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The Senate met at 9:30 a.m. and was consideration of the motion to proceed When anyone sits down to talk to any called to order by the Honorable WIL- to the gun safety legislation. The first of them, they will speak about how LIAM M. COWAN, a Senator from the hour will be equally divided with the miserable it is getting through secu- Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Republicans. They will control the first rity checks at airports all over the half, and we will control the final half. country. PRAYER Last evening I filed cloture on a mo- In Murray, UT, a food pantry that The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- tion to proceed to that legislation. feeds more than 1,000 people every fered the following prayer: Hopefully, today we can reach an month has closed because of these cuts. Let us pray. agreement to begin debate on this In Durham, NC, scores of employees at Almighty God, take from us any- bill—even today. a medical research facility will get thing that doesn’t honor You. Remove We also hope to formalize an agree- pink slips. In central Maine fewer sen- covetousness, pride, anger, or anything ment for the confirmation of Sarah ior citizens will be able to participate that is unlike You. Replace our nega- Jewell to be Interior Secretary. with Meals on Wheels. In Bethlehem, tives with positives, making us lowly, f PA, more than 100 children are going to peaceable, patient, and kind. be kicked off Head Start. Lord, fill our lawmakers with faith, a MEASURES PLACED ON THE Now, maybe my Republican friends firm hope, and a charity, that they CALENDAR—S. 680 AND S. 691 don’t feel this, but I guarantee my col- love nothing that displeases You. Raise Mr. REID. Mr. President, I am told— leagues the parents of these little chil- them up to be seated with You in heav- and I believe this is right—there are dren in Bethlehem, PA, feel it. People enly realms, as they strive to be in- two bills at the desk due for a second waiting in these airport lines feel it. struments of Your purposes. reading. Why, at this medical research facility, Thank You for being rich in mercy The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- should these people get pink slips? Are and for Your grace that never gives up pore. The Senator is correct. they unnecessary? Of course not. If the on us. The clerk will read the bills by title food pantry in Utah closes, are the peo- We pray in Your merciful Name. for a second time. ple still hungry? Of course they are— Amen. The assistant legislative clerk read more of them than before this cut took f as follows: place. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE A bill (S. 680) to rescind amounts appro- In central Nebraska emergency re- priated for fiscal year 2013 for the Depart- sponse times have increased signifi- The Honorable WILLIAM M. COWAN led ment of Defense for the Medium Extended cantly since the local airport control the Pledge of Allegiance as follows: Air Defense System, and for other purposes. tower closed. In southern Ohio the di- I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the A bill (S. 691) to regulate large capacity rector of the local public defender’s of- United States of America, and to the Repub- ammunition feeding devices. fice—a man by the name of Steve lic for which it stands, one nation under God, Mr. REID. Mr. President, I object to indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Nolder—fired himself. He did that rath- any further proceedings with respect to er than lay off other members of his f these two bills. staff. He figured: I am one; I can save APPOINTMENT OF ACTING The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- the jobs of three people. And that is PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE pore. Objection having been heard, the what he did. That is quite unbelievable, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bills will be placed on the calendar. but it is true. He has worked there for clerk will please read a communication f 18 years in the public defender’s office. I repeat, he gave up his job so three to the Senate from the President pro IMPACTS OF SEQUESTER tempore (Mr. LEAHY). could keep theirs. The assistant legislative clerk read Mr. REID. Mr. President, for many Perhaps most concerning of all, com- the following letter: months now my Republican friends munity cancer centers around the U.S. SENATE, have promised the impacts of the se- country are facing difficult choices. PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, quester’s arbitrary cuts would be mini- For the people who have experienced Washington, DC, April 10, 2013. mal—don’t worry about them. When cancer or experienced cancer in their To the Senate: they voiced any concern at all about families, this is something that is Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, the sequester cuts, it was over the po- noted. Community cancer centers of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby tential impact on the U.S. military. around the country are facing a very appoint the Honorable WILLIAM M. COWAN, a The impact on middle-class families difficult choice: send Medicare patients Senator from the Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts, to perform the duties of the Chair. and the national economy wouldn’t be away or just close their doors. The PATRICK J. LEAHY, that drastic, they promised in Feb- Washington Post reports that because President pro tempore. ruary and in March. of the sequester cuts to Medicare reim- Mr. COWAN thereupon assumed the Well, now it is April and contrary to bursements, cancer centers around the chair as Acting President pro tempore. Republican promises, Americans in country can no longer afford to admin- communities from Massachusetts to ister many common drugs. For people f Nevada, from coast to coast, in red who have watched loved ones have RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY States and in blue States, are begin- chemotherapy—it was just a few LEADER ning to feel the pinch of those across- months ago when people worried about The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- the-board cuts. whether they were going to be able to pore. The majority leader is recog- In the District of Columbia, tourists get the chemo drugs because there was nized. traveling from home to here for the a shortage. Well, now it is widespread. f National Cherry Blossom Festival ex- The Post reports, I repeat, because of perienced long lines to go through air- the sequester cuts to Medicare, reim- SCHEDULE port security because of these fur- bursements for these cancer centers Mr. REID. Mr. President, following loughs. Coming home from Nevada on around the country have to make a leader remarks the Senate will resume Sunday there were mobs of people. choice: close or change their hours,

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For patients in clinical at Medicare and Social Security real- f trials for these new cancer drugs—life- izes that both of those programs are on saving experiments—the situation is SAFE COMMUNITIES, SAFE a path to insolvency and that they will really dire. Some in these clinical SCHOOLS ACT OF 2013—MOTION not be there for future generations. trials are going to have to travel across TO PROCEED And we asked for some smart reduc- the country, to Washington, DC, Bos- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- tions in Federal spending—what we ton, or New York. People can’t afford pore. Under the previous order, the have come to know as wasteful Wash- that, especially when they are sick. Senate will resume consideration of ington spending—in exchange for more As I said last month, the effects of the motion to proceed to S. 649, which revenue. The President refused, citing the so-called sequester didn’t break the clerk will report. the need for a ‘‘balanced’’ approach. over us like a big wave, they sneaked The assistant legislative clerk read But I do not want anyone to confuse up on us like a rising tide, and that as follows: that with a balanced budget; the Presi- tide is here now. But the effects are Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 32, S. dent calls for a ‘‘balanced’’ approach devastating, even though we didn’t feel 649, a bill to ensure that all individuals who but never a balanced budget. Meanwhile, his Treasury Secretary them immediately, and there is more should be prohibited from buying a firearm are listed in the national instant criminal made clear that the White House was pain to come. That is the sad part background check system and require a absolutely prepared to go over the fis- about it. background check for every firearm sale, and cal cliff—this was in December—unless In the coming months, meat inspec- for other purposes. Republicans agreed to raise taxes. tors, FBI officers, and Border Patrol Mr. REID. I note the absence of a Well, we did not have much choice be- agents will be furloughed. We haven’t quorum. cause after the expiration of the so- even begun to see the worst of the job The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- called Bush tax cuts, they were going losses. There will be 750,000 jobs lost pore. The clerk will call the roll. to go up by operation of law. But now, because of sequester across the coun- The assistant legislative clerk pro- after getting more than $1 trillion in try. ceeded to call the roll. new tax revenue as part of ObamaCare The overwhelming majority of Amer- Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, I ask and after getting a separate $620 billion icans wanted us to compromise before unanimous consent that the order for tax increase on January 2, which I have their friends and family members got the quorum call be rescinded. just talked about, as a result of the fis- pink slips or furloughed or were told The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- cal cliff negotiations, the President is there is no more treatment for them pore. Without objection, it is so or- back for more. It seems as though that even though they have cancer. For dered. is his knee-jerk solution to every fiscal some it is already too late. But we can THE PRESIDENT’S BUDGET issue: more taxes, more spending, and repair that damage, perhaps, and we Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, in about more debt. should do it immediately, to put Amer- an hour the President of the United Not only would his proposed budget icans back to work—no more fur- States will release his budget—65 days raise taxes by more than $800 billion, it loughs. after the statutory deadline of Feb- would increase annual spending by $2 To give our economy a foundation for ruary 4, the first Monday in February. trillion by 2023 and increase our na- growth, we must replace the sequester Since taking office, President Obama tional debt even more, by $8 trillion. with a balanced approach to deficit re- has raised taxes roughly $1.7 trillion— For those keeping score, our gross debt duction. A balanced approach is one a number that I know none of us can has already increased by more than $6 that asks the richest among us to con- actually comprehend. But now he trillion since the President was sworn tribute a little bit more—their fair wants to raise taxes once again. into office. It is already larger than our share—to deficit reduction. The rich I heard the majority leader on the entire gross domestic product—in other are willing to do this. If we did this, we floor this morning advocating for an- words, our entire economy—and we are would avert cuts that hurt American other tax increase. The President’s pro- already spending more than $200 billion families, harm our military readiness, posed budget will ask for another $800 a year just on interest payments. and hinder our economic recovery. billion, and that is on top of $600 bil- Here is the risk—one of the risks—of lion that was the subject of the fiscal this huge overhang of debt: If interest I want everyone within the sound of cliff negotiations at the end of last rates were just to go up by 1 percent- my voice to doublecheck my statistics, year. age point that we had to pay our credi- but I heard on the radio on the way to The President’s budget, which will be tors, such as China, to buy our debt, work the Pentagon has decided that released in an hour but which we have that would be $1.7 trillion in additional one-third of all of our aircraft simply heard a lot about already, will never, interest we would have to pay on the will not be used because they don’t ever actually balance. Every household debt for each percentage point over a have enough resources to fuel them. So in America, 49 States, every munici- 10-year period of time. So you can that training just will not go forward. pality, county government, everyone begin to see very quickly how payment That is what I heard on the radio, and else in America has to live within their of interest and payment of mandatory someone can doublecheck what I heard, means but not the Federal Govern- programs would quickly crowd out ev- but I am confident that is right. ment. erything else, including national de- In the House and in the Senate, both The President’s budget, as I said, fense expenditures. Republicans and Democrats voted to does not purport to live within our fis- A serious long-term fiscal plan must impose these cuts quite a long time cal means, and it does not balance, but include three elements: progrowth tax ago, so it is going to take Republicans the President says this is a com- reform, which we stand ready to do; and Democrats working together to promise. I heard his spokesman on tele- structural Medicare reform, which we avert them. That is what we need to vision say this is not the President’s stand ready to do because we believe do. It is senseless to go on as we are ideal budget; this is what he views as a we need to preserve and protect Medi- done with these cuts that are done with compromise. But here is the simple re- care for future generations; and, No. 3, a meat cleaver, not a scalpel. ality: America cannot afford this budg- a realistic strategy for reducing our

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But his budget simply does they choose to continue using these national debt, President Obama’s not represent some grand pivot from programs as campaign weapons in- Treasury Secretary told the Repub- left to center; it is really just a pivot stead, then the math points to a clear lican chairman of the House Budget from left to left. outcome: The entitlement programs so Committee: I mean, if these reports we are seeing many Americans rely upon will go We’re not coming before you to say we are correct, it is mostly the same old bankrupt, and today’s Washington have a definitive solution to our long-term thing that we have seen year after year Democrats will have to live with that [debt] problem. What we do know is we don’t after year, and that is really too bad legacy. We cannot get to that point. like yours. because it is not as if we do not know But Republicans only control a tiny Since that time, our national debt the kinds of things that need to be sliver of the Federal Government, so has grown by $1.4 trillion. Now more done to get our budget back to balance there really is not much we can do than ever, America needs a definitive and Americans back to work. We need until the President and his allies get solution to our debt problem. Now to provide families and businesses a serious about reform. It is way past more than ever we need a balanced fairer and flatter Tax Code so they can time they did. budget amendment to the U.S. Con- save for the future and create jobs. We We do not need another reheated stitution, like one that has been co- do not need a budget that piles on tax budget. We have had enough of those in sponsored by every Member on this increase after tax increase. We need to the past few years. We need a serious side of the aisle. Now more than ever, get government out of the way so the reform-oriented budget. Sadly, I do not amid the longest stretch of high unem- private sector can actually grow again. believe we will see that one today. ployment—the highest unemploy- We do not need a budget that spends Mr. President, I yield the floor. ment—since the Great Depression, we more money we do not have. We need a The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- need innovative, progrowth tax reforms balanced budget that encourages pore. The Senator from Ohio. that encourage investment and pri- growth and job creation. We do not Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. President, today, vate-sector job creation. Yet the Presi- need an extreme, unbalanced budget finally, we are going to see the Presi- dent is still offering more of the same— that will not balance in your lifetime dent’s budget—so we are told. When we more taxes, more spending, and more or mine. look over the history of the last few debt. To paraphrase a famous diplomat, The White House initially made some decades, never has there been a budget it seems the President never misses an fantastic claims about the amount of submitted so late. The budget is due in opportunity to miss an opportunity. deficit reduction supposedly contained February, as we know. With the excep- RECOGNITION OF THE MINORITY LEADER in its budget. But when you cut tion of the first year of a President’s The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- through the spin and get to the facts, it term, when a new President comes in, pore. The Republican leader is recog- looks as though there is less than $600 when we give that new administration nized. billion worth of reduction in there— some time to put together its own and that is over a decade—all of it budget, this will be the latest budget CONGRATULATING THE LADY CARDINALS coming, not surprisingly, from tax in- submission in decades. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, yes- creases. In other words, it is not a seri- I hope the wait will have been worth terday I was proud to congratulate ous plan—for the most part, just an- it. In other words, I hope what the Coach Pitino and the Louisville men’s other leftwing wish list. Let me clarify: President submits today is something basketball team for an impressive na- a wish list, actually, with an asterisk. serious, that helps us address the cen- tional championship win. Today I The President seems prepared to fi- tral challenge of our time. I see there would like to recognize Coach Walz and nally concede this time that at least are some young pages on the floor. I the Lady Cardinals for playing their something needs to be done to save en- also met with lots of young people hearts out last night. You know, these titlements from their inevitable slide from the Ohio State University this women were the lowest seeded team to toward bankruptcy. I am glad to see morning. I told them the same thing I make it all the way to the title game him begin to come to grips with the will say today, which is their future is in decades—and that is really quite an math. It is well past time for reform, at stake. achievement. and it is something the President It is about our economy, but it is also So my sincere congratulations to ought to want to do because he pre- truly about the future. Are we going to you, Lady Cards. Keep up the hustle for sumably cares about saving entitle- get control of the record debt and defi- next year’s tournament. And to the ment programs, not just because he cits and begin to turn our country to- Connecticut Huskies, congratulations wants yet another excuse to raise ward the America that has been some- on your hard-fought victory last night. taxes. thing we so much have taken for grant- You earned it. As we start to think about reforming ed over the past century, which is an THE PRESIDENT’S BUDGET entitlement programs, we should think America that is growing, that is pros- Mr. President, later today we will re- about reform this way: Will the pering, where wages are going up, ceive the President’s budget. Like changes we make help modernize enti- where we have the ability to chart our nearly every one of his budgets so far, tlements over the long term in order to own course and are a beacon of hope it is late—really late. In the extra 2 eventually meet the needs of a rapidly and opportunity for the rest of the months he has kept the country on aging population in a realistic way or world? Or, are we going to continue the hold, both the House and the Senate will they just kick the can down the slide we are on now, where wages have have actually already passed their own road without actually solving the prob- actually gone down, where America’s budgets. So it is hard to see what the lem? Remember, kicking the can down deficit and debt continue to grow at White House plans to accomplish. I the road is how we got to this point in unacceptable levels, where we risk a fi- want to believe the intention is not to the first place. So we need to have the nancial crisis as we have seen in South- purposely blow up the budget process courage to finally make the tough de- ern Europe, in countries such as so the President can campaign against cisions Americans sent us here to Greece, places where they did not the very budget process he blew up, but make. watch what was happening in terms of from the reports we are seeing, it is If the President and his allies care their fiscal house. getting harder and harder not to draw about Social Security and Medicare— These countries allowed their debts that conclusion. After all, the docu- and I take them at their word that and deficits to grow to such a large ex- ment headed our way does not appear they do—then they need to prove that tent that they became as large as the

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There are studies out there ing and our programs, including the of rising 110 percent over the next ten that indicate that when we get to that important and vital but unsustainable years, Federal health care expenses kind of a level, there is a big impact on program Social Security. would go up 100 percent. economic growth. We are certainly see- Social Security this year is actually The point is we have a challenge in ing it, are we not? in deficit, meaning that $77 billion is front of us that requires a much more We are living through the weakest projected to be spent for benefits in So- aggressive approach. It requires us to economic recovery since the Great De- cial Security greater than the amount be honest with the American people. It pression, whether it is measured in of payroll taxes coming in. So people requires us to tell the American people: terms of our economic growth or who say Social Security is OK, it is in things are not going well. We are not whether it is measured in terms of fine shape—a $77 billion shortfall is not turning the corner because these in- jobs. We just had a very disappointing OK. Also, we are told the disability credible debts and deficits do not en- report last month on the jobs front trust fund will be insolvent, bankrupt, able us to do that. It is a shadow over showing that we only gained about belly up by 2016. That is just a few the economy. It is a wet blanket on the 88,000 jobs, disappointing all the projec- years from now. More people have gone economy today. Unfortunately, for the tions. on disability, unfortunately, than have young people listening today, it is But significantly, one-half million been added to the work rolls in the last going to affect their futures in very people—almost 500,000 people left the 4 years. Yet this trust fund is going significant ways if we do not address workforce. We now have the lowest bankrupt in just a few years. the problem. labor participation rate—meaning that Even if we include all the IOUs in the We will see what happens with this as a percentage of people working or trust fund for the Old-Age and Sur- budget proposal today. I am hopeful it seeking work—that we have had since vivors Trust Fund, the fundamental will have more in terms of savings than the days of Jimmy Carter. That is over trust fund for Social Security, that has been suggested in the media. Those three decades. In some ways, the poli- will be insolvent by 2033. That is not savings that are in there, I think we cies of Jimmy Carter have been rep- that long from now. Folks who are re- ought to support, as Republicans and tiring today, many of whom are likely licated over the last few years in the Democrats alike, and then encourage to live to that point, in other words, sense of larger government, more the President to work with us on tak- for retirees today, they are looking at taxes, more regulations. ing it to the next level, to truly ad- What we are seeing is, frankly, an the possibility of this trust fund going dress this challenge. economy that is starting to resemble bankrupt. On the tax side, we are told the What happens under law when that what happened back in the Carter days. President is likely to recommend addi- goes bankrupt? There is a 25-percent That is unacceptable. We need to pro- tional increases in tax. Remember, cut in benefits. That is the law. So vide opportunities for Americans who taxes were increased about $620 billion with this hemorrhaging every year, are on that first rung of the economic already this year, just a few months ladder to get to the second and to the this year again about $77 billion with ago. So the ink is barely dry on that third and to the fourth. Those are the these trust funds heading toward insol- huge tax increase—some would argue folks who are being hurt the worst with vency, Social Security does have to be the largest tax increase in the history this economic malaise we have with addressed. I commend the President for of our country. Yet the President is ap- this anemic economic growth, with saying let’s use the right measure of parently likely to recommend taxes at these job numbers that are so dis- inflation. It also happens to affect the about that level again, $600 billion or appointing. benefit side and the tax side. So it ac- They do relate back to the budget tually increases taxes as well because more. Some say it is more like $1.5 tril- deficit and debt. There is a study by a there will not be the same adjustment lion, which was in the Democratic one couple economists named Rogoff and for the rates for indexing on the in- offered on the Senate floor. But I am Reinhart that indicate we would have come tax side. So there is both revenue told maybe it is more like $600 billion. about 1 million more jobs this year gained through this proposal and also But whatever it is, we have to ac- alone if we did not have debt at these there are some savings on the pro- knowledge that increasing taxes again incredibly high levels. grammatic side because the more accu- is going to hurt the economy. There is This year we are told we can expect rate measure of inflation is used. no question about it. The question is a deficit of $1 trillion again or more. This is a controversial issue among whether it is appropriate to have a This is the fourth year in a row. Never some folks. I understand that. Again, I higher level of taxation in our econ- in the history of our country have we commend the President for putting it omy. had debts and annual deficits of $1 tril- in the budget, as I am told he will. But Let’s think about that for a moment. lion. Yet the President’s budget, it ap- having said that, this is just one step We are told by the Congressional Budg- pears, will not fundamentally change in the right direction. et Office, which is the nonpartisan the course we are on. I think from Unfortunately, even with that pro- group that analyzes all these budget what I have heard from the media re- posal, Social Security will continue to proposals, that currently we have taxes ports and so on, it is likely to add have these enormous shortfalls. On the as a percent of our economy, which is about $7 trillion to our debt over the health care side, I am told the Presi- probably how you ought to look at it, next 10 years, putting our debt that is dent may make a proposal to reduce at levels in 2015 which would be below already at over $16 trillion, again, at a some spending in health care. That is a our historic average. So in a few short level where it is at the entire size of good thing but again not adequate to years, we are looking at taxes that our economy, where we have unfortu- the task before us. I am told it will be they say are 19.1 percent of the econ- nately continued economic doldrums $400 billion. We can argue about where omy. What does that mean? Typically, because we cannot get out of this huge that $400 billion comes from. But it it is about 18.3 percent. So it is higher overhang of debts and deficits. looks like most of it will come out of than the average. We are already, It is time to make a change. It is a providers; in other words, the people under current law, looking at higher moment for truth. It is an opportunity who are providing health care to lower taxes, partly because of the fiscal cliff to address the challenge. My fear is the their reimbursement at a time when agreement and the $620 billion in new President’s budget will not be adequate more and more providers are saying, taxes that were raised over 10 years. to meet the challenge. we are not interested in providing care The spending, on the other hand, There are some things in the budget under Medicare and Medicaid because which is already at levels higher than I think will be positive. I want to say the reimbursement is already too low. the historic average—which is about 20

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If we do not in- Suggesting this gets the printing Then, frankly, they stop counting be- clude disciplined spending within this presses rolling and all of the interest cause they cannot imagine spending at budget, we will not achieve what we groups saying to send us $10 to save So- that level because we have no sense of need to achieve. cial Security and everything else. Even how to get revenue at that level. No Secondly, if we do not address our this correction which the President has one is talking about taxes that would out-of-control mandatory spending, we proposed is being criticized, which is be increased that high. It would be tri- will never achieve what we wish to beyond description in terms of how pling the taxes, at least. So these are achieve and we will continue to find people try to take advantage of our issues we need to talk about as a coun- ourselves in ever deeper holes. The pre- seniors and those on these programs. try. How much taxation do we want to vious speaker, Senator PORTMAN of Let’s give the President credit for have on our economy? How much Ohio, spoke about the need to make putting this in play. It is a small step. spending do we want to have? I think structural reforms in mandatory It is not nearly as far as we need to go. what we ought to do is come up with a spending programs. There are other structural reforms we plan. Ten years from now, where do we To those who say: You can’t touch need to address. Let’s at least acknowl- want to be? Republicans are calling for this. This has been promised to the edge the President has come forward a balanced budget. We think true bal- American people and we cannot even with something sustentative as a mod- ance means we balance the budget. We begin to address this issue because est first step. stop spending more than we take in. these programs should be exempt— Next is the not so good, the call for Democrats would like to see more those individuals are immune to the renew spending, new stimulus. We have taxes and fewer spending reductions. ality of the current situation which been through this. We have had nearly We need to come up with something stands before us. The situation is these $1 trillion of stimulus, about nine- that makes sense for the American programs are going broke. Spending on tenths of which is now documented as people. We need to acknowledge the these programs is unsustainable. not stimulating. It is turning out to be fact that our issue is not the revenue. Those organizations—and I will not a poor, government-selected, so-called The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- name them here, but I will at some investment in the future, which the pore. The Senator’s time has expired. point in time; we all know who they market has basically said doesn’t Mr. PORTMAN. Instead, it is the are—are flooding seniors with mailings work. spending. That must be addressed. I saying: Don’t let them touch your So- We have solar manufacturing plants say to my colleagues on both sides of cial Security. Don’t let them touch one closing all over the world. We see wind the aisle, let’s work together to get dime of your Medicare. You deserve farms being raised through subsidies. America back on track, to solve this every penny. Yet they cannot connect to the grid. It problem which, if we do not deal with They are lying to those people. They ignores the new discoveries in natural it, will not allow our economy to pros- are simply telling them they will be in per. It will not allow America to con- a situation where their benefits are gas and fossil fuel reserves in America. tinue to be that beacon of hope and op- going to need to be reduced dramati- The cost-to-benefit ratio is way out of portunity for the rest of the world. cally a few years down the line in order balance. I now hear the word ‘‘invest- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- to keep the programs from going insol- ment,’’ not ‘‘stimulus.’’ ‘‘Investment’’ pore. The Senator from Indiana. vent. is another code word for ‘‘stimulus.’’ THE BUDGET If we really want to care for and look That means it is a code for we will de- Mr. COATS. Mr. President, I find my- out for those who are depending on So- cide where this money goes. self echoing the words of the previous cial Security and Medicare for their The problem is the political animal speaker, my good friend from Ohio. I later years, we need to stand up now, puts its hands around it and the money could have given his speech and he tell them the truth, and do what is nec- goes to beneficiaries or supporters for probably could give mine because we essary to protect those programs. political reasons. Anyway, government are both on the same track. Standing by and doing nothing, shouldn’t be in this business. This is an important day. The Presi- standing by and listening to outside in- This is the not so good of the president will release his budget for 2014. terest groups who are trying to scare dent’s budget because it includes $1.5 While it is late, it is welcome. We now them to death means we are denying trillion of additional net Federal have three budgets in place. The Sen- those people the future income benefits spending. At a time when our spending ate has voted on a budget, the House they are receiving under Social Secu- is out of control, how can we come for- has voted on a budget, and the Presi- rity and Medicare. Let’s have the cour- ward with a budget which adds more dent will be bringing his budget before age to stand up and do what is right, than $1.5 trillion of new spending and us. We now have the outlines of the be- and do what is right for the very people call it investment when it is really just ginning of a discussion and a debate who are being told we are trying to stimulus? We have been there and done and action that must take place in the take something away from them. that. It doesn’t work, so why are we next several months. Someone said on this budget coming going there again? We have wide differences on of how forward—we don’t have all the details. Lastly, why are some of these pro- we need to get to where we need to ar- There is the good, the bad, and the posals in this budget, such as the new rive, but at least now we have some- ugly. I would prefer to say there is the taxes which were suggested by my col- thing from which to work. I urge my good, the not so good, and the why are league from Ohio? This budget contains colleagues and the President to work we doing this in the first place. How- well over $1 trillion of new taxes on the together to achieve what is necessary ever we categorize this, first of all, American people, after we went to put this country on a path to fiscal let’s give the President some credit for through this 3 months ago with one of health. It may be over a period of taking that first small step toward the largest tax increases in history. years. It may be measured out in terms raising the issue of mandatory spend- Has anyone ever seen an increase in of where we are now in the economy, ing. My understanding is the President the economic growth through an in- what needs to be applied now versus will suggest a modification of the Con- crease in taxes? Leaving less money in what needs to be applied later. sumer Price Index, which is used to people’s paychecks, would this result I have said over and over from this provide for increases each year in these in more consumer spending which helps platform and others, if we do not incor- various programs. our economy?

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Eighty- phony, absolutely phony. close our ears and pretend it didn’t seven percent of Americans think we People are withdrawing from the happen. should have universal background workforce because they have given up We can’t ignore the reality because it checks. Everybody who buys a gun on ever finding a job. They are simply is here. On a disturbingly regular basis should prove he or she is not a crimi- changing the numbers to make it look it is here—in Columbine, Tucson, Au- nal. Two-thirds of Americans think we as if we are making progress, but as a rora, and Sandy Hook. The next town’s should restrict these high-capacity am- result we are not making progress. name is just waiting to be added to the munition clips. Seventy-six percent of I notice the majority leader has come list if we do nothing. Here is what is Americans believe we should crack to the floor. I wish to conclude by say- happening. down on people who buy guns legally ing we are in a historic time. We are at Sometime in the early morning hours and then go out and sell them in the a crossroads in terms of the future of of December 14, a very disturbed, reclu- community illegally. this country. This is the time when we sive young man named Adam Lanza The American public knows we need need to put aside partisan interests, went into his mother’s room and shot to do something. Why have we been political interests, special interest her dead in her sleep. A few minutes stuck for so long? First, it is because groups, and stand up to do what is later, maybe hours later, he took his Members of Congress have been listen- right for the future. mother’s car and drove to Sandy Hook ing to the wrong people. We should be What is the future? As someone fa- Elementary School. By 9:35 he shot his listening to gun owners. They are com- mously said: The future is now. The fu- way through locked doors with an AR– prised of a lower percentage of Ameri- ture is now for all of those people out 15 semiautomatic rifle, which was cans than 30 years ago. of work. The future is now for all of owned by his mother. About one-third of Americans today those college kids graduating without He began a methodical 10-minute own guns, and they are very important constituents. The problem is the NRA a job to go to. The future is now for our rampage which left 20 children, all 6 doesn’t speak for gun owners like it senior citizens who have seen some of and 7 years old, and six adults who used to. Yet we listen to that organiza- their savings eroded through this re- cared for them, dead. In 10 minutes, tion more than we should. Adam Lanza shot off 154 rounds from a cession we experienced. The future is Ten years ago the NRA came here gun which could shoot up to six bullets now for doing what is necessary to put and argued for universal background this country on the right track to pros- a second. This high-powered gun as- checks in the wake of Columbine. perity. sured every single child Adam Lanza Today they oppose those background Let’s work together. I am willing. I shot died. Lanza shot most kids mul- checks even though 74 percent of NRA informed the President and my col- tiple times. Noah Pozner was shot 11 members support universal background leagues that I am willing to work with times alone. checks. I don’t know the exact reason them. I know we will have to make The State’s veteran medical exam- for that, but maybe it is because in- some compromises. iner, who had been on the job for dec- creasingly the NRA is financed not by The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- ades, said he had never seen anything its members—by everyday, common- pore. The time of the Senator has ex- such as this. sense gun owners—but by the gun in- pired. Several children did escape. Six kids dustry. Tens of millions of dollars Mr. COATS. Let’s seize this oppor- were courageously hid in a classroom come into the NRA from the gun indus- tunity. closet by their teacher, Victoria Soto, try—a program that actually allows The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- who shielded her kids from the bullets the NRA to make a couple bucks off of pore. The Senator from Connecticut. and died that day. Five other kids ran every gun sold in many gun stores Mr. MURPHY. Mr. President, it goes out of the room when Lanza had trou- across the country. We are not listen- without saying we all do our jobs here ble reloading. Five kids are alive today ing to gun owners. If we were, this and we seek a seat in the Senate for a because the shooter needed to stop and wouldn’t be a debate in this Chamber. reason. We decided to run for this high switch ammunition magazines. Wheth- But secondly, and maybe most im- office because of issues which deeply er it is because he had trouble reload- portantly, we have really botched a motivated us, whether it be more af- ing again or because the police were conversation in this place about rights, fordable health care, better housing, or coming into the building at about 9:45, and rights really are at the core of this lower taxes. In a job like this we are Lanza turned one of his weapons on debate. When I am back home in Con- driven to find the issues which move himself and the massacre ended, but necticut, I hear a lot of people talking us. Then sometimes there are issues not before 26 people were dead. about the right to bear arms as an which find us. This is reality. The worst reality is if ‘‘unalienable right’’ or a ‘‘God-given When I was elected to the Senate last we don’t do something right now, it is right,’’ and of course the Constitution November, I never imagined my maid- going to happen again. makes no such claim. The idea of an en speech would be about guns or about It is happening every day. To this unalienable right is actually found in gun violence. I could have never imag- country, which has become so callously the Declaration of Independence, and it ined I would be standing here in the used to gun violence, it is raindrops, is a phrase we know very well. wake of 20 young children dying in background noise. The reality is the We hold these truths to be self-evident, Sandy Hook or the six adults who pro- one in which we are losing 30 Ameri- that all men are created equal, that they are tected them. Sometimes issues find cans a day to gun violence. endowed by their Creator with certain you. This chart illustrates how many peo- unalienable rights, that among these are life, Here I am, pleased to have the major- ple have died since December 14 and it liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ity leader, the majority whip, and so is almost unreadable because it is a But liberty isn’t just about having many of my colleagues on the Senate cast of thousands. This reality is just any gun you want anytime you want it; floor with me here today. as unacceptable as what happened in liberty has to also be about the right I wish to start with the unpleasant Sandy Hook that day. to be free from indiscriminate violence. part. I think it is important for all of The question is, Are we going to do I mean, what kind of liberty did these my colleagues to understand why we anything about it or will we just sit on kids have in that classroom in New- are having this debate this week and our hands as we have for 20 years and town, being trapped by an assault

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He was a erty, and pursuit of happiness our sons, but one of the reasons was that piano virtuoso. He had already done a Founding Fathers talked about. she was divorced, she lived alone, and recital when he was 6 years old. But But even if we do accept that part of she wanted guns to protect herself. She what he really loved was playing out- liberty is owning and using a gun, then was alone a lot of the time. The guns side with his older brother Nate. They we have to ask ourselves these ques- Nancy Lanza used weren’t used to fire loved to play soccer together. The tions: To what degree are our liberties upon intruders into her home; they morning he was killed, he told his really infringed upon if we just suggest killed her, and they killed 26 other mom, as they were leaving for school, there are a handful of weapons that are boys and girls and parents. That is not he wanted to be a paleontologist when too dangerous to own? To what extent just an anecdote, that is a reflection of he grew up. He said, ‘‘That’s what are our freedoms trampled upon by just a statistical trend. If you have a gun in Nate’s going to be, and I want to do ev- saying you are going to need to reload your house, it is four times more likely erything that Nate does.’’ your semiautomatic weapon after to be used in an accident than it is So that is our task—to beat back all every 10 bullets rather than after every against an intruder. If you own a gun, the naysayers who say that we can’t do 30 bullets? How gravely do we really it is much more likely to be used to this, that we won’t change the way risk tyranny when we just moderately kill you than it is to kill someone try- things are. I believe we can. I believe restrain the size of a legally purchasing to break into your home. we are good enough to drown out the able clip? As to the second argument, as author voices of the status quo and the lobby- If liberty is really our chief concern, Dennis Henigan once put it, guns don’t ists and the political consultants. I then preserving and protecting the life kill people; they just enable people to think that in the next couple of weeks of little kids has to weigh pretty favor- kill people. Guns are employed in only we are good enough to change the way ably against marginally restraining a about 4 percent of felonies, but they things are. weapon’s payload. If we can’t agree on are used in 20 percent of all felonies in- Finally, I want to tell you one last that, what can we agree on? volving bodily injury. Guns enable vio- story to explain why I know we are If we accept this balance, then the lence that is vastly more violent. good enough. I believe that when we policy prescriptions are pretty simple: How do we know this? Well, we know see people in need, when we see chil- First, guns should be available, but it by what happened at Sandy Hook dren stripped of their dignity, we are they should be available to people of that day, but more importantly we too compassionate a people to close our sound mind with no criminal record. know it by what happened on that very eyes. I know sometimes we wonder We have believed that for a long time. same day on the entire other side of what we really are inside. Are we truly Since the Brady bill was passed, we the world. On the same day that 20 kids good or is goodness a learned behavior? have had about 2 million people who died in Newtown, in Henan, China, a And it may sound strange, but after were stopped from buying guns because madman walked into a school and at- December 14, I just know the former to they were legally prohibited from tacked 23 schoolchildren with a deadly be true, because after enduring the doing so. The Brady bill has worked. weapon. The same day—20 kids in New- shooting, as if to swallow up those 10 The problem is that 40 percent of weap- town, 23 kids in China. In Newtown, all minutes of evil, millions of acts of infi- ons sold in this country don’t go 20 kids who were attacked died; in nite kindness rained down on Newtown, through background checks. I hope we China, all 23 kids who were attacked from the teachers who protected those will have some good news by the end of lived. Why? Because in Henan, the as- kids, to the firefighters who didn’t the day on this front, but that is a sailant had a knife, not a gun that leave that firehouse for days afterward, pretty easily accepted premise—crimi- could spray six bullets a second. to the millions of actions of humanity nals shouldn’t own guns. So forgive me if I dismiss those—like and gifts and phone calls that came in Second, a small number of guns are the president of the NRA—who choose from the rest of the world. just too dangerous for retail sale. We to ignore the effect of the laws we are And because of Anne Marie Murphy. have always accepted that premise as debating this week and next week. He Anne Marie was a special education well. We have always drawn a line and said all we are talking about here is teacher charged with the care of Dylan said some weapons are reserved for feel-good legislation. Well, he is right Hockley, this little boy, a wonderful, military hands, and others can be in about one thing: It would feel really gentle little 6-year-old boy who was the hands of private citizens. We know good if Daniel Barden got on the bus living with autism but doing great at assault weapons kill, and we know this morning to go to school. Daniel Sandy Hook Elementary School. Anne what happened when we banned them was an immensely compassionate little Marie loved Dylan, and Dylan loved the last time: Gun homicides dropped kid. He was always sitting next to the Anne Marie back. There was a picture by 37 percent, and nonlethal gun kids in school who sat alone. He never on his refrigerator of Anne Marie, and crimes dropped by an equal percentage. left a room without turning the lights almost every day he would point to Third, some ammunition too easily off. When his family would go to the Anne Marie with pride to his parents. enables mass slaughter. What legiti- grocery store, they would leave the Nicole, his mom, who is here this mate reason is there for somebody to store and get halfway across the park- week, said at Dylan’s funeral that be able to walk into a movie theater or ing lot and turn around and Daniel when she realized Dylan wasn’t going a religious institution or a school with wouldn’t be there because he was still to show up at the firehouse that day a 100-round drum of ammunition? Why holding the door open for people who with all the other kids who were re- do we need that—100 rounds, never needed a way out. And he loved turning from the school, she hoped she mind 30 rounds? That doesn’t sound too s’mores. would see Mrs. Murphy, but she knew radical, does it? It would feel really good if Ana she wouldn’t. She knew Anne Marie So what does the gun lobby tell us Marquez Greene could still sing all wouldn’t leave Dylan’s side if he was in about these ideas? What do they say is those songs she loved. She sang and danger. And she didn’t. When the bul- wrong with this approach that is performed everywhere she went. She lets started flying, she brought Dylan grounded in data and supported by peo- came from a very musical family. Her into her arms. She held him tight in- ple all across the country? Well, spe- mom said that she didn’t walk any- side that classroom. And that is just cifically we hear two things over and where, that her preferred mode of how the two of them were found.

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They me to try to make the case that things the futures of their children, and their should inspire us to think better and need to change for Dylan, for Anne communities? do better and resolve that we will not Marie, and for the thousands of other As the President of the United States let this moment pass, we will seize this people before and after who have been has said so eloquently—and his leader- opportunity and we will demonstrate killed by guns. ship has been so important to this the kind of leadership the majority of As Nicole and the other parents cause—the victims of Newtown, of Tuc- Americans expect and deserve and need walked up the steps of Air Force One, son, Aurora, Virginia Tech, they de- at this point. one mom raised a piece of paper above serve a vote. The likelihood of a vote The majority of Americans want her head with a note she had scribbled has been increased by the leadership of commonsense measures to stop gun vi- on it that day, and the cameras caught my colleagues, Senator SCHUMER, Sen- olence. The majority of Americans the moment. The note simply said ator MANCHIN, Senator TOOMEY, who want a vote and they want action from ‘‘Love Wins.’’ I believe today more have worked hard together to bring us this body. And we need to keep faith than I ever have before that if we are to a very promising and profoundly with them but also with the victims. truly doing our job in this Chamber, constructive turning point in this proc- The victims who should not be forgot- then love has to win every single time. ess. I want to thank also our leader, ten, the Connecticut effect is not going Mr. President, I yield the floor. Senator HARRY REID, for his deter- away. This resolve is not dissipated. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- mination and resolve. We will keep faith with them. pore. The Senator from Connecticut. On the morning of December 14, par- Out of the tragedy, the unspeakable Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, I ents throughout Connecticut and New- loss, the unimaginable horror of that wish to congratulate and thank my town and Sandy Hook brought their day and the days since then and the colleague from Connecticut, Senator children to school. Thinking of the rest days to come, we resolve that this MURPHY, on his profoundly eloquent of their days. When they would have country will be better and safer. And so and powerful statement to our col- play dates and snack breaks, holiday as we begin this debate, as colleagues leagues and join him in calling atten- parties, Christmas and Hanukkah of ours at this moment announce a tion to the horrific tragedy that has present wrapping, paper angels, ginger- very promising compromise that may brought us to this point in the debate bread, songs and poems. Those are the lead us forward, provide us with a path on gun violence. His very eloquent and memories. And the futures they toward bipartisan action—and it powerful summary of our losses, I brought with them. Just hours later, I should be bipartisan; there is nothing think, is a way to begin a potential was at Sandy Hook as 20 families of Republican or Democratic about law turning point after Newtown has given those children emerged from a fire- enforcement or about law enforcement us a call to action. Newtown is a tip- house, and I will never forget the cries saving people’s lives. We should resolve ping point in this debate, and my col- of pain and grief I saw on that day. I to go forward as one country. I’ve been league from Connecticut and I have went there as a public official because working on this issue for many years. I spent literally days and weeks with I felt a responsibility to be there. But helped to author and support Connecti- that community and have seen the what I saw was through the eyes of a cut’s first assault weapons ban in the courage and strength they have parent, as all America did on that day. early 1990s. I went to court to defend it brought to this town and to our col- And I saw the families also of six he- when it was challenged constitu- leagues, because they have been meet- roic educators who perished trying to tionally, argued in the trial and then ing with our colleagues and they are save their children. Those sights and in the State supreme court to uphold indeed here today. sounds changed America. We are dif- our law. I have worked with law en- Benjamin Andrew Wheeler, who was 6 ferent today than we were before forcement colleagues for three decades. years old—his father David is here Sandy Hook. This problem is with us, And I know they support these meas- today. Ana Grace Marquez-Greene, age the problem of gun violence is the same ures. Our State and local police, our 6—her mother Nelba is here today. problem that has existed for decades, prosecutors around the country sup- Dylan Hockley, age 6—his mother Ni- but we are different. Because we know port a ban on illegal trafficking. They cole is here. Daniel Barden, age 7—his we can and must do something about support a national background check mother Jackie and his father Mark are it. system. They support school safety and here. Jesse Lewis, age 6—his father There was evil that day at Sandy they support bans on military-style Neil Heslin is here. Mary Sherlach, one Hook, but there was also great good- weapons that are simply designed to of the six heroic educators killed at ness. The goodness of the first respond- kill and maim innocent people and Sandy Hook—her husband Bill is here ers who stopped the shooting through they support a ban on high-capacity today. their bravery. When they appeared at magazines because they know, those We can draw inspiration not only the school, the shooter turned the gun are the weapons of war. They enable from the memories of those children on himself. They saved lives. The criminals to outgun them. They put and great educators who were killed knowledge and courage and bravery of their lives at risk. And so I listen to but from their strength and resilience the clergy. Father Bob, Monsignor Bob, my colleagues in law enforcement who and resolve in coming to the Halls of Robert Weiss, who that evening con- tell me we need to do something about this building, meeting with our col- ducted a vigil that we attended, when gun violence. I listen to the people of leagues. Indeed, at this very moment, many resolved to light candles instead Newtown who say: Can’t we do some- they are with one of our colleagues, of curse the darkness. The greatness of thing about the guns? And I respect the looking him in the eyes and saying to leadership demonstrated by many of rights of gun owners, the second him: How can you not approve a bill our public officials, beginning with Pat amendment is the law of the land, and that stops illegal trafficking, strength- Llodra, the First Selectwoman of New- none of these proposals would take ens school safety, and imposes a re- town, the legislators who passed in guns out of the hands of responsible quirement for criminal background Connecticut a measure that will pro- and lawful gun owners. But there are checks? How can you not stop assault vide a model for the country in attack- some people who should not have them. weapons and high-capacity magazines ing the problem of gun violence and the There are some guns that should not that were integral to that killing in leadership of our Governor, Dannel be in use, and there are some weapons Newtown? How can you not do some- Malloy. And, of course, the great good- of war, high-capacity magazines, that thing about gun violence that has ness of the educators who threw them- should not be sold in this country. In caused more than 3,000 deaths since selves at bullets, cradled the young half the mass killings, high-capacity then? How can you not allow a vote? people seeking to save them, and hero- magazines enabled the shooting that How can you deprive the American peo- ically gave their lives. Their models of occurred so rapidly and so lethally. In

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This is Using a pipeline to transfer oil will that magazine had been limited to 10 an important project, and it is impor- result in 1,000 fewer spills compared to rounds because the shooter was tackled tant that we deal with the facts. moving it by truck, 13 times fewer as he tried to change magazines. The The Exxon spill in Arkansas involves spills than moving it by barge, and five high-capacity magazines enabled Adam a pipeline known as the Pegasus pipe- times fewer spills than moving it by Lanza to fire 154 bullets in 5 minutes. line. This pipeline was built in the rail. Those are the safety statistics on So these kinds of commonsense meas- 1940s—1947 and 1948. Approximately pipelines versus alternative methods of ures may not prevent all these trage- 5,000 barrels of oil were spilled. The moving oil. dies. They may not enable us to stop EPA considers that a major spill be- The Arkansas pipeline was built in all the 3,000 killings that have occurred cause anything above 250 barrels is the 1940s, so actually the incident high- since Newtown. We cannot look back considered a major spill. Emergency lights the need to build new infrastruc- and say with certainty that Newtown response personnel were on the ground ture using the latest technology. The would not have occurred if these meas- within 30 minutes of the leak being de- Keystone XL Pipeline is one of the ures had been in place, but the likeli- tected. Approximately 640 cleanup peo- most advanced and most studied pipe- hood would have been reduced, some or ple have responded to the incident in line projects in our country’s history. all of those children might be alive addition to Federal, State, and local For example, the Keystone XL Pipeline today, some of those heroic educators responders. will be monitored through a central- could be in their classrooms now. And There has been no impact to the ized high-tech center 24 hours a day, the challenge here is to save lives, to drinking water. I will repeat that: 365 days a year. Satellite technology do something to stop the carnage and There has been no impact to the drink- will send data every 5 seconds from killing on our streets, in our neighbor- ing water, and the oil did not enter any 21,000 data points to the monitoring hoods, in communities such as New- lake or waterway. Fourteen vacuum center. If a drop in pressure is detected, any section of the pipeline can be iso- town, a quintessential New England trucks and sixteen storage tanks are lated remotely thereby closing any of town. If it could happen in Newtown, it on site. The claim’s hotline has been the hundreds of valves on the system could happen anywhere in America. established for residents affected by As we go forward in this debate, I the spill to register claims and for any- within minutes. After four environmental impact hope we will listen to those brave and one who wants information. As of statements and 5 years of review, the resilient and resolved families who are today about 140 claims have been made. State Department has determined that here today. Listen to them when they ExxonMobil is paying for the cleanup the Keystone XL Pipeline will create and they have committed to honor any say to us that we must keep faith. Lis- no significant impacts to the environ- valid claims. So that is the Arkansas ten to Nicole Hockley and what she ment. Again, they have determined it spill that much is being made about by said when the President of the United will create no significant impacts to opponents of approving the Keystone States visited Connecticut just a cou- the environment, and that is why sev- XL Pipeline. ple days ago. She said: eral weeks ago 62 Senators supported The other one they talked about is in But now there is no going back for me. an amendment that was sponsored by There is no way. If you want to protect your West Columbia, TX, and that is a pipe- myself, Senator BAUCUS, and other children, if you want to avoid this loss, you line owned by Shell Oil. Let’s talk Senators. Again, 62 Senators went on will not turn away either. about that project for just a minute. record approving the Keystone XL There was approximately 950 barrels I ask my colleagues, let us face this Pipeline project. reality. Let us not turn away. Let us of oil spilled, and 50 barrels of that oil Furthermore, 66 Senators, two-thirds resolve to go forward and keep faith entered the waterway. All 50 barrels of the Senators, voted against an with the children and the educators have been cleaned up. Let me repeat amendment that was put forward by that: All 50 barrels have already been who, by their example, provide us with Senator BOXER that would have further an enormous and historic opportunity cleaned up. The company is now work- delayed the project and added more re- to make America safer and better. The ing to clean up the remaining 900 bar- strictions to the project. Two-thirds of Nation that we love, the Nation that rels of oil that is located on land. this body went on record opposing we all believe is the greatest in the his- This pipeline is an oil-gathering pipe- more delays and more restrictions; 62 tory of the world and will be greater line that gathers oil from the gulf. It is Senators then voted to approve the still after we move forward to make it not an oil sands pipeline. The Keystone project. That is why 70 percent of safer and better. XL Pipeline, of course, would be an oil Americans in a recent poll said they I yield the floor. sands pipeline, and that is not what want the Keystone XL Pipeline ap- I suggest the absence of a quorum. this is. Furthermore, Shell believes the proved. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. break in this pipeline happened be- This project is about more energy HEITKAMP). The clerk will call the roll. cause a contractor was working in this and more jobs for this country. This The legislative clerk proceeded to area and perforated the pipe. There was pipeline project is about growing our call the roll. not a default in the pipe or the pipe economy and producing tax revenues to The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- leaking. They believe the injury to the help with our debt and deficit, not by ator from North Dakota. pipeline was caused by a worker in that raising taxes but by growing the econ- Mr. HOEVEN. Madam President, I area. omy and stimulating more economic ask unanimous consent that the Let’s consider some basic pipeline activity. This project is about elimi- quorum call be rescinded. safety facts. Pipelines are the safest nating our dependence on oil from The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without and most efficient way to transport oil places such as the Middle East and objection, it is so ordered. and gas. Let’s compare accidents at Venezuela. That is a national security KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE pipelines to accidents for trucks, for issue. Mr. HOEVEN. Madam President, I barges, or for rail. Accidents are 1,000 It is vital that when we are working rise this morning to speak in regard to times more likely to occur with a on important issues, we deal with the the Keystone XL Pipeline project. truck hauling oil versus a pipeline. facts, and those are the facts. Much has been made recently about What was that number? Accidents are I thank the Chair, and I note the ab- pipeline spills in Arkansas and in 1,000 times more likely to occur when sence of a quorum. Texas. These spills are being used by moving oil by truck than by pipeline. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The opponents of the Keystone XL Pipeline An oilspill is 13 times more likely to clerk will call the roll.

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Madam President, for sev- At its core, the second amendment or protect the convenience of our gov- eral weeks now Washington and the helps ensure that individuals and local ernment. The Constitution was written rest of the country have been debating communities can serve as the first line to protect individual liberty, and several new gun control proposals. of defense against threats to our per- thankfully so. We must not narrow the Along with a number of my colleagues, sons and our property. Any limitation application of constitutional protec- including the minority leader, I have on this fundamental right of self-de- tions in haste, nor should we allow a declared my intention to resist an im- fense makes us more dependent on our bare majority to jeopardize the basic mediate vote on any new restrictions government for our own protection. rights of the American people, rights that would serve primarily to limit the Government cannot be everywhere at protected in the first ten amendments freedoms of law-abiding citizens rather all times, so the practical effect of lim- to the Constitution. than reduce violent crime in America. iting our individual rights is to make The Senate and the American people Unfortunately, the current gun con- us less safe. This is troubling to many are engaged in an important debate. I trol proposals would do just that. More Americans. Any legislation that would look forward to this debate. I hope oth- than 2 weeks ago, we informed the ma- restrict our basic rights to self-defense ers will join me and my colleagues in jority leader that we will exercise our deserves serious and open debate. Fur- demanding that our discussions take procedural right to require a 60-vote ther, as we have seen just today, Wash- place in full view of the American peo- threshold in order to bring this legisla- ington sometimes prefers to negotiate ple. tion to the floor. We have taken this backroom deals made in secret far I suggest the absence of a quorum. step under our Senate rules and proce- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. from the eyes of the American people dures for three principal reasons. BALDWIN). The clerk will call the roll. First, the Senate serves an important rather than engaging in thorough, The assistant legislative clerk pro- function in our Republic by encour- open, and transparent debate right on ceeded to call the roll. aging deliberation and making it more the Senate floor. Mr. THUNE. Madam President, I ask difficult for a temporary majority to The day before the majority leader unanimous consent that the order for impose its will unilaterally. Unlike the has set the vote to proceed, the bill’s the quorum call be rescinded. House of Representatives, the Senate’s critical components are still not there. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without rules and procedures allow for mean- Right before we have set the vote for objection, it is so ordered. ingful debate and help ensure that a the motion to proceed to the bill, we THE BUDGET bare majority of Senators cannot im- still do not know what these critical Mr. THUNE. Madam President, at pose controversial legislation on the components look like. We have no leg- long last today we have received the American people without robust de- islative text to evaluate the so-called President’s budget. It is several weeks bate, discussion, and broad-based and compromise language on background actually months—overdue. It was sup- bipartisan consensus. checks. We have no sense of what posed to have been out on February 4. Contrary to the statements made by amendments, if any amendments at all, It is generally used to steer or guide the President and by some of my might be allowed to be offered. the budget debate we have in Wash- friends across the aisle and even a few So requiring a 60-vote threshold helps ington, DC. In this case, it is going to from within my own caucus, we have us solve some of those problems. It be a reaction to. It is going to be an no intention of preventing debate or helps us ensure that we have a mean- after-the-fact discussion of the budget, votes. Quite the opposite. By objecting ingful debate rather than a series of as the House and the Senate have both to the motion to proceed, we guarantee backroom deals to push controversial passed theirs; the Senate for the first that the Senate and the American peo- legislation through Congress with sole- time in 4 years and the House has ple would have at least 3 additional ly a bare majority to back it up. passed their budget every year on time. days to assess and evaluate exactly Finally, many of the provisions we One would wish the President’s budget how this particular bill might affect expect to see in the bill are both con- would serve as a bridge between the the rights of law-abiding citizens and stitutionally problematic and would House and the Senate. In this point of whether it might have any significant serve primarily to limit the freedoms the process it is so much after the fact impact on violent crime. of law-abiding American citizens. Some and late in the game the President’s Already we have seen consensus of the proposals—for example, uni- budget has come to us. against passing any new gun legisla- versal background checks—would allow Regrettably, much of the President’s tion—at least not without broad bipar- the Federal Government to surveil law- budget is going to rely on the same for- tisan support. abiding citizens who exercise their con- mula the Senate Democratic budget During the recent budget debate, I of- stitutional rights. did, which is to double down, to in- fered an amendment to establish a two- One of the provisions we expect to crease spending, significantly and sub- thirds vote requirement for the passage see in the bill, based on what we saw in stantially raise taxes, and add massive of any new gun legislation. Six Demo- the Judiciary Committee on which I amounts to the debt. It never balances. cratic Senators voted with a nearly sit, would allow the Attorney General The budget which was passed by the united Republican caucus to support of the United States to promulgate reg- House of Representatives did balance. my amendment by a vote of 50 to 49. ulations that could lead to a national It balanced in 10 years. That vote demonstrated that a bare registry system for guns, something The budget which was passed by the majority of Senators, including at my constituents in Utah are very con- Senate did not balance in 10 years. It least six Democrats, believe that new cerned about, and understandably so. never balanced. There was a real con- gun legislation should have broad bi- You see, the Federal Government has trast in terms of trying to get to a bal- partisan support in the Senate before it no business monitoring where or how anced budget over a period of time, is passed and before it has the oppor- often we go to church, what books and knowing full well it will not happen tunity to become law. newspapers we read, whom we vote for, overnight. We got into a very big hole A 60-vote threshold will help ensure our health conditions, what we ate for over a number of years, and it will take that new gun laws are not forced breakfast, and the details of our pri- us a while to get out. through the Senate with the narrow vate lives, including our lawful exer- Nevertheless, the House budget did support of just one party. cise of rights protected by the second balance in a 10-year window and 10-

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This is true there are two very different ideas balance in 10 years, nor does the Presi- for each of the respective parties in the about how to solve the fiscal crisis we dent’s, both use similar assumptions Congress, as well as the President, face. One includes expanding and grow- about spending. If we look at the new about where they wish to lead the ing government, raising taxes, and add- debt which is piled up by the Presi- country. ing even more to the debt. One really dent’s budget, he adds $8.2 trillion to I mentioned yesterday on the Senate focuses on the issue which plagues our the debt over the next decade. floor I thought the basic criteria which fiscal house in Washington, DC: not The Senate Democratic budget added should be used to evaluate a budget, that we tax too little but we spend too $7.3 trillion to the debt over the next the question which should be asked is, much. It goes after the spending prob- decade. Both have net spending in- What will this budget do to grow the lem we have in Washington, DC, the creases. The spending amount over the economy, create jobs, and increase the addiction to spending. We have seen 10-year period in both the President’s take-home pay of middle-class Ameri- this as the percentage of our economy budget proposal and the Senate Demo- cans? What can we do, in other words, grow consistently over the last several cratic proposal is on the order of $46.5 in terms of a budget process here and a years since this President has been in trillion. This is the amount of money, budget itself which actually takes us in office. the amount of taxpayer money, the a direction which would enable more The House budget recognized this and Federal Government would spend over Americans to work and enable the does balance in 10 years. It does it the next decade under the budgets pro- economy to grow and expand again. without increasing taxes. The House of posed by the Senate and House Demo- This would make these fiscal issues Representatives actually produced a crats. look much smaller by comparison. budget which balances in 10 years and The House budget, passed largely by Last week we received employment doesn’t raise taxes. In fact, it calls for the House Republicans, spends about $5 data statistics which were due. The un- tax reform. Many of us believe this trillion less than that over the same time period. How does it do that? It employment rate as a percentage actu- would do wonders in terms of does so by reducing the rate of growth ally dropped to 6.7 percent but only be- unleashing economic growth in this of Federal spending. If we limit the cause another half million people quit country, lowering rates, reducing rate of growth in Federal spending to looking for work. If we look at the real rates, and broadening the base. It also 3.4 percent, as opposed to a 4.6-percent unemployment rate—which is to in- takes on what really drives Federal number in the Senate Democratic clude the people who actually have spending, what really contributes to budget or the 5.2 percent-increase in stopped looking for work, people who the debt crisis we have in this country, mandatory spending called for in the are working part-time because they its runaway spending. President’s budget, we may achieve can’t find full-time employment—the This is true for particular areas of significant savings over a period of actual unemployment rate is 13.8 per- the budget, the areas we call manda- time. cent. This is 21.7 million Americans. tory spending, the part of the budget This is not cutting government but This is how many people who are either which is on autopilot. It includes enti- simply slowing the rate of growth by out of work, quit looking for work, or tlement programs such as Social Secu- growing government at a slower rate are looking for work part-time because rity, Medicare, and Medicaid. Cur- and moving it back into a more reason- they simply can’t find full-time em- rently, this includes about three-fifths able level. This would actually achieve ployment. This is a great number of of all Federal spending. At the end of $5 trillion in savings over the next dec- people. the 10-year window it will represent ade in terms of what the Federal Gov- This is a big part of our economy. A about 91 percent of all Federal spend- ernment was spending. This is the way lot of folks are out of the workforce ing. That is how fast those programs the House approached their budget. today who couldn’t find jobs. Many are growing—two to three times the What the Senate Democrats and the have actually just given up looking for rate of inflation. President have both done is called for jobs. The President’s budget doesn’t do massive new tax increases. The only What this has done, because there are anything significant or meaningful to deficit reduction which will occur so many Americans who have given up address that crisis. It is flatout serious. under the President’s budget will be looking for jobs out of frustration, is it Having said that, there were some cut because of tax increases. He wipes has lowered the labor participation what I would call incremental steps out the $1.2 trillion in spending cuts rate to a rate we haven’t seen, lit- taken. I call them baby steps. The which were in place as a result of se- erally, since 1979. The last time the President agreed in his budget to ad- quester. labor participation rate was at the low dress the issue of chained CPI, which He replaces those and achieves some- level we saw in the month of March, recalculates the formula under which where on the order of $600 billion in 63.3 percent, was 1979. certain government programs are cal- deficit reduction. This deficit reduc- In fact, if we had a labor participa- culated. It achieves a certain level of tion would be entirely accomplished by tion rate which was equal to what it savings over time. tax increases, raising taxes yet again was when the President took office in They assume some savings in Medi- after we put in place tax increases on January 2009, the unemployment rate care, most of which, again, are by re- the fiscal cliff on January 1. The Presi- today would not be 7.6 percent, it ducing payments to providers. We have dent received a huge tax increase, would be 11 percent. This is how many already cut payments to providers to something he had been wanting for people have quit looking for work as a the point many physicians and other some time, $620 billion in new taxes. result of this slow and sluggish econ- health care providers these days are Add this to the more than $1 trillion in omy. saying they are not going to serve new taxes which are in the ObamaCare The President’s budget, one would Medicare or Medicaid patients because bill passed a couple of years ago and hope, would try to answer in an affirm- we keep cutting those reimbursements. this President, on his watch, has signed ative way the question: Does this grow This is not the way to save and pro- into law more than $1.7 trillion in new the economy? Does this create jobs? tect these programs for future genera- taxes. Does this increase the take-home pay tions. We must restructure or reform This is not a revenue problem, this is of working Americans? these programs in a way which aligns a spending problem. What we need to

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It reduces the horrifically and tragically by the in the future. This is really the ques- amount the economy grows on an an- nightmarish, unspeakable tragedy that tion before the House. nual basis and, in so doing, also re- occurred in Newtown. I stand here on Today we receive the President’s duces the number of jobs created. So behalf of the families, but they are budget. It will be the latest point at this is the question that should be speaking much more eloquently and which the President has submitted a asked. Again, when we compare or powerfully than I could ever do, as budget. Literally, it has been 100 years, stack up the President’s budget against they go around to the offices of my col- let’s put it that way. Around the early that question—does it grow the econ- leagues and look them in the face and 1900s was the last time the President omy, does it create jobs, does it in- say: submitted a budget to this Congress at crease the take-home pay for middle- How could you not favor a ban on il- this late date. Again, having already class Americans—the answer is simply legal trafficking and straw purchases? acted in the House and Senate, I am no. How could you not support strength- not sure what meaning it has other I would compare again the budget ening school safety? How could you not than to perhaps give the President the that was passed by both the House and favor a national criminal background luxury to be able to say he actually at Senate. In the case of the Senate, a check? least presented a budget. But on most study was done that suggested it would As one police chief told me, a na- of the criteria we ought to be looking cost 800,000 jobs a year, again because tional background check makes sure at, in terms of evaluating this budget, of the tax increases that are included we do not put criminals on the honor that I mentioned earlier, it is not a se- and the higher level of Federal spend- system. Without a criminal back- rious attempt. It doesn’t do anything ing. Simply raising taxes to fuel yet ground check, criminals are on an to rein in these out-of-control pro- more Federal spending does nothing to honor system to not buy weapons. grams that are growing at two to three grow the private economy. What we What kind of a guarantee of safety times the rate of inflation, it has a want to see is a smaller Federal econ- would that be? And how could you not massive tax increase, a $1 trillion tax omy and a bigger private economy be in favor of banning the kind of increase on top of the $1.7 trillion in where the real good-paying jobs are weapon that killed the children and new taxes the President has already created. Clearly, this budget relies educators of Newtown or the high-ca- signed into law, and it adds $8.2 trillion heavily—doubles down on Federal pacity magazine that enabled and fa- to the debt over the next decade. So for spending, adds more to the debt, cilitated that killing to take place? 154 that reason I think it fails the funda- doesn’t achieve balance, increases bullets fired in 5 minutes, tearing apart mental test of fiscal responsibility, but taxes by $1 trillion, and takes us in ab- those beautiful, innocent children and more important perhaps even than solutely the wrong direction. six great educators who perished trying that, it fails to answer the question I I hope before this is all said and done, to save them. posed earlier, which was: Does the the House of Representatives and the We are on the cusp of success in this President’s budget grow the economy, Senate—both of which have passed critical first step, and I am increas- does it create jobs, and does it increase budgets and now that we have the ingly hopeful—in fact, I am confident take-home pay for middle-income President’s budget—can somehow sit that we will have a vote in this body on Americans? The answer to that is sim- down together and figure out how we gun safety measures. We will have a ply no. get a proposal that would actually deal vote in the United States Senate to im- When you are raising taxes consist- with out-of-control spending and would pose sensible and commonsense meas- ently—raising taxes on the people who focus on growing the economy, cre- ures to stop gun violence. We will have create the jobs in our economy—it ating jobs, and increasing the take- a vote in the Senate in a matter of makes the economy grow at a slower home pay for middle-class Americans. days that will enable America to hold rate, we have more sluggish growth, That ought to be the criteria we use. accountable its elected representatives which is what we have seen now for the I would hope before this is all said here on this floor in the Senate for past several years. When we are grow- and done, people in this city would re- measures that will stop gun violence in ing at 11⁄2 to 2 percent as opposed to 3 alize we don’t have a taxing problem. this country that has killed 3,000 or to 4 percent, it makes a huge difference The problem isn’t that we tax too lit- more people since Newtown. The epi- in terms of the number of people in tle, it is that we spend too much, and demic of gun violence is stoppable and this country who are employed, the that is what needs to be addressed. I we will have a vote in this body that number of jobs that are created, and, hope we can reconcile these budgets, makes sure all of us are held to answer obviously, it makes a huge difference but it will require the President to be to the American people. The majority in terms of the fiscal imbalance, be- engaged on a level he hasn’t dem- of the American people favor these cause when the economy is growing at onstrated so far. I hope he gets to what measures. Ninety percent or more say a faster rate, it means more people are this real issue is and wants to get seri- they want a national criminal back- working and investing and, therefore, ous about reining in out-of-control gov- ground check. Their voice deserves a making money and paying taxes. So ernment spending and we can make vote, and I am confident we will have tax revenues go up when the economy some headway yet. I have not lost it. is growing and expanding. hope. There were some incremental I am confident, in part, because of That ought to be the goal. That gains, some baby steps the President the bipartisan compromise that has ought to be our goal—not only to get took in this, but it is far short of what been announced today. I am going those 21.7 million Americans who are needs to be done to get our economy through the details, listening to my out of work back to work but also to back on track and get government colleagues in law enforcement, the get the fiscal imbalance we face in a spending back under control. mayors, and others who have been so more manageable place. If we are going I yield the floor. responsible and resolute in working to get our fiscal house in order, we The PRESIDING OFFICER. The sen- over years and decades for these kinds have to do those two things: We have ior Senator from Connecticut. of measures. And I’m listening to the to restrain Federal spending and we Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Madam Presi- families from Newtown. And we will have to put policies in place that grow dent, I am honored to stand again on make sure this compromise vindicates the economy. the floor of the Senate, as I will be and upholds the vital law enforcement

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A poll in January of this year stopping a filibuster, as we have a re- There being no objection, the mate- showed 65 percent of Americans, in- sponsibility to do. rial was ordered to be printed in the cluding 55 percent of gun owners, sup- And I want to focus for the moment RECORD, as follows: port such a ban. on one aspect of these measures I con- This legislation has been approved by, But the most powerful argument for sider critically important. A ban on among others, the following groups: a ban on high-capacity magazines high-capacity magazines—all maga- LAW ENFORCEMENT comes from the experience of Newtown, zines, all clips that hold more than 10 International Association of Campus Law where the changing of magazines en- bullets—that I will be introducing on Enforcement Administrators abled children to escape. When the behalf of Senator LAUTENBERG, work- International Association of Chiefs of Po- shooter changed magazines, it allowed ing with Senator FEINSTEIN and others, lice time for the children to evade his to make sure this measure has a vote, Major Cities Chiefs Association nightmarish slaughter. whether it’s as an amendment or a sep- National Association of Women Law En- In Tucson, we know from CAPT Mark arate bill. I wish to thank Senator forcement Executives Kelly, husband of Gabby Giffords, who National Law Enforcement Partnership to LAUTENBERG for his leadership on this Prevent Gun Violence testified before the Judiciary Com- issue. He has championed it here for National Organization of Black Law En- mittee, that the limitation on that some time, and I will be working with forcement Executives magazine enabled spectators and by- him and others to make sure this Police Executive Research Forum standers to tackle the shooter. If there measure I have introduced has a vote, Police Foundation had been only 10 rounds in that maga- and my colleague Senator MURPHY will Women in Federal Law Enforcement zine he was using, Christina-Taylor be working with me in this effort. HEALTH CARE Green, shot by the 13th bullet, would be The statistics show the terrible im- American Academy of Nursing alive today. We know high-capacity pact of high-capacity magazines. A re- American Academy of Pediatrics magazines enable and facilitate these cent study of 62 mass shootings since American College of Surgeons mass killings. They don’t cause them. 1982 shows that half involved high-ca- American Congress of Obstetricians and They don’t compel them. They enable pacity magazines. Statistics also show Gynecologists American Medical Association them. High-capacity magazines al- bans on high-capacity magazines actu- American Public Health Association lowed Adam Lanza to fire more than ally work. The 1994 ban on these de- Association for Ambulatory Behavioral 150 rounds of ammunition in 5 minutes. vices reduced their use dramatically. A Healthcare And we know from men and women study of gun violence in Virginia Doctors for America who have lost loved ones that these de- showed just 10 percent of guns recov- National Association of School Nurses vices are part of the attacks too often. ered by police in 2004 used high-capac- National Physicians Alliance Bill Sherlach, the husband of Mary ity magazines, but after the ban was Physicians for Social Responsibility Sherlach, who has come to Washington allowed to sunset, the prevalence of EDUCATION AND CHILD WELFARE this week to speak out against gun vio- high-capacity magazines more than American Federation of Teachers lence, had this to say about high-ca- doubled. Garen Wintemute, head of the Child Welfare League of America pacity magazines. And his wife Mary is Violence Prevention Research Program Children’s Defense Fund National Association of Social Workers with us in this picture today. at the University of California at Davis National PTA It’s just simple arithmetic. If you have to School of Medicine, said: ‘‘I was skep- National Education Association change magazines 15 times instead of five tical that the ban would be effective, Save the Children times, you have three times as many incidents as where something could jam, some- and I was wrong.’’ He said the database GUN SAFETY thing could be bobbled. You just increase the analysis offers ‘‘about as clear an ex- Arizonans for Gun Safety ample as we could ask for of evidence time for intervention. You increase the time- Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence frame where kids can get out. And there’s 11 that the ban was working.’’ And the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence kids out there today that are still running limitation I am proposing—that I will Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence around on the playground pretty much now be working on with Senator LAUTEN- Mayors Against Illegal Guns at lunchtime. Newtown Action Alliance BERG and Senator FEINSTEIN and Sen- Another Sandy Hook family member RELIGIOUS ator MURPHY and others who have who is with us today, Nicole Hockley, championed this cause—would be even African Methodist Episcopal Church mother of Dylan Hockley, said the fol- more effective. Because unlike the 1994 Alliance of Baptists American Friends Service Committee lowing: law, it will prohibit imports of high-ca- [W]e looked at the search warrants . . . pacity magazines, not just production Catholic Charities USA Catholics United and know that [the shooter] left the smaller here but imports of these high-capacity Faiths United To Prevent Gun Violence capacity magazines at home. That was a magazines. More than ten rounds, we Jewish Council for Public Affairs choice that the shooter made. He knew that need to say no. National Council of Churches the larger capacity magazines were more le- We also have to implement a National Episcopal Health Ministries thal. buyback program for the existing high- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Office of The fact is that Adam Lanza had capacity magazines in use and circula- Public Witness smaller capacity magazines that were tion today. The proposal I’m advo- United Methodist Church found in his home at the time a search cating allows for better grant funding OTHER ORGANIZATIONS was conducted. He left those behind. He to be used for exactly that purpose. It American Bar Association used the 30-round clips. He brought doesn’t require, doesn’t mandate own- Grandmothers for Peace International with him three 30-round magazines for ers of high-capacity magazines partici- NAACP that AR–15 because he knew he could pate in a buyback program, but it gives Sierra Club fire more bullets more rapidly, more them that option. And over time, this LOCALITIES lethally, with a 30-round clip. David measure will reduce the number of U.S. Conference of Mayors Wheeler, who is also here today and is high-capacity magazines out there. The National League of Cities the father of Benjamin Andrew Wheel- provision I am spearheading was part Mr. BLUMENTHAL. This provision is er, said the following: of legislation actually offered by Sen- supported as well by educators, the The more bullets you can get out the end ator FEINSTEIN in the Judiciary Com- civil rights community, health care of that gun in the least amount of time, that

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Is there anybody who thinks we need thank my colleague from Florida for shown tremendous courage and ammunition clips for 60 rounds? That those very thoughtful remarks and, of strength. Their resolve and resolute- is not common sense. When I go hunt- course, my colleague, the senior Sen- ness are an inspiration and a source of ing, if it is quail, I usually have two ator from Connecticut. strength to all of us who have spent We are here on the floor today to time with them, who have come to shotgun shells in the gun. If you are going to give the quail a chance and if help lead a discussion about how this know them, the privilege of knowing Nation can finally own up to its re- them. They have come here to talk it is hunting instead of killing, then let’s see how good a marksman you sponsibility to take on the scourge of about something no one would want to gun violence that has certainly been talk about, and they have done it so are. So I can’t see any reason that common sense would dictate that we highlighted by the massacre in Sandy that no mother, no father, no husband, Hook that I spoke about earlier today no wife ever has to again experience would have more than 10 rounds in a clip. Yet people want to go out and buy in my first speech before this Chamber. the unspeakable and unimaginable hor- But it has, frankly, become too routine clips for 60 rounds. I think that is tell- ror and tragedy that has befallen them. throughout the streets of this country, ing us something about their intention. We owe it to them to vote on this with 3,000 to 4,000 people having lost I voted on this back in 2004, to extend measure. I’m confident there will be a their lives to gun violence since Sandy the existing law that came out of the vote. I’m proud to offer this measure Hook happened. banning high-capacity magazines to re- 1990s. We said in that legislation that Lost in a lot of the debate here about duce the scourge of gun violence. There 10 and fewer is OK. Now, is that not the particular policy prescriptions we is no turning back, as Nicole Hockley reasonable? Is that not common sense? are talking about, whether it be uni- has said so eloquently. There is no So if we don’t reasonably have a need versal background checks supported by turning back from a proposal to ban for more than 10, then that is where we 90 percent of Americans or a ban on high-capacity magazines. ought to draw it in the law. high-capacity magazines supported by Madam President, I yield the floor. Then there is another element of two-thirds of Americans or a Federal The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- common sense; that is, why assault law ending illegal gun trafficking sup- ator from Florida. weapons? I served, wearing the uniform ported by three-fourths of Americans, Mr. NELSON of Florida. Madam of this country. The U.S. military has lost amidst all of the political back- President, I wish to talk about the assault weapons. People are going out and-forth over negotiations between issue of gun violence. and buying these AK–47s that are a de- Republicans and Democrats and the Our hearts are still heavy from the rivative of the same weapon that was pronouncements of the NRA and of gun reminders of what happened in Con- used by the North Vietnamese against control groups, lost amidst all of that necticut, and I want to say that I come us in the Vietnam war. And I simply debate about politics and policy are the to this issue from a position of modera- ask this question: Are these guns for victims. The victims are the people— tion and common sense. I come to this hunting or are they for killing? And if boys and girls, men and women, moth- issue having grown up in the country the legitimate answer is that they are ers and fathers, brothers and sisters— as a hunter. I grew up on a ranch. I not for hunting or for some collector’s who die every single day in this coun- have had guns all my life. I am very fa- purposes, then they have another pur- try. I described it this morning—like miliar with guns. And to this day I still pose. Obviously, that is what they were raindrops. It is just background noise enjoy hunting quail and pheasant with designed for—as an assault-type weap- to this country now, the number of my son. But is there anybody who real- on in a combat circumstance. people who are dying every day. istically doesn’t believe we ought to So how do we approach the legiti- I decided after having given my have a criminal background check for mate recognition of the second amend- maiden speech this morning that I the person who is purchasing a gun? ment, the right to bear arms, with as- would come back to this floor—not to I am very encouraged to hear that sault weapons? And I don’t think we occupy the floor or commandeer the Senator MANCHIN and Senator TOOMEY can. It seems that among people of floor, but to the extent that there is have come together to find a way to good will, using common sense and time today and tomorrow and next close the gun show loophole. That is in- moderation, that we can come to some week, to spend time on this floor tell- structive. definitions that would ban these types ing the stories of the victims, telling In my State of Florida, years ago we of assault weapons. Now, we are prob- the stories of the individual people amended the State constitution with ably not going to have the votes to whose lives were tragically cut short an overwhelming vote of the people in pass it here, but we need to take the by guns—because it happens here more Florida, and then there were ways that vote and we need to see how everybody so than almost every other nation in in practice had been found to subvert feels about this issue. the world. More people lose their lives, the law that was the will of the people I wish to conclude by saying that more people have their lives ended pre- in our State—that you can’t purchase a those of us who are portrayed, by tak- maturely because of guns here than al- gun at a gun show without having a ing this position of moderation and most any other corner of the world. criminal background check. What they common sense, as if we were not for It is time that we do something do is they say: I will consider you a the second amendment, that is false. Of about it. Yes because of the aggregate personal friend, and therefore that is course I support the second amend- numbers, yes because of the horror in an exception to doing a background ment. I just gave you my history of Sandy Hook, but also because every check on you. So Senator MANCHIN and growing up in the country with guns, single additional life that is cut short Senator TOOMEY have come to an having guns all my life and still having is a failure of our responsibility to do agreement to find a way to close that a number of guns in my home today. I something about it. So I am going to gun show loophole, and that proposal support the second amendment. I do so spend some time down on the Senate will also establish a commission to bet- in light of the circumstances in our so- floor in between others giving speeches ter understand the root causes of how ciety today that have changed. today and tomorrow and next week to to prevent mass violence. My final comment is that in all of talk about these victims, to just tell There is simply no reason we this it is moderation and common you a little bit about who they are—es- shouldn’t be able to do a criminal sense that are so much the solution to pecially for the little ones, maybe who background check, which is one way to facing the issues that confront us they were going to be.

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She loved the color morning. later in life because he was gunned pink, and she loved animals—any ani- Daniel was a pretty amazing little down that day in Sandy Hook. mal she met—but she really loved her boy. His parents talked about the unbe- Let me tell the story of someone golden retriever. She wanted to become lievable compassion he had. I talked equally amazing whom we got to know a veterinarian. A lot of these kids we about it this morning. He never failed for 20 more years than the kids that will hear about today knew what they to turn off a light when he left a room. she was charged with looking after. wanted to do with their lives. These He was always the kid in school who Her name is one that you might know, were ambitious kids, in part because was sitting with the kid who did not and that is Victoria Soto. Victoria they had special parents as well. have anybody to sit with. When his Soto was 27 years old. She was a teach- She was really looking forward to parents would leave a grocery store er at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Christmas because she wanted to show they would get halfway across the gro- That is what she wanted to do. She had off this new pink dress and pink boots cery store parking lot, turn around, wanted to be a teacher, her mom said, she had gotten. It was a Christmas out- and Daniel wasn’t with them because since she was 3 years old. Imagine fit, so she was waiting until Christmas he was still holding the door open for knowing what you want to do when to be able to show it off. But on the other people who were leaving the you are 3 years old and sticking with morning of December 14—again, an- store. He was a pretty amazing little it. A lot of people think they know other theme we will hear is that these kid. He loved to spend time with his what they want to do when they are 3, strange things happened that morn- family. He loved riding the waves at but they change their minds. She did ing—that morning she woke up and she the beach. You can see with that long not. She worked every day from the wanted to wear that pink dress. She hair he was a beach bum. time she was 13 to get ready to be a wanted to wear those pink boots, and He played drums in a band with his teacher. As early as 13 she was charting her mother let her do it. She wore that brother James and sister Natalie. His out her classes so she could ultimately special pink dress and those boots to family is very musical, so on that be a teacher. Even when she got to school on Friday, December 14. morning his father, who is a profes- Sandy Hook Elementary School she Her family has established a non- sional musician—he is here this week, made time for night classes at South- profit called Newtown Kindness. The actually—taught him how to play Jin- ern Connecticut State University organization is comprised of commu- gle Bells. where she was getting her master’s de- nity members who were trying to bring He woke up very early that morning. gree in special education. positivity and strength back to the It was funny because he was the last of A mentor of hers said she was the Newtown community. I talked this the three kids to go to school. They last one who would have wanted hero morning about the fact that for many were all in separate schools. His par- status, but nobody was surprised to of us who have lived through this trag- ents thought it was strange that on hear what she did in that classroom edy—not anywhere close to the way in that morning he woke up early. In fact that day. When Adam Lanza walked which the victims’ families have—but it was the first day all year—this was into her classroom, Victoria Soto was what we see Newtown defined by is not December 14, so they had been in the only person he saw. Why? Because the 10 minutes of violence and evil, but school for months—it was the first day she had ushered her special education all the millions of acts of humanity in the entire year that Daniel had teacher, Anne Marie Murphy, and sev- that have spilled forth from inside the awaken before his oldest sibling went eral of her kids under a desk. She had community and from outside the com- to school. pushed a number of other kids into a munity in the days and weeks since, As the oldest sibling was walking closet to hide them. Lanza came into and this is what Newtown Kindness is down the driveway to go to school, the classroom, he faced her and killed about. It is encouraging children to do Daniel ran after him to tell him that her. Then he killed the kids who were their own acts of kindness like Char- he loved him. The first time, he had under the desk. The kids who hid in the lotte did and submit their stories never done that all year. It just shows closet, many of them lived. Many of through drawings and letters to the or- what a compassionate little kid Daniel them survived—they were discovered ganization. Newtown Kindness is going was. I actually wear a bracelet for Dan- after the incident—because of the he- to show some light on all these little iel. It is a bracelet that links to a roic actions of this one 27-year-old wonderful things that kids do every Facebook page called ‘‘What Would teacher. day in the same way that Charlotte did Daniel Do?’’ It has 16,000 ‘‘likes.’’ The Imagine what she could have done for the kids she loved and the family point of this page is people can hear with the rest of her life. Students loved members she loved and for the animals about a lot of these kids. The families her. Parents loved her. She was made she loved. have done a lot of amazing things to for teaching. Think of all of the im- Let me talk a little bit about another try to spread the word about who these pact. She probably had 30 more years teacher, Rachel Davino. Rachel was kids were and what they were going to in the classroom. She had hundreds if very much like Victoria, in that she be. Daniel’s page is, ‘‘What Would Dan- not thousands of kids she still could knew she wanted to work with kids. iel Do?’’ It is a forum for people to in- have touched with her life—gone. Vic- She had a lot of interests, Rachel vest in little acts of kindness to try to toria Soto’s genius as a teacher will no Davino did. She was born in Water- live up to the inspiration this little 6- longer be able to be realized because of bury, received her undergraduate de- year-old set for his family and his what happened that day. gree from Hartford, she got her mas- neighborhood. If we do not do something about it, ters from Post University. She loved So people posted stories on that Web Victoria Soto will not be the last animals. That is probably why she con- site for the last several months about teacher who is going to be gunned nected with a lot of these kids. She these little kind acts they performed: down. If we don’t take some steps here loved baking and photography and ka- For example, the woman who bought this will not be the last selfless educa- rate. She drew lots of things, loved to coffee and donuts for a firehouse in her tor we will mourn on the Senate floor. draw animals—dogs, frogs, anything home State of New York, the Missouri Let me tell a little about Charlotte with scales or feathers or fur she loved woman who helped restock a food pan- Bacon, 6 years old. I lost count of the to draw. But her passion was working try in Daniel’s honor, the Illinois number of funerals and wakes that I as a behavioral therapist, working with

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He integrated these kids into her daily her performing with her majorette could not have had a lot of money to go life. She brought the kids to her home. team. She was 15 years old. She was out and buy gifts for coworkers. He She involved the kids in her family. going to go to Harvard. She was going worked at that place for a decade. Be- She treated the kids like family and to become a journalist or a great danc- cause of his generous nature with they matured. They did better under er. All the things we missed just be- whatever money he had, that he her care. cause she was standing in the way of a scraped together, he made sure people She probably didn’t know it when she bullet at a park with her friends after knew he loved them. died, but her best friend and her boy- she took her final exams. He was 28 years old when he died ear- friend, Tony, was about to propose to I think about Lavanial Williams, who lier this week in Akron, OH. her. In fact he had already gone to her in January of this year, was visiting This stuff is happening every day. I parents to ask permission to ask to with his mother and two sisters in mean, I will keep on going through marry her. He was going to do it on Marin City, CA, to celebrate his 17th them, but this is happening every day Christmas Eve, just 10 days after the birthday. He was checking in on his throughout this country. People are incident. He didn’t get to ask for Ra- sister April to make sure she was fine dying on our streets by casual gun vio- chel’s hand in marriage. Instead, the because there was some suspicious ac- lence while bringing garbage to a wedding ring he had planned to present tivity going on in the housing complex dumpster outside a McDonald’s, walk- to her was placed on her finger before that day. He went downstairs to check ing down the stairs to check out some she was buried. out the commotion, and moments later commotion at a sister’s housing com- Rachel was an amazing teacher, an he was shot dead just because he plex, and pulling into a driveway after amazing person who invested herself in walked down some stairs to check out dropping their kids off at school. These these kids, day in and day out. It would some commotion. were not people who were going out have been great to know what Rachel The deputies who arrived on the and looking for trouble. These were Davino would have become as she ma- scene found a group of people trying to people who were just doing their reg- tured as an educator. revive the teenager by CPR, but he was ular everyday business. This is just a sampling of the stories pronounced dead at the scene. He had President Obama came to Con- from 1 day in Newtown, CT. Fewer kids been hit by several bullets. He was necticut on Monday, and he told the story of a mother who was so frus- and adults died in Newtown that day there visiting his mother and two sis- trated at the phrase regarding her than die every day across this country. ters to celebrate his 17th birthday. daughter’s death due to gun violence We think how exceptional it was and Lavanial Williams died on January 11, that her daughter was ‘‘in the wrong how awful and how horrific that we 2013. place at the wrong time.’’ She just hap- lost 20 kids and 6 adults—and, by the If we talk about the connection to pened to be in the way of a stray bul- way, 2 others in Adam Lanza and his the background checks piece of this let. Her mother’s point was, no; she mother—yet that number is less than discussion, we could talk about was in the right place at the right the average number of people who are Annemarie Bautch. She returned home time. She was walking to school. killed every day by gun violence across after dropping off her kids at school on This guy was bringing garbage to the this country. So I want to talk about April 8—just a week or so ago—in Mil- dumpster. Anne Marie was coming them too. I want to talk about just waukee. Her live-in boyfriend pulled in home after dropping off her kids. over the last couple of weeks and behind her in a taxicab he drove for Lavanial was just looking out for his months what we have witnessed across hire. He walked to her van’s window sister. They were not in the wrong this country. and shot her in the head. He then took place at the wrong time, they were I want to talk about Hadiya Pen- his gun and turned it on himself. doing what they were supposed to be dleton in Chicago. We have heard a lot He was on probation for recent do- doing. Yet they were gunned down. We about her because she was here for the mestic violence incidences involving have no answer? After 20 years of this, Presidential inauguration. She was his daughter. He had beaten up his we are not able to step up and do some- performing with her school’s majorette daughter. He had firearms arrests thing about it? It is like raindrops. It team in the President’s inauguration going back 20 years. He was a convicted has just become routine. festivities. She loved performing. She felon, and he was prohibited from car- Let me go back to Newtown and talk was an honor student at King College rying weapons. I don’t have in front of more about these kids. Olivia Rose Prep High School in Chicago. She was me why he had the weapon that day or Engel was a bright-eyed, brunette, 6- 15 years old. how he got it, but he was not supposed year-old girl. She loved school. She She is remembered by her friends as to have it. He had a long rap sheet particularly loved reading and math, somebody who was always raising her when it came to convictions regarding which is good because a lot of what hand in class. She had all the right an- firearms. first graders do is reading and math. If swers in that chemistry class. She wore He was ordered to undergo anger you love reading and math, you are bright lip gloss that made her stand management training after his most probably in good shape. out. She loved to dance. She danced on recent conviction, but it is unclear as Her favorite stuffed animal was a the Praise Dance Ministry in her to whether that ever happened. He is lamb, and her favorite colors were—a church, and she was a member of her not here to answer those questions and theme we will hear often—pink and cheerleading team as well. She liked neither is his girlfriend Annemarie who purple. She was set to play an angel in Chinese food, she loved Fig Newtons. died that day at the age of 39 after her church’s nativity play on the night She was thinking about going to col- dropping her kids off at school. of the tragedy. She laughed a lot, and lege, thinking about either journalism Earlier this week in Akron, OH, there her parents said she just lit up a room or pharmacology, two pretty different was a 28-year-old man who was fatally when she walked in. things. Either way, she wanted to go to shot while taking garbage to a trash Olivia played soccer and tennis, and Harvard. She knew where she wanted bin in the parking lot of a McDonald’s she took art classes. She loved swim- to go. restaurant at which he worked. He was ming and ballet classes, and she took She was 15 years old. She was shot taking garbage to a trash dump and he hip-hop dance lessons. She was also in- and killed while standing with her was shot and died. His name has not volved in her Daisy Girl Scouts. Every

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Josephine Gay celebrated her seventh caused someone like Adam Lanza to So if Lauren is looking down from up birthday just 3 days before the tragedy. pick up a gun. That is an amazing above, she is very happy because her Joey is what she was called by her fam- thing for the Richmans to do. I talked UConn women are national champions ily. She was a kid with an indomitable about a number of efforts that have again. She would have been watching spirit. She was autistic, as were a been taken, whether it is a Facebook that game last night, and hopefully she handful of these kids, but she was still page for Daniel Barden, a Web site to was. social. She was very affectionate. She try to encourage kids to engage in acts Lauren Rousseau was right there. was getting very good care from some of kindness, or what Avielle’s parents Her dream was within her grasp, what of these paraprofessionals who were did. This is an amazing thing for them she had worked for all of her life, and there. to do. While they are grieving, they are in an instant it was gone. She grew up—actually not too far trying to find a silver lining in all of Teachers, little girls, and little boys from here—in Maryland with a house this. who could have been great people, full of Ravens fans. Josephine fell in The Richmans’ hope is that they can great educators—they could have been love with the color purple. I don’t use the memory of their precious 6- dancers and singers. Daniel Barden said know if she bought into the Ravens as year-old daughter to go out and raise he wanted to be a paleontologist just a team yet, but she loved the color pur- money to try to research the causes of like his older brother. He could have ple. She had a great sense of humor; the illness that led to this tragedy. It done great things, but he is gone. she smiled all the time. is an illness. We talk about it in terms This isn’t the first massacre we have She loved hugs even though she par- of evil, and I have certainly used that seen. Daniel Barden and Ana Marquez- ticipated in rigorous therapy for her term. It is really illness masquerading Green and Dylan Hockley and Ben- disability. She had treatment on a as evil. jamin Wheeler—these are all kids who were killed in Newtown, CT, but unfor- daily basis. She did it without com- The Richmans are going to do their tunately Newtown is just the latest in plaining. She loved her Barbie dolls, part to raise money to try to do a bet- a line of mass shootings. Forty percent her iPad, and her computer. She loved ter job to figure out what is going on in of the mass shootings that have hap- to sing and swim and be anywhere her the brain to cause someone to leave pened in this Nation’s history have sisters were. Joey Gay was killed that their parents’ home, drive to an ele- happened since the assault weapons day at age 7 in Sandy Hook Elemen- mentary school, and start shooting, or ban expired. Forty percent of all of the tary School. walk up to a McDonald’s employee as I want to talk about Avielle mass shootings in this Nation’s history they are delivering garbage to the Richman. I have gotten to know have happened in the last 8 years—8 dumpster and shoot them. It is a dif- Avielle’s parents pretty well over the years—since the assault weapons ban ferent kind of illness, I suppose, but it course of the last few months. Frankly, expired. I am not an expert in cause deserves examination nonetheless. I have gotten to know a lot of these and correlation, but that cannot be a families over the last few months. The Richmans are heroic in the fact coincidence. It can’t be a coincidence Avielle’s parents have done some- that they have decided to reach out because we also know that during thing remarkable, which I will men- and try to make this discovery. those 10 years of the assault weapons tion, but first I will talk about Avielle. Another teacher to talk about is ban, along with a ban on high-capacity Guess what color Avielle loved. She Lauren Rousseau. She wanted to be a magazines that was in effect, we saw a loved the color pink. She loved to wear teacher so badly. She was 30 years old. 37-percent decrease in gun violence. We her pink cowboy boots and adored Up to the point she was hired as a full- saw a two-thirds decrease in the crimes riding her pony Betty. She turned 6 time substitute teacher at Sandy Hook committed with assault weapons. years old just about 2 months before Elementary, she spent 6 years working Those are real numbers, real reduc- the tragedy. at part-time jobs just to make ends tions in overall gun violence and in gun She moved from Connecticut a few meet so she could substitute teach dur- violence perpetrated with these dan- years ago from San Diego. She loved ing the day. During that 6-year period gerous assault weapons. But the San Diego. She was barefoot all the of time, she was looking for a full-time minute that ban was lifted, a dramatic time. She would run on the beaches of job, and she finally found it. That Oc- increase in these mass shootings oc- San Diego until the Sun went down. tober she had been hired in Newtown to curred. Her relatives used to joke about how be a full-time substitute teacher. It is Newtown was the second worst school hard it was to get shoes on Avielle even just what Lauren wanted to do, and she shooting. It is seared in our memories after moving to Connecticut. When she was really good at it. She was literally in a different way because these were lived in San Diego, she never used to on the verge of realizing that 6-year precious, young, little kids, and we wear shoes, so she certainly was not dream when her life was taken. can’t help but grieve in a fundamen- going to wear them even in a colder cli- She was very bubbly and outgoing. tally different way for 6- and 7-year- mate like Connecticut. She spent the morning of December 14 olds. But Virginia Tech was worse. She had curly brown hair and an in- looking forward to a movie she was Still to this day, Virginia Tech saw the fectious smile. Her parents kept a blog going to see that night with her friends highest number of people gunned down. about her. They called her their little and her boyfriend, ‘‘The Hobbit.’’ She So I wish to talk about a few of those hummingbird. She loved horseback was a huge fan of Tolkien, so it was a people. riding, swimming, ice skating, and big deal to see ‘‘The Hobbit’’ that Ross Alameddine was a Virginia Tech superhero adventures. She loved pre- evening, and that is what she was talk- sophomore. He loved computer games, tending to be a superhero. She loved ing about that morning. and he actually played a lot of them the movie ‘‘Brave,’’ and Avielle tried She loved animals too. She was pas- competitively. He was very much into out archery, which is a brave thing for sionate about doing something about home computer repair, and it was her parents to do as well. She tried out child poverty. Part of the reason she something he wanted to do with his archery because of her love for the went into education was she believed life. His customers always loved him movie. she needed to live her life in a way that because they would bring their com- Before her life was taken that De- was going to reach out and eradicate puters to him and he was one of the few cember, Avielle was obsessed with an the scourge of child poverty. people who knew how to fix them.

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It is important to He played the piano, and he actually that is what he was working on at Vir- talk about these victims. That is why I sang at a local coffeehouse. He had a ginia Tech. wanted to come to the floor today to fondness for language. He had strong But his real love was for God. He was do this, because if we don’t do some- opinions too. He was part of the debate dedicated to building a relationship thing in the next 2 weeks, these lists club at Austin Prep, where he went to through his church with his God. are going to grow. school. He talked in every single one of He was one of the friendliest guys The illegal guns used on the streets these classes. We know these kids who one could ever meet, his friends said. of Chicago and Bridgeport and New always have something to say, and He had a smile for everybody. Haven and Washington, DC, and New Ross was definitely one of them. He was a big sports fan. Brian grew York weren’t always illegal guns. They He loved life. He sought to make up with a passion for sports, particu- were legal guns before they became il- other people laugh. He used his music larly baseball, and his favorite team legal guns. Somewhere along the line, to do that. One of his classmates, Liz was the Detroit Tigers. He was one of their status transferred. The question Hardwick, remembered his many quali- these guys who follow everything is, What can we do to stop that transfer ties. She said that Ross’s wit, humor, about their favorite team. He watched from happening? and insightfulness made him so much all the games, but when the Tigers I believe in the second amendment. I fun to be around, but his caring for weren’t playing in the winter and in believe in the protection that it affords others was also always present. Ross the early spring, he would be analyzing people to own a gun, to be able to hunt was one of the 32 victims killed during every statistic from the past season or to shoot for sport or to protect and getting ready for the next season. the Virginia Tech massacre on April 16, themselves. But I want to make sure He also loved Virginia Tech sports, es- 2007. guns stay in the ‘‘legal’’ category and Christopher James Bishop—‘‘Jamie’’ pecially football and basketball. He don’t leach into the ‘‘illegal’’ category. Bishop—was a German teacher who was one of those people others would That is why 90 percent of Americans was shot at the age of 35. He was a see on TV who came to all of the games think we should have a law in this Na- with the colors on their chests to show dedicated husband and son. He was a tion that provides for universal, man- their support. gentle colleague. He was a really gen- datory background checks for every- His family says he will be remem- body who buys a gun. That is a really erous friend. bered for his love of God, family, He had a long ponytail that he wore. simple thing to do. friends, the Detroit Tigers, and Vir- That was kind of Jamie’s signature. This is just a sampling of the lives ginia Tech. He was lost that day, April But he didn’t keep the ponytail for that could have been protected. The 16, 2007, as well. long because once he grew it, he would Ryan Christopher Clark was known gun used in Newtown went through a regularly cut his hair and donate it to to his friends as ‘‘Stack.’’ He main- background check, but so many of the Locks of Love. He was doing it for tained a 4.0 GPA when he was a student guns used to kill boys and girls and style reasons, I am sure, but he saw his at Virginia Tech, and he was a kid who young adults and men and women in ponytail as a means to donate to other had a mastery of science. He had a tri- our cities don’t go through background people who needed some help. ple major. I didn’t even know one could checks. We think about 40 percent of He was another techno guru. He knew have a triple major, but Stack had a guns sold across this country don’t go a lot about complicated gadgets, and triple major in psychology, biology, through background checks. one of those was cameras. He was a and English. Can my colleagues imag- One of the tragedies in this long line great technician with a camera, but he ine what Stack was going to be able to is directly relevant to this bill. At Col- was also a very avid photographer. do with his life? Can we imagine what umbine High School, the gun used was Jamie leaves behind a lot of wonderful he would have been able to contribute bought outside of the background art that captured the intensity and the in his life with a triple major? check system, and the friend of the beauty that surrounded him in He was a leader on campus. He played shooter’s who bought the gun said after Blacksburg. baritone in the Marching Virginians the incident that the reason she bought He hailed from a very small town— university band, and he was a resident it with the method she did was because Pine Mountain, GA—and he was a big adviser. So he was doing great things had she gone to a gun store, it wouldn’t fan of the Atlanta Braves, so he would on campus and passing along a lot of have passed the background check. probably be pretty excited about the knowledge to kids underneath him. That is the gun show loophole. What start the Atlanta Braves have had this His friends said: He was a wonderful has it been—a decade-plus since Col- year. part of our baritone section. He was umbine, and we still haven’t closed the He was a foreign language teacher. fun. He was loving. He was a delightful gun show loophole? We still haven’t He was a tough teacher—‘‘Herr Bishop’’ person to be around. He cared so much made the collective decision that we is what they called him—but he really for other people. He would befriend should make sure criminals don’t buy believed that understanding language anyone. He was a light and he was a guns? She said she couldn’t have was a way for people to engage in the joy. bought the gun if she went to a li- world. It was a joy, but it was really Ryan Christopher Clark was going to censed gun dealer because it would fundamental to understanding human- do great things with his life. He was a have been prohibited. So a bunch of ity. If people understand languages, student leader. At his young age, he kids died at Columbine High School. they understand different cultures and had already shown a compassion for his Someone could make the argument they understand something more about fellow students by being a resident ad- that if the gun hadn’t gotten in their what it means to be a human being in viser. He had shown a talent for music hands that way, it might have gotten this world. Jamie believed in what he by going out and performing in the in their hands another way. I get it. did not just because he wanted to teach band, and he was a triple major who Nothing we are talking about guaran- kids German but because he wanted to was probably going to do something tees that another Sandy Hook isn’t teach kids about the world. He died at great in the scientific field in this going to happen, and it certainly can’t Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007, at the country. But Stack didn’t get to live guarantee that our streets are going to age of 35. that dream because, along with so all of a sudden be safer overnight. But Brian Bluhm was a graduate student. many others, he was gunned down that if we make it a little bit harder to get He was a TA at Virginia Tech. He cared day at Virginia Tech. that gun, if we make it a little bit

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But for a nervous 21-year-old going to get that guitar. we had stronger laws on the books kid, hyped up on adrenaline, it is a dif- I know there are other people who today, Newtown may not have hap- ferent thing. Five kids escaped in New- are here to speak, and so I will yield pened, and even if it did happen, some town; the shooting stopped in Tucson; the floor at this time. But I will be of these kids would be alive today. the shooting stopped when the gun back today and tomorrow to talk about What happened in one of those class- jammed upon exchange of magazines in more victims. I just think we need to rooms is instructive. A handful of kids Aurora. People are alive today because tell their stories. I just think the peo- survived because Victoria Soto put there is something that happens when ple need to know who these people are them into a closet, and when the shoot- you have to exchange magazines in because there are going to be more of ing was over, they were discovered in these incidents of mass violence. More them if things do not change, and we that closet. exchanges of magazines mean more have the power this week and next Another set of kids survived a dif- kids alive today. week to do something about it—not to ferent way. When Lanza went to switch Let me talk to you about Porshe Fos- eliminate future victims. We are never, magazines, there was a delay in the ter. She was 15 years old when she was ever going to change the fact that peo- shooting and a bunch of kids ran out of killed over the Thanksgiving holiday ple are going to pick up a gun, are the classroom. Five of them—six were last year in Chicago. She had five sis- going to violate the law, are going to found in the closet, and five of them ters—six daughters, and Porshe was the shoot to kill. We are never going to ran out of the classroom when Lanza youngest of them. Porshe was 15, and stop that. But we can do something to decided to switch magazine clips. she was shot in the back of the head reduce these numbers so next year at There are five kids who don’t look when she was standing with her best this time or 2 years at this time we much different from Ana and Daniel friends in a backyard during a cannot come down to the floor with a and Dylan and Benjamin who are—and sleepover. binder full of victims just from the Jesse, there is Jesse—who are alive The intended victim was a gang-re- past 3 months. today because Adam Lanza had to lated individual. They were targeting I will be back later today and tomor- switch clips. He only had to do it about somebody else, but she got hit. Twen- row to continue to do this, but at this 6 times to get off 154 bullets. We don’t ty-five shots were fired, by the way. time I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- exactly understand why, but he didn’t Twenty-five shots were fired. Porshe ator from Oklahoma. actually discharge all of his 30-round was the only victim that was hit. She was a sophomore at ACE Tech. It Mr. INHOFE. Madam President, I ask clips. Sometimes he only shot about 10 is a charter school that specializes in unanimous consent that I be recog- or 15 bullets before he switched, but getting kids ready for college in archi- nized as in morning business for 10 some of them he went straight tecture and construction and engineer- minutes. through. He only had to switch clips we ing. This is exactly the kind of student The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without think about 6 times to get off 154 bul- we wanted, where, on the floor of the objection, it is so ordered. lets in 10 minutes. Senate and the House of Representa- Mr. INHOFE. First of all, Madam If we had on the books today a law tives, we are all the time clamoring for President, let me say, I certainly sym- such as the law we had back in the more girls to go into STEM edu- pathize with the tragedy that took 1990s and early 2000s that restricted cation—into science, technology, engi- place and those who lost family mem- ammunition clips to 10 rounds—an neering, and math. Porshe was doing bers. Having 20 kids and grandkids my- amendment Senator BLUMENTHAL and I it. She was living up to our expecta- self, I am probably in a better position will bring to the floor next week, ei- tions. She was going to a charter to sympathize with that than many ther an amendment or in a separate school. It was going to get her ready to others are. bill—that shooter would have had to go into a career in architecture, con- I have to say I think somewhat of a change ammunition clips 15 times—9 struction or engineering. Imagine what disservice is being done to some of more opportunities for kids to run out she could have done if she lived beyond these families. It is almost akin to say- of the classroom. I know we can’t guar- the age of 15. ing we are looking at legislation that antee that things would have been dif- She played volleyball and she played would have prevented that from hap- ferent, but let me tell my colleagues basketball. She sang in the church pening—and that is not the case—or we there are an awful lot of parents in choir. She loved art. Her classmates ac- are looking at legislation that would Newtown who believe their sons or tually honored her death by holding an preclude something such as this hap- daughters might likely be alive today art sale in her memory. Because funer- pening again. had we continued to have a restriction als are expensive, especially in inner- I listened to my colleagues on the limiting ammunition clips to 10 city Chicago, they used the proceeds right side, on the Republican side, and rounds. from the art sale to pay for Porshe’s on the left, the Democratic side, and What we know is that in Tucson, peo- funeral. they all have good ideas and they all ple would be alive today because that Let me tell you, that is no small ex- are sincere in wanting to do something incident absolutely stopped when the pense. We do not think about that, but and maybe I am looking at it too sim- shooter switched clips. It was during one of the biggest issues in Hartford, plistically. Because I look at the sec- the transfer of ammunition magazines CT, today—a city that has had rel- ond amendment, I look at what histori- that he was tackled. We know that if atively low gun violence this year but cally has been our privilege in exer- he had 10 rounds rather than a higher on an average year can have a couple cising our right to keep and bear number, there would still be people dozen gun deaths—is how do you pay arms—I mean since the very begin- alive there. for the funerals, how do you come up ning—then I see and I have lived We know what happened in the movie with the money as a community to pay through, on the State and on the Fed- theater in Aurora. That guy walked for a funeral every other week in a eral level, all kinds of efforts of people into the movie theater with a 100-round small, little city such as Hartford. to think: We can do something about drum. What on Earth is the reason why Porshe’s friends decided to do an art gun violence, and let’s do it by back- somebody needs a 100-round drum? It sale to pay for her funeral. ground checks, let’s check everybody jammed because these guys are ama- Her family and friends remember her out there, let’s do it, and let’s approach teurs. They have not done this before. as happy, as friendly, as a great stu- the gun shows.

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Without objection, it is so time, it shocked the Nation because we element will single out this one law to ordered. didn’t know how to comprehend 10 stu- comply with. Mr. MURPHY. Mr. President, I rise dents going about their day at Col- Let’s look at the facts. When we look again to continue my attempt on the umbine High School being gunned at what they are trying to do, anything floor of the Senate today, without down by 2 of their fellow students. Now that is up that we are going to be vot- holding up the Senate or allowing oth- we are grappling with how to coming on in the next 2 or 3 weeks—how- ers to speak their mind, to really draw prehend the deaths of 20 kids, 6- and 7- ever long it takes—is going to, in some attention to the names, faces, and re- year-olds at Sandy Hook Elementary way, restrict the number of firearms. I ality behind this chart. This is prob- School. think we would all agree with that. ably difficult to see for some of my col- Although it has now been almost 14 Whose firearms will they restrict? leagues because it represents the over years since the incident on April 20— They would restrict the firearms of 3,300 people who have died since De- we are about to come up on the anni- law-abiding citizens. That means the cember 14, since the Newtown tragedy. versary—we shouldn’t forget the people ratio between guns owned by the crimi- Over 3,300 people have died from gun vi- who were killed. Before the next Sen- nal element versus the law-abiding cit- olence since December 14 and are rep- ator comes down wishing to speak, I izen is going to change. resented by all of these individual figu- will speak about those kids who were When they talk about the back- rines, which are so many that the pic- killed in Columbine. ground checks, I cannot imagine any- ture becomes muddled. It almost looks Cassie Bernall was a really sweet, one being so naive as not to know that like lines going back and forth. Behind kind little girl. She was active in her if the criminal element is going to get each one of those small, tiny figurines church. Her work in her church meant a gun, they are going to get a gun. is a story of a man, woman, little boy, so much to her that after she died her Sure, they would kind of like to have or little girl who had their life stolen parents set up the Cassie Bernall Foun- some of these restrictions. They would from them and from their family pre- dation, which provides support to like to have that background check be- maturely because of gun violence. youth ministries. I was a part of my cause that eliminates the numbers of I wish there weren’t enough material youth group in my church growing up, guns in circulation. So the criminal to fill today, tomorrow, and next week, and I know what a wonderful connec- element is the only one who is not af- when others aren’t on the floor speak- tion it is, both to God and to your fel- fected. ing. I wish there weren’t 3,300 stories in low adolescents. It was a big deal for I was asked a question not long ago the last several months alone with re- her. She also was fascinated with the about this. It was on a national TV spect to people who have died from gun United Kingdom, and she had a dream show. I was actually down at the bor- violence, but that is the reality. to attend Cambridge University. She der at the time, the Mexican border. The reality is that this Nation has wanted to become an obstetrician. They asked the question: Why is Amer- become callous over time to the every- Today Cassie would be about 30 years ica so wrong? He talked about a poll day incidents of gun violence that have old. She would most likely have com- that was taken where the results were happened on our streets, in my cities of pleted her training and would be in a 90 to 3. The question that was asked Hartford, Bridgeport, and New Haven, residency or be a practicing OB/GYN. was: Do you believe we ought to have and also in your cities of New York, We spend a lot of time talking about stronger background checks? Los Angeles, Chicago, and Baltimore. the fact that we need more preventive I said: Fine. If you were to ask that We have come to believe, over the care doctors practicing medicine. same question—90 percent of the peo- course of the last 20 years since we Cassie was gunned down that day. She ple, by the way, answered: Yes, we need passed the last major gun violence ini- didn’t get to live her dream or con- to have stronger background checks. tiative, through the Congress, that we tribute to a field we know is very im- But if you asked the question: Do you can’t do anything, that we are power- portant. believe we should have stronger back- less. We have come to delude ourselves That wasn’t the only thing Cassie ground checks on the law-abiding citi- of that fact. cared about. She loved the outdoors zens and not the criminal element, I gave my first speech on the floor of and spent a lot of time in then I can assure you, it would be like the Senate this morning, and I have Breckenridge. She had a passion for 99 to nothing the other way. been moved to come back and spend rock climbing, snowboarding, back- That is the thing. That is the one time today talking about the victims packing, camping, and taking photo- thing people just overlook. We can pass as a means to try to move us to do graphs of everything she did so she all the laws we want, and the criminal something. We know what we need to could record her love of the outdoors. element is going to sit back and smile. do because people out there have al- She was buried along with a poem Is anyone naive enough not to think, ready decided what it is. Ninety per- her mother wrote: not to believe that regardless of back- cent of Americans support the uni- Bunny Rabbit, my friend, my daughter, my ground checks, a criminal element can versal background checks. Two-thirds mentor, I will love you and miss you forever. find someone who can go and get a gun, of Americans support a ban on these I promise to take good care of your kitty. I make $100, and they have a gun. But high-capacity magazine clips. We know that Jesus is elated to have you in His the ratio changes and not in a healthy haven’t figured it out for ourselves. presence. way. I wish to speak for a few minutes Cassie would have been an amazing In a way I think it is a disservice to about these victims. I will start these person and was an amazing person. She an awful lot of people who have had remarks with a school near Littleton, was 17 years old. She hadn’t yet told us tragedies in their lives to believe we CO. Columbine High School, on the exactly who she was going to be, but are doing something that is truly going morning of April 20, 1999, was visited she was going to do great things. She to change that when, in fact, I do not by two very disturbed young men who was killed that day at Columbine High believe it is. walked into the school. Their names School. With that, I yield the floor and sug- were Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, Steven Robert Curnow was the gest the absence of a quorum. and they opened fire in the school. youngest victim at Columbine. He was The PRESIDING OFFICER. The They killed and injured 12 more. It was only 14 years old when he died. He clerk will call the roll. at the time certainly one of the worst loved his family. All of these kids loved

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He was also a great athlete. school and started shooting couldn’t On January 7 of last year, 2012, a 14- He played soccer, trained very hard, get the weapons themselves. They had year-old boy in Bridgeport, CT, by the and even worked locally at 14 years old a friend buy them for them. The friend name of Justin Thompson, and his as a part-time referee. He wanted to go knew that if they went to a gun dealer- friends from Barnum Middle School into the Navy. He was a pretty well- ship, they wouldn’t get them because went to a Sweet 16 party for a neigh- rounded kid who loved ‘‘Star Wars,’’ they wouldn’t be able to pass the back- borhood girl on the east end of Bridge- was a great athlete, and wanted to go ground check. They went outside the port. Justin was a popular eighth grad- into the military and become a Navy background check to get them a dif- er. His friends and his family thought pilot. He was great with young kids ferent way—a way thousands of people he looked exactly like Alex Rodriguez. too. This is what his friends remember, go to buy their weapons. The vast ma- Down in Bridgeport that is a good how compassionate he was with young jority of them do this not because they thing; up in the rest of Connecticut, kids. He was 14 years old. are trying to get around the back- maybe not so much. We already had this window into who ground check system but because in The parents of the girl had rented a this kid was going to be. He loved hav- private sales, gun shows, and on the hall and hired a DJ. There was no alco- ing fun and watching ‘‘Star Wars.’’ He Internet, we largely don’t require back- hol, there was no fighting. It was just was great with kids as a volunteer ref- ground checks. This is one of the a regular Sweet 16 party. Eventually, eree. He wanted to be a Navy pilot and things we are attempting to fix this as more kids showed up, it kind of serve our country. He never was able to week. started to get a little too big and the do these things because he was gunned There is a belief among many of the police had to come and break it up. But down in Columbine High School. family members of the Columbine vic- Justin left the party and began walk- Corey DePooter is remembered as a tims that had background checks been ing down a street nearby with two really courageous kid. He was 17 years universal, possibly the two shooters in other young people when all of a sud- old, and he had a very strong sense of the school might not have had those den two men appeared and started right and wrong, maybe stronger than weapons. We can’t guarantee that. I shooting. Justin was hit in the head he needed to have. When he was grow- don’t want to stand here and say that and he was killed in the commotion. He was 14 years old. He was walking ing up and played cops and robbers, he we know for certain that if we had uni- home from a Sweet 16 party. He didn’t refused to be the robber. He needed al- versal background checks, Kelly Ann, do anything wrong. He wasn’t in the ways to be law enforcement in that Corey, Steven, Cassie, and all the rest wrong place at the wrong time. He was equation. He wanted to be a marine, as would still be alive today. We don’t in the right place at the right time. He Steven did. Steven wanted to be a Navy know that, but chances are a little bet- was doing what he was supposed to be pilot; Corey wanted to be a marine. ter. Those families want to have had doing that night—walking home from a the chance that their sons and daugh- After he died, he was named an hon- Sweet 16 party—and he got killed by ters might be alive today, might have orary marine in a ceremony in front of guns. That is Justin Thompson. his grave. kids of their own today, might be an Keijahnae Robinson was 15 years old His friend Austin said: People said OB/GYN, a Navy pilot, a marine, or when, on July 21, 2012, she was shot. Corey was just the kind of guy you mathematician. They would take those She told her friends she wanted to be want to be around. He would always chances. the next Mariah Carey. She was a big pick up our spirits in a gloomy situa- So when we think about these vic- singer. She loved to sing and she loved tion. tims, we need to think about the real to perform. Guess where she went on He was on the wrestling team. He policy consequences of what we are de- July 20 in Bridgeport, CT. She went to loved playing golf. He was going to bating, and while nothing we are talk- a Sweet 16 party as well. Her 16th serve our country. He was 17 years old, ing about is going to guarantee these birthday was actually the following and Corey never was allowed to live students who died would be alive week, and she was telling friends that out that dream. today, boy, it gives it a much better she couldn’t wait for her party. She Kelly Ann Fleming was a year young- chance it would have happened. That is was enjoying her friend’s party but she er when she died in Columbine. She was just a sampling of the victims in one couldn’t wait for her Sweet 16 party, 16 years old. She was an aspiring au- high school, in Columbine High School. which was happening the following thor. At 16 years old, she had written a What we know is the names reflected week. great deal of poetry, prose, and a lot of by these little figurines are largely not After the party, her friend’s mom in- stories about her own life. She actually victims of mass shootings. These are vited some of the girls to sort of take started writing her autobiography. just the victims since December 14. the party to her house. It was a warm, What an amazing thing for a 16-year- These are folks who just got killed by beautiful night, and the girls were sit- old. She was writing an autobiography a stray bullet or as a result of a crime ting out on the porch when two men covering her life from age 5 until the of passion or, as I explained in an ear- came by and opened fire on the porch point she died. The library was what lier speech today, just because they before driving away in a car. Two hours Kelly loved. Her mom said it was her were taking out the trash from McDon- before she was shot, there was a rob- one true safe place. She felt right in ald’s or going to check out some com- bery just down the street, and some- that library surrounded by learning motion in their housing complex or how this was connected to it. and books. Ironically, in school her fa- driving home after dropping off kids at She was 15 years old. She was sitting vorite subject was math. Her favorite school. They were doing what they nor- on the porch with her friends, basking math teacher served as a pallbearer at mally do every day. And because some- in the afterglow of a wonderful Sweet her funeral. body else had a gun, legally or ille- 16 party, getting ready for her 16th Like most teenagers, she was very gally, they got killed. birthday and she was gunned down by a much looking forward to obtaining her So let’s talk about some of those vic- drive-by shooting. That is Keijahnae driver’s license. She wanted to get out tims as well. As I said, I am going to be Robinson. there in a Mustang or Corvette and down here as much as I can today, to- Blair Belcher was 17. drive around with her friends. She was morrow, and next week telling these This is all Bridgeport, CT. I am just very bright and very good at math. We stories as a means to hopefully inspire giving one city in 2011 and 2012.

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He is when three shooters gunned him down illegal guns. here to talk about the insanity of not in the middle of that park—a life cut The opponents of gun legislation are taking these high-capacity magazines short. right in one respect. They are right off the streets. That is his passion. He He was a real talent. Blair had a that the majority of crimes are not believes there is a chance there would penchant for fixing things. He could fix committed by assault weapons. Assault be boys and girls alive today in New- anything. His mom said it was like a weapons have become the weapon of town had Adam Lanza had 10 bullets gift, and he wanted to do something choice for mass shooters. That is true. per magazine instead of 30 bullets per with it when he graduated. He was 1 But the reality is these kids I am talk- magazine. year away from graduating. He was 17 ing about—Justin and Keijahnae and But let me tell you about Mary be- years old and killed in Bridgeport, CT. Blair and TJ—were killed by hand cause Mary is pretty amazing. Mary He was just in a park and he got guns, most of them illegal hand guns. had worked for years at Sandy Hook gunned down in a cross fire. Why do we have so many illegal hand Elementary. She had actually been It is hard to even figure out why guns out there? Because we haven’t there for 18 years. She was not just the these things happen, but they just get done anything about it here. We allow school psychologist, she was involved built into the background noise of 40 percent of guns to be sold in this in basically every school improvement urban gun violence. country without background checks. effort you can imagine. She was a ‘‘TJ’’ Mathis was good at a lot of Hopefully, we are getting closer to member of the District Conflict Reso- things in Bridgeport. Excuse me, TJ, I changing that, but we don’t have a lution Committee, the Safe School Cli- am sorry. TJ was from New Haven. I Federal law making gun trafficking il- mate Committee, ironically, the Crisis got to know TJ’s father Lenny well. legal. People don’t understand that Intervention Team, and the Student And Lenny will tell you that TJ was someone can take a whole bunch of Instructional Team. She cared so deep- good at a lot of things, but basketball guns out of a store legally, then sell ly about the school, it wasn’t just a 9- was at the top of the list. He was the them on the street to people who are to-5 or 9-to-3 or 7-to-3 job for her. She star of Hamden High School’s team. He legally prohibited from purchasing put in all sorts of extra hours to make led them to three division titles. He guns, and they have not committed a the school better. She was 1 year away was all-State and he went on to play Federal gun trafficking violation. from retirement, and, oh, how she and Division I basketball at Morgan State Maybe they have committed a State Bill were looking forward to retire- University and had just been signed to violation, but they haven’t committed ment. They had a little cabin on the a minor league basketball contract a Federal violation. Finger Lakes—still have a cabin in up- with the ABA. He was a star. He was We can’t solve this problem entirely. state New York—and they loved going good at a lot of things—this was a We are not going to stop bad people up there. They had planned on spend- multitalented kid—but basketball was from taking guns out on the street and ing a good part of their retirement up his thing. He did well and led his team. doing bad things, but we can substan- there when they weren’t spending time He was going on to a career in basket- tially decrease the likelihood that an- with their daughters Katie and Maura. ball. other Columbine or Sandy Hook hap- Mary loved gardening, reading, and On a warm Saturday night in Sep- pens, that another TJ Mathis, a she loved the theater. She was a great tember 2011, he and his friends went to standup young kid, a basketball star, neighbor. She was a very beautiful per- a party honoring another basketball gets gunned down just because he is in son, who, on that day, did something a legend—someone we are really proud of the wrong place at the wrong time, or lot of us hope we would do, though we in Connecticut, Ryan Gomes of Water- the right place at the right time with can’t really be sure. About 9:30 that bury. Ryan went to Providence College, the wrong person with the wrong gun. morning, Adam Lanza blasted his way went to the NBA and had a great ca- We can do something about it here. through the locked doors of Sandy reer. After leaving the party, his Throughout the day I have been try- Hook Elementary School. The prin- friends realized they were too tired to ing to talk about the variety of vic- cipal of the school, Dawn Hochsprung, drive. They were responsible. This kid tims, people on the streets of our cities and Mary were meeting, I believe, when had a career ahead of him. He was but also in our schools. So before I they heard the bullets and the glass going to be a basketball star. He was yield the floor again, I want to go back crash. They must have known some- going to the ABA, and a lot of people to the reason we are here. I think it is thing horrible had happened. There are who go to the ABA get to the NBA. important to tell you who the victims two instincts at that point—maybe So TJ decided he needed to get some are, but I think it is particularly im- three—you freeze, you run the other sleep. Unfortunately, TJ never made it portant to tell you who the victims in way, or you do what Dawn and Mary home that night. He pulled over to get Newtown, CT, were because while New- did. You run to the bullets. That is a little sleep on the side of the road town should not have been a tipping what she did. Her school was in trou- and a young man, seeing the three boys point, and it should not have taken ble, something awful was happening, asleep on the side of the road, pulled up this long for us to have this conversa- and Mary and her principal ran to the next to them and tried to rob them. tion, I think we all recognize we are gunfire and the gunman. They didn’t When TJ woke up and realized he was having this conversation because of the run away. being robbed in his car, he resisted, and 20 6- and 7-year-olds and the 6 adults Now, plenty of people in that school the young man shot and killed him. who were killed that day. And I believe did heroic and courageous things that On the verge of a career in the ABA, if we don’t do something about it there day—they stowed kids in closets and a basketball standout in Hamden, CT, will be another Newtown; that we will classrooms, they hugged kids as the and at Morgan State University, just have another town added to the list of bullets rained down, but Mary and sleeping in his car trying to get a few Aurora and Littleton and Tucson and Dawn were the first people who died be- winks before he drove home, being re- Newtown in a matter of weeks or cause they ran right to the bullets. sponsible so he didn’t do something months—hopefully longer—if we don’t Mary is a hero not just because of the silly like get in a car while he was take some action. 18 years she spent dedicated to those tired and run off the road and hurt So let me go back, before I yield the kids, not just because of all the efforts somebody else, he gets robbed and shot. floor again today, to talk some more she put in to make that school a better Just part of the background noise of about the wonderful children and place, but because that day she did ev- the people who die every day in this adults who were killed in Newtown. erything in her power to make that

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We don’t know what they since trying to figure out ways to bring to do this week and next week is going would have done. So at least we have out some of the goodness and light to solve everything, but we have to try the benefit of knowing who Mary from these kids’ lives to the rest of the something. Sherlach was. At least we have the community. So Robbie and Alissa have So I am going to continue to come benefit of knowing the wonder that was set up a fund that is going to support down to the floor over the course of the her life. But she deserved retirement, art programs in schools, so art pro- next few days to talk about these vic- and Bill deserved to have his wife, who grams have a little more resources so tims—the victims from Newtown, from had worked so hard and had spent all other kids similar to their daughter Columbine. Hopefully, later today I these nights trying to make her school can experience the joys of drawing and will be able to talk about some of the a better place—he deserved to have her painting. She was learning Portuguese. victims from Virginia Tech and Wis- for their retirement up in the Finger This is somebody with a very inquisi- consin. Of course, there are just bind- Lakes, and he doesn’t. tive, thoughtful mind, and we never are ers full of stories that we could put on Ben Wheeler, whom I talked about going to get to know who Emilie this floor regarding urban gun violence earlier today, was a very gifted musi- Parker was going to grow up to be. that plagues our cities every day. cian. Ben was 6 years old when he died Jack Pinto was 6 years old, and he These stories are important because that morning. Just before December 14, was already a jock. He loved the New too often we trade in this body in sta- he had performed his first recital at 6 York Giants, and he had an idol whose tistics, that we just talk in terms of years old. I have a 4-year-old at home, name is Victor Cruz. He loved Victor politics. Underlying this debate are 20 and I know what an amazing thing it is Cruz. He followed everything Victor little kids in Newtown whose lives were to have a child be that dedicated to Cruz did. He was ecstatic when the Gi- cut short but also thousands upon music that by 6 years old they can per- ants won the Super Bowl and Cruz thousands of other kids, young adults, form a recital. He loved trains. They played a big part. Victor was wonderful and adults whose stories deserve to be would go to New York City a lot, and enough in the days following the trag- told. he was always more interested in edy to honor Jack’s memory. During At this point, I yield the floor and I riding the subway and the train than the game after the tragedy, he wore suggest the absence of a quorum. he was in visiting the museums or the writing on his cleats and his gloves The PRESIDING OFFICER. The zoos. That is not uncommon for kids. that said: Jack Pinto, my hero. Jack clerk will call the roll. Maybe doing a recital at age 6 is but was buried in a Victor Cruz jersey. The legislative clerk proceeded to loving trains is not. He was also a wrestler. I didn’t even call the roll. More than music, more than trains, know that you wrestled at 6 years old, Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. President, I ask more than subways, though, Ben loved but Jack did, and he was pretty good at unanimous consent that the order for his 9-year-old brother Nate. The two of it. To show how tough Jack was, in one the quorum call be rescinded. them did everything together. They of his practices, he lost a tooth. When The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without played soccer, they swam. As I said a 6-year-old loses a tooth, you would objection, it is so ordered. this morning in my first speech before think that would start the tears flow- Mr. SESSIONS. I ask unanimous con- this Chamber, on the way to school ing. But Jack didn’t cry when he lost sent to speak as if in morning business. that morning Ben told his mom he that tooth. He just took the tooth, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without wanted to be an architect when he handed it to his coach, and went back objection, it is so ordered. grew up, but he was going to be a pale- wrestling with a gapped-tooth smile on THE PRESIDENT’S BUDGET ontologist because that was what his his face. That was Jack. He was tough. Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. President, the brother Nate was going to be, and he He was an athlete. He had persever- President submitted his budget today. wanted to do everything Nate did. ance. Imagine who Jack Pinto was It is very late. It was due February 4. Ben was going to be a pretty amazing going to be when he grew up. We are It is the first time since the Budget man, that kind of musical talent at an not going to know because of what hap- Act was passed in 1974 that a President early age, a love for his family, and, pened that day. submitted a budget after the Senate unfortunately, Ben Wheeler lost his life I get it. I know there is a risk of has voted on one and after the House that day. overselling policy change. I don’t want has voted on one and both passed budg- Emilie Parker was 6 years old. The to make it sound like I am coming et resolutions. That was a dis- one thing you will hear about with re- down to the floor and telling you these appointing event. The President, as the spect to Emilie when you talk to the stories because these kids are going to Chief Executive, as any mayor, as any Parker family is that she had an infec- come back to life if we pass some bill Governor normally that I have ever tious laugh. You know those laughs or that we are going to guarantee this heard of, wants to be the one who lays you hear once and hope you get to hear doesn’t happen again. I don’t want to out a financial plan for his city or it again before you leave that person’s oversell what we are going to do. State to advocate for what would make presence? That was Emilie. Her father But the 3,300 people who have died the State and city better and then en- Robbie described her as bright, cre- since Newtown should tell us that courage the members of the board of ative, and loving. She always wanted enough is enough and that we should directors—the Senate and the House— to try new things, so much so that at try something. Even if we are not abso- to evaluate his plan and support it so 6 years old she was actually learning lutely, 100 percent, ironclad guaranteed they can put the country and the State Portuguese. Her father was trying to that what we are going to do is going and the city on a sound financial path. teach her that and it was part of their to work, we should try something. Be- Once again, we have had a very irre- bond. cause it is not OK that somebody can sponsible approach from the President She was an artist. She loved to draw walk into a school with a military- on the question of budgeting. with markers and she was talented. At style assault weapon and shoot bullets A few weeks ago, this Senate passed 2 years old, she could write her own at the rate of six per second. It is not a budget for the first time in 4 years. name and she could draw stick figures OK that a couple students can do an The law requires that the Senate bring of her family. She loved art so much end-around on the background check up a budget in committee by April 1. It that her parents Robbie and Alissa system to buy guns so they can walk requires that it be brought to the floor have decided to spend a part of their into their high school and kill 10 people and passed by April 15. This is the first

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As we talked a budget, a responsible budget that tion is on an unsustainable course. about the budget plan that was on the would put America on a sound finan- This Nation ‘‘has never faced a more floor—and we had 50 hours of debate, a cial course. predictable financial crisis.’’ lot of amendments, a lot of discus- This year the Senate passed a budget What he is saying is that if we do not sion—our colleagues kept using the that was irresponsible, did not change change the course we are on, it is guar- word ‘‘balanced.’’ They refer to their the debt course of America, left an an- anteed we are going to have a financial budget, the majority’s—Democratic nual deficit virtually the same as if we crisis and we should avoid that. We budget that they laid forward, they had no budget at all. It did not improve have the opportunity to avoid that. We used ‘‘balanced’’ over and over again. I current law. The Senate budget left us do not have to slash spending, as Con- put up a chart. The numbers kept run- with a very substantial budget deficit gressman RYAN has made clear in his ning up. We got to 100, 200 times the in the 10th year of the budget. budget. You can allow spending to in- word ‘‘balanced’’ was used in 15 or 18 On the other hand, the House, Con- crease faster than the growth of infla- hours of debate on their side; ‘‘bal- gressman PAUL RYAN, chairman of the tion and still balance the budget. But, anced,’’ over 200 times. Budget Committee, produced a budget oh no, not here, not the President of My staff went back and reviewed the that balances in 10 years. We have the United States, not the Members of numbers and it was 230 times. What do heard great complaints that his plan this Senate, the majority. They say we they mean by the word ‘‘balanced’’? cuts spending too much. Do you know cannot live with a 3.4-percent increase Why did they use the word ‘‘balanced’’? that plan did not cut spending? It al- in spending every year. We will run the Because some pollster somewhere, lows spending to increase every year risk. some political consultant, said people for 10 years. It allowed spending to in- The President said recently he was like to hear that. They want a bal- crease at the rate of 3.4 percent a year, not setting a balanced budget as a goal. anced budget. which is higher than the inflation rate That is absolutely true because his Their budget didn’t balance, nowhere is expected to be in America. Yet it budget does not balance. It never close. So they had several spins on it,— balances. comes close to balancing, has no inten- first, they wanted a lot of people who The Senate budget, on the other tion of it balancing ever. They use the were not following closely to hear the hand, has a 5-percent-plus increase in words ‘‘sustainable balance,’’ but it is word ‘‘balanced’’ and believed they had spending every year, leaving us on an not a responsible approach to the busi- a balanced budget when they didn’t unsustainable debt path, leaving us in- ness of America. I will talk a minute come close to having a budget that bal- creasing deficits every year, nowhere about some of the dangers of this debt anced. They never said the budget bal- close to balancing the budget. That is beyond just the fact that interest is anced because they knew that was not not the right path. going to suck huge amounts of money true. They had deficits every year, $400 What happened today when the Presi- out of our annual budget that we ought billion-plus every year. So a balanced dent produced his budget? It is no bet- to be using to invest in America. approach was what I think people who ter, maybe even worse, than the Senate How do they do it? When you elimi- kind of kept up with things believed— bill. For example, in his budget it nate the accounting gimmicks and that we would raise taxes by $1 trillion, would add, over the 10-year period, $8.2 honestly look at the budget presented we would cut spending by $1 trillion, trillion in new debt to the Nation. We by the President today, over 10 years, and this would be a balanced approach. now have already $17 trillion in gross the net deficit reduction is only $119 This is the way to reduce our debt and debt. This would add another $8.2 tril- billion. Each year that is about $12 bil- deficit: raise taxes and cut spending. lion to it; over $25 trillion will then be lion in deficit reduction. The deficit That is the responsible balanced ap- the debt of the United States. The 1- last year, 2012, was 1,080 billion—1,000- proach to getting our fiscal house in year interest in 2023, under the Presi- plus billion, and we are going to aver- order. dent’s budget, would amount to $763 age an $12 billion reduction in the def- But that is not what the budget did. billion. icit under this budget? That is vir- The budget increased taxes by $1.1 tril- The base defense budget is about $540 tually nothing. Properly accounted for, lion—$1,100 billion—but it increased billion; $763 billion exceeds Social Se- properly analyzed, based on the current spending by $964 billion. It did not cut curity—which is the largest expendi- law, I am correct in giving you those spending at all. It increased spending. ture. It exceeds Medicare in spending. numbers. It is not an unfair number. Basically, we ended up with only $119 It would be the largest single item in What about this year that we are in, billion in deficit reduction over 10 the budget and the fastest growing. It 2013, that will end September 30? Does years—zero, basically, an insignificant is still assuming relatively low interest he cut anything from our spending amount. So it increases taxes and in- rates, which are extraordinarily low at level this year? No. Spending and debt creases spending. It is the classic this moment but could surge in the fu- increases. The debt is projected to in- Democratic weakness, I have to say: ture and would hurt us substantially. crease, between now and September 30, Tax; spend. Tax more; spend more. How much is that? We now spend by $61 billion, more than where it Don’t worry about the deficit. about $3.7 trillion, so $763 billion is a would be under current. So it increases But somebody needs to be worrying lot of money just to pay the interest. the debt this year. about the deficit because it is a very The Federal highway bill today is What about next year? Does it in- important matter and we have to deal about $40 billion, a little over $40 bil- crease or reduce the deficit? It in- with it. This morning at the Budget lion. Interest on the debt would be $763 creases the deficit again by approxi- Committee we had a new nominee, Ms. billion in 1 year. mately $100 billion-plus—$100 billion. I Sylvia Burwell, for the Director of the Young people, we are indeed bor- believe that figure is correct. I might Office of Management and Budget, one rowing from their future to spend and be incorrect on that figure, but it defi- of the most important positions in the live high today on the theory somehow nitely increases the deficit this year by entire government. She is a delightful it will be paid back in the future by the $61 billion. lady and I know she wants to do well. people there. How will it be paid back, Taxes go up by $1.1 trillion—$1,100 She held a position in that office some interest of $763 billion in 1 year? This is billion—in new taxes. So taxes go up time ago under President Clinton, a not responsible. It is an unsustainable $1.1 trillion, on top of the $650 billion in deputy position, and she had some ex- course. new taxes that were passed in January perience in it, but it is a tough job. We Erskine Bowles, who was chosen by of this year and on top of the $1 trillion need somebody who can whip these President Obama to head the fiscal in new taxes passed as part of agencies and departments into shape. commission, former President Bill ObamaCare, the health care reform. The OMB is the one who answers to the

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So she is asking for a about high debt in Europe. They have The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without tough job, no doubt about it. also been analyzing these figures. All objection, it is so ordered. At that hearing, I talked a little bit three of those, through an independent Mr. MURPHY. Mr. President, I gave about a great concern of mine. My con- process of analyzing the impact of high my first speech on the floor of the Sen- cern is that our debt is so large now debt on economic growth—studies indi- ate this morning. This week and next that it is pulling down economic cated that high debt slows growth. week, we will be debating one of the growth in America. Let me repeat that. Well, how much? Looking at each one most fundamental issues that come to Our debt is so high it is pulling down of those three studies, the U.S. debt is a body such as this: What can we do to economic growth, and slow growth in the range that pulls down growth. better protect our kids and our loved means fewer jobs created. The dif- I say to my colleagues today, please ones from unexpected death? I care ference between 2 percent growth and 3 be aware that there is a cost to bor- about this issue not just because it is percent growth is 1 million jobs, ac- rowing and spending and adding debt. one that is important to the families of cording to Christina Romer, who The budget the President submitted victims in New Haven, Bridgeport, served President Obama in the White today would add $8.2 trillion in debt. It Hartford, and others who have been the House: So the more growth we have, would take us from $17 trillion to $25 victims of routine gun violence in Con- the more jobs are created. The less trillion in debt. Even with a growing necticut but, of course, because of what growth we have, fewer jobs are created. economy, we would still remain well happened in Sandy Hook. We had a disastrous jobs report last over 90 percent GDP to debt, and that I spoke this morning more broadly Friday. It was terrible and deeply dis- is an unacceptable figure. about the awful experience of being in It is deeply disappointing that we do appointing. What it said was we added Connecticut, the personal experience of not have leadership in the White House 88,000 jobs when they were predicting having been at the firehouse that day, that would lead us to get off of this we would add about 200,000. But more the wonderful experience of having got- path. ten to know the families of the Sandy significantly, 486,000 people dropped Mr. President, I see the majority Hook victims since then, and to have out of the labor force, had given up leader is here. I know he has extraor- witnessed the millions of acts of kind- finding work—almost one-half million, dinary duties and challenges in his ness that have showered down upon and less than 100,000 got a job. That busy life, and I will just wrap up and Newtown in the days and weeks and was a very dangerous trend. say that I am disappointed in the It comes around to this question: Is President’s budget. It does not change months since. That tragedy has become our debt so high that it adversely im- the debt course of America in any way. the tipping point that has brought us pacts economic growth? Let me explain It is not a responsible plan for the fu- here to talk about a solution to at it this way. The Rogoff-Reinhart study ture. It does not balance the budget least some of the epidemic gun vio- and book that they wrote analyzes debt ever and has no intention of ever bal- lence that for too long has plagued the in America and it calculated it and ancing the budget. All he talks about is streets of our cities but now comes to over the world. They examined econo- some sort of sustainable debt course. us in waves of mass shootings hap- mies worldwide. What they found was We cannot continue on that course, as pening in our schools and in our movie that when debt reaches 90 percent of Mr. Erskine Bowles, his own fiscal theaters and in our places of worship. the size of your economy, 90 percent of commission chairman, has told us. My hope, as a brand new Member of GDP, growth begins to slow. It slows a I yield the floor. the Senate, as someone who has lived median amount of 1 percent, on aver- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. through this experience as one of the age much more, as much as 2 percent. SCHATZ). The majority leader is recog- representatives of Sandy Hook, is to Growth—GDP growth begins to slow nized. just try to tell my colleagues whom we when debt reaches that high a level. Mr. REID. Mr. President, I appreciate are talking about here. I think we get What kind of debt level is it we are my friend yielding. My time on the caught up in the numbers and the pol- dealing with? Many people think, and floor is going to be very brief. icy debates and we forget these are real the President keeps saying, our debt- UNANIMOUS CONSENT AGREEMENT—EXECUTIVE kids, these are real people. to-GDP ratio is 77 percent. NOMINATION This is just a small sample of the vic- We have examined the Rogoff and Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- tims in Newtown and the victims from Reinhart study. Rogoff and Reinhart sent that at 4 p.m. today the Senate across Connecticut, in Bridgeport and used a higher figure because they com- proceed to executive session to con- in New Haven, who have been gunned pared countries from around the world, sider Calendar No. 59; that 2 hours of down prematurely. There are just too and those were the numbers they had. debate be equally divided in the usual many of them. Over 3,300 people have When the gross debt reaches 90 percent form; that upon the use or yielding died from guns since those 20 kids and of GDP, we begin to have an economic back of that time, the Senate proceed six adults were killed in Newtown. We decline. Our percentage of gross debt to to vote without intervening action or are not powerless. We can do some- GDP is 104 percent. debate on the nomination; that the mo- thing about it. I contend and I believe that the pro- tion to reconsider be considered made I have said over and over as I have jections for growth for the last 4 years and laid upon the table with no inter- been here on the floor today that there have all been higher than the growth vening action or debate; that no fur- are no guarantees. We are not going to we have actually seen. In fact, it has ther motions be in order; that any re- pass a law that is going to immediately been much lower than projected—even lated statements be printed in the flip a switch and assure that gun vio- by the President and the Congressional RECORD; and that President Obama be lence would not continue to be a prob- Budget Office. It appears to me that immediately notified of the Senate’s lem, but it can be less of a problem. It the gross debt figure being over 100 per- action and the Senate then resume leg- can be less of a reality for kids who are cent is indicative of a slowing growth. islative session. walking to school fearing for their Rogoff and Reinhart are not the only The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without lives in urban America. It can be less of ones who have done studies. Others objection, it is so ordered. a reality for parents sending their chil- have done studies as well. Europe has Mr. REID. I note the absence of a dren to elementary school, never high debt rates. Per capita, we have quorum. thinking that something like what

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My colleagues have place. some movement between both parties heard me say that about a number of She is survived by her older brother coming together on one element of this little girls who died, a lot of whom Isaiah who is a third grader at Sandy debate: background checks. Hopefully, were big fans of the color pink. Her Hook Elementary and who survived this will be looked upon as a very good mom will always remember Caroline as that day. My colleagues can find Ana’s week in the midst of this debate. So I the shadow of her older brother. Some- performances on YouTube. Ana’s per- want to tell my colleagues whom we times to his dismay, she followed him formances have been viewed tens of are talking about. around everywhere and she adored him. hundreds of thousands of times online. Let me go back to Newtown. I think Her brother Walker and she were big She was a talent. She had talent in her this is my fourth time on the Senate New York Yankees fans. Even though blood. Who knows whether she was floor today, and I still haven’t told my she was only 6 years old, when her fam- going to choose music and dance as a colleagues about everybody who per- ily recently went to Boston for a fam- career, but those creative muscles she ished in that school. ily trip, she refused to walk into had and the amazing parents who were The youngest victim that day was Fenway Park because she was a de- raising her were going to assure that barely 6 years old. His name was Noah voted Yankees fan. she was going to be something special. Pozner. He was the youngest victim Caroline had a wonderful spirit and She died that day, horribly, but her and he was the first to be buried. His we will never know exactly what she family—her mother Nelba especially— was the first funeral I went to amongst would grow up to be. She died that day. is just determined to make sure we countless funerals I lost count of. He Jessica Rekos was 6 years old and, as honor her memory by doing something was young, but he was described by his do so many little 6-year-old girls, she here. uncle as ‘‘smart as a whip.’’ He had a loved everything about animals. Again, Five kids escaped Sandy Hook Ele- real rambunctious streak. He could be another trend. This was a couple of mentary School that day out of those a handful for his family and for his first grade classes full of animal lovers, classrooms. Eleven kids—around that twin sister Arielle who was also in that and even some of their teachers were number—survived. Six of them hid in a school on Friday morning. She was big animal lovers as well. closet, but five of them escaped be- luckily in a different class. Arielle sur- Jessica loved horses. So anything cause the shooter had to reload. When vived; her brother did not. having to do with a horse, she wanted he reloaded, he perhaps fumbled the ex- He was already a very good reader. it. She watched movies about horses, change, and five kids ran out of a class- He was one of the youngest kids in his she read books about horses, she drew room and were discovered nearby some first grade class, but he was a very pictures about horses, and she wrote moments later. Five children—unfortu- good reader and he was looking forward stories about horses. She was murdered nately, none of those pictured in this to a book he had just bought at a book just 11 days before Christmas. She was poster—are alive today because as does fair. I will butcher the pronunciation, hoping that Santa would bring her a happen in so many of these mass shoot- but it was a Ninjago book he bought at cowgirl hat and cowgirl boots, and her ings, an opportunity presented itself a fair he was excited about. family even promised her that maybe, when the shooter changed magazines. He was going to a birthday party on if she was really good, in a couple years I wish we didn’t have to get into the the following day, Saturday, that he she could get her own horse. detailed nuances of how these mass was just bubbling about in the hours She loved going to Cape Cod and she shootings play out to try to find a way before he went to school. As is true for especially loved seeing the whales. She out of mass violence, but we do because so many of the victims, his family de- had a fondness for aquatic life as well, they are happening over and over. So scribes him as having a huge heart. a big fan of the movie ‘‘Free Willie,’’ we now have some experience. We now, The Pozners are an amazing family and she loved going to the cape to see to our great horror, have some data. who have spoken out. His mother and if she could catch a glimpse of those Empirically we know what happens. his uncle have been so articulate since whales. And what happened in Sandy Hook the shooting, calling on the Nation to She was curious. That curiosity was that killed Ana and Jessica and Noah change. They have been in Washington going to spring forth into a wonderful and Caroline and so many others is visiting my office, and I know they young woman who was going to take that he had trouble reloading, five kids have visited with other Members of the her loves and her curiosity and her pas- escaped, and either at the end of the 10 Senate—just another one of these fami- sion for life and make it into some- minutes because he had trouble reload- lies who have somehow found the cour- thing great. We will never get to know ing, or maybe just because the police age and the strength amidst this awful exactly what that would be. Jessica were coming in, he decided enough was grieving to come here and explain why died at age 6. enough and shot himself. In Tucson, things need to change, how they will Ana Marquez-Greene, I talked about when the shooter reloaded, it was not feel any justice until we do some- Ana this morning in my first speech. enough time for somebody to jump on thing here. Her mother Nelba, who is just amaz- him and end that incident. In Aurora, Caroline Previdi loved to draw and to ing—Nelba is a social worker who has a again, when the shooter had difficulty dance. She was 6 years old as well. She passion for helping people. She is in DC reloading—the gun jammed—the shoot- had one of these big smiles that every- right now as we speak trying to push ing ended. body loved. It brought happiness to ev- us to change things. Her little daugh- So 154 bullets in 10 minutes at Sandy erybody who saw that smile. She and ter Ana grew up in a musical family. Hook Elementary School killed 26 peo- her family were active members of the Ana’s father Jimmy is a very well ple. The shooter had to reload about St. Rose Church. I can’t tell my col- known saxophone player, a Hartford six times. What would have happened if leagues enough about St. Rose Church. native. The family came back to Con- he had to reload 15 times? How many About 10 of the victims were parish- necticut to raise their kids. So Ana more kids would have escaped? How ioners there. This hit that church hard- was musical. She used to love to sing many more opportunities would we er than any institution save for the and dance. She loved most of all doing have had for the shooting to go wrong? school. The monsignor there has been that at church. She was so connected Would there have been a moment an absolute hero to the community, to her church. She loved reading the where somebody could have jumped on having buried almost a dozen of his Bible. She loved having the Bible read him and stopped him, as they did in kids. He has come down to Washington to her. She loved being part of the Tucson? I don’t know the answer to

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If the answer is that there is a People remember him in the industry thank my colleague, Senator MURPHY, pretty good chance one of those three as ‘‘everybody’s hero.’’ He was always who gave his first speech on the floor things would have happened—the gun ‘‘pointing kids in the right direction’’ of the Senate this morning on the same would have jammed, kids would have despite his own difficult upbringing. topic. He is eminently qualified to escaped, or somebody could have He was fun too. He loved banana speak to this issue because of his un- stopped the shooting—then we should milkshakes and onion rings. Then he happy circumstance of being a Senator- think twice before dismissing the idea was killed—the fourth of four siblings elect when the Newtown, CT, massacre that a limitation on the size of maga- to be gunned down in and around Chi- occurred. I have spoken to him and zines sold in this Nation wouldn’t have cago. Four brothers and sisters: His Senator BLUMENTHAL about their per- an effect on future mass shootings. brother Carlos shot in 1995; his brother sonal life experiences and memories Our first job should be to stop that Jerome shot in 2000; his sister LaToya they will never forget about that day shooting from happening in the first shot just 3 months after Jerome; and and those that followed. place. But given the fact we are living then Ronnie, dead at 33. I thank him for his voice on this in this terrible, awful reality in which How about Amber Deanna Stanley, issue, for his inspiration, and for they are happening on a regular basis, who was killed last summer in Ket- speaking for many in Newtown, CT, then we have to be talking about what tering, MD. She was spending a nice, and across the Nation who otherwise we can do to limit the damage and the quiet evening at home when a gunman might not have as strong a voice on the carnage when they do occur. literally kicked down her door and floor of the Senate. I thank the Sen- I will tell my colleagues while no one opened fire. She was shot multiple ator very much for that. is sure of the difference in outcome at times while she was in her bed. She was I would like to speak as in morning Sandy Hook had the assault weapons 17 years old—17. She just started her business briefly and then return to the ban still been in effect, there are plen- senior year at Flowers High School in underlying bill on firearms. I ask unan- ty of parents there who do believe Springdale, MD. She was enrolled in a imous consent to speak in morning there is a pretty good chance some of very elite science and technology pro- business. their kids might still be alive had that gram. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without bill still been in effect. Remember, It is crazy, but this is probably the objection, it is so ordered. these were guns and clips purchased le- third or fourth or fifth young woman I REMEMBERING ROBERT REMINI gally. For all the arguments that all have talked about here today—and I Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, in an the laws on the books aren’t going to am probably into 30 or 40 people I have interview with Roll Call newspaper a stop criminals, I am not sure Nancy talked about—another young woman while back, Robert Remini—one of the Lanza was going to go onto the black who was pursuing a career in engineer- great historians of our time—talked market to purchase an AR–15 or ammu- ing and science. She had big dreams. about what he hoped for after he died. nition that was illegal. Things could She was an honors student. She was in Professor Remini said his idea of Heav- have been different. AP classes, and she wanted to go to en would be listening with his own ears But as we know, every day there are Harvard University and maybe become to debates involving congressional gi- more people killed in this country by a doctor. She had the grades to do it. ants such as Henry Clay, Daniel Web- guns than were killed at Sandy Hook She could have gone anywhere she ster, and John C. Calhoun. Elementary that day. I will tell my wanted. On March 28—Holy Thursday—Robert colleagues that I have heard some very She was also very popular. She was a Remini died in a suburban Chicago hos- visceral anger from parents and gun kid whom people were drawn to. She pital from complications of a recent victims in the cities I represent be- was a peer leader and she would do stroke at the age of 91. cause they rightfully wonder why we wonderful, magnanimous things for her I hope his wish comes true. I hope are talking about this issue now—after classmates, such as she would bring right now he is listening in awe some- Sandy Hook—when, for the last 20 cupcakes to them somewhat spontane- where in Heaven as the great issues are years, young men and women have ously. debated in the Great Beyond. been getting gunned down in our cities One classmate said three words: ‘‘She Robert Remini lived a good and full and it didn’t seem as though this place was amazing’’—until August 23 of last life. He spent most of his career at the stood up and cared too much about it. year, a gunman kicked down her door, University of Illinois at Chicago, where They welcome the conversation, but opened fire, and Amber was gone. he founded the university’s respected they wonder where all of this compas- How about Angela Player, 37 years Institute for the Humanities. He pro- sion was when people such as Ronnie old, shot on February 21 of this year, duced a remarkable body of work that Chambers were being killed. an avid reader who also loved the out- brought important chapters of Amer- Ronnie Chambers was 33 years old doors, gardening, and kayaking. She ica’s history to life. when he was shot in January 2012. He was a fan of everything fun and excit- In 2002, at the age of 80, Professor grew up with his mom and his siblings ing—fast cars. She liked training dogs. Remini became a distinguished visiting in Chicago’s notorious Cabrini-Green She was killed by her ex-husband. scholar of American history at the Li- housing projects and he became in- A lot of these are random killings, brary of Congress. volved in the gang problem at a young but a lot of these killings are by some- At the request of Librarian of Con- age. But he had to watch something body you know. Her ex-husband actu- gress James Billington, Professor that no one should ever have to watch. ally did not have a history of domestic Remini spent the next 3 years writing You think it is terrible that Noah violence but had a gun ready and avail- the history of the House of Representa- Pozner’s twin sister has to grow up able in a fit of rage, and she left behind tives. That is where I met him. What a with the knowledge that her brother a son and a daughter. man, a great historian, a great person- was gunned down. Think about what Mr. President, 3,300 people have died ality, with a smile on his face every Ronnie Chambers had to grow up with, since Newtown, and I think it is impor- minute of the day. having watched his other three siblings tant, as we have this debate, to come Professor Remini was once asked how die at the hands of gun violence. down and talk about who these victims he found the stamina to start writing Ronnie became convinced, after are. I will be doing this over the course another book at the age of 80. He said watching his three other siblings die of today and tomorrow and this week he started by setting a goal for himself from gun violence, that he had to turn to try to bring a little bit of color to to write nine pages a day. Then he did his life around. So he did. He went into the discussion we are having. what he had been taught by the Jesuits

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In 1965, he moved to Chicago and be- has been my sad duty to do that over His system worked. ‘‘The House’’ was came the first chair of the history de- and over again—and when we talk to published in the year 2006. partment at the newly established Uni- law enforcement officials who are get- In 2005, House Speaker Dennis versity of Illinois at Chicago’s Circle ting outgunned by criminals on the Hastert, from Illinois, asked Professor Campus. He later founded the univer- streets every day, we know this debate Remini to become the official Histo- sity’s interdisciplinary Institute for is long overdue. rian of the U.S. House of Representa- the Humanities. He chaired that from Some Senators have said they do not tives. The post of House Historian had 1981 to 1987. He became a professor want to touch this issue. They have an- been empty for more than 10 years. emeritus of history and research pronounced their intention to filibuster in Over the next 5 years, Professor fessor emeritus of humanities in 1991. order to try to stop us from even debat- Remini rebuilt the office’s small staff He was an institution, not only in the ing gun safety. This is an extreme po- and reestablished its reputation for im- field of history but certainly in Chi- litical position. It is an unfortunate po- partial scholarship and integrity. cago and at the University of Illinois sition. But, fortunately, over the last He retired from the House in 2010, but at Chicago. few days, a growing number of Sen- he kept writing until shortly before his In addition to the National Book ators from both sides of the aisle have death. Award, his other honors include the made it clear this debate is going to In all, he wrote and coauthored more Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation move forward. than 20 books. His subjects included Award, the Carl Sandburg Award for I hope the vote tomorrow reflects Presidents John Quincy Adams and Nonfiction, the University Scholar that, and when we get to the point where we are in debate, we can roll up Martin Van Buren, House Speaker Award of the University of Illinois, the our sleeves and get to work. We can Henry Clay, Senator and statesman American Historical Association’s look at our Constitution, which we Daniel Webster, and Mormon leader Jo- Award for Scholarly Distinction, and have sworn to uphold, including the seph Smith. the Freedom Award from the U.S. Cap- second amendment, and we can also As one former colleague said, he itol Historical Society. look to the needs of America to protect wrote with such immediacy ‘‘that you Professor Remini’s wife Ruth passed the life, liberty, and opportunity for might think he’d had lunch . . . with away last year. I wish to express my happiness for the people who live in Martin Van Buren. He is an American condolences to their children, Robert, treasure.’’ this country. Elizabeth, and Joan, their three grand- According to the Centers for Disease The subject that interested him the children, and to Professor Remini’s most, though, was none of those great Control, over 11,000 Americans—11,000— friends, colleagues, and former stu- are murdered with guns each year. figures but Andrew Jackson. At least 10 dents. I will close with this: In 2003, the of Professor Remini’s books were about That is more each year than all the National Endowment for the Human- American lives lost in the 9/11 attacks, Jackson, including an influential ities invited Professor Remini to de- three-volume biography, the third vol- Iraq, and Afghanistan combined. liver its inaugural ‘‘Heroes of History’’ When we count suicides and acci- ume of which won the National Book lecture. He chose as his subject the dental shootings, more than 31,000 Award for nonfiction in 1984. Members of the first Congress. To Professor Remini, Andrew Jack- Americans are killed by guns each This is part of what he said of those year. That is 87 Americans killed every son was ‘‘the embodiment of the new men in whose footsteps many of us fol- American.’’ He was: single day by guns. Another 200 are low: shot each day but survive. Think of An orphan, poor, and yet talented, who Ordinary. Most of them were ordinary indi- those numbers. through his own abilities, raised himself to viduals as far as the record shows, yet they the highest office in the land. He personified Gun violence in America is truly at performed heroically. And they deserve to be epidemic levels. Gunshots now kill what the American Dream is all about. That called heroes because they set aside their it is not class or money or bloodlines that over four times more Americans per local and regional differences, their eco- year than HIV/AIDS, and shooting are rewarded in [America], but rather the nomic and personal prejudices, in their effort ability of each individual to achieve some- to make the Constitution succeed and there- deaths are projected to surpass car ac- thing worthwhile in life. by establish an enduring union. They had cident deaths within the next few Professor Remini did not excuse many disagreements, but they resolved them years. Jackson for his backward views on in compromise. And they did it for the sake These statistics should give us all slavery or women’s rights or his harsh of showing the world that a republican gov- pause. But numbers cannot truly cap- treatment of Native Americans. ernment was a viable instrument for the pro- ture the deeply personal impact of gun He regarded Jackson as admirable be- tection of liberty and betterment of its citi- violence. There are too many families cause: zens. who now face an empty chair at the He believed in this Union. He believed in If Professor Remini were here today, dinner table, too many parents who this country. . . . [H]e . . . believed that gov- he would tell us that the spirit of prin- walk past an empty bedroom, too many ernment shouldn’t be for only a small seg- cipled compromise is more than a husbands and wives who have lost the ment of society, but for all of us. That’s noble part of our past; it is the best loves of their lives because of guns. what I want in [a] President. hope for our future. It is heartbreaking. But, sadly, it is So said Professor Remini. Now I will make a statement as part almost routine—in a park in Chicago; Robert Vincent Remini was born in of the continuing debate on the out- at a nightclub in my hometown of East New York City. He graduated from standing legislation, S. 649. St. Louis, IL; in a movie theater in Fordham University in 1943. He wanted As I mentioned before when Senator Auroro, CO; in a shopping center in to be a lawyer, but that changed after MURPHY spoke, I rise to speak about a Tucson, AZ; in a Sikh temple in Oak he enlisted in the Navy during World vote the Senate is going to take tomor- Creek, WI; at military bases in Texas, War II. To pass the time on board ship, row as we begin debating legislation to Virginia, and Kentucky; in college lec- he read history, including all nine vol- reduce gun violence. ture halls in DeKalb, IL, and umes of Henry Adams’ ‘‘History of the I am glad we are finally having this Blacksburg, VA; sadly, in the first- United States of America.’’ By the vote. There were some who thought we grade classrooms in Newtown, CT. time the war ended, he knew it was his- would never reach this point. It has Since the Newtown shooting on De- tory, not law, that he loved the most. been far too long since the Senate held cember 14, more than 3,300 Americans

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This bill would also au- gun lobby have had a long history of demic of gun violence has to come to thorize additional resources to keep opposing even those commonsense an end. schools safe. ideas. They have raised objections to On Thursday, we will vote to begin These proposals just make sense. them. I want to respond to the main debate on a bill that would take com- They have strong support from the objections the gun lobby has raised. As monsense steps to prevent gun vio- American public, including a majority it turns out, they just do not stand up lence. It is called the Safe Commu- of gun owners. The National Rifle As- to scrutiny. nities, Safe Schools Act. The Senate sociation may speak for the gun indus- First, the gun lobby claims that re- Judiciary Committee reported the try, but it does not speak for gun own- quiring FBI background checks for gun parts of the bill last month. The com- ers. Gun owners, and I know them. sales will lead to the creation of a na- mittee held three lengthy hearings and They are part of my family. I have tional gun registry. That claim is abso- four markups which I attended. grown up with them my entire life. lutely totally false. Federal law pro- The Safe Communities, Safe Schools They are good, God-fearing, church- hibits the Federal Government from es- Act would do three things: First, it going, patriotic Americans who value tablishing a national gun registry. We makes sure that the FBI NICS back- their guns and use them properly, store could argue the merits of it, but we ground check programs are conducted them safely at home away from kids. have to acknowledge the reality. It on all gun sales with some reasonable These are people who will follow the does not exist today. It will not exist exceptions. Currently, up to 40 percent law. They understand we have to stop of all transfers of firearms include no as a result of this bill. those who misuse guns from getting background check. Someone raised the I have a copy of a letter signed by 30 their hands on them. A majority of point in one of our hearings, what if Senators, including 26 Republicans. I you got on the airplane and they an- those gun owners across America, ask unanimous consent to have this nounced to you—the flight attendant sportsmen, hunters, those who buy letter printed in the RECORD. said: Welcome to this flight from guns for self-defense support what we There being no objection, the mate- Washington to Chicago. The Transpor- are doing in this bill. rial was ordered to be printed in the The straw purchasing and school tation Security Agency has checked 60 RECORD, as follows: safety proposals passed in committee percent of the passengers to make sure U.S. SENATE, with strong bipartisan votes. I am they are not carrying a bomb but not Washington, DC, November 3, 2011. hopeful we will be able to adopt the bi- Hon. DANIEL INOUYE, the other 40 percent. Have a nice flight. Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriations, What would you think about it? You partisan floor amendment from Sen- ators MANCHIN and TOOMEY on back- Washington, DC. would think, for goodness’ sake, we Hon. BARBARA MIKULSKI, have to do everything we can to check ground checks. All these proposals are also sup- Chairwoman, Subcommittee on Commerce, Jus- everyone if we are truly dedicated to tice, Science and Related Agencies, Senate ported by law enforcement. It was safety. That is what this universal Committee on Appropriations, Washington, about 3 weeks ago. I went to the Chi- background check is about. DC. We would also create tough Federal cago Police Department headquarters. Hon. HAROLD ROGERS, criminal penalties for illegal straw Superintendent McCarthy invited me Chairman, House Committee on Appropriations, purchasing and the trafficking of guns. in. I sat down for about an hour with 10 Washington, DC. beat cops from Chicago. They are ones Hon. FRANK WOLF, Get the picture. If you are going to buy Chairman, Subcommittee on Commerce, Science, a gun from a licensed dealer, they are who literally get up every morning and go, usually undercover, into neighbor- and Related Agencies, House Committee on going to run a background check on Appropriations, Washington, DC. hoods and try to stop the murders and you. If your background check dis- DEAR CHAIRMEN AND CHAIRWOMAN: As sup- closes, for example, that you have a violence. I sat there. One of them had porters of the Second Amendment and the felony conviction or that you are under just gotten back from his 11th surgery. rights of law-abiding gun owners, we are a domestic violence order or that have He got in a shootout with a 15-year-old writing to urge the House and Senate Appro- you been adjudged mentally incom- who shattered his leg. He has had 11 priations Committees to maintain several petent, unstable, and you should not surgeries trying to get back on his feet House-passed firearms provisions in the up- and get back on the force. coming Conference Report on H.R. 2112, the own a gun, you will not be sold that legislative vehicle for the Fiscal Year 2012 gun. We talked about what life was like out there. They talked about 14- and Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS), and Re- Since we came up with this idea of lated Agencies Appropriations Act. While background checks, up to 2 million un- 15-year-olds packing guns and firing these provisions had broad, bipartisan sup- qualified people tried to buy them and away. They are not worth a darn as a port in the Senate, the amendments that we stopped them. That is what the law shot. They, sadly, kill a lot of people would have reinstated these provisions in the is supposed to do. But under the cur- they do not intend to kill. They are as Senate version of H.R. 2112 did not receive a rent circumstances, straw purchasers irresponsible as they come, but it is vote. go in and buy a gun because they have the reality of the mean streets of many Over the years, Congress has taken many a clean record. So the gangster, the cities. So these people in law enforce- actions to preserve Second Amendment ment agree we need to do something rights and prevent undue encroachment on mobster, the drug gang member, the those rights on the part of the Executive thug sends his girlfriend in to buy the about the straw purchasers, for exam- Branch. One of the most common ways in gun. She does not have a criminal ple. So do the prosecutors, the medical which Congress has accomplished this goal record. She buys the gun, comes out- community, the faith community, has been through a number of general provi- side and hands it to him. He turns teachers, mayors, colleges, univer- sions in CJS Appropriations bills. Most of around and uses it to kill someone. sities, and, most important, the family these protections have been in place for a This bill is going to change what hap- members of gun violence victims. number of years—some going back as far as pens to her. Of course, he is still going Many of those family members from three decades—and none of them have been the source of any significant controversy. Newtown are here today. Senator MUR- to face the full brunt of the law for his The House CJS Appropriations bill (H.R. misdeeds. But she is now going to be PHY from Connecticut spoke earlier, as 2596) made permanent nine separate Second held accountable, too, up to 15 years of did Senator BLUMENTHAL, to note their Amendment protections. However, the Sen- hard time in Federal prison for buying persuasive lobbying as they walk the ate version of H.R. 2112 stripped the House that gun. Halls of Congress, hoping the sad and language and extended these protections

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There is no reason for law-abid- Firearms Database Prohibition. A prohibi- that the language making these protections ing Americans to worry about tougher tion on the use of funds to create, maintain permanent are included in the Conference penalties for straw purchases and gun or administer a database of firearms owners Report. trafficking. Those activities are al- or their firearms. This prohibition has been Thank you for your attention regarding ready illegal and law-abiding Ameri- in place since FY 1979 and prevents the fed- this matter. cans will not be engaged in them. eral government from establishing a na- Sincerely, In short, the proposals before the tional gun registry. Orrin G. Hatch; Johnny Isakson; Mark Senate will not burden law-abiding gun Curio and Relic Definition. A prohibition Begich; Jim DeMint; Michael B. Enzi; owners. They will help to save lives, re- on the use of funds to change the definition Lindsey Graham; Dean Heller; Rob of a ‘‘curio or relic.’’ This provision protects Portman; John Barrasso; Mitch duce crime, and keep guns from the the status of collectible firearms for future McConnell; Kelly Ayotte; Tom Coburn; hands of those who misuse them. generations of firearms collectors. This pro- Olympia Snowe; Ron Johnson; James Third claim by the gun lobby. They vision has been included since Fiscal Year M. Inhofe; Mike Johanns; Richard claim we should not pass any new gun 1997. Burr; John Thune; Roger Wicker; Pat laws until there is more enforcement of Physical Inventory Prohibition. Prohibi- Roberts; John Boozman; Mike Lee; Jon the laws on the books. I am all for tion on a requirement to allow a physical in- Tester; Max Baucus; Saxby Chambliss; that. But it is blatantly hypocritical of ventory of Federal Firearms Licensees. The Chuck Grassley; Marco Rubio; Lisa the gun lobby to say we should just en- Clinton Administration proposed a rule in Murkowski; David Vitter; Joe force the gun laws on the books when Manchin. 2000 to require an annual inventory by all li- they constantly work to weaken those censees, While the Bush Administration Mr. DURBIN. This letter, dated No- eventually withdrew the proposal, Congress same laws. vember 3, 2011, describes a number of For example, in the last few years, has still passed this preventive provision longstanding prohibitions in Federal every year, beginning in FY 2007. the gun lobby has gotten Congress to Information Retrieval Prohibition. A pro- law. Let me quote the letter’s descrip- change the laws on the books to repeal hibition on the use of funds to electronically tion of two: the Reagan-era prohibition on loaded retrieve personally identifying information Firearms database prohibition. A prohibi- guns in national parks, to require Am- gathered by federal firearms licensees. This tion on the use of funds to create, maintain trak to allow guns to be transported on provision prohibits the creation of a gun reg- or administer a database of firearm owners their trains, to give the gun industry istry from dealers’ records that are required or their firearms. This prohibition has been unprecedented immunity from liability in place since fiscal year 1979 and prevents by law to be surrendered to the federal gov- under civil law, and to pass appropria- ernment when a dealer goes out of business. the Federal Government from establishing a This provision has been included since FY national gun registry. tions riders which make it harder for 1997. Information gathering prohibition. A pro- law enforcement agencies to enforce Business Activity. A prohibition on the use hibition on the use of funds to maintain any gun laws, such as the ludicrous Tiahrt of funds to deny a Federal Firearms License information gathered as part of an instant amendment that prevents information (FFL) or renewal of an FFL on the basis of background check or to maintain informa- sharing about even traces of guns used business activity. This provision prohibits tion for more than 24 hours. This provision in the commission of crimes. BATFE from denying federal firearms li- protects the privacy of law-abiding gun buy- Not only does the gun lobby try to cense applications or renewals based on a ers by providing information about legal gun get Congress to undo the gun laws on dealer’s low business volume alone. Congress purchases from being kept by government the books, it has also supported court added this general provision in FY 2005. authorities, and has been included in the law Information Gathering Prohibition. A pro- since fiscal year 1999. challenges to these same laws across the country. hibition on the use of funds to maintain any There you have it. This letter, signed information gathered as a part of an instant Here is the best example: The gun by Senator MCCONNELL, the Republican background check or to maintain informa- lobby claims to be outraged that there leader, Senators HATCH, INHOFE, tion for more than 24 hours. This provision are not more Federal prosecutions protects the privacy of law-abiding gun buy- GRASSLEY, DeMint, and many others, when a person tries to buy a gun but is ers by prohibiting information about legal showed that the claims about a na- denied by the FBI NICS background gun purchases from being kept by govern- tional gun registry are baseless. There check. The Federal agency that re- ment authorities. It has been included since is no evidence of such a registry. Long- views those NICS denial cases to see FY 1999. standing Federal laws prevent the cre- whether they merit prosecution is the Firearms Trace Data Disclaimer. A re- ation of it. Anyone who continues to quirement that any trace data released must Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, claim the FBI background check will and Explosives, or ATF. As we all include a disclaimer stating such trace data lead to a national gun registry should cannot be used to draw broad conclusion know, the gun lobby has gone to great about firearms-related crime. This provision be shown this letter signed by Repub- political lengths to make it harder for has been included since FY 2005. lican Senators. the ATF to do its job. The gun lobby Firearms Parts Export to Canada. A prohi- Second, the gun lobby claims these has blocked ATF from getting a Sen- bition on the use of funds to require an ex- proposals would unduly burden law- ate-confirmed Director for six straight port license for small firearms parts valued abiding gun owners. What is the bur- years. They have pushed appropria- at less than $500 for export to Canada. This den? In 2011, the FBI reported the back- tions riders that limit the ATF’s au- provision removed an unnecessary and bur- ground check system had an instant thority, and they have sought to repeal densome requirement on U.S. gun manufac- determination rate of 91.5 percent. turers that was imposed under the Clinton ATF regulations in Court. Administration, It has been included since That means 91 percent-plus of back- The best part is, at the same time FY 2006. ground checks were resolved in a mat- the gun lobby tries to prevent ATF Importation of Curios and Relics. A prohi- ter of minutes. For those other back- from carrying out its enforcement re- bition on the use of funds to arbitrarily deny ground checks where the dealer is in- sponsibilities, the gun lobby has importation of qualifying curio and relic structed to temporarily delay the sale pushed a rider into law that explicitly firearms. This provision insures that collect- to allow for a more thorough check, prevents Congress from transferring ible firearms that meet all legal require- the FBI must give a response within 3 any of ATF’s functions to any other ments for importation into the United days or the sale will be allowed to go States are not prevented from import by Ex- agency, such as the FBI. So the gun ecutive Branch fiat. This provision has been through. In other words, a background lobby says that all we should do is en- included since FY 2006. check is, at most, a minor temporary force the gun laws on the books. Then Once again, these are non-controversial inconvenience to a small percentage of they make it harder for the Federal protective measures that have long had the law-abiding Americans. Government to do that.

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American people how any of these new lies, and the strong majority of Ameri- They have acted to toughen the gun gun control measures would have pre- cans who support proposals that will laws, often going far further than any vented that or any other terrible trag- save lives, commonsense gun safety proposal we have before the Senate. In edy or how any of these measures proposals? Or are they going to stand Australia, on April 28, 1996, a gunman would reduce gun violence in any meas- with the gun lobby that refuses to com- started shooting at tourists in Port Ar- urable way. Instead, his proposals promise even when lives could be thur. He killed 35 people. In response, would serve primarily to restrict the saved? that nation dramatically toughened rights of law-abiding citizens. I know where I am going to stand. I their standards for gun ownership, Recently, I launched a project called stand with Americans such as the fam- banned assault weapons, and launched Protect2A, which is an attempt to ily of Hadiya Pendleton, the promising, a buyback of hundreds of thousands of reach out to those who are reluctant to beautiful young teenage girl gunned semiautomatic rifles. I might tell you, see changes to our Bill of Rights, our down just weeks ago in a Chicago park. that is not included in this bill we are Bill of Rights eroded, and believe Mem- She had been out here for President considering. bers of Congress should be doing every- Obama’s inauguration. It was a thrill- After these laws were passed, gun thing in their power to protect the sec- ing day for her to be here with her high homicides and suicides decreased dra- ond amendment rights of citizens. This school friends and classmates. In a matically, and Australia has not had a is also as we should be protecting all matter of days, she had been gunned single mass shooting since 1996. the rights protected by our Constitu- down in a park after school. In Finland, there were two mass tion. I stand with Sandra Wortham, whose school shootings in 2007 and 2008. The I am pleased to announce the re- brother, Chicago police officer Thomas first involved a teenager who killed sponse to Protect2A has been over- Wortham, IV, was shot and killed by eight people at a high school, and the whelming. In less than 2 days, we have gang members with a straw-purchased second involved a gunman who killed received well over 1,000 responses on gun while he stood in the driveway of 10 at a culinary school. my Web site. The vast majority of his father’s home. The gun lobby would In response, Finland raised the min- them recognized that the President’s like us to forget about these victims. imum age for gun ownership and proposal will not make them safer but But there is no way we can. toughened their background check re- will, rather, result in limiting their Sandra Wortham testified at a hear- quirements. rights as law-abiding citizens. ing I chaired in February on gun vio- In Scotland, on March 13, 1996, a gun- It is with this in mind I would now lence. She talked about how her broth- man entered a primary school in the like to ensure their voices have become er, a policeman in Chicago, was armed town of Dunblane and killed 16 young an important part of this debate. I and shot back, but it did not save him. children and their teacher. In response, have several quotes from Americans She told us there is nothing anti-gun the United Kingdom actually went so across the country who oppose these about doing more to keep guns out of far as to ban virtually all handguns. measures and wish Senators to stand the hands of the people who will misuse The measures we are working on in up for them and their constitutional them. It was pretty powerful testi- the Senate today are modest in com- rights. mony. parison with steps other countries took Roger, from my home State of Utah, The NRA posted a summary of my in response to mass shootings. Even writes as follows: though we have over 300 million guns hearing on their Web site describing As a veteran, I’ve had too many ‘‘brothers’’ the hearing as ‘‘an attack on guns.’’ in America and a strong tradition of and ‘‘sisters’’ make sacrifices to uphold the They described the testimony given by gun ownership, the measures we are Constitution of the United States. Their five of our six witnesses, but they said considering have overwhelming support blood will not be in vain. While I believe our nothing about Sandra Wortham, who among the majority of Americans and rights are not granted by government, I be- lost her brother, the Chicago police- gun owners. We should move forward lieve that documentation of these rights in with these measures. the United States Constitution has helped us man. They pretended her testimony maintain our freedoms. Why is the Second never happened. They did not want Mr. President, I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Amendment important to me? Because with- people to remember her story. out it, the rest of our rights can simply be BROWN). The Senator from Virginia. It is not the only time. A few weeks Mr. KAINE. Mr. President, I ask wiped away. ago, the NRA proposed a set of redline unanimous consent I be recognized for Jim from Louisiana writes as follows: changes to the gun trafficking bill that up to 5 minutes as if in morning busi- I lived through the Los Angeles riots. My Senators LEAHY, KIRK, COLLINS, GILLI- ness and then Senator LEE be recog- wife and I were living in Silver Lake. For 5 BRAND, and I are cosponsoring. The key nized for up to 5 minutes following my days we watched the warm glow of busi- section of that bill was named after nesses being burned on two sides. For 5 days remarks. Hadiya Pendleton of Chicago. That was we never saw a law enforcement officer. We The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without were on our own. My wife and I were un- Senator KIRK’s idea and a darn good objection, it is so ordered. one. What was the first change the armed. The couple across the street had a The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- pair of shotguns, and the elderly gentleman NRA proposed? Deleting Hadiya Pen- ator from Virginia is recognized. next to them had a .38 service revolver from dleton’s name from the bill. They did Mr. KAINE. I thank the Chair. his days in the LAPD. After it became clear not want to be reminded of this young (The remarks of Mr. KAINE per- that law enforcement had abandoned the girl who lost her life to gun violence. taining to the introduction of S. 700 are citizens of Los Angeles, we took shifts The gun lobby may hope we forget located in today’s RECORD under watching the street and who was coming and about Americans such as the Pendle- ‘‘Statements on Introduced Bills and going. Our neighbors brought us coffee in the tons and the Worthams, but we will Joint Resolutions.’’) middle of the night, a night that was lit with not. None of us should. Mr. KAINE. I yield the floor. the flames of burning buildings. Twice cars I urge my colleagues to join with the came up our street, saw us armed, and The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- turned around. I have no doubt that the driv- majority of Americans who support ator from Utah is recognized. ers had things on their minds other than get- commonsense reforms that will reduce Mr. LEE. I thank the Senator from ting home to loved ones. gun deaths and keep guns out of the Virginia for his cooperation in allowing As soon as I could, I went out and bought hands of criminals. That is what we me this time. my first handgun. I will not be disarmed. I

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If our government is so out of about reducing violence and I am dis- beings, with evil in their hearts and minds touch they will make law-abiding citizens appointed in Pro 2A politicians for allowing that were the cause, utilizing an otherwise criminals, it’s just something my family will the conversation to be dictated by politi- useful piece of machinery as the mechanism have to deal with. But we will not disarm. cians who neither understand how guns work of death. It’s times like these when an indi- David, from Missouri, wrote the fol- nor have the ability to use logic or reason vidual needs to take a stand, to be respectful of those who believe differently than him- lowing: and use emotions and rhetoric to expand control while putting law abiding citizens self, but be resolved to fight for what he be- I am a handicapped 78-year-old male living and freedom at risk. Gun control has not and lieves in none the less. I believe strongly in alone. I have applied for and received a con- will never work because it does not address the 2nd Amendment the same way I believe ceal-carry permit, which I feel is my Second the cause. When we as a country decided to that it’s purpose is just as strong today as it Amendment right. I hope and pray that I reduce drunk driving deaths the drivers were was in our Founding Father’s day and I will never have to use my firearm, but will if and are prosecuted not cars or alcohol and it be standing up for my rights. Thank you for challenged to do so. has been successful. Take guns away from standing with me. Please don’t treat the subject of the Sec- law abiding citizens and neglect to enforce Michael—Utah ond Amendment like you did with my health and prosecute gun crimes and the result is More than ever we need to protect our care, by passing legislation that you didn’t Chicago. We need to enforce current laws and God-given liberties and freedoms. While I even read. have a zero tolerance policy for gun crimes mourn for the loss of life from whatever may Carolyn from New Jersey writes: while addressing mental illness and a culture be the cause, the further eroding of our lib- Protection of the 2A is necessary in order that glorifies violence. erties will make us neither safer nor freer. to preserve the integrity of our Constitution. Please do everything in your power to pro- The overwhelming majority of gun owners The ‘‘ruling elite’’ cannot pick and choose tect our rights and change the focus of this are law abiding citizens. There will always which amendments they like, and which conversation to the criminals. be the few that choose to live by their own rules and norms. they don’t. We, the people, are sovereign Leslie—Minnesota I am the father of a 12 year old and an 8 citizens, and we are protected by the Con- Because it a legal right as given by our year old and I want them to enjoy the free- stitution. founding fathers to protect our selves, fam- doms that have been enjoyed by previous Annie, from Georgia, writes the fol- ily’s, state and country from harm from any generations. Do I want them safe? Of course. lowing: direction. Keep up the good work. Do I think further restrictions of firearms Dear Senator, how I wish we as a civilized Holly—Florida and/or ammunition will do this? No. A men- nation did not have to go through this in Years ago, I was robbed at gunpoint by 2 tally ill individual will do harm with a 10 order to defend our 2nd Amendment that has young gang bangers. A call to 911 received no round magazine just as they would with a 30 been in place for all these years. It is very response from the police—none. After that round magazine. I would like to see us put more resources toward helping those with important that we the citizens keep our incident, my father gave me one of his small these life changing problems. How sad and weapons to be able to defend ourselves from hand guns & took me to the range to teach difficult it must be for the loved ones. criminals as well as to send a message to the me how to use it. I have no record of transfer, no background check paperwork, just a Press forward with protecting the freedoms government that we are not under any dicta- and responsibilities of our citizenry. torship. We are a free country, and we are clear memory of having a gun held to my Jeffrey—Indiana ready to defend our position against anyone head & the knowledge that—if I ever had who tries to take away what rights we have. to—I could defend myself in my home. I fear The Founders understood that control of To me, personally, my guns are my defense that the knee jerk gun restrictions ema- weaponry, with respect to law abiding citi- to protect my family, and I have had to nating from DC and state governments will zens, is not about gun control—it is about make use of them for that reason in the past expose me & others like me to harm. I also people control. When the people are no and will do it again since the police cannot fear that the contents of these proposed bills longer in control of their own destinies, then there is tyranny. The Founders also feared be available fast enough . . . Please protect are yet one more excuse for a governmental that once power left the people’s hands, the our rights, because once we lose this amend- money grab. I pray you will meet with suc- only way to regain that power over their own ment, we are defenseless and others will fol- cess in your efforts. Thank you. lives would be with blood. The 2nd Amend- low. I do not want to live again in a country Rick—Kentucky ment protects against the need for another where citizens have no ‘‘voice,’’ where there Senator Lee, Thank you for taking a stand revolution of blood. is no democracy and the people live in fear of for our 2nd Amendment rights. The 2nd Vitaliy—Colorado what they say. I am a legal citizen of the Amendment not only provides the American USA, by choice. I am an American, and I public an avenue to protect themselves and My family and I immigrated here, legally, from Russia/Soviet Union to live free and to love this country like my own. Thanks so their loved ones when and if the need ever have opportunity sadly unavailable to most much for what you are doing. Let our voices arises, a means of hunting to provide food for be heard. in the world. ones family, as a sport to compete and enjoy These freedoms and liberties are coming Mr. President these are just a few of the company of others, but more impor- under attack, starting with the 2nd amend- the excerpts. I ask unanimous consent tantly provides the American people with a ment. There is a reason why it is 2nd and not to have the rest of these statements means to protect itself from a tyrannical 5th or 10th—it guarantees us the right to government. Our Founding Fathers and protect our freedoms if they are being printed in the RECORD. framers of our Constitution knew better There being no objection, the mate- threatened. than any of us today that government in any I served in the military and swore to pro- rial was ordered to be printed in the form can easily become the enemy of the in- tect the constitution of the United States. RECORD, as follows: herent freedoms and rights of it’s citizenry. The entire constitution, not just parts of it Michael—Pennsylvania The 2nd Amendment was put in place as the I like. I feel like our president is in violation protectorate and armed guard for each and of that oath. Thank You for taking This stand . . . Not every other Amendment in the Bill of I understand that there is a push to get only is it the 2nd Amendment at stake here Rights. Over the last several decades, these hands of criminals and those mentally unsta- but the right to protect my family and my rights and freedoms provided us through the ble away from weapons that can potentially house . . . I have had 2 encounters since liv- Constitution have been slowly watered or be used against citizens and kids, but this ing in my current house of 28 years . . . with otherwise whittled down by our government, plan that those on the Left want, do not the last one . . . the police told me flat out and considering our current political and so- guarantee our safety one bit, instead they that they couldn’t stop a crime all they do cial climate, the 2nd Amendment is more im- take rights of those who are law abiding. . . . 95% of the time is take a report on the portant than ever. Unfortunately the oppo- I’m also sick to my stomach that the presi- crime now some want to take this right nents of individual freedom are now using an dent and those on the left use kids faces and away from me . . . Guns have been a part of axe to chop away at this, our most impor- their parents to stand in front of them like my family for at least 5 generations and tant Amendment. I, like all Americans was puppets while the politicians try to abne- never has there been a bad instance with any horrified by the recent and senseless murders gate. I cannot believe a human being in such of our guns . . . in Colorado & Connecticut, but in our grief, power can exploit a tragedy to advance his Richard—Pennsylvania many Americans are failing to realize that political views. I am a law abiding citizen who deserves the the problems of our society cannot be Walter—Florida right to protect my family from criminals washed away simply by removing the inani- This story was recent . . . On Friday April and tyranny. I abhor violence as do most law mate object from the equation. Was it the 6th, 2013 my place of business received a

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While I was waiting for police to arrive, death of the children and adults by the hand unique mission of protecting America’s I retrieved my fire arm from my car and of a madman, but I need to be armed and began to carry it in my person as I walked have done so legally, to protect my family. treasures while pursuing balanced ap- around and checked all entry points. The po- When are we going to hold people responsible proaches to promote sustainable eco- lice finally arrived 15 minutes later and very and not the objects they use? Maybe we nomic development. calmly said that there was no crime com- should ban cars, for they kill more people The Department administers the mitted and that they can’t do anything. than guns, or how about a baseball bat, or a Outer Continental Shelf Program, They then left. This really disturbed me as if hammer, or my purse (now that is a deadly which is vital to the gulf coast, and Or- I did not have a gun in my possession my weapon). People are responsible for their ac- egon’s forest lands in southwestern Or- employees and I would be nothing but sitting tions, not objects. Thank you Senator Lee, egon where we are pushing hard to in- targets. The police are great and I respect Eddie Jean Mahurin, a proud American. crease forest health because we know them a great deal, but they are reactive not Maureen—New York proactive. I equate this to if a fire breaks forest health equals a healthy econ- out, I want to put it out with an extin- As a woman a firearm is an equalizer omy. guisher and not only wait for the fire depart- against those bigger and stronger than me. I The Department has significant trust ment. At the end of the day I escorted my have the right to protect myself! responsibilities for Native Americans, employees out to their cars and waited until Patricia—Nebraska and it manages water reclamation they drove off, all while I was armed. I am a Living in the Midwest, it allows me self- projects throughout the West. Public very responsible gun owner who hopes to God protection of property and family. We live in lands, which are administered by the that I never ever have to aim my gun at the country and there are only limited law someone, let alone shoot and kill someone. I Department, are a lifeline for our enforcement here with extremely long re- ranchers, and they are especially im- love my family, employees and friends too sponse times. We need the ability to defend much than to not be armed and just stand ourselves against the ever increasing influx portant given the recent droughts our around if God forbid something were to hap- of crime. country has experienced. pen and I stand helpless watching them be We are also very much of the belief that In addition to these traditional re- injured or killed. Just because I follow the the Constitution guarantees our right to sponsibilities, increasingly the Depart- laws doesn’t mean the person who made the bear arms to protect us from tyranny—poli- ment of the Interior is responsible for death threat does. Please fight for my right ticians in power who seek to do our country providing recreational opportunities to protect the ones I care about most. Thank harm. for millions of our citizens. Today mil- you and God bless! It is your obligation to uphold our rights lions of Americans use these lands to Eddie Jean—Utah as per the Constitution, as all elected offi- hunt, camp, fish, hike, and boat. Let’s My family for generations have fought cials took an oath to do just that and We the People will not settle for less . . . make no mistake about it. Outdoor with their lives to protect the constitution recreation is now a major economic en- of the United States. I remember as a child Melissa—Utah feeling pride in my country by saying the gine for our country, generating more Being a military wife, my husband is away than $645 billion of revenue each year. pledge of allegiance. I am still a very proud most of the time. I don’t believe the federal American and believe in the rights of all government should have the power to tell me This is why I am especially enthused Americans. When my husband, daughter and what I need and don’t need in order to keep today to be able to strongly rec- I moved from Arkansas to Arizona (while my myself and my family safe. They do not ommend Sally Jewell to head the De- husband was in the military) it was a shock- know my comfort level and ability with fire- partment of the Interior. She has exer to my system. Moving was exhausting, arms, so how can they decide what would be ceptional qualifications. Somehow she and like many new young couples with no best for me to use? That decision should be has managed to pack into just one life- money and moving ourselves, we were so ex- mine. Whether I decide a rifle or handgun or time two or three lifetimes of experi- cited to find an affordable home in a not so none at all, is of no concern to anyone else. scary neighborhood. It was about 2 weeks ences. She has been a petroleum engi- Controlling me will not keep anyone else neer, corporate CEO, a banker, and a when we woke (we slept in our living room, safe from criminals. It will only make me we did not have a bed) to someone trying to less safe. citizen volunteer. Her qualifications open our front door. Terrified, my husband Our constitutional liberties should never clearly made an impression on the En- told me to go get our young daughter, while be up for a vote. This whole thing is quite ergy and Natural Resources Com- he grabbed his revolver. I got our daughter, disturbing. mittee, which I chair. Last month our got behind my husband and called the police. f members voted 19 to 3 to approve her The lady on the line was very concerned and nomination, and I believe she got that talked to me the whole time. The person try- EXECUTIVE SESSION resounding vote because she is the ing to get in was very persistent, and moved to the window. I was so scared and asked right person to oversee the multitude where are the police, what is taking so long, NOMINATION OF SARAH JEWELL of programs at the Department of the she explained that they put calls in order of TO BE SECRETARY OF THE INTE- Interior, several of which I have just threat. I said this is important and the per- RIOR mentioned. She certainly made clear in son or person’s are trying to get in. She her confirmation hearing that she un- asked if we were armed I said yes, but we did The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under derstands there is an enormous respon- not want to hurt anyone (a crazy statement), the previous order, the Senate will pro- sibility to balance the dual roles of because I did not know the person on the ceed to executive session to consider conserving and developing resources. other side, who would possibly kill me and the following nomination, which the I think we all understand that jobs in my whole family for what $10.00 and no items clerk will report. our country come from the private sec- of value. My husband finally yelled I have a The bill clerk read the nomination of gun and I know how to use it; I am not sure tor, and if through this Department we but the person on the other side must have Sally Jewell, of Washington, to be Sec- can come up with innovative, fresh decided not to take the chance, seeing our retary of the Interior. policies to set the climate for job Arkansas plate that we probably did know The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under growth while we protect our treasures, how to use it, or to find a less threatening the previous order, there will be 2 that is clearly going to be good for the home. It took the officers over 45 minutes to hours of debate equally divided prior to United States of America. arrive to our home and when I asked what a vote on the nomination. Let’s look at a few of the areas where took so long, one responded, if you had been The senior Senator from Oregon is she is going to be involved. Natural gas shot or dying we would have been here soon- recognized. is just one. This resource has been a er. I am a law abiding citizen and have the Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, this right to defend myself, that is why I believe huge, positive development for our in the 2nd amendment. Criminals do believe afternoon we will take up in the Senate country. We have it, the world wants in the laws and they will find a gun with or the confirmation of Sally Jewell to it, our prices are lower, and we are see- without laws. So if you take away my rights, head the Department of the Interior. ing a significant interest among Amer- my death and many others will be on the The Department is one of America’s ican manufacturers in bringing jobs

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It is almost hard for many of my There are significant environmental noon, I also would like to talk about colleagues to believe that so much of questions associated with natural gas. the wonderful track record of Ms. what it is we do has to go through this We have already talked about them in Jewell’s predecessor, our current Sec- process of approval, but that is our re- our committee. We are going to have to retary, Secretary Salazar, who is Sen- ality. deal with fracking issues and methane ator MURKOWSKI’s and my personal In Alaska, with the Federal owner- emissions and underground aquifers. friend. ship, there are more than 230 million Based on some of the discussions we For purposes of this part of the dis- acres that are held in Federal owner- have had—and we had a very good dia- cussion, I would only like to say to the ship. That is an area which is larger log between Frances Beinecke of the Senate that in Sally Jewell we will than the State of Texas. We always Natural Resources Defense Council and have an individual with the experience like to compare ourselves—Alaska to Senator HOEVEN from North Dakota and with the expertise and the drive to Texas—but the fact is that the Federal where they have a significant interest lead the Department of the Interior. I public lands in Alaska are larger than in natural gas—I believe that under believe she will listen to Senators who the size of the State of Texas. We have Sally Jewell, when it comes to our pub- have concerns, listen to Senators who over 57 million acres of wilderness. lic lands, we are going to be able to want, as Senator MURKOWSKI and so That is about the size of the State of strike the kind of responsible balance many in our committee have tried to Minnesota. And that is just sitting in that will make sense for the Senate in do, to find common ground. So I my State. a bipartisan way. strongly urge the Senate today, when The proportion of Federal land in I see my friend and colleague Senator we vote a little bit later on, to join me Alaska is exceeded only by that of our MURKOWSKI is here. She has more than in voting to approve Sally Jewell’s colleagues from Nevada. The majority met me halfway as we have tried to nomination for the Department of the leader and Senator HELLER remind us look at the issues associated with these Interior. quite frequently the Federal lands held I will now be happy to yield to my questions, such as natural gas. in their State are at about 85 percent. I will only say that with someone friend and colleague from Alaska. So when you think about what this The PRESIDING OFFICER. The sen- with the brains and energy and the does, the Federal land classifications ior Senator from Alaska is recognized. willingness to reach out that Sally Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I that we have to deal with, oftentimes Jewell has—and she certainly did that follow my colleague from Oregon, the it not only severely restricts the usage based on the number of visits she made chairman of the Energy Committee, of Federal lands by our people, but as a to Senators—we may be able to have a here in discussing the qualifications of practical matter they restrict the use natural gas policy where we can have it the nominee for Secretary of the Inte- of State and private lands too. all, where we can have modest prices rior, Sally Jewell. We recognize as So, again, the Secretary of the Inte- for our businesses and consumers that westerners that this is an appointment, rior is important to the future of a make for a significant economic advan- this is a position that has great signifi- State such as Alaska and the West, but tage, we can bring back some of those cance, great meaning to our States, so really, as it relates to other Cabinet industries from overseas to Oregon and we pay attention to these nominees, we members, this is one to which we are Ohio and other parts of the country, pay attention to who is the Secretary going to pay serious attention. and we can do it by using, for example, of the Interior. I had occasion to come to this floor best practices on our public lands as it I have taken the position that our several months ago to discuss a deci- relates to managing these resources. constitutional responsibility for advice sion that came out of the U.S. Fish and But we will only have a chance to ac- and consent should begin with very Wildlife Service. In that decision, they complish those kinds of things if we thoughtful questions on our part, and somehow found cause to oppose a sin- have someone with Sally Jewell’s tal- then, absent any seriously disquali- gle-lane gravel road, 10 miles, that ents and professional track record of fying factors, we should conclude with would connect the community of King actually bringing people together on the confirmation of the President’s Cove—near the Aleutians—connect it these kinds of issues. nominees. Our obligation to get an- to the smaller community of less than I do not believe you can run a multi- swers to our questions is always a seri- 100 people of Cold Bay. The reason for billion-dollar company, such as REI, ous one, and the duty weighs most the need to connect these two commu- which has been Ms. Jewell’s current po- heavily when the interests of our con- nities is Cold Bay has the second long- sition, without showing the ability to stituents are directly at stake. est runway in the State of Alaska. manage, to bring people together, and I mention the impact the Depart- King Cove, on the other hand, where in particular to anticipate some of the ment of the Interior has particularly most of the people live—about 900- exciting trends in the days ahead in on our Western States—our States that some-odd Native Alaskans—has an air- terms of outdoor recreation, where we have so much in public lands, our port that is dicey at best. We have seen all have enjoyed the American tradi- States where we have national forests, accidents, we have seen lives lost as tion of the great outdoors. I think few where we have BLM lands, rangelands, folks have tried to leave King Cove for thought it would be a $646 billion con- refuge lands. In Alaska and really in medical services. tributor to the American economy. But many parts across the West, the Fed- It was an issue that, for me and for that happens because individuals like eral Government’s biggest and most the people of King Cove, was far beyond Ms. Jewell are willing to step up to prominent role is really that of a land- a discussion about what happens when take these positions. Because she is lord. Sometimes you have a good rela- you put a small road through a refuge. from our part of the world in the Pa- tionship with your landlord, and other For the people of King Cove, this was cific Northwest, we are particularly times it feels as if the landlord won’t about safety, this was about life and pleased to see her secure this position. even let you put a nail in the wall to safety, and they felt they were not But, again, you do not run—and run hang a picture. So, again, we look very being heard by their Federal landlord. well—a nearly $2 billion outdoor equip- critically and very carefully at this po- The agencies had not heard the people. ment company, as Ms. Jewell has, by sition. In fact, the Department had not heard osmosis but because you are a good In several States, the Federal Gov- the people. Now, they had listened to manager, you are good with people, and ernment controls the majority of the the biologists and they had gotten that

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Perhaps because ington, DC, to knock on the door of the manager. I have been very impressed she is not so embedded in the history, Secretary and say: Please hear our with what I have seen as her level of she will be able to look at this anew. voices, there has been an accommoda- sincerity with her very distinguished And I think that is good. I think that tion, there has been an agreement private sector career. It has been noted is a positive. I certainly will look for- reached. And I appreciate my col- that she has probably spent more time ward to engaging substantively with league, the chairman, helping us with in Alaska prior to coming to the De- her as we complete this process—and this. The Department of the Interior partment of the Interior than any beyond—on these issues, on how she has agreed to have the new Secretary other nominee outside of Walter can really bring her problem-solving as well as the Assistant Secretary of Hickel, who was our former Governor skills to bear in a way that will serve Indian Affairs review the public health and served as Secretary of the Interior. all Americans. and safety impacts of the decision to So she gives me comfort with that, I think it is telling—and it was noted build this road. knowing that she understands much of in the Energy Committee hearing by But I think it is important that folks what we have to deal with in Alaska. one of our colleagues—that Ms. Jewell understand this wasn’t a parochial These are all important qualities as brings to the table as the nominee for issue I was raising here on the floor. I we think about her competence as a the Secretary of the Interior a business kept referring to it as the King Cove manager, as we think about her intel- background that is quite considerable. issue, but it is not one single issue, and ligence. But dealing with an agency the She is a petroleum engineer who has it is not parochial. It is obvious to the size, the scope, and the complexity of actually fracked a well, so she has ex- people of Alaska why this was such a the Department of the Interior really perience there. She has experience in considerable deal, why it was so impor- requires the ability to focus not only Alaska and worked on the beginning tant the people of King Cove be heard. on the debates and conflicts that we portion of how we built out the Trans- For them, it was not just about a road, are facing today, but it is going to re- Alaska Pipeline. She did it from the it was an issue of overreach. It was a quire an understanding of how we got Seattle area but has that skill set as symbol of Federal overreach on way here, the fact that the debates and con- well. too many policies we see come out of flicts of today often are based on years, It was asked somewhat tongue-in- the Department and the harm that decades, perhaps even centuries of his- cheek by one of my colleagues on the causes across our Nation. tory. Those who are steeped in this his- Republican side: Well, you have all The reality is so many of us, particu- tory raise the importance of the Sec- these great characteristics. Why would larly those in the Western States, have retary understanding the context for President Obama select you? So I think it is important to recog- our own King Cove. We all have those the many difficult decisions that will nize that we have before us a nominee instances when issues have come up, be made. who brings a unique set of skill sets where the people from the States we I had an opportunity to ask a lot of and experiences to us that I am hopeful represent have to go knocking on the questions of Sally Jewell not only in will be beneficial. This is important to door of some Federal agency for per- our private meeting but before the me as an Alaskan, to know we have mission, have to try to navigate a mo- committee and then also in writing. I someone who will be a listener, who rass of regulations, and they do not asked questions about my questions. I will be a convener, who will work to feel as though they are being heard. wanted to be thorough. And I do con- solve problems. I am looking forward Every day we have Federal restrictions cede that Ms. Jewell will be on a learn- to the opportunity to spend time in making it harder for local people to ing curve as she assumes the position Alaska with her as she visits with the live and to prosper. of Secretary. But in her answers to people up north to better understand I made a big effort to make sure the questions at the hearing and in her some of the challenges we face and incoming Secretary of the Interior not written submissions, she has pointed hopefully work with us on these issues only understood the particulars of King out her experience and her skill at that are so critically important. Cove—and I welcome the opportunity bringing diverse groups of people to- I appreciate the good work of my col- to travel with her when she comes to gether to solve difficult problems on league and the chairman of the com- Alaska and flies out to King Cove hope- which they have been divided histori- mittee in getting us to this point so fully at the end of the summer—for her cally, and I do take her at her word that we can move Ms. Jewell’s nomina- not only to understand this issue but there. I will certainly commit to par- tion forward. I look forward to sup- for her to understand the bigger role ticipating in that dialog and to bring- porting her and working with her dur- she will assume as Secretary of the In- ing all of my fellow western constitu- ing her tenure as Secretary of the Inte- terior and how important it is for her ents with me, whether it is literally or rior. to listen to all sides and to listen to figuratively. I believe that is impor- Mr. President, I yield the floor. the people she represents. As Secretary tant. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The sen- of the Interior, she is the one to imple- Ms. Jewell has used the word ‘‘con- ior Senator from Washington State is ment that special trust responsibility vener’’ when describing herself, and I recognized. the Federal Government has to our think this will be a very important Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President, I rise first people, to our Native people, so task and role that she will assume. today to join my colleagues and urge she needs to see and hear for herself. There are conflicting groups and con- them to vote in support of Sally She also needs to fully understand flicting interests, and Ms. Jewell has Jewell, who has been nominated to what she has in front of her—as Sen- spoken to how she has reconciled that serve as Interior Secretary. I thank ator WYDEN mentioned, the massive in the past with her previous work ex- Senator WYDEN for all of his work in public lands that will be under her ju- perience, not only at REI but at other moving her through this process to risdiction as Secretary, understanding places, and I do believe she has the today. I was thrilled when President what that means to ranchers and farm- skill sets to accomplish just that. Obama nominated Sally for this posi- ers and those who are the recreators in So with this commitment she has tion, and I couldn’t be more excited to our national parks, to those who will made to me and to others on the com- support her confirmation.

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I know science will be her compass, And on the local level, including in my Mr. President, I yield the floor. and I know she is not going to have an home State of Washington, Sally is The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- ideological bent, but she is going to going to face some complex issues, ator from Washington State is recog- have a ‘‘get it done’’ mentality. such as protecting tribal lands and nized. Given the importance of the Interior treaty rights. But I can think of no one Ms. CANTWELL. Mr. President, I Department’s agencies and very chal- better prepared for this task than join my colleagues from the Northwest lenging mission, I am excited we are Sally. who have come to the floor this after- going to have somebody with a busi- After she studied at the University of noon to speak in support of the nomi- ness background and a science back- Washington to become an engineer, nation of Sally Jewell as Secretary of ground at the Department of the Inte- Sally left the Northwest for the oil- the Interior. Like my colleagues from rior. fields of Oklahoma and Colorado, the Northwest, I wish to express how I hope our colleagues will vote today where she learned about the energy much we appreciate her willingness to to move Ms. Jewell out of the Senate sector from the inside out. She moved serve and how proud we are of her leg- so we can get her into the Department from the outdoors—as you can see from acy and interests in a variety of issues of the Interior so she can begin this im- this picture—to the boardroom and so far. portant job and continue to move our Obviously, the Department of the In- spent nearly two decades in finance Nation’s agenda forward. terior is so important to us, with its helping businesses grow and learning As the chairwoman of the Indian Af- broad range of services, including ev- what it takes to succeed in the market- fairs Committee I look forward to erything from our national parks, to working with Ms. Jewell on all the place. wildlife refuge, to offshore drilling Time and again, Sally has broken the issues related to Indian country as lease management, to the important mold to take on tough tasks—often in well. There is much to accomplish and science done by the USGS Service, and male-dominated industries. When she much to address. I think her back- many other things. In fact, I read joined Recreational Equipment, Incor- ground is exactly what we need in the somewhere kind of humorously that porated, the Seattle-based outdoor re- Department. I hope my colleagues will the Department of the Interior was tailer, it was struggling. But after 8 called the Department of Everything move quickly on this issue. I thank the chairman, Senator years with Sally as CEO, REI is now Else. thriving, topping $1 billion in sales, As a nominee, Ms. Jewell came before WYDEN, for his leadership in moving while leading the charge to protect our our committee. I thank her family for her nomination through the process. environment. And finding that bal- their willingness to support her in her I yield the floor. ance—navigating the business world efforts to come to Washington, DC, be- Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, before while keeping REI’s commitment to cause Sally is the exact type of leader- she leaves I want to thank Senator the outdoors—is what will make Sally ship we need at the Department of the CANTWELL for all her good work. As great as our next Interior Secretary. Interior. She represents a balanced per- northwesterners know, and I hope the Perhaps better than anyone, Sally son who not only knows how to help a rest of the country knows, Senator knows that businesses and the environ- growing business, as she did, she has CANTWELL is one of those who under- ment both benefit when we are com- served on the university board of re- stands the opportunity in the great mitted to protecting our national gents and also worked on the non- outdoors. I know she is climbing a parks and promoting our national partisan National Conservation Parks mountain this summer and is always in treasures. At REI, Sally has proven Association. She has done everything shape. She is always fit and ready for a that sustainability and responsibility in business, from dealing with oilfields mountain. make sense for the environment and in Oklahoma to commercial banking To have the opportunity to work the company’s bottom line. to, of late, running REI, one of our with folks in the Pacific Northwest, In Washington State, she has worked most successful companies in the Pa- particularly with Sally Jewell’s back- closely with me to help create the Wild cific Northwest. I know she has the ground, as the Senator has eloquently Sky Wilderness area and expand our kind of leadership it takes to figure out outlined, I think it is going to be an other important environmental protec- these issues about best use of public advantage not just for our region but tions throughout our State. She has lands or the vigorous challenges the for the rest of our country. worked with industry and environ- Department faces when it comes to I see our colleague from New Mexico mentalists to expand recreational op- modernizing the bureaucracy or think- is here. If he would like to make some portunities throughout the Northwest ing about climate change at the same remarks at this point, we welcome and has helped us work toward perma- time you are talking about deepwater him. I have some additional remarks as nently protecting BLM lands in the drilling. There are a myriad of things well. San Juan Islands, where my colleague we have to forge through, and Sally Would my colleague from New Mex- Senator MARIA CANTWELL was at the Jewell is the right person with the ico like to make any remarks at this forefront. That is truly a gem of Wash- right balance to get that done. time? ington State and has recently been de- Having grown up in Washington, All right. clared a national monument. where over 40 percent of our lands is in Let me, then, talk for just a few Sally has backed crucial public-pri- public land, I know Sally understands more minutes about Ms. Jewell and vate partnerships that create jobs these western issues, whether it is some of the challenges ahead of her, through recreation, and she has sup- water rights or salmon recovery or un- particularly in natural resources. Obvi- ported groundbreaking programs to get derstanding the impact on water levels, ously, with authorities, as my col- young people involved in the outdoors. the fire season, wildlife on BLM lands, leagues have outlined, that range from So whether it is our forest lands in or the importance of access to hunting managing national parks, to offshore the Northwest or mineral deposits in and fishing. I guarantee, because she oil and gas development, to protecting the Southwest or oil reserves along our grew up there, Sally Jewell under- fish and wildlife, serving as Secretary coastlines, Sally is going to lead an In- stands these issues. I know she has of the Interior, it is almost like an ex- terior Department where economic been involved in many organizations to treme sport for multitaskers. You are growth and long-term sustainability go express that, and that has been a good going to have to juggle. Ms. Jewell hand in hand. training ground for her. knows a little bit about multitasking,

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Par- If we do not figure out a way to pro- tices, ensured that they were beefed up ticularly in forestry, we need to find a mote forest health and go in there and in terms of safety while at the same way to bring together all sides—timber thin out these overstocked stands, time allowing for the drilling that is so owners, environmentalists, scientists— these fires that we are seeing—they are important to the industry. and we need to go in there and clean not natural fires, they are really I am also going to reflect on Sec- out millions and millions of acres of magnets for infernos because of years retary Salazar’s accomplishments, overstocked timber stands. We can get and years of neglect—are going to con- mention that he has done yeoman work that material to the mills. It is an tinue. in terms of promoting green and renew- ideal source of biomass, a clean source I think Sally Jewell is up to the chal- able energy. I note in one of the com- of energy. lenge of coming up with the kind of ments about his departure that Christy Because we are working to build rela- policies for the O&C lands, for the Goldfuss, Public Lands Director at the tionships with the environmental com- lands in eastern Oregon and those my Center for American Progress, stated munity, we can also find a way to pro- colleagues talked about in Montana Secretary Salazar championed ‘‘a new tect old growth as we get to harvest and Colorado and Idaho, and I think model of conservation which focused on timber. But it is, again, not going to she is up to that challenge. partnerships with private land owners happen just by osmosis or because Before we wrap up today I want to and States’’ and ‘‘that approach has somebody waves a wand in Washington, take a few minutes and talk about—I paid off with cooperatives in the Ever- DC. It is going to happen because we know the Presiding Officer has great glades in Florida, the Prairie Potholes have responsible administrators like affection for him as well—our former region of the Dakotas, and other Sally Jewell who are going to take the colleague, Ken Salazar. Ken Salazar areas.’’ time to learn the checker-board pat- has been Secretary of the Interior I would like to note something else tern of O&C lands and our local com- throughout the Obama administration as well about Secretary Salazar. I munities, and particularly understand to date. It is my view he has done an know Senators on both sides of the some of our traditions that have exceptional job. I think we all under- aisle would call him when they had worked particularly well in the past stand in the Senate that when Ken those kinds of resource questions. I Salazar is involved, get ready for a and I think can be of great benefit as know Senator MURKOWSKI brought up we look to future solutions. great smile, an enormous amount of one of Secretary Salazar’s final acts in Back in 2000 I had the honor of writ- energy, enormous amount of intel- office today. Under his leadership the ing the secure rural schools bill and ligence, and someone who, in a very State of Idaho and the Fish and Wild- persistent way, is interested in solving the timber payments bill with our life Service entered into an arrange- problems. Ken Salazar has sure done former colleague, Senator Larry Craig. ment so that the State of Idaho’s plan What we included in that legislation is that in a number of important areas. For example, before Ken Salazar took for addressing the sage grouse could be the kind of model for collaborative for- office—I am looking at a headline from implemented. I know this is a critical estry that we are going to see Sally when there was a huge scandal at the issue for Senator RISCH. He and I Jewell pick up on. We established Department of the Interior. I am look- talked about it often. I am going to something called resource advisory ing at an article from the fall of 2008 work with him on these issues, and councils where, in effect, on the local headlined, ‘‘Sex, Drug Use and Graft what Secretary Salazar did today is an level people from the timber industry, Cited In The Interior Department.’’ example of the new kind of partnership people from the environmental commu- Basically, what it talks about is an that we all are looking to the Interior nity, scientists, and a whole host of investigation, a number of reports de- Department and the states for, and cer- others—frankly, some people who as a livered by the inspector general, that tainly something I want to promote, general rule had not done much talking basically document, at the Department and I know Senator MURKOWSKI shares to each other, probably done a lot of of the Interior, a culture of lax ethics. that view. litigating against each other—they It basically describes something like a I think it is fair to say that Sally would use these resource advisory dozen current and former employees of Jewell has very large boots to fill. We councils to come together and try to the Minerals Management Service, an all remember Secretary Salazar’s won- find some common ground. agency that collected at that time bil- derful western boots and the anecdotes It worked. Regarding these resource lions of dollars of royalties annually— about them. She has certainly got a advisory councils, when I meet people you basically had an ‘‘anything goes’’ challenge to try to step in after a Sec- from the timber industry, from any of kind of environment, and the reports retary who has accomplished so much. the extractive industries, and environ- go on and on. It feels more like a litany But as I and Senator MURKOWSKI and mental folks, they say: Use that model. for a late-night television show. the Washington Senators have outlined Use that collaborative model that we The reports focused on a culture of today, we believe strongly that Sally are seeing used in timberlands in substance abuse and promiscuity in Jewell is up to this challenge. I hope southwestern Oregon as a way that we what was the Service’s royalty and in- she will receive a resounding vote in can build on the opportunity to bring kind program—essentially, officials the Senate. I believe we are close to people together. who seemed to be exempt from expense the point where we will be able to vote We have been able to do that with accounts limits, one ethical lapse after on Ms. Jewell. Forest Service lands in eastern Oregon another, as documented in these re- For all the reasons that I and my col- to some extent. I think we can do it ports. I remember at the hearing, the leagues have outlined this afternoon, I also in western Oregon and in the com- confirmation hearing, Senator Sala- hope there will be very strong bipar- munities that are affected by the Bu- zar—it was unusual because he had tisan support for Ms. Jewell when we reau of Land Management lands. Prob- been my seatmate over the years at the vote. ably to do it we are going to have to Senate Energy Committee—I said: Sen- With that I yield the floor. I suggest extend the timber payments law for an- ator Salazar, you have to go in there the absence of a quorum. other year to give us the time to come and drain the swamp at the Minerals The PRESIDING OFFICER. The up with a long-term solution. I have Management Service. clerk will call the roll. talked about this with Sally Jewell in In fact, he certainly did that. Essen- The legislative clerk proceeded to the past and about her willingness to tially, the successor agency has been call the roll.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 09:33 Oct 02, 2017 Jkt 029102 PO 00000 Frm 00037 Fmt 0686 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR13\S10AP3.001 S10AP3 jstallworth on DSKBBY8HB2PROD with BOUND RECORD April 10, 2013 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 159, Pt. 4 4901 Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, I ask LEGISLATIVE SESSION To all my friends, we are going to unanimous consent the order for a The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- have amendments. Some of them are quorum call be rescinded. ate will resume legislative session. going to take a little bit of time. We The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without f are not going to finish the bill this objection, it is so ordered. week. I do not know if we will finish it Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, I ask SAFE COMMUNITIES, SAFE next week. But that really does not unanimous consent all remaining time SCHOOLS ACT OF 2013—MOTION matter. Are we going to legislate the on the Jewell nomination be yielded TO PROCEED—Continued right way? Are we going to legislate? I back. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- have in my mind these little children The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without jority leader. who were murdered. What we do here is objection, it is so ordered. All time is Mr. REID. Mr. President, tomorrow not going to prevent all gun violence in yielded back. at 11 o’clock we are going to vote on America, but if we stop a few, isn’t Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, I ask for cloture on the motion to proceed to the that remarkably important for us to the yeas and nays. gun legislation that is now before this do? I think we can do a lot more than The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a body. saving the lives of just a few people. sufficient second? This morning and throughout the But let’s work on this bill. We are There appears to be a sufficient sec- day, our friend from Connecticut going to start. If we have to use up the ond. spoke, a freshman Senator who was 30 hours, we will use up the 30 hours. I There is a sufficient second. brought to the Senate with this trag- think there are ways around that pro- The question is, Will the Senate ad- edy having taken place shortly after he cedurally. I hope we do not have to test vise and consent to the nomination of arrived. My friend the Presiding Offi- that. There are a number of amend- Sarah Jewell, of Washington, to be Sec- cer, a longtime attorney general, the ments. We all know. We have been chief law enforcement officer of the retary of the Interior? reading about them. There are lots of State of Connecticut, has lived with The clerk will call the roll. amendments; people have been waiting this tragedy that happened at Sandy The legislative clerk called the roll. a long time for this legislation. Hook like nothing that ever happened Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the One of my Republican colleagues yes- in his career. And, of course, for Sen- Senator from New Jersey (Mr. LAUTEN- terday said: I have a number of ger- ator HEINRICH, a new Senator, this was mane amendments I want to offer. BERG) and the Senator from West Vir- something he never appreciated he ginia (Mr. ROCKEFELLER) are nec- I said: Fine. Good. Do it. would be faced with. We know we have to do background essarily absent. I saw the pictures today of those lit- checks, assault weapons, the ammuni- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there tle babies who were murdered, some of tion capacity of clips or magazines, any other Senators in the Chamber de- them shot multiple times—little tiny mental health. That is just to name a siring to vote? kids shot multiple times. The shooting few of the things. And I repeat, we are The result was announced—yeas 87, was on December 14, about 4 months going to begin this process before we nays 11, as follows: ago—120 days. So the time has come— leave here this week. [Rollcall Vote No. 94 Ex.] it has arrived—when we have to debate I so appreciate the work done by Sen- YEAS—87 this issue. We have to have a response ators MANCHIN, TOOMEY, KIRK, and Alexander Franken Moran to this tragedy. many others. My friend Senator SCHU- Ayotte Gillibrand Murkowski When this incident took place on De- Baldwin Graham Murphy cember 14, it struck me, as it did every- MER has been working on this issue. My Baucus Grassley Murray one in America—virtually everyone in friend DICK DURBIN, who has been in- Begich Hagan Nelson volved in guns for a long time, has been Bennet Harkin Paul America; we had been through Aurora, Blumenthal Hatch Portman CO—that vicious, brutal machine-gun- involved. I appreciate the work of ev- Blunt Heinrich Pryor ning of people going to watch a movie, eryone. As the press has indicated, we Boozman Heitkamp Reed and then little kids getting killed in an are likely going to get cloture on this Boxer Heller Reid tomorrow. I hope so. But, as I have told Brown Hirono Risch elementary school, kindergartners, Burr Hoeven Roberts first-graders—so we need to respond, individual Senators, if we do not get Cantwell Inhofe Sanders this great deliberative body, to what cloture, we are going to have a vote in Cardin Isakson Schatz the Senate on capacity clips, assault Carper Johnson (SD) Schumer the American people want. So we are Casey Johnson (WI) Sessions going to vote. It is time to vote. I hope weapons, background checks, and some Coats Kaine Shaheen we get cloture on this matter. We cer- mental health items or item. That we Cochran King Shelby tainly should. After that, there is no are going to do. I hope we can do it in Collins Kirk Stabenow the regular process. Coons Klobuchar Tester reason not to start legislating imme- Corker Landrieu Thune diately. I hope we do not have to go We have had people for a long time Cornyn Leahy Toomey through this procedural mishmash—30 now—my friends on the other side of Cowan Levin Udall (CO) the aisle—saying: We want regular Crapo Manchin Udall (NM) hours; somebody on the floor all the Cruz McCain Warner time; if people are not, there are dila- order. We want to be able to offer Donnelly McCaskill Warren tory tactics; only one quorum call— amendments. Well, I do too. And I hope Durbin Menendez Whitehouse and all this. Let’s get past that. If people will not see how many amend- Feinstein Merkley Wicker ments they can offer, not see if they Flake Mikulski Wyden somebody has something to say, come and say it. But this week we are going can set a record for how many amend- NAYS—11 to start legislating. We are going to ments can be laid down, because we Barrasso Fischer Rubio start legislating whether there is clo- should have this as a civil process and Chambliss Johanns Scott culminating in a better set of laws for Coburn Lee Vitter ture or not. One will be a little longer Enzi McConnell process. But we are going to start leg- our people in this great country in which we live. NOT VOTING—2 islating on this bill this week. I hope we can get to it tomorrow. For those of us who have the oppor- Lautenberg Rockefeller I do not think it is any secret, if we tunity to try to address this issue, I The nomination was confirmed. are on this bill, I am going to—the first hope we all understand that the world The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under amendment in order will be the amend- is watching what we do. the previous order, the motion to re- ment to change the background checks The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- consider is considered made and laid that has been worked on for weeks by ator from Delaware. upon the table and the President will Senator MANCHIN, Senator KIRK, and NOMINATION OF SRI SRINIVASAN be immediately notified of the Senate’s Senator TOOMEY, and then we will de- Mr. COONS. Mr. President, earlier action. cide where we go from there. this afternoon I had the opportunity,

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Today, more than 1,500 days because I might disagree with the posi- ity leader has just said about the very after President Obama has taken of- tion he took on behalf of a client in one real possibility that we will get a vote fice, 4 of the 11 seats on the DC Circuit case. on the floor of this Senate on vital and are open, making it more than one- Sri, in my view, is a highly capable important issues affecting guns, immi- third vacant and putting the remaining attorney, with the character and de- gration, and other issues, but what I judges under undue strain to decide the meanor to serve on the bench. I will speak to today is the absolutely essen- complex and important cases before strongly support his nomination. I am tial role this Senate must fill of voting this court. following in this instance the wisdom on qualified judges who have been nom- Contrary to the previous administra- of Chief Justice Roberts, who has said: inated to the circuit courts of the tion, this administration was recently ‘‘It’s a tradition of the American Bar United States. recognized by the New York Times Edi- that goes back before the founding of Earlier today at this hearing, 10 of torial Board as putting forward nomi- our nation that lawyers are not identi- our colleagues, Republicans and Demo- nees who are decidedly moderate. fied with the positions of their cli- crats, asked thoughtful questions, and President Obama first nominated for ents.’’ Mr. Srinivasan gave thorough and this vacancy on this court the excep- So I say to my colleagues, let’s move thoughtful answers. I came away con- tionally qualified Caitlin Halligan, who forward in that spirit. Let’s return to vinced that he has the background, the waited more than 900 days for a simple our historic constitutionally mandated education, the skills, and, most impor- up-or-down vote on the floor of this role. Let’s give Mr. Srinivasan a speedy tantly, the temperament to serve as a Chamber. She came with the American up-or-down vote, which I believe he has circuit court judge. And I was encour- Bar Association’s highest rating, glow- earned with decades of public service aged by comments of my colleagues, ing recommendations from bipartisan and public sector experience. To be honest, if this nomination can- both Republican and Democratic, that supporters, and a diverse legal career not move forward, if this nomination is they too were inclined to support this marked by distinctive service as New filibustered for what can only be polit- nomination. York’s solicitor general. Nevertheless, ical reasons, I cannot imagine what Under normal historical cir- sadly, Republican Senators success- nomination could move forward to this cumstances, today’s hearing would be fully filibustered her nomination, and court. A filibuster of this nomination the beginning of a deliberate, timely, last month President Obama reluc- would sadly prove to me, just as it did orderly process—a process required of tantly withdrew Ms. Halligan from to those of the other party in 2005, that this body by article II, section 2 of our consideration. the judicial nomination standards and Constitution by which we advise and We have today a chance for a fresh procedures at work are unworkable, consent to the President’s nomina- start with Mr. Srinivasan, who would the system is broken, and it would lead tions. serve equally well and ably on the DC to a reconsideration. We should, of course, carefully con- Circuit Court of Appeals. As he dem- There was a crisis of this sort when sider the qualifications of candidates onstrated in today’s hearing, he has a the parties were of opposite configura- and not serve as some rubberstamp, sharp and capable legal mind. He has tion in 2005 that led the majority to but neither should we be a firewall served in the Solicitor General’s office threaten the so-called nuclear option blocking qualified nominees from serv- for both Republican and Democratic to end judicial filibusters by the party ing. Unfortunately, for some number of administrations. He has served in the in which I serve, a result that was years, this Senate has, in some vital private sector and the public sector avoided only at the last moment for instances, served more as a firewall and has earned bipartisan support from the good of the Senate and the Nation. than as an advise and consent body. In- those who have worked with him. I urge my colleagues to come together stead of doing our due diligence with In fact, he has been endorsed publicly to give this good man a vote and avoid appropriate speed, we have seen delays, in a letter from 12 former Solicitors another such crisis today. stalling tactics, and in some instances General and Principal Deputy Solici- Let’s do our job so the judges of the filibusters of highly qualified nomi- tors General, six Democrats, six Repub- DC Circuit Court of Appeals can do nees. licans, for those who have served in theirs for the people of our Nation. Five years into President Obama’s Democratic and Republican adminis- I yield the floor. administration, the courts are still trations. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- nearly 10 percent vacant. In my view, The letter, signed by conservative ator from Oklahoma. our courts should be above politics. legal luminaries such as Paul Clement GAO DUPLICATION REPORT When the President of either party sub- and Ted Olson, notes Mr. Srinivasan is Mr. COBURN. Mr. President, I would mits a highly qualified candidate of ‘‘one of the best appellate lawyers in note to my colleague from the State of good character and sound legal mind, the country,’’ with an ‘‘unsurpassed’’ Delaware, if I heard him correctly, we absent exceptional circumstances, that work ethic who is ‘‘extremely well pre- just now have had a hearing on a nomi- candidate is entitled to a vote. pared to take on the intellectual rigors nee for the DC Circuit Court. He is not The actions or in this case inaction of serving on the DC Circuit.’’ even on the Executive Calendar be- of the Senate with regard to the DC At the same time, throughout the cause he has not even been voted out of Circuit have consequences. The DC Cir- course of his career in private practice the Judiciary Committee. So the Sen- cuit Court of Appeals has a series of va- and as a public servant, he has rep- ator makes a lot of great points. But I cancies, the result of which, in my resented clients with causes diverse think the fact we are talking about a view, are to delay and deny justice for enough that any individual policy- potential judge who has not even Americans far beyond the boundaries maker or elected official is likely to cleared the Judiciary Committee yet of this District of Columbia. disagree with some of them, including may be a bit premature. The DC Circuit Court is often called me. I disagree with a position he ar- He will get a fair hearing. I think we the second most important in the Na- gued in Rumsfeld v. Padilla in support have noted that more judicial nomi- tion, because, like the Supreme Court, of the idea that the government has a nees were approved in the last two Con- it handles cases that impact Americans right to detain U.S. citizens indefi- gresses than the two Congresses before all over our country. Regularly, it nitely, but I do not ascribe that posi- under the last 4 years of the Bush ad- hears cases on issues ranging from ter- tion to him. ministration.

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We do not know If you are sitting out there won- ernment Accountability Office in exactly how much it costs because the dering why we are having tax proposals terms of looking at duplication within Pentagon does not know how much increased in the President’s budget and the Federal Government. they are spending on it, which is an- that we are having such a hard time I hope as the American people listen other one of the problems. with the sequester, you only have to to this, they will take a couple things The GAO report said this week one of look at one place; that is, Congress. away. No. 1, we have a great organiza- the reasons they cannot estimate the Congress refuses to follow and do the tion called the Government Account- savings more accurately is because the oversight. We have had GAO do a lot of ability Office. They have done a won- majority of the agencies have no idea it. We refuse to pass amendments that derful job. We mandated this 4 years what they are spending on these pro- eliminate duplication. We refuse to ago. They have been on time with their grams. The question I have had is, why make the tough choices. So, con- reports. What they have shown us has not? If they do not know what they are sequently, we are spending $250 billion been tremendously revealing. The first spending, why are we not doing some- a year—that is $2.5 trillion over 10 thing I want Americans to note is Con- thing about it? years—that we should not be spending. gress has failed to act on the first two Higher education assistance: 21 dif- Where does the money come from to reports—no substantive action whatso- ferent programs, four different agen- pay for that? It comes from our kids. It ever. cies—not all in the Education Depart- doesn’t just come in dollars, it comes One significant thing in the Senate ment, which is from where I think we from a reduced standard of living and was the elimination of the ethanol would do education assistance, $174.7 limited opportunities in the future be- mandate. With this report today comes billion a year. That includes Pell cause we don’t have the courage or the an estimated $98 billion a year in sav- grants. That includes student loans, work ethic to address the very real ings. What we take by looking at this the cost associated with student loans. issues which are in front us, on the tips report could potentially yield us $98 Veterans employment training. We of our fingers, where the money is, billion in savings by eliminating dupli- have six programs, not all of them run where we could actually save money. cation in what they just found in this by the Veterans Affairs Department We have had almost 1,000 days since one report. but run by the Veterans Affairs Depart- the first report came out. We have done Let me go through it for 1 minute. ment and other agencies. We are spend- one significant thing in the Senate; we They found 679 different renewable ening $1.2 billion. Here is what we know. have eliminated the ethanol tax credit ergy programs across 23 agencies—not We are running these programs, and and saved $6 billion the first year and across the Energy Department. If we veterans unemployment, even though about $4 billion to $5 billion afterward. are going to have renewable programs, they have a skill when they come out This is the one thing we did. We fought tooth and nail while we did it, but we that is where we should have it. Across of the military, is higher than what the did it. 23 different agencies of which we spend average is in the country. So it is obvi- This is one bill to save $6 billion in 3 $15 billion a year, they found instances ously not working. years out of $250 billion. No wonder the Also, in the report is something that where we are giving grants from dif- confidence level in the Congress is at 13 is very important to me. Let me find ferent agencies to the same projects for percent. What we are actually doing is it, if I might for a moment. GAO’s re- the same thing, spending three times throwing away our kids’ future as we port exposes a government office that as much money as we should be spend- fail to address these issues. ing on the one project even if we did does some good things. It is called the When we are spending money we not have that. National Technical Information Serv- don’t have on things we don’t abso- So the potential for us to work our ice. It was established in 1950 and lutely need, and we are borrowing way out of the consequences of the se- tasked with collecting and distributing money against our children’s future, I quester is at our fingertips. Here, drug certain reports. Despite the fact—here can’t think of a greater immoral act of abuse prevention and treatment, 76 is what GAO found: 75 percent of the the Congress. It is not red hot lit up as separate programs, not run through the information that NTIS supplies, all some of the more controversial issues Department of Health and Human you have to do is Google it. You do not such as the gun bill we are doing or im- Services, run through 10 different de- have to go to NTIS. All you have to do migration; however, I will state it will partments with overlap that shows no is Google it. So 75 percent of their have a profound effect if we were to ad- metrics but multiple agencies having budget is spent providing reports to dress it in terms of the future of our programs doing exactly the same other government agencies and other country, the health of our country, and thing: $4.5 billion a year. That is half people that you can get with the touch the job-creating capacity for our coun- the size of my Oklahoma State budget of your iPhone. Why would we continue try. a year. to do that? Yet what is it about your Senator or Catfish inspection. I saw in the Presi- This is just one example that I bring your Congressman which keeps them dent’s budget today three different up. We are continuing to fund an agen- from having the courage to challenge agencies where one has to meet the recy where three-quarters of what they the status quo? I know what it is. It is quirements before they can have their do has no bearing on it. If it went the desire to get reelected by not of- catfish inspected. The only thing they away, it would not affect us at all. The fending anybody. did not recommend in the budget today other thing is they charge other Fed- We don’t have tough oversight hear- is getting rid of the Agriculture De- eral agencies a fee for this information ings. We will not allow bills through partment. They approve your cheese that the other Federal agencies, at a committees which actually eliminate pizza. But the FDA approves your touch of their computer, can get for waste. There is a bill that has passed pepperoni pizza. So if you are a pizza free. the House sitting on the docket right maker, you have to comply with one It is another case of inefficiency. now called the SKILLS Act. It takes 47 agency on one type of pizza and an- What else did the GAO report show? job-training programs and puts them other agency on a different type of What the GAO report showed is that we into 6. It saves billions of dollars a year pizza. have done nothing of significance in and puts metrics on the outcome. We Defense foreign language support. the last 2 years based on what they will not even bring it to the floor even Those are people who come in and help have recommended we do given their though it saves $5 to $6 billion a year us learn other languages, interpret for first two reports. Our office calculates, in addition to markedly improving the us other languages so we can have an based on the three reports that GAO outcome of our job-training programs. effective response and not have a com- has given us, that we could save in ex- It is not here.

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Nothing as far as performance on every one of expect me to be a responsible citizen is going to be done about it unless we them. It is also time for the White when I sell my gun. have an oversight hearing to actually House to put real muscle into their The question is, Are we as a body discover information. Nothing actually proposal coming in through OMB. going to take something which is far happens unless we write a bill to I am thankful we will have a new less than appropriate to actually keep change things. OMB Director. She will be terrific. She guns out of the hands of felons and Yet this is not the emphasis in the has the skills, dedication, and quali- mentally impaired and call it a day? Senate. There can be no greater em- fications. I praise the President for This is what is getting ready to hap- phasis than for us to get out of the fi- nominating her. She will fly through pen. Are we going to make a difference nancial troubles we are in. There can the Senate because she is superquali- and not impair second amendment be no greater emphasis than for us to fied for the job. Also, she knows what rights at all and not impair tenth create an environment which produces she is doing. But it will not matter amendment rights because we give jobs in the country when we stop wast- what she does if we don’t respond, if we States supremacy on that? If they want ing money at the Federal Government don’t do our work. to give us something more or different, level. GUN CONTROL they may. Our answer is more government—not Mr. President, I would like to take We are going to go through a great less, more. Our answer, according to the time now just to spend a moment deal of debate and have all these the President’s budget, is more taxes, or two on the guns issue. amendments. I thank Senator REID for not less. I spent a lot of time over the last few making it an open amendment process. I commend the President. He has $25 months thinking about Sandy Hook. I I called and spoke to him last night. I billion worth of programs he wishes to actually met with a large number of said I was happy to support going to eliminate in his budget, $25.8 billion. those people today. I am an A-plus- this bill provided we use the regular He could send over what the GAO said rated member, a lifetime member of Senate procedures and we actually are and eliminate $250 billion a year. the NRA. I firmly believe in the second The problems are not really with the able to offer amendments which are amendment, and I firmly believe in the germane to this bill in any number of President, it is with us: our intran- tenth amendment. sigence to do our job and keep in our ways. He is going to allow this process. We are hearing a lot of politics about I take him at his word he will allow focal point what is most important. the gun situation. What we are not What is most important is our future this. hearing is how do we really keep guns When it is all said and done, will we and the capability for us to create op- out of the hands of people who portunity in the future for our children have made a difference to those fami- shouldn’t have them. This is what we lies who are wanting us to make a dif- and our grandchildren. need to be addressing. ference? Would we have made a dif- I have been fighting this for 8 years. Whether this would prevent a Sandy ference? There is a lot of oversight which has Hook, nobody knows. There are some If we don’t allow responsible citizens been done, tons of reports. The Amer- things we do know. What we do know is the ability to know whether they are ican people are going to eventually the vast majority of people who are selling their gun to a felon or a men- learn everything that is in this report convicted the first time of a gun crime tally impaired person, we haven’t made because there is an app coming out didn’t steal their gun, and they didn’t which will be on people’s cell phones buy it from a federally licensed firearm any difference. We have made a lot of very soon, and they may find out any- dealer. They bought it from one of us. noise, but we haven’t made a dif- thing about everything where the gov- The very fact we are going to have a ference. ernment is wasting money. They will piece of legislation go through here Let me tell you why the Toomey- be able to look at an address in their which will not solve the real problem Manchin proposal will not work. The own city and see how much money a of keeping guns out of the hands of the largest gun show in America is in company, business, or that farmer re- mentally impaired and felons is a Tulsa, OK. It is called the ceived from their Federal tax dollars. shame. There are ways we can do that. Wanenmacher Gun Show. Tens of thou- They will be able to see that in about I haven’t spoken to one owner I know sands of people come to it twice, maybe 3 months. who hasn’t agreed with the fact that three times a year. The sale will be im- When the American people discover they would like to know if they sold peded by requiring an FFL license, our incompetence, it will not matter their gun—they don’t want it to go which is to say a gun dealer at the that we didn’t offend somebody. They into the hands of a felon or somebody show will be required to do a back- are going to see we didn’t do our job. mentally impaired. Yet we are hung up ground search against the NTIS list for We are not doing our job because we on records. The proposal which comes somebody who purchases a gun at the are not addressing the things we actu- from Senator TOOMEY, Senator show whether they are buying from ally have some control over. MANCHIN, and Senator KIRK is a step that dealer or not. What do we do now? Here is what forward. I will not deny it. However, The first thing which will happen is GAO explains: Although Congress had tell me how a record which will only be the Federal firearms licensed dealer made some limited progress in address- looked at after a crime is committed is will say: I want a fee for transferring ing the issues we have previously iden- going to help anybody who is a victim this gun, for doing the work—and tified, additional steps are needed to of a crime. It is not. rightly so. I don’t blame him. What is address the remaining areas to achieve If we really wish to solve this prob- the option? associated benefits. A number of the lem, what we need to do is put into the The option which will happen is the issues are difficult but not impossible. hands of Americans who are law abid- people who are going to make the deal Implementing many of the actions will ing the ability to know they didn’t sell buy the gun. Subsequently, 2 or 3 days take time and sustained leadership. their gun to somebody who is on the after the gun show, they will buy the The key word there is ‘‘leadership.’’ NTIS list. Give me the ability to know gun because they will not be at the gun Who is going to lead in the Senate to when I sell my gun to a stranger that show anymore. solve our problems? It is not party they are not on that NTIS list. Look at the opposite side of that. If identified. Real leadership about solv- This has been rejected out of hand we had a portal or we could get a cer- ing the real problem is in front of us. because there is no record with it. The tificate which says someone is not on

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She said: sell a gun to somebody mentally im- Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I ask I’ve always believed that what matters in paired or a felon. unanimous consent that the order for politics, as in the rest of life, isn’t who you We will have all sorts of statements, the quorum call be rescinded. are or where you come from, but what you but what we are going to do isn’t going The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without believe and what you want to do with your to decrease guns in the hands of felons objection, it is so ordered. life. What matters are your convictions. and the mentally impaired. We can say Mr. GRASSLEY. I ask unanimous Because of her convictions and be- we need to win. If we want a bill to get consent to speak as if in morning busi- cause she acted on those convictions, through the Senate and get through ness. she restored Britain’s economy, na- the House which will actually make a The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without tional spirit, and international reputa- difference in people’s lives, that felons objection, it is so ordered. tion. Millions of people around the and the mentally impaired aren’t em- TRIBUTE TO MARGARET THATCHER world now live in peace and freedom powered to buy guns, we need to do Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I thanks in large part to her efforts. As something different. would like to take a moment to pay a result, Margaret Thatcher is unques- My friends in the second amendment tribute to former British Prime Min- tionably one of the most significant community don’t even like my pro- ister Margaret Thatcher who passed leaders of the 20th century. posal. I understand this. But there is away Monday. Mrs. Thatcher’s legacy shouldn’t no impairment when all you need to do In the 1970s, Britain was mired in simply be relegated to history though. is go to your cell phone to receive a debt and even had to go to the IMF for We have a lot to learn from her today. clearance to know somebody is not on a bailout. Britain was known then as As the President submits his overdue the NTIS list. ‘‘The Sick Man of Europe’’—how we budget this week, I would ask my col- We get to decide. Are we going to do think of Greece today. leagues to ponder this quote by Mar- it in a way which smells good, looks Governments of both political parties garet Thatcher: good, but doesn’t do anything? Are we had tried to stimulate the economy If spending money like water was the an- going to fight to do something which through Keynesian spending policies swer to our country’s problems, we would actually makes a difference? I hope we and government intervention into the have no problems now. If ever a nation has choose the latter. I am not convinced economy was widespread. spent, spent, spent and spent again, ours has. Today that dream is over. All of that money we will. The reason Senator MANCHIN Britain faced massive strikes in the has got us nowhere but it still has to come couldn’t get me to agree to what he winter of 1978–1979, known as the Win- from somewhere. had agreed to with Senator TOOMEY is ter of Discontent. There was talk that Those who urge us to relax the squeeze, to because I don’t think it is going to Britain had become ungovernable. spend yet more money indiscriminately in work. I think the vast majority of gun Then Margaret Thatcher came on the the belief that it will help the unemployed purchasers at gun shows are going to scene. Her policies of fiscal responsi- and the small businessman, are not being wait to buy them later from the very bility and promotion of ‘‘free enter- kind—or compassionate—or caring. They are same people who were going to sell prise’’ completely reversed Britain’s not the friends of the unemployed or the them at a gun show so they do not have economic decline. Her foreign policy small business. They are asking us to do again the very thing that caused the prob- to pay a fee and wait 3 or 4 days on a achievements were no less impressive. lems in the first place. background check. If that happens, This was the era of de´tente. I yield the floor. what good have we done? How have we Most people accepted that the Soviet Mr. REID. Mr. President, are we in a made a difference? We haven’t. Union was strong and successful and period of morning business? It is a sad fact, as a practicing physi- was here to stay so we had to learn to The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- cian, and having done training and sur- live with it. It was fashionable for po- ate is on the motion to proceed at this gery, I have had to operate on a lot of litical leaders to talk as though the So- point. people who ended up with the con- viet system was just different, but no f sequences of a weapon being used on better or worse than our own. them. Margaret Thatcher had no hesitation MORNING BUSINESS Oklahoma has a gun culture, and I in pointing out the truth that the So- Mr. REID. I thought so. Mr. Presi- own multiple guns. I cherish my second viet Union and its satellites held their dent, I ask unanimous consent the Sen- amendment right. But with that right citizens in bondage and she encouraged ate proceed to a period of morning comes some responsibility to do the dissidents who sought freedom. In fact, business, with Senators permitted to right thing. Liberty without responsi- it was a speech in 1976 when she was speak for up to 10 minutes each. bility isn’t liberty, and it will not last still just leader of the opposition in The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without unless we attach responsibility to it. which she warned about the Soviet objection, it is so ordered. So if we really believe in the second military buildup that caused a Soviet f amendment, and if we really believe in army newspaper to coin her nickname the tenth amendment, we will relook the ‘‘Iron Lady.’’ INAUGURATION OF JOE at what we are going to do in terms of Together with President Reagan, she BERTOLINO gun transfers. There is a way to do it sought every opportunity to undermine Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, the that will actually make a big dif- the Soviet system until it collapsed. If Northeast Kingdom of Vermont is a ference in people’s lives in this coun- this doesn’t sound like a bold position special place. In a State that abounds try, and it may actually get through today, it is only because Reagan and in natural beauty, the Kingdom, as the House. Thatcher were proven so profoundly many Vermonters affectionately call What we are proposing, what we are right that everyone now claims to have the State’s northeast corner, is her- seeing proposed right now, is never always agreed. alded for its rural splendor. While the going to pass the House. Consequently, I should also note that there is a rural character and unspoiled land- we will have done something in the temptation for many people remem- scape is what defines the Kingdom to Senate with no long-term consequences bering Mrs. Thatcher’s legacy to note many, it is also home to an academic and actually making a difference for that she was the first female prime institution that has educated the American people. minister of the United Kingdom. While Vermonters for more than 100 years.

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Lyndon has distinguished his LSC tenure with a 100-day listening tour there for eight years, went on to become a itself by developing academic programs that involved the College and Northeast board member and president, and will cele- that mirror the emerging economic Kingdom communities. He has represented brate his 30-year relationship with Camp needs of the community, such as its LSC twice in the nation’s capital, and during Ockanickon in the summer of 2013. first-of-its-kind Mountain Recreation his October 4 State of the College Address— ‘‘Somehow, I became this listener, this Management program. At the same preceded by a short, Chaplin-esque silent counselor,’’ he said of camp. ‘‘It just hap- time, Lyndon remains committed to a film about him—he rode into Academic & pened.’’ That inherent and well-honed skill liberal arts education and educating Student Activity Center, room 100 on his helped Joe build an impressive, 10-page cur- bike, donning a suit, and conveyed a clear riculum vitae filled with publications, work- students to be well-rounded profes- message to 200 students, faculty, and staff. shops, consulting, honors, awards, and prac- sionals. ‘‘At Lyndon State College, students come tically every facet of education, from teach- On Friday, April 19, Lyndon State first.’’ Joe called the state of the college ‘‘ex- ing to administration. He earned his doc- will inaugurate its fifteenth president, cellent.’’ Enrollment is up, the budget is bal- torate from Columbia University’s Teachers Joe Bertolino. Joe comes to Vermont anced—with a surplus—and LSC has five new College in 2003. from Hunter College in New York, faculty and 15 new staff members and admin- After eight years at Queens College, Joe where he served as vice president for istrators this year. left this year with responsibility for 22 de- enrollment management and academic ‘‘Every student has said to me, without partments and more than 200 employees. He affairs. Joe’s passion for working with fail, ‘Joe, I love it here,’ ’’ he told his audi- also created veterans’ services and a wellness ence. Joe aims to bolster internal and exter- center on campus. ‘‘Joe stands out as a presi- students is evident in his easygoing nal communications at LSC. His lengthy to- dent who will attempt to engage, in an ex- manner and in how he has engaged stu- do list contains a new public relations cam- tremely supportive way, every single student dents since arriving on campus last paign, with a focus on social media, and he we have,’’ said Jonathan Davis, LSC Class of summer. At a college of only 1,400 stu- wants to erase the off-campus community’s ’97 and dean of students. ‘‘I’ve already wit- dents, Joe’s personal touch sets the perception of LSC as ‘‘Harvard on the hill’’ nessed that in the form of students walking clear tone that under his leadership by continuing to build strong partnerships in into his office to ask a question or simply to Lyndon will be a student-centered in- the Northeast Kingdom. chat.’’ stitution. Joe has undertaken a num- He said LSC is a key stakeholder in Jay Student recruitment and retention is also Peak Resort’s plans to invest $500 million in part of Joe’s mission at LSC. He has charged ber of creative initiatives to build com- the region over the next decade—a plan that Davis with co-chairing a team that would munity spirit among Lyndon students could mean more internships for LSC stu- use data and strategies to increase the Col- and alumni, including an informal pol- dents and jobs for graduates. lege’s retention rates. Davis was an LSC stu- icy called ‘‘Go Green, Go Gold,’’ that ‘‘Lyndon State College is the college of the dent when Peggy Williams was president, in encourages the Lyndon State commu- Northeast Kingdom,’’ Joe said. Joe has also the 1990s. Williams was already one of Joe’s nity to wear the school colors on started an electronic suggestion box—‘‘Joe mentors when he learned about the presi- Wednesdays. Wants to Know’’—where anyone can post dent’s vacancy at LSC last December. Beyond this personal approach, Joe anonymous concerns and comments. During Joe was considering other job offers for his one-hour speech, Joe posed challenges to higher salaries at larger schools, ‘‘but I just has laid out an ambitious plan for the alums: $1 million for an all-weather athletic kept coming back to Lyndon,’’ he said. En- college’s future. I have had the oppor- field, and $1 million for a new version of the amored after his first trip to campus, and he tunity to meet Joe during a recent old Vail towers. ‘‘The response from our went with no expectations, he called his visit to Washington and am encouraged alumni has been great,’’ he said. partner, Bil, in New Jersey and said, ‘‘The to welcome his energy and creative Joe also asked faculty and staff to increase good news is I think I interviewed well, and thinking to Vermont. Lyndon State their in-house contributions, and he imposed I liked it. The bad news is I think I inter- College is a vital part of Vermont’s a lighthearted, non-mandatory policy called viewed well, and I liked it.’’ higher education community, and I ‘‘Go Green, Go Gold,’’ where he asks the He elaborated further in his office more re- campus community to wear LSC colors each cently: ‘‘Initially, I underestimated Lyndon wish Joe the best as he is officially in- Wednesday. ‘‘If you haven’t figured it out by in so many ways. Then, when I got here, it augurated as the college’s next presi- now,’’ he said, after dismounting his bike, was nothing like I thought it would be. The dent. before his speech, ‘‘I like to have fun. Life is people are passionate. The College is in great I request unanimous consent that an too short, and the world is complicated shape. I fell in love.’’ Bil is in New Jersey for article from Lyndon State about Presi- enough.’’ now, working at Rutgers University and liv- dent Bertolino be printed in the ‘‘I believe I am where I’m supposed to be, ing in the house he and Joe shared before Joe RECORD. and I believe I’ll be where I’m supposed to moved to Lyndonville. Joe converted the There being no objection, the mate- be,’’ he said. ‘‘It’s been a long time since I’ve lower level of the LSC president’s house— rial was ordered to be printed in the been in a place where I felt I haven’t be- ‘‘our house,’’ he calls it—to all-purpose longed.’’ meeting space. He lives upstairs. RECORD, as follows: Days later, while in his office—‘‘a beautiful ‘‘I believe I am where I’m supposed to be, [From the Lyndon State College Twin Tower corner of the world,’’ he said—Joe called and I believe I’ll be where I’m supposed to Topics] himself a motivated, goal oriented Type A be,’’ he said. ‘‘It’s been a long time since I’ve LOVING LYNDON personality that leads by surrounding him- been in a place where I felt I haven’t be- (By Leon Thompson) self with the talent to implement his vision. longed.’’ To the director of YMCA Camp He is a foodie, a Lion King fan, and textbook f Ockanickon, Joe Bertolino—an accordion- introvert who usually recharges alone. playing member of his high school debate ‘‘As soon as I hit the front of a group, or a TRIBUTE TO THE SOMERSET team in New Jersey—didn’t seem so suited stage, I’m on,’’ he said. ‘‘I am representing POLICE DEPARTMENT and selling LSC. That’s what I am doing. But for counseling other geeks. Not at first. Mr. MCCONNELL. Madam President, ‘‘Do you hike?’’ the director asked. ‘‘No,’’ I’m perfectly comfortable being by myself in Joe said. ‘‘Swim?’’ ‘‘No.’’ ‘‘Boat?’’ ‘‘No.’’ the house at the end of a long day.’’ I stand here to pay tribute to the hon- ‘‘Arts and crafts?’’ ‘‘Maybe.’’ Joe’s social circle was small during 16 orable men and women, past and The director wondered, ‘‘Is there anything years of Catholic School in Glendora, N.J. present, of the Somerset Police Depart- you do?’’ ‘‘I get along with people,’’ Joe said. His Italian father, also a Joe, worked for ment in Pulaski County, KY, for 125 ‘‘That’s when my life began,’’ Dr. Joseph AT&T. His Irish mother, Eileen, was a nurse. years of faithful service and tireless Bertolino said this fall, a week after deliv- He played accordion competitively for 10 dedication. ering Lyndon State College’s State of the years (and still plays a little). When Joe en- Founded on March 13, 1888, the Som- College Address, as the fifteenth president. tered the University of Scranton, Pa., in ‘‘To me, the meaning of life is relationships, 1982, ‘‘There was a group for everyone,’’ he erset Police Department has admirably and leadership is all about relationships.’’ said. ‘‘In high school, there are popular served the city and surrounding area Joe, 49, officially succeeded Interim Presi- groups. In college, there aren’t popular and to this day represents the best of dent Steve Gold on July 1; LSC offered Joe groups. There are different groups.’’ our State’s citizens. One example of

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As you listen closely to the program, partment, with the proceeds from the 61ST NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST, THURS- try to figure out what God is saying to you. event going to support a local girl who DAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2013, WASHINGTON, DC, And as you’ve heard, this event is hosted by suffers from Type I diabetes. Their rep- CO-CHAIRS: SENATOR JEFF SESSIONS, SEN- members of the House and Senate and I utation for ‘‘coming to the rescue’’ was ATOR MARK PRYOR would like to ask all the members of the displayed in a different way than their Senator Mark Pryor: Let me open by say- House and Senate who are present, to stand ing, ‘‘Good morning fellow sinners.’’ My daily work, but displayed nonetheless, at this time. We’re also honored to be joined name is Mark Pryor, from Arkansas, and by two prime ministers, the Prime Minister and their efforts certainly are appre- this is my brother, Jeff Sessions, from Ala- of Serbia, His Excellency Ivica Dacic, and ciated by those in need who benefit bama. Together, Jeff and I chair the weekly the Prime Minister of the Democratic Re- from the support raised by their char- Senate breakfast group, which means we get public of Congo, His Excellency Augustin ity. to chair this ‘‘slightly larger’’ event this Matata Ponyo. Thank you so much for being I rise not only to celebrate those who morning. with us. serve, but also those we have lost in Senator Jeff Sessions: Thank you all for Senator Pryor: I would like to introduce service. We are grateful for dedicated taking on the adventure of getting here this the head table that will lead us through this morning. We have a challenging experience officers of the Somerset Police Depart- experience. I’ll start on my right. Today you planned for you this morning. We call this could say that you ate breakfast with the ment who risk their very lives to pro- the Prayer Breakfast, not only because we President and a gold medalist. At the end of tect and bring order to their city. come together to pray, but because so much our program, our closing prayer will be of- At this time, I would like to applaud prayer goes into this event, and hopefully, so fered by Olympic champion, Gabrielle Doug- the Somerset Police Department on much prayer comes out of it. las, whose new book is appropriately sub- the 125th anniversary of its founding, Senator Pryor: Everything that happens titled ‘‘My Leap of Faith.’’ Next to her is and I request that an article recog- over the next 90 minutes has really come former U.S. Senator, Cabinet member and about through prayer. As a matter of fact, President of the Red Cross, Elizabeth Dole. nizing this occasion from a Pulaski one of the hundreds of volunteers that make County, KY, newspaper be printed in Elizabeth, believe it or not, was our break- this morning possible, literally came in very fast speaker 26 years ago. She will give a the RECORD. early this morning and prayed over each reading from the Holy Scriptures. Next to There being no objection, the mate- place setting here—prayed over each of you. her is California Representative, Janice rial was ordered to be appear in the Senator Sessions: Prayer is not a spectator Hahn, one of two co-chairs of the House RECORD as follows: sport. We hope this experience enriches your prayer breakfast group, and next year she’ll own life of prayer, for the good of the nation, [From the Commonwealth Journal, Mar. be standing in my place here. Then we have for the world and for your family. Admiral and Mrs. Jonathan Greenert. He is 16, 2013] Senator Pryor: Let us join our hearts in the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, which 125 YEARS OF SERVICE: SOMERSET POLICE DE- prayer. God of the universe, who we individ- puts him in charge of about 300,000 sailors, PARTMENT FOUNDED MARCH 13, 1888—STAFF ually worship in many different ways and 300 ships and 3,500 aircraft. He will offer a REPORT, COMMONWEALTH JOURNAL languages, bring us together this morning in prayer for our national leaders. Next, we SOMERSET.—The Somerset Police Depart- a shared experience of praise, understanding have the spouse of my co-chair, Mary Ses- ment recently celebrated 125 years of service and commitment. Our world and our lives sions. And please join me in welcoming the in the community. fall short of what you created them to be. passionate, principled and inspirational The history of SPD dates all the way back Use this time to bless us, to bless our lead- First Lady of the United States, Michelle to March 13, 1888, when Mayor A. Wolf ap- ers, and especially our President, with a Obama. pointed John B. Ingram as the first chief of sense of who you are and how we all need to Senator Sessions: Continuing down the police for the newly formed City of Som- change. We are thankful for the food we are table, we have our friend and former col- erset. enjoying and friendships old and new. Be league, the good Vice President of the United The police department would grow along present in each of our hearts today, in your States, Joe Biden. On the other side of our with the city’s population and physical Holy, precious and matchless name, Amen. speaker is my colleague and friend, Chuck boundaries over the next 125 years. Senator Sessions: Enjoy (what’s left of) Still, some have lost their lives in the line your breakfast. Schumer. He’s the pride of P.S. 197 in Brook- of duty. Good morning. We’ve had a wonderful time lyn, New York and a dedicated member of ‘‘As the department gets a year older, it is together to discuss issues and have a joyful Congress for amazingly 30 years, and a key important to remember those officers who noise. We thank you for your attention. member of the Democratic leadership. Chuck lost their lives serving the citizens of our Senator Pryor: It’s overwhelming to think will be offering a reading from the Holy city,’’ stated Lt. Shannon Smith, with SPD. of the pathways that each person took to get Scripture. Next to him is another good friend Somerset Chief of Police Silas West was to this event today. Some from little vil- and former colleague of ours, the U.S. Sec- shot and killed in 1928 while attempting to lages halfway around the world and some retary of the Interior, Ken Salazar. In his arrest a drunk person on the square. Patrol- from just 12 blocks away, so thank you all day job, Ken is responsible for more than 500 man Walter McKinley Massingale was shot for coming. million acres of United States land. He is a and killed on Halloween night in 1929 while Senator Sessions: This huge event, which former chair of this Senate prayer breakfast investigating a bootlegger on South Maple has taken place for 61 years now, began with and will be offering a prayer for world lead- Street. And in 1957, Police Chief Harold a group of people who happened to be leaders ers. Next to him is Janice Hahn’s sidekick Catron was shot on his porch on Jasper wanting to get together for breakfast and for for the next year, co-chair of the House Street, and he would later die from those prayer. One thing I know for sure is that life breakfast group, Louie Gohmert. He is a wounds in 1964. is complicated and is likely to get more com- member of the House for 8 years and is from ‘‘Our 125th anniversary is a milestone to plicated tomorrow than yesterday. But as East Texas. And finally, visiting from Italy, our department,’’ said SPD Acting Police members of the weekly Senate prayer break- Mr. Andrea Primicerio, and our soloist, An- Chief Major Doug Nelson. ‘‘Through hard fast group, we’ve learned that taking time drea Bocelli. Mr. Bocelli has gone from a work, rigorous training, and an established each week to meet, to take off the disguises small farming village near Pisa, Italy to sell- level of professionalism, the men and women that we wear and pray and share our lives to- ing more than 80 million records worldwide. of the Somerset Police Department will con- gether, makes life better. I read that, at last count, in addition to song tinue to serve our community to make it a Senator Pryor: In the modern world and writing, he plays 9 instruments. This morn- safe place to live and work.’’ especially in a city like this, there are thou- ing, he will play the most beautiful instru- sands of things that drive us apart—politics, ment God has created, the human voice. Join f ideology and even religion. Today, though, me in welcoming our soloist, Andrea Bocelli. 61ST NATIONAL PRAYER we come together in the Spirit of Jesus who [Song.] BREAKFAST taught us to love one another, treat others Senator Charles Schumer: Good morning. as we want to be treated and to love God In the Jewish tradition, we are given not Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. President, on be- with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. only an English name but a Hebrew name half of Senator PRYOR and myself, I It would be a whole lot better world if we and my Hebrew name is Yesha’yahu—Isaiah. ask unanimous consent that the tran- just listened to Him. So I was particularly honored when Mark

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The strength their thoughts; let them turn to the Lord chair the House Congressional prayer break- required to act on difficult decisions and the and he will have mercy on them; and to our fast with my friend and colleague, Congress- compassion to care for the wellbeing of those God, for He will freely pardon. For my man Louie Gohmert. His colleagues have that they lead. Fortify the resolve of the thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are said, ‘‘This is the only chairmanship that men and women who lead our great nation your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As Speaker Boehner can’t remove him from for and provide us with bold, confident and ac- the heavens are higher than the earth, so are bad behavior.’’ Only God can do that. countable leaders capable of carrying out my ways higher than your ways, and my Today’s Prayer Breakfast offers an oppor- those actions that your wisdom directs. In thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain tunity for us to set aside political labels and your Holy Name we pray, amen. and the snow come down from the heaven, come together to be inspired and pray for the The Honorable Elizabeth Dole: Mr. Presi- and do not return to it without watering the critical issues that are facing our nation and dent, Mrs. Obama, Mr. Vice President, hon- earth, and making it bud and flourish so that the world. I was elected to Congress in the ored guests, ladies and gentlemen. It’s my it yields seed for the sower and bread for the middle of one of the most bitter, rancorous privilege today to read selected portions of eater, so is my word that goes out from my and divided periods in our nation’s history. Hebrews 11, which has been called the Hall of mouth; it will not return to me empty, but But in the midst of that discord, there was Faith. And I’ll end with Hebrews 12 versus 1– will accomplish what I desire and achieve one place that I found that we could set 3 and verse 14. the purpose for which I sent it. You will go aside our partisan bickering and our dif- ‘‘Now, faith is being sure of what we hope out in joy and be led forth in peace. The ferences and come together—a place where for and certain of what we do not see. By mountains and hills will burst into song be- once a week, we could be there for each other faith we understand that the universe was fore you and all the trees of the fields will with our God. That place was the weekly formed at God’s command so that what is clap their hands. Instead of the thorn bush congressional prayer breakfast. I’ve found seen was not made out of what was visible. will grow the juniper and instead of briars some unlikely friends in that breakfast. But And without faith, it is impossible to please the myrtle will grow. This will be for the they have helped me to be a better member God, because anyone who comes to him must Lord’s renowned for an everlasting sign that of Congress and to better serve my God and believe that he exists and that he rewards will endure forever.’’ my constituents. those who earnestly seek him. By faith, Representative Louie Gohmert: It is such a Faith has always been a strong part of my Noah, when warned about things not yet pleasure to be here and it’s such a pleasure life and my story. I grew up in the church. seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his to share our Thursday morning prayer My grandparents on my mother’s side were family. By faith, Abraham, even though he breakfast with you. My co-chair in the House missionaries to Japan. And my grandmother was past age and Sarah herself was barren is Janice Hahn. It’s a surprise for some peo- on my father’s side, in a moment of deep de- was unable to become a father because he ple, after they see the way we go back and spair and helplessness, turned to God for considered him faithful who had made the forth and debate, to see that the Prayer help in raising her seven little boys under promise. By faith, Abraham when God tested Breakfast is truly bipartisan. We work to- the age of 10 when her husband died sud- him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had gether. We pray together. And there’s some- denly. That decision that my grandmother received the promises was about to sacrifice thing that really brings people together Hattie made, helped me find my journey of his one and only son even though God had when you pray together. It’s the belief in the faith. Every week when a member of Con- said to him ‘‘it is through Isaac that your power of prayer that brings us together. gress comes to our prayer breakfast and tells offspring will be reckoned.’’ Abraham rea- My wife and I have tried to teach that to their own journey of faith, it gives us a bond soned that God could raise the dead and figu- our three girls. When they were old enough that can’t be broken. We believe in the power ratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back to pray, Cathy and I and our three girls of prayer and every week, we give thanks from death. By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and would gather around one of the girls’ beds when God has answered our prayers. Abra- Esau in regard to their future. By faith, and we would pray each night. One night we ham Lincoln said, ‘‘I have been driven many Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of had some nose spray that a doctor prescribed times to my knees by the overwhelming con- Joseph’s sons and worshiped as he leaned on for our middle daughter, Caroline—she’d viction that I have nowhere else to go. My the top of his staff. By faith, Joseph, when been having real serious sinus problems. She own wisdom and that of all about me seemed his end was near, spoke about the exodus of didn’t want it up her nose—but I was bigger insufficient for the day.’’ May we all con- the Israelites from Egypt. By faith, Moses’ than her. It was going to be good for her ac- tinue to believe that our own wisdom is in- parents hid him for three months after he cording to the doctor, so we got it up the sufficient. God bless you all. was born because they saw he was no ordi- nose. But there was a lot of crying, wailing Admiral Jonathan Greenert: Good Morn- nary child and they were not afraid of the and gnashing of teeth. But once the nose ing. Mr. President, Mrs. Obama, Mr. Vice king’s edict. By faith Moses, when he had spray had been administered and the tears President, Senators, Congressmen, distin- grown up, refused to be known as the son of subsided, the crying stopped, we gathered for guished guests. Many times many of you Pharaoh’s daughter. By faith, he left Egypt prayers. Katie prayed first and then Caroline have said, even today, to those of us that not fearing the king’s anger. He persevered and Caroline finished her prayer by saying wear the cloth of the nation,’’ thank you for because he saw him who is invisible. By faith ‘‘And please God, help Sarah (the little one), your service.’’ And on behalf of our soldiers, the people passed through the Red Sea as on mind her own business and quit being such a sailors, airmen, Marines and Coastguards- dry land. By faith, the walls of Jericho fell pest. And help her to just leave me and Katie men, may I say thank you for your service after the people had marched around them alone.’’ Little Sarah had the last prayer, and and your support to your armed forces. for seven days. By faith, the prostitute in her little angelic voice she said, ‘‘Please Please join me in a prayer for our national Rehab because she welcomed the spies, was God, help Daddy stick some more medicine leaders. not killed with those who were disobedient. up Caroline’s nose.’’ We had taught them Oh Lord, we come before you today, thank- And what more shall I say? I do not have how to pray but not necessarily what it was ful for the many blessings you have bestowed time to tell about Gideon, Barack, Sampson, for. upon our nation. And we humbly ask for Jephthah, David, Samuel and the prophets So on Thursday mornings we gather, not to your continued guidance and strength. On who through faith, conquered kingdoms, ad- pray that God will help us to stick some- this day, we are reminded to give thanks for ministered justice and gained what was thing up our opponent’s nose, but we pray; the extraordinary freedoms that we enjoy, promised. Who shut the mouths of lions, and God grants mending and healing and made possible by the efforts of past genera- quenched the fury of the flames and escaped blessing and leadership, and it’s a beautiful tions of men and women who have served the edge of the sword, whose weakness was thing to see those come together. It does this great nation. Your word tells us of King turned to strength. Others were tortured and make us better. It makes us stronger. And it David whose willingness to place his faith in refused to be released so that they might makes the government work better. Which is you during difficult times serves as an exam- gain a better resurrection. Some faced years why Benjamin Franklin, in his own words— ple for us all. Like David, there are many in of flogging while still others were chained his own handwriting—said, ‘‘In the beginning this nation who have answered the call to and put in prison. They were stoned, they contest with Great Britain when we were serve, both in and out of uniform. Lord, we were sawed in two, they were put to death by sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in are thankful for their dedication, their pas- the sword. These were all commended for this room. Our prayers are heard and they sion, their perseverance and for the families their faith. Therefore, since we are sur- were graciously answered.’’ Janice and I and that support their every effort. When it rounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, our other colleagues have seen those prayers comes to our search for inspiration, Scrip- let us throw off everything that hinders and answered and it’s what brings us together. ture clearly speaks about where we should the sin that so easily entangles and let us Thanks for joining with us today. begin charting our course—we begin with run with perseverance, the race that is set

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And we cannot fall for that you will not grow weary and lose heart. edge the righteous escape.’’ that trick. What we need to do is start talk- Make every effort to live in peace with all Proverbs 11:12, ‘‘A man who lacks judg- ing about things, talking about things that men and to be holy, for without holiness no ment derides his neighbor, but a man of un- are important, things that were important in one will see the Lord.’’ derstanding holds his tongue.’’ the development of our nation. One of those The Honorable Ken Salazar: Mr. President, Proverbs 11:25, ‘‘A generous man will pros- things was education. I’m very passionate Mrs. Obama, Vice President Biden, members per; he who refreshes others will himself be about education because it made such a big of the United States Senate, fellow Cabinet refreshed.’’ difference in my life. But here we are at a members, members of the House of Rep- 2nd Chronicles 7:14, ‘‘If my people who are time in the world, the information age, the resentatives and distinguished guests. The called by my name will humble themselves age of technology, and yet 30 per cent of peo- following prayer was written by Cesar Cha- and pray and seek my face and turn from ple who enter high school in this country do vez, the great leader of the United States their wicked ways, then will I hear from not graduate. 44 percent of the people who Farm Workers of America. Last year, Presi- heaven and will forgive their sins and heal start a four year college program do not fin- dent Obama visited the gravesite of Cesar their land.’’ ish it in four years. What is that about? Chavez and his office at a place in La Paz, I have an opportunity to speak in a lot of Think back to a darker time in our his- California; and there, he made this place a venues—this is my fourth speech this week— tory. 200 years ago when slavery was going national monument so that we can honor the and to talk to a lot of people. And I’ve been on, it was illegal to educate a slave, particu- work of a true hero and a follower of Christ asking people—what concerns you? What are larly to teach him to read. Why do you think and a follower of Gandhi. It was a moving you most concerned about in the terms of that was? Because when you educate a man, time for the President and all of us who were the spirituality and the direction of our na- you liberate the man. And there I was as a there that day. tion and our world? I’ve talked to very youngster placing myself in the same situa- Chavez was a servant leader who followed prominent Democrats, and very prominent tion that a horrible institution did because I the teachings of Jesus Christ. He followed Republicans and I was surprised by the uni- wasn’t taking advantage of the education, the teachings of Gandhi and Dr. Martin Lu- formity of their answers. And those have in- because I was a horrible student. Most of my ther King. He was ever prayerful to Nuestra formed my comments this morning. classmates thought I was the stupidest per- Senora de Guadalupe (Our Lady of Guada- It’s not my intention to offend anyone. I son in the world. They called me ‘‘dummy.’’ lupe). Today as the world, in many different have discovered, however, in recent years I was the butt of all the jokes. Admittedly, places, rages in a debate about the peopling that it’s very difficult to speak to a large it was a bad environment—a single parent of our nations and immigration, and as our group of people these days and not offend home—my mother and father had gotten di- nation does the same thing, let us pray that someone. And I know people walk around vorced early on. My mother got married all of our world leaders and all of our leaders with their feelings on their shoulders wait- when she was 13. She was one of 24 children; here in the United States, will be inspired by ing for you to say something—‘‘Ah, did you had a horrible life, discovered that her hus- the true story of the peopling of our nations hear that?’’ And they can’t hear anything band was a bigamist, had another family, and give voice to those who now live in the else you say. The PC police are out in force and she only had a third grade education. fear of the shadows of our society. And so, at all times. I remember once I was talking She had to take care of us, in dire poverty. inspired by the teachings and life of Saint to a group about the difference between a I had a horrible temper, poor self-esteem; all Francis and Jesus Christ, let us pray as human brain and a dog’s brain. And a man of the things that you think would preclude Cesar Chavez prayed, as he fasted for those got offended—he said, ‘‘You can’t talk about success. But I had something very impor- who have no voice, who are the most vulner- dogs like that.’’ But people just focus in on tant. I had a mother who believed in me. And able in our society. that and completely miss the point of what I had a mother who would never allow her- He prayed: ‘‘Show me the suffering of the you’re saying. We’ve reached the point where self to be a victim, no matter what hap- most miserable, so that I will know my peo- people are afraid to actually talk about what pened. She never made excuses and she never ple’s plight. Free me to pray for others, be- they want to say—because somebody might accepted an excuse from us. And if we ever cause you are present in every person. Help be offended. People are afraid to say, ‘‘Merry came up with an excuse, she always said, me to take responsibility for my own life, so Christmas’’ at Christmastime. It doesn’t ‘‘Do you have a brain?’’ And if the answer that I can be free at last. Grant me the cour- matter whether the person you’re talking to was ‘‘Yes,’’ then she said, ‘‘Then you could age to serve others, for in service there is is Jewish or whether they’re any religion— have thought your way out of it; it doesn’t true life. Give me honesty and patience, so that’s a salutation of greeting, of good will. matter what John or Susan or Mary or any- that I can work with others. Bring forth song We’ve got to get over this sensitivity. It body else did or said.’’ And it was the most and celebration, so that the Spirit will be keeps people from saying what they really important thing she did for my brother and alive among us. Let the Spirit flourish and believe. myself because if you don’t accept excuses, grow, so that we will never tire of the strug- I’m reminded of a very successful young pretty soon people stop giving them and they gle. Let us remember those who have died for businessman who loved to buy his mother start looking for solutions and that is a crit- justice, for they have given us life. Help us these exotic gifts for Mother’s Day. And he ical issue when it comes to success. love even those who hate us, so we can ran out of ideas, and then he ran across these We did live in dire poverty and one of the change the world.’’ God bless you, God bless birds. These birds were cool. They cost 5,000 things that I hated was poverty. Some people the United States of America, God bless all dollars apiece—they could dance, they could hate spiders, some people hate snakes—I of our leaders. sing, they could talk. He was so excited, he hated poverty. I couldn’t stand it. But my Senator Sessions: Of all of the complex bought two of them; sent them to his moth- mother couldn’t stand the fact that we were things in the world, perhaps the most com- er; couldn’t’ wait to call her up on Mother’s doing poorly in school. She prayed, she asked plex is the human brain. How come I can re- Day, ‘‘Mother, mother, what did you think of God to give her wisdom, what could she do to member the words of the preamble of the those birds?’’ And she said, ‘‘They was good.’’ get her young sons to understand the impor- Constitution but can’t find my glasses? He said, ‘‘No, no, no, mother, you didn’t eat tance of developing their minds, so that they We’ve invited as our guest speaker this those birds; those birds cost 5,000 dollars could control their own lives? And you know morning a gentleman for three reasons: he apiece—they could dance, they could sing, what? God gave her the wisdom, at least in loves Jesus, he has a compelling life story they could talk.’’ And she said, ‘‘Well, they her opinion. My brother and I didn’t think it and he is a distinguished man of science and should have said something.’’ And that’s was that wise because it was to turn off the healing. We hope that he can help us sort where we end up too if we don’t speak up for TV. She let us only watch two or three TV some things out. May I introduce, the direc- what we believe. What we need to do in this programs during the week. And with all that tor of Pediatric Neurosurgery at one of the PC world is forget about unanimity of speech spare time, read two books apiece from the world’s great hospitals, Johns Hopkins in and unanimity of thought and we need to Detroit public libraries and submit to her Baltimore, Dr. Benjamin Carson, Sr. concentrate on being respectful to those peo- written book reports, which she couldn’t Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, Sr.: Thank you so ple with whom we disagree—that’s when I read but we didn’t know that—she’d put much. Mr. President, Mr. Vice President, think we begin to make real progress. checkmarks and highlights and stuff. But Mrs. Obama, distinguished guests—which in- One last thing about political correct- you know, I just hated this, and my friends cludes everybody. Thank you so much for ness—which I think is a horrible thing, by were out having a good time. Her friends this wonderful honor to be at this stage the way. I’m very, very compassionate and would criticize her, they would say, ‘‘You again. I was here 16 years ago and the fact I’m not ever out to offend anyone, but PC is can’t make boys stay in the house reading that they’ve invited me back means that I dangerous because in this country, one of the books, they’ll grow up, they’ll hate you.’’ I

VerDate Sep 11 2014 09:33 Oct 02, 2017 Jkt 029102 PO 00000 Frm 00046 Fmt 0686 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR13\S10AP3.001 S10AP3 jstallworth on DSKBBY8HB2PROD with BOUND RECORD 4910 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 159, Pt. 4 April 10, 2013 would overhear them and I would say, ‘‘You coming up with solutions. My wife and I them militarily. But what happened to know, mother, they’re right.’’ But she didn’t started the Carson Scholars Fund 16 years them? They destroyed themselves from with- care. But after a while, I actually began to ago after we heard about an international in—moral decay, fiscal irresponsibility— enjoy reading those books. Even though we survey looking at the ability of eighth grad- they destroyed themselves. And if you don’t were very poor, between the covers of those ers in 22 countries to solve math and science think that can happen to America, you get books, I could go anywhere, I could be any- problems; and we came out number 21 out of out your books and you start reading. But body, I could do anything. I began to read 22, barely beat out number 22, very con- you know we can fix it. Why can we fix it? about people of great accomplishment. And cerning. And we’d go into schools and we’d Because we’re smart; we have some of the as I read those stories, I began to see a con- see all these trophies, All State basketball, most intellectually gifted people leading our necting thread. I began to see that the per- All State wrestling, All State this, that and nation. All we need to do is remember what son that has the most to do with you and the other. The quarterback was the big man our real responsibilities are so we can solve what happens to you in life is you. You make on campus, What about the intellectual su- the problems. I think about these problems decisions. You decide how much energy you perstar? What did they get? A National all the time and my role model was Jesus want to put behind that decision. And I came Honor Society pin, a pat on the head, ‘‘there, and he used parables to help people under- to understand that I had control of my own there little nerd’’—nobody cared about them. stand things. destiny. At that point, I didn’t hate poverty And is it any wonder that sometimes the One of our big problems right now—and anymore because I knew it was only tem- smart kids try to hide; they don’t want any- like I said, I’m not politically correct so, I’m porary. I knew I could change that. It was in- body to know that they’re smart? This is not sorry—our deficit is a big problem. Think credibly liberating for me, it made all the helping us as a nation. So we started giving about it. Our national debt, 161⁄2 trillion dol- difference. out scholarships to students from all back- lars, you think that’s not a lot of money. I And to continue on that theme of edu- grounds for superior academic performance tell you what, count one number per second, cation, in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville came to and demonstration of humanitarian quali- which you can’t even do because when you America to study this country. The Euro- ties. Unless you cared about other people, it get to a thousand, you can’t, it’ll take you peans were fascinated—how could a fledgling didn’t matter how smart you were. We’ve got longer than a second, but one number per nation barely 50 years old already be com- plenty of people like that, we don’t need second. You know how long that’ll take you peting with them on virtually every level. those. We need smart people who care about to count to 16 trillion? 507,000 years—more This is impossible—de Tocqueville was going other people. We will give them money, the than a half a million years to get there. We to sort it out. And he looked at our govern- money would go into a trust, they would get have to deal with this. Here’s the parable. A ment and he was duly impressed by the three interest on it and then when they went to family falls on hard times—dad loses his job branches of government—four now because college, they get the money. But also, the or is demoted, gets part time work, has five now of special interest groups, but it was school gets a trophy, every bit as impressive children. He comes to the five children and only three back in those days. And he said, as the sports trophies. It goes right out there he says ‘‘We’re going to have to reduce your ‘‘Wow, this is really something.’’ And then with the others. They get a medal. They get allowance.’’ Well, they’re not happy about it; he said, ‘‘Let me look at their educational to go to a banquet. And we try to put them but he says, ‘‘Except for John and Susan, system,’’ and he was blown away. Anybody on the same kind of pedestal as we do the All they’re special. They can keep their allow- finishing second grade was completely lit- State athletes. ance; in fact, I may give them more.’’ How erate. He could find a mountain man on the Now, I have nothing against athletics or do you think that’s going to go down? Not outskirts of society—the man could read a entertainment, please believe me. I’m from too well. Same thing happens, enough said. newspaper, could have a political discussion, Baltimore, the Ravens won, this is great, What about our taxation system? So com- could tell him how the government worked. okay. But what will maintain our position in plex there is no one who can possibly comply If you really want to be impressed, take a the world, the ability to shoot a 25 foot jump with every jot and tittle of our tax system. look at the chapter on education in my lat- shot or the ability to solve a quadratic equa- If I wanted to get you, I could get you on a est book, ‘‘America the Beautiful,’’ which I tion? We need to put things into proper per- tax issue. That doesn’t make any sense. wrote with my wife; it came out last year. spective. Many teachers have told us that What we need to do is come up with some- And in that education chapter, you will see when we put a Carson Scholar in their class thing that is simple. When I pick up my questions extracted from a sixth grade Exit room, the GPA of the whole class goes up Bible, you know what I see? I see the fairest Exam from the 1800’s—a test you had to pass over the next year. And it’s been very grati- individual in the universe, God. And he’s to get your sixth grade certificate. I doubt fying. We started 16 years ago with 25 schol- given us a system, it’s called, tithe. Now, we most college graduates today could pass that arships in Maryland; now we’ve given out don’t necessarily have to do it 10 per cent, test. We have dumbed things down to that more than 5,000 and we’re in all 50 states. but it’s the principle. He didn’t say, ‘‘If your level. And the reason that that is so dan- But we also put in reading rooms. These are crops fail, don’t give me any tithes.’’ He gerous is because the people who founded fascinating places that no little kid could didn’t say, ‘‘If you have a bumper crop, give this nation said that our system of govern- possibly pass up. They get points for the me triple tithes.’’ So there must be some- ment was designed for a well informed and amount of time they spend in their reading, thing inherently fair about proportionality. educated populous. And when they become the number of books that they read, and You make 10 billion dollars, you put in a bil- less informed, they become vulnerable. they can trade them in for prizes. In the be- lion. You make 10 dollars, you put in one. Of Think about that, our system of govern- ginning, they do it for the prizes, but it course, you’ve got to get rid of the loopholes. ment, and that’s why the education is so vi- doesn’t take long before their academic per- But now some people say, ‘‘Well that’s not tally important. formance begins to improve. We particularly fair because it doesn’t hurt the guy who Now some people say ‘‘Ah, you’re over- target Title 1 schools where kids come from made 10 billion dollars as much as the guy blowing it, things aren’t that bad, and you’re homes with no books and they go to schools who made 10.’’ Where does it say you have to a doctor, a neurosurgeon, why are you con- with no libraries. Those are the ones who hurt the guy? He just put a billion dollars in cerned about these things?’’ I’ve got news for drop out and we need to truncate that proc- the pot; you know we don’t need to hurt him. you. Five doctors signed the Declaration of ess early on because we can’t afford to waste It’s that kind of thinking that has resulted Independence. Doctors were involved in the any of those young people. For every one of in 602 banks in the Cayman Islands. That framing of the Constitution, the Bill of those people that we keep from going down money needs to be back here building our in- Rights, and a whole bunch of things. It’s that path, that path of self-destruction and frastructure and creating jobs. And we’re only been in recent decades that we’ve ex- mediocrity, that’s one less person you have smart enough to figure out how to do that. tracted ourselves—which I think is a big to protect yourself and your family from. We’ve already started down the path of mistake. We need doctors and we need sci- One less person you have to pay for in the solving one of the other big problems, health entists, engineers, we need all of those peo- penal or the welfare system. One more tax care. We need to have good health care for ple involved in government, not just lawyers. paying productive member of society who everybody. It’s the most important thing I don’t have anything against lawyers, but may invent a new energy source or come up that a person can have. Money means noth- here’s the thing about lawyers—and I’m with a cure for cancer. They’re all important ing, titles means nothing, when you don’t sorry but I got to be truthful—what do law- to us and we need every single one of them, have your health. But, we’ve got to figure yers learn in law school? To win, by hook or it makes a difference. When you go home to- out efficient ways to do it. We spend a lot of by crook, you got to win. So you’ve got all night, please read about it, Carson Scholar money on health care, twice as much per these Democrat lawyers and you’ve got all Fund, Carsonscholars.org. capita as anybody else in the world and yet these Republican lawyers and their side But, why is it so important that we edu- we’re not very efficient. What can we do? wants to win. We need to get rid of that. cate our people? Because we don’t want to go Here’s my solution. When a person is born, What we need to start thinking about is: how down the same pathway as many other pin- give them a birth certificate, an electronic do we solve problems? nacle nations have who have preceded us. I medical record and a health savings account Now, before I get shot, let me finish here. think particularly about ancient Rome— to which money can be contributed pre-tax I don’t like to bring up problems without very powerful, nobody could even challenge from the time you’re born to the time you

VerDate Sep 11 2014 09:33 Oct 02, 2017 Jkt 029102 PO 00000 Frm 00047 Fmt 0686 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR13\S10AP3.001 S10AP3 jstallworth on DSKBBY8HB2PROD with BOUND RECORD April 10, 2013 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 159, Pt. 4 4911 die. When you die, you can pass it on to your was being held captive. He overheard the calm and in crisis, we come together, not as family members so that when you’re 85 years British plans; they were not going to let him Democrats or Republicans, but as brothers old and you’ve got six diseases, you’re not off the ship. He mourned as dusk approached. and sisters, and as children of God. Every trying to spend up everything, you’re happy He mourned for his fledgling young nation. year, in the midst of all our busy and noisy to pass it on and there’s nobody talking And as the sun fell, the bombardment start- lives, we set aside one morning to gather as about death panels. That’s number one. And ed, bombs bursting in air, missiles, so much one community, united in prayer. We do so also, for the people who are indigent, who debris. He strained trying to see—was the because we’re a nation ever humbled by our don’t have any money; we can make con- flag still there? Couldn’t see a thing. All history, and we’re ever attentive to our im- tributions to their HSA each month because night long it continued. At the crack of perfections—particularly the imperfections we already have this huge pot of money. In- dawn he ran out to the banister, he looked, of our President. We come together because stead of sending it to some bureaucracy, let’s straining his eyes, but all he could see was we’re a people of faith. We know that faith is put it in their HSAs. Now they have some dust and debris. And then there was a clear- something that must be cultivated. Faith is control over their own health care. And what ing and he beheld the most beautiful sight not a possession. Faith is a process. do you think they’re going to do? They’re he’d ever seen—the torn and tattered stars I was struck by the passage that was read going to learn very quickly how to be re- and stripes still waving. And many histo- earlier from the Book of Hebrews: ‘‘Without sponsible. When Mr. Jones gets that diabetic rians say that was the turning point in the faith it is impossible to please God, because foot ulcer, he’s not going to the emergency War of 1812. We went on to win that war and anyone who comes to Him must believe that room and blowing a big chunk of it. He’s to retain our freedom. And if you had gone He exists and He rewards those who dili- going to go to the clinic. He learns that very onto the grounds of Fort McHenry that day, gently seek Him.’’ He rewards those who dili- quickly. He gets the same treatment in the you would have seen at the base of that flag gently seek Him—not just for one moment, emergency room they send him out to the the bodies of soldiers who took turns prop- or one day, but for every moment, and every clinic and say ‘‘Now let’s get your diabetes ping up that flag. They would not let that day. As Christians, we place our faith in the under control so you’re not back here in flag go down because they believed in what nail-scarred hands of Jesus Christ. But so three weeks with another problem.’’ That’s that flag symbolized. And what did it sym- many other Americans also know the close how we begin to solve these kinds of prob- bolize? One nation under God, indivisible embrace of faith—Muslims and Jews, Hindus lems. It’s much more complex than that and with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, and Sikhs. And all Americans—whether reli- I don’t have time to go into it all but we can God bless. gious or secular—have a deep and abiding do all of these things because we’re smart Senator Pryor: Thank you Dr. Carson. It is faith in this nation. Recently I had occasion to reflect on the people. now my great honor to introduce our Presi- power of faith. A few weeks ago, during the And let me just begin to close here by an- dent. One of the striking measures of the inauguration, I was blessed to place my hand other parable. A sea captain is out on the passage of time since you first were with us on the Bibles of two great Americans, two sea, near to the area where the Titanic went Mr. President is the comparison photographs men whose faith still echoes today. One was down. He looks ahead and there’s a bright of your daughters at your first Inauguration the Bible owned by President Abraham Lin- light right there, another ship he figures. He and your second. You have a beautiful and coln, and the other, the Bible owned by Dr. tells his signaler; signal that ship, ‘‘Deviate wonderful family. And they remind us of the Martin Luther King, Jr. As I prepared to 10 degrees to the south.’’ Back comes the core American values of faith, family and op- take the sacred oath, I thought about these message ‘‘No, you deviate 10 degrees to the timism in the future. Mr. President, we want two men, and I thought of how, in times of north.’’ Well he’s a little bit incensed, he to express our love and our respect for you joy and pain and uncertainty, they turned to says, ‘‘Send a message, This is Captain John- this morning. You carry burdens none of us their Bibles to seek the wisdom of God’s son, deviate 10 degrees to the north’.’’ Back in this room can imagine. Thank you for word—and thought of how, for as long as comes the message, ‘‘This is Ensign 4th Class keeping the unbroken commitment of ten we’ve been a nation, so many of our leaders, Riley, deviate 10 degrees to the south.’’ Now former presidents to join us for breakfast our Presidents, and our preachers, our legis- he’s really upset. He says, ‘‘Send them a and prayer. Ladies and gentlemen, the Presi- lators and our jurists have done the same. message, this is a naval destroyer.’’ Back dent of the United States, Barack Obama. Each one faced their own challenges; each comes the message, ‘‘This is a lighthouse.’’ President Barack Obama: Thank you very one finding in Scripture their own lessons Enough said. much. Please have a seat. Mark, thank you from the Lord. And as I was looking out on What about the symbol of our nation, the for that introduction. I thought he was going the crowd during the inauguration I thought eagle, the bald eagle. It’s an interesting to talk about my gray hair. It is true that of Dr. King. We often think of him standing story how we chose that but a lot of people my daughters are gorgeous. That’s because tall in front of the endless crowds, stirring think we call it the bald eagle because it my wife is gorgeous. And my goal is to im- the nation’s conscience with a bellowing looks like it has a bald head. That’s not the prove my gene pool. To Mark and Jeff, thank voice and a mighty dream. But I also reason. It comes from the Old English word, you for your wonderful work on behalf of thought of his doubts and his fears, for those piebald, which means crowned with white; this breakfast. To all of those who worked so moments came as well—the lonely moments and we just shortened it to bald. Now use hard to put this together; to the heads of when he was left to confront the presence of that the next time you see somebody who state, members of Congress, and my Cabinet, long-festering injustice and undisguised thinks they know everything—you get them religious leaders and distinguished guests. hate; imagined the darkness and the doubt with that one. But, why is that eagle able to To our outstanding speaker. To all the faith- that must have surrounded him when he was fly high, to fly forward? Because it has two ful who’ve journeyed to our capital, Michelle in that Birmingham jail, and the anger that wings, a left wing and a right wing. Enough and I are truly honored to be with you this surely rose up in him the night his house was said. morning. bombed with his wife and child inside, and And I want to close with this story. 200 Before I begin, I hope people don’t mind me the grief that shook him as he eulogized years ago this nation was involved in a war, taking a moment of personal privilege. I those four precious girls taken from this the War of 1812. The British, who are now our want to say a quick word about a close Earth as they gathered in a house of God. good friends, thought that we were young friend of mine and yours, Joshua Dubois. And I was reminded that, yes, Dr. King was whippersnappers; it was time for us to be- Now, some of you may not know Joshua, but a man of audacious hope and a man of relent- come a colony again. They were winning Joshua has been at my side—in work and in less optimism. But he was also a man occa- that war, marching up the Eastern Seaboard, prayer—for years now. He is a young rev- sionally brought to his knees in fear and in destroying city after city, destroyed Wash- erend, but wise in years. He’s worked on my doubt and in helplessness. And in those mo- ington D.C., burned down the White House; staff. He’s done an outstanding job as the ments, we know that he retreated alone to a next stop, Baltimore. As they came into the head of our Faith-Based office. Every morn- quiet space so he could reflect and he could Chesapeake Bay, that armada of ships—war ing he sends me via email a daily medita- pray and he could grow his faith. And I imag- ships as far as the eye could see—it was look- tion—a snippet of Scripture for me to reflect ine he turned to certain verses that we now ing grim; Fort McHenry standing right on. And it has meant the world to me. And read. I imagine him reflecting on Isaiah, that there. General Armistead, who was in charge despite my pleas, tomorrow will be his last we wait upon the Lord; that the Lord shall of Fort McHenry, had a large American flag day in the White House. So this morning I renew those who wait; that they shall mount commissioned to fly in front of the fort. The want to publically thank Joshua for all that up with wings as eagles, and they shall run admiral in charge of the British fleet was of- he’s done, and I know that everybody joins and not be weary, and they shall walk and fended and said, ‘‘Take that flag down. You me in wishing him all the best in his future not faint. We know that in Scripture, Dr. have until dusk to take that flag down. If endeavors—including getting married. King found strength; in the Bible, he found you don’t take it down, we will reduce you to It says something about us—as a nation conviction. In the words of God, he found a ashes.’’ There was a young amateur poet on and as a people—that every year, for 61 years truth about the dignity of man that, once re- board by the name of Francis Scott Key, now, this great prayerful tradition has en- alized, he never relinquished. sent by President Madison to try to obtain dured. It says something about us that every We know Lincoln had such moments as the release of an American physician who year, in times of triumph and in tragedy, in well. To see this country torn apart, to see

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At dead. And the toll mounted day after day, how He wishes for us to spend our days. His the end of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus week after week. And you can see in the Commandments are there to be followed. said, ‘‘Therefore, everyone who hears these lines of his face the toll that the war cost Jesus is there to guide us; the Holy Spirit, to words of mine and puts them into practice is him. But he did not break. Even as he buried help us. Love the Lord God with all your like a wise man who built his house on the a beloved son, he did not break. Even as he heart and with all your soul and with all rock.’’ Let’s be wise people in the important struggled to overcome melancholy, despair, your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself. roles that we’re about to step back into in a grief, he did not break. And we know that he See in everyone, even in those with whom few minutes and put what we’ve heard and surely found solace in Scripture; that he you disagree most vehemently, the face of learned here into practice. could acknowledge his own doubts, that he God. For we are all His children. That’s what Senator Sessions: Love God. Love your was humbled in the face of the Lord. And I thought of as I took the oath of office a few neighbor. Let’s make that simple rule our that, I think, allowed him to become a better weeks ago and touched those Bibles—the guide and make our complex world a better leader. It’s what allowed him in what may be comfort that Scripture gave Lincoln and one today. And to offer our closing prayer, one of the greatest speeches ever written, in King and so many leaders throughout our please welcome Olympic gold medalist, his second Inaugural, to describe the Union history; the verses they cherished, and how Gabrielle Douglas. and the Confederate soldier alike—both read- those words of God are there for us as well, Ms. Gabrielle Douglas: Thank you. It’s ing the same Bible, both prayed to the same waiting to be read any day that we choose. I such an honor to be here today with so many God, but ‘‘the prayers of both could not be thought about how their faith gave them the distinguished leaders, especially Mr. Presi- answered. That of neither has been answered strength to meet the challenges of their dent, Mrs. Obama, Mr. Vice President and fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.’’ time, just as our faith can give us the the Honorable Mark Pryor and the Honor- In Lincoln’s eyes, the power of faith was strength to meet the challenges of ours. And able Jeff Sessions. Now please, please join humbling, allowing us to embrace our limits most of all, I thought about their humility, me as we bow our heads and pray. in knowing God’s will. And as a consequence, and how we don’t seem to live that out the Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for the he was able to see God in those who vehe- way we should, every day, even when we give many continued blessings. We uplift every mently opposed him. lip service to it. leader from every nation and ask that you Today, the divisions in this country are, As President, sometimes I have to search continue to give them wisdom as they gov- thankfully, not as deep or destructive as for the words to console the inconsolable. ern. Teach us to walk in humility, strength- when Lincoln led, but they are real. The dif- Sometimes I search Scripture to determine en us as we strive to fulfill your plan, your ferences in how we hope to move our nation how best to balance life as a President and as purpose for our lives. And as we go from forward are less pronounced than when King a husband and as a father. I often search for here, I pray we would all pursue your peace, marched, but they do exist. And as we debate Scripture to figure out how I can be a better your love and your grace, in Jesus’ name, what is right and what is just, what is the man as well as a better President. And I be- Amen. surest way to create a more hopeful—for our lieve that we are united in these struggles. Senator Pryor: We’re done, thank you, God children—how we’re going to reduce our def- But I also believe that we are united in the bless you. icit, what kind of tax plans we’re going to knowledge of a redeeming Savior, whose f have, how we’re going to make sure that grace is sufficient for the multitude of our every child is getting a great education— sins, and whose love is never failing. And EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR A and, Doctor, it is very encouraging to me most of all, I know that all Americans—men FEW that you turned out so well by your mom not and women of different faiths and, yes, those letting you watch TV. I’m going to tell my of no faith that they can name—are, never- Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I rise daughters that when they complain. In the theless, joined together in common purpose, today to ask unanimous consent to midst of all these debates, we must keep that believing in something that is bigger than have printed in the RECORD an article same humility that Dr. King and Lincoln ourselves, and the ideals that lie at the heart written by Ken Hamilton, Executive and Washington and all our great leaders un- of our nation’s founding—that as a people we Vice President of the Wyoming Farm derstood is at the core of true leadership. In are bound together. Bureau that was Published in the April a democracy as big and as diverse as ours, we And so this morning, let us summon the 2013 edition of Wyoming Agriculture. will encounter every opinion. And our task common resolve that comes from our faith. The article’s title is ‘‘Equal Access to as citizens—whether we are leaders in gov- Let us pray to God that we may be worthy of ernment or business or spreading the word— the many blessings He has bestowed upon Justice for a few.’’ is to spend our days with open hearts and our nation. Let us retain that humility not Mr. President, while we continue to open minds; to seek out the truth that exists just during this hour but for every hour. And fight for increased transparency with in an opposing view and to find the common let me suggest that those of us with the most regards to the Equal Access to Justice ground that allows for us as a nation, as a power and influence need to be the most Act, one thing is already clear—the people, to take real and meaningful action. humble. And let us promise Him and to each Federal Government is picking winners And we have to do that humbly, for no one other, every day as the sun rises over Amer- and losers. Mr. Hamilton calls this a can know the full and encompassing mind of ica that it will rise over a people who are ‘‘cozy appearance between the groups God. And we have to do it every day, not just striving to make this a more perfect union. at a prayer breakfast. I have to say this is Thank you. God bless you, and God bless the who sue the Federal Government and now our fifth prayer breakfast and it is al- United States of America. the desire by the government to help ways just a wonderful event. But I do worry Senator Sessions: Thank you. Thank you pay their way.’’ He points out in one sometimes that as soon as we leave the pray- Mr. President. We’re not of the same polit- recent case of several environmental er breakfast, everything we’ve been talking ical party, sometimes we disagree, but groups suing the Fish and Wildlife about the whole time at the prayer breakfast speaking as an American, we are one nation Service over wolf delisting efforts seems to be forgotten—on the same day of and we have one President who serves us all. where the Federal Government quickly the prayer breakfast. I mean, you’d like to Thank you for being my President, thank approved their November 2012 claim for think that the shelf life wasn’t so short. But you for being our President. I go back to the Oval Office and I start So let’s all enjoy now a final selection $380,000 in attorney fees. That is watching the cable news networks and it’s from Andrea Boccelli. $380,000 dollars of hard-earned Amer- like we didn’t pray. [Song] ican taxpayer dollars this administra- And so my hope is that that humility car- Mr. Andrea Bocelli: Thank you very much. tion’s Justice Department was more ries over every day, every moment. While I’m very ashamed of my English because I than happy to hand over to their polit- God may reveal His plan to us in portions, would like to tell you many, many things ical allies. the expanse of His plan is for God, and God but I can’t because my English is very poor. Ken continues to illustrate the ap- alone, to understand. ‘‘For now we see But I live this moment like a dream, because parent political fingerprints and favor- through a glass, darkly; but then face to very often my country has been in trouble, face; now I know in part, but then shall I just because the left and the right never are itism in the Justice Department by know even as also I am known.’’ Until that able to speak with each other. And in this stating, ‘‘Meanwhile back at the ranch, moment, until we know, and are fully country where I received a lot, a big, big af- the Wyoming Wolf Coalition through known, all we can do is live our lives in a fection, incredible affection, today I received its attorney Harriet Hageman, has

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Since 2011, the Justice tainly appears the federal government, He later commanded Delta Company, Department has been actively arguing through the Justice Department, does not 20th Engineer Battalion at Fort Camp- over an EAJA claim of approximately apply justice uniformly. Perhaps the Justice bell, KY and served as S3 and executive $36,000 to a group that supported wolf Department is concerned that these multi- officer for the 577th Engineer Bat- delisting when the same Justice De- million dollar environmental groups should talion, Fort Leonard Wood, MO. partment agreed to send $380,000 to en- be paid because they have resources far be- Throughout his career, Lieutenant vironmental groups opposed to the yond the troublesome rancher, sportsmen, Colonel McDonald deployed to Iraq for outfitters and local governments and they delisting of wolves. could use the money but those other entities Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, Based on these facts I would have to should be denied because they are poor. Kosovo, and Korea. In 2006, Kenny vol- agree with Ken’s conclusion that, ‘‘the Perhaps they feel that almost $400,000 is unteered for service in Iraq in support Equal Access to Justice Act is being not a big deal, but $36,000 is a huge deal wor- of Operation Iraqi Freedom and served applied less than equally by the Fed- thy of Justice Department attorney time to as deputy commander, Gulf Region Di- eral Government. It appears that if file objections. vision South District, U.S. Army Corps they agree with you they will send you Who knows, but one thing is apparent and of Engineers in Basrah. During his 2 a check, but if they do not they will that is the Equal Access to Justice Act is year tour, he was responsible for over send you an attorney’s response deny- being applied less than equally by the federal government. It appears that if they agree $500 million worth of construction ing you your money.’’ with you they will send you a check, but if projects, including the Basrah Chil- This administration should not be in they do not they will send you an attorney’s dren’s Hospital. In 2008, he and mem- the business of playing favorites by re- response denying you your money. bers of his team were severely wounded warding their political friends with f in an ambush while they were inspect- taxpayer dollars. I commend Ken for ing the hospital. He recovered from his GRASSBAUGH VETERANS PROJECT highlighting the apparent inequality wounds at Walter Reed Army Medical and abuse of the so-called Equal Access Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. President, today Center and later was assigned to the to Justice Act. This is one of the rea- I wish to honor the commencement of West Point Warrior Transition Unit. sons I plan to continue fighting for real the Captain Jonathan D. Grassbaugh While still assigned to the WTU, he re- transparency regarding which groups Veterans Project. CPT Jonathan quested and was allowed to serve as the are receiving EAJA payments, why Grassbaugh and three other soldiers deputy commander, New York District, they are receiving it, and how much were killed in action in Iraq on April 7, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. money—taxpayer money—is being 2007, when an insurgent detonated a Lieutenant Colonel McDonald also given away. It is time the Equal Access 500-pound explosive beneath their served as an instructor and assistant to Justice Act truly live up to its truck. His wife, CPT Jenna C. professor in the Department of Geog- name. Grassbaugh, has collaborated with the raphy and Environmental Engineering Mr. President, I yield the floor. Ohio State University Moritz College and the Department of Civil and Me- There being no objection, the mate- of Law to create the Captain Jonathan chanical Engineering at West Point. In rial was ordered to be printed in the D. Grassbaugh Veterans Project. The 2009, he was promoted to associate pro- RECORD, as follows: Jonathan D. Grassbaugh Veterans fessor and served as engineering pro- [From the Wyoming Farm Bureau Project will provide veterans returning gram director for the Department of Federation Opinion Editorial, Mar. 26, 2013] from deployment with legal assistance, Systems Engineering at West Point. EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR A FEW with the help of law students aided by During his tenure, the Engineering (By Ken Hamilton, Wyoming Farm Bureau professional lawyers. Management Program was recognized 3 Federation, Executive Vice President) CPT Jenna Grassbaugh donated years in a row as the top Engineering Many people are aware of the efforts to re- $250,000 of her husband’s life insurance Management Program for under- form the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) policy to the Moritz College of Law in in order to bring more transparency to the graduate education in the Nation by process of the federal government paying at- order to honor her husband’s legacy the American Society for Engineering torney fees. Based on information researched and assist returning veterans. The Management. and brought to light through the Budd-Falen Grassbaugh Veterans Project will open His military awards and decorations law offices we found out that monies were in April and will be operational by fall include the Bronze Star; Purple Heart; being awarded without the slightest effort by 2014. Meritorious Service Medal; Joint Serv- the government to keep track of who re- I would also like to pay tribute to ice Commendation Medal; Army Com- ceived them and why. Thus, the need for Jonathan D. Grassbaugh and the rich mendation Medal; Army Achievement some transparency and oversight. We have legacy he leaves. His commitment to also seen some of the recipients fight efforts Medal; Joint Meritorious Unit Award; to bring transparency and why wouldn’t service is an inspiration to all of us and Meritorious Unit Commendation; Army they? After all, this is something that helps he will not be forgotten. I would also Superior Unit Award; Air Assault; Air- off-set their cost of suing the federal govern- like to recognize CPT Jenna borne; Ranger Tab; and Combat Action ment. Grassbaugh for honoring the legacy of Badge. The other aspect of this that some have her husband in such a meaningful way. Kenny and his wife COL Debbie wondered about is the sometimes cozy ap- f McDonald, who currently serves as the pearance between these groups who sue the director of admissions at West Point, federal government and the desire by the TRIBUTE TO LIEUTENANT have two grown children. Their daugh- government to help pay their way. COLONEL KENNETH W. MCDONALD Recently, several environmental groups ter Anna is a 1LT Quartermaster Offi- settled with the federal government over Mr. REED. Mr. President, I wish to cer and Company Commander and their their attorney fees for suing the Fish and recognize the accomplishments of LTC son Joshua is a cadet at West Point. I Wildlife Service on wolf delisting efforts in Kenneth McDonald, who is retiring this congratulate Kenny on a job well done, Montana and Idaho. The settlement agreed month after a distinguished career of and wish him and his family the very to by the federal government will pay the over 28 years of service to the United best in the years to come. groups $380,000 for their attorney fees. This States Army and the Nation. f request for money was filed with the courts Lieutenant Colonel McDonald grad- in November of 2012 and the government TRIBUTE TO GORDON MOULTON didn’t object to this filing. uated from West Point in 1985 with a Meanwhile back at the ranch, the Wyo- degree in Civil Engineering and was Mr. SHELBY. Mr. President, I rise ming Wolf Coalition through its attorney commissioned a Second Lieutenant in today to pay tribute to Dr. Gordon

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I am honored to call dren, FOTC, a revolutionary organizations; and the Budget: this remarkable man my friend and fel- tion founded and based in my home- THE BUDGET MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT low Alabamian. town of Portland, OR, that provides in- To the Congress of the United States: Gordon received his B.S. in Industrial tensive, long-term mentors to highly Thanks to the hard work and deter- Management from the Georgia Insti- vulnerable kids in need. FOTC takes a mination of the American people, we preventive, early intervention ap- tute of Technology and an M.B.A. from have made significant progress over proach that breaks the cycle of poverty Emory University. He was also award- the last 4 years. After a decade of war, and helps children grow up to be pro- ed an honorary doctorate from Spring our brave men and women in uniform ductive citizens. Hill College in 2006. are coming home. After years of reces- The key to FOTC’s success is its sion, our businesses have created over He began his service at the Univer- mentors, called Friends. Each Friend is six million new jobs. We buy more sity of South Alabama 3 years after its full time, paid and professionally American cars than we have in 5 years, founding in 1966 as a business faculty trained. The Friends are matched with and less foreign oil than we have in 20 member and went on to launch the the most severely at-risk children at years. Our housing market is healing, School of Computer and Information an early age—selected in kinder- our stock market is rebounding, and Sciences as its first dean. He was garten—and make a 121⁄2 year commit- consumers, patients, and homeowners named president of the university in ment to each child, guiding them enjoy stronger protections than ever 1998. Gordon’s numerous successes at through high school graduation. before. the university include increasing aca- Friends of the Children was founded But we know that there are millions demic programs and scholarships, sein 1993 and is celebrating its 20th anni- of Americans whose hard work and curing grants for cancer research, ex- versary this year. My friend Duncan dedication have not yet been rewarded. panding student opportunities, devel- Campbell, founder of FOTC, grew up in Our economy is adding jobs—but too opment and renovation of various fa- poverty himself, and his persistence, many people still cannot find full-time cilities, and the creation of the USA hard work and entrepreneurial spirit employment. Corporate profits have Research and Technology Park which continue to be a driving force behind skyrocketed to all-time highs—but for has provided many jobs and opportuni- FOTC’s success. more than a decade, wages and incomes ties for high-tech industry partnerships The goals for FOTC’s children are have barely budged. in south Alabama. both simple and profound: success in school with a minimum of a high It is our generation’s task to reignite During his tenure as President, the school diploma or GED; avoid involve- the true engine of America’s economic University of South Alabama was able ment in the juvenile justice system, growth—a rising, thriving middle class. to launch ‘‘Campaign USA,’’ a highly and avoid early parenting. And inde- It is our unfinished task to restore the successful fundraising effort that has pendent research has shown that basic bargain that built this country— raised millions for the university. He Friends of the Children is achieving the idea that if you work hard and also worked to form a critical partner- those goals: 85 percent of FOTC grad- meet your responsibilities, you can get ship with Infirmary Health System uates have completed high school, de- ahead, no matter where you come which has been instrumental in mak- spite 54 percent having a parent who from, no matter what you look like, or ing improvements in area health care. did not graduate; 97 percent of FOTC whom you love. For his work in the area, Gordon was youth are not involved in the juvenile It is our unfinished task to make named ‘‘Mobilian of the Year’’ in 2002. justice system despite 60 percent hav- sure that this Government works on Over the years, Gordon and his wife ing a parent who has been incarcer- behalf of the many, and not just the Geri have donated generously to the ated; and 98 percent of FOTC adoles- few; that it encourages free enterprise, University of South Alabama, most re- cents avoid early parenting despite 60 rewards individual initiative, and cently presenting the University with percent having been born to a teen opens the doors of opportunity to every $3 million in order to fund cancer re- mother. child across this great Nation. search at the USA Mitchell Cancer In- Friends of the Children works be- A growing economy that creates stitute. Their generosity, compassion, cause it treats every child as an indi- good, middle class jobs—this must be and dedication to finding a cure for vidual facing a set of unique cir- the North Star that guides our efforts. cancer is both admirable and humbling. cumstances, and takes a committed, Every day, we should ask ourselves In addition to funding for cancer re- hands-on approach to improving those three questions as a Nation: How do we search, they have given millions to circumstances. It works because it fo- attract more jobs to our shores? How fund Moulton Tower and Alumni Plaza, cuses on one-on-one relationships using do we equip our people with the skills Geri Moulton Children’s Park at the a rational, intelligent and proven sys- they need to get those jobs? And how USA Children’s and Women’s Hospital, tem. do we make sure that hard work leads and various scholarships and athletic While headquartered in Portland, to a decent living? endeavors. Friends of the Children now has chap- This Budget seeks to answer each of ters in four additional cities: Klamath these questions. Today, it is rare to see an individual Falls, Seattle, Boston and New York. Our first priority is making America so invested in one institution for the Today, I am proud to congratulate this a magnet for new jobs and manufac- larger part of his career, but the work remarkable program on its 20th anni- turing. After shedding jobs for more that Gordon Moulton has done at and versary, and look forward to cele- than 10 years, our manufacturers have for the University of the South will brating many more years of its contin- added more than 500,000 jobs over the forever be remembered by its students, ued success.∑ past 3 years. Companies large and faculty, board of trustees, and the com- f small are increasingly deciding to munities in and around Mobile that bring jobs back to America. have benefitted from the University. BUDGET OF THE UNITED STATES To accelerate this trend, the Budget I congratulate him on his retirement GOVERNMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR builds on the success of the manufac- and thank him for his decades of serv- 2014—PM 7 turing innovation institute we created ice to one of Alabama’s great edu- The PRESIDING OFFICER laid be- in Youngstown, Ohio last year, and cational institutions. fore the Senate the following message calls for the creation of a network of 15

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The Budget also supports efforts I an- grants, and better loans, we have made The Budget also includes new initia- nounced earlier this year to modernize college more affordable for millions of tives to support manufacturing com- and improve the efficiency of the Fed- students and families over the last 4 munities, including a new tax credit to eral permitting process, cutting years. But skyrocketing costs are still strengthen their ability to attract in- through the red tape that has been pricing too many young people out of a vestments and jobs. And it expands my holding back even some of the most higher education, or saddling them Administration’s SelectUSA initiative carefully planned infrastructure with unsustainable debt. And tax- to help draw businesses and investment projects. These efforts will help us to payers cannot continue to subsidize from around the world to our shores. achieve the new goal I set to cut higher and higher costs for higher edu- If we want to make the best prod- timelines in half for infrastructure cation. ucts, we also have to invest in the best projects, while creating new incentives To encourage colleges to do their ideas. That is why the Budget main- for better outcomes for communities part to keep costs down, the Budget in- tains a world-class commitment to and the environment. cludes reforms that will ensure afford- science and research, targeting re- All of these initiatives in manufac- ability and value are considered in de- sources to those areas most likely to turing, energy, and infrastructure will termining which colleges receive cer- contribute directly to the creation of help entrepreneurs and small business tain types of Federal aid. My Adminis- transformational technologies that can owners expand and create new jobs. tration has also released a new ‘‘Col- create the businesses and jobs of the But none of it will matter unless we lege Scorecard’’ that parents and stu- future. also equip our citizens with the skills dents can use to compare schools. No area holds more promise than our and training to fill those jobs. To further ensure our educational investments in American energy. The And that has to start at the earliest system is preparing students for ca- Budget continues to advance my ‘‘all- possible age. But today, fewer than 3 in reers in the 21st Century economy, the of-the-above’’ strategy on energy, in- 10 4-year-olds are enrolled in a high- Budget includes additional measures to vesting in clean energy research and quality preschool program, and the promote STEM education, such as development; promoting energy effi- high cost of private preschool puts too launching a new STEM Master Teacher ciency in our cars, homes, and busi- much of a financial burden on middle Corps, to leverage the expertise of nesses; encouraging responsible domes- class families. some of America’s best and brightest tic energy production; and launching The Budget therefore includes a pro- teachers in science and mathematics, new efforts to combat the threat of cli- posal that ensures 4-year-olds across and to elevate the teaching of these mate change. the country have access to high-qual- subjects nationwide. It also includes a Modeled after my successful Race to ity preschool education through a land- reorganization and consolidation of the Top education reform effort, the mark new initiative in partnership STEM education programs to improve Budget includes a new Race to the Top with the States. And it increases the the effectiveness of Federal invest- energy efficiency challenge for States, availability of early learning for our ments in this area. rewarding those that implement the youngest children to help their growth The Budget takes other critical steps most effective policies to cut energy and development during the formative to grow our economy, create jobs, and waste. And it establishes a new Energy early years of life. strengthen the middle class. It imple- Security Trust funded by royalty rev- Providing a year of free, public pre- ments the Affordable Care Act, giving enue from oil and gas leases to support school education for 4-year-old chil- every American access to the high- initiatives to shift our cars and trucks dren is an important investment in our quality, affordable health care cov- off oil, cutting our Nation’s reliance on future. It will give all our kids the best erage they deserve, and reducing the foreign oil. start in life, helping them perform bet- deficit by more than $1 trillion over Over the last 4 years, we have begun ter in elementary school and ulti- the next two decades. It implements the hard work of rebuilding our Na- mately helping them, and the country, Wall Street reform, ending too-big-to- tion’s infrastructure. We have built or be better prepared for the demands of fail and protecting consumers against improved over 350,000 miles of road and the global economy. Not only that, it the abuses and reckless behavior that more than 6,000 miles of rail. And we could save hard-working families thou- contributed to the financial collapse in have repaired or replaced over 20,000 sands of dollars each year in child care 2008. And it includes measures to bridges. But to compete in the 21st costs. This is an investment we need to strengthen our housing market and en- Century economy and become a mag- make, and it is fully paid for in this sure that every responsible homeowner net for jobs, we must do more. We need Budget by imposing a new tax on every has the opportunity to refinance at to- to repair our existing infrastructure, pack of cigarettes sold. day’s rates, saving $3,000 a year on av- and invest in the infrastructure of to- The Budget also builds on the his- erage. morrow, including high-speed rail, toric reforms made during my first Our economy is stronger when we high-tech schools, and self-healing term to improve our elementary and harness the talents and ingenuity of power grids. These investments will secondary school system by rewarding striving, hopeful immigrants. That is both lay the foundation for long-term excellence and promoting innovation. why I have proposed a plan to fix our economic growth and put workers back To help ensure that our high schools broken immigration system that se- on the job now. are putting our kids on a path to col- cures our borders, cracks down on em- My Budget includes $50 billion for up- lege and a good job, the Budget in- ployers who hire undocumented work- front infrastructure investments, includes a new competitive fund that will ers, attracts highly-skilled entre- cluding a ‘‘Fix-it-First’’ program that help redesign America’s high schools to preneurs and engineers to help create makes an immediate investment to put prepare students with the real world jobs and drive economic growth, and people to work as soon as possible on skills they need to find a job right establishes a responsible pathway to our most urgent repairs, like the near- away or go to college. The fund re- earned citizenship—a path that in- ly 70,000 structurally-deficient bridges wards schools that develop new part- cludes passing a background check, across the country. And to make sure nerships with colleges and employers, paying taxes and a meaningful penalty, taxpayers do not shoulder the whole and create classes focusing on science, learning English, and going to the back burden, the Budget creates a Rebuild technology, engineering and mathe- of the line behind the folks trying to America Partnership to attract private matics (STEM)—the skills today’s em- come here legally. The Budget makes

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But we should not do it by making and every community willing to do the We must also confront new dangers, harsh and arbitrary cuts that jeop- work to lift themselves up. It creates like cyber attacks, that threaten our ardize our military readiness, dev- new ladders of opportunity to ensure Nation’s infrastructure, businesses, astate priorities like education and en- that hard work leads to a decent living. and people. The Budget supports the ergy, and cost jobs. That is not how to It rewards hard work by increasing the expansion of Government-wide efforts grow the economy. We should not ask minimum wage to $9 an hour so an hon- to counter the full scope of cyber middle class senior citizens and work- est day’s work pays more. It partners threats, and strengthens our ability to ing families to pay down the rest of our with communities by identifying collaborate with State and local gov- deficit while the wealthiest are asked Promise Zones to help rebuild from the ernments, our partners overseas, and for nothing more. That does not grow recession. It creates pathways to jobs the private sector to improve our over- our middle class. for the long-term unemployed and all cybersecurity. The American people understand youth who have been hardest hit by the The Budget also focuses resources on that we cannot just cut our way to downturn. And it strengthens families the Asia-Pacific region, reasserting prosperity. That is why I have repeat- by removing financial deterrents to American leadership and promoting se- edly called for a balanced approach to marriage and supporting the role of fa- curity, stability, democracy, and eco- deficit reduction. And that is why I thers. nomic growth. have offered proposals on multiple oc- We also know that economic growth Importantly, the Budget upholds our casions that cut wasteful spending, can only be achieved and sustained if solemn obligation to take care of our strengthen entitlements, and eliminate America is safe and secure, both at servicemembers and veterans, and to special tax breaks and loopholes so the home and abroad. At home, the Budget protect our diplomats and civilians in wealthiest pay their fair share. supports my initiative to help protect the field. It keeps faith with our vet- In my negotiations with House our kids, reduce gun violence, and ex- erans, investing in world-class care, in- Speaker BOEHNER in December over the pand access to mental health services. cluding mental health care for our so-called ‘‘fiscal cliff,’’ I again offered a We can protect our Second Amendment wounded warriors, supporting our mili- compromise proposal that was bal- rights while coming together around tary families, and giving our veterans anced and comprehensive, and would reforms like eliminating background the benefits, education, and job oppor- achieve our $4 trillion deficit reduction check loopholes to make it harder for tunities that they have earned. goal. That proposal is still on the criminals to get their hands on a gun— The Budget does all of these things table. I am including it in this Budget common-sense reforms that will help as part of a comprehensive plan that to demonstrate my commitment to protect our kids from the scourge of reduces the deficit. All of these initia- making the kind of tough and balanced gun violence that has plagued too tives and ideas are fully paid for, to en- choices that are needed to put our Na- many communities across the country. sure they do not increase the deficit by To confront threats outside our bor- a single dime. tion’s finances in order. ders, the Budget ensures our military By making investments in our people To be clear, the package I am offer- remains the finest and best-equipped that we pay for responsibly, we will ing includes some difficult cuts that I military force the world has ever strengthen the middle class, make do not particularly like. But these known, even as we wind down more America a magnet for jobs and innova- measures will only become law if con- than a decade of war. tion, and grow our economy, which will gressional Republicans agree to meet Already, we have brought home more in turn help us to reduce deficits. But me in the middle by eliminating spe- than 30,000 of our brave service- economic growth alone will not solve cial tax breaks and loopholes so mil- members from Afghanistan. Our re- our Nation’s long-term fiscal chal- lionaires and billionaires do their fair maining forces are moving into a sup- lenges. share to cut the deficit. I will not agree port role, with Afghan security forces As we continue to grow our economy, to any deal that seeks to cut the def- taking the lead. And over the next we must take further action to cut our icit on the backs of middle class fami- year, another 34,000 American troops deficits. We do not have to choose be- lies. I am willing to make tough will come home. This drawdown will tween these two important priorities— choices that may not be popular within continue and, by the end of next year, we have to do both. my own party, because there can be no our war in Afghanistan will be over. Over the last 4 years, both parties sacred cows for either party. And I Beyond 2014, the Budget supports our have worked together to reduce the look forward to working with any continued commitment to a unified deficit in a balanced way by more than member of Congress who takes a simi- and sovereign Afghanistan. $2.5 trillion. That is more than halfway lar, balanced approach. This plan is To maintain our national security, toward the goal of $4 trillion in deficit built on the kind of common ground the Budget supports our ongoing fight reduction that economists say we need that Democrats and Republicans against terrorists, like al Qaeda. The to stabilize our finances. As we wind should be able to reach. organization that attacked us on 9/11 is down two wars, we have protected our In total, the Budget will cut the def- a shadow of its former self. But dif- military families and veterans while icit by another $1.8 trillion over the ferent al Qaeda affiliates and extremist cutting defense spending on outdated next 10 years, bringing the deficit groups have emerged—from the Ara- military weapons systems. Domestic below 2 percent of GDP by 2023 and put- bian Peninsula to Africa. We will con- discretionary spending is approaching ting our debt on a declining path. This front these emerging security chal- its lowest levels as a share of the econ- is not an end in and of itself—the best lenges through the full range of U.S. omy since President Eisenhower was in way to grow the economy and cut the capabilities and tools, including diplo- office; and we have moved aggressively deficit is by creating good middle class matic, security, intelligence, and eco- to cut waste, fraud, and abuse. And to- jobs. But this plan to reduce the deficit nomic development. gether, we have begun to ask the in a balanced way is a critical step to- The Budget also provides the re- wealthy to do their fair share while ward ensuring that we have a solid sources we need to act on our commit- keeping income taxes low for middle foundation on which to build a strong ment to and interests in global devel- class families. Overall, we have cut the economy and a thriving middle class opment, by promoting food security deficit in a balanced way that protects for years to come.

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It builds on my Campaign to ministrator of the Small Business Adminis- Customs and Border Protection, Department Cut Waste by further targeting and tration, transmitting, pursuant to law, the of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- eliminating wasteful spending wher- Administration’s Annual Report on The No- ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Def- ever we find it. It reorganizes and con- tification and Federal Employee Anti- inition of Form I–94 to Include Electronic solidates agencies and programs to discrimination and Retaliation Act for fiscal Format’’ (RIN1651–AA96) received in the Of- year 2012; to the Committee on Homeland Se- make them leaner and more efficient. fice of the President of the Senate on March It increases the use of evidence and curity and Governmental Affairs. 22, 2013; to the Committee on Homeland Se- EC–1071. A communication from the In- evaluation to ensure we are making curity and Governmental Affairs. spector General, Department of Health and smart investments with our scarce tax- EC–1061. A communication from the Direc- Human Services, transmitting, pursuant to payer dollars. And it harnesses new tor, Office of Personnel Management, trans- law, a report entitled ‘‘U.S. Department of technologies to allow us to do more mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule Health and Human Services met Many Re- with less. entitled ‘‘Excepted Service—Appointment of quirements of the Improper Payments Infor- No single Budget can solve every Persons with Intellectual Disabilities, Se- mation Act of 2002 but Was Not Fully Com- vere Physical Disabilities, and Psychiatric pliant’’; to the Committee on Homeland Se- challenge and every problem facing the Disabilities’’ (RIN3206–AM07) received during country. But this Budget shows how we curity and Governmental Affairs. adjournment of the Senate in the Office of EC–1072. A communication from the Acting can live within our means while grow- the President of the Senate on March 26, Administrator of the General Services Ad- ing our economy, strengthening the 2013; to the Committee on Homeland Secu- ministration, transmitting, pursuant to law, middle class, and securing our Nation’s rity and Governmental Affairs. the Administration’s fiscal year 2012 Agency future. It is not a Democratic plan or a EC–1062. A communication from the Dis- Financial Report; to the Committee on Republican plan. It is an American trict of Columbia Auditor, transmitting, pur- Homeland Security and Governmental Af- plan. And it is a plan that I hope can suant to law, a report entitled, ‘‘District of fairs. Columbia Agencies’ Compliance with Small EC–1073. A communication from the Chair- serve as an outline for us to write the Business Enterprise Expenditure Goals next great chapter of the American man of the Council of the District of Colum- through the 1st Quarter of Fiscal Year 2013’’; bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report story . . . together. to the Committee on Homeland Security and on D.C. Act 20–29, ‘‘Medical Marijuana Cul- BARACK OBAMA. Governmental Affairs. tivation Center and Dispensary Location Re- THE WHITE HOUSE, April 10, 2013. EC–1063. A communication from the Dis- striction Temporary Amendment Act of f trict of Columbia Auditor, transmitting, pur- 2013’’; to the Committee on Homeland Secu- suant to law, a report entitled, ‘‘Audit of the rity and Governmental Affairs. MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE Affordable Housing Mandates for Develop- EC–1074. A communication from the Chair- At 1:00 p.m., a message from the ment Projects Formerly Managed by the Dis- man of the Council of the District of Colum- House of Representatives, delivered by solved National Capital Revitalization Cor- bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report poration and Anacostia Waterfront Corpora- on D.C. Act 20–40, ‘‘Tax Revision Commission Mr. Novotny, one of its reading clerks, tion’’; to the Committee on Homeland Secu- announced that the House has passed Report Extension and Procurement Stream- rity and Governmental Affairs. lining Temporary Amendment Act of 2013’’; the following bills, in which it requests EC–1064. A communication from the Chair- to the Committee on Homeland Security and the concurrence of the Senate: man of the Council of the District of Colum- Governmental Affairs. H.R. 254. An act to authorize the Secretary bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report EC–1075. A communication from the Chair- of the Interior to facilitate the development on D.C. Act 19–670, ‘‘Pharmacy Technician man of the Council of the District of Colum- of hydroelectric power on the Diamond Fork Amendment Act of 2012’’; to the Committee bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report System of the Central Utah Project. on Homeland Security and Governmental Af- on D.C. Act 20–30, ‘‘Board of Ethics and Gov- H.R. 1033. An act to authorize the acquisi- fairs. ernment Accountability Temporary Amend- tion and protection of nationally significant EC–1065. A communication from the Sec- ment Act of 2013’’; to the Committee on battlefields and associated sites of the Revo- retary to the Board, Railroad Retirement Homeland Security and Governmental Af- lutionary War and the War of 1812 under the Board, transmitting, pursuant to law, the fairs. American Battlefield Protection Program. Railroad Retirement Board’s fiscal year 2012 EC–1076. A communication from the Chair- f annual report relative to the Notification man of the Council of the District of Colum- and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report MEASURES REFERRED and Retaliation Act of 2002; to the Com- on D.C. Act 20–31, ‘‘Prohibition on Govern- The following bill was read the first mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- ment Employee Engagement in Political Ac- and the second times by unanimous mental Affairs. tivity Temporary Amendment Act of 2013’’; EC–1066. A communication from the Chair- consent, and referred as indicated: to the Committee on Homeland Security and man of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Governmental Affairs. H.R. 1033. An act to authorize the acquisi- transmitting, pursuant to law, the Commis- EC–1077. A communication from the Direc- tion and protection of nationally significant sion’s fiscal year 2012 annual report relative tor of Equal Employment Opportunity, Secu- battlefields and associated sites of the Revo- to the Notification and Federal Employee rities and Exchange Commission, transmit- lutionary War and the War of 1812 under the Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of ting, pursuant to law, the Commission’s 2012 American Battlefield Protection Program; to 2002; to the Committee on Homeland Secu- annual report relative to the Notification the Committee on Energy and Natural Re- rity and Governmental Affairs. and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination sources. EC–1067. A communication from the Dep- and Retaliation Act of 2002; to the Com- f uty Associate Director for External Affairs, mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, mental Affairs. MEASURES PLACED ON THE transmitting, pursuant to law, the Bureau’s EC–1078. A communication from the Acting CALENDAR fiscal year 2012 annual report relative to the Director of the Peace Corps, transmitting, The following bills were read the sec- Notification and Federal Employee Anti- pursuant to law, the Peace Corps’ fiscal year ond time, and placed on the calendar: discrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002; 2012 annual report relative to the Notifica- to the Committee on Homeland Security and tion and Federal Employee Antidiscrimina- S. 680. A bill to rescind amounts appro- Governmental Affairs. tion and Retaliation Act of 2002; to the Com- priated for fiscal year 2013 for the Depart- EC–1068. A communication from the Chief mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- ment of Defense for the Medium Extended Judge, Superior Court of the District of Co- mental Affairs. Air Defense System, and for other purposes. lumbia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a re- EC–1079. A communication from the Equal S. 691. A bill to regulate large capacity am- port relative to the District of Columbia Employment Opportunity Director, Farm munition feeding devices. Family Court Act; to the Committee on Credit Administration, transmitting, pursu- f Homeland Security and Governmental Af- ant to law, the Farm Credit Administra- EXECUTIVE AND OTHER fairs. tion’s fiscal year 2012 annual report relative COMMUNICATIONS EC–1069. A joint communication from the to the Notification and Federal Employee Chairman and the Acting General Counsel, Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of The following communications were National Labor Relations Board, transmit- 2002; to the Committee on Homeland Secu- laid before the Senate, together with ting, pursuant to law, the Board’s Buy Amer- rity and Governmental Affairs.

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A communication from the Chair- cation, transmittal number: DDTC 13–017, of tive Director, United States Access Board, man of the Federal Energy Regulatory Com- the proposed sale or export of defense arti- transmitting, pursuant to law, the Board’s mission, transmitting, pursuant to law, the cles and/or defense services to a Middle East fiscal year 2012 annual report relative to the Commission’s fiscal year 2012 annual report country regarding any possible affects such a Notification and Federal Employee Anti- relative to the Notification and Federal Em- sale might have relating to Israel’s Quali- discrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002; ployee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation tative Military Edge over military threats to to the Committee on Homeland Security and Act of 2002; to the Committee on Homeland Israel; to the Committee on Foreign Rela- Governmental Affairs. Security and Governmental Affairs. tions. EC–1081. A communication from the Chief EC–1091. A communication from the Chair- EC–1099. A communication from the Assist- Human Resources Officer, United States man of the Federal Labor Relations Author- ant Secretary, Bureau of Political-Military Postal Service, transmitting, pursuant to ity, transmitting, pursuant to law, the Affairs, Department of State, transmitting, law, the Postal Service’s fiscal year 2012 an- Authority’s fiscal year 2012 annual report pursuant to law, an addendum to a certifi- nual report relative to the Notification and relative to the Notification and Federal Em- cation, transmittal number: DDTC 13–015, of Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and ployee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation the proposed sale or export of defense arti- Retaliation Act of 2002; to the Committee on Act of 2002; to the Committee on Homeland cles and/or defense services to a Middle East Homeland Security and Governmental Af- Security and Governmental Affairs. country regarding any possible affects such a fairs. EC–1092. A communication from the Direc- sale might have relating to Israel’s Quali- EC–1082. A communication from the Chair tor, Equal Employment Opportunities and tative Military Edge over military threats to of the Recovery Accountability and Trans- Diversity Programs, National Archives and Israel; to the Committee on Foreign Rela- parency Board, transmitting, pursuant to Records Administration, transmitting, pur- tions. law, the Board’s fiscal year 2012 annual re- suant to law, the Administration’s fiscal EC–1100. A communication from the Acting port relative to the Notification and Federal year 2012 annual report relative to the Noti- Assistant Secretary, Legislative Affairs, De- Employee Antidiscrimination and Retalia- fication and Federal Employee Antidiscrimi- partment of State, transmitting, pursuant to tion Act of 2002; to the Committee on Home- nation and Retaliation Act of 2002; to the law, a report relative to section 36(c) of the land Security and Governmental Affairs. Committee on Homeland Security and Gov- Arms Export Control Act (DDTC 13–043); to EC–1083. A communication from the Chair- ernmental Affairs. the Committee on Foreign Relations. man of the Federal Mine Safety and Health EC–1093. A communication from the Equal EC–1101. A communication from the Acting Review Commission, transmitting, pursuant Employment Opportunity and Inclusion Di- Assistant Secretary, Legislative Affairs, De- to law, the Commission’s fiscal year 2012 an- rector, Farm Credit System Insurance Cor- partment of State, transmitting, pursuant to nual report relative to the Notification and poration, transmitting, pursuant to law, the law, a report relative to section 36(c) of the Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation’s Arms Export Control Act (DDTC 13–044); to Retaliation Act of 2002; to the Committee on fiscal year 2012 annual report relative to the the Committee on Foreign Relations. Homeland Security and Governmental Af- Notification and Federal Employee Anti- EC–1102. A communication from the Acting fairs. discrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002; Assistant Secretary, Legislative Affairs, De- EC–1084. A communication from the Asso- to the Committee on Homeland Security and partment of State, transmitting, pursuant to ciate Commissioner, National Indian Gaming Governmental Affairs. law, a report relative to section 36(c) of the Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, EC–1094. A communication from the Chair- Arms Export Control Act (DDTC 13–017); to the Commission’s fiscal year 2012 annual re- man, Occupational Safety and Health Review the Committee on Foreign Relations. port relative to the Notification and Federal Commission, transmitting, pursuant to law, EC–1103. A communication from the Acting Employee Antidiscrimination and Retalia- the Commission’s fiscal year 2012 annual re- Assistant Secretary, Legislative Affairs, De- tion Act of 2002; to the Committee on Home- port relative to the Notification and Federal partment of State, transmitting, pursuant to land Security and Governmental Affairs. Employee Antidiscrimination and Retalia- law, a report relative to U.S. support for Tai- EC–1085. A communication from the Senior tion Act of 2002; to the Committee on Home- wan’s participation as an observer at the Vice President, Diversity and Labor Rela- land Security and Governmental Affairs. 66th World Health Assembly and in the work tions, Tennessee Valley Authority, transmit- EC–1095. A communication from the Assist- of the World Health Organization; to the ting, pursuant to law, the fiscal year 2012 an- ant Secretary, Bureau of Political-Military Committee on Foreign Relations. nual report relative to the Notification and Affairs, Department of State, transmitting, EC–1104. A communication from the Acting Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and pursuant to law, an addendum to a certifi- Assistant Secretary, Legislative Affairs, De- Retaliation Act of 2002; to the Committee on cation, transmittal number: DDTC 13–035, of partment of State, transmitting, pursuant to Homeland Security and Governmental Af- the proposed sale or export of defense arti- law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Implemen- fairs. cles and/or defense services to a Middle East tation of the Defense Trade Cooperation EC–1086. A communication from the Acting country regarding any possible affects such a Treaty Between the United States and Aus- Administrator, General Service Administra- sale might have relating to Israel’s Quali- tralia’’ (RIN1400–AD38) received in the Office tion, transmitting, pursuant to law, the fis- tative Military Edge over military threats to of the President of the Senate on April 8, cal year 2012 annual report relative to the Israel; to the Committee on Foreign Rela- 2012; to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Notification and Federal Employee Anti- tions. EC–1105. A communication from the Sec- discrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002; EC–1096. A communication from the Assist- retary of Defense, transmitting, pursuant to to the Committee on Homeland Security and ant Secretary, Bureau of Political-Military law, a report relative to the current and fu- Governmental Affairs. Affairs, Department of State, transmitting, ture military strategy of Iran (OSS 2013– EC–1087. A communication from the Chief pursuant to law, an addendum to a certifi- 0463); to the Committee on Armed Services. Executive Officer, Corporation for National cation, transmittal number: DDTC 13–059, of EC–1106. A communication from the Board and Community Service, transmitting, pur- the proposed sale or export of defense arti- of Actuaries, Department of Defense, trans- suant to law, the Corporation’s fiscal year cles and/or defense services to a Middle East mitting, pursuant to law, the 2012 Report of 2012 annual report relative to the Notifica- country regarding any possible affects such a the Department of Defense (DoD) Board of tion and Federal Employee Antidiscrimina- sale might have relating to Israel’s Quali- Actuaries; to the Committee on Armed Serv- tion and Retaliation Act of 2002; to the Com- tative Military Edge over military threats to ices. mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- Israel; to the Committee on Foreign Rela- EC–1107. A communication from the Acting mental Affairs. tions. Director, Federal Housing Finance Agency, EC–1088. A communication from the Chair- EC–1097. A communication from the Assist- transmitting, pursuant to law, the Agency’s man, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, ant Secretary, Bureau of Political-Military annual report on the activities of its Office transmitting, pursuant to law, the Corpora- Affairs, Department of State, transmitting, of Minority and Women Inclusion; to the tion’s fiscal year 2012 annual report relative pursuant to law, an addendum to a certifi- Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban to the Notification and Federal Employee cation, transmittal number: DDTC 13–030, of Affairs. Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of the proposed sale or export of defense arti- EC–1108. A communication from the Presi- 2002; to the Committee on Homeland Secu- cles and/or defense services to a Middle East dent and Chief Executive Officer, Federal rity and Governmental Affairs. country regarding any possible affects such a Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh, transmit- EC–1089. A communication from the Chair- sale might have relating to Israel’s Quali- ting, pursuant to law, the Bank’s 2012 State- man, Consumer Product Safety Commission, tative Military Edge over military threats to ment on System of Internal Controls, au- transmitting, pursuant to law, the Commis- Israel; to the Committee on Foreign Rela- dited financial statements, Report of Inde- sion’s fiscal year 2012 annual report relative tions. pendent Registered Public Accounting Firm, to the Notification and Federal Employee EC–1098. A communication from the Assist- and Report of Independent Registered Public Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of ant Secretary, Bureau of Political-Military Accounting Firm on Compliance and Other 2002; to the Committee on Homeland Secu- Affairs, Department of State, transmitting, Matters Based on an Audit of Financial rity and Governmental Affairs. pursuant to law, an addendum to a certifi- Statements Performed in Accordance with

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By Mr. ISAKSON (for himself and Mr. questration; to the Committee on the Budg- By Mr. BOOZMAN (for himself and Mr. BENNET): et. BEGICH): S. Res. 95. A resolution recognizing line- EC–1110. A communication from the Acting S. 695. A bill to amend title 38, United men, the profession of linemen, the contribu- Director, Office of Management and Budget, States Code, to extend the authorization of tions of these brave men and women who Executive Office of the President, transmit- appropriations for the Secretary of Veterans protect the public safety, and expressing sup- ting, pursuant to law, a report relative to Affairs to pay a monthly assistance allow- port for the designation of April 18, 2013, as discretionary appropriations legislation; to ance to disabled veterans training or com- National Lineman Appreciation Day; consid- the Committee on the Budget. peting for the Paralympic Team and the au- ered and agreed to. EC–1111. A communication from the Direc- thorization of appropriations for the Sec- By Mr. ISAKSON (for himself, Mr. tor of Congressional Affairs, Nuclear Regu- retary of Veterans Affairs to provide assist- MURPHY, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. latory Commission, transmitting, pursuant ance to United States Paralympics, Inc., and PORTMAN, Mr. TESTER, Mr. CARDIN, to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Report- for other purposes; to the Committee on Vet- Mr. BOOZMAN, and Mrs. HAGAN): ing Procedure for Mathematical Models Se- erans’ Affairs. S. Con. Res. 12. A concurrent resolution ex- lected to Predict Heated Effluent Dispersion By Mr. REID (for Mr. LAUTENBERG (for pressing the sense of the Congress that our in Natural Water Bodies’’ (Regulatory Guide himself, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, Mr. SCHU- current tax incentives for retirement savings 4.4) received in the Office of the President of MER, Mr. DURBIN, Mrs. MURRAY, Mrs. provide important benefits to Americans to the Senate on April 8, 2013; to the Committee BOXER, Mr. UDALL of New Mexico, help plan for a financially secure retirement; on Environment and Public Works. Mr. BAUCUS, Ms. MIKULSKI, Mr. BEN- to the Committee on Finance. EC–1112. A communication from the Assist- NET, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. FRANKEN, f ant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works), Mr. TESTER, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mrs. transmitting, pursuant to law, a report rel- FEINSTEIN, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS ative to the Final Integrated Construction COWAN, Mr. SANDERS, Ms. WARREN, Report and Environmental Impact State- Mr. HARKIN, Mr. MERKLEY, Mr. S. 84 ment for the Louisiana Coastal Area (LCA), WYDEN, Mr. CARDIN, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. At the request of Ms. MIKULSKI, the Barataria Basin Barrier Shoreline (BBBS) MENENDEZ, Mr. SCHATZ, Mr. NELSON, name of the Senator from Montana Restoration Project, Lafourche, Jefferson Ms. CANTWELL, and Mr. KING)): (Mr. BAUCUS) was added as a cosponsor and Plaquemines Parishes, Louisiana; to the S. 696. A bill to amend the Toxic Sub- of S. 84, a bill to amend the Fair Labor Committee on Environment and Public stances Control Act to ensure that risks Works. Standards Act of 1938 to provide more from chemicals are adequately understood effective remedies to victims of dis- f and managed, and for other purposes; to the crimination in the payment of wages EXECUTIVE REPORT OF Committee on Environment and Public Works. on the basis of sex, and for other pur- COMMITTEE By Mr. BROWN: poses. The following executive report of a S. 697. A bill to reform and improve the S. 123 nomination was submitted: oversight of the performance of passenger At the request of Mrs. GILLIBRAND, By Mr. HARKIN for the Committee on and baggage security screening at domestic the name of the Senator from Min- Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. commercial airports by private screening companies, and for other purposes; to the nesota (Ms. KLOBUCHAR) was added as a *Jenny R. Yang, of the District of Colum- cosponsor of S. 123, a bill to modernize bia, to be a Member of the Equal Employ- Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. voter registration, promote access to ment Opportunity Commission for a term ex- voting for individuals with disabilities, piring July 1, 2017. By Mr. CORNYN: S. 698. A bill to protect prosecutors, judges, protect the ability of individuals to ex- *Nomination was reported with rec- law enforcement officers, and their families; ercise the right to vote in elections for ommendation that it be confirmed sub- to the Committee on the Judiciary. Federal office, and for other purposes. ject to the nominee’s commitment to By Mr. GRASSLEY (for himself, Mr. S. 155 respond to requests to appear and tes- HATCH, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. GRAHAM, At the request of Ms. MURKOWSKI, the tify before any duly constituted com- Mr. CORNYN, Mr. LEE, Mr. CRUZ, and mittee of the Senate. Mr. FLAKE): name of the Senator from Alaska (Mr. S. 699. A bill to reallocate Federal judge- BEGICH) was added as a cosponsor of S. f ships for the courts of appeals, and for other 155, a bill to designate a mountain in INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND purposes; to the Committee on the Judici- the State of Alaska as Denali. JOINT RESOLUTIONS ary. S. 231 By Mr. KAINE (for himself, Mr. CHAM- At the request of Mr. PORTMAN, the The following bills and joint resolu- BLISS, and Mr. BAUCUS): tions were introduced, read the first S. 700. A bill to ensure that the education name of the Senator from Rhode Island and second times by unanimous con- and training provided members of the Armed (Mr. WHITEHOUSE) was added as a co- sent, and referred as indicated: Forces and veterans better assists members sponsor of S. 231, a bill to reauthorize By Mr. RUBIO (for himself, Mr. ALEX- and veterans in obtaining civilian certifi- the Multinational Species Conserva- ANDER, Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. BLUNT, cations and licenses, and for other purposes; tion Funds Semipostal Stamp. Mr. CHAMBLISS, Mr. COATS, Mr. to the Committee on Armed Services and the S. 234 COBURN, Mr. CORNYN, Mr. ENZI, Mr. Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. By Ms. COLLINS: At the request of Mr. REID, the name INHOFE, Mr. ISAKSON, Mr. JOHANNS, of the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Mr. JOHNSON of Wisconsin, Mr. S. 701. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- EINRICH MCCONNELL, Mr. PAUL, Mr. RISCH, enue Code of 1986 to modify the definition of H ) was added as a cosponsor of and Mr. VITTER): full-time employee for purposes of the indi- S. 234, a bill to amend title 10, United S. 692. A bill to rescind certain Federal vidual mandate in the Patient Protection States Code, to permit certain retired funds identified by States as unwanted and and Affordable Care Act; to the Committee members of the uniformed services who use the funds to reduce the Federal debt; to on Finance. have a service-connected disability to the Committee on Appropriations. By Mr. BLUMENTHAL (for himself, receive both disability compensation By Mr. WYDEN: Mr. MURPHY, Ms. WARREN, and Mr. from the Department of Veterans Af- COWAN): S. 693. A bill to amend the Reclamation fairs for their disability and either re- Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Fa- S. 702. A bill to designate the Quinebaug cilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Herit- tired pay by reason of their years of Interior to participate in the City of age Corridor as ‘‘The Last Green Valley Na- military service or Combat-Related Hermiston, Oregon, water recycling and tional Heritage Corridor’’; to the Committee Special Compensation, and for other reuse project, and for other purposes; to the on Energy and Natural Resources. purposes.

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Senator from Ohio (Mr. PORTMAN) were on Energy and Natural Resources. S. 316 added as cosponsors of S. 480, a bill to Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, today I At the request of Mr. SANDERS, the improve the effectiveness of the Na- rise to reintroduce legislation that will names of the Senator from Montana tional Instant Criminal Background authorize the Bureau of Reclamation (Mr. TESTER), the Senator from New Check System by clarifying reporting to share in the cost of the construction Jersey (Mr. MENENDEZ) and the Sen- requirements related to adjudications of a new wastewater treatment plant ator from New Jersey (Mr. LAUTEN- of mental incompetency, and for other for Hermiston, Oregon. This is the BERG) were added as cosponsors of S. purposes. same bill that was passed by the House 316, a bill to recalculate and restore re- S. 557 of Representatives, by voice vote, in tirement annuity obligations of the At the request of Mrs. HAGAN, the the 111th Congress and reported by the United States Postal Service, to elimi- name of the Senator from Pennsyl- Senate Energy and Natural Resources nate the requirement that the United vania (Mr. CASEY) was added as a co- Committee without opposition that States Postal Service prefund the Post- sponsor of S. 557, a bill to amend title Congress as well. I look forward to al Service Retiree Health Benefits XVIII of the Social Security Act to im- working with supporters of this bill to Fund, to place restrictions on the clo- prove access to medication therapy advance this important reclamation sure of postal facilities, to create in- management under part D of the Medi- project. centives for innovation for the United care program. The city of Hermiston will be respon- States Postal Service, to maintain lev- S. 577 sible for the lion’s share of this project. els of postal service, and for other pur- At the request of Mr. NELSON, the CBO has estimated that the Federal poses. name of the Senator from Michigan share of the $26 million project would S. 338 (Ms. STABENOW) was added as a cospon- be $7 million or just over 1⁄4 of the cost. At the request of Mr. BAUCUS, the sor of S. 577, a bill to amend title XVIII Once constructed, the plant will pro- name of the Senator from Michigan of the Social Security Act to provide vide the Bureau of Reclamation-au- (Mr. LEVIN) was added as a cosponsor of for the distribution of additional resi- thorized West Extension Irrigation Dis- S. 338, a bill to amend the Land and dency positions, and for other pur- trict with enough additional high-qual- Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to poses. ity water per year to irrigate approxi- provide consistent and reliable author- S. 649 mately 600 acres of high value crops. ity for, and for the funding of, the land At the request of Mr. KAINE, his This will have a significant, long-term and water conservation fund to maxi- name was added as a cosponsor of S. benefit to the farming industry in the mize the effectiveness of the fund for 649, a bill to ensure that all individuals Hermiston area. future generations, and for other pur- who should be prohibited from buying a The Hermiston project has gotten the poses. firearm are listed in the national in- sign-off at every level from the local ir- S. 381 stant criminal background check sys- rigation district to Federal agencies. At the request of Mr. BROWN, the tem and require a background check The city and the bureau have com- name of the Senator from Vermont for every firearm sale, and for other pleted the required feasibility report (Mr. SANDERS) was added as a cospon- purposes. and the bureau of reclamation has for- sor of S. 381, a bill to award a Congres- S. 655 mally concluded that the project meets sional Gold Medal to the World War II At the request of Mrs. GILLIBRAND, the requirements of the Title XVI cost- members of the ‘‘Doolittle Tokyo Raid- the name of the Senator from Massa- sharing program. The regional office of ers’’, for outstanding heroism, valor, chusetts (Mr. COWAN) was added as a the National Marine Fisheries Service skill, and service to the United States cosponsor of S. 655, a bill to amend the at NOAA has completed a biological in conducting the bombings of Tokyo. Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to opinion approving the project. The city S. 450 authorize the Secretary of Labor to and the West Extension Irrigation Dis- At the request of Mr. SHELBY, the provide grants for Urban Jobs Pro- trict have signed a memorandum of un- name of the Senator from Nevada (Mr. grams, and for other purposes. derstanding to work together to de- HELLER) was added as a cosponsor of S. S. 687 velop the project. The bureau has con- 450, a bill to require enhanced eco- At the request of Mr. MORAN, the cluded its environmental review of the nomic analysis and justification of reg- names of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. authorization to transfer the water to ulations proposed by certain Federal CRAPO), the Senator from New Hamp- they district and issued a finding of no banking, housing, securities, and com- shire (Mrs. SHAHEEN) and the Senator significant impact, or FONSI. modity regulators, and for other pur- from Idaho (Mr. RISCH) were added as The Confederated Tribes of the poses. cosponsors of S. 687, a bill to prohibit Umatilla Indian Reservation have also S. 457 the closing of air traffic control tow- recognized the benefits of the project At the request of Mr. MENENDEZ, the ers, and for other purposes. and support it. These benefits include a name of the Senator from California S. 689 significant improvement in the quality (Mrs. FEINSTEIN) was added as a co- At the request of Mr. HARKIN, the of water discharged to the Umatilla sponsor of S. 457, a bill to post- names of the Senator from Connecticut River in winter and protection of sen- humously award a Congressional gold (Mr. MURPHY) and the Senator from Il- sitive fish habitat during summer. medal to Alice Paul, in recognition of linois (Mr. KIRK) were added as cospon- These benefits have led the tribe to en- her role in the women’s suffrage move- sors of S. 689, a bill to reauthorize and dorse construction of the Hermiston ment and in advancing equal rights for improve programs related to mental Water Recycling System Improvement women. health and substance use disorders. Project and the city’s effort to obtain Federal funding. S. 462 f At the request of Mrs. BOXER, the This project will increase agricul- name of the Senator from Minnesota STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED tural production while improving the (Ms. KLOBUCHAR) was added as a co- BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS local economy, the environment and sponsor of S. 462, a bill to enhance the By Mr. WYDEN: habitat for endangered fish. I intend to

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Fourth, it would become effective United States Code, to extend the au- mittee on the Judiciary. upon enactment. thorization of appropriations for the Mr. GRASSLEY, Mr. President, Adopting this bill would be a step to- Secretary of Veterans Affairs to pay a today I am introducing the Court Effi- wards rectifying the great workload monthly assistance allowance to dis- ciency Act, a bill that will help some of disparities between the circuit courts. abled veterans training or competing the nation’s busiest courts. Hopefully, The Court Efficiency Act would ease for the Paralympic Team and the au- it will also ease some of the tension some of the pressure on the Second and thorization of appropriations for the that arises during debates of D.C. Cir- Eleventh circuits. By moving just one Secretary of Veterans Affairs to pro- cuit Court nominees. I am pleased that vide assistance to United States judgeship each to the Second and Elev- Senators HATCH, SESSIONS, GRAHAM, Paralympics, Inc., and for other pur- enth circuits, we would lower each cir- CORNYN, LEE, CRUZ, and FLAKE are poses; to the Committee on Veterans’ cuit’s respective workload by approxi- original co-sponsors. mately 7.5 percent. This reduction can Affairs. It is no secret that the D.C. Circuit is Mr. BOOZMAN. Mr. President, phys- be accomplished without jeopardizing the least-busy, least-worked appellate ical activity offers injured members of the D.C. Circuit’s status as the ‘‘least- court in the nation. By nearly every the Armed Forces and veterans addi- busy Circuit.’’ Even after the D.C. Cir- measurement taken by the Administra- tional opportunities for rehabilitation cuit is reduced to 8 seats, it would still tive Office of the U.S. Courts, the D.C. for both physical and mental health. be roughly half as busy as the Circuit Circuit comes in a distant last. Here Using the expertise of the United median in appeals filed, terminated, are three of the most common meas- States Olympic Committee to work and pending per authorized judgeship. urements using the most recent data with local programs is a great tool to I would also like to highlight several help our veterans improve their quality available for the 12 months ending Sep- things that this bill will not do. First, of life. The U.S. Paralympic Integrated tember 30, 2012. it would not impact the President’s First, ‘‘Total Appeals Filed.’’ Total Adaptive Sports Program partners current nominee to the D.C. Circuit, Appeals Filed measures the amount of with local organizations to develop Mr. Srinivasan, whose hearing occurred programs and skills that meet the work coming into the court. Simply earlier today. Instead, for the remain- needs of our wounded warriors. As a re- put, it is the total number of appeals ing three seats, it removes one and result of this legislation, the program that a circuit court received in the last allocates the other two. has reached more than 5,000 partici- 12 months. The D.C. Circuit has 108 ap- Second, the bill would not affect the pants in more than 150 communities in peals per authorized judgeship, the low- president’s opportunity to nominate 46 States and has successfully collabo- est in the nation. To put this in per- two of those Circuit court vacancies. It rated with 85 VA Medical Centers in 39 spective, the Second Circuit is 4 times simply reassigns those vacancies to States to provide adaptive sports pro- higher and the Eleventh Circuit, the other circuits that are clearly busier. busiest in the nation, is more than five grams to veterans in their local com- Third, this legislation will be effec- times as high, with 583 appeals filed per munities through outreach programs, tive immediately, rather than post- authorized judge. training, practices, camps, clinics, and poning until the beginning of the next Next, ‘‘Total Appeals Terminated’’ competitions. For this reason, Senator presidential term, as has been in the measures the amount of work the court BEGICH and I are introducing Veterans past. Immediate enactment will emis accomplishing. Once again, the D.C. Paralympic Act of 2013, which would power the President to quickly act to Circuit is by far the lowest in the na- extend the authorization for the U.S. alleviate some of the heavy workloads tion with 108 total appeals terminated Paralympic Integrated Adaptive Sports of the Second and Eleventh Circuits. Program through 2018. per authorized judgeship. By comparison, the Second Circuit is 4 times high- The bill will also save the taxpayer a Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- significant amount of money annually. sent that the text of the bill be printed er and the Eleventh Circuit is 5 times higher, at 540 appeals terminated per Although the bill has not been scored in the RECORD. yet by the CBO, this estimate is based There being no objection, the text of authorized judgeship. on previous estimates offered by the the bill was ordered to be printed in Finally, ‘‘Total Appeals Pending’’ CBO when it has scored judgeship bills. the RECORD, as follows: measures the amount of work before The last time the D.C. Circuit had 11 S. 695 the court. In other words, it is the nominees was the end of 1999. I want to Be it enacted by the Senate and House of number of appeals the court hasn’t yet Representatives of the United States of America addressed or the cases that are out- move past the disagreements over the in Congress assembled, standing. The D.C. Circuit has 120 ap- D.C. Circuit and shift these judges to SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. peals pending per authorized judgeship, circuits where there is a greater need This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Veterans which means it is essentially tied for to fill them. Paralympic Act of 2013’’. last with the Tenth Circuit that has This is a common sense bill. It moves SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZATION OF AP- judges to where they are needed, a sig- PROPRIATIONS FOR PAYMENT OF A 115. In contrast, the Second Circuit and MONTHLY ASSISTANCE ALLOWANCE the Eleventh Circuit have 343 and 323 nificant step in addressing the severe TO DISABLED VETERANS TRAINING appeals pending per authorized judge- imbalance in the workloads of some of OR COMPETING FOR THE ship, respectively. these circuit courts. It saves the tax- PARALYMPIC TEAM. Back during President Bush’s admin- payers money. It doesn’t negatively Section 322(d)(4) of title 38, United States impact the D.C. Circuit Court. It won’t Code, is amended by striking ‘‘2013’’ and in- istration, my friends on the other side serting ‘‘2018’’. of the aisle cited the light work load of affect President Obama’s current nomi- SEC. 3. EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZATION OF AP- that court in order to block qualified, nee, Mr. Srinivasan. I urge my col- PROPRIATIONS FOR ASSISTANCE TO non-controversial nominees. Since that leagues to support this bill. UNITED STATES PARALYMPICS, INC. time, the D.C. Circuit Court workload Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- Section 521A of title 38, United States has only continued to decrease. sent that the text of this bill be printed Code, is amended— (1) in subsection (g), by striking ‘‘2013’’ and Considering the imbalance between in the RECORD. inserting ‘‘2018’’; and the workloads of the Circuits, my bill There being no objection, the text of (2) in subsection (l), by striking ‘‘2013’’ and essentially reallocates those vacancies the bill was ordered to be printed in inserting ‘‘2018’’. to other circuits that are much busier. the RECORD, as follows:

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I got out of the but not IT. This would seek to expand SHIPS. the pilot programs to add IT to the list (a) IN GENERAL.—The President shall ap- military and tried to get a job as a point, by and with the advice and consent of physician’s assistant or a nurse, and I where people are credentialed. the Senate— was told I had no credit for all my mili- In conclusion, this is about doing (1) 1 additional circuit judge for the second tary service as I tried to transition what the Nation should do for our serv- circuit court of appeals; and into the civilian world. icemembers and making sure they re- (2) 1 additional circuit judge for the elev- Another stated: I maintained Naval ceive the traction they deserve for the enth circuit court of appeals. aviation engines for 20 years. Then service they provided. It is not just (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 44(a) about the members themselves, it is of title 28, United States Code, is amended in when I finished and tried to do the same thing on the civilian side, I was also about us. We have invested in our the table— service men and women. They have (1) in the item relating to the District of told I had to go back and start as if I Columbia circuit court of appeals, by strik- had no experience. skills, technical and leadership skills, ing ‘‘11’’ and inserting ‘‘8’’; Another: I operated heavy equip- which would help our society be more (2) in the item relating to the second cir- ment, but I was told I would need a successful. To the extent we do not cuit court of appeals, by striking ‘‘13’’ and commercial driver’s license. allow them traction back in the civil- inserting ‘‘14’’; and Many of the members of our mili- ian life, we are not only depriving (3) in the item relating to the eleventh cir- tary—all of them are gaining skills them, we are depriving ourselves of cuit court of appeals, by striking ‘‘12’’ and their strengths and talents. inserting ‘‘13’’. along the way, but they go into a civilian workforce where their skills and I am pleased to introduce this bill and honored to have Senators BAUCUS By Ms. COLLINS: talents are not recognized. In some ways this is a feature of an all-volun- and CHAMBLISS as cosponsors. S. 701. A bill to amend the Internal Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, today I teer military. When we had a draft and Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the def- am offering legislation correcting men were compelled to serve, someone inition of full-time employee for pur- Obamacare’s definition of a ‘‘full-time’’ departing military service would go poses of the individual mandate in the employee to allow employees to work into the workforce and say they were a Patient Protection and Affordable Care 40 hours a week without triggering gunnery sergeant in the Marine Corps Act; to the Committee on Finance. penalties on the businesses that hire or an E–5 in the Navy, and someone in them. Currently, Obamacare defines an By Mr. KAINE (for himself, Mr. the workforce would know what it was employee working just 30 hours a week CHAMBLISS, and Mr. BAUCUS): they had done. as ‘‘full time.’’ S. 700. A bill to ensure that the edu- Today only 1 percent of our adults Because Obamacare uses an unrea- cation and training provided members serve in the military. We appreciate sonably low threshold of 30 hours a of the Armed Forces and veterans bet- what our military members do, but we week to define ‘‘full time’’ employees, ter assists members and veterans in ob- don’t understand their technical skills some businesses are restricting their taining civilian certifications and li- or their leadership talent. employees to no more than 29 hours of censes, and for other purposes; to the This is the genesis for the Troop Tal- work per week, to ensure that their Committee on Armed Services and the ent Act of 2013. It is to make sure mili- workers are considered ‘‘part time’’ for Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. tary members, while they are active, purposes of Obamacare. This is a con- Mr. KAINE. Mr. President, I rise are getting recognized, credentialed sequence of the substantial penalties today to introduce my first bill as a US credit for the skills they obtain, which Obamacare imposes on businesses that Senator. It has been delivered to the will help them get immediate traction reach a threshold of 50 ‘‘full time’’ em- desk. The bill is the Troop Talent Act back into the civilian workforce. ployees, unless they provide expensive of 2013. I am pleased to note it is co- The True Talent Act has three pil- health care coverage which many small sponsored by Senator SAXBY CHAMBLISS lars: The first is the credentialing of businesses simply can’t afford. and Senator MAX BAUCUS. military members for the skills they The penalties imposed by Obamacare The bill begins with a problem which have obtained and the sharing of infor- begin at $40,000 for businesses with 50 I know concerns all Americans, the un- mation between the military branches employees, plus $2,000 for each addi- employment rate of our veterans. Cur- about the skills they have with service- tional ‘‘full-time equivalent’’ em- rently, the national unemployment members, the private sector, and with ployee. These penalties serve as a huge rate average is 7.6 percent, but the un- agencies who would credential them disincentive for businesses to grow or employment rate for veterans is 9.4 with a civilian credential. This is the add jobs, particularly for firms close to percent. That unemployment rate is first pillar, credentialing people for the the 50-job trigger. particularly acute for veterans who skills people obtain. One Maine business I know has 47 have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The second pillar is a bit of a policing employees, and it would like to hire We can’t be comfortable if we see the function. Sometimes folks will prey more but won’t because of these oner- statistic that our veterans have a high- upon people leaving the military and ous penalties. If more businesses follow er unemployment rate than the na- say: Pay me $500, and I will administer suit, millions of American workers tional average. It should be otherwise. a test which will give you a credential. could find their hours, and their earn- In Virginia, where one in nine of our Then it turns out their credential is ings, cut back. According to the Bu- citizens, one in nine of our 8 million worthless. reau of Labor Statistics nearly 10.5 citizens from birth to death is a vet- The VA had a working committee to million Americans work between 30 eran, this is a particularly acute chal- police these credential-granting agen- and 35 hours per week. Another 9.7 mil- lenge. Frankly, it is only going to get cies to ensure no one was being ripped lion work between 35 and 40 hours per worse as more and more people exit off. That committee no longer is in week. My bill will help protect these military service in the drawdown from service. This bill would restart it. Americans who may otherwise find Afghanistan. Finally, the last thing this bill would their hours curtailed and their earn- What is the reason for the veterans’ do would be to take one particular in- ings cut as a result of Obamacare. unemployment rate being higher than dustry sector, information technology, Obamacare’s definition of a ‘‘full the national average? Some of the rea- where there is a huge need to hire peo- time’’ employee is completely out-of-

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According structure of the United States; ployer-based retirement savings is designed to the American Time of Use Survey Whereas linemen put their lives on the line to work together with other personal savings published by the Bureau of Labor Sta- every day with little recognition from the and the Social Security program to provide community regarding the danger of their meaningful income replacement upon retire- tistics, the average American works 8.8 work; and ment: Now, therefore, be it hours per day, which equates to 44 Whereas April 18, 2013, would be an appro- Resolved by the Senate (the House of Rep- hours per week. Under Obamacare, priate date to designate as National Line- resentatives concurring), That it is the sense working only 30 hours a week is consid- man Appreciation Day: Now, therefore, be it of the Congress that— ered ‘‘full-time’’—nearly one-third Resolved, That the Senate— (1) tax incentives for retirement savings lower than actual practice. (1) recognizes the efforts of linemen in play an important role in encouraging em- keeping the power on and protecting public Likewise, the Obamacare definition ployers to sponsor and maintain retirement safety; and plans and encouraging participants to con- of ‘‘full-time’’ employee is one-quarter (2) supports the designation of April 18, tribute to such plans; lower than the 40 hours per week used 2013, as National Lineman Appreciation Day. (2) existing tax incentives have increased by the GAO in its study of the budget f the number of Americans who are covered by and staffing required by the Internal a retirement plan; and Revenue Service to implement SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLU- (3) a reformed and simplified Federal tax Obamacare. In that report, the GAO de- TION 12—EXPRESSING THE code should include properly structured tax scribed a ‘‘full time equivalent,’’ or SENSE OF THE CONGRESS THAT incentives to maintain and contribute to ‘‘FTE,’’ as: ‘‘a measure of staff hours OUR CURRENT TAX INCENTIVES such plans and to strengthen retirement security for all Americans. equal to those of an employee who FOR RETIREMENT SAVINGS PRO- works 2,080 hours per year, or 40 hours VIDE IMPORTANT BENEFITS TO f per week for 52 weeks.’’ AMERICANS TO HELP PLAN FOR AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO During consideration of the Budget A FINANCIALLY SECURE RETIRE- MEET MENT resolution last month, the Senate COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND adopted my amendment calling for leg- Mr. ISAKSON (for himself, Mr. MUR- TRANSPORTATION islation setting a more sensible defini- PHY, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. PORTMAN, Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, I tion of a ‘‘full time’’ employee for pur- Mr. TESTER, Mr. CARDIN, Mr. BOOZMAN, ask unanimous consent that the Com- poses of Obamacare penalties. That and Mrs. HAGAN) submitted the fol- mittee on Commerce, Science, and amendment was endorsed by the Na- lowing concurrent resolution; which Transportation be authorized to meet tional Association of Manufacturers, was referred to the Committee on Fi- during the session of the Senate on and the National Education Associa- nance: April 10, 2013, at 2:30 p.m. in room 253 of tion. The fact that these two S. CON. RES. 12 the Russell Senate Office Building. organzitions—typically thought of as Whereas private retirement plans in the The Committee will hold a hearing bookends on the political spectrum— United States paid out over $3,824,000,000,000 entitled, ‘‘Expanding the Panama would agree that Obamacare’s defini- in benefits from 2000 through 2009, while pub- Canal: What Does it Mean for Amer- tion of a ‘‘full-time’’ employee is bro- lic sector retirement plans paid out $2,651,000,000,000 during the same period, with ican Freight and Infrastructure?’’ ken illustrates how out-of-step it truly both playing an essential role in providing The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without is. retirement income for millions of our Na- objection, it is so ordered. Under my bill, a ‘‘full time’’ em- tion’s senior citizens; COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS ployee would be someone who works a Whereas there are approximately 670,000 Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, I 40-hour week. This is a sensible defini- private-sector defined contribution plans ask unanimous consent that the Com- tion in keeping with actual practice. I that are currently covering 67,000,000 partici- mittee on Foreign Relations be author- urge my colleagues to support it. pants, and over 48,000 private-sector defined ized to meet during the session of the benefit plans covering 44,000,000 participants; Senate on April 10, 2013, at 11 a.m., to f Whereas $4,700,000,000,000 is held in 401(k), hold a briefing entitled, ‘‘Intelligence SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS 403(b), 457 and similar defined contribution plans, $2,300,000,000,000 is held in private de- Update on Syria’’. fined benefit plans, and another The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. SENATE RESOLUTION 95—RECOG- $4,900,000,000,000 is held in Individual Retire- ment Accounts, largely consisting of funds COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND NIZING LINEMEN, THE PROFES- rolled over from employer-based retirement PENSIONS SION OF LINEMEN, THE CON- plans; Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, I TRIBUTIONS OF THESE BRAVE Whereas from 2000 through 2009, employers ask unanimous consent that the Com- MEN AND WOMEN WHO PROTECT have contributed almost $3,500,000,000,000 to mittee on Health, Education, Labor, public and private retirement plans; THE PUBLIC SAFETY, AND EX- and Pensions be authorized to meet PRESSING SUPPORT FOR THE Whereas tax incentives are an important impetus for individuals to save for retire- during the session of the Senate on DESIGNATION OF APRIL 18, 2013, April 10, 2013, at 10 a.m. in SD–430. AS NATIONAL LINEMAN APPRE- ment and for employers to offer plans under our voluntary system; The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without CIATION DAY Whereas generally, the taxation of objection, it is so ordered. Mr. ISAKSON (for himself and Mr. amounts contributed to pension and retire- COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY AND BENNET) submitted the following reso- ment plans is simply deferred, not lost; GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS lution; which was considered and Whereas more than 70 percent of American Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, I agreed to: workers making between $30,000 and $50,000 a ask unanimous consent that the Com- year contribute to their own retirement S. RES. 95 when covered by a retirement plan at work; mittee on Homeland Security and Gov- Whereas the profession of linemen is Whereas under current law, if business ernmental Affairs be authorized to steeped in personal, family, and professional owners and managers sponsor a retirement meet during the session of the Senate tradition; plan, they also must cover and provide bene- on April 10, 2013, at 9:30 a.m. to conduct Whereas linemen are often first responders fits to lower-income and middle-income em- a hearing entitled ‘‘Border Security: during storms and other catastrophic events, ployees; Frontline Perspectives on Progress and working to make the scene safe for other Whereas 401(k) and similar defined con- Remaining Challenges.’’ public safety heroes; tribution plans have been enhanced over the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Whereas linemen work with thousands of years by Congress on a bipartisan basis; objection, it is so ordered. volts of electricity high atop power lines 24 Whereas the private retirement system in hours a day, 365 days a year, to keep elec- the United States is voluntary and is depend- COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS tricity flowing; ent on the willingness of business owners and Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Mr. President, I Whereas linemen must often work under corporations to adopt and maintain retire- ask unanimous consent that the Com- dangerous conditions far from their families ment plans; and mittee on Indian Affairs be authorized

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The House met at 10 a.m. and was Some will say whose fault it was, the United States Congress, and I called to order by the Speaker pro tem- whose idea it was. We really don’t care think it is immediately necessary for pore (Mr. RIBBLE). because right now there are people who Speaker BOEHNER to put on the floor of f have lost Head Start seats, whose par- the House for a full debate H.R. 900, ents have been told their children can- eliminate the sequester, simple sen- DESIGNATION OF SPEAKER PRO not come back to school anymore. tence, and go to regular order. Begin TEMPORE Grown men crying—grown men crying the process of the budget. Whether you The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- because their little one cannot go back like this budget or that budget, begin fore the House the following commu- to a Head Start class, and they have the appropriate process of appropria- nication from the Speaker: nowhere else for them to go. tions, for if you don’t think that we’re WASHINGTON, DC, The WIC program that is so des- going to have one of the darkest sea- April 10, 2013. perately needed for women, infants, sons forthcoming, you wait and see I hereby appoint the Honorable REID J. and children—cut to the bone. This is a what $85 billion in reckless cuts means. RIBBLE to act as Speaker pro tempore on this scheme that is long overdue for us to It’s a trickle-down effect. You cannot day. get rid of. recoup. Jobs will not come back, and JOHN A. BOEHNER, Food inspectors. Just recently, a food we were moving up, creating jobs. Speaker of the House of Representatives. business was shut down in my district. Everybody wants to point the finger f The thought of it is horrible. Many of as to whose fault it is, and I believe it their products in our local grocery is something where we have to come MORNING-HOUR DEBATE stores. If we had not had food inspec- together. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- tors from the FDA, which we probably I want to finish on the note that ant to the order of the House of Janu- won’t have anytime soon because medical research funded by the Na- ary 3, 2013, the Chair will now recog- they’re being slashed and eliminated, tional Institutes is also being cut, and nize Members from lists submitted by this product would still be on the mar- we were number one in medical re- the majority and minority leaders for ket. $85 billion in cuts is too non- search. The time is now. Get rid of the morning-hour debate. descript. sequester and help the American peo- The Chair will alternate recognition The Federal emergency management ple. between the parties, with each party under Homeland Security, $1 billion f limited to 1 hour and each Member being cut, which means those who are other than the majority and minority still suffering from Superstorm Sandy, BUREAUCRATIC CODESPEAK leaders and the minority whip limited many of whom are homeless, 40,000 are The SPEAKER pro tempore. The to 5 minutes each, but in no event shall still in hotel rooms in New York, they Chair recognizes the gentleman from debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. won’t be able to be helped. Texas (Mr. POE) for 5 minutes. f Department of Transportation, $1.943 Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, let’s billion, and that means the New Starts, say I take one of my 10 grandkids, Bar- ELIMINATE THE SEQUESTER mobility, people waiting in line for rett Houston, to a basketball game he The SPEAKER pro tempore. The light rail, jobs cut immediately. I is playing in. He gets hit in the face Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from spoke this weekend to FAA members, with a basketball, so we go to the doc- Texas (Ms. JACKSON LEE) for 5 minutes. air traffic controllers. Don’t think it’s tor to see if his nose is broken. The Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, not being felt, and it will be felt more doctor asks Barrett Houston this ques- most of us came here to this place to and more in the summer increase of tion: Is this the first time you’ve been serve the American people and to en- travel because of $637 million in losses, hit in the face with a basketball, the sure that the most powerful law-mak- and almost $500 million of that is jobs. second time, or do you have a habit of ing body answers the needs and the We are in trouble. $512 million cut being hit in the face by a basketball? cries of those who cannot speak for from Customs and Border Patrol over Barrett says, I don’t know. Doctor themselves, and yet, as we languish in the international ports of entry. We’re says, I’ve got to know because, you see, those values, they may be more on talking about comprehensive immigra- I’ve got this codebook here, and the paper than they are in action. tion reform and border security. law requires that I make sure I put in I rise today to ask, maybe even There’s your border security—cutting the codebook the way you were hurt by plead, that this House puts on the floor the very personnel that are ensuring the basketball and how many times be- H.R. 900, which is to eliminate the se- the security of America. That’s wrong- cause there are five codes for being hit quester from the Budget Reconciliation headed, and it’s time to stop now. in the face by a basketball. And let’s Act and to go to regular order because But it really pains my heart, if you say he doesn’t know. Well, the doctor the people of the United States are will, to see the cuts to those innocent has to be accurate in how he diagnoses hurting, and even more so, I would say families with those children in Head being hit in the face by the basketball that they are crying. Start, to see the cuts to workers who or the doctor’s in trouble. It’s very easy for us to be able to say have done nothing other than to come Let’s say I take another one of my there is no impact; we see no impact. I to work every morning, those Federal grandsons, Jackson, to go hunting, but hope for those who have been in their workers, and the impact on contractors he happens to get assaulted by a wild districts for the last 2 weeks that they to the Department of Defense, work turkey. We go to the doctor, and the will realize how inaccurate and untrue that is forward-thinking in dealing doctor says, Hey, I’ve got to know ex- that is. In fact, it hurts me to see the with technology, cut to the bone, actly how you were hurt by that tur- pain in my constituents’ faces and slashing employees. We will see the key because there is a code for being homes because of sequester—a reckless surge of the economy going down. assaulted by a turkey for the first scheme to move Congress to act and it This is not the fault of the adminis- time. There is a code for being as- did not work. tration. This is the inaction of us in saulted by the turkey a second time.

b This symbol represents the time of day during the House proceedings, e.g., b 1407 is 2:07 p.m. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor.

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These new codes are not going to ing on diligently to implement were It seems nine codes for a turkey as- make one sick person well, but yet doc- applied on a national scale, it could sault is a bit silly. tors must comply with these new codes save over $1 trillion over the next 10 b 1010 or the code police are going to punish years—as much as was fought about in them. Doctors want to take care of pa- the battle over sequestration. Right now, Mr. Speaker, there are tients, but the Federal Government is We must also reform the Tax Code, 18,000 of these codes. Doctors must be forcing 140,000 complicated, unreason- which is unfair, complex, and costly, accurate when they fill out the diag- able new codes on all of us that are with over $160 billion just to admin- nosis of a patient who comes and sees hard to decipher. Maybe we should se- ister it. I would suggest that we think them. quester these new codes. Where are about implementing a carbon tax, Stay with me, Mr. Speaker. those World War II code breakers when which has the potential of reducing the Soon, there will be 140,000 of these we need them most? deficit and tax rates for individuals and medical codes that doctors must get And that’s just the way it is. business in a fair and comprehensive right or they’re in trouble by the Fed- f form. The carbon tax has the added eral Government. The new code system benefit of being the most direct way to THE PRESIDENT’S BUDGET is called ICD–10. For example, you’re reduce the threat to the planet caused injured at a chicken coop; that’s code The SPEAKER pro tempore. The by extreme weather events promoted number Y9272. You are injured at an Chair recognizes the gentleman from by carbon pollution. art gallery, you fall down; that’s Oregon (Mr. BLUMENAUER) for 5 min- It’s very encouraging that the Presi- Y92250. There are even three new codes utes. dent’s budget again speaks to infra- for being injured when you walk into a Mr. BLUMENAUER. I welcome the structure improvement and invest- lamppost. You walk into a lamppost President’s budget submission, which ment, but we need to be bolder and for the first time, that’s one code; you will mark the first time since 2009 that more comprehensive in our approach, walk into a lamppost for the second the House, the Senate, and the Presi- especially at how we deal with funding time, that’s a different code; you walk dent have all submitted budgets. It’s rebuilding and renewing America. At a into a lamppost habitually, that is an encouraging development, but the time when 17 States have stepped up to even a different code. And the doctor larger question is whether Congress increase transportation funding, it’s must get it right, because he’s in viola- can actually use the budgeting process unacceptable that we pay for the high- tion of Federal regulators if he doesn’t to show how we will do business dif- way trust fund with a gas tax that get it right. ferently. hasn’t been increased since 1993 and is The doctors I’ve talked to say this is Despite the media sideshows about increasingly collecting less money as an expensive distraction from treating the artificial sequestration crisis, the fuel efficiency improves. patients. Well, no kidding. It’s red major issues we have to address to fix The introduction of the President’s tape, it’s bureaucracy, and this is what the budget and our current deficit are budget is an important step forward. It happens when clueless Big Government spending on defense, health care, and will hopefully spark an earnest, here in Washington starts telling peo- the tax system itself. thoughtful, focused discussion about ple out in the workplace—doctors and Although the administration has how we do business differently, how we patients—what they must do. And started us down a path to manage Pen- pay for the needs of a growing and when the government intrudes into our tagon spending in the future, we have aging America, and how we can get lives with more regulations, the gov- barely scratched the surface. There are more value for the investments we are ernment continues to make things too many unnecessary bases at home already making, all while laying the more complicated. It finds problems in and abroad that should be phased down foundation for a more prosperous fu- every solution. or closed. There’s far too much in- ture. Doctors are really in the business of vested in an antiquated nuclear arsenal f helping the sick and the injured and that we haven’t used in 68 years and saving lives. Do they really have the contains many, many times more AFGHANISTAN time and money to translate a com- weapons than we would ever need for The SPEAKER pro tempore. The plicated 140,000-codebook when they di- deterrence. The $700 billion scheduled Chair recognizes the gentleman from agnose everything that happens? But to be spent over the next 10 years must North Carolina (Mr. JONES) for 5 min- they don’t have a choice. If they be reduced dramatically. We have yet utes. miscode, they do not get paid. Even to come to grips with the long-term Mr. JONES. When I was home, like more so, they face the threat of being costs of an all-volunteer Army and the most Members, during the Easter fined by the Federal Government. right balance between reserve and reg- break, I had the opportunity to read in There’s more. To set up this new ular forces. Until these fundamental the Raleigh, North Carolina, paper an 140,000-code philosophy, it’s going to issues are addressed, the challenges of article that just really took me back- cost an average single practitioner doc- the future are going to be difficult to wards. The title of the article is: ‘‘Iran tor $80,000. Now, isn’t that lovely? If face because we spend too much time Is Victor in Post-War Iraq.’’ The first it’s a practice of 5 to 10 people, that’s and energy and money preparing for paragraph says: going to cost that practice $250,000 to the conflicts of the past while we avoid Ten years after the United States-led inva- comply with Federal regulations, the hard budget reality. sion to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, new codebook. Health care expenditures continue to the geopolitical winner of the war appears to In my opinion, Mr. Speaker, when be the greatest overall threat to the be the common enemy: Iran. regulators go to work every day down budget, but not because the United Mr. Speaker, I think most of us in the street in one of these big office States doesn’t spend enough money on the House know that 25, 30 years ago, buildings, they sit around a big oak health care. We spend more than any- our Nation supported Saddam Hussein table, they pull out their lattes and body else in the world—twice as much when he was fighting the Iranians. This their iPads and they ask the question as many countries. But even spending is what frustrates the American people. to each other: ‘‘Who shall we regulate far more than anybody else, we’re still We create a bad policy; we continue to today?’’ They type out a few regula- not able to deliver quality health care support a bad policy. It makes no tions and send it out to the fruited for most Americans. Instead of fighting sense.

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What makes this so ironic is ate, that we will do what is right in the an experience I had over the last week. that the Iranians are possibly becom- eyes of God for God’s people today and I’m still a pilot in the Air National ing the beneficiaries of this money. God’s people tomorrow. Guard. That’s a job I’ve kept while I’ve The taxpayers now are spending money I ask God to please bless the Presi- been in the Congress and a job I hope in Iraq that could possibly be going dent, that he will do what is right in to continue to keep. Part of what I did into the coffers of the Iranian people. I the eyes of God for God’s people today last week is I actually went and guess that makes sense to most of my and God’s people tomorrow. worked on the border with the Air Na- colleagues, but it doesn’t to me. Mr. Speaker, three times, God, tional Guard. We do an ISR—intel- I encourage the American people to please, God, please, God, please con- ligence, surveillance, and reconnais- go to www.costofwar.com. If you can tinue to bless America. sance—looking for people that have get it on the Internet, you need to see f crossed illegally into our country and, it. The American people need to under- FOLEY CELEBRATES 30TH SEASON frankly, looking for drugs and things stand what is happening in Afghani- WITH BLACKHAWKS along that line. It was a unique trip for stan and Iraq. You will see a combined me, because most times when Con- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The total of $1.4 trillion, and it’s a running gressmen go to the border, they actu- Chair recognizes the gentleman from total. It doesn’t stop; it doesn’t pause; ally probably would go in an official Illinois (Mr. QUIGLEY) for 5 minutes. it just keeps running. So there we go capacity as a U.S. Congressman. We’ve again. Poor Uncle Sam can’t take care Mr. QUIGLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to celebrate Chicago Blackhawks all experienced these trips. You see of his bills, but we’re going to take what the administration, frankly, care of these foreign countries. It television announcer Pat Foley, who is celebrating his 30th season with the wants you to see. So they take you makes no to sense to me. somewhere like El Paso where there’s a Mr. Speaker, a total of 6,656 Amer- team. As the voice of the Blackhawks, Pat has come to define the Chicago very effective fence in place. ican troops have died in the Iraq and But where they don’t take you is a Afghanistan wars, not to mention the hockey experience. In fact, it’s impossible to imagine watching stars like place called Mac Pump. Mac Pump is thousands of civilian lives lost and the in McAllen, Texas, one of the areas veterans who return home physically Jonathan Toews or Pat Kane without his play-by-play running through your that I worked in my capacity as an Air and mentally wounded. Whether it’s in National Guard pilot, and it really was Iraq or Afghanistan, we cannot con- head. The hockey bug bit Pat early in his actually kind of disheartening what we tinue to spend money that we don’t would see. You’d see folks cross the Rio have and neglect the American people. life. As a child at bedtime he would hide his radio underneath his pillow Grande, that would stand in the United b 1020 from his parents, Rob and Mary, so he States of America. As we would call I hope the people of this country and could listen to his broadcasting idol, Border Patrol to come and assess the my fellow colleagues share my outrage Lloyd Pettit, a great in his own right, situation, they would literally step and my concern, because it would be call Blackhawks games, but only the back and put their ankles in the water almost a sin if we continue to spend last two periods. and at that point they are this money without any accountability Much like the players, themselves, unapprehendable. And they would or very little to speak of. Pat worked his way up to the Stanley stare, 5 feet away from U.S. Border Pa- Mr. Speaker, yesterday I visited a Cup winning team, calling baseball and trol, and maybe a hundred yards away soldier from my district in North Caro- hockey games at his alma mater then another group, knowing that our lina. He was at Walter Reed Hospital at Michigan State before landing his first Border Patrol agent was tied up, would Bethesda. His father called me 4 professional job with the Grand Rapids then cross the Rio Grande and make it months ago and said, I really would ap- Owls of the International Hockey free. Or they’d outlast the Border Pa- preciate if you would see my son. He’s League. Pat joined the Hawks broad- trol agent and then they’d step back lost a leg. He’s lost fingers. He’s badly cast team in 1980 at just 25 years of age onto U.S. territory and then the agent burned. and has been a fan favorite ever since. would come back. They’d play this cat Mr. Speaker, it was humbling to go The Glenview native has earned two and mouse game. It could easily be to Walter Reed yesterday and see this Emmy Awards for his work and was in- solved with a border fence. It could eas- young corporal, but he is what makes ducted into the Chicagoland Sports ily be solved with actually real border America great. His attitude is excel- Hall of Fame, joining broadcast leg- security. lent, not complaining about his inju- ends Jack Brickhouse and Harry This isn’t border security that we’re ries, and I just pray to God that we will Caray. He’s also been active in the going to do because we’re upset, be- realize that if we don’t stop spending local community helping numerous cause we’re angry, but because I be- the money we don’t have that young charities, and he recently joined me on lieve that we have to have real immi- men and women like the corporal in the ice in a game with wounded war- gration reform in this country. Things the years to come will not get benefits riors from the USA Warriors team. like high-skill visas are very impor- because we will be financially broke. For his hard work and dedication and tant, but allowing people who want an That will be a sin, and I hope it never for making some of the greatest mo- opportunity to come to the United happens. ments in Blackhawks history even States to do so through a legal process. So, Mr. Speaker, I will be back next more memorable, I say thank you to The problem that we have set up week. I will have the inspector gen- Pat Foley. Lloyd Pettit would be now, though, and really frankly the sad eral’s estimate on the cost to stay in proud. And, of course, go Hawks. part about it is a lot of these immigrants believe that the second they set Iraq for 2 more years, and I hope to f have some figures I can leave and put foot in the United States of America, in the RECORD, because it is time that IMMIGRATION REFORM everything’s going to be good. Every- we have a debate on our foreign policy The SPEAKER pro tempore. The thing’s going to be all right. And we right here in the House of Representa- Chair recognizes the gentleman from agree. This is the greatest country in tives. Maybe we will in May. I hope so. Illinois (Mr. KINZINGER) for 5 minutes. the world. The problem is once many of With that, Mr. Speaker, as I always Mr. KINZINGER of Illinois. Thank these immigrants step into the United do, I ask God to please bless our men you, Mr. Speaker. States of America, their journey has

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In many cases grandmother used to say an apple a ‘‘Addressing Hunger Essential to Im- their guides would vacate when they’d day keeps the doctor away. I hated it proving Health.’’ This paper details hear Border Patrol, and they’d run when she said that, but you know, Mr. how critically important it is to treat away from these groups of people hid- Speaker, she was right. Good, nutri- hunger as a health issue. The white ing in the brush and would leave them tious food will keep you healthy. paper points out that hungry people of stranded in the middle of the Texas That’s because food is medicine. all ages, from pregnant women to chil- plains without water, without food, Fruits, vegetables and other healthy dren to adults to seniors, suffer from a without any knowledge of where foods like beans, legumes, grains and lack of nutrients found in healthy foods. The lack of nutrients results in they’re going. In fact, in this sector I proteins are critical for proper develop- serious health issues, the very same was working last year, there were 200 ment. Simply put, healthy people eat health issues that cost our Nation over dead bodies found, and that’s only a healthy food. $130 billion in health care costs alone. fraction of those that actually die on The opposite is also true. The more That’s nuts. this journey. junk food we eat, the less healthy we are. But there are different reasons Doctors and nurses should be looking So I believe that border security is why people eat less nutritious food. for signs of hunger in their patients. important so that we can set up a situ- Many people choose to eat non-nutri- Medical students should have more ation in which those that want to come tious food, but there are many others courses on nutrition. They should be here legally can do so and can go who cannot afford to buy healthier op- treating hunger just like any other through the legal process of living in tions. These low-income households condition. If someone has high blood the United States or eventually becom- have to stretch their food dollars in pressure or a rash, they get a prescrip- ing a United States citizen, and we’re order to make ends meet. tion to treat that problem. Doctors not creating a situation in which many should be writing food prescriptions, if of these immigrants are coming and b 1030 that’s what it takes, to get nutritious frankly losing their lives. This requires them to buy less nutri- food to the food insecure. tious, high-calorie foods that are more Health care organizations like I’ve talked to Border Patrol, and the affordable on a fixed income. This is ProMedica in Ohio and Michigan, interesting thing is now I did it out of why we can have an obese hungry per- UMass Memorial in Worcester, Massa- the capacity as a U.S. Congressman, al- son. They’re filling their stomachs chusetts, and Children’s Health Watch though of course they knew what I did with food that isn’t good for them, sim- in four locations, including Boston in my other job, and I said, if I could ply because it’s all they can afford or Medical Center and Drexel University, take one thing back to Washington, all they have access to. are trying to right this wrong. They what would it be? And they said, if you This kind of diet has long-term nega- promote health and wellness in gen- take back one thing to Washington, tive effects on individuals and on the eral, but they are also treating hunger tell them that even though the Sec- communities where they live. Mr. as a health issue. They are working to retary is saying that the border is se- Speaker, when we talk about ways to reduce the number of hospital readmis- cure, even though the administration End Hunger Now, we must look at the sions by including food security in is saying the border is secure, it is not way the quality of food, or the lack of their patients’ discharge plans. They secure. Take that back. We need more quality, is impacting hunger in Amer- want to make sure that people don’t border patrol agents, we need the ica. need to be readmitted to a hospital be- fence, we need the ability to do our job. In a 2011 report entitled, ‘‘Hunger in cause they suffer from a setback sim- They’re prevented from doing legal America: Suffering We Are All Paying ply because they don’t have food to eat things that are humane to apprehend For,’’ the Center for American once they leave the hospital. They are in many cases folks running with dope Progress estimated that the health also working to raise awareness about and trying to escape, giving them the costs for hunger were at least $130 bil- nutrition and exercise and to increase opportunity to do what they need to lion each year. $130 billion a year, just access to healthier food in underserved do. for health costs related to hunger. areas. The authors of the report examined So, Mr. Speaker, I agree with those Mr. Speaker, we need to learn from medical research and found that there that are saying we need immigration these organizations and others. That’s are serious medical consequences di- why I believe it is so important that reform in this country, and I’m a be- rectly related to hunger. Specifically, the White House convene a conference liever in that. I believe it’s time that this research found that there is likely on food and nutrition. We are not going we understand and talk about the fact to be higher rates of iron deficiency, to end hunger now if we don’t bring the that America is a nation built of immi- headaches, stomach aches, frequency of best and the brightest minds together grants. My third or fourth generation colds, activity-limiting health impair- in one place, including doctors, nurses, ahead of me came over from Germany. ments, specific nutrient deficiencies, nutritionists, dietitians, and other I respect that and I appreciate it, and more hospitalizations, longer inpatient health professionals. We need a na- I think it’s a tradition we need to con- stays, and poorer overall health status. tional plan of action, and the best way tinue. But I believe the first step to Along with these physical health to begin is with a White House con- real immigration reform is border se- issues, there are also mental health ference. curity. And I will tell you, Mr. Speak- conditions attributable to hunger, in- Mr. Speaker, we know that healthy er, my trip to the border for a week as cluding anxiety and irritability, de- food builds healthy bodies. We know a pilot in the Guard opened my eyes to pression, withdrawn behavior, psycho- that by ignoring hunger, our Nation the fact that we are continually expos- social dysfunction, suicidal thoughts pays hundreds of billions of dollars in ing ourselves not just to dope and and behaviors, and a need for mental health care costs. We know that nutri- drugs being run into this country but health services. tious food is good medicine for body into a potential of a terrorist attack on The response is clear, Mr. Speaker. and mind. the United States and a weapon that We must treat hunger as a health Mr. Speaker, in the United States of was run through the border of Mexico, issue. It frustrates me that we in Con- America, the richest, most prosperous because it’s done every day. gress still act like it’s a better option nation on Earth, hunger should not be

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The King will say to those on His CANCER PATIENT PROTECTION safety net. right, ‘‘Come. You have my Father’s bless- ACT The Office of Management and Budg- ing. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you The SPEAKER pro tempore. The et, OMB, directed all Federal agencies from the creation of the world. For I was Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from to ‘‘use any available flexibility to re- hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty, and you gave me drink; I was a stranger, and North Carolina (Mrs. ELLMERS) for 5 duce operational risks and minimize you welcomed me.’’ minutes. impacts on the agency’s core mission Mrs. ELLMERS. Mr. Speaker, I rise in service of the American people’’ and ‘‘I was a stranger and you welcomed today to discuss H.R. 1416, the Cancer to ‘‘identify and address operational me.’’ Who is the stranger? Who is the Patient Protection Act of 2013. challenges that could potentially have stranger among us that we welcome? On April 1, 2013, the Obama adminis- a significant deleterious effect on the I’ll tell you who the stranger is among tration reduced Medicare payments to agency’s mission or otherwise raise us who we welcome. The stranger is the the costs of cancer-fighting drugs. This life, safety, or health concerns.’’ wife of the soldier that we spoke to 3 is having a devastating impact on sen- Further, the Social Security Act weeks ago here in Washington when he iors fighting cancer and the Nation’s compels the Secretary to adhere to the came and he testified and said: Average Sales Price-based formula cancer care delivery system, which is I’m not afraid of dying in Afghanistan or that Congress established under the Iraq. I’ve been on three tours of duty. What already in crisis. Medicare Modernization Act of 2003. I’m afraid is that my wife will get deported The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid The Social Security Act expressly because she’s undocumented, and then who Services, CMS, said that it does not mandates that the Secretary reimburse will take care of my children? have the authority to stop these dev- physicians at 106 percent of ASP for of- She is the stranger, the soldier’s astating cuts to lifesaving chemo- fice-administered drugs, providing de- wife. therapy drugs. That’s why yesterday I tailed directions to the Secretary on Who is the stranger? Who is the introduced the Cancer Patient Protec- how to calculate the average sales stranger among us? Who is this least tion Act of 2013, H.R. 1416, to ensure price. among us? I’ll tell you who it is. It’s seniors, especially those on lower or Congress has distinguished the Medi- the child and the parents who are here, fixed incomes, get the treatment they care drug payment methodology, and where the child is born here. He’s an need. these provisions warrant deference American citizen, but the parents The cuts the Obama administration under sequestration and guidance from weren’t, so the parents can get de- is choosing to implement will jeop- the OMB. ported and you break the family apart. ardize patient access to cancer care By passing this bill, we are ensuring We deport the parents and we don’t and result in higher overall costs for that everything can be done to prevent know what happens to the children be- both seniors and the Medicare program these cuts from going into effect. I en- cause they go to strangers. We break by forcing patients into costlier hos- courage my colleagues to support this this family. pital treatment settings. important piece of legislation. Who is the stranger? Those parents, The United States enjoys the most f that child. How we treat them is how respected and most successful cancer we’re going to be judged. care delivery system in the world. IMMIGRATION REFORM We have an opportunity here before More than 60 percent of U.S. cancer pa- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The us, and I’m very thankful now for the tients rely on Medicare; and, until re- Chair recognizes the gentleman from churches in this country. The Catholic cently, over 80 percent of the Nation’s California (Mr. VARGAS) for 5 minutes. Church for many years has been say- cancer patients were treated by physi- Mr. VARGAS. Mr. Speaker, I rise in ing, We need humane, comprehensive cians in the community setting. favor of comprehensive immigration immigration reform. They’ve said it According to recent studies by reform. loud and clear. And now the evan- Milliman and Avalere, community on- I would like to thank my colleague gelical churches are out there saying cology clinics provide the most cost-ef- from Illinois, who spoke earlier about the same thing. God bless them. And I fective model for delivering high-qual- his experience, saying that he believes know that they’re praying, and I know ity cancer services to elderly Ameri- in comprehensive immigration reform. that my parish is praying that we’ll all cans. Despite this, a series of changes I do, too. I just wish that when he was open our hearts to this. to Medicare reimbursements over the asked, or when he asked the Border Pa- I have to tell you, I haven’t been here past decade have imperiled these vital trol agent, ‘‘If there was one thing you long, but I do get the opportunity to innovations. The administration has could bring back to Congress, one pray with my colleagues on the Repub- decided to apply the sequester cut both thing, what would it be?’’ I wish that lican side, and they are great people to payments for part B drugs and to that gentleman would have said his with great heart, and I hope that God the 6 percent services payment. Bible, because that’s what he should speaks to them at this point in time A recent survey done by the Commu- have said, ‘‘Bring your Bible. That will and says: The stranger is the soldier’s nity Oncology Alliance shows the CMS give you the best guidance. Bring your wife; the stranger is the child whose Bible.’’ cuts will force 72 percent of community parents are going to be ripped away I believe, Mr. Speaker, I’m allowed to cancer centers to stop seeing new Medi- from them. He is, in fact, the people read from the Bible. Is that correct? No care patients, or not see Medicare pa- one will come and tackle me? I’m new that died crossing the border because tients without secondary insurance, at this. It’s my first year here, and I they want a better life for themselves. and/or send Medicare patients else- hope I’m not violating any law. But if Those are the strangers. We are going where for treatment, such as costly I am, I’m going to do it anyway. to be judged on how we treat them. So hospitals, where treatment costs more. I would like to read from Matthew 25, we have an opportunity here. When community cancer centers are because Matthew 25 speaks to the judg- But also, stepping apart from that, forced to close their doors or limit ment. I think it’s very important for us people say, But it’s illegal, what services, access to cancer care is com- to read this section. they’ve done is illegal. You know, the promised for all cancer patients, espe- law is interesting. I happen to be a law- cially the vulnerable population of sen- b 1040 yer. There are two ways to look at the iors who rely on Medicare and those on It reads like this: law. There’s the law that says it’s

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Politicians refer to those committing it’s bad or wrong or illegal because we A while ago I sent a letter to Sec- these murders as evil, as monsters. Tel- prohibit it. For example, if you drive 56 retary Sebelius, the Secretary of HHS, evision shows where there’s tragedy or miles an hour in a 55-mile-an-hour seeking clarification of the laws of con- comedy mock them. This is not the zone, you’ve broken the law. Have you fidentiality known as HIPAA, specifi- way to deal with the underlying prob- done anything illegal? Yes, you have. cally asking why we have not loaded lem. We have a shortage of psycholo- Have you done anything immoral? No. 1.5 million more records into the Na- gists and psychiatrists throughout this The road was built to go faster than tional Instant Criminal Background country and in the military as well, that, your car was, the brakes are Check System so that these people can- where suicides have overtaken combat good. You violated the law. What do we not purchase guns. I hope the Sec- as the number one cause of death. often do? In fact we change the law and retary will respond soon. I am asking for an audit from the we say 55 miles an hour doesn’t make Recently, I also handed a note to the Government Accountability Office of any sense. We change it to 60 or 65 or President of the United States and will every single penny spent on mental ill- 70. I’ve been through Texas; now it’s 75 continue to pursue questions with the ness diagnosis, research, and treatment there. I’m from California. We only Government Accountability Office, throughout our government, through have 70. Why? Because the law doesn’t asking where are we spending our HHS, through the judiciary, through make any sense. money and is it effective in going to Labor, every branch. We need to know Our immigration law doesn’t make help those with mental illness and se- these answers. It is a shameful secret any sense. So, yes, they’ve broken the vere mental illness. We simply don’t in this country that we still refuse to law, but a law that doesn’t make any know. deal with mental illness. And if we do sense. Let’s change the law. Let’s open In the United States, an estimated not, shame on us. our hearts. Let’s take this Bible and 11.4 million Americans, or about 4.4 f let’s take a look and see what it says percent of all adults, suffer from seri- b 1050 to us. What it will say is this: that how ous mental illness. What happens is CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WIN- we treat the stranger is how we are that States in many cases do not sub- NERS OF THE C–SPAN STUDENT going to be judged as a Nation. mit those records to the National In- DOCUMENTARY CONTEST f stant Criminal Background Check Sys- UNTREATED MENTAL ILLNESS tem. There are many States that The SPEAKER pro tempore. The haven’t submitted any at all, and this Chair recognizes the gentleman from The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Georgia (Mr. JOHNSON) for 5 minutes. Chair recognizes the gentleman from is a problem because people who should not be purchasing weapons are. Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speak- Pennsylvania (Mr. MURPHY) for 5 min- er, most Americans watching these utes. But underlying all of this, we had better take off our blinders and deal proceedings today are watching them Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania. While on C–SPAN. C–SPAN is a public service the Senate argues about gun issues and with the underlying root cause of mass violence: untreated mental illness. that was created by the cable industry talking about what is in the hands of in 1979 to carry our House proceedings those perpetrators who commit hei- Look at yesterday in the news when a man went on a campus and attacked and other public affairs programming. nous crimes, I want to talk about It’s carried in my district by DirecTV, America’s shameful secret that people people with a knife. Look at the other shootings that have taken place by Comcast, and the DISH Network. don’t want to be talking about, and I won’t bore you with all of the con- people with untreated or undertreated that is our willful ignoring of dealing tent that appears on C–SPAN. Some is mental illness. Why aren’t we talking with mental illness. We have to start very interesting and some is not. Nev- about our action on those? talking about not what is in people’s ertheless, every year C–SPAN holds a Our current system is especially fall- hands, but what is in their hearts and student documentary contest for mid- ing short for those with a serious men- minds. dle school and high school students. Approximately 5 percent of individ- tal disorder who deny they’re ill. Half Today, I am proud to announce that uals with schizophrenia will die by sui- of those persons with severe psychosis one of my constituents, a young man cide during their lifetime, a rate 50-fold don’t even understand they have men- named Samuel Gladden, a 10th grade greater than the general population. tal illness. They refuse their medica- student at Miller Grove High School in Keep in mind now suicide has over- tion or simply cannot function in a Lithonia, received $250 for his honor- taken all other areas of accidental community setting. So what have we able mention documentary: ‘‘Edu- deaths. It is now the leading cause of done historically in this country? cation: The Greatest Common Factor,’’ death by injury, about 38,000 per year. We’ve burned them as witches, we im- about how education is related to the We understand that mental disorders prison them as dangerous. We still economy. are brain disorders with specific sys- have not dealt with the underlying I also want to congratulate Mr. Zach tems that are rooted in abnormal pat- needs. Cohen, a seventh grade student at the terns of brain activity. Many of those There were 500,000 psychiatric beds in Alfred & Adele Davis Academy in with psychosis show up between ages 14 1955. There are 40,000 now. We have a Sandy Springs, Georgia, who received and 25 when there are changes occur- lack of long-term treatment options. $1,500 for the second prize, a documen- ring in the branching and pruning of There are gaps in the care for young tary entitled: ‘‘Education: Take a brain cells. Yet, there is a delay be- adults. There are artificial limits and Spin,’’ which is about education in the tween the first episode of psychosis and barriers to care under insurance. Four United States of America. He inter- the onset of treatment with an average years ago plus we passed a mental viewed me for this piece, and I want to of 110 weeks before someone gets care. health parity law, and we still do not thank him for doing that. There are 100,000 young Americans who have the regulations for that. I want to congratulate both Zach and will have a first episode of psychosis Parents who are not informed and Samuel for winning these prizes out of this year and will join over 2 million cannot get their children help or treat- nearly 2,000 entries. others with schizophrenia. ment is another problem with HIPAA You can see these and other winning Look at this: one-sixth of murderers laws and the Family Educational videos at studentcam.org. I would en- in prison are mentally ill. Here are Rights and Privacy Act, which creates courage everybody, once you finish

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It will captivate you porting energy innovation as a smart indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. to see what these young students have investment for America. f done and to listen to their views on We have the opportunity to restore education and on how our future will U.S. manufacturing jobs, to help our MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT be affected by either our investment in country remain competitive in the A message in writing from the Presi- education or in our desire not to do manufacturing industry and to invest dent of the United States was commu- that. in a wide range of clean energy produc- nicated to the House by Mr. Brian f tion. I ask that the body join me in Pate, one of his secretaries. supporting the SEAM Act of 2013. SECURITY IN ENERGY AND f f MANUFACTURING ACT ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER The SPEAKER pro tempore. The RECESS The SPEAKER. The Chair will enter- Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- tain up to 15 requests for 1-minute Arizona (Ms. SINEMA) for 5 minutes. ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair speeches on each side of the aisle. Ms. SINEMA. Mr. Speaker, I rise declares the House in recess until noon f today to introduce the Security in En- today. ergy and Manufacturing Act of 2013. Accordingly (at 10 o’clock and 56 GUN VIOLENCE This bill will extend the Advanced minutes a.m.), the House stood in re- Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit pro- (Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio asked and cess. gram. The program provides a 30 per- was given permission to address the cent tax credit, or a grant in lieu of a f House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) tax credit, to companies that are con- b 1200 structing, expanding, or retrofitting Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, their facilities that manufacture re- AFTER RECESS we all want to prevent gun violence, but anything we do must start by renewable energy. The recess having expired, the House We have seen our manufacturing base specting the Second Amendment. was called to order by the Speaker at Sadly, a Member of this House ig- erode as a result of increased global noon. competition. Not only will the SEAM nored that constitutional right last Act help us rebuild our manufacturing f week. She claimed that banning cer- industry; it will also provide an oppor- PRAYER tain kinds of gun magazines would tunity to do so while exploring respon- somehow stop killers from killing. She The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick sible energy production. Energy inno- actually said that if Congress would J. Conroy, offered the following prayer: vation is quickly becoming one of the ban gun magazines, they will simply Eternal God, we give You thanks for world’s largest industries; and coun- disappear as they’re used up. Of course, giving us another day. tries all over the world are purchasing that’s not true. You see, gun magazines The Members of Congress are power- billions of dollars’ worth of wind tur- are reloadable, much like a stapler. ful people. Their words bear weight and bines, solar panels and other green Mr. Speaker, I hope I can be an asset their positions before the people de- technologies. I want to see these prod- to my colleagues who may not know serve respect. Therefore, they need to ucts made in the United States and for how guns work. As a gun owner and an be steeled from arrogance on one side our country to remain competitive. Air Force veteran myself, I’ve actually and casual routine on the other. We know this program works. The exercised my Second Amendment Lord, only the two-edged sword of first allocation of funding was ex- rights. Perhaps those of us who under- Your Word and Your purity of Spirit tremely successful in leveraging pri- stand the subject matter should lead can bring freshness to their spirits and vate capital, and that led to the invest- the effort to stop gun violence. confirming hope to their constituents. ment of over 180 energy manufacturing My colleague’s poor understanding of Strengthen their pledge to uphold the facilities across 43 States in our coun- guns will lead to poor policy. Here’s Constitution against blatant and sub- try. The number of wind turbines and some reading material to help bring tle attacks and to serve the people their workable components made in her up to speed. It’s called the Second with all their hearts. the U.S. has more than doubled since Amendment. It says, ‘‘The right of the Then may their speech, their deci- then, and that is just one aspect of the people to keep and bear arms shall not sions, and their working together with- renewable energy field. be infringed.’’ in the pluralism of this democracy be Expanding this program also means for Your greater honor and glory. f creating additional high-tech, high- Amen. wage manufacturing jobs in our own THE PRESIDENT’S BUDGET backyard. Companies like Tempe’s f (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House Monarch Power could expand and in- THE JOURNAL crease the creation of innovative prod- for 1 minute and to revise and extend ucts, ranging from energy generation The SPEAKER. The Chair has exam- her remarks.) to energy storage, even a mobile re- ined the Journal of the last day’s pro- Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I newable power system—all while re- ceedings and announces to the House too adhere to the Second Amendment, maining affordable. We must partner his approval thereof. as all of us do. I can assure the gen- the power of American innovation with Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the Jour- tleman that anything we do with sen- the potential of American production. nal stands approved. sible gun legislation that will protect My bill encourages just that. f the lives of babies whose lives were lost In my home State of Arizona, renew- in Newtown and Aurora and Virginia able energy enjoys broad bipartisan PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Tech and Columbine will be fair and support. Democrats and Republicans, The SPEAKER. Will the gentle- just. I hope my colleagues in the Sen- including Barry Goldwater, Jr. and our woman from Hawaii (Ms. GABBARD) ate will adhere to those of us who are own Governor, Jan Brewer, have advo- come forward and lead the House in the sending them a letter: no filibuster, cated for solar and renewable energy Pledge of Allegiance. but real gun-sensible legislation. because they know that the future of Ms. GABBARD led the Pledge of Alle- Let me turn to the budget and indi- our State and the future of our country giance as follows: cate that it is important that we rid depend on it. I stand today with a I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the ourselves of the sequester and ask the broad coalition of leaders from my United States of America, and to the Repub- Speaker to put on the floor H.R. 900. I

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When the Veterans Administration ment, but we must not have the Earlier this year, I introduced one decided to cancel the Golden Age chained CPI. such proposal, the Make It In America Games just 2 months before they were Many people don’t realize that in this Manufacturing Act, which establishes a to be held in Buffalo and stick our instance of Social Security seniors are competitive grant program that will community with a $2.2 million loss, the paying more money for health care. help small- to medium-sized manufac- community fought back. Last week, They will not be able to compensate. turers retool their facilities and re- the VA reversed its decision and an- Those who are poor and vulnerable will train their workers to compete in the nounced that the games would proceed be worse off after the chained CPI. 21st century. as planned. I join with many, many Members of Senator KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND of New When the Army Corps of Engineers the United States Congress to say we York has introduced a companion bill decided to prohibit access to Squaw Is- can make Social Security solvent, in the Senate that is cosponsored by land Pier in Buffalo, a popular fishing Medicare solvent and Medicaid solvent, Senators JACK REED and SHELDON destination on the waterfront, we but we must not have the chained CPI. WHITEHOUSE. These are the kinds of pushed back hard. This morning, I met I oppose it and many others. commonsense proposals that we need with Corps officials. They assured me that public access to the site would f to support if we are going to get our economy back on the right track and continue. TAX CODE Western New Yorkers won two vic- get folks back to work. tories in 2 weeks because we stood up (Mr. ROGERS of Alabama asked and I urge my colleagues to support the for ourselves. Let this be a lesson to was given permission to address the Make It In America agenda, and I look our community and a warning to the House for 1 minute and to revise and forward to joining Whip HOYER for his Federal bureaucracy: when you make extend his remarks.) announcement this afternoon. Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Speak- senseless decisions that hurt western f er, April 15, the dreaded tax day, is al- New York, you’re going to have a fight most here. According to the non- PRESIDENT OBAMA’S BUDGET on your hands. f partisan Tax Foundation, Americans (Mr. DESJARLAIS asked and was will have to work 108 days this year given permission to address the House FATHER EMIL KAPAUN just to be able to pay their taxes—108 for 1 minute and to revise and extend (Mr. POMPEO asked and was given days. That’s just not right, and Ameri- his remarks.) permission to address the House for 1 cans are sick of it. The good news is Mr. DESJARLAIS. Mr. Speaker, minute and to revise and extend his re- Congress has a chance to do something President Obama’s budget is 65 days marks.) about it this year. late and trillions of dollars short. And Mr. POMPEO. It is an honor today to So what would the average American while his plan contains plenty of tax tell you about one really good man. He want to see in a new Tax Code? increases, budgetary gimmicks, and was born in Pilson, Kansas, and later One, lower tax rates on individuals stimulus-style spending, it fails to ade- became an ordained priest in Wichita and businesses, with an assurance that quately address our Nation’s in 1940. those rates would remain low; unsustainable deficits and debt. In fact, This very good man, a fellow named Two, no ridiculous special interest the President’s budget would never bal- Emil Kapaun, served as a military loopholes or giveaways, especially ance. chaplain during World War II and again those that have nothing to do with cre- I share President Obama’s view of a in September 1948, this time entering ating jobs; and thriving middle class and strong manu- the Korean battlefield with his unit, Three, making sure that everyone facturing base, but the policies put the 3rd Battalion of the 8th Cavalry pays their fair share. forth in his budget show the White Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division. If Congress aims for these goals, House is more focused on increasing There we saw what comes of a good Americans should get a Tax Code that the size of government than growing man when placed in dangerous times. encourages work and investment, re- the private sector. If the President is Father Kapaun became a hero. He died sulting in economic growth and job truly serious about building a 21st cen- after saving hundreds of lives on the creation. tury economy, then he should work battlefield and in a prisoner of war And let’s not forget, we cannot allow with House Republicans in eliminating camp, having dedicated himself to the any future growth-generated revenue the roadblocks to innovation and en- physical and spiritual health of his fel- to be spent on wasteful government trepreneurship. That means reducing low prisoners for a very long time. programs. Instead, the revenue should government red tape, creating a fairer Tomorrow, President Obama will be- go toward eliminating the deficit and and flatter Tax Code, and ending the stow upon Father Kapaun, this very then paying down our debt. deficit spending. good man, the Medal of Honor, Amer- Let’s cut spending, lower our deficit, I urge the President to join us in put- ica’s highest military honor. and fix our loophole-ridden, work-peting forth sound policies that will grow I want to take this moment to recog- nalizing, and jobs-killing Tax Code jobs and put our country back on a sus- nize his fellow POWs who never once and for all. tainable path. wavered in an effort to secure this f medal for Father Kapaun, to the f Catholic Diocese of Wichita, and every- MAKE IT IN AMERICA b 1210 one else who has worked so hard for (Mr. CICILLINE asked and was given this recognition. permission to address the House for 1 WESTERN NEW YORKERS WILL Finally, I want to thank the fellow minute.) FIGHT FOR WHAT THEY DESERVE Members of this body who supported Mr. CICILLINE. Mr. Speaker, later (Mr. HIGGINS asked and was given my provision in the NDAA to allow a today, I will join House Democratic permission to address the House for 1 waiver for the statutory time excep- Whip STENY HOYER to announce our minute.) tion so that he could receive this Make It In America agenda, a legisla- Mr. HIGGINS. Mr. Speaker, in west- award. tive package that will help reinvigo- ern New York, we don’t expect any- Father Kapaun is a true American rate our manufacturing sector and thing to be handed to us. History has hero, a hero of mankind and so deserv- grow American manufacturing jobs. taught us that we have to fight for ing of this Medal of Honor.

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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate the Pleas- week I had the chance to visit Afghani- it’s now been 829 days since I arrived in ant Grove High School boys basket- stan to get a firsthand perspective of Congress, and the Republican leader- ball’s team for recently winning the the status of our withdrawal, as well as ship has not allowed a single vote on Division 1 State Championship. to visit some of our deployed Hawaii serious legislation to address our un- In their hard-fought victory, they troops. employment crisis. Mr. Speaker, I’m displayed sportsmanship and teamwork Our servicemembers continue to devastated by this because the Amer- and became the first local team to host serve with the highest level of profes- ican people are devastated. the Division 1 State Championship. sionalism, selflessness, and integrity. Unemployment is depriving people of I’m grateful to them and their families health care, higher education, and even When forward Matt Smreker was for their unwavering coverage and sac- food and shelter. Does this sound like a asked about the victory, he told report- rifice. civilized Nation? ers: Our military and civilian personnel Mr. Speaker, the American Society We don’t have the biggest names, but we in Afghanistan are committed to the of Civil Engineers gave the U.S. a fail- play hard and together with great chemistry, ongoing transfer of responsibility for ing grade for infrastructure. We have and we won because we’re a team. security to the Afghan National Secu- no shortage of shovel-ready public Matt was right, the Eagles won be- rity Forces. The Afghan forces are projects that can put people to work, cause they were accountable to each made up of warriors who are ready to but this Congress is unwilling to act. other. The dedication and commitment fight and who are already leading a Mr. Speaker, our mantra should be: of the players, coaches, fans, and par- majority of the security operations, jobs, jobs, jobs. ents made this victory possible. building confidence in their ability to f The teamwork displayed by the withstand the Taliban and insurgency Pleasant Grove boys basketball team is threats. b 1220 an example for Washington. In Con- The U.S. drawdown is crucial for our THE PRESIDENT’S BUDGET gress we need to work together and military and our resources to focus on PROPOSAL hold each other accountable and work addressing imminent and direct threats (Mr. MESSER asked and was given as a team. like North Korea. Along with Guam permission to address the House for 1 Congratulations again to the Eagles and Alaska, Hawaii’s families have minute and to revise and extend his re- for your tremendous victory. been placed in the crosshairs of this marks.) threat. We cannot be complacent. We Mr. MESSER. The President’s budget f must take action to ensure that our proposal reportedly would cap the families and assets are protected and amount of money people could save in THE DISTINGUISHED WARFARE defended. individual retirement accounts. This is MEDAL f a very bad idea. More than a third of people aged 55 and older are not saving (Mr. CALVERT asked and was given THE BUDGET for their retirements. Three-quarters permission to address the House for 1 (Ms. FOXX asked and was given per- have saved much less than they will minute and to revise and extend his re- mission to address the House for 1 need to retire comfortably. marks.) minute.) We should be encouraging people to Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Speaker, our Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, the Presi- save. We need to encourage people to country has a proud history of hon- dent finally decided to join the budget take more responsibility for their fu- oring our military heroes, and in doing discussion today. Good. It’s high time ture well-beings instead of discour- so we place an emphasis on recognizing he got off the sidelines. aging sound financial planning. We servicemembers whose actions placed The contrast between the President’s need to incentivize self-reliance in- them in harm’s way for the benefit of budget and the balanced House Repub- stead of government dependence. This our Nation and their fellow soldiers. lican budget is stark. The President re- proposal fails on all of these fronts. It’s because of this proud history lies on stimulus and taxes; House Re- Rest assured, Mr. Speaker, the White that I have serious concerns about the publicans rely on government-spending House has said that the savings cap Department of Defense placement of a restraint and reform to achieve eco- will allow ‘‘substantially more than is newly established Distinguished War- nomic growth. If recent history is any needed to fund reasonable levels of re- fare Medal in the order of precedence. indication, we chose the better path. tirement saving.’’ My constituents Surely it is appropriate to recognize Examine this President’s track don’t need the President deciding what servicemembers who make contribu- record of growing the economy: govern- is reasonable for them in their retire- tions through technology-driven war- ment spending is up, workforce partici- ments. They don’t need him deciding fare; however, I agree with the VFW pation is down; national debt is up, anything else for them either. We need that we must continue to preserve the family take-home pay is down. If Presi- sensible reform. sanctity of our medals for those Ameri- dent Obama’s trillion-dollar stimulus f cans who sacrifice their personal safety didn’t work, how is a shallow imitation for the safety of the country and their going to help us now? The President’s IMPACTS OF THE SEQUESTER brothers in arms. budget will never balance and will (Mr. CARTWRIGHT asked and was That is why I strongly support the ef- yield an endless string of deficits. given permission to address the House fort led by my friend, Congressman The Republican Path to Prosperity for 1 minute and to revise and extend DUNCAN HUNTER, who is a decorated requires Washington to make do with a his remarks.) veteran himself, to alter the rank of little less and keeps money in the pri- Mr. CARTWRIGHT. I rise today to the Distinguished Warfare Medal such vate sector where it can be invested in address the sequester. that it ranks below the Purple Heart in job creation, expansion, and real eco- Many of those in this House have precedence. nomic growth. been telling their constituents that the I would encourage all of my col- The American people waited 65 days sequester doesn’t make any difference, leagues to join me by cosponsoring his for the President’s budget. They de- that nothing has really changed; but bill, H.R. 833, and urge its passage. serve more than stimulus and taxes. that simply is not true.

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The name like systems specialists and aviation together across the aisle and doing ‘‘San Ramon’’ came from a Native safety inspectors, will be subject to the what we can to equip people with the American sheep herder in the area furlough. As much as 10 percent of the skills and the education they need to named Ramon. For many years, agri- FAA’s workforce could be on furlough fill the job openings that are out there. culture was a key part of San Ramon’s on any given day, resulting in reduced That might sound warm and fuzzy, economy. Starting in the 1960s, subur- air traffic control, longer delays and but that is what Americans want us to ban development began there; modern economic losses for air transportation, do. My constituents have told me again San Ramon emerged; and the popu- tourism, and the economy as a whole. and again: let’s focus on practical solu- lation took off. Eventually, the resi- Last week, I visited Lynn Evans- tions to the problems people are facing, dents voted to incorporate as a sepa- Biga, the executive director of the not political ideology. rate city. Luzerne-Wyoming County Head Start f It has grown from about 4,000 people in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, an in 1960 to over 70,000 today. It’s the FIXING AMERICA’S MENTAL agency which serves 1,000 students and fourth largest city in Contra Costa HEALTH SYSTEM has a waiting list of 700 already. It will County. It is the location of the head- have to accept 49 fewer students be- (Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania asked quarters of 24-Hour Fitness and Chev- cause of the 5.2 percent sequester cut. and was given permission to address ron, and it is the west coast head- f the House for 1 minute.) quarters of AT&T. Both of its high Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania. Yes- schools, California High School and CONGRATULATIONS TO FLORIDA terday, Dylan Quick, a 20-year-old stu- Dougherty Valley High School, were GULF COAST UNIVERSITY dent at Lone Star College in Texas, ranked by U.S. News & World Report as (Mr. DESANTIS asked and was given went on a rampage with a knife, hurt- being in the top 200 California high permission to address the House for 1 ing more than a dozen people. He told schools. These are just a few examples minute and to revise and extend his re- police he had fantasized since elemen- of the highly educated, hardworking marks.) tary school about stabbing people to folks who live in San Ramon. Mr. DESANTIS. Mr. Speaker, I am death. f here to congratulate a team that cap- Tucson shooter Jared Loughner told tivated the Nation with style, swagger, his psychologists that he wished he had CONGRATULATIONS TO THE ST. heart, and class. I’m talking about four been taking his anti-psychotic medica- CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY letters that few people have ever heard tion. If he had been, Loughner, who has MEN’S HOCKEY TEAM of until just March—that is FGCU—put schizophrenia, says the Tucson shoot- (Mrs. BACHMANN asked and was on the map by their men’s basketball ing might not have happened. given permission to address the House team. As a Representative and servant A psychiatrist treating James for 1 minute and to revise and extend of southwest Florida, I am so proud to Holmes told campus police a month be- her remarks.) have Florida Gulf Coast University in fore the Colorado theater attack that Mrs. BACHMANN. Mr. Speaker, if my backyard—our backyard, our Holmes had homicidal thoughts and there is one thing the people of Min- home—now known as ‘‘Dunk City.’’ was a danger to the public. Holmes also nesota understand, it’s hockey. The men’s basketball team and the exhibited signs of schizophrenia. That’s why I’m so excited to be able university itself have only been around Those with mental illness are gen- to be here today to congratulate the for, basically, a few years. Heck, the erally more likely to be the victims St. Cloud State University men’s hock- players are actually older than the rather than the perpetrators of vio- ey team. They’re making history. school itself. Now, this was only lence, but those with untreated mental Never before in their history have they FGCU’s second year of Division 1 eligi- illness are at increased risk of violent advanced to the Frozen Four. I’m here bility, and in their second year they behavior. Ten percent of all homicides to congratulate them for the first time went all the way to the sweet 16—bust- are committed by individuals with in the program’s history. It has taken ing brackets, knocking down threes schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and talent; it has taken teamwork; it has and, of course, representing Dunk City other psychotic illnesses. taken dedication; and the men on this with a total of 148 dunks this year. When will we acknowledge that it is team have shown it all. I am proud to represent Dunk City. I not just what is in the killer’s hand I know I speak for all of the people am proud of our young team and our that makes him dangerous, be it fist, back home in St. Cloud when I say we young campus of Florida Gulf Coast knife or gun, but what is in his mind? are extremely proud of these young University, and we all look forward to We must take off the blinders and ac- men and what they’ve already accom- another stunning season next year. knowledge the importance of the diag- plished. The Cinderella story is going f nosis of mental illness and severe men- to take place tomorrow evening. It has tal illness. Let’s fix our mental illness captivated the community. We can’t FOSTERING MIDDLE CLASS system. wait to cheer them on when they take PROSPERITY f on Quinnipiac in the Frozen Four. (Mrs. DAVIS of California asked and So congratulations. Good luck. Go MARKING 30 YEARS OF SAN was given permission to address the Huskies. RAMON House for 1 minute.) f Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speak- (Mr. SWALWELL of California asked er, we need to focus on fostering middle and was given permission to address SEQUESTER class prosperity, and I feel investing in the House for 1 minute and to revise (Ms. HANABUSA asked and was job training and education is the best and extend his remarks.) given permission to address the House way to do that. Mr. SWALWELL of California. To- for 1 minute.) We recently had an opportunity to night, San Ramon celebrates its 30 Ms. HANABUSA. Mr. Speaker, we are revamp the Workforce Investment Act. years as an incorporated city. back from a 2-week recess in the dis- However, the consolidation approach It’s a city I know well. My mother trict. Everyone must have been told or that was taken with that bill was coun- grew up there, and my grandfather was seen the impacts of the sequester.

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Just outside my district at unlike the Ryan budget, the Repub- gard to Social Security and Medicare: Fort Knox, more than 5,000 civilian em- lican Study Caucus, or the minority First of all, neither one of them are ployees face at least 2 weeks of fur- budget in the Senate, which kept the responsible for the debt and the cur- lough because of these indiscriminate sequester in place—will repeal the se- rent fiscal crisis that we find ourselves cuts in Federal spending. quester. facing; A constituent of mine whose husband We know for hospitals like those at Secondly, neither of them are enti- is a military technician for the Ken- home that have large numbers of Medi- tlements. They’re earned benefits that tucky National Guard said her family care patients a 2 percent cut to Medi- people started paying for the very first will lose close to 20 percent of their in- care is devastating; we know our day, the very first hour they went to come because of furloughs. He is one of friends who are still struggling with work, and they have every right to ex- at least 460 technicians in my district the recovery from Hurricane Sandy pect those benefits; who will be furloughed. will be affected by the $1 billion cut to Thirdly, there are some long-term I’ve talked with a school principal FEMA; and for our Federal employees, problems with both, and they should who’s forced to lay off special edu- the furloughs to cover the sequester and need to be fixed, but they can be cation teachers because of sequestra- will affect not only them and their done, clearly, without reducing the tion. I’ve met with local social service families but our local economies. We benefits. organizations who are concerned that sequestration will eliminate entire need to recognize that slashing with Let me remind all of us that nothing Federal grant programs, jeopardizing the sequester is not the answer, but has done more in this country to lift jobs and essential services for Louis- also know that we need to reduce our more people out of poverty than Social deficit sensibly. ville families. And officials at the Uni- Security, and nothing has done more to versity of Louisville are worried that f add more life and more years to life cuts to their research will interrupt than Medicare. lifesaving medical advances. b 1230 Mr. President, my fellow Members, Mr. Speaker, sequestration was a we must stand up for Social Security threat, not a policy. That’s why I voted AMERICANS WANT A BALANCED and Medicare and protect those bene- against it. It now is clear that the real BUDGET fits going forward. threat of sequestration is to middle (Mr. YODER asked and was given class families who can least afford an- permission to address the House for 1 f other recession. Congress should enact minute and to revise and extend his re- a budget that eliminates sequestration marks.) CONTROLLING GOVERNMENT and spares even more American fami- Mr. YODER. Mr. Speaker, the Presi- SPENDING lies the pain of this ill-advised aus- dent released his February 2014 budget terity. (Mr. LATHAM asked and was given proposal this morning, and now for the f first time in over 4 years, the House permission to address the House for 1 and the Senate and the President all minute and to revise and extend his re- A BALANCED BUDGET have submitted budget blueprints marks.) (Mr. TIPTON asked and was given showing their priorities for getting our Mr. LATHAM. Mr. Speaker, this permission to address the House for 1 Nation’s finances back in good stand- morning was a remarkable time. The minute.) ing. President, even though it’s 65 days Mr. TIPTON. Mr. Speaker, we’ve all In the House, our budget balances late, came out with a budget today. heard the statement ‘‘a day late and a within 10 years by slowing the growth And it is interesting to note that it is dollar short.’’ Well, the President is of government, responsibly and care- about $600 billion of new taxes, after now 2 months late with his budget and fully reforming Federal spending, while we’ve just had a $620 billion tax in- billions of dollars short. It’s clear, this strengthening and preserving Medicare crease on this economy, with the President wants to balance the in- and Social Security for future genera- health care bill, about another $1.2 tril- crease of government on the backs of tions. And the House budget pays down lion of new taxes and fees, and his the American people. He believes that the national debt to zero within our budget proposal increases the size of government needs the resources more lifetimes. government 50 percent over the next 10 than hardworking Americans. Just 12 weeks ago, taxes went up on years. We put forward a budget to be able to protect our senior citizens, to be able every American; yet, unfortunately, Mr. Speaker, I’ve been home for the to build for the future for our children. the President’s plan raises taxes again last couple of weeks talking to con- The real approach, when we’re talking on Americans while increasing spend- stituents, and what they tell me is the about balance, is to have a budget that ing, growing the size of government, fact that they want a balanced budget. truly balances. and never, ever balancing. The President’s budget never gets to This administration continues to Mr. Speaker, the American people balance. Our budget does. They want a grow government, continues to waste want balance in Congress, and they balanced budget. They want us to get the hardworking dollars of the Amer- want a balanced budget. As we go for- control of spending in Washington be- ican taxpayer. ward, let’s do our job and control cause they know how it affects them- Let’s stand up and put politics aside spending. Let’s balance our own books, selves, their families, and the future of and stand up for the people of this and let’s stop the constant push for this country. country and put forward a budget that higher taxes on the American people. The spending coupled with all of the will truly put America back to work. ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE new regulations, the health care man- f The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. POE dates coming down on small busi- of Texas). Members are reminded not nesses, they are stopping job growth. CREATING JOBS to traffic the well while another Mem- We have got to get some common sense (Mr. VEASEY asked and was given ber is under recognition. in this House. permission to address the House for 1

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We are nearly a month and Virgin Islands will be on young Kevin PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION a half into the sequester, which has im- Krigger, a jockey from my home island OF H.R. 678, BUREAU OF REC- posed painful cuts to defense, transpor- of St. Croix, who will be riding the LAMATION SMALL CONDUIT HY- tation, and education, and it’s hurting horse, Goldencents. DROPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND our economy. We’re all proud of Kevin, who grew RURAL JOBS ACT I’m disappointed the House Repub- up in LaVallee and attended Central lican leadership chose the path of the High School. Kevin always wanted to Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Mr. Speaker, by sequester rather than working with be a jockey and grew up in the sport, direction of the Committee on Rules, I House Democrats to stop these need- riding horses on our beaches and coun- call up House Resolution 140 and ask less, across-the-board cuts. I’m also try roads, challenging anyone he could for its immediate consideration. disappointed that House Republicans to a race. The Clerk read the resolution, as fol- have chosen the politics of Before he was recruited by other Vir- lows: brinksmanship and government shut- gin Islanders who race in the States, he H. RES. 140 downs rather than negotiate a com- was well known on the tracks of St. Resolved, That at any time after the adop- promise with Democrats. Croix, St. Thomas, and Tortola as a tion of this resolution the Speaker may, pur- We must stop politicizing every func- suant to clause 2(b) of rule XVIII, declare the talent to watch. He proved himself House resolved into the Committee of the tion of government from the debt ceil- riding on the west coast, in particular, Whole House on the State of the Union for ing to the budget. Creating jobs and at Emerald Downs in Seattle, Wash- consideration of the bill (H.R. 678) to author- strengthening our economy starts with ington, before his historic win on Sat- ize all Bureau of Reclamation conduit facili- the private sector and government urday at the Santa Anita Derby. ties for hydropower development under Fed- working together to ensure confidence On Saturday, Kevin Krigger became eral Reclamation law, and for other pur- and investment across the country. the first African American to win the poses. The first reading of the bill shall be I encourage all of my colleagues to dispensed with. All points of order against Santa Anita Derby. Last fall, he was consideration of the bill are waived. General come together and focus on jobs. Let’s the first African American jockey to debate shall be confined to the bill and shall work on legislation that helps our con- win a million dollar race in Louisiana’s not exceed one hour equally divided and constituents obtain jobs and grows our Delta Jackpot. If he rides Goldencents trolled by the chair and ranking minority economy. to victory in the Kentucky Derby next member of the Committee on Natural Re- f month, he will become the first African sources. After general debate the bill shall be considered for amendment under the five- PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSE American to do so since 1902. Mr. Speaker, Kevin Krigger’s family minute rule. The bill shall be considered as read. All points of order against provisions (Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky asked and and fans in the Virgin Islands will be was given permission to address the in the bill are waived. No amendment to the cheering wildly on the first Saturday bill shall be in order except: (1) those re- House for 1 minute.) in May. I congratulate his mother, ceived for printing in the portion of the Con- Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky. Mr. Averil Simmonds, and his father, Al- gressional Record designated for that pur- Speaker, prescription drug abuse is bert Krigger, Jr. We’re all proud of this pose in clause 8 of rule XVIII dated at least killing more people in this country young man and his accomplishments, one day before the day of consideration of than car wrecks. It’s hard to believe, and wish him Godspeed in this and all the amendment; and (2) pro forma amendments for the purpose of debate. Each but it sneaked up on us. of his future endeavors. In my district 10 years ago, we start- amendment so received may be offered only ed an organization called UNITE, Un- f by the Member who caused it to be printed PRESIDENT OBAMA’S BUDGET or a designee and shall be considered as read lawful Narcotics Investigations, Treat- if printed. At the conclusion of consideration ment and Education, a holistic ap- (Mr. BISHOP of Utah asked and was of the bill for amendment the Committee proach, and it works. We’ve put in jail given permission to address the House shall rise and report the bill to the House about 4,000 pushers. We’ve got drug for 1 minute.) with such amendments as may have been counselors in schools. We’ve got clubs Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Mr. Speaker, adopted. The previous question shall be con- in schools to entertain young people on you can’t spend more money than you sidered as ordered on the bill and amend- nice things to do and the like, drug ments thereto to final passage without inter- bring in. That’s a fairly simple con- vening motion except one motion to recom- courts in every county. It works, but cept, isn’t it? But apparently not for mit with or without instructions. the problem persists. Democrats who run the administration The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- Last week, I had the great honor and in Washington. tleman from Utah is recognized for 1 pleasure of helping host in Orlando, Under President Obama, we’ve had 4 hour. Florida, a drug summit on prescription years of government spending, each Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Mr. Speaker, drug abuse, almost a thousand people year spending over $1 trillion more for the purpose of debate only, I yield from 49 States and several foreign than we took in. That kind of spending the customary 30 minutes to the gen- countries focusing on the problem. It’s is not only irresponsible, it’s dan- tlewoman from New York (Ms. SLAUGH- the second year we’ve done that, the gerous. It drives up the national debt, TER), pending which I yield myself such second straight year. Mayor Bloomberg hurts families, neighbors, and our time as I may consume. During the was there. The head of CDC was there, friends. consideration of this resolution, all the head of FDA, heads of all sorts of The time to rein in Washington time yielded is for the purpose of de- Federal organizations, and we’re deter- spending is now, a concept so obvious bate only. mined to help wipe out this big killer it has become a cliche. House Repub- This resolution provides for a modi- in this country. licans understand this. That’s why we fied open rule for the consideration of f passed a responsible budget that keeps H.R. 678, the Bureau of Reclamation b 1240 our taxes low and balances spending. Small Conduit Hydropower Develop- That’s more money in your family’s ment and Rural Jobs Act, and provides CELEBRATING THE ACCOMPLISH- pocket. for 1 hour of general debate, equally di- MENTS OF KEVIN KRIGGER The President is going to introduce a vided and controlled by the chairman (Mrs. CHRISTENSEN asked and was budget that doesn’t balance and tries and ranking minority member of the given permission to address the House to raise taxes again. Committee on Natural Resources.

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Is there dropower projects are rarely delayed its of this particular bill. objection to the request of the gen- because of environmental regulations. Mr. Speaker, I’m also pleased to tleman from Utah? In fact, from 2006 to 2010, 13 exemptions stand before the House and support this There was no objection. rule, as well as the underlying legisla- were completed in less than a year, and Mr. BISHOP of Utah. I yield such tion, H.R. 678, which is the long title I in 2011 there were nine exemptions that time as he may consume to the gen- gave earlier. were granted in an average of 40 days. tleman from Colorado (Mr. TIPTON), the I appreciate the hard work of the In addition, changes within the last sponsor of this piece of legislation, to bill’s chief sponsor, the gentleman year have made the process even easier explain why it is so necessary that we from Colorado (Mr. TIPTON), as well as for hydropower developers. Under the do this, even though on paper it seems the chairman of the Natural Resources new regulations by the Bureau of Rec- like this problem is solved. Committee, the gentleman from Wash- lamation, all a developer has to do to Mr. TIPTON. I thank Chairman ington (Mr. HASTINGS), and of the sub- avoid a full environmental assessment 1 BISHOP for yielding. committee of jurisdiction, Mr. MCCLIN- is to get a simple, 1 ⁄2 page form filled When we’re talking about job cre- TOCK of California, for allowing this out with 15 boxes to check ‘‘yes’’ or bill to move forward from the com- ‘‘no.’’ That is certainly not a burden- ation in this country, I think it’s wor- mittee and continuing the Natural Re- some regulation. All they have to do is thy to note I just traveled through the source Committee’s record, under check the box ‘‘yes’’ or ‘‘no,’’ indicate Third Congressional District of Colo- rado visiting with people from Pueblo Chairman HASTINGS’ leadership, of fur- the project is not in an especially sen- thering several important pieces of leg- sitive area. to Alamosa, Durango, Cortez, Most small conduit hydropower islation which, if enacted, will greatly Montrose, Craig, Hayden, and Steam- projects will easily pass this test be- improve our Nation’s energy policies boat. One of the greatest challenges cause the reclamation sites are already and provide a responsible, balanced ap- that they face is regulations coming developed. But despite what you may proach to further domestic energy de- out of Washington when it comes to job hear, there is little evidence that there velopment. creation. is even a problem with hydropower reg- With that, Mr. Speaker, I reserve the The fact of the matter is we’re spend- ulation that needs to be solved. balance of my time. ing $1.75 trillion per year for businesses Contained within today’s legislation to be able to comply with government Ms. SLAUGHTER. Good afternoon, is a proposal to clarify the lines of au- Mr. Speaker. I thank the gentleman mandates. Is it a sensible approach to thority between the Bureau of Rec- be able to look at regulations that sim- from Utah for yielding me the cus- lamation and the Federal Energy Regu- tomary 30 minutes and yield myself ply don’t work and are inhibiting job latory Commission. This is a worth- creation and our ability to be able to such time as I may consume. while effort that would receive bipar- Mr. Speaker, last Friday we received achieve the most carbon-free, environ- tisan support, and we made that very the news that the economy had only mentally friendly legislation that we clear. Standing alone, though, this pro- added 88,000 jobs in the month of can have? That’s hydropower. That is a posal could pass on suspension within a March. The percentage of unemployed sensible approach. matter of minutes. That would, of Americans dropped, but that is almost Mr. Speaker, I rise today to encour- course, leave us with nothing to do entirely because thousands of workers age my colleagues on both sides of the here today, so here we are. aisle to vote in favor of House Resolu- have given up looking for jobs at all. During the debate in the Natural Re- This slowdown is a warning to Con- tion 140 and for an open discussion on sources Committee, the majority was how we’re going to be able to work to- gress, but we won’t take it, I feel sure, given the opportunity to agree to the since we’ve pretty much ignored it. Un- gether to be able to promote clean, re- noncontroversial and bipartisan parts newable hydropower development in less this majority reverses the spend- of the legislation and drop their par- ing cuts contained in the sequester, the rural America and create much-needed tisan attacks on environmental safe- jobs in the process. At a time when our health of our economy is only getting guards. worse. country needs to be able to focus on do- Months ago, economists were warn- b 1250 mestic energy production and job cre- ing that the sequester will stall out our Unfortunately, the majority has once ation, hydropower can play a critical economy and lead to job loss, and as we again rejected this chance for produc- role in providing clean renewable en- can see by the March data, their pre- tive compromise and chosen the par- ergy while expanding job opportunities dictions are beginning to come true. tisan path. And as a result, we are here in some of our hardest hit rural com- With economic warning bells begin- spending time debating another par- munities. ning to toll, one would expect Congress tisan bill that will not pass the Senate Hydropower is the cheapest and to make job creation our number one and turning our back on the pressing cleanest source of electricity available priority. But one would certainly be economic needs of this country. through modern technology. It’s the wrong because we haven’t done that at I’ve said many times on the floor highest source of non-carbon-emitting all. Unfortunately, such expectations during rules debates that CBS News energy in the world and accounts for don’t even come close. had estimated it costs $24 million a approximately 75 percent of the United Instead of working on legislation to week to run the Congress of the United States’ total renewable electricity gen- grow our economy and to create some States. And it has been embarrassing eration, making it the leading renew- good-paying jobs, we are wasting valu- that we do so little work. But for mil- able energy resource of power. Canal- able session time discussing yet an- lions of Americans, the luxury of the based hydropower can produce up to other bill that went nowhere in the time that we take here is something 1,400 megawatts of power in Colorado last Congress, and I predict will go no- they cannot afford. alone. Let’s put this in perspective. where in this one as well. But we seem I urge my colleagues to vote ‘‘no’’ on This is the equivalent of the power pro- to have the time to waste. the underlying legislation so we can duced by the originally designed out- The majority has decided that eras- get back to the task of growing our put of the Glen Canyon Dam, just out ing environmental regulations for hy- economy, repealing the sequester, and of Colorado, not including the rest of dropower companies is a better use of creating American jobs. the western United States.

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It’s a manmade canal. help pay for aging infrastructure costs have no further requests for time, and Witnesses have testified this year and water/power facility moderniza- I reserve the balance of my time until that despite the Bureau of Reclama- tion; and it can create local jobs and my colleague is ready to close. tion’s claim of its categorical exclu- generate revenue for the Federal Gov- Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Let me take a sions and having a policy in place, not ernment. moment just to give my impression of one project has utilized this project be- As it stands, Federal regulations this particular bill, and then I’ll be cause of a potential legal uncertainty hinder this development on Federal ready to close at that time. surrounding categorical exclusions. projects and subject job creators to un- Mr. Speaker, this is a bipartisan bill b 1300 necessary requirements which can which had a bipartisan vote in this render small hydropower projects eco- body last time and a bipartisan vote in As a result, there is no new develop- nomically unfeasible. For this reason, I the committee, sent to the Senate, ment that has occurred, and the gen- introduced H.R. 678, the Bureau of Rec- where an errant Senator was able to tleman from Colorado’s amendment lamation Small Conduit Hydropower hold the process up. Fortunately, in will improve this particular situation. Development and Rural Jobs Act. This this session, there is a new chairman of So, once again, let this be done. legislation authorizes power develop- that committee in the Senate from the This is not denying a NEPA review. ment at the agency’s conduits to clear West who clearly understands the NEPA has already been done on every up multi-agency confusion and duplica- value and significance of hydroelectric one of these projects. This is saying tive processes and reduces the regu- power. you don’t need to do the same thing a latory costs associated with hydro- So I think that everyone in this body second time, which is simply redun- power development. on both sides of the aisle can agree dant, it is silly, it’s red tape, bungling H.R. 678, as passed by the Natural Re- that our Nation is in great need of by administrations that need not be sources Committee with bipartisan more energy. If we want to create real there. support, would eliminate the require- jobs, private sector jobs, there has to The choice is very simple in this par- ment of duplicative and unnecessary be a strong energy component to our ticular bill: Either you can give the ad- environmental analyses for projects on ability to do that. Our Nation has tre- ministration, the executive branch, the manmade facilities which already un- mendous amounts of energy that are right to make these kinds of decisions derwent a full environmental review at locked away domestically in the forms on moving us forward, in which case the time of their construction or when of oil and gas and low sulphur and the administration can make and can undergoing rehabilitation. The bill high-BTU coal reserves; but too often take away their decision at whim, in covers small hydropower generators in- special interest groups and layers of which case it invites litigation because stalled on manmade pipes, ditches, and bureaucracy have kept us from becom- of the uncertainty of an administrative canals; and the renewable energy devel- ing more energy self-sufficient with policy, and also invites conflict within opment promoted by the bill in no way these areas. And we’re now seeing and different administrative agencies. Or impacts the natural environment. By feeling the results every time some- we can do what we’re supposed to do streamlining this process, we can fi- body tries to pay an electric bill. and actually pass legislation to solve nally make these small conduit hydro- This administration seems to be problems. The gentleman from Colo- power projects financially feasible and dragging its feet on energy develop- rado’s approach is simply allowing the unleash private investment in clean en- ment of everything from the Keystone legislature to make the decision, to in- ergy that will reduce costs for rate- Pipeline to the development of public stitute what the policy will be and tell payers and increase tax revenue for the lands. But there is also another source the agencies how they will proceed into Treasury while putting people back to of energy that is presently being un- the future. We can either have the leg- work. used and can be put to good use with- islature stand up and do our job and do I understand that some of my friends out negatively impacting the environ- it the right way or we can pass it all on the other side have reservations ment. The energy resource is what off and let the executive branch come about this provision; and as I have we’re addressing here in this particular up with regulations now which they made clear in the past, I’m open to bill. This bill deals with electricity could change and also are subject to working with my colleagues to be able that can be generated from hydro, a re- the fear of litigation. to address their concerns with the newable energy resource that is very This is an easy thing to do. This bill NEPA provision. However, failure to clean and helpful to the environment. actually should be a no-brainer. It will address the existing regulatory uncer- Numerous witnesses testified this increase the energy production we have tainty would negate one of the primary year and last year that there is an un- in the country, it will increase the purposes of the bill and would ensure certainty on the NEPA costs, which ability of making sure that we have that the renewable energy development throw these projects into limbo and adequate water resources in the West, envisioned by the bill remains in often render projects financially it will also give a needed boost of reve- limbo. I’m optimistic that discussing unfeasible and stifle private invest- nues to the canal companies, and it this issue openly will allay any con- ment far beyond what has been able to will create ultimately more jobs, espe- cerns Members may have and allow us be done. Thus, this is stifling what cially with a cheap form of highly ef- to be able to arrive at a solution which could be done to produce self-suffi- fective energy production. ensures the implementation of a statu- ciency in energy production. One wit- This bill is reasonable, and it’s un- tory framework that streamlines the ness from Arizona simply testified in derstandable why it passed with a bi- project approval process and reduces 2011 that it would cost them $20,000 to partisan vote last time. I hope it passes costs. install this generator that would cre- with a bipartisan vote again, and I I’m proud to have the support of the ate energy in a Federal canal. Yet the hope we can recognize that this will Family Farm Alliance, the National NEPA analysis would cost them $50,000 move us forward. Water Resources Association, and the to check the boxes and do that simple Mr. Speaker, I will reserve the bal- American Public Power Association, paperwork, as we have heard about. ance of my time unless the gentlelady among others. I think the broad sup- The environmental paperwork in this has other speeches that she has report this bill has seen among those case is almost three times the cost of quests for.

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This bill en- This vote, the vote on whether to order the ing to address the pressing economic courages energy production. We may previous question on a special rule, is not issues facing every American house- think of these as small energy projects, merely a procedural vote. A vote against or- hold and fails to stop the sequestration but I am told that all these small dering the previous question is a vote cuts that are threatening our economy projects already being held up in Colo- against the Republican majority agenda and as a whole. It’s rather ambiguous. On rado would create the amount of en- a vote to allow the Democratic minority to one hand it gives; on the other hand it ergy that comes from a large project offer an alternative plan. It is a vote about takes back away, but we’ll get into what the House should be debating. like the Glen Canyon Dam. It’s a large Mr. Clarence Cannon’s Precedents of the that in the general debate. amount of energy that is clean energy Instead, today’s legislation unneces- House of Representatives (VI, 308–311), de- that we will be producing. Number two, scribes the vote on the previous question on sarily attacks environmental protec- this bill gets rid of redundancy. It is the rule as ‘‘a motion to direct or control the tions while doing nothing to create not that we are doing away with envi- consideration of the subject before the House new jobs. Today’s legislation includes a ronmental protection or a review for being made by the Member in charge.’’ To blanket waiver for all small conduit environmental protection. That envi- defeat the previous question is to give the hydropower projects that generate less ronmental protection review has al- opposition a chance to decide the subject be- than 5 megawatts of power. The re- ready been done. It is that we’re simply fore the House. Cannon cites the Speaker’s quirement is arbitrary and would fail ruling of January 13, 1920, to the effect that saying for these small projects you ‘‘the refusal of the House to sustain the de- to protect the environment. Environ- don’t need to do the same thing a sec- mental danger is not determined by the mand for the previous question passes the ond time and incur the cost, which is control of the resolution to the opposition’’ megawatts produced but whether the an amazing amount of cost, and poten- in order to offer an amendment. On March hydropower project is located where it tial litigation factors that go along 15, 1909, a member of the majority party of- is likely to do damage. A 1-megawatt with it. fered a rule resolution. The House defeated project in the wrong location would be If we do want to produce private sec- the previous question and a member of the more harmful to the environment than tor jobs, and that is a worthy goal, you opposition rose to a parliamentary inquiry, a 6-megawatt project in the right loca- have to have energy to do it. This bill asking who was entitled to recognition. Speaker Joseph G. Cannon (R–Illinois) said: tion. produces the energy which will be used Perhaps most importantly, consider- ‘‘The previous question having been refused, to grow the economy to produce those ation of this legislation is taking up the gentleman from New York, Mr. Fitz- jobs that we really want. That is why time that we could otherwise be using gerald, who had asked the gentleman to it is a bipartisan bill, and I expect a bi- yield to him for an amendment, is entitled to to repeal the sequester and create jobs. partisan vote on this particular bill. the first recognition.’’ As I have mentioned repeatedly on the It’s a good bill, and we should pass it The Republican majority may say ‘‘the House floor, my colleague and ranking today. This is a fair rule, and I urge its vote on the previous question is simply a member of the Budget Committee, Mr. vote on whether to proceed to an immediate adoption. vote on adopting the resolution . . . [and] VAN HOLLEN, has appeared at the Rules The material previously referred to Committee repeatedly offering legisla- has no substantive legislative or policy im- by Ms. SLAUGHTER is as follows: tion to repeal the sequester and reduce plications whatsoever.’’ But that is not what AN AMENDMENT TO H. RES. 140 OFFERED BY our deficit in a responsible way. The they have always said. Listen to the Repub- MS. SLAUGHTER OF NEW YORK lican Leadership Manual on the Legislative Rules Committee on at least three At the end of the resolution, add the fol- Process in the United States House of Rep- times has never even allowed it to lowing new sections: resentatives, (6th edition, page 135). Here’s come to the floor. Despite voting on SEC. 2. Immediately upon adoption of this how the Republicans describe the previous hydropower legislation twice in the resolution the Speaker shall, pursuant to question vote in their own manual: ‘‘Al- last 13 months, the majority has re- clause 2(b) of rule XVIII, declare the House though it is generally not possible to amend jected Mr. VAN HOLLEN, who, as I said, resolved into the Committee of the Whole the rule because the majority Member con- is the ranking member on the Budget House on the state of the Union for consider- trolling the time will not yield for the pur- Committee, and his bill would save and ation of the bill (H.R. 1426) to disallow the pose of offering an amendment, the same re- create thousands of jobs. deduction for income attributable to domes- sult may be achieved by voting down the pre- tic production activities with respect to oil Mr. Speaker, if we defeat the previous question on the rule. . . . When the and gas activities of major integrated oil motion for the previous question is defeated, vious question, I will offer an amend- companies. The first reading of the bill shall control of the time passes to the Member ment to the rule to bring up H.R. 1426 be dispensed with. All points of order against who led the opposition to ordering the pre- from Representative TIM BISHOP of New consideration of the bill are waived. General vious question. That Member, because he York to roll back tax giveaways to big debate shall be confined to the bill and shall then controls the time, may offer an amend- oil companies. The bill is known as the not exceed one hour equally divided and con- ment to the rule, or yield for the purpose of Big Oil Welfare Repeal Act. Mr. Speak- trolled by the chair and ranking minority amendment.’’ er, I ask unanimous consent to insert member of the Committee on Ways and In Deschler’s Procedure in the U.S. House Means. After general debate the bill shall be the text of the amendment in the of Representatives, the subchapter titled considered for amendment under the five- ‘‘Amending Special Rules’’ states: ‘‘a refusal RECORD along with extraneous matter minute rule. All points of order against pro- to order the previous question on such a rule immediately prior to the vote on the visions in the bill are waived. At the conclu- [a special rule reported from the Committee previous question. sion of consideration of the bill for amend- on Rules] opens the resolution to amend- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there ment the Committee shall rise and report ment and further debate.’’ (Chapter 21, sec- objection to the request of the gentle- the bill to the House with such amendments tion 21.2) Section 21.3 continues: ‘‘Upon re- woman from New York? as may have been adopted. The previous jection of the motion for the previous ques- There was no objection. question shall be considered as ordered on tion on a resolution reported from the Com- Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, I the bill and amendments thereto to final mittee on Rules, control shifts to the Mem- urge my colleagues to vote ‘‘no’’ and passage without intervening motion except ber leading the opposition to the previous defeat the previous question so that we one motion to recommit with or without in- question, who may offer a proper amendment structions. If the Committee of the Whole or motion and who controls the time for de- can get back to trying to grow our rises and reports that it has come to no reso- bate thereon.’’ economy and create American jobs, lution on the bill, then on the next legisla- Clearly, the vote on the previous question and I yield back the balance of my tive day the House shall, immediately after on a rule does have substantive policy impli- time. the third daily order of business under clause cations. It is one of the only available tools

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Runyan Stutzman Wilson (SC) The resolution was agreed to. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Ryan (WI) Terry Wittman Salmon Thompson (PA) Wolf A motion to reconsider was laid on question is on ordering the previous Scalise Thornberry Womack the table. question. Schock Tiberi Woodall f The question was taken; and the Schweikert Tipton Yoder Scott, Austin Turner Yoho ELECTING MEMBERS TO THE Speaker pro tempore announced that Sensenbrenner Upton Young (AK) JOINT COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS the ayes appeared to have it. Sessions Valadao Young (FL) ON THE LIBRARY AND THE Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, on Shimkus Wagner Young (IN) JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING that I demand the yeas and nays. NAYS—190 The yeas and nays were ordered. Andrews Green, Al O’Rourke Mrs. MILLER of Michigan. Mr. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Barrow (GA) Green, Gene Owens Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that ant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair Bass Grijalva Pallone the Committee on House Administra- Beatty Gutierrez Pascrell tion be discharged from further consid- will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum Becerra Hahn Pastor (AZ) time for any electronic vote on the Bera (CA) Hanabusa Payne eration of House Resolution 142, and question of adoption. Bishop (GA) Heck (WA) Pelosi ask for its immediate consideration in Bishop (NY) Higgins Peters (CA) The vote was taken by electronic de- the House. Blumenauer Himes Peters (MI) The Clerk read the title of the resolu- vice, and there were—yeas 236, nays Bonamici Hinojosa Peterson 190, not voting 5, as follows: Brady (PA) Holt Pingree (ME) tion. Braley (IA) Honda Pocan The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there [Roll No. 93] Brown (FL) Horsford Polis objection to the request of the gentle- YEAS—236 Brownley (CA) Hoyer Price (NC) Bustos Huffman Quigley woman from Michigan? Aderholt Fincher Lankford Butterfield Israel Rahall There was no objection. Alexander Fitzpatrick Latham Capps Jackson Lee Rangel The text of the resolution is as fol- Amash Fleischmann Latta Capuano Jeffries Roybal-Allard Amodei Fleming LoBiondo Ca´ rdenas Johnson (GA) Ruiz lows: Bachmann Flores Long Carney Johnson, E. B. Ruppersberger H. RES. 142 Bachus Forbes Lucas Carson (IN) Kaptur Rush Resolved, Barber Fortenberry Luetkemeyer Cartwright Keating Ryan (OH) Barletta Foxx Lummis Castro (TX) Kennedy Sa´ nchez, Linda SECTION 1. ELECTION OF MEMBERS TO JOINT Barr Franks (AZ) Marchant Chu Kildee T. COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS ON THE Barton Frelinghuysen Marino Cicilline Kilmer Sanchez, Loretta LIBRARY AND JOINT COMMITTEE ON Benishek Gardner Massie Clarke Kind Sarbanes PRINTING. Bentivolio Garrett Matheson Clay Kirkpatrick Schakowsky (a) JOINT COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS ON THE Bilirakis Gerlach McCarthy (CA) Cleaver Kuster Schiff LIBRARY.—The following Members are here- Bishop (UT) Gibbs McCaul Clyburn Langevin Schneider by elected to the Joint Committee of Con- Black Gibson McClintock Cohen Larsen (WA) Schrader gress on the Library, to serve with the chair Blackburn Gingrey (GA) McHenry Connolly Larson (CT) Schwartz Bonner Gohmert McIntyre Conyers Lee (CA) Scott (VA) of the Committee on House Administration Boustany Goodlatte McKeon Cooper Levin Scott, David and the chair of the Subcommittee on the Brady (TX) Gosar McKinley Courtney Lewis Serrano Legislative Branch of the Committee on Ap- Bridenstine Gowdy McMorris Crowley Lipinski Sewell (AL) propriations: Brooks (AL) Granger Rodgers Cuellar Loebsack Shea-Porter (1) Mr. Harper. Brooks (IN) Graves (GA) Meadows Cummings Lofgren Sherman (2) Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania. Broun (GA) Graves (MO) Meehan Davis (CA) Lowenthal Sinema (3) Ms. Zoe Lofgren of California. Buchanan Griffin (AR) Messer Davis, Danny Lowey Sires Bucshon Griffith (VA) Mica DeFazio Lujan Grisham Slaughter (b) JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING.—The Burgess Grimm Miller (FL) DeGette (NM) Smith (WA) following Members are hereby elected to the Calvert Guthrie Miller (MI) Delaney Luja´ n, Ben Ray Speier Joint Committee on Printing, to serve with Camp Hall Miller, Gary DeLauro (NM) Swalwell (CA) the chair of the Committee on House Admin- Campbell Hanna Mullin DelBene Maffei Takano istration: Cantor Harper Mulvaney Deutch Maloney, Thompson (CA) (1) Mr. Harper. Capito Harris Murphy (PA) Dingell Carolyn Thompson (MS) (2) Mr. Nugent. Carter Hartzler Neugebauer Doggett Maloney, Sean Tierney Cassidy Hastings (WA) Noem Doyle Matsui Titus (3) Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania. Chabot Heck (NV) Nugent Duckworth McCarthy (NY) Tonko (4) Mr. Vargas. Chaffetz Hensarling Nunes Edwards McCollum Tsongas The resolution was agreed to. Coble Herrera Beutler Nunnelee Ellison McDermott Van Hollen Coffman Holding Olson Engel McGovern Vargas A motion to reconsider was laid on Cole Hudson Palazzo Enyart McNerney Veasey the table. Collins (GA) Huelskamp Paulsen Eshoo Meeks Vela GENERAL LEAVE Collins (NY) Huizenga (MI) Pearce Esty Meng Vela´ zquez Conaway Hultgren Perlmutter Farr Michaud Visclosky Mrs. MILLER of Michigan. Mr. Cook Hunter Perry Fattah Miller, George Walz Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that Costa Hurt Petri Foster Moore Wasserman all Members have 5 legislative days in Cotton Issa Pittenger Frankel (FL) Moran Schultz Cramer Jenkins Pitts Fudge Murphy (FL) Waters which to revise and extend their re- Crawford Johnson (OH) Poe (TX) Gabbard Nadler Watt marks and to include extraneous mate- Crenshaw Johnson, Sam Pompeo Gallego Napolitano Waxman rials on House Resolution 142. Culberson Jones Posey Garamendi Neal Welch The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there Daines Jordan Price (GA) Garcia Negrete McLeod Wilson (FL) Davis, Rodney Joyce Radel Grayson Nolan Yarmuth objection to the request of the gentle- Denham Kelly Reed woman from Michigan? Dent King (IA) Reichert NOT VOTING—5 There was no objection. DeSantis King (NY) Renacci Castor (FL) Lynch Ros-Lehtinen DesJarlais Kingston Ribble Hastings (FL) Markey f Diaz-Balart Kinzinger (IL) Rice (SC) Duffy Kline Richmond REMOVAL OF NAME OF MEMBER Duncan (SC) Labrador Rigell b 1334 AS COSPONSOR OF H.R. 1175 Duncan (TN) LaMalfa Roby Ellmers Lamborn Roe (TN) Mr. PASCRELL changed his vote Mr. CARTWRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, I Farenthold Lance Rogers (AL) from ‘‘yea’’ to ‘‘nay.’’ ask unanimous consent to withdraw

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Mr. ADRIAN SMITH of Nebraska as a co- Yet too often, as is frequently the the legislation as is due to the inclu- sponsor of H.R. 1175. case with energy projects on Federal sion of the NEPA waiver. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there lands, the development of new hydro- Today we are debating H.R. 678, a bill objection to the request of the gen- power gets caught up in bureaucratic that should be noncontroversial. In tleman from Pennsylvania? red tape and regulations. fact, it should have already been en- There was no objection. Today’s bill, sponsored by our col- acted into law. We all agree that add- f league from Colorado, Mr. TIPTON, ing small conduit hydropower projects would cut through that red tape to ex- is a great idea—no, it’s really a won- BUREAU OF RECLAMATION SMALL pand the development of small conduit derful idea—and H.R. 678 could have CONDUIT HYDROPOWER DEVEL- hydropower. Specifically, it clears up easily been passed through the House OPMENT AND RURAL JOBS ACT Federal agency confusion by directly with overwhelming bipartisan support. GENERAL LEAVE authorizing hydropower development But, unfortunately, my esteemed col- Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Mr. at almost 47,000 miles of Bureau of Rec- leagues on the other side have chosen Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that lamation canals. It also streamlines to turn this noncontroversial bill into all Members may have 5 legislative the regulatory process for developing a partisan fight over ideology by days in which to revise and extend small canal and pipeline hydropower waiving compliance with the National their remarks and include extraneous projects on existing Bureau of Rec- Environmental Policy Act, NEPA, for material on H.R. 678. lamation facilities. Federal conduit projects. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there Mr. Chairman, I want to stress the As my colleague from Washington in- objection to the request of the gen- point that these new projects will only dicated, it means jobs. It means the ad- tleman from Washington? be at existing facilities. These existing dition of clean energy. It means all of There was no objection. man-made facilities have already gone those things, but to the exclusion of NEPA. As the gentleman mentioned, The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. through extensive environmental re- H.R. 678 would amend the Reclamation BARR). Pursuant to House Resolution view when they were initially built. Project Act of 1939 and, thus, would fa- 140 and rule XVIII, the Chair declares Requiring duplicative reviews on exist- cilitate and expand the private devel- the House in the Committee of the ing facilities only imposes unnecessary opment of small conduit hydropower at Whole House on the state of the Union delays and, thus, administrative costs. the Bureau of Reclamation facilities. for the consideration of the bill, H.R. I realize that the Bureau of Reclama- The legislation seeks to accomplish 678. tion has come up with its own version several goals, the most important of The Chair appoints the gentleman of streamlining since we considered which is authorizing reclamation to de- from Texas (Mr. POE) to preside over this bill in the last Congress, but it’s velop and increase power at most of the Committee of the Whole. only a theoretical version of streamlining since it has never been used in those facilities. H.R. 678 also includes a provision b 1338 the 6 months after it was created. This that waives NEPA for all conduit IN THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE bill simply streamlines the regulatory projects generating less than 5 Accordingly, the House resolved and administrative process so that megawatts. The bill waives NEPA, water users can be free to develop hy- itself into the Committee of the Whole which is on page 4, lines 14 to 18, even dropower at the Federal canals they al- House on the state of the Union for the though the Bureau of Reclamation has ready operate and maintain. consideration of the bill (H.R. 678) to implemented a categorical exclusion This bill will help generate thousands authorize all Bureau of Reclamation on their own accord to apply to small of megawatts of clean, cheap, abundant conduit facilities for hydropower devel- conduit projects. You may call it theo- hydropower and, thus, will bring in opment under Federal Reclamation retical, but it has only been there 6 new revenue to the Federal Govern- law, and for other purposes, with Mr. months, and it takes government a POE of Texas in the chair. ment and, more importantly, Mr. long time to get the word out to those The Clerk read the title of the bill. Chairman, create new American jobs. parties. The waiver of NEPA in this The CHAIR. Pursuant to the rule, the Best of all, we can do this at no cost to bill is unnecessary, since Reclamation bill is considered read the first time. the American taxpayer. This is exactly has already implemented this guidance The gentleman from Washington (Mr. the type of commonsense proposal that through this categorical exclusion. The HASTINGS) and the gentlewoman from Republicans support as part of the all- legislation seeks to solve a NEPA prob- California (Mrs. NAPOLITANO) each will of-the-above energy plan. Hydropower lem that does not exist. Unfortunately, control 30 minutes. must be part of the solution. Families some Members on the other side of the The Chair recognizes the gentleman and small businesses rely on access to aisle have characterized the waiver of from Washington. affordable electricity, and this bill is a NEPA as ‘‘the main purpose of this leg- Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Mr. simple way to lower prices by expand- islation.’’ Chairman, I yield myself such time as ing production on one of the best forms The waiver in this bill is the exact I may consume. of clean, renewable energy. same waiver that Republicans put into I rise in support of H.R. 678, the Bu- Mr. Chairman, nearly identical legis- the nearly identical bill last Congress. reau of Reclamation Small Conduit lation passed the House last Congress Just like the last time, the Senate will Hydropower Development and Rural with bipartisan support. I hope the not pass it, and the bill will again ex- Jobs Act. House will once again do so today, and pire in the Senate. This is totally un- Those of us from the Pacific North- that the Senate will take action on necessary. This is not what anyone on west know and understand the impor- this job-creating energy bill. this side of the aisle wants to see hap- tance of hydropower and the signifi- I want to thank particularly mem- pen, and we would support the bill cant role it plays in our economy. In bers of the Natural Resources Com- without the NEPA waiver. my home State of Washington, hydro- mittee Mr. TIPTON of Colorado, Mr. Mr. Chairman, I oppose this legisla- power produces 70 percent of our power, GOSAR of Arizona, and Mr. COSTA of tion and ask my colleagues to do the and it helps keep electricity rates low California for their tremendous work same. and affordable for our residents. on this bill and for being strong cham- I reserve the balance of my time. pions of small-scale hydropower pro- Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Mr. b 1340 duction. Chairman, I’m pleased to yield 3 min- It is one of the cheapest and cleanest I reserve the balance of my time. utes to the gentleman from California forms of electricity, and helps make Mrs. NAPOLITANO. Mr. Chairman, I (Mr. MCCLINTOCK), the chairman of the other intermittent sources of renew- yield myself 5 minutes. subcommittee dealing with this legis- able energy, like wind and solar, pos- Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the lation on the Natural Resources Com- sible. general premise of this bill but oppose mittee.

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Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Mr. Chairman, I are unnecessary when conducted on resource’s full potential. This bill thank the gentleman for yielding. similar non-Federal facilities. changes that. Mr. Chairman, the so-called stream- I believe this bill is a model for the This water could easily be harnessed lining that the Bureau has pledged to future. I hope that similar regulatory to provide low-cost, renewable energy do and has done has produced no new reforms will soon be extended to other to American families and help add to projects for reasons that were made Federal and non-Federal facilities. the increment of energy that we need very clear to our Subcommittee on Mrs. NAPOLITANO. Mr. Chairman, I in this country. Water and Power by numerous wit- yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Currently, small conduit hydropower nesses. NEPA is at the heart of the California (Mr. COSTA). is largely untapped and underutilized; problem. As the chairman said, the Bu- Mr. COSTA. Mr. Chairman, I want to and it’s also, obviously, a clean-energy reau of Reclamation operates 47,000 thank the ranking member, Congress- opportunity. The greatest barrier to miles of pipelines and canals that have woman NAPOLITANO, for her efforts on unleashing the next generation of hy- already undergone extensive environ- this legislation, Chairman DOC HAS- dropower is not technological, because mental review. By installing small gen- TINGS, as well as the chair of the sub- we have made great progress on the erators in the existing pipelines, we committee, TOM MCCLINTOCK, and the technological side. Unfortunately, it’s could add the equivalent generating ca- author of this measure, Congressman regulatory. pacity of major hydroelectric dams, TIPTON, for trying to bring folks to- Currently, the Federal Energy Regu- meaning millions of dollars of new rev- gether. latory Commission, otherwise known as FERC, maintains jurisdiction over enue to the government, millions of b 1350 watts of new, clean, cheap electricity, small projects like those that I am and all the jobs these projects would Mr. Chairman, people from every talking about. produce. walk of life are looking to Congress Serving on the Natural Resources The gentlelady has said that she sup- today to see if we can come together to Committee, I’ve heard from folks ports the objective and is willing to do deal with any of our problems, whether across the country say that these regu- everything that she can to help except they be big, small, or in between. I rise lations are too costly and too difficult by getting government out of the way. today to support legislation, I think, to navigate. Obtaining an exception The Federal bureaucracy has made it that does that. This isn’t the biggest from FERC’s permitting rules can take cost prohibitive for people to install legislation we’ll deal with this year, up to 6 months and cost nearly $50,000 these small generators in these exist- nor is it the smallest; but it’s some- for a local water district to pursue. ing canals and pipelines. Rather, they thing that will help America’s energy That’s unnecessary, and it’s also a force them to conduct crushingly ex- policy. waste of valuable resources. pensive environmental reviews, navi- Our bipartisan bill would amend the Our bipartisan bill, again, would gate time-consuming bureaucratic Reclamation Act, as has been stated, of amend the Reclamation Act of 1939 to mazes, pay exorbitant administrative 1939, to create a permanent process for create a permanent process for how fees, and risk the uncertainties of end- how local irrigation districts and water local irrigation districts and water less internal review and external liti- agencies develop this very valuable, re- agencies develop this very valuable, re- gation. These bureaucratic obstacles newable, carbon-free energy at our rec- newable, carbon-free resource for rec- often cost more than the projects lamation facilities. And as we’re put- lamation facilities. themselves and turn sensible, economic ting together an energy policy that By streamlining the process, the irri- electricity projects into cost-prohibi- uses all-of-the-above, this becomes an gation districts would be empowered to tive farces. important part. develop small conduit hydropower at As proposed to be amended, this bill H.R. 678, the Bureau of Reclamation no cost to the taxpayers. These requires the Bureau to categorically Small Conduit Hydropower Develop- projects typically are 5 megawatts and exclude the installation of these small, ment and Rural Jobs Act, is a bipar- less. hydroelectric generators in existing fa- tisan bill that puts existing resources Harnessing the power of water al- cilities that have already undergone and knowledge we already have to ex- ready flowing through reclamation fa- environmental review. It designates pand one of the most important tools cilities would stimulate rural econo- the central office within the Bureau to in our Nation’s energy toolbox. Let me mies, reduce pumping costs for farmers provide uniform guidance on processing repeat that: one of the most important who face those pumping costs every applications. It establishes a sensible tools in our Nation’s energy toolbox. year. and streamlined process to determine Hydropower is the single largest I am proud to stand with my col- development rights. And it ensures source of clean, sustainable energy and leagues who are supporting this legisla- that installation of hydrogenerators has been powering our country for over tion. I want to thank Congressman TIP- will not disrupt existing water oper- 100 years throughout the land. When TON for this effort, because it helps us ations. most people think about hydropower, take advantage of existing facilities Mr. Chairman, think about the impli- of course, they think about the big that are already in place to provide ad- cations just to farming as one example. projects, Hoover Dam and other mod- ditional resource of power where we Some irrigation districts are forced to ern engineering marvels. need it. use diesel generators to pump water to However, the beauty of this hydro- If we want to strengthen our energy their fields. You put hydroelectric gen- power legislation is it can also be used portfolio, let’s start with the low-hang- erators in existing canals and pipes, on much smaller scaled, reliable ing fruit. This is low-hanging fruit. and they become virtually self-sus- projects in which we already have the Let me just give you some numbers. taining, while reducing reliance on infrastructure in place. Every day, In California there are 20 small hydro other sources of electricity that do water flows thousands of miles through projects, should this legislation be- produce air emissions. canals, pipes and ditches across this come law, that would be available to It is truly mystifying that a Nation country. I know—I happen to represent this process. Let me underline that: 20 plagued by prolonged economic stagna- one of those places, the great San Joa- projects in California that would qual- tion, chronic unemployment, and in- quin Valley, in which we have a vast ify. creasingly scarce and expensive elec- network of dams and reservoirs and ca- In the Nation, the Bureau of Rec- tricity would adopt a willful and delib- nals that provide that water for those lamation has determined that there are erate policy obstructing the construc- who most need it, our cities and our 373 projects throughout the country tion of these inexpensive and innoc- farms. that potentially would qualify should uous generators in already-existing fa- We have an old saying: where water this legislation become law. cilities. Even FERC, a bastion of regu- flows, food grows. Every day we miss The bill does just that. I urge your latory excess, agrees that these studies valuable opportunities to utilize this support for H.R. 678.

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Well, TINGS for yielding. conduits to clear up multi-Federal these are 17 chemical elements—ele- Mr. Chairman, H.R. 678 is a common- agency confusion and further reduces ments that, prior to coming to Con- sense piece of legislation to foster the regulatory costs associated with gress and learning about how they af- clean, renewable energy development, hydropower development. This provi- fect our economy, I couldn’t point out create rural jobs in America, and to do sion of the bill will provide the nec- at pistol point—that are very critical so without taxpayer cost, while return- essary statutory authority to be able to making cell phones, to making our ing revenues to the U.S. Treasury and, to reduce litigation that the agency is electric cars, and also to making our by all measures, should be considered sure to seek under the current frame- antimissile systems. Despite the name, low-hanging fruit, as our fellow Mem- work which relies on broad authorities they are very abundant in our country ber has just noted, for congressional that do not specifically authorize hy- and they can be extracted in an envi- action. dropower development. ronmentally safe manner. There’s been a lot of discussion on This legislation ensures the contin- So what’s the problem? Well, today, both sides of the aisle about the need ued use of the Bureau facilities, pri- 97 percent of rare Earth elements are to be able to pursue an all-of-the-above marily for water supply and irrigation, extracted and exported from China. strategy. Hydropower, as the cleanest and protects the interests of those Eighty percent of rare Earth magnets and most abundant natural energy maintaining and operating these facili- and almost 100 percent of related metal source, should be at the forefront of ties by offering them the first right of production are coming from China. In any comprehensive natural energy pol- refusal to take advantage of small con- 2010, China temporarily cut off rare icy. duit energy development projects. Earth supplies to Japan, the European Increased conduit hydropower serves Non-Federal operators know the de- Union, and the United States, high- a number of purposes. It produces re- tails of the facilities best and are lo- lighting the potential consequences to newable and emissions-free energy that cally invested. As a result, it’s only the United States for relying so heav- can be used to pump water or sell elec- logical to offer them the first oppor- ily upon China for rare Earth produc- tricity into the grid; it can generate tunity to develop this energy on facili- tion that is so crucial and critical to revenue for the irrigation district to be ties that they maintain. what we can create here in America. able to help pay for aging infrastruc- Additionally, those irrigation dis- My district includes northern Silicon ture costs and facilitate moderniza- tricts with preexisting arrangements Valley, home of silicon chip processing, tion; and it can create local jobs and with the Bureau or the Federal Energy home of the technology boom, home of generate revenue to the Federal Gov- Regulatory Commission for water de- the Internet, and also home of many ernment. livery and hydropower development advanced manufacturing production It’s as simple as this poster dem- will not be disturbed by this bill. sites. H.R. 1022, the Securing Energy onstrates, as easy as putting a portable I’m proud to have the support of the Critical Elements in American Jobs generator into moving canal water. Family Farm Alliance, the National Act of 2013 aims to help reduce our de- Many irrigation districts and elec- Water Resources Association, the pendence on China for these critical trical utilities seek to develop hydro- American Public Power Association, elements and instead make it here in power on Bureau of Reclamation pipes, and the National Hydropower Associa- America. But in order for us to do this, ditches and canals; but regulatory un- tion, among others. we need to invest in developing our certainty and the threat of unneces- I look forward to working with my technical workforce here at home. sary bureaucratic requirements stand colleagues on both sides of the aisle to in the way. be able to make this public law and to Currently, the United States lacks This legislation seeks to remove du- start putting rural America back to the necessary technical expertise to plicative environmental analysis where work and developing clean, renewable ensure a reliable supply of energy crit- doing so will considerably reduce costs energy. ical elements. My bill, H.R. 1022, en- for hydropower developers, while re- Mrs. NAPOLITANO. Madam Chair, I lists the talents of our university stu- taining the analysis necessary to pro- agree with my colleague, except some dents and encourages them to develop tect valuable natural resources. of those projects were built in 1902 and the technical expertise necessary to se- While the Bureau of Reclamation has through the 1970s. I think we do need cure America’s access to these ele- recently begun to inventory facilities NEPA protection. ments. We need to ensure that the best suitable for small conduit hydropower I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman and brightest minds in our area and our country have the tools and support generation and develop directives and from California (Mr. SWALWELL). standards to help promote that end, for they need to support America’s access far too long, duplicative review for b 1400 to energy critical elements. H.R. 1022 small hydropower projects on existing, Mr. SWALWELL of California. I will promote collaboration and re- manmade facilities rendered these would like to thank the ranking mem- search opportunities in the fields of en- projects financially unfeasible, and sig- ber for yielding me time. ergy-critical elements for students at nificant uncertainty still remains. Madam Chair, I rise to object today higher institutions, and coordination The generating units covered by H.R. to the consideration of this bill and of Federal agencies to promote a stable 678 would be installed on entirely man- rather propose that we stand in this supply of energy-critical elements. made waterways which have already House and we consider Mr. HOYER’s We also have in my congressional dis- received a full environmental review Make It In America package. We can trict what’s called the ‘‘Tri-Valley,’’ when they were built or rehabilitated. come together and focus on real solu- or, as I like to call it, the ‘‘I Valley,’’ Any transmission associated with tions that will get our economy mov- or the ‘‘Innovation Valley.’’ This area these projects that would result from ing again, and we should take up Mr. also would rely upon energy-critical the passage of this bill must still un- HOYER’s Make It In America package elements. And as the ranking member dergo full environmental review where because it will strengthen our economy said, we have an opportunity today to they impact the environment. To re- and create non-outsourceable jobs at work in a bipartisan fashion. Unfortu- quire a lengthy review for dropping a home, here in America. The Make It In nately, I do not see us doing that. So I small generator into a pipe simply de- America package includes bills like would conclude by asking that we come fies logic, and we cannot pursue an all- mine, H.R. 1022, the Securing Energy together.

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Without capital, our American Jobs Act of 2013 will help to terms of the potential energy output. businesses are stagnant, cannot invest spur private investment in companies In Wyoming alone, the estimated po- in their own growth, and will not hire on the forefront of this critical field. tential is 82 million kilowatt hours an- that unemployed person who has been It’s very important that we have the nually from a clean, renewable energy searching for a job for months. Federal Government at the very incep- source. Unleashing this potential, We must do more to get the financial tion, in the beginning, providing the while still protecting the environment institutions back to lending in this research and Federal funding. But most and end water users, is what this bill is country. Now it’s up to Republicans important is to get it out into private all about. and Democrats to work together to industry. And that’s what this bill First, H.R. 678 eliminates bureau- enact and pass Make It In America leg- calls upon. cratic confusion by expressly author- islation and help secure America as the So, again, I urge my colleagues to izing the Bureau to oversee hydropower world leader when it comes to job cre- stop wasting time with partisan bills development in its conduits. ation and when it comes to innovation. like this today. Instead, let’s come to- Second, it directs the Bureau of Rec- When it comes to hydropower, it’s very gether to train and secure a 21st cen- lamation to exempt small hydropower important for us to understand yes, we tury workforce. Let’s harness our own projects from duplicative environ- need more hydropower, yes, we need in- resources. Let’s Make It In America, mental paperwork requirements. We’re novation, yes, we need to make sure and we can help all Americans make it. talking about placing small power gen- the small and large hydropower actu- Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. erators in canals and ditches where the ally moves forward. But doing it at the Madam Chairman, before I yield time ground has already been disturbed. expense of the environment by waiving to the gentlelady from Wyoming, I Fences have gone up. Environmental environmental review is just not the yield myself such time as I may con- analysis has been conducted, some- right way to do it. sume. times multiple times because of the I find the gentleman’s argument on Bureau’s contract renewals with some the other side rather striking because water users. Requiring duplicative en- b 1410 he’s talking about American-made jobs vironmental analysis on preexisting Many people in these Chambers and another piece of legislation not as- conduits makes no sense, provides no speak constantly of making sure that sociated with this. And I would just environmental benefit, and imposes we don’t put things on the backs of our point out, what could be more Amer- more costs and bureaucratic uncer- children and our grandchildren. Every ican-made jobs than putting hydro- tainty on potential developers. time we waive environmental review, power facilities on American soil? That Third, the bill protects water supply every time that we don’t do things creates jobs. That’s what this bill is all and delivery as the primary and funda- carefully, we move in a direction where about. mental priority for these conduits, it takes sometimes a year or 2 or 3 to And the second point, the gentleman whose vital mission will not be dis- go in the wrong direction, it takes dec- mentioned the rare Earth issue that we rupted. ades for us to correct those environ- have. Last Congress, we passed legisla- I urge my colleagues to support this mental problems. tion here so we could utilize the known commonsense, jobs-creating bill. rare Earth supplies we have in this Mrs. NAPOLITANO. May I inquire as So environmental review should be country, and it was the other body, to how much time I have remaining? part of the process and, yes, it should controlled by the gentleman’s own The Acting CHAIR (Mrs. MILLER of be streamlined and, yes, we need to party, that didn’t act on it. And he Michigan). The gentlewoman from make sure that we do things in a fash- sounds like it is a big, big issue now. I California has 18 minutes remaining, ion that does put people back to work, suspect we may have, Madam Chair- and the gentleman from Washington but we have to do it carefully and re- 1 sponsibly. man, that legislation again in front of has 16 ⁄2 minutes remaining. us, and I would hope that we could elic- Mrs. NAPOLITANO. I yield 5 minutes Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. it the gentleman’s support when that to the gentleman from California (Mr. Madam Chairman, I am pleased to bill comes to the floor. CA´ RDENAS). yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from With that, Madam Chairman, I am Mr. CA´ RDENAS. I thank the gentle- Arizona (Mr. GOSAR), another valuable very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the woman for giving me the opportunity member of the Committee on Natural gentlelady from Wyoming (Mrs. LUM- to speak on this matter. Resources. MIS), a valuable member of the Natural H.R. 678 could easily be a bipartisan, Mr. GOSAR. Thank you, Chairman noncontroversial bill. But Republicans Resources Committee. HASTINGS. Mrs. LUMMIS. I rise in support of insist on including an unnecessary pro- H.R. 678, of which I’m an original co- vision to waive environmental review. Madam Chairman, I rise in support of sponsor, and I want to thank Rep- It sets the wrong precedent. Nearly 100 H.R. 678, the Bureau of Reclamation resentative TIPTON, Chairman MCCLIN- days have passed since the 113th Con- and Small Conduit Hydropower Devel- TOCK, and Chairman HASTINGS for their gress has been sworn in, and not one opment and Rural Jobs Act of 2013. hard work on this bill, which unlocks bill has been brought to the floor that This legislation was one of Representa- significant hydropower development would have a measurable effect of rein- tive TIPTON’s and my top priorities in potential in my home State of Wyo- vigorating our manufacturing sector. the Natural Resources Committee last ming. In fact, quite the opposite has hap- Congress, so I am pleased to join him Congress and the Bureau of Reclama- pened. again as an original cosponsor and ap- tion have over the years created hun- Democrats have announced the Make preciate that the House is taking up dreds of canals and pipelines to serve It In America initiative to focus on the legislation so quickly in the 113th water uses in the West. Most of these four areas to help our economy grow. Congress. conduits were never envisioned as In order to strengthen the economy, Our country is failing to fully tap its power sources because the technology this Congress must: adopt and pursue a hydroelectric power generation poten- wasn’t there or it wasn’t yet cost-effec- comprehensive manufacturing strat- tial. The Federal Government owns tive. But technology has changed, and egy; promote the export of U.S. goods; over 47,000 miles of canals, laterals, now it’s feasible to harness and chan- encourage innovation; and train a 21st drains, pipeline and tunnels through- nel the energy byproduct of these century workforce. In addition to these out the West that are perfectly suit- water flows. The Bureau of Reclama- four core components, we must work able for hydropower production, but

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hardworking irrigators and power pro- today on Congressman TIPTON’s and advanced manufacturing and clean en- viders in our districts, already oper- my legislation that does the same for ergy, require a highly skilled work- ating and maintaining this infrastruc- publicly owned infrastructure. force. These industries struggle to find ture on behalf of the Federal Govern- Congress would be doing the Amer- workers who possess the technical ment, cannot install hydropower gen- ican people an injustice if we didn’t training that they require. The Na- erators because government regula- move swiftly on this bill. Hydropower tional Association of Manufacturers es- tions and bureaucratic confusion are must be an integral component of the timates that 600,000 manufacturing making it cost prohibitive. long-term all-of-the-above energy jobs remain unfilled due to a lack of H.R. 678 will clear away these bu- strategy in Arizona and for our Nation, qualified candidates. Just today, we reaucratic obstacles that stand be- and this bill will allow rural western learned from the Department of Labor tween our Nation and thousands of communities to play a major role in that there are 3.9 million job openings megawatts of clean, cheap, abundant, that future. I will continue to work in America, the most in almost 5 years. and reliable hydroelectricity. The re- with Congressman TIPTON to ensure Many of these jobs are unfilled because sulting development will create jobs in that this bill not only passes the House of the lack of training. rural communities hit hardest by the this year but gets through the Senate The Job Skills for America’s Stu- recession, increase our country’s re- and is sent to the President’s desk for dents Act partners key industries with newable energy portfolio, and even gen- his signature. Folks, it is that simple: community colleges and other pro- erate revenue for the Federal Treasury. commonsense utilization of infrastruc- grams to offer students the oppor- The Members of this body opposing ture we already have. tunity to obtain the training they need this legislation claim it could cause Mrs. NAPOLITANO. Madam Chair- to thrive in the field of their choice. To harm to the environment. To be clear, man, I am glad that there are some vis- grow our middle class and create a this bill only allows for development ual effects here. It is important. But I workforce for the future, we must close on existing irrigation canals and ditch don’t know how all the canal and for the skills gap and we must make train- systems, not free-flowing rivers and the release, were there any levee ing affordable and effective. streams. These conduits have been in issues. So it is important to have a I urge my Republican colleagues to place for years, do not contain any en- NEPA review. work with Democrats to pass each dangered wildlife or fish, and were sub- I would now like to yield 5 minutes piece of the Make It In America legis- ject to environmental analysis at the to my colleague, the gentleman from lation. Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. time of construction or rehabilitation. California, Congressman TAKANO. On the poster to my left is a clear ex- Mr. TAKANO. I thank the gentlelady Madam Chairman, I am pleased to ample of what we are talking about. from my own home State of California yield 2 minutes to another member of the Natural Resources Committee, the Folks, it’s concrete. It’s been sitting for yielding time. here with running water. I don’t see Madam Chair, this bill is something gentleman from Montana (Mr. DAINES). Mr. DAINES. Chairman HASTINGS, the need and I hope you don’t see the that Democrats could support if proper thanks to you and to Mr. TIPTON for need for a NEPA environmental assess- environmental review were not made a the opportunity to speak in support of ment. This canal is in the western part problem. I really believe this Congress H.R. 678 today. This bill reflects an of my congressional district. We have needs to get back to getting serious issue that is of true importance to my miles of this type of infrastructure about discussing how we’re going to home State of Montana. throughout the State, including the put our country back to work. You know, when most people think of Central Arizona Project. It provides The national unemployment rate is our rivers and waterways in Montana, my constituents with the water nec- 7.6 percent, and in my own district it’s they think of celebrities like Brad Pitt essary to live in the desert and even nearly 11 percent. The Congress should standing in the Little Blackfoot River grow a good portion of this Nation’s be focused on putting Americans back casting for trout in the movie ‘‘A River produce. to work. Democrats have a plan. It’s Runs Through It.’’ The experts on the ground say we are called Make It In America. This plan, Back in Montana, we rely on our riv- sitting on a hydropower gold mine put together by Mr. HOYER from Mary- ers and our natural resources as an im- waiting for the needed clarifications land, addresses the most pressing crisis portant part of our way of life. How- and streamlining that will cut costs that our Nation faces, the jobs crisis, ever, I’m here today to focus on a very and make this program more attrac- and it will put Americans back to significant benefit of our waterways, tive. There are over 26 locations just work. It has four main points: and that’s hydropower. Our waterways like this one in my State alone—most- Number one, adopt and pursue a na- help power our homes, they irrigate ly in Yuma, Pinal, and western Mari- tional manufacturing strategy; our farms and ranches, and they water copa Counties—that are suitable for Number two, promote the export of our livestock. In Montana, about a this development. The Agri-Business American goods; third of our energy comes from hydro- Council of Arizona believes its mem- Number three, encourage manufac- power, generating 1,100 megawatts per bers could produce enough low-cost turers to bring jobs and innovation year. To put this in perspective, 1 clean energy to power nearly 5,000 back to America; megawatt will power nearly 600 homes. homes simply by installing these small Number four, train and secure a 21st Six of Montana’s 10 largest generating hydropower generators. That is a huge century workforce. plants run on hydroelectric power. But economic impact for the small rural We have the tools at our disposal to we’re not here to talk about streams communities these irrigators serve. do these things. and rivers; we’re here to talk about They would provide a real economic The legislation that I have intro- man-made canals and man-made water- boost and lower energy costs. duced that is a part of the Make It In ways. There are many solutions to our Na- America plan is called the Jobs Skills The Bureau of Reclamation has con- tion’s energy crisis, but hydropower is for America’s Students Act. It encour- structed 32 such projects in Montana, clearly part of our all-of-the-above ages partnerships between employers and with the improved ability to har- plan. It already accounts for about 75 and educational institutions. Employ- ness the energy of moving water in percent of this country’s total renew- ers who participate are able to receive conduits, the Rural Jobs Act would able electricity generation, and we a $2,000 tax credit per student partici- allow each of these projects to generate haven’t even begun yet. pating in a qualified technical training more than 26 million kilowatts per Early this Congress, the House and skills program, with a total credit hour of power. There is no reason red unanimously passed the Hydropower amount cap of $10,000 per year. tape should tie up that much alter- Regulatory Efficiency Act, which pro- Many of America’s fastest growing native energy potential. motes development on privately owned industries, industries that will benefit This bill will help lower energy costs, infrastructure. We should do the same from the Make It In America plan, like create Montana jobs, and provide our

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Madam Chair, I our rural States, for rural areas to through them, water is running down- reserve the balance of my time. produce these projects with American hill. We all know that water running Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. know-how and more American jobs. We downhill creates a certain amount of Madam Chairman, I am very pleased to hear a lot about that here today. Let’s energy. All we want to do is capture yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from put Americans to work with common- that energy. With the prior chart that California (Mr. LAMALFA), another sense, reachable measures that are en- the gentleman from California put up, member of the Natural Resources Com- vironmentally sound and certainly most of the States that will benefit by mittee. good for our economy. this are from the West. That means Mr. LAMALFA. I thank the gen- Mrs. NAPOLITANO. Madam Chair, that we can make the desert bloom tleman for yielding. may I inquire how many minutes we even more in the West if we utilize Madam Chairman, once in awhile a have remaining? these facilities. bill comes through that even makes The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman Finally, I just want to make one great sense in Washington, D.C., and from California has 12 minutes remain- other observation. My good friend from this is a really commonsense measure. ing, and the gentleman from Wash- California was saying that, okay, this I live on a farm in northern California ington has 81⁄2 minutes remaining. is like a bill we had last year. We where I’m surrounded by canals and Mrs. NAPOLITANO. May I inquire of passed it; the Senate didn’t do any- ditches and water moving all about in my colleague how many other speakers thing. Well, I would just remind the my daily life in producing rice, and so he has? gentlelady, and she should know this, there’s all these opportunities we Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. I am and I know she does, we are two dis- would have on installations like that. prepared to close general debate if the tinct bodies, the House and the Senate. But we’re talking today about Bureau gentlelady is prepared to close. If they have a different view, for good- installations to put renewable power in Mrs. NAPOLITANO. I am. I thank ness sake, pass something. If it’s dif- place that, according to this chart the gentleman. ferent than our view, then we’ll figure here, would affect many, many States Madam Chair, as I’ve said before, this out how to come together. But to sim- with many installations and provide is a good bill with one bad provision in ply say, this is a good piece of legisla- many American jobs. it, and that is the NEPA waiver that is tion but we don’t like NEPA, therefore, The opportunities of this bill, just not needed. It is not good environ- don’t pass it because the Senate won’t putting the bureaucracy and the red mental policy, and it is not good en- take it up, is not doing our job. tape aside, for a commonsense measure ergy policy. Madam Chairman, this is a good to take advantage of an opportunity to NEPA is not just red tape. It is a piece of legislation. There are some do something that, on the heels of chance for the Federal Government to amendments that will be following. We March Madness here, really, installa- consider alternatives, to listen to not can get into more detail on those. But tions would be no harm, no foul. These only the opponent, but get input from I urge my colleagues to support pas- facilities already exist. It would be everybody impacted and to consider sage of this legislation, and I yield easy to put in place. If we could put any possible impacts to the area. back the balance of my time. aside the red tape of NEPA require- At the appropriate time, I will offer Mr. SMITH of Nebraska. Madam Chair, I ments, it would be unnecessary. an amendment to fit the one flaw in rise today in support of H.R. 678, the Bureau As I drive up and down my canals and this bill. I hope my amendment is of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower De- my ditches, again, no harm, no foul adopted and we’ll send this to the Sen- velopment and Rural Jobs Act, of which I am here. We’re looking at an easy installa- ate for passage. a cosponsor, and I want to thank Mr. TIPTON tion that would be a very valuable Madam Chair, I yield back the bal- for his efforts. thing for, where I come from in Cali- ance of my time. Expanding access to clean, affordable, reli- fornia, a renewable energy portfolio, Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. able energy is one challenge facing our Nation which is 33 percent kicking in. It’s Madam Chairman, I yield myself the today. And while visionaries are looking for so- pretty hard to find renewable energy, balance of my time. lutions, outdated bureaucracy is stifling inno- especially when most of those sources This debate has been rather inter- vation. are required to be solar or wind. esting, because it sounds like on the Though its environmental impacts are neg- Hydropower is a very important com- floor there is widespread support for ligible, small hydropower development remains ponent in my part of the State here. the concept of this bill. And why a financial challenge. We have so much water that we can shouldn’t there be? After all, there are By exempting small hydropower from NEPA take advantage of to produce, why 47,000 miles of canals and ditches that requirements, this bill substantially reduces aren’t we doing it in the commonsense could be utilized for energy production. administrative costs and could help stimulate areas? There seems to be one problem, and the economy of rural America at no cost to H.R. 678—and I commend the chair- that problem revolves around NEPA, taxpayers. man and Mr. TIPTON for bringing this the National Environmental Policy Let me be clear, Madam Chair, this bill, like bill forward. This is, again, something Act, which was put in place, by the hydropower legislation I introduced last Con- that’s going to be very positive for way, in 1969. I’m not going to say gress, is limited in scope. rural America, for our renewable en- there’s a direct correlation between We’re not talking about waiving environ- ergy portfolio, which is affecting, I NEPA and the lack of Bureau of Rec- mental regulations for large, new infrastructure think, a lot of the country these days, lamation projects, but it is very inter- projects; we’re talking about streamlining the because renewable energy in most esting that most of the great projects process of developing clean, renewable en- cases is very expensive. So the same that were built in the West were built ergy on existing conduits. people that are saying we can’t do this prior to NEPA. According to a Bureau of Reclamation’s without NEPA, the same people that There were environmental statutes March 2012 report on conduit hydropower de- are saying we can’t have fracturing, on the book, Madam Chairman, back velopment, more than 30 irrigation sites in my which is bringing very cost-effective then, and they are all satisfied. I hap- home State of Nebraska contain more than electricity to many, many Americans pen to live in central Washington. 5,000 kilowatts of potential hydropower devel- now, the same people that want to re- There are two great projects in central opment.

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Madam Chairwoman, I hidden costs, Madam Chair. involved, nor shall it create any unmitigated Sustainable, affordable energy is critical to financial or physical impacts to the project offer this amendment in response to growing our economy and this is common- or division involved, and shall be on such the concerns of my colleagues on the sense policymaking. terms and conditions as in the judgment of other side of the aisle and at the re- The Acting CHAIR. All time for gen- the Secretary in consultation with the ap- quest of the broad range of irrigation eral debate has expired. propriate irrigation district or water users districts, water conservation and con- Pursuant to the rule, the bill shall be association, will adequately protect the servancy districts, and public utilities considered for amendment under the 5- planning, design, construction, operation, that are supporting this bill and this minute rule and is considered read. maintenance, and other interests of the commonsense amendment. I’m pleased The text of the bill is as follows: United States and the project or division involved. to have the support of my Democratic H.R. 678 ‘‘(7) Nothing in this subsection shall alter colleague JIM COSTA on this effort and Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- or affect any existing agreements for the de- the support of the National Hydro- resentatives of the United States of America in velopment of conduit hydropower projects or power Association, the Family Farm Congress assembled, disposition of revenues. Alliance, the National Water Resources SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. ‘‘(8) In this subsection: Association, and the American Public This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Bureau of ‘‘(A) CONDUIT.—The term ‘conduit’ means Power Association. Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower De- any Bureau of Reclamation tunnel, canal, This amendment removes the NEPA velopment and Rural Jobs Act’’. pipeline, aqueduct, flume, ditch, or similar waiver in the bill and instead codifies SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION. manmade water conveyance that is operated Section 9(c) of the Reclamation Project for the distribution of water for agricultural, the application of the Bureau of Rec- Act of 1939 (43 U.S.C. 485h(c)) is amended— municipal, or industrial consumption and lamation’s categorical exclusion proc- (1) by striking ‘‘The Secretary is author- not primarily for the generation of elec- ess under the National Environmental ized to enter into contracts to furnish tricity. Policy Act for small hydropower water’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘(B) IRRIGATION DISTRICT.—The term ‘irri- projects covered by this bill. ‘‘(1) The Secretary is authorized to enter gation district’ means any irrigation, water This alternative provision would still into contracts to furnish water’’; conservation, multicounty water conserva- ensure streamlining the approval proc- (2) by striking ‘‘(1) shall’’ and inserting tion district, or any separate public entity ess for clean renewable energy and help ‘‘(A) shall’’; composed of two or more such districts and provide certainty for investors and job (3) by striking ‘‘(2) shall’’ and inserting jointly exercising powers of its member dis- ‘‘(B) shall’’; tricts. creators, while providing flexibility to (4) by striking ‘‘respecting the terms of ‘‘(C) RESERVED WORK.—The term ‘reserved the Bureau to adjust to changing cir- sales of electric power and leases of power work’ means any conduit that is included in cumstances moving forward. By ad- privileges shall be in addition and alter- project works the care, operation, and main- vancing these projects under the Bu- native to any authority in existing laws re- tenance of which has been reserved by the reau’s categorical exclusion process, we lating to particular projects’’ and inserting Secretary, through the Commissioner of the ensure that all of the elements in that ‘‘respecting the sales of electric power and Bureau of Reclamation. process are retained, including agency leases of power privileges shall be an author- ‘‘(D) TRANSFERRED WORK.—The term discretion for examining extraordinary ization in addition to and alternative to any ‘transferred work’ means any conduit that is authority in existing laws related to par- included in project works the care, oper- circumstances. In addition, the amend- ticular projects, including small conduit hy- ation, and maintenance of which has been ment specifically mentions codifying dropower development’’; and transferred to a legally organized water the categorical exclusion process for (5) by adding at the end the following: users association or irrigation district. small conduit hydropower. ‘‘(2) When carrying out this subsection, the ‘‘(E) SMALL CONDUIT HYDROPOWER.—The This is an approach that is supported Secretary shall first offer the lease of power term ‘small conduit hydropower’ means a fa- by Trout Unlimited in its March 19, privilege to an irrigation district or water cility capable of producing 5 megawatts or 2013 letter, which states: users association operating the applicable less of electric capacity.’’. Congress should direct BOR to create a transferred work, or to the irrigation dis- The Acting CHAIR. No amendment categorical exclusion for small conduit hy- trict or water users association receiving to the bill shall be in order except dropower. water from the applicable reserved work. The Secretary shall determine a reasonable those received for printing in the por- That’s exactly what this amendment time frame for the irrigation district or tion of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD des- does. water users association to accept or reject a ignated for that purpose dated at least The use of a categorical exclusion for lease of power privilege offer. 1 day before the day of consideration of small conduit hydropower development ‘‘(3) The National Environmental Policy the amendment and pro forma amend- can mean the difference between pri- Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) shall not ments for the purpose of debate. vate investment in a public good with apply to small conduit hydropower develop- Each amendment so received may be a multitude of benefits, and unreason- ment, excluding siting of associated trans- offered only by the Member who sub- able financial costs and lengthy delays mission on Federal lands, under this submitted it for printing or a designee and section. that lead to untapped potential. ‘‘(4) The Power Resources Office of the Bu- shall be considered as read if printed. My hope is that this amendment, reau of Reclamation shall be the lead office Are there any amendments to the which is broadly supported by the di- of small conduit hydropower activities con- bill? verse range of groups invested in the ducted under this subsection. AMENDMENT NO. 3 OFFERED BY MR. TIPTON bill who are committed to ensuring ‘‘(5) Nothing in this subsection shall obli- Mr. TIPTON. Madam Chairwoman, I continued environmental protection, gate the Western Area Power Administra- have an amendment at the desk. will assuage any reservations about tion, the Bonneville Power Administration, The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will this effort to promote clean renewable or the Southwestern Power Administration energy and allow us to be able to move to purchase or market any of the power pro- designate the amendment. duced by the facilities covered under this The text of the amendment is as fol- forward united in our support. subsection and none of the costs associated lows: b 1430 with production or delivery of such power Page 4, strike lines 14 through 18, and in- shall be assigned to project purposes for insert the following: Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Will clusion in project rates. ‘‘(3) The Bureau of Reclamation shall apply the gentleman yield? ‘‘(6) Nothing in this subsection shall alter its categorical exclusion process under the Mr. TIPTON. I yield to the gen- or impede the delivery and management of National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 tleman. water by Bureau of Reclamation facilities, as (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) to small conduit hy- Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. I water used for conduit hydropower genera- dropower development under this subsection, thank the gentleman for offering this

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With that, Madam Chairman, I yield tion is already taking to ease the way for re- Let me point out that it is my under- back the balance of my time. sponsible small conduit hydropower develop- standing that there have been some Mrs. NAPOLITANO. I rise in opposi- ment while also resolving potential litigation projects built under the current—not tion to this amendment. concerns. the CE—that have taken a lot more The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman This is a commonsense amendment that time and have been costly. And with a from California is recognized for 5 min- has been endorsed by American Rivers, Trout categorical exclusion, there will be a utes. Unlimited, the Family Farm Alliance, the Na- cut not only in the cost but in time be- Mrs. NAPOLITANO. Madam Chair, I tional Water Resources Association, and the cause it only involves staff and the rise in opposition to Tipton amend- National Hydropower Association. cost will be diminished. ment No. 3 for the CONGRESSIONAL I urge you to support this amendment and With that, I yield back the balance of my time. RECORD. support the underlying bill. Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. We are glad to see the author of the The Acting CHAIR. The question is Madam Chairman, I move to strike the legislation recognizes that in devel- on the amendment offered by the gen- last word. oping conduit hydropower projects, tleman from Colorado (Mr. TIPTON). The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is NEPA is not the problem and that the The amendment was agreed to. recognized for 5 minutes. flat NEPA waiver included in the base AMENDMENT NO. 1 OFFERED BY MRS. Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. bill is not good policy. NAPOLITANO Madam Chair, I just want to make a We also welcome the apparent real- Mrs. NAPOLITANO. Madam Chair, I point because at the end of the general ization that insisting on an unwar- rise to offer the Napolitano amendment debate, I brought up the issue of NEPA ranted and unwise NEPA waiver has identified as amendment No. 1 in the that everybody says this is a wonderful been the anchor that has held this bill CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. bill except this part. Of course, the back and prohibited this largely non- The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will gentlelady’s amendment strikes the controversial measure from becoming designate the amendment. NEPA waiver, which I pointed out law. The text of the amendment is as fol- again at the end of the general debate But to be clear, this amendment only lows: there seems to be somewhat cause and tweaks language that should be re- Page 4, strike lines 14 through 18 (and re- effect of having NEPA and having moved from the bill entirely. The Tip- designate subsequent provisions accord- projects go forward. ton amendment circles around the edge ingly). But here is the important point on of the problem while my amendment, Page 7, line 13, strike ‘‘5’’ and insert ‘‘15’’. this, Madam Chairman, from my point which I’ll offer in a few minutes, solves The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman of view: this bill deals with the Bureau the problem by removing the waiver from California is recognized for 5 min- of Reclamation, the Bureau of Rec- completely so we can move forward and utes. lamation that built ditches and con- support the bill. Mrs. NAPOLITANO. Madam Chair, duits out of concrete generally. Again, Better yet, if the waiver is removed, my amendment is very simple. It would I spoke of the Columbia Basin Project there is no need for the artificially low strike the NEPA, known as the Na- in my district and the Yakima Project cap on the size of these projects con- tional Environmental Policy Act, waiv- in my district, and virtually all of the tained in the base bill, which is why er and give the Secretary of the Inte- ditches are concrete. That means that my amendment will increase the cap rior, acting through the Bureau of Rec- the land has already been disturbed in from 5 to 15 megawatts. The Tipton lamation, the authority to apply Rec- order to put these facilities in place. amendment does nothing to raise the lamation’s directives and standards for What the gentleman from Colorado’s cap on these projects. lease of power privilege projects, which bill does is simply put a power source The Tipton amendment is a signifi- is known as LOPP. within the existing ditches that have cant step in the right direction for the The Bureau of Reclamation on its gone through environmental review. bill’s sponsor, and we will not oppose it own accord has applied a categorical Why, for goodness’ sakes, would you and will work with the sponsor and exclusion, known as CE, to small con- have to jump through more hoops, un- Senate to perfect the language. How- duit hydropower projects. In fact, their less you wanted to slow the process ever, my amendment, which we’ll see CE went even further. It can be used to down? Why you’d want to do that, I momentarily, is better energy policy expedite a wide variety of low-impact don’t know, because the end result of this is probably less expensive energy. and better environmental policy. The hydropower projects built on Reclama- It’s certainly American jobs, and it amendment is a start, this particular tion’s water infrastructure. The main probably adds to a growing economy. amendment, but I urge my colleagues point of the legislation is to clarify Yet there seems to be some idea that to vote ‘‘yes’’ on my amendment to that Reclamation has jurisdiction over only NEPA can save us from all of really fix this legislation. the development of conduit projects on that. With that, I yield back the balance of Reclamation facilities. Well, I reject that, and that’s why I As I have mentioned before, the spon- my time. oppose the gentlelady’s amendment be- Mr. COSTA. Madam Chair, the legislative sor’s amendment only tweaks the lan- cause it would waive that requirement. process is a two way street. It’s about listening guage that should be removed from the Once again, Madam Chairman, this is and incorporating the concerns of our col- bill entirely. The Tipton amendment on existing facilities that have gone leagues to improve a bill. This amendment tinkers around the edge of the problem through environmental review. It does just that. while my amendment solves the prob- doesn’t need to jump through that Environmental review is important, but it lem by removing the waiver com- hoop one more time. needs to be an appropriate level of review for pletely. With that, I urge opposition to this the project involved. On these types of As a compromise, my amendment amendment, and I yield back the bal- projects, there isn’t much chance of damage, also increases the megawatt limitation ance of my time. so there shouldn’t be much cost involved for from 5 to 15 megawatts for small con- Mr. TIPTON. Madam Chairman, I review. duit hydro projects. This would allow move to strike the last word. Reclamation recognizes this and has made for more power to be created at those The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman great strides in easing the way for small hydro existing facilities. Without the NEPA from Colorado is recognized for 5 min- development on the agency’s projects. How- waiver, the agency can utilize its own utes.

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The Clerk will she is offering, will allow no alter- would be greater than the actual cap- designate the amendment. native to be able to streamline the ital cost of the hydropower units. No The text of the amendment is as fol- projects’ approval process, and this one in his right mind would invest in a lows: amendment literally will ensure that project with this kind of requirement. Page 4, line 4, insert ‘‘(A)’’ after ‘‘(2)’’. small investment in small hydropower It simply makes no sense, and that’s Page 4, lines 8 and 10, strike ‘‘work’’ and projects would not be able to be the primary reason conduit hydro- insert ‘‘conduit’’. achieved. I think it’s important to note power development is not happening. Page 4, line 13, after ‘‘offer’’ insert ‘‘for a we’re spending $1.750 trillion per year It is true that the Bureau of Rec- small conduit hydropower project’’. Page 4, after line 13, insert the following: in regulatory costs in this Nation. lamation instituted a new NEPA Cat- Now, are all regulations bad? No, ‘‘(B) If the irrigation district or water egorical Exclusion for small hydro- they aren’t. But redundant regulations users association elects not accept a lease of electric projects back in September of which drive up costs, which inhibit our power privilege offer under subparagraph (A), 2012, but 6 months later, this new pol- the Secretary shall offer the lease of power ability to be able to create jobs to be icy has resulted in precisely zero new privilege to other parties in accordance with able to put Americans back to work this subsection.’’. and to be able to create clean, afford- projects moving forward. Even if projects were moving forward today, Page 4, line 21, after ‘‘hydropower’’ insert able energy should not stand in the ‘‘policy and procedure-setting’’. way. this is only an administrative change Page 5, line 18 strike ‘‘involved, and’’ and Let’s put Americans back to work. and could be changed back at any time. all that follows though line 25 and insert the Let’s work together. In addition, an expert witness who following ‘‘involved. The Secretary shall no- The purpose of my amendment is to happens to be a litigator testified to tify and consult with the irrigation district be able to reach a reasonable com- our subcommittee that the current ad- or water users association operating the promise between the two opposing ministrative process is full of legal transferred conduit before offering the lease ideas in regards to the NEPA provision holes that could be exploited by those of power privilege and shall prescribe terms wanting to stop these projects. Inves- and conditions that will adequately protect on manmade projects. As Chairman the planning, design, construction, oper- HASTINGS just ably noted, these are tors need certainty, and that requires a ation, maintenance, and other interests of manmade ditches. We have no impedi- statutory and not an administrative the United States and the project or division ment that’s going to be looked at when fix. involved.’’. it comes to endangered species, be it I appreciate and support the gentle- Page 6, after line 4, insert the following: fish or wildlife. This has already gone lady’s effort to allow the Bureau to ‘‘(8) Nothing in this subsection shall alter through the desired process of environ- consider units with 15 megawatts, but I or affect any existing preliminary permit, li- mental review. So does it make good would remind her that zero projects cense, or exemption issued by the Federal common sense to say that an area times 15 megawatts still equals zero Energy Regulatory Commission under Part I of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 792, et that’s been reviewed that was made by electricity. Indeed, there are prac- seq.) or any project for which an application men does not have to go through an ad- tically no projects in this range to has been filed with the Federal Energy Regu- ditional review process in order to be begin with, which makes the amend- latory Commission as of the date of the enable to create those jobs and to be able ment somewhat disingenuous. Even if actment of the Bureau of Reclamation Small to create American energy? I think there were, if the current regulatory Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural that’s a sensible approach for us to be scheme isn’t allowing 5-megawatt Jobs Act.’’. able to pursue. units, it certainly won’t allow 15-mega- Page 6, line 5, strike ‘‘(8)’’ and insert ‘‘(9)’’. Page 6, strike lines 14 through 20, and in- With that, I would urge opposition watt units. That’s the problem. and defeat of the Napolitano amend- sert the following: Mr. TIPTON’s bill provides an auto- (B) IRRIGATION DISTRICT.—The term ‘‘irri- ment. matic exclusion from this duplicative gation district’’ means any irrigation, water Let’s get this job done and let’s truly and destructive NEPA requirement. conservation or conservancy, multicounty work to get Americans back to work. The gentlelady’s amendment takes it water conservation or conservancy district, With that, I yield back the balance of back out again. That’s not construc- or any separate public entity composed of my time. tive and it’s not helpful. two or more such districts and jointly exer- Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Madam Chair, I To assure us that one supports small cising powers of its member districts. move to strike the last word. Page 6, line 21, strike ‘‘WORK’’ and insert hydropower but opposes the automatic The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman ‘‘CONDUIT’’. exclusion in Mr. TIPTON’s bill reminds from California is recognized for 5 min- Page 6, line 22, strike ‘‘work’’ and insert utes. me of Leo Tolstoy’s observation when ‘‘conduit’’. Page 7, line 3, strike ‘‘WORK’’ and insert Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Madam Chair- he said: man, this amendment strikes the I sit on a man’s back, choking him and ‘‘CONDUIT’’. making him carry me, and all the while, I as- Page 7, line 4, strike ‘‘work’’ and insert NEPA exclusion for small hydro- ‘‘conduit’’. electric projects. That’s the principal sure him and anyone who will listen that I am sympathetic for his plight and I am will- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman point of the bill. ing to do everything I can to help—except by from Colorado is recognized for 5 min- As the Subcommittee on Water and getting off his back. Power has repeatedly been told, it is utes. precisely this process that has doubled I yield back the balance of my time. Mr. TIPTON. Madam Chairwoman, I the cost of small hydro projects simply The Acting CHAIR. The question is offer this amendment to provide tech- making them cost prohibitive. This is on the amendment offered by the gen- nical corrections and to eliminate akin to having a full environmental re- tlewoman from California (Mrs. drafting inconsistencies between this view done when you build your home NAPOLITANO). year’s bill and its counterpart in the and then having to do it all over again The question was taken; and the Act- 112th Congress. when you want to install a microwave ing Chair announced that the noes ap- This amendment reflects changes in your kitchen. peared to have it. sought by the Bureau of Reclamation Mrs. NAPOLITANO. Madam Chair, I with respect to definitions, to more ac- b 1440 demand a recorded vote. curately cover intended matters and One witness testified that installing The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to properly coincide with existing law and 15 very small hydropower units on a clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- Bureau regulations. Furthermore, the

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I yield to the gen- DeGette Larson (CT) Ruppersberger Luetkemeyer Pompeo Stockman tleman from Washington. Delaney Lee (CA) Rush Lummis Posey Stutzman DeLauro Levin Marchant Price (GA) Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. I Ryan (OH) Terry DelBene Lewis Sa´ nchez, Linda Marino Radel Thompson (PA) thank the gentleman for yielding. Deutch Lipinski T. Massie Reed Thornberry As you say, I think this is a technical Dingell Loebsack Sanchez, Loretta Matheson Reichert Tiberi McCarthy (CA) Renacci Doggett Lofgren Sarbanes Tipton amendment. It adds to the bill, and I McCaul Ribble Doyle Lowenthal Schakowsky Turner support it. McClintock Rice (SC) Duckworth Lowey Schiff Upton McHenry Rigell Mr. TIPTON. With that, Madam Edwards Lujan Grisham Schneider Valadao McKeon Roby Ellison (NM) Schrader Wagner Chairwoman, I yield back the balance McKinley Roe (TN) Engel Luja´ n, Ben Ray Schwartz of my time. McMorris Rogers (AL) Walberg Enyart (NM) Scott (VA) Mrs. NAPOLITANO. Madam Chair- Rodgers Rogers (KY) Walden Eshoo Maffei Scott, David Walorski woman, I move to strike the last word. Esty Maloney, Meadows Rogers (MI) Serrano Meehan Rohrabacher Weber (TX) The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman Farr Carolyn Sewell (AL) Webster (FL) Fattah Maloney, Sean Messer Rokita from California is recognized for 5 min- Shea-Porter Mica Rooney Wenstrup Foster Matsui Sherman Westmoreland utes. Frankel (FL) McCarthy (NY) Miller (FL) Roskam Sinema Whitfield Fudge McCollum Miller (MI) Ross Mrs. NAPOLITANO. The gentleman’s Sires Williams Gabbard McDermott Miller, Gary Rothfus amendment makes technical changes Slaughter Wilson (SC) Gallego McGovern Mullin Royce Smith (WA) Wittman that staff has brought to our attention, Garamendi McIntyre Mulvaney Runyan Speier Wolf and it addresses a few of the adminis- Garcia McNerney Murphy (PA) Ryan (WI) Swalwell (CA) Neugebauer Salmon Womack tration’s concerns. Grayson Meeks Green, Al Meng Takano Noem Scalise Woodall The amendment clarifies that the Green, Gene Michaud Thompson (CA) Nugent Schock Yoder projects already permitted under FERC Grijalva Miller, George Thompson (MS) Nunes Schweikert Yoho Gutierrez Moore Tierney Nunnelee Scott, Austin Young (AK) would not see any regulatory uncer- Titus Olson Sensenbrenner Young (FL) tainty with this bill’s passage. We are Hahn Moran Hanabusa Murphy (FL) Tonko Owens Sessions Young (IN) also in agreement with the amendment Tsongas Heck (WA) Nadler NOT VOTING—10 changes that require greater consulta- Higgins Napolitano Van Hollen tion with irrigation districts and water Himes Neal Vargas Bass Hastings (FL) Ros-Lehtinen Hinojosa Negrete McLeod Veasey Castor (FL) Kinzinger (IL) Walz user associations prior to the approval Holt Nolan Vela Collins (NY) Lynch of the Lease of Power Privilege. Honda O’Rourke Vela´ zquez Franks (AZ) Markey Horsford Pallone Visclosky We have no objections to this tech- b 1514 nical amendment, and I yield back the Hoyer Pascrell Wasserman Huffman Pastor (AZ) Schultz Messrs. HENSARLING, LAMALFA, balance of my time. Israel Payne Waters The Acting CHAIR. The question is Jackson Lee Pelosi Watt STEWART, and YOUNG of Alaska on the amendment offered by the gen- Jeffries Perlmutter Waxman changed their vote from ‘‘aye’’ to ‘‘no.’’ Johnson (GA) Peters (CA) Welch tleman from Colorado (Mr. TIPTON). Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Johnson, E. B. Peters (MI) Wilson (FL) Texas, Ms. CLARKE, and Messrs. DOG- The amendment was agreed to. Kaptur Pingree (ME) Yarmuth GETT and CICILLINE changed their AMENDMENT NO. 1 OFFERED BY MRS. NAPOLITANO NOES—232 vote from ‘‘no’’ to ‘‘aye. So the amendment was rejected. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to Aderholt Cole Gosar Alexander Collins (GA) Gowdy The result of the vote was announced clause 6 of rule XVIII, the unfinished Amash Conaway Granger as above recorded. business is the demand for a recorded Amodei Cook Graves (GA) Stated against: vote on the amendment offered by the Bachmann Cotton Graves (MO) gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Bachus Cramer Griffin (AR) Mr. COLLINS of New York. Mr. Speaker, on Barletta Crawford Griffith (VA) rollcall No. 94, H.R. 678, Agreeing to the NAPOLITANO) on which further pro- Barr Crenshaw Grimm Amendment, had I been present, I would have ceedings were postponed and on which Barrow (GA) Culberson Guthrie the noes prevailed by voice vote. Barton Daines Hall voted ‘‘no.’’ Benishek Davis, Rodney Hanna The Acting CHAIR. There being no The Clerk will redesignate the Bentivolio Denham Harper further amendments, under the rule, amendment. Bilirakis Dent Harris the Committee rises. The Clerk redesignated the amend- Bishop (GA) DeSantis Hartzler Accordingly, the Committee rose; ment. Bishop (UT) DesJarlais Hastings (WA) Black Diaz-Balart Heck (NV) and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. RECORDED VOTE Blackburn Duffy Hensarling WOODALL) having assumed the chair, The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote Bonner Duncan (SC) Herrera Beutler Boustany Duncan (TN) Holding Mrs. MILLER of Michigan, Acting Chair has been demanded. Brady (TX) Ellmers Hudson of the Committee of the Whole House A recorded vote was ordered. Bridenstine Farenthold Huelskamp on the state of the Union, reported that The vote was taken by electronic de- Brooks (AL) Fincher Huizenga (MI) that Committee, having had under con- vice, and there were—ayes 189, noes 232, Brooks (IN) Fitzpatrick Hultgren Broun (GA) Fleischmann Hunter sideration the bill (H.R. 678) to author- not voting 10, as follows: Buchanan Fleming Hurt ize all Bureau of Reclamation conduit [Roll No. 94] Bucshon Flores Issa facilities for hydropower development Burgess Forbes Jenkins AYES—189 Calvert Fortenberry Johnson (OH) under Federal Reclamation law, and Andrews Brown (FL) Castro (TX) Camp Foxx Johnson, Sam for other purposes, and, pursuant to Barber Brownley (CA) Chu Campbell Frelinghuysen Jones House Resolution 140, she reported the Beatty Bustos Cicilline Cantor Gardner Jordan Becerra Butterfield Clarke Capito Garrett Joyce bill back to the House with sundry Bera (CA) Capps Clay Carter Gerlach Kelly amendments adopted in the Committee Bishop (NY) Capuano Cleaver Cassidy Gibbs King (IA) of the Whole. Blumenauer Ca´ rdenas Clyburn Chabot Gibson King (NY) The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under Bonamici Carney Cohen Chaffetz Gingrey (GA) Kingston Brady (PA) Carson (IN) Connolly Coble Gohmert Kline the rule, the previous question is or- Braley (IA) Cartwright Conyers Coffman Goodlatte Labrador dered.

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NATEL Energy Company in Al- and once again America being the un- third reading of the bill. ameda, California, manufactures small disputed leader in manufacturing. The bill was ordered to be engrossed hydro programs. And James Leffel & I yield back the balance of my time. and read a third time, and was read the Company in Springfield, Ohio, manu- Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Mr. third time. factures the machinery for small Speaker, I rise in opposition to the mo- MOTION TO RECOMMIT hydro. This bill would provide an option to recommit. Mr. GARAMENDI. Mr. Speaker, I portunity for these four American com- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- have a motion to recommit at the panies to build these small hydro tleman is recognized for 5 minutes. desk. projects, made in America, made by Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Mr. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the Americans. Speaker, during the course of debate gentleman opposed to the bill? The amendment that I’m proposing today, it was mentioned several Mr. GARAMENDI. I’m opposed in its simply says, in addition to what is in times—which of course is true—that current form. this bill, that we add a simple para- virtually identical legislation passed in The SPEAKER pro tempore. The graph that says: the last Congress with bipartisan sup- Clerk will report the motion to recom- In all practical purposes, the machinery port. I find it rather ironic that the au- mit. that is to be constructed and used in these thor of this motion to recommit last The Clerk read as follows: projects shall be made in America by Amer- year voted for this bill without the mo- Mr. Garamendi moves to recommit the bill ican workers. tion to recommit language in it. So I H.R. 678 to the Committee on Natural Re- One small step, but a necessary step, think we have some common ground sources with instructions to report the same and one step along the way to rebuild- and we’re making some progress, and I back to the House forthwith with the fol- ing the American manufacturing sec- thank the gentleman for his vote on lowing amendment: tor. that. At the end of the bill, add the following: We can do this. There are those who But let’s talk about what this bill SEC. 3. MAKE IT IN AMERICA. say that, well, we’re not making it. does. This bill takes existing American Any lease of power privilege offered pursu- Well, we are making it. And when we facilities, like irrigation ditches, and ant to this Act or the amendments made by write laws that require that it be made says, my goodness, water running this Act shall require, to the extent prac- downhill has a sense of energy to it; we ticable, that all materials used for conduit in America, guess what? Things are hydropower generation be manufactured in made in America. ought to somehow capture that energy. the United States. In that stimulus bill—whatever you The gentleman from Colorado (Mr. TIP- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- may think it, good or bad—there was a TON) says: Why don’t we put turbines in tleman from California is recognized provision written in that Amtrak was there and create American energy? for 5 minutes. to have some new locomotives. Some- Wonderful idea. So that’s what this bill Mr. GARAMENDI. I suspect that, Mr. one put in an additional sentence that is all about. Nothing in this bill pre- Speaker, all of us would want to see said these must be 100 percent made in vents anything that the gentleman is more jobs in America. The great Amer- America. Siemens, the German com- proposing in his motion to recommit. But I will just close by saying what ican manufacturing sector over the pany, came forward and said: We can this bill really does and what the es- last 20 years has lost about 9 million do that. And in Sacramento, California sence of what we’re talking about here jobs. Twenty-five years ago, no one today, a half-billion-dollar contract is today. This bill creates American jobs throughout this world would doubt being executed for numerous electric and American energy at no cost to the that the greatest manufacturing Na- locomotives for Amtrak, 100 percent taxpayer. What else is there to say? tion in the world was America. Twen- American made. Vote ‘‘no’’ on the motion to recommit. ty-five years later, and 9 million jobs We can establish the policies to make Mr. GARAMENDI. Will the gen- having been lost, America has lost its it in America and to rebuild the great tleman yield for a question? preeminence—or is about to lose its American manufacturing sector. We ought to be using all of our tax money Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. The preeminence. It would seem to me it’s gentleman had 5 minutes to make his our job here as representatives of the whenever we purchase something to be made in America. If we’re going to sub- case. No, I will not yield to the gen- American public and the American tleman. economy to do everything we possibly sidize solar panels or wind turbines or even hydro projects, then let it be I yield back the balance of my time. can to rebuild and reestablish the great The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without American manufacturers that get that American manufacturing sector, to do objection, the previous question is or- money—to be made in America. Sim- everything we can to restore to Amer- dered on the motion to recommit. ica those 9 million middle class jobs ple, but it’s up to us. It’s up to 435 of There was no objection. that have been lost to outsourcing, to us. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The our companies moving overseas, and to What is to be our policy? Are we question is on the motion to recommit. some rather impractical and rather going to encourage American manufac- The question was taken; and the foolish laws that have been passed and turing with something as simple as Speaker pro tempore announced that are on the books. this amendment, or are we simply the noes appeared to have it. going to shrug our shoulders and ig- Mr. GARAMENDI. Mr. Speaker, on b 1520 nore the fact that 9 million American that I demand the yeas and nays. There is something we can do today manufacturing jobs have been lost? Are The yeas and nays were ordered. with this bill. This bill, while seeming we to ignore our responsibility to bring The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- to be small, ought to be our very first those jobs back here? I don’t think ant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule XX, step this session to make sure that in there’s one of us among the 435 of us this 5-minute vote on the motion to re- every piece of legislation we pass there here, Mr. Speaker, that would say: not commit will be followed by a 5-minute would be an incentive, an obligation, or to worry, let it be. No, I think all of us, vote on the passage of the bill, if or- an advantage for American manufac- Mr. Speaker, would want to bring the dered. turers. American manufacturing jobs back. The vote was taken by electronic de- Small hydro, who’s to care about This amendment—which would be vice, and there were—yeas 194, nays small hydro? Well, there are four busi- the final amendment to the bill and 226, not voting 11, as follows:

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Gosar McClintock Alexander DeSantis Johnson, Sam Barber Grijalva Owens Runyan Gowdy McHenry Amash DesJarlais Jones Barrow (GA) Gutierrez Pallone Ryan (WI) Granger McKeon Amodei Deutch Jordan Beatty Hahn Pascrell Salmon Graves (GA) Andrews Becerra Hanabusa McKinley Scalise Diaz-Balart Joyce Pastor (AZ) Graves (MO) Bachmann Bera (CA) Heck (WA) McMorris Schock Doggett Kaptur Payne Griffin (AR) Bachus Bishop (GA) Higgins Rodgers Schweikert Doyle Keating Pelosi Griffith (VA) Barber Bishop (NY) Himes Meadows Scott, Austin Duckworth Kelly Perlmutter Grimm Barletta Blumenauer Hinojosa Meehan Sensenbrenner Duffy Kennedy Peters (CA) Guthrie Barr Bonamici Holt Messer Sessions Duncan (SC) Kildee Peters (MI) Hall Barrow (GA) Brady (PA) Honda Mica Shimkus Duncan (TN) Kilmer Peterson Hanna Barton Braley (IA) Horsford Miller (FL) Shuster Edwards Kind Pingree (ME) Harper Miller (MI) Bass Ellison Brown (FL) Hoyer Simpson King (IA) Pocan Harris Miller, Gary Beatty Ellmers King (NY) Brownley (CA) Huffman Smith (NE) Price (NC) Hartzler Mullin Becerra Engel Kingston Bustos Israel Smith (NJ) Quigley Hastings (WA) Mulvaney Benishek Enyart Kinzinger (IL) Butterfield Jackson Lee Smith (TX) Rahall Heck (NV) Murphy (PA) Bentivolio Eshoo Kirkpatrick Capps Jeffries Southerland Rangel Hensarling Neugebauer Bera (CA) Esty Kline Capuano Johnson (GA) Stewart Herrera Beutler Bilirakis Ca´ rdenas Johnson, E. B. Richmond Noem Farenthold Kuster Holding Stivers Bishop (GA) Carney Jones Roybal-Allard Nugent Farr Labrador Hudson Stockman Bishop (NY) Carson (IN) Kaptur Ruiz Nunes Fattah LaMalfa Huelskamp Stutzman Bishop (UT) Cartwright Keating Ruppersberger Nunnelee Fincher Lamborn Huizenga (MI) Terry Black Castro (TX) Kennedy Rush Olson Fitzpatrick Lance Hultgren Thompson (PA) Blackburn Chu Kildee Ryan (OH) Palazzo Fleischmann Langevin Hunter Thornberry Blumenauer Cicilline Kilmer Sa´ nchez, Linda Paulsen Fleming Lankford Hurt Tiberi Bonamici Clarke Kind T. Pearce Flores Larsen (WA) Issa Tipton Bonner Clay Kirkpatrick Sanchez, Loretta Perry Forbes Larson (CT) Jenkins Turner Boustany Cleaver Kuster Sarbanes Petri Fortenberry Latham Johnson (OH) Upton Brady (PA) Clyburn Langevin Schakowsky Pittenger Foster Latta Johnson, Sam Pitts Valadao Brady (TX) Foxx Cohen Larsen (WA) Schiff Lee (CA) Jordan Poe (TX) Wagner Braley (IA) Frankel (FL) Lewis Connolly Larson (CT) Schneider Joyce Polis Walberg Bridenstine Franks (AZ) Lipinski Conyers Lee (CA) Schrader Kelly Pompeo Walden Brooks (AL) Frelinghuysen LoBiondo Cooper Levin Schwartz King (IA) Posey Walorski Brooks (IN) Fudge Loebsack Courtney Lewis Scott (VA) King (NY) Weber (TX) Broun (GA) Crowley Lipinski Price (GA) Gabbard Lofgren Scott, David Kingston Webster (FL) Brown (FL) Cuellar Loebsack Radel Gallego Long Serrano Kline Wenstrup Brownley (CA) Cummings Lofgren Reed Garamendi Lowenthal Sewell (AL) Labrador Westmoreland Buchanan Davis (CA) Lowenthal Reichert Garcia Lowey Shea-Porter LaMalfa Whitfield Bucshon Davis, Danny Lowey Renacci Gardner Lucas Sherman Lamborn Williams Burgess DeFazio Lujan Grisham Ribble Garrett Luetkemeyer Sinema Lance Wilson (SC) Bustos DeGette (NM) Rice (SC) Gerlach Lujan Grisham Sires Lankford Wittman Butterfield Delaney Luja´ n, Ben Ray Rigell Gibbs (NM) Slaughter Latham Wolf Calvert ´ DeLauro (NM) Roby Gibson Lujan, Ben Ray Smith (WA) Latta Womack Camp DelBene Maffei Roe (TN) Gingrey (GA) (NM) Speier LoBiondo Woodall Campbell Deutch Maloney, Rogers (AL) Gohmert Lummis Swalwell (CA) Long Yoder Cantor Dingell Carolyn Rogers (KY) Goodlatte Maffei Takano Lucas Yoho Capito Doggett Maloney, Sean Rogers (MI) Gosar Maloney, Sean Thompson (CA) Luetkemeyer Young (AK) Capps Doyle Matheson Rohrabacher Gowdy Marchant Thompson (MS) Lummis Young (FL) Capuano Duckworth Matsui Rokita Granger Marino Tierney Marchant Ca´ rdenas Duncan (TN) McCarthy (NY) Rooney Young (IN) Graves (GA) Massie Carney Edwards McCollum Titus Graves (MO) Matheson Carson (IN) Ellison McDermott Tonko NOT VOTING—11 Grayson Matsui Tsongas Carter Green, Al McCarthy (CA) Engel McGovern Amodei Cramer Markey Van Hollen Cartwright Green, Gene McCarthy (NY) Enyart McIntyre Bass Hastings (FL) Ros-Lehtinen Cassidy Griffin (AR) McCaul Eshoo McNerney Vargas Castor (FL) Kinzinger (IL) Walz Castro (TX) Griffith (VA) McClintock Esty Meeks Veasey Collins (NY) Lynch Chabot Farr Meng Vela Grijalva McCollum Chaffetz Fattah Michaud Vela´ zquez Grimm McDermott Chu Foster Miller, George Visclosky b 1536 Guthrie McGovern Cicilline Frankel (FL) Moore Wasserman Gutierrez McHenry Clarke Fudge Moran Schultz So the motion to recommit was re- Hahn McIntyre Clay Gabbard Murphy (FL) Waters Hall McKeon jected. Cleaver Gallego Nadler Watt Hanabusa McKinley Clyburn Garamendi Napolitano Waxman The result of the vote was announced Hanna McMorris Coble Garcia Neal Welch Harper Rodgers as above recorded. Coffman Grayson Negrete McLeod Wilson (FL) Harris McNerney Cohen Green, Al Nolan Yarmuth Stated against: Hartzler Meadows Cole Hastings (WA) Meehan Collins (GA) Heck (NV) Meeks NAYS—226 Mr. COLLINS of New York. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 95, H.R. 678, On Motion to Re- Conaway Heck (WA) Meng Aderholt Burgess Denham Connolly Hensarling Messer Alexander Calvert Dent commit with Instructions, had I been present, Conyers Herrera Beutler Mica Amash Camp DeSantis I would have voted ‘‘nay.’’ Cook Higgins Michaud Bachmann Campbell DesJarlais The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Cooper Himes Miller (FL) Bachus Cantor Diaz-Balart Costa Hinojosa Miller (MI) Barletta Capito Duffy question is on the passage of the bill. Cotton Holding Miller, Gary Barr Carter Duncan (SC) The question was taken; and the Courtney Holt Miller, George Barton Cassidy Ellmers Crawford Honda Moran Benishek Chabot Farenthold Speaker pro tempore announced that Crenshaw Horsford Mullin Bentivolio Chaffetz Fincher the ayes appeared to have it. Crowley Hoyer Mulvaney Bilirakis Coble Fitzpatrick Cuellar Hudson Murphy (FL) Bishop (UT) Coffman Fleischmann Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Mr. Culberson Huelskamp Murphy (PA) Black Cole Fleming Speaker, on that I demand the yeas Cummings Huffman Nadler Blackburn Collins (GA) Flores and nays. Daines Huizenga (MI) Napolitano Bonner Conaway Forbes Davis (CA) Hultgren Neal Boustany Cook Fortenberry The yeas and nays were ordered. Davis, Danny Hunter Negrete McLeod Brady (TX) Costa Foxx The SPEAKER pro tempore. This Davis, Rodney Hurt Neugebauer Bridenstine Cotton Franks (AZ) DeFazio Israel Noem Brooks (AL) Crawford Frelinghuysen will be a 5-minute vote. DeGette Issa Nolan Brooks (IN) Crenshaw Gardner The vote was taken by electronic de- Delaney Jackson Lee Nugent Broun (GA) Culberson Garrett DeLauro Jeffries Nunes Buchanan Daines Gerlach vice, and there were—yeas 416, nays 7, DelBene Jenkins Nunnelee Bucshon Davis, Rodney Gibbs not voting 8, as follows: Denham Johnson (OH) O’Rourke

VerDate Sep 11 2014 09:34 Oct 02, 2017 Jkt 029102 PO 00000 Frm 00028 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR13\H10AP3.000 H10AP3 jstallworth on DSKBBY8HB2PROD with BOUND RECORD April 10, 2013 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE, Vol. 159, Pt. 4 4953 Olson Roybal-Allard Thompson (MS) Thanks to the hard work and deter- strengthen their ability to attract in- Owens Royce Thompson (PA) mination of the American people, we vestments and jobs. And it expands my Palazzo Ruiz Thornberry Pallone Runyan Tiberi have made significant progress over Administration’s SelectUSA initiative Pascrell Ruppersberger Tierney the last 4 years. After a decade of war, to help draw businesses and investment Pastor (AZ) Rush Tipton our brave men and women in uniform from around the world to our shores. Paulsen Ryan (OH) Titus are coming home. After years of reces- If we want to make the best prod- Payne Ryan (WI) Tonko Pearce Salmon ucts, we also have to invest in the best Tsongas sion, our businesses have created over Pelosi Sa´ nchez, Linda Turner six million new jobs. We buy more ideas. That is why the Budget main- Perlmutter T. Upton tains a world-class commitment to Perry Sanchez, Loretta American cars than we have in 5 years, Peters (CA) Sarbanes Valadao and less foreign oil than we have in 20 science and research, targeting re- Peters (MI) Scalise Van Hollen years. Our housing market is healing, sources to those areas most likely to Vargas Peterson Schakowsky our stock market is rebounding, and contribute directly to the creation of Petri Schiff Veasey Pingree (ME) Schneider Vela consumers, patients, and homeowners transformational technologies that can Pittenger Schock Vela´ zquez enjoy stronger protections than ever create the businesses and jobs of the Pitts Schrader Visclosky before. future. Pocan Schwartz Wagner But we know that there are millions No area holds more promise than our Poe (TX) Schweikert Walberg Polis Scott (VA) Walden of Americans whose hard work and investments in American energy. The Pompeo Scott, Austin Walorski dedication have not yet been rewarded. Budget continues to advance my ‘‘all- Posey Scott, David Wasserman Our economy is adding jobs—but too of-the-above’’ strategy on energy, in- Price (GA) Sensenbrenner Schultz vesting in clean energy research and Price (NC) Serrano Waters many people still cannot find full-time Quigley Sessions Watt employment. Corporate profits have development; promoting energy effi- Radel Sewell (AL) Waxman skyrocketed to all-time highs—but for ciency in our cars, homes, and busi- Rahall Shea-Porter Weber (TX) more than a decade, wages and incomes nesses; encouraging responsible domes- Rangel Sherman Webster (FL) have barely budged. tic energy production; and launching Reed Shimkus Welch Reichert Shuster Wenstrup It is our generation’s task to reignite new efforts to combat the threat of cli- Renacci Simpson Westmoreland the true engine of America’s economic mate change. Ribble Sinema Whitfield Modeled after my successful Race to Rice (SC) Slaughter growth—a rising, thriving middle class. Williams Richmond Smith (NE) It is our unfinished task to restore the the Top education reform effort, the Wilson (FL) Rigell Smith (NJ) Budget includes a new Race to the Top Wilson (SC) basic bargain that built this country— Roby Smith (TX) the idea that if you work hard and energy efficiency challenge for States, Roe (TN) Southerland Wittman Rogers (AL) Speier Wolf meet your responsibilities, you can get rewarding those that implement the Rogers (KY) Stewart Womack ahead, no matter where you come most effective policies to cut energy Rogers (MI) Stivers Woodall from, no matter what you look like, or waste. And it establishes a new Energy Yarmuth Rohrabacher Stockman Security Trust funded by royalty rev- Rokita Stutzman Yoder whom you love. Rooney Swalwell (CA) Yoho It is our unfinished task to make enue from oil and gas leases to support Roskam Takano Young (AK) sure that this Government works on initiatives to shift our cars and trucks Ross Terry Young (FL) behalf of the many, and not just the off oil, cutting our Nation’s reliance on Rothfus Thompson (CA) Young (IN) few; that it encourages free enterprise, foreign oil. NAYS—7 rewards individual initiative, and Over the last 4 years, we have begun Dingell Maloney, Sires opens the doors of opportunity to every the hard work of rebuilding our Na- Johnson (GA) Carolyn Smith (WA) child across this great Nation. tion’s infrastructure. We have built or Levin Moore A growing economy that creates improved over 350,000 miles of road and NOT VOTING—8 good, middle class jobs—this must be more than 6,000 miles of rail. And we Castor (FL) Hastings (FL) Ros-Lehtinen the North Star that guides our efforts. have repaired or replaced over 20,000 Collins (NY) Lynch Walz bridges. But to compete in the 21st Cramer Markey Every day, we should ask ourselves three questions as a Nation: How do we Century economy and become a mag- b 1546 attract more jobs to our shores? How net for jobs, we must do more. We need Messrs. PALLONE, POCAN, do we equip our people with the skills to repair our existing infrastructure, SWALWELL of California and Ms. they need to get those jobs? And how and invest in the infrastructure of to- DUCKWORTH changed their vote from do we make sure that hard work leads morrow, including high-speed rail, ‘‘nay’’ to ‘‘yea.’’ to a decent living? high-tech schools, and self-healing So the bill was passed. This Budget seeks to answer each of power grids. These investments will The result of the vote was announced these questions. both lay the foundation for long-term as above recorded. Our first priority is making America economic growth and put workers back A motion to reconsider was laid on a magnet for new jobs and manufac- on the job now. the table. turing. After shedding jobs for more My Budget includes $50 billion for up- Stated for: than 10 years, our manufacturers have front infrastructure investments, in- Mr. COLLINS of New York. Mr. Speaker, on added more than 500,000 jobs over the cluding a ‘‘Fix-it-First’’ program that rollcall No. 96, H.R. 678, On Passage, had I past 3 years. Companies large and makes an immediate investment to put been present, I would have voted ‘‘yea.’’ small are increasingly deciding to people to work as soon as possible on f bring jobs back to America. our most urgent repairs, like the near- BUDGET OF THE UNITED STATES To accelerate this trend, the Budget ly 70,000 structurally-deficient bridges GOVERNMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR builds on the success of the manufac- across the country. And to make sure 2014—MESSAGE FROM THE PRESI- turing innovation institute we created taxpayers do not shoulder the whole DENT OF THE UNITED STATES in Youngstown, Ohio last year, and burden, the Budget creates a Rebuild (H. DOC. NO. 113–3) calls for the creation of a network of 15 America Partnership to attract private of these hubs across the Nation. In capital to upgrade what our businesses The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- these innovation hubs, businesses will need most: modern ports to move our fore the House the following message partner with universities and Federal goods; modern pipelines to withstand a from the President of the United agencies to turn regions around our storm; and modern schools worthy of States; which was read and, together country into global centers of high- our children. with the accompanying papers, referred tech jobs. The Budget also supports efforts I an- to the Committee on Appropriations The Budget also includes new initia- nounced earlier this year to modernize and ordered to be printed: tives to support manufacturing com- and improve the efficiency of the Fed- To the Congress of the United States: munities, including a new tax credit to eral permitting process, cutting

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It partners timelines in half for infrastructure cation. with communities by identifying projects, while creating new incentives To encourage colleges to do their Promise Zones to help rebuild from the for better outcomes for communities part to keep costs down, the Budget in- recession. It creates pathways to jobs and the environment. cludes reforms that will ensure afford- for the long-term unemployed and All of these initiatives in manufac- ability and value are considered in de- youth who have been hardest hit by the turing, energy, and infrastructure will termining which colleges receive cer- downturn. And it strengthens families help entrepreneurs and small business tain types of Federal aid. My Adminis- by removing financial deterrents to owners expand and create new jobs. tration has also released a new ‘‘Col- marriage and supporting the role of fa- But none of it will matter unless we lege Scorecard’’ that parents and stu- thers. also equip our citizens with the skills dents can use to compare schools. We also know that economic growth and training to fill those jobs. To further ensure our educational can only be achieved and sustained if And that has to start at the earliest system is preparing students for ca- America is safe and secure, both at possible age. But today, fewer than 3 in reers in the 21st Century economy, the home and abroad. At home, the Budget 10 4-year-olds are enrolled in a high- Budget includes additional measures to supports my initiative to help protect quality preschool program, and the promote STEM education, such as our kids, reduce gun violence, and ex- high cost of private preschool puts too launching a new STEM Master Teacher pand access to mental health services. much of a financial burden on middle Corps, to leverage the expertise of We can protect our Second Amendment class families. some of America’s best and brightest rights while coming together around The Budget therefore includes a pro- teachers in science and mathematics, reforms like eliminating background posal that ensures 4-year-olds across and to elevate the teaching of these check loopholes to make it harder for the country have access to high-qual- subjects nationwide. It also includes a criminals to get their hands on a gun— ity preschool education through a land- reorganization and consolidation of common-sense reforms that will help mark new initiative in partnership STEM education programs to improve protect our kids from the scourge of with the States. And it increases the the effectiveness of Federal invest- gun violence that has plagued too availability of early learning for our ments in this area. many communities across the country. youngest children to help their growth The Budget takes other critical steps To confront threats outside our bor- and development during the formative to grow our economy, create jobs, and ders, the Budget ensures our military early years of life. strengthen the middle class. It imple- remains the finest and best-equipped Providing a year of free, public pre- ments the Affordable Care Act, giving military force the world has ever school education for 4-year-old chil- every American access to the high- known, even as we wind down more dren is an important investment in our quality, affordable health care cov- than a decade of war. future. It will give all our kids the best erage they deserve, and reducing the Already, we have brought home more start in life, helping them perform bet- deficit by more than $1 trillion over than 30,000 of our brave service- ter in elementary school and ulti- the next two decades. It implements members from Afghanistan. Our re- mately helping them, and the country, Wall Street reform, ending too-big-to- maining forces are moving into a sup- be better prepared for the demands of fail and protecting consumers against port role, with Afghan security forces the global economy. Not only that, it the abuses and reckless behavior that taking the lead. And over the next could save hard-working families thou- contributed to the financial collapse in year, another 34,000 American troops sands of dollars each year in child care 2008. And it includes measures to will come home. This drawdown will costs. This is an investment we need to strengthen our housing market and en- continue and, by the end of next year, make, and it is fully paid for in this sure that every responsible homeowner our war in Afghanistan will be over. Budget by imposing a new tax on every has the opportunity to refinance at to- Beyond 2014, the Budget supports our pack of cigarettes sold. day’s rates, saving $3,000 a year on av- continued commitment to a unified The Budget also builds on the his- erage. and sovereign Afghanistan. toric reforms made during my first Our economy is stronger when we To maintain our national security, term to improve our elementary and harness the talents and ingenuity of the Budget supports our ongoing fight secondary school system by rewarding striving, hopeful immigrants. That is against terrorists, like al Qaeda. The excellence and promoting innovation. why I have proposed a plan to fix our organization that attacked us on 9/11 is To help ensure that our high schools broken immigration system that se- a shadow of its former self. But dif- are putting our kids on a path to col- cures our borders, cracks down on em- ferent al Qaeda affiliates and extremist lege and a good job, the Budget in- ployers who hire undocumented work- groups have emerged—from the Ara- cludes a new competitive fund that will ers, attracts highly-skilled entre- bian Peninsula to Africa. We will con- help redesign America’s high schools to preneurs and engineers to help create front these emerging security chal- prepare students with the real world jobs and drive economic growth, and lenges through the full range of U.S. skills they need to find a job right establishes a responsible pathway to capabilities and tools, including diplo- away or go to college. The fund re- earned citizenship—a path that in- matic, security, intelligence, and eco- wards schools that develop new part- cludes passing a background check, nomic development. nerships with colleges and employers, paying taxes and a meaningful penalty, The Budget also provides the re- and create classes focusing on science, learning English, and going to the back sources we need to act on our commit- technology, engineering and mathe- of the line behind the folks trying to ment to and interests in global devel- matics (STEM)—the skills today’s em- come here legally. The Budget makes opment, by promoting food security ployers seek to fill the jobs available investments that will make our immi- that reduces dependence and increases right now and in the future. gration system more efficient and fair prosperity; by investing in the increas- Even with better high schools, most and lay a foundation for this perma- ingly successful drive toward an AIDS- young people will still need some high- nent, common-sense reform. free generation; and by maintaining er education. Through tax credits, The Budget also builds on the our leadership as a global provider of grants, and better loans, we have made progress made over the last 4 years to humanitarian assistance that saves college more affordable for millions of expand opportunity for every American lives and reflects American values. students and families over the last 4 and every community willing to do the We must also confront new dangers, years. But skyrocketing costs are still work to lift themselves up. It creates like cyber attacks, that threaten our

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That does not grow challenge and every problem facing the the private sector to improve our over- our middle class. country. But this Budget shows how we all cybersecurity. The American people understand can live within our means while grow- The Budget also focuses resources on that we cannot just cut our way to ing our economy, strengthening the the Asia-Pacific region, reasserting prosperity. That is why I have repeat- middle class, and securing our Nation’s American leadership and promoting se- edly called for a balanced approach to future. It is not a Democratic plan or a curity, stability, democracy, and eco- deficit reduction. And that is why I Republican plan. It is an American nomic growth. have offered proposals on multiple oc- plan. And it is a plan that I hope can Importantly, the Budget upholds our casions that cut wasteful spending, serve as an outline for us to write the solemn obligation to take care of our strengthen entitlements, and eliminate next great chapter of the American servicemembers and veterans, and to special tax breaks and loopholes so the story . . . together. protect our diplomats and civilians in wealthiest pay their fair share. BARACK OBAMA. the field. It keeps faith with our vet- In my negotiations with House THE WHITE HOUSE, April 10, 2013. erans, investing in world-class care, in- Speaker BOEHNER in December over the f cluding mental health care for our so-called ‘‘fiscal cliff,’’ I again offered a wounded warriors, supporting our mili- compromise proposal that was bal- ACCESSING NATURAL GAS tary families, and giving our veterans anced and comprehensive, and would (Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania the benefits, education, and job oppor- achieve our $4 trillion deficit reduction asked and was given permission to ad- tunities that they have earned. goal. That proposal is still on the dress the House for 1 minute and to re- The Budget does all of these things table. I am including it in this Budget vise and extend his remarks.) as part of a comprehensive plan that to demonstrate my commitment to Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. reduces the deficit. All of these initia- making the kind of tough and balanced Mr. Speaker, yesterday it was reported tives and ideas are fully paid for, to en- choices that are needed to put our Na- that the United States has 2.4 quadril- sure they do not increase the deficit by tion’s finances in order. lion cubic feet of natural gas that can a single dime. To be clear, the package I am offer- be recovered by current drilling tech- By making investments in our people ing includes some difficult cuts that I niques, according to a study by compa- that we pay for responsibly, we will do not particularly like. But these nies working in various shale basins strengthen the middle class, make measures will only become law if con- across the country. That’s 26 percent America a magnet for jobs and innova- gressional Republicans agree to meet higher than the previous assessment, tion, and grow our economy, which will me in the middle by eliminating spe- and at current consumption rates, a 90- in turn help us to reduce deficits. But cial tax breaks and loopholes so mil- year supply. The Marcellus shale has economic growth alone will not solve lionaires and billionaires do their fair the largest share of resources, with an our Nation’s long-term fiscal chal- share to cut the deficit. I will not agree estimated 741,320 billion cubic feet. lenges. to any deal that seeks to cut the def- What has caused such a jump in re- As we continue to grow our economy, icit on the backs of middle class Fami- sources and production? Not the Fed- we must take further action to cut our lies. I am willing to make tough eral Government, that’s for sure. Ac- deficits. We do not have to choose be- choices that may not be popular within cording to the Congressional Research tween these two important priorities— my own party, because there can be no Service, production of natural gas has we have to do both. sacred cows for either party. And I decreased on Federal lands by 33 per- Over the last 4 years, both parties look forward to working with any cent. It’s the hard work and innovation have worked together to reduce the member of Congress who takes a simi- of private industry, a combination of deficit in a balanced way by more than lar, balanced approach. This plan is technological and drilling advances $2.5 trillion. That is more than halfway built on the kind of common ground that have allowed us to access re- toward the goal of $4 trillion in deficit that Democrats and Republicans sources that were previously inacces- reduction that economists say we need should be able to reach. sible, all in a responsible and environ- to stabilize our finances. As we wind In total, the Budget will cut the def- mentally friendly way. In fact, just down two wars, we have protected our icit by another $1.8 trillion over the last week, the Energy Information Ad- military families and veterans while next 10 years, bringing the deficit ministration stated that expanded use cutting defense spending on outdated below 2 percent of GDP by 2023 and put- of natural gas has driven down energy- military weapons systems. Domestic ting our debt on a declining path. This related U.S. carbon dioxide emissions discretionary spending is approaching is not an end in and of itself—the best to their lowest level since 1994. its lowest levels as a share of the econ- way to grow the economy and cut the America is just beginning to realize omy since President Eisenhower was in deficit is by creating good middle class the opportunity of this growing and office; and we have moved aggressively jobs. But this plan to reduce the deficit economically beneficial resource. to cut waste, fraud, and abuse. And to- in a balanced way is a critical step together, we have begun to ask the ward ensuring that we have a solid f wealthy to do their fair share while foundation on which to build a strong b 1610 keeping income taxes low for middle economy and a thriving middle class class families. Overall, we have cut the for years to come. RECOGNIZING THE WORLD’S FORE- deficit in a balanced way that protects Finally, this Budget continues my MOST CLIMATOLOGIST, DR. the investments in education, manu- commitment to reforming and stream- JAMES HANSEN facturing, clean energy, and small busi- lining our Government for the 21st (Mr. COHEN asked and was given per- nesses we need to grow the economy Century. It builds on my Campaign to mission to address the House for 1 and strengthen the middle class. There Cut Waste by further targeting and minute and to revise and extend his re- is more work to do, and this Budget is eliminating wasteful spending wher- marks.) designed to finish the job. ever we find it. It reorganizes and con- Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise But we should not do it by making solidates agencies and programs to today to recognize the storied career of harsh and arbitrary cuts that jeop- make them leaner and more efficient. America’s foremost climatologist, and ardize our military readiness, dev- It increases the use of evidence and the world’s, Dr. James Hansen. Last

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At the same time, there are the atmosphere of the planet Venus in lican Member of Congress has even ut- snowstorms in Colorado. the sixties. Luckily for the world, he tered the words ‘‘climate change’’ on 2012 was the 36th consecutive year changed his emphasis to the atmos- the floor in this Congress. with a global temperature above the phere of the Earth. It’s, I suppose, better that they’re 20th century average. The last time Dr. Hansen is perhaps known best for not talking about it at all than what there was a year with a global tem- his 1988 testimony to the Senate com- we had in the last Congress where the perature that wasn’t above average was mittees that helped raise the initial Republican-led House of Representa- 1976, before Jimmy Carter was elected broad awareness of global warming tives voted 53 times to block action on President. We were celebrating the Bi- across the United States. He sounded climate change. My Republican col- centennial. Most of our staff here in the warning bell of the effects of cli- leagues voted to defund research, to Washington, D.C., on Capitol Hill, has mate change, and can be credited with block action by the EPA to control pol- never experienced a year where tem- bringing the issue to the forefront of lution, to prevent energy efficiency peratures weren’t above average. the American conscience. measures from going into effect. Now, just because our Republican Dr. Hansen, who fittingly called the Remember, one of the most comical friends don’t want to debate it, just be- proposed building of the Keystone XL was the assault on light bulb effi- cause they have fought to prevent our pipeline akin to the ‘‘lighting of the ciency, an efficiency standard that was initiative, doesn’t mean that it’s not carbon bomb,’’ is one of the world’s developed, admittedly, when Demo- having an economic impact. The leading advocates of decreased fossil crats were in charge, but signed with United States Congress has appro- fuel consumption. legislation that we worked out with priated $188 billion for climate-related While his departure from the Federal the Bush administration. That was cer- disasters over the last 3 years. climate research community will un- tainly a travesty. Just 2 months ago, the Government doubtedly leave a gaping hole in It was interesting. The industry Accountability Office released a GAO looked at them and shrugged and said, NASA’s climate program, I look for- report listing the Federal Govern- we’re moving on, we’re not going back ward to the role Dr. Hansen will take ment’s vulnerability to climate change to produce less energy-efficient light on his retirement as he pursues actions impacts as one of its greatest areas of bulbs. potential risk. Climate change could to limit emissions and his fight against They voted to stop the administra- increase investment portfolio risk by the development of Keystone and other tion from encouraging developing 10 percent over the next 2 decades by tar sands pipelines. countries to do their part. The future of our planet rests in the This year, the Republican members disrupting supply chains. hands of scientists like Dr. Hansen, and of the Energy and Commerce Com- Those of us in Congress who are no- I ask my colleagues to join me in wish- mittee, which is the committee of pri- ticing these problems, these changes, ing him the best of luck in his retire- mary jurisdiction over energy policy, these challenges, are not alone. Ac- ment. I truly hope he can continue the even voted against holding hearings cording to the Gallup poll last month, work that he has successfully pursued with scientists who could explain the 58 percent of the American public throughout his storied career in this role of climate change in causing ex- worry a fair amount or a great deal new capacity. treme weather, drought, heat waves about climate change and its impacts. f and wildfires. That’s why we’ve created Sixty-two percent of Republicans believe that America should take steps to THE SAFE CLIMATE CAUCUS the Safe Climate Caucus, to work to end the conspiracy of silence here in address climate change. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. the House about the dangers of climate Monday, Arnold Schwarzenegger MULLIN). Under the Speaker’s an- change. joined the list of Republican politi- nounced policy of January 3, 2013, the But we hope, we sincerely hope, that cians who now acknowledge that cli- gentleman from Oregon (Mr. BLU- our Republican colleagues would join mate change is a serious concern, MENAUER) is recognized for 60 minutes us here on the floor of the House in one speaking at the Price School of Public as the designee of the minority leader. of these Special Orders to discuss our Policy in California. Governor Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, I various approaches. If they don’t agree Schwarzenegger said, if we’re smart, appreciate the comments we just heard with human-caused impacts of extreme we listen to our doctors. If we’re stu- on the floor from my colleague from weather events, engage in the debate to pid, we ignore our doctors, and it takes Tennessee talking about Dr. Hansen’s explain why. If they do agree that we a heart attack to realize that we retirement, a gentleman who has faced are at least having extreme weather should listen. a great deal of criticism, including events, whether or not they’re human- Schwarzenegger said the national cli- many from this Congress, because of caused, let’s debate what we should do mate assessment report is our physical, his forceful presentation of his point of to be protecting us from those impacts. and these scientists can give us a pre- view. And time after time after time, The American public deserves no less. scription for what we need to do to im- Dr. Hansen has been proven correct. So until we’re able to engage our Re- prove our climate. It’s our duty to lis- This is the most important issue that publican colleagues in a spirited, ten to them and encourage action, ac- we’re really not debating in Congress. thoughtful debate on the floor of the tion all over the country. And Repub- There are a group of us here who have House, we will continue pointing out lican Governor Schwarzenegger is to be formed the Safe Climate Caucus to be the problems that we face, the risks, commended for his vision and stepping able to promote this discussion. Today the danger, the paths forward, because forward. we extended an invitation to the lead- in 2012, there were over 3,500 weather- Another of my colleagues from Cali- ership of the Commerce and Energy related records set due to extreme fornia is with us here this evening, and Committee to join us on the floor of heat, rain, drought, cold and wind. The I notice that he may be willing to step the House for a bipartisan debate, en- American public has seen that. They’ve in. He’s been greatly concerned about couraging our Republican colleagues to suffered the consequences. They’re con- infrastructure, climate, the environ- come to the floor to be able to deal cerned. ment in a long and distinguished career with this issue that, frankly, deserves Hurricane Sandy was one of just 11 in California politics and now here in to be in the spotlight. weather disasters last year in the Congress.

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And, Mr. Speaker, single biggest source of carbon from gressman GARAMENDI. Thank you for it’s always a great pleasure and, in power plants as we generate elec- your comments and for your leadership fact, important that those of us 435 tricity, moving initially to gas-fired in your native State of California on so that have been elected to represent the power plants, which have significantly many different levels in pressing this American citizens rise on the floor to less carbon emissions, and in that proc- point. Your observation is that there’s a great deal of economic opportunity. speak to issues of great importance. ess, taking the steps to move to renew- When all is debated, at the end of able power sources of all kinds—hydro, The installed wind energy has exploded those debates I suppose we ought to where it makes sense. in recent years. In fact, not only are we say, Was that important? We debated How about wind turbines? I don’t producing the energy here in the earlier about a piece of this puzzle, but have the statistics with me today, but United States, it’s American wind. It’s this is the most consequential issue we’ve made an enormous advancement not dollars that we’re exporting. Mr. GARAMENDI. If I might inter- facing the entire globe. Climate change in wind energy and solar energy. And rupt you for a second, there are those is a very, very real challenge for the by the way, if we’re going to do that in that would claim that this place is also human race. the United States with our tax policies a windy Chamber. In the early nineties, I was Deputy and give a tax rebate or credit, then we Mr. BLUMENAUER. And part of Secretary at the Department of the In- ought to make it in America. Have what we need to be harvesting. That’s those turbines and solar panels made in terior and was asked by the President why I have a small wind energy tax America so that we not only do what is and Vice President at the time to join credit that I think we can install here right by the environment, but we also in developing a strategy for America at in the House Chamber. But part of do what it right by the American work- the Kyoto Conference, which was the what we’ve done with the Recovery Act second international effort to come to ers so that we can rebuild our Amer- has increased dramatically the amount grips with this issue. We studied the ican manufacturing. of manufacturing that’s here in the There are many, many other con- various ramifications of climate United States for that installed energy. change and we predicted that what you cepts, all of which grow the economy. We are joined by one of our col- They don’t harm the economy at all just described in your opening state- leagues, Congressman TONKO from New ment, Mr. BLUMENAUER, would happen. but, rather, grow the economy. Reduc- York. Before he came to Congress, And, indeed, it is happening—the cli- ing emissions, not only carbon emis- where he’s been very active in these mate is changing. It is warmer. sions, but from the coal-fired power areas, he’s had his own series of activi- There are more extreme events, and plants, reducing rather dangerous sub- ties providing leadership and tech- the impact is already being perceived stances like mercury and arsenic. nology and energy efficiency. in those things that are most unno- So we should move these things for- We’d be honored for you to join in ticed, which is the change in the vege- ward. Unfortunately, we are running up the conversation. tation and in the flora and fauna against a block of votes on the right Mr. TONKO. Thank you, Representa- throughout the United States. As you side of this House—not right on policy tive BLUMENAUER, for leading us in this hike through the mountains of the Si- but, rather, in location—where they discussion. I appreciate the fact that erras, you have to go a little higher to are blocking the efforts that we must you’ve brought together this thought- see species, both animal and fauna, make to come to grips with this. My ful discussion, this dialogue on how we that lived at a lower elevation. They’re point here is that, while this is a fun- need to embrace a stronger sense of moving up the mountain, those that damental problem for this Nation, it’s stewardship with our environment that can. Those that can’t, for example, also a fundamental opportunity for ties to our energy policy, that ties to some species of trees and plants that America to grow a new economy. our economic recovery opportunities. aren’t able to remove their roots and We just heard read here on the floor I have to first and foremost mention move up the mountain, and they’re not more than 30 minutes ago the that you’re right; I headed the New simply going to become extinct. statement by the President of his new York State Energy Research and De- Now, what do we do about it? Well, budget in which he makes the point velopment Authority in the State of there are many things we can do with- that, by addressing climate change, we New York, my last workstation before out actually harming the economy. In also address the need to rebuild the serving here in the House. I was totally fact, there are many things we can do American economy and to set it on a surrounded by consummate profes- that will cause the economy to grow, path where we can compete and sell sionals who make it their role, their for example, conservation. Conserva- these technologies and products all job, their advocacy, their vocation to tion of energy is an enormously impor- around the world. Because this is not make a difference with energy policy tant way to conserve our money, our just an American problem, this is a na- that allows us to be stronger stewards energy supplies, and reduce carbon tional-international problem, and all of of our environment and to advance this emissions, because much of the energy us, wherever we are, whatever country effort for renewables, for innovation in the United States actually comes we are in, we must take action. We that allows us to reduce that mountain from carbon emissions. must take action. We cannot let this of electrons that we require for the For example, how about better mile- slide. workplace, the home place, for quality age in our cars? Thankfully, we have And my plea, as you made yours, Mr. of life, and allows us to use that in President Obama and the Democratic BLUMENAUER, to our Republicans col- much more useful, measured terms so administration that has taken very ag- leagues is: let’s debate this. If you that energy efficiency is seen as our gressive steps to reduce the consump- don’t believe this is a problem, come to fuel of choice and that that comes be- tion of gasoline and diesel in our auto- the floor and tell us why this is not a fore any of our energy thinking. And mobiles and trucks, thereby conserving problem. If you do not believe that we that provides for a greener outcome and saving us money and simulta- should manufacture wind turbines and that allows us to address this phe- neously reducing greenhouse gas emis- solar panels here in the United States nomenon of climate change. sion. and deploy them rather than con- Now, whether or not you believe in There are many, many other things. tinuing with the coal-based economy, climate change—and to me, the sci- One bill we took up on the floor today then tell us why. I wait for that debate, entific evidence is insurmountable—

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This us into a very powerful economic re- linchpin to innovation that allows us is a tremendous opportunity to achieve covery. to embrace, perhaps, storage of inter- savings, generate economic activity, But I want to make certain that I in- mittence power, that it makes it more and pay a dividend, economically as troduce onto this floor the discussion predictable and of more useful capac- well as environmentally. about Mother Nature and its grip on ity. Investment in cable that allows for Mr. TONKO. Representative, if I the 20th Congressional District and, be- less line loss in the delivery, in the might just add to that statement, the fore redistricting, when I represented transporting of electrons to the source. many discussions I have had with con- the 21st, as major storms Irene and Lee There are many, many ways that we stituents who say where is the wisdom impacted my region. People had lost, can be significantly sensitive to the de- in sending hundreds of billions of dol- Representative BLUMENAUER, every- mands on our society for energy and lars to foreign nations—oftentimes en- thing for which they ever worked— not to be wasteful, to be innovative in emies of this country—who are using houses swept into the river through our approach, and to green up our American energy consumer dollars to storms that just, through the force of thinking. train troops to fight our son and Mother Nature, overpowered commu- I’ll say this—and I know we have oth- daughters on the battlefield. nities. ers that want to speak. When I first ar- This is a no-brainer. This gluttonous rived here in 2009, after the 2008 elec- dependency on fossil-based fuels, im- b 1630 tion for my first term to serve in the ported to keep our energy agenda alive, Many houses were destroyed. Herit- House, I was able to sit at the table has got to stop. We need to move for- age crown jewel items in the region when we formed, as Democrats, SEEC, ward—again, with the progressive that were visitation centers and des- the Sustainable Energy and Environ- thinking that I know we can embrace tinations, destroyed. Covered bridge, ment Coalition. It’s a group of like- in this House. Get it done. So I thank historic in nature, wiped away through minded thinkers who want to take us you again for your leadership in this the ravages of water. in a green direction, with progressive dimension. This was a profound impact. Lives politics, and enable us to think outside Mr. BLUMENAUER. That last ele- lost, many injured. Communities are the barrel, to be able to be clever in ment is one that makes it so surprising still rebuilding, businesses are coming our approach to provide for new ways that my Republican friends don’t want back, households are still abandoned. to meet society’s needs, to open the to talk about dealing with climate The efforts have been powerful. We’ve door to job creation, to provide for change, energy efficiency on the floor, witnessed volunteerism to the Nth de- soundness of outcomes in a sustainable especially given the fact that an amaz- gree, a tremendous statement about way that allows us to make a very bold ing stellar array of distinguished for- the human heart to respond to the and noble statement, and that is typi- eign policy and military experts who needs of neighbors and at times total cally this: that we inherit this environ- have identified climate change and fos- strangers. And then this year, seeing ment for the moment, and it is our sil fuel dependency as a strategic vul- what had happened with the ravages of task, I believe, morally to hand it over nerability for this country, and why Sandy, Superstorm Sandy, that im- to the next generations in even better they have argued that we ought to pacted New England, impacted metro stead. move forward aggressively dealing with New York, New Jersey and beyond, That is a daunting challenge these climate change, dealing with energy ef- Pennsylvania. These are atypical situa- days. It’s a daunting challenge. But in ficiency because it strengthens Amer- tions. Tornadoes, tropical storms, hur- my heart I believe that we can accom- ica, rather than sending dollars, as you ricanes as far north as upstate New plish what we need to accomplish. We point out, to people who don’t nec- York had been unheard of. can respond to the challenge by open- essarily share our interests or our be- So there is a statement that Mother ing up to new thinking, and to not be liefs. It has been pointed out more than Nature is making. We are faced with restrained and restricted by status quo once that we are financing both sides this climate change phenomenon, a or by the disbelief that these things are of the war on terror. concept that we need to address in sci- happening right before our very eyes, But I would like to turn, if I could, to entific measure, in ways that allow us right in the heart of our communities. my friend from Memphis, Congressman to constructively build a plan that al- I wanted to make certain that I COHEN, who started us off this evening lows us to move forward, again, by en- shared the impact on my district of with a terrific 1-minute observation hancing the opportunities for job cre- Mother Nature and the clarion call to about Dr. Hansen’s retirement. We ation. respond with urgency and with in- would welcome your thoughts and fur- What I had seen through the advo- depth knowledge, driven by the passion ther observations about our moving cacy at NYSERDA, the State Energy to make a difference because there is forward. Research and Development Authority, always that pioneer spirit in America, Mr. COHEN. Thank you. I appreciate was this effort for us to be the keepers and we’re at our best when we embrace your leadership on this issue and your of the funds that would go towards in- that inspiration and move forward as a scheduling this Special Order. novating and transitioning into a bet- Nation. Dr. James Hansen did retire. He is ter reliance on renewables, using in a Mr. BLUMENAUER. Thank you, Con- considered the foremost climatologist benign way the environment qualities gressman TONKO. I appreciate your in the world. As I understand it, he that surround us—the winds, the sun, comments. I appreciate your leadership shared in a Nobel Prize in 2007 on this the soil, the water—in a way that al- on this issue before and after you general type of issue. He’s been the lows us to respond to the needs that we joined Congress. And I like the notion leading proponent of watching out for have as a society for energy and to do about thinking outside the barrel. the future. it through intellect. The intellectual Mr. TONKO. You’re a great leader The Keystone pipeline, he’s the clar- capacity of our Nation is something we also, so thank you for leading us in ion call, I guess, on the problems that constantly cultivate through edu- this discussion and leading us rou- that would cause to the environment in cation, training, higher ed, apprentice- tinely on sound transportation quar- the future. Because the tar sands, to ship programs. These are forces that ters, including those bicycles that mine, is a very carbon-intensive activ- can then bear good news of invention, don’t pollute. ity. You take away the forest. You also of innovation. Mr. BLUMENAUER. Indeed. Well, have to use a lot of water and a lot of I have the renewable center for GE, the cheapest electron is one that we energy in the production. Just the pro- the international center in the heart of don’t have to use. If we just double duction of the tar sands causes great

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Well, the have already mentioned that, accord- the first to warn on this issue. He has threats are manyfold. ing to the National Oceanic and At- retired, so we will have his voice. One is just when we are subjecting mospheric Administration, NOAA, and I live in Memphis. It’s kind of the our armed services to try and deal with NASA, last year, 2012, was the warmest center of the region, Oklahoma over, the extremes that you talked about, year on record for the United States. for tornadoes. Tornadoes have been it’s unpredictable. They have to be The 9 warmest years on record have all much, much more prominent in the dealing with drought and with flood ex- occurred since 1998. United States. This just isn’t a quirk. treme weather events. When we find I want to talk for a minute, Mr. BLU- Mother Nature can have her times and the disruption that occurs in other MENAUER, about some of the effects we certain variances in her schedule, but parts of the world with drought and are feeling in our home State of Or- it’s obvious what’s been happening with famine, it provides an instability egon. We have a reputation for quality with the increase in tornadoes, the that creates a security challenge for wine grapes, including the world-re- droughts, the floods. The Mississippi us. And the fact that we are vulnerable nowned pinot noir grape. The quality River, it’s been the lowest it’s ever still, in terms of energy supply for the of wine is attributable to the climate been in spots—and it’s flooded. It had United States and for our allies and the in Oregon. The pinot grapes grow in a the worst floods in Memphis ever about world economy can be held hostage, all temperature range between 57 and 61 2 or 3 years ago, and this year the river of these were part of this challenge. degrees, and a minor variation threat- was its lowest. We’ve gone from its Last but not least, the Department of ens the quality of the grapes and the highest to its lowest, and something’s Defense, the United States military, is value, significant value, to Oregon’s happening; it’s obvious something is the largest consumer of energy in the economy. happening. Scientists, almost to one, world. Energy supply, energy cost, en- Also, the district that I represent, tell us that this is because of what ergy efficiency is a matter of military and I know you’ve been out to our Or- we’ve done to the environment. readiness and operational efficiency. egon coast frequently, includes the When we spend $18 billion for air-condi- shellfish industry. There’s a thriving b 1640 tioning in Iraq and Afghanistan, that’s fishing community there. There’s dun- There might be two out of 100 sci- a drain on the budget. When we are geness for sale on the commercial mar- entists. It seems so unfortunate that sending to the front tanker trucks, be- ket and recreational crabbing that the other side always grabs one or two cause we are so dependent on fossil helps draw tourists over to the coast. of those people, rather than the 98. fuel, they might as well have a great In recent years, the changes have We all have a debt and a duty to pro- big bull’s-eye on them. We’ve lost thou- caused low oxygen content in the tect the Earth and, I think, looking sands of Americans on these fuel con- water. Hypoxia is the condition that out for issues where we do conserve, as voys. results. It is creating dead zones in our you’ve said. I’ve got a company in Being able to be energy efficient, ocean that kill fish, crab, and other Memphis I met with last week—they’re being able to stretch the dollars, being marine life. really in Mississippi—called Griffin, able to promote American security is This is a serious problem that’s af- and they have found a way to come up all part of an equation where these ex- fecting the industry over there. There’s with a system that when a vehicle perts are saying, it ought to be a no- a shellfish hatchery, Whiskey Creek, idles—and they’re talking about, in brainer to move forward with energy over in Tillamook that supplies three- their specific situation, armored cars efficiency. Security experts are deeply quarters of the oyster seed used to that have a lot of going around and concerned about the disruptive impact produce shellfish up and down the West they idle their engines when they pick globally of this uncertain climate ef- Coast. It’s an industry worth $110 mil- up their financial deposits—it costs a fect. lion annually. Their stock of oyster lot to the environment in burning of I notice that we are joined by my col- seed is being threatened by the rising oil when the car is running. They’ve league from the State of Oregon, Con- acidity of the ocean, which is, again, a got a way where the car can be turned gresswoman BONAMICI, who has long serious impact of climate change. So off and the idling of the engine can exercised leadership in areas of envi- right there in Oregon there’s two ex- stop, but, nevertheless, the vehicle still ronment and energy in her previous ca- amples, economic examples, of how our gets air-conditioning and power. It can reer as a distinguished State legislator local industry is being affected. save a tremendous amount of gasoline in Oregon. I welcome her and would in- Oregonians, I know, as well as people and protect the environment. Hope- vite comments in conversation with us. around this country, they’re looking to fully, they can come within some Ms. BONAMICI. Thank you so much, us for solutions. They’re looking to us grants that are already available to Mr. BLUMENAUER, for leading this dis- for leadership. So we need to discuss make companies that need to retrofit cussion about such an important topic. how we are going to mitigate and begin their vehicles to use that, but it is like The reality of what we are talking to reverse these environmental and raising our CAFE standards. The best about is really impossible to deny. economic effects. We have a great re- way to save energy is not to have to We’ve had numerous scientists testify sponsibility, not only to our own home use it and to conserve on that. in Congress. You mentioned Dr. Han- States, but to our country and the rest There are opportunities we have. Ob- sen. I want to mention that his first of the world, and we need to take a viously, we have to concentrate on testimony in Congress was 25 years leadership role. this. We’ve got to look to alternatives, ago. 1988 was the first time that Dr. Mr. BLUMENAUER. I appreciate and wind and solar are two of them. Hansen, a well-renowned NASA sci- that comment. I was just thinking, as It’s a disaster waiting to happen, and entist, testified about the problems of you were describing the threats on our we just can’t close our eyes to it. It’s climate change—25 years ago. Since, so Oregon coast, to what we just read in important that we take a leadership many peer-reviewed studies have the Washington Post a couple of days role in the world. shown the reality of what we are facing ago here where the impacts of climate Mr. BLUMENAUER, I would like to ask and the human impact, a significant change are having a profound effect on you, the Defense Department that contributing factor. the blue crab, breeding a super crab raised those issues about it being im- Not only do we have a lot of impacts that’s actually growing more rapidly; portant to our national defense, were on the planet, from glacial withdrawal at the same time, climate impacts are

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It’s very impor- Republican friends would join us in the spend a part of each day reflecting on tant for us to take a step back and invitation to actually debate this issue President Eisenhower’s warning about evaluate exactly what the economic in the finest tradition of the House of the military industrial complex and employment opportunities are because Representatives. There was a time what it has done to our Nation, because things that we do to rebuild and renew when, in this Chamber, there were that’s where the budget has really got America in a sustainable way—Key- echoes of great challenge, debate, a great problem, and that all goes back stone has a few thousand temporary where people went back and forth with to our dependence on foreign oil. construction jobs and maybe a hand- ideas to be able to bring out the best in Ms. BONAMICI. If I may add, too, ful—I’ve heard various estimates—a us. We actually saw that when the Re- that it calls out for continued invest- few dozen, a couple hundred permanent publicans took control 23 months ago, ment in alternative technologies and jobs and has, as you pointed out, sig- one of the first things they did was energy from electric vehicles to hybrid nificant environmental consequences. abolish the Special Committee on Cli- vehicles to alternative fuels, solar But when we’re investing in wind, mate Change and Global Warming, and power, wind power, and bicycles. We solar, geothermal, these are areas that since then we haven’t really had an op- need to continue that research and in- are producing far more jobs already portunity to engage in this fashion. vestment in those alternative tech- and that they are using a sustainable Mr. COHEN. I appreciate your bring- nologies to decrease our dependence on source of energy that pays a con- ing up the idea of the hottest year. In foreign fuel. tinuing dividend over time. This wind Memphis, it does occasionally get hot, One of the things that I want to men- is American. This geothermal energy is but it also does in Washington. I think tion too and what we have debated here American. It’s renewable, and it it’s supposed to be 90 today. I suspect, on the floor is how much we’re going to doesn’t cost us anything. Mr. COHEN. Memphis borders Arkan- and somebody is going to be able to spend to clean up after disasters. That sas, and there was some kind of a pipe- prove me wrong, but this may be the is something that we have debated here line problem over there recently. I hottest—— on the floor. I want to point out that a recent think it might have been Exxon. They b 1650 GAO report for the first time lists cli- had a leak. That’s kind of an expensive Mr. BLUMENAUER. It is an all-time mate change as a significant financial process. That’s similar to the Keystone record for today. risk to the Federal Government. We’re pipeline; isn’t it? It gives us kind of a warning of what could occur. Mr. COHEN. I figured it was, and it’s not well positioned to address the fis- Mr. BLUMENAUER. Well, energy just unbelievable. And last week it was cal exposure presented by climate transmission is something that is a cold. I mean, I had my winter suit change. when I went home, and I brought my part of the broader equation. As a Nation, we’ve become too famil- Pipeline reliability is something that summer stuff here today. iar with the consequences of waiting we all need to be concerned about. The heat does have effects, and you until the 11th hour to develop solu- More fundamentally, we need to deal brought up some of the other issues. tions. The time is now to work to- with the sources of energy, what is It’s not just the polar bears. I’m a big gether, to begin to reverse these driving them, how we reduce carbon fan of the polar bears, but they’re changes, to develop alternative tech- emissions, not sort of how we shift the going to be eliminated because they’re nologies, to come up with policies that pieces around. The priority, I think, going to lose their ability to survive in will begin to take on this very serious ought to be sustainable energy, more their natural climate. Also, the flora problem and build our economy at the economic investment, reducing green- and the fauna are at risk. same time. house gas emissions, not cooking the What Mr. BLUMENAUER mentioned And even for those who dispute or ig- planet. about defense made me think of a long nore the scientific evidence of climate I recently had my first two grand- time ago when I was in college. There change, we can still discuss the eco- children in a course of a few months. It was a man I thought a lot of named nomic gains we can make by investing was interesting to me—some of these Don Wolfson. He was a smart man from in a clean-energy economy and mod- dry debates that we have that talk a family that had knowledge of power ernizing our infrastructure and seeking about by 2100, sea levels may rise 3 or in this country. We were talking about energy independence, which is also a 4—that always seemed kind of remote who was the most powerful person in national security issue, as you had to me until I realized that these two the country and what were the most mentioned, as well. young men, if they live as long as their powerful interests. I had said some- Mr. BLUMENAUER. Absolutely. great-grandmother, will be alive in the thing about the military industrial Those 11 weather disasters last year year 2100, and what we do as a Congress complex and how President Eisenhower cost us over $60 billion. It’s also cre- helps shape the world that they in- had warned us in his last address about ating uncertainty in agriculture and in herit. the military industrial complex. What the business of insurance where it’s That’s our responsibility. That’s why he warned us about really was the im- more difficult for them to be able to I deeply appreciate both of you being a pact they would have on the budget calculate what they’re doing. It places part of this discussion this evening and and all those things. But what Don more burden on the Federal Govern- why I hope that our Republican friends Wolfson told me was the military in- ment because in many cases there will join us in an actual debate of these dustrial complex is all tied to one aren’t private alternatives available. policies, practices, what the choices thing: oil. That’s what it’s about. That’s why we had to create flood in- are. Hopefully, it may actually lead to The military runs on oil. And as Mr. surance. You’re touching on an area action in the floor of the House for a BLUMENAUER so well pointed out, that has profound economic con- more sustainable future. they’re the most consuming user of oil, sequences because of this environ- Ms. BONAMICI. I know we join you and they also at the same time are mental instability. in that. spending much of their efforts defend- Mr. COHEN. Mr. BLUMENAUER, let me I also wanted to mention, while ing the trade routes to get oil. That’s ask you this—and we’ve worked to- you’re talking about renewable energy, why the 5th Fleet is over there in Bah- gether on the Keystone XL issue— the great promise of wave energy as rain, and it is defending the Strait of When people come to you and say that well with the coast.

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Further sults and experience represents real—and others in the second person. stated by Marine Corps Commandant what some might label criminal—negligence The gentlewoman may continue. on the part of those NAVAIR and Marine General James Jones: Corps leaders who knew both the parameters Ms. BONAMICI. Thank you, Mr. The tragedy is that these were all good Speaker. of the missing tests and the nature of this marines joined in a challenging mission. Un- nighttime exercise. Without this prior test- I know that Mr. BLUMENAUER has fortunately, the pilots’ drive to accomplish ing experience, data and subsequent anal- grandchildren. I don’t yet. We owe it that mission appears to have been the fatal ysis, these pilots should not have been flying not only to the current generation, but factor. such a mission. to future generations to take action on What the family and myself have Mr. Speaker, what makes this so these important issues. been battling for since the year 2000 is ironic is that, as I’ve shared with you, Mr. BLUMENAUER. I’m prepared to that the experts have said that the pi- I’m in my 12th year of trying to get a yield back, unless my friend from lots did not understand vortex ring letter from the United States Marine Memphis wants any concluding com- state and how it impacts the V–22. Vor- Corps that clearly states—and the facts ment. tex ring state is understood in most support this—that Colonel John Brow, Mr. COHEN. I just want to thank you helicopters, but the V–22 was new, and pilot, and Major Brooks Gruber, copi- for your leadership, and it’s been an they had not done any testing at all. lot, were not prepared to handle vortex honor to join you today on the floor on Mr. Speaker, I want to read the para- ring state in the V–22 Osprey. That’s this issue. It’s important to be ad- graph from Connie Gruber when she all the wives want. You would think dressed. asked me to look into this. This was that we were going to be sued or some- Mr. BLUMENAUER. With that, Mr. dated December 10 of 2002: thing. I’ve got letters from the lawyers Speaker, I yield back the balance of With so many wrongs in the world we can- who say, No more suits. It’s over. my time. not make right, I ask that you prayerfully Trish has two young boys, Michael f consider an injustice that you can help make and Matthew, and Connie has a little CLEARING THE NAMES OF JOHN right. I realize you alone may not be able to girl who is just as precious as she can amend the report, but you can certainly sup- be. It’s just one of those things that, as BROW AND BROOKS GRUBER port my efforts to permanently remove this The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under black mark from my husband’s honorable a man of faith, you just wonder: Where the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- military service record. Military leaders con- is the guilt of those who ordered that uary 3, 2013, the gentleman from North tinue to refuse to amend this report, but I mission that night? It made no sense. Carolina (Mr. JONES) is recognized for am certain there must be other means of Dick Cheney was opposed to the Os- 60 minutes as the designee of the ma- making this change. Given the controversy prey, and he was really trying to scrap of this aircraft and the Marine Corps’ vested the program. He was Secretary of De- jority leader. interest, surely there is an unbiased, ethical Mr. JONES. Mr. Speaker, on April 8, fense at the time. So the Marine Corps way to rightfully absolve these pilots. Please ordered a mission where these three which was 2 days ago, 13 years ago, 19 help me by not only forwarding my request marines crashed and burned in Marana, but by also supporting it. planes would go to Marana, Arizona, and they would play that they were Arizona. It was a very tragic time. When I received that letter from Mrs. going to recapture some Americans The Osprey, Mr. Speaker, is the plane Gruber, I called and told her that I am being held by terrorists. Really, some- that goes from a helicopter mode to a a strong man of faith, and there was times you just wonder: Where is the plane mode. At the time of the acci- some reason that God put my name in heart? Where is the feeling? These gen- dent, it was actually in an experi- her letter and that I would do every- tlemen, truthfully, were known as two mental phase. thing I could to clear the names of of the best Osprey pilots that the Ma- Two years after the accident—I was Colonel John Brow and Major Brooks rine Corps had at that time. here at the time the accident took Gruber. place—I received a letter from the wife By the way, Mr. Speaker, I actually I’m not a pilot, Mr. Speaker—and I contacted the three marine investiga- of Brooks Gruber. He’s on my far left. don’t know—but I cannot really under- He was the copilot. At the time of the tors for the JAGMAN report. That is stand being a pilot or a copilot in a sit- the official evaluation of the accident. accident, Colonel John Brow was flying uation where you have not been the plane. The sad thing about it is Major Phil Stackhouse, Colonel Ron trained, where you didn’t understand Radish, and Colonel Mike Morgan have why they had 19 marines on the back. the vortex ring state and how it would The families do not know. And quite all given me letters in the last year. impact the V–22 and what you should Each one clearly states that nothing in frankly, the former commandant of the do. That’s the fault of the United Marine Corps during the time of this the JAGMAN report should indicate States Marine Corps, and that’s the that the pilots did anything in a delib- accident, General Jim Jones, not a re- fault of Bell-Boeing. Again, the law- lation to me, but I think the world of erate way, because the pilots had not suits are settled, and Bell-Boeing set- been trained. him, he said to me, I don’t know why in tled for big bucks, if I can say it that the world they did not have sacks of Bell-Boeing, after being sued, hired way. an experimental test pilot, Tom Mac- weight in the back instead of those 17 I want to give you just another idea. marines sitting back there. Donald, who is pretty well known in I have talked to so many people in 10 the area of planes. Tom MacDonald b 1700 years that sometimes it gets confusing; spent 700 hours studying one issue: Mr. Speaker, the problem is the law- but I think what I’m going to read, Mr. What happens when the V–22 gets in suits are over. I’ve spoken to the law- Speaker, probably tells the story as the vortex ring state? In 700 hours, he yer in Texas, Jim Furman, himself a well as anything. It’s from a publica- discovered how they should handle it, helicopter pilot during the Vietnam tion called ‘‘V–22: Wonder Weapon or and he received a national award war, and he represented the families of Widow Maker.’’ I’ll read: known as the Kincheloe. Connie Gruber and Trish Brow. In addi- That the tests addressing flying qualities I’ve talked to a lot of people in the 12 tion, Brian Alexander of New York rep- and a phenomenon called ‘‘vortex ring state’’ years on this issue, and the one thing resented 17 families. Mr. Speaker, I al- were reduced from 103 mandated test condi- that God has allowed me to understand tions to the 33 actually flown represents a ways believe this—I might be wrong be- cancellation of almost 68 percent of the tests is that His children deserve to be cause I’m not an attorney—that when a in this key area, including the crucial two at cleared. I am hopeful. We have back substantial settlement is made, then 20 and 40 knots at high gross weight specifi- and forth sent a letter that the Marine somebody was seen as being at fault. cally applicable in this accident. Corps is reviewing and that the two

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And at that have a friendship with, and I will ask before you today, Mr. Speaker, to talk point as a lieutenant, we were taught him to assign someone on his imme- about a great marine, a marine who to drive out of an ambush as quick as diate staff to work with me on this was just in charge of Central Command possible and link up and go back and issue. and has retired and resigned after dec- prosecute the enemy if we were able to. I hope that the Marine Corps under- ades of service to this Nation, and let We weren’t able to at this point. It was stands that I do not want to do that, me start at the point where I was able 2003. There was no radio communica- because it would bring more peace to to meet him. tion at this point in time. We couldn’t Trish and Connie if the Marine Corps Ten years ago today, the war in Iraq talk with higher headquarters. So me writes the letter. Again, we’re probably was under way. Nineteen days after the being the highest ranking officer in talking about at most three sentences. invasion, marines and soldiers had dis- this convoy, and I was brand new in Trish has said, for the public, I do not mantled Saddam Hussein’s regime. The Iraq and, frankly, didn’t know much want my children, Michael and Mat- takedown of Baghdad and Iraq was pre- about anything, we continued north to thew, to go on Google and read that cise and supremely coordinated, much where the 1st Marine Division was pilot error was the cause of this acci- to the credit of Marine General James headquartered in a little place called dent on April 8 of 2000. Mattis, who led the 1st Marine Division Diwaniyah. General Mattis happened to be in the b 1710 in Baghdad, and just recently completed his tour as the commander of command operations center when I got Quite frankly, Mr. Speaker, that is Central Command. there and dressed me down for not what would happen if any of us on this On March 20, 2003, Mattis led the 1st prosecuting the enemy that had am- floor tonight Googled ‘‘Osprey’’ and Marine Division to the borders of Iraq. bushed my convoy. He was angry not ‘‘April 8,’’ you would see that. It indi- The marines’ success and effectiveness, that a marine was shot or not that we cates it was pilot error. sustaining light casualties, was due to had escaped; he was angry because we Sometimes I have some kids in my the intellect and the skill of one of the didn’t get after the guy that got after office, as I did today from my district, most cerebral warfighters of our life- us. That’s a real trait of General some 4-H-ers, and they were asking time, General Mattis. General Mattis is Mattis. But for a lieutenant like me about the things that a Member of Con- a tough man, exactly what you would who had been in country for a few gress gets involved in. And I said not expect from a United States Marine. hours, it was a stark awakening to, everything we get involved in should be He’s practical in combat while laser-fo- hey, you’re in the war, and you have to or needs to be in the press. Some cused on securing the objective. live up to the expectations and the things that we get involved in, it’s sim- Let me give you an example, Mr. presence and the example set by people ply because our heart tells us that if Speaker. On the march to Baghdad, like Jim Mattis. I got to meet General Mattis again in you don’t do it, who is going to do it? General Mattis landed C–130s on the 2004 when I returned to Iraq in the bat- Who’s going to do it if you, Congress- highway to keep vehicles and tanks tle of Fallujah. We would call General man WALTER JONES, don’t take it up? moving. Mattis’ marines outsmarted Mattis ‘‘Chaos.’’ That was his call sign I hope and pray that John Brow and and overpowered Saddam’s forces. In because not only was he the cerebral Brooks Gruber and the 17 marines in the aftermath, Mattis took a totally and intellectual architect regarding a the back will be able to rest in peace, different tactic. It was harder to win lot of what the Marine Corps did in the Mr. Speaker. the peace in Iraq to a certain extent Voltaire said: Anbar province, but he was also fear- than it was to win the war, but that is We owe the living respect; we owe the dead less. He would drive alone and unafraid when Mattis let his intelligence and his the truth. by himself in his own light-armored ve- outside-of-the-box thinking show That’s all we’re asking, is that these hicle, and he would show up anywhere through. In the aftermath, General two marines can rest in peace. he wanted to, day or night, in any kind Mr. Speaker, I have said if this comes Mattis and his commanders, working of situation, whether there was a fire to be a reality, that I want to go to the to build trust, establish alliances, and fight going on or not. And I tell you, he graves—John is buried in Arlington— support projects that were important earned the respect, rightfully so, of with his wife and their two boys, and to the Iraqi people, befriended what every single marine and every single say, Colonel Brow, it’s over. Then with some thought were the worst people in soldier who saw him on the front lines Major Gruber, with his wife and little Iraq in the Anbar province where the during those wars. girl—he’s buried in Jacksonville—is to bloody battles of Fallujah and Ramadi General Mattis is now CENTCOM go with them and say, Sleep, you’re roared. commander. Through his leadership, General Mattis was able to make not at fault. Sleep. CENTCOM has overseen the Afghan Mr. Speaker, I apologize for getting friends with those sheiks and with war with a level of confidence and emotional, but I just feel so passionate those elders and brought about the strategy that is indicative of General about this. awakening where those local tribes re- Mattis’ touch. Aspiring leaders would With that, I yield back the balance of alized that al Qaeda was their enemy be smart to take a lesson from General my time. and not the Americans, and they then Mattis. He well served the United turned on al Qaeda in Iraq and that was f States Marine Corps and America for able to precipitate the surge and the more than 40 years. HONORING GENERAL JAMES drawdown from Iraq where we won, I would argue, Mr. Speaker, that this MATTIS largely as a testament to General administration with this Commander The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under Mattis’ leadership. in Chief likes military leaders who the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- There were a lot of other great gen- agree with it, military leaders that uary 3, 2013, the gentleman from Cali- erals—General Odierno, General give this administration the answers fornia (Mr. HUNTER) is recognized for Petraeus, General McChrystal, General that they like to get about the way the remainder of the hour as the des- Kelly, General Dunford, who’s now in that the world is today. And they are ignee of the majority leader. Afghanistan in charge of the Inter- opposed, frankly, to military leaders Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Speaker, how national Security Assistance Force, a who give their honest opinions, regard- much time remains? lot of great generals. But General less of who is Commander in Chief. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Twenty- Mattis stands out to me, and I would General Mattis is the type of person two minutes. like to relay a quick experience. that our military needs now more than

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How does it affect sible to replace. and how they applied to people in their your mom and dad? How does it affect I would like to read a couple of thirties or people in their twenties, and your grandma and grandpa? And that’s quotes. This book is called ‘‘Victory in tried to take, at that point, some of what we would like to talk about here Iraq: How America Won.’’ President Bush’s policies and make today. them understandable to young people b 1720 I think, and say this, knowing that in our society. many of the folks on the other side of And so we had many conversations, The opening page, General Mattis is the aisle are friends of mine, dear many late night conversations here on featured speaking to his Marines, the friends, good friends. Some I like to this House floor, sometimes an hour a 1st Marine Division, in Iraq, or in Ku- hang out with, some I don’t get an op- night, sometimes 2 hours a night, wait before the invasion. Here’s what portunity to hang out with, but are all sometimes 3, 4, 5 hours a week, coming he said: good people trying to do good things. When I give you the word, we will cross the to help deliver the message. And at that time, back in 2004 and 2005 and But why we need to come here and line into Iraq. For the mission’s sake, our have this debate and discussion and country’s sake, and the sake of the men who 2006—and let me just take a second to carried the division’s colors in past battles, thank all the staff that was here for conversation is that we need to figure who fought for life and never lost their those late hours, for always being out how we’re going to move forward nerve, carry out your mission and keep your around for us, and some are still here as a country. And our arguments on honor clean. Demonstrate to the world that today, as we are still here today. But our side are that the Republican budg- there is no better friend, no worse enemy today, we want to re-establish this. et, the Republican approach, the Re- than a United States Marine. Back then it was the privatization of publican philosophy has caused a lot of I would like to give General Mattis Social Security, Mr. Speaker. And the problems that we have in our econ- the appreciation of the entire United President Bush wanted to take the So- omy today. The financial deregulation, States House of Representatives and cial Security program and privatize it, looking the other way while Wall every single Marine, past, present and put it in the stock market and allow Street turned into a crap game, with- future, and every single American that that to be a part of the private invest- out any regulation at all, no cops on owes, at least partly, the safety of this ment system and not the insurance the beat keeping an eye on things. Nation to people like him and to him, system that we have with regard to So- We saw two wars put on a credit card, literally and explicitly, for what he’s cial Security. And fortunately, we were Afghanistan and Iraq, no taxpayer, no done for this Nation. able, through the leadership of Minor- citizen, other than the families of the Semper Fi, General Mattis. We hope ity Leader PELOSI, at that time, before military, were asked to make any sac- that retirement treats you as well as she was Speaker, encouraged us to go rifice at all, and funding for the two your Marine Corps did. out and do this, and we were able, with wars was put on a credit card. And then I yield back the balance of my time. her leadership, the 30-Something Group you throw in a prescription drug bill f and other Members going out across that was not paid for on the credit the country, we were able to put a stop card. REPORT ON RESOLUTION PRO- to the privatization of Social Security. So this is what happened from 2000 to VIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF And fast forward just a few years, to 2008, where we were running up the def- H.R. 1120, PREVENTING GREATER 2008, 2009, I think there were a lot of icit, running up the national debt. And UNCERTAINTY IN LABOR-MAN- Americans who were very happy that here we arrived in 2009, after having to AGEMENT RELATIONS ACT we did not, at that time, have the So- save the banks and do the TARP pro- Ms. FOXX, from the Committee on cial Security program in the stock gram in order to plug this trillions of Rules, submitted a privileged report market. Many people would have lost dollars of a hole in our economy to (Rept. No. 113–32) on the resolution (H. their retirements. make sure that the banks don’t lock up So today, we have a whole new set of Res. 146) providing for consideration of and not loan money and everything challenges, and we have a new crop of the bill (H.R. 1120) to prohibit the Na- else, so we had to go to the taxpayer, very talented, young Members of Con- tional Labor Relations Board from tak- and the taxpayer had to foot the bill gress, members of the Democratic Cau- ing any action that requires a quorum for the two wars, the prescription drug cus, who want to come to the floor and of the members of the Board until such bill, and the massive deregulation of talk about the issues of the day as they time as Board constituting a quorum the financial markets, the too-big-to- pertain to young people and people who shall have been confirmed by the Sen- fail, and then they failed. And so the have been around a little bit, and how ate, the Supreme Court issues a deci- taxpayer was asked to foot the bill. some of these proposals that are com- sion on the constitutionality of the ap- ing from the Republican Conference, What we are saying here on our side pointments to the Board made in Janu- the Republican Study Committee, the is that that’s the wrong approach. Cut- ary 2012, or the adjournment sine die of Republican Budget Committee, how ting taxes for the wealthiest in our so- the first session of the 113th Congress, some of these policies will hit the ciety, this is not to punish the wealthy, which was referred to the House Cal- ground. this is—our approach is not to punish endar and ordered to be printed. In my opinion, we seem to be gov- anybody, but what we’re saying is, f erning by bumper sticker. So we want when the income for the top 1 percent smaller government, we want less of goes up over the last 10, 15, 20 years so 30-SOMETHING WORKING GROUP this and less of that, and more of this dramatically that the average CEO is The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. and more of that, that can be phrased making 300-plus times what the aver- PERRY). Under the Speaker’s an- to sound really good on a bumper age worker is making, when you have nounced policy of January 3, 2013, the sticker to where you would drive by the rich people that are making hun- Chair recognizes the gentleman from and you would look at the bumper dreds of millions of dollars, the top 1 Ohio (Mr. RYAN) for 30 minutes. sticker and you’d think, it makes a lot percent, but then you also have the top Mr. RYAN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I ap- of sense. .1 percent of the Americans who are preciate the opportunity to be here. We But what we want to do with this making massive amounts of money, are re-establishing the 30-Something working group and the folks who will hedge funds and whatnot.

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When you get a high have a fair Tax Code that is simpler States of America. concentration of wealth, then the aver- and fairer, that it doesn’t take forever And now we have a Republican phi- age person doesn’t have the amount of to fill out your taxes. Keep it simple. losophy that says those investments money in their pocket to be able to go And at the same time, we ask those are a waste of money and that any in- out and spend in the economy. people who have benefited so much vestment that the government makes So this is a supply side argument, cut over the last decade or two, whose in- must be a bad one; that the space pro- taxes for the wealthy, this approach come went up and they now make 300- gram, that the research investments that our friends on the other side, the plus times what the average worker that we make, that making sure that Republican Party, the Tea Party, has makes, that they help pay their fair school is affordable, the public-private been pitching since 1980: cut taxes for share and help us pay for the debts that partnerships that lead to new develop- the rich and hopefully something posi- the Republican Party has incurred by ments, the research that no one com- tive will happen for the middle class. putting two wars on a credit card and pany will make must be made by the Democrats are saying we’ve got to a prescription drug bill. public. Those are quality investments invest in the middle class. We’ve got to So that’s the discussion. That’s what that help build our economy for a gen- help the middle class with health care we want to do. And the President and eration, whether it was post-World War costs, with the cost of going to school the Democrats have made these invest- II with the GI Bill and we take all of and going to college, getting a trade, ments. And if you think that things these soldiers and we make sure that going to a community college, helping like only paying a certain percentage they can go to college, we make sure poor school districts, making sure that of your income back for your student they can go to law school, we make families who send their kids to college loan is what is part of your philosophy, sure that they can go to medical and take out a student loan, that those then you fall in our camp on that issue. school, we make sure they can become loan repayment rates are reasonable. If you think that the CEO that’s mak- engineers. Those are the reforms we made as ing 300 times more, or $300 for every Democrats here while the Democrats dollar the person on the factory floor is were in charge of the Chamber in 2007, making, needs to be balanced out, b 1740 2008, 2009, and 2010, and those are the maybe they need to help us pay down Or the space program, in which pub- investments we made. the debt more and shouldn’t have all lic money, with private ingenuity and We’re talking about two separate kinds of tax loopholes, then you’re know-how, came together. That invest- philosophies. One philosophy on the going to side with what the Democrats ment in the space program led to a Republican Tea Party side is to cut want to do. booming economy in the high-tech sec- taxes for the wealthy, deregulate Wall So long story short, we are now in a tor, the other public investments that Street, and look the other way while position where we can talk about the led to the Internet and satellites and there’s a crap game going on on Wall Republican budget. And we all are in all of these other things, and private Street; have two wars, one of them agreement, I think, Democrats and Re- companies come in and benefit from very questionable in why it started in publicans, that budgets are documents that and then invest in a workforce the first place, and a prescription drug that represent our values. And we all that can take those technologies and bill that all went on the credit card. are in agreement that we need to take make them better and increase produc- So cut taxes, start two wars, and put care of our long-term debt. We need to tivity so that we have a strong middle a prescription drug bill on the credit reduce our deficits. It is an issue, and class. card, drive up the debt, deregulate the one that we all need to take very seri- financial markets until the taxpayer ously. Invest in our infrastructure, make has to come in and bail out and the Now, the Republican plan is pre- sure that we rebuild our country. economy collapses, that’s what hap- sented to the American people, and it We’ve got combined sewer systems, pened. And so we don’t really have to is taking needed investments and cut- we’ve got roads, we’ve got bridges that have the argument. Those are the facts ting them so deeply that we are going need done. We need to make sure that of a Republican Presidency, House, and to get leapfrogged by China and India we invest in the smart power grids so Senate that got to implement their tax and Europe in some of the coming in- that we can get alternative energy package. They got to implement their dustries. These cuts, in order to try to pumped into our grids, so that we can financial regulatory packages. They balance the budget in a short period of have a more conservative approach to got to pass budgets that did or did not time, are going to be pushed off. The how we expend energy, a smarter ap- make certain investments. And what burden of these cuts will be on the mid- proach because of a smart grid where happened is, after a decade of that phi- dle class—education, economic devel- we’re wasting less energy. These are losophy being implemented, the econ- opment, which are the kind of invest- the kind of investments that we need omy collapsed. It was not just a normal ments that we need to make. Also, to make, and all the while protecting recession, it was a financial recession, these cuts are going to be cut out of what’s happening and what may hap- which a lot of economists now are tell- programs that help the poorest among pen if the Republican budget would be ing us how difficult and how much us, and that is not a recipe for success. signed into law. longer it takes to get out of these fi- We have 300-plus million people in The dramatic cuts in the Medicare nancial recessions. the United States. We are competing program, asking those going into their So the discussion that we’ve had in against India and China on who’s going senior years to not have a guaranteed the last Presidential election and the to determine who’s going to shape the benefit that they paid into. Many of discussion that we want to have here in future of the global economy. Is it those folks who would be hurt by the this Chamber as to what philosophy going to be the United States? Is it program, the Republican budget pro- should prevail in the United States of going to be China? Is it going to be gram, would be women, many of them House of Representatives, the body India? Is it going to be Europe? That’s older women. Fifty-five percent of the that is most directly elected—the Fed- the question. Who’s going to shape this Medicare population—women. The old- eral piece, anyway—most directly future? And America has always had a est Medicare beneficiaries, 85 and over, elected, every 2 years, by the people of recipe, from post-World War II until 70 percent of those are women. So as this country, what philosophy shall we roughly in the 1980s, where we made in- we age, women will see those cuts.

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They’re going to have to ning, all done through Planned Parent- make for the poor in the Medicaid pro- come out of pocket. Their kids are hood. The other side wants to abolish gram so we can make sure that these going to have to help them. it, defund it completely. kids have basic health care in the You see these huge cuts in the Med- These are some basic things that we United States of America. icaid program, which in many States need to do in order to protect the mid- And, yes, we do need education re- help senior citizens get into a nursing dle class. form; yes, we do need innovation with- home and pay for a nursing home. So here we are, in the next few weeks in the health care system. We’ve got a b 1750 and months, we’re going to have a dis- long way to go, even with the health cussion about where this country goes care reform bill and how we can revolu- So the middle class, again, people 40, and where the House of Representa- tionize health care, how we can revolu- 50, 60 years old who have parents in a tives goes and what’s our philosophy. tionize education, how we can revolu- nursing home, are going to have to So we will be coming here week after tionize the way we take care of our come out of pocket. That’s bad for the week after week to compare this phi- veterans. I will be back on this floor economy, less consumer demand. losophy, the philosophy of cut taxes for talking about some of those ways that All of these things fit together. We’re the top 1 percent, to keep the Tax Code we can go about doing that. going to come back and continue to very complicated so the wealthiest But the issue I have with the Repub- talk about many of these issues over benefit from it, or Democratic philoso- lican proposals are they’re all about the course of the next few weeks and phies and Democratic proposals that the budget. Listen, we all know we months and compare. As I said at the say we want a fairer Tax Code, we want have a demographic problem—we all beginning, I’ve got a lot of Republican a simpler Tax Code, and we want a Tax know we have the baby boomers mov- friends in this Chamber, I’ve got a lot Code that doesn’t have so many loop- ing into the Social Security and the of Republican friends in my congres- holes that only if you have high-pow- Medicare system—but how are we sional district, but I also have a lot of ered accountants will you be able to going to drive down Medicare costs? Republican friends in my congressional take advantage of the Tax Code. How are we going to drive down health district that would disagree with the The Tax Code should benefit middle care costs? That’s the question. That’s approach of the disinvestment in the class families. We all need to con- what’s important. Of course we need to United States that’s coming from the tribute, but it shouldn’t be so com- bring the cost down of health care, but other side. plicated that if you have a lot of you just don’t say, well, we’re not Mr. Speaker, I look forward to com- money or you’re a big corporation going to have any reforms, the free ing back in the next week and months, you’re somehow going to get out of market is somehow going to take care and I’m sure you’re excited for that, paying taxes or you’re somehow going of it and it should be pushed off on the too. to be able to hide your taxes overseas backs of the citizens. That’s not going I yield back the balance of my time. and not pay your fair share. That’s one to work. That’s not humane. There is a f group’s philosophy versus ours. better way to go about it, when you RELIGIOUS LIBERTY We are saying that, yes, we need to look at the field of integrative health balance the budget, but we want to do care, for example, how you can help The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under it like President Clinton did it and the prevent a lot of issues from arising the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- Democrats did it in 1993. We want to do that make people sick. uary 3, 2013, the Chair recognizes the it in a fair way that continues to make When you look at 70 or 75 percent of gentleman from Michigan (Mr. investments in those essential invest- health care costs are caused by things WALBERG) for 30 minutes. ments that will lead to long-term eco- that are behavioral in nature, so how Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I appre- nomic growth. do we shift the health care system to ciate the opportunity to address this One of the things we’re doing in even more prevention like we tried to Chamber and to address an issue of Youngstown, in my congressional dis- do in the health care reform bill? How great concern to me. I just heard my trict, is a program that President do we make investments into areas in colleague and friend from Ohio and Obama had to put together administra- medical schools and hospitals that are what he had to say, and certainly there tively—that we want to push for more looking into driving down health care is a debate that’s going on that’s worth of these—public-private partnerships costs in these other ways? Not just being had, a debate about the progres- and innovative institutes. The innova- talk about, oh, we’re going to have dra- sion of this great country, the greatest tion institute that we have now in conian cuts to the Medicare program on this Earth, in the history of this Youngstown is in additive manufac- and then we’re going to push it all off Earth, a country that has distinguished turing, three-dimensional printing, the on the Medicare recipient to foot the itself in just a few short years, 236, 237, cutting edge of manufacturing, the cut- bill and we’re going to give them a as a Nation that understands what lib- ting edge of additive manufacturing, voucher. erty is about, but also understands the partnering with big companies like Ladies and gentlemen, that is what authority that we come under. Lockheed and Boeing and other smaller happens with this Republican Tea Mr. Speaker, I have wrestled with companies in the Mahoning Valley. But Party budget. You will get a voucher, coming to the floor tonight, because public money from the Department of Mr. Speaker. These folks will get a since I first began my legislative ca- Defense or Department of Energy, the voucher. My friends on the other side reer back in 1982 in the Michigan House Department of Commerce, public-pri- say, well, yeah, but that voucher will of Representatives, and when I stood in vate partnerships to help position help you pay for it. The problem is the front of people and asked for their op- America—not just our region—in the voucher that the seniors will get portunity or their support to give me a next generation of additive manufac- doesn’t go up, doesn’t rise with the cost privileged position in that great body, turing help drive the cost down for of health care. So the voucher only I stated clearly, and I have from that these printers so that everyone that goes up a small bit while health care point in 1982 to this very day, I’ve stat- has a desktop computer now can have a costs have been going up four, five, six, ed that, as a Christian and as a former desktop printer that prints products seven, depending on the plan, more per- pastor, while I would not flaunt my re- that could revolutionize health care, cent. So you get a voucher today and ligion, I would not hide my faith.

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I understand that, and I mented into this great, great country. his faith—but this gentleman has done respect that. I believe that the Fram- Just recently I read an article that, the same thing in reaching out to ers and Founders of this great country, more than just simply being an article, many needy people and developing a its ideals that were based upon truth as gave names of fellow citizens, business that impacts peoples’ lives they determined truth to be, as they businesspeople, who through no fault of who are in difficult circumstances. His understood it, truth coming from the their own, except for the fact that they name is Charles Sharpe. He is 85 years revealed word of God that they de- were religious, they were people of old. He founded Heartland Ministries clared to be found in the Bible at that faith that had firm convictions, convic- with the money that he developed to time, and they were not ashamed to tions that they believed went beyond provide a Christian rehabilitation pro- say that and quoted many times from themselves but went to the God that gram for men and women battling drug Scripture, even without reference, be- they honored, people like Chris and and alcohol addiction, and a boarding cause it was clearly understood by the Paul Griesedieck—I hope I pronounced school for troubled youth, with his own citizens of that day that the basic that name right. I don’t know them money. Yet, if he falls under the man- ideals that this new government was personally, but I know they run a 105- date, the employees that are employed established upon were ideals found and year-old company started by their running this organization, but more written down in the Bible and clearly great-grandfather, a company in St. importantly the lives that are im- understood to be the word of God. Louis that employs 150 people. They pacted positively by this ministry, will I’d wrestle with the fact that I under- are sincere Christians that believe to be impacted and the ministry will go stand that there are filters, and the be forced to supply health insurance under. As I said, I could go on and on with moment that I let it out of the bag, as that provides abortifacient coverage, other illustrations of how this First it were, Mr. Speaker, that I’m a pastor, agents that will produce abortions, is Amendment liberty is being violated I’m a Christian, I come from a Judeo- against their firmly held Christian be- by a country that made this as the first Christian value system, that that’s my liefs and would be a violation of their of the Bill of Rights. filter, that I would lose the oppor- responsibility to their God. Just recently we all heard, I believe, tunity to speak to society in general. Now, that’s their morality, that’s a concern that a briefing had been Well, I assume that risk this evening, their filter, but from the inception of given to U.S. Army Reserve recruits because we have come to a time in our this country, believed that that, along which classified Catholics, some Jews, history where the unified under- with all other religious beliefs, was evangelical Christians and Sunni Mus- standing, whether we acknowledged it protected under the Bill of Rights. lims as religious extremists along with or fully agreed with it or certainly They are at a point right now, if they the KKK, Al Qaeda and Hamas. In lived by it, because I know, as one who violate the mandate of the law, which America, religions strongly held, firm- has feet of clay, that though I under- they are attempting to get an injunc- ly believed religious beliefs, are being stand truth, I don’t always live by it, tion and attempting ultimately to see attacked as extremist, along with ter- yet our country is at crossroads in a themselves covered just like churches rorist organizations like Al Qaeda, battle along those principles. and Christian colleges, but if they Hamas and KKK. I read in this greatest man-made doc- aren’t, they’re looking at a $5 million Mr. Speaker, I submit to you this is ument ever penned, the Constitution of fine under that mandate, annually. not America. I don’t care what the the United States, I read the First They’ve indicated that that will put courts have said at this point. They’ve Amendment, the Second Amendment, them out of business. ruled on a tax. But on a constitutional the Third Amendment, and on through There’s another company run by question, I think it’s clear for us who the Tenth Amendment, which are clas- David Green—we all know it well— read it to understand it is more than sified as the Bill of Rights, Bill of Hobby Lobby. We’ve seen their ads at just the document, but to understand Rights that were given and acknowl- Easter and Christmastime, full-page it as a warning to us and a reminder edged by the Framers and Founders ads that he pays for with his own that the blessings of the freedom of and the implementers of these amend- money, to declare the meaning of this great Nation come with a commitments, the Bill of Rights, as really Christmas and the meaning of Easter ment to ideals that are beyond us, that stemming from God, Himself, in his faith. He pays for it, long- are timeless, that are important, that unalienable rights, God given, not man standing, and yet if he doesn’t fall we often call religion but are beyond given, recognizing these rights as under this mandate and bow the knee that. They are faith that goes to our above simple human reasoning. to the government and not keep his integrity, our convictions, our char- In recent days, I’ve read and reread knees bowed to his God that he serves, acter. our First Amendment that says: he’ll pay a $1.3 million per day fine, John Adams, one of the Founders of Congress shall make no law respecting an which will take the 13,000 employees our country, John Adams, who de- establishment of religion, or prohibiting the that he employs and potentially put fended liberty even when he defended free exercise thereof; or abridging the free- them out of a job, many of whom agree the Red Coats under the same premise dom of speech, or of the press, or the right of with his personal strong faith. that we believe that all people deserve people peaceably to assemble, and to peti- a hearing and a just trial, John Adams, b 1800 tion the government for redress of griev- who was willing to give his life, his for- ances. He said, It’s come down to the point tune, his sacred honor, said: And I go on to the final, the 10th, that I’m forced to either abandon my Our Constitution was made only for a that gives the States the authority beliefs in order to stay in business or moral and religious people. It is wholly inad- that they should have. And I see what’s abandon my business in order to stay equate to the government of any other. taking place in relationship at this true to my belief. That’s not the Amer- Why in the world would he say that? point in time to one complex bill that ica that was founded by people who put There is huge wisdom there, but it was passed, called the Affordable the Bill of Rights together, and specifi- came from an understanding that hu- Health Care Act, but with specifically cally the First Amendment. manity wasn’t enough in itself. Human one mandate that I clearly believe runs I could go on with other illustrations beings weren’t wise enough in their roughshod of this First Amendment about other business owners. Well, let own right, but rather had to flow from when it, in fact, is a law that prohibits me point out one business owner here some truth wiser than that.

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It is that ‘‘virtue derived from religion is LARS OF AMERICAN religion that restrains the self-seeking hedo- indispensable to limited government.’’ EXCEPTIONALISM nistic impulse so easily engendered by a successful market economy. The American model of religious lib- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under erty takes a strongly positive view of the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- We are a successful market economy religious practice, both private and uary 3, 2013, the Chair recognizes the here in the United States, and I’m public. Far from privatizing religion, it gentleman from Iowa (Mr. KING) for 30 grateful for that, and we need to do a assumes that religious believers and in- minutes. lot of work to continue that. But our stitutions will take active roles in soci- Mr. KING of Iowa. Thank you, Mr. faith beliefs—and I’m not talking ety, including ministers, including en- Speaker. about one religion over another. I cer- gaging in politics and policymaking As always, it’s an honor to be recog- tainly come from a Judeo-Christian and helping form the public’s moral nized to address you here on the floor viewpoint, and I believe it to be true. I consensus. In fact, the American of the United States House of Rep- would not have given my life to that Founders considered religious engage- resentatives. belief if it weren’t. It impacts society ment in shaping the public morality es- I want to say to you, Mr. Speaker, as a whole. sential to ordered liberty and the suc- that I come to this floor very troubled Alexander Solzhenitsyn understood it cess of their experiment in self-govern- here this evening. I am troubled at the with his life. He said: ment. current inertia that seems to have been All individual human rights are granted b 1810 created in the minds and in the posi- because man is God’s creature; that is, free- tions of a number of people who are dom was given to the individual condi- John Witherspoon, a minister who here in the House and in the Senate, tionally in the assumption of his constant signed the Declaration of Independ- primarily those on my side of the aisle, religious responsibility. Two hundred or even ence, said in talking about our Repub- who seemed to wake up on the morning 50 years ago, it would have seemed quite im- lic, ‘‘a republic once equally poised of November 7 and decided that Mitt possible in America that an individual could must either preserve its virtue or lose be granted boundless freedom simply for the Romney would be President-elect if he satisfaction of his instincts and whims. its liberty.’’ Mr. Speaker, as I began, I will never just hadn’t said two words, ‘‘self-de- Mr. Speaker, I submit to you that intend to flaunt my religion, but I will port,’’ and if he hadn’t said two other seems to be the point in time where not hide my faith; and I believe, in this words, ‘‘47 percent.’’ They had done we’re at right now, where we’re willing country where we’ve given the greatest this analysis, apparently, before there for our whims, our instincts, our de- amount of freedom to all religious be- were any kind of exit polls that could sires, our own purposes to give in to liefs, we would do well to remember have been considered. the baseness of those hedonistic phi- that ourselves—to not hold it back but They persist in sticking with this losophies. And it’s proven to be true. to encourage faith and to encourage opinion that something must be done The results are there. Here are just a laws that respect that to the fullest de- about immigration in this country and few of them. gree and say to people like David Green that there needs to be comprehensive Since 1960, we have the end of the so- or to the Griesediecks or others: we re- immigration reform passed and that, if called ‘‘Christian America,’’ as the spect you for what you do, your beliefs, that doesn’t happen, then there’s going media has called it in Newsweek. The and we will certainly honor your free- to be a kind of calamity that might U.S. illegitimacy rate has rocketed dom. We will not impinge upon you by eliminate or badly weaken the bipar- from 5 percent of all births to 41 per- mandates, no matter how good the law tisan, two-party system that we have cent. Among African Americans, the might seem, because there is some- in this country. share of births out of wedlock is 71 per- thing higher than health, physical I reject those principles or those cent. That’s up from 23 percent in 1960. health—and that’s our spiritual health, opinions, Mr. Speaker, because what I The percentage of households that were our character health, in this country. know about the facts refutes them married couple families with children There is a stone above you, Mr. completely. There are no facts that up- under 18 had plummeted by 2006 to just Speaker, that’s there tonight and that hold such a position. It is true that the 21.6 percent. Since Roe v. Wade, 50 mil- has been here since this great Chamber people in my party have lost a growing lion-plus abortions have been per- was put together, and it’s a quote of share of the vote of the list of minority formed. The Declaration of Independ- Daniel Webster’s. I read it often, and it coalitions that there are in the coun- ence? We are all endowed with the says simply this: try. It’s also true that the other party right to life, liberty and the pursuit of ‘‘Let us develop the resources of our has demagogued this issue mercilessly, happiness. land, call forth its powers, build up its and the effect of their tens of millions Between 1960 and 1990, the teenage institutions, promote all its great in- of dollars has shown in the polls. My suicide rate tripled, though the number terests—’’ Daniel Webster could be colleagues on my side of the aisle don’t then fell. As of 2006, suicide was the speaking to us tonight and to our coun- seem to recognize that. Perhaps they third leading cause of death of young try, Mr. Speaker— ‘‘and see whether haven’t thought this through, and I adults and adolescents age 15 to 24, just we also, in our day and generation, hope they do, Mr. Speaker. But the behind homicide. may not perform something worthy to most essential pillar of American And I could go on with the tragic re- be remembered.’’ exceptionalism that is affected by this sults of going away from religious be- I submit to you, Mr. Speaker, that if debate over immigration is the rule of lief, faith belief, truth, a moral char- we would restore liberty and justice for law. acter. Again, all laws are moral—right, all, if we were to restore the oppor- It appears to me that there are a wrong or indifferent. We all have fil- tunity to live under our spiritual lib- number of people on my side of the ters. erties and beliefs and not mandate peo- aisle who say—even though they recog- I submit to you, Mr. Speaker, that ple to go against that—bow their knees nize that the comprehensive immigra- we are challenged economically, we are to almighty government as opposed to tion reform agenda, which has been challenged socially, we are challenged bowing to Almighty God—this Nation around since the George W. Bush ad- in our security and we are challenged will be a blessed Nation under God, ministration and perhaps before—they in our liberty because we have wan- with liberty and justice for all. believe that somehow, even though it’s

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Now, a quarter of a against illegal immigration and still here, that jobs and the economy are century later, over 11 million people welcome new immigrants, new Amer- more important. A whole list of things are in our country illegally, and our ican citizens, is totally false. are more important, but it’s fifth or borders are still not secured. Mr. KING of Iowa. Reclaiming my sixth on that priority list. Those who This isn’t just about the southern time, just doing a quick calculation off advocate for this Gang of Eight’s border. There is a lot of focus about, if of that, 40 percent of the population of version, which seems to be emerging we secure the southern border, our bor- Hazleton being Hispanic, presuming from the Senate in comprehensive im- ders are secure. Forty percent of the that represented a percentage of the migration reform, seem to think that people who are in the country illegally voting population that was Hispanic, we should do something, that we did not cross a border—they didn’t and you carried 90 percent of the vote, should pass some type of amnesty be- cross the southern border; they didn’t which would indicate that somewhere cause that’s what’s required to ‘‘start come across Canada. Forty percent of in the area of 75 percent of the His- panic population voted for LOU the conversation.’’ the people who are in the country ille- BARLETTA for mayor of Hazleton; would I took an oath to uphold this Con- gally came on visas and overstayed stitution. This Constitution is the su- that be close to correct? their visas. In fact, one of the men who Mr. BARLETTA. I believe it would. preme law of the land, and the rule of was granted amnesty in 1986 was in- And again, what I found in my hands- law is an essential pillar of American volved in the 1993 attack on the World on experience as a mayor in dealing exceptionalism; and if there are people Trade Center. Now, my city is 2,000 with the problem of illegal immigra- in this Congress, House or Senate, who miles away from the nearest southern tion, plus a city whose Hispanic popu- are prepared to sacrifice the rule of law border, and I have an illegal immigra- lation had exploded, for example, to in order to start a conversation, that’s tion problem. Any State that has an show you how fast our population had enough to get me to come here to the international airport is a border State. grown, in the year 2000, English as a floor tonight, Mr. Speaker, to start the b 1820 Second Language, the budget for conversation about restoring the rule English as a Second Language was $500. of law and reestablishing the pillars of There are 22 million Americans who are out of work. We should not be en- Just 5 years later, it was $1.5 million. American exceptionalism and making So as our immigrant population grew, sure that this great Nation that we are couraging millions more to come here illegally when so many Americans can- we also realized that the most impor- can go on to our destiny beyond the tant issues to those that were there shining city on the hill to a place that not find jobs. Medicare and Social Se- curity are going broke, and yet the were good opportunities, were good actually does realize American destiny jobs. It wasn’t about granting amnesty with all of the pillars of American Heritage Foundation did a study that said that if we give a pathway to citi- or a pathway to citizenship. They exceptionalism intact, not sacrificing wanted good jobs and a good education zenship to the 11 million or more who the rule of law for political expediency, for their children. They came to Amer- are here, it will cost over $2.6 trillion which is the bargain that is being nego- ica for that better life. Offering am- over the next 20 years. We should not tiated over on the Senate side and be- nesty wasn’t going to make their life even be talking about offering am- hind closed doors here on the House any better, and they understood that. nesty. There should be no bill that side, although not even publicly admit- They also understand that allowing 20 talks about a pathway to citizenship. ted to. or 30 million more people to come into We should be securing our borders first. So, Mr. Speaker, in the earlier part this country illegally is not helpful for This is something that we should all of this discussion, I would be very people who are starting out, who need be able to agree upon, Democrats and pleased to yield to a very strong leader the jobs that they came here for, or Republicans, the Senate and the House, on the rule of law, to one who has led many Americans who can’t find work. within his own community in Hazleton if we are sincere, if we’re not trying to Mr. KING of Iowa. I’m curious, since and who has been a clear and articulate fool the American people a second you came to Congress here, Mr. voice on protecting and defending time. We promised them that we would BARLETTA, and I’m going to presuppose America’s rule of law destiny, and secure our borders before we give am- that you have strong personal relation- that’s the gentleman from Pennsyl- nesty. Offering a pathway to citizen- ships among the entire spectrum of the vania (Mr. BARLETTA). ship will make matters worse. It will community of Hazleton, have any of Mr. BARLETTA. Thank you, Con- encourage millions more to come here them in any appreciable number gressman KING. illegally. changed their position on the immigra- Recently, there has been a lot of talk You know, you don’t replace your tion issue since they sent you to Con- in Washington about illegal immigra- carpet at home when you still have a gress? And can you speak on some of tion. As the mayor of Hazleton, Penn- hole in the roof. your relationships with your constitu- sylvania, after it was estimated that 10 Mr. KING of Iowa. I thank the gen- ents today and those who were your percent of our entire population was tleman from Pennsylvania for coming constituents when you were mayor? there illegally, I created the first law to the floor to deliver this presen- Mr. BARLETTA. The position has of its kind in the country. Now, I don’t tation, this hands-on presentation from not changed. And, in fact, I believe the need to be briefed about illegal immi- the gentleman, Mr. BARLETTA. If you fact that I stood up for the rule of law gration—I have lived it. Because Wash- would yield to a question, I’m curious and I speak for the importance of pro- ington has failed to protect our bor- as to the percentage of the population tecting our national security and our ders, cities like mine have been over- of Hazleton that is a minority popu- American jobs here, it has allowed me come. I had to deal with it myself be- lation, perhaps Hispanic population, to win elections, getting both Demo- cause of Washington’s failure. and how your election results turned crat and Republican support. I ran in a Our immigration laws were created out the last time you ran for mayor of district that was 2:1 Democrat, and I for two reasons: one, to protect the Hazleton? won by over 10 percent of the vote. I American people and our national secu- Mr. BARLETTA. Sure. When I was really believe the fact that I was able rity; and two, to protect American mayor of Hazleton, over 40 percent of to stand up when Washington had let workers. the entire population of Hazleton was us down was really the reason why Now, in 1986, Ronald Reagan had Hispanic, and I won with over 90 per- Democrats, Republicans, immigrants, promised the American people that if cent of the vote. And I don’t know of and non-immigrants supported me.

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Well, it is abso- our casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, represent, me being a blue collar kind lutely true. I’ll give you an example. that is American population, most of of a guy and a hands-on fellow—I start- We had arrested a young man for sell- it, that’s a number, but it’s human. It’s ed out as an earth-moving contractor, ing cocaine on a playground. The man very, very personal. actually in the labor part of the con- was in the country illegally. It took And I would ask the gentleman from struction business—how do you sup- our detectives 5 hours to determine Pennsylvania if he would have any per- pose the constituents of other Members who he was. He had five Social Secu- sonal accounts that might reflect a of Congress that don’t have this same rity cards. He had five identities. Law component of that 25,064. position that you have on the rule of enforcement has no idea who they are Mr. BARLETTA. Well I did, actually. law and immigration and protecting dealing with; many, many are here The final straw for me that made me legal immigrants, what are they hear- under fraudulent documentation. realize that I needed to do something ing do you suppose in those similar dis- Those who are involved in the criminal to protect the people in my town actu- tricts to the one you have? element, in the gangs or drug trade, I ally happened on May 10, 2006. It was a Mr. BARLETTA. I believe that peo- don’t believe will be coming forward no day that I’ll never forget. ple all over the country understand matter what laws we pass here. And we Earlier in the day we had arrested a what I’m saying, that illegal immigra- can pass all the laws in the world; if we 14-year-old for shooting a gun into a tion is crushing our cities. Our popu- don’t enforce the laws of this country crowded playground. The 14-year-old lation in Hazleton grew by 50 percent, and if we don’t allow States and local was in the country illegally. And it was but our tax revenue remained the law enforcement to work in harmony interesting: he had his lawyer on speed same. Our population grew by 50 per- with the Federal Government, we will dial on his cell phone, which I thought cent, but our tax revenue remained the never stop the problem of illegal immi- I don’t know how many 14-year-olds same. Small cities, small towns like gration. But what we shouldn’t do is carry their lawyer on a speed dial. Hazleton, Pennsylvania, are crushed by make the same mistake we made in I remember going home that day and the burden of illegal immigration. 1986 and give a green light to people all telling my wife that I had—I didn’t I was sued for creating the first law over the world to come here illegally know what to do anymore. We were of its kind in the country, and I while our borders are still open. losing control of the city. We didn’t couldn’t find politicians to come near have the resources to deal with the b 1830 me, to be honest with you. It was pret- problem. ty refreshing because nobody came to If you were a family waiting to come That same night I got a call from the Hazleton. And I thought I was standing to the United States because you want- chief of police, 1 o’clock in the morn- there alone until I started getting ed to obey the law, but you hear a dec- ing, a 29-year-old city man, father of cards and letters and checks from peo- laration like we’re hearing here in three children, was shot in the head. ple all over the United States. In fact, Washington, offering a pathway to citi- He was shot by one of the gang mem- I got checks from every State, includ- zenship and protection while you’re bers in the city. ing Alaska and Hawaii, to help defend here, why would you wait? Why would That one homicide, it took our police our city in that lawsuit. We raised over you wait with your family? department 36 hours to bring the peo- half a million dollars, most of it in $10 It would be a green light for people to ple forward that committed that crime. and $20 donations, from people all over come. That’s why the problem will be- We spent half of our yearly budget in America who felt the same way. I am come worse. overtime in the police department on not alone. The American people under- Mr. KING of Iowa. And reclaiming that one murder. stand what illegal immigration means. my time, it was reported to me today And enough was enough. If the Fed- It doesn’t mean that we roll up the here on the floor, a Representative eral Government wasn’t going to do welcome mat to new immigrants. We that represents an area very near the anything, then I had to. I took an oath, ask them to come here through the southern border said to me that the il- and I had an obligation to do so. And proper channels, respect the rule of legal border crossings are up 20 percent that’s what began my crusade. law, and then give them the oppor- since the dialog on comprehensive im- I was sued, by the way. I was sued for tunity that they came to America for. migration reform, that euphemism creating the law. In fact, the plaintiffs Mr. KING of Iowa. Reclaiming my began. that sued the city of Hazelton, many of time, I remain curious to the wealth of So the encouragement for people to the plaintiffs were admitted illegal experience that the former mayor and get into the United States on the aliens who sued the city. They had the gentleman from Pennsylvania has chance that this Congress will pass their identities kept confidential. They provided here, Mr. Speaker. I would some kind of an act that would ulti- had asked if their identities could be ask also, of the illegal drug distribu- mately be amnesty is bringing more kept confidential, which they were. We tion links that exist in this country people into the United States. were not allowed to ask their names. and that which I’m going to presume But I wanted to circle back and ask They then asked if they could be ex- also shows up in Hazleton, illegal drugs another question of the gentleman cused from showing up at the trial be- and violence, and I will make this from Pennsylvania, and that is that cause they were in the country ille- statement into the RECORD, Mr. Speak- there’s a GAO study, a General Ac- gally and didn’t want to go to a Fed- er, and that is, in my meetings with countability Office study, of about 2 eral courthouse. It was granted. the Drug Enforcement Agency and a years ago that went back through our I never saw our accusers. I took the number of others that are involved in prison system and asked the question, stand for 2 days. I testified for 2 days, enforcing the laws against illegal a number of questions about the popu- but never saw the people that sued the drugs, they tell me that at least one lation of our prison system that are city of Hazelton. I felt that illegal link in every illegal drug distribution criminal aliens. And that number was aliens were given more rights than a chain in America, at least one link in at least 28 percent. Some numbers United States citizen would be given. that chain, is carried out by someone show 30, depending on how you define You cannot sue your city and remain who is unlawfully present in the United that. anonymous. States. The cost of those illegal drugs But there also was a number in there I vowed to appeal this and fight this to our society, I don’t know has been that was stark to me. The people in to the Supreme Court, which we did.

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A few years Texas, I add up those numbers and it I’m 2,000 miles away from that south- ago they started blending the term looks like a number approaching 60 ern border. ‘‘health care’’ and ‘‘health insurance’’ percent of the resources used by the We have good reason to enforce our till it became one thing, and we got Federal Government to prosecute have immigration laws, and we should not ObamaCare out of that, because people to do with something coming cross the be encouraging people to come to this could no longer draw the distinction border, whether it’s people, or it’s 90 country illegally by granting amnesty. between health care and health insur- percent of the illegal drugs consumed We did it in 1986, and we’re talking ance. in America is the other component of about this again. And we’ve also watched during a that presentation. So if we control this Why obey our immigration laws if we similar period of time, as the dialog of border, Mr. Speaker, we can control have an administration that won’t en- the distinction between illegal immi- the 34.9 percent of the prosecutions force the laws and a Congress that grant and immigrant, the distinction— about reentry. We have roughly a quar- wants to give amnesty every time the immigrant means someone who came ter of that prosecution that has to do problem comes up again? to the United States legally and fol- with illegal drugs. And the Drug En- We need to enforce our laws. We need lowed our laws, that saw the image of forcement Agency does tell us that be- to make E-verify mandatory. Protect the Statue of Liberty, was inspired by tween 80 and 90 percent of the illegal American jobs. We need to make sure that image, and found a way to come drugs consumed in America come from we’re protecting our national security. to America to exercise all the God- or through Mexico. There are people around the world that given liberties that are here, that were If there’s a universal position on this want to harm us. defined so well in our Declaration of side of the aisle, Mr. Speaker, it has to And we need to give the immigrants Independence and protected in our Con- do with secure the border, prove you that come here the opportunity that stitution. That’s ‘‘immigrant.’’ secured the border, establish that, rees- they waited for, those immigrants that That’s where the vigor comes from, tablish respect for the rule of law. At stood and waited because they wanted for the American population and civili- that point, we can have a conversation to obey America’s laws and they are zation, among our brothers. It’s God- about some of the ideas that are here, and we are stealing that oppor- given liberty, but it’s also the vigor of emerging over on the Senate side and tunity away from them. Yet we’re tell- those who were inspired to come to in the secret meetings here in the ing them we’re doing this for the immi- America. House of Representatives. grants that are here. So, Mr. Speaker, I recognize there With that, Mr. Speaker, I yield back They’re smarter than that. And are only about 3 minutes left, but I’d the balance of my time. that’s why immigration is not the be very happy to yield to the gen- f most important issue to the people tleman from Texas, who is very reli- ADJOURNMENT that are here. They want that edu- able and a very clear voice, as much cation; let’s give it to them. time as there may remain. Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I All the programs that the Heritage Mr. GOHMERT. Well, thank you. And move that the House do now adjourn. Foundation talks about that will be I’ll just take a moment because what The motion was agreed to; accord- impacted by this pathway to citizen- you’re talking about is so very critical. ingly (at 6 o’clock and 42 minutes ship are programs that the most needy And just to reiterate the point that’s p.m.), under its previous order, the need to live. Why are we going to hurt been coming out in a couple of hear- House adjourned until tomorrow, people that need these programs? ings, I was shocked that 34.9 percent of Thursday, April 11, 2013, at 10 a.m. for I feel very strongly about this issue. all prosecutions by this administration morning-hour debate. I feel very strongly, and that’s why I’m were not for drugs; they were for peo- f here to speak up. ple reentering this country after EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, Mr. KING of Iowa. Reclaiming my they’ve been deported. ETC. time, I very much thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for coming to the b 1840 Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive floor and voicing his opinion. And I They’re prosecuting people for illegal communications were taken from the know that he’s also occupied with a entries. You don’t even prosecute—this Speaker’s table and referred as follows: very tight schedule, so I appreciate administration—people that just come 999. A letter from the Director, Regulatory across one time. And when you think Management Division, Environmental Pro- that a great deal. tection Agency, transmitting the Agency’s Mr. Speaker, the attention that I’ve about all the detention, all the prison, final rule — Castor Oil, Polymer with Adipic given Mr. BARLETTA, I hope that you the jail space, the prosecutors. We pay Acid, Linoleic Acid, Oleic Acid and Ricin- and America have given LOU BARLETTA for the defense attorneys. You think oleic Acid Tolerance Exemption [EPA-HQ- as well. And I hope that he’s rewarded, about all of the prisons around Amer- OPP-2013-0057; FRL-9381-2] received April 2, not only by his constituents, but by a ica which contain so many people who 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the policy of protection of the rule of law came in illegally, when this adminis- Committee on Agriculture. that can be re-established here in this tration says it cannot afford to secure 1000. A letter from the Under Secretary, Department of Defense, transmitting author- country. the border, then they have not taken ization of Brigadier General Thomas W. The idea that we should somehow stock of how much money that this Bergeson and Colonel David B. Been, United suspend our good judgment, and we country is having to spend on prisons, States Air Force, to wear the authorized in- should waive the rule of law, all for prosecutors, jails, defense attorneys, signia of the major general and brigadier some idea of political expediency, is all of the costs that come with that, general; to the Committee on Armed Serv- not compatible with the principles of because they’re not doing their job. ices. our political party. And sacrificing the And I know it goes back to the Bush 1001. A letter from the Under Secretary, rule of law for political expediency administration. That is not a defense. Department of State, transmitting the Na- tional Defense Stockpile (NDS) Annual Ma- seems, to me, to be a foolish idea. And they need to take care of their terials Plan (AMP) for Fiscal Year 2014, It needs to be precious to be an job—and I hope and pray they will—in- along with proposed plans for FY 2015 American citizen. Citizenship should be stead of using the issue of a secure bor- through 2018, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 98h-2(b); valuable. And throughout all of the der as ransom. No, we will only secure to the Committee on Armed Services.

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A letter from the Director, Regu- Government Accountability Office, trans- nicipal Solid Waste Landfil Permit Program latory Management Division, Environmental mitting the Office’s annual 2012 report of the [EPA-R10-RCRA-2013-0105; FRL-9796-6] re- Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- Notification and Federal Employee Anti- ceived April 2, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. cy’s final rule — Greenhouse Gas Reporting discrimination and Retaliation (No FEAR) 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Energy and Rule: Revision to Best Available Monitoring Act of 2002; to the Committee on Oversight Commerce. Method Request Submission Deadline for Pe- and Government Reform. 1003. A letter from the Director, Regu- troleum and Natural Gas Systems Source 1020. A letter from the Director, Office of latory Management Division, Environmental Category (Withdrawal of Direct Final Rule) Equal Employment Opportunity, National Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- [EPA-HQ-OAR-2011-0417; FRL-9796-9] received Archives, transmitting a copy of the Admin- cy’s final rule — Approval and Promulgation April 2, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); istration’s Fiscal Year 2012 Notification and of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Ohio; to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Ohio Ambient Air Quality Standards; Correc- 1011. A letter from the Director, Regu- Retaliation (No FEAR) Act Annual Report; tion [EPA-R05-OAR-2009-0807; FRL-9783-6] re- latory Management Division, Environmental to the Committee on Oversight and Govern- ceived April 2, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- ment Reform. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Energy and cy’s final rule — Protection of Stratospheric Commerce. Ozone: Adjustments to the Allowance Sys- 1021. A letter from the Auditor, Office of 1004. A letter from the Director, Regu- tem for Controlling HCFC Production, Im- the District of Columbia Auditor, transmit- latory Management Division, Environmental port, and Export [EPA-HQ-OAR-2011-3454; ting a report entitled, ‘‘Audit of the Fraud Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- FRL-9797-5] (RIN: 2060-AQ98) received April 2, Prevention Fund’’; to the Committee on cy’s final rule — Approval and Promulgation 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Oversight and Government Reform. of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Penn- Committee on Energy and Commerce. 1022. A letter from the Acting Director, Of- sylvania; Determinations of Attainment of 1012. A letter from the Director, Regu- fice of Regulatory Affairs & Collaborative the 1997 8-Hour Ozone Standard for the Pitts- latory Management Division, Environmental Action, Department of the Interior, trans- burgh-Beaver Valley Moderate Nonattain- Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- mitting the Department’s final rule — Resi- ment Area [EPA-R03-OAR-2012-0409; FRL- cy’s final rule — Reconsideration of Certain dential, Business, and Wind and Solar Re- 9797-8] received April 2, 2013, pursuant to 5 New Source Issues: National Emission source Leases on Indian Land (RIN: 1076- U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on En- Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants from AE73) received March 28, 2013, pursuant to 5 ergy and Commerce. Coal- and Oil-fired Electric Utility Steam U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Nat- 1005. A letter from the Director, Regu- Generating Units and Standards of Perform- ural Resources. latory Management Division, Environmental ance for Fossil-Fuel-Fired Electric Utility, 1023. A letter from the Principal Deputy Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- Industrial-Commercial-Institutional, and Assistant Attorney General, Department of cy’s final rule — Approval and Promulgation Small Industrial-Commercial-Institutional Justice, transmitting the annual report enti- of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Penn- Steam Generating Units [EPA-HQ-OAR-2009- tled, ‘‘Prioritizing Resources and Organiza- sylvania; Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets 0234; EPA-HQ-OAR-2011-0044; FRL-9789-5] tion for Intellectual Property Act of 2012’’ for the Pennsylvania Counties in the Phila- (RIN: 2060-AR62) received April 2, 2013, pursu- for fiscal year 2012; to the Committee on the delphia-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE 1997 Fine ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee Judiciary. Particulate Matter Nonattainment Area on Energy and Commerce. 1024. A letter from the Fiscal Assistant [EPA-R03-OAR-2012-0954; FRL-9796-3] re- 1013. A letter from the Director, Defense Secretary, Department of the Treasury, ceived April 2, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. Security Cooperation Agency, transmitting transmitting the Fiscal Year 2012 Report to 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Energy and Transmittal No. 13-0A, pursuant to the re- the Congress on U.S. Government Receiv- Commerce. porting requirements of Section 36(b)(5)(C) of ables and Debt Collection Activities of Fed- 1006. A letter from the Director, Regu- the Arms Export Control Act, as amended; to eral Agencies; to the Committee on the Judi- latory Management Division, Environmental the Committee on Foreign Affairs. ciary. Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- 1014. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, 1025. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- cy’s final rule — Approval and Promulgation Department of Defense, transmitting report ment of Transportation, transmitting a Re- of Implementation Plans; Florida; Prong 3 of on Cooperative Threat Reduction Programs port on Recommendations of the Advisory Section 110(a)(2)(D)(i) Infrastructrue Re- in Russia; to the Committee on Foreign Af- Committee on Aviation Consumer Protec- quirement for the 1997 and 2006 Fine Particu- fairs. tion as Required by Public Law 112-95, Sec- late Matter National Ambient Air Quality 1015. A letter from the Acting Assistant tion 411; to the Committee on Transpor- Standards [EPA-R04-OAR-2012-0814; FRL- Secretary, Legislative Affairs, Department tation and Infrastructure. 9797-4] received April 2, 2013, pursuant to 5 of State, transmitting a report pursuant to U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on En- Section 804 of the PLO Commitments Com- 1026. A letter from the Paralegal Spe- ergy and Commerce. pliance Act of 1989 (title VIII, Foreign Rela- cialist, Department of Transportation, trans- 1007. A letter from the Director, Regu- tions Authorization Act, FY 1990 and 1991 mitting the Department’s final rule — Air- latory Management Division, Environmental (Pub. L. 101-246)), and Sections 603-604 (Mid- worthiness Directives; Diamond Aircraft In- Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- dle East Peace Commitments Act of 2002) dustries GmbH Airplanes [Docket No.: FAA- cy’s final rule — Approval and Promulgation and 699 of the Foreign Relations Authoriza- 2013-0247; Directorate Identifier 2013-CE-001- of Implementation Plans; Idaho: Sandpoint tion Act, FY 2003 (Pub. L. 107-228), the func- AD; Amendment 39-17397; AD 2013-06-02] (RIN: PM 10 Nonattainment Area Limited Mainte- tions of which have been delegated to the De- 2120-AA64) received March 26, 2013, pursuant nance Plan and Redesignation Request partment of State; to the Committee on For- to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on [Docket No: EPA-R10-OAR-2012-0017; FRL- eign Affairs. Transportation and Infrastructure. 9796-5] received April 2, 2013, pursuant to 5 1016. A letter from the Acting Assistant 1027. A letter from the Paralegal Spe- U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on En- Secretary, Legislative Affairs, Department cialist, Department of Transportation, trans- ergy and Commerce. of State, transmitting the Senate’s Resolu- mitting the Department’s final rule — Air- 1008. A letter from the Director, Regu- tion of Advice and Consent to the Treaty worthiness Directives; The Boeing Company latory Management Division, Environmental with the United Kingdom Concerning De- Airplanes [Docket No.: FAA-2013-0210; Direc- Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- fense Trade Cooperation (Treaty Doc. 110-07); torate Identifier 2012-NM-053-AD] (RIN: 2120- cy’s final rule — Approval and Promulgation to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. AA64) received March 26, 2013, pursuant to 5 of Implementation Plans; South Carolina: 1017. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on New Source Review-Prevention of Signifi- ment of Transportation, transmitting the Transportation and Infrastructure. cant Deterioration [EPA-R04-OAR-2012-0837; Department’s annual report prepared in ac- 1028. A letter from the Director, Regu- FRL-9797-1] received April 2, 2013, pursuant cordance with section 203 of the Notification latory Management Division, Environmental to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- Energy and Commerce. and Retaliation Act of 2002 (No FEAR Act), cy’s final rule — Water Quality Standards; 1009. A letter from the Director, Regu- Pub. L. No. 107-174; to the Committee on Withdrawal of Certain Federal Water Qual- latory Management Division, Environmental Oversight and Government Reform. ity Critera Applicable to California, New Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- 1018. A letter from the Assistant General Jersey and Puerto Rico [EPA-HQ-OW-2012- cy’s final rule — Delegation of National Counsel, General Law, Ethics and Regula- 0095; FRL-9795-8] (RIN: 2040-AF33) received Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pol- tions, Department of the Treasury, transmit- April 2, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); lutants for the States of Kentucky and Lou- ting five reports pursuant to the Federal Va- to the Committee on Transportation and In- isiana, Correcting Amendments [EPA-R06- cancies Reform Act of 1998; to the Com- frastructure.

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A bill to direct the Chief of the and prohibit further adjustments to such PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Army Corps of Engineers to revise certain rates; to the Committee on House Adminis- authorized purposes described in the Mis- tration, and in addition to the Committee on Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of souri River Mainstem Reservoir System Oversight and Government Reform, for a pe- committees were delivered to the Clerk Master Water Control Manual; to the Com- riod to be subsequently determined by the for printing and reference to the proper mittee on Transportation and Infrastruc- Speaker, in each case for consideration of calendar, as follows: ture. such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- Ms. FOXX: Committee on Rules. House By Mr. GOODLATTE (for himself, Mr. tion of the committee concerned. Resolution 146. Resolution providing for con- SCALISE, Mr. MATHESON, Mr. FLORES, By Mrs. BLACKBURN: sideration of the bill (H.R. 1120) to prohibit Mr. GRAVES of Georgia, Mr. SAM H.R. 1468. A bill to improve information se- the National Labor Relations Board from JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. LANKFORD, Mr. curity, and for other purposes; to the Com- taking any action that requires a quorum of NUNES, Mr. OLSON, Mr. SENSEN- mittee on Science, Space, and Technology, the members of the Board until such time as BRENNER, Mr. WESTMORELAND, Mr. and in addition to the Committees on Over- Board constituting a quorum shall have been VALADAO, and Mr. WEBER of Texas): sight and Government Reform, the Judici- H.R. 1461. A bill to repeal the renewable confirmed by the Senate, the Supreme Court ary, Armed Services, Intelligence (Perma- fuel program of the Environmental Protec- issues a decision on the constitutionality of nent Select), and Energy and Commerce, for tion Agency; to the Committee on Energy the appointments to the Board made in Jan- a period to be subsequently determined by and Commerce. uary 2012, or the adjournment sine die of the the Speaker, in each case for consideration By Mr. GOODLATTE (for himself, Mr. first session of the 113th Congress. (Rept. 113– of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- WOMACK, Mr. COSTA, Mr. WELCH, Mr. 32). Referred to the House Calendar. tion of the committee concerned. CAMPBELL, Mr. CRAWFORD, Mr. By Mr. BURGESS: f CUELLAR, Mr. FARENTHOLD, Mr. H.R. 1469. A bill to repeal certain amend- PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS GRAVES of Georgia, Mr. GRIFFIN of ments to the Clean Air Act relating to the Arkansas, Mr. HARRIS, Mr. HURT, Mr. expansion of the renewable fuel program, and Under clause 2 of rule XII, public LAMALFA, Mr. LONG, Mr. MATHESON, for other purposes; to the Committee on En- bills and resolutions of the following Mr. MORAN, Mr. PITTS, Mr. AUSTIN ergy and Commerce. titles were introduced and severally re- SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. SENSEN- By Mrs. CAPPS: ferred, as follows: BRENNER, Mr. WESTMORELAND, Mr. H.R. 1470. A bill to amend the Omnibus VALADAO, and Mr. YOHO): By Mr. CLEAVER (for himself and Mr. Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to H.R. 1462. A bill to amend the Clean Air GRAVES of Missouri): enhance the safety of America’s schools; to Act to eliminate certain requirements under H.R. 1454. A bill to make supplemental ag- the Committee on the Judiciary. the renewable fuel program, to prohibit the ricultural disaster assistance available for By Mr. COURTNEY (for himself, Mr. Administrator of the Environmental Protec- fiscal years 2012 and 2013, and for other pur- NEAL, and Mr. MCGOVERN): tion Agency from approving the introduction poses; to the Committee on Agriculture. H.R. 1471. A bill to designate the into commerce of gasoline that contains Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley Na- By Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi (for greater than 10-volume-percent ethanol, and himself, Mrs. LOWEY, and Mr. RICH- tional Heritage Corridor as ‘‘The Last Green for other purposes; to the Committee on En- Valley National Heritage Corridor’’; to the MOND): ergy and Commerce. H.R. 1455. A bill to prohibit subsidiaries of Committee on Natural Resources. By Mr. CARSON of Indiana (for him- foreign-owned corporations from obtaining By Mr. GINGREY of Georgia (for himself, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. HASTINGS of contracts for the performance of passenger self, Mr. HARPER, Mr. MCCLINTOCK, Florida, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. RYAN of and baggage security screening at domestic Mr. WESTMORELAND, Mr. CASSIDY, Mr. Ohio, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mr. GRIJALVA, commercial airports, and for other purposes; ROE of Tennessee, Mr. TERRY, Mr. Mr. TAKANO, and Mr. ENYART): SCHOCK, and Mr. LANCE): to the Committee on Homeland Security. H.R. 1463. A bill to amend title 10, United H.R. 1472. A bill to restore the long- By Mr. COLE (for himself, Mr. MULLIN, States Code, to improve the mental health standing partnership between States and the Mr. LONG, and Mr. LATTA): assessments provided to members of the Federal Government in managing the Med- H.R. 1456. A bill to make improvements to Armed Forces deployed in support of a con- the Children’s Gasoline Burn Prevention tingency operation; to the Committee on icaid program; to the Committee on Energy Act; to the Committee on Energy and Com- Armed Services. and Commerce. merce. By Mr. CARSON of Indiana (for him- By Mr. GINGREY of Georgia (for himself and Mr. CUELLAR): By Mr. FARENTHOLD: self, Mr. RANGEL, Ms. WILSON of Flor- H.R. 1473. A bill to prevent certain Federal H.R. 1457. A bill to provide that certain es- ida, Mr. CONYERS, Ms. MOORE, Mr. health care laws from establishing health tablishments of the Federal Government BUCSHON, and Mr. MCGOVERN): shall submit to the Committees on Appro- H.R. 1464. A bill to amend title 10, United care provider standards of care in medical priations budget plans that reflect a 5 per- States Code, to provide notice to members of malpractice cases, and for other purposes; to cent reduction from the amount proposed for the Armed Forces, beginning with recruit the Committee on Energy and Commerce, such an establishment in the President’s basic training and the initial training of offi- and in addition to the Committee on the Ju- budget submission, and for other purposes; cer candidates, regarding the availability of diciary, for a period to be subsequently de- to the Committee on Oversight and Govern- mental health services, to help eliminate termined by the Speaker, in each case for ment Reform. perceived stigma associated with seeking consideration of such provisions as fall with- By Mr. GARRETT (for himself, Mr. AN- and receiving mental health services, and to in the jurisdiction of the committee con- DREWS, Mr. LOBIONDO, Mr. RUNYAN, clarify the extent to which information re- cerned. Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. PAL- garding a member seeking and receiving By Mr. ISRAEL: LONE, Mr. LANCE, Mr. SIRES, Mr. PAS- mental health services may be disclosed; to H.R. 1474. A bill to reauthorize the ban on CRELL, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. FRELING- the Committee on Armed Services. undetectable firearms, and to extend the ban HUYSEN, and Mr. HOLT): By Mr. GIBSON (for himself and Mr. to undetectable firearm receivers and H.R. 1458. A bill to designate the facility of THOMPSON of California): undetectable ammunition magazines; to the the United States Postal Service located at 1 H.R. 1465. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- Committee on the Judiciary. Walter Hammond Place in Waldwick, New enue Code of 1986 to provide for an energy in- By Ms. JENKINS: Jersey, as the ‘‘Staff Sergeant Joseph vestment credit for energy storage property H.R. 1475. A bill to amend the Congres- D’Augustine Post Office Building’’; to the connected to the grid, and for other pur- sional Budget Act of 1974 to provide for sup- Committee on Oversight and Government poses; to the Committee on Ways and Means. plemental estimates of certain revenue bills Reform. By Ms. LEE of California: or joint resolutions that incorporates the By Mr. BISHOP of Utah (for himself, H.R. 1466. A bill to establish the Social macroeconomic effects of that measure; to Mr. GOSAR, Mr. CHAFFETZ, Mr. WAL- Work Reinvestment Commission to provide the Committee on Rules, and in addition to DEN, Mr. PEARCE, Mrs. LUMMIS, Mr. independent counsel to Congress and the the Committee on the Budget, for a period to AMODEI, and Mr. STEWART): Secretary of Health and Human Services on be subsequently determined by the Speaker, H.R. 1459. A bill to ensure that the Na- policy issues associated with recruitment, in each case for consideration of such provi- tional Environmental Policy Act of 1969 ap- retention, research, and reinvestment in the sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the plies to the declaration of national monu- profession of social work, and for other pur- committee concerned. ments, and for other purposes; to the Com- poses; to the Committee on Education and By Mr. KING of New York (for himself, mittee on Natural Resources. the Workforce. Mr. RANGEL, Mr. GRIMM, Mr. By Mr. GRAVES of Missouri (for him- By Mr. BARBER: HUIZENGA of Michigan, Ms. WILSON of self, Mrs. HARTZLER, Mr. LUETKE- H.R. 1467. A bill to reduce the annual rates Florida, and Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Il- MEYER, and Mr. LONG): of pay of Members of Congress by 20 percent linois):

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H.R. 1476. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- ROSKAM, Mr. WESTMORELAND, Mr. among the several states.’’ As portable fuel enue Code of 1986 to allow penalty-free with- FINCHER, Mr. HOLT, Mr. MCGOVERN, containers are objects of interstate com- drawals from individual retirement plans for Mr. BUCHANAN, Mr. BENISHEK, Mr. merce, it is appropriate for Federal stand- adoption expenses; to the Committee on STOCKMAN, Mr. HUELSKAMP, Mr. ards to be set. Ways and Means. CRAMER, Mr. HULTGREN, Mr. By Mr. FARENTHOLD: By Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of BENTIVOLIO, Mr. PITTS, Mr. H.R. 1457. New York (for herself, Mr. WAXMAN, BRIDENSTINE, Mr. NEUGEBAUER, Mr. Congress has the power to enact this legis- Mr. RANGEL, Mr. GRIMM, and Mr. SCHOCK, Mr. LATTA, Mr. NUNNELEE, lation pursuant to the following: PIERLUISI): Mr. BURGESS, Mr. KING of New York, Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 H.R. 1477. A bill to authorize the Secretary Mr. WEBSTER of Florida, Mr. JOHNSON To make all Laws which shall be necessary of Education to award grants to educational of Ohio, Mr. PALAZZO, Mr. SCALISE, and proper for carrying into Execution the organizations to carry out educational pro- Mr. LANKFORD, Mr. OLSON, Mrs. LUM- foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vest- grams about the Holocaust; to the Com- MIS, Mr. MULLIN, Mr. LONG, and Mr. ed by this Constitution in the Government of mittee on Education and the Workforce. WOLF): the United States, or in any Department or By Ms. NORTON (for herself, Mr. LAN- H. Res. 147. A resolution calling for the re- Officer thereof. GEVIN, and Ms. DELBENE): lease of United States citizen Saeed Abedini By Mr. GARRETT: H.R. 1478. A bill to amend part C of the and condemning the Government of Iran for H.R. 1458. Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit its persecution of religious minorities; to the Congress has the power to enact this legis- Control Act of 1985 to include the pay of Committee on Foreign Affairs. lation pursuant to the following: Members of Congress within the coverage of By Ms. LEE of California (for herself, Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 (‘‘To establish the provisions of such Act which provide for Mr. ELLISON, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Post Offices and post Roads’’) and Article I, budget enforcement through sequestration; Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. RANGEL, Ms. Section 8, Clause 18 (‘‘To make all Laws to the Committee on the Budget. NORTON, Mr. PAYNE, Mrs. which shall be necessary and proper for car- By Mr. SENSENBRENNER (for himself CHRISTENSEN, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. rying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and Mr. MATHESON): CLAY, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Mr. and all other Powers vested by this Constitu- H.R. 1479. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- HASTINGS of Florida, Ms. CLARKE, Mr. tion in the Government of the United States, enue Code of 1986 to remove the deduction CONYERS, Mr. CUMMINGS, Ms. or in any Department or Officer thereon. for charitable contributions from the overall WATERS, Ms. BORDALLO, Ms. SCHA- By Mr. BISHOP of Utah: H.R. 1459. limitation on itemized deductions; to the KOWSKY, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. LEWIS, and Congress has the power to enact this legis- Committee on Ways and Means. Mr. CICILLINE): By Ms. SHEA-PORTER: H. Res. 148. A resolution supporting the lation pursuant to the following: The constitutional authority of Congress H.R. 1480. A bill to amend chapter 83 of goals and ideals of National Youth HIV & to enact this legislation is provided by Arti- title 41, United States Code (commonly AIDS Awareness Day; to the Committee on cle IV, section 3, clause 2 (relating to the known as the Buy American Act), to require Energy and Commerce. power of Congress to dispose of and make all each department or independent establish- By Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of needful rules and regulations respecting the ment to conduct an annual audit of its con- New York (for herself, Mr. KING of territory or other property belonging to the tracts for compliance with such chapter, and New York, and Mr. VAN HOLLEN): United States). for other purposes; to the Committee on H. Res. 149. A resolution expressing support By Mr. GRAVES of Missouri: Oversight and Government Reform. for designation of April as Parkinson’s H.R. 1460. By Mr. SHUSTER (for himself, Mr. Awareness Month; to the Committee on En- Congress has the power to enact this legis- TURNER, Ms. TSONGAS, and Mr. COFF- ergy and Commerce. lation pursuant to the following: MAN): By Mr. RADEL: H. Res. 150. A resolution congratulating Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 H.R. 1481. A bill to direct the Secretary of ‘‘Congress shall have the power to regulate the Florida Gulf Coast University Eagles for Defense to reprogram amounts appropriated commerce with foreign nations, and among becoming the first 15 seed to advance to the for fiscal year 2013 for the Department of De- the several states, and with the Indian ‘‘Sweet 16’’ 4th Round in the NCAA Men’s fense for the Medium Extended Air Defense Tribes’’ Basketball Tournament; to the Committee System; to the Committee on Armed Serv- The management of the Missouri river by on Education and the Workforce. ices. the Army Corps of Engineers directly im- By Mr. WOMACK (for himself, Mr. f pacts commerce. The river is a source of GARAMENDI, Mr. CRAWFORD, and Mr. barge traffic carrying a variety of goods. GRIFFIN of Arkansas): CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY STATEMENT By Mr. GOODLATTE: H.R. 1482. A bill to amend the Clean Air H.R. 1461. Act to eliminate certain requirements under Pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII of Congress has the power to enact this legis- the renewable fuel program, and for other the Rules of the House of Representa- lation pursuant to the following: purposes; to the Committee on Energy and tives, the following statements are sub- Article I, Section 8, clause 3. Because the Commerce. mitted regarding the specific powers federal government has stretched Article I, By Mr. MCCAUL (for himself and Mr. Section 8, Clause 3 (the commerce clause) be- ANDREWS): granted to Congress in the Constitu- yond its intended boundaries, it follows that H. Con. Res. 29. Concurrent resolution ex- tion to enact the accompanying bill or efforts to rein in excessive federal govern- pressing the sense of Congress that the joint resolution. ment encroachment in this area can be justi- United States should resume normal diplo- By Mr. CLEAVER: fied by Article I, Section 8, Clause 3. matic relations with Taiwan, and for other H.R. 1454. By Mr. GOODLATTE: purposes; to the Committee on Foreign Af- Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 1462. fairs. lation pursuant to the following: Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mr. RADEL (for himself, Ms. MENG, clause 3 of section 8 of article I of the Con- lation pursuant to the following: Mr. KING of New York, and Mr. stitution. Article I, Section 8, clause 3. Because the SCHNEIDER): By Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi: federal government has stretched Article I, H. Con. Res. 30. Concurrent resolution rec- H.R. 1455. Section 8, Clause 3 (the commerce clause) be- ognizing the 65th anniversary of the inde- Congress has the power to enact this legis- yond its intended boundaries, it follows that pendence of the State of Israel; to the Com- lation pursuant to the following: efforts to rein in excessive federal govern- mittee on Foreign Affairs. The U.S. Constitution including Article 1, ment encroachment in this area can be justi- By Ms. SHEA-PORTER (for herself and Section 8. fied by Article I, Section 8, Clause 3.’’ Ms. PINGREE of Maine): By Mr. COLE: By Mr. CARSON of Indiana: H. Res. 145. A resolution recognizing the H.R. 1456. H.R. 1463. 50th anniversary of the sinking of U.S.S. Congress has the power to enact this legis- Congress has the power to enact this legis- Thresher (SSN 593); to the Committee on lation pursuant to the following: lation pursuant to the following: Armed Services. Congress has the power to enact this legis- Article I, section 8 of the United States By Mr. CASSIDY (for himself, Mr. LAB- lation pursuant to Article I, Section 8, Constitution, clauses 12, 13, 14, and 16, which RADOR, Mr. WAXMAN, Ms. BONAMICI, Clause 5 which allows Congress to ‘‘fix the grants Congress the power to raise and sup- Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. HARRIS, Standard of Weights and Measures.’’ This port an Army; to provide and maintain a Mr. MEADOWS, Mr. SIMPSON, Mr. legislation would set the standards of port- Navy; to make rules for the government and ADERHOLT, Mrs. HARTZLER, Mr. able fuel containers. regulation of the land and naval forces; and MCHENRY, Mr. BACHUS, Mr. GARRETT, Additionally, Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 to provide for organizing, arming, and dis- Mr. JONES, Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mr. allows Congress to ‘‘regulate Commerce . . . ciplining the militia.

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GOSAR. port an Army; to provide and maintain a By Mr. ISRAEL: H.R. 24: Mr. BENISHEK, Mr. SALMON, Mr. Navy; to make rules for the government and H.R. 1474. DUFFY, Mr. YOUNG of Alaska, and Mr. STEW- regulation of the land and naval forces; and Congress has the power to enact this legis- ART. to provide for organizing, arming, and dis- lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 79: Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA. ciplining the militia. This bill is enacted pursuant to the powers H.R. 139: Ms. KUSTER, Mr. DEUTCH, Mrs. By Mr. GIBSON: granted to the Congress by Article I. Section CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, Mr. H.R. 1465. 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution. LOEBSACK, Mr. NOLAN, and Mr. TONKO. Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Ms. JENKINS: H.R. 147: Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 1475. H.R. 164: Mr. DAINES and Mr. MCHENRY. Article 1, Section 8, clause 1. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 176: Mr. ALEXANDER and Mr. By Ms. LEE of California: lation pursuant to the following: BENISHEK. H.R. 1466. Article I, Section 8: H.R. 180: Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee. Congress has the power to enact this legis- The Congress shall have Power To lay and H.R. 182: Mr. LOWENTHAL, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, lation pursuant to the following: collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, and Ms. HANABUSA. This bill is enacted pursuant to the power to pay the Debts and provide for the common H.R. 184: Mr. BURGESS. granted to Congress under Article I of the Defense and general Welfare of the United H.R. 197: Mr. RANGEL, Mr. CONYERS, and United States Constitution and its subse- States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises Ms. WILSON of Florida. quent amendments, and further clarified and shall be uniform throughout the United H.R. 198: Ms. JACKSON LEE and Mr. HONDA. interpreted by the Supreme Court of the States. H.R. 207: Mr. ROSKAM. United States. By Mr. KING of New York: H.R. 262: Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New By Mr. BARBER: H.R. 1476. York and Mr. ROSKAM. H.R. 1467. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 274: Mrs. NAPOLITANO. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: H.R. 303: Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. HASTINGS of lation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 Florida, and Mr. MASSIE Congress is required by Article I, Section 6, The Congress shall have Power to lay and H.R. 311: Mr. LOEBSACK. of the Constitution to determine its own collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, H.R. 411: Mr. DAINES. pay. to pay the Debts and provide for the common H.R. 421: Mr. BENISHEK. By Mrs. BLACKBURN: Defence and general Welfare of the United H.R. 435: Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. H.R. 1468. States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises H.R. 447: Mr. COLLINS of Georgia and Mr. Congress has the power to enact this legis- shall be uniform throughout the United RIBBLE. lation pursuant to the following: States; H.R. 450: Mr. GRAVES of Georgia. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3: To regulate By Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of H.R. 485: Mr. FARR and Mr. HORSFORD. Commerce with foreign Nations, and among New York: H.R. 503: Mr. TIBERI and Mr. BRIDENSTINE. the several States, and with the Indian H.R. 1477. H.R. 508: Mr. MICHAUD. Tribes. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 517: Ms. CLARKE. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18: To make all lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 519: Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. MORAN, Mr. Laws which shall be necessary and proper for Spending Authorization SHERMAN, and Mr. CLAY. carrying into Execution the foregoing Pow- Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 H.R. 523: Mr. PEARCE, Mr. SMITH of New ers, and all other Powers vested by this Con- The Congress shall have Power * * * To Jersey, Mrs. ROBY, and Mr. MILLER of Flor- stitution in the Government of the United regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, ida. States or in any Department or Officer and among the several States, and with the H.R. 543: Mr. LOWENTHAL and Mr. DELANEY. thereof. Indian Tribes. H.R. 544: Mr. MULVANEY. By Mr. BURGESS: By Ms. NORTON: H.R. 556: Mr. MILLER of Florida and Mr. H.R. 1469. H.R. 1478. FLEMING. Congress has the power to enact this legis- Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 559: Mr. WELCH. lation pursuant to the following: lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 565: Mr. LYNCH. The attached legislation falls under Con- clause 1 of section 6 of article I of the Con- H.R. 574: Mr. QUIGLEY. gress’ enumerated constitutional authority stitution. H.R. 580: Mr. SALMON. to regulate interstate commerce pursuant to By Mr. SENSENBRENNER: H.R. 597: Ms. NORTON and Mr. HASTINGS of Article I, Section 8, clause 3. H.R. 1479. Florida. By Mrs. CAPPS: Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 627: Mr. LAMBORN and Mr. HURT. H.R. 1470. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 630: Mr. PALLONE, Mr. NEAL, Mr. GENE Congress has the power to enact this legis- Article I. Section 8. Clause 1. The Congress GREEN of Texas, Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, lation pursuant to the following: shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, and Mr. COSTA. The Constitutional authority in which this Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the H.R. 633: Mr. COLLINS of Georgia and Mr. bill rests is the power of the Congress to reg- Debts and provide for the common Defence PETERS of California. ulate Commerce, as enumerated by Article I, and general Welfare of the United States; but H.R. 647: Mr. POCAN, Mr. GARDNER, Mr. Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Con- all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uni- TIERNEY, Mr. O’ROURKE, Mr. CULBERSON, Ms. stitution. form throughout the United States. CASTOR of Florida, Mr. GRAVES of Missouri, By Mr. COURTNEY: By Ms. SHEA-PORTER: Mr. VEASEY, Mr. HALL, Ms. WASSERMAN H.R. 1471. H.R. 1480. SCHULTZ, Mr. CRAWFORD, Mr. DELANEY, Mrs. Congress has the power to enact this legis- Congress has the power to enact this legis- BLACKBURN, Mr. YOUNG of Alaska, Mr. TUR- lation pursuant to the following: lation pursuant to the following: NER, Mr. RICHMOND, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. COLE, Article I, section 8, Clause 1 and Article Article 1, Section 8 Mr. LOWENTHAL, and Mr. THOMPSON of Cali- IV, section 3, Clause 2 of the Constitution of By Mr. SHUSTER: fornia. the United States grant Congress the author- H.R. 1481. H.R. 655: Mr. TURNER. ity to enact this bill. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 656: Mr. TURNER. By Mr. GINGREY of Georgia: lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 659: Mr. TIBERI and Mrs. LUMMIS. H.R. 1472. Clause 3 of section 8 of Article 1 of the Con- H.R. 661: Mr. POCAN and Mrs. NAPOLITANO. Congress has the power to enact this legis- stitution: To regulate commerce with for- H.R. 669: Ms. BROWNLEY of California. lation pursuant to the following: eign nations, and among the several states, H.R. 675: Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, Ms. The constitutional authority on which this and with the Indian Tribes. LEE of California, and Mr. JOHNSON of Geor- legislation is based is found in Article I Sec- By Mr. WOMACK: gia. tion 8, Clause 1 of the Constitution which H.R. 1482. H.R. 679: Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Ms. SHEA-POR- grants Congress the power to provide for the Congress has the power to enact this legis- TER, Mr. LOBIONDO, Mr. TAKANO, Mrs. NOEM, general Welfare of the United States. lation pursuant to the following: Mr. SOUTHERLAND, Mr. VEASEY, Mr. KEATING, By Mr. GINGREY of Georgia: Article One, Section Eight of the United Mr. WOMACK, Ms. BROWN of Florida, and Mr. H.R. 1473. States Constitution. KILDEE.

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H.R. 684: Ms. DUCKWORTH, Mr. FOSTER, Ms. H.R. 974: Mr. GARAMENDI, Mr. SCHIFF, and bama, Mrs. NOEM, Mr. BUCSHON, Ms. JENKINS, EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, and Mr. Mrs. NEGRETE MCLEOD. Mr. CAMPBELL, Mr. ROE of Tennessee, Mrs. POCAN. H.R. 975: Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Mr. ISRAEL, Ms. BROOKS of Indiana, Mr. WILSON of South H.R. 705: Mr. MARCHANT and Mr. PEARCE. KUSTER, Mr. WHITFIELD, Mr. RAHALL, Mr. Carolina, Mr. ROGERS of Alabama, Mr. CAS- H.R. 714: Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. MCGOVERN, Ms. SINEMA, Ms. BORDALLO, Mr. SIDY, Mr. PRICE of Georgia, Mrs. ELLMERS, H.R. 724: Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Mr. CONNOLLY, POCAN, Mr. BISHOP of New York, Mr. HAS- Mr. HUNTER, Mr. ROSKAM, Mrs. HARTZLER, Mr. HUIZENGA of Michigan, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. TINGS of Florida, Mr. MICHAUD, Mr. Mr. LUCAS, Mr. GOWDY, Mrs. WALORSKI, Mr. CONYERS, Mrs. MILLER of Michigan, Mr. LOEBSACK, Mr. RUSH, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. SOUTHERLAND, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. COBLE, POCAN, Mr. MCINTYRE, Mr. TERRY, and Mr. CICILLINE, and Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. GOODLATTE, CARNEY. H.R. 997: Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina. Mr. BACHUS, Mrs. BLACK, Mr. THORNBERRY, H.R. 725: Mr. FARR and Mr. LANGEVIN. H.R. 1007: Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. GINGREY of Georgia, Mr. BRADY of Texas, H.R. 728: Mr. CONNOLLY. H.R. 1008: Mr. PASTOR of Arizona, Mr. Mr. FORBES, Mr. MCCARTHY of California, H.R. 732: Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin, Mr. GIBBS, FARR, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. HORSFORD, Mr. Mr. REED, Mr. NUGENT, Ms. HERRERA Mr. KINGSTON, and Mrs. ROBY. WOLF, and Mr. SCHOCK. BEUTLER, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. CALVERT, Mr. H.R. 742: Mr. DEUTCH. H.R. 1014: Ms. SCHWARTZ, Mrs. CAPITO, Mr. CAMP, Mr. CARTER, Mr. CULBERSON, and Ms. H.R. 755: Mr. MILLER of Florida and Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. PERRY, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, GRANGER. TAKANO. Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania, Mr. RUIZ, H.R. 1420: Mr. PETERS of California. H.R. 783: Ms. EDWARDS, Mr. GRIJALVA, and and Mr. HARPER. H.R. 1433: Mr. ELLISON, Mr. SABLAN, Mr. Mr. MCDERMOTT. H.R. 1020: Mr. LATTA and Mr. GARDNER. O’ROURKE, Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, Mr. H.R. 784: Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. H.R. 1025: Ms. MATSUI. ENYART, and Mr. MCINTYRE. H.R. 786: Mr. HOLT, Mr. NADLER, Mr. CART- H.R. 1026: Mr. GIBBS, Mr. WALZ, Mr. H.R. 1449: Mr. GERLACH. WRIGHT, and Mr. MORAN. LAMALFA, and Mr. SIMPSON. H.J. Res. 31: Mr. COHEN. H.R. 792: Mr. COBLE and Mr. COLLINS of H.R. 1028: Mr. SHERMAN. H. Con. Res. 17: Mr. RANGEL. New York. H.R. 1029: Ms. MCCOLLUM and Mr. H. Con. Res. 23: Mr. GIBBS, Mr. RIBBLE, Mr. H.R. 794: Mr. HASTINGS of Florida and Ms. CICILLINE. MASSIE, and Mr. PITTS. MCCOLLUM. H.R. 1030: Mr. MCGOVERN and Ms. MCCOL- H. Con. Res. 26: Mr. NUNNELEE. H.R. 808: Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. MARKEY, and LUM. H. Res. 19: Mr. PETERS of California. Ms. NORTON. H.R. 1078: Mr. HUIZENGA of Michigan. H. Res. 24: Mr. O’ROURKE. H.R. 812: Mr. PERLMUTTER and Mr. TAKANO. H.R. 1081: Mrs. ROBY. H. Res. 36: Mr. GOWDY, Mr. GIBSON, Mr. H.R. 828: Mr. PERRY, Mr. HALL, Mr. H.R. 1087: Mr. PAYNE, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. BUCHANAN, Mr. DAINES, Mr. PRICE of Georgia, MULVANEY, Mr. PITTS, Mr. FLEMING, Mr. POLIS, and Mr. MORAN. Mr. PITTENGER, Mr. GRIMM, and Mr. PEARCE. FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. COLLINS of Georgia, H.R. 1090: Mr. LOWENTHAL. H. Res. 69: Mr. SCHIFF and Mrs. DAVIS of Mr. YOHO, Mr. ROE of Tennessee, Mr. ROKITA, H.R. 1097: Mr. FLEMING. California. Mr. MESSER, Mr. SOUTHERLAND, Mr. H.R. 1122: Mr. FINCHER, Mr. FLEMING, Mr. H. Res. 89: Mr. PRICE of Georgia, Mr. BUR- PITTENGER, and Mrs. BLACKBURN. DAINES, and Mr. JORDAN. GESS, Mr. HALL, Mr. RUSH, Mr. GOSAR, Mr. H.R. 845: Mr. WALBERG. H.R. 1124: Ms. CLARKE, Ms. FUDGE, and Mr. MARKEY, Mr. COOK, Ms. CHU, Mr. VARGAS, H.R. 850: Mr. KILMER, Ms. WASSERMAN CONNOLLY. Mr. MARCHANT, Mr. CAPUANO, Ms. SINEMA, SCHULTZ, Ms. BONAMICI, and Mr. KLINE. H.R. 1146: Mr. BUCSHON. Mr. NEUGEBAUER, and Mr. SIRES. H.R. 853: Mrs. NEGRETE MCLEOD, Mr. H.R. 1148: Mr. SCHOCK. H. Res. 90: Mr. SCHIFF, Ms. WILSON of Flor- TAKANO, and Mr. GOSAR. H.R. 1150: Ms. DELAURO, Mr. LANGEVIN, Ms. ida, Mr. PETERS of Michigan, Ms. TITUS, Mrs. H.R. 863: Mrs. NAPOLITANO and Ms. DEGETTE, Ms. LEE of California, Mr. RANGEL, MCCARTHY of New York, Mr. THOMPSON of WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mrs. CARO- Mississippi, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. POCAN, Ms. BASS, H.R. 864: Mr. COBLE and Mr. PRICE of North LYN B. MALONEY of New York, Mr. HOLT, Ms. Mr. TONKO, Mr. HINOJOSA, Ms. CHU, Ms. JACK- Carolina. MOORE, Ms. KAPTUR, Ms. CLARKE, Ms. LOF- SON LEE, Mr. SARBANES, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. H.R. 868: Ms. WILSON of Florida. GREN, Mr. HIMES, Mr. MORAN, Mr. WAXMAN, GALLEGO, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. DOGGETT, Mr. H.R. 880: Mr. POCAN. Mr. LARSEN of Washington, Mr. PRICE of FATTAH, and Mr. CONNOLLY. H.R. 918: Mrs. NEGRETE MCLEOD. North Carolina, and Ms. MCCOLLUM. H. Res. 94: Ms. CLARKE, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mrs. H.R. 935: Mr. LAMALFA, Mr. DENHAM, Mr. H.R. 1151: Mr. FARENTHOLD, Mr. HOLDING, DAVIS of California, and Mrs. CAROLYN B. MCCAUL, Mr. JONES, Mr. HUELSKAMP, MR. and Ms. BORDALLO. MALONEY of New York. KINZINGER of Illinois, Mr. HUIZENGA of Michi- H.R. 1155: Mr. HURT and Mr. SEAN PATRICK H. Res. 95: Mr. SALMON. gan, Mr. ROKITA, Mr. YODER, Mr. WALDEN, MALONEY of New York. H. Res. 108: Mr. MORAN. Mr. FORBES, Mr. SOUTHERLAND, Mr. BISHOP of H.R. 1179: Mrs. CAPPS, Ms. MOORE, Mr. KEN- H. Res. 109: Mr. ROSKAM. Georgia, Mr. CONAWAY, Mr. BONNER, Mrs. NEDY, Ms. BONAMICI, Ms. SCHWARTZ, and Mr. H. Res. 112: Ms. MATSUI, Mr. WHITFIELD, LUMMIS, Mr. NUNNELEE, Mr. SMITH of Ne- ELLISON. and Mr. GOSAR. braska, Mr. VALADAO, Mr. MARINO, Mr. KING H.R. 1187: Mr. CONYERS and Mr. ELLISON. H. Res. 134: Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mr. NUNNELEE, of Iowa, Mr. KINGSTON, Mr. PETERSON, Mr. H.R. 1205: Mr. NEUGEBAUER. Mr. POCAN, Mr. BRIDENSTINE, Mr. MULLIN, LUCAS, Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio, Mr. POE of H.R. 1243: Mr. ELLISON. Mr. LONG, Mr. PEARCE, Mr. ENYART, Mr. Texas, Mr. STOCKMAN, Mr. HUDSON, Mrs. H.R. 1250: Mr. YODER, Mrs. WAGNER, Mr. ROSS, and Mr. COBLE. HARTZLER, Mr. ENYART, Mr. GUTHRIE, and HIGGINS, Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. HARRIS, MR. H. Res. 135: Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. GRI- Mr. CRAWFORD. ROYCE, Mr. BEN RAY LUJA´ N of New Mexico, JALVA, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. ELLISON, Mr. MORAN, H.R. 940: Mr. ROKITA, Mr. ROGERS of Ken- Ms. MCCOLLUM, and Mr. COTTON. and Ms. LEE of California. tucky, Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin, and Mr. COLE. H.R. 1288: Mr. MCCAUL, Mr. POSEY, Mr. H. Res. 136: Mr. PALLONE, Mr. SARBANES, H.R. 946: Mr. TIPTON, Mrs. ROBY, and Mr. RYAN of Ohio, and Mr. WOLF. Mr. MCGOVERN, and Ms. TSONGAS. SESSIONS. H.R. 1304: Mrs. BLACKBURN. H.R. 949: Ms. CASTOR of Florida. H.R. 1314: Mr. OLSON. f H.R. 958: Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of Cali- H.R. 1331: Mr. LONG and Mr. BURGESS. fornia. H.R. 1333: Mr. BLUMENAUER and Ms. CHU. DELETIONS OF SPONSORS FROM H.R. 960: Mr. GIBSON and Mr. RUNYAN. H.R. 1340: Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas and PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS H.R. 961: Mr. QUIGLEY, Ms. HAHN, Mr. Mr. SIRES. Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors SIRES, Mr. ENYART, Mr. BRADY of Pennsyl- H.R. 1389: Mr. PAYNE. vania, Mr. PASCRELL, and Mr. HOLT. H.R. 1406: Ms. FOXX, Mr. MCKEON, Mr. HECK were deleted from public bills and reso- H.R. 973: Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. KINGSTON, and of Nevada, Mr. WALDEN, Mr. MESSER, Mrs. lutions as follows: Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. WAGNER, Mr. BONNER, Mr. BROOKS of Ala- H.R. 1175: Mr. SMITH of Nebraska.

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IN MEMORY OF RICHARD A. HILL, began the search for a site to build a summer Santa Barbara Summit for Tibet (SBST) in JR. retreat. They found the perfect spot in the pine raising awareness about the vibrant culture, woods on the point of the Monterey Peninsula, deep spirituality, and peaceful philosophy of HON. CAROLYN McCARTHY and in 1875 the Pacific Grove Retreat Asso- the Tibetan people. SBST has worked dili- OF NEW YORK ciation was formed. Modeled after the popular gently to ensure the Santa Barbara community IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Chautauqua program in New York, the Retreat is engaged on this issue of great importance. Wednesday, April 10, 2013 attracted hundreds of campers every year. A Recent acts of protest in Tibet have served hall was built to house the Chautauqua events as a disturbing reminder of the suffering that Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York. Mr. Speak- and provide a place of worship. Lots were sold Tibetans continue to endure. We are wit- er, I rise today to ask that we acknowledge and a tent village emerged. The healthy cli- nessing the profound struggle of a people that the significant contributions of a great public mate and beautiful scenery attracted a year- seek to preserve their traditions and religion. servant and loyal family man, Richard A. Hill, round population and over time the tents were SBST recently held the First Annual ‘‘Tibet Jr., who was taken away too soon from us, replaced with permanent homes. In 1888, the Week Awareness Celebration’’ to honor the and from his beloved wife Anne and their two cornerstone was laid for a sanctuary and the perseverance and resiliency of the Tibetan fine children Regina and John. Richard Hill following year Pacific Grove was incorporated people and their culture, and to demonstrate joined the Department of Health and Human as a town. our shared cultural values. This celebration Services in 1989, and later the Social Security The old church building was famous for its will raise awareness in our community sur- Administration in 1995, following successful twin spires and lighted, revolving cross that rounding the struggle faced by Tibetans and completion of Fordham School of Law where could be seen for miles out to sea. Over the promote the universal values of compassion he earned honors, demonstrating the same years, guest speakers included Presidents and non-violent practices. dedication and drive that was to characterize Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, and To express my commitment to this issue, I his successful performance of duty in later Theodore Roosevelt, as well as Susan B. An- recently joined many of my colleagues in the years. Richard Hill was always mindful of the thony, Georgia Harkness, and Maud Booth. By House of Representatives in sending Presi- vital role that the Social Security Administra- the 1950s, the structure was falling into dis- dent Obama a letter, urging him to prioritize tion’s program played in the lives of the Amer- repair and areas of it were declared unsafe. addressing human rights issues in Tibet during ican people. He received numerous awards The Sunday School had to rent the movie the- his second term. Like SBST and the residents recognizing his service, including Vice Presi- ater across the street to meet in and the office of Santa Barbara, I believe the U.S. should dent Albert Gore’s Government Reinvention was moved downstairs where the heavy fur- take a leading role to engage partner nations ‘‘Hammer’’ Award, Commissioner of Social Se- niture would not be a hazard. The beloved old on measures to bring improvements in the curity Citations, and most recently the Louis J. building would have to be replaced; the ques- human rights situation in Tibet. Lefkowitz Public Service Award from his alma tion remained whether to rebuild on the same Today, we stand with the people of Tibet mater, Fordham School of Law. As attorney, site or find another location. and express our solidarity with them and to all supervisor, Deputy Regional Chief Counsel, In the end, it was found that rebuilding on people suffering oppression around the world. and Director of Learning Initiatives at the So- the same site would be more expensive than As your Representative in Congress, I com- cial Security Administration’s Office of the moving. The new site on Seventeen Mile Drive mend and thank you for your deep commit- General Counsel, Richard Hill had inexhaust- just outside the gate into Pebble Beach of- ment to this issue. ible passion, a natural intellectual curiosity, fered space for parking and room to build and and a never-ending wealth of information re- grow. A quiet spot in a pine forest and home f garding the work he did at the Social Security to a large herd of mule deer, it evoked memo- HONORING THE LIFE OF DR. Administration. As Director of Learning Initia- ries of the original Retreat from so many years JACQUELIN PERRY tives, Richard Hill developed, shaped, and im- ago. Ground was broken in 1962 on Palm plemented the Office of the General Counsel’s Sunday, and on April 7, 1963, again on Palm HON. STEVE COHEN national training program for its new attorneys, Sunday, the first worship service was held. OF TENNESSEE and he was most proud of his part in training Sunday, April 7, 2013 marked the fiftieth anni- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES young attorneys en route to careers dedicated versary of that first service. to helping others. Richard Hill’s warm and kind First United Methodist Church has been a Wednesday, April 10, 2013 spirit, collaborative nature, and unparalleled beacon of love and of spiritual health and re- Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to dedication to federal service and the American newal in this community. The contributions honor the life of Dr. Jacquelin Perry, a re- people will truly be missed. and efforts that they have made and will con- nowned orthopedic surgeon and physical ther- f tinue to make are invaluable, and I am hon- apist known for her revolutionary work on ored to be able to recognize their achieve- IN HONOR OF THE FIRST UNITED treating Polio. Dr. Perry was born on May 31, ments. 1918 in Denver, Colorado and was raised in METHODIST CHURCH OF PACIFIC Mr. Speaker, I know the whole House joins GROVE Los Angeles, California. She attended the Uni- me in heartfelt congratulations on this auspi- versity of California, Los Angeles and grad- cious day and wishing the congregation good uated in 1940 with a bachelor’s degree in HON. SAM FARR luck in all of their future endeavors. Physical Education. After earning her degree, OF CALIFORNIA f she joined the United States Army and trained IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN RECOGNITION OF THE SANTA to be a physical therapist at Walter Reed Wednesday, April 10, 2013 BARBARA SUMMIT FOR TIBET Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. She Mr. FARR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to con- was then assigned to a hospital in Hot gratulate the First United Methodist Church of HON. LOIS CAPPS Springs, Arkansas, where many polio patients Pacific Grove on the 50th anniversary of the were being treated. OF CALIFORNIA She continued her education and in 1950, relocation of their campus from downtown to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES its current site at the corner of Sunset Drive Dr. Perry was one of seven women who re- and the historic Seventeen Mile Drive. Wednesday, April 10, 2013 ceived a medical degree from the University of In the early 1870s, a group of ministers of Mrs. CAPPS. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to California, San Francisco in a class of sev- the Methodist Episcopal Church in California recognize the distinguished efforts of the enty-six graduates. When her residency was

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While there, she articles and defense services . . . to enable 65 student chapters, and nearly 20,000 mem- created a program for patients suffering from Taiwan to maintain a sufficient self-defense bers spanning over 120 countries, the Amer- polio and other diseases and helped develop capability,’’ and affirming ‘‘the preservation ican Concrete Institute provides knowledge the ‘‘Halo,’’ a metal ring that screwed into the and enhancement of the human rights of all and information for the best use of concrete. skull to immobilize a patient’s spine and neck the people on Taiwan’’ as explicit objectives of Through a host of activities including con- that were weakened by polio complications. the United States, has contributed in large From 1972 to the late 1990s, she taught at measure to make Taiwan what it is today—a tinuing education, certification, seminars, publi- the University of Southern California’s School vibrant, open society governed by democratic cations, and conventions, ACI plays an active of Medicine. While there, Perry established a institutions. and vital role in the concrete industry. Core to scholarship for the study of the human gait, Though the people of Taiwan now enjoy ACI is the development of codes and stand- which she used to research how forward mo- fundamental human rights and civil liberties, ards, adopted by reference in building codes tion is achieved in the legs. During her life- they continue to live day after day under the impacting potentially every concrete project in time, she wrote over four hundred peer-re- ominous shadow cast by over 1400 short- and the United States. Additionally, there are some viewed papers and contributed to numerous medium-range ballistic missiles that the Peo- 21 countries worldwide that base part or all of scientific publications. Her book, ‘‘Gait Anal- ple’s Republic of China (PRC) has aimed at their national building codes on the ACI 318 ysis: Normal and Pathological Function,’’ pub- them. The PRC persists in claiming Taiwan as Structural Concrete Building Code provisions. lished in 1992, has become a standard text- a ‘renegade province,’ refusing to renounce book for orthopedists, physical therapists and the use of force to prevent formal de jure inde- On April 18, 2013, Professor Wight will com- other rehabilitation professionals. pendence, even codifying its right to military plete his service as president of ACI, the cul- Dr. Jacquelin Perry passed away on March action via passage of the so-called ‘‘Anti-Se- mination of 40 years of volunteer service. 11, 2013, at 94 years of age in her Downey, cession Law’’ on March 14, 2005. The United Wight was named a Fellow of the Institute in California home. Although she suffered from States Congress strongly condemned the 1984 and previously served on the ACI Board Parkinson’s disease, it did not deter her from ‘‘Anti-Secession Law’’ in House Concurrent of Direction. He is a past Chair of the ACI attending work a week before her death. Dr. Resolution 98, passed on March 16, 2005. Technical Activities Committee; ACI Com- Perry leaves behind a legacy as an inventive The TRA affirmed that the United States’ mittee 318, Structural Concrete Building Code; physician, author and teacher. She lived an decision to establish diplomatic relations with and Joint ACI–ASCE Committee 352, Joints extraordinary life, and gave her time, her effort the People’s Republic of China was based on and her expertise to the advancement of med- the expectation that the future of Taiwan and Connections in Monolithic Concrete Struc- icine, and to the struggle to defeat Polio and would be determined by peaceful means. Fur- tures. He is a Past President of the ACI Great- Post-Polio syndrome. As a survivor of Polio thermore, it stipulates that it is the policy of er Michigan Chapter. myself, I ask my colleagues to join me in rec- the United States ‘‘to consider any effort to de- ACI has honored him with the Delmar L. ognizing the life and work of Dr. Jacquelin termine the future of Taiwan by other than Bloem Distinguished Service Award, the Joe Perry. peaceful means . . . a threat to the peace W. Kelly Award, the Arthur J. Boase Award, f and security of the Western Pacific area and the Alfred E. Lindau Award, the Chester Paul of grave concern to the United States.’’ The Siess Award for Excellence in Structural Re- TAIWAN RELATIONS ACT unambiguous and principled stance contained in these provisions has been instrumental to search, and the Wason Medal for the Most HON. MICHAEL T. McCAUL the maintenance of peace and stability across Meritorious Paper in 2011. He has also re- OF TEXAS the Taiwan Strait for more than thirty years, in ceived the Arthur Y. Moy Award from the ACI IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES spite of the growing military threat posed by Greater Michigan Chapter for outstanding Wednesday, April 10, 2013 the PRC. service in the field of concrete technology. I therefore invite my colleagues to join me in Also of note, James K. Wight, who received Mr. MCCAUL. Mr. Speaker, I rise to com- commemorating the 34th anniversary of the his undergraduate education at Michigan State memorate the 34th anniversary of the enact- TRA, to further underline our unwavering com- University, is the F.E. Richart Jr. Collegiate ment of the Taiwan Relations Act. mitment to the TRA and our support for the Since the end of World War II, the United strong and deepening relationship between Professor of Civil Engineering at the University States and Taiwan have fostered a close rela- the U.S. and Taiwan. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. He has been a tionship that has been of enormous strategic f professor in the structural engineering area of and economic benefit to both countries. When the civil and environmental engineering de- the United States shifted diplomatic relations IN RECOGNITION OF JAMES K. partment since September 1973, where he from Taiwan to the People’s Republic of China WIGHT’S LEADERSHIP TO THE teaches undergraduate and graduate classes AMERICAN CONCRETE INSTITUTE in January 1979, Congress moved quickly to on structural analysis and design of concrete pass the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) to en- structures. Wight is known for his work in sure that the United States would continue its HON. GARY C. PETERS robust engagement with Taiwan in the areas earthquake-resistant design of concrete struc- OF MICHIGAN tures. His more recent research has con- of commerce, culture, and security coopera- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion. With President Carter’s signature on April centrated on the strength and inelastic behav- 10, 1979, this important and lasting piece of Wednesday, April 10, 2013 ior of connections in composite structures (re- legislation became the law of the land and Mr. PETERS of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I inforced concrete and steel) and the use of served as the statutory basis for U.S.-Taiwan rise today to recognize James K. Wight, a high-performance fiber-reinforced concrete relations going forward. resident of Michigan, for his volunteer leader- composites for earthquake-resistant design of After 34 years, the TRA still stands as a ship to the American Concrete Institute (ACI) critical members in concrete structures. He model of congressional leadership in the his- headquartered in Farmington Hills, Michigan, has been involved with post-earthquake dam- tory of our foreign relations, and, together with an organization whose work is fundamental to age studies following earthquakes in Mexico, the 1982 ‘‘Six Assurances,’’ it remains the cor- our nation’s critical infrastructure, key to our Chile, Armenia, Egypt, California, Japan, and nerstone of a very mutually beneficial relation- economic competitiveness. As a Member of India. ship between the United States and Taiwan. Congress, I am privileged and honored to rec- Through three decades marked by momen- ognize Dr. Wight for his leadership and life- Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me tous social, economic, and political trans- long commitment to this organization and to today to honor Dr. James Wight’s leadership formations, Taiwan has remained a trusted advancing concrete knowledge in the United and service to the American Concrete Insti- ally of the United States that now shares with States and abroad. tute. us the ideals of freedom, democracy and self- ACI has been the pioneer in all concrete-re- determination. The foresight of the TRA’s lated fields: research and development, struc-

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DeBergalis, who port included research done by the Com- rise today to honor Ms. Lana Felton-Ghee, a passed away on Saturday, February 2, 2013 mittee, testimony from several hearings, and constituent of Pennsylvania’s 1st District, for at the age of 69. GAO reports assessing the detrimental gender her 66th birthday. A proud member of Ironworkers Local 6 wage gap for part-time workers and older Born, raised and educated in Philadelphia, Lana is well known for her successes in busi- who shared a family-owned small business, Americans as well as wider discussions of ness and politics. Graduating from Temple Mr. DeBergalis exemplified the American women’s continued under-representation in Dream. Along with his brother, Rocco Jr., he University, Ms. Felton-Ghee led a longtime, management level positions. As I said in that high profile career in marketing and public re- co-owned Rod Placing, a steel reinforcing report, ‘‘The decisions we make today will company started by his father, Rocco. lations. She established her own business in have dramatic impacts on our nation’s future Mr. DeBergalis was a family man. In addi- 1995, Lana Felton-Ghee Associates, Inc., and tion to his role and pride in the family busi- economic well-being, and we must carefully took on challenging projects in our area and ness, he loved his wife, Christine; daughters, consider what those decisions will mean for throughout the country. Her expertise was rec- Tonya Balash and Jacquelyn Criola; son, Jef- women, both as consumers and as pro- ognized nationally, and she became a key frey; mother, Olympia; sister, Mary Rose ducers.’’ consultant on campaigns for figures such as Mayor Ed Rendell and President Bill Clinton. Gaughan; and three brothers Joseph, Paul, There is a remedy to this persistent problem and Rocco Jr. Throughout her busy and successful career, of unequal pay. I have consistently supported Ms. Felton-Ghee also made time for a fulfilling Mr. DeBergalis lived most of his life in Buf- the Paycheck Fairness Act, commonsense falo’s Lovejoy neighborhood. He took pride in family life and is a proud mother of four and legislation that gives women the tools to fight his heritage and community, holding member- grandmother of ten. wage discrimination and provides stronger ship in the Big Timers Italian-American Club. I ask that you and my other distinguished In his down time, he enjoyed a variety of ac- workplace protections for working women. colleagues help me in honoring Ms. Felton- tivities including gardening, cooking, and stone This Congress must stand up for working fam- Ghee and her birthday. Ms. Felton-Ghee is the carving. ilies and provide for the basic rights and fair- epitome of a life-long Philadelphian and a Mr. Speaker, I kindly ask you to join me and ness of 51 percent of the U.S. population. model citizen. We can all learn something our colleagues as we stand in this moment to from her fortitude and her commitment to her honor the life of Mr. Louis C. DeBergalis and f career, her city and her family. She has been offer our deepest condolences to his family. known to say that ‘‘there is no place like Phila- delphia,’’ but Philadelphia would not be nearly f 34TH ANNIVERSARY OF TAIWAN RELATIONS ACT as bright a place without her vibrant and dedi- EQUAL PAY DAY cated personality. f HON. CAROLYN B. MALONEY HON. ALAN S. LOWENTHAL CONTRACT SCREENER REFORM OF NEW YORK OF CALIFORNIA AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, April 10, 2013 HON. BENNIE G. THOMPSON Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Wednesday, April 10, 2013 OF MISSISSIPPI IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Speaker, women played a tremendous Mr. LOWENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, for sixty Wednesday, April 10, 2013 role in the 2012 elections—including fighting years the United States and Taiwan have fos- for equal pay. Today, we commemorate Equal tered a close relationship that has been of mu- Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speak- Pay Day, the time typically three months into er, I rise today in strong support of the ‘‘Con- the new year that it takes for women’s wages tual political, economic, cultural and strategic benefit. When the United States shifted diplo- tract Screener Reform and Accountability Act.’’ to catch up to what men were paid in the pre- Together with my colleagues in the House, matic relations from the Republic of China vious year. This is an annual reminder that the Representative NITA LOWEY of New York and wallets of America’s women are not as heavy (Taiwan) to the People’s Republic of China in CEDRIC RICHMOND of Louisiana, I am intro- as they should be because women face pay January 1979, Congress moved quickly to ducing this legislation to reform, enhance discrimination. Even when accounting for edu- pass the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) to en- oversight of, and provide greater workforce cation, industry, and hours worked there re- sure that the United States would have contin- protections to the Transportation Security Ad- mains a wage gap. ued commercial and cultural relations with Tai- ministration’s (TSA) contract screener program Women’s lifetime earnings will never re- wan. This year marks the 34th anniversary of known as the Screening Partnership Program cover from the persistent reduction in wages the TRA. (SPP). I am very pleased that a companion they receive relative to their male counter- This important piece of legislation codified measure is being introduced in the other parts. Nationwide, women make 77 cents for chamber by Senator SHERROD BROWN of Ohio. the basis for relations between the U.S. and every dollar earned by a man. While these Specifically, the ‘‘Contract Screener Reform sound like pennies, in fact they add up to a Taiwan and has been instrumental in main- and Accountability Act’’ would: yearly gap of $11,084 between full-time work- taining peace, security and stability across the Bar subsidiaries of foreign owned corpora- ing men and women. This decrease in take Taiwan Strait. tions from providing for security screening at home pay affects not just women but also Today, Taiwan is one of the leading U.S. domestic airports under the SPP; their families. trading partners and, in my district, accounts Mandate covert testing of contract screeners In New York City, which I’m proud to rep- for the second-largest percentage of cargo ac- so that their performance can be monitored resent, women who work full time are paid 85 tivity at the Port of Long Beach. and compared to airports where screening is cents for every dollar paid to men who work carried out by TSA and protect the integrity of full time, adding up to a yearly gap of $8,429. It is my hope that the United States and Tai- those tests by imposing penalties for compro- As a result, New York City’s women collec- wan will continue to work together to promote mising such testing; tively lose more than $23 million a year be- enduring peace, stability, and prosperity in the Require security breaches at airports with cause of the wage gap. This is simply unac- Asia-Pacific region. contracted screening services to be reported;

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However, since elor’s of Science from West Virginia State Col- public who are screened at SPP airports. TSA has not always taken action or docu- lege, he enlisted in the United State Army. Art With enactment of the ‘‘FAA Modernization mented their actions to correct the mis- honorably served our country, fighting in the and Reform Act of 2012’’ (P.L. 112–95), sub- handling of the SSI information, reports on Korean War from 1953 to 1955. While serving sidiaries of foreign owned corporations are such incidents are currently unavailable. his tour of duty in Germany, he managed a permitted, for the first time since the terrorist Regarding workforce protections, the bill program for orphans, foreshadowing his leg- attacks of September 11, 2001, to provide would protect workers’ pay and benefits by re- acy of advocacy for children, the elderly, the screening services at our nation’s commercial quiring that when an airport privatizes, the pri- homeless, the poor, and all others who suffer service airports. This change in law was en- vate screening company provide Transpor- discrimination. acted without debate about the security impli- tation Security Officers employed at the time In 1955, Art completed his service and re- cations and despite the need, in the current of the switch the right of first refusal to screen- turned to Buffalo, securing a job at a local economic climate, to encourage opportunities ing jobs and offer compensation and benefits Chevrolet plant. It was there he first observed for U.S. companies rather than outsourcing equal to or greater than what they received at the desperate plight Buffalo’s youth. Due to a work and diverting taxpayer dollars to subsidi- the time the contract was awarded. complete absence of role models and guid- aries of foreign owned corporations. No worker on the front lines in securing our ance, young people often succumbed to drugs The reforms concerning covert testing are aviation system should lose their job, see a re- and other criminal activities. A former All-High necessary in light of the Department of Home- duction in pay, or lose benefits because an basketball player in Florida and an All-Euro- land Security Office of Inspector General’s airport opts to utilize a private screening com- pean player in Germany, Art intimately under- previous finding that the contractor for screen- pany. stood the immeasurable benefits of role mod- ing services at San Francisco International Air- As all of my colleagues can attest to, cus- els and organized activities in children’s lives. port (SFO), the nation’s largest and busiest tomer service at airports, and in particular in Art became inspired to quit his job at Chev- airport with contract screeners, compromised the security screening lanes, is an issue that rolet to seek a position in parks and recre- covert testing. evokes passionate reactions from constituents ation. He found civil service jobs, the founda- It is imperative that the integrity of covert all across the country. tion of our city, were rarely awarded based on security testing be protected so that we are Currently, there is no requirement that pri- merit. Determined to transform the system assured that contract screeners perform at the vate screening companies report customer from within, Art joined the local Democratic same level as Transportation Security Officers. complaints regarding their screening experi- Party and soon earned his position in the TSA has reported numerous security ence to TSA or Congress. The bill would pro- Parks Department. breaches occurring regularly at airports with vide the public an avenue for expressing con- A true reformer, Art was the sole ward lead- contract screeners, including at SFO. These cerns with screening at airports with contract er who remained separate from the political breaches include contract screener personnel screeners, thus ensuring that the flying establishment by 1958. He became known for not detecting prohibited items such as knives public’s concerns can be addressed. his courageous independent activism and civil and bullets in carry-on baggage, improperly In the wake of the deadly attacks of Sep- rights advocacy, which led to his election to clearing passengers without verification of tember 11, 2001, TSA was created to secure the New York State Assembly in 1966. their identity, and not conducting the required all modes of transportation so that a terrorist Art dedicated his extraordinary tenure in the additional screening of passengers referred to attack on the scale of 9/11 would never hap- Assembly to representing those who others ig- secondary screening. pen again. nored. During his first term, he pioneered ef- For example, on August 21, 2009, a pas- Since TSA’s earliest days, it has struggled forts to secure $500,000 to begin the State senger at SFO alarmed the walk-through to fulfill its mission, but, with every passing University of New York system’s SEEK/Edu- metal detector and was referred to the sec- year, it matures and improves as a security cational Opportunity Program. The program ondary area for additional screening. The pas- agency. Opponents of TSA have not forgone provides financially disadvantaged students senger promptly let herself out of the holding any opportunity to exploit a misstep to ad- with academic support and supplemental fund- area and collected her accessible property. It vance their ultimate goal—the dismantling of ing to facilitate their pursuit of higher edu- was three minutes before an employee of the TSA. At the same time, they have willfully cation. As of 2013, the program had $3.5 mil- private screening company noticed that she turned a blind eye to lapses, breaches, and lion worth of funding. was missing. problems at airports secured by contract Art’s reputation as a champion of equality More needs to be done to prevent security screeners. spread. Ahead of his time, Art supported many breaches at SPP airports. Just as we must act to strengthen TSA’s se- issues that remain relevant today, including Similarly, given that the documented mis- curity operations, it is imperative that we ad- legislation in favor of expanded access to handling of sensitive information can have dress SPP’s glaring security challenges. healthcare and against hate crimes. By the tragic consequences, more needs to be done It is my hope that the ‘‘Contract Screener 1970s, colleges in New York had established to prevent such violations as well. Reform and Accountability Act’’ be enacted to the Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Oppor- Today, TSA does not have a process in ensure that we do just that. tunity Program to aid students without scho- place for ensuring that all employees of cor- f lastic or financial resources. In 1988, the Ken- porations with contracts for screening services nedy Center recognized Art’s legacy with their receive training on the proper handling of sen- HONORING THE 80TH BIRTHDAY OF prestigious Distinguished Leadership in Arts sitive information. ARTHUR EVE and Education Award. This is the case despite several instances of In 1979, Art became Deputy Speaker of the sensitive security information having been mis- HON. BRIAN HIGGINS New York State Assembly. His tireless work handled by employees of corporations with OF NEW YORK towards equality and human rights brought na- contracts for screening services under the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tional attention to the New York State Assem- SPP. bly. As Deputy Speaker, he was the highest For example, on July 18, 2010, a new hire Wednesday, April 10, 2013 ranking African American in the New York training manual containing sensitive security Mr. HIGGINS. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to State Legislature. He was a founding member information (SSI) about screening practices honor the former Deputy Speaker of the New of the New York State Black and Puerto Rican was stolen after a private security company York State Assembly, and my former col- Legislative Caucus, and served on the com- employee in possession of the manual re- league, Arthur O. Eve, on the occasion of his mittee of public officials who attempted to moved it from SFO. In response, TSA sent a 80th birthday. A Korean war veteran, factory quell the conflict at Attica State Prison. He re- letter to the company that conducts screening worker, national political activist, and tireless mained Deputy Speaker until his retirement services for SFO, as well as to all other SPP advocate for all those forced to occupy the from the State Assembly in 2002.

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Nationally, Art served as an adviser to need to wake up to the reality that for some, Jesse Jackson’s 1984 presidential campaign. Wednesday, April 10, 2013 alcoholism and addiction develop at a young I feel highly privileged to have served with Mr. RYAN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, April marks age and that prevention, intervention, treat- Art in the State Assembly from 1999 to 2002. the 27th annual National Alcohol Awareness ment and recovery support are essential for During my time there, I valued Art’s advice Month. them and their families. We can’t afford to wait and counsel. As a new legislator in Albany, I As co-chair of the House Addiction, Treat- any longer. treasured the wisdom and companionship of ment and Recovery (ATR) caucus, I rise today Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to high- my colleague and fellow advocate for Western to talk about the importance of this milestone light this important issue with a National Alco- New York. To this day, I feel extremely fortu- and to applaud the National Council on Alco- hol Awareness Month event in their districts. nate to have shared time in the New York holism and Drug Dependence (NCADD), This is a problem that plagues all of our com- State Legislature with Art. which since 1987 has sponsored Alcohol munities but working together, we can restore Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for allowing me to Awareness Month to increase public aware- hope to our young people and their families. celebrate Arthur Eve’s extraordinary work in ness and understanding, reduce stigma and f honor of his 80th birthday. I am profoundly encourage local communities to focus on alco- grateful for his service and friendship, and holism and alcohol-related issues. GEORGIA NATIONAL GUARD WINS continue to be inspired by his incredible leg- Alcohol abuse is one of the leading causes TOP ACOE AWARD acy. of death in this country and is a huge contrib- f utor to other pressing health care problems HON. PHIL GINGREY like hypertension, high blood pressure, heart IN OBSERVANCE OF HOLOCAUST OF GEORGIA disease and stroke. Not a day goes by that we REMEMBRANCE DAY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES as a Caucus don’t hear another story about Wednesday, April 10, 2013 the tragedy wrought by the abuse of alcohol. HON. HENRY A. WAXMAN Some have even gone so far as to call the Mr. GINGREY of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, OF CALIFORNIA abuse of alcohol and other drugs the number today I rise to honor the Georgia National IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES one public health crisis facing this country. Guard on being selected as the winner of the Wednesday, April 10, 2013 This year, National Alcohol Awareness National Guard Special Category in the 2013 Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Month is highlighting the important public Army Communities of Excellence (ACOE) remember those who perished during the Hol- health issue of underage drinking, a problem awards competition. ocaust and to honor those who survived. with devastating individual, family and commu- It is a source of pride to see Georgia’s own This week, when the world observes Yom nity consequences. With this year’s theme, National Guard recognized for excellence. Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, we ‘‘Help for Today, Hope for Tomorrow,’’ the These servicemen and women have gone recall the 6 million who died at the hands of month of April will be filled with local, state, above and beyond the call of duty to earn this the Nazis. We remember their stories—as and national events aimed at educating people prestigious award. sons, daughters, mothers, fathers. Whole about the treatment and prevention of alco- The yearly ACOE competition reviews lead- communities have been lost. holism. Local NCADD Affiliates as well as ership, strategic planning, customer focus, and This week, Congress will assemble for a schools, colleges, churches, and countless performance criteria to rank installations on memorial service for the Days of Remem- other community organizations will sponsor their overall Army readiness and quality man- brance to pay our respects to the victims of activities that create awareness and encouragement. The U.S. Army chief of staff choos- the Holocaust. age individuals and families to get help for al- es National Guard installations that best ex- In Washington, DC, Yom Hashoah is com- cohol-related problems. emplify these qualities. memorated as part of the Days of Remem- Alcohol use by young people is extremely As this year’s deserving winner, the Georgia brance sponsored by U.S. Holocaust Memorial dangerous—both to themselves and to soci- National Guard’s prize will include funding to- Museum in Washington, DC. The theme of ety, and is directly associated with traffic fatali- wards installation upgrades that will improve this year’s event is ‘‘Never Again: Heeding the ties, violence, suicide, educational failure, al- facilities, and boost morale of soldiers, retir- Warning Signs.’’ The theme raises questions: cohol overdose, unsafe sex and other problem ees, and civilians serving there. When faced with opportunities to stop the behaviors. Annually, over 6,500 people under Mr. Speaker, this is a momentous occasion Nazis, why did we miss the warning signs? the age of 21 die from alcohol-related injuries. for the State of Georgia, and it is with sincere How could we have failed to act? These ques- Additionally: gratitude that I would like to extend my deep- tions speak to us today about our responsi- Alcohol is the number one drug of choice for est thanks and appreciation to the Georgia bility to act—even when others don’t. America’s young people, and is more likely to National Guard for the sacrifice and hard work I would also like to acknowledge the work of kill young people than all illegal drugs com- that ensures America’s safety and won them the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. bined. this esteemed award. This year, they convened an intergenerational Each day, 7,000 kids in the United States f walk with Holocaust survivors to bring aware- under the age of 16 take their first drink. ness to the community. Pan Pacific Park was More than 1,700 college students in the HONORING FRANCIS B. GIBBS transformed into a timeline of the events of the U.S. are killed each year—about 4.65 a day— Holocaust so that participants could learn as a result of alcohol-related injuries. HON. RODNEY ALEXANDER more about the deep tragedy of Nazi atroc- 25% of U.S. children are exposed to alco- OF LOUISIANA ities. This event also shows survivors that they hol-use disorders in their family. Underage al- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES are not alone. They have a community around cohol use costs the nation an estimated $62 Wednesday, April 10, 2013 them to support them. billion annually. It is my honor to represent the Los Angeles And yet, these statistics don’t fully convey Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today area, which is home to approximately 10,000 the danger of underage drinking. The more we to honor the achievements and the unwaver- survivors. This week—and every week—we learn about the human brain, the more we ing commitment to public service of Francis B. honor their courage and their strength. At a learn how dangerous early drinking is for un- Gibbs. time when fewer and fewer survivors are alive derage drinkers. It seems like yesterday that Francis came to to tell their stories, we must all bear witness Reducing underage drinking is critical to se- Washington to work for his hometown Con- to their tremendous legacy. curing a healthy future for America’s youth gressman, ANDER CRENSHAW. He went on to

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In Yosemite, multiday ascents requir- his work on the Patriot Act to defending free- ing hundreds of placements had left these HON. ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN dom for people in Venezuela and around the once-smooth majestic surfaces scarred and OF FLORIDA Western Hemisphere, Francis served as a tire- pocked. Aluminum pitons revolutionized the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES less advocate for making this government a sport, preventing further damage and pre- Wednesday, April 10, 2013 ‘‘more perfect Union’’ by protecting people’s serving awe-inspiring peaks across the United individual rights and liberty. States. This past year, the company Mr. Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, today, After his son Couper was born, Francis and Chouinard founded, Patagonia, Inc., grossed on the 34th anniversary of the Taiwan Rela- his wife LeAnne—who worked for Congress- $414 million dollars in sales. tions Act, I want to take a moment to recog- man Mike Pence—decided to leave Wash- As his business expanded to outdoor gear nize this landmark legislation, the special rela- ington to raise their new family in the Sun- and clothing, Mr. Chouinard has brought these tionship that exists between the United States shine State. Francis took his drive and pas- same ethical principles to bear by using recy- and Taiwan, and the exceptional work by this sion back to the Florida Department of Trans- cled and organic materials and adapting en- Congress to reinforce the bond between our portation, where he serves as the chief of ergy efficient production methods. Every year, peoples. Yesterday also marked another im- staff, leveraging his experience in Washington Patagonia pledges 1% of its yearly sales to portant date in U.S. Taiwan relations: the 11th with his knack for building consensus to get further conservation work across the globe. anniversary of the founding of the Congres- the right things done for the right reasons. Patagonia’s tireless commitment has proven sional Taiwan Caucus. Since April 9, 2002, Mr. Speaker, we know all too well that the that in business the planet does not need to the Taiwan Caucus has grown into one of the political arena can be viewed as a cold and be sacrificed for profit. most prominent caucuses in Congress with al- cynical process. Francis’s approach has al- Patagonia is an invaluable partner in the most 140 current members, and has led the ways been different. He builds bridges and Ventura County community, working with local way in strengthening diplomatic, security, and more importantly, he creates enduring friend- organizations like Los Padres Forest Watch to economic relations between our two nations. ships that remind us that there is a way to protect California’s wild places. Shortly after Since this Congress came together 34 years serve honorably. Los Padres Forest Watch held its first board ago to pass the Taiwan Relations Act, the leg- Francis is now facing a fight with colon can- meeting in 2004, they received a grant from islation has constituted the cornerstone of our cer. He has fought this with the same tenacity Patagonia. Since that time, Patagonia has unique relationship with one of the world’s he exuded during his congressional days generously given grants to support their impor- most vibrant democracies. For 30 years, the when he battled legislative threats to the Con- tant local forest protection work, as well as United States recognized the Republic of stitution—with passion and grace. volunteering their employees, donating their China (Taiwan) as the legitimate representa- LeAnne, has been a constant source of products, and organizing fundraising events tive of the Chinese people. Yet, in 1979, the strength, compassion and grace. Ernest Hem- like the annual 5k Salmon Run. Yvon Carter administration switched sides and rec- ingway had somebody like LeAnne in mind Chouinard and Patagonia have had a positive ognized the People’s Republic of China, and when he wrote ‘‘courage is grace under fire.’’ and lasting influence on the preservation of at the same time derecognized the Republic of Their anchors are two beautiful children, the Los Padres National Forest. China (Taiwan). In an effort to counter this act Couper and Riley. I am pleased to join Los Padres Forest of injustice, a unified United States Congress Francis has a long-term view of what Amer- Watch in honoring Mr. Chouinard for his leg- came together to pass the Taiwan Relations ica can and should be. He believes that ulti- acy of environmental activism and ensuring Act. To this day, our great nations continue to mately America promises a better life for the Patagonia is an exemplary model of environ- prosper through mutually beneficial trade rela- next generation. He embodies everything that mental corporate stewardship. tions, shared security interests, and the poli- this promise stands for, and his children will f cies codified by the Taiwan Relations Act. live out this American Dream that their dad Mr. Speaker, while recognizing the accom- shaped. Over the years, legislative achieve- JOHN PATRICK FISCHBACH plishments of the Taiwan Relations Act, we ments are forgotten by the public and often must also recognize the need to strengthen become footnotes in a textbook. However, the HON. ED PERLMUTTER our commitment to Taiwan through expanded difference that Francis made—the issues he OF COLORADO diplomatic, security, and trade ties. Earlier this worked on—will carry on. More importantly, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES year, I was proud to introduce, with my col- the way he treated people will not be forgotten leagues, the co-chairs of the Congressional by those of us fortunate enough to spend time Wednesday, April 10, 2013 Taiwan Caucus, Representatives MARIO DIAZ- in these hallowed halls. Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise BALART, JOHN CARTER, ALBIO SIRES, GERALD Mr. Speaker, let us today celebrate Francis today to recognize and applaud John Patrick CONNOLLY, the Taiwan Policy Act, which seeks Gibbs, honor his wife LeAnne, and tell his chil- Fischbach for receiving the Arvada Wheat to accomplish these goals. If enacted, our pro- dren that America will be a better place for Ridge Service Ambassadors for Youth award. posed legislation would permit Taiwan’s lead- them because of the work, love and devotion John Patrick Fischbach is a 12th grader at ers to meet with U.S. officials in all executive of their parents. Ralston Valley High School and received this branches, authorize the transfer of decommis- f award because his determination and hard sioned Perry class guided missile frigates, and HONORING PATAGONIA FOUNDER work have allowed him to overcome adversi- support the sale of F16 C/D fighter jets to the YVON CHOUINARD, RECIPIENT ties. Armed Forces of Taiwan. With the growing an- OF THE LOS PADRES FOREST The dedication demonstrated by John Pat- tagonism of North Korea and the ever expand- WATCH WILDERNESS LEGACY rick Fischbach is exemplary of the type of ing territorial ambitions of China, our alliance AWARD achievement that can be attained with hard with the democratic nation of Taiwan is even work and perseverance. It is essential stu- more important. HON. JULIA BROWNLEY dents at all levels strive to make the most of In 2012, as our 11th largest trading partner, their education and develop a work ethic 16th largest export market, and 11th largest OF CALIFORNIA which will guide them for the rest of their lives. import market, Taiwan and the United States IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I extend my deepest congratulations to John shared in $63.2 billion in total trade. It is clear Wednesday, April 10, 2013 Patrick Fischbach for winning the Arvada that Taiwan is already a close and valuable Ms. BROWNLEY of California. Mr. Speaker, Wheat Ridge Service Ambassadors for Youth trade partner for the United States but there is today, I congratulate Yvon Chouinard, the award. I have no doubt he will exhibit the more work to be done. We are glad that TIFA

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The United States should Wednesday, April 10, 2013 the organization has become a shining exam- also support Taiwan receiving observer status Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I ple of how to turn an unfortunate tragedy into in the International Civil Aviation Organization. rise today to honor Investigator Francesco Z. something meaningful. The Anthony Telesca We, as a nation, are fortunate to have Tai- McBride, a constituent of my district, who has Foundation’s humanitarian efforts and suc- wan as an ally, friend, and one of our largest been chosen to receive the distinguished cesses exemplify the strength and compassion trading partners. Taiwan is a nation we truly honor of the Amtrak Police Department’s Offi- within people, and I commend them for their can depend upon; a people who share the cer of the Year for 2012 for his numerous and contributions. same dreams and aspirations as we do here significant contributions to the department. f A resident of Sharon Hill, Investigator in the United States. Today, we remember our JOEY ROOT predecessors here in the United States Con- McBride joined the Amtrak Police Department gress who created the Taiwan Relations Act, (APD) in 2001 initially as an Officer, and is HON. ED PERLMUTTER as well as the founding members of the Con- now an Investigator in Amtrak’s Mid-Atlantic OF COLORADO gressional Taiwan Caucus, who have helped Division. He is a member of the APD Pipe and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the relationship between our two nations blos- Drum Unit. som into an enduring partnership. Investigator McBride’s exemplary service Wednesday, April 10, 2013 has resulted in arrests in cases that have a Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise f combined monetary value of approximately today to recognize and applaud Joey Root for $325,000. These cases include copper wire receiving the Arvada Wheat Ridge Service RECOGNIZING KEVIN KRIGGER theft in Baltimore that has resulted in damage Ambassadors for Youth award. Joey Root is a and serious disruptions to train operations; re- 12th grader at Warren Tech North and re- HON. DONNA M. CHRISTENSEN covering Amtrak-owned tools and equipment ceived this award because his determination from burglar’s barn; and tracking down the cul- and hard work have allowed him to overcome OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS prits of the theft of copper materials in Phila- adversities. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES delphia. These are just a few examples of In- The dedication demonstrated by Joey Root vestigator McBride’s invaluable work that has is exemplary of the type of achievement that Wednesday, April 10, 2013 earned him the distinction of Amtrak Police Of- can be attained with hard work and persever- Mrs. CHRISTENSEN. Mr. Speaker, when ficer of the Year. ance. It is essential students at all levels strive the horses line up in Churchill Downs for the I ask that you and my other distinguished to make the most of their education and de- running of the Kentucky Derby next month, all colleagues help me in honoring the Officer of velop a work ethic which will guide them for eyes in my district, the U.S. Virgin Islands, will the Year, Investigator McBride, for his admi- the rest of their lives. be on young Kevin Krigger, a jockey from my rable work with Amtrak. I extend my deepest congratulations to Joey home island of St. Croix, who will be riding the f Root for winning the Arvada Wheat Ridge horse Goldencents. Service Ambassadors for Youth award. I have COMMENDING THE ANTHONY no doubt he will exhibit the same dedication We are all proud of Kevin, who grew up in TELESCA FOUNDATION LaVallee and attended Central High School. and character in all of his future accomplish- According to Kevin, he has always wanted to ments. be a jockey and grew up in the sport, riding HON. GUS M. BILIRAKIS f OF FLORIDA horses on the beaches and country roads of PERSONAL EXPLANATION the island and challenging anyone he could to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a race. Before he was recruited by other Vir- Wednesday, April 10, 2013 HON. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM gin Islands born jockeys who race in the Mr. BILIRAKIS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to OF NEW MEXICO States to join their ranks, he was well known commend the Anthony Telesca Foundation for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES on the tracks of St. Croix, St. Thomas and selflessly working to improve the safety of Wednesday, April 10, 2013 Tortola as a talent to watch. He proved him- communities in Florida by promoting safe driv- self riding on the West Coast, in particular at ing habits to Florida’s teenagers. The organi- Ms. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM of New Emerald Downs in Seattle, Washington before zation helps to educate and encourage teen- Mexico. Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably de- his historic win on Saturday at the Santa Anita agers to drive safely by hosting safety aware- tained and so I missed rollcall vote No. 90 ‘‘to Derby. ness functions with local high schools and law authorize the Secretary of the Interior to facili- With Saturday’s win, Kevin Krigger has be- enforcement officials. tate the development of hydroelectric power come the first African American to win the In December 2002, 16-year-old Anthony Jo- on the Diamond Fork System of the Central Santa Anita Derby. Last fall, he was the first seph Telesca passed away as the result of a Utah Project’’ (H.R. 254). Had I been present, African American jockey to win a million dollar reckless driving incident. As a result of this un- I would have voted ‘‘yes’’. race in Louisiana’s Delta Jackpot. If he rides fortunate and tragic incident, the Anthony f Goldencents to victory in the Kentucky Derby Telesca Foundation was created to work with RESOLUTION ON APRIL AS next month, he will become the first African local high school and law enforcement officials PARKINSON’S DISEASE MONTH American to do so since 1902. Goldencents is to increase driver safety awareness among co-owned by the stable of Louisville basketball teenagers. The Foundation also provides HON. CAROLYN B. MALONEY coach Rick Pitino and is trained by Doug scholarships and philanthropic support in order OF NEW YORK O’Neill. to meet its mission of preventing reckless IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Speaker, Kevin Krigger’s family and teenage driving and driving accidents, injuries, fans in the U.S. Virgin Islands will be cheering and fatalities. Wednesday, April 10, 2013 wildly on the first Saturday in May. I congratu- Among other activities, the Foundation has Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. late his mother Averil Simmonds and father Al- hosted events with the Pinellas County Sher- Mr. Speaker, along with my fellow co-chairs of bert Krigger, Jr. We are all proud of this young iff’s Office and high schools in northern the Congressional Caucus on Parkinson’s Dis- man and his accomplishments and wish him Pinellas County, Florida, which I represent, to ease, Reps. PETER KING and CHRIS VAN HOL- Godspeed in this and all of his future endeav- reward teenagers who have been observed LEN, today I am introducing a resolution desig- ors. practicing safe driving habits. Educating and nating April as Parkinson’s Awareness Month.

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Although Taiwan and OF CALIFORNIA with Parkinson’s disease, with some pre- China split amid civil war in 1949, bilateral re- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dictions showing the prevalence will more than lations between the two are at an all-time double by 2040. high. Today, China is Taiwan’s largest trading Wednesday, April 10, 2013 Currently, there is no therapy or drug to partner. Starting in 2008, Taiwan and China Mr. ISSA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to rec- slow its progression and a cure has yet to be signed an agreement to improve direct links ognize the service of Mr. Glen Doherty, who found. This resolution supports continued edu- between the two countries. This agreement was tragically killed on September 11, 2012 at cation and research to find more effective has been a resounding success eliminating the age of 42 in the armed assault against the treatments and eventually a cure. It also ap- barriers to air and sea travel between the two U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. I plauds the dedicated organizations, volun- sides. As a result, there are about 600 direct commend Mr. Doherty’s career and offer my teers, medical researchers, and millions of passenger flights that operate each week be- sincerest thanks for his dedicated service in Americans working to improve the quality of tween Taiwan and China. Cargo ships now protecting our nation. life of persons living with Parkinson’s disease transit directly between the two sides. Building A desire to push himself and to use his tal- and their families. upon the successes of the 2008 agreement, in ents to make genuine change in the world led As the loved one of someone afflicted by 2010, Taiwan and China signed a landmark Glen to join the Navy SEALs in 1995, where Parkinson’s disease, I witnessed personally trade agreement called the Economic Co- he served as a paramedic and sniper in the the effect of Parkinson’s disease on my father. operation Framework Agreement, which re- Middle East. Among other missions, his team As a result, I know firsthand that we must produced tariffs and commercial barriers between responded to the terrorist attack on the USS vide support to the loved ones, caregivers and the two sides. The people of China and Tai- Cole in 2000. Following knee reconstruction in researchers attempting to improve the welfare wan are more connected today than ever be- 2001, Glen had planned on leaving the military of those living with Parkinson’s. I urge my col- fore. but when our nation was attacked on Sep- leagues to support this resolution. Like many of my colleagues in the House, tember 11th, Glen decided to remain with the f I believe that a strong Taiwan is vital for main- SEALs. taining stability in the region. Like Congress- Mr. Doherty twice deployed in support of HONORING TAIWAN man ROYCE, Chairman of the House Foreign Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. On his first tour, Affairs Committee, I, too, support the sale of he joined the earliest Marine contingents on HON. LUKE MESSER newer, diesel submarines and F–16s up- their march to Baghdad. He was taken from OF INDIANA grades to Taiwan’s government, which will his unit for sniper duty for several days, but IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES serve to protect U.S. national interests in the returned to them before they took Baghdad Wednesday, April 10, 2013 region. I intend to work closely with my Con- and continued with them to take Saddam Hus- gressional colleagues to encourage the Ad- sein’s hometown of Tikrit as well. Glen be- Mr. MESSER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ministration to expedite the U.S. sale of need- lieved that the possibility of liberating a trou- commemorate the Taiwan Relations Act ed military hardware to Taiwan’s government. bled country from a tyrant and making democ- (TRA). On April 10th, the United States and Simply put, a strong, prosperous Taiwan racy possible for the Iraqi people was some- the Republic of China, more commonly reserves both our nations’ interests. I am cer- thing worth risking his life. ferred to as Taiwan, will celebrate the 34th an- tainly thankful to my predecessors who In 2005, Glen left the SEALs, but remained niversary of the TRA, which is the premier law passed the Taiwan Relations Act, which re- focused on the Middle East as a private secu- that governs U.S.-Taiwan bilateral relations. In mains the hallmark of the U.S.-Taiwan alli- rity contractor. He worked for peace and secu- 1979, President Jimmy Carter signed the TRA ance. rity in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Leb- into law and since that time it has been the f anon, and other high threat areas in the re- cornerstone to maintaining peace, security, gion. and stability in the Western Pacific. The TRA JESUS LOZANO I again offer Mr. Doherty my sincerest has held up well for over 34 years and is an thanks and hope that his family and those who important reminder of the strong alliance be- HON. ED PERLMUTTER knew him best can find comfort in the out- tween our two sides. OF COLORADO standing service he gave his nation, as well as All facets of the U.S.-Taiwan bilateral rela- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the passion and conviction that drove him into tionship—cultural, economic, and strategic— Wednesday, April 10, 2013 a career and life of defending others. have expanded and grown stronger since the Mr. Speaker, I ask that my colleagues signing into law of the TRA. Taiwan is the Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise please join me in recognizing the distinguished United States’ 10th largest trading partner. today to recognize and applaud Jesus Lozano career of Glen Doherty and his selfless sac- Taiwan is the seventh largest export market for receiving the Arvada Wheat Ridge Service rifice to a grateful nation. for U.S. agriculture. Since 1998, Taiwan has Ambassadors for Youth award. Jesus Lozano f purchased over $5.5 billion in corn and $4 bil- is an 11th grader at Jefferson High School lion in soybeans from the United States. For and received this award because his deter- IN SUPPORT OF H.R. 1287 my home state of Indiana, Taiwan is one of its mination and hard work have allowed him to top export markets in Asia. Recently, Taiwan overcome adversities. HON. MIKE McINTYRE signed a multi-million dollar agreement with The dedication demonstrated by Jesus OF NORTH CAROLINA the State of Indiana for the purchase of corn Lozano is exemplary of the type of achieve- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and soybeans for the years 2012 and 2013. ment that can be attained with hard work and Without a doubt, Hoosier farmers and my perseverance. It is essential students at all Wednesday, April 10, 2013 state’s economy have benefitted greatly from levels strive to make the most of their edu- Mr. MCINTYRE. Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak trade agreements with Taiwan. cation and develop a work ethic which will in support of H.R. 1287, the Sound Science As a new member of the House Sub- guide them for the rest of their lives. Act of 2013. Congressman STEPHEN FINCHER committee on Asia and the Pacific and the I extend my deepest congratulations to and I introduced this bill on March 20, 2013 to Congressional Taiwan Caucus, I have had the Jesus Lozano for winning the Arvada Wheat ensure the highest level of Scientific Integrity pleasure to meet with Ambassador Pu-tsung Ridge Service Ambassadors for Youth award. at our federal agencies. King, Taiwan’s Representative serving in I have no doubt he will exhibit the same dedi- Our bill is a sensible approach requiring fed- Washington, DC. We discussed the unique cir- cation and character in all of his future accom- eral agencies to develop scientific integrity cumstances that define our two countries’ rela- plishments. policies that adhere to the scientific method,

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Through thick and thin, the Banner has op- President Obama issued a Presidential memo- There is nothing as noble as the character erated as a reliable news source for Southern randum directing the Office of Science and of a man who so willingly dedicates his life for West Virginia’s coal counties, and today, Technology Policy (OSTP) to require federal others. The American warriors serving our through subscription and on-line edition, the departments and agencies to develop proce- military, and their families, understand that newspaper knows no geographic bounds dures ‘‘for restoring scientific integrity to gov- better than anybody. They embody what it around the globe. ernment decision making.’’ means to be an American. Our Founders were quick to add in the first At the beginning of last year, the President William McMillan gave his life on June 8, amendment to our Constitution, declaring Con- continued this work by issuing Executive 2008 in Baghdad when his patrol was struck gress shall make no law to abridge the free- Order 13563, ‘‘Improving Regulation and Reg- by an improvised explosive device. CPL Mc- dom of the press. Our Republic has been ulatory Review,’’ which stated that each agen- Millan is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; his buoyed over the centuries by dedicated jour- cy ‘‘shall ensure the objectivity of any scientific parents, Marge and Lloyd McMillan; his broth- nalists doing a yeoman’s task of reporting the and technological information and processes er Brad, sister Laura Buchanan and husband news of the day regardless of whose ox is used to support the agency’s regulatory ac- Rob, niece Paige, and nephew Chance. being gored. As a recent Banner editorial pro- tions.’’ William grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, and claimed, within its pages, the reader gets the Since that process began, departments and was always going to be a military man like his good, the bad, and the ugly of insightful news agencies have developed their own policies to father, who graduated from West Point and impacting their lives. address the President’s concerns. Unfortu- served in Vietnam. He was a star athlete at Every member of the Logan Banner’s team nately, not all agencies have made an equal Hargrave Military Academy in Virginia, where can take due pride in knowing that with every commitment to scientific integrity. he was captain of the football, wrestling, and edition of the Banner they publish, they In fact, earlier this month, the Union of Con- lacrosse teams. He attended Virginia Military strengthen the bulwark of our Republic, a cerned Scientists (UCS), released a report on Institute for one year before enlisting in the more informed citizen. Mr. Speaker, fellow col- the status of such policies—now four years Army. William was serving his first tour of duty leagues, in recognition of its lasting contribu- after this process started. Unfortunately, a vain Iraq, and his awards include the Bronze tion to our Nation, please join me in wishing riety of Departments and agencies have re- Star Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Godspeed to the Logan Banner in its next 125 ceived an unfavorable review from UCS, in- Heart, Combat Action Badge, National De- years of publishing. cluding the Department of Energy, Health and fense Service Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal f Human Services, and the USDA to name a with Bronze Service Star, Global War on Ter- few. UCS notes that these departments have rorism Service Medal, Army Service Ribbon, JENNICA TROVER developed ‘‘policies that do not make ade- Overseas Service Ribbon, and the Weapons quate commitments to scientific integrity.’’ Qualifications Badge of Expert. HON. ED PERLMUTTER This bill attempts to address some of the in- We grieve the loss of this American warrior, OF COLORADO but we celebrate and honor his life and his adequacies highlighted by UCS and builds on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Administration’s initiative by codifying the service. William stood for the best of the Wednesday, April 10, 2013 requirement that the Director of the Office of American ideals and values exemplified in our Science and Technology Policy compel each fighting infantrymen. He served this Nation as Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise federal agency to develop guidelines regarding the fine soldier he always wanted to be. He today to recognize and applaud Jennica Tro- the scientific information used by federal agen- fought for liberty for a people he did not know ver for receiving the Arvada Wheat Ridge cies. in a land where he had never been. Service Ambassadors for Youth award. Additionally, this legislation clarifies that sci- As a U.S. Congressman, I am forever grate- Jennica Trover is a 10th grader at Standley entific information be supported by peer re- ful for William McMillan’s service to our coun- Lake High School and received this award be- view when appropriate; ensures that scientific try and am both humbled and honored by the cause her determination and hard work have studies used in making decisions be disclosed sacrifice he made for the price of our freedom. allowed her to overcome adversities. to the public, and requires an opportunity for Because of his bravery and that of his fellow The dedication demonstrated by Jennica stakeholder input. men and women in uniform, our American Trover is exemplary of the type of achieve- It also requires federal agencies to give freedoms are protected for future generations. ment that can be attained with hard work and greatest weight to information based on repro- Truly, he is a hero to us all. perseverance. It is essential students at all ducible data that is developed in accordance f levels strive to make the most of their edu- with the scientific method. LOGAN BANNER 125 YEAR cation and develop a work ethic which will Finally, the bill establishes any regulatory ANNIVERSARY guide them for the rest of their lives. action in violation of an agency’s internal sci- I extend my deepest congratulations to entific integrity guidelines be deemed arbitrary HON. NICK J. RAHALL II Jennica Trover for winning the Arvada Wheat and subject to challenge by affected stake- Ridge Service Ambassadors for Youth award. OF WEST VIRGINIA I have no doubt she will exhibit the same dedi- holders. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to sup- cation and character in all of her future ac- port this bill to ensure that government deci- Wednesday, April 10, 2013 complishments. sions are fact-based and made in sound Mr. RAHALL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to f science. honor the work of a local newspaper in the THE INTRODUCTION OF THE MEM- f heart of the coalfields of southern West Vir- ginia. This year, the Logan Banner celebrates BER OF CONGRESS PAY SEQUES- HONORING ARMY CORPORAL 125 years of excellence in journalism and TRATION AND FAIRNESS ACT WILLIAM L. MCMILLAN III service to the greater Logan County area and beyond. HON. ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON HON. ANDY BARR For a century and a quarter, the Logan Ban- OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA OF KENTUCKY ner has made banner headlines out of local IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and regional news stories that inform its read- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, April 10, 2013 ers on matters most important to them, what Wednesday, April 10, 2013 is happening in their own backyards. Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Mr. BARR. Mr. Speaker, nearly five years In a world awash in news and information introduce the Member of Congress Pay Se- ago Army Corporal William L. McMillan III services, there is still no substitute for home- questration and Fairness Act, which would

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ED PERLMUTTER rious effects of these arbitrary, across-the- support for victims of blacklisting. She was an OF COLORADO board cuts are being felt by the American peo- organizer of cultural exchanges between U.S. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ple. For example, during the remainder of this and Soviet women in the early 1960s. She Wednesday, April 10, 2013 fiscal year, as a result of sequestration cuts to was an early opponent of the Vietnam war Medicare, many cancer clinic patients will and an early civil rights activist. She fearlessly Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise have to go to hospitals for outpatient chemo- took on unpopular causes, often alone. What today to recognize and applaud Jazmin Mon- therapy at sharply higher costs, or face re- an extraordinary example she set for genera- toya for receiving the Arvada Wheat Ridge duced access to treatment. More than a mil- tions to come. Service Ambassadors for Youth award. lion federal employees may be furloughed, Ollie’s husband, Dr. Mayer, preceded her in Jazmin Montoya is a 12th grader at Jefferson which will result in reduced pay. It is simply death. She was the loving mother of Judy and High School and received this award because unfair for well-paid Members of Congress to Robert, and the devoted grandmother of four. her determination and hard work have allowed subject federal employees, who not only usu- She leaves behind countless friends, and I her to overcome adversities. ally earn considerably less but are now also in feel privileged to count myself among that The dedication demonstrated by Jazmin their third year of frozen wages, to pay cuts group. I ask my colleagues to join me in ex- Montoya is exemplary of the type of achieve- that Members are unwilling to take them- tending our condolences to her family and her ment that can be attained with hard work and selves. friends who mourn the passing of this great perseverance. It is essential students at all Under the 1985 law that established the se- and good woman who did so much to levels strive to make the most of their edu- questration process, the Balanced Budget and strengthen our democracy and protect our en- cation and develop a work ethic which will Emergency Deficit Control Act (also known as vironment, and lived a life that stands as an guide them for the rest of their lives. the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act), Congress eloquent statement for the ages. I extend my deepest congratulations to expressly exempted certain federal programs, f Jazmin Montoya for winning the Arvada Wheat activities, and projects, including the Presi- Ridge Service Ambassadors for Youth award. dent’s pay, from sequestration. The pay of THE INTRODUCTION OF THE I have no doubt she will exhibit the same dedi- Members of Congress is not expressly ex- SIMON WIESENTHAL HOLOCAUST cation and character in all of her future ac- empt. Nevertheless, the Office of Management EDUCATION ACT complishments. and Budget has interpreted the law to exempt f the pay of Members. I would hope that today’s HON. CAROLYN B. MALONEY SRIRAM HATHWAR CLINCHES Congress would revise the law. My bill would OF NEW YORK SPOT FOR HIS FOURTH TRIP TO subject Member pay to any future sequestra- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THE NATIONAL SCRIPPS SPELL- tion implemented under the Gramm-Rudman- Wednesday, April 10, 2013 ING BEE IN WASHINGTON, DC Hollings Act, including the Budget Control Act of 2011 and the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. of 2010. In order to comply with the 27th Mr. Speaker, as we commemorate Holocaust HON. TOM REED Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which Remembrance Week, I am pleased to reintro- OF NEW YORK prohibits changes to Member pay until an in- duce the bipartisan Simon Wiesenthal Holo- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES caust Education Act, along with Representa- tervening election, this bill would take effect Wednesday, April 10, 2013 next Congress. tives RANGEL, WAXMAN, PIERLUISI, and GRIMM. I ask my colleagues to follow the example Named for the honored Holocaust survivor Mr. REED. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to rec- we set for ourselves when, in passing the Simon Wiesenthal, who spent his life working ognize Sriram Hathwar who, this May, will Congressional Accountability Act, we pledged for justice for those murdered by the Nazis compete in the National Scripps Spelling Bee that the laws that apply to the American peo- and to hunt down those who perpetrated such for the fourth time in his scholastic career. ple would also apply to Members of Congress. atrocities, this legislation would provide federal During his first attendance in 2008, Hathwar notably became the youngest speller in the f grants to educational organizations to teach students about the Holocaust. Through grants history of the event but was eliminated in the A TRIBUTE IN HONOR OF THE from the Department of Education, Holocaust preliminaries. He performed increasingly better LIFE OF OLIVE ‘‘OLLIE’’ MAYER organization programs would be able to apply in 2009 and 2011, finishing sixth in 2011. for funds to improve the awareness and un- Sriram, a 12-year-old from Painted Post, HON. ANNA G. ESHOO derstanding of the Holocaust through classes, New York, attends Corning’s Alternative OF CALIFORNIA seminars, conferences, educational materials, School for Math and Science. This year marks IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and teacher training. his sixth time contending in the Regional We must ensure that we learn from the leg- Spelling Bee, but it came with a new chal- Wednesday, April 10, 2013 acy of previous generations of Holocaust sur- lenge: his younger brother. Out of 40 contest- Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to vivors. Over 11 million people, including 6 mil- ants, Sriram came head to head with his 10- honor the extraordinary life of an extraordinary lion European Jews as well as gypsies, the year-old brother, Jairam Hathwar, in the final woman. Ollie Mayer died at the age of 94, in disabled and mentally ill, homosexuals, and round. The last two standing flawlessly spelled Woodside, California, after a lifetime of firsts, others, were systematically and brutally mur- out words such as ‘‘liquesce’’ and ‘‘flexuosity’’ mosts, and bests. She was a force of nature, dered in the Holocaust as the Nazis swept for three rounds, until Jairam stumbled on a force for nature, and a force for all things across Europe, destroying entire villages and ‘‘jicama.’’ Sriram then clinched the regional good and just. She was ahead of her time in communities. title with the word ‘‘mobiliary.’’ everything she did, and the list of challenges More than half a century later, persecution The National Scripps Spelling Bee, run on a she dared to face is long and daunting. Our and murder on the basis of religion, ethnicity, not-for-profit basis by the E.W. Scripps Com- beloved San Francisco Peninsula has been and sexuality continue across the globe. We pany and local spelling bee sponsors across the beneficiary of so much of her brilliance need programs in our schools that allow stu- the country, is the longest-running and largest and activism, and our world is a better place dents to learn about the consequences of in- educational promotion in the United States. because she graced it. tolerance and hate, so that we can truly say, Sriram will compete live on ESPN in the Olive Hendricks was born on the East Coast ‘‘never again.’’ 88th National Scripps Spelling Bee from May and studied engineering at Swarthmore Col- The Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust Education 28th–30th in our nation’s capital. I wish him lege. She and her husband, Dr. Henry Mayer, Assistance Act is a positive step toward that the best of luck in May.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 09:35 Oct 02, 2017 Jkt 029102 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 0689 Sfmt 9920 E:\BR13\E10AP3.000 E10AP3 jstallworth on DSKBBY8HB2PROD with BOUND RECORD 4986 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS, Vol. 159, Pt. 4 April 10, 2013 CELEBRATING THE 60TH ANNIVER- ocaust Remembrance Day with testimonials porary art tradition and the ‘‘Indian River SARY OF THE PRESTON WEST from survivors and for concerned Houstonians School’’ art movement. REPUBLICAN WOMEN to share their views about genocide and see Painting in the era of Jim Crow, the High- what can be done to end genocide in the waymen could not sell their paintings through HON. KENNY MARCHANT present day. traditional channels. Galleries and art festivals OF TEXAS In Israel, Yom Hashoah is remembered an- would not accept their works. The Highway- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nually with a two minute siren where the coun- men were forced to sell their artwork along roadsides in towns and cities throughout the Wednesday, April 10, 2013 try comes to a standstill to pay tribute to the dead. Flags are flown at half mast and cere- eastern coastal roads of Florida. From the Mr. MARCHANT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today monies and services are locally held through- 1950s to the 1980s, the Highwaymen pressed in recognition of the 60th anniversary of the out the country. forward, offering their works at bargain prices Preston West Republican Women. This group Mr. Speaker, I would like to conclude by to the public. Until recently, countless Ameri- organized in 1953 and has continued its mis- asking our fellow citizens to take a moment cans appreciated their artistry without knowing sion to represent and strengthen the voice of this week to remember the memories of those their identities. women in northern-most developmental areas who did not survive the Holocaust and to re- The twenty-six members of the original of Dallas. flect on what we can do, as Americans, to pre- Highwaymen are still alive. These men and This organization’s leadership has provided vent such a tragedy from happening again. women have earned their place in history. On their community and their neighbors with the f Saturday, March 30, 2013, in the City of Pem- opportunity to meet and know their represent- broke Pines at the South West Focal Point atives in local, state and the federal govern- JOHN JONES Community Center their unique depictions of ment. These exceptional women have worked artwork will be displayed for the community to diligently to recruit citizens and involve them in HON. ED PERLMUTTER appreciate and view. the political process, and promote the under- OF COLORADO It is with heartfelt appreciation that I recog- standing of the conservative philosophy. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nize their legacy. Please join me in honoring It is encouraging to see these leaders from the Florida Highwaymen for their contributions Texas’s Twenty-Fourth District do such great Wednesday, April 10, 2013 to the world of art. things. I continue to applaud them for their ac- Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise f complishments over the last 60 years in rais- today to recognize and applaud John Jones RECOGNIZING DAVID V. AGUILAR ing awareness of their values, promoting the for receiving the Arvada Wheat Ridge Service voice of women in North Dallas and being a Ambassadors for Youth award. John Jones is guard for conservative beliefs. a 12th grader at Arvada High School and re- HON. HENRY CUELLAR Mr. Speaker, it is a great privilege to honor ceived this award because his determination OF TEXAS the members of the Preston West Republican and hard work have allowed him to overcome IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Women for their 60 years of achievement and adversities. Wednesday, April 10, 2013 unwavering resolution in building this organi- The dedication demonstrated by John Jones Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to zation for the conservative women of North is exemplary of the type of achievement that recognize Mr. David V. Aguilar for his retire- Dallas. I join their family, friends, and col- can be attained with hard work and persever- ment from his position as Deputy Commis- leagues in congratulating them and wishing ance. It is essential students at all levels strive sioner with the U.S. Customs and Border Pro- them continued growth and success. to make the most of their education and de- tection. Mr. Aguilar has dedicated his service f velop a work ethic which will guide them for leading the agency in protecting our nation’s IN OBSERVANCE OF HOLOCAUST the rest of their lives. borders and its communities. REMEMBRANCE DAY I extend my deepest congratulations to John Mr. Aguilar joined the Border Patrol in June Jones for winning the Arvada Wheat Ridge 1978 at Laredo, Texas, where he held posi- Service Ambassadors for Youth award. I have tions of Assistant Patrol Agent in Charge and HON. GENE GREEN no doubt he will exhibit the same dedication OF TEXAS Patrol Agent in Charge. and character in all of his future accomplish- From 1988 to August 1996, Mr. Aguilar IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ments. served as Patrol Agent in Charge of three Bor- Wednesday, April 10, 2013 f der Patrol Stations in Texas (Dallas, Rio Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Grande Valley and Brownsville). Under his HONORING THE FLORIDA I rise in observance of the six million Jewish command, the Dallas and Brownsville stations HIGHWAYMEN victims and millions of other victims who per- were awarded the Commissioner’s Award for ished during the Shoah on Holocaust Remem- Group Achievement. brance Day. HON. FREDERICA S. WILSON From August 1996 to November 1999, Mr. As we commit ourselves to the memories of OF FLORIDA Aguilar served as Assistant Regional Director those lost, we must also remember the heroes IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for the Border Patrol in the central region of the former Immigration and Naturalization and survivors of the Holocaust, whose Wednesday, April 10, 2013 strength and perseverance continue to inspire Service. As such, Mr. Aguilar was the principal us to this day. Ms. WILSON of Florida. Mr. Speaker, it is advisor to the Regional Director, where he Our nation and the international community with great pride that I rise to honor the Florida managed, directed and guided the regional must never forget what took place throughout Highwaymen, a group of twenty-six landscape program. Europe during the Second World War at the artists who have been called ‘‘The Last Great Mr. Aguilar was subsequently appointed as hands of the murderous Nazis. Nor can we American Art Movement of the 20th century.’’ Chief Patrol Agent of the Tucson Sector. As forget the government-sponsored discrimina- Against tremendous odds and severe racial Tucson Sector Chief, he had more than 2,000 tion, repression, and persecution that took discrimination, these African American artists agents and 200 support personnel under his place before the beginning of the war. were able to define themselves as artistic command. Mr. Aguilar had oversight of eight Throughout our country, Americans can ob- innovators, producing more than 200,000 cele- geographically dispersed Border Patrol sta- serve the Holocaust at local community brated paintings. tions along 261 miles of the Arizona/Mexico events, military bases, workplaces, schools, The works of the Florida Highwaymen are border. In 2003, the Tucson sector earned the churches, synagogues, and museums. The unique. They developed their own individual CBP Commissioner’s anti-terrorism award for U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Wash- techniques and captured waterscapes, achievements under Operation Desert Safe- ington, DC, has designated ‘‘Never Again: backcountry marshes, and inlets before resi- guard, an operation planned, designed and Heeding the Warning Signs’’ as the theme for dential and industrial development. Their implemented in the high-risk areas of the Tuc- the 2013 observance. work—which is now proudly displayed in the son sector. In my hometown of Houston, Texas, the Florida Capitol and the United States Sen- In March 2004, the Department of Home- Holocaust Museum Houston is observing Hol- ate—marks the beginning of Florida’s contem- land Security designated Mr. Aguilar as the

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He also worked to The dedication demonstrated by Jhamier In July 2004, Mr. Aguilar was named Na- direct crucial resources to expand the Univer- Ryan is exemplary of the type of achievement tional Chief of the Border Patrol, assuming the sity of California system. that can be attained with hard work and perse- position as the nation’s highest-ranking Border Upon being elected to the State Senate in verance. It is essential students at all levels Patrol agent. With expertise and knowledge 1967, he immediately worked to pass the strive to make the most of their education and gained from more than 31 years of service Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, which prohibited develop a work ethic which will guide them for with the Border Patrol, Mr. Aguilar directed the involuntary commitment and made quality the rest of their lives. enforcement efforts of more than 20,000 mental health services more accessible. Fur- I extend my deepest congratulations to agents nationwide. thermore, he continued the decade fearlessly Jhamier Ryan for winning the Arvada Wheat In April 2010, Mr. Aguilar was appointed taking on controversial battles: challenging the Ridge Service Ambassadors for Youth award. Deputy Commissioner of U.S. Customs and internal-combustion engine and emission prac- I have no doubt he will exhibit the same dedi- Border Protection. From December 2011 to tices of the auto industry and writing laws to cation and character in all of his future accom- August 2012, Mr. Aguilar served as acting ban smoking on airplanes and public transpor- plishments. Commissioner, CBP’s highest-ranking official, tation. These efforts eventually helped to f leading the agency in border security, while usher in an era of air quality and clean-fuel fostering our Nation’s economic security regulation in California that was often stricter PERSONAL EXPLANATION through lawful international trade and travel. than the national standard. He also introduced Mr. Aguilar led a workforce of 60,000, includ- bills to ban DDT and control ballooning vehicle HON. GUS M. BILIRAKIS ing 43,000 uniformed law enforcement offi- numbers, which, although unsuccessful, dem- OF FLORIDA cers. onstrated remarkable prescience in the face of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Aguilar holds an associate degree in ac- today’s environmental challenges. Wednesday, April 10, 2013 counting from the Laredo Community College, As a passionate advocate for the poor, Sen- and attended Laredo State University and Uni- ator Petris passed legislation that required re- Mr. BILIRAKIS. Mr. Speaker, on Tuesday, versity of Texas at Arlington. He is a Senior development agencies to build housing for April 9th, 2013, I missed rollcall vote numbers Executive Fellow of the John F. Kennedy low-income families. He also championed ten- 90, 91, and 92 for unavoidable reasons. School of Government at Harvard University. ants’ and workers’ rights, inspiring lawmakers Had I been present, I would have voted as Mr. Aguilar is the recipient of the 2005 Presi- in both major parties to listen to the voices of follows: dent’s Meritorious Excellence Award and in average Californians. All the while, he was a Rollcall no. 90: ‘‘yea’’ (On motion to sus- 2008 was a recipient of the Presidential Rank loving husband to his wife of 60 years, the late pend the rules and pass H.R. 254, to author- Award. Anna Vlahos. ize the Secretary of the Interior to facilitate the Mr. Speaker, I am honored and privileged to On a personal note, I was incredibly hon- development of hydroelectric power on the have the opportunity to pay tribute to Mr. ored to succeed Senator Petris upon his re- Diamon Fork System of the Central Utah Aguilar for his outstanding service in pro- tirement due to term limits in 1996. He was a Project.) tecting our communities and his extraordinary steadfast friend and provided wise counsel to Rollcall no. 91: ‘‘nay’’ (On motion to sus- commitment to our country. He has truly con- me throughout my time in the California Legis- pend the rules and pass H.R. 1033, to author- tributed to this nation in his efforts to protect lature. Particularly, I will always remember ize the acquisition and protection of nationally our borders. Senator Petris and his beloved wife, Anna, significant battlefields and associated sites of f taking me to dinner prior to my first visit to the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 HONORING CALIFORNIA STATE Greece. They provided me with invaluable under the American Battlefield Protection Pro- SENATOR NICHOLAS PETRIS travel tips for restaurants, shopping, and tour- gram.) ist attractions that made my first visit so excit- Rollcall no. 92: ‘‘yea’’ (On approving the HON. BARBARA LEE ing. Senator Petris’ beloved Greece became Journal.) one of my favorite countries to visit. f OF CALIFORNIA Today, we mourn the loss of a wise political IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES INTRODUCTION OF RFS REFORM pioneer, a respected lawmaker, and an inno- ACT AND RFS ELIMINATION ACT Wednesday, April 10, 2013 vative thinker who helped shape the State of Ms. LEE of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise California as we know it. His legislative insight, today to honor the exceptional life of California legendary eloquence, and the camaraderie he HON. BOB GOODLATTE State Senator Nicholas Petris. Known through- inspired among his colleagues is unmatched. OF VIRGINIA out California politics as a brilliant democratic Senator Nicholas Petris’ legacy continues to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lawmaker with visionary foresight, Nicholas thrive among generations of advocates com- Wednesday, April 10, 2013 Petris was also renowned for his profes- mitted to championing progressive California sionalism, speaking prowess, and tireless ad- policy as a model for environmental and social Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Speaker, I have long vocacy for the underserved. With his passing, justice throughout the world. I offer my sin- been a critic of the renewable fuel standard we look to Senator Petris’ political legacy and cerest condolences to his surviving family and and we must act now to fix this broken policy. the outstanding quality of his life’s work. to the many friends and associates whose While the livestock industry has been wit- Over a career that spanned four decades, lives he touched over the course of his long nessing the effects of the RFS mandate for Senator Petris was a hero to many—pio- and fruitful life. He will be deeply missed. several years, the drought last year high- neering initiatives far ahead of their time in f lighted for many the extreme reach of the RFS areas like environmental protection, mental throughout our economy. But even before the health rights, and low-income housing. A child JHAMIER RYAN drought, by diverting feed stocks to fuel there of Greek immigrants, Nicholas Petris was born have been diminished corn supplies for live- in Oakland and educated in the Bay Area, HON. ED PERLMUTTER stock and food producers. Tightening supplies graduating from the University of California, OF COLORADO have driven up the price of corn. The higher Berkeley and Stanford University Law School. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cost for corn is passed on to livestock and He served in the Office of Strategic Service food producers. In turn, consumers see that Wednesday, April 10, 2013 during World War II and practiced law for price reflected in the price of food on the gro- about a decade before being elected to the Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise cery store shelves and restaurants. California Assembly in 1959. today to recognize and applaud Jhamier Ryan This year, the U.S. is expected to hit the In 1965, as an assemblyman, he famously for receiving the Arvada Wheat Ridge Service blend wall—where the ethanol mandate will collaborated with State Senator Eugene Ambassadors for Youth award. Jhamier Ryan require more ethanol be produced than can be

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ED PERLMUTTER ant principals are entrusted with maintaining has granted a partial waiver to allow E15 OF COLORADO an inviting, safe, and orderly school environ- blends for model cars 2001 and newer, de- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ment that supports the growth and achieve- spite the fact that a study from the Coordi- ment of each and every student by nurturing nating Research Council, commissioned by Wednesday, April 10, 2013 positive peer relationships, recognizing student U.S. automakers and oil companies, found Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise achievement, analyzing behavior patterns, pro- that 25 percent of cars approved by the EPA today to recognize and applaud Jeremiah viding interventions, and conducting discipline. to run on E15 experienced engine damage— Bates for receiving the Arvada Wheat Ridge I applaud the work of assistant principals and even failure. The EPA should not be pro- Service Ambassadors for Youth award. Jere- and recognize their contributions to the suc- moting fuel that is unsafe on the roadways just miah Bates is an 11th grader at Jeffco’s 21st cess of students in schools in the United to meet a mandate. Century Virtual Academy and received this States. I encourage the people of the United EPA administrators from both parties have award because his determination and hard States to observe National Assistant Principals constantly refused to use the flexibility granted work have allowed him to overcome adversi- Week with appropriate ceremonies and activi- to them by law to alter the RFS, so Congress ties. ties that promote awareness of the primacy of must act. That is why I am introducing two The dedication demonstrated by Jeremiah school leadership in ensuring that every child bills that would alter this artificially created Bates is exemplary of the type of achievement has access to a high-quality education. government market. that can be attained with hard work and perse- f The first bill, the Renewable Fuel Standard verance. It is essential students at all levels Elimination Act is simple; it would eliminate strive to make the most of their education and IN HONOR OF GREY NUN the RFS and make ethanol compete in a free develop a work ethic which will guide them for ACADEMY’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY market. The government should not be cre- the rest of their lives. ating a market to sustain an entire industry. I extend my deepest congratulations to HON. MICHAEL G. FITZPATRICK While, I believe that we should completely Jeremiah Bates for winning the Arvada Wheat OF PENNSYLVANIA eliminate the RFS, I recognize that there may Ridge Service Ambassadors for Youth award. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES not yet be the political will in Congress to I have no doubt he will exhibit the same dedi- Wednesday, April 10, 2013 completely eliminate this mandate. And while cation and character in all of his future accom- there may not yet be the political will to elimi- plishments. Mr. FITZPATRICK. Mr. Speaker I rise today nate this mandate we have to address the re- f to congratulate the 50th Anniversary of the ality that we are being confronted and reform Grey Nun Academy, a private Catholic school the broken RFS policy. NATIONAL ASSISTANT located within my district that serves pre- That is why I have joined with several col- PRINCIPALS WEEK kindergarteners through the eighth grade. leagues in introducing legislation to reform the Founded in 1963, the Grey Nun Academy RFS. The Renewable Fuel Standard Reform HON. MICHAEL M. HONDA opened in 1963 as the D’Youville Manor Acad- Act eliminates the corn based ethanol require- OF CALIFORNIA emy in honor of Saint Margurite D’Youville, ments and caps the amount of ethanol that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES who founded the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart. Since then, The Grey Nun Academy can be blended into conventional gasoline at Wednesday, April 10, 2013 10 percent—a level that is safe for all vehicle has evolved into a school of 200 boys and models. And this legislation will require the Mr. HONDA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ex- girls. In 2009, the faculty of Gray Nun’s edu- EPA to set cellulosic biofuels levels at produc- press my support for National Assistant Prin- cational work was recognized on the national tion levels—oil and gas refiners should not be cipals Week, April 8 through April 12, 2013. level when the school was named a Blue Rib- fined for not being able to blend products that Assistant principals are vital school leaders re- bon School of Excellence by the US Depart- do not exist. sponsible for establishing a positive learning ment of Education. Grey Nun Academy prides More than 40 diverse organizations are join- environment and building strong school com- itself in creating a nurturing educational envi- ing us to call for action to address the prob- munity relationships. The National Association ronment that encourages students to learn lems created by the RFS mandate. This is no of Secondary School Principals/Virco National about themselves, and their faith. longer just a debate about fuel or food. It is Assistant Principal of the Year program began As a lifelong resident of Bucks County, I also a debate about jobs, small business, and in 2004 to recognize outstanding middle and greatly admire the Grey Nun Academy. Their economic growth. This mandate has wide high school assistant principals who have commitment to creating exceptional students reaching and negative impacts on a broad demonstrated success in leadership, cur- is highly valued within the community. Institu- swath of industries. Congress created this arti- riculum, and personalization. This week, 47 tions such as the Grey Nun Academy are ficial market that is distorting the food and assistant principals from across the country learning environments graced with dedicated feed market, and we must provide relief of its will participate in professional development, teachers, administrators, and students. Grey unintended consequences. I urge the Con- networking, and advocacy to share best prac- Nun provides students with a strong founda- gress to pass this legislation. tices and discuss the issues facing school tion for success that influences their young leaders today. students well into adulthood. f As a former principal, I would like to recog- I am pleased to congratulate the Grey Nun nize these distinguished school leaders for the Academy on its successes over the past 50 PERSONAL EXPLANATION pivotal role they play in their school commu- years and I hope that the Grey Nun Academy nities. Assistant principals interact with all sec- may provide a safe and compassionate learn- HON. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM tors of the school community, including sup- ing environment in the coming years. OF NEW MEXICO port and instructional staff members, students, f IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and parents. Assistant principals play a significant role in the instructional leadership of the HONORING DR. MARKLEY SUTTON Wednesday, April 10, 2013 school by conducting instructional supervision, Ms. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM of New mentoring teachers, encouraging collaboration, HON. MIKE THOMPSON Mexico. Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably de- and ensuring the implementation of best prac- OF CALIFORNIA tained and so I missed rollcall vote Number 91 tices. Assistant principals also monitor stu- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ‘‘To authorize the acquisition and protection of dent-achievement goals and progress, facili- nationally significant battlefields and associ- tate and model data-driven decision making to Wednesday, April 10, 2013 ated sites of the Revolutionary War and the inform instruction, and foster continual school Mr. THOMPSON of California. Mr. Speaker, War of 1812 under the American Battlefield improvement. Furthermore, assistant principals I rise today to recognize Dr. Markley Sutton, Protection Program’’ (H.R. 1033). Had I been support the day-to-day logistical operations of who is retiring after 31 years of service to the present, I would have voted ‘‘yes.’’ facility management, attendance, transpor- Sonoma Developmental Center.

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BUTTERFIELD viding the most basic and necessary health with residents with behavioral problems, but OF NORTH CAROLINA services to those who needed it more than al- also acted as a mentor and friend to the psy- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES most anyone in the world: the citizens of Port- chologists he supervised. He was always Wednesday, April 10, 2013 au-Prince, Haiti. In doing so, Jerry selflessly ready to pass on his considerable knowledge, prioritized his own health concerns below and has taught at many universities on a Mr. BUTTERFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I rise to those of his future patients: he was recovering range of topics centering on clinical issues, congratulate the city of Durham, North Caro- from surgery and radiation following treatment behavior concerns, and psychopharmacology lina that was recently recognized as the for those with multiple diagnoses. ‘‘Tastiest Town in the South,’’ by Southern Liv- of a rare form of cancer when he embarked ing magazine. on his first mission trip to Haiti in 1982. Dr. Sutton has received awards for his lead- This year, from mid-January to February, After dedicating three years of service to- ership including the Superior Accomplishment ten Southern regions competed for the ulti- ward Mother Teresa’s Sisters of Charity pro- Award Supervisory Bonus Program from the mate title of ‘‘Tastiest Town in the South.’’ State of California in both 1986 and 1992. He During the voting period, over half a million viding free dental care to Haitians in Port-au- received the Outstanding Leadership Pioneer votes were cast. The editors of Southern Liv- Prince, Jerry was asked by Mother Teresa to Award in 1998 and the Who’s Who in Cali- ing magazine highlighted Durham’s unique ties branch out to Jeromie, a rural city in South- fornia award in 1982, 1988 and 1989. to the land and its great prices—noting the western Haiti suffering from severe defi- Dr. Sutton has a long and distinguished ca- burgeoning food scene has quietly made Dur- ciencies in both the quality and availability of reer in working with individuals with mental ill- ham one of the best food destinations in the health care. Jerry’s tireless efforts led what ness, developmental disabilities, and individ- South. In addition, many chef-owners, such as was initially a small outreach group to blossom uals with some of the most challenging behav- James Beard of Nana’s Diner, have really into the Haitian Health Foundation (HHF), a helped to establish a diverse assortment of ioral problems. Yet it is his ability to remain stalwart organization that has offered health landmark restaurants—ranging from breweries engaged, curious and always ready to pitch in care services to Jeromie and over 100 of the and cafe´’s to comfort food. when needed that most exemplifies him. rural and remote mountain villages which sur- Southern Living magazine listed several There is no issue too challenging, no resident other notable places to eat in Durham includ- round it. too difficult, nor any task beneath him. ing: Fullsteam Brewery, Pizzeria Toro, Geer Though the Foundation’s successes are in- Mr. Speaker, Dr. Sutton has a long and dis- Street Garden, Mateo Tapas, Monuts Donuts, numerable in quantity, some recent highlights tinguished career of service to others, most Cocoa Cinnamon, Counter Culture Coffee, include: a 90 percent immunization rate, al- notably to the developmentally disabled popu- and Scratch Bakery. Other great Durham res- most 100 percent reduction in diarrhea deaths, lation at Sonoma Developmental Center and taurants include Blue Coffee Cafe´, Beyu a national award for Vitamin A program which those who seek his support in his private prac- Caffe, and Bistro Vin Rouge, just to name a prevents child blindness, and a reduction in few. tice. It is therefore appropriate that we ac- childhood deaths from bacterial pneumonia by Mr. Speaker, when considering that Durham knowledge Dr. Sutton today and wish him well more than 50 percent. In addition, the HHF in his retirement from Sonoma Developmental was competing against many more widely maintains programs which distribute hot meals Center. known Southern locales known for excellent cuisine, such as New Orleans, Atlanta, and and take-home food for thousands of malnour- f Charleston, it’s quite remarkable and impres- ished children, as well as a family sponsorship sive that Durham has created its own culinary program that sends thousands of children to JAZMIN PHELPS niche. I share Durham County Commissioner school each year. Fred Foster’s opinion that this award’s impact As a recipient of dozens of humanitarian will be felt for years to come. awards, Jerry’s efforts have certainly not gone HON. ED PERLMUTTER This award is truly a tribute to the pioneers and current residents of Durham and the re- unrecognized. Yet despite his philanthropic ac- OF COLORADO gion. It is with great pleasure that I congratu- complishments, Jerry has never lost his quiet, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES late Durham for its recognition as the ‘‘Tastiest humble sense of duty and compassion for Town in the South.’’ those less fortunate. Jerry’s unwavering deter- Wednesday, April 10, 2013 f mination, skills, and philanthropic nature have led him to extraordinary success in one of the Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise HONORING THE ACCOMPLISH- world’s most impoverished regions. His ac- today to recognize and applaud Jazmin MENTS AND SERVICE OF JERE- Phelps for receiving the Arvada Wheat Ridge MIAH LOWNEY tions have improved the lives of hundreds of Service Ambassadors for Youth award. thousands of impoverished Haitians, who with- Jazmin Phelps is an 8th grader at Oberon HON. JOE COURTNEY out him may never have been able to find adequate care. Jerry has offered more than Middle School and received this award be- OF CONNECTICUT health and dental services to these people; he cause her determination and hard work have IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES allowed her to overcome adversities. has offered them hope. Despite his grueling Wednesday, April 10, 2013 The dedication demonstrated by Jazmin schedule running a busy dental practice and Phelps is exemplary of the type of achieve- Mr. COURTNEY. Mr. Speaker, it is with managing the Haitian clinic he also is active in ment that can be attained with hard work and great pride and admiration that I rise today to the Norwich community lending a hand to civic share with you the accomplishments of Jere- perseverance. It is essential students at all and charitable causes of every type. His fam- miah Lowney of Norwich, Connecticut. levels strive to make the most of their edu- ily, his hometown of Norwich, and all of east- I am pleased that the White House is hon- cation and develop a work ethic which will ern Connecticut are proud of Jerry Lowney’s oring Jeremiah Lowney as a Champion of guide them for the rest of their lives. Change, which is a well deserved honor. On remarkable success, and I applaud the White I extend my deepest congratulations to April 5, 2013 Jerry was honored with 11 other House for recognizing his accomplishments. Jazmin Phelps for winning the Arvada Wheat Rotary International Members that have im- Mr. Speaker, I ask all my colleagues to join Ridge Service Ambassadors for Youth award. proved the lives of thousands both in the me in honoring the service and accomplish- I have no doubt she will exhibit the same dedi- United States and abroad. For over thirty ments of Jeremiah Lowney. cation and character in all of her future ac- years, Jeremiah ‘‘Jerry’’ Lowney has success- complishments. fully applied his exceptional skills in ortho-

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April 11, 2013 may be found in the Daily Wednesday, April 10, 2013 I have no doubt he will exhibit the same dedi- Digest of today’s RECORD. Mr. THOMPSON of California. Mr. Speaker, cation and character in all of his future accom- I rise today to recognize Mary O’Riordan, who plishments. is retiring after nine years as President of the f MEETINGS SCHEDULED Parent Hospital Association (PHA) at Sonoma APRIL 15 Developmental Center. REMEMBERING THE LEGACY OF POLISH PRESIDENT LECH 2:30 p.m. Ms. O’Riordan dedicated her life to serving Committee on Veterans’ Affairs persons with developmental disabilities. As KACZYNSKI To hold hearings to examine the Presi- President of PSA, she was in constant contact dent’s proposed budget request for fis- with state legislators in Sacramento and fed- HON. MICHELE BACHMANN cal year 2014 for Veterans’ Programs. eral representatives in Washington, DC, trav- OF MINNESOTA SR–418 eling multiple times to both capitals to advo- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES APRIL 16 cate on behalf of association members. She Wednesday, April 10, 2013 also served six years on the board of directors 9:30 a.m. of VOR, the national advocacy group for per- Mrs. BACHMANN. Mr. Speaker, three years Committee on Armed Services To hold hearings to examine the situa- sons with developmental disabilities. ago, the Air Force TU 154 plane carrying Pol- ish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria, tion in Afghanistan. Ms. O’Riordon’s advocacy is rooted in her SH–216 personal experience. Michael, the second of and 94 other top Polish officials crashed near 9:45 a.m. her four sons, was severally disabled and Smolensk, Russia. The delegation had been Committee on Foreign Relations lived at Sonoma Developmental Center (SDC) on their way to Katyn to commemorate the Subcommittee on African Affairs until his death in January 2011. It was his ex- deaths of 4400 Polish Army officers who were To hold hearings to examine ongoing periences at SDC, the place he called home, ruthlessly executed by the Soviets in 1943. conflict in Eastern Congo. that led her to champion the institution, its In the 1970s, Kaczynski, a staunch anti- SD–419 staff and its residents. communist, made a name for himself as an 10 a.m. Committee on Energy and Natural Re- Ms. O’Riordon was passionate about her underground oppositionist, and, in 1980, when the Solidarity workers’ union was founded, he sources calling, stating, ‘‘I look forward to the day To hold hearings to examine the Presi- when every family—those who have a devel- assisted in the Gdansk Shipyard strike and dent’s proposed budget request for fis- opmentally disabled child and those who do later served as the group’s legal adviser. In cal year 2014 for the Forest Service. not—are equally involved, engaged and con- 1981, after the imposition of the martial law, SD–366 cerned about the special needs of our devel- he was put in prison. Committee on Finance opmentally disabled citizens and to the day In free Poland, Kaczynski served many To hold hearings to examine tax fraud when all legislators have their needs on the roles—Senator, Mayor of Warsaw, Attorney and tax identity theft, focusing on top of their list of priorities.’’ General, Minister of Justice, and, in 2001, he moving forward with solutions. In addition to her advocacy on behalf of was elected President. SD–215 President Kaczynski was always supportive Committee on Health, Education, Labor, SDC, Ms. O’Riordon was the administrative and Pensions assistant for the Deputy Chief of Administra- of strong Poland-U.S. relations, and was skep- To hold hearings to examine college af- tion at the San Francisco Fire Department for tical of close relations with the German/French fordability. 35 years. In this capacity, she was honored by dominated European Union. Kaczynski rightly SD–430 the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for feared that reliance on Russian energy sup- Committee on the Judiciary her outstanding service. plies would inhibit sober evaluation of Russian Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Mr. Speaker, Mary O’Riordan has a long policies at home and abroad. Rights and Human Rights and distinguished career in service to others, Americans appreciate our country’s alliance To hold hearings to examine drone wars, most notably to our developmentally disabled with this great nation in the ongoing fight for focusing on the constitutional and freedom across the world. Today, three years counterterrorism implications of tar- population. Her tireless commitment to her geted killing. community is apparent and it is therefore ap- after the tragic crash, we stand in solidarity SD–226 propriate that we acknowledge her today and with the people of Poland and mourn the loss 2:15 p.m. wish her well in her retirement as President of of their President and countrymen. Committee on Foreign Relations the Parent Hospital Association. f Business meeting to consider S. 657, to f eliminate conditions in foreign prisons SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS and other detention facilities that do JAMES CLEARY Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, not meet primary indicators of health, agreed to by the Senate of February 4, sanitation, and safety, S. Res. 90, 1977, calls for establishment of a sys- standing with the people of Kenya fol- HON. ED PERLMUTTER lowing their national and local elec- OF COLORADO tem for a computerized schedule of all meetings and hearings of Senate com- tions on March 4, 2013, and urging a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES peaceful and credible resolution of mittees, subcommittees, joint commit- Wednesday, April 10, 2013 electoral disputes in the courts, the tees, and committees of conference. nomination of Jacob J. Lew, of New Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise This title requires all such committees York, to be United States Governor of today to recognize and applaud James Cleary to notify the Office of the Senate Daily the International Monetary Fund, for receiving the Arvada Wheat Ridge Service Digest—designated by the Rules Com- United States Governor of the Inter- Ambassadors for Youth award. James Cleary mittee—of the time, place and purpose national Bank for Reconstruction and is an 8th grader at Arvada K–8 and received of the meetings, when scheduled and Development, United States Governor any cancellations or changes in the of the Inter-American Development this award because his determination and Bank, and United States Governor of hard work have allowed him to overcome ad- meetings as they occur. the European Bank for Reconstruction versities. As an additional procedure along and Development, and lists in the For- The dedication demonstrated by James with the computerization of this infor- eign Service. Cleary is exemplary of the type of achieve- mation, the Office of the Senate Daily S–116

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SR–222 Committee on Energy and Natural Re- Committee on Armed Services Select Committee on Intelligence sources Subcommittee on Personnel To hold closed hearings to examine cer- Subcommittee on Water and Power To hold hearings to examine the Active, tain intelligence matters. To hold hearings to examine S. 211, to Guard, Reserve, and civilian personnel SH–219 amend certain definitions contained in programs in review of the Defense Au- the Provo River Project Transfer Act thorization Request for fiscal year 2014 APRIL 23 for purposes of clarifying certain prop- and the Future Years Defense Pro- 9:30 a.m. erty descriptions, S. 284, a bill to trans- gram. Committee on Armed Services fer certain facilities, easements, and SR–232A To hold hearings to examine the Depart- rights-of-way to Fort Sumner Irriga- 2:30 p.m. ment of the Army in review of the De- tion District, New Mexico, S. 510, to Committee on Appropriations fense Authorization Request for fiscal authorize the Secretary of the Interior Subcommittee on Energy and Water Devel- year 2014 and the Future Years Defense to convey certain interests in Federal opment Program. land acquired for the Scofield Project To hold hearings to examine proposed SD–106 in Carbon County, Utah S. 659, to reau- budget estimates for fiscal year 2014 for 10 a.m. thorize the Reclamation States Emer- the National Nuclear Security Admin- Committee on Energy and Natural Re- gency Drought Relief Act of 1991, S.J. istration. sources Res. 12, to consent to certain amend- SD–192 To hold hearings to examine S. 306, to ments enacted by the legislature of the Committee on Armed Services authorize all Bureau of Reclamation State of Hawaii to the Hawaiian Homes Subcommittee on Strategic Forces conduit facilities for hydropower devel- Commission, Act, 1920 and H.R. 316, to To hold hearings to examine nuclear opment under Federal Reclamation law, S. 545, to improve hydropower, and reinstate and transfer certain hydro- forces and policies in review of the De- an original bill to promote energy sav- electric licenses and extend the dead- fense Authorization Request for fiscal ings in residential and commercial line for commencement of construction year 2014 and the Future Years Defense of certain hydroelectric projects. buildings and industry. Program; to be immediately followed SD–366 SD–366 by a closed session SVC–217. Committee on the Judiciary 2:30 p.m. SR–222 Committee on Energy and Natural Re- Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Committee on Commerce, Science, and Policy and Consumer Rights sources Transportation To hold an oversight hearing to examine To hold hearings to examine S. 59, to des- To hold hearings to examine the future the enforcement of the antitrust laws. ignate a Distinguished Flying Cross of passenger rail, focusing on what’s National Memorial at the March Field SD–226 next for the Northeast Corridor. Air Museum in Riverside, California, S. Select Committee on Intelligence SR–253 155, to designate a mountain in the To hold closed hearings to examine cer- Committee on the Judiciary State of Alaska as Denali, S. 156, to tain intelligence matters. To hold hearings to examine comprehen- allow for the harvest of gull eggs by SH–219 sive immigration reform legislation. the Huna Tlingit people within Glacier 3 p.m. SD–226 Bay National Park in the State of Committee on the Budget Alaska, S. 219, to establish the Susque- To hold hearings to examine the Presi- APRIL 18 hanna Gateway National Heritage Area dent’s proposed budget and revenue rein the State of Pennsylvania, S. 225, to 9:30 a.m. quest for fiscal year 2014. authorize the Secretary of the Interior SD–608 Joint Economic Committee to conduct a study of alternatives for To hold hearings to examine the Federal commemorating and interpreting the APRIL 17 Reserve System at 100, focusing on role of the Buffalo Soldiers in the early 9:30 a.m. monetary policy. years of the National Parks, S. 228, to Committee on Armed Services SH–216 establish the Sacramento-San Joaquin To hold hearings to examine the Defense 10 a.m. Delta National Heritage Area, S. 285, to Authorization Request for fiscal year Committee on Armed Services designate the Valles Caldera National 2014 and the Future Years Defense Pro- To hold hearings to examine the current Preserve as a unit of the National Park gram; to be immediately followed by a and future worldwide threats to the na- System, S. 305, to authorize the acqui- briefing on the situation in Syria. tional security of the United States; sition of core battlefield land at Cham- SH–216 with the possibility of a closed session pion Hill, Port Gibson, and Raymond for addition to Vicksburg National 10 a.m. in SVC–217 following the open session. Military Park, S. 349, to amend the Committee on Appropriations SD–106 Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to des- Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Committee on Energy and Natural Re- sources ignate a segment of the Beaver, Health and Human Services, and Edu- Chipuxet, Queen, Wood, and Pawcatuck cation, and Related Agencies To hold hearings to examine the Presi- dent’s proposed budget request for fis- Rivers in the States of Connecticut and To hold hearings to examine proposed Rhode Island for study for potential ad- cal year 2014 for the Department of En- budget estimates for fiscal year 2014 for dition to the National Wild and Scenic ergy. the Department of Education. Rivers System, S. 371, to establish the SD–366 SD–138 Blackstone River Valley National His- Committee on Finance 2:30 p.m. torical Park, to dedicate the Park to To hold hearings to examine the Presi- Committee on Armed Services John H. Chafee, S. 476, to amend the dent’s proposed budget request for fis- Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Develop- cal year 2014. Capabilities ment Act to extend to the Chesapeake SD–215 To hold hearings to examine the role of and Ohio Canal National Historical Committee on Homeland Security and the Department of Defense science and Park Commission, S. 486, to authorize Governmental Affairs technology enterprise for innovation pedestrian and motorized vehicular ac- To hold hearings to examine the Presi- and affordability in review of the De- cess in Cape Hatteras National Sea- dent’s proposed budget request for fis- fense Authorization Request for fiscal shore Recreational Area, S. 507, to es- cal year 2014 for the Department of year 2014 and the Future Years Defense tablish the Manhattan Project Na- Homeland Security. Program. tional Historical Park in Oak Ridge, SD–342 SR–232A Tennessee, Los Alamos, New Mexico,

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