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Vol. 159 WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2013 No. 58 House of Representatives The House met at 10 a.m. and was er, more destructive storms are pound- ponds, and the Deep Tunnel Project called to order by the Speaker pro tem- ing our region with distressing regu- can lessen or even prevent disaster. pore (Mr. COLLINS of Georgia). larity and resulting in huge costs. We need to find the funds for these f While some don’t believe in climate local projects that will avert the next change, I hope they believe in funding flood and ultimately save millions in DESIGNATION OF SPEAKER PRO flood control. We owe it to our con- tax dollars in damages. For the Chi- TEMPORE stituents. cago area, that means demanding the The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- I spent most of this past weekend $35 million per year in Federal funding fore the House the following commu- touring the flooded streets and base- that is needed to complete the McCook nication from the Speaker: ments throughout my district. Every- and Thornton reservoirs. These res- WASHINGTON, DC, where I went, I encountered residents ervoirs are part of a larger flood miti- April 25, 2013. who had lost their homes, their belong- gation plan put in place over 20 years I hereby appoint the Honorable DOUG COL- ings, and their peace of mind. The resi- ago by the Army Corps of Engineers. LINS to act as Speaker pro tempore on this dents I talked to wanted to know two The Federal Government is now hold- day. things: What was their government ing up their completion because of JOHN A. BOEHNER, going to do to help, and why was this budget issues. Speaker of the House of Representatives. happening again so soon after the hor- Local budgets are just a start, f rific flooding of 2010? though. We also need to address the MORNING-HOUR DEBATE I told people that my office would do question of why 100-year storms are re- everything it could to bring Federal curring so often. Climate change is The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- disaster relief to their homes and busi- here, and we must address it now. With ant to the order of the House of Janu- nesses; but, unfortunately, Federal a sensible energy policy, development ary 3, 2013, the Chair will now recog- help for big States can be an uphill of alternative energy sources, and com- nize Members from lists submitted by fight. Aid is based, in part, on a popu- monsense conservation, we can begin the majority and minority leaders for lation-based formula that penalizes to confront one of the great challenges morning-hour debate. larger States like Illinois. Big States of our time. If we don’t, then the The Chair will alternate recognition have to suffer more damage before storms of last week in the Midwest and between the parties, with each party meeting the aid threshold. last fall on the east coast will be the limited to 1 hour and each Member This process of rewarding aid is un- new normal, and that’s a normal none other than the majority and minority fair, and we need to change it. I raised of us can afford. leaders and the minority whip limited this concern last summer with my col- f to 5 minutes each, but in no event shall leagues on the Transportation and In- debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. frastructure Committee. I was pleased ARMY RESERVE BIRTHDAY f to see language in Superstorm Sandy The SPEAKER pro tempore. The legislation requiring FEMA to review Chair recognizes the gentleman from CLIMATE CHANGE IS HERE its processes in rewarding disaster aid. Pennsylvania (Mr. THOMPSON) for 5 The SPEAKER pro tempore. The But reviews and bill language are of minutes. Chair recognizes the gentleman from little immediate consolation to people Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. Illinois (Mr. QUIGLEY) for 5 minutes. who have lost their homes or busi- Mr. Speaker, today I rise to honor the Mr. QUIGLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise nesses. With 44 counties declared a dis- United States Army Reserve, which today because last week my district ex- aster area after last week’s flood, we celebrates 105 years of service defend- perienced its second ‘‘storm of the cen- don’t need another study. The people of ing our country this week. tury’’ in the last 3 years, its third since my district and others across the State These citizen-soldiers are actively 2008. More than 7 inches of rain turned need our help. engaged citizens in our communities the streets of Hinsdale, Elmhurst, FEMA needs to act—and act without and volunteers in the Army who are Franklin Park, and Albany Park into delay—to get Illinois back on its feet. ready to step in and fulfill any mission. rivers. Every town in my district has projects They are our friends, our family, our Clearly, we need to revisit our defini- that will help lessen the impact of the neighbors, coaches and teachers, police tion of the 100-year storm; because, next storm. Storm sewer improve- and firefighters. Reservists are in near- while some may doubt the reality of ments, berms, swales, planting more ly every profession across every com- climate change, it is a fact that strong- wetlands, permeable pavers, detention munity in the Nation.

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It does a good job, from West Virginia and other States minder that our Nation rests on the but there are still many ways that it and other organizations that are not strength of brave soldiers who volun- can be improved. typically in the antihunger movement. teer to step forward and make tremen- Over many years, we have also cre- We need faith-based leaders, CEOs, dous sacrifices. ated the National School Breakfast leaders of food banks, pediatricians, Today, I wish a special 105th birthday Program and the National School schools, and nutritionists together in to all the men and women serving in Lunch Program; and in order to meet one room to develop a comprehensive the United States Army Reserve and increased demand, we now have after plan, take assignments and make it welcome some of them to Capitol Hill school snack and meal programs. But work. If we do this, we can end hunger to participate in Army Day, to remind these programs are inadequate in many now. us all of the sacrifices that they make ways. The breakfast and lunch pro- Mr. Speaker, hunger is a political every day to defend this country. grams provide either a free or a re- condition. We have everything we need To the men and women of the United duced price meal. The free meal is to end it. We lack the political will. States Army Reserve, I salute you. available to those kids whose families I urge my colleagues to make this Thank you. are quite poor; but the reduced price issue a priority. End hunger now. f meals are available to kids of families f who are poor, but not poor enough to END HUNGER NOW—CHILDHOOD qualify for the free plan. This means CENSUS BUREAU ECONOMIC HUNGER IN AMERICA there are days, and even weeks, when a QUESTIONNAIRE The SPEAKER pro tempore. The child’s family simply may not have The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from enough money to pay for the reduced Chair recognizes the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. MCGOVERN) for 5 price meal. That’s a serious problem. Florida (Mr. POSEY) for 5 minutes. minutes. Another problem is that breakfasts Mr. POSEY. Mr. Speaker, generally, Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, today are typically served before school we believe that what’s good for the I rise to talk about the national shame starts, meaning that poor kids have to goose is good for the gander. That’s of child hunger in America. I wish it get themselves to school early just to why I was a little bit shocked when it didn’t exist, but we can’t ignore the get a good meal. This can create a stig- was brought to my attention by a num- fact that there are more than 16 mil- ma where these kids get teased and ber of my colleagues that they received lion kids in America who are food inse- bullied because they’re poor, but it can an economic census in the mail—a very cure. Quite simply, that means more also result in a pattern where these complex, 14-page document asking than 16 million children went hungry children don’t have regular access to a them in very great detail about their in 2011. That’s unconscionable and that school breakfast if their parents can’t business, about their suppliers, about is unacceptable. get them to school on time or if the their cost, about who they sell to, and Hunger has no place in the richest, school buses don’t deliver them early who their customers are. These were most prosperous nation on Earth. Let- enough to be able to benefit from this received by mom-and-pop businesses, ting anyone in this country go without breakfast. Organizations like the EOS sometimes just mom businesses, no food is bad enough, but letting children Foundation in Massachusetts and pop—one-person businesses. One said: go hungry is more than heartbreaking; States like West Virginia are working It will take me two days to fill out this it’s just plain wrong. Yet we let it hap- to fix this by promoting Breakfast at questionnaire. I have to work. If I don’t work pen every day in America—16 million the Bell programs, a solution I strong- 2 days, my business will go down the drain. children, Mr. Speaker. That means one ly support. I wondered how important this infor- in five kids in America go to bed hun- And then there are weekends, where mation was, so I wrote a letter to the gry and wake up hungry at some point schools aren’t open. Food banks, Department of Commerce and the Cen- in their lives during the year. That churches, synagogues, mosques, and sus Bureau to ask just a few questions means one in five kids don’t know other antihunger organizations are fill- about it. I asked about their constitu- when their next meal is coming. ing that gap with food backpacks that tional authority to do that, and they We are allowing more than 16 million are given out on Friday afternoons. gave me their statutory authority. I’ll kids to wake up hungry, go to school talk about their letter in a minute. hungry, and go to sleep hungry. We are b 1010 Then, while they didn’t have time to allowing more than 16 million kids to Mr. Speaker, as a candidate, then- answer my letter on a timely basis, be deprived of proper nutrition, the nu- Senator Obama pledged to end child- they did have time to send another rel- trition contained in good, healthy food hood hunger by 2015. It was a good idea atively harassing letter to the busi- that helps children’s minds and bodies then, and it’s a good idea now. We nesses threatening them with more properly develop. We are allowing more worked hard, and many of us pushed penalties—a fine—and just scared the than 16 million kids to struggle at for a comprehensive childhood hunger daylights out of them if they did not school and have problems with learning plan. We even wore those buttons to take time to return that form. simply because they suffer from hun- show our support. I finally got my response from them, ger. Mr. Speaker, 2015 is only 2 years and what I found was that they didn’t Child hunger has many impacts. Kids away. There is no way we are going to answer all my questions. I asked them: who don’t eat enough good, healthy meet that goal, but it doesn’t mean we food will not develop properly. They should give up. Now is the time to re- Please provide me with the information de- have more health problems and require double our efforts. Now is the time to scribing the universe the economic census questionnaires were mailed to and how they more costly health care than children make the pledge to end hunger now. were selected. who don’t have to worry about hunger. And that’s not just a clever tag line. No answer. Sometimes the lack of food results in No, Mr. Speaker, we can end hunger One constituent who received a ques- developmental problems and learning now if we start with the commitment tionnaire was a sole proprietor with no disabilities. Other times, hunger sim- to develop a comprehensive plan to do other employees; another was a sole ply doesn’t allow kids to concentrate. so. proprietor with two employees. These problems can lead to under-edu- That’s why I continue to call for cation, which can have long-term ef- Presidential leadership on this serious Please provide me a summary, if you have fects, including a lifetime of low-pay- matter. We need a White House Con- one, as to how many of the businesses to which economic censuses were mailed were ing jobs and even unemployment. ference on Food and Nutrition to de- sole proprietors or small businesses or cor- America has several antihunger safe- velop a comprehensive plan that will porations? How many would you consider to ty net programs to deal with hunger. address all aspects of hunger in Amer- be large corporations? Were there any For- Some of these programs are specifi- ica, especially child hunger. We need tune 500 companies?

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The Regiment served with distinction during parent new leadership that we were Please provide me with the names of any the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in December supposed to have wouldn’t even allow a Federal employees associated with the devel- 1950. Fighting alongside the 1st Marine Divi- vote on this issue. opment of the economic census that have sion, they covered one of the greatest stra- ever owned or operated any business whatso- b 1020 ever in the private sector. tegic withdrawals in military history. Fighting in temperatures as low as Negative 37 degrees, Now the Senate has passed a budget They did not answer. the Borinqueneers were among the last de- which the Republicans have been cry- Please provide me with the identity of any fenders of Hungham harbor, and suffered tre- ing wolf about forever. The Senate Federal agency which has ever provided the passed a budget. It replaces sequester. kind of detailed financial information and mendous casualties during the evacuation. The Regiment later participated in numerous It achieves the savings that we need to operating information to citizens that achieve over time. The Ryan budget you’ve requested from the people you are battles, conducting the last recorded battalion- supposed to serve. size bayonet charge in Army history. Though was passed, which is tantamount to se- quester. So now we’re asking to go to No answer. they struggled with a grave shortage of trained non-commissioned officers and personnel poli- conference, but we haven’t gone to con- The cost of completing the questionnaire ference. will be costly for small business. How much cies that pushed it to the breaking point, they do you anticipate the cost of labor will be to overcame these challenges, fighting valiantly, This week has been a lost week. a business to comply with your request to and earning the respect and admiration of You’ve heard about a lost weekend. complete the questionnaire? their commanders. This week, this House has done prac- No answer. The Borinqueneers are part of a proud tradi- tically nothing. Now we’re going to Please advise how the information gleaned tion of service in the face of adversity that in- take 2 days, today and tomorrow, to from these questionnaires will be used. cludes the Tuskegee Airmen, Montford Point consider a bill about helium that could They gave me some generalizations. Marines, Navajo Code Talkers and the Japa- be passed in 10 minutes, which is non- nese-American 442nd Regimental Combat controversial and passed out of com- Please explain the benefit you anticipate mittee by a voice vote. the public will gain from the questionnaire. Team—all of whom have already received the Congressional Gold Medal. Will we deal with sequester, which is Well, sort of. They said it would help causing America such grief right now? them look at statistics. I therefore rise in support of the Borinqueneers—the Forgotten soldiers of a We will not. Please provide me with a one-page sum- Forgotten war—and urge all of my colleagues It is a shameful performance by the mary of major activities performed by your Congress of the United States. It is an agencies. Please cite the number of times to join us by cosponsoring this legislation to you perform each activity and the cost of ensure that the Borinqueneers receive their irresponsible performance by the ma- performing each activity on a unit cost long overdue recognition. jority leadership of this House that we basis. The aggregate cost of all performing f will not have the opportunity to re- activity should be equal to the exact amount place this irrational, stupid, non- of money that was passed through your agen- SEQUESTER commonsense policy we call ‘‘seques- cies during a 1-year period. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The ter.’’ Of course, they did not answer that. Chair recognizes the gentleman from Some Republicans say, well, this is They have no problem demanding Maryland (Mr. HOYER) for 5 minutes. the President’s policy. That’s baloney. that information from the private sec- Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, sequester It’s not true. It’s a fraud. The Presi- tor, but the government sector is com- starts with ‘‘S.’’ That stands for ‘‘stu- dent is against this policy. The Senate pletely unwilling to go through the pid.’’ It is an irrational policy with no Democrats are against this policy, and least little amount of trouble to pro- common sense attached to it, and it is House Democrats are against this pol- vide Congress with that same informa- a policy that we are headlong pursuing icy. If I were the majority leader, as I tion. as a result of the actions of the major- once was, this policy would not have We are often thought to believe that ity in this House. It is a policy that the gone into effect, and I want the Amer- what’s good for the goose is good for President of the United States opposes, ican people, Mr. Speaker, to know that. the gander, and so I will persist on try- it is a policy that the majority in the There were some who pretended, oh, ing to get answers to those questions United States Senate opposes, and it is it will have no effect. Well, it’s having for the constituents in my district, and a policy that all of the Members of the an effect on the flying public right hopefully for those in your districts Democratic Party in this House op- now; and on the Food and Drug Admin- that have also been interested. pose. istration, in overseeing food safety, it’s AWARDING CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL TO My friend on the floor here shakes going to have an effect. There are 70,000 PUERTO RICO’S 65TH INFANTRY REGIMENT his head, but he voted for a bill. It was children who qualify for Head Start Mr. POSEY. Mr. Speaker, I would called Cut, Cap, and Balance. And Cut, who are not going to have a seat in also like to say I am pleased to be here Cap, and Balance said we have a target, Head Start. today and joined by Resident Commis- but if we don’t meet it what happens? Ladies and gentlemen of this House, sioner PIERLUISI in support of a bill Sequester happens—sequester happens. we ought to be doing some real work awarding the Congressional Gold Medal The Republicans passed that through this week, not putting bills on the floor to Puerto Rico’s 65th Infantry Regi- this House long before any deal was and then taking them off the floor be- ment, also known as the made not to default on our national cause, very frankly, the majority party Borinqueneers. debt, which included a provision for se- can’t get its act together. We’re now When the Korean war erupted in 1950, quester so that we would achieve having a helium bill on the floor for 2 the soldiers of the regiment served in a Speaker BOEHNER’s objective articu- days. We’re not even going to vote on segregated unit, despite President Tru- lated March of 2011 on Wall Street that the helium bill today—we’re going to man’s order desegregating the military we would cut dollar for dollar the in- vote on the rule—and at about 2:30 2 years earlier. crease in the debt. That’s why we have today, we’re going to adjourn. Army commanders doubted the effec- a sequester. It starts with ‘‘S.’’ It is a My, my, my. What a hard workday. tiveness of these Puerto Rican troops, stupid policy. It is a negative policy. It We’re not dealing with the budget. calling them ‘‘rum and Coca-Cola sol- is a policy that is hurting America. We’re not dealing with the budget con- diers.’’ They were required to use sepa- CHRIS VAN HOLLEN, the ranking Dem- ference. We’re not dealing with getting rate showering facilities and ordered ocrat of the Budget Committee, offered this country on a fiscally sustainable under penalty of court-martial not to an amendment four times to replace path. We’re not dealing with getting

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I’m disgusted with us as obviously would believe that, so she ment is deserving of this award because of well. I don’t blame Mr. and Mrs. Amer- never cried out because she didn’t want its ‘‘pioneering military service, devotion to ica for saying that Congress is not anything bad to happen to her wonder- duty and many acts of valor in the face of di- versity.’’ doing its work. They’re right. We’re ful family. Meanwhile, Mom and Dad not. We were sent here to serve the and the brothers and the sisters every Between 1950 and 1953, the regiment American people and our country and day hoped—but no results in finding participated in some of the fiercest make it stronger, and we’re not doing her. battles of the Korean war; and its that. We’re failing to come together When she would go out with the evil- toughness, courage, and loyalty earned and reach compromise and consensus doer, forcibly, he would even put a wig the admiration of those who had pre- for positive action in our country. over her head and a veil. He would dis- viously harbored reservations about How sad, Mr. Speaker. How sad for guise her so that, if people in the Salt Puerto Rican soldiers based on stereo- our country. How sad for our people. Lake City area knew Elizabeth Smart, types. One individual whose misconceptions How sad for our families. There are they wouldn’t recognize her. were shattered was William Harris, good people on both sides of this aisle, Finally, after 9 months, Elizabeth who served as the regiment’s com- but we’re not coming together to do Smart was with the evildoer who sexu- mander during the early stages of the our duty for America. How sad. ally assaulted her—and with his wife— law. Harris recounts that he was reluc- and a police car stopped. The police of- f tant to take command of the unit be- ficer started questioning Elizabeth ELIZABETH SMART cause, like many U.S. military leaders, Smart. She didn’t say anything be- he assumed that Puerto Rican soldiers The SPEAKER pro tempore. The cause she remembered that the evil- were not as capable as other troops. Chair recognizes the gentleman from doer said he would kill her family. Un- Following the war, Harris recalled that Texas (Mr. POE) for 5 minutes. beknownst to Elizabeth, her sister had his skeptical attitude did not survive Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, sev- given the police a sketch of the person first contact with the enemy and that, eral years ago in Salt Lake City, Utah, who had kidnapped her. The police in fact, his experience ultimately led there was a happy family—a mom and took Elizabeth Smart to the police sta- him to regard the men of the 65th as a dad, six kids—happy as they could be. tion, and after a few minutes, in comes On the typical summer day of June 5, the best soldiers he had ever seen. her father. Another individual who came to hold 2002, the kids and the family had their She was rescued after 9 months—The prayers. Two of the girls went up to the 65th in high esteem was General criminals went to prison. Douglas MacArthur. In March 1951, their room. The older girl read to the Elizabeth Smart is now 27 years of younger girl. They went to sleep. after months of heavy engagements age, and she has used this awful trag- with the enemy in which the 65th And then the nightmare began. edy of being kidnapped and sexually as- In the middle of the night, the older played a critical role, General Mac- saulted as a child in order to help other Arthur wrote the following: girl, who was a 14-year-old child, was sexual assault victims in this country. awakened. The man who woke her up The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks on She started the Elizabeth Smart Foun- the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields had a knife to her throat. The younger dation. A couple of weeks ago, she was girl woke up, too, but was in fear and of Korea by valor, determination and a reso- in Houston. She spoke very forcefully lute will to victory give daily testament to shock and terror and could not phys- to a group of women—several hun- their invincible loyalty to the United States. ically even move. So the kidnapper dred—about being abused. They are writing a brilliant record of took the 14-year-old girl, climbed out So, this Victims’ Rights Week, Mr. achievement in battle, and I’m proud, in- the window with her, and at Speaker, I want to honor Elizabeth deed, to have them in this command. I wish knifepoint, they left in the middle of Smart and all of those other sexual as- that we might have many more like them. the night. Finally, the younger girl sault victims—especially children— By the time fighting came to a close was able to get some type of composure who have been assaulted by evil people in Korea in July 1953, soldiers in the and tell her parents what had hap- in this country, and let us remember to 65th had earned 10 Distinguished Serv- pened. support them totally in their recovery. ice Crosses, about 250 Silver Stars, over The police get involved, and they And that’s just the way it is. 600 Bronze Stars, and nearly 3,000 Pur- start looking for Elizabeth Smart, but ple Hearts. As a collective, the regi- they didn’t find her that night, and f ment won numerous awards, including they didn’t find her the next day be- b 1030 two Presidential Unit Citations, the cause Elizabeth Smart had been kid- Nation’s highest unit-level recognition AWARDING THE CONGRESSIONAL napped by an individual who took her for extraordinary heroism. The unit’s GOLD MEDAL TO THE 65TH IN- to a secluded place. The first thing he disproportionately high casualty rate FANTRY REGIMENT wanted to do, of course, was to abuse underscored the fact that it had been her—and he did. He sexually assaulted The SPEAKER pro tempore. The serving on the front lines, face to face her, and he sexually assaulted her, and Chair recognizes the gentleman from with the enemy at the very tip of the he sexually assaulted her. He tied her Puerto Rico (Mr. PIERLUISI) for 5 min- spear. between two trees, Mr. Speaker, and utes. In a 2010 obituary that appeared in sexually assaulted her. He did every- Mr. PIERLUISI. Mr. Speaker, today The New York Times for 87-year-old thing he wanted to do to her for 9 Congressman BILL POSEY of Florida Modesto Cartagena, one of the most months. and I will introduce bipartisan legisla- decorated soldiers from the regiment, That 14-year-old girl was gone, kid- tion to award a Congressional Gold it was observed that in Korea: napped—parents scared to death and Medal to the 65th Infantry Regiment, a Puerto Rican soldiers surmounted not only worried about one of their six children. famed U.S. Army unit know as the the Communist enemy, but also prejudicial The police were looking, but they Borinqueneers composed almost en- attitudes. never found her, not for 9 months. tirely of soldiers from the U.S. terri- This same point was made with par- This evil person who kidnapped Eliz- tory of Puerto Rico that overcame dis- ticular eloquence in 2000 by Secretary abeth arranged a fake marriage to try crimination and earned praise and re- Louis Caldera during a ceremony hon- to marry her even though he was mar- spect for its comeback performance in oring the regiment when he said that ried to another individual lawfully. So the Korean war. the soldiers of the 65th were fighting to the wife, the abuser, and Elizabeth The Congressional Gold Medal is con- protect the people of South Korea, even Smart stayed in hiding in the Salt sidered the most distinguished form of as they struggled against the injustice

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The stituents, I hope we will all reflect on plaques memorialize their accomplish- Chair recognizes the gentleman from the Joneses in Herriman, Utah, and the ments. And cities and States have ap- Utah (Mr. MATHESON) for 5 minutes. priorities of real American families. proved resolutions in their honor. I be- Mr. MATHESON. Mr. Speaker, I rise These are citizens who inspire us to lieve it is time that Congress pay trib- today to honor the life of an inspira- work harder, to do better, to solve ute to the 65th, and so I ask my col- tional young man from my district. problems, and to make a difference. leagues to join me in the effort to Mitchell Dee Jones from Herriman, Mitch’s legacy is one of love and award the regiment with the Congres- Utah, passed away on March 2 of this compassion of an inspiring young man sional Gold Medal. year after a lifelong battle with who faced every challenge with bravery f Duchenne muscular dystrophy. and faith. Here in Congress we should Mitch was a beloved son, brother, strive to live and serve in the same END FORCED UNION DUES IN friend, and Latter-day Saint. He lived way. AMERICA life to the fullest and loved others self- f The SPEAKER pro tempore. The lessly. In the very best ways, Mitch Chair recognizes the gentleman from was a typical 10-year-old boy playing b 1040 ING board games, building with Legos, four- Iowa (Mr. K ) for 5 minutes. STRENGTHENING OUR STRATEGIC Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I’m wheeling, camping, and enjoying the ALLIANCES here today to ask my colleagues to join outdoors in Utah with his family. His me in supporting an end to forced sense of humor, of adventure, and of The SPEAKER pro tempore. The union dues in America. I’m talking devotion to his family touched thou- Chair recognizes the gentleman from about the National Right to Work Act, sands. Both in his life and in his pass- Ohio (Mr. TURNER) for 5 minutes. which I recently reintroduced here in ing, Mitch’s dignity and gentleness, Mr. TURNER. Mr. Speaker, the the 113th Congress as H.R. 946. strength of spirit, and quiet resolve re- American public always decries the Every American should have the veal his exceptional character. partisan tone that happens here on this power to negotiate with their employer I hope you will join me today in hon- House floor, and I’m always amazed about the terms of their employment, oring the life of this very special young when people come down to the House but no American should be forced to man who brought others together, who floor and rail on Republicans and pay union dues just to get or keep a touched lives in a profound way, and Democrats and try to place blame. I’m job. However, when Congress enacted who inspired us all. always particularly amazed when the National Labor Relations Act in Mitch’s parents, Chris and Natalie someone comes to the House floor and 1935, it established monopoly bar- Jones, have humbly shared their fam- blames the Republicans for a bill that gaining, and that monopoly bargaining ily’s journey with our community in they voted for. I voted against seques- conscripts workers who want nothing Utah and with countless others around tration, and I certainly agree with Mr. to do with the union into paying union the world. They opened their lives and HOYER’s current statements of how bad dues. That doesn’t sound like the Mitch’s story so they might serve oth- sequestration is. It just would have America that I know. ers, bringing an important awareness been nice if the consistency was there In 1947, Congress admitted this provi- and a better understanding of their in the actual voting record besides just sion violated the rights of workers; but son’s condition and that of others with the attempt to blame Republicans. because the votes weren’t there to fully Duchenne muscular dystrophy. This clearly was a project that was repeal this provision, they opted in- I urge my colleagues on both sides of proposed by the President. I opposed it stead to allow the States to opt out of the aisle to learn more about Mitch’s because I knew it was going to wreak the NLRA’s monopoly bargaining stat- story and about Duchenne muscular havoc on our national security. And I ute. That was a provision that the dystrophy by following his father’s wish those who now see its folly actu- States, though, had to pass laws to ex- Facebook journal called ‘‘Mitchell’s ally had voted against it when it was empt themselves. Journey.’’ on the House floor. To date, 24 States have enacted these This coming Monday, on April 29, the But, Mr. Speaker, I’m here today to right-to-work laws; and because of city of Herriman, Utah, will honor talk about energy security. It con- that, they have been able to mitigate Mitch’s life with the recognition of tinues to play an important role in the negative effects of our misguided Mitchell Jones Day. Here in our Na- global relationships and dialogue. In Federal labor law on their citizens and tion’s Capital, we can join together to my role as chairman of the U.S. delega- their economy. Iowa is one of those do the same by familiarizing ourselves tion to the NATO Parliamentary As- States. with the disease that ultimately took sembly, many foreign leaders and offi- But the fact remains that Congress Mitch’s life. cials have expressed to me the need to created this problem in the first place Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a diversify energy resources away from by making forced unionization the de- genetic muscular disorder that most one source or from unstable regions. fault position for all States. Since Con- often affects young boys and is charac- As we all know, the United States is gress created this problem, it is Con- terized by a progressive muscle weak- currently experiencing a surplus of gress’ responsibility to correct it. The ness and degeneration. It is typically natural gas production, helping to keep National Right to Work Act does so diagnosed early in life and is usually the price low compared with global without adding a single new word to fatal in the late teens or early rates. This is creating opportunities to the Federal Code by simply erasing the twenties. For some, like Mitch, the dis- boost job growth right here at home forced-dues clauses in the Federal stat- ease progresses quickly and affects the and for U.S. natural gas to compete in ute. voluntary muscles of limbs and torso the global marketplace. While the votes weren’t there to re- and eventually the involuntary muscle In fact, a recent Department of En- peal this provision in 1947, they should function of the heart and lungs. ergy commissioned report found that be there today because we now have As legislators, it is stories like increasing exports of natural gas would decades of data to compare forced-dues Mitch’s that should remind us of the have positive economic benefits for our States and workplace-freedom States. magnitude of our decisions about time country. In my home State of Ohio, ex- The results of this nationwide experi- and resources. The course we chart for ploration and development in the Utica ment suggest that the National Right our country is real for families like the Shale would have a $5 billion economic

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We are grateful for his allies diversify their energy sources, opportunities to create American jobs service to Verity Gospel Music Group, bolster their energy and national secu- while helping to bolster our strategic now known as RCA Inspiration. Mr. rity, and strengthen our strategic alli- alliances. I urge all of my colleagues to Jordan was a founding board member ances. Many of our allies are heavily support this important bill that would of the Gospel Music Heritage Founda- reliant on natural gas from either one have great economic impacts for the tion and cochair, with gospel music ad- country or from unstable regions and United States. vocate Mr. Carl Davis of my district, of are paying significantly higher prices. f the Evolution of Gospel Celebration Several of the largest natural gas im- HONORING GOSPEL MUSIC which kicks off Gospel Music Heritage porters are also NATO members with PIONEERS Celebration in the Nation’s capital. Mr. strong national security ties to the Jordan was executive producer for United States. In recent years, several The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Gold, Platinum, Grammy, Stellar, and European countries have experienced Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Dove award-winning projects. Through- Texas (Ms. JACKSON LEE) for 5 minutes. natural gas supply disruptions from out his career, he served as a creative Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, Russia, the largest supplier of natural producer and has marketed and pro- gas to Europe. Turkey relies on 20 per- later on today, the President will join my fellow Texans in West, Texas, to moted many awarding-winning CDs cent of its natural gas from Iran. and gospel artists that have included Earlier this year, Islamist militants mourn the loss of so many who died in a tragic plant explosion last week. Kirk Franklin, and as well worked with attacked a natural gas facility in Alge- DJ Jazzy Jeff and Will Smith—‘‘Fresh ria, which is the third-largest exporter Many of them were first responders. And many who will come to mourn and Prince.’’ of natural gas to Europe. Oh, he knows music. And to tell you Japan, a strategic ally in Asia and al- celebrate life and the life of West, Texas, are those who have been harmed that he does, he has engaged and ready the world’s largest importer of worked with the likes of Kirk Frank- natural gas, may need to seek greater and injured. I will join them in spirit, as I know my colleagues here today lin, as I said, Marvin Sapp, Donnie imports of natural gas as a result of McClurkin, Fred Hammond, Heather the 2011 nuclear plant disaster. Japan will. That’s why as I rise today to com- Kyle Walker, Donald Lawrence, Rich- already relies on 42 percent of its nat- memorate and salute two gospel music ard Smallwood, Byron Cage, John P. ural gas from Russia, the Middle East, titans, it becomes even more appro- Kee, Jay Moss, Crystal Aikin, Deitrick and North Africa. priate to salute my friend, James Haddon, and DeWayne Woods. Mr. Jor- The surplus of U.S. natural gas pro- ‘‘Jazzy’’ Jordan and Mr. Don Jackson, dan is truly one who lives his life in duction is already having an impact on for they understand the value and mes- commemorating and cultivating and global natural gas markets. Natural sage of gospel music. nurturing the gospel tradition, the gos- gas previously destined for the United Gospel music holds a special place in pel tradition which has now spread be- States, but no longer needed as a result the American experience. Gospel music yond the borders of this Nation. of our domestic increased production, was a release from suffering and hard- He is joined by Mr. Don Jackson, the has been diverted to other markets. ship, but it was also a form of praise founder, chairman, and CEO of the 41- For example, in 2012, nearly half of the and protest. I would like to thank year-old Central City Productions, now natural gas supplied to Europe was Jazzy Jordan for understanding that as the founder and organizer of the Stella purchased under spot contracts. Help- we introduced in 2008 the Gospel Music Awards. ing our allies diversify their energy re- Heritage legislation that establishes I am grateful that Mr. Jackson sources is important to strengthening September in the United States of thought it was important to recognize our partnerships and bolstering secu- America as Gospel Music Heritage those who excelled in gospel music. He rity. Month. graduated from Northwestern Univer- Under section 3 of the Natural Gas We hope as we have faced these trag- sity and entered a career in media and Act, companies seeking to export nat- edies over the last couple of weeks that broadcasting with a number of sta- ural gas must receive permits from the Americans, no matter what their reli- tions, WBEE and WVON, a top radio Department of Energy, which deter- gious background or nonreligious back- station in Chicago. As he founded Cen- mines if such exports are in the public ground, will find relief in this joyful tral City Marketing in 1970, his com- interest. Export permits to U.S.-free and comforting music. Spirituals once pany over 41 years involved itself in en- trade countries are automatically ap- sung by slaves transformed into gospel couraging and helping others promote proved. Non-free trade countries must songs sung by free people who had their their issues. He had involvement in go through a process. own space and place to express their promotion and sales and production of In general, when it comes to export- emotions and tell their stories in media and television. ing U.S. goods, we often talk about music—those spirituals have been 1050 barriers in other countries for U.S. pro- translated into gospel music. b ducers that they must overcome to sell Gospel music could express the joys But his first gospel music awards their products, but in this instance we and sorrows of so many people. All of show in the United States, the Stellar have a domestic barrier that prevents us remember and have often sung the Awards, was produced by his company. us from exporting our natural gas to song ‘‘Amazing Grace,’’ created by one The Stellar Awards honors gospel consumers willing and eager to buy. who saw this wonderful resilience of music artists, writers, and industry There are currently 20 applications their life when they thought they had professionals. before the Department of Energy from been lost. That is truly American and He is one who has featured so many companies seeking approval to export American gospel music. artists, such as the Clark Sisters, Kirk natural gas. As the DOE evaluates We know the early founders: Thomas Franklin, Da’ T.R.U.T.H., Mary Mary, these applications, I hope it takes into Dorsey, Mahalia Jackson, James and many others. consideration the domestic economic Vaughan, James Cleveland, and now Mr. Speaker, as I close, let me simply benefits. today Kirk Franklin, and Yolanda say, these two men are more than de- I have authored bipartisan and bi- Adams, among so many. And then serving of being American icons, and cameral legislation, H.R. 580, the Expe- those who were influenced by gospel we congratulate them for loving, cher- dited LNG for American Allies Act, music: Sam Cooke, Al Green, Elvis ishing, and promoting gospel music. which would make approval of export Presley, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Mr. Speaker, I rise to recognize two of licenses to NATO countries and Japan Houston, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, America’s pioneers in gospel music: Mr. automatic. This bill creates a process among many. James ‘‘Jazzy’’ Jordan and Mr. Don Jackson.

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Just as Jazz is well The other person I want to recognize is Mr. sales for all of the company’s local and na- known far from our nation’s shores, the spread Don Jackson, the founder, chairman and CEO tional television programs. Central City Pro- of gospel music has also become popular of the 41–year-old CENTRAL CITY PRODUC- ductions’ mission is to develop, produce, and around the world. Gospel music holds a TIONS a national television production, sales, market television programming which is de- unique place in the African experience—its and syndication Company based in Chicago, signed to communicate positive, uplifting images of Black people all over the world. roots are deep in the black church. For gen- Illinois. Mr. Jackson after graduating from North- Under his guidance and vision, CCP has erations, gospel music could only be heard on launched many new and unique television Sunday mornings where African American western University entered a career in media programs to Black Americans nationwide. people gathered to worship. and broadcasting with WBEE & WVON radio. Many of these programs have more than 30 Church was a place where black people felt He was someone to watch—and for good rea- years of consecutive airing over local and na- truly free and safe to express themselves. son—he became youngest and first African tional television. Gospel music was a release for suffering and American sales manager at WVON, the top Mr. Jackson also gives back to the commu- radio station in the Chicago media market at nity as a member of several organizations. hardship—it was a form of praise and protest. He is the former chairman of the board of Spirituals once sung by slaves transformed the time. He had to work hard and be ex- tremely smart to reach such notable success the DuSable Museum of African American into gospel songs sung by free people who History. He has also previously served on the had their own space—and place to express at such a young age. boards of Northwestern University, Junior their emotions and tell their stories in music. In 1970, Mr. Jackson founded CENTRAL Achievement of Chicago, Columbia College, Gospel music could express the joys and CITY MARKETING. His company for over 40 Gateway Foundation and Chicago Transit sorrows of black people in ways that touched years has specialized in marketing, promotion, Authority Board. those who were not African American. There sales, and the production of media and tele- In addition, Mr. Jackson is the founder and vision programs for African Americans. The a member of A.B.L.E. (Alliance of Business were lessons to be learned for the artists and Leaders and Entrepreneurs), which is the the listeners. Famous jazz and rock-and-roll first Gospel Music Awards show in the United States, the Stellar Awards, was produced by first business organization bringing Black artists perfected their singing styles by visiting Leaders together in the business community black churches to listen to gospel music. CENTRAL CITY MARKETING. The Stellar to network, to address business issues and to Gospel music traditions produced many Awards honor Gospel Music Artists, writers, provide a legacy for future African American memorable voices and musical pioneers in the and industry professionals for their contribu- entrepreneurs. history of our country; singers like Thomas tions to the Gospel Music Industry. The Stellar He has received numerous awards for his Dorsey, Mahalia Jackson, James Vaughan, Awards program is syndicated in over 140 business accomplishments and community markets nationwide. involvement. Mr. Jackson is married to Roberta Martin, Virgil Stamps, Diana Wash- Rosemary Jackson. The couple has two adult ington, James Cleveland, The Mighty Clouds The Stellar Awards has featured well known gospel artists that include the Clark Sisters, children and two grandsons, Donovan and of Joy, Kirk Franklin, Yolanda Adams, and The Dain. Their daughter Rhonda is a graduate Winans among many others. Kirk Franklin, Da’ T.R.U.T.H, Tye Tribbett, of Syracuse University, and their son Baba Gospel music has inspired and influenced Mary Mary, Heather Headley, CeCe Winans, Dainja graduated from the University of other music art forms and artists that include Marvin Sapp, Yolanda Adams, Donnie Minnesota. Sam Cooke, Al Green, Elvis Presley, Marvin McClurkin, and Tamela Mann. Atlanta, Chi- JAMES ‘‘JAZZY’’ JORDAN Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Little cago, Houston, Los Angeles, Nashville, and Richard, Ray Charles, Buddy Holly, Alan Jack- New York have been the location of the Stellar James ‘‘Jazzy’’ Jordan is head of The Jor- Awards programs. Through his efforts, the dan Webster Group, a film and music produc- son, Dolly Parton, Mariah Carey, Bob Dylan, tion house in Washington DC. Projects to be and Randy Travis. spread of gospel appreciation is traveling far beyond our nation’s shore and finding new released this summer are ‘‘Your Husband Is I stand in the well of the House to honor two Cheating On Us’’ starring JD Lawrence, A re- men who are my friends who also are great converts every day. ality TV series The Football Moms with contributors to the American experience by Because of the efforts to these two men Reggie Bush’s mother Denise, Adrian Peter- preserving and cultivating new converts to the scholars now know—if you want to truly un- son’s mother Bonita and others. gospel music. Through their efforts gospel derstand the black American experience—you Mr. Jordan is also developing a theatrical music has in a very short time period ex- must understand the music of that experience film titled ‘‘ColorBlind’’ starring JD Law- rence and directed by Bill Duke, he is film- panded beyond the black church to a broader and a way to do this is through gospel music. I ask my colleagues to join me in applaud- ing a new comedy TV series for Comedian global audience. ing the life achievements of Mr. Don Jackson Michael Colyar, taping this summer at The Mr. James ‘‘Jazzy’’ Jordan is head of The Howard Theater in DC. Jordan Webster Group, a film and music pro- and Mr. James ‘‘Jazzy’’ Jordan. He most recently was Executive Vice duction house in Washington DC. Mr. Jordan 40 YEARS OF MEDIA MARKETING EXPERIENCE President/General Manager of Verity Gospel is a brilliant businessman with a love of gospel Don Jackson is the founder, chairman, and Music Group (VGMG). A division of Sony music, which he fully expressed in his leader- CEO of 41-year-old CENTRAL CITY PRO- Music Entertainment, INC., it is the largest gospel music company in the world. ship of the Verity Gospel Music Group now DUCTIONS, Inc., a national television pro- duction, sales, and syndication company The VGMG roster of artists includes: Kirk known as RCA Inspiration. Mr. Jordan is a based in Chicago, IL. Franklin, Marvin Sapp, Donald McClurkin, founding board member of the Gospel Music Mr. Jackson is a Chicago native who grad- Fred Hammond, Hezekiah Walker, Donald Heritage Foundation and is Co-Chair along uated from Marshall High School, where he Lawrence, Richard Smallwood, Kurt Carr, with Gospel Music Advocate Carl Davis of the played on the school’s 1960 state champion- 21:03, Byron Cage, John P. Kee, J. Moss, ‘‘Evolution of Gospel Celebration’’ that Kicks ship basketball team. He also started on the Crystal Aikin, Deitrick Haddon, Dewayne off Gospel Music Heritage Celebration in the 1961 Marshall basketball team, which won Woods, and others. 3rd place in the state championship. He at- Over his 30-year career, Jordan has worked Nation’s Capital. in a variety of areas within the music indus- Over his 30 year career, Mr. Jordan was ex- tended Northwestern University on a basket- ball scholarship and was captain of the Uni- try, including retail, radio broadcasting and ecutive producer for Gold, Platinum, marketing. These experiences have given ® versity’s 1965 Wildcat basketball team. Mr. GRAMMY , Stellar and Dove award-winning Jackson earned his B.S. in Radio, TV, and him a 360-degree view of the music business projects. Throughout his career, Jordan has Film from Northwestern in 1965. and uniquely equipped him to shepherd art- served as executive producer or has marketed After graduating from Northwestern, Mr. ists to success. Jordan was in charge of all or promoted many award-winning CDs for Jackson worked in the media and broadcast operations for Verity Gospel Music Group, gospel artists that included Kirk Franklin and industries in sales at WBEE & WVON radio. Jordan lent his business acumen and exper- tise to the consistently successful label. He R. Kelly. He also, worked with DJ Jazzy Jeff He became the youngest and first African American sales manager at WVON, the top has served as executive producer for Gold, and The Fresh Prince (Will Smith) on their radio station in the Chicago market at the Platinum, GRAMMY®, Stellar and Dove album Parents Just Don’t Understand, which time. award-winning projects such as Hello Fear sold over four millions copies; Salt N’ Pepa on In 1970, Mr. Jackson founded CENTRAL and The Fight Of My Life (Kirk Franklin), their Very Necessary album, which sold over CITY MARKETING, INC. For over four dec- Thirsty and Here I Am (Marvin Sapp), Live

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In London (Donnie McClurkin), Show Up Republican opposition over the budget NATIONAL SECURITY (John P. Kee), and many others. led to an agreement, which ultimately Last week, we were all horrified to watch Jordan has held senior executive positions resulted in this sequestration decision. the bombings at the 117th Boston Marathon. at Tommy Boy, RCA and PolyGram record Republican leadership has failed to We all applauded the valiant and successful labels. In 1995, he was named Vice President of Black Music Marketing at Jive Records. bring to the floor this week measures efforts of law enforcement. Even so, the intel- At Jive, Jordan not only played a vital role to build our economy. We should be fo- ligence community who diligently worked with in the label’s success in urban music, he also cused on salient measures designed to local law enforcement to ultimately capture a helped to launch Verity Records and cata- grow our economy and create jobs. bombing suspect is not immune from the im- pult it into the most successful gospel record Republican leadership has also failed pacts of sequestration. label to date. to fully address the issues arising from As a direct result of sequestration the Na- Throughout his career, Jordan has served sequestration; although, it is clear that tional Intelligence Community could receive 4 as executive producer or has marketed or these cuts are arbitrary, indiscrimi- billion dollars in cuts. Consider a recent state- promoted over 50 award-winning CDs for art- nate, and far too blunt. ment from National Intelligence Director ists ranging from Will Smith to Kirk Frank- lin. He worked with DJ Jazzy Jeff and the The American people may be aware James Clapper. He stated ‘‘sequestration Fresh Prince (Will Smith) on their album of the obvious impacts of sequestra- forces the intelligence community to decrease Parents Just Don’t Understand, which sold tion, such as the closing of national all intelligence actions and functions without over four millions copies; Salt N’ Pepa on parks and the elimination of tours at regard to the impact on our mission. It is my their Very Necessary album, which sold over the White House; however, Americans judgment, as our nation’s senior intelligence five million copies; Joe on his tops selling might not be aware of how sequestra- officer, that sequestration jeopardizes our na- CDs All That I Am, which was a platinum tion can impact important parts of tion’s safety and security, and this jeopardy selling album, and My Name Is Joe, which their lives and this economy. will increase over time.’’ sold over three million copies; and three of. Let’s take air travel. Some of you Kelly’s CDs—R. Kelly, R. and TP2.Com, We all watched on television as the Federal which all sold more than three million cop- have heard about what is going on in Bureau of Investigation, FBI, Hostage Rescue ies. our airports. Imagine that you’re try- Team bravely apprehended the surviving Bos- A man of many interests and skills, in 2006 ing to get to the airport to catch a ton bombing suspect. It is at these moments Jordan was one of only two African Ameri- flight to attend your daughter’s wed- the American public can witness the training cans to have ownership in an Indy 500 ding or graduation or to see about a and skill of FBI agents. Yet, even the FBI is racecar (the other was NBA All-Star sick relative, or you’re a business trav- not protected from sequestration. Carmelo Anthony). Jordan’s car placed 12th eler trying to meet a potential client Last month, FBI Director Robert Muller esti- in the race. for the first time. Well, sequestration mated that sequestration would decrease the f could soon impact all of your travel FBI’s budget by $550 million for this fiscal SEQUESTRATION AND THE plans. year. As 60 percent of the FBI’s budget pays Due to sequestration, the Federal BUDGET for personnel, Director Muller anticipates that Aviation Administration addressed the he will have to plan for the possibility of fur- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The shortage in their funding by fur- loughs in the FBI. Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from loughing 47,200 employees and are ex- According to Director Muller ‘‘any furlough California (Ms. WATERS) for 5 minutes. pected to close certain airports. As a would pose a risk to FBI operations particu- Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, I rise result, we’re witnessing airplanes re- larly in the areas of counter terrorism and today to discuss the impacts that se- maining on the tarmac for hours. The cyber.’’ questration is having on our country. traveling public is expecting flight I believe the American people understand Although I did not support the deci- delays and cancellations at airports all the importance of protecting our national secu- sions that led to sequestration, I re- across the country. The impact of se- rity, especially at a time when our nation faces main committed to protecting the questration is being felt by the thou- threats both foreign and domestic. But again, American people from the most harm- sands of travelers who utilize our air- due to sequestration the FBI and other mem- ful and potentially dangerous outcomes ways every day. And, ladies and gentle- bers of the national intelligence community related to sequestration. men, it’s going to get worse. who play a vital role in protecting our nation Sequestration simply means budget Along with flight delays, airline trav- may be given shorter hours or furloughed. cuts, extraordinary budget cuts. Every elers can expect increased wait times These are the sort of insidious impacts that moment we spend here in Washington in airport security lines because the unfortunately, may not get anyone’s attention should be spent working to improve the Transportation Security Administra- until something tragic happens. There are real lives and opportunities for the Amer- tion has also had to furlough screening life consequences if the sequester is not lifted. ican people. To that end, we should be agents in response to sequestration. PUBLIC HEALTH focused on legislation to avert seques- I represent Los Angeles International The effect on public health could be equally tration and improve our economy. Airport, which is the sixth busiest air- devastating. Sequestration could cut $3.7 bil- As our minority whip said here this port in the world and the third busiest lion from funding for the Department of Health morning, we’ve passed a budget off the airport in the United States. I under- and Human Services. A myriad of programs floor of the House. It’s the Ryan budg- stand the impact that flight delays will will be negatively impacted by these cuts. For et, and it protects sequestration. It have, not only on those traveling for example, cuts to Community Health Centers wants all of the cuts to take place. On leisure, but also on the airline industry could leave one million low-income and unin- the Senate side, they’ve passed a budg- and business travelers. sured patients without basic health services. et that does away with the onerous se- These furloughs are problematic for If we do not act to end the effects of se- questration budget cuts. Now we need a airports of any size. The importance of questration, there could be 45,000 fewer conference committee, simply mean- the air traffic controllers at LAX and breast and cervical cancer screenings for low- ing, we need both sides to come to- across the country cannot be under- income women. Further, nearly 485,000 sen- gether and resolve their differences and stated. God forbid that there should be iors could lose access to disease prevention move on with having a budget for this an accident that could have been avert- programs. country. But the Republicans are say- ed. No explanation could possibly make Even the gains we have made in HIV/AIDS ing ‘‘no.’’ amends for the resulting loss of life. awareness, screening, and care may also be And as it was mentioned by our mi- This is simply unacceptable. hampered by sequestration. The anticipated nority whip, we’re here in Washington, Ladies and gentlemen, I could talk cuts to HIV screening could result in 424,000 D.C., fiddling while Rome burns. We’re about a lot more, national security, fewer HIV tests. Further, cuts to the AIDS not taking care of any real business. housing, health care, all of that, but Drug Assistance Program could leave 7,400 They will not bring a conference com- the fact of the matter is this is unnec- HIV/AIDS patients in need of treatment without mittee together to resolve these dif- essary. I’m absolutely disappointed. I life-saving AIDS medications. Finally, the Na- ferences. want this Congress to get on with the tional Institutes of Health would be cut by $1.6 The simplest way to describe the se- business of getting a budget and rep- billion. That’s $1.6 billion less money available quester is to say that this was an resenting the people that sent them for cutting-edge research by scientists seeking avoidable, self-inflicted wound. A vocal here to represent them. cures for diseases like cancer, diabetes, and

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When it comes to housing—according to the Sequestration was actually designed At least in my house, my wife and I Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, these to cut spending across the board in a don’t decide what’s important to us cuts come at a time when the number of low- way that was so offensive and so illogi- and ignore everyone else. income families in need of housing assistance cal that it could never survive as a law. b 1100 has been rising substantially. Currently, there It was a law that was meant to unify both sides of the aisle in an effort to That doesn’t work in families, and it are long waiting lists for vouchers in almost doesn’t work in Washington. We sit every community, and homelessness remains develop a comprehensive deal to fix the economy and our deficit. down like adults—at least we should in a persistent problem. Congress—around some kitchen table The United States Department of Housing A responsible Congress could have and figure out what we can buy and and Urban Development estimates that about stopped those ridiculous cuts. In fact, I what we can’t. We work through to- 125,000 individuals and families, including el- agree with Senator MARK WARNER, who happens to be a former Governor, who day’s needs and plan for our future. We derly and disabled individuals, may lose as- don’t stop investing in our families. sistance and be at risk of becoming homeless. had to balance his State of Virginia’s Like Senator WARNER said, that would budget, and I quote, he called this These effects, while not immediate, would be be stupid. ‘‘stupid.’’ devastating to the millions of low- income fam- The House and the Senate need to get Mr. VAN HOLLEN, whom I work with ilies who depend on these federal programs around the table—any table. If you on the Budget Committee, introduced for shelter, a basic life necessity. can’t find a table here in the Capitol, commonsense legislation that would Sequestration cuts would also result in more come to my kitchen table. We must have responsibly reduced our deficit than 100,000 formerly homeless people, in- create an American budget that invests cluding veterans, being removed from their and ended the sequester. Unfortu- in job growth and educating our future current housing or emergency shelter pro- nately, the Republican majority re- workforce. We can make cuts—but cuts grams, putting them at substantial risk of be- fused to allow an up-or-down vote on that make sense. Let’s root out the coming homeless. this floor for that straightforward leg- waste, fraud, and abuse and cut tax WIC AND HEAD START islation. They doubled down on irre- loopholes to make sure everyone pays The sequester could also have a negative sponsible policies based on an eco- their fair share. impact on federally funded programs that pro- nomic math that we now know is com- The American people have shown us vide services to women and children. Essen- pletely flawed. what to do. Let’s get around a table. tial programs like Head Start and Early Head It reminded me of a story. Two guys Let’s name conferees and show the peo- Start may have to turn away up to 70,000 chil- are in a lifeboat, and the one holding ple who sent us here that we can be re- dren and families. These families rely on their the oars says, ‘‘This is a bad situation, sponsible and keep the promise of the services for quality childcare and parenting and one of us ain’t gonna make it.’’ It American Dream a reality. education initiatives. doesn’t take a genius to figure out who Ladies and gentlemen, I have been Even Women, Infants and Children, WIC, the guy with the oars is talking about. honored to be elected at the State leg- that provides nutritious food, counseling on All of us are in this lifeboat together, islative level in California, I have been healthy eating, and health care referrals to and we know where the majority honored to be a council member, and low-income pregnant and postpartum women, stands. They’re not rowing for the mid- now, since January of this year, I have infants, and children under age 5 who are at dle class. They’re just fighting to pro- been a Member of this body. And I’m nutritional risk faces cut. Secretary Tom tect millionaires and make sure their very, very disappointed. In business, at Vilsack at the U.S. Department of Agricultures special interests keep their tax breaks. home, and in elected office, I’ve never warned back in February that as a result of We know families, businesses, and seen a situation so stagnant, so stale the sequester WIC will only be able to provide communities continue to be hurt by and damaging to the people who sent services for 600,000 of the 9 million low-in- what we do or don’t do here in Wash- us here to represent them. ington. You’ve all seen it. FAA fur- come families currently served. f CONCLUSION loughs are causing flight delays, just Mr. Speaker, sequestration has already one example of how we’re continuing to HONORING NAZARINE J. taken a toll on families, businesses, and com- hurt our economy. BELLARDINI munities across the country. At a time when We can do better. We can write a le- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The we are working to rebuild our economy, se- gitimate, measured budget for this Chair recognizes the gentleman from questration will cost American workers millions country. New York (Mr. OWENS) for 5 minutes. of dollars in lost wages and businesses bil- Mr. Speaker, return this House to Mr. OWENS. Mr. Speaker, I rise lions of dollars in lost revenue. regular order. Our House has a budget. today to honor the life of a constituent Sequestration will have impacts that we The Senate has a budget. Let’s go to and World War II veteran, Nazarine J. might not consider here today. It will impact conference and start negotiating a real Bellardini of Norwood, New York. our national security efforts. It will impact our American budget. The American people Mr. Bellardini served the Nation in air travel and it will even impact the food we deserve some certainty, and they cer- the Air Force during World War II. eat. We must work to avert these thoughtless tainly deserve to know what priorities After he was honorably discharged in cuts. are important to their elected rep- 1948, he returned home to upstate New It is time for Republicans to stop refusing to resentatives. York and married his wife, Caroline, in move forward in our work to pass a budget For those watching at home, why is a 1950. that reflects our nation’s values. It is time to conference committee so important? Like so many World War II veterans, do the right thing for the American people and Because there are vast differences be- Mr. Bellardini helped build the modern lift the sequester. tween the budgets currently on the middle class. After the war, Mr. f table. A conference committee nego- Bellardini worked at the 7UP Bottling tiates, in full view of the public, on Company in Utica, New York. In 1957, SEQUESTER AND THE BUDGET principles and priorities that set fund- he was initially employed at the State The SPEAKER pro tempore. The ing for the next fiscal year. University of New York at Potsdam in Chair recognizes the gentleman from Let’s talk about this like my Repub- the mailroom. California (Mr. CA´ RDENAS) for 5 min- lican colleagues’ favorite thing to talk Mr. Bellardini retired from Potsdam utes. about. Let’s talk about it like people as the plant superintendent for heat- Mr. CA´ RDENAS. Mr. Speaker, I rise do at the kitchen table. ing, ventilation, and refrigeration. His today to address the number of times If paychecks are cut or an unforeseen behind-the-scenes work was vital to that Congress has dropped the ball emergency happens in a family, fami- the success of the thousands of stu- when it comes to our budget. But I’m lies don’t just pay 10 percent less on dents who attended SUNY Potsdam also here to say that we can fix it. their mortgage or require 10 percent during his tenure.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:41 Apr 26, 2013 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A25AP7.006 H25APPT1 smartinez on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H2310 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE April 25, 2013 In his retirement, Mr. Bellardini re- in Your ways, that our Nation might be handedly juggle work and household mained active as a member of the Pots- guided along the roads of peace, jus- responsibilities. dam Elks Lodge, the VFW, the Amer- tice, and goodwill. I rise today on behalf of a college stu- ican Legion, and the Knights of Colum- Grant strength and wisdom to our dent from Shakopee and millions like bus. He was also an avid hunter. Speaker and the Members of both the her working full-time while pursuing He will be greatly missed by those people’s House and the Senate, to our an undergraduate degree. left behind, including his son, his sis- President and his Cabinet, and to our And I rise today on behalf of an ter, two daughters, six grandchildren, Supreme Court. Eagan couple, who, like more than 50 as well as four great-grandchildren. Bless as well the moral and military million working Americans, spend at Like so many of that generation, he leaders of our country, and may those least 8 hours a week providing care for lived by the motto: ‘‘I was just doing who are the captains of business, indus- aging relatives, a challenge when bal- my job.’’ That is something we in try, and unions learn to work together ancing the demands of a job. Washington should clearly emulate. toward the mutual benefit of all. Mr. Speaker, outdated Federal policy I thank you for joining with me in Grant us the courage to develop a denies many workers the chance to honoring Mr. Bellardini’s life and his sound energy program for the good of spend more time with their children or service to our country. all. Bestow on the Members of Congress care for an aging relative. Accordingly, the Education and Workforce Com- f the perseverance to provide a frame- work that protects the rights and con- mittee approved legislation last week IT IS NEVER OKAY TO DISREGARD cerns of all Americans in the wake of that will fix this outdated policy and OUR MOST BASIC PRIVACY RIGHTS terrible violence in our land and the help more Americans balance family The SPEAKER pro tempore. The wisdom to forge a fair and equitable and work. Mr. Speaker, Americans sacrifice a Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from immigration reform, that together we great deal to provide for their families, Missouri (Mrs. HARTZLER) for 5 min- might look ahead to ever greater goals and I agree with my Minnesotan con- utes. for the continued growth of our Nation. stituents and most Americans: it is Mrs. HARTZLER. I rise today in re- May all that is done within the peo- about time. sponse to a situation which is cur- ple’s House be for Your greater honor rently causing a great deal of concern and glory. f among law-abiding citizens in my Amen. DON’T DISCOURAGE CROSS- home State of Missouri. f BORDER TRAVEL We have learned, through the dili- (Mr. HIGGINS asked and was given THE JOURNAL gent work of State Senator Kurt permission to address the House for 1 Schaefer and others in State govern- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The minute.) ment, that the Missouri Department of Chair has examined the Journal of the Mr. HIGGINS. Mr. Speaker, I was Revenue, which issues concealed-carry last day’s proceedings and announces alarmed to discover that the Depart- permits in our State, has improperly to the House his approval thereof. ment of Homeland Security’s budget allowed this sensitive, personal infor- Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the Jour- request proposed a study of the imposi- mation to be shared with the Federal nal stands approved. tion of a fee—a tax—for passengers and Government. This egregious disregard f pedestrians at our northern land border for privacy rights led last week to the crossing. resignation of the director of the State PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Western New York is home to two Department of Revenue. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Will the rail and three vehicle crossings, includ- While Missourians are pleased that gentlewoman from California (Ms. ing the Peace Bridge, the second busi- this inappropriate sharing of informa- BROWNLEY) come forward and lead the est northern border crossing. Inte- tion has been discovered, we are still House in the Pledge of Allegiance. grating the economies of western New trying to determine why information Ms. BROWNLEY of California led the York and southern Ontario is essential on who is legally licensed to carry con- Pledge of Allegiance as follows: to our economic strength, and nation- cealed firearms was surrendered to I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the ally 300,000 people cross our Canadian Federal authorities in the first place. United States of America, and to the Repub- border by vehicle each day and spend I stand with Missouri’s elected rep- lic for which it stands, one nation under God, an estimated $235 million. resentatives as they pursue all legal indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Last year, the American and Cana- avenues to learn why the Missouri De- dian Governments signed a historic Be- f partment of Revenue displayed such yond-the-Border agreement to bolster blatant disregard for the rights of our ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER cross-border travel. The imposition of a honest, law-abiding citizens. PRO TEMPORE border toll will discourage cross-border f The SPEAKER pro tempore. The travel and goes against the spirit of this historic agreement. RECESS Chair will entertain up to 15 requests for 1-minute speeches on each side of Mr. Speaker, we should be encour- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- the aisle. aging increased economic activity be- ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair tween the United States and Canada, declares the House in recess until noon f not stifling it. This proposal is com- today. WORKING FAMILIES FLEXIBILITY pletely unacceptable and must be with- Accordingly (at 11 o’clock and 4 min- ACT OF 2013 drawn immediately. utes a.m.), the House stood in recess. (Mr. KLINE asked and was given per- f f mission to address the House for 1 SIMPLIFY AND STRENGTHEN b 1200 minute.) FEDERAL SCHOOL AID PROGRAMS Mr. KLINE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today (Mr. WALBERG asked and was given AFTER RECESS on behalf of the Minnesotans I serve permission to address the House for 1 The recess having expired, the House who tell me simply: it’s about time. minute.) was called to order by the Speaker pro I rise today on behalf of a South St. Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, for tempore (Mr. POE of Texas) at noon. Paul mom and dad who find it difficult many young people, higher education f to balance work and family and feel has become a very expensive dream be- they are not spending enough time cause of rising costs. The average new PRAYER with their children. graduate is struggling to pay off more The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick I rise today on behalf of the Min- than $25,000 in debt while hunting for a J. Conroy, offered the following prayer: nesota National Guard and all our job in this stagnant economy. Eternal God, we give You thanks for brave men and women in uniform who While Washington can play a role in giving us another day. Lead us this day are deployed while their spouses single- fixing the problem, we cannot look to

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Instead of trying to work with some health care law that does nothing was just 20 years old. He was assigned schools, the Federal Government has to address the issue of rising costs. to A Company, 4th Brigade Special been busy implementing policies that The House is working on solutions to Troops Battalion, 3rd Infantry Divi- increase their costs. My colleagues and create a stronger, healthier economy sion, out of Fort Stewart, Georgia. Pri- I on the Higher Education and Work- with more jobs and opportunities for vate First Class Austin was a beloved force Training Subcommittee are look- all Americans. We have passed legisla- son, husband, friend, and soldier from ing at how to simplify and strengthen tion to replace the sequester, to bal- the Dacusville-Easley, Pickens County Federal aid programs. ance the budget, to repeal the Presi- area of South Carolina. It’s obvious more needs to be done to dent’s health care law, and we’re work- My heart goes out to his wife, his help students and families make the ing on reforming our broken Tax Code parents, and all of those who called best decision possible about their edu- to make it more fair and efficient. Barrett a friend. This true American cation at a price they can afford. My It’s time for the administration to hero has made the true sacrifice in de- goal is to continue to identify and re- get on board: stop creating problems fense of our great Nation, and we owe move unnecessary and costly burdens like politically motivated flight delays him our eternal gratitude. This Nation from this process and put the dream of and start helping to make life easier remains the greatest on Earth because higher education in reach of more stu- for American families. of people like Barrett Austin, and we dents. f must never forget the true cost of the freedoms that we enjoy. f b 1210 So on behalf of the Third District of ENERGY SAVINGS AND INDUS- HONORING ALAMEDA COUNTY South Carolina and the entire Nation, TRIAL COMPETITIVENESS ACT LEADERS we thank you, Barrett, for your sac- (Mr. WELCH asked and was given (Mr. SWALWELL of California asked rifice. Our thoughts and prayers con- permission to address the House for 1 and was given permission to address tinue to be with the entire Austin fam- minute and to revise and extend his re- the House for 1 minute and to revise ily. May God bless them, and may God marks.) and extend his remarks.) continue to bless America. Mr. WELCH. Mr. Speaker, climate Mr. SWALWELL of California. To- f change, in my view, is real, it’s urgent, morrow, the Alameda County Labor SUPPORTING SPECIALTY CROPS and we must make progress or ignore it Council will be hosting their annual at our peril. But whether we agree or Unionist of the Year awards dinner (Ms. DELBENE asked and was given disagree, whether you’re a climate where local labor leaders will be recog- permission to address the House for 1 change believer or denier, there are nized for their tireless advocacy on be- minute and to revise and extend her re- things that we can do together for the half of hardworking Americans. marks.) benefit of the environment and the One of these great leaders is Obray Ms. DELBENE. Mr. Speaker, I rise economy. Van Buren, who will be honored with today to introduce a bipartisan resolu- We can focus the debate on energy ef- the Unionist of the Year award. Obray tion in support of specialty crops, with ficiency; we can save money through has been a member of the Plumbers support from Members of Congress making our homes and buildings more and Steamfitters Local 342 for 30 years. across the country. Specialty crops, energy efficient; we can put people Obray is also on the board of directors such as fruits and vegetables, are a sig- back to work and buy American prod- for Tri-CED Community Recycling, a nificant part of agriculture, with an- ucts; and, in the process, we can cut company which gives many former of- nual production valued at over $50 bil- down on harmful carbon emissions and fenders and at-risk youth a chance at lion. This is about half of the value of make progress on climate change and life. This organization proudly serves all U.S. crops, but specialty crops strengthen our economy. both Hayward and Union City in my aren’t given the same attention or fi- That is why I’ve joined with my district. nancial support as our traditional com- friend from West Virginia, DAVID Also honored will be California’s At- modities. MCKINLEY, in introducing the Energy torney General Kamala Harris, an Ala- Specialty crops are a major source of Savings and Industrial Competitive- meda County native who also, like me, economic activity, jobs, and our Na- ness Act, which proposes practical so- served in the Alameda County District tion’s food supply. Every State has at lutions to bolster energy efficiency. Attorney’s Office and will be honored least some specialty crop production, This bill will speed our transition to a as the Warrior Woman of the Year. At- and my district is no different. In more energy efficient economy—in- torney General Harris is committed to Whatcom and Skagit counties, hun- creasing America’s economic competi- defending the interests of working fam- dreds of specialty crops are grown, to- tiveness in energy security—and build ilies who are the backbone of our econ- taling millions in sales each year. Spe- jobs. omy. cialty crops grown on farms in Snoho- By finding areas where we actually Other honorees include Rachel mish and King counties provide fresh, do agree and working together, we can Bryan, Jason Gumataotao, Tanya quality foods to our schools, res- make progress on the environment and Pitts, Tamara Perine, Bud Beal, and taurants, and farmers markets. on the economy. Christine Garrett. As Congress begins to consider an- f Once again, congratulations to all other farm bill, it is important to ac- knowledge how vital specialty crops MAKE LIFE EASIER FOR honorees. Alameda County appreciates are to our country. I urge my col- AMERICAN FAMILIES your efforts to ensure that worker rights and benefits are always pro- leagues to join me in supporting this (Ms. JENKINS asked and was given tected. resolution, and I look forward to con- permission to address the House for 1 f tinuing to work together to ensure minute and to revise and extend her re- that programs in support of specialty marks.) REMEMBERING PRIVATE FIRST crops are highlighted and fully funded. CLASS BARRETT L. AUSTIN Ms. JENKINS. Whether it’s jobs or f our Nation’s debt, the economy is still (Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina the number one issue for hardworking asked and was given permission to ad- NATIONAL AUTISM AWARENESS Americans. But, instead of supporting dress the House for 1 minute.) MONTH initiatives like the Keystone pipeline, Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina. Mr. (Mr. MESSER asked and was given something that would create 20,000 jobs Speaker, I rise today with heavy heart permission to address the House for 1

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Thankfully, medical people problem because they have the GET RID OF SEQUESTRATION and scientific advances largely have same people, and it’s not a resource (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was eliminated the threat from this and problem because they have about 100 given permission to address the House many other dreaded diseases and condi- percent more money, what is the prob- for 1 minute.) tions. Yet our understanding of autism lem? Ms. JACKSON LEE. The simple ques- I contend to you, Mr. Speaker, it’s a remains an unsolved puzzle. tion is asked, why are we in such a di- political problem. It’s time to tell the Mr. Speaker, autism affects too lemma of complexity and absolutely administration to stop playing politics many children, including my nephew abandoning the American people? with the American people. Trey, and strains families, as I know That’s what sequestration is all about. firsthand. It is time to commit our- f And I know it’s hard to tell a story selves as a Nation to solving this mod- GUN SAFETY again, but sequestration came about ern epidemic so autism can be pre- (Mr. HIMES asked and was given per- because a whole sizeable population of vented, treated, and cured tomorrow mission to address the House for 1 Members, Republican Members, did not like polio is today. minute and to revise and extend his re- want to pay America’s bills. f marks.) But we can, as a bipartisan, collec- HONORING SEAN SMITH Mr. HIMES. Mr. Speaker, last week tive body that responds to America, was a profoundly disturbing week for avoid the loss of 2 million jobs and a .6 (Mr. VARGAS asked and was given those of us from Connecticut and for percent drag on the economy and $67.8 permission to address the House for 1 Americans as a whole. When this body, million lost for primary and secondary minute.) when the institution of Congress failed education in Texas, $51 million lost for Mr. VARGAS. Mr. Speaker, I rise to do anything to promote gun safety education of children with disabilities, today in honor of Sean Smith, an infor- in the face of the tragedy at Newtown, and 4,800 Head Start seats lost. We can mation technology specialist killed in this institution let the American peo- come together. the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack ple down. We can pass H.R. 900, which gets rid in Benghazi, Libya. Sean was called When a Senator on the Republican of the sequestration, or we can call for ‘‘one of our best’’ at the State Depart- side with an ‘‘A’’ rating from the NRA the budget conferees to, once and for ment by former Secretary of State Hil- and a Senator from the Democratic all, address the question of America. lary Clinton. side with an ‘‘A’’ rating from the NRA The reason why we have a slowdown Originally from San Diego, Cali- put forward a background check meas- of FAA, it’s because the people are fur- fornia, Sean enlisted in the Air Force ure that fails, we fail. loughed. You can have 50,000 FAA air in 1995. In 2002, he was awarded the Air Look, we can and we should debate traffic controllers; but if they’re fur- Force Commendation Medal and joined what kind of weapons Americans loughed, they can’t work. the United States Foreign Service. should have a right to. We can and we Let’s work on behalf of the American President Barack Obama stated: should debate how many bullets can go people—have the budget conferees now Sean Smith lived to serve, first in the Air into a magazine. There is no principled pass H.R. 900, get rid of the sequestra- Force, then at the State Department. He argument for why we should not check tion. knew the perils of his calling. And there in out someone who wants to buy a weap- Benghazi, far from home, he laid down his f on. And yet, we couldn’t make that ar- life in the service to all of us. THE SENATE IMMIGRATION BILL gument in the Congress of the United PROVIDES COVER FOR TERROR- Sean was also a loving husband and a States. proud father. He was devoted to his So as a result, some time soon, a ter- ISTS wife, Heather, and to his two children, rorist will buy a gun at a gun show. (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was Samantha and Nathan. Some time soon, a violent felon will given permission to address the House Mrs. Smith said of her late husband: buy a gun online. And as a result, for 1 minute and to revise and extend Sean supported the mission of diplomacy Americans will die. And this institu- his remarks.) and served his country with pride and opti- tion will bear the blame. This was not Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, mism. a proud moment, Mr. Speaker, for the the Senate immigration bill provides I wish to offer my deepest condo- Congress of the United States. cover for suspected terrorists and oth- lences and the deepest condolences of f ers who would do us harm. After 6 this House to the Smith family. Please months, it legalizes millions of people know that your family will continue to KILAH DAVENPORT CHILD in the country illegally. They can then be in our prayers and our thoughts. PROTECTION ACT get work permits, Social Security And thank you and your late husband (Mr. PITTENGER asked and was cards, and driver’s licenses. This gives for your selfless service to our country. given permission to address the House them a legitimate cover to travel and May God bless you. for 1 minute.) plot attacks. f Mr. PITTENGER. Mr. Speaker, I rise And mass legalization will encourage today on behalf of the Kilah Davenport others to enter the country illegally so TRUTH TELLING WITH FLIGHT Child Protection Act. Just a year ago, they too can obtain cover documents. DELAYS a 3-year-old girl was rammed against a Any immigration bill should put the (Mr. RIBBLE asked and was given wall head first, suffering irreparable safety of Americans first. We should go permission to address the House for 1 brain damage and being paralyzed for slowly before giving amnesty to mil- minute.) the rest of her life. When the DA went lions of illegal immigrants long before Mr. RIBBLE. Mr. Speaker, I rise to prosecute, he found in North Caro- we have secure borders. today to give the American people lina that the sentencing was limited to f some truth telling about what is going 4 to 7 years, a very minimum sentence on with the FAA and flight delays. We for such an egregious act. Upon further SIBLING VISAS have been told this is all the result of review, we found that other States also (Ms. CHU asked and was given per- the sequester. And yet in 2001, there have such minimum sentencing, some mission to address the House for 1 were about 30,000 takeoffs per day in with no minimum whatsoever. minute.) the United States, and they did that Mr. Speaker, our act would provide Ms. CHU. Twenty-four years, a quar- with about $6 billion worth of funding. that there would be a minimum sen- ter century. Imagine not being able to

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:41 Apr 26, 2013 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K25AP7.019 H25APPT1 smartinez on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE April 25, 2013 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H2313 see your brother or sister for 24 years. able to do this, may be able to capture In my district of Sacramento County, That’s how long our sibling visa back- and store carbon dioxide; but we have we have a large Hmong population. logs can be right now in our broken im- natural infrastructure that can do it Some cancer rates in the Hmong are 16 migration system. right now. And a great example of that times higher than in the White popu- The Senate immigration bill does is from my own district in California, lation, and their cancer is much more many good things to fix this broken the Pacific Forest Trust. likely to be diagnosed at a later stage. system and reduces the backlog of fam- They’ve been working for over 20 That’s one reason why this month I ily visas. This means that all those years with landowners, as well as local, introduced the bipartisan resolution families who have been waiting for so State and Federal officials, to conserve recognizing National Minority Cancer many years can finally be reunited. and manage forests to capture carbon. Awareness Week with my colleague, But for the future it gets rid of the sib- Their work with forest conservation Representative RODNEY DAVIS. We ling category entirely. easements is paying off for wildlife, for must invest in research, innovation, What this means is that if someone landowners, and also for our climate. and diagnosis to end this disparity. I immigrates here and becomes a citizen, Their Van Eck forest in Humboldt celebrate National Minority Health she can petition for her parents to County was the first forest emissions Month. come in short order; but because this reduction project registered under f bill gets rid of the sibling category, the California’s climate change law. HONORING MONTANA’S WORLD 22-year-old brother with Down syn- f drome would have to be left behind to WAR II VETERANS PLAYING POLITICS WITH THE be all by himself. That’s not right. SEQUESTER (Mr. DAINES asked and was given Fixing our broken immigration sys- permission to address the House for 1 tem is so important. But let’s make (Mr. BUCSHON asked and was given minute and to revise and extend his re- sure that immediate family members permission to address the House for 1 marks.) can be reunited. minute.) Mr. DAINES. Mr. Speaker, I rise f Mr. BUCSHON. Mr. Speaker, I’m here today to recognize the 86 Montana to comment on the administration RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT THE World War II veterans who recently playing politics in an attempt to maxi- made their way to Washington, D.C., as ATROCITIES COMMITTED BY mize the impact of his sequester on the KERMIT GOSNELL part of the Big Sky Honor Flight. I’m American people and, in this case, the so proud that the Honor Flight pro- (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was aviation system and the traveling pub- gram exists, and I’m deeply thankful to given permission to address the House lic. all the volunteers that made this pos- for 1 minute and to revise and extend The FAA’s operating budget has sible. her remarks.) grown by nearly 110 percent, more than As the son of a U.S. Marine, I have a Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I double in the last 17 years, as domestic deep appreciation for the sacrifices our rise today to raise awareness about the flights are down 27 percent. The FAA’s veterans have made in service to our grave atrocities committed by Kermit share of the sequester represents $600 Nation. But I was struck by something Gosnell against innocent lives at his million of their $16 billion annual budg- that one of our Montana World War II Philadelphia abortion clinic. Witnesses et, about 5 percent. vets said while sitting before the World called the clinic a ‘‘house of horrors’’ Does anyone out there believe a Fed- War II monument just this past Mon- and described a procedure known as eral Government bureaucracy can’t day. He said this: ‘‘At the end of my ‘‘snipping,’’ in which the backs of ba- find this level of savings without af- life, I look around this memorial and I bies’ necks are cut with scissors to fecting the American people? Well, I see the power of this Nation.’’ ‘‘ensure fetal demise.’’ don’t. It’s true. The monuments that line Abortion clinics across our Nation Rather than furloughing air traffic our National Mall do remind us of the take the lives of 1.2 million babies controllers to make a political point, strength and perseverance of the every year. This is murder, and it must the FAA should cut wasteful and un- United States. be stopped. We have the responsibility necessary spending. But, Mr. Speaker, I look at our vet- to protect the unborn, as well as the Mr. Speaker, these cuts should not erans and our servicemembers, from sanctity of all innocent human life. significantly impact the aviation sys- the members of the Greatest Genera- These wholesale murder clinics con- tem, but the administration is failing tion to the men and women serving our tinue to take innocent lives. The pros- to show leadership and is trying to Nation today, and in them I see the ecution of Kermit Gosnell is a positive score political points. power of this Nation, founded in a com- step toward stopping our Nation’s slide f mitment to freedom and an unwavering toward unrestricted abortions. RECOGNITION OF NATIONAL dedication to service. f MINORITY HEALTH MONTH f CLIMATE CHANGE SOLUTIONS (Mr. BERA of California asked and b 1230 (Mr. HUFFMAN asked and was given was given permission to address the permission to address the House for 1 House for 1 minute.) IN OPPOSITION TO THE FULL minute.) Mr. BERA of California. Mr. Speaker, FAITH AND CREDIT ACT Mr. HUFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, across I have the pleasure of being cochair of (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked this country, we are seeing the ruinous the Congressional Asian Pacific Amer- and was given permission to address effects of climate change, from more ican Caucus on Healthcare with my the House for 1 minute and to revise powerful storms in the East, to per- colleague from California, Representa- and extend his remarks.) sistent drought and catastrophic tive BARBARA LEE, who happens to be Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. wildfires in the West. here in the Chamber as well. Speaker, today I rise in opposition to We are not powerless in the face of I’d like to take this opportunity to the Full Faith and Credit Act, H.R. 807. this threat. We know what we have to recognize National Minority Health This bill would allow the Secretary of do: slow our emissions of greenhouse Month. Despite medical advances that the Treasury to take all necessary ac- gases, deploy clean energy solutions. save many lives in our country, there’s tions to ensure U.S. public debt obliga- But we also must do another thing. been limited progress in ending the ra- tions are paid when due and allows the We must manage our forest lands to be cial and ethnic disparities in health. Secretary to forego obligations not re- part of the solution instead of part of Groups like Asian Americans, Native lated to public debt. What this means, the problem. Healthy forests can actu- Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders have essentially, is all foreign debt will take ally help remove carbon dioxide from higher rates of diabetes, certain types precedence over repaying important the environment, from the atmosphere. of cancer and obesity, conditions that domestic programs, such as Social Se- We sometimes hear about tech- are expensive to treat and have lasting curity. We should pass legislation that nologies that, in the future, may be consequences. Social Security be paid for first, not

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The credits are colleagues in a bipartisan manner to f backed by ‘‘the full faith and credit of put the people first. The real enemy is NATIONAL SEXUAL ASSAULT the U.S. Government,’’ with the prom- disease. Fund the National Institutes AWARENESS AND PREVENTION ise to redeem these credits. I support of Health fully. MONTH AND NATIONAL DNA DAY repaying the Social Security trust fund f before any other debt is paid. Pay So- (Mr. PEARCE asked and was given ENOUGH IS ENOUGH cial Security first before we pay other permission to address the House for 1 countries. (Mr. PRICE of Georgia asked and was minute and to revise and extend his re- f given permission to address the House marks.) for 1 minute.) Mr. PEARCE. Mr. Speaker, April is REPEALING HEALTH CARE LAW Mr. PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, National Sexual Assault Awareness (Mr. WESTMORELAND asked and the greatest amount of opportunity, and Prevention Month. In fact, today is was given permission to address the the greatest amount of success for the National DNA Day, where we com- House for 1 minute and to revise and greatest number of people—ensuring memorate the discovery of DNA’s dou- extend his remarks.) that the American Dream lives for ble helix and the subsequent scientific Mr. WESTMORELAND. Mr. Speaker, all—that’s what we want. That’s our advancements. it was 3 years ago when President goal. And our constituents know that DNA has revolutionized public safety Obama and congressional Democrats the path to that goal demands real so- and criminal justice in this country. It pushed through their government take- lutions. helps solve unsolved crimes. Since its over of health care. In those 3 short Sadly, all we hear from the President inception in 1994, the DNA database years, the law has already cost the and the other side is to just stay the system has solved more than 200,000 American people over $2 trillion and course. More failed policies, more debt, cold cases that provided closure to over has raised taxes another $1 trillion— more taxes, less American energy, 200,000 families. It assists prosecutors and the law isn’t even fully enacted more government control of health in taking criminals off the streets. It yet. And what do we have to show for care, more dependency on government, also exonerates the innocent, having it? Higher government spending, higher less economic growth. That’s their freed more than 300 convicted crimi- taxes, higher deficits, higher health in- plan. And it simply isn’t working for nals. surance premiums, and a lower quality American families. Katie Sepich was a 22-year-old grad- of health care. And now the President is forcing air uate student at New Mexico State Uni- Companies all over the country are travel delays, blaming the action on versity in my district. In August of being forced to cut costs by laying off the sequester. The FAA is spending 2003, she was brutally raped, burned, current employees or cutting their right now exactly what it spent in 2010. strangled to death, and abandoned at a hours, putting on hold hiring new em- So these are Obama flight delays. The dumpsite. But Katie Sepich was a ployees, and halting expansion. That is truth is that any spending reduction at fighter, having the DNA of her offender bad for American workers and bad for the FAA could easily be gained by cut- under her fingernails. Through DNA, our economy. ting waste, not necessary services. they were able to find and convict her House Republicans are committed to President Obama, stop playing poli- offender and put him in jail. defunding, delaying, and dismembering tics with the American people. We in The bill, which was signed into law ObamaCare and will continue to fight Congress are used to it, but the public here in this Congress last year, helps for the American people to get rid of doesn’t deserve it. Enough is enough. the State collect evidence. DNA has this terrible law and replace it with f transformed our justice system and real reforms that will make our health provided closure for families. CONGRATULATING OAK PARK care stronger. As one senior Demo- UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT f cratic Senator said, ObamaCare is a FLOODING IN ILLINOIS ‘‘train wreck.’’ (Ms. BROWNLEY of California asked f and was given permission to address (Mrs. BUSTOS asked and was given the House for 1 minute and to revise permission to address the House for 1 FUNDING THE NATIONAL and extend her remarks.) minute.) INSTITUTES OF HEALTH Ms. BROWNLEY of California. Mr. Mrs. BUSTOS. I rise today to talk (Mr. COHEN asked and was given per- Speaker, I rise today to congratulate about the recent flooding that has im- mission to address the House for 1 one of Ventura County’s most distin- pacted families across my region. From minute.) guished school districts, Oak Park Uni- Rockford to the Quad Cities to Peoria, Mr. COHEN. Many people have been fied School District, for winning the Illinois, and in so many towns in be- concerned about the sequester and the Sustainability Award from the U.S. De- tween, communities large and small effects it has had on airplane flights. partment of Education. Oak Park Uni- are suffering due to this month’s And I am, too. People are delayed a fied was one of just 14 school districts record flooding. Among the worst hit half hour, an hour, or whatever, and in the entire Nation to receive this areas of my region is London Mills, that’s bad. But the biggest thing people award, which recognizes schools and which is in the far southern part of my ought to be upset about the sequester school districts for their exemplary ef- congressional district. Many there are is the fact that it takes $1.6 billion out forts in reducing energy usage, pro- suffering. of the National Institutes of Health. moting better health care, and pro- Amanda Franklin of London Mills Mr. Speaker, each person in this viding better quality environmental lost her home, many of her possessions, room at one time will face a ren- education to their students. and even her children’s drawings that dezvous with destiny. Whether that Oak Park Unified Elementary School she has held onto since they were in rendezvous is cancer, heart disease, students are taking produce from their kindergarten. stroke, Alzheimer’s, AIDS, diabetes, or school garden and greenhouse to a Bethene Weber, who is 78 years old, Parkinson’s, the National Institutes of local free clinic where they explain the lost her home of almost half a century Health is working for cures and treat- impacts of diabetes to their patients to the flooding. ments. By taking $1.6 billion from what and how to grow and enjoy healthy There are far too many heart- is our personal Department of Defense, foods. Last year, another team of stu- breaking stories from across my re- we are going to put certain people at dents sponsored the district-wide Week gion.

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No amendment to that amendment and their energy to help those in need. to adequately fund proven health eq- in the nature of a substitute shall be in order Illinoisans are generous and compas- uity programs and pass the next steps except those printed in the report of the sionate, as well as resilient and hard- of the Tri-Caucus Health Equity bill, Committee on Rules accompanying this res- working. I have no doubt we will re- which, on behalf of the Tri-Caucus, I olution. Each such amendment may be of- cover from this flooding. But, Mr. will introduce this fall. fered only in the order printed in the report, Speaker, this type of disaster could Health justice will be achieved when may be offered only by a Member designated happen anywhere. As we continue to every man, woman, and child in Amer- in the report, shall be considered as read, debate the issues of the day, I call on ica has an equal opportunity to live a shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by all of us to keep in mind the people healthy life, regardless of who they are the proponent and an opponent, shall not be who are suffering and be there for them or where they live. subject to amendment, and shall not be sub- in their time of need. f ject to a demand for division of the question f in the House or in the Committee of the COMMUNICATION FROM THE Whole. All points of order against such b 1240 CLERK OF THE HOUSE amendments are waived. At the conclusion The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- of consideration of the bill for amendment OUTRAGE OVER AIR TRAFFIC the Committee shall rise and report the bill CONTROL FURLOUGH fore the House the following commu- to the House with such amendments as may (Mr. GIBBS asked and was given per- nication from the Clerk of the House of have been adopted. Any Member may de- mission to address the House for 1 Representatives: mand a separate vote in the House on any minute.) APRIL 25, 2013. amendment adopted in the Committee of the Whole to the bill or to the amendment in the Mr. GIBBS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today, Hon. JOHN A. BOEHNER, The Speaker, The Capitol, House of Representa- nature of a substitute made in order as origi- as I am outraged by the actions that tives, Washington, DC. nal text. The previous question shall be con- this White House is putting on the DEAR MR. SPEAKER: Pursuant to the per- sidered as ordered on the bill and amend- American public, unnecessary hardship mission granted in Clause 2(h) of rule II of ments thereto to final passage without inter- in their furloughing of air traffic con- the Rules of the U.S. House of Representa- vening motion except one motion to recom- trollers. This is not necessary. tives, the Clerk received the following mes- mit with or without instructions. Out of a $10 billion operating budget, sage from the Secretary of the Senate on SEC. 2. On any legislative day during the they have almost $3 billion of nonper- April 25, 2013 at 9:15 a.m.: period from April 27, 2013, through May 3, 2013— sonnel operation costs that they can Appointments: Advisory Committee on the Records of (a) the Journal of the proceedings of the make cuts there first. It would include Congress. previous day shall be considered as approved; $500 million for consultants, $325 mil- National Advisory Committee on Institu- and lion for supplies and travel, and $143 tional Quality and Integrity. (b) the Chair may at any time declare the million to address their 46 fleet of air- With best wishes, I am House adjourned to meet at a date and time, craft. Aircraft travel in this time pe- Sincerely, within the limits of clause 4, section 5, arti- riod is down 27 percent. This is unnec- KAREN L. HAAS, cle I of the Constitution, to be announced by essary. Clerk. the Chair in declaring the adjournment. SEC. 3. The Speaker may appoint Members Today we hear reports of air traffic f to perform the duties of the Chair for the du- controllers reporting that they’ve been PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION ration of the period addressed by section 2 of instructed by management to make it OF H.R. 527, RESPONSIBLE HE- this resolution as though under clause 8(a) of as tough as possible on the traveling LIUM ADMINISTRATION AND rule I. public. This is nothing but political SEC. 4. The Committee on Education and STEWARDSHIP ACT rhetoric to gain and put pressure on the Workforce may, at any time before 5 the Congress to pass more tax in- Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Mr. Speaker, by p.m. on Tuesday, April 30, 2013, file a report creases. I think it’s a despicable atti- direction of the Committee on Rules, I to accompany H.R. 1406. tude for this White House, and we call up House Resolution 178 and ask The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- should address it with the American for its immediate consideration. tleman from Utah is recognized for 1 public. It’s despicable and it’s out- The Clerk read the resolution, as fol- hour. rageous. lows: Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Mr. Speaker, for the purpose of debate only, I yield f H. RES. 178 Resolved, That at any time after the adop- the customary 30 minutes to the gen- MINORITY HEALTH MONTH tion of this resolution the Speaker may, pur- tleman from Massachusetts (Mr. (Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD asked and suant to clause 2(b) of rule XVIII, declare the MCGOVERN), pending which I yield my- was given permission to address the House resolved into the Committee of the self such time as I may consume. Dur- House for 1 minute and to revise and Whole House on the state of the Union for ing the consideration of this resolu- consideration of the bill (H.R. 527) to amend extend her remarks.) tion, all time yielded is for the purpose the Helium Act to complete the privatiza- of debate only. Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD. Mr. Speaker, tion of the Federal helium reserve in a com- on behalf of Congresswoman LEE and petitive market fashion that ensures sta- GENERAL LEAVE myself, I rise to commemorate April as bility in the helium markets while pro- Mr. BISHOP of Utah. I further ask the 13th annual Minority Health tecting the interests of American taxpayers, that all Members have 5 legislative Month. and for other purposes. The first reading of days during which they may revise and Before 2001, there was no national the bill shall be dispensed with. All points of extend their remarks. conversation about health disparities. order against consideration of the bill are The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there waived. General debate shall be confined to Since then, the Congressional Tri-Cau- the bill and shall not exceed one hour equal- objection to the request of the gen- cus has been tireless in efforts to edu- ly divided and controlled by the chair and tleman from Utah? cate Congress and the country about ranking minority member of the Committee There was no objection. the disproportionate burden of pre- on Natural Resources. After general debate Mr. BISHOP of Utah. This resolution mature death and preventable illness the bill shall be considered for amendment provides a structured rule for the con- in our minority communities. under the five-minute rule. In lieu of the sideration of H.R. 527, the Responsible Due to the advocacy of the Tri-Cau- amendment in the nature of a substitute rec- Helium Administration and Steward- cus, the ACA contained ground- ommended by the Committee on Natural Re- ship Act. It makes several amendments sources now printed in the bill, it shall be in breaking policies to reduce disparities, order to consider as an original bill for the in order, which were compliant with such as expanding Medicaid eligibility, purpose of amendment under the five-minute the rules of this House. In fact, four of increasing resources for community rule an amendment in the nature of a sub- the five amendments suggested to the health clinics, and institutionalizing stitute consisting of the text of Rules Com- Rules Committee will be presented.

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It provides for 1 hour of general we do something more complicated I would like to enter into the debate, with 30 minutes equally divided first. No. You find the problem and you RECORD, Mr. Speaker, a news item that and controlled by the chair and rank- solve that particular problem. appeared on a Fox affiliate out in Utah ing minority member of the Committee This is one of the situations we have entitled, ‘‘Sequestration forces food on Natural Resources. It’s a very fair here today. The concept of helium is a pantry closure.’’ and good rule. potential problem if we don’t change We started hearing reports about air- Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to stand the law that regulates it. It will affect port delays because of the sequester’s before the House today in support of people in the manufacturing sector and impact on the FAA. And I really got a this rule and the underlying piece of in the health care sector. It will hurt kick out of my Republican colleagues legislation, H.R. 527, the Responsible real people. coming down here kind of expressing Helium Administration and Steward- What we should celebrate is the fact their astonishment that there were air- ship Act, as opposed to the irrespon- that today Republicans and Democrats port delays as a result of sequestration. sible helium administration and stew- have come together and done what the They actually had the temerity to ardship act one could assume coming people have requested and found a complain about those delays. from the other body. problem and suggested a good, com- I asked my friends on the other side The underlying legislation is a bipar- monsense solution to a problem in a ra- of the aisle: What did you think would tisan bill and enjoys a broad base of tional and reasonable way. That is happen when you voted for unneces- support on both sides of the aisle, in- what we have before us today, Mr. sary, arbitrary, senseless across-the- cluding the sponsor, the chairman of Speaker. board cuts? My Republican friends re- the Natural Resources Committee, Mr. I reserve the balance of my time. mind me of Claude Rains in ‘‘Casa- HASTINGS of Washington, and the Nat- Mr. MCGOVERN. I want to thank the blanca.’’ They are shocked—shocked— ural Resources Committee ranking gentleman from Utah (Mr. BISHOP) for that voting to slash funding for air member, Mr. MARKEY. In fact, H.R. 527 yielding me the customary 30 minutes, traffic controllers would result in their was favorably reported out of the Com- and yield myself such time as I may flights being delayed. mittee on Natural Resources on Feb- consume. Well, I want my friends to under- ruary 14 on a voice vote, and there (Mr. MCGOVERN asked and was stand one thing. There are con- were no dissenting votes. given permission to revise and extend sequences to their actions. There are I’d like to thank the chairman of the his remarks.) consequences to the sequestration. Natural Resources Committee, the gen- Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I want The truth, Mr. Speaker, is that def- tleman from Washington (Mr. HAS- to begin by thanking the majority for icit reduction is an important goal, but TINGS), for his work on this common- bringing up a bipartisan bill. It’s not deficit reduction alone is not an eco- sense bill and approach. often that this majority works in a bi- nomic policy. We know that mindless Mr. Speaker, helium is an essential partisan way on legislation. In fact, austerity budget cuts like this stupid and vital element and a commodity it’s a rarity. But, in this case, Chair- sequester are not going to help our that we all depend on in countless man HASTINGS worked with Ranking economy grow and help people get jobs ways. It’s used widely in the scientific Member MARKEY to produce a bill that and help get our economy back on the community, but also in the health care should pass the House with very, very kind of footing we all want it to be on. industry. It’s vital to the proper func- little opposition. When Bill Clinton was President, tioning of MRI equipment in hospitals. In fact, we have a streamlined proc- when he rescued the economy in the It’s vital in the production of elec- ess here in the House for noncontrover- 1990s, he did so through job creation, tronics, such as microchips and super- sial bills like this. It’s called the sus- investing in our economy. We expanded conductors. Helium is essential for pension calendar. This is a perfect bill the tax base by increasing the work- science. It’s essential for our NASA for the suspension calendar. We could force, bringing more revenue into the space program. Helium is a byproduct be done with this bill in 40 minutes. We Federal Government and thereby re- of natural gas production. could debate, vote, and send it to the ducing the deficit. In short, we have heard from people Senate so they could send it to the And here’s the funny thing. Despite for a long time that what Congress President. the apocalyptic gloom and doom of needs to do is come together and work But, instead, the majority is stretch- some on the other side of the aisle, be- in a bipartisan way, find a compromise ing this bill out over 2 days—2 days, lieve it or not, the deficit is actually and present a solution that can actu- Mr. Speaker, to consider a bill that shrinking faster than expected. And ally solve some of the problems we’re isn’t controversial and will pass over- the best thing we can do is to help facing. This is exactly what this par- whelmingly, 2 days to consider this bill speed up that process by investing in ticular bill does do. when there are so many other urgent our people and creating jobs. We should challenges that this majority con- be promoting growth through infra- b 1250 tinues to ignore, 2 days on the Respon- structure projects and job-training pro- This is exactly what this particular sible Helium Administration and Stew- grams. We should be creating long- bill does do. ardship Act. That’s a lot of hot air term demand through research and de- The leadership, both Republicans and even for this House. So while we’re velopment, not cutting the National Democrats on the committee, have spending a ridiculous amount of time Institutes of Health’s research budget, crafted a bill in which they have come on this bill, the Republican majority not cutting the National Science Foun- together and presented a compromise. continues to ignore the economy. dation. We should be supporting these We should be happy with this day. We The gentleman from Utah is right areas that create innovation and op- should be celebrating this particular when he says that this could poten- portunity. We should be investing in bill on the floor because it’s a perfect tially be a problem if we don’t address our young people, preparing our stu- example of government done right. this issue of helium, but that’s not dents for the 21st century economy, When an elderly lady will call my until the end of the fiscal year. We but we’re not doing any of that today— district office and complain that her have some major problems right now any of that today. Social Security check has not arrived, this very second that the majority of And, yes, the bill before us that we’re the most important issue of govern- this House continues to ignore, chal- dealing with right now is fine, no prob- ment to her is her Social Security lenges that impact our constituencies lems. Yes, Republicans and Democrats check. To me and my staff, the most all over this country. worked together on this in a way that

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Par- After World War II, the demand for off—the sixth week of recess that this ticularly if they have significant govern- helium increased dramatically, so Con- House of Representatives has taken ment funding.’’ gress passed the Helium Act in 1960 to since January—the sixth weeklong re- The closure of the SLCAP food pantry in provide incentives for the private nat- cess with all that’s going on. With all Murray is a big hole in that safety net. ural gas industry to strip helium from of the difficulty that people all across Neighborhood Pantry Manager Mary Ander- its natural gas wells and sell it to the this country are dealing with because son says the federal cuts left them little government, which then placed it in choice. of the sequestration, we’re taking an- ‘‘The pantries have had to take a 10 per- the Federal Helium Reserve, eventu- other week off. cent budget cut,’’ Anderson says. ‘‘We oper- ally leading to a supply large enough Mr. Speaker, I think we should do ate on Community Development Federal to supply all of the U.S. Federal and more, we can do more, we must do Block Grants, which are government pro- domestic needs as well as the ability to more, and we certainly can do better. grams.’’ sell some overseas. The 1960 legislation So while I have no problem with this Customers from the Murray pantry are required that the Federal Government bill, and while, if we don’t deal with being diverted to SLCAP’s pantry on Red- set prices on the sale of helium, which wood Road. But Anderson says it’s a big in- this helium issue come the end of the convenience for a group of people who are al- would cover the costs of the Federal fiscal year there may be a problem, ready struggling. Government for its purchase and stor- we’ll deal with it fast enough. Right ‘‘The need has been increasing a lot,’’ says age. now there are urgent issues that we Anderson. ‘‘Over 200% [in the past five Since the 1990s, the Federal demand need to face, not just airline delays. years]. But also our other programs.’’ for helium has dropped significantly There are people in this country who Anderson says the organization’s Head while the private demand has in- have fallen through the cracks. There Start program has also taken a significant creased. So, in 1996, Congress passed cut due to sequestration. Affordable housing are people in this country struggling programs are another on the chopping block. the Helium Privatization Act, which who are seeing their benefits slashed Bailey says that perpetuates the problem, was intended to lead to the phasing out because of the sequestration. There are since those are typically the people who also of the Federal role in helium produc- research facilities all across this coun- rely on the food pantry. tion and storage with a view towards try that are terminating important Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Mr. Speaker, I allowing market forces to work within medical research programs because of yield myself such time as I may con- the private sector for its production the sequestration. We ought to deal sume. and reducing the cost to the Federal with that. I wish to thank the gentleman from Government. The 1996 law required the And one other thing, Mr. Speaker. Massachusetts for his kind words about government to price helium, not on My friends on the other side of the the process that we are doing here. It is market prices, but only on the min- aisle a few weeks ago made a big hoo- nice to be complimented on a bill imum price necessary to recover $1.3 ha and sent all kinds of press releases which we have done correctly and done billion in Federal debt that was in- about how they were going to force the right. I would suggest, though, that it curred to build this helium reserve. House and the Senate to pass budgets, is wise of us to actually bring it here to The Federal Government will be able otherwise we would lose our salaries. the floor, rather than put it on a sus- to pay off that $1.3 billion debt sooner Well, the House passed a budget, a pension calendar. than was anticipated—another cause lousy budget, but the House passed a There were several Representatives for celebration. That doesn’t happen budget. The Senate passed a budget, as that wished to have a chance to speak very often in this government either; well. So you have two budgets. Why to this and amend it. We are dealing but unless the particular law we have doesn’t the House move to go to con- with amendments to this particular on the books now is amended, it will ference? Why aren’t we trying to rec- bill, which is, once again, why you close the reserve, leaving no new do- oncile the differences between the bring it to the floor, otherwise they mestic sources of helium. The industry House and the Senate to try to get our would be closed from that process. would be forced to look overseas to budgetary situation under control? such producers as Algeria and Qatar We’re not doing that. We’re not doing b 1300 and Russia to fill their needs. anything, quite frankly, that we need I also appreciate his comments about In essence, if we do not deal with this to do at this moment. sequestration. I am very happy that he particular bill, there will be a harm So I would urge my colleagues, this mentioned that because, not only did I that will impact real people. I’m sorry is a fine bill, vote for it, bipartisan sup- vote against the original law that es- that fixing this harm is not good port. Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. MARKEY, it’s tablished it, but I voted twice for solu- enough for some, but it is something all good, but we’re spending 2 days on tions to it well before sequestration that needs to be done, and it needs to this? Give me a break. was ever established. Both of those be done in an open way, which will I reserve the balance of my time. bills passed in a bipartisan way and allow us to discuss some amendments [From fox13now.com, Mar. 29, 2013] were sent over to the Senate. The Sen- people wish to present towards this SEQUESTRATION FORCES FOOD PANTRY ate responded by doing nothing, which particular bill. CLOSURE is typical of a lot of things that simply The National Academy of Sciences (By Zach Whitney) happen around this place. issued a report in 2010 which addressed MURRAY, UT.—For months, the threat of In 1925, when the issue of helium was this issue, as did the General Account- sequestration has had organizations tight- first addressed by Congress, we made a ing Office. H.R. 527 is based largely ening their budgets. But as those federal mistake. The idea at the time was that upon the recommendations of these re- cuts take effect, it appears those in need are dirigibles would be the source of avia- ports, and it makes revisions to the taking the biggest hit. Salt Lake Community Action Program tion for the future, and therefore he- law to continue the effort to divest the closed its Murray food pantry last week. The lium was extremely successful. It’s not Federal Government from its current food pantry was one of five locations that the first time we’ve been wrong. The role as a monopoly on helium produc- serve over 1,000 people every month. Now fact that we have steps leading out the tion in an orderly, three-phased proc- those people will have to go somewhere else, east side of this Capitol Building, going ess. A new approach will better incor- with even less to go around. in that direction, is because, when this porate market forces into the produc- ‘‘The potential is for a perfect storm where was originally laid out and established tion and the sale of helium, and it will there’s less help available and it’s harder for people to get by,’’ says Crossroads Urban and built, everyone knew that Wash- ensure the future supply of helium to Center Executive Director Glenn Bailey. ington, D.C., would grow to the east. the Federal Government and to private Crossroads Urban Center relies on private We’ve been wrong from the very incep- users; and it will ensure that it will not donations for funding, but says they’re pre- tion of this governmental city. But in be interrupted.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:41 Apr 26, 2013 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K25AP7.029 H25APPT1 smartinez on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H2318 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE April 25, 2013 It is important that Congress take a [From the Washington Post, Apr. 3, 2013] ‘‘We don’t sugar-coat things, we’re cancer proactive step through the passage of CANCER CLINICS ARE TURNING AWAY THOU- doctors,’’ Charles Holladay, a doctor at the this legislation in order to avoid dis- SANDS OF MEDICARE PATIENTS. BLAME THE clinic, said. ‘‘We tell them that if we don’t go ruptions in our helium supplies world- SEQUESTER. this course, it’s just a matter of time before (By Sarah Kliff) we go out of business.’’ wide; and it would have, if we did not, Cancer patients turned away from local on- a far-reaching negative consequence. Cancer clinics across the country have cology clinics may seek care at hospitals, This legislation is a model of how im- begun turning away thousands of Medicare which also deliver chemotherapy treat- portant bipartisan legislation which patients, blaming the sequester budget cuts. ments. addresses real issues and real problems Oncologists say the reduced funding, which The care will likely be more expensive: took effect for Medicare on April 1, makes it for real people can, indeed, be achieved One study from actuarial firm Milliman impossible to administer expensive chemo- found that chemotherapy delivered in a hos- in Congress. It’s a good bill and a fair therapy drugs while staying afloat finan- rule. pital setting costs the federal government an cially. average of $6,500 more annually than care de- Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of Patients at these clinics would need to livered in a community clinic. my time. seek treatment elsewhere, such as at hos- Those costs can trickle down to patients, pitals that might not have the capacity to who are responsible for picking up a certain Mr. MCGOVERN. I yield myself such accommodate them. time as I may consume. amount of the medical bills. Milliman found ‘‘If we treated the patients receiving the that Medicare patients ended up with an av- I would just like to remind my col- most expensive drugs, we’d be out of business erage of $650 more in out-of-pocket costs leagues that, again, as we are debating in six months to a year,’’ said Jeff Vacirca, when they were seen only in a hospital set- this bill—which I’m not saying we chief executive of North Shore Hematology ting. shouldn’t pass—even with all of the Oncology Associates in New York. ‘‘The It is still unclear whether hospitals have amendments, we could probably spend, drugs we’re going to lose money on we’re not the capacity to absorb these patients. The going to administer right now.’’ maybe, a total of an hour on this bill same Milliman report found that the major- After an emergency meeting Tuesday, ity of Medicare patients—66 percent—receive and get all of those things taken care Vacirca’s clinics decided that they would no of. I have no problem with passing the treatment in a community oncology clinic, longer see one-third of their 16,000 Medicare instead of a hospital. bill. patients. Non-profit hospitals will likely have an ‘‘A lot of us are in disbelief that this is What I do have a problem with is the easier time bearing the brunt of the seques- happening,’’ he said. ‘‘It’s a choice between fact that this Republican majority con- ter cuts. A federal program known as 340B seeing these patients and staying in busi- requires pharmaceutical companies to give tinues to ignore the economy. This Re- ness.’’ double-digit discounts to hospitals that treat publican majority continues to ignore Some who have been pushing the federal low-income and uninsured patients. the very, very harsh consequences of government to spend less on health care say Eastern Connecticut Health Network this is not the right approach. the sequestration that they thrust began preparing for additional volume after ‘‘I don’t think there was an intention to upon this country, that they voted for, a local oncology practice sent out notice disrupt care or move it into a more expen- that they will not allow us to bring up that it would stop seeing certain cancer pa- sive setting,’’ said Cathy Schoen, senior vice an alternative to fix. tients. president of the Commonwealth Fund, which ‘‘What we’re trying to do in the hospital is I want to read for my colleagues and recently released a plan for cutting $2 tril- prepare for this,’’ ECHN spokesman Eric insert into the RECORD an article that lion in health spending. ‘‘If that’s the case, Berthel said. ‘‘We’re making sure we have appeared in The Washington Post on we’re being penny-wise and a pound-foolish access to the pharmaceutical companies and with these cuts.’’ April 3. It’s entitled, ‘‘Cancer Clinics that we have appropriate staff on hand. Legislators meant to partially shield Medi- are Turning Away Thousands of Medi- We’re hoping the oncology practice will be care from the automatic budget cuts trig- care Patients. Blame the Sequester.’’ successful in renegotiating this. It’s so fresh, gered by the sequester, limiting the program so we’re pretty unsure.’’ It reads: to a 2 percent reduction—a fraction of the Some cancer clinics are counting on the Cancer clinics across the country have cuts seen by other federal programs. federal government to provide relief, and begun turning away thousands of Medicare But oncologists say the cut is unexpect- continuing to see patients they expect to patients, blaming the sequester budget cuts. edly damaging for cancer patients because of lose money on. the way those treatments are covered. Oncologists say the reduced funding, which ‘‘We’re hoping that something will change, Medications for seniors are usually covered took effect for Medicare care on April 1, as legislators see the impact of this,’’ Ralph under the optional Medicare Part D, which makes it impossible to administer expensive Boccia, director of the Center for Cancer and includes private insurance. But because can- chemotherapy drugs while staying afloat fi- Blood Disorders in Bethesda, Md., said. ‘‘I cer drugs must be administered by a physi- nancially. Patients at these clinics would don’t think we could keep going, without a cian, they are among a handful of pharma- need to seek treatment elsewhere, such as at change, for more than a couple of months.’’ ceuticals paid for by Part B, which covers hospitals that might not have the capacity An analysis prepared by his clinic esti- doctor visits and is subject to the sequester to accommodate them. mates that, if the full 2 percent cut takes ef- cut. fect, between 50 and 70 percent of the drugs When the gentleman says that he’s The federal government typically pays it administers would become money losers. sorry that this helium bill isn’t good community oncologists for the average sales Boccia estimates that 55 percent of his pa- enough for some, he’s right. It isn’t price of a chemotherapy drug, plus 6 percent tients are covered by Medicare, making any to cover the cost of storing and admin- good enough for me. It isn’t good changes to reimbursement rates difficult to istering the medication. enough for the majority of people on weather. Since oncologists cannot change the drug my side of the aisle who believe that ‘‘When I look at the numbers, they don’t prices, they argue that the entire 2 percent we ought to be fixing this problem that add up,’’ he said. ‘‘Business 101 says we can’t cut will have to come out of that 6 percent stay open if we don’t cover our costs.’’ many cancer patients are facing right overhead. That would make it more akin to now, that we ought to be fixing the a double-digit pay cut. At this point, I yield 3 minutes to the problem of the delays in our airlines, ‘‘If you get cut on the service side, you can ranking member of the Committee on that we ought to be fixing the problems either absorb it or make do with fewer Natural Resources’ Subcommittee on of these budget cuts to programs like nurses,’’ said Ted Okon, director of the Com- Energy and Mineral Resources, the WIC—that’s the Women, Infants, and munity Oncology Alliance, which advocates gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Children program—and food banks. I for hundreds of cancer clinics nationwide. ‘‘This is a drug that we’re purchasing. The HOLT). could go right down the list. costs don’t change and you can’t do without Mr. HOLT. Mr. Speaker, I thank my So there are urgent things for us to it. There isn’t really wiggle room.’’ friend from Massachusetts, a superb do, not to spend 2 days on helium—that Okon’s group has sent letters to legislators Member of Congress, Mr. MCGOVERN. I is totally unnecessary—and then take urging them to exempt cancer drugs from join him in saying that this legislation another week off, to adjourn for an- the sequester or, as a back-up, only shave 2 represents an unwarranted delay on other week, while all of these cuts con- percent off the money they receive to admin- what should be a noncontroversial tinue to go into effect, these cuts ister the medications. piece of legislation. Doctors at the Charleston Cancer Center in which have a really nasty and negative South Carolina began informing patients H.R. 527 is a bill carefully written by effect on our economy. We ought to be weeks ago that, due to the sequester cuts, Chairman HASTINGS, in consultation doing our job here, not kicking the can they would soon need to seek treatment else- with me and with Ranking Member down the road. where. MARKEY, with Representative FLORES,

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Mr. VAN HOL- aging, for electronics manufacturing, were made by other speakers as to LEN has tried on countless occasions to and for many, many other activities issues that we’re taking. I do take one have the Rules Committee allow him important to Americans today and in sense of umbrage at the idea that we’re the opportunity to bring his alter- the future. going on a vacation again. I do not native to the floor. He’s been turned In line with the recommendations of know how some people try to view the down every single time. the National Academy of Sciences, district work period—to some it may Again, I really appreciated my Re- which my friend from Utah mentioned, be a vacation, but for me it is not. publican friends who came down here the bill succeeds in averting a global When I go back to the district, at that and were upset about the flight delays. helium crisis that would result from time, I’m constantly in meetings and They’re upset about the flight delays the closure of the Federal Helium Re- going to places to meet with constitu- because, quite frankly, that impacts serve at the end of this fiscal year. The ents and find out how the actions and them directly. What was missing from bill also fixes the mechanism for he- ideas of this body impact real people. their outrage were the cuts in WIC, the lium pricing so that we can now pro- I note just in the history of Congress cuts in food banks, the cuts in medical vide a fair market price to users and a there occasionally have been Speakers research and the furloughs. Why aren’t positive return to taxpayers. So I sup- who did not like to allow people to go they complaining about that as well? port the bipartisan agreement rep- back and talk to their constituents. Maybe because it doesn’t affect them resented here in H.R. 527. You have the opportunity, if you’re directly. Yet by bringing this legislation to here all the time, of hiding from con- But I think the idea of leaving here the floor under a rule, which is really stituents and not necessarily having for a week with this sequestration in not necessary, with amendments and that interface. So, one Speaker, every play is an absolute disgrace, and I re- by scheduling a debate today, which time that particular Speaker allowed serve the balance of my time. will end, maybe, an hour or two from Members to go back and interface with Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Mr. Speaker, now—and amendments tomorrow, the districts and the constituents in once again, a nice conversation. We which will take an hour or so, the districts, they always came back need to have that conversation with stretched over 2 days—the leadership with a different opinion that had to be my friends in the Senate. We’ve al- has created a deliberate, irresponsible remolded and reshaped. ready sent two bills over there they Some people don’t like the idea of ac- delay. We could have dispensed with haven’t addressed. I don’t know how tually interfacing. Some people think this in 10 minutes. My colleague said 60 many more we need to address, but it if we never go back and talk to our minutes—okay. Let’s be generous—60 would be nice if the Senate did some- constituents, that we’re hiding from minutes—but we could have dispensed thing. them. That is why the district work pe- with this. With that, I yield as much time as riod, to me, is not a vacation. It’s not Instead, we spend 2 days on this, and she may consume to the gentlelady in the 2 days we spend on this, we are a recess from what we’re doing. It’s a from Florida (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN), a chance to actually expand what we’re not considering legislation to create member of the Rules Committee. jobs, to provide education and training doing so when we come back here we Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. I thank the for workers, to consider a conference make wiser decisions, or at least have gentleman for the time. on the budget resolutions of the House a true understanding and implication I so agree with what the gentleman and the Senate, or legislation to undo of what it does and how Congress im- has been discussing, which is the dif- the sequester imposed by the Repub- pacts the real workings that deal with ference between recess and district lican majority and now affecting air- real people. I appreciate that. work period. It is so important for port delays and Head Start limitations I also appreciate, once again, the Members of Congress to maintain close and lost food inspections and delayed concepts of sequestration. The gen- attention and close ties with the con- medical research and so many other tleman from Massachusetts, I think, stituents we so proudly represent. If we things. The bill could have been consid- makes some nice points about seques- don’t go back home, if we don’t meet ered and adopted under a suspension of tration. I think he’s in the wrong spot, with constituents, if we don’t talk to the rules, but instead we are here de- though. This body has, numerous times the Lions Clubs and the Rotary Clubs bating a rule. before sequestration went into effect, and Chambers of Commerce and every- It’s an important issue. We’ve pro- passed laws to blunt the impact of se- day people who come to our congres- posed a workable solution. There is no questration to solve the problem. We sional offices every day seeking help controversy that I know of on this, so need to talk to our friends on the other and remedy from the bureaucracy of let’s pass H.R. 527 without delay and side of this building who refuse to even the Federal Government, we would get on to all of these other issues. It’s discuss any of those bills that were really not know what is going on in our not as if there aren’t important prob- passed in this body to solve the prob- congressional districts. lems facing this country. lem before it hit. It was a great speech, wrong people. You need to be talking Many people prefer to move up to b 1310 to an element that is a lot more elderly D.C., and they get the Beltway fever Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Mr. Speaker, I than we are over on this side, and I say and they rarely go back home. I think yield myself such time as I may con- that with grey hair. that’s the wrong approach. I value the sume. Also, Mr. Speaker, I reserve the bal- time that we get to be in our district I appreciate the words that were ance of my time. so we can be in touch with our con- given by the gentleman from New Jer- Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield stituents. I’m lucky enough that sey. He is far too modest. You are a co- myself such time as I may consume. Miami is not too far from D.C. We have sponsor of this bill. It’s a good bill. It Let me respond to my friend from many flights every day, and so I’m able was worked out well. This is not an un- Utah by simply saying that I think to go home every weekend to be with warranted delay bill. This is an impor- going on a week-long recess while peo- my constituents. But it’s difficult to tant bill that solves problems for real ple are being furloughed, while cuts in really plan very much without know- people. medical research go forward, while we ing for sure that you’re going to be Once again, even though I think what see cuts in programs like WIC and cuts home for an extended period of time, so you have done with your bill is a very in programs like food banks and sci- I value the district work period. good job, there are others in this body entific research, I think going on re- This Saturday, for example, what is who are not on the Natural Resources cess with all of this happening, quite my day like? Well, we have a student Committee who would disagree, and frankly, is unconscionable. That’s run- award ceremony where we’re giving

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I’ll be meeting with derstand, the value of district work pe- spent trying to solve the sequestration human rights activists who have come riods and that it will keep us more at- problem, trying to avoid deep cuts in from Cuba to talk about the deterio- tuned to our constituency and better medical research that will cost jobs, rating human rights condition. We’ll be able to address the needs that they are that will delay advancements in med- having a get-together with the Dade facing each and every day. ical science, that perhaps could find County Farm Bureau. It’s a very ex- We know that those needs are great. cures for diseases like Alzheimer’s or tended day that can only be possible There is no way that we’re saying, Parkinson’s or diabetes. By the way, if when we have these district work peri- There is no problem with sequestra- we found a cure for one of those dis- ods. tion; this is fine. Nobody is saying eases, it would help make Medicare and On the issue of sequestration itself, that. These are real problems. We need Medicaid solvent forever and ever and as the gentleman, my colleague on the to solve them. We have a plan to do it, ever. So investment actually does pay Rules Committee, has pointed out time and we’ve done it twice. off. and time again, the House has dealt So I thank the gentleman for the I appreciate the fact that she brought with the sequestration problem not time, and I will continue to try to a guest on the floor here today, a once, but twice. We have passed bills work in a bipartisan manner in our young student. But I would simply say and given them to the Senate. And I Rules Committee, as well as in our that the sequestration cuts education. agree with the gentleman from Utah Foreign Affairs Committee, to see what Sequestration actually cuts education. when he says it’s time for the Senate we can do to make our Nation safer, to It will be more difficult to fund our to do its job. We have sent them the secure our future for the next genera- schools. It will be more difficult to be legislation. It’s time for them to de- tion. able to provide students with the finan- bate it, send it back to us, and let’s I’m proud to have with me here, cial aid that they need to go to college have a conference and see on what Madison, a young lady who is from St. because of the sequestration. points we can or cannot agree. Louis, Missouri. Today is Take Our So with all due respect about all of But if we keep passing bill after bill Children to Work Day. Madison is not the wonderful things that my col- and the Senate just sits on its hands— my child, but she belongs to all of us; leagues will be doing during their re- as it likes to do—and doesn’t pass and I want to make sure that the fu- cess, it is still a recess. It is a week meaningful legislation, doesn’t even ture for Madison is a bright future that we are not dealing with the budg- care to debate it, it’s very difficult for where she doesn’t graduate from col- et. It is a week we are not dealing with us to get ourselves out of this seques- lege with terrible debt, where she has a sequestration. tration jam. lot of opportunities available to her, And by the way, I understand that it We are willing to work with the Sen- where she knows that every path is has become fashionable to blame the ate, and we’ve made that point very available and open to her, that there Senate for everything, but when it clear. And the way that we deliver that will be no problem for her, whether comes to the budget, the House has message very clearly is by sending not she’s male or female, what nationality, passed a budget. The Senate has passed one, but two bills over to the other what religion, what ethnic background. a budget. We’re waiting for the House body. We would like those bills to be This is the land of opportunity and this to go to conference. So we’re going to debated, and we would like them to is the land of equality. I want that for vote in a little while, and then that’s it settle on legislation that we can both all of the children of the United States for the day. We’re done. We’re done for agree on that will not be a perfect bill, of America. And I think having Madi- the day. Why aren’t we going to con- but will address some of the major son here with me today is a very im- ference with the Senate on a budget? holes that we have with sequestration, portant point to say to my colleagues: Why are we not doing something mean- whether it’s airport delays—whether We want a bright future for Madison. ingful? they’re real or manufactured—whether We don’t want to have her be shoul- So with that, Mr. Speaker, I again re- they’re problems of people accessing dering this massive debt that we’re pil- spect the itinerary of my colleague the social service safety net that we ing onto the next generation. from Florida, but I’ll tell you, there want to provide for the most needy of are lot of workers who are being fur- b 1320 our constituency. loughed who are expecting us to come So I thank the gentleman for the If we continue to be not careful stew- to some sort of solution so they don’t time so that I can highlight that this is ards of the taxpayer dollars, that’s lose a week or a month’s pay, which not recess, that this is district work what we’ll be passing off to Madison— will make it more difficult for them to period. I don’t know how others handle insurmountable debt and a huge prob- pay their mortgage and their utility their week at home, but I can tell you lem for her as she advances in her ca- bills, and for their kids. This is urgent, I’ve got a full calendar, and it means reer. and we’re not dealing with it. working hard for the people in this job So I thank the gentleman from Utah I reserve the balance of my time. that I really hold in such high esteem. for the opportunity so we can highlight Mr. BISHOP of Utah. I reserve the I never forget that the people I work the next generation of Americans, the balance of my time. for are the people with whom I’m going Madisons, who are going to inherit, we Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield to meet next week, and those are my hope, a better society. And if we do our 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from constituents, the residents of the 27th job right, they will be able to inherit New York (Ms. SLAUGHTER), the distin- District of Florida. that better society. guished ranking member of the Com- So we can’t be successful Members of I thank the gentleman for the time. mittee on Rules. Congress unless we’re in touch with the The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise people we represent. I enjoy that op- WOMACK). Members are advised to not again today, as I have ever since we portunity. Of course, I get to go back make reference to persons on the floor started this term in January, to talk to a lovely district like Miami, Flor- as guests of the House. about the lack of work that this House ida. But whatever district you rep- Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield of Representatives has produced and resent, it’s important to be in touch myself such time as I may consume. how absolutely devastating it is to the with our constituents so they can tell I want to thank the gentlelady from public and how angry they are that us their needs, and then we can come Florida for her comments. I appreciate week after week we do absolutely noth- back here and fight so their needs are the fact that she has a beautiful dis- ing here of any importance. addressed in legislation like the legis- trict in southern Florida, and I appre- One-House bills—this week, I think, lation we sent to the Senate not once, ciate the fact that she’s going to spend is a prime example of that. We came in, but twice, dealing with these seques- her recess going to a student awards went into the Rules Committee, put a

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:41 Apr 26, 2013 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K25AP7.035 H25APPT1 smartinez on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE April 25, 2013 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H2321 rule that we knew would not go to the because they can’t find a job because ments. There are poor women who ben- Senate, and we knew the President the economy is so bad, are having that efit from the WIC program who are not would veto it. But we spent time on it cut as well. getting that benefit. There are food until suddenly some groups got very We have done enormous harm with banks that are being closed all around angry about it and said, Well, you’d this folly, and we have an opportunity this country. better not vote for that. It was pulled to heal it. Let VAN HOLLEN’s bill come There is medical research that is off the floor yesterday after we’d done to the floor tomorrow. In a bipartisan being curtailed. There is scientific re- the rule. And everybody who voted for way, let’s discuss that with our leader- search that is being curtailed, all while the rule is already on record that they ship and your leadership, bring that we speak. And all this is vitally impor- wanted that bill to pass. I think that’s out here, and bring this thing to a tant to our economy. All this is vitally important. If they were trying to es- close. important to our economy. And yet cape making some conservative groups What we’re suffering now and what we’re doing nothing. We’re doing noth- mad, they’ve done that already. people are seeing now with flight ing. We’re just going to kind of wait it But FRANK PALLONE, Representative delays is only a small piece of it. Every out. And what we’re saying on this side of PALLONE from New Jersey, who was day it’s going to get worse. And we will managing that bill for the Democrats, rue the day we had all of these oppor- the aisle is we ought to do something. We ought to be debating what is urgent got no notice at all that the bill was tunities with Mr. VAN HOLLEN to get right now before the American people, not going to be taken up, and was rid of it, and certainly we will rue the and that is the cuts that are impacting standing here almost open-mouthed day if we don’t make it in order for to- them as a result of sequestration. when he found out he had nothing to morrow when we’re apparently trying That’s what we should be talking about do. to make work. right now. That’s what we should be Now this bill we have here today Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Mr. Speaker, if debating. I don’t know why that’s such could have been done on suspension one needs an MRI, this helium bill is a controversial idea. without any question. There’s nothing extremely significant. If one needs to But we’re not. We’re going to do this here—helium. This whole thing is filled use microchips, this helium bill is sig- bill, which is not urgent, and we’re with hot air. nificant. This bill solves problems of going to go home for a week, the sixth And the sequestration—I’ve said and real people. And I recognize that we week of recess since January, the sixth said as recently as yesterday that Con- have other issues that people wish to week of recess. gressman VAN HOLLEN has come to the discuss. That’s great. This one is one And, again, I appreciate the fact that Rules Committee three times, and four that we should do now and get it over we all have busy schedules when we go times he has tried to get a bill on the to the Senate and see if once again the home—I do as well—but the idea of floor which would take away sequestra- Senate actually will do something, at leaving here while people are being fur- tion and would provide all of the least on this issue, which has bipar- loughed, while families are being hurt, money by other means, sensitive ways tisan support. It’s a good bill. I just find unconscionable. to cut, that sequestration is going to I’m going to reserve the balance of And so our complaint is with the fact take. But no, he didn’t have a chance my time, but I’m ready to move on as that we’re not addressing the central to do it. soon as the other side is. issue before the American people So now we’re going to worry about Mr. MCGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I’ll today, and that is these devastating airplanes, which is important because I close, but I would be interested to cuts. And I would like to think that we live in a district that does not nec- know whether anybody on the other could get some clue from somebody essarily have the best flight schedules, side can tell me when we might go to that, at some point in the near future, but I’m also concerned about the can- conference on the budget? The House we would be able to deal with it. cer patients in this country who are has passed a budget. The Senate has Just one final point. My friends on not getting their shots because of se- passed a budget. I thought the whole the other side of the aisle embrace this questration. I’m worried about the at point of getting the Senate to pass a idea of sequestration, so my friends least 70,000 young kids who have been budget was to go to conference and try own it. I think it’s your responsibility cut out of Head Start because of se- to work out the differences. I don’t to at least provide us the forum to find questration. know whether anybody on the other a way out of it. The answer for us here is to make side of the aisle has any information on I will close by saying, Mr. Speaker, that, again, we have no problem with Van Hollen in order for tomorrow and when we might go to conference. It’s the helium bill. We could do this in an take away sequestration and follow his the House’s responsibility to ask for a hour, with all the amendments. That’s bill, and we’ll get the same amount of conference. I’m just trying to get a money. how noncontroversial it is. sense. If not today, will it be tomor- But the idea that we’re stretching it The SPEAKER pro tempore. The row? Surely it won’t be next week be- time of the gentlewoman has expired. over 2 days, and we’re not dealing with cause we’re on break next week. Any- these devastating cuts and sequestra- Mr. MCGOVERN. I yield an addi- body? tional 1 minute to the gentlewoman. tion, I think, is just wrong. Okay, thank you for that informative With that, I yield back the balance of Ms. SLAUGHTER. Sequestration was answer. my time. an awful thing. The whole idea of it Mr. Speaker, let me close by saying I Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Mr. Speaker, I made absolutely no sense. And it was have no problem with this helium bill. have enjoyed being held accountable so stupid that I think that most Mem- There is value to passing this bill. It for the Senate’s inaction on some of bers in this House really thought doesn’t have to be passed today. It these issues. However, we do have a bill they’d never see it; that nobody in here could be passed anywhere up until the before us that is a good bill, that solves would be dumb enough to do that. Mr. end of this fiscal year, but I’m fine a real problem, and that helps real peo- MCGOVERN and I were smart enough to with passing it today. It’s not con- ple. And I promise you that if we use vote against it, weren’t we, JIM? So if troversial. This could pass really this bill, or if we pass this bill, which you voted for it, it’s your bill. But let quickly, but we are stretching it over 2 has amendments that suggests that me tell you, we need to get rid of se- days for reasons that none of us can there has to be some controversy ap- questration. We have a chance to do quite fathom. plied, that if, indeed, we were to pass that tomorrow. Obviously for the op- this bill we would make the desert b 1330 tics of the thing, we have to stay here bloom. and do something because we haven’t But the problem is not with the he- Mr. Speaker, in a moment, I will done anything this whole week. If lium bill. The problem is with what offer an amendment to the rule. The we’re going to do something, make it we’re not doing. And as we speak, there amendment will provide suspension au- meaningful. Let’s take away sequestra- are people who are losing their jobs. thority for potential consideration of tion. Let’s get people back to work. There are people who are being fur- additional measures prior to the dis- The people who are on unemployment loughed. There are cancer patients who trict work period next week where we who are barely making it, poor souls, are not getting access to their treat- will be meeting with people.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:41 Apr 26, 2013 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K25AP7.037 H25APPT1 smartinez on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H2322 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE April 25, 2013 AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. BISHOP OF UTAH Pittenger Rothfus Tipton b 1356 Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Mr. Speaker, I Pitts Royce Turner Poe (TX) Runyan Upton Ms. CASTOR of Florida and Mrs. offer an amendment to the resolution. Pompeo Ryan (WI) Valadao NAPOLITANO changed their vote from The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Posey Salmon Wagner ‘‘yea’’ to ‘‘nay.’’ Clerk will report the amendment. Price (GA) Scalise Walberg So the resolution, as amended, was The Clerk read as follows: Radel Schweikert Walden Reed Scott, Austin Walorski agreed to. At the end of the resolution, add the fol- Reichert Sensenbrenner Weber (TX) The result of the vote was announced lowing: Renacci Shimkus Webster (FL) as above recorded. SEC. 5. It shall be in order at any time Ribble Shuster Wenstrup A motion to reconsider was laid on through the legislative day of April 26, 2013, Rice (SC) Simpson Westmoreland the table. for the Speaker to entertain motions that Rigell Sinema Whitfield the House suspend the rules as though under Roby Smith (NE) Wilson (SC) f clause 1 of rule XV. Roe (TN) Smith (NJ) Wittman Rogers (AL) Smith (TX) Wolf Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Mr. Speaker, I Rogers (KY) Southerland Womack ANNOUNCEMENT OF CLASSIFIED yield back the balance of my time, and Rogers (MI) Stewart Woodall BRIEFING REGARDING SYRIA I move the previous question on the Rohrabacher Stivers Yoder AND NORTH KOREA amendment and on the resolution. Rokita Stockman Yoho Rooney Terry Young (AK) The previous question was ordered. (Mr. CANTOR asked and was given Ros-Lehtinen Thompson (PA) Young (IN) permission to address the House for 1 The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Roskam Thornberry question is on the amendment. Ross Tiberi minute.) The amendment was agreed to. Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, today, NAYS—177 the administration has confirmed that The SPEAKER pro tempore. The the Assad regime in Syria has crossed question is on the resolution, as Andrews Gutierrez Pallone Barrow (GA) Hahn Pascrell a dangerous, game-changing red line, amended. Bass Hanabusa Pastor (AZ) using chemical weapons against its The question was taken; and the Beatty Hastings (FL) Payne own citizens. Speaker pro tempore announced that Becerra Heck (WA) Pelosi The Syrian conflict has raged for the ayes appeared to have it. Bishop (GA) Higgins Perlmutter Bishop (NY) Himes many months, and nearly 100,000 Syr- Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Mr. Speaker, on Peters (MI) Blumenauer Hinojosa Peterson ian civilians have been killed. The con- that I demand the yeas and nays. Bonamici Holt Pingree (ME) flict now threatens to spill over Syria’s The yeas and nays were ordered. Brady (PA) Honda Pocan borders, destabilizing key American al- The vote was taken by electronic de- Braley (IA) Hoyer Price (NC) Brown (FL) lies. This dangerous conflict threatens vice, and there were—yeas 231, nays Huffman Quigley Brownley (CA) Israel Rahall American national security interests 177, not voting 24, as follows: Bustos Jackson Lee Rangel in the region. [Roll No. 124] Butterfield Jeffries Richmond Capps Johnson, E. B. I wanted to take this opportunity, YEAS—231 Roybal-Allard Capuano Kaptur Ruiz Mr. Speaker, to urge Members to at- Aderholt Duffy Joyce Ca´ rdenas Keating Ruppersberger tend the classified briefing that the ad- Alexander Duncan (SC) Kelly (PA) Carson (IN) Kelly (IL) Ryan (OH) ministration will be providing tomor- Amash Duncan (TN) King (IA) Cartwright Kennedy Sa´ nchez, Linda row morning at 9:30 a.m. in the CVC Amodei Ellmers King (NY) Castor (FL) Kildee T. Bachmann Farenthold Kingston Castro (TX) Kilmer Sanchez, Loretta auditorium. Secretary of State Kerry, Bachus Fincher Kinzinger (IL) Chu Kind Sarbanes Deputy Secretary of Defense Ash Car- Barber Fitzpatrick Kline Cicilline Kirkpatrick Schakowsky Barletta Fleischmann Labrador ter, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Clarke Kuster Schiff Admiral Sandy Winnefeld, and Deputy Barr Fleming LaMalfa Clay Langevin Benishek Forbes Lamborn Schrader Director of National Intelligence Rob- Cleaver Larsen (WA) Schwartz Bentivolio Fortenberry Lance Clyburn Larson (CT) ert Cardillo will be there to brief Mem- Bera (CA) Foxx Lankford Scott (VA) Cohen Lee (CA) Bilirakis Franks (AZ) Latham Scott, David bers on the situations in both Syria Conyers Levin Bishop (UT) Frelinghuysen Latta Serrano and in North Korea. Cooper Lewis Black Gabbard LoBiondo Sewell (AL) Courtney Lipinski With that, Mr. Speaker, I’d like to Blackburn Garcia Long Shea-Porter say to Members that we won’t be hav- Bonner Gardner Lucas Crowley Loebsack Sherman Boustany Garrett Luetkemeyer Cuellar Lofgren Sires ing another vote in this series. Cummings Bridenstine Gerlach Lummis Lowenthal Slaughter Davis (CA) Lowey Brooks (AL) Gibbs Maffei Smith (WA) f Davis, Danny Lujan Grisham Brooks (IN) Gibson Marino Speier DeGette (NM) Broun (GA) Gingrey (GA) Massie Swalwell (CA) Delaney Luja´ n, Ben Ray b 1400 Buchanan Gohmert McCarthy (CA) Takano Bucshon DeLauro (NM) Goodlatte McCaul Thompson (CA) Calvert Gosar McClintock DelBene Maloney, Thompson (MS) APPOINTMENT AS MEMBER OF HIT Camp Gowdy McHenry Deutch Carolyn Tierney POLICY COMMITTEE Campbell Graves (GA) McIntyre Dingell Maloney, Sean Cantor Graves (MO) McKeon Doggett Matheson Titus Tonko The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Capito Griffin (AR) McKinley Doyle Matsui Chair announces the Speaker’s ap- Carney Griffith (VA) McMorris Edwards McCarthy (NY) Tsongas Carter Grimm Rodgers Ellison McCollum Van Hollen pointment, pursuant to section 13101 of Cassidy Guthrie Meadows Engel McDermott Vargas the HITECH Act (Pub.L. 111–5), and the Chabot Hall Meehan Enyart McGovern Veasey order of the House of January 3, 2013, of Vela Chaffetz Hanna Messer Eshoo McNerney the following individual on the part of Coble Harper Mica Esty Meeks Vela´ zquez Coffman Harris Miller (FL) Farr Meng Visclosky the House to the HIT Policy Com- Cole Hartzler Miller (MI) Fattah Michaud Walz mittee: Collins (GA) Hastings (WA) Miller, Gary Foster Moore Wasserman Mrs. Gayle Harrell, Stuart, Florida Collins (NY) Heck (NV) Mullin Frankel (FL) Moran Schultz Cook Herrera Beutler Mulvaney Fudge Nadler Waters f Costa Holding Murphy (FL) Gallego Napolitano Watt Cotton Horsford Murphy (PA) Garamendi Neal Waxman Crawford Hudson Neugebauer Green, Al Negrete McLeod Welch HOUR OF MEETING ON TOMORROW Crenshaw Huelskamp Noem Green, Gene Nolan Wilson (FL) Culberson Huizenga (MI) Nugent Grijalva O’Rourke Yarmuth Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Mr. Daines Hultgren Nunes Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that Davis, Rodney Hunter Olson DeFazio Hurt Owens NOT VOTING—24 when the House adjourns today, it ad- Denham Issa Palazzo Barton Grayson Polis journ to meet at 10 a.m. tomorrow. Dent Jenkins Paulsen Brady (TX) Hensarling Rush The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there DeSantis Johnson (OH) Pearce Burgess Johnson (GA) Schneider objection to the request of the gen- DesJarlais Johnson, Sam Perry Conaway Lynch Schock Diaz-Balart Jones Peters (CA) Connolly Marchant Sessions tleman from Washington? Duckworth Jordan Petri Cramer Markey Stutzman There was no objection. Flores Miller, George Williams Granger Nunnelee Young (FL)

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:41 Apr 26, 2013 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K25AP7.038 H25APPT1 smartinez on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE April 25, 2013 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H2323 REMOVAL OF NAMES OF MEM- clining usefulness and had racked up a General. The big gap is right here. This BERS AS COSPONSORS OF H.R. $1.3 billion debt. is what we are selling it for, and this is 1445 In response, Congress in 1996 passed what the market price is. Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I ask legislation to implement reforms to In addition, the current program re- unanimous consent that Representa- the program and require the sale and stricts sales to only a few companies tives RUNYAN, GRIMM, LOBIONDO, and privatization of the Reserve by 2015, or through an allotment system that is BISHOP of New York be removed as co- when the debt was paid off, whichever essentially an oligarchy for Federal he- sponsors of H.R. 1445. came first. lium. Nearly 100 percent of our helium The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there However, since this original decision supply is being put into the hands of objection to the request of the gen- to close the Reserve, both the demand four refiners that directly benefit from tleman from New Jersey? and uses for helium have dramatically the low Federal pricing formula while There was no objection. changed. This has created a situation other competitors are locked out. The where the Reserve’s debt will be paid current cheap price of helium gives an f off sooner than expected—nearly 2 unfair market advantage to these RESPONSIBLE HELIUM ADMINIS- years earlier—in October of this year. handful of companies. TRATION AND STEWARDSHIP But, while the debt will have been paid Implementing semiannual helium ACT off, there will still be helium in the Re- auctions will inject much-needed com- serve. By law then, the current Federal petition into the program and help es- GENERAL LEAVE helium program will end and the Bu- Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Mr. tablish a fair market price for helium. reau of Land Management, or BLM, According to the CBO, this bill will Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that will no longer have the authority to all Members may have 5 legislative bring in over $340 million to the Treas- sell the remaining 11 billion cubic feet ury over the next 10 years. The bill also days in which to revise and extend of helium. It’s important to note, too, their remarks and include extraneous includes important reforms to increase Mr. Chairman, that the Reserve con- transparency and to prevent supply material on the bill H.R. 527. tains half of our U.S. domestic supply The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there disruptions. and 30 percent of the world’s helium Now, Mr. Chairman, over 20 groups objection to the request of the gen- supply. tleman from Washington? representing the end users of refined If Congress fails to act before Octo- helium—and these are high-tech manu- There was no objection. ber, we will artificially drop the he- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- facturers of semiconductors, aerospace lium supply and cause a global helium technologies, medical devices, chemi- ant to House Resolution 178 and rule shortage that will cost jobs and se- XVIII, the Chair declares the House in cals, fiber optics, and scientific re- verely disrupt our economy. Despite search—all have called for the passage the Committee of the Whole House on what many think, helium is not just the state of the Union for the consider- of this legislation. Although this bill used for party balloons. It is essential enjoys broad bipartisan support, I do ation of the bill, H.R. 527. to our 21st century economy. Without The Chair appoints the gentleman want to take a moment to directly ad- helium we wouldn’t have lifesaving dress some concerns that have been from Kansas (Mr. YODER) to preside MRI machines, computer chips, fiber over the Committee of the Whole. raised throughout this legislative proc- optic cables, or other devices used for ess. b 1403 defense needs. First, doing nothing is not an option. The bill before us today is truly a bi- While I recognize that many people IN THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE partisan plan that I’m pleased to have don’t believe that the Federal Govern- Accordingly, the House resolved worked on with the lead Democrat on ment should be in the helium busi- itself into the Committee of the Whole the Natural Resources Committee, Mr. ness—and I would agree—we must rec- House on the state of the Union for the MARKEY from Massachusetts, as well as ognize the realities of our current situ- consideration of the bill (H.R. 527) to our other colleagues on the committee, ation. Helium is too essential to our amend the Helium Act to complete the Mr. FLORES of Texas and Mr. HOLT of economy to essentially cut off the privatization of the Federal helium re- New Jersey. valve at the Reserve. We need this bill serve in a competitive market fashion First, this bill would implement a to protect our economy from severe that ensures stability in the helium new operating system for the Federal disruptions and to provide additional markets while protecting the interests Helium Reserve over the next decade time for the new development of alter- of American taxpayers, and for other that would include semiannual auc- native domestic helium resources so purposes, with Mr. YODER in the chair. tions. This will ensure that we prevent that our country and economy are pre- The CHAIR. Pursuant to the rule, the a helium shortage and that the Reserve pared for when the Reserve does close. bill is considered read the first time. stays open until nearly all of the he- However, this bill will make sure that The gentleman from Washington (Mr. lium supply is sold. HASTINGS) and the gentleman from New we are building on the reforms of the Jersey (Mr. HOLT) each will control 30 b 1410 1996 act and that we are managing and minutes. Second, it will build on the reforms selling the helium in a more respon- Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Mr. made in 1996 and inject more free mar- sible manner. Chairman, I yield myself as much time ket principles into the sales process to Second, maintaining the status quo as I may consume. get a better and fairer return for Amer- is not an option. Under conditions in Today, I rise in support of H.R. 527. ican taxpayers. the current law, the entire program This bill is necessary to protect our Over the last decade, the Federal comes to an end this October. Simply economy from the impending helium Government has been selling helium authorizing the continuation of the shortage and to inject free-market from the Reserve significantly below current program does nothing to ad- principles into our Federal helium pro- market price. As you can see from this dress the current issues with the Fed- gram. chart—and this is based on BLM data— eral pricing formula and the need to The Federal Helium Reserve was first the new demands for helium have implement free market reforms. We created after World War I, when we caused the market price to rise much cannot keep selling helium to a hand- imagined a world where blimps would higher than the Federal Government’s ful of companies. Instead, we need an be the future of air travel and vital to pricing formula and much faster than open helium market that encourages our national security efforts. Although BLM’s ability to track market prices. more bidders, more competition, and this effort took a different course, that So, as a result, this has cost tax- more accurate pricing in order to get didn’t stop the Federal Government payers tens of millions of dollars. This the best return for the taxpayers. from spending money on this program has been confirmed by reports and tes- What we need then, Mr. Chairman, is and stockpiling helium continuously timony from both the Government Ac- no more lucrative handouts, no more through the 1980s. By the 1990s, it be- countability Office, the GAO, and the government picking winners. What we came clear that the Reserve had a de- Department of the Interior Inspector need is good ole American competition.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:41 Apr 26, 2013 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K25AP7.042 H25APPT1 smartinez on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H2324 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE April 25, 2013 Finally, this bill will do absolutely At the current withdrawal rates, we Technology Policy, and many sci- nothing to interfere with private busi- have only 5 to 7 years of helium avail- entific researchers. It has the support ness contracts, and it will not create able from the Reserve. Reviews by the of the American Physical Society and instability within the helium market. National Academy of Sciences, by the many other groups and many helium With or without this legislation, the Government Accountability Office, and users, such as corporations like Gen- existing helium program and existing by the Interior Department Inspector eral Electric, Siemens, Philips, Intel, contracts all will end in October of this General’s Office have all concluded Applied Materials, Dow Chemical, IBM, year. This bill violates no contracts be- that we are not selling the Nation’s he- Texas Instruments, and many others. cause none will exist when certain con- lium at market prices. Since Federal It’s a product of close work between ditions in current law expire, which we helium comprises such an enormous the majority and the minority mem- think will be this October. This is why percentage of the global supply, with bers of the committee. Congress must act before October to es- the price set and controlled by the In- Again, I thank the majority for pro- tablish a new helium program to final- terior Department as required under viding that collaboration with us. It’s a ize the sell-off of the helium from the the guidelines established some years good bill. It provides a workable solu- Reserve. back, the global price of helium is arti- The bill will protect our economy tion to a real problem. I urge its adop- ficially low. tion. from a harmful helium shortage and The current system isn’t just a bad implement much-needed reforms to up- deal for taxpayers; it has also distorted I wish we could deal with this bill date the Federal Helium Program so the global helium market. If we con- promptly and all the amendments that it better reflects the uses and de- tinue to avoid a solution, as some have promptly. We could be done in less mands for helium in the year 2013. advocated, we could find ourselves fac- than an hour, and then we could turn Mr. Chairman, this is a good bill, and ing even more severe helium shortages our attention to other concerns that it’s a bipartisan bill. I’m glad I had and price spikes when the Federal Re- Americans have, such as jobs and edu- support in working with my colleagues serve is largely exhausted a few years cation, training for workers, a con- across the aisle on the committee, and from now and when there may be insuf- ference committee to reconcile the dif- I urge the passage of this legislation. ficient alternative supplies to turn to. ferences between the House and the With that, I reserve the balance of That’s why we must reform our Na- Senate budget resolutions, removing my time. the thoughtless sequester that the ma- Mr. HOLT. Mr. Chairman, I yield my- tion’s helium policy, put the market- based signals in place that will help jority imposed on the country affecting self such time as I may consume. air traffic control and food inspections I rise in support of H.R. 527, and I provide an incentive to bring new sup- plies on line. The failure to enact re- and Head Start slots and medical re- begin by commending and thanking search and many other things. But in- Chairman HASTINGS for his outstanding forms of the helium program, such as those contained in this legislation, stead, we will postpone the consider- bipartisan leadership on this legisla- ation of the amendments until tomor- tion and on other things before the could mean an increased reliance on in- secure and irregular helium supplies row, I’m sorry to say, and eat up valu- committee. This bill was drafted in able time that we could spend dealing close cooperation with the Democratic from Russia, Algeria, Qatar, and other foreign sources. It could mean higher with America’s pressing problems. Nev- minority, and I thank the chairman of ertheless, I look forward to the passage the committee. He worked with Rank- prices for American industry and for researchers. of this bill, and I urge my colleagues to ing Member MARKEY and me and with support it. Representative FLORES; and we’ve put There have already been interrup- together, I think, a solid piece of legis- tions in supply. National labs have tes- With that, I reserve the balance of lation. The legislation is an example of tified before our committee that he- my time. how we can work together. I wish it lium deliveries necessary for their re- Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Mr. were moving faster on the floor today search have already been subject to Chairman, I’m very pleased to yield 2 and tomorrow, but it is a cooperative interruptions. minutes to the gentleman from Vir- undertaking. b 1420 ginia (Mr. WITTMAN), a valuable mem- As the chairman said, helium is crit- ber of the Natural Resources Com- The bipartisan legislation before us ical for magnetic resonance imaging, mittee. MRI machines; for NASA rocket oper- today would address both of these im- Mr. WITTMAN. Mr. Chairman, I rise ation; for high-tech manufacturing; pending crises. H.R. 527 would extend in support of H.R. 527, the Responsible and for all sorts of scientific research. the life of the Federal Helium Reserve Helium Administration and Steward- For many of these applications, there past the end of this year and ensure a ship Act. is no replacement for helium with its fair return to taxpayers on this feder- truly unique properties. Farsighted ally-owned resource. It would generate H.R. 527 is important legislation for legislators established a Federal stock- more than $300 million for American our Nation’s high-tech, defense, med- pile many decades ago, which was good; taxpayers as estimated by the Congres- ical, and scientific industries. It will and as important uses of helium were sional Budget Office. The bill will in- ensure the continued operation of and recognized over the decades, we can be crease competition, transparency, and sales of helium from the Federal He- thankful that the stockpile existed. participation in helium markets, which lium Reserve, providing a stable and The frenzy of privatization under the will help shift commercial helium reli- secure supply of a critical material for Gingrich era in Congress has now made ance from the Reserve to private the next several years. this legislation necessary. Our Nation’s sources. This legislation represents a signifi- Federal Helium Reserve supplies near- The principles of this bill are con- cant step forward in addressing the ly half of the helium used in the United sistent with the recommendations concerns associated with the helium States; and if Congress fails to pass made by the National Academy of supply from the Federal Helium Re- this legislation, by the end of the cur- Sciences in 2010 to improve the helium serve. This also creates a situation rent fiscal year, the Interior Depart- program by expanding participation where we have a reliable source of he- ment’s authority to continue operating and openness in helium markets. lium that’s critical to the strategic in- the Reserve will expire. If this is al- It will protect Federal users, such as terests of this Nation. lowed to happen, nearly half of Amer- NASA and the National Labs, as well ica’s helium supply would be cut off as the scientific community by ensur- This bill also provides for the contin- overnight, creating truly a crisis in ing that they have priority access to ued operation of the Reserve and the health care, in research, in electronic this federally-owned resource in the sale of helium to private entities, manufacturing, and in many other short term and exclusive access in the thereby helping to ensure a stable and areas. That’s the immediate problem longer term. secure supply of helium in the near that this legislation would solve; but This bill was created with input from term. there is a second, potentially more se- the Department of the Interior, the It provides price transparency vere, problem to be addressed. White House Office of Science and through clear reporting requirements

VerDate Mar 15 2010 04:20 Apr 26, 2013 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K25AP7.044 H25APPT1 smartinez on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE April 25, 2013 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H2325 for both the Bureau of Land Manage- Mr. HOLT. If the gentleman needs used in welding and in the manufac- ment and for those who purchase he- more time, I gladly yield an additional turing of fiber optic cable and semi- lium. And for many industries through- 30 seconds. conductors. Medical imaging has be- out the United States, this reliability Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Sadly, Re- come a vital tool in the health care and transparency is absolutely critical. publicans are just blowing in the wind system, and every MRI requires he- H.R. 527 is important and is urgently and can’t seem to tether themselves lium. The list of applications for this needed to address this Nation’s helium down to take on such an important element is long and touches many im- supply in making sure, too, that we task. They float off in different direc- portant industries. keep in mind the implications it has tions unable to appoint conferees to ne- When the current law passed in 1996, for both our national and our homeland gotiate with the Senate. the situation with respect to helium’s security. Yesterday, despite the gravity of the value and usage was quite different, I’d like to applaud Chairman HAS- matter, the Tea Party Republicans and there was an expectation that ad- TINGS and Ranking Member MARKEY couldn’t even agree on their own ditional private sources of helium for their work on this bill, and I urge health care bill, which was named the would be developed and then of course my colleagues to support it. Helping Sick Americans Now Act. With enter the market. For a variety of rea- Mr. HOLT. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 a title like that, I’m helium flab- sons, that has not yet happened on a minutes to the gentleman from Geor- bergasted that they could not pass that sufficient enough scale to ensure a sta- gia (Mr. JOHNSON). bill. ble supply of helium to meet our na- Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. I thank b 1430 tional demand for this basic element. the gentleman. The Federal Government, through Mr. Chairman, like a kid at a car- Yesterday we spent all day debating the Bureau of Land Management, needs nival, I rise in full support of H.R. 527, that bill, and today after their failure to remain engaged in this market for the Responsible Helium Administra- to pass it, they’ve pretty much decided an additional period of time. The tion and Stewardship Act of 2013. that sick Americans can wait. We need United States reserve is about 40 per- Mr. Chairman, I’m relieved, and I’m laughing gas because of the inability of cent of the worldwide supply of helium. sure that the American people are re- the Republican House to deal with the The many industries and research in- lieved as well, that Congress is finally difficult issues. It’s real sad; we need stitutions that rely on helium cannot going to do something about one of the some laughing gas. The sequestration afford a disruption in its supply. most pressing issues of the day, that is, is delaying flights and harming our The national storage facility is we’ve got to ensure access to helium economy. unique, and there are many character- for all. The CHAIR. The time of the gen- istics of the helium market that are Surely, those harmed by sequestra- tleman has again expired. distinctly different from the markets tion and those harmed by the Repub- Mr. HOLT. I yield an additional 15 of most commodities. These factors are lican failure to appoint budget con- seconds to the gentleman. likely the reasons a more robust pri- ferees appreciate the House spending 2 Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. With se- vate supply of helium has not yet full legislative days on this most crit- questration delaying flights and harm- emerged to replace our Federal Gov- ical issue. The American people cer- ing our economy, our Nation needs a ernment’s role. H.R. 527 provides addi- tainly understand the fact that 48 little gas. Say what you will, but this tional time to phase down the Federal hours of this House’s precious time was is just the best thing that we can do Government’s role in the helium mar- necessary to pass such a noncontrover- here. So I’d like to float a simple idea: ket and to allow a private market to sial bill. stop wasting our time. Let’s get to the develop. I’m pleased to support this bill, business that is meaningful for Ameri- There is no substitute for helium in which shows that this Tea Party Con- cans. I support this bill. many of its crucial applications. Pas- gress will make the tough choice to Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Mr. sage of this legislation is critical to keep children’s birthday parties on Chairman, I want to ask my friend maintaining high-wage, high-skilled schedule and give industries that rely from New Jersey, I have at this point jobs in my district, the 20th Congres- on helium the lift that they deserve. no further requests for time. One addi- sional District of New York, through- Imagine, Mr. Chairman, a world with- tional speaker may be coming, but I’m out New York State for that matter, out balloons. How can we make sure prepared to close. and in many other States across our that there is not the injustice of there Mr. HOLT. We have at least one more great country. It is essential that we being no helium for comedians to get speaker, and my closing. work with the Senate to get a law that high-pitched voice that we all Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. I re- signed this year to provide certainty to hold near and dear to our hearts? Imag- serve the balance of my time. helium suppliers and users. ine a world without balloons. To date, Mr. HOLT. I yield 3 minutes to the I recognize there are some who are the House has chosen to just simply gentleman from New York (Mr. TONKO) uncomfortable with certain aspects of float above it all. who counts among his constituents this legislation. It is not a perfect bill, Finally, we are going to do some- many who work in technical industries and if the expected development of pri- thing for the American people, and we and laboratories who depend on helium vate supplies of helium does not occur, should all pat ourselves on the back for and understand that although there are we need to revisit this issue in the fu- that. Too often lately, this body has a lot of easy jokes about helium, this is ture. sat deflated, not for a lack of hot air, a serious matter. It is a serious matter For the present, though, this bill of- mind you, but seriously, ladies and that we should move along with fers a reasonable compromise that gentlemen, unlike a noble element, promptly. keeps helium flowing onto the market, this House has failed to act on Ameri- Mr. TONKO. Mr. Chairman, I thank and that is what we need now. I urge cans’ real concerns. Representative HOLT. I want to thank my colleagues to support H.R. 527 and There are serious reasons to support Chairman HASTINGS and Representa- maintain a reliable supply of this vital this bill, and I do look forward to sup- tive MARKEY and Representative HOLT ingredient for the sake of research and porting it. The substance of this bill is and other members of the Natural Re- industry. not the focus of my sarcasm today, Mr. sources Committee for working stead- Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Mr. Chairman. My point is that America fastly together to bring this important Chairman, I’m pleased to yield 3 min- would be much better off if this Tea bill to the floor. utes to the gentleman from Colorado Party Republican Congress brought to The Federal Helium Reserve was cre- (Mr. LAMBORN), the chairman of the the floor issues that mean the most to ated in 1925, long before today’s many subcommittee dealing with this issue. Americans, like appointing a con- uses of helium were envisioned. Now Mr. LAMBORN. I thank the chair- ference committee to work out a budg- this element has become an essential man of the full committee for allowing et with the Senate. ingredient to our Nation’s research, me to speak. I rise in strong support of The CHAIR. The time of the gen- medical, technology, manufacturing, H.R. 527, the Responsible Helium Ad- tleman has expired. space, and defense activities. Helium is ministration and Stewardship Act.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:41 Apr 26, 2013 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00025 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K25AP7.047 H25APPT1 smartinez on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H2326 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE April 25, 2013 Our House Natural Resources Com- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY I yield back the balance of my time. INDUSTRY COUNCIL, mittee passed this bipartisan legisla- b 1440 tion by voice vote, and I encourage my Washington, DC, April 25, 2013. Hon. JOHN BOEHNER, Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Mr. colleagues in the full House to do the Speaker of the House, House of Representatives, Chairman, I yield myself such time as same. The Responsible Helium Admin- Washington, DC. I may consume. istration and Stewardship Act adds Hon. NANCY PELOSI, Mr. Chairman, as has been pointed Democratic Leader, House of Representatives, free market reforms to the current sys- out on both sides, this is a very impor- tem. The current system allows a small Washington, DC. DEAR SPEAKER BOEHNER AND LEADER tant piece of legislation. Our free econ- number of companies to have access to PELOSI: On behalf of the Information Tech- omy is made up of a lot of different and benefit from the taxpayer resource, nology Industry Council (ITI), I write to ex- parts, and it’s hard—as a matter of which is helium, but it’s a good thing press the importance of H.R. 527, the Respon- fact, it’s impossible—to regulate all of to broaden the base of those who are sible Helium Administration and Steward- those parts. The market does it a ship Act to the high-tech industry. ITI sup- most benefiting from this resource. ports the passage of H.R. 527 and we will con- whole lot better. There is currently some instability sider scoring votes in support of final pas- But in this situation, because of past in the marketplace for American com- sage of the bill in our 113th Congressional actions of Congress, there was a stock- pile of Federal helium, and it became panies that are the end users of helium. Voting Guide. Helium is critical to a variety of advanced, more and more valuable; but market These companies employ thousands of high-tech manufacturing processes, as well prices weren’t being got for that avail- Americans, and they rely upon a de- as cutting-edge scientific research. It is irre- able commodity. This issue addresses placeable in many of these processes, as pendable supply of helium for their that until the markets can catch up in business every day. This includes de- there is no known substitute. The Federal Government controls 40% of the world’s he- several years in order to make sure fense companies, medical companies, lium supply, and without Congress enacting there is a supply of helium. manufacturing companies, and a vari- legislation by the end of this fiscal year, the And I’m glad to have worked in a bi- ety of users. Federal Government’s authority to sell he- partisan way with my colleagues on Numerous government reports—from lium to the private sector will expire. Such the Natural Resources Committee. a supply disruption would be catastrophic to We’ll deal with the amendment process the Department of Interior Inspector the private sector entities that require he- General to the Government Account- lium for their manufacturing processes. H.R. tomorrow. That’s why we have a rule. ability Office to the National Academy 527 would prevent such a problematic situa- There are several Members who wanted of Sciences—have all come to the same tion by ensuring the Federal Government to improve, from their point of view, this piece of legislation, and you can’t conclusion: we need to reform the cur- has authority to continue selling helium to the private sector through an auction proc- do that, obviously, on a suspension cal- rent system. ess. endar, as has been suggested. You have The current system allows a select The United States’ information technology to go through the rule process, and we group of companies to buy a critical industry is the strongest in the world, driv- ing economic growth, creating new busi- will do that tomorrow. Federal resource at significantly below nesses, and generating jobs. On behalf of So, in the meantime, Mr. Chairman, I market value to the exclusion of other ITI’s member companies, I thank you for urge adoption of this legislation, and I companies. There are historical rea- bringing this legislation to the floor to pre- yield back the balance of my time. sons how this situation developed, but vent any possible helium supply disruptions, Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Mr. Chair, I rise in sup- we have to look to the future and and urge you and your colleagues to pass port of the Responsible Helium Administration H.R. 527, the Responsible Helium Adminis- and Stewardship Act, a bipartisan bill that will what’s best for the economy moving tration and Stewardship Act. forward. Sincerely, prevent a global helium shortage that could limit high-tech manufacturing and critical sci- As a result, the American people are DEAN C. GARFIELD, entific research. potentially being denied tens or even President and CEO. Mr. HOLT. Mr. Chairman, I appre- Recognizing the value of our helium re- hundreds of millions of dollars of addi- sources, the government established a Fed- tional revenue because this Federal ciate the comments of the gentleman from Colorado, the chair of the Energy eral Helium Reserve in the 1960s. In 1996, taxpayer resource is sometimes being and Mineral Subcommittee. He reiter- Congress enacted legislation to privatize the sold at under-market values. ates the important uses of helium, and Reserve and sell off its supply. Unfortunately, It should be noted that over 20 orga- I would add that any American patient that sale has been conducted at below-market nizations and end-user companies rep- or doctor who uses MRIs, which depend rates even as demand for helium, which is resenting high-tech manufacturers of on helium, or any American who uses critical for hospitals, manufacturing, and re- semiconductors, aerospace tech- modern electronics whose manufacture search, has increased. Moreover, under that nologies, life-saving medical devices, depends on helium, or anyone who de- 1996 law, the Reserve will have to stop oper- chemicals, fiber optic, and scientific pends on so many other things for ations this October, cutting our domestic sup- researchers who require helium as an which helium is essential, should be ply by nearly half and causing a worldwide essential part of their daily business grateful that decades ago farsighted shortage. Today’s legislation creates a new, auction- support this bill. H.R. 527 will ensure legislators created the stockpile to pre- based program for selling helium from the Re- that these industries employing thou- serve helium. We now have before us the need to serve, preventing the shortage and ensuring sands of Americans and vital to the make sure that helium isn’t sold at that taxpayers get fair value for this resource. United States can obtain a reliable and fire-sale prices. We need to make sure It’s a common sense solution to a serious secure source of helium while ensuring that we have a reliable supply for these problem and I urge my colleagues to support American taxpayers that they receive important uses. We need to make sure it. the best possible market value for this that the Interior Department is not Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Chair, I rise today taxpayer resource. forced out of the business prematurely. in support of H.R. 527, the ‘‘Responsible He- H.R. 527 will end the current allot- The Interior Department has expressed lium Administration and Stewardship Act,’’ ment system and add free market com- support for the approach taken by this which will renew the Department of the Inte- ponents to the BLM helium program. legislation. rior’s (DOI) authority to continue operating the This will increase transparency be- Again, I commend and thank the Federal Helium Reserve beyond this fiscal tween companies and the BLM and en- chairman for his bipartisan leadership year. to bring this sensible legislation to the sure that purchasers of helium will I want to thank Chairman HASTINGS and floor. I hope that the other body will Ranking Member MARKEY for their hard work have timely access to the pipeline to act quickly and follow our lead and in shepherding this legislation, which enjoys ensure delivery of the helium that they pass this legislation so we do not expe- strong bipartisan support, to the floor. have purchased. rience supply disruptions and price Mr. Chair, I support H.R. 527 because it is This bill is supported by the ITI, and spikes later this year. I urge passage of an important first step in updating our nation’s I urge your support of this legislation. this bill. helium policy by increasing transparency and

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Gosnell operated an abortion data from the United States Geological Survey market value as closely as possible. clinic that severed the necks of hun- indicates that at over 20 billion cubic meters, In my view, the bill would be improved if the dreds of babies and stuffed their bodies the total helium reserves and resources of the Secretary’s discretion were enlarged to author- into freezers, plastic bags, and cat-food United States represents roughly 40 percent of ize adjustments to the minimum price by an tins. Soon, a jury in Pennsylvania will the world’s helium supply. amount not to exceed 20 percent. decide his fate. Helium is primarily used in magnetic reso- But taken as a whole, H.R. 527 is a positive Mr. Speaker, the Gosnell case must nance imaging (MRI) devices in hospitals, but step in the right direction. And I want to ex- give us a moment of reflection. Have 40 is also used as a coolant for superconductors, press my appreciation again to Chairman HAS- years of abortion on demand seared our as well as in cryogenics, welding, chroma- TINGS and Ranking Member MARKEY for their national conscience and given us a tography, and various other uses. good work. false refuge behind euphemisms like The Federal Helium Reserve is a strategic Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues in joining ‘‘choice’’? More than 3,000 unborn children die reserve located at the Cliffside Storage Facility me in voting for H.R. 527, ‘‘Responsible He- lium Administration and Stewardship Act.’’ in abortion clinics every day in this in Potter County, Texas, near the city of Ama- Mr. PAULSEN. Mr. Chair, I rise in support of country. While none of these deaths at- rillo. Created in 1925, its original function was this important legislation which will ensure tract the headlines of the Gosnell case, to ensure supplies of helium to the federal U.S. manufacturers of medical devices, com- each loss is a tragedy. Each of these de- government for defense, research, and med- puter chips, and balloons continue to have re- fenseless babies is just as innocent as ical purposes. liable access to helium. Helium is a critical Gosnell’s victims, just as human as you Through the Helium Privatization Act of element to the manufacturing and operation of and I, and just as precious as our own 1996, the Federal Helium Reserve evolved to these innovative and competitive industries children. serve four purposes: (1) operating and main- and their products. There is no moral distinction be- taining a helium storage reservoir and pipeline The Federal Helium Reserve is scheduled tween killing a baby 5 minutes after system view map; (2) providing crude helium to close this year. If that should happen, a birth or ending her life 5 minutes or gas by contract with private companies; (3) global helium shortage would disrupt business even 5 days before delivery. evaluating the Nation’s helium-bearing gas in these industries and could cause the loss of In the coming weeks, more questions fields; and (4) providing responsible access to thousands of American jobs. will be asked: Who referred patients to federal land for managed recovery and dis- In my home state of Minnesota, a large bal- Gosnell’s house of horrors, and what posal of helium. loon company continues to manufacture their can be learned from these atrocities? While the Interior Department currently has products here in the United States. They de- Today, we all ought to re-examine the authority to continue funding and operating pend on reliable access to helium not only to our national conscience. the Federal Helium Reserve, this authority is stay in business, but also to continue research f set to expire at the end of this fiscal year. and development, innovative engineering, Upon expiration, and absent Congressional manufacturing, and quality control for their bal- THE GOSNELL TRIAL action, our national supply of helium faces se- loon products. (Mr. ROSS asked and was given per- vere turmoil in the form of substantial price in- But a helium shortage would negatively im- mission to address the House for 1 creases and market disruptions for American pact more than just balloon manufacturing. It minute and to revise and extend his re- consumers and businesses. would also harm the high tech and medical marks.) Moreover, the Federal Helium Reserve, device communities as well. Approximately Mr. ROSS. Mr. Speaker, every day, which constitutes a large portion of the global 250,000 Americans are employed in the man- over 3,200 children are aborted in this supply, is instrumental in controlling price. The ufacturing of computer chips using helium. great country, the same country that large quantity of helium in the reserves means These chips are used in GPS, smart phones, is called the land of the free and the that the Interior Department effectively deter- and MRI machines. Helium is also used to home of the brave. This isn’t just unac- mines prices paid for helium around the world. cool the magnets in MRI machines. ceptable; it’s a horrific tragedy. Numerous reports indicate that the Interior We must pass this legislation to prevent And my heart goes out to all women Department may be selling helium at below major shocks to these important industries. I who feel that abortion is the only op- market value, which may have the effect of sti- urge my colleagues in the Senate to act soon tion. God made them special and made fling private investment in new helium sup- to ensure critical access to helium for the their children special too. These chil- plies. As a result, we risk facing a shortage in medical device, IT, and balloon industries and dren aren’t free and will never have the coming years as helium supplies diminish. to protect these American jobs. option to be brave. The CHAIR. All time for general de- Currently, in Philadelphia, Kermit H.R. 527 addresses this problem by bate has expired. Gosnell, an abortion doctor, is on trial transitioning helium sales to a competitive Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Mr. for multiple counts of murder. One auction system, thus ensuring a steady supply Chairman, I move that the Committee count is for a woman who died during of helium and allowing users to bid on crude do now rise. an abortion at his clinic. helium from the reserve. Consequently, the The motion was agreed to. The horrific findings in Mr. Gosnell’s law of supply and demand would dictate price Accordingly, the Committee rose; clinic serve as just one more dev- rather than having the price controlled by a and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. astating wake-up call. As a country, we central authority. BRIDENSTINE) having assumed the should work to protect everyone, in- Ideally, I would have liked to see more dis- chair, Mr. YODER, Chair of the Com- cluding women and children. cretion afforded to the Secretary of the Interior mittee of the Whole House on the state When will we be bold enough to enact in this bill, particularly with respect to the min- of the Union, reported that that Com- serious changes? imum price charged for crude helium. mittee, having had under consideration These children are precious and are The bill requires the Secretary to make a the bill (H.R. 527) to amend the Helium truly gifts. We should not use any tax- determination as to the minimum sale price at Act to complete the privatization of payer dollars to fund abortion. And I auctions in accordance with various factors, the Federal helium reserve in a com- also believe that we should prohibit including a confidential survey of domestic he- petitive market fashion that ensures abortions for unborn babies who are lium transactions with the reserve, as well as stability in the helium markets while more than 20 weeks old in-utero, which recent market prices as reflected by auction protecting the interests of American is why I recently cosponsored the Dis- sales. taxpayers, and for other purposes, had trict of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Currently under the bill, the Secretary would come to no resolution thereon. Child Protection Act. have the discretion to adjust the minimum f f price by up to 10 percent if the survey is not reflective of the current market value of helium THE GOSNELL TRIAL THE GOSNELL TRIAL or if a higher minimum price may result in (Mr. STUTZMAN asked and was (Mr. SMITH of New Jersey asked and greater conservation of helium. given permission to address the House was given permission to address the

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But snippings, death, and body parts in his remarks.) this case exposes the full horror of jars. Mr. FORTENBERRY. Mr. Speaker, abortion carried to its logical end. As But how different, really, is Gosnell’s sometimes it’s just so bad that we columnist Kirsten Powers recently ‘‘house of horrors’’ from the abortions don’t even want to look at it. Some- wrote, the difference between late-term that occur in clinics around the coun- times it’s just so awful we want to turn abortion in the womb and the murder try every single day? Not much. Not our face away. But we can’t. of a newborn infant is simply ‘‘merely much at all. Shayquana Abrams was a 17-year-old a matter of geography.’’ Mr. Speaker, will Americans ever be when she went to see a doctor named In response to a nearly total lack of told the horrifying details as to how Gosnell. He performed an abortion on coverage by mainstream media, myself and how often abortionists dismember, her. Afterwards, she was diagnosed and many Members who stand today decapitate, and chemically poison in- with a grapefruit-sized abscess and a here, including MARSHA BLACKBURN, nocent babies? clot near her heart. It took her 2 years STEVE SCALISE, and a whole cadre of Last week, reporter Timothy Carney to recover. She was just a child, Mr. folks that are speaking today, wrote to asked participants in a call hosted by Speaker. the heads of the major TV networks de- the pro-abortion group RH Reality This Dr. Gosnell waged his own pri- manding that they cover this and other Check: vate war on women. And for what? For high-profile abortion controversies. Thankfully, this case has begun to What is the distinction between what profit. receive the attention it deserves, and Gosnell did and what a late-term abortionist Now, thankfully, he’s on trial; and, like Leroy Carhart does? Americans are discovering that this is thankfully, more and more people are not about pro-choice versus pro-life, Professor Tracy Weitz responded: learning about this. but about basic human rights. When a procedure that usually involves Maybe, Mr. Speaker, we just don’t collapsing the skull is done, it is usually want to look because it is so awful. f done when the fetus is still in the uterus, not Maybe it’s challenging our very prem- WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT when the fetus has been delivered. ises, our very understanding of what INVESTMENT ACT That’s it? It’s just a matter of where, this choice for abortion really leads to. (Ms. KUSTER asked and was given in the womb or not, that this violence But we have to look, and we have to permission to address the House for 1 against children is construed to be recognize how deeply we are inflicting minute and to revise and extend her re- okay? wounds upon our very selves. marks.) Where is the outrage over 55 million Mr. Speaker, women deserve better. Ms. KUSTER. This week, I am intro- children victims who have been killed Our Nation can do better. Why not help ducing commonsense legislation to en- by abortion, and where is the appalling young women like Shayquana and let courage public and private partner- lack of compassion? the healing begin? ships to help meet the needs of New Why the empathy deficit for the vic- f Hampshire students and businesses. tims, women and children, especially The Workforce Development Invest- by our President, President Barack b 1450 ment Act would give tax incentives to Obama? THE GOSNELL TRIAL firms that partner with educators to Women and children deserve better. (Mr. ROTHFUS asked and was given improve workforce development and f permission to address the House for 1 job training for students. Training a highly skilled, 21st cen- THE GOSNELL TRIAL minute and to revise and extend his re- tury workforce is critical for growing marks.) (Mr. HUELSKAMP asked and was our economy, creating jobs, and Mr. ROTHFUS. Mr. Speaker, I join given permission to address the House strengthening the middle class. When my colleagues to continue to shine the for 1 minute and to revise and extend we invest in our workforce, more em- light on the human rights abuses that his remarks.) ployers will invest in the United are the subject of the Kermit Gosnell Mr. HUELSKAMP. Mr. Speaker, States; and in the Granite State, our trial in Philadelphia. there’s been a lot of talk in recent students will be more competitive in Dr. Gosnell’s practice included a pro- months about a ‘‘war on women,’’ but the job market, and our businesses will cedure he called ‘‘snipping.’’ This ap- those using the term to attack pro-life be more successful in the global econ- palling procedure ended the lives of supporters should look a little closer to omy. home for the real war on women. some of the youngest members of the Right now, there are companies like Abortion proponents would like us to human family. WH Bagshaw in Nashua, New Hamp- believe that the atrocities being dis- A culture of life needs to reject the shire, that are looking to hire but cussed at the murder trial of Philadel- philosophy that gives rise to such hor- struggling to find workers with the phia abortion provider Gosnell are nei- ror, and no organization that would right skills for the job. My bill would ther standard nor acceptable practice support the ending of such young lives help close this skills gap by providing in the abortion industry. But evidence should receive one dime of Federal incentives for businesses to team up indicates otherwise. funding. with educators to teach our students The so-called Aid For Women abor- f the skills they need to compete and tion clinic in Kansas City has also been THE GOSNELL TRIAL succeed. the subject of several investigations This is a commonsense proposal, and into the care provided to women and (Mr. ROKITA asked and was given I urge your support. the cleanliness of the facility with re- permission to address the House for 1 f ports very similar to those coming out minute and to revise and extend his re- of the Gosnell trial. marks.) THE GOSNELL TRIAL And with abortion providers all up Mr. ROKITA. Mr. Speaker, I rise to (Mrs. BACHMANN asked and was and down the east coast referring pa- highlight the deeply disturbing case of given permission to address the House tients to Gosnell’s clinic, I find it hard Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who is currently for 1 minute and to revise and extend to believe that no one knew of the con- charged with four counts of first-degree her remarks.) ditions, the wretched conditions at this murder and one count of third-degree Mrs. BACHMANN. Mr. Speaker, it’s clinic. That is where the real war on murder related to the botched abor- difficult for me to even speak about

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It’s about the raise awareness about the trial that’s his abortion clinic and he would sever children, we say. Every day, this going on in Philadelphia. the heads of four babies that were born Chamber debates and votes on legisla- Dr. Kermit Gosnell is on trial right alive—and potentially others—and tion, all in the name of the children, now for the murder of at least four ba- commit one gruesome act after an- we say. bies who were born alive as a result of other. Well, Baby A was a child. He had 10 a botched abortion, as well as a mother Shamelessly, the mainstream media fingers and 10 toes and he moved. He who was murdered during the process has all but gone silent and failed to moved before those scissors were of an abortion at the hands of Dr. cover this horrific violence against jabbed in the back of his head and he Gosnell. women. moved in reaction to the pain he felt. Now, just a few days ago, more than 70 Members of Congress sent a letter to No one, Democrat or Republican, be- Baby B had 10 fingers and 10 toes. He the heads of the three major networks lieves in violence against women. We kicked in his mother’s womb. His asking why they’re not giving fair cov- abhor it. But there’s nothing that even mother was a child herself—scared, erage to this trial. I think we all recog- comes close to what’s happened in this frightened, looking for an adult to help nize if Dr. Gosnell used an AK–47 in- abortion clinic in Pennsylvania. The her. stead of a scalpel, the media coverage officials in Pennsylvania and the State Dr. Gosnell, his staff, the health de- Department of Health, unfortunately— would rival a natural disaster. Yet partment, and even national pro-choice barely a peep comes from the main- it appears, willfully—ignored this hei- organizations were in no way con- nous crime. It also appears that this stream media because it happened to cerned with these women, their health be an abortion doctor who was actually has been ignored now across our Na- or well-being. Instead, these entities tion. performing abortions. either turned a blind eye or they were This is one of those untold stories in Well, we won’t ignore it. And I thank more devoted to a political ideology God for the men who stood up here our country that we all need to stand rather than the sounds of babies up for, Mr. Speaker. That’s why we’re today to stand for women and against drowning in toilets. violence against women. I lend my here today. We’re going to continue to voice and my support to that effort as stand up for the lives of the unborn and f well. for their rights. f f THE GOSNELL TRIAL VA CLAIMS, OPERATIONS, AND THE GOSNELL TRIAL RECORDS EFFICIENCY ACT (Mr. LANKFORD asked and was given permission to address the House (Mr. GOSAR asked and was given (Mrs. KIRKPATRICK asked and was for 1 minute and to revise and extend permission to address the House for 1 given permission to address the House his remarks.) minute.) Mr. GOSAR. Mr. Speaker, today, I for 1 minute and to revise and extend Mr. LANKFORD. In Philadelphia, an join my colleagues to express my dis- her remarks.) abortion clinic murder trial is about to gust and anger at the barbaric actions Mrs. KIRKPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, go to the jury next week for the death of Dr. Kermit Gosnell. today, I introduced a bipartisan piece of four children and one adult. The one The facts of this case are gut-wrench- of legislation to help tackle the sub- adult was killed by an overdose of ing. As a father, a Catholic, and a stantial backlog of veterans’ claims. drugs that she was given during the health care provider, I believe in pro- My bill is called the VA Claims, Oper- abortion procedure. The four children tecting the unborn. ations, and Records Efficiency Act, or represent many children that were de- This case isn’t only about upholding CORE. It directs the Department of De- livered completely, and then their spi- the sanctity of life, but it is also about fense to enact an efficient electronic nal cord was cut while they were out- patient care and safety. Further, it transfer of veterans’ records instead of side the womb. the outdated paperwork process that is shows many in the mainstream media The defense has said those children currently being used. will turn a blind eye to the murder of would have died anyway. They were The average veteran waits more than infants if it suits their political agen- small. The drugs they had been given 250 days for a decision on a claim. da. would have killed them already in the About 175 days of that time is the VA Regardless of one’s abortion position, surgical destruction that happened waiting for the DOD to send the com- no one can defend Gosnell’s practices, during the actual abortion procedure. plete records. In Arizona’s District yet his criminal case proceeds without So those children don’t matter. They One, one of my veterans’ caseworkers the national outcry for justice that we shouldn’t count as a murder. They is helping several vets who waited have heard on other murder cases. Do wouldn’t have lived anyway. more than 2 years. This wait time is we value the lives of infants or the simply unacceptable. Federal agencies I’m going to ask two questions. One health care of mothers who endured must leave paperwork in the past and is: What is the difference of 3 feet be- such horrific medical care? adopt an efficient electronic approach. tween delivering a child and snapping The lack of oversight allowing Dr. I thank my colleague, Chairman their spinal cord or killing them in the Gosnell to operate under horrific condi- COFFMAN, for cosponsoring this bill. womb? And the second is: Why would tions, perform late-term abortions and Helping our veterans isn’t a partisan we do this to children in the first murder babies should be scrutinized in issue; it’s a national responsibility. place? the same manner as other serial kill- Let’s end the backlog so we can keep I’d love for you to meet Olivia. She ers. My hope is our actions today shed the promises we’ve made to our vet- goes to high school with my daughter. light on this case and start a conversa- erans. She was born in 1996 at 1 pound, 2 tion to be sure that this never happens ounces, just over 20 weeks at delivery, f again. the very same as these children that f THE GOSNELL TRIAL were killed that day and many days in (Mr. BENTIVOLIO asked and was that Philadelphia abortion clinic. THE GOSNELL TRIAL given permission to address the House We have got to stand for life. We can- (Mr. WALBERG asked and was given for 1 minute and to revise and extend not be a Nation that does this to our permission to address the House for 1 his remarks.) children. minute.)

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Mr. Speaker, I stand Many of us travel by air frequently, I read an article just recently on this here again today to speak for the un- and we’re grateful with the relative very issue that really brought to my derprivileged women and children who ease which air travel allows us to visit, attention what the problem is, why the suffered under the horrible acts of Dr. whether it’s distant loved ones or trav- media won’t report. The article, talk- Gosnell. And again, as a father of two el to conduct business. ing about Dr. Gosnell, said: little girls, just like President Obama, Government is vitally important in He regularly and illegally delivered live, I challenge President Obama to lead in the service to citizens in air travel. But viable babies in the third trimester of preg- this unspeakable case. It’s time for the once again, the Federal Aviation Ad- nancy—and then murdered these newborns President to finally acknowledge these ministration is finding it more impor- by severing their spinal cords with scissors. tant to play politics with air travel and He overdosed his patients with dangerous acts. drugs, spread venereal disease among them Mr. President, your silence on this air service than to serve the citizens, with infected instruments, perforated their issue is deafening. It’s deafening, isn’t which is what government is supposed wombs and bowels—and, on at least two oc- it? When will you stand up and say to do. casions, caused their deaths. that we must protect these women and The FAA has decided to implement Over the years, many people came to children and ensure their safety? These President Obama’s sequester by fur- know that something was going on acts are reprehensible and require your loughing employees, like their air traf- here. But then, Mr. Speaker, it ends by leadership without delay. fic controllers—vitally important to saying, ‘‘But no one put a stop to it.’’ The SPEAKER pro tempore. Mem- the service and safety of our country— Until we stand as citizens of the bers are reminded to address their re- and causing delays in up to 40 percent United States, until ministers in the marks to the Chair. of U.S. flights. pulpit stand and speak for life itself, This isn’t the only way the FAA f God-given, until we return to our could save money. There are many foundational principles, the media, our FAA FLIGHT DELAYS other ways the FAA could save money, and they were provided the flexibility Presidents, no one else will listen to (Mr. RICE of South Carolina asked to save that money. But instead, in the cries of these innocents. Mr. Speak- and was given permission to address 2010 alone, the FAA spent $8 million on er, it is time for America to stand in the House for 1 minute and to revise employee conferences. There are many their defense. and extend his remarks.) ways they are not serving us. f Mr. RICE of South Carolina. I rise to THE GOSNELL TRIAL speak about an entirely different topic f today. And my topic pales in compari- (Mr. ROE of Tennessee asked and was b 1510 son to the death of children at the given permission to address the House hands of this awful clinic, so please ex- FAA FLIGHT DELAYS for 1 minute.) Mr. ROE of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, I cuse me for the diversion. (Mr. MICA asked and was given per- stand today to express my horror at What I rise to speak about today is mission to address the House for 1 the accusations made in the trial of the sequester and the effects on the minute and to revise and extend his re- Kermit Gosnell, an abortionist in Federal Aviation Administration. You marks.) Pennsylvania. If these charges are see, in my State of South Carolina, our Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker, FAA fur- true, they’re horrific. budget is actually less than it was 5 loughs of air traffic controllers and Let me speak from my heart. I am an years ago. Whereas, in the last 5 years, threats to delay flights represent an OB/GYN physician who has delivered the Federal budget has risen by 29 per- absolutely colossal failure of this ad- almost 5,000 babies. In my heart of cent. In a time when hardworking ministration. The FAA and the Obama hearts, I cannot imagine what must Americans are tightening their belts, administration knew about sequestra- have gone on in the guise of health when State and local governments are tion. In fact, the FAA knows, and this care in that abortionist clinic. It is tightening their belts, the Federal chart shows that, in fact, air traffic is physically nauseating for me to think budget is up 29 percent. We run record down some 27 percent in the last dec- about what this doctor did. deficit after record deficit. Yet with se- ade. Life is a precious miracle, and the quester, we’re seeking a 2.4 percent FAA failed to make reductions where children who lost their lives in Phila- cut—after a 29 percent rise in the last air traffic has actually been reduced. delphia were blessed with this miracle 5 years, 2.4 percent. The FAA knows which airports they only to have it so cruelly ripped away My State has cut its budget with can reduce their workforce. We’ve got a from them. Regardless of whether one minimal disruption because the Gov- report here that outlines in detail is pro-life or pro-abortion, we should ernor and the legislature have worked where we have more air traffic control- all agree that these children deserved a together to do exactly that, minimize lers than we need. chance at life. disruption. This administration, on the The Obama administration is poking This country carries a responsibility other hand, is making every effort to Congress and the American people, the and duty to protect those who do not make this 2.4 percent cut as painful as flying public, in the eye. There’s no have a voice, including the unborn chil- they possibly can. reason for this mess. I will tell you dren of America that represent our f this: if Ronald Reagan were President, greatest silent minority. They’re the this whole fiasco would have been over FAA FLIGHT DELAYS most innocent among us and deserve Monday morning. the protections we afford to all other (Mrs. BROOKS of Indiana asked and f people in this great country. was given permission to address the FAA FLIGHT DELAYS One of government’s most important House for 1 minute and to revise and duties is to protect the most vulner- extend her remarks.) (Ms. FOXX asked and was given per- able among us. I pledge to continue to Mrs. BROOKS of Indiana. Having mission to address the House for 1 remember and to strive toward this. served in the city of Indianapolis city minute.) If found guilty, I expect the full government, as well as working for the Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, these FAA weight of the law to be used to punish Federal Government as a United States flight delays have been in effect for the accused. Attorney and serving my citizens, less than a week and already the Amer- I simply will finish by saying, as a re- that’s what I thought Federal Govern- ican people are suffering. FAA’s finan- minder to all of us, what a precious gift ment, city governments, and local gov- cial mismanagement is now costing of life our children are. ernments were supposed to do—and Americans time and money, and yet

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There are $2.7 billion in nonpersonnel Congresswoman WATERS, who is the That’s why House Republicans voted operational costs that the House founder of the Out of Iraq Caucus. Con- twice to replace President Obama’s se- Transportation Committee has identi- gresswoman WATERS had the vision and quester with reasonable and respon- fied and which could be examined be- the determination to pull together sible spending cuts—because we wanted fore furloughs that ultimately hurt the Members of the House who really need- to prevent things like this from hap- American people. The FAA and this ad- ed some space, who needed to be able to pening. ministration have decided to inconven- provide legislative strategies and to So I encourage all of you when you ience the American traveler instead of beat the drum to end this war in Iraq. travel home this week to talk to people using its flexibility within the agency The country owes Congresswoman in your hometown airports, take pic- to enact these cuts in a responsible WATERS a debt of gratitude, and we tures and engage the people you meet manner. thank you very much for that. about what they’re experiencing and When air traffic controllers are being I also want to acknowledge Congress- then tweet those stories using the furloughed, yet workers helping imple- woman Lynn Woolsey, who retired hashtag: #ObamaFlightDelays. And, ment ObamaCare have been unaffected, from Congress at the end of last year, above all, please join me in encour- it becomes clear on where this adminis- but who loomed so large during this aging the administration to stop play- tration’s priorities are. Special Order, given her incredible I am very concerned with Democrats ing politics with the American people. leadership in working to end the war in using this latest example of a manufac- f Iraq and to bring our troops home. She tured crisis to cut workers, not waste. FAA FLIGHT DELAYS is and remains our sister in arms when f (Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois it comes to working for global peace asked and was given permission to ad- FAA FLIGHT DELAYS and security for our children, all of our dress the House for 1 minute and to re- (Mr. LAMALFA asked and was given collective work. vise and extend his remarks.) permission to address the House for 1 It was no wonder that many observ- Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. minute.) ers called Congresswomen WATERS, Speaker, this week, the Chicago Trib- Mr. LAMALFA Mr. Speaker, we live Woolsey, and myself ‘‘The Triad,’’ but une published an editorial that stated in a representative Republic, and so it was actually Congresswoman Wool- what many of us have known for the people expect us at our different sey who coined this term in our forma- months: the administration is playing levels of government to go to Wash- tion. political games by attempting to make ington, go to your local State capitols b 1520 the sequestration as painful as possible and get the job done and do it right. We We are here today to reflect back on on Americans, especially traveling appoint people to get these jobs done the 10-year anniversary of the start of Americans. for us that you expect, whether the The FAA furloughs announced this President does the appointments or the unnecessary, immoral, and costly week, they’re not just wrong, they’re somehow the House and the Senate ap- war and to remember and pay tribute irresponsible. The bottom line is the prove them. And yet Washington, D.C., to the sacrifices of our troops, those FAA has the flexibility to find money has fallen down on the job; this admin- who lost their lives, the injured, their and minimize the impact to the trav- istration has fallen down on the job on families, and their loved ones, many of eling public. Even more concerning is this issue of FAA and air traffic con- whom are still grappling with the scars that the FAA has chosen not to imple- trollers and delays that can affect real and the impact of the war. We are also ment the furloughs in a way that could American people. here to reflect on the costs of this war protect the most critical air traffic It’s really shameful that we are ma- in blood and treasure. On the costs of control operations and facilities. They nipulated in such a way, because what this war: $800 billion, 4,486 soldiers, an are indiscriminately furloughing ev- we’ve seen in recent years, actually untold number of Iraqi civilians, count- eryone in the FAA. since 1996, the budget for FAA has in- less refugees, and also on the lost op- Air traffic controllers are being fur- creased 110 percent. And now in this portunity costs of this war to our coun- loughed at the same rate as non- fiscal crisis, this country has seen try. controllers, and furloughs are being ap- where everybody is having to cut back, Instead of spending $800 billion on plied at the same rate regardless of the whether personally in our own lives or Iraq, we could have created jobs, re- airport size. Waterloo in Iowa is not in government, that we’re finding ways built our crumbling infrastructure or Chicago O’Hare. The FAA needs to to try and trim the cost of doing busi- invested in our schools to provide manage better, and they need to do it ness of government a little bit. every child with a 21st century edu- now. A 4 percent cut in FAA resulting in cation. Sadly, this list goes on and on. There is still time for the adminis- 40 percent of our flights being delayed, It is especially painful when we under- tration and the FAA to reverse course that’s an outrage. It should be an out- stand that this war never should have on these decisions and start making rage to every individual that we’re happened in the first place. It was a the right decision instead of trying to being manipulated this way at a time, war of choice. It was unnecessary; it simply score political points by play- with a $16-plus trillion deficit, we can’t was immoral; and it was wrong. ing the political game of chicken. get this right. Over 10 years now in the run-up to the war, there were those of us in Con- f So, missed connections, we’re hurt- ing the American public with these gress and millions of people in the FAA FLIGHT DELAYS delays. We’ve got to do better. I ask antiwar movement who fought the (Mrs. WAGNER asked and was given the administration to do better. launch of this war. We had questions permission to address the House for 1 f about weapons of mass destruction minute.) claims. We pushed for hearings; we Mrs. WAGNER. Mr. Speaker, we have CPC HOUR: IRAQ called for a full debate; and we called seen these political games played be- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under to halt the rush to war. fore with sequestration, and the Amer- the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- In October 2002, the Bush administra- ican people have responded unfavor- uary 3, 2013, the gentlewoman from tion pushed for invading Iraq. During ably every time. This decision to fur- California (Ms. LEE) is recognized for 60 that time, I was on the Foreign Affairs lough air traffic controllers by the minutes as the designee of the minor- Committee. I proposed an amendment, FAA is no different. ity leader. which the Rules Committee made in

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She is not here today unilateralism is really not the answer. member, she received approximately because she has retired, but we will al- If Iraqi weapons of mass destruction 132, 133 votes for that resolution, but ways remember the care and concern are a problem to the world community, that was another defining moment; that she gave to this issue. yes, we must confront it. We must do There was a resolution that I offered On March 19, 2003, the brave men and so through the United Nations, and we very early on to repeal the doctrine of women of our Armed Forces were or- must determine whether or not there preemption—that’s preemptive war. In dered into service in Iraq. In the fol- are weapons of mass destruction in other words, let’s start a war to pre- lowing years, nearly 4,500 of those serv- Iraq. There were 72 of my colleagues vent a future war, which the President icemembers did not return home to the who voted in favor of this amendment, claimed in waging the war in Iraq; United States, and tens of thousands which would have led us to the same There was the McGovern amendment, would come back wounded, injured— conclusion that so many soldiers lost led by Congressman MCGOVERN, who their lives changed forever. their lives and limbs to reach—that led on the effort to bring a responsible I voted against the war authorization there were no weapons of mass destruc- end to the war by calling for a time- in the first place, and in hindsight, I tion in Iraq. We all know the tragedy table; know there are many Members who that followed. Then, of course, my annual Lee also wish they had voted against it. It The Bush administration launched amendment: to limit the funding for was in that spirit that the Out of Iraq its war of choice, claimed its ‘‘mission the safe, timely, and orderly with- Caucus was established: to bring to the accomplished,’’ and chose to send pal- drawal of our troops. What this Lee House of Representatives an ongoing lets of shrink-wrapped cash and more amendment was trying to accomplish debate about the war in Iraq and to of our brave young men and women to was to stop the funding and to end urge the return of U.S. servicemembers fight on and on—despite the fact that combat operations but to protect our to their families as soon as possible. there was no real military solution to troops and contractors and bring them The Out of Iraq Caucus provided a real the quagmire that the Bush adminis- home. voice in Congress for the individuals tration created. One of my amendments, the Lee It is important to remember that and groups who supported these efforts. amendment, eventually was signed into this war did not go unchallenged, that We had a membership of nearly 80 law, which was to prohibit permanent there was a tremendous groundswell of Representatives from diverse constitu- bases in Iraq. Now that is and was and opposition and that that was critical in encies. As a caucus, we kept in close continues to be the law of the land. demanding its end and in helping to communication with congressional There were so many other efforts led bring it to a close, finally, under Presi- leadership and with committee chair- by members of the Out of Iraq Caucus— dent Obama. In Congress, this opposi- men to drive Congress toward our ob- from amendments, to resolutions, to tion was centered around the Out of jective of ending the war in Iraq. We letters, and to floor actions. Iraq Caucus, which Congresswoman also worked with other congressional I want to yield now to my colleague WATERS, whom I mentioned earlier, caucuses and national organizations to from California and just, once again, founded, and Congresswoman Woolsey hold hearings, press conferences, and thank her for her tremendous leader- and I helped cofound. This was in 2005. town hall meetings to educate the ship in case she has to leave early be- Together, we held ad hoc hearings that American people and to pressure the fore this hour ends. the Republican congressional leader- Bush administration to conclude the Ms. WATERS. I would like to take a ship refused to hold or participate in. war in Iraq. moment to express my sincere grati- We held press conferences, wrote op- tude and appreciation for Congress- b 1530 eds, and took the floor to sound the woman BARBARA LEE. At the time, our most important leg- alarm. Here I need to acknowledge, as I I want to thank her for having the vi- islative goal was to end the Iraq war sion to organize today’s activities and and bring our troops home to their know Congresswoman WATERS will— because I know this is a very impor- to say to me and to our other friend families. Our work helped define the tant benchmark to acknowledge—that Lynn Woolsey: let us not let this mo- national debate on how this could be Congresswoman Woolsey on this point ment pass without reminding this accomplished. delivered 441 floor speeches over the country that it was 10 years ago that We again organized community ral- last decade to call for the war’s end. we were involved in the invasion of lies against a war, we marched in pa- We worked with our grassroots allies, Iraq. Let us talk about the con- rades, we held press conferences, we like MoveOn, Win Without War, Pro- sequences of that, and let us do every- worked with the mothers of many of gressive Democrats of America, the thing that we can to continue to be a our young men and women who were in Friends Committee on National Legis- voice for peace. the war, who were serving in the war, lation, United for Peace and Justice, I want to thank you, BARBARA LEE, and we worked with many of the vet- Peace Action, and with great leaders not only for today, but I am reminded erans organizations. like Tom Hayden and others, to help of the courageous action that you took I, too, offered a series of legislation build a movement to bring our troops when you warned us, when there was to buttress our opposition that our home. legislation authorizing the use of mili- troops must be safely and speedily re- I recall vividly when we marched tary force, that we should have all been deployed from Iraq and that we must here in Washington, D.C., past the against it. However, you were the lone work to restore peace in Iraq. White House, with hundreds of thou- vote in the House of Representatives I introduced bills such as H.R. 3134, sands of protesters in opposition to the who voted against that authorization. Responsible Security in Iraq Act; H.R. war. These marches and rallies and ac- So I thank you for your work, for your 5488, Iraqi Displacement Coordinator; tions happened all across this country. guidance, and for your leadership. H.R. 7215, Human Costs in Iraq Act; H. I have to say, in northern California You are absolutely correct. In June Res. 1326, Honor Iraq’s Sovereignty; and especially in the East Bay and in of 2005, I became the chair and a found- and, of course, H. Res. 1519, Press Free- San Francisco—the entire Bay Area of ing member of the Out of Iraq Congres- dom in Iraq. California—they were really at the sional Caucus, along with you, Rep- On the 1-year anniversary of the forefront of this effort. Of course we resentative BARBARA LEE, and, of founding of the Out of Iraq Caucus, I worked the legislative process as hard course, our friend Representative Lynn launched a campaign to inform the as we possibly could. There were many Woolsey. As a matter of fact, we be- public about H.J. Res. 73. Ms. LEE, you members of the Out of Iraq Caucus who came known as ‘‘The Triad.’’ I want will remember John Murtha, the led important legislative efforts to end you to know that a combination of ac- former Member of this House who is the war: tions that we took helped to galvanize now deceased who introduced H.J. Res.

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We all worked with worked for peace and who has always His husband, Michael, came to the him on that legislation, and we honor believed that whatever our differences United States from Malaysia on a stu- him even today for his wisdom and his are in the world, that we must find dent visa in 2005, and since then has foresight. ways to have the kind of diplomacy been the perfect example of the kind of I want to do just one thing before I that can resolve these differences. immigrant we want to keep here. He have to leave, and that is read a letter Some people think that this is not has earned a master’s degree in nursing to President Bush that we all sent possible, but I know that those of us and is currently working on a doc- funding only for redeployment of who believe this will continue to fight torate in the same field. troops, if you recall. By the following and to work for peace on Earth and Michael and Brian have shared their year in 2007, we as a caucus delivered a goodwill toward all men and women. lives for almost 10 years and cannot letter to President Bush signed by 92 Ms. LEE of California. Congress- even travel internationally to see Mi- Members of Congress, which stated our woman WATERS, thank you so much for chael’s family because of the visa re- intent to only support war funding for that very eloquent and profound state- strictions placed on them. the safe and orderly redeployment of ment and for your kind remarks. Let What’s going to happen to Michael our U.S. troops from Iraq. me just say to you also that you have when he completes his education? Are In the letter, we cited the tremen- been a woman who has always believed we really going to break up this fam- dous human and financial costs of the that peace is possible and peace is pa- ily? Are we really going to send a well- President’s failed Iraq policy. And be- triotic. So I just want to thank you for trained medical professional back? cause of you, BARBARA LEE, I’d like to your leadership, for being here with us, The debate on reforming our immi- share this letter because you were in and just say how proud we are that you gration system is not over. I plan on the leadership of this. It said: are our Financial Services ranking working with Members of Congress Dear Mr. President: We are writing to in- member also. Thank you. from both sides of the aisle, from both form you that we will only support appro- Let me take a moment now to yield Houses, to ensure that binational priating additional funds for U.S. military to the gentleman from California, Con- LGBT families are given the same op- operations in Iraq during fiscal year 2008 and gressman MARK TAKANO, who has been portunities as everyone else. beyond for the protection and safe redeploy- way out there in terms of opposing this b 1540 ment of all our troops out of Iraq before you war from day one. leave office. Thank you again for being here. Ms. LEE of California. Let me go More than 3,600 of our brave soldiers have back now to the 10th anniversary of died in Iraq. More than 26,000 have been seri- IMMIGRATION REFORM Mr. TAKANO. I want to thank the this unfortunate war, Mr. Speaker. ously wounded. Hundreds of thousands of I’m going to introduce now into the Iraqis have been killed or injured in the hos- gentlelady from California for yielding tilities and more than 4 million have been me some time. RECORD tonight a timeline of some of displaced from their homes. Furthermore, I’m going to switch subjects a little what we have talked about tonight be- this conflict has degenerated into a sectarian as I want to rise today to express my cause they should be remembered and civil war; and U.S. taxpayers have paid more support for the immigration proposal because these efforts and the efforts of than $500 billion, despite assurances that released last week by the bipartisan the movement that ended this war fi- you, your key advisers gave our Nation at nally did make a difference, although the time you ordered the invasion in March group of Senators called the Gang of Eight. obviously not as quickly as we wanted; 2003 that this military intervention would but we did make a difference together. cost far less and would be paid from Iraq oil While this bill is not perfect and I revenues. have serious doubts about several pro- After years of speaking out and as visions in it, it shows that both sides of the toll of the Iraq war stretched the Remember that? patience of the American people, public We agree with a clear and growing major- the aisle can work together on issues facing our Nation, that Democrats and opinion started turning. People began ity of the American people who are opposed asking what were we doing in Iraq. Iraq to continued, open-ended U.S. military oper- Republicans can work together. ations in Iraq, and we believe it is unwise I am pleased that the proposal pro- had no weapons of mass destruction, as and unacceptable for you to continue to uni- vides a pathway to citizenship, a fast the Bush administration told us. Iraq laterally impose the staggering costs and the track for DREAMers, an increase in had not been involved in the 9/11 at- soaring debt on Americans currently and for the number of high-skilled worker tacks, as suggested by the Bush admin- generations to come. visas and an opportunity for immi- istration. Sincerely. grants, who have been deported on non- Then-Secretary of State Colin Powell And it was signed by all 93 Members criminal grounds, to apply for readmit- made a presentation at the United Na- at that time. tance if they have a spouse or children tions that was greatly misleading, Our efforts gained momentum; and in the United States. stating that Iraq possessed extremely by late 2008, President Bush signed the I do, however, have some concerns re- dangerous weapons of mass destruc- Status of Forces agreement, which garding the legislation, including the tion. Some of you may remember the mandated that the U.S. shall com- fact that it fails to address binational smoking cloud that he talked about. It pletely withdraw from Iraq no later eligible LGBT families. was just really very, very tragic. He de- than December 31, 2011, and all U.S. More than a dozen countries allow scribed biological weapons factories on combat forces shall withdraw from Iraq same-sex partner-sponsoring, including wheels, and estimated that Iraq had be- cities before June 3, 2009. Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, tween 100 and 150 tons—no, I believe it As a caucus, we continue to hold Finland, France, Israel, New Zealand, may have been 500 tons—of chemical hearings and briefings, as well as Norway, South Africa, Sweden, the weapons stockpiled. All of those claims speaking on this very floor until Presi- United Kingdom, and many more. about weapons of mass destruction dent Obama, who initially opposed the The United States should be no dif- turned out to be false. war, approved an 18-month redeploy- ferent. Secretary of State Powell’s own chief ment plan that would begin in Sep- Keeping these loving families apart of staff, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, tember of 2009 and end in December of is wrong, and it’s bad for the economy. later said about his own participation 2011. Take the story of southern California in the deception at the United Nations, Ms. LEE, I’m sorry that I’m going to residents Brian and Michael. They met he said: have to leave the floor because I have in 2005, became engaged next year in I participated in a hoax on the American a meeting scheduled with the members Paris and were married during the brief people, the international community, and of our caucus of the Financial Services window during which same-sex mar- the United Nations Security Council. Committee. But I’d like to say before I riage was legal in California. Iraq did not present a clear and leave, again, thank you for your lead- Brian, who’s been an educator for present danger to the United States. ership; thank you for your wisdom; over 20 years, teaches humanity Secretary Powell and his staff, they

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We call them he- 2003, 10 years ago next week, when cisco to places in between, to the quar- roes, and certainly those who followed President Bush stood on the deck of ter of a million people that walked in Afghanistan. the USS Abraham Lincoln and pro- down 53rd and 57th Street in New York But this 10th year reminds us to ask: claimed ‘‘Mission Accomplished.’’ Of on a cold morning in January. Have we made the progress that we course, the mission was far from ac- People all over America recognized should have? The gentlelady spoke of complished. The war was to drag on for that it was not these brave men and the moneys, $800 billion that has di- another 8 years. women that you see here. And I rectly contributed to the Nation’s def- President Obama committed to end- brought pictures of wonderful families icit, and the amount of money that was ing the war during his campaign; and and men and women who were called to supposed to be used for restoration; he, of course, did as President. While serve who we continue to honor and ap- and because there was no infrastruc- the war in Iraq is over, its legacy con- preciate. I thought it was important to ture in Iraq, we made our Army per- tinues and the lessons still have yet to acknowledge that our soldiers have sonnel be the little government. be learned. We need to look closely at families. We see it all the time. My dis- b 1550 the decisions made, understand the trict is near Ellington Field, and it is We made soldiers be the ones that mistakes and misjudgments, and en- increasingly becoming a base utilizing had to interact with the village leaders sure that we never again repeat such a the talents of young Americans who and the chiefs, and carry monies to tragedy. are willing to volunteer. So I take this them. No, nothing accounted for; just In Ghana, in the Akan language of 10th anniversary, as well, to pay trib- good intentions, following orders. But Ghana, there is a mythical bird that’s ute to them and those who still serve we cannot account for those dollars. a symbol. It’s called Sankofa. It’s a in foreign fields around the world. We We don’t know if they made a dif- bird flying forward looking back, and know that they still serve in Iraq and ference. We don’t know if they helped the message is that in order to not Afghanistan. bring Iraqis home. We don’t know if make the same mistakes as we move So we come here today on the 10th they helped build schools or hospitals. forward, we have to look back and we anniversary simply to ask the ques- So I think it is important to note have to know our history. We have to tion: Why? And when we ask the ques- that when we make decisions regarding know where we have come from, what tion why, it is not a selfish question on war, we need to think about soldiers we have done in order to move forward, behalf of Members of Congress. It is a holding their families and loving their and we should learn from those mis- question on behalf of those brave men families. We need to think about the takes. Sankofa. and women who, no matter who calls better way to go, and we need to ask The Special Inspector General for them as Commander in Chief and for those whose war we fight—Saddam Iraq Reconstruction issued its final re- what cause, they accept the cause. For Hussein is gone—the people whose war port to Congress just last month, de- that reason, it is imperative that we we fight, the conflict between the Shi- tailing billions and billions of dollars understand the battle into which we ites and Sunnis. lost to waste, fraud, and abuse. The oc- send them. We need to understand our history as cupation of Iraq was characterized by In the Iraq war, it was alleged there to whether or not a war that would see poor planning by the Bush administra- were weapons of mass destruction. We the loss of all these brilliant young tion, who ignored State Department have come to a fairly complete conclu- people, divide families, whether or not and USAID analysis envisioning pro- sion that there were no such weapons. we can bring some measure of peace, tracted U.S. involvement in Iraq re- We all knew Saddam Hussein, and none some comfort, some stability. quiring substantial spending for many of us adhered to his despotic and hor- And I’d venture to say today that we years. rible governance. But I will tell you, have not. And I say this to the head of The Pentagon was left in charge of my colleagues thought the same thing, Iraq, the leader, Mr. Maliki, for his managing postwar Iraq, and Defense that our approach should have been dif- participation in the ongoing conflict in Secretary Donald Rumsfeld famously ferent. The bloodshed not only of the Iraq, because that is the case. underestimated the resources needed to young men and women that you see There is no coming together of the stabilize the country. When Lieutenant here, some of their comrades were lost, Shiites and Sunnis. There is a cluster General Jay Gardner told Secretary but the millions, the numbers of Iraqi of a government that hides in the Rumsfeld that the United States might people who themselves, their lives were walls, that does not go out and try to need to spend billions of dollars to re- lost and of course still continue to be bring peace to the people. And I give build Iraq, Rumsfeld responded: in danger. you one example, Mr. Speaker, that If you think we’re going to spend a billion The Iraq war saw more than 4,400 troubles me over and over again—it is dollars of our money over there, you are brave men and women who wore the the Iranians who left Iran. sadly mistaken. United States uniform make the ulti- We know the conflicted issues and al- Well, of course, it was Mr. Rumsfeld mate sacrifice, and tens upon tens of liances were all, if you will, misunder- who was sadly mistaken, and the thousands who in actuality were stood; old alliances, friends and en- American public who was sadly misled, wounded. Over 32,000 of the men and emies. We understand that. But this is and the Iraqi people who sadly suffered women who came home suffered supposed to be a peaceful nation now, from the chaos and destruction un- wounds. But as we know, those num- and there are Iranians who fled the des- leashed by ideologues who used Iraq as bers have risen. Some 3,000 of the potic Iran, and have become, in es- a laboratory for a light-footprint war. wounded call Texas their home, 500 lost sence, enemies of Iran. Mr. Speaker, unfortunately, those their lives. We know the scars that They started out in Camp Ashraf. lost opportunities and tragic mistakes were left on families—mother, fathers, They were called rebels and terrorists. are not behind us. children, and wives. We realized that They have now been vindicated, and I would like to take a moment now we needed to make a better judgment. they’re not called that anymore. and yield to my friend and colleague, a As the tragedy unfolded in Boston, But let me tell you what the present woman who has consistently been one of the emergency physicians, one government of Iraq allows. They allow, against the war and has stood for peace of the medical professionals, said they in the camp that was Camp Ashraf that all of her life, Congresswoman SHEILA knew exactly what it was because they is now Camp Liberty, bombs to go in JACKSON LEE. had been to Iraq, and they understood from the Iraqi soldiers. They allow no Ms. JACKSON LEE. I thank the gen- the sound of the IEDs. How many of medical care to come into that par- tlelady from California, and I particu- our brave men and women encountered ticular camp.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:41 Apr 26, 2013 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00034 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K25AP7.064 H25APPT1 smartinez on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE April 25, 2013 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H2335 Just yesterday, the Friends of Iran, stood in strong and unwavering solidarity with In this post-Iraq time we must turn our at- American Iranians were here, and they our troops. tention to helping’ our men and women who had 10 people or more, their faces, who Part of our role as representatives in Con- have fought bravely overseas to ensure our had died in that camp because the gov- gress is to give voice to the plight of our con- freedom and the promotion of democracy. ernment of Iraq, the government that stituents that include men and women in the Earlier this week a new Veterans Affairs we shed blood for, that we asked to be armed forces—many of them served tour after outpatient clinic was opened in the Houston a peaceful nation, is, in essence, at- tour after tour without break; and in the begin- area, which will shorten the distance between tacking people on their soil who are ning of the war had insufficient equipment to Houston veterans and the care they need. The unarmed, who are not interested in protect them from IEDs which cost the nation nearly 30,000 square foot establishment pro- war, who fled because they’d been per- countless lives and left many with traumatic vides primary health care, mental healthcare, secuted. life changing injuries. women’s specialty care, x-rays, optometry, And they don’t allow them to get ac- We cannot forget their sacrifice and heroism physical therapy, occupational therapy, ENT cess to cars, access to hospitals, and so in the face of what was asked of them. In April (ear, nose and throat) and audiology. The new people die from sicknesses because of last year the great city of Houston, which I center will have a fully operational laboratory they could not get care. am proud to represent, hosted a Bayou City- by July, as well as a visiting cardiologist and When we go into battle and send our style parade honoring the homecoming of the surgical physician’s assistant for minor proce- troops into battle, shouldn’t we ask the American troops. This gesture of thanks de- dures. question of what is the ultimate re- fines the support that Houston has for our The new clinic is expected to service 7,000 sult? troops in any situation. to 8,000 veterans within its first year of oper- We understand that democracy in its During the course of the Iraq War more than ation and create more than 50 paying jobs. structure that is here in the United 4,400 brave men and women in uniform made The Houston area clinic is one of many States cannot only be the structure the ultimate sacrifice and over 32,000 were Community-Based clinics that have been es- that fits every community, every na- wounded. Of these brave men and women tablished in response to the growing number tion, every faith. But what I would say more than 500 of the fallen and 3,000 of the of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans returning to you is that we bring one of those C– wounded call Texas their home. from war. It is vital that we keep these vet- 130s, big C–130s that many of us have In 2003 I fought with many of my colleagues erans, and current soldiers, in mind as we de- rode on to go into Iraq. And I spent in the Congressional Progressive Caucus to velop policies to ensure their care and many hours there, nothing in compari- ensure that the order to proceed with the Iraq wellbeing. son, of course, to those who served, but War did not pass the House, but our efforts Ms. LEE of California. Let me thank I’m grateful I had the opportunity to were not successful. the gentlelady from Texas for that go and serve and see those individuals Although we have withdrawn from Iraq it is very profound statement and presen- who served, and to sit down with those imperative to understand that the withdrawal is tation. And just let me say to you that, from Texas and to break bread with not synonymous with the end of the war on as the daughter of a 25-year veteran of them. terror. It has been my stance since the begin- the Armed Forces, I am deeply thank- When we land one of those C–130s, ning of the war that there are different steps ful for your bringing forth the faces of why don’t we know, and shouldn’t we that must be taken to combat terror—which in- our Armed Forces. know our purpose, our goal, what is our clude diplomatic and humanitarian efforts. And also, talking about the obstacles ultimate direction that we would like The war also had an economic cost to our now that they’re facing upon their re- to see? nation, which we are still paying and will con- turn, I’m especially concerned with the Not the dominance of the United tinue to pay until our colleagues on the other widespread and often undiagnosed inci- States over this nation that we help side of the isle resolve to battle the economic dents of PTSD and the alarming sui- but to be able to know that they, too, threat at home with the vigor of the fight cide rates among our soldiers. stand for democracy and peace. against a less than creditable threat many The back claims, the Veterans Af- I want to thank the gentlelady from thought they saw in Iraq 10 years ago. fairs losing records, denying claims California for allowing me to share this The monetary cost of the war exceeded that are clearly service-related. I want time with her, and to say, it’s impor- $800 billion, which directly contributed to the to acknowledge Congresswoman JACKIE tant to remind us of the 10th anniver- nation’s deficit that is now trying to be mended SPEIER and her work in our area and sary, one, to say thank you, for when by the Sequester. More worrisome, the long throughout the country to try to ad- we land these C–130s and these men and terms costs from the results of the war are ex- dress the backlog of claims of our vet- women come out ready for battle, they pected to exceed $3 trillion. erans who don’t deserve to be treated are wearing our uniform and our flag Since our withdrawal, insurgencies have this way. but, at the same time, we must ask the erupted across the country of Iraq. Iraq has Since the invasion of Iraq 10 years question, for what? For what results? been seen to gravitate towards Iran, a nation ago, over 2,000 current and former serv- For what long-range results? For what that has openly been hostile towards U.S. mis- icemembers have committed suicide. peace? For we owe that to them. sion, and one that has proven to be a source The lessons from this tragedy cannot I ask that we consider those in Camp of destabilization in the area. be any clearer. It’s a lot easier to get Liberty and we find relief for them. I The remedies to these issues once again into war than to get out of one. thank the gentlelady very much. come from intelligence and diplomatic chan- It’s my hope, Mr. Speaker, that this Mr. Speaker, I rise in solidarity with my fel- nels that do not include invasions like the one reckless and shortsighted decision will low members of the Congressional Progres- the United States so hastily entered into with mark a turning point in American his- sive Caucus to speak in recognition of the Iraq. tory, and that we will be more careful 10th Anniversary of the Iraq war. I want to The tactical withdrawal from Iraq can be about war and use all of the tools of thank my colleagues, Representatives LEE and seen with some high regard as a template for American power, as Congresswoman WATERS for anchoring this Special Order. how to end the war in Afghanistan, and exit Woolsey so eloquently talked to us On March 19, 2003 President Bush the region safely and decisively. As a nation about and introduced over and over launched invasion of Iraq ten years ago under we must turn away from this past decade of again, SMART security that should be a cloud of questions about the motivations for occupying countries in the name of fighting used in resolving disputes, including di- the invasion. Today we see the toll of this war terror. These endless occupations delay the plomacy. on our young military men and women, their creation of opportunity within our own nation, Let me ask you, Mr. Speaker, how families and communities across our nation. which must be one of the priorities as we at- much time do I have remaining? First and foremost, I would like to thank our tempt to overcome the economic hardships The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- troops who served in the Iraq war, but more facing the nation. tlewoman has 21 minutes remaining. broadly I would like to thank all members of In closing, I would once again like to extend Ms. LEE of California. I would like to the armed forces for their courage and her- my deepest gratitude to our troops fighting know if the gentlelady from Texas has oism under circumstances that few of us could across the nation on the 10th Anniversary of anything else to say. Otherwise, we imagine. As members of Congress we have, the Iraq War, and would like to thank my Con- will close. regardless of our view of the wisdom of enter- gressional Progressive Caucus colleagues Let me just use a bit more time and ing into armed conflict with Iraq, have always again for hosting this event. say that there’s no military solution in

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Committees: House International Rela- poorly managed reconstruction efforts, And so as we embark into this new tions and bring our troops home now. age of modern warfare, we do need Latest Major Action: 2/9/2005 Referred to And we need to repeal the 2001 Au- rules. We need oversight; we need ac- House committee. Status: Referred to the countability; and we need to develop an House Committee on International Rela- thorization For the Use of Military tions. Force, which Congresswoman WATERS international legal framework on H. AMDT. 214 [109th] mentioned, which I voted against right drones. (A009) after the horrific events of 9/11. This And we understand asymmetrical Amends: H.R.1815 overly broad blank check has under- warfare and the new world in which we Sponsor: Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [D–CA–6] written the past decade of perpetual live. None of us have our head in the (offered 5/25/2005) sand about that. We just need to make AMENDMENT PURPOSE: war. An amendment numbered 26 printed in I have a resolution, H.R. 198, it’s the sure that Congress has a role in debat- ing exactly how we’re going to, if we’re House Report 109–96 to express the sense of Repeal of the Authorization For the Congress that the President should develop a Use of Military Force. This will remove going to, and when the appropriate use plan for the withdrawal of U.S. military one of the underlying legal justifica- of force is necessary. forces from Iraq, and submit this plan to the tions for targeted drone killings that For me, personally, I believe in congressional defense committees. has been invoked over and over again, SMART Security; and I know that that STATUS: will lead to a world that our children 5/25/2005 6:20 pm: Amendment (A009) offered this time, targeted killings, to justify a by Ms. Woolsey. (consideration: CR H4035– wide range of activities, including deserve and is worthy of our children’s future. 4040, H4043; text: CR H4035) warrantless surveillance and wire- So let’s put this decade of perpetual 5/25/2005 7:53 pm: On agreeing to the Wool- tapping activities, and, yes, a blank sey amendment (A009) Failed by recorded warfare behind us. We should bring our check for war anywhere, any time, for vote: 128–300 (Roll no. 220). troops home. We should invest in our H. CON. RES. 197 [109th] any length of time. veterans and our children, create jobs I hope those who are listening and Latest Title: Declaring that it is the policy here at home and really begin to invest of the United States not to enter into any who care about this, go back and read in our future for the sake of our chil- base agreement with the Government of Iraq that resolution of 9/14. What it said was dren and our grandchildren. that would lead to a permanent United the President, and I’m paraphrasing I have this chart here to show you States military presence in Iraq. now, but it was the President is au- just in terms of the fiscal implications Sponsor: Rep Lee, Barbara [D–CA–9] (intro- thorized to use force against any na- of what these policies have brought. duced 6/30/2005) Cosponsors: 86 Committees: House International Relations tion, organization, individual, deemed When you look at the deficit, with the connected to terrorism and the 9/11 at- Latest Major Action: 6/30/2005 Referred to war and the economic policies of the House committee. Status: Referred to the tacks. Bush era, the tax cuts, we’re looking at House Committee on International Rela- Now, this was in 2001. 2001. No end this line right here. Had these unfortu- tions. game, no timetable, a blank check, nate policies not occurred, our deficit H. AMDT. 750 [109th] perpetual war until this is repealed. So would be down here. This is very clear. (A050) Congress really needs to reassert its Amends: H.R. 4939 This was put forth by the Congres- Sponsor: Rep Lee, Barbara [D–CA–9] (of- constitutional authority in the mat- sional Budget Office in February. ters of war. Our Founding Fathers were fered 3/16/2006) These are their estimates. AMENDMENT PURPOSE: very deliberate in placing war-making It’s very clear, I hope, to everyone An amendment to prohibit the use of funds powers in this body. In a democracy, that the failed economic policies of the from being available to enter into a basing such as ours, we have this system of Bush administration and the wars in rights agreement between the United States checks and balances. Iraq are the major contributing factors and Iraq. On 9/14, we did not have a full debate. STATUS: to the economic crisis that we find our- 3/16/2006 4:39 pm: Amendment (A050) offered From what I remember, it may have selves in. And so, aside from the human been an hour, it may have been 2 hours. by Ms. Lee. (consideration: CR H1107–1110; toll that this 10-year war and the war text: CR H1107) But we did not fully debate that blank in Afghanistan has taken, we have a 3/16/2006 5:04 pm: On agreeing to the Lee check and what that meant by author- real crisis now, an economic crisis in amendment (A050) Agreed to by voice vote. izing then-President Bush, now Presi- this country that we need to come to H.R. 5875 [109th] dent Obama and any future President, grips with. Our senior citizens did not Latest Title: Iraq War Powers Repeal Act to use force in perpetuity. of 2006 cause this crisis. Our children did not Sponsor: Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [D–CA–6] b 1600 cause this crisis. The poor, our middle (introduced 7/25/2006) Cosponsors: 26 Commit- We can no longer abdicate our con- class individuals, and families did not tees: House International Relations Latest Major Action: 7/25/2006 Referred to stitutional duties allowing any Presi- cause this crisis. And we cannot forget what has taken place over the last 10 House committee. Status: Referred to the dent to engage in hostilities without House Committee on International Rela- debate, without oversight, and without years of this unbelievably terribly sad time in our history, where we lost so tions. accountability. f And I want to commend Senator many lives and we lost so much time in terms of rebuilding our country for the DURBIN for conducting hearings this SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS week looking at the constitutionality future of our children. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under I yield back the balance of my time. and the rationale for targeted killings the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- using drones. This was a very impor- KEY IRAQ VOTES FROM THE 109TH CONGRESS uary 3, 2013, the gentlewoman from H. CON. RES. 35 [109th] tant hearing. I was able to sit through Latest Title: Expressing the sense of Con- Missouri (Mrs. HARTZLER) is recognized some of that hearing, and it was very gress that the President should develop and for 60 minutes as the designee of the revealing. Actually, there was a young implement a plan to begin the immediate majority leader. man from Yemen who received a State withdrawal of United States Armed Forces Mrs. HARTZLER. When I was 10 Department scholarship. He went to from Iraq. years old, I got my first job. It would school here, had gone back to Yemen, Sponsor: Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [D–CA–6] require skill and perseverance and pa- and his village was devastated by (introduced 1/26/2005) Cosponsors: 34 tience, and it would have a real poten- Committees: House International Rela- drones. tions tial economic impact on our family So you can see what’s happening Latest Major Action: 1/26/2005 Referred to hog farm. My dad hired me. He paid me now. There are more and more hos- House committee. Status: Referred to the 15 cents a unit.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:41 Apr 26, 2013 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00036 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K25AP7.067 H25APPT1 smartinez on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE April 25, 2013 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H2337 What was my job? It was shooting the gentleman, the gang member, say, Missouri (Mr. LUETKEMEYER). So gen- sparrows around our farm. At that Well, they passed a new law in D.C., so tleman, what would you like to share time, there was a disease going around I guess we can’t use assault rifles any- about our Second Amendment rights? rural America, and sparrows were tak- more. Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Thank you, ing it from farm to farm. So it had a We’ve got to look at the facts about Congresswoman HARTZLER. It’s always real practical purpose. whether passing this law would really good to work with another fellow Mem- But, as I’m a parent now, I look back address violence. In this case, it cer- ber from Missouri, the Show Me State, on it. I used to tag around with my dad tainly wouldn’t. where we can give some folks a little all the time, and I wonder maybe if he As far as that legislation, also the insight as to what’s going on. just kind of wanted to give me some- word ‘‘assault’’ is an adjective. It is not Mr. Speaker, when I was growing up thing to do, in addition to a job. a gun. What gun control advocates call in rural Missouri, firearms were a reg- But I had a lot of fun that summer an assault rifle is actually a regular ular part of my life. Beyond learning going around the grain bins and the rifle with only a few cosmetic dif- how to safely handle firearms while sheds on our farm and our buildings ferences on the outside, such as a pistol hunting and shooting, I learned also to and trying to catch that bird unawares. grip, a hand guard, and a removable respect them. Like so many parents, I And I think over the entire summer, I magazine. It is misleading to label fire- made sure those same lessons were in- may have earned around 45 cents. So it arms with negative words in order to stilled in my own children. wasn’t a big moneymaker, but I sure advance a gun control agenda. It is because of the efforts of parents had a lot of fun. The fact is that more deaths have or adults who can have a positive influ- And I learned some important things. been inflicted using fists and knives ence on a child that the culture of safe- I learned that using firearms can be a and baseball bats than with a gun. In ty and respect toward firearms have fun hobby and hunting can be fun; also, fact, one-and-a-half times as many been so well maintained in rural Amer- that using firearms can have a real homicides are committed with blunt ica. Our communities and families practical purpose. And over the years, objects such as a baseball bat, over two work very hard to ensure this heritage, I’ve shot a lot of different kind of fire- times as many homicides with fists, and it is very upsetting when law- arms now and different sizes, but I and five times as many with knives. makers—many of whom know nothing really appreciate what our Founding So why aren’t proponents of bans on about firearms—attempt to place limi- Fathers did when they established our firearms calling baseball bats assault tations on our Second Amendment Second Amendment and gave us that baseball bats or assault knives? Well, right to keep and bear arms. as our basic right. the reason is because the American The Second Amendment is, in fact, a This afternoon, my colleagues and I people know that objects are only tools primary constitutional right that sets want to highlight not only why the of people who wish to do others harm. America far apart from nations around Second Amendment is important to us They are not the cause. Now, it’s a slo- the world. Our Founders got this right. and to the people in our districts, but gan, it’s a bumper sticker, but it is They knew ensuring the right of a cit- how it is also important to this coun- true: guns don’t kill people; people do. izen to keep and bear arms would al- try. We want to dispel the myths that So that’s one proposal that I think ways be vital to ensuring personal free- decisions about how to address violence misses the mark. doms. are based on facts and not emotions. Another proposal is to create uni- I have spent my time as an elected As a lifelong gun owner as well as a versal background checks. Well, the official—first in the Missouri State former public schoolteacher, I appre- fact is that the vast majority of gun House of Representatives, and now in ciate the thoughtful discussion that sales already have background checks Congress—working to protect the Sec- our country has been having after the with the sale, because all firearm sales ond Amendment. However, not only is tragic school shooting in Newtown, through dealers must complete the in- it important to protect the right to Connecticut. My heart has gone out to stant background check. The only own the gun; it is also important to those families, as I know everyone in transactions that do not require the protect the privacy of the information America’s heart has, and our prayers background checks are sales between about the ownership of the gun and the as well. We want to understand the de- individual gun owners; and they are conceal-carry permits and things like sire to stop the violence. I share that not the problem. Requiring law-abiding that. goal but believe that many of the pro- citizens to have to go to a dealer and I will give you an example. In my posals being put forth miss the mark. get a background check on their neigh- State just recently—in fact, we’re bare- So let’s look at some of the proposals bor in order to sell him a gun would do ly finished working on this—it has and compare them to the facts. little to stop mass killings. come to our attention that the Depart- One proposal that is being talked Imposing the new law would not have ment of Revenue and Highway Patrol, about and has been talked about is to stopped the Sandy Hook killer. He in working in conjunction with the So- ban what’s called assault rifles. Well, stole the guns he used to carry out his cial Security Administration’s Inspec- the fact is that lawbreakers ignore the evil scheme. The same with the Au- tor General, was looking into getting laws. Banning firearms would only rora, Colorado, shooter in the movie control of the conceal-carry permit list take guns away from our law-abiding theater. He actually had passed a back- of all the folks in the State of Missouri citizens and ensure that lawbreakers ground check. So passing a new law to compare it for mental health dis- have guns. like this does not really address the ability fraud in our State. While we I was watching TV a couple of weeks issue. were satisfied in going through all the ago, and I saw the sponsor of the Sen- different informational checks and ate bill to ban these assault rifles and b 1610 crosschecks with regard to the Federal she was giving a rationale why she It’s time for all of us to address the side of this—that they did everything thought it was important. She was say- real issue of how to protect our chil- legally they were supposed to do as ing, Well, gangs in California have as- dren and schools rather than to use a well as the information was protected sault rifles, and we’ve got to get these tragedy to impose more government and not compromised—it still pointed off the streets and out of the hands of control on law-abiding citizens or in- out some of the looseness and sloppi- our gang members, so we need to pass fringe on our Second Amendment ness that went on with regards to the this bill. And I just kind of scratched rights. way that the State folks handled our my head and thought, Do you really Several of my colleagues are going to information. To me, that is something believe that gang members are going to join me today to share their insights that we have to be constantly watchful listen and pay attention to a law that into why the Second Amendment mat- for. Washington, D.C., passes? They break ters to them and their constituents, Someone once said the price of free- laws every day. I really can’t see them and to discuss how to address the real dom is eternal vigilance. I think with getting together and having an organi- issues of violence in our country. regard to Second Amendment rights, it zational meeting and saying, Well, let’s I would like to start off with my fel- certainly is something that is very have the legislative report and have low colleague from the great State of true.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:45 Apr 26, 2013 Jkt 029060 PO 00000 Frm 00037 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K25AP7.069 H25APPT1 smartinez on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H2338 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE April 25, 2013 Mrs. HARTZLER. I thank you, gen- I’m glad to see my colleague from my own kids and with my husband, tleman. I think well said there. Our South Dakota here. She is quite a Brian. rural heritage is based on our Second champion of gun rights. We’re looking Opening day of pheasant season is al- Amendment rights, and well said. forward to hearing your comments, ways big in South Dakota. It’s a family Certainly, being from Missouri, I ap- lady, about the Second Amendment. reunion, but obviously there are many, preciate your work—and we’ve worked Mrs. NOEM. Well, thank you. I appre- many friends that show up for that as together on this. This is a very real ciate that, and I thank the gentlelady well. It starts with a big breakfast. We concern. I call it the Department of from Missouri for her leadership on all gather together for good entertain- Revenue debacle. this issue. ment and conversation until it’s time I certainly appreciate State Senator You know, people sacrificed for the to go out and start enjoying the day to- Kurt Schaefer and others there in Mis- rights that we have. The Constitution gether. It’s a tradition that we don’t souri who have been on the forefront of is so important to me. It’s important want to lose. Every year, sportsmen getting to the bottom of this and how to the people of South Dakota and to and -women flock to South Dakota to our conceal-carry list was released to my family, and the Second Amendment enjoy this tradition and take advan- Federal authorities without all of the is very dear to our heritage. tage of our State’s abundance of hunt- permissions and all of the safety That’s why I wanted to come to the ing and wildlife. guards in place. That is very, very dis- floor today, because I wanted to talk I want to give you a few facts about turbing. So thank you for your work on about how the Constitution guarantees South Dakota. With over 700,000 acres of public hunting land, South Dakota that and for your comments. us the individual’s right to keep and I would now like to yield to a new bear arms. That’s why I strongly sup- is home to the Nation’s best pheasant hunting, and it’s the pheasant hunting Member here, who has just hit the port the Second Amendment. capital of the world. In fact, last year, ground running and who brings so This right isn’t abstract to me. It’s pheasant hunters were able to put 1.55 much to our whole delegation with his part of my family’s heritage, and it’s my State’s culture. I am a gun owner million roasters in their game bags. service. I appreciate the gentleman In 2011 alone, the pheasant hunting and a member of the Congressional from New York (Mr. COLLINS), and I season had an economic impact of over Sportsmen’s Caucus. I’ll continue to would be happy to yield time to you, $225 million to our State. It’s our num- gentleman. fight and defend this right for the peo- ber two industry as tourism, and a big Mr. COLLINS of New York. I want to ple of South Dakota and for our way of part of that happens during the hunt- thank both the gentlewoman and gen- life. ing season. A majority of the money tleman from Missouri for their com- You know, the Second Amendment spent from that $225 million comes in ments. has been described in many different from out-of-state visitors. Mr. Speaker, I come to the House ways over the years, such as it is there Hunting and maintaining a healthy floor this afternoon to stand in support to support our natural rights of self-de- habitat for wildlife is one of the great of the Second Amendment. I also fense. It is there for resistance of op- things that I appreciate about South proudly stand here in support of all the pression. It even was described as a Dakota, and it’s why I’m so proud to law-abiding gun owners in New York’s civic duty to act in concert in the de- call it home. 27th Congressional District and all fense of the State. These are all rea- During the debates that have oc- across our country. sons that we need to make sure that we curred here in Washington, D.C., re- As a father and a grandfather, the re- are continuously talking about the cently, I received many, many—thou- cent violent tragedies in our country benefits of this right, what it means to sands, actually—letters from South have left my heart heavy. But as a gun mothers and fathers who are protecting Dakotans. I just want to read a couple owner with a carry permit, I proudly their families, and what it means to us of excerpts from a couple of those if I carry my dad’s Ithaca .45 from World growing up in a country where people have the chance. War II. As a Member of Congress rep- sacrificed, bled and died to protect the The first one was from Kevin in Aber- resenting thousands of law-abiding gun rights that we had. deen. He said: owners, I join my colleagues and say You know, growing up in South Da- I urge you to oppose any and all antigun we refuse to allow these tragedies to be kota, I’ve always had an enormous legislation that will simply penalize law- used for political gain. amount of respect and appreciation for abiding gun owners. Instead, focus on im- These recent crimes should not be the outdoors and for hunting. If you provements to our Nation’s mental health system and enhancing school security, while used as a pretense to weaken our con- aren’t familiar with South Dakota, I’ll respecting our Second Amendment rights. stitutional rights. And law-abiding tell you that hunting is a very impor- Mike, who is also from Aberdeen, in citizens should not fall victim to addi- tant part of it. It’s one of our greatest talking about a bill that had been pro- tional laws and regulations which have traditions and ways of life across the posed said: no impact on reducing crime. State. Let us not kid ourselves. What was I grew up hunting and taking hunting This is clearly the wrong answer for a real issue. Taking away a right that has been recently proposed in the Senate and trips—sometimes for weeks on end, proven to save lives time and again is the what has recently become law in my one- or two-week trips to the moun- wrong reason against obvious mental issues home State of New York would have tains to hunt with my dad and my and security lapses. done nothing to prevent the Newtown brothers. It was good family quality or Christmastime shootings of fire- time. We had a lot of conversations b 1620 fighters in Webster, a community just while we were enjoying the outdoors. The last one I want to touch on is outside my district. The first person that taught me how from Greg. He says: I strongly support the Second to hunt and to carry a gun correctly I agree that work needs to be done to keep Amendment and the right of an indi- was my grandmother. She and I and weapons out of the hands of mentally ill in- vidual to protect themselves and their her black lab BJ would go out and dividuals, but this isn’t the answer. I regu- family. The actions of depraved killers spend hours together. It was during larly use a rifle that would be banned under some proposed legislation when controlling should not punish law-abiding gun those times that she not only taught coyotes and the rabbit populations on my owners. And the actions of this Con- me the proper way to handle a firearm farm. I’ve also used the rifle for controlling gress should not pick away at the and to enjoy the wildlife, but also life prairie dog populations on other landowner rights guaranteed by our Constitution. lessons that I don’t think I would have property, in addition to hunting on public Mrs. HARTZLER. Thank you, gen- gotten if I hadn’t spent that much time lands. tleman. That is well said. Tragedies with her in the outdoors enjoying that That’s one of the things you don’t should not be used for political gain. heritage. talk about a lot. For many people in That is so true. We want to get at the This belief in the Second Amendment the middle of the country out in west- heart of what causes violence and how is critically important to South Dako- ern South Dakota, they simply to protect children, and not just pass tans, and I certainly appreciate the wouldn’t be able to be in business any- laws that wouldn’t even address the fact that I had the opportunity to more if they didn’t have the oppor- problem. enjoy it. Now I have the chance with tunity to control predators that could

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There was a man who had a re- kota and the heritage that gun owner- all have a right to bear arms and protect straining order against someone who ship offers all of us. ourselves if we are in harm. was trying to do him harm. He entered I want to thank the gentlelady for And that really kind of sums up the his home and, once again, he was at- giving me the opportunity to talk feeling of a lot of folks in Texas and a tacked by this person with a knife. about that. The Second Amendment is lot of the farmers and ranchers that I But, thanks to having a gun in the critically important. It needs to be de- represent. home, he was able to stop him, and fended, and I was very proud to stand As Representative NOEM was talking that person is behind bars as well. here and do that with you today. about, spending time shooting with her We could go on with many, many ex- Mrs. HARTZLER. Thank you, lady. children, one of the things that I look amples, but Americans every day use It was sure important, I think, that back on in raising my daughters—they their Second Amendment rights to pro- those voices from South Dakota would are now in college—and you look back tect and defend their families and be heard and how it is a part of a herit- and think, well, what should I have themselves. It is so important that we age of so many people in this country done? I should have spent more time keep that ability to do that. That’s and how it has very practical and real outside with them. I should have spent why our Founding Fathers established benefits to the citizens. We need to more time passing on some of the this right. focus on solutions that are based on things that I’ve learned. But there’s Now I would like to turn to my friend facts and not emotions. still an opportunity. from Michigan, TIM WALBERG, to share One thing that the lady talked about Morgan, my 24-year-old daughter, your thoughts on the Second Amend- is that it is a constitutional right. And came to me just a couple of weekends ment. Gentleman, thank you for being I wanted to just reiterate that the U.S. ago when I was back home in Corpus here. Supreme Court has affirmed that gun Christi and said, ‘‘Dad, can we take a Mr. WALBERG. I thank the gentle- ownership is an individual right. In concealed-carry class together this lady, my friend from Missouri, for District of Columbia v. Heller, the U.S. summer?’’ So that’s on the agenda for holding this opportunity for us to Supreme Court held that D.C.’s com- when I’m back in Texas is passing on speak on the Second Amendment. plete gun ban infringes on the Second the tradition of the safe and respon- I’ve often said at town hall meetings Amendment rights of the D.C. citizens, sible use of firearms in my family. that we’re talking about the Second and it clarified that the Second I’m looking forward to spending time Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Amendment guarantees a fundamental with her in that concealed-carry class, the Second Amendment in the Bill of individual right to have a firearm in and I hope it instills in her the same Rights, that namely speaks to the the home. passion that I have for the sport of issue that was declared so strongly in So this isn’t something just that was shooting. If this plays out well, we’re the Declaration of Independence, that talked about and established years ago going to spend time on the skeet range; document, one of two documents that when our country was founded; it has we’re going to spend some time out could be considered the greatest man- been upheld recently. We are very hunting. It’s something that I’m really made documents ever penned, the Dec- thankful for that and want to continue looking forward to. It’s an important laration of Independence and then the to protect that right. part of America. It’s an important part Constitution. We have a gentleman here from of folks’ family lives. The Bill of Rights understood what Texas, who I’m sure knows all about The Second Amendment has got to be the Declaration said, that all men are rights and wants to share a little bit protected, and the traditions of safe created equal and endowed with certain about Texas views on why it’s impor- firearms use in this country needs to unalienable rights, namely, the right tant to have our Second Amendment continue for a myriad of reasons—just to life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap- rights. This is BLAKE FARENTHOLD, and more reasons than I can list. piness. I yield to the gentleman. I see you’ve got quite a few other I think the Framers and Founders Mr. FARENTHOLD. Thank you very people here who want to talk about understood with the First Amendment, much. their experiences with the Second the right to free speech and the free- As I was listening to the gentlelady Amendment and their beliefs, so I’m dom of religion, but also that under- from South Dakota (Mrs. NOEM), her not going to eat up all the time. Thank standing that the right to life involved stories about growing up around fire- you. making sure that I could defend my- arms and the quality time that she Mrs. HARTZLER. Thank you very self, protect myself, care for myself, spent with her grandmother learning much, BLAKE. I’ll look forward to hear- feed myself with the use of a weapon in marksmanship and learning gun safety ing how it goes in August with your the field in hunting, but not simply and learning about life in the outdoors daughter there. that. Mr. Speaker, I will say, it was really struck home with me. I think you made a really great point there to make sure that a citizen, a I remember growing up with my about the important role of protection free citizen of the United States, was grandfather, driving around the ranch and how firearms provide a very prac- able to care for himself or herself, his learning to shoot a .22, moving up and tical and very, very vital role in self- family or her family, in any shape or learning how to shoot a shotgun and protection. Estimates range anywhere form. learning how to do so safely. In Texas, from 83,000 times a year up to perhaps And so I see the First Amendment as gun control is hitting what you aim at, 1 million times a year citizens of this important, but I see equally important and that’s part of growing up, with an country use firearms in order to pro- the Second Amendment, the right to understanding of firearm safety and tect themselves. In Missouri, let me keep and bear arms. And as my friend marksmanship. It’s part of many share with you just a couple of exam- Ted Nugent says: ‘‘Keep’’ is defined as American’s lives, just like it was a part ples. ‘‘It’s mine. It’s not yours. You’re not of my life. In 2008, there was a woman in Cape going to take it from me.’’ I got a lot of letters as the debate Girardeau who endured a horrific Very simple. Very simple. about gun control was going through crime. Someone broke into her apart- I think we need to understand as the Senate, as well, urging me to con- ment through a window and she was there are laws that are being thought tinue to stand up for the Second raped. Two days later she came home of, well-intentioned even, and yet laws Amendment rights that our Founding and that person was there again. She that really aren’t based in reality of Fathers realized was so important—the had the window repaired, but they were what takes place around civilization, right to bear arms; the right that those there. This time, though, she was pre- when it understands that we need to in the Revolutionary War fought for. pared. She had borrowed a friend’s make sure that we don’t step on other

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Then somebody is going to carried on, not only for ourselves, but So I thank the gentlelady from Mis- tell you that one more law, which for those that count on us to care. souri for allowing us to speak on this makes it harder for law-abiding citi- issue. zens to get a gun, would have stopped 1630 b Hopefully, some would hear the com- him from doing that when, in fact, he In a famous quote, Benjamin Frank- mon sense of it all and not just hear didn’t even break the laws that they’re lin said it this way: what some would say: that if we appre- proposing. They that can give up essential liberty to ciate weapons, we are warmongers or So I think people see through that. obtain a little temporary safety deserve nei- that we are living in danger and pro- People realize that these bills are, un- ther safety nor liberty. ducing danger in other people’s lives. fortunately, the same bad ideas that Well said. The fact is just the opposite: we are have been floating around for decades I think there are people with well- there to ensure safety, ensure liberty by people who just want to take away meaning intentions right now that and to make sure that people are pro- our Second Amendment rights. They aren’t thinking of the fact that liberty tected against criminals who would just don’t share those same beliefs that comes with a cost, that it comes with abuse us regardless of what the law or our Founding Fathers had when they the responsibility and an account- the Constitution says. felt that it was so important that all ability to continue on to make sure I will defend that, and I thank my American citizens have these protec- that liberty continues, not only for me, colleagues for standing for this reality tions. but for you and everyone else, and that and truth for the Second Amendment. I am proud to come from Louisiana. liberty is protected from those who Mrs. HARTZLER. Thank you, Mr. We call ourselves a Sportsman’s Para- would take away our freedoms, our WALBERG. Well said. dise. There, when you talk about the rights, even our lives. I like how you point out that the Second Amendment, we’re not just I like to hunt, and I love to right to life is tied to the Second talking about hunting. Some people trapshoot, and I love to shoot skeets, Amendment—to be able to defend our- want to say that the Second Amend- and I love to shoot sporting clay, and I selves and protect that life. That is so ment is really just about hunting. It’s love to target practice. On my farm, we true. Also, it’s not a safety issue. In not about hunting. It’s about a lot have a target range, and my wife uses fact, violent crime has dropped by 72 more than hunting. It’s about the abil- it as well. In fact, she uses it better percent since 1993 in this country; and, ity for people to protect themselves. than I do with a pistol. Yet with the actually, there has been a 47 percent I was in New Orleans after Hurricane fun and enjoyment that can come from increase in U.S. households that have Katrina. During those days, there were being trained, we also understand the guns. We now have 47 percent of us who some very dark days. We had a few concerns that are there as with any own a gun, and crime has gone down. weeks, not just hours or days, where tool, as my dad taught me. He taught So an excellent point there. you couldn’t pick up the phone and call I would like to yield to my friend me not only how to shoot a gun and 911. There was no 911 system. In many from Louisiana, Representative STEVE about the inherent dangers that were cases, there was no power for weeks. SCALISE. He is a champion of our Sec- there that also demanded my responsi- You couldn’t get law enforcement to ond Amendment. come if there were somebody trying to bility and accountability, but he also Thank you for coming. taught me how to use a radial saw. He come and loot your house or worse, so Mr. SCALISE. I want to thank my the citizens at home in their houses said it would work very well in doing colleague, Mrs. HARTZLER from Mis- the things it was meant for, but you with their guns was the only protec- souri, for hosting this leadership hour tion that people had for not just days, have to be careful with it. to talk about our Second Amendment So, yes, we who believe in the Second but for weeks after Hurricane Katrina. rights and for yielding time as well. One of the more frightening things Amendment believe that there ought I am very proud to rise in strong sup- to be training and that people ought to that happened after Hurricane port of our Second Amendment rights Katrina—there were many frightening care for how they use their weapons, and also in opposition to many of these things that happened during Katrina— but we believe they ought to be allowed bills that have been floating around but after Katrina, local law enforce- for us to freely use as they were in- Congress that would take away those ment gave an order to have the police tended for all good purposes. I grew up rights that are so precious to all Amer- actually go door to door in the city of on the south side of Chicago. Leroy icans. Those rights were so important New Orleans and confiscate guns from Brown and Junkyard Dog were my that the Second Amendment to the law-abiding citizens. It actually hap- neighbors. I love that area of Calumet Constitution—part of our Bill of pened. It has been well documented to City where I grew up, but I also know Rights, the first set of amendments to the point where I was in the State leg- that there are dangers. I also know our Constitution—enshrined this right islature at the time, and I filed legisla- that protection is required and that to the American people to bear arms. tion to prevent that from ever being the protection to fit the need and the This wasn’t a right that they just gave able to happen again. In fact, the NRA, concern is what must be there. to the militia, to the military, to our which is so decried by all of these gun So I would say to my friend and col- local law enforcement. This was a right control advocates, actually stood up league, as well as to the Speaker and to that was granted to all Americans be- and said that it’s wrong for govern- those who might listen to these words, cause it was so precious and important. ment to go door-to-door and take your that the Second Amendment is not the We were all shocked and saddened by guns from you. problem; and the law-abiding citizen the murders at Sandy Hook; but I People said, Oh, that can never hap- who carries out the responsibilities of think what is also disappointing is, pen in America. the Second Amendment is not the when you have these tragedies, unfor- Yet, it happened. It happened in an problem. Most of us fit in that cat- tunately, there are people—Washington American city—in New Orleans. egory. Nothing in the bill that was put politicians—who try to take advantage After Katrina, there is actual video forth in the Senate, or any other of those tragedies, who then come be- footage of a woman, Ms. Connie. She thoughts, would take care of those hind and try to impose their own agen- was in her house in uptown New Orle- criminals. It would not have changed das in the name of somebody else. ans, and the police actually came to the Boston bombers in their ability to When you look at a lot of these bills her house to take her gun. She didn’t get and to use for criminal, terrorist that have been filed, they have abso- want to give up her gun, and they tack- purposes any change or impingement lutely nothing to do with those mur- led her. They broke her collarbone. I on the Second Amendment. They would ders or with any of these other trage- actually brought her to testify for my have still committed their atrocities, dies that we’ve seen. bill. I am proud to say my bill passed and they would have still gotten their You look at Sandy Hook. He stole back then and that no longer can any- weapons. The only negative impact the gun. The gun was from his mother. body in Louisiana take away your guns

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I think that that some try to take advantage of dis- George Washington said, ‘‘A free peo- sends a strong message to all of us as asters to go and try to chip those ple ought to be armed.’’ Americans that the Senate does under- rights away. That’s why we’re here Thomas Jefferson says that, ‘‘The stand and respect the importance of today, and that’s why I’m proud of my strongest reason for the people to re- the Second Amendment but also is in- colleague from Missouri and of so tain the right to keep and bear arms is, terested in letting those folks who are many others who are here to stand up as a last resort, to protect themselves abiding by the law to also carry for that right that we all hold dear. against tyranny in government.’’ throughout the country. Mrs. HARTZLER. Thank you very He also says, ‘‘The beauty of the Sec- The bill that I’ve authored under- much, STEVE. ond Amendment is that it will not be stands that instead of pursuing ineffec- It’s very helpful, I think, to be re- needed until they try to take it.’’ tive gun controls, we really do need to minded of the firsthand account of I think that is why this motivates strengthen the protections for law what can happen and what did happen people to contact their Members of abiding citizens who exercise their in Louisiana when the government Congress, to let them know how they right to self-defense every day. came to take the guns away from the feel. One other comment is that my bill citizens there. We don’t ever want to Madam Speaker, we are a democracy would simply make sure that law abid- see that happen again because, like you that is represented by people we send ing gun owners who legally carry a said, it’s imperative for personal pro- to Washington. As we saw the votes un- concealed weapon in their home State tection besides its being a personal fold in the Senate, I think that each may do so in other States. Illinois does right. So thank you for sharing that. I one of those Members in the Senate not have a permit, so they would not appreciate it. was representing the people that they be allowed to carry there, but just were elected by. Of course, the Presi- about every other State does. b 1640 dent was very critical of the Senate I think Americans have seen over the Mrs. HARTZLER. Well, we have my after they were not able to pass a bill past couple of weeks that both sides of friend and colleague from Indiana, that he had wanted. But when he is the aisle see that sweeping gun control who’s come to join us here, MARLIN criticizing them, he is criticizing each legislation is misguided and it is an at- STUTZMAN. one of those particular Members and tack on law-abiding gun owners, and it You brought a couple of guests here also the people that sent them to the is designed to advance another agenda with you today to be a part of our Spe- United States Senate. To watch each instead of really saving lives. cial Order? different vote take place, I think it I believe what we really should be fo- Mr. STUTZMAN. I did. tells us that Americans across the cused on is the people behind the weap- Mrs. HARTZLER. Very good. Well, I country are not about just knee-jerk on, the people that plant the bomb, the yield to you. I want to hear what you reactions but about responsibility people that are taking these particular have to share. when it comes to gun ownership, and it tools and hurting other people, wheth- Mr. STUTZMAN. I thank the lady also shows their passion about pro- er it’s with a ball bat or a crowbar or from Missouri for yielding. I brought tecting the Second Amendment. Many any other sort of device that people my two sons, Payton and Preston, of these Members in the Senate did not could pick up with their hands and along today. So it’s a father and son want to vote for tighter gun control hurt others. We really need to focus on outing here. Payton asked if he could laws because they were representing the mental challenges that these peo- come along to hear us talk about the the people from their particular States. ple have. There has to be. There is in- Second Amendment. So I believe that last week the Amer- formation that we know about these We, of course, we’re farmers back in ican people spoke. It wasn’t just the particular people, and I believe that’s Indiana, and I grew up with BB guns. Senate. The American people, through who we need to focus on. And Payton now has his little BB gun their representatives, said that they We as Americans need to make sure and a 410/22, and Preston has a little BB don’t want stricter gun legislation. that we teach our children safety. If gun. So we enjoy the sport out on the We’ve already tried Senator FEIN- someone has decided to purchase a gun, farm. STEIN’s so-called ‘‘assault weapons’’ they have a responsibility to under- I want to just thank you for bringing ban in the nineties and it failed to re- stand how that particular weapon oper- this issue to the floor today because duce murder rates then, and it would, I ates and the safety measures that go it’s such an important issue for our believe, fail to reduce murder rates along with it, just like I learned in my country, and obviously a lot of things now. The American people understand hunter safety course when I was 12 have happened over the past several that, and I believe that the United years old, and also by my father, who years that brings this issue to us ap- States Senate understands that, as threatened me many times if any more propriately. I believe that we do need well. They’ve seen this before. windows were shot out that I was going to have a discussion not only about our So while we watched the Senate work to be paying for them. Second Amendment rights, but about through the gun legislation, there was There are so many different exciting gun safety and how each of us as Amer- one particular amendment that I and joyful opportunities that families icans who owns a gun is responsible. thought was very intriguing, and that can do together as a family with fire- Of course, my wife, Christy, and I are was the amendment that Senator COR- arms, but also there is a great respon- grieving, along with our family which NYN from Texas offered. That was an sibility that comes along with that. is grieving for those who lost loved amendment that—I have a bill filed Also, as the quotes that I read before ones in Newtown and, of course, in Ari- here in the House, H.R. 578. It’s called from our Founding Fathers show, there zona, Colorado, Virginia and so many the Respecting States’ Rights and Con- is an even greater right behind that, a other places. We’ve had some cases in cealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2013, principle behind that, that we do have Fort Wayne of just irresponsibility, but which basically allows law abiding citi- a responsibility not only to protect also intended murder. But, of course, zens that have a concealed weapon per- ourselves but to protect other citizens as we saw what happened in Boston, mit to carry across State lines to those that we live with. bad people can take any device and States that do have concealed carry So thank you for bringing this issue hurt people with those devices, and it permits. to the floor, and thank you to all of is always sad to see. Senator CORNYN offered a very simi- those who have spoken, as well. I be- But one of the things that I know lar amendment to the underlying bill lieve that as we continue these discus- from constituents back home is that in the Senate. It almost passed. It was sions that it should be thoughtful, that

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I think that is tant issue that we’re dealing with. the news of someone who actually went a perfect example of what happens po- after someone else in a car. The other b 1650 tentially when a crime is occurring, person was on a bicycle, and they tried Mrs. HARTZLER. Absolutely. Very and how important it is for families to to kill them. They were able to save well said. I appreciate your comments, be able to defend themselves in that the person. Thankfully, he wasn’t hurt, and I’m so glad you brought Payton event. but they are still looking for the per- and Preston along. I was sharing ear- Here’s a comment from Carol from son in the car. So are we going to ban lier that I got my start on the farm Lowry City. She said in an email to cars because they can be used to kill with my BB gun as well. I’m glad to me: people? Of course not, because what we hear you’re well on your way to having By definition, criminals do not care about need to do is find the person who was a lot of years of fun hunting and doing laws. They will acquire guns and whatever trying to commit the crime. it safely with your father teaching you. weapon they want to use for their nefarious Continuing on, Larry says: My friend from Indiana brought up so activity regardless of what the law is. The Sick individuals can take any truck and many great points. The quotes from only thing that this unconstitutional gun drive it into a school or mall, killing our grab will do is put innocent, law-abiding citi- the Founding Fathers really bring loved ones just as a gun can. I don’t want zens in harm’s way by preventing them from anyone to be hurt or die, but feel that this home what this is all about and why it protecting themselves, their property and is so important that we as a country path of legislation is wrong. As others have their family. If stringent gun control which suggested, we need to focus on people. People retain the right as citizens to be able stripped Second Amendment rights from the are the motor driving the gun, truck, bus or to protect ourselves, not just from in- people were the answer to alleviating vio- any other object. The focus has to become dividuals, but from the government lence, then the city of Chicago would be a helping the mentally ill. even. Well said there. model of safety. Instead, Chicago, which has some of the most strict gun control laws in And we have Jessica from As far as the Senate vote, I think you Warrensburg. She said: brought up an excellent point as well, the Nation, led the country in number of deaths related to firearms at 532. The people If a fraction of the time, energy, money that the American people really did could not protect themselves against the and passion that went into debating gun con- speak. I think overwhelmingly the criminal activity around them, and many trol went toward establishing a more effi- American people understand that tak- paid for it with their lives. cient national or State mental health out- ing away guns or putting new restric- I wanted to share some statistics reach campaign, perhaps we would have less tions on law-abiding citizens is not heartbreaking tragedies involving individ- from the World Health Organization. It uals who felt unheard, isolated, and alien- going to address the problems of vio- lists, and you probably can’t see it, but lence in our society, and it would not ated. A commonly heard phrase is guns don’t two pages’ worth of countries here that kill people, people kill people. If that is true, have prevented the tragedy that oc- have a higher percentage of murders What are we doing to help people? curred in Connecticut or any of the per 100,000 citizens than we do. You I think that brings up the point of other shootings that we have experi- have countries everywhere from the mental health issues in our country enced. So we need to, as I said earlier, Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Pan- and how we should be focusing more on focus on the facts and not on emotions. ama, Brazil, Greenland, Costa Rica, these killers and what caused them or I wanted to share with you some of Russia, British Virgin Islands, Phil- the comments from people in my dis- led them to do it. What about violent ippines, Uruguay, Thailand, and on and video games? If you look at the New- trict. I think lots of times people in the on. Two pages of countries that have country have the pulse of what is com- town, Connecticut, shooter as well as very high murder rates, and yet here is the Aurora, Colorado, shooter, Madam mon sense and what is wise policy for the United States below all of them. our country, more so than in the heat Speaker, you’ll find that both of them And you know what all of these other spent an inordinate amount of time of the moment sometimes with some countries have in common? All of these things that have gone on here at the playing violent video games where they countries have banned guns 100 percent actually were carrying out scenarios of Capitol. from their citizens. This is an example from Samantha of shooting people. How come we aren’t So this validates what Carol from what happened recently in our district hearing proposals talking about that Lowry City said to me in her email, in Randolph County, and I think she from gun control advocates or from that when you take guns away from in- has a very interesting perspective on those who say that they want to do dividuals, crime rates actually go up this. She said: this to help children. Let’s get to the because criminals will have the guns heart of the issue here. I am a citizen of Randolph County, and on and the law-abiding citizens won’t be Easter Sunday, two men went on a crime We have Kelly from Sedalia who spree in our area and shot two very close able to protect themselves. I thought adds: friends of mine, pistol whipped an elderly that was a really good point that she The one thing all of these misguided pro- lady, and killed a woman from Moberly. makes. posals have in common is that they won’t re- These suspects were on the run from police Here’s a comment in an email from duce crime. Criminals by definition are law for over 12 hours, including overnight. The Vicki Jo from Clinton, Missouri. She breakers. They are not deterred by laws residents of this area didn’t sleep well not said: against murder, rape, armed robbery, et knowing what was going on. Houses were on cetera; and they won’t be affected by addi- I would like you to know that I do not sup- lockdown. It was a horrible feeling knowing tional gun control laws on top of the tens of port more regulations on any guns, acces- the armed men were able to get away from thousands of existing laws we have on the sories, or ammunition. These items are only police officers for several hours and not books at every governmental level. Again, I tools some people choose to use as weapons knowing where they would go next. urge you to oppose any and all anti-gun leg- against others. I feel the Second Amendment As a mother, I was terrified for my family. islation that will simply penalize law-abid- gives me the freedom to own and operate any Knowing that we were protected in case ing gun owners and instead focus on im- firearm that I choose. I’m a hunter and, if these perpetrators came in our neighborhood provements to our Nation’s mental health needed, would use my firearms for protection was the only thing that made that night system and enhancing school security while from harm. I feel that more attention needs even bearable. Please vote to keep our Sec- respecting our Second Amendment rights. to be spent on those dealing with mental ill- ond Amendment rights. It is our right to pro- ness and pose a threat to others’ welfare. We The gentleman from Indiana brought tect ourselves from these criminals who will law-abiding citizens don’t need more laws to up some really good points awhile ago, always be able to get guns no matter what take more freedoms away from us. Please and we share a lot in common. We both they do, such as drugs, because drugs are il- pursue the violators of these crimes and not legal as well. If they want them, they will come from a farm background, and we their ill-chosen tools. get them. Let normal, law-abiding citizens both still have a farm today. We both keep their guns to protect themselves. We Well said. have children still in school, and we should not have them taken away because Larry from Mexico, Missouri, said: enjoy sharing our heritage. I say to the

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And you look at this list that I been wanderers in lands that were not our as importantly as it being enjoyable, I was sharing, two pages of people and own. think just being familiar with guns and countries who have very high murder Subsequent to the Exodus story, the first for the potential of having self-protec- rates. I feel for the people of those encounter with the landless powerlessness tion is so important, as well. And I countries. occurred nearly 2,500 years ago in the land of know you would agree. I can’t imagine what that would be Babylonia. like to live in a country where you’re It was there that we also learned the b 1700 strength that comes when a people exits the basically helpless. You and your family Mr. STUTZMAN. Absolutely. I think shadows and is able to take its place in the are helpless. You are totally open to light of the Nation’s destiny. A vibrant Jew- that as Payton, our oldest, we’ve given and vulnerable to anyone, whether it’s ish community thrived there for thousands him a bow and arrow, and he has his somebody in government, a rogue gov- of years as citizens of a Persian nation. straw bales out in the back of the barn. ernment, or a criminal who wants to do Elsewhere in the world over the centuries And I think that any time he goes out, yourself or your family harm, and you Jews encountered wandering, rootlessness we always talk to him about look don’t have that ability to protect your- and powerlessness in Europe, Russia and what’s beyond your target and make self. Northern Africa. With each move, we en- dured the insecurity of foreigners never fully sure that you’re not shooting in a di- Madam Speaker, how much time do I rection towards a house or towards any welcomed in a land that benefited from our have remaining? labor and our skills. other one that’s behind there. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mrs. The all too infrequent eras of stability, se- And it really does come down to BROOKS of Indiana). The time of the curity and peace were welcomed isles of har- awareness and responsibility and mak- gentlewoman has expired. mony that allowed our people to prosper. Because of our history, because of our col- ing sure that any time you’re shooting, f whether it’s a bow and arrow, or lective memory of wandering and existing as whether it’s a baseball, for that mat- IMMIGRATION REFORM immigrants in lands that were not our own ter, throwing a baseball or shooting a The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under from birth, because we were wanderers who firearm, that there is an awareness al- traveled to nations looking for better for- the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- tunes and left nations where fortune and ways around you. uary 3, 2013, the Chair recognizes the safety eluded, the Jewish people have a mis- I know we see a lot of the tragedies gentleman from California (Mr. sion to extend compassion and embrace to that happen in cities, whether it could VARGAS) for 30 minutes. others who seek the very security that we be from a stray bullet, and that’s Mr. VARGAS. Madam Speaker, I rise often sought for ourselves. where we need to continue to focus on today to speak on our Nation’s need for Now that we have found peace, comfort, those people, whether it’s through our comprehensive immigration reform. I stability and strength in this great country, churches, whether it’s through chari- did want to, however, congratulate my we demand nothing less than that for others table organizations, through schools, who seek these essential components of life friend, MARLIN STUTZMAN, and his fam- for themselves and for their families. education, and helping people under- ily. What a beautiful family. And it Eleven million immigrants have cared for stand the great responsibility that was a delight looking over and seeing our children, attended our schools, worked in comes with firearms. both boys. What a terrific family. our factories, fought our wars, frequented I feel fortunate to be raised on a farm I come today, though, to thank, real- our businesses, and made our way of life pos- where I could start at a very young age ly, the faith community in this coun- sible. and was taught the lessons of responsi- try that has come together around The time is now for those who have become bility with gun ownership. And then comprehensive immigration reform. a part of our American fabric through the sweat of their hands to be given the place in we’re teaching the same with Payton It’s been interesting to see how, lit- our society that we cherish for ourselves as and Preston. erally, every denomination, every faith well: citizens of the United States of Amer- There is that point of fun and the en- group, has come together and said that ica. joyment of having firearms as you’re we must have comprehensive immigra- Sincerely, Rabbi Ron Stern. out in the woods or wherever you’re at. tion reform because of the values that I want to thank Rabbi Stern. I think But it also goes deeper than that. And they have, as religious people and reli- that he, along with so many others, I think that’s why the Second Amend- gious groups, but also, more impor- have really set the stage for something ment goes to the very heart of Ameri- tantly, the religious values that we that I think is not only overdue but cans and how we were founded. Obvi- share as Americans. that we’re going to do, and that is, ously, the men who fought in the Revo- So I want to thank all of the groups we’re going to look into our hearts, lutionary War needed to have the ac- that have been praying for us, that and we’re going to see that the strang- cess to a gun to defend themselves have come to the Capitol to speak to er among us is not so strange. against the Redcoats at the time, and us, to say, open up your hearts, open up It was interesting that the rabbi so they obviously had to learn the your minds and take a look at the mentioned fought our wars. For those same thing. stranger among you. of us that have been working with im- And it wasn’t just to defend them- I would like to read a letter that I re- migrants, I think probably the saddest selves from another army. It was also a ceived yesterday that, I think, puts it things, the saddest occurrences that tool used to provide food for them- into context, certainly in the Judeo- we’ve encountered are these, when selves. Christian context, and that was a let- military men and women have spouses We’re very fortunate in so many ter that I received from Rabbi Ron who are undocumented. ways that we don’t have the responsi- Stern from the Stephen S. Wise Temple bility of using a gun on a daily basis in Los Angeles, California. b 1710 like people used to. With that, people He wrote this: A good example is a story I gave be- don’t use a firearm as often, and they Among the fundamental stories of the Jew- fore, and I’ll give it again, it was so do have a responsibility to make sure ish people is the classic telling of the experi- compelling. that they’re trained when they do pur- ence of slavery in Egypt. Here in the Capitol, on the Senate chase one, and recognizing those that The story is not only told each year during side, we heard testimony from an Army are around them when they’re using the Passover Seder held by Jews around the soldier who had, unfortunately, been them. world but it is also referenced repeatedly as injured. He came home and his wife is the rationale for many Jewish ethical prin- But again, it goes to the heart of us ciples. taking care of him and his young fam- as Americans and defending our free- The tradition teaches us that we must al- ily. And what he’s had to do is line the dom. And if it has to absolutely come ways remember that we were strangers in a car windows and all over the car with to that, to defeat tyranny. That is strange land, that we were powerless immi- stickers that say, ‘‘Injured Soldier,’’

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Interestingly, And the reason he does this, he says, is speaking to us, and speaking to us in a I can’t recall another time when you’ve because he doesn’t want to get pulled very united way and a very compas- had so many different religious faith over for some small traffic violation sionate way and a very values-filled groups, pastors, reverends, and rabbis because his wife is the only one that’s way, saying that we have to do some- come together with one voice and say, able to drive, and she could be deported thing. And I thank them again for that. This is the path forward; we all agree. because she’s undocumented. They go on: But we have it here. And probably even more compelling, We stand ready to support legislation that The nice thing about it is that I we had, afterwards, a member of the reflects our Christian values and builds the think we are getting to a point where Marines come forward and say, trag- common good. We are driven by moral obli- we are going to agree that we have to ically, that he is fearful when he is gation rooted deeply in our faith to address have a comprehensive immigration sent overseas, but not of dying, inter- the needs of immigrants in our country. package that reflects the values that estingly. He said that he served two Compassionate and just treatment of immi- grants is a frequent topic in the Scripture. they have spoken to, the values that tours of duty in Iraq. He said that he we hold dear as Americans, and I think was scared the whole time he was The Hebrew word for immigrant, ‘‘ger’’, oc- curs 92 times throughout the Bible. that we are going to get there. And I there, but not of what I thought. He We respectfully request that you meet per- thank each and every one of them that said, You wouldn’t guess. He said, I’m sonally with leadership from the Evangelical prays for us because I am a person of going back now to Afghanistan, and I Immigration Table in the first 92 days of the faith. I do believe that prayers work. I have the same fear. And you know next Congress to discuss bipartisan immigra- can feel their fervent prayers here. We what his fear is? His fear is not of tion reform legislation that: One, guarantees secure national borders; can all hear them here. It’s a wonderful dying. Interestingly and starkly, he thing. said, That’s what Marines do. We fight Two, respects the God-given dignity of every person; I do want to read a few more letters and we die. I’m not afraid of that. I’m Three, ensures fairness to taxpayers; and a few more quotes from these same afraid that my wife will get deported Four, protects the unity of the immediate evangelical leaders because I think it’s because she’s undocumented. I’m afraid family; important to get a feel for how unani- Five, establishes a path toward legal sta- that my wife will get deported. That’s mous they are that we have to have what his fear is, that his wife may be tus and/or citizenship for those who qualify comprehensive immigration reform deported. and those who wish to become permanent that really reflects our best values, our He says, What then will happen to residents; Six, respects the rule of law. not only my wife but my children? I’m better angels. So here’s a press release These principles are endorsed by the sign- from the evangelical leaders to amplify off in Afghanistan doing what I think ers of this letter and by more than 150 other is right, defending our country, defend- the call for bipartisan immigration re- prominent evangelical leaders from around form with radio ads in key States. ing our liberty, and at the same time the Nation. The principles reflect a growing my wife could get deported to a nation convergence with the position of other reli- b 1720 she doesn’t really even know anymore. gious, civic, business, labor, and law enforce- Dr. Richard Land, president, Ethics She came as a child. She came from ment leaders. and Religious Liberty Commission of Mexico. How is that fair? We urge you to reach across the aisle and And I can tell him, Of course, that’s to work to create a bipartisan solution that the Southern Baptist Convention: reflects our values, creates just and humane not fair. But I think that more and Evangelical Christians who listen to Chris- immigration laws, and moves us forward to- tian radio tend to be well educated in the more of us are hearing these stories. gether. And I thank him for his bravery to Scriptures and politically engaged. Reaching The letter was signed by Leith An- them with this message about God’s heart come forward because it does, in fact, derson, President, National Associa- for immigrants and the importance of immi- put his family in peril because she tion of Evangelicals; Stephan Bauman gration solutions rooted in Biblical values could get deported. But I thank him President and CEO, World Relief; David will be absolutely critical for building the and I thank the other brave members Beckmann, President, Bread for the political will we need to pass meaningful re- of the military that have come forward forms in 2013. World; Noel Castellanos, CEO, Chris- and given us their stories. I’ve heard Our political leaders need to hear from our tian Development Community Associa- from many now. constituents and from their constituents and Now I would like to take a moment tion; Robert Gittelson, President, Con- know that evangelical Christians are strong- to share with you a letter written by servatives for Comprehensive Immigra- ly behind them if they have the moral cour- age to act on the values we see in Matthew the Evangelical Immigration Table to tion Reform; Richard Land, President, Ethics and Religious Liberty Commis- 25 and other places in the Scripture con- us here in the United States Congress. cerning welcoming the stranger. They wrote: sion of the Southern Baptist Conven- I thank Dr. Richard Land. When he Dear Speaker Boehner and Leader Pelosi, tion; Samuel Rodriguez, President, Na- Congratulations to you and your campaign tional Hispanic Christian Leadership says that he hopes that we hear from teams on your election victories. Conference; Gabriel Salguero, Presi- our constituents, we are hearing from Our Nation faces many great challenges dent, National Latino Evangelical Coa- them. In fact, we’re also hearing from and opportunities. We pray that God will lition; Richard Stearns, President, Dr. Richard Land and other leaders in lead and guide your steps and provide you World Vision United States; and Jim the evangelical churches that have with the wisdom during the years ahead. As evangelical leaders, we live every day with Wallis, President and CEO of Sojourn- come here to say, if you have any dis- the reality that our immigration system ers. trust in your heart for the immigrant, doesn’t reflect our commitment to the val- So why have all of these evangelical the stranger, or even hate, put it aside. ues of human dignity, family unity, and re- leaders and why have so many other Instead, follow your heart and under- spect for the rule of law that define us as faith groups come together and said stand that the immigrant, the stranger Americans. with a unified voice that we have to among you, deserves your love, your Initiatives by both parties to advance com- have comprehensive immigration re- attention, your values. monsense fixes to our immigration policies have stalled in the years past. With your form? Well, as they say, the reason is I think it’s happening here. Again, I leadership, this can change. In the next Con- because of their values. Because they don’t think it’s by accident, I think it’s gress, Republicans and Democrats need to believe in the Bible and they believe by their prayers. I think it’s by them come together to pass and implement a na- that the stranger among us must be coming together with a united voice tional immigration strategy that addresses treated as ourselves. In fact, interest- and saying we have to do what is right. our Nation’s broken immigration system. We ingly, some of them quote Leviticus. And I thank them. commit to supporting you. We are already In Leviticus, of course, it says that I’d like to read now from Reverend working across the country to educate and mobilize our fellow evangelical Christians to you shall love the alien, the stranger, Dr. Uth, senior pastor of the First Bap- support just immigration laws. Support for as you love yourselves, because you tist Church of Orlando. The reason I reform is growing in our churches, denomi- have to remember that you once were want to read the pastor’s notes is be- nations, campuses, and communities. strangers, too, in the land of Egypt. cause the pastor not only talks about

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Scripture, and it’s a command to welcome I would like to read from Reverend Dr. I thank and I pray every day for the and to treat fairly all people, but especially Fleming, senior pastor, Champion For- members of that group that are work- the stranger and the foreigner in your land. est Baptist Church in Houston, Texas: ing hard—often under great stress—to When we fail to welcome the stranger, in es- We’re beginning now to see immigrants as come forward with a bill, a change in sence we fail to welcome Christ. us. We live together, we work together, we And so Christians in our church, when they the law, that represents our better an- serve together, we’re all in this together, and learn about God’s heart for the immigrant gels. It represents our values as Ameri- the notion of welcoming the outsider and the and what the Bible has to say, their hearts cans, as Christians, as Jews, as people stranger and inviting them in has been key are open because we are a people of faith, to that. We see the immigrant as a person of faith. So I thank them. and it is our desire to live out that faith in created in the image of God. They’re hus- I’d also like to quote Reverend Sam- our world. bands and wives, they’re parents, they’re uel Rodriguez, president of the Na- Coupled with that, when they meet these children. tional Hispanic Christian Leadership immigrants, when they have personal en- Oftentimes our broken immigration sys- counters, all of a sudden this issue has a Conference: tem causes great suffering in the homes and face, it has a story. And it’s in that meeting Today’s meeting invigorated me with hope in the families and in the people’s lives. and optimism. The President’s resolve in that transformation happens and has hap- I believe, and my experience has been here conjunction with evangelical support facili- pened here for us. We know that the time is in Texas that conservative Christians and tate the prescription for a comprehensive now for this discussion. evangelicals are rising to support a Biblical resolution addressing America’s immigra- I thank the pastor. I thank him be- approach to this very complex issue. tion crisis. I am convinced that with prayer cause he’s right. But I also thank him I thank him. I thank Dr. Reverend and prophetic activism, we will live out Mat- because I think his prayers, his suppli- David Fleming, senior pastor, Cham- thew 25 and welcome the stranger in the cations are being answered. I think the pion Forest Baptist Church of Houston, name of Jesus. prayers of his congregation are being for his courage, for his prayers, for his b 1730 answered. We are coming together, and encouragement, for his heart, and for we are coming together in a bipartisan his insight. I think it’s very insightful. Of course he quotes famously Mat- way. I want to quote him: thew 25. Matthew 25, of course, is the There are many other things that we We’re beginning now to see immigrants as judgment where Jesus himself says disagree on. I’ve been here not very us. We live together, we work together, we how we will be judged as a nation. I long, but I can already tell you there serve together, we’re all in this together, and hope you go back and read that part of are a lot of things that we disagree on. the notion of welcoming the outsider and the Scripture. But more and more, we’re coming to- stranger and inviting them in has been key Jesus says: gether around the issue of comprehen- to that. ‘‘When I was hungry, you gave me to sive immigration reform, and we’re In fact, they have been invited in. eat. When I was thirsty, you gave me coming together because it’s the right I’ve had the great honor now to speak to drink. When I was naked, you thing to do. to many pastors, and evangelization clothed me. When I was ill, you cured In fact, the voices now—and they’re has happened with many of the undocu- me. When I was a stranger, you wel- few and they’re shrill—seem to be a mented people that have come to our comed me. When I was a prisoner, you real outlier now. They seem to be far Nation. visited me.’’ out, nowhere in the mainstream. In- Now, in fact, as the marine that I Then of course the sheep will ask: stead, we’re down to the nitty-gritty spoke of earlier, as well as the soldier, ‘‘When do we do that, Jesus?’’ and we’re trying to figure out the oftentimes they meet their spouses in ‘‘When you did it to the least of my small things. I think that that’s very church and they get married. Then we brothers.’’ good; I think that that’s healthy. put them in a situation that if they le- That’s what Reverend Samuel Rodri- I appreciate, again, the candor that gally want to live together their spouse guez was quoting and most Christian we’ve had on this discussion. It is a has to leave the country for 10 years. groups quote. It’s so profoundly who we pleasure to have the discussion on im- Can you imagine that? The marine, are: the welcoming of the stranger, migration be so humane and values- who is again going to be deployed over- Christ among us. based. But also, some of the interests seas, for his wife to be here legally she Madam Speaker, I know I don’t have around the country are coming to- would have to leave the country for 10 much time left. I appreciate deeply the gether too. years, what would she do with the chil- time that I was given today to speak to I sit on the Agriculture Committee, dren? Does she take them with her? my colleagues and to speak to hope- and we were having a committee hear- They’re American citizens. Does she go fully a larger crowd that I have great ing on horticulture and specialty crops. to this country that she really doesn’t faith, I have great faith that we are Almost immediately, the discussion know anymore? How can that be right? coming together and we’re coming to- went to comprehensive immigration How can that be fair? How can that be gether in a way that we will produce a reform because it’s one of the most im- just? How can that be Christian? How bill that we can all be proud of and portant things for the agricultural can those be our values? They’re not hopefully that we will all support but community. Interestingly, they said our values. That’s why I thank Pastor that will have bipartisan support. And that the bill in the Senate is not per- Dr. David Fleming for stepping forward it won’t be an accident. It will be be- fect, the bill that we’re going to and saying it’s time that we change. cause of the prayers of these pastors. It produce here is not perfect, but it’s Now, I happen to be a Catholic, so I’d will be because of the courage of Rabbi getting close. They’re saying that like to quote now Archbishop Jose Stern. It will be because of all the en- there’s a lot of agreement between Gomez, the archbishop of Los Angeles couragement that we’ve received from those that work in the field and rep- and chairman of the USCCB Com- the faith communities outside of this resent them and those that are the mittee on Migration. He says this: House. It is because of their fervent farmers. When do you see that? It sel- Our collective faith groups are prepared to love and support for the immigrant, dom happens. Again, I think it’s hap- support just and humane reform of a broken the stranger, that we will have a just pening because of the prayers of the immigration system. With the President’s law, and I thank them. pastors. leadership and cooperation between both Madam Speaker, thank you for the I do want to read a few more of them parties in Congress, we can achieve this goal within the year. opportunity today. I yield back the because they’ve sent so many of them We agree with the President and the bipar- balance of my time. now to my office, and also because I ap- tisan Senate leaders who are stressing the f preciate what they’re doing. They’re importance of a path to citizenship for the making a difference here. I also want undocumented. We should not sanction a ATROCITIES OF ABORTION to show that it’s not only in Orlando, permanent underclass in our society. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under in one part of the country; it’s all over Never to correct an archbishop; how- the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- the country that pastors and religious ever, I would add that also the good uary 3, 2013, the Chair recognizes the

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For some inexplicable reason, decapitated these little babies and If our society is to survive with our once in a while, it seems mankind be- cannulated the internal carotid arte- humanity intact, our moral impulse to- comes completely blind to a mon- ries. They then kept these little heads ward our fellow human beings must strosity. History is replete with such alive with heart-lung machines in first survive. Madam Speaker, that is examples. It seems we are never quite order to study them. Like the victims why it is so important for people to see so eloquent as we are when we decry of Dr. Gosnell, their spines had been for themselves the inhumanity of what the crimes of the past generation, and completely sliced through and the is being done to these little victims. yet we seem as staggeringly blind as painful agony that they were feeling is Maybe it would not change everyone’s some of our most sightless predecessors beyond our imagination, Madam mind, but it has changed many minds. when it comes to facing and rejecting Speaker. One such example gained a lot of media atrocities in our own time. Americans were outraged when they coverage. Whether it was slavery, the Nazi Hol- learned that the Russians had kept the Abby Johnson spent 9 years working ocaust, or the many human genocides heads of dogs alive in the 1950s. Yet, at a Texas Planned Parenthood clinic— across history, the patterns were the when asked, Peter Adams responded to first as a volunteer and then as clinic same. Innocent human beings, children the criticism of keeping these little director. At one point, she was asked of God all, were systematically dehu- human heads alive. He responded by to assist during a routine abortion pro- manized and then subjected to the saying: cedure. Amazingly, this was the first most horrifying inhumanity. All the Our society has declared the fetus dead and time in those 9 years that Abby had ac- while, human society as a whole hard- abrogated its rights. I don’t see any ethical tually watched on an ultrasound an ened their hearts and turned away. problem. Whose rights are we going to pro- abortion being performed. She recounts But, Madam Speaker, truth and time tect once we’ve decided the fetus won’t live? holding the transducer over the moth- travel on the same road. And although In another case, Madam Speaker, Dr. er’s midsection and observing the dis- it was often agonizingly slow, the truth Abu Hayat, the Manhattan abortionist play of the baby’s movements on the of these tragic inhumanities in our who severed the arm of a baby girl screen. She then watched as the abor- past began to dawn on people of reason later born alive, is reportedly the first tion proceeded and as the unborn baby and good will. Their hearts first and physician in the United States to be attempted unsuccessfully to escape the then their minds began to change. jailed for an illegal third-trimester probe. I’ve often asked myself: What was it abortion since the infamous 1973 Roe v. She said: that changed their minds? What Wade decision. I could see the whole profile of the baby. I changed the minds of those who had Sixty-three-year-old Abu Hayat was could see the probe. I could see the baby try previously embraced an invincible ig- convicted of having knowingly per- to move away from the probe, and I just norance to hide from themselves the formed an abortion on Rosa Rodriguez thought: What am I doing? Then I thought: never again. horror of what was happening to their in October of 1991. The 7- to 8-month- innocent fellow human beings? old baby girl she carried, baby Ana Two weeks later, looking out the Madam Speaker, if I only really knew Rosa Rodriguez, was born the next day, clinic window and seeing two members or if I knew how to express it because, but one of her arms was missing at the of Coalition for Life standing outside, you see, today such a conundrum shoulder because of Dr. Hayat’s praying, Johnson walked out of the looms before humanity once again, botched abortion. Hayat was also con- clinic and joined them, and she has those most glaring examples of which victed of assault on the woman be- never looked back. Then there was the case of Brenda are things like the trial in Philadel- cause, in the middle of the abortion, he Shafer, a nurse who was so radically phia of Dr. Kermit Gosnell. In the stopped to demand an additional $500. pro-abortion that she told her teenage words of the grand jury report, Gosnell When the woman’s husband couldn’t daughters that they would be forced to had a simple solution for unwanted ba- come up with the additional money, have an abortion if they ever got preg- bies. He killed them. He didn’t call it she was sent home semiconscious and nant; but only 3 days of working in an that, Madam Speaker. He called it ‘‘en- still bleeding. suring fetal demise.’’ The way he en- Madam Speaker, my heart goes out abortion clinic was more than she sured fetal demise was by sticking scis- to those like Rosa Rodriguez, and espe- could handle. She speaks of going in on her third sors in the back of the baby’s neck and cially to her, who sooner or later had and final day and watching as the doc- cutting the spinal cord. He called it to face the question from her baby tor performed three partial-birth abor- ‘‘snipping.’’ Over the years there were daughter, Mommy, where is my arm? tions, including one procedure on a 6- hundreds of ‘‘snippings.’’ Oh, Madam Speaker, it beggars human When authorities entered the clinic imagination to try to take in the month-old baby boy with Down syn- of Dr. Gosnell, they found a torture crushing emotional burden that the drome. She watched as the little boy’s chamber for little babies that I do not abortion industry in this country has arms and legs were delivered, his little have the words or the stomach to ade- heaped upon so many American moth- fingers clasping and unclasping, his quately describe. Suffice it to say that ers. feet kicking before the vacuum tube Dr. Gosnell ran a systematic practice Madam Speaker, I will not expound was inserted into the baby’s head. He in his late-term abortion clinic to cut upon the cases of abortionist Dr. Scott went completely limp—only to be dis- the spines of those babies who had sur- Ricke or abortionist Gordon Goei or carded as if he were nothing more than vived his attempt to abort them. Malvin Roy Weisberg in the infamous a rag. Every American with the slightest Weisberg incident in Woodland Hills, Brenda said: shred of compassion for the innocent California. However, I will tell you, I have been a nurse for a long time, and I should learn the truth of this case for Madam Speaker, that they involved have seen a lot of death—people maimed in auto accidents, gunshot wounds, you name themselves, Madam Speaker, because thousands of unborn children, many of it—and I have seen surgical procedures of perhaps the greatest tragedy of all sur- them in their third trimester, in what every sort; but in all of my professional rounding this case is that it is not as can be described as a torturous and years, I had never witnessed anything like rare as those in the media would try to mass desecration of innocent unborn this. For a long time, sometimes still, I had convince us. babies. nightmares about what I saw in the clinic Six months after the Supreme Court Would it be too much to hope for, that day. legalized abortion on demand in the Madam Speaker, that Members of this Former abortion provider Nita Whit- United States, Dr. Peter A.J. Adam, an body and Americans in general might ten tells a similarly gut-wrenching

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Bush Presi- ties and Exchange Commission, transmitting bathroom and screaming at the top of dential Library in Dallas, Texas. the Commission’s final rule — Identity Theft Red Flags Rules (RIN: 3235-AL26) received her lungs for her mother, screaming f over and over ‘‘It’s a baby. It’s a baby’’ April 11, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. after she saw the baby that was abort- BILL PRESENTED TO THE 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Financial PRESIDENT Services. ed in the toilet. 1269. A letter from the Secretary, Depart- For this little girl, who will forever Karen L. Haas, Clerk of the House, ment of Health and Human Services, trans- be scarred by what she saw, there was reported that on April 25, 2013, she pre- mitting the Department’s ‘‘Report to Con- no debate about whether her baby was sented to the President of the United gress on Dual Language Learners in Head just a blob of tissue. Unlike the osten- States, for his approval, the following Start and Early Head Start Programs’’; to sibly educated abortionists, this girl bill. the Committee on Education and the Work- force. realized intuitively what science has H.R. 1246. To amend the District of Colum- long argued: conception creates a ge- 1270. A letter from the Director, Regula- bia Home Rule Act to provide that the Dis- tions Policy and Management Staff, Depart- netically unique human life—a baby. trict of Columbia Treasurer or one of the ment of Health and Human Services, trans- All of these people shared a common Deputy Chief Financial Officers of the Office mitting the Department’s final rule — thread when they were confronted with of the Chief Financial Officer of the District Change of Address; Biologics License Appli- the brutality and the reality of abor- of Columbia may perform the functions and cations; Techical Amendment [Docket No.: tion. They could no longer deny the duties of the Office in an acting capacity if FDA-2013-N-0011] received April 8, 2013, pur- truth that abortion is the murder of a there is a vacancy in the Office. suant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- defenseless child. It’s easy for those of f mittee on Energy and Commerce. us who are far removed from the actual 1271. A letter from the Director, Regula- ADJOURNMENT tions Policy and Management Staff, Depart- abortion clinics—those who do not Mr. FRANKS of Arizona. Madam ment of Health and Human Services, trans- have to confront the unspeakable pain mitting the Department’s final rule — List- caused within the doors of those clinics Speaker, I move that the House do now ing of Color Additives Exempt From Certifi- every day—to idealize and justify abor- adjourn. cation; Reactive Blue 247 Copolymers [Dock- tion on demand. The motion was agreed to; accord- et Nos.: FDA-2011-C-0344 and FDA-2011-C-0463] They tell themselves that they are ingly (at 5 o’clock and 47 minutes received April 8, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. really fighting for women. They con- p.m.), under its previous order, the 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Energy and vince themselves that that little flick- House adjourned until tomorrow, Fri- Commerce. day, April 26, 2013, at 10 a.m. 1272. A letter from the Director, Regu- er they see on the ultrasound screen, as latory Management Division, Environmental the baby is savagely torn apart in his f Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- own mother’s womb, is not the tiny cy’s final rule — Approval and Promulgation EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, beating heart of another living being. of Implementation Plans; Mississippi; ETC. They lie to themselves year after year, 110(a)(2)(E)(ii) Infrastructure Requirement ignoring the truth that every 5-year- Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive for the 1997 and 2006 Fine Particulate Matter old child knows instinctively. They de- communications were taken from the National Ambient Air Quality Standards Speaker’s table and referred as follows: [EPA-R04-OAR-2012-0402; FRL-9798-6] re- sensitize themselves to the horrors and ceived April 5, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. the reality until the violent destruc- 1262. A letter from the Management and 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Energy and tion of a defenseless baby is viewed as Program Analyst, Department of Agri- Commerce. if it were nothing more than having culture, transmitting the Department’s final 1273. A letter from the Director, Regu- one’s tonsils removed. rule — Project-Level Predecisional Adminis- latory Management Division, Environmental Indeed, this is the hope and the goal trative Review Process (RIN: 0596-AD07) re- Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- ceived April 8, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. cy’s final rule — Revisions to the California of monsters like Kermit Gosnell or Abu 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Agri- Hayat or Scott Ricke or Gordon Goei State Implementation Plan, Santa Barbara culture. County Air Pollution Control District and or Malvin Weisberg, just to name a few. 1263. A letter from the Director, Policy South Coast Air Quality Management Dis- When Abby Johnson, Brenda Shafer, Issuances Division, Department of Agri- trict [EPA-R09-OAR-2012-0828; FRL-9776-6] re- Nita Whitten, and so many others like culture, transmitting the Department’s final ceived April 5, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. them saw what abortion really was, rule — Food Ingredients and Sources of Radi- 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Energy and they changed their minds. I would ation Listed and Approved for Use in the Commerce. never suggest that I clearly know what Production of Meat and Poultry Products 1274. A letter from the Director, Regu- [Docket No.: FSIS-2011-0018] (RIN: 0583-AD47) latory Management Division, Environmental sparked the change in their hearts, but received April 8, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. I am convinced that it is the same Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Agri- cy’s final rule — Approval and Promulgation spark in the human soul that has culture. of Implementation Plans; Georgia: New turned the tide of blood and tragedy 1264. A letter from the Director, Regu- Source Review-Prevention of Significant De- and hatred and inhumanity throughout latory Management Division, Environmental terioration [EPA-R04-OAR-2012-0662; FRL- history. And, Madam Speaker, I am Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- 9798-5] received April 5, 2013, pursuant to 5 also convinced that it is mankind’s cy’s final rule — Flumioxazin; Pesticide Tol- U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on En- only hope. erances [EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0139; FRL-9381-7] ergy and Commerce. With that, I yield back the balance of received April 5, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 1275. A letter from the Director, Regu- 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Agri- latory Management Division, Environmental my time. culture. Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- f 1265. A letter from the Under Secretary, cy’s final rule — Approval and Promulgation LEAVE OF ABSENCE Department of Defense, transmitting a bien- of Implementation Plans; Region 4 States; nial strategic plan for the Defense Advanced Prong 3 of Section 110(a)(2)(D)(i) Infrastruc- By unanimous consent, leave of ab- Research Projects Agency for 2012; to the ture Requirement for the 1997 2006 Fine Par- sence was granted to: Committee on Armed Services. ticulate Matter National Ambient Air Qual- Mr. BURGESS (at the request of Mr. 1266. A letter from the Under Secretary, ity Standards [EPA-R04-OAR-2012-0814; FRL- CANTOR) for today and the balance of Department of Defense, transmitting author- 9799-8] received April 5, 2013, pursuant to 5 the week on account of attending the ization of 11 officers to wear the authorized U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on En- opening of the George W. Bush Presi- insignia of the grade of major general or ergy and Commerce. brigadier general; to the Committee on 1276. A letter from the Director, Regu- dential Library in Dallas, Texas. Armed Services. latory Management Division, Environmental Mr. SESSIONS (at the request of Mr. 1267. A letter from the General Counsel, Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- CANTOR) for today and the balance of National Credit Union Administration, cy’s final rule — Revisions to the California the week on account of attending the transmitting the Administration’s final rule State Implementation Plan, Antelope Valley

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A letter from the Director, Regu- 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Natural Administration, transmitting the Adminis- latory Management Division, Environmental Resources. tration’s final rule — Fisheries of the Exclu- Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- 1286. A letter from the Acting Deputy Di- sive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Pacific Cod cy’s final rule — Revisions to the California rector, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, by Catcher Vessels Using Trawl Gear in the State Implementation Plan, Santa Barbara NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Central Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alas- and San Diego County Air Pollution Control Administration, transmitting the Adminis- ka [Docket No.: 111207737-2141-02] (RIN: 0648- Districts [EPA-R09-OAR-2013-0426; FRL-9794- tration’s final rule — Fisheries of the Exclu- XC590) received April 15, 2013, pursuant to 5 4] received April 5, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. sive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Pacific Cod U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Nat- 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Energy and by Catcher Vessels Using Trawl Gear in the ural Resources. Commerce. Western Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alas- 1294. A letter from the Acting Deputy Di- 1278. A letter from the Director, Regu- ka [Docket No.: 111207737-2141-02] (RIN: 0648- rector, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, latory Management Division, Environmental XC502] received April 10, 2013, pursuant to 5 NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Nat- Administration, transmitting the Adminis- cy’s final rule — Revisions to the California ural Resources. tration’s final rule — Fisheries of the Exclu- State Implementation Plan, Butte County 1287. A letter from the Acting Deputy Di- sive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Pacific Cod Air Quality Management District and Sac- rector, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, by Catcher Vessels Less Than 60 feet (18.3 ramento Metropolitan Air Quality Manage- NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric meters) Length Overall Using Jig of Hook- ment District [EPA-R09-OAR-2012-0914; FRL- Administration, transmitting the Adminis- and-Line Gear in the Bogoslof Pacific Cod 9776-8] received April 5, 2013, pursuant to 5 tration’s final rule — Fisheries of the Exclu- Exemption Area in the Bering Sea and Aleu- U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on En- sive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Pacific Cod tian Islands Management Area [Docket No.: ergy and Commerce. by Catcher Vessels Greater Than or Equal to 111213751-2102-02] (RIN: 0648-XC596) received 1279. A letter from the Acting General 50 Feet (15.2 Meters) Length Overall using April 15, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. Counsel, Federal Energy Regulatory Com- Hook-and-Line Gear in the Central Regu- 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Natural mission, transmitting the Commission’s latory Area of the Gulf of Alaska [Docket Resources. final rule — Regional Reliability Standard No.: 120918468-3111-02] (RIN: 0648-XC585) re- 1295. A letter from the Director, Office of PRC-006-NPCC-1 —— Automatic Underfre- ceived April 15, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. Sustainable Fisheries, NMFS, National Oce- quency Load Shedding [Docket No.: RM12-12- 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Natural anic and Atmospheric Administration, trans- 000; Order No. 775] received April 5, 2013, pur- Resources. mitting the Administration’s final rule — suant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- 1288. A letter from the Director, Office of Fisheries Off West Coast States; Coastal Pe- mittee on Energy and Commerce. Sustainable Fisheries, NMFS, National Oce- lagic Species Fisheries; Annual Specifica- 1280. A letter from the Chief of Staff, Media anic and Atmospheric Administration, trans- tions [Docket No.: 120924487-3221-02] (RIN: Bureau, Federal Energy Regulatory Commis- mitting the Administration’s final rule — 0648-XC263) received April 15, 2013, pursuant sion, transmitting the Commission’s final Pacific Halibut Fisheries; Catch Sharing to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on rule — Reallocation of Channel 2 from Jack- Plan [Docket No.: 130123063-3207-02] (RIN: Natural Resources. son, Wyoming to Wilmington, Delaware, 0648-BC75) received April 15, 2013, pursuant to 1296. A letter from the Acting Deputy Di- Amendment of Section 73.622(i), Post-Transi- 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on rector, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, tion Table of DTV Allotments, Television Natural Resources. NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Broadcast Stations [MD Docket No.: 13-73] 1289. A letter from the Director, Office of Administration, transmitting the Adminis- (RM-11695) received April 15, 2013, pursuant Sustainable Fisheries, NMFS, National Oce- tration’s final rule — Fisheries of the Exclu- to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on anic and Atmospheric Administration, trans- sive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Sablefish Energy and Commerce. mitting the Administration’s final rule — Managed Under the Individual Fishing Quota 1281. A letter from the Acting General Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Program [Docket No.: 111207737-2141-02 and Counsel, Federal Energy Regulatory Com- Atlantic Mackerel, Squid, and Butterfish 111211375-2102-02] (RIN: 0648-XC569) received mission, transmitting the Commission’s Fisheries; Framework Adjustment 7 [Docket April 15, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. final rule — Revisions to Reliability Stand- No.: 121128658-3161-02] (RIN: 0648-BC72) re- 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Natural ard for Transmission Vegetation Manage- ceived April 15, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. Resources. ment [Docket No.: RM12-4-00; Order No. 777] 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Natural 1297. A letter from the Acting Deputy Di- received April 15, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. Resources. rector, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, Na- 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Energy and 1290. A letter from the Director, Office of tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra- Commerce. Sustainable Fisheries, NMFS, National Oce- tion, transmitting the Administration’s final 1282. A letter from the Assistant Secretary anic and Atmospheric Administration, trans- rule — Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of For Export Administration, Department of mitting the Administration’s final rule — Mexico, and South Atlantic; 2013 Commer- Commerce, transmitting the Department’s Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions; Fisheries cial Accountability Measure and Closure for final rule — Amendments to Existing Vali- of the Northeastern United States; North- Coastal Migratory Pelagic Resources of the dated End-User Authorizations: CSMC Tech- east Multispecies Fishery; Sector Exemp- Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic [Docket nologies Corporation in the People’s Repub- tions; Final Rule Implementing a Targeted No.: 001005281-0369-02] (RIN: 0648-XC570) re- lic of China (PRC) [Docket No.: 130322279- Acadian Redfish Fishery for Sector Vessels ceived April 15, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3279-01] (RIN: 0694-AF90) received April 18, [Docket No.: 120813331-3122-02] (RIN: 0648- 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Natural 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the XC164) received April 15, 2013, pursuant to 5 Resources. Committee on Foreign Affairs. U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Nat- 1298. A letter from the Acting Under Sec- 1283. A letter from the Acting Assistant ural Resources. retary and Acting Director, Department of Secretary, Legislative Affairs, Department 1291. A letter from the Acting Deputy Di- Commerce, transmitting the Department’s of State, transmitting the Department’s rector, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, final rule — Setting and Adjusting Patent final rule — Implementation of the Defense NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Fees; Correction [Docket No.: PTO-C-2013- Trade Cooperation Treaty Between the Administration, transmitting the Adminis- 0010] (RIN: 0651-AC86) received April 9, 2013, United States and Australia (RIN: 1400-AD38) tration’s final rule — Fisheries of the Exclu- pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- received April 9, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. sive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Pacific Cod mittee on the Judiciary. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Foreign Af- by Catcher Vessels Less Than 50 Feet (15.2 1299. A letter from the Attorney-Advisor, fairs. Meters) Length Overall Using Hook-and-Line Department of Homeland Security, transmit- 1284. A letter from the Chief, Branch of FS, Gear in the Central Regulatory Area of the ting the Department’s final rule — Safety Department of the Interior, transmitting the Gulf of Alaska [Docket No.: 120918468-3111-02] Zone; Lubbers Cup Regatta; Spring Lake, MI Department’s final rule — Endangered and (RIN: 0648-XC584) received April 15, 2013, pur- [Docket No.: USCG-2013-0210] (RIN: 1624- Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Listing the suant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- AA00) received April 18, 2013, pursuant to 5 Yellow-Billed Parrot With Special Rule, and mittee on Natural Resources. U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Correcting the Salmon-Crested Cockatoo 1292. A letter from the Director, Office of Transportation and Infrastructure. Special Rule [Docket No.: FWS-R9-ES-2011- Sustainable Fisheries, NMFS, National Oce- 1300. A letter from the Attorney-Advisor, 0075]; [4500030115] (RIN: 1018-AY28) received anic and Atmospheric Administration, trans- Department of Homeland Security, transmit- April 11, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. mitting the Administration’s final rule — ting the Department’s final rule — Draw- 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Natural Fisheries Off West Coast States; Pacific bridge Operation Regulations; Pelican Island Resources. Coast Groundfish Fishery; Trawl Rational- Causeway, Galveston, Channel, TX [Docket 1285. A letter from the Chief, Branch of ization Program; Reconsideration of Alloca- No.: USCG-2013-0063] (RIN: 1625-AA09) re- Listing, Department of the Interior, trans- tion of Whiting [Docket No.: 120313185-3252- ceived April 18, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C.

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A letter from the Deputy Assistant Under clause 2 of rule XII, public mined by the Speaker, in each case for con- Chief Counsel for Safety, Department of bills and resolutions of the following sideration of such provisions as fall within Transportation, transmitting the Depart- titles were introduced and severally re- the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. ment’s final rule — Vehicle/Track Inter- ferred, as follows: By Mr. WALZ (for himself, Mr. FOR- action Safety Standards; High-Speed and By Mr. LOBIONDO (for himself, Mr. TENBERRY, Mr. GIBSON, and Mr. High Cant Deficiency Operations [Docket BRADY of Pennsylvania, and Mr. PETERSON): H.R. 1727. A bill to expand and improve op- No.: FRA-2009-0036, Notice No. 2] (RIN: 2130- JONES): AC09) received April 9, 2013, pursuant to 5 H.R. 1721. A bill to direct the Secretary of portunities for beginning farmers and ranch- U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Defense to prohibit the performance of De- ers, and for other purposes; to the Com- Transportation and Infrastructure. partment of Defense flight demonstration mittee on Agriculture, and in addition to the 1302. A letter from the Paralegal Spe- teams outside the United States; to the Com- Committee on the Budget, for a period to be cialist, Department of Transportation, trans- mittee on Armed Services. subsequently determined by the Speaker, in mitting the Department’s final rule — Air- each case for consideration of such provi- By Mr. MCKINLEY (for himself, Mr. worthiness Directives; The Boeing Company sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the ENYART, Mr. GRIFFITH of Virginia, Airplanes [Docket No.: FAA-2005-22523; Di- committee concerned. and Mr. ROE of Tennessee): rectorate Identifier 2005-NM-058-AD: Amend- H.R. 1722. A bill to direct the Secretary of By Mr. RANGEL: H.R. 1728. A bill to repeal certain appro- ment 39-17379; AD 2013-0507] (RIN: 2120-AA64) Labor to conduct a review of the forms re- priations riders that limit the ability of the received April 9, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. lated to obtaining workers’ compensation Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Transpor- benefits under the Federal Black Lung Bene- Explosives to administer the Federal fire- tation and Infrastructure. fits Program; to the Committee on Edu- 1303. A letter from the Paralegal Spe- arms laws; to the Committee on the Judici- cation and the Workforce. cialist, Department of Transportation, trans- ary. By Ms. SCHAKOWSKY (for herself, Mr. mitting the Department’s final rule — Air- By Mrs. KIRKPATRICK (for herself and CONYERS, Ms. EDWARDS, Ms. MCCOL- worthiness Directives; The Boeing Company Mr. COFFMAN): LUM, Mr. YARMUTH, Ms. LEE of Cali- Airplanes [Docket No.: FAA-2008-0847; Direc- H.R. 1729. A bill to direct the Secretary of fornia, and Mr. GUTIERREZ): torate Identifier 2008-NM-056-AD; Amend- Defense to provide the service records of vet- H.R. 1723. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- ment 39-17375; AD 2013-05-03] (RIN: 2120-AA64) erans to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in enue Code of 1986 to impose increased rates received April 9, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. an efficient, electronic format; to the Com- of tax with respect to taxpayers with more 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Transpor- mittee on Armed Services. than $1,000,000 taxable income, and for other tation and Infrastructure. By Mr. ENGEL (for himself and Ms. purposes; to the Committee on Ways and 1304. A letter from the Paralegal Spe- NORTON): cialist, Department of Transportation, trans- Means. H.R. 1730. A bill to amend the Communica- mitting the Department’s final rule — Air- By Mr. HARPER (for himself, Mr. tions Act of 1934 to prohibit mobile service worthiness Directives; The Boeing Company COLE, Mr. BARLETTA, Mr. HULTGREN, providers from providing service on mobile Airplanes [Docket No.: FAA-2012-0597; Direc- Ms. JENKINS, Mr. MEEHAN, and Mrs. devices that have been reported stolen, to re- torate Identifier 2012-NM-054-AD; Amend- WALORSKI): quire such providers to give consumers the ment 39-17377; AD 2013-05-05] (RIN: 2120-AA64) H.R. 1724. A bill to eliminate taxpayer fi- ability to remotely delete data from mobile received April 9, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. nancing of presidential campaigns and party devices, to prohibit the alteration or re- 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Transpor- conventions and reprogram savings to pro- moval of mobile device identification num- tation and Infrastructure. vide for a 10-year pediatric research initia- bers, and for other purposes; to the Com- 1305. A letter from the FMCSA Regulatory tive through the Common Fund administered mittee on Energy and Commerce. Ombudsman, Department of Transportation, by the National Institutes of Health, and for By Mr. SCHRADER (for himself, Mr. transmitting the Department’s final rule — other purposes; to the Committee on Energy DENHAM, Mr. FARR, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Commercial Driver’s License Testing and and Commerce, and in addition to the Com- Mr. CAMPBELL, and Mr. HUFFMAN): Commercial Learner’s Permit Standards mittees on House Administration, and Ways H.R. 1731. A bill to provide for a uniform [Docket No.: FMCSA-2007-27659] (RIN: 2126- and Means, for a period to be subsequently national standard for the housing and treat- AB59) received April 9, 2013, pursuant to 5 determined by the Speaker, in each case for ment of egg-laying hens, and for other pur- U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on consideration of such provisions as fall with- poses; to the Committee on Agriculture. Transportation and Infrastructure. in the jurisdiction of the committee con- By Ms. BASS (for herself, Mr. MARINO, 1306. A letter from the Trial Attorney, De- cerned. Mr. CHABOT, Mr. FARENTHOLD, Mr. partment of Transportation, transmitting By Mr. CARTWRIGHT (for himself, GRIJALVA, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. the Department’s final rule — Systems for Mrs. BEATTY, Mr. BRADY of Pennsyl- MCDERMOTT, Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio, Telephonic Notification of Unsafe Conditions vania, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Mrs. CAPPS, Ms. MOORE, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. at Highway-Rail and Pathway Grade Cross- Mr. CA´ RDENAS, Mr. CARSON of Indi- POLIS, Mr. RANGEL, and Mr. VARGAS): ings (RIN: 2130-AC38) received April, 9, 2013, ana, Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Ms. CHU, Mr. H.R. 1732. A bill to amend part E of title IV pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- CONYERS, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. DEUTCH, of the Social Security Act to better enable mittee on Transportation and Infrastruc- Mr. DOGGETT, Mr. ENYART, Ms. ESTY, State child welfare agencies to prevent ture. Mr. FATTAH, Ms. FRANKEL of Florida, human trafficking of children and serve the 1307. A letter from the Paralegal Spe- Ms. GABBARD, Mr. GRIJALVA, Ms. needs of children who are victims of human cialist, Department of Transportation, trans- HAHN, Mr. HIGGINS, Mr. HINOJOSA, trafficking, and for other purposes; to the mitting the Department’s final rule — Air- Mr. HOLT, Mr. HONDA, Mr. HORSFORD, Committee on Ways and Means, and in addi- worthiness Directives; PILATUS AIRCRAFT Ms. JACKSON LEE, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE tion to the Committee on Education and the LTD. Airplanes [Docket No.: FAA-2008-0070; JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. JONES, Mr. Workforce, for a period to be subsequently Directorate Identifier 2007-CE-098-AD; KILDEE, Ms. KUSTER, Ms. LEE of Cali- determined by the Speaker, in each case for Amendment 39-17398; AD 2008-07-11 R1] (RIN: fornia, Mrs. LOWEY, Mrs. MCCARTHY consideration of such provisions as fall with- 2120-AA64) received April 9, 2013, pursuant to of New York, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mrs. in the jurisdiction of the committee con- 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on NAPOLITANO, Mr. NEAL, Mr. NOLAN, cerned. Transportation and Infrastructure. Ms. NORTON, Mr. PASCRELL, Mr. PAS- By Mrs. BLACKBURN (for herself, Mr. 1308. A letter from the Paralegal Spe- TOR of Arizona, Mr. PETERS of Michi- MATHESON, Mr. GRIFFITH of Virginia, cialist, Department of Transportation, trans- gan, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. RUSH, Mr. Mr. GRIMM, Mr. DESJARLAIS, Mrs. mitting the Department’s final rule — Estab- RYAN of Ohio, Ms. SHEA-PORTER, Ms. BLACK, and Mr. BILIRAKIS): lishment of Class E Airspace; Round Moun- SPEIER, Mr. TONKO, Ms. WATERS, Ms. H.R. 1733. A bill to amend the Public tain, TX [Docket No.: FAA-2012-0771; Air- DELAURO, Mr. LARSEN of Washington, Health Service Act to limit the liability of space Docket No. 12-ASW-7] received April 9, Ms. KAPTUR, and Ms. SINEMA): health care professionals who volunteer to 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the H.R. 1725. A bill to amend title 38, United provide health care services in response to a Committee on Transportation and Infra- States Code, to provide for unlimited eligi- disaster; to the Committee on Energy and structure. bility for health care for mental illnesses for Commerce, and in addition to the Committee 1309. A letter from the Director of Regula- veterans of combat service during certain pe- on the Judiciary, for a period to be subse- tion Policy and Management, Office of the riods of hostilities and war; to the Com- quently determined by the Speaker, in each General Counsel, Department of Veterans Af- mittee on Veterans’ Affairs. case for consideration of such provisions as fairs, transmitting the Department’s final By Mr. POSEY (for himself and Mr. fall within the jurisdiction of the committee rule — Grants to States for Construction or PIERLUISI): concerned. Acquisition of State Homes (RIN: 2900-AO60) H.R. 1726. A bill to award a Congressional By Mr. CAPUANO (for himself, Mr. received April 10, 2013, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. Gold Medal to the 65th Infantry Regiment, CICILLINE, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. CON- 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Veterans’ known as the Borinqueneers; to the Com- YERS, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mrs. DAVIS of Affairs. mittee on Financial Services, and in addi- California, Mr. DEFAZIO, Ms.

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DELAURO, Ms. EDWARDS, Mr. ELLISON, H.R. 1738. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- SPEIER, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. CARSON of In- Ms. ESHOO, Mr. FARR, Mr. GRIJALVA, enue Code of 1986 to extend and modify the diana, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. TONKO, Mr. Mr. LARSON of Connecticut, Mr. American Opportunity Tax Credit, and for CLAY, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Mr. LYNCH, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of other purposes; to the Committee on Ways CA´ RDENAS, Mr. CUMMINGS, Ms. New York, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. MCGOV- and Means. DELBENE, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Mr. ERN, Mr. MICHAUD, Ms. MOORE, Mr. By Mr. ENYART (for himself and Mr. MCDERMOTT, Ms. WILSON of Florida, MORAN, Ms. NORTON, Ms. PINGREE of ISRAEL): and Mr. SERRANO): Maine, Ms. SHEA-PORTER, and Ms. H.R. 1739. A bill to amend title 38, United H.R. 1748. A bill to amend the Help Amer- SLAUGHTER): States Code, to direct the Secretary of Vet- ica Vote Act of 2002 to permit an individual H.R. 1734. A bill to amend the Securities erans Affairs to pay provisional benefits for who is subject to a requirement to present Exchange Act of 1934 to require shareholder certain nonadjudicated claims, and for other identification as a condition of voting in an authorization before a public company may purposes; to the Committee on Veterans’ Af- election for Federal office to meet such re- make certain political expenditures, and for fairs. quirement by presenting a sworn written other purposes; to the Committee on Finan- By Mr. FORBES (for himself and Mr. statement attesting to the individual’s iden- cial Services. LIPINSKI): tification, and for other purposes; to the By Mr. CASSIDY: H.R. 1740. A bill to intensify stem cell re- Committee on House Administration. H.R. 1735. A bill to amend the Patient Pro- search showing evidence of substantial clin- By Ms. LEE of California (for herself, tection and Affordable Care Act to provide ical benefit to patients, and for other pur- Ms. BROWN of Florida, Mr. CAPUANO, for participation in the Exchange of the poses; to the Committee on Energy and Com- Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Ms. CLARKE, Mr. President, Vice President, and Executive merce. CLAY, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. AL GREEN of cabinet officials in same manner as Members By Mr. GOODLATTE (for himself and Texas, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. HASTINGS of Congress and Congressional staff; to the Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia): of Florida, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Committee on Oversight and Government H.R. 1741. A bill to establish a dairy pro- Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. MEEKS, Ms. Reform, and in addition to the Committee on ducer margin insurance program for the pur- MOORE, Ms. NORTON, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. Energy and Commerce, for a period to be pose of protecting dairy producer income by RUSH, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. subsequently determined by the Speaker, in paying participating dairy producers margin WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Ms. WILSON of each case for consideration of such provi- insurance payments when actual dairy pro- Florida, Ms. WATERS, Mrs. BEATTY, sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the ducer margins are less than a threshold Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr. THOMPSON committee concerned. level, and for other purposes; to the Com- of Mississippi, and Mr. RICHMOND): By Mrs. DAVIS of California (for her- mittee on Agriculture. H.R. 1749. A bill to measure the progress of self, Mr. POLIS, Mr. BEN RAY LUJA´ N By Mr. HECK of Nevada (for himself, recovery and development efforts in Haiti of New Mexico, Ms. BORDALLO, and Mr. WEBSTER of Florida, Mr. GARD- following the earthquake of January 12, 2010, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD): and for other purposes; to the Committee on H.R. 1736. A bill to amend the Elementary NER, Mr. RENACCI, Mr. KILMER, Mr. and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to re- BUCSHON, and Mr. CARNEY): Foreign Affairs. cruit, prepare, and support principals H.R. 1742. A bill to exclude from consider- By Mr. LUETKEMEYER (for himself, through capacity-building measures that ation as income under the United States Mr. WESTMORELAND, and Mr. GARY G. will improve student academic achievement Housing Act of 1937 payments of pension MILLER of California): H.R. 1750. A bill to enhance the ability of in high-need schools; to the Committee on made under section 1521 of title 38, United Education and the Workforce. States Code, to veterans who are in need of community financial institutions to foster economic growth and serve their commu- By Ms. DELAURO (for herself, Mr. regular aid and attendance, and for other nities, boost small businesses, increase indi- KINZINGER of Illinois, Mr. RYAN of purposes; to the Committee on Financial vidual savings, and for other purposes; to the Ohio, Mr. MICHAUD, Mr. CICILLINE, Services. Mr. LOEBSACK, Ms. DUCKWORTH, Ms. By Mr. HOLT (for himself, Mr. GRI- Committee on Financial Services. LEE of California, and Mr. RODNEY JALVA, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, Ms. By Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of DAVIS of Illinois): SLAUGHTER, Mrs. CAPPS, Mr. POLIS, New York (for herself, Mr. POLIS, Mr. H.R. 1737. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- and Mr. MARKEY): CONYERS, Mr. GRIJALVA, Ms. WILSON enue Code of 1986 to allow manufacturing H.R. 1743. A bill to amend the Oil Pollution of Florida, Mr. CICILLINE, Ms. LEE of businesses to establish tax-free manufac- Act of 1990 to require responsible parties to California, Mr. POCAN, Mr. KEATING, turing reinvestment accounts to assist them pay the full cost of offshore oil spills, and for Mrs. DAVIS of California, Mr. in providing for new equipment and facilities other purposes; to the Committee on Trans- LOWENTHAL, Mr. NADLER, Ms. MOORE, and workforce training; to the Committee on portation and Infrastructure. Mr. ENGEL, Ms. NORTON, Mr. GEORGE Ways and Means. By Mr. HORSFORD: MILLER of California, Mr. ELLISON, By Mr. DOGGETT (for himself, Mr. H.R. 1744. A bill to provide for the imple- and Ms. TITUS): DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. mentation of the multispecies habitat con- H.R. 1751. A bill to amend the Family and BECERRA, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. servation plan for the Virgin River, Nevada, Medical Leave Act of 1993 and title 5, United CROWLEY, Mr. KIND, Mr. LARSON of and Lincoln County, Nevada, to extend the States Code, to permit leave to care for a do- Connecticut, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, authority to purchase certain parcels of pub- mestic partner, parent-in-law, adult child, Mr. LEWIS, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. PAS- lic land, and for other purposes; to the Com- sibling, grandchild, or grandparent who has a CRELL, Mr. RANGEL, Ms. LINDA T. mittee on Natural Resources. serious health condition, and for other pur- SA´ NCHEZ of California, Ms. SCHWARTZ, By Mr. ISRAEL (for himself and Mr. poses; to the Committee on Education and Mr. LEVIN, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. KING of New York): the Workforce, and in addition to the Com- HINOJOSA, Mr. ANDREWS, Mrs. CAPPS, H.R. 1745. A bill to direct the Adminis- mittees on House Administration, and Over- Mr. CA´ RDENAS, Ms. CASTOR of Flor- trator of the Federal Aviation Administra- sight and Government Reform, for a period ida, Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Mr. CICILLINE, tion to issue regulations regarding secondary to be subsequently determined by the Speak- Mr. COHEN, Mr. CUELLAR, Mr. CUM- cockpit barriers; to the Committee on Trans- er, in each case for consideration of such pro- MINGS, Ms. FUDGE, Mr. GALLEGO, Mr. portation and Infrastructure. visions as fall within the jurisdiction of the GARAMENDI, Mr. AL GREEN of Texas, By Mr. KING of Iowa: committee concerned. Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, Mr. HAS- H.R. 1746. A bill to amend the National By Mr. MARINO: TINGS of Florida, Mr. HOLT, Mr. Labor Relations Act to protect employer H.R. 1752. A bill to amend the Food and Nu- HONDA, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON rights; to the Committee on Education and trition Act of 2008 to require retail food of Texas, Ms. LEE of California, Mr. the Workforce. stores to collect, and report to the Secretary LOEBSACK, Ms. MATSUI, Ms. MCCOL- By Ms. KUSTER: of Agriculture, detailed information that LUM, Ms. MOORE, Mr. PASTOR of Ari- H.R. 1747. A bill to allow employers a cred- identifies food items purchased with benefits zona, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Ms. SCHA- it against income tax as an incentive to provided under the supplemental nutrition KOWSKY, Ms. SHEA-PORTER, Mr. SHER- partner with community colleges or other assistance program; and to require the Sec- MAN, Mr. SIRES, Ms. SPEIER, Mr. educational institutions to improve work- retary to compile and publish such informa- THOMPSON of Mississippi, Mr. VELA, force development and job training for stu- tion; to the Committee on Agriculture. Mr. WELCH, Mr. YARMUTH, Mr. POCAN, dents; to the Committee on Ways and Means. By Mr. PALLONE (for himself, Mr. Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mrs. NEGRETE By Mr. LARSEN of Washington (for BISHOP of New York, Mr. RUNYAN, MCLEOD, Mr. VARGAS, Mr. TONKO, Mr. himself, Ms. BROWN of Florida, Mr. Mr. GRIMM, and Mr. LOBIONDO): DEFAZIO, Mr. GRIJALVA, Ms. BLUMENAUER, Ms. LEE of California, H.R. 1753. A bill making supplemental ap- EDWARDS, Ms. WILSON of Florida, Ms. Ms. DEGETTE, Mr. ELLISON, Mr. GRI- propriations for the National Oceanic and TITUS, Mrs. DAVIS of California, Mr. JALVA, Mr. HONDA, Mr. FARR, Ms. Atmospheric Administration for fisheries NADLER, Mr. RUSH, Ms. BASS, Mr. CHU, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Mr. disasters, and for other purposes; to the BUTTERFIELD, Mr. CAPUANO, Mr. BECERRA, Mr. COHEN, Ms. NORTON, Committee on Appropriations, and in addi- CLEAVER, Mr. DOYLE, Mr. FATTAH, Mr. LEWIS, Ms. BORDALLO, Ms. tion to the Committee on the Budget, for a Mr. DEUTCH, Mr. KILDEE, and Mr. SCHWARTZ, Mr. RUSH, Mr. JOHNSON of period to be subsequently determined by the PRICE of North Carolina): Georgia, Mr. DEUTCH, Ms. MOORE, Ms. Speaker, in each case for consideration of

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such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- H.R. 1755. A bill to prohibit employment CAPPS, Ms. WATERS, Ms. ROYBAL- tion of the committee concerned. discrimination on the basis of sexual ori- ALLARD, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mr. HONDA, By Mr. PETERS of Michigan (for him- entation or gender identity; to the Com- Mr. HECK of Washington, Ms. self, Mr. ROSS, and Mr. ELLISON): mittee on Education and the Workforce, and DELBENE, Mr. PETRI, and Mr. H.R. 1754. A bill to establish pilot programs in addition to the Committees on House Ad- GARAMENDI): to encourage the use of shared appreciation ministration, Oversight and Government Re- H.R. 1763. A bill to direct the Secretary of mortgage modifications, and for other pur- form, and the Judiciary, for a period to be Education to establish and administer an poses; to the Committee on Financial Serv- subsequently determined by the Speaker, in awards program recognizing excellence ex- ices. each case for consideration of such provi- hibited by public school system employees By Mr. POLIS (for himself, Mr. AN- sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the providing services to students in pre-kinder- DREWS, Mr. COHEN, Ms. BASS, Mr. committee concerned. garten through higher education; to the CONNOLLY, Mrs. BEATTY, Mr. CON- By Mr. POSEY: Committee on Education and the Workforce. H.R. 1756. A bill to authorize the Secretary YERS, Mr. BECERRA, Mr. COOPER, Mr. By Ms. SLAUGHTER (for herself, Mr. of Defense to transport to any country, with- BISHOP of New York, Mr. COURTNEY, BURGESS, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, and Ms. out charge, supplies that have been furnished Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. CROWLEY, Ms. SPEIER): by a nonprofit organization and that are in- BONAMICI, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. BRADY H. Res. 180. A resolution recognizing the tended for distribution to members of the of Pennsylvania, Mrs. DAVIS of Cali- sequencing of the human genome as one of Armed Forces, and for other purposes; to the fornia, Mr. BRALEY of Iowa, Mr. the most significant scientific accomplish- Committee on Armed Services. DEFAZIO, Mrs. CAPPS, Ms. DEGETTE, ments of the past 100 years and expressing By Mr. POSEY (for himself and Mrs. Mr. CA´ RDENAS, Mr. DELANEY, Mr. support for the designation of April 25, 2013, CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York): CARNEY, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. CARSON of as ‘‘DNA Day’’; to the Committee on Energy H.R. 1757. A bill to direct the Secretary of Indiana, Ms. DELBENE, Mr. CART- and Commerce. Health and Human Services to conduct or WRIGHT, Mr. DEUTCH, Ms. CASTOR of By Mr. BRALEY of Iowa (for himself support a comprehensive study comparing Florida, Mr. DINGELL, Mr. CASTRO of and Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of total health outcomes, including risk of au- Texas, Mr. DOGGETT, Ms. CHU, Mr. Texas): tism, in vaccinated populations in the DOYLE, Mr. CICILLINE, Ms. H. Res. 181. A resolution supporting the United States with such outcomes in DUCKWORTH, Ms. CLARKE, Ms. goals and ideals of Workers’ Memorial Day unvaccinated populations in the United EDWARDS, Mr. CLAY, Mr. ELLISON, Mr. in order to honor and remember the workers States, and for other purposes; to the Com- ENGEL, Mr. FARR, Mr. FATTAH, Ms. who have been killed or injured in the work- mittee on Energy and Commerce. FRANKEL of Florida, Ms. FUDGE, Mr. place; to the Committee on Education and By Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN (for herself, GARCIA, Mr. AL GREEN of Texas, Mr. the Workforce. Mr. DIAZ-BALART, Ms. WASSERMAN GRIJALVA, Mr. GUTIERREZ, Ms. HAHN, By Ms. DELBENE (for herself, Mr. SCHULTZ, Ms. WILSON of Florida, and Ms. HANABUSA, Mr. HANNA, Mr. HAS- VARGAS, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. BENISHEK, Mr. GARCIA): TINGS of Florida, Mr. HECK of Wash- Mr. HASTINGS of Washington, Mr. H.R. 1758. A bill to increase the portion of SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of New York, ington, Mr. HIGGINS, Mr. HIMES, Mr. community development block grants that HINOJOSA, Mr. HOLT, Mr. HONDA, Mr. Ms. KUSTER, Mr. SCHRADER, Mr. may be used to provide public services, and MCGOVERN, Mr. GARAMENDI, and Mr. HORSFORD, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. ISRAEL, for other purposes; to the Committee on Fi- Ms. JACKSON LEE, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE REICHERT): nancial Services. H. Res. 182. A resolution expressing the JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. JOHNSON of By Mr. RUIZ (for himself, Mr. Georgia, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. KEATING, sense of the House of Representatives that CA´ RDENAS, Mrs. KIRKPATRICK, Mr. Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. KIL- specialty crops are a vital part of agriculture BARBER, Mrs. NEGRETE MCLEOD, Mr. MER, Mr. KIND, Mrs. KIRKPATRICK, Ms. in the United States, that the Committee on TAKANO, and Mr. COOK): Agriculture should propose funding for pro- KUSTER, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. LARSEN H.R. 1759. A bill to amend title 38, United grams that support specialty crops prior- of Washington, Mr. LARSON of Con- States Code, to direct the Secretary of Vet- ities, and that legislation should be passed necticut, Ms. LEE of California, Mr. erans Affairs to submit to Congress quar- that includes funding reflecting specialty LEVIN, Mr. LEWIS, Mr. LOEBSACK, Ms. terly reports on the timeliness in which the crops as a growing and important part of LOFGREN, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mrs. Department of Veterans Affairs receives cer- United States agriculture; to the Committee LOWEY, Ms. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM tain information from other departments or ´ on Agriculture. of New Mexico, Mr. BEN RAY LUJAN agencies of the United States; to the Com- By Mr. ROHRABACHER: of New Mexico, Mr. LYNCH, Ms. MAT- mittee on Veterans’ Affairs. H. Res. 183. A resolution expressing the SUI, Mr. MAFFEI, Mrs. CAROLYN B. By Mr. SCHIFF: sense of the House of Representatives that MALONEY of New York, Mr. SEAN H.R. 1760. A bill to establish an entre- the Broadcasting Board of Governors should PATRICK MALONEY of New York, Mr. preneur-based immigrant category for alien broadcast and direct Azeri language content MARKEY, Mr. MATHESON, Mrs. MCCAR- entrepreneurs who have completed or are in into the Islamic Republic of Iran and Baloch THY of New York, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. the process of completing a degree in language content into the Islamic Republic MCDERMOTT, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. Science, Engineering, Math or a technology- of Iran and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan; MENG, Mr. MICHAUD, Mr. GEORGE related field; to the Committee on the Judi- to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. MILLER of California, Ms. MOORE, Mr. ciary. By Mr. ROHRABACHER: MORAN, Mr. MURPHY of Florida, Mr. By Mr. TERRY: NADLER, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Ms. NOR- H.R. 1761. A bill to amend title XIX of the H. Res. 184. A resolution expressing the TON, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. PASCRELL, Mr. Social Security Act to cover physician serv- sense of the House of Representatives that PAYNE, Ms. PELOSI, Mr. PETERS of ices delivered by podiatric physicians to en- the United States should immediately re- Michigan, Mr. PETERS of California, sure access by Medicaid beneficiaries to ap- move all members of the United States Ms. PINGREE of Maine, Mr. POCAN, propriate quality foot and ankle care, to Armed Forces from Afghanistan and pursue Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, Mr. amend title XVIII of such Act to modify the alternative strategies, which do not require QUIGLEY, Mr. RANGEL, Ms. ROS- requirements for diabetic shoes to be in- large deployments of ground combat forces LEHTINEN, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr. cluded under Medicare, and for other pur- of the Armed Forces, in order to create a sta- RUSH, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Ms. LINDA T. poses; to the Committee on Energy and Com- ble Afghanistan that is not a base for inter- SA´ NCHEZ of California, Ms. LORETTA merce, and in addition to the Committee on national terrorism; to the Committee on SANCHEZ of California, Mr. SARBANES, Ways and Means, for a period to be subse- Foreign Affairs. Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. quently determined by the Speaker, in each SCHNEIDER, Mr. SCHRADER, Ms. case for consideration of such provisions as f SCHWARTZ, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. fall within the jurisdiction of the committee SERRANO, Ms. SHEA-PORTER, Mr. concerned. MEMORIALS SHERMAN, Ms. SINEMA, Ms. SLAUGH- By Mr. THORNBERRY: Under clause 3 of Rule XII, memo- TER, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Ms. H.R. 1762. A bill to provide a biennial budg- SPEIER, Mr. SWALWELL of California, et for the United States Government; to the rials were presented and referred as fol- Mr. TAKANO, Mr. TIERNEY, Ms. TITUS, Committee on the Budget, and in addition to lows: Mr. TONKO, Ms. TSONGAS, Mr. VAN the Committees on Rules, and Oversight and 6. The SPEAKER presented a memorial of HOLLEN, Mr. VEASEY, Mr. WALZ, Ms. Government Reform, for a period to be sub- the Senate of the State of Tennessee, rel- WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Ms. WATERS, sequently determined by the Speaker, in ative to Senate Joint Resolution No. 38 urg- Mr. WAXMAN, Mr. WELCH, Ms. WILSON each case for consideration of such provi- ing the Congress to adopt a balanced federal of Florida, Mr. YARMUTH, Mr. CAPU- sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the budget; to the Committee on the Budget. ANO, Mr. DENT, Mr. GRAYSON, Mr. committee concerned. 7. Also, a memorial of the House of Rep- O’ROURKE, Mr. HOYER, Mr. MCNER- By Ms. TITUS (for herself, Mrs. DAVIS resentatives of the Commonwealth of Ken- NEY, Mr. SIRES, and Ms. BROWNLEY of of California, Ms. WILSON of Florida, tucky, relative to House Concurrent Resolu- California): Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, Mrs. tion No. 109 urging the Congress to persuade

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Also, a memorial of the Senate of the the Rules of the House of Representa- stitution of the United States: The Congress State of Kansas, relative to Senate Resolu- tives, the following statements are sub- shall have Power to make all Laws which tion No. 1737 recognizing the many contribu- mitted regarding the specific powers shall be necessary and proper for carrying tions made by the citizens of the Republic of granted to Congress in the Constitu- into Execution the forgoing Powers, and all Azerbaijan; to the Committee on Foreign Af- tion to enact the accompanying bill or other vested by this Constitution in the Gov- fairs. joint resolution. ernment of the United St Department or Of- 9. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the ficer thereof Commonwealth of Massachusetts, relative to By Mr. LOBIONDO: By Mr. WALZ: Senate Resolution reaffirming the friendship H.R. 1721. H.R. 1727. between the Commonwealth of Massachu- Congress has the power to enact this legis- Congress has the power to enact this legis- setts and Taiwan; to the Committee on For- lation pursuant to the following: lation pursuant to the following: eign Affairs. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Con- This bill is enacted pursuant to the power 10. Also, a memorial of the House of Rep- stitution of the United States of America granted to Congress under Article I, Section resentatives of the State of Kansas, relative By Mr. MCKINLEY: 8 of the United States Constitution. H.R. 1722. to House Resolution No. 6022 recognizing the By Mr. RANGEL: Congress has the power to enact this legis- many contributions made by the citizens of H.R. 1728. lation pursuant to the following: Congress has the power to enact this legis- the Republic of Azerbaijan; to the Com- According to Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 lation pursuant to the following: mittee on Foreign Affairs. of the Constitution: The Congress shall have 11. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the Article I, Section 8 Power to make all Laws which shall be nec- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, relative to By Mrs. KIRKPATRICK: essary and proper for carrying into Execu- Senate Resolution No. 53 supporting those H.R. 1729. tion the foregoing Powers, and all other peaceful political actions that will result in Congress has the power to enact this legis- Powers vested by this Constitution in the the final reunification of Ireland; to the lation pursuant to the following: Government of the United States, or in any Committee on Foreign Affairs. This bill is enacted pursuant to the power Department or Officer thereof. 12. Also, a memorial of the House of Rep- granted to Congress under Article I, Section By Ms. SCHAKOWSKY: resentatives of the State of New Mexico, rel- 8, Clause 18 of the United States Constitu- H.R. 1723. ative to House Joint Memorial No. 22 re- tion. Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mr. ENGEL: questing the Congress to provide full funding lation pursuant to the following: to cover the costs associated with the bene- H.R. 1730. Article I, Section VIII. Congress has the power to enact this legis- fits received by Indian tribes and the United By Mr. HARPER: States; to the Committee on Natural Re- lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 1724. Article 1, Section 1 of the Constitution. sources. Congress has the power to enact this legis- 13. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the Congress has the power to enact this legisla- lation pursuant to the following: tion, as well, under Article 1, Section 8, State of Tennessee, relative to Senate Reso- clause 3 of section 8 of article I of the Con- Clauses 1, 3 and 18. lution No. 4 memorializing the Congress to stitution. amend the Constitution relative to author- By Mr. SCHRADER: By Mr. CARTWRIGHT: H.R. 1731. izing states to rescind certain federal laws; H.R. 1725. Congress has the power to enact this legis- to the Committee on the Judiciary. Congress has the power to enact this legis- lation pursuant to the following: 14. Also, a memorial of the House of Rep- lation pursuant to the following: Congress has the authority to act under resentatives of the State of New Mexico, rel- Article I; Section 8 of the Constitution Article I, § 8, clause 3—the Commerce Clause. ative to House Memorial 7 calling for the states ‘‘The Congress shallhave Power To lay By Ms. BASS: New Mexico delegation to vote in favor of and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Ex- legislation that would remove the deadline H.R. 1732. cises, to pay the Debts and provide for the Congress has the power to enact this legis- for ratification of the equal rights amend- common Defence and general Welfare of the lation pursuant to the following: ment; to the Committee on the Judiciary. United States; but all Duties, Imposts and This bill is enacted pursuant to the power 15. Also, a memorial of the House of Rep- Excises shall be uniform throughout the granted to Congress under Article 1, Section resentatives of the State of New Mexico, rel- United States;’’ 1. ative to House Joint Memorial No. 34 urging The power to spend for the general welfare Article. I. the New Mexico delegation to vote in favor is one of the broadest grants of authority to Section 1. of the reauthorization of the Violence Congress in the United States Constitution. All legislative Powers herein granted shall Against Women Act; to the Committee on The scope of the national spending power be vested in a Congress of the United States, the Judiciary. was brought before the United States Su- which shall consist of a Senate and House of 16. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the preme Court in a landmark case in 1937 deal- Representatives. State of Hawaii, relative to Senate Concur- ing with the newly enacted Social Security By Mrs. BLACKBURN: rent Resolution No. 32 requesting Congress Act. In Steward Machine Co. v. Davis the H.R. 1733. to recognize the legacy of the Late Senator Court sustained a tax imposed on employers Congress has the power to enact this legis- Daniel K. Inouye by designation of the to provide unemployment benefits to indi- lation pursuant to the following: Kilauea Point Lighthouse on the Island vidual workers. Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 Kauai, Hawaii, as the Daniel K. Inouye Subsequent Supreme Court decisions have By Mr. CAPUANO: Kilauea Point Lighthouse; to the Committee not questioned Congress’s policy decisions as H.R. 1734. on Transportation and Infrastructure. to what kinds of spending programs are in Congress has the power to enact this legis- 17. Also, a memorial of the House of Rep- pursuit of the ‘‘general welfare,’’ and so nu- lation pursuant to the following: resentatives of the State of New Mexico, rel- merous programs have been funded in such Article I Sec. 8, Clause 3: ‘‘The Congress ative to House Joint Memorial 7 requesting diverse areas as education, housing, vet- shall have Power . . . To regulate Commerce that the Congress reauthorize Section 5056 of erans’ benefits, the environment, welfare, with foreign Nations, and among the several the Water Resource Development Act of 2007; health care, scientific research, the arts, States, and with the Indian Tribes.’’ to the Committee on Transportation and In- community development, and public financ- By Mr. CASSIDY: frastructure. ing of election campaigns. H.R. 1735. 18. Also, a memorial of the Senate of the By Mr. POSEY: Congress has the power to enact this legis- State of Tennessee, relative to Senate Reso- H.R. 1726. lation pursuant to the following: lution No. 3 asking that the Department of Congress has the power to enact this legis- Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United Health and Human Services resolve the long- lation pursuant to the following: States Constitution standing Medicare Liability owed to Ten- Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 of the Con- By Mrs. DAVIS of California: nessee related to Special Disability Work- stitution of the United States: To coin H.R. 1736. load cases; jointly to the Committees on En- Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of Congress has the power to enact this legis- ergy and Commerce and Ways and Means. foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights lation pursuant to the following: 19. Also, a memorial of the Legislature of and Measures;; Article I, Section 8, Clause I the Territory of Guam, relative to Resolu- Article I, Section 8, Clause 12 of the Con- By Ms. DELAURO: tion No. 10-32 requesting that the President stitution of the United States: To raise and H.R. 1737. send the World Health Organization Frame- support Armies, but no Appropriation of Congress has the power to enact this legis- work Convention on Tobacco Control to the Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term lation pursuant to the following: Senate for ratification; jointly to the Com- than two Years; Article I, Section 8., Clause 1. mittees on Foreign Affairs and Energy and Article I, Section 8, Clause 16 of the Con- By Mr. DOGGETT: Commerce. stitution of the United States: To provide for H.R. 1738.

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Congress has the power to enact this legis- regulate commerce in and among the states, Congress has the power to enact this legis- lation pursuant to the following: as enumerate in Article 1, Section 8, Clause lation pursuant to the following: This bill is enacted pursuant to the power 3, the Commerce Clause, of the United States Article I—The Legislative Branch. granted to Congress under Article I, Section Constitution. Section 1: The Legislature: 8 of the United States Constitution. Additionally, Article 1, Section 7, Clause 2 All legislative Powers herein granted shall By Mr. FORBES: of the Constitution allows for every bill be vested in a Congress of the United States, H.R. 1740. passed by the House of Representatives and which shall consist of a Senate and House of Congress has the power to enact this legis- the Senate and signed by the President to be Representatives. lation pursuant to the following: codified into law; and therefore implicitly al- Section 8: Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1 and 18 lows Congress to repeal any bill that has Clause 1. The Congress shall have Power to By Mr. GOODLATTE: been passed by both chambers and signed lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and H.R. 1741. into law by the President. Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of common Defense and general Welfare of the lation pursuant to the following: New York: United States; but all Duties, Imposts and The ability to regulate interstate com- H.R. 1751. Excises shall be uniform throughout the merce pursuant to Article 1, Section 8, Congress has the power to enact this legis- United States. Clause 3.’’ lation pursuant to the following: Clause 18. The Congress shall have Power By Mr. HECK of Nevada: Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 To make all Laws which shall be necessary H.R. 1742. The Congress shall have Power * * * To and proper for carrying into Execution the Congress has the power to enact this legis- regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vest- lation pursuant to the following: and among the several States, and with the ed by the Constitution in the Government of The power granted to Congress under Arti- Indian Tribes. the United States, or in any Department or cle I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United By Mr. MARINO: Officer thereof. States Constitution, to make all laws which H.R. 1752. shall be necessary and proper for carrying Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mr. RUIZ: into execution the foregoing Powers, and all lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 1759. other powers vested by the Constitution in Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7: ‘‘No Money Congress has the power to enact this legis- the Government of the United States, or in shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in lation pursuant to the following: any Department or officer thereof. Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; clause 18 of section 8 of article I of the By Mr. HOLT: and a regular Statement and Account of the Constitution H.R. 1743. Receipts and Expenditures of all public By Mr. SCHIFF: Congress has the power to enact this legis- Money shall be published from time to H.R. 1760. lation pursuant to the following: time.’’ Congress has the power to enact this legis- Article I of the U.S. Constitution By Mr. PALLONE: lation pursuant to the following: By Mr. HORSFORD: H.R. 1753. Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 of the Con- H.R. 1744. Congress has the power to enact this legis- stitution. Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 of the Congress has the power to enact this legis- lation pursuant to the following: Constitution. lation pursuant to the following: Article I, section 9, clause 7 By Mr. TERRY: Article. I. Section. 8. Clause, 18. and Article I, section 8, clause 1 H.R. 1761. Article. IV. Section. 3. Clause. 2. By Mr. PETERS of Michigan: Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mr. ISRAEL: H.R. 1754. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 1745. Congress has the power to enact this legis- Article I, Sec. 8, Cl. 1 Congress has the power to enact this legis- lation pursuant to the following: By Mr. THORNBERRY: lation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 H.R. 1762. Article I, Section 8. By Mr. POLIS: Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mr. KING of Iowa: H.R. 1755. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 1746. Congress has the power to enact this legis- Article I, Section 8, Clause 1: The Congress Congress has the power to enact this legis- lation pursuant to the following: shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, lation pursuant to the following: Clause 3 of section 8 of article I of the Con- Duties, Imports and Excises, to pay the This legislation contains a clarification stitution; clause 18 of section 8 of article I of Debts and provide for the common Defence that is intended to limit the scope of an ex- the Constitution; section 5 of Amendment and general Welfare of the United States; but isting statute. As such, this bill makes spe- XIV to the Constitution. all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uni- cific changes to existing law in a manner By Mr. POSEY: form throughout the United States; that returns power to the States and to the H.R. 1756. Article I, Section 9, Clause 7: No Money People, in accordance with Amendment X of Congress has the power to enact this legis- shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in the United States Constitution. lation pursuant to the following: Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; By Ms. KUSTER: Article I, Section 8, Clause 12 of the Con- and a regular Statement and Account of the H.R. 1747. stitution of the United States: Receipts and Expenditures of all public Congress has the power to enact this legis- To raise and support Armies, but no Appro- Money shall be published from time to time. lation pursuant to the following: priation of Money to that Use shall be for a Article I, Section 5, Clause 2: Each House Article, I, Section 8, Clause 1 (relating to longer Term than two Years; may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Con- punish its Members for disorderly Behavior, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and stitution of the United States and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, provide for the common defence and general The Congress shall have Power to make all expel a Member. welfare of the United States) of the United Laws which shall be necessary and proper for By Ms. TITUS: States Constitution. carrying into Execution the forgoing Powers, H.R. 1763. By Mr. LARSEN of Washington: and all other Powers vested by this Constitu- Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 1748. tion in the Government of the United States lation pursuant to the following: Congress has the power to enact this legis- or in any Department or Officer thereof. The bill is enacted pursuant to the power lation pursuant to the following: By Mr. POSEY: granted to Congress under Article I, Section As described in Article 1, Section 1 ‘‘all H.R. 1757. 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution. legislative powers herein granted shall be Congress has the power to enact this legis- vested in a Congress.’’ lation pursuant to the following: f By Ms. LEE of California: Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the Con- H.R. 1749. stitution of the United States: ADDITIONAL SPONSORS Congress has the power to enact this legis- The Congress shall have Power to regulate Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors lation pursuant to the following: Commerce with foreign Nations, and among were added to public bills and resolu- This bill is enacted pursuant to the power the several States, and with the Indian granted to Congress under Article I of the Tribes. tions as follows: United States Constitution and its subse- Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Con- H.R. 35: Mr. BRIDENSTINE. quent amendments, and further clarified and stitution of the United States H.R. 38: Mr. KIND. interpreted by the Supreme Court of the The Congress shall have Power to make all H.R. 96: Mr. CICILLINE. United States. Laws which shall be necessary and proper for H.R. 164: Mr. ROONEY and Mr. LOBIONDO.

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H.R. 176: Mr. BARR and Mr. SCALISE. WELL of Alabama, Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. ROGERS H.R. 1622: Mr. ELLISON. H.R. 180: Mr. MAFFEI and Mr. RANGEL. of Michigan, Mr. MCCAUL, Mr. HUDSON, and H.R. 1626: Mr. LONG. H.R. 183: Mr. MAFFEI and Ms. LORETTA Ms. BROWN of Florida. H.R. 1630: Ms. DEGETTE, Mr. MCGOVERN, SANCHEZ of California. H.R. 1027: Mr. DINGELL, Mr. LEVIN, Ms. Ms. SPEIER, Mrs. KIRKPATRICK, Mr. H.R. 184: Mr. POCAN and Ms. LINDA T. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. CARTWRIGHT, and Mr. LOEBSACK, Ms. ESHOO, and Mr. CICILLINE SA´ NCHEZ of California. POCAN. H.R. 1634: Mr. YOUNG of Indiana, Mr. H.R. 258: Mrs. WALORSKI. H.R. 1030: Mr. TAKANO. TIBERI, and Mr. ROSKAM. H.R. 262: Mr. MAFFEI. H.R. 1038: Mrs. CAPPS. H.R. 1638: Mr. STOCKMAN. H.R. 301: Mr. GRIFFIN of Arkansas. H.R. 1041: Mr. RANGEL. H.R. 1640: Mr. KEATING and Mr. RAHALL. H.R. 303: Mr. PETERSON. H.R. 1091: Mr. GOHMERT and Mr. LONG. H.R. 1643: Mr. HECK of Washington. H.R. 320: Mrs. BEATTY and Mr. O’ROURKE. H.R. 1129: Mr. FARENTHOLD. H.R. 1652: Ms. BROWN of Florida, Mr. H.R. 351: Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of Cali- H.R. 1150: Mr. DEFAZIO. HONDA, Mr. MAFFEI, and Mr. VEASEY. fornia and Mr. DESANTIS. H.R. 1154: Mr. DEFAZIO and Ms. ESHOO. H.R. 1659: Ms. KUSTER. H.R. 358: Mr. BUCSHON. H.R. 1175: Mr. DEFAZIO. H.R. 1661: Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Mr. MCINTYRE, H.R. 484: Mr. LATTA. H.R. 1182: Mr. LAMALFA. Mr. ELLISON, Ms. NORTON, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. H.R. 485: Ms. ESHOO. H.R. 1199: Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. RUSH, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. LOEBSACK, and Mr. RYAN of H.R. 494: Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. REED, and Mr. SABLAN, and Mr. MARKEY. Ohio. ISSA. H.R. 1209: Mr. CASTRO of Texas, Mr. ISSA, H.R. 1685: Mr. MCNERNEY and Mr. WELCH. H.R. 508: Mr. PETERS of Michigan and Mr. Mr. HECK of Washington, Mrs. HARTZLER, Mr. H.R. 1692: Ms. WATERS and Mr. BISHOP of LOEBSACK. KING of Iowa, Mr. SCHOCK, and Mr. OWENS. Georgia. H.R. 515: Mr. CAPUANO. H.R. 1242: Mr. NUNNELEE. H.R. 1693: Mr. THORNBERRY and Ms. SHEA- H.R. 531: Ms. WILSON of Florida, Mr. H.R. 1249: Mr. BARTON, Mr. YOUNG of Indi- PORTER. BUTTERFIELD, and Mr. WELCH. ana, Mr. BENISHEK, Mr. LATTA, and Mr. H.R. 1700: Mr. RANGEL. H.R. 535: Mr. CARNEY, Ms. TSONGAS, Ms. HUELSKAMP. H. J. Res. 36: Mr. MULVANEY and Mr. DUN- ´ ALADAO NORTON, Mr. CARDENAS, and Mr. TAKANO. H.R. 1250: Mr. V . CAN of South Carolina. H.R. 1276: Mr. SARBANES, Ms. EDDIE BER- H.R. 543: Mr. BENTIVOLIO and Mr. DOGGETT. H. J. Res. 41: Mr. GIBSON. NICE JOHNSON of Texas, Mrs. ROBY, Ms. NOR- H.R. 565: Mr. LOEBSACK and Mrs. DAVIS of H. Res. 30: Mr. SHERMAN and Mr. ROYCE. TON, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. RIGELL, Mr. VAN HOL- California. H. Res. 36: Mr. FORTENBERRY, Mr. STEW- LEN, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. COLLINS of New H.R. 577: Mr. BRIDENSTINE and Mr. BROUN ARD, Mr. CAMPBELL, and Mr. FLEISCHMANN. York, Ms. FUDGE, Mr. GRIMM, Mr. CONNOLLY, of Georgia. H. Res. 72: Mr. MARCHANT. Ms. EDWARDS, and Ms. TSONGAS. H.R. 627: Mr. ENGEL, Mr. CARSON of Indi- H. Res. 86: Mr. GOODLATTE. H.R. 1282: Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York. ana, Ms. ZOE LOFGREN, Mr. LARSON of Con- H. Res. 94: Ms. DEGETTE. H.R. 1286: Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Ms. necticut, and Mr. DIAZ-BALART. H. Res. 104: Ms. WILSON of Florida. VELA´ ZQUEZ, Mr. CLYBURN, Ms. BASS, and Mrs. H.R. 630: Ms. WATERS, Ms. FRANKEL of H. Res. 108: Mr. CA´ RDENAS. LOWEY. Florida, and Mr. GARAMENDI. H. Res. 112: Mr. COFFMAN and Mr. TONKO. H.R. 1303: Mr. NUNNELEE, Mrs. KIRK- H.R. 647: Ms. ESTY, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, and H. Res. 131: Mr. CARSON of Indiana. PATRICK, Mr. PAULSEN, and Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. LATTA. H. Res. 147: Mr. GRIFFIN of Arkansas, Mr. UFFMAN H.R. 1313: Mr. JORDAN. H.R. 671: Mr. H . WALBERG, and Mr. MILLER of Florida. H.R. 675: Mrs. KIRKPATRICK, Ms. MICHELLE H.R. 1338: Mr. SARBANES. H. Res. 153: Mr. LABRADOR. LUJAN GRISHAM of New Mexico, and Ms. H.R. 1339: Mr. KEATING. H. Res. 167: Mr. CARTWRIGHT and Mr. POE of H.R. 1341: Mr. GRAVES of Georgia. SLAUGHTER. Texas. H.R. 679: Mr. KIND, Mr. O’ROURKE, Mr. CAR- H.R. 1344: Mr. POCAN and Mr. JOHNSON of H. Res. 170: Mr. STOCKMAN and Mr. SES- NEY, Mr. DAINES, Mr. LATTA, and Mrs. Ohio. SIONS. BUSTOS. H.R. 1354: Mr. MICHAUD, Mr. COLE, Mrs. H. Res. 173: Mr. LANKFORD and Mr. TIPTON. H.R. 685: Mr. MILLER of Florida. KIRKPATRICK, Ms. DELBENE, Mr. ROSKAM, Mr. H. Res. 174: Mr. MURPHY of Florida, Ms. H.R. 693: Mr. BARR. STIVERS, and Mr. NEAL. WILSON of Florida, Mr. MORAN, Mr. CART- H.R. 698: Mr. CLAY, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. H.R. 1355: Mr. POE of Texas and Mr. WEST- WRIGHT, Ms. BROWN of Florida, Mr. COSTA, SCHIFF, and Mr. GRIFFIN of Arkansas. MORELAND. Ms. SPEIER, Mr. HOLT, Ms. ZOE LOFGREN, Mr. H.R. 713: Mr. KIND, Mr. BRALEY of Iowa, H.R. 1389: Ms. TITUS, Mr. BRADY of Penn- SWALWELL of California, Mr. MAFFEI, Mr. Ms. BORDALLO, Mr. LIPINSKI, Ms. MOORE and sylvania, Mr. PETERS of Michigan, and Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Ms. SHEA-PORTER, Mrs. Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York. WAXMAN. BEATTY, Mr. COHEN, Mr. BISHOP of New York, H.R. 724: Mr. BISHOP of Georgia. H.R. 1406: Mr. ROTHFUS, Mr. LAMBORN, and Mr. PAYNE, Ms. KUSTER, Mr. SHERMAN, and H.R. 755: Mr. CA´ RDENAS. Mr. WEBSTER of Florida. Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York. H.R. 763: Mr. LATHAM, Mr. HASTINGS of H.R. 1413: Ms. SINEMA and Mr. MATHESON. H. Res. 177: Mr. STIVERS, Mr. HULTGREN, Washington, Mr. HECK of Nevada, Mr. WHIT- H.R. 1414: Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Ms. DELBENE, Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mr. WESTMORELAND, Mr. FIELD, and Mr. HUNTER. and Mrs. LOWEY. TIBERI, and Mr. LAMBORN. H.R. 769: Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mrs. NAPOLI- H.R. 1416: Mr. BISHOP of New York, Mr. TANO, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, Ms. EDDIE Ms. VEASEY, Mr. WITTMAN, and Mrs. NOEM. f BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, Ms. JACKSON LEE H.R. 1427: Mr. CRENSHAW and Mr. CARSON of DELETIONS OF SPONSORS FROM PUB- and Mr. MAFFEI. Indiana. LIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS H.R. 794: Mr. GRAYSON. H.R. 1431: Mr. JOYCE, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. HAS- Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors H.R. 807: Mr. LATTA. TINGS of Florida, and Ms. MICHELLE LUJAN were deleted from public bills and reso- GRISHAM of New Mexico. H.R. 811: Mr. COLE. lutions as follows: H.R. 831: Mr. SWALWELL of California, Mrs. H.R. 1449: Mr. TURNER, Ms. NORTON, Mr. BEATTY, Mr. PIERLUISI, and Mr. COBLE. LATHAM, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Mr. WAXMAN, Ms. H.R. 1445: Mr. BISHOP of New York, Mr. H.R. 847: Mr. CAPUANO. SEWELL of Alabama, Mr. THOMPSON of Penn- RUNYAN, Mr. GRIMM, and Mr. LOBIONDO. H.R. 851: Mr. TAKANO and Ms. DELAURO. sylvania, Ms. WILSON of Florida, Mr. CAS- f H.R. 855: Mr. BISHOP of New York. SIDY, Mr. BROOKS of Alabama, Mr. YOHO, Mr. H.R. 864: Mr. LARSON of Connecticut, Mr. STIVERS, Mr. MEEHAN and Mrs. BEATTY. PETITIONS, ETC. COHEN, Mr. DEUTCH, Mr. GOODLATTE, and Mr. H.R. 1466: Ms. SHEA-PORTER, Mr. LEWIS, Under clause 3 of rule XII, petitions WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. and papers were laid on the clerk’s H.R. 811: Mr. HONDA. CLAY, and Ms. CLARKE. H.R. 904: Mrs. CAPPS and Mr. SEAN PATRICK H.R. 1494: Mr. MILLER of Florida and Mr. desk and referred as follows: MALONEY of New York. YOUNG of Florida. 7. The SPEAKER presented a petition of H.R. 920: Mr. BISHOP of New York. H.R. 1496 Mr. FRANKS of Arizona and Mr. the Commissioner of Gray County, Texas, H.R. 924: Mr. GRIJALVA. FINCHER. relative to a Resolution affirming the rights H.R. 949: Ms. FUDGE. H.R. 1526: Mr. WALDEN. of our citizens under the 2nd Amendment; to H.R. 952: Mr. COLLINS of New York. H.R. 1528: Mr. CRAWFORD, Mr. SMITH of Ne- the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 958: Mr. HUFFMAN. braska, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. HANNA, 8. Also, a petition of the Board of Super- H.R. 960: Mr. CASSIDY. and Mr. VALADAO. visors, Monterey County, California, relative H.R. 961: Mr. POCAN, Ms. MENG, Mr. TONKO, H.R. 1565: Mr. CICILLINE. to Resolution No. 13-089 urging the Congress Mr. HONDA, Ms. CLARKE, and Mr. NOLAN. H.R. 1572: Mr. BARR and Mr. HUDSON. to enact comprehensive immigration reform; H.R. 984: Mr. SHIMKUS, Mr. MCKINLEY, and H.R. 1586: Mr. LANKFORD. to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania. H.R. 1595: Mr. MCNERNEY and Ms. WATERS. 9. Also, a petition of the Pima County H.R. 990: Mr. BISHOP of Georgia. H.R. 1605: Ms. ESTY. Board Supervisors, Arizona, relative to Reso- H.R. 997: Mr. STOCKMAN. H.R. 1613: Mr. POE of Texas and Mr. lution No. 2013-19 urging the Congress to H.R. 1020: Mr. WALBERG, Mrs. WALORSKI, MCCAUL. enact comprehensive immigration reform; to Mr. BROUN of Georgia, Mr. HUFFMAN, Ms. SE- H.R. 1620: Mr. RUIZ. the Committee on the Judiciary.

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