. We ways stay on the Republican side. were looking for a way to, I’ll say the I met people there with the deepest saw it in YouTube. We saw it in the Majority Leader HARRY REID and oth- amount of patriotism and went to look news. We saw Senator Specter I will ers, were looking for a way to pass at Plymouth Rock. And there, of say getting a message delivered to him ObamaCare in the Senate. And as the course, in Boston Harbor was the real utterly clearly in his town hall meet- maneuvering unfolded, it came to Boston Tea Party. And why would I ings. We saw Members of Congress that Christmas Eve, Mr. Speaker. On Christ- have thought that the State that could were, to some degree, disrespected in mas Eve, most of the procedural ma- launch the Revolution and have an ac- their town hall meetings, which I re- neuvers that the Republicans had in gret. tual real tea party, why would I have We also saw many, many Members of the Senate were exhausted Christmas thought that the Bay State couldn’t this House and the Senate that did Eve day. They had 12 more hours that deliver us a measure of defense and re- jam-packed town hall meetings and lis- they could have used to delay the vote lief from ObamaCare? tened to constituents for hours on end and 12 more hours of debate that could And so yesterday—I do the fast for- and did tele-town halls on the phone so have been extended. But they decided ward point now, Mr. Speaker—but yes- those that couldn’t or didn’t come out to shake hands with HARRY REID and terday here on the floor of the House of had an opportunity to weigh in. We allow ObamaCare to come to a vote on Representatives was the 1-year anni- read the mail. We took the phone calls. December 24 about 9 a.m. versary from the election of SCOTT We took the emails and the snail mail, Well, that let everybody get a plane BROWN. And I don’t think anybody said all the messages that we could. ticket to go home. I wanted them to it into the RECORD, but this Congress, Wherever I went, the subject of use every single minute to delay it having gone through all of that and health care was brought to me starting until as long as they possibly could seen 87 freshman Republicans elected, intensively in August of 2009, carrying until 9 o’clock Christmas Eve night. the majority turn over, and the Amer- throughout the fall of 2009. And as the And we know there aren’t planes flying ican people rise up and send their mes- subject came to this floor and was out of this town anymore after that. I sage in the fashion that was imagined voted on on November 7 of 2009, that would have thought if anybody wanted by the Founding Fathers themselves, was a Saturday night, when this House to impose that version of socialized that this would be the quick reaction passed the House version of ObamaCare medicine on the American people, if body here in the House of Representa- over the strongest of objections, the they wanted it, they believed in it that tives, voted on the anniversary of the 5th of November, 2009, tens of thou- strongly that they had to do it on election of SCOTT BROWN—which we sands of people poured into this Capital Christmas Eve morning, they could thought saved us from ObamaCare and City, Mr. Speaker, to peacefully peti- have just as well done it Christmas Eve ultimately did not—but voted to repeal tion the government for redress of night at 9 o’clock and spent their ObamaCare lock, stock and barrel with grievances in a very constitutional Christmas here in Washington D.C. no vestige of it left behind, to remove fashion. after they put that great big lump of that malignant tumor before it could They were out there in red, white and coal in our stocking, the stocking of metastasize and consume the liberty of blue, all the colors of the rainbow, so the American people. the American people.

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If they like good feeling about what we had accom- must unfund ObamaCare. It is a con- ObamaCare so much, vote against the plished, but it is maybe similar to stitutional method to put a stop to the repeal. If you stand where I do, vote to climbing a mountain, and when you get development of authorized legislation. repeal it. I predict that the majority up there into the altitude and you have It would freeze in place the develop- votes are in the Senate today to pass reached a place along the way to the ment of ObamaCare until such time as the repeal of ObamaCare. summit and the altitude gets a little we can complete the repeal. Mr. Speaker, I believe the American thin and the effort to get to that point Mr. Speaker, I am for and will work people will put their request over to is so great, that effort, that energy to put language in every appropria- the United States Senate over and over that it drains off also drains off some tions bill that prohibits the use of and over again until that very hot po- of the euphoria. And if you look up at those funds for the purposes of imple- tato, that very large, hot potato gets the balance of that peak and you see menting or enforcing ObamaCare; and larger and hotter as it sits in the lap of you have to scale some pretty steep to do that on every appropriations bill, the majority leader, HARRY REID, until cliffs to get there, and even though you especially the bill that will come here such time as the American people get a can see the path and you know you near the end of February that is nec- vote in the United States Senate. have the ability to do it, you don’t feel essary to keep our government func- Yes, I recognize that the President that euphoria as you go up in the same tioning beyond the expiration of the would veto such legislation. But we way you might as you imagined the continuing resolution, which is March would then know—and we already climb in the first place. And that is 4, coming up in a month and a half or know where every Member in the how it was here yesterday. You didn’t a little better. House of Representatives stands. We hear a noise come up out of the Repub- We will put language in that con- would then know where every Member licans on this side. We were respectful tinuing resolution that we likely will in the United States Senate stands, of people on the other side of the aisle. have to extend this funding. It doesn’t and we would be able to see how much We have a legitimate disagreement and have to be for the duration of the fiscal resolve the President has to protect his a difference of opinion. But the Amer- year. If it is for a month or 2 months or signature legislation, and whether he ican people have spoken. They filled up for the balance of the fiscal year until cares more about his signature piece of this side of the aisle, and every Repub- September 30, that is fine. But every legislation that the American people lican, every freshman that I know of appropriations bill must have the lan- have rejected than he does about the ran on the repeal of ObamaCare. It was guage in it that shuts off the imple- government of the United States and a big vote for them yesterday, and it is mentation or the enforcement of the broader well-being of the people keeping faith with the American peo- ObamaCare and prohibits any funds and the security even of the United ple. that were heretofore appropriated from States, the functions of government. But the better way to describe this being used for the same. That is the So I will go back again, Mr. Speaker, vote yesterday to repeal ObamaCare, I language we need in each appropria- and say, reiterate, the strategy now is think, was described by Winston tions bill. this: That this is not the end of our ef- Churchill at the beginning of the Bat- If we do this, then the President of forts to repeal ObamaCare. It is not tle of Britain, and I should have the United States will, at a certain even the beginning of the end of our ef- checked the history book, but it was in point, need to sign an appropriations forts. And it is not the beginning of the the early part of World War II. Winston bill to keep the government funding. end of ObamaCare. But it is, perhaps, Churchill, speaking to brace up the He will have to agree with the people of the end of the beginning. British people in the war against the America and the voice of the House of We launched this off yesterday and Nazis, said: ‘‘Now this is not the end. It Representatives. I also think he has to the day before. We had the vote that is not even the beginning of the end. agree with what I believe is the major- went up last night. Now we know that But it is, perhaps, the end of the begin- ity in the United States Senate, Mr. Republicans stand unified 100 percent ning.’’ Speaker. in opposition to ObamaCare. And any- I think that is where we are in the re- The majority leader in the Senate body who will vote to repeal peal of ObamaCare, Mr. Speaker. It is, said that the bill is not coming up. The ObamaCare also should be on good perhaps, the end of the beginning that repeal of ObamaCare is not coming up solid ground to vote to block any fund- we accomplished yesterday, and now in the Senate, that he will block it, ing that would implement or enforce we have a long, hard slog, to quote a that he won’t bring it up. I think his ObamaCare. previous Secretary of Defense whom I job is to bring out the will of the Sen- That’s the stand we need to take in greatly respect, and that long, hard ate, to reflect the will of the Senate, every appropriations bill while the au- slog amounts to this: because the people in the Senate are thorization committees work on the re- The resolution that passed today di- the representatives of the people of the placement policies, as is reflected by rects the committees to begin the United States of America. the resolution that passed here in the project of writing replacement lan- Every Senator over there would House of Representatives today. guage, shaping bills and legislation for agree with me in this: Their constitu- We have a large task in front of us. I replacement language so that we can ents deserve every bit as much rep- am not daunted by the difficulty of it. apply free-market ideals, constitu- resentation as HARRY REID’s constitu- I realize it will take a lot of energy and tional ideals, protect the doctor-pa- ents do. When one Senator holds the a lot of commitment over the next cou- tient relationship so that we address rest of the Chamber up for his own per- ple of years to finally accomplish the the abusive lawsuits that are driving sonal will, for his own political agenda, end of ObamaCare as we, Mr. Speaker, up the cost of health care, both in two and doesn’t allow the will of the Senate elect a President in 2012 who I hope and forms: the cost of litigation and the to be reflected, that happens in certain trust and believe will run on the ticket money that goes to trial lawyers, as leveraged positions over in the Senate, of plank number one in his platform, well as the cost of defensive medicine and the nuances of that are not some- sign the repeal of ObamaCare. and unnecessary tests as doctors try to thing that I want to comment on. I look forward to that day, Mr. avoid and minimize the potential for But I will comment on this tonight, Speaker, when we see the effect of the lawsuits. Actually, there is a hearing Mr. Speaker, that I will challenge the resistance to the will of the people in

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I believe it will we did, that China is in the driver’s For too long, routinely increasing strengthen the ranks of ObamaCare op- seat.’’ the amount of money that government ponents here in the House of Rep- Those were the opening words of an can borrow without taking any action resentatives in the 2012 election, and I October 2010 Time magazine piece, au- to stem the country’s growing debt has think that it will also elect a President thored by veteran reporter Joe Klein, been standard operating procedure; but of the United States who will be taking who canvassed the country during the the storm warning signs have been the oath of office on the West Portico height of the campaign season. posted, and I am heeding their ominous of the Capitol on January 20 in 2013. Klein’s assessment of the national call. Mr. Speaker, here is the image I have mood was underscored by New York When Congress is asked to increase in mind. First, earlier in January of Times columnist David Brooks, who re- the statutory debt limit, which will 2013, the House will have to repass the cently wrote: ‘‘The current sour mood likely happen in the next few months, final repeal of ObamaCare. The Senate is not just caused by high unemploy- I will vote ‘‘no’’ unless—and let me be then, I believe, will take it up and pass ment. It emerges from the fear that completely clear here—there is a firm that repeal of ObamaCare. And send it America’s best days are behind it.’’ commitment to deal with the larger where? Message it where? I believe this foreboding national issue or the vote itself is tied to a plan anxiety is born of certain realities—ex- to put America on a path to financial b 1340 ploding debts and deficits, shuttered responsibility. I hope we message it out to the po- factories, rising unemployment, bloat- I have come to this decision based on dium on the West Portico of the Cap- ed government, and an acrimonious a multitude of factors that I will ex- itol for January 20, 2013, where I hope tenor to our national discourse. People plore in the remaining time. Consider to be at a good vantage point where I fear that America’s influence is waning these grim realities: can see the next President of the and our ‘‘shining city on a hill’’ is dim- Our Nation is now more than $14 tril- United States, and tell him, Take the ming. lion in debt. We have accumulated a $1 oath of office with pen in hand, and I must admit to sharing these same trillion deficit every year. Just last take the oath this way, Mr. Speaker: anxieties as a father of five and grand- Thursday, both Moody’s Investment ‘‘I do solemnly swear to the best of father of 15. I have never been more Service and Standard & Poor’s again my ability to preserve, protect and de- concerned about my country’s future. cautioned the U.S. that its coveted fend the Constitution of the United Yet I do not believe that the realiza- AAA credit rating is at risk if the States, so help me God.’’ tion of these fears is inevitable. We can country’s deteriorating fiscal situation Then, before that new President walk back from the precipice. We have is not corrected. shakes hands with the Chief Justice of options. Sober-minded people believe The practical implications of a down- the Supreme Court, I would like to see that we must dramatically change graded credit rating are severe. The him take his hand down, with pen in it, course, especially as it relates to our cost to borrow money will rise. Every- and sign the repeal of ObamaCare right ballooning national debt and deficit— thing from a home loan to a car loan to there during the swearing in cere- and I agree. a student loan will increase. Interest monies of the next President of the Yet, are America and her leaders on the debt was $202 billion in 2010. United States, which will set the tone willing to make the tough decisions That’s nearly $4 billion a week. In 2021, for the new era that we will be working that are necessary? interest on the debt is projected to be towards throughout 2011 and 2012. The lyrics in Simon and Garfunkel’s $1 trillion a year, or roughly $2.7 bil- So, when the Sun comes up on the song ‘‘The Boxer’’—‘‘Man hears what lion a day. morning of January 21, 2013, we will be he wants to hear and disregards the Unsustainable debt in Europe and the free at last from the burden of social- rest’’—aptly describe the mood in resulting economic woes and austerity ized medicine, and the freest people in Washington when it comes to address- measures led to riots in the streets. Is the world will have rejected depend- ing Federal spending. it just a matter of time before we see ency, will have stood up for independ- Within days of the President’s fiscal that at home? ence, and will have stood up for the vi- commission report on the dire con- If we are on the same trajectory as tality of the American people. sequences of the failure to address these countries, their unemployment That, Mr. Speaker, is the vision I growing mandatory spending, it was numbers should give us pause. Spain have in mind, and I will work on that business as usual with Congress pass- was at a whopping 19.8 percent in De- every day until that is accomplished. ing and the Obama administration sup- cember. That is my pledge to you, Mr. Speaker, porting a tax and spending bill with an Noted historian Niall Ferguson au- and the American people. $857 billion price tag that included a thored a piece in the April 2010 Foreign It is my privilege to address you here yearlong ‘‘payroll tax holiday,’’ raiding Affairs, exploring the theory that great on the floor, and I thank you. the Social Security trust fund at a cost empires often decline swiftly. From I yield back the balance of my time. of $112 billion, without paying for it, Rome to the Ming Dynasty to the Brit- f thereby increasing the national debt. ish Empire, history is rife with exam- So the question before us is: Will ples of seemingly invincible world pow- A TIME FOR SACRIFICE Washington summon the courage and ers that collapse in a short period of The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the fortitude to make the tough deci- time. the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- sions, to govern based on principle and Ferguson adds that, while there are uary 5, 2011, the gentleman from Vir- not politics, to lead the country toward varied theories about why each of these ginia (Mr. WOLF) is recognized for 30 a brighter tomorrow even if it means empires declined in such short order, minutes. sacrificing in the short term? he said, ‘‘Most imperial falls are asso- Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, ‘‘On a blis- Historically, Americans are willing ciated with fiscal crises.’’ tering evening in Phoenix recently, a to sacrifice. If paying $202 billion a year in inter- group of prominent civic leaders met Many of our countrymen have made est alone isn’t a fiscal crisis, I don’t to talk about America. It didn’t take the ultimate sacrifice on our own know what is. Is America heading off a long for the conversation to get around shores and in distant lands, in places cliff? to the fall of the Ottoman Empire. like Antietam, Normandy, Saigon, Consider that last year a report from ‘‘That’s what happens when smart Kandahar, and Baghdad. the Congressional Budget Office re- Americans get to talking about politics It is on their shoulders we stand— vealed that for the first time in 25 these days. wobbly at times, but stand nonethe- years Social Security was taking in

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And had I been appointed to the past decade foreign ownership of U.S. of America’s outstanding publicly held commission, while supporting some debt has increased significantly from 5 debt is now foreign owned, with China changes, I would have voted for its percent 40 years ago to 46 percent and Saudi Arabia among the largest final report. I commend its members today. holders. Saudi Arabia was home to who voted yes, such as Senator TOM If the U.S. does not begin to rein in many of the 9/11 terrorists. Saudi Ara- COBURN, Republican of Oklahoma, a spending, every penny of the Federal bia’s radical Wahhabism is taught in champion of low taxes, for having the budget will go to interest on the debt some of the most extremist mosques courage to do so. and entitlement spending by 2028. This and madrassas, including up on the Af- The plan set forth by the Simpson- has grave implications for a host of na- ghan-Pakistan border. Their textbooks Bowles Commission—supported by a tional priorities. are filled with hateful messages about majority of the commission’s 18 mem- Ferguson is not alone in his warn- minority faiths, including Christians bers—makes it clear that addressing ings. and Jews. the debt and the deficit isn’t just a In 2007, then-U.S. Comptroller Gen- A recent New York Times story re- simple exercise in rooting out waste, eral David Walker warned of ‘‘striking ported that, ‘‘Saudi donors remain the fraud, and abuse. It is all well and good similarities’’ between America’s cur- chief financiers of Sunni militant to eliminate earmarks, fraud, waste, rent situation and the fall of the groups like al Qaeda.’’ Is this a country and abuse and rein in discretionary Roman Empire. we want to be beholden to financially? spending, but these things alone do not Respected business leader Norm Au- Or what about Communist China? It is come close to solving the debt and the gustine, who chaired a National Acad- well documented by the U.S. intel- deficit. emies’ Commission on American Com- ligence community that China’s at- The infamous bank robber Willie petitiveness that resulted in the land- tempt to spy on U.S. agencies and busi- Sutton reportedly said he robbed banks mark ‘‘Gathering Storm’’ report, cap- nesses are the most aggressive of all ‘‘because that’s where the money is.’’ tured well the situation in which foreign intelligence organizations and, In our government, the money is in en- America now finds itself when he said, according to the FBI, ‘‘pose a signifi- titlements—Medicare, Medicaid, and cant threat to the national security’’ ‘‘In the technology-driven economy in Social Security. Let me say it again: If and compromise U.S. critical national which we live, Americans have come to we do not deal with Medicare, Medicaid assets. and Social Security, we cannot solve accept leadership as the natural and China also routinely violates the this problem. We need to do it in a way enduring state of affairs; but leadership basic human rights of its own people. that really fixes the problem for us and is highly perishable. It must be con- Even this week, as Chinese President for the next generation. We need to do stantly re-earned.’’ Hu Jintao is afforded the pomp and cir- it in a way that strengthens America, b 1350 cumstance of a White House state din- creating economic growth and jobs. ner, Catholic bishops, Protestant pas- He went on to say, ‘‘Unless we do This will be difficult and at times con- things dramatically different, includ- tors, and Tibetan monks are in Chinese jails for practicing their faith. troversial, but the longer we wait we ing strengthening our investments in can be certain that it will become more research and education, the 21st cen- I’ve seen how China plundered Tibet. China’s abuses do not stop at home. difficult and more controversial. tury will belong to China and India.’’ They are a significant arms supplier to The commission’s forthright assess- As America sinks deeper into debt, the genocidal regime in Khartoum, ment about what is necessary to put us we seem satisfied to live utterly in the Sudan. Do we really want China to be in good fiscal standing was a step in moment with no concern for the fu- our banker? All of these realities must the right direction. The success of any ture. And as our own investments in prompt some soul-searching on the endeavor, however, is predicated on ac- the future lag, China is forging ahead, part of our Nation’s leadership. tively involving the American people making critical gains in education Almost 5 years ago, during the last and must require an up-or-down vote in while our children are left in the wake. Republican majority, I came to the Congress. The President’s commission One woman in Arizona who spoke to floor of the House proposing an inde- came up short in that regard. Klein during his heartland travel said pendent bipartisan commission to ad- We have a divided government, which pointedly, ‘‘We seem to be mired in me- dress unsustainable Federal spending. necessitates a bipartisan solution, diocrity while China is steaming It would put everything on the table— something that can be passed and be ahead.’’ Do we really want the 21st cen- entitlements, all other spending, and enacted into law, and the sooner the tury, this century, to be the Chinese tax policy. The SAFE Commission— better. If we neglect to do this, Amer- century? Do we really want to leave short for Securing America’s Future ica will decline, and it will decline on our children a country mired in medi- Economy—would operate in a trans- our watch. We will have failed our chil- ocrity? parent way, holding public meetings dren and grandchildren. We will have Last year, a 5-year followup report across the country to hear from the broken faith with the Founding Fa- titled ‘‘Rising Above the Gathering American people and give them a vest- thers and past generations who have Storm, Revisited’’ noted that ‘‘Almost ed interest in the outcome. Further, it sacrificed greatly to make this Nation, one-third of U.S. manufacturing com- would require Congress to vote on its our Nation, a shining city on a hill. panies responding to a recent survey recommendations. We can no longer ignore the albatross say they are suffering from some level I reintroduced this legislation with of debt around our collective necks. of skills shortages.’’ This failure to Congressman JIM COOPER in the 110th That is why, unless there is a firm train the next generation of engineers and 111th Congresses. Senators KENT commitment to deal with the larger fi- and scientists has a direct bearing on CONRAD and Judd Gregg introduced a nancial crisis or the vote itself is tied our economy. The U.S. graduates only similar bill calling for a deficit com- to a possible debt solution, I will vote half the number—half the number—of mission that became the blueprint for against the debt limit increase. And physicists today than we did in 1956. the President’s National Commission again, I urge my colleagues on both The Gathering Storm report deter- on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, sides of the aisle to consider doing the mined that, for the first time in our or the Simpson-Bowles Commission. same. Nation’s history, the younger genera- I give credit to the deficit commis- I don’t say this lightly. I am fully tion of Americans is less well educated sion. I certainly didn’t agree with aware of the implications. In a recent

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:20 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00034 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\H20JA1.001 H20JA1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD January 20, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 553 letter to congressional leadership, In a December 5 Washington Post have often looked at that picture . . . Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner Outlook piece, author Robert Kaplan without being able to tell whether it spoke in near apocalyptic terms about hauntingly writes, ‘‘America’s ability was a rising or setting sun.’’ And then the consequences of default. Even if to bring a modicum of order to the Franklin continues, ‘‘Now . . . I have just a fraction of his analysis is accu- world is simply fading in slow motion.’’ the happiness to know that it is indeed rate, it is clear that this isn’t a deci- A look at the daily headlines and we a rising, not a setting sun.’’ sion to be made casually. It is precisely are reminded that the world is a much Every politician loves to say that the because the stakes are so high that I more dangerous place when our Nation sun has barely begun to rise on Amer- believe the debt limit vote can serve as is perceived as weak, or worse yet, ica and that America’s best days are a trigger to force congressional action when that perception becomes a re- yet ahead. that otherwise will not be taken. ality. If we steel ourselves for tough deci- The country does not currently have Surely we can agree on the enormity sions and commit to doing the right a credit card limit, and we need one in of what is at stake. The precise blue- thing, if we work for economic and order to stop the mortgaging of our print for how to move forward may moral rebirth, then we will honestly be country’s future. Failure to act now on seem blurry at times, but the implica- able to join the chorus of voices reach- fiscal problems will ensure that in the tions of doing nothing must propel us ing back to our Nation’s founding and future there will be tax increases and onward. echoing across the ages which enjoin us drastic entitlement reductions, and no If we summon the courage to act, I to believe that the sun has indeed bare- money for important discretionary believe we can see a rebirth in America ly begun to rise on our country and spending such as infrastructure, na- marked by grand innovations in that America’s best days are yet to tional security, medical research, and science and technology that are the come. education. The longer it takes to ad- wonders of the world, advances in med- This is a call to action. We are Amer- dress this issue, the more draconian ical research that save millions of icans, and we can prevail. the options will be when the Nation is lives, and further exploration into the forced to change course, as it most as- remaining frontier of space and much f suredly will be. more. LEAVE OF ABSENCE If you are on Social Security or Columnist Tony Blankley wrote re- Medicare, you should insist that the cently, ‘‘America has become a great By unanimous consent, leave of ab- Congress and the administration act. If Nation because we have been an opti- sence was granted to: you are a young adult, you should be mistic people who insist on both suc- Mr. RUPPERSBERGER (at the request worried that your generation will be cess and liberty. America’s can-do spir- of Ms. PELOSI) for today on account of significantly less well off than your it has been the wonder of the ages. It official business in the district. parents’ generation. has raised us from a handful of farmers f to the colossus of the planet. And if we b 1400 can regain that spirit, there is not a SPECIAL ORDERS GRANTED If you care about America’s global reason in the world that the 21st cen- By unanimous consent, permission to leadership, if you yearn for our country tury will not be the American cen- address the House, following the legis- to have the resources to combat global tury—just as the 20th century was.’’ lative program and any special orders scourges, if you hope for the day when I was reminded once again of that heretofore entered, was granted to: there is a cure for cancer and Alz- unique American spirit on Election (The following Members (at the re- heimer’s, you should press Congress Day when I stopped by the Snow White quest of Mr. HINOJOSA) to revise and and the administration to step up to Grill in Winchester, Virginia. While I extend their remarks and include ex- the plate now. was there, one man said to me, ‘‘We are traneous material:) We must all ask ourselves: Do we ready! We are prepared to sacrifice. Mr. HOYER, for 5 minutes, today. want to make a point or do we want to We’re ready to do what’s right.’’ And Mr. VAN HOLLEN, for 5 minutes, make a difference? If the answer is the several others at the lunch counter today. latter, then it is clear that this is a echoed the same. Ms. DELAURO, for 5 minutes, today. conversation we need to be having But the question remains: Are Amer- Ms. WOOLSEY, for 5 minutes, today. today. We must not put it off. ica’s leaders prepared to sacrifice? Are Mr. MCDERMOTT, for 5 minutes, At his 1796 farewell address, George America’s leaders prepared to do today. Washington admonished his fellow what’s right? Ms. KAPTUR, for 5 minutes, today. countrymen, ‘‘We should avoid Battle lines have been drawn on both The following Members (at their own ungenerously throwing upon posterity sides. request) to revise and extend their re- The MoveOn.orgs of the left and the the burden of which we ourselves ought marks and include extraneous mate- Americans for Tax Reform of the right to bear.’’ An apt charge for today’s po- rial: litical leadership. have wielded their political influence Ms. FOXX, for 5 minutes, today. A brief word to America’s faith com- with remarkable effect, only to para- Mr. HURT, for 5 minutes, today. munity, who should be intimately con- lyze the Congress and the Obama ad- cerned with the moral component of ministration on arguably the most im- f this crisis. If we say we care about the portant issue of our time. I am not pre- ADJOURNMENT poor, we must speak up, for they will pared to continue to let that happen. be the hardest hit if we fail to act. If In 1787, on the final day of the Con- Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, I move that we say we are passionate about justice, stitutional Convention, Benjamin the House do now adjourn. then we must not be complicit in com- Franklin was said to have wept when The motion was agreed to; accord- mitting a massive generational injus- he signed the document. James Madi- ingly (at 2 o’clock and 5 minutes p.m.), tice. son wrote in a letter to Thomas Jeffer- under its previous order, the House ad- Not only is our current course im- son, ‘‘Whilst the last members were journed until Monday, January 24, 2011, moral, it is un-American. Generations signing it,’’ he said, ‘‘Dr. Franklin, at noon for morning-hour debate and 2 past have always passed the torch of looking towards the President’s chair, p.m. for legislative business. the American Dream to their children at the back of which a rising sun hap- f and their grandchildren. Presently, pened to be painted, observed to a few we’re poised to hand off the struggling members near him that painters had EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, flicker of a flame. found it difficult to distinguish in their ETC. The implications of an America on art a rising sun from a setting sun.’’ Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive decline also has ripple effects the world And then Dr. Franklin remarked that communications were taken from the over. during the course of the session, ‘‘I Speaker’s table and referred as follows:

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A letter from the Program Analyst, ability Act, pursuant to section 102(b) of the programs of the Department of Defense; to Department of Transportation, transmitting Congressional Accountability Act of 1995, the Committee on Armed Services. the Department’s final rule — Amendment pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 1302; jointly to the Com- 150. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, and Revocation of Class E Airspace; Vero mittees on House Administration and Edu- Legislative Affairs, Department of State, Beach, FL [Docket No.: FAA-2010-0921; Air- cation and the Workforce. space Docket No. 10-ASO-03] received Janu- transmitting notification that effective No- f vember 7, 2010, the danger pay allowance of ary 13, 2011, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); 20% for Haiti has been eliminated, pursuant to the Committee on Transportation and In- PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS to 5 U.S.C. 5928; to the Committee on For- frastructure. 162. A letter from the Program Analyst, Under clause 2 of rule XII, public eign Affairs. bills and resolutions of the following 151. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, Department of Transportation, transmitting Legislative Affairs, Department of State, the Department’s final rule — Establishment titles were introduced and severally re- transmitting the Interagency Working of Class E Airspace; Port Clarence, AK ferred, as follows: Group on U.S. Government-Sponsored Inter- [Docket No.: FAA-2010-0354; Airspace Docket By Mr. SMITH of New Jersey (for him- national Exchanges and Training FY 2010 No. 10-AAL-10] received January 13, 2011, pur- self, Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. AKIN, Mr. Annual Report, pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 2460(f) suant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- ALEXANDER, Mr. AUSTRIA, Mrs. BACH- and (g) Public Law 87-256, section Section mittee on Transportation and Infrastruc- MANN, Mr. BACHUS, Mr. BARLETTA, 112(f) and (g); to the Committee on Foreign ture. Mr. BARTLETT, Mr. BARTON of Texas, Affairs. 163. A letter from the Program Analyst, Mr. BENISHEK, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. 152. A letter from the Chairman, Broad- Department of Transportation, transmitting BISHOP of Utah, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. casting Board of Governors, transmitting a the Department’s final rule — Amendment of BONNER, Mr. BOUSTANY, Mr. BRADY of report on the information security program Class E Airspace; Taos, NM [Docket No.: Texas, Mr. BROOKS, Mr. BROUN of and practices of the Broadcasting Board of FAA-2010-0842; Airspace Docket No. 10-ASW- Georgia, Mr. BUCHANAN, Ms. Governors, pursuant to Public Law 107-347; 11] received January 13, 2011, pursuant to 5 BUERKLE, Mr. BURGESS, Mr. BURTON to the Committee on Oversight and Govern- U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on of Indiana, Mr. CANSECO, Mr. CARTER, ment Reform. Transportation and Infrastructure. Mr. CASSIDY, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. 164. A letter from the Program Analyst, 153. A letter from the Administrator, Gen- CHAFFETZ, Mr. COFFMAN of Colorado, Department of Transportation, transmitting eral Services Administration, transmitting Mr. COLE, Mr. CONAWAY, Mr. COS- the Department’s final rule — Modification Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 Annual Financial Re- TELLO, Mr. CRAVAACK, Mr. CRAWFORD, of Class E Airspace; Rawlins, WY [Docket port; to the Committee on Oversight and Mr. CRENSHAW, Mr. CRITZ, Mr. DAVIS No.: FAA-2010-0919; Airspace Docket No. 10- Government Reform. of Kentucky, Mr. DESJARLAIS, Mr. ANM-11] received January 13, 2011, pursuant 154. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- DIAZ-BALART, Mr. DONNELLY of Indi- to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on ment of the Interior, transmitting a report ana, Mr. DUFFY, Mr. DUNCAN of South Transportation and Infrastructure. to Congress on a gift of land in Tulare and Carolina, Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee, 165. A letter from the Program Analyst, Kern Counties, California, from the Wilder- Mrs. EMERSON, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mr. Department of Transportation, transmitting ness Land Trust, pursuant to Public Law 93- FLAKE, Mr. FLEMING, Mr. FORBES, Mr. the Department’s final rule — Amendment of 632; to the Committee on Natural Resources. FORTENBERRY, Ms. FOXX, Mr. FRANKS Class E Airspace; Johnson, KS [Docket No.: 155. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- of Arizona, Mr. GARDNER, Mr. GAR- FAA-2010-0841; Airspace Docket No. 10-ACE- ment of the Interior, transmitting a report RETT, Mr. GERLACH, Mr. GIBBS, Mr. 11] received January 13, 2011, pursuant to 5 to Congress on a gift of land in Kern County, GINGREY of Georgia, Mr. GOWDY, Ms. U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on California, from the National Audubon Soci- GRANGER, Mr. GRAVES of Missouri, Transportation and Infrastructure. ety, Inc. (Audubon), pursuant to Public Law 166. A letter from the Program Analyst, Mr. GRIMM, Mr. GUTHRIE, Mr. HALL, 93-632; to the Committee on Natural Re- Department of Transportation, transmitting Mr. HARPER, Mr. HARRIS, Mrs. sources. the Department’s final rule — Amendment of HARTZLER, Mr. HENSARLING, Mr. HER- 156. A letter from the Program Analyst, Class E Airspace; Farmington, MO [Docket GER, Mr. HUELSKAMP, Mr. HUNTER, Department of Transportation, transmitting No.: FAA-2010-0769; Airspace Docket No. 10- Mr. HURT, Ms. JENKINS, Mr. JOHNSON the Department’s final rule — Amendment of ACE-9] received January 13, 2011, pursuant to of Illinois, Mr. JONES, Mr. JORDAN, Class E Airspace; Henderson, KY [Docket 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Mr. KELLY, Mr. KING of New York, No.: FAA-2010-0937; Airspace Docket No. 10- Transportation and Infrastructure. Mr. KING of Iowa, Mr. KINGSTON, Mr. ASO-10] received January 13, 2011, pursuant 167. A letter from the Program Analyst, KINZINGER of Illinois, Mr. KLINE, Mr. to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Department of Transportation, transmitting LAMBORN, Mr. LANDRY, Mr. Transportation and Infrastructure. the Department’s final rule — Amendment of LANKFORD, Mr. LATOURETTE, Mr. 157. A letter from the Program Analyst, Class E Airspace; Mansfield, OH [Docket No.: LATTA, Mr. LEE of New York, Mr. Department of Transportation, transmitting FAA-2010-0771; Airspace Docket No. 10-AGL- LOBIONDO, Mr. LONG, Mr. LUETKE- the Department’s final rule — Establishment 12] received January 13, 2011, pursuant to 5 MEYER, Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of of Class E Airspace; Crewe, VA [Docket No.: U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on California, Mr. MANZULLO, Mr. FAA-2010-0692; Airspace Docket No. 10-AEA- Transportation and Infrastructure. MARCHANT, Mr. MARINO, Mr. MCCAR- 16] received January 13, 2011, pursuant to 5 168. A letter from the Program Analyst, THY of California, Mr. MCCAUL, Mr. U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Department of Transportation, transmitting MCCLINTOCK, Mr. MCCOTTER, Mr. Transportation and Infrastructure. the Department’s final rule — Revocation of MCHENRY, Mr. MCINTYRE, Mr. MCKIN- 158. A letter from the Program Analyst, Class E Airspace; Lone Star, TX [Docket No.: LEY, Mrs. MCMORRIS RODGERS, Mrs. Department of Transportation, transmitting FAA-2010-0772; Airspace Docket No. 10-ASW- MILLER of Michigan, Mr. GARY G. the Department’s final rule — Establishment 10] received January 13, 2011, pursuant to 5 MILLER of California, Mr. MILLER of of Class E Airspace; Central City, NE [Dock- U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Florida, Mr. MULVANEY, Mr. MURPHY et No.: FAA-2010-0837; Airspace Docket No. Transportation and Infrastructure. of Pennsylvania, Mr. NEUGEBAUER, 10-ACE-10] received January 13, 2011, pursu- 169. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, Mrs. NOEM, Mr. NUNNELEE, Mr. ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee Legislative Affairs, Department of State, OLSON, Mr. PAUL, Mr. PENCE, Mr. on Transportation and Infrastructure. transmitting a semi-annual report con- PETERSON, Mr. PITTS, Mr. POMPEO, 159. A letter from the Program Analyst, cerning emigration laws and policies of Azer- Mr. POSEY, Mr. PRICE of Georgia, Mr. Department of Transportation, transmitting baijan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, the Russian RAHALL, Mr. RIBBLE, Mr. RIGELL, Mr. the Department’s final rule — Establishment Federation, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, pur- ROE of Tennessee, Mr. ROGERS of of Class E Airspace; Benton, IL [Docket No.: suant to 19 U.S.C. 2432(c) and (d); to the Com- Kentucky, Mr. ROKITA, Mr. ROSKAM, FAA-2010-0838; Airspace Docket No. 10-AGL- mittee on Ways and Means. Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. ROSS of Ar- 13] received January 13, 2011, pursuant to 5 170. A letter from the Chief Privacy Offi- kansas, Mr. ROYCE, Mr. RYAN of Wis- U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on cer, Department of Homeland Security, consin, Mr. SCALISE, Mr. SCHILLING, Transportation and Infrastructure. transmitting the Department’s Privacy Of- Mrs. SCHMIDT, Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of 160. A letter from the Program Analyst, fice’s report entitled, ‘‘2010 Data Mining Re- Georgia, Mr. SCOTT of South Caro- Department of Transportation, transmitting port to Congress’’, pursuant to Public Law lina, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. SHIM- the Department’s final rule — Establishment 110-53 (121 Stat. 266); to the Committee on KUS, Mr. SHULER, Mr. SHUSTER, Mr. of Class E Airspace; Columbus, OH [Docket Homeland Security. SIMPSON, Mr. SMITH of Texas, Mr.

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STUTZMAN, Mr. SULLIVAN, Mr. TERRY, Mr. BURGESS, Mr. CANSECO, Mrs. MIL- ties; to the Committee on Energy and Com- Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania, Mr. LER of Michigan, Ms. JENKINS, Mr. merce. TURNER, Mr. WESTMORELAND, Mr. CARTER, Mr. CHAFFETZ, Mr. COFFMAN By Mr. CONAWAY (for himself, Mr. WHITFIELD, Mr. WILSON of South of Colorado, Mr. CONAWAY, Mr. COS- GOHMERT, Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas, Carolina, Mr. WOLF, Mr. WOODALL, TELLO, Mr. CRAWFORD, Mr. CRITZ, Mr. HALL, Mr. BARTON of Texas, Mr. Mr. YOUNG of Florida, Mr. GOHMERT, Mrs. ELLMERS, Mr. FORTENBERRY, Mr. CULBERSON, Mr. BRADY of Texas, Mr. Mr. WITTMAN, Mr. CANTOR, Mr. GARRETT, Mr. GIBBS, Mr. GINGREY of MCCAUL, Ms. GRANGER, Mr. THORN- BOREN, Mr. GOODLATTE, Mr. MCKEON, Georgia, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. GRAVES BERRY, Mr. PAUL, Mr. HINOJOSA, Mr. Mr. ROGERS of Michigan, Mr. CAL- of Missouri, Mr. GUTHRIE, Mr. HALL, FLORES, Mr. NEUGEBAUER, Mr. SMITH VERT, Mrs. ELLMERS, Mr. ADERHOLT, Mr. HARRIS, Mrs. HARTZLER, Mr. of Texas, Mr. OLSON, Mr. CANSECO, Mr. TIBERI, and Mr. SAM JOHNSON of JOHNSON of Illinois, Mr. JONES, Mr. Mr. MARCHANT, Mr. BURGESS, Mr. Texas): JORDAN, Mr. KINGSTON, Mr. FARENTHOLD, Mr. CARTER, and Mr. H.R. 3. A bill to prohibit taxpayer funded KINZINGER of Illinois, Mr. KLINE, Mr. SESSIONS): abortions and to provide for conscience pro- LAMBORN, Mr. LANCE, Mr. LATTA, Mr. H.R. 362. A bill to redesignate the Federal tections, and for other purposes; to the Com- LEE of New York, Mr. DANIEL E. LUN- building and United States Courthouse lo- mittee on the Judiciary, and in addition to GREN of California, Mr. MANZULLO, cated at 200 East Wall Street in Midland, the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Mr. MARCHANT, Mr. MCCAUL, Mr. Texas, as the ‘‘George H. W. Bush and George and Ways and Means, for a period to be sub- MCCLINTOCK, Mr. MCCOTTER, Mr. W. Bush United States Courthouse and sequently determined by the Speaker, in MCKINLEY, Mr. MURPHY of Pennsyl- George Mahon Federal Building’’; to the each case for consideration of such provi- vania, Mr. NEUGEBAUER, Mr. OLSON, Committee on Transportation and Infra- sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the Mr. PAUL, Mr. POE of Texas, Mr. ROE structure. committee concerned. of Tennessee, Mr. ROGERS of Michi- By Mr. CARDOZA (for himself, Mr. By Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky (for him- gan, Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky, Mr. LARSON of Connecticut, Ms. CASTOR self, Mr. SMITH of Texas, Mr. AKIN, ROSS of Florida, Mr. RYAN of Wis- of Florida, Mr. THOMPSON of Cali- Mr. BACHUS, Mr. BARTLETT, Mr. BAR- consin, Mr. SCALISE, Mr. SESSIONS, fornia, Ms. DELAURO, Mrs. NAPOLI- TON of Texas, Mr. BERG, Mr. BISHOP Mr. SHIMKUS, Mr. SHULER, Mr. SMITH TANO, Mr. SIRES, Mr. COSTA, Ms. of Utah, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. BON- of Texas, Mr. STUTZMAN, Mr. SUL- BERKLEY, Mr. BACA, Mr. MCNERNEY, NER, Mr. BOUSTANY, Mr. BRADY of LIVAN, Mr. TERRY, Mr. THOMPSON of Ms. SUTTON, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. Texas, Mr. BUCSHON, Mr. BURTON of Pennsylvania, Mr. WHITFIELD, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. GARAMENDI, Mr. Indiana, Mr. CALVERT, Mr. CAMP, Mr. FLAKE, Mr. POMPEO, Mr. KELLY, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. STARK, Ms. WASSERMAN CHAFFETZ, Mr. COBLE, Mr. CRAWFORD, LONG, Mr. ROSKAM, Ms. BUERKLE, Mr. SCHULTZ, Mr. WELCH, Mr. FILNER, Ms. Mr. FARENTHOLD, Mr. FLORES, Mr. MILLER of Florida, Mr. HUIZENGA of RICHARDSON, Mr. KUCINICH, and Mr. FORTENBERRY, Ms. FOXX, Mr. FRANKS Michigan, Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky, QUIGLEY): of Arizona, Mr. GALLEGLY, Mr. GARD- and Mr. SHUSTER): H.R. 363. A bill to prevent foreclosure of NER, Mr. GARRETT, Mr. GERLACH, Mr. H.R. 358. A bill to amend the Patient Pro- home mortgages and provide for the afford- GIBBS, Mr. GIBSON, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. tection and Affordable Care Act to modify able refinancing of mortgages held by Fannie GOWDY, Mr. GUTHRIE, Ms. HAYWORTH, special rules relating to coverage of abortion Mae and Freddie Mac; to the Committee on Mr. HELLER, Mr. HERGER, Mr. HUN- services under such Act; to the Committee Financial Services. TER, Mr. ISSA, Ms. JENKINS, Mr. on Energy and Commerce. By Mr. LATHAM: JONES, Mr. KING of Iowa, Mr. KING- By Mr. COLE (for himself, Mr. AKIN, H.R. 364. A bill to repeal the Patient Pro- STON, Mr. KINZINGER of Illinois, Mr. Mr. BARTLETT, Mr. BISHOP of Utah, tection and Affordable Care Act and to take KLINE, Mr. LAMBORN, Mr. LATTA, Mr. Mr. CAMPBELL, Ms. FOXX, Mr. LAM- meaningful steps to lower health care costs LEE of New York, Mrs. LUMMIS, Mr. BORN, and Mr. MCCLINTOCK): and increase access to health insurance cov- MANZULLO, Mr. MCCARTHY of Cali- H.R. 359. A bill to reduce Federal spending erage without raising taxes, cutting Medi- fornia, Mr. MCCLINTOCK, Mr. and the deficit by terminating taxpayer fi- care benefits for seniors, adding to the na- MCHENRY, Mr. MCKEON, Mr. MCKIN- nancing of presidential election campaigns tional deficit, intervening in the doctor-pa- LEY, Mrs. MCMORRIS RODGERS, Mr. and party conventions; to the Committee on tient relationship, or instituting a govern- MILLER of Florida, Mr. MULVANEY, Ways and Means, and in addition to the Com- ment takeover of health care; to the Com- Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania, Mr. mittee on House Administration, for a period mittee on Energy and Commerce, and in ad- NEUGEBAUER, Mr. NUNES, Mr. to be subsequently determined by the Speak- dition to the Committees on Education and NUNNELEE, Mr. PAUL, Mr. PEARCE, er, in each case for consideration of such pro- the Workforce, Ways and Means, the Judici- Mr. POMPEO, Mr. POSEY, Mr. PRICE of visions as fall within the jurisdiction of the ary, House Administration, Natural Re- Georgia, Mr. QUAYLE, Mr. REICHERT, committee concerned. sources, Rules, and Appropriations, for a pe- Mr. ROE of Tennessee, Mr. ROGERS of By Mr. BURGESS (for himself, Mr. riod to be subsequently determined by the Kentucky, Mr. ROKITA, Mr. ROSKAM, PAUL, Mr. ROE of Tennessee, Mr. Speaker, in each case for consideration of Mrs. SCHMIDT, Mr. SCHOCK, Mr. AUS- NEUGEBAUER, Mr. BROUN of Georgia, such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- TIN SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. SCOTT of Mr. MCCAUL, Mr. JONES, Mr. LATOU- tion of the committee concerned. South Carolina, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. RETTE, Mr. HELLER, Mrs. BLACKBURN, By Mr. GRIMM (for himself and Mr. SIMPSON, Mr. SMITH of Nebraska, Mr. Mr. PLATTS, Mr. MICA, Mr. BONNER, PIERLUISI): STUTZMAN, Mr. TERRY, Mr. TIPTON, Mr. MARCHANT, Mr. ROGERS of Michi- H.R. 365. A bill to encourage, enhance, and Mr. UPTON, Mr. WALDEN, Mr. WEST, gan, Mr. YOUNG of Alaska, Mr. WITT- integrate Blue Alert plans throughout the Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, and MAN, Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania, United States in order to disseminate infor- Mr. WITTMAN): Mrs. MYRICK, Mr. WALDEN, Mr. mation when a law enforcement officer is se- H.R. 10. A bill to amend chapter 8 of title CRAWFORD, Mr. CALVERT, Mr. OLSON, riously injured or killed in the line of duty; 5, United States Code, to provide that major Mrs. MCMORRIS RODGERS, Mr. KLINE, to the Committee on the Judiciary. rules of the executive branch shall have no Mr. POSEY, and Mr. NUNNELEE): By Mr. GRAVES of Missouri: force or effect unless a joint resolution of ap- H.R. 360. A bill to amend the Patient Pro- H.R. 366. A bill to provide for an additional proval is enacted into law; to the Committee tection and Affordable Care Act to provide temporary extension of programs under the on the Judiciary, and in addition to the for participation in the Exchange of the Small Business Act and the Small Business Committee on Rules, for a period to be sub- President, Vice-President, Members of Con- Investment Act of 1958, and for other pur- sequently determined by the Speaker, in gress, political appointees, and congressional poses; to the Committee on Small Business. each case for consideration of such provi- staff; to the Committee on Oversight and By Ms. RICHARDSON: sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the Government Reform, and in addition to the H.R. 367. A bill to prohibit the knowing committee concerned. Committees on House Administration, and possession of a firearm near a venue at which By Mr. PITTS (for himself, Mr. LIPIN- Energy and Commerce, for a period to be a Member of Congress is performing an offi- SKI, Mrs. SCHMIDT, Mr. ROSS of Ar- subsequently determined by the Speaker, in cial and representational duty or cam- kansas, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. each case for consideration of such provi- paigning for public office; to the Committee UPTON, Mrs. BLACK, Mr. PENCE, Mr. sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the on the Judiciary. FLEMING, Mrs. MCMORRIS RODGERS, committee concerned. By Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia (for him- Mr. ADERHOLT, Mr. AKIN, Mr. AUS- By Mr. FLEMING (for himself and Mr. self and Mr. SMITH of Texas): TRIA, Mrs. BACHMANN, Mr. BACHUS, BOREN): H.R. 368. A bill to amend title 28, United Mr. BARTON of Texas, Mr. BILIRAKIS, H.R. 361. A bill to amend the Public Health States Code, to clarify and improve certain Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. BRADY of Texas, Service Act to prohibit certain abortion-re- provisions relating to the removal of litiga- Mr. BROUN of Georgia, Mr. BUCHANAN, lated discrimination in governmental activi- tion against Federal officers or agencies to

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By Ms. FOXX (for herself, Mr. By Ms. LEE of California: By Mr. AUSTRIA (for himself, Mr. CUELLAR, and Mr. KISSELL): H.R. 378. A bill to reauthorize the public PENCE, Mrs. BACHMANN, Mr. SES- H.R. 373. A bill to amend the Unfunded and assisted housing drug elimination pro- SIONS, Mr. AKIN, Mr. BURTON of Indi- Mandates Reform Act of 1995 to ensure that gram of the Department of Housing and ana, Mr. COFFMAN of Colorado, Mr. actions taken by regulatory agencies are Urban Development; to the Committee on PAUL, Mr. ROSS of Florida, Mr. subject to that Act, and for other purposes; Financial Services. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania, Mr. to the Committee on Oversight and Govern- By Ms. LEE of California: H.R. 379. A bill to assist teachers and pub- WESTMORELAND, Mr. CASSIDY, Mr. ment Reform, and in addition to the Com- lic safety officers in obtaining affordable LONG, and Mr. TIBERI): mittees on Rules, the Budget, and the Judi- H.R. 369. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- ciary, for a period to be subsequently deter- housing; to the Committee on Financial enue Code of 1986 to improve access to health mined by the Speaker, in each case for con- Services. care by allowing a deduction for the health sideration of such provisions as fall within By Ms. LEE of California (for herself insurance costs of individuals, expanding the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. and Mr. SERRANO): H.R. 380. A bill to provide that no funds health savings accounts, and for other pur- By Mr. HUNTER (for himself, Mr. made available to the Department of the poses; to the Committee on Ways and Means. BROUN of Georgia, Mr. SMITH of New Treasury may be used to implement, admin- By Mr. BACA: Jersey, Mr. KING of Iowa, Mr. GAR- ister, or enforce regulations to require spe- H.R. 370. A bill to require financial institu- RETT, Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky, Mr. cific licenses for travel-related transactions tions to offer services to protect seniors from BURTON of Indiana, Mr. BRADY of directly related to educational activities in affinity scams, to report suspected affinity Texas, Mr. SHIMKUS, Mr. DUNCAN of Cuba; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. scams, and for other purposes; to the Com- Tennessee, Mr. JONES, Mr. MCCAUL, By Ms. LEE of California: mittee on Financial Services, and in addi- Mr. BISHOP of Utah, Mr. PENCE, Mr. H.R. 381. A bill to amend the Omnibus tion to the Committee on Ways and Means, HURT, Mr. ROSS of Florida, Mrs. Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to for a period to be subsequently determined SCHMIDT, Mr. FLEMING, Mr. MCCOT- provide for grants to increase the number of by the Speaker, in each case for consider- TER, Mr. TERRY, Mr. ALEXANDER, Mr. law enforcement officers on the streets by 5 ation of such provisions as fall within the ju- COLE, Mr. HARPER, Mr. AKIN, Mr. ROE to 10 percent in areas with high incidences of risdiction of the committee concerned. of Tennessee, Mr. LONG, Mr. MAN- violent crime; to the Committee on the Judi- By Mrs. BLACKBURN (for herself, Mr. ZULLO, Mr. BARTON of Texas, Mr. ciary. UPTON, Mr. PITTS, Mr. BARTON of LANDRY, Mr. LATTA, Mr. SCALISE, Mr. By Ms. LEE of California (for herself Texas, Mr. BURGESS, Mrs. MYRICK, RIGELL, Mr. KELLY, Mr. JORDAN, Mr. and Ms. WOOLSEY): Mr. SHIMKUS, Mr. ROGERS of Michi- LUETKEMEYER, Mr. GIBBS, Mr. H.R. 382. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- gan, Mr. STEARNS, Mr. SULLIVAN, Mr. HUELSKAMP, Mr. KLINE, Mr. CANSECO, enue Code of 1986 to limit the deductibility MURPHY of Pennsylvania, Mr. Mr. FLORES, Mr. DUNCAN of South of excessive rates of executive compensation; GINGREY of Georgia, Mr. SCALISE, Carolina, Mr. GARY G. MILLER of to the Committee on Ways and Means. Mrs. BONO MACK, Mr. BASS of New California, Mrs. HARTZLER, Mr. HALL, By Ms. LEE of California: Hampshire, Mr. BILBRAY, Mr. LATTA, Mr. HERGER, Mr. BUCSHON, Mr. H.R. 383. A bill to provide for coverage of Mrs. MCMORRIS RODGERS, Mr. HAR- POMPEO, Mr. LANKFORD, Mr. hormone replacement therapy for treatment PER, Mr. LANCE, Mr. CASSIDY, Mr. FARENTHOLD, Mr. LAMBORN, Mrs. MIL- of menopausal symptoms, and for coverage GUTHRIE, Mr. OLSON, Mr. MCKINLEY, LER of Michigan, Mr. MARCHANT, and of an alternative therapy for hormone re- Mr. GARDNER, Mr. POMPEO, Mr. Mr. MCKEON): placement therapy for such symptoms, under KINZINGER of Illinois, Mr. ROE of Ten- H.R. 374. A bill to implement equal protec- the Medicare and Medicaid Programs, group nessee, Mr. BROUN of Georgia, Mr. tion under the 14th article of amendment to health plans and individual health insurance BOUSTANY, Mr. CONAWAY, Mr. FLEM- the Constitution for the right to life of each coverage, and other Federal health insurance ING, Mr. ISSA, Mr. PRICE of Georgia, born and preborn human person; to the Com- programs; to the Committee on Energy and Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. AKIN, Mr. BART- mittee on the Judiciary. Commerce, and in addition to the Commit- LETT, Mr. BROOKS, Mr. BUCSHON, Ms. By Mr. KILDEE (for himself, Mr. LIPIN- tees on Ways and Means, Education and the BUERKLE, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. COLE, Mr. SKI, Ms. WOOLSEY, Ms. KAPTUR, and Workforce, Oversight and Government Re- CRAWFORD, Mr. DESJARLAIS, Mr. Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas): form, and Veterans’ Affairs, for a period to FARENTHOLD, Mr. FLEISCHMANN, Mr. H.R. 375. A bill to limit the total value of be subsequently determined by the Speaker, FLORES, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. Chinese goods that may be procured by the in each case for consideration of such provi- GOHMERT, Ms. GRANGER, Mr. GUINTA, United States Government during a calendar sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the Mr. HARRIS, Mrs. HARTZLER, Mr. KING year to not more than the total value of committee concerned. of Iowa, Mr. LAMBORN, Mrs. LUMMIS, United States goods procured by the Chinese By Ms. LEE of California (for herself, Mr. MACK, Mr. MARCHANT, Mr. Government if any during the preceding cal- Ms. MOORE, Ms. FUDGE, Mr. MCCLINTOCK, Mr. NEUGEBAUER, Mr. endar year, and for other purposes; to the FALEOMAVAEGA, Ms. BORDALLO, Ms. NUGENT, Mr. PEARCE, Mr. PAUL, Mr. Committee on Oversight and Government WOOLSEY, Mr. RUSH, Mr. CONNOLLY of POSEY, Mr. QUAYLE, Mrs. SCHMIDT, Reform, and in addition to the Committees Virginia, Ms. HIRONO, Ms. JACKSON Mr. SCHWEIKERT, Mr. SOUTHERLAND, on Ways and Means, and Transportation and LEE of Texas, Mr. MORAN, Ms. NOR- Mr. STUTZMAN, Mr. WALBERG, Mr. Infrastructure, for a period to be subse- TON, Ms. RICHARDSON, Ms. SUTTON, WALSH of Illinois, and Mr. WILSON of quently determined by the Speaker, in each Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Mr. HOLT, South Carolina): case for consideration of such provisions as Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. RYAN H.R. 371. A bill to repeal title I of the Pa- fall within the jurisdiction of the committee of Ohio, Mr. TOWNS, Ms. EDDIE BER- tient Protection and Affordable Care Act and concerned. NICE JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. to amend the Public Health Service Act to By Mr. KING of New York (for himself, GARAMENDI, Mr. PETRI, Mr. KUCINICH, provide for cooperative governing of indi- Mr. PASCRELL, Mr. ISRAEL, Mr. Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. HONDA, vidual health insurance coverage offered in BISHOP of New York, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. Ms. ESHOO, Mr. STARK, Mr. MCNER- interstate commerce; to the Committee on CROWLEY, Mr. HOLDEN, Mr. COURT- NEY, Mr. POLIS, and Mrs. MALONEY): Energy and Commerce, and in addition to NEY, Mr. HINCHEY, and Mr. BRALEY of H.R. 384. A bill to provide for the issuance the Committees on Ways and Means, and Iowa): of a semipostal to benefit the Peace Corps; to Education and the Workforce, for a period to H.R. 376. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- the Committee on Oversight and Govern- be subsequently determined by the Speaker, enue Code of 1986 to provide recruitment and ment Reform, and in addition to the Com- in each case for consideration of such provi- retention incentives for volunteer emer- mittee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the gency service workers; to the Committee on subsequently determined by the Speaker, in committee concerned. Ways and Means, and in addition to the Com- each case for consideration of such provi- By Mr. BUCHANAN (for himself, Mr. mittee on Education and the Workforce, for sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the MILLER of Florida, and Mr. STEARNS): a period to be subsequently determined by committee concerned. H.R. 372. A bill to amend the Outer Conti- the Speaker, in each case for consideration By Ms. LEE of California: nental Shelf Lands Act to authorize the Sec- of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- H.R. 385. A bill to require poverty impact retary of the Interior to deny leases and per- tion of the committee concerned. statements for certain legislation; to the

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LUNGREN of Cali- programs; to the Committee on Foreign Af- Congress has the power to enact this legis- fornia (for himself, Mr. SENSEN- fairs. lation pursuant to the following: BRENNER, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. HARPER, By Mr. YARMUTH: The Protect Life Act would overturn an Ms. BORDALLO, Mr. BURGESS, Mr. H. Res. 46. A resolution restoring the unconstitutional mandate regarding abor- SCOTT of Virginia, and Mr. GALLE- democratic process by providing that section tion in the Patient Protection and Afford- GLY): 3(b) of H. Res. 5 shall have no force or effect able Care Act. H.R. 386. A bill to amend title 18, United during the remainder of the 112th Congress; By Mr. COLE: States Code, to provide penalties for aiming to the Committee on Rules. H.R. 359. laser pointers at airplanes, and for other pur- By Mr. HASTINGS of Florida (for him- Congress has the power to enact this legis- poses; to the Committee on the Judiciary, self, Ms. LEE of California, Mr. CON- lation pursuant to the following: and in addition to the Committee on the NOLLY of Virginia, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Amendment XVI to the United States Con- Budget, for a period to be subsequently de- Mr. RUSH, Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA, Mr. stitution. termined by the Speaker, in each case for FARR, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. DEUTCH, Additionally, since the Constitution does consideration of such provisions as fall with- Mr. MORAN, Mr. WU, Mr. STARK, Ms. not provide Congress with the power to pro- in the jurisdiction of the committee con- WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Ms. HIRONO, vide financial support to candidates seeking cerned. Mr. ELLISON, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, election to offices of the United States or to By Mr. PETRI: and Mr. THOMPSON of California): U.S. political parties, the general repeal of H.R. 387. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- H. Res. 47. A resolution expressing the the presidential election fund is consistent enue Code of 1986 to provide that reimburse- sense of the House of Representatives regard- with the powers that are reserved to the ments for costs of using passenger auto- ing the contributions of the Convention on States and to the people as expressed in mobiles for charitable and other organiza- International Trade in Endangered Species Amendment X to the United States Con- tions are excluded from gross income; to the of Wild Fauna and Flora; to the Committee stitution. Committee on Ways and Means. on Foreign Affairs. Further, Article I Section 8 defines the By Mr. ROONEY: By Ms. LEE of California (for herself scope and powers of Congress and does not include this concept of taxation in further- H.R. 388. A bill to provide that the deten- and Mr. CONYERS): tion facility at Naval Station, Guantanamo H. Res. 48. A resolution establishing a se- ance of funding campaigns within the dele- Bay, Cuba remains open indefinitely and to lect committee to review national security gated powers. require that individuals detained at the fa- laws, policies, and practices; to the Com- By Mr. BURGESS: H.R. 360. cility be tried only by military commission, mittee on Rules. Congress has the power to enact this legis- and for other purposes; to the Committee on f lation pursuant to the following: Armed Services, and in addition to the Com- The constitutional authority on which this mittee on the Judiciary, for a period to be PRIVATE BILLS AND bill rests is the power of Congress to make subsequently determined by the Speaker, in RESOLUTIONS rules for the government, as enumerated in each case for consideration of such provi- Article I, Section 8, Clause 14 of the United sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the Under clause 3 of rule XII, private States Constitution. committee concerned. bills and resolutions of the following titles were introduced and severally re- In addition, the bill extends equal treat- By Mr. SCHOCK (for himself, Mr. PAUL, ment to all Congressional staff in respect to Mr. ROE of Tennessee, Mr. BURTON of ferred, as follows: numerous court interpretations of the 14th Indiana, Mr. CHAFFETZ, Mr. SHIMKUS, By Mr. HINCHEY: Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause to the and Mr. GARY G. MILLER of Cali- H.R. 391. A bill for the relief of Emilio Constitution ‘‘shall make or enforce any law fornia): Maya; to the Committee on the Judiciary. which shall abridge the privileges or immu- H.R. 389. A bill to prevent funding from the By Ms. LEE of California: nities of citizens of the United States . . . American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of H.R. 392. A bill for the relief of Geert nor deny to any person within its jurisdic- 2009 from being used for physical signage in- Botzen; to the Committee on the Judiciary. tion the equal protection of the laws.’’ dicating that a project is funded by such Act, By Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD: By Mr. FLEMING: and for other purposes; to the Committee on H.R. 393. A bill for the relief of Maria Eva H.R. 361. Transportation and Infrastructure, and in Duran, Jessica Duran Cortes, Daniel Ivan Congress has the power to enact this legis- addition to the Committee on Oversight and Duran Cortes, and Jose Antonio Duran lation pursuant to the following: Government Reform, for a period to be sub- Cortes; to the Committee on the Judiciary. This bill makes specific changes to exist- sequently determined by the Speaker, in ing law in a manner that provides conscience f each case for consideration of such provi- protections in accord with the lst Amend- sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY ment of the United States Constitution. Fur- committee concerned. STATEMENT ther, this bill creates a private right of ac- By Mr. THOMPSON of California: tion in federal court in accord with Clause 9 H.R. 390. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- Pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII of of Section 8 of Article I and Clause 18, Sec- enue Code of 1986 to provide an exclusion the Rules of the House of Representa- tion 8 of Article I, of the United States Con- from the gross estate for certain farmlands tives, the following statements are sub- stitution. Similarly, this bill provides for and lands subject to qualified conservation mitted regarding the specific powers preventing disbursement of all or a portion easements, and for other purposes; to the granted to Congress in the Constitu- of certain Federal financial assistance in ac- Committee on Ways and Means. tion to enact the accompanying bill or cord with Clause 1, Section 8 Article 1. By Mr. CARTER: By Mr. CONAWAY: H.J. Res. 21. A joint resolution dis- joint resolution. H.R. 362. approving a rule submitted by the Environ- By Mr. SMITH of New Jersey: Congress has the power to enact this legis- mental Protection Agency relating to ‘‘Ap- H.R. 3. lation pursuant to the following: proval and Promulgation of Implementation Congress has the power to enact this legis- This bill is enacted pursuant to the powers Plans; Texas; Revisions to the New Source lation pursuant to the following: granted to Congress under Article I, Section Review (NSR) State Implementation Plan The constitutional authority on which this 8, Clause 17 of the United States Constitu- (SIP); Flexible Permits; Final Rule’’; to the bill is based is Congress’s power under the tion. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Spending Clause in Article I, Section 8 of the By Mr. CARDOZA: By Mr. CANTOR: Constitution. H.R. 363. H. Con. Res. 10. Concurrent resolution pro- By Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky: Congress has the power to enact this legis- viding for a joint session of Congress to re- H.R. 10. lation pursuant to the following: ceive a message from the President; consid- Congress has the power to enact this legis- Congress has the power to enact this legis- ered and agreed to. lation pursuant to the following: lation pursuant to its authority under By Ms. LEE of California (for herself, This bill is enacted pursuant to the power Clause 3 of Section 8 of Article 1 of the Con- Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. HONDA, Mr. FIL- granted Congress under article I of the stitution to regulate Commerce with foreign NER, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. GRIJALVA, United States Constitution, including the Nations, and among several States, and with Mr. HOLT, and Mr. STARK): power granted Congress under article I, sec- Indian Tribes.

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Congress has the power to enact this legis- lation pursuant to the following: By Ms. LEE of California: lation pursuant to the following: This bill is enacted pursuant to the power H.R. 384. Clause 18 of Section 8 of Article I of the granted to Congress under Article I, Section Congress has the power to enact this legis- Constitution. 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution lation pursuant to the following: By Mr. GRAVES of Missouri: which gives Congress the power ‘‘to regulate This bill is enacted pursuant to the power H.R. 366. commerce with foreign nations, and among granted to Congress under Article I of the Congress has the power to enact this legis- the several states, and with the Indian United States Constitution and its subse- lation pursuant to the following: tribes’’. quent amendments, and further clarified and Art. 1, § 8, Cl. 3 ‘‘To regulate commerce By Mr. KING of New York: interpreted by the Supreme Court of the among foreign nations and the several H.R. 376. United States. states.’’ Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Ms. LEE of California: By Ms. RICHARDSON: lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 385. H.R. 367. Article I, Section 8, Clause 1: ‘‘The Con- Congress has the power to enact this legis- Congress has the power to enact this legis- gress shall have Power to lay and collect lation pursuant to the following: lation pursuant to the following: Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay The power granted to Congress under Arti- This bill is enacted pursuant to the power the Debts and provide for the common cle I of the United States Constitution and granted to Congress under Article I, Section Defence and general Welfare of the United its subsequent amendments, and further 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution. States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises clarified and interpreted by the Supreme By Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia: shall be uniform throughout the United Court of the United States. H.R. 368. States.’’ By Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of Cali- Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Ms. LEE of California: fornia: lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 377. H.R. 386. Article I, Section 8, Clauses 9 and 18. Congress has the power to enact this legis- Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mr. AUSTRIA: lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 369. lation pursuant to the following: The power granted to Congress under Arti- This bill is justified under the Commerce Congress has the power to enact this legis- cle I of the United States Constitution and lation pursuant to the following: Clause of the United States Constitution. its subsequent amendments, and further By Mr. PETRI: This bill is enacted pursuant to the power clarified and interpreted by the Supreme granted to Congress under Article I, Section H.R. 387. Court of the United States. Congress has the power to enact this legis- 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution. By Ms. LEE of California: By Mr. BACA: lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 378. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 which, in H.R. 370. Congress has the power to enact this legis- part, states: ‘‘The Congress shall have Power Congress has the power to enact this legis- lation pursuant to the following: to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and lation pursuant to the following: The power granted to Congress under Arti- Excises, . . . and the Sixteenth Amendment Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the U.S. cle I of the United States Constitution and which states: The Congress shall have power Constitution. its subsequent amendments, and further to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from By Mrs. BLACKBURN: clarified and interpreted by the Supreme whatever source derived, without apportion- H.R. 371. Court of the United States. ment among the several States, and without Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Ms. LEE of California: regard to any census or enumeration.’’ lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 379. This Act is enacted pursuant to the power Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mr. ROONEY: granted Congress under Article I, Section 8, lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 388. Clause 3 of the United States Constitution. The power granted to Congress under Arti- Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mr. BUCHANAN: cle I of the United States Constitution and lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 372. its subsequent amendments, and further Article 1, Section 8: ‘‘To raise and support Congress has the power to enact this legis- clarified and interpreted by the Supreme armies, but no appropriation of money to use lation pursuant to the following: Court of the United States. shall be for a longer term than two years; to The constitutional authority on which this By Ms. LEE of California: make rules for the government and regula- legislation rests is the power of Congress H.R. 380. tion of the land and naval forces.’’ enumerated in Article I, Section 8 of the Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mr. SCHOCK: Constitution. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 389. By Ms. FOXX: The power granted to Congress under Arti- Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 373. cle I of the United States Constitution and lation pursuant to the following: Congress has the power to enact this legis- its subsequent amendments, and further The constitutional authority on which this lation pursuant to the following: clarified and interpreted by the Supreme bill rests is the power of Congress as stated Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United Court of the United States. in Article I, Section 9 and Amendment X of States Constitution. By Ms. LEE of California: the United States Constitution. By Mr. HUNTER: H.R. 381. By Mr. THOMPSON of California: H.R. 374. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 390. Congress has the power to enact this legis- lation pursuant to the following: Congress has the power to enact this legis- lation pursuant to the following: This bill is enacted pursuant to the power lation pursuant to the following: This legislation makes clear that human granted to Congress under Article I of the Article I, Section 8, Clause 1. life begins at the moment of conception and, United States Constitution and its subse- By Mr. HINCHEY: therefore, the unborn are entitled to the quent amendments, and further clarified and H.R. 391. same rights and protections afforded to all interpreted by the Supreme Court of the Congress has the power to enact this legis- American citizens under the U.S. Constitu- United States. lation pursuant to the following: tion. In affirming human life begins at con- By Ms. LEE of California: Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1 and 4 and ception, the unborn are granted the right to H.R. 382. Amendment I, Clause 3 of the United States due process under Section 1 of the 14th Congress has the power to enact this legis- Constitution. Amendment which explicitly states, ‘‘no lation pursuant to the following: By Ms. LEE of California: state shall make or enforce any law which The power granted to Congress under Arti- H.R. 392. shall abridge the privileges or immunities of cle I of the United States Constitution and Congress has the power to enact this legis- citizens of the United States; nor shall any its subsequent amendments, and further lation pursuant to the following: State deprive any person of life, liberty, or clarified and interpreted by the Supreme ‘‘This bill is enacted pursuant to the power property, without due process of law; nor Court of the United States. granted to Congress under Article I of the deny to any person within its jurisdiction By Ms. LEE of California: United States Constitution and its subse- the equal protection of the laws.’’ H.R. 383. quent amendments, and further clarified and

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interpreted by the Supreme Court of the H.R. 104: Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. H.R. 218: Mr. GUTIERREZ and Mr. PIERLUISI. United States.’’ H.R. 121: Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee, Mr. H.R. 235: Ms. FOXX, Mr. MCCLINTOCK, and By Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD: RIGELL, Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas, and Mr. Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina. H.R. 393. MILLER of Florida. H.R. 261: Mr. HOLT, Mr. WEINER, and Ms. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 127: Mr. LABRADOR, Mr. NUNNELEE, WOOLSEY. lation pursuant to the following: and Mr. ROSS of Florida. H.R. 263: Mr. DOYLE. Article I, Section 8, Clause 4, Article I, H.R. 140: Mr. POE of Texas, Mr. NUNNELEE, H.R. 297: Mr. ROSS of Florida, Mr. DUNCAN Section 8, Clause 18. and Mr. NUGENT. of Tennessee, Mr. PETERS, and Mr. BRADY of By Mr. CARTER: H.R. 143: Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina and Texas. Mr. LONG. H.J. Res. 21. H.R. 299: Mr. POSEY. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 178: Mr. ROSS of Arkansas, Mr. CON- H.R. 302: Mrs. LUMMIS, Mr. BISHOP of Utah, lation pursuant to the following: NOLLY of Virginia, Mr. BACHUS, Mr. BONNER, Mr. SESSIONS, and Mr. MCCLINTOCK. ‘‘This bill is enacted pursuant to Amend- Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York, and Ms. BERK- H.R. 308: Mr. ROTHMAN of New Jersey, Mr. ment X of the United States Constitution.’’ LEY. MCDERMOTT, Mr. DOYLE, and Mr. SARBANES. H.R. 180: Ms. BORDALLO. f H.R. 349: Mr. PETRI. H.R. 181: Mr. SCHOCK and Mr. GENE GREEN ADDITIONAL SPONSORS of Texas. H.R. 352: Mr. SABLAN. H.J. Res. 9: Mr. BUCSHON and Mr. CULBER- Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors H.R. 186: Ms. BORDALLO, Mr. KISSELL, Mr. COURTNEY, Mr. NUGENT, and Mr. ROGERS of SON. were added to public bills and resolu- Alabama. H.J. Res. 11: Mr. MCCOTTER. tions as follows: H.R. 187: Mr. MCCAUL, Mr. PAUL, Ms. H. Res. 25: Mr. MILLER of Florida. H.R. 4: Mr. BISHOP of Georgia. HAYWORTH, Mr. FITZPATRICK, and Mr. H. Res. 35: Mr. DEUTCH, Ms. RICHARDSON, H.R. 21: Mr. NUNNELEE. HUELSKAMP. Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr. H.R. 22: Ms. RICHARDSON, Ms. ESHOO, Ms. H.R. 212: Mr. STUTZMAN, Mr. DUNCAN of GARAMENDI, Mr. HONDA, Ms. SPEIER, Mr. FIL- WOOLSEY, Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of California, South Carolina, Mr. MCCOTTER, and Mr. NER, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. FILNER, and Mr. TONKO. FARENTHOLD. Ms. BASS of California, Mr. MCNERNEY, Mr. H.R. 27: Mr. CLYBURN, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, H.R. 213: Mr. LONG. GEORGE MILLER of California, and Mr. MAR- Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA, Ms. BORDALLO, Mr. HAS- H.R. 217: Mr. LEE of New York, Mr. DANIEL KEY. TINGS of Florida, Ms. LINDA T. SA´ NCHEZ of E. LUNGREN of California, Mr. LABRADOR, and H. Res. 36: Ms. BORDALLO and Mr. DICKS. California, and Mr. CLAY. Mrs. MYRICK. H. Res. 44: Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas.

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U.S. CHINA TRADE AGREEMENTS permanent U.S. Naval Air Station. It was served on many nonprofit boards of directors America’s sole Naval Air Station until World and advisory boards. HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH War I. In the ensuing years, tens of thousands The Congress wishes Mr. Carrillo the very OF OHIO of America’s finest Naval Aviators have trained best as he continues this new chapter in his IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES at NAS Pensacola, including Neil Armstrong life in retirement. and Ted Williams. Today, all U.S. Naval Avi- f Thursday, January 20, 2011 ators begin their training at the Cradle of Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, as President Naval Aviation. A TRIBUTE TO THE JAPANESE Obama meets with visiting Chinese President From the first Naval Aviator, Lieutenant AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM Hu Jintao, in the past decade, we’ve lost at Theodore Ellyson, to the current class of flight ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRI- least 2 million American industrial jobs to students at NAS Pensacola, thousands of VATE NONPROFIT NATIONAL IN- China. In 2010 alone, the trade deficit be- Naval Aviators have protected America’s inter- STITUTION’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY tween the U.S. and China was $252 billion ests around the world and in outer space. Just OF SHARING THE EXPERIENCES dollars. like their predecessors from previous genera- OF AMERICANS OF JAPANESE The fact is that Chinese workers are paid tions, today’s students at NAS Pensacola go ANCESTRY IN THE UNITED much lower wages than U.S. workers, which through rigorous training to serve on shore STATES AND IN RECOGNITION means their products are much cheaper to and at sea, at home and abroad, to protect OF ITS RECEIPT OF AMERICA’S produce than if companies operating in China the United States and support freedom wher- HIGHEST HONOR FOR MUSEUMS had to pay actual fair labor costs. Chinese ever and whenever they are called. From workers endure a much lower standard of liv- combat patrols over Iraq and Afghanistan to HON. LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD ing than Americans do. They also lack any relief missions in Haiti and around the world, OF CALIFORNIA right to organize or petition their employers or Naval Aviation is a touchstone of America’s IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES government for better working conditions. naval might. Thursday, January 20, 2011 They do not enjoy the same protections of Mr. Speaker, I am privileged to recognize their environment that masses of Americans Naval Aviation for its contributions during its Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD. Mr. Speaker, I rise have fought so hard for. We take these basic first 100 years and to honor it as it takes flight today to recognize the Japanese American protections for granted because they are en- in the next 100 years. National Museum, the private nonprofit na- tional institution dedicated to sharing the expe- shrined in our law. f We cannot seek to compete with the Chi- riences of Americans of Japanese ancestry in nese on their level by weakening environ- CELEBRATING THE ACCOMPLISH- the United States. mental and worker protections in the hope that MENTS OF MR. ALBERTO Located in the historic Little Tokyo district of this will correct the economic imbalances be- CARRILLO Downtown Los Angeles in the 34th Congres- tween our two nations. Instead we must re- sional District, I had the privilege of nomi- write the U.S.-China trade agreements to in- HON. ZOE LOFGREN nating the Japanese American National Mu- clude these essential worker and environ- OF CALIFORNIA seum for an especially prestigious honor. The Institute of Museums and Library Services be- mental protections. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES stowed upon the museum its National Medal f Thursday, January 20, 2011 in recognition of the museum’s ‘‘extraordinary IN RECOGNITION OF THE Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of California. Mr. civic, educational, economic, environmental, CENTENNIAL OF NAVY AVIATION Speaker, I rise today along with Congressman and social contributions.’’ The museum was MICHAEL HONDA to recognize the career and one of only 10 institutions in 2010 to receive HON. JEFF MILLER accomplishments of Mr. Alberto Carrillo, Sr., a the institute’s National Medal—America’s high- OF FLORIDA dedicated employee of the Office of Human est honor for museums. The Japanese Amer- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Relations of Santa Clara County. ican National Museum is only the second mu- Prior to our election to the House of Rep- seum located in California to be recognized Thursday, January 20, 2011 resentatives, Congressman HONDA and I with this national distinction. Mr. MILLER of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise served on the Board of Supervisors for the The concept for the museum originated to recognize the Centennial of Naval Aviation County of Santa Clara and so we are well more than 25 years ago when members of the and its service to the United States of Amer- aware of the important work done by the Japanese American community realized that ica. County’s Office of Human Relations. They their families’ storied history was being lost to Throughout the last century, the men and work diligently with our extremely diverse com- time. The families especially wanted to pre- women of the United States Navy, Marine munity to build positive inter-group relations, to serve for future generations the stories of the Corps and Coast Guard who have heeded eliminate prejudice and discrimination and to tremendous hardships endured by Japanese freedom’s call have become America’s front foster the peaceful resolution of conflict. Americans during World War II. During this line of defense. Generation after generation of Alberto has worked tirelessly advocating for time, thousands of Japanese American fami- children from the Emerald Coast have civil and human rights in our community. Both lies lost their homes, their businesses and watched our country’s finest aviators overhead with the County and in his capacity as a com- most of what they owned when the United and dreamt of following in their footsteps. I am munity activist and volunteer, he has worked States Government unconscionably incarcer- proud to say that the First Congressional Dis- toward building opportunities in housing, em- ated them in detention camps. trict of Florida holds a special place in its heart ployment, education, business and govern- Despite this injustice, many Japanese Amer- for Naval Aviation and all who fly in their na- ment for Santa Clara County’s diverse com- icans responded to the military needs of our tion’s defense. munity. country during World War II with great patriotic Naval Air Station Pensacola, NAS Pensa- His experiences outside of the County fervor. The famed 100th Infantry Battalion and cola, welcomed its first aviation unit on Janu- speak to his dedication. He began his career the 442nd Regimental Combat Team—made ary 20, 1914, less than 3 years after the Navy with the Mexican-American Chamber of Com- up almost entirely of Japanese Americans— purchased its first planes. On December 7, merce, held leadership positions in the Mexi- became the most decorated units for their size 1917, Pensacola was designated as the first can-American Political Association, and has and length of service in the history of our

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Thursday, January 20, 2011 On behalf of the people of South Alabama, In 1985, the museum was founded as an al- Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, Goldman most all-volunteer organization composed of I offer my condolences to his wife of 50 years, Sachs, the most profitable U.S. securities firm Margaret; their son, Thomas Michael; brother, 13 different committees and only one full-time in history, is on a well-publicized public rela- Patrick; grandchildren, Ashley Elmore, Brandi staff member with no permanent site and no tions (PR) campaign to improve its image. Williams, Joshua Williams; one great grand- endowment. In 1992, the museum renovated Goldman is hoping that this will help erase child, Tyler Elmore; and extended family. You an important historic building for their head- the negative appearance that lingers in the are all in our prayers. quarters and then expanded to a modern Pa- public’s mind after it paid $550 million to settle vilion in 1999. Throughout this time, the Japa- a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) f nese American National Museum became the fraud suit last July. Since then, its stock has repository of the history of people of Japanese taken a beating. TRIBUTE TO T. MASSEY BEDSOLE ancestry in the United States, collecting more But don’t worry about Goldman. It’s no se- than 80,000 artifacts, photographs, documents cret that its strategy to reap billions in profits and ephemera (such as letters, posters, and came in part by creating and selling high-risk HON. JO BONNER mortgages in a form known as ‘‘collateralized newspaper articles) that help to preserve and OF ALABAMA share their stories with all Americans. debt obligations.’’ This, while tens of thou- sands of families in Cleveland—and millions IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES An average of 25,000 students annually elsewhere—were losing their homes to fore- make visits to the Japanese American Na- closure and their communities to decay and Thursday, January 20, 2011 tional Museum, guided by volunteers who neglect. It’s also well-known that Goldman had Mr. BONNER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay lived through much of this amazing history. no ethical problem placing big bets against its tribute to the life of Mr. T. Massey Bedsole, a Visitors to the museum learn about the com- own investment clients. dear friend and active supporter of higher edu- monalities of the Japanese American experi- In 2008, Goldman took $10 billion in below- cation in the state of Alabama who recently ence with that of other ethnic groups in our market loans from the Federal Reserve, only passed away at the age of 93. country as part of the museum’s core exhi- to have the audacity to claim later that it didn’t A 1939 graduate of the University of Ala- bition entitled, ‘‘Common Ground: The Heart of need that money after all. But those funds bama and a 1941 graduate of the University of Community.’’ helped Goldman weather the financial crisis Alabama law school, ‘‘Mr. Massey’’ answered The museum’s new exhibition entitled, that they helped create. It’s easy to claim now that they didn’t need the help back when the his nation’s call as a Navy aviator in the Pa- ‘‘Fighting for Democracy: Who is the ’We’ in financial system was nearly in ruins. But don’t cific Theater, serving with distinction during ’We, the People’?’’ features profiles of seven be fooled: it’s still the same old Goldman, still World War II. After the war, he was dis- people of various backgrounds and ethnicities as cunning and ruthless as ever when it charged with the rank of lieutenant colonel. who actively supported the American war ef- comes to the pursuit of profits. A native of Grove Hill, Alabama, Massey fort, but who also wanted our democracy to Goldman hopes its PR money will be well- Bedsole, was the proverbial pillar of the com- truly serve all the people in the post-World spent, and that the American people will forget munity in Mobile, Alabama, as both a leading War II era. This exhibition has traveled to the the way it profited so handsomely, even off of attorney and outstanding businessman. National World War II Museum in New Orle- the misery of others, including its own clients. In 1946, ‘‘Mr. Massey’’ moved to Mobile ans, the National Archives and the Tuskegee But many of us are paying attention, and we where he joined the law firm that would be- National Institute Historic Site in Alabama. will remember. come Hand, Arendall, Bedsole, Greaves and The museum also organized a five-state f Johnson. educational project entitled, ‘‘Enduring Com- TRIBUTE TO SARALAND MAYOR ‘‘Mr. Massey’’ served as an attorney for 60 munities: The Japanese American Experience KEN WILLIAMS years, also finding time to lend his consider- in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and able talents as president of the Mobile County Utah.’’ The 3-year project—which involved HON. JO BONNER Bar Association, director of the First National local institutions within each state—culminated Bank of Mobile and director of the Alabama OF ALABAMA with a national conference in Denver in 2008 Power Company. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES attended by teachers, scholars and the people While a much respected legal mind and from the communities who lived this history. Thursday, January 20, 2011 successful business executive, perhaps ‘‘Mr. Mr. Speaker, in recognition of the museum’s Mr. BONNER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor Massey’’ made his greatest mark as a booster 25th Anniversary and its receipt of the Institute the memory of Saraland Mayor Ken Williams, of higher education in Mobile and across the of Museums and Library Services’ National a beloved and dedicated public servant to state of Alabama, as well as for his support of Medal, I ask my congressional colleagues to many in his community, who suddenly passed local charitable efforts. please join me and the residents of the 34th away on December 27, 2010 the age of 76. For nearly four decades, ‘‘Mr. Massey’’ was Mayor Williams began his long and suc- Congressional District in congratulating the a trustee at the University of Mobile where he cessful political career as city councilman in Japanese American National Museum for its was named chairman emeritus and honorary 1992 and served until 1996 when he ran for extraordinary achievements. I congratulate life trustee. For ten years, he also served his mayor of Saraland. Museum President and CEO Akemi Kikumura beloved alma mater, the University of Ala- He was Saraland’s longest serving mayor, bama, as trustee and then trustee emeritus. Yano, the members of the museum’s Board of in office for 14 years, and was widely re- Governors and Board of Trustees and all of spected for his steadfast dedication to pre- He was also chairman of the J.L. Bedsole the community members whose dedication to serving Saraland’s small town quality of life, Charitable Foundation for over 30 years. preserving the Japanese American story make while helping his community become one of On behalf of the people of South Alabama, the museum the local and national treasure the fastest growing towns in South Alabama. I extend condolences to his wife of more than that it is today. I wish the museum and every- A native of Putnam, Alabama, Mayor Wil- 64 years, Martha; their son, Travis, and one involved in its growth and educational liams was a local businessman and resident daughter Curry; as well as grandchildren, mission many more years of continued suc- before entering politics. He was a retired mas- Preston, Edward, Ashley and Daniel; and their cess. ter plumber and owned a local sporting goods entire family. You are all in our prayers.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:20 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0689 Sfmt 9920 J:\BR_BACKUP\E20JA1.000 E20JA1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD 562 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 January 20, 2011 ASSAULT ON CAMP ASHRAF Marin County, CA. Ms. Thayer has helped to A veteran of the Navy and the Air Force Re- build a successful and well-respected institu- serve, Mr. Hodgson returned from his military HON. LORETTA SANCHEZ tion that embodies the strength of character service to Bay Minette, Alabama to help run OF CALIFORNIA she consistently brought to her work on behalf the family business, Standard Oil. Mr. Hodgson soon took the helm of another IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the public. f family business, Standard Furniture Manufac- Thursday, January 20, 2011 turing Company, where he served as execu- Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of California. Mr. HONORING EVIE DAVIS tive vice president and chairman of the board. Speaker, on January 7th of this year, resi- He guided the company, which at one time dents of Camp Ashraf were attacked by Ira- HON. ELIOT L. ENGEL had 1,500 employees, for a half century. nian agents and supporting Iraqi forces. Camp OF NEW YORK In addition to his distinguished service as a Ashraf houses over 3,400 supporters of Iran’s IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES successful businessman, Mr. Hodgson was an active booster of community service organiza- opposition and are currently under the ‘‘pro- Thursday, January 20, 2011 tected persons’’ status in accordance with the tions, including chairman of the board and Fourth Geneva Convention. Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, public service is founder of Bayside Academy, chairman of the 176 people, including 91 women were in- a noble profession when done honestly and Alabama Sheriff’s Youth Ranches, and chair- jured when the agents hurled stones, bottles, well. Those who work in government, serving man of the board of the Community Founda- metal pieces and Molotov cocktails into the the people, do so with pride of accomplish- tion of South Alabama, to name a few. Camp. This barrage builds on a broader cam- ment in the knowledge that they are helping to In 1991, he was named Chamber of Com- paign against the people that were exiled from make life easier for those they serve. merce Citizen of the Year in Bay Minette, and their homeland after calling for an end to the Evie Davis, the District Manager of the West in 2008 he was commended by the Alabama oppressive Iranian regime. Nyack Social Security office began her career Legislature for extraordinary professional For the past 11 months, 180 loudspeakers with the Social Security Administration 40 achievement and community service for Bald- have been installed beyond the fences of the years ago, in October of 1970, at the North- win County, Alabama. Camp that continuously play Iranian propa- eastern Program Service. In 1997, Mr. Hodgson was honored by ganda and messages that threaten the prop- She held a variety of positions of increasing President Bill Clinton at a White House cere- erty, homes and lives of residents. To me, this responsibility, rising to District Manager of the mony recognizing business executives from presents a compelling reminder that the free- White Plains office in 1990. She served there around the nation who were instrumental in doms we enjoy are far from universal and for eleven years before moving across the developing hiring practices to transition wel- there are those struggling for the same lib- Hudson River to her current position in Rock- fare recipients to employment. erties. Therefore, I urge my colleagues to land County. On behalf of the people of South Alabama, speak out against the Iranian and Iraqi forces She has served on many committees and I wish to extend condolences to his wife of 57 involved in the assault on Camp Ashraf and workshops in furtherance of helping the SSA years, Doris; their daughter, Kimberly; their remember those injured in the violence. better help its clients, including the workgroup son, Philip; as well as their grandchildren, Ann-Brooks and Sidney, and their entire fam- f on the Limited-English Speaking Population. She has also served on the Advisory Com- ily. You are all in our thoughts and prayers. HONORING JOAN THAYER mittee of the Offices for the Aging in both f Westchester and Rockland Counties. COMMEMORATING THE OPENING HON. LYNN C. WOOLSEY She has always prided herself on her serv- OF THE PROPELLANTS NORTH OF CALIFORNIA ice to the Social Security Administration and ADMINISTRATIVE AND MAINTE- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the people it serves, touching the lives of vir- NANCE FACILITY tually all of America’s families in one way or Thursday, January 20, 2011 another. She derived great fulfillment from her Ms. WOOLSEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to role in managing and always strove to con- HON. SANDY ADAMS OF FLORIDA honor the career of Joan Thayer, who retired tribute to a satisfying work environment. For IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in January 2011 as the Assessor-Recorder of her dedication and her abilities she has re- Marin County. Assessor Thayer’s commitment ceived many awards, including the Associate Thursday, January 20, 2011 to the highest quality of public service has Commissioner’s Citation. Mrs. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to benefited the people of Marin and strength- Evie and her husband Mark are about to commemorate the opening of the Propellants ened the office she led for so many years. celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary. North Administrative and Maintenance Facility Ms. Thayer began her life in public service They have two sons, Eric and Jarrod, and twin which is one of NASA’s most environmentally over three decades ago in San Rafael, where baby granddaughters. friendly structures. At a ceremony today, she first served on the Dixie School Board I congratulate Evie Davis for her 40 years of attendees will celebrate the opening of this from 1979 to 1983. She later ran for San public service in helping people. She has new facility to help NASA achieve its mission. Rafael City Council, becoming only the second earned our thanks and praise for the good The Propellants North Administrative and Councilwoman in the city’s history. In those work she has done for so many years in mak- Maintenance Facility is located near launch roles, Ms. Thayer established a reputation as ing our lives and the lives of those around us complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center in an intelligent public servant willing to take on better and more fulfilling. Florida. The facility will be used for spacecraft difficult decisions and defend her views with a f fueling support and to store cryogenic fuel unique passion and integrity. transfer equipment. It will be NASA’s first car- In 1994, Joan was elected to lead the office TRIBUTE TO ROBERT HODGSON bon-neutral facility producing enough energy of County Assessor-Recorder, then one of onsite from renewable sources to offset what only two such offices led by women in Califor- HON. JO BONNER it requires to operate. This construction style nia’s 58 counties. In the years that followed, OF ALABAMA will bring a cost savings to NASA, saving tax- she worked tirelessly to ensure that her office IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES payers money. continued to serve the interests of Marin resi- The facility was built using recycled con- dents. She has been an advocate for the just Thursday, January 20, 2011 crete, bottles, aluminum cans, cardboard, and efficient property tax system our commu- Mr. BONNER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay white paper, wood, and steel. NASA’s goal for nities rely upon, and she has performed her tribute to Mr. Robert Morton Hodgson, a re- the design and the construction of Propellant duties with the utmost integrity and profes- spected long-time South Alabama business North Administrative and Maintenance Facility sionalism. Ms. Thayer was also a leader out- and community leader who recently passed was to reach for the United States Green side of Marin, serving as President of the Cali- away at the age of 83. Building Council’s Leadership in Environ- fornia Assessors Association in 2003. Robert Hodgson was a 1945 graduate of mental and Energy Design Platinum status, Mr. Speaker, I ask you to join me in thank- Baldwin County High School and a 1950 grad- which is the highest rating a green building ing Joan Thayer for her service on behalf of uate of the University of Alabama. can achieve.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:20 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 0689 Sfmt 9920 J:\BR_BACKUP\E20JA1.000 E20JA1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD January 20, 2011 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 563 Mr. Speaker, please join me in congratu- Today Henrico County is situated in Central Committee on the Judiciary. They were adopt- lating NASA for building an environmentally Virginia and includes a third of the Richmond ed by the Committee on January 19, 2011. friendly, economical, and efficient facility. The metropolitan area. Business in Henrico con- MEMBERS OF COMMITTEE Propellant North Administrative and Mainte- tinues to thrive while local attractions and his- ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS nance Facility is a positive step for providing torical sites attract residents and visitors to the Lamar Smith, Texas, Chairman a cleaner environment for future generations county. In 1927, Henrico County was honored F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., Wisconsin and will bring cost savings to Florida tax- when Charles A. Lindbergh landed the Spirit Howard Coble, North Carolina payers. of St. Louis at the grand opening of Byrd Elton Gallegly, California Bob Goodlatte, Virginia f Field. This airport, now known as the Rich- mond International Airport, serves more than Daniel E. Lungren, California IN HONOR OF NATIONAL PENN Steve Chabot, Ohio 3.5 million travelers annually. The Richmond Darrell Issa, California BANK’S ROYERSFORD BRANCH’S International Raceway, RIR, America’s Pre- 25TH ANNIVERSARY Mike Pence, Indiana mier Short Track, is also located in Henrico. J. Randy Forbes, Virginia Each year RIR hosts both the NASCAR Sprint Steve King, Iowa HON. JIM GERLACH Cup Series and NASCAR Nationwide Series. Trent Franks, Arizona OF PENNSYLVANIA Mr. Speaker, please join me in congratu- Louie Gohmert, Texas IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Jim Jordan, Ohio lating the citizens of Henrico as they celebrate Ted Poe, Texas Thursday, January 20, 2011 the county’s anniversary and wishing them the Jason Chaffetz, Utah Mr. GERLACH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to best for their continued growth and success. Tom Reed, New York congratulate National Penn Bank’s Royersford f Tim Griffin, Arkansas Tom Marino, Pennsylvania branch on its 25th anniversary and to honor IN HONOR OF CHIEF OF POLICE Trey Gowdy, South Carolina this financial institution for its commitment to DONALD L. WAGNER Dennis Ross, Florida serving the community. Sandy Adams, Florida Since opening its doors in 1986, National Ben Quayle, Arizona Penn Bank’s Royersford branch has provided HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH John Conyers, Jr., Michigan, Ranking outstanding financial services to the commu- OF OHIO Member nity through a tremendously dedicated group IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Howard L. Berman, California Jerrold Nadler, New York of banking professionals. The Royersford Thursday, January 20, 2011 Robert C. ‘‘Bobby’’ Scott, Virginia branch is a place where citizens have their fi- Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in Melvin L. Watt, North Carolina nancial goals and dreams realized and their honor and recognition of Chief of Police Don- Zoe Lofgren, California hard-earned dollars protected. Sheila Jackson Lee, Texas ald L. Wagner upon his retirement from the Headquartered in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, Maxine Waters, California Rocky River Police Department after 45 years National Penn operates 124 community bank- Steve Cohen, Tennessee of dedicated service. ing offices in Pennsylvania and is an exem- Henry C. ‘‘Hank’’ Johnson, Jr., Georgia Chief of Police Wagner was born in Lake- Pedro Pierluisi, Puerto Rico plary employer to its thousands of employees. Mike Quigley, Illinois Mr. Speaker, I ask that my colleagues join wood, Ohio on May 13, 1942. He graduated from Rocky River High School in 1960 and Judy Chu, California me today in recognizing National Penn Bank’s Ted Deutch, Florida earned a bachelor’s degree from Ohio Univer- Royersford branch for its valuable contribu- Linda T. Sa´ nchez, California tions to enhancing its community’s quality of sity in 1964. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Florida Chief of Police Wagner began his career life in its quarter century of service. RULES OF PROCEDURE with the Rocky River Police Department on RULE I. f April 1, 1965. He was promoted to Sergeant in The Rules of the House of Representatives RECOGNIZING THE 400TH ANNIVER- 1974, Lieutenant in 1980, Executive Staff As- are the rules of the Committee on the Judici- SARY OF HENRICO COUNTY, VIR- sistant to the Chief of Police in 1985 and fi- ary and its Subcommittees with the fol- GINIA nally to Chief of Police in 1995. He is a mem- lowing specific additions thereto. ber of the International Association of Chiefs RULE II. COMMITTEE MEETINGS HON. ERIC CANTOR of Police, the Ohio Association of Chiefs of (a) The regular meeting day of the Com- OF VIRGINIA Police, the Cuyahoga County Police Chiefs mittee on the Judiciary for the conduct of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Association and the Metropolitan Crime Clinic its business shall be on Wednesday of each Association. week while the House is in session. Thursday, January 20, 2011 The life of a police officer is one of true self- (b) Additional meetings may be called by Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to lessness and service, and Police Chief Wag- the Chairman and a regular meeting of the recognize the 400th anniversary of Henrico ner is no exception. Each day the brave men Committee may be dispensed with when, in County, Virginia. The Citie of Henricus was and women of law enforcement put their lives the judgment of the Chairman, there is no need therefor. established by Sir Thomas Dale in September on the line for the good of their communities. (c) At least 3 days (excluding Saturdays, 1611 and was named in honor of Henry Fred- Mr. Speaker and colleagues, please join me Sundays and legal holidays when the House erick, Prince of Wales. Later in 1634, Henrico in honor of Chief of Police Donald L. Wagner is not in session) before each scheduled Com- was designated as one of Virginia’s first eight for his exemplary service on behalf of his mittee or Subcommittee meeting, each counties and at the time it included the coun- community. Chief of Police Wagner’s dedica- Member of the Committee or Subcommittee ties of Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Buck- tion to making Rocky River a safer place to shall be furnished a list of the bill(s) and sub- ingham, Chesterfield, Cumberland, Fluvanna, live and work is honorable and inspiring. I ject(s) to be considered and/or acted upon at Goochland, Nelson and Powhatan and the cit- wish Chief of Police Wagner peace, health the meeting. Bills or subjects not listed shall be subject to a point of order unless their ies of Charlottesville, Colonial Heights and and happiness in all his future endeavors. consideration is agreed to by a two-thirds Richmond. f vote of the Committee or Subcommittee. Henrico County was home to pioneer Afri- (d) In an emergency that does not reason- can-American educator and humanitarian Vir- RULES OF PROCEDURE OF THE ably allow for 3 days’ notice, the Chairman ginia Randolph, who founded the first public COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY may waive the 3-day notice requirement school vocational education program in the with the concurrence of the Ranking Minor- nation. She was born to former slaves and HON. LAMAR SMITH ity Member. (e) At least 48 hours prior to the com- opened the Old Mountain Road School in OF TEXAS 1892. The Virginia E. Randolph Community mencement of a meeting for the markup of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES legislation, the text of such legislation shall High School and the Virginia Randolph Spe- Thursday, January 20, 2011 be made publicly available in electronic cial Education Center School, named in honor form. of Virginia Randolph, are located in Henrico Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I would (f) To the maximum extent practicable, County. like to submit the Rules of Procedure of the amendments to a measure or matter shall be

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(g) Committee and Subcommittee meet- receiving evidence before the Committee or The Subcommittee on Immigration Policy ings for the transaction of business, i.e. any Subcommittee, a quorum shall be con- and Enforcement shall have jurisdiction over meetings other than those held for the pur- stituted by the presence of two Members. the following subject matters: immigration pose of taking testimony, shall be open to (d) In the course of any hearing each Mem- and naturalization, border security, admis- the public except when the Committee or ber shall be allowed five minutes for the in- sion of refugees, treaties, conventions and Subcommittee determines by majority vote terrogation of a witness until such time as international agreements, claims against the to close the meeting because disclosure of each Member who so desires has had an op- United States, Federal charters of incorpora- matters to be considered would endanger na- portunity to question the witness. tion, private immigration and claims bills, tional security, would compromise sensitive (e) The transcripts of those hearings con- non-border enforcement, other appropriate law enforcement information, or would tend ducted by the Committee which are decided matters as referred by the Chairman, and to defame, degrade or incriminate any per- to be printed shall be published in verbatim relevant oversight. son or otherwise would violate any law or form, with the material requested for the (c) The Chairman of the Committee and rule of the House. record inserted at that place requested, or at Ranking Minority Member thereof shall be (h) Every motion made to the Committee the end of the record, as appropriate. Indi- ex officio Members, but not voting Members, and entertained by the Chairman shall be re- viduals, including Members of Congress, of each Subcommittee to which such Chair- duced to writing upon demand of any Mem- whose comments are to be published as part man or Ranking Minority Member has not ber, and a copy made available to each Mem- of a Committee document shall be given the been assigned by resolution of the Com- ber present. opportunity to verify the accuracy of the mittee. Ex officio Members shall not be (i) For purposes of taking any action at a transcription in advance of publication. Any counted as present for purposes of consti- meeting of the full Committee or any Sub- requests by those Members, staff or wit- tuting a quorum at any hearing or meeting committee thereof, a quorum shall be con- nesses to correct any errors other than er- of such Subcommittee. stituted by the presence of not less than one- rors in the transcription, or disputed errors RULE VI. POWERS AND DUTIES OF third of the Members of the Committee or in transcription, shall be appended to the SUBCOMMITTEES subcommittee, except that a full majority of record, and the appropriate place where the Each Subcommittee is authorized to meet, the Members of the Committee or Sub- change is requested will be footnoted. Prior hold hearings, receive evidence, and report committee shall constitute a quorum for to approval by the Chairman of hearings con- to the full Committee on all matters referred purposes of reporting a measure or rec- ducted jointly with another congressional to it or under its jurisdiction. Subcommittee ommendation from the Committee or Sub- Committee, a memorandum of under- chairmen shall set dates for hearings and committee, closing a meeting to the public, standing shall be prepared which incor- meetings of their respective Subcommittees or authorizing the issuance of a subpoena. porates an agreement for the publication of after consultation with the Chairman and (j)(1) Subject to subparagraph (2), the the verbatim transcript. Chairman may postpone further proceedings other Subcommittee chairmen with a view RULE IV. BROADCASTING when a record vote is ordered on the ques- toward avoiding simultaneous scheduling of tion of approving any measure or matter or Whenever a hearing or meeting conducted full Committee and Subcommittee meetings adopting an amendment. The Chairman may by the Committee or any Subcommittee is or hearings whenever possible. resume proceedings on a postponed request open to the public, those proceedings shall be RULE VII. NON-LEGISLATIVE REPORTS open to coverage by television, radio and at any time. No report of the Committee or Sub- still photography except when the hearing or (2) In exercising postponement authority committee which does not accompany a meeting is closed pursuant to the Committee under subparagraph (1), the Chairman shall measure or matter for consideration by the Rules of Procedure. take all reasonable steps necessary to notify House shall be published unless all Members Members on the resumption of proceedings RULE V. STANDING SUBCOMMITTEES of the Committee or Subcommittee issuing on any postponed record vote. (a) The full Committee shall have jurisdic- the report shall have been apprised of such (3) When proceedings resume on a post- tion over such matters as determined by the report and given the opportunity to give no- poned question, notwithstanding any inter- Chairman. tice of intention to file supplemental, addi- vening order for the previous question, an (b) There shall be five standing Sub- tional, or dissenting views as part of the re- underlying proposition shall remain subject committees of the Committee on the Judici- port. In no case shall the time in which to to further debate or amendment to the same ary, with jurisdictions as follows: file such views be less than three calendar extent as when the question was postponed. The Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and (k) Transcripts of markups shall be re- and Administrative Law shall have jurisdic- legal holidays when the House is not in ses- corded and may be published in the same tion over the following subject matters: Ad- sion). manner as hearings before the Committee. ministration of U.S. Courts, Federal Rules of RULE VIII. COMMITTEE RECORDS (1) Without further action of the Com- Evidence, Civil and Appellate Procedure, ju- The records of the Committee at the Na- mittee, the Chairman is directed to offer a dicial ethics, bankruptcy and commercial tional Archives and Records Administration motion under clause 1 of rule XXII of the law, bankruptcy judgeships, administrative shall be made available for public use ac- Rules of the House of Representatives when- law, independent counsel, state taxation af- cording to the Rules of the House. The Chair- ever the Chairman considers it appropriate. fecting interstate commerce, interstate com- man shall notify the Ranking Minority RULE III. HEARINGS pacts, other appropriate matters as referred Member of any decision to withhold a record (a) The Committee Chairman or any Sub- by the Chairman, and relevant oversight. otherwise available, and the matter shall be committee Chairman shall make public an- The Subcommittee on the Constitution presented to the Committee for a determina- nouncement of the date, place, and subject shall have jurisdiction over the following tion on the written request of any Member of matter of any hearing to be conducted by it subject matters: constitutional amendments, the Committee. on any measure or matter at least one week constitutional rights, Federal civil rights, before the commencement of that hearing. If ethics in government, tort liability, includ- RULE IX. OFFICIAL COMMITTEE WEBSITE the Chairman of the Committee, or Sub- ing medical malpractice and product liabil- (a) The Chairman shall maintain an offi- committee, with the concurrence of the ity, legal reform generally, other appro- cial website on behalf of the Committee for Ranking Minority Member, determines there priate matters as referred by the Chairman, the purpose of furthering the Committee’s is good cause to begin the hearing sooner, or and relevant oversight. legislative and oversight responsibilities, in- if the Committee or Subcommittee so deter- The Subcommittee on Intellectual Prop- cluding communicating information about mines by majority vote, a quorum being erty, Competition, and the Internet shall the Committee’s activities to Committee present for the transaction of business, the have jurisdiction over the following subject Members and other Members of the House. Chairman or Subcommittee Chairman shall matters: copyright, patent, trademark law, (b) The Chairman shall make the record of make the announcement at the earliest pos- information technology, antitrust matters, the votes on any question on which a record sible date. other appropriate matters as referred by the vote is demanded in the full Committee (b) Committee and Subcommittee hearings Chairman, and relevant oversight. available on the Committee’s official website shall be open to the public except when the The Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, not later than 48 hours after such vote is Committee or Subcommittee determines by and Homeland Security shall have jurisdic- taken. Such record shall identify or describe majority vote to close the meeting because tion over the following subject matters: Fed- the amendment, motion, order, or other disclosure of matters to be considered would eral Criminal Code, drug enforcement, sen- proposition, the name of each Member voting

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:20 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 0689 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\E20JA1.000 E20JA1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD January 20, 2011 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 565 for and each Member voting against such and protected the people of Rocky River with For over 34 years, I have been privileged to amendment, motion, order, or proposition, courage for 34 years. represent the people of southern West Vir- and the names of the Members voting ginia, and it is with humbleness and sincerity present. f that I say, from the home front to the front (c) Not later than 24 hours after the adop- HONORING MAJOR GENERAL tion of any amendment to a measure or mat- lines, our West Virginia National Guard is a ALLEN E. TACKETT, THE ADJU- model of the commitment to excellence and ter considered by the Committee or its Sub- TANT GENERAL, WEST VIRGINIA committees, the Chairman shall make the professional dedication to America’s defense, text of each such amendment publicly avail- NATIONAL GUARD thanks to the commitment, vision, and leader- able in electronic form. ship of Major General Tackett. (d) Not later than 3 days after the conclu- HON. NICK J. RAHALL, II Therefore, it is my honor and great privilege sion of a Committee meeting, the transcript OF WEST VIRGINIA to commend Major General Allen E. Tackett, of such meeting and the text of all amend- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ments offered shall be made available on the the Adjutant General of the West Virginia Na- Committee website. Thursday, January 20, 2011 tional Guard: For his 48 years in service to our (e) The Ranking Member is authorized to Mr. RAHALL. Mr. Speaker, today, I rise in country; for his 25 years served in Special maintain a similar official website on behalf recognition for one of West Virginia’s most be- Forces units; for his vital contributions—with of the Committee Minority for the same pur- loved sons, a genuine and proven leader, an the force and voice of U.S. Senator Robert C. pose, including communicating information American patriot, and my dear friend, Major Byrd—working to block the closing of the about the activities of the Minority to Com- General Allen Tackett. 130th Airlift Wing by the Base Realignment mittee Members and other Members of the and Closure Commission in 2005; for his pas- House. Tomorrow, after 48 years of faithful service to our State and our Nation, General Tackett sion for education and creating hope and op- f will step down as Commander of more than portunity through his support for programs PERSONAL EXPLANATION 6,000 West Virginia citizen soldiers and air- such as, the West Virginia National Guards’ men. He will begin his retirement having Tuition Assistance; and for his work with at- HON. ROBERT J. DOLD earned the outstanding distinction of not only risk youths through the National Youth Chal- leNGe program. OF ILLINOIS being the longest-serving adjutant general of the West Virginia National Guard, but also of Mr. Speaker, on occasion, Senator Byrd en- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES being our Nation’s longest-serving adjutant joyed comparing General Tackett’s skills to Thursday, January 20, 2011 general. those of the Carthaginian General, Hannibal. I Mr. DOLD. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 10, In West Virginia, the men and women of our agree with the Senator—when Allen Tackett I was unavoidably detained. Had I been National Guard are held in high regard by their tackles a problem, it is as if his opponents are present, I would have voted ‘‘yes.’’ fellow citizens. Since 1995, through the lead- facing a thunderous herd of raging bull ele- f ership of General Tackett, they annually rank phants. Today, I join my fellow West Vir- number one in the country for mission readi- ginians in recognition and congratulatory ac- IN HONOR OF LIEUTENANT ness. Whether it is a perilous flight mission in knowledgement of the great achievements of ROBERT G. SHARP the depths of winter to rescue military per- Major General Tackett as he begins this new sonnel trapped in our deep, snow-covered chapter in his life with his beloved wife, Sallie. HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH mountains, or a mission to provide aid and f OF OHIO comfort to fellow West Virginians ravaged by A TRIBUTE TO CHIEF SAM L. SPIE- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES flood waters, or deployed to far corners of the world to protect our democracy and ensure GEL IN RECOGNITION OF HIS Thursday, January 20, 2011 peace around the globe, the West Virginia Na- YEARS OF SERVICE TO FOLSOM, Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in tional Guard has answered the call, time and CALIFORNIA honor and recognition of Lieutenant Robert G. again. Sharp, upon his retirement from the Rocky From the Civil War that gave birth to my HON. DANIEL E. LUNGREN River Police Department, following over 30 State, to present-day wars in Iraq and Afghan- OF CALIFORNIA years of dedicated service. istan, the record of service by so many patri- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Born in Berea, Ohio on December 20, 1952, otic West Virginians places our State in the Thursday, January 20, 2011 Lt. Sharp was raised in the West Park area of top percentage of all Americans who have Cleveland. A few years after Mr. Sharp grad- donned America’s uniform. As Mountaineers, Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Mr. uated from John Marshall High School, he we are incredibly proud of our record and ex- Speaker, I rise today to recognize and honor joined the Rocky River Police Department. He traordinary military leaders, like Major General my friend, Chief Sam L. Spiegel, for the years earned an associate degree in Law Enforce- Tackett, who rise from the ranks to train, lead, of service he has spent as chief of police and ment in 1982 from Cuyahoga Community Col- and mentor our soldiers and airmen with great director of Emergency Services for the city of lege and a bachelors degree in Technical honor, personal pride, commitment, and sac- Folsom, California. Altogether, Chief Spiegel Education in 1989 from the University of rifice, and an enduring passion for the free- has a 39 year tenure in law enforcement in Akron. doms in our democracy. California. Throughout the course of his career, Lt. The American people owe an enormous Chief Spiegel holds a Master Degree in Sharp received numerous commendations and debt of gratitude to our 362,192 men and Management, a Bachelor Degree in Criminal special recognitions for his courage, lifesaving women members of the National Guard, who Justice, his State teaching credential, and is a efforts, and dedication to those he served. In in service to the United States, maintain the graduate of the P.O.S.T. Command College 1980, Mr. Sharp was promoted to Sergeant Guard’s multi-mission role—providing nearly and the FBI National Academy. Sam began and later Lieutenant in 1984. He also served 33 percent of America’s combat power glob- his law enforcement career as a police cadet as the Commander of the Westshore S.W.A.T. ally—and, simultaneously and with great with the Corona Police Department in Novem- Team from 1986 to 1996. skill—serving their fellow citizens in defense of ber of 1971. He was trained as a schools In addition to his outstanding career as a our homeland, in support of state and local cadet and dispatcher before becoming a re- police officer, Lt. Sharp has been an active civil authorities, and fulfilling emergency re- serve police officer in June of 1974. He was member of the community. He is a member of sponse needs. hired as a deputy sheriff with the Riverside the Westpark Cleveland Historical Society, For decades, there has been a significant County Sheriffs Department in December of and in the past participated in the National evolution in the missions and capabilities of 1974 and assigned to Lake Elsinore Station Tactical Officer’s Association as well as the the National Guard. As General Tackett has Patrol. In January of 1976, he returned to Co- Ohio Tactical Officer’s Association. so aptly stated, ‘‘Not since World War II has rona Police Department as a reserve officer Mr. Speaker and colleagues, please join me the Guard been so vital to our overseas mis- and was hired as a full time police officer in in honor of Lieutenant Robert G. Sharp for his sion, and not since the founding of our Nation December 1976. During his tenure with Co- exemplary service on behalf of his community. has the Guard been so vital to the defense of rona PD he was assigned as a traffic officer, At the age of 58, Lieutenant Sharp has served our homeland.’’ commercial enforcement officer, detective, and

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In April of 2001 he was hired Each day, thousands of Americans lend a Malta, the Caring Award, the Albert Schweit- as Folsom’s 15th chief of police. He held the hand in providing transportation services to a zer Humanitarian Award, the FREDDIE Award, position of chief with Folsom until his retire- multitude of organizations engaged in good and the Jefferson Award for Lifetime Achieve- ment on October 26, 2010. works. These activities include assisting indi- ment, and has received honorary doctorates Sam has also served in various other ca- viduals with their routine grocery shopping, from Fairfield University, Siena College, Saint pacities, including as the chairman of the Law providing the use of a four-wheel drive vehicle Michael’s College, and Saint Lawrence Univer- and Legislative Committee for the California to transport home-visit nurses during inclem- sity. He has been featured by ABC News as Police Chiefs Association, past-president of ent weather, delivering meals as part of a holi- ‘‘Person of the Week,’’ and has been the sub- the California Peace Officers Association, and day food drive, helping individuals to keep ject of numerous profiles by major media out- former member of the California Homeland their medical appointments, and many more lets such as NBC Today and People maga- Security Public Safety Advisory Council. He similar activities. zine. His biography, written by Bill continues to serve as a governor appointee to These volunteer drivers are donating their Halamandaris, is entitled ‘‘His Name is the State 9–1–1 Advisory Committee, the Cali- time and their talents, not their vehicles, and Today.’’ fornia Law Enforcement Telecommunication accepting reimbursement for the use of that Bob’s activism and generosity to the global Advisory Committee and served 6 years as a car, incidental to their time and talent dona- community should remind us all of what the member of the Commission on Peace Officer tion, is a reasonable act, which should not re- actions of one person can do. While he did Standards and Training Advisory Committee. sult in an additional tax liability. Today, when not work alone, we all have him to thank for It has been my pleasure to know Sam Spie- it comes to driving a personal vehicle, our tax making the world a better place. His charity gel and more importantly, to call him my code makes a distinction between business should be admired and his citizenship should friend. I am pleased to congratulate him upon and charitable uses. This distinction is a mis- serve as a model for us all. his retirement. take; it is a serious disincentive to charitable f f activities, and it should be corrected. I encour- age my colleagues to support the continued IN HONOR OF EXECUTIVE STAFF INTRODUCTION OF THE CHARI- efforts of our charity-minded constituents by ASSISTANT TERENCE P. HUDEC TABLE DRIVING TAX RELIEF cosponsoring the Charitable Driving Tax Relief ACT OF 2011 Act of 2009. HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH f OF OHIO IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. THOMAS E. PETRI IN HONOR OF ROBERT C. OF WISCONSIN MACAULEY Thursday, January 20, 2011 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in Thursday, January 20, 2011 HON. JAMES A. HIMES honor and recognition of Mr. Terence P. Mr. PETRI. Mr. Speaker, today, I am intro- OF CONNECTICUT Hudec, Executive Staff Assistant to the Chief ducing the Charitable Driving Tax Relief Act of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of Police of Rocky River, upon his retirement 2011 to remove a serious disincentive to par- Thursday, January 20, 2011 from the Rocky River Police Department after ticipation in charitable activities. Private chari- more than 35 years of dedicated service. Mr. HIMES. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor the Mr. Hudec was born in Cleveland, Ohio in table activity plays an important role in our so- recent passing of a constituent, humanitarian, ciety, and it is important that Congress not 1948. He graduated from Cathedral Latin High and friend, Robert C., Bob, Macauley, who re- School in 1966 and earned a bachelors de- stand in the way by penalizing those who wish cently passed away of natural causes at the to offer their services to these groups. gree from John Carroll University in 1972. age of 87. Mr. Hudec began his career with the Rocky Under current law, individuals that volunteer In addition to being a beloved husband and River Police Department on April 1, 1973. He their time and energy by driving their personal father, Bob Macauley was a tremendous activ- was promoted to Sergeant in 1981, Lieutenant vehicles on behalf of a charitable group can ist and patron. As a veteran, businessman, in 1986, and assigned to the position of Exec- end up with an unpleasant surprise in the form and philanthropist, Bob dedicated his life to utive Staff Assistant to the Chief of Police in of an unanticipated tax bill. Specifically, volun- helping others. 1995. teer drivers receiving reimbursement for the His first ventures into philanthropy began The life of a police officer is one of true self- use of their vehicle are taxed on these pay- during the Vietnam war, with the founding of lessness and service, and Officer Hudec is no ments to the extent that they exceed 14 cents the Shoeshine Boys Foundation to support or- exception. Each day the brave men and per mile. This treatment stands in stark con- phaned Vietnamese children. In 1975, he women of law enforcement put their lives on trast to the allowance for reimbursement for mortgaged his home to charter the first jet of the business use of that same vehicle, 51 the line for the good of their communities. what became known as Operation Babylift, Mr. Speaker and colleagues, please join me cents per mile in 2011. rescuing babies injured in a plane crash as in honor of Mr. Terence P. Hudec, Executive The Charitable Driving Tax Relief Act will Saigon fell. Bob then became involved in the Staff Assistant to the Chief of Police, for his equalize the tax treatment of charitable reim- Covenant House, which grew with his support exemplary service on behalf of his community. bursements with those received for business and guidance from a small outpost in New Mr. Hudec’s dedication to making Rocky River driving because the point of the payment is York City to one of the largest privately funded a safer place to live and work is honorable essentially the same, that is, to cover the cost childcare agencies in the U.S. and inspiring. I wish Executive Staff Assistant of operating a personal vehicle while per- However, it was after meeting with Pope Hudec peace, health and happiness in all his forming an important service in the pursuit of John Paul II that Bob fully realized the poten- future endeavors. a greater good. tial of his efforts. After raising $1.5 million in To achieve this end, my legislation would aid for Poland at the Pope’s request, Bob rec- f exclude from gross income any reimburse- ognized that what he had done for Poland, he HONORING WILLIAM LOCKRIDGE ment received for the use of a volunteer’s car could do for people in need worldwide. This while assisting a charitable group, limited only effort became AmeriCares, a humanitarian or- HON. ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON by the cap the Internal Revenue Service sets ganization that has delivered more than $10 OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA regarding business driving. This treatment billion in medicines, medical supplies, and aid IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES would be available only for services provided around the world and across the United without compensation and drivers would be re- States. Bob served as CEO of the organiza- Thursday, January 20, 2011 quired to maintain sufficient records to sub- tion until 2002, and as chairman until his Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to stantiate the charitable use of their vehicles. death. ask the House of Representatives to join me

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:20 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 0689 Sfmt 9920 J:\BR_BACKUP\E20JA1.000 E20JA1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD January 20, 2011 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 567 in honoring the life of William Lockridge, who ing. William Lockridge devoted his life to giv- site or disease to be vanquished. As far as I tirelessly served the residents of the District of ing meaning to the lives of many others, espe- know, no one at Planned Parenthood objected Columbia for 25 years. cially the children of the District of Columbia. to the dehumanizing language and obvious A teacher by profession, William Lockridge I ask the House to join me in honoring the bigotry towards children. devoted his life to improving education for the worthy life of William Lockridge. The evidence of significant harm to women city’s children and to community service for f who abort increases each year. the people of the District of Columbia. He was THE INTRODUCTION OF THE ‘‘NO Abortion hurts women’s health and puts fu- a member of the D.C. State Board of Edu- ture children subsequently born to women who cation and its longest serving member. TAXPAYER FUNDING FOR ABOR- TION ACT’’—H.R. 3 ‘‘ACCEPTABLE aborted at significant risk. At least 102 studies Although born in Tennessee, raised in Chi- show significant psychological harm, major de- cago, and educated at Tennessee State Uni- BIGOTRY’’—PREJUDICE AGAINST THE CHILD IN THE WOMB pression and elevated suicide risk in women versity, in Memphis, William Lockridge be- who abort. came a quintessential Washingtonian, eager The Times of London reported that, for many varieties of community service, once HON. CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH ‘‘[S]enior . . . psychiatrists say that new evi- serving as Advisory Neighborhood Commis- OF NEW JERSEY dence has uncovered a clear link between sioner, president of the Alabama Avenue Task IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES abortion and mental illness in women with no Force, president of the Ward 8 Democrats, Thursday, January 20, 2011 previous history of psychological problems.’’ board member of the Neighborhood Planning Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, They found, ‘‘that women who have had abor- Council, the Parent Teacher Student Associa- yesterday an abortionist in Philadelphia—Dr. tions have twice the level of psychological tion, and the Action to Rehabilitate Housing, Kermit Gosnell—was arrested and charged in problems and three times the level of depres- as well as a member of the National Alliance the death of a mother, and seven babies who sion as women who have given birth or who of Black School Educators, the D.C. Demo- were born alive but then killed by severing have never been pregnant . . .’’ cratic State Committee, and the National As- their spinal cords with a pair of scissors. In 2006, a comprehensive New Zealand sociation for the Advancement of Colored According to the Philadelphia CBS TV affil- study found that 78.6 percent of the 15–18 People. iate, the district attorney said that in one year year olds who had abortions displayed symp- William was ubiquitous in his devotion to his alone, Dr. Gosnell made approximately $1.8 toms of major depression as compared to 31 community, but education was his first love. million performing abortions. percent of their peers. The study also found His vision runs through the D.C. Public The abortion industry, Mr. Speaker, is a that 27 percent of the 21–25 year old women Schools, where he worked as a teacher, par- multibillion dollar business. who had abortions had suicidal idealizations ent advocate for students with special needs, Planned Parenthood boasts that in 2008 compared to eight percent of those who did and a truancy officer over his 15-year career. alone, their abortionists killed over 324,000 not have an abortion. But William Lockridge wanted to do more. He babies while raking in an approximately $1 bil- Abortion isn’t safe for subsequent children wanted to change the public schools. He im- lion in fees and local, state and federal gov- born to women who have had an abortion. At mersed himself in accomplishing this mission ernment subsidies. least 113 studies show a significant associa- as the Ward 8 D.C. School Board member The ugly truth is that abortionists often get tion between abortion and subsequent pre- and then as the D.C. State Board of Education filthy rich, not by healing or nurturing or cur- mature births. For example a study by re- member for Wards 7 and 8 until the day he ing—but by dismembering and decapitating searchers Shah and Zoe showed a 36 percent died. the fragile bodies of unborn children; by starv- When it came to the children he rep- increased risk for preterm birth after one abor- ing the child in the womb with lethal agents tion and a staggering 93 percent increased resented in the communities east of the Ana- like RU486 or by other means of chemical poi- costia River, William Lockridge would brook no risk after two. soning. Similarly, the risk of subsequent children compromise. So resolute was his advocacy The ugly truth is that women are victimized that children everywhere in the District, par- being born with low birth weight increases by by abortion—wounded and hurt physically and 35 percent after one and 72 percent after two ticularly children from families of modest in- emotionally. Women deserve better than abor- come, benefitted immensely from his service. or more abortions. Another study shows the tion. risk increases nine times after a woman has Residents throughout the city were heart- The only thing the multibillion dollar abortion had three abortions. broken when the trim, ever active William industry has produced in America—and world- What does this mean for her children? Lockridge fell suddenly and unexpectedly ill. wide—is victims: wounded women and over Preterm birth is the leading cause of infant From across the city, top officials and ordinary 52 million dead babies in the United States mortality in the industrialized world after con- citizens alike flocked to the hospital and then since 1973—more than six times the entire genital anomalies. Preterm infants have a to a vigil, where elected officials and residents population of my home state of New Jersey. spoke lovingly of William Lockridge, just below The multibillion dollar abortion industry sys- greater risk of suffering from chronic lung dis- his hospital window. tematically dehumanizes the weakest and ease, sensory deficits, cerebral palsy, cog- The Lockridge brand of passionate dedica- most vulnerable among us with catchy slo- nitive impairments and behavior problems. tion to public service cannot be bottled. His gans, slick advertising, clever marketing, and Low birth weight is similarly associated with devotion to the city’s children and to their edu- aggressive lobbying. neonatal mortality and morbidity. cation got its authenticity from a unique source They have made the unacceptable—to be Dr. Alveda King, niece of the late Dr. Martin deep within the man. His work for those who prejudiced and bigoted against the child in the Luther King, Jr., whom we honored on Mon- needed him most became a part of William’s womb—acceptable to some. day, has joined the growing coalition of identity. The District of Columbia and its chil- This ‘‘acceptable bigotry’’ has been pro- women who deeply regret their abortions and dren were the beneficiaries. moted for decades, despite breathtaking ad- are ‘‘Silent No More.’’ Out of deep personal Only William’s own family, Wanda, his vances in fetal medicine including micro-sur- pain and compassion for others, Dr. King, who ‘‘queen,’’ as he called his wife, his two chil- gery underscoring the fact that an unborn child had two abortions and the women of ‘‘Silent dren, Joy and Stephan, and his four grand- is a patient in need of care, just like anyone No More’’ challenge us to respect, protect and children, outranked his love for the city’s chil- else, and despite that amazing window to the tangibly love both the mother and the child. dren. Not content to tell other people how to womb—ultrasound imaging. The women of ‘‘Silent No More’’ give post- raise and educate their children, Lockridge led In 1976, Dr. Willard Cates and Dr. David abortive women a safe place to grieve, and a by example as a model family man who lived Grimes then with the Centers for Disease roadmap for reconciliation. what he taught, beginning at home, where Control and Prevention (CDC) presented a This week, with the full and unequivocal children first learn by simply looking at their paper to a Planned Parenthood meeting enti- support of Speaker BOEHNER and Majority parents. tled ‘‘Abortion as a Treatment for Unintended Leader CANTOR, more than 150 Members and William Lockridge left his beloved family and Pregnancy: The Number Two Sexually Trans- I will introduce the No Taxpayer Funding for city far too soon, but he left them a complete mitted Disease.’’ Abortion Act—a government wide prohibition and fulfilled life. He spent his productive life These two abortion doctors reduced the on taxpayer subsidization for abortion and doing not only what gave his own life mean- child in the womb to the equivalent of a para- conscience protections with durable remedies.

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His success that taxpayers strongly oppose publically fund- myself, credit President Kennedy’s Inaugural earned him a promotion to the 1199 New Eng- ed abortion—67 percent according to a recent Address with my earliest interest in pursuing land headquarters in Connecticut, where he Quinnipiac University poll. public service. served briefly before coming to Rhode Island Our new bill is designed to permanently end The Kennedy voice was much more than a in the summer of 1983. any U.S. government financial support for call to action, it was a blueprint for the future: Since his arrival, Stan has fought tirelessly abortion whether it be direct funding or by tax the Peace Corps, VISTA, Appalachian Re- to ensure that Rhode Island healthcare work- credits or any other subsidy. gional Commission, Head Start, Medicare and ers are the most fairly treated in the country. Regarding conscience rights—last year, a slew of other efforts to level the playing field He has earned a reputation as a tough but fair Cathy DeCarlo, a nurse at Mt. Sinai Hospital for Americans. negotiator and as a champion of employees in New York was compelled—despite her Though President Kennedy’s address was throughout the entire healthcare system. Stan strong moral and religious objections—to as- one of the shortest in history, it earned him has also collaborated with management for sist in a grisly D&E abortion which has been lasting respect from untold generations of the benefit of his members, most notably with described by the U.S. Supreme Court as a Americans and our allies around the World. I a $650,000 grant from the Federal Govern- procedure where the doctor uses forceps to would suspect the humble, self deprecating ment to fund professional growth programs. tear apart the unborn child. D&E abortion is a President would demur at that comment. But, Stan has been a leader in lobbying the gruesome act of child abuse. his ever present humor and wit was in good Rhode Island Legislature to pass just work- Ms. DeCarlo sued—asserting her right to form at the June 1963 American University place protection laws. During his tenure, conscience had been violated under existing Law School graduation of our very own, Sen- Rhode Island enacted the Hospital Conversion federal law. Her case was dismissed, how- ator Robert C. Byrd, when Kennedy, himself, Act, which protects workers when hospitals ever, due to the lack of prescribed remedies. quipped about brevity as he began his re- are sold or merged, and the Safe Patient Han- The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act marks: President Anderson, members of the dling Act, which bans mandatory overtime for protects conscience rights of individuals and faculty, board of trustees, distinguished nurses. The infrastructure he has developed at institutions by empowering the courts with the guests, my old colleague Senator Bob Byrd, Local 1199 leaves it well poised to continue authority to prevent and redress actual or who has earned his degree through many fighting for employees in the coming years. threatened violations of conscience. years of attending night law school while I am A true public servant, Stan has selflessly President Obama has said he wants abor- earning mine in the next thirty minutes, ladies volunteered throughout his time in the state. A tion to be rare. Well, Mr. Obama, here is a bill and gentlemen. . .’’ settler trustee of the New England Employees for you. Even the Guttmacher Institute, the In 1963, it was a rainy day in Charleston, Welfare Fund, he played a pivotal role in cre- former research arm of Planned Parenthood, West Virginia, when President Kennedy at- ating and developing the fund, which oversees says that taxpayer funding bans are a proven tended our State’s Centennial celebration. He the health insurance plans of thousands of abortion reduction method. According to opened his comments with these remarks, healthcare workers and their families. He is Guttmacher, studies show that when abortion ‘‘While the Sun doesn’t always shine in West the President of the Rhode Island SEIU State is not publically funded, abortions in the cov- Virginia, the people always do.’’ President Council, Vice President of the Rhode Island ered population are reduced by roughly 25 Kennedy’s words fifty years ago still ring AFL–CIO, and a founding board member of percent. through our hills and manifest themselves Ocean State Action, a leading state advocacy group. f through many avenues, enriching our lives with his federal initiatives, calling young and Mr. Speaker, I am proud that the Ocean REMARKS ON JOHN F. KENNEDY old alike to give of themselves for their fellow State is home to many devotees of justice, citizens, and bringing a smile to all those who and Stan Israel is one of the best among HON. NICK J. RAHALL II remember or are just learning of the West Vir- them. I would be remiss not to mention his lovely wife, Cynthia, and children, Caitlin and OF WEST VIRGINIA ginia Kennedy legacy. John, whose support has been integral in his IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I hope the Kennedy Inaugural Address will many lasting accomplishments, and I join with Thursday, January 20, 2011 be read in classrooms and community centers and town squares to celebrate this anniver- them and all those whose lives he has worked Mr. RAHALL. Mr. Speaker, West Virginians sary, and that, we together, work to fulfill the to improve in wishing Stan the best in his re- still smiling? challenges it presents every American Citizen. tirement. It seems improbable that it could have been Let us go forward with his words firmly in our f fifty years ago, that America’s youngest new resolve, ‘‘knowing that here on earth God’s IN HONOR OF INEZ leader, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, took center work must truly be our own.’’ KILLINGSWORTH stage, here at the U.S. Capitol, to assume the f Presidency. He delivered an inaugural address that ignited the hopes and energies of a gen- STATEMENT COMMENDING STAN HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH OF OHIO eration that would, in large measure, take up ISRAEL FOR 35 YEARS OF SERV- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES his call to serve their country. ICE TO SEIU It was, of course, the good people of my Thursday, January 20, 2011 home State of West Virginia, who launched HON. JAMES R. LANGEVIN Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in the youthful Senator’s campaign for the presi- OF RHODE ISLAND honor of Ms. Inez Killingsworth, founder of dency in the 1960 West Virginia Democratic IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Empowering and Strengthening Ohio’s People Primary Election. In May of last year, the gold- (ESOP), as she is recognized by ESOP for Thursday, January 20, 2011 en anniversary of the campaign was cele- her multitude of achievements. Ms. brated with exhibits, readings, talks, films, re- Mr. LANGEVIN. Mr. Speaker, I am honored Killingsworth has a long history of standing up cording oral histories and other festivities to today to recognize the retirement of my good for the rights of the people of her community, mark the pivotal turning point in Senator Ken- friend Stan Israel, Executive Vice President of refusing to let their needs be ignored. nedy’s campaign. In Logan, West Virginia, the SEIU District 1199—New England. For 35 Ms. Killingsworth founded the East Side Or- courthouse square was christened ‘Kennedy years, Stan has spearheaded efforts to orga- ganizing Project in 1993 as a means to ad- Square.’ At Southern West Virginia Commu- nize health workers, and his hard work has dress the unsafe conditions of her Union-Miles nity and Technical College, a course on the consistently won justice at the worksite for la- neighborhood. During the early 1990s, ESOP, campaign has been taught for years. Plans borers of all skill levels and backgrounds. under Ms. Killingsworth’s leadership, began to have been discussed about pursuing a perma- Stan began by organizing non-union health rally against the lack of credit available to Afri- nent exhibition in Logan, commemorating the employees at nursing homes and hospitals in can Americans in the community. When pred- campaign, his Presidency and their impact on New York into Local 1199. While leading con- atory lending in the area increased and more our State. tract negotiations on behalf of the workers, he and more community members were facing Many of my constituents have personal fond also advocated for fundamental reforms: ade- mortgage payments they could no longer af- and lasting memories of the Kennedys’ visits quate staffing levels, safe workplaces, and ford, ESOP turned its focus to addressing this

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Through tactics such as habitat loss, are capable of bringing EST. varying from protesting banks to negotiating some species close to extinction. Had I been present to vote on Rollcall No. agreements between lenders and borrowers to Every two to three years, the parties of 12, to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 292, taking financial executives on tours of the col- CITES meet at the Conference of the Parties the Stop the OverPrinting (STOP) Act, I would lapsing neighborhoods that are in peril due to to review the status of species in danger of have voted ‘‘yes’’. predatory lending, ESOP has helped thou- extinction and establish trade restrictions. The f sands of families in Ohio avoid losing their 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties homes. In 2009, 80% of ESOP clients re- was held in March 2010. Several proposals IN HONOR OF LIEUTENANT BRUCE ceived favorable loan modifications. were submitted during the summit, some of F. GUNSCH In 2010, Ms. Killingsworth received a Pur- them ensuring better protections for endan- pose Prize from the San Francisco think tank gered species, others trying to downlist spe- HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH Civic Ventures. This prize is awarded annually cies and re-open trade. While proposals to OF OHIO to ten Americans over the age of 60 who are downlist elephant populations in Tanzania and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES changing the world in the second half of their Zambia were successfully defeated, several Thursday, January 20, 2011 lives. The award comes with a $100,000 prize, proposals to establish stronger protections for part of which Ms. Killingsworth intends to use the polar bear, eight sharks, the bluefin tuna Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in to create a program to help newly released and other species were unfortunately rejected. honor and recognition of Lieutenant Bruce F. felons find work. She also intends to address I am saddened to see that economic interests Gunsch upon his retirement from the Rocky problems in other areas, such as the lack of have prevailed over species conservation, River Police Department after more than 30 healthy food choices in poor, urban neighbor- risking to bring species close to extinction. years of dedicated service. hoods. This is unacceptable. Lieutenant Bruce F. Gunsch was born in Mr. Speaker and colleagues, please join me My resolution will recognize the important Lakewood, Ohio on April 23, 1949. After grad- in honor of Ms. Inez Killingsworth for her un- contributions the convention has made in reg- uating from St. Edward High School in 1967, wavering dedication to solving difficult chal- ulating international trade in endangered spe- Mr. Gunsch served in the U.S. Army from lenges faced by the people of Ohio. She has cies and protecting endangered species world- 1968 to 1971, achieving the rank of Sergeant. been a role model in her community, relent- wide. It will also applaud the convention’s He earned a bachelor’s degree in Business lessly fighting for justice. I wish Ms. leadership in protecting elephants in Tanzania Administration from Cleveland State University Killingsworth peace, health and happiness in and Zambia. Lastly, the resolution will urge all in 1976. all her future endeavors. parties to the convention to collaborate effec- Lieutenant Gunsch began his career with f tively to curb excessive exploitation of species the Rocky River Police Department on Feb- for international trade and to adopt stronger ruary 14, 1977. He was promoted to Sergeant INTRODUCING A RESOLUTION EX- protections for several endangered species at in 1984 and Lieutenant in 1987. PRESSING THE SENSE OF THE the 16th meeting of the Conference of the The life of a police officer is one of true self- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Parties in 2013. lessness and service, and Lieutenant Gunsch REGARDING THE CONTRIBU- Mr. Speaker, the United States has a moral is no exception. Each day the brave men and TIONS OF THE CONVENTION ON obligation to protect endangered species and women of law enforcement put their lives on INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN EN- their natural habitat. Wild animals are a very the line for the good of their communities. DANGERED SPECIES OF WILD important part of our commonly held natural Mr. Speaker and colleagues, please join me FAUNA AND FLORA resources and contribute to the diversity and in honor of Lieutenant Bruce F. Gunsch for his stability of our environment. We must continue exemplary service on behalf of his community. HON. ALCEE L. HASTINGS to maintain a balanced and healthy ecosystem Lieutenant Gunsch’s dedication to making OF FLORIDA that allows for the coexistence of both human Rocky River a safer place to live and work is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES beings and the world’s most incredible spe- honorable and inspiring. At the age of 61, Lieutenant Sharp has served and protected Thursday, January 20, 2011 cies. It is essential to work with the inter- national community to ensure the survival of the people of Rocky River with courage for 34 Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I these species. I believe that the stakes are too years. We thank him for his service and wish rise today to introduce a resolution expressing high to let national interests and differences him health and happiness. the sense of the House of Representatives re- hinder the future of our planet. f garding the contributions of the Convention on I urge my colleagues to join me in protecting IN RECOGNITION OF JOSEPH E. International Trade in Endangered Species of wildlife and promoting environmental con- TELLES Wild Fauna and Flora. servation across the globe by supporting this CITES was created in 1973 to ensure that important resolution. international trade in wild plants and animals f HON. JACKIE SPEIER does not threaten their survival. Launched with OF CALIFORNIA PERSONAL EXPLANATION a few signatory nations, CITES has now 175 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES parties that have an international obligation and responsibility to protect our planet’s en- HON. TIMOTHY V. JOHNSON Thursday, January 20, 2011 dangered animals and plants. Nearly 5,000 OF ILLINOIS Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor species of animals and 28,000 species of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Battalion Chief Joseph E. Telles for his 25 plants are protected by the convention against years of service with the San Bruno Fire De- over-exploitation through international trade. Thursday, January 20, 2011 partment. He was a past president of the San Adherence to these protective measures has Mr. JOHNSON of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, un- Mateo County Operations Committee and a benefited the conservation of animals and fortunately due to massive flight delays, I was member of the San Mateo County Commu- plants worldwide. not able to be in Washington, DC on Tuesday nications/Technology Committee. Joe also Unfortunately, more and more species are January 18, 2011 to vote on H.R. 292 and served as the Fire Departments Liaison to the at risk of extinction and international trade, wished to express my intentions had I been in Bay Area Rapid Transit. both legal and illegal, which has exacerbated Washington, DC. Joe started his career as a Firefighter in the dangers. International wildlife trade is esti- Unfortunately, as American Airlines flight 1985 at the age of 25. He was promoted to mated to be worth billions of dollars per year 3879 was boarding, the airline decided to hold Fire Captain in 2002 and to Battalion Chief in and to include hundreds of millions of live the flight on the tarmac during a de-icing proc- 2004.

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Joe has been successful in securing many A May 2009 report by the United Nations, Jim received his Bachelor’s degree in psy- grants to help the fire department obtain vital UN, estimates that the majority of the Afghan chology from the University of San Francisco equipment, such as self-contained breathing population lives in poverty, despite the country in 1966 and his law degree from the University apparati, EMS jackets, wildland shelters, truck having received almost 40 billion in aid be- of San Francisco in 1969. In 1970 he started rescue equipment, and portable radios. tween 2002 and 2009. The report blames as a deputy district attorney for the San Mateo The biggest accomplishment for a fire fight- widespread corruption and abuse of power as County District Attorney’s office for four years er is to not have anyone killed or seriously in- a main cause of Afghan suffering, leaving ordi- before entering private practice for seven jured. Joe has a proud record of that accom- nary people without even the most basic serv- years in addition to serving as the city attorney plishment, even though he has fought a large ices. of Half Moon Bay. number of big fires. Among them was a If we accept the premise that we need to be His dedication to public service has been church fire in San Bruno that almost cost him in Afghanistan until corruption falls by the way- outstanding. He has found time and energy to his own life and the Salami fire in South San side, we will be in Afghanistan forever. We be a member of a number of commissions Francisco. In that fire Joe made what he calls cannot afford to continue pouring billions of and committees, including the California Bar ‘‘the best decision of his life.’’ He ordered 20 dollars in Afghanistan to prop up a hopelessly Association’s Commission on Judicial Nomi- fire fighters out of the building right before its corrupt Afghan central government. It is time nees Evaluations, the Criminal Law Advisory roof collapsed. to end this war. Committee, the Court Profiles Committee and By far the biggest fire Joe and numerous f fire fighters ever had to face was the ‘‘Glen- the Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Cameras view Incident,’’ the horrendous PG&E natural IN RECOGNITION OF JAMES P. FOX in the Courtroom. He is a past president of the gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno on Sep- California District Attorneys’ Association and a tember 9, 2010 that killed 8 people and de- HON. JACKIE SPEIER past vice president of the National District At- torneys’ Association. Jim has been appointed stroyed 37 homes. Due to the outstanding her- OF CALIFORNIA oism of Joe and his colleagues, countless IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES twice to the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. lives were saved. He was part of a world class Thursday, January 20, 2011 emergency response team that prevented the Additionally, Jim has been very active in disaster from reaching unimaginable propor- Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor civic affairs. He served as a member of the tions. James P. Fox for his public service as district Board of Directors of Mercy High School in Joe has been married to his wife Cindy for attorney of San Mateo County for 27 years. Burlingame, the Board of Directors of Notre as long as he has been Battalion Chief. They Jim was first elected in 1982 and then re- Dame High School in Belmont and Junipero are the proud parents of three children, Jac- elected every four years since without opposi- Serra High School in San Mateo and as a quelyn, Joey and Wesley. tion. member of the San Mateo County Children Mr. Speaker, I ask the members of this I first worked with Jim when I served on the and Family First Commission, now named body to join me in honoring Joe Telles upon Board of Supervisors. Even then, he was First Five. known as the ‘‘Silver Fox’’ for the luxurious his retirement for his dedication to public serv- With all of these volunteer positions, Jim still topping of silver on his head. During my time ice at the City of San Bruno Fire Department. finds time to pursue his culinary passion. His in the California Legislature, I received many f chocolate fudge is legendary. If you have at- calls from Jim who often offered suggestions tended county events with Jim, you may have AFGHANISTAN WAR regarding legislation. We worked closely to- encountered these delicious confections la- gether on strengthening California’s laws so beled with his signature golden sticker depict- that non-paying obligor parents would pay up HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH ing a fox and proclaiming: ‘‘County of San what was owed. He once told me he saw a OF OHIO Mateo, FOX FUDGE (not produced at govern- local realtor depicted as a family man in an IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ment expense).’’ advertisement with his new wife and their chil- Thursday, January 20, 2011 dren on a beach, all the while failing to sup- Jim’s wonderful sense of humor and easy Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, Afghanistan port his former wife and their children. Jim smile endear him to his colleagues, friends continues to sink deeper into political crisis. wasn’t afraid to name names. The realtor paid and his family. He and his wife Bonnie of 42 Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s legitimacy up. years are the proud parents of three and and effectiveness as a leader is again being Jim courageously opposed the Three grandparents of seven. tested by the winners of last September’s par- Strikes Initiative. He is a district attorney who Mr. Speaker, it is right to honor James P. liamentary elections. More than 200 parlia- has the courage to favor punishment when ap- Fox for his tireless dedication to the public mentarians have agreed to conduct a par- propriate and who also favors treatment and upon the occasion of his retirement on De- liamentary session this weekend despite calls deterrence through crime prevention. Jim is cember 31, 2010, after seven terms as the by President Karzai to delay the opening ses- tough as nails but also thoughtful—a true pub- District Attorney of San Mateo County.

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