E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 114 CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION

Vol. 161 WASHINGTON, MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2015 No. 5 House of Representatives The House met at noon and was pressing condolences to his wife, Linda Today, one of the projects he spear- called to order by the pro tem- Hershman; and his four children, Mi- headed, an industrial park in Norwich pore (Mrs. BLACK). chael Israelite, Abby Dolliver, Mindy that never would have been realized f Wilkie, and Jon Israelite. without Stanley’s efforts, now bears After his passing, a memorial service his name, the Stanley Israelite Nor- DESIGNATION OF SPEAKER PRO was held at Beth Jacob Synagogue, wich Business Park, renamed in his TEMPORE which was the scene of an overflow honor in 2005. In 1995, Stanley was rec- The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- crowd of people from all walks of life. ognized as U.S. News and World Re- fore the House the following commu- His longtime boss, former U.S. Senator port’s 12 Indispensable Americans. nication from the Speaker: Chris Dodd; Lieutenant Governor For all the awards and honors that Nancy Wyman; State legislators; may- his community rightly bestowed on WASHINGTON, DC, him throughout his career, Stanley, January 12, 2015. ors and former mayors; small business I hereby appoint the Honorable DIANE owners; labor union leaders; and his himself, valued the thank you notes BLACK to act as Speaker pro tempore on this neighbors and friends from the city he that he received from grateful con- day. loved, Norwich, , were all stituents above everything. In 1995, he JOHN A. BOEHNER, in attendance. explained to a reporter from The New Speaker of the House of Representatives. Senator Dodd delivered a stirring eu- London Day that the highest honor in f logy filled with humor and passion, de- the Dodd office was to post a con- stituent thank you letter on the office MORNING-HOUR DEBATE scribing Stanley’s amazing life of serv- ice. As Senator Dodd related, Stanley refrigerator. ‘‘That is our glory,’’ he The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- dedicated his life to helping others. said. ‘‘If you are on the refrigerator, ant to the order of the House of Janu- After starting his career in his fam- then you have done a good job.’’ ary 6, 2015, the Chair will now recog- ily-owned jewelry store, he uncovered Stanley’s personal mantra—which he instilled in his colleagues, friends, and nize Members from lists submitted by his true passion, assisting members of family—was always, ‘‘Don’t forget the the and minority leaders for his community with any problem, any- people.’’ After a lifetime of service to morning-hour debate. time, after intervening with a family his community, the people he helped The Chair will alternate recognition in crisis. He left the business, and after and everyone who had the privilege to between the parties, with each party holding a variety of human service and know him will certainly never forget limited to 1 hour and each Member business advocacy positions in Nor- him. other than the majority and minority wich—and earning citizen of the year leaders and the minority whip limited and citizen of the decade awards in the f to 5 , but in no event shall de- 1960s—went on to work for Chris Dodd. ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION bate continue beyond 1:50 p.m. Stanley ran his constituent service LEGISLATION f programs, beginning in 1974 with The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Dodd’s election as Second District Con- Chair recognizes the gentleman from REMEMBERING STANLEY gressman, the seat that I now have the ISRAELITE Alabama (Mr. BYRNE) for 5 minutes. honor to hold, and later as State direc- Mr. BYRNE. Madam Speaker, just The SPEAKER pro tempore. The tor to Senator Dodd after Chris’ elec- last month, we made a promise to the Chair recognizes the gentleman from tion to the Senate in 1980. American people. We promised our con- Connecticut (Mr. COURTNEY) for 5 min- Stanley remained a fixture in Con- stituents that we would fight the utes. necticut politics, known for his con- Obama administration’s decision to Mr. COURTNEY. Madam Speaker, summate dedication to helping con- give executive amnesty to many of today, I rise to remember one of east- stituents get the help they needed. He those in this country illegally. ern Connecticut’s most generous, car- spent decades ensuring that Con- I am pleased to announce that this ing, and devoted citizens, Stanley necticut citizens received help from week the House will fulfill that prom- Israelite. the VA, Medicare, and Social Security; ise and act to defund the illegal execu- Stanley passed away this past De- solved thorny immigration problems; tive action. All last year, we strongly cember at age 89 and leaves behind an helped small business owners get their urged the President not to act alone, enduring powerful legacy in his native feet under them; and then doggedly and the American people spoke clearly Norwich and throughout Connecticut. I pushed forward projects to improve in last November’s election, but the ask the U.S. House to join me in ex- local communities. President forged ahead anyway.

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 .

H191

.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:48 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A12JA7.000 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H192 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 12, 2015 Now, in order to preserve our Na- CELEBRATING THE SAN ANTONIO Charbonnier and 10 other people in the tion’s longstanding system of checks SPURS newspaper. They left the building, and balances to preserve the very order The SPEAKER pro tempore. The shouting the Islamic phrase, ‘‘Allah of our Constitution, the House will act Chair recognizes the gentleman from Akbar’’ or ‘‘God is the greatest.’’ They to rein in President Obama’s plans for Texas (Mr. DOGGETT) for 5 minutes. then murdered a policeman, ran back executive amnesty. Mr. DOGGETT. Madam Speaker, to their car, shouting, ‘‘We have re- We will vote on legislation, which I today is a special day for San Antonio venged the Prophet Muhammad.’’ was proud to cosponsor, written by my because our San Antonio Spurs are You see, Madam Speaker, these kill- Alabama colleague, Congressman ROB- being recognized at the White House ers murdered because the paper exer- ERT ADERHOLT, which would prevent for their victorious season. We have, of cised the human right of free speech the President from carrying out his course, already had many a celebration and a free press. The assassin brothers plans for executive amnesty. in San Antonio, but it is good to see were on the run for 2 days, but on Jan- Let me be clear: this is tough legisla- this celebration now reaching 1600 uary 9, the police cornered them at a tion which completely eliminates all Pennsylvania Avenue. Congratulations standoff near the Paris airport. The po- funds for implementation of the Presi- to the San Antonio Spurs on this fifth lice rescued a hostage, and the brothers dent’s illegal actions. The bill has the amazing championship ring. were killed, going out just like they support of many leading voices in the Serving here in Congress as a rep- wanted to, in a massive firefight as immigration debate including my resentative for much of San Antonio, martyrs. home State Senator, JEFF SESSIONS. including the very place in the Alamo On the same day, another gunman, but an accomplice of the two brothers, Just as important, the legislation City where the Spurs have scored so took hostages at a kosher grocery makes clear that no Federal benefits many of these victories, I know that store on the east side of Paris. Police can be granted to any alien as a result nothing defines the Spurs or San Anto- stormed the grocery store and killed of the policies defunded and also elimi- nio like the teamwork, the determina- the terrorist, but not before he had nates funds to consider new, renewal, tion, and the positive attitude they dis- murdered Jewish hostages. or previously-denied applications for played on this trail to the 2014 cham- You see, Madam Speaker, these three executive amnesty. pionship victory. These values are shown through the Spurs’ ‘‘Silver and killed because people disagreed with The legislation doesn’t just defund Black Give Back’’; a community and them. They killed the Jews because the President’s executive action. The outreach program which has benefited they were Jews. They killed the people legislation paves the way for stronger over 250,000 children and coaches in the at the newspaper because they had the border security by increasing funds for past couple of decades, all this in a city audacity to print things that these border agents, detention beds, and en- that is overflowing with Spurs enthu- folks—these terrorists—did not ap- forcement activities. siasm and Spurs fans. prove of. In order to halt illegal immigration I would have to say that all of San The French authorities did a superb in this country, we must stop encour- Antonio knows that the Spurs are cer- job hunting down and killing these ter- aging illegal immigration by offering tainly no Mavericks at basketball; rorists. The two brothers responsible amnesty and instead put more atten- they are well-seasoned, team players. for the initial attack have a history of tion on actually securing our borders. They were able to rain down Thunder terrorist activities. One brother said he I wish this legislation wasn’t nec- on all of their 2014 opponents with a even dreamed of killing Jews in essary. I wish President Obama had lis- regular season record of 62 wins out of France. tened to the American people and en- 82 games. And that is not all that set Hours before one of them met his forced our current laws instead of con- the Spurs apart; they are true Trail- Maker, they called a French TV sta- tinuing his my-way-or-the-highway blazers, hiring the first female assist- tion, saying, ‘‘We are telling you that style of governing; instead, he moved ant coach in the NBA, Becky Hammon. we are defenders of the Prophet—peace ahead with action that clearly violates Overall, when it came down to that and blessings be upon him—and that I our Constitution and has poisoned the fifth ring, the Spurs, a team that lives was sent by al Qaeda in Yemen and well for serious conversation on immi- in our Texas temperatures, were able that I went there, and it is the imam gration reform. to beat the Heat with a cool 4–1 series al-Awlaki that financed me.’’ Madam Speaker, I must ask a simple blowout. Yes, Madam Speaker, we have heard question that has very serious con- Like San Antonio itself, the Spurs this before, young people traveling sequences: When will it stop? When will have attracted the best and brightest overseas where they meet radical Is- President Obama stop issuing short- from all over the world. There never lamic jihadists who preach hate and sighted executive action and instead has been, and there never will be, a murder in the name of religion. work together with this Congress to team quite like the San Antonio Spurs b 1215 find long-term solutions to the real in a city that is like no other. issues plaguing our country? Congratulations to a dynasty. Like They are indoctrinated and infected with the cancer of radical Islam and I fear that the answer to that ques- so many of my constituents, I am ready for the ‘‘Race for Seis!’’ sent back to their home country to in- tion is not promising, given that while flict terror and kill men, women, and we were on this floor taking our oath f children. They kill in the name of their of office, the White House was busy THE FRENCH FIGHT BACK radical religious beliefs. issuing veto threats. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The We are even seeing this in the United I understand that the legislative Chair recognizes the gentleman from States. Groups like ISIS are encour- process may not be convenient for the Texas (Mr. POE) for 5 minutes. aging Americans to join their reign of President, but the process exists for a Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, terror. Americans who travel overseas reason. The Congress makes the laws, around 11 a.m. on January 7, on a cold to fight with ISIS are not coming back and the President should enforce them. winter day in Paris, France, two men home to America to open coffee shops. This President just doesn’t get that. armed with AK–47s forced a woman en- They are coming back to do mischief This week, the House will act to rein tering the offices of a French news- and kill us. in the President once again. We will at- paper to let them in. That is why I have introduced and re- tempt to right the scales of power and After murdering the security guard introduced the FTO Passport Revoca- restore our constitutional system of in the lobby, they ran up to the second tion Act that would authorize the rev- checks and balances. floor and shouted, ‘‘Where is Charb? ocation or denial of passports to indi- We cannot and we will not sit back Where is Charb?’’ Charb is the nick- viduals affiliated with foreign terrorist idly and allow the President to act name for the newspaper’s editor, Mr. organizations. The Benedict Arnold alone. We promised the American peo- Charbonnier. traitors who turn against America and ple we would respond, and this week, Over the next 5 minutes, the two men join the ranks of foreign radical ter- we will hold true to our word. would seek out and execute Mr. rorist organizations should lose their

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:48 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K12JA7.002 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H193 rights. This bill will help law enforce- on that. That is very symbolic for many centuries before they can catch ment locate these individuals by pre- those doing the groundbreaking, but up and get enough money just to pay venting them from traveling inter- also for those of us that will be paying for high-speed rail which cap-and-trade nationally so they can be captured and for it. wasn’t even intended for anyway? brought to justice. Most importantly, What this high-speed rail system will Folks, we have a giant problem here. this legislation will prevent traitor turn into is several links of rail be- High-speed rail in California should not Americans from entering the United tween north and south California that be the Federal taxpayers’ burden. It States undetected. aren’t linked up, that have no way to shouldn’t even be the people of Califor- Madam Speaker, the French people power them, and no trains will be run- nia’s burden. They barely passed it by held a solidarity rally in honor of the ning on them for several years. 52–48 percent on that 2008 ballot after murdered. It was also a statement of So instead of the $33 billion plan that two previous ballot delays. Delay, freedom. Some estimated over 2 mil- they saw on the ballot in 2008—which, delay, delay is what you see with this lion attended the rally in Paris. March- by the way, it was on the 2006 ballot system. ing arm in arm with French President and, before that, on the 2004 ballot, but So what really needs to happen is the Hollande were 40 world leaders, includ- those involved knew that they would people of California need to step for- ing German Chancellor Merkel, Israeli have, politically, a hard time selling ward, put this back on the ballot, and Prime Minister Netanyahu, and Pales- that to people in California—it has have a vote once again on this. And the tinian President Abbas. ballooned to a $100-billion plan until Federal Government doesn’t need to be Unfortunately, the United States they revise it again downwards by tak- giving signals that they are going to President, the Vice President, and the ing away part of the high-speed system send even more money for this boon- Secretary of State did not choose to in San Francisco and L.A., where they doggle which has been failed, flawed, show up and support this solidarity will instead be using local transit to and deceptive since day one. meeting. That is unfortunate. The link to the center section that runs Madam Speaker, it is a massively French are a close ally and our oldest through central California. flawed project that leaves taxpayers at ally. We have a portrait of the great That is not even legal under Prop 1A. all levels on the hook for many, many Frenchman Lafayette in this very What Prop 1A spells out is that it has years to come for something that may Chamber across the way from George to be a high-speed system that will not even run in our lifetime. So we, as Washington. make it from San Francisco to L.A. or Federal legislators, need to put a stop Freedom is under attack by these reverse in 21⁄2 hours at speeds of 220 to any idea—as my colleagues have terrorists. They are a threat to civili- miles per hour. This promise will not been doing—for more money to go for- zation, order, and liberty. The United be upheld. ward for high-speed rail. And we need States should be more outspoken in Now, why is this important to a na- the people of California to wake up to our support for the French people and tional audience, to Members of Con- that idea and demand that it be placed our opposition to terror. We should gress, and to people in other States? It back on the ballot, this money go in- support our allies like the French and is because, after the stimulus package stead for other projects that could be mourn when they mourn and be re- was passed in 2009–2010, some of that helpful for their transportation cor- solved to track terrorists down any- Federal money is going to go for the ridors, for their highway system, and where in the world where they are. high-speed rail system in California. for the normal mode of rail which can They are at war with us, Madam Indeed, several other States were re- be made to be enhanced to drive 125 Speaker. cipients of those initial grants. After miles per hour, which would be bene- The French Prime Minister said it they looked at their own ideas for ficial. best: high-speed rail and saw the costs in- Madam Speaker, we need to get on We are fighting a war, not a war against volved and the infeasibility, they the ball and get back to reality on religion, not a war of civilizations, but to de- turned that money back into that pot what high-speed rail will really cost fend our values, which are universal. It is a of money. California, of course, stepped Californians and the American tax- war against terrorism and radical Islam, forward and said: Hey, give us all of payer and urge that it be placed back against everything that aims to shatter soli- that money. So they have received, at on the ballot and give the people that darity, liberty, and brotherhood. this point, about $3.5 billion that they choice once again. And that is just the way it is. can spend, dollar for dollar, for the f f bond money they spend themselves, the State money. CALIFORNIA HIGH-SPEED RAIL So what that means for Americans is The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- BOONDOGGLE that we know Californians will be back ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair The SPEAKER pro tempore. The at the Federal well once again trying declares the House in recess until 2 Chair recognizes the gentleman from to get more money for their high-speed p.m. today. California (Mr. LAMALFA) for 5 min- plan. What we see is that their down- Accordingly (at 12 o’clock and 22 utes. sized plan will still cost $68 billion. minutes p.m.), the House stood in re- Mr. LAMALFA. Madam Speaker, They only have identified $13 billion cess. today I once again will speak about for the whole system. No private sector f California’s high-speed rail system. money—which is what we were told b 1400 Now, just this last week, they had a when the ballot measure passed—has symbolic groundbreaking for this sys- stepped forward to be part of this. The AFTER RECESS tem in the context of getting started. plan is $55 billion short. The Federal The recess having expired, the House California has been, since 2008, antici- Government, so far, has offered about was called to order by the Speaker pro pating the start of high-speed rail. 31⁄2. Did they think they would get the tempore (Mr. COLLINS of ) at What do we have instead? Empty prom- other 52 from the Federal Government 2 p.m. ises, a lot of waste, and a lot of money since no private sector money wants to f going down the tubes. come forward for this? Will they get it What we see is that when the plan out of the California taxpayers? No- PRAYER was first put in place, the voters of body knows. The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick California approved a $33 billion link Indeed, the Governor, at the J. Conroy, offered the following prayer: from Los Angeles to San Francisco. groundbreaking the other day, said: Dear God, we give You thanks for What they are now being given is some- Don’t worry about the money; we will giving us another day. thing that has tripled in price. What get it. Well, part of their measure has As a parent encourages a child or a they have now been given at this been to impose a cap-and-trade pro- mentor calls forth the hidden potential groundbreaking, which is symbolic, gram on the people of California which of an intern, Lord, our God, may You what you saw was a mound of dirt with so far has generated about $250 million bless all who work as the 114th Con- about an 8-foot section of ties and rails per year. At that rate, it will be how gress, especially new Members.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:48 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K12JA7.010 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H194 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 12, 2015 Remove fear and confusion, wipe manner when there are so many indi- Graniteville produce the earthmover away distrust, which only inhibit good viduals who have waited years for the tires and engines used for Canadian oil judgment and leadership. Strengthen opportunity to come to this country sand development; also, the Colonial the resolve and compassion of all Mem- the right way. pipeline to North Augusta reduces gas bers, that they may serve Your people This week, the House will take ac- prices for consumers locally. with renewed clarity of vision and re- tion to defund President Obama’s un- Last week, in a bipartisan vote, the fined purpose that will soon unify this constitutional executive actions on im- House passed a bill to approve the Key- Nation in self-discipline and con- migration. It is the responsibility of stone pipeline. I hope the President fidence, for You reward the just and Congress to pursue reforms and ensure will support the priorities of the Amer- their deeds. a strong immigration policy is arrived ican people rather than cater to a gen- Bless all Members this day, O God, at through consensus, and we should erous campaign donor. and be with them and with us all in begin by securing our borders. In conclusion, God bless our troops, and the President, by his actions, must every day to come. May all that is done f be for Your greater honor and glory. never forget September the 11th in the Amen. DO NOT HOLD THE DEPARTMENT global war on terrorism. OF HOMELAND SECURITY HOS- Our sympathy to America’s first ally, f TAGE TO A POLITICAL France, over the terrorist attacks last THE JOURNAL (Mr. ISRAEL asked and was given week. Our solidarity with France is The SPEAKER pro tempore. The permission to address the House for 1 clear with the portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette gratefully placed in the Chair has examined the Journal of the minute and to revise and extend his re- House Chamber as one of only two por- last day’s proceedings and announces marks.) traits in this room. to the House his approval thereof. Mr. ISRAEL. Mr. Speaker, the trag- Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the Jour- edy in France has put us all on notice f nal stands approved. that the threat of terror is strong and NEBRASKA’S INDEPENDENT Mr. ASHFORD. Mr. Speaker, pursu- we must be prepared. We need to en- TRADITION OF GOVERNING ant to clause 1, rule I, I demand a vote sure that the Department of Homeland (Mr. ASHFORD asked and was given on agreeing to the Speaker’s approval Security is ready, willing, and able to permission to address the House for 1 of the Journal. detect and stop what happened in minute and to revise and extend his re- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The France from happening here. marks.) question is on the Speaker’s approval Shockingly, this week, Republicans, Mr. ASHFORD. Mr. Speaker, I rise of the Journal. rather than taking steps to strengthen today to speak about Nebraska’s inde- The question was taken; and the the DHS, will take steps to actually pendent tradition of governing. In Ne- Speaker pro tempore announced that weaken it. They will do so by holding braska, we do things a little dif- the ayes appeared to have it. the Department hostage to their poli- ferently. We have the only nonpartisan Mr. ASHFORD. Mr. Speaker, on that tics on immigration. unicameral legislature in the Nation, a I demand the yeas and nays. They will offer five amendments to body that I proudly served in for 16 The yeas and nays were ordered. politicize the DHS at a time when we years, as did my good friends Senator The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- need it to be its professional best. They DEB FISCHER and Congressman ADRIAN ant to clause 8, rule XX, further pro- have placed their ideological agenda SMITH. ceedings on this question will be post- ahead of paychecks. Now, they are In Lincoln, legislators are not bound poned. placing their ideological agenda ahead by political parties but by the needs of f of our protection. their constituents; rather than provide PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Mr. Speaker, if they want to pass an partisan sound bites, members of the unicameral provide solutions forged The SPEAKER pro tempore. Will the immigration bill, pass one. If they want to politicize issues, do it on an- through compromise and collaboration. gentleman from New York (Mr. ISRAEL) other issue, but not the Department of We need more of this tradition in come forward and lead the House in the Washington, and I hope to bring Ne- Pledge of Allegiance. Homeland Security. Do not jeopardize the safety of the American people with braska common sense to this body. We Mr. ISRAEL led the Pledge of Alle- need to find more ways to come to- giance as follows: a political stunt and not this week, after terrorists murdered innocent ci- gether and solve our Nation’s prob- I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the lems. The American people do not want United States of America, and to the Repub- vilians in France. Do not hold the DHS hostage to a political agenda. dogged partisanship. They want us to lic for which it stands, one nation under God, work together to get real results that indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. They are saying that this is a polit- ical compromise. I understand political help make their everyday lives better. f I have pledged to be an independent, compromise, but the homeland secu- IMMIGRATION pragmatic voice for my constituents to rity of my constituents and the Amer- responsibly tackle the difficult issues (Ms. FOXX asked and was given per- ican people should never be the subject facing our country and to do so in a bi- mission to address the House for 1 of a political compromise. partisan manner. I hope that my col- minute.) f leagues will follow Nebraska’s exam- Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, as the ple. granddaughter of Italian immigrants, I THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE am thankful America has always (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina f opened her arms to people looking to asked and was given permission to ad- HONORING COLORADO STATE UNI- build a better way for themselves and dress the House for 1 minute and to re- VERSITY—PUEBLO’S NATIONAL their families. However, breaking the vise and extend his remarks.) CHAMPION THUNDERWOLVES law to enter the United States should Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. (Mr. TIPTON asked and was given not be rewarded. Speaker, a majority of Americans sup- permission to address the House for 1 Well, that is exactly what President port building the Keystone pipeline to minute and to revise and extend his re- Obama is doing by granting amnesty to create jobs and strengthen our energy marks.) millions of illegal aliens through exec- independence; yet President Obama Mr. TIPTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise utive actions. President Obama does threatens to block this critical project. today to honor the Colorado State Uni- not have the legal authority to legis- The most environmentally secure versity—Pueblo ThunderWolves men’s late, and his unilateral actions on im- means to transport oil is by pipeline. football team and their coach, John migration are a blatant overreach of This pipeline means hundreds of per- Wristen. In their trip to the NCAA Di- his constitutionally-granted executive manent jobs in South Carolina’s Sec- vision II National Finals this year, the authority. ond Congressional District, where com- ThunderWolves claimed their first na- It is also wrong to short-circuit the panies like Michelin Tire Corporation tional football championship in school American immigration process in this in Lexington and MTU America in history.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:22 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K12JA7.005 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H195 The ThunderWolves squared off finally adequately fund the Depart- security. The appropriations package is against Minnesota State, who were ment of Homeland Security after they littered with amendments which would undefeated for the season. With grit already delayed funding by making it a undermine what little progress we have and a stout defense, the Wolf Pack shut political football on immigration; but, made to our broken immigration sys- out the Mavericks by a score of 13–0. no, it seems the Republicans can’t help tem. Before the season began, Coach themselves, even when it comes to na- Our family business just lost one of Wristen gave each player a shirt with tional security. our most valuable employees, Cesar the letters W-T-L-G, which meant They can’t simply vote for the nec- Arias. He may have originally come to ‘‘Win the Last Game.’’ Coach Wristen’s essary funding to keep the American Virginia without proper papers, but in dream, when he became head coach of people safe; instead, the Republicans the Reagan years, he found a way to the ThunderWolves 7 years ago, was to view this potentially dangerous mo- stay here, raise his family, and open win a national championship. Now, the ment as an opportunity to undermine and close our store 6 days a week for Wolf Pack players and coaches can the President’s executive actions on more than 20 years. Cesar is one small, proudly say they are national cham- immigration going all the way back to powerful example among millions of pions. The city of Pueblo is proud of 2011, putting 600,000 young people in new Americans who have helped our the team. jeopardy of deportation and refusing to economy grow and kept our democracy Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the team let the government prioritize for depor- strong. He believed it was long past and their outstanding coach, John tation felons over families. time for comprehensive immigration Wristen, for the stellar season and Shame on them. We should stop play- reform. championship. With Coach Wristen’s ing games with our national security Mr. Speaker, I urge the Republicans leadership and the team’s tireless com- by defeating these amendments and to bring a clean bill to the floor with- mitment to winning, they captured passing a clean Homeland Security out the anti-immigrant amendments. their first football championship and funding bill. We need to invest in homeland secu- are solidifying the ThunderWolves pro- f rity, and we need a real conversation gram’s legacy of excellence. about immigration reform. f LET’S NOT PLAY POLITICS WITH HOMELAND SECURITY DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND f SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS (Mr. POLIS asked and was given per- mission to address the House for 1 THE HOMELAND SECURITY (Ms. MCCOLLUM asked and was minute and to revise and extend his re- FUNDING BILL given permission to address the House marks.) (Ms. EDWARDS asked and was given for 1 minute and to revise and extend Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, the Depart- permission to address the House for 1 her remarks.) ment of Homeland Security is about minute and to revise and extend her re- Ms. MCCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, after last week’s horrific attacks in France, keeping our Nation and our citizens marks.) we are reminded that the threat of ter- safe. Ms. EDWARDS. Mr. Speaker, I rise Just as we fund the military to face rorism is very real. The Department of today because we are just 1 week into threats abroad, Department of Home- Homeland Security is on the front line this Congress and the Republican ma- land Security does that work to keep of protecting our Nation from terrorist jority promised bipartisanship, espe- our communities safe at home. Now is threats. cially on homeland security, the secu- House Republicans are using the not the time to play politics with our rity of our homeland, yet, oh, no, it is funding for DHS for political posturing immigration laws as if it is a child’s politics as usual from Republicans now rather than governing. The President toy. If you want to talk immigration, politicizing the Department of Home- has prioritized on how our national se- let’s talk immigration. land Security and its important fund- curity dollars are spent. He focused We have a plan. The Senate passed a ing at this time when we know around DHS’ tools and resources on preventing bipartisan plan with more than two- the world, and especially in France, terrorist threats and protecting the thirds support last session. Let’s see which has felt so poignantly what hap- American people. some ideas about resolving our broken pens when we don’t pay attention to se- Republicans continue to play polit- immigration system. curity. But here they are. ical games with immigration reform, The President’s step is an important They are mad at the President. Why? and now, they are bringing forward a first step to keep our communities Because the President did what other series of amendments to pick a fight safer, by focusing our limited enforce- Presidents have done, taking executive with the President. The political games ment resources on criminals who rep- action on immigration. And so they are that the Republicans are playing with resent a threat to our community. mad at the President, and Republicans this bill would jeopardize our national Do you want to undo that and in- are now going to punish the American security. We need an appropriations stead use our enforcement resources to people by not protecting our homeland. bill that ensures that DHS has the re- go after kids and families rather than Well, shame on the Republican Party sources and tools they need to protect criminals? That makes our commu- for politicizing the Department of America. nities less safe rather than more. Homeland Security. We must pass a strong bipartisan Let’s not play politics with Home- Mr. Speaker, it is time to get to busi- Homeland Security Appropriations bill land Security. Pass a clean bill, and ness. The American people expect that, that keeps America safe and protects tackle the immigration issue. and the Republicans, if they plan to our country. f govern, need to do it and pass a clean bill funding our Department of Home- f THE HOMELAND SECURITY land Security and take care of our FUNDING BILL DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND homeland. This is what the American SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS (Mr. BEYER asked and was given people expect, and it is what the Re- (Ms. SCHAKOWSKY asked and was permission to address the House for 1 publican Party needs to deliver if they given permission to address the House minute and to revise and extend his re- want to govern. for 1 minute.) marks.) Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. Speaker, Mr. BEYER. Mr. Speaker, I rise f Americans watching this debate must today to raise my concerns about the be shaking their heads in astonish- upcoming Homeland Security funding RECESS ment. The question on everyone’s mind bill. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- at this moment is: Are we doing every- The tragedies in Paris reinforce how ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair thing we can to prevent a Paris-like critical it is that we keep DHS strong declares the House in recess until ap- terrorist attack in the United States? and appropriately financed. Unfortu- proximately 5 p.m. today. Americans would be right to suppose nately, the majority leadership has de- Accordingly (at 2 o’clock and 16 min- the Republican majority is rushing to cided to play politics with our national utes p.m.), the House stood in recess.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:48 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K12JA7.006 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H196 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 12, 2015 b 1706 disorders or are at risk of suicide, including (b) ELEMENTS.—The Internet website pub- such practices conducted or suggested by lished under subsection (a) shall provide to AFTER RECESS other departments or agencies of the Federal veterans information regarding all of the The recess having expired, the House Government, including the Substance Abuse mental health care services available in the was called to order by the Speaker pro and Mental Health Services Administration Veteran Integrated Service Network that the tempore (Mr. BYRNE) at 5 o’clock and 6 of the Department of Health and Human veteran is seeking such services, including, minutes p.m. Services. with respect to each medical center, Vet ‘‘(3) The periods specified in this paragraph Center (as defined in section 1712A of title 38, f are the following: United States Code), and community-based ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER ‘‘(A) The period beginning on the date on outpatient center in the Veterans Integrated PRO TEMPORE which the Secretary awards the contract Service Network— under paragraph (4) and ending on September (1) the name and contact information of The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- 30, 2018. each social work office; ant to clause 8 of rule XX, the Chair ‘‘(B) Each fiscal year beginning on or after (2) the name and contact information of will postpone further proceedings October 1, 2018. each mental health clinic; today on motions to suspend the rules ‘‘(4) Not later than 180 days after the date (3) a list of appropriate staff; and on which a recorded vote or the yeas of the enactment of this section, the Sec- (4) any other information the Secretary de- retary shall seek to enter into a contract termines appropriate. and nays are ordered, or on which the with an independent third party unaffiliated (c) UPDATED INFORMATION.—The Secretary vote incurs objection under clause 6 of with the Department of Veterans Affairs to shall ensure that the information described rule XX. conduct evaluations under paragraph (1). in subsection (b) that is published on the Record votes on postponed questions ‘‘(5) The independent third party that is Internet website under subsection (a) is up- will be taken later. awarded the contract under paragraph (4) dated not less than once every 90 days. f shall submit to the Secretary each evalua- (d) OUTREACH.—In carrying out this sec- tion conducted under paragraph (1). tion, the Secretary shall ensure that the out- CLAY HUNT SUICIDE PREVENTION ‘‘(b) ANNUAL SUBMISSION.—Not later than reach conducted under section 1720F(i) of FOR AMERICAN VETERANS ACT December 1, 2018, and each year thereafter, title 38, United States Code, includes infor- Mr. MILLER of Florida. Mr. Speaker, the Secretary shall submit to the mation regarding the Internet website pub- on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and the lished under subsection (a). I move to suspend the rules and pass Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House the bill (H.R. 203) to direct the Sec- SEC. 4. PILOT PROGRAM FOR REPAYMENT OF of Representatives a report that contains the EDUCATIONAL LOANS FOR CERTAIN retary of Veterans Affairs to provide following: PSYCHIATRISTS OF VETERANS for the conduct of annual evaluations ‘‘(1) The most recent evaluations sub- HEALTH ADMINISTRATION. of mental health care and suicide pre- mitted to the Secretary under subsection (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Vet- vention programs of the Department of (a)(5) that the Secretary has not previously erans Affairs shall carry out a pilot program Veterans Affairs, to require a pilot pro- submitted to such . to repay loans of individuals described in gram on loan repayment for psychia- ‘‘(2) Any recommendations the Secretary subsection (b) that— considers appropriate.’’. (1) were used by such individuals to finance trists who agree to serve in the Vet- (2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of education relating to psychiatric medicine, erans Health Administration of the De- sections at the beginning of such chapter is including education leading to— partment of Veterans Affairs, and for amended by inserting after the item relating (A) a degree of doctor of medicine; or other purposes. to section 1709A the following new item: (B) a degree of doctor of osteopathy; and The Clerk read the title of the bill. ‘‘1709B. Evaluations of mental health care (2) were obtained from any of the fol- The text of the bill is as follows: and suicide prevention pro- lowing: H.R. 203 grams.’’. (A) A governmental entity. (b) INTERIM REPORTS.—Not later than Sep- (B) A private financial institution. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- tember 30 of each of 2016 and 2017, the Sec- (C) A school. resentatives of the United States of America in retary of Veterans Affairs, in coordination (D) Any other authorized entity as deter- Congress assembled, with the independent third party awarded a mined by the Secretary. SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. contract by the Secretary pursuant to sec- (b) ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS.— This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Clay Hunt tion 1709B(a)(4) of title 38, United States (1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Code, as added by subsection (a)(1), shall sub- an individual eligible for participation in the Act’’ or the ‘‘Clay Hunt SAV Act’’. mit to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of pilot program is an individual who— SEC. 2. EVALUATIONS OF MENTAL HEALTH CARE the Senate and the Committee on Veterans’ (A) either— AND SUICIDE PREVENTION PRO- Affairs of the House of Representatives a re- (i) is licensed or eligible for licensure to GRAMS OF DEPARTMENT OF VET- port on the mental health care and suicide practice psychiatric medicine in the Vet- ERANS AFFAIRS. prevention programs carried out under the erans Health Administration of the Depart- (a) EVALUATIONS.— laws administered by the Secretary that in- ment of Veterans Affairs; or (1) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter I of chapter 17 cludes, with respect to each such program, (ii) is enrolled in the final year of a resi- of title 38, United States Code, is amended by the following: dency program leading to a specialty quali- adding at the end the following new section: (1) A description of the program. fication in psychiatric medicine that is ap- ‘‘§ 1709B. Evaluations of mental health care (2) The number of veterans served by the proved by the Accreditation Council for and suicide prevention programs program. Graduate Medical Education; and ‘‘(a) EVALUATIONS.—(1) Not less frequently (3) The budget of the program. (B) demonstrates a commitment to a long- than once during each period specified in (4) The number of full-time equivalent em- term career as a psychiatrist in the Veterans paragraph (3), the Secretary shall provide for ployees assigned to the program. Health Administration, as determined by the the conduct of an evaluation of the mental (5) Whether veterans may repeat participa- Secretary. health care and suicide prevention programs tion in the program or participate in the pro- (2) PROHIBITION ON SIMULTANEOUS ELIGI- carried out under the laws administered by gram in addition to other similar programs. BILITY.—An individual who is participating the Secretary. (6) Any study results or research published in any other program of the Federal Govern- ‘‘(2) Each evaluation conducted under para- regarding the efficacy of the program. ment that repays the educational loans of graph (1) shall— (7) Any other information the Secretary the individual is not eligible to participate ‘‘(A) use metrics that are common among determines appropriate. in the pilot program. and useful for practitioners in the field of SEC. 3. PUBLICATION OF INTERNET WEBSITE TO (c) SELECTION.—The Secretary shall select mental health care and suicide prevention; PROVIDE INFORMATION REGARDING not less than 10 individuals described in sub- ‘‘(B) identify the most effective mental MENTAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES. section (b) to participate in the pilot pro- health care and suicide prevention programs (a) IN GENERAL.—Using funds made avail- gram for each year in which the Secretary conducted by the Secretary, including such able to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carries out the pilot program. programs conducted at a Center of Excel- publish the Internet websites of the Depart- (d) PERIOD OF OBLIGATED SERVICE.—The lence; ment of Veterans Affairs, the Secretary shall Secretary shall enter into an agreement with ‘‘(C) identify the cost-effectiveness of each survey the existing Internet websites and in- each individual selected under subsection (c) program identified under subparagraph (B); formation resources of the Department to in which such individual agrees to serve a pe- ‘‘(D) measure the satisfaction of patients publish an Internet website that serves as a riod of 2 or more years of obligated service with respect to the care provided under each centralized source to provide veterans with for the Veterans Health Administration in such program; and information regarding all of the mental the field of psychiatric medicine, as deter- ‘‘(E) propose best practices for caring for health care services provided by the Sec- mined by the Secretary. individuals who suffer from mental health retary. (e) LOAN REPAYMENTS.—

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:48 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K12JA7.011 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H197

(1) AMOUNTS.—Subject to paragraph (2), a ice Networks that have a large population of (2) FINAL REPORT.—Not later than 90 days loan repayment under this section may con- veterans who— before the date on which the pilot program sist of payment of the principal, interest, (1) served in the reserve components of the terminates under subsection (e), the Sec- and related expenses of a loan obtained by an Armed Forces; or retary shall submit to the Committee on individual who is participating in the pilot (2) are transitioning into communities Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and the Com- program for all educational expenses (includ- with an established population of veterans mittee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of ing tuition, fees, books, and laboratory ex- after having recently separated from the Representatives an update to the report sub- penses) of such individual relating to edu- Armed Forces. mitted under paragraph (1). cation described in subsection (a)(1). (c) FUNCTIONS.—The pilot program at each (e) CONSTRUCTION.—This section may not (2) LIMIT.—For each year of obligated serv- Veterans Integrated Service Network de- be construed to authorize the Secretary to ice that an individual who is participating in scribed in subsection (b) shall include the hire additional employees of the Department the pilot program agrees to serve under sub- following: to carry out the pilot program under sub- section (d), the Secretary may pay not more (1) A community oriented veteran peer section (a). than $30,000 in loan repayment on behalf of support network, carried out in partnership (f) TERMINATION.—The authority of the such individual. with an appropriate entity with experience Secretary to carry out the pilot program (f) BREACH.— in peer support programs, that— under subsection (a) shall terminate on the (1) LIABILITY.—An individual who partici- (A) establishes peer support training guide- date that is 3 years after the date on which pates in the pilot program and fails to sat- lines; the pilot program commences. isfy the period of obligated service under (B) develops a network of veteran peer sup- SEC. 6. COLLABORATION ON SUICIDE PREVEN- TION EFFORTS BETWEEN DEPART- subsection (d) shall be liable to the United port counselors to meet the demands of the States, in lieu of such obligated service, for MENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND communities in the Veterans Integrated NON-PROFIT MENTAL HEALTH OR- the amount that has been paid or is payable Service Network; GANIZATIONS. to or on behalf of the individual under the (C) conducts training of veteran peer sup- (a) COLLABORATION.—The Secretary of Vet- pilot program, reduced by the proportion port counselors; erans Affairs may collaborate with non-prof- that the number of days served for comple- (D) with respect to one medical center se- it mental health organizations to prevent tion of the period of obligated service bears lected by the Secretary in each such Vet- suicide among veterans as follows: to the total number of days in the period of erans Integrated Service Network, has— (1) To improve the efficiency and effective- obligated service of such individual. (i) a designated peer support specialist who ness of suicide prevention efforts carried out (2) REPAYMENT PERIOD.—Any amount of acts as a liaison to the community oriented by the Secretary and non-profit mental damages that the United States is entitled veteran peer network; and health organizations. to recover under this subsection shall be paid (ii) a certified mental health professional (2) To assist non-profit mental health orga- to the United States not later than 1 year designated as the community oriented vet- nizations with the suicide prevention efforts after the date of the breach of the agree- eran peer network mentor; and of such organizations through the use of the ment. (E) is readily available to veterans, includ- expertise of employees of the Department of (g) REPORT.— ing pursuant to the Veterans Integrated Veterans Affairs. (1) INITIAL REPORT.—Not later than 2 years Service Network cooperating and working (3) To jointly carry out suicide prevention after the date on which the pilot program with State and local governments and appro- efforts. under subsection (a) commences, the Sec- priate entities. (b) EXCHANGE OF RESOURCES.—In carrying retary shall submit to the Committee on (2) A community outreach team for each out any collaboration under subsection (a), Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and the Com- medical center selected by the Secretary the Secretary and any non-profit mental mittee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of pursuant to paragraph (1)(D) that— health organization with which the Sec- Representatives a report on the pilot pro- (A) assists veterans transitioning into retary is collaborating under such subsection gram. communities; shall exchange training sessions and best (2) ELEMENTS.—The report required by (B) establishes a veteran transition advi- practices to help with the suicide prevention paragraph (1) shall include the following: sory group to facilitate outreach activities; efforts of the Department and such organiza- (A) The number of individuals who partici- (C) includes the participation of appro- tion. pated in the pilot program, including the priate community organizations, State and (c) DIRECTOR OF SUICIDE PREVENTION CO- number of new hires. local governments, colleges and universities, ORDINATION.—The Secretary shall select (B) The locations in which such individuals chambers of commerce and other local busi- within the Department a Director of Suicide were employed by the Department, including ness organizations, and organizations that Prevention Coordination to undertake any how many such locations were rural or urban provide legal aid or advice; and collaboration with non-profit mental health locations. (D) coordinates with the Veterans Inte- organizations under this section or any other (C) An assessment of the quality of the grated Service Network regarding the Vet- provision of law. work performed by such individuals in the erans Integrated Service Network carrying SEC. 7. ADDITIONAL PERIOD OF ELIGIBILITY FOR course of such employment, including the out an annual mental health summit to as- HEALTH CARE FOR CERTAIN VET- performance reviews of such individuals. sess the status of veteran mental health care ERANS OF COMBAT SERVICE DUR- (D) The number of psychiatrists the Sec- ING CERTAIN PERIODS OF HOS- in the community and to develop new or in- TILITIES AND WAR. retary determines is needed by the Depart- novative means to provide mental health ment in the future. Paragraph (3) of section 1710(e) of title 38, services to veterans. United States Code, is amended to read as (3) FINAL REPORT.—Not later than 90 days (d) REPORTS.— before the date on which the pilot program follows: (1) INITIAL REPORT.—Not later than 18 ‘‘(3) In the case of care for a veteran de- terminates under subsection (i), the Sec- months after the date on which the pilot pro- scribed in paragraph (1)(D), hospital care, retary shall submit to the Committee on gram under subsection (a) commences, the medical services, and nursing home care may Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and the Com- Secretary shall submit to the Committee on be provided under or by virtue of subsection mittee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and the Com- (a)(2)(F) only during the following periods: Representatives an update to the report sub- mittee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of ‘‘(A) Except as provided by subparagraph mitted under paragraph (1) and any rec- Representatives a report on the pilot pro- (B), with respect to a veteran described in ommendations that the Secretary considers gram. With respect to each Veterans Inte- paragraph (1)(D) who is discharged or re- appropriate. grated Service Network described in sub- leased from the active military, naval, or air (h) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary shall pre- scribe regulations to carry out this section, section (b), the report shall include— service after January 27, 2003, the five-year including standards for qualified loans and (A) a full description of the peer support period beginning on the date of such dis- authorized payees and other terms and con- model implemented under the pilot program, charge or release. ditions for the making of loan repayments. participation data, and data pertaining to ‘‘(B) With respect to a veteran described in (i) TERMINATION.—The authority to carry past and current mental health related hos- paragraph (1)(D) who is discharged or re- out the pilot program shall expire on the pitalizations and fatalities; leased from the active military, naval, or air date that is 3 years after the date on which (B) recommendations on implementing service after January 1, 2009, and before Jan- the Secretary commences the pilot program. peer support networks throughout the De- uary 1, 2011, but did not enroll to receive SEC. 5. PILOT PROGRAM ON COMMUNITY OUT- partment; such hospital care, medical services, or nurs- REACH. (C) whether the mental health resources ing home care pursuant to such paragraph (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Vet- made available under the pilot program for during the five-year period described in sub- erans Affairs shall establish a pilot program members of the reserve components of the paragraph (A), the one-year period beginning to assist veterans transitioning from serving Armed Forces is effective; and on the date of the enactment of the Clay on active duty and to improve the access of (D) a full description of the activities and Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Vet- veterans to mental health services. effectiveness of community outreach coordi- erans Act. (b) LOCATIONS.—The Secretary shall carry nating teams under the pilot program, in- ‘‘(C) With respect to a veteran described in out the pilot program under subsection (a) at cluding partnerships that have been estab- paragraph (1)(D) who is discharged or re- not less than five Veterans Integrated Serv- lished with appropriate entities. leased from the active military, naval, or air

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:48 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A12JA7.002 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H198 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 12, 2015 service on or before January 27, 2003, and did Mr. Speaker, we have got to do more I am pleased that we were able to act not enroll in the patient enrollment system to help these veterans access the sup- on this measure as one of the first under section 1705 of this title on or before portive services and mental health care items of business in the 114th Congress. such date, the three-year period beginning that they need to save their lives. With Providing the mental health care on January 27, 2008.’’. the passage of H.R. 203, we will. that veterans need and effectively deal- SEC. 8. PROHIBITION ON NEW APPROPRIATIONS. No additional funds are authorized to be To improve the efficiency and effec- ing with the crisis of veteran suicides appropriated to carry out this Act and the tiveness of VA programs and increase have been longstanding concerns of the amendments made by this Act, and this Act awareness of available services, H.R. Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. War is and such amendments shall be carried out 203 would require an annual third-party indeed terrible, and the effects of com- using amounts otherwise made available for evaluation of VA’s mental health care bat and service on our veterans lasts a such purposes. and suicide prevention programs and lifetime. For far too long, society—and The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- require that VA publish an interactive the military culture itself—has acted ant to the rule, the gentleman from Web site to serve as a central source of as if the need for mental health care Florida (Mr. MILLER) and the gentle- information regarding VA mental treatment is a weakness and has dis- woman from Florida (Ms. BROWN) each health services. couraged adequate treatment. This at- will control 20 minutes. To increase VA’s capacity to meet titude is changing, but it cannot The Chair recognizes the gentleman the mental health care needs of our change fast enough. In the area of men- from Florida. veterans, it would establish a pilot pro- tal health for our veterans and return- GENERAL LEAVE gram that would repay education loans ing servicemembers, there is no easy Mr. MILLER of Florida. Mr. Speaker, for individuals who have received a de- answer or quick fix. I ask that all Mem- gree in psychiatric medicine and who I appreciate the work of my friend bers may have 5 legislative days within agree to work at the VA for at least 2 from Minnesota, TIM WALZ; Chairman which to revise and extend their re- years. MILLER; and all of my colleagues on marks. To create a seamless transition from the committee in fashioning a bill that The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there Active Duty to veteran status and in- I believe will make a difference in the objection to the request of the gen- creased community support for those lives of our veterans. tleman from Florida? in need, it would establish another H.R. 203 takes a number of important There was no objection. pilot program to assist veterans during Mr. MILLER of Florida. Mr. Speaker, steps, including improving the safety transition and require VA to collabo- I yield myself such time as I may con- net for at-risk veterans, while also in- rate with nonprofit mental health or- sume. troducing some accountability into the Mr. Speaker, I rise today in proud ganizations in the community. VA mental health care and suicide pre- support of H.R. 203, the Clay Hunt SAV Importantly, H.R. 203 would extend vention program, using a third-party Act. This bill was introduced by my an additional 1 year of eligibility for evaluation. It will provide veterans good friend and a very important mem- VA health care services for certain with a Web site that will serve as a ber of the Veterans Affairs’ Committee, combat veterans who have not yet en- centralized source of information on Congressman TIM WALZ from Min- rolled and whose 5-year combat eligi- mental health services. nesota. I am honored to join him and bility period recently expired. H.R. 203 initiates a program to help Before I yield, I want to take a mo- Congresswoman TAMMY DUCKWORTH address some of the glaring mental from Illinois as an original cosponsor ment to once again express my condo- health personnel shortages at the VA. of this legislation. I am also grateful lences to Clay’s family and friends as While the incentives in this bill are for the support of several of our mili- well as the families and friends of our limited to the psychiatry field, I would tary veterans’ service organizations, honored veterans who have lost their like to see this effort expanded in the including the Iraq and Afghanistan lives to suicide. I want to offer them future to all the mental health profes- Veterans of America, the Veterans of my personal commitment to continue sional shortfalls. the aggressive pursuit to end veteran Foreign Wars, the American Legion, b 1715 the Disabled American Veterans, the suicide. H.R. 203 would expand peer support Military Officers Association of Amer- The passage of this bill today is just ica, and the Wounded Warrior Project. the first in what will be a continuing networks, which we have heard are H.R. 203 is named after a true Amer- series of legislative and oversight ef- quite effectively used. And I believe ican hero, Clay Hunt. Clay was a Ma- forts that our committee is going to the reporting requirement in this bill rine Corps veteran who served honor- undertake throughout the 114th Con- will confirm that additional resources ably in both Afghanistan and Iraq, gress to improve access to mental should be permanently dedicated to where he was wounded in battle. Clay health care for veterans in need, in- fully utilizing peer support. returned home grappling with crease the efficiency and effectiveness H.R. 203 would also provide an addi- posttraumatic stress disorder but re- of VA’s mental health and suicide pre- tional window of eligibility for combat fused to let his personal struggles pre- vention programs, and increase mean- veterans who may have missed the win- vent him from devoting his time to hu- ingful partnerships with community dow of opportunity to sign up for VA manitarian work and advocacy on be- providers who are often the first line of health care. This extra time will help half of his fellow veterans. However, in defense for their struggling veterans to ensure that veterans receive the March of 2011, at just 28 years of age, and the families of those veterans. health care, including mental health Clay took his own life. This bill, which passed the House last care, that they need. With an average of 22 veterans com- Congress, will not single-handedly halt I thank the chairman for working to mitting suicide each day, Clay was far the scourge of veteran suicide, but it is bring this bill up quickly so that the from alone in his pain, and his family an important step, and it is a step that House can act and send this important and friends are far from alone in their we owe Clay and those like him who measure to the Senate. I look forward heartbreak over his loss. The last sev- desperately need and certainly deserve to working with Chairman MILLER, and eral years have seen significant in- our help. with Florida being the State with the creases in the Department of Veterans With that, I urge all of my colleagues second-largest population of veterans Affairs’ mental health and suicide pre- to join me in supporting H.R. 203. and the most senior population, I know vention budget, staff, and programs; Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of that the committee will do a good job however, we have not seen a cor- my time. having two of the leadership team from responding decrease in the number of Ms. BROWN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, Florida. our Nation’s heroes who take their own I yield myself such time as I may con- But let me be clear: there are 435 lives. What is more, for some groups of sume. Members of Congress, and each of them veterans, including female veterans Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. have veterans in their district, and we and veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, 203, the Clay Hunt SAV Act. This legis- will work to make sure that all vet- suicide rates are actually getting lation passed the House last month in erans get the care that they have worse. the closing days of the 113th Congress. earned and deserve.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:22 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A12JA7.002 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H199 Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of mittee is looking and seeing where we never get there, but this piece of legis- my time. can improve and pointing out where lation starts to address it. Mr. MILLER of Florida. Mr. Speaker, there are faults. So I think it is important, and I want I thank the new ranking member for But that is not good enough. Point- to thank the ranking member for being her words. I look forward to working ing out the faults is one thing, and it is on this bill and putting it forward, and with her on legislation in the future. important. Finding solutions is what the chairman, who was an original au- With that, Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 really matters, and this piece of legis- thor of this and has been instrumental minutes to the gentlewoman from the lation, I think, starts to do that. in making it happen. Second District of Indiana, from Elk- To my colleagues who are here, I What we are doing here is not just hart, Indiana (Mrs. WALORSKI). would say this. We can certainly dis- passing legislation. What we are doing Mrs. WALORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I agree and disagree strongly and pas- here is changing the attitudes, focusing thank the distinguished gentleman sionately. But I think if the public the Nation’s attention on this, because from Florida for yielding, and I am knew and they could feel it and, I I don’t care if it is Elkhart, Indiana, if grateful to be here today to support think, in this piece of legislation see it, it is Pensacola, Florida, or if it is Man- the Clay Hunt SAV Act. there are many more things that bind kato, Minnesota. Every day, 22 veterans take their us together, and our care and our com- When we go to talk to our constitu- own lives. We have all experienced this mitment for our warriors is one of ents, regardless of their political in our districts; I have as well. those. leanings, they tell us, take care of our On March 31, 2011, Clay Hunt was one This is a piece of legislation that warriors, do what is right. Fix the sys- of those 22 veterans that day who took wasn’t just written here in the Halls of tem. his own life. Today, we honor Clay and Congress. It was written by the fami- This piece of legislation does that. It his family with the Clay Hunt SAV lies, Susan and Richard Selke, Clay’s does it in a cost-effective, smart man- Act. parents; by the Houghtalings in Min- ner, and we have got the opportunity Clay’s story was one of bravery and nesota; and the Kellys in New Ulm, to start moving forward. dedication. He relied on the VA for Minnesota; and each of these Members I would say and encourage my col- care and received a 30 percent dis- that you hear speak about it. leagues, let’s pass this thing, but let’s ability rating for PTSD brought on Since we passed this legislation, and not see it as an end result of a process during his service. He appealed the rat- it failed in the Senate, over 750 vet- we have been working on. Let’s see it ing and encountered a bureaucratic erans have taken their lives. as the first of many things to try and nightmare. Many times down here, we feel like make changes to be smarter about how Clay had to wait months to see a psy- everything we do is the most impor- we use taxpayer dollars, but also to de- chiatrist at a VA Medical Center. Two tant thing that needs to happen now. mand effectiveness, because Clay’s par- weeks later, Clay took his own life. Rarely is that true. In this case, it is. ents deserve that. Thousands of others Five weeks after his death and 18 We can’t wait another day. We can’t across this Nation deserve that. months after filing an with the pass this problem forward because it is The more than 1 million veterans VA for his PTSD rating, his appeal was not only ripping at families, it is rip- that will return over the next few approved. ping at our Nation. These are our best years are counting on us to put every- Clay’s story details the urgency that and brightest. thing in place to provide that help. our Nation’s heroes deserve. The Clay You heard about Clay. Clay’s a Ma- So I encourage my colleagues, sup- Hunt SAV Act will increase access to rine who went to Iraq. He got shot by port this legislation. I encourage my mental health care and improve the a sniper and, as a Marine, that irri- colleagues, take this as an example. quality of care troops and veterans re- tated him. It didn’t hurt him. He came I want to thank Speaker BOEHNER ceive. back. He had his Purple Heart, and he and Majority Leader MCCARTHY for Together, we can change this system could have come back and taken our making it a priority. I think it speaks so that no other veteran ever has to en- thank yous. He didn’t. He went to Af- volumes. This piece of legislation is on dure what thousands of veterans have ghanistan to continue on. the floor in the first week. That says already gone through, including Clay. He knew the extremism that was something, that there is a commitment I am honored to stand here today and threatening Iraq and Afghanistan to getting it right, there is a commit- am grateful to my colleagues. I urge would some day threaten this Nation, ment to working together, and there is support for this legislation. so he was forward. He did his time. a commitment to showing effectiveness Ms. BROWN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, After he came back, that wasn’t for the American people. how much time is remaining? enough. He went to Haiti to help. After So, we have got that opportunity. I The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- that, that wasn’t enough. He sat in our ask my colleagues to support this leg- tlewoman from Florida has 161⁄2 min- offices on numerous occasions working islation, get engaged with what is hap- utes remaining. on everything from access to the VA to pening with our veterans, and let’s Ms. BROWN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, the things you heard the gentlelady prove that their service was not in I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman talk about in Indiana that were caus- vain, that this democracy is strong, from Minnesota (Mr. WALZ). ing frustration amongst our veterans. that our commitment to them is un- Mr. WALZ. Mr. Speaker, I thank the And I think for me the thing is, like wavering and that, at the end of the ranking member for your support of for so many of us, Clay appeared to day, that is what really matters. this important piece of legislation. have everything. He appeared that he Mr. Speaker, I am very grateful for the op- As you heard, we are here once again. knew and was competent and had it portunity to again tell you about a very impor- We had a piece of legislation that at- there, but we all know that they have tant piece of legislation that will help in our tempted to, as I think the chairman demons, and Clay had demons. fight to improve mental health care for our re- spoke about, address an issue that cuts So what this piece of legislation turning warriors: H.R. 203, the Clay Hunt SAV to the heart and the soul of this Na- does—you heard the specifics, and it Act. I’d like to thank the Chairman of the tion: When our warriors come home, does do specific things, and no one is House Veterans Affairs Committee, Mr. MIL- how can we reintegrate them? claiming that this is going to be the LER, and Rep. DUCKWORTH for continuing to And I think it is important, and I fix. be my partners in this effort. I’d also like to want to thank the chairman, one, for But I would make the case that what thank Speaker BOEHNER for bringing this to working so diligently on many numer- the Clay Hunt bill has done and what it the floor swiftly. And, a big thank you to Sen- ous issues, but on this piece of legisla- has done amongst our partners in the ators MCCAIN, BURR, BLUMENTHAL, and ISAK- tion, and for bringing it back up again, veterans service organizations is made SON for all their work on the SAV Act. Most but I think also for setting an example. it absolutely clear we will not leave importantly, I’d like to thank Clay’s parents, The Nation expects us to do what is anyone behind. We will not turn a blind Susan and Richard Selke. They are holding right by our warriors. They expect us eye to this, and we will not rest until Congress’ feet to the fire to make sure we get to work together to find solutions. we at least make the attempt to get this done and to prevent another family from Something that we do in the com- that number down to zero. We may going through what they continue to go

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:27 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\K12JA7.013 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H200 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 12, 2015 through each and every day. We cannot let Mr. COSTELLO of Pennsylvania. I dicated to him that just this weekend I them down. thank the distinguished gentleman met for hours with two wounded war- H.R. 203, the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention from Florida for yielding. riors, both of them having experience for American Veterans Act, is an example of Mr. Speaker, I stand here today to with PTSD, both of them being chal- how we can work together on Capitol Hill. The express my support of Congressman lenged about the transition into civil- legislation is named in honor of Iraq and Af- TIM WALZ’s Clay Hunt Suicide Preven- ian life, both of them knowing of this ghanistan War Veteran and suicide prevention tion for American Veterans Act. legislation, feeling left out and de- advocate, Clay Hunt. Clay epitomized what it It is a privilege to serve on the House prived that it did not, despite the val- meant to live a life of service, both in and out Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and in iant effort of this House, pass in the of uniform. He helped countless veterans this Congress, to work to improve the last Congress. overcome their demons but tragically took his quality of life for our Nation’s vet- So let me congratulate all of you for own life in March of 2011. The legacy he left erans, their families, and their care- recognizing that this is a crucial, life- behind, however, will live on for generations to givers. saving element of the men and women come. In the coming months, I look forward that we stand and admire and love. The bill you see before you was the result to working in a bipartisan, common- Every day, 22 veterans take their lives, of strong partnerships with our veteran service sense manner with dedicated Members but it is 8,000 a year. organizations, strong bipartisan efforts here in and veterans like my colleague from And if I might say, Texas walks Congress, and the resolve of Clay’s parents Minnesota (Mr. WALZ) to find solutions alongside of Florida and other States pushing and pushing and pushing to get this to help our Nation’s veterans transi- in having the highest number of re- thing done. This bill is what you get when you tion to civilian life. turning vets. Two million served in have folks sitting around the table, trusting One of the most critical areas that Iraq and Afghanistan across the Na- one another, and working together to get it we as a committee and Congress must tion. Now, one-third, 600,000, have expe- right for our nation’s veterans. work to establish is comprehensive, rienced traumatic brain injury and Our premise for this bill was simple: suicide timely, responsive, and effective men- PTSD. occurs because many vets return to their com- tal health care services for our post- From the early years of working with munity and then disconnect from it. So, we 9/11 veterans, many of whom have then-Chairman and Ranking Member wanted to create a bill that would get the com- served our country for multiple deploy- Murtha, I was privileged to bring $1 munities involved and coordinated. We also ments in conditions not witnessed or million to my district for PTSD, but knew it would be important to increase both experienced by any other generation of that is not the heart of it. oversight of the VA and their capacity to deal soldier. The bleeding and the sorrow of these with over a million veterans returning from This bill first prioritizes bringing ac- men and women is not befitting of the war. countability to the VA. By bringing in service and the uniform that they put Specifically, the bill: a third party to conduct an annual 1. Establishes a peer support and commu- on. Not one moment should they wait evaluation within the Department of nity outreach pilot program to assist at a veterans hospital for treatment for Veterans Affairs, we can better provide transitioning servicemembers with accessing PTSD that should keep them grounded. VA mental health care services. agency accountability by doing just Not one moment should they be alone 2. Requires the VA to create a one-stop, this. contemplating suicide, without treat- interactive website to serve as a centralized Second, we must provide better ac- ment and friends and family having as- source of information regarding all mental cess to mental health services for our sistance. health services for veterans. veterans and their families. This bill This bill makes that statement, H.R. 3. Addresses the shortage of mental health does just that. 203, the Clay Hunt SAV Act. It says care professionals by authorizing the VA to Finally, it helps facilitate and in- that you are not alone and that we conduct a student loan repayment pilot pro- crease awareness for peer and commu- have put our actions where our words gram aimed at recruiting and retaining psychi- nity support providers for our veterans are. We have walked the walk. atrists. and their families. So I want to say to those wounded 4. Requires yearly evaluations—with interim This commonsense legislation works warriors who shared their heart with reports due in the first two years and a final towards those priorities of providing an me, proudly come back and say: This report due the third year and every year accountable and supportive VA for our bill is moving, and as it moves to the after—conducted by a third party, of all mental veterans, in furtherance of helping vet- United States Senate, this bill is mov- health care and suicide prevention practices erans get the best treatment possible. ing. And as we look to the President’s and programs at the VA to find out what is So, Mr. Speaker, I urge my col- desk, a signature will allow this bill to working and what’s not working and to make leagues on both sides of the aisle to be in place. recommendations to improve care. Authorizes support this commonsense legislation To those who missed the deadline, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) re- to promote mental health support for this law will allow you to still be able port on the transition of care for PTSD and our Nation’s heroes and thank Con- to receive that treatment because it al- TBI between the DoD and the VA. gressman WALZ for his leadership on lows an extended time for those who One veteran lost to suicide is one too many. this important legislation. have missed the deadline. With many of our warriors returning from war, Ms. BROWN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I know as I go back home to Texas all too often our heroes return only to face a I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman and meet families that they are look- war of their own at home. While there is no bill from Texas (Ms. JACKSON LEE). ing for action when it comes to our be- that will completely end veteran suicide, this (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was loved veterans and those who have put bipartisan measure is a step in the right direc- given permission to revise and extend on the uniform to serve this Nation as tion. In short, it’s a start towards fixing a prob- her remarks.) they watched their comrades die. This lem, but we must not lose focus on this prob- Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, is a bill that says, God bless America. lem after passing this bill. We must continue this is an appropriate and wonderful working to improve care for our veterans. I statement of two distinguished Mem- b 1730 urge my colleagues to support this measure bers of Congress, the chairman and The SPEAKER pro tempore. The so that we can send it over to the Senate and ranking member of the Veterans’ Af- time of the gentlewoman has expired. onto the President swiftly. fairs Committee, and I associate my- Ms. BROWN of Florida. I yield an ad- Mr. MILLER of Florida. Mr. Speaker, self with their words on how crucial ditional 1 minute to the gentlewoman I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman this legislation is, and what an impor- from Texas. from the Sixth District of Pennsyl- tant statement the Veterans’ Affairs Ms. JACKSON LEE. This is a bill vania (Mr. COSTELLO), a new member of Committee is making: that there is no that reflects the Constitution, the Dec- the committee, who, in his first week, party affiliation when it comes to sav- laration of Independence, and our won- has already jumped in with both feet. ing the lives of our men and women derful Pledge of Allegiance to the flag Mr. COSTELLO has been to my office who put on the uniform. of the United States of America. and started looking closely at the over- To the author of this bill, Mr. WALZ, I want to say to my friends at Elling- sight agenda that we have. as I chatted with him on the floor, I in- ton Field, which is just down the road

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:22 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A12JA7.003 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H201 from my congressional district, and to of this bill, and I thank the ranking SEC. 2. EMERGENCY SERVICES, GOVERNMENT, the many bases across the State of member and the chairman for what is AND CERTAIN NONPROFIT VOLUN- TEERS. Texas that have amongst their ranks an important piece of legislation. (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 4980H(c) of the In- veterans who have served in Active As noted, we can’t wait another day ternal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by Duty and who are still pressing forward for this to take effect. redesignating paragraphs (5), (6), and (7) as in spite of conditions that they face, Ms. BROWN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, paragraphs (6), (7), and (8), respectively, and this is the bill that provides the answer I yield back the balance of my time. by inserting after paragraph (4) the following and the love and affection for the vet- Mr. MILLER of Florida. Mr. Speaker, new paragraph: ‘‘(5) SPECIAL RULES FOR CERTAIN EMER- erans and military personnel who have in closing, I appreciate the comments GENCY SERVICES, GOVERNMENT, AND NONPROFIT put on the uniform every day and who from both sides of the aisle, and I look VOLUNTEERS.— have never—never once—shied away forward to working with all of our col- ‘‘(A) EMERGENCY SERVICES VOLUNTEERS.— from their duty and decided that their leagues on future issues as they relate Qualified services rendered as a bona fide lives and their ills were greater than to the Department of Veterans Affairs volunteer to an eligible employer shall not their commitment to this Nation. and, in particular, the SAV Act. be taken into account under this section as We owe them this. This is a ‘‘God I yield back the balance of my time. service provided by an employee. For pur- bless America’’ bill. I thank the pro- Ms. DUCKWORTH. Mr. Speaker, I was poses of the preceding sentence, the terms ponents of it. ‘qualified services’, ‘bona fide volunteer’, and pleased that my colleagues unanimously ‘eligible employer’ shall have the respective Mr. MILLER of Florida. Mr. Speaker, agreed during the 113th Congress that we I would like to inquire of the ranking meanings given such terms under section must act to combat Veteran suicide and I am 457(e). member how many speakers she has grateful that we are acting quickly in the first ‘‘(B) CERTAIN OTHER GOVERNMENT AND NON- left. days of the 114th Congress to address this PROFIT VOLUNTEERS.— Ms. BROWN of Florida. The last critical unfinished business. The statistics are ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Services rendered as a speaker just finished. I have no addi- heartbreaking. An average of 22 Veterans bona fide volunteer to a specified employer tional speakers. commit suicide every day. So each day that shall not be taken into account under this Mr. MILLER of Florida. We have no section as service provided by an employee. we delay action is a day we cannot afford. I additional speakers either, so we are ‘‘(ii) BONA FIDE VOLUNTEER.—For purposes was proud to help introduce HR. 5059, Clay prepared to close. of this subparagraph, the term ‘bona fide vol- Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Vet- Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of unteer’ means an employee of a specified em- erans Act with Chairman JEFF MILLER and my time. ployer whose only compensation from such Ms. BROWN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, Representative TIM WALZ. While there is no employer is in the form of— bill that will completely end Veteran suicide, ‘‘(I) reimbursement for (or reasonable al- I yield myself such time as I may con- lowance for) reasonable expenses incurred in sume. this comprehensive measure is a step in the right direction. It will remove barriers that pre- the performance of services by volunteers, or It is unacceptable that 22 veterans ‘‘(II) reasonable benefits (including length are dying by suicide every day. We vent our nation’s heroes from getting the qual- of service awards), and nominal fees, custom- need to pull all stakeholders together ity, timely mental health care that they de- arily paid by similar entities in connection to work as a group to solve the prob- serve. It is my sincere hope that my col- with the performance of services by volun- lem. There is not one cause and not one leagues in the Senate will take note of the mo- teers. answer. There are a multitude of an- mentum in the House and bring this legislation ‘‘(iii) SPECIFIED EMPLOYER.—For purposes swers and a multitude of causes and so- to the Senate Floor as soon as possible. of this subparagraph, the term ‘specified em- ployer’ means— lutions. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by ‘‘(I) any government entity, and The Department of Defense, the VA, ‘‘(II) any organization described in section the gentleman from Florida (Mr. MIL- and the veterans service organizations 501(c) and exempt from tax under section need to work together to come up with LER) that the House suspend the rules 501(a). many solutions that will meet the and pass the bill, H.R. 203. ‘‘(iv) COORDINATION WITH SUBPARAGRAPH needs. There is not one solution but The question was taken. (A).—This subparagraph shall not fail to many. I pledge to work with my col- The SPEAKER pro tempore. In the apply with respect to services merely be- league from Minnesota and Chairman opinion of the Chair, two-thirds being cause such services are qualified services (as defined in section 457(e)(11)(C)).’’. MILLER to address the issues in the up- in the affirmative, the ayes have it. Ms. BROWN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments coming session. made by this section shall apply to months Access to mental health care and on that I demand the yeas and nays. beginning after December 31, 2013. benefits for our veterans is an issue I The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- plan to focus on in the months ahead, The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- ant to the rule, the gentleman from ant to clause 8 of rule XX, further pro- and I look forward to working with all Wisconsin (Mr. RYAN) and the gen- ceedings on this motion will be post- of my colleagues to ensure that vet- tleman from Connecticut (Mr. LARSON) erans are given the benefits and serv- poned. each will control 20 minutes. ices that they have earned. f The Chair recognizes the gentleman Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of PROTECTING VOLUNTEER FIRE- from Wisconsin. my time. FIGHTERS AND EMERGENCY RE- GENERAL LEAVE Mr. MILLER of Florida. Mr. Speaker, SPONDERS ACT Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time. I ask unanimous consent that all Mem- Ms. BROWN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, bers may have 5 legislative days within I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman I move to suspend the rules and pass which to revise and extend their re- from Connecticut (Mr. LARSON). the bill (H.R. 33) to the Internal marks and include extraneous material Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Mr. Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that on H.R. 33, currently under consider- Speaker, I want to thank the ranking emergency services volunteers are not ation. member, and certainly, I want to taken into account as employees under The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there thank the chairman. I won’t take the 2 the shared responsibility requirements objection to the request of the gen- minutes, but I want to thank them for contained in the Patient Protection tleman from Wisconsin? their incredible cooperation on this and Affordable Care Act. There was no objection. most important of issues. The Clerk read the title of the bill. Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, Derek Denfeld, from my district, lost The text of the bill is as follows: I yield myself such time as I may con- his life. There has been sadness and the H.R. 33 sume. coming together of the community. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- I am here bringing forward Mr. Our hearts go out to his wife, Heather; resentatives of the United States of America in BARLETTA’s bill, and it is really simple. to his son, Felix; and certainly to his Congress assembled, One of the cornerstones of our civil so- parents, Deb and Chris, whom I know SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. ciety—one of the great pieces of the personally. This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protecting American story—is volunteerism but, I thank the ranking member. I thank Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Re- in particular, volunteerism among our the sergeant major for his sponsorship sponders Act’’. first responders.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:22 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K12JA7.016 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H202 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 12, 2015 So many of us represent congres- That may not necessarily be the I want to start off by certainly ex- sional districts that thrive on and exist case. Some fire companies are consid- tending congratulations to Representa- on and preserve their safety on volun- ered part of their local government. If tive BARLETTA for his persistency in teer firefighters and first responders. you take the number of firefighters, continuing to bring this legislation for- Unfortunately, in the Affordable Care paid and unpaid, and add them to the ward. As he has pointed out, it has Act, there is a huge glitch. Under number of other public employees, such been bipartisanly supported, and it de- ObamaCare, volunteer firefighters and as highway workers, police, code en- serves passage. It passed unanimously, first responders are counted in many forcement officers, health officers, and as he indicated, in both the Ways and ways as if they were full-time equiva- clerical workers, you can easily reach Means Committee and also unani- lent employees, and therefore, volun- 50, even in a small town. mously on this floor, which is no small teer fire departments are getting hit This would be a very big deal in my order. with enormous fines, mandates, and home State of Pennsylvania, where 97 Of course, it comes in the midst of taxes. percent of our fire companies are ei- controversy. I say ‘‘controversy’’ be- It shouldn’t be that way. It is causing ther completely or mostly volunteers. cause—well, our distinguished chair- a huge paperwork burden, not to men- Nationally, almost 92 percent of fire man is to be congratulated as well for tion a fiscal drain on the budgets of companies use at least some volun- not only bringing this bill forward, but these small fire departments and emer- teers, and over 86 percent depend on all also for the great victory that was won gency responding agencies in our com- or mostly volunteers. by the Green Bay Packers yesterday. munities and in rural areas all across Those numbers come from the 2012 Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Will the gen- America. This legislation fixes this. National Fire Department Census con- tleman yield? I want to thank Congressman ducted by the United States Fire Ad- Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. In a BARLETTA for introducing this because ministration. If your district is like moment, because I do want to continue he clearly understands as a former mine, then volunteer firefighters are my praise of the Aaron Rodgers look- mayor and as someone who represents ingrained in your community. alike. Pennsylvania, which I know has a lot We won an initial battle on this Today, our distinguished chairman of volunteer firefighters just like we do issue. After I raised it with the IRS and announced that he is not running for in rural Wisconsin, that these are the brought pressure to bear through this President. We think that it is so that lifeblood of our communities. legislation, they finally relented and his look-alike, Aaron Rodgers, may fill The last thing that they need to do changed their rules regarding the Fed- that void. I know that it was an out- when they are so concerned about pre- eral tax status of volunteer fire- standing victory by the Packers yes- serving public safety and health is to fighters. terday, but it was not without con- worry about all of these ObamaCare However, this is too important of a troversy on our own committee. public safety issue to be left to the mandates. Mr. BARLETTA’s bill pre- I know that KENNY MARCHANT, KEVIN serves the freedom to operate for our changing positions of unelected Fed- BRADY, and SAM JOHNSON are very con- 780,000 public service volunteer fire- eral bureaucrats at the IRS. Their arbi- cerned about this, but as the chairman fighters. It removes this mandate and trary regulatory guidance could easily said, ‘‘The rules are the rules,’’ and we exempts them from this onerous man- be changed back. should proceed from there. Our people back home deserve better. date, so they can continue providing We owe our emergency service volun- b 1745 the public service that they have been teers, who risk their lives every day, right now. But I also want to thank all of those, rock-solid certainty. This legislation Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the and especially the chairman, who says, once and for all, that volunteer gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. raised the point about volunteer fire- firefighters are just that—volunteers— BARLETTA), the author of this legisla- fighters. All of us have that visual in and should not be subjected to the em- tion. our minds, of course, of those going up Mr. BARLETTA. Thank you, Mr. ployer mandate. It takes away the the stairs so that people can come Chairman. power of the IRS to change the rules. down the stairs. And since September Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support I want to thank my colleagues on 11, and noting that volunteer fire- both sides of the aisle for their contin- of my bill, H.R. 33, the Protecting Vol- fighters cover more than 70 percent of ued support. Last year, this bill passed unteer Firefighters and Emergency Re- this country, this clearly is a bill that the Ways and Means Committee by a sponders Act. was worthy of the unanimous approval This is a good, truly bipartisan bill strong bipartisan vote of 37–0, and it and consent that it received and, as I that protects our first responders, our passed the House by a very rare unani- indicated, is bipartisanly supported by mous vote of 410–0. Not one single volunteer firefighters, and emergency our entire delegation. services personnel. It protects them by Member, Republican or Democrat, op- I want to commend the gentleman posed it. ensuring that they are not considered from Connecticut, Representative I want to thank Speaker BOEHNER, employees under the employer man- COURTNEY, who will speak later, and Majority Leader MCCARTHY, Majority date provision of ObamaCare. also the gentlewoman from Con- Whip SCALISE, the Ways and Means If they were, some fire companies Committee, and their staffs. We all rec- necticut, Representative ESTY, and would be forced to pay for the volun- ognize that my bill is a simple, bipar- also the National Volunteer Fire Coun- teers’ health insurance or pay a fine, tisan solution to an unforeseen con- cil, which has been 1,000 percent behind driving many fire departments out of sequence of the President’s health care this and also other tax issues that are business. As a former mayor, I know law. going to be coming before our com- how important volunteer fire compa- This bill has the strong support of mittee that have been bipartisanly sup- nies are to the health and safety of a the National Volunteer Fire Council, ported as well by Representative community. Simply put, this is a pub- the International Association of Fire REICHERT, Tom Latham, and others. lic safety issue. Chiefs, and the Congressional Fire And I know that we share the bipar- I first learned about this issue from a Services Institute. I want to thank my tisan spirit in this. volunteer firefighter, Bob Timko, back partners, as well as the men and I also would like to say that, along home, and I began a crusade to clear women they represent, for their help. with firefighters, the many people who this up for volunteer firefighters and To be clear, forcing volunteer fire are emergency medical volunteers localities and the residents of Pennsyl- companies to comply with ObamaCare could benefit from a number of volun- vania and every other State. will not extend health insurance to the teer tax breaks that we could provide As you know, the employer mandate uninsured; rather, it will close as well. I look forward to working with of ObamaCare kicks in for employers firehouses, placing people at risk. our distinguished chairman and, again, with 50 or more employees. Now, some I strongly urge the passage of this commend the gentleman from Pennsyl- fire companies may hear about this and bill. vania, Representative BARLETTA. immediately think, ‘‘Well, we only Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Mr. I reserve the balance of my time. have 25 volunteers, so we are safe. We Speaker, I yield myself such time as I Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, don’t have 50.’’ may consume. I yield myself 30 seconds to say that I

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:27 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K12JA7.018 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H203 appreciate the kind words from the other aspects of what it is that we try of expense reimbursements, stipends, con- gentleman from Connecticut. to get done, on this, we are solid. This tributions to employee benefit plans, or This is bipartisan. It is wonderful just makes sense for America. This nominal wages. Local governments, for in- when we can work together and find makes sense for all those that lay their stance, noted that many volunteer fire- fighters or other emergency responders are common ground to get things done and life on the line anytime there is an paid a salary or an hourly wage, generally at find common ground where the comple- emergency or a fire. They do it volun- a rate lower than the rate paid to non-volun- tion of a pass is the completion of a tarily. teers performing services in a similar capac- pass, it is a rule. Hundreds and thousands of hours in ity. Other volunteer firefighters or emer- Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Will the training go into this. They spend time gency responders may receive expense reim- gentleman yield? away from their families. They take bursements or other fees each time they re- Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. I yield to time away from personal time, where spond to a call. Commenters generally ex- the gentleman from Connecticut. they could be doing other things, to get pressed concern that volunteer service would be discouraged if volunteer hours were re- Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. We are trained so that they can help other quired to be counted when determining especially gratified, though, in a true Americans who may need their help. It whether the individual is a full-time em- show of compassionate conservatism is absolutely incredible. It is so Amer- ployee for purposes of section 4980H. that you reached out to the chief fan of ican. It is something we look at with a In response to these concerns, the final the Jersey Cowboys—excuse me—the great sense of pride. regulations provide that hours of service do Dallas Cowboys, Chris Christie, to pro- And we went to the IRS and said: Lis- not include hours worked as a ‘‘bona fide vol- vide him with both a hug and a sincere ten, what we really need now is a stat- unteer.’’ For this purpose, the definition of ‘‘bona fide volunteer’’ is generally based on gesture from Wisconsin. ute that guarantees that these volun- teer fire departments will not be put the definition of that term for purposes of Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Reclaiming section 457(e)(11)(B)(i), which provides spe- my time, all in good jest. under pressure, where they would have cial rules for length of service awards offered With that, I yield 3 minutes to the to go out of business. to certain volunteer firefighters and emer- gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. This is not a health care issue, not as gency medical providers under a municipal KELLY), a member of the full com- far as it is supplying health care or deferred compensation plan. For purposes of mittee. paying a fine for those that volunteer; section 4980H, however, bona fide volunteers Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania. Mr. but this is a health care issue for every are not limited to volunteer firefighters and Speaker, I rise in very strong support single American for whom these people emergency medical providers. Rather, bona fide volunteers include any volunteer who is of H.R. 33, and I want to thank Speaker supply necessary services on a vol- untary basis to save their lives and an employee of a government entity or an BOEHNER and Majority Leader MCCAR- organization described in section 501(c) that THY for allowing this legislation to their property. So I think the gentleman from Penn- is exempt from taxation under section 501(a) come forward so early in this Congress. whose only compensation from that entity I agree with the gentleman from Con- sylvania (Mr. BARLETTA) is a champion or organization is in the form of (i) reim- on this issue. He was in the last Con- necticut (Mr. LARSON). People always bursement for (or reasonable allowance for) say: I wish you guys could get along; gress and the fact that it has come for- reasonable expenses incurred in the perform- just get something done. This is some- ward again—it is so overwhelmingly ance of services by volunteers, or (ii) reason- able benefits (including length of service thing that we overwhelmingly believe supported by both sides of our House that it truly is America’s Congress. It awards), and nominal fees, customarily paid in and we are going to get done. by similar entities in connection with the I think that the gentleman from truly is America’s issue. It truly is an issue that makes sense for all of us. It performance of services by volunteers. Pennsylvania (Mr. BARLETTA) has ex- is maybe our small way of thanking all Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Mr. plained very clearly that it has to be- those folks that do that every day Speaker, I think it is both appropriate come statute. It can’t be left to be without any pay, just because of the and right that we codify this and put it some nebulous fact that is rolling greatness in their hearts. into a law. around out there. Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Mr. With that, I yield 3 minutes to the Now, these people who do this work— Speaker, I really deeply appreciate the gentleman from Connecticut, JOE and in Pennsylvania, 97 percent, al- words of my colleague and fellow mem- COURTNEY, one of the chief sponsors most eight out of every 10 firefighters ber of the Ways and Means Committee. who, along with ELIZABETH ESTY, come from the volunteer aspect of it; Again, I want to commend the gen- helped engineer this bill. they are not paid. Yet because of some tleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Mr. COURTNEY. Mr. Speaker, first type of allowance they are given, they BARLETTA). of all, I want to congratulate the gen- fall under the Affordable Care Act, and I want to submit for the RECORD a tleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. this would destroy volunteer fire de- letter from the Department of the BARLETTA) for his leadership on this partments as we know them. So what Treasury that, at the bequest of a num- legislation, which has been noted. Mr. BARLETTA has very thoughtfully ber of Members bipartisanly submitted As we are standing here today, there done is he has put forth a piece of legis- and they made the changes to the are probably thousands of calls hap- lation that would guarantee that these rules. pening all across the country for fire folks don’t have to worry about that. B. EXCLUSIONS FROM DEFINITION OF HOUR OF suppression, for medical emergencies, Now, I have got to tell you, in the lit- SERVICE for people with all types of difficulties tle town that I grew up in and live in, Commenters requested that hours of serv- that volunteers—people who don’t have Butler, Pennsylvania, so many people ice performed in certain capacities not be to step up and train and spend all the volunteer their time to do the volun- counted as an hour of service. The final regu- hours and be available at the expense teer fire fighting. They are also the lations adopt the following changes in re- of their family time and their work EMS. They are the first responders. sponse to these comments. time—will respond to these calls. Last spring, one of our volunteer fire- 1. VOLUNTEER EMPLOYEES And for a lot of communities that men by the name of Ryan Sekerski, on Commenters requested that hours of serv- rely on volunteers, the issue of recruit- his way home from work, he heard over ice performed in the capacity of a volunteer ment and retention and just trying to his scanner that a fuel truck had over- for a government entity or tax-exempt orga- nization not be counted as hours of service make the environment conducive for turned. The driver was trapped inside for purposes of section 4980H. Under the defi- people to make that act of volun- that truck. He then went to the scene nition of hour of service outlined in these teering is a challenge that I think all of the accident, got his equipment that regulations, an hour of service is generally of us hear about from our volunteer was in the trunk of his car, got out, defined as an hour for which an employee is fire departments and first responders and saved that driver’s life. These are paid or entitled to payment. Accordingly, all across the Nation. the people that we are talking about. hours worked by a volunteer who does not So when this issue of the Affordable When you come to the people’s receive (and is not entitled to receive) com- Care Act being possibly a requirement House, America’s House, America’s pensation in exchange for the performance of for the shared responsibilities of em- services are not treated as hours of service Congress, we look at the things that we for purposes of section 4980H. ployers was out there, again, I applaud can do together, things that just make Commenters noted, however, that some Mr. BARLETTA for stepping up, intro- sense. While we may disagree on some volunteers receive compensation in the form ducing this legislation, and following

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:27 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K12JA7.019 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H204 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 12, 2015 up with mail to the IRS Commissioner. earlier, which is something that has they couldn’t save a life and how it af- They did respond almost exactly a year been bipartisanly cosponsored in the fected every one of those men and ago, saying that the regulations would past by Representatives REICHERT, women as if it were their own child. not count bona fide volunteers in terms Latham, myself, and others. They have a lot to worry about, and of the 50-employee count. But as was The distinguished chairman and I, what they shouldn’t worry about is noted, I think it is always better to who are classmates, who came into this where they are going to get money to have it in statute rather than rely on Congress together—he has also been a provide health insurance or pay a fine. the whims of administrative agencies great proponent and advocate for mak- I am sure this was an unintended con- that can change with the change of ad- ing sure that these volunteers, who sequence, and we here recognize that. ministration. So again, I think this is never were intended in both the case of So again, I want to thank the chair- an example of how the country really Mr. BARLETTA and also in the case of man and my colleagues for standing wants us to operate. the IRS, something that is administra- with me and saluting the real Amer- Again, if you look at the Affordable tively burdening for the IRS, this is, as ican heroes, the men and women who Care Act, since its passage, we have Mr. KELLY so passionately said, some- volunteer to save us, our first respond- worked together to eliminate the 1099 thing that is common sense, that we ers. filing requirement; we have worked to- ought to work on together, and that we Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, gether to make sure that our military ought to provide the relief for, those I yield back the balance of my time. families, through TRICARE, would who provide more than 70 percent of The SPEAKER pro tempore. The have age 26 coverage, which was left the volunteer aid across this country, question is on the motion offered by out when the bill was initially filed; especially when it comes to fighting the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. and here today, we are following up fires. And our National Volunteer Fire RYAN) that the House suspend the rules again with an example of commonsense Council is supportive of this as is the and pass the bill, H.R. 33. fixes to the legislation, which is what I Fire Chiefs Association. I am looking The question was taken. think the country really is looking for. forward to working with my colleagues The SPEAKER pro tempore. In the I would also note that the gentleman across the aisle to ensure this. opinion of the Chair, two-thirds being from Connecticut (Mr. LARSON) has leg- Again, with that, I commend and in the affirmative, the ayes have it. islation to restore tax exclusions which congratulate the gentleman from Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Mr. were on the books a number of years Pennsylvania (Mr. BARLETTA) and Speaker, on that I demand the yeas ago to help volunteer fire departments thank him for his fine work in this and nays. use property tax exemptions and equip- area, and I look forward to supporting The yeas and nays were ordered. ment donations that had been treated him on future endeavors. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- as income by the IRS in past years. I yield back the balance of my time. ant to clause 8 of rule XX, further pro- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, ceedings on this motion will be post- time of the gentleman has expired. I yield myself just a few moments to poned. Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. I yield say to the gentleman from Connecticut f the gentleman an additional minute. (Mr. LARSON), I appreciate him for his RECESS Mr. COURTNEY. Unfortunately, comity, for the bipartisan nature of those tax exemptions expired. And I this. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- know, again, the gentleman—and I am I would say to the gentleman from ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair sure with bipartisan support—is going Connecticut (Mr. COURTNEY), first, declares the House in recess until ap- to introduce measures to bring those they have to get through some tough proximately 6:30 p.m. today. back and, again, allow these depart- luck—Andrew Luck, in particular—in Accordingly (at 6 p.m.), the House ments that are struggling to retain and order to make it to where they want to stood in recess. recruit to have the tools so that they go. f With that, for the purpose of closing can make it easier, rather than having b 1830 to file 1040s and drive people crazy on his own bill, I would like to yield around tax filing time for things like such time as he may consume to the AFTER RECESS boots and coats and a property tax ex- gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. The recess having expired, the House emption being treated as taxable in- BARLETTA). was called to order by the Speaker pro come. Mr. BARLETTA. Mr. Speaker, I tempore (Mr. BYRNE) at 6 o’clock and So again, I look forward to the pas- would like to thank my colleagues on 30 minutes p.m. both sides. There are very few times sage of this legislation with the huge f bipartisan margin that we saw last when you have a vote here that is year; and given the administration’s unanimous, and it is for a simple rea- ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER response to our entreaties, again, I son. It is that everyone here under- PRO TEMPORE fully expect that there will be a bill stands and appreciates what these men The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- signing ceremony at the White House, and women in our communities are ant to clause 8 of rule XX, proceedings assuming it gets through the Senate. willing to do to make the community will resume on questions previously Again, with that, I would urge passage. safe. postponed. Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, You know, as a mayor, I have come Votes will be taken in the following I have no further requests for time to appreciate the volunteer firefighters order: other than to close. more than I could ever imagine. Many Suspending the rules and passing May I inquire of the gentleman from times, I have watched them stand out H.R. 203; Connecticut? in the middle of a road with a boot, Suspending the rules and passing Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. I have trying to raise money so that they H.R. 33; no further requests for time. could buy gear or equipment or get Agreeing to the Speaker’s approval of JOE COURTNEY said, ‘‘Don’t forget to more training. The volunteers ask very the Journal. mention the Patriots,’’ so I would be little of their community compared to The first electronic vote will be con- remiss if I didn’t. what they are willing to give, and that ducted as a 15-minute vote. Remaining Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. I reserve the is the ultimate sacrifice. They are will- electronic votes will be conducted as 5- balance of my time. ing to give their lives for people that minute votes. Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Mr. they don’t even know. They are willing f Speaker, I yield myself such time as I to walk into a burning fire. may consume. I can remember one night, our local CLAY HUNT SUICIDE PREVENTION I want to thank Representative fire department in Hazleton, Pennsyl- FOR AMERICAN VETERANS ACT COURTNEY also for recognizing the Vol- vania, they ran in, and they came out The SPEAKER pro tempore. The un- unteer Responder Incentive Protection with a little baby whose life they finished business is the vote on the mo- Reauthorization Act, as I mentioned saved. And I also remember a day when tion to suspend the rules and pass the

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:27 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K12JA7.020 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H205 bill (H.R. 203) to direct the Secretary of Langevin Nugent Sewell (AL) Do you solemnly swear that you will sup- Veterans Affairs to provide for the con- Larsen (WA) Nunes Sherman port and defend the Constitution of the Larson (CT) O’Rourke Shimkus United States against all enemies, foreign duct of annual evaluations of mental Latta Olson Shuster and domestic; that you will bear true faith health care and suicide prevention pro- Lawrence Palazzo Simpson and allegiance to the same; that you take grams of the Department of Veterans Levin Pallone Sinema Lewis Palmer Sires this obligation freely, without any mental Affairs, to require a pilot program on Lieu (CA) Pascrell Slaughter reservation or purpose of evasion; and that loan repayment for psychiatrists who Lipinski Paulsen Smith (MO) you will well and faithfully discharge the du- agree to serve in the Veterans Health LoBiondo Payne Smith (NE) ties of the office on which you are about to Administration of the Department of Loebsack Pearce Smith (NJ) enter, so help you God. Lofgren Pelosi Smith (TX) Veterans Affairs, and for other pur- Long Perry Speier The SPEAKER. Congratulations. You poses, on which the yeas and nays were Loudermilk Peters Stefanik are now Members of the 114th Congress. ordered. Love Peterson Stewart Lowenthal Pingree ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER The Clerk read the title of the bill. Stivers Lowey Pittenger Stutzman The SPEAKER (during the vote). The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Lucas Pitts Swalwell (CA) Under clause 5(d) of rule XX, the Chair question is on the motion offered by Luetkemeyer Poe (TX) Takai Lujan Grisham Poliquin announces to the House that, in light the gentleman from Florida (Mr. MIL- Takano (NM) Polis Thompson (CA) of the administration of the oath to ´ LER) that the House suspend the rules Lujan, Ben Ray Pompeo Thompson (MS) the gentlewoman from California and and pass the bill. (NM) Posey Thompson (PA) Lummis Price (GA) the gentlemen from Alaska and Texas, The vote was taken by electronic de- Thornberry the whole number of the House is now MacArthur Price (NC) Tiberi Maloney, Quigley vice, and there were—yeas 403, nays 0, Tipton 433. Carolyn Rangel not voting 29, as follows: Tonko Maloney, Sean Ratcliffe Torres b 1900 [Roll No. 17] Marchant Reed Trott Marino Reichert Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN changed YEAS—403 Tsongas Massie Renacci Turner her vote from ‘‘nay’’ to ‘‘yea.’’ Abraham Conaway Granger Matsui Ribble Upton So (two-thirds being in the affirma- Adams Connolly Graves (GA) McCarthy Rice (NY) Van Hollen Aderholt Conyers Graves (LA) McCaul Rice (SC) tive) the rules were suspended and the Vargas Aguilar Cook Graves (MO) McClintock Richmond bill was passed. Veasey Allen Cooper Grayson McCollum Rigell The result of the vote was announced Amash Costa Green, Al McDermott Roby Vela ´ Amodei Costello (PA) Green, Gene McGovern Roe (TN) Velazquez as above recorded. Ashford Courtney Griffith McHenry Rogers (KY) Visclosky A motion to reconsider was laid on Babin Cramer Grijalva McKinley Rohrabacher Wagner the table. Barletta Crawford Grothman McMorris Rokita Walberg Barr Crenshaw Guinta Rodgers Rooney (FL) Walker f Barton Crowley Guthrie McNerney Ros-Lehtinen Walorski Bass Cuellar Gutie´rrez McSally Roskam Walters, Mimi PROTECTING VOLUNTEER FIRE- Beatty Culberson Hanna Meadows Ross Walz FIGHTERS AND EMERGENCY RE- Becerra Curbelo (FL) Hardy Waters, Maxine Meehan Rothfus SPONDERS ACT Benishek Davis (CA) Harper Meeks Rouzer Watson Coleman Bera Davis, Danny Harris Meng Royce Weber (TX) The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Beyer Davis, Rodney Hartzler Webster (FL) Messer Ruiz BYRNE). The unfinished business is the Bilirakis DeFazio Hastings Mica Ruppersberger Welch Bishop (GA) DeGette Heck (NV) Miller (FL) Russell Wenstrup vote on the motion to suspend the Bishop (MI) Delaney Heck (WA) Miller (MI) Ryan (WI) Westerman rules and pass the bill (H.R. 33) to Bishop (UT) DeLauro Hensarling Moolenaar Salmon Whitfield amend the Internal Revenue Code of Black DelBene Herrera Beutler Mooney (WV) Sanchez, Loretta Williams Blackburn Denham Higgins Moore Sanford Wilson (FL) 1986 to ensure that emergency services Blum Dent Hill Moulton Sarbanes Wilson (SC) volunteers are not taken into account Blumenauer DeSantis Himes Mullin Scalise Wittman as employees under the shared respon- Bonamici DeSaulnier Hinojosa Mulvaney Schakowsky Womack sibility requirements contained in the Bost Deutch Holding Murphy (PA) Schiff Woodall Boustany Diaz-Balart Honda Nadler Schock Yarmuth Patient Protection and Affordable Care Boyle (PA) Dingell Hoyer Napolitano Schweikert Yoder Act, on which the yeas and nays were Brady (PA) Doggett Hudson Neal Scott (VA) Yoho ordered. Brat Dold Huelskamp Neugebauer Scott, Austin Young (AK) Bridenstine Doyle (PA) Huffman Newhouse Scott, David Young (IA) The Clerk read the title of the bill. Brooks (AL) Duffy Huizenga (MI) Noem Sensenbrenner Young (IN) The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Brooks (IN) Duncan (SC) Hultgren Nolan Serrano Zeldin question is on the motion offered by Brown (FL) Duncan (TN) Hunter Norcross Sessions Zinke Brownley (CA) Edwards Hurd (TX) the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Buchanan Ellison Hurt (VA) NOT VOTING—29 RYAN) that the House suspend the rules Buck Ellmers Israel ´ and pass the bill. Bucshon Emmer Issa Brady (TX) Kinzinger (IL) Sanchez, Linda Burgess Engel Jackson Lee Carney Lee T. This is a 5-minute vote. Bustos Eshoo Jeffries Cohen Lynch Schrader The vote was taken by electronic de- Butterfield Esty Jenkins (KS) Cummings Murphy (FL) Smith (WA) vice, and there were—yeas 401, nays 0, DesJarlais Byrne Farenthold Jenkins (WV) Perlmutter Titus not voting 31, as follows: Calvert Farr Johnson (GA) Duckworth Pocan Valadao Capps Fattah Johnson (OH) Gohmert Rogers (AL) Walden [Roll No. 18] Capuano Fincher Johnson, E. B. Hahn Roybal-Allard Wasserman Hice (GA) YEAS—401 Ca´ rdenas Fitzpatrick Johnson, Sam Rush Schultz Katko Carson (IN) Fleischmann Jolly Ryan (OH) Westmoreland Abraham Bishop (UT) Byrne Carter (GA) Fleming Jones Kelly (IL) Adams Black Calvert Carter (TX) Flores Jordan Aderholt Blackburn Capps SWEARING IN OF MEMBERS-ELECT Cartwright Forbes Joyce Aguilar Blum Capuano Castor (FL) Fortenberry Kaptur The SPEAKER (during the vote). Allen Blumenauer Ca´ rdenas Amash Bonamici Carson (IN) Castro (TX) Foster Keating During this vote the Chair will admin- Chabot Foxx Kelly (PA) Amodei Boustany Carter (GA) Chaffetz Frankel (FL) Kennedy ister the oath of office to several Mem- Ashford Boyle (PA) Carter (TX) Chu (CA) Franks (AZ) Kildee bers who have not yet had the oppor- Babin Brady (PA) Cartwright Cicilline Frelinghuysen Kilmer tunity to have the oath of office ad- Barletta Brat Castor (FL) Clark (MA) Fudge Kind Barr Bridenstine Castro (TX) Clarke (NY) Gabbard King (IA) ministered to them. Barton Brooks (AL) Chabot Clawson (FL) Gallego King (NY) Will the Members-elect please Bass Brooks (IN) Chaffetz Clay Garamendi Kirkpatrick present themselves in the well. Beatty Brown (FL) Chu (CA) Cleaver Garrett Kline Becerra Brownley (CA) Cicilline Clyburn Gibbs Knight Mr. CARTER of Texas, Mr. YOUNG of Benishek Buchanan Clark (MA) Coffman Gibson Kuster Alaska, and Ms. MAXINE WATERS of Bera Buck Clarke (NY) Beyer Bucshon Clawson (FL) Cole Goodlatte Labrador California appeared at the bar of the Collins (GA) Gosar LaMalfa Bilirakis Burgess Clay Collins (NY) Gowdy Lamborn House and took the oath of office, as Bishop (GA) Bustos Cleaver Comstock Graham Lance follows: Bishop (MI) Butterfield Clyburn

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:22 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K12JA7.022 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H206 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 12, 2015 Coffman Himes Mullin Thompson (MS) Vela´ zquez Whitfield Hultgren McNerney Sensenbrenner Cole Hinojosa Mulvaney Thompson (PA) Visclosky Williams Hunter McSally Serrano Collins (GA) Holding Murphy (PA) Thornberry Wagner Wilson (FL) Hurd (TX) Meadows Sessions Collins (NY) Honda Nadler Tiberi Walberg Wilson (SC) Hurt (VA) Meng Sherman Comstock Hoyer Napolitano Tipton Walker Wittman Issa Mica Shimkus Conaway Hudson Neal Tonko Walorski Womack Jenkins (WV) Miller (MI) Shuster Connolly Huelskamp Neugebauer Torres Walters, Mimi Woodall Johnson, Sam Moolenaar Simpson Conyers Huffman Newhouse Trott Walz Yarmuth Jolly Mooney (WV) Sinema Tsongas Waters, Maxine Yoder Keating Moulton Cook Huizenga (MI) Noem Smith (MO) Turner Watson Coleman Yoho Kelly (PA) Mullin Cooper Hultgren Nolan Smith (NE) Costa Hunter Norcross Upton Weber (TX) Young (AK) Kennedy Murphy (PA) Smith (NJ) Costello (PA) Hurd (TX) Nugent Van Hollen Webster (FL) Young (IA) Kildee Nadler Smith (TX) Courtney Hurt (VA) Nunes Vargas Welch Young (IN) King (IA) Napolitano Speier Cramer Israel O’Rourke Veasey Wenstrup Zeldin King (NY) Neal Stefanik Crawford Issa Olson Vela Westerman Zinke Kline Neugebauer Knight Newhouse Stewart Crenshaw Jackson Lee Palazzo NOT VOTING—31 Crowley Jeffries Pallone Labrador Noem Stutzman Cuellar Jenkins (KS) Palmer Bost Kelly (IL) Ryan (OH) LaMalfa Nugent Takai Culberson Jenkins (WV) Pascrell Brady (TX) Kinzinger (IL) Sa´ nchez, Linda Lamborn Nunes Takano Curbelo (FL) Johnson (GA) Paulsen Carney Lee T. Larson (CT) O’Rourke Thornberry Davis (CA) Johnson (OH) Payne Cohen Lynch Schrader Levin Olson Tiberi Davis, Danny Johnson, E. B. Pearce Cummings Messer Smith (WA) Lieu (CA) Pascrell Tonko Davis, Rodney Johnson, Sam Pelosi DesJarlais Murphy (FL) Titus Lipinski Payne Torres DeFazio Jolly Perry Duckworth Perlmutter Valadao Loebsack Pingree Trott DeGette Jones Peters Gohmert Pocan Walden Lofgren Polis Upton Delaney Jordan Peterson Hahn Rogers (AL) Wasserman Long Pompeo Van Hollen Loudermilk Posey DeLauro Joyce Pingree Hice (GA) Roybal-Allard Schultz Vela Lowenthal Quigley DelBene Kaptur Pittenger Katko Rush Westmoreland Vela´ zquez Lowey Rangel Denham Keating Pitts Wagner Lucas Roby Dent Kelly (PA) Poe (TX) b 1909 Walker DeSantis Kennedy Poliquin Luetkemeyer Rogers (KY) Lujan Grisham Rohrabacher Walorski DeSaulnier Kildee Polis So (two-thirds being in the affirma- (NM) Rooney (FL) Walters, Mimi Deutch Kilmer Pompeo tive) the rules were suspended and the Luja´ n, Ben Ray Roskam Walz Diaz-Balart Kind Posey bill was passed. (NM) Ross Watson Coleman Dingell King (IA) Price (GA) The result of the vote was announced Lummis Rothfus Webster (FL) Doggett King (NY) Price (NC) MacArthur Rouzer Welch Dold Kirkpatrick Quigley as above recorded. Maloney, Royce Westerman Doyle (PA) Kline Rangel A motion to reconsider was laid on Carolyn Ruiz Whitfield Duffy Knight Ratcliffe the table. Marchant Ruppersberger Williams Duncan (SC) Kuster Reed Marino Russell Duncan (TN) Labrador Reichert Wilson (FL) f Massie Ryan (WI) Edwards LaMalfa Renacci Wilson (SC) McCarthy Salmon Womack Ellison Lamborn Ribble THE JOURNAL McCaul Sanchez, Loretta Ellmers Lance Rice (NY) Yarmuth McClintock Sanford Young (AK) Emmer Langevin Rice (SC) The SPEAKER pro tempore. The un- McCollum Scalise Young (IA) Engel Larsen (WA) Richmond finished business is the question on McDermott Schiff Young (IN) Eshoo Larson (CT) Rigell agreeing to the Speaker’s approval of McHenry Schweikert Esty Latta Roby Zeldin the Journal, on which the yeas and McMorris Scott (VA) Farenthold Lawrence Roe (TN) Rodgers Scott, David Zinke Farr Levin Rogers (KY) nays were ordered. Fattah Lewis Rohrabacher The question is on the Speaker’s ap- NAYS—128 Fincher Lieu (CA) Rokita Fitzpatrick Lipinski Rooney (FL) proval of the Journal. Aguilar Hastings Perry Fleischmann LoBiondo Ros-Lehtinen This is a 5-minute vote. Amash Heck (NV) Peters Fleming Loebsack Roskam The vote was taken by electronic de- Babin Herrera Beutler Peterson Benishek Hill Pittenger Flores Lofgren Ross vice, and there were—yeas 257, nays Forbes Long Rothfus Bera Holding Poe (TX) Fortenberry Loudermilk Rouzer 128, not voting 47, as follows: Bishop (MI) Honda Poliquin Foster Love Royce [Roll No. 19] Boyle (PA) Hoyer Price (GA) Foxx Lowenthal Ruiz Brady (PA) Hudson Ratcliffe Frankel (FL) Lowey Ruppersberger YEAS—257 Brownley (CA) Huizenga (MI) Reed Franks (AZ) Lucas Russell Abraham Castro (TX) Edwards Buchanan Israel Reichert Frelinghuysen Luetkemeyer Ryan (WI) Adams Chabot Ellison Bucshon Jackson Lee Renacci Fudge Lujan Grisham Salmon Aderholt Chu (CA) Emmer Burgess Jeffries Ribble Gabbard (NM) Sanchez, Loretta Allen Cicilline Engel Capuano Jenkins (KS) Rice (NY) Gallego Luja´ n, Ben Ray Sanford Amodei Clark (MA) Eshoo Castor (FL) Johnson (OH) Rice (SC) Garamendi (NM) Sarbanes Ashford Clawson (FL) Esty Chaffetz Johnson, E. B. Richmond Clarke (NY) Jones Garrett Lummis Scalise Barletta Clay Farr Rigell Clyburn Jordan Gibbs MacArthur Schakowsky Barr Cleaver Fattah Roe (TN) Collins (GA) Kilmer Gibson Maloney, Schiff Barton Coffman Fincher Ros-Lehtinen Connolly Kind Goodlatte Carolyn Schock Beatty Cole Fleischmann Sarbanes Costa Kirkpatrick Gosar Maloney, Sean Schweikert Becerra Collins (NY) Fortenberry Schakowsky Gowdy Marchant Scott (VA) Beyer Comstock Foster Davis, Rodney Kuster DeFazio Lance Schock Graham Marino Scott, Austin Bilirakis Conaway Frankel (FL) Sewell (AL) Granger Massie Scott, David Bishop (GA) Conyers Franks (AZ) Delaney Langevin Denham Latta Sires Graves (GA) Matsui Sensenbrenner Bishop (UT) Cook Frelinghuysen Slaughter Graves (LA) McCarthy Serrano Black Cooper Gabbard DeSantis Lewis Dold LoBiondo Stivers Graves (MO) McCaul Sessions Blackburn Costello (PA) Gallego Swalwell (CA) Grayson McClintock Sewell (AL) Blum Courtney Garamendi Duffy Love Ellmers Maloney, Sean Thompson (CA) Green, Al McCollum Sherman Blumenauer Cramer Goodlatte Thompson (MS) Green, Gene McDermott Shimkus Bonamici Crawford Gosar Farenthold Matsui Thompson (PA) Griffith McGovern Shuster Bost Crenshaw Gowdy Fitzpatrick McGovern Tipton Grijalva McHenry Simpson Boustany Crowley Graham Fleming McKinley Turner Grothman McKinley Sinema Brat Cuellar Graves (GA) Flores Meehan Vargas Guinta McMorris Sires Bridenstine Culberson Grayson Forbes Miller (FL) Veasey Guthrie Rodgers Slaughter Brooks (AL) Curbelo (FL) Grothman Foxx Moore Visclosky Gutie´rrez McNerney Smith (MO) Brooks (IN) Davis (CA) Guinta Fudge Mulvaney Walberg Hanna McSally Smith (NE) Brown (FL) Davis, Danny Guthrie Garrett Nolan Waters, Maxine Hardy Meadows Smith (NJ) Buck DeGette Gutie´rrez Gibbs Norcross Weber (TX) Harper Meehan Smith (TX) Bustos DeLauro Hardy Gibson Palazzo Harris Meeks Speier Butterfield DelBene Harper Graves (MO) Pallone Wenstrup Hartzler Meng Stefanik Byrne Dent Harris Green, Al Palmer Wittman Hastings Mica Stewart Calvert DeSaulnier Hartzler Green, Gene Paulsen Woodall Heck (NV) Miller (FL) Stivers Capps Deutch Heck (WA) Griffith Pearce Yoder Heck (WA) Miller (MI) Stutzman Ca´ rdenas Diaz-Balart Hensarling Hanna Pelosi Yoho Hensarling Moolenaar Swalwell (CA) Carson (IN) Doggett Higgins Herrera Beutler Mooney (WV) Takai Carter (GA) Doyle (PA) Himes NOT VOTING—47 Higgins Moore Takano Carter (TX) Duncan (SC) Hinojosa Bass Carney Cummings Hill Moulton Thompson (CA) Cartwright Duncan (TN) Huelskamp Brady (TX) Cohen DesJarlais

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:30 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A12JA7.010 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H207 Dingell Larsen (WA) Ryan (OH) Congress assemble in the Hall of the House I join, and I know all of my col- Duckworth Lawrence Sa´ nchez, Linda of Representatives on Tuesday, January 20, leagues join, in honoring Joe Strick- Gohmert Lee T. 2015, at 9 p.m., for the purpose of receiving Granger Lynch land, thanking him for his service to Schrader such communication as the President of the Graves (LA) Meeks this House. We wish him a very happy Scott, Austin United States shall be pleased to make to Grijalva Messer Smith (WA) retirement, full of time spent with his Hahn Murphy (FL) them. Titus husband, Tom, and their son, Kevin. I Hice (GA) Perlmutter Tsongas The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there Huffman Pitts Valadao thank him for his service to the Con- Johnson (GA) Pocan objection to the request of the gentle- Walden gress and to our country. Joyce Price (NC) woman from California? Wasserman Kaptur Rogers (AL) There was no objection. f Katko Rokita Schultz Kelly (IL) Roybal-Allard Westmoreland The concurrent resolution was agreed PLACATING THE COMMUNIST Kinzinger (IL) Rush to. REGIME OF CUBA A motion to reconsider was laid on b 1916 (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was the table. given permission to address the House Mr. HILL changed his vote from f for 1 minute and to revise and extend ‘‘yea’’ to ‘‘nay.’’ her remarks.) So the Journal was approved. REMOVAL OF NAME OF MEMBER Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, it The result of the vote was announced AS COSPONSOR OF H.R. 217 is truly astonishing that President as above recorded. Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Speaker, I ask Obama is asking Congress and the f unanimous consent that Representa- American people to applaud and reward AUTHORIZING USE OF EMANCI- tive ADAM SMITH be removed as a co- the Castro regime for releasing 53 inno- PATION HALL FOR CEREMONY sponsor of H.R. 217. He was inadvert- cent people from its gulags today while TO PRESENT CONGRESSIONAL ently added through a clerical error ignoring the fact that over 1,000 were GOLD MEDAL TO FIRST SPECIAL and did not intend to cosponsor the arrested last year. SERVICE FORCE legislation. These individuals were imprisoned The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there for expressing their basic rights as Mrs. COMSTOCK. Mr. Speaker, I ask objection to the request of the gentle- unanimous consent to take from the human beings, and for seeking reforms woman from Tennessee? on the island based on the universal Speaker’s table (S. Con. Res. 2) author- There was no objection. izing the use of Emancipation Hall in and fundamental principle of freedom. the Capitol Visitor Center for a cere- f What a pathetically low bar Presi- mony to present the Congressional HONORING THE SERVICE OF JOE dent Obama has set. This administra- Gold Medal to the First Special Service STRICKLAND tion has shown, time and again, that it Force, in recognition of its superior is more willing to appease tyrants than (Mr. HOYER asked and was given to fulfill America’s role as the defender service during World War II, and ask permission to address the House for 1 for its immediate consideration in the of freedom, of democracy, and respect minute.) for human rights. House. Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I rise The Clerk read the title of the con- President Obama’s concessions to the today to honor one of our own, Joe Castro regime further illustrate that current resolution. Strickland, the Chief Reporter of De- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there he is willing to abandon American core bates, on his retirement from the objection to the request of the gentle- principles of liberty and justice in House after more than 21 years of serv- woman from Virginia? order to placate a dangerous regime. ice. There was no objection. f Joe Strickland is a native Texan. He The text of the concurrent resolution came to the House in 1993, 2 years after AMERICANS MOURN WITH THE is as follows: graduating from court reporting PEOPLE OF PARIS S. CON. RES. 2 school. He quickly distinguished him- (Mr. SWALWELL of California asked Resolved by the Senate (the House of Rep- self not only as an excellent court re- and was given permission to address resentatives concurring), porter but as a very capable manager. the House for 1 minute and to revise SECTION 1. USE OF EMANCIPATION HALL FOR In 2000, the Clerk of the House pro- CEREMONY TO PRESENT CONGRES- and extend his remarks.) SIONAL GOLD MEDAL TO FIRST SPE- moted Joe to Deputy Chief Reporter Mr. SWALWELL of California. Mr. CIAL SERVICE FORCE. and made him Chief in 2005. Speaker, today we mourn with the peo- Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Joe has participated in seven State of ple of Paris. Americans stand with Center is authorized to be used on February the Union addresses by three Presi- Paris and attacks on innocent people 3, 2015, for a ceremony to present the Con- dents, and he has developed a global everywhere across the world. gressional Gold Medal to the First Special reputation as a leader in reporting par- Service Force collectively, in recognition of Terrorists are escalating their at- its superior service during World War II. liamentary debates. tacks on innocent people across the Physical preparations for the conduct of the Joe has represented the House abroad world as we speak. Americans here at ceremony shall be carried out in accordance on several occasions, Mr. Speaker, in- home are rightfully concerned, and to with such conditions as the Architect of the cluding participating in the World e- protect them, they look to us, their Capitol may prescribe. Parliament Conference in Johannes- lawmakers. The concurrent resolution was con- burg. Our greatest responsibility, above ev- curred in. Here at home, Joe has addressed the erything else we ever do, prescribed to A motion to reconsider was laid on national convention of the National us in the Constitution, is to keep peo- the table. Court Reporters Association three ple safe in their homes and in their f times, and he has served on the board country. of the Greater Washington Shorthand As security measures go up in our PROVIDING FOR A JOINT SESSION Reporters Association. country to keep us safe, unfortunately, OF CONGRESS TO RECEIVE A Mr. Speaker, the House has lost a House GOP leaders are proposing to MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT great resource and role model for the 43 shut the Department of Homeland Se- Mrs. COMSTOCK. Mr. Speaker, I send dedicated professionals Joe manages. curity down. We cannot play politics to the desk a privileged concurrent res- One of the reporters, of course, is on with our national security. olution and ask for its immediate con- the floor reporting this now, and we I urge my House GOP colleagues to sideration in the House. thank her, and we thank all of those stand up for security and not shut The Clerk read the concurrent reso- who have to listen to us and report down the government. Let’s put the lution, as follows: what we say. That is a tough job. But safety of the American people first and H. CON. RES. 7 I know that Joe will continue to in- put petty politics aside. Now is the Resolved by the House of Representatives (the spire those who serve in the reporting time that we stand strong for the secu- Senate concurring), That the two Houses of office. rity of everyone.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:30 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A12JA7.007 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H208 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 12, 2015 SECURING AMERICA’S BORDERS IT IS COOL TO BE FROM NORTH have on the embargo in Cuba, and I tell (Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania DAKOTA you that the people in Havana rejoiced. asked and was given permission to ad- (Mr. CRAMER asked and was given In the streets of Havana, they said dress the House for 1 minute.) permission to address the House for 1 there were two basic things they liked Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. minute.) about America: one was American Mr. Speaker, I rise to discuss work in Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Speaker, Aristotle movies, and the second was everything the House to secure our borders and ad- said, ‘‘We are what we repeatedly do. else. dress the Obama administration’s uni- Excellence, then, is not an act, but a When I got to come back home lateral actions on immigration. habit.’’ through Miami, at the airport, people This week, the House will consider Mr. Speaker, this weekend, the North with Cuban backgrounds—Americans— the 2015 Department of Homeland Secu- Dakota State University Bison football were so excited about the opportunity rity appropriations bill, which takes a team was in Frisco, Texas, attempting for America to rejoin the family of na- number of steps to bolster border secu- to win their fourth consecutive NCAA tions and to recognize the contribu- rity and law enforcement efforts. Division I FCS national title. tions that Cuba can make. We thought To start, the legislation provides for After a long stampede with a tal- that, today, we would be hearing a re- the largest operational force levels in ented flock of Illinois State Redbirds joicing for those people who should the history of the Customs and Border hot on their tail, they finally ended up have never been in jail in Cuba who Protection agency. The measure also in the end zone. The only ones in the were released. Obviously, there are supports several critical border secu- winner’s circle were the Thundering some people who have a different opin- rity initiatives, including around-the- Herd. ion. clock surveillance of air, land, and sea The seniors finished their careers I am here today to say that, with all approaches to the border. with more national championships, Mr. due respect to those Americans and to Furthermore, the legislation boosts Speaker, than losses. I am especially those Cubans who suffer under the dic- internal enforcement efforts and proud of the boys from North Dakota. tatorship in Cuba, we feel their pain, strengthens related domestic and inter- Bismarck Century’s Carson Wentz but now, American policy should over- national investigations. earned MVP status by quarterbacking ride the pain that a few feel for what is Finally, the legislation will provide his team to success, and BHS’ Esley in the best national interest of our for the amendments that will stop the Thorton sealed the deal with a last- great Nation. President’s executive actions on immi- minute interception. f gration. All of the teammates from the Rough A HOUSE OF GAMES Mr. Speaker, the President’s unilat- Rider State and beyond, you have made (Mr. YARMUTH asked and was given eral executive orders should be of con- us proud again, and you remind us why permission to address the House for 1 cern to each and every Member of this it is so cool to be from North Dakota. minute.) body. I call on colleagues from both f Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, there sides of the aisle to do what is right— b 1930 are a lot of games being played at this support this legislative package. It pro- time of year. Tonight, we are going to AN ANTI-IMMIGRANT CANCER tects the borders, it restores the rule of have a national championship game for law. The American people deserve as (Mr. JEFFRIES asked and was given the NCAA national football champion- much. permission to address the House for 1 ship, playoff games for the NFL cham- minute and to revise and extend his re- pionship. We have basketball games f marks.) being played and hockey games. The Mr. JEFFRIES. Mr. Speaker, it is my American people don’t need games THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND honor to represent one of the most di- being played in the House of Represent- SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS BILL verse districts in the entire Congress. atives, but that is exactly what we are (Mr. KENNEDY asked and was given Approximately 33 percent of the people seeing this week. permission to address the House for 1 whom I represent were born outside of The Republican majority is holding minute and to revise and extend his re- the United States of America. Folks hostage the security of this Nation— marks.) from all over the world come to Brook- holding the Department of Homeland Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. Speaker, I rise lyn and to Queens to pursue the Amer- Security’s budget hostage—so they can this evening in opposition to the House ican Dream. This is part of what makes advance some ideological provisions on Republican plan to tear apart millions America great; yet there is an anti-im- immigration reform. of families through extreme amend- migrant cancer spreading in this town This is nothing but a big pout on the ments to the Department of Homeland that is moving like a malignant tumor part of the Republican majority be- Security appropriations bill. amongst some on the other side of the cause they are upset with the Presi- In the face of inaction by this House aisle. dent’s executive action. If they want to last year, our President was forced to As a result of this invidious inflic- undo what the President has done and use his constitutional authority to tion, there are some in the House GOP proceed toward a sane immigration bring millions of our neighbors out of who are prepared to shut down the De- policy, we have an entire body of the shadows to fix a broken immigra- partment of Homeland Security, even Democrats and Republicans who is tion system. though America continues to be a top waiting to do that. I was part of the bi- Through scrapping the Secure Com- target for terrorists all across the partisan group last year that worked munities Program and ensuring that world. for the entire Congress in trying to get parents of American citizens could no This is shameful. This is reckless. that done. I know it is possible. longer live in fear of deportation, the This is irresponsible. The American No more games, Mr. Speaker. We President’s executive order has moved people need to rise up to stop it from need action—we need sane action—and our country forward. However, it is no happening. not holding our national security hos- substitute for the bipartisan congres- f tage. sional action that the majority of the f American people feel that we need and NORMALIZING U.S. RELATIONS that passed the Senate 2 years ago. WITH CUBA COMMEMORATING THE LIFE OF By undermining the President’s exec- (Mr. RANGEL asked and was given utive actions through amendments to permission to address the House for 1 The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. DHS appropriations, my colleagues are minute.) BUCK). Under the Speaker’s announced not only jeopardizing critical funding Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, I was in policy of January 6, 2015, the gen- for our Nation’s security but also ig- Havana, Cuba, when the President of tleman from New York (Mr. RANGEL) is noring the pain and suffering they will the United States declared that he was recognized for 60 minutes as the des- cause to millions across our country. going to relax the restrictions that we ignee of the minority leader.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:30 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K12JA7.032 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H209 Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, as the want to say ‘‘senior member’’—in the our Nation. His values, his vision, and senior member of the New York delega- New York delegation for getting us off his effectiveness for the people of New tion, it affords me a great honor to to a start to sing the praises of Mario York were an inspiration around the come from the Empire State of New Cuomo. It is my honor to join the New world. He was a man of principle and York, where we have so many people York delegation. I feel honored to do eloquence—that was good—and all the we are proud of, but because Mario so. Four of our children were born in world saw, again, that manifested in Cuomo represented the true nature of New York, so that gives me some the ‘‘shining city on a hill’’ speech at the American Dream, we from the standing on the subject. the 1984 Democratic Convention. State of New York would just like to Mr. Speaker, I come to the floor to With those soaring words, Governor laud the contributions that he has join the New York delegation in paying Cuomo summoned the best of America made, not just to Queens, where he was tribute to the memory of Governor and called us to empower the working raised, not just to the great State of Mario Cuomo. I am reminded of Eccle- people and middle class families who New York, but to those democratic siasticus. We all know this, but just are the backbone of our Nation. He principles that all of us believe in, and think of how appropriate it is for Mario asked us to remember how futures are no one could articulate it the way our Cuomo. built. We know Mario Cuomo’s lan- great Governor has. In Ecclesiasticus, it says: guage and leadership will echo through So many people have come to this Now let us praise great men, the heroes of the ages just as vital, just as urgent, country from faraway places, and our Nation. just as energizing as his words were somehow, when they succeed, some They led the people by their counsel and that day. change their names, some change their their knowledge of the laws. From their font In word and deed, Governor Cuomo attitudes, and some just absolutely for- of wisdom, they gave instruction. challenged us to make real the Amer- These are godly men whose righteous deeds get how they got here and how they ican Dream. He had it for his family. were perceived; but Mario Cuomo was have not been forgotten. Their wealth is their descendants, and their inheritance is He wanted it for everyone else, for all different. their children’s children. Their bodies are who strived to realize it, and opened Mario was so proud of the fact that buried in peace, and their names will live the doors of opportunity for every his parents were immigrants. He was forever. American family. proud of the fact that they came here The people will tell of their wisdom, and Family meant everything to him. He with nothing but a hope and a dream the congregation will continue to sing their was a proud for that their son would succeed. He suc- praise. three terms, but his proudest achieve- ceeded in everything that he touched, Does that remind you of Mario ment was his beautiful family. No one from neighborhood arbitration, to sec- Cuomo? Is that perfectly appropriate could miss the pride and inspiration he retary of state, to Lieutenant Gov- for him? Surely, those words apply to found in his immigrant parents and ernor; and, of course, the Nation re- the life and legacy of our great de- how he talked about them so beau- members him as Governor and as one parted friend, Mario. tifully or in his boundless dedication to who articulated the principles not of As a fellow Italian American, I have Matilda and his children. the Democratic Party, but of the entire always taken great pride in his leader- Our country has lost a great leader, country at a Democratic Convention. ship. As a San Franciscan who hosted but his family has lost a devoted hus- Of course, he leaves behind a son the Democratic Convention, we in Cali- band to his wife of over 60 years, to Ma- who, for those of us who attended his fornia had some kind of claim on Mario tilda. He was a loving father to five funeral would have to say not only did Cuomo because of the great speech that children—Margaret, Andrew, Maria, he talk about his father in terms that he made at that convention which Mr. Madeline, and Christopher—and was a made us all feel proud, but in that RANGEL referenced, but my observing doting grandfather to some really love- voice that he had, if you closed your of his greatness goes farther back than ly grandchildren. eyes for one moment, you would see that. My husband, Paul, and I and our en- that Mario Cuomo did not die. He left It was during a trip to Italy that we tire family are heartbroken. We are his son to continue in describing the were invited by President Carter in really heartbroken by his passing, and great opportunity that we have in this 1980 to bring the sympathy and support we continue to extend our deepest sym- great country. of the American people to Italy at the I am so glad that so many New York- pathy and love to Matilda and their time of the earthquake, when they lost ers are here. Because we are here for family. 2,700 lives and which left 265,000 people I hope it is a comfort to them that so such a short period of time—we are in homeless. I mention that because we many people in their own State, in the committees and reorganizing—the del- went by helicopter from village to vil- country, and, really, throughout the egation has asked me to reduce my re- lage to village. Villages were dev- world mourn their loss and continue to marks to 2 minutes, and I share that astated. pray for them and continue to be in- concern with the rest of our great dele- Mario Cuomo, here was this person spired by this great man. gation. who had such a large spirit and a good It is my great pleasure to yield back As Ecclesiasticus says: soul, who could sympathize with these the balance of my time so that the gen- People will tell of his wisdom, and the con- people in English and Italian. For ex- gregation will continue to sing his praise. tleman from New York, JOSEPH CROW- ample, in a village where a First Com- LEY, may control the remainder of my I thank Mr. CROWLEY for yielding. I time. munion class was rehearsing for First thank him for bringing us together to Communion, all of the 7-year-olds in sing the praises of Mario Cuomo. f that village were in that church when Mr. CROWLEY. Thank you. COMMEMORATING THE LIFE OF the earthquake hit. The roof came Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentle- MARIO CUOMO down, and every 7-year-old in the vil- woman from Rochester, New York, The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under lage was lost. LOUISE SLAUGHTER. the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- Imagine the grief of those individual Ms. SLAUGHTER. I thank Mr. CROW- uary 6, 2015, the gentleman from New families and of that community to lose LEY for yielding to me. There is so York (Mr. CROWLEY) is recognized for those children, but as you would ex- much on my mind as to what I could the remainder of the hour as the des- pect, he was up to the task, knowing say about him. ignee of the minority leader. that words were completely inadequate I knew him longer than the rest of Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield and that no sympathy could meet the the New Yorkers. I met him in 1973. I to the gentlewoman from California pain that they were feeling; nonethe- was a member of the Democratic State (Ms. PELOSI), the minority leader of less, there was this beautiful, sympa- committee in Rochester, New York, the House. thetic man identifying with these peo- and I was asked by the district attor- Ms. PELOSI. I thank the gentleman ple from a region from which his fam- ney to come over to his house and meet for yielding. ily had come in southern Italy. a man from who was I thank the distinguished member Mario Cuomo was a pillar of strength thinking about running for Governor; and longest-serving member—I don’t through his community, his State, and so I joined my friends and sat in the

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:30 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K12JA7.033 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H210 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 12, 2015 living room for about an hour, await- those 2 years of showing him upstate This week in 1975, I became a member ing the guest from New York to get off New York. And then when he got elect- of the New York State Assembly. This the telephone in the kitchen and come ed lieutenant governor—I ran that up- week in 1975, Mario Cuomo became sec- out and talk to us. state campaign—the State Police took retary of state. I left to come to Con- He came out. He was perfectly over. But we still carried on all these gress in 1990, so I am fortunate to have charming, but he didn’t know upstate great conversations we had. And I re- served in the legislature 16 of the 20 New York. He started by telling us: ‘‘A member one of the policemen said once years that he served in the executive lot of people are talking to me about that no matter how upset Mario was, branch. running for Governor, and I thought it when he got off the plane and would go And in 1983, when I became chairman would be a good idea if I came up here 10 miles or 10 rounds with Louise, they of the Education Committee, I really to see what all of you thought.’’ were off on a whole other subject. got to know him and to speak to him I left the house that night, and I said I learned so much from him. And I and to understand what everyone that to my friend that I was driving with: know that everybody thinks of him as has spoken has already said. Above all, ‘‘He is really a nice guy, and he is very a one-speech maker sort of a—but let this man never forgot, and he under- smart, but, boy, he needs a lot of help.’’ me tell you, that was not it. The stood how important it was for him to I was really pretty lucky, I think, that speech that he made at Notre Dame be the son of an immigrant family. So I got to do that. As it turns out, Gov- was so incredibly wonderful and so im- he wanted everyone else to have the ernor Carey ran for Governor at that portant and so instructive that every- same opportunity. time, and Mr. Cuomo was appointed body should read that as well. But one Yes, he was eloquent. Yes, he had to secretary of state. of my very favorites was when he made be a great human being—after all, he He had some great ideas for upstate his speech about my hometown of was a minor league baseball player and New York. One of them was they were Rochester on Lake Ontario. was signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates, I going to have an upstate coordinator, He described Rochester as a necklace believe, to play ball, that alone makes which is kind of an amorphous title, of neighborhoods clustered around the him a great guy. But he was an elo- but I was very blessed that he let me lake. Now that is talking. And he also quent man who also remembered his try that job. I had been out of the talked about life, that our life needed humble beginnings in the grocery workforce. I was home. My youngest to be more than to just hope always to store, having to work to get through child was about 12 years old. It was land on the safe squares. And we law school, to be able to understand. back in the day when one income could thought that was such an incredible So when I stood in front of him as bring up a family and educate them. thing to think about, that your life had one who had been born an American to have more meaning than that. citizen—but a lot of people forgot along b 1945 The people that we worked with at the way that we were and treated us in the secretary of state’s office who were And so trying to get back into work a different way—he understood. There holdovers from the previous adminis- and to get back into all of that was was that simpatico that he had with tration had said to me many, many pretty difficult for me. And I am not him, where he understood where we times how wonderful it was for them to sure anybody else would have put up came from and what we needed. And I be able to work for such a first-rate with me, other than Mario Cuomo, giv- am just so honored to have served all lawyer. And believe me, he really was. ing me every opportunity in the world those years with Mario Cuomo and to He loved the country, as NANCY to try to learn what it is we were try- have considered him a friend. PELOSI pointed out. His love of his fam- ing to do. When I went to his funeral, Matilda But, boy, did I ever teach him a few ily was absolutely legendary. He was a man of deep conviction, of religious was just so gracious because she wrote things. We had an old State car, a rat- a book once where she asked people to tletrap. I drove him all over upstate faith, who loved his family more than anything. But he also loved the great write about who had influenced them. New York, and the conversations we And I wrote about a certain gentleman had would absolutely astound you. opportunity that this country had given to him. in the Bronx who had played major role We stopped one day in one of our in my starting my public career. And beautiful rural villages in upstate He talked so admiringly of his father and the strength that his father and she remembered that. named Pavilion to get a cup of coffee. And I, once again, offer my condo- And a 16-year-old girl came out to wait mother had, coming here with literally nothing. And it was the manual labor lences to the Cuomo family. on us. And here he was: a new person to But we should not feel sorry that he speak to. Now, those of you who knew that his father did to lift himself up and, consequently, his family to a bet- is gone. We have been blessed with the him know how exciting that would be. fact that he lived among us. And for And he started in by asking her, What ter life, and the country. He loved New York. He loved its peo- me, 16 of those 20 years, I learned so was the main business in Pavilion? ple. He loved its history more than much from him, and hopefully I was What was the gross domestic product anything. He loved the institution of able to help him along the way at there? He was asking her all these governing. times too. questions. And all she wanted to do was So I speak of him as somebody that Mr. CROWLEY. I thank my friend get him a cup of coffee. And I felt a lit- maybe other people didn’t get to know from the Bronx. tle sorry for her, so I said, ‘‘He is the the way I did, but I admired him al- And I yield to the gentleman from secretary of state.’’ Unfortunately, I ways. And I am pretty sure I would not Manhattan, Mr. NADLER. forgot the part to say secretary of be in elected office at all had I not had Mr. NADLER. I thank the gentleman state of New York. She went back into the opportunity to learn from him, the for yielding. the kitchen, knowing this man was not wonderful opportunity to represent our Mr. Speaker, I too came to the legis- Henry Kissinger, and never came back neighbors and to come down and to try lature and served for 16 years there. out. to make law and to make some And for most of that time, Mario And as we rode around in this old red changes. Cuomo was Governor. car, he would ask me about the corn- So I thank you very much for the We all know that he was an eloquent fields. And I will tell you, if my agri- time, Mr. CROWLEY. We will not see his philosopher in politics, someone who culture people knew what a botch I like again. could express the goals and the prin- made of trying to explain to him the Mr. CROWLEY. I thank the gentle- ciples of public office and of govern- life of the cornstalk, it was really lady. ment more eloquently than almost awful. And he would say things like, I now yield to the gentleman from anyone else. How do they heat that house over the Bronx, Mr. SERRANO. Mario Cuomo graduated first in his there? What do you think they do? (Mr. SERRANO asked and was given class from St. John’s Law School in Where do they all go to school? Every- permission to revise and extend his re- 1946. And despite sending out over 70 thing in the world interested him. marks.) resumes, he couldn’t get a response or He was the most extraordinary Mr. SERRANO. I thank my col- an interview from a top law firm be- teacher that I have ever had. I just had league, Mr. CROWLEY. cause he was Italian. And that was the

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:30 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K12JA7.034 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H211 state of prejudice in this country—or rose-colored view of the Nation, he His faith, his passion, his values, and at least on Wall Street in 1946. noted we were becoming too much a his unique gifts produced in him an He went on from there to become a ‘‘tale of two cities,’’ rather than a unrivaled ability to articulate the major lawyer, to become the Governor ‘‘shining city on a hill.’’ That speech plight, defend the rights, and engage of a State, to become a leader of a phi- crystallized the differences in com- the hopes of ordinary citizens. losophy in American politics. But in peting philosophies between those who I had the great fortune to be a dele- doing so, he never forgot where he believe Americans can do more to help gate when he gave one of the most sto- came from. He didn’t forget his experi- one another and those who think our ried speeches at the National Demo- ences, and he knew that other people Nation has already reached its greatest cratic Convention in 1984. I will never were having similar experiences. heights and cannot further improve. forget it. When Mario Cuomo spoke, it He was a man of great principle. He However, just as he was serving as an electrified the whole convention. We vetoed the death penalty—though he intellectual lodestar for progressive were transfixed by the power of his ap- knew that the death penalty was very and liberals nationally, Mario Cuomo peal right to the deepest reaches of our popular in New York—12 times in a remained dedicated to improving New common humanity. row, and he sustained those vetoes. Yorkers’ lives. A son of Queens, in He made all of us feel like we needed Having not forgotten where he came many ways, he reflected the aspira- to do more, work harder, and help oth- from, he always wanted to use govern- tions and dreams of that borough’s ers because that is what really came ment to help defenseless people who residents. Today, Queens is where fami- through when Mario Cuomo spoke: his needed the help of government, and he lies of all backgrounds—Latinos, deep, unwavering commitment to fun- did. Asian, Italian, and Greek immigrants— damental decency, justice, and human- We all know many of the things he converge to secure a decent, affordable ity. did. I am not going to repeat them place to live. He spoke to a sitting President on be- here. But I want to just mention a cou- In today’s political landscape, we half of the forgotten and the dispos- ple of things that didn’t get great pub- could all benefit from remembering sessed. He spoke to the powerful on be- licity but that I saw as a member of those words. In today’s cynical envi- half of the powerless. ‘‘There is de- the legislature. ronment, many have forgotten the tre- spair,’’ he said, ‘‘in the faces you don’t When he became Governor, he set up mendous good our government can see and the places you don’t visit.’’ a commission. I forget the exact title— achieve in pursuing justice, creating Mario Cuomo was right. He spent his Commission on Child Support, Com- opportunity, and caring for neighbors life working and looking out for the mission on Day Care, whatever it was. in need. hardworking people who build our shin- But every year for years, that commis- Governor Cuomo made many con- ing cities, who supply our food, who sion came up with legislation which he tributions, but that may be among his teach our children, who staff our hos- supported and pushed, and some of us most important. He provided the intel- pitals, people who are too often over- in the legislature worked on that. And lectual framework to remind us that worked, overlooked, and underserved. he passed—we passed pioneering legis- we have more to do, that our Nation His own family had owned a store in lation, pioneering in this country on can be better, and that we cannot af- Jamaica, Queens, and he knew full well child support enforcement, which was ford to leave our fellow New Yorkers the value of hard work and of edu- considered a radical idea in the early and Americans behind. cation. He lived the American Dream 1980s. We passed the Child Support For ensuring these ideas remain part and spent his life trying to build the Standards Act so that judges couldn’t of our national conversation, all of us American Dream for others. Mario leave women and their children with- owe him a debt and all of us appreciate Cuomo worked his way into St. John’s out adequate support. He passed day his decades of steadfast service. University. He attended St. John’s Uni- care resource and referral legislation I send my thoughts and my prayers versity School of Law in New York and and family day care, all of which came to his family, including his son, Gov- graduated first in his class. from the initiatives of Governor ernor . I hope they can He first rose to public attention when Cuomo, none of which got a lot of pub- take comfort in knowing that all of us he came roaring out of Queens back in licity, which was focused on so-called join in mourning with them. the 1970s to challenge city hall’s con- bigger items. But these helped people. demnation of a working class neighbor- b 2000 These were vital for people living their hood in Corona. People quickly began lives without a lot of money, without a Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Speaker, I thank to appreciate that Mario Cuomo had lot of resources. But government be- the gentlelady from , Queens, the transformative power to inspire came a helper and a friend because of and Manhattan. I now yield to the gen- others to demand for themselves a Governor Cuomo. tlelady from Queens and Manhattan more just and humane society and a Mr. CROWLEY. Thank you, Mr. NAD- and Brooklyn, Mrs. CAROLYN MALONEY. better government. He insisted that LER. Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New representative government should be I now yield to the gentlelady from York. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gen- just that: a government for all the peo- Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan, Ms. tleman for yielding and for his leader- ple. NYDIA VELA´ ZQUEZ. ship in so many ways, and I thank the Whenever he was on the ballot—and I Ms. VELA´ ZQUEZ. I thank the gen- leader of the Democratic Party for remember as an active Democrat tleman for yielding. leading us in this tribute to our great then—Democrat registration went up Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor a leader Governor. We appreciate very much because everybody wanted to vote for who inspired not only New Yorkers but your presence and support of Mario and help elect Mario Cuomo. They who also captured the imagination of Cuomo on the floor. knew he would do everything in his progressives across the Nation. At a It seems only fitting and proper for power to give them a fair shake. time when our national dialogue was us to pay tribute to the late Mario He once told me—and I always had dominated by those seeking to leave Cuomo here in this historic Chamber, these terrible elections. He would al- working families to fend for them- here where some of the most powerful ways tell me that he was my fairy god- selves, Governor Cuomo outlined a dif- and eloquent speakers in our Nation’s father, and he would grant me three ferent vision. Through his policies as history have changed the course of wishes to win the election, but only on Governor and his evocative speaking human events, not with swords but one condition, that I would go out and abilities, he articulated our moral obli- with words and ideas. grant three wishes to someone else and gation to care for one another while Mario Cuomo, the former Governor of help them do a better job in what they working toward a society that benefits New York, the liberal lion of the Em- wanted to do. all Americans, not only the affluent pire State, the conscience of the Demo- He was a wonderful friend and a men- and powerful. cratic Party, and a cherished friend, tor, a husband, a wonderful father. As a All of us remember his famous words had few peers when it came to making parent, there is no question he did a re- from the Democratic convention in San the power of ideas and ideals irresist- markable job. One son is a Governor, Francisco. Questioning conservatives’ ible forces for good. another is a news anchor, one daughter

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:30 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K12JA7.035 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H212 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 12, 2015 is a physician, another active in con- delegation that are here that want to was practicing law in Manhattan at a tinuing the family work in housing the speak, let me just say that he was com- place called Willkie, Farr, and Galla- homeless, and another is an attorney. petitive. I can think about those days gher. Remember, I had 15 minutes If that was all that he ever did, that when—I thank him first because he scheduled with him and left 2 hours would be plenty for one lifetime. talked about getting into politics, he later. I told him that his writings, Mario Cuomo did much more. He was allowed me to cut my teeth by appoint- going back to 1974, were as relevant secretary of state of the great State of ing me first to the New York State today as they were when they were New York, then Lieutenant Governor, Workers’ Compensation Board as a written. They were timeless; they were and finally Governor for three terms. judge, then later appointed me to be- classics. He led New York to provide health care come the supervising judge in the My favorite story is the one that he for children. He began the Decade of State, having me going all over the told about how he came to edit the the Child, an effort that used multiple State, and then encouraging me to run book, ‘‘Lincoln on Democracy.’’ In 1988, health care and educational strategies for the State assembly and, once I got Governor Cuomo met in Albany with a to better the lives of our most vulner- elected to the State assembly, working delegation from the teacher section of able. He passed the child support en- very closely with him. Poland’s Solidarity Union, which was forcement bill. Once I got into the assembly, I the leading advocate for bringing de- Under his leadership, the most in- thought he was a nice guy until you mocracy to Poland when it was under tense public health plan in the Nation got on the basketball court. How com- Communist rule. was put in place to take on the AIDS petitive was he on that basketball The teachers told the Governor that epidemic. Under Mario Cuomo, New court? Elbows—I look at some of the they were building an archive of influ- York State became the first State in players now when they are com- ential and insightful writings on de- the Nation to enact a seatbelt law. He plaining, et cetera, well, you need to go mocracy. They asked if he could rec- was a great man, and I am proud be- play old school basketball with Gov- ommend writings by American think- yond all telling to be able to say that ernor Mario Cuomo. ers that had influenced his approach to he was a friend, a mentor, and a sup- I close by saying that I thank God— public service and democracy. Cuomo porter. because he was a very religious man, immediately identified Abraham Lin- I grieve his passing, and I send my Mario Cuomo, too, but God could have coln as his favorite source of wisdom. most heartfelt condolences to his fam- sent him to California; he didn’t. He The Polish delegation said, ‘‘Gov- ily and his friends. I shall miss the sin- could have had him in Illinois or in ernor, Lincoln’s writings and speeches gular and remarkable man until the Texas or in Florida; no. are not available in Poland.’’ In fact, end of time. To know him was to love We were fortunate because God had they were banned. Cuomo promised to him. him, through his parents, who emi- give them the speeches that they need- Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Speaker, I now grated from Italy to come to a place ed in order to appreciate what he had yield to the gentleman from Queens where the Statue of Liberty was, who come to appreciate in Lincoln. and part of Nassau, Mr. MEEKS. believed ‘‘Give me your tired, give me Cuomo says, ‘‘Delegation, come over Mr. MEEKS. Mr. Speaker, I thank your weary,’’ who believed in family, here.’’ He pulled out the 378-page index the gentleman for yielding. and we had him in the great State of of the collected works of Abraham Lin- When I think of Governor Mario New York. coln—not one mention of democracy in Cuomo, many talk about his great ora- Thank you, Governor Mario Cuomo. those works; so together with Lincoln tory, many talk about some of the fan- Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Speaker, I thank scholar Harold Holzer, he wrote, edited, tastic speeches that he made, but when my good friend. and published ‘‘Lincoln on Democ- I think about Mario Cuomo, he didn’t I now yield to the gentleman from racy,’’ a book that to this day is essen- just talk the talk; he walked the walk. Buffalo, New York (Mr. HIGGINS). Mario tial reading for anyone wishing to un- His speeches were not made just be- Cuomo was known all over New York derstand the uniquely American ap- cause it was a political gathering or State, obviously, as the Governor, but proach to democracy and governance. forum. His speeches were made because my colleague BRIAN HIGGINS knew him True to his word, the Polish version of that is what he truly believed. It came well. the book appeared in Warsaw in early from his heart. It is how he lived his Mr. HIGGINS. Mr. Speaker, I rise 1990 before its English version was life, and you could see that in how he today, along with my colleagues, to available in the United States. dealt with his family because that was honor the life and legacy of Governor Mario Cuomo’s gift was that he his foundation. Mario Cuomo who passed away on Jan- forced us to think for ourselves. He From that foundation, he was able to uary 1 at the age of 82. forced us to consider our history, and build—and starting with that little When we think of Governor Cuomo, he forced us to recognize our responsi- place in Jamaica, Queens, that I am we think of him along with his son— bility to build a foundation that is bet- now proud to represent, he looked at now Governor Andrew Cuomo—and ter than the foundation that those who Queens and then, by extension, the city then his counsel Tim Russert from Buf- came before us built for us. of New York and then, by extension, falo driving in a car, riding from the That is the true meaning of the the State of New York as the founda- airport to the Moscone Center in San American Dream, and it was embodied tion of which he could make a dif- Francisco, still writing new sections of by a unique individual who was an un- ference, learning from his growing up his historic keynote address at the 1984 likely successful lawyer, an unlikely with his parents. Democratic National Convention which Governor of New York, Mario M. As a result, you found individuals catapulted him forever as a prominent Cuomo. falling in love with Mario Cuomo, and figure within the Democratic Party. Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Speaker, I thank you could see that by the people that Less remembered than his speeches the gentleman for his comments on were around him who became com- but just as admirable were his Governor Cuomo. I now yield to my pletely loyal to him because he had a writings. He wrote extensively on the colleague and friend from the upstate real great leadership. American Dream his immigrant par- region, Mr. PAUL TONKO, who also Once you became infected with the ents achieved, and the numerous served in the State assembly while spirit of Mario Cuomo, you continued causes that he cared about, ‘‘Diaries of Mario Cuomo was Governor. to stay around him, and you would see Mario M. Cuomo,’’ ‘‘Reason to Be- Mr. TONKO. Mr. Speaker, I thank in the visuals who were with Mario lieve,’’ ‘‘Why Lincoln Matters,’’ and the gentleman from Queens, State of Cuomo until the day that he died folks ‘‘More Than Words,’’ which is a collec- New York, for the opportunity to share loyal to him. In this business in this tion of 31 speeches he wrote going back some thoughts here this evening with day and age, sometimes, if you don’t to 1974. our leader, NANCY PELOSI, and mem- have that kind of character, people As a student of government, a teach- bers of the New York delegation, as we come, and people go. er of government, and now as a practi- pay tribute to the life of Mario Mat- Lastly, because I know that we have tioner, in 2006, I went to see Governor thew Cuomo, the greatest of Governors got so many members of the New York Cuomo, former Governor Cuomo, who in New York, and certainly a true

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:30 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K12JA7.037 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H213 statesman, a bold and great individual, into this country called the United ered Mario Cuomo to a place in front of a humble giant, and a roaring voice, a States of America. He never forgot the throne of glory where Almighty lion voice for social, economic, and en- that. He revered it. He was guided by God Himself may have said to Gov- vironmental justice. it. The light that he brought to his ernor Cuomo: This evening, what I recall about the field of politics was immense, and it Listen, you can take your suit off and put life of Mario Cuomo is that as I entered was driven by fairness and inclusion. this robe on. Governor Cuomo, you can rest the New York State Assembly in 1983, So this evening, it is an honor to join now. You have been faithful over a few that was the same year that he entered with my colleagues to speak to a hum- things. You can rest now. Well done, My into the office of Governor, and for my ble man, a great individual, who, with good and faithful servant, well done. first 12 years of service in the New his wife alongside him, Matilda, Mr. CROWLEY. Well done, my friend York State Assembly, it was guided brought to this State of New York a from Brooklyn and Queens. and nurtured and impacted by the sense of hope when there was despair. Mr. Speaker, I now would like to strength and the passion of Mario As was said at the funeral, he will yield to the gentlewoman from Flush- Cuomo. continue to live. His voice may have ing, Queens, New York, Ms. GRACE been silenced, but his integrity, his MENG. b 2015 spirit, and his principles will long live Ms. MENG. Thank you to the gen- The walk with him and with Matilda in the lives of those who struggle and tleman for yielding. Raffa Cuomo as a first couple of New reach to America, to her government, Mr. Speaker. Governor Mario York was a joyous one but a chal- for a better tomorrow. Cuomo’s legacy is important for all of lenging one to pay tribute to the great- May he rest in peace. us to remember here in Congress. Al- ness, the foundation of family, and the Mr. CROWLEY. I thank the gen- though the late Governor Cuomo is passion of immigrants. Those two guid- tleman. most well known nationally as an elo- ing dynamics drove the principles, the Mr. Speaker, at this time, I ask the quent orator and bastion of liberalism, integrity, and the message of Mario gentleman from Brooklyn and from he first received public attention for Cuomo. Queens, Mr. JEFFRIES, for his com- his career creatively merging the val- As a member of his upstate cabinet ments. ues of social justice and access to af- informing and alerting the Governor to Mr. JEFFRIES. I thank my good fordable housing while protecting fam- various strengths, vitalities, contribu- friend, the distinguished gentleman ily values in my home borough of tions, and history of upstate New York, from Queens, for anchoring this Special Queens. we were able to connect in a very Order hour and for yielding a few mo- Governor Cuomo’s life is a personal meaningful way; the work with him ments for me to reflect on the passing inspiration as he was also raised in very deliberate and very challenging. I of our great Governor, Mario Cuomo. Queens and born to immigrant parents. will forever be grateful for the learning Mr. Speaker, like many other mem- Perhaps it was this background that curve that was developed by working bers of the New York delegation, I also allowed him to regard himself as a pro- alongside this person of greatness. served in the New York State Assem- gressive pragmatist who upheld the I think, also, we need to understand bly. But unlike most, I didn’t get the idea that government should be a posi- that, as his son Governor Andrew opportunity to serve alongside Gov- tive source for good. Cuomo eulogized at his funeral service, ernor Mario Cuomo. I arrived several This is best seen through Governor he made mention very deliberately, years after he had completed his three Cuomo’s advocacy for an activist gov- Mario Cuomo would not offer, render terms in office. ernment that provides shelter for the his words of speeches to an audience So I speak today not from the per- homeless, work for the idle, and care telling them what they choose to hear spective of someone who served in gov- for the elderly and infirm even in times but, rather, what he needed to share. ernment alongside Mario Cuomo, but of austerity. This belief in a dynamic That, I think, speaks to the humble as a young man who grew up in Mario government met some opposition, but greatness of this individual, one who Cuomo’s New York. What an oppor- Governor Cuomo recognized the crucial had a vision not only for his State, but tunity to be able to come of age in the safety net and that government invest- for his country and, for that matter, 1980s with a Governor, a leader, who ar- ment is the foundation for a strong the world. ticulated such an eloquent vision of economy, an understanding that is im- I was also touched by the Governor’s equal protection under the law for ev- perative in today’s political and eco- sharing about his dad, the eloquence of eryone. What an opportunity to be able nomic climate. his speech, the eloquence of his speak- to come of age under a Governor who As a mom of two young children, I ing, his public speaking that reached so believed in opportunity for everyone, am particularly touched by his launch- many people throughout the world. He who recognized that New York State’s ing of the Decade of the Child to enact talked about those words and put it greatest strength was our diversity educational and health care reforms af- into an analogy of a fine bit of jewelry from every community, every perspec- fecting children. He deeply understood where each word seen as a gem would tive, and every religious background. that improving children’s lives ulti- be deliberately chosen, strategically It was great to be able to come of age mately betters our communities and placed, and majestically clustered in a and look up at a Governor who, not- empowers our future. Under his leader- way where that array would reach our withstanding the political potential ship, New York was the very first State senses, would speak to our senses about pitfalls, stood on principle, was ahead to enact seatbelt laws, and today we what is correct, what is socially just of his time as it relates to his firm op- continue focusing on making sure that and morally sound. That is true leader- position to the death penalty at a time children’s toys and car seats are safe ship. And it is no wonder through that when that was not a popular position and effective. This academic year, New speech in San Francisco that he lit to take. He was a great leader, a char- York City implemented universal pre- within the minds, hearts, and souls of ismatic intellectual, a wonderful fam- K, a concept that the late-Governor Americans the best within us, how we ily man, a tremendous lawyer, and a Mario Cuomo championed and the cur- could assume this level of greatness by wonderful statesman and Governor. rent Governor Andrew Cuomo aptly understanding that we are at our best I can only imagine that when Mario budgeted for success. when we incorporate in an inclusive set Cuomo arrived up in Heaven he was I believe in what Hubert Humphrey of principles in our world of politics. prepared to get to work. But I think said: Mario Cuomo impacted all of us, my- that there was probably a greeting The moral test of a government is how it self included, by his reverence for his committee that was there at the gates treats those who are at the dawn of life, the parents’ journey as immigrants. That of Heaven, one of whom was FDR, a children; those who are in the twilight of journey, which was a pathway to free- former Governor of the State of New life, the aged; and those who are in the shad- dom, that journey which settled into a York, the other of whom was FDR’s ow of life, the sick, the needy, and the handi- grocery story, a corner grocery store, cousin, Teddy Roosevelt, two former capped. became the pulse of the American great Governors of the State of New I think that Hubert Humphrey would Dream for his family that was tethered York. And I think they probably ush- have found Governor Cuomo to be a

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:30 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K12JA7.038 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H214 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 12, 2015 strong, moral leader and, like the rest his son Andrew, as Governor, and my and being here for as long as they were, of us, would have mourned the loss of family as well. and the indulgence of my colleagues on an inspired beacon of progressive ide- Mario Cuomo always did the right the other side of the aisle. ology. thing. He always did the right thing. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance I join my colleagues today from the And Mario Cuomo had an incredible of my time. New York delegation in sending condo- magnetism about him. I have never f lences and sympathy to the entire seen, outside of people who are Presi- OPPOSING RAPPROCHEMENT WITH Cuomo family, and know that Gov- dents of the United States, the kind of CUBA ernor Cuomo’s respected legacy will be magnetic sense that Mario Cuomo a blessing to us all. emitted. People wanted to be around The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Mr. CROWLEY. I thank the gentle- him. Whenever he was publicly out, he CARTER of Georgia). Under the Speak- lady for her remarks. I thank all the was walking in the street or at an er’s announced policy of January 6, members of the New York delegation, event, it was hard to get near Mario 2015, the gentlewoman from Florida as well as Ms. PELOSI, the Democratic Cuomo because everyone wanted to be (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN) is recognized for 60 leader, for their remarks today and re- around Mario Cuomo. minutes as the designee of the major- membrance of the great Governor of I was always nervous around Mario ity leader. the State of New York, Mario Cuomo. Cuomo, a healthy nervousness, but I Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I am so humbled and pleased to see my Mr. Speaker, I had the opportunity was excited to be around him. I always colleagues who have turned out tonight at the early age of 15 years of age to be wanted to be around him. I loved the at this late hour in a bipartisan man- engaged in, really, my first political man. I loved him dearly, although I ner to say that we reject the Presi- campaign. My then-Uncle Walter Crow- never had enough time to be with him. dent’s ill-advised treatment of the pol- ley, who was one of my political idols As PAUL TONKO had said at the fu- icy of rapprochement with the Cuban in life, along with a fellow by the name neral—and what a beautiful funeral regime, and no one is better able and of Michael Dowd, were in charge of a Mario Cuomo had, what an incredibly better equipped to talk about freedom portion of Queens County in terms of beautiful funeral—simple, yet elegant. and democracy and our fight for justice making sure that, I think, the Catholic That is how I describe it. His son An- vote came out for Mario Cuomo during than Mr. CHABOT. drew and his entire family, how re- I yield to the gentleman from Ohio the 1977 race for mayor of New York, spectful they were of their father. And (Mr. CHABOT), a senior member of the which was famously won in that pri- I think of the people who attended that House Foreign Affairs Committee and mary by . But that was not the funeral had to walk away knowing that chairman of the House Small Business only election that Mario Cuomo—and these children, all of them, were raised Committee. storied election—that Mario Cuomo so well: Andrew, Margaret, Madeline, Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, I rise this was a part of. He had been a part of Maria, and Christopher. And all their evening to join with my colleague and elections before that, and, lo and be- grandchildren, how they behaved. It friend, Congresswoman ROS-LEHTINEN, hold, in 1982 he once again found him- was just remarkable, just wonderful to in opposition to the December 17 an- self in a matchup between himself and see the respect they had for their fa- nouncement by President Obama to Ed Koch, and Mario Cuomo prevailing ther and their grandfather, for their in- change U.S. policy toward Cuba. We in that statewide election. law. will also be joined by some of our other At 15 years of age, I remember hand- But Andrew had said that his father colleagues, and I want to particularly ing out literature at the churches in told him you don’t tell people what thank Congresswoman ROS-LEHTINEN western Queens and southern Queens, they want to hear—and I am para- for her leadership on all issues regard- and it really was my entree into a po- phrasing. He told them you tell them ing Cuba. She has been a leader on this litical life. Then, in 1984, as a student what they need to hear. You told them issue for a long, long time and will con- at Queens College, I interned in the of- what you wanted to tell them, the mes- tinue to be, I am sure. fice of then-Governor Cuomo. And what sage you wanted to get across. This policy change was a unilateral an experience that was to be working It wasn’t always popular, the mes- decision made without consulting Con- with Bob Sullivan, his storied pollster, sage of Mario Cuomo; but I do know gress and with complete disregard of but officially, on the official side, was that people, even when they disagreed long-term national security con- working in the statistics office with with him, they respected him and they sequences. Similarly, the so-called Dick Starkey, a former reporter, a sto- admired him because of his tenacity, prisoner exchange was terribly flawed. ried reporter in New York City; Marty because he believed in what he was say- In 2013, Secretary Kerry stated that Steadman; to have Tim Russert walk ing. swapping convicted Cuban spies for into the room. We all died because Tim Alan Gross was off the table, testifying b 2030 Russert just walked into the room. before Congress that since Mr. Gross I can remember in 1986 when I was I think what they respected about was wrongly imprisoned, there was no elected to the State assembly how sup- him was he was always consistent as equivalency to pursue a spy for spy portive Mario Cuomo was to me as a well in his thoughts. We will miss tradeoff. Let us be clear: the freedom of young man, recommending me to trav- Mario Cuomo. Queens County, his Alan Gross is welcome news, but this el around the world with ACYPL, to home borough, will miss him. The city exchange was totally one-sided. It was come here to Washington to get my of New York and the State of New tragically flawed. It was not in the best feet wet as well, to get that Wash- York, and, I think, the country have interest of the people of the United ington sense. I remember being on the lost a great statesman, someone who States, and it was not in the best inter- second floor in 1988 in the Blue Room, didn’t look to the next election but est of the people of Cuba. what is known as the Blue Room where looked to the next great issue that As my colleague, Representative the Governor would give his budgets, needed to be tackled, not only in New ROS-LEHTINEN, has rightly highlighted anticipating his delving into, diving York, because New York in many re- these past few weeks since the decision into the 1988 Presidential elections, spects is the leader of State legislators and the prisoner exchange occurred, only to have my heart broken when in the country; he was thinking nation- Cuban spies have been responsible for Mario Cuomo said he would not run in ally, he was thinking globally as well. the deaths of American lives. It is ab- that election. Mario Cuomo will forever be one of solutely true that they have been. And Mario Cuomo was tough. He had one my heroes, as is Lincoln. Mario Cuomo they have been released. Those are the of the biggest hearts I have ever come was bipartisan. He loved Lincoln, a Re- people who were responsible for Amer- to know. publican, but was true to his own ican deaths. Cuban patriots who have He had also gone to law school, my democratic principles and his party as risked their lives every day to fight for Uncle Walter, and there was an inti- well. There is not enough time to say basic rights and freedoms feel be- macy between the Crowleys and the everything about him. But, Mr. Speak- trayed. Cuomo family in Queens County poli- er, I once again want to thank the dele- The exchange was flawed. The policy tics, one that exists to this day with gation for their loyalty this evening itself is flawed, and the announcement

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:30 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K12JA7.040 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H215 has also let down one of the United human rights and democracy in Cuba. I it. So if you raised it from $500 to States’ strongest ally in the world, feel that those people who are still lin- $2,000, you tell me how many millions Israel. Year after year, Israel has stood gering in the Cuban jails are so dis- that is going to be. When you go to all at the United States’ side—one of the appointed in this administration’s ef- of the beaches and to the restaurants, very few—supporting the United States forts. that is all government owned. In Cuba, at the United Nations in 98 percent of You know, the Alan Gross release if you want to set up a business, you all votes, including votes that the should have been something joyous. have to negotiate with the govern- world’s worst actors pushed through to And we all wanted Alan Gross released ment. condemn the U.S. embargo on Cuba. because he was incarcerated for no rea- If I want to set up a business and I Unfortunately, those who have long son other than he was foreign. But to need 100 workers, I don’t go out and get nourished and fostered cozy relation- release three Cuban spies or a network 100 workers, I go out and speak to the ships with Cuba, most notably Russia of spies that exists in this country cur- government and the government tells and Venezuela and various terrorist or- rently is just not acceptable. Alan me you have to pay $15 an hour. They ganizations around the world, are wel- Gross should have been released on his in turn give those workers $2–3 an coming the policy changes with open own. He did nothing. He just went to hour. That is not helping the Cuban arms. Cuba to establish some sort of commu- people in their economics. That is not We need to be honest about the im- nication for this community. helping them move forward. plications of President Obama’s new The other thing that is troubling me, So I think it is really naive to think policy. His unilateral decision to coming from New Jersey, is the fact that these kinds of changes are going change Cuba policy poses a threat to that there was no discussion about any to help. You know, I can only think U.S. national security. If the trade em- extradition of the criminals that are back when I was young, and I came to bargo is lifted, money will flow into currently in Cuba. There are over 100 this country at the age of 11. I remem- the hands of the Castro brothers, al- criminals in Cuba, including Joanne ber when they took all of the books out lowing them to financially support sur- Chesimard, who killed a State trooper of the school system and started the reptitious espionage activities with in New Jersey point blank 30 years ago. indoctrination process. I remember the terrorist groups like Hezbollah and na- She escaped to Cuba. She has been en- military coming into my house and tions like North Korea. joying the sun, she has been enjoying they took inventory. My mother and Since the President made his public the beach. Meanwhile, Trooper Werner father were poor people, but they took announcement, nearly 100 Cubans have Foerster’s family for over 30 years grew inventory of everything that was in the already been detained. The United up without a father. And yet we can’t house. And they threatened my parents States should always stand for democ- seem to get this government to think that if anything was missing at the racy and freedom around the world. We that it is important that we bring time we got our visa, it would be re- should demand that the Castro regime these people to justice. As a matter of voked. This is not the country that I want release all political prisoners and hold fact, the FBI has named Joanne for Cuba. I want a country with democ- free and fair elections before estab- Chesimard as number one in the list of racy. I want a country where human lishing diplomatic relations. terrorists that they want back. I once again thank the gentlewoman So to me it was very disappointing rights are observed. And yet, for 50 years this dictatorship has been kill- from Florida (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN) for because the people of New Jersey, after her leadership in this area for many, all these years, are still trying to bring ing. People talk about Raul Castro as many years, and it is an honor to speak this woman to justice. some sort of a changer. People forget this evening with her. People tell me, well, we negotiate that Raul Castro and Che Guevara were Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. I thank the and we trade with Vietnam, we trade the ones who set up the firing squads in gentleman from Ohio very much, and with China. We trade with other coun- Cuba that killed thousands of people. thank you for looking out for our U.S. tries. And I say this: that is not the is- Thousands of people were killed by the national security, and thank you for land that I want in Cuba. We haven’t firing squads. trying to uphold the values of freedom helped Vietnam’s people at all. There is So I rise today in total disappoint- throughout the world. still no freedom, and there are human ment, and I hope that this administra- Mr. CHABOT brought up the fact that rights abuses. You look at China, it is tion sees that this is not the way for- Mr. Kerry, speaking before our com- the same thing. You look at North ward, that this is a hardened dictator- mittee, said that we would not release Korea, it is the same thing. I don’t ship, and that the only way we can deal spies for Alan Gross’ life. And that want that for the island where I was with this dictatorship is through pres- came because of a question posed by born. And I surely don’t want that kind sure. Through pressure is the only way our next speaker, and I am pleased to of government 90 miles away from this to deal with these people, especially at yield to the gentleman from New Jer- country. You know, the history of this time. There is nobody that is sey (Mr. SIRES), the ranking member of Cuba, all in the past 50 years of this going to come out and bail out Cuba. the House Subcommittee on the West- dictatorship, has been one to try to ern Hemisphere. hurt this country as much as it can, b 2045 Mr. SIRES. Mr. Speaker, I thank the and I certainly don’t want that 90 Just last year, they were funneling gentlewoman for allowing me to speak miles from this country. arms to North Korea right in our back- tonight. The administration with this effort yard. Is this the kind of government we Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express has taken away what we believe was a want 90 miles from our shores? my disappointment and deep concerns pressure point on a communist dicta- I thank my good friends for having regarding the administration’s plan for torship 90 miles from this country. It this hour, allowing me to express my loosening the sanctions and initiating has taken away how we can pressure sentiments, and I thank all my col- diplomatic discussions with the Cuban this island. First of all, Russia can’t leagues who are here speaking with the dictatorship. It is naive and misguided help them any more. Russia used to same approach. to think that this is going to give us help Cuba to the tune of $4 billion a Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, as the long-desired political and economic year. Venezuela can’t any more. Ven- you heard from Mr. SIRES, he was born changes that the Cuban people deserve. ezuela is falling apart. There are 30,000 and reared in Cuba, but you don’t have In fact, just a few days after the an- Cubans in Venezuela trying to create to be a Cuban American to understand nouncement, Raul Castro made sure to the same type of country that we have the principles that are at stake here. dispel any misgivings and brazenly de- in Cuba. One person who knows that is a won- clared that the regime would not aban- And at this point, we take away this derful congressman from our great don its communist path, let alone loos- pressure and basically give millions of State of Florida. So I am proud to yield en its stranglehold over the people of dollars to this dictatorship. People to the gentleman from Florida, GUS Cuba. I feel that the administration may not know it, but any time any- BILIRAKIS. has abandoned all those Cuban people body sends any money to Cuba, the Mr. BILIRAKIS. Thank you for hold- for all those years who fought for Cuban government keeps 30 percent of ing this very important Special Order.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:30 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00025 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K12JA7.041 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H216 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 12, 2015 Way back in the Florida Legislature, stands that good trade is based on free As we heard earlier, just a year ago, when I was a member of the Cuban and fair countries that cherish the they were caught redhanded in an arms Caucus, so proud to be a member of the principles upon which our great coun- deal with the North Koreans, who are Cuban Caucus, I started speaking out try was founded—freedom, democracy, presently enemies of the United States. against the Castro brothers’ brand of respect for the rule of law—all of which What sort of assurance do we have as oppression. are missing in today’s Cuba. His great part of this deal that Cuba is not going Over the past 5 years, I joined with city of Mobile, Alabama, will greatly to be a staging ground for military ac- all of you to decry Alan Gross’ arrest. benefit once we have free trade and fair tivity, terrorist activity, against the I am thankful for his recent release. trade with a Democratic Cuba. I yield people and the security of the United Alan Gross’ freedom was long overdue, to the gentleman from Mobile, Ala- States of America? Nothing, nothing; we all agree. I am glad he is safely on bama. yet we engaged in this deal, a very bad U.S. soil, but a large injustice remains: Mr. BYRNE. I thank the gentle- deal from my perspective—and I don’t the plights of Cuban citizens, who have woman, both for your time and for want to take anything away from the suffered for over five decades under the your leadership on this very important American citizen who we were able to Castro regime in search of basic human issue. bring back home—but look who we rights and political freedoms that we As she said, I represent Mobile, Ala- traded in return for that. as Americans, frankly, take for grant- bama. If you go and look at a map, it It reminds me of the Bergdahl deal ed. is a straight shot north from Havana to we had last year that was so very con- Then, almost out of nowhere, the Mobile. For over three centuries, Mo- troversial. This administration doesn’t Obama administration decides to nor- bile has been a major port for the ex- know how to make a good deal. They malize relations with Cuba. This will port of goods and import of goods back know how to give everything away and allow American dollars to the rescue of and forth between Cuba and the United get very little back. the Castro brothers at a critical time. States. It is in the economic best inter- I want to normalize relationships Their normal economic benefactors— est of the people in my district for us with Cuba. I want us to open up that Russia and Venezuela—cannot afford to to get to the point where we have nor- trade again because it is going to ben- help. Now, more than ever, economic malized relations and trade with Cuba. efit my district. sanctions can be used as an effective I should be ardently in favor of this I am willing to do anything I can to tool to force the Castro regime to af- deal that the President is pursuing, but help make that happen, but this coun- ford basic human rights and political I am not. This is not the time, these try should never give in to people like freedoms to all of Cuba’s citizens. are not the circumstances, and—to put the Castro brothers until there is a Scholars have noted that normalizing it simply—this is not the way to do change in that regime, until there is a our economic policy with oppressive this. change in the Government of Cuba, Let me address the way for a mo- countries, like China or Vietnam, have until they renounce their activities ment. It has been alluded to previously produced no significant improvements that have been against the security of that we have done deals with China and in human rights treatment. the United States, until we know that with Vietnam. In both cases, the Presi- Given the precedent, there is no rea- we have a good faith trading partner dents involved worked with Congress. son to believe the situation with Cuba and a good faith partner, period, in this That is critically important to what- will yield significant different results. hemisphere. ever success they have had in both of I look forward to the day when I can In fact, we already know that the suf- those deals. stand at the Port of Mobile and wel- fering for Cuba’s citizens will continue, In this circumstance, the President come goods coming in from Cuba and unfortunately. Raul Castro proclaimed has refused to work with Congress. You goods going out from Mobile to Cuba as that there would be no renunciation of can’t reach the sort of agreement that part of a deal that is made in the right any of their principles. Cuban restric- he is looking for without Congress. You way, under the right circumstances, for tions on free speech, assembly, and can’t have an embassy unless we are the right reason. I hope and pray that press will remain. They proved it just willing to pay for it. You can’t have an that day comes, but that day is not this last week. ambassador unless the Senate approves today. Travel and tourism will remain the ambassador. I thank the gentlewoman for her strictly controlled by the Castro re- He is pursuing what, in essence, is an leadership. I look forward to con- gime. Tourism dollars that Americans errand that cannot result in success tinuing to follow that leadership in the will spend will go directly to the op- that he is looking for, but he is pur- days to come. pressors. suing it anyway without us because Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Thank you We cannot ignore the sense of be- this is just another example of these ef- very much. I am so thankful to my trayal that Cuban defectors feel in re- forts to make these unilateral, execu- good friend from Mobile, Alabama, for sponse to the President’s plan. We tive-type decisions, leaving Congress to his words, because he understands that should be demanding genuine freedom: decide to try to keep itself relevant as American principles are not for sale. release of all political prisoners, uni- he becomes a lameduck President. I would like to point out, Mr. Speak- versal human rights, Democratic prin- That is no way to do this. er, that every country with whom the ciples, and a free market for the Cuban Let me address the circumstances. I Castro brothers do business is a coun- people. can’t say it any better than the prior try to whom they owe a lot of money. In order to ensure the citizens of speakers have said it. This is a brutally They have not paid all of their bills to Cuba stand a chance to benefit from oppressive regime that cannot change, any businesses, and they have not paid this ill-advised agreement, Cuba’s des- and until they change, until they put what they owe to any country, and it pots must relinquish control and eradi- in motion the things that we are talk- would be all the same for Mobile, Ala- cate their tools of tyranny. Actual ing about for change, I don’t see how a bama. Thank you for standing up for human rights reforms must occur be- country like the United States can se- U.S. values. fore any commercial or political nor- riously engage in negotiations with Now, I am so pleased to yield to my malization takes place. them. good friend from South Carolina, a gen- I will continue to monitor the ac- Most importantly, for me, from my tleman who understands the threat to tions on the island in search of positive perspective, I serve on the House our hemisphere. Why? Because he is movement. Armed Services Committee—I don’t the chairman of the Subcommittee on Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. BILIRAKIS, I think I have to tell everybody here the Western Hemisphere, the gentleman thank you for your clear and con- history of this country—this country from South Carolina (Mr. DUNCAN), my sistent message that restrictions with this regime in charge allowed the good friend. should not be lifted against the Castro then-Soviet Union to put nuclear mis- Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina. I regime until those conditions are met. siles aimed at the United States on thank the gentlewoman from Florida Our next speaker, Mr. Speaker, is the their soil. They have never apologized for her leadership on this issue, not gentleman from Alabama, Congress- for that; they have never renounced just today, but for her whole tenure in man BRADLEY BYRNE, who so under- that. Congress.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:30 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00026 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K12JA7.043 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H217 As the new chairman of the House is one of the many freedoms that think this fact is true. Every single Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Cuban people are denied. dollar spent in Cuba benefits the Cas- Western Hemisphere, I was grateful to Now, I yield to my colleague from tro regime. Every single dollar. Europe see the return of Alan Gross to the Florida, Congressman RON DESANTIS, doesn’t have restrictions. Most of the United States last month after 5 years who is a war veteran, but who under- other world doesn’t have restrictions. of unjust imprisonment in Cuba. The stands that the war for freedom and de- Have the Cuban people benefited from announcement over this past weekend mocracy takes on many fronts, a mem- that? Has their standard of living gone that the Cubans freed 53 prisoners was ber of our House Foreign Affairs Com- up? No. This all goes to benefit the also welcome news. mittee. government. Nevertheless, I have major concerns Mr. DESANTIS. Mr. Speaker, I would To me, this is the worst possible time with the way this administration, the just like to recognize my colleague to throw the Castro regime a lifeline. If Obama administration, conducted ne- from Florida because she is just not you look at what is happening in Cara- gotiations and the way the decision only on the House floor fighting for cas, if you look at what is happening in was made to radically alter long- freedom for the Cuban people, with Moscow, these regimes are buckling be- standing U.S. policy towards Cuba. whom she obviously has ancestral rela- cause of the decline in the price of oil. The administration failed to consult tions, she fights for freedom for every- So this is a moment of profound Congress, failed to consult any Cuban body. Whether it is in Venezuela or weakness for the Castro regime. And dissidents or civil society in its deci- Iran, she is there; you can set your giving them these concessions is ex- sion to embark on its new course in clock to it. actly what the Castro regime wants. I Cuba. The administration says this de- When I first heard about these con- am scratching my head trying to figure cision will empower the Cuban people; cessions, I was really scratching my out: What do we get in return for this? yet softening U.S. policy without con- head. I texted some of my colleagues, The Americans who had property crete Cuban reforms will only boost the and I was like: ‘‘We are not really get- seized when Castro took power, are any Castro regime and government and fa- ting anything for this.’’ of them getting their property back? cilitate the survival of the communist Sure enough, Raul Castro goes out, No. regime. talks to the people, and says: ‘‘We are What about the Cuban Americans We need to focus not on what is best not changing. We are not changing who had to flee? They had their busi- for the Cuban Government, the Castro anything.’’ They are staying exactly nesses taken, property taken. Are any regime, we need to focus on what is with the values that they have been of them going to get any type of rec- best for the Cuban people. with from the beginning, which are an- ompense? Of course, not. I ask you this: Will this deal mean tagonistic to freedom, antagonistic to more self-governance for the Cuban What about freedom of speech, polit- everything we hold dear in the United ical rights, the ability to participate in people? Will it mean more economic States. freedom for those who strive to inno- political life and criticize those in b 2100 vate, those that are entrepreneurial power? Is that being extended to the within the Cuban society? Will they be You know, when you look at coun- Cuban people? Not on your life. Noth- able to start more businesses and have tries like Cuba, a lot of times you don’t ing. economic freedom? Will there be more even need to get into the nitty-gritty. I will say, it is interesting—and my religious freedom for the Cuban people? There are just certain signs where you colleague from Florida mentioned Will there be more rights to free know the nature of the regime. For ex- this—the dismal credit rating that speech? Are the Cuban people seeing ample, when you look at communism Cuba has. They don’t pay back any this debate tonight on Cuban TV? Are in Eastern Europe, you don’t have to loans. Are we then going to extend Ex- the Cuban people able to access the look at the daily life or any of that. port-Import Bank loans that are Internet and watch what we are doing You just look at the fact that there backed by the taxpayer to do business via YouTube or any other media? was a Berlin Wall that kept people in in Cuba? The American taxpayer is These are rhetorical questions, but I like caged animals. If you look at the going to have to end up paying for answer them with ‘‘no,’’ based on my differences between North and South that. That is not a good source of busi- understanding. Korea, all you have to do is look at ness for our taxpayers. I recall it was only 1 week after the that satellite photo at night, where The tragedy of this is we have given announcement of this U.S.-Cuba deal South Korea is lit up like a Christmas away leverage that could have come in that the Cuban Government cracked tree and North Korea is a land of dark- handy. These Castro brothers are on down on peaceful protestors in Hava- ness and despair. their last legs. When they finally leave na’s Revolutionary Square. I point to For me, when I think of what is the the scene, we want to use the leverage that as evidence that it is still a closed nature of the Cuban regime, I think all we have to leverage a democratic tran- communistic society. you need to know is that you have tens sition. Instead, we are essentially nor- In conclusion, the administration’s of thousands of people living in Cuba. malizing status quo. So if the Stalinist decision is a reward to the communist It is a nice island, it has great weather, dictatorship survives beyond the Cas- dictatorship at the expense of the and they are suffocated so much that tros due to U.S. support, you are going Cuban people. This action is especially they are willing to swim across 90 to have 11 million Cubans who are con- disgraceful when we consider the ad- miles of shark-infested waters—the signed to another generation of tyr- ministration’s disrespect toward our Florida Straits—knowing that they are anny. friend and ally in Canada by vowing to probably going to die. That is all you I will just say one more thing. When veto legislation approving the con- need to know. I read the media coverage—and I think struction of the Keystone pipeline. This is a Stalinist regime. And as my I can say this because I am not from These are issues that require vig- colleague from Alabama mentioned, south Florida—the coverage is so nega- orous congressional oversight. I look the Cuban missile crisis wasn’t even tive about Cuban Americans who fled forward to working with the ranking just that there were nuclear weapons Castro. They say: Oh, they’re living in member, Mr. SIRES, that you just heard in Cuba pointed at the United States. the past. This is anachronistic, all this from, as we hold hearings in the Sub- Fidel Castro was telling Khrushchev to stuff. committee on the Western Hemisphere fire them into the United States. We For me, the people that I want to in the coming weeks and month. actually were fortunate that Nikita talk to to know the true nature of the Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Thank you so Khrushchev was actually the cooler regime are the people who suffered much, Mr. DUNCAN. We are so pleased head in that. So if Castro had his way, under the regime, the people who were that we have this dynamic duo of the there would have been nuclear weapons forced to flee and who had family mem- chairman and the ranking member of sent here. And so this is the nature of bers killed, had family members in Western Hemisphere. You are so right the regime. prison. That, to me, is the number one to point out, Mr. DUNCAN, that there is So what are you doing with this pol- source of information that I would look no freedom of the press in Cuba. That icy? To me, I look at it very simply. I to.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:30 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00027 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K12JA7.044 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H218 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 12, 2015 And so the media frames it as if the order for my own execution. And he later on, the Venezuelans, who are col- somehow the American policy is anach- stood there in a Cuban shirt down to lapsing, themselves, today. ronistic. I think it is the Castro re- here—white pants, white shirt—and he This is a country of people that are gime, based on Stalinist principles, raised his hand and faced the firing vigorous people. They are an outgoing, that is anachronistic, and yet it con- squad and dropped his own hand. That hardworking, I will say, gregarious tinues to lumber on. And the tragedy was the signal to the firing squad. people. I thought I would see people of this is that we are giving them a They fired. He was shot to death in down there that had the thousand-yard critical lifeline so that they can con- front of that wall, along with many, hopeless stare. I am sure that exists. tinue having their country governed many others. But I also saw people that worked hard like a political prison. We don’t know at this point how and they kept their chin up and they So I appreciate you organizing this, many political prisoners have been exe- kept a smile on their face. my colleague in Florida. We are giving cuted, how many have died in custody. I thought, If these people could be speeches here tonight, but we need to We have got a list of some; we don’t unleashed, if they could be unleashed act in this body, and we need to show have a list of all. But we know this: it by the heartbeat of freedom, if we that this policy does not represent the has never been, since that time in 1959, could just get them that opportunity will of the American people and does a government of, by, and for the people to be who they are, they would become not represent what is best for people in of Cuba. a very, very successful island and trad- Cuba that are struggling for freedom. And the hope that there will be the ing partner and a nation unto them- Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Thank you so day that the Cuban people would be selves and, one day, an ally of the much, Mr. DESANTIS. You are so right free was manifested—or at least at- United States. when you categorized this unilateral tempted to be manifested—at the Bay So my dream has been to help them bad deal as an economic lifeline to the of Pigs. I would have liked to have seen with that opportunity, and my dream Castro regime. the air cover that would have made has been to one day swim ashore at the A person who understands that just that be successful. We didn’t get that. Bay of Pigs and walk out and wade as well as you do is our next speaker, But we look for the day to come ever onto a free Cuba, with a free Cuban. But, Mr. Speaker, the Cuban people the gentleman from Iowa, a senior since that the Cuban people could be have been burdened with more than member of the House Committee on free. The Cuban people could be free. five decades of Marxist slavery that Agriculture, Congressman STEVE KING. Since that time, there has been the they have had to face. And this policy He can say: Hey, my State is going to nationalization of the real property, of the President’s that comes right on benefit a lot by this deal. which we heard from Mr. DESANTIS. At the cusp of what is likely the biological The sad reality, as Mr. KING and I the time that Castro took control of solution in Cuba, which would be the know, is that Castro doesn’t pay his Cuba, 25 percent of the real estate in end of the Castro brothers that would debt. As we had just said with the Cuba was owned by Americans. They come along naturally and the oppor- other speaker, he owes everybody held deeds to that property. There was tunity to bring about a regime change money. This deal will not strengthen other land in Cuba that was owned by in Cuba, the President of the United U.S. national security. It will not be people from other nationalities. States may well have handed Cuba an- good for America’s farmers, and it will Every other country was com- other 50 years of living in Marxist slav- not be good for the people of Cuba. pensated for their real estate, except ery when he had just the opportunity Congressman KING. Americans. No American that I know Mr. KING of Iowa. I thank the gen- for them to be free. of has been compensated for their real So our policy here in this Congress, I tlewoman from Florida for organizing estate. They hold those deeds to this am hopeful, is the policy that says: re- this Special Order, and I associate my- today, sometimes a second generation. gime change in Cuba and a government self with her words and her position Before I came to this Congress, while of, by, and for the people of Cuba. And and also that of the gentleman from I was there, there was also a situation I, one day, hope and pray to do what I Florida (Mr. DESANTIS). I didn’t, Mr. where the exchange rate for Cuban peso have said with my colleagues here and Speaker, realize how much was in him to dollar was 21 to 1 at that time. And many others, and that is swim ashore about this issue. It was instructive for so if anyone achieved an American dol- at the Bay of Pigs and wade out on the me to listen to that stream forward. lar, they could take it into a dollar shore of a free Cuba. I have had the privilege of serving store and they would get one peso’s God bless them all. here in this Congress with a good num- worth of goods for it or they could de- Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Thank you so ber of Members that do a great job of posit it into a Cuban bank and they much, Mr. KING. That is our fervent representing the interests of the Cuban would get one peso for that. That is a hope as well. And we work and we pray people, and I also had the privilege of 20-peso difference. And that is one of every day for that dream of a free Cuba going to Cuba on a legal trip some the things that supported the Castro to come alive. We thank you for your years ago before I came to this Con- regime financially. voice here tonight. Thank you, my gress. But I would take you back, Mr. Another thing that happened was good friend from Iowa. Speaker, to a time in 1959 and trace sugar was 6 cents a pound. The Rus- Mr. Speaker, many people talk about some of this history. sians paid them 52 cents a pound in oil the last generation of Cuban exiles and The revolution against Batista in for the sugar. That was a subsidy of how this is really not the dream of 1959 was back before we had as many Cuba. When the Soviet Union—it was young Cuban Americans who were born replays on television as we have today. the Soviet Union rather than just the here in the United States, reared here And I recall watching the revolution in Russians—collapsed, then the subsidy in the United States. They come from Cuba, and as Castro took over, as the for Cuba also collapsed and the Cuban Cuban families, but they really don’t promise came that they were going to economy was no longer propped up. much care about freedom and democ- bring democracy to Cuba—that was the You saw Russian tractors sitting out racy and the land of their ancestors. promise. It was going to be democracy; there, having been stripped for parts, This next speaker, Mr. Speaker, is a it was going to be free and fair elec- in the only country in the world I know newly elected gentleman who under- tions, a government of, by, and for the that had gone from mechanized agri- stands that that search for a free and people of Cuba; and they were going to culture to animal husbandry agri- democratic Cuba is a yearning that choose their leadership. culture because their machines no lives very fervently in his heart, and But I remember seeing on television longer worked. And the taxicabs are that is the Congressman from West the videos of the people who were lined driven by doctors, with a five-cylinder Virginia, Congressman ALEX MOONEY, up against the wall and executed with- Russian diesel under the hood of a 1954 who was born here, as American as out a proper trial, executed without Chevrolet. apple pie, but comes from a proud lin- true justice. I remember in particular— This country has been frozen in time. eage of Cuban American heritage. it is branded in my memory—a man It has a collapsed and failed economy. Thank you, Mr. MOONEY. who insisted: If you are to shoot me It has been propped up by the subsidy Mr. MOONEY of West Virginia. I here in front of this wall, let me give of, first, the Soviet Union, and then want to thank Congresswoman ILEANA

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:30 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00028 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K12JA7.045 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H219 ROS-LEHTINEN for arranging this im- The second was that, to varying de- weakness and appeasement is not an ef- portant Special Order to show soli- grees, the occupant of the White House fective strategy for dealing with Cuba’s darity with the Cuban people as they had always been on the side of the military dictatorship. continue to live under an oppressive re- Cuban people and in opposition to their We also have to ask ourselves, what gime. oppressors, who for decades have col- kind of neighborhood do we want to Mr. Speaker, President Obama has laborated with America’s most dan- live in? senselessly yielded ground, with no gerous allies. Today, this is, regret- The Americas, the Western Hemi- stipulations for reform, to the Cuban tably, no longer the case. sphere, is the American neighborhood regime, with the announcements of a By trading an American hostage, cru- of the world. What kind of standards do secret deal going around Congress to elly held by Cuba’s dictators for 5 we want for this part of the world? ‘‘normalize’’ relations. This misguided years, for three criminals convicted of Do we want to endorse the chronic grab for a legacy item has cost our spying against our government, includ- abuse of human rights, the imprison- country and the Cuban people a valu- ing one who was serving a lifetime sen- ment of people who disagree? able bargaining chip for their freedom. tence for conspiring to murder Amer- That is the nature of the Cuban gov- Of course, this is yet another foreign ican citizens, the President sent a mes- ernment, and we, the United States of policy failure or, more accurately, uni- sage to our enemies that the United America and, by the way, the other na- lateral surrender from this administra- States can be extorted. tions of this hemisphere, have agreed that we support a democratic form of tion. From the bright red line in Syria, What was the Cuban government’s government, and that we want this which was crossed with impunity, to reward for holding an American hos- part of the world to be free without ex- sending a secret message to President tage for 5 years? Three convicted spies ception. There is one glaring exception, Putin that, ‘‘After the election, I will and full diplomatic relations, plus an economic bailout for a financially and and it is Cuba. be more flexible,’’ to now rewarding ty- Our sanctions policy, some say, well, rants in Cuba who continue to deny morally bankrupt regime. The men who rule Cuba today are the it hasn’t worked. Of course the sanc- basic human rights to their oppressed same men who had nuclear missiles in- tions have worked. The sanctions have citizens, President Obama has chosen stalled on the island and pointed them denied billions and billions and billions wrong policies. at the United States, as my colleague of dollars to a regime that would use The despotic government the Presi- from Alabama stated earlier. When those profits to oppose our interests dent would normalize relations with they were cash-rich, they ran a robust throughout the world. has, for decades, sought to subjugate military and deployed troops through- What did the regime do when it had the Cuban people’s appetite for free- out the world to fight alongside our resources? dom. The many realized American most dangerous enemies. It had troops all over the world. It Dreams of Cuban refugees, including They have trained and supported ter- exported revolution. And if you don’t my mother, are a great testament to rorist groups such as Colombia’s know what exporting revolution the greatness of the United States and FARC. They ordered three American means, in the context of Cuba, it our constitutional rights. As the bea- citizens and one resident blown out of means aggressively opposing American con of freedom in the world, America the sky in the tragic shootdown of Feb- interests throughout the world. must continue to use sensible policy to ruary 24, 1996. Today, we remember in a very special protect our values around the world A few months ago, they were caught way, Mario Manuel de la Pena, Carlos and in our own backyard. shipping arms illegally to North Korea, Costa, Armando Alejandre, and Pablo b 2115 and they collaborated with the Ven- Morales. These were the men who were ezuelan government in last year’s bru- brutally assassinated by the Cuban re- Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Thank you so tal crackdown, which resulted in the gime on February 24 of 1996. much, Mr. MOONEY. We are a better death of over 40 students. One of the spies was convicted of con- Congress for you being a part of it. Human rights atrocities by the dicta- spiring to murder these young men, Thank you so much for being proud of torship against its people continue. three of whom were American citizens, your American heritage and your The Castro regime consistently resorts and the other was a resident of our Cuban American ancestry as well. So, to violence because they know it is the country. These four men are dead, and welcome to Congress, sir. only way they can maintain control the Cuban spies are free. Mr. Speaker, I am about to introduce since the Cuban people are desperate to But it isn’t too late, Mr. Speaker. another millennial, another one of this be free. The President still has time to get younger generation of Cuban Ameri- The President’s decision to ease sanc- back on the right side of this issue and cans who the press continues to say tions only serves to bolster the dicta- on the right side of history by standing don’t represent the desires of this new torship and its apparatus of repression. against Cuba’s dictators, with the vic- generation. There is virtually no private sector in tims of their brutality, and for a strong Well, CARLOS CURBELO is one of our Cuba. More than 85 percent of Cubans American foreign policy that advances newest elected officials. He was born work for government controlled-enter- our national security interests. here in the United States, doesn’t prises and earn less than $20 a month. Again, I want to thank my distin- know Cuba, and is less than 35 years Foreign investment doesn’t benefit guished colleague from south Florida old but understands that yearning for a the average Cuban. Cubans that work for her leadership. We have admired free Cuba. We are so pleased as punch for corporations with foreign capital her for so many years for her work on to have him here as a Member of our are only allowed to keep 8 percent of this issue. Congress. their salaries. Cuban workers are, in ef- Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Thank you so I yield to the gentleman from Florida fect, slaves of the dictatorship. much, Mr. CURBELO. You are a fresh (Mr. CURBELO). Now, it is important to note, Mr. young voice, and I thank you and Mr. Mr. CURBELO of Florida. I thank the Speaker, President Obama’s adminis- MOONEY for being here tonight. gentlelady for yielding, and I thank her tration approved sanctions in recent Mr. Speaker I am so pleased to yield for her tireless advocacy and work on months against Venezuela and North to a gentleman who understands what this very, very important cause. Korea. Why, then, is it rewarding an freedom is all about. He was one of the Mr. Speaker, during the 56 years of enemy of the United States just 90 speech writers for our great President, the Cuban tragedy, also known as the miles from our shores that actively Ronald Reagan. He is a senior member Cuban Revolution, there had always collaborates with both of these re- of the House Foreign Affairs Com- been two constants. gimes? mittee. In fact, he is the chairman of First, the nature of the Castro re- Why does the President insist on an the Europe Subcommittee, and he is gime, a dictatorship that brutally re- incoherent foreign policy that too here tonight with one of his triplets, presses its own people, and that aggres- often rewards our enemies and pun- Christian, who wants to be an author sively opposes U.S. national security ishes our allies? and an inventor. interests throughout the globe. That As other American Presidents have I look at Christian, this new genera- has not changed. shown us in the past, peace through tion, and I think, what kind of life

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:30 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00029 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K12JA7.046 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H220 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 12, 2015 would he have under the communist I call this the ‘‘hug a Nazi, make a with the leverage to present the regime tyranny of Cuba, as opposed to the liberal’’ theory. The fact is that Fidel with a clear choice. If you take signifi- freedom and democracy that we enjoy Castro, just like the Chinese Com- cant steps towards democracy, begin- here? munists, I might add, no matter how ning with the freedom of all—all—po- So with that, I am pleased as punch much trade we have, they will manipu- litical prisoners,’’ Mr. Obama said, ‘‘we to yield to my good friend from Cali- late it so that the clique that is in will take steps to begin normalizing re- fornia (Mr. ROHRABACHER). power, the clique that has been able to lations. That is the way to bring about Mr. ROHRABACHER. Thank you monstrously oppress their own people, very much. take that wealth, manipulate that real change in Cuba,’’ Mr. Obama said, America is about to send a message wealth that is coming into the country ‘‘through strong, smart principled de- to the world exactly on whose side are to cement their own power. mocracy.’’ we on, and I am very proud to stand It is very clear what this man has here with my colleagues, standing on and his clique have in mind, and that is b 2130 the side of liberty, of justice, of treat- continuing their oppression of the ing people decently, of government Cuban people. Mr. Speaker, in essence, that day, that serves the people rather than a Let’s not be partners to that. Let us then-candidate Obama, Senator systematic government that requires again, stand for liberty, stand for jus- Obama, and now-President Obama drew the people to serve them, the bureauc- tice. a red line about what the right policy racy, the tyrants that hold power. The Soviet Union has fallen. It is was to deal with the Cuban regime; That is what this is all about. Let’s time for Castro and communism in sadly, on December 17, President get an understanding of who this Cas- Cuba to fall as well. Obama announced that he was break- tro gang is. Castro murdered the free- Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Thank you so ing that promise, that he was, once dom fighters who overthrew the dic- much, Mr. ROHRABACHER. And you so tatorial government of Batista back in rightly point out that hours after again, crossing—breaking—his own red the 1950s. President Obama announced, in a line. Castro, himself, took people out who shocking way, that we would resume We have heard tonight that we have had fought against the dictatorship of diplomatic relations with Cuba and the also heard from the vast majority of Batista and shot them in the head. Castro regime does not have to change, the pro-democracy leaders within the These were people that risked their Raul Castro put on his military uni- island who are struggling. They have lives to bring democracy to Cuba, and form and spoke to the oppressed island objected to President Obama’s change this man co-opted their revolution. nation and said, hey, don’t worry. We of policy. Mr. Speaker, if President He has allied himself, over the years, are not changing a thing. It is still the with gangsters and tyrants throughout same failed regime. Obama doesn’t want to do it for the the world. He has had a safe haven for We got nothing from that deal. sake of a future of freedom for the the drug dealers of Latin America, who Mr. Speaker, I am so pleased to yield Cuban people, he should stand firm for look to him as the moderator of any to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. the sake of the national security inter- disputes between these monstrous DIAZ-BALART), the chairman of the Ap- ests of the United States. gangsters who murder each other and propriations Subcommittee on Trans- As we have heard today—right now, portation, Housing and Urban Develop- murder anyone who gets in their way. as we speak, not 50 years ago—the He has allied with these drug dealers. ment. I had the honor of serving with Cuban regime harbors fugitives from But also, during the cold war he was al- his older brother. I have the honor of lied to the hilt to the communist serving with his youngest brother now, American law, including cop killers movement throughout the world. He MARIO. Born in the United States and, and terrorists. What is President wanted his country to become a nu- just like Carlos and ALEX MOONEY, Mr. Obama’s answer? ‘‘No problem, we will clear base to attack and drop nuclear CURBELO and Mr. MOONEY, a gentleman normalize relations.’’ bombs on the people of the United who is 100 percent American and so The Cuban regime has an active espi- States. proud of 100 percent of his Cuban ances- onage network against the interests of Let’s not forget that. This is the man try. the United States. What is the Presi- Thank you, Mario. who wanted to kill Americans by the dent’s answer to that? ‘‘No problem, we millions. For us now, oh, well, that is Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Let me first will normalize. You can continue to do history; let bygones be bygones. thank you, Madam Chairwoman, for Are you kidding me? your leadership. As we heard tonight, that.’’ This is the guy that we need to send your leadership in the cause of freedom The Cuban regime shot down two a message to. When people have that does not stop at the shores of Cuba. American airplanes in international much hatred of the United States, un- Wherever there is repression and op- airspace; and for the people who are in dermine the freedom of the people in of pression, there is the clear concise prison, including one who was in prison the world, we are not just going to sit voice of Chairwoman ILEANA ROS- for conspiracy to murder, not only is it LEHTINEN, as we have heard again to- aside and forgive him of these things. okay—no problem, we will normalize— Oh, by the way, he is not even asking night. for forgiveness. The Castro regime is Mr. Speaker, we have heard a lot. but no. We will send them back. You just saying, accept us as we are, a And I know that the time is getting can go back home. country that has had more political short, but I want to quote somebody Mr. Speaker, the night is late, but I prisoners than almost any other coun- whom we have not quoted, as far as I know and I am confident that, unlike try of this hemisphere, and we are just remember here tonight, and this is President Obama, this Congress will going to accept them as they are. President Obama. When Mr. Obama continue to stand firm with the cause Well, remember, when people were was running for President he stated of freedom and the cause of a free struggling during the cold war against what the right policy, what his policy Cuba, even while President Obama does communism, Castro was on the wrong would be to deal with the Cuban tyr- not. side. During the cold war, he was the anny. one who wanted to kill Americans by He said: ‘‘My policy towards Cuba Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Thank you so the millions by having Soviet missiles will be guided by one word, ‘libertad’— much, Mr. DIAZ-BALART. You so elo- in his country. freedom. And the road to freedom for quently stated that. We have so much Finally, what does this agreement all Cubans must begin with justice for to say, and we have run out of time. that this administration—what will be Cuba’s political prisoners, the right of Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance the effect of it? free speech, a free press, freedom as- of my time. Oh, yeah, they say, we have been sembly, and it must lead to elections told, well, if you just have free trade that are free and fair.’’ The SPEAKER pro tempore. The people are going to get better. There is Mr. Obama went on to say: ‘‘I will Chair will remind Members not to refer going to be liberalism. maintain the embargo. It provides us to guests on the floor of the House.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:30 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00030 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K12JA7.047 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H221 REPORT ON RESOLUTION PRO- The staggering loss of productivity What happened? Here in the United VIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF associated with this deficit translates States, we had a huge loss of jobs to H.R. 37, PROMOTING JOB CRE- into a huge job loss here at home. In those countries, and Mexico’s and Cen- ATION AND REDUCING SMALL fact, that $9.3 trillion of accumulated tral America’s infrastructures were not BUSINESS BURDENS ACT; PRO- trade deficit of more imports coming in modernized. Their standard of living VIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF here than exports going out has actu- was not raised. H.R. 185, REGULATORY ACCOUNT- ally cost us over 47,500,000 lost Amer- In fact, the promise that those coun- ABILITY ACT OF 2015; AND PRO- ican jobs. tries somehow would turn into stylisti- VIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF Most of those were really good jobs cally rustic versions of the American H.R. 240, DEPARTMENT OF HOME- that paid living wages, jobs that just consumer market never happened. LAND SECURITY APPROPRIA- evaporated from our communities, jobs They were told new jobs would abound, TIONS ACT, 2015 that were shipped to Mexico or to but our Nation began to hemorrhage China, Korea, Bangladesh, Honduras, jobs to Mexico as wages in Mexico and Mr. COLLINS of Georgia, from the throughout Central America began to Committee on Rules, submitted a priv- Guatemala, Turkey, El Salvador—ev- erywhere in the world—largely to the drop. Those deficits became part of the ileged report (Rept. No. 114–2) on the overall total. resolution (H. Res. 27) providing for Third World, and, frankly, to undemo- cratic countries where workers are The problem is that in most of these consideration of the bill (H.R. 37) to countries where the free trade agree- make technical corrections to the treated like a bonded class. Our workers, no matter how loyal or ments were signed, what you see hap- Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and pening is more goods coming in here Consumer Protection Act, to enhance hardworking, became expendable as this began. In fact, they were treated than our goods going out, a little trick- the ability of small and emerging le going to some places. In Mexico, growth companies to access capital like expendable widgets. What is being hurt in the process is the belief of the what happened ever since NAFTA’s through public and private markets, to passage was that we were promised reduce regulatory burdens, and for public that the value of hard work has any meaning. There are some workers trade balances. Every single year, it other purposes; providing for consider- has gotten worse and worse and worse. ation of the bill (H.R. 185) to reform who have simply dropped out. Yes, American jobs are being This week, the broken promises sold the process by which Federal agencies outsourced year after year—for over a to the American public and their elect- analyze and formulate new regulations quarter century now—and workers are ed officials is that these agreements and guidance documents; and providing being treated like a game of musical would really work. The people who for consideration of the bill (H.R. 240) chairs. Our jobs have been shipped out voted for those agreements should pay making appropriations for the Depart- to penny-wage sweatshops hidden be- some attention to the debate of trying ment of Homeland Security for the fis- hind the Iron Curtain of anonymous to withhold funding for the Depart- cal year ending September 30, 2015, and towns in distant places most Ameri- ment of Homeland Security because of for other purposes, which was referred the President’s action on immigration. cans will never visit. Anonymity, ex- to the House Calendar and ordered to The stories of the youth being ploitation, and hidden squalor are as be printed. shipped back by the planeloads tell of fundamental to free trade as the families’ lands being stolen from under f hollowing out of American jobs, our them. The land was handed over to AMERICA’S FREE TRADE DEFICIT communities, and our middle class. multinational corporate agricultural Those who exploit workers in our groups that come in and grow, for ex- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under country and globally believe they are ample, palm oil. the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- so powerful that the American people uary 6, 2015, the Chair recognizes the Local displaced farmers were forced won’t be able to rein them in, and they into urban settings—desperate, in gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. KAPTUR) think this Congress will continue to until 10 p.m. search of food, in search of work at fac- behave as it did before, despite the evi- tories where jobs that were promised in Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I rise dence that this doesn’t work for the return for the land—guess what—never this evening to paint a picture of U.S. American people. materialized. Here on our own con- job loss resulting from our trade poli- Some of those very powerful inter- tinent, the children became the refu- cies extending back now almost three ests are asking for another Fast Track gees of transnational economic policies decades. trade deal to do it all over again in that harmed the entire continent. I rise because America has a huge something called the Trans-Pacific Hardly anyone even talked about ‘‘good jobs’’ deficit because we have a Partnership, on an even bigger scale, that; but when you have this kind of gigantic trade deficit. That means including nations with the grossest disruption, when you have so much job more imports come in here than our violations of basic human rights. loss, and when you have land, transfer- exports go out, largely because mar- Let me turn first to the broken ring title with millions of farmers dis- kets and other places are closed. Our promises of NAFTA, which was really rupted from their way of life, what do workers and our communities have the fundamental agreement passed— we expect? paid a tremendous price for this. over my objections—in the early 1990s Millions of displaced people in Mex- I oppose any further NAFTA-like and another agreement, CAFTA, that ico and Central America living in the trade agreements, such as the Trans- dealt with Central America. Fast-for- shadow of border plants and urban fac- Pacific Partnership, which the admin- ward to this past summer when thou- tories exist in a state of peonage that istration is proposing. That will ship sands of migrant children from Central makes older versions of slavery look out more U.S. jobs. We have had America swarmed our southern border. positively beneficent, squatting on enough. The American people have had Remember that? poisoned ground in jerry-rigged ply- enough. The American press acted surprised wood and tar paper shacks. Since 1975, when Wall Street’s free upon their arrival, and some people I have been in those shacks. I have trade job outsourcing roulette began, even threw tomatoes at buses that car- gone to those places. When you do, you America has amassed a $9.3 trillion ried children from one detention facil- never forget it. Next door, water in gul- trade deficit with the world. If you ity to another. lies that surround these places is so look at this chart, we have on here These children had lived under 20 polluted that communities smell of a every single trade agreement that was years of NAFTA and CAFTA in Mexico, rancid odor, and even chickens that signed and all of the lost jobs that re- Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. they keep to try to feed themselves die sulted from the growing trade deficits They had experience with the NAFTA from the drinking water. We have seen we are amassing with countries around trade agreement and the CAFTA trade it. We have been there. the world. This has never happened be- agreement, which covers those coun- The displaced population on the run fore over our history in the United tries, trade agreements that were sold is surging, thanks in large part to States of America. It is a very serious as opportunities that would rise the NAFTA and CAFTA’s agricultural pro- problem. tide of all boats, of all workers. visions, those very flawed provisions

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:30 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00031 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K12JA7.049 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H222 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 12, 2015 that provided no opportunity for ad- strengthen our economy and rebuild turing base here at home, by restoring justment as a First World nation met the American auto industry. Nothing our domestic energy security, and by the economy of Third World nations. could be further from the truth, as making sure that these agreements re- The terms of the agreement forced with every other agreement. sult not in deficits, but in trade bal- the revocation of land and allowed We are in a deep trade deficit with ances and, even more importantly, multinationals to begin buying up vast Korea. The U.S.-Korean free trade trade surpluses. tracts in the interior, pushing untold agreement promised 70,000 jobs. In ac- Mr. Speaker, there are ways that a millions of peasant farmers, who re- tuality, we have already lost 40,000. It developed nation can trade with the de- main nameless, off their land and into is going in exactly the opposite direc- veloping world without gutting its own the labor pool of the maquiladoras; yet tion. economy. America has got to figure we, as Americans, are surprised when The U.S. Census Bureau recently re- out how to get there. And no trade deal their children, as migrants, flock to vealed that the United States had a should be brought up here under that our southern border. $2.8 billion monthly trade deficit with Fast Track procedure where Congress If we seriously looked at the impact Korea just in November of last year, can’t amend until we fix what is wrong of our free trade agreements, we would the highest monthly U.S. goods trade with these agreements. Haven’t we easily see the havoc wrought on local deficit with Korea on record. The his- learned in three decades that that economies throughout the lands on the toric U.S. trade deficit with Korea was flawed trade model just simply isn’t other side of the border. Those who driven by a record-setting $6.3 billion working? forced this to happen should know the in imports from Korea and a lackluster Pushing huge trade agreements, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, through consequences of their policies and what $3.5 billion in exports to Korea from Congress on a Fast Track course with they reap: legions of desperate workers the United States. Auto sales did not no opportunity for amendment is not willing to do anything to survive. surge, as we were promised. Exactly the way to create a strong middle Now, let me turn to the Trans-Pacific the reverse is true. class, rising wages, and real oppor- Partnership that proposes to expand And now we can look at China. You tunity for the American people. Now is trade into regions with the worst labor know, the story is no different. You the time to hold this administration violations and working conditions. would think we would have learned and this Congress accountable for We can’t be fooled into thinking ex- something. But if you look at trade changing course and start to invest in panding trade agreements with 11 new with China—and China became a mem- this country again and make sure that nations in the Pacific rim will actually ber of the World Trade Organization in these trade partners with whom we do be the end to American jobs being 2001—Americans were promised, again, business open their markets. To do any shipped overseas. Of the 11 nations that that deal would expand market less is to continue to harm the Amer- with which the United States is negoti- opportunities for United States compa- ican people and continue to have this nies, thereby increasing jobs here and ating the Trans-Pacific Partnership, enormous downward pressure on job nine have wage levels significantly American prosperity. How has this worked out? Let me creation in this country and wage lev- lower than our own. els and benefit levels in this country, share some specifics: This will only intensify the already where the average American hasn’t real reduction in wages American The United States has lost over 64,000 manufacturing firms and at least 5.8 seen a raise in years. We have to workers are experiencing year after change. This is too great a price for the year as our jobs are shipped overseas to million manufacturing jobs to China. In the year 2013, the latest complete American people to pay. increase profits of shareholders as they So this evening, I thank those who year of data, America actually racked take advantage of impoverished labor- are listening for their time. I thank the up a $319 billion trade deficit with ers. Speaker for the time this evening. Worse yet, for the immigration de- China. And you know this to be true I yield back the balance of my time. because everything you buy—coffee bate, as those who run the maquilas of f Mexico and Central America realize, cups, clothing, electronics, even solar the next move will be to Vietnam for panels—are all made in China. And the LEAVE OF ABSENCE even cheaper labor. Factories on this massive deficit we have racked up with By unanimous consent, leave of ab- continent will shut down, further exac- China just in 1 year—that 1 year— sence was granted to: erbating the poor economic conditions amounted to a loss of 1.5 million Amer- Mr. COHEN (at the request of Ms. of our southern neighbors, leaving even ican jobs. And that is just 1 year’s PELOSI) for today on account of flight fewer options other than for those indi- damage. delay due to weather. viduals to flee north, seeking any eco- What America needs is not more of Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD (at the request nomic opportunity to sustain them- the same NAFTA-styled trade agree- of Ms. PELOSI) for today. selves. ments. What America and American Ms. TITUS (at the request of Ms. I wanted to spend a moment looking workers need is a trade policy that cre- PELOSI) for today. at the Korean agreement because that ates jobs, opportunity, and wealth in f was one of the latest ones they brought this country first. We need balanced BILLS PRESENTED TO THE up here as a free trade agreement. trade accounts, not trade accounts PRESIDENT They promised there would be thou- that are in the red with every single country with which we have racked up Karen L. Haas, Clerk of the House, sands of jobs and that America would reported that on January 9, 2015, she be able to sell 50,000 vehicles to Korea. these deficits. The American people— not just the global corporate elite— presented to the President of the b 2145 need to be in the driver’s seat again, United States, for his approval, the fol- Well, guess what. We haven’t even hit and that is where Congress has to do lowing bill: 10,000, while there have been over its job. Our Nation needs a trade policy H.R. 26. To extend the termination date of 561,000—half a million—vehicles sent the Terrorism Insurance Program estab- that is results-oriented, that will yield lished under the Terrorism Risk Insurance from Korea here. So look at what is jobs in America. Act of 2002, and for other purposes. happening with the Korean agreement, We must open closed markets of the f another free trade agreement which world. We must grow our exports. We just passed a couple of years ago. The must hold those who wrote these agree- proof is in the pudding. ments accountable for the damage that Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I move The Fast Track procedure, which al- they have done, and we must not cre- that the House do now adjourn. lows no amendment here on the floor, ate any more free trade agreements The motion was agreed to; accord- yields this—more red ink for the that dig the hole deeper. ingly (at 9 o’clock and 50 minutes United States. We must create jobs here in our p.m.), under its previous order, the We were promised that the Korean country by moving our Nation toward House adjourned until tomorrow, Tues- agreement would create jobs and help economic independence—not depend- day, January 13, 2015, at 10 a.m. for balance our trade deficit in an effort to ence—by rebuilding our own manufac- morning-hour debate.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:30 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00032 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K12JA7.050 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H223 EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, rule — Federal Employees Health Benefits for printing and reference to the proper ETC. Program Miscellaneous Changes: Medically calendar, as follows: Underserved Areas (RIN: 3206-AN03) received Mr. SESSIONS: Committee on Rules. Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive January 7, 2015, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. House Resolution 27. Resolution providing communications were taken from the 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Oversight for consideration of the bill (H.R. 37) to Speaker’s table and referred as follows: and Government Reform. make technical corrections to the Dodd- 28. A letter from the Attorney-Advisor, 18. A letter from the Chief Counsel, FEMA, Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Department of Homeland Security, transmit- Protection Act, to enhance the ability of Security, transmitting the Department’s ting the Department’s final rule — Suspen- small and emerging growth companies to ac- final rule — Safety Zones within the Captain sion of Community Eligibility, Caroline cess capital through public and private mar- of the Port New Orleans Zone, Louisiana County, MD, et al. [Docket ID: FEMA-2014- kets, to reduce regulatory burdens, and for [Docket No.: USCG-2014-0993] (RIN: 1625- 0002] [Internal Agency Docket No.: FEMA- other purposes; providing for consideration AA00) received January 7, 2015, pursuant to 5 8363] received January 7, 2015, pursuant to 5 of the bill (H.R. 185) to reform the process by U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Fi- which Federal agencies analyze and formu- Transportation and Infrastructure. nancial Services. late new regulations and guidance docu- 29. A letter from the Attorney-Advisor, 19. A letter from the Director, Office of ments; and providing for consideration of the U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Legislative Affairs, Federal Deposit Insur- bill (H.R. 240) making appropriations for the Security, transmitting the Department’s ance Corporation, transmitting the Corpora- Department of Homeland Security for the final rule — Regulated Navigation Area; Ar- tion’s final rule — Assessments (RIN: 3064- fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, and for thur Kill, NY and NJ [Docket No.: USCG- AE16) received January 7, 2015, pursuant to 5 other purposes (Rept. 114–2). Referred to the 2013-1063] (RIN: 1625-AA11) received January U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Fi- House Calendar. nancial Services. 7, 2015, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to f 20. A letter from the General Counsel, Pen- the Committee on Transportation and Infra- sion Benefit Guaranty Corporation, trans- structure. PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS 30. A letter from the Attorney-Advisor, mitting the Corporation’s final rule — Title Under clause 2 of rule XII, public IV Treatment of Rollovers From Defined U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Contribution Plans to Defined Benefit Plans Security, transmitting the Department’s bills and resolutions of the following (RIN: 1212-AB23) received January 7, 2015, final rule — Safety Zone, Christina River; titles were introduced and severally re- pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- Wilmington, DE [Docket No.: USCG-2014- ferred, as follows: 1033] (RIN: 1625-AA00) received January 7, mittee on Education and the Workforce. By Mrs. ELLMERS (for herself, Mr. 2015, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the 21. A letter from the Assistant Secretary KIND, Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, Committee on Transportation and Infra- for Export Administration, Bureau of Indus- Mrs. BLACKBURN, and Mr. THOMPSON structure. try and Security, Department of Commerce, of Pennsylvania): 31. A letter from the Chief, Publications transmitting the Department’s final rule — H.R. 270. A bill to continue the use of a 3- and Regulations Branch, Internal Revenue Clarification to Scope of Certain ‘‘600 Se- month quarter EHR reporting period for Service, transmitting the Service’s final rule ries’’ ECCNs [Docket No.: 141119982-4982-01] health care providers to demonstrate mean- — Additional Requirements for Charitable (RIN: 0694-AG40) received January 7, 2015, ingful use for 2015 under the Medicare and Hospitals; Community Health Needs Assess- pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- Medicaid EHR incentive payment programs, ments for Charitable Hospitals; Requirement mittee on Foreign Affairs. and for other purposes; to the Committee on of a Section 4959 Excise Tax Return and 22. A letter from the Assistant Secretary Energy and Commerce, and in addition to Time for Filing the Return [TD 9708] (RIN: for Export Administration, Bureau of Indus- the Committee on Ways and Means, for a pe- 1545-BK57; RIN: 1545-BL30; RIN: 1545-BL58) re- try and Security, Department of Commerce, riod to be subsequently determined by the ceived January 5, 2015, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. transmitting the Department’s final rule — Speaker, in each case for consideration of 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Ways and Revision to the Export Administration Regu- such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- Means. lations: Controls on Electronic Commodities; tion of the committee concerned. 32. A letter from the Chief, Publications Exports and Reexports to Hong Kong [Dock- By Mr. BILIRAKIS (for himself, Ms. and Regulations Branch, Internal Revenue et No.: 141107937-4937-01] (RIN: 0694-AG33) re- FRANKEL of Florida, Mr. JOLLY, Mr. Service, transmitting the Service’s IRB only ceived January 7, 2015, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. JOHNSON of Ohio, Mr. PALAZZO, and rule — Safe harbor methods of accounting 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Foreign Af- Mr. RUIZ): for cable system operators (Rev. Proc. 2015- fairs. H.R. 271. A bill to establish a commission 12) received January 5, 2015, pursuant to 5 23. A letter from the Director, Inter- to examine the evidence-based therapy treat- U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on national Cooperation, Department of De- ment model used by the Secretary of Vet- Ways and Means. fense, transmitting pursuant to Section 27(f) erans Affairs for treating mental illnesses of 33. A letter from the Federal Register Liai- of the Arms Export Control Act and Execu- veterans and the potential benefits of incor- son Officer, OLCA, OLDO, Office of Regula- tive Order 13637, Transmittal No. 13-14, in- porating complementary alternative treat- tions and Reports Clearance, Social Security forming the Congress of the Department’s in- ments available in non-Department of Vet- Administration, transmitting the Adminis- tent to sign a Memorandum of Agreement erans Affairs medical facilities within the tration’s final rule — Extension of Expira- with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization community; to the Committee on Veterans’ tion Dates for Several Body System Listings (NATO) Communications and Information Affairs. [Docket No.: SSA-2014-0068] (RIN: 0960-AH72) Organisation (NCIO), as represented by the By Mr. WALBERG (for himself, Mr. received January 7, 2015, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. NATO Communications and Information ROE of Tennessee, Mr. GUTHRIE, Mr. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Ways and Agency; to the Committee on Foreign Af- TONKO, Mr. LAMALFA, Mr. CONNOLLY, Means. fairs. 34. A letter from the Administrator, TSA, and Mr. WILSON of South Carolina): 24. A letter from the Assistant Legal Ad- Department of Homeland Security, transmit- H.R. 272. A bill to amend title 38, United viser, Office of Treaty Affairs, Department of ting the Administration’s certification that States Code, to increase the priority for en- State, transmitting a report concerning the level of screening services and protection rollment of medal of honor recipients in the international agreements other than trea- provided at Portsmouth International Air- health care system of the Department of ties, entered into by the United States, to be port (PSM) at Pease will be equal to or Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes; to transmitted to the Congress within the greater than the level that would be provided the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. sixty-day period specified in the Case-Za- at the airport by TSA Transportation Secu- By Mr. RUSH: blocki Act, pursuant to 1 U.S.C. 112b; to the H.R. 273. A bill to amend the Small Busi- rity Officers, pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 44920(d); Committee on Foreign Affairs. ness Act to enhance services to small busi- to the Committee on Homeland Security. 25. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- 35. A letter from the Chairman, Medicare ness concerns that are disadvantaged, and ment of Energy, transmitting the Depart- Payment Advisory Commission, transmit- for other purposes; to the Committee on ment’s Fiscal Year 2014 Agency Financial ting a report to the Congress entitled ‘‘Im- Small Business. Report; to the Committee on Oversight and pact of Home Health Payment Rebasing on By Mr. RUSH: Government Reform. H.R. 274. A bill to lift the trade embargo on Beneficiary Access to and Quality of Care’’, 26. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- Cuba, and for other purposes; to the Com- pursuant to Public Law 111-148, section 3301; ment of Housing and Urban Development, mittee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to jointly to the Committees on Energy and transmitting the Department’s semiannual the Committees on Ways and Means, Energy Commerce and Ways and Means. report from the Office of Inspector General and Commerce, the Judiciary, Financial for the period April, 1, 2014, through Sep- f Services, Oversight and Government Reform, tember 30, 2014; to the Committee on Over- REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON and Agriculture, for a period to be subse- sight and Government Reform. PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS quently determined by the Speaker, in each 27. A letter from the Director, Planning case for consideration of such provisions as and Policy Analysis, Office of Personnel Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of fall within the jurisdiction of the committee Management, transmitting the Office’s final committees were delivered to the Clerk concerned.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:30 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00033 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\L12JA7.000 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H224 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 12, 2015

By Mr. RUSH (for himself, Mr. BARTON, By Mr. TIBERI (for himself, Mr. LAR- United States to limit the number of con- Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, and Mr. DENT): SON of Connecticut, Mr. KELLY of secutive terms that a H.R. 275. A bill to establish a commission Pennsylvania, Mr. GIBBS, Mr. JOYCE, may serve; to the Committee on the Judici- to identify and examine issues of national Mr. STIVERS, Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio, ary. concern related to the conduct of intercolle- Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. By Mr. PALAZZO (for himself, Mr. giate athletics, to make recommendations JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. THOMPSON of HARPER, and Mr. LAMALFA): for the resolution of the issues, and for other Pennsylvania, Mr. NEUGEBAUER, Ms. H.J. Res. 20. A joint resolution proposing purposes; to the Committee on Education TSONGAS, Mr. HANNA, Mr. HARPER, an amendment to the Constitution of the and the Workforce. Mr. CRENSHAW, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. United States to limit Congress’ power to By Mrs. BLACK: ROE of Tennessee, Ms. PINGREE, Mr. impose a tax on a failure to purchase goods H.R. 276. A bill to prohibit the Secretary of AMODEI, Mr. ROKITA, Mr. RYAN of or services; to the Committee on the Judici- Homeland Security from using Federal funds Ohio, Mrs. MILLER of Michigan, Mr. ary. for the position of Public Advocate, or the TIPTON, Mr. BARLETTA, Mrs. By Mrs. COMSTOCK: position of Deputy Assistant Director of Cus- WALORSKI, Mr. LOEBSACK, Ms. H. Con. Res. 7. Concurrent resolution pro- tody Programs and Community Outreach, SLAUGHTER, and Ms. DUCKWORTH): viding for a joint session of Congress to re- within U.S. Immigration and Customs En- H.R. 284. A bill to amend title XVIII of the ceive a message from the President; consid- forcement, and for other purposes; to the Social Security Act to require State licen- ered and agreed to. considered and agreed to. Committee on the Judiciary. sure and bid surety bonds for entities sub- By Mr. GOODLATTE (for himself and By Mr. HASTINGS: mitting bids under the Medicare durable Mr. CAPUANO): H.R. 277. A bill to prohibit assistance to medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, H. Res. 26. A resolution strongly sup- the Palestinian Authority until it withdraws and supplies (DMEPOS) competitive acquisi- porting the quality and value of diversity its request to join the International Crimi- tion program, and for other purposes; to the and innovation in the Nation’s higher edu- nal Court; to the Committee on Foreign Af- Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in cation institutions, and strongly disagreeing fairs. addition to the Committee on Ways and with the President’s proposal to create and By Mr. LARSEN of Washington (for Means, for a period to be subsequently deter- administer a Postsecondary Institution Rat- himself and Ms. DELBENE): ings System; to the Committee on Education H.R. 278. A bill making supplemental ap- mined by the Speaker, in each case for con- and the Workforce. propriations for fiscal year 2015 for the sideration of such provisions as fall within By Mrs. DAVIS of California (for her- TIGER discretionary grant program, and for the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. self, Mr. JOYCE, and Mr. KING of New other purposes; to the Committee on Appro- By Mrs. WAGNER (for herself, Mrs. York): priations, and in addition to the Committee BLACK, Ms. BROWNLEY of California, H. Res. 28. A resolution expressing the on the Budget, for a period to be subse- Mr. JOLLY, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, sense of the House of Representatives that quently determined by the Speaker, in each Mr. CRAMER, Mr. LOBIONDO, Mrs. the United States Postal Service should take case for consideration of such provisions as WALORSKI, Mr. JOYCE, Mr. BARR, Mr. all appropriate measures to ensure the con- fall within the jurisdiction of the committee LANCE, Mr. GOSAR, Ms. JENKINS of tinuation of door delivery for all business concerned. Kansas, Mr. ROTHFUS, Mr. WALBERG, and residential customers; to the Committee By Mr. LATTA (for himself, Mr. JONES, Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN, Mr. HULTGREN, on Oversight and Government Reform. Mr. WEBER of Texas, and Mr. RAN- Mr. COOK, Mr. PEARCE, Ms. BASS, GEL): Mrs. BEATTY, Mrs. BUSTOS, Ms. CAS- f TOR of Florida, Ms. CLARK of Massa- H.R. 279. A bill to amend the Communica- CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY tions Act of 1934 to limit the authority of the chusetts, Ms. ESTY, Ms. FRANKEL of Federal Communications Commission over Florida, Ms. KELLY of Illinois, Ms. STATEMENT providers of broadband Internet access serv- MENG, Mr. SCHOCK, Mr. PAULSEN, Pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII of ice; to the Committee on Energy and Com- Mrs. NOEM, Mr. CLAY, Mr. MCCAUL, the Rules of the House of Representa- merce. Mr. GIBSON, and Mr. KLINE): tives, the following statements are sub- By Mr. MILLER of Florida: H.R. 285. A bill to amend title 18, United H.R. 280. A bill to authorize the Secretary States Code, to provide a penalty for know- mitted regarding the specific powers of Veterans Affairs to recoup bonuses and ingly selling advertising that offers certain granted to Congress in the Constitu- awards paid to employees of the Department commercial sex acts; to the Committee on tion to enact the accompanying bill or of Veterans Affairs; to the Committee on the Judiciary. joint resolution. Veterans’ Affairs, and in addition to the By Mr. ZINKE: By Mrs. ELLMERS: Committee on Oversight and Government H.R. 286. A bill to extend the Federal rec- H.R. 270. Reform, for a period to be subsequently de- ognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chip- Congress has the power to enact this legis- termined by the Speaker, in each case for pewa Indians of Montana, and for other pur- lation pursuant to the following: consideration of such provisions as fall with- poses; to the Committee on Natural Re- The Commerce Clause: Article I, Section 8, in the jurisdiction of the committee con- sources. Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution gives Con- cerned. By Mr. BRIDENSTINE: gress the power ‘‘to regulate commerce with By Mr. PALAZZO (for himself, Mr. H.J. Res. 15. A joint resolution proposing foreign nations, and among the several HARPER, Mr. CONAWAY, Mr. an amendment to the Constitution of the states, and with the Indian tribes.’’ PITTENGER, Mr. OLSON, Mr. JONES, United States granting Congress the author- By Mr. BILIRAKIS: Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. MARINO, ity to enact laws limiting the number of H.R. 271. Mr. POMPEO, Mr. PITTS, and Mr. terms that Representatives and Senators Congress has the power to enact this legis- ROTHFUS): may serve; to the Committee on the Judici- lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 281. A bill to prohibit recovery of ary. This bill is enacted pursuant to Article I, damages in certain wrongful birth and By Mr. KING of Iowa (for himself and Section 8, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the wrongful life civil actions, and for other pur- Mr. WOODALL): United States and Article I, Section 8, poses; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.J. Res. 16. A joint resolution proposing Clause 7 of the Constitution of the United By Mr. RIBBLE (for himself, Mr. an amendment to the Constitution of the States. POCAN, Mr. MCKINLEY, Ms. JENKINS of United States to the sixteenth article Article I, section 8 of the United State Kansas, and Mr. TAKANO): of amendment; to the Committee on the Ju- Constitution, which grants Congress the H.R. 282. A bill to amend the Congressional diciary. power to raise and support an Army; to pro- Budget Act of 1974 to require that the Con- By Mr. BUCHANAN (for himself and vide and maintain a Navy; to make rules for gressional Budget Office prepare long-term Mr. LONG): the government and regulation of the land scoring estimates for reported bills and joint H.J. Res. 17. A joint resolution proposing and naval forces; and provide for organizing, resolutions that could have significant eco- an amendment to the Constitution of the arming, and disciplining the militia. nomic and fiscal effects outside of the nor- United States relative to balancing the budg- By Mr. WALBERG: mal scoring periods; to the Committee on et; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 272. the Budget, and in addition to the Com- By Mr. MCCLINTOCK: Congress has the power to enact this legis- mittee on Rules, for a period to be subse- H.J. Res. 18. A joint resolution proposing lation pursuant to the following: quently determined by the Speaker, in each an amendment to the Constitution of the Article I, Section 8, Clauses 12, 14 and 18 of case for consideration of such provisions as United States prohibiting the United States the Constitution of the United States; the fall within the jurisdiction of the committee Government from increasing its debt except authority to raise and support an army, to concerned. for a specific purpose by law adopted by make rules for the government and regula- By Mr. SALMON (for himself and Mr. three-fourths of the membership of each tion of the land and naval forces and to GOSAR): House of Congress; to the Committee on the make all laws which shall be necessary and H.R. 283. A bill to improve the provisions Judiciary. proper carrying into execution the foregoing relating to the privacy of electronic commu- By Mr. PALAZZO: powers. nications; to the Committee on the Judici- H.J. Res. 19. A joint resolution proposing By Mr. RUSH: ary. an amendment to the Constitution of the H.R. 273.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:30 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00034 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\L12JA7.100 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H225 Congress has the power to enact this legis- AMENDMENT IV: The right of the people or by conventions in three fourths thereof, lation pursuant to the following: to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, as the one or the other mode of ratification Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 and effects, against unreasonable searches may be proposed by the Congress; provided ‘‘The Congress shall have power ‘‘To regu- and seizures, shall not be violated, and no that no amendment which may be made late commerce with foreign Nations, and Warrants shall issue, but upon probable prior to the year one thousand eight hundred among the several States, and with the In- cause, supported by Oath of affirmation and and eight shall in any manner affect the first dian Tribes’’ particularly describing the place to be and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the By Mr. RUSH: searched, and the persons or things to be first article; and that no state, without its H.R. 274. seized. consent, shall be deprived of its equal suf- Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mr. TIBERI: frage in the Senate. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 284. By Mr. PALAZZO: Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.J. Res. 20. ‘‘The Congress shall have Power ‘‘to regu- lation pursuant to the following: Congress has the power to enact this legis- late Commerce with foreign Nations, and Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 lation pursuant to the following: among the several States, and with the In- By Mrs. WAGNER: Article V: The Congress, whenever two dian Tribes.’’ H.R. 285. thirds of both houses shall deem it nec- By Mr. RUSH: Congress has the power to enact this legis- essary, shall propose amendments to this H.R. 275. lation pursuant to the following: Constitution, or, on the application of the Congress has the power to enact this legis- This bill is enacted pursuant to the power legislatures of two thirds of the several lation pursuant to the following: granted to Congress in Article I, Section 8, Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution states, shall call a convention for proposing Clause 3 of the United States Constitution: amendments, which, in either case, shall be granted Congress the power to lay and col- ‘‘To regulate Commerce with foreign Na- lect taxes to provide for the general welfare valid to all intents and purposes, as part of tions, and among the several States, and this Constitution, when ratified by the legis- of the United States. Further, Article I, Sec- with the Indian Tribes.’’ tion 8, Clause 3 provides that Congress shall latures of three fourths of the several states, Additional authority derives from Article or by conventions in three fourths thereof, have power ‘‘To regulate commerce with for- I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United States eign Nations, and among the several States, as the one or the other mode of ratification Constitution: ‘‘To make all Laws which shall may be proposed by the Congress; provided and with the Indian Tribes’’ be necessary and proper for carrying into By Mrs. BLACK: that no amendment which may be made Execution the foregoing Powers, and all prior to the year one thousand eight hundred H.R. 276. other Powers vested by this Constitution in Congress has the power to enact this legis- and eight shall in any manner affect the first the Government of the United States, or in and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the lation pursuant to the following: any Department or Officer thereof.’’ Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 of the Con- first article; and that no state, without its By Mr. ZINKE: stitution (relating to the power of Congress consent, shall be deprived of its equal suf- H.R. 286. frage in the Senate. with respect to taxes and spending). Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mr. HASTINGS: lation pursuant to the following: f H.R. 277. Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 Congress has the power to enact this legis- Congress has the power to enact this legis- ADDITIONAL SPONSORS lation pursuant to the following: lation pursuant to the following: Article I, U.S. Const. art. I, § 8 Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors section 8 of the Constitution of the United By Mr. LARSEN of Washington: were added to public bills and resolu- H.R. 278. States that states ‘‘The Congress shall have tions, as follows: Power to regulate Commerce with foreign Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 25: Mr. BROOKS of Alabama, Mr. CAR- lation pursuant to the following: Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.’’ TER of Texas, Mr. YOUNG of Alaska, and Mr. As described in Article 1, Section 1 ‘‘all SANFORD. legislative powers herein granted shall be By Mr. BRIDENSTINE: H.J. Res. 15. H.R. 27: Mr. RIBBLE, Mr. HURT of Virginia, vested in a Congress.’’ Mr. MCCAUL, Mr. POSEY, Mr. BISHOP of Utah, By Mr. LATTA: Congress has the power to enact this legis- lation pursuant to the following: and Mr. OLSON. H.R. 279. H.R. 32: Mr. JONES. Congress has the power to enact this legis- Article V of the Constitution, which grants H.R. 33: Mr. HANNA, Mr. COURTNEY, Mr. lation pursuant to the following: Congress the authority to propose GIBSON, Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania, Mr. Article I, Section 8, Clause 3: Congress Constitiutional amendments. LOBIONDO, Mr. HUELSKAMP, Mr. MARINO, Mr. shall have the Power . . . ‘‘to regulate Com- By Mr. KING of Iowa: PERRY, Mr. SHUSTER, Mr. COSTELLO of Penn- merce with foreign Nations, and among the H.J. Res. 16. sylvania, Mr. DENT, Mr. CARTWRIGHT, Mr. several States, and with the Indian tribes.’’ Congress has the power to enact this legis- FLEISCHMANN, Mr. ROTHFUS, and Mr. HURT of By Mr. MILLER of Florida: lation pursuant to the following: Virginia. H.R. 280. This joint resolution is enacted pursuant H.R. 36: Mr. AMASH, Mr. BRAT, Mr. Congress has the power to enact this legis- to the power granted to Congress to propose STUTZMAN, Mr. SMITH of Missouri, Mr. REED, lation pursuant to the following: amendments to the Constitution under Arti- Article 1, Section 8 of the United States cle V of the United States Constitution. Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania, Mr. Constitution. By Mr. BUCHANAN: PITTENGER, Mr. HUNTER, Mr. HARPER, Mr. By Mr. PALAZZO: H.J. Res. 17. WILLIAMS, Mr. BUCHANAN, Mr. MULVANEY, H.R. 281. Congress has the power to enact this legis- Mr. RICE of South Carolina, Mr. CRAMER, and Congress has the power to enact this legis- lation pursuant to the following: Mrs. BLACK. lation pursuant to the following: The constitutional authority on which this H.R. 44: Mr. YOUNG of Alaska. Article I, Section 8, Clause 18: The Con- joint resolution rests is the power of Con- H.R. 94: Mr. CICILLINE. gress shall have Power . . . To make all gress as enumerated in Article V of the H.R. 109: Mr. POSEY and Mr. CULBERSON. Laws which shall be necessary and proper for United States Constitution. H.R. 114: Mr. COOK. carrying into Execution the foregoing Pow- By Mr. MCCLINTOCK: H.R. 132: Mr. ROE of Tennessee, Mr. ers, and all other Powers vested by this Con- H.J. Res. 18. DESJARLAIS, Mr. BYRNE, Mr. PERRY, and Mr. stitution in the Government of the United Congress has the power to enact this legis- FARENTHOLD. States, or in any Department or Officer lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 143: Mr. NUGENT, Mr. JONES, Mr. thereof. Article V of the United States Constitu- BYRNE, Mr. WESTERMAN, Mr. RIBBLE, Mr. By Mr. RIBBLE: tion provides for amendments to the United MOOLENAAR, and Mr. MULVANEY. H.R. 282. States Constitution. H.R. 154: Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. CROWLEY, Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mr. PALAZZO: Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. FUDGE, Mr. POCAN, Mr. lation pursuant to the following: H.J. Res. 19. HIGGINS, and Ms. SLAUGHTER. Article I, section 9, clause 7 of the United Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 156: Mr. SCHWEIKERT and Mr. States Constitution which provides that, lation pursuant to the following: WESTERMAN. ‘‘No Money shall be drawn from the Treas- Article V: The Congress, whenever two H.R. 161: Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania, Mr. ury, but in Consequence of Appropriations thirds of both houses shall deem it nec- STEWART, Mr. CRAMER, Mr. LAMALFA, and made by Law, and a regular Statement and essary, shall propose amendments to this Mr. MARINO. Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of Constitution, or, on the application of the H.R. 167: Mr. VALADAO, Ms. BONAMICI, Mr. all public Money shall be published from legislatures of two thirds of the several BEN RAY LUJA´ N of New Mexico, Mr. time to time. states, shall call a convention for proposing REICHERT, Mr. CHAFFETZ, Ms. TITUS, and Mr. By Mr. SALMON: amendments, which, in either case, shall be TIBERI. H.R. 283. valid to all intents and purposes, as part of H.R. 173: Mr. JORDAN and Mr. WESTERMAN. Congress has the power to enact this legis- this Constitution, when ratified by the legis- H.R. 177: Mr. REICHERT. lation pursuant to the following: latures of three fourths of the several states, H.R. 178: Mr. CRAWFORD.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:30 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00035 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A12JA7.013 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H226 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 12, 2015

H.R. 181: Mr. PAULSEN. H.J. Res. 2: Mr. SMITH of Nebraska, Mr. priations Act, 2015, do not contain any con- H.R. 185: Mr. CRAWFORD, Mr. RODNEY DAVIS HUIZENGA of Michigan, Mr. CLAWSON of Flor- gressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or of Illinois, Mr. PEARCE, Mr. HOLDING, Mr. ida, Mr. KLINE, and Mr. EMMER. limited tariff benefits as defined in clause 9 FORBES, Mrs. NOEM, Mr. KLINE, Mr. CRAMER, H.J. Res. 13: Mr. BROOKS of Alabama, Mr. of rule XXI. Mr. ROUZER, Mr. EMMER, and Mr. RICE of HANNA, Mr. SCHWEIKERT, and Mr. South Carolina. DESJARLAIS. f H.R. 187: Mr. MURPHY of Florida, Mr. H. Res. 11: Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina, DELETION OF SPONSORS FROM WELCH, Ms. JENKINS of Kansas, Mr. VALADAO, Mr. PERRY, Mr. FLEMING, and Mr. RIGELL. Mrs. BUSTOS, and Mr. MULVANEY. H. Res. 12: Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. AL GREEN of PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS H.R. 191: Mr. PALMER, Mr. OLSON, Mr. Texas, Mr. CAPUANO, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. PERL- Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors FLEMING, Mr. WILLIAMS, Mr. DESJARLAIS, Mr. MUTTER, Mr. JOYCE, and Mr. SEAN PATRICK were deleted from public bills and reso- WEBER of Texas, and Mr. HUNTER. MALONEY of New York. lutions, as follows: H.R. 203: Mr. MURPHY of Florida, Ms. H. Res. 24: Mr. THOMPSON of California, Mr. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM of New Mexico, BISHOP of Georgia, Mr. BARR, Mr. JOYCE, Mr. H.R. 217: Mr. SMITH of Washington. Ms. PINGREE, Mr. PAULSEN, Mr. QUIGLEY, Ms. ZINKE, Mr. MASSIE, Mrs. WALORSKI, and Mr. f BONAMICI, Mr. PETERSON, Mr. YOUNG of Indi- KNIGHT. ana, Ms. BROWN of Florida, Ms. SINEMA, Ms. PETITIONS, ETC. KUSTER, Mr. CICILLINE, Mrs. BUSTOS, Mr. f WENSTRUP, Mr. CRAMER, Mr. COSTELLO of CONGRESSIONAL EARMARKS, LIM- Under clause 3 of rule XII, petitions Pennsylvania, and Mr. GIBSON. ITED TAX BENEFITS, OR LIM- and papers were laid on the clerk’s H.R. 204: Mr. CURBELO of Florida. desk and referred as follows: H.R. 206: Mr. ALLEN and Mr. JODY B. HICE ITED TARIFF BENEFITS of Georgia. 1. The SPEAKER presented a petition of Under clause 9 of rule XXI, lists or the City of Lauderhill, Florida, relative to H.R. 217: Mr. SMITH of Nebraska, Mr. ROG- statements on congressional earmarks, ERS of Alabama, Mr. SMITH of Missouri, Mr. Resolution No. 14R-10-247, urging the Depart- limited tax benefits, or limited tariff MCCAUL, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. ment of Labor to more effectively enforce MARINO, and Mr. AMASH. benefits were submitted as follows: the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the Lilly H.R. 223: Mr. RIBBLE. OFFERED BY MR. CONAWAY Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 and other continued efforts for ensuring parity in pay H.R. 227: Mr. FLEMING. The provisions that warranted a referral to for women so that women in comparable po- H.R. 228: Mr. PASCRELL, Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. the Committee on Agricultural in H.R. 37 do sitions make incomes much more closely re- RUPPERSBERGER, Mr. COOK, and Ms. MCCOL- not contain any congressional earmarks, lated to their male counterparts; to the LUM. limited tax benefits, or limited tariff bene- Committee on Education and the Workforce. H.R. 238: Ms. JUDY CHU of California and fits as defined in clause 9 of rule XXI of the 2. Also, a petition of the City of Lauderhill, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Rules of the House of Representatives. H.R. 246: Ms. BASS, Ms. BROWNLEY of Cali- Florida, relative to Resolution No. 14R-12- fornia, and Mr. KLINE. OFFERED BY MR. PRICE 278, supporting the Haitian Family Reunifi- H.J. Res. 1: Mr. EMMER, Mr. HUIZENGA of The provisions that warranted a referral to cation Parole Program that was created by Michigan, Mr. CLAWSON of Florida, Mr. the Committee on the Budget in H.R. 240, the the Department of Homeland Security; to KLINE, and Mr. POSEY. Department of Homeland Security Appro- the Committee on the Judiciary.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:22 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00036 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A12JA7.018 H12JAPT1 rfrederick on DSK6VPTVN1PROD with HOUSE E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record United States th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 114 CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION

Vol. 161 WASHINGTON, MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2015 No. 5 Senate The Senate met at 2 p.m. and was tisan jobs and infrastructure bill. If all example of Congress getting back to called to order by the President pro time is used the Senate will begin con- work under a new Republican majority. tempore (Mr. HATCH). sideration of the bill at midnight to- Later this afternoon we will consider f morrow night. Once has been a cloture motion that will allow us to invoked, it is my hope that Chairman proceed to a similarly open debate here PRAYER MURKOWSKI can work with Senator on the Senate floor. I know Senators The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- CANTWELL to yield back time, get on from both sides are hungry for a real fered the following prayer: the bill during the day tomorrow, and Senate debate. I know they want to Let us pray. begin to process amendments under the offer amendments. I know they are Our Father in Heaven, You know our regular order. anxious to finally have their voices and thoughts from afar. Teach us how to The Senate will be out of session on the voices of the people they represent live to honor Your Name. Rule in our Wednesday and Thursday of this week heard here on the Senate floor. I expect lives, injecting our intentions with to accommodate our respective con- the cloture motion to pass on a bipar- such purity that even our motives can ference retreats. We will return for tisan basis. withstand Your scrutiny. consideration of the Keystone bill on Of course, we originally hoped to Have Your way on Capitol Hill, sur- Friday, and Senators should be work- start this process last Thursday. We rounding our Senators with Your power ing with the bill managers to get their wanted to spend Friday working on and love. Deliver them from fear and amendments in the queue. this bipartisan jobs bill, but the Senate uncertainty as You inspire them to f lost that opportunity when some col- stay within the circle of Your will. leagues across the aisle objected to be- Lord, bless and consecrate their labors TERRORIST ATTACKS IN PARIS ginning the debate. today, and use them to serve the com- Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I Now, moving forward, what I would mon good as You strengthen them dur- wish to say a few words about what has urge is for our Democratic friends to ing the hour of temptation. been happening in Paris. We have seen work with us as the new Republican We pray in Your mighty Name. remarkable displays of support for the majority continues to bring more open- Amen. French people. Out of terrible dark- ness to the Senate. The changes we are f ness, we have seen defiant recommit- making are ones that many Democrats ments to the ideals of free expression, have indicated they want to see as PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE and the French people should know well. The reforms we are implementing The President pro tempore led the that the Senate stands in solidarity will give a real voice to constituents Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: with them as they work to recover represented by Democratic Senators. I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the from such awful terrorist attacks. We need to work together to ensure United States of America, and to the Repub- They should also be assured that we positive change takes hold. I am hope- lic for which it stands, one nation under God, are prepared to cooperate in whatever ful that will happen. indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. appropriate way we can. Here is one consequence of that delay f f I mentioned. The Nebraska Supreme Court has since eliminated what has to RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE be the last conceivable pretext to veto LEADER Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, last the Keystone jobs bill, so we will be The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. COT- week the House of Representatives starting the Senate’s debate at a time TON). The majority leader is recog- voted on a bipartisan basis to pass a when the rationale for building this nized. Keystone jobs and infrastructure bill. pipeline has almost never been more f Meanwhile, the Senate energy com- obvious. mittee got the process moving in this I know the American people would SCHEDULE Chamber as it debated and approved a welcome a change in posture from the Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, bipartisan Keystone measure as well. President. I know supporters in both today the Senate will debate the mo- The committee consideration allows parties are determined to get a bipar- tion to proceed to S. 1, a bill to approve Senators from both parties to offer tisan jobs and infrastructure bill to his the Keystone XL Pipeline, with the amendments and make their voices desk as soon as possible. We will take time equally divided until 5:30 p.m. At heard. It is the kind of serious legis- the next step in the process at 5:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m. we will have a cloture vote on lating many Senators have been wait- today, and then we will have an open the motion to proceed to this bipar- ing a long time to see. It is the latest floor debate on jobs, the middle class,

∑ This ‘‘bullet’’ symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor.

S133

.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:58 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A12JA6.000 S12JAPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S134 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 12, 2015 infrastructure, and energy. At the end Charlie Hebdo massacre and the super- he will convene a summit at the White of this process, we will send a bipar- market murders and to demonstrate House next month to discuss what can tisan jobs bill to the President. We will their unity. The marchers included be done further to stop the threat of fulfill our pledge to stop protecting Christians, Muslims, Jews, and many violent extremism. him from good ideas. It may force the other religious faiths and nonbelievers. This is a time when we should all be President to finally make a difficult President Francois Hollande led the focusing on what we can do to stop the choice between jobs and the middle March. He was joined by European and threat of terrorism in our country as class versus the demands of powerful African leaders, Israeli Prime Minister well as the rest of the world, so it is special interests, but President Obama Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian Au- truly surprising, to say the least, that now has every reason to sign the bipar- thority President Mahmoud Abbas, the House of Representatives will vote tisan jobs and infrastructure bill we America’s Ambassador to France, and on a bill this week that threatens to will pass. our Assistant Secretary of State. shut down the Department of Home- I yield the floor. Marches were also held in other cit- land Security. That is our government f ies around the globe yesterday, from agency that is responsible for pro- Washington to the West Bank. Tens of tecting Americans from terrorism. RECOGNITION OF THE ACTING thousands of people showed their soli- What in the world would lead the MINORITY LEADER darity with the victims of these ter- House of Representatives to threaten The PRESIDING OFFICER. The as- rorist attacks in France. to shut down this agency? We should sistant Democratic leader is recog- In Chicago hundreds of people turned not even be debating the Department nized. out in the cold yesterday to rally at of Homeland Security at this moment f Daley Plaza under American and in history. Every other government agency— TERRORIST ATTACKS IN PARIS French flags. One of the organizers of the Chicago rally was a young woman every single one of them—has already Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, later named Eve Zuckerman who holds joint been funded through the end of this fis- today Members of the Senate family U.S. and French citizenship and has cal year, September 30, and that is nor- will have two opportunities to express lived in Chicago for about 4 years. She mal when we fund the government. But our solidarity with the people of said the spasm of violence that has the Republicans in the House and Sen- France in their hour of grief and to re- shaken France is not simply an attack ate insisted weeks ago that the Depart- affirm our commitment to the prin- on France. In her words, ‘‘What it real- ment of Homeland Security only be ciples of freedom and tolerance—values ly means is that anyone who is for free- funded through the end of February. that have bound our nations together dom and for tolerance is also under at- Why did they demand that this critical since the creation of the United States tack.’’ agency that is responsible for keeping and the French Republic. In our own country in the days after us safe across America not be funded in In a short while the Senate will con- 9/11, our grief was made bearable by the the normal manner? Why did they put sider a resolution condemning the se- countless acts of courage, kindness, America at risk with this type of fund- ries of terrorist attacks that have and solidarity we witnessed amidst the ing? Well, because they wanted an op- shaken France, starting with the at- carnage, and so it is within France portunity early in the year—early in tack on the offices of the satirical today. the legislative session—to take a stand newspaper Charlie Hebdo and ending One story that has touched many in against President Obama’s immigra- with a siege Friday at a kosher super- France and around the world concerns tion policies. They feel so strongly market in Paris. Our resolution ex- a young man who worked at the kosher about this, they are willing to put the presses our condolences to the families supermarket in Paris that was at- Department of Homeland Security’s of the victims and our solidarity with tacked on Friday. The young man budget at risk. the people of France. It also expresses risked his life to hide seven Jewish cus- So this week the House Republicans our deep commitment to the universal tomers in the freezer in the super- are preparing to pass legislation that right of freedom of expression—a free- market’s basement. He then risked his would defund President Obama’s immi- dom for which the writers and artists life again to slip out of the basement gration policies, including the Deferred of Charlie Hebdo gave their lives. I am and tell the police there were people Action for Childhood Arrivals Pro- honored to lead this resolution, along hidden downstairs. This young man de- gram, known as DACA. What is that with Senators MURPHY of Connecticut scribed the layout of the supermarket program? It puts on hold the deporta- and JOHNSON of Wisconsin. and the location of the hostages—cru- tions of immigrant students and chil- Later this afternoon Senators and cial details that enabled the police to dren who grew up in this country and their staffs will have an opportunity to save so many lives and end the stand- allows these young people to live and sign a condolence book expressing their off. This young man has been hailed as work legally in America on a tem- sympathy and solidarity to the people a hero by the citizens of France and by porary basis. That is what DACA is. of France. The book will be outside the Israeli President Netanyahu. One more These young people are well known to Senate Foreign Relations Committee thing about this young French hero— me and to most. They are known as room on the first floor of the Capitol. he is a Muslim immigrant, born in DREAMers. In memory of the victims, we will wel- Mali. It was 13 years ago that I introduced come the French Ambassador to the Martin Luther King told us: We are the DREAM Act. For 13 years I have United States, Ambassador Gerard bound together in a single garment of been trying to pass a bill into law Araud, in the committee room at 4:15 destiny. The millions of people in which says that the sins of the parents p.m. France and around the world who should not be visited on the children. If the terrorists who attacked Charlie marched yesterday and freedom-loving These young people who are affected Hebdo and the kosher supermarket in people throughout the world under- by DACA and the DREAM Act—many Paris meant to frighten and divide stand this. Together in our unity and of them were brought to the United freedom-loving people in France and resolve, we will overcome this latest States as infants and toddlers. They around the world, they have failed ut- assault on our shared values. had no voice in this family decision to terly. Yesterday 4 million people f come here. They did not know, could marched in demonstrations in cities not know, that one of their parents was across the nation of France. A million HOMELAND SECURITY FUNDING undocumented. They grew up in Amer- and a half people marched in Paris Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, over the ica. They went to school in America. alone. Authorities said it was the larg- weekend, as I mentioned, as millions of They participated in America. They est gathering in Paris since the end of people were marching on the streets of went to the neighborhood churches and World War II and the largest dem- France and around the world to dem- mosques and temples. They were the onstration in the history of the nation onstrate the world’s unity in the after- ones who were standing in their class- of France. They marched to declare math of the horrible terrorist attack in room every single day of their lives their solidarity with the victims of the France, the President announced that stopping for a solemn moment to

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:58 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G12JA6.003 S12JAPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S135 pledge allegiance to the American soldiers who will make America strong bipartisan vote of 68 to 32. This flag—the only flag they have ever stronger. bill—which I joined seven other col- known. But the fact is, they were Now, in the last 2 years, as I men- leagues, Democrats and Republicans, brought here as babies and children, tioned, more than 600,000 DREAMers working on it—strengthened our border and they were undocumented. They have received DACA—this Executive to a level even greater than today, grew up in America. They identified order by President Obama which allows cracked down on illegal immigration, this country as home. They envisioned them to stay as long as they are reg- protected American workers in a fair this dream of living here. Yet they did istered, pay their fee, and not be de- and humane manner, and addressed the not have a legal status. ported. challenges facing 11 million undocu- The DREAM Act said we would give What has happened to these young mented workers currently living in our these young people a chance. If they people now that they have their country. had a clean criminal record, if they chance, they have gone to school? I But for the last year and a half, the would finish high school, if they would met 10 of them who are now at House of Representatives, led by go on to college or even enlist in our Loyola’s school of medicine. They are Speaker BOEHNER, has refused to allow military, we would allow them to move extraordinary students. They were the a vote on the Senate’s immigration re- to legal status—give these DREAMers best of the best. They did not have a form bill. Not once would they allow a chance. chance because they did not have that this bill to come to the floor of the Time and again, we called this legis- document that gave them an oppor- House for a vote. If Speaker BOEHNER lation. Sadly, it never passed the House tunity to enroll. Well, they are going had brought the bill to the floor, it and the Senate at the same time. Then to school now, and they have pledged would have passed with a strong bipar- President Obama decided 2 years ago to continue to serve this country as tisan vote. He knew it and he was de- that he would use his Executive au- doctors, given that chance, in some of termined not to ever let that happen. thority to protect these young people the poorest communities in my State It was only after the Speaker had dem- from being deported. We estimate there and our Nation. onstrated clearly to the President, to are about 2 million of them across the In past speeches I have given on this the Senate, and to the American people United States. He said to them: If you floor—over 50 of them—I have high- that he would not even participate in the debate on immigration reform that will come forward, pay your fee, go lighted the contributions that many President Obama issued his second through a background check—if you DACA recipients already make to our country. They are working as engi- order. are prepared to do that and register I have been involved in a lot of ef- neers, small business owners, and pub- with the government, we will spare you forts to pass bipartisan immigration lic school teachers. The Center for from deportation. That is what the reform legislation. It is so frustrating American Progress and the Partnership DACA program is. Mr. President, for us to have finally passed a bill in for a New American Economy has 600,000 did. Mr. President, 600,000 came the Senate—Democrats and Repub- up with the money. found that giving legal status to licans; supported by the AFL–CIO, rep- I can recall in the city of Chicago DREAMers will add $329 billion to our resenting organized labor; supported by when we had the sign up—the very first economy and create 1.4 million new the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, rep- sign up for this DACA Executive order. jobs by 2030. resenting business; supported by vir- How can this be possible that 600,000 It was amazing. We did not know if 200 tually every major faith in this coun- people would show up or 400 or even have that kind of impact? These are try—and then to see it ignored and 1,000. Well, the night before—at mid- not ordinary young people or ordinary stopped in the House of Representa- night, the night before we started sign- young graduates. These are extraor- tives. ing them up—the first day they could dinary young people who want to be So President Obama, after the elec- sign up for DACA, the families started part of this Nation of immigrants. tion, announced that, having given the gathering, standing outside at Navy But the Republicans in the House of Republicans in the House a chance to Pier in downtown Chicago. They stood Representatives want to end DACA. legislate, he would use his powers to there all night waiting for a chance to They want to put an end to this pro- try to fix our broken immigration sys- sign up for this program. Many of them gram. They argue it was unconstitu- tem, to put on temporary hold the de- were parents accompanying their chil- tional for the President to say he portations of individuals who are the dren. The parents themselves were not would suspend deportation for these parents of U.S. citizens or legal perma- going to get any direct benefit from young people. They want these young nent residents, who have lived in our this, but they wanted their kids to be people to be deported, removed from country for years, and who pose no spared the fear of deportation. They this country, sent back to countries threat to America’s safety. wanted to give their kids a chance. In where many of them can never recall This is clearly not amnesty, because the end, thousands came through the living, going to countries where they at the end of the day, what the Presi- door—so many we could not even han- literally cannot speak the language. dent has given is only a temporary re- dle the volume with our volunteer at- That is the House Republican position. prieve to these people to stay and work torneys and many others who were They feel so strongly about deporting in America—so long as they register helping. these young people, they are willing to and pay their fee, so long as they sub- But it was a clear indication that hold the Homeland Security funding mit themselves regularly to criminal these families wanted their children to bill hostage to force the Democrats to background checks, and so long as they have a chance—a chance to earn their agree. pay their fair share of taxes. This de- way into legal status in America. That Well, let me be clear. Democrats will ferred action status does not give them is the DACA—— not be swayed by this kind of black- permanent status or citizenship. It is (Disturbance in the Visitors’ Gal- mail. We will insist the Department of not amnesty by any definition. leries.) Homeland Security be funded and that The President’s Executive action will The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- the President have the authority that make America safer, bringing millions ator will suspend until the Sergeant at every President has had to establish of immigrants out of the shadows to Arms has restored order in the gal- his own immigration policies within register with the government and to go leries. the limits of Executive authority. through background checks. It will The assistant Democratic leader. It is the height of unfairness. First also help our economy and American Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, the congressional Republicans obstructed workers. You see, these undocumented young people I have described are immigration reform legislation. Now workers, working off the books, are known as DREAMers. They were they want to obstruct the very agency many times paid much less than min- brought to the United States as chil- responsible for homeland security. imum wage, if they are paid at all, and dren. They grew up in this country, and It was more than a year and a half they are competing with American they have overcome great obstacles to ago—the date was June 27, 2013—on the workers. Once they are brought out of continue to live here. They are the fu- floor of this Senate, we passed com- the shadows under the President’s re- ture doctors, engineers, teachers, and prehensive immigration reform with a cent Executive order, they will need to

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:22 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G12JA6.006 S12JAPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S136 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 12, 2015 be paid the ongoing wages, the min- over the weekend and said my duties in ate Special Committee on Aging since imum wage of America. By bringing the Senate made it impossible to ac- my very first days in the Senate, and I these workers into the legal workforce, cept his invitation to say a few words am honored to have been elected to it will eliminate the unfair competi- at his inaugural. But despite the fact chair this committee for the 114th Con- tion of the underground economy. And that we come from different political gress. I wish to welcome the Presiding all of these workers will be paying parties and despite the fact that we Officer, Senator COTTON of Arkansas, their taxes, which will increase tax have many differences when it comes to the committee. He will be a new revenues by billions of dollars each to issues before us, I certainly wish our member on our committee, and I be- year. new Governor, Bruce Rauner, the very lieve he will enjoy his service as much The President’s Executive action is best in his efforts to lead the Land of as I have. also smart and realistic when it comes Lincoln, the great State of Illinois. He My service on the aging committee is to enforcing our immigration laws. It faces an extraordinary number of chal- particularly appropriate since Maine is is not humanly possible to deport all of lenges—broken public pension systems, the oldest State in the Nation by me- the undocumented immigrants in this struggles in coming up with the rev- dian age. Many people would guess that country. So every administration has enue we need to keep our schools mov- Florida would have that distinction, had to set priorities on those who will ing forward, and the safety net to pro- but, in fact, it is the great State of be deported and those who will not. tect the most vulnerable people living Maine. The government should not waste its in our State. Throughout its history, the aging limited resources to deport immigrants I have given him my personal pledge, committee has spurred Congress to ac- who have lived and worked here for and I will renew it on the floor of the tion on issues that are important to years, who have children who are citi- Senate today, to stand by him and his older Americans through its hearings, zens or lawful permanent residents, administration to solve these problems its investigations, and its reports. This and who do not pose any threat to and to lead Illinois forward. is the first time a Maine Senator has America’s future. Instead, the adminis- Mr. President, I yield the floor. chaired the committee since the 1990s, tration has made it a top priority to f when my predecessor, mentor, and friend, Senator Bill Cohen, served as deport those who have committed seri- RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME ous crimes or are a threat to safety. chairman. Now, Executive action on deporta- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under I wish to share with my colleagues tion is clearly lawful. Every single the previous order, the leadership time today my priorities for the committee President—Democrat and Republican— is reserved. as we begin this new Congress. I have every one of them since President f three major priorities for the commit- Dwight David Eisenhower has used his KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE ACT— tee’s work: first, retirement security; Executive authority to improve our MOTION TO PROCEED second, investments in biomedical re- immigration system. This argument search targeting diseases that dis- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under that it is somehow unconstitutional proportionately affect older Ameri- the previous order, the Senate will re- just does not bear basic scrutiny. The cans, such as Alzheimer’s and diabetes; sume consideration of the motion to Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed and, third, protecting seniors against proceed to S. 1, which the clerk will re- that the Federal Government has broad financial exploitation and scams. port. I am increasingly concerned that our authority to decide whom to deport. The bill clerk read as follows: President Obama is acting well within seniors will not have adequate savings Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 1, S. 1, and other financial resources during his legal authority when he establishes a bill to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline. policies about whom will be deported their retirement years. The committee The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under by this administration. will, therefore, focus on retirement se- the previous order, the time until 5:30 The American people have elected us curity and, in particular, on the need p.m. will be equally divided and con- to solve problems. Because the House to encourage more savings and better trolled in the usual form. Republican leadership has failed to re- financial planning. According to the The Senator from Maine. nonpartisan Center for Retirement Re- form our immigration system, the Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, I ask search at Boston College, there cur- President had no choice but to use his unanimous consent that I be permitted rently is an estimated $6.6 trillion gap authority under the law to improve our to proceed for up to 15 minutes as in between the savings Americans have economy and security and keep fami- morning business. lies together and at least do a small The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without today and what they should have in part toward solving America’s broken objection, it is so ordered. order to maintain their standard of liv- immigration system problems. Ms. COLLINS. Thank you, Mr. Presi- ing during retirement. However you feel about the Presi- dent. Nationally, one in four Americans dent’s immigration policies, it is hypo- I further request that the time not be has no source of income beyond Social critical and counterproductive—it is charged to either side on the debate on Security. In the State of Maine, the just wrong—to take out your frustra- the Keystone pipeline, if that is nec- number is one in three. Social Security tion by putting at risk critical home- essary. provides an absolutely vital safety net. land security funding. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there However, with an average benefit of I hope the House Republicans will objection? just $16,000 a year, it certainly is not somehow or another overcome this fit Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, reserv- enough to finance a comfortable retire- of pique that has led us to this moment ing the right to object—I am sorry, I ment for many Americans. and realize their first obligation is to was discussing with the staff. If the According to a Gallup survey pub- this great Nation. Senator will please repeat her request. lished in 2012, more than half of all f Ms. COLLINS. I asked unanimous Americans are worried they will not be consent to proceed for up to 15 minutes able to maintain their standard of liv- CONGRATULATING GOVERNOR as in morning business, and since my ing in retirement. That is up sharply BRUCE RAUNER remarks do not pertain to the debate from 34 percent two decades ago, and Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I was for the Keystone Pipeline, that the the Boston College analysis dem- unable to attend the inauguration of time not be charged to either side in onstrates that their concern is war- the new Governor of Illinois today. that debate. ranted. Bruce Rauner was elected November 4 Mr. DURBIN. I have no objection. There are many reasons for the de- to serve as the 42nd Governor of the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without cline in retirement security facing State of Illinois. His wife Diana was by objection, it is so ordered. American seniors, including the demise his side when he took the oath of of- PRIORITIES OF SENATE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON of many defined benefit pension plans fice. AGING in the private sector; the severity of I had a chance to attend some of the Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, it has the recent financial crisis, which wiped receptions last night and called him been my privilege to serve on the Sen- out much of the net worth of many

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:58 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G12JA6.007 S12JAPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S137 seniors, at least temporarily; rising To meet that goal, the chairman of the Thank you, Mr. President. I yield the health care costs; the need for long- Federal Alzheimer’s Advisory Council floor, and seeing no one seeking rec- term care; and, most of all, the simple says that we need to devote $2 billion a ognition, I suggest the absence of a fact that Americans are living far year to Alzheimer’s research. Well, . longer than we used to. Many Ameri- think about that. That is only 1 per- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The cans reaching retirement age also have cent—in fact, it is less than 1 percent— clerk will call the roll. more debt than retirees of previous of what we as a society are spending to The bill clerk proceeded to call the generations. care for people with Alzheimer’s. That roll. I remember when my parents paid off investment will lead to better treat- Mr. SCHATZ. Madam President, I the mortgage on their home and had a ments and ultimately to a means of ask unanimous consent that the order mortgage-burning party. Well, today, prevention or even a cure for this awful for the quorum call be rescinded. people who are the age my parents and expensive disease. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. were when they paid off their house are The aging committee will also con- ERNST). Without objection, it is so or- taking on new debt and new mortgages. tinue its focus on scams that target dered. We found in the aging committee that our seniors, such as the Jamaican lot- Mr. SCHATZ. Madam President, I there are seniors who are still paying tery phone scam we exposed in the last rise today in opposition to S. 1, which off their student loans or the student Congress. This nefarious scheme, which will circumvent the administration’s loans of their children. These are all is estimated to have cost Americans as official review process for projects issues I look forward to the committee much as $300 million a year, particu- crossing international borders and ap- exploring in depth in this new Con- larly targeted seniors in the Northeast. prove construction of the Keystone XL gress. Some seniors in my State lost tens of Pipeline, a pipeline dedicated to in- Another priority will be highlighting thousands of dollars to the scam which creasing production of some of the the importance of biomedical research involved a con artist calling a victim dirtiest, most polluting, and most dan- on diseases such as Alzheimer’s and di- to tell him or her that they had won gerous crude oil in the world. abetes, which take such a devastating the Jamaican lottery but needed to pay Supporters of this pipeline in Con- toll on older Americans and their fami- fees to process the winnings. I don’t gress have been relentless. Over the lies. Investments in biomedical re- need to tell my colleagues that these last 2 Congresses they have held 44 search not only improve the health and seniors had won nothing of the sort. votes in the House and Senate intended But this was a very sophisticated longevity of Americans but also pro- to approve Keystone. On Tuesday, the scheme. vide benefits to our economy and to very first bill the new Republican ma- In addition to educating seniors to jority introduced, traditionally re- the Federal budget. help them avoid becoming victims of For example, nearly one out of three served for a party’s highest legislative such scams, the hearing resulted in the Medicare dollars is spent treating peo- priority, was Keystone. Think about Jamaican Government passing new ple living with diabetes. According to this. Here we stand in what people still laws targeting the scammers and multiple economic analyses, there is call the world’s greatest deliberative prompted Federal law enforcement to roughly a 2-to-1 return on investment body, and the first bill we are taking make several arrests. The aging com- up is not infrastructure generally, not in Federal support for biomedical re- mittee will also continue its fraud hot- national energy policy, not even na- search. This investment at the Na- line to help protect seniors from these tional laws as they relate to our pipe- tional Institutes of Health and at re- kinds of scams and financial exploi- line infrastructure. No, we are legis- search centers across the country spur tation, and the phone number for that lating about a specific pipeline which job creation and are critical to Amer- fraud hotline, which is toll-free, is 1– will move oil from Canada through the ica’s competitiveness in the global re- 855–303–9470. search environment. In addition to these three major pri- United States to be primarily exported As the Senate cochair of the Congres- orities, it is my hope our committee in from our southern border. sional Task Force on Alzheimer’s Dis- the second year will also take a close I understand there are people of good ease, I am particularly committed to look—really scrutinize—Federal pro- will and good faith, including the Pre- helping to spur breakthroughs in Alz- grams designed to help our seniors, siding Officer, who are on both sides of heimer’s disease, which has had such a such as those authorized by the Older this issue. But it is hard to imagine devastating impact on 5.2 million Americans Act. We want to make sure why this should be the first piece of Americans and their families. In addi- these programs are as effective and ef- legislation we take up in this Congress. tion to the suffering it causes, Alz- ficient as possible and that their bene- We have yet to seriously consider or to heimer’s costs the United States an as- fits reach those seniors as intended. So clarify our policy with respect to the tonishing $214 billion a year. That in- we will be performing that oversight Islamic State. Income inequality is cludes $150 billion in costs to the Medi- function and sharing our findings with gutting the middle class. Our national care and Medicaid programs. These the committee of jurisdiction—the infrastructure needs a jolt of invest- costs will only skyrocket as the baby Health, Education, Labor, and Pen- ment. Our immigration policy is a fail- boom generation ages. sions Committee—on which I am also ure and a mess. I do not understand Fortunately, there is promising re- privileged to serve. why this would be S. 1. search that holds hope for Alzheimer’s The Senate Special Committee on Supporters of this bill have stood up patients and their families. The re- Aging has a long history and tradition three main arguments in favor of Key- search community is poised to make of bipartisanship, and my work on this stone and expanding drilling of tar important advances through clinical committee during the past Congress sands oil reserves in Canada. One, they trials and investigating new thera- was particularly rewarding because of say it will increase energy security; peutic targets. But adequate funding is the strong partnership I forged with two, they think it will lower oil and critical to advance this research and to the committee chairman, the senior gas prices; third, they say it is a jobs achieve these breakthroughs. Senator from Florida, BILL NELSON. I bill. At a time when the United States is look forward to continuing that bipar- Let’s examine these claims, because spending more than $200 billion a year tisan tradition with my good friend however tenuous they were, they have for Alzheimer’s patients, we are spend- and close colleague, Senator CLAIRE been undermined further by facts over ing less than three-tenths of 1 percent MCCASKILL of Missouri, who will be the last couple of years. of that amount—about $600 million a serving as the committee’s ranking First, the United States has never year—on research. Surely, we can do member in the 114th Congress. during the modern age of global energy more for Alzheimer’s, given its tremen- Finally, I encourage the Presiding trade been more energy secure. We im- dous human and economic price. Officer and all of the other members of port far less oil from unstable regimes The National Plan to Address Alz- the committee not only to be active and unfriendly countries than we have heimer’s Disease has as its primary participants in the committee but also in decades. We are continuing to build goal the prevention and effective treat- to share with us their thoughts on massive amounts of ever cheaper ment of Alzheimer’s by the year 2025. issues that we should pursue. homegrown clean energy such as wind

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:58 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G12JA6.009 S12JAPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S138 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 12, 2015 and solar, even as we use our energy There is plenty of room for us to thermal and energy efficiency. Our fu- more efficiently. work together on infrastructure, on en- ture is not in adding carbon pollution. The United States will add nearly 10 ergy efficiency, and create hundreds of Our future is in innovating our way out gigawatts of wind and solar capacity in thousands and even millions of jobs. of this problem. Throughout our his- the next year. Not including hydro, the But this is an energy bill. It moves us tory, America always leads when we United States has over 85,000 in the wrong direction. There are col- are needed the most. That is what we megawatts of renewable energy capac- leagues, with whom I agree, who are have to do, not in the direction of more ity and continues to build on that arguing against this legislation pri- carbon pollution but toward a clean en- number year over year. The prices for marily saying they want to allow the ergy economy. solar have dropped 80 percent since 2008 administration’s process to play out A report by New Climate Economy, a and prices for wind power, which are and that we should not supersede the group chaired by former Mexican already competitive with fossil fuels, State Department review. I agree. President Felipe Calderon, and includ- have dropped 30 percent since 2008. It is fair to say this is unprecedented, ing Bank of America chairman Chad These trends are creating jobs right even a little strange, for the Congress Holliday, among others, marshals here at home. For example, the wind to legislate the specifics of a particular quantitative evidence to show that ac- industry has over 500 manufacturing infrastructure project. But I want to be tion on climate change is a require- facilities across 44 States that are re- clear. This is not a process argument ment for future global economic sponsible for making wind turbines for me. I oppose Keystone because it is growth. In other words, those who warn with over 66 percent domestic content. a bad idea. Whether it is done through about the EPA regulation or prices on Second, the recent collapse of crude the regular order or in an expedited carbon killing jobs have it exactly oil and gasoline prices demonstrates fashion, whether it is done through the backward. The truth is that in order to two things. In my home State of Ha- administrative process or the legisla- avoid major disruptions to our econ- waii, energy prices remain far too high. tive process, I oppose any action, omy, we have to reduce carbon pollu- But on the mainland, oil and gas prices whether through legislation, litigation, tion and work with other countries are currently very low. The idea that or administrative action, that will en- such as Canada to ensure that they do Keystone would make a significant dif- able the extraction of Canadian tar the same. ference was never based in reality, but sands oil. I am looking forward to the open now it is just obvious. We have low My reasons are very simple—climate amendment process on this bill that prices and the project has not even change and math. Climate change, be- the majority leader has promised. It started. cause it is the greatest and most ur- will be an opportunity for the Amer- Gasoline is now $2.21 a gallon. Crude gent challenge to the health of our ican public to see where Members of oil prices have slipped below $50 a bar- families, to the economy, and to our the Senate stand on the facts of cli- rel. The last time gasoline prices were way of life. I want to preserve the mate change. Anyone who looks at the this low was in the aftermath of the fi- American way of life, not endanger it. facts and does the math ought to op- nancial crisis. As a practical matter, it Math, because we have crunched the pose this bill and oppose construction is not clear to me, and it is certainly numbers and we know we simply can- of the Keystone XL Pipeline. For me not clear to most energy experts, how not afford to burn the oil from tar and for many Americans, a vote moving oil from Canada through the sands and put its pollution into the air. against this bill is a vote to preserve United States and exporting refined It is simple. We have a budget. Just and protect the air we breathe and the crude from the Gulf of Mexico would as every family in this country must water we drink. It is a vote to ensure significantly reduce energy prices for stick to its budget and live within its that we continue to reduce carbon pol- us in the United States. means, we have to do the same as a lution and fight climate change. It is a Finally, this is called a jobs bill by planet when it comes to carbon pollu- vote to leave our children a healthy some. This is many things. It is anti- tion. A new study published last week world. clean air; it is anti-clean water; it is in the scientific journal Nature makes I urge my colleagues to oppose clo- anti-public health. It is a regulatory this clear. The authors asked the ques- ture on the motion to proceed. earmark. But it is not a jobs bill. It is tion: If we want to stay within our car- I yield the floor and suggest the ab- not deserving of being the No. 1 pri- bon budget and limit warming to 2 de- sence of a quorum. ority of the 114th Congress. grees Celsius, which is the limit 167 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The We have heard estimates ranging as countries agree we must meet to avoid clerk will call the roll. high as 42,000 indirect or induced jobs catastrophic effects of climate change, The assistant legislative clerk pro- during the construction phase. We how much more coal, gas, and oil can ceeded to call the roll. know, and everyone seems to agree, we burn? Mr. SESSIONS. Madam President, I that Keystone will employ approxi- The study finds that in order to meet ask unanimous consent that the order mately 35 full-time employees when this goal, the majority of the world’s for the quorum call be rescinded. construction is finished. That is not known reserves of fossil fuel must stay The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without 3,500 employees. That is not 35,000 em- in the ground between now and 2050. objection, it is so ordered. ployees. That is the 35 full-time em- This includes one-third of the world’s ENTRY-EXIT VISA SYSTEM ployees when construction is com- current oil reserves and 80 percent of Mr. SESSIONS. Madam President, pleted. current coal reserves. It also finds, and the attacks on the people of France If we want to do a real jobs bill wor- this is critical, that: demonstrate in the most chilling terms thy of the Senate, we should do a real Any increase in unconventional oil produc- the threats posed to Western nations jobs bill. An infrastructure bank, a tion— by those who are imbued with Islamic highway bill, Shaheen-Portman—all Which includes Canadian tar sands. terrorism. While there are many fac- would create orders of magnitude more —is incommensurate with efforts to limit av- tors that play into the spread of this jobs than this. erage global warming to 2 degrees Celsius. jihadist ideology in the West, it is time The American economy added 353,000 As we learn more about climate for an honest and plain admission that jobs in November alone, which made change amidst a clean energy revolu- our open immigration policies are inef- 2014 the strongest year for job growth tion, we find that moving toward clean fective and have failed to meet the since 1999. If we pass a highway bill, we energy, taking control of our future, is minimum standards that are set by ex- get millions of jobs. If we pass an infra- good for business. Our economy will do isting law in the United States. structure bank, we will get hundreds of better. It will grow faster and it will be This is something I have been dealing thousands of jobs. If we pass the bipar- more resilient if we embrace the tech- with for quite a number of years—a tisan Shaheen-Portman energy effi- nologies and solutions at our fingertips decade really. We have laws that would ciency bill, we will also get hundreds of and end our reliance on fossil fuel. We improve dramatically our ability to thousands of jobs. Look, even one new have a chance to embrace the future identify and block terrorists from en- job is a good thing. But if we want to here. Our future is not tar sands oil. tering and staying in the country, but do a jobs bill, let’s do a jobs bill. Our future is wind and solar and geo- they are not funded and they are not

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:58 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G12JA6.012 S12JAPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S139 carried out and it is unacceptable, as I time President Bush left office, but it Without exit-tracking, our government will point out. wasn’t, and it hasn’t been done yet. We does not know when a foreign visitor admit- Dozens of terrorists and terror plot- need a system that works. ted to the United States on a temporary ters have been admitted to the United By the way, police officers have in basis has overstayed his or her admission. their cars all over America computer- Had this system been in place before 9/11, we States on visas or are relying on broad- would have had a better chance of detecting er networks to simply enter into our type screens where they can stop some- the plotters before they struck. . . . There is country, taking advantage of lax immi- one on the road, they can ask them to no excuse for the fact that 13 years after 9/11 gration policies. For instance, the 9/11 put their hand on the screen, and it we do not have this much capability in place. attackers all came here on visas. A reads their fingerprints. It checks the Amen. That is exactly correct. That visa is a document that allows an indi- National Crime Information Center to is from ‘‘Reflections on the Tenth An- vidual to come for a limited period of find out whether the person is wanted niversary of the 9/11 Commission Re- time and then return to their home for murder in New York. He might port,’’ Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. country. This visa system is essential have caught him in Texas. It lets the Hamilton, in 2014. in a modern world, but it needs to be officer know whether there are war- In fact, the original report said this: rants out for these individuals. This is managed and carried out in an effec- The Department of Homeland Security, tive way. the way the system works in our coun- properly supported by the Congress, should The Boston bombers came as asylees, try, and we need to use it with regard complete, as quickly as possible, a biometric people seeking asylum, while their to people who come here on visas. entry-exit screening system. mosque was linked to foreign nationals It is an outrage that this hasn’t been That was the report from 2004. It is a tied to ISIS and foreign terrorists. done, completed fully, and made oper- very important report. They went to The individual behind the attempted ational years ago. It is an outrage. It is great length to help this Nation figure Christmas bombing in Oregon was a in the law of the United States. Con- out what is the responsible thing to do gress has funded money for this project refugee. We have a class of individuals to protect ourselves better from those and it has not yet been done. It will we accept each year who claim to be attackers on 9/11, many of whom were cost us in the future, as the 9/11 Com- refugees from foreign countries. This visa overstayers. They didn’t come mission has so warned. The 9/11 Com- one was from Somalia. across the border unlawfully; they mission demanded this system, and it The recently foiled plot to bomb a came across on a lawful visa. Some of is designed to track those entering and courthouse and school in Connecticut them I think had false documentation departing the United States on visas. was attempted by a Moroccan national to get that visa, but they came on a who had a revoked student visa. Many By the way, almost half of the peo- ple, at least 40-plus percent now of in- visa, for the most part lawfully, and individuals have visas to be students in did not go home as they were required the United States. We are not man- dividuals unlawfully in America en- tered on a visa. In other words, they to go home. They overstayed their aging that well at all. This one had a visa. Nobody knew they had over- revoked student visa. It was revoked didn’t come across the border unlaw- fully. They came lawfully—perhaps stayed. Nobody made an inquiry about because of information that came to it. the attention of officials, but no one using false documents, but they got a visa. They came to the United States The ‘‘Tenth Anniversary Report made an effort or successfully at- Card: The Status of the 9/11 Commis- tempted in any real way to find the in- maybe lawfully, but they just did not return to their home country when the sion Recommendations,’’ by Thomas H. dividual so he might be deported. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton, 2011, said Al Qaeda operatives who were appre- visa expired. My colleagues have to know no one is this: hended in Kentucky were on visas from checking. We have no idea whether Full deployment of the biometric exit com- Iraq. they left the country or stayed in the ponent of US-VISIT should be a high pri- These are only some of the examples country. We do not have an operable ority. Such a capability would have assisted that are out there. These individuals exit visa system. This is so bizarre be- law enforcement and intelligence officials in use lax visa policies, flawed asylum August and September 2001 in conducting a cause it is not expensive. It can be im- policies, flawed refugee policies, and search for two of the 9/11 hijackers that were plemented rapidly. It will work and flawed border protection policies. In in the U.S. on expired visas. give us valuable information that we addition, we are not organized in a way This would have helped. Indeed, of must have if we are serious about this that works effectively. In addition to course, those of us who have some ex- process, and we must be serious about that, the President of the United perience in law enforcement know that the process. States has directed his ICE officers, his The individuals in France—I men- when you get to one or two of the guys, Citizenship and Immigration Services tioned the ones in the United States— the whole scheme may get disrupted, officers, and his Border Patrol officers, left the country, went through Yemen, and we can penetrate the organization who are the key individuals in this sys- apparently, were trained in some sort and break it up and stop crime from oc- tem, to conduct their business in a way of terrorist camp, and came back and curring. To me, it is mind boggling, as that guarantees failure. That is just executed their violent acts in France. the commission leaders have told us, the fact. So we have to do a better job of this, that we haven’t completed this. The 9/11 Commission—we all remem- and we can do it. I am told there are forces that don’t ber that great Commission after the President Obama’s administration like the exit visa system. They think it terrible attack on 9/11—zeroed in on has refused to implement the entry- might slow things down a little bit. our lax immigration policies. Among exit system as required by law. We First, this is not correct. When you other things, the Commission de- have talked about this publicly and de- come into the country, you are clocked manded implementation of a biometric bated it for years. Just last year the in and you are biometrically entry-exit visa system. What does that co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission, in an fingerprinted. What would you have to mean? That means a biometric system evaluation of how well the rec- do when you leave? Go to the airport, where people are identified effectively ommendations they made back after 9/ go in a certain line, go through, show through fingerprints or some other 11 have been carried out—a 10-year re- your ticket, show your passport, put identifier. view of how their report had been re- your hand on a biometric screener, you I have been through this for years. ceived and how much of it had been ac- are read, and you are approved to Back when President Bush was Presi- complished—issued this written state- leave. It is not going to take any mas- dent and we worked with Homeland Se- ment. sive amounts of time. One excuse after curity, Governor Ridge was the Sec- Without exit-tracking, our government the other has slowed this down, and it retary of Homeland Security. I think does not know when a foreign visitor admit- is not acceptable. We have to do better. at the end he was finally convinced, ted to the United States on a temporary In fact, the administration has sus- and I worked on him very hard. But he basis has overstayed his or her admission. pended enforcement of the visa system volunteered, the last day in office, to Here is the language. We put it on a almost entirely. We have to under- use a fingerprint biometric system. It chart because it is important that we stand, colleagues: If we don’t have even should have already been done by the understand this. an exit visa system where we know

VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:58 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G12JA6.014 S12JAPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S140 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 12, 2015 who left the country, how do we know students, or recipients of our ‘‘visa waiver American immigration law. It is crit- who overstayed and who stayed in the program’’ which allows people to come and ical to the national security of the country? Unless somebody overstays go freely. Yet our government cannot effec- United States, as the 9/11 Commission their visa and they are caught for tively track these foreign visitors and immi- has so stated on more than one occa- grants. speeding and the police officer identi- sion. We can do this. Why is it not fied that, I will ask colleagues, what This is the man whose officers do this being done? What forces, what special happens? Under the policy of this job. They are the ones who approve the interests, are interceding between the President of the United States, di- visas and manage this system. people of the United States, the na- rected to the lowest officers in Amer- He went on to warn that the Presi- tional interests, and their special in- ica, nothing happens. If the individual dent’s so-called Executive amnesty terests that block this kind of system? does not commit a serious felony, they would make the situation radically We can make it work. It is not that will not be processed for deportation, worse, saying: hard. We need a biometric system, and even though they have come to the I write today to warn the general public that system should be founded on the country on a promise to leave on a cer- that this situation is about to get exponen- fingerprint. It took us a number of tain date and flatly refused to do so. tially worse—and more dangerous. . . . Ex- years, but I think the government has This is not acceptable. If we don’t press your concern to your Senators and Congressmen before it is too late. finally concluded it must be the finger- have a system that has integrity, then print for a lot of reasons, one of which everybody gets the message pretty It is a national security imperative is if somebody got a visa to the United soon: Just get a visa, come to America, to stop this Executive amnesty. It States and they committed a murder, you never have to leave. If you don’t sends exactly the wrong message. What an armed robbery, a terrorist act, a get a felony charge against you, you it says is that if you can get into major fraud, and a warrant was issued are never going to be deported. America—through the border, by boat, for their arrest—if you don’t clock it in This is the policy of this government by plane, on a visa—any way you get at the airport, who knows when they at this very moment. It is hard for any- into this country and pass the border, are leaving? So this would pick it up body to believe, but that is the truth. you are not going to be asked to leave and would pick up any warrants that We have approximately 5 million visa unless you commit some felony—some might be outstanding for those individ- overstays in the United States. But as serious felony, for that matter. Many uals anywhere in the United States the National ICE—Immigration Cus- felonies don’t qualify. And we have that are put in the NCIC, National toms Enforcement—officers Council over 100,000 people who have committed Crime Information Center. president Chris Crane has explained: serious felonies who have been released That is the way the system should ICE agents are now prohibited from arrest- into America. We don’t know where work. It is long overdue. In the course ing illegal aliens solely on charges of illegal they are, and they are not going to be of the discussions we will have in the entry or visa overstay. deported. weeks and months to come about the What a dramatic statement that is. We have to restore immigration en- necessity of fixing a broken immigra- And not only visa overstays, they are forcement, establish better controls tion system, the entry-exit visa system prohibited from arresting and remov- and screening on immigration from has to be implemented. It is long over- ing people who came across the border high-risk regions of the world. We real- due. We can make it happen. It is not illegally. That is what he means by il- ly should give more attention to that. that expensive. It is relatively inexpen- legal entry or visa overstays. It is perfectly legitimate. sive, actually, and it will make us This of course removes a cornerstone The visa system, the immigration much safer in the process. of integrity in any law system. If we system of the United States, should I yield the floor, and I suggest the ab- can’t look people in the eye and say: serve who? It should serve the interests sence of a quorum. We give you a visa, you have a 6-month of the American people. Somebody The PRESIDING OFFICER. The visa, but at 6 months you have to re- doesn’t have a constitutional right to clerk will call the roll. turn to your home country, and mean come to America. The decision is The assistant legislative clerk pro- it, and say: Eventually you will be ap- whether America feels like it is in its ceeded to call the roll. prehended and deported if you don’t— interests. We have always accepted a Mr. SESSIONS. Madam President, I then the system has no integrity. That large number of people. In fact, we ask unanimous consent that the order is where we are today. have the largest immigration numbers for the quorum call be rescinded. Unsurprisingly, ABC News reported of any nation in the world. We admit 1 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without that the Obama administration had million a year lawfully. When they objection, it is so ordered. lost track of 6,000 foreign students who come from high-risk areas of the world, Mr. SESSIONS. I ask unanimous con- had overstayed their visas and were of terrorist states, we should indeed give sent that the time allotted to each side ‘‘heightened concern.’’ more scrutiny to those applicants. and utilized be counted against both In other words, these 6,000 had some Census data shows that legal immi- sides equally during quorum calls. special concern in their background gration to the United States from the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without that made us worry about them, Middle East is one of the largest and objection, it is so ordered. whether it was drugs or terrorism or fastest growing categories of new ad- Mr. SESSIONS. I suggest the absence whatever. Of course they have lost mittances. For the national security of of a quorum. sight of them. They are not attempting the United States, it is imperative that The PRESIDING OFFICER. The to find them. Congress block Executive amnesty and clerk will call the roll. So the head of the union representing restore essential enforcement, basic The assistant legislative clerk pro- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Serv- bread-and-butter law enforcement. ceeded to call the roll. ices officers, one of the three major Anyone who claims to be concerned Mr. COATS. Madam President, I ask components of the Department of about our national security should be unanimous consent that the order for Homeland Security dealing with immi- resolutely focused on this task. There the quorum call be rescinded. gration, Mr. Ken Palinkas, was explicit is so much that can be done with rel- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without in his warning to us. It is remarkable atively little difficulty if we have the objection, it is so ordered. what Mr. Crane has said and now what leadership and will to get it done. Mr. COATS. Madam President, here Mr. Palinkas has said: It would be unthinkable for the we are at the beginning of a new year There is no doubt that there are already President to veto the Homeland Secu- and a new Congress, and I think we all many individuals in the United States, on rity appropriations bill in order to con- feel a responsibility to do what the visas—expired or active—who are being tar- tinue this illegal and dangerous am- American people voted for in the No- geted for radicalization or who already sub- nesty scheme during a time of growing vember 2014 election, which is to come scribe to radicalized views. Many millions come legally to the U.S. through our wide threats abroad. together in this body and in this Con- open immigration policy every year—wheth- Again, let me say that this: the gress and work together to find sen- er as temporary visitors, lifetime immi- entry-exit visa system is an sible solutions to the very real prob- grants, refugees, asylum-seekers, foreign unappreciated, important part of lems facing Americans.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:17 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G12JA6.015 S12JAPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S141 It is no secret that the last 6 years national Union of North America sup- I strongly support construction of have been pretty tough for a lot of peo- port this project. this pipeline and I urge my colleagues ple who are out of work or doing part- I mentioned the President, for 6 to do the same. time work; kids graduating from high years, has come up with more feeble I yield the floor and suggest the ab- school, graduating from college, grad- excuses in terms of why he believes sence of a quorum. uating from community schools, 2-year this should not go forward. The last ex- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Will the schools; going back and getting new cuse was: We are in a process here and Senator withhold his request? training and still unable to find mean- the process has to go forward. That Mr. COATS. I certainly will. I didn’t ingful jobs; finding jobs that are part process was waiting, apparently, on the see my colleague. I am happy to do so. time, two or three of those together; Nebraska Supreme Court approval of The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- parents trying to save money, pay the the pipeline route through Nebraska, ator from Virginia. mortgage, save money to send the kids and that was his excuse for why he Mr. KAINE. Madam President, I am to postgraduate school. It has not been would have to veto it. I am sure my happy I was here for the comments of easy. So we have come to a point where colleagues now have the word that the my colleague from Indiana on the Key- we have legislation in a new session of Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld stone Pipeline and, similar to the Sen- Congress, with commitments on a bi- State approval of the Keystone Pipe- ator from Indiana, I am also happy to partisan basis to stand together, to line. In fact, the President’s own State finally have this debate. The comments work together, to try to find solutions, Department, in response to numerous he made are very sincere and passion- to get people back to work and get our calls for environmental studies—all of ately believed. I accept that. I only economy moving again. Now we come which were used as an excuse for not challenge one aspect of the comments, to the very first issue up for discussion going forward—the President’s own which is the suggestion that opposition and debate and hopefully passage in State Department has repeatedly ap- of Keystone is feeble or only for polit- ical reasons. this new Congress—the Keystone Pipe- proved this, saying it will not have a I am a pro-energy Senator. The first line. negative environmental imprint. bill I introduced in the 114th Congress This is an issue that has been going So what could possibly be the reason was a bill I am cosponsoring with Sen- on for 6 years. The President has been the President remains intransigent on ator BARRASSO of Wyoming to expedite obstinate in his obstruction in letting this particular issue, because every American exports of liquid natural gas, this go forward, in making a decision. other box has been checked? We have but I am an opponent of Keystone on Yet here we are, finally, with an oppor- to come down to the inevitable conclu- environmental and economic grounds, tunity to not only pass legislation sion that it is all political, that an ex- and I wish to spend a few minutes de- which has passed the House of Rep- treme environmental wing of the Presi- dent’s own party is simply putting un- scribing why. resentatives, again, just last week with To begin with, it can probably be very significant bipartisan support— told pressure on him to not go forward with anything having to do with fossil summed up in a question: Why embrace but now in the Senate to take up this fuels or providing energy security for dirty energy when America is in the legislation and to move it forward to- America from our own resources. After midst of a clean energy revolution? night with this vote, to start the proc- all, a significant portion comes from That is a primary reason I oppose Key- ess to allow amendments, to allow de- Montana and North Dakota—and the stone. The United States, thank good- bate, and to move forward and hope- last time I checked they are in the ness, is on a clean energy roll. Not only fully enjoy bipartisan support with United States—and from our friendly are we on a clean energy roll, we are on over 60 votes and then move it to final neighbor to the north, Canada. If this an energy production roll that is help- passage and then send it to the Presi- doesn’t go through, we will keep im- ing our economy, helping our trade def- dent for, hopefully, signing. porting large quantities of oil from the icit, and hurting some of our most sig- This project is the largest, ready-to- Middle East. We know what complica- nificant global adversaries, notably build infrastructure project in the tions there are in terms of securing Russia and Iran. United States. It supports tens of thou- that oil and how much volatility oc- We have embraced over the last few sands of jobs. The estimate has been curs there based on what is happening years a set of conservation and effi- well over 42,000. It invests billions of today in the Middle East. ciency investments, probably most no- dollars in the American economy. It in- So getting this product from our tably the increased CAFE standards creases revenue to States and local Northern States of North Dakota and that have saved energy use in the vehi- governments, all without spending one Montana and getting this product from cle sector as well as helped the Amer- dime of taxpayer money. This is a pri- our friend to the north, Canada, simply ican auto industry significantly re- vate sector initiative that can be of makes a great deal of sense in terms of bound. Our natural gas revolution, of great benefit to our country. It can our energy security, our energy sup- which I am a strong supporter, has en- provide meaningful jobs and has many plies, and lessening our reliance on the abled American industry and con- benefits for us in the future. volatility that comes from getting oil sumers to get lower priced energy, and It is supported by Democrats, by Re- from other sources. it has enabled us to lessen our depend- publicans, and by a number of labor To conclude, let me just make it ence on dirtier fuels in the production unions. For instance, the Indiana State clear what it is we are trying to do. of electric power and other aspects of Building and Construction Trade Coun- This will help the United States diver- our power usage. Wind and solar and cil, which represents 75,000 working sify its energy supply. It will offset our other noncarbon energy developments Hoosiers in my State, reached out to dependence on Middle East oil. It will have rocketed ahead. Nearly one-third me recently and asked me to support support tens of thousands of American of the energy that has been added to construction of the Keystone Pipeline, jobs in construction. It will invest bil- the American electricity grid since 2005 calling it ‘‘an important job creation lions of dollars in the American econ- has been in the wind and solar area. We and energy security issue.’’ They are omy. It will increase revenue to State are one of the few nations in the world right on the mark. They know I have and local governments. It will not that in the period from 2005 to 2012 ac- been a longtime supporter of this ef- harm our environment, as numerous tually saw a reduction in our carbon fort, but they wanted to put it in writ- studies have indicated—all these bene- emissions. ing. I am not sure it was necessary, and fits without spending a dime of tax- We are on a clean energy roll. We are they weren’t weighing this on the basis payer money. innovating for the world and we are of Republican or Democrat, liberal or So after 6 years of delay, procrasti- selling technologies to the rest of the conservative; they were saying that nation, and evermore feeble excuses, it world and that is good for our economy this is good for us and we hope all of is time for the President to make a de- as well as good for the environment. our Senators can support it. We hope it cision. Soon he will have an oppor- We are also asserting American en- passes. This is an initiative that puts tunity to use that pen he so famously ergy leadership not just in the ad- our people to work. Other labor unions, talked about not to sign a veto or to vances in clean energy but also in the including the North America’s Building declare a veto but to sign a bill approv- significant advances in American en- Trade Unions and the Laborers’ Inter- ing the Keystone Pipeline into law. ergy production. I think we should feel

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:22 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G12JA6.018 S12JAPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S142 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 12, 2015 good about the fact that we are a coun- house gas emissions. I ask individuals, and somebody says to me, why try that has gone from being one of the when they come and talk to me about shouldn’t the United States just give greatest net importers of energy in the Keystone: What do you think about the big green light to tar sands oil be- world to now a country that is going to CO2 emissions? What do you think cause somebody is going to get it, the be one of the greatest energy producers about the fact that tar sands oil is sig- reason I think we shouldn’t is the in the world, and in many energy areas nificantly more carbon dense than nor- United States is showing the world we are now a net exporter. So emis- mal petroleum? The response I find right now what it means to be an en- sions are going down. Production and myself getting is: I don’t know; I am ergy leader. exports are going up. not a scientist. In fact, I heard that With increased production, lower The other thing that is great for from an energy CEO who employs tons emissions, lower prices through inno- Americans is that prices are going of scientists in his organizations: I vation—through American innova- down. A barrel of oil right now is in the don’t know; I am not a scientist. tion—we are showing the world what it $50-a-barrel range, which is putting The scientific consensus I believe is means to be an energy leader. We are a about $1,000 a year back into the pock- very clear. We have to do what we leader because we have embraced a ets of an American family. It is helping can—not drastically and dramatically simple effort. American businesses, and it is impos- but in an incremental way—every day I am not an engineer, but as I look at what happened in innovation in the ing, as I mentioned earlier, some sig- to bring down our CO2 emissions. I be- nificant harm upon two of our most lieve we need to do that in smart ways. last decade, the ethic we have em- persistent global adversaries—Iran and Yet, from an emissions standpoint, tar braced is: Let’s do it cleaner tomorrow Russia—that rely on energy exports to sands oil goes exactly in the wrong di- than today. That is pretty simple. Let’s do it cleaner tomorrow than drive their economy. rection. It is not just CO2 emissions. This energy revolution—higher pro- Tar sands oil also involves the mining today—not dramatically cleaner. It duction, greater economic efficiency, of it. I would encourage you to read doesn’t have to turn day and night greater cleanliness—has all been hap- this article. It involves scraping up from today to tomorrow. Let’s just get pening without the Keystone Pipeline. vast acreages of an arboreal forest in a little bit cleaner tomorrow than It has all been happening without the Alberta to get to the tar sands under- today. United States embracing tar sands oil. neath. So far, an area about the size of That is what we have been doing as a Nation. It has been increasing supply. We are going in the right direction the State of Rhode Island has been It has been driving down demand. It now. I oppose the Keystone Pipeline be- completely despoiled to look like a has been driving down prices. It has cause accelerating the use of tar sands moonscape to get to tar sands, and this been helping us control emissions. oil turns us around. Instead of going in will significantly accelerate the more That is what we should keep doing. I the right direction to more production, tar sands are built. more national security and greater In the area of Alberta where the min- am a pro-energy Senator, but I am a deep skeptic about the use of tar sands emissions control, the Keystone Pipe- ing and refining is taking place, there oil. For that reason, I am glad we are line accelerates tar sands oil and takes has been a dramatic increase in res- going to have the debate. I think we us in the wrong direction. Simply put, piratory illness and other illnesses as- should finally be at it. But I am going tar sands oil and the exploitation of sociated either with airborne emissions to oppose the Keystone Pipeline be- that resource is a bad bet for the envi- or with the contamination of the area’s cause tar sands oil is going backwards ronment and, I believe, a bad bet for water supply. and not forwards. We are showing the the economy. Probably one of the most powerful world what it means to go forward, and Last month, December 2014, a maga- things about the article is not the that is the direction we should con- zine I really like that normally has a lengthy analysis, not the words, it is the pictures. The pictures in that arti- tinue to go. lot of articles about the outdoors, Out- I yield the floor, and I suggest the ab- cle are staggering. When you see what side magazine, ran a lengthy article on sence of a quorum. the area of Canada in Alberta where has to be done to these arboreal forests The PRESIDING OFFICER. The tar sands are mined. The article is to mine tar sands oil, you come back to clerk will call the roll. called ‘‘The High Cost of Oil.’’ this question: Why would we embrace a The bill clerk proceeded to call the To anyone who is interested in this dirtier technology when America is on roll. debate—pro, con or undecided—go on- a clean-energy revolution that is driv- Ms. CANTWELL. I ask unanimous line to Outside magazine, December ing down prices, driving up production, consent that the order for the quorum 2014, ‘‘The High Cost of Oil,’’ and read and also driving down emissions. call be rescinded. what the mining of tar sands oil does Tar sands oil takes us in the wrong The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. to this part of Canada and to this plan- direction. It is not so much about the COATS). Without objection, it is so or- et. pipeline. We rely on pipelines in this dered Tar sands oil is not like conventional country, but it is about the accelera- Ms. CANTWELL. Mr. President, we gas or petroleum. Tar sands oil, the tion of the development of a resource are going to be voting shortly on the mining and refining and production of that, frankly, just doesn’t need to be motion to proceed to S. 1, the Keystone it, produces about 15 to 20 percent more developed. XL Pipeline. I am here to urge my col- greenhouse gas emissions per unit of I will conclude and say this. Some leagues to vote no on that motion to energy than conventional petroleum. say—and I made this argument—well, proceed. We had a couple of chances to Natural gas produces dramatically less look, it is going to be mined anyway come to the Senate floor already today CO2 than conventional petroleum, but and refined anyway. If the pipeline and last week and talk about the im- tar sands oil produces dramatically doesn’t go through the United States, portant issue of energy development in more. If you care about the emissions it will go westward or eastward the United States and how we move of CO2—and I think we should all care through Canada or another direction. I our country forward with job creation about the emissions of CO2 because I am not completely sure that is correct. and energy development. The Presi- accept the science that says CO2 emis- The article in Outside discusses the dent—we got to hear his remarks and sions cause significant climate ef- fact that Canadians, who know this certainly we respect people’s points of fects—if you care about CO2 emissions, better than anybody because they live view that this issue is an issue we have then tar sands oil is absolutely the in the neighborhood, are fighting had a lot of time to discuss. worst thing that can be done. against pipelines being built in Canada. Mr. President, the issue is whether Over the 2 years now that I have been There is also the matter with oil now the American public and people in af- in the Senate, I have had a lot of folks at a significantly lower price than it fected States have had a lot of time to come to me and talk to me about Key- has been. Even the economics of this talk about this issue and whether they stone. They never say a word about tar sands oil, which is pretty expensive have had a transparent process to talk greenhouse gas or CO2 emissions—not a because of what you have to do to re- about this issue. word. Senator COATS didn’t say a word fine it, may not make any sense. But I ask unanimous consent to have in his comments about CO2 or green- even if we set those arguments aside printed in the RECORD an article that

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:17 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G12JA6.019 S12JAPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S143 was in USA TODAY whose headline is Keystone XL has changed, but Taylor said tutional. The separation of powers is ‘‘Permit problems plague Keystone XL the company is prepared to prove that it still divided between the Governor and their pipeline’s S.D. leg.’’ meets each of the 50 conditions attached to public service commission. It is the job There being no objection, the mate- its 2010 approval. The pipeline is still a pipe- of those UTCs—utilities and transpor- line, the product is the same, and the end re- rial was ordered to be printed in the sult is more energy security for the U.S., tation commissions around the coun- RECORD, as follows: Taylor said. try—to protect the interests of the [From USA Today, Jan. 7, 2015] ‘‘The current iteration of the project can public in the siting of these facilities. PERMIT PROBLEMS PLAGUE KEYSTONE XL and will meeting the conditions upon which That this authority was now moved up PIPELINE’S S.D. LEG the permit is issued,’’ Taylor said. through the legislature to the Gov- (By John Hultjhult) The PUC voted 3–0 to deny the motions to ernor to decide all of that was clearly The South Dakota Public Utilities Com- dismiss the application brought by the something that was not constitutional. mission on Tuesday voted down a move by Yankton Sioux Tribe and joined by others. I find it very interesting that four of tribal and environmental groups to force a The hearing on the merits of the re-certifi- cation is planned for May. the seven supreme court justices said, reboot to the Keystone XL pipeline’s state- in fact, yes, that law passed by the leg- Ms. CANTWELL. This is an article level permitting process. (http://www islature was not constitutional. .argusleader.com/story/news/2015/01/06/sd-per- that just recently appeared in the mit-keystone-xl-still-question/21359367/) paper about how South Dakota is So my question is, What is the hurry? PUC commissioners said there are clear bringing up objections to the pipeline, Now that this issue, based on standing questions about whether South Dakota’s and they want to do due process with and the other justices not deciding, has stretch of the massive and controversial the process to move forward, Congress project is still due the construction permit it their public utility commission to make sure this project meets the cri- feels some sort of urgency to be a earned in 2010, given a series of changes to siting commission and site a pipeline its original scope. teria of environmental and safety con- The 2014 version of the pipeline would be cerns and security concerns that State that has, No. 1, failed to go through the able to carry crude from North Dakota, for wants to see met. public process in the State of Ne- example, along with the anticipated crude The reason this is still an issue in braska; No. 2, has a public process now extracted from tar sands in Alberta, Canada. South Dakota is because part of the being questioned in the State of South Even so, commissioners ruled that forcing Dakota, raising concern and urgency pipeline owner TransCanada to start over pipeline will go through South Dakota. There have been many changes since that those issues of the public be ad- without being offered a chance to explain dressed; and No. 3, goes over what the how it could make those changes while meet- the original proposal was put forth, ing its old obligations would be a denial of and people in South Dakota want to President of the United States has said due process. know exactly what these changes are he wants to follow as a due process and ‘‘We need to go through the process to find and exactly how they will go through make sure all the issues are brought to out,’’ Commissioner Chris Nelson said. the table. TransCanada asked for re-certification of the process. In fact, one Native Amer- ican tribe representative who was ob- I will remind my colleagues that if its 2010 construction permit in September. everybody here had their way, the The company had to ask for re-certification jecting said: because four years had passed since the per- The company is not just asking to recer- President would have approved the mit was granted. tify its old project. They are going a step be- original Keystone XL pipeline route. The pipeline stalled as President Obama yond that that is not allowed by law. Congress thought they should stick chose Tuesday to delay the issuance of a fed- So there are people who want them their hands in the middle of this siting eral permit indefinitely, a move that has and land use issue and put in legisla- frustrated supporters, who say the project to go through the normal process be- cause siting of a pipeline of this nature tive language on a passed bill by the will add jobs and boost energy security. If Congress saying the President, if it was completed, the Keystone XL pipeline would is of great concern to local residents, release more than 800,000 barrels of oil a day. to property owners. a national security interest, must de- The GOP-controlled Senate is expected to I find it interesting that in the de- cide and site the Keystone Pipeline. take up the issue this week. bate on this issue, we on this side of Thank God those at the State Depart- In a new application for the 313 miles of the aisle are the ones who are advo- ment and the White House decided that pipeline planned for South Dakota, the com- was not such a smart idea because that pany notes 30 changes to the original cating and standing up for property owners to make sure there is not a tak- current pipeline went through a major project, including the addition of North Da- aquifer that served eight States and kota oil, minor route changes, alterations to ing of their property without a trans- construction plans and costs. parent process and input for that proc- posed a great deal of concern to land- The Yankton Sioux Tribe filed a motion to ess because that is exactly what tran- owners, farmers, residents, and various dismiss the company’s application based on spired here when the company, with individuals about that particular pro- those changes, saying the re-certification the help of the State of Nebraska, did posal. process is meant for projects that have been not continue to proceed through their So if this body would have had its delayed, not those that have altered dra- way before—those who support this matically in scope. public service commission, their public The permit was issued with a set of 50 con- utility commission, and instead tried pipeline—they would have pressured ditions, which were based on the project as to pass a law saying that the environ- the President to approve what is now a approved four years ago. mental review and security issues and defunct, horrible idea of what was pro- Thomasina Real Bird, a lawyer for the oversight could be done by the Gov- posed by TransCanada. So now I ask Yankton Sioux Tribe, told commissioners ernor. my colleagues, are you sure all of the that the changes to the pipeline are simply Now, my colleagues who are Gov- issues have been addressed here at the too significant to allow the company to local level? Because clearly there are apply for re-certification. ernors know that when you are Gov- The company isn’t just asking to re-certify ernor, you do not have the most trans- people in Nebraska and people in South a stalled project, she said. parent process. It is not as if citizens Dakota who do not think so. ‘‘They’re going a step beyond, and that are going to come to hearings in the Last I checked, our job is not to site step is not allowed by law,’’ Real Bird said. Governor’s office. It is not as though pipelines; our job is to move our coun- Several others spoke in support of the all of that is there for review. Cer- try forward on an energy strategy that Yankton Sioux Tribe’s motion to dismiss, in- will produce jobs, diversify our re- cluding Kimberly Craven of the Indigenous tainly those citizens do not have the Environmental Network. ability to object and make sure they sources, and make the United States a ‘‘I would urge the commission to start are getting the right compensation for leader in energy. over,’’ Craven said. ‘‘It’s a new permit, a new their property and make sure issues of I know my colleagues feel as if we ballgame.’’ safety and security are addressed. will get a chance to address a lot of Bill Taylor, a lawyer for TransCanada, told So that is why some private property issues if we do move forward in a de- commissioners that re-certification is meant owners sued. Because the legislature bate, and I am sure there will be many to determine whether delayed projects still fall within the scope of an old permit. Drop- and the Governor did not have the on many sides. I question whether we ping a re-certification request because a right to act; the law taking the power shouldn’t be spending our time focus- project changes renders the re-certification away from the utility commission and ing on a bipartisan energy bill with process pointless. giving it to the Governor was unconsti- lots of support on a whole myriad of

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:22 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G12JA6.025 S12JAPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S144 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 12, 2015 others issues we need to work on, as we years in the Pacific Northwest. But the tion, and we will have some others join did in 2007, to make sure we are helping people of British Columbia have not us in voting to proceed on the bill. in the transformation of energy policy been a big supporter of tar sands oil ex- That is important, not just because moving forward that will produce a lot pansion. Something like 60 percent of this is bipartisan legislation, impor- more jobs. the public of British Columbia opposes tant energy legislation for our country This particular proposal, as many of having a tar sands pipeline cross their but, as I have said before, this is an op- my colleagues have pointed out, while province. TransCanada knows they are portunity for all the Members of this there are some immediate construction not going to be successful in getting body—Republican and Democrat—to jobs, the long-term jobs are very few this oil from Alberta across British Co- come forward with their amendments compared to many of the other things lumbia out to the Pacific because the in an open amendment process and we have been doing. people of British Columbia do not want really have an energy debate. I would also like to point out that it. So, of course, why not come to the Let’s talk about the energy future of since Keystone has undertaken more United States? Why not ask them if this country and let’s bring forward development in the United States, that they want a pipeline going through the amendments to this legislation that part of that development in the United middle of their country? can be good amendments and help us States has also come into question British Columbia Premier Christy build the right kind of energy plan for lately. The security of the welding on Clark laid out five principles that our country. the pipeline that has been done in the ought to have been met in order to site What I would point out about this southern part of that pipeline has come a pipeline of tar sands. Those condi- Keystone Pipeline approval bill is that into question, even to the point where tions have not been met, and the prov- as we work to build an energy plan for this country, as we work to produce I think the State Department has said ince is officially opposed to the pipe- more energy so we are truly energy se- to the company: We are going to have line. So there was a lot of opposition cure—a lot of people call it energy a third-party validator approve wheth- and concern there. er you are actually meeting the stand- I will note for my colleagues that independence—but the way I define it is energy security for our country ards we would like to see in the devel- when a public UTC—a utility commis- where we produce more energy than we opment of this pipeline in the United sion or public service commission— consume, so we control our destiny. If States. when they evaluate a project, they we produce more energy than we con- But there are many issues here about have to look at the environmental im- sume, then we control our destiny safety and security, as my colleagues pact, and that is water supply, wildlife, when it comes to energy. But to do can point out who have brought up vegetation, plants, and they have to that, we would not only have to these issues before. My colleague from look at the economic and social im- produce that energy, we have to have Michigan suffered one of the most dev- pact. They need to look at alternative the infrastructure to move it safely, astating oilspills in her area. That was routes, the impact to future develop- a tar sands oilspill. My colleague from cost effectively, and efficiently from ment near the pipeline, and the views where it is produced to where it is con- Michigan, Senator STABENOW, has actu- of cities and counties. Again, I will ally flown over that oilspill and cited sumed. note that I think all of those are a part We have this incredible opportunity that it took 4 years and $1.2 billion to of having a transparent process instead with Canada to have North American clean it up and that the tar sands sunk of a political process on siting. energy security. We are working with to the bottom of the river and the river So I am not for moving forward on our closest friend and ally in the world. had to be dredged. what I consider special interest legisla- We together produce more energy than So this is something my colleagues tion, Congress siting for a special in- we consume, and we have the infra- may not quite understand, that the tar terest—this TransCanada company—a structure in place to move it from sands, even according to the Com- project that even people in Canada where it is produced to where it is con- mandant of the Coast Guard—we do not have raised suspicion about. sumed in our country. Now we control really have a solution for its cleanup I hope that we will allow the Presi- our own destiny. when it spills in water. That is why I dent to still do due process on such an When it comes to OPEC or when it want to make sure that tar sands pay important issue of environmental con- comes to Russia or when it comes to into the oilspill liability trust fund, as cern and that we will not start setting China, when it comes to geopolitical any other oil source does, so that we a standard that if you want to short- events that affect the price of energy, can make sure we are planning for the circuit the eminent domain and protec- we are in a strong situation. Look at future and for getting help and re- tion rights of individuals, we will just what is going on in Western Europe sponse for any of these oilspills that bypass all of that at the local level and right now. Look at what is going on in could occur in the future. somehow go to Congress and they will Ukraine. They are in a tremendously But needless to say Michigan and the get that done for you. I think that is a difficult situation because they are de- Kalamazoo spill taught our Nation how very bad message. pendent on Russia for their energy, for dangerous this oilspill process could be. I hope my colleagues will turn down their natural gas, at a time when So why are we prematurely trying to this legislation, I hope that we can Vladimir Putin is undertaking very ag- cut off the debate on this issue at the move on to other energy issues that gressive action in Europe. He is invad- local government level and say that we will help our country diversify and ing Ukraine. He has taken Crimea. He in Congress know better than these move forward in the future. continues his aggressive efforts. And at utility and transportation commissions I yield the floor, and I suggest the ab- the same time the European Union is and their transparent siting process for sence of a quorum. trying to support Ukraine, Ukraine is the American public? Why do we some- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The fighting with Russia. This is a situa- how know better that this is where a clerk will call the roll. tion where Ukraine is depending upon pipeline should go and how the process The assistant legislative clerk pro- Russia for its energy. should work? ceeded to call the roll. Does America really want to be in So I hope my colleagues will stop and Mr. HOEVEN. Mr. President, I ask that kind of a situation in the future think more about how TransCanada unanimous consent that the order for when we have real problems in the Mid- proposal. I know some of my colleagues the quorum call be rescinded. dle East, when we have real problems like to talk about being a good neigh- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without with fundamentalists, Islamic jihadists bor, and I like to say, you know, we in objection, it is so ordered. conducting terror on our people and the Pacific Northwest consider British Mr. HOEVEN. Mr. President, I rise to other freedom-loving people around the Columbia a very big friend and neigh- again talk about the Keystone XL world? Do we want to be in a situation bor. There are many times that people Pipeline approval bill. We will be vot- where we continue to depend upon the talk about two provinces and five ing on cloture on the motion to pro- Middle East for our oil? States working together as an organi- ceed in about 15 minutes or so. Well, the answer to that is no. The zation on economic issues. So that I believe we have a bipartisan major- American people resoundingly answer structure has been in place for many ity. We have 60 sponsors of the legisla- that question—no.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:17 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G12JA6.026 S12JAPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S145 Also, the American people well know frastructure even when it does not cost Ms. CANTWELL. Reserving the right that the reason gas prices at the pump one single penny—not one penny—of to object. Is the vote scheduled for 4 today are lower is not because OPEC government money? minutes from now? just decided to give us a Christmas This is almost $8 billion of private in- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Yes, the present. They know the reason energy vestment that will generate hundreds vote is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. prices are low in this country, that of millions of dollars of revenue— Ms. CANTWELL. I am happy if the when they pull up to the pump they are State, local, and Federal. Every State Senator speaks until the time of the saving money, is because we are pro- on the route has approved it. vote, but I think we should keep to the ducing so much more energy in this There is an idea somehow we are vote schedule. country and we are getting more en- jumping the gun after 6 years? Let’s Mr. HOEVEN. What time is the vote ergy from Canada. see, it has been in process for 6 years. scheduled? Unless OPEC cuts back their produc- Every State on the route has approved The PRESIDING OFFICER. The vote tion, more supply drives prices down. it. We are not spending any Federal is scheduled at 5:30 p.m. That would So it is not only about low prices now, money. We are saying our job as a Con- leave the Senator 2 minutes. it is about making sure we are able to gress and the President is to block that Mr. HOEVEN. I note the presence of control our energy destiny in the fu- kind of investment, block that kind of the chairman of the Energy Com- ture. We have to take a long-term job creation, block that kind of energy mittee. I defer to her for some time if view. It is working. development, and block our ability to she wishes to speak before the vote. Of the 18 million barrels of oil a day get to energy security for this country. That would be my question, whether this country consumes, we now produce Then there is this argument: Oh, we could get maybe a couple of min- 11 million barrels in this country. We well, it is TransCanada. It is one com- utes for that purpose. I can certainly are up to 11 million barrels that we pany. It is only one company, so it wrap up in a couple of minutes. produce in this country of the total we really doesn’t matter. Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I consume, so we are still importing Really? Well, if you were a com- defer to my colleague, the sponsor of about 7 million barrels a day. pany—a Canadian company or a U.S. this legislation, Senator HOEVEN from Canada is now up to 3 million of company—and you were about to build North Dakota, to conclude his remarks those 7 million barrels, so we are down infrastructure so that we could con- within the remaining time so that we to only importing about 4 million bar- tinue to produce more energy in this can begin our vote at 5:30 p.m. We ap- rels a day, but if we keep working at country, would you do it? If, in spite of preciate his leadership on this bill. this, we can continue to produce more the process that the Federal Govern- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- in this country. Canada’s production is ment has to approve this project, ator has 1 minute remaining. continuing to grow. And if we build the where all of the requirements have Mr. HOEVEN. I will wrap up on this infrastructure, we can make sure that been met—not once, but over and over note. we control that energy—North Amer- again—and Congress and the President Let’s not get back into the same pre- ican energy security. continue to block your ability to build dicament we have gotten ourselves into That means not only now do our con- that infrastructure, are you going to before. Let’s build this vital energy in- sumers and small businesses and our jump up and spend billions of dollars frastructure so we can develop energy whole Nation benefit from lower en- and do it? I doubt it. security for our country, together with ergy prices, lower gas prices at the And isn’t that really what this is all Canada. pump, but we have that ability to about? That is what it is about, isn’t The other point I want to make is on make sure we control our destiny and it? It is for the folks, for the extreme the environmental point: No signifi- that we benefit in the future. environmental groups that don’t want cant environmental impact. That is the Let’s not repeat the mistakes of the the development of fossil fuels—they finding of the Obama administration’s past where we return to this depend- are going to block it. This is sending environmental impact statement done ency on OPEC down the road because the message and making sure they shut by the State Department. That is their we haven’t built the infrastructure, we her down here. That has to be music to own report: No significant environ- haven’t worked with Canada, and we OPEC’s ears. I have to believe that mental impact. haven’t brought our domestic industry OPEC is going: Boy, that is great; they I look forward to having more discus- to North America so that we truly are are not going to build the infrastruc- sion on the environmental aspects as energy secure. If we don’t build the ture in their country to produce the well. necessary infrastructure, if we block energy. I urge my colleagues to vote in favor the necessary infrastructure, we can’t That is going to keep OPEC in busi- of this legislation. build that energy plan for the future. ness. CLOTURE MOTION I have heard my counterparts, some There is another country that I think The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time of the critics, say: Well, it is not up to will be very pleased, really excited, if having expired, pursuant to rule XXII, us to issue a building permit for infra- this project gets blocked, and that is the Chair lays before the Senate the structure. China. China is so anxious to get this pending cloture motion, which the Really? So you mean it is the Presi- oil, they are trying to buy that produc- clerk will state. dent’s job and it is Congress’s job to tion in Canada. Because, make no mis- The assistant legislative clerk read block critical energy that will get us to take, if the energy doesn’t come to the as follows: energy security? Our job is to block it? United States, it is going somewhere CLOTURE MOTION Our job is to prevent the very infra- else, and it is most likely going to We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- structure we need to build energy secu- China. ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the rity for this country, to block the pri- So when we get back in that situa- Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby vate investment, the $8 billion that pri- tion down the road when oil prices move to bring to a close debate on the pend- vate companies want to spend to build move back up, energy demand goes ing motion to proceed to S. 1, a bill to ap- this infrastructure, to create jobs, to back up, and we have prevented our in- prove the Keystone XL Pipeline. Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski, produce more energy in North Amer- dustry from growing—and Canada is Chuck Grassley, Richard Burr, Tim ica, and to help make this country’s sending all the oil to China, and we Scott, John Boozman, Ron Johnson, energy security? The President’s job have to go back hat in hand to OPEC, Lindsey Graham, James Lankford, and this body’s job is to block the abil- Venezuela, and all of these countries, James M. Inhofe, Dean Heller, Rand ity of our country and Canada to build remember—— Paul, Kelly Ayotte, Bill Cassidy, John this necessary infrastructure? Well, I The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Cornyn, David Vitter, John Hoeven. don’t think so. ator’s time has expired. The PRESIDING OFFICER. By unan- If you want to put it in terms of: Oh, Mr. HOEVEN. I ask unanimous con- imous consent, the mandatory quorum well, we are not supposed to issue a sent to continue for 5 minutes. call has been waived. building permit—really? So our job is The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there The question is, Is it the sense of the to prevent the building of critical in- objection? Senate that debate on the motion to

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:17 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G12JA6.023 S12JAPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S146 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 12, 2015 proceed to S. 1, a bill to approve the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without courage a transition of our Federal Keystone XL Pipeline, shall be brought objection, it is so ordered. Government’s vehicle fleet from the to a close? The Senator is recognized. current practice of burning gasoline The yeas and nays are mandatory f mostly, and I encourage the adoption under the rule. of natural gas as an alternative fuel be- The clerk will call the roll. KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE cause natural gas is cleaner, it is do- The assistant legislative clerk called Mr. TOOMEY. Mr. President, first, I mestic, it is actually cheaper. Without the roll. congratulate my colleagues Senator any government subsidy or taxpayer Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators HOEVEN and Senator MANCHIN, the co- help, natural gas is a cheaper source of are necessarily absent: the Senator sponsors of this legislation. I also com- fuel. from Louisiana (Mr. CASSIDY) and the mend the energy committee chair, Sen- We have a staggering quantity. The Senator from Florida (Mr. RUBIO). ator MURKOWSKI. This is important leg- United States is the world’s No. 1 pro- Further, if present and voting, the islation. It is long overdue that we ducer of natural gas. We have 2.2 quad- Senator from Louisiana (Mr. CASSIDY) take this up, but it is encouraging that rillion cubic feet of natural gas. That is would have voted ‘‘yea.’’ we finally are doing that. So I com- too big a number for me to wrap my Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the mend them for that. brain around, but let’s put it this way: Senator from Ohio (Mr. BROWN), the Mr. President, the Senate is not in That is the gas we know of, and it is Senator from Nevada (Mr. REID), and order. enough to last the next 85 years, based the Senator from Oregon (Mr. WYDEN) The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- on any plausible projection of our use. are necessarily absent. ate will be in order. Could Senators It is a staggering amount. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. please take their conversations out of I have another amendment that also LANKFORD). Are there any other Sen- the Chamber. The Senate will be in has bipartisan support. I thank Sen- ators in the Chamber desiring to vote? order. ator FEINSTEIN, Senators FLAKE and The yeas and nays resulted—yeas 63, The Senator is recognized. MANCHIN for supporting the effort to nays 32, as follows: Mr. TOOMEY. Thank you, Mr. Presi- repeal the corn ethanol mandate in our [Rollcall Vote No. 3 Leg.] dent. fuel. This is a very bad policy that we YEAS—63 A couple of things about the Key- have had for far too long. It is time to end this mandate that we grow corn Alexander Ernst Moran stone Pipeline, and then I wish to talk Ayotte Fischer Murkowski about an amendment I am going to be and use it to burn in our gas tanks. It Barrasso Flake Paul offering. is a practice that is bad for the envi- Bennet Gardner Perdue ronment. It raises the cost of filling Blunt Graham Portman First, I think one of the encouraging Boozman Grassley Risch things about approving this pipeline is our tanks. It raises the cost of food be- Burr Hatch Roberts the benefits for the environment. The cause so much of our corn production Capito Heitkamp Rounds fact is we will be moving oil on a pipe- goes into this, and it is not good for Carper Heller Sasse our engines. There is no good reason to Casey Hoeven Scott line which is a cleaner, safer way to do Coats Inhofe Sessions it than any available alternative. That continue this, and I look forward to Cochran Isakson Shelby is good news. having the debate that will enable us Collins Johnson Sullivan It is good news that it is going to cre- to repeal the corn ethanol mandate. Corker King Tester But the amendment I wish to talk ate jobs across our country. The State Cornyn Kirk Thune about is another bipartisan amend- Cotton Lankford Tillis Department has estimated 42,000 jobs ment. I thank Senator CASEY for being Crapo Lee Toomey in the development of this pipeline. Cruz Manchin Udall the Democratic cosponsor for this That is terrific news for everyone who Daines McCain Vitter amendment, and I thank Senator Donnelly McCaskill Warner is going to get a chance to benefit from HATCH for joining me. This is an Enzi McConnell Wicker that work. amendment that will preserve an im- NAYS—32 Clearly it is going to reduce our de- portant, environmentally beneficial pendence on non-North American oil, Baldwin Heinrich Nelson source of alternative energy that we Blumenthal Hirono Peters which can only be good from a geo- have especially in Pennsylvania and Booker Kaine Reed political point of view as well as an Boxer Klobuchar West Virginia, and it is under threat by Sanders economic point of view. Of course, the Cantwell Leahy Schatz two new rules that have been proposed Cardin Markey Schumer fact is this legislation has bipartisan Coons Menendez by the EPA. Shaheen support and has for a long time. It re- Let me give a little bit of background Durbin Merkley Stabenow Feinstein Mikulski ceived 31 Democratic votes in the as to why we have gotten to this place. Warren Franken Murphy House, 14 Democratic votes in the Sen- Whitehouse In Pennsylvania and West Virginia we Gillibrand Murray ate, as well as every Republican Sen- have been mining coal for well over a NOT VOTING—5 ator the last time it was brought up. It century, and for many of the decades, Brown Reid Wyden is strongly supported by the labor com- especially in the early years of our coal Cassidy Rubio munity because they recognize the ben- development, we took the high-energy The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this efits of the jobs it will create, and I density coal and our coal miners sold it vote, the yeas are 63, the nays are 32. urge my colleagues to support this im- to the steel industry where it was used Three-fifths of the Senators duly cho- portant legislation. in the manufacturing process of mak- sen and sworn having voted in the af- I also would like to take a moment ing steel, and the low-energy coal was firmative, the motion is agreed to. to thank Leader MCCONNELL for doing left in piles—huge piles—actually The Senator from Pennsylvania is exactly what he said he would do and mountains. It is often referred to as recognized. what many of us said we needed to do waste coal. in this Chamber, which is to reopen f The first photograph illustrates one this body—reopen it and have debate of these waste coal piles. It is in Nanty MORNING BUSINESS and put legislation on the floor and Glo in Cambria County, PA. It is one of Mr. TOOMEY. Mr. President, I ask open it for amendment. Let’s have a many piles or, as I say, mountains unanimous consent that the Senate discussion. Let’s change policy in this throughout Pennsylvania and West proceed to a period of morning busi- country in ways that will be construc- Virginia. The Pennsylvania Depart- ness, with Senators permitted to speak tive. We are beginning this process now ment of Environmental Protection es- for up to 10 minutes each and that that as we said we would, and I think that timates that there are 2 billion tons of time count postcloture. is terrific and I intend to take advan- waste coal such as this covering 180,000 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without tage of the opportunity. acres in Pennsylvania alone. Think objection, it is so ordered. I have several amendments I am about that. It is a massive scale be- Mr. TOOMEY. Mr. President, I ask going to file and I intend to bring up cause of over a century of legacy of unanimous consent that I be allowed to with respect to this legislation. One is coal mining. Some of these piles are speak for 15 minutes. going to be an amendment that will en- literally in people’s backyards.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:17 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G12JA6.024 S12JAPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S147 Here we can see the people who live this kind of combustion on the resi- this year—then waste coal and electric literally within a stone’s throw—if you dents in that area? generation ends, and these plants close. have a reasonably good arm—within a How much of this will burn? Maybe As a result, we lose the electric power stone’s throw you can reach this pile. some people think this is just a freak they have been generating, the 1,200 That is also Nanty Glo in Cambria incident. Not really, the Pennsylvania jobs they sustain, and the low-cost en- County. There are people who live Department of Environmental Protec- ergy that is reliable and domestic. We within a couple of hundred feet. tion estimates that 6.6 million tons of will end up with a more serious air pol- What is the problem with these waste coal burns each year—unin- lution problem when the spontaneous mountains? The problem with these tended, uncontrolled, but it is burn- combustion continues, and we will mountains of coal is it rains on them, ing—and in the process it emits 9 mil- have an ongoing problem with water and when it rains the runoff is horren- lion tons of carbon dioxide and many and air pollution as the nearby streams dous. It looks like this. It looks like tons of other uncontrolled air pollu- and water table will be polluted. this in every one of these mountains of tion. That is why Senator CASEY, Senator waste coal everywhere that one exists, What about cleaning all of this up? HATCH, and I have joined together to every time it rains. In 2003 in an op-ed The costs would be absolutely stag- offer an amendment to this legislation entitled ‘‘The Benefits of Waste Coal,’’ gering. Again, former Pennsylvania De- that will exempt the waste coal power- former Democratic Governor of Penn- partment of Environmental Protection plants from the most onerous and pro- sylvania Ed Rendell’s Department of Secretary McGinty estimated that it hibitive aspects of these new rules. Environmental Protection secretary, costs between $20,000 and $40,000 to re- With respect to utility MACT, we whose name is Kathleen McGinty, claim just one acre of waste coal. We would retain all of the regulatory lim- wrote: ‘‘For years these piles sat aban- have hundreds of thousands of acres of its on mercury, chromium, nickel, and doned, generating iron, manganese and waste coal. other heavy metals, but it would ex- aluminum pollution that discharged as The Pennsylvania General Assembly empt the waste coal plants from the runoff into Pennsylvania’s water- has estimated it would cost approxi- cross-State air pollution rules, and it ways.’’ mately $15 billion to remediate Penn- would allow these plants to continue That is exactly what happens when sylvania’s abandoned mine set. That is remediating these waste coal sites. these piles just sit here. the bad news. I wish to stress that it is important In 2011 the Pennsylvania Department The good news is the market has fig- to point out that all of the existing of Environmental Protection report ured out a solution to address this regulations that have long been in ef- states: matter. The free market has developed fect will remain in effect. What we are a way to systematically eliminate Coal refuse piles that are not removed (i.e. talking about are the two new rules burned for fuel) generally create severe acid these mountains of waste coal, and for that would be guaranteed to shut down mine drainage, with pH in the 2.5 range . . . decades we have had powerplants de- the industry. Those two rules would A pH that high, by the way, is some- signed specifically for the purpose of not go into effect with respect to the where between the intensity of stom- burning this coal and doing so in a con- waste coal electric generation. ach acid and hydrochloric acid. That trolled and regulated fashion. They The fact is if our amendment is kind of acidic chemical running into have removed 210 million tons of waste adopted and becomes law, we will be our waters is enormously damaging. coal and used it to produce electricity. helping our environment by continuing Slide No. 4 is another depiction of ex- They have remediated over 8,000 to systematically eliminate these actly what happens when rainwater acres. They have generated 1.769 blights. I want more success stories gigawatts of electricity, which is runs through these piles and finds its like the one in this photograph. enough to power 1.3 million homes, and This photo was taken in way into the streams, rivers, ponds, in the process the generation of elec- Nesquehoning in Carbon County, PA. and lakes of Pennsylvania. It pollutes tricity from this waste coal has di- The first photo shows what the ground hundreds of miles of rivers and rectly resulted in creating 1,200 jobs. looked like when the waste coal was streams. In the past, the EPA has always ac- In 2007 former Democratic Governor piled up. The second photo shows what knowledged the benefits of systemati- of Pennsylvania, Ed Rendell said: happens after it has been consumed and cally eliminating these mountains of the land has been restored. This hap- These piles are domestic energy sources waste coal and doing so by generating that have significant value when put into pened precisely because there is a near- production in CFB cogeneration plants. electricity. In fact, I will quote a re- by waste coal powerplant that was able When left on the ground, waste coal presents port from the EPA in 2011 that says to take this coal, generate electricity a grave environmental threat. Runoff from this: ‘‘Because of the unique environ- for us to use, and restore the land to a these piles contributes to the ‘‘abandoned mental benefits that coal refuse-fired much safer, much more environ- mine drainage’’ that is the second leading EGUs provide, these units warrant spe- mentally friendly, and much more at- water pollution problem in the Common- cial consideration.’’ tractive environment. wealth, literally killing all life in some 2,000 The problem I am here to address is We need to keep these plants oper- stream miles in Pennsylvania. that there are two new rules passed by ating. It is about improving our envi- But that is not all. Photo No. 5 shows the EPA that would bring an end to the ronment, it is about keeping people something else that happens with these systemic elimination of these moun- working, it is about the low-cost, reli- piles. They catch fire. They spontane- tains because these rules are prohibi- able electricity that we have from it, ously combust. It could be from light- tive. It is not possible for the waste and I urge my colleagues to support ning, carelessness, and sometimes it is coal powerplants to comply with these this amendment. unknown, but they catch fire. This par- rules, so they would all be shut down With that, I yield the floor. ticular photo is from Fell Township in and we would be left with these piles f Lackawanna County, PA. indefinitely, which would mar our The pile caught fire in December of landscape and pollute our water and MISSOURI’S EMANCIPATION 2013. It burned for over a year. It is air. PROCLAMATION very hard to put these fires out. It The two specific rules that would do Mrs. MCCASKILL. Mr. President, I burned out of control with, obviously, this—the cross-State air pollution rule ask the Senate to join me today in no ability to do anything about the is very likely to have the effect of im- honoring the 150th anniversary of the pollutants that are being released by posing absolutely unattainable goals State of Missouri’s Emancipation Proc- the combustion because it is com- on waste coal powerplants, and the lamation which ended slavery in the pletely uncontrolled. utility MACT rule establishes new and State of Missouri. This proclamation of We think the fire went out in Janu- very stringent emission controls and a freedom was imperative for democracy ary, but authorities are still not cer- whole new generation of very stringent and progress in our State. It is un- tain that it may not be smoldering regulations that this industry cannot doubtedly a landmark in Missouri’s somewhere below the surface. By the meet. history. way, this mountain is 600 feet from res- If these rules go into effect—and they In 1720, the arrival of 500 slaves to the idential housing. What is the effect of are scheduled to go into effect later areas presently known as St. Louis

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:17 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G12JA6.029 S12JAPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S148 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 12, 2015 County and Jefferson County, marked Bullock Iron Works, which allowed him shot at success. We share the belief the beginning of slavery in Missouri. to meld his passions of building and that all people should be treated fairly Those slaves, who were brought to construction with artistry. Bill in- and with dignity in all aspects of life, work in the lead mines in those coun- vented a process for the precision bend- regardless of race, class, gender, reli- ties, experienced great discrimination ing of cold steel for decorative applica- gion, sexual orientation, age, ability or over the course of 11⁄2 centuries. When tions, including railings. The family country of origin. Both as Governor the Territorial Slave Codes were cre- business gave him an opportunity to and now as Senator, I am proud to have ated in 1804, slaves were banned from work with his brother-in-law James served alongside a group who embraces using firearms, participating in assem- Broad—husband to his sister Amy—and and celebrates diversity. blies, holding church services and sell- his nephew Jim Broad. Bill very much This year, during their 20th anniver- ing alcohol. Under the codes, slaves enjoyed and spoke often of the bond sary, I would like to recognize and were also punished severely for partici- created by working and creating beau- thank the leaders, members, and staff pating in resistance efforts and the mu- tiful ornamental steel creations with of Virginia Organizing, who continue tilation of slaves for the sexual assault his family members. to work tirelessly to provide children, of white women was made legal. White Bill had a long-standing bet with his low-income residents, immigrants, vet- men who sexually assaulted slave brother-in-law that he would not get erans, retirees, people with disabilities, women, however, were charged for tres- married before he turned 30 years old. and other underrepresented groups passing upon a slave owner’s property. Bill married Norma McBride on No- with the resources that they need to Retained by the State Constitution vember 10, 1956—1 day before his 30th have a fair shot. I appreciate their in 1820, the Territorial Slave Codes birthday. They had two children, Wil- work for the people of the Common- were only a premonition of more to liam and June. Through his manage- wealth and wish them all the best as come. In 1821, Missouri entered the ment of Bullock Iron Works, Bill devel- they embark on their next 20 years.∑ Union as a slave State with the passing oped a very strong set of business prin- f of the Missouri Compromise and in ciples and ethics, which he was able to 1825, the Missouri Legislature passed a pass along to his children, even though MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE law which declared slaves to be incom- neither went into the family business. RECEIVED DURING ADJOURNMENT petent as witnesses in legal cases in- His friends often joked with Bill that ENROLLED BILL SIGNED volving whites. That gloomy trend con- Delaware is not flat and that if he left Under the authority of the order of tinued as the education of slaves was he would not fall off a cliff into a the Senate of January 6, 2015, the fol- banned in an 1847 ordinance. One of the chasm. He retorted that he never left lowing enrolled bill, previously signed most foreboding events, however, oc- the State because he had no need or by the Speaker of the House, was curred in 1857 with the infamous Su- reason to do so. Bill loved Delaware signed on January 9, 2015, during the preme Court case Dred Scott v. and found there everything he needed adjournment of the Senate, by the Sandford when the judicial system in to raise a family, to grow the family President pro tempore (Mr. HATCH): the state of Missouri and the wider ju- business, and to enjoy his hobbies and H.R. 26. An act to extend the termination dicial system in the United States de- passions: fresh and salt water fishing, date of the Terrorism Insurance Program es- cided that persons of African descent cultivating beautiful phalaenopsis and tablished under the Terrorism Risk Insur- were not U.S. citizens. cattleya orchids, and enjoying the ance Act of 2002, and for other purposes. At the time of the Civil War, over comradery of his fellow veterans at the 100,000 slaves were living in the State Delaware Veterans Club, Post #1. f of Missouri and when President Abra- Bill was preceded in death by his wife MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE ham Lincoln signed the Emancipation of 33 years Norma, his sister Amy, and At 2:02 p.m., a message from the Proclamation in 1863, Missouri’s slaves brother-in-law James Broad. He is sur- House of Representatives, delivered by were not freed as Missouri was not offi- vived by his daughter Blake McBride, Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, an- cially in rebellion against the United son William H. Bullock II, and daugh- nounced that the House has passed the States. Missouri’s slaves received their ter-in-law Marci Hanlon, three grand- following bill, in which it requests the freedom on January 11, 1865, when the children, his sister and brother-in-law, concurrence of the Senate: Emancipation Ordinance was signed at and several nieces and nephews. a State convention in St. Louis. That Bill was a true Delawarean and one H.R. 3. An act to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline. ordinance was made effective imme- of the best and brightest of the Great- diately and the strict codes of the past est Generation. He helped to win the f were eliminated. Second World War, raised a strong and MEASURES REFERRED I ask that the Senate join me in re- loving family, grew and bolstered his flecting upon this difficult time in Mis- business, and was a true friend to his The following bill was read the first souri’s history and honoring the histor- neighbors, war buddies, and the wider and the second times by unanimous ical significance of the Emancipation Wilmington community. He will be consent, and referred as indicated: Ordinance which ended slavery in the missed.∑ H.R. 30. An act to amend the Internal Rev- enue Code of 1986 to repeal the 30-hour State of Missouri, 150 years ago. f f threshold for classification as a full-time COMMEMORATING THE 20TH ANNI- employee for purposes of the employer man- ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS VERSARY OF VIRGINIA ORGA- date in the Patient Protection and Afford- NIZING able Care Act and replace it with 40 hours; to the Committee on Finance. REMEMBERING WILLIAM ‘‘BILL’’ ∑ Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I wish HARRISON BULLOCK to commemorate the 20th anniversary f ∑ Mr. COONS. Mr. President, today I of Virginia Organizing, a group com- MEASURES PLACED ON THE highlight the service of William ‘‘Bill’’ mitted to challenging injustice by em- CALENDAR Harrison Bullock to his country, com- powering people in local communities mitment to his family, and contribu- across the Commonwealth to address The following bill was read the first tion to both the city of Wilmington the issues affecting the quality of their and second times by unanimous con- and the State of Delaware. lives. sent, and placed on the calendar: Bill was born on November 11, 1926, in Virginia Organizing has been on the H.R. 3. An act to approve the Keystone XL Wilmington, DE, to William and Amy forefront of the debate on local, state- Pipeline. Bullock. He graduated from P.S. Du- wide, and national issues such as eco- f Pont in 1945 and was immediately nomic security for families, education, drafted to serve as an aircraft me- environment, health care, equality, EXECUTIVE AND OTHER chanic in the Asia-Pacific theater dur- poverty, and other social justice issues. COMMUNICATIONS ing the Second World War. Virginia Organizing and I share a The following communications were Upon his return to the United States, common goal—one that I have spoken laid before the Senate, together with Bill joined and ultimately took over about many times—that all Virginians accompanying papers, reports, and doc- the five generation family business, and all Americans should have a fair uments, and were referred as indicated:

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:23 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G12JA6.022 S12JAPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S149 EC–217. A communication from the Assist- EC–226. A communication from the Assist- titled ‘‘Approval and Promulgation of Imple- ant Secretary for Export Administration, ant General Counsel for Legislation, Regula- mentation Plans; State of Iowa’’ (FRL No. Bureau of Industry and Security, Depart- tion and Energy Efficiency, Department of 9921–19–Region 7) received in the Office of the ment of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant Energy, transmitting, pursuant to law, the President of the Senate on January 7, 2015; to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Clari- report of a rule entitled ‘‘Federal Awarding to the Committee on Environment and Pub- fication to Scope of Certain ‘600 Series’ Agency Regulatory Implementation of Office lic Works. ECCNs’’ (RIN0694–AG40) received during ad- of Management and Budget’s Uniform Ad- EC–235. A communication from the Direc- journment of the Senate in the Office of the ministrative Requirements, Cost Principles, tor of the Regulatory Management Division, President of the Senate on December 30, 2014; and Audit Requirements for Federal Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Awards’’ (RIN1991–AB94) received in the Of- ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- Urban Affairs. fice of the President of the Senate on Janu- titled ‘‘Approval and Promulgation of Imple- EC–218. A message from the President of ary 6, 2015; to the Committee on Homeland mentation Plans; Alaska: Nonattainment the United States, transmitting, pursuant to Security and Governmental Affairs. New Source’’ (FRL No. 9921–40–Region 10) re- law, a report relative to the issuance of an EC–227. A communication from the Direc- ceived in the Office of the President of the Executive Order to take additional steps to tor, Employee Services, Office of Personnel Senate on January 7, 2015; to the Committee address the Russian occupation of the Cri- Management, transmitting, pursuant to law, on Environment and Public Works. mea region of Ukraine, with respect to the the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Veterans’ Pref- EC–236. A communication from the Assist- national emergency declared in Executive erence’’ (RIN3206–AM79) received in the Of- ant Secretary, Legislative Affairs, Depart- Order 13660 of March 6, 2014, received during fice of the President of the Senate on Janu- ment of State, transmitting, pursuant to adjournment of the Senate in the Office of ary 6, 2015; to the Committee on Homeland law, a report relative to the International the President of the Senate on December 19, Security and Governmental Affairs. Labor Organization Protocol and Rec- 2014; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, EC–228. A communication from the Chief ommendation concerning Forced or Compul- and Urban Affairs. Operating Officer and Acting Executive Di- sory Labor, 1930 (No. 29) and Supplementary EC–219. A message from the President of rector, U.S. Election Assistance Commission, Measures for the Effective Suppression of the United States, transmitting, pursuant to transmitting, pursuant to law, a report enti- Forced Labor (No. 203), adopted by the 103rd law, a report relative to the issuance of an tled ‘‘Fiscal Year 2013 Activities’’; to the session of the International Labor Con- Executive Order with respect to North Korea Committee on Rules and Administration. ference in Geneva, Switzerland; to the Com- that expands the national emergency de- EC–229. A communication from the Deputy mittee on Foreign Relations. clared in Executive Order 13455 of June 26, Director, Administration for Children and EC–237. A communication from the Assist- 2008, received during adjournment of the Families, Department of Health and Human ant Legal Adviser for Treaty Affairs, Depart- Senate in the Office of the President of the Services, transmitting, pursuant to law, the ment of State, transmitting, pursuant to the Senate on January 2, 2015; to the Committee report of a rule entitled ‘‘Standards to Pre- Case-Zablocki Act, 1 U.S.C. 112b, as amended, on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. vent, Detect, and Respond to Sexual Abuse the report of the texts and background state- EC–220. A communication from the Direc- and Sexual Harassment Involving Unaccom- ments of international agreements, other tor of the Issuances Staff, Food Safety and panied Children’’ (RIN0970–AC61) received than treaties (List 2014–0180 - 2014–0187); to Inspection Service, Department of Agri- during adjournment of the Senate in the Of- the Committee on Foreign Relations. culture, transmitting, pursuant to law, the fice of the President of the Senate on Decem- EC–238. A communication from the Sec- report of a rule entitled ‘‘Electronic Import ber 23, 2014; to the Committee on Health, retary of the Interior, transmitting, pursu- Inspection Application and Certification of Education, Labor, and Pensions. ant to law, an annual report related to the Imported Products and Foreign Establish- EC–230. A communication from the General Colorado River System Reservoirs for 2015; ments; Amendments To Facilitate the Pub- Counsel, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corpora- to the Committee on Energy and Natural Re- lic Health Information System (PHIS) and tion, transmitting, pursuant to law, the re- sources. Other Changes to Import Inspection Regula- port of a rule entitled ‘‘Benefits Payable in EC–239. A communication from the General tions’’ (RIN0583–AD39) received in the Office Terminated Single-Employer Plans; Interest Counsel, Federal Energy Regulatory Com- of the President of the Senate on January 7, Assumptions for Valuing and Paying Bene- mission, transmitting, pursuant to law, the 2015; to the Committee on Agriculture, Nu- fits’’ (29 CFR Part 4022 and 29 CFR Part 4044) report of a rule entitled ‘‘Physical Security trition, and Forestry. received during adjournment of the Senate Reliability Standard’’ (Docket No. RM14–15– EC–221. A communication from the Direc- in the Office of the President of the Senate 000) received in the Office of the President of tor of the Issuances Staff, Food Safety and the Senate on December 12, 2014; to the Com- Inspection Service, Department of Agri- on January 5, 2015; to the Committee on mittee on Energy and Natural Resources. culture, transmitting, pursuant to law, the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. EC–231. A communication from the General EC–240. A communication from the Assist- report of a rule entitled ‘‘Change in Accred- Counsel, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corpora- ant General Counsel for Legislation, Regula- ited Laboratory Fees’’ (RIN0583–AD55) re- tion, transmitting, pursuant to law, the re- tion and Energy Efficiency, Office of Energy ceived in the Office of the President of the port of a rule entitled ‘‘Allocation of Assets Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Depart- Senate on January 7, 2015; to the Committee in Single-Employer Plans; Valuation of Ben- ment of Energy, transmitting, pursuant to on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. EC–222. A communication from the Admin- efits and Assets; Expected Retirement Age’’ law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Energy istrator, Rural Business-Cooperative Serv- (29 CFR Part 4044) received during adjourn- Conservation Program: Energy Conservation ice, Department of Agriculture, transmit- ment of the Senate in the Office of the Presi- Standards for Commercial Clothes Washers’’ ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- dent of the Senate on January 5, 2015; to the ((RIN1904–AC77) (Docket No. EERE–2012–BT– titled ‘‘Rural Energy for America Program’’ Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and STD–0020)) received in the Office of the (RIN0570–AA76) received during adjournment Pensions. President of the Senate on January 6, 2015; of the Senate in the Office of the President EC–232. A communication from the Direc- to the Committee on Energy and Natural Re- of the Senate on December 30, 2014; to the tor of the Regulatory Management Division, sources. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- EC–241. A communication from the Assist- Forestry. ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- ant General Counsel for Legislation, Regula- EC–223. A communication from the Con- titled ‘‘Revisions to the California State Im- tion and Energy Efficiency, Office of Energy gressional Review Coordinator, Animal and plementation Plan, Ventura County Air Pol- Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Depart- Plant Health Inspection Service, Department lution Control District’’ (FRL No. 9921–38– ment of Energy, transmitting, pursuant to of Agriculture, transmitting, pursuant to Region 9) received in the Office of the Presi- law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Energy law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Khapra dent of the Senate on January 7, 2015; to the Conservation Program: Alternative Effi- Beetle; New Regulated Countries and Regu- Committee on Environment and Public ciency Determination Methods and Compli- lated Articles’’ (Docket No. APHIS–2013–0079) Works. ance for Commercial HVAC, Refrigeration, received during adjournment of the Senate EC–233. A communication from the Direc- and Water Heating Equipment’’ ((RIN1904– in the Office of the President of the Senate tor of the Regulatory Management Division, AC46) (Docket No. EERE–2011–BT–TP–0024)) on December 29, 2014; to the Committee on Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- received in the Office of the President of the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- Senate on January 6, 2015; to the Committee EC–224. A communication from the Sec- titled ‘‘Approval and Promulgation of Imple- on Energy and Natural Resources. retary of Energy, transmitting, pursuant to mentation Plans; Washington: Infrastructure EC–242. A communication from the Assist- law, the Department of Energy’s Agency Fi- Requirements for the 2008 and 2010 Nitrogen ant General Counsel for Legislation, Regula- nancial Report for fiscal year 2014; to the Dioxide National Ambient Air Quality tion and Energy Efficiency, Office of Energy Committee on Homeland Security and Gov- Standards’’ (FRL No. 9921–29–Region 10) re- Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Depart- ernmental Affairs. ceived in the Office of the President of the ment of Energy, transmitting, pursuant to EC–225. A communication from the Chair- Senate on January 7, 2015; to the Committee law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Energy man, National Mediation Board, transmit- on Environment and Public Works. Conservation Program for Consumer Prod- ting, pursuant to law, the Board’s Annual EC–234. A communication from the Direc- ucts: Test Procedures for Direct Heating Performance and Accountability Report for tor of the Regulatory Management Division, Equipment and Pool Heaters’’ ((RIN1904– fiscal year 2014; to the Committee on Home- Environmental Protection Agency, transmit- AC94) (Docket No. EERE–2013–BT–TP–0004)) land Security and Governmental Affairs. ting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule en- received in the Office of the President of the

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:31 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A12JA6.005 S12JAPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S150 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 12, 2015 Senate on January 6, 2015; to the Committee Senate on January 5, 2015; to the Committee gress of the United States to call a conven- on Energy and Natural Resources. on Finance. tion pursuant to Article V of the Constitu- EC–243. A communication from the Federal EC–252. A communication from the Chief of tion of the United States of America for the Register Liaison Officer, Office of Regula- the Publications and Regulations Branch, In- specific and exclusive purpose of proposing tions and Reports Clearance, Social Security ternal Revenue Service, Department of the an amendment to the Constitution of the Administration, transmitting, pursuant to Treasury, transmitting, pursuant to law, the United States, for submission to the states law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Extension report of a rule entitled ‘‘Changes to Em- for ratification, to require that in the ab- of Expiration Dates for Several Body Sys- ployee Plans Determination Letter Proc- sence of a national emergency the total of tems Listings’’ (RIN0960–AH72) received in essing’’ (Announcement 2015–1) received dur- all federal outlays made by congress for any the Office of the President of the Senate on ing adjournment of the Senate in the Office fiscal year may not exceed the total of all es- January 7, 2015; to the Committee on Fi- of the President of the Senate on January 5, timated federal revenues for that fiscal year, nance. 2015; to the Committee on Finance. together with any related and appropriate EC–244. A communication from the Direc- EC–253. A communication from the Direc- fiscal restraints; and be it further tor, Office of Regulations and Reports Clear- tor, Office of Management and Budget, Exec- Resolved, That this application is to be con- ance, Social Security Administration, trans- utive Office of the President, transmitting, sidered as covering the same subject matter mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule pursuant to law, a report relative to discre- as the presently outstanding balanced budg- entitled ‘‘Revisions to Direct Fee Payment tionary appropriations legislation; to the et applications from other states, including Rules’’ (RIN0960–AH21) received in the Office Committee on the Budget. but not limited to previously adopted appli- of the President of the Senate on January 7, EC–254. A communication from the Attor- cations from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, 2015; to the Committee on Finance. ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indi- EC–245. A communication from the Assist- of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- ana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, ant Secretary for Legislation, Department of ant to law, the report of a rule entitled Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Nevada, New Health and Human Services, transmitting, ‘‘Safety Zone, Elizabeth River; Portsmouth, Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, pursuant to law, a report entitled ‘‘The Cen- VA’’ ((RIN1625–AA00) (Docket No. USCG– Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Texas; and ter for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation: 2014–1032)) received in the Office of the Presi- that this application shall be aggregated Report to Congress’’ ; to the Committee on dent of the Senate on January 7, 2015; to the with such applications for the purpose of at- Finance. Committee on Commerce, Science, and taining the two-thirds of states necessary to EC–246. A communication from the Chief of Transportation. require the calling of a convention but shall the Publications and Regulations Branch, In- EC–255. A communication from the Deputy not be aggregated with applications on any ternal Revenue Service, Department of the Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Pro- other subject; and be it further Treasury, transmitting, pursuant to law, the grams, Office of Protected Resources, De- Resolved, That certified copies of this Con- report of a rule entitled ‘‘Reallocation of partment of Commerce, transmitting, pursu- current Resolution be transmitted by the Section 48B Credits Under the Qualifying ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘List secretary of state to the president and the Gasification Project Program’’ (Notice 2014– of Fisheries for 2015’’ (RIN0648–BE13) re- secretary of the United States Senate, to the 81) received during adjournment of the Sen- ceived in the Office of the President of the speaker and clerk of the United States House ate in the Office of the President of the Sen- Senate on January 7, 2015; to the Committee of Representatives, to each member of this ate on December 19, 2014; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. state’s delegation to the congress, and to the on Finance. presiding officer of each house of each state EC–247. A communication from the Chief of f legislature in the United States, requesting the Publications and Regulations Branch, In- PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS their cooperation; and be it further ternal Revenue Service, Department of the Resolved, That this application by this leg- Treasury, transmitting, pursuant to law, the The following petition or memorial islature supersedes all previous applications report of a rule entitled ‘‘Base Period T–Bill was laid before the Senate and was re- by this legislature on this same subject mat- Rate’’ (Rev. Rul. 2014–33) received during ad- ferred or ordered to lie on the table as ter and that this application constitutes a journment of the Senate in the Office of the indicated: continuing application in accordance with President of the Senate on January 5, 2015; POM–1. A resolution adopted by the Legis- Article V of the Constitution of the United to the Committee on Finance. lature of the State of Louisiana urging the States until the legislatures of at least two- EC–248. A communication from the Chief of Congress of the United States, pursuant to thirds of the several states have made appli- the Publications and Regulations Branch, In- Article V of the United States Constitution, cation for a similar convention pursuant to ternal Revenue Service, Department of the to call a convention of the states for the sole Article V. Treasury, transmitting, pursuant to law, the and exclusive purpose of proposing an report of a rule entitled ‘‘Additional Re- amendment to the United States Constitu- f quirements for Charitable Hospitals; Com- tion that would provide for a balanced budg- REPORTS OF COMMITTEES munity Health Needs Assessments for Chari- et; to the Committee on the Judiciary. table Hospitals; Requirement of a Section The following reports of committees HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 70 4959 Excise Tax Return and Time for Filing were submitted: the Return’’ ((RIN1545–BK57; RIN1545–BL30; Whereas, the failure of the federal budget By Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee and RIN1545–BL58) (TD 9708)) received during process has produced an enormous federal on Energy and Natural Resources, without adjournment of the Senate in the Office of budget deficit, and growing national debt amendment: the President of the Senate on January 5, presently burdens the American people and S. 147. An original bill to approve the Key- 2015; to the Committee on Finance. threatens to burden their descendants for stone XL Pipeline (Rept. No. 114–1). EC–249. A communication from the Chief of generations to come; and the Publications and Regulations Branch, In- Whereas, the congressional practice of def- f ternal Revenue Service, Department of the icit spending and repeated raising of the ceil- Treasury, transmitting, pursuant to law, the ing on the federal debt has had the effect of INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND report of a rule entitled ‘‘Safe Harbor Meth- endangering the jobs, incomes, retirement JOINT RESOLUTIONS ods of Accounting for Cable System Opera- security, welfare, and future of American The following bills and joint resolu- tors’’ (Rev. Proc. 2015–12) received during ad- citizens; and tions were introduced, read the first Whereas, such debt diverts scarce re- journment of the Senate in the Office of the and second times by unanimous con- President of the Senate on January 5, 2015; sources from crucial programs to pay inter- to the Committee on Finance. est on the national debt, constricts the abil- sent, and referred as indicated: EC–250. A communication from the Chief of ity of the federal government to address By Mr. FLAKE (for himself, Mr. ALEX- the Publications and Regulations Branch, In- long-standing national problems and to re- ANDER, Mr. BENNET, Mr. CORKER, Mr. ternal Revenue Service, Department of the spond to new needs, and increases pressures GARDNER, Mr. LEE, Mr. MCCAIN, Mr. Treasury, transmitting, pursuant to law, the to raise taxes on the American people; and HATCH, and Mr. THUNE): report of a rule entitled ‘‘Filing of Form Whereas, Article V of the Constitution of S. 145. A bill to require the Director of the 5472’’ ((RIN1545–BM08) (TD 9707)) received the United States provides that an amend- National Park Service to refund to States all during adjournment of the Senate in the Of- ment to the constitution may be proposed by State funds that were used to reopen and fice of the President of the Senate on Janu- congress, or on the application of the legisla- temporarily operate a unit of the National ary 5, 2015; to the Committee on Finance. tures of two-thirds of the states, congress is Park System during the October 2013 shut- EC–251. A communication from the General required to call a constitutional convention down; to the Committee on Energy and Nat- Counsel, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corpora- for the purpose of proposing an amendment, ural Resources. tion, transmitting, pursuant to law, the re- which, in either case, shall become part of By Mr. FLAKE (for himself, Mr. LEE, port of a rule entitled ‘‘Title IV Treatment the constitution when ratified by three- Mr. MCCAIN, and Mr. HATCH): of Rollovers From Defined Contribution fourths of the several states: Now, therefore S. 146. A bill to authorize the Secretary of Plans to Defined Benefit Plans’’ (RIN1212– be it the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture AB23) received during adjournment of the Resolved, That the Legislature of Louisiana to enter into agreements with States and po- Senate in the Office of the President of the does hereby make application to the Con- litical subdivisions of States providing for

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:31 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A12JA6.007 S12JAPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S151 the continued operation, in whole or in part, vania (Mr. TOOMEY) and the Senator Mr. PORTMAN, Mr. ALEXANDER, and of public land, units of the National Park from Texas (Mr. CORNYN) were added as Mrs. CAPITO) submitted an amendment System, units of the National Wildlife Ref- cosponsors of S. 117, a bill to recognize intended to be proposed by her to the uge System, and units of the National Forest Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, to bill S. 1, to approve the Keystone XL System in the State during any period in Pipeline; which was ordered to lie on which the Secretary of the Interior or the relocate to Jerusalem the United Secretary of Agriculture is unable to main- States Embassy in Israel, and for other the table; as follows: tain normal level of operations at the units purposes. Strike all after the enacting clause and in- due to a lapse in appropriations, and for S. 125 sert the following: other purposes; to the Committee on Energy SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. At the request of Mr. LEAHY, the This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Keystone XL and Natural Resources. names of the Senator from Rhode Is- By Ms. MURKOWSKI: Pipeline Approval Act’’. S. 147. An original bill to approve the Key- land (Mr. WHITEHOUSE) and the Senator SEC. 2. KEYSTONE XL APPROVAL. stone XL Pipeline; from the Committee on from Utah (Mr. HATCH) were added as (a) IN GENERAL.—TransCanada Keystone Energy and Natural Resources; placed on the cosponsors of S. 125, a bill to amend Pipeline, L.P. may construct, connect, oper- calendar. title I of the Omnibus Crime Control ate, and maintain the pipeline and cross-bor- By Mr. PORTMAN (for himself, Mr. and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to extend der facilities described in the application CARDIN, Mr. HOEVEN, Mr. CASEY, and the authorization of the Bulletproof filed on May 4, 2012, by TransCanada Cor- Mr. BENNET): poration to the Department of State (includ- Vest Partnership Grant Program ing any subsequent revision to the pipeline S. 148. A bill to amend title XVIII of the through fiscal year 2020, and for other Social Security Act to require State licen- route within the State of Nebraska required sure and bid surety bonds for entities sub- purposes. or authorized by the State of Nebraska). (b) ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT.— mitting bids under the Medicare durable S. 128 The Final Supplemental Environmental Im- medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, At the request of Mr. PORTMAN, the pact Statement issued by the Secretary of and supplies (DMEPOS) competitive acquisi- names of the Senator from North Da- State in January 2014, regarding the pipeline tion program, and for other purposes; to the kota (Mr. HOEVEN), the Senator from referred to in subsection (a), and the envi- Committee on Finance. Minnesota (Mr. FRANKEN), the Senator ronmental analysis, consultation, and review By Mr. LEAHY: described in that document (including appen- S.J. Res. 3. A joint resolution providing for from New Hampshire (Ms. AYOTTE), the Senator from Maine (Ms. COLLINS) and dices) shall be considered to fully satisfy— the reappointment of David M. Rubenstein (1) all requirements of the National Envi- the Senator from Colorado (Mr. BEN- as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of ronmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 the Smithsonian Institution; to the Com- NET) were added as cosponsors of S. 128, et seq.); and mittee on Rules and Administration. a bill to promote energy efficiency, and (2) any other provision of law that requires f for other purposes. Federal agency consultation or review (in- S. 141 cluding the consultation or review required ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS At the request of Mr. CORNYN, the under section 7(a) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1536(a))) with respect to S. 11 names of the Senator from Alabama the pipeline and facilities referred to in sub- At the request of Mr. BLUNT, the (Mr. SHELBY), the Senator from Okla- section (a). name of the Senator from Oklahoma homa (Mr. LANKFORD) and the Senator (c) PERMITS.—Any Federal permit or au- (Mr. LANKFORD) was added as a cospon- from Louisiana (Mr. VITTER) were thorization issued before the date of enact- sor of S. 11, a bill to protect the separa- added as cosponsors of S. 141, a bill to ment of this Act for the pipeline and cross- tion of powers in the Constitution of repeal the provisions of the Patient border facilities referred to in subsection (a) the United States by ensuring that the Protection and Affordable Care Act shall remain in effect. (d) JUDICIAL REVIEW.—Except for review in President takes care that the laws be providing for the Independent Payment the Supreme Court of the United States, the faithfully executed, and for other pur- Advisory Board. United States Court of Appeals for the Dis- poses. S.J. RES. 2 trict of Columbia Circuit shall have original S. 12 At the request of Mr. LEE, the name and exclusive jurisdiction over any civil ac- of the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. tion for the review of an order or action of a At the request of Mr. BLUNT, the Federal agency regarding the pipeline and name of the Senator from Indiana (Mr. VITTER) was added as a cosponsor of cross-border facilities described in sub- COATS) was added as a cosponsor of S. S.J. Res. 2, a joint resolution proposing section (a), and the related facilities in the 12, a bill to amend the Internal Rev- an amendment to the Constitution of United States, that are approved by this Act enue Code of 1986 to exempt employees the United States requiring that the (including any order granting a permit or with health coverage under TRICARE Federal budget be balanced. right-of-way, or any other agency action or the Veterans Administration from taken to construct or complete the project f pursuant to Federal law). being taken into account for purposes AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED AND (e) PRIVATE PROPERTY SAVINGS CLAUSE.— of determining the employers to which PROPOSED Nothing in this Act alters any Federal, the employer mandate applies under State, or local process or condition in effect the Patient Protection and Affordable SA 2. Ms. MURKOWSKI (for herself, Mr. on the date of enactment of this Act that is Care Act. HOEVEN, Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. RISCH, Mr. LEE, necessary to secure access from an owner of Mr. FLAKE, Mr. DAINES, Mr. MANCHIN, Mr. private property to construct the pipeline S. 30 CASSIDY, Mr. GARDNER, Mr. PORTMAN, Mr. and cross-border facilities described in sub- At the request of Ms. COLLINS, the ALEXANDER, and Mrs. CAPITO) submitted an section (a). names of the Senator from West Vir- amendment intended to be proposed by her ginia (Mrs. CAPITO) and the Senator to the bill S. 1, to approve the Keystone XL SA 3. Mr. PORTMAN (for himself and from Indiana (Mr. COATS) were added as Pipeline; which was ordered to lie on the Mrs. SHAHEEN) submitted an amend- cosponsors of S. 30, a bill to amend the table. ment intended to be proposed to Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to mod- SA 3. Mr. PORTMAN (for himself and Mrs. amendment SA 2 submitted by Ms. SHAHEEN) submitted an amendment intended MURKOWSKI (for herself, Mr. HOEVEN, ify the definition of full-time employee to be proposed to amendment SA 2 submitted Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. RISCH, Mr. LEE, Mr. for purposes of the employer mandate by Ms. MURKOWSKI (for herself, Mr. HOEVEN, FLAKE, Mr. DAINES, Mr. MANCHIN, Mr. in the Patient Protection and Afford- Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. RISCH, Mr. LEE, Mr. able Care Act. FLAKE, Mr. DAINES, Mr. MANCHIN, Mr. CAS- CASSIDY, Mr. GARDNER, Mr. PORTMAN, Mr. ALEXANDER, and Mrs. CAPITO) and S. 55 SIDY, Mr. GARDNER, Mr. PORTMAN, Mr. ALEX- ANDER, and Mrs. CAPITO) and intended to be intended to be proposed to the bill S. 1, At the request of Mr. VITTER, the proposed to the bill S. 1, supra; which was or- to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline; name of the Senator from Louisiana dered to lie on the table. which was ordered to lie on the table; (Mr. CASSIDY) was added as a cosponsor as follows: of S. 55, a bill to extend the seaward f After section 2, insert the following: boundaries of certain States, and for TEXT OF AMENDMENTS other purposes. DIVISION B—ENERGY EFFICIENCY SA 2. Ms. MURKOWSKI (for herself, IMPROVEMENT S. 117 Mr. HOEVEN, Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. RISCH, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. At the request of Mr. HELLER, the Mr. LEE, Mr. FLAKE, Mr. DAINES, Mr. This division may be cited as the ‘‘Energy names of the Senator from Pennsyl- MANCHIN, Mr. CASSIDY, Mr. GARDNER, Efficiency Improvement Act of 2015’’.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:31 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A12JA6.010 S12JAPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S152 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 12, 2015 TITLE I—BETTER BUILDINGS ‘‘SEC. 424. SEPARATE SPACES WITH HIGH-PER- public comments regarding effective meth- FORMANCE ENERGY EFFICIENCY SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE. ods, measures, and practices for the design MEASURES. This title may be cited as the ‘‘Better and construction of separate spaces with ‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: Buildings Act of 2015’’. high-performance energy efficiency meas- ‘‘(1) HIGH-PERFORMANCE ENERGY EFFICIENCY SEC. 102. ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN FEDERAL AND ures. MEASURE.—The term ‘high-performance en- OTHER BUILDINGS. ‘‘(4) PUBLICATION.—The Secretary shall ergy efficiency measure’ means a tech- (a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: publish the study on the website of the De- nology, product, or practice that will result (1) ADMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘‘Adminis- partment of Energy.’’. in substantial operational cost savings by re- trator’’ means the Administrator of General (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of ducing energy consumption and utility costs. Services. contents in section 1(b) of the Energy Inde- ‘‘(2) SEPARATE SPACES.—The term ‘separate (2) COST-EFFECTIVE ENERGY EFFICIENCY pendence and Security Act of 2007 is amend- spaces’ means areas within a commercial MEASURE.—The term ‘‘cost-effective energy ed by inserting after the item relating to building that are leased or otherwise occu- efficiency measure’’ means any building section 423 the following new item: pied by a tenant or other occupant for a pe- product, material, equipment, or service, and riod of time pursuant to the terms of a writ- ‘‘Sec. 424. Separate spaces with high-per- the installing, implementing, or operating ten agreement. formance energy efficiency thereof, that provides energy savings in an ‘‘(b) STUDY.— measures.’’. amount that is not less than the cost of such ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year SEC. 104. TENANT STAR PROGRAM. installing, implementing, or operating. after the date of enactment of this section, (a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle B of title IV of (3) COST-EFFECTIVE WATER EFFICIENCY the Secretary, acting through the Assistant the Energy Independence and Security Act of MEASURE.—The term ‘‘cost-effective water Secretary of Energy Efficiency and Renew- 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17081 et seq.) (as amended by efficiency measure’’ means any building able Energy, shall complete a study on the section 103) is amended by adding at the end product, material, equipment, or service, and feasibility of— the following: the installing, implementing, or operating ‘‘(A) significantly improving energy effi- ‘‘SEC. 425. TENANT STAR PROGRAM. thereof, that provides water savings in an ciency in commercial buildings through the ‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: amount that is not less than the cost of such design and construction, by owners and ten- ‘‘(1) HIGH-PERFORMANCE ENERGY EFFICIENCY installing, implementing, or operating. ants, of separate spaces with high-perform- (b) MODEL PROVISIONS, POLICIES, AND BEST MEASURE.—The term ‘high-performance en- ance energy efficiency measures; and PRACTICES.— ergy efficiency measure’ has the meaning ‘‘(B) encouraging owners and tenants to (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days given the term in section 424. after the date of enactment of this Act, the implement high-performance energy effi- ‘‘(2) SEPARATE SPACES.—The term ‘separate Administrator, in consultation with the Sec- ciency measures in separate spaces. spaces’ has the meaning given the term in retary of Energy and after providing the pub- ‘‘(2) SCOPE.—The study shall, at a min- section 424. lic with an opportunity for notice and com- imum, include— ‘‘(b) TENANT STAR.—The Administrator of ment, shall develop model commercial leas- ‘‘(A) descriptions of— the Environmental Protection Agency, in ing provisions and best practices in accord- ‘‘(i) high-performance energy efficiency consultation with the Secretary of Energy, ance with this subsection. measures that should be considered as part shall develop a voluntary program within (2) COMMERCIAL LEASING.— of the initial design and construction of sep- the Energy Star program established by sec- (A) IN GENERAL.—The model commercial arate spaces; tion 324A of the Energy Policy and Conserva- leasing provisions developed under this sub- ‘‘(ii) processes that owners, tenants, archi- tion Act (42 U.S.C. 6294a), which may be section shall, at a minimum, align the inter- tects, and engineers may replicate when de- known as ‘Tenant Star’, to promote energy ests of building owners and tenants with re- signing and constructing separate spaces efficiency in separate spaces leased by ten- gard to investments in cost-effective energy with high-performance energy efficiency ants or otherwise occupied within commer- efficiency measures and cost-effective water measures; cial buildings. efficiency measures to encourage building ‘‘(iii) policies and best practices to achieve ‘‘(c) EXPANDING SURVEY DATA.—The Sec- owners and tenants to collaborate to invest reductions in energy intensities for lighting, retary of Energy, acting through the Admin- in such measures. plug loads, heating, cooling, cooking, laun- istrator of the Energy Information Adminis- (B) USE OF MODEL PROVISIONS.—The Admin- dry, and other systems to satisfy the needs tration, shall— istrator may use the model commercial leas- of the commercial building tenant; ‘‘(1) collect, through each Commercial ing provisions developed under this sub- ‘‘(iv) return on investment and payback Buildings Energy Consumption Survey of the section in any standard leasing document analyses of the incremental cost and pro- Energy Information Administration that is that designates a Federal agency (or other jected energy savings of the proposed set of conducted after the date of enactment of this client of the Administrator) as a landlord or high-performance energy efficiency meas- section, data on— tenant. ures, including consideration of available in- ‘‘(A) categories of building occupancy that (C) PUBLICATION.—The Administrator shall centives; are known to consume significant quantities periodically publish the model commercial ‘‘(v) models and simulation methods that of energy, such as occupancy by data cen- leasing provisions developed under this sub- predict the quantity of energy used by sepa- ters, trading floors, and restaurants; and section, along with explanatory materials, to rate spaces with high-performance energy ef- ‘‘(B) other aspects of the property, building encourage building owners and tenants in ficiency measures and that compare that operation, or building occupancy determined the private sector to use such provisions and predicted quantity to the quantity of energy by the Administrator of the Energy Informa- materials. used by separate spaces without high-per- tion Administration, in consultation with (3) REALTY SERVICES.—The Administrator formance energy efficiency measures but the Administrator of the Environmental shall develop policies and practices to imple- that otherwise comply with applicable build- Protection Agency, to be relevant in low- ment cost-effective energy efficiency meas- ing code requirements; ering energy consumption; ures and cost-effective water efficiency ‘‘(vi) measurement and verification plat- ‘‘(2) with respect to the first Commercial measures for the realty services provided by forms demonstrating actual energy use of Buildings Energy Consumption Survey con- the Administrator to Federal agencies (or high-performance energy efficiency measures ducted after the date of enactment of this other clients of the Administrator), includ- installed in separate spaces, and whether section, to the extent full compliance with ing periodic training of appropriate Federal such measures generate the savings intended the requirements of paragraph (1) is not fea- employees and contractors on how to iden- in the initial design and construction of the sible, conduct activities to develop the capa- tify and evaluate those measures. separate spaces; bility to collect such data and begin to col- (4) STATE AND LOCAL ASSISTANCE.—The Ad- ‘‘(vii) best practices that encourage an in- lect such data; and ministrator, in consultation with the Sec- tegrated approach to designing and con- ‘‘(3) make data collected under paragraphs retary of Energy, shall make available model structing separate spaces to perform at opti- (1) and (2) available to the public in aggre- commercial leasing provisions and best prac- mum energy efficiency in conjunction with gated form and provide such data, and any tices developed under this subsection to the central systems of a commercial build- associated results, to the Administrator of State, county, and municipal governments ing; and the Environmental Protection Agency for for use in managing owned and leased build- ‘‘(viii) any impact on employment result- use in accordance with subsection (d). ing space in accordance with the goal of en- ing from the design and construction of sepa- ‘‘(d) RECOGNITION OF OWNERS AND TEN- couraging investment in all cost-effective rate spaces with high-performance energy ef- ANTS.— energy efficiency measures and cost-effective ficiency measures; and ‘‘(1) OCCUPANCY-BASED RECOGNITION.—Not water efficiency measures. ‘‘(B) case studies reporting economic and later than 1 year after the date on which suf- SEC. 103. SEPARATE SPACES WITH HIGH-PER- energy savings returns in the design and con- ficient data is received pursuant to sub- FORMANCE ENERGY EFFICIENCY struction of separate spaces with high-per- section (c), the Administrator of the Envi- MEASURES. formance energy efficiency measures. ronmental Protection Agency shall, fol- (a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle B of title IV of ‘‘(3) PUBLIC PARTICIPATION.—Not later than lowing an opportunity for public notice and the Energy Independence and Security Act of 90 days after the date of the enactment of comment— 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17081 et seq.) is amended by this section, the Secretary shall publish a ‘‘(A) in a manner similar to the Energy adding at the end the following: notice in the Federal Register requesting Star rating system for commercial buildings,

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:31 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A12JA6.015 S12JAPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S153 develop policies and procedures to recognize activated by your utility company or an- (B) in the first paragraph (6), by striking tenants in commercial buildings that volun- other program operator. Confirm the avail- the period at the end and inserting a semi- tarily achieve high levels of energy effi- ability of a program in your local area before colon; ciency in separate spaces; purchasing or installing this product.’. (C) by redesignating the second paragraph ‘‘(B) establish building occupancy cat- ‘‘(B) REQUIREMENT.—The manufacturer or (6) as paragraph (7); egories eligible for Tenant Star recognition private labeler shall provide the activation (D) in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (7) (as based on the data collected under subsection key for a grid-enabled water heater only to a so redesignated), by striking the period at (c) and any other appropriate data sources; utility or other company that operates an the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and and electric thermal storage or demand response (E) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘(C) consider other forms of recognition program that uses such a grid-enabled water ‘‘(8) for any person— for commercial building tenants or other oc- heater. ‘‘(A) to activate an activation lock for a grid-enabled water heater with knowledge cupants that lower energy consumption in ‘‘(C) REPORTS.— that such water heater is not used as part of separate spaces. ‘‘(i) MANUFACTURERS.—The Secretary shall ‘‘(2) DESIGN- AND CONSTRUCTION-BASED REC- require each manufacturer of grid-enabled an electric thermal storage or demand re- OGNITION.—After the study required by sec- water heaters to report to the Secretary an- sponse program; tion 424(b) is completed, the Administrator nually the quantity of grid-enabled water ‘‘(B) to distribute an activation key for a grid-enabled water heater with knowledge of the Environmental Protection Agency, in heaters that the manufacturer ships each that such activation key will be used to acti- consultation with the Secretary and fol- year. vate a grid-enabled water heater that is not lowing an opportunity for public notice and ‘‘(ii) OPERATORS.—The Secretary shall re- used as part of an electric thermal storage or comment, may develop a voluntary program quire utilities and other demand response demand response program; to recognize commercial building owners and and thermal storage program operators to ‘‘(C) to otherwise enable a grid-enabled tenants that use high-performance energy ef- report annually the quantity of grid-enabled water heater to operate at its designed speci- ficiency measures in the design and con- water heaters activated for their programs fication and capabilities with knowledge struction of separate spaces.’’. using forms of the Energy Information Agen- that such water heater is not used as part of (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of cy or using such other mechanism that the an electric thermal storage or demand re- contents in section 1(b) of the Energy Inde- Secretary determines appropriate after an sponse program; or pendence and Security Act of 2007 is amend- opportunity for notice and comment. ed by inserting after the item relating to ‘‘(D) to knowingly remove or render illegi- ‘‘(iii) CONFIDENTIALITY REQUIREMENTS.— ble the label of a grid-enabled water heater section 424 (as added by section 103(b)) the The Secretary shall treat shipment data re- described in section 325(e)(6)(A)(ii)(V).’’; following new item: ported by manufacturers as confidential (3) in section 333(a) (42 U.S.C. 6303(a))— ‘‘Sec. 425. Tenant Star program.’’. business information. (A) by striking ‘‘section 332(a)(5)’’ and in- TITLE II—GRID-ENABLED WATER ‘‘(D) PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION.— serting ‘‘paragraph (5), (6), (7), or (8) of sec- HEATERS ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—In 2017 and 2019, the Sec- tion 332(a)’’; and retary shall publish an analysis of the data SEC. 201. GRID-ENABLED WATER HEATERS. (B) by striking ‘‘paragraph (1), (2), or (5) of collected under subparagraph (C) to assess Part B of title III of the Energy Policy and section 332(a)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraph (1), the extent to which shipped products are put Conservation Act is amended— (2), (5), (6), (7), or (8) of section 332(a)’’; and into use in demand response and thermal (1) in section 325(e) (42 U.S.C. 6295(e)), by (4) in section 334 (42 U.S.C. 6304)— storage programs. adding at the end the following: (A) by striking ‘‘section 332(a)(5)’’ and in- ‘‘(ii) PREVENTION OF PRODUCT DIVERSION.—If ‘‘(6) ADDITIONAL STANDARDS FOR GRID-EN- serting ‘‘paragraph (5), (6), (7), or (8) of sec- the Secretary determines that sales of grid- ABLED WATER HEATERS.— tion 332(a)’’; and enabled water heaters exceed by 15 percent ‘‘(A) DEFINITIONS.—In this paragraph: (B) by striking ‘‘section 332(a)(6)’’ and in- or greater the quantity of such products ac- ‘‘(i) ACTIVATION LOCK.—The term ‘activa- serting ‘‘section 332(a)(7)’’. tion lock’ means a control mechanism (ei- tivated for use in demand response and ther- ther a physical device directly on the water mal storage programs annually, the Sec- TITLE III—ENERGY EFFICIENT heater or a control system integrated into retary shall, after opportunity for notice and GOVERNMENT TECHNOLOGY the water heater) that is locked by default comment, establish procedures to prevent SEC. 301. SHORT TITLE. and contains a physical, software, or digital product diversion for non-program purposes. This title may be cited as the ‘‘Energy Ef- communication that must be activated with ‘‘(E) COMPLIANCE.— ficient Government Technology Act’’. an activation key to enable the product to ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Subparagraphs (A) SEC. 302. ENERGY-EFFICIENT AND ENERGY-SAV- operate at its designed specifications and ca- through (D) shall remain in effect until the ING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES. pabilities and without which activation the Secretary determines under this section Subtitle C of title V of the Energy Inde- product will provide not greater than 50 per- that— pendence and Security Act of 2007 (Public cent of the rated first hour delivery of hot ‘‘(I) grid-enabled water heaters do not re- Law 110–140; 121 Stat. 1661) is amended by adding at the end the following: water certified by the manufacturer. quire a separate efficiency requirement; or ‘‘SEC. 530. ENERGY-EFFICIENT AND ENERGY-SAV- ‘‘(ii) GRID-ENABLED WATER HEATER.—The ‘‘(II) sales of grid-enabled water heaters ex- ING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES. term ‘grid-enabled water heater’ means an ceed by 15 percent or greater the quantity of ‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: electric resistance water heater that— such products activated for use in demand ‘‘(1) DIRECTOR.—The term ‘Director’ means ‘‘(I) has a rated storage tank volume of response and thermal storage programs an- the Director of the Office of Management more than 75 gallons; nually and procedures to prevent product di- and Budget. ‘‘(II) is manufactured on or after April 16, version for non-program purposes would not ‘‘(2) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.—The term 2015; be adequate to prevent such product diver- ‘information technology’ has the meaning ‘‘(III) has— sion. given that term in section 11101 of title 40, ‘‘(aa) an energy factor of not less than 1.061 ‘‘(ii) EFFECTIVE DATE.—If the Secretary ex- United States Code. minus the product obtained by multiplying— ercises the authority described in clause (i) ‘‘(b) DEVELOPMENT OF IMPLEMENTATION or amends the efficiency requirement for ‘‘(AA) the rated storage volume of the STRATEGY.—Not later than 1 year after the tank, expressed in gallons; and grid-enabled water heaters, that action will date of enactment of this section, each Fed- ‘‘(BB) 0.00168; or take effect on the date described in sub- eral agency shall coordinate with the Direc- ‘‘(bb) an equivalent alternative standard section (m)(4)(A)(ii). tor, the Secretary, and the Administrator of prescribed by the Secretary and developed ‘‘(iii) CONSIDERATION.—In carrying out this the Environmental Protection Agency to de- pursuant to paragraph (5)(E); section with respect to electric water heat- velop an implementation strategy (that in- ‘‘(IV) is equipped at the point of manufac- ers, the Secretary shall consider the impact cludes best practices and measurement and ture with an activation lock; and on thermal storage and demand response verification techniques) for the mainte- ‘‘(V) bears a permanent label applied by programs, including any impact on energy nance, purchase, and use by the Federal the manufacturer that— savings, electric bills, peak load reduction, agency of energy-efficient and energy-saving ‘‘(aa) is made of material not adversely af- electric reliability, integration of renewable information technologies, taking into con- fected by water; resources, and the environment. sideration the performance goals established ‘‘(bb) is attached by means of non-water- ‘‘(iv) REQUIREMENTS.—In carrying out this under subsection (d). soluble adhesive; and paragraph, the Secretary shall require that ‘‘(c) ADMINISTRATION.—In developing an ‘‘(cc) advises purchasers and end-users of grid-enabled water heaters be equipped with implementation strategy under subsection the intended and appropriate use of the prod- communication capability to enable the (b), each Federal agency shall consider— uct with the following notice printed in 16.5 grid-enabled water heaters to participate in ‘‘(1) advanced metering infrastructure; point Arial Narrow Bold font: ancillary services programs if the Secretary ‘‘(2) energy-efficient data center strategies ‘‘ ‘IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This water determines that the technology is available, and methods of increasing asset and infra- heater is intended only for use as part of an practical, and cost-effective.’’; structure utilization; electric thermal storage or demand response (2) in section 332(a) (42 U.S.C. 6302(a))— ‘‘(3) advanced power management tools; program. It will not provide adequate hot (A) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘or’’ at ‘‘(4) building information modeling, includ- water unless enrolled in such a program and the end; ing building energy management;

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:31 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A12JA6.015 S12JAPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S154 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 12, 2015

‘‘(5) secure telework and travel substi- ‘‘(e) STUDY.—The Secretary, in collabora- that would be cost effective over the life of tution tools; and tion with the Administrator, shall, not later the lease, including improvements in light- ‘‘(6) mechanisms to ensure that the agency than 18 months after the date of enactment ing, windows, and heating, ventilation, and realizes the energy cost savings brought of the Energy Efficient Government Tech- air conditioning systems. about through increased efficiency and utili- nology Act, make available to the public an ‘‘(B)(i) Subject to clause (ii), the space is zation. update to the Report to Congress on Server benchmarked under a nationally recognized, ‘‘(d) PERFORMANCE GOALS.— and Data Center Energy Efficiency published online, free benchmarking program, with ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days on August 2, 2007, under section 1 of Public public disclosure, unless the space is a space after the date of enactment of this section, Law 109–431 (120 Stat. 2920), that provides— for which owners cannot access whole build- the Director, in consultation with the Sec- ‘‘(1) a comparison and gap analysis of the ing utility consumption data, including retary, shall establish performance goals for estimates and projections contained in the spaces— evaluating the efforts of Federal agencies in original report with new data regarding the ‘‘(I) that are located in States with privacy improving the maintenance, purchase, and period from 2007 through 2014; laws that provide that utilities shall not pro- use of energy-efficient and energy-saving in- ‘‘(2) an analysis considering the impact of vide such aggregated information to multi- formation technology. information technologies, to include tenant building owners; and ‘‘(2) BEST PRACTICES.—The Chief Informa- virtualization and cloud computing, in the ‘‘(II) for which tenants do not provide en- tion Officers Council established under sec- public and private sectors; ergy consumption information to the com- tion 3603 of title 44, United States Code, shall ‘‘(3) an evaluation of the impact of the mercial building owner in response to a re- recommend best practices for the attain- combination of cloud platforms, mobile de- quest from the building owner. ment of the performance goals, which shall vices, social media, and big data on data cen- ‘‘(ii) A Federal agency that is a tenant of include Federal agency consideration of the ter energy usage; and the space shall provide to the building use of— ‘‘(4) updated projections and recommenda- owner, or authorize the owner to obtain from ‘‘(A) energy savings performance con- tions for best practices through fiscal year the utility, the energy consumption informa- tracting; and 2020. tion of the space for the benchmarking and ‘‘(B) utility energy services contracting. ‘‘(f) DATA CENTER ENERGY PRACTITIONER disclosure required by this subparagraph.’’. ‘‘(e) REPORTS.— PROGRAM.—The Secretary, in collaboration (b) STUDY.— ‘‘(1) AGENCY REPORTS.—Each Federal agen- with key stakeholders and the Director of (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 2 years cy shall include in the report of the agency the Office of Management and Budget, shall after the date of enactment of this Act, the under section 527 a description of the efforts maintain a data center energy practitioner Secretary of Energy, in collaboration with and results of the agency under this section. program that leads to the certification of en- the Administrator of the Environmental ‘‘(2) OMB GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY REPORTS ergy practitioners qualified to evaluate the Protection Agency, shall complete a study— AND SCORECARDS.—Effective beginning not energy usage and efficiency opportunities in (A) on the impact of— later than October 1, 2015, the Director shall Federal data centers. Each Federal agency (i) State and local performance include in the annual report and scorecard of shall consider having the data centers of the benchmarking and disclosure policies, and the Director required under section 528 a de- agency evaluated every 4 years by energy any associated building efficiency policies, scription of the efforts and results of Federal practitioners certified pursuant to such pro- for commercial and multifamily buildings; agencies under this section.’’. gram, whenever practicable using certified and SEC. 303. ENERGY EFFICIENT DATA CENTERS. practitioners employed by the agency. (ii) programs and systems in which utili- Section 453 of the Energy Independence ‘‘(g) OPEN DATA INITIATIVE.—The Sec- ties provide aggregated information regard- and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17112) is retary, in collaboration with key stake- ing whole building energy consumption and amended— holders and the Office of Management and usage information to owners of multitenant (1) in subsection (b)— Budget, shall establish an open data initia- commercial, residential, and mixed-use (A) in paragraph (2)(D)(iv), by striking tive for Federal data center energy usage buildings; ‘‘the organization’’ and inserting ‘‘an organi- data, with the purpose of making such data (B) that identifies best practice policy ap- zation’’; and available and accessible in a manner that en- proaches studied under subparagraph (A) (B) by striking paragraph (3); and courages further data center innovation, op- that have resulted in the greatest improve- (2) by striking subsections (c) through (g) timization, and consolidation. In estab- ments in building energy efficiency; and and inserting the following: lishing the initiative, the Secretary shall (C) that considers— ‘‘(c) STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT.—The Sec- consider the use of the online Data Center (i) compliance rates and the benefits and retary and the Administrator shall carry out Maturity Model. costs of the policies and programs on build- subsection (b) in collaboration with informa- ‘‘(h) INTERNATIONAL SPECIFICATIONS AND ing owners, utilities, tenants, and other par- tion technology industry and other key METRICS.—The Secretary, in collaboration ties; stakeholders, with the goal of producing re- with key stakeholders, shall actively partici- (ii) utility practices, programs, and sys- sults that accurately reflect the best knowl- pate in efforts to harmonize global specifica- tems that provide aggregated energy con- edge in the most pertinent domains. In such tions and metrics for data center energy effi- sumption information to multitenant build- collaboration, the Secretary and the Admin- ciency. ing owners, and the impact of public utility istrator shall pay particular attention to or- ‘‘(i) DATA CENTER UTILIZATION METRIC.— commissions and State privacy laws on those ganizations that— The Secretary, in collaboration with key practices, programs, and systems; ‘‘(1) have members with expertise in energy stakeholders, shall facilitate in the develop- (iii) exceptions to compliance in existing efficiency and in the development, operation, ment of an efficiency metric that measures laws where building owners are not able to and functionality of data centers, informa- the energy efficiency of a data center (in- gather or access whole building energy infor- tion technology equipment, and software, cluding equipment and facilities). mation from tenants or utilities; such as representatives of hardware manu- ‘‘(j) PROTECTION OF PROPRIETARY INFORMA- (iv) the treatment of buildings with— facturers, data center operators, and facility TION.—The Secretary and the Administrator (I) multiple uses; managers; shall not disclose any proprietary informa- (II) uses for which baseline information is ‘‘(2) obtain and address input from Depart- tion or trade secrets provided by any indi- not available; and ment of Energy National Laboratories or vidual or company for the purposes of car- (III) uses that require high levels of energy any college, university, research institution, rying out this section or the programs and intensities, such as data centers, trading industry association, company, or public in- initiatives established under this section.’’. floors, and televisions studios; terest group with applicable expertise; TITLE IV—ENERGY INFORMATION FOR (v) implementation practices, including ‘‘(3) follow— COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS disclosure methods and phase-in of compli- ‘‘(A) commonly accepted procedures for SEC. 401. ENERGY INFORMATION FOR COMMER- ance; the development of specifications; and CIAL BUILDINGS. (vi) the safety and security of ‘‘(B) accredited standards development (a) REQUIREMENT OF BENCHMARKING AND benchmarking tools offered by government processes; and DISCLOSURE FOR LEASING BUILDINGS WITHOUT agencies, and the resiliency of those tools ‘‘(4) have a mission to promote energy effi- ENERGY STAR LABELS.—Section 435(b)(2) of against cyber attacks; and ciency for data centers and information the Energy Independence and Security Act of (vii) international experiences with regard technology. 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17091(b)(2)) is amended— to building benchmarking and disclosure ‘‘(d) MEASUREMENTS AND SPECIFICATIONS.— (1) by striking ‘‘paragraph (2)’’ and insert- laws and data aggregation for multitenant The Secretary and the Administrator shall ing ‘‘paragraph (1)’’; and buildings. consider and assess the adequacy of the spec- (2) by striking ‘‘signing the contract,’’ and (2) SUBMISSION TO CONGRESS.—At the con- ifications, measurements, and benchmarks all that follows through the period at the clusion of the study, the Secretary shall sub- described in subsection (b) for use by the end and inserting the following: mit to the Committee on Energy and Com- Federal Energy Management Program, the ‘‘signing the contract, the following require- merce of the House of Representatives and Energy Star Program, and other efficiency ments are met: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources programs of the Department of Energy or ‘‘(A) The space is renovated for all energy of the Senate a report on the results of the the Environmental Protection Agency. efficiency and conservation improvements study.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:31 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A12JA6.015 S12JAPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S155 (c) CREATION AND MAINTENANCE OF DATA- Without losing the floor, I yield to ceed. It is one thing to rewrite history BASE.— my friend. a few years after it passes. It is another (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 18 months Mr. MCCONNELL. I thank my friend thing to rewrite it while you are still after the date of enactment of this Act and from California. living through it. To say that this eco- following opportunity for public notice and comment, the Secretary of Energy, in co- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ma- nomic recovery is a Republican recov- ordination with other relevant agencies, jority leader. ery is kind of funny and strange. shall maintain, and if necessary create, a f In fact, the year 2014 was the best database for the purpose of storing and mak- year for job creation since 1999, and it ing available public energy-related informa- ORDERS FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY could have been a lot better in 2014 and tion on commercial and multifamily build- 13, 2015 in prior years if our Republican friends ings, including— Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I had not filibustered every single job (A) data provided under Federal, State, proposal that President Obama put for- local, and other laws or programs regarding ask unanimous consent that when the building benchmarking and energy informa- Senate completes its business today, it ward. It is sad because we could have tion disclosure; adjourn until 10 a.m., Tuesday, Janu- gotten here much quicker. (B) information on buildings that have dis- ary 13, 2015; that following the prayer The economy added almost 3 million closed energy ratings and certifications; and and pledge, the morning hour be jobs in 2014, averaging almost 250,000 (C) energy-related information on build- deemed expired, the Journal of pro- jobs a month. The unemployment rate ings provided voluntarily by the owners of ceedings be approved to date, and the has fallen to 5.6 percent, and most of the buildings, only in an anonymous form time for the two leaders be reserved for that decline—and here is the good unless the owner provides otherwise. their use later in the day; that fol- news—came from long-term unem- (2) COMPLEMENTARY PROGRAMS.—The data- ployed workers getting back to work. base maintained pursuant to paragraph (1) lowing any leader remarks, the Senate shall complement and not duplicate the resume the motion to proceed to S. 1 The GDP growth has accelerated, functions of the Environmental Protection until 12:30 p.m., with the time equally reaching an annualized rate of 5 per- Agency’s Energy Star Portfolio Manager divided between the two leaders or cent in the third quarter of 2014. This is tool. their designees; further, that the Sen- the best GDP growth we have seen in (d) INPUT FROM STAKEHOLDERS.—The Sec- ate recess from 12:30 p.m. until 2:15 over 10 years. retary of Energy shall seek input from Our economic recovery has been long, stakeholders to maximize the effectiveness p.m. to allow for the weekly conference meetings to occur; finally, that not- it has been tough, but it is happening of the actions taken under this section. and I thank the President for his lead- (e) REPORT.—Not later than 2 years after withstanding the provisions of rule the date of enactment of this Act, and every XXII, all time during morning busi- ership. We have added 11.2 million pri- 2 years thereafter, the Secretary of Energy ness, the recess, and the adjournment vate sector jobs since February of 2010. shall submit to the Committee on Energy of the Senate count postcloture on the That is the longest streak of recorded and Commerce of the House of Representa- motion to proceed to S. 1. private sector job gains in American tives and Committee on Energy and Natural The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there history. Resources of the Senate a report on the The stock market has bounced back progress made in complying with this sec- objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. from the crash and added more than tion. 10,000 points, reaching an all-time high f f of over 18,000 points. Our annual deficit PRIVILEGES OF THE FLOOR PROGRAM has been reduced by almost two-thirds. Mr. SCHATZ. Mr. President, I ask I think it is important to put into Mr. MCCONNELL. Unfortunately, context the job growth under Presi- unanimous consent that floor privi- there is an objection from our col- leges be granted to Jimmy O’Dea, a fel- dents Democratic and Republican. I leagues on the other side of the aisle to think we need to look at private sector low in my office, for the remainder of yielding back time on the motion to the 114th Congress. job growth. This is an extraordinary proceed to the bill. So I say to my col- chart. Under George Herbert Walker The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without leagues that if all time is used, we will objection, it is so ordered. Bush, there were 1.5 million jobs cre- be on the bill shortly after midnight ated in his term of office. In Bill Clin- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- tomorrow night, and then we would ator from California. ton’s term of office, there were 21.2 have to begin to offer amendments million jobs created. I have seen that f under the regular order. number up to 23 million, but that is CONGRATULATING THE PRESIDING Chairman MURKOWSKI is ready to probably including the public sector. OFFICER start that process on the floor tomor- But during Bill Clinton’s term, there row whenever that may occur—wheth- Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I con- were 21.2 million private sector jobs. er it is during the day by agreement or gratulate the Presiding Officer on his Under George W. Bush, there was a loss whether it is in the middle of the night election and welcome him to the Sen- of 460,000 jobs. Under President Obama, without agreement. ate. there is a gain so far of 7 million, and The PRESIDING OFFICER. Thank I encourage Senators on both sides of he has 2 years to go, and we are just you. the aisle to file their amendments and moving forward. Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I re- get them in the queue. To me this says that we Democrats member when I first came to the Sen- f know what we are doing, and if you ate and I sat in that chair, it was a mo- want to look at deficits, that is an- ORDER FOR ADJOURNMENT ment to really learn a lot about the other day’s speech. It was Bill Clinton heartbeat of the Senate—the ebb and Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, if who balanced the budget. It was George flow. So congratulations to you. there is no further business to come be- W. Bush who unbalanced it, put two I was a little shocked to hear the ma- fore the Senate, I ask unanimous con- wars on a credit card, gave a tax cut to jority leader, Senator MCCONNELL, say sent that it stand adjourned under the the rich, and we had terrible deficits. that the economic uptick coincided previous order following the remarks of Barack Obama has now reduced this with the election of the Republicans in Senator BOXER for up to 30 minutes. deficit by two-thirds. this last election. There is no question The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there So I say all this leading up to my dis- that the Republicans won many seats objection? cussion of the Keystone Pipeline. How here, and it is clear that the Democrats Without objection, it is so ordered. does that even connect? I will tell you. lost, but to say that is why we are hav- The Senator from California. When a new majority takes over in ing this economic uptick, I believe, f Congress you know the first bill they would win my friend, the majority take up symbolizes their priorities. Out leader, the award for most creative THE ECONOMY AND KEYSTONE of all the things that they pick, all the spinner. I see he is here because I think PIPELINE things that they pick, they pick a bill he wants to stop me from speaking at Mrs. BOXER. I thank the majority that in terms of permanent job cre- this point. leader for allowing me this time to pro- ation will be thirty-five jobs. And that

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:31 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A12JA6.015 S12JAPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S156 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 12, 2015 is proven by the State Department—35 provide stability to our local govern- Is this what the Republicans do first? long-term jobs. ments, to our businesses. I thought we wanted to make people One has to wonder, Why are they So we know what we have to do. We healthy. It is one thing to want to re- doing this? I believe I know the answer. have to invest in our aging infrastruc- peal the Affordable Care Act, which This is really a big hug and a big kiss ture. No country can be great if we now, in my State, has reduced the un- to big oil and Canadian interests. That don’t have an infrastructure that insured by close to 50 percent—that is is what it is about. Otherwise, why moves people and moves goods. Again, bad enough. Now they want to bring in wouldn’t we turn to the highway bill? I 50 percent of our Nation’s roads are in this oil and help the Canadian oil peo- think the Presiding Officer and I know less than good condition and 63,000 ple and it is going to bring all of these we have worked across partisan lines bridges are structurally deficient. Let’s carcinogens and all of this pollution to on that issue, and it means good jobs do something for America. That is our country. for America—good jobs, long-lasting what we are here for; not to do some- We already know about the people jobs, rebuilding our bridges and our thing good for Canadian oil companies. from Port Arthur, TX, where they have roads and making sure we have transit Let’s focus on what is good for the peo- these refineries. Look at this picture. systems that work. We have a terrible ple. A picture is worth a thousand words. I record in terms of the condition of our Now let’s turn to this infrastructure know that is a cliche, but it is a fact. bridges today. Thousands and thou- project, the Keystone Pipeline. I want I could try to explain to my colleagues sands—tens of thousands of bridges are to say unequivocally—and I don’t have what happens near the playground not in good shape, and we have seen any doubts because I resource every- when this stuff is refined. One might bridges fail, and we know the outcome. thing I say—that from extraction to say, Oh, that is nice, Barbara, but are Why are we pursuing a project for Ca- transportation to refining to [waste/ you really making this up? No. Here it nadian oil business interests that they waist] storage, misery follows the tar is. Look at it. They suffer asthma, res- will make billions off of instead of pur- sands. That is the oil that gets put in piratory ailments, skin irritations, and suing projects for America—America— the pipeline—the dirtiest oil. I think cancer. This is what happens, right such as building our infrastructure? XL stands for extra lethal. near a playground. Now, there are This bill isn’t about helping Amer- So a pipeline is a pipeline. Fine. It is some politicians down there saying, ican workers or families. Let’s be very what we put in it. This is the filthiest, Bring it on. We want it. We like it. But clear. It does nothing. Again, when I most polluted kind of oil. Tar sands oil talk to the real people there who live say 35 permanent jobs, I am not mak- contains levels of toxic pollutants and there with children. They have had ing that up. That is in the final supple- metals that are much higher than con- enough of tar sands. They have had it mental environmental impact state- ventional crude oil—11 times more sul- up to here with them. They want none ment which I believe the Republicans fur and nickel, 6 times more nitrogen, of it. Let’s not forget about the waste. want to make final, so they are accept- 5 times more lead than conventional Once they burn all of this stuff, they ing it. The Republicans are accepting crude oil. Who is saying that? Is it have waste left over. It is called petcoke, petroleum coke. Look at this. the fact that there are 35 permanent BARBARA BOXER? No. Let me source it: This is what it looks like, as shown in jobs, because they, in their language, The USGS, the U.S. Geological Survey, this picture. It is stored in the Mid- say, We approve of the final supple- the heavy oil and natural bitumen re- west. A lot of it is stored in the Mid- mental environmental impact state- sources in geological basins of the west. What happens? In this photo- world—documented. Tar sands equal ment, which is where it says there will graph we can see it is not wet, so it can the dirtiest oil. be 35 permanent jobs. blow in the wind. Billowing black Now, yes, there are temporary jobs Why do some of my Republican clouds have contaminated our children. for 2 years—a couple thousand—but the friends and some of my Democratic They contain heavy metals. Children fact is we can have millions of jobs friends—I admit that; I know there are playing baseball have been forced off a few—want to rush to bring this filthy when we rebuild our infrastructure. We the field to seek cover from the clouds oil into our country? The only benefit have 400 new jobs coming to the Impe- of black dust that pelted homes and is to the Canadian oil interests. The rial Valley in my home State because cars. we have lithium there and they are fact is we need less pollution, not more This happened. This is why my friend going to start producing it. So 400 jobs, pollution. Senator DURBIN is so concerned, be- just one little project. This is 35 jobs Now high levels of dangerous air pol- cause it happened to his Little League for Americans. They have to be kid- lutants and carcinogens have been doc- players in the Chicago area. When in- ding. This is what they have for us, umented downwind from the tar sands haled, these particles can increase the after all that blood, sweat, and tears refineries. People in nearby commu- number and severity of asthma at- during the election? I think that wast- nities are suffering higher rates and tacks. They can aggravate bronchitis— ing another minute on the tar sands types of cancers, such as leukemia and I am coughing just at the thought of project doesn’t make any sense. non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Again, is it—lung disease. They reduce the What we need is a multiyear surface this me saying it? Some rightwing blog body’s ability to fight infections. transportation bill. We still have un- took me to task the last time I said it. Where does that come from? I will say employed people in the construction They said, Oh, she was on the floor it again. When inhaled, these particles industry. We have 600,000 construction making stuff up. OK. Let’s be clear. I can increase the number and severity workers who remain out of work. What am not making stuff up. I am telling of asthma attacks, cause or aggravate are we giving them? We are giving the truth, and I am going to document bronchitis and other lung diseases, and them 2,000 temporary jobs and 35 per- it in every case: Significantly higher reduce the body’s ability to fight infec- manent jobs? Let’s do a highway bill. levels of volatile compounds and car- tions. What is the source of that? Cali- By the way, the trust fund is running cinogens were found downwind of tar fornia Air Resources Board, Air Pollu- dry and in 4 months will be completely sands processing facilities. There were tion Particulate Matter brochure dated dry. Let’s step up to the plate and do elevated rates of cancers linked to May 6, 2009. our job, not do the job for the Canadian these toxic chemicals, including leu- So I don’t know how exposing Ameri- oil interests. kemia and non-Hodgkins lymphoma. cans to this kind of pollution is in the I don’t get it. I don’t think it makes Where does this come from? Simpson, national interests. I believe instead of sense, because I know we have worked I.J., et al., air quality in the Industrial waiving all of the environmental re- together on transportation projects. Heartland of Alberta, Canada and po- ports as my Republican friends do in We are worried. Billions of dollars tential impacts on human health. their bill, they ought to call for more going to our States—whether it is Characterization of trace gases meas- studies on the health impact of the tar Oklahoma, California, Nevada, east ured over Alberta oil sands mining op- sands oil so our families know what coast, west coast—the funding is going erations: 76 speciated C2–C10 volatile they are going to get with this pipe- to be delayed or stopped. And all these organic compounds, and they list what line. short-term extensions the House did they are. This is from two peer-re- Also there are spills to worry about. are absolutely irresponsible. It doesn’t viewed papers. Not only is the Keystone tar sands

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:31 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G12JA6.030 S12JAPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S157 pipeline harmful to human health, it gust was the hottest month, and Sep- found out. In a Union of Concerned Sci- hurts environments and communities tember was the hottest month in 2014. entists expose, they found out that the located near it, because if there is a We know what is happening. The same people who led that fight of to- spill, it is the toughest kind of oil to world knows what is happening. We bacco denial are leading the fight of clean up. Here is the source for that: have deniers here, so they deny any climate denial. The EPA NEPA compliance comment problem and they go rush to build the If this was just going to hurt you, I letter, State Department. That is what Keystone Pipeline. What will happen is say to my Republican friends rhetori- they talk about. the Keystone Pipeline will undermine cally, I wouldn’t care. I mean, I would We have had spills at the tar sands— our efforts to address climate change. be really sad and sorry if one of my spills in Michigan, spills in Arkansas. The State Department’s own analysis friends went to the doctor and didn’t If my colleagues don’t believe me, ask says a barrel of tar sands oil carried by listen to the best advice. But you know those folks. Do my colleagues know in the Keystone tar sands pipeline will what. That hurts him. I would be mis- 2010 a pipeline ruptured and spilled create at least 17 percent more carbon erable, and I would try to talk him out over a million gallons of tar sands oil pollution than domestic oil. of it. But this is about my constituents into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan? Peer-reviewed research estimates and the people of this country. I have The local health department ordered that the increase in oil consumption to say this is wrong. This is just wrong. the evacuation of 50 households and ap- caused by Keystone could result in up This is an opportunity to bring the proximately 100 families were advised to 110 million metric tons of carbon parties together. We could have done it not to drink the water. The Michigan pollution each year—four times the around so many issues and in par- ticular the highway bill. So common spill was the largest inland spill in U.S. State Department’s estimate. So this sense tells us this isn’t the right thing history and more than 40 years and $1 is even more than the State Depart- to do. We are looking at unleashing billion later, it is not cleaned up. ment says. The source there is this dirty, filthy oil. It is going to be So wait a minute. Let’s review. Re- Erickson et al., ‘‘Nature Climate harmful to our families’ health. It is publicans take over and the first bill Change.’’ That is a peer-reviewed study going to worsen the impact of climate they give us is the tar sands bill. The as well. This is equivalent to carbon change. It will not create the jobs we only people it helps, in my opinion, pollution adding 23 million new cars to backed up by fact, are Canadian oil in- need to create. the road or building 29 coal-fired pow- Again, I urge my colleagues vote no. terests. The only jobs it creates perma- erplants. So the State Department is It is not ready for prime time. There nently are 35 jobs. What it does to our very modest in its projection. Even are going to be amendments that will health is a disaster, because the tar that is too much. reveal the fact that if we go forward sands oil is the most toxic, dirty type Here is more. Here is the State De- with this, it is actually going to raise of oil, and if there is a spill, it is the partment. That is the 17 percent quote. gas prices for Americans because all hardest to clean up. Who do we think is And it could add up to an additional 27 this stuff is going to be exported. Even paying the $1 billion to clean up a tar million metric tons of carbon pollution the tar sands that are now currently in sand spill in Michigan? I can tell my each year. That is more of the State America—they are going to export it colleagues. It is probably most of the Department. This is their modest con- because of the world market. We are government. Maybe we are trying to clusion. We believe the peer-reviewed going to have amendments that are collect some from the private sector. study shows it is far worse than even going to show that. If my colleagues don’t believe me the State Department says. This bill doesn’t even have a ‘‘Made about Michigan, let’s turn to If you don’t believe climate change is in America’’ amendment to it. We are Mayflower, AR. This is a beautiful a problem, I am really sorry for your going to offer that. Why don’t we make neighborhood of homes, as shown in constituency because let me tell you this deal here? Why don’t we put people this picture. This is filthy, dirty, dis- what scientists are saying. And I am to work here? That is not in this bill. gusting oil and the camera is taking saying it is 98 percent of scientists. This bill is not ready. This bill does not pictures of it. In 2013, 200,000 gallons of Let’s be clear. Ninety-eight percent of help us; this bill hurts us. I know my tar sands burst from a pipeline, be- scientists say climate change is real, friends came here to make this country cause it is volatile. It burst from the and 2 percent say: We are not so sure. better. I think they think it helps. I pipeline and spilled into the streets of So my friends side with the 2 percent. don’t question that. But if you look at a subdivision. It forced the evacuation Suppose one of my friends didn’t feel all of the facts—and I have them lined and abandonment of 22 homes—resi- well and went to the doctor, and the up here, one after the other—whether dents who were exposed to high levels doctor said: I am sorry to tell you this, it is the jobs impact, the health im- of benzene, a known carcinogen, and sir, but you have a cancer that is rag- pact, who benefits, who gets hurt, it is hydrogen sulfide. People in this com- ing over your body, and we need to op- pretty clear. It is on the record. All munity—not some made-up, mystical erate today. you have to do is look at it. Don’t shop community or mythical community— You say: I want a second opinion. around for a doctor who will tell you in this community they suffered dizzi- That is good. You go get a second this is a good deal because they have ness, nausea, headaches, respiratory opinion. already spoken. It is not a good deal. problems, all classic symptoms of expo- The second doctor says: Absolutely, We can do so much better. sure to the chemicals found in the tar you better get that operation. Because I think it is going to be a sands. So remember this picture and You say: Well, I want a third opinion. contentious debate, after this I hope we remember the picture of the filthy, All right. I understand it. You go for turn to the highway bill. My friend JIM dirty oil and the petcoke, because a a third opinion. Absolutely, those two INHOFE and I, who worked so well to- picture tells a thousand words, and doctors were right, but you keep going, gether, and my colleagues on both that is the picture my friends want to and you get nine opinions that all say: sides of the aisle and across the Capitol make a reality in America. Their first Sir, you are a dead man if you don’t on the other side, the House, can fi- great bill, their first great contribution get this operation. And then you find nally come together and do something to the economy, 35 jobs. Please. We can the 10th, and he says: You know, just that will send a strong signal to the do better. We can work together on a go on a vegetarian diet, and you will be American people that the election just highway bill, on a transportation bill. fine. If you listen to that one out of 10 ended, now let’s govern. But when you We do so well on that. And we can add doctors, there is something wrong with bring things before the body that some millions of jobs, especially in the con- you. of us feel are so detrimental to the struction industry. It is just like Big Tobacco. They did American people, I am willing to vote Now there is the issue of climate the same thing. They said: Oh, tobacco on it at midnight. It is OK with me. We change. We know we are dealing with a is fine, not a problem—until we real- will vote at midnight and vote at 1 lot of deniers on the other side of the ized there was a whole campaign by the o’clock in the morning. I don’t care aisle. They deny climate change is big tobacco companies to turn us away what time we vote, but why are we tak- real. It doesn’t matter what we tell from the fact that tobacco causes can- ing this up? This is not what we should them. July was the hottest month, Au- cer. That is the truth. Guess what we be doing.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:31 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00025 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G12JA6.031 S12JAPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE S158 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE January 12, 2015 S. 1—I looked at some of the S. 1 bills fought and hard-won. But I believe this ADJOURNMENT UNTIL 10 A.M. the Democrats have put forward, and is an enormous mistake, and I will con- TOMORROW they mostly have to do with creating a tinue to stand on my feet as long as it lot of jobs or making sure there is takes to make the case as to why I The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under equal pay for equal work or making think it is wrong and make the case the previous order, the Senate stands sure the minimum wage is increased. where I think there is so much else we adjourned until 10 a.m. tomorrow We could be doing all of those things could do for the good of our people. morning. together. Thereupon, the Senate, at 6:54 p.m., It is with pride that I stand here I thank the Presiding Officer for his again for my State. It is with no ani- courtesy. adjourned until Tuesday, January 13, mosity about the election. It was hard- I yield the floor. 2015, at 10 a.m.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:31 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00026 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\G12JA6.032 S12JAPT1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with SENATE January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E47 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS

IN RECOGNITION OF DR. KENNETH HONORING CONGRESSMAN ENI the elevator but once the door closed, rather COOPER FALEOMAVAEGA OF AMERICAN than ascend to the next floor, the elevator SAMOA FOR HIS NEARLY FOUR dropped a few feet and the entire group was DECADES OF SERVICE TO THE trapped for about twenty minutes before they HON. PETE SESSIONS CONGRESS OF THE UNITED were rescued. Senator FLAKE joked that the STATES irony of it all was that the hearing was on sub- OF TEXAS merged lands. In his message to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. MADELEINE Z. BORDALLO Faleomavaega, Senator FLAKE stated, ‘‘Eni, I OF GUAM have such good memories of our time to- Monday, January 12, 2015 gether. Thanks for being such a good friend IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to and mentor to me, and such a good example Monday, January 12, 2015 of a disciple of Christ. I look forward to work- recognize a remarkable individual from Dallas, Ms. BORDALLO. Mr. Speaker, I rise to rec- ing with you on a range of issues in the future. Texas for his induction into the National Foot- ognize the nearly four decades of service of With admiration, JEFF FLAKE, U.S. Senate.’’ ball Federation’s Leadership Hall of Fame last my former colleague Congressman Eni Hawai‘i Senator MAZIE HIRONO, reminisced night January 8, 2015. I would like to thank Faleomavaega of American Samoa. After with Faleomavaega about their early years in Chairman Archie Manning, Troy Aikman, Tom nearly four decades on Capitol Hill, American the House together and conveyed how much and Laura Leppert, and Roger Staubach for Samoa’s longest serving Member of Congress she will miss him being an honorary member recognizing Dr. Kenneth Cooper for his dedi- and the first Asian Pacific American in U.S. of the Hawai‘i State delegation. Over the cation to health and fitness and his continued history to become chairman and ranking mem- years, because of his close ties to Hawai‘i and leadership in the North Texas community as a ber of the House Foreign Affairs Sub- friendship with the delegation, Faleomavaega was always invited to speak at the annual whole. committee on Asia and the Pacific, bid fare- well to colleagues and friends at a reception King Kamehameha Lei Draping Ceremony. Throughout Dr. Cooper’s career he has con- on Capitol Hill held in his honor on Wednes- The Senator also shared how, whenever tinued to revolutionize health and fitness and day, November 19th. The farewell reception Faleomavaega had the opportunity, he always has proven to be a leading pioneer in prevent- for Faleomavaega included Members of Con- reminded President Obama that Kahuku ative medicine. Known as the ‘‘Father of Aero- gress from the House and Senate, both Re- (Faleomavaega’s alma mater) is better than bics’’ he has motivated thousands of people in publicans and Democrats, ambassadors, for- Punahou (the President’s alma mater). ‘‘To my Texas and across the United States to exer- eign delegations, and their family members. brother,’’ Senator HIRONO stated, ‘‘Thank you for all the kokua. Kahuku High, here I come! cise in pursuit of good health and overall well- They paid tribute to the man they call ‘‘Our Eni,’’ and did so by sharing memories from Take care, aloha.’’ being. I want to express my heartiest con- In a surprise tribute to the Congressman, their years together. Congressman Eni F.H. gratulations to Dr. Cooper on this outstanding former Hawai‘i Senator Daniel Akaka, whom Faleomavaega, beloved by so many on the accomplishment and sincerely thank him for Faleomavaega affectionately calls by his Ha- Hill, first came to Capitol Hill in the 1970s and his immense contribution to the Dallas com- waiian name, ‘‘Kaniela’’, also joined in on the served as Chief of Staff to the late Paramount reception from his home in Hawai‘i via tele- munity. Chief A.U. Fuimaono, American Samoa’s first phone. The pair, who for many years were the Representative in Congress, and as staff f only Members of Congress with Polynesian counsel to the late Congressman Phil Burton ancestry and who were also founding mem- of San Francisco before he became American RECOGNIZING PINE CASTLE, bers of the Congressional Asian Pacific Amer- Samoa’s Representative in 1989. FLORIDA ican Caucus, laughed about their imaginary As a reflection of Faleomavaega’s genuine ‘‘Polynesian Caucus’’ in which Senator Akaka kindness that touched so many and his bipar- was the chair and Faleomavaega was the sec- HON. DANIEL WEBSTER tisan approach that reached across party retary. Senator Akaka thanked his ‘‘brother’’ lines, the reception was attended by many, in- Faleomavaega and his wife, Hina, for their OF FLORIDA cluding House Democratic Leader NANCY years of friendship to him and his wife ‘‘Aunty PELOSI and her husband Paul. Leader PELOSI IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Millie’’ all the way back to when shared memories of Faleomavaega in their Faleomavaega was first elected. Monday, January 12, 2015 early years with Congressman Phil Burton Congressman CHARLES RANGEL of New long before she and Faleomavaega were both York and Congresswoman GRACE NAPOLITANO Mr. WEBSTER of Florida. Mr. Speaker, it is elected to Congress. ‘‘Eni, you are family from of California shared their admiration for my privilege today to recognize the 100th an- the Burtons on,’’ Leader PELOSI stated. The Faleomavaega’s decades of service, noting niversary of the incorporation of the Town of Pelosis visited privately with Faleomavaega how much personal dedication and family sac- Pine Castle, Florida. and his family, including his wife, Mrs. Hinanui rifice is required to be a Member of Congress. Hunkin, and his daughter and son-in-law, Pine Castle’s rich history begins in the years Congressman RANGEL stated, ‘‘Eni, the Con- Leonne and Fui Vakapuna. gress will miss you so much and I even more’’ immediately following the Civil War. Originally, Current and former members of the House Pine Castle was a private residence erected and added that when Congress loses one of Foreign Affairs Committee also attended. Re- its devoted servants, a family gains a hus- by Will Harney, a poet and settler from Ken- publican Senator JEFF FLAKE of Arizona, who band, father, and grandfather. Congress- tucky. He built his home from the abundant first came to the Hill as a Representative from woman NAPOLITANO said, ‘‘Eni, my friend, I will pines of Central Florida and dubbed it his Arizona’s 1st District in 2001, expressed his miss your smiling face’’ and shared how being ‘‘pine castle.’’ Soon, the areas of modern-day gratitude to Faleomavaega as a leader, men- so far from home in Washington, D.C. makes Edgewood, Belle Isle and the Conway chain of tor, and friend, including an unforgettable mo- her miss her grandchildren, to which lakes came to be known as ‘‘Pine Castle.’’ In ment with Faleomavaega when the two were Faleomavaega replied, ‘‘I don’t even know 1915, the Town of Pine Castle was formally on their way to a hearing. Congressman how to be a grandpa!’’ The Congressman’s incorporated. Faleomavaega was in an elevator with a good youngest daughter, Leonne, who was only two number of Samoan visitors whom the Senator years old when Faleomavaega was first elect- I join the residents of Pine Castle in cele- described as all resembling NFL linebackers. ed to Congress and who is now a wife and brating this historical milestone. It is truly an Faleomavaega immediately held the elevator mother, smiled and gave her dad a big hug. honor to serve the residents of Pine Castle in door open when he saw his friend coming Republican Congresswoman, ILEANA ROS- the U.S. House of Representatives. down the hallway. Mr. FLAKE squeezed in to LEHTINEN, former chair of the House Foreign

∑ This ‘‘bullet’’ symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:08 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\K12JA8.001 E12JAPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS E48 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 12, 2015 Affairs Committee, said ‘‘I’m gonna miss you, Also from Vietnam: ‘‘We’ll keep you forever TRIBUTE TO THE ARMENIAN SIS- amigo!’’ as Faleomavaega introduced her to in our heart, millions of Vietnamese will do.’’ TERS’ ACADEMY OF LOS ANGE- all the famous Samoans pictured in photos LES Faleomavaega expressed his gratitude and around his office. When they came to a pic- appreciation to all who attended. ‘‘I am deeply ture of Faleomavaega with Dwayne ‘‘The appreciative of the opportunity to have worked HON. ADAM B. SCHIFF Rock’’ Johnson, she asked, ‘‘Do you really OF CALIFORNIA know Dwayne Johnson?’’ Without skipping a with such distinguished leaders during my time IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES beat, the Congressman replied, ‘‘Of course I in Washington, DC. The memories we built do. His mom is my cousin!’’ Ms. ROS- are priceless and I wish my friends and col- Monday, January 12, 2015 LEHTINEN, who represents Florida’s 27th Dis- leagues and the people of American Samoa Mr. SCHIFF. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to trict including Miami, where Dwayne Johnson continued success and happiness,’’ honor the Armenian Sisters’ Academy of Los lives, said, ‘‘Everyone is your cousin, Eni. And Faleomavaega concluded. Angeles upon its thirtieth anniversary. he’s my constituent!’’ When they came across As you can see his years of service have The Armenian Sisters’ Academy of Los An- Faleomavaega’s centerpiece photo from the had a tremendous impact on U.S. policy in geles (ASA), nestled in the foothills of the 1960s featuring him with Elvis in Hawai‘i, the American Samoa and on U.S. foreign policy Verdugo Mountains in Montrose, offers a Day Congresswoman laughed, ‘‘Elvis is Samoan across the globe. I wish him the best in his fu- Care Program, Preschool, Kindergarten and too? You do know everybody Eni, even Elvis! ture endeavors. grades 1st through 8th. Established in 1985, I already like you. But now I like you even the ASA is one of three schools in the United more.’’ f States operated and governed by the only ex- Congresswoman MADELEINE BORDALLO of isting Catholic Order of the Armenian Sisters Guam brought her entire staff to bid farewell of the Immaculate Conception, which was to Faleomavaega. ‘‘Hafa Adai! To our friend IN RECOGNITION OF THE KIWANIS founded in 1847. The other two schools are Eni from the Guam office! I will always re- CLUB 100TH ANNIVERSARY located in Radnor, Pennsylvania and Lex- member our many years together in Congress. ington, Massachusetts, established in 1967 You were a dear friend and you helped me ´ along with advice during my early years! One HON. BEN RAY LUJAN and 1979, respectively. Since its inception, the ASA has been com- memory I will take with me is our CODEL to OF NEW MEXICO American Samoa. What a fiesta that was!!! mitted to providing an exemplary and well- rounded education to its students. The ASA Love, MADELEINE and from all your friends on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES offers a bilingual curriculum, art, music and Guam!’’ Monday, January 12, 2015 Other Members, including Congressman computer instruction to all students, and has been successful in preserving the identity and STEVE CHABOT (R–OH), Congressman DAVID Mr. BEN RAY LUJA´ N of New Mexico. Mr. culture of the Armenian people by teaching CICILLINE (D–RI), Congressman JOHN CON- Speaker, I rise today to recognize the 100th YERS (D–MI), Congressman ELIOT ENGEL (D– the Armenian language, Armenian cultural anniversary of the Kiwanis Club, as well as courses and religion. The ASA also offers NY), Congresswoman TULSI GABBARD (D–HI), the outstanding work of the Kiwanis Club of Congressman MIKE HONDA (D–CA), Congress- after school extracurricular activities such as Santa Fe. man GREGORY MEEKS (D–NY), Congress- Armenian dance classes, basketball and woman GRACE MENG (D–NY), Congressman While the Kiwanis Club originated as a busi- volleyball. Nick Rahall (D–WV), Congressman GREGORIO ness fellowship, it has evolved into an impor- The Armenian Sisters’ Academy of Los An- KILILI CAMACHO SABLAN (D–MP), Congress- tant worldwide service organization. Over the geles is dedicated to the development of the man BRAD SHERMAN (D–CA), and former Con- years the Kiwanis Club has devoted itself to child spiritually, personally, emotionally, intel- gressman Solomon Ortiz (D–TX) also at- making a positive impact on the lives of under- lectually and socially. Among the many goals tended Faleomavaega’s farewell reception. privileged children and communities, contrib- and objectives the ASA strives to achieve in- Several who attended wrote the following in uting nearly 150,000 service projects, 6 million clude providing each student with a respectful Faleomavaega’s guestbook. hours of service, and $100 million per year to and optimistic environment in which each stu- ‘‘You are my buddy and you always will communities around the world. Some of their dent feels encouraged, creating an atmos- be!’’—Congressman DANA ROHRABACHER (R– notable projects include a partnership with phere where the Armenian language, heritage CA). UNICEF to eliminate maternal/neonatal tet- and culture may be taught and experienced, ‘‘To a dear dear friend. You have made a emphasizing the heritage, privileges and re- giant difference in the lives of so many! Thank anus, a worldwide service project to end Io- dine Deficiency Disorder, and the Young Chil- sponsibilities of American citizenship, and en- you, thank you so much, SHEILA!’’—Congress- couraging small group work and the increased dren Priority One program to address the woman SHEILA JACKSON LEE (D–TX). use of independent study. I commend the ASA ‘‘I’ve really enjoyed serving with you. You’ve needs of children age 0–5. The Kiwanis Club for being an integral part of the community, done a great job!’’—Congressman Buck has truly set an example for selfless and en- and applaud the school’s unwavering commit- McKeon (R–CA). during community service. ‘‘The mark of success is not measured in ment to our youth. The ASA plays a central The Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe is an impor- what you’ve accomplished but rather in the role in shaping our children into responsible lives that you have touched. Eni you’ve tant part of the international Kiwanis Club or- citizens and thriving members of society. touched so many lives in your years of serv- ganization. Originally formed on April 25, I ask all Members to join me in congratu- ice, you’re the definition of success. Be well 1921, the Club has had a significant impact on lating the Armenian Sisters’ Academy of Los my friend.’’—Congressman AMI BERA (D–CA). the children and community of Santa Fe. In Angeles for thirty years of dedicated service to ‘‘Hermano, you are the best. We will see addition to helping over 155 students with the community. you soon!’’—Congressman HENRY CUELLAR more than $450,000 for college scholarships, f the Club has also had an important hand in (D–TX). HONORING LARRY BLAKENEY FOR Ambassadors and delegations from the many community service projects, such as the HIS EXCEPTIONAL CONTRIBU- Asia-Pacific region, including Korea, Vietnam, organization of the annual Pinewood Derby, TION TO ALABAMA ATHLETICS Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Kazakhstan, Tai- building a computer lab for St. Catherine’s In- wan, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan, also ex- dian school, and the Kamp Kiwanis camping pressed their gratitude to Faleomavaega. facility and program for handicapped children. HON. MARTHA ROBY From Myanmar: ‘‘On behalf of the Myanmar Moreover, the Club has helped organize and OF ALABAMA Government, I wish to extend our sincere grat- produce the annual Zozobra event, one of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES itude to you for your kind contribution toward oldest celebrations in North America and a tra- Monday, January 12, 2015 promoting Myanmar-U.S. relations as well as for your country.’’ dition that is dear to all New Mexicans. The Mrs. ROBY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to From Pakistan: ‘‘The Embassy of Pakistan Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe has had a tremen- honor Mr. Larry Blakeney, an exceptional Ala- deeply appreciates gracious support received dous effect on the city of Santa Fe and has bamian who has made an enormous contribu- by your office. Thank you.’’ truly helped make a difference in its commu- tion to athletics and the development of young From Vietnam: ‘‘Brother Eni, we love you so nity. I applaud the Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe people in my state. much. Thank God for helping us meet each for setting an example of dedicated community Coach Blakeney is best known as the head other on the earth!’’ service for the people of New Mexico. coach of the Troy University Trojan football

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:08 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\K12JA8.003 E12JAPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E49 team, a position he held for 24 years, retiring LAW ENFORCEMENT being named to the 2014 Texas Girls Coaches this past December. During that time, Coach APPRECIATION DAY Association (TGCA) Class 6A all-state and Blakeney built a little-known Southeast Ala- academic all-state volleyball teams. We look bama team into a conference powerhouse and HON. BILL PASCRELL, JR. forward to her continued success both on and a nationally-competitive program. His remark- OF NEW JERSEY off the court. able career at Troy has included six 10-win IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES f seasons, five Sunbelt Conference champion- Monday, January 12, 2015 INTRODUCING THE DEFEND ships, and 178 wins—a total that places him Mr. PASCRELL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ISRAEL BY DEFUNDING PALES- among the top three Alabama college coach- TINIAN FOREIGN AID ACT OF 2015 es, behind the legendary Paul ‘‘Bear’’ Bryant recognize Law Enforcement Appreciation Day and just ahead of his mentor and winningest and honor our brave law enforcement officials Auburn coach Ralph ‘‘Shug’’ Jordan. who put their lives on the line day in and day HON. ALCEE L. HASTINGS out and keep our communities safe. The mil- OF FLORIDA Among the defining characteristics of Larry lions of state, local and federal law enforce- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Blakeney-coached teams was the fearless atti- ment officers nationwide constitute both our Monday, January 12, 2015 tude they took into competition. ‘‘Any team, first and last line of protection for the Amer- Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I anytime, anywhere’’ was Troy’s motto, never ican people. phased or intimidated by traditional college rise today to introduce the Defend Israel by As a former mayor, I know how important Defunding Palestinian Foreign Aid Act of football powers. And the Trojans would not having well-staffed and properly equipped 2015. just compete against the best, they would win. public safety departments is to protecting our Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ ap- Simply put, Larry Blakeney has personified communities. Our law enforcement officials plication to join the International Criminal Troy Football, so much so that the field on work tirelessly to protect our families and busi- Court (ICC) is an affront to all of those who which the Trojans play bears his name. ness, and I am committed to ensuring that have engaged for years in efforts to accom- Larry Blakeney’s impact on the game of they have access to the resources they need plish a peaceful resolution to the decades long football in Alabama started as a player in high to uphold the public’s safety. That is why I Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Palestinian school, when he led the Gordo Green Wave to have long been a supporter of the federal Authority’s anticipated war crimes complaint a record of 24–2–2 and three-straight Warrior Community Oriented Policing Services against Israel will, in no uncertain terms, se- Conference championships. He enrolled at Au- (COPS) Technology Grants program as well verely hinder future comprehensive peace burn University, where he became the first as for the COPS Hiring program, which pro- talks in a time when the advancement of a sophomore to start at quarterback under vides invaluable resources and technical as- two-state solution that ensures enduring peace Coach Ralph ‘‘Shug’’ Jordan, a distinction that sistance to state and local law enforcement has never been more important. even Auburn Heisman winner Pat Sullivan agencies in an effort to keep our communities For more than half a century, Israel has does not share. safe. been America’s most reliable strategic partner Finally, I want to recognize my friend, col- in the Middle East. It is essential that we re- Blakeney began his coaching career in the league and former sheriff Congressman main supportive of Israel’s absolute right to high school ranks, first at Southern Academy, REICHERT for all his work to honor and support defend itself and protect its citizens. We can- then Walker High School and Vestavia Hills law enforcement officers across our country. not stand by while the Palestinian Authority, High School. He was then hired at his beloved Protecting the American people must be the engaged in a unity government with Hamas, alma mater, Auburn, where he served as an number one priority of our government. It is makes frivolous and damaging claims against assistant coach for 14 seasons. Auburn would our brave law enforcement officers who pro- Israel Defense Forces soldiers and Israeli citi- experience one of its most successful runs tect our streets day and night who are the zens residing in settlements in the disputed ever with Coach Blakeney calling plays, in- very essence of our national security and de- West Bank. Congress must halt the $400 mil- cluding three-straight SEC championships in serve our utmost gratitude and thanks. lion American dollars sent annually to the Pal- 1987, 1988 and 1989. Coach Blakeney’s suc- f estinian Authority until it withdraws its counter- cess and championship drive made him the productive request to join the International EXCELLING IN THE CLASSROOM perfect choice to lead Troy’s burgeoning foot- Criminal Court and returns to the negotiating AND ON THE COURT ball program beginning in 1991. table with Israel. His success on the gridiron has led to many I urge my colleagues in the House to join accolades, including multiple ‘‘Coach of the HON. PETE OLSON me in calling for the defunding of Palestinian Year’’ honors and placement in the Alabama OF TEXAS foreign aid by becoming a co-sponsor of this Sports Hall of Fame. However, Coach IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES resolution. Blakeney’s impact goes far beyond the playing Monday, January 12, 2015 f field. Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to PERSONAL EXPLANATION From Gordo to Auburn to Troy, he has congratulate high school student Cassidy maintained close, warm relationships with his Nussman for being named to the 2014 Texas HON. GWEN MOORE teammates, fellow coaches, and players. The Girls Coaches Association (TGCA) Class 6A OF WISCONSIN Auburn Creed, which outlines how Auburn all-state and academic all-state volleyball IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES men and women are supposed to live, empha- teams. Nussman is a senior at Pearland High Monday, January 12, 2015 sizes ‘‘the human touch,’’ which cultivates School in Pearland, Texas. These prestigious Ms. MOORE. Mr. Speaker, on January 9, love, understanding and sympathy with your awards recognize her hard work and exem- 2015, I underwent emergency surgery to re- fellow man. Larry Blakeney personifies and plary performance as a scholar-athlete. pair a broken bone and, therefore, was unable embodies that ‘‘human touch’’ to a great and Nussman earned a spot on the academic to vote. Had I been present, I would have rare degree. all-state team by maintaining a GPA of 3.9 or higher while competing on the court at an elite voted yes on the Motion to Recommit to H.R. Hundreds and perhaps thousands of once- level throughout her high school career. She 3, the Keystone XL Pipeline Act, and no on young men are, today, better husbands, fa- was also named an honorable mention selec- Final Passage of H.R. 3. thers, and citizens because of the positive in- tion on the Under Armour Girls High School f fluence of Coach Blakeney; a good man who All-America Team by the American Volleyball used the game of football to teach integrity, KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE ACT Coaches Association (AVCA) and competed character, and perseverance throughout his on the 2014 TGCA Blue All-Star team for SPEECH OF entire career. Class 5A/6A as one of the division’s top 12 HON. KEN CALVERT Mr. Speaker, it is my privilege to acknowl- college-bound players. She has committed to OF CALIFORNIA edge Coach Blakeney’s positive impact on play volleyball for Northwestern University next IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES young people in Alabama, to celebrate his re- year. markable career, and to honor his place On behalf of the residents of the Twenty- Friday, January 9, 2015 among the greatest college football coaches to Second Congressional District of Texas, con- Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in walk the sidelines in my state. gratulations again to Cassidy Nussman for strong support of H.R. 3, the Keystone XL

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:08 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\K12JA8.006 E12JAPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS E50 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 12, 2015 Pipeline Act. The legislation would imme- OUR UNCONSCIONABLE NATIONAL Solicitation Committee as Vice Chairman of diately authorize the construction, connection, DEBT the Downtown Corona Redevelopment Project operation, and maintenance of the Keystone and as the Chairman of the Corona Parking XL pipeline. HON. MIKE COFFMAN Authority. Additionally, Jim is involved in sev- eral local organizations, frequently offering his My constituents are sick and tired of the OF COLORADO guidance. Jim was a member of the 20-30 delays in approving and building the Keystone IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Club and acted as the president in 1959. As pipeline. The recent drop in gas prices high- Monday, January 12, 2015 a fifty eight year member of Elks Lodge, Jim lights the economic benefits of increased en- Mr. COFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, on January served as Lodge Leader in 1959. Jim also ergy production right here in North America. 20, 2009, the day President Obama took of- holds fifty-five years of membership with the Building the Keystone pipeline will increase fice, the national debt was Rotary Club and served as the organization’s access to more North American energy $10,626,877,048,913.08. president in 1965. Finally, in 1966, Jim was sources and further reduce our dependence On Friday, January 9, 2015 it was appointed to the Corona-Norco Unified School on oil from the Middle East. For the first time $18,098,260,560,760.27. We’ve added District Board of Trustees. Due to his excep- in decades, North American energy independ- $7,471,383,511,847.19 to our debt in 5 years. tional work, he was elected twice more to con- ence is within our grasp if we make the critical This is over $7.4 trillion in debt our nation, our tinue to build a strong foundation for the Co- investments in the necessary infrastructure. economy, and our children could have avoided rona-Norco Unified School District. President Obama’s opposition to the Key- with a balanced budget amendment. In light of all Jim has done for the commu- nity of Corona, it is clear he fully deserves the stone pipeline and all of its economic benefits Today, it is $18,084,817,920,825.53. We’ve Corona Chamber of Commerce’s Lifetime shows just how out of touch he is with middle added $7,457,940,871,912.45 to our debt in 5 Achievement award. Jim’s tireless passion for class working families. years. This is over $7.4 trillion in debt our na- tion, our economy, and our children could community service has contributed immensely The State Department studied the environ- have avoided with a balanced budget amend- to the betterment of Corona, California. He mental impacts of the Keystone XL pipeline ment. has been the heart and soul of many commu- and concluded that it would not have a nega- f nity organizations, and I am proud to call him tive impact. Furthermore, the State Depart- a fellow community member, American and ment found that the Keystone XL pipeline PERSONAL EXPLANATION friend. I know that many community members project would support roughly 42,000 jobs. are grateful for his service and salute him as Earlier today, the Nebraska Supreme Court HON. STEPHEN LEE FINCHER he receives this prestigious award. dismissed a key lawsuit challenging the Key- OF TENNESSEE f stone XL pipeline. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PERSONAL EXPLANATION The passage of H.R. 3 is the tenth bill ap- Monday, January 12, 2015 proved by the House of Representatives to Mr. FINCHER. Mr. Speaker, on roll call no. HON. BETO O’ROURKE authorize the construction of the Keystone XL 16 had I been present, I would have voted OF TEXAS pipeline. Thankfully, the new Republican ma- aye. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES jority in the Senate has indicated it will take action on similar legislation next week. I know f Monday, January 12, 2015 my constituents and hardworking American TRIBUTE TO JIM PAULY Mr. O’ROURKE. Mr. Speaker, during the roll families hope we can finally start construction call vote on Thursday, January 8, 2015 and on this economically important project. HON. KEN CALVERT Friday, January 9, 2015, I was absent after re- turning to El Paso due to a shooting that oc- OF CALIFORNIA f curred on Tuesday, January 6, 2015 at the El IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Paso VA Clinic and subsequent visit by the PEARLAND LEGACY CONTINUES Monday, January 12, 2015 Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert McDon- Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ald to the clinic. honor and pay tribute to an individual whose Had I been present, on roll call number 14, HON. PETE OLSON dedication and contributions to the community I would have voted Nay. On roll call number 16, I would have voted OF TEXAS of Corona, California are exceptional. River- side County has been fortunate to have com- Nay. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mitted community leaders who willingly and f Monday, January 12, 2015 unselfishly give their time and talent and make LEADING THE WAY their communities a better place to live and Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to work. Jim Pauly is one of these outstanding HON. PETE OLSON congratulate high school student Brooke individuals. On Thursday, January 15, 2015, OF TEXAS Botkin for being named to the Texas Sports Jim Pauly will be honored with the Lifetime IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Writers Association (TSWA) first team and the Achievement Award at the Corona Chamber 2014 Texas Girls Coaches Association of Commerce Installation Dinner. Monday, January 12, 2015 (TGCA) Class 6A all-state volleyball teams. In the history of Corona, California, few indi- Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Brooke is a sophomore at Pearland High viduals can match the years of devoted serv- congratulate Jillian Ross for being elected to School in Pearland, Texas. These honors rec- ice Jim has given to his hometown. After at- the Columbia University Senate for a two-year ognize her hard work and outstanding athletic tending local schools throughout his childhood, term through 2016. Jillian is a 2012 graduate achievements. Jim enlisted in the United States Navy during of Clements High School in Sugar Land, World War II at seventeen years old as a sen- The TSWA and TGCA selected Brooke for Texas and a chemical/biomedical engineering ior at Corona High School. Following his serv- her skill and sportsmanship, which have made junior at Columbia University. ice in the Armed Forces, Jim returned to at- Ms. Ross is the first African-American her a top prospect for collegiate volleyball pro- tend Chaffey College. In 1947, Jim began woman elected to represent Columbia’s Fu grams. Her dedication to the sport ensures her working full time at Emerson’s Men Clothes. Foundation School of Engineering in the de- place in an elite class of competitors and con- Due to his strong work ethic and commitment partment’s 150-year history. Through her posi- tinues Pearland’s legacy of producing some of to the business, Jim became a partner, chang- tion in the university’s senate, Jillian will work the nation’s best student athletes. ing the name to Emerson-Pauly Menswear. with school’s president and faculty to shape On behalf of the residents of the Twenty- After thriving for over fifty years in Corona re- policy on issues that affect the student body Second Congressional District of Texas, con- tail, Jim retired and closed the storefront in and greater Columbia University community. gratulations again to Brooke Botkin for being 1993. I commend Jillian Ross for her dedication to selected as a first team athlete on the TSWA Jim’s commitment to the business commu- serving the interests of her fellow students and and TGCA Class 6A all-state volleyball teams. nity is only matched by his devotion to service taking on the responsibilities that leadership We look forward to her continued success and leadership. Jim regularly contributes to brings. On behalf of the residents of the Twen- both on and off the court. the community through work on the Charity ty-Second Congressional District of Texas,

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:08 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A12JA8.005 E12JAPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E51 congratulations to Jillian for winning a seat in Mechanical Engineering to the National Advi- place they live, work and raise their families. the Columbia University senate. sory Committee for Aeronautics, known today These dedicated city employees are part of f as NASA. Following his time there, Wayne what makes Pearland special. then took a position with the Aluminum Com- I thank Ruben Ruiz and Shelby Lowe for KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE ACT pany of America, ALCOA, in 1945, where he their tireless work in ensuring the Pearland would remain for forty years. After dedicating community gets the customer service it de- SPEECH OF his time and efforts to offices in Cleveland, serves. On behalf of the residents of the HON. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN Detroit, New Kensington and Pittsburg, Wayne Twenty-Second Congressional District of OF MARYLAND found his home in Corona where he acted as Texas, congratulations to Mr. Ruiz and Ms. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES general manager until his retirement from the Lowe for being named Pearland’s 2014 Em- ployees of the Year. Friday, January 9, 2015 plant in 1986. In addition to his strong work ethic, Wayne f Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise in op- also exemplifies what it means to be a volun- position to H.R. 3, which would circumvent the teer. After moving to Corona in 1969, Wayne TO MAKE IT A TOP PRIORITY TO legal approval process and grant blanket auto- immediately involved himself in the growing EXTRADITE WILLIAM MORALES matic authority for TransCanada to ‘‘construct, Corona community in a variety of capacities. TO THE UNITED STATES IMME- connect, operate, and maintain’’ the Keystone Wayne took on many leadership positions with DIATELY XL pipeline and cross-border facilities. organizations such as the United Way, Corona Every cross-border pipeline must undergo a Rotary Club, Good Samaritan Boys Home, HON. PETER T. KING vetting process to make sure that it is in the First Congressional Church, Navy League, OF NEW YORK national interest. This process has been ongo- Peppermint Ridge, YMCA, The Greater Co- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing at the State Department and has been rona Chamber of Commerce, Corona Commu- Monday, January 12, 2015 complicated by disputes over the route, most nity Hospital, Norco-Corona Unified School notably in Nebraska, where their Supreme District, California Manufacturer’s Association Mr. KING of New York. Mr. Speaker, I rise Court ruled on the issue just this morning. To- and the Wagner Foundation. Few citizens can today to express my opposition to the actions day’s legislation would provide a special deal match the years of service Wayne has gener- taken by the Obama Administration in Decem- for one company to bypass federal permitting ously donated to the Corona community. ber to re-establish relations with Cuba. Among requirements. Given all of the contributions Wayne has other reasons, Castro’s Cuba has been en- Additionally, the oil that would be trans- made, he has received many prestigious hon- tirely uncooperative with the United States by ported by Keystone XL, tar sands oil, is cur- ors. In 1975, Wayne was deemed Citizen of providing safe harbor to numerous American rently exempt from the Oil Spill Liability Trust the Year by the Corona Chamber of Com- fugitives, with offenses ranging from hijacking Fund that is used to fund the response to merce. Wayne has also been the recipient of to murder. leaks and accidents. This means that the other prominent awards such as the Corona One of the most notable fugitives hiding out American public would bear the risks for the Chamber’s ‘‘George’’ Award, the Corona Com- in Cuba is the known terrorist William Morales. immediate cleanup costs from any potential munity Hospital Volunteers Award, Peppermint Morales was a leader of the terrorist organiza- accidents or leaks from the pipeline. Con- Ridge’s Golden Hinge Award and the Ira D. tion FALN, which has committed numerous gressman EARL BLUMENAUER introduced legis- Calvert Distinguished Service Award due to terrorist attacks on United States soil, includ- lation last night, which I am proud to cospon- his outstanding leadership and significant con- ing the 1975 bombing of Fraunces Tavern in sor, to close that loophole and ensure that tributions to the Corona community. lower Manhattan. This attack killed 4 and in- TransCanada and other companies trans- In light of all that Wayne has done for the jured more than 60 others. porting tar sands oil share responsibility for community of Corona, it is clear he fully de- I urge the Administration to reevaluate its those costs by paying into the Oil Spill Liability serves the Corona Chamber of Commerce’s stance towards Cuba and make it a top pri- Trust Fund. Democrats are offering a motion Lifetime Achievement award. Wayne’s tireless ority to extradite William Morales and other fu- today to address this issue for the oil that passion for community service has contributed gitives evading justice in Cuba to the United would be transported through the Keystone XL immensely to the betterment of Corona, Cali- States immediately. pipeline, and I hope my Republican colleagues fornia. He has been the heart and soul of f will work with us to close this loophole. many community organizations, and I am CUBA A SPONSOR OF TERROR Ultimately, there is no reason to give special proud to call him a fellow community member, treatment to a single, foreign company, which American and friend. I know that many com- would be exempt from permitting requirements munity members are grateful for his service HON. ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN and from paying into the Oil Spill Liability Trust and salute him as he receives this prestigious OF FLORIDA Fund. We should reject this bill and allow the award. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES State Department to complete its ongoing re- f Monday, January 12, 2015 view. Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I submit f DEDICATION TO CHARACTER AND SERVICE the following: TRIBUTE TO WAYNE KEITH [From National Review Online, Jan. 6, 2015] HON. PETE OLSON YES, CUBA ISASTATE SPONSOR OF TERROR HON. KEN CALVERT OF TEXAS (By Yleem Poblete & Jason I. Poblete) OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The most senior U.S. delegation in decades IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES will soon be in Havana to engage a declared Monday, January 12, 2015 enemy of the United States in discussions Monday, January 12, 2015 Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to about ‘‘normalizing’’ relations. Covering Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate Ruben Ruiz and Shelby Lowe for much more subject matter than routine mi- honor and pay tribute to an individual whose being named Pearland’s 2014 Employees of gration issues, these meetings stem in large dedication and contributions to the community the Year by Pearland city management. This measure from the December 17 return of spies to Cuba who are responsible for Amer- of Corona, California are exceptional. Corona award is given to the public servants who best ican deaths. has been fortunate to have dynamic and dedi- exemplify the city’s core mission—to provide Obama sent three Cuban spies back to the cated community leaders who willingly and un- those who live in Pearland with the best qual- island, trading them for the release of Amer- selfishly give their time and talent and make ity of life. ican Alan Gross. Mr. Gross had been held their communities a better place to live and Mr. Ruiz, a utility billing specialist, and Ms. hostage for five years for the ‘‘crime’’ of work. Wayne Keith is certainly one of these in- Lowe, a recreation attendant, went above and teaching Jewish Cubans how to connect to dividuals. On Thursday, January 15, 2015, beyond in performing their duties and improv- the Internet. As part of this lopsided deal, Wayne will be honored with the Lifetime ing the systems on which the city runs. Their the Obama administration also declared American policy a failure and offered a large Achievement Award at the Corona Chamber dedication to service and character provide a basket of potential economic and diplomatic of Commerce Installation Dinner. shining example of public service and set an benefits. Following his graduation from Iowa State example we can all follow. The residents of This was a significant ideological and po- College, Wayne took his Bachelor’s Degree in Pearland, Texas already know what a great litical victory for the Communist regime.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:08 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A12JA8.011 E12JAPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS E52 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 12, 2015 And there are more rewards in the offing. anne Chesimard. Also known as Assata SUPPORT FOR THE CUBAN PEOPLE Administration officials are reportedly con- Shakur, she is on the FBI’s Most Wanted sidering removing Cuba from the U.S. list of Terrorists list for executing a New Jersey state sponsors of terrorism—a request Raul State Police trooper. With the help of the HON. CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH Castro made in May 2014 and one that the Black Liberation Army, she broke out of OF NEW JERSEY Cuban regime has made many times in re- prison and found refuge in Cuba. According cent years. Under Section 6(j) of the Export to the FBI, Chesimard ‘‘continues to profess IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Administration Act, a country’s designation her radical anti-U.S. government ideology.’’ Monday, January 12, 2015 as supporting acts of international terrorism New Jersey governor Chris Christie said re- may be rescinded in only two ways. Cuba is cently that he wants her back in New Jersey. Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, I not ready to come off that list. Quite the op- He’ll be waiting a long time. rise to voice my strong support for the Cuban posite. Basing the decision to remove Cuba from people, who have suffered for so many dec- In the first instance, the President must the state-sponsors-of-terrorism list solely on certify to the Congress that there has been a these above-referenced examples (there is ades under the brutal regime of the Castro fundamental change in the leadership and probably a great deal more in classified brothers, and to thank my colleague, ILEANA policies of the government in question, as form), the president would need to prove ROS-LEHTINEN, for her leadership in calling for was the case with Iraq after the removal of that for the six months prior to the proposed statements on the record on the deplorable Saddam Hussein. There is no legitimate way rescission, the Cuban dictatorship did not human rights situation in Castro’s Cuba. that administration officials can make such provide any assistance to terrorists and had Her leadership and moral clarity on this a claim with respect to Cuba. Moreover, the unconditionally returned U.S. fugitives. But issue stands in contrast to that of the Obama criteria for determining such a systemic Communist-party officials have already stat- transformation is clearly defined in the ed publicly that Cuba considers Chesimard a Administration, which once again has dem- LIBERTAD Act, known as the Helms-Burton political asylee and, as such, not to be re- onstrated its fecklessness. The events of this law. For starters, as stated in the law, Fidel leased into U.S. custody. past weekend—where the absence of our and Raul Castro cannot be part of the gov- The president would also have to accept as President among so many bold Heads of erning structure. credible the ‘‘assurances’’ from the Havana State who marched in Paris for freedom and That leaves only the second option for re- regime that it would not provide support in against extremism was so glaring—under- moval from the list. To remove Cuba’s ter- the future for international terrorism—a dif- scores how this Administration scorns our rorism designation, the president would need ficult task given intelligence gaps high- to submit a report to Congress, 45 days prior lighted in the State Department’s terrorism friends while coddling this country’s enemies. to the proposed removal, certifying that 1) report. The pertinent section states: ‘‘There The disregard this Administration showed for the regime has not provided any support for was no indication that the Cuban govern- the people of France is part of a pattern, a international terrorism during the preceding ment provided weapons or paramilitary pattern of contempt which includes disrespect six months and 2) the government has pro- training to terrorist groups,’’ but it provides to our great ally Canada and Prime Minister vided assurances that it will not support acts no further data or analysis on these activi- Harper over the crucial Keystone pipeline, of international terrorism in the future. ties. It also fails to address the relationship which includes allowing Administration spokes- Most would agree that Cuba fails on both and cooperation between Cuba and other men to insult Israel’s courageous Prime Min- counts. state sponsors of terrorism such as Iran, or Cuba has supported and provided safe other entities listed on the FTO List. ister, Benjamin Netanyahu in the most juvenile haven to members of the Basque Fatherland And then there is the question of intel- fashion, and which includes abandonment of and Liberty (ETA) and the Revolutionary ligence tainted and manipulated by Ameri- our Polish and Czech allies when they sought Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Both are cans spying for the Cuban regime. One of the to base a missile shield in their countries in U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organiza- most notorious of these traitors, Ana Belen 2009. tions (FTOs). The Obama administration Montes, used her position at the Defense In- By this move to normalize relations with would therefore need to remove ETA and telligence Agency to provide Cuban handlers FARC from the FTO list, before removing copious amounts of highly sensitive data, in- Cuba without consultation with either Con- Cuba from the state-sponsors-of-terrorism cluding military contingency plans, details gress or the State Department, and without list. Both actions are untenable at this time. of intelligence-gathering efforts, and profiles holding the Castro regime to minimum stand- Unless Spain’s foreign-policy establishment of a broad spectrum of U.S. officials. ards of protection of human rights and com- is about to make a radical shift in thinking, Congress must therefore require a com- mitment to democracy as prerequisites to ne- ETA remains a terrorist organization and prehensive appraisal of the range of Cuba’s gotiations, the Administration betrays the aspi- there are ETA sympathizers in Cuba who are activities against the U.S. and its interests rations of the Cuban people while embracing wanted for terrible crimes against the Span- and priorities before the White House can ish people. As for FARC, despite the faux make any decision on whether Cuba will re- the brutal dictators and oligarchs who turned peace process in Havana the past few main on the terrorism list. The review must an island paradise into a gulag. months, it continues to carry out violent cover no less than a 20-year period and in- Again, there is a pattern here, a pattern of acts in Colombia, has no plans to lay down clude a fresh appraisal of all available raw embracing our enemies, be it Hugo Chavez in arms anytime soon, and has links to al- data used in the Clinton-era Pentagon as- Venezuela, the mullahs of Iran, or the Muslim Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb sessment spearheaded by Montes. The review Brotherhood in Egypt, whose rise this Admin- (AQIM). should include detailed intelligence and istration helped facilitate. And with each em- The ‘‘April 2014 State Department Country analysis of unconventional threats and pro- Reports on Terrorism,’’ however, implied grams that have dual-use application, such brace of dictatorships and murderous regimes, that the only role the Castro regime had as Cuba’s biotech capabilities. the Administration showed its contempt for the with FARC was facilitating travel for the The congressional national-security and downtrodden of these countries—the masses ‘‘peace talks’’ between these terrorists and judiciary committees must be given full ac- of people in Venezuela who suffered first the Colombian government. It further stated cess to all files pertaining to the WASP spy under the dictator Chavez and now suffer that the ETA presence in Cuba is diminished. network, including data related to the 1996 under his understudy in oppression, Nicolas It would appear that a kinder-and-gentler Brothers to the Rescue shoot-down, as well Maduro, who continues to persecute democ- Cuba narrative is being written to accommo- as damage assessments for all Americans and date a preconceived policy outcome. non-Americans convicted of spying for the racy advocates such as Leopoldo Lopez. Administration officials have reportedly Cuban regime. This Administration was also silent when the spent the last two years creating a founda- However, if President Obama chooses to Muslim Brotherhood Morsi regime oppressed tion for Obama’s Cuba announcement on De- proceed irrespective of the aforementioned the Coptic minority in Egypt, and it lifted no cember 17—all the while denying any such conditions and determines that Cuba should fingers to support the people of Iran during activity when asked by Congress about re- be removed from the state-sponsors-of-ter- their peaceful Green Revolution protests in the lated news reports. If this sounds familiar, rorism list, Congress would have only 45 days it’s because it closely parallels the script from the submission date to evaluate the re- wake of the 2009 election in that country, used in the negotiations leading to the re- scission proposal and act accordingly. which were met with batons and pepper spray. lease of five Taliban leaders held at Guanta- Members of the House and Senate must And now the President embraces the Castro namo in exchange for Bowe Bergdahl. therefore be proactive in countering the ex- brothers, who were tutors to Hugo Chavez in The State Department terrorism report ecutive action outlined on December 17 and the ways of oppression and whose support of also makes references beyond ETA and in preventing further damage. Failure to do so-called revolutionary movements has FARC—most significantly that Cuba harbors so would make Congress complicit in the ad- several fugitives of U.S. justice. Terrorists, ministration’s acquiescence to Cuba’s Com- brought so much suffering to countries in Latin murderers, and other violent criminals are munist regime; it would undermine Amer- America and around the world. Let’s be clear being protected, well fed, and supported by ican interests and reinforce a message of about this: Cuba has been a state sponsor of the Communist regime. Among these is a weakness to other enemies of freedom and terrorism, supporting violence against allies of woman convicted of first-degree murder, Jo- security. the United States such as Colombia.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:08 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A12JA8.016 E12JAPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E53 I have been a consistent supporter of the and on the rights of Assembly. Moreover, the also pursuing his education at Mississippi Col- Cuban people in resisting tyranny. I am fortu- Church must be allowed to conduct its affairs lege, William Carey College, Mississippi State nate to have known many great Cuban dis- fully and freely without government inter- University, and the New Orleans Baptist Theo- sidents, first and foremost Armando ference. logical Seminary, where he received his mas- Valladares, whose autobiography Against All And, finally, the Castro regime must be held ter’s and doctoral degrees. Hope was a first-hand account of Castro’s tyr- to account for their harboring of some seventy In 1981, Pastor Patterson and his family anny, on par with the great work of Aleksandr fugitives from justice, including Joanne moved to Northwest Florida, where he took Solzhenitsyn. I have also stood with the La- Chesimard, who was convicted of killing a the important position of Pastor of East Brent dies in White, or Las Damas de Blanco, and state trooper from my home state of New Jer- Baptist Church. During his three-plus decades courageous leaders such as Ivonne Malleza sey in 1973, Werner Foerster, leaving his in Northwest Florida, Pastor Patterson became Galano, and with heroes such as Dr. Oscar then-young wife a widow. The events of the a staple of the community, leading his ministry Biscet, a medical doctor and courageous past several weeks remind us how political vi- based on a simple plan to minister to those human rights advocate who testified before olence done in the name of ideology destroys within the church, while also reaching out to our human rights subcommittee in February lives and creates deep divisions in the fabric spread the Gospel to all the members of the 2012 on ‘‘Further Human Rights Violations in of our society. That this Administration would community in need of the Lord’s guidance. Castro’s Cuba: The Continued Abuse of Polit- fail to condition normalization upon the return ical Prisoners.’’ of fugitives such as Joanne Chesimard, who is Under Pastor Patterson’s leadership, and Dr. Biscet’s story is far too commonplace to on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list, shows with the grace of God, East Brent Baptist ignore. For the QUOTE UNQUOTE ‘‘crime’’ of where its priorities are. Church has grown significantly over the past organizing meetings on behalf of human In closing, I want to assure the Cuban peo- decades. Pastor Patterson supervised the pur- rights, Dr. Biscet was first arrested and de- ple that I will do everything to make sure that chase of property surrounding East Brent Bap- tained by Cuban police in 1999 along with two human rights milestones are met before our tist Church to expand the grounds and facili- dozen other advocates. He was released after government makes concessions that are effec- tate the construction of many new facilities, in- 5 days, but was rearrested again later that tively unilateral, squandering leverage. Mind cluding the Family Life Center, the Worship year, this time spending three years in prison. you, this lifeline thrown by the Obama Admin- Center, the G Building—used to house various After he got out, he was rearrested a third istration to the Castro regime came at a time events from Sunday School classes to GED time in December 2002, beaten and released. when Cuba’s oil patrons, Russia and Ven- classes and weddings—as well as the reutili- Presumably, the Castro regime saw his beat- ezuela, were themselves hurting for cash, and zation of existing property to provide rec- ing as sufficient warning not to speak out in unable to continue subsidizing the regime in reational opportunities for children in the defense of liberty and human dignity. When he Cuba. church community. In addition, during his ten- continued to do so, however, the Castro re- To that end, I plan to hold a hearing on the ure, East Brent Baptist launched Care Min- gime arrested him a fourth time, in March human rights situation in Cuba, focusing in istries, Inc. to help further spread the word of 2003, and sentenced him to 25 years in pris- particular on the plight of Afro-Cubans. I also Jesus Christ far and wide. on. intend to seek a visa to go to Cuba, so I can There is no question that Pastor Patterson’s Fortunately, the Catholic Church intervened meet with political prisoners languishing in jail record of leadership and accomplishments at to secure his release and that of 50 other un- and visit churches, which are spheres inde- East Brent Baptist are myriad; however, he justly-jailed dissidents in March 2011. He was pendent of government control. I have on mul- has also served in important leadership posi- able to testify via phone at our hearing from tiple occasions sought a visa, only to never tions throughout the state and in the larger Cuba from the US mission. To this day he is have one granted. I say to the Cuban re- Southern Baptist Community. During his time unable to leave the Island, prevented by the gime—if today marks a new day of openness, in ministry, Pastor Patterson has served as Castro Brothers. then prove it, and let one of your most con- President of the Associational Pastor’s Con- Dr. Biscet is just one example of the many sistent critics visit Cuba and have freedom of ference, Moderator of Association and has who suffer under the Castro Brothers. I join movement to meet with victims of the regime. served on State Board of Missions for Florida my voice with those of my colleagues to ex- And, finally, I will introduce legislation to make Baptist Convention. Pastor Patterson has also press my dismay that the Administration would sure that human rights are not forgotten. held the chairmanship of various committees, squander so much leverage in seeking this f including: the Evangelism Committee, Mis- rapprochement with Cuba, and not doing more sion’s Committee, Sunday School Committee, to gain concessions from the Castro regime to RECOGNIZING THE SERVICE OF Program Committee, State Order of Business, advance the cause of human rights, offering DR. DALE PATTERSON, PASTOR State Committee, State Loans and so much in exchange for so little. OF EAST BRENT BAPTIST Grants Committee, Budget and Allocations Despite today’s news confirming that Cuba CHURCH IN PENSACOLA, FLOR- Committee, and the Health and Hope Com- released 53 dissidents, which we welcome, IDA mittee. since the Administration announced that it Pastor Patterson’s many accomplishments, would seek normalization of relations with HON. JEFF MILLER however, are only a small window into the ex- Cuba, hundreds have been arrested, and crit- OF FLORIDA ceptional work that he has done serving the ics of the government who thought this might IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Lord and the congregation of East Brent Bap- signal a new openness continue to be sup- tist Church, and his many successes in life are pressed. This includes Cuban artist Tania Monday, January 12, 2015 a testament to what can be achieved through Bruguera, who along with other freedom advo- Mr. MILLER of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise faith and adherence to the teachings of Jesus cates was detained following her attempt to today to recognize Dr. Dale Patterson, Pastor Christ. speak and assembly freely in Havana’s Revo- of East Brent Baptist Church, upon the occa- lutionary Square. sion of his retirement after 33 years at East Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the United States There should be no easing of the pressure Brent Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida, Congress, my wife Vicki and I wish Pastor until Cuba has met definitive and concrete and for more than 50 years of ministry. Patterson, his wife Louise, and the entire Pat- human rights and democratic milestones. Pastor Patterson is a native of Sumrall, Mis- terson family all the best as Pastor Patterson Among this is the release of all political pris- sissippi, and he started his long and distin- enjoys his retirement years spending time with oners, the end of harassment and a policy of guished career in the ministry in Mississippi, his family and the many friends he has made releasing and then re-jailing, the ending of re- where he served congregations in Hattiesburg, throughout the Northwest Florida community. strictions on freedom of speech and the press, Mendenall, Shuqualak, and Picayune, while

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:08 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A12JA8.017 E12JAPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS E54 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 12, 2015 SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS This title requires all such committees mation, the Office of the Senate Daily to notify the Office of the Senate Daily Digest will prepare this information for Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, Digest—designated by the Rules Com- printing in the Extensions of Remarks agreed to by the Senate of February 4, mittee—of the time, place and purpose section of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD 1977, calls for establishment of a sys- of the meetings, when scheduled and on Monday and Wednesday of each tem for a computerized schedule of all any cancellations or changes in the week. meetings and hearings of Senate com- meetings as they occur. Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, Jan- mittees, subcommittees, joint commit- As an additional procedure along uary 13, 2015 may be found in the Daily tees, and committees of conference. with the computerization of this infor- Digest of today’s RECORD.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:08 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\M12JA8.000 E12JAPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS Monday, January 12, 2015 Daily Digest Senate business, the recess and adjournment of the Senate Chamber Action count post-cloture on the motion to proceed to con- Routine Proceedings, pages S133–S158 sideration of the bill. Page S155 Measures Introduced: Four bills and one resolution Messages from the House: Page S148 were introduced, as follows: S. 145–148, and S.J. Measures Referred: Page S148 Res. 3. Pages S150–51 Measures Placed on the Calendar: Page S148 Measures Reported: S. 147, to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline. (S. Executive Communications: Pages S148–50 Rept. No. 114–1) Page S150 Petitions and Memorials: Page S150 Measures Considered: Additional Cosponsors: Page S151 Keystone XL Pipeline—Agreement: Senate re- Additional Statements: Page S148 sumed consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of S. 1, to approve the Keystone XL Amendments Submitted: Pages S151–55 Pipeline. Pages S136–46 Privileges of the Floor: Page S155 During consideration of this measure today, Senate Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. also took the following action: (Total—3) Page S146 By 63 yeas to 32 nays (Vote No. 3), three-fifths of those Senators duly chosen and sworn, having Adjournment: Senate convened at 2 p.m. and ad- voted in the affirmative, Senate agreed to the motion journed at 6:54 p.m., until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan- to close further debate on the motion to proceed to uary 13, 2015. (For Senate’s program, see the re- marks of the Majority Leader in today’s Record on consideration of the bill. Pages S145–46 A unanimous-consent agreement was reached pro- page S155.) viding for further consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill at approximately 10 a.m., on Tuesday, January 13, 2015, until 12:30 Committee Meetings p.m., with the time equally divided between the two (Committees not listed did not meet) Leaders or their designees; and notwithstanding the provisions of rule XX, all time during morning No committee meetings were held. h House of Representatives H. Res. 27, providing for consideration of the bill Chamber Action (H.R. 37) to make technical corrections to the Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 17 pub- Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Pro- lic bills, H.R. 270–286; and 8 resolutions, H.J. Res. tection Act, to enhance the ability of small and 16–20; H. Con. Res. 7; and H. Res. 26, 28, were emerging growth companies to access capital introduced. Pages H223–24 through public and private markets, to reduce regu- latory burdens, and for other purposes; providing for Additional Cosponsors: Pages H225–26 consideration of the bill (H.R. 185) to reform the Report Filed: A report was filed today as fol- process by which Federal agencies analyze and for- lows: mulate new regulations and guidance documents; D21

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:58 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0627 Sfmt 0627 E:\CR\FM\D12JA5.REC D12JAPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with DIGEST D22 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST January 12, 2015 and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. from the Speaker’s table and agree to S. Con. Res. 240) making appropriations for the Department of 2, authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall in the Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending Sep- Capitol Visitor Center for a ceremony to present the tember 30, 2015, and for other purposes (H. Rept. Congressional Gold Medal to the First Special Serv- 114–2). Page H223 ice Force, in recognition of its superior service dur- Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he ing World War II. Page H207 appointed Representative Black to act as Speaker pro Privileged Resolution: The House agreed to H. tempore for today. Page H191 Con. Res. 7, providing for a joint session of Congress Recess: The House recessed at 12:22 p.m. and re- to receive a message from the President. Page H207 convened at 2 p.m. Page H193 Quorum Calls—Votes: Three yea-and-nay votes de- Journal: The House agreed to the Speaker’s approval veloped during the proceedings of today and appear of the Journal by a yea-and-nay vote of 257 yeas to on pages H205, H205–06, and H206–07. There were no quorum calls. 128 nays, Roll No. 19. Pages H194, H206–07 Recess: The House recessed at 2:16 p.m. and recon- Adjournment: The House met at 12 noon and ad- journed at 9:50 p.m. vened at 5:06 p.m. Pages H195–96 Suspensions: The House agreed to suspend the rules and pass the following measures: Committee Meetings Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American REGULATORY ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF Veterans Act: H.R. 203, to direct the Secretary of 2015; PROMOTING JOB CREATION AND Veterans Affairs to provide for the conduct of annual REDUCING SMALL BUSINESS BURDENS evaluations of mental health care and suicide preven- ACT; DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2015 tion programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to require a pilot program on loan repayment for Committee on Rules: Full Committee held a hearing on psychiatrists who agree to serve in the Veterans H.R. 185, the ‘‘Regulatory Accountability Act of Health Administration of the Department of Vet- 2015’’; H.R. 37, the ‘‘Promoting Job Creation and erans Affairs, by a 2⁄3 yea-and-nay vote of 403 yeas Reducing Small Business Burdens Act’’; and H.R. with none voting ‘‘nay’’, Roll No. 17; and 240, the ‘‘Department of Homeland Security Appro- Pages H196–H201, H204–05 priations Act, 2015’’. The committee granted, by record vote of 7–3, a closed rule for H.R. 37. The Protecting Volunteer Firefighters and Emer- rule provides one hour of debate equally divided and gency Responders Act: H.R. 33, to amend the Inter- controlled by the chair and ranking minority mem- nal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that emergency ber of the Committee on Financial Services. The rule services volunteers are not taken into account as em- waives all points of order against consideration of the ployees under the shared responsibility requirements bill. The rule provides that the bill shall be consid- contained in the Patient Protection and Affordable 2 ered as read. The rule waives all points of order Care Act, by a ⁄3 yea-and-nay vote of 401 yeas with against provisions in the bill. The rule provides one none voting ‘‘nay’’, Roll No. 18. motion to recommit. Additionally, the rule granted Pages H201–04, H205–06 a structured rule for H.R. 185. The rule provides Recess: The House recessed at 6 p.m. and recon- one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by vened at 6:30 p.m. Page H204 the chair and ranking minority member of the Com- Administration of the Oath of Office: Representa- mittee on the Judiciary. The rule waives all points tives-elect Maxine Waters (CA), Young (AK), and of order against consideration of the bill and pro- Carter (TX) presented themselves in the well of the vides that the bill shall be considered as read. The House and were administered the Oath of Office by rule waives all points of order against provisions in the Speaker. Page H205 the bill. The rule makes in order only those amend- ments printed in part A of the Rules Committee re- Whole Number of the House: Under clause 5(d) port. Each such amendment may be offered only in of Rule 20, the Chair announced to the House that, the order printed in the report, may be offered only in light of the administration of the Oath to the by a Member designated in the report, shall be con- gentlewoman from California and the gentlemen sidered as read, shall be debatable for the time speci- from Alaska and Texas, the whole number of the fied in the report equally divided and controlled by House is 433. Page H205 the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject Authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall in the to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand Capitol Visitor Center: The House agreed to take for division of the question. The rule waives all

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:58 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0627 Sfmt 0627 E:\CR\FM\D12JA5.REC D12JAPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with DIGEST January 12, 2015 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST D23

points of order against the amendment printed in resentatives Garrett, Maxine Waters of California, part A of the report. The rule provides one motion Sherman, Marino, Johnson of Georgia, Carter of to recommit with or without instructions. The rule Texas, Lowey, Aderholt, Barletta, Gutie´rrez, Jackson also grants a structured rule for H.R. 240. The rule Lee, Lofgren, and Castro of Texas. provides two hours of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations. The Joint Meetings rule waives all points of order against consideration No joint committee meetings were held. of the bill and provides that it shall be considered as read. The rule waives all points of order against f provisions in the bill. The rule makes in order only COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY, those amendments printed in part B of the Rules JANUARY 13, 2015 Committee report. Each such amendment may be of- fered only in the order printed in the report, may (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated) be offered only by a Member designated in the re- Senate port, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided Select Committee on Intelligence: to receive a closed brief- and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, ing on certain intelligence matters, 2 p.m., SH–219. shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be House subject to a demand for division of the question. The rule waives all points of order against the amend- Committee on Energy and Commerce, Full Committee, or- ganizational meeting for the 114th Congress, 1 p.m., ments printed in part B of the report. The rule pro- 2123 Rayburn. vides one motion to recommit with or without in- Committee on Financial Services, Full Committee, organi- structions. In section 4, the rule provides that the zational meeting for the 114th Congress, 10:15 a.m., chair of the Committee on Appropriations may in- 2167 Rayburn. sert in the Congressional Record not later than Janu- Committee on Ways and Means, Full Committee, hearing ary 14, 2015, such material as he may deem explan- entitled ‘‘Moving America Forward: With a Focus on atory of H.R. 240. Testimony was heard from Rep- Economic Growth’’, 10 a.m., HVC–210.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:58 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 0627 Sfmt 0627 E:\CR\FM\D12JA5.REC D12JAPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with DIGEST D24 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST January 12, 2015

Next Meeting of the SENATE Next Meeting of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 10 a.m., Tuesday, January 13 10 a.m., Tuesday, January 13

Senate Chamber House Chamber Program for Tuesday: Senate will continue consider- Program for Tuesday: Consideration of H.R. 185— ation of the motion to proceed to consideration of S. 1, Regulatory Accountability Act of 2015 (Subject to a Keystone Pipeline, post-cloture. Rule), H.R. 240—Department of Homeland Security Ap- (Senate will recess from 12:30 p.m. until 2:15 p.m. for their propriations Act, 2015 (Subject to a Rule), and H.R. respective party conferences.) 37—Promoting Job Creation and Reducing Small Busi- ness Burdens Act (Subject to a Rule).

Extensions of Remarks, as inserted in this issue

HOUSE King, Peter T., N.Y., E51 Roby, Martha, Ala., E48 Luja´ n, Ben Ray, N.M., E48 Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana, Fla., E51 Bordallo, Madeleine Z., Guam, E47 Miller, Jeff, Fla., E53 Schiff, Adam B., Calif., E48 Calvert, Ken, Calif., E49, E50, E51 Moore, Gwen, Wisc., E49 Sessions, Pete, Tex., E47 Coffman, Mike, Colo., E50 Olson, Pete, Tex., E49, E50, E50, E51 Smith, Christopher H., N.J., E52 Fincher, Stephen Lee, Tenn., E50 O’Rourke, Beto, Tex., E50 Van Hollen, Chris, Md., E51 Hastings, Alcee L., Fla., E49 Pascrell, Bill, Jr., N.J., E49 Webster, Daniel, Fla., E47

E PL UR UM IB N U U S The Congressional Record (USPS 087–390). The Periodicals postage is paid at Washington, D.C. The public proceedings of each House Congressional Record of Congress, as reported by the Official Reporters thereof, are printed pursuant to directions of the Joint Committee on Printing as authorized by appropriate provisions of Title 44, United States Code, and published for each day that one or both Houses are in session, excepting very infrequent instances when two or more unusually small consecutive issues are printed one time. ¶ Public access to the Congressional Record is available online through the U.S. Government Publishing Office, at www.fdsys.gov, free of charge to the user. The information is updated online each day the Congressional Record is published. For more information, contact the GPO Customer Contact Center, U.S. Government Publishing Office. Phone 202–512–1800, or 866–512–1800 (toll-free). E-Mail, [email protected]. ¶ To place an order for any of these products, visit the U.S. Government Online Bookstore at: bookstore.gpo.gov. Mail orders to: Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 979050, St. Louis, MO 63197–9000, or phone orders to 866–512–1800 (toll-free), 202–512–1800 (D.C. area), or fax to 202–512–2104. Remit check or money order, made payable to the Superintendent of Documents, or use VISA, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, or GPO Deposit Account. ¶ Following each session of Congress, the daily Congressional Record is revised, printed, permanently bound and sold by the Superintendent of Documents in individual parts or by sets. ¶ With the exception of copyrighted articles, there are no restrictions on the republication of material from the Congressional Record. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402, along with the entire mailing label from the last issue received.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:58 Jan 13, 2015 Jkt 049060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 0664 Sfmt 0664 E:\CR\FM\D12JA5.REC D12JAPT1 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with DIGEST