Congressional Record United States Th of America PROCEEDINGS and DEBATES of the 114 CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION

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Vol. 161 WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2015 No. 32 House of Representatives The House met at 10 a.m. and was mittee in the aftermath of the tragedy We want border security? We won’t called to order by the Speaker pro tem- on 9/11. Some of us who served at that be paying our Border Patrol agents or pore (Mr. HARDY). time were able to go to the site after 9/ ICE agents. Even though it is sug- f 11. We were able to go soon enough to gested that fees will take care of it, see some of those who were in the there are 30,000 employees that the fees DESIGNATION OF SPEAKER PRO midst of recovering, since the first re- will not take care of. TEMPORE sponders of New York refused to leave So I rise today pleading to have my The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- anyone behind. friends acknowledge that, first of all, fore the House the following commu- It was a devastating and emotional they are wrong on the executive ac- nication from the Speaker: time, but the resilience of that time tions. As we go to a hearing in Judici- also reflected America’s values. I re- ary, I will be able to show that these WASHINGTON, DC, member very strongly standing on the individuals will probably be vetted February 25, 2015. I hereby appoint the Honorable CRESENT steps of the House, Republicans and more extensively than many others in HARDY to act as Speaker pro tempore on this Democrats, singing the song ‘‘God the immigration process. Fourteen pro- day. Bless America.’’ visions have to be utilized before they JOHN A. BOEHNER, What we have come to today is that can be eligible for the executive action Speaker of the House of Representatives. we are frivolously using these political the President has suggested. f tactics of taking political security over But what I am going to say, Mr. national security and rejecting our re- Speaker, as I started by saying, is that MORNING-HOUR DEBATE sponsibility of ensuring that the men we are bringing America to the brink. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- and women who are on the front lines In the midst of my comments, I indi- ant to the order of the House of Janu- for the security of this Nation can con- cated that I remember how we came to- ary 6, 2015, the Chair will now recog- tinue their jobs. gether in the tragedy of 9/11. Well, we nize Members from lists submitted by First, Mr. Speaker, let me say that have a tragedy right now. We have a the majority and minority leaders for there is a court order that has tempo- raging ISIS and ISIL, we have an un- morning-hour debate. rarily issued an injunction. That court known terrorist threat, and we know The Chair will alternate recognition in Texas did not in any way assess the that the United States, although constitutionality of the President’s ex- between the parties, with each party strong, stands, as the rest of the world ecutive actions. Why? Because he has limited to 1 hour and each Member does, needing to be prepared for those the authority. His comments that have other than the majority and minority who want to be individualized, fran- been repeated over and over again chised terrorists. leaders and the minority whip limited about his lack of authority were, yes, I take my responsibility seriously. I to 5 minutes, but in no event shall de- he does not have the authority to con- believe in the Constitution. I even be- bate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. vey an immigration status. His execu- lieve in language that indicates, as we f tive actions are not on immigration say often in the Declaration of Inde- BRING A CLEAN DHS BILL TO THE status. They are simply keeping fami- pendence, that we all are created equal, FLOOR lies from being torn apart and mothers and language in the Constitution that and fathers and children from being de- says we have come to form a more per- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The ported. It is not an immigration status. fect Union. Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from It is a stay of deportation. This is not perfect, and this can be Texas (Ms. JACKSON LEE) for 5 minutes. And so the fuss that is being made remedied. I ask the Speaker to put this Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, impacts the TSA officer tragically shot bill on the floor of the House in the today I rise with a question: Should in a Los Angeles airport, or New York name of firefighters and police officers America be brought to the brink of her or Houston or Dallas or Chicago or Ra- and ICE officers and grants going to own security and safety? With that leigh-Durham; that TSA officer who cities for using their best tactics; fu- question, I ask my friends on the other stands on the front lines of our secu- sion centers that deal with terrorism— side of the aisle, the Republicans and rity and we look them in the eye and in their name, and many others, like the Speaker, to put on the floor of the tell them they cannot be paid. You Border Patrol; ICE, as I indicated; the House the full funding of the Depart- know, Mr. Speaker, when the shutdown Secret Service, as I indicated; TSA ment of Homeland Security. happened before, it was Democrats who agents; parts of FAA; and FEMA, when Mr. Speaker, I had the privilege of had to retroactively ensure that those the North is freezing and needs that beginning my tenure on this com- workers were paid. kind of assistance.

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Members of this team have told cause we want the VA to function well. more than to work on behalf of their my staff that many of those claims be- We want the employees to feel like families and desire to be united, on belonged to veterans who had passed they are part of a system that is serv- half of the mothers and fathers, Mr. away while waiting for benefits to be ing veterans and to have a good rela- Speaker, I ask that the Speaker put on processed and that their families were tionship within their office, but also to the floor of the House a clean DHS bill never contacted. ultimately serve what we need as tax- so that we can vote now, now, now. Inexplicably, the Office of Inspector payers and Americans that revere our f General later discovered that 537 ini- veterans. tial claims that had been marked by f SERVING OUR NATION’S this special team as processed were VETERANS never actually processed. Some of PASS A DHS FUNDING BILL The SPEAKER pro tempore. The these claims were as old as June 2002, The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from yet another troubling instance of the Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from California (Mr. LAMALFA) for 5 min- Oakland VA managers failing to pro- Ohio (Ms. KAPTUR) for 5 minutes. utes. vide the type of service northern Cali- Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I stand Mr. LAMALFA. Mr. Speaker, the fornia’s veterans deserve. here this morning as a member of the Veterans Affairs Office of the Inspector The VA Office of Inspector General Appropriations Committee and its Sub- General issued a report last Wednesday viewed only 34 of these unprocessed committee on Homeland Security. Our on their investigation into the nearly claims, though for some reason they subcommittee is responsible for setting 14,000 veteran benefits claims that were declined to select a random sample. In- and overseeing funding for the oper- found in a filing cabinet in Oakland, stead, the 34 claims were selected ‘‘ju- ations of the Department of Homeland California. diciously,’’ which didn’t make any Security. Last year, these claims were brought sense. Of the 34 claims that were re- In 2 days, on February 27, astound- to our attention by VA staff members, viewed by the Inspector General’s of- ingly, funding for the Department of who have known about these claims for fice, seven still remain unprocessed. In Homeland Security runs out because many years—despite their best efforts fact, though, these claims had been re- the Republican majority can’t agree on to raise awareness of the injustice in viewed several times from December a bill due to their internal disagree- how these claims were being handled. 2012 to June 2014 without any action ments on the immigration provisions In July 2014, the former Deputy being taken. In one instance, a veteran which are contained in the same bill Under Secretary of the VA for Field with PTSD was underpaid almost $3,000 because it is in the same Department. Operations testified before the House because his initial claim was not proc- Although a clean funding bill, H.R. Committee on Veterans’ Affairs that essed correctly. 861, could quickly be brought to this the 14,000 claims that were found in a This type of dysfunction and com- House floor for a vote to fund the en- file cabinet had been brokered so that plete lack of oversight and account- tire Department for the remainder of they would receive attention by the ability cannot continue in Oakland or this fiscal year, Republicans have de- VA’s highest performing offices. at any VA regional offices across the faulted to the rightwing extremists in Just 2 weeks prior to that on a site country. their own party and instead have cho- visit to the Oakland VA, the regional Sadly, this report sheds very little sen to hold the security of our Nation and division management told me that light on who should be accountable for hostage in order to contort the legisla- these 14,000 claims basically never ex- these failures and is incomplete. tive process. isted. As a matter of fact, they claim it I am grateful the report was done and They would defund the President’s was a story made up by disgruntled that the inspector general did delve immigration executive order merely employees. into this issue at Oakland and many because they want a partisan win more The VA’s Office of Inspector Gen- other offices, but the fact that no real than they want to govern. What a trag- eral’s investigation confirmed the dis- conclusions were made on who is to be edy. covery of 14,000 claims in a filing cabi- held accountable means much work re- b 1015 net, confirmed that some of these mains to be done. We must continue to claims dated back to the 1990s, con- search for these answers and work to To quote an editorial from yester- firmed that thousands of these claims make sure the VA regional offices are day’s Washington Post: ‘‘The fervor of had not been processed, and confirmed properly serving our veterans. Republican partisanship, especially in that the staff at the Oakland VA had I am also grateful, on the positive, the House, is immune to logic beyond not been directed to properly store for the many staff members of the an insistence on victory at any cost.’’ these claims. VA—many, former veterans them- This is a Republican Party that just Oakland VA’s management claimed selves—who care about this. They proc- a year and a half ago shut our Nation’s after my visit that they then had dis- ess many of these claims and make government down for 16 days, stopping covered 13,184 veteran benefit claims sure veterans are served. But we see critical services and doing significant and 2,155 claims which required action there are a lot of holes in the system, harm to the U.S. economy; then, too, or review. But during an onsite review, obviously, that are making many vet- they seemed more interested in a polit- the Office of Inspector General could erans not have the confidence that ical win than responsible governance. not confirm the existence of these they are going to be served, that they Recall, their party also had the op- claims due to the Oakland VA manage- are going to get their claims processed, portunity last Congress to bring a bi- ment’s ‘‘poor recordkeeping practices.’’ or indeed get health care if they need it partisan comprehensive immigration How was the Oakland VA able to ar- later. bill to the floor for a vote but declined rive at such exact numbers without Indeed, the tragedy we have is that to act. They have chosen not to address maintaining records that allowed the anywhere from 12 to 22 veterans give a concern that an overwhelming num- OIG to verify the existence of these up each day in this country and com- ber of Americans believe needs to be claims? It just doesn’t make sense, and mit suicide. Because they have no hope resolved. we have to get to the bottom of these left of having the promise kept to them There are grave consequences for numbers. The VA is required by law to shows that we have much to do. forcing the Department of Homeland respond to every initial claim they re- So I am grateful for those VA staffers Security into a shutdown. The Repub- ceive, to safeguard Federal records, and that come to us blowing the whistle on lican Congress would cripple the Fed- to protect private information of the what is wrong with the system when eral Emergency Management Agency’s veterans they work with. they can’t get help from their manage- preparations for future disasters as

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During his 26 years of The Republican Congress would cut and by whose grace we are allowed to Active Duty, Reverend Cash has done off pay to thousands of Department of exercise that which You have com- tours supporting both the Navy and Homeland Security employees who are mitted to us. Marines with time in Liberia, the personally tasked with protecting our Accept our homage, O Lord, and hear Congo, and Albania and supporting Op- homeland. us when we pray for wisdom to lead erations Desert Shield, Desert Storm, The Republican Congress would stop with integrity, compassion, and convic- and, most recently, Operation Endur- research and development work on tion. ing Freedom. countermeasures to protect us against We are mindful that around the Additionally, Reverend Cash has devastating biological threats, on nu- world today our soldiers, sailors, air- served as deputy chaplain to the U.S. clear detection equipment, and on men, marines, and coastguardsmen are Marine Corps and multiple roles for the cargo and passenger screening tech- standing the watch to safeguard our Naval Chaplaincy School, including nologies. peace and liberty. commanding officer. The Republican Congress would shut- Grant to all who serve and their fam- Reverend Cash is visiting Washington ter the Department of Homeland Secu- ilies Your blessings. this week for the 55th annual con- rity’s Domestic Nuclear Detection Of- Accept, O Lord, these prayers, and ference of the American Legion, for fice, meaning there will be no alerts or may we perceive and know what things which he currently serves as national coordination efforts with local law en- to do and receive grace and power to chaplain for that fine organization. forcement agencies if a nuclear event fulfill what is expected of us. We com- Please join me in welcoming Rev- occurs. mit our best efforts and our Nation to erend Cash to the House of Representa- This is so utterly irresponsible. In an Your keeping. tives, and thank him for his years of era of amplified global threats, brutal Amen. dedicated service to our Nation, our terrorist attacks throughout Europe, f Nation’s men and women in the mili- and escalating tension throughout the tary, and our veterans. THE JOURNAL Middle East, to cut off funding for the f Department tasked with ensuring our The SPEAKER. The Chair has exam- ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER homeland security is safe and secure is ined the Journal of the last day’s pro- PRO TEMPORE truly dangerous. ceedings and announces to the House This sort of behavior throws sand his approval thereof. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. into the gears of a great society, of a Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the Jour- MCCLINTOCK). The Chair will entertain great country, the oldest Republic on nal stands approved. up to 15 further requests for 1-minute the face of the Earth. The American Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to speeches on each side of the aisle. people surely are looking for reassur- clause 1, rule I, I demand a vote on f ance that their government will offer agreeing to the Speaker’s approval of EDUCATION them the security and dependability the Journal. they expect. The SPEAKER. The question is on (Ms. FOXX asked and was given per- We have a responsibility to protect the Speaker’s approval of the Journal. mission to address the House for 1 their security, even if it means we no The question was taken; and the minute.) longer can indulge in political Speaker announced that the ayes ap- Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, I believe in brinksmanship. peared to have it. an opportunity society where hard Mr. Speaker, we have a working bi- Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, I object to work, education, innovation, and risk partisan majority here in this House the vote on the ground that a quorum are rewarded and we empower individ- that holds the power to govern this Na- is not present and make the point of uals, not government. tion. All it needs is the will. order that a quorum is not present. Unfortunately, Washington’s broken Let’s bring the clean Department of The SPEAKER. Pursuant to clause 8, reflex these days is: when in doubt, reg- Homeland Security funding bill to the rule XX, further proceedings on this ulate. That type of thinking must floor today. Let’s stop playing political question will be postponed. cease if we are to reach this Nation’s games with the safety and security of The point of no quorum is considered full potential. One of the clearest ex- the American people. withdrawn. amples of unnecessary and unsuccess- We owe it to them to govern and to ful Federal intervention is the law cur- f do the job we were elected to do. rently governing our K–12 education f PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE system. This week, the House will consider RECESS The SPEAKER. Will the gentleman from Texas (Mr. SAM JOHNSON) come the Student Success Act, which em- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- forward and lead the House in the powers the people closest to students ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair Pledge of Allegiance. with the authority to make education declares the House in recess until noon Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas led the choices in their respective States and today. Pledge of Allegiance as follows: communities. Accordingly (at 10 o’clock and 17 I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the Local control always delivers pro- minutes a.m.), the House stood in re- United States of America, and to the Repub- grams and services more efficiently cess. lic for which it stands, one nation under God, and effectively. By scaling back Wash- f indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. ington’s one-size-fits-all micromanage- b 1200 f ment of classrooms, this legislation takes positive steps toward ensuring WELCOMING REVEREND TIERIAN AFTER RECESS local educators have the flexibility re- ‘‘RANDY’’ CASH The recess having expired, the House quired to meet the diverse needs of was called to order by the Speaker at The SPEAKER. Without objection, their students. noon. the gentleman from North Carolina f f (Mr. MCHENRY) is recognized for 1 minute. FUNDING THE DEPARTMENT OF PRAYER There was no objection. HOMELAND SECURITY Reverend Tierian Cash, National Mr. MCHENRY. Mr. Speaker, please (Ms. KUSTER asked and was given Chaplain for the American Legion, join me in welcoming to the House of permission to address the House for 1

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Guard, Border Patrol, Customs and sion to address the House for 1 minute.) f Border Protection, or elsewhere, the Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New men and women who work for the De- York. Mr. Speaker, the Republicans are THREE DAYS UNTIL THE DEPART- partment of Homeland Security in my playing politics with the security of MENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY home State of New Hampshire and the American people, and the American SHUTDOWN across this country play a vital role in people deserve better. (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given keeping our families safe; yet Congress What was absolutely laughable a few permission to address the House for 1 is poised to shut down DHS this Friday days ago, it now appears that they are minute.) for partisan political reasons. prepared to shut down the Department Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, well, This would undermine our security of Homeland Security. They won’t there are only 3 days left until the De- and impact hardworking men and budge, even though they have known partment of Homeland Security shuts women from across my district, like all along that the House version of the down, forcing thousands of TSA, Cus- Darrell, from Groveton, New Hamp- bill will never pass the Senate, and if it toms, Border Patrol, and Secret Serv- shire, who serves in the Coast Guard, did, the President would surely veto it, ice agents to put their lives on the line and Lee, another Granite Stater, who as he should. to protect American citizens without works for Customs and Border Protec- They are willing to burden this en- being paid. tion. She wrote to me recently and tire country with all the dangers and This has gone on far too far. We have said: ‘‘No one wins if this political disruptions that a funding lapse would taken weeks of time on the floor of this standoff continues.’’ bring. They are willing to shut down House, waiting for what we know ulti- I agree. We were elected to work to- funding for the security in the New mately would be passed, and that is a gether in the best interest of those we York City rail system, communica- clean Homeland Security bill. represent, not to play partisan polit- tions equipment in Los Angeles, bomb- Every Democrat has cosponsored leg- ical games. sniffing dogs in Massachusetts, and islation to fully fund this Department, Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con- firefighter positions across this Nation, without trying to overreach and get sent that the House bring up H.R. 861, just so that they can put on another through the appropriations process the clean Department of Homeland Se- hollow, pointless political show. that which the majority is unwilling to curity funding bill that would keep the This legislation is failure by design. I do legislatively. Department of Homeland Security find it scandalous that the Islamic ter- If you were so interested in immigra- open so it can carry out its mission of rorists are fully funded; yet the De- tion policy, the majority would long keeping the American people safe. partment of Homeland Security that ago have brought comprehensive immi- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under protects our citizens may not be. gration reform to the floor of the guidelines consistently issued by suc- I urge a vote on a clean Homeland House. Have we seen that? No—neither cessive Speakers, as recorded in sec- Security bill for the protection of our have we seen any legislation that the tion 956 of the House Rules and Man- citizens. American people are really looking for, ual, the Chair is constrained not to en- f legislation that would put America tertain the request unless it has been back to work, build new infrastructure, THE PRESIDENT NEEDS TO cleared by the bipartisan floor and and create jobs in this country. CHANGE COURSE committee leaderships. This has gone on far too far. We have f (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina got to get this essential function of asked and was given permission to ad- government fully funded and get back FEDERAL TEXAS JUDGE dress the House for 1 minute and to re- to the business that the American peo- IMMIGRATION RULING vise and extend his remarks.) ple sent us to. (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con- and was given permission to address Speaker, during the Presidents’ Day sent that the House bring up H.R. 861, the House for 1 minute and to revise break, I served on a delegation meeting the clean Department of Homeland Se- and extend his remarks.) with the leaders of Afghanistan, Jor- curity funding bill that would keep the Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. dan, and Iraq. Each was grateful for Department open so it can carry out Speaker, my constituents and a major- the support given in their fight against its essential mission. ity of Americans oppose President terrorists who seek mass murder of in- The SPEAKER pro tempore. As the Obama’s executive amnesty. His am- nocent civilians. Chair previously advised, that request nesty is unconstitutional, which is why Daesh, the Arab translation of ISIL, cannot be entertained absent appro- I am pleased that U.S. district court has spread as a cancer across the re- priate clearance. Judge Andrew Hanen has blocked gion and threatens to attack the Amer- f Obama’s amnesty from going into ef- ican people. President Obama’s failing fect. Not surprisingly, the administra- policies are weakening defense, and he PRESIDENT OBAMA VETOES tion is now appealing. needs to change course, as he did with KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE As the legal process works its way the 2009 Afghan surge. (Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania through the courts, Congress must con- In Syria, the President’s strategy has asked and was given permission to ad- tinue to stand strong and fight the set the stage for Daesh to expand. In dress the House for 1 minute and to re- President’s unlawful amnesty. Just Iraq, his failure to achieve a status of vise and extend his remarks.) this month, I exposed Obama’s empty forces agreement has led to instability. Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. words that illegals getting amnesty The attack on Libya has led to a failed Mr. Speaker, despite overwhelming bi- would be paying taxes. The IRS Com- state. The pitiful negotiations with partisan support from my colleagues in missioner confirmed that Obama’s am- Iran puts America at risk. His claimed both the House and the Senate, the nesty will, in fact, allow the IRS to success in Yemen has proven inac- President vetoed the Keystone XL give illegals thousands of dollars. curate. pipeline project in the name of polit- These tax refunds aren’t refunds in Radical Islamists have declared war ical expediency; rather than listening the usual sense but amnesty checks on the West, intend to exterminate to a majority of the American public, from the IRS. This is wrong. I am Jews, and seek to destroy modern the President’s veto kowtows to a

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Mr. Speaker, I rise over 40,000 American jobs and lower en- Americans’ constitutional rights to today to demand that a clean, straight- ergy prices for businesses and families. keep and bear arms and ammo. forward Department of Homeland Secu- Mr. Speaker, President Obama had f rity funding bill be brought to the the opportunity to stand up and show House floor for a vote immediately. true leadership, but unfortunately, he DHS SHUTDOWN After today, there are only 2 more days chose to, once again, hide behind polit- (Ms. ESTY asked and was given per- until the entire Department of Home- ical motives. mission to address the House for 1 land Security is shut down, 2 days until f minute.) the men and women who work to pro- b 1215 Ms. ESTY. Mr. Speaker, in 3 days, tect our national security stop receiv- the Department of Homeland Security ing a paycheck, 2 days until the doors ECONOMIC GROWTH FOR NEVADA will needlessly run out of funding—yes, are shut at the Department responsible (Ms. TITUS asked and was given per- 3 days. Shutting down the Department for ensuring America’s safety. mission to address the House for 1 of Homeland Security will jeopardize If my colleagues on the other side of minute.) local disaster relief grants. It will stall the aisle want to debate the merits of Ms. TITUS. Mr. Speaker, just this critical safety training for firefighters immigration reform, then bring an im- morning, Nevada Attorney General and first responders and will force migration bill to the floor. We would Laxalt testified before the House Judi- thousands of Border Patrol agents, Ac- welcome that debate. We are ready to ciary Committee, claiming that the tive Duty Coast Guard servicemem- work on a comprehensive bill to fix a implementation of DAPA and exten- bers, and airport security screeners broken system. In the meantime, don’t sion of DACA would cause undue eco- across the country to work without play games with our national security. nomic hardship for our State. Well, I pay. Again, I urge the House leadership to would like to see his evidence, because House Republicans are threatening bring a clean funding bill. It is H.R. data show that granting administra- the safety and security of our Nation 861. We need to keep the Department of tive relief to qualified undocumented and our families by refusing to pass a Homeland Security open so it can immigrants would actually contribute clean security funding bill, instead, carry out its mission of keeping the to economic growth. pushing for anti-immigration amend- American people safe, and we need to Thanks to these executive actions, ments. This is unwise, this is unneces- be able to move forward to work on the the legal workforce will expand, and sary, and this is wrong. We should not pressing matters facing our country. average wages for all workers will in- play partisan politics when our Na- f crease by $170 a year. The Federal def- tion’s security is on the line. DHS SHUTDOWN icit will be reduced by $25 billion, and We must pass a funding bill that does GDP will grow from $90 billion to $210 not include harmful provisions, so that (Mr. DOLD asked and was given per- billion over the next decade. Further- our Nation remains safe and secure. mission to address the House for 1 more, it is estimated that expanding That is why I ask unanimous consent minute and to revise and extend his re- DACA and DAPA will increase Ne- that the House bring up H.R. 861, the marks.) vada’s GDP from $700 million to $1.7 clean Department of Homeland Secu- Mr. DOLD. Mr. Speaker, the Amer- billion over the next 10 years and lead rity funding bill that would keep the ican people expect us to deliver solu- to $21 million in additional tax revenue Department open so it can carry out tions and to fix problems; they expect for the State over the next 5 years. its mission of keeping the American us to act responsibly and govern. We So, in short, General, not imple- people safe. can do this by working together and menting the President’s actions is not The SPEAKER pro tempore. As the averting a shutdown at the Depart- only morally indefensible, but also eco- Chair previously advised, that request ment of Homeland Security. Let me be clear: shutting down the nomically foolish. And, I might add, cannot be entertained absent appro- Department of Homeland Security holding up DHS funding for this pur- priate clearance. pose is a shameful political act that should not be an option, and I am ada- puts Americans at risk. f mantly opposed to letting this happen. Our first and foremost responsibility, f STRENGTHENING TAX-FREE 529 Mr. Speaker, is to protect our Nation. COLLEGE SAVINGS ACCOUNTS M–855 AMMO BAN Ever since the attacks of September 11, (Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia (Mr. MARCHANT asked and was 2001, the need for the Department of asked and was given permission to ad- given permission to address the House Homeland Security became clear, and dress the House for 1 minute and to re- for 1 minute.) the Department of Homeland Security vise and extend his remarks.) Mr. MARCHANT. Mr. Speaker, I rise has proven vital to keeping the Amer- Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia. Mr. in support of H.R. 529, a bill I have co- ican people safe amid an ongoing war Speaker, I rise today to stand up for sponsored that strengthens tax-free 529 against terror. the rights of law-abiding Americans to college savings accounts. The cost of Terror threats do not just go away protect their homes, and I am standing higher ed has increased by more than until Washington is able to come to a in opposition to the Bureau of Alcohol, 500 percent since 1985, yet the Presi- compromise. There is certainly broad Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ un- dent recently proposed a tax hike on disagreement, Mr. Speaker, in this reasonable proposal to ban entire class- 529 savings of students and middle class country over the President’s executive es of ammunition. families. actions. By shutting down DHS, it only As an American, I personally use this There is a big difference between makes us more vulnerable to attacks. ammunition to defend my home and being able to afford college and being It is absolutely the wrong approach to my family, and that is my constitu- able to pay for it. The 529s help bridge addressing this disagreement. There is tional right. I find it ironic that the that gap for millions of working Amer- no room for political brinkmanship President of the United States con- icans who make too little to cover tui- when the security of the American pub- tinues to say, well, if we would just tion but just enough to be ineligible for lic is at stake. arm the people of other countries, then financial aid. f ISIS wouldn’t exist, while he uses each Our Nation’s long-term prosperity and every means possible to violate our depends on our ability to prepare the SELMA VOTING RIGHTS Second Amendment right to protect next generation for success. Let’s start (Mr. CARNEY asked and was given ourselves. now by passing H.R. 529. permission to address the House for 1

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We are talking I hope the President takes this op- Congress. about 250,000 essential employees that portunity to lead and unite the Amer- In 1960, there were only 66,000 African could go without pay—that are airport ican people toward defeating our latest Americans registered to vote in Ala- screeners and are doing important adversary in the war on terror. bama. In 1965, there were 15,000 Black things like keeping us safe—and send- f residents of Dallas County, Alabama, ing them to work without pay, where where Selma is located, but fewer than they don’t know how they are going to DHS SHUTDOWN 200 were registered to vote. African make their car note; they don’t know if (Ms. MAXINE WATERS of California Americans who attempted to vote they are going to be able to pay their asked and was given permission to ad- faced intimidation, discrimination, and mortgage or bring groceries home. dress the House for 1 minute and to re- worse. That is putting America in danger. vise and extend her remarks.) The Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the We need to keep Homeland Security Ms. MAXINE WATERS of California. unrelenting efforts of heroes like our open. We need to stop playing this Mr. Speaker, there are only 3 days colleague from Georgia, JOHN LEWIS, reckless game that the Republicans are until the Department of Homeland Se- helped correct these injustices. But the putting us through because it is the curity shuts down, forcing more than fight isn’t over. State legislation, bal- duty of Congress to keep American 50,000 TSA airport security screeners lot initiatives, and court cases across families safe and govern responsibly. and tens of thousands of Customs and the country in recent years have jeop- Republicans need to realize that the Border Protection officers to work ardized the voter registration protec- only path through this is having us do without pay. Many of these dedicated tions that JOHN LEWIS and others a clean DHS bill. It is time for Repub- public servants work at Los Angeles fought so hard for. licans to join the 192 House Democrats International Airport, LAX, which is in We need to stay vigilant, and we need that have already signed up. We need my congressional district. They screen new legislation today. As we celebrate to do the right thing. the passengers and examine the cargo Black History Month, let’s recognize Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con- to keep the airports secure. how far we have come. Let’s pass vot- sent that the House bring up H.R. 861, LAX is the sixth busiest airport in ing rights legislation in this Congress the clean Department of Homeland Se- the world and third busiest in the for the good of the country. curity funding bill that would keep the United States. In 2013, LAX served f Department open so it can carry out more than 66 million passengers and its mission of keeping the American KEYSTONE PIPELINE VETO processed more than 1.9 million tons of people safe. cargo with a value of over $91.6 billion. (Mr. MCCLINTOCK asked and was The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. The security of LAX is critical for given permission to address the House DOLD). As the Chair previously advised, the people of Los Angeles and the en- for 1 minute.) that request cannot be entertained ab- tire country, and the public servants Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, for sent appropriate clearance. who work hard every day to keep our more than 6 years, the President has f airports safe deserve to be paid for the called for taxpayer-funded infrastruc- ISIS work that they do. Let’s fund DHS ture projects. In the first year of his now. administration, he squandered nearly (Mr. STUTZMAN asked and was I ask unanimous consent that the $1 trillion on so-called shovel-ready given permission to address the House House bring up H.R. 861, the clean De- projects that he later joked weren’t for 1 minute and to revise and extend partment of Homeland Security fund- shovel ready at all. Mr. Speaker, $1 his remarks.) ing bill that would keep the Depart- trillion is $8,000 taken from every fam- Mr. STUTZMAN. Mr. Speaker, over ment open so it can carry out its mis- ily in America, on average. That is the last several months, Islamic State sion of keeping the American people what we spent. That is what he joked has shown just how barbaric they can safe. about when it turned out we got very be. They are willing to kill and torture The SPEAKER pro tempore. As the little for it. innocent people in the most savage Chair previously advised, that request Now along comes the Keystone pipe- ways to intimidate the United States cannot be entertained absent appro- line. It promises $8 billion of private and the civilized world. With the recent priate clearance. investment at no cost to taxpayers. beheadings in the Middle East and the That major infrastructure project multiple shootings in Europe, it is very f would have produced 42,000 construc- clear that terrorism is a problem that b 1230 tion-related jobs and, when finished, only continues to grow. CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION more than a half million barrels a day Islamic State might be the most of Canadian crude oil entering the well-trained, well-equipped, and well-fi- (Mr. BENISHEK asked and was given American economy. That is what he nanced terror group we have seen; and permission to address the House for 1 vetoed after it was sent to him with bi- if an international coalition is not will- minute and to revise and extend his re- partisan votes out of both Houses. ing to stop them, no one will. marks.) He calls this middle class economics. I have supported President Obama’s Mr. BENISHEK. Mr. Speaker, today, The reality is it is a war on the middle use of airstrikes since they began sev- as we consider many issues sur- class. And that is no joke. eral months ago to push back on Is- rounding the education of our Nation’s f lamic State, and I still strongly believe youth, I rise to draw attention to the that we should continue these strikes importance of career technical edu- DHS SHUTDOWN with our Arab partners. cation. Having raised five kids, I under- (Mr. VEASEY asked and was given Throughout our history, we have stand how access to quality learning is permission to address the House for 1 shown that we can overcome any ob- critical to ensuring that every child minute and to revise and extend his re- stacle and defeat any enemy if we are has an opportunity to achieve their po- marks.) willing to stand up to it. tential. Mr. VEASEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise However, I have so far been dis- That is why I have worked to support today to talk about the imminent dan- appointed that the President has asked career and technical education and ger our country faces in 3 days. Right for an Authorization for Use of Mili- teach students the relevant skills they now, Republicans have decided that it tary Force without articulating a clear need to get a good-paying job. Often re- is more important to listen to the Tea strategy on how to ultimately defeat ferred to as vocational, or voc-ed, CTE

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Mr. schools in northern Michigan in CTE, to fix it. So people are rightfully con- Speaker, I rise today to shed light on an achievement for which Cheboygan cerned about that. The FCC, in taking an issue that many constituents Area Schools should be justifiably control of the Internet, would do a cou- brought to my attention. Tax Day is proud. It is my hope that students in ple of things. First of all, it would be a right around the corner, and as many northern Michigan and all over the loss of some of our freedoms because folks prepare to file their taxes, they United States will take advantage of the FCC would reclassify the Internet are having issues locating the proper quality CTE programs to further their to title II. Now, title II of the Commu- forms. careers and continue to grow our econ- nications Act is the 1930s-era law that The IRS has notified local libraries— omy. regulates telephones and telecommuni- and even congressional offices like Mr. Speaker, I look forward to sup- cations. It would thereby subject the mine—that it does not have the money porting measures that help to return Internet, which is an information serv- to distribute enough tax forms and in- control of education to States and par- ice, to a host of taxes, regulation, and struction booklets so that taxpayers ents, allowing families to choose an international consideration. This is not can file their returns accurately and on educational program that fits their the direction we want to go with the time. As a result, Mr. Speaker, seniors needs. Internet. Let’s not use 1930s-era laws and those without access to the Inter- f on an information service. Let’s make net are scrambling to find 1040 instruc- certain that the FCC delays their net CELEBRATING WEST COAST PORTS tion booklets and tax schedules they neutrality order and that we work to- AND ILWU, PMA DEAL need to accurately file their taxes. My gether to keep the Internet open and office distributed nearly 40 tax instruc- (Ms. HAHN asked and was given per- free. tion books and tax forms during a re- mission to address the House for 1 f cent community office hours event in minute.) Lebanon County, and the demand con- Ms. HAHN. Mr. Speaker, I, along DHS SHUTDOWN tinues to grow daily. with the rest of the country, am (Mr. ELLISON asked and was given Mr. Speaker, the IRS’ claim that breathing a sigh of relief that full-time permission to address the House for 1 they can no longer afford to send tax work has resumed at our west coast minute.) forms to local libraries due to budget ports. I wanted to publicly thank the Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Speaker, as I cuts is disingenuous. And while need- ILWU and the PMA for staying at the stand before this body today, it is with ing more than 40 pages of instructions table and finally reaching an agree- a tremendous amount of concern for to complete the least complicated tax ment. I want to thank President the brave men and women who are pro- return is proof enough for simplifying Obama and our Labor Secretary Perez tecting our country and work for the the Tax Code, it is no excuse for the for their help in bringing about a reso- Department of Homeland Security. We IRS to make paying your Federal taxes lution. are only about 48 hours or so away Many of my colleagues here in Con- from a potential shutdown, and I am an even bigger headache by making it gress were calling me daily for updates concerned about these people, who are more difficult for my constituents to because the workers, the farmers, the going to have to continue to work be- get the documents they need. Let’s get businesses, and the consumers in their cause they are dedicated, loyal, and pa- our tax forms where they are needed. districts were also impacted by what triotic Americans but won’t be getting f happens on the west coast ports. paid if we allow this government to I represent the men and women who shut down. THE CONCERNS OF OUR DISTRICTS work on those ports, so our economy in Now, all we have to do in this House the harbor area was greatly affected, of Representatives is to bring up a (Mr. HASTINGS asked and was given but we also realize that these ports are clean Homeland Security funding bill. permission to address the House for 1 an economic engine for the entire That is all we have to do. The Senate minute and to revise and extend his re- country. Our west coast ports support majority leader said he would do that. marks.) millions of American jobs and provide So we can get this problem solved right Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, one of a vital link to global commerce. So away. the privileges we have here in the today I am going to testify before the This situation is being handled in the House of Representatives is to speak to Budget Committee to remind Congress courts, and this body of ours, this any issue during this period of time. that we should fully fund all the ports House of Representatives, is no place Regrettably, I rise today to speak of in this country because they are such to try to work out some sort of ideo- the death of an iconic figure, a dy- an important link to our economy. logical partisan divide around immi- namic force for social justice, Georgia f gration. This is an occasion for us to Jones Ayers, who was not from my con- look out after the safety and security gressional district but from Congress- NET NEUTRALITY of the American people and to fund and woman FREDERICA WILSON’s district, (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was pay the salaries of the workers who and I am sure that the two of us will given permission to address the House guarantee that security, not a time for add additional remarks. for 1 minute and to revise and extend partisan ideological chicanery. I also happily today come to the floor her remarks.) Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con- to congratulate the Dillard High Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, as sent that the House bring up H.R. 861, School girls basketball team and the you can see, we have quite a variety of the clean Department of Homeland Se- Palm Beach Lakes High School basket- issues that we are talking about today. curity funding bill that would keep the ball teams. Dillard and Coach Pinder, Whether it is the President’s executive Department open so it can carry on its my dear friend, have had such a con- amnesty and overreach, the overreach mission of keeping the American peo- secutive run that they are becoming a of the DHS, or the veto of the Keystone ple safe. real force nationally as well as locally, pipeline, people are concerned about The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. and Palm Beach County took theirs as what is happening. DUNCAN of Tennessee). As the Chair well. So I am fortunate that I have Mr. Speaker, I want to turn our at- previously advised, that request cannot girls basketball teams that are cham- tention to another issue: the takeover be entertained absent appropriate pions, and I proudly congratulate of the Internet by the Federal Commu- clearance. them.

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Mr. Speaker, I rise Mr. Speaker, you won’t meet many the House suspend the rules as though under today on behalf of the estimated 12 people with the compassion, character, clause 1 of rule XV, relating to a measure million Americans in the middle class and very capable leadership of Sister making or continuing appropriations for the who are paying more than $1,000 extra Clare. She touched and improved not Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015. per year because of the excise tax on just the medical center but our entire health care plans included in the community. I celebrate her life and her The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. ObamaCare legislation called the Cad- legacy, her faithful example, and her DENHAM). The gentleman from Georgia illac tax. This legislation is set to take leadership. We are certainly grateful to is recognized for 1 hour. effect in 2018; however, employers, know Sister Clare, and I am thankful Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, for the labor unions, and municipalities all for everything she did for the people of purpose of debate only, I yield the cus- back home are already preparing for Pennsylvania and all those that she tomary 30 minutes to the gentleman this devastating tax. served. from Florida (Mr. HASTINGS), my In order to comply with this 40 per- f friend, pending which I yield myself cent penalty on health care plans, Mr. such time as I may consume. During PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION consideration of this resolution, all Speaker, employers and municipalities OF H.R. 529, SECTION 529 COL- are looking at increasing deductibles, time yielded is for the purpose of de- LEGE SAVINGS PLANS AMEND- bate only. reducing benefits, and shifting costs to MENTS; PROVIDING FOR CONSID- consumers as well as property tax- ERATION OF H.R. 5, STUDENT b 1245 payers. In fact, in Manchester, our SUCCESS ACT; AND FOR OTHER GENERAL LEAVE State’s largest city, an anticipated PURPOSES Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I ask cost of 5 to $6 million alone will impact Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, by di- unanimous consent that all Members the property taxpayers. This will un- rection of the Committee on Rules, I may have 5 legislative days to revise doubtedly result in an increase in our call up House Resolution 121 and ask and extend their remarks. local property taxes, which, as every for its immediate consideration. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there Granite Stater knows, are already sky The Clerk read the resolution, as fol- objection to the request of the gen- high. lows: tleman from Georgia? Mr. Speaker, Americans simply can’t There was no objection. afford this tax, which is why I intro- H. RES. 121 Resolved, That upon adoption of this reso- Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, there is duced a repeal bill. I look forward to a lot going on in this rule today, a lot working with Republicans and Demo- lution it shall be in order to consider in the House the bill (H.R. 529) to amend the Inter- to be proud of. crats to get this bill passed. nal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve 529 I would like to start by thanking the f plans. All points of order against consider- folks on the Parliamentarian staff and ation of the bill are waived. The amendment Mr. Steve Cote on the Rules Com- HONORING SISTER CLARE CARTY in the nature of a substitute recommended mittee. Folks don’t pay a lot of atten- (Mr. FITZPATRICK asked and was by the Committee on Ways and Means now tion to what goes on down here some- given permission to address the House printed in the bill shall be considered as adopted. The bill, as amended, shall be con- times, what goes on behind the scenes, for 1 minute and to revise and extend sidered as read. All points of order against in order to bring a bill to the floor. We his remarks.) provisions in the bill, as amended, are did a little extra work this time Mr. FITZPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, I waived. The previous question shall be con- around. I am grateful to folks for work- rise today to honor a great leader and sidered as ordered on the bill, as amended, ing with me to get that done. visionary in my community, Sister and on any further amendment thereto, to House Resolution 121 is a closed rule, Clare Carty, who passed away on Sat- final passage without intervening motion ex- but it makes in order the consideration urday, February 14, at the age of 78. cept: (1) one hour of debate equally divided of two bills. One is H.R. 529, a bill that Sister Clare was born in Philadelphia and controlled by the chair and ranking mi- passed by unanimous consent out of nority member of the Committee on Ways and entered the Sisters of St. Francis and Means; and (2) one motion to recommit the Ways and Means Committee, that of Philadelphia in 1955, beginning her with or without instructions. goes into these college savings plans career as an elementary school teach- SEC. 2. At any time after adoption of this and corrects some provisions that er. In 1980, she joined the St. Mary resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to made it difficult for folks to redeposit Medical Center system as an assistant clause 2(b) of rule XVIII, declare the House money into those plans—again, all administrator, where I happened to be resolved into the Committee of the Whole about trying to educate our children, working as a hospital pharmacy clerk. House on the state of the Union for consider- to make sure they have the opportuni- I will never forget her kind interaction ation of the bill (H.R. 5) to support State and ties that we would want for them. local accountability for public education, with her staff. Nobody was more proud protect State and local authority, inform The second provision made in order of the colleagues, physicians, and vol- parents of the performance of their chil- by this rule is the general debate of unteers at St. Mary’s than Sister dren’s schools, and for other purposes. The H.R. 5, the Student Success Act. Folks Clare. first reading of the bill shall be dispensed may not know the Student Success Act In 1982, Sister Clare rose to the rank with. All points of order against consider- yet, Mr. Speaker, though they will. It of president and CEO at St. Mary. Her ation of the bill are waived. General debate will become as normalized of a term as persistence and leadership led to the shall be confined to the bill and shall not ex- No Child Left Behind. development of one of the first commu- ceed one hour equally divided and controlled That was the last time we reauthor- by the chair and ranking minority member nity hospital open heart surgery proof the Committee on Education and the ized the Elementary and Secondary grams in the area, as well as the estab- Workforce. After general debate, the Com- Education Act, Mr. Speaker. I don’t be- lishment of the only trauma center in mittee of the Whole shall rise without mo- lieve we will find much disagreement my home community of the County of tion. No further consideration of the bill in this Chamber about the need to go Bucks. shall be in order except pursuant to a subse- back into that language now, 13 years After two decades of work, Sister quent order of the House. later, and make some improvements in Clare left St. Mary to serve in the de- SEC. 3. The requirement of clause 6(a) of order to better serve our children. velopment of Home Health Services for rule XIII for a two-thirds vote to consider a We might disagree about what those report from the Committee on Rules on the Catholic Health East, and once she re- same day it is presented to the House is improvements are, but we know it is tired from health care administration, waived with respect to any resolution re- time to go back and get into that lan- she devoted her time to the Sisters of ported through the legislative day of March guage and really try to make a dif- St. Francis. Sister Clare was instru- 2, 2015, relating to a measure making or conference for those families, students,

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It has to be an investment in these portunity to go anywhere in the county You heard a lot about it during the 1 children. It has to be something that they wanted to go, but they stood in minutes this morning, Mr. Speaker. enables them to succeed even more to- line, hoping to win the lottery to get What we have is Department of Home- morrow than they are today because I out of a school that was already per- land Security funding which, as you am borrowing it from their future. I forming well to get into this school know, funds so much of the immigra- am mortgaging their future in order to where they could be exceptional. tion services function of our govern- invest in them today. We all want Mr. Speaker, there are children ment. those dollars to be used as well as they standing in line across this country As you know, a Federal judge has can. waiting to be exceptional. This bill said that the plans the President has It would be easy to have a conversa- aims to clear that line away and allow laid out cannot be completed lawfully. tion about funding children to say: every child in America to achieve the This House went forward and said: If it Well, if $1 is good, then $2 must be bet- excellence that you and I both know can’t do those things lawfully, we are ter, and if $2 is good, then $4 must be they deserve. certainly not going to fund them in better, and if $4 is good, then $1 million With that, I reserve the balance of this bill. must be better, and if $1 million is my time. Now, the Senate has not even been good, then $1 trillion must be better. Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I would able to bring that bill up for debate, I would dispute the attestation of like very much at this time to be able blocked on the Senate side from any any colleague who can find that direct to accommodate the ranking member discussion whatsoever. correlation between dollars and per- of the Appropriations Committee, Mrs. We are going to hopefully find a reso- formance. Dollars are critically impor- LOWEY. She was going to be scheduled lution between now and the end of this tant, and this bill provides those, but to speak earlier. I am going to allow week. I don’t know when that resolu- performance is tied to parents, it is that she go forward now to discuss tion is going to come. When that reso- tied to teachers, it is tied to principals, something that is very important, and lution comes, I don’t want to see this it is tied to communities. We cannot then I will proceed with my opening, if House delayed in bringing that resolu- mandate that performance. We can the Speaker will allow. tion to the floor. Again, we have al- only try to help those local folks suc- There are only 3 days left until fund- ready done our work. My hope is the ceed. ing for the Department of Homeland Senate can pass that bill, and we can I know a lot of my colleagues are Security expires, which will shut down go ahead and send it directly to the concerned that unless we mandate a so- many of the crucial operations that President’s desk. lution from Washington, we will allow keep our country safe. Whatever those machinations may local communities to fail. I know that Mr. Speaker, if we defeat the pre- need to be, this rule makes bringing an concern is heartfelt. I don’t come from vious question, I am going to offer an additional provision in order as soon as one of those communities. amendment to the rule that will allow that language becomes available. That The community I come from says: for consideration of a clean Depart- is maximum flexibility to do what I Washington is not getting it so right, ment of Homeland Security funding think folks on both sides of this Cham- but, trust us, we will take care of chil- bill. With such serious consequences, it ber want to do, and that is to ensure dren down here because no one in is time to put politics aside and the steady, continuous, deliberate Washington loves our children more prioritize the safety and security of the functioning of this government. than we do. American people. Mr. Speaker, No Child Left Behind, it Again, we see that. To discuss that particular aspect of was passed by a Republican House and There is no question, Mr. Speaker, the proposal, I am very pleased to yield a Republican Senate and sent to a Re- that children are going to succeed in 3 minutes to the distinguished gentle- publican President for his signature. this country, but there is an achieve- woman from New York (Mrs. LOWEY), Today, that same Republican House is ment gap. There is a gap, Mr. Speaker, my good friend, the distinguished rank- bringing forward a rewrite of that bill. depending on what your ZIP code is, ing member of the Appropriations As much as we all have a love and af- between what success we expect to Committee. fection for children, as much as we come from your family and what suc- Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise want public education in this country cess you can actually attain. today to urge this House to imme- to succeed, sometimes, we don’t get it I come from a county, Mr. Speaker, diately take up and pass a clean fund- right. that is widely diverse, that has all the ing bill for the Department of Home- Again, I want to celebrate the bipar- economic challenges you can imagine land Security. tisanship in that. It is not everybody and all the economic successes that Delaying the full-year bill limits the just looking to find somebody to you can imagine as well. We come to- Department’s ability to advance the blame. I think folks went into that gether to make sure that no child is Secretary’s unity of effort initiative process trying to do the very best that left behind and to make sure that no designed to improve coordination in they could; but, in fact, we ended up child is held back. our security missions; limits the abil- with some top-down solutions that did We have both schools that are suc- ity of the Secretary to move ahead not serve our districts as well as we ceeding in ways that I could stand on with the Southern Border and Ap- would have hoped. this floor and brag about for hours, proaches Campaign; creates uncer- I am very fortunate, Mr. Speaker. I taking students from which the system tainty regarding ICE’s capacity to de- come from a district with wonderful expects so little and creating an oppor- tain and deport dangerous criminals; public schools, just wonderful public tunity for them to succeed so extraor- complicates the Department’s ability schools. In fact, we are the fastest dinarily. I would like to see that rep- to deal with another influx of unac- growing congressional district in the licated in school districts across the companied children at our border sta- State of Georgia. Nation. I see it back home in my tions; delays implementation of the It is not because of any particular school. new security upgrades at the White strong business presence, though we But we also have the Gwinnett House and hiring increases of the U.S. have a tremendously strong business School of Mathematics, Science, and Secret Service; delays terrorism pre- presence. It is not because of our loca- Technology, GSMST. U.S. News & paredness, my colleagues, and response tion in some pleasant area, though it is World Report names it the third best grants for State and local public safety a particularly pleasant area. It is be- high school in the United States of personnel and from fusion centers.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:49 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K25FE7.016 H25FEPT1 smartinez on DSK4TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H1128 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE February 25, 2015 I understand that many of my col- lican side are crazy enough to shut address this lapse in funding. Why do leagues on the other side of the aisle down the government at this point, so we do this? Why is it every time we get feel quite strongly about the Presi- I think something is going to happen. I ready to do something important, we dent’s use of executive orders on immi- don’t know what. play brinksmanship, we come up until gration policy; but do they have the It is not like this debacle caught us the day of? It is really the kind of hold- courage of their convictions to look by surprise. It was obvious way back ing up of our process that is deleterious the first responders they represent in when Congress funded the rest of the to the good of this country. the eye and to tell them that they are government for the year but funded Just because DHS employees are fur- holding up critical assistance to fire- DHS for only a few months. Yet each loughed or not being paid but still fighters, law enforcement, EMTs, and week my Republican friends continue must go to work, that doesn’t mean emergency managers because of a fight to consider bills that will do nothing that their mortgage payment or their that is ideological over immigration? and go nowhere. And now, without a car payment or any other bills are This is disgraceful. The Homeland road map out of this quagmire, my Re- going to go away. What are they sup- Security bill should never have been publican friends are threatening to posed to say? ‘‘Don’t worry. I will pay held hostage with only 3 days left until double down on their politics by shut- you retroactively’’? You can’t run your the Republican shutdown. Hasn’t this ting down the agency responsible for household that way, and we certainly gone on long enough? Isn’t it time to our national security, yet somehow we should not be running our government abandon this failed strategy and pass a find ourselves talking about com- that way. For the life of me, I cannot clean Homeland Security bill? pletely unrelated measures. understand why my Republican friends To that end, I urge this whole House You can disagree with the Presi- will not join House Democrats in sup- to join me today in defeating the pre- dent—and many of you do, and some- porting clean legislation to fund the vious question so that my colleague times some of us do. Great. It is a Department of Homeland Security. Mr. HASTINGS can offer an amendment beautiful free country that we live in— So, after all that, what do these two to provide a clean, full-year appropria- but don’t put our national security at education bills that are in this par- tions bill for the Department of Home- risk to do it. ticular rule have to do with keeping land Security. Now, I have heard my Republican DHS open? I have no idea. I consider Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I yield colleagues’ talking point—oh, no, don’t them to be important, but they don’t myself such time as I may consume, worry about national security; most of have anything to do with what is the and I thank my friend, the gentleman the DHS employees will still work, and most germane issue before us today, from Georgia, for yielding me the cus- very little will change—but that is just the most pertinent issue. tomary 30 minutes. a guess, because those employees will If the goal is to make college more I rise, obviously, in opposition to the be expected to work without pay. affordable, there is no reason to focus rule and underlying bill because nei- Among those who are expected to on provisions used by only 3 percent of ther of these measures will keep the work without pay are more than 40,000 families. We need to make higher edu- Department of Homeland Security Border Patrol agents and Customs and cation more affordable for all Ameri- from shutting down in 3 days, some- Border Protection officers, more than cans. Moreover, my friends have yet to thing that I am sure is of vital interest 50,000 TSA aviation security screeners, explain what makes these 529 provi- to my friend from Georgia who is an more than 13,000 Immigration and Cus- sions so important that they are will- advocate, continuously and has been toms Enforcement law enforcement ing—listen to me carefully—to add $51 since being on the Rules Committee agents and officers, more than 40,000 million to the deficit for these par- and here in Congress, of having an open Active Duty Coast Guard military ticular measures, $51 million added to process. members, and more than 4,000 Secret the deficit that they talk so much I would only urge that we understand Service law enforcement agents and of- about. that the last Congress, the 113th, was ficers. The other measure, H.R. 5, makes the most closed Congress in the history Footnote right there. Very occasion- even less sense. It would have cata- of all of the House of Representatives; ally when we are talking budget mat- strophic consequences for our Nation’s yet, at this point, in this, the 114th ters and when we are talking author- most vulnerable youth and their edu- Congress, we find ourselves in this po- ization and appropriations, we talk cators. I respect my colleague from sition. In the last Congress, 38 percent about the need for certainty for the Georgia immensely. I respect his intel- of the rules were closed at this point, agencies that have to implement the lect immensely. I am proud that his six out of 16. measures that are before them. Well, schools are doing extremely well in the As of today, this House has approved that could not be truer at any point community that he is privileged to 75 percent of its rules that are closed. any more than with DHS needing that serve. But I can tell you, based on what In other words, this Congress is on a certainty as well. I know, that any changes to the No path to be twice as closed as the last, To add insult to injury, when all this Child Left Behind program must ad- which had the most, in history, closed gets fixed—and it will need to be here to the spirit of the law. In Florida, rules. fixed—we will need to pass another we didn’t only leave children behind; Now, my friend Mr. WOODALL cer- measure to retroactively ensure that we lost them and couldn’t find them. tainly understands that, and every they receive their paychecks. But until Somehow or another, we keep chang- Member of this House understands then, there is no way for them to know ing these things without having the ac- that. A lot of times, constituents hear when they will be paid. That kind of countability and the transparency. We us, and it sounds a whole lot like Wash- gamble is not the best way to ensure cannot and we should not leave any ington speak, but the fact is, just sim- the stability of our national defense, child in America behind. Children with ply, that when a rule is closed, as this and it is not fair to ask of the men and disabilities, English learners, families one is, with the exception of one por- women keeping us safe. with less financial resources, and those tion that is open for yet another provi- We talk a lot about job creation here from racial and ethnic minority groups sion in the measure, H.R. 5, but when a in this institution. My friends across of underserved communities all deserve rule is closed, that means all of the the aisle gut clean air and water pro- quality education, and our Nation other Members, all of your constitu- tections in the name of job creation. In would be better for it if they all re- ents who do not have an opportunity if the name of job creation, my friends ceived quality education. they so choose, are precluded from of- hack away at the policies implemented These two bills are distractions from fering an amendment to the base bill to keep big banks from preying on the main event, side shows for the cen- that is being discussed. hardworking Americans. If, by chance, ter ring of the circus. It is time for DHS shuts down, approximately 30,000 Congress to focus on the things that b 1300 employees would be furloughed. That is matter, because even as our economy Congress has 3 days to act before we 30,000 families with jobs taken away. grows stronger, we still have plenty of shut down; and truthfully, I don’t be- Who knows how long a shutdown will real work to do. lieve that my friends on the Repub- last. We have already had months to I reserve the balance of my time.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:49 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K25FE7.017 H25FEPT1 smartinez on DSK4TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE February 25, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H1129 Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I yield his first year at the University of This bill would continue unnecessary myself 1 minute. Maryland it cost him $87 a semester. and arbitrary K–12 education funding Just to be clear—we are down here But then in the mid-1960s, the Fed- cuts and erode accountability for his- talking about education today—I share eral student loan program came in, and torically underserved students. We my friend’s passion for proper funding the colleges and universities around should be preparing the next genera- of this government. This House passed the country started using that as a way tion, but this bill is a step backwards its funding bill for the Department of to tamp down any opposition to tuition in achieving academic excellence for 90 Homeland Security on January 14— or fee increases, and college tuition percent of the Nation’s students. January 14. This isn’t something that and fees have just gone out of sight Mr. Speaker, diverse organizations has happened to us this week. January since that time. across not only my State, the great 14, the House did its business. The Sen- I have been speaking out for years State of Ohio, but across this Nation, ate has tried over and over and over to about how harmful the Federal student educational organizations, educational bring up a bill, and the Democrats loan program has become for college funding organizations, parents and law- haven’t allowed them to even have the students and their families. Now many yer advocacy groups, business leaders debate on the bill. others are saying the same thing. and groups, disability and exceptional This all being said, this is a bill that Kathleen Parker, writing in The Wash- children’s groups, and the NAACP and refuses to fund what a Federal Court ington Post in January of 2013, said: civil rights organizations are against said would be illegal to do. How in the Since 1985, the cost of higher education has this and very concerned about this bill. world we have been able to define the increased 538 percent, while the consumer Mr. Speaker, the way we fund all of House work product that refuses to price index (inflation) over the same period has gone up 121 percent. our schools and educate all of our fund what the court said it would be il- young scholars is a reflection on our That is four-and-a-half times as legal to do as somehow the wrong bill values and commitment to equality. to bring to the floor is just a testimony much on the increases in college edu- b 1315 to the messaging machine that my cation. Floyd Norris, writing in the inter- friends had. I wish we had more of that Access to education is a civil right. It national New York Times last Feb- machine here. With that, Mr. Speaker, is the key to the middle class and to a ruary said: ‘‘Student loans are creating I would like to get back on the topic of prosperous nation. This bill would con- large problems that may persist for the day, what does matter for our chil- strain educational opportunity and decades. They will impoverish some dren back home. equality. We need an education bill borrowers and serve as a drain on eco- I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman that improves education and that in- nomic activity.’’ from Tennessee (Mr. DUNCAN). vests in all of our children. H.R. 5 fails Hedge fund manager James Altucher Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee. Mr. our children, Mr. Speaker, and H.R. 5 wrote: ‘‘We are graduating a genera- Speaker, I rise in strong support of the fails our Nation. tion of indentured’’ students. Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I yield rule and of both of the bills that this I can tell you, when I went to the myself 30 seconds to say to my friend rule brings to the floor: H.R. 529 and University of Tennessee, people could that I can feel her heart in those the Student Success Act. I want to work part time, as I always did, to pay words. I am just tremendously proud to thank the gentleman for yielding me all their tuition and fees. Almost no serve in a place where people really do this time. one got out of school with a debt; now, I am especially pleased that the Stu- care about the next generation, mak- almost everyone does. Total out- dent Success Act is a major rewrite of ing sure that we are able to achieve standing student loan debt is now well the No Child Left Behind law. I was the those goals. I regret we are not finding over a trillion dollars. I think it is $1.3 only member from the Tennessee dele- the agreement on that today, but I am trillion, and some people think it may gation—the 11-member delegation in certain, as long as there are folks here be one of the next bubbles to burst. who believe in achieving that goal to- the House and Senate, and I think one So what does H.R. 529 do? It makes it gether, as my friend does, we will get of 45 in the House—that voted against easier for families to save for college there. the original No Child Left Behind law, educations. We need to do this. We also Mr. Speaker, I am honored to be which was a great overreaction to need to give bigger grants and so forth joined today by a freshman Member failed school systems in a few of our to the universities and colleges that from the Georgia delegation, an incred- Nation’s biggest cities, and we cer- hold their tuition and fees below the ibly hardworking Member. tainly didn’t need it in east Tennessee. rate of inflation. We need to I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman That, much to my surprise, turned out incentivize the colleges and univer- from Georgia (Mr. ALLEN). to be one of the most popular votes I sities to stop raising their tuition and Mr. ALLEN. Mr. Speaker, I appre- ever cast among public schoolteachers fees at four and five times the rate of ciate the opportunity to come before in east Tennessee. inflation. Until we do that, H.R. 529 is I am here primarily today to speak in you to talk about and support H.R. 5, the least we can do to help out the support of H.R. 529, which this rule also the Student Success Act. middle class families of this country includes. Richard Vedder, an economist Mr. Speaker, this is legislation to re- that are having so much trouble paying from Ohio University, wrote a few place No Child Left Behind, to restore for their students, their children to years ago a book called ‘‘Going Broke local control over education, and to have college educations. By Degree,’’ talking about how dif- I thank the gentleman for yielding empower parents and local education ficult it was to pay for higher edu- me this time. I support these two bills. leaders to hold schools accountable for cation in this country today. Around Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, would effectively teaching students. the same time, U.S. News & World Re- you be kind enough to tell both of us I spent last week in my district, and port came out with a report that said how much time remains? I visited elementary and high schools, college educations were almost becom- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- specifically schools that would be af- ing out of reach for most middle class tleman from Florida has 17 minutes re- fected by the Student Success Act. families. We need to be doing every- maining. The gentleman from Georgia These schools were located in some of thing we can to help families pay for has 17 minutes remaining. the most impoverished areas of my dis- college education, and we certainly Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I yield trict. I listened in classrooms, held fo- don’t need to be encouraging students 2 minutes to the distinguished gentle- rums to hear from parents and local to go further into debt. woman from Ohio (Mrs. BEATTY), a education leaders, and spoke to teach- It shocks students at the University good friend of mine, a member of the ers and administrators about the chal- of Tennessee when I tell them that it Committee on Financial Services. lenges they are facing. What I heard cost me $90 a quarter my first year at Mrs. BEATTY. Mr. Speaker, I would across the board was that the Federal the University of Tennessee, $270 for like to thank my colleague from Flor- Government and their compliance the whole year. I heard the minority, ida for allowing me this time. issues in the classroom are holding the respected minority leader, Mr. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposi- back our educators from effectively HOYER, give a speech one time. He said tion to H.R. 5, Student Success Act. teaching our students.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:49 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K25FE7.018 H25FEPT1 smartinez on DSK4TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H1130 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE February 25, 2015 Top-down education mandates have been yielded for the purpose of debate The SPEAKER pro tempore. The failed to help students and have forced only. Chair understands that the gentleman educators to waste valuable time and Does the gentleman from Georgia from Georgia has not yielded for that resources filling out paperwork and yield for the purpose of this unanimous purpose. Therefore, the unanimous con- worrying about compliance with Fed- consent request? sent request cannot be entertained. eral requirements. Instead of this one- Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I con- Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I yield size-fits-all approach, we need policies tinue to yield for the purpose of debate to the gentleman from California (Mr. that enhance teachers’ abilities to only. If we can pass this rule, this rule DESAULNIER) for the purpose of a unan- focus on the individual needs of the makes in order the immediate consid- imous consent request. students. We need bottom-up reforms eration with the same-day authority of Mr. DESAULNIER. Mr. Speaker, I that give authority to the parents, any funding bills that come before this ask unanimous consent that the House teachers, and local education leaders, House. bring up H.R. 861, the clean Depart- who work with their children and stu- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- ment of Homeland Security funding dents every day and who know them tleman from Georgia does not yield. bill, that would keep the Department best. Therefore, the unanimous consent re- open so it can carry out its mission of H.R. 5 includes a number of conserv- quest cannot be entertained. keeping the American people safe. ative reforms to push back against the Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I yield The SPEAKER pro tempore. The growing reach of the Federal Govern- 15 seconds to the gentleman from Colo- Chair understands that the gentleman ment into schools and to restore local rado (Mr. POLIS), my friend. from Georgia has not yielded for that control. It replaces the current na- Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, this is pret- purpose. Therefore, the unanimous con- tional accountability system for school ty immediate. We need to get this done sent request cannot be entertained. performance and replaces it with this week. Therefore, I ask unanimous Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I yield State-led performance standards. It consent that the House bring up H.R. to the gentlewoman from California gets rid of more than 65 unnecessary or 861, the clean Department of Homeland (Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD), my classmate ineffective Federal education pro- Security funding bill, that will keep and good friend, for the purpose of a grams, repeals Federal requirements the Department open so we can keep unanimous consent request. for teacher quality, and protects local the American people safe. Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD. Mr. Speaker, and State autonomy over decisions in The SPEAKER pro tempore. Does the I ask unanimous consent that the the classroom. H.R. 5 returns responsi- gentleman from Georgia yield for the House bring up H.R. 861, the clean De- bility to parents, States, and local purpose of this unanimous consent re- partment of Homeland Security fund- leaders to hold schools accountable in- quest? ing bill, that would keep the Depart- stead of Washington bureaucrats. Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, if I un- ment open so it can carry out its mis- I saw that example work in a city derstood my friend, he is asking that sion of keeping the American people that is in one of the most impoverished we bring up a bill that will fund what safe. areas of my district, where parents ac- it is the court said would be illegal to The SPEAKER pro tempore. The tually lined up at 3:30 in the morning fund. I cannot yield for that kind of re- Chair understands that the gentleman to enroll their students into theme quest. from Georgia has not yielded for that schools. Each elementary school was The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- purpose. Therefore, the unanimous con- broken up into a theme. The super- tleman from Georgia does not yield. sent request cannot be entertained. intendent there had no idea that paren- Therefore, the unanimous consent re- Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I yield tal involvement would be that signifi- quest cannot be entertained. to the distinguished gentleman from cant. I was there to witness the success Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I yield Minnesota (Mr. ELLISON) for the pur- of this theme school concept. I asked: 10 seconds to the gentlewoman from pose of a unanimous consent request. Where did this idea come from? It did Ohio (Ms. KAPTUR). Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Speaker, I ask not come from Washington. It did not Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the House come from the Federal Government. It unanimous consent that the House bring up H.R. 861, the clean Depart- came from the creativity of the teach- bring up H.R. 861, the clean Depart- ment of Homeland Security funding ers and from the input of the parents ment of Homeland Security funding bill, that would keep the Department and of the local administrators. bill, that would keep the Department open so it can carry out its mission of Mr. Speaker, no one knows the needs open so it can carry out its vital mis- keeping the American people safe. of students better than the people who sion of keeping the American people The SPEAKER pro tempore. The work and spend time with them every safe. Chair understands that the gentleman day. By empowering parents, teachers, The SPEAKER pro tempore. Does the from Georgia has not yielded for that and local education leaders, H.R. 5 gentleman from Georgia yield for the purpose. Therefore, the unanimous con- takes strong steps forward in putting purpose of a unanimous consent resent request cannot be entertained. the control of education back in the quest? Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I yield right hands and in helping to provide Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I am to the distinguished gentleman from every student with the opportunity to prepared to yield back my time when Texas (Mr. GENE GREEN), my classmate receive a good education. There is no my friend is. As soon as we pass this and good friend, for the purpose of a debate today that every child deserves resolution, it will be in order to bring unanimous consent request. a good education. The debate is wheth- up any additional funding bills that Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. er the Federal Government is in charge come before the House today, but I Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that or whether we empower our local citi- cannot yield during this debate. the House bring up H.R. 861, the clean zens to get the job done. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- Department of Homeland Security Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I am tleman from Georgia does not yield. funding bill, that would keep the De- very pleased to yield to the distin- Therefore, the unanimous consent re- partment open so it can carry out its guished gentleman from Michigan (Mr. quest cannot be entertained. mission of keeping the American peo- KILDEE) for the purpose of a unanimous Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I yield ple safe. consent request. to the gentlewoman from California The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, I ask (Ms. PELOSI), the distinguished leader Chair understands that the gentleman unanimous consent that the House of the Democratic Caucus, for purposes from Georgia has not yielded for that bring up H.R. 861, the clean Depart- as she sees fit. purpose. Therefore, the unanimous con- ment of Homeland Security funding Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, I ask sent request cannot be entertained. bill that would keep the Department unanimous consent that the House Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I am open so it can carry out its essential bring up H.R. 861, the clean Depart- very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the mission of keeping the American peo- ment of Homeland Security funding distinguished gentlewoman from ple safe. bill, that will keep the Department Michigan (Mrs. LAWRENCE), a new The SPEAKER pro tempore. The open so it can carry out its mission of Member of Congress who is on the Chair would advise that all time has keeping the American people safe. Oversight Committee.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:49 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K25FE7.020 H25FEPT1 smartinez on DSK4TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE February 25, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H1131 Mrs. LAWRENCE. Mr. Speaker, I rise Mr. ELLISON. I want to thank the We are just 3 days away from the De- to oppose H.R. 5. The legislation rep- gentleman for yielding and thank the partment of Homeland Security being resents a significant backward step in gentleman for his long service. without the funds it needs to protect the efforts to help all of our Nation’s Mr. Speaker, the passage of the Ele- our Nation. Secretary Johnson and children and their families prepare for mentary and Secondary Education Act agency heads have warned us that if their futures. of 1965 was created to address the enor- the continuing resolution to fund the I speak as a parent, as a grandparent, mous inequality in America’s edu- Department expires, national security and as a past school board president. cational system, which created wide- operations will be disrupted and essen- H.R. 5 abandons the historic Federal spread poverty and segregation. Today, tial personnel will be required to work role in education at elementary and we know that we are still not edu- without pay. They also warn that pass- secondary levels. It is the role of ensur- cating Black and Latino students at ing another CR will not address the un- ing the educational process of all of the same level we educate White stu- certainty of being able to meet our America’s students, including students dents. Fifty years after the enactment long-term security needs. from low-income families, students of the Elementary and Secondary Edu- Democrats have a responsible solu- with disabilities, English learners, and cation Act, educating all children, re- tion. Two weeks ago, Appropriations students of color. It also fails to main- gardless of their backgrounds, is still Committee Ranking Member NITA tain the core expectation that States one of the most important challenges LOWEY and I introduced H.R. 861, which and school districts will take serious, we face as a nation. contains the precise language of the sustained, and targeted action, when That is why equity must start at the November 2014 bipartisan bill nego- necessary, to correct achievement gaps heart of any attempt to overhaul our tiated in good faith by the chairs and and to reform low-performing schools. education system, but the Student ranking members of the House and Additionally, H.R. 5 fails to identify Success Act does little to help kids in Senate Homeland Security Appropria- opportunity gaps or to correct inequi- Minnesota who are struggling in tions Subcommittees. ties in access to resources and supports schools with too few resources. Rather H.R. 861 is cosponsored by every that students need to succeed, such as than eliminating the disparities in our House Democrat. This bill would pass challenging academic courses, excel- education system, the bill today will the House, pass the Senate, and be lent teachers and principals, after- only increase the achievement gap and signed into law by the President. All it school enrichment or expanded learn- leave behind students from low-income needs is for the Republican leadership ing time, and other academic and non- neighborhoods and students with dis- to do the responsible thing and bring academic supports. abilities. H.R. 861 to the floor for a vote. By The bill’s caps on Federal education b 1330 doing this, we will demonstrate to the spending would lock in recent budget American people that we know our Na- Education matters, far beyond the cuts for the rest of the decade, and the tion’s security takes priority over poli- individual student. Three-fourths of bill would allow funds currently re- tics and unrelated policy debates. the return on early education goes quired to be used for education to be To let funding for Homeland Security back to the community and ensures a used for other purposes, such as spend- expire or, instead of a full-year funding healthier society and more stable econ- ing on sports stadiums or tax cuts for bill, take the easy way out by kicking omy. the wealthy. One of the biggest gaps in literacy in a viable solution down the road with a Finally, H.R. 5 fails to make critical the U.S. is between the children of col- continuing resolution, is to fail the investments for our Nation’s students, lege-educated and non-college-educated American people and the trust that including high-quality preschool for parents. We must be more committed they have placed in us as Members of America’s children, support for Amer- to maximizing the potential of all stu- Congress to protect them and our coun- ica’s teachers and principals, and in- dents. Our students and teachers de- try from harm. Let’s pass H.R. 861 today. vestment in innovative solutions for serve better. I urge that we all oppose Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I yield the public education system. H.R. 5 so we can create education re- For these reasons, I oppose H.R. 5. It myself such time as I may consume. form legislation that ensures every would deny Federal funds to the class- In closing, there are 3 days left until student can realize their goals and rooms that need them the most, and it the Department of Homeland Security dreams. will shut down. As I have said earlier, fails to assure parents that policy- Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I yield I don’t believe that is going to happen. makers and educators will take the ac- myself such time as I may consume. tion students need when they are not I am grateful to the chair for permit- I believe my friends will be about the business of making sure that it does learning. ting me earlier to allow Mrs. LOWEY to Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I yield speak to the previous question. As I in- not occur. I hope they do because our myself such time as I may consume. dicated, if we are not successful in de- country needs to make sure that we I have not had an opportunity to feating this measure then I am going are not in any insecure position going meet the gentlewoman from Michigan, to ask unanimous consent to insert the forward. but because I serve on the Rules Com- Notwithstanding that, the text of the amendment in the RECORD, brinksmanship continues, and we are mittee, I have had an opportunity to along with extraneous material, imme- here considering two bills that will go see all of the amendments that she has diately prior to the vote on the pre- nowhere. That, to me, is the state of submitted for this bill. I know one of vious question, if I may. those amendments that she submitted The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. play right now. If my friends want to pass these education measures, they is to make sure that all of our learning MARCHANT). Is there objection to the plans take special note of children in request of the gentleman from Florida? need to take care of business first. And foster care and to make sure those There was no objection. it is time to quit messing around. folks are not forgotten, and I am grate- Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I urge Mr. Speaker, there is a list of ex- ful to her for her attention to that my colleagues to vote ‘‘no’’ when we traordinary organizations in this coun- issue. get to this. try that are against H.R. 5. I lift from Mr. Speaker, I would ask my friend Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to a list that I will insert into the RECORD from Florida if he has any further yield 5 minutes to the distinguished the names of the Congressional Tri- speakers remaining. gentlewoman from California (Ms. ROY- Caucus; the American Association of Mr. HASTINGS. I do. BAL-ALLARD), my classmate and good People With Disabilities; the American Mr. WOODALL. Then I reserve the friend. Association of University Women; the balance of my time. Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD. I thank the American Federation of Teachers; the Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I am gentleman for yielding. American Foundation for the Blind; very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the Mr. Speaker, I rise again to urge my the Association of University Centers distinguished gentleman from Min- colleagues to defeat the previous ques- on Disabilities; the Autism National nesota (Mr. ELLISON), a member of the tion on the rule, amend it, and make in Committee; the Center for American Financial Services Committee. order H.R. 861. Progress; the Children’s Defense Fund;

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:49 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K25FE7.021 H25FEPT1 smartinez on DSK4TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H1132 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE February 25, 2015 the Disability Rights Education & De- not only about education, but about underperformance, of not being able to fense Fund; Easter Seals, which most energy and every aspect of American meet their full potential. of us contribute to; the Gay, Lesbian & life that we have a responsibility for. I don’t question anyone’s motive on Straight Education Network; the With that, I yield back the balance of this floor. In fact, I am grateful for the NAACP; the NAACP Legal Defense and my time. passion that folks have on this floor. Educational Fund, the National Asso- Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I yield This rule is only step one of H.R. 5, ciation of School Psychologists; and myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, and I am glad for that. the National Down Syndrome Con- I have lots of agreement with my When my colleague from Florida spoke gress. friend from Florida. I always do. I am earlier about the closed nature of the Disability plays a major role in this always a little surprised by how much process and how much better and particular legislation, and the fact that I agree with him when he comes down brighter this institution is when the all of these organizations are standing here to talk, but we do need to unstick process is opened, he is exactly right. up saying that they are opposed to it this place. He is right every time he says it, and I should get our attention. We are talking about two issues am right every time I say it. It is abso- In addition, the United Negro College today. One is H.R. 5, the Student Suc- lutely true. Fund, the Leadership Conference on cess Act, where every Member in this It is not fast. It is not efficient. Ar- Civil and Human Rights, and the room wants to see our children suc- guably, sometimes it even borders on United States Chamber of Commerce. ceed. Every Member in this room wants dysfunctional. But it is the right thing OPPOSITION TO H.R. 5 to see the achievement gap closed, and to do to in order to end up with the Congressional Tri-Caucus, The Advocacy yet we grapple with how to achieve best product that we can at the end of Institute, Afterschool Alliance, American- that goal together. the day. And to the degree that we are Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Amer- We have also in this rule, Mr. Speak- able to do that, Mr. Speaker, I believe ican Association of People with Disabilities, er, H.R. 529. That measure passed we will continue to strive to do that. American Association of University Women, This bill today is an example of that. American Federation of Teachers, American unanimously out of the Ways and Means Committee. We found a prob- This rule, Mr. Speaker, just so folks Foundation for the Blind, Association of know what they are coming to vote on, University Centers on Disabilities, Autism lem, and we found a solution that we National Committee, Autistic Self Advocacy could agree on together to move it for- doesn’t deal with the amendments to Network, Center for American Progress, Cen- ward. It is moving forward. the Student Success Act. We are plan- ter for Law and Social Policy, Children’s De- And in the tradition of being ning on going back to the Rules Com- fense Fund, Committee for Education Fund- unstuck, I am told that just in the last mittee this afternoon for a completely ing, Consortium for Citizens with Disabil- few minutes the Senate has found a new hearing in order to make as many ities, Council of Great City Schools, Council pathway to move forward on a DHS amendments as we can available to the of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, Demo- funding bill. Again, we passed that bill underlying bill. This rule is only to crats for Education Reform, Disability Right have general debate on H.R. 5 before Education and Defense Fund. back on January 14. The Senate has Easter Seals, Education Post, Education been struggling to find a pathway for- the amendment process begins and to Law Center, First Focus Campaign for Chil- ward. I don’t mean a pathway to pass have debate on H.R. 529, that bill that dren, Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education it. I mean a pathway to even debate it. passed unanimously out of the Ways Network, Human Rights Campaign, The Apparently, we have seen that wall be and Means Committee hearing. So often we come down here and we Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, Law- broken down here in the last few min- yers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, are talking about divisive issues, Mr. utes, and I am glad to hear that. Leading Educators, League of United Latin Speaker. I am glad to be down here There is a role to be played, Mr. American Citizens, Mexican American Legal today talking about something on Speaker. There is a role for this House Defense and Educational Fund, NAACP, which we can agree: a good bipartisan to play in our constitutional Republic. NAACP Legal Defense and Educational bill coming out of Ways and Means, an Fund, National Association of School There is a role for the Senate to play opportunity to open up the process and Physcologists, National Center for Learning and there is a role for the White House have voices be heard on H.R. 5 today Disabilities, National Council on Inde- to play. That is true when we are talk- and tomorrow. pendent Living, National Council on Teacher ing about Federal education policy. It Quality, The National Center on Time and The gentleman from Florida had it Learning, National Congress of American In- is true when we are talking about right, Mr. Speaker. I am blessed to be dians, National Council of La Raza. Homeland Security policy. It is true from a part of the country where folks National Coalition for Public Education, when we are talking about immigra- understand that education isn’t just National Disability Rights Network, Na- tion policy. I am not always satisfied something. It is everything. tional Down Syndrome Congress, National with how well we in the House defend Don’t talk to me about loving oppor- Education Association, National Urban that constitutional prerogative. tunity in this country if you don’t have League, Partners for Each and Every Child, Again, we are here today to talk a commitment to education. Don’t talk Poverty & Race Research Action Council, about H.R. 5, which is going to fix a Public Advocates Inc., Stand for Children, to me about lifting folks up from this Southeast Asia Resource Action Center, bill passed by an entirely Republican rung of the ladder to this rung of the TASH, Teach Plus, TNTP, The Education infrastructure here in Congress that economic ladder if you don’t have a Trust, United Negro College Fund, The Lead- today Republicans disavow as being a commitment to education. And don’t ership Conference on Civil and Human terrible mistake. They wish we could talk to me about taking somebody Rights, U.S. Chamber of Commerce. have done better. I am glad we are else’s dollars and spending them on Mr. HASTINGS. All of these people striving to do better. It is not a Repub- education and thinking that alone is are opposed to this measure, and yet lican issue, it is not a Democratic going to create better outcomes for we find ourselves going forward. It is issue. It is an American issue. And that child. time for us to get real in this Congress, what could be more American than try- You need money, absolutely you do, stop having closed rules, and let all of ing to help our public schools succeed? but you need that commitment locally. the Members in this body participate You hear a lot of worry in this Cham- You need the commitment of teachers, in the decisional process as we argue ber, Mr. Speaker. You hear folks wor- you need the commitment of prin- measures that are needed on behalf of ried that if we change this provision or cipals, you need the commitment of our country. if we change that provision, what will mothers and fathers. You need the This is a great institution, and the be the impact on those children who commitment of communities. And we people that serve here are absolutely right now are threatened by a substan- have yet to figure out how to mandate wonderful people, but somehow or an- tial achievement gap in this country? that commitment from Washington, other we have gotten stuck. And by But in the same moment, Mr. Speaker, D.C. getting stuck, we are not able to do the someone will stand up on the other side I am grateful that I live in a commu- things that are vital for the Nation. We of the aisle talking about those very nity where we figured out how to grow need to unstick it and get on with the same children and say: If we do not it from within. You can walk into the business, knowing that we can sit in a change these provisions today, we will worst school in my district, Mr. Speak- room together and come to conclusions sentence these children to a lifetime of er, and you will find folks headed off to

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The previous question shall be question, who may offer a proper amendment considered as ordered on the bill and amend- or motion and who controls the time for de- from generational poverty; you will ments thereto to final passage without inter- bate thereon.’’ find folks headed off, of course, to the vening motion except one motion to recom- Clearly, the vote on the previous question University of Georgia, the finest insti- mit with or without instructions. If the on a rule does have substantive policy impli- tution in the United States, because Committee of the Whole rises and reports cations. It is one of the only available tools they want to be close to their family that it has come to no resolution on the bill, for those who oppose the Republican major- and they want to invest in the commu- then on the next legislative day the House ity’s agenda and allows those with alter- nity that has been so good to them. shall, immediately after the third daily native views the opportunity to offer an al- Hope lives there. Opportunity lives order of business under clause 1 of rule XIV, ternative plan. resolve into the Committee of the Whole for Mr. WOODALL. With that, Mr. there. further consideration of the bill. I am grateful to Chairman KLINE and SEC. 6. Clause 1(c) of rule XIX shall not Speaker, I yield back the balance of the folks on the Education Committee apply to the consideration of H.R. 861. my time, and I move the previous ques- for doing what they can. It is not all tion on the resolution. that I would like to see, but to do what THE VOTE ON THE PREVIOUS QUESTION: WHAT The SPEAKER pro tempore. The they can to get out of the way of those IT REALLY MEANS question is on ordering the previous innovators in my community, to do This vote, the vote on whether to order the question. what they can to allow folks to experi- previous question on a special rule, is not The question was taken; and the ment with some things and find out merely a procedural vote. A vote against or- Speaker pro tempore announced that what works, as we have, and then take dering the previous question is a vote the ayes appeared to have it. against the Republican majority agenda and those local ideas and spread those ideas a vote to allow the Democratic minority to Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, on that locally, do what they can to prevent offer an alternative plan. It is a vote about I demand the yeas and nays. the Federal Government from saying: what the House should be debating. The yeas and nays were ordered. We know best how to educate children, Mr. Clarence Cannon’s Precedents of the The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- and instead turning the Federal Gov- House of Representatives (VI, 308–311), de- ant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule XX, ernment just into a funding stream, scribes the vote on the previous question on this 15-minute vote on ordering the the rule as ‘‘a motion to direct or control the where we can, to say: You know how to previous question will be followed by 5- educate children. We trust you. consideration of the subject before the House being made by the Member in charge.’’ To minute votes on adopting House Reso- So often we conflate issues in this defeat the previous question is to give the lution 121, if ordered, and suspending body, Mr. Speaker. The issue is not opposition a chance to decide the subject be- the rules and passing H.R. 1020. that children can’t learn. They can. fore the House. Cannon cites the Speaker’s The vote was taken by electronic de- The issue is not that public schools ruling of January 13, 1920, to the effect that vice, and there were—yeas 241, nays can’t teach. They can and they do. But ‘‘the refusal of the House to sustain the de- 181, not voting 10, as follows: there is an issue with generational pov- mand for the previous question passes the [Roll No. 86] erty. There is an issue with an achieve- control of the resolution to the opposition’’ ment gap. in order to offer an amendment. On March YEAS—241 I am not sure that H.R. 5, no matter 15, 1909, a member of the majority party of- Abraham Diaz-Balart Issa fered a rule resolution. The House defeated Aderholt Dold Jenkins (KS) who crafted it and how long we work to the previous question and a member of the Allen Duffy Jenkins (WV) do it, I am not sure that we can solve opposition rose to a parliamentary inquiry, Amash Duncan (SC) Johnson (OH) that problem with H.R. 5. In fact, I asking who was entitled to recognition. Amodei Duncan (TN) Johnson, Sam don’t believe that we could—not with Speaker Joseph G. Cannon (R–Illinois) said: Babin Ellmers (NC) Jolly Barletta Emmer (MN) Jones any Elementary and Secondary Edu- ‘‘The previous question having been refused, Barr Farenthold Jordan cation Act bill. the gentleman from New York, Mr. Fitz- Barton Fincher Joyce We are doing what we can today, and gerald, who had asked the gentleman to Benishek Fitzpatrick Katko I hope we will be back in this institu- yield to him for an amendment, is entitled to Bilirakis Fleischmann Kelly (PA) the first recognition.’’ Bishop (MI) Fleming King (IA) tion tomorrow to do more. Goodness The Republican majority may say ‘‘the Bishop (UT) Flores King (NY) knows, we do a lot of things in this vote on the previous question is simply a Black Forbes Kinzinger (IL) town that disadvantage that next gen- Blackburn Fortenberry Kline vote on whether to proceed to an immediate Blum Foxx Knight eration of Americans. I am proud today vote on adopting the resolution . . . [and] Bost Franks (AZ) Labrador to be working on at least one bill that has no substantive legislative or policy im- Boustany Frelinghuysen LaMalfa will do something to advantage those plications whatsoever.’’ But that is not what Brady (TX) Garrett Lamborn they have always said. Listen to the Repub- Brat Gibbs Lance young people and their future. Bridenstine Gibson Latta The material previously referred to lican Leadership Manual on the Legislative Process in the United States House of Rep- Brooks (AL) Gohmert LoBiondo by Mr. HASTINGS is as follows: Brooks (IN) Goodlatte Loudermilk resentatives, (6th edition, page 135). Here’s Buchanan Gosar Love AN AMENDMENT TO H. RES. 121 OFFERED BY how the Republicans describe the previous Buck Gowdy Lucas MR. HASTINGS OF FLORIDA question vote in their own manual: ‘‘Al- Bucshon Granger Luetkemeyer At the end of the resolution, add the fol- though it is generally not possible to amend Burgess Graves (GA) Lummis lowing new sections: the rule because the majority Member con- Calvert Graves (LA) MacArthur SEC. 5. Immediately upon adoption of this trolling the time will not yield for the pur- Carter (GA) Graves (MO) Marchant resolution the Speaker shall, pursuant to pose of offering an amendment, the same re- Carter (TX) Griffith Marino Chabot Grothman Massie clause 2(b) of rule XVIII, declare the House sult may be achieved by voting down the pre- Chaffetz Guinta McCarthy resolved into the Committee of the Whole vious question on the rule . . . When the mo- Clawson (FL) Guthrie McCaul House on the state of the Union for consider- tion for the previous question is defeated, Coffman Hanna McClintock ation of the bill (H.R. 861) making appropria- control of the time passes to the Member Cole Hardy McHenry tions for the Department of Homeland Secu- who led the opposition to ordering the pre- Collins (GA) Harper McKinley rity for the fiscal year ending September 30, vious question. That Member, because he Collins (NY) Harris McMorris 2015, and for other purposes. The first read- then controls the time, may offer an amend- Comstock Hartzler Rodgers Conaway Heck (NV) McSally ing of the bill shall be dispensed with. All ment to the rule, or yield for the purpose of Cook Hensarling Meadows points of order against consideration of the amendment.’’ Costello (PA) Herrera Beutler Meehan bill are waived. General debate shall be con- In Deschler’s Procedure in the U.S. House Cramer Hice, Jody B. Messer fined to the bill and shall not exceed one of Representatives, the subchapter titled Crawford Hill Mica hour equally divided and controlled by the ‘‘Amending Special Rules’’ states: ‘‘a refusal Crenshaw Holding Miller (FL) chair and ranking minority member of the to order the previous question on such a rule Culberson Hudson Miller (MI) Committee on Appropriations. After general [a special rule reported from the Committee Curbelo (FL) Huelskamp Moolenaar Davis, Rodney Huizenga (MI) Mooney (WV) debate the bill shall be considered for on Rules] opens the resolution to amend- Denham Hultgren Mullin amendment under the five-minute rule. All ment and further debate.’’ (Chapter 21, sec- Dent Hunter Mulvaney points of order against provisions in the bill tion 21.2) Section 21.3 continues: ‘‘Upon re- DeSantis Hurd (TX) Murphy (PA) are waived. At the conclusion of consider- jection of the motion for the previous ques- DesJarlais Hurt (VA) Neugebauer

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Rice (NY) Ross Smith (TX) Nunes Rothfus Upton Lee Speier Wenstrup Roe (TN) Rothfus Stefanik Olson Rouzer Valadao Long Wilson (FL) Westerman Palazzo Royce Wagner Rouzer Stewart Westmoreland Royce Stivers Palmer Russell Walberg b 1411 Whitfield Paulsen Ryan (WI) Walden Russell Stutzman Williams Ryan (WI) Thompson (PA) Pearce Salmon Walker Ms. BASS, Mr. SIRES, and Ms. PIN- Wilson (SC) Salmon Thornberry Perry Sanford Walorski Wittman GREE changed their vote from ‘‘yea’’ to Sanford Tiberi Pittenger Scalise Walters, Mimi ‘‘nay.’’ Scalise Tipton Womack Pitts Schock Weber (TX) So the previous question was ordered. Schock Trott Woodall Poe (TX) Schweikert Webster (FL) Schweikert Turner Yoder Poliquin Scott, Austin Wenstrup The result of the vote was announced Scott, Austin Upton Yoho Pompeo Sensenbrenner Westerman as above recorded. Sensenbrenner Valadao Young (AK) Posey Sessions Westmoreland The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. POE Sessions Wagner Young (IA) Price, Tom Shimkus Whitfield of Texas). The question is on the reso- Shimkus Walberg Young (IN) Ratcliffe Shuster Williams Shuster Walden Zeldin Reed Simpson Wilson (SC) lution. Simpson Walker Zinke Reichert Smith (MO) Wittman The question was taken; and the Sinema Walorski Renacci Smith (NE) Womack Speaker pro tempore announced that NOES—178 Ribble Smith (NJ) Woodall the ayes appeared to have it. Rice (SC) Smith (TX) Yoder Adams Foster Murphy (FL) Rigell Stefanik Yoho RECORDED VOTE Aguilar Frankel (FL) Nadler Roby Stewart Young (AK) Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I de- Ashford Fudge Napolitano Rogers (AL) Stivers Young (IA) mand a recorded vote. Bass Gabbard Neal Rogers (KY) Stutzman Young (IN) Beatty Gallego Nolan A recorded vote was ordered. Becerra Garamendi Rohrabacher Thompson (PA) Zeldin Norcross Bera Graham Rokita Thornberry Zinke The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a O’Rourke Beyer Grayson Rooney (FL) Tiberi 5-minute vote. Pallone Bishop (GA) Green, Al The vote was taken by electronic de- Pascrell Bonamici Green, Gene Payne NAYS—181 Boyle, Brendan Grijalva vice, and there were—ayes 243, noes 178, Pelosi F. Gutie´rrez Adams Foster Nadler not voting 11, as follows: Perlmutter Brady (PA) Hahn Aguilar Frankel (FL) Napolitano Peters [Roll No. 87] Brown (FL) Hastings Ashford Fudge Neal Pingree Bass Gabbard Nolan AYES—243 Brownley (CA) Heck (WA) Bustos Higgins Pocan Beatty Gallego Norcross Abraham Fleischmann Latta Butterfield Himes Polis Becerra Garamendi O’Rourke Aderholt Fleming LoBiondo Capps Honda Price (NC) Bera Graham Pallone Allen Flores Loudermilk Capuano Hoyer Quigley Beyer Grayson Pascrell Amash Forbes Love Ca´ rdenas Huffman Rangel Bishop (GA) Green, Al Payne Amodei Fortenberry Lucas Carney Israel Richmond Blumenauer Green, Gene Pelosi Babin Foxx Luetkemeyer Carson (IN) Jackson Lee Roybal-Allard Bonamici Grijalva Perlmutter Barletta Franks (AZ) Lummis Cartwright Jeffries Ruiz Boyle, Brendan Gutie´rrez Peters Barr Frelinghuysen MacArthur Castor (FL) Johnson (GA) Ruppersberger F. Hahn Peterson Barton Garrett Marchant Castro (TX) Johnson, E. B. Rush Brady (PA) Hastings Pingree Benishek Gibbs Marino Chu, Judy Kaptur Ryan (OH) Bilirakis Gibson Massie Brown (FL) Heck (WA) Pocan Cicilline Keating Sanchez, Loretta Bishop (MI) Gohmert McCarthy Brownley (CA) Higgins Polis Clark (MA) Kelly (IL) Sarbanes Bishop (UT) Goodlatte McCaul Bustos Himes Price (NC) Clarke (NY) Kennedy Schakowsky Black Gosar McClintock Butterfield Honda Quigley Clay Kildee Schiff Blackburn Gowdy McHenry Cleaver Kilmer Schrader Capps Hoyer Rangel Blum Granger McKinley Capuano Huffman Richmond Clyburn Kind Scott (VA) Bost Graves (GA) McMorris Cohen Kirkpatrick Ca´ rdenas Israel Roybal-Allard Boustany Graves (LA) Rodgers Scott, David Carney Jackson Lee Ruiz Connolly Kuster Serrano Brady (TX) Graves (MO) McSally Conyers Langevin Carson (IN) Jeffries Ruppersberger Sewell (AL) Brat Griffith Meadows Cooper Larsen (WA) Cartwright Johnson (GA) Rush Sherman Bridenstine Grothman Meehan Costa Larson (CT) Castor (FL) Sires Johnson, E. B. Ryan (OH) Brooks (AL) Guinta Messer Courtney Lawrence Castro (TX) Kaptur Sanchez, Loretta Brooks (IN) Guthrie Mica Slaughter Crowley Levin Smith (WA) Chu, Judy Keating Sarbanes Buchanan Hanna Miller (FL) Cuellar Lewis Swalwell (CA) Cicilline Kelly (IL) Schakowsky Buck Hardy Miller (MI) Cummings Lieu, Ted Takai Clark (MA) Kennedy Schiff Bucshon Harper Moolenaar Davis (CA) Lipinski Takano Clarke (NY) Kildee Schrader Burgess Harris Mooney (WV) Davis, Danny Loebsack Thompson (CA) Clay Kilmer Scott (VA) Calvert Hartzler Mullin DeFazio Lofgren Thompson (MS) Cleaver Kind Scott, David Carter (GA) Heck (NV) Mulvaney DeGette Lowenthal Titus Clyburn Kirkpatrick Serrano Carter (TX) Hensarling Murphy (PA) Delaney Lowey Chabot Herrera Beutler Neugebauer Tonko Cohen Kuster Sewell (AL) DeLauro Lujan Grisham Chaffetz Hice, Jody B. Newhouse Torres Connolly Langevin Sherman DelBene (NM) Clawson (FL) Hill Noem Tsongas Conyers Larsen (WA) Sinema DeSaulnier Luja´ n, Ben Ray Coffman Holding Nugent Van Hollen Cooper Larson (CT) Sires Deutch (NM) Cole Hudson Nunes Vargas Costa Dingell Lynch Lawrence Slaughter Collins (GA) Huelskamp Olson Veasey Courtney Levin Smith (WA) Doggett Maloney, Collins (NY) Huizenga (MI) Palazzo Doyle, Michael Carolyn Vela Crowley Lewis Swalwell (CA) Comstock Hultgren Palmer F. Maloney, Sean Vela´ zquez Cuellar Lieu, Ted Takai Conaway Hunter Paulsen Duckworth Matsui Visclosky Cummings Lipinski Takano Cook Hurd (TX) Pearce Edwards McCollum Walz Davis (CA) Loebsack Thompson (CA) Costello (PA) Hurt (VA) Perry Ellison McDermott Wasserman Davis, Danny Lofgren Thompson (MS) Cramer Issa Peterson Engel McGovern Schultz DeFazio Lowenthal Titus Crawford Jenkins (KS) Pittenger Eshoo Meeks Waters, Maxine DeGette Lowey Tonko Crenshaw Jenkins (WV) Pitts Esty Meng Watson Coleman Delaney Lujan Grisham Torres Culberson Johnson (OH) Poe (TX) Farr Moore Welch DeLauro (NM) Tsongas Curbelo (FL) Johnson, Sam Poliquin Fattah Moulton Yarmuth DelBene Luja´ n, Ben Ray Van Hollen Davis, Rodney Jolly Pompeo DeSaulnier (NM) Vargas Denham Jones Posey NOT VOTING—11 Dent Jordan Price, Tom Deutch Lynch Veasey Blumenauer Long Sa´ nchez, Linda DeSantis Joyce Ratcliffe Dingell Maloney, Vela Byrne McNerney T. DesJarlais Katko Reed Doggett Carolyn Vela´ zquez Hinojosa Rice (NY) Speier Diaz-Balart Kelly (PA) Reichert Maloney, Sean Lee Roe (TN) Wilson (FL) Doyle, Michael Visclosky Dold King (IA) Renacci F. Matsui Walz Duffy King (NY) Ribble b 1418 Duckworth McCollum Wasserman Duncan (SC) Kinzinger (IL) Rice (SC) Edwards McDermott Schultz Duncan (TN) Kline Rigell So the resolution was agreed to. Ellison McGovern Waters, Maxine Ellmers (NC) Knight Roby The result of the vote was announced Engel Meeks Watson Coleman Emmer (MN) Labrador Rogers (AL) as above recorded. Eshoo Meng Welch Farenthold LaMalfa Rogers (KY) Esty Moore Yarmuth Fincher Lamborn Rohrabacher A motion to reconsider was laid on Farr Moulton Fitzpatrick Lance Rokita the table. Fattah Murphy (FL)

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:49 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A25FE7.004 H25FEPT1 smartinez on DSK4TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE February 25, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H1135 STEM EDUCATION ACT OF 2015 LaMalfa Nunes Sherman REQUESTING UNANIMOUS CON- Lamborn O’Rourke Shimkus SENT TO CALL UP H.R. 861, DE- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The un- Lance Olson Shuster finished business is the vote on the mo- Langevin Palazzo Simpson PARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECU- tion to suspend the rules and pass the Larsen (WA) Pallone Sinema RITY APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2015 Larson (CT) Palmer Sires Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I bill (H.R. 1020) to define STEM edu- Latta Pascrell Slaughter cation to include computer science, Lawrence Paulsen Smith (MO) ask unanimous consent that the House and to support existing STEM edu- Levin Payne Smith (NE) now bring up H.R. 861, the clean De- cation programs at the National Lewis Pearce Smith (NJ) partment of Homeland Security fund- Science Foundation, on which the yeas Lieu, Ted Pelosi Smith (TX) ing bill to protect America that would Lipinski Perlmutter Smith (WA) and nays were ordered. LoBiondo Perry Stefanik keep the Department open so that we The Clerk read the title of the bill. Loebsack Peters Stewart can carry out its mission of keeping The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Lofgren Peterson Stivers the American people safe and, as well, Loudermilk Pingree Stutzman protecting our national security over question is on the motion offered by Love Pittenger Swalwell (CA) political security. the gentleman from Texas (Mr. SMITH) Lowenthal Pitts Takai that the House suspend the rules and Lowey Pocan Takano The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under pass the bill. Lucas Poe (TX) Thompson (CA) guidelines consistently issued by suc- Luetkemeyer Poliquin Thompson (MS) cessive Speakers, as recorded in sec- This is a 5-minute vote. Lujan Grisham Polis The vote was taken by electronic de- Thompson (PA) tion 956 of the House Rules and Man- (NM) Pompeo Thornberry ´ ual, the Chair is constrained not to en- vice, and there were—yeas 412, nays 8, Lujan, Ben Ray Posey Tiberi (NM) not voting 12, as follows: Price (NC) Tipton tertain the request unless it has been Lummis Price, Tom Titus cleared by the bipartisan floor and [Roll No. 88] Lynch Quigley Tonko MacArthur Ratcliffe committee leaderships. YEAS—412 Torres Maloney, Reed Trott f Abraham Connolly Graham Carolyn Reichert Adams Conyers Granger Tsongas Maloney, Sean Renacci SECTION 529 COLLEGE SAVINGS Aderholt Cook Graves (GA) Turner Marchant Ribble PLANS AMENDMENTS Aguilar Cooper Graves (LA) Upton Marino Rice (SC) Allen Costa Graves (MO) Valadao Massie Richmond Ms. JENKINS of Kansas. Mr. Speak- Amodei Costello (PA) Grayson Van Hollen Matsui Rigell er, pursuant to House Resolution 121, I Ashford Courtney Green, Al Vargas McCarthy Roby Babin Cramer Green, Gene Veasey call up the bill (H.R. 529) to amend the McCaul Rogers (AL) Barletta Crawford Griffith Vela Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to im- McCollum Rogers (KY) Barr Crenshaw Grijalva ´ McDermott Rohrabacher Velazquez prove 529 plans, and ask for its imme- Barton Crowley Grothman Visclosky Bass Cuellar Guinta McGovern Rokita diate consideration in the House. McHenry Rooney (FL) Wagner Beatty Culberson Guthrie Walberg The Clerk read the title of the bill. ´ McKinley Ros-Lehtinen Becerra Cummings Gutierrez Walden The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Benishek Curbelo (FL) Hahn McMorris Roskam Walker ant to House Resolution 121, the Bera Davis (CA) Hanna Rodgers Ross Walorski Beyer Davis, Danny Hardy McSally Rothfus amendment in the nature of a sub- Walters, Mimi Bilirakis Davis, Rodney Harper Meadows Rouzer stitute recommended by the Com- Walz Bishop (GA) DeFazio Harris Meehan Roybal-Allard mittee on Ways and Means, printed in Bishop (MI) DeGette Hartzler Meeks Royce Wasserman Bishop (UT) Delaney Hastings Meng Ruiz Schultz the bill, shall be considered as adopted, Black DeLauro Heck (NV) Messer Ruppersberger Waters, Maxine and the bill, as amended, shall be con- Blackburn DelBene Heck (WA) Mica Rush Watson Coleman sidered read. Weber (TX) Blum Denham Hensarling Miller (FL) Russell The text of the bill, as amended, is as Blumenauer Dent Herrera Beutler Miller (MI) Ryan (OH) Webster (FL) Bonamici DeSantis Hice, Jody B. Moolenaar Ryan (WI) Welch follows: Bost DeSaulnier Higgins Mooney (WV) Salmon Wenstrup H.R. 529 Boustany DesJarlais Hill Westerman Moore Sanchez, Loretta Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- Boyle, Brendan Deutch Himes Moulton Sarbanes Whitfield resentatives of the United States of America in F. Diaz-Balart Holding Mullin Scalise Williams Brady (PA) Dingell Honda Mulvaney Schakowsky Wilson (SC) Congress assembled, Brady (TX) Doggett Hoyer Murphy (FL) Schiff Wittman SECTION 1. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE. Bridenstine Dold Hudson Murphy (PA) Schock Womack (a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: Brooks (AL) Doyle, Michael Huelskamp Nadler Schrader Woodall Brooks (IN) F. Huffman (1) When the Economic Growth and Tax Re- Napolitano Schweikert Yarmuth lief Reconciliation Act of 2001 became law, the Brown (FL) Duckworth Huizenga (MI) Yoder Neal Scott (VA) tax treatment of section 529 college savings Brownley (CA) Duffy Hultgren Neugebauer Scott, Austin Yoho Buchanan Duncan (TN) Hunter Newhouse Scott, David Young (AK) plans was changed so that qualified distribu- Bucshon Edwards Hurd (TX) Noem Sensenbrenner Young (IA) tions were no longer taxed as income. The favor- Burgess Ellison Hurt (VA) Nolan Serrano Young (IN) able tax treatment of college savings plans was Bustos Ellmers (NC) Israel Norcross Sessions Zeldin made permanent with the passage of the Pen- Butterfield Emmer (MN) Issa Nugent Sewell (AL) Zinke Calvert Engel Jackson Lee sion Protection Act of 2006. Capps Eshoo Jeffries (2) Section 529 college savings plans empower Capuano Esty Jenkins (KS) NAYS—8 middle-class families to accumulate savings to Ca´ rdenas Farenthold Jenkins (WV) Amash Duncan (SC) Sanford offset the rising costs of attending college. Carney Farr Johnson (GA) Brat Garrett Westmoreland (3) The latest data from the College Savings Carson (IN) Fattah Johnson (OH) Buck McClintock Plan Network shows that there are 11.83 million Carter (GA) Fincher Johnson, E. B. 529 accounts open throughout all 50 states, Carter (TX) Fitzpatrick Johnson, Sam NOT VOTING—12 Cartwright Fleischmann Jolly which represent $244.5 billion in total assets. Castor (FL) Fleming Jones Byrne McNerney Sa´ nchez, Linda The average 529 account size is $20,671. Castro (TX) Flores Jordan Hinojosa Rangel T. (4) States that sponsor 529 college savings Chabot Forbes Joyce King (IA) Rice (NY) Speier plans have taken steps to ensure these plans are Chaffetz Fortenberry Kaptur Lee Roe (TN) Wilson (FL) a tool that all families can use to save for col- Chu, Judy Foster Katko Long lege, including setting minimum contributions as Cicilline Foxx Keating low as $25 per month to encourage participation Clark (MA) Frankel (FL) Kelly (IL) Clarke (NY) Franks (AZ) Kelly (PA) b 1429 by families of all income levels. Clawson (FL) Frelinghuysen Kennedy (5) The President’s fiscal year 2016 Budget Clay Fudge Kildee So (two-thirds being in the affirma- proposes raising taxes by taxing certain future Cleaver Gabbard Kilmer tive) the rules were suspended and the distributions made from 529 college savings Clyburn Gallego Kind bill was passed. plans. Coffman Garamendi King (NY) (6) The tax proposed by the President would Cohen Gibbs Kinzinger (IL) The result of the vote was announced discourage the use of 529 college savings plans, Cole Gibson Kirkpatrick Collins (GA) Gohmert Kline as above recorded. requiring families and students to take on more Collins (NY) Goodlatte Knight debt. Comstock Gosar Kuster A motion to reconsider was laid on (7) Purchase of a computer represents a sig- Conaway Gowdy Labrador the table. nificant higher education expense and therefore

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I believe savings plans, and Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank this is a commonsense modernization (2) make 529 plans more modern, consumer- Chairman RYAN for his leadership on measure. friendly, and responsive to the realities faced by this critical and timely issue and my The bill will also remove distribution students today. colleague Congressman KIND of Wis- aggregation requirements, which are SEC. 2. COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY AND EQUIP- consin for 4 years of bipartisan efforts an outdated burden on 529 plan admin- MENT PERMANENTLY ALLOWED AS A istrators and States. When 529 college QUALIFIED HIGHER EDUCATION EX- to encourage families to invest for PENSE FOR SECTION 529 ACCOUNTS. their children’s future. savings plans were originated back in (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 529(e)(3)(A)(iii) of I rise today in support of H.R. 529, my 1996, the funds were taxed before they the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended to legislation that reaffirms Congress’ were deposited into the account and read as follows: commitment to not only preserving, then taxed a second time when they ‘‘(iii) expenses for the purchase of computer or but strengthening, expanding, and were used to pay for higher education peripheral equipment (as defined in section modernizing 529 college savings plans. expenses. 168(i)(2)(B)), computer software (as defined in Currently, there are nearly 12 million At that time, it made sense for plan section 197(e)(3)(B)), or Internet access and re- administrators to aggregate accounts lated services, if such equipment, software, or 529 accounts open in all 50 States. Con- services are to be used primarily by the bene- sidering there were only 1 million ac- for beneficiaries with multiple 529 ac- ficiary during any of the years the beneficiary counts open in 2001, the growth in pop- counts in order to determine the tax- is enrolled at an eligible educational institu- ularity of these accounts is truly re- able dollars dispersed among the action.’’. markable and is still on an upward tra- counts. (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made jectory. However, the law was changed back by this section shall apply to taxable years be- The popularity of 529 accounts among in 2001 so that 529 savings are only ginning after December 31, 2014. American families is no mystery. High- taxed once now, before they are put SEC. 3. ELIMINATION OF DISTRIBUTION AGGRE- er education costs across the country into the 529 account. The only taxable GATION REQUIREMENTS. funds at disbursement are for non- (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 529(c)(3) of the In- are rising at a pace that exceeds the ternal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by rate of inflation, and folks are looking qualified expenses. According to a GAO striking subparagraph (D). for ways to plan responsibly for the fu- report from 2012 that has the most re- (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made ture. cent data on the topic, nonqualified by this section shall apply to distributions after A 2014 Gallup Poll of America’s top distributions from 529 plans only made December 31, 2014. financial concerns showed that among up 5.3 percent of total distributions in SEC. 4. RECONTRIBUTION OF REFUNDED adults between the ages of 30 and 49, 2010. AMOUNTS. Because of the past changes to tax ‘‘not having enough money to pay for (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 529(c)(3) of the In- treatment of 529s, it no longer makes your children’s college’’ is a top con- ternal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended by sec- sense for plan administrators to aggre- tion 3, is amended by adding at the end the fol- cern for families, trailing only retire- gate these accounts for tax purposes. It lowing new subparagraph: ment concerns. represents an undue burden, which ‘‘(D) SPECIAL RULE FOR CONTRIBUTIONS OF RE- It is natural that folks would turn to- could potentially raise the administra- FUNDED AMOUNTS.—In the case of a beneficiary ward 529 savings accounts. These ac- who receives a refund of any qualified higher tive cost for operating these plans. counts are easy to set up and use and education expenses from an eligible educational This is why this legislation will remove accountholders can make a monthly institution, subparagraph (A) shall not apply to these requirements. that portion of any distribution for the taxable contribution as small as $10 to invest Finally, the bill will allow a student year which is recontributed to a qualified tui- to their children’s future on a tax-de- who receives a refund on any 529 quali- tion program of which such individual is a bene- ferred basis. fied expenses to redeposit those funds ficiary, but only to the extent such recontribu- The 12 million 529 accounts today tion is made not later than 60 days after the into their 529 without penalty. have an average balance of around Refunds of 529 dollars could happen date of such refund and does not exceed the re- $20,000, which will go a long way to- funded amount.’’. for any number of reasons: a student (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.— ward helping families offset college may withdraw from a certain course, (1) IN GENERAL.—The amendment made by costs and helping students to begin may receive a scholarship offer or this section shall apply with respect to refunds their careers with a lighter debt bur- other financial aid after their 529 plans of qualified higher education expenses after De- den. have already been used, or may have to cember 31, 2014. When the President proposed a plan (2) TRANSITION RULE.—In the case of a refund withdraw from school because of an ill- in his 2016 budget to tax future dis- ness. of qualified higher education expenses received tributions from 529 savings accounts, after December 31, 2014, and before the date of Whatever the reasons, subjecting the enactment of this Act, section 529(c)(3)(D) of Members on both sides of the aisle were these funds to a penalty works against the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (as added by appalled. the spirit of 529 college savings plans, this section) shall be applied by substituting His billion-dollar tax proposal on and this bill will correct that. ‘‘not later than 60 days after the date of the en- families saving for college would have These are sensible yet important im- actment of this subparagraph’’ for ‘‘not later completely eliminated the purpose of provements to 529 college savings plans than 60 days after the date of such refund’’. saving responsibly for higher education that should receive resounding support The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- in the first place and would have inevi- from both sides of the aisle. As we con- tlewoman from Kansas (Ms. JENKINS) tably moved more students toward stu- tinue our work in the House to em- and the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. dent loans and other sources of finan- power hardworking families with bot- DANNY K. DAVIS) each will control 30 cial aid. toms-up solutions, I urge my col- minutes. We fundamentally disagree with the leagues to support the passage of this The Chair recognizes the gentle- direction of the President’s policy pro- bill. woman from Kansas. posal, and instead, we want to make I reserve the balance of my time. GENERAL LEAVE 529 college savings plans more con- Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Ms. JENKINS of Kansas. Mr. Speak- sumer friendly and reflective of the re- Chairman, I yield myself such time as er, I ask unanimous consent that all alities faced by students today. I may consume. Members may have 5 legislative days This legislation will make computer I am a strong supporter of 529 college in which to revise and extend their re- purchases with 529 plans a qualified ex- savings plans. When I cochaired the marks on H.R. 529, to amend the Inter- pense. Computers are an essential part Education and Family Tax Working nal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve 529 of higher education, and the law should Group with Representative DIANE plans. be updated to reflect that. BLACK from Tennessee during the 113th The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there A Pew Research Center report in 2011 Congress, we heard from education objection to the request of the gentle- found that a vast majority of under- stakeholders that education tax bene- woman from Kansas? graduate, graduate, and community fits should reflect a three-legged stool

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In that respect, there incentives to encourage families to AOTC, and I think that the definition are some commonsense steps that we save for college. of qualified expenses should be uniform can do to modernize the 529 program H.R. 529 makes three important im- across 529s and AOTC benefits. These and make sure that it is working for provements to 529 accounts: one, it are all great improvements that have, more families. makes computer technology an allow- in fact, been made. I do agree with my colleague from Il- able expense; two, it improves the cal- I reserve the balance of my time. linois that we have a challenge of try- culation for taxing distributions to ing to democratize these programs a b 1445 better reflect one’s earnings; and, lot more. We have roughly 3 percent three, it allows distributions that are Ms. JENKINS of Kansas. Mr. Speak- participation rate in 529s throughout refunded by a college upon a student’s er, I yield as much time as he may con- the entire Nation. We have got to fig- withdrawal to be reinvested in 529 ac- sume to the gentleman from Wisconsin ure out a way to do a better job of in- counts within 60 days without being (Mr. RYAN), the chair of the House creasing those savings opportunities subject to a tax. Committee on Ways and Means. for more families, but especially lower I support these important improve- Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, income families that don’t have the ments to 529 education plans. In addi- it won’t be all that much time. I just disposable income right now in order to tion, I hope that the Republican leader- simply want to congratulate the gen- participate in these programs, whether ship will advance the bill’s sister bill, tlelady from Kansas on bringing this it is the tax credit that Representative the Savings Enhancement for Edu- legislation forward. We brought this DAVIS was talking about, employer cation in College Act, which was H.R. out of committee. We had no resistance matches, by thinking creatively of how 529 in the last Congress and also cham- because this is just a commonsense we can democratize these so more fam- pioned by Representatives JENKINS and bill. ilies can take advantage of them. That KIND. This upgrades the law to reflect the is going to be crucial. This former H.R. 529 bill includes the realities of a college education. You In Wisconsin alone, we have got two substantive improvements to 529s ought to be able to buy a computer. roughly 257,000 accounts in the State that advocates explain would best help You ought to be able to buy software Edvest program and Tomorrow’s Schol- middle-income families save more for with your college savings dollars bear 529 plans. The families have saved college. cause it is an essential ingredient to about $3.7 billion for college or their We know that low- and moderate-in- your education. technical schools, reducing the need for come families have a harder time sav- More importantly, if a person gets a greater student loans, helping them ac- ing for college because they have less refund if they cancel a class, if for cess college. These programs not only extra cash available to put away in a some reason the college rebates money encourage savings for college but help savings account. to you, you ought to be able to put it middle class families get in the habit The Savings Enhancement for Edu- back into your savings plan. These are of saving for other important life cation in College Act would substan- commonsense ideas that make this im- events, such as retirement, that we tially help low- and middle-income portant vehicle for savings more work- have to do a better job at. families save by allowing low-income able and reflects the common problems I also think, given that the Congres- taxpayers to take advantage of the sav- that people have in this 21st century. sional Budget Office has a cost associ- er’s credit and allowing employers to It is essential that we give people and ated with it, which is roughly $5 mil- match up to $600 a year in 529 contribu- families the ability to save for edu- lion a year—not a lot in Federal budget tions. cation. This bill also sends a signal: we terms—that there is no reason at all I think that these provisions are ex- believe in the 529 plans; 529 plans are why we couldn’t have brought this leg- cellent. The saver’s credit currently going to stay; they are a good thing; we islation to the floor today with an ac- helps offset part of the first $2,000 that are not going to attack them; we are ceptable pay-for so we are not adding low-income workers voluntarily con- going to develop and grow them. any deficit to future generations. tribute to IRA and 401(k) plans. Ex- Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. In fact, again, Representative DAVIS tending this tax benefit for 529 plans is Chairman, I am pleased to yield 4 min- offered, during the committee markup, a commonsense way to help increase utes to the gentleman from Wisconsin a responsible amendment that would college savings by low- and moderate- (Mr. KIND), who is a cosponsor of this have done a better job of means testing income families. legislation and a tireless advocate for the 529 contributions and cutting it off Further, I think that the employer education. to families that earn up to $3 million. match is an especially promising tool Mr. KIND. Mr. Speaker, I thank my Now, to put this in perspective, the top to improve college savings by lower-in- friend from Illinois for yielding me this 1 percent of income earners in Wis- come Americans because it adds $600 a time. consin earn less than $1 million. So it family didn’t have for college before I want to thank my partner in was still a very generous, high thresh- that can grow and support education crafting this legislation, Representa- old, but it was enough money to pay over time. tive JENKINS. This has been the product for the $51 million expense over the These two improvements are needed of a few years of hard work, of listen- next 10 years that the Congressional because the savings data show that 529 ing to various outside groups and try- Budget Office scored this at. There is savings have dropped tremendously ing to understand the difficulty of sav- no reason why we can’t be making since 2009. From 2005 to 2009, around 60 ing for higher education that many these type of tough decisions as well percent of the accounts saw contribu- working families are experiencing when it comes to policy changes that tions; however, in the last few years, today. make sense for working families and the account contributions have been The legislation before us, H.R. 529, as act in a more fiscally responsible man- closer to 45 percent. the chairman of the committee just ner. I am a bit surprised that these sub- pointed out, is a commonsense proposal I think these 529 accounts have been stantive improvements are not in- with some reasonable technical correc- established. They do work well for cluded in the bill before us today, and tions to the 529 savings plans that al- those who can participate. And this is I truly hope that Republican leadership ready exist in all 50 States, allowing especially important for a State like will advance these 529 provisions that for the qualification expense for com- Wisconsin today, whose Governor just would tremendously improve savings puters and software, which is a new submitted a budget proposal calling for for lower- and middle-income Ameri- learning tool that sometimes is re- a cut of over $300 million out of our cans. quired in the classroom for higher edu- university system, a university system

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I had asked yester- tion and the world, where we had some dren, that is, they are taking a bill or day for it to be immediately put on the of the top scholars and researchers a provision in the law that has been floor of the House last night or today wanting to come there to do their successful and they are improving it. in order to do our duty, and our duty is work, students wanting to stay in the They are bringing it up to date under to ensure the safety and security of State so they can participate in these the leadership of the gentlelady from this Nation. UW system colleges and universities Kansas (Ms. JENKINS), and she is joined It is sad for me to note that those that we have. by the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. like Border Patrol agents and ICE Obviously, the Governor wants to DANNY K. DAVIS), and everybody is agents and TSOs whom we pass by take it in a different direction; $300 coming together around that idea that every day will be some of those who million worth of cuts gets into the says 529s need to be protected and de- will be unpaid. They are essential, and bone. So, again, we have got to think fended. And we need to make sure that we will go past them and thank them creatively of how we can make it af- they are kept up to date, because back for their services—I often do in air- fordable for families to be able to send home this makes all the difference in ports across America—but yet we will their kids on to school. This is one way the world. I think this is one of these stand here and not have a resolution to do it: savings in 529s. types of moments that is very signifi- and a solution to pay them their sal- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The cant and that we can build on. ary. time of the gentleman has expired. I thank the gentlelady for her leader- We had a hearing today in Judiciary. Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois. I ship. I thank Mr. DAVIS for his, and I I was very glad to note that I think the yield an additional 1 minute to the rise in strong support of this measure. weight was on the side of the President gentleman. Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. that he had constitutional authority, Mr. KIND. Mr. Speaker, I thank the Speaker, I am pleased to yield 3 min- that he is not rendering any immigra- gentleman. utes to the gentlewoman from Texas tion status, that he is doing what he is We ought not also ignore other im- (Ms. JACKSON LEE). allowed under the law; the Attorney portant financial aid programs that es- Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I General is allowed to have discretion pecially speak to the needs of low-in- thank the gentleman from Illinois, I as to employment status; no benefits come children: the Pell grant program, thank the gentlelady, and I thank the will be conveyed on these individuals; work-study opportunities on and off Speaker. and, frankly, we have an emergency campus, the GEAR UP and TRIO pro- It is good news to be able to come on and we need to pass that bill. grams. This, too, helps many stu- the floor of the House and be able to The SPEAKER pro tempore. The dents—including myself, who is the speak to hardworking parents and the time of the gentlewoman has expired. first generation that went on to basis of all of our joy when we are giv- Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois. I school—to be able to afford higher edu- ing an opportunity for our young peo- yield an additional 2 minutes to the cation so we are not driving these kids ple to be able to participate in higher gentlelady from Texas. deeper and deeper into debt. The aver- learning, in this instance, college edu- Ms. JACKSON LEE. I won’t take age undergrad in Wisconsin, by the cation. The 529 fix, if you will, deals that. I thank the gentleman for his time they graduate, has $28,000 worth with the savings accounts and tax-free kindness. of debt. It is the second largest debt in disbursements for the purpose of pay- Let me just say that I think we ap- the Nation behind mortgages. At $1.2 ing for college tuition, purchasing col- propriately are on the floor dealing trillion, it exceeds all credit card debt. lege credits, and other qualified edu- with H.R. 529. I again thank the work So the 529 is another vehicle to try to cational expenses. of the Committee on Ways and Means alleviate that student indebtedness I do want to join my colleague from ranking members and, as well, the issue that is affecting more and more Wisconsin and add that the idea of ranking member and chairman of the kids and families throughout the Na- other equipment dealing with the new full committee. tion. We ought to fix it by making a technology special needs services is But as we frame the work that this pay-for. This is a good first step, nec- crucial. Congress must do, I don’t know how we essary policy changes. I encourage my I want to thank Mr. DAVIS for his as- stand here on Wednesday, 24 to 48 hours colleagues to support the legislation. tute work in the committee, looking to out from a collapse of the Department Ms. JENKINS of Kansas. Mr. Speak- make this a little bit more balanced. of Homeland Security, no funding, and er, I yield as much time as he may con- Certainly we are appreciative of those actually are here and looking out at sume to the gentleman from Illinois who have been successful and have the face of first responders and those (Mr. ROSKAM), an esteemed member of achieved financial success. I enjoy who are on the front lines of borders, the House Committee on Ways and that. But I do think with our concern airports, FAA, ICE officers, and we Means and subcommittee chair of the about a deficit—which, by the way, has would stand and hold hostage these Subcommittee on Oversight. been reduced substantially under Presi- hardworking Americans who, in this Mr. ROSKAM. Mr. Speaker, I thank dent Barack Obama—that this idea climate when we are looking to malls the gentlelady for yielding me the that Mr. DAVIS had would have been a or we are hearing, seeing videos and time. worthy inclusion into this legislation. various charges of those who want to Mr. Speaker, do you notice some- However, I am grateful, again, that do harm, that we would not want an or- thing? Did you notice that, as Speaker we are now high tech and the 529 ac- derly process for 5 million people who and the person who is presiding over counts include computers and software have about 14 items—14 items—that this Chamber today, oftentimes you as qualified educational expenses. It they must comply with to even be eli- hear a great deal of difficulty between would also allow for refunded tuition, gible, but 5 million people who simply the two parties and a lot of wrangling educational expenses, particularly if a want us to know that they are here and and a lot of different positions and so student withdraws due to illness. they are here to do good and not to do forth that manifests itself in arguing I was talking to one of my young harm. That is an orderly process for and so forth, but did you notice some- people, college students, and also my knowing how to secure this Nation. thing? You are hearing both sides of husband is a part of the team of higher Again, I thank the gentleman from the aisle coming before you and com- education and sees it all the time Illinois. ing before this House and saying the where youngsters leave because they With that, I ask for a vote for H.R. same thing, and that is we ought to are ill and fail to let the professor 529 and H.R. 5 and the funding of Home- move H.R. 529. know, and all of a sudden they are run- land Security. There is a recognition, and I think ning up a bill. ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE my constituency in suburban Chicago I do want to say that this fix is ur- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Mem- is breathing a collective sigh of relief gent because we need to help people bers are reminded not to traffic the

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:49 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K25FE7.034 H25FEPT1 smartinez on DSK4TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE February 25, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H1139 well while another Member is under fore him. That is the opportunity that this in an era of rising tuition costs and deep- recognition. this 529 account gives us. ening student debt. Since 1996, 529 plans Ms. JENKINS of Kansas. Mr. Speak- Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. have saved American families more than $225 er, I yield such time as he may con- Speaker, I have no further requests for billion. H.R. 529 makes several changes to sume to the gentleman from California time, and I yield myself the balance of update 529 plans, including removing pen- (Mr. MCCARTHY), our majority leader. my time. alties for students who are forced to withdraw I agree with my colleague from Illi- b 1500 from college and expanding the eligible uses. nois (Mr. ROSKAM) that this is, indeed, While I will vote for this bill, I wish this Con- Mr. MCCARTHY. I want to thank the a bipartisan piece of legislation and gress would do more. The cost of higher edu- gentlewoman for yielding and for her that it is good for higher education and cation continues to increase and millions of work on 529 and bringing this bill to for those who are attempting to access American students carry non-dischargeable the floor. it. debt that totals over $1 trillion. At the same Mr. Speaker, during the President’s I want to commend Ms. JENKINS and time, my Republican colleagues have slashed speech on the State of the Union, he Mr. KIND for their leadership in devel- Pell grants, refused to provide students with presented what he called ‘‘middle class oping it. I agree with its purpose, and I the low interest rates granted to America’s big- economics.’’ It didn’t take long for peo- urge its passage. gest banks, and continue to support predatory, ple to realize that the President’s plan Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance for-profit institutions that shortchange our most meant taxing the middle class to pay of my time. vulnerable students. I support the modest im- for bigger government and pipe dream Ms. JENKINS of Kansas. Mr. Speak- provements in H.R. 529, but I urge my col- projects. Nothing demonstrated this er, I yield myself such time as I may leagues to take up further measures to im- anti-middle class agenda more than the consume. prove access to college and reduce student President’s plan to attack education I would like to thank my colleagues loan debt. opportunity for middle class families on both sides of the aisle for engaging The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time by taxing 529 saving accounts. Now, in this informative and productive de- for debate has expired. after families cried out against the bate. If America is going to remain Pursuant to House Resolution 121, President’s plan, he dropped it, and I competitive, I cannot imagine a more the previous question is ordered on the am happy about that. The President important thing than maintaining the bill, as amended. has rightly chosen to not do harm, but affordability of higher education. The question is on the engrossment now he should work with the House to There is much to be done, but today’s and third reading of the bill. do some positive good. vote is a critical and simple step that The bill was ordered to be engrossed My wife and I have two children— Congress should take to empower folks and read a third time, and was read the Connor and Meghan. Connor is in col- to save for higher education and, ulti- third time. lege today, and Meghan is a senior mately, to make it more attainable for MOTION TO RECOMMIT about to enter college. When we found more hardworking Americans. Mr. TED LIEU of California. Mr. out, with joy, that we were to have I hope that Congress passes this leg- Speaker, I have a motion to recommit children, we didn’t have much great islation today with the broad support at the desk. wealth, but we started putting away that it deserves so that we can give The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the $50 a month. Why? Because we dreamt American families an improved way to gentleman opposed to the bill? like every other American. It was no invest in their 529 college savings Mr. TED LIEU of California. I am op- longer what you could become but plans. posed to it in its current form. what opportunities your children will Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance Ms. JENKINS of Kansas. Mr. Speak- have. of my time. er, I reserve a point of order. Education has been the great equal- Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Mr. Speaker, as a sup- The SPEAKER pro tempore. A point izer in this country, and there is no porter of 529 college savings plans—including of order is reserved. greater way to do that than by allow- the College Savings Plans of Maryland—I am The Clerk will report the motion to ing those who may not have great pleased to support today’s legislation, which recommit. wealth but who have a great oppor- makes three common sense technical The Clerk read as follows: tunity with their children to have a 529 changes to these valuable savings tools. Mr. Ted Lieu of California moves to recom- account. But, like anything, we should First, HR 529 makes the purchase of a mit the bill H.R. 529 to the Committee on modernize it because education computer and internet access a qualified ex- Ways and Means with instructions to report changes just as technology has pense for 529 accounts, reflecting the reality the same back to the House forthwith with changed. that computers and the internet are a modern the following amendment: Could you imagine today sending necessity for today’s college students. Sec- Add at the end the following: your children to college but telling ond, the bill allows students who receive re- SEC. 5. PARENTS’ RIGHT TO KNOW COST OF BRO- them to learn without having a com- funds from colleges to reinvest those refunds KERAGE FEES AND IMPACT ON puter? Isn’t that a part of the edu- LONG-TERM SAVINGS. back into their 529 accounts, provided that re- Section 529(d) of the Internal Revenue Code cation system, too? That is what this investment occurs within 60 days of a student of 1986 is amended— 529 account will also expand to. So, leaving college. And finally, the bill eliminates (1) by striking ‘‘REPORTS.—Each officer’’ today, when we talk on the floor, it is the existing aggregation requirement for pur- and inserting the following: ‘‘REPORTS.— really about the future, but it is about poses of calculating distributions that are in- ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Each officer’’, and the future of every single family from cludible in a beneficiary’s taxable income. (2) by adding at the end the following new every walk of life. Mr. Speaker, unlike other tax bills that have paragraph: Now, Mr. Speaker, I differ with the come before us recently, today’s legislation ‘‘(2) FEES.—Each such officer or employee President on many issues, and I would shall make an annual report to each des- does not seek to permanently extend tem- ignated beneficiary of an account under such say the majority of this House differs porary provisions of the code without paying program— with the President in that he would tax for that permanence—and it does not add tens ‘‘(A) disclosing the type and amount of fees every parent or every grandparent who of billions of dollars to the national debt. Rath- with respect to such account, wanted to put away for a brighter fu- er, HR 529 makes several modest improve- ‘‘(B) demonstrating the impact of such fees ture for their child or grandchild. ments to a program already permanently au- on the investment returns of such account Luckily, he turned back. Today is a thorized in law—and it does so at a much over a 10-year and 20-year period, and chance to work with us, to work with lower cost. ‘‘(C) disclosing the range of fees for invest- us on a greater America with some- ments available to accounts under such pro- Accordingly, I will cast a yes vote. gram.’’. thing that is stronger. What that Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, I will vote SEC. 6. RATES OF RETURN AND LOW FEES. means today is that we can all join so for H.R. 529, a bill that would expand section Section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code of the 21st century can be even stronger, 529 college savings plans, when it passed the 1986 is amended by adding at the end the fol- and we can keep the promise we made House today. I strongly believe in improving lowing new subsection: to every American—that every genera- access to higher education, and encouraging ‘‘(g) RATES OF RETURN AND LOW FEES.— tion will improve on the generation be- families to save for college is a critical part of Each officer or employee having control of

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Mr. Speak- Castro (TX) Hoyer Peterson in support of his motion. er, I withdraw my reservation of a Chu, Judy Huffman Pingree Mr. TED LIEU of California. Mr. point of order. Cicilline Israel Pocan Speaker, this is a final amendment to Clark (MA) Jackson Lee Polis The SPEAKER pro tempore. The res- Clarke (NY) Jeffries Price (NC) the bill which will not kill the bill or ervation of the point of order is with- Clay Johnson (GA) Quigley send it back to committee. If adopted, drawn. Cleaver Johnson, E. B. Rangel Clyburn Jones Richmond the bill will immediately proceed to Ms. JENKINS of Kansas. Mr. Speak- final passage, as amended. Cohen Kaptur Roybal-Allard er, I claim the time in opposition to Connolly Keating Ruiz Let me start by thanking my Repub- the gentleman’s motion. Conyers Kelly (IL) Ruppersberger lican colleagues for introducing this The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- Cooper Kennedy Ryan (OH) bill. It makes changes to 529 plans that Courtney Kildee Sanchez, Loretta tlewoman is recognized for 5 minutes. Crowley many on my side of the aisle have also Kilmer Sarbanes Ms. JENKINS of Kansas. Mr. Speak- Cuellar Kirkpatrick Schakowsky been calling on for years. I support 529 er, I rise in opposition to the motion to Cummings Kuster Schiff plans, as do many of my constituents. Davis (CA) Langevin Schrader recommit. It helps people plan and pay for college, Davis, Danny Larsen (WA) Scott (VA) This motion would do the exact oppo- DeFazio Larson (CT) Scott, David and my wife and I currently invest in site of what this legislation is trying to DeGette Lawrence Serrano 529 plans. Delaney Levin Sewell (AL) accomplish. This bill is attempting to There is one amendment to this bill DeLauro Lewis Sherman simplify 529s, but this motion would DelBene Lieu, Ted Sires that, I believe, will make it far better, add unneeded complexity, leading to DeSaulnier Lipinski Slaughter and that is disclosure. The motion to fewer people saving for a college edu- Deutch Loebsack Smith (WA) recommit would put in an amendment Dingell Lofgren Swalwell (CA) cation. It would burden all families that says that there has to be a sepa- Doggett Lowenthal Takai who are saving as well as burden States Doyle, Michael Lowey Takano rate report that talks about the types and plan administrators with more red F. Lujan Grisham Thompson (CA) and numbers of fees and how much Duckworth (NM) Thompson (MS) tape. As the former State treasurer of these fees are and how they impact the Edwards Luja´ n, Ben Ray Titus Kansas, I believe I can offer a unique Ellison (NM) Tonko performance of the product over 10 to insight from my experiences with 529 Engel Maloney, Torres 20 years. plan administration. Eshoo Carolyn Tsongas Prior to entering politics, I served as Esty Maloney, Sean Van Hollen This simply adds an undo administra- a corporate vice president at a finan- Farr Matsui Vargas tive burden. It increases the costs, Fattah McCollum Veasey cial services company, and it is clear which would leave less money for stu- Foster McDermott Vela that the foundation upon which Wall Frankel (FL) McGovern Vela´ zquez dents to spend on their higher edu- Street rests is disclosure. It is the so- Fudge Meeks Visclosky cation costs. It seems to mandate the Gabbard Meng Walz cial compact that Wall Street has with increase of rates of return, and Con- Gallego Moore Wasserman Main Street. It is the compact that gress should not be in the business of Garamendi Moulton Schultz they have with investors in that they Graham Nadler Waters, Maxine setting the risk of a personal invest- will describe a product—how it works, Grayson Napolitano Watson Coleman ment. It increases administrative ex- Green, Al Neal Welch the fees on that product, and how it penses, and it goes in the opposite di- Green, Gene Nolan Yarmuth performs. By having a separate report rection of the underlying bill. I urge that parents can see, one that talks NAYS—243 my colleagues to defeat this motion to about the fees on these products and recommit. Abraham Crawford Hanna how these fees impact the performance, Aderholt Crenshaw Hardy it will allow middle class families to I yield back the balance of my time. Allen Culberson Harper Amash Curbelo (FL) Harris better gauge for themselves how their The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the previous question is or- Amodei Davis, Rodney Hartzler investments are doing and which in- Babin Denham Heck (NV) vestments to select. Does this makes a dered on the motion to recommit. Barletta Dent Hensarling difference? Yes, it does. Let me give There was no objection. Barr DeSantis Herrera Beutler The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Barton DesJarlais Hice, Jody B. you an example. Benishek Diaz-Balart Hill Savingforcollege.com offers this sce- question is on the motion to recommit. Bilirakis Dold Holding nario: The question was taken; and the Bishop (MI) Duffy Hudson Speaker pro tempore announced that Bishop (UT) Duncan (SC) Huelskamp If an annual return for a 529 account Black Duncan (TN) Huizenga (MI) is 7 percent and if one account charges the noes appeared to have it. Blackburn Ellmers (NC) Hultgren 20 basis points and another charges 40 Mr. TED LIEU of California. Mr. Blum Emmer (MN) Hunter basis points, here is the difference on Speaker, on that I demand the yeas Bost Farenthold Hurd (TX) and nays. Boustany Fincher Hurt (VA) an investment of $5,000: over the course Brady (TX) Fitzpatrick Issa of 18 years, the 529 plan charging the The yeas and nays were ordered. Brat Fleischmann Jenkins (KS) lower fees will save the investor $542. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Bridenstine Fleming Jenkins (WV) ant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule XX, Brooks (AL) Flores Johnson (OH) The underlying bill would change exist- Brooks (IN) Forbes Johnson, Sam ing law to allow 529 funds to be used to this 15-minute vote on the motion to Buchanan Fortenberry Jolly purchase a laptop computer for school, recommit will be followed by 5-minute Buck Foxx Jordan and $542 would allow you to buy a votes on passage of the bill, if ordered; Bucshon Franks (AZ) Joyce and agreeing to the Speaker’s approval Burgess Frelinghuysen Katko laptop. Calvert Garrett Kelly (PA) Right now, every State has different of the Journal, if ordered. Carter (GA) Gibbs Kind rules for disclosure, and they have dif- The vote was taken by electronic de- Carter (TX) Gibson King (IA) vice, and there were—yeas 176, nays Chabot Gohmert King (NY) ferent fees. For example, in my State Chaffetz Goodlatte Kinzinger (IL) of California, we have relatively low 243, not voting 13, as follows: Clawson (FL) Gosar Kline fees that range between $142 to $154 [Roll No. 89] Coffman Gowdy Knight Cole Granger Labrador over 10 years, but then you have States YEAS—176 Collins (GA) Graves (GA) LaMalfa like Montana and Arkansas, which Adams Bera Boyle, Brendan Collins (NY) Graves (LA) Lamborn have some of the highest low-end fees, Aguilar Beyer F. Comstock Graves (MO) Lance which could range between $1,100 to Ashford Bishop (GA) Brady (PA) Conaway Griffith Latta Bass Brown (FL) Cook Grothman LoBiondo $1,200 over 10 years. That makes a huge Blumenauer Beatty Bonamici Brownley (CA) Costello (PA) Guinta Loudermilk difference to middle class families. Becerra Bustos Cramer Guthrie Love

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Bass Edwards Langevin McCarthy Reichert Thornberry Beatty Ellmers (NC) Larsen (WA) McCaul Renacci Tiberi Becerra Emmer (MN) Larson (CT) McClintock Ribble Tipton b 1545 Benishek Engel Latta McHenry Rice (SC) Eshoo Lawrence Trott Bera McKinley Rigell Members should take care to yield Esty Levin Turner Beyer McMorris Roby and reclaim time in an orderly fashion, Farenthold Lewis Upton Bilirakis Rodgers Rogers (AL) Farr Lieu, Ted Valadao bearing in mind that the Official Re- Bishop (GA) McSally Rogers (KY) Fattah Lipinski Wagner porters of Debate cannot properly tran- Bishop (MI) Meadows Rohrabacher Bishop (UT) Fincher LoBiondo Meehan Rokita Walberg scribe two Members simultaneously. Black Fitzpatrick Loebsack Messer Rooney (FL) Walden Members should address their re- Blackburn Fleischmann Lofgren Mica Ros-Lehtinen Walker Blum Fleming Loudermilk Miller (FL) Roskam Walorski marks in debate to the presiding offi- Blumenauer Flores Love Miller (MI) Ross Walters, Mimi cer and not to others in the second per- Bonamici Forbes Lowenthal Moolenaar Rothfus Weber (TX) son or to some perceived viewing audi- Fortenberry Lowey Mooney (WV) Rouzer Bost Webster (FL) ence. Boustany Foster Lucas Mullin Royce Wenstrup Foxx Luetkemeyer Mulvaney Russell Members should not embellish the of- Boyle, Brendan Westerman F. Frankel (FL) Lujan Grisham Murphy (FL) Ryan (WI) Westmoreland fering of a motion, the entry of a re- Franks (AZ) (NM) Murphy (PA) Brady (PA) Salmon Whitfield quest, the making of a point of order, Frelinghuysen Luja´ n, Ben Ray Neugebauer Sanford Brady (TX) Williams Gabbard (NM) Newhouse Scalise or the entry of an appeal with any Brat Wilson (SC) statement of motive or other com- Bridenstine Gallego Lummis Noem Schock Garamendi Lynch Nugent Schweikert Wittman mentary, and should be aware that Brooks (AL) Womack Brooks (IN) Garrett MacArthur Nunes Scott, Austin such utterances could render the mo- Gibbs Maloney, Olson Sensenbrenner Woodall Brown (FL) Gibson Carolyn Palazzo Sessions Yoder tion, request, point of order, or appeal Brownley (CA) Gohmert Maloney, Sean Palmer Shimkus Yoho Buchanan untimely. Goodlatte Marchant Paulsen Shuster Young (AK) Buck Members should attempt to come to Gosar Marino Pearce Simpson Young (IA) Bucshon Gowdy Massie Perry Sinema Young (IN) the floor within the 15-minute period Burgess Graham Matsui Pittenger Smith (MO) Zeldin as prescribed by the first ringing of the Bustos Granger McCarthy Pitts Smith (NE) Zinke bells. This has been an ongoing prob- Butterfield Calvert Graves (GA) McCaul NOT VOTING—13 lem and Members should make every Capps Graves (LA) McClintock Graves (MO) McDermott Byrne Lynch Sa´ nchez, Linda attempt to be here within the pre- Capuano Grayson McGovern Costa McNerney T. scribed 15 minutes. Members should be Ca´ rdenas Green, Al McHenry Hinojosa Rice (NY) Speier Carney advised that if they are in the Chamber McKinley Lee Roe (TN) Carson (IN) Green, Gene Wilson (FL) McMorris Long Rush attempting to vote, the Chair will try Carter (GA) Griffith to accommodate them. But as a point Carter (TX) Grothman Rodgers b 1541 of courtesy to each of your colleagues, Cartwright Guinta McSally Castor (FL) Guthrie Meadows Mrs. BLACKBURN, Messrs. LAB- voting within the allotted time would ´ Castro (TX) Gutierrez Meehan RADOR, ISSA, SANFORD, Ms. help with the maintenance of the insti- Chabot Hahn Meeks SINEMA, Messrs. DUFFY, WALDEN, tution. Chaffetz Hanna Meng Chu, Judy Hardy Messer FLORES, and Ms. HERRERA Following these basic standards of Harper Mica BEUTLER changed their vote from practice will foster an atmosphere of Cicilline Clark (MA) Harris Miller (FL) ‘‘yea’’ to ‘‘nay.’’ mutual and institutional respect. It Clawson (FL) Hartzler Miller (MI) Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi will ensure against personal confronta- Clay Heck (NV) Moolenaar Heck (WA) Mooney (WV) Cleaver changed his vote from ‘‘nay’’ to ‘‘yea.’’ tion, among individual Members or be- Hensarling Moore Clyburn So the motion to recommit was re- Herrera Beutler Moulton tween Members and the presiding offi- Coffman Hice, Jody B. Mullin jected. cer. It will facilitate Members’ com- Cohen Higgins Mulvaney The result of the vote was announced Cole prehension of, and participation in, the Hill Murphy (FL) as above recorded. Collins (GA) business of the House. It will enable ac- Himes Murphy (PA) Collins (NY) ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER Holding Nadler curate transcriptions of proceedings. In Comstock Honda Neal The SPEAKER. The Chair wishes to sum, it will ensure the comity that ele- Conaway Hudson Neugebauer reiterate the announcement of March Connolly vates spirited deliberations above mere Huelskamp Newhouse 25, 2014, concerning floor practice. argument. Conyers Huffman Noem Cook Members should periodically rededi- The Chair appreciates the attention Huizenga (MI) Nolan Cooper Hultgren Norcross cate themselves to the core principles of the Members to these matters. Costello (PA) of proper parliamentary practice that Hunter Nugent Without objection, 5-minute voting Courtney Hurd (TX) Nunes are so essential in maintaining order will continue. Cramer Hurt (VA) O’Rourke Crawford and deliberacy here in the House. The There was no objection. Israel Olson Chair believes that a few of these prin- Crenshaw Issa Palazzo The SPEAKER. The question is on Crowley Jackson Lee Pallone ciples bear emphasis today. the passage of the bill. Cuellar Jeffries Palmer Members should refrain from traf- Culberson Jenkins (KS) Pascrell The question was taken; and the Cummings ficking in the well when another, in- Speaker announced that the ayes ap- Jenkins (WV) Paulsen cluding the presiding officer, is ad- Curbelo (FL) Johnson (GA) Payne peared to have it. Davis (CA) Johnson (OH) Pearce dressing the House. Davis, Danny RECORDED VOTE Johnson, Sam Pelosi Members should wear appropriate Davis, Rodney Jolly Perlmutter business attire during all sittings of Ms. JENKINS of Kansas. Mr. Speak- DeFazio Jordan Perry the House, however brief their appear- er, I demand a recorded vote. DeGette Joyce Peters A recorded vote was ordered. Delaney Katko Peterson ance on the floor may be. DeLauro Keating Pingree Members should refrain from engag- The SPEAKER. This is a 5-minute DelBene Kelly (IL) Pittenger ing in still photography or audio or vote. Denham Kelly (PA) Pitts video recording in the Chamber. Tak- The vote was taken by electronic de- Dent Kennedy Poe (TX) vice, and there were—ayes 401, noes 20, DeSantis Kildee Poliquin ing unofficial photographs detracts DeSaulnier Kilmer Polis from the dignity of the proceedings and not voting 11, as follows: DesJarlais Kind Pompeo presents security and privacy chal- [Roll No. 90] Deutch King (IA) Posey Diaz-Balart King (NY) Price (NC) lenges for the House. AYES—401 Dingell Kinzinger (IL) Price, Tom Members who wish to speak on the Abraham Aderholt Allen Doggett Kirkpatrick Quigley floor should respectfully seek and ob- Adams Aguilar Amash Dold Kline Rangel

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Rogers (KY) Sinema Walorski many who do graduate are going to col- Rohrabacher Sires The Clerk read the resolution, as fol- Rokita Slaughter Walters, Mimi lows: lege or entering the workforce with a Walz subpar education. The number of stu- Rooney (FL) Smith (MO) H. RES. 124 Ros-Lehtinen Smith (NE) Wasserman dents proficient in reading and math is Roskam Smith (NJ) Schultz Resolved, That the following named Mem- abysmal. The achievement gap sepa- Ross Smith (TX) Weber (TX) bers be and are hereby elected to the fol- Rothfus Smith (WA) Webster (FL) lowing standing committees of the House of rating minority students from their Rouzer Stefanik Welch Representatives: peers is appalling. Parents have little Wenstrup Roybal-Allard Stewart (1) COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES.— to no options to rescue their children Royce Stivers Westerman Mrs. Capps and Mr. Polis. from failing schools. Ruiz Stutzman Westmoreland (2) COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND Ruppersberger Swalwell (CA) Whitfield A broken education system has Russell Takai Williams TECHNOLOGY.—Mr. Takano and Mr. Foster. plagued families for decades. Year after Ryan (OH) Takano Wilson (SC) (3) COMMITTEE ON SMALL BUSINESS.—Ms. year, policymakers lament the prob- Ryan (WI) Thompson (PA) Wittman Clarke of New York. lems and talk about solutions, and Salmon Thornberry Womack Sanchez, Loretta The resolution was agreed to. once in a while, a law is enacted that Tiberi Woodall Sanford Tipton A motion to reconsider was laid on Yarmuth promises to improve our education sys- Sarbanes Titus Yoder the table. tem. Scalise Tonko Schakowsky Torres Yoho f Unfortunately, past efforts have Young (AK) Schiff Trott STUDENT SUCCESS ACT largely failed because they are based Schock Tsongas Young (IA) Young (IN) on the idea that Washington knows Schweikert Turner GENERAL LEAVE Scott (VA) Upton Zeldin what is best for children. We have dou- Scott, Austin Valadao Zinke Mr. KLINE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan- bled down on this approach repeatedly, imous consent that all Members may and it is not working. NOES—20 have 5 legislative days in which to re- Federal mandates dictate how to Clarke (NY) Jones Schrader vise and extend their remarks and in- gauge student achievement, how to de- Ellison Kaptur Thompson (CA) clude extraneous material on H.R. 5. Fudge McCollum Thompson (MS) fine qualified teachers, how to spend Grijalva Napolitano Visclosky The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there money at the State and local levels, Hastings Pocan Waters, Maxine objection to the request of the gen- and how to improve underperforming Hoyer Richmond Watson Coleman tleman from Minnesota? Johnson, E. B. Rush schools. And now, thanks to the un- There was no objection. precedented overreach of the current NOT VOTING—11 The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- administration, the Department of Byrne Long Sa´ nchez, Linda ant to House Resolution 121 and rule Education is dictating policies con- Costa McNerney T. XVIII, the Chair declares the House in Hinojosa Rice (NY) Speier cerning teacher evaluations, academic Lee Roe (TN) Wilson (FL) the Committee of the Whole House on standards, and more. the state of the Union for the consider- No one questions whether parents, ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE ation of the bill, H.R. 5. teachers, and local education leaders The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. POE The Chair appoints the gentleman are committed to their students, yet of Texas) (during the vote). There are 2 from New York (Mr. COLLINS) to pre- there are some who question whether minutes remaining. side over the Committee of the Whole. they are capable of making the best de- b 1558 cisions for their students. b 1552 Success in school should be deter- IN THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE Ms. BASS changed her vote from mined by those who teach inside our Accordingly, the House resolved classrooms, by administrators who un- ‘‘no’’ to ‘‘aye.’’ itself into the Committee of the Whole So the bill was passed. derstand the challenges facing their House on the state of the Union for the communities, by parents who know The result of the vote was announced consideration of the bill (H.R. 5) to sup- better than anyone the needs of their as above recorded. port State and local accountability for children. If every child is going to re- A motion to reconsider was laid on public education, protect State and ceive a quality education, then we need the table. local authority, inform parents of the to place less faith—less faith—in the PERSONAL EXPLANATION performance of their children’s schools, Secretary of Education and more faith Mr. ROE of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, I was and for other purposes, with Mr. COL- in parents, teachers, and State and unable to vote today because of a serious ill- LINS of New York in the chair. local leaders. That is why I am a proud ness in my family. Had I been present, I would The Clerk read the title of the bill. sponsor of the Student Success Act. have voted ‘‘yea’’ on rollcall No. 84, ‘‘yea’’ on The CHAIR. Pursuant to the rule, the By reducing the Federal footprint, rollcall No. 85, ‘‘yea’’ on rollcall No. 86, ‘‘yea’’ bill is considered read the first time. restoring local control, and empow- on rollcall No. 87, ‘‘yea’’ on rollcall No. 88, The gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. ering parents and education leaders, ‘‘no’’ on rollcall No. 89, and ‘‘yea’’ on rollcall KLINE) and the gentleman from Vir- this commonsense bill will move our No. 90. ginia (Mr. SCOTT) each will control 30 country in a better direction. minutes. b 1600 f The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Minnesota. The Student Success Act provides Mr. KLINE. Mr. Chairman, I yield States and school districts more flexi- THE JOURNAL myself as much time as I may con- bility to fund local priorities, not The SPEAKER pro tempore. The un- sume. Washington’s priorities. The legisla- finished business is the question on I rise today in strong support of H.R. tion eliminates dozens of ineffective or agreeing to the Speaker’s approval of 5, the Student Success Act. This week, duplicative programs so that each dol- the Journal, which the Chair will put we have an opportunity to advance lar makes a direct, meaningful, and de novo. bold reforms that will strengthen K–12 lasting impact in classrooms. The bill The question is on the Speaker’s ap- education for children across America. strengthens accountability by replac- proval of the Journal. A great education can be the great ing the current national scheme with Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the Jour- equalizer. It can open doors to unlim- State-led accountability systems, re- nal stands approved. ited possibilities and provide students turning to States the responsibility to

VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:55 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A25FE7.010 H25FEPT1 smartinez on DSK4TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE February 25, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H1143 measure student performance and im- tate taxes, and further by virtue of the And we know who is going to lose when prove struggling schools. The Student fact that in our democratic society, we politics are at play—our children. Success Act also ensures parents have respond to political pressure. For 50 There are other flaws with H.R. 5. the information they need to hold their years, Congress has recognized that This bill sets no standards for college schools accountable. It is their tax low-income students were not getting or career readiness and allows students money, but more importantly, it is their fair share of the pie and that sup- with disabilities to be taught with less- their children, and they deserve to plemental resources were absolutely er standards. It limits our investment know how their schools are performing. necessary to ensure that all children in education over the next 6 years be- Mr. Chairman, the bill reaffirms that had access to quality public education. cause there are no adjustments for in- choice is a powerful lifeline for families As a result, Congress has a long- flation. It block grants important pro- with children in failing schools by ex- standing policy to target our limited grams, diluting the purpose and the tending the magnet school program, Federal funding to schools and stu- outcome. Taken as a whole, these poli- expanding access to high quality char- dents who get left behind in an unequal cies will have a disproportionate im- ter schools, and allowing Federal funds system. pact on students of color, students with to follow low-income students to the Mr. Chairman, one of this bill’s most disabilities, and our English language traditional, public, or public charter troubling provisions, which strikes at learners. It is no wonder that business school of the parents’ choice. the heart of ESEA’s long history of groups, labor groups, civil rights, dis- Finally, the Student Success Act targeting resources to our neediest stu- abilities, and education groups have all reins in the authority of the Secretary dents, is the so-called portability pro- expressed deep concerns about this leg- of Education. We must stop the Sec- vision. Now, present law gives greater islation. retary from unilaterally imposing his weight to funding in areas of high con- Mr. Chairman, I stand in strong op- will on schools, and this bill will do centration of poverty. Under H.R. 5, position to H.R. 5, as it will turn the just that. Perhaps, Mr. Chairman, that portability, a State agency could use clock back on American public edu- is why the White House and powerful all of its title I funds to districts based cation. In its current form, the bill special interests are teaming up to de- solely on the percentage of poor chil- abandons the fundamental principles of feat this legislation. They fear the bill dren, regardless of the concentration of equity and accountability in our edu- will lead to less control in Washington poor people in a district. cation system, it eviscerates education and more control in States and school As a result, much of the title I sup- funding, it fails to support our edu- districts. Let me assure the American port intended towards those areas of cators, and it leaves our children ill- people: that is precisely what this bill concentration of poverty would be re- prepared for success in the classroom will do. allocated to those wealthier areas. In and beyond. Therefore, I urge my col- Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues other words, the low-income areas leagues to vote ‘‘no’’ on this bill, and I to help all children, regardless of back- would get less, and the wealthy areas reserve the balance of my time. ground, income, or ZIP Code, to receive would get more. I ask: If that is the so- Mr. KLINE. Mr. Chairman, it is now an excellent education by supporting lution, then I wonder what you think my great pleasure to yield 4 minutes to the Student Success Act, and I reserve the problem was? Analysis from a num- the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. the balance of my time. Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- ber of organizations, including the De- ROKITA), the chairman of the Sub- man, I yield myself such time as I may partment of Education, demonstrates committee on Early Childhood, Ele- consume. title I portability will take money mentary, and Secondary Education. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong opposi- from the poorer schools and school dis- Mr. ROKITA. Mr. Chairman, I thank tion to H.R. 5, a bill to reauthorize the tricts and give more to affluent dis- the chairman for his great leadership Elementary and Secondary Education tricts. This disproportionately affects on this bill and in the committee gen- Act, ESEA, a landmark civil rights law students of color, and this is just sim- erally. enacted under President Lyndon B. ply wrong. I rise in strong support this after- Johnson. As we approach the 50-year Data shows that H.R. 5 would provide noon because every student, Mr. Chair- anniversary of its enactment, we can- the largest 33 school districts with the man, every student deserves an effec- not take lightly ESEA’s mission, goals, highest concentration of Black and tive teacher, an engaging classroom, and achievements over the course of Hispanic students over $3 billion less in and a quality education that paves the five decades. It is by that yardstick of Federal funding than the President’s path for a bright and prosperous fu- history that we must judge H.R. 5 budget over the next 6 years. Further- ture. That is what we all want. Unfor- today and determine if it will move our more, the Center for American tunately, despite the best of inten- education system closer to meeting the Progress found in its review of port- tions, the Nation’s current K–12 edu- challenges of the 21st century and pre- ability that districts with high con- cation law has failed to provide stu- pare our students for the global econ- centrations of poverty could lose an av- dents this fundamental right. In fact, omy. erage of $85 per student, while the more the law has only gotten in the way. We all know too well that quality affluent areas would gain more than Far from taking us back to the past, education is even more vital today $290 per student. this bill will take us to the future, than it was generations ago. In our rap- There is an overwhelming body of re- where we should have been for a while idly changing economy, our Nation’s search that shows that targeting re- now in terms of education, so that we continued success depends on a well- sources to schools and districts with can maintain competitiveness with the educated workforce. A competitive and the highest concentrations of poverty rest of the world and win in the 21st educated workforce strengthens the is an effective way to mitigate the ef- century. very social fabric of America: people fects of poverty. Current law reflects No Child Left Behind’s onerous re- with higher levels of education are less this evidence and targets funding to quirements and the Obama administra- likely to be unemployed, less likely to schools where there are greater con- tion’s waiver scheme and pet projects need public assistance, less likely to centrations of poverty, and this bill have created a one-size-fits-all system become a teen parent, and less likely rolls the clock back and reverses that. that hinders innovation and stymies to get caught up in the criminal justice To add insult to injury, H.R. 5 elimi- local efforts to improve student learn- system. Over the course of ESEA’s his- nates what is called maintenance of ef- ing. As a result, too many young adults tory, we have recognized that for many fort, a requirement of ESEA that leave high school today without basic politically disconnected populations, States maintain their effort and that knowledge in reading, math, and equitable access to an education has the Federal money will supplement science. They are ill-equipped to com- not been a reality. It was necessary for what they are doing. As a result of this plete college and compete in the work- the Federal Government to fill in the bill, States could use their education force, and consequently they are de- gaps of funding our public school sys- funds to fund tax cuts or other nonedu- prived of one of the best opportunities tems. cation initiatives, thus turning ESEA they have to earn a lifetime of success. Inequality was inevitable when most into a glorified slush fund where poli- We shouldn’t shackle any student to school systems are funded by real es- tics would drive funding allocations. that kind of future.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:55 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00025 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K25FE7.046 H25FEPT1 smartinez on DSK4TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H1144 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE February 25, 2015 Americans have settled for the status broken law with much-needed, com- these funds and all the strings without quo for far too long, and today we have monsense education reforms and ask any input from our constituents or loan opportunity to chart the new you to vote ‘‘yes’’—‘‘yes’’—on the Stu- cally elected officials. I saw this in the course. The Student Success Act de- dent Success Act. Texas House. parts from the top-down approach that Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- I very much appreciate that the gen- has inefficiently and ineffectively gov- man, I yield 1 minute to the gentle- tleman from Indiana and Chairman erned elementary and secondary edu- woman from Oregon (Ms. BONAMICI), a KLINE worked with me to protect the cation and restores that responsibility member of the Committee on Edu- 10th Amendment and to ensure that to its rightful stewards: parents, teach- cation and the Workforce. States knowingly accept the strings at- ers, State and local education leaders, Ms. BONAMICI. Thank you, Mr. tached to these programs before they and the local taxpayers. Ranking Member, for yielding. receive any funding under this bill. First, the bill gets the Federal gov- Mr. Chairman, there is overwhelming I want to be clear that this provision ernment out of the business of running bipartisan consensus that we need to simply ensures that locally elected of- our schools. It eliminates the dizzying replace No Child Left Behind. And ficials, parents, and other interested maze of Federal mandates that has dic- there is overwhelming bipartisan con- stakeholders have the opportunity to tated local decisions and downsizes the sensus that a rewrite of No Child Left stand up and voice concern or support bloated bureaucracy at the Department Behind should promote local flexibility for accepting Federal funding at their of Education that has focused on what and support schools, not punish them. State capital before any unelected, un- Washington wants rather than what So I am deeply disappointed that the accountable bureaucrat can accept students need. The whole theme of this House has not come together to that money and all the strings that bill is that we trust teachers, parents, produce a bipartisan bill. come with them. local education officials, and our local Despite a common goal and a long I want to ask if the chairman concurs taxpayers much more than we would history of setting aside differences to that this is the intent and the result of ever trust a Federal bureaucrat. work together on this important legis- the language that you have included in Mr. Chairman, I find it funny that lation, this bill does not adequately the Student Success Act? the other side, those who are against support America’s students. Unfortu- Mr. KLINE. I thank the gentleman this bill, actually cite the Department nately, the Student Success Act shifts for yielding. of Education in arguing what a bad bill resources away from communities Let me thank my colleague from this is. Imagine a Federal bureaucrat where poverty is most concentrated Texas for his leadership on this impor- actually arguing to devolve its power and freezes funding for America’s most tant issue. I understand and appreciate back to its rightful owners. Of course needy students at a time when public your concern about this Federal role in they are going to be for the status quo. school enrollment is on the rise and education policy. They benefit from the status quo. The more than half the students come from That is why we were happy to include students do not. low-income families. your amendment in the underlying bill. Second, the bill empowers parents H.R. 5 does not support a well-round- It made the bill stronger and gave an- and education leaders with choice, ed education for all students, it does other tool to parents and local officials transparency, and flexibility. It en- not ensure college- and career-ready to protect their rights when it comes sures parents continue to have the in- standards for all students, it does not to educating our children. formation they need to hold schools ac- promote quality afterschool programs, This amendment, in combination countable and helps more families es- and it does not do enough to reduce with other strong provisions to rein in cape underperforming schools by ex- emphasis on high-stakes tests. the Secretary, including an absolute panding alternative education options The original goal of ESEA was laud- ban on his ability to force any State to such as quality charter schools. It also able—equity. ESEA deserves a full re- adopt the Common Core State Stand- provides States the flexibility to de- view by the House so we can implement ards or any other particular standards, velop their own systems for addressing thoughtful solutions that reflect the ensures the Federal Government can- school performance and the autonomy current needs in our schools. But this not dictate what is taught in schools, to use Federal funds in the most effi- bill does not protect historically under- what assessments are given, or what cient way. served students. standards are used. This bill respects, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman, I oppose this act, and In fact, this amendment ensures that it is the people’s property. It is I ask my colleagues to do the same. We States willfully accept the limited re- their tax dollars. We shouldn’t be forc- need a law that is serious about ad- quirements that will come with these ing any kind of maintenance of effort dressing the challenges educators and funds and reaffirms what decisions requirement on States or local juris- students face today. should be left to the States. dictions. It is their decision to decide I thank the gentleman for offering what to do with their money. b 1615 this provision and his commitment to a With the Student Success Act, we Mr. KLINE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 limited Federal role in education, and I have an opportunity to overcome the minutes to the gentleman from Texas yield back to the gentleman. failed status quo of high stakes testing (Mr. CULBERSON), who has been active Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Chairman, I and Federal waivers. We have an oppor- in this bill. want to thank you from the bottom of tunity to reduce the Federal footprint Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Chairman, I my heart for protecting the 10th in our Nation’s classrooms. We also want to ask, if I could, for the chair- Amendment rights of the States to have an opportunity to signal to moms, man of the Education and the Work- control their public school system and dads, teachers, administrators, and force Committee to engage in a col- affirming a parents’ right to control State officials that we trust them to loquy with me concerning the impor- their child’s education. hold schools accountable for delivering tance of ensuring the Federal Govern- I appreciate you confirming the in- a quality education to every child. ment does not interfere with States’ tent of this amendment. It will mean a As my good friend, former colleague rights over public education. far greater role for States and parents and fellow Hoosier Governor Mike Mr. KLINE. I, as the chairman of the in their child’s education. Pence, said before the House Education full committee, would be happy to en- Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- and the Workforce Committee earlier gage in that colloquy. man, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman this month: Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Chairman, I from Connecticut (Mr. COURTNEY), a There is nothing that ails education that believe there is no constitutional role member of the Committee on Edu- can’t be fixed by giving parents more choices for the Federal Government in education and the Workforce. and teachers more freedom to teach. cation. Mr. COURTNEY. Mr. Chairman, I That is exactly what this bill does. However, I understand that the funds hate to throw cold water on the last This bill fosters an environment to ac- under this act are accepted voluntarily colloquy, but I think it is important to complish that very thing. So I urge my by each State, but I am concerned that note as we debate this bill, which never colleagues to join me in replacing a State bureaucrats often simply accept had the benefit of a public hearing or a

VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:55 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00026 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K25FE7.047 H25FEPT1 smartinez on DSK4TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE February 25, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H1145 single subcommittee hearing, is that I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman schools. It protects State and local au- the Federal mandate for annual testing from Ohio (Ms. FUDGE), the ranking tonomy by prohibiting the Secretary of does not change as a result of this law. member of the Early Childhood, Ele- Education from coercing States into What does change regarding that mentary, and Secondary Education adopting Common Core or other stand- testing requirement is that the dedi- Subcommittee. ards or assessments and by preventing cated funding stream, which Congress Ms. FUDGE. Mr. Chairman, I strong- the Secretary from creating additional at least had the decency to pass back ly oppose H.R. 5, the Student Success burdens on States and school districts. in 2002, that is eliminated. Act. The bill reduces the size of the Fed- What you are doing is you are main- The Elementary and Secondary Edu- eral education bureaucracy. Currently, taining a mandate and you are elimi- cation Act reaffirmed the Supreme the Department of Education oversees nating the funding to pay for that Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of more than 80 programs geared towards mandate for testing. What we are end- Education that every child has the primary and secondary education, most ing up with, for all the talk about re- right to an equal educational oppor- of which are duplicative and fail to de- ducing the Federal footprint, is that we tunity. H.R. 5 undermines the law’s liver adequate results for students. The are doubling down on the Federal re- original intent, turning back the clock bill eliminates over 65 of these pro- quirement that States have to have an- on equity and accountability in Amer- grams and requires the Secretary of nual testing in schools, which every ican public education. Education to reduce the Department’s Member in this Chamber has heard As we commemorate the 50th anni- workforce accordingly. about in loud protest over the last 13 versary of ESEA, Republicans have The Student Success Act repeals on- years. chosen to honor the anniversary by erous, one-size-fits-all mandates that What this shows is that when the bringing a partisan bill to the House dictate accountability, teacher qual- process is broken—and it was broken in floor that tears apart the historic Fed- ity, and local spending that have done this case, no committee-subcommittee eral role in education. more to tie up States and school dis- meetings, no hearings, rushing it to H.R. 5 should be known as the ‘‘En- tricts in red tape than to support edu- the floor on a hyperpartisan basis, not sure Students Don’t Succeed Act.’’ The cation efforts. It returns responsibility one single Democratic amendment was bill is a backward leap in our country’s for classroom decisions to parents, accepted at the committee during education system, not a forward one. teachers, administrators, and edu- markup, that is what you end up with, Every student in America has a right cation officials. is a deformed bill, which should be de- to a quality education. It is our job as The bill also provides States and feated. Members of Congress to make sure that school districts the funding flexibility I urge in the strongest terms possible right is protected, something that H.R. to efficiently and effectively invest a ‘‘no’’ vote. Let’s go back and do this 5 does not do. limited taxpayer dollars to boost stu- the right way. I refuse to fail our children and their dent achievement by creating a local Mr. KLINE. Mr. Chairman, I yield families because our children deserve academic flexible grant. It provides the myself 1 minute. so much more than this legislation pro- public with greater transparency and Just to address a notion of what is vides. accountability over the development of done in secret and what is not done in Mr. KLINE. Mr. Chairman, I am very, new rules affecting K–12 schools. Education is a deeply personal issue. secret and whether or not people have very pleased to yield 4 minutes to the After years of the Secretary of Edu- had a chance to weigh in on this legis- distinguished gentlewoman from North cation running schools through execu- lation, as my friend knows—and I do Carolina (Ms. FOXX), the chair of the tive fiat, we understand that people are thank him for not mentioning basket- Subcommittee on Higher Education concerned about what a new K–12 edu- ball, by the way—as my friend knows, and Workforce Training. cation law will do. this bill has had multiple hearings over Ms. FOXX. Mr. Chairman, I thank That is why a number of key prin- several years. the chairman of the committee. ciples have guided our efforts to re- It has been debated in committee. It Mr. Chairman, the current K–12 edu- place the law since we began the proc- has been debated on the floor of the cation system is failing our students, ess more than 4 years ago: reducing the House. It has been debated in the and State and local attempts to make Federal footprint, restoring local con- media. It is much discussed and much it better have been hampered by an trol, and empowering parents and edu- known—in contrast to the bill, the enormous Federal footprint. cation leaders. amendment, a substitute that my Parents and education leaders have Those principles are reflected friends and colleagues on the other side lost much of their decisionmaking au- throughout the legislation, including of the aisle brought forward in com- thority to Washington bureaucrats, specific safeguards that protect the mittee, 851 pages, that nobody had seen and the Secretary of Education has right of States to opt out of the law, as outside the Democrat Caucus, so I be- bullied States into adopting the Obama well as the autonomy of home schools, lieve this bill is well known, and it is administration’s pet projects. religious schools, and private schools. the right direction to move us forward Unsurprisingly, student achievement Organizations such as the Council for into the future to make sure that all of levels remain worrisome. Just 36 per- American Private Education, the Home our children receive the quality edu- cent of eighth grade students read at School Legal Defense Association, and cation they deserve. grade level, and only 35 percent are Committee on Catholic Education of I reserve the balance of my time. proficient in math. U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- For far too long, our schools have have expressed support for the Student man, I yield myself 30 seconds just to been governed by a top-down approach Success Act because they know it will respond to the idea that our substitute that stymies State and local efforts to keep the Federal Government out of was produced. meet the unique needs of their student their business and preserve their cher- I would apologize to the gentleman populations. We can’t continue to ished rights. for having sprung the substitute on make the same mistakes and expect A host of administration bureaucrats him. better results. America’s students de- is attempting to defeat these much- However, 2 legislative days after his serve change. needed changes. They know each re- bill was introduced, he scheduled a Fortunately, this week, the House of form that returns flexibility and choice markup on the bill, so we produced a Representatives has an opportunity to to parents and school boards represent response to his bill in 2 legislative chart a new course with the Student a loss of power in D.C. days. That is all the time we were al- Success Act, legislation that reduces It is time we put the interests of lowed. the Federal footprint in the Nation’s America’s students above the desires of We would have allowed hearings. We classrooms and restores control to the Washington politicians. would have liked hearings on his bill people who know their students best: The CHAIR. The time of the gentle- and our bill, but that just wasn’t to parents, teachers, and local leaders. woman has expired. take place because of the rush to judg- The Student Success Act gets Wash- Mr. KLINE. I yield the gentlewoman ment. ington out of the business of running an additional 1 minute.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:55 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00027 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K25FE7.048 H25FEPT1 smartinez on DSK4TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H1146 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE February 25, 2015 Ms. FOXX. By reversing the top- Finally, I object to the utter lack of Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- down policies of recent decades, the Federal accountability in H.R. 5. While man, I yield 1 minute to the gentle- Student Success Act offers conserv- I oppose the current test-driven, high- woman from Massachusetts (Ms. ative solutions to repair a broken edu- stakes accountability system, I want CLARK), a member of the committee. cation system. the right accountability system, not no Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts. I It would finally get Washington out accountability system. thank the gentleman from Virginia for of the way and allow parents, teachers, Mr. Chairman, this legislation goes yielding. and State and local education leaders too far. It cuts too deep and takes too Mr. Chairman, the Elementary and the flexibility to provide every child in many steps backward. I oppose H.R. 5. Secondary Education Act was passed 50 every school a high-quality education. I call on my colleagues to do the same. years ago to embody the promise that Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- Mr. KLINE. Mr. Chairman, I yield education is a right, not a privilege. We man, I yield 1 minute to the gentle- myself such time as I may consume. are supposed to be guardians of that woman from California (Mrs. DAVIS), a I just want to address this issue of promise, not the architects of its de- member of the Committee on Edu- grants and block grants and so forth we mise. cation and the Workforce. are starting to hear a little bit about. This reauthorization was an oppor- Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Chair- I have been hearing for years, as I tunity for Congress to delve in and de- man, I thank Ranking Member SCOTT. talk to superintendents in Minnesota bate the most pressing issues facing I have to ask the majority: When did and around the country, their frustra- our schools. Sadly, the Republican ma- local control come to mean spend Fed- tion with the maze of Federal pro- jority chose to introduce a partisan bill eral dollars but ditch the Federal over- grams, 80-some Federal programs, each behind closed doors without a single sight? with its soda straw of funding and republic hearing. Now we have a bill that During our markup last week—and I quirements for action and reporting. reflects that lack of inclusion, takes certainly heard today Member after They have told me again and again: I hundreds of millions of dollars from Member arguing how removing Federal have got money here, and I don’t need our most vulnerable children, and standards would help local leaders it there. I need money here, and I can’t weakens the safeguards that govern make tough decisions. This is abso- move that money. I don’t have the taxpayer money. lutely backwards. flexibility to move that money. I need When I served on my local school For 9 years, I served on the second to be able to put the resources where committee, a tough economy meant largest school board in California, the my students need it. some really difficult decisions. Not ev- sixth in the Nation, and I distinctly re- So, by eliminating 65 of those soda eryone was happy, but we listened. We member every school in the district straws of individual controls and giv- listened to teachers, administrators, making a compelling case for extra re- ing that flexibility to superintendents, parents, students, experts, and fiscal sources. we allow the money to be spent where watchdogs, and we were guided by one Which is why, frankly, we should be it is needed the most. I think that is simple principle: what is best for our debating how to increase the size of the one of the great strengths of this bill, students. It is a shame Congress pie that goes to education, rather than and it is one of the reasons why the couldn’t find the will to do the same. only arguing on how to cut it up. American Association of School Super- I urge my colleagues to reject H.R. 5. I still remember particularly one intendents does support this legisla- Mr. KLINE. I continue to reserve the board meeting agonizing over the deci- tion. balance of my time. sion to move money from one needy I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- school to another. We had to cut our Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- man, I yield 1 minute to the gentle- budget, and we had to make a decision. man, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman woman from North Carolina (Ms. In the end, the law and the safeguards from Wisconsin (Mr. POCAN), a member ADAMS), a former college professor and around title I helped direct us to make of the Committee on Education and the now a member of the Committee on sure the money went to the students Workforce. Education and the Workforce. that needed it most. Mr. POCAN. Mr. Chairman, I thank Ms. ADAMS. Mr. Chairman, I thank Ultimately, the direction in the law Ranking Member SCOTT. Ranking Member SCOTT. helps us balance competing needs, and Mr. Chairman, this bill breaks the Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to I urge opposition to the bill. promise made 50 years ago to help all H.R. 5. Mr. KLINE. Mr. Chairman, I reserve kids get a good, quality public edu- Two weeks ago, our committee came the balance of my time. Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- cation and to recognize the challenges together expecting to seriously con- man, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman faced by kids living in poverty. sider this bill, but instead Republicans When talking about the problems said ‘‘no’’: ‘‘no’’ to moving beyond the from California (Mr. TAKANO), a mem- with this Republican bill, one wonders ber of the Committee on Education and status quo, ‘‘no’’ to investing in the fu- where to start. Is it the tearing apart the Workforce. tures of our kids, ‘‘no’’ to supporting of public education that comes in the our teachers and principals, and ‘‘no’’ b 1630 form of dismantling title I funding? or to ensuring the success of our neediest Mr. TAKANO. I thank the gentleman the fact that the portability scheme is students. from Virginia for yielding time. a slippery slope to turning our public Guess what. You said ‘‘yes’’ to taking Mr. Chairman, I rise today in strong school system into one big taxpayer- money from our poorest students like opposition to H.R. 5, also known as the funded voucher program with public Robin Hood in reverse, ‘‘yes’’ to eras- Student Success Act. Having spent 24 dollars sent to private schools? or the ing the gains we have made over the years as a classroom teacher, I am es- fact that Republicans have failed to ad- past 50 years, and ‘‘yes’’ to denying pecially concerned about the title I dress the need for early education or students success. This bill ignores the funding mechanism in this legislation. the maintenance of efforts of edu- obvious needs of our students and turns We have seen time and time again that cation? or that this bill diminishes the its back on some of our most vulner- block grants often redirect funding focus on professional development for able. away from intended populations and teachers or the clear protections for I hope we are not fooled by the name are a prelude to further cuts. collective bargaining agreements that of the bill. Student Success is a failure. I also oppose the Republican bill’s are already part of State laws? or, ulti- It clearly sets up our students to fail. portability provision, which betrays mately, that this bill provides insuffi- H.R. 5 fails on all accounts. It fails our the original intent of the Elementary cient funding lower than what the title neediest students. It fails to invest in and Secondary Education Act. ESEA is I authorization for last year authorized our teachers and our principals. It fails meant to promote equitable oppor- under the current law? to prepare students for college and ca- tunity and education for all and to help This bill doesn’t provide real student reers. This bill deserves an F. raise the academic achievement of low- success, Mr. Chairman. I urge my colleagues to vote ‘‘no.’’ income children. This legislation will Mr. KLINE. I reserve the balance of Mr. KLINE. I continue to reserve the do the opposite. my time. balance of my time.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:55 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00028 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K25FE7.049 H25FEPT1 smartinez on DSK4TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE February 25, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H1147 Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- It weakens or eliminates many suc- tive. First of all, 35 percent of our man, could you advise how much time cessful programs, including 21st Cen- fourth graders are reading at a pro- is available to both parties? tury Community Learning Centers ini- ficient level. Only 26 percent of our The CHAIR. The gentleman from Vir- tiative, which provides quality after high school seniors are proficient in ginia has 15 minutes remaining. The school, summer school programs for math. Just a couple examples that I gentleman from Minnesota has 13 min- disadvantaged children. mention. Those examples are unaccept- utes remaining. Mr. Chairman, it used to be that hard able. Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- work in schools and on the job was the The CHAIR. The time of the gen- man, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman surest ticket to the middle class. tleman has expired. from Rhode Island (Mr. CICILLINE), a Today, that compact is broken. Mil- Mr. KLINE. I yield the gentleman an former mayor. lions of hardworking families do not additional 1 minute. Mr. CICILLINE. Mr. Chairman, I earn enough to make ends meet, let Mr. BISHOP of Michigan. The Stu- thank the gentleman for yielding. alone move up in the world. The cuts dent Success Act gives authority back It is our responsibility to provide proposed in this bill would make mat- to our States and expands opportuni- America’s young people with every op- ters even worse. Kids from poor neigh- ties so our children can get the best portunity to obtain a world-class edu- borhoods are already being neglected, education opportunity possible. That is cation in the best possible environment while those from wealthy areas get an what they deserve, and that is what I so they can compete in an increasingly ever-increasing slice of the pie. These was sent to Washington, D.C., to sup- global economy. That is why it is crit- disparities reverberate throughout port. ical that we reauthorize ESEA the their lives to create an increasingly di- This bill is also critical in ensuring right way. Schools and educators de- vided, unequal society. the Federal Government cannot force a serve certainty, continuity, and direc- Let me put it simply: Without broad failed program like Common Core on tion based on new research and in- access to quality education, there is no the States. When looking at education formed by our experience from the last future for the middle class. With this reform, it is also important to make decade, and students deserve the best legislation, the majority is saying to sure that we continue to protect the education we can provide. H.R. 5 is not America’s low-income kids: You are on rights of our home schoolers and our the right way to do it. your own. private schools. That is exactly what H.R. 5 would freeze funding at cur- Mr. Chairman, that is not who we this bill does. rent levels for 6 years, representing are. I urge my colleagues to vote Mr. Chairman, we must reduce the over $800 million in cuts compared to against this bill. Federal Government’s footprint in our presequester funding. By funding pro- Mr. KLINE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 children’s classrooms because it is grams with block grants and intro- minutes to the gentleman from Michi- making a mess of the education sys- ducing title I portability, this fails to gan (Mr. BISHOP), a new member of the tem. We are long overdue for change, support greater achievement of low-in- committee. and I believe the Student Success Act come students, students of color, stu- Mr. BISHOP of Michigan. Mr. Chair- will move our Nation in the right di- dents with disabilities, and English man, I thank the gentleman for yield- rection. language learners. This fails students ing. Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- in so many ways. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support We should be working together to en- of H.R. 5, the Student Success Act, be- man, I yield myself such time as I may sure that a reauthorized ESEA im- cause our system, education system, is consume. Mr. Chairman, because this bill lim- proves student achievement, supports failing. Where I come from, we call try- its the amount of funding available, it teachers and principals, and provides ing to do things over and over again moves money from low-income areas to high-quality education for all students. and expecting a different outcome in- This bill does not accomplish this. sanity. I believe our system is broken wealthy areas, eliminates targeted I urge my colleagues to vote ‘‘no.’’ to the extent that it is a moral impera- funds for English learners and those Mr. KLINE. I continue to reserve the tive for Congress, at this point, to step with disabilities; it fails to set mean- balance of my time. up and act. Our students, our parents, ingful standards. A lot of organizations oppose the leg- Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- our teachers should not have to settle man, I yield 2 minutes to the gentle- for a failing system. islation, including business organiza- woman from Connecticut (Ms. Before Congress, I worked in the pri- tions, child advocacy groups, civil DELAURO), the ranking member on the vate sector, and I also had an oppor- rights groups, the organizations sup- Committee on Appropriations Sub- tunity to work in State government, porting those with disabilities and committee on Labor, Health and including the opportunity to serve as health groups, including the Congres- Human Services, Education, and Re- the majority leader of the Michigan sional Tri-Caucus; the Advocacy Insti- lated Agencies. Senate. At that time, I saw firsthand tute; the Afterschool Alliance; the Ms. DELAURO. Upon signing the how much more effective we can be at American-Arab Anti-Discrimination original Elementary and Secondary the State level to use State resources Committee; the American Association Education Act, President Johnson de- and control where they are going than of People With Disabilities; the Amer- scribed education as ‘‘the only valid to have the Federal Government come ican Association of University Women; passport from poverty.’’ This bill in, step in and use, and expect the the American Federation of Teachers; threatens to tear up that passport. It State to spend it in a certain way. the American Foundation for the caps Federal education funding at 2015 This system of top-down does not Blind; the Association of University levels, levels which are already woe- help the States; it puts us in a bad po- Centers on Disabilities; Autism Na- fully inadequate after years of drastic sition. As a State legislator, had I the tional Committee; Autistic Self Advo- cuts, and makes no provision for infla- opportunity, I would have come here cacy Network; the Center for American tion, let alone the growing need for and supported the cause as well be- Progress; the Center for Law and So- Federal education programs. cause it is the right thing to do. I do cial Policy; the Children’s Defense The bill allows States to direct Fed- believe it is high time that we defend Fund; the Committee for Education eral dollars away from schools in dis- the 10th Amendment and rein back the Funding; the Consortium for Citizens tricts with the greatest poverty. It per- Federal Government’s role, especially with Disabilities; the Council of the mits States to reduce education fund- in our children’s education. Local Great City Schools; the Council of Par- ing with no accountability. It allows teachers and parents know our children ent Attorneys and Advocates, Inc.; schools in wealthier neighborhoods to better than the Department of Edu- Democrats for Education Reform; Dis- use title I funding without having to cation in Washington, D.C., ever could; ability Rights Education & Defense target funds to the students with the and the result is that our system is Fund; Easter Seals; Education Post; greatest needs. It is a blatant betrayal broken, and that becomes clearer and Education Law Center; First Focus of the ESEA’s fundamental purpose, clearer every day. Campaign for Children; Gay, Lesbian & which is to level the playing field for I just want to mention a couple sta- Straight Education Network; Human low-income kids. tistics that I find alarming but instruc- Rights Campaign; the Bazelon Center

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I want to help all of the Nation’s children and their Fund; the National Association of thank the gentleman from Minnesota families prepare for their futures. School Psychologists; the National for his work on this bill. It is a very H.R. 5 abdicates the historic Federal role Center for Learning Disabilities; the important bill, and it is certainly very in elementary and secondary education of National Council on Independent Liv- applicable to what is going on in our ensuring the educational progress of all of ing; the National Council on Teacher country right now. America’s children, including children from Mr. Chairman, Federal intervention low-income families, students with disabil- Quality; the National Center on Time ities, English learners, and students of color. & Learning; the National Congress of in our Nation’s classrooms is at an all- It fails to maintain the core expectation that American Indians; the National Coun- time high, and the Obama administra- States and school districts will take serious, cil of La Raza; the National Coalition tion continues to believe that they sustained, and targeted actions when nec- for Public Education; the National Dis- think they know what is best for our essary to remedy achievement gaps and re- ability Rights Network; the National children. However, despite the contin- form persistently low-performing schools. Down Syndrome Congress; the Na- ued intrusion into our children’s class- H.R. 5 fails to identify opportunity gaps or tional Education Association; the Na- rooms, student achievement remains remedy inequities in access to the resources stagnant. and supports students need to succeed, such tional Urban League; the National as challenging academic courses, excellent Women’s Law Center; Partners for Out of 34 countries, students in the teachers and principals, afterschool enrich- Each and Every Child; the Poverty & U.S. rank 20th and 27th in science and ment or expanded learning time, and other Race Research Action Council; Public math respectively, so it is clear that academic and nonacademic supports. Advocates Inc.; Stand for Children; our education system is not adequately Rather than investing more in schools, Southeast Asia Resource Action Cen- serving our children, and it is not H.R. 5 would allow States to divert edu- ter; TASH; Teach Plus; TNTP; the Edu- going to be fixed by Washington bu- cation funding away from the schools and students who need it the most through the cation Trust; the United Negro College reaucrats. Our education system can only be fixed by parents, teachers, so-called ‘‘portability’’ provision. The bill’s Fund; the Leadership Conference on caps on Federal education spending would Civil and Human Rights; and the U.S. aunts, uncles, coaches, and community lock in recent budget cuts for the rest of the Chamber of Commerce. They are all in leaders—the people who actually know decade, and the bill would allow funds cur- opposition to this legislation. what is best for our Nation’s children. rently required to be used for education to be Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance That is why I am supporting H.R. 5. used for other purposes, such as spending on of my time. I am supporting this bill to put some sports stadiums or tax cuts for the wealthy. restraints on the administration, to H.R. 5 fails to make critical investments for b 1645 rein in the Department of Education, the Nation’s students, including high-quality Mr. KLINE. Mr. Chairman, I reserve and to put the keys to our children’s preschool for America’s children, support for America’s teachers and principals, and in- the balance of my time. educations and futures back in local Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- vestment in innovative solutions for the pub- control where it belongs. lic education system. man, I yield 1 minute to the gentle- It repeals out-of-touch teacher quali- The administration agrees on the need for woman from Alabama (Ms. SEWELL). fication programs, and it allows State high-quality statewide annual testing as re- Ms. SEWELL of Alabama. Mr. Chair- and local officials to determine who is quired in H.R. 5, so parents and teachers man, I often don’t come to the floor to qualified to teach their children. It know how children and schools are doing speak, but I felt compelled on this par- also eliminates 65 programs and cre- from year to year and to allow for consistent ticular bill, H.R. 5, to talk about it. ates a grant program with greater measurement of school and student performance across the State. However, this bill Why? Because I represent a district flexibility for school districts. that has 90 percent of the public should do more to reduce redundant and un- We all know that children learn dif- necessary testing, such as asking States to schoolchildren who live and receive re- ferently and at their own pace, and limit the amount of time spent on standard- duced or free lunches and it is impor- without this bill, the Secretary of Edu- ized testing and requiring parental notifica- tant for me to just state for the record cation can prohibit funds from being tion when testing is consuming too much that I think that a bill that takes away sent to States unless they adopt cer- classroom learning time. funding from public schools—targeted tain one-size-fits-all standards, like The administration opposes H.R. 5 in its funding for low-income and poverty Common Core. current form for all of these reasons but particularly because it would deny Federal students—would be an abomination. I will be the first one to say that ad- This bill is here because of the work funds to the classrooms that need them the ditional reforms to our education sys- most and fails to assure parents that policy- of Lyndon Johnson 50 years ago. It was tem are needed. No, this is not the sil- makers and educators will take action when a civil rights bill, frankly. Why? It was ver bullet, but it is a great start, and it students are not learning. an acknowledgment that socially dis- is a great bill. I support this bill, and I If the President were presented with H.R. advantaged children needed additional urge all of my colleagues to do the 5, his senior advisers would recommend that help. Somewhere along the line, Mr. same. he veto the bill. Chairman, we have lost as a nation the Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- I reserve the balance of my time. notion of ‘‘our children.’’ man, I yield myself such time as I may Mr. KLINE. Mr. Chairman, I am It is always ‘‘my child,’’ not ‘‘our consume. happy to yield 3 minutes to the gen- children.’’ I just want to state for the record tleman from Michigan (Mr. WALBERG), The CHAIR. The time of the gentle- that graduation rates have been up the chairman of the Subcommittee on woman has expired. since No Child Left Behind was passed. Workforce Protections. Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. I yield the Black and Latino children are doing Mr. WALBERG. Thank you, Mr. gentlewoman an additional 30 seconds. better, so it has been working, but we Chairman. Ms. SEWELL of Alabama. Until the need to continue to improve. Mr. Chairman, since No Child Left parents of more affluent children see Mr. Chairman, I would like to read Behind was put in place, the Federal that their lives are intrinsically linked the Statement of Administration Pol- Government has dictated how States to children who are poor, we as a na- icy, which speaks to the administra- and school districts spend money, tion will never be the beloved commu- tion position on H.R. 5. The Statement gauge student learning and school per- nity that so many civil rights leaders of Administration Policy goes as fol- formance, and hire classroom teachers. fought and died for. lows: Frankly, Mr. Chairman, it isn’t I want to thank the gentleman from The administration strongly opposes H.R. working. Washington bureaucrats, no Virginia for the opportunity to speak 5, the Student Success Act, as approved by matter how well meaning they are, will on this underlying bill, and I want to the House Committee on Education and the never have the personal understanding

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Erin is my daughter-in-law and the future in great ways for this coun- tional waivers which provide no con- the mother of my four grandchildren. try and to lead the world. tinuity, no predictability, and that is Moses was a student who tested her b 1700 why we are hearing on both sides of the teaching ability and her passion for aisle—from coast-to-coast and off the teaching. This is what we are talking about, coast, as a matter of fact—that we Erin came to teach in a fourth and Mr. Speaker. The Student Success Act need to replace No Child Left Behind. fifth grade classroom for special needs places control back in the hands of I believe that as we replace No Child students in Cicero, Illinois. Freshly education’s rightful stewards: the Left Behind, we need to put responsi- minted out of her educational training teachers, the administrators, the bility in the hands of parents and and master’s program, she came in States, the parents, and, ultimately, teachers and school boards and States, with a passion for teaching. the students. and not in the hands of Washington, She came in because she was sent in Let’s pass this bill. D.C. that classroom as a full-time, con- Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- I think that it is not fair to say that tinuing substitute because the teacher man, how much time is remaining? there is not a problem. We heard from of that classroom had gotten up one The Acting CHAIR (Mr. ABRAHAM). the ranking member that graduation day, had walked out of the classroom, The gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. rates have gone up. On the other hand, and had never come back. KLINE) has 4 minutes remaining, and they haven’t gone up much, and we are Erin was given the opportunity of a the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. still in a position where a fourth, or 26 lifetime of teaching these students, and SCOTT) has 4 minutes remaining. percent, of high school seniors are pro- she began to invest her life into those Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- ficient in math. That means 74 per- students, especially in one young stu- man, I yield myself such time as I may cent—maybe I need to have a little dent, a fourth grader by the name of consume. math here—are not. Only 38 percent of Moses. Mr. Chairman, the Consortium for those high school seniors can read at Moses came from a difficult situa- Citizens With Disabilities says: grade level. We have a problem with tion. Moses at that time in the fourth The Student Success Act does not fully one in five students dropping out. We grade was not even fully potty-trained, support students with disabilities, and in need to address that problem. fact, it creates incentives for schools and dis- We heard a lot of talk about where but Erin invested her time and talent tricts to take students with disabilities, un- and, frankly, her treasure in the life of checked, off the track from having equitable title I funds go and portability to pub- that student, as well as of the others. access to and achieving a regular high school lic schools. It is a question, I under- She had a wonderful outcome in work- diploma. stand. There is a disagreement here, ing with the parent in the home, as Incidence data reflects that less than 1 per- but we happen to believe it is fair that well as with Moses in the classroom. cent of all students have the significant cog- if you are a poor kid, if you are eligible The next year, Erin was given the op- nitive disabilities, which corresponds to for title I funds, you ought to get those portunity to be a full-time teacher, not about 10 percent of students with disabil- funds. There is a disagreement. I think ities. a sub anymore. I will never forget the Without this limitation, we fear that the children, if they are eligible, if day when Erin came to me, with tears schools may inappropriately assign students they are in poverty, ought to get their in her eyes, and said: ‘‘Dad, I’m not to the alternative assessment. Data show as- share of title I funds. sure I’m cut out for teaching.’’ signment to these alternative assessments One of the things we didn’t talk I said: ‘‘Erin, why? You had an amaz- may lead to reduced access to the general much about today as we talked about ing impact for that 6 months of time curriculum and limit a student’s access to the problems out there, we know that you spent in the same classroom last earn a regular diploma. in some areas of the country you have year.’’ That is why the disability groups op- children trapped in absolutely failing She said: ‘‘Now, all I’m doing is fill- pose the legislation. schools where less than half of the kids ing out paperwork for Illinois, for Chi- Mr. Chairman, I just want to end graduate and those that graduate are cago, and for the Federal Govern- with a reminder that this limits the nowhere near ready to go to college or ment.’’ funding. It transfers money from low- go to work. She ultimately had our twin income areas to high-income areas. So we have seen across the country grandsons and went from the classroom That is not just urban areas. There are and in most States public charter to the home, but there will be a day over 2,400 low-income rural districts schools popping up, giving parents that comes when those four kids are at that will lose about $150 million, or 15 hope, giving them a chance to get the stage when she can go back to the percent, of their total allocation, under those kids out of failing schools. classroom. I want Erin to go back and the current law. The legislation elimi- I said this the other day in the Rules have the ability to teach, to love on nates targeting for English learners Committee, because it was so moving those kids, to direct them, to work and those with disabilities. Finally, it to me. I went to a charter school in with the parents, and not spend time fails to set meaningful standards. north Minneapolis. There were 430 kids filling out bureaucratic forms. For those reasons, we should join the in that school. Their parents are de- Mr. Chairman, that is why I support administration in opposing H.R. 5, and lighted with the education they are the Student Success Act. It replaces I yield back the balance of my time. getting now and thrilled to get their Federal control with State and local Mr. KLINE. Mr. Chairman, I yield kids out of failing schools. control. myself the balance of my time. When I asked the principal and the The CHAIR. The time of the gen- As is always the case in these debates founder of the school if she could take tleman has expired. on the floor, we hear a lot of things. more kids, she said: No, this is the Mr. KLINE. I yield the gentleman an- Some of them are actually factual; right size for this school. She would other 1 minute. some of them are not. There is, like to replicate the school—and that Mr. WALBERG. The bill allows shockingly, some hyperbole that comes is what this bill allows—so she can States to establish and implement along with this. have another successful charter school. their own standards and assessments. We did hear some things, though, And how successful is it? There are a The bill allows States to develop their from both sides of the aisle that I thousand kids, Mr. Chairman, on the own accountability plans for improving think are worth underscoring. One of waiting list to get in that charter underperforming schools by elimi- the speakers on the other side of the school because their parents want to nating federally prescribed school im- aisle talked about how schools and get out of a failing school system. This provement and turnaround interven- States need continuity—I think was bill allows that to happen.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:55 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00031 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K25FE7.053 H25FEPT1 smartinez on DSK4TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H1150 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE February 25, 2015 It comes down to, fundamentally: health conditions and consequences of Now, we need to remember that these Who do you trust, Washington or local eating disorders. radio and television stations are not government? We want to put the con- Eating disorders affect more than 14 monolithic corporations. They are trol in the hands of parents and local million Americans and have dispropor- owned and run and managed by our school boards and States. tionate impacts on teens and young friends and neighbors, the people that I urge my colleagues to support this adults. Beyond genetic links, factors we see every day. bill, and I yield back the balance of my such as consistent exposure to mis- Today is a big day. It is an appro- time. leading advertising that distort one’s priate day to celebrate—not just in- Ms. LINDA T. SA´ NCHEZ of California. Mr. own body image can lead to eating dis- form and educate but celebrate—the Chair, I rise today in opposition of H.R. 5, the orders. The key to containing this role of America’s broadcasters in our ill-named Student Success Act. H.R. 5 would growing health issue is to spread communities. Because today, hundreds undermine significant gains made by No Child awareness and promote authentic, of Members of Congress were able to Left Behind, and eviscerate the Elementary healthy body images. meet with their local television and and Secondary Education Act by dismantling That is why, Mr. Speaker, along with radio station personalities and man- its foundation of equity and accountability. a bipartisan coalition, we have urged agers and representatives. Today, near- Under this bill, school districts with the high- the Federal Trade Commission to up- ly 600 broadcasters came to Capitol Hill est concentrations of Hispanic students would hold their duty to protect American to tell their story of public service and lose more than $1.9 billion in federal funding. consumers by working with health pro- to remind their Representatives of Los Angeles Unified School District which is fessionals and the advertising industry their role. more than 74 percent Hispanic faces the larg- to promote fair and responsible adver- You may not know that these broad- est cut in Title I funds, over $80 million, which tisements, especially for products casters are required by statute to serve the public interest. When I hear about amounts to nearly 25 percent of their budget. geared for children and teens. School districts with a high concentration of If you suspect that your child has an the stories they cover, when I see the students living in poverty could lose $700 mil- eating disorder, please seek profes- types of stories they cover, the lives they have touched, the service that lion in funding and high-poverty districts could sional help. There are many local re- they are providing, I am heartened to see cuts as large as 74 percent. The port- sources available to families. know that we have a vibrant, thriving ability of Title I funds would divert and dilute f system of local broadcasting in this limited funds from schools with high needs THE IMPORTANCE OF LOCAL country. and high concentrations of poverty. This un- BROADCASTERS Unlike many other countries around dermines the fundamental purpose of Title I: The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. the world, where national and regional to assist high needs and high poverty schools. ABRAHAM). Under the Speaker’s an- news is what is available to their citi- With 35 percent of Latino children under the nounced policy of January 6, 2015, the zens, here in the United States, here in age of five living in poverty, this is the time to gentleman from North Dakota (Mr. places like North Dakota and Texas increase, not decrease funding. CRAMER) is recognized for 60 minutes as and Arkansas and others, we have a Education is our nation’s great equalizer. I the designee of the majority leader. system of local radio and TV stations would not be where I am today if it were not GENERAL LEAVE so folks living in the same community for the quality public education I received. For Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Speaker, I ask are bound together by weather events, over 50 years, ESEA has been our nation’s unanimous consent that all Members sporting events, news of the day, and driving force for educational equity. Unfortu- have 5 legislative days in which to re- human interest, all provided by an ac- nately, this Republican bill would dismantle the vise and extends their remarks and in- curate local source. foundation of equality and accountability that clude extraneous materials on the I know in North Dakota we have seen ESEA has built over the last half-century. If we topic of today’s Special Order. weather emergencies where informa- want our nation to remain a leader in the The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there tion from our local broadcasters was world, we must improve equal access to qual- objection to the request of the gen- all that was available for those suf- ity education for the next generation. Our stu- tleman from North Dakota? fering the impacts of a storm. Several dents are the future of tomorrow, and we sim- There was no objection. years ago, I myself, with my family, in ply cannot let them down. Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Speaker, I appre- 1984, spent all night—this was before The Acting CHAIR. All time for gen- ciate so much this opportunity that we cell phones, I know—spent all night in eral debate has expired. have this evening to inform and to edu- a car in a blizzard that came upon Pursuant to the rule, the committee cate my colleagues in the House, fellow North Dakota suddenly. We were just rises. Members of Congress, and even the off the interstate. The only commu- Accordingly, the Committee rose; American people through C–SPAN, nication we had was through KFGO and the Speaker pro tempore (Ms. ROS- about the importance of local radio and Radio, which won a Peabody that year LEHTINEN) having assumed the chair, television broadcasters. They are im- for broadcasting to us and to several Mr. ABRAHAM, Acting Chair of the portant not only to our country, but I others that were stranded in that Committee of the Whole House on the want to talk about how important they storm. state of the Union, reported that that are to our communities—the commu- So, today, we are going to hear a Committee, having had under consider- nities we live in, the communities they number of stories from Members of ation the bill (H.R. 5) to support State live in, the communities they work in. Congress across the country also and local accountability for public edu- For decades, these broadcasters have touched by their local TV and radio cation, protect State and local author- been the first ones to respond to disas- stations. I thank them for sharing sto- ity, inform parents of the performance ters and emergencies. They have saved ries about their local stations. I will of their children’s schools, and for numerous lives by their ability to be share some of mine as we go through- other purposes, had come to no resolu- on the scene and to broadcast widely. out this Special Order, but I want to tion thereon. They have helped communities pick up call on somebody who knows a fair bit f the pieces after a natural disaster or a about broadcasting, the gentleman manmade disaster. The broadcasters of from Arkansas (Mr. CRAWFORD). NATIONAL EATING DISORDERS our country, of our communities, have Mr. CRAWFORD. Mr. CRAMER, I ap- AWARENESS WEEK played a vital role in the quality of life preciate the opportunity. It is an honor (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was in our communities. to be able to stand up and advocate on given permission to address the House I have been blessed throughout my behalf of our broadcasters, who are not for 1 minute and to revise and extend career not just in public service but in only my constituents and your con- her remarks.) other positions to work with local stituents, but my colleagues, because I Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, broadcasters hosting telethons to help am, as you mentioned, a former broad- this week is National Eating Disorders find cures for diseases like muscular caster, and I know firsthand the impor- Awareness Week. This time is dedi- dystrophy, cancer, and many other distance of broadcasting, as you indicated to educating parents and chil- eases that our communities have tack- cated, to local and national commu- dren about the causes and serious led together. nities.

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Many are not because Everybody’s got a radio in their car they have to leave because of rising good number of my constituents were or in their tractor, in their truck, in tuned in to their local radio station, water and wind damage. the office, whatever; and when every- When Hurricane Ike came into Gal- their local television station, to hear thing else fails, you can’t get a cell sig- about school closures and to hear veston, Texas, it went across the is- nal, you can’t get your Internet, what- land, and then when the wind shifted, about road conditions and to hear ever, the radio is reliable. about other community closures and it came back across the island, but From the farmers’ perspectives, that saltwater went across and came shelters that might be available and which obviously I have an interest in, any number of things that are nec- back. Tremendous damage in Gal- they rely heavily on that, and there is veston, Texas. essary in times of weather that could an element of trust. Their local broad- The only thing the people could lis- put them in a position of distress, so it caster is usually a trusted source of in- is very, very important. ten to or find information, really, was formation, so that is why it is so im- I have got some statistics here that their car radio as they are trying to portant and why they rely so heavily really speak to the value proposition leave the area. The radio stations and on their local broadcaster, whether that they bring to our economy. In my TV stations that are still on the air are district alone, there are 20 local tele- that be their 6 p.m. news. I have been a news anchor on our very vital for public safety and infor- vision stations and 233 local radio sta- mation and about the weather. People tions in the State of Arkansas. That is local television station, and folks do become accustomed to hearing from listen to the local broadcasters about statewide, not districtwide. what is happening right there. These broadcasters contribute $9.83 you, and they trust that. Here is the other thing that is inter- When Hurricane Rita came into billion to our State’s GDP, and they Houston in 2005, approximately 2.5 mil- have provided roughly 22,000 jobs in the esting about broadcasters: they are integrating new media in conjunction lion to 3 million people evacuated. State of Arkansas. Now, some say that this is the largest Beyond Arkansas, in the entire coun- with their broadcasting, so it sort of evacuation in American history. I try, local broadcasters account for 2.65 supplements what their core mission don’t know. That is a lot of people on million jobs, and they provide—get is, to provide that service to the com- the road, and they are all headed north this—$1.24 trillion to our GDP. munity over the airwaves. As we talked about, they provide a The great thing about broadcasters is to get away from the wind and the rain variety of services to communities that they are very innovative. They are not and the flooding that is taking place. they support. One of the things that I a static business model. They are de- What people were listening to in the didn’t mention, as a broadcaster, I was veloping new technology, they are inte- car was local radio stations that were a farm broadcaster, so you can appre- grating new technology, and it all on the air broadcasting, not just the ciate this, being from North Dakota. works together, with the core mission weather, but the traffic that was tak- Most farmers rely on those market being to serve their communities. ing place. Eventually, the freeways, reports, weather reports, bug reports, You see fundraising efforts for the the interstates all allowed traffic to disease reports, any number of things, Make-A-Wish Foundation on the local move on all lanes north. information that is relevant to produc- radio station. That is important. Radio The way the folks found out about tion agriculture that they rely on, so stations and television stations are in- that was on the radio, the announce- that was one of the things that helped novative in community support activi- ments being made by the Texas Depart- launch my career. I was able to start a ties. ment of Public Safety, Texas highway farm news network, operated it, start- AMBER Alerts, not only are they department, that the lanes had been ed with four stations, and it is now up broadcasting those AMBER Alerts, but shifted so that everybody could travel to 53 in a five-state area. they are using texts and social media in all of the lanes that took place, so All of that is very specific to the to supplement that and really help en- that information was so vital. local community and what is grown hance their broadcasting efforts, too. It is not just important during hurri- and raised in those communities, and There is a lot of these things that cane season. As already stated by the so farmers have come to rely on that, you can’t get along without, I think, gentleman from Arkansas, it is impor- and I am sure it is the same in your without our public broadcasters, our tant during even normal weather, if we home State of North Dakota. local community broadcasters—tele- can call what is taking place here in But I think the point that we are try- vision and radio—who operate on the Washington normal weather, but the ing to make here is that every commu- airwaves. snow and the ice. People want to listen nity is unique. Every community has Mr. CRAMER. Great points. Thank to local radio to find out—and local their own needs, and no one knows you so much for participating. television. those needs better than the broad- Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman Also, even go back to Katrina. We all casters who serve those communities. from Texas (Mr. POE). I just want to say, as a Congress, I Mr. POE of Texas. I thank the gen- remember Hurricane Katrina. Folks in think it is our duty to support broad- tleman for having this Special Order. Louisiana left Louisiana, and they casters who do so much for the region Mr. Speaker, let me bring an addi- came to Texas, and as they were get- and their communities, and I appre- tional perspective to the importance of ting to Texas, guess what, Hurricane ciate you taking the time to make this local broadcasters, TV, radio. I live Rita hit Texas. hour happen. down on the gulf coast. We call where Houstonians, primarily, when those Mr. CRAMER. If the gentleman I live in my district ‘‘hurricane alley.’’ folks from Louisiana were coming our wouldn’t mind, I would like to ask a Just since I have been in Congress, way, were told by local media on where question. I know we didn’t rehearse Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita, they could go to take things for those this, but in this era of all kinds of new Hurricane Humberto, Hurricane Ike, neighbors from Louisiana, everything information technologies available and and Hurricane Gustav have all hit my from food and blankets, and go volun- ways of getting information, streaming congressional district. Now, some teer to help out to find shelter for and cell phones and smartphones and blame me. It is not my fault, but here these individuals. the like, maybe you could just share a they come, all of these hurricanes. Local radio, local television is broad- minute or two about why it is still im- We are down on the gulf coast, and as casting how that can be done, how that portant, what role the broadcaster, the soon as the hurricanes come through, can be help to those individuals. That free, over-the-air broadcast through guess what, there goes the power—elec- couldn’t have been done if we didn’t the public spectrum, why that matters tricity. Besides all of the flooding, the have our local broadcasters who know in this era of new IT. damage, the wind, all of this happens the area, know the people.

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Worth broadcasters. in North Dakota, North Dakotans have wonderful school to the community The other issue that I want to men- become very accustomed to coming to each year during its annual telethon on tion is our—well, there are two more, Texas for football games because, for WPRI-TV. This 4-hour, commercial- and they are just as important. Local the last 4 years, the North Dakota free telethon preempts prime-time pro- radio and television has local political State University football team has won gramming, and all production for the issues and debates on our community, the national FCS championship game event is done in-house by the station. from the local politicians, the local of- in Frisco, Texas. Last year, the telethon generated ficeholders, and even others. That is all Thank you for reminding us of that, $500,000 from phone donations and long- done locally by our broadcasters on tel- and we look forward to a trip next term corporate commitments tied to evision; it is done on radio all the time. year, perhaps. the event, and it has raised billions of There is political argument and debate That said, I appreciate what you dollars over the years. by our local media. raised about how many broadcast sta- The local newspaper and WNRI-AM Something that is important to us— tions really—they are tools of the First in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, carry on I don’t know about the Dakotas, but it Amendment, and they are also, obvi- the Milk Fund, which is a local tradi- is important to us. We like football in ously, an important part of the First tion that started in 1936 as a way to Texas. We like high school football. Amendment because that is where they help struggling families. Each year Let’s be a little specific. On Friday derive their rights to express and to through the month of December, mul- night, everybody is playing football at broadcast. tiple fundraising efforts in Woonsocket the high schools, at the stadiums. Where would politicians be without raise money toward the purchase of Our local broadcasters, yes, they are broadcasting debates? So I appreciate milk vouchers. out there at the stadiums, and at 10 that as well. Another example: this past fall, lis- Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman p.m. news, they have a little bit of teners tuned in to WKKB-FM in Provi- from Rhode Island (Mr. CICILLINE), just news, and then they have a little bit of dence for its 2-day Promesa y to let everybody know this is obviously weather, and then they spend most of Esperanza—Promise and Hope— a very important bipartisan Special the rest of the news broadcasting tapes Radiothon, which raises funds for St. Order because it a very important bi- from the high school football games in Jude Children’s Hospital. The broad- partisan issue. the Houston area. cast is carried out in partnership with They are very important, Mr. Speak- Mr. CICILLINE. I thank the gen- 15 sister stations throughout the coun- er, to know exactly who won the game, tleman for the time and for organizing try to raise awareness of childhood who the visiting team was, high school this Special Order. cancer within the Hispanic community football. We are not going to see that To be sure that folks do not think unless we have local broadcasting. Of that local broadcasters are only impor- and to help St. Jude continue to offer course, high school football is on the tant in the Midwest, I am here rep- treatment to all children, regardless of radio as well. I do want to mention resenting New England. We have many, their family’s ability to pay. This that important service that local many examples where our local broad- year’s effort raised more than $100,000 broadcasters give us. casters have really made a difference in WKKB’s listening area alone, and We have a lot of great broadcasters in Rhode Island. more than $630,000 between the 16 sta- in the Houston area, both on radio and tions combined. b 1730 on television. I would like to mention And just one final example: LIN some of them. Channel 13 has Dave I think sometimes the best way to il- Media, which owns WPRI-TV in East Ward. I think he has been on tele- lustrate that is to give real examples of Providence, established the Minority vision, nightly news—I don’t know, I where that happened. Scholarship and Training Program. would hate to say 30 years, but maybe So, for example, there was a docu- Each recipient will receive a 2-year it has been that long or more—along mentary made about a homeless man scholarship for up to $10,000 per year, with Gina Gaston. finding help at Crossroads, which is the which can be used for school expenses. On channel 26, we have got Jose largest homeless services organization In addition, LIN Media will provide Grinan; channel 2, Bill Balleza and in the State of Rhode Island. WPRI-TV, each student with hands-on training Dominique Sachse; then channel 11, a local broadcaster in the city of Provi- through a paid internship program at Greg Hurst and Lisa Hernandez. dence, secured the rights to this docu- one of its television stations around Years ago, there was this local tele- mentary and took the opportunity to the country. Minority Scholarship revision celebrity that worked for chan- create a telethon around its airing. cipients are assigned full-time posi- nel 13. He turned out to be a celebrity Viewers were asked to open their tions at LIN Media upon graduation named Marvin Zindler. He is an icon in hearts and their pocketbooks and and successful completion of the train- the Houston area. pledge by phone or online, and that ef- ing program. He is a local broadcaster, and he fort raised $85,000 for the shelter, pro- So these are just some examples, and spent time going around in the Hous- viding greatly needed funding as the I know there are examples like this all ton restaurants examining restaurants housing crisis and economy created an across the country where local broad- and, as he said, looking for slime in the ever-growing demand for the shelter casters are really making a difference, ice machine. He did a nightly broadcast services. So that is one example. not only helping raise needed resources on restaurants that just weren’t up to Another example is, while residents for nonprofit organizations, getting in- the health standards of the city of of our capital city, the city of Provi- formation to listeners and viewers dur- Houston. dence, waited for their electricity to be ing emergencies, but really helping to Other investigative reporters are restored in their homes after Hurricane strengthen our communities. And I, for doing something very similar on the Irene cut off power to many in our one, want to acknowledge the local local basis as well, but it is all local. It State, WJAR-TV Providence simulcast broadcasters and to say thank you. I is the local broadcasters that are doing the audio portion of its newscast on hope these examples help illustrate the it. Clear Channel’s WHJJ-AM Providence. value of our local broadcasters. I commend the gentleman, Mr. This arrangement allowed locals to re- I really thank the gentleman for or- CRAMER. I am sorry I talked so long. ceive the TV station’s around-the- ganizing this Special Order hour and The local folks, we certainly couldn’t clock coverage on battery-operated ra- for yielding. exist without them. Radio, television, dios, which was obviously a very im- Mr. CRAMER. I appreciate the gen- we appreciate what they do, not just portant service. tleman’s recognition of that and the for football, but for the other things as In our State, we have a wonderful fa- very thorough list of examples of the well. cility, a school called Meeting Street, incredible public service that our

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At the end of it tant role for free broadcast radio and they really have multiple public serv- all, they provided a video documentary television, that even with all the new ice roles. of the experience so that every veteran media, that it only, in fact, enhances Certainly it is a public service to be and their families who participated had the importance of free over-the-air able to give the news, to deliver the that wonderful memory in a DVD that broadcasts. sporting games, to deliver the weather, they could watch for the rest of their With that, I yield to another Member to deliver emergency information for lives. from Texas. public safety, to let people know what Just this last weekend, I was on a Mr. FARENTHOLD. Thank you very is going on in the community. That is radio show in Fargo called ‘‘Heroes of much. It is an honor and a privilege to an important service. But the gen- the Heartland.’’ It is on for an hour be here to speak about the value our tleman from Rhode Island (Mr. every Saturday, where a local veteran local broadcasters bring to our commu- CICILLINE) brings up, of course, many hosts the show, and it is all about vet- nities. other charitable things. erans. I hope the show wins an award I am a long-time radio guy. At 15 I have participated in many chari- for what it does for veterans. years old, I started hanging around the table events that were good, that While I was on the show answering radio station and ended up getting a raised decent money for important questions about legislation dealing job there through high school and col- causes. But when a broadcaster gets in- with veterans’ issues, people would call lege and have worked on and off in volved, it adds value; it raises aware- in and say: Did you know that the VA radio ever since. ness; it sometimes brings celebrity to in Fargo is holding a public informa- I can tell you, our local broadcasters it. And you can see a charity lifted up tion meeting in a neighboring city on are such a value to our community. We by virtue of the fact that a local TV Saturday at whatever time, where vet- have got a market now with all sorts of station or a local radio station or, in erans can come and air their griev- new technology for people to get music some cases, multiple stations took on ances or give their appreciation or and entertainment—there is satellite the cause—not because there is any- learn about the VA? And I thought: radio; there is the Internet; there is thing in it for the broadcast station, Wow, how cool is this, that because Pandora—but nothing compares to not because there is anything in it for somebody knew of something, not only what the local broadcasters can bring. the managers. Sure, sometimes there was the radio station there able to Actually, all this competition, I think, are programs that have a sales compo- spread the information, but the lis- is bringing a resurgence to local broad- nent to it that you can go out and sell, tener became the newsmaker. They be- casters. You are going away from lots but by and large, these are pure acts of came the broadcaster. of syndicated programs to more locally public service, pure acts of charity that That is the other neat thing about created programs that are more in tune with just a little bit of airtime, just a local radio, especially: it provides an to the needs of the community than little bit of local personality that is at- opportunity where everybody is a something coming out from a central tached to a cause can validate the broadcaster. If you see an accident or location piped over a satellite. cause, elevate the cause, bring aware- you find bad weather or you see some- ness to the cause, and create momen- thing happen that you want to alert You have got great opportunities. tum for a cause that generates all the public about, you have that oppor- Local businesses now have more oppor- kinds of other private sector involve- tunity now with new media, meaning tunities to advertise, targeting local ment, whether it is volunteers or broadcast media. So it was an honor to audiences. You have got news depart- money—in most cases, both. We can be on ‘‘Heroes of the Heartland.’’ ments that are beginning a resurgence solve a lot of problems when we get a I have the great privilege of rep- in local radio and television stations as broadcaster involved. resenting the entire State of North Da- people realize they need local news in I have had the opportunity to be part kota. That is a big congressional dis- addition to the national news. And in of a very special program that I know trict. Now, it is not as big as Montana times of an emergency, nobody comes a lot of my colleagues have been a part or Wyoming or Alaska, but it is pretty to the aid of a community like the of, whether out here or back at home, big. I try to have a lot of town halls, broadcast facilities. Typically, they and that is Honor Flights. It was a like many of us do. We have a lot of will suspend programming in the event local broadcaster in Fargo, North Da- town halls. But I have the opportunity, of a hurricane or some other disaster. kota, that saw a national story about working with broadcast partners now, It is your first source for information, the Honor Flight program that flies where every week I have a 1-hour talk where you can go to get fresh water, World War II veterans to see the me- radio town hall on multiple stations. other disaster and emergency aid. It morial built in their honor. KFYR-AM 550 in Bismarck was sort of really brings out the best. So WDAY radio and television took the flagship station. KPLC out in Dick- Local broadcasters are committed to it on in Fargo and created the Red inson carries it. AM 1100 The Flag is their community. Much like people River Valley Honor Flight and flew really where it was birthed, in Fargo. who run for elected office, in order to four flights of veterans. During that KTGO up in the Bakken, the heart of get people to know you, to like you, to time, they broadcast leading up to it to the Bakken, in Tioga, carries the talk listen to you, and to watch you on a bring awareness so that the veterans, radio town hall. TV station, they have got to be out in themselves, could sign up. Then they People have the opportunity to ei- the community, too. They have got to broadcast the trips themselves to bring ther call me live on the air and ask a be at the local events, the chamber of awareness and to honor these men and question or call on an 800 number and commerce events. They have got to women, these heroes of the Greatest leave a message for me if they can’t sponsor the charitable events. Broad- Generation and then, of course, call during the show itself. It is broadcasters I know spend and donate mil- brought the celebration home in a way cast statewide, and then it is broadcast lions of dollars in airtime just to sup- that you couldn’t do without that in- again in the evening on delay. It pro- port local charities and community ac- volvement. vides a great opportunity for me to be tivities. It is the backbone of America. That resulted in another Honor in touch with my constituents and for We have got to be careful up here in Flight chapter being raised up in Bis- them to talk to me and for me to be Washington. We have got lots of stuff marck, where I live, and I became the able to talk to them. on our agenda here that could poten- chairman of the Roughrider Honor As you can tell, Mr. Speaker, I am a tially adversely affect broadcasters. We Flight. We had five flights out of Bis- big advocate for free over-the-air have got to strike the right balance. marck. broadcast media, whether it is radio or We have got copyright reform on the The KX television network in North television—or certainly both. And I agenda. We have got to find the right Dakota became our broadcast partner. think that even in the new media era, balance, where content creators are

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:54 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00035 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K25FE7.058 H25FEPT1 smartinez on DSK4TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H1154 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE February 25, 2015 properly compensated for their cre- bring a satellite truck in from a few we can sometimes take them for grant- ative works but broadcasters aren’t pe- hundred miles away and can’t get there ed while presuming that there will al- nalized such that they have got to shut immediately. Sure, The Weather Chan- ways be other ways to communicate down news departments or lay off em- nel will send Jim Cantore down. I when we know, in fact, that when the ployees in order to meet those de- think they want to kill him because lights go out, when the electricity goes mands. We have got to make sure that they send him to all the dangerous lo- off, when a storm hits, whatever the we have got licensing and the Commu- cations. But he doesn’t know the com- case may be, as long as you have a car nications Act reformed. munity like the local weathercaster. radio and a good battery, or you have a Our Communications Act is very old. We have got Dale Nelson in Corpus battery-operated radio and the broad- We have got to take a look at it and Christi. He has been doing the weather casters are on the air, you can always bring it into the 21st century. But we on our NBC affiliate. We jokingly call get that information from your local, have got to be careful that we don’t him ‘‘Dead Wrong Dale.’’ What other reliable, familiar, friendly broad- cripple our local broadcasters, many of profession can you be in besides being a casters. whom live in the communities and are TV meteorologist and get it wrong half So with that, Mr. Speaker, I appre- valuable parts of the community and the time and still keep a job? But Dale ciate the time and I appreciate my col- are basically, in some cases, the heart- knows the community, and he gets it leagues from both sides of the aisle beat of the community. right a whole lot more than he gets it from across our country who have I do want to reiterate that I think we wrong. We just like to rib him. But he taken the time today to help inform, are at a time where we really can see a knows the places that are going to educate, and celebrate the American resurgence in local broadcasting, local flood. He knows the areas in the neigh- broadcaster. content, the return of more full serv- borhoods that are most susceptible to f ice. It is not just wall-to-wall hits on damage. Those out-of-town reporters THE FUTURE FORUM the radio now. don’t. In order to garner a market com- The members of the media in local The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. peting with XM, our local folks have to broadcasting are citizens of the com- ALLEN). Under the Speaker’s an- be out in the community. They have to munity, and what they do improves the nounced policy of January 6, 2015, the be out with live remotes. They have lives of everybody in the community. gentleman from California (Mr. got to be at community events. They They know the people. They shop at SWALWELL) is recognized for 60 minutes have got to be bringing local news and the grocery store with the folks. Their as the designee of the minority leader. local content and stuff that is relevant children are in school in the commu- Mr. SWALWELL of California. Mr. to people’s lives. They have done it for nity. They know what is going on, and Speaker, tonight is the inaugural Spe- decades, and it is really great to see they can reflect what is going on and cial Order hour of the Future Forum. that resurgence and to be a part of it. can react to what is going on in the Today young people across America are It is a great time for broadcasters in community and really be a valuable asking themselves how they are going America right now. asset for good. to afford their education. And if they Mr. CRAMER. If the gentleman from Mr. CRAMER. Well, you are a very are even lucky enough to get an edu- Texas would yield, you raised an im- articulate spokesman and advocate on cation, how they are going to be able portant point that I hadn’t thought behalf of local broadcasting, and I ap- to afford to pay off that education, how about that is sort of natural and obvi- preciate your taking the time and your they are going to find a well-paying job ous, and that is, if you are going to be expertise. By the way, you did pose it that can help them pay off that edu- a good local broadcaster, obviously you in the form of a question. I suppose cation, buy their first home, start a have to be a good local citizen. some people can look at Congress and family, and send their own kids to Mr. FARENTHOLD. Absolutely. You say: There is a group that can be wrong school. That is the issue that the Fu- have got to be out at the events. You more than half the time and keep their ture Forum is going to address. We are have got to say ‘‘yes’’ to the folks that jobs too. But at any rate, I have no- going to address this issue, the Amer- come in and say: Could you give us a ticed that if you stay in good contact ican Dream of homeownership, and public service announcement for our through your broadcast community something very important to cancer walk? Could you give us a pub- with your constituents that helps as millennials, diversity and equality. lic service announcement for our what- well. Millennials make up about 75 million ever event? Mr. FARENTHOLD. I appreciate people of the American population. It The community bulletin boards that your yielding the time and organizing is the most diverse generation in you used to hear on the radio all the this wonderful Special Order. America’s history. We believe in the time are coming back, and that is Mr. CRAMER. Well, it is very impor- Future Forum that we are uniquely something XM or satellite providers tant because as I said, Mr. Speaker, at suited for this because we are a part of just can’t do. the beginning, over 600 broadcasters the future too, and it is time that the are in town today calling on the Mem- party of the future starts talking to b 1745 bers of Congress, calling on us, remind- the future. We will be taking time on Sure, they are getting the technology ing us of the important role that they the House floor and at events around to localize some of the ads by play in public safety, in public infor- the country to meet with and listen to downloading them into your devices. mation, in public service, in many younger Americans about how we in But it is not like the local broadcaster ways, in many ways, not just in deliv- government can better ensure that who is a part of the community. ering the news, weather, and sports and younger Americans have the opportu- Mr. CRAMER. You raise very impor- being active in our communities and nities that will allow them not only to tant points. elevating those important causes that dream but to achieve. This is a two- Again, I appreciate the reminder make for a quality community, con- way conversation. We will use tech- that, while we are, today, educating, tributing their talent, contributing nology and a collaborative approach in informing, and celebrating local broad- their, of course, their broadcast spec- our communications and in our out- casting, it is at risk; that we can take trum, which is really the people’s. I reach. our eye off the ball, that we can as- think that is really an important point Our policy priorities are very simple: sume or presume some things and wake that we sometimes forget—that there college access and affordability, job se- up one day and find out that when that is a reason that broadcasters have this curity and entrepreneurship, and accident happens on the railroad legal obligation to public service be- equality and diversity. Many of the tracks or the storm is coming that sud- cause the people own the airwaves, and members of the Future Forum were denly there is nobody there to tell us we rent them, if you will. called to public service because of what about it. It is important that broadcasters and happened on September 11. A recent Mr. FARENTHOLD. You need some- Congress stay in close touch because, Center for American Progress survey body that has a local news presence. as the gentleman from Texas pointed found that the defining issue for You don’t need somebody that has to out, this is a fragile relationship, and millennials is September 11.

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My sincere plea and request to my Re- what homeland security means to them On the very same day that informa- publican colleagues across the aisle and their constituents. tion was released, three American citi- who control Congress is: Please do not I would first like to invite down a zens attempted to join ISIS, which shut down the Department of Home- freshman Member. I yield time to the should be called Daesh, the so-called land Security. gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Islamic State, who truly are evil and The Republican leader in the U.S. BRENDAN F. BOYLE). would do whatever they could to harm Senate is now poised to delink the Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsyl- any one of the 310 million of us living issue of funding for security for our vania. Mr. Speaker, I would like to in this country. homeland from immigration reform. I thank the previous speaker for exer- Mr. SWALWELL of California. Mr. hope my colleagues across the aisle cising tremendous leadership in help- Speaker, I would ask the gentleman will do the same. That is because im- ing to forge this, the Future Forum. I from Pennsylvania, you talk about migration reform has very little to am proud to join him in being a found- your call to service and after Sep- nothing to do with protecting our ing member of this important caucus, tember 11, and you think back to that homeland. I would love to have a de- one that I hope will go out and touch day, and I don’t know if you remember, bate on immigration reform. I think we the lives of many young people but I remember Members of Congress, need to do that. I would love to vote throughout the country. Republicans and Democrats, standing for bills on immigration reform. But In having a conversation with the on the stairs of the Capitol, on the they are not linked to funding for previous speaker about what brought steps of the Capitol and singing ‘‘God Homeland Security. him to public service and what brought Bless America’’ and ‘‘America the Let me just give you an example. me to public service, I was relaying my Beautiful.’’ It was such a moment of Let’s talk about DREAMers who came personal story, and that happened to collaboration. Every day since that as children to our Nation and who can involve September 11. I was not one of day, up until now, homeland security serve in the United States military. I the heroes by any means, just one of and our Nation’s security has always served in Active Duty in the Air Force, the ordinary Americans working in the been about collaboration and biparti- and I am still in the Reserves. So private sector straight out of college, sanship. I just wonder, to hear that the DREAMers can serve in the U.S. mili- attempting to pay off a ton of student Department of Homeland Security tary. To say that we are going to de- loans, and right here in the Wash- could be shutting down, hearkening port them because they are a homeland ington, D.C., area, just a couple miles back to what you thought about col- security risk and we are not going to from the Pentagon, that bright blue- laboration back then, does that gel, is fund Homeland Security because of skied beautiful morning when the that the collaboration that you had in that is ridiculous. There is no reason to world suddenly changed. mind and you always thought of link those two issues. If you don’t like Mark Twain had said a long time ago around our Nation’s security? DREAMers, if you want to deport that America’s two best friends in the Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsyl- DREAMers, fine. Let’s have a debate world are Miss Atlantic and Mr. Pa- vania. The gentleman asks a great on that. But they are not a homeland cific. September 11, 2001, proved that question. Actually it is the exact oppo- security risk. To link these two issues that was no longer the case, that we site of the sort of spirit that was in- doesn’t make any sense. The Repub- were not a separate fortress unto our- voked on September 11. I remember lican leader in the United States Sen- selves and completely removed from seeing the pictures of—I believe it was ate has figured that out. I hope that the problems around the world. That a spontaneous gathering of both Demo- this House does it as well. was, as the previous speaker men- cratic and Republican Members serving There are some grave consequences tioned, such an important event in my in Congress at that time who came to- to this. In my State of California life and in the lives of so many people gether on the Capitol steps to sing alone, nearly 27,000 employees of Home- in their thirties and younger. ‘‘God Bless America.’’ land Security will either be furloughed As a member of this September 11 I think it is a sad commentary that or will get no pay and cannot come to generation, I decided right then that I just a decade and a half later that we work. would devote my life to public service. are here at an incredibly dangerous The very next year, actually, on Sep- time, mind you, in some ways actually b 1800 tember 11, 2002, I began my graduate more dangerous than the days imme- These folks are folks that protect our program in public policy and embarked diately following September 11, and in- homeland. It is unacceptable that this on a path that about 14 years later has stead of talking about how we can is going to happen. led here to serving in the Halls of the come together in an overwhelmingly The other way Homeland Security House of Representatives, attempting bipartisan fashion, pass this what works is they provide grants to local to make a difference, solve problems, should be noncontroversial bill to fund first responders across the Nation to and do so on a bipartisan basis. our Department of Homeland Security, law enforcement, to firefighters. On I know there are many people on the the fact that we are right here caught Friday, if Homeland Security shuts other side of the aisle, good Repub- up in a partisan fight over this is deep- down, those grants stop, and these licans, who feel the same way I do; that ly disappointing and does not at all local responders stop. we can have our legitimate debates, jibe with the spirit of September 11, This is a very real issue, and we, in that we can have our debates on public and I think the spirit of a generation Congress, our first priority is to pro- policy, but that when it comes, of all that was called to serve in the wake of tect the American public. Shutting things, to the security of the American those events. down Homeland Security will be the people, we need to put the nonsense Mr. SWALWELL of California. I yield exact opposite of that. I really hope aside and actually focus on protecting to the gentleman from California (Mr. that the Republicans who control both our people. TED LIEU), someone who has served our Houses do not shut down Homeland Se- So, Mr. Speaker, when we had come country not just in California’s Legis- curity. down here and planned to speak about lature and not just in the Congress but Mr. SWALWELL of California. I also the Future Forum, I had expected that also in our armed services, and is cur- wonder, Mr. Speaker, what the gen- my speech would be about the student rently serving in the Air Force Re- tleman from California thinks, as loan debt crisis, something that is serves. somebody who is serving in the Re- deeply affecting our generation, a gen- Mr. TED LIEU of California. Mr. serves right now and serving shoulder eration that is more indebted than any Speaker, let me start off by saying to shoulder with some young DREAM- other in our Nation’s history. But, in- elections have consequences. I respect ers, what would it do to the morale of

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I think our Republican colleagues There is no doubt that Congress needs to What would that do to the morale of have a point, which is that we need to address immigration reform. It is an issue that our troops? have a debate about immigration. This is deserving of a debate and I look forward to Mr. TED LIEU of California. That is is an issue facing our country, it is a participating in that discussion with both a great question. Let me just explain a serious issue, and in many respects, it Democrats and Republicans. However, attach- little bit what are some of the profes- has reached crisis proportions. We need ing immigration policy to this appropriations sions that the DREAMers do in the to talk about it, we need to have that legislation is simply irresponsible and hijacks military. debate, but it cannot be at the expense the intellectual debate that should take place Because of their language skills, the of our Nation’s security. on this Floor. U.S. military needs some of these lan- I just returned from a weeklong trip If you disagree with the President’s actions, guage skills, so that the U.S. military to the Middle East—to Iraq, to Afghan- then let’s have that debate. knows what these terrorists are doing istan, to the UAE, to Kuwait, and to However, with such threats to the security of in other parts of the world. Jordan—to try to understand the situa- the American people, now is not the time to To have the language skills that tion on the ground and especially the play political games with an agency that is DREAMers possess, that is one reason threat that ISIL or Daesh poses to the charged with protecting the homeland from that we have them serve in the U.S. United States of America. acts of terrorism. military. They have a direct effect on I can tell you that that threat is seri- If Congress fails to fund the Department of trying to prevent terrorist attacks into ous and severe. There are those who Homeland Security, agencies and grant pro- think that this will just be a Middle our homeland. To say that ‘‘we are not grams critical to the safety of Americans will Eastern problem, that it won’t ever going to fund Homeland Security be- no longer be able to carry out the responsibil- come to infect our homeland. I don’t cause we want to deport you’’ is ridicu- ities that they were created to uphold, includ- share that view. I think it is a serious lous. ing the TSA, U.S. Customs and Border Pro- threat. ISIL has brutally killed Ameri- Mr. POLIS. Will the gentleman yield tection and the United States Coast Guard. cans abroad and made clear their infor another question? 85% of all enlisted Coast Guard personnel do tentions to kill Americans here at There are a few categories that the not live on base—they cannot afford to miss a home. DREAMers are able to serve in the That is the kind of protection from rent or mortgage payment on their homes. military. You mention their language threats like that that the Department Many Americans don’t realize this, but not talent. of Homeland Security provides. We only are Coast Guardsmen important to the As somebody who, himself, is in the cannot put our Nation’s security at safety of fishermen in my home state of Mas- military, don’t you think we are miss- risk for a debate that is critical, that sachusetts and to all coastal states, but they ing out on a lot of potential among needs to happen, but that is separate are also deployed globally alongside our mili- kids that have already gone through from keeping Americans safe. tary in support of critical national security mis- the DACA program, but we are still not Our most sacred responsibility as sions. admitting as regular enlistees or no Members of Congress is to protect our When I was in Iraq, I needed to focus on less given the chance to become offi- homeland. Right now, the partisan the mission. For Coast Guard personnel per- cers? brinksmanship around funding the De- forming high-risk drug cartel interdictions or I know a kid in my district, his whole partment of Homeland Security is put- patrolling the Persian Gulf, we needed their life, he wanted to be in the military. ting that safety at risk. 100% focus on the mission at hand. So last He didn’t even find out that he wasn’t I served my country for four tours in summer when an Iranian boat aimed a 50 cal- American until he was 15. He went Iraq. I was proud to serve, I was proud iber machine gun at American Coast Guards- through DACA, he did everything to go every time, but I don’t want to men deployed in international waters in the right, and they are still not letting him see Americans have to keep going back Persian Gulf, those are the American men and join the military. to that part of the world because we women in harm’s way who would still be re- What kind of talent are we missing can’t provide for our security here at quired to put their lives on the line despite not out on by not letting these DACA kids home. receiving a paycheck so that their families at enlist in the regular manner? We have a lot of work to do in this home can put food on the table and pay rent. Mr. TED LIEU of California. That is Congress, and a lot of it requires bipar- In my home state of Massachusetts, we re- a fantastic question. Having now been tisan cooperation. Immigration is one cently experienced a series of historic snow in the military for 19 years, it is very of those issues. It is an issue that we storms that resulted in record-breaking snow clear that their main criteria for mili- need to debate on the floor of the accumulation and caused millions of dollars in tary service is: Can you complete the House. damages to homes, business and roadways. mission? We need to take up the Senate bill Without the support of funding from FEMA, How good you are at completing the for comprehensive immigration reform, Massachusetts will have to bear the brunt of mission has nothing to do with whether debate its merits, and decide whether the clean-up and repair costs in spite of the or not you have a piece of paper that it does enough to ensure the safety of likelihood that Massachusetts will be eligible says if you are documented or not. The our borders and the future of those who for federal disaster aid relief. U.S. military is losing out on a signifi- aspire to be Americans, but none of Further, failure to pass an appropriations bill cant amount of talent, people who oth- that should happen at the expense of for DHS would furlough or deny payment to erwise would do great things for our our Nation’s security. the 4,735 law enforcement officials, disaster military to protect our homeland and The crisis that we are facing today is the re- response officials and many other homeland so on. sult of partisan politics that places the safety security personnel in Massachusetts. Again, it makes very little to no and the lives of the American people at risk. Republicans know that the right thing to do sense to link these two issues, which Last week I returned from a trip to the Mid- is to fund the department. This is why, earlier really shouldn’t be linked; really, that dle East, and I learned that the threat of a ter- today, the Senate passed a clean bill to fund is what this is all about. Let’s just rorist attack on the United States is real. Ter- the department. have separate debates on both issues. rorist organizations including ISIL pose a seri- This is not a partisan issue. This is an The U.S. Senate is about to do that. ous national security threat and have made American issue. I implore the Republicans to I hope the House can do that as well. clear their intentions to commit acts of ter- have the debate on immigration, and have it Mr. SWALWELL of California. I rorism both abroad and here at home. soon. Talk about our differences there, but thank the gentleman from California. Our number one responsibility as members let’s not put our citizens, our country, and our Mr. Speaker, I would like to invite to of Congress is to prevent that from happening allies at risk by holding funding for the Depart- join our conversation another fresh- and keep Americans safe. ment of Homeland Security hostage.

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Like anybody who Although my colleagues across the with your constituents, particularly was near one of the sites, it was scary aisle, the House Republican leadership, those on social media. because we didn’t know what was going wish to shut down the Department of I am wondering: What are you hear- on. The rumor was: all planes are fly- Homeland Security, our enemies do not ing from young people about the House ing into buildings, we are under attack. intend on shutting down their efforts GOP’s inability to fund the Depart- They thought there were bombs at to attack America. ment of Homeland Security? What do one point. It was a madhouse to try to What do you think, knowing that young people think about the inability escape the area and get out of the city. Colorado is home to a large airport, to separate an important immigration We drove all the way back to Colorado, Denver International Airport, what is issue, as you talked about, and some- and I never got to see what was hap- going to happen to the TSA officers thing so critical and as important as pening to the towers in realtime or the who are charged with detecting these homeland security? immediate aftermath because, for the hidden bombs that al Qaeda has put Mr. MOULTON. What I hear from next 25 hours, I was just listening to it out there that they would like to put young people is they want the Congress on the radio in the car, and my friend on our airliners, detecting people who to get things done for the American and I took turns driving. are trying to come back to the United people. Our job is to come here and de- That was a unique moment when peo- States after fighting alongside with bate the important issues of the day, ple came together. It didn’t matter if ISIL, what is this going to mean in but, ultimately, it is to get things ac- you were Democrat or Republican. Our places like Denver and across Colo- complished, it is to pass bills, it is to petty differences melted by the way- rado? make laws, it is to fund important inside as we came together around a na- Mr. POLIS. We had a young lady stitutions of our government. tional response. from our district—you mentioned peo- What people say is they want us to In many ways, it is sad to see our Na- ple—we had a young lady from our dis- get it done. They want us to have that tion go back to those same kind of par- trict, 19, from Lafayette, Colorado, who debate on immigration reform, they tisan divisions which, unfortunately, tried to get over to Turkey and then to want us to do that, too, but they need reduce our national security. When we Syria to join ISIS. Fortunately, for her parents, for her funding for the Department of Home- are talking about the Department of family, frankly, for her own life, land Security. Homeland Security—which I would thanks to the efforts of the Depart- My generation has grown up under point out was set up after 9/11. That ment of Homeland Security, it was the threat that we came to face on Sep- was set up to ensure that something interdicted. Her travel plans were de- tember 11. Many of my friends were in like 9/11 doesn’t happen again. tected, and she was detained at the air- New York on that perilous day and It coordinated agencies in a new way port and not allowed to join ISIS. watched the planes crash into the that didn’t occur before, encouraged in- Thank goodness we had the Depart- World Trade Center towers. It is a re- telligence sharing among the agencies ment of Homeland Security connecting markable testament to the success of about domestic threats, and now, a lot those difficult-to-connect dots. I don’t the Department of Homeland Security of that work is just 3 days away from even know how they did it to this day that, over the past decade, we have not being defunded over a totally different because, obviously, people go to Tur- had another attack. It is a remarkable issue, one that we are happy to talk key on tourism all the time, but they achievement. We should not put that about, by the way. used several points of information to achievement at risk. I mean, we talk about DREAMers figure out that this young lady was Mr. SWALWELL of California. I and what a pathway to citizenship trying to join ISIS, and, thankfully, thank the gentleman from Massachu- could look like and immigration re- they were able to return her to her setts, and I invite to join the conversa- form and what the President can do family. tion a leader in our party, someone and can’t do, and those are all impor- That is the kind of thing that, unfor- who serves on the House Rules Com- tant discussions, and there are many tunately, happens every day across our mittee and also the House Appropria- diverse opinions in this body about country. If in 3 days this Congress tions Committee, the gentleman from them. doesn’t take action, we are tying our Colorado (Mr. POLIS). I would hope nobody with any opin- own hands behind our back in our fight Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I thank the ion, no matter how extreme, would against terrorism, which makes abso- gentleman from California for getting hold our national security hostage over lutely no sense. this time for this important message this. I am reminded of what one of my Look, you and I, Mr. SWALWELL, I am and to just talk with people. That is colleagues on the other side of the aisle sure, were equally passionate about our really what this body, at its very best, said, disappointed in his own party views on immigration. We would love does: we talk amongst ourselves, we over this particular strategy. to see DACA expanded, and I would solve problems. He said: ‘‘Unfortunately, we have love to see a pathway to citizenship, What you are hearing about today, taken a hostage that we don’t want to but it would never cross my mind, no namely, that we are 3 days away from shoot.’’ I think that is very much the matter how I want to see those things, shutting down our own national secu- case. Yes, they are taking our own se- that I would shut down the security of rity, is an example of this body not curity of our Nation and the Depart- the country just to get it. solving a problem—in fact, causing a ment of Homeland Security hostage. I think most Americans don’t think problem. Do they actually want to shoot that that way. I mean, here we are as some You think: Who is causing this? Why hostage? of the young Members, I think that is our security going to shut down in 3 Our friends and colleagues on the perhaps some colleagues on the other days? Who is doing this? Who is shut- other side of the aisle, they are not bad side are acting even younger, like pre- ting down the Department of Homeland people. They believe in protecting our schoolers and kindergartners here, Security? country. I hope they don’t go through where they either get all the toys or The sad answer is that we are doing with it, but they have gotten them- they are not letting anybody else play it to ourselves. There is no reason for selves into this predicament over rhet- with them. this manufactured crisis. oric that threatens to jeopardize our Mr. SWALWELL of California. We I want to share my story from 9/11. 9/ national security. haven’t named that generation yet. 11 is something that, in our generation, Mr. SWALWELL of California. I Mr. POLIS. We haven’t named them we all remember where we were. It is would ask my colleague, knowing that, yet.

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They are problem solv- The only way for this body to change, That just doesn’t make sense, that ing by nature, and they can’t under- for the quality of government to kind of reasoning. stand why politics would get in the change, is for people to be invested in that change, to have that same sense of b 1815 way of something so simple as funding the Department of Homeland Security. solidarity that came after 9/11, not just Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsyl- My own personal September 11 story, around disasters, but every day; when vania. Thank you, Mr. POLIS. as Mr. POLIS was saying, is: I was head- it is election day, to make sure to vote; Mr. SWALWELL, I would just take ed to Capitol Hill that morning. I was when it is time to write and call your issue. My wife, as you may know, is a an intern for Congresswoman Ellen Congressperson, if you have a kindergarten teacher and is teaching Tauscher. I remember the gray suit Congressperson who thinks it is okay that generation, and I think she would that I was wearing was the one I wore to shut down the Department of Home- take issue with you comparing Mem- every day at that time as I was land Security, call that bers of Congress to the kids she teach- wracking up my own student debt. As I Congressperson, show up at their town es. I think she would say the kids she got to the Capitol, I was turned around hall meeting. Guess what. It is not teaches are much better behaved than because the building had been evacu- okay to play games with our national many of us here in Congress. ated. What I do remember, though, in security. But, you know, I do want to just cir- addition to the color of the suit I wore As my colleague from Pennsylvania cle back to a point that Mr. POLIS and the phone call that I got from the pointed out, many kindergartners are made, Mr. SWALWELL made, a number staff assistant telling me to go home, I more mature than somebody who ei- of the speakers here tonight have remember those Members of Congress ther wants to have it their way or not made. This is a false choice. We can singing ‘‘God Bless America.’’ at all and to send all the toys home. have the necessary debate on immigra- I remember in the weeks and the That is really what we face here in this tion and immigration reform. There months and the years afterwards the scenario. I think we have really hit has been a great American tradition bipartisan 9/11 Commission Report. I upon one of the reasons that people of going back to the very beginning of, on remember the creation of the Depart- all ages, but particularly younger peo- the one hand, praising the immigrants ment of Homeland Security, and I felt ple, are losing faith not just in this in- of yesteryear while simultaneously ex- so honored when I was elected to come stitution, but as a part of the democ- pressing concern about the immigrants to Congress to be asked to serve on the racy it represents and how it really is of the present day. That was the case Committee on Homeland Security. I our role to try and reinfuse that hope in the 1840s and in the 1880s and in the felt so honored in my second term to be in not just, again, the competency of 1920s, and so it is today. asked to serve on the Permanent Se- this institution, but the institution of That debate will always be a part of lect Committee on Intelligence. representative government and the vi- who we are as a nation of immigrants I cannot believe that just 14 years sion that our Founding Fathers put in and as a nation of laws. I think that de- later, after all this bipartisanship and place through the Constitution. bate needs to happen, and we need to collaboration, while every other issue Mr. SWALWELL of California. Thank have that here on the floor of the around us seems to be mired in grid- you, Mr. POLIS. House, the same way they did in the lock, we have always agreed that we Something we haven’t really talked Senate where they passed the bill with fund the Department of Homeland Se- too much about yet, and we have al- 70 votes on a bipartisan basis. curity that was created out of Sep- luded to the fact that we are charging So let’s get to that debate. Let’s not tember 11. Today, to think that we are these transportation safety officers allow this sideshow over holding up a so close to shutting down that Depart- with detecting these hidden bombs that Homeland Security bill that I think all ment, it really does defy the collabora- al Qaeda is determined to put on our of us agree here, all 435 of us agree that tion that came out of September 11. airplanes, we are charging the Border we need. These are real, dangerous I would ask my colleague from Colo- Patrol agents to protect our border and threats we face, people who actually rado, who is in the Future Forum, but make sure that is secure, but if this thought that al Qaeda was not extreme he is one of the more senior Members shutdown happens, they still have to enough so they wanted to go, instead, of Congress in the Future Forum—I do that job. The threats continue to join an even more murderous, more think he is now serving his fourth elevate and escalate, but those employ- barbaric group. As the sign that Mr. term—what do you think about the ees will not get paid. SWALWELL had up was showing, our en- collaboration that we have seen around I wonder what my colleague from emies are certainly not shutting down Homeland Security up until now? Massachusetts, Mr. MOULTON, someone their efforts, nor should we. Mr. POLIS. As I like to remind my who flies home, logs a lot of miles I do want to ask Mr. SWALWELL a friend from California, there is not going back and forth between Wash- question—and I think this is important really a strict age limit, per se, of the ington and his district, flying into whether you are near the Denver Air- Future Forum, but I am very proud to Logan, you look those transportation port or the Philadelphia Airport or the still be under the 40 number, at least safety officers in the eye every week bay area—and that is: What message do for another half year. when you are coming to Washington you think it sends to ordinary citizens Mr. SWALWELL of California. We and getting off the plane in Boston, who are looking to their Congress to are all in our thirties here. what is the morale going to be among just get things done and protect them, Mr. POLIS. Good. Good. We are all our TSA workforce, among our Border the people who aren’t necessarily still in our thirties. Patrol workforce if they still have to strongly ideological one way or the But look, I think that what is hap- do the job as the threats escalate but other, who just want to believe that pening is that when people of all ages, we are not going to pay them? their government can work, what kind but particularly young people look at Mr. MOULTON. Thank you, Mr. of message do you think we are sending Congress and they look at this kind of SWALWELL. to them this week with this sort of be- thing with, ‘‘Well, you, yourselves, are There is no question that their mo- havior? shutting down security?’’ when they rale and their mission effectiveness Mr. SWALWELL of California. It is a look at that, when they look at when will be hurt. In fact, it will hurt my message of dysfunction. the whole government shut down, own morale because I am very proud to And I know Mr. POLIS, just like Mr. again, do we remember why? Not real- serve in the United States Congress, MOULTON, is also very much in touch ly. I don’t remember why the Repub- but I am not going to be proud to walk with the doers and DREAMers who are licans shut down government. There through that security gate and have to

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They right now that is, frankly, unfortunate. their families. are devastated with mountains of snow Mr. MOULTON, I would invite you to You know, another element of the that fortunately most of us in the rest close here on just your overall perspec- Department of Homeland Security is of the country, while we have had tive on why we should or should not tie the U.S. Coast Guard, and many of us snow, not nearly the way they have immigration to Department of Home- know that the U.S. Coast Guard pro- had it in New England. It is important land Security funding. tects our shores. I represent the fishing to note that a number of those who Mr. MOULTON. Thank you, Mr. community of Gloucester north of Bos- work in FEMA are the officials who re- SWALWELL. ton, and Gloucester has gone through ceive those grant applications, those You are absolutely right, because im- some hard times and has often had to emergency applications that so many migration is a debate that we need to rely on the Coast Guard to save its in Massachusetts and Vermont and have. It is a national security debate in fishermen in the worst storms. Those other parts of New England and other and of itself. We cannot hold the De- Coast Guardsmen not only protect fish- parts of the country are applying for partment of Homeland Security hos- ermen in Gloucester. They also work right now because they have been so tage to that debate. It needs to occur. with our military and Department of overstretched, given this incredible We ought to have that debate. We Defense overseas. There are Coast winter that we have had and record ought to have it here on the floor of Guardsmen and -women stationed in breaking in terms of snow. So they can the House. But our most sacred respon- the Middle East today. keep on doing the applications and ap- sibility and the present threat here is Can you imagine having to do such a plying for assistance. The only problem to make sure that our people are safe. difficult mission, to be in the Persian is, come Saturday, we shut down the b 1830 Gulf defending American ships against Department of Homeland Security, the threat of an Iranian attack and yet there will be no one on the other end to I want to thank the gentleman from not knowing whether your rent will be receive them. Pennsylvania, my friend and colleague, paid back at home? That is an unac- I want to make one final point, and I Mr. BOYLE, for bringing up the issue of ceptable risk for us to take, and it is think that this really strikes at the FEMA grants. We have been faced with an unacceptable burden for us to ask heart of why we are here and why the unprecedented snowfall in Massachu- them to bear. You are absolutely right, Future Forum was created. setts, and it has put our first respond- sir, this is going to severely impact This is my first year in the House. I ers to the test. They are providing for their morale. When morale is im- might end up serving one term, might the security of the people of Massachu- pacted, it hurts their ability to do this end up serving 10, who knows? For any- setts right now, and we are all banding incredibly important job. one who serves here, they all talk together to make sure that we get the Mr. SWALWELL of California. While about the fact that it goes by ex- FEMA grants that we need and de- the workers are going to still have to tremely quickly. We, right now, are serve. In fact, it is a great example of do the job and not get paid, much of Members of a body with an approval a crisis that is bringing Republicans the Department will shut down, and an rating of approximately 9 percent. I and Democrats together. The Demo- important part that will shut down don’t want to dedicate my life to public cratic delegation of Massachusetts is will be Department of Homeland Secu- service in an area that is so poorly re- working hand in hand with our Repub- rity grants. garded by the American people. That is lican Governor to make sure that we I have had the opportunity in just not something I want to do. I don’t get these applications in so that we can the last few weeks to go and visit think that is something that other get this funding that we desperately about a half dozen firehouses. I call Members on the other side want to do. need. Yet that is all going to grind to them firehouse chats. I just pop in and It is important to our American de- a halt if the Department of Homeland meet with the brave men and women mocracy that whatever your ideology Security is not funded. who are serving as firefighters in our may be, whatever political positions Right here, today, we can see the ef- community. If this shutdown happens, you may have, we have to show the fects that failing to fund the Depart- for example, we will see all of the as- American people that their institu- ment, shutting it down, will have. Even sistance to firefighters’ grants stopped. tions of government can work. The worse would be if we had to see the ef- So the men and women who are re- American people, the overwhelming fects of another attack on our home- sponding to car accidents, building majority of Democrats and Repub- land. Having been to the Middle East in fires, God forbid, if a terrorist attack licans, have lost confidence in us, in all the past week, having seen the unprec- occurred, the people who are going to of us. I don’t think this kind of a polit- edented challenges that our first re- run into the burning buildings, who ical fight, frankly, benefits either side. sponders face at home, we cannot af- rely upon these grants to hire fire- I think it is only a race to who loses ford to put our Nation’s security at fighters, to give them the equipment less. We can end this now. Let’s do the risk. All of the young people out they need, that is all going to be responsible thing, the mature thing, there—those who are our age in the Fu- stopped. the right thing. Fund Homeland Secu- ture Forum—want a government that So I am wondering if you have heard rity, and then get on to the important works. They want a government they in your district or if you have talked to debates that we must be having. can believe in, and they want a govern- your law enforcement and public safety Mr. SWALWELL of California. That ment that will make them safe. officials about the grants they depend is right, Mr. BOYLE. Mr. MOULTON Let’s pass a clean funding bill. Let’s upon and what it would mean if that talked about this. We are taking an fund the Department of Homeland Se- funding just went cold. issue—immigration—that there are curity. And let’s show the American Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsyl- two sharply different sides on in this people that our Congress can do its job. vania. It would be, in a word, dev- House, and that is fine. That debate Mr. SWALWELL of California. I astating. needs to happen. Most people on our thank the gentleman from Massachu- I am proud of the fact that a part of side, almost everyone on our side setts. I thank my colleagues from Cali- the district I represent is the city of wants a pathway to citizenship. But fornia, Colorado, and from Pennsyl- Philadelphia, Philadelphia Fire De- that debate must happen. vania. partment, one of the largest and oldest Because of that debate, what we are Mr. Speaker, I will close by saying, in our Nation, also a number of volun- seeing is the one issue that we have al- as Mr. MOULTON alluded to, our prin- teer fire departments in Montgomery ways agreed on since the Department cipal responsibility can be found in, lit- County, Pennsylvania. There are so of Homeland Security was created is erally, the first sentence of the Con- many of them around the country. To now as divisive as the immigration stitution, which is: We the people of put them in this position is just deeply issue, meaning that the Republicans the United States, in order to form a unfair. would like to politicize an issue that more perfect Union . . . to provide for

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Recognize that all of these condemning our side of the aisle for should be here today, on our first speeches, all of these signs are coming trying to respond to the constitutional evening of the Future Forum, talking not from members of our community, overreach of the President, what if we about the rising amount of student not from the people who elected us; talk about provisions that will actu- debt that millennials carry. We should these speeches, these signs—the ‘‘sky is ally build consensus and get a majority be here today talking about how hard falling’’ mentality—are coming from of this body, regardless of Republican, it is to get a job if you are a young per- our elected leaders, from Members of Democrat, Independent—whoever you son and if you have just finished col- this body. are—to fund the Department of Home- lege. We should be here today talking Why does that matter? Why do I rise land Security and to also respond to about how hard it is to buy a home if tonight to continue the conversation the constitutional overreach of the you are carrying all of this student started by my colleagues on the other President? I think we can get there. debt. We should be talking about the side of the aisle? Do you know what I have never heard need for diversity and about having a It is this: all we are hearing are from the other side of the aisle? I have pathway to citizenship for immigra- speeches, and all we are seeing are never heard: What if we remove the tion. signs. We are not hearing solutions. funding prohibition in the original Instead, bizarrely, we are here talk- To this entire body—to both sides of House bill that prohibited the imple- ing about the real possibility that the the aisle—our constitutional authority mentation, the further exercise, of Department of Homeland Security, cre- was infringed upon when the President DACA? They criticized it. If we remove ated out of a bipartisan coalition in the signed his executive order. That is not it, does that get us the votes to pass a early 2000s, could shut down and leave a partisan issue. We have a responsi- bill? us more vulnerable. bility to confront that constitutional I understand there is disagreement I hope that our better angels will overreach. Yes, one mechanism we used over the President’s executive order guide us. I hope that the spirit that to do that was the power of the purse. from last September. I think it was those House Members had when they That is a fundamental power of this wrong. Members on the other side stood on the steps of the Capitol after body, the power of the purse, and it was don’t. A Federal judge has said it is un- September 11 prevails, that we work appropriate that we responded to the constitutional. The President of the more collaboratively, and that we re- President’s unconstitutional overreach United States said over 20 times he member, at the end of the day, we are by exercising our constitutional privi- didn’t have the authority to do it. Yet charged with protecting the people. lege, that of the appropriations proc- he did it. What if we allowed 6 months Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance ess. to let the courts work their will? It is of my time. Here is what I would point out to the perfectly reasonable. American people tonight about the f If you are a Member of this Congress speeches that they hear from my who stood up on opening day and took MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT friends and colleagues on the other side the oath to defend and protect the Con- A message in writing from the Presi- of the aisle. Recognize something very stitution of the United States, to de- dent of the United States was commu- important: what is being presented in fend and protect the obligation of your nicated to the House by Mr. Sherman the midst of this debate over the con- office, why don’t we agree upon a 6- Williams, one of his secretaries. stitutional overreach of the President month delay in the implementation of is merely an ‘‘all or nothing’’ approach. f the President’s executive order, an ex- It is either we pass a clean bill—and as THE PRESIDENT’S ecutive order a Federal judge has al- the leader on the other side said, he CONSTITUTIONAL OVERREACH ready put a hold on? Does that get us will deliver 188 votes if we pass a clean there? Does that get us the votes nec- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under bill—or it is nothing. Friends, col- essary? the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- leagues, that is not legislating. That is uary 6, 2015, the Chair recognizes the using the bully pulpit. That is politics. What my colleagues on the other side gentleman from Florida (Mr. JOLLY) That is not legislating. of the aisle tonight said is absolutely for 30 minutes. So what I would ask tonight is: true: Congress should work, Congress Mr. JOLLY. Mr. Speaker, I appre- Where are the solutions? Where is the should govern. The American people ciate the opportunity to address the conviction on the other side of the should expect that of all of us. House this evening, and I appreciate aisle? Where are the efforts to pass a It doesn’t matter our partisan affili- the opportunity to continue the con- bill that accommodates all Members of ations, but it does matter whether or versation that was started by my col- this body, Members on the other side, not we truly exercise the convictions leagues on the other side of the aisle and, yes, something the President can about which we pontificate on the floor tonight. sign? here tonight. It is not about signs. It is Listen, there is a future in this body You see, I am actually a Member of not about the bully pulpit. It is not that, hopefully, is going to look a lot Congress who thinks that the first pri- about press conferences. different than what it has looked like ority of this body is to fund the govern- Any Member who stands up here to- in past decades. I would fully concur ment and to fund the Department of night, Republican or Democrat, and that government should work and that Homeland Security. I am looking to says that we will be worse off as a na- we should keep the government open, work with colleagues on the other side tion on Friday night if we have not but we must also defend the Constitu- of the aisle to say: How do we do that? funded the Department of Homeland tion, and that is the paradox that we We have a responsibility to do that. Security is absolutely right. We must are faced with this week. I rise with I have three Coast Guard installa- fund the government. But where is the some frustration from my side of the tions in my district. They are men and effort on the other side of the aisle to aisle and from what I have seen from women—it is absolutely true what is actually reach a compromise? It is not my colleagues on the other side of the talked about—who will have to go to there. aisle in recent days. work on Saturday morning with only I promise you that I have watched I have seen speeches upon speeches the promise to be paid later. That is my colleagues from the time I got here upon speeches about a partial shut- wrong. That is a failure of this Con- this week—every speech. The leader on down of the Department of Homeland gress if we let that happen. the other side of the aisle made an im- Security. I have seen big signs in the We do have until Friday evening to passioned speech about the importance well of this House, scaring the Amer- solve this, and I believe we will, but I of funding Homeland Security, and he ican people about a potential partial am asking, actually, for accommoda- is right.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:54 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00042 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K25FE7.066 H25FEPT1 smartinez on DSK4TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE February 25, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H1161 My question is this: When will you tempore (Mr. VALADAO) at 9 o’clock final rule — Approval and Promulgation of abandon your ‘‘all or nothing’’ ap- and 56 minutes p.m. Implementation Plans; Mississippi; Infra- structure Requirements for the 2008 8-Hour proach? Because exactly what you f criticize this side of the aisle for is ex- Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Stand- ards [EPA-R04-OAR-2012-0698; FRL-9923-55- actly the type of behavior that my col- REPORT ON RESOLUTION PRO- VIDING FOR FURTHER CONSID- Region 4] received February 24, 2015, pursu- leagues on the other side are engaging ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee in as well. We have failed the American ERATION OF H.R. 5, STUDENT on Energy and Commerce. people if we let that lack of coopera- SUCCESS ACT 541. A letter from the Director, Regulatory tion overtake this body and lead us off Ms. FOXX, from the Committee on Management Division, Environmental Pro- a cliff on Friday night. Rules, submitted a privileged report tection Agency, transmitting the Agency’s The question to my colleagues on the (Rept. No. 114–29) on the resolution (H. final rule — Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; South Carolina; In- other side of the aisle is: Who is willing Res. 125) providing for further consider- frastructure Requirements for the 2008 8- to step forward with a proposal that ation of the bill (H.R. 5) to support Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality gets us there as a body? State and local accountability for pub- Standards [EPA-R04-OAR-2012-0694; FRL- Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the time lic education, protect State and local 9923-56-Region 4] received February 24, 2015, this evening. I look forward to ensur- authority, inform parents of the per- pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- ing that our Department of Homeland formance of their children’s schools, mittee on Energy and Commerce. Security is fully funded come Friday and for other purposes, which was re- 542. A letter from the Director, Regulatory Management Division, Environmental Pro- night. ferred to the House Calendar and or- tection Agency, transmitting the Agency’s I yield back the balance of my time. dered to be printed. Direct final rule — Direct Final Approval of f f Other Solid Waste Incineration Units State Plan for Designated Facilities and Pollut- CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL LEAVE OF ABSENCE ants: Indiana [EPA-R05-OAR-2009-0554; FRL- EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO By unanimous consent, leave of ab- 9923-35-Region 5] received February 24, 2015, CUBA AND OF THE EMERGENCY sence was granted to: pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- AUTHORITY RELATING TO THE mittee on Energy and Commerce. Ms. WILSON of Florida (at the request REGULATION OF THE ANCHOR- 543. A letter from the Director, Regulatory of Ms. PELOSI) for today on account of AGE AND MOVEMENT OF VES- Management Division, Environmental Pro- official business with POTUS. SELS—MESSAGE FROM THE tection Agency, transmitting the Agency’s f final rule — Implementation of the 2008 Na- PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED tional Ambient Air Quality Standards for STATES (H. DOC. NO. 114–12) ADJOURNMENT Ozone: State Implementation Plan Require- The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, I move that ments [EPA-HQ-OAR-2010-0885; FRL-9917-29- OAR] (RIN: 2060-AR34) received February 24, fore the House the following message the House do now adjourn. from the President of the United 2015, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the The motion was agreed to; accord- Committee on Energy and Commerce. States; which was read and, together ingly (at 9 o’clock and 57 minutes 544. A letter from the Director, Regulatory with the accompanying papers, referred p.m.), under its previous order, the Management Division, Environmental Pro- to the Committee on Foreign Affairs House adjourned until tomorrow, tection Agency, transmitting the Agency’s and ordered to be printed: Thursday, February 26, 2015, at 10 a.m. Direct final rule — National Emission Stand- for morning-hour debate. ards for Hazardous Air Pollutants; Delega- To the Congress of the United States: tion of Authority to Oklahoma [EPA-R06- Section 202(d) of the National Emer- f OAR-2008-0063; FRL-9923-22-Region 6] re- gencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) provides EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ceived February 24, 2015, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. for the automatic termination of a na- 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Energy and ETC. tional emergency unless, within 90 Commerce. days prior to the anniversary date of Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive 545. A letter from the Director, Regulatory its declaration, the President publishes communications were taken from the Management Division, Environmental Pro- Speaker’s table and referred as follows: tection Agency, transmitting the Agency’s in the Federal Register and transmits to Direct final rule — New Source Performance the Congress a notice stating that the 537. A letter from the Director, Regulatory Standards and National Emission Standards emergency is to continue in effect be- Management Division, Environmental Pro- for Hazardous Air Pollutants; Delegation of yond the anniversary date. In accord- tection Agency, transmitting the Agency’s Authority to Louisiana [EPA-R06-OAR-2010- ance with this provision, I have sent final rule — Clothianidin; Pesticide Toler- 1054; FRL-9923-11-Region 6] received Feb- ances for Emergency Exemptions [EPA-HQ- ruary 24, 2015, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. the enclosed notice to the Federal Reg- OPP-2014-0253; FRL-9919-59] received Feb- ister for publication, stating that the 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Energy and ruary 24, 2015, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. Commerce. national emergency declared on March 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Agri- 546. A letter from the Director, Regulatory 1, 1996, with respect to the Government culture. Management Division, Environmental Pro- of Cuba’s destruction of two unarmed 538. A letter from the Director, Regulatory tection Agency, transmitting the Agency’s U.S.-registered civilian aircraft in Management Division, Environmental Pro- Direct final rule — Promulgation of State international airspace north of Cuba on tection Agency, transmitting the Agency’s Air Quality Implementation Plans for Des- February 24, 1996, as amended and ex- Direct final rule — Approval and Promulga- ignated Facilities and Pollutants: Colorado, tion of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, panded on February 26, 2004, is to con- Ohio; PSD Infrastructure SIP Requirements tinue in effect beyond March 1, 2015. Utah, and Wyoming; Negative Declarations; for the 2008 Lead, 2008 Ozone, 2010 NO2, and Control of Emissions from Existing Sewage BARACK OBAMA. 2010 SO2 NAAQS [EPA-R05-OAR-2011-0888; Sludge Incineration Units [EPA-R08-OAR- THE WHITE HOUSE, February 25, 2015. EPA-R05-OAR-2011-0969; EPA-R05-OAR-2012- 2014-0811; FRL-9923-40-Region 8] received Feb- f 0991; EPA-R05-OAR-2013-0435; FRL-9923-48-Re- ruary 24, 2015, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. gion 5] received February 28, 2015, pursuant 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Energy and RECESS to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Commerce. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Energy and Commerce. 547. A letter from the General Counsel, ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair 539. A letter from the Director, Regulatory Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, declares the House in recess subject to Management Division, Environmental Pro- transmitting the Commission’s final rule — tection Agency, transmitting the Agency’s the call of the Chair. Protection System Maintenance Reliability Direct final rule — Approval and Promulga- Standard [Docket No.: RM14-8-000; Order No.: Accordingly (at 6 o’clock and 42 min- tion of Air Quality Implementation Plans; 803] received February 23, 2015, pursuant to 5 utes p.m.), the House stood in recess. Ohio; Transportation Conformity [EPA-R05- U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on En- f OAR-2014-0662; FRL-9923-45-Region 5] re- ergy and Commerce. ceived February 24, 2015, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 548. A letter from the Assistant Director b 2156 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Energy and for Regulatory Affairs, Office of Foreign As- AFTER RECESS Commerce. sets Control, Department of the Treasury, 540. A letter from the Director, Regulatory transmitting the Department’s final rule — The recess having expired, the House Management Division, Environmental Pro- Sudanese Sanctions Regulations received was called to order by the Speaker pro tection Agency, transmitting the Agency’s February 23, 2015, pursuant to 5 U.S.C.

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A letter from the Management and Program Analyst, FAA, Department of tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra- Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Transportation, transmitting the Depart- tion, transmitting the Administration’s tem- Transportation, transmitting the Depart- ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- porary rule — Fisheries of the Caribbean, ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- tives; Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation Heli- Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic; 2015 tives; Airbus Airplanes [Docket No.: FAA- copters [Docket No.: FAA-2009-1088; Direc- Commercial Accountability Measure and 2014-0142; Directorate Identifier 2012-NM-161- torate Identifier 2008-SW-76-AD; Amendment Closure for Coastal Migratory Pelagic Re- AD; Amendment 39-18093; AD 2015-02-24] (RIN: 39-18091; AD 2014-12-11 R1] (RIN: 2120-AA64) sources of the Gulf of Mexico and South At- 2120-AA64) received February 20, 2015, pursu- received February 20, 2015, pursuant to 5 lantic [Docket No.: 001005281-0369-02] (RIN: ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on 0648-XD709) received February 23, 2015, pursu- on Transportation and Infrastructure. Transportation and Infrastructure. ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee 558. A letter from the Management and 566. A letter from the Management and on Natural Resources. Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Program Analyst, FAA, Department of 550. A letter from the Management and Transportation, transmitting the Depart- Transportation, transmitting the Depart- Program Analyst, FAA, Department of ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- Transportation, transmitting the Depart- tives; Technify Motors GmbH (Type Certifi- tives; Airbus Helicopters (formerly ment’s Major final rule — Automatic De- cate Previously Held by Thielert Aircraft Eurocopter France) [Docket No.: FAA-2015- pendent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) Out Engines GmbH) Reciprocating Engines 0133; Directorate Identifier 2014-SW-066-AD; Performance Requirements To Support Air [Docket No.: FAA-2010-0683; Directorate Amendment 39-18088; AD 2014-22-51] (RIN: Traffic Control (ATC) Service; Technical Identifier 2010-NE-25-AD; Amendment 39- 2120-AA64) received February 20, 2015, pursu- Amendment [Docket No.: FAA-2007-29305; 18065; AD 2015-02-01] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee Amdt. No.: 91-334] (RIN: 2120-AI92) received February 20, 2015, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. on Transportation and Infrastructure. February 20, 2015, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Transpor- f 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Transpor- tation and Infrastructure. tation and Infrastructure. 559. A letter from the Management and REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON 551. A letter from the Management and Program Analyst, FAA, Department of PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Transportation, transmitting the Depart- Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of Transportation, transmitting the Depart- ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- ment’s Immediately adopted final rule — Re- tives; Agusta S.p.A. (Type Certificate Cur- committees were delivered to the Clerk moval of Special Federal Aviation Regula- rently Held By AgustaWestland S.p.A.) for printing and reference to the proper tion No. 87 — Prohibition Against Certain (Agusta) Helicopters [Docket No.: FAA-2014- calendar, as follows: Flights Within the Territory and Airspace of 0465; Directorate Identifier 2013-SW-044-AD; Ms. FOXX: Committee on Rules. House Ethiopia [Docket No.: FAA-2000-7360; Amdt. Amendment 39-18089; AD 2015-02-21] (RIN: Resolution 125. Resolution providing for fur- No.: 91-335] (RIN: 2120-AK59) received Feb- 2120-AA64) received February 20, 2015, pursu- ther consideration of the bill (H.R. 5) to sup- ruary 20, 2015, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee port State and local accountability for pub- 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Transpor- on Transportation and Infrastructure. lic education, protect State and local au- tation and Infrastructure. 560. A letter from the Management and thority, inform parents of the performance 552. A letter from the Chief Counsel, Saint Program Analyst, FAA, Department of of their children’s schools, and for other pur- Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, Transportation, transmitting the Depart- poses (Rept. 114–29). Referred to the House Department of Transportation, transmitting ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- Calendar. the Department’s final rule — Seaway Regu- tives; Airbus Airplanes [Docket No.: FAA- f lations and Rules: Periodic Update, Various 2014-0230; Directorate Identifier 2013-NM-242- Categories (2135-AA36) received February 20, AD; Amendment 39-18070; AD 2015-02-03] (RIN: PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS 2014, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the 2120-AA64) received February 20, 2015, pursu- Under clause 2 of rule XII, public Committee on Transportation and Infra- ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee bills and resolutions of the following structure. on Transportation and Infrastructure. 553. A letter from the Management and 561. A letter from the Management and titles were introduced and severally re- Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Program Analyst, FAA, Department of ferred, as follows: Transportation, transmitting the Depart- Transportation, transmitting the Depart- By Mr. CUMMINGS (for himself, Mr. ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- THOMPSON of Mississippi, Mr. RAN- tives; Bombardier, Inc. Airplanes [Docket tives; Viking Air Limited Airplanes [Docket GEL, and Ms. NORTON): No.: FAA-2014-0146; Directorate Identifier No.: FAA-2015-0096; Directorate Identifier H.R. 1055. A bill to improve access to oral 2013-NM-243-AD; Amendment 39-18094; AD 2014-CE-040-AD; Amendment 39-18077; AD health care for vulnerable and underserved 2015-02-25] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received Feb- 2015-02-10] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received Feb- populations; to the Committee on Energy ruary 20, 2015, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. ruary 20, 2015, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. and Commerce, and in addition to the Com- 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Transpor- 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Transpor- mittees on Ways and Means, the Judiciary, tation and Infrastructure. tation and Infrastructure. Natural Resources, Veterans’ Affairs, and 554. A letter from the Management and 562. A letter from the Management and Armed Services, for a period to be subse- Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Program Analyst, FAA, Department of quently determined by the Speaker, in each Transportation, transmitting the Depart- Transportation, transmitting the Depart- case for consideration of such provisions as ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- fall within the jurisdiction of the committee tives; Bombardier, Inc. Airplanes [Docket tives; Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecnam srl concerned. No.: FAA-2014-0750; Directorate Identifier Airplanes [Docket No.: FAA-2014-0876; Direc- By Mr. SENSENBRENNER (for him- 2014-NM-147-AD; Amendment 39-18097; AD torate Identifier 2014-CE-032-AD; Amendment self, Mr. GOODLATTE, Mr. CONYERS, 2015-03-01] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received Feb- 39-18076; AD 2015-02-09] (RIN: 2120-AA64) re- and Ms. JACKSON LEE): ruary 20, 2015, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. ceived February 20, 2015, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. H.R. 1056. A bill to amend title 18, United 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Transpor- 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Transpor- States Code, to provide for protection of tation and Infrastructure. tation and Infrastructure. maritime navigation and prevention of nu- 555. A letter from the Management and 563. A letter from the Management and clear terrorism, and for other purposes; to Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Program Analyst, FAA, Department of the Committee on the Judiciary. Transportation, transmitting the Depart- Transportation, transmitting the Depart- By Mr. ISSA (for himself, Ms. LOFGREN, ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, and Mr. SEN- tives; Airbus Airplanes [Docket No.: FAA- tives; Airbus Airplanes [Docket No.: FAA- SENBRENNER): 2015-0079; Directorate Identifier 2013-NM-091- 2015-0087; Directorate Identifier 2014-NM-234- H.R. 1057. A bill to amend title 35, United AD; Amendment 39-18085; AD 2015-02-18] (RIN: AD; Amendment 39-18098; AD 2015-03-02] (RIN: States Code, to provide for an exception from 2120-AA64) received February 20, 2015, pursu- 2120-AA64) received February 20, 2015, pursu- infringement for certain component parts of ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee motor vehicles; to the Committee on the Ju- on Transportation and Infrastructure. on Transportation and Infrastructure. diciary. 556. A letter from the Management and 564. A letter from the Management and By Mr. ROSKAM: Program Analyst, FAA, Department of Program Analyst, FAA, Department of H.R. 1058. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- Transportation, transmitting the Depart- Transportation, transmitting the Depart- enue Code of 1986 to clarify that a duty of the ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- ment’s final rule — Airworthiness Direc- Commissioner of Internal Revenue is to en- tives; The Boeing Company Airplanes [Dock- tives; Airbus Airplanes [Docket No.: FAA- sure that Internal Revenue Service employ- et No.: FAA-2014-0624; Directorate Identifier 2015-0078; Directorate Identifier 2014-NM-235- ees are familiar with and act in accord with 2014-NM-005-AD; Amendment 39-18072; AD AD; Amendment 39-18084; AD 2015-02-17] (RIN: certain taxpayer rights; to the Committee on 2015-02-05] (RIN: 2120-AA64) received Feb- 2120-AA64) received February 20, 2015, pursu- Ways and Means.

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By Mr. ROSKAM: By Mr. DEFAZIO (for himself and Mr. CA´ RDENAS, Mr. SARBANES, Mr. TED H.R. 1059. A bill to prohibit the Internal YOUNG of Alaska): LIEU of California, Ms. SPEIER, and Revenue Service from asking taxpayers H.R. 1068. A bill to amend title 23, United Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas): questions regarding religious, political, or States Code, to direct the Secretary of H.R. 1078. A bill to amend the Balanced social beliefs; to the Committee on Ways and Transportation to carry out a tribal trans- Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act Means. portation self-governance program, and for of 1985 to exempt from sequestration certain By Mr. LAMALFA (for himself and Mr. other purposes; to the Committee on Trans- user fees of the Food and Drug Administra- GARAMENDI): portation and Infrastructure. tion; to the Committee on the Budget. H.R. 1060. A bill to direct the Secretary of By Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee (for him- By Mr. LANGEVIN (for himself, Mr. the Interior to take actions to support non- self and Mr. CUMMINGS): THOMPSON of Pennsylvania, Ms. Federal investments in water infrastructure H.R. 1069. A bill to amend title 44, United BROWN of Florida, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. improvements in the Sacramento Valley, States Code, to require information on con- RYAN of Ohio, Mr. LARSEN of Wash- and for other purposes; to the Committee on tributors to Presidential library fundraising ington, Mr. COHEN, Mr. KEATING, Mr. Natural Resources. organizations, and for other purposes; to the CICILLINE, Mrs. BUSTOS, Mr. PAYNE, By Mr. FORTENBERRY (for himself Committee on Oversight and Government and Mr. KENNEDY): and Ms. FUDGE): Reform. H.R. 1079. A bill to amend the Elementary H.R. 1061. A bill to reauthorize the farm to By Mr. FATTAH: and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to pro- school program, and for other purposes; to H.R. 1070. A bill to provide for adequate vide grants to States to establish a com- the Committee on Education and the Work- and equitable educational opportunities for prehensive school counseling program; to the force. students in State public school systems, and Committee on Education and the Workforce. By Mr. GRAVES of Missouri (for him- for other purposes; to the Committee on By Mr. BEN RAY LUJA´ N of New Mex- self, Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. PETERSON, and Education and the Workforce. ico (for himself and Ms. MICHELLE Mr. ROKITA): By Mr. FATTAH: LUJAN GRISHAM of New Mexico): H.R. 1062. A bill to amend the Pilot’s Bill H.R. 1071. A bill to amend section 1120A(c) H.R. 1080. A bill to amend the Individuals of Rights to facilitate appeals and to apply of the Elementary and Secondary Education with Disabilities Education Act in order to to other certificates issued by the Federal Act of 1965 to assure comparability of oppor- limit the penalties to a State that does not Aviation Administration, to require the revi- tunity for educationally disadvantaged stu- meet its maintenance of effort level of fund- sion of the third class medical certification dents; to the Committee on Education and ing to a one-time penalty, and for other pur- regulations issued by the Federal Aviation the Workforce. poses; to the Committee on Education and Administration, and for other purposes; to By Mr. FLEMING: the Workforce. the Committee on Transportation and Infra- H.R. 1072. A bill to establish a commission By Mr. BEN RAY LUJA´ N of New Mex- structure, and in addition to the Committee to conduct a comprehensive review of Fed- ico (for himself, Ms. MICHELLE LUJAN on the Judiciary, for a period to be subse- eral agencies and programs and to rec- GRISHAM of New Mexico, Mr. PEARCE, quently determined by the Speaker, in each ommend the elimination or realignment of and Mr. CA´ RDENAS): case for consideration of such provisions as duplicative, wasteful, or outdated functions, H.R. 1081. A bill to assist coordination fall within the jurisdiction of the committee and for other purposes; to the Committee on among science, technology, engineering, and concerned. Oversight and Government Reform, and in mathematics efforts in the States, to By Mrs. BLACK (for herself, Mr. NEAL, addition to the Committees on Rules, and strengthen the capacity of elementary Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania, Ms. JEN- Appropriations, for a period to be subse- schools, middle schools, and secondary KINS of Kansas, Mr. BLUMENAUER, quently determined by the Speaker, in each schools to prepare students in science, tech- Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. SCHOCK, Mr. case for consideration of such provisions as nology, engineering, and mathematics, and ROSKAM, Mr. PAULSEN, Mr. RENACCI, fall within the jurisdiction of the committee for other purposes; to the Committee on Mr. MEEHAN, and Mr. BECERRA): concerned. Education and the Workforce. H.R. 1063. A bill to amend the Harmonized By Mr. FRANKS of Arizona (for him- By Mr. BEN RAY LUJA´ N of New Mex- Tariff Schedule of the United States to self and Mr. SESSIONS): ico (for himself, Ms. MICHELLE LUJAN eliminate tariffs on technological goods pro- H.R. 1073. A bill to amend the Homeland GRISHAM of New Mexico, and Mr. viding educational value for children, and for Security Act of 2002 to secure critical infra- PEARCE): other purposes; to the Committee on Ways structure against electromagnetic threats, H.R. 1082. A bill to strengthen Indian edu- and Means. and for other purposes; to the Committee on cation, and for other purposes; to the Com- By Mrs. BUSTOS (for herself, Mr. Homeland Security. mittee on Education and the Workforce. LOEBSACK, and Mr. KIND): By Ms. GABBARD (for herself, Mr. By Mr. MCDERMOTT: H.R. 1064. A bill to reinstate year-round YOUNG of Alaska, and Mr. TAKAI): H.R. 1083. A bill to amend titles XVIII and Federal Pell Grants under the Higher Edu- H.R. 1074. A bill to amend title 49, United XIX of the Social Security Act to apply the cation Act of 1965; to the Committee on Edu- States Code, to exempt certain flights from Medicare restriction on self-referral to State cation and the Workforce. increased aviation security service fees; to plan requirements under Medicaid, and for By Mr. CLAY: the Committee on Homeland Security. other purposes; to the Committee on Energy H.R. 1065. A bill to require that States re- By Mr. GRIJALVA (for himself, Ms. and Commerce, and in addition to the Com- ceiving Byrne JAG funds to require sensi- MCSALLY, Mr. GALLEGO, Mrs. KIRK- mittee on Ways and Means, for a period to be tivity training for law enforcement officers PATRICK, Ms. SINEMA, and Mr. subsequently determined by the Speaker, in of that State; to the Committee on the Judi- GOSAR): each case for consideration of such provi- ciary. H.R. 1075. A bill to designate the United sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the By Mr. COLLINS of New York (for him- States Customs and Border Protection Port committee concerned. self and Mr. POMPEO): of Entry located at First Street and Pan By Mr. O’ROURKE (for himself, Mr. H.R. 1066. A bill to amend the Federal American Avenue in Douglas, Arizona, as the LAMBORN, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. YAR- Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to promote ‘‘Raul Hector Castro Port of Entry‘‘; to the MUTH, Mr. RUSSELL, Ms. BORDALLO, the use of adaptive trial designs, Bayesian Committee on Ways and Means. and Mr. COLE): methods, and other innovative statistical By Mr. KING of New York (for himself, H.R. 1084. A bill to amend title 49, United methods in clinical protocols for drugs, bio- Mr. RANGEL, Mr. CAPUANO, Mr. States Code, to modify the criteria for se- logical products, and devices, and with re- HIMES, Ms. NORTON, Mr. CARTWRIGHT, lecting communities to participate in the spect to the requirement to conduct post- Mr. ISRAEL, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. Small Community Air Service Development approval studies and clinical trials, and for HASTINGS, Mr. CICILLINE, Mr. Program, and for other purposes; to the other purposes; to the Committee on Energy PIERLUISI, Mr. TONKO, Mr. MCGOV- Committee on Transportation and Infra- and Commerce. ERN, Ms. PINGREE, and Mr. FARR): structure. By Mr. COSTELLO of Pennsylvania: H.R. 1076. A bill to increase public safety By Mr. PITTS: H.R. 1067. A bill to amend title 38, United by permitting the Attorney General to deny H.R. 1085. A bill to repeal the Prevention States Code, to extend the temporary expan- the transfer of a firearm or the issuance of and Public Health Fund; to the Committee sion of the United States Court of Appeals firearms or explosives licenses to a known or on Energy and Commerce. for Veterans Claims, to ensure that judges of suspected dangerous terrorist; to the Com- By Mr. ROKITA (for himself, Mr. the United States Court of Appeals for Vet- mittee on the Judiciary. GRAVES of Missouri, Mr. PEARCE, Mr. erans Claims may enroll in the Federal Em- By Mrs. KIRKPATRICK (for herself, PETERSON, Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. FLORES, ployee Group Life Insurance program, and Mr. GRIJALVA, and Mr. GALLEGO): Mr. HANNA, and Mr. POMPEO): for other purposes; to the Committee on Vet- H.R. 1077. A bill to modify the boundary of H.R. 1086. A bill to direct the Adminis- erans’ Affairs, and in addition to the Com- the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, trator of the Federal Aviation Administra- mittee on Oversight and Government Re- and for other purposes; to the Committee on tion to issue or revise regulations with reform, for a period to be subsequently deter- Natural Resources. spect to the medical certification of certain mined by the Speaker, in each case for con- By Mr. LANCE (for himself, Ms. ESHOO, small aircraft pilots, and for other purposes; sideration of such provisions as fall within Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mrs. MIMI WALTERS to the Committee on Transportation and In- the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. of California, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. frastructure.

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This legislation will both protect the telecommunications services; to the Com- granted to Congress in the Constitu- rights of over 400,000 general aviation pilots mittee on the Judiciary. tion to enact the accompanying bill or currently flying and encourage more to par- By Mr. SMITH of Washington (for him- joint resolution. ticipate in this community. self, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. RANGEL, and Mr. By Mr. SIRES: By Mrs. BLACK: KILMER): H.R. 1053 H.R. 1063. H.R. 1088. A bill to extend the trade adjust- Congress has the power to enact this legis- Congress has the power to enact this legis- ment assistance program, and for other pur- lation pursuant to the following: lation pursuant to the following: poses; to the Committee on Ways and Means, Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the Con- Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United and in addition to the Committees on Edu- stitution of the United States, ‘‘to regulate States Constitution, the Taxing and Spend- cation and the Workforce, and Energy and Commerce with foreign Nations, and among ing Clause: ‘‘The Congress shall have Power Commerce, for a period to be subsequently the several States, and with the Indian To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts determined by the Speaker, in each case for Tribes.’’ and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for consideration of such provisions as fall with- By Mr. CUMMINGS: the common Defence and general Welfare of in the jurisdiction of the committee con- H.R. 1055. the United States . . .’’ cerned. Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mrs. BUSTOS: By Mr. TIPTON (for himself, Mr. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 1064. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 CA´ RDENAS, Mr. COFFMAN, Mr. COLE, Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mr. SENSENBRENNER: Mr. CONYERS, Ms. DEGETTE, Mr. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 1056. HONDA, Ms. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM This bill is enacted pursuant to the power Congress has the power to enact this legis- of New Mexico, Mr. MULLIN, Mr. granted to Congress under Article I, Section lation pursuant to the following: TAKAI, Mr. TAKANO, and Mr. YOUNG of 8, Clause 18 of the United States Constitu- Article I, Section 8, Clause 1, of the Con- Alaska): tion. stitution By Mr. CLAY: H.R. 1089. A bill to help fulfill the Federal Article I, Section 8, Clause 3, of the Con- H.R. 1065. mandate to provide higher educational op- stitution Congress has the power to enact this legis- portunities for Native American Indians; to Article II, Section 2, Clause 2, of the Con- lation pursuant to the following: the Committee on Education and the Work- stitution Commerce Clause, Article 1 force, and in addition to the Committee on By Mr. ISSA: Section 8 Appropriations, for a period to be subse- H.R. 1057. By Mr. COLLINS of New York: quently determined by the Speaker, in each Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 1066. case for consideration of such provisions as lation pursuant to the following: Congress has the power to enact this legis- fall within the jurisdiction of the committee Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the Con- lation pursuant to the following: concerned. stitution which says, ‘‘To promote the Article I, Section 8 of the United States By Mrs. WAGNER (for herself and Mr. Progress of Science and useful Arts, by se- Constitution. GARRETT): curing for limited Times to Authors and In- By Mr. COSTELLO of Pennsylvania: ventors the exclusive Right to their respec- H.R. 1067. H.R. 1090. A bill to amend the Securities tive Writings and Discoveries.’’ Congress has the power to enact this legis- Exchange Act of 1934 to provide protections By Mr. ROSKAM: lation pursuant to the following: for retail customers, and for other purposes; H.R. 1058. Article I, Section 8 of the United States to the Committee on Financial Services, and Congress has the power to enact this legis- Constitution. in addition to the Committee on Education lation pursuant to the following: By Mr. DEFAZIO: and the Workforce, for a period to be subse- Article I, Section 8, Clause 18, which states H.R. 1068. quently determined by the Speaker, in each that ‘‘The Congress shall have Power To Congress has the power to enact this legis- case for consideration of such provisions as make all Laws which shall be necessary and lation pursuant to the following: fall within the jurisdiction of the committee proper for carrying into Execution the fore- This bill is enacted pursuant to the power concerned. going Powers, and all other Powers vested by granted to Congress under Article I, Section By Ms. WILSON of Florida: the Constitution in the Government of the 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution. H.R. 1091. A bill to require the Secretary of United States, or in any Department or Offi- By Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee: Agriculture to use negotiated rulemaking to cer thereof.’’ H.R. 1069. develop a rule about agriculture quarantine By Mr. ROSKAM: Congress has the power to enact this legis- inspection, and for other purposes; to the H.R. 1059. lation pursuant to the following: Committee on Agriculture. Congress has the power to enact this legis- Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2. The Con- By Ms. WILSON of Florida: lation pursuant to the following: gress shall have Power to dispose of and Article I, Section 8, Clause 18, which states make all needful Rules and Regulations re- H.R. 1092. A bill to designate the Federal that ‘‘The Congress shall have Power To specting the Territory or other Property be- building located at 2030 Southwest 145th Ave- make all Laws which shall be necessary and longing to the United States; and nothing in nue in Miramar, Florida, as the ‘‘Benjamin proper for carrying into Execution the fore- this Constitution shall be so construed as to P. Grogan and Jerry L. Dove Federal Bureau going Powers, and all other Powers vested by Prejudice any Claims of the United States, of Investigation Miami Field Office‘‘; to the the Constitution in the Government of the or of any particular State. Committee on Transportation and Infra- United States, or in any Department or Offi- By Mr. FATTAH: structure. cer thereof.’’ H.R. 1070. By Mr. BECERRA: By Mr. LAMALFA: Congress has the power to enact this legis- H. Res. 124. A resolution electing Members H.R. 1060. lation pursuant to the following: to certain standing committees of the House Congress has the power to enact this legis- Pursuant to Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of Representatives; considered and agreed to. lation pursuant to the following: of the United States Constitution, the Con- considered and agreed to. Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution gress shall have the power ‘‘[t]o regulate By Ms. LEE: grants Congress the authority to regulate commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian H. Res. 126. A resolution expressing the commerce between the states, and has pre- tribes.’’ sense of the House of Representatives regard- viously been used to authorize the Bureau of By Mr. FATTAH: ing United States efforts to promote Israeli- Reclamation, which this bill addresses. H.R. 1071. Palestinian peace; to the Committee on For- By Mr. FORTENBERRY: H.R. 1061. Congress has the power to enact this legis- eign Affairs. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: By Mr. MULVANEY: lation pursuant to the following: Pursuant to Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 H. Res. 127. A resolution recognizing line- The constitutional authority for this bill is of the United States Constitution, the Con- men, the profession of linemen, the contribu- pursuant to Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of gress shall have the power ‘‘[t]o regulate tions of these brave men and women who the United States Constitution. commerce with foreign Nations, and among protect public safety, and expressing support By Mr. GRAVES of Missouri: the several states, and with the Indian for the designation of March 31, 2015, as Na- H.R. 1062. tribes.’’ tional Lineman Appreciation Day; to the Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mr. FLEMING: Committee on Energy and Commerce. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 1072.

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Congress has the power to enact this legis- Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 H.R. 178: Mr. ROKITA and Mr. JODY B. HICE lation pursuant to the following: By Mr. O’ROURKE: of Georgia. The constitutional authority of Congress H.R. 1084. H.R. 188: Mr. PIERLUISI, Mr. ABRAHAM, Mr. to enact this legislation is provided by Arti- Congress has the power to enact this legis- HASTINGS, and Ms. SLAUGHTER. cle 1, Section 8, Clause 18 of the U.S. Con- lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 197: Mr. RUIZ. stitution, which states ‘‘The Congress shall The Congress shall have Power * * * To H.R. 199: Mr. BLUMENAUER. have Power to make all laws which shall be regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, H.R. 217: Mr. BRIDENSTINE and Mr. CREN- necessary and proper for carrying into execu- and among the several States, and with the SHAW. tion the foregoing powers, and all other pow- Indian Tribes. H.R. 231: Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. DESANTIS, ers vested by this Constitution in the gov- By Mr. PITTS: Ms. CASTOR of Florida, and Mr. CRENSHAW. ernment of the United States, or in any De- H.R. 1085. H.R. 249: Mr. CA´ RDENAS, Mr. ROKITA, and partment or Officer thereof.’’ Congress has the power to enact this legis- Mr. STIVERS. By Mr. FRANKS of Arizona: lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 281: Mr. BRADY of Texas and Mr. AUS- H.R. 1073. Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 TIN SCOTT of Georgia. Congress has the power to enact this legis- The Congress shall have Power to lay and H.R. 284, Mr. TOM PRICE of Georgia, Mr. lation pursuant to the following: collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, YOUNG of Indiana, and Mr. ROTHFUS. Article 1, Section 8 to pay the Debts and provide for the common H.R. 335: Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. By Ms. GABBARD: Defense and general Welfare of the United H.R. 353: Mr. NEWHOUSE and Mr. GIBSON. H.R. 1074. States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises H.R. 354: Mr. RIBBLE. H.R. 358: Mrs. BUSTOS, Mr. SERRANO, and Congress has the power to enact this legis- shall be uniform throughout the United Mr. COOPER. lation pursuant to the following: States. H.R. 438: Mr. VEASEY. The U.S. Constitution including Article 1, By Mr. ROKITA: H.R. 451: Mr. COFFMAN, Mr. FRELING- Section 8. H.R. 1086. HUYSEN, and Mr. LUCAS. By Mr. GRIJALVA: Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 452: Mr. BOST. H.R. 1075. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 456: Mr. ZINKE, Mr. PALAZZO, and Mr. Congress has the power to enact this legis- Article I, Section 8, clause 3 of the United LYNCH. lation pursuant to the following: States Constitution, which reads ‘‘The Con- U.S. Const. art. I, §§ 1 and 8. H.R. 461: Mr. BABIN. gress shall have Power To regulate Com- H.R. 465: Mr. HENSARLING, Mr. YOUNG of By Mr. KING of New York: merce with foreign Nations, and among the H.R. 1076. Iowa, Mr. BUCSHON, Mr. WEBSTER of Florida, several States, and with Indian Tribes.’’ Mr. POMPEO, Mr. COFFMAN, Mr. CRAMER, and Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mr. SENSENBRENNER: lation pursuant to the following: Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania. H.R. 1087. H.R. 532: Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Mr. SAR- Article I, Section 8, Clause 6 Congress has the power to enact this legis- The Congress shall have Power . . . To BANES, Mrs. COMSTOCK, and Ms. FRANKEL of lation pursuant to the following: Florida. make all Laws which shall be necessary and Article 1, Section 8, clauses 1 and 3 proper for carrying into Execution the fore- H.R. 546: Mr. ROSKAM, Mr. LAMALFA, Ms. By Mr. SMITH of Washington: DELBENE, Mr. GRAVES of Missouri, and Mr. going Powers, and all other Powers vested by H.R. 1088. this Constitution in the Government of the CRENSHAW. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 555: Mr. MARCHANT and Mr. MCCLIN- United States, or in any Department or Offi- lation pursuant to the following: TOCK. cer thereof Article I Section 8 Clause 3—‘‘To regulate H.R. 571: Mr. WITTMAN. By Mrs. KIRKPATRICK: Commerce with foreign Nations, and among H.R. 583: Mr. FORBES and Mr. CARTER of H.R. 1077. the several States, and within the Indian Georgia. Congress has the power to enact this legis- Tribes.’’ H.R. 584: Mr. COLLINS of New York. lation pursuant to the following: By Mr. TIPTON: H.R. 590: Mr. SCHIFF. Article I Section 18 To make all Laws H.R. 1089. H.R. 594: Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. RUSSELL, Ms. which shall be necessary and proper for car- Congress has the power to enact this legis- STEFANIK, Mrs. MILLER of Michigan, and Mr. rying into Execution the foregoing Powers, lation pursuant to the following: PALMER. and all other Powers vested by this Constitu- The constitutional authority of Congress H.R. 600: Mr. HECK of Washington and Mr. tion in the Government of the United States, to enact this legislation is provided by Arti- RANGEL. or in any Department or Officer thereof. cle I, section 8 of the United States Constitu- H.R. 609: Mrs. KIRKPATRICK. By Mr. LANCE: tion, specifically clause 1 (relating to the H.R. 620: Mr. DESAULNIER. H.R. 1078. power of Congress to provide for the general H.R. 654: Mr. JODY B. HICE of Georgia. Congress has the power to enact this legis- welfare of the United States) and clause 18 H.R. 663: Mr. TIPTON and Mr. MOONEY of lation pursuant to the following: (relating to the power to make all laws nec- West Virginia. Article I, Sec. 8, Clause 1, of the United essary and proper for carrying out the pow- H.R. 674: Mr. BEYER and Mr. MACARTHUR. States Constitution ers vested in Congress). H.R. 680: Mr. DESAULNIER. This states that ‘‘Congress shall have By Mrs. WAGNER: H.R. 689: Mr. NADLER. power to . . . lay and collect taxes, duties, H.R. 1090. H.R. 699: Mr. NORCROSS. imposts and excises, to pay the debts and Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 700: Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. DELBENE, provide for the common defense and general lation pursuant to the following: and Mr. HECK of Washington. welfare fo the United States Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 H.R. 703: Mr. CARTER of Texas, Mr. By Mr. LANGEVIN: The Congress shall have Power * * * To MCCAUL, and Mr. LOUDERMILK. H.R. 1079. regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, H.R. 704: Mr. VEASEY, Mr. MCCAUL, and Ms. Congress has the power to enact this legis- FRANKEL of Florida. lation pursuant to the following: and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes. H.R. 707: Mr. GOWDY, Mr. WILSON of South Article I, Section 8, Clause 1. Carolina, and Mr. GOHMERT. ´ By Ms. WILSON of Florida: By Mr. BEN RAY LUJAN of New Mex- H.R. 712: Mr. BARR. ico: H.R. 1091. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 716: Mr. RANGEL. H.R. 1080. H.R. 727: Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. MOONEY of lation pursuant to the following: Congress has the power to enact this legis- West Virginia, and Ms. TSONGAS. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3’s authority to lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 729: Ms. CASTOR of Florida. regulate Commerce with foreign Nations and Article I, Section 8. H.R. 732: Mr. LEVIN and Mr. CICILLINE. ´ Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18, the Necessary By Mr. BEN RAY LUJAN of New Mex- H.R. 751: Mr. HURT of Virginia. and Proper Clause. ico: H.R. 756: Mr. WEBSTER of Florida. By Ms. WILSON of Florida: H.R. 1081. H.R. 757: Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. COOK, and Mr. H.R. 1092. Congress has the power to enact this legis- REICHERT. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: H.R. 767: Mr. HILL. lation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8. H.R. 774: Mr. SABLAN, Mr. THOMPSON of Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 and Article By Mr. BEN RAY LUJA´ N of New Mex- California, and Mrs. CAPPS. ico: I, Section 8, Clause 18 H.R. 797: Mr. NADLER. H.R. 1082. f H.R. 803: Ms. FOXX and Mr. CRENSHAW. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 818: Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. lation pursuant to the following: ADDITIONAL SPONSORS SIRES, Mr. PAULSEN, and Mr. LOEBSACK. Article I, Section 8. Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors H.R. 823: Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. PETERS, By Mr. McDERMOTT: and Ms. LEE. H.R. 1083. were added to public bills and resolu- H.R. 842: Mr. MCCAUL, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. Congress has the power to enact this legis- tions, as follows: TURNER, Mr. COOPER, Ms. HAHN, Mr. COLE, lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 27: Mr. BRIDENSTINE. Mr. WALBERG, and Mr. KILMER.

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H.R. 843: Mr. WALBERG. H.R. 1009: Mrs. NAPOLITANO and Mr. GRI- Mr. SIRES, Mr. LOEBSACK, Ms. GABBARD, Ms. H.R. 850: Mr. LANGEVIN. JALVA. MATSUI, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Ms. TSONGAS, Mr. H.R. 855: Mr. CRENSHAW. H.R. 1017: Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania and CLYBURN, Ms. FUDGE, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, H.R. 864: Ms. TITUS. Mr. AMODEI. Mr. RANGEL, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. SCOTT of Vir- H.R. 867: Mr. BOUSTANY. H.R. 1021: Mr. DIAZ-BALART. ginia, Mr. THOMPSON of California, Mr. H.R. 880: Mr. BLUM. H.R. 1024: Mr. TAKAI, Mr. ASHFORD, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. CICILLINE, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. H.R. 882: Ms. MATSUI. RUPPERSBERGER, Mr. POCAN, Ms. KUSTER, Mr. RUIZ, Mr. CUELLAR, Mr. WELCH, Mr. LIPINSKI, H.R. 887: Mr. RANGEL, Mr. BLUMENAUER, FITZPATRICK, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of Ms. JUDY CHU of California, Mr. SARBANES, and Mr. BURGESS. New York, Mr. TONKO, Mr. PERLMUTTER, Mr. Mr. LEVIN, Ms. BROWNLEY of California, Mr. H.R. 894: Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of PETERS, Mr. SABLAN, and Mrs. BUSTOS. MCGOVERN, Ms. EDWARDS, Mr. TED LIEU of New York and Mr. ENGEL. H.R. 1026: Mr. ROSKAM. California, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. MCDERMOTT, H.R. 1031: Mr. AL GREEN of Texas, Mr. H.R. 902: Mr. HOYER. Mr. NADLER, Mr. FATTAH, Mr. FARR, Mr. HIMES, Mr. QUIGLEY, Mr. BERA, Mr. PETERS, H.R. 903; Mr. WEBSTER of Florida, Mr. GARAMENDI, Ms. NORTON, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. Mr. KIND, Mr. VELA, Mr. CA´ RDENAS, Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania, Mr. COLLINS of New SMITH of Washington, Mr. LARSEN of Wash- SCHRADER, Mr. FOSTER, Mr. MEEKS, Mr. SEAN York, Mr. VALADAO, and Mr. SMITH of Texas. ington, Mr. CONYERS, Ms. SPEIER, Mr. PATRICK MALONEY of New York, Mr. ELLISON, H.R. 916: Mr. RYAN of Ohio and Mr. COSTA. GUTIE´ RREZ, and Ms. WILSON of Florida. Mr. DESAULNIER, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Ms. H.R. 918: Mr. COLE, Mr. STUTZMAN, and Mr. H.R. 1032: Mr. COOPER. PLASKETT, Mr. CARTWRIGHT, Mr. HILL. H.J. Res. 9: Mr. TIBERI. BUTTERFIELD, Mr. AGUILAR, Mr. GRIJALVA, H.R. 919: Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. LARSON of H.J. Res. 33: Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, Ms. HAHN, Ms. Connecticut, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. and Mr. HUNTER. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. HAS- MCDERMOTT, Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. H. Res. 15: Mr. VISCLOSKY, Ms. SPEIER, Ms. TINGS, Mr. JEFFRIES, Mr. WALZ, Ms. LOF- PASCRELL, Mr. CICILLINE, Mr. LEVIN, Ms. PIN- ESTY, Mr. TED LIEU of California, Mr. GREN, Mr. RICHMOND, Ms. CLARKE of New GREE, Mr. VELA, Mr. RYAN of Ohio Mr. CUM- JEFFRIES, Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of York, Mr. KEATING, Mr. PAYNE, Mrs. TORRES, MINGS, Ms. DELBENE, Ms. SPEIER, and Mr. New York, Mr. LEWIS, Mr. PRICE of North Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Mr. THOMPSON of Mis- LOWENTHAL. Carolina, Mr. WELCH, Mr. PASCRELL, Mr. sissippi, Mr. LEWIS, Ms. BONAMICI, Mr. DANNY H.R. 923: Mr. MARCHANT. SIRES, Mr. CARTWRIGHT, Mr. POCAN, Ms. LOF- K. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. CUMMINGS, Ms. H.R. 924: Mr. SCHWEIKERT. GREN, Mr. SERRANO, and Mr. NOLAN. DUCKWORTH, Mr. SHERMAN, Ms. DEGETTE, Mr. H.R. 940: Mr. COLLINS of Georgia, Mr. H. Res. 28: Ms. HAHN, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. KILDEE, Ms. SINEMA, Mr. DELANEY, Mr. JONES, Mr. DUFFY, Mr. TIBERI, Mr. FRANKS of COOK, Ms. LINDA T. SA´ NCHEZ of California, ASHFORD, Mr. O’ROURKE, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Arizona, Mr. EMMER of Minnesota, Mr. CLAW- and Mr. TAKAI. Ms. DELBENE, Mr. POCAN, Mr. KILMER, Mr. SON of Florida, and Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. H. Res. 45: Mr. NEWHOUSE. COURTNEY, Ms. ESTY, Mr. YARMUTH, Mr. H.R. 955: Mr. KNIGHT, Ms. MCSALLY, and H. Res. 54: Ms. LEE, Mr. PETERS, Mr. RUIZ, HONDA, Mr. COHEN, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. Mr. LARSEN of Washington. Mr. SERRANO, Mr. THOMPSON of California, PERLMUTTER, Mrs. BUSTOS, Mr. POLIS, Mrs. H.R. 963: Mr. POLIS and Mr. SABLAN. and Mr. COOK. DAVIS of California, Mrs. DINGELL, Mr. H.R. 975: Mr. ROE of Tennessee, Mr. COL- H. Res. 93: Mr. PETERS. SCHIFF, Ms. KUSTER, Ms. MENG, Ms. FRANKEL LINS of New York, Mr. WALBERG, Mr. FOR- H. Res. 112: Ms. BROWN of Florida. of Florida, Ms. PINGREE, Ms. WASSERMAN TENBERRY, Mr. GIBBS, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, H. Res. 122: Mr. MARINO. Mr. PITTENGER, Mr. YOHO, Mr. CHAFFETZ, and SCHULTZ, Mr. CARNEY, Mr. TONKO, Mr. BEN ´ Mr. POSEY. RAY LUJAN of New Mexico, Ms. LORETTA f H.R. 981: Mr. PALAZZO, Mr. BROOKS of Ala- SANCHEZ of California, Mr. MURPHY of Flor- bama, Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia, and Mr. ida, Mr. SWALWELL of California, Mr. KEN- CONGRESSIONAL EARMARKS, LIM- BOUSTANY. NEDY, Mr. DEUTCH, Mr. CASTRO of Texas, Mr. H.R. 986: Mrs. COMSTOCK, Mr. KNIGHT, Mr. VEASEY, Mr. BEYER, Ms. SEWELL of Alabama, ITED TAX BENEFITS, OR LIM- AMODEI, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. FINCHER, Mr. Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. PRICE of North Caro- ITED TARIFF BENEFITS NUNES, Mr. PEARCE, Mr. RENACCI, Mr. GRIF- lina, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Ms. KAPTUR, Ms. Under clause 9 of rule XXI, lists or FITH, Mr. GOSAR, Mr. MCKINLEY, Mrs. PELOSI, Mr. ISRAEL, Mr. NOLAN, Mr. TAKANO, statements on congressional earmarks, ELLMERS of North Carolina, Mr. CLAWSON of Mr. TAKAI, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Mr. JOHNSON of limited tax benefits, or limited tariff Florida, Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania, Mr. Georgia, Ms. KELLY of Illinois, Mr. BLUM, Mr. BARLETTA, and Mr. VALADAO. LOWENTHAL, Mr. VARGAS, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. benefits were submitted as follows: H.R. 988: Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. CROWLEY, Mr. COOPER, Mr. PASCRELL, Ms. The amendment to be offered by Rep- H.R. 996: Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. BASS, Mrs. CAROLYN B. resentative KLINE, or a designee, to H.R. 5, H.R. 1004: Mr. RANGEL and Mr. JOHNSON of MALONEY of New York, Ms. DELAURO, Ms. Student Success Act, does not contain any Georgia. MCCOLLUM, Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts, Ms. congressional earmarks, limited tax bene- H.R. 1005: Mr. POLIS. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM of New Mexico, fits, or limited tariff benefits as defined in H.R. 1006: Mr. SARBANES and Mr. HASTINGS. Mrs. BEATTY, Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania, clause 9 of rule XXI.

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Vol. 161 WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2015 No. 32 Senate The Senate met at 9:30 a.m. and was The PRESIDING OFFICER. The left. Democrats should join us in vot- called to order by the President pro clerk will report the motion. ing for this commonsense legislation. tempore (Mr. HATCH). The legislative clerk read as follows: In the meantime, we have offered f Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 5, H.R. Democrats a chance to prove they were 240, a bill making appropriations for the De- serious about something else, and that PRAYER partment of Homeland Security for the fiscal is funding the Department of Homeland The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- year ending September 30, 2015, and for other Security. fered the following prayer: purposes. It is really something to watch Let us pray. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, yes- Democrats vote and block funding for We acknowledge today, O Lord, Your terday President Obama took the ex- this Department one day and then hold power, mercy, and grace. We need Your treme step of vetoing good American a hypocritical press conference the power, for the challenges we face re- jobs. He sided with partisan extremists next. Democrats need to end their quire more than human wisdom and and powerful special interests over the weeks-long filibuster of Homeland Se- strength. We need Your mercy, for we middle class. curity funding and end it right now. transgress Your law and fall short of It says a lot about the priorities of We have continually offered them Your glory. We need Your grace, for we this administration. But if the White sensible opportunities to do so. Yester- cannot offer anything to merit Your House thinks this is the end of the new day, we offered them yet another. But favor or gain Your love. Congress’s push for American jobs, it is it will require their cooperation to Empower our Senators for today’s wrong. I will soon have more to say achieve. journey. Lord, give them confidence to about this and what the Senate plans The dual-pronged approach I have draw near to You, that they may find to do. outlined—allowing the Senate to stop grace to help them in this time of need. For the moment, the Senate is fo- unwise and unfair overreach on the one In an unstable world, where freedom cused on overcoming another extreme hand and to fund DHS through the fis- lovers are challenged to live coura- idea: the Democrats’ Homeland Secu- cal year on the other—is a sensible way geously, guide our lawmakers to be rity filibuster to defend Executive forward, but it can’t be achieved with- models of courage. May they send the overreach. out cross-partisan cooperation. right signals to an unstable and dan- Many Senate Democrats led their The onus continues to be on the gerous world. constituents to believe they would do Democratic Party to keep the Depart- We pray in Your merciful Name. something about the kind of Executive ment of Homeland Security funded. Amen. overreach President Obama referred to Democrats can fund DHS now—not by f as ‘‘unwise and unfair’’ and ignoring holding more hypocritical press con- PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE the law. Those are the words of the ferences but by ending their senseless President of the United States. We filibuster and cooperating across the The President pro tempore led the have since heard excuses from Demo- aisle. Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: crats to cover for their refusal to do so. That is what Americans expect. That I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the But the time for excuses has now is what Democrats can finally work to- United States of America, and to the Repub- passed. Democrats will soon have an- gether with us on to get done now. lic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. other chance to prove they were seri- RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME ous. f The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under Later this week, the Senate will con- the previous order, the leadership time RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY sider a bill from the senior Senator is reserved. LEADER from Maine that is about as reasonable f The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. as you can get. Obviously, President MORNING BUSINESS PAUL). The majority leader is recog- Obama was right to refer to the kind of nized. overreach he took in November as ig- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under f noring the law. Senator COLLINS’ sen- the previous order, the Senate will be sible bill focuses simply on preventing in a period of morning business for 1 DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SE- the most egregious example of Execu- hour, with Senators permitted to speak CURITY APPROPRIATIONS ACT, tive overreach from taking effect. It is therein for up to 10 minutes each, and 2015—MOTION TO PROCEED as simple as that. with the majority controlling the first Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I The Collins bill is not tied to funding half and the Democrats controlling the move to proceed to H.R. 240. of DHS, either. So there are no excuses final half.

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VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:33 Feb 25, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A25FE6.000 S25FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S1086 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 25, 2015 The Senator from Indiana. way, realizing that as the debt was President’s Chief of Staff to the co- Mr. COATS. Mr. President, it is my continuing to accumulate it was going chair of the ‘‘go big guy’’ in terms of understanding that we are in morning to have major negative consequences what we need to do. We can’t go there, business with permission to speak for to the future of our children and grand- but maybe we can go a little. And we up to 10 minutes. children and perhaps even our own gen- are all the way down now to what I call The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- eration. ‘‘waste of the week.’’ ator is correct. We stand here today, having gone Let us at least identify those things f through all that—the Vitter com- that the Government Accountability mittee, which I was a part of; eight of Office and the Congressional Budget WASTEFUL SPENDING us agreeing with the President, with no Office have identified as those things Mr. COATS. Mr. President, when I staff and no press, closed room, months we know don’t work, that we know are reran for the Senate in 2010, there were and months and months of negotia- a waste, that we know are duplication, two major issues that dominated the tion—only once again to come up and let’s see if we can get at least some campaign and that continue to domi- short. Ultimately, we sacrificed so start in terms of dealing with this nate the discussion and debate in the many things we thought we needed to debt. Senate postelection. One was the Af- do just to get something going. But Senator Coburn took the lead on that fordable Care Act, now called once again it was shot down in the end in the last several sessions of Congress. ObamaCare, which was pushed through by a President who really wasn’t will- We are going to miss him because no without any bipartisan support. There ing to accept even the provisions he one can do it better than he did in was a lot of concern among the Amer- had proposed in his budget proposal pointing out and really embarrassing a ican people about the impact this that was publicly proposed. We took lot of us in asking: Why are we funding would have on their lives. That was an those and said: Can we at least do that? I am not trying to take his place. issue of intense discussion and debate these, Mr. President? You have an- But I did, with my staff, come up with during that campaign. nounced this is your initiative. But it the idea to at least let our colleagues The second was the plunge into debt was a no go. know—those who say we can’t cut a at a level Americans had never seen be- Well, as a member of the Committee penny more, we have cut too much— fore in the history of the country. It on Appropriations, I then tried to work that, yes, we can cut more. We can at took nearly 200 years, from the begin- with various agencies. They all had to least do something to address this debt ning of our Nation until 1981, to reach come before us to make their requests or have money to offset a needed fund- the $1 trillion debt mark. That is a lot known for the coming year. I asked ing program. of governing. That is a lot of growth of them: Do you have a plan B in place? So we are going to inaugurate ‘‘waste America. But we were essentially on a What do you mean plan B? What is of the week’’ today. In its debut, I will path—including expenditures for war plan B all about? go back to something I tried to amend and so forth—that didn’t take us deep- Plan B is the fact that mandatory when we were addressing the unem- ly into debt relative to our gross do- spending is running away with our ployment insurance issue. Ultimately, mestic product. budget and the available amount of I was not able to offer the amendment All of a sudden, in 2010, there was the money for your discretionary spending thanks to the majority leader’s filling revelation that debt held by the public is shrinking every year. So what is of the tree and not allowing any was rapidly nearing the $10 trillion your plan B in terms of having less amendments. I made a big stink about mark—a tenfold increase in less than money available, whether it is for it. I didn’t understand why we could 30 years. It took 190 plus years to get to health care, for education, for building not at least take that up. the first $1 trillion and only 30 years to roads? All of the discretionary issues So waste of the week this week is the add ten times that amount. That was a that fall under the discretionary spend- cost to the taxpayer for those in the hot topic of debate during the 2010 elec- ing that we are in control of, we no safety net receiving Social Security tion. During that election, the Amer- longer have control of. That is shrink- Disability Insurance or unemployment ican people came out in significant ing and you are going to have to do insurance and getting checks from numbers and said: Get to Washington more with less. And I asked that they both agencies. and do something about this. provide a plan B before they could get Now, if you can prove to the appro- In the background, a debt clock was my clearance in terms of supporting priate government agency that you ticking away, and not only on my their requests. can’t work, you can be eligible if you website but clocks around the country They never came forward. No, we go through the process for Social Secu- at different times, and people were as- have to stay with what the President’s rity Disability Insurance. But if you go tonished at how fast those numbers budget is and so forth. So here we are to the Social Security Disability Insur- were churning. now, over $8 trillion more than where ance agency and make your claim, you That led to a pretty intense effort on we were in 2010, and an $18 trillion-plus can’t then go to the unemployment in- the part of both parties and on the part deficit. surance agency and say you can’t of many organizations. I can remember Everyone knows this is work, that you can’t find work, that Simpson-Bowles—a former Chief of unsustainable. Everyone in America you are able to work but that you need Staff of President Bill Clinton along knows we are careening toward insol- to get that check from that agency. with a former distinguished Senator vency, with an inability to cover even What has been documented now is the from Wyoming, a Republican and a some of the most basic functions of fact that there are very significant Democrat together—Simpson-Bowles. government. numbers of people who are gaming this The public was getting behind this—a I talk to agencies about a policy of issue and receiving checks from both $4 trillion, over 10 year fix to the prob- triage. I suggested they separate out agencies. lem. It was pretty dramatic, yet there what they absolutely essentially have Either you can work or you can’t was a lot of momentum for it. That to do and we will fund it. Then part B work. You are eligible for one safety was shot down, unfortunately, by the is what they would like to do if they net program or the other, but not both. President when it was presented. had the money to do it. Part C is their That totals $5.7 billion of duplication. Following that, we had the Gang of 6, asking: Why are we doing that in the My amendment that I had offered a bipartisan effort, and the Joint Com- first place or that program is long past under the unemployment insurance ex- mittee on Deficit Reduction—the group its need, its existence or it hasn’t tension in the last Congress was simply of 12, 6 Democrats and 6 Republicans worked. Let’s start there, with part C, to say you can’t do both, and we are working diligently to try to put some- and let’s get rid of excess spending that going to put procedures in place so we thing together, along with outside or- has no real function going forward or it can find out who is doing both. ganizations, to fix the debt. There were is duplication or fraud or waste or One would think this would be pretty any number of these—the Domenici whatever. simple, even in the paper age, but we Rivlin task force—proposals that were That leads me now to this poster. I are in the digital age. I don’t under- worked on together in a bipartisan have kind of gone from acting like the stand why the people administering

VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:33 Feb 25, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G25FE6.002 S25FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE February 25, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1087 this can’t simply take the Social Secu- road to the extreme, and we do not by producing more energy responsibly rity number and plug it into unemploy- need to forget that. We need to empha- right here at home. It also means open- ment insurance and say: Do you have size it. This is my small step, after ing access to international markets so this person’s name with this Social Se- many large steps that have failed, to we can help the energy security of our curity number? Are they receiving un- try to continue to alert the American allies as well. employment insurance? Or vice versa. people and alert my colleagues that The second principle we talk about in It ought to be the push of a button on there is money we can save and spend the report ‘‘Principled Stewardship of a computer so that it is not all that and run a much more efficient, effec- the American West’’ focuses on envi- costly and makes a great deal of sense. tive government. ronmental stewardship in the West. We The worst they would have to do is I yield the floor. take very seriously our commitment to pick up the phone and say: I have John I suggest the absence of a quorum. ensuring the health of the land, the Doe here whose Social Security num- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The wildlife, and the environment. Thou- ber is X. He is applying for Social Secu- clerk will call the roll. sands of people are working across the rity Disability Insurance. Do you have The legislative clerk proceeded to West to protect our communities. him on the unemployment role? Or vice call the roll. These are people who live in the West, versa. I am sorry, Mr. Doe, but you Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I ask not bureaucrats in Washington, DC. can’t do both, and you are gaming the unanimous consent that the order for Nobody is better qualified than the system. This duplication of benefits the quorum call be rescinded. people who actually walk the land and costs $5.7 billion. That is a pretty good The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without breathe the air they are trying to pro- savings. objection, it is so ordered. tect. This is the first of what will be a f Our report encourages locally led weekly presentation of programs that conservation partnerships to build on PRINCIPLED STEWARDSHIP OF are no longer needed, that are duplica- the work being done by people who rely THE AMERICAN WEST tive, where there is fraud or waste in- on the health and the safety of the volved. I am going to bring this for- Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, over land. This means making sure regu- ward every week, and we are going to the past week while I was home in Wy- lators base their decisions on science, try to add it all up. oming traveling around our State, I not on personal ideology, and that We start here with $5.7 billion, and I had a chance to talk with students their work is done out in the open. On have my spending thermometer going about their hopes for the future, and I this front I will be introducing legisla- up to $100 billion. I think we can go talked with many small business own- tion to stop the Environmental Protec- much higher than that. Tom Coburn ers about their efforts in trying to cretion Agency’s takeover of the waters of said we could, through his Wastebook ate jobs. the United States. and the work he has done. The people of Wyoming work hard The third principle in this report fo- So we have already inked it in here. and take seriously the Western values cuses on agriculture and forestry. As We are going to start filling this in by of family and community. They are an environmental stewardship, the coming here every week. committed—they are committed—to Western Caucus believes the States are People may say: Well, that is small preserving the West’s role in providing better equipped than Washington to de- change. Look, $5.7 billion is not small natural resources that improve the velop good farm policies. Crops, breeds change. In comparison to our debt, lives of millions of people all across of livestock, soil types, and the grow- does it solve the problem? Absolutely America. ing seasons vary greatly across this not. It is at least a start. Can we at This commitment is shared by the country. These factors come together least not come together in sensible Senate Western Caucus—a caucus in the West very differently from what things such as this and at least get which I chair in the Senate—as well as might be seen in the Northeast or in started in the right direction? is shared by the Congressional Western the South. A bureaucrat in Washington In the meantime, I think we are still Caucus under the leadership of Wyo- simply cannot write regulations that going to be pushed into situations by ming Congressman CYNTHIA LUMMIS. cover every part of the country with crisis, when no longer the countenance Recently, we released a joint report any hope of success. Western States of the investment world in America in titled ‘‘Principled Stewardship of the must be allowed to make these deci- terms of the rate of return is accept- American West.’’ This new report has sions for themselves to help the farm- able, because the debt continues to ac- details about specific things we should ing and ranching way of life continue cumulate. be doing right here in Congress, spe- to thrive in America. So here we are, back to 2010, back to cific things Washington should let the One task we can do at the national where we were. I know it is not talked people in the West do for themselves. level is to promote active management about very much at this stage. We have The whole report is available on my of our forests to ensure that our forests foreign policy issues and domestic Web site, Barrasso.senate.gov. remain healthy. As many as 82 million issues we have to engage in. But the Now I want to talk about four spe- acres of our National Forest System clock is ticking away, minute after cific principles that guide the work of need treatment to deal with the minute, second after second, and it is a the Western Caucus that are contained threats of fire, insects, and invasive continued plunge of the deficit spend- in this very report. These principles species. When forests deteriorate, they ing—borrowing money we don’t have in are based on the idea that the people are more vulnerable to wildfire. Fires order to pay for things we need, but who live on the land are the best stew- cause erosion and threaten water qual- also paying for things we don’t need. ards of the land. Our main goal is to ity. When forests get overgrown and So I will be here every week with a empower the residents, the workers, unhealthy, they stifle habitats critical new proposal. We will be filling in this and the leaders in the West and local for deer, elk, wild turkeys, and other chart, and hopefully at least start us leaders throughout the country to animals. The members of the Western on the process once again of getting make the decisions that best serve Caucus know how important it is to re- through to one major challenge we their families and their communities. sponsibly manage our national forests, have here in this Senate, the Congress, These principles stand in stark con- and we will push for legislation to and the executive branch, and that is trast to the failed approach Wash- make sure that continues to happen. dealing with our debt. It is genera- ington has taken for far too long. Finally, the report focuses on a West- tional theft. It is putting the burden on The first principle in our report has ern approach to judicial and regulatory our children and grandchildren, and to do with energy. The members of the reform. This includes stopping the law- even on workers here today. It is hold- Western Caucus are united. We will suit abuse that special interest groups ing down our economy. It is one of the promote access to our Nation’s abun- have used to set public policy without major challenges this Congress has not dant, affordable, secure, diverse, and the public actually being involved. It successfully addressed and which this reliable energy and mineral resources. includes protecting private property administration has not successfully ad- That means increasing energy security owners from excessive Washington reg- dressed. It is kicking the can down the for the United States. We can do that ulations.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:33 Feb 25, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G25FE6.003 S25FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S1088 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 25, 2015 Agencies such as the Environmental er with a baby sitting in a nonsmoking Lautenberg, who was my partner in Protection Agency and the U.S. Forest section two rows away from me. And I passing this important legislation, and Service have a history of interfering thought to myself: I am going to do to remind us there are other things we with the use of private property. These something to change this. can do to make this world a little bet- agencies have fined and bullied land- I went back to the House of Rep- ter and a little safer. One of those owners throughout the West. Too often resentatives. I was a relatively new things relates to e-cigarettes, a new in- the goal of the bureaucrats is to pro- Member of Congress. I introduced a bill vention tobacco companies are jump- tect their own turf, not to protect the to ban smoking on airplanes. My staff ing up and down to market to children land or to serve the people. Honest, thought it was crazy. Nobody had ever in America. We have seen in a short pe- hard-working taxpayers get crushed be- beaten the tobacco lobby at anything. riod of time the number of kids using neath the resources of a Federal legal To take them and most of the airline these electronic cigarettes double. It system that operates without over- industry on was a fool’s errand, but I has a chemical in it, the same one that sight. The Western Caucus favors con- did it anyway. I got a lot of help along is in cigarettes—nicotine—that is ad- servation through local cooperation the way from some amazing colleagues. dictive. Tobacco companies know that and partnership, not through intimida- I finally got a chance to bring it to the if they can lure children into cigarettes tion and an attitude that ‘‘Washington floor for a vote, and to the shock and or e-cigarettes, they are going to cre- knows best.’’ surprise of the tobacco lobby, we won. ate an addiction in these young people This report’s four principles and the We banned smoking on airplane flights that will be tough to break and won’t ideas it discusses are based on what of 2 hours or more. be healthy at all. members in the Western Caucus hear I called my friend Frank Lautenberg, I hope the Food and Drug Adminis- back home. These are the topics I hear who was a Senator from New Jersey, tration will step up and do their job from people as I travel around Wyo- and I asked him if he would take up the and regulate these products and these ming. These principles promote respon- cause in the U.S. Senate. He agreed to, e-cigarette products to protect the sible energy, food and timber produc- and he passed the same measure. children across America. tion, while preserving what makes the So this day marks the 25th anniver- f West a unique place in America. sary of the signing into law a ban on DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND Last year more than 10 million peo- smoking on airplanes. It is obvious SECURITY FUNDING ple from around the world visited Wyo- why it passed. Members of Congress are ming. They are drawn by its beauty part of the largest frequent flyer pro- Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, this and natural splendor. The people of gram in the world, and they hated it as week we are deciding whether we are Wyoming and all Western States know much as I did on that flight from Phoe- going to shut down the Government of they have a responsibility to manage nix to Chicago. But it did something I the United States of America again. and protect the land and waters in a never imagined. Malcolm Gladwell Again. I think it was about a year and way that allows all of us to enjoy wrote a book called ‘‘The Tipping a half ago that the Senator from Texas them. The goal of the Senate and Con- Point.’’ It turns out that moment was on the other side of the aisle took to gressional Western Caucus is to pre- a tipping point because people all the floor and called for shutting down serve and protect everything that is across America 25 years ago started the Government of the United States of special about the West so that families asking a very basic question: If second- America, protesting President Obama’s who have lived there for generations hand smoke is dangerous in an air- Affordable Care Act. He did it, and the can continue to live there for genera- plane, isn’t it dangerous in a train, on hardship that created for people all tions in the future. a bus, in an office, in hospitals, in res- across the United States who relied on Thank you, Mr. President. taurants, in a tavern, in a bingo hall— essential government services is well I yield the floor. and the list went on and on. All across documented. The impact it had on the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The as- the United States, States started men and women who work in our gov- sistant Democratic leader. changing laws and banning smoking. ernment was also documented. It cost f Today, if you walked into the doors our economy. It was a bad thing to do. of the Capitol here smoking a ciga- It was a political strategy which on re- 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE rette, somebody would stop you and flection was the absolute worst, to shut AIRLINE SMOKING BAN say: Wait a minute, we don’t do that down our government. Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, today here. In the old days, nobody would Well, this week we face another shut- marks the 25th anniversary of a law think twice and there were ashtrays all down, and this time it is the Depart- that has affected millions of Ameri- over. ment of Homeland Security. This De- cans. It was a law that came about be- When I first came to the Senate, partment is the one Department that is cause of a dare. It happened in an air- there were no rules when it came to charged with keeping America safe port in Phoenix, AZ. I was catching a smoking—none. We developed them from the threat of terrorism. It was flight from Phoenix to St. Louis—I after I made a few points to those in created after 9/11 because we wanted to think to Chicago—and I was late. I ran charge. But that was the culture and make sure we put together 22 agencies up to the United Airlines counter, and the situation 25 years ago. that worked together to protect us. the ticket agent started processing my I think that effort to take smoking You see them in so many different ticket to get on the flight. off airplanes has led to a lot of other places. This agency runs the Coast She said to me, ‘‘Here is your board- dramatic efforts to protect Americans Guard. Its cutters are patrolling Lake ing pass,’’ and I looked at it and no- from secondhand smoke and from dan- Michigan and our coastline—the Atlan- ticed she had put me in the smoking gerous situations. I think lives have tic and Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico section on the airplane. been saved. There are so many of us as well. You see them when you go to I said to her, ‘‘I don’t want to sit in who can tell family stories about losses the airport—TSA is under the super- the smoking section. Isn’t there some- related to lung cancer and pulmonary vision of the Department of Homeland thing you can do about this?’’ disease. I can tell my story. Security. You may not know it, but She said, ‘‘You came here too late. I was 14 years old when my father your local fire department is depending And incidentally, Congressman, there died of lung cancer. He was 53 years old on grants from this same agency so is something you can do about it.’’ and smoked two packs of Camels a day. they can buy new equipment and train I got on that airplane and got stuck He died an early death. I didn’t stand the people who are responding to fires in the middle seat in the smoking sec- by his bed at the hospital and say ‘‘I in their community. tion in the back of the plane, sur- will get even with that tobacco lobby,’’ Over and over again the Department rounded by smokers, wedged in there, but I remembered him as I started this of Homeland Security invests in the and I looked around the plane and ban. safety of America. So why in God’s thought: This makes no sense at all. So I just wanted to make a note in name would we have a political strat- There is an older person who may have the RECORD today in the Senate to sa- egy to stop funding the Department of a pulmonary problem. There is a moth- lute the memory of my friend Frank Homeland Security? That is exactly

VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:33 Feb 25, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G25FE6.004 S25FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE February 25, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1089 what we are faced with—exactly. Come The DREAM Act is a bill I introduced started her research career 7 years ago. the end of this week, this Department 14 years ago. I introduced it because I Her ambition is to be part of the treat- will basically lose its funding and be on learned there were children brought to ment and research effort to help chil- emergency status. Why would we do America by their undocumented par- dren with autism. She also has served that at a time when we have been ents, who grew up in this country, went as peer mentor to 10 undergraduate warned about terrorist groups attack- to school in this country, were good students at UCLA. ing malls across America? We are citizens in America, but had no future She wrote me a letter and asked that going to shut down the agency, stop because they had no home. My DREAM I relay a message to the Members of funding the agency that protects us Act said if you were one of those chil- Congress who are engaged in the debate against terrorism in the streets of dren brought here by your parents, we on whether to shut down the DACA America. are not going to hold you responsible Program which gives her a chance to At a time when ISIS is kidnapping for your parents’ decision. We will give stay in the United States. These are people from all over the world, behead- you a chance to become legal in Amer- her words: ing them, burning them to death, kill- ica. That is what the DREAM Act said. Please, please listen to our stories. This is ing them by execution, we are going to That is all it said. The President’s Ex- my home, and the only country I know. drop our guard and say: Well, we are ecutive order said: We are not going to DACA gives us greater opportunities to give not going to fund the Department of deport these young children now grow- back to the country we love. Homeland Security. Why in the world ing up in America. We are going to give This young lady, and millions like would any politicians in either House them a chance to stay here, to study her, grew up in the classrooms of of Congress think this is a wise tactical here, and to work here. Many of the America pledging allegiance to that move? Republicans hate the idea of giving flag. It is the only flag they have ever It turns out this funding bill was sent these young people a chance. Sadly, known. They can only sing one na- to us by the House of Representatives what they are doing is turning down an tional anthem—the national anthem on the condition that we take up the opportunity for America to benefit that is closest to their heart for the debate over immigration policy in from some of these extraordinary United States of America. But now America. I think we need to debate there is an effort underway by some that policy. I have no objection to it. I young people. Time and again I have come to the politicians in Congress to deport her feel very strongly about some aspects floor of the Senate to tell the stories of and send her back to the Philippines, of it. But why would we make the De- these young DREAMers, and I will tell and to say: Despite all you have done partment of Homeland Security play another one today. with your young life, despite all the the role of hostage over this debate on This lovely young woman is Mithi talents which you bring to Los Angeles immigration? The right thing to do to Del Rosario. Her parents brought Mithi and to California, despite your promise protect America and the people who to the United States from the Phil- to enter into the medical profession live here is to fund the Department of ippines when she was 5 years old. There and to serve in a cause that all of us re- Homeland Security. I offered a unanimous consent on the was no question about whether she was alize is so important, autism re- floor 2 weeks ago asking the Repub- going to come; she was part of the fam- search—despite all of that, leave Amer- licans to join the Democrats in funding ily. ica. That is the message that comes She grew up in California. She was an through in this bill sent to us by the this Department. Senator MCCONNELL, the majority leader, objected. I think excellent student and her lifetime goal House Republicans. that was a mistake. Now I think we un- was to be a medical doctor. In high They want to deport Mithi Del derstand, as we reach this deadline of school she was on the principal’s honor Rosario. They want to send her out of shutting down this valuable agency of roll and an AP scholar. She received a this country and toss her away despite our government, that we cannot let Golden State Seal Merit Diploma and a all of the investment we made, and she this happen. Governor’s Scholar Award. She was has made, in her life. Mithi, and other What is it about this immigration de- quite the student. DREAMers like her, have so much to bate that has driven some politicians Mithi was admitted to the University contribute. in Congress to the point where they are of California at Los Angeles, one of the The Republican bill that is before us threatening to shut down this Depart- Nation’s top universities. At UCLA she would deport hundreds of thousands of ment, to cut off its funding? It turns volunteered as a research assistant. young people just like her, and it out they object to some of the Execu- She wanted to get into a lab that stud- would stop the President’s effort to tive orders issued by the President on ied the high risk of infants to develop give the parents of citizens—American immigration. autism. citizen children—a chance to work Remember, it was the Senate that Mithi also volunteered, while a stu- temporarily and legally in the United passed a comprehensive immigration dent at UCLA, as a crisis counselor for States. bill 2 years ago. I was part of the group their peer helpline, advising students It is hard to imagine that so many on that wrote it. We passed it on the floor who were the victim of rape, child the other side of the aisle have lost with 68 votes, and the Republican abuse, and substance abuse. She even- sight of who we are as a nation. We are House of Representatives refused to tually became a trainer for new coun- a nation of immigrants, and that immi- even call the bill, or any bill, on the selors. Mithi also volunteered as a grant spirit has made us different in subject. And when they failed do any- mentor and tutor for at-risk middle this world we live in. thing to fix our broken immigration school children in the city of Los Ange- The people who risked everything to system, the President said: I am going les. come to the United States, to a coun- to issue some Executive orders to deal She graduated from UCLA with a de- try where they may not have even spo- with this problem if Congress refuses gree in psychology. Her options were ken the language and gave up every- to act, and he did. limited in terms of medical school be- thing and came here—they are a spe- The Republicans hated those Execu- cause she is undocumented. She was cial brand of risk takers, and we have tive orders by President Obama like unable to pursue her dream to become a little bit of their DNA in our blood. the devil hates holy water. They hate a doctor. Then in 2012, President My mother was an immigrant. She them so much that they would shut Obama issued an Executive order es- was brought here at the age of 2, and down the Department of Homeland Se- tablishing the DACA Program, allow- her son now serves in the U.S. Senate. curity in protest over the President’s ing students such as her a chance to As I have said so many times on the action. One of the things that troubles stay in America and not be deported. floor, that is my story, it is my fam- them the most is something called Her whole world changed. ily’s story, and it is America’s story. DACA. DACA is a shorthand descrip- She began working as a research as- I cannot believe my colleagues on the tion of the President’s Executive order sistant at the UCLA School of Medi- other side of the aisle have forgotten which allows those who would qualify cine, and she has applied to attend America’s history and America’s story under the DREAM Act to stay in the medical school. She still volunteers at and are willing to turn their backs on United States and not be deported. the autism research lab where she a young woman such as this and say:

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Mr. President, I suggest that our work is complete. In addition to our if we tear apart American families. We the absence of a quorum. NATO responsibilities, we will work with the are not going to be safer when we The PRESIDING OFFICER. The international community to provide assist- should be deporting criminals, not clerk will call the roll. ance to the people of Libya.’’ those who aspire to be medical re- The senior assistant legislative clerk My friends, we all know what has searchers. proceeded to call the roll. happened in Libya and the reason is— Instead of trying to deport DREAM- Mr. MCCAIN. Mr. President, I ask despite what Senator GRAHAM and our ers and mothers and fathers, congres- unanimous consent that the order for then-former colleague Senator Lieber- sional Republicans should support a the quorum call be rescinded. man said—we had to do some things in clean appropriations bill. Let’s do that. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. SUL- Libya to make sure there was stability Let’s pass a bill to fund the Depart- LIVAN). Without objection, it is so or- in Libya. Obama then walked away. ment of Homeland Security. Let’s get dered. Continuing from the article: that done so once again we don’t have f Obama also said then, ‘‘Some nations may a Republican shutdown of any branch be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in of our Federal Government. Let’s get CONCLUSION OF MORNING other countries. The United States of Amer- that part done. And then if we are BUSINESS ica is different. And as president, I refused to going to engage in a real debate on im- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Morning wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action.’’ That was be- migration, let’s do it. The majority is business is closed. controlled by the Republicans in the fore Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s barrel House and the Senate and they can do f bombs, systematic and well-documented that any time they want. Let’s engage DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SE- prison torture and other depredations of civil war killed 200,000 of his compatriots, and in that debate and let’s do it in an hon- CURITY APPROPRIATIONS ACT, drove millions more from their homes. est fashion. Let’s do it in a hopeful and 2015—MOTION TO PROCEED—Con- In August 2011, Obama declared that Assad positive view of what America’s future tinued must ‘‘step aside.’’ In a background briefing will be when young people such as The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under a senior White House official added, ‘‘We are certain Assad is on the way out.’’ In August Mithi Del Rosario have their chance to the previous order, Senators are per- become part of an America that em- 2013 came Obama’s statement that ‘‘the mitted to speak for up to 10 minutes. worst chemical attack of the 21st century braces talent and skill and thanks The Senator from Arizona. young people for the sacrifice they . . . must be confronted . . . I have decided Mr. MCCAIN. Mr. President, I ask that the United States should take military made to make a better life for all of us unanimous consent that I be allowed action against Syrian regime [military] tar- who live in this Nation. such time as I may consume as in gets.’’ I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum. morning business. As a personal aside, the Senator from The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. COT- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without South Carolina came over to the White TON). The clerk will call the roll. objection, it is so ordered. House, and the President of the United The senior assistant legislative clerk THE MIDDLE EAST AND UKRAINE States assured us that he was going to proceeded to call the roll. Mr. MCCAIN. Mr. President, a lot of take military action and we were going Mr. MCCAIN. Mr. President, I ask us are deeply concerned about the situ- to degrade Bashar al-Assad and up- unanimous consent that the order for ation in the Middle East, in Ukraine, in grade the Syrian Army, and, obviously, the quorum call be rescinded. China, to which we have paid very lit- the article states that ‘‘no military ac- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without tle attention to as they expand their tion was taken, and Assad remains in objection, it is so ordered. territory. power.’’ f I ask unanimous consent that I be al- Defeating the Islamic State is one we have successfully pursued in Yemen RECESS SUBJECT TO THE CALL OF lowed to engage in a colloquy with the and Somalia for years—successful in THE CHAIR Senator from South Carolina. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Yemen and Somalia that we have pur- Mr. MCCAIN. Mr. President, I ask objection, it is so ordered. sued for years. Just last month in the unanimous consent that the Senate Mr. MCCAIN. Mr. President, there is State of the Union Address, President stand in recess for 5 minutes subject to a huge credibility gap. The Washington Obama presented his Ukraine policy as the call of the Chair. a triumph of ‘‘. . . American strength The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there Post probably said it better than I probably could, and it is entitled ‘‘A and diplomacy. We are upholding the objection? principle that bigger nations can’t Without objection, it is so ordered. credibility gap,’’ in the Washington Thereupon, the Senate, at 10:27 a.m., Post, by Fred Hiatt, editorial page edi- bully the small by opposing Russian recessed subject to the call of the Chair tor, February 22. He says: ‘‘If his nego- aggression supporting Ukraine’s de- and reassembled at 10:29 a.m. when tiators strike an agreement next mocracy,’’ he said. called to order by the Presiding Officer month, we already know that it will be We all know. We have watched Ukrainians slaughtered, slaughtered (Mr. COTTON). far from ideal,’’ talking about the Ira- Mr. PAUL. Mr. President, I suggest nian nuclear deal. with the most modern equipment that the absence of a quorum. He continues: Vladimir Putin has. That great na- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The The partisanship needs no explanation, but tional bloodletting is going on, and we clerk will call the roll. the record of foreign-policy assurances is are watching, thanks to the assistance The senior assistant legislative clerk worth recalling: of the Chancellor of Germany and the proceeded to call the roll. This is very interesting and I think President of France—in the finest tra- Mr. PAUL. Mr. President, I ask unan- deserves the attention of all Ameri- ditions of Neville Chamberlain—we are imous consent that the order for the cans. standing by and watching that country quorum call be rescinded. be dismembered. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without In 2011, when he decided to pull all U.S. What the Senator from South Caro- troops out of Iraq, Obama belittled worries objection, it is so ordered. that instability might result. Iraq and the lina and I are trying to say is what f United States would maintain ‘‘a strong and General Keane said the other day: ORDER OF PROCEDURE enduring partnership,’’ Obama said. Iraq . . . al Qaeda and its affiliates exceeds Iran would be ‘‘stable, secure and self-reliant,’’ and is beginning to dominate multiple coun- Mr. PAUL. Mr. President, I ask unan- and Iraqis would build a future ‘‘worthy of tries. In fact, al-Qaeda has grown fourfold in imous consent that when the Senate their history as a cradle of civilization.’’ the last five years.

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The goal to degrade and destroy So the President got the answer he against the wholesale slaughter of ISIL is the right goal. The strategy wanted in Iraq. He pulled the plug on their countrymen by Vladimir Putin. will fail as currently being considered troops. And what we hoped wouldn’t My friends, we have had ample testi- unless we visit this issue. happen did happen. When he said no to mony before the Armed Services Com- As Senator MCCAIN said, what you a no-fly zone and the training of a Free mittee, people who served this country see on this map is not an accident. It is Syrian Army, the vacuum that had with distinction for many years—Re- a predictable outcome of three things. been created in Syria was filled by publican and Democratic administra- The President’s decision in 2011 not to ISIL. ISIL is a direct result of Al Qaeda tions. All of them have said they have leave a residual force behind in Iraq to in Iraq, which was on its knees in 2010, never seen the world in more turmoil, secure our gains has come back to being able to come back because we and these things don’t happen by acci- haunt us. The military command infra- withdrew troops and we allowed a safe dent. It is not like hurricanes or earth- structure of this country advised a haven to be formed in Syria. quakes, it is a matter of a failed, feck- minimum of 10,000 troops to be left be- So, President Obama, this map is the less foreign policy that began in 2009 hind as a residual force. result of bad policy choices on your and the chickens are coming home to I visited Baghdad, along with Sen- part, and you are doubling down on bad roost. ators MCCAIN and Lieberman, to try to policy choices. May I mention—my friend from persuade the Iraqi political leadership The third thing that was a huge mis- South Carolina—this is where we are to enter into an agreement to allow us take is drawing a redline when Assad with the Islamic State. We are hearing to have a residual force. Prime Min- used chemical weapons against his own from the administration, I believe, that ister Maliki said: I am willing to do it people and virtually doing nothing we are gaining. Look at the Islamic if the other groups in Iraq are willing about it. I am glad the chemical weap- State, January 10, of Syria in red—this to do it. They were all willing to do it. ons have been taken out of Syria—at is the Islamic State and contested He asked me: How many troops are you least we think all of them have been places—and look at August 31. Obvi- talking about? I turned to our ambas- taken out—but 220,000 Syrians have ously, there are significant gains. One sador and our commander at the time, been killed with initial forces by more chart, please. and they tell him and me: We are still Assad, and Assad is stronger than ever. Looking at this chart, these are the working on that. He is nowhere near going or leaving. Between Assad and ISIL, they rep- areas of all of that part of the world Press reports simultaneously were resent the dominant military force in- that are now controlled or under at- suggesting the White House, led by the side Syria. Syria is truly hell on Earth, tack by ISIS, including, by the way, we Vice President, by the way, was driving and all of this is going to come back to now see ISIS gaining a foothold in the residual force to below 3,000—a number incapable of making a dif- haunt us here at home. Libya. So the reason we are here on the Mr. GRAHAM. I thank the Senator ference. So when the President of the United floor today is to learn from the past. I from Arizona. have made mistakes. Everybody has What I would like the body to recog- States says he was willing to leave a made mistakes. But the key is to ad- residual force behind, that is not accu- nize is that our Presiding Officer, who just when you make mistakes. The rate. In a debate with Governor Rom- just left, Senator COTTON, was an in- strategy President Obama is employing ney, Governor Romney suggested he fantry officer in Iraq, and I can’t imag- to degrade and destroy ISIL will fail, would support a residual force of 10,000, ine how he must feel. Our current Pre- and let me tell you why. siding Officer is a reservist in the Ma- as President Obama was contem- If you could liberate Mosul with the rine Corps who has served in harm’s plating, and President Obama inter- Iraqi security forces and the Kurds, we way in battlefield areas, and he was a rupted him and said: No, I am not con- are going to need more than 3,000 U.S. commander in the Marine Corps. It is templating that. forces to accomplish that task, because great to have people in the Senate who He held our departure in Iraq as the they do not have the capability that have worn the uniform and they under- fulfillment of a campaign promise. He our military possesses to ensure vic- stand what is at stake here. said: We can leave with our heads held tory. Senator MCCAIN and I have tried to high. We have accomplished our task. Once you liberate Mosul, you have to be consistent, if nothing else, about Here is what I said on April 3, 2011: hold and build Mosul. Anbar Province this situation. Here is the first ques- If we’re not smart enough to work with the has yet to be liberated. We have to con- tion America has to answer: Is this Iraqis to have 10,000 to 15,000 American vince the Sunni tribal leaders in Anbar troops in Iraq in 2012, Iraq could go to hell. someone else’s war? I have heard very to disassociate with ISIL and join us, prominent commentators on cable tele- I’m urging the Obama administration to work with the Maliki administration in Iraq and they are not going to do that un- vision say: I am tired of fighting other to make sure we have enough troops—10,000 less we are part of a team on the people’s wars. to 15,000—beginning in 2012 to secure the ground. They don’t trust the Iraqi se- Does ISIL represent a threat to our gains we have achieved. This is a defining curity forces that are mainly Shia. So homeland? I think it does. And more moment in the future of Iraq, and in my view unless we get more capacity on the importantly, they indicate they mean they are going down the wrong road in Iraq. ground to ensure success, we will fail to hit us here. The head of ISIL, the Is- I am referring there to the Obama ad- in Iraq. But Syria is the weak link in lamic State and the Levant is what I ministration when I say ‘‘they are the chain. want to call it, served time in a mili- going down the wrong road.’’ Mr. MCCAIN. Before my colleague tary prison in Camp Bucca in Iraq, No voice was louder than that of Sen- leaves Iraq, is it not true that the only where I did some reserve duty, and ator MCCAIN. Senator MCCAIN advo- real fighting being done now is the when he was released from the camp cated, above all others, the surge when Peshmerga Kurds but also the Shia mi- and turned over to the Iraqis he told Iraq was slipping away under the Bush litia, who are inflicting human rights the colonel in charge of his release: I administration. When Senator MCCAIN violations on the Sunni, and the same will see you in New York. told President Bush his strategy was people we fought against during the They are recruiting foreign fighters not working, President Bush, to his surge that my colleague talked about coming in by the thousands. They hold great credit, adjusted his strategy. before, which is Iranian backed and passports that would allow them to go Senator MCCAIN, 3 years ago, was the Iranian trained? to Europe and come back to our coun- leading voice in this country to argue Mr. GRAHAM. Right. The Iraqi secu- try, and their goal is not only to purify for a no-fly zone in Syria so that rity forces have crumbled. The most

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So to get the Sunni tribes to defensive weapons, we are absolutely Crimea—they have written that off— pull off of ISIL, they have to believe absent at their time of dire need. The shot down an airplane, at least with that Baghdad is going to be a better Iranians are watching our response to Russian equipment; moved and dis- venue for them in terms of their polit- Putin. How could they feel we are seri- located eastern Ukraine; and has ical grievances, but they also need to ous about stopping their nuclear pro- caused an economic crisis. And we see Americans on the ground to make gram when we seem not to be serious don’t want to provoke Vladimir Putin? sure this thing will work. They are not about anything else? It is staggering. going to pull off ISIL unless we are The reason we will not be more ag- Mr. GRAHAM. In conclusion, in 1998 there. They do not trust the Iraqi secu- gressive in Syria is because President we were a signatory to Budapest rity forces. Obama doesn’t want to deal with memorandum that asked the Ukrain- As to Syria, Syria is the biggest Assad, who is a puppet of Iran. He ian people to give up over 2,000 nuclear problem of all. That is where most of doesn’t want to jeopardize the negotia- weapons housed on their soil in return ISIL resides. That is where their lead- tions we have ongoing with the Ira- for a guarantee of their sovereignty. ership resides. That is where they have nians regarding their nuclear ambi- Mr. MCCAIN. That included the State the largest number of fighters. There is tions. His desire to get a deal with Iran of Crimea as part of the territorial inno ground game in Syria. There is no is preventing us from degrading and de- tegrity of Ukraine. Kurdish presence that has the capa- stroying ISIL, and we will pay a heavy Mr. GRAHAM. Exactly. The Russians bility to dislodge ISIL. The Free Syr- price for these mistakes. were a signatory to that Budapest ian Army are being killed as fast as we How would my colleague sum up memorandum. can train them. where we are? Clearly, the Russians have stepped Here is the flaw. The goal is to train Mr. MCCAIN. Could I just mention to all over it, and we are not doing any- the Free Syrian Army’s young men my colleague—and it has been made thing. So in the future, would you give throughout the region and send them perhaps larger than it should have up your nuclear weapons relying on a into Syria to destroy ISIL. The prob- been, with all of the crises and the promise by the United States? This is important because we want to lem with that is the moment we send tragedies that are transpiring, but the deter Iran from trying to get a nuclear them into Syria to defeat ISIL, Assad President of the United States refuses weapon. I think this emboldens them will attack them because he knows one to refer to this as radical Islam. Why day they will turn on him. to get a nuclear weapon. that is is hard to understand because it As to radical Islam, it is hard to de- So we have asked the question, under is clearly radical Islam. It is a perver- the authorization to use military force feat an enemy if you don’t understand sion of an honorable religion, but ev- what motivates them. that is being sent over from the White erything they are doing is based on House, could we stop an air attack by The Nazis did not want just the Ger- their perverted interpretation of the man-speaking regions surrounding Ger- Assad’s forces so they will not kill the Koran. They are Islamic. While we re- people we train to fight ISIL, and they many. It wasn’t about the spect the religion and we respect the Sudetenland. It wasn’t about the said no. people, we don’t respect radical Islam So we are training people to go into Rheinland. It wasn’t about the issues and we have to recognize it for what it Syria to fight ISIL who will be slaugh- Hitler claimed at the time. He wrote a is. tered by Assad if we do not have the book telling us what he wanted to do. Let me read this, from February 24: ability under this authorization to pro- People should have read the book. It Scores of Syrian Christians Kidnapped by was about creating a master race to tect the people we train. Senator Islamic State—Islamic State militants swept MCCAIN said this over and over again. govern other races. The Aryan race into several of Assyrian Christian villages in would be the dominant race on the That is immoral and militarily un- northeastern Syria in recent days, taking sound. There is no strategy indeed to scores of hostages, including both civilians planet—with some people not worthy deal with Syria that has any chance of and fighters, according to numerous inter- of living, such as the Jews, and others success. And if we don’t get Syria views with residents.... The attacks have would be slaves. right, we can’t hold the gains we make displaced hundreds of families and sharpened When we listen to what ISIL is say- in Iraq. Middle Eastern Christians’ fears of the Is- ing and what motivates them, they So the President, after all these lamic State. want a master religion for the world, years, with 220,000 people being killed, Which the President of the United not a master race. If you are a Chris- having the largest terrorist army in States refuses to recognize as radical tian, you can pay a tax and convert or the history of terrorism occupying a Islam. When you don’t even recognize die. If you are a Muslim outside of space the size of Indiana, with 30,000 to it or identify it for what it is, how in their view of the faith, you just die. If 50,000 fighters, depending on who you the world are you going to be able to you are an agnostic, you die. If you are believe, still hasn’t come to grips with combat it? a libertarian, you die. If you are an a strategy that will protect this na- Finally, I would say to my friend one American—Republican or Democrat; tion. He doesn’t understand the mis- more time, if he would respond, that they could care less—you die. takes he has been making for the last the Ukrainians wanted to defend them- They are taught by their interpreta- 3 or 4 years. He is not self-correcting. selves. One of the richest and proudest tion of the Koran literally to kill all He is perpetuating what I think is a aspects of American history is that we that stands in their way of the caliph- military fraud. have helped people who are struggling ate. We can close Gitmo tomorrow. We The longer it takes to destroy ISIL, for freedom, whether it be in Afghani- could throw the Palestinians under the the more exposed we are here. And at stan after Russia’s invasion or others. bus or give the Palestinians everything the end of the day, the Iranians are And others have helped us, going all they want and throw Israel under the sizing us up and they see us as a paper the way back to our Revolution when bus. It wouldn’t matter. tiger. the French and Polish and others came We didn’t bring this war on our- The last thing I would say about in and helped us. How can we ration- selves. These people are motivated by Ukraine is that Russia has invaded alize our failure to give them weapons religious doctrine not widely accepted Ukraine. When they say they have no to defend themselves by saying: Well, in the faith. But that doctrine requires weapons inside Ukraine, when they say they can’t beat the Russians anyway. them to kill everything in their path they have no troops, they are liars. Why don’t we listen to their pleas for and to turn the world into a religion Russia has dismembered their neigh- help? Why don’t we listen to their where they dominate, and there is no bor, Ukraine. We in the Western world cries? Why don’t we listen to the fact alternative to their religion.

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I minority sects like the Yazidis that were from ideal: Rather than eradicating Iran’s can’t explain what makes these people singled out by the Islamic State, had taken nuclear-weapons potential, as once was a more assertive role, fighting alongside hoped, a pact would seek to control Iran’s tick. I can only tell you what they do activities for some limited number of years. and why they do it. There is no ap- Kurdish and other militias. The latest fighting took place in a string Such a deal might be defensible on the peasement with radical Islam, any of villages along the Khabur River, a tribu- grounds that it is better than any alter- more than there would be an appease- tary of the Euphrates. The central village, native, given that most experts believe a ment with Hitler. We tried that in the Tel Tamer, is a strategic crossroads, with a military ‘‘solution’’ would be at best tem- 1930s, and 50 million people got killed. bridge over the river that connects north- porary and possibly counterproductive. So here is our choice: Face the eastern Syria with the country’s northern But making that kind of lesser-evil defense enemy as it is, degrade and destroy in hub, Aleppo; residents reported that Islamic would be challenging in any circumstances. a way that will work; or accept the State militants bombed the bridge on Tues- Three conditions will make it particularly fact that they are coming here, not to day. hard for Obama to persuade Congress and the The area has long been controlled by Kurd- conquer America—that is not going to nation to accept his assurances in this case: ish militias but has lately come under at- the suspicious, poisonous partisanship of the happen—but to hit us hard and break tack from the Islamic State, also known as our will so they can have that part of moment here, with Israeli politics mixed in; ISIS or ISIL. worries that he wants a deal too much; and the world for which they have been In recent weeks, villages have changed the record of his past assurances. longing for over 1,000 years. hands several times as the Kurdish groups, Here is what I would say to America. some Arab Muslim factions and a Christian The partisanship needs no explanation, but group called the Syriac Military Council the record of foreign-policy assurances is Every time we have chosen to sit on worth recalling: the sidelines and watch other people have joined forces against the Islamic State. In the chaos Tuesday, the exact number of In 2011, when he decided to pull all U.S. suffer and did nothing about it, it hostages seized remained unclear, with esti- troops out of Iraq, Obama belittled worries wound up hurting us too. If you think mates ranging from several dozen to more that instability might result. Iraq and the we can live in a world where Christians than 100. Nuri Kino, an Assyrian-Swedish ac- United States would maintain ‘‘a strong and over there are being raped, tortured, tivist with family ties to northeastern Syria, enduring partnership,’’ Obama said. Iraq and crucified, and it won’t affect Chris- said that Islamic State fighters were holding would be ‘‘stable, secure and self-reliant,’’ tians here, you are kidding yourself. If about 60 women and children in the village of and Iraqis would build a future ‘‘worthy of you think you can allow a force this Tel Shamiran, and that they had taken 90 their history as a cradle of civilization.’’ men up into a mountainous area they con- Today Iraq is in deep trouble, with a mur- evil to go unchecked because it is over trol, perhaps seeking to exchange them for derous ‘‘caliphate’’ occupying much of its there and it won’t affect us here, you Islamic State prisoners. are making the mistake of a lifetime. Mr. Kino, who founded A Demand for Ac- territory and predatory Shiite militia roam- My biggest fear is that radical tion, a group that advocates for religious mi- ing through much of the rest. Islam—which is exactly what it is—will norities in Iraq and Syria, said he had That same year, Obama touted his bomb- get a weapon of mass destruction one gleaned the information by talking to resi- ing campaign in Libya as a model of U.S. day and do a lot of harm to us here. dents over Skype from Los Angeles. intervention and promised, ‘‘That’s not to Dawoud Dawoud, the deputy president of say that our work is complete. In addition to Every day that goes by over there, that the Assyrian Democratic Party in the area, our NATO responsibilities, we will work with they get stronger, the more exposed we reached in Hasaka, said that the villages had the international community to provide as- are here. long been largely left alone, but that in early sistance to the people of Libya.’’ Finally, on 9/11, 3,000 Americans died February, Islamic State fighters had de- The United States and its NATO allies only because they didn’t have the abil- manded that crosses be removed from promptly abandoned Libya, which today is in ity to kill more. If they could have churches. the grip of civil war, with rival governments killed 3 million of us, they would have. The jihadists raided the village of Tel in the east and west and Islamist terrorists Every day we let this problem grow un- Hermez, driving away a local group, the in between. Guardians of Khabur, that had protected Obama also said then, ‘‘Some nations may checked they are closer to having the churches there, said Omar Abd al-Aziz, a technology to kill millions of people be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in local antigovernment activist who uses a other countries. The United States of Amer- here and elsewhere. So the sooner we nom de guerre for his safety. Called to help, deal with this, the safer we will be. ica is different. And as president, I refused to Kurdish militias entered the town with wait for the images of slaughter and mass Mr. MCCAIN. Mr. President, I ask fighters from the Syriac Military Council, graves before taking action.’’ unanimous consent that the article ti- who filmed themselves retaking the area and leading away bound men they said were Is- That was before Syrian dictator Bashar al- tled ‘‘Credibility Gap’’ from the Wash- Assad’s barrel bombs, systematic and well- ington Post and also the International lamic State members. Now, the Islamic State appears to be re- documented prison torture and other depre- New York Times article ‘‘Scores of taliating with even greater numbers and dations of civil war killed 200,000 of his com- Syrian Christians Kidnapped by Is- heavy weapons. patriots, and drove millions more from their lamic State’’ be printed in the RECORD. ‘‘It’s the new Kobani,’’ said Mr. Kino, re- homes. There being no objection, the mate- ferring to the Kurdish enclave bordering In August 2011, Obama declared that Assad rial was ordered to be printed in the Turkey whose encirclement by the Islamic must ‘‘step aside.’’ In a background briefing RECORD, as follows: State prompted American-led airstrikes that a senior White House official added, ‘‘We are [From the International New York Times, helped drive the group back. He called for certain Assad is on the way out.’’ In August Feb. 24, 2015] United States intervention to prevent mas- 2013 came Obama’s statement that ‘‘the sacres and displacements. worst chemical attack of the 21st century SCORES OF SYRIAN CHRISTIANS KIDNAPPED BY The threats to minority enclaves, as in . . . must be confronted.... I have decided ISLAMIC STATE Kobani and the attacks on Yazidis in Iraq’s that the United States should take military (By Anne Barnard) Sinjar mountains last summer, have galva- action against Syrian regime targets.’’ ISTANBUL.—Islamic State militants swept nized international action when other fight- No military action was taken, and Assad into several Assyrian Christian villages in ing did not. remains in power. northeastern Syria in recent days, taking Another activist in the area, who gave scores of hostages, including both civilians only his first name, Siraj, because of concern In September, the president said his strat- and fighters, according to numerous inter- for his safety, accused the Kurds of leaving egy for defeating the Islamic State ‘‘is one views with residents and representatives of the Assyrians vulnerable in order to provoke that we have successfully pursued in Yemen the many factions fighting in the area. a Kobani-like international reaction. and Somalia for years.’’ Shortly thereafter, The attacks have displaced hundreds of But Nawaf al-Khalil, a spokesman for the an Iran-backed rebellion deposed Yemen’s families and sharpened Middle Eastern Kurdish Democratic Union, a political party, pro-U.S. government, forcing the United Christians’ fears of the Islamic State, which tried to find a bright side, saying the events States to abandon its embassy and much of considers non-Muslims, along with many were ‘‘a good sign of stronger ties between its anti-terror operation. Muslims who disagree with its tenets, the Kurds, the Arabs and the Christians’’ Just last month, in the State of the Union infidels. against the Islamic State. address, Obama presented his Ukraine policy

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:02 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G25FE6.011 S25FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S1094 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 25, 2015 as a triumph of ‘‘American strength and di- judge issued a temporary injunction cratic leader would embrace that plomacy. just last week saying that what the wholeheartedly, instantaneously, say- ‘‘We’re upholding the principle that bigger President did in his Executive action ing: That is exactly what we have been nations can’t bully the small by opposing Russian aggression and supporting Ukraine’s was illegal—illegal. demanding, and now we have been of- democracy,’’ he said. So how our colleagues on the other fered it. We will take it. Since then Russian forces have extended side of the aisle can filibuster the De- Well, that didn’t happen. This place their incursion into Ukraine, now control- partment of Homeland Security fund- can be very confusing sometimes, and ling nearly one-fifth of its territory. Russia’s ing because they say it includes a dis- you would be wrong if you thought the economy is hurting, but Ukraine’s is in far approval of the President’s action at Democratic leader embraced what he worse shape. the same time the States they rep- This litany of unfulfilled assurances is less had been demanding for the last few resent are parties to a lawsuit com- a case of Nixonian deception than a product weeks. So after spending weeks de- plaining about the illegality of the of wishful thinking and stubborn adherence manding a clean funding bill for the President’s actions—how they can rec- to policies after they have failed. But inevi- Department of Homeland Security, in- oncile that is beyond me. Perhaps they tably it will affect how people hear Obama’s cluding as recently as Monday, 24 promises on Iran, as will his overall foreign can come to the floor and talk about hours have passed and the Democratic policy record. that. But I think they should be asked leader has still refused to agree to hold That record includes successes, such as the that question, and I would be very in- killing of Osama bin Laden, warming ties a vote on a so-called clean Department terested in their answer. with India and a potentially groundbreaking of Homeland Security funding bill. agreement with China on climate change. By Of course, as we all know, now the most measures, though, the world has not Obama administration—after the Fed- Let me just repeat that so I am abso- become safer during Obama’s tenure. eral judge agreed with what the Presi- lutely clear. The Democratic leader Islamist extremists are stronger than ever; dent said 22 different times, that he has so far refused to agree to vote on a democracy is in retreat around the globe; re- didn’t have the authority to do what he clean funding bill for the Department, lations with Russia and North Korea have did—and, obviously, he changed his even after he called on Senate Repub- worsened; allies are questioning U.S. stead- mind. But after the Federal judge licans to pass exactly that as recently fastness. as Monday. Openings as well as problems can appear agreed with what he said the first 22 unexpectedly in foreign affairs, but the com- times, that he didn’t have the author- So I don’t know how to sugar coat it. ing two years offer only two obvious oppor- ity, now they have asked for a stay of Call it a flip-flop, call it disingenuous. tunities for Obama to burnish this legacy: that temporary injunction. I don’t know what to call it. But when trade deals with Europe and with Pacific na- If the reports in the press are correct, you are offered exactly what you have tions, and a nuclear agreement with Iran. Judge Hanen in Brownsville, in the been demanding and you don’t accept That limited field fuels worries that admin- Southern District of Texas, has given it, it tells me you are not particularly istration negotiators will accept the kind of the States, the plaintiffs in the law- deal that results from wanting it too badly. serious about wanting to solve the Whatever its contours, Obama would be suit, until March 2 to respond to this problem. It is this kind of doubletalk making a big mistake to try to implement request for emergency stay. which I think causes the Senate to be such a momentous pact, as administration One by one, the folks who criticized held in low regard by the American officials have suggested he might, without what the President was doing in one people, where they think that what you congressional buy-in. But it’s not surprising fashion or another came to the floor say doesn’t necessarily translate into that he would be tempted to try. and have voted in effect to affirm what action. It is becoming abundantly clear Mr. MCCAIN. Mr. President, I appre- he did. As I said yesterday, in justi- that our friends across the aisle do not ciate the patience of my friend and col- fying these votes we heard a common seem to have gotten the message from league from the State of Texas. refrain from several of our Democratic the last election on November 4. It is with a heavy heart that we see colleagues, including some of those 11 the events transpiring according to whose States have joined the lawsuit I mentioned this yesterday, and I will this chart. against the President’s Executive ac- repeat it, with reference to some of the It is with a heavy heart that we see tion. They have said to us: We don’t gamesmanship that appears to be going our friends in Ukraine, who only want necessarily agree with the President’s on here, at the time when the clock is to be like us, being slaughtered, and we action, but you shouldn’t attach that ticking and the Department of Home- are refusing to assist them. I have as- to an appropriations bill to fund the land Security funding runs out at mid- sured them that I will never give up— Department of Homeland Security. night on Friday. Recently, the senior ever—until we see a free, prosperous, Similarly, from Senate Democratic Senator from New York told the Huff- democratic Ukraine which is part of leadership came the demands for a ington Post that ‘‘it’s really fun to be the community of nations, which we ‘‘clean bill’’—a clean funding bill for in the Senate Minority,’’ as if creating would admire, and in which we include the Department of Homeland Secu- obstacles, slowing things down, and im- them. rity—without these provisions address- peding progress toward a goal that we Mr. President, I yield the floor. ing the Executive action attached. all hold in common—funding the De- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Just 2 days ago here on the floor, the partment of Homeland Security—is ator from Texas. Democratic leader himself called for somehow having fun. But filibustering Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, when the Senate to vote on such a bill. A critical funding for the men and women given the opportunity four times over press release issued from Senator that protect us every day and protect the last few weeks to fully fund the De- REID’s office was unequivocal: ‘‘REID the homeland is not what I call fun. partment of Homeland Security, while Remarks Calling On Senate GOP To At the end of the day, the Senate will at the same time rolling back the Avoid A Shutdown By Passing A Clean make sure that those who protect our President’s unconstitutional Executive DHS Funding Bill.’’ borders, our ports, and our skies get action on immigration, four times our Monday wasn’t the first time we paid. That is what the American people Senate Democratic friends have filibus- heard this from Democratic leadership. voted for last November. They were tered this funding. At the same time, We heard it over and over and over, as sick and tired. If I heard it once, I they have been pointing to this side of the Democrats, in lockstep, filibus- heard it 100 times: We are sick and the aisle and saying: If there is a shuttered the Department of Homeland Se- tired of the dysfunction in Washington, down of the Department of Homeland curity funding bill. DC, and that is why we are voting for Security, you are at fault. It is hypoc- So imagine my surprise when Sen- a change. risy, to say the least. ator MCCONNELL, the Senate majority But of all the Democrats who voted leader, offered to consider two bills, That is why we have nine new col- to filibuster the funding of the Depart- one that would address the President’s leagues in the Senate—to break that ment of Homeland Security—which, Executive action from last November— logjam of dysfunction. again, expires at midnight on this Fri- the Collins bill—and a separate one So I would implore the Democratic day night—there are 11 of our Senate that would fully fund the Department leader to heed his own call for a clean Democratic colleagues who come from of Homeland Security. Department of Homeland Security States which are parties to a lawsuit in You would, I guess, if logic prevailed funding bill and to quit playing games. Brownsville, TX, where the Federal in this place, expect that the Demo- Quit playing games with the lives of

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Quit playing games with the No. 1, FEMA efforts. FEMA is a part need to work together on comprehen- funding that pays the salaries of the of the Department of Homeland Secu- sive immigration reform. It will give men and women who protect our ports, rity. FEMA efforts in Massachusetts to more families and individuals a real who protect our airports, and who pro- develop a preliminary damage assess- shot at the American dream. It will en- tect our border from transnational ment for disaster relief funding may be courage immigrants who are educated drug cartels. interrupted. here to innovate here. The people in my home State of Mas- Mr. President, I yield the floor. This is an important debate, and we sachusetts are suffering from the sec- I suggest the absence of a quorum. should have it, and we should not have ond snowiest winter in our history. We The PRESIDING OFFICER. The it at the expense of the safety and the have endured more than 8 feet of snow. clerk will call the roll. security of our Nation. Those snow piles are climbing even The legislative clerk proceeded to I call on my Republican colleagues to call the roll. higher. Seawalls that protect our shores are crumbling. Roofs are col- bring forward a clean Department of Mr. MARKEY. Mr. President, I ask Homeland Security funding bill, free of unanimous consent that the order for lapsing. Homes are being destroyed. Small businesses are shuttered while unrelated policy riders dealing with the quorum call be rescinded. immigration. Let’s give the people of The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without owners struggle to make ends meet. Cities and towns across the Common- our country the confidence that the objection, it is so ordered. Department of Homeland Security is Mr. MARKEY. Mr. President, every- wealth have overspent their budgets by going to protect against al-Shabaab one agrees that our immigration sys- tens of millions of dollars responding launching a successful attack against tem is broken. The immigration sys- to one snowstorm after another. the Mall of America, that a terrorist tem we have now hurts our economy, But instead of the relief that should group cannot now be put together, and it hurts our national security. The come with the assurance that FEMA thinking, perhaps erroneously, that the Senate passed a bipartisan immigra- assistance is on the way, the people of Department of Homeland Security has tion bill; the House of Representatives Massachusetts have to worry that this taken its eye off the ball while wor- chose not to act. Again, the Senate Republican-manufactured government rying about the funding levels that are passed a comprehensive immigration shutdown threat is jeopardizing this necessary in order to secure our coun- bill. That is why I supported the Exec- critical assistance. The last thing the try. utive action by President Obama to ad- people of Massachusetts should have to I lived through this in Boston. dress our immediate immigration cri- worry about is whether their disaster Mohamed Atta and the other nine who sis. We cannot wait for the House of assistance will be delayed by the poli- hijacked the two planes on September Representatives’ Republicans to act, tics of immigration reform. This is ab- 11, 2001, thought they could find an and that is because immigration is one solutely outrageous. Massachusetts opening—and they did—in our airline of our country’s greatest strengths. needs the disaster relief today. No. 2, an estimated 30,000 Homeland security. In 2013 the Tsarnaev brothers Immigrants are a vital part of the fab- Security employees would have to be thought they could find a hole in our ric of Massachusetts and of our coun- furloughed, including those who proc- security, and they attacked again in try. They start businesses, they create ess Federal grants for local police, fire, Boston. jobs, and they contribute to our com- and other first responders. Firefighters We should not have any question munities. might not get the best oxygen masks. The President’s Executive order rec- raised about the Department of Home- Bomb squads might not get the right land Security being on the job pro- ognizes the value of immigrants to our equipment they need. These are hard- country. President Obama’s Executive tecting our citizens and providing the working people who help protect our security our country needs. That is order will bring millions of law-abiding Nation and help our first responders do immigrants out of the shadows and where we are right now, and the Repub- their jobs. licans are holding up the funding of help to keep those families together. No. 3, a Department of Homeland Se- The order allows law enforcement to this vital agency under the misguided curity shutdown would compromise our notion that they are going to be able to focus its resources where they belong: national security by stopping com- reinforcing security at our borders and write the entire comprehensive immi- mand and control activities at Depart- gration bill inside a Department of prosecuting and deporting dangerous ment of Homeland Security head- criminals who pose threats to public Homeland Security budget. It is not quarters, disrupting important pro- going to happen. Everyone in this safety. This Executive action cannot grams such as detecting weapons of and should not be viewed as the final country knows it is not going to hap- mass destruction. Homeland Security pen. The Republicans are playing a word on the matter of immigration re- employees remaining on the job will form. It is the beginning of an effort to dangerous game with the security of not get paid, and those who are fur- our country. permanently fix our broken immigra- loughed will be left to wonder whether I ask all who make the decisions in tion system. they will ever be paid for the work the Republican Party to please tell What unites us in Massachusetts and they missed. This uncertainty hurts their most radical Members that the all across America is the unshakable morale and puts families in financial Department of Homeland Security belief that no matter where you come jeopardy. from, no matter what your cir- It is time for Republicans to end this must be funded. It must be funded this cumstances, you can achieve the Amer- brinkmanship and help pass a clean week. We must not only pay those who ican dream. The immigration system Homeland Security budget free of unre- work for us, but we should thank them we have now doesn’t reflect those val- lated policy riders. Then we should get every day for the security they provide ues. to work on comprehensive immigration to our country. Unfortunately, instead of working to reform. The immigration system we I yield the floor. fix the problems with our immigration have now doesn’t reflect our time-hon- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- system, the majority of the Senate has ored values as a melting pot of diver- ator from Florida. been manufacturing a government sity and innovation. It hurts our econ- Mr. NELSON. Mr. President, I would shutdown of the Department of Home- omy and national security. In short, say to the Senator from Massachu- land Security, even as our Nation faces our immigration system is broken. setts, Amen. Amen. We can’t play real threats to our safety and to our But for millions of immigrants who around with our national security by national security if we don’t fully fund are living in the shadows, who are holding somebody’s legislative ideal as

VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:03 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G25FE6.013 S25FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S1096 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 25, 2015 a means of holding up the national se- cation of the stingray—the device that Mr. BLUNT. Madam President, I ask curity and holding the national secu- was certified by the FCC—and whether unanimous consent that the order for rity of this country hostage. those similar restrictions have been the quorum call be rescinded. ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND PRIVACY RIGHTS put in place for other devices. As tech- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Mr. President, I came to talk about nology continues to improve, we are ERNST). Without objection, it is so or- another issue. In the first part of the going to see a lot more of these types dered. week, the Washington Post had an arti- of devices. The Senator from Missouri. cle that followed a series of articles in We need to know whether the FCC PRESIDENT’S EXECUTIVE ORDER other newspapers, such as the Wall has inquired about the oversight that Mr. BLUNT. Madam President, last Street Journal and the New York may be in place in order to ensure that week I was glad to see that a Federal Times, about a device that was given the use of the devices complies with judge in Texas issued a preliminary in- certification by the Federal Commu- the manufacturer’s representations to junction against the President’s Execu- nications Commission called a sting- the FCC at the time of the certifi- tive order on immigration. This ruling, ray. cation. We are asking for a status re- if upheld—and I believe it will be—reaf- This device, when used properly by port of the task force that was pre- firms that President Obama was right law enforcement—specifically, the viously formed so we can look at these when he said at least 22 times that he FBI—not only can locate and absorb questions surrounding the use of the didn’t have the authority to take the the content of communications over stingray. action he now has taken on immigra- cell phones but can also locate the spe- This is not the last time we are going tion. cific location of that cell phone. It does to be asking these questions—not nec- In December of last year I joined in so by making the cell phone think that essarily about this device, the sting- an amicus brief with Senator CRUZ and it, the device, is the cell phone tower. ray. There is a multiplicity of devices Senator CORNYN and, I believe, the at- So instead of the cell phone radio that are coming out on the market, torneys general from 26 States—not waves going to the normal cell phone and the question is: What about our the State of Missouri but 26 States. I tower, they would come to this device privacy? Of course we are reminded was glad that my joining allowed Mis- called a stingray. If used properly, it about this issue every day because souri to be represented in support of can be used to go after the bad guys— every day we read about another data this lawsuit brought by the State of terrorists and criminals. Of course, breach in the newspaper. Texas against President Obama’s ille- I have filed legislation with regard to that is one of the reasons this device gal decision to allow amnesty to be es- data breaches to ensure that at least was created and certified by the Fed- tablished. The brief states the Obama the company has the obligation to no- eral Communications Commission. administration exceeded its constitu- Part of the protections, as used by tify the poor customers that their data tional authority and disrupted the deli- the FBI and local law enforcement, to is suddenly out there in the Internet cate balance of power between the Con- get content is to treat it as if they ether because of that data breach. A gress, whose job it is to pass the law, were going to break into somebody’s lot of these questions are going to con- and the President, whose job it is to tinue to be asked. home to get evidence. Our constitu- carry out the law. What about the device called the tional protections regarding the right Executive means just that. The job of Pineapple? I had no idea this device ex- the Executive is to execute the law. It of privacy require that the law enforce- isted. Here is what it does: If I go into is not to pass the law. There is no con- ment agency go to a judge—an impar- a Starbucks and use their wireless stitutional provision anyone has been tial part of the judicial branch—in Internet, someone could be sitting out- able to show me or that I have ever order to get a court order to show prob- side of that Starbucks in their car, or been able to find that says if the Con- able cause that a crime has been com- at one of the outside tables, with this gress doesn’t do something, the Presi- mitted and therefore the constitutional device called a Pineapple, and instead dent can decide it needs to be done and right of privacy is trumped, and with of my wireless device using Starbucks’ the President just does it on his own. this court order, law enforcement can Internet system, it is on that Pine- There is certainly no law that suggests go in and get the evidence. apple device and all of my communica- the President can just willfully ignore Well, as technology continues to tions are going directly to that person, the law. evolve and explode, of course, questions and that person is able to steal all of The brief we joined asserts that the about our constitutional right of pri- my private information. That is a Obama administration exceeded the vacy get a lot more difficult, and so major theft. This is scary. Yet that de- bounds of its so-called prosecutorial now law enforcement wants to pinpoint vice has been around for several years. discretion. The idea that they can have the location of a cellphone so they can We have major privacy questions. some discretion about how vigorously go in and grab that person. Again, it The Presiding Officer, who is a member they enforce certain laws is, both in would seem that the constitutional of the commerce committee, knows this case and in the court ruling, held right of privacy needs to have the pro- that we are going to be grappling with up to the standard it really should be tection of a judge’s order, and it is this these issues, along with other commit- allowed to meet. The idea that the Senator’s belief that the FBI, when em- tees, such as judiciary, on the right to President can say that there is too ploying this type of device, would, in privacy. fact, use those constitutional protec- In the meantime, we have raised much law here to enforce and we can’t tions. these issues with the FCC on this most afford to enforce the law—but then by Different news articles have raised recent detailed expose about this de- not enforcing the law, it creates sub- questions about how this device is han- vice called the stingray. If it is em- stantially more economic burden on dled once it is turned over to local law ployed for our national security and the States and the Federal Government enforcement and whether they are our personal safety, which is the job of than enforcing the law would have cre- being adequately trained on judicial the government, then it is a good ated—by any standard makes no sense. protections, and indeed, are they em- thing; however, if it is employed for This is not a determination that at ploying those protections. The news ar- other reasons, such as invading our some level there are just too many vio- ticles, as evidenced by the Washington constitutional right of privacy, that is lations of some law that is not very Post this past Monday, would indicate another thing. significant that you could have some that those judicial protections are not It is time for us to stand up for the prosecutorial discretion. This is the being employed. individual citizens in this country and law that impacts whether people can So this Senator, as one of the co- their right to privacy. come into the country or not and leaders of the commerce committee, I yield the floor. whether they can stay in the country along with the chairman of the com- I suggest the absence of a quorum. not being legally here. mittee, JOHN THUNE, has written to the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The The bill that Leader MCCONNELL in- FCC and asked them what information clerk will call the roll. troduced this week will put every Sen- they have about the rationale behind The senior assistant legislative clerk ator on record on this topic. I look for- the restrictions placed on the certifi- proceeded to call the roll. ward to a chance to vote on that bill

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It 11. ‘‘I swore an oath to uphold the laws on and perhaps more have said they dis- would suggest to those thinking about com- the books. . . . Now, I know some people agree with what the President did with ing here illegally that there will be no reper- want me to bypass Congress and change the this November action. A vote on Sen- cussions for such a decision. And this could laws on my own. Believe me, the idea of ator MCCONNELL’s bill will give them a lead to a surge in more illegal immigration. doing things on my own is very tempting. I chance to show whether they really And it would also ignore the millions of peo- promise you. Not just on immigration re- disagree or not. It is specific to the No- ple around the world who are waiting in line form. But that’s not how our system works. That’s not how our democracy functions. vember action. It is specific to the ac- to come here legally. Ultimately, our nation, like all nations, has the right and obligation That’s not how our Constitution is written.’’ tion the Federal judge in Texas said to control its borders and set laws for resi- (7/25/11) puts undue burdens on the State and dency and citizenship. And no matter how 12. ‘‘So what we’ve tried to do is within the exceeded the President’s authority. decent they are, no matter their reasons, the constraints of the laws on the books, we’ve As I have said a number of times, I 11 million who broke these laws should be tried to be as fair, humane, just as we can, would like to see our friends on the held accountable.’’ (7/1/10) recognizing, though, that the laws them- other side of the aisle be willing to de- 5. ‘‘I do have an obligation to make sure selves need to be changed. . . . The most im- bate this issue. I have also admitted a that I am following some of the rules. I can’t portant thing for your viewers and listeners number of times that if I were them simply ignore laws that are out there. I’ve and readers to understand is that in order to change our laws, we’ve got to get it through and if the President of the United got to work to make sure that they are changed.’’ the House of Representatives, which is cur- States had said 22 times he couldn’t do 6. ‘‘I am president, I can’t do these things rently controlled by Republicans, and we’ve something, I would have some reluc- just by myself. We have a system of govern- got to get 60 votes in the Senate. . . . Admin- tance—I suppose as they clearly do—to ment that requires the Congress to work istratively, we can’t ignore the law. . . . I come to the floor and defend why now with the Executive Branch to make it hap- just have to continue to say this notion that those 22 statements don’t matter. pen. I’m committed to making it happen, but somehow I can just change the laws unilater- If the Democrats would simply allow I’ve got to have some partners to do it. . . . ally is just not true. We are doing everything the Senate to begin debating the bill, The main thing we have to do to stop depor- we can administratively. But the fact of the Members on both side of the aisle could tations is to change the laws. . . . [T]he most matter is there are laws on the books that I important thing that we can do is to change have to enforce. And I think there’s been a offer amendments, and we could actu- the law because the way the system works— great disservice done to the cause of getting ally be doing the job we are expected to again, I just want to repeat, I’m president, the DREAM Act passed and getting com- do as legislators. Unfortunately, they I’m not king. If Congress has laws on the prehensive immigration passed by perpe- decided to repeatedly say: No, we don’t books that says that people who are here trating the notion that somehow, by myself, want to debate this bill. No, we are not who are not documented have to be deported, I can go and do these things. It’s just not going to go forward. No, we are not then I can exercise some flexibility in terms true. . . . We live in a democracy. You have going to let the normal process work. of where we deploy our resources, to focus on to pass bills through the legislature, and No, we are not going to deal with the people who are really causing problems as a then I can sign it. And if all the attention is bill sent over by the co-equal branch of opposed to families who are just trying to focused away from the legislative process, work and support themselves. But there’s a then that is going to lead to a constant dead- the Congress, the House of Representa- limit to the discretion that I can show be- end. We have to recognize how the system tives. Hopefully, we will see what hap- cause I am obliged to execute the law. That’s works, and then apply pressure to those pens as this debate moves forward and what the Executive Branch means. I can’t places where votes can be gotten and, ulti- the President’s activities are held not just make the laws up by myself. So the mately, we can get this thing solved.’’ (9/28/ only now to a standard of law but also most important thing that we can do is focus 11) to his own standard. on changing the underlying laws.’’ (10/25/10) In June 2012, President Obama unilaterally Madam President, I ask unanimous 7. ‘‘America is a nation of laws, which granted deferred action for childhood arriv- consent to have printed in the RECORD means I, as the President, am obligated to als (DACA), allowing ‘‘eligible individuals a list of the 22 times the President has enforce the law. I don’t have a choice about who do not present a risk to national secu- that. That’s part of my job. But I can advo- rity or public safety . . . to request tem- said he didn’t have the authority to do cate for changes in the law so that we have porary relief from deportation proceedings what he has now done. a country that is both respectful of the law and apply for work authorization.’’ He then There being no objection, the mate- but also continues to be a great nation of im- argued that he had already done everything rial was ordered to be printed in the migrants. . . . With respect to the notion he could legally do on his own: RECORD, as follows: that I can just suspend deportations through 13. ‘‘Now, what I’ve always said is, as the 22 TIMES PRESIDENT OBAMA SAID HE executive order, that’s just not the case, behead of the executive branch, there’s a limit COULDN’T IGNORE OR CREATE HIS OWN IMMI- cause there are laws on the books that Con- to what I can do. Part of the reason that de- GRATION LAW gress has passed. . . . [W]e’ve got three portations went up was Congress put a whole 1. The biggest problems that we’re facing branches of government. Congress passes the lot of money into it, and when you have a lot right now have to do with [the president] law. The executive branch’s job is to enforce of resources and a lot more agents involved, trying to bring more and more power into and implement those laws. And then the ju- then there are going to be higher numbers. the executive branch and not go through diciary has to interpret the laws. There are What we’ve said is, let’s make sure that Congress at all. And that’s what I intend to enough laws on the books by Congress that you’re not misdirecting those resources. But reverse when I’m President of the United are very clear in terms of how we have to en- we’re still going to, ultimately, have to States of America.’’ (3/31/08) force our immigration system that for me to change the laws in order to avoid some of the 2. ‘‘We’ve got a government designed by simply through executive order ignore those heartbreaking stories that you see coming the Founders so that there’d be checks and congressional mandates would not conform up occasionally. And that’s why this con- balances. You don’t want a president who’s with my appropriate role as President.’’ (3/28/ tinues to be a top priority of mine. . . . And too powerful or a Congress that’s too power- 11) we will continue to make sure that how we ful or a court that’s too powerful. 8. ‘‘I can’t solve this problem by myself. enforce is done as fairly and justly as pos- Everybody’s got their own role. Congress’s . . . [W]e’re going to have to have bipartisan sible. But until we have a law in place that job is to pass legislation. The president can support in order to make it happen. . . . I provides a pathway for legalization and/or veto it or he can sign it. . . . I believe in the can’t do it by myself. We’re going to have to citizenship for the folks in question, we’re Constitution and I will obey the Constitu- change the laws in Congress, but I’m con- going to continue to be bound by the law. tion of the United States. We’re not going to fident we can make it happen.’’ (4/20/11) . . . And so part of the challenge as Presi- use signing statements as a way of doing an 9. ‘‘I know some here wish that I could just dent is constantly saying, ‘what authorities end-run around Congress.’’ (5/19/08) bypass Congress and change the law myself. do I have?’ ’’ (9/20/12) 3. ‘‘Comprehensive reform, that’s how But that’s not how democracy works. See, 14. ‘‘We are a nation of immigrants. . . . we’re going to solve this problem. . . . Any- democracy is hard. But it’s right. Changing But we’re also a nation of laws. So what I’ve body who tells you it’s going to be easy or our laws means doing the hard work of said is, we need to fix a broken immigration that I can wave a magic wand and make it changing minds and changing votes, one by system. And I’ve done everything that I can happen hasn’t been paying attention to how one.’’ (4/29/11) on my own[.]’’ (10/16/12) this town works.’’ (5/5/10) 10. ‘‘Sometimes when I talk to immigra- 15. ‘‘. . . I am the head of the executive 4. ‘‘[T]here are those in the immigrants’ tion advocates, they wish I could just bypass branch of government. I’m required to follow rights community who have argued passion- Congress and change the law myself. But the law. And that’s what we’ve done. But

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Within the confines of the law we about this country is we have this wonderful how to explain—what he has said and said, we have some discretion in terms of process of democracy, and sometimes it is what he has now done. how we apply this law.’’ (1/30/13) messy, and sometimes it is hard, but ulti- On September 2013: ‘‘My job in the 16. ‘‘I’m not a king. You know, my job as mately, justice and truth win out.’’ (11/25/13) executive branch is supposed to be to the head of the executive branch ultimately 21. ‘‘I am the Champion-in-Chief of com- carry out the laws that are passed,’’ is to carry out the law. And, you know, when prehensive immigration reform. But what still in full agreement with what the it comes to enforcement of our immigration I’ve said in the past remains true, which is President said his job is. laws, we’ve got some discretion. We can until Congress passes a new law, then I am As late as August of this last year, prioritize what we do. But we can’t simply constrained in terms of what I am able to do. ignore the law. When it comes to the dream- What I’ve done is to use my prosecutorial the President said: There are some ers, we were able to identify that group and discretion, because you can’t enforce the things we can’t do. Congress has the say, ‘These folks are generally not a risk. laws across the board for 11 or 12 million peo- power of the purse, for example. Con- They’re not involved in crime. . . . And so ple, there aren’t the resources there. What gress has to pass a budget and author- let’s prioritize our enforcement resources.’ we’ve said is focus on folks who are engaged ize spending. So I don’t have a green But to sort through all the possible cases of in criminal activity, focus on people who are light. everybody who might have a sympathetic engaged in gang activity. Do not focus on He goes on to suggest to do whatever story to tell is very difficult to do. This is young people, who we’re calling DREAMers. the President might like to do. That is why we need comprehensive immigration re- . . . That already stretched my administra- form. To make sure that once and for all, in tive capacity very far. But I was confident basically what this debate is about a way that is, you know, ratified by Con- that that was the right thing to do. But at a right now. It is not about whether the gress, we can say that there is a pathway to certain point the reason that these deporta- Department of Homeland Security citizenship for people who are staying out of tions are taking place is, Congress said, ‘you would continue to function. In fact, trouble, who are trying to do the right thing, have to enforce these laws.’ They fund the what I wish to see is the President en- who’ve put down roots here. . . . My job is to hiring of officials at the department that’s gaged as the principal officer respon- carry out the law. And so Congress gives us charged with enforcing. And I cannot ignore sible for the administration of the gov- those laws any more than I could ignore, you a whole bunch of resources. They give us an ernment. order that we’ve got to go out there and en- know, any of the other laws that are on the force the laws that are on the books. . . . If books. That’s why it’s so important for us to I think something like that is what this was an issue that I could do unilaterally get comprehensive immigration reform done President Kennedy said after the Bay I would have done it a long time ago. . . . this year.’’ (3/6/14) of Pigs, when he said: I am responsible The way our system works is Congress has to 22. ‘‘I think that I never have a green light here because I am the principal officer pass legislation. I then get an opportunity to [to push the limits of executive power]. I’m responsible for the administration of sign it and implement it.’’ (1/30/13) bound by the Constitution; I’m bound by sep- the government. 17. ‘‘This is something I’ve struggled with aration of powers. There are some things we can’t do. Congress has the power of the The President created this problem. throughout my presidency. The problem is He created this funding problem for that I’m the president of the United States, purse, for example. . . . Congress has to pass I’m not the emperor of the United States. a budget and authorize spending. So I don’t States, he created this funding problem My job is to execute laws that are passed. have a green light. . . . My preference in all for the Federal Government, and he And Congress right now has not changed these instances is to work with Congress, be- created this problem of exceeding his what I consider to be a broken immigration cause not only can Congress do more, but it’s authority as President of the United system. And what that means is that we going to be longer-lasting.’’ (8/6/14) States. But the President, once again, have certain obligations to enforce the laws Mr. BLUNT. Let me mention a few of is missing from the discussion of how that are in place even if we think that in those, but I will submit all 22 for the to solve the problem. many cases the results may be tragic. . . . RECORD. As early as March of 2008, the That could very well be, as is often [W]e’ve kind of stretched our administrative President said: I take the Constitution flexibility as much as we can[.]’’ (2/14/13) the case, the person who would know 18. ‘‘I think that it is very important for us very seriously. The biggest problems how to solve the problem is the person to recognize that the way to solve this prob- that we are facing right now are things who created it. But we are not hearing lem has to be legislative. I can do some that don’t go through Congress at all. anything from that person because things and have done some things that make In November of 2010 the President clearly people at the White House be- a difference in the lives of people by deter- said: I am the President, not a king. I lieve it is to their temporary political mining how our enforcement should focus. can’t do these things just by myself. I advantage to act as though the people . . . And we’ve been able to provide help have to have partners to do it. in the Congress don’t want the govern- through deferred action for young people. In January of 2013, the President, . . . But this is a problem that needs to be ment to function, rather than to act as again, still believes he is not a king, though people in the Congress believe fixed legislatively.’’ (7/16/13) because he says: I am not a king. He 19. ‘‘My job in the executive branch is sup- the President was right the 22 times he posed to be to carry out the laws that are says that at two different events on said he couldn’t do what he has now passed. Congress has said ‘here is the law’ that day. He says: We can’t simply ig- done. when it comes to those who are undocu- nore the law. I have heard several of my colleagues The truth is, in November of 2014 the mented, and they’ve allocated a whole bunch in the last few days—in fact, even one of money for enforcement. And, what I have President does decide we can simply ig- or two this morning on early news been able to do is to make a legal argument nore the law. The 22 times the Presi- shows—say: We need a way for Con- that I think is absolutely right, which is dent said we couldn’t ignore the law I gress to settle these kinds of disputes that given the resources that we have, we agree with him. For those who believe can’t do everything that Congress has asked outside of the appropriations process. us to do. What we can do is then carve out I don’t find enough opportunities to One way to do that would be to pass the DREAM Act folks, saying young people agree with the President, here are 22 a law I filed in the last Congress that who have basically grown up here are Ameri- times I agree with the President’s view the House of Representatives passed in cans that we should welcome. . . . But if we that he cannot do these kinds of things a bipartisan way—the Senate was not start broadening that, then essentially I on his own and by himself. allowed to vote on it and I would like would be ignoring the law in a way that I On February 14, 2013—2 years ago— to see us vote on it in this Congress— think would be very difficult to defend le- the President said: The problem is that which is the ENFORCE the Law Act, gally. So that’s not an option. . . . What I’ve I am the President of the United which simply does allow the Congress, said is there is a there’s a path to get this States. done, and that’s through Congress.’’ (9/17/13) I could actually quit right there and if a majority of the Members of the 20. ‘‘[I]f, in fact, I could solve all these House or Senate believes the President problems without passing laws in Congress, maybe that would say all I need to say, but of course he said: is not enforcing the law as written, to then I would do so. But we’re also a nation go to a judge and seek an early deter- of laws. That’s part of our tradition. And so The problem is that you know I’m the the easy way out is to try to yell and pretend president of the United States. I’m not the mination, rather than wait for some like I can do something by violating our emperor of the United States . . . we have aggrieved citizen who disagrees with a laws. And what I’m proposing is the harder certain obligations to enforce the laws that rule or regulation to have to hire their path, which is to use our democratic proc- are in place. own lawyer after the rule is in effect,

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We all the authority to do that. 2015—MOTION TO PROCEED—Con- understand the critical importance of They said: No, you don’t have the au- tinued the airport. And for those of us who are thority to appoint people to the Na- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- surrounded by water, the Coast Guard tional Labor Relations Board when the ator from Michigan. is absolutely critical. Senate is in session just because you Ms. STABENOW. Mr. President, I I could go on and on with all of the have decided somehow the Senate is want to commend both of our leaders, ways in which the men and women of not in session. You don’t get to decide Leader MCCONNELL and Leader REID, Homeland Security, border security, whether the Senate is in session, Mr. for coming to the floor and agreeing to Customs, the Coast Guard, as well as President, if they have met all the re- a path forward to fully fund Homeland police and firefighters, our first requirements to be in session. You par- Security, and I want to speak for a mo- sponders, are keeping us safe every sin- ticularly don’t get to decide whether ment about how critical this is and gle day. the Senate is in session if that same how really—if we cannot get the House If the House does not agree to what session of the Senate approves some of Representatives to agree, if they are we are doing here, in 3 days we will see things that you thought needed to be not willing to move forward and sup- the Department of Homeland Security done and that was good enough for you. port this path—we have actually not shut down—an entire infrastructure Then they said: Mr. President, by the one shutdown but the possibility of two put together after 9/11, which we all way, when you appoint these people il- different kinds of shutdowns that will worked together on in a bipartisan way legally, whatever rules and regulations happen within 3 days. because we saw and we felt what had they put forward aren’t legal either. I am talking about the fact there are happened in terms of the threats to our So the couple of years of businesses 3 days left before the funding for the country and the loss of lives. trying to comply with the National Department of Homeland Security ex- It is critical this not be just a game. Labor Relations Act rules and regula- pires—on February 27, at the end of the This can’t be just a trick, where we are tions, all of that is to the wayside. day on Friday. We are in a situation somehow voting straight up on Home- Those rules are all gone, but that where those who protect us from terror land Security funding without other doesn’t restore the time, effort, money, threats all around us will be in a situa- riders on immigration or other things and needless compliance that happens tion where they either aren’t at work where there are differences with the when the President exceeds his author- or are working without pay. We will be President. If it is straight-up funding, ity or when the President’s agencies, working with pay but they won’t be then we vote, and then it goes to the such as the Environmental Protection working with pay, which of course is House and it gets completely changed Agency, decide they could do some- an outrageous situation for us to put again, that is not going to work. We thing they would like to do without them in. are going to stand with the men and ever arguing before the Congress that Every week we know there is a new women who stand with us, put their we would like the authority to do this. terrorist threat. That is literally true lives on the line, and work hard every So passing the ENFORCE the Law now, and it is shocking, as we turn on single day to keep us safe. It is critical Act would be a way to seek an earlier the television and we read the papers the House decide to join us if in fact or quicker remedy. It does appear to and listen to the radio. The most re- the Senate acts today to fully fund me that the Federal judges are likely cent threat we know is from al- Homeland Security, which I hope we to decide pretty quickly—Federal Shabaab, a Somali terrorist group with will. judges, the court of appeals level and ties to Al Qaeda. A video appeared this There is another thing I am deeply then the circuit level—that, no, Mr. last week where we know they called concerned about, and that is the fact President; you have gone beyond where for an attack at the Mall of America we have heard a lot of people talk you were in fact. You were right the near Minneapolis, as well as at other about we will just do a continuing reso- first 22 times, not the November 2014 lution from last year. That is effec- time that you decided if you don’t like shopping centers in the United States tively a shutdown of the first respond- the law, you don’t have to enforce the and Canada and Great Britain. We also know that an attack on that law. ers, because when we look at the list— I think we should move forward with mall would endanger as many as 100,000 immigration, Customs enforcement, that ability that the Congress cur- people—men, women, and children. detention, antitrafficking, smuggling— rently doesn’t have, but also I think we That is how many people come to that of those things that are funded under a should continue to express our desire mall, that big mall, every single day. continuing resolution, which is a fancy for this process to work the way it is Al-Shabaab terrorists have attacked a word for last year’s funding, those supposed to work. mall before so we know this is not an things don’t continue. The House of Representatives, which idle threat. In 2013, they attacked the The new grants that keep firefighters is supposed to initiate spending bills, Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, in Michigan and across the country has done that. It is the job of the Sen- where 63 innocent people were killed. going—in Detroit alone we have 150 ate to debate those spending bills. It is On February 14, a shooter at a syna- firefighters—were supposed to start in the job of Senators to offer amend- gogue in Copenhagen killed three peo- October. Because we haven’t fully fund- ments if they don’t like them, and so ple. In late January, an American was ed Homeland Security, they have been far our friends on the other side have 1 of 10 people killed in a terrorist at- waiting. We have people who will be insisted they don’t want to do that tack in Libya. Earlier in January, in laid off—police officers, firefighters in part of this job. Maybe we all should Paris, an attack by a terrorist claimed Michigan and across the country under understand why they don’t want to de- 16 lives. I could go on and on. In Octo- a CR—under a continuing resolution. It fend what the President has done be- ber alone, gunmen attacked the Cana- is effectively a first responders shut- cause of all the times he said he dian Parliament in Ottawa, killing a down. couldn’t do it. Canadian soldier. So that is the second shutdown I am f Michigan has the busiest northern concerned about. We could see Customs border crossing in the country between and Border Protection unable to award RECESS Detroit and Windsor. Every day over $1 new contracts for new video surveil- Mr. BLUNT. Mr. President, I ask billion in goods and people are crossing lance. How many times do we talk unanimous consent that the Senate that border—every single day. We actu- about the need to protect the borders? now stand in recess until 2 p.m. today. ally have three crossings—two of the But if we don’t fully fund Homeland

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That is what police and fire. Security and the Democrats blocked it; Senator Ted Kennedy used to say when Also without a fully funded Home- and why she didn’t listen to that he was in the Senate. And we know it land Security, nuclear detection equip- speech the second time the Republican is our responsibility to get things done. ment can’t be replaced. That deals with majority leader brought up the House- We are working hard on fixing No our enemies trying to smuggle nuclear passed bill to fully fund the Depart- Child Left Behind. We are working devices or dirty bombs into this coun- ment of Homeland Security and the with Secretary Burwell and the Presi- try. Democrats blocked it; and why she dent on finding ways to move discov- And what about emergency commu- didn’t listen to that speech the third eries and devices through the National nications? Think about the malls or time the Republican majority leader Institutes of Health and the Food and think about things such as FEMA and brought up the House-passed proposal Drug Administration into the medicine the unprecedented storms and snow to fully fund the Department of Home- cabinets. that we have seen in parts of our coun- land Security and the Democrats I see the Senator from Maryland on try, the cold. blocked it; and why not the fourth the floor. Yesterday we worked to- The idea we would somehow not fund time the Republican leader brought up gether to receive a report that Senator upgrades to emergency equipment and a bill passed by the House of Rep- MIKULSKI from Maryland and I, Sen- effectively have a first responder shut- resentatives to fully fund the Depart- ator BENNET from Colorado, and Sen- down is outrageous. I can’t imagine the ment of Homeland Security and the ator BURR from North Carolina, asked public, and rightly so, will understand Democrats blocked it. for 2 years ago to take a look at all the this. I certainly don’t understand it. This is the fifth vote to fully fund the Federal regulations governing our 6,000 Department of Homeland Security, We have all heard concerns about the colleges and universities and give us an which we want to do, and which we Secret Service and the ability to up- assessment of how much they cost, and voted to do four times. So let us not grade those operations. I could go on how much confusion and duplication confuse the issue here. I am amazed and on as it relates to first responder there is since the eight different times that Senate Democrats come up with funding. we have reauthorized the Higher Edu- this stuff on the other side. One would So I am, on the one hand, pleased cation Act of 1965. We asked how often think they were living in a different that it appears we may in fact have a we failed to weed the garden, how often world than we are. path forward to separate the debate on we instead just dumped new laws and The House has passed legislation to regulations on top of old ones, and to fully funding our Homeland Security, fully fund the Department of Homeland our protections at the borders and air- tell us exactly what to do. Security. Senate Republicans have Chancellor Zeppos of Vanderbilt Uni- ports, and so on, as well as police and brought up a bill to fully fund the De- versity and Chancellor Kirwan of the fire and first responders across the partment of Homeland Security four University System of Maryland gave us country from a debate on immigration. times. The Presiding Officer knows this report. Senator MIKULSKI was I appreciate the differences, and we can that. Four times we voted yes and four there, I was there, and Senator MUR- have that debate. I appreciate that has times they voted no. This is the fifth RAY, Senator BURR, and Senator BEN- been proposed to be separated. But we opportunity they will have to fully NET were there. It was a very impres- have to make sure there are no tricks fund the Department of Homeland Se- sive report. I won’t speak for long and no doublecrosses when it comes to curity, and I hope we can do that. about it because I see the Senator from the House of Representatives, because But let us not recreate events that Maryland would like to speak, but I we are not going to support an effort to never happened. Let us recognize the wish to take 5 minutes and say these go back again and hold Homeland Se- fact that for 2 weeks Senate Repub- things. It is sometimes best to tell a curity funding hostage to other poli- licans have been prepared to fully fund story to underscore a point, and here is cies and disagreements with the Presi- the Department of Homeland Security the first story. Vanderbilt University dent. and the Democrats themselves have hired the Boston Consulting Group to Finally, let me stress if the House blocked it not once, not twice, not tell the university how much it spent does less than what the Senate is going three times, but four times. complying with Federal rules and regu- to do on fully funding Homeland Secu- HIGHER EDUCATION lations for higher education in a single rity, they are shutting down first re- Now, Mr. President, if I may switch year. sponders in this country. That is what gears, I came to the floor to talk on an- According to the Boston Consulting they are doing. If we see a funding bill other subject which fortunately has bi- Group, Vanderbilt University spent that has last year’s numbers, they are partisan support. I am glad to speak $150 million complying with Federal putting in place a shutdown of our first about something like that because I rules and regulations last year. That is responders in this country with threats think the people of this country gave 11 percent of Vanderbilt’s non-hospital all around us and new threats every us and the Republican majority an op- expenditures. That adds up to about day. portunity this year to come to Wash- $11,000 of the tuition for each one of the People in this country deserve a lot ington and shake things up, but also 12,000 students at the university. It is better. We can do better than that. So get things done. absolutely absurd that somehow or an- I hope we will come together today to In the Health, Education, Labor, and other that could happen. do the right thing: Fund Homeland Se- Pensions Committee, we are working A second example is the student aid curity fully so our police and fire- hard to do just that with Senator MUR- form 20 million families fill out every fighters are available and on the RAY, the ranking Democrat on the year. It is 108 questions long. Our com- streets, and we are securing our bor- committee, and just as I worked with mittee has been told that two ques- ders and our homeland operations. I Senator Harkin in the last Congress tions would provide all the necessary dearly hope the House of Representa- when our committee reported out 25 information for 95 percent of families: tives will step up and join us in getting different pieces of legislation which be- What is your income from two years this done. came law. So we got things done in the ago and what is your family size? A bi- I yield the floor. last Congress, and I am fully confident partisan group of Senators have intro- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- that Senator MURRAY and I and the duced a bill to do just that. This would ator from Tennessee. other members of our committee can save millions of hours and dollars Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, the do that in this Congress. across the country. distinguished Senator from Michigan That doesn’t mean we agree on ev- Here is a third example. Surveys con- has made an eloquent speech about the erything. We don’t agree on a lot of ducted by the National Academy of

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Several experts testi- members of this committee—two Democrats reasonable time? fied before our committee that just two and two Republicans—asked a group of dis- He said about 10 percent. questions would tell the Department of Edu- tinguished educators to examine the current We spend 30 billion in taxpayer dol- cation 95 percent of what it needs to know to state of federal rules and regulations for col- lars a year on research and develop- determine a student’s eligibility for a grant leges and universities. We asked them not just to tell us the problem, but to give us ment at colleges and universities. If we or loan: One, what is your family size? And, two, what is your family income? specific solutions. could save $1 billion of that $30 billion So, in January a bipartisan group of six They have done so in a remarkable docu- by reducing that 42 percent to closer to Senators introduced legislation to simplify ment entitled ‘‘Recalibrating Regulation of 10 percent, then we could fund a 1,000 the student aid application and repayment Colleges and Universities,’’ in which they more multiyear grants to investigate process, including reducing the 108-question outline 59 specific regulations, requirements cancer research, Ebola research, and FAFSA form to just two questions. If our and areas for Congress and the Department legislation becomes law, then families, guid- of Education to consider—listing 10 espe- vaccines, and we should do that. cially problematic regulations. This is an enormously promising re- ance counselors, and admissions officers would save millions of hours. I thank Vanderbilt University Chancellor port. Most important, according to financial aid Nick Zeppos and University System of Mary- Ten years ago the Senator from expert Mark Kantrowitz, the complicated, land Chancellor Brit Kirwan for leading the Maryland and I worked on a report 108-question form discourages up to 2 million effort. called ‘‘Rising Above the Gathering Americans each year from applying for aid. In their own words, America’s 6,000 col- Storm.’’ We asked a group of distin- Last fall, the president of Southwest Ten- leges and universities live in a ‘‘jungle of red tape’’ that is expensive and confusing and guished Americans to tell us the 20 nessee Community College in Memphis told me that the complex form turns away from unnecessary. things that we might do in Congress to The report makes clear that colleges and his campus 1,500 students each semester. help make our country more competi- Tennessee has become the first state to taxpayers expect appropriate regulation. But tive in the world. They gave us the 20 make community college tuition-free for neither taxpayers nor colleges are well- things, which formed a blueprint, and qualifying students. But first, each student served by the jungle that exists today. Con- we passed most of them and eventually must fill out the FAFSA. Now that tuition is sumer information that is too complicated free, the principal obstacle for a qualified to understand is worthless. funded most of them. Colleges must report the amount of foreign Tennessee student to obtain two more years So I think this report we received gifts they receive; disclose the number of of education after high school is not money: yesterday has the opportunity to be as fires drills that occurred on campus. ‘‘Gain- important as ‘‘Rising Above the Gath- it is this unnecessarily complicated federal ful employment’’ disclosures require 30 dif- form. Ten years ago, then again three years ferent pieces of information for each aca- ering Storm,’’ which later helped es- ago, surveys by the National Academy of tablish the America COMPETES Act. demic program subject to the regulation. Sciences found that principal investigators When a student withdraws from college be- It is a blueprint for how we can reduce spend 42 percent of their time associated fore a certain time period, a student’s federal overregulation, simplify rules, save with federal research projects on administra- money must be returned to the government. money, make consumer protection tive tasks instead of research. This is a simple concept. clear, keep tuition down, find more I asked the head of the National Academies Yet the regulations and guidance imple- money for research, and let colleges what a reasonable percent of time would be menting this are ridiculously complex—200 for a researcher to spend on administrative paragraphs of regulatory text accompanied and universities spend their time and tasks. He replied: perhaps 10 percent or even money educating students instead of by 200 pages in the Federal Student Aid less. handbook. filling out forms. How many billions could we save if we re- The University of Colorado reports that I thank Senator MIKULSKI from duced the administrative burden? they have two full-time staff devoted to this Maryland, Senator BENNET from Colo- Taxpayers spend more than $30 billion a issue. One to do the calculation and the rado, Senator BURR from North Caro- year on research and development at colleges other one to recheck the other’s work. Ohio and universities. lina, and my partner Senator MURRAY State University estimates that it spends This year, the average annual cost of an around $200,000 annually on compliance for on the HELP Committee. NIH research project grant is $480,000. If we Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- this regulation. reduce spending on unnecessary red tape by Institutions offering distance education sent that my opening statement from $1 billion, the an NIH could potentially fund are subject to an additional set of bureauc- yesterday’s hearing, followed by pages more than a thousand multi-year grants. racy that can result in additional costs of 1 through 6 of the report presented to These should not be excused as normal, $500,000 to a million dollars for compliance. us yesterday, be printed in the RECORD. run-of-the-mill problems of government. All of these are examples of colleges and There being no objection, the mate- These examples, and others like them, rep- universities spending time and money on resent sloppy, inefficient governing that rial was ordered to be printed in the compliance with federal rules and not on stu- wastes money, hurts students, discourages dents. RECORD, as follows: productivity, and impedes research. Senator Murray and I will discuss how to TASK FORCE ON GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF Such waste should be an embarrassment to develop a bipartisan process to take full ad- HIGHER EDUCATION all of us in the federal government. vantage of the recommendations in this re- Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, I ask And let me make clear: let’s not just blame port and to include many of them in reau- unanimous consent that a copy of my re- President Obama and Education Secretary thorization of the High Education Act, which marks at the Senate Health, Education, Arne Duncan. They have contributed to the we plan to do this year. Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing ear- problem, but so has every President and We will schedule additional hearings to lier this week be printed in the RECORD. every education secretary—and that includes gather comment on the report from institu- me—since 1965 when the first Higher Edu- tions not directly involved with the report TASK FORCE ON GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF cation Act was enacted. and consumers of higher education, includ- HIGHER EDUCATION And the list of those embarrassed should ing parents, students, and taxpayers. This morning we are holding our first hear- also include the Congress of the United Some of the recommendations require a ing this Congress on the reauthorization of States for year after year adding to and tol- change in the law. Many can be fixed by the the Higher Education Act which will focus erating a pile of conflicting, confusing regu- Department itself. on the final report from the Task Force on lations. I have talked with Secretary Duncan more Government Regulation of Higher Edu- The Higher Education Act totals nearly than once about this effort and he is eager to cation. 1,000 pages; there are over 1,000 pages in the do his part to solve the problem. I look for- Over a year ago, Vanderbilt University official Code of Federal Regulations devoted ward to working with him and with Presi- hired the Boston Consulting Group to deter- to higher education; and on average every dent Obama on eliminating unnecessary red mine how much it costs the university to workday the Department of Education issues tape, saving students money, and removing comply with federal rules and regulations. one new sub-regulatory guidance directive or unnecessary regulatory obstacles to innova- The answer: $150 million, or 11 percent of clarification. tion in the best system of higher education the university’s total non-hospital expendi- No one has taken the time to ‘‘weed the in the world. tures last year. garden.’’ This is not a new subject for me. One of the Vanderbilt Chancellor Nick Zeppos says The result of this piling up of regulations first things I did as a Senator was try to sim- that this adds about $11,000 in additional tui- is that one of the greatest obstacles to inno- plify student aid and the Free Application

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Those have been re- ment of the accreditation process, and poli- densome, costly, and confusing regulations, placed by many more now. cies that result in consumers being inun- laws, and reporting requirements; Although I voted against the final reau- dated with information of questionable 2) Review and quantify the extent of all thorization of the Higher Education Act of value. federal requirements with which institutions 2008, I authored a provision in the bill that The Task Force also reviewed the proc- must comply, including estimates of the required the Secretary of Education to pub- esses by which higher education regulations time and costs associated with specific regu- lish a ‘‘compliance calendar’’ so schools can are developed and implemented, and offers lations; and, see all of their deadlines. several specific ideas for improvement. Sec- 3) Provide recommendations for reform to Unfortunately, 7 years later, the Depart- tion IV outlines recommendations that in- ensure future regulations are promulgated in ment of Education has yet to implement this clude asking the Government Accountability a manner that appropriately considers exist- provision. Office to review the Department of Edu- ing law and accurately examines the costs With bipartisan support and this cation’s methodology for estimating institu- and benefits to taxpayers, institutions, and groundbreaking report we have today, I’m tional costs of compliance with regulations; students. counting on this effort to get farther than the creation of clear ‘‘safe harbors’’ for insti- The Senators appointed Task Force mem- that one. tutional compliance; the recognition of bers representing institutions from across all ‘‘good faith’’ efforts to comply; and several sectors of higher education, and named EXECUTIVE SUMMARY proposals for better practices by the Depart- Chancellors William E. Kirwan of the Uni- The federal government’s substantial fiscal ment. versity System of Maryland and Nicholas S. investment in higher education recognizes To help policy makers think about the Zeppos of Vanderbilt University (TN) as co- that postsecondary education is a linchpin in most effective and efficient way to regulate chairs. In addition to Chancellors Kirwan the nation’s social and economic strength. higher education, the Task Force developed and Zeppos, the Task Force includes these Through that support, the government helps the following Guiding Principles to govern members: ensure that colleges and universities con- the development, implementation, and en- William L. Armstrong, President, Colorado tinue to contribute broadly to the fabric of forcement of regulations by the Department: Christian University American society. To ensure prudent stew- Regulations should be related to edu- Bruce D. Benson, President, University of ardship of federal support for higher education, student safety, and stewardship of Colorado Molly Corbett Broad, President, American cation, the Department of Education is federal funds. Regulations should be clear and com- Council on Education (DC) charged with developing procedures to carry prehensible. Thomas V. Chema, President Emeritus, out laws passed by Congress in regard to Regulations should not stray from clearly Hiram College (OH) higher education and with overseeing insti- stated legislative intent. Margaret L. Drugovich, President, tutional compliance. Institutions of higher Costs and burdens of regulations should be Hartwick College (NY) learning recognize the important role regu- accurately estimated. Dana G. Hoyt, President, Sam Houston lations play in the oversight of federal in- Clear safe harbors should be created. State University (TX) vestments. The Department should recognize good Brice W. Harris, Chancellor, California Over time, oversight of higher education faith efforts by institutions. Community College System by the Department of Education has ex- The Department should complete program Jonathan A. Kaplan, Chief Executive Offi- panded and evolved in ways that undermine reviews and investigations in a timely man- cer, Laureate Online Education (MD) the ability of colleges and universities to ner. Cornelius M. Kerwin, President, American serve students and accomplish their mis- Penalties should be imposed at a level ap- University (DC) sions. The compliance problem is exacer- propriate to the violation. J. Michael Locke, Former CEO, Rasmussen bated by the sheer volume of mandates—ap- Disclosure requirements should focus on College (IL) proximately 2,000 pages of text—and the re- issues of widespread interest. Harold L. Martin Sr., Chancellor, North ality that the Department of Education All substantive policies should be subject Carolina Agricultural and Technical State issues official guidance to amend or clarify to the ‘‘notice-and-comment’’ requirements University its rules at a rate of more than one docu- of the Administrative Procedure Act. Claude O. Pressnell Jr., President, Ten- ment per work day. As a result, colleges and Regulations that consistently create com- nessee Independent Colleges and Universities universities find themselves enmeshed in a pliance challenges should be revised. Association jungle of red tape, facing rules that are often The Department should take all necessary Thomas W. Ross, President, University of confusing and difficult to comply with. They steps to facilitate compliance by institu- North Carolina must allocate resources to compliance that tions. Robert G. Templin Jr., President, Northern would be better applied to student education, The Task Force believes that adherence to Virginia Community College safety, and innovation in instructional deliv- these principles would help improve regula- In addition, the Senators asked the Amer- ery. Clearly, a better approach is needed. tion of higher education, and urges their ican Council on Education (ACE) to support In 2013, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators adoption. the work of the Task Force. recognized that the pending reauthorization Again, to be clear: Regulations serve an SCOPE OF WORK AND TASK FORCE ACTIVITIES of the Higher Education Act (HEA) creates important role in ensuring institutional ac- The word ‘‘regulation’’ can be viewed an opportunity to consider these issues in countability. But requirements that have an broadly or narrowly. Narrowly defined, fed- depth. They established a task force of col- excessive reach, or that are unnecessarily eral regulation means only a requirement lege and university presidents and costly and difficult to implement—or worse imposed on institutions through the Code of chancellors to study federal regulation of still, that hinder student access to college Federal Regulations, the codification of all higher education broadly and identify poten- and drive costs up—are counterproductive. the regulations promulgated by federal agen- tial improvements. Smarter rules are needed. In the context of cies. Considered more broadly, it means any Looking at the landscape of regulation of the forthcoming reauthorization of the HEA, requirement placed on colleges and univer- colleges and universities writ large, the Task this report from the Task Force on Federal sities in order to participate in the federal Force on Federal Regulation of Higher Edu- Regulation of Higher Education proposes student aid program. For the purposes of cation identified a number of challenges that many specific avenues to improve the regu- this Task Force and our report, we use ‘‘reg- are particularly problematic. As described in lation of higher education. ulation’’ in this broader sense. Section II of this report, we concluded that The Task Force engaged in extensive con- many rules are unnecessarily voluminous THE TASK FORCE ON FEDERAL REGULATION OF sultations for this project and solicited in- and too often ambiguous, and that the cost HIGHER EDUCATION sights from higher education associations, of compliance has become unreasonable. The pending reauthorization of the Higher campus officials, and other organizations Moreover, many regulations are unrelated to Education Act (HEA) provides an oppor- and stakeholders. To gather input from indi- education, student safety, or stewardship of tunity for Congress to examine how institu- viduals on campuses who are responsible for federal funds—and others can be a barrier to tions of higher education are regulated and implementing regulations, ACE staff con- college access and innovation in education. to identify ways to streamline and simplify ducted extensive site visits and met with Based on extensive discussions, consulta- regulatory policies and practices. With that representatives from more than 60 institutions with experts, and site visits to cam- goal in mind, a bipartisan group of U.S. Sen- tions around the country. puses, the Task Force identified specific reg- ators—Lamar Alexander (R–TN), Barbara Our aim was not simply to reduce the num- ulations that are of major concern to higher Mikulski (D–MD), Richard Burr (R–NC), and ber of regulations imposed by the Depart- education institutions. Section III details Michael Bennet (D–CO) created the Task ment of Education, but rather to foster more those concerns, which include problematic Force on Federal Regulation of Higher Edu- effective and efficient rules that still meet financial responsibility standards, confusion cation in the fall of 2013 and directed it to federal objectives. To that end, we sought to and inconsistency in reporting requirements consider these issues in depth. accomplish these goals: for campus crime, overreach in authorization The Senators articulated a three-part Summarize the increasing burden of fed- of distance education programs, inefficient charge for the group: eral regulation on higher education.

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I thank the Senator Section I of this report frames the current make college more affordable, to al- from Tennessee and look forward to regulatory landscape for higher education. ways insist that that college offer a working with him. Section II describes specific current chal- quality education and that students on Mr. President, this is the way it lenges. Section III details 10 regulations that the campus be safe and secure so they ought to be, where Senators come to- colleges and universities find especially could be in a true learning environ- gether and bring our best ideas. We problematic, and recommends solutions. Fi- ment. nally, Section IV proposes ways to improve also bring our concerns and we put the regulatory process. I am a student loan/student grant them all on the table. But we began Effective oversight can help colleges and person, so I was focusing on the stu- with civility, we began with respect, universities keep costs down, keep students dents. I taught at Loyola University in and we established what were agreed- safe, focus on educating students, and be Baltimore, in the community college, upon goals and how each one of us good stewards of federal funds. In that spirit, but my colleague, who was the presi- thought we could get to the roadmap the Task Force developed the following dent of a university, said: We ought to to do that. This is the way I would Guiding Principles to help govern the devel- look at regs. Regulation could have a hope we would work. opment, implementation, and enforcement of tremendous impact. regulations by the Department: Now, as we come to almost a crisis Regulations should be related to edu- So we put our heads together. Our co- with the funding for Homeland Secu- cation, student safety, and stewardship of chairs came from Tennessee. The rity running out on Friday, this is the federal funds. Maryland cochair was Dr. Kirwan, a re- time for us to put our party differences Regulations should be clear and com- tiring but very able chancellor. And it aside, put our pet projects aside, and prehensible. is a terrific report. It is exactly what focus not on what is good for our poli- Regulations should not stray from clearly we wanted. tics but what is good for America. stated legislative intent. Where are the regs that, No. 1, are I understand that our leadership on Costs and burdens of regulations should be duplicative—the same darned report accurately estimated. both sides of the aisle—Senator after report, and then you do a report Clear safe harbors should be created. MCCONNELL and Senator REID—have on the reports so that then they can The Department should recognize good arrived now at a framework where we ask you questions and ask for a fol- faith efforts by institutions. will go through a set of parliamentary The Department should complete program lowup addendum. Then there are also procedures, which is our way, to then reviews and investigations in a timely man- instances where the requirements are arrive at a point where we could be ner. contradictory. So there they are, the voting on a full year’s funding for Penalties should be imposed at a level ap- administrators of both the colleges and propriate to the violation. Homeland Security without any addi- universities themselves or of an indi- Disclosure requirements should focus on tional riders that could derail the bill vidual grant program. So we want to issues of widespread interest. placed on it. I wish to compliment the clarify that. All substantive policies should be subject leadership for beginning a communica- Not only under Senator ALEXANDER’s to the ‘‘notice-and-comment’’ requirements tion and establishing a parliamentary of the Administrative Procedure Act. leadership did we go for what were the choreography where we could actually Regulations that consistently create com- top 10 concerns that were really bur- get the job done. The leaders have been pliance challenges should be revised. densome, duplicative, or contradictory, working on this. We know they will be The Department should take all necessary they gave us a checklist on what would steps to facilitate compliance by institu- coming here on the floor in a few min- constitute criteria for a good reg. I tions. utes to share with us that idea and think they gave us a great roadmap, We believe that these principles would help begin the procedures where every Sen- and now it is our part to use the report. improve the regulation of higher education, ator can exercise their will and their So we are not like everybody else and we urge their adoption. judgment. While the primary focus of this report is on where we got them to do a report and requirements imposed by the Department of we don’t do anything with it. But I just want to say this as the Education, institutions of higher education When we did ‘‘Rising Above the Gath- ranking member or the vice chair of are also regulated by every Cabinet-level ering Storm,’’ which I was so excited to the Appropriations Committee: We agency, as well as many sub-Cabinet-level be part of, it was truly a bipartisan ef- have to fund the Department of Home- agencies. In that regard, we acknowledge the land Security. We just have to do it. important work by other groups and organi- fort. It led to legislation, and it led to other executive branch input. We have to do it, and we have to do it zations, including the National Research now. I hope we can do it in the Senate Council of the National Academy of Sciences So I thank my colleague from Ten- and the National Science Board, to examine nessee. I think this is the way we this afternoon and that the House real- regulations stemming from other agencies, should be working together—put our ly follows what we are doing here. particularly in connection with federally heads together, get the best advice This is so crucial because of the very funded research. from what is out there in the real nature of what the bill is—homeland Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, I world, and then let’s put our shoulders security. This isn’t about a new agency yield the floor. to the wheel and get it done. that might be duplicative of another. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Does the Senator have a sense of This isn’t about new programs. It is ator from Maryland. when he would like to move or the not even about great big new sums of Ms. MIKULSKI. Mr. President, I timetable to implement this? money. This Appropriations Com- come to the floor to speak about the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- mittee arrived at its recommendations issue of funding for Homeland Secu- ator from Tennessee. when we were working on the omnibus. rity. However, I wish to note and ac- Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, I The Presiding Officer is the chair of knowledge the comments just made by thank the Senator from Maryland for the Subcommittee on Homeland Secu- my colleague from Tennessee, Senator her comments and her leadership. rity. I know that in the way he does his ALEXANDER, the chair of the HELP I would say to the Senator from due diligence, he has reviewed this bill. Committee. I couldn’t agree with him Maryland that I will need to sit down So the money part I don’t think is con- more. and talk to the Senator from Wash- troversial and it actually does the job. Hello, America. Two Senators, dif- ington, Mrs. MURRAY, which we plan to And the job is to do the full funding to ferent parts of the country, different do in March. My hope would be that in protect the homeland. political parties, different political April we could begin five or six hear- I really worry about our country. views on some social issues or what- ings aligned with the recommendations Here we are, and we have ISIL making ever, but I couldn’t agree more with in the report, and on other matters additional threats to the United States this outstanding report whose original such as accreditation, form working about the security of our malls. While

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I would welcome Our people are on the job, and now it is partments do all of this on their own bipartisan cooperation to pass the DHS time that we do our job and fully fund time and on their own dime. funding bill as well as the common- this agency. So what happens if we don’t fund sense Collins bill. America is at risk. We face ter- Homeland Security? It means that The PRESIDING OFFICER. The mi- rorism. We face the consequences of those $2 billion grants for emergency nority leader. natural disasters, which FEMA and the firefighters, port security, for local ef- Mr. REID. Mr. President, the major- Coast Guard are really helping us with forts and so on will not be funded. ity leader and I have had very good dis- right now. We face cyber threats. We Make no mistake. For those people per- cussions in the last 24 hours or so. We need the Department of Homeland Se- haps in the Senate or in the House that have agreed that, in order to pass a curity funded in a way to prevent and say that we just do a continuing reso- clean Homeland Security appropria- respond to these situations. lution, a continuing resolution means tions bill for the remainder of this fis- When I look at this, it is really that grants cannot be funded. cal year, the Democrats will support standing sentry in terms of all we need Under current law, for any program getting on the House Homeland Secu- to do in terms of port security, airport with an agency that is on a CR, it can- rity funding bill. In exchange, the ma- security, guarding our borders through not issue grant money at all. So that jority leader will provide that the only our Border Patrol agents, 23,000 Border means right now they are getting amendment will be a clean Homeland Patrol agents. But I also look at the ready to take the Fire Grant Program Security funding substitute, which he first responders. If anything happens in proposals. Secretary Jeh Johnson can’t just outlined. The substance of this our country, it is local law enforce- put out communication to say it is now amendment is the same as the bill that ment and local firefighters who are the the annual time for fire chiefs to come was introduced by Senators MIKULSKI first to respond. We have helped them in with their requests. and SHAHEEN about a month ago. with this response by providing them So we are placing America at risk— The Senate will adopt that amend- with Federal funds. I am really proud not only with the really big picture ment and send the amended bill to the of what we have done on this. stuff. Often the big picture comes back House in an expedited fashion. The I want to speak particularly about home. On that terrible, terrible day of Senate will then vote on cloture on the the Fire Grant Program. Now think 9/11, who ran up into those burning motion to proceed to the Collins bill. about what they do. Every day when buildings? Who ran up those steps of Personally, I don’t believe the Collins they report to duty, our first respond- the World Trade Center? It was our bill is a compromise. It would under- ers don’t know what they will face. In firefighters. mine law enforcement and tear fami- my own home State of Maryland, will I am flinching, flagging, abashed at lies apart. So until full-year funding they face a train derailment? We have their heroism and their desire to res- for the Homeland Security Department had those. Will they face a Metro fire? cue. And every day—right this is enacted, I will vote against going to We have had that. Will we have a mul- minute—one of them somewhere is the Collins bill. tiple-vehicle accident on 95 that could doing something. Certainly we can After a clean bill is signed into law, involve a horrific accident that refund the grant program so they can I will be happy to have a vigorous de- quires rescue from hazardous and toxic have the truck they need, so they have bate on immigration and the best way waste? Because of who we are, with our the breathing apparatus they need, so to fix our broken system. I want to be very clear that Demo- airports and our seaports, we also are a they have the protective gear they crats would be willing to expedite the big threat for a terrorist attack. Our need, so we can protect them while plan we have before us by consent. first responders are asking us to give they are protecting us—rather than In conclusion, I thank the majority them the money they need to pay the protecting our political butts. We have leader for working with Democrats to bills and also help them with these ne- got to get off our butts and fund this come to a solution of this impasse that cessities. bill. we have been faced with for the last 4 Over 10 years ago I joined with one of I look forward to the leadership on my Republican counterparts, Senator weeks. both sides of the aisle coming forward The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- Kit Bond of Missouri. We were both with a program to do it. I hope we have jority leader. concerned with what was happening to a sense of urgency. There is a saying Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I our volunteer fire departments. As he from Tip O’Neill that ‘‘all politics is move to proceed to the motion to re- crisscrossed Missouri and I crisscrossed local,’’ but ultimately, all homeland consider vote No. 53, the vote by which Maryland, we were shocked to find out security is local. cloture was not invoked on the motion that a new firetruck could cost as I yield the floor. to proceed to H.R. 240. much as $1 million, that wonderful I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The SCBA protective gear that would be The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion. fire retardant or fire resistant could clerk will call the roll. The motion was agreed to. cost $2,000, that the special breathing The senior assistant legislative clerk Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I apparatus that is being developed can proceeded to call the roll. move to reconsider the motion to in- cost over $5,000. When we put our heads Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous voke cloture on the motion to proceed together and listened to our fire- consent that the order for the quorum to H.R. 240. fighters, we realized you could not fund call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The that on tip jars, pancake breakfasts, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without question is on agreeing to the motion. crabcake dinners, or oyster fries in my objection, it is so ordered. The motion was agreed to. own State. We wanted to help them. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I CLOTURE MOTION We wanted to make sure we helped appreciate our Democrat colleagues The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant them so they could protect us. joining us and proceeding to the House- to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the So we looked at the Fire Grant Pro- passed bill. I have spoken to the Demo- Senate the pending cloture motion, gram. It has been a tremendous success cratic leader and my colleagues on the which the clerk will state. in my own State in the decades since Republican side and commit to offering The senior assistant legislative clerk we passed it. Over 600 fire departments an amendment to the House bill to read as follows: have been helped with the new equip- fully fund the Department of Homeland CLOTURE MOTION ment they need. When I travel my Security, while addressing the Presi- We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- State, I have people who defend and dent’s Executive actions on a separate ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the

VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:03 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G25FE6.025 S25FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE February 25, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1105 Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby needs so they can continue to do their about greater justice and inclusiveness in move to bring to a close debate on the mo- jobs. the world. This opinion, which has never tion to proceed to H.R. 240, making appro- We just heard that the Department of been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of priations for the Department of Homeland Homeland Security was involved with Security for the fiscal year ending Sep- those wielding economic power and in the tember 30, 2015. the FBI in the case of three people in sacralized workings of the prevailing eco- Mitch McConnell, Thad Cochran, Tom Brooklyn who were threatening this nomic system. Cotton, Roger F. Wicker, David Vitter, country because they wanted to go to Then he says: Jerry Moran, Daniel Coats, Michael B. the Middle East and join ISIS. We need . . . these things become the norm: that Enzi, Mike Crapo, Bill Cassidy, John to make sure DHS has the funding they some homeless people die of cold on the Boozman, John Thune, Tim Scott, need. This is real progress. I applaud streets is not news. In contrast, a ten point John Hoeven, James Lankford, Jeff Senators MCCONNELL and REID for their drop on the stock markets of some cities, is Sessions. efforts to get to this point. a tragedy. The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unan- I hope we can continue down this In other words, when people die be- imous consent, the mandatory quorum road to get funding for the Depart- cause they are poor and hungry and call has been waived. ment, and that when we send the bill cold, that is not news. But a 10-point The question is, Is it the sense of the over to the House, the House will also drop in the stock market becomes a Senate that debate on the motion to work together in a bipartisan way to tragedy. proceed to H.R. 240, an act making ap- get a clean funding bill before the re- Then he says: propriations for the Department of sources run out, before the money runs We must say ‘‘we want a just system! A Homeland Security for the fiscal year out for the Department of Homeland system that enables everyone to get on’’. We ending September 30, 2015, and for Security this Friday. We have a little must say: ‘‘we don’t want this globalized other purposes, shall be brought to a economic system which does us so much bit of time. We need to get this done. harm!’’ close, upon reconsideration? The Senate took a giant step forward Here we have the leader of the Catho- The yeas and nays are mandatory today to do that. I applaud my col- lic Church raising profound issues under the rule. leagues. I hope we can keep this going about the state of the economy—cer- The clerk will call the roll. and that we can get this done very The senior assistant legislative clerk tainly not just to the United States but soon. all over the world. I don’t want to par- called the roll. I yield the floor. The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 98, aphrase him, but my interpretation of The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- what he is saying is that money cannot nays 2, as follows: ator from Vermont. [Rollcall Vote No. 58 Leg.] be an end in itself. The function of an INCOME INEQUALITY economic system is not just to let the YEAS—98 Mr. SANDERS. Mr. President, I do marketplace reign and end up in a situ- Alexander Fischer Murray not agree with Speaker of the House ation where a small number of people Ayotte Flake Nelson OHN OEHNER Baldwin Franken Paul J B on very much, but I do have incredible wealth while so many Barrasso Gardner Perdue agree that it is an excellent idea for people have virtually nothing. Bennet Gillibrand Peters there to be a joint session of Congress That is true not just of the United Blumenthal Graham Portman in the fall to hear from Pope Francis. States, but it is even more true around Blunt Grassley Reed To my mind, in the last few years the the world. We have a situation right Booker Hatch Reid Boozman Heinrich Risch Pope has played an extraordinary role now—incredible as it may sound— Boxer Heitkamp Roberts in speaking out on issues of enormous where the wealthiest 85 people in the Brown Heller Rounds Burr Hirono consequence that impact every man, world own more wealth than the bot- Rubio Cantwell Hoeven woman, and child, not just in our coun- tom half of the world’s population. So Sanders Capito Isakson Sasse try but on the planet. He has shown 85 phenomenally wealthy billionaires Cardin Johnson Schatz great courage in raising issues that we are here, and half of the world’s popu- Carper Kaine Schumer Casey King very rarely discuss here in the Con- lation are over here—over 3 billion peo- Cassidy Kirk Scott gress or in parliaments around the ple. Does anybody in the wildest Coats Klobuchar Shaheen Shelby country. stretch of their imagination think this Cochran Lankford is anything close to a just world eco- Collins Leahy Stabenow What I want to do briefly this after- Coons Lee Sullivan noon is quote and discuss some of the nomic system? Corker Manchin Tester statements that the Pope has made Oxfam recently told us that within Cornyn Markey Thune the global economy within a year or Tillis that I think we need to listen to. I Cotton McCain two, the top 1 percent of the world’s Crapo McCaskill Toomey think it is a wonderful idea that Cruz McConnell Udall Speaker BOEHNER has invited the Pope, wealthiest people will own more wealth Daines Menendez Vitter but I think it is important we also lis- than the bottom 99 percent. What reli- Donnelly Merkley Warner gion condones this type of economic Durbin Mikulski Warren ten to what he has said. This is from Enzi Moran Whitehouse Pope Francis. disparity? What political party should Ernst Murkowski Wicker We have created new idols. The worship of condone this type of economic dis- Feinstein Murphy Wyden the golden calf of old has found a new and parity? NAYS—2 heartless image in the cult of money and the What the Pope is essentially saying is we need to pay attention to those Inhofe Sessions dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly humane goal. people who are hurting—not just the The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. On another occasion what he says is: homeless, not just the hungry, but TOOMEY). On this vote, the yeas are 98, ‘‘Man is not in charge today, money is those people who are working longer the nays are 2. in charge, money rules.’’ hours for low wages and at exactly the Three-fifths of the Senators duly cho- Then he says in another quote: same time when in this country we sen and sworn having voted in the af- have seen a proliferation of million- Today everything comes under the laws of firmative, the motion, upon reconsider- aires and billionaires. Is that what our ation, is agreed to. competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. economy is supposed to be about? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- As a consequence, masses of people find Let me just amplify what the Pope ator from New Hampshire. themselves excluded and marginalized: with- was saying by giving you some cold Mrs. SHAHEEN. Mr. President, I just out work, without possibilities, without any statistics in terms of what is going on want to applaud the vote we just had. means of escape. in the United States of America. I am A 98-to-2 vote shows very clearly that Then he says this on an issue that is, not talking about the global economy. our colleagues in the Senate want to I think, very relevant to this body: I am not talking about Greece, where see funding for Homeland Security. Ev- In this context, some people continue to unemployment is 25 percent and where erybody understands that the risks to defend trickle-down theories which assume their economy has contracted by a this country are too great for us not to that economic growth, encouraged by a free quarter in the last 6 years. I am talk- provide the resources the Department market, will inevitably succeed in bringing ing about the American economy.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:02 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G25FE6.027 S25FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S1106 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 25, 2015 Since 1999 the median middle-class has doubled, up to an astronomical $1 tens of millions of working families, family—that family right in the middle trillion in just 10 years. and does not simply work for large of the American economy—has seen its In terms of income as opposed to campaign donors. income go down by almost $5,000 after wealth, almost all of the new income With that, I yield the floor. adjusting for inflation. Incredibly, that generated in recent years, since the I suggest the absence of a quorum. family earned less income last year Wall Street crash, has gone to the top The PRESIDING OFFICER. The than it did 26 years ago, back in 1989. 1 percent. In fact, the last information clerk will call the roll. Do you want to know why people in that we have indicates that over 99 per- The legislative clerk proceeded to America are angry? Whether they are cent of all new income generated in call the roll. Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I ask in the Occupy Wall Street movement this country goes to the top 1 percent. unanimous consent that the order for and consider themselves progressive, The top 25 hedge fund managers on Wall Street made more than $24 billion the quorum call be rescinded. whether they are in the tea party The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without in 2013, equivalent to the full salaries movement and consider themselves objection, it is so ordered. conservative, the median male work- of more than 425,000 public school Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, some- er—that man right in the middle of the teachers. What we are seeing in this body asked me a little while ago, American economy—earned $783 less country is growing income and wealth shouldn’t we be voting on the mish- last year than he did 42 years ago. In inequality. What we are seeing around mash on Homeland Security that the other words, you have seen an explo- the world is the same. House of Representatives sent over be- sion of technological productivity, but What troubles me very much is that cause of the immigration matters in it. the male worker in the middle of the in the midst of a disappearing middle I reminded them that the Senate in economy—inflation adjusted for dol- class, at a time when we have more the last Congress voted by a 2-to-1 mar- lars—made $783 less last year than he people living in poverty today than at gin, on a bipartisan comprehensive im- did 42 years ago, while the median fe- almost any time in recent history, I be- migration bill which we sent to the male worker—the woman in the middle lieve my Republican colleagues on the House of Representatives and the of the American economy—earned Budget Committee will bring forth a Speaker refused to bring the bill up. It $1,300 less last year than she did in 2007. budget in the next few years which will probably would have passed. All over this country we are seeing move us in exactly the wrong direc- Had it passed, it would have been men and women working longer hours tion. When the rich get richer, their signed into law and President Obama for lower wages. We are seeing people proposal will be let’s give more tax would not have issued any Executive working not one job but two jobs or breaks to millionaires and billionaires. orders. There would be no need to. We three jobs in order to cobble together When large corporations are enjoying had everything from border security, the income they need and maybe some huge profits, and major corporation which Republicans and Democrats health care as well. But while the mid- after major corporation is paying noth- voted for, to minors and the DREAM- dle class continues to disappear on a ing in Federal income tax, their pro- ers, which Republicans and Democrats 40-year trajectory, the wealthiest peo- posal will be let’s give more tax breaks voted for. ple and the largest corporations are to large multinational corporations. In fact, we had hundreds of hours of doing phenomenally well. The gap be- Then after giving tax breaks to the hearings and markups. We had around tween the very, very rich and every- rich and large corporations, they say: 140 amendments that were brought up, body else is growing wider. Well, we want a balanced budget, and and I would call for one Republican This is what the Pope means, I think, the way we are going to balance the amendment and one Democratic when he says this: budget is on the backs of a dis- amendment. We went back and forth While the income of a minority is increas- appearing middle class, on the backs of day after day, night after night. We did ing exponentially, that of the majority is millions of working families, and on 140 or 141 amendments. crumbling. This imbalance results from the backs of the poorest and most vul- All but one of them passed by a bi- ideologies which uphold the absolute auton- nerable people in this country. partisan vote. We then had dozens of omy of markets and financial speculation, This is the Robin Hood principle in amendments on the floor, all of which and thus deny the right of control to States, reverse. This is taking from the poor passed with bipartisan votes. The final which are themselves charged with providing and working people and giving it to the bill got 68 votes. for the common good. millionaires and billionaires. We have done the work on immigra- This is from Pope Francis. So what I would hope the American people tion. Let’s not play games and endan- does he mean when he talks about the say: Enough is enough. We don’t need ger the needed funding for the Depart- income of a minority increasing expo- more tax breaks for the rich and large ment of Homeland Security at a time nentially while the majority is crum- corporations. We don’t need to cut So- when we face all kinds of dangers in bling? Let me give you some examples. cial Security, Medicare, Medicaid, edu- this country. Let’s not close down De- I talked about male wages, female cation, nutrition programs for hungry partment of Homeland Security on a wages, and median family income. Let people, and Pell grants so the kids can made-up mission of doing something me talk about what is going on in the go to college. That is not what we for immigration. top 1 percent. should be doing. In fact, we should be We passed an immigration bill. They Today the top 1 percent in America moving in exactly the other direction. could take out the draft of that old now own about 41 percent of the entire From 1983 to a few years ago, what bill, vote it up, and vote it down. wealth of our country while the bottom we have seen in this country is an in- Sixty-eight Senators, Republicans and 60 percent own less than 2 percent. Let credible transfer of wealth from the Democrats alike, voted for it. Let’s me repeat that. The top 1 percent own bottom 90 percent to the top 1 percent. bring up something similar. Let’s have over 40 percent of the wealth. The bot- We are talking about trillions of dol- a real debate. Let’s have amendments. tom 60 percent own less than 2 percent. lars in wealth going from the bottom 90 Let’s go to immigration. Then in the Today, incredibly, the top one-tenth of percent to the top 1 percent. Most meantime, let’s pass the Department of 1 percent now own almost as much Americans are saying: Enough is Homeland Security bill. wealth as the bottom 90 percent—one- enough. We don’t need more austerity Millions upon millions of taxpayer tenth of 1 percent. So 16,000 families for the middle class. We don’t need to dollars are being wasted even today as own almost as much wealth as the bot- cut Social Security, Medicare, and they prepare for a shutdown, not know- tom 300 million people in our country. Medicaid. Maybe it is time for some ing whether these tactics are going to Today the Walton family—the owners austerity for the top 1 percent. close down the Department, that major of Walmart and the wealthiest family I hope when we come together to dis- part of our government, or not. They in America—is now worth $153 billion. cuss the budget, Members of the Senate have to spend the money. That is That is more wealth in one family than will listen to what Pope Francis has money wasted, to say nothing about the bottom 40 percent of Americans. been talking about and give us a budg- the job that’s not being done. Over the past decade, the net worth of et which works for the most vulnerable I refer to my speech about Ground- the top 400 billionaires in this country people in this country, which works for hog Day because we have seen this one.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:03 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G25FE6.030 S25FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE February 25, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1107 Our friends across the way in the Cap- will help State and local communities As recent events have shown, Minsk itol closed down the government be- with disaster recovery, with law en- II is clearly dead, and we need to take fore. forcement activities, and will support a different approach. In just 2 days, unless Congress acts, our national security and counterter- At so many points in history, there the doors at the Department of Home- rorism efforts. have been opportunities for the inter- land Security, one of the country’s pri- The Shaheen-Mikulski bill is the national community to deter rogue ac- mary national security agencies, will product of bipartisan negotiations be- tors from violating the sovereignty of shutter. Unless we act, 30,000 workers tween Republicans and Democrats in other countries. Unless bullies such as will be furloughed without pay. An- both the Senate and the House. But for Putin are confronted, they will always other 130,000 will be asked to work in the President’s executive actions in bully, they will always force a re- defense of our nation’s security, with- November, it would have been included sponse, and they will always be an even out pay. in the omnibus spending bill that was greater problem for their neighbors and This is another needless, made-in- signed into law last year. Now we are the broader international community. Putin took Crimea, then he took Washington crisis. We find ourselves on the brink of a potential shutdown of Donetsk, then he took Luhansk, and here today because of the House’s ini- the Department of Homeland Security. last week he took Debaltseve. While he tial failure to act for more than a year This is a fabricated crisis. The solution has paid a price because of the sanc- and a half on bipartisan legislation is simple. The Senate should approve that the Senate passed to help fix our tions regime, that price has not the Shaheen-Mikulski bill, send it to changed his behavior. So now is the broken immigration system. The the House, and end this stalemate. The House’s inaction forced the President time to increase the cost to Putin. Now House should promptly consider the bi- is the time to increase sanctions on to do what he could through the execu- partisan, comprehensive immigration tive authorities available to him. Russia and work with Europe to con- legislation approved overwhelmingly sider additional sanctions in other sec- Those actions are welcomed. But they by the Senate in 2013. are not permanent, legislative fixes. tors of the economy. Now is the time If there is another debate to be had for the President to abide by his words Now, because Republicans in the House about fixing our immigration system, are angry that the President acted on February 9—to provide badly needed let’s have that debate. But let’s stop defensive weapons to the Ukrainian where they would not, they are threat- holding the operations of one of the Government and to rethink our stra- ening the functions of the very agency Nation’s key national security agency tegic response to Russia’s encroach- that helps protect our borders, our air- captive, while asking tens of thousands ment in Ukraine and across the former space, our waterways, and our commu- of hardworking Americans—including Soviet territories. nities. more than 2,500 Vermonters—to either The international community simply Every State in this country will be work without pay or take an unpaid cannot remain passive in the face of affected by a shutdown of the Depart- leave of absence. This is not the way to such unbridled aggression that will ment of Homeland Security. In the run a country. Unlike in so many other only invite further aggression. So I call midst of a fiercely cold winter, when questions facing our country, the solu- upon the administration to fully imple- the Northeast has been devastated by tion to this contrived disaster is easy. ment measures this body authorized life-threatening storms, we put at risk Members of Congress just need to have when it passed the Ukraine Freedom important recovery resources available the courage to act. Support Act, which the President through FEMA. We put at risk coun- I suggest the absence of a quorum. signed into law on December 18. terterrorism efforts and analysis of The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Last month I wrote to Secretary critical intelligence, as we continue to clerk will call the roll. Kerry in the wake of the bloodiest pe- mount and improve our national secu- The legislative clerk proceeded to riod since the start of this crisis. I rity in the face of unprecedented vio- call the roll. urged the administration to fully im- lent threats from enemies overseas. It Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. President, I ask plement the authorities provided in the is appalling that in the face of reports unanimous consent that the order for law and to comply with the clear re- that terrorists want to target such do- the quorum call be rescinded. porting deadlines. mestic sites as the Mall of America, The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. The legislation passed with unani- some in Congress are playing petty pol- GARDNER). Without objection, it is so mous consent in both Houses of Con- itics with the vital operations of the ordered. gress. It authorizes the President to Department of Homeland Security. provide much needed military and hu- UKRAINE A short-term continuing resolution manitarian aid to Ukraine, and it im- will not solve this problem. A con- Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. President, I poses additional sanctions against Rus- tinuing resolution for the Department rise once again in support of the people sia in this time of crisis. The legisla- of Homeland Security recognizes nei- of Ukraine in their struggle against tion was necessary in December, and it ther the evolving threats to our Na- Russian aggression. The most recent is even more necessary today. tion’s security, nor the continuing diplomatic efforts seem to have only We know the sanctions implemented stresses on our immigration system. A emboldened President Putin. by the United States and the European continuing resolution for the Depart- Since Minsk II, which is the last time Union have had a tangible effect on the ment will tear immigrant families they came to an agreement with ref- Russian economy. Combined with the apart, rather than support keeping erence to a ceasefire, there have been decrease in global energy markets, them together. A continuing resolution hundreds of ceasefire violations and they have put unprecedented pressure will not support an increase of $400 mil- the city of Debaltseve has fallen under on President Putin. But he is lion for the Department. It will freeze rebel control. Putin’s forces now undeterred. He continues to provide il- FEMA resources at their current lev- threaten Mariupol, which would pro- legitimate and illegal support to sepa- els. vide a key land bridge to Crimea, and ratists in eastern Ukraine, evidenced And let’s remember one key fact that his intentions are clear. by OSCE and NATO reports cataloging I do not hear these reckless voices in In my view, we need to urgently in- the growing number of Russian troops Congress acknowledging: The funding crease the cost to Putin with tougher and artillery that remain in the region bill we should be considering—the Sha- sanctions and by providing more secu- and as evidenced by the spiking vio- heen-Mikulski bill—already is a com- rity assistance to the Ukrainian mili- lence by so-called Russian-backed sepa- promise bill. It is far from perfect. For tary. ratists against both military troops example, I strongly oppose the new At a press conference on February 9 and civilians. Russian troops and these funding for family detention. Incarcer- with Chancellor Merkel, the President so-called Russian-backed rebels have ating women and children fleeing vio- said that his team was considering op- carried out deadly attacks on civilians lence runs contrary to our long history tions including the provision of defen- in eastern Ukraine. They have killed as a nation that offers refuge to those sive military equipment if the diplo- scores—they have killed women, they most in need. Nonetheless I am pre- matic effort with respect to Russia has have killed children. They have ig- pared to support the bill, because it failed. nored Minsk I. They have ignored

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I synced, harmonized, in the coming Russian insignia off and put something appreciate the administration’s com- days, and I will keep a close eye on this else on, but they are still Russian sol- prehensive efforts to counter Russian process. Clearly, for the international diers coming into Ukraine from Russia. aggression, but I also believe it is not effort to be effective, we need to be in Fear is mounting in Mariupol that enough. We must act immediately to lockstep with our Canadian and Euro- pro-Russian rebels with Russian sup- influence the course of events on the pean allies. When we passed this legis- port will conduct further attacks to ground and urge the President to fully lation last December, it coincided with ease land access to Crimea from Rus- implement the Ukraine Freedom Sup- a Wall Street Journal report about the sia. If Russia gets its land access to port Act. The violence threatening fortune that Russians were spending to Crimea, despite all of our talk that we Ukraine’s territorial integrity is lobby Washington against passing that will not forget that Crimea was taken threatening the region. The inter- very bill. They claimed the sanctions by force illegally in violation of international community has an obligation would affect the West’s willingness to national law, Crimea is gone. If Russia to respond to Putin’s clear signals that invest in Russia, and I say that is ex- continues down this path, its illegal oc- his intention is to escalate tensions in actly what these sanctions should do. cupation will be solidified and Putin Ukraine and across the region. Putin is using his military power to clearly intends to continue to play his Since Senator CORKER and I, along impose his will in Ukraine, but he is game. with other committee members, intro- also using every economic tool at his Prior to Minsk II, Oleksandr duced the Ukraine Freedom Support disposal, and we must do the same. We Zakharchenko, the head of the separat- Act, Putin has escalated his belligerent must make it clear to Mr. Putin that ists in Donetsk, said ‘‘there will be no and aggressive tactics. NATO has de- there will be consequences for his ac- ceasefires’’ and that the separatists ployed more than 400 times last year to tions. will not stop their attacks until they intercept Russian military flights near This is not only obviously important have ‘‘reached the borders of the members’ European airspace. in the context of Ukraine, which it cer- former Donetsk region.’’ In July of 2014, Ukrainian pilot tainly is in the first instance, but it is He has stayed true to his word. There Nadiya Savchenko was captured by also about sending a very clear global are no more ceasefires. He issued an Russian forces and is being illegally de- message that if you violate and upend order to ‘‘take no prisoners,’’ claiming tained in Russia despite Russia’s com- the international order, there will be that the separatists were no longer in- mitment to Minsk to free her. consequences for doing so. Because in terested in prisoner swaps. In September of last year, Russians the absence of real consequences to So I say to my colleagues, the situa- abducted the Estonian security service doing so, there are other actors in the tion is dire and it is becoming increas- officer Eston Kohver from Estonian world who are looking at what is hap- ingly clear we are not doing enough to territory. He was taken from Estonian pening in Ukraine who will say, well, change it. We must raise the costs to territory to Moscow where he has been what did the United States, what did Putin and his cronies by providing languishing in prison without due proc- the West do to stop the aggression of Ukraine with the assistance it needs to ess. Russia? And if the answer is not very defend itself. The world is watching In October, Sweden’s military discovered what it believed was a Russian much, at the end of the day—certainly and waiting and the time is now. The submarine outside of Stockholm. In not enough to stop that aggression— Ukraine Freedom Support Act explic- December, about a dozen Russian air- then other actors in the world who may itly authorizes the provision of defen- craft, including bombers, flew into the be more powerful than their neighbors, sive military assistance. Let’s provide Baltic Sea region. In January, attacks who may have nuclear weapons in their it. We have sent over night vision gog- on civilian buses took the lives of 20 possession, such as North Korea, will Ukrainians. It is time for the inter- think about what they want to do. And gles, and I guess those are great to see national community to say enough is whether that is China in the South the enemy, but if they can’t stop the enough. China Sea which has had territorial enemy, what good is that? What good Fully implementing the sanctions disputes with our allies South Korea is that? and assistance in the Ukraine Freedom and Japan, or whether it is the chal- Let’s provide anti-tank and anti- Support Act will help restore its sov- lenge we have in North Korea of a nu- armor weapons, crew weapons, and am- ereignty, it will help restore its terri- clear armed North Korea, whether it is munition. Let’s provide counterartil- torial integrity, and it will help deter Maduro in Venezuela oppressing his lery radar to identify and target artil- Russia from further destabilizing the people—I can go through a list of glob- lery batteries, fire control, range find- region. al actors who will wonder that if, at er, and optical and guidance control I urge the President to implement the end of the day, there isn’t much equipment. Let’s provide tactical these measures immediately, without consequence for violating the inter- troop-operated surveillance drones and delay. That said, I understand there national order, then I will do what I secure command and communications are individuals on the European Union wish to do because I have the power to equipment. and Canadian targeted sanctions list do it without consequences. That is an The administration was required to who do not appear on the American list incredibly risky world to live in. report to Congress on February 15 re- of sanctions. Now why is this the case? So I urge the President to implement garding its plan for increasing military Perhaps the most egregious example our bill now. The military situation on assistance to the Government of is Alexander Bortnikov, the head of the the ground is clear. The Organization Ukraine. Ten days later, we are still Russian FSB. Mr. Bortnikov is not on for Security and Cooperation in Eu- waiting on this report. I urge the Presi- the U.S. lists in relation to either rope, NATO, the Ukrainian National dent to impose the more stringent Ukraine or the Magnitsky act, but he Security Defense Council, have all re- sanctions on Russia’s defense and en- is on the European Union and Canadian ported on the presence of Russian mili- ergy sectors that we outlined in the lists. To make matters worse, Mr. tary convoys and troops in eastern law. I urge him to enact further sanc- Bortnikov was here in the United Ukraine. tions on Rosoboronexport and other States last week for President Obama’s As a matter of fact, I was there last Russian defense firms that we know CVE conference. To say that I am puz- year in the midst of the invasion—and contribute to the instability in zled would be an understatement. I call it an invasion, because last time Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, and Syria. The fact is there are almost 150 indi- I checked, where I come from, if you These firms outfit pro-Russian rebels viduals and entities on the Canadian have Russian troops crossing from Rus- and Russian troops who have invaded

VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:03 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G25FE6.036 S25FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE February 25, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1109 eastern Ukraine and established ille- MORNING BUSINESS Minority Member twenty-four hours prior to such markups. gitimate republics recognized by no f one but President Putin. It is time to VIII. POINTS OF ORDER enact those sanctions. It is time that COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS Any member of the Committee who is floor we put an end to the chaos and vio- manager of an appropriations bill is hereby authorized to make points of order against lence these firms spread around the RULES OF PROCEDURE world. It is time to impose additional any amendment offered in violation of the Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. President, the Senate Rules on the floor of the Senate to targeted sanctions on the Russian en- such appropriations bill. ergy sector to add to existing sanctions Senate Appropriations Committee has IX. EX OFFICIO MEMBERSHIP that are already costing the Russian adopted rules governing its procedures The Chairman and Ranking Minority Mem- economy about $140 billion a year, or for the 114th Congress. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 2, of the Stand- ber of the full Committee are ex officio mem- about 7 percent of its economy. bers of all subcommittees of which they are By imposing the energy sanctions ing Rules of the Senate, on behalf of not regular members but shall have no vote called for in the act, the administra- myself and Vice Chairwoman MIKUL- in the subcommittee and shall not be count- tion will tighten restrictions on shale SKI, I ask unanimous consent that a ed for purposes of determining a quorum. deposits, arctic drilling, and offshore copy of the committee rules be printed f drilling. in the RECORD. There being no objection, the mate- SELECT COMMITTEE ON The Ukraine Freedom Support Act rial was ordered to be printed in the INTELLIGENCE calls for the administration to impose RECORD, as follows: sanctions on other defense industry targets as well as on special Russian SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS RULES OF PROCEDURE crude oil projects by January 31. We COMMITTEE RULES—114TH CONGRESS Mr. BURR. Mr. President, the Select are still waiting to see the administra- I. MEETINGS Committee on Intelligence has adopted tion’s response. The Committee will meet at the call of the rules governing its procedures for the On September 18, Petro Poroshenko, Chairman. 114th Congress. Pursuant to rule XXVI, the President of Ukraine, addressed a II. QUORUMS paragraph 2, of the Standing Rules of joint session of Congress. We applauded 1. Reporting a bill. A majority of the mem- the Senate, on behalf of myself and his message of solidarity. Now it is bers must be present for the reporting of a Senator DIANNE FEINSTEIN, I ask unani- time to move past the applause. Now is bill. mous consent to have printed in the 2. Other business. For the purpose of the time to stand together in solidarity RECORD a copy of the Committee rules. transacting business other than reporting a There being no objection, the text of with the people of Ukraine. President bill or taking testimony, one-third of the Poroshenko asked for defensive arms, members of the Committee shall constitute the bill was ordered to be printed in he asked us for aid, and he asked us for a quorum. the RECORD, as follows: tougher sanctions on Russia. We all 3. Taking testimony. For the purpose of RULES OF PROCEDURE OF THE SELECT want a diplomatic solution to this taking testimony, other than sworn testi- COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE problem, but I believe this can only mony, by the Committee or any sub- RULE 1. CONVENING OF MEETINGS come about when Putin believes the committee, one member of the Committee or 1.1. The regular meeting day of the Select cost of continuing to ravage Ukraine is subcommittee shall constitute a quorum. Committee on Intelligence for the trans- For the purpose of taking sworn testimony action of Committee business shall be every simply too high. We have a responsi- by the Committee, three members shall con- bility to increase that cost. other Tuesday of each month, unless other- stitute a quorum, and for the taking of wise directed by the Chairman. I ask the President to heed our call sworn testimony by any subcommittee, one 1.2. The Chairman shall have authority, and to fully exercise the authority member shall constitute a quorum. upon notice, to call such additional meetings granted by the Ukraine Freedom Sup- III. PROXIES of the Committee as the Chairman may port Act and to do it now. Except for the reporting of a bill, votes deem necessary and may delegate such au- If we do that, not only do we save a may be cast by proxy when any member so thority to any other member of the Com- requests. mittee. key country that is presently bleed- 1.3. A special meeting of the Committee IV. ATTENDANCE OF STAFF MEMBERS AT CLOSED ing—the eastern part of Ukraine is one may be called at any time upon the written SESSIONS of the most productive parts of the request of five or more members of the Com- country. It is tough to keep providing Attendance of staff members at closed ses- mittee filed with the Clerk of the Com- financial support to it when it cannot sions of the Committee shall be limited to mittee. openly stabilize itself because of the vi- those members of the Committee staff who 1.4. In the case of any meeting of the Com- have a responsibility associated with the mittee, other than a regularly scheduled olence and the economic bleeding that matter being considered at such meeting. goes on by virtue of the war in the meeting, the Clerk of the Committee shall This rule may be waived by unanimous con- notify every member of the Committee of East. This is about a country that is sent. the time and place of the meeting and shall looking westward toward democracy, V. BROADCASTING AND PHOTOGRAPHING OF give reasonable notice which, except in ex- toward the European Union. We should COMMITTEE HEARINGS traordinary circumstances, shall be at least be helping countries that want to make The Committee or any of its subcommit- 24 hours in advance of any meeting held in that decision and have made that deci- tees may permit the photographing and Washington, D.C. and at least 48 hours in the sion by themselves be able to achieve broadcast of open hearings by television and/ case of any meeting held outside Wash- their sovereign right to do so. We or radio. However, if any member of a sub- ington, D.C. should be sending a clear international committee objects to the photographing or 1.5. If five members of the Committee have broadcasting of an open hearing, the ques- made a request in writing to the Chairman message about not violating the inter- to call a meeting of the Committee, and the national order, and we should be send- tion shall be referred to the full Committee for its decision. Chairman fails to call such a meeting within ing a clear and powerful message that seven calendar days thereafter, including the when you do, there are repercussions. VI. AVAILABILITY OF SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS day on which the written notice is sub- With that, I yield the floor. To the extent possible, when the bill and mitted, these members may call a meeting report of any subcommittee are available, by filing a written notice with the Clerk of I suggest the absence of a quorum. they shall be furnished to each member of the Committee who shall promptly notify The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. the Committee thirty-six hours prior to the each member of the Committee in writing of GARDNER). The clerk will call the roll. Committee’s consideration of said bill and the date and time of the meeting. report. The senior assistant legislative clerk RULE 2. MEETING PROCEDURES proceeded to call the roll. VII. AMENDMENTS AND REPORT LANGUAGE 2.1. Meetings of the Committee shall be Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I To the extent possible, amendments and open to the public except as provided in ask unanimous consent that the order report language intended to be proposed by paragraph 5(b) of Rule XXVI of the Standing Senators at full Committee markups shall be Rules of the Senate. for the quorum call be rescinded. provided in writing to the Chairman and 2.2. It shall be the duty of the Staff Direc- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. LEE). Ranking Minority Member and the appro- tor to keep or cause to be kept a record of all Without objection, it is so ordered. priate Subcommittee Chairman and Ranking Committee proceedings.

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The Committee vote on the confirma- and insofar as practicable and consistent member is present the ranking minority tion shall not be sooner than 48 hours after with the notice given, shall do so at least 48 member present, shall preside. the Committee has received transcripts of hours in advance of his or her appearance be- 2.4. Except as otherwise provided in these the confirmation hearing unless the time fore the Committee. Rules, decisions of the Committee shall be limit is waived by unanimous consent of the 8.6. OBJECTIONS AND RULINGS.—Any objec- by a majority vote of the members present Committee. tion raised by a witness or counsel shall be and voting. A quorum for the transaction of 5.6. No nomination shall be reported to the ruled upon by the Chairman or other pre- Committee business, including the conduct Senate unless the nominee has filed a back- siding member, and such ruling shall be the of executive sessions, shall consist of no less ground and financial disclosure statement ruling of the Committee unless a majority of than one third of the Committee members, with the Committee. the Committee present overrules the ruling except that for the purpose of hearing wit- RULE 6. INVESTIGATIONS of the chair. nesses, taking sworn testimony, and receiv- 8.7. INSPECTION AND CORRECTION.—All wit- No investigation shall be initiated by the ing evidence under oath, a quorum may con- nesses testifying before the Committee shall Committee unless at least five members of sist of one Senator. be given a reasonable opportunity to inspect, the Committee have specifically requested 2.5. A vote by any member of the Com- in the office of the Committee, the tran- the Chairman or the Vice Chairman to au- mittee with respect to any measure or mat- script of their testimony to determine thorize such an investigation. Authorized inter being considered by the Committee may whether such testimony was correctly tran- vestigations may be conducted by members be cast by proxy if the proxy authorization scribed. The witness may be accompanied by of the Committee and/or designated Com- (1) is in writing; (2) designates the member of counsel. Any corrections the witness desires mittee staff members. the Committee who is to exercise the proxy; to make in the transcript shall be submitted and (3) is limited to a specific measure or RULE 7. SUBPOENAS in writing to the Committee within five days matter and any amendments pertaining Subpoenas authorized by the Committee from the date when the transcript was made thereto. Proxies shall not be considered for for the attendance of witnesses or the pro- available to the witness. Corrections shall be the establishment of a quorum. duction of memoranda, documents, records, limited to grammar and minor editing, and 2.6. Whenever the Committee by roll call or any other material may be issued by the may not be made to change the substance of vote reports any measure or matter, the re- Chairman, the Vice Chairman, or any mem- port of the Committee upon such measure or the testimony. Any questions arising with ber of the Committee designated by the matter shall include a tabulation of the respect to such corrections shall be decided Chairman, and may be served by any person votes cast in favor of and the votes cast in by the Chairman. Upon request, the Com- designated by the Chairman, Vice Chairman opposition to such measure or matter by mittee may provide to a witness those parts or member issuing the subpoenas. Each sub- each member of the Committee. of testimony given by that witness in execu- poena shall have attached thereto a copy of tive session which are subsequently quoted RULE 3. SUBCOMMITTEES S. Res. 400 of the 94th Congress, and a copy or made part of a public record, at the ex- Creation of subcommittees shall be by ma- of these rules. pense of the witness. jority vote of the Committee. Subcommit- RULE 8. PROCEDURES RELATED TO THE TAKING 8.8. REQUESTS TO TESTIFY.—The Committee tees shall deal with such legislation and OF TESTIMONY will consider requests to testify on any mat- oversight of programs and policies as the ter or measure pending before the Com- Committee may direct. The subcommittees 8.1. NOTICE.—Witnesses required to appear before the Committee shall be given reason- mittee. A person who believes that testi- shall be governed by the Rules of the Com- mony or other evidence presented at a public mittee and by such other rules they may able notice and all witnesses shall be furnished a copy of these Rules. hearing, or any comment made by a Com- adopt which are consistent with the Rules of mittee member or a member of the Com- 8.2. OATH OR AFFIRMATION.—At the direc- the Committee. Each subcommittee created mittee staff, may tend to affect adversely shall have a chairman and a vice chairman tion of the Chairman or Vice Chairman, testimony of witnesses shall be given under that person’s reputation, may request to ap- who are selected by the Chairman and Vice pear personally before the Committee to tes- Chairman, respectively. oath or affirmation which may be administered by any member of the Committee. tify or may file a sworn statement of facts RULE 4. REPORTING OF MEASURES OR relevant to the testimony, evidence, or com- RECOMMENDATIONS 8.3. INTERROGATION.—Committee interrogation shall be conducted by members of the ment, or may submit to the Chairman pro- 4.1. No measures or recommendations shall Committee and such Committee staff as are posed questions in writing for the cross-ex- be reported, favorably or unfavorably, from amination of other witnesses. The Com- the Committee unless a majority of the authorized by the Chairman, Vice Chairman, or the presiding member. mittee shall take such action as it deems ap- Committee is actually present and a major- propriate. 8.4. COUNSEL FOR THE WITNESS.—(a) Any ity concur. ONTEMPT PROCEDURES.—No rec- witness may be accompanied by counsel. A 8.9. C 4.2. In any case in which the Committee is ommendation that a person be cited for con- witness who is unable to obtain counsel may unable to reach a unanimous decision, sepa- tempt of Congress or that a subpoena be oth- inform the Committee of such fact. If the rate views or reports may be presented by erwise enforced shall be forwarded to the witness informs the Committee of this fact any member or members of the Committee. Senate unless and until the Committee has, at least 24 hours prior to his or her appear- 4.3. A member of the Committee who gives upon notice to all its members, met and con- ance before the Committee, the Committee notice of intention to file supplemental, mi- sidered the recommendation, afforded the shall then endeavor to obtain voluntary nority, or additional views at the time of person an opportunity to oppose such con- counsel for the witness. Failure to obtain final Committee approval of a measure or tempt or subpoena enforcement proceeding such counsel will not excuse the witness matter, shall be entitled to not less than either in writing or in person, and agreed by three working days in which to file such from appearing and testifying. majority vote of the Committee to forward views, in writing with the Clerk of the Com- (b) Counsel shall conduct themselves in an such recommendation to the Senate. mittee. Such views shall then be included in ethical and professional manner. Failure to 8.10. RELEASE OF NAME OF WITNESS.—Un- do so shall, upon a finding to that effect by the Committee report and printed in the less authorized by the Chairman, the name same volume, as a part thereof, and their in- a majority of the members present, subject of any witness scheduled to be heard by the clusion shall be noted on the cover of the re- such counsel to disciplinary action which Committee shall not be released prior to, or port. may include warning, censure, removal, or a after, appearing before the Committee. Upon 4.4. Routine, non-legislative actions re- recommendation of contempt proceedings. authorization by the Chairman to release the quired of the Committee may be taken in ac- (c) There shall be no direct or cross-exam- name of a witness under this paragraph, the cordance with procedures that have been ap- ination by counsel. However, counsel may Vice Chairman shall be notified of such au- proved by the Committee pursuant to these submit any question in writing to the Com- thorization as soon as practicable thereafter. Committee Rules. mittee and request the Committee to pro- No name of any witness shall be released if RULE 5. NOMINATIONS pound such question to the counsel’s client such release would disclose classified infor- or to any other witness. The counsel also 5.1. Unless otherwise ordered by the Com- mation, unless authorized under Section 8 of may suggest the presentation of other evi- mittee, nominations referred to the Com- S. Res. 400 of the 94th Congress or Rule 9.7. mittee shall be held for at least 14 days be- dence or the calling of other witnesses. The fore being voted on by the Committee. Committee may use or dispose of such ques- RULE 9. PROCEDURES FOR HANDLING CLASSI- 5.2. Each member of the Committee shall tions or suggestions as it deems appropriate. FIED OR COMMITTEE SENSITIVE MATERIAL be promptly furnished a copy of all nomina- 8.5. STATEMENTS BY WITNESSES.—Witnesses 9.1. Committee staff offices shall operate tions referred to the Committee. may make brief and relevant statements at under strict precautions. At least one United 5.3. Nominees who are invited to appear be- the beginning and conclusion of their testi- States Capitol Police Officer shall be on duty fore the Committee shall be heard in public mony. Such statements shall not exceed a at all times at the entrance of the Com- session, except as provided in Rule 2.1. reasonable period of time as determined by mittee to control entry. Before entering the

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The Committee staff works for the shall be stored in authorized security con- information, the recipients of the informa- Committee as a whole, under the supervision tainers located within the Committee’s Sen- tion must have a need-to-know such infor- of the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the sitive Compartmented Information Facility mation for an official governmental purpose; Committee. The duties of the Committee (SCIF). Copying, duplicating, or removing and (3) for all information, the Committee staff shall be performed, and Committee from the Committee offices of such docu- members and staff who provide the informa- staff personnel affairs and day-to-day oper- ments and other materials is prohibited ex- tion must be engaged in the routine perform- ations, including security and control of cept as is necessary for the conduct of Com- ance of Committee legislative or oversight classified documents and material, shall be mittee business, and in conformity with Rule duties. Otherwise, classified and committee administered under the direct supervision 10.3 hereof. All classified documents or mate- sensitive information may only be disclosed and control of the Staff Director. All Com- rials removed from the Committee offices for to persons outside the Committee (to include mittee staff shall work exclusively on intel- such authorized purposes must be returned any congressional committee, Member of ligence oversight issues for the Committee. to the Committee’s SCIF for overnight stor- Congress, congressional staff, or specified The Minority Staff Director and the Minor- age. non-governmental persons who support intel- ity Counsel shall be kept fully informed re- 9.3. ‘‘Committee sensitive’’ means informa- ligence activities) with the prior approval of garding all matters and shall have access to tion or material that pertains to the con- the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the all material in the files of the Committee. fidential business or proceedings of the Se- Committee, or the Staff Director and Minor- 10.4. The Committee staff shall assist the lect Committee on Intelligence, within the ity Staff Director acting on their behalf, minority as fully as the majority in the ex- meaning of paragraph 5 of Rule XXIX of the consistent with the requirements that classi- pression of minority views, including assist- Standing Rules of the Senate, and is: (1) in fied information may only be disclosed to ance in the preparation and filing of addi- the possession or under the control of the persons with appropriate security clearances tional, separate, and minority views, to the Committee; (2) discussed or presented in an and a need-to-know such information for an end that all points of view may be fully con- executive session of the Committee; (3) the official governmental purpose. Public disclo- sidered by the Committee and the Senate. work product of a Committee member or sure of classified information in the posses- 10.5. The members of the Committee staff staff member; (4) properly identified or sion of the Committee may only be author- shall not discuss either the substance or pro- marked by a Committee member or staff ized in accordance with Section 8 of S. Res. cedure of the work of the Committee with member who authored the document; or (5) 400 of the 94th Congress. any person not a member of the Committee designated as such by the Chairman and Vice 9.8. Failure to abide by Rule 9.7 shall con- or the Committee staff for any purpose or in Chairman (or by the Staff Director and Mi- stitute grounds for referral to the Select connection with any proceeding, judicial or nority Staff Director acting on their behalf). Committee on Ethics pursuant to Section 8 otherwise, either during their tenure as a Committee sensitive documents and mate- of S. Res. 400 of the 94th Congress. Prior to member of the Committee staff or at any rials that are classified shall be handled in a referral to the Select Committee on Ethics time thereafter, except as directed by the the same manner as classified documents pursuant to Section 8 of S. Res. 400, the Committee in accordance with Section 8 of and material in Rule 9.2. Unclassified com- Chairman and Vice Chairman shall notify S. Res. 400 of the 94th Congress and the pro- mittee sensitive documents and materials the Majority Leader and Minority Leader. visions of these rules, or in the event of the shall be stored in a manner to protect 9.9. Before the Committee makes any deci- termination of the Committee, in such a against unauthorized disclosure. sion regarding the disposition of any testi- manner as may be determined by the Senate. 9.4. Each member of the Committee shall mony, papers, or other materials presented The Chairman may authorize the Staff Di- at all times have access to all papers and to it, the Committee members shall have a rector and the Staff Director’s designee, and other material received from any source. reasonable opportunity to examine all perti- the Vice Chairman may authorize the Minor- The Staff Director shall be responsible for nent testimony, papers, and other materials ity Staff Director and the Minority Staff Di- the maintenance, under appropriate security that have been obtained by the members of rector’s designee, to communicate with the procedures, of a document control and ac- the Committee or the Committee staff. media in a manner that does not divulge countability registry which will number and 9.10. Attendance of persons outside the classified or committee sensitive informa- identify all classified papers and other clas- Committee at closed meetings of the Com- tion. sified materials in the possession of the mittee shall be kept at a minimum and shall 10.6. No member of the Committee staff Committee, and such registry shall be avail- be limited to persons with appropriate secu- shall be employed by the Committee unless able to any member of the Committee. rity clearance and a need-to-know the infor- and until such a member of the Committee 9.5. Whenever the Select Committee on In- mation under consideration for the execu- staff agrees in writing, as a condition of em- telligence makes classified material avail- tion of their official duties. The Security Di- ployment, to abide by the conditions of the able to any other committee of the Senate or rector of the Committee may require that nondisclosure agreement promulgated by the to any member of the Senate not a member notes taken at such meetings by any person Select Committee on Intelligence, pursuant of the Committee, such material shall be ac- in attendance shall be returned to the secure to Section 6 of S. Res. 400 of the 94th Con- companied by a verbal or written notice to storage area in the Committee’s offices at gress, and to abide by the Committee’s code the recipients advising of their responsi- the conclusion of such meetings, and may be of conduct. bility to protect such materials pursuant to made available to the department, agency, 10.7. As a precondition for employment on section 8 of S. Res. 400 of the 94th Congress. office, committee, or entity concerned only the Committee staff, each member of the The Security Director of the Committee in accordance with the security procedures Committee staff must agree in writing to no- shall ensure that such notice is provided and of the Committee. tify the Committee of any request for testi- shall maintain a written record identifying mony, either during service as a member of the particular information transmitted and RULE 10. STAFF the Committee staff or at any time there- the committee or members of the Senate re- 10.1. For purposes of these rules, Com- after with respect to information obtained ceiving such information. mittee staff includes employees of the Com- by virtue of employment as a member of the 9.6. Access to classified information sup- mittee, consultants to the Committee, or Committee staff. Such information shall not plied to the Committee shall be limited to any other person engaged by contract or oth- be disclosed in response to such requests ex- those Committee staff members with appro- erwise to perform services for or at the re- cept as directed by the Committee in accord- priate security clearance and a need-to- quest of the Committee. To the maximum ance with Section 8 of S. Res. 400 of the 94th know, as determined by the Committee, and, extent practicable, the Committee shall rely Congress and the provisions of these rules or, under the Committee’s direction, the Staff on its full-time employees to perform all in the event of the termination of the Com- Director and Minority Staff Director. staff functions. No individual may be re- mittee, in such manner as may be deter- 9.7. No member of the Committee or of the tained as staff of the Committee or to per- mined by the Senate. Committee staff shall disclose, in whole or in form services for the Committee unless that 10.8. The Committee shall immediately part or by way of summary, the contents of individual holds appropriate security clear- consider action to be taken in the case of any classified or committee sensitive papers, ances. any member of the Committee staff who fails materials, briefings, testimony, or other in- 10.2. The appointment of Committee staff to conform to any of these Rules. Such dis- formation in the possession of the Com- shall be approved by the Chairman and Vice ciplinary action may include, but shall not mittee to any other person, except as speci- Chairman, acting jointly, or, at the initia- be limited to, immediate dismissal from the fied in this rule. Committee members and tive of both or either be confirmed by a ma- Committee staff. staff do not need prior approval to disclose jority vote of the Committee. After approval 10.9. Within the Committee staff shall be classified or committee sensitive informa- or confirmation, the Chairman shall certify an element with the capability to perform tion to persons in the Executive branch, the Committee staff appointments to the Finan- audits of programs and activities undertaken members and staff of the House Permanent cial Clerk of the Senate in writing. No Com- by departments and agencies with intel- Select Committee on Intelligence, and the mittee staff shall be given access to any ligence functions. The audit element shall members and staff of the Senate, provided classified information or regular access to conduct audits and oversight projects that that the following conditions are met: (1) for the Committee offices until such Committee have been specifically authorized by the

VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:57 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00027 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A25FE6.030 S25FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S1112 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 25, 2015 Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Com- mittee business unless specifically author- ber of any other committee referred to in mittee, acting jointly through the Staff Di- ized by the Chairman and Vice Chairman. paragraph 4(e)(1) of rule XXV of the Standing rector and Minority Staff Director. Staff RULE 14. CHANGES IN RULES Rules of the Senate. shall be assigned to such element jointly by (c) The select Committee may be organized These Rules may be modified, amended, or the Chairman and Vice Chairman, and staff into subcommittees. Each subcommittee repealed by the Committee, provided that a with the principal responsibility for the con- shall have a chairman and a vice chairman notice in writing of the proposed change has duct of an audit shall be qualified by train- who are selected by the Chairman and Vice been given to each member at least 48 hours ing or experience in accordance with accept- Chairman of the select Committee, respec- prior to the meeting at which action thereon ed auditing standards. tively. is to be taken. 10.10. The workplace of the Committee SEC. 3. (a) There shall be referred to the se- shall be free from illegal use, possession, APPENDIX A lect committee all proposed legislation, mes- sale, or distribution of controlled substances S. Res. 400, 94th Cong., 2d Sess. (1976) 1 sages, petitions, memorials, and other mat- by its employees. Any violation of such pol- Resolved, That it is the purpose of this res- ters relating to the following: icy by any member of the Committee staff olution to establish a new select committee (1) The Office of the Director of National shall be grounds for termination of employ- of the Senate, to be known as the Select Intelligence and the Director of National In- ment. Further, any illegal use of controlled Committee on Intelligence, to oversee and telligence. (2) The Central Intelligence Agency and substances by a member of the Committee make continuing studies of the intelligence the Director of the Central Intelligence staff, within the workplace or otherwise, activities and programs of the United States Agency. shall result in reconsideration of the secu- Government, and to submit to the Senate ap- (3) Intelligence activities of all other de- rity clearance of any such staff member and propriate proposals for legislation and report partments and agencies of the Government, may constitute grounds for termination of to the Senate concerning such intelligence including, but not limited to, the intel- employment with the Committee. activities and programs. In carrying out this 10.11. All personnel actions affecting the ligence activities of the Defense Intelligence purpose, the Select Committee on Intel- staff of the Committee shall be made free Agency, the National Security Agency, and ligence shall make every effort to assure from any discrimination based on race, other agencies of the Department of Defense; that the appropriate departments and agen- color, religion, sex, national origin, age, the Department of State; the Department of cies of the United States provide informed handicap, or disability. Justice; and the Department of the Treas- and timely intelligence necessary for the ex- ury. RULE 11. PREPARATION FOR COMMITTEE ecutive and legislative branches to make (4) The organization or reorganization of MEETINGS sound decisions affecting the security and any department or agency of the Govern- 11.1. Under direction of the Chairman and vital interests of the Nation. It is further the ment to the extent that the organization or the Vice Chairman designated Committee purpose of this resolution to provide vigilant reorganization relates to a function or activ- staff members shall brief members of the legislative oversight over the intelligence Committee at a time sufficiently prior to ity involving intelligence activities. activities of the United States to assure that (5) Authorizations for appropriations, both any Committee meeting to assist the Com- such activities are in conformity with the mittee members in preparation for such direct and indirect, for the following: Constitution and laws of the United States. (A) The Office of the Director of National meeting and to determine any matter which SEC. 2. (a)(1) There is hereby established a Intelligence and the Director of National In- the Committee member might wish consid- select committee to be known as the Select telligence. ered during the meeting. Such briefing shall, Committee on Intelligence (hereinafter in (B) The Central Intelligence Agency and at the request of a member, include a list of this resolution referred to as the ‘‘select the Director of the Central Intelligence all pertinent papers and other materials that committee’’). The select committee shall be Agency. have been obtained by the Committee that composed of not to exceed fifteen Members (C) The Defense Intelligence Agency. bear on matters to be considered at the appointed as follows: (D) The National Security Agency. meeting. (A) two members from the Committee on (E) The intelligence activities of other 11.2. The Staff Director and/or Minority Appropriations; agencies and subdivisions of the Department Staff Director shall recommend to the Chair- (B) two members from the Committee on of Defense. man and the Vice Chairman the testimony, Armed Services; (F) The intelligence activities of the De- papers, and other materials to be presented (C) two members from the Committee on partment of State. to the Committee at any meeting. The deter- Foreign Relations; (G) The intelligence activities of the Fed- mination whether such testimony, papers, (D) two members from the Committee on eral Bureau of Investigation. and other materials shall be presented in the Judiciary; and (H) Any department, agency, or subdivi- open or executive session shall be made pur- (E) not to exceed seven members to be ap- sion which is the successor to any agency suant to the Rules of the Senate and Rules of pointed from the Senate at large. named in clause (A), (B), (C) or (D); and the the Committee. (2) Members appointed from each com- activities of any department, agency, or sub- 11.3. The Staff Director shall ensure that mittee named in clauses (A) through (D) of division which is the successor to any de- covert action programs of the U.S. Govern- paragraph (1) shall be evenly divided between partment, agency, bureau, or subdivision ment receive appropriate consideration by the two major political parties and shall be named in clause (E), (F), or (G) to the extent the Committee no less frequently than once appointed by the President pro tempore of that the activities of such successor depart- a quarter. the Senate upon the recommendations of the ment, agency, or subdivision are activities RULE 12. LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR majority and minority leaders of the Senate. described in clause (E), (F), or (G). 12.1. The Clerk of the Committee shall Of any members appointed under paragraph (b)(1) Any proposed legislation reported by maintain a printed calendar for the informa- (1)(E), the majority leader shall appoint the the select Committee except any legislation tion of each Committee member showing the majority members and the minority leader involving matters specified in clause (1), (2), measures introduced and referred to the shall appoint the minority members, with (5)(A), or (5)(B) of subsection (a), containing Committee and the status of such measures; the majority having a one vote margin. any matter otherwise within the jurisdiction nominations referred to the Committee and (3)(A) The majority leader of the Senate of any standing committee shall, at the re- their status; and such other matters as the and the minority leader of the Senate shall quest of the chairman of such standing com- Committee determines shall be included. The be ex officio members of the select committee, be referred to such standing com- Calendar shall be revised from time to time mittee but shall have no vote in the Com- mittee for its consideration of such matter to show pertinent changes. A copy of each mittee and shall not be counted for purposes and be reported to the Senate by such stand- such revision shall be furnished to each of determining a quorum. ing committee within 10 days after the day member of the Committee. (B) The Chairman and Ranking Member of on which such proposed legislation, in its en- 12.2. Measures referred to the Committee the Committee on Armed Services (if not al- tirety and including annexes, is referred to may be referred by the Chairman and/or Vice ready a member of the select Committee) such standing committee; and any proposed Chairman to the appropriate department or shall be ex officio members of the select legislation reported by any committee, other agency of the Government for reports there- Committee but shall have no vote in the than the select Committee, which contains on. Committee and shall not be counted for pur- any matter within the jurisdiction of the se- RULE 13. COMMITTEE TRAVEL poses of determining a quorum. lect Committee shall, at the request of the 13.1. No member of the Committee or Com- (b) At the beginning of each Congress, the chairman of the select Committee, be re- mittee Staff shall travel abroad on Com- Majority Leader of the Senate shall select a ferred to the select Committee for its consid- mittee business unless specifically author- chairman of the select Committee and the eration of such matter and be reported to the ized by the Chairman and Vice Chairman. Minority Leader shall select a vice chairman Senate by the select Committee within 10 Requests for authorization of such travel for the select Committee. The vice chairman days after the day on which such proposed shall state the purpose and extent of the shall act in the place and stead of the chair- legislation, in its entirety and including an- trip. A full report shall be filed with the man in the absence of the chairman. Neither nexes, is referred to such committee. Committee when travel is completed. the chairman nor the vice chairman of the (2) In any case in which a committee fails 13.2. No member of the Committee staff select committee shall at the same time to report any proposed legislation referred to shall travel within this country on Com- serve as chairman or ranking minority mem- it within the time limit prescribed in this

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(a) For the purposes of this resolu- such information or after such vote except in posed legislation is referred to such com- tion, the select committee is authorized in accordance with this section. mittee unless the Senate provides otherwise, its discretion (1) to make investigations into (b)(1) In any case in which the select com- or the Majority Leader or Minority Leader any matter within its jurisdiction, (2) to mittee votes to disclose publicly any infor- request, prior to that date, an additional 5 make expenditures from the contingent fund mation which has been classified under es- days on behalf of the Committee to which of the Senate, (3) to employ personnel, (4) to tablished security procedures, which has the proposed legislation was sequentially re- hold hearings, (5) to sit and act at any time been submitted to it by the Executive ferred. At the end of that additional 5 day or place during the sessions, recesses, and branch, and which the Executive branch re- period, if the Committee fails to report the adjourned periods of the Senate, (6) to requests be kept secret, such committee proposed legislation within that 5 day pe- quire, by subpoena or otherwise, the attend- shall— riod, the Committee shall be automatically ance of witnesses and the production of cor- (A) first, notify the Majority Leader and discharged from further consideration of respondence, books, papers, and documents, Minority Leader of the Senate of such vote; such proposed legislation unless the Senate (7) to take depositions and other testimony, and provides otherwise. (8) to procure the service of individual con- (B) second, consult with the Majority (3) In computing any 10 or 5 day period sultants or organizations thereof, in accord- Leader and Minority Leader before notifying under this subsection there shall be excluded ance with the provisions of section 202(i) of the President of such vote. from such computation any days on which the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, (2) The select committee may disclose pub- the Senate is not in session. and (9) with the prior consent of the govern- licly such information after the expiration of (4) The reporting and referral processes ment department or agency concerned and a five-day period following the day on which outlined in this subsection shall be con- the Committee on Rules and Administration, notice of such vote is transmitted to the Ma- ducted in strict accordance with the Stand- to use on a reimbursable basis the services of jority Leader and the Minority Leader and ing Rules of the Senate. In accordance with personnel of any such department or agency. the President, unless, prior to the expiration such rules, committees to which legislation (b) The chairman of the select committee of such five-day period, the President, per- is referred are not permitted to make or any member thereof may administer sonally in writing, notifies the committee changes or alterations to the text of the re- oaths to witnesses. that he objects to the disclosure of such in- ferred bill and its annexes, but may propose (c) Subpoenas authorized by the select formation, provides his reasons therefore, changes or alterations to the same in the committee may be issued over the signature and certifies that the threat to the national form of amendments. of the chairman, the vice chairman or any interest of the United States posed by such (c) Nothing in this resolution shall be con- member of the select committee designated disclosure is of such gravity that it out- strued as prohibiting or otherwise restrict- by the chairman, and may be served by any weighs any public interest in the disclosure. ing the authority of any other committee to person designated by the chairman or any (3) If the President, personally, in writing, study and review any intelligence activity to member signing the subpoenas. notifies the Majority Leader and Minority the extent that such activity directly affects SEC. 6. No employee of the select com- Leader of the Senate and the select Com- a matter otherwise within the jurisdiction of mittee or any person engaged by contract or mittee of his objections to the disclosure of such committee. otherwise to perform services for or at the such information as provided in paragraph (d) Nothing in this resolution shall be con- request of such committee shall be given ac- (2), the Majority Leader and Minority Leader strued as amending, limiting, or otherwise cess to any classified information by such jointly or the select Committee, by majority changing the authority of any standing com- committee unless such employee or person vote, may refer the question of the disclo- mittee of the Senate to obtain full and has (1) agreed in writing and under oath to sure of such information to the Senate for prompt access to the product of the intel- be bound by the rules of the Senate (includ- consideration. ligence activities of any department or agen- ing the jurisdiction of the Select Committee (4) Whenever the select committee votes to cy of the Government relevant to a matter on Ethics) and of such committee as to the refer the question of disclosure of any infor- otherwise within the jurisdiction of such security of such information during and mation to the Senate under paragraph (3), committee. after the period of his employment or con- the Chairman shall not later than the first SEC. 4. (a) The select committee, for the tractual agreement with such committee; day on which the Senate is in session fol- purposes of accountability to the Senate, and (2) received an appropriate security lowing the day on which the vote occurs, re- shall make regular and periodic, but not less clearance as determined by such committee port the matter to the Senate for its consid- than quarterly, reports to the Senate on the in consultation with the Director of National eration. nature and extent of the intelligence activi- Intelligence. The type of security clearance (5) One hour after the Senate convenes on ties of the various departments and agencies to be required in the case of any such em- the fourth day on which the Senate is in ses- of the United States. Such committee shall ployee or person shall, within the determina- sion following the day on which any such promptly call to the attention of the Senate tion of such committee in consultation with matter is reported to the Senate, or at such or to any other appropriate committee or the Director of National Intelligence, be earlier time as the majority leader and the committees of the Senate any matters re- commensurate with the sensitivity of the minority leader of the Senate jointly agree quiring the attention of the Senate or such classified information to which such em- upon in accordance with paragraph 5 of rule other committee or committees. In making ployee or person will be given access by such XVII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, such report, the select committee shall pro- committee. the Senate shall go into closed session and ceed in a manner consistent with section SEC. 7. The select committee shall formu- the matter shall be the pending business. In 8(c)(2) to protect national security. late and carry out such rules and procedures considering the matter in closed session the (b) The select committee shall obtain an as it deems necessary to prevent the disclo- Senate may— annual report from the Director of National sure, without the consent of the person or (A) approve the public disclosure of all or Intelligence, the Director of the Central In- persons concerned, of information in the pos- any portion of the information in question, telligence Agency, the Secretary of Defense, session of such committee which unduly in- in which case the committee shall publicly the Secretary of State, and the Director of fringes upon the privacy or which violates disclose the information ordered to be dis- the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Such the constitutional rights of such person or closed, reports shall review the intelligence activi- persons. Nothing herein shall be construed to (B) disapprove the public disclosure of all ties of the agency or department concerned prevent such committee from publicly dis- or any portion of the information in ques- and the intelligence activities of foreign closing any such information in any case in tion, in which case the committee shall not countries directed at the United States or its which such committee determines the na- publicly disclose the information ordered not interest. An unclassified version of each re- tional interest in the disclosure of such in- to be disclosed, or port may be made available to the public at formation clearly outweighs any infringe- (C) refer all or any portion of the matter the discretion of the select committee. Noth- ment on the privacy of any person or per- back to the committee, in which case the ing herein shall be construed as requiring sons. committee shall make the final determina- the public disclosure in such reports of the SEC. 8. (a) The select committee may, sub- tion with respect to the public disclosure of names of individuals engaged in intelligence ject to the provisions of this section, disclose the information in question. activities for the United States or the di- publicly any information in the possession of Upon conclusion of the consideration of vulging of intelligence methods employed or such committee after a determination by such matter in closed session, which may not the sources of information on which such re- such committee that the public interest extend beyond the close of the ninth day on ports are based or the amount of funds au- would be served by such disclosure. When- which the Senate is in session following the thorized to be appropriated for intelligence ever committee action is required to disclose day on which such matter was reported to activities. any information under this section, the com- the Senate, or the close of the fifth day fol- (c) On or before March 15 of each year, the mittee shall meet to vote on the matter lowing the day agreed upon jointly by the select committee shall submit to the Com- within five days after any member of the majority and minority leaders in accordance mittee on the Budget of the Senate the views committee requests such a vote. No member with paragraph 5 of rule XVII of the Stand- and estimates described in section 301(c) of of the select committee shall disclose any ining Rules of the Senate (whichever the case

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The Senate shall this does not constitute a condition prece- for disclosure of information for which there vote to dispose of such matter by one or dent to the implementation of any such an- is no compelling reason for secrecy; more of the means specified in clauses (A), ticipated intelligence activity. (6) the desirability of establishing a stand- (B), and (C) of the second sentence of this (b) It is the sense of the Senate that the ing committee of the Senate on intelligence paragraph. Any vote of the Senate to dis- head of any department or agency of the activities; close any information pursuant to this para- United States involved in any intelligence (7) the desirability of establishing a joint graph shall be subject to the right of a Mem- activities should furnish any information or committee of the Senate and the House of ber of the Senate to move for reconsider- document in the possession, custody, or con- Representatives on intelligence activities in ation of the vote within the time and pursu- trol of the department or agency, or person lieu of having separate committees in each ant to the procedures specified in rule XIII of paid by such department or agency, when- House of Congress, or of establishing proce- the Standing Rules of the Senate, and the ever requested by the select committee with dures under which separate committees on disclosure of such information shall be made respect to any matter within such commit- intelligence activities of the two Houses of consistent with that right. tee’s jurisdiction. Congress would receive joint briefings from (c)(1) No information in the possession of (c) It is the sense of the Senate that each the intelligence agencies and coordinate the select committee relating to the lawful department and agency of the United States their policies with respect to the safe- intelligence activities of any department or should report immediately upon discovery to guarding of sensitive intelligence informa- agency of the United States which has been the select committee any and all intel- tion; classified under established security proce- ligence activities which constitute viola- (8) the authorization of funds for the intel- dures and which the select committee, pur- tions of the constitutional rights of any per- ligence activities of the Government and suant to subsection (a) or (b) of this section, son, violations of law, or violations of Execu- whether disclosure of any of the amounts of has determined should not be disclosed shall tive orders, Presidential directives, or de- such funds is in the public interest; and be made available to any person by a Mem- partmental or agency rules or regulations; (9) the development of a uniform set of ber, officer, or employee of the Senate except each department and agency should further definitions for terms to be used in policies or in a closed session of the Senate or as pro- report to such committee what actions have guidelines which may be adopted by the ex- vided in paragraph (2). been taken or are expected to be taken by ecutive or legislative branches to govern, (2) The select committee may, under such the departments or agencies with respect to clarify, and strengthen the operation of in- regulations as the committee shall prescribe such violations. telligence activities. to protect the confidentiality of such infor- SEC. 12. Subject to the Standing Rules of (b) The select committee may, in its dis- mation, make any information described in the Senate, no funds shall be appropriated cretion, omit from the special study required paragraph (1) available to any other com- for any fiscal year beginning after Sep- by this section any matter it determines has mittee or any other Member of the Senate. tember 30, 1976, with the exception of a con- been adequately studied by the Select Com- Whenever the select committee makes such tinuing bill or resolution, or amendment mittee To Study Governmental Operations information available, the committee shall thereto, or conference report thereon, to, or With Respect to Intelligence Activities, es- keep a written record showing, in the case of for use of, any department or agency of the tablished by Senate Resolution 21, Ninety- any particular information, which com- United States to carry out any of the fol- fourth Congress. mittee or which Members of the Senate re- lowing activities, unless such funds shall (c) The select committee shall report the ceived such information. No Member of the have been previously authorized by a bill or results of the study provided for by this sec- Senate who, and no committee which, re- joint resolution passed by the Senate during tion to the Senate, together with any rec- ceives any information under this sub- the same or preceding fiscal year to carry ommendations for legislative or other ac- section, shall disclose such information ex- out such activity for such fiscal year: tions it deems appropriate, no later than cept in a closed session of the Senate. (1) The activities of the Office of the Direc- July 1, 1977, and from time to time there- (d) It shall be the duty of the Select Com- tor of National Intelligence and the Director after as it deems appropriate. mittee on Ethics to investigate any unau- of National Intelligence. SEC. 14. (a) As used in this resolution, the thorized disclosure of intelligence informa- (2) The activities of the Central Intel- term ‘‘intelligence activities’’ includes (1) tion by a Member, officer or employee of the ligence Agency and the Director of the Cen- the collection, analysis, production, dissemi- Senate in violation of subsection (c) and to tral Intelligence Agency. nation, or use of information which relates (3) The activities of the Defense Intel- report to the Senate concerning any allega- to any foreign country, or any government, ligence Agency. political group, party, military force, move- tion which it finds to be substantiated. (4) The activities of the National Security (e) Upon the request of any person who is ment, or other association in such foreign Agency. country, and which relates to the defense, subject to any such investigation, the Select (5) The intelligence activities of other foreign policy, national security, or related Committee on Ethics shall release to such agencies and subdivisions of the Department policies of the United States, and other ac- individual at the conclusion of its investiga- of Defense. tivity which is in support of such activities; tion a summary of its investigation together (6) The intelligence activities of the De- (2) activities taken to counter similar activi- with its findings. If, at the conclusion of its partment of State. investigation, the Select Committee on Eth- (7) The intelligence activities of the Fed- ties directed against the United States; (3) ics determines that there has been a signifi- eral Bureau of Investigation. covert or clandestine activities affecting the cant breach of confidentiality or unauthor- SEC. 13. (a) The select committee shall relations of the United States with any for- ized disclosure by a Member, officer, or em- make a study with respect to the following eign government, political group, party, ployee of the Senate, it shall report its find- matters, taking into consideration with re- military force, movement or other associa- ings to the Senate and recommend appro- spect to each such matter, all relevant as- tion; (4) the collection, analysis, production, priate action such as censure, removal from pects of the effectiveness of planning, gath- dissemination, or use of information about committee membership, or expulsion from ering, use, security, and dissemination of in- activities of persons within the United the Senate, in the case of a Member, or re- telligence: States, its territories and possessions, or na- moval from office or employment or punish- (1) the quality of the analytical capabili- tionals of the United States abroad whose ment for contempt, in the case of an officer ties of United States foreign intelligence political and related activities pose, or may or employee. agencies and means for integrating more be considered by any department, agency, SEC. 9. The select committee is authorized closely analytical intelligence and policy bureau, office, division, instrumentality, or to permit any personal representative of the formulation; employee of the United States to pose, a President, designated by the President to (2) the extent and nature of the authority threat to the internal security of the United serve as a liaison to such committee, to at- of the departments and agencies of the Exec- States, and covert or clandestine activities tend any closed meeting of such committee. utive branch to engage in intelligence activi- directed against such persons. Such term SEC. 10. Upon expiration of the Select Com- ties and the desirability of developing char- does not include tactical foreign military in- mittee on Governmental Operations With ters for each intelligence agency or depart- telligence serving no national policymaking Respect to Intelligence Activities, estab- ment; function. lished by Senate Resolution 21, Ninety- (3) the organization of intelligence activi- (b) As used in this resolution, the term fourth Congress, all records, files, docu- ties in the Executive branch to maximize the ‘‘department or agency’’ includes any orga- ments, and other materials in the possession, effectiveness of the conduct, oversight, and nization, committee, council, establishment, custody, or control of such committee, under accountability of intelligence activities; to or office within the Federal Government. appropriate conditions established by it, reduce duplication or overlap; and to im- (c) For purposes of this resolution, ref- shall be transferred to the select committee. prove the morale of the personnel of the for- erence to any department, agency, bureau, SEC. 11. (a) It is the sense of the Senate eign intelligence agencies; or subdivision shall include a reference to that the head of each department and agency (4) the conduct of covert and clandestine any successor department, agency, bureau, of the United States should keep the select activities and the procedures by which Con- or subdivision to the extent that such suc- committee fully and currently informed with gress is informed of such activities; cessor engages in intelligence activities now

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(a) In addition to other committee connaissance Office, or any successor posi- COMMITTEE RULE 2.1) staff selected by the select Committee, the tion to such a position, the nomination of Each meeting of a committee, or any sub- select Committee shall hire or appoint one any individual by the President to serve in committee thereof, including meetings to employee for each member of the select such position, who at the time of the nomi- conduct hearings, shall be open to the public, Committee to serve as such Member’s des- nation is a member of the Armed Forces on except that a meeting or series of meetings ignated representative on the select Com- active duty, shall be referred to the Com- by a committee or a subcommittee thereof mittee. The select Committee shall only hire mittee on Armed Services and, if and when on the same subject for a period of no more or appoint an employee chosen by the respec- reported, to the Select Committee for not to than fourteen calendar days may be closed to tive Member of the select Committee for exceed 30 calendar days, except that in cases the public on a motion made and seconded to whom the employee will serve as the des- when the 30-day period expires while the go into closed session to discuss only wheth- ignated representative on the select Com- Senate is in recess, the Select Committee er the matters enumerated in clauses (1) mittee. shall have 5 additional calendar days after through (6) would require the meeting to be (b) The select Committee shall be afforded the Senate reconvenes to report the nomina- closed, followed immediately by a record a supplement to its budget, to be determined tion. vote in open session by a majority of the by the Committee on Rules and Administra- ‘‘(2) With respect to the confirmation of tion, to allow for the hire of each employee members of the committee or subcommittee appointment to the position of Director of when it is determined that the matters to be who fills the position of designated rep- the National Security Agency, Inspector resentative to the select Committee. The discussed or the testimony to be taken at General of the National Security Agency, Di- such meeting or meetings— designated representative shall have office rector of the National Reconnaissance Of- space and appropriate office equipment in (1) will disclose matters necessary to be fice, or Inspector General or the National kept secret in the interests of national de- the select Committee spaces. Designated per- Reconnaissance Office, or any successor posi- sonal representatives shall have the same ac- fense or the confidential conduct of the for- tion to such a position, the nomination of eign relations of the United States; cess to Committee staff, information, any individual by the President to serve in records, and databases as select Committee (2) will relate solely to matters of com- such position, who at the time of the nomi- mittee staff personnel or internal staff man- staff, as determined by the Chairman and nation is not a member of the Armed Forces Vice Chairman. agement or procedure; on active duty, shall be referred to the Se- (3) will tend to charge an individual with (c) The designated employee shall meet all lect Committee and, if and when reported, to the requirements of relevant statutes, Sen- crime or misconduct, to disgrace or injure the Committee on Armed Services for not to the professional standing of an individual, or ate rules, and committee security clearance exceed 30 calendar days, except that in cases requirements for employment by the select otherwise to expose an individual to public when the 30-day period expires while the contempt or obloquy, or will represent a Committee. Senate is in recess, the Committee on Armed (d) Of the funds made available to the se- clearly unwarranted invasion of the privacy Services shall have an additional 5 calendar lect Committee for personnel— of an individual; days after the Senate reconvenes to report (1) not more than 60 percent shall be under (4) will disclose the identity of any in- the nomination. the control of the Chairman; and former or law enforcement agent or will dis- (2) not less than 40 percent shall be under ‘‘(3) If, upon the expiration of the period of close any information relating to the inves- the control of the Vice Chairman. sequential referral described in paragraphs tigation or prosecution of a criminal offense SEC. 16. Nothing in this resolution shall be (1) and (2), the committee to which the nomi- that is required to be kept secret in the in- construed as constituting acquiescence by nation was sequentially referred has not re- terests of effective law enforcement; the Senate in any practice, or in the conduct ported the nomination, the nomination shall (5) will disclose information relating to the of any activity, not otherwise authorized by be automatically discharged from that com- trade secrets of financial or commercial in- law. mittee and placed on the Executive Cal- formation pertaining specifically to a given SEC. 17. (a)(1) Except as provided in sub- endar.’’. person if— sections (b) and (c), the Select Committee APPENDIX B (A) an Act of Congress requires the infor- shall have jurisdiction to review, hold hear- mation to be kept confidential by Govern- ings, and report the nominations of civilian INTELLIGENCE PROVISIONS IN S. RES. ment officers and employees; or individuals for positions in the intelligence 445, 108TH CONG., 2D SESS. (2004) WHICH (B) the information has been obtained by community for which appointments are WERE NOT INCORPORATED IN S. RES. the Government on a confidential basis, made by the President, by and with the ad- 400, 94TH CONG., 2D SESS. (1976) other than through an application by such vice and consent of the Senate. TITLE III—COMMITTEE STATUS person for a specific Government financial or ‘‘(2) Except as provided in subsections (b) other benefit, and is required to be kept se- and (c), other committees with jurisdiction **** cret in order to prevent undue injury to the over the department or agency of the Execu- SEC. 301(b) INTELLIGENCE.—The Select competitive position of such person; or tive Branch which contain a position re- Committee on Intelligence shall be treated (6) may divulge matters required to be ferred to in paragraph (1) may hold hearings as a committee listed under paragraph 2 of kept confidential under other provisions of and interviews with individuals nominated rule XXV of the Standing Rules of the Sen- law or Government regulations. for such position, but only the Select Com- ate for purposes of the Standing Rules of the ENDNOTES mittee shall report such nomination. Senate. 1 ‘‘(3) In this subsection, the term ‘intel- As amended by S. Res. 4, 95th Cong., 1st TITLE IV—INTELLIGENCE-RELATED ligence community’ means an element of the Sess. (1977), S. Res. 445, 108th Cong., 2d Sess. SUBCOMMITTEES intelligence community specified in or des- (2004), Pub. L. No. 109–177, § 506, 120 Stat. 247 (2005), and S. Res. 50, 110th Cong., 1st Sess. ignated under section 3(4) of the National Se- SEC. 401. SUBCOMMITTEE RELATED TO INTEL- (2007), S. Res. 470, 113th Cong., 2d Sess. (2014). curity Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4)). LIGENCE OVERSIGHT. ‘‘(b)(1) With respect to the confirmation of (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established f the Assistant Attorney General for National in the Select Committee on Intelligence a ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS Security, or any successor position, the nom- Subcommittee on Oversight which shall be ination of any individual by the President to in addition to any other subcommittee es- serve in such position shall be referred to the tablished by the select Committee. Committee on the Judiciary and, if and when 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF VFW POST (b) RESPONSIBILITY.—The Subcommittee on 1322 reported, to the Select Committee for not to Oversight shall be responsible for ongoing exceed 20 calendar days, except that in cases oversight of intelligence activities. ∑ Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. President, I wish when the 20-day period expires while the SEC. 402. SUBCOMMITTEE RELATED TO INTEL- to honor the oldest Veterans of Foreign Senate is in recess, the Select Committee LIGENCE APPROPRIATIONS. shall have 5 additional calendar days after War post in Arkansas. VFW Post No. the Senate reconvenes to report the nomina- (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established 1322 in Van Buren, AR is celebrating its tion. in the Committee on Appropriations a Sub- 90th anniversary. ‘‘(2) If, upon the expiration of the period committee on Intelligence. The Committee Founded February 13, 1925, the post described in paragraph (1), the Select Com- on Appropriations shall reorganize into 13 was named in honor of Robert W. mittee has not reported the nomination, subcommittees as soon as possible after the convening of the 109th Congress. Jack—the first casualty of World War I such nomination shall be automatically dis- from Crawford County. Robert Jack charged from the Select Committee and (b) JURISDICTION.—The Subcommittee on placed on the Executive Calendar. Intelligence of the Committee on Appropria- was 23-years-old when he was killed by ‘‘(c)(1) With respect to the confirmation of tions shall have jurisdiction over funding for shrapnel on September 22, 1918, in the appointment to the position of Director of intelligence matters, as determined by the fourth day of the famous allied drive of the National Security Agency, Inspector Senate Committee on Appropriations. St. Mihiel.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:57 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00031 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A25FE6.034 S25FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S1116 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 25, 2015 As a member on the Committee on MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT MEASURES REFERRED Veterans’ Affairs, I understand the im- Messages from the President of the The following bill was read the first portance of acknowledging the bravery United States were communicated to and the second times by unanimous and valor of the young men and women the Senate by Mr. Pate, one of his sec- consent, and referred as indicated: who fought in defense of our country. retaries. H.R. 734. An act to amend the Communica- Men like Robert Jack, and members of f tions Act of 1934 to consolidate the reporting VFW Post 1322, set their personal lives obligations of the Federal Communications aside to fight for our country. This EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED Commission in order to improve congres- post recognizes their service, sacrifice sional oversight and reduce reporting bur- and courage. As in executive session the Presiding dens; to the Committee on Commerce, Members are dedicated to improving Officer laid before the Senate messages Science, and Transportation. the community and the lives of its from the President of the United f members; offering scholarships to stu- States submitting sundry nominations which were referred to the appropriate EXECUTIVE AND OTHER dents, teaching flag etiquette to class- COMMUNICATIONS es, providing local transportation for committees. veterans and hosting community (The messages received today are The following communications were events. printed at the end of the Senate pro- laid before the Senate, together with As the Robert Jack VFW Post 1322 ceedings.) accompanying papers, reports, and doc- proudly celebrates its 90th anniversary, f uments, and were referred as indicated: the building is also celebrating the 65th EC–675. A communication from the Assist- REPORT ON THE CONTINUATION anniversary of its groundbreaking. In ant Secretary, Bureau of Political-Military OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY recent years, the building was in des- Affairs, Department of State, transmitting, WITH RESPECT TO CUBA AND OF pursuant to law, an addendum to a certifi- perate need of maintenance. Members THE EMERGENCY AUTHORITY cation of the proposed sale or export of de- banded together and worked with local RELATING TO THE REGULATION fense articles and/or defense services to a organizations and businesses to provide OF THE ANCHORAGE AND MOVE- Middle East country (OSS–2015–0171); to the funds for extensive repairs. This is a Committee on Foreign Relations. MENT OF VESSELS, AS AMEND- true testament to the importance of EC–676. A communication from the Assist- ED—PM 7 Post 1322 in the community. ant Secretary, Bureau of Political-Military I congratulate VFW Post 1322 on its The PRESIDING OFFICER laid be- Affairs, Department of State, transmitting, 90th anniversary. I wish members the fore the Senate the following message pursuant to law, an addendum to a certifi- from the President of the United cation of the proposed sale or export of de- best of luck and many more years of fense articles and/or defense services to a camaraderie, service and investment in States, together with an accompanying Middle East country (OSS–2015–0173); to the the community.∑ report; which was referred to the Com- Committee on Foreign Relations. mittee on Banking, Housing, and EC–677. A communication from the Assist- f Urban Affairs: ant Secretary, Legislative Affairs, Depart- REMEMBERING JAMES KOLLER ment of State, transmitting, pursuant to To the Congress of the United States: law, a report relative to the Department’s ∑ Mr. CASEY. Mr. President, I wish to Section 202(d) of the National Emer- Alternative Fuel Vehicle (AFV) program for remember Mr. James Koller, a devoted gencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) provides fiscal year 2014; to the Committee on Foreign father, husband and Pennsylvania lead- for the automatic termination of a na- Relations. er. Jim passed away on February 3, tional emergency unless, within 90 EC–678. A communication from the Assist- 2015, after a 6-year battle with ALS. days prior to the anniversary date of ant Legal Adviser for Treaty Affairs, Depart- ment of State, transmitting, pursuant to the Jim’s life was defined by his many its declaration, the President publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to Case-Zablocki Act, 1 U.S.C. 112b, as amended, passions. A successful lawyer and busi- the report of the texts and background state- nessman, he was also deeply engaged the Congress a notice stating that the ments of international agreements, other with his community. A graduate of emergency is to continue in effect be- than treaties (List 2015–0011 - 2015–0017); to Marquette University and the Dickin- yond the anniversary date. In accord- the Committee on Foreign Relations. son School of Law, he practiced real es- ance with this provision, I have sent EC–679. A communication from the Direc- tate law in Philadelphia before co- the enclosed notice to the Federal Reg- tor of Defense Procurement and Acquisition founding Vesterra Corporation, a com- ister for publication, stating that the Policy, Department of Defense, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- mercial real estate development com- national emergency declared on March 1, 1996, with respect to the Government titled ‘‘Defense Federal Acquisition Regula- pany through which Jim built many tion Supplement: Domestic Source Restric- strong community relationships. of Cuba’s destruction of two unarmed tions on Certain Naval Vessel Components’’ Alongside his professional success, Jim U.S.-registered civilian aircraft in ((RIN0750–AI36) (DFARS Case 2014–D022)) re- maintained an active role in his church international airspace north of Cuba on ceived in the Office of the President of the and enjoyed an active lifestyle. February 24, 1996, as amended and ex- Senate on February 23, 2015; to the Com- Jim’s diagnosis with ALS 6 years ago panded on February 26, 2004, is to con- mittee on Armed Services. did not slow him down; rather, it tinue in effect beyond March 1, 2015. EC–680. A communication from the Direc- tor of Defense Procurement and Acquisition pushed him to do even more to combat BARACK OBAMA. THE WHITE HOUSE, February 25, 2015. Policy, Department of Defense, transmit- the disease. Along with his family and ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- friends, he started Team Koller, a fund- f titled ‘‘Defense Federal Acquisition Regula- raising group that participated in local tion Supplement: Deletion of Obsolete Text MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE ALS awareness events and raised tens Relating to Acquisition of Commercial of thousands of dollars for research and At 12:23 p.m., a message from the Items’’ ((RIN0750–AI50) (DFARS Case 2014– treatment. Even at the most difficult House of Representatives, delivered by D002)) received in the Office of the President times, Jim stayed focused on solutions, Mr. Novotny, one of its reading clerks, of the Senate on February 23, 2015; to the announced that the House has passed Committee on Armed Services. seeking answers and help for those af- EC–681. A communication from the Under flicted by ALS. the following bills, in which it requests Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readi- Although we mourn Jim’s passing, the concurrence of the Senate: ness), transmitting a report on the approved his selfless and passionate efforts give H.R. 212. An act to amend the Safe Drink- retirement of Lieutenant General Raymond me hope that we may soon find a cure ing Water Act to provide for the assessment P. Palumbo, United States Army, and his ad- for this menacing disease. May we con- and management of the risk of algal toxins vancement to the grade of lieutenant general tinue to live and fight as James Koller in drinking water, and for other purposes. on the retired list; to the Committee on did, with courage and fortitude. My H.R. 734. An act to amend the Communica- Armed Services. tions Act of 1934 to consolidate the reporting EC–682. A communication from the Presi- thoughts and prayers are with Jim’s obligations of the Federal Communications dent of the United States, transmitting, pur- wife Marianne, his sons, James and Commission in order to improve congres- suant to law, a report relative to the con- Kevin, and the rest of his family in this sional oversight and reduce reporting bur- tinuation of the national emergency with re- difficult time.∑ dens. spect to Libya declared in Executive Order

VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:57 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00032 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G25FE6.031 S25FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE February 25, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1117 13566; to the Committee on Banking, Hous- retary, Department of Health and Human ties for 2014; to the Committee on Homeland ing, and Urban Affairs. Services, transmitting, pursuant to law, a Security and Governmental Affairs. EC–683. A communication from the Acting report relative to a vacancy in the position EC–704. A communication from the Dis- Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, De- of Assistant Secretary for Children and Fam- trict of Columbia Auditor, transmitting, pur- partment of Commerce, transmitting, pursu- ilies (Family Support), Department of suant to law, a report entitled ‘‘The District ant to law, the report of a rule entitled Health and Human Services, received in the of Columbia Board of Elections Election Day ‘‘Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Office of the President of the Senate on Feb- Preparation and Administration Can Be Im- Off Alaska; Reallocation of Pollock in the ruary 23, 2015; to the Committee on Health, proved’’; to the Committee on Homeland Se- Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands’’ (RIN0648– Education, Labor, and Pensions. curity and Governmental Affairs. XD728) received in the Office of the President EC–694. A communication from the Assist- EC–705. A communication from the Dis- of the Senate on February 23, 2015; to the ant Secretary for Legislation, Department of trict of Columbia Auditor, transmitting, pur- Committee on Commerce, Science, and Health and Human Services, transmitting, suant to law, a report entitled ‘‘ANC 8E Did Transportation. pursuant to law, a report entitled ‘‘Fiscal Not Properly Support all Reported Expendi- EC–684. A communication from the Chief of Year 2013 Report to Congress: Older Ameri- tures’’; to the Committee on Homeland Secu- Staff, Media Bureau, Federal Communica- cans Act’’; to the Committee on Health, Edu- rity and Governmental Affairs. tions Commission, transmitting, pursuant to cation, Labor, and Pensions. EC–706. A communication from the Acting law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Amend- EC–695. A communication from the Direc- Director of Regulation Policy and Manage- ment of Section 73.622(i), Post-Transition tor of Congressional Affairs, Nuclear Regu- ment, Veterans Benefits Administration, De- Table of DTV Allotments, Television Broad- latory Commission, transmitting, pursuant partment of Veterans Affairs, transmitting, cast Stations. (Longview, Texas)’’ ((MB to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Generic pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled Docket No. 14–245) (DA 15–150)) received dur- Issues Program’’ (Management Directive 6.4) ‘‘Automobile or Other Conveyance and ing adjournment of the Senate in the Office received in the Office of the President of the Adaptive Equipment Certificate of Eligi- of the President of the Senate on February Senate on February 11, 2015; to the Com- bility for Veterans or Members of the Armed 13, 2015; to the Committee on Commerce, mittee on Environment and Public Works. Forces with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis’’ Science, and Transportation. EC–696. A communication from the Chief of (RIN2900–AP26) received in the Office of the EC–685. A communication from the Attor- the Trade and Commercial Regulations ney-Advisor, Department of Transportation, President of the Senate on February 23, 2015; Branch, Customs and Border Protection, De- to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of partment of Homeland Security, transmit- a vacancy in the position of Assistant Sec- EC–707. A communication from the Acting ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- Director of Regulation Policy and Manage- retary for Transportation Policy, Office of titled ‘‘Documentation Related to Goods Im- the Secretary, Department of Transpor- ment, Veterans Health Administration, De- ported from U.S. Insular Possessions’’ partment of Veterans Affairs, transmitting, tation, received in the Office of the Presi- (RIN1515–AD97) received in the Office of the dent of the Senate on February 12, 2015; to pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled President of the Senate on February 12, 2015; the Committee on Commerce, Science, and ‘‘Supportive Services for Veterans Families to the Committee on Finance. Program’’ (RIN2900–AO50) received in the Of- Transportation. EC–697. A communication from the Assist- EC–686. A communication from the Chair- fice of the President of the Senate on Feb- ant Secretary for Legislation, Department of man of the Federal Energy Regulatory Com- ruary 23, 2015; to the Committee on Veterans’ Health and Human Services, transmitting, mission, transmitting, pursuant to law, a re- Affairs. pursuant to law, a report entitled ‘‘Report to port relative to the progress made in licens- Congress on the Administration, Cost and f ing and constructing the Alaska Natural Gas Impact of the Quality Improvement Organi- Pipeline; to the Committee on Energy and PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS Natural Resources. zation (QIO) Program for Medicare Bene- ficiaries for Fiscal Year 2011’’; to the Com- The following petitions and memo- EC–687. A communication from the Assist- rials were laid before the Senate and ant Secretary for Insular Affairs, Depart- mittee on Finance. ment of the Interior, transmitting, pursuant EC–698. A communication from the Direc- were referred or ordered to lie on the to law, reports entitled ‘‘Report to the Con- tor, Mississippi River Commission, Depart- table as indicated: gress: 2014 Compact Analysis’’ and ‘‘Impact ment of the Army, transmitting, pursuant to POM–5. A resolution adopted by the City of the Compacts of Free Association on law, the Commission’s Annual Report for Council of Clarksville, Tennessee expressing Guam: Fiscal Year 2004 through Fiscal Year calendar year 2014; to the Committee on support for the maintenance of current troop 2013’’ ; to the Committee on Energy and Nat- Homeland Security and Governmental Af- levels at Fort Campbell and urging Congress ural Resources. fairs. to oppose any reductions; to the Committee EC–699. A communication from the Chair- EC–688. A communication from the Sec- on Armed Services. retary of the Interior, transmitting, pursu- man, Merit Systems Protection Board, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report enti- ant to law, a report relative to the North POM–6. A resolution adopted by the Mayor tled ‘‘The Impact of Recruitment Strategy Slope Science Initiative; to the Committee and City Council of the City of Minneapolis, on Fair and Open Competition for Federal on Energy and Natural Resources. Minnesota, expressing strong support for the Jobs’’; to the Committee on Homeland Secu- EC–689. A communication from the Deputy Executive Order issued on November 20, 2014, rity and Governmental Affairs. Secretary of the Interior, transmitting the by the President of the United States, on the report of proposed legislation entitled ‘‘Bu- EC–700. A communication from the Direc- tor of Public Affairs, Federal Mediation and issue of immigration and immediate protec- reau of Land Management Foundation tions for long-term, law-abiding residents Act’’; to the Committee on Energy and Nat- Conciliation Service, transmitting, pursuant to law, the Service’s fiscal year 2014 annual who are parents of United States citizens; to ural Resources. the Committee on the Judiciary. EC–690. A communication from the Sec- report relative to the Notification and Fed- retary of Health and Human Services, trans- eral Employee Antidiscrimination and Re- f mitting, pursuant to law, a report entitled taliation (No FEAR) Act of 2002; to the Com- INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND ‘‘Annual Report to Congress on the Use of mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- Mandatory Recall Authority Submitted Pur- mental Affairs. JOINT RESOLUTIONS suant to Section 206 of the FDA Food Safety EC–701. A communication from the Direc- The following bills and joint resolu- Modernization Act, Public Law 111–353’’; to tor, Office of Management, Department of tions were introduced, read the first the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, Energy, transmitting, pursuant to law, a re- and second times by unanimous con- and Pensions. port relative to the Department’s 2012 list of EC–691. A communication from the Assist- Government activities determined to be in- sent, and referred as indicated: ant Secretary for Legislation, Department of herently governmental and those to be not By Mr. RUBIO (for himself, Mrs. SHA- Health and Human Services, transmitting, inherently governmental in nature; to the HEEN, Mr. NELSON, Mr. COATS, Mr. pursuant to law, a report entitled ‘‘Imple- Committee on Homeland Security and Gov- MCCAIN, Mr. FLAKE, Mr. DONNELLY, mentation of Section 3507 of the Patient Pro- ernmental Affairs. Mr. CRUZ, and Ms. AYOTTE): tection and Affordable Care Act of 2010: EC–702. A communication from the Chair- S. 555. A bill to require the Secretary of Final Report’’; to the Committee on Health, man of the Administrative Conference of the State to offer rewards for information on the Education, Labor, and Pensions. United States, transmitting, a report of kidnapping and murder of James Foley, EC–692. A communication from the Assist- three recommendations adopted by the Ad- Peter Kassig, Steven Sotloff, Kayla Mueller, ant Secretary for Legislation, Department of ministrative Conference of the United States or any other United States citizen by a for- Health and Human Services, transmitting, at its 61st Plenary Session; to the Com- eign terrorist organization; to the Com- pursuant to law, the Performance Report of mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- mittee on Foreign Relations. the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of mental Affairs. By Ms. MURKOWSKI: Combination Products for fiscal year 2013; to EC–703. A communication from the Execu- S. 556. A bill to protect and enhance oppor- the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, tive Director, Consumer Product Safety tunities for recreational hunting, fishing, and Pensions. Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, and shooting, and for other purposes; to the EC–693. A communication from the Execu- a report relative to the Commission’s com- Committee on Energy and Natural Re- tive Analyst (Political), Office of the Sec- mercial and inherently governmental activi- sources.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:02 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00033 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A25FE6.022 S25FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S1118 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE February 25, 2015 By Mr. FRANKEN: state, notwithstanding a patchwork of local S. Res. 85. A resolution honoring the life S. 557. A bill to promote Advanced Place- and State prohibitions; to the Committee on and legacy of Georgia Jones-Ayers; to the ment and International Baccalaureate pro- Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Committee on the Judiciary. grams; to the Committee on Health, Edu- By Mr. BROWN (for himself, Mr. By Ms. COLLINS (for herself, Mr. WAR- cation, Labor, and Pensions. CASEY, Mr. SCHUMER, Ms. STABENOW, NER, Mr. MCCAIN, Mr. MURPHY, Mr. By Mr. CARPER (for himself, Mr. Ms. CANTWELL, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. KIRK, Mr. KING, and Mr. PETERS): JOHNSON, and Ms. AYOTTE): CARDIN, Mr. BENNET, Mr. WARNER, S. Res. 86. A resolution recognizing March S. 558. A bill to amend title 44, United Mr. DURBIN, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. REED, 3, 2015, as the centennial of the Navy Re- States Code, to require information on con- Mrs. GILLIBRAND, Ms. WARREN, Mr. serve; considered and agreed to. tributors to Presidential library fundraising MARKEY, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. SANDERS, By Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself, Mr. organizations, and for other purposes; to the and Ms. KLOBUCHAR): KIRK, Mr. REID, Mr. RUBIO, Mr. DUR- Committee on Homeland Security and Gov- S. 568. A bill to extend the trade adjust- BIN, Mr. WICKER, Mr. SCHUMER, Mr. ernmental Affairs. ment assistance program, and for other pur- ROUNDS, Ms. MIKULSKI, Mr. TOOMEY, By Mr. BURR (for himself, Mr. GRASS- poses; to the Committee on Finance. Mr. COONS, Ms. AYOTTE, Mr. LEY, Mr. ISAKSON, Mr. TILLIS, Mr. By Mr. LEAHY (for himself and Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. COATS, Mrs. GILLI- COTTON, Mr. HATCH, Mr. ALEXANDER, COCHRAN): BRAND, Mr. GRAHAM, Mr. KAINE, Mr. Mr. ROBERTS, Mrs. FISCHER, Mr. S. 569. A bill to reauthorize the farm to BLUNT, Mrs. BOXER, Mr. BOOZMAN, FLAKE, Mr. SCOTT, Mr. CASSIDY, Mr. school program, and for other purposes; to Mr. KING, Mr. HELLER, Mr. CARDIN, PORTMAN, Mr. CORNYN, Mr. RUBIO, the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, Mr. GARDNER, Ms. WARREN, Mr. COT- Mr. ENZI, and Ms. MURKOWSKI): and Forestry. TON, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mr. MCCAIN, S. 559. A bill to prohibit the Secretary of By Mr. SANDERS (for himself, Mr. Mrs. SHAHEEN, Mr. GRASSLEY, Mr. Education from engaging in regulatory over- SCHATZ, Mr. BROWN, and Mr. CARDIN): MARKEY, Mr. CRUZ, Mr. WYDEN, Mr. reach with regard to institutional eligibility S. 570. A bill to improve access to oral MORAN, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. HATCH, under title IV of the Higher Education Act of health care for vulnerable and underserved Mrs. MCCASKILL, Ms. MURKOWSKI, Mr. 1965, and for other purposes; to the Com- populations; to the Committee on Health, FRANKEN, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. LEAHY, mittee on Health, Education, Labor, and Education, Labor, and Pensions. Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mr. BOOKER, Mr. Pensions. By Mr. INHOFE (for himself, Mr. PETERS, Ms. CANTWELL, Ms. STABE- By Mr. HATCH (for himself and Mr. MANCHIN, Mr. BOOZMAN, Mrs. SHA- NOW, Mr. SCHATZ, Mr. BROWN, Mr. WHITEHOUSE): S. 560. A bill to amend title 35, United HEEN, Mr. DAINES, Mr. CASEY, Mr. NELSON, Mr. WARNER, Mr. BENNET, States Code, to provide for an exception from WICKER, Ms. HEITKAMP, Mr. MORAN, Mr. MERKLEY, Mr. CASEY, Mr. MUR- infringement for certain component parts of Mr. TESTER, Mr. ROBERTS, Mr. BAR- PHY, Mr. PORTMAN, and Mr. SCOTT): motor vehicles; to the Committee on the Ju- RASSO, and Mr. KING): S. Res. 87. A resolution to express the sense diciary. S. 571. A bill to amend the Pilot’s Bill of of the Senate regarding the rise of anti-Sem- By Mr. CRAPO (for himself and Mr. Rights to facilitate appeals and to apply to itism in Europe and to encourage greater co- RISCH): other certificates issued by the Federal Avia- operation with the European governments, S. 561. A bill to amend the Marine Mammal tion Administration, to require the revision the European Union, and the Organization Protection Act of 1972 to allow the importa- of the third class medical certification regu- for Security and Co-operation in Europe in tion of polar bear trophies taken in sport lations issued by the Federal Aviation Ad- preventing and responding to anti-Semitism; hunts in Canada before the date on which the ministration, and for other purposes; to the to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Committee on Commerce, Science, and polar bear was determined to be a threatened f species under the Endangered Species Act of Transportation. 1973; to the Committee on Commerce, By Mr. KIRK: ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS Science, and Transportation. S. 572. A bill to amend title 18, United S. 11 By Mr. HELLER (for himself and Mr. States Code, to provide a penalty for know- RISCH): ingly selling advertising that offers certain At the request of Mr. BLUNT, the S. 562. A bill to promote exploration for commercial sex acts; to the Committee on name of the Senator from Arkansas geothermal resources, and for other pur- the Judiciary. (Mr. COTTON) was added as a cosponsor poses; to the Committee on Energy and Nat- By Mr. BOOZMAN (for himself, Mr. of S. 11, a bill to protect the separation ural Resources. DONNELLY, Mr. ROBERTS, Ms. AYOTTE, of powers in the Constitution of the By Mr. MORAN (for himself and Mr. Mr. MORAN, and Mr. INHOFE): United States by ensuring that the TESTER): S. 573. A bill to direct the Administrator of S. 563. A bill to amend title 38, United the Federal Aviation Administration to issue President takes care that the laws be States Code, to establish the Physician Am- or revise regulations with respect to the faithfully executed, and for other pur- bassadors Helping Veterans program to seek medical certification of certain small air- poses. to employ physicians at the Department of craft pilots, and for other purposes; to the S. 117 Veterans Affairs on a without compensation Committee on Commerce, Science, and At the request of Mr. HELLER, the basis in practice areas and specialties with Transportation. name of the Senator from Arkansas staffing shortages and long appointment By Mr. SCOTT (for himself and Mr. OTTON waiting times; to the Committee on Vet- BOOKER): (Mr. C ) was added as a cosponsor erans’ Affairs. S. 574. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- of S. 117, a bill to recognize Jerusalem By Mr. MORAN (for himself and Mr. enue Code of 1986 allow employers a credit as the capital of Israel, to relocate to TESTER): against income tax for employees who par- Jerusalem the United States Embassy S. 564. A bill to amend title 38, United ticipate in qualified apprenticeship pro- in Israel, and for other purposes. States Code, to include licensed hearing aid grams; to the Committee on Finance. S. 139 specialists as eligible for appointment in the By Mr. KIRK (for himself and Mr. YDEN Veterans Health Administration of the De- BLUMENTHAL): At the request of Mr. W , the partment of Veterans Affairs, and for other S. 575. A bill to continue operation of the name of the Senator from Delaware purposes; to the Committee on Veterans’ Af- Human Exploitation Rescue Operative (Mr. COONS) was added as a cosponsor fairs. (HERO) Child Rescue Corps, a Cyber Crimes of S. 139, a bill to permanently allow an By Mr. PETERS (for himself and Mr. Center, a Child Exploitation Investigations exclusion under the Supplemental Se- LANKFORD): Unit, a Computer Forensics Unit, and a S. 565. A bill to reduce the operation and curity Income program and the Med- Cyber Crimes Unit to support the mission of maintenance costs associated with the Fed- icaid program for compensation pro- the Homeland Security Investigations direc- eral fleet by encouraging the use of remanu- vided to individuals who participate in torate of United States Immigration and factured parts, and for other purposes; to the Customs Enforcement to combat the exploi- clinical trials for rare diseases or con- Committee on Homeland Security and Gov- tation of children; to the Committee on the ditions. ernmental Affairs. Judiciary. S. 144 By Mr. PORTMAN (for himself, Mr. BURR, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, and Mr. f At the request of Mr. CRAPO, the UDALL): name of the Senator from Arkansas S. 566. A bill to reauthorize the Tropical SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND (Mr. COTTON) was added as a cosponsor Forest Conservation Act of 1998 through fis- SENATE RESOLUTIONS of S. 144, a bill to prohibit the Federal cal year 2018, and for other purposes; to the The following concurrent resolutions Government from mandating, Committee on Foreign Relations. and Senate resolutions were read, and incentivizing, or making financial sup- By Mr. ENZI (for himself and Mr. WYDEN): referred (or acted upon), as indicated: port conditioned upon a State, local S. 567. A bill to protect the right of law- By Mr. RUBIO (for himself and Mr. educational agency, or school’s adop- abiding citizens to transport knives inter- NELSON): tion of specific instructional content,

VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:57 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00034 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A25FE6.017 S25FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE February 25, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1119 academic standards, or curriculum, or shall have no force or effect unless a S. 308 on the administration of assessments joint resolution of approval is enacted At the request of Mrs. BOXER, the or tests, and for other purposes. into law. name of the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. S. 148 S. 239 SCHATZ) was added as a cosponsor of S. At the request of Mr. PORTMAN, the At the request of Mr. ENZI, the name 308, a bill to reauthorize 21st century name of the Senator from Iowa (Mr. of the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. community learning centers, and for GRASSLEY) was added as a cosponsor of KLOBUCHAR) was added as a cosponsor other purposes. S. 148, a bill to amend title XVIII of the of S. 239, a bill to amend title 49, S. 313 Social Security Act to require State li- United States Code, with respect to ap- At the request of Mr. GRASSLEY, the censure and bid surety bonds for enti- portionments under the Airport Im- name of the Senator from Delaware ties submitting bids under the Medi- provement Program, and for other pur- (Mr. COONS) was added as a cosponsor care durable medical equipment, pros- poses. of S. 313, a bill to amend title XVIII of thetics, orthotics, and supplies S. 246 the Social Security Act to add physical (DMEPOS) competitive acquisition At the request of Ms. HEITKAMP, the therapists to the list of providers al- program, and for other purposes. name of the Senator from Oklahoma lowed to utilize locum tenens arrange- S. 153 (Mr. INHOFE) was added as a cosponsor ments under Medicare. At the request of Mr. HATCH, the of S. 246, a bill to establish the Alyce S. 318 names of the Senator from Arizona Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Com- At the request of Ms. MIKULSKI, the (Mr. MCCAIN) and the Senator from mission on Native Children, and for name of the Senator from Wisconsin New Hampshire (Ms. AYOTTE) were other purposes. (Ms. BALDWIN) was added as a cospon- added as cosponsors of S. 153, a bill to S. 253 sor of S. 318, a bill to prioritize funding for the National Institutes of Health to amend the Immigration and Nation- At the request of Mr. HELLER, the ality Act to authorize additional visas name of the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. discover treatments and cures, to maintain global leadership in medical for well-educated aliens to live and SCHATZ) was added as a cosponsor of S. work in the United States, and for 253, a bill to amend the Communica- innovation, and to restore the pur- other purposes. tions Act of 1934 to consolidate the re- chasing power the NIH had after the historic doubling campaign that ended S. 166 porting obligations of the Federal in fiscal year 2003. At the request of Ms. KLOBUCHAR, the Communications Commission in order names of the Senator from Wisconsin to improve congressional oversight and S. 332 (Ms. BALDWIN) and the Senator from reduce reporting burdens. At the request of Mr. GRASSLEY, the name of the Senator from Connecticut California (Mrs. FEINSTEIN) were added S. 262 (Mr. MURPHY) was added as a cosponsor as cosponsors of S. 166, a bill to stop At the request of Mr. LEAHY, the of S. 332, a bill to amend title XVIII of exploitation through trafficking. name of the Senator from Connecticut the Social Security Act to make per- S. 170 (Mr. BLUMENTHAL) was added as a co- manent the extension of the Medicare- sponsor of S. 262, a bill to reauthorize At the request of Mr. TESTER, the dependent hospital (MDH) program and the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, name of the Senator from Colorado the increased payments under the and for other purposes. (Mr. BENNET) was added as a cosponsor Medicare low-volume hospital proof S. 170, a bill to amend title 38, S. 269 gram. United States Code, to increase the At the request of Mr. KIRK, the name S. 335 maximum age for children eligible for of the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. At the request of Mr. GRASSLEY, the medical care under the CHAMPVA pro- ENZI) was added as a cosponsor of S. name of the Senator from Kentucky gram, and for other purposes. 269, a bill to expand sanctions imposed (Mr. MCCONNELL) was added as a co- S. 185 with respect to Iran and to impose ad- sponsor of S. 335, a bill to amend the At the request of Mr. HATCH, the ditional sanctions with respect to Iran, Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to im- name of the Senator from Georgia (Mr. and for other purposes. prove 529 plans. ISAKSON) was added as a cosponsor of S. S. 275 S. 356 185, a bill to create a limited popu- SAKSON At the request of Mr. I , the At the request of Mr. LEE, the name lation pathway for approval of certain name of the Senator from Oklahoma of the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. antibacterial drugs. ANKFORD (Mr. L ) was added as a cospon- HEINRICH) was added as a cosponsor of S. 200 sor of S. 275, a bill to amend title XVIII S. 356, a bill to improve the provisions At the request of Mr. PORTMAN, the of the Social Security Act to provide relating to the privacy of electronic name of the Senator from Arkansas for the coverage of home as a site of communications. care for infusion therapy under the (Mr. COTTON) was added as a cosponsor S. 371 Medicare program. of S. 200, a bill to amend the Congres- At the request of Ms. MURKOWSKI, the sional Budget Act of 1974 to provide for S. 284 names of the Senator from New Hamp- macroeconomic analysis of the impact At the request of Mr. CARDIN, the shire (Mrs. SHAHEEN) and the Senator of major revenue legislation. name of the Senator from Texas (Mr. from Massachusetts (Mr. MARKEY) were S. 223 CRUZ) was added as a cosponsor of S. added as cosponsors of S. 371, a bill to At the request of Mrs. BOXER, the 284, a bill to impose sanctions with re- remove a limitation on a prohibition name of the Senator from Texas (Mr. spect to foreign persons responsible for relating to permits for discharges inci- CORNYN) was added as a cosponsor of S. gross violations of internationally rec- dental to normal operation of vessels. ognized human rights, and for other 223, a bill to require the Secretary of S. 373 purposes. Veterans Affairs to establish a pilot At the request of Mr. RUBIO, the program on awarding grants for provi- S. 289 names of the Senator from Mississippi sion of furniture, household items, and At the request of Mr. DURBIN, the (Mr. WICKER), the Senator from Mis- other assistance to homeless veterans name of the Senator from Wisconsin souri (Mrs. MCCASKILL), the Senator to facilitate their transition into per- (Ms. BALDWIN) was added as a cospon- from New Hampshire (Mrs. SHAHEEN) manent housing, and for other pur- sor of S. 289, a bill to prioritize funding and the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. poses. for an expanded and sustained national SCHATZ) were added as cosponsors of S. S. 226 investment in biomedical research. 373, a bill to provide for the establish- At the request of Mr. PAUL, the name S. 299 ment of nationally uniform and envi- of the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. COT- At the request of Mr. FLAKE, the ronmentally sound standards gov- TON) was added as a cosponsor of S. 226, name of the Senator from Kentucky erning discharges incidental to the nor- a bill to amend chapter 8 of title 5, (Mr. PAUL) was added as a cosponsor of mal operation of a vessel. United States Code, to provide that S. 299, a bill to allow travel between At the request of Mr. THUNE, the major rules of the executive branch the United States and Cuba. name of the Senator from Alaska (Mr.

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S. 489 name of the Senator from Georgia (Mr. 394, a bill to amend the Internal Rev- At the request of Mr. THUNE, the ISAKSON) was added as a cosponsor of S. enue Code of 1986 to permanently ex- names of the Senator from Maine (Mr. 553, a bill to marshal resources to un- tend the 15-year recovery period for KING) and the Senator from Georgia dertake a concerted, transformative ef- qualified leasehold improvement prop- (Mr. ISAKSON) were added as cosponsors fort that seeks to bring an end to mod- erty, qualified restaurant property, and of S. 489, a bill to amend the Tariff Act ern slavery, and for other purposes. qualified retail improvement property. of 1930 to increase the maximum value S. CON. RES. 4 S. 399 of articles that may be imported duty- At the request of Mr. BARRASSO, the At the request of Mrs. FISCHER, the free by one person on one day. names of the Senator from Wyoming name of the Senator from Arkansas S. 498 (Mr. ENZI), the Senator from New Mex- (Mr. COTTON) was added as a cosponsor At the request of Mr. CORNYN, the ico (Mr. UDALL) and the Senator from of S. 399, a bill to amend the Balanced name of the Senator from West Vir- Arkansas (Mr. COTTON) were added as Budget and Emergency Deficit Control ginia (Mrs. CAPITO) was added as a co- cosponsors of S. Con. Res. 4, a concur- Act of 1985 to increase transparency in sponsor of S. 498, a bill to allow reci- rent resolution supporting the Local Federal budgeting, and for other pur- procity for the carrying of certain con- Radio Freedom Act. poses. cealed firearms. f S. 403 S. 505 At the request of Ms. KLOBUCHAR, the At the request of Mr. PORTMAN, the STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. name of the Senator from Wisconsin BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS BROWN) was added as a cosponsor of S. (Ms. BALDWIN) was added as a cospon- By Mr. LEAHY (for himself and 403, a bill to revise the authorized sor of S. 505, a bill to amend the Inter- Mr. COCHRAN): route of the North Country National nal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the S. 569. A bill to reauthorize the farm Scenic Trail in northeastern Minnesota Health Coverage Tax Credit. to school program, and for other pur- and to extend the trail into Vermont to S. 517 poses; to the Committee on Agri- connect with the Appalachian National At the request of Mr. WYDEN, the culture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Scenic Trail, and for other purposes. name of the Senator from California Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, 5 years S. 409 (Mrs. FEINSTEIN) was added as a co- ago, the President signed into law the At the request of Mr. BURR, the sponsor of S. 517, a bill to extend the Healthy and Hunger-Free Kids Act. names of the Senator from Alabama secure rural schools and community This law has made improvements to (Mr. SESSIONS), the Senator from Ar- self-determination program, to restore our school lunch program by making kansas (Mr. COTTON) and the Senator mandatory funding status to the pay- healthy food choices a reality for stu- from Florida (Mr. NELSON) were added ment in lieu of taxes program, and for dents nationwide. One of the best ways as cosponsors of S. 409, a bill to amend other purposes. to help students make healthy choices the Sex Offender Registration and No- S. 527 is to teach them about their food and how it is grown. That is why I cham- tification Act to require the Secretary At the request of Mr. SESSIONS, the of Defense to inform the Attorney Gen- name of the Senator from Wyoming pioned the inclusion of funding for a farm-to-school grant program, which eral of persons required to register as (Mr. ENZI) was added as a cosponsor of sex offenders. S. 527, a bill to award a Congressional was included in the Healthy and Hun- ger-Free Kids Act. The program has S. 421 Gold Medal to the Foot Soldiers who had tremendous success and interest At the request of Mr. HELLER, the participated in Bloody Sunday, Turn- name of the Senator from Montana around Tuesday, or in the final Selma nationwide, and has awarded grants in 42 States—showing the reach and diver- (Mr. DAINES) was added as a cosponsor to Montgomery Voting Rights March of S. 421, a bill to amend the Commu- in March of 1965, which served as a cat- sity of farm-to-school. In order to im- nications Act of 1934 to provide for alyst for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. prove upon this successful program and expand its reach, I am glad to be joined greater transparency and efficiency in S. 532 today by Senator COCHRAN, and Rep- the procedures followed by the Federal At the request of Mr. BLUMENTHAL, resentatives FUDGE and FORTENBERRY Communications Commission, and for the name of the Senator from Cali- other purposes. in the House, to introduce the Farm to fornia (Mrs. FEINSTEIN) was added as a School Act of 2015. S. 431 cosponsor of S. 532, a bill to improve We all know that hungry children At the request of Mr. THUNE, the highway-rail grade crossing safety, and cannot learn. Studies have shown that names of the Senator from Mississippi for other purposes. healthy nutrition in a young person’s (Mr. COCHRAN) and the Senator from S. 539 diet is crucial to cognitive ability and Arkansas (Mr. COTTON) were added as At the request of Mr. CARDIN, the better health in the long run. With cosponsors of S. 431, a bill to perma- name of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. food insecurity on the rise, more than nently extend the Internet Tax Free- KIRK) was added as a cosponsor of S. 30 percent of all children in the United dom Act. 539, a bill to amend title XVIII of the States struggle with obesity, resulting S. 437 Social Security Act to repeal the Medi- in poor health, and learning and behav- At the request of Ms. MURKOWSKI, the care outpatient rehabilitation therapy ioral difficulties at school. The school name of the Senator from Arizona (Mr. caps. meal program has made tremendous FLAKE) was added as a cosponsor of S. S. 546 strides in recent years to ensure not 437, a bill to provide for congressional At the request of Ms. HEITKAMP, the only that children have access to meals approval of national monuments and name of the Senator from New Jersey throughout the school day, but that restrictions on the use of national (Mr. BOOKER) was added as a cosponsor those meals are nutritious. The Farm monuments, to establish requirements of S. 546, a bill to establish the Rail- to School program has given children for the declaration of marine national road Emergency Services Prepared- and schools across the country the monuments, and for other purposes. ness, Operational Needs, and Safety tools to craft farm-fresh, healthy, and S. 474 Evaluation (RESPONSE) Sub- delicious meals that students enjoy. At the request of Mr. TOOMEY, the committee under the Federal Emer- The Farm to School grant program name of the Senator from Arizona (Mr. gency Management Agency’s National offers support to farmers and local MCCAIN) was added as a cosponsor of S. Advisory Council to provide rec- economies, while teaching kids about 474, a bill to require State educational ommendations on emergency responder nutritious foods and where they come

VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:57 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00036 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A25FE6.020 S25FEPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE February 25, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S1121 from. The program has helped schools SEC. 2. ACCESS TO LOCAL FOODS: FARM TO (F) by inserting after clause (vi) (as so re- across the country meet the new nutri- SCHOOL PROGRAM. designated) the following: Section 18(g) of the Richard B. Russell Na- tion standards by offering children ‘‘(vii) expand the selection of local com- tional School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1769(g)) is modities for eligible schools; and’’; and local, fresh produce that tastes great. amended— (G) by adding at the end the following: Just as importantly, the program has a (1) in paragraph (1)— RIBAL COMMUNITY PROJECTS.—In the strong educational component, making (A) by striking the paragraph designation ‘‘(B) T case of projects serving tribal communities, our school cafeterias an extension of and heading and all that follows through ‘‘In this subsection, the’’ and inserting the fol- the Secretary shall, to the maximum extent the classroom, giving students an op- practicable, give highest priority to projects portunity to learn about nutrition, lowing: ‘‘(1) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: that best use products from tribal agricul- well-balanced meals, and even how to ‘‘(A) AGRICULTURAL PRODUCER.—The term tural producers, as determined by the Sec- grow the food themselves. ‘agricultural producer’ means a farmer, retary.’’; In Vermont, I have seen first-hand rancher, or fisher (including of farm-raised (5) in paragraph (7)— how farm to school efforts have better fish). (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) connected children with the food in ‘‘(B) ELIGIBLE SCHOOL.—The’’; and through (C) as clauses (i) through (iii), re- their cafeteria. Students participate in (B) in subparagraph (B) (as so redesig- spectively, and indenting appropriately; school gardens, sustainability projects, nated), by inserting ‘‘, including the summer (B) by striking the paragraph designation food service program for children under sec- and heading and all that follows through and taste tests for new school menu tion 13 and the early care and afterschool items. The Burlington School Food ‘‘nonprofit entities—’’ and inserting the fol- portions of the child and adult care food pro- lowing: Project created a half-acre Healthy gram under section 17,’’ after ‘‘under this ‘‘(7) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND RE- City Youth Farm, connecting schools Act’’; to the farm by engaging individuals in (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘and non- SEARCH.— ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall pro- local agricultural production. Organi- profit entities through grants and technical assistance’’ and inserting ‘‘land-grant col- vide technical assistance, research, and in- zations in Vermont such as Vermont formation to assist eligible schools, State Food Education Every Day, now the leges and universities, and nonprofit entities through grants, technical assistance, and re- and local agencies, Indian tribal organiza- Northeast regional leader of the Na- search’’; tions, agricultural producers or agricultural tional Farm to School Network; (3) in paragraph (3)— producer groups, and nonprofit entities—’’; Shelburne Farms; and the Northeast (A) in subparagraph (A)— (C) in subparagraph (A) (as so designated)— Organic Farming Association have (i) in clause (i), by inserting ‘‘and technical (i) in clause (ii) (as so redesignated), by been able to expand their programs to assistance’’ after ‘‘training’’; striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; link more farms to the classroom (ii) by redesignating clauses (vi) and (vii) (ii) in clause (iii) (as so redesignated), by throughout Vermont. as clauses (vii) and (viii), respectively; and striking the period at the end and inserting (iii) by inserting after clause (v) the fol- Farm to school is equally crucial to ‘‘; and’’; and lowing: (iii) by adding at the end the following: farmers and ranchers, who currently ‘‘(vi) implementing agricultural literacy ‘‘(iv) to increase awareness of, and partici- receive only 16 cents out of every dol- and nutrition education;’’; and pation in, farm to school programs among lar spent on food. The program opens (B) by striking subparagraph (C) and in- agricultural and aquaculture producers or another market to them to sell their serting the following: ‘‘(C) IMPROVED PROCUREMENT AND DISTRIBU- agricultural producer groups, including be- locally grown and locally harvested ginning, veteran, and socially disadvantaged goods. By incorporating farm fresh TION.— ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—In awarding grants under farmers and ranchers.’’; and products in school meals, children this subsection, the Secretary shall seek to (D) by adding at the end the following: learn the importance of where their improve local food procurement and dis- ‘‘(B) REVIEW.— food comes from. The program links tribution options for agricultural producers ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year the classroom with the farm to engage and eligible schools. after the date of enactment of the Farm to students in the importance of farming ‘‘(ii) AGGREGATION, PROCESSING, TRANSPOR- School Act of 2015 and every 3 years there- and contributing to the local economy. TATION, AND DISTRIBUTION.—In advancing after, the Secretary shall review and submit The Farm to School Act of 2015 would local food procurement options and other to the Committee on Agriculture and the build upon these successes and expand farm to school objectives, the Secretary may Committee on Education and the Workforce the program’s scope by increasing the provide funding for projects that include in- of the House of Representatives and the novative approaches to aggregation, proc- funding for the program to $15 million Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and essing, transportation, and distribution. Forestry of the Senate a report that de- per year. The bill also recognizes the ‘‘(D) AWARDS.— importance of growing the program to scribes the progress that has been made in ‘‘(i) MAXIMUM AMOUNT.—The total amount identifying and eliminating regulatory and provided to a grant recipient under this sub- include preschools, summer food serv- other barriers related to developing farm to section shall not exceed $200,000. ice program sites, and after school pro- school programs. ‘‘(ii) TERM.—The term of an award shall grams. ‘‘(ii) REQUIREMENTS.—In preparing the re- not exceed 3 years. Improving childhood nutrition is a port, the Secretary shall examine— goal we all share. Small changes in eat- ‘‘(iii) PURPOSE AND SCOPE.—In making awards under this subsection, the Secretary ‘‘(I) the direct and indirect regulatory ing habits by children will result in shall seek to make awards of diverse compliance costs affecting the production lifelong health benefits for generations amounts and duration in order to best match and marketing of locally or regionally pro- to come. The Farm to School program the award to the purpose and scope of the duced agricultural food products to school empowers children and their families project to be funded. food programs; and to make healthy choices now and in ‘‘(E) LIMITATION.—The Secretary may not ‘‘(II) barriers to local and regional market the future. As the Senate begins con- award a grant under this subsection if the access for small-scale production.’’; sidering reauthorizing the child nutri- grant funds would be used solely for the pur- (6) in paragraph (8)— tion bill this year, I look forward to in- pose of carrying out a conference.’’; (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking (4) in paragraph (5)— cluding these improvements in the ‘‘$5,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$15,000,000’’; and (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) (B) by adding at the end the following: Farm to School program. through (G) as clauses (i) through (vii), re- ‘‘(C) ADMINISTRATION.—Of the funds pro- Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- spectively, and indenting the clauses appro- vided to the Secretary under subparagraph sent that the text of the bill be printed priately; (A), not more than 5 percent may be used to in the RECORD. (B) in clause (ii) (as so redesignated), by pay administrative costs incurred by the There being no objection, the text of striking ‘‘lunches’’ and inserting ‘‘meals’’; Secretary in carrying out this subsection.’’; (C) in the matter preceding clause (i) (as so the bill was ordered to be printed in and redesignated), by striking ‘‘To the maximum the RECORD, as follows: (7) in paragraph (9), by striking ‘‘2011 extent practicable’’ and inserting the fol- through 2015’’ and inserting ‘‘2016 through S. 569 lowing: 2021’’. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—To the maximum extent resentatives of the United States of America in practicable’’; Congress assembled, (D) in clause (vi) (as so redesignated), by SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Farm to (E) by redesignating clause (vii) (as so re- School Act of 2015’’. designated) as clause (viii);

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RES. 86 SENATE RESOLUTION 87—TO EX- Whereas the roots of patriotic Americans PRESS THE SENSE OF THE SEN- serving in maritime service trace back to ATE REGARDING THE RISE OF SENATE RESOLUTION 85—HON- even before the existence of the Continental ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE AND ORING THE LIFE AND LEGACY Navy, when residents from seaside towns en- TO ENCOURAGE GREATER CO- OF GEORGIA JONES-AYERS gaged in combat with British warships in de- OPERATION WITH THE EURO- fense of their homes; PEAN GOVERNMENTS, THE EU- Mr. RUBIO (for himself and Mr. NEL- Whereas the tradition of maritime service SON) submitted the following resolu- to the country continued through the robust ROPEAN UNION, AND THE ORGA- tion; which was referred to the Com- United States merchant marine, and later NIZATION FOR SECURITY AND mittee on the Judiciary: the formation of State naval militias in the CO-OPERATION IN EUROPE IN S. RES. 85 late 19th century to meet the need for addi- PREVENTING AND RESPONDING Whereas Georgia Jones-Ayers was a life- tional naval support; TO ANTI-SEMITISM; long resident and prominent community Whereas during the Spanish-American Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself, Mr. War, the Navy augmented its force with 4,000 leader in South Florida; KIRK, Mr. REID, Mr. RUBIO, Mr. DURBIN, sailors from the State naval militias; Whereas effective relationships between Mr. WICKER, Mr. SCHUMER, Mr. ROUNDS, Whereas the emergence of the United communities and the police departments Ms. MIKULSKI, Mr. TOOMEY, Mr. COONS, that serve those communities promote more States as a world power in the early 20th Ms. AYOTTE, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. effective policing and further the interests of century required a more robust and multi- justice; layered naval force; COATS, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, Mr. GRAHAM, Whereas Georgia Jones-Ayers worked tire- Whereas the Act of March 3, 1915 (38 Stat. Mr. KAINE, Mr. BLUNT, Mrs. BOXER, Mr. lessly to promote dialogue and foster trust 928, chapter 83), established the Naval Re- BOOZMAN, Mr. KING, Mr. HELLER, Mr. between the police and the community; serve, which became the ‘‘Navy Reserve’’ in CARDIN, Mr. GARDNER, Ms. WARREN, Whereas career criminals prey on their 2006; Mr. COTTON, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mr. communities, destroy lives, and waste their Whereas by the end of World War I, there MCCAIN, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Mr. GRASSLEY, God-given potential; were 290,0000 members of the Naval Reserve, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. CRUZ, Mr. WYDEN, Mr. Whereas the prevention of recidivism, es- more than half of the total manpower of the MORAN, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. HATCH, pecially by first-time offenders, is an impor- Navy, who fought valiantly during the war; tant goal of the criminal justice system, Whereas 84 percent of the sailors serving in Mrs. MCCASKILL, Ms. MURKOWSKI, Mr. civil society, and faith communities; World War II were members of the Naval Re- FRANKEN, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. Whereas Georgia Jones-Ayers founded and serve, a group that included 100,000 women; WHITEHOUSE, Mr. BOOKER, Mr. PETERS, served as Executive Director of Alternative Whereas the more than 2,600,000 enlisted Ms. CANTWELL, Ms. STABENOW, Mr. Programs, Inc., a nonprofit agency com- personnel and 269,000 officers in the Naval SCHATZ, Mr. BROWN, Mr. NELSON, Mr. mitted to preventing first-time offenders Reserve in 1945 served in every theater of WARNER, Mr. BENNET, Mr. MERKLEY, from reoffending; World War II and on every type of vessel and Mr. CASEY, Mr. MURPHY, Mr. PORTMAN, Whereas Alternative Programs, Inc. has aircraft; and Mr. SCOTT) submitted the following helped hundreds of first-time offenders be- Whereas 5 Presidents, John F. Kennedy, come productive members of society; resolution; which was referred to the Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Ger- Committee on Foreign Relations: Whereas Georgia Jones-Ayers retired in ald R. Ford, and George H. W. Bush, served October 2013, after nearly 4 decades leading honorably in the Naval Reserve; S. RES. 87 Alternative Programs; Whereas in United States conflicts and na- Whereas an alarming increase in anti-Se- Whereas Georgia Jones-Ayers engaged in tional emergencies, including the Berlin Cri- mitic attacks and incidents targeting Jewish many other efforts for the betterment of the sis, the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Cri- institutions, places of worship, and individ- community, including cofounding the Daily sis, the Vietnam War, Operation Desert uals continue to take place in Europe and re- Bread Food Bank; Storm, and hurricanes and other natural dis- main a challenge to stability and security; Whereas Georgia Jones-Ayers was honored asters, the Navy Reserve has responded to Whereas on January 9, 2015, 4 members of by numerous organizations in Florida, in- calls promptly and effectively; France’s Jewish community were murdered cluding the Miami Police Department and Whereas following the attack on the Navy in an attack on a kosher supermarket fol- the Florida Commission on Human Rela- destroyer, USS Cole, on October 12, 2000, the lowing the deadly terrorist attack on the tions; Naval Reserve immediately responded with Paris offices of newspaper Charlie Hebdo; Whereas Georgia Jones-Ayers was the lov- coastal warfare security; Whereas, in a 2014 Anti-Defamation League ing mother of 6 children, grandmother of 9 Whereas since the attacks on our home- survey of attitudes towards Jews in more grandchildren, and great-grandmother of 20 land of September 11, 2001, the Navy Reserve than 100 countries around the world— great-grandchildren; and (1) 24 percent of those surveyed in Western has mobilized more than 72,000 members of Whereas Georgia Jones-Ayers passed away Europe expressed anti-Semitic views; on February 17, 2015, at the age of 86: Now, the Navy Reserve worldwide to counter (2) 34 percent of those surveyed in Eastern therefore, be it threats to national security; Europe expressed anti-Semitic views; and Resolved, That the Senate— Whereas the Navy benefits from the mili- (3) a majority of those surveyed worldwide (1) recognizes and honors the life of Geor- tary experience, civilian skills, and diverse either— gia Jones-Ayers; backgrounds of the members of the Navy Re- (A) had not heard of the Holocaust; or (2) recognizes— serve; (B) do not believe that the factual ac- (A) the lifelong commitment of Georgia Whereas as the Senate recognizes the dis- counts and recorded history of the Holocaust Jones-Ayers to bettering the lives of the peo- tinguished service of the members of the are accurate; ple of South Florida; and Navy Reserve, who are proud individuals of Whereas the European Union Agency for (B) the landmark work of Georgia Jones- the United States, there are more than 2,000 Fundamental Rights issued a report in 2013 Ayers in steering troubled young people members of the Navy Reserve deployed on anti-Semitism in the 8 countries in which away from a life of crime; around the world; and 90 percent of Europe’s Jews reside, namely (3) offers heartfelt condolences to the fam- Whereas March 3, 2015, marks 100 years France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, ily, friends, and loved ones of Georgia Jones- since the Act of March 3, 1915 (38 Stat. 928, Belgium, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, Ayers; and chapter 83), establishing the Naval Reserve: in which 76 percent of respondents believed (4) in memory of Georgia Jones-Ayers, Now, therefore, be it that anti-Semitism had worsened where they lived during the previous 5-year period; calls on the people of the United States to Resolved, That the Senate— Whereas France, which is home to Europe’s redouble their commitment to their neigh- (1) recognizes March 3, 2015, as the centen- bors and their communities. largest Jewish population, reported that— nial of the Navy Reserve; (1) twice as many French Jews immigrated f (2) recognizes the indispensable and valu- to Israel during 2014 than had immigrated able contributions and sacrifices that indi- SENATE RESOLUTION 86—RECOG- during 2013; and vidual members of the Navy Reserve have (2) for the first time ever, more Jews NIZING MARCH 3, 2015, AS THE made throughout the history of the United moved to Israel from France than from any CENTENNIAL OF THE NAVY RE- States and continue to make in 2015; other country in the world; SERVE (3) celebrates the commitment and service Whereas anti-Semitic acts committed and of members of the Navy Reserve, their fami- Ms. COLLINS (for herself, Mr. WAR- recorded in European countries in 2014 in- lies, and their employers; and cluded— NER, Mr. MCCAIN, Mr. MURPHY, Mr. (4) encourages communities to seize the op- (1) murders and death threats against KIRK, Mr. KING, and Mr. PETERS) sub- portunity to honor and support these patri- Jews; and mitted the following resolution; which ots in 2015, the centennial of the Navy Re- (2) arson, graffiti, and property desecration was considered and agreed to: serve. at Jewish sites, including Jewish cemeteries,

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places of worship, schools, and community (2) encouraging European countries and COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY AND centers; the European Union to designate senior-level GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS Whereas such acts led many Jewish indi- special envoys to monitor, prevent, and com- Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask viduals to conceal their religious affiliation; bat anti-Semitism regionally and domesti- unanimous consent that the Com- Whereas on May 24, 2014, a gunman killed cally; mittee on Homeland Security and Gov- 4 people when he opened fire at the Jewish (3) cooperating with European counter- Museum of Belgium in Brussels, Belgium; parts on developing programs to counter vio- ernmental Affairs be authorized to Whereas on July 29, 2014, Molotov cocktails lent extremists engaged in anti-Semitic ac- meet during the session of the Senate were thrown at the synagogue in Wuppertal, tivity; on February 25, 2015, at 10 a.m. to con- Germany, which had been burned to the (4) encouraging the European Union and its duct a hearing entitled ‘‘Toward a 21st ground by the Nazis during the 1938 Member States to integrate measures to Century Regulatory System.’’ Kristallnacht, and was rebuilt as recently as combat anti-Semitism into relevant national The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without 2002; strategies and action plans by including objection, it is so ordered. Whereas the foreign ministers of France, measures to protect human rights, religious COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS Germany, and Italy issued a joint statement tolerance, and equality, and to ensure hate in July 2014, proclaiming: ‘‘Anti-Semitic crime and violence prevention; Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask rhetoric and hostility against Jews, attacks (5) increasing cooperation on training ini- unanimous consent that the Com- on people of Jewish belief and synagogues tiatives related to hate crimes, particularly mittee on Indian Affairs be authorized have no place in our societies’’; crimes motivated by anti-Semitism, for law to meet during the session of the Sen- Whereas in September 2014, British Prime enforcement personnel, and improving moni- ate on February 25, 2015 at 2:30 p.m., in Minister David Cameron declared: ‘‘There toring and reporting efforts; room SD–628 of the Dirksen Senate Of- can never be any excuse for anti-Semitism, (6) empowering civil society, including di- and no disagreements on politics or policy fice Building, to conduct a hearing en- verse religious and ethnic groups, civil and titled ‘‘The President’s FY2016 Budget should ever be allowed to justify racism, human rights organizations, and the busi- prejudice or extremism in any form’’; ness community, to fight anti-Semitism and Request for Indian programs.’’ Whereas on January 13, 2015, French Prime discrimination; The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Minister Manuel Valls spoke before the (7) convening regular consultations with objection, it is so ordered. French National Assembly and declared that Jewish community organizations and non- COMMITTEE ON VETERANS’ AFFAIRS anti-Semitism must be dealt with ‘‘power- Jewish civil and human rights organizations Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask fully’’ and that ‘‘there has been an intoler- to demonstrate visible support, listen to con- unanimous consent that the Com- able rise in acts of anti-Semitism in France cerns, and solicit recommendations on im- [that] have not aroused the outrage expected mittee on Veterans’ Affairs be author- proving security and supporting victims; and ized to meet during the session of the by our Jewish compatriots’’; (8) reaffirming and implementing the rec- Whereas at the Tenth Anniversary of the ommendations in the OSCE’s December 2014 Senate on February 25, 2015 at 10 a.m., Organization for Security and Cooperation in Basel Declaration on Enhancing Efforts to to conduct a joint hearing with the Europe’s (OSCE) Berlin Conference on Anti- Combat Anti-Semitism. House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. Semitism in November 2014, Samantha The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Power, the United States Ambassador to the f United Nations, noted, ‘‘Rising anti-Semi- objection, it is so ordered. tism is rarely the lone or the last manifesta- AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO SUBCOMMITTEE ON PERSONNEL tion of intolerance in society. . . . When the MEET Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask human rights and fundamental freedoms of COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND unanimous consent that the Sub- Jews are repressed, the rights and freedoms TRANSPORTATION committee on Personnel of the Com- of other minorities and other sectors are Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask mittee on Armed Services be author- often not far behind’’; ized to meet during the session of the Whereas the OSCE’s December 2014 Basel unanimous consent that the Com- Declaration on Enhancing Efforts to Combat mittee on Commerce, Science, and Senate on February 25, 2015 at 2:30 p.m. Anti-Semitism condemned ‘‘manifestations Transportation be authorized to meet The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without of anti-Semitism, intolerance and discrimi- during the session of the Senate on objection, it is so ordered. nation against Jews’’, and protected the February 25, 2015, at 10 a.m., in room SUBCOMMITTEE ON STRATEGIC FORCES commitment to ‘‘declare unambiguously SR-253 of the Russell Senate Office Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask that international developments or political Building to conduct a hearing entitled unanimous consent that the Sub- issues, including those with regard to the ‘‘Preserving the Multistakeholder committee on Strategic Forces of the situation in the Middle East, never justify Committee on Armed Services be au- anti-Semitism’’; Model of Internet Governance.’’ Whereas the Government of the United The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without thorized to meet during the session of States has consistently supported efforts to objection, it is so ordered. the Senate on February 25, 2015 at 2:30 address the rise of anti-Semitism through COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC p.m. diplomatic efforts including engagement in WORKS The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without international organizations such as the Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask objection, it is so ordered. OSCE; f Whereas the Office to Monitor and Combat unanimous consent that the Com- Anti-Semitism in the Department of State, mittee on Evironment and Public CENTENNIAL OF THE NAVY which is headed by the Special Envoy to Works be authorized to meet during RESERVE Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, has the session of the Senate on February Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I consistently supported European efforts to 25, 2015, at 9:30 a.m., in room SD-406 of ask unanimous consent that the Sen- combat Anti-Semitism; and the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to ate proceed to the consideration of S. Whereas, at the urging of the United conduct a hearing entitled ‘‘The Impor- Res. 86, submitted earlier today. States and 36 other countries, including all tance of MAP–21 Reauthorization: Per- European Union States, the United Nations The PRESIDING OFFICER. The General Assembly convened the first ever spectives from Owners, Operators, and clerk will report the resolution by meeting on anti-Semitism on January 22, Users of the System.’’ title. 2015, to consider ways to confront the long- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without The legislative clerk read as follows: standing and growing problem of anti-Semi- objection, it is so ordered. A resolution (S. Res. 86) recognizing March tism worldwide. COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS 3, 2015, as the centennial of the Navy Re- Now, therefore, be it serve. Resolved, That the Senate urges the Sec- Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask retary of State, the Attorney General, and unanimous consent that the Com- There being no objection, the Senate other relevant United States Government mittee on Foreign Relations be author- proceeded to consider the resolution. agencies and officials to work closely with ized to meet during the session of the Mr. MCCONNELL. I ask unanimous the European Union and European govern- Senate on February 25, 2015, at 1:30 consent that the resolution be agreed ments to encourage further efforts to address p.m., to conduct a hearing entitled to, the preamble be agreed to, and the anti-Semitism by— ‘‘The Fight Against ISIS: Building the (1) undertaking prompt, impartial, and ef- motions to reconsider be laid upon the fective investigations of any acts of violence Coalition and Ensuring Military Effec- table with no intervening action or de- motivated by anti-Semitism and fully pros- tiveness.’’ bate. ecuting those responsible for such violence The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without within the extent of the law; objection, it is so ordered. objection, it is so ordered.

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We partisan coalition predicts, like New APPOINTMENTS know that carbon dioxide traps the York, again, continued sea level rise. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The sun’s heat. We have actually known Indeed, the waters around southeast Chair, on behalf of the President of the that since Abraham Lincoln was Presi- Florida could surge up to another 2 feet Senate, pursuant to Public Law 106–286, dent. We know that the atmosphere in less than 50 years. As we can see, appoints the following Member to serve and the oceans are heating up. We can most of the iconic Everglades—which is on the Congressional Executive Com- measure that. the largest tract of wilderness east of mission on the People’s Republic of Ocean acidification and sea level rise the Rocky Mountains and home to China: the Honorable MARCO RUBIO of are also measurable, and they are some of the most rare and endangered Florida. caused by carbon pollution. These risks species in America—will be under sea- The Chair, on behalf of the President to our environment, to our health, to water. of the Senate, pursuant to Public Law our economy, and to our national secu- Now, there is some resemblance be- 85–874, as amended, appoints the fol- rity are every week more apparent. tween New York and Florida in the lowing individual to the Board of News this week from New York City threat of sea level rise. But the resem- Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Cen- was that an advisory panel of sci- blance to New York diverges when we ter for the Performing Arts: the Honor- entists, engineers, and risk manage- look at some of the unique features of able ROY BLUNT of Missouri. ment experts just reported that the sea the Florida peninsula. The Chair, on behalf of the Demo- level rise along that city’s shoreline— First is its low elevation. Miami is cratic leader, pursuant to Public Law approximately 12 inches since 1900— just 6 feet above sea level. Six feet of 96–114, as amended, appoints the fol- may have expanded Superstorm sea level rise goes a long way. lowing individual to the Congressional Sandy’s flood area by as much as 25 Second, southern Florida, as the Award Board: the Honorable JOE square miles, flooding the homes of Army Corps of Engineers constantly MANCHIN of West Virginia. some 80,000 people. That is pretty real. attests, rests on porous limestone. In f The report’s prognosis for the future New York, levees and dams can be built puts the city in pretty deep water. New that will hold the ocean back. They ORDERS FOR THURSDAY, York City expects its local sea levels to can fortify New York City and wall it FEBRUARY 26, 2015 rise by 11 to 21 inches more by 2050 and in like Holland. In Miami, they would Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I as much as 6 feet by 2100. be building those structures on a geo- ask unanimous consent that when the When he was mayor, Michael logical sponge. The rising water will Senate completes its business today, it Bloomberg began in the wake of Hurri- just seep right under. And even in the adjourn until 11 a.m., Thursday, Feb- cane Sandy an ambitious plan to shore higher areas that might still stay dry, ruary 26; that following the prayer and up New York with levees, with storm saltwater will infiltrate the under- pledge, the morning hour be deemed barriers, and with other coastal de- ground drinking water. expired, the Journal of proceedings be fenses to make that great city more re- Of all the people and all the homes in approved to date, and the time for the silient in the face of rising seas. That the Nation at risk from rising seas, an two leaders be reserved for their use plan is estimated to cost nearly $20 bil- estimated 40 percent are in the State of later in the day; that following leader lion to fortify just one city, albeit a Florida. The Risky Business Project es- remarks, the Senate then resume con- great one—New York City—against ris- timates that between $127 billion and sideration of the motion to proceed to ing seas. $150 billion worth of property in Flor- H.R. 240 postcloture, and all time dur- Let’s look south to another major ida will be under the mean high tide by ing the adjournment or recess of the American metropolitan area, Miami- 2050. You might want to be careful Senate count against postcloture time. Fort Lauderdale, which also faces where you buy in Florida these days if The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without daunting projections of rising sea lev- you plan to be around a while. objection, it is so ordered. els. If we take into account damage from f This map I have in the Chamber coastal storms, Florida could face an shows 3 feet of sea level rise in Miami- additional $4 billion in damage per ORDER FOR ADJOURNMENT Dade County. This is before. This is year. Mr. MCCONNELL. If there is no fur- after. As we can see, they have lost Luckily, Florida is home to a number ther business to come before the Sen- acres. All of this back to the coast is of the country’s leading research insti- ate, I ask unanimous consent that it gone, acre upon acre of that city. This tutions. Scientific experts at Florida stand adjourned under the previous nuclear power station right here, Tur- universities are actively researching order, following the remarks of Sen- key Point, and this sewage treatment and trying to plan for the State’s ator WHITEHOUSE for up to 15 minutes. plant which serves that municipal area changing climate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without have both become islands. Professor Harold Wanless of the Uni- objection, it is so ordered. I visited Florida last year to hear versity of Miami puts it pretty bluntly: Mr. MCCONNELL. I suggest the ab- firsthand about the threats that cli- Everyone wants a nice happy ending. But sence of a quorum. mate change poses to the Sunshine that’s not reality. We’re in for it. We have The PRESIDING OFFICER. The State. I met Glenn Landers, a senior really done a job warming our ocean, and it’s clerk will call the roll. engineer at the U.S. Army Corps of En- going to pay us back. The legislative clerk proceeded to gineers, Everglades Division. He has The Florida Climate Institute is a call the roll. worked on water resources and restora- network of universities and public or- Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, I tion projects in Florida for nearly 20 ganizations that provides Florida pol- ask unanimous consent that the order years. This is the map he used to show icymakers and businesses with reliable, for the quorum call be rescinded. me what just 2 feet of sea level rise region-specific, factual information. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without would mean for South Florida. There is The group includes the University of objection, it is so ordered. a lot less of it. Florida, Florida State, the University f Like New York, they have measured of Miami, Florida A&M, the University almost 1 foot of sea level rise in South of Central Florida, Florida Atlantic CLIMATE CHANGE Florida in the last 100 years. And like University, the University of South Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, I New York, the Southeast Florida Re- Florida, and Florida International Uni- am here for the 90th time to urge my gional Climate Compact—which is a bi- versity.

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Senator water availability in the Everglades. senior Senator from Florida, my friend MURKOWSKI acknowledges the impacts FIU hosts the International Hurricane BILL NELSON, is an outspoken advocate of climate change on Alaska’s coastal Research Center on its campus and re- for preserving the Florida coast and community. cently established the Extreme Events the Florida economy in the face of cli- So maybe we are beginning to make Institute, devoted to making commu- mate change. some progress, but all around the coun- nities more resilient to extreme weath- The Miami Herald recently wrote: try these effects are ones we have to er. South Florida owes Senator NELSON its begin to take more seriously. It is in- Institute director Richard Olsen, who thanks for shining a bright light on this deed time to wake up. is an international expert on disaster issue. Everyone from local residents to elect- I yield the floor. response and resiliency, has called sea ed officials should follow his lead, turning f level rise ‘‘a slow onset disaster’’ for awareness of this major environmental issue ADJOURNMENT UNTIL 11 A.M. South Florida. into action. It is critical to saving our re- Four professors of FIU’s School of gion. TOMORROW Journalism and Mass Communication So said the Miami Herald. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- set up a media outreach initiative Unfortunately, the junior Senator ate stands adjourned until 11 a.m. to- called Eyes on the Rise. Students in does not seem to have followed his sen- morrow. this program have produced documen- ior colleague’s lead either in shining a Thereupon, the Senate, at 6:23 p.m., taries to air on local television about bright light on this issue or in turning adjourned until Thursday, February 26, the effect of sea level rise on local com- awareness into action. 2015, at 11 a.m. munities, on real estate prices, and on It is a little bit surprising that, ac- f cording to a recent New York Times economic growth in southern Florida. NOMINATIONS FIU is a member of the American poll, an overwhelming majority of College and University Presidents’ Cli- Americans support us taking action on Executive nominations received by mate Commitment, a network of climate change, including half of Re- the Senate: schools taking action to reduce green- publicans. Again, this is not that par- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY house gas emissions and promote cli- tisan of an issue once you get away MONICA C. REGALBUTO, OF ILLINOIS, TO BE AN ASSIST- from the polluter money that sur- ANT SECRETARY OF ENERGY (ENVIRONMENTAL MAN- mate research. FIU has adopted a plan AGEMENT), VICE INES R. TRIAY, RESIGNED. to bring emissions 25 percent below rounds this building. Two-thirds of re- DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 2007 levels before 2030. spondents said they would be more likely to vote for a candidate for Presi- AMIAS MOORE GERETY, OF CONNECTICUT, TO BE AN On my Florida visit, Dr. Mike ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, VICE CYRUS Heithaus, a marine scientist and dean dent or for the Senate who explicitly AMIR-MOKRI, RESIGNED. of the College of Arts and Sciences at campaigned on a platform of climate DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE FIU, said: action. WILLIE E. MAY, OF MARYLAND, TO BE UNDER SEC- We’re really standing here at ground zero. Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- RETARY OF COMMERCE FOR STANDARDS AND TECH- NOLOGY, VICE PATRICK GALLAGHER, RESIGNED. There’s just about nowhere else on the plan- sent to continue for an additional 2 et where there is more at risk from sea level minutes. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY rise so fast. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ANNE ELIZABETH WALL, OF ILLINOIS, TO BE A DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, VICE ALASTAIR He gets it. They get it. That is why objection, it is so ordered. M. FITZPAYNE, RESIGNED. Florida International University is at Mr. WHITEHOUSE. That includes 48 DEPARTMENT OF STATE percent of Republicans as opposed to the fore of climate research and edu- KATHERINE SIMONDS DHANANI, OF FLORIDA, A CA- cation, particularly as it affects the only 24 percent of Republicans who said REER MEMBER OF THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, they would be less likely to vote for CLASS OF COUNSELOR, TO BE AMBASSADOR EXTRAOR- State of Florida. DINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE UNITED STATES But there is another member of that such a candidate. So even among Re- OF AMERICA TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF SOMALIA. publican voters, the balance tips in SHEILA GWALTNEY, OF CALIFORNIA, A CAREER MEM- faculty who doesn’t seem to get it, one BER OF THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, CLASS OF MIN- of our Senate colleagues, the junior favor of climate action. If you look at ISTER-COUNSELOR, TO BE AMBASSADOR EXTRAOR- young Republican voters—as I have DINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE UNITED STATES Senator from Florida. He teaches polit- OF AMERICA TO THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC. ical science part time at FIU. Last said over and over on this floor—under UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE month, however, that junior Senator the age of 35, they think climate denial MICKEY D. BARNETT, OF NEW MEXICO, TO BE A GOV- from Florida voted against amend- is ignorant, out of touch, or crazy. ERNOR OF THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE FOR A ments to the Keystone XL bill stating Those are the words they selected in TERM EXPIRING DECEMBER 8, 2020. (REAPPOINTMENT) that climate change is real and that the poll, not my words. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE humans contribute to it. Apparently Let’s move west to Arizona. The CONO R. NAMORATO, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE AN ASSIST- the message from experts across Flor- folks at NASA—a pretty reputable or- ANT ATTORNEY GENERAL, VICE KATHRYN KENEALLY, RESIGNED. ida and frankly from experts across ganization—have a rover driving IN THE AIR FORCE campus that manmade climate change, around on Mars right now that they THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT especially sea level rise, is a big prob- control. These are people who know IN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE TO THE GRADE INDI- lem for southern Florida—well, appar- something about what they are doing, CATED WHILE ASSIGNED TO A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE AND RESPONSIBILITY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION ently that message hasn’t gotten and the folks at NASA have made un- 601: through. derstanding our planet and its systems To be general What are Florida’s other elected offi- their life’s work. This month their re- cials doing? Fort Lauderdale mayor searchers released a study showing an GEN. ROBIN RAND Jack Seiler is working with NOAA, 80-percent chance of a decades-long IN THE ARMY State and Broward County officials, what they call ‘‘megadrought’’ in the THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL CORPS TO THE and the South Florida Regional Plan- American Southwest, a multi-decade GRADE INDICATED UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 624 ning Council to protect his city from drought between 2050 and 2099 unless AND 3064: flooding and climate change. Miami we act aggressively to mitigate the ef- To be major general Beach mayor Philip Levine showed me fects of climate change. Arizona could BRIG. GEN. JEFFREY B. CLARK the huge pumps his city has installed see half as much precipitation in the THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY NURSE CORPS TO THE to pump out the flooding that comes in second half of the century as it did in GRADE INDICATED UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 624 on high tides and from storms. Repub- the second half of the last century. It AND 3064: lican mayor Sylvia Murphy of Monroe is a call to arms to protect the State of To be major general County, which covers all of the Florida Arizona. BRIG. GEN. BARBARA R. HOLCOMB

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COL. RAYMOND S. DINGLE EUGENE S. ALKIRE IN THE MARINE CORPS THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT DAVID A. GAGNON THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR REGULAR AP- IN THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE SHAUGHNESSY D. HODGE POINTMENT IN THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: ANTHONY T. LIEGGI STATES MARINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION To be colonel CHRISTOPHER R. REESE 531: DENNIS J. SORENSEN JACINTO ZAMBRANO, JR. PATRICK R. STARESINA To be major THE FOLLOWING NAMED ARMY NATIONAL GUARD OF THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT ANDREW J. COPELAND THE UNITED STATES OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT TO TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY DANIEL R. GABLE THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: YONG J. LEE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 12203 AND 12211: BRIAN A. LIONBARGER

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TRIBUTE TO TARBUT V’TORAH Mr. Philip B. Phillips, founder of the real estate Administration has adequate emergency plans COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL development firm Phillips & Co, on receiving in place to handle a shooting attack at an air- the NAIOP of Northeast Florida commercial port. HON. MIMI WALTERS real estate trade association’s Lifetime I would have voted for H.R. 431, to award OF CALIFORNIA Achievement Award. a Congressional Gold Medal to the Foot Sol- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Phillips founded Phillips & Co in 1986, diers who participated in Bloody Sunday, Wednesday, February 25, 2015 and since then his firm has completed more Turnaround Tuesday, or the final Selma to than 1 million square feet of projects in Jack- Montgomery Voting Rights March in March of Mrs. MIMI WALTERS of California. Mr. sonville, Orlando and Pensacola. He is a pillar 1965, which served as a catalyst for the Vot- Speaker, today I wish to recognize Tarbut in the Jacksonville business community, and a ing Rights Act of 1965. I am a cosponsor of V’Torah Community Day School (TVT) for re- valuable partner in the economic growth and the bill. cently having been ranked the number one development of Northeast Florida. I would have voted against S. 1, the Key- private school for academics in Orange Coun- Under Mr. Phillips’ skillful leadership, his stone XL Pipeline Approval Act because the ty, California from niche.com. TVT was also commercial real estate firm was responsible bill allows a Canadian company to be exempt recognized as being the number one Jewish for constructing some of the largest projects in from paying its fair share into the Oil Spill Li- school for academics in the nation by Niche. the Jacksonville area. He has developed the ability Trust Fund, which could leave tax- As a result of their outstanding accomplish- five-building Meridian complex in Deerwood payers on the hook for an expensive clean-up ments, TVT was recently presented with a cer- in the event of an oil spill. Furthermore, the tificate of recognition from the County of Or- Park, the four-building Greystone Project, and current planned route for the pipeline runs di- ange for achieving these excellent honors. the 214,000 square foot multi-phase Central rectly over the Ogallala aquifer, putting at risk Today, I applaud TVT for their tremendous Park development. These projects have added a critical freshwater supply. academic accomplishments. countless jobs to the Jacksonville community I would have voted for H.R. 644, the Fight- TVT, a Jewish day school with over 500 stu- as well as contributed to the economic suc- dents, is a nurturing, caring community that cess of our Northeast Florida economy. ing Hunger Incentive Act of 2015 to encourage embraces pluralism, cultivates Jewish identity NAIOP is one of the foremost commercial donations to charitable organizations. The bill and inspires students to lead meaningful Jew- real estate industry organizations in the United would expand tax deductions for food dona- ish lives. The school is known for its individ- States. It provides its members with numerous tions, property conservation donations, and ualized college preparatory environment, networking opportunities, educational pro- charitable foundations. which challenges students to think critically, grams, industry innovations, and strong legis- I would have voted for H.R. 636, the Amer- work collaboratively, and explore creatively in lative representation for the commercial real ica’s Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2015 order to realize their fullest potential. TVT also estate community. NAIOP’s Lifetime Achieve- because the bill is designed to help small strives to encourage students to be inquisitive ment Award is one of the greatest honors that businesses grow and create new jobs. This bill learners, compassionate citizens and coura- the organization can bestow. The award rec- would facilitate investment in new equipment, geous leaders in their community and in the ognizes those distinguished individuals for new property, and technology upgrades for world. their lifetime work in the commercial real es- small businesses. Providing tax relief will help The success of TVT students is dem- tate industry. level the playing field for small businesses, onstrated through their exceptional standard- Mr. Phillips is truly deserving of this very which will stimulate economic growth and cre- ized test scores and high acceptance rates distinguished honor; and the First Coast is ate jobs across the country. into our nation’s top universities. For example, proud to count him among our own. His f the acceptance rate of TVT students to Stan- lifework exemplifies everything for which SUPPORT FOR H.R. 431—CONGRES- ford University is 12.1 percent, in comparison NAIOP’s Lifetime Achievement Award stands SIONAL GOLD MEDAL FOR with the 5.1 percent national average. The ac- for. The Jacksonville business community is SELMA FOOT SOLDIERS ceptance ratios for other top universities are forever indebted to Mr. Phillips for his lifetime as follows: UC Berkeley, 41.7 percent vs. 17 contributions. percent; USC, 53 vs. 17.8 percent, and UCLA, Mr. Speaker, I ask you and Members of the HON. FREDERICA S. WILSON OF FLORIDA 31 vs. 18.2 percent. Furthermore, TVT SAT House to join me in this very special congres- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES scores surpassed the national average by sional salute to this Jacksonville Business more than 400 points, and TVT ACT scores leader, Philip B. Phillips. Wednesday, February 25, 2015 outranked the national average 29 to 21. f Ms. WILSON of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the students, stand today in strong support of H.R. 431, a PERSONAL EXPLANATION faculty, and those who govern the school, for bill that will bestow the Congressional Gold their accomplishments and academic success Medal upon the courageous Foot Soldiers who within the community. It is an honor to rep- HON. RAUL RUIZ participated in ‘‘Bloody Sunday,’’ ‘‘Turnaround resent such an accomplished school in the OF CALIFORNIA Tuesday,’’ and the final March from Selma to United States Congress, and I wish them the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. best in their future endeavors. Wednesday, February 25, 2015 As we commemorate the 50th anniversary f of their displays of courage and determination, HONORING PHILIP B. PHILLIPS Mr. RUIZ. Mr. Speaker, due to a death in I am inspired by the thousands of citizens, FOR BEING SELECTED FOR THE my immediate family I was unable to be from all walks of life—including my good friend NAIOP OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA present for votes on the House floor the week and colleague, Congressman JOHN LEWIS— COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE of February 9, 2015. Below is an explanation who came together to march for equal voting TRADE ASSOCIATION’S LIFETIME of how I would have voted and why. rights for future generations. ACHIEVEMENT AWARD I would have voted for H.R. 719, the TSA I commend these brave men and women for Office of Inspection Accountability Act of 2015 following their conviction and sacrificing their because the bill requires Transportation Secu- blood, sweat, and tears to bring about the HON. ANDER CRENSHAW rity Administration Criminal Investigators to OF FLORIDA change that this country so desperately need- spend at least half of their time investigating IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ed. individuals suspected of committing a crime. However, Mr. Speaker, our work is not yet Wednesday, February 25, 2015 I would have voted for H.R. 720, the done! Mr. CRENSHAW. Mr. Speaker, I rise today Gerardo Hernandez Airport Security Act of It was only two years ago, when the Su- to recognize a great Floridian businessman, 2015 to ensure the Transportation Security preme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act by

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Mr. Speaker, mom- sistent opportunity gaps in employment, edu- and-pop businesses are a vital part of local Mr. HIGGINS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to economies. Martinsville Candy Kitchen, location, life skills, and career preparation con- welcome Ms. Aunjanue Ellis to the annual tinue to make the American Dream elusive for cated in Martinsville, Indiana, is a primary ex- Black History Month event ‘‘Moving Forward ample of a small, family-owned business that far too many Americans. and Setting the World,’’ organized by the has maintained a tradition of community in- We must follow the example of these brave Canisius College Academic Talent Search volvement and devotion to making quality Foot Soldiers, and continue to fight injustice Program. products. The Candy Kitchen not only influ- and inequality to create economic opportuni- The Moving Forward and Setting the World ences the local economy but also serves as ties for everyone. event will feature the African-German Art Exhi- an important landmark in the Martinsville com- bition from Homestory, Germany to honor munity. Black History Month. f The Martinsville Candy Kitchen has been in The Canisius College Academic Talent operation since 1919, producing 16 flavors of STEM EDUCATION ACT OF 2015 Search Program, the host of this event, has candy canes and other sweet treats. Over shaped positive impact on many Western New 30,000 candy canes are handmade in this York communities. The program is among shop every year. Considering that a batch SPEECH OF eight federally funded TRiO programs estab- takes more than 3 hours, we can understand ´ lished under Title IV of the Higher Education the immensity of the task they take on each HON. TONY CARDENAS act of 1965. The Academic Talent Search Pro- year. The owners of the business, Pam and OF CALIFORNIA gram provides educational, social and career John Badger, have been known to spend late support services for individuals with disadvan- nights in the kitchen working on large batches IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES taged backgrounds in local schools and com- of candy canes. Therefore, I am proud to honor the Martinsville Candy Kitchen in this in- Tuesday, February 24, 2015 munity service organizations. Ms. Aunjanue Ellis, who I welcome to this stallment of the 9th District’s ‘‘Hoosier Small Mr. CA´ RDENAS. Mr. Speaker, I offer today event, is a famed actress who will star as the Business Spotlight.’’ my full support for H.R. 1020, the STEM Edu- lead character in the 2015 miniseries ‘‘The Following 95 years of business, the Martinsville Candy Kitchen continues to be a cation Act of 2015. In an increasingly tech- Book of Negroes.’’ Ms. Ellis has also been a star in award winning films such as ‘‘The staple within the area in which it operates. nology-based world, businesses and other or- People from all across Indiana visit the busi- ganizations continue to invest in, and rely Help,’’ ‘‘Men of Honor,’’ and ‘‘Ray.’’ Mr. Speaker, it is with great pride that I rise ness to see candy canes being made during heavily upon, information technology (IT) to in- today to welcome the accomplished Ms. ‘‘pour times,’’ becoming a Christmas tradition crease efficiency, reduce costs, and safeguard Aunjanue Ellis. I ask you to join me in thank- for many families. In addition, the alleyway ad- information. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statis- ing Ms. Ellis for speaking at this valued local jacent to the shop has been officially named tics projects that the high tech industry will be event. I wish Ms. Ellis continued success in ‘‘Candy Cane Lane’’ in recognition of the among the fastest growing industries in the her acting career, and to continually see Ms. Candy Kitchen’s presence in the community. The history of Martinsville Candy Kitchen coming years. We must do more to ensure Ellis in influential roles. that our youth are properly prepared and edu- begins with its founder, Jim Zapapas, who cated to compete in the job market of the fu- f learned the candy trade in St. Louis before moving to Indianapolis in 1916. His business ture, so that the United States can continue to HONORING GONZALO ARROYO originated as a short-order restaurant, soda be an international innovation leader. Unfortu- fountain, and candy shop two years later. nately, our education system has been slow to HON. BILL FOSTER Over time, the company has had several own- adapt to the growing demand for computer OF ILLINOIS ers. In early 2004, Pam and John Badger scientists and software engineers. By 2020, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES bought the Candy Kitchen from Bob and there will be an estimated 1.4 million computer Karen Boyce, who were on the verge of hav- programming jobs, with only 400,000 Amer- Wednesday, February 25, 2015 ing to close the doors of their business. The ican computer science students to fill those Mr. FOSTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in Badgers decided to buy the company in order jobs. honor of Gonzalo Arroyo for his nearly two to keep the historic business as a living part decades of commitment to helping low-income of Martinsville. Balancing their time between With globalization increasing competition for and immigrant families in Aurora, Illinois, working full-time jobs and owning a business, high paying jobs, I cannot stress enough the through his leadership of Family Focus Au- they demonstrated their dedication to the com- importance and value of a strong and innova- rora. munity and the work ethic necessary to run a tive computer science education in today’s Gonzalo began working at Family Focus’ successful organization. economy. Computer programming jobs are Aurora Center in 1996, and has served as the The Badgers’ devotion to their customers growing at twice the national average rate of director of the facility since 1998. During that and to the quality of their products has sus- job growth and computer science remains one time, he has helped countless families and in- tained their company’s legacy. Their efforts of the highest paying college degrees, more dividuals through the organization’s many pro- serve as a testimony to the longstanding suc- than doubling the national median annual grams, from counseling new parents to com- cess of their business. The Candy Kitchen has wage. These jobs also provide Americans with puter classes aimed at improving work skills. been a Martinsville attraction since opening a living-wage and an opportunity to be finan- Under Gonzalo’s direction, Family Focus also over 95 years ago, and it will continue to be cially secure. According to the Bureau of has become a leader in providing guidance for a significant landmark for years to come. Labor Statistics, the median annual wage in recent immigrants looking to start a new chap- f 2010 for computer programmers was $71,380 ter of their lives in Illinois. HONORING GUSTAVO SAMBRANO while the median annual wage was $33,840 I would like to congratulate Gonzalo for his for all workers. hard work and his commitment to Family Focus Aurora and the people of our commu- HON. BETO O’ROURKE OF TEXAS I support H.R. 1020, because it continues nity. Although Gonzalo’s leadership will be IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the push for STEM programs to better prepare missed, I have no doubt that the work he has our youth for the computer programming jobs done and the lessons he has passed on will Wednesday, February 25, 2015 of the future so that the United States can continue to serve and inspire the people of Mr. O’ROURKE. Mr. Speaker, I am honored continue being a world leader in innovation. Aurora for many years to come. to rise today to recognize Mr. Gustavo

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The University of Kentucky has pro- change program between our two nations: the He attended Bowie High School, a local insti- gressed from its early innovative roots to be- Uni-Capitol Washington Internship Program tution with a rich and distinguished history of come a vibrant and diverse place of develop- For the past 16 years, the Uni-Capitol Pro- overcoming adversity and a consistent dedica- ment and potential. gram has paired students from Australia with tion to service. Mr. Sambrano was a proud Its faculty, staff, students, and alumni are offices on Capitol Hill. Since the program’s in- member of the 1949 Texas state champion- deeply devoted to the University’s central ception, more than 170 students, from 10 part- ship baseball team. This team primarily con- value of service to others. Students are ner Australian universities located across 5 of sisted of economically disadvantaged, Mexi- civically engaged and most take advantage of the 6 Australian states and the Australian can-American students from El Paso’s historic the volunteer, leadership, service, and activ- Capital Territory, have participated. The stu- Segundo Barrio neighborhood. While traveling ism opportunities on the University’s diverse dents in this program are the best and the to Austin to play in the state championship, and creative campus. brightest that Australia has to offer. They bring the team faced rampant racial discrimination. The University of Kentucky now looks to the a unique perspective to the House and Senate Upon arrival and against all odds, the Bears next 150 years of higher learning, innovative offices that they serve—strengthening the spe- beat the most favored team in the state, the discovery, transformative outreach and sophis- cial alliance between our two nations and fos- Austin Maroons. Mr. Sambrano would con- ticated care, as it honors the legacy of those tering greater understanding and mutual re- tinue to remain engaged with his teammates who established its campus, nurtured its early spect between us. and participate in community initiatives work, upheld and enhanced its mission in the This year, it has been my pleasure to host throughout his lifetime. In 2006, the El Paso present, and who will deliver a new century of two outstanding Australian students in my Baseball Hall of Fame recognized the accom- promise in the future. Athletics have also been Washington office: Ms. Gabrielle Debinski and plishments of the team. Additionally, Sports Il- an important part of the school’s heritage, with Ms. Millicent Allan. Gabrielle and Millicent are lustrated wrote a 2011 feature on the team the Kentucky Wildcats laying claim to more great examples of the high-caliber students further amplifying recognition of their profound than 30 NCAA Championships and 270 con- this program provides Congressional offices. accomplishment. ference titles across 22 intercollegiate sports. They both proved themselves to be very intel- Following graduation from high school in In particular, the University of Kentucky is ligent and hard working. Furthermore, they ex- 1950, Mr. Sambrano enlisted in the United home to the ‘‘Greatest Tradition in College celled in drafting correspondence to my con- States Air Force. Mr. Sambrano served honor- Basketball’’ as the winningest program of all- stituents, researching legislative issues, and ably in numerous locations throughout the time, in both the number of total wins and total attending briefings, all while demonstrating a world to include England, Greenland, Italy, win percentage. The Cats have also proven desire to learn about, and engage in, the im- Korea, Spain and Thailand. dominant in the postseason, with the most portant policy issues facing our nation. Following retirement after 20 years of faith- NCAA tournament appearances, the most Mr Speaker, I have no doubt that Gabrielle ful service from the U.S. Air Force, Mr. tournament game wins, and eight national and Millicent will go on to do great things in Sambrano attained a B.A from The University championships. their future. I wish them both all the very best, of Texas at El Paso. Mr. Sambrano continued There is no doubt that the University will and the Uni-Capitol Washington Internship to serve his local community as an educator continue to accrue both academic and athletic Program many more years of continued suc- with the El Paso Independent School District achievements into the 21st Century. I encour- cess. and his nation through federal civilian service age my colleagues to join in congratulating my in numerous capacities, with his career even- alma mater, the University of Kentucky on this tually culminating in retirement from the De- milestone. Kentuckians are proud of the f fense Logistics Agency in Alexandria, Virginia. progress this distinguished institution has PERSONAL EXPLANATION Following the completion of his civilian career, made over the past 150 years in preparing our Mr. Sambrano once again returned home to El nation’s next generation of leaders for suc- Paso, the community he held dearly. cess, and look forward to seeing all of the HON. MIKE BOST I thank Mr. Sambrano for being an honor- prosperity that the next 150 years will bring. OF ILLINOIS able ambassador of our community to the Go Cats. world through his notable service. While his IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES f road to success was often filled with adversity, Wednesday, February 25, 2015 Mr. Sambrano represents the ambition, dedi- PERSONAL EXPLANATION cation, perseverance and resilience that is so Mr. BOST. Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably indicative of the many great El Pasoans I have detained on February 24, 2015 and missed the distinct privilege to represent. HON. GREGG HARPER roll call votes on H.R. 212 and H.R. 734. Had OF MISSISSIPPI I been present, I would have voted Yea on f IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Roll Call 84, and Yea on Roll Call number 85. IN HONOR OF THE 150TH ANNIVER- Wednesday, February 25, 2015 SARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF f KENTUCKY Mr. HARPER. Mr. Speaker, on roll call no. 84 on H.R. 212, I am not recorded due to in- OUR UNCONSCIONABLE NATIONAL clement weather resulting in a travel delay. DEBT HON. ANDY BARR Had I been present, I would have voted OF KENTUCKY Aye. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. MIKE COFFMAN f Wednesday, February 25, 2015 OF COLORADO RECOGNIZING GABRIELLE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. BARR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to rec- DEBINSKI AND MILLICENT ognize and honor the University of Kentucky, ALLAN OF THE UNI-CAPITOL Wednesday, February 25, 2015 which celebrates its sesquicentennial anniver- WASHINGTON INTERNSHIP PRO- Mr. COFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, on January sary this month. As an original land grant re- GRAM search university and Kentucky’s flagship pub- 20, 2009, the day President Obama took of- lic institution of higher learning, UK is the cor- fice, the national debt was nerstone of education in the Commonwealth, HON. ALCEE L. HASTINGS $10,626,877,048,913.08. having prepared graduates of exceptional OF FLORIDA Today, it is $18,141,409,083,212.36. We’ve quality and character for 150 years. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES added $7,514,532,034,299.28 to our debt in 6 With humble beginnings in 1865, the school years. This is over $7.5 trillion in debt our na- Wednesday, February 25, 2015 began as the Agricultural and Mechanical Col- tion, our economy, and our children could lege of Kentucky University. In the time since Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, for decades have avoided with a balanced budget amend- its founding, the University of Kentucky has the United States and Australia have shared a ment.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:22 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A25FE8.003 E25FEPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS E248 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks February 25, 2015 HONORING WILKINSON MIDDLE vately held company in Gravois Mills, Mis- an appreciation for the enduring friendships SCHOOL STUDENT TANNER souri, called Chevron Sierra Land Co. This our two nations have maintained. BARNDOLLAR company sells parcels of land in Carter, Rip- Mr. Speaker, I would like to once more ley, Iron, Washington, Camden, and Morgan thank Eric, Sally, my colleagues who have HON. SANDER M. LEVIN counties. also hosted their own Unofficial Australian Am- bassadors, as well as the nation of Australia OF MICHIGAN William Wolfe’s service in the military has for sharing in this truly one-of-a kind experi- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES been truly admirable and his businesses have greatly benefited our Missouri community. It is ence. I look forward to welcoming future Uni- Wednesday, February 25, 2015 my pleasure to recognize his achievements Capitol Washington Internship students into Mr. LEVIN. Mr. Speaker, it is with great and service before the House of Representa- my office. pleasure that I rise to recognize an eighth tives. f grade student from my district, Tanner f RECOGNIZING THE 100TH ANNIVER- Barndollar, for his work in designing a mission A TRIBUTE TO SALLY KNOWLES- SARY OF THE BLOOMINGTON patch that was recently flown to the Inter- CHAMBER OF COMMERCE national Space Station. Tanner attends JACKSON AND THE UNI-CAPITOL Wilkinson Middle School in Madison Heights, WASHINGTON INTERNSHIP PRO- Michigan. GRAM HON. TODD C. YOUNG Mission patches have been used on NASA OF INDIANA flights since the early days of the U.S. space HON. JOE COURTNEY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES program. The tradition was for the astronauts OF CONNECTICUT Wednesday, February 25, 2015 to design a patch to symbolize their flight. To IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. YOUNG of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, I rise this day, I remember the mission patch for the Wednesday, February 25, 2015 today to recognize the centennial celebration Apollo 11 flight to the Moon. The patch for that of the Greater Bloomington Chamber of Com- mission was designed by the pilot of the com- Mr. COURTNEY. Mr. Speaker, as one of merce. Since 1915, the Chamber of Com- mand module, Michael Collins, and showed a our closest allies, the nation of Australia has merce has been a vital resource for the better- bald eagle landing on the Moon carrying an stood steadfast with the United States as we ment of business in the Bloomington, Indiana olive branch in its talons. That patch became tackle issues of great importance to both na- community. an iconic emblem of the first Moon landing. tions. Like any strong friendship, our bilateral Over the past 100 years, the Greater To this day, mission patches remain impor- relationship requires that we collaborate and Bloomington Chamber of Commerce has of- tant symbols of all NASA flights. The patch exchange ideas. I have been fortunate to work fered exceptional leadership opportunities, designed by Tanner Barndollar accompanied a with Ambassador Kim Beazley to foster com- meaningful volunteer activities and exclusive microgravity experiment designed by four merce between Connecticut and Australia, and business-building programs. The Chamber is other Wilkinson students. Unfortunately, the have had the pleasure of hosting the Ambas- the region’s principal advocate for business. first attempt to get this experiment and the sador in my home state. And for many years, By providing chief support for local and state- mission patch up to the international space I have continued learning about Australia’s wide transportation projects, the development station failed when the unmanned rocket car- goals and priorities by hosting a series of intel- of public water resources and downtown revi- rying them exploded shortly after liftoff last Oc- ligent, dedicated, and curious young profes- talization projects, the Chamber demonstrates tober. Fortunately, NASA was able to find sionals in my office through the Uni-Capitol itself as a forward-thinking organization that is space on another rocket to the space station Washington Internship Program. deeply concerned about the well-being of the that launched in January, and the Wilkinson The program places 15 students of Aus- community. In addition, its workforce pre- microgravity experiment and Tanner’s mission tralia’s best and brightest students in intern- paredness programming, aimed at the area’s patch were carried into orbit on that flight. ships in Congressional offices, federal agen- large population of students and young profes- Tanner’s patch shows his obvious pride in cies, and committees to lend an able hand to sionals, exhibits a commitment to building bet- his country, community and school, as well as office operations, learn about American gov- ter business for future generations in Bloom- his fellow students’ participation in the Student ernment, and serve as what they often call ington. Spaceflight Experiments Program. His design themselves: Unofficial Ambassadors. Bloomington’s local economy has greatly was selected from more than 51,000 student I would be remiss not to note that this im- benefited from the Chamber’s work over the designs from around the country. portant relationship would not be possible past century. As a result of its efforts, the Indi- I ask all of my colleagues to join me in rec- without the dedication of Mr. Eric Federing, ana Chamber of Commerce named Bloom- ognizing Tanner Barndollar and all the other who year after year shepherds a new genera- ington its 2011 Chamber of Year and its 2014 young Americans who participated in the tion of Australian students into our nation’s Community of the Year. In 2012, the Chamber NASA Student Spaceflight Experiments Pro- capital. Over the course of its 16 years, the received the national Chamber of Year Award gram. Uni-Capitol Washington Internship Program from the Association of Chamber of Com- merce Executives, an accomplishment that is f has brought an impressive 170 students from 10 Australian universities to the United States a testament to its outstanding service to the HONORING WILLIAM WOLFE Congress. business community. This year I was privileged to have Sally Mr. Speaker and colleagues, please join me HON. JASON SMITH Knowles-Jackson join our office from the Uni- in honoring the Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce for its tireless years of dedica- OF MISSOURI versity of Melbourne where she is studying to tion. I wish the Chamber continued success in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES be a lawyer. I would like to offer my sincere thanks to Sally for her hard work and dedica- its service to local business for the next 100 Wednesday, February 25, 2015 tion. Curious and positive, she quickly ad- years. Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I rise justed to the fast-paced life of a Congressional f today to honor William Wolfe for his excep- office and eagerly took on the tasks and re- COMMEMORATING THE LIVES tional service to our nation and Missouri. Mr. sponsibilities of her position. While in the LOST DURING THE KHOJALY Wolfe began his twenty years of military serv- UniCapitol program, she has had the oppor- MASSACRE ice with the United States Army at the age of tunity to meet with officials from the Australian seventeen. During his years in the Army, he Embassy and the UN, attend briefings and served as a pilot in the Vietnam War and flew hearings, meet with White House officials, HON. PETE OLSON OF TEXAS AH–1 Cobra helicopters in combat. Two Pur- members of the DC media, and learn the ins IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ple Hearts were awarded to him for the and outs of the Capitol building’s historic halls. wounds he endured during combat. He retired Sally has been able to learn not only about life Wednesday, February 25, 2015 in 1980 at the rank of Captain. in D.C., but also about our constituents back Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to After having served in the military, he re- home in Connecticut. again ask my colleagues to join me in remem- turned home and began to explore different When she returns to Melbourne next week bering the devastating atrocities that took venues of business. He operated and owned it is my hope that Sally will bring with her an place in Azerbaijani town of Khojaly on Feb- a general store in Grandin, Missouri, for a understanding of the American legislative ruary 26, 1992. Thanks to Armenian and Com- number of years and in 1995 he formed a pri- process, knowledge of Washington, DC, and monwealth of Independent States (CIS) forces

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:22 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A25FE8.009 E25FEPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS February 25, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E249 over the course of 22 hours, 613 civilian lives Defense and been appointed and reappointed rently a 7th grader at Sky View Middle School were lost. Innocent children, women and el- to his long-held position by no fewer than in Leominster, Massachusetts, Kylee is an ex- derly men were brutally murdered. eight U.S. Presidents—Republican and Demo- ceptional young activist who began this non- Since this tragedy took place in the early crat alike. His accomplishments as a practi- profit organization at the age of 10 to help 1990’s, Azerbaijan has worked to heal and be- tioner and proponent of net assessment and food insecure children in her school. come a successful country, with a booming truly strategic thinking have shaped U.S. pol- In 2012, Kylee recognized that there were economy. As a result, the economy of Azer- icy for decades and changed the way that children going hungry on the weekends be- baijan is the fastest growing among the CIS generations of strategists and policymakers cause they didn’t have enough food to eat. states. In the turbulent geopolitical region, thought—and will continue to think—about de- Kylee started out with a goal to help 10 chil- Azerbaijan is a reliable partner of the United fense. He has my thanks and those of a grate- dren per week by providing them with a ‘‘kare States. Moreover, Azerbaijan is a close ally ful nation. kit’’ of non-perishable food items to take home and trade partner with another strong Amer- f over the weekend. Today, Kylee, along with ican ally—Israel—in the region. the help of her family and fellow classmates Mr. Speaker, we must stand close by our al- PATRICK SULLIVAN TRIBUTE have been providing ‘‘kare kits’’ of non-perish- lies. That is why I urge my colleagues to rec- able food items to over 200 students every ognize the human tragedy that occurred in HON. SCOTT R. TIPTON Friday. Azerbaijan 23 years ago. Please, join me and OF COLORADO Last fall, as part of the Unilever Project Sun- all of our Azerbaijani friends in commemo- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES light program, Kylee traveled to Mumbai, India rating the lives lost during the Khojaly mas- to film a commercial to raise awareness about Wednesday, February 25, 2015 sacre. child hunger. In the commercial Kylee states, f Mr. TIPTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ‘‘The enemy is hunger—not the hungry.’’ honor Patrick Sullivan, Rio Grande County’s When asked why she does what she does, CONGRATULATIONS LEAGUE OF Road and Bridge Supervisor and the 2014 re- she simply states ‘‘It is better to give than re- WOMEN VOTERS OF THE SAN cipient of the Colorado Association of Road ceive and I receive so much more than what BERNARDINO AREA FOR ITS Supervisors and Engineers Supervisor of the I give. It is so important to be grateful for all 60TH ANNIVERSARY Year Award. we have and pay it forward when we can.’’ In addition to his 35 years with Rio Grande The work that Kylee is doing to end hunger is HON. PAUL COOK County, the glowing letters of recommendation truly inspirational. She is a leader and role OF CALIFORNIA he received from his community speak to Mr. model. I am proud to represent Kylee, and I IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Sullivan’s dedication. In addition to his duties thank Kylee for her extraordinary service to as Road and Bridge Supervisor, he also Wednesday, February 25, 2015 the City of Leominster. I know that all of my serves as assistant fire chief for the Monte colleagues in the House will join me in paying Mr. COOK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay Vista Fire Department. He received rec- tribute to this remarkable young woman. tribute to the League of Women Voters of the ommendations from the Colorado State Patrol f San Bernardino Area celebrating its 60th year and the SLV Hazardous Substance Board, anniversary. who both emphasized his unflagging devotion PERSONAL EXPLANATION Irmagard Blum, Margaret Chandler, Sibyl to Rio Grande County. Disch, Joan Fallert, Jane Hall, Sally Hartley, According to his coworkers, Mr. Sullivan HON. PETER A. DeFAZIO Jerry Keller, Jane Kotnerm, Ruther Kekkonen, goes above and beyond, and performs his du- OF OREGON Gerry Pico, Jackie Russler, and Nancy Smith ties with a commitment to excellence and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES founded the League of Women Voters of San dedication to his team. Their recommenda- Bernardino on March 17, 1955. The League of tions and the nomination speak to the mutual Wednesday, February 25, 2015 Women Voters of San Bernardino objective is commitment he and his team has to public Mr. DEFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, on February 24, to promote political participation amongst citi- safety and their community. For Mr. Sullivan, 2015 I was unable to be present and missed zens, especially women, without partisan bias. his duties are more than a job; they are a way the following votes: The League of Women voters of San to serve and strengthen his community. On Roll Call vote 84, on Motion to Suspend Bernardino continue their commitment to sup- Mr. Speaker, it is an honor to recognize Pat- the Rules and Pass, As Amended, H.R. 212, port political action and advocacy. For its past rick Sullivan. He is not only a hard working the Drinking Water Protection Act, I would 60 years, this organization has committed over civil servant but a dedicated husband and fa- have voted Yes. six decades to support local services for vot- ther. His contributions have and will continue On Roll Call Vote 85, on Motion to Suspend ers, from registration, serving as a witness, to make Rio Grande County a great place to the Rules and pass H.R. 734, the FCC Con- and partake in other acts to ensure citizen live for those who call it home. solidated Reporting Act of 2015, I would have participation in and oversight of the election f voted Yes. process. f The League of Women Voters in San PERSONAL EXPLANATION Bernardino Area educates citizens on issues IN RECOGNITION OF MRS. TERRY and candidates, supports voter registration, HON. BARBARA LEE WAGONER ON THE OCCASION OF HER RETIREMENT and encourages citizens to create and imple- OF CALIFORNIA ment positive policy in Congress. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. JAMES R. LANGEVIN f Wednesday, February 25, 2015 OF RHODE ISLAND RECOGNIZING THE SERVICE OF Ms. LEE. Mr. Speaker, I was not present for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ANDREW MARSHALL roll call votes 84–85 due to a family emer- Wednesday, February 25, 2015 gency. Had I been present, I would have HON. J. RANDY FORBES voted yes on #84 and yes on #85. Mr. LANGEVIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to OF VIRGINIA f congratulate Mrs. Terry Wagoner of Royal IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Oak, Michigan, on her retirement from William IN RECOGNITION OF KYLEE Beaumont Hospital after 44 years of dedicated Wednesday, February 25, 2015 MCCUMBER service as a Registered Nurse. Mr. FORBES. Mr. Speaker, I rise in recogni- Mrs. Wagoner began her nursing career at tion of Andrew Marshall, the recently retired HON. JAMES P. McGOVERN Beaumont after graduating from Grace Nurs- Director of the Pentagon’s Office of Net As- OF MASSACHUSETTS ing School in Detroit, Michigan, in 1970. Her sessment, and the more than 41 years of dis- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES time at Beaumont spanned the hospital’s tinguished and dedicated service that he has growth from a community hospital to one of rendered to his office and his country. Always Wednesday, February 25, 2015 the nation’s leading hospitals. one to avoid the limelight and shun the rec- Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today Predominantly working with medical and ognition he deserves, Mr. Marshall has quietly to honor the work of the founder of Kylee’s geriatric patients throughout her career, Mrs. but ably served twelve different Secretaries of Kare Kits for Kidz, Inc., Kylee McCumber. Cur- Wagoner’s kindness and compassion have

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:38 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A25FE8.013 E25FEPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS E250 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks February 25, 2015 made her one of Beaumont’s top nurses and rounding areas. In 2014, over 78,000 meals tering into a system unprepared to meet their a mentor to the generations that have followed were delivered through MEALS ON WHEELS. needs, and one that disincentivizes the oppor- in her footsteps. Mrs. Wagoner’s dedication to Providing hot meals everyday not only meets tunity and independence the Society has the care and well-being of her patients often the physical needs of the elderly and home- worked to achieve. included taking care of the emotional needs of bound but the smiles and kind words that With the strong support and hard work of their family members. Holidays with her own MEALS ON WHEELS volunteers bring with the Society, last Congress, we enacted my family often included a family member of a pa- each meal offer joy and hope with each deliv- Autism CARES Act which calls for an agency tient who had nowhere to go. ery. report that lays the foundation for better ad- Mrs. Wagoner has given tirelessly to William With the increasing need for programs to dressing the aging out crisis. Beaumont Hospital, to her patients, to her col- feed the homebound and seniors in our area, The Society provided extremely valuable leagues and to her family. I am proud to con- Christian Services has partnered with the City input into my legislation, now P.L. 113–157, gratulate her on this accomplishment, and of Hattiesburg and the national MEALS ON which authorizes $1.3 billion over five years to wish her well in a retirement that is so richly WHEELS ‘‘No Senior Goes Hungry’’ campaign continue the critical pipeline of federal re- deserved. to raise awareness to the program and its search dollars, and was the first piece of en- f contribution to the community. On behalf of acted legislation to address aging out. The Au- the Fourth Congressional District of Mis- tism CARES Act tasked multiple Federal THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF sissippi and the United States House of Rep- agencies to provide a comprehensive study on BROADCASTERS’ CONTRIBUTIONS resentatives, I wish MEALS ON WHEELS con- the needs of autistic young adults and TO THEIR LOCAL COMMUNITIES tinued success in their valiant effort to help transitioning youth and how they can better their fellow man and commend the City of Hat- shape policies and programs to meet these HON. HENRY C. ‘‘HANK’’ JOHNSON, JR. tiesburg for declaring March to be March for needs. OF GEORGIA Meals Month. This important law—like so many critical IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES f policy changes over the past 50 years—would Wednesday, February 25, 2015 not have been possible without the Autism So- AUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICA’S ciety of America. Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I 50TH YEAR CELEBRATION I am so proud of and deeply grateful for the rise today to formally recognize the contribu- work of all of the volunteers and staff of the tion of broadcasters across the country and HON. CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH Autism Society of America and their affiliates. from my home state of Georgia. Every com- OF NEW JERSEY Thank you for your hard work and daily community is impacted by broadcasters, the indi- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mitment to improving the lives of individuals viduals who have dedicated their lives to dis- Wednesday, February 25, 2015 with autism. seminating important information by radio and f television. As north Georgia prepares for Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, I snow, ice and sleet today and tonight—broad- rise today to call attention to the Autism Soci- PERSONAL EXPLANATION casters are my constituents’ go-to source for ety of America’s 50th Year Celebration and the latest on road conditions, power outages commemorate the organization on five dec- HON. GREGG HARPER and school closings. We turn to broadcasters ades of extraordinary service and effective ad- OF MISSISSIPPI first—whether we are in our cars listening to vocacy on behalf of the autism community. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the radio, or watching the news on television In 1964, concerned parents of children with at home. autism—including Ruth Sullivan, Dr. Bernie Wednesday, February 25, 2015 There are over 500 local radio and tele- Rimand and Dan Torisky—joined together to Mr. HARPER. Mr. Speaker, on roll call no. vision stations in Georgia. In 2014 alone, local form what is now called the Autism Society of 85 on H.R. 734, I am not recorded due to in- radio and television stations in Georgia pro- America. Continuing to implement the vision of clement weather resulting in a travel delay. duced over 50,000 hours of original over-the- its founders, the Society today is a grassroots Had I been present, I would have voted Aye. air news programming, representing an in- organization that ensures parents have quality f crease from 2013. Broadcasters have created options and the supports necessary for their over 85,000 jobs in Georgia and the radio and child to live and prosper in our communities. WELCOMING ONA BROWN TO television industry had an economic impact on The Autism Society of America and its 104 ‘‘MOVING FORWARD AND SET- Georgia of over $39 billion in 2012. local and state affiliates work towards one TING THE WORLD’’ f goal: to help each individual with autism maximize his or her quality of life. HON. BRIAN HIGGINS COMMENDING THE CITY OF HAT- Having worked with the Society’s remark- OF NEW YORK TIESBURG FOR DECLARING THE able president Scott Badesch—a tenacious IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MONTH OF MARCH AS MARCH and wise leader—I can attest to the dedication Wednesday, February 25, 2015 FOR MEALS MONTH and commitment of the organization’s leadership, and its staff and volunteers. Each person Mr. HIGGINS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to HON. STEVEN M. PALAZZO who comes to the Autism Society gains the welcome Ms. Ona Brown to the annual Black OF MISSISSIPPI knowledge that accompanies 50 years of ex- History Month event ‘‘Moving Forward and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES perience to help ensure a life of dignity, re- Setting the World,’’ organized by the Canisius spect and opportunity. College Academic Talent Search Program. Wednesday, February 25, 2015 The organization has played a critical role in The Moving Forward and Setting the World Mr. PALAZZO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to the enactment of many landmark pieces of event will feature the African-German Art Exhi- offer my sincerest appreciation and admiration legislation for individuals with disabilities—in- bition from Homestory, Germany to honor to the City of Hattiesburg, the Honorable cluding the three laws I have written that pro- Black History Month. Mayor Johnny Dupree, and all who were in- vide federal resources for research, services The Canisius College Academic Talent volved in declaring the month of March as and supports for children and adults with au- Search Program, the host of this event, has March for Meals Month in Hattiesburg, Mis- tism. shaped a positive impact on many Western sissippi. March for Meals commemorates the Today, the Society’s mission and work has New York communities. The program is hard-work and selfless dedication of the never been more important or more timely. among eight federally funded TRiO programs MEALS ON WHEELS program, which brings We as a nation are in the midst of a huge yet established under Title IV of the Higher Edu- hot meals to the homes of those in need. largely invisible crisis that begs serious focus cation act of 1965. The Academic Talent I especially want to acknowledge the men and durable remedies. Search Program provides educational, social and women who volunteer and work tirelessly I am referring to the aging out crisis. and career support services for individuals to ensure that the MEALS ON WHEELS pro- Every year, 50,000 young people on the au- with disadvantaged backgrounds in local gram at Christian Services, Inc. is a success. tism spectrum matriculate into adulthood and schools and community service organizations. The program has proven to be a valuable re- are in the process of losing essential services. Ms. Ona Brown, whom I welcome to this source to older adults and homebound individ- Individuals with autism in the aging out gen- event, has recently been named one of the uals in the City of Hattiesburg and its sur- eration and their parents find themselves en- top five speakers in the world by Toastmasters

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Colonel Walkup f today to welcome the accomplished Ms. Ona has participated in deployments to the Middle Brown. I ask you to join me in thanking Ms. East, Europe, Central and South America, and HONORING LARRY SHARP Brown for speaking at this valued local event. Southwest Asia. He has flown combat and I wish Ms. Brown the best on her mission to support missions in Somalia, Bosnia and HON. PETE AGUILAR change the lives of individuals across the Southwest Asia. OF CALIFORNIA globe. While deployed abroad during Operation IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Iraqi Freedom, Colonel Walkup served as the f Wednesday, February 25, 2015 485th Deputy Maintenance Group Com- IN RECOGNITION OF KATHLEEN mander, in charge of the largest C–130 contin- Mr. AGUILAR. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to HODEL gent in the war with 46 assigned aircrafts. In honor the life and legacy of Larry Sharp, a addition, Colonel Walkup served as the 486th community leader from California’s Inland Em- HON. PAUL A. GOSAR and 332nd Maintenance Group Commander, pire. Over the course of his career, Larry OF ARIZONA during which he successfully lead over two Sharp was a consistent advocate for working IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES hundred members in humanitarian, logistics families. From his leadership on crucial economic projects, to his devotion to public edu- Wednesday, February 25, 2015 and aircraft maintenance support with deployments to Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, United cation, to his dedication to support local busi- Mr. GOSAR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Arab Emirates and Kuwait for Operation En- nesses, Larry was an integral part of our com- recognize an exemplary Arizonan, volunteer during Freedom, Operation Joint Forge, the munity. and fundraiser. Kathleen Hodel has become Global War on Terrorism, and Operation Uni- While Larry was the successful CEO and one of Lake Havasu City’s greatest assets fied Response. President of Arrowhead Credit Union, he was over her 20-year career. During this time she Colonel Walkup’s success as a guardsman better known in the community as a leader, has been involved with and served on the is the product of hard work, an exceptional activist, father, and grandfather. He was a true boards of some 18 community organizations. level of dedication, and a love for country that community leader, never failing to stand up Two years ago, Kathy Hodel was diagnosed is unparalleled. and defend his friends or neighbors when they with an aggressive form of bone cancer. The Mr. Speaker, this recognition is certainly were in need. During one of the most difficult irony of the situation that Kathy has spent well-deserved and is a testament to the her- times in recent memory, the 2008 economic years of her life fundraising for cancer re- oism and dedication to duty that has marked crisis, Larry was at the forefront of helping In- search and cancer patients is not lost. She still Colonel Walkup’s exemplary service in the land Empire residents facing housing and fi- continues fundraising and is an active member Tennessee Air National Guard. I, along with nancial challenges. He worked with Repub- of her community. the citizens of a grateful state and nation, ex- licans and Democrats at all levels of govern- Some of Ms. Hodel’s most lasting efforts tend a heartfelt thanks for his outstanding ment, as long as it meant he was working on can be attributed to the fundraising she has service to this great country and wish him the behalf of his community. done on behalf of Mohave Community College very best upon his retirement. Larry was a leader, an advocate, but most Foundation, resulting in a new library, class- f importantly—he was a dear friend and mentor. room buildings, and scholarships for students. He served his community for decades, and we Her list of achievements and awards is long THE MEDICAID PHYSICIAN SELF– are so much better for it. He will be dearly and well-deserved. Most recently, in Novem- REFERRAL ACT OF 2015 missed by his wife Cassie, five children, four ber of 2014, Kathy Hodel was recognized by grandchildren, and the entire Inland Empire the Greater Arizona Chapter of the Associa- HON. JIM McDERMOTT Community. We will always be indebted to him tion of Fundraising Professionals with the Spir- OF WASHINGTON for his devotion and work that bettered the it of Philanthropy Award at the 30th Annual IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lives of San Bernardino County’s working fam- Leadership in Philanthropy Awards Dinner. ilies. Wednesday, February 25, 2015 It is my honor to commend Kathy Hodel for f being such a shining beacon of positive influ- Mr. MCDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today ence and selflessness in the Mohave County to introduce the Medicaid Physician Self-Re- HONORING THE LIFE AND MED- community. She is an example to us all of ferral Act of 2015. This bill makes a necessary ICAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF DR. what can be achieved with hard work, deter- clarification to Section 1902 of the Social Se- JOHN SHEA, JR. mination, enthusiasm and compassion. Kathy, curity Act. It provides that Medicaid designated we thank you for your lifetime of service. health services claims are subject to the same HON. STEVE COHEN f requirements as Medicare designated health OF TENNESSEE services claims under the Physician Self-Re- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRIBUTE TO COLONEL WILLIAM B. ferral Law. WALKUP—TENNESSEE AIR NA- Currently, there is uncertainty among stake- Wednesday, February 25, 2015 TIONAL GUARD holders regarding the extent to which the re- Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to quirements of the Physician Self-Referral Law honor the life and medical contributions of re- HON. SCOTT DesJARLAIS apply to Title XIX of the Social Security Act. nowned surgeon, innovator and ‘‘father of mid- OF TENNESSEE As a result, an important tool for fighting fraud dle-ear surgery,’’ Memphian Dr. John Shea, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in the healthcare system—which has success- Jr. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame fully been employed for many years in the and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Shea served Wednesday, February 25, 2015 Medicare program—is underutilized in the in the Korean War before returning to Mem- Mr. DESJARLAIS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today Medicaid context. Congressional action is phis and taking over his father’s medical prac- to honor Colonel William B. Walkup, Com- needed to provide legislative clarity that will tice in 1952. Two years later, he traveled to mander of the Tennessee National Guard’s strengthen the integrity of the Medicaid pro- Vienna, Austria where he began extensive re- 118th Wing, Mission Support Group. gram in this area. search into otosclerosis that would lead to his After 32 years of dedicated service to our Health care providers subject to the Physi- inventing the world’s first prosthetic stapes— state and country, Colonel Walkup has an- cian Self-Referral Law should not be able to the tiny stirrup-shaped bone in the middle nounced his retirement, effective April 18, avoid penalties simply because a claim is a ear—and performing the groundbreaking 2015. Medicaid claim rather than a Medicare claim. stapedectomy procedure, which has since Through the numerous roles and positions Both programs involve taxpayer money and been used by doctors worldwide. of leadership, Colonel Walkup has made a we need to ensure that law enforcement offi- While in Vienna, he read German manu- lasting impact on the guardsmen of the 118th cials have the tools they need to combat scripts on otosclerosis, which is a condition of Wing and our state’s Air National Guard. fraud, waste, and abuse. the inner ear that causes calcification of the

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Mr. Speaker, today I rise to mation, the Office of the Senate Daily was convinced through his research that the honor the memory of Dr. Erno Scipiades Dan- Digest will prepare this information for revolutionary surgery would work. On May 1, iel who passed away on February 21, 2015. printing in the Extensions of Remarks 1956, he successfully performed the first Dr. Daniel was a devoted and renowned phy- section of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD stapedectomy and went on to repeat the pro- sician in our local community of Santa Bar- on Monday and Wednesday of each cedure nearly 50,000 times during his career bara, California and although he has passed, week. before retiring in 2011. his legacy will remain with us for years to Meetings scheduled for Thursday, In addition to inventing the prosthetic stapes come. February 26, 2015 may be found in the and developing the stapedectomy, Dr. Shea Dr. Daniel was born on December 15, 1946 Daily Digest of today’s RECORD. contributed to otology surgical instruments, in- in Budapest, Hungary and as a child lived cluding drills and microscopes, and through the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. As MEETINGS SCHEDULED a teenager he immigrated to the United States intratympanic perfusion treatment for MARCH 3 Meniere’s disease or spontaneous vertigo. His with his mother and sister to reunite with his father who left for the U.S. a decade earlier. 9 a.m. ingenuity earned him a spot on the London Committee on Commerce, Science, and Times list of ‘‘1,000 Makers of the Twentieth In 1964, Dr. Daniel not only earned his Amer- Transportation Century’’ and a 1962 featured cover article in ican citizenship, but also a high school di- To hold hearings to examine the Presi- Life magazine as one of five people who were ploma from Santa Barbara High School. He dent’s proposed budget request for fis- recognized as part of ‘‘The Takeover Genera- continued his studies at the California Institute cal year 2016 for the Department of tion.’’ In 2013, he donated 406 papers, includ- of Technology earning an undergraduate de- Commerce and the Department of ing over 300 published articles, documenting gree in chemistry, later receiving a master’s Transportation. his life’s work to the local Memphis Public Li- degree and PhD from the University of Cali- SR–253 fornia, San Diego. An outstanding and hard- 2:30 p.m. brary’s Memphis Room. Dr. Shea belonged to Committee on Armed Services more than 50 scientific societies, and was a working student, Dr. Daniel then graduated To hold hearings to examine a review of clinical professor in the otolaryngology depart- from medical school at the University of Cali- the Defense Authorization Request for ments of the University of Tennessee, the Uni- fornia, Los Angeles, where he also completed fiscal year 2016 and the Future Years versity of Mississippi, the University of North his residency in internal medicine. Defense Program. Carolina and Tulane University. Additionally, Dr. Daniel is known as a dedicated and dis- SH–216 he received honorary doctorates from Mem- tinguished physician throughout our commu- Committee on Banking, Housing, and phis schools Christian Brothers University and nity where he practiced at the local Sansum Urban Affairs Clinic since 1978. Later in his life he also To hold hearings to examine Federal Re- Rhodes College, and an honorary fellowship serve accountability and reform. from the Australian and English Royal College served as the medical director of the Vista del SD–538 of Surgeons. Monte Rehabilitation and Care Center, was on Committee on the Judiciary In 1985, Dr. Shea opened the Shea Ear the medical and scientific advisory board of Subcommittee on Immigration and the Na- Clinic at Poplar and Ridgeway in Memphis the Center for Cognitive Fitness and Innova- tional Interest where his son, Dr. Paul Shea, continues the tive Therapies of Santa Barbara, and devoted To hold an oversight hearing to examine family practice today. Dr. Shea, Jr. was a pio- his time at Santa Barbara’s Cottage Hospital United States citizenship and immigra- neer in the field of otology and a legendary teaching in the internal medicine residency tion services, focusing on ensuring program. Known for his expertise in geriatric angency priorities comply with the doctor who helped usher in a new era of treat- law. ment. He came from one family of physicians medicine, Dr. Daniel established himself as a SD–226 and leaves behind another. My father, Dr. leading educator in dementia and Alzheimer’s Morris D. Cohen, taught me about Dr. Shea, disease. He traveled across the United States MARCH 4 Sr. and Jr. and always spoke admiringly of lecturing on these diseases and was the au- 9:30 a.m. them and their level of professionalism. While thor of a variety of educational sources dis- Committee on Environment and Public many Memphis physicians have received na- cussing the topic. Works tional acclaim, none have been more re- Not only was Dr. Daniel a brilliant physician, To hold an oversight hearing to examine nowned than Dr. John Shea, Jr. Memphis will but also a loving husband, father, and grand- the President’s proposed budget remiss Dr. John Shea, Jr., and I send my con- father. Married to the love of his life for over quest for fiscal year 2016 for the Envi- ronmental Protection Agency. dolences to his wife Lynda Lee Mead; sons 38 years, there was nothing that brought him greater happiness than his family. His medical SD–406 Paul and Dr. John Shea III (private practice 10 a.m. otologist); daughters Susanna Shea and legacy and kindness towards others will live Committee on Appropriations Wendy Canarios; seven grandchildren and on through both his family and the numerous Subcommittee on Department of the Inte- three great grandchildren; and his friends and patients whose lives he touched throughout rior, Environment, and Related Agen- loved ones. I ask my colleagues to join me in his professional career. He will be greatly cies recognizing the life and medical contributions missed by his colleagues, patients, family, and To hold hearings to examine proposed of Dr. John Shea, Jr. His was a life well-lived. the greater Santa Barbara community. budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2016 for the Department of f I offer my heartfelt condolences to Dr. Dan- iel’s family and friends, and ask my colleagues the Interior. PERSONAL EXPLANATION SD–124 to join me in honoring this exemplary citizen Committee on the Budget and member of the Santa Barbara community. To hold hearings to examine wasteful du- HON. JOHN FLEMING f plication in the Federal government. OF LOUISIANA SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS SD–608 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Committee on Commerce, Science, and Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, Transportation Wednesday, February 25, 2015 agreed to by the Senate of February 4, Subcommittee on Surface Transportation Mr. FLEMING. Mr. Speaker, I was unable to 1977, calls for establishment of a sys- and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, be in Washington for votes on Tuesday, Feb- tem for a computerized schedule of all Safety and Security meetings and hearings of Senate com- To hold hearings to examine surface ruary 24, 2015. Winter weather conditions in transportation reauthorization, focus- Northern Louisiana caused my flight to be mittees, subcommittees, joint commit- ing on oversight and reform of the Fed- cancelled. Had I been in attendance, I would tees, and committees of conference. eral Motor Carrier Safety Administra- have voted NAY on H.R. 212 and AYE on This title requires all such committees tion. H.R. 734. to notify the Office of the Senate Daily SR–253

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Committee on Veterans’ Affairs to ex- eral permitting process through re- SD–192 amine the legislative presentation forms overseen by the Director of the 2:30 p.m. from the American Veterans, Para- Office of Management and Budget, H.R. Committee on Appropriations lyzed Veterans of America, Military Of- 460, to direct the Secretary of Home- Subcommittee on Energy and Water Devel- ficers Association of America, Military land Security to train Department of opment Order of the Purple Heart, Iraq and Af- Homeland Security personnel how to To hold hearings to examine proposed ghanistan Veterans of America, Viet- effectively deter, detect, disrupt, and budget estimates and justification for nam Veterans of America, Blinded Vet- prevent human trafficking during the fiscal year 2016 for the Nuclear Regu- erans Association, and the National course of their primary roles and re- latory Commission. sponsibilities, H.R. 615, to amend the Council on Aging. SD–192 CHOB–345 Homeland Security Act of 2002 to re- Committee on Armed Services quire the Under Secretary for Manage- Subcommittee on Personnel MARCH 12 ment of the Department of Homeland To hold hearings to examine the Active, Security to take administrative action Guard, Reserve, and civilian personnel 2:30 p.m. to achieve and maintain interoperable programs in review of the Defense Au- Committee on Armed Services communications capabilities among thorization Request for fiscal year 2016 Subcommittee on Strategic Forces the components of the Department of and the Future Years Defense Pro- To receive a closed briefing on missile Homeland Security, an original bill en- gram. defense programs in review of the De- titled, ‘‘Federal Improper Payments SR–232A fense Authorization Request for fiscal Coordination Act’’, an original bill en- Committee on Indian Affairs year 2016 and the Future Years Defense titled, ‘‘Presidential Library Donations To hold hearings to examine S. 438, to Program. Act’’, an original bill entitled, ‘‘Fed- provide for the repair, replacement, SVC–217 eral Vehicle Repair Costs Savings and maintenance of certain Indian irri- Act’’, S. 546, to establish the Railroad gation projects. MARCH 17 Emergency Services Preparedness, SD–628 10 a.m. Operational Needs, and Safety Evalua- Joint Economic Committee Committee on Energy and Natural Re- tion (RESPONSE) Subcommittee under To hold hearings to examine the Eco- sources the Federal Emergency Management nomic Report of the President 2015. To hold hearings to examine the state of Agency’s National Advisory Council to SD–106 technological innovation related to the provide recommendations on emer- 3:30 p.m. electric grid. gency responder training and resources Committee on Armed Services SD–366 relating to hazardous materials inci- Subcommittee on Strategic Forces dents involving railroads, S. 242, to To hold hearings to examine United amend title 5, United States Code, to MARCH 18 States nuclear weapons policy, pro- provide leave to any new Federal em- 10 a.m. grams, and strategy in review of the ployee who is a veteran with a service- Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Defense Authorization Request for fis- connected disability rated at 30 percent To hold a joint hearing with the House cal year 2016 and the Future Years De- or more for purposes of undergoing Committee on Veterans’ Affairs to ex- fense Program. medical treatment for such disability, amine the legislative presentation SR–222 S. 86, to amend title 44 of the United from multiple veterans service organi- States Code, to provide for the suspen- zations. MARCH 5 sion of fines under certain cir- SD–G50 cumstances for first-time paperwork 9:30 a.m. violations by small business concerns, Committee on Armed Services MARCH 24 To hold hearings to examine the postures and S. 136, to amend chapter 21 of title 10 a.m. on the Department of the Army and 5, United States Code, to provide that Committee on Energy and Natural Re- the Department of the Air Force in re- fathers of certain permanently disabled sources or deceased veterans shall be included view of the Defense Authorization Re- To hold hearings to examine manage- with mothers of such veterans as pref- quest for fiscal year 2016 and the Fu- ment reforms to improve forest health erence eligibles for treatment in the ture Years Defense Program. and socioeconomic opportunities on civil service. SD–G50 the nation’s forest system. SD–342 10 a.m. Committee on the Judiciary Committee on Energy and Natural Re- SD–366 To hold hearings to examine whistle- sources blower retaliation at the Federal Bu- To hold hearings to examine opportuni- MARCH 25 reau of Investigation, focusing on im- ties for the United States to build on 2:30 p.m. proving protections and oversight. its status as an Arctic nation for the Committee on Armed Services SD–226 betterment of the nation and those who Subcommittee on Strategic Forces Committee on Veterans’ Affairs live in the Arctic. To hold hearings to examine ballistic To hold a joint hearing with the House SD–366 missile defense programs in review of Committee on Veterans’ Affairs to ex- Committee on Health, Education, Labor, the Defense Authorization Request for amine the legislative presentation of and Pensions fiscal year 2016 and the Future Years the Veterans of Foreign Wars. To hold hearings to examine America’s Defense Program. SD–G50 health information technology (IT) SR–222

VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:22 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\M25FE8.000 E25FEPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS Wednesday, February 25, 2015 Daily Digest Senate Chamber Action Appointments: Congressional-Executive Commission on the Peo- Routine Proceedings, pages S1085–S1126. ple’s Republic of China: The Chair, on behalf of the Measures Introduced: Twenty-one bills and three President of the Senate, pursuant to Public Law resolutions were introduced, as follows: S. 555–575, 106–286, appointed the following Member to serve and S. Res. 85–87. Pages S1117–18 on the Congressional-Executive Commission on the Measures Passed: People’s Republic of China: Senator Rubio. Page S1124 Centennial of the Navy Reserve: Senate agreed to S. Res. 86, recognizing March 3, 2015, as the cen- Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Cen- ter for the Performing Arts: The Chair, on behalf tennial of the Navy Reserve. Pages S1123–24 of the President of the Senate, pursuant to Public Measures Considered: Law 85–874, as amended, appointed the following Department of Homeland Security Appropria- individual to the Board of Trustees of the John F. tions Act—Agreement: Senate continued consider- Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: Senator ation of the motion to proceed to consideration of Blunt. Page S1124 H.R. 240, making appropriations for the Depart- Congressional Award Board: The Chair, on be- ment of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending half of the Democratic Leader, pursuant to Public September 30, 2015. Law 96–114, as amended, appointed the following Pages S1085, S1090–99, S1099–S1109 individual to the Congressional Award Board: Sen- During consideration of this measure today, Senate ator Manchin vice The Honorable Max Baucus of also took the following action: Montana. Page S1124 The motion to proceed to the motion to recon- Message from the President: Senate received the sider the vote by which cloture was not invoked on following message from the President of the United February 5, 2015, was agreed to. Page S1104 States: The motion to reconsider the vote by which clo- Transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on the ture was not invoked on February 5, 2015, was continuation of the national emergency with respect agreed to. Page S1104 to Cuba and of the emergency authority relating to By 98 yeas to 2 nays (Vote No. 58), three-fifths the regulation of the anchorage and movement of of those Senators duly chosen and sworn, having vessels, as amended; which was referred to the Com- voted in the affirmative, Senate upon reconsideration mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. agreed to the motion to close further debate on the (PM–7) Page S1116 motion to proceed to consideration of the bill. Nominations Received: Senate received the fol- Page S1105 lowing nominations: Subsequently, the third motion to invoke cloture Monica C. Regalbuto, of Illinois, to be an Assist- on the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill ant Secretary of Energy (Environmental Manage- was rendered moot. Page S1105 ment). A unanimous-consent agreement was reached pro- Amias Moore Gerety, of Connecticut, to be an As- viding for further consideration of the motion to sistant Secretary of the Treasury. proceed to consideration of the bill, post-cloture, at Willie E. May, of Maryland, to be Under Sec- approximately 11 a.m., on Thursday, February 26, retary of Commerce for Standards and Technology. 2015, and that all time during the adjournment or Anne Elizabeth Wall, of Illinois, to be a Deputy recess of the Senate count against post-cloture time. Under Secretary of the Treasury. Katherine Simonds Dhanani, of Florida, to be Page S1124 Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Somalia. D173

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:41 Dec 01, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0627 Sfmt 0627 E:\RECORD15\FEB 15\D25FE5.REC D25FE5 bjneal on DSK2TWX8P1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE D174 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST February 25, 2015 Sheila Gwaltney, of California, to be Ambassador man, and Stephen E. Buyer, Michael R. Higgins, to the Kyrgyz Republic. General Peter W. Chiarelli, USA (Ret.), Admiral Mickey D. Barnett, of New Mexico, to be a Gov- Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr., USN (Ret.), each a ernor of the United States Postal Service for a term Commissioner, all of the Military Compensation and expiring December 8, 2020. Retirement Modernization Commission, Department Cono R. Namorato, of Virginia, to be an Assistant of Defense; Vice Admiral Norbert R. Ryan, Jr., USN Attorney General. (Ret.), Military Officers Association of America, 1 Air Force nomination in the rank of general. Joyce W. Raezer, National Military Family Associa- 4 Army nominations in the rank of general. tion, and Thomas J. Snee, Fleet Reserve Association, Routine lists in the Army, Marine Corps, and all of Alexandria, Virginia; and Major General Gus Navy. Pages S1125–26 L. Hargett, Jr., ARNG (Ret.), National Guard Asso- Messages from the House: Page S1116 ciation of the United States, Washington, D.C. Measures Referred: Page S1116 REGIONAL NUCLEAR DYNAMICS Executive Communications: Pages S1116–17 Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Stra- tegic Forces concluded a hearing to examine regional Petitions and Memorials: Page S1117 nuclear dynamics, after receiving testimony from An- Additional Cosponsors: Pages S1118–20 drew F. Krepinevich, Center for Strategic and Budg- Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions: etary Assessments, Matthew Kroenig, Georgetown Pages S1120–23 University, and George Perkovich, and Ashley J. Tellis, both of the Carnegie Endowment for Inter- Additional Statements: Pages S1115–16 national Peace, all of Washington, D.C. Authorities for Committees to Meet: Page S1123 AMERICA’S DEBT Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hear- (Total—58) Page S1105 ing to examine America’s debt, after receiving testi- Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and mony from Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Boston University, adjourned at 6:23 p.m., until 11 a.m. on Thursday, Boston, Massachusetts; Heather Pfitzenmaier, The February 26, 2015. (For Senate’s program, see the re- Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.; and Bruce marks of the Majority Leader in today’s Record on Bartlett, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the page S1124.) Treasury for Economic Policy, Great Falls, Virginia. INTERNET GOVERNANCE Committee Meetings Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: (Committees not listed did not meet) Committee concluded a hearing to examine preserving the multistakeholder model of Internet gov- APPROPRIATIONS: AIR FORCE ernance, after receiving testimony from Lawrence E. Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Depart- Strickling, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for ment of Defense concluded a hearing to examine Communications and Information, National Tele- proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal communications and Information Administration; year 2016 for the Air Force, after receiving testi- Fadi Chehade, Internet Corporation for Assigned mony from Deborah Lee James, Secretary, and Gen- Names and Numbers, Los Angeles, California; and eral Mark A. Welsh, Chief of Staff, both of the Air David A. Gross, Wiley Rein LLP, Washington, D.C. Force, Department of Defense. MAP–21 REAUTHORIZATION BUSINESS MEETING Committee on Environment and Public Works: Com- Committee on Appropriations: Committee adopted its mittee concluded a hearing to examine Moving rules of procedure for the 114th Congress. Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP–21) reauthorization, focusing on perspectives MILITARY COMPENSATION AND from owners, operators, and users of the system, after RETIREMENT MODERNIZATION receiving testimony from Carlos M. Braceras, Utah COMMISSION Department of Transportation Executive Director, Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Per- Salt Lake City, on behalf of the American Associa- sonnel concluded a hearing to examine healthcare tion of State Highway and Transportation Officials; recommendations of the Military Compensation and Steve Heminger, Metropolitan Transportation Com- Retirement Modernization Commission, after receiv- mission, San Francisco, California; Thomas J. Rior- ing testimony from Alphonso Maldon, Jr., Chair- dan, Neenah Enterprises, Inc., Neenah, Wisconsin,

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:24 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0627 Sfmt 0627 E:\CR\FM\D25FE5.REC D25FEPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with DIGEST February 25, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST D175 on behalf of the National Association of Manufactur- BUSINESS MEETING ers; Dave Gardner, Ingredion Incorporated, Chicago, Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favor- Illinois, on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Com- ably reported the following business items: merce; and Walt Rowen, Susquehanna Glass Co., S. 230, to provide for the conveyance of certain Lancaster, Pennsylvania. property to the Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corpora- FIGHT AGAINST ISIS tion located in Bethel, Alaska; Committee on Foreign Relations: S. 321, to revoke the charter of incorporation of Committee concluded the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma at the request of that a hearing to examine the fight against the Islamic tribe; and State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), focusing on building S. 501, to make technical corrections to the Nav- the coalition and ensuring military effectiveness, ajo water rights settlement in the State of New Mex- after receiving testimony from General John R. ico. Allen, (USMC, Ret.), Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, Department of INDIAN PROGRAMS BUDGET State. Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an 21ST CENTURY REGULATORY SYSTEM oversight hearing to examine the President’s pro- Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Af- posed budget request for fiscal year 2016 for Indian fairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine a programs, after receiving testimony from Kevin 21st century regulatory system, after receiving testi- Washburn, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for In- mony from Douglas Holtz-Eakin, American Action dian Affairs; Yvette Roubideaux, Senior Advisor to Forum, and Michael Mandel, Progressive Policy In- the Secretary of Health and Human Services for stitute, both of Washington, D.C.; Jerry Ellig, American Indians and Alaska Natives; and Rodger J. George Mason University Mercatus Center, Arling- Boyd, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Housing and ton, Virginia; and Sally Katzen, New York Univer- Urban Development, Office of Public and Indian sity School of Law, New York, New York. Housing, Office of Native American Programs. h House of Representatives Journal: The House agreed to the Speaker’s approval Chamber Action of the Journal by a voice vote. Pages H1121, H1142 Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 38 pub- Amending the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to lic bills, H.R. 1055–1092; and 4 resolutions, H. improve 529 plans: The House passed H.R. 529, Res. 124–127, were introduced. Pages H1162–64 to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to im- Additional Cosponsors: Pages H1165–66 prove 529 plans, by a recorded vote of 401 ayes to Report Filed: A report was filed today as follows: 20 noes, Roll No. 90. Pages H1135–42 H. Res. 125, providing for further consideration Rejected the Ted Lieu (CA) motion to recommit of the bill (H.R. 5) to support State and local ac- the bill to the Committee on Ways and Means with countability for public education, protect State and instructions to report the same back to the House local authority, inform parents of the performance of forthwith with an amendment, by a yea-and-nay vote their children’s schools, and for other purposes (H. of 176 yeas to 243 nays, Roll No. 89. Pages H1139–41 Rept. 114–29). Page H1162 Pursuant to the Rule, the amendment in the na- Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he ture of a substitute recommended by the Committee appointed Representative Hardy to act as Speaker on Ways and Means now printed in the bill shall be pro tempore for today. Page H1119 considered as adopted. Page H1135 Recess: The House recessed at 10:17 a.m. and re- H. Res. 121, the rule providing for consideration convened at 12 noon. Page H1121 of the bills (H.R. 529) and (H.R. 5), was agreed to by a recorded vote of 243 ayes to 178 noes, Roll No. Guest Chaplain: The prayer was offered by the 87, after the previous question was ordered by a yea- Guest Chaplain, Reverend Tierian Cash, National and-nay vote of 241 yeas to 181 nays, Roll No. 86. Chaplain for the American Legion, Longs, South Pages H1126–34 Carolina. Page H1121

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:24 Feb 26, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 0627 Sfmt 0627 E:\CR\FM\D25FE5.REC D25FEPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with DIGEST D176 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST February 25, 2015 Suspension—Proceedings Resumed: The House agreed to suspend the rules and pass the following Committee Meetings measure which was debated on Tuesday, February REVIEW OF THE SNAP PROGRAM 24th: Committee on Agriculture: Full Committee held a hear- STEM Education Act of 2015: H.R. 1020, to de- ing to review the past, present and future of the fine STEM education to include computer science, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Testi- and to support existing STEM education programs at mony was heard from public witnesses. the National Science Foundation, by a 2/3 yea-and- APPROPRIATIONS—QUALITY OF LIFE IN nay vote of 412 yeas to 8 nays, Roll No. 88. THE MILITARY Page H1135 Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Mili- Announcement by the Chair: The Speaker ad- tary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related dressed the Members on matters of decorum in the Agencies held a budget hearing on quality of life in House. Page H1141 the military. Testimony was heard from Command Committee Elections: The House agreed to H. Res. Sergeant Major Daniel A. Dailey, United States 124, electing Members to certain standing commit- Army; Master Chief Petty Officer Michael D. Ste- vens, United States Navy; Sergeant Major Ronald tees of the House of Representatives. Page H1142 Green, United States Marine Corps; and Chief Mas- Student Success Act: The House began consider- ter Sergeant James A. Cody, United States Air Force. ation of H.R. 5, to support State and local accountability for public education, protect State and local APPROPRIATIONS—DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, OFFICE OF THE authority, and inform parents of the performance of SECRETARY their children’s schools. Further proceedings were postponed. Pages H1142–50 Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agri- H. Res. 121, the rule providing for consideration culture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Admin- of the bills (H.R. 529) and (H.R. 5), was agreed to istration, and Related Agencies held a hearing on by a recorded vote of 243 ayes to 178 noes, Roll No. Department of Agriculture, Office of the Secretary 87, after the previous question was ordered by a yea- budget. Testimony was heard from the following and-nay vote of 241 yeas to 181 nays, Roll No. 86. Department of Agriculture officials: Thomas Vilsack, Secretary; Robert Johansson, Chief Economist; and Pages H1126–34 Michael Young, Budget Officer. Recess: The House recessed at 6:42 p.m. and recon- INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE OVERSIGHT vened at 9:56 p.m. Page H1161 Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Finan- Presidential Message: Read a message from the cial Services and General Government held a hearing President wherein he notified Congress that the na- on Internal Revenue Service oversight. Testimony tional emergency declared on March 1, 1996, with was heard from J. Russell George, Treasury Inspector respect to the Government of Cuba’s destruction of General for Tax Administration, Department of the two unarmed U.S.-registered civilian aircraft in Treasury; and Nina E. Olson, National Taxpayer Ad- international airspace north of Cuba on February 24, vocate, Internal Revenue Service. 1996, as amended and expanded on February 26, 2004, is to continue in effect beyond March 1, APPROPRIATIONS—DEPARTMENT OF 2015—referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES and ordered to be printed (H. Doc. 114–12). Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Page H1161 Health and Human Services, and Education held a Quorum Calls—Votes: Three yea-and-nay votes hearing on Department of Health and Human Serv- ices budget. Testimony was heard from Sylvia and two recorded votes developed during the pro- Burwell, Secretary, Department of Health and ceedings of today and appear on pages H1133–34, Human Services. H1134, H1135, H1140–41, and H1141–42. There were no quorum calls. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, AND NATIONAL Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and ad- AERONAUTICS AND SPACE journed at 9:57 p.m. ADMINISTRATION OVERSIGHT Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Com- merce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies held a hearing on Department of Justice, Department of

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Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, hearing entitled hold hearings to examine medical and public health pre- ‘‘Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Request for Strategic Forces’’, paredness and response, focusing on future threats, 10 1:30 p.m., 2118 Rayburn. a.m., SD–430. Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider on Workforce Protections; and Subcommittee on Health, S. 178, to provide justice for the victims of trafficking, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, hearing entitled ‘‘The S. 166, to stop exploitation through trafficking, and the Blacklisting Executive Order: Rewriting Federal Labor nominations of Loretta E. Lynch, of New York, to be At- Policies Through Executive Fiat’’, 10 a.m., 2175 Ray- torney General, Michelle K. Lee, of California, to be burn. Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Health, hearing entitled ‘‘Examining the FY 2016 HHS Office, Alfred H. Bennett, George C. Hanks, Jr., and Jose Budget’’, 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn. Rolando Olvera, Jr., each to be a United States District Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Judge for the Southern District of Texas, Jill N. Parrish, Trade, hearing entitled ‘‘Update: Patent Demand Letter to be United States District Judge for the District of Practices and Solutions’’, 10:15 a.m., 2322 Rayburn. Utah, and Nancy B. Firestone, of Virginia, Thomas L. Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Hous- Halkowski, of Pennsylvania, Patricia M. McCarthy, of ing and Insurance, hearing entitled ‘‘The Future of Hous- Maryland, Jeri Kaylene Somers, of Virginia, and Armando ing in America: Oversight of the Federal Housing Ad- Omar Bonilla, of the District of Columbia, each to be a ministration—Part II’’, 10 a.m., 2220 Rayburn. Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims, 9:30 Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Asia and a.m., SD–226. the Pacific, hearing entitled ‘‘Across the Other Pond: U.S. Committee on Veterans’ Affairs: to hold hearings to exam- Opportunities and Challenges in the Asia Pacific’’, 10 ine the President’s proposed budget request for fiscal year a.m., 2172 Rayburn. 2016 for Veterans’ programs and fiscal year 2017 advance Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, hearing appropriations request, 9:30 a.m., SR–418. entitled ‘‘The President’s New Cuba Policy and U.S. Na- Select Committee on Intelligence: to receive a closed brief- tional Security’’, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn. ing on certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH–219. Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations; and House Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Nutrition, joint hearing entitled ‘‘The Shame of Iranian Human hearing to better understand the SNAP population Rights’’, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn. through published research, 1 p.m., 1300 Longworth. Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Over- Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Energy sight and Management Efficiency, hearing entitled ‘‘As- and Water Development, hearing on Department of En- sessing DHS’s Performance: Watchdog Recommendations ergy budget, 9:30 a.m., 2359 Rayburn. to Improve Homeland Security’’, 10 a.m., 311 Cannon. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, hearing entitled ‘‘Addressing Remaining Gaps in Federal, hearing on Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and State, and Local Information Sharing’’, 2 p.m., 311 Can- Inspection Service budget, 10 a.m., 2362–A Rayburn. non. Subcommittee on Defense, hearing on United States Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Navy budget, 10 a.m., H–140 Capitol. Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations, hear- Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, ing entitled ‘‘ISIL in America: Domestic Terror and and Education, oversight hearing on the vital responsi- Radicalization’’, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn. bility of serving the nation’s aging and disabled commu- Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and nities, 10 a.m., 2358–C Rayburn. Antitrust Law, hearing on H.R. 870, the ‘‘Puerto Rico Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Chapter 9 Uniformity Act of 2015’’, 11:30 a.m., 2237 Agencies, hearing on Environmental Protection Agency Rayburn. budget, 1 p.m., 2359 Rayburn. Full Committee, hearing entitled ‘‘The U.S. Copyright Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Office: Its Functions and Resources’’, 1:30 p.m., 2141 Development, and Related Agencies, hearing on Depart- Rayburn. ment of Transportation budget, 1 p.m., 2358–A Ray- Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Sub- burn. committee on Health Care, Benefits and Administrative Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, hearing on Archi- Rules, hearing entitled ‘‘From Health Care Enrollment to tect of the Capitol and Library of Congress budgets, 1:30 Tax Filing: A PPACA Update’’, 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn. p.m., HT–2 Capitol. Subcommittee on the Interior, hearing entitled ‘‘Exam- Committee on Armed Services, Full Committee, hearing ining the Impacts of EPA Air and Water Regulations on entitled ‘‘Outside Perspectives on the President’s Pro- the States and the American People’’, 2 p.m., 2154 Ray- posed Authorization for the Use of Military Force Against burn. the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’’, 10 a.m., 2118 Full Committee, hearing entitled ‘‘IRS: TIGTA Up- Rayburn. date’’, 7 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.

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Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee Committee on Ways and Means, Full Committee, markup on Research and Technology, hearing entitled ‘‘Overview on H.R. 1021, the ‘‘Protecting the Integrity of Medicare of the Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Proposals for the Na- Act of 2015’’; H.R. 284, the ‘‘Medicare DMEPOS Com- tional Science Foundation and National Institute of petitive Bidding Improvement Act of 2015’’; H.R. 876, Standards and Technology’’, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn. the ‘‘NOTICE Act’’; and H.R. 887, the ‘‘Electronic Health Fairness Act of 2015’’, 10 a.m., HVC–210.

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Next Meeting of the SENATE Next Meeting of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 11 a.m., Thursday, February 26 10 a.m., Thursday, February 26

Senate Chamber House Chamber Program for Thursday: Senate will continue consider- Program for Thursday: Complete consideration of H.R. ation of the motion to proceed to consideration of H.R. 5—Student Success Act (Subject to a Rule). 240, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, post-cloture.

Extensions of Remarks, as inserted in this issue.

HOUSE DesJarlais, Scott, Tenn., E251 McGovern, James P., Mass., E249 Fleming, John, La., E252 Olson, Pete, Tex., E248 Aguilar, Pete, Calif., E251 Forbes, J. Randy, Va., E249 O’Rourke, Beto, Tex., E246 Barr, Andy, Ky., E247 Foster, Bill, Ill., E246 Palazzo, Steven M., Miss., E250 Bost, Mike, Ill., E247 Gosar, Paul A., Ariz., E251 Ruiz, Raul, Calif., E245 Capps, Lois, Calif., E252 Harper, Gregg, Miss., E247, E250 Ca´ rdenas, Tony, Calif., E246 Hastings, Alcee L., Fla., E247 Smith, Christopher H., N.J., E250 Coffman, Mike, Colo., E247 Higgins, Brian, N.Y., E246, E250 Smith, Jason, Mo., E248 Cohen, Steve, Tenn., E251 Johnson, Henry C. ‘‘Hank’’, Jr., Ga., E250 Tipton, Scott R., Colo., E249 Cook, Paul, Calif., E249 Langevin, James R., R.I., E249 Walters, Mimi, Calif., E245 Courtney, Joe, Conn., E248 Lee, Barbara, Calif., E249 Wilson, Frederica S., Fla., E245 Crenshaw, Ander, Fla., E245 Levin, Sander M., Mich., E248 Young, Todd C., Ind., E246, E248 DeFazio, Peter A., Ore., E249 McDermott, Jim, Wash., E251

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