July 21, 2010 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H5893 The SPEAKER pro tempore. The McClintock Poe (TX) Sires The Clerk read the title of the resolu- question is on the motion offered by McCollum Polis (CO) Skelton tion. McCotter Pomeroy Slaughter the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. McDermott Posey Smith (NE) The SPEAKER pro tempore. The SCOTT) that the House suspend the McGovern Price (GA) Smith (NJ) question is on the motion offered by rules and pass the bill, as amended. McHenry Price (NC) Smith (TX) the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. McIntyre Putnam Smith (WA) CRITZ) that the House suspend the This will be a 5-minute vote. McKeon Quigley Snyder The vote was taken by electronic de- McMahon Rahall Space rules and agree to the resolution, as McMorris Rangel vice, and there were—yeas 416, nays 3, Speier amended. Rodgers Rehberg Spratt The question was taken. not voting 13, as follows: McNerney Reichert Stark Meeks (NY) Reyes The SPEAKER pro tempore. In the [Roll No. 459] Stearns Melancon Richardson Stupak opinion of the Chair, two-thirds being YEAS—416 Mica Rodriguez Sullivan in the affirmative, the ayes have it. Michaud Roe (TN) Sutton Ackerman Costa Herger Miller (FL) Rogers (AL) RECORDED VOTE Tanner Aderholt Costello Herseth Sandlin Miller (MI) Rogers (KY) Taylor Mr. SCHAUER. Mr. Speaker, I de- Adler (NJ) Courtney Higgins Miller (NC) Rogers (MI) Teague Akin Crenshaw Hill Miller, Gary Rohrabacher mand a recorded vote. Terry Alexander Critz Himes Miller, George Rooney A recorded vote was ordered. Thompson (CA) Altmire Crowley Hinchey Minnick Ros-Lehtinen Thompson (MS) The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a Andrews Cuellar Hinojosa Mitchell Roskam Thompson (PA) 5-minute vote. Arcuri Culberson Hirono Mollohan Ross Thornberry Austria Cummings Hodes Moore (KS) Rothman (NJ) The vote was taken by electronic de- Baca Dahlkemper Holden Moore (WI) Roybal-Allard Tiberi vice, and there were—ayes 417, noes 0, Tierney Bachmann Davis (AL) Holt Moran (VA) Royce not voting 15, as follows: Bachus Davis (CA) Honda Murphy (CT) Ruppersberger Titus Baird Davis (IL) Hoyer Murphy (NY) Rush Tonko [Roll No. 460] Baldwin Davis (KY) Hunter Murphy, Patrick Ryan (OH) Towns AYES—417 Barrett (SC) Davis (TN) Inglis Murphy, Tim Ryan (WI) Tsongas Ackerman Castor (FL) Frelinghuysen Barrow DeFazio Inslee Myrick Salazar Turner Aderholt Chaffetz Fudge Bartlett DeGette Israel Nadler (NY) Sa´ nchez, Linda Upton Adler (NJ) Chandler Gallegly Barton (TX) Delahunt Issa Napolitano T. Van Hollen Akin Childers Garamendi Bean DeLauro Jackson (IL) Neal (MA) Sanchez, Loretta Vela´ zquez Alexander Chu Garrett (NJ) Becerra Dent Jackson Lee Neugebauer Sarbanes Visclosky Altmire Clarke Gerlach Berkley Deutch (TX) Nunes Scalise Walden Andrews Clay Giffords Berman Diaz-Balart, L. Jenkins Nye Schakowsky Walz Arcuri Cleaver Gingrey (GA) Berry Diaz-Balart, M. Johnson (GA) Oberstar Schauer Wasserman Austria Clyburn Gohmert Biggert Dicks Johnson (IL) Obey Schiff Schultz Baca Coble Gonzalez Bilbray Dingell Johnson, E. B. Olson Schmidt Waters Bachmann Coffman (CO) Goodlatte Bilirakis Djou Johnson, Sam Olver Schock Watson Bachus Cohen Gordon (TN) Bishop (GA) Doggett Jones Owens Schrader Watt Baird Cole Granger Bishop (NY) Donnelly (IN) Jordan (OH) Pallone Schwartz Waxman Baldwin Conaway Graves (GA) Bishop (UT) Doyle Kagen Pascrell Scott (GA) Weiner Barrett (SC) Connolly (VA) Graves (MO) Blackburn Dreier Kanjorski Pastor (AZ) Scott (VA) Welch Barrow Conyers Grayson Blumenauer Driehaus Kaptur Paulsen Sensenbrenner Westmoreland Bartlett Cooper Green, Al Blunt Duncan Kennedy Payne Serrano Whitfield Barton (TX) Costa Green, Gene Boccieri Edwards (MD) Kildee Pence Sessions Wilson (OH) Bean Costello Griffith Boehner Edwards (TX) Kilpatrick (MI) Perlmutter Sestak Wilson (SC) Becerra Courtney Grijalva Bonner Ehlers Kilroy Perriello Shadegg Wittman Berkley Crenshaw Guthrie Bono Mack Ellison Kind Peters Shea-Porter Wolf Berman Critz Gutierrez Boozman Ellsworth King (IA) Peterson Sherman Woolsey Berry Crowley Hall (NY) Boren Emerson Kingston Petri Shimkus Wu Biggert Cuellar Hall (TX) Boswell Engel Kirk Pingree (ME) Shuler Yarmuth Bilbray Culberson Halvorson Boucher Eshoo Kirkpatrick (AZ) Pitts Shuster Young (AK) Bilirakis Cummings Hare Boustany Etheridge Kissell Platts Simpson Young (FL) Boyd Farr Klein (FL) Bishop (GA) Dahlkemper Harman Brady (PA) Fattah Kline (MN) NAYS—3 Bishop (NY) Davis (AL) Harper Bishop (UT) Davis (CA) Hastings (FL) Brady (TX) Filner Kosmas Broun (GA) Graves (GA) Paul Braley (IA) Flake Kratovil Blackburn Davis (IL) Hastings (WA) Bright Fleming Kucinich NOT VOTING—13 Blumenauer Davis (KY) Heinrich Brown (SC) Forbes Lamborn Blunt Davis (TN) Heller Capuano King (NY) Radanovich Brown, Corrine Fortenberry Lance Boccieri DeFazio Hensarling Clarke Mack Brown-Waite, Foster Langevin Tiahrt Boehner DeGette Herger Cleaver Meek (FL) Ginny Foxx Larsen (WA) Wamp Bonner Delahunt Herseth Sandlin Fallin Moran (KS) Buchanan Frank (MA) Larson (CT) Bono Mack DeLauro Higgins Hoekstra Ortiz Burgess Franks (AZ) Latham Boozman Dent Hill Boren Deutch Himes Burton (IN) Frelinghuysen LaTourette ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE Butterfield Fudge Latta Boswell Diaz-Balart, L. Hinchey Buyer Gallegly Lee (CA) The SPEAKER pro tempore (during Boucher Diaz-Balart, M. Hinojosa Calvert Garamendi Lee (NY) the vote). Members have 2 minutes re- Boustany Dicks Hirono Camp Garrett (NJ) Levin maining in this vote. Boyd Dingell Hodes Campbell Gerlach Lewis (CA) Brady (PA) Djou Holden Cantor Giffords Lewis (GA) b 1612 Brady (TX) Doggett Holt Cao Gingrey (GA) Linder Braley (IA) Donnelly (IN) Honda Capito Gohmert Lipinski Mr. JOHNSON of Illinois changed his Bright Doyle Hoyer Capps Gonzalez LoBiondo vote from ‘‘present’’ to ‘‘aye.’’ Broun (GA) Dreier Hunter Cardoza Goodlatte Loebsack So (two-thirds being in the affirma- Brown (SC) Driehaus Inglis Carnahan Gordon (TN) Lofgren, Zoe Brown, Corrine Duncan Inslee Carney Granger Lowey tive) the rules were suspended and the Brown-Waite, Edwards (MD) Israel Carson (IN) Graves (MO) Lucas bill, as amended, was passed. Ginny Edwards (TX) Issa Carter Grayson Luetkemeyer The result of the vote was announced Buchanan Ehlers Jackson (IL) Cassidy Green, Al Luja´ n Burgess Ellison Jackson Lee Castle Green, Gene Lummis as above recorded. Burton (IN) Ellsworth (TX) Castor (FL) Griffith Lungren, Daniel A motion to reconsider was laid on Butterfield Emerson Jenkins Chaffetz Grijalva E. the table. Calvert Engel Johnson (GA) Chandler Guthrie Lynch Camp Eshoo Johnson (IL) Childers Gutierrez Maffei f Campbell Etheridge Johnson, E. B. Chu Hall (NY) Maloney Cantor Farr Johnson, Sam Clay Hall (TX) Manzullo HONORING 111TH FIGHTER WING Cao Fattah Jones Clyburn Halvorson Marchant The SPEAKER pro tempore. The un- Capito Filner Jordan (OH) Coble Hare Markey (CO) Capps Flake Kagen Coffman (CO) Harman Markey (MA) finished business is the question on Cardoza Fleming Kanjorski Cohen Harper Marshall suspending the rules and agreeing to Carnahan Forbes Kaptur Cole Hastings (FL) Matheson the resolution (H. Res. 1411) honoring Carney Fortenberry Kennedy Conaway Hastings (WA) Matsui the service and commitment of the Carson (IN) Foster Kildee Connolly (VA) Heinrich McCarthy (CA) Carter Foxx Kilpatrick (MI) Conyers Heller McCarthy (NY) 111th Fighter Wing, Pennsylvania Air Cassidy Frank (MA) Kilroy Cooper Hensarling McCaul National Guard, as amended. Castle Franks (AZ) Kind

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Piailug started to fear that that this Kucinich Neal (MA) Sessions passes, the people of the Pacific navi- would also happen on his home of Satawal. Lamborn Neugebauer Sestak Lance Nunes Shadegg gated over thousands of miles of open It happened, however, that a group of men Langevin Nye Shea-Porter ocean, including Hawaii and Samoa in Hawaii had also sensed that that ancient Larsen (WA) Oberstar Sherman and Tahiti and New Zealand and hun- arts of the sea were in danger. So, they deter- Larson (CT) Obey Shimkus mined to build a traditional double-hulled, Latham Olson Shuler dreds of tiny islands and atolls in be- LaTourette Olver Shuster tween. Yet in our lifetime, this ancient ocean-going canoe and retrace the voyages of Latta Owens Sires knowledge of navigation was all but their ancestors. For that, they would need a Lee (CA) Pallone Skelton lost until one man on the island of navigator, however; and no one in Hawai’i still Lee (NY) Pascrell Slaughter Levin Pastor (AZ) Smith (NE) Satawal, who may have been the sole had this skill. Thus, it was that Mau Piailug be- Lewis (CA) Paul Smith (NJ) remaining practitioner, made it his came master navigator of Hokule’a on its Lewis (GA) Paulsen Smith (TX) mission to spread the Pacific art of maiden voyage from Hawai’i to Tahiti. And Linder Payne Smith (WA) that thirty-three day sail, proving that the an- Lipinski Pence Snyder navigation once again from island to LoBiondo Perlmutter Space island and keep it alive. cient technologies of ship craft and navigation Loebsack Perriello Speier Mau Piailug succeeded in preserving persisted, ignited a fervor for the old ways and Lofgren, Zoe Peters Spratt thousands of years of accumulated un- a new pride in the Micronesian and Polyne- Lowey Peterson Stark Lucas Petri Stearns derstanding of how to sail using the sian cultures that has revitalized voyaging, Luetkemeyer Pingree (ME) Stupak stars and the rhythm, taste, and tem- canoe building, and non-instrument navigation Luja´ n Pitts Sullivan perature of the oceans. He trained oth- throughout the Pacific. Lummis Platts Sutton ers to distinguish each region of the The voyage of Hokule’a was just a begin- Lungren, Daniel Poe (TX) Tanner E. Polis (CO) Taylor sea by the life it harbors, when to the ning. In the years that followed, Mau began to Lynch Pomeroy Teague untrained eye these ocean reaches pass on his knowledge of navigation. He took Maffei Posey Terry seem uniform, even empty of life. He numerous others on voyages throughout the Maloney Price (GA) Thompson (CA) Manzullo Price (NC) Thompson (MS) reawakened pride in the unimaginable Pacific. He sailed from the Hawaiian Islands to Marchant Putnam Thompson (PA) competence and courage of our ances- the Northern Mariana Islands, a feat no one Markey (CO) Quigley Thornberry tors, who over the course of so many known had ever before been known to accom- Marshall Rahall Tiberi generations populated the Pacific. plish. He made frequent trips sailing from Yap Matheson Rangel Tierney Matsui Rehberg Titus Mau Piailug died on his home island to the shores of Tanapag Village on the island McCarthy (CA) Reichert Tonko of Satawal yesterday. As a fellow Pa- of Saipan, where he had relatives. McCarthy (NY) Reyes Towns cific Islander, I thank him for all he Piailug felt compelled to pass on what he McCaul Richardson Tsongas gave us. I wish him well on his final had received, and he gave freely the gift of his McClintock Rodriguez Turner McCollum Roe (TN) Upton journey. ancestors. He taught all who would listen, and McCotter Rogers (AL) Van Hollen I rise to pay special tribute to the life of a peoples all over the Pacific began building ca- McDermott Rogers (KY) Vela´ zquez remarkable man, a hero of the Micronesian Is- noes and rediscovering their past. With much McGovern Rogers (MI) Visclosky McHenry Rohrabacher Walden lands and the entire Pacific, Master Navigator determination and patience, Mau Piailug cre- McIntyre Rooney Walz Pius Mau Piailug. ated a new generation of navigators. McKeon Ros-Lehtinen Wasserman Piailug was the best-known modern practi- Now Pius Mau Piailug has embarked on his McMahon Roskam Schultz tioner of the ancient art of navigating over last voyage. McMorris Ross Waters Rodgers Rothman (NJ) Watt thousands of miles of ocean without the need I call upon my colleagues to join me in hon- McNerney Roybal-Allard Waxman for maps or instruments. He died on July 18. oring this master of navigation, this mentor of Meeks (NY) Royce Weiner Pius Mau Piailug began life on the atoll is- navigators. Melancon Ruppersberger Welch land of Satawal, one of the outer islands of f Mica Rush Westmoreland Yap in the Federated States of Micronesia. Michaud Ryan (OH) Whitfield CELEBRATING 200 YEARS OF Miller (FL) Ryan (WI) Wilson (OH) His grandfather first began training Mau in the Miller (MI) Salazar Wilson (SC) traditional arts of navigation. He fashioned his HISTORY IN MCALISTERVILLE Miller (NC) Sa´ nchez, Linda Wittman grandson a star chart of palm and coral and (Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania Miller, Gary T. Wolf Miller, George Sanchez, Loretta Woolsey sat with him to watch the stars traverse the asked and was given permission to ad- Minnick Sarbanes Wu sky each night, learning their paths and the dress the House for 1 minute and to re- Mitchell Scalise Yarmuth times they rose and fell on the horizon. As he vise and extend his remarks.) Mollohan Schakowsky Young (AK) Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. Moore (KS) Schauer Young (FL) grew, Mau was allowed to spend time in the canoe house with other elders, who taught Mr. Speaker, the first week in August NOT VOTING—15 him about the many signs needed to sail the there will be a celebration of 200 years Buyer Mack Radanovich sea. He learned to read the rhythm and tem- of history in the small community of Capuano Markey (MA) Simpson perature of the waves, to understand the sig- McAlisterville in Fayette Township, Fallin Meek (FL) Tiahrt nificance of the flight of birds, to know where Pennsylvania. Hoekstra Moran (KS) Wamp King (NY) Ortiz Watson he was in the ocean by the kinds of sea life Author Tim Varner offers hope that to be found there. And when he had learned the bicentennial will rekindle a spirit ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE all that he could from the canoe house elders, of community and give people an op- The SPEAKER pro tempore (during Mau was sent to a master navigator, a portunity to relive a time of less haste the vote). Members are advised they ‘‘Paliuw,’’ who lived on a nearby island, to and stress. According to the Fayette have 2 minutes remaining in this vote. complete his education. Finally, at the age of Sentinel, the celebration will include 18, Mau was christened a master navigator in re-enactors and a blacksmith shop that the Weriyeng School of Navigation during a will recall a simpler time b 1621 sacred ceremony called ‘‘Pwo.’’ Hugh McAlister purchased a 160-acre So (two-thirds being in the affirma- Throughout his adult life, Mau Piailug honed plot of land and in 1810 asked his son tive) the rules were suspended and the his mastery of the ocean navigation and William to lay out a plot for the town- resolution, as amended, was agreed to. knowledge of the seas, sailing his canoe and ship. Soon shops, a blacksmith, and a living his life in the traditional way. He could tannery filled out the plot. The result of the vote was announced see, though, that life in Satawal and across In 1855, the town built the Lost Creek as above recorded. Micronesia was changing. Children were rely- Valley Academy to train teachers. Pro- A motion to reconsider was laid on ing more on books and schools for their edu- fessor George McFarland purchased it the table. cation rather than learning from their elders as in 1858, but by 1862, Lincoln had issued

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