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Vol. 157 WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 2011 No. 3 Senate The Senate was not in session today. Its next meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 25, 2011, at 10 a.m. House of Representatives FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 2011

The House met at 9 a.m. and was PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE GRESSIONAL RECORD daily, and I will called to order by the Speaker pro tem- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Will the continue to do so until Washington pore (Mrs. MILLER of Michigan). gentleman from Illinois (Mr. JACKSON) takes responsibility and ends its reck- less spending addiction. f come forward and lead the House in the Pledge of Allegiance. f DESIGNATION OF THE SPEAKER Mr. JACKSON of Illinois led the PRO TEMPORE Pledge of Allegiance as follows: SEND YOUR RESUMES The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the (Mr. JACKSON of Illinois asked and fore the House the following commu- United States of America, and to the Repub- was given permission to address the nication from the Speaker: lic for which it stands, one nation under God, House for 1 minute and to revise and indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. WASHINGTON, DC, extend his remarks.) January 7, 2011. f Mr. JACKSON of Illinois. Madam I hereby appoint the Honorable CANDICE S. ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER Speaker, as we enter 2011, we find our- MILLER to act as Speaker pro tempore on selves in the same jobs situation as in this day. PRO TEMPORE 2010. In order to show the huge need for JOHN A. BOEHNER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The jobs, I will be collecting resumes from Chair will entertain up to five requests Americans who are unemployed or un- f for 1-minute speeches on each side of deremployed. I’ll submit them for the PRAYER the aisle. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. Unfortunately, f submitting these resumes for the The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. RECORD will not get anybody a job. Coughlin, offered the following prayer: OUR UNCONSCIONABLE NATIONAL By collecting these resumes, I hope Lord, our God, You have shown us DEBT to dramatize the shameful condition of Your glory. You have redeemed Your (Mr. COFFMAN of Colorado asked unemployment and compel Congress to people by the revelation of Your eter- and was given permission to address do something about it. I hope to re- nal Word. the House for 1 minute and to revise mind my colleagues every day that we Let Your light now shine within us. and extend his remarks.) work for those Americans who have Guide us, that we may be led through Mr. COFFMAN of Colorado. Madam been left behind but who want to work. the darkness found in this world to the Speaker, today our national debt is Today, I call on my fellow Americans radiant joy of Your presence, both now $14.01 trillion. It rolled over to above to send me your resume and your story and forever. $14 trillion for the first time on New to [email protected]. Amen. Year’s Eve last week. On January 6, [email protected]. If f 2009, the start of the 111th Congress, you are out of work, send me your re- the national debt was at $10.63 trillion. sume and story so that I can use it to THE JOURNAL This means the national debt has in- remind our government of the need to The SPEAKER pro tempore. The creased by $3.38 trillion since then—in act. Chair has examined the Journal of the just 2 short years. This debt and its in- Martin Luther King, Jr. once said: last day’s proceedings and announces terest payments we are passing to our America has issued us a bad check. It to the House her approval thereof. children and to all future Americans. has come back marked ‘‘insufficient Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the Jour- I have been submitting, and will con- funds.’’ But the vault of opportunity of nal stands approved. tinue to submit, this debt to the CON- this Nation is not bankrupt.

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Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his re- f more Border Patrol agents are being sent to the southern border. The border marks.) HEALTH CARE is violent, desolate, and dangerous. Mr. WOMACK. Madam Speaker, I rise (Mr. BENISHEK asked and was given Drugs and people are going north. today with great sadness to remember permission to address the House for 1 Money and weapons are going south. one of America’s great entrepreneurs, minute and to revise and extend his re- And the border is a war zone. Don Tyson of Springdale, Arkansas, marks.) Madam Speaker, I’m not talking who passed away Thursday, January 6, Mr. BENISHEK. Madam Speaker, about the southern border of the 2011, following a brief illness. while campaigning this fall, people in United States with Mexico. No. I’m The son of Tyson Foods, Incor- northern Michigan made it clear that talking about the Afghanistan-Paki- porated, founder John W. Tyson, Don they are not happy with the govern- stan border. That’s correct. Secretary was former chairman of the board and ment takeover of health care. That’s of Homeland Security Napolitano has CEO of a company that began as a fam- why I’m pleased that one of my first said, ‘‘We are going to contribute Bor- ily business, supplying feed and baby votes in Congress will allow me to keep der Patrol agents to protect the border chicks to local producers. It became a a promise to my constituents and vote of Afghanistan.’’ global food enterprise with annual to repeal that legislation. Now, why is Homeland Security mak- sales in excess of $28 billion, over As a surgeon who spent more than 30 ing this uninformed decision? Our 115,000 team members, and operations years working directly with patients, I southern border is a war zone and our in five countries. He founded the Tyson view the government takeover of our Border Patrol agents are needed there. Family Foundation and is well-known health care system as an attack on the In fact, they need more help. We should for his philanthropy in the fields of doctor-patient relationship. Now, as a send more National Guard troops there education, conservation, and the arts. member of the freshman class of 2011, I to help them stop the invasion of the Don Tyson’s ‘‘no bad days’’ outlook invite all Members to join us in repeal- violent drug cartels. on life personifies the true definition of ing this law and developing realistic Homeland Security should protect the pursuit of the American Dream. health care reform that lowers costs, our homeland, not somebody else’s. The State of Arkansas and the United improves insurance options, and puts This ill-advised move by the Depart- States of America have lost an origi- patients, not government bureaucrats, ment of Homeland Security shows how nal, and we mourn the passing of this at the center of health care. blissfully ignorant Washington is about industry legend. f reality and the battle on the third f front, the southern border of the HIGHWAY TRUST FUND THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE United States. WITNESS (Mr. BISHOP of New York asked and And that’s just the way it is. was given permission to address the f (Mr. COHEN asked and was given per- House for 1 minute.) mission to address the House for 1 Mr. BISHOP of New York. Madam HEALTH CARE REPEAL IS NO minute and to revise and extend his re- Speaker, the Republican rules package GAME FOR AMERICANS marks.) passed Wednesday included a change (Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut asked Mr. COHEN. Madam Speaker, today that could be extremely damaging to and was given permission to address is the beginning of a process by which our Nation’s highway and transit sys- the House for 1 minute and to revise the Republicans will try to repeal the tems over the long term—and to the and extend his remarks.) affordable health care bill. It is about construction industry, where record Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut. In the 50/50 in popularity in America. unemployment remains twice the na- middle of the health care debate, a gen- How can a bill with such individual tional average. Simply put, this rule is tleman came into my office in Water- constituent elements that are so pop- a job killer. bury, Connecticut, and delivered a peti- ular, such as keeping young people on The new rule will treat highway trust tion signed by 3,000 people. He was your insurance until they’re 26, elimi- fund revenue as general spending, tear- fighting two battles—one against the nating the doughnut hole, and seeing ing down firewalls that prevent funds cancer that was ravaging his body and to it that there are more community from being siphoned off for unrelated another to keep his health insurance to health centers, be so unpopular? Be- projects. Removing the ‘‘trust’’ in the prevent himself from going bankrupt. cause the Republican mantra has highway trust fund will severely in- This is a situation faced by millions of been—and it was even said today—that hibit States’ ability to plan large, Americans who have a condition and a it is a government takeover of health multiyear transportation projects to disease that is also potentially contrib- care. improve this Nation’s aging infrastruc- uting to the downfall of their entire PolitiFact, the 2009 Pulitzer Prize- ture over the long term and to create household. This is a situation that they winning journalistic group from the St. construction jobs in the process. shouldn’t be in. Petersburg Times—a nonpartisan But don’t take my word for it. The This is no game, this debate over group—said that was the biggest lie in rule change is also opposed by business, whether we continue or repeal health political 2010. labor, and industry organizations care. But it seems to be a game to my Instead of reading the Constitution alike, such as the U.S. Chamber of Republican friends. This bill isn’t going yesterday, maybe we should have just Commerce, the American Association to pass. It’s going nowhere. When a repeated ‘‘do not bear false witness.’’ of State Highway and Transportation CBO estimate emerges saying it’s going f Officials, the Associated General Con- to cost taxpayers $230 billion, they just tractors of America, and the American throw it away and come up with their THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, THIS IS Trucking Association. own numbers. YOUR WEEK Madam Speaker, this is the wrong The stakes here couldn’t be more se- (Mr. PENCE asked and was given per- time to back away from investments in rious for that constituent and the 3,000 mission to address the House for 1

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Upon adoption of this resolution it mony this week in welcoming all of the care reform. shall be in order without intervention of any new Members to the House of Rep- f point of order to consider in the House a res- resentatives, this week belonged to the olution, if offered by the Majority Leader or American people. PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION his designee, relating to the status of certain The American people sent a deaf- OF H.R. 2, REPEALING THE JOB- actions taken by Members-elect. The pre- ening message on November 2. It was KILLING HEALTH CARE LAW vious question shall be considered as ordered that they wanted to see this national ACT; PROVIDING FOR CONSIDER- on the resolution to final adoption without government end this era of borrowing ATION OF H. RES. 9, INSTRUCT- intervening motion or demand for division of ING CERTAIN COMMITTEES TO the question except four minutes of debate and spending and of bailouts and take- equally divided and controlled by the Major- overs and turn our national govern- REPORT LEGISLATION REPLAC- ity Leader and Minority Leader or their re- ment back in the direction of fiscal re- ING THE JOB-KILLING HEALTH spective designees. sponsibility and limited government. CARE LAW; AND FOR OTHER The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- Madam Speaker, I rise this morning PURPOSES tleman from California is recognized to say in this first week of this new Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, by di- for 1 hour. Congress, if House Republicans got the rection of the Committee on Rules, I Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, it is a message, we will keep our promises to call up House Resolution 26 and ask for great honor for me, for the first time in the American people and more. its immediate consideration. 4 years, to say, for the purpose of de- If House Republicans got the mes- The Clerk read the resolution, as fol- bate only, I yield the customary 30 sage, we won’t just extend tax rates for lows: minutes to my very good friend and a couple of years; we will extend them H. RES. 26 Rules Committee colleague, the gentle- permanently. woman from Rochester, New York (Ms. If House Republicans got the mes- Resolved, That upon adoption of this reso- SLAUGHTER). During consideration of sage, we won’t just find $100 billion in lution it shall be in order to consider in the the resolution, all time yielded is for cuts; we will find more than $100 billion House the bill (H.R. 2) to repeal the job-kill- ing health care law and health care-related the purpose of debate only. in cuts, and we will bring about the provisions in the Health Care and Education GENERAL LEAVE kind of long-term reform to change the Reconciliation Act of 2010. All points of Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I ask size and scope of government. order against consideration of the bill are unanimous consent that all Members If House Republicans got the mes- waived. The amendment printed in part A of sage, we won’t just vote once to repeal the report of the Committee on Rules accom- have 5 legislative days to revise and ex- ObamaCare; we will vote to repeal panying this resolution shall be considered tend their remarks. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there ObamaCare again and again until we as adopted. The bill, as amended, shall be objection to the request of the gen- consign their government takeover of considered as read. All points of order tleman from California? health care to the ash heap of history— against provisions in the bill, as amended, are waived. The previous question shall be There was no objection. where it belongs. considered as ordered on the bill, as amend- Mr. DREIER. I yield myself such So welcome to the 112th Congress. ed, to final passage without intervening mo- time as I may consume. The American people, this is your tion except: (1) seven hours of debate, with 30 (Mr. DREIER asked and was given week. minutes equally divided and controlled by permission to revise and extend his re- f the Majority Leader and Minority Leader or marks.) their respective designees, 90 minutes equal- THE CONSEQUENCES OF REPEAL- ly divided and controlled by the chair and b 0920 ING HEALTH CARE REFORM ranking minority member of the Committee Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, House (Mr. SCOTT of Virginia asked and on Education and the Workforce, 90 minutes Resolution 26 provides for a closed rule equally divided and controlled by the chair was given permission to address the for consideration of H.R. 2 and self-exe- House for 1 minute and to revise and and ranking minority member of the Com- mittee on Energy and Commerce, 90 minutes cutes an amendment by the majority extend his remarks.) equally divided and controlled by the chair leader, which is required under the Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Madam and ranking minority member of the Com- Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010. Speaker, those who want to repeal mittee on Ways and Means, 40 minutes This is routinely required and is simi- health care reform should be clear and equally divided and controlled by the chair lar to many provisions that have been candid about what they are doing. You and ranking minority member of the Com- self-executed since the enactment of just can’t expect the people to under- mittee on the Budget, 40 minutes equally di- statutory PAYGO. stand the effect of repeal just because vided and controlled by the chair and rank- The resolution provides for 7 hours of you put a label on it like ‘‘ObamaCare’’ ing minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary, and 40 minutes equally di- debate on H.R. 2, equally divided and or misrepresent job-creating legisla- vided and controlled by the chair and rank- controlled by the chairman and rank- tion as a ‘‘job killer’’ or misrepresent ing minority member of the Committee on ing member of six committees and the legislation that doesn’t even have a Small Business; and (2) one motion to recom- majority leader and minority leader. public option in it as a ‘‘government mit with or without instructions. It also provides the minority a mo- takeover.’’ SEC. 2. Upon adoption of this resolution it tion to recommit H.R. 2 with or with- Health care reform will close the shall be in order without intervention of any out instructions. doughnut hole. It allows young adults point of order to consider in the House the House Resolution 26 provides for con- to stay on their parents’ policies. It resolution (H. Res. 9) instructing certain sideration of H. Res. 9 under a struc- means that those with preexisting con- committees to report legislation replacing the job-killing health care law. The resolu- tured rule that provides an hour of de- ditions can get insurance. It provides tion shall be considered as read. The pre- bate and makes in order an amend- tax credits to small businesses to help vious question shall be considered as ordered ment, if offered by Representative them cover their employees. It creates on the resolution and any amendment there- MATHESON of Utah. It also provides for community health centers and addi- to to final adoption without intervening mo- one motion to recommit H. Res. 9 with- tional health professionals. It prohibits tion or demand for division of the question out instructions. insurance company abuses, like cutting except: (1) one hour of debate equally divided Lastly, the rule provides for the con- off coverage in the middle of illnesses and controlled by the chair and ranking mi- sideration of a resolution if offered by or unreasonable increases in rates. It nority member of the Committee on Rules or the majority leader or his designee re- their respective designees; (2) the amend- means that, in 2014, all Americans will ment printed in part B of the report of the lating to the status of certain actions have the security of knowing that they Committee on Rules, if offered by Represent- taken by Members-elect under a closed can have health care insurance. ative Matheson of Utah or his designee, rule. You just don’t call or put a label on which shall be in order without intervention Madam Speaker, it was just before it or recite a poll-tested slogan. Tell of any point of order, shall be considered as midnight that my great new colleague

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It will add over $700 bil- cusing on job creation and economic regular order. Once again, our commit- lion to our deficit in the first 10 years. growth. tees will be the laboratories, the cen- The words ‘‘reckless’’ and Well, Madam Speaker, we know that ters of expertise that they were in- ‘‘unsustainable’’ hardly begin to cover the overwhelming message that came tended to be. Rank-and-file Members of it. This bill is an economic and fiscal from the American people is that we both parties will play an active role in disaster of unprecedented proportions. have to get our economy back on crafting legislation, scrutinizing pro- The time to undo it before any more track, we have to create jobs, we have posals, offering amendments, partici- damage is done is quickly running out. to make sure that those people who are pating in real debate. Critical legisla- Republicans promised the American struggling to get onto the first rung of tion is not going to be written behind people we would act swiftly and deci- the economic ladder are able to do just closed doors by a select few. sively, and that’s exactly what we’re that. And that’s why, when we look at Today’s rule sets in motion a process doing. a $2.7 trillion expansion of the Federal that will be both transparent and col- So my friends on the other side of the Government, $2.7 trillion in new spend- laborative, but we cannot get to that aisle have asked why there will be no ing, we recognize something that is very important step without clearing amendments to the repeal bill. Frank- common sense, and that is, if you’re the first hurdle, which is to undo the ly, there is nothing to amend. There is going to expand the size and scope and damage that has already been done. nothing to amend, Madam Speaker, to reach of the Federal Government by Now, we will hear people say why is the repeal bill. Either we’re going to that magnitude, it clearly is going to it you’re considering this under a wipe the slate clean and start fresh or kill the effort to create jobs and get closed rule. Madam Speaker, this was a we’re not. Now, that’s not to say there our economy back on track. clear promise that was made through- aren’t some good provisions in this And so that’s why today, Madam out last year leading up to the very im- measure, but it is so onerous, nearly Speaker, we are taking the first step in portant November 2 election. Everyone 3,000 pages, that we believe that the fulfilling a key promise that we have acknowledges that elections have con- best way to do this is to wipe the slate made to the American people. With sequences. The commitment was made clean, have an open and transparent this rule, we are setting in motion an that we would have an up-or-down vote process, and do everything we can to effort to repeal President Obama’s job- on repeal, and that’s exactly what we ensure that every single American has killing health care bill and replace it are doing. We must repeal last year’s access to quality health care and with real solutions, and I underscore bill before we proceed with replace- health care insurance. that again because all the attention is ment. b 0930 focused on the fact that we are going Just as predicted, the so-called re- to be trying to kill good provisions form bill is having very real negative Now, once that slate is completely that are out there. Madam Speaker, we consequences for our economy and our wiped clean, we will be ready for this want to start with a clean slate. We are job market. It is putting enormous bur- open and collaborative process to de- going to repeal President Obama’s job- dens on job creators, particularly small velop the real solutions that we have killing health care bill and replace it businesses, at a time that is already talked about. That’s what we promised with real solutions. one of the most difficult that we have the American people as we led up to This rule takes two important steps. faced, imposing significant new bur- last November 2, and that’s exactly The first is to allow for consideration dens and penalties while the unemploy- what we will deliver here today. of a bill to hit the reset button, so to ment rate remains above 9 percent. We Madam Speaker, first, we undo the speak, on the very damaging legisla- got the news just a few minutes ago damage; then we work together to im- tion that was passed last year under that it’s at 9.3 percent. We’re encour- plement real reform and real solutions. the guise of health care reform. The aged by that positive drop, but only I urge my colleagues to support this second is a resolution directing each of 105,000 jobs were created, not the 150,000 rule and then, after we’ve gone through the committees of jurisdiction to craft jobs necessary to be created just to the 3-day layover requirement next responsible, effective, and economi- sustain the position that we are in week, which is in compliance with an- cally viable health care solutions. right now. So we still are dealing with other promise that we made to the Madam Speaker, the resolution lays very, very serious economic challenges, American people, I urge my colleagues out very clearly what real reform looks and that’s why we need to take a com- to support the underlying legislation, like. Real reform will help, not hinder, monsense approach to, first, repeal this H.R. 2, which our colleague, the new in our goal towards creating jobs. Real measure and then deal with solutions. majority leader, Mr. CANTOR, has of- reform will lower health care pre- Above all, I will say that the oner- fered, and H. Res. 9, which I have intro- miums by enhancing competition and ous, unworkable mandates that have duced, that calls for our committees to patient choice. It will preserve the been imposed are adding greater uncer- work in a bipartisan way to develop so- right of patients to keep their existing tainty, which is job creation’s biggest lutions to the challenges that we have coverage if they so choose. It will en- enemy. Anyone who has spent any time out there in ensuring that every Amer- sure access to quality care for those talking with small business owners ican has access to quality health care. suffering from preexisting conditions. knows this to be the case. While the With that, I reserve the balance of It will implement meaningful lawsuit economic impact is already quite ap- my time. abuse reform so that resources can go parent, the fiscal consequences are Ms. SLAUGHTER. Madam Speaker, I to patients and doctors and not to trial looming down the road. appreciate my gentleman friend, Mr. lawyers. In short, it will increase ac- While the bill’s authors used a host DREIER, yielding me time, and I yield cess to health care for all Americans of accounting gimmicks—and I’m myself such time as I may consume. without compromising quality or hurt- going to get into those further, as I’m What a week it’s been. Since being ing the very important small business sure I’m going to be challenged on this, sworn in on Tuesday, the speed in sector of our Nation’s economy. and I look forward to talking about the which the Republican Party is working Madam Speaker, the underlying re- accounting gimmicks that have been their promises has been dizzying. place resolution which I’ve offered will utilized—while the authors used a host Speaking of the Republicans’ first days

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But now bling on the health care repeal because In November, the Republican leader- that the CBO’s estimates are detri- this Republican bill has had no public ship, led by Speaker BOEHNER, traveled mental to their political goals, they hearings, no committee consideration, to suburban Virginia and made a have taken to questioning the work. and is not paid for. The second closed Pledge to America. Their constituents, Republican Senator JOHN CORNYN rule in this two-for-one package blocks including tea party patriots like Mr. warned against dismissing the work of all amendments to another resolution Meckler, listened intently as the Re- CBO just because it’s inconvenient. to correct a flaw in the swearing-in publican Party pledged to be fiscally Two years ago he said, ‘‘I believe the process. Apparently the vice chairman responsible and serve the will of the professionals at the Congressional of the Rules Committee was con- American people. On page 6 of the Re- Budget Office are doing a difficult but ducting legislative business before he publicans’ Pledge to America, the unpopular work. They are speaking the was actually a Member of Congress. party states: ‘‘With commonsense ex- truth to power here in Washington and Maybe amendments are not important ceptions for seniors, veterans, and our making the folks who would pass these here because no Member in the House troops, we will roll back government enormous unfunded bills that impose has seen this resolution, since the rule spending to pre-stimulus, pre-bailout this huge debt on generations hereafter allows the majority leader to make levels, saving us at least $100 billion in somewhat unhappy. changes until the moment it is intro- the first year alone and putting us on a ‘‘But I think they are doing an im- duced. path to balance the budget and pay portant service by telling us the facts. But if any of my colleagues are con- down the debt.’’ Last week, I commended the director cerned about not having enough time The pledge was solemnly made by the of the CBO, Dr. Doug Elmendorf, for to read this surprise resolution, don’t Republican leadership despite being saying that the CBO will ’never adjust worry: the rule allows the House to de- largely panned as a political stunt. De- our views to make people happy.’ God bate it for 4 full minutes, 4 minutes. spite their promise to follow through bless Dr. Elmendorf for his integrity Have you ever heard of a bill debated on their pledge, on Tuesday, aides to and commitment to telling the truth. for 4 minutes? Fortunately, the rule the Republican majority said that the We need to learn how to deal with the generously gives the minority 2 of pledge to cut $100 billion was ‘‘hypo- truth, not try to remake it or cover it those 4 minutes, and I guess that quali- thetical.’’ up.’’ fies as both efficiency and bipartisan- Now today they are moving forward Now, I couldn’t agree more with that. ship. to do the exact opposite of the actions The deficit estimates provided by the Finally, the rule allows the House to they pledged, as they introduce legisla- CBO are the singular authoritative fig- consider a sweeping press release from tion to repeal the Affordable Care Act. ures upon which we make all of our de- the Republican leadership, a resolution If successful, the Republican legisla- cisions and have for decades. Even if to replace real patient protections with tion will add $230 billion to the deficit some don’t like what the numbers tell vague rhetoric. by 2021. This extra $230 billion won’t be us, we know that numbers don’t lie. Madam Speaker, this is a very dis- spent rebuilding our crumbling infra- I will remind my colleagues that to- appointing day for the House Rules structure, teaching our children, or day’s actions are not ‘‘hypothetical.’’ Committee. Our first action of the new providing for the millions without jobs. We truly face a $300 billion choice. We Congress violates the promises that we Instead, the $230 billion will be added can choose to provide invaluable bene- heard from our Republican friends: no to our deficit in order to take health fits to millions of Americans while public hearings, no committee consid- care benefits and protections from paying down our national deficit—re- eration, a completely closed process, those who need them the most. member that it will save $143 billion legislative text no Member has read, 4 For example, starting this year, the over 10 years—or we can choose to end minutes of debate on an important con- Affordable Health Care Act will begin valuable health care protections for stitutional issue, and so on. to close the doughnut hole for seniors. millions of Americans and add $230 bil- For all those Members who were sent Under the law, Medicare beneficiaries lion to the Nation’s deficit. to Washington, like I was, to repair our who fall in the doughnut hole will be Madam Speaker, today we are consid- Nation’s finances, create jobs for mil- eligible for 50 percent discounts on cov- ering the first measure from the Rules lions of the unemployed, help the mil- ered brand-name prescription drugs. Committee of this new Congress, and lions of Americans in need, the deci- Repeal this law, and seniors receive no my Republican friends have already sion should be simple. I encourage my help and will be forced to pay their ris- produced one for the record books. Let colleagues to reject the efforts of Re- ing drug costs alone. Those are the me give you some of the highlights. publican leadership, keep our promises types of protections that I fight for First of all, the resolution includes a to our constituents, and vote to keep today. completely closed process for two sepa- the affordable health care law. Fiscally, Members of Congress face a rate pieces of legislation. That means I reserve the balance of my time. $300 billion choice. According to the we get two closed rules in one. Maybe Congressional Budget Office, we have my Republican friends think they can b 0940 two options: one, do we keep the Af- save taxpayers money by rolling all the Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I yield fordable Health Care Act and save $130 closed rules into a single resolution. I myself 10 seconds to say that Thomas billion by 2021? Or, two, do we repeal think that’s what they meant by bring- Jefferson said that two thinking people the Affordable Health Care Act and add ing efficiency to government. can be given the exact same set of facts $230 billion to our deficit by 2021? That The first closed rule on the health and draw different conclusions. Well, may be trouble for some; but for most care repeal bill does most of the heavy I’ve just heard what my friend from of us, it is easy. For me, the answer is lifting. It blocks every single germane Rochester has said. I will say that this clear; and I assume to most Americans, amendment submitted to the Rules is a great day for the people’s House it’s clear as well. Committee. Well, that’s not exactly because we are going to, in fact, be im- Because they can’t win by simply right, though. It actually slips in one plementing the commitment that was judging apples to apples, the Repub- change without allowing the House to made to focus on getting our economy lican leadership has taken to discred- vote on it. This special amendment, back on track. iting the Congressional Budget Office. slipped in with the famous deem-and- Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to Yet a quick bit of research will reveal pass maneuver, is very interesting. It our new colleague from North Charles- that Republicans have long valued the allows the House to pretend that the ton, South Carolina (Mr. SCOTT), a very nonpartisan and reliable work of the repeal bill is free, even though the hardworking and thoughtful member of Congressional Budget Office and have Budget Office says it will raise the def- the Rules Committee who was with us publicly supported the agency before. icit by over $1 trillion. That’s a neat for 12 hours up until late last night.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 23:49 Jan 07, 2011 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 0636 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07JA7.009 H07JAPT1 tjames on DSKG8SOYB1PROD with HOUSE H110 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 7, 2011 Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. Mr. MCGOVERN. Madam Speaker, So again, Madam Speaker, I believe Madam Speaker, Mr. Chairman, I will the American people made it very clear we should be focusing on jobs and the say that it’s truly an honor to serve on in the last election that they want us economy. And in the meantime, I urge the Rules Committee. My first experi- to focus on one thing, jobs. But the new my colleagues to reject this rule and ence was a 12-hour experience last Republican majority has instead cho- the underlying, reckless bill. night and all day yesterday. What a sen to reopen an old ideological battle. Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, we wonderful opportunity to serve the I think that’s a mistake. have 87 new Republicans in the House American people. But the good news is that the Amer- of Representatives. There’s no more This is a great opportunity for all of ican people will have the opportunity, impressive group than the four who are us in America to kill the jobs-killing right at the outset of this new Con- serving with us on the House Rules health care bill that is taking jobs gress, to see the clear differences be- Committee, among them former Sher- away from the private sector. I simply tween Democrats and Republicans. iff NUGENT. I yield 2 minutes to the want to make six quick points. Democrats believe that insurance gentleman from Brooksville, Florida. The first point is that we all recog- companies should be prohibited from Mr. NUGENT. Mr. Chairman, we were nize that the cost of insurance is only discriminating on the basis of pre-ex- there last night in the Rules Com- going up, up and up. There is a mis- isting conditions. Republicans do not. mittee for 12 hours hearing testimony nomer that this bill somehow reduces Democrats believe that we should from a number of individuals on the the cost of insurance. It is simply cat- close the doughnut hole and reduce Democratic side and also on the Repub- egorically not true. Shifting who pays prescription drug prices for our seniors. lican side. for the insurance, the health care cost, Republicans do not. But let me talk to you about this. does not make the health care cost go Democrats believe that young people Over the past year, I’ve met with thou- down; it is simply going to continue to should be allowed to remain on their sands of people from throughout Flor- rise. parents’ health insurance plan until ida’s Fifth Congressional District, Second point, when you design a bill the age of 26. Republicans do not. whether they be small business owners, that has tax increase after tax increase Democrats believe we should provide veterans, or Medicare recipients. They after tax increase and say that you are tax breaks to small businesses and sub- asked me to promise, promise to repeal reducing the deficit by increasing sidies to low-income Americans to help ObamaCare. It’s clear that the Amer- taxes, it is inconsistent with the re- them pay for health insurance for their ican people know more than our Demo- ality that the American people want workers and their families. Repub- cratic leadership in regards to what from their Congress. licans do not. Americans want. Third, the individual mandate is sim- And Democrats believe that we need ObamaCare eliminates millions of ply unconstitutional. And if the indi- to seriously address the budget deficit. American jobs, cuts hundreds of mil- vidual mandate is not a part of the bill, Republicans do not, as the Congres- lions of dollars from Medicare, raises if we don’t force every single American sional Budget Office made abundantly taxes by almost $500 billion over 10 to buy insurance, this Ponzi scheme clear. The CBO told us yesterday that years for 6 years’ worth of coverage. simply doesn’t work. the bill to repeal health insurance re- Number four, bringing 10 years of Everybody knows that the health form would add $230 billion to the def- revenue in and paying out 6 years of care system is broken and that reform icit over the next 10 years and another benefit and calling that equal, that’s a is needed. However, the unconstitu- farce. $1.2 trillion in the following 10 years. tional, job-killing mandates of Number five, the lifetime benefits, As far as I can tell, this is the most ObamaCare are not the answer. challenging the lifetime benefits. We expensive one-page bill in American House Resolution 9 is an important want everyone in America to have the history: 114 words, that’s $2 billion per step in Congress working with the access to health care without any ques- word. American public to find real, meaning- tion. The question we ask ourselves is, And rather than address those budg- ful solutions to our Nation’s health from an actuarial perspective, can we etary facts, the new Republican major- care needs. This is the people’s House, pay for it, a $2.7 trillion expansion, a ity has simply decided to ignore them, and we should be listening to the peo- new entitlement when we have a $76 to cover their ears and pretend that ple. trillion unfunded liability on the cur- the laws of arithmetic do not apply to House Resolution 9 will allow us to rents entitlement? them. foster economic growth, job creation, We simply cannot continue to dig a In their first order of legislative busi- lower health care premiums and pro- hole and call ourselves compassionate. ness, the Republicans want to take tect Medicare, and reform the medical There is nothing compassionate about health insurance reform and toss it in malpractice system that is bank- increasing our entitlements by jeopard- the trash. And how many hearings have rupting America. For all these reasons, izing the future entitlements of all they held on the impact of this repeal? I’m grateful to my colleague from Cali- Americans. Zero. How many mark-ups did they fornia, Mr. DREIER, for introducing The SPEAKER pro tempore. The have? Zero. And, most shockingly, how House Resolution 9; and I’m proud to time of the gentleman has expired. many amendments will they consider be an original cosponsor of that resolu- Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I yield in this bill? Zero. tion. my friend an additional 30 seconds. The new majority whip, Mr. MCCAR- Ms. SLAUGHTER. Madam Speaker, I Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. Fi- THY, said after the election last Novem- yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from nally, the seventh point, we’ve heard ber, and I quote: ‘‘When you look at Colorado (Mr. POLIS), a member of the lots of rhetoric about what we’re doing the Pledge to America that the Repub- Rules Committee. to senior citizens and women. What we licans have laid out, there is a cultural Mr. POLIS. Madam Speaker, I rise in are facing is an opportunity to stop change in there. There is something opposition to the rule and the under- robbing future generations, to stop the that opens up the floor that hasn’t lying bill, the most expensive one-page unnecessary impact, the intergenera- been done for quite some time, where bill in the history of Congress, and it tional cost. Without even taking into bills won’t be written in the back costs the taxpayers a little over $200 consideration the intergenerational room, where the bills have to be laid billion the first 10 years alone, and costs, we consistently impact unborn out for 72 hours, where bills actually over $1 trillion overall. Americans with legislation that passed have an open rule, where people can Not only have the Republicans, as under the former House. bring up amendments on the floor.’’ the first bill that we are doing a rule It is good to be in the House with a So much for that. And instead of on and facing here on the floor, put for- brand-new Speaker. And thank you, thoughtful, reasoned legislative lan- ward the most expensive one-page bill Mr. Chairman, for allowing me to be a guage that addresses the health care in the history of Congress, but it is not part of the Rules Committee. issues, the Republicans’ replace part of paid for, Madam Speaker. Ms. SLAUGHTER. Madam Speaker, I their repeal-and-replace strategy is In addition to not being paid for, yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from just a list of happy-talk sound bites. they have waived many of the notice- Massachusetts (Mr. MCGOVERN). It’s no more than a press release. for-transparency requirements, the

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I want to It is remarkable, though, to hear position to the rule and the bill before talk about a few in particular. Members in the minority explaining us. The bill would increase the national One, my colleague from Michigan, their opposition to this bill. A year deficit by $230 billion, increase costs to GARY PETERS, brought a proposal that ago, only in Washington, D.C., could individuals, families, and small busi- would have made sure that this biggest you say you were going to spend tril- ness owners, and deny the American one-page expenditure in the history of lions of dollars and save people money. public the consumer protections they Congress did not raise taxes on small And this morning, only in Washington, have been seeking for years. businesses. Unfortunately, that amend- D.C., could you say that repealing a Repeal of the health care law would ment is not made in order under this $2.7 trillion government takeover of also mean that young adults would not rule, and therefore H.R. 2 will be rais- health care is actually going to cost be able to stay on their parents’ plan. ing taxes on small businesses across money. This is something that would have dev- the country that are now receiving tax Mr. DREIER. Will the gentleman astating effects on constituents of credits for providing health care for yield? mine such as Elizabeth. Shortly after their employees. Mr. PENCE. I am pleased to yield to graduating college, she was dropped the gentleman from California. from her parents’ plan and soon devel- b 0950 Mr. DREIER. I thank my friend for oped a severe thyroid condition. As a There was also a lot of discussion, yielding. result, she had to purchase her own in- and I think it is important that the Madam Speaker, I wonder if he might dividual insurance plan, which proved American people know, with regard to repeat that line. I think he said that to be a severe financial hardship for people with preexisting conditions. only in Washington, D.C., can there be her and her parents. Thankfully, she Now, we all want to do something for an interpretation that cutting $2.7 tril- was able to re-enroll under her parents’ people with preexisting conditions. lion in spending is actually going to plan as of January 1 because of this There was talk yesterday, and, in fact, end up costing the American people. health reform bill. when we are talking about H.R. 9, there Is that what the gentleman was say- Repeal would also mean that senior might be discussion in the future with ing? I thank my friend for yielding. citizens in Sacramento would not see regard to agreeing on high-risk pools Mr. PENCE. I thank the gentleman. any relief from the Medicare part B for people with preexisting conditions. Reclaiming my time, yes. It must be doughnut hole. The health reform bill But what this body is being asked to do mystifying for people looking in this would close the doughnut hole, which today and next week is effectively re- morning to hear about the most expen- is critical to seniors in my district. place something that works for people sive one-page bill in American history. One such senior, Gary, regularly pays with preexisting conditions, namely, I say again. Only in Washington, over $2,000 a month for his prescription eliminating pricing discriminations, D.C., could a Congress vote to repeal a drugs. Repeal would mean that Gary with some vague assurance on paper $2.7 trillion government takeover of and the thousands of other seniors in that perhaps some day some com- health care and the minority says it my district would see no relief from mittee, some chairman might consider, costs the American people money. this part D doughnut hole. This is un- we ask them kindly to consider some- Now, I know they don’t like us to call acceptable. thing that will do something for people it that, but let me explain. When you Madam Speaker, a vote against this with preexisting conditions. Well, mandate that every American buy gov- rule and against this bill is a vote to Madam Speaker, that is simply not ernment-approved insurance whether protect the American public from un- enough for the people that have the they want it or need it or not, when fair insurance company practices, to preexisting conditions today, for those you create a government-run plan paid provide relief to young and old alike, who will in the future. for with job-killing tax increases, when and to stay on the path to a fiscally re- If we want to talk about improving you provide public funding for abortion sponsible future. I urge my colleagues upon health care, there is ample room for the first time in American history, to vote down this rule and vote against to do it, but not by eliminating any that is a government takeover of the underlying legislation. protections that exist. health care that violates the prin- Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, at Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, at ciples, the ideals, and the values of this time I am happy to yield 1 minute this time I am very privileged to yield millions of Americans, and the Amer- to a hard-working member of the En- 3 minutes to the distinguished former ican people know it. ergy and Commerce Committee, which chairman of the Republican con- Now, look. After we repeal will be one of those committees, when ference, my friend from Columbus, In- Obamacare next week, we can start we pass H. Res. 9, that will be dealing diana (Mr. PENCE). over with commonsense reforms that with ensuring that every single Amer- (Mr. PENCE asked and was given per- will focus on lowering the cost of ican has access to quality health insur- mission to revise and extend his re- health insurance without growing the ance, our friend from Brentwood, Ten- marks.) size of government. nessee (Mrs. BLACKBURN). Mr. PENCE. I thank the gentleman Republicans will waste no time in Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, for yielding. bringing greater freedoms to the Amer- today we do begin a very important Madam Speaker, I rise in support of ican people to purchase health insur- process, and it is a solid first step. And the rule, but I rise from my heart with ance the way they buy life insurance, I stand to support this rule and to sup- a deep sense of gratitude to the Amer- the way they buy car insurance. We port repeal of this law, because we have ican people to urge my colleagues in will deal with responsible litigation re- on the books a law that doesn’t im- both parties to join us as we keep our form. We will even use the savings to prove the quality of health care. It will promise to the American people and cover preexisting conditions. not reduce the cost of health care, and next week vote to repeal their govern- I urge my colleagues to join me in it is going to add billions to the explod- ment takeover of health care lock, support of this rule. Join us as we keep ing national debt. stock, and barrel. our promise to the American people We have listened to the American I know Democrats said at the time and repeal their government takeover people. They are smart, and they know that they had made history. I said at of health care once and for all. that this law is unworkable. It won’t the time I thought we broke with his- Ms. SLAUGHTER. Madam Speaker, deliver on the promises that they tory. We broke with some of our finest this is not a dispute between Repub- made, and the American people voted traditions: Limited government, per- licans and Democrats about the $1.3 in overwhelming numbers to repeal it

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Madam Speaker, I am the experiment of government-run to pass H.R. 2 next week, and we are happy to yield my friend an additional health care called TennCare. Tennessee going to deliver our promise to the 30 seconds. could not afford it, and the American American people to eliminate, to re- Mr. CANSECO. Policies enacted in people know that this Nation cannot peal ObamaCare. Washington, like the health care bill, afford a TennCare-type program on a The American people spoke loudly. have injected uncertainty into our national level. They don’t like this bill. The Demo- economy that has eroded the con- I support the rule. cratic majority in the Senate and the fidence of Americans to start new busi- Ms. SLAUGHTER. Madam Speaker, I President have one last chance to nesses or expand current ones to create yield 1 minute to the gentleman from make amends. I think they will do it. jobs. Michigan, our ranking member of Ways Ms. SLAUGHTER. Madam Speaker, I The American people have made it and Means, Mr. LEVIN. yield 1 minute to the gentleman from clear they want the health care law re- (Mr. LEVIN asked and was given per- Massachusetts (Mr. MARKEY). pealed and replaced with commonsense Mr. MARKEY. This debate is about mission to revise and extend his re- alternatives that will lower the cost of health care versus don’t care. health care while also increasing qual- marks.) The Democrats’ health care law low- ity and access. After meeting and Mr. LEVIN. This is what the Repub- ers prescription drug costs, helps mid- speaking with thousands of Texans in licans are after, what their repeal dle class families pay for health cov- the 23rd District over the past year, would mean: It would take away from erage for their sick children, and ex- this is their message. millions of Americans coverage for pands health care for 32 million more Repealing and replacing the health kids with preexisting conditions, cov- Americans, reducing the deficit by $143 care bill is one of the promises made to erage for young adults under 26. Rec- billion. The Democrats’ health care law the American people in the Pledge to ommended preventive care would be helps grandma afford her prescription America. Today, we are making good taken away. It would take away lower drugs. drug costs for seniors. And this is what The Republicans don’t care about on that promise as we begin the work the Republican repeal would do. It grandma. They want to take back the of repealing the health care law and re- would give back to insurance compa- drug benefits in the new law. GOP used placing it to ensure that the American nies unreasonable premium increases, to stand for Grand Old Party; now it people can get the health care that unjust policy terminations, rescisions. stands for ‘‘grandma’s out of prescrip- they need, when they need it, and at a It would take away this. It would give tions.’’ The Republicans’ ‘‘don’t care’’ price they can afford—without the Fed- back profits and CEO salaries to insur- repeal shows they don’t care about sick eral Government coming between them ance companies, not health care bene- children with medical bills pushing and their doctor. fits. families into bankruptcy, that they I support the rule. Ms. SLAUGHTER. Madam Speaker, I b 1000 don’t care about grandma and grandpa who need help paying for prescription yield 1 minute to the gentleman from It would give back annual and life- drugs. New Jersey (Mr. PALLONE). time limits on benefits. It gives back Vote down this rule so that we can Mr. PALLONE. Madam Speaker, this to insurance companies discrimination help grandma, sick children, and mid- is nothing but a gag rule. I and so ability against women. dle class families struggling to pay for many of my colleagues on the Demo- These are concrete reasons to vote health care. cratic side went up to the Rules Com- ‘‘no’’ on this repeal, a misfortune for Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, at mittee yesterday and asked for amend- the United States of America. this point I am happy to yield 1 minute ments, and they were almost all ex- Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, at to another hardworking member of this cluded from this rule. this time I yield 2 minutes to another freshman class, my new friend from The Republican chairman of the com- hardworking member of the Energy San Antonio, Texas (Mr. CANSECO). mittee says there is transparency. He and Commerce Committee, our friend Mr. CANSECO. Madam Speaker, I says that there is an opportunity for from Marietta, Georgia, Dr. GINGREY. rise today in support of the rule and in participation. He can say it as many Mr. GINGREY of Georgia. I thank support of the underlying legislation, times as he wants, but it is simply not the gentleman for yielding. the repealing of the job-killing health true. Madam Speaker, we have heard a lot care act. He also said that this was a commit- of arguments on the other side of the Ten months ago, President Obama ment to the American people. There is aisle in regard to the $230 billion cost, and his allies in the Democrat-con- no commitment to the American peo- and on our side of the aisle, of course, trolled House and Senate committed ple here. The only commitment is to only in America can something actu- legislative malpractice when they the insurance companies. They are the ally cost $1.15 trillion and eliminating jammed through the Congress and into only ones that are going to gain from it then all of a sudden costs $230 bil- law a Washington takeover of health repeal of this very important legisla- lion. But, yes, Ms. SLAUGHTER, only in care. They did so despite the over- tion, because they want to increase America, only in this Congress, num- whelming opposition of the American premiums, and they want to institute bers do lie. people. Since its enactment into law, discriminatory practices again against Let me just say that what we have what was already a unpopular law has women, a woman perhaps who has been talking about on this side of the only continued to become more un- breast cancer and a preexisting condi- aisle, of course, is the voice of the popular. tion and can’t get insurance, or bring American people. There is no doubt that we need to re- back those lifetime caps, or bring back You know, it was about 3,000 years form health care in America. However, those annual caps where people lose ago that a little shepherd boy walked it is not done by assaulting individual their insurance if they have had a seri- into that valley of death looking up at liberties guaranteed in our Constitu- ous operation and they try to go back all of those Philistines and that 9-foot tion, bankrupting our children and again and they don’t have insurance, or giant Goliath from Gath. He had that grandchildren, and putting Washington perhaps the child who is up to 26 and coat of mail, he had the sword, he had bureaucrats in the personal relation- who also will not be able to get on the shield, he had the javelin. And ships between our doctors and our pa- their parents’ insurance policy again. what did little David have? He had a tients. Let me tell you here, the only one little pouch and a handful of stones. Repealing the health care bill will who benefits is the insurance company, But he hit that giant right between the also help encourage job growth to get not the American people.

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I am told there are 11 tinue to reserve the balance of my who ran on the promise of ensuring an minutes remaining on your side. time. open Congress—to vote against this I reserve the balance of my time. Ms. SLAUGHTER. Madam Speaker, I rule. Ms. SLAUGHTER. I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I con- yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Vermont, former member of the Rules tinue to reserve the balance of my Michigan (Mr. DINGELL), the dean of Committee, Mr. WELCH. time. the House and our leader on health Mr. WELCH. I thank the gentlelady Ms. SLAUGHTER. Madam Speaker, I care. from New York. yield 1 minute to the gentleman from (Mr. DINGELL asked and was given I say, Madam Speaker, to my Repub- California (Mr. GARAMENDI). permission to revise and extend his re- lican colleagues, you campaigned effec- Mr. GARAMENDI. Thank you. marks.) tively, you beat us good, you ran on There is a lot of talk here on the Mr. DINGELL. Madam Speaker, if the agenda of defeating health care and floor about job killers. Actually this you listen to the Republicans today, repealing it. Now you’re doing it. Own bill, the affordable health care bill, cre- they are telling us don’t bother them it. Admit what it is you are doing. ates some 400,000 jobs. The repeal of it with the facts. Their minds are made This is not a campaign. We’re playing is actually a killer of human beings. up. with fire. We’re taking away health Some 40,000 Americans die every year They are unaware of the fact that the care benefits that make a real dif- for lack of health insurance. That’s the Congressional Budget Office says that ference to our families. reality. Repeal this bill and you’re this is going to create 4 million jobs in Number one, this bill will raise the going to find more Americans dying. the health care legislation. They don’t deficit by $230 billion. Fiscal responsi- Also, you’re doing away, with this re- tell us that the same Congressional bility, out the window. peal of the Affordable Health Care Act, Budget Office says that passage of H.R. Second, things that matter to fami- of the patients’ bill of rights. I was the 2 is going to increase the deficit by $140 lies; their kids, starting out getting a insurance commissioner in California. I billion. And they also are telling us the $10 an hour job without health care. know exactly what the insurance com- American people want this repeal. They have it now on their parent poli- panies will do if this repeal goes for- They don’t. cies. We’re taking it away. ward. They will continue to rescind They understand what this means. It Preexisting conditions. You have policies. They will continue to deny means that no longer are people going cancer and you want to buy insurance, coverage. They will continue to make to get the protections that the health you can. Repeal, you can’t. You lose it. sure that those 23-year-old children insurance bill gives. No more protec- Lifetime caps. If you are with cancer that have graduated from college will tion, if the Republicans get their way, or diabetes and you need that insur- no longer be able to be on their par- against preexisting conditions and ance, you lose it before you can go ents’ policies. rescisions denying people health care without it. This repeal is perhaps the worst because of something that happened to And preventive care we’re taking it thing you can do to Americans in their them down the road before. No longer away from seniors who are trying to health care. Besides that, you will sig- will Americans be protected against take care of themselves, get those free nificantly increase the deficit, by $230 frivolous and improper behavior by the mammograms, keep the cost of health billion. insurance companies. care down. You are taking it away. Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I con- This is a bad rule. It is bottomed not Admit it. Own it. State it proudly. tinue to reserve the balance of my on facts, but on fiction. And if this It’s what you campaigned on. It’s what time. body is to legislate and legislate well, you’re doing. But don’t try to sugar- Ms. SLAUGHTER. Madam Speaker, I we have to have the facts, not fiction, coat what this is about. would like to insert into the RECORD not deceit, not misleading statements Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I con- the figures from today’s jobs report by our Republican colleagues. tinue to reserve the balance of my showing that since the enactment of Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I con- time. health reform in March 2010, the econ- tinue to reserve the balance of my Ms. SLAUGHTER. Madam Speaker, I omy has created 1.1 million private sec- time. yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman tor jobs. Ms. SLAUGHTER. Madam Speaker, I from California (Mrs. CAPPS). UPDATE ON JOB GROWTH UNDER HEALTH am pleased to yield 1 minute to the Mrs. CAPPS. Madam Speaker, the REFORM gentleman from Texas (Mr. DOGGETT). issue facing the country is jobs. In- Today’s jobs report exposes the fatal flaw stead of repealing health care, we in the Republicans’ argument that health re- b 1010 should bring up a jobs bill like the form is ‘‘job killing.’’ Mr. DOGGETT. If you’re hit by a China currency reform. And so I rise in Since the enactment of health reform in March 2010, the economy has created more truck this afternoon or your child con- strong opposition to the rule and the than 1.1 million private-sector jobs. tracts a dread disease, your future underlying bill. That’s an average of 123,000 jobs created ought not to depend on the fine print Today I speak on behalf of the mil- per month in the private sector since the en- in an insurance policy you didn’t have lions of Americans who are currently actment of health reform, compared to an anything to do with writing. No insur- benefiting from the law and yet have average of 7,000 jobs lost per month in the ance monopoly should stand between been shut out of the legislative process. private sector during the Bush Administra- you and your doctor. The way in which this legislation has tion, when our health care system was in a downward spiral and insurers had free rein to Unfortunately, the Republican Party been brought to this floor is a travesty. raise premiums on families and small busi- has become little more than an arm of Before the Affordable Care Act became nesses by double digits and deny or limit the insurance monopolies. They ask for law, in the House alone we held nearly coverage with no accountability or recourse. a vote to further empower those mo- 80 hearings on the merits of reform. 12 Straight Months of Job Growth in the nopolies, and we ask for a vote to em- But this bill to repeal this lifesaving Private Sector More Than 1.3 Million Pri- power American families. A vote to re- law has not had a single hearing. Not vate-Sector Jobs Created in 2010 Unemploy- peal is a vote to maintain health care one amendment has been allowed for ment Rate Drops From 9.8% to 9.4% 113,000 private-sector jobs were created in costs as the leading cause of bank- an up or down vote here today. That’s December, the 12th straight month of pri- ruptcy and credit card debt in this probably because the majority knows vate-sector job growth. country. It is a vote to require seniors hearings would show that the law is al- In all, more than 1.3 million private-sector to pay more, more for prescription ready a real success. jobs were created in 2010. That’s a dramatic

VerDate Mar 15 2010 02:39 Jan 08, 2011 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 0636 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07JA7.017 H07JAPT1 tjames on DSKG8SOYB1PROD with HOUSE H114 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 7, 2011 turnaround from the situation President Americans will have the quality, peal would cost $230 billion in addi- Obama inherited in early 2009, when we were choice, and innovation in health care tional Federal debt. It’s amazing, this losing 750,000 jobs a month. that they expect and deserve. We need is our first major piece of legislation The November private-sector jobs number to proceed expeditiously, according to and the Republicans are already adding was revised up 29,000 to 79,000 private-sector jobs created, and the October number was re- the rule on which we vote today, with to the national debt. vised up 33,000 to 193,000 private-sector jobs the understanding that we are taking The issue facing our country is jobs. created. meaningful and crucial action. Instead of repealing health care, we Government employment declined slightly Ms. SLAUGHTER. Madam Speaker, I should be bringing up a jobs bill like in November; as a result, net payroll growth yield 1 minute to the gentleman from the China currency reform. Where is for the public and private sector combined Oregon (Mr. DEFAZIO). that bill on the floor with the new ma- was 103,000 in December. Mr. DEFAZIO. I thank the gentle- jority? The unemployment rate fell to 9.4% in De- lady. Let me tell you what this bill will do. cember. The previous speaker is right. This is At least in Texas, we will see tragedy I yield 1 minute to the gentleman not symbolic. It’s real. In fact, the Re- happen. 161,000 young adults will lose from California (Mr. THOMPSON). publicans are going to allow the return their insurance coverage through their Mr. THOMPSON of California. of the worst abuses of the health insur- parents’ health care plan—that’s only Madam Speaker, I rise in strong oppo- ance industry. Preexisting condition in Texas—and 2.8 million Texans who sition to this rule that we’re taking up exclusions. Taking away your policy have Medicare coverage will be forced today instead of focusing on jobs. when you get sick. Lifetime and annual to pay copays now for preventative The new majority in the House ran caps. Throwing your kids off your poli- services like mammograms and on the platform of fiscal responsibility. cies. The Republican repeal of this bill colonoscopies. Medicare will no longer This bill flies in the face of that prom- would enable all those things for their, pay for the annual visit of nearly 2.8 ise by adding $230 billion in the short very, very generous benefactors in the million Texans—and many more Amer- run and over $1 trillion in the long run insurance industry. icans for Medicare—and 128,682 Texans to our deficit. I haven’t had a single constituent— on Medicare will receive higher pre- As important, under repeal, the and I know you haven’t—beg you to scription costs if this law is repealed. Medicare trust fund will become insol- bring back these abuses. Is that what Madam Speaker, yesterday Congressional vent in 2017. That’s just 6 years away. you’re doing? Is that what they want? Budget Office said ‘‘over the 2012–2021 pe- Pushing Medicare over the cliff by You could take steps right now in fact riod, the repeal of health care reform on fed- passing this repeal breaks a sacred to rein in this industry, and 400 people eral deficits . . . will cost $230 billion.’’ Texas and the rest of the nation cannot af- trust with our Nation’s seniors to help in this House voted for it last year. ford to add an additional $230 billion in deficit provide health care coverage in retire- Let’s take away their unfair exemption ment after a lifetime of working and spending. from antitrust laws so they can’t The issue facing the country is jobs. Instead paying taxes. collude to drive up prices, they can’t That is why I went to Rules Com- of repealing health care, we should bring up a collude to take away your insurance, jobs bill like China currency reform. mittee last night with two colleagues they can’t collude to throw your kids and offered an amendment to guar- The Republicans came into office promising off; and all the other anticompetitive to reduce federal spending and reduce the antee that repeal will not go forward things that industry does. unless it is certified that that repeal deficit, but their first act in the Majority is to try I offered that amendment to Rules to pass a Rule that would exempt H.R. 2 for will not shorten the life of the Medi- last night. The Republicans, despite care trust fund. Sadly, the Rules Com- statutory PAYGO. the chairman of the committee and In addition to adding billions in dollars to the mittee didn’t allow us to help protect others having voted for it last year, deficit, consideration of H.R. 2 would jeop- Americas’s seniors. They didn’t allow would not allow it. This is an insurance ardize the current and future health care bene- that amendment, we will not be able to industry bill plain and simple. fits of my constituents. The negative effects vote for that amendment on the floor, repealing the Affordable Care Act will have on and I urge a ‘‘no’’ vote on this rule. b 1020 Texas and all Americans. Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, may I Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, at Up to 161,000 young adults would lose their inquire how much time is remaining on this time I am happy to yield 1 minute insurance coverage through their parents’ each side? to another hardworking physician, a health plans. Nearly 11.8 million residents of The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- member of this new freshman class, the Texas with private insurance coverage would 1 tleman from California has 7 ⁄2 minutes gentleman from south Pittsburgh, Ten- suddenly find themselves vulnerable again to remaining. The gentlewoman from New nessee, Dr. DESJARLAIS. having lifetime limits placed on how much in- 1 York has 5 ⁄2 minutes remaining. Mr. DESJARLAIS. Madam Speaker, surance companies will spend on their health Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, then, today I rise to support the rule and to care. in light of that, I am very happy to support the repeal of the Obama health Insurance companies would once again be yield 1 minute to a physician, another care law. As a physician who has prac- allowed to cut off someone’s coverage unex- hardworking member of this freshman ticed medicine in rural Tennessee pectedly when they are in an accident or be- class, the gentlewoman from Mount under the onerous TennCare law, I come sick because of a simple mistake on an Kisco, New York (Ms. HAYWORTH). know firsthand that this law does not application. This would leave more than 1.1 Ms. HAYWORTH. Madam Speaker, as work. It restricts access to health care, million people in Texas at risk of losing their a physician, I understand the profound it increases the cost, and it does not insurance. importance of the goals of the health deliver on the promises the minority More than 1.1 million residents of Texas care bill passed last year—to assure made when they passed the law. would not know if they are receiving value for that all Americans have affordable, The American people have had their their health insurance premium dollars, as in- portable health insurance, providing say. They do not want this bill. They surers in state would no longer be required to access to good medical care. want it repealed, and they want to see spend at least 80 to 85 percent of premium I also understand the disruptions health care reform that will increase dollars on health care rather than CEO sala- that this law is already causing to our access and lower costs. ries, bonuses, and corporate profits. economy—the predictable side effects Ms. SLAUGHTER. Madam Speaker, I Nearly 2.8 million seniors in Texas who of legislative bad medicine, and the yield 1 minute to the gentleman from have Medicare coverage would be forced to reason we must repeal and replace it. Texas (Mr. GENE GREEN). pay a co-pay to receive important preventive The bill we will be considering is in no Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. I thank services, like mammograms and way merely symbolic. It represents the my colleague from the Rules Com- colonoscopies. true will of the American people, the mittee for allowing me to speak. Medicare would no longer pay for an annual majority of whom have stated time I rise in strong opposition to this check-up visit, so nearly 2.8 million seniors in after time to this day that they reject rule on H.R. 2, the Patients’ Rights Re- Texas who have Medicare coverage would this law. The House’s vote to repeal is peal Act. Just yesterday, the Congres- have to pay extra if they want to stay healthy the first step towards assuring that all sional Budget Office said that this re- by getting check-ups regularly.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 23:49 Jan 07, 2011 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 0636 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A07JA7.003 H07JAPT1 tjames on DSKG8SOYB1PROD with HOUSE January 7, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H115 A total of 128,682 Texans on Medicare Lastly, this is a freedom bill. The Mr. ANDREWS. There are 15 million would see significantly higher prescription drug people in my district do not want the Americans unemployed as we meet this costs. In Texas, Medicare beneficiaries re- government telling them they have to morning. They do not want us to play ceived a one-time, tax-free $250 rebate to buy a private product and then man- politics with health care; they want us help pay for prescription drugs in the ‘‘donut dating what is in that product. That is to work together to create jobs. hole’’ coverage gap in 2010. Medicare bene- unconstitutional. By passing this last There is a job killer loose in Amer- ficiaries who fall into the ‘‘donut hole’’ in 2011 year, you have taken away my free- ica. The job killer is unfair trade prac- will be eligible for 50 percent discounts on dom, the freedom of the people of the tices that force the outsourcing of our covered brand name prescription drugs. Fourth District, and the freedom of jobs. Madam Speaker, when Texans and all this country. We deserve better. There is a proposal that has broad Americans will soon be finally free from wor- Ms. SLAUGHTER. I would like to agreement between Republicans and rying that affordable coverage will not be avail- yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman Democrats to bring fair trade back to able to them and their families when they from Ohio (Ms. SUTTON). America. If we defeat the previous need it the most, repealing the Affordable Ms. SUTTON. The issue facing this question, we will move to amend the Care Act would be devastating. country is jobs. Instead of rushing to rule to make in order the Currency Re- I strongly urge my colleagues to vote no on the aid of the insurance industry to re- form for Fair Trade Act, which simply the rule to consider H.R. 2. instate their right to engage in egre- says this: As the Chinese have been Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I re- gious discriminatory practices of dis- slamming the door shut on our workers serve the balance of my time. criminating against adults and chil- and products, we’ve been opening our Ms. SLAUGHTER. I am pleased to dren alike based on preexisting condi- shelves in American department stores. yield 1 minute to the gentleman from tions, instead of allowing the doughnut No more of that. No more outsourcing Maryland (Mr. CUMMINGS), the ranking hole to continue to bear down on our of jobs. No more unfair trade practices. member of Government Oversight and seniors, we should be passing real jobs A fair and level playing field for Amer- Reform. legislation. ican workers. Mr. CUMMINGS. I rise in fervent op- Urgently, we should be bringing up Let’s work together to create jobs position to this rule. Despite ardent jobs bills that will make a real dif- and stop the politics and the waste of promises from Republicans that all ference, like putting an end to China’s time of health care. Vote ‘‘no’’ on the bills would be considered under regular currency manipulation. We’ve heard previous question. order, this resolution has neither been the numbers: 2.4 million jobs lost Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I con- debated nor voted on by a single com- across the country, 92,000 jobs lost in tinue to reserve the balance of my mittee of jurisdiction. Ohio, and 5,700 jobs have been lost in time. Additionally, the recently passed Re- my congressional district due to Chi- Ms. SLAUGHTER. I yield for the pur- publican rules package requires that na’s deliberate and abusive trade poli- pose of making a unanimous consent all legislation be fully paid for—and cies. We can do something about this request to the gentleman from New yet the Republican leadership has al- issue today, and we should. It makes a York, Mr. ELIOT ENGEL. ready publicly declared that they have real difference. (Mr. ENGEL asked and was given no intention of paying for what is esti- I hope that our friends across the permission to revise and extend his re- mated to be a $230 billion increase in aisle will stand with American busi- marks.) the deficit that the repeal of health re- nesses and American workers and put Mr. ENGEL. I rise in opposition to form would create by 2021, according to an end to the abusive practice of Chi- this amendment. It seems that the the Congressional Budget Office. na’s currency manipulation. openness the new majority promised us Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I con- Worse than the Republicans’ already lasted half a day. And the more things tinue to reserve the balance of my broken promises are what this rule and change, the more they remain the the underlying resolution would do to time. Ms. SLAUGHTER. Madam Speaker, I same. I urge my colleagues to vote children, to seniors, and to all Ameri- yield for the purpose of making a unan- ‘‘no.’’ cans who are suffering from illnesses. 1030 I strongly oppose this rule. imous consent request to the gen- b Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, at tleman from North Carolina (Mr. Ms. SLAUGHTER. Madam Speaker, this time I am happy to yield 1 minute BUTTERFIELD). if we are able to defeat the previous Mr. BUTTERFIELD. I thank the gen- to another great new Member, the gen- question, I will move to amend the rule tlewoman for yielding. to make in order a bill (H.R. 2378) from tlewoman from Archie, Missouri (Mrs. Madam Speaker, I rise in opposition the last Congress, the Currency Reform HARTZLER), my home State. to the rule. for Fair Trade Act, which invokes our Mrs. HARTZLER. Members on the Madam Speaker, after Democrats took a anti-dumping laws and provides relief opposite side of the aisle said we need shellacking on November 2, I concluded then for American workers and companies to be passing a jobs bill. Well, this is a and now that it was because of the fragile injured by unfair exchange rate poli- jobs bill, because I can testify, as a per- economy and because they thought just per- cies. son who’s newly elected and been on haps Republicans would have some new I yield to the gentleman from New the campaign trail for a while, that in ideas about fiscal discipline. York for a parliamentary inquiry. the Fourth District we had small busi- Well here’s what we get. We get a Repub- nesses that are not hiring and not ex- lican majority that is more concerned about PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY panding because of the health care bill. political theatre and messaging to the Tea Mr. WEINER. Madam Speaker, I have We have got to repeal this so that we Party than they are in creating jobs and reduc- a parliamentary inquiry. can create more jobs. ing the deficit. We need a Jobs bill. Now. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- I am a small business owner myself, The CBO on yesterday told us what we al- tleman will state his inquiry. and I can tell you, since this has ready suspected. Repeal will increase, yes in- Mr. WEINER. Madam Speaker, what passed, that health insurance pre- crease, the deficit by $230 billion. It will result is the current whole number of Mem- miums have skyrocketed in anticipa- in 32 million Americans losing their health in- bers of the House? tion of the mandate that is going to be surance. And what eclipsed this whole epi- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The forced on them. So, if we want to get sode was a Republican Rule that exempts Re- whole number of the House is 435. serious about creating jobs, we need to peal from Pay-as-you-Go rules. Mr. WEINER. Madam Speaker, a fur- start by repealing this. Shame on the Republican majority. Shame ther parliamentary inquiry. This is also a bill to rein in the run- on you. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- away spending that is devastating our Ms. SLAUGHTER. Madam Speaker, I tleman will state his inquiry. country, and it’s mortgaging our chil- yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Mr. WEINER. Can the Speaker cer- dren’s future. As a mother, that’s im- New Jersey (Mr. ANDREWS). tify that all 435 Members have been portant to me. This bill put another (Mr. ANDREWS asked and was given correctly and duly sworn and have $1.2 trillion of debt on our country. We permission to revise and extend his re- taken the oath of office as required cannot afford that. marks.) under the Constitution?

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These are the kinds of things that I hope that this rule is not the beginning of Madam Speaker, this is the first act these new Members are telling us need a session marked by continual efforts to thwart of the 112th Congress, and I have to say to be done, and that is exactly what debate and stifle opposition. that I am particularly gratified that passage of this rule will make happen. I urge my colleagues to vote against this we have had six new Members of this Now, Madam Speaker, let me say I closed rule. 87-Member Republican class partici- urge support of this rule, and I urge pate in this debate because, Madam support of the underlying legislation. Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Madam Speaker, Speaker, they have come here with a Mr. REYES. Madam Speaker, I rise today to I rise today in strong opposition to the rule for very, very strong, powerful message express opposition to the rule and the irre- the consideration of H.R. 2, the Repealing the from the American people. sponsible move by the Republicans to dis- Jobs-Killing Health Care Law Act. That message is that we have to mantle health care reform for millions of Amer- Instead of focusing on job creation and make sure that we create jobs and get icans. There are a multitude of reasons why I other efforts to grow our economy again, our economy back on track. am opposing this rule and why it is an affront House Republicans have set the tone for the Even though we have gotten this to the democratic process, but I will focus on beginning of the 112th Congress by attempt- positive news of the reduction of the three today. ing to ram through a repeal of the most com- unemployment rate from 9.8 to 9.3 per- First, this rule shuts out any attempt to prehensive health care reform legislation in cent this morning, tragically last change the Republican proposal. After prom- our history. month only 105,000 new jobs were cre- ising a transparent process and an honest at- They want to ‘‘repeal and replace’’ the Af- ated. That is not enough to sustain our tempt to engage Members across the aisle, fordable Care Act, but have yet to share with economy. You have to create at least Republicans went back on their word and us and the American people what exactly they 150,000 jobs just to be treading water. closed the door on any meaningful conversa- want to replace it with. We know that the American people tion. Yesterday’s Rules Committee meeting ‘‘Just trust us,’’ they say. Well, their idea of are continuing to suffer, and the mes- serves as an example of the extreme tactics trust is voting to strip middle class, working sage that has come from the American being used by the majority to shut out opposi- poor, and other vulnerable Americans of their people through these 87 new Members tion. Thirty Democratic amendments were sub- access to affordable, quality health care now, is that we have to have a laser-like mitted for consideration, including several that and worrying about the costs later. focus on creating jobs, getting our I co-sponsored, aimed at preserving key con- What they call a ‘‘job-killing health care law’’ economy back on track, and reducing sumer protections in the health care reform actually creates much-needed jobs and cuts the size and scope and reach of the Fed- law. One of the most notable provisions in- the deficit. eral Government. cludes prohibiting insurance companies from In fact, according to a preliminary estimate My friend Mr. PENCE and I had an ex- rescinding an individual’s health coverage due from Director Elmendorf of the nonpartisan change in which we said only in Wash- to illness or imposing annual or lifetime limits. Congressional Budget Office (CBO), repeal of ington, D.C., can saying that cutting a The Democratic amendments would also pre- the Affordable Care Act will explode federal $2.7 trillion increase—eliminating that, serve access to primary care and the medical budget deficits by $230 billion through 2021 scrapping that—will, in fact, cost loss ratio (MLR) provision. This provision re- and by billions more in the following decade. money. It’s absolutely crazy, but that quires insurance companies in the individual is what they are arguing; and through and small group markets to spend at least 80 The bottom line is that Republicans would their sleight of hand, with the Congres- percent of the premiums on medical care and rather help themselves by taking away over 32 sional Budget Office, they are going to quality improvement activities. Finally, the million Americans’ health care than help put continue to claim that it will somehow amendments would prohibit repeal if it in- our nation back to work. save money. creases cost sharing or otherwise reduces ac- Simply put, a vote in favor of ‘‘repeal and Madam Speaker, we are doing what cess to preventive health benefits such as replace’’ is a vote to: we told the American people we would mammograms, colonoscopies, and diabetes Take coverage away from young adults do. It is very simple. Beginning last screenings. All 30 Democratic amendments looking for jobs, children with pre-existing con- year, we said we would have a very were rejected by the Republicans, leaving no ditions, and low-income families; clean up-or-down vote: room for dialogue or reform. Impose lifetime limits on coverage; Should we maintain this $2.7 trillion My second concern is that Republicans are Allow insurance companies to spend more expansion with government mandates trying to turn back the clock on the Democratic on CEO salaries, bonuses, and corporate prof- and increased taxes, or should we re- reforms that have allowed millions of Ameri- its than health care; and peal it? That’s what we are going to be cans to access affordable quality health care Increase preventive care and prescription voting on after the 3-day layover next across the country. In my state alone, prelimi- drug costs for seniors under Medicare. week; and, Madam Speaker, are we, in nary estimates suggest that 161,000 young Madam Speaker, yesterday in the Rules fact, committing ourselves to doing ev- people under the age of 26 will become ineli- Committee, I asked all those in attendance erything that we possibly can to ensure gible to remain on their parents’ health insur- whether their health insurance premiums over that every single American has access ance, 2.8 million Medicare patients will pay the past 20 years had gone down. Not one to quality, affordable health care and more for preventative services, and 128,682 single person, and that would include my Re- health insurance? Medicare recipients will pay higher prescription publican colleagues, raised their hands. Need That’s what the resolution that I costs. Moreover, Republicans are ignoring I say more? have introduced, H. Res. 9, will do. It warnings from the non-partisan Congressional will direct the six committees of juris- Budget Office that repealing the Affordable I urge a ‘‘no’’ vote on the rule and under- diction to begin immediately working Care Act will add $230 billion over the next 10 lying bill. on ways in which we can drive the cost years to the already massive budget deficit. Mr. COSTELLO. Madam Speaker, I rise of health insurance down. Third and most importantly, there is an in- today in opposition to H. Res. 26, a rule to I personally believe that we need to credible amount of business to be done, and provide for debate on H.R. 2, the Republican allow for the purchase of insurance the American people expect that the Repub- attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act. across State lines, which is now forbid- licans will get to work with Democrats and the In September 2010, the Republican Party den under the McCarran-Ferguson Act. President to create jobs and build on the offered a ‘‘Pledge to America.’’ They outlined I believe that it is very important for progress of the past two years. Instead of their promises to create a more transparent us to have associated health plans so obsessing over the repeal of the health care and open Congress; to bring bills to the floor that small businesses can come to- law, Republicans should focus on revitalizing under regular order, following consideration by gether and get lower rates. We need to communities like mine on the border by pass- committee; to allow a bipartisan debate under

VerDate Mar 15 2010 23:49 Jan 07, 2011 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 0636 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\K07JA7.029 H07JAPT1 tjames on DSKG8SOYB1PROD with HOUSE January 7, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H117 open rules allowing any member to come for- [Roll No. 9] DeGette Langevin Richardson DeLauro Larsen (WA) Richmond ward and have an up or down vote on amend- YEAS—236 Deutch Larson (CT) Rothman (NJ) ments to major pieces of legislation; and to re- Adams Gosar Nunnelee Dicks Lee (CA) Roybal-Allard ject bills that increase the deficit. Most impor- Aderholt Gowdy Olson Dingell Levin Ruppersberger tantly, Republicans promised to work in the Akin Granger Palazzo Doggett Lewis (GA) Rush Donnelly (IN) Lipinski best interest of American families. Alexander Graves (GA) Paul Ryan (OH) Amash Graves (MO) Paulsen Doyle Loebsack Sa´ nchez, Linda Edwards Lofgren, Zoe Just two days after Republicans have taken Bachmann Griffin (AR) Pence T. Ellison Lowey Bachus Griffith (VA) Petri Sanchez, Loretta over the majority in the House, we are back to Engel Luja´ n Barletta Grimm Pitts Sarbanes business as usual under Republican control. Eshoo Lynch Bartlett Guinta Platts Schakowsky Farr Markey This hypocritical rule violates each promise Bass (NH) Guthrie Poe (TX) Schiff made by Republicans during their campaign Benishek Hall Fattah Matheson Schrader Pompeo Filner Matsui and in the rules they adopted for the 112th Berg Hanna Posey Schwartz Biggert Harper Frank (MA) McCarthy (NY) Scott (VA) Price (GA) Fudge McCollum Congress. Bilbray Harris Scott, David Quayle Garamendi McDermott The rule brings to the floor a bill that has Bilirakis Hartzler Reed Serrano Bishop (UT) Hastings (WA) Giffords McGovern Rehberg Sewell never been considered in committee but will Blackburn Hayworth Gonzalez McIntyre Reichert Sherman repeal a law that was discussed and debated Bonner Heck Green, Al McNerney Renacci Shuler Bono Mack Heller Green, Gene Meeks for over a year in committees in both houses Ribble Sires Boren Hensarling Gutierrez Michaud of Congress. That is not the regular order Re- Rigell Hanabusa Miller (NC) Slaughter Boustany Herger Smith (WA) publicans promised. Brady (TX) Herrera Beutler Rivera Harman Miller, George Roby Hastings (FL) Moore Speier Democrats brought 30 amendments to the Brooks Huelskamp Stark Broun (GA) Huizenga (MI) Roe (TN) Heinrich Moran Sutton House Rules Committee, seeking an up or Buchanan Hultgren Rogers (AL) Higgins Murphy (CT) Thompson (CA) down vote to preserve provisions of the Af- Bucshon Hunter Rogers (KY) Himes Nadler Thompson (MS) Buerkle Hurt Rogers (MI) Hinchey Napolitano fordable Care Act that prevent insurance com- Tierney Burgess Issa Rohrabacher Hinojosa Neal panies from denying coverage for those with Tonko Burton (IN) Jenkins Rokita Hirono Olver Towns pre-existing conditions, from canceling insur- Calvert Johnson (IL) Rooney Holden Owens Tsongas ance coverage for young adults up to age 26, Camp Johnson (OH) Ros-Lehtinen Holt Pallone Van Hollen Campbell Johnson, Sam Roskam Hoyer Pascrell from dropping individuals when they get sick, Vela´ zquez Canseco Jordan Ross (AR) Inslee Pastor (AZ) from maintaining the Medicare Part D Cov- Cantor Kelly Ross (FL) Israel Payne Visclosky erage gap. Not one amendment was made in Capito King (IA) Royce Jackson (IL) Pelosi Walz (MN) order. That is not the open and bipartisan de- Carter King (NY) Runyan Jackson Lee Perlmutter Wasserman (TX) Peters Schultz bate Republicans promised. Cassidy Kingston Ryan (WI) Chabot Kinzinger (IL) Scalise Johnson (GA) Peterson Waters Watt The non-partisan Congressional Budget Of- Chaffetz Kline Schilling Johnson, E. B. Pingree (ME) Waxman Coble Labrador Schmidt Kaptur Polis fice estimates the bill this rule brings to the Weiner Coffman (CO) Lamborn Schock Keating Price (NC) floor will increase the deficit by $230 billion Kildee Quigley Welch Cole Lance Schweikert Kind Rahall Woolsey over 10 years, a cost Republicans conven- Conaway Landry Scott (SC) Kissell Rangel Wu iently excused themselves from ever having to Cravaack Lankford Scott, Austin Kucinich Reyes Yarmuth pay in their rules for the 112th Congress. That Crawford Latham Sensenbrenner Crenshaw LaTourette is not the fiscal responsibility Republicans Sessions NOT VOTING—16 Culberson Latta Shimkus promised. Davis (KY) Lee (NY) Shuster Austria Cleaver Maloney The rule will bring to the floor a bill that Denham Lewis (CA) Simpson Barton (TX) Davis (IL) Pearce Dent LoBiondo Black Grijalva takes away health insurance from 32 million Smith (NJ) Smith (NE) DesJarlais Lucas Smith (TX) Boswell Honda Wilson (FL) Diaz-Balart Luetkemeyer people, raises health insurance premiums for Southerland Carson (IN) Jones Dold Lummis millions of American families, increases out-of- Stearns Cicilline Long Dreier Lungren, Daniel Stivers pocket expenses and prescription drug costs Duffy E. Stutzman for Medicare beneficiaries, and puts control Duncan (SC) Mack b 1056 Sullivan over health care decisions back in the hands Duncan (TN) Manzullo Ellmers Marchant Terry Messrs. RUSH, COURTNEY, HOLT, of insurance companies. That is not the best Thompson (PA) Emerson Marino Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York, Messrs. interest of America’s families and seniors Re- Thornberry Farenthold McCarthy (CA) GENE GREEN of Texas, CONYERS, publicans promised. Fincher McCaul Tiberi Fitzpatrick McClintock Tipton and PASCRELL changed their vote For these reasons, I strongly oppose this Flake McCotter Turner from ‘‘yea’’ to ‘‘nay.’’ rule that violates the promises made by Re- Upton Fleischmann McHenry Mr. LUETKEMEYER changed his publicans and the promises we each made to Fleming McKeon Walberg Walden vote from ‘‘nay’’ to ‘‘yea.’’ represent the best interest of our constituents. Flores McKinley Forbes McMorris Walsh (IL) So the previous question was ordered. I urge my colleagues to oppose this rule and Fortenberry Rodgers Webster the underlying bill. Foxx Meehan West The result of the vote was announced Mr. DREIER. I yield back the bal- Franks (AZ) Mica Westmoreland as above recorded. Frelinghuysen Miller (FL) Whitfield Stated for: ance of my time, and I move the pre- Gallegly Miller (MI) Wilson (SC) vious question on the resolution. Gardner Miller, Gary Wittman Mrs. BLACK. Madam. Speaker, on rollcall Garrett Mulvaney Wolf No. 9 I was unavoidably detained. Had I been The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Gerlach Murphy (PA) Womack question is on ordering the previous Gibbs Myrick Woodall present, I would have voted ‘‘yes.’’ question. Gibson Neugebauer Yoder The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Gingrey (GA) Noem Young (AK) question is on the resolution. The question was taken; and the Gohmert Nugent Young (FL) Speaker pro tempore announced that Goodlatte Nunes Young (IN) The question was taken; and the the ayes appeared to have it. Speaker pro tempore announced that NAYS—182 Ms. SLAUGHTER. Madam Speaker, the ayes appeared to have it. Ackerman Braley (IA) Clyburn RECORDED VOTE on that I demand the yeas and nays. Altmire Brown (FL) Cohen The yeas and nays were ordered. Andrews Butterfield Connolly (VA) Mr. WEINER. Madam Speaker, I de- Baca Capps Conyers mand a recorded vote. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Baldwin Capuano Cooper ant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair Barrow Cardoza Costa A recorded vote was ordered. will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum Bass (CA) Carnahan Costello The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a Becerra Carney Courtney time for any electronic vote on the Berkley Castor (FL) Critz 5-minute vote. question of adoption. Berman Chandler Crowley The vote was taken by electronic de- The vote was taken by electronic de- Bishop (GA) Chu Cuellar vice, and there were—ayes 236, noes 181, Bishop (NY) Clarke (MI) Cummings vice, and there were—yeas 236, nays Blumenauer Clarke (NY) Davis (CA) answered ‘‘present’’ 2, not voting 15, as 182, not voting 16, as follows: Brady (PA) Clay DeFazio follows:

VerDate Mar 15 2010 23:49 Jan 07, 2011 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 0636 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A07JA7.015 H07JAPT1 tjames on DSKG8SOYB1PROD with HOUSE H118 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 7, 2011 [Roll No. 10] DeFazio Langevin Richmond the desk as the designee of the major- DeGette Larsen (WA) Rothman (NJ) ity leader a resolution and ask for its AYES—236 DeLauro Larson (CT) Ruppersberger Adams Gowdy Nunes Deutch Lee (CA) Rush immediate consideration. Aderholt Granger Nunnelee Dicks Levin Ryan (OH) Mr. WEINER. I reserve a point of Akin Graves (GA) Olson Dingell Lewis (GA) Sa´ nchez, Linda order, Madam Speaker. Alexander Graves (MO) Palazzo Doggett Lipinski T. The SPEAKER pro tempore. A point Amash Griffin (AR) Paul Donnelly (IN) Loebsack Sanchez, Loretta Doyle Lofgren, Zoe of order is reserved. Bachmann Griffith (VA) Paulsen Sarbanes Edwards Lowey The Clerk will report the resolution. Bachus Grimm Pence Schakowsky Ellison Luja´ n Barletta Guinta Petri Schiff The Clerk read as follows: Engel Lynch Bartlett Guthrie Pitts H. RES. 27 Eshoo Markey Schrader Bass (NH) Hall Platts Farr Matheson Schwartz Whereas, Representative-elect Sessions Benishek Hanna Poe (TX) Scott (VA) Berg Harper Fattah Matsui and Representative-elect Fitzpatrick were Pompeo Scott, David Biggert Harris Filner McCarthy (NY) not administered the oath of office pursuant Posey Serrano Bilbray Hartzler Frank (MA) McCollum to the third clause in article VI of the Con- Price (GA) Sewell Bilirakis Hastings (WA) Fudge McDermott stitution until after the completion of legis- Quayle Sherman Bishop (UT) Heck Giffords McGovern Reed lative business on January 6, 2011; and Black Heller Gonzalez McNerney Shuler Rehberg Whereas, the votes cast by Representative- Blackburn Hensarling Green, Al Meeks Sires Reichert elect Sessions and Representative-elect Bonner Herger Green, Gene Michaud Slaughter Renacci Bono Mack Herrera Beutler Grijalva Miller (NC) Smith (WA) Fitzpatrick on rollcalls 3 through 8 therefore Ribble Boren Huelskamp Gutierrez Miller, George Speier were nullities: Now, therefore, be it Boustany Huizenga (MI) Rigell Hanabusa Moore Stark Resolved, That— Brady (TX) Hultgren Rivera Harman Moran Sutton (1) the votes recorded for Representative- Brooks Hunter Roby Hastings (FL) Murphy (CT) Thompson (CA) elect Sessions and Representative-elect Roe (TN) Broun (GA) Hurt Heinrich Nadler Thompson (MS) Fitzpatrick on rollcalls 3 through 8 be de- Buchanan Issa Rogers (AL) Higgins Napolitano Tierney Rogers (KY) Himes Neal leted and the vote-totals for each of those Bucshon Jenkins Tonko rollcalls be adjusted accordingly, both in the Buerkle Johnson (IL) Rogers (MI) Hinchey Olver Towns Burgess Johnson (OH) Rohrabacher Hinojosa Owens Tsongas Journal and in the Congressional Record; Hirono Pallone Burton (IN) Johnson, Sam Rokita Van Hollen (2) the election of Representative-elect Holden Pascrell Calvert Jordan Rooney Vela´ zquez Sessions to a standing committee and his Holt Pastor (AZ) Camp Kelly Ros-Lehtinen Visclosky participation in its proceedings be ratified; Campbell King (IA) Roskam Hoyer Payne (3) the measures delivered to the Speaker Inslee Pelosi Walz (MN) Canseco King (NY) Ross (AR) Wasserman for referral by Representative-elect Sessions Ross (FL) Israel Perlmutter Cantor Kingston Schultz be considered as introduced and retain the Capito Kinzinger (IL) Royce Jackson (IL) Peters Jackson Lee Peterson Waters numbers assigned; Carter Kissell Runyan Watt Cassidy Kline (TX) Pingree (ME) (4) any submissions to the Congressional Ryan (WI) Waxman Chabot Labrador Scalise Johnson (GA) Polis Record by Representative-elect Sessions or Weiner Chaffetz Lamborn Schilling Johnson, E. B. Price (NC) Welch Representative-elect Fitzpatrick be consid- Coble Lance Schmidt Kaptur Quigley ered as valid; Keating Rahall Wilson (FL) Coffman (CO) Landry Schock Kildee Rangel Woolsey (5) any cosponsor lists naming Representa- Cole Lankford Schweikert Kind Reyes Wu tive-elect Sessions or Representative-elect Conaway Latham Scott (SC) Kucinich Richardson Yarmuth Fitzpatrick be considered as valid; and Cravaack LaTourette Scott, Austin (6) any non-voting participation by Rep- Crawford Latta Sensenbrenner ANSWERED ‘‘PRESENT’’—2 Crenshaw Lee (NY) Shimkus resentative-elect Sessions or Representative- Fitzpatrick Sessions Culberson Lewis (CA) Shuster elect Fitzpatrick in proceedings on the floor Davis (KY) LoBiondo Simpson NOT VOTING—15 be ratified. Denham Long Smith (NJ) Austria Davis (IL) Jones POINT OF ORDER Dent Lucas Smith (TX) DesJarlais Luetkemeyer Barton (TX) Dold Maloney Southerland Mr. WEINER. Madam Speaker, I rise Diaz-Balart Lummis Boswell Garamendi Pearce Stearns to a point of order. Dreier Lungren, Daniel Cicilline Hayworth Roybal-Allard Stivers Duffy E. Clarke (MI) Honda Smith (NE) The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- Stutzman Duncan (SC) Mack tleman will state his point of order. Sullivan b 1104 Duncan (TN) Manzullo Mr. WEINER. Madam Speaker, I Ellmers Marchant Terry Thompson (PA) So the resolution was agreed to. make a point of order that the consid- Emerson Marino The result of the vote was announced Farenthold McCarthy (CA) Thornberry eration of this resolution is in viola- Fincher McCaul Tiberi as above recorded. tion of the House rules that we just Flake McClintock Tipton A motion to reconsider was laid on passed in which a new section was cre- Fleischmann McCotter Turner the table. Upton ated to rule XXI that required at least Fleming McHenry f Flores McIntyre Walberg 3 days’ notice to consider legislation, Forbes McKeon Walden PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY that it be posted on the Internet and Fortenberry McKinley Walsh (IL) we have a chance to review it. It is par- Webster Mr. MCGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I Foxx McMorris ticularly important in this case since Franks (AZ) Rodgers West am standing on the floor of the House we’re dealing with a constitutional Frelinghuysen Meehan Westmoreland of Representatives where Members of Gallegly Mica Whitfield issue, one that is without precedent, Congress get sworn in, and I have a Gardner Miller (FL) Wilson (SC) and I insist on the point of order. Wittman parliamentary inquiry. Garrett Miller (MI) The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Gerlach Miller, Gary Wolf The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- Gibbs Mulvaney Womack tleman will state his inquiry. Chair must observe that the rule cited Woodall Gibson Murphy (PA) Mr. MCGOVERN. Madam Speaker, applies to bills and joint resolutions; Gingrey (GA) Myrick Yoder and pursuant to House Resolution 26, Gohmert Neugebauer Young (AK) under the rules of the House and the Goodlatte Noem Young (FL) United States Constitution, can a com- all points of order are waived. Gosar Nugent Young (IN) mittee of the House be presided over by PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY Mr. WEINER. Madam Speaker, I have NOES—181 someone who is not a Member of the House of Representatives and who is a parliamentary inquiry. Ackerman Braley (IA) Cleaver The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- Altmire Brown (FL) Clyburn not a member of that committee? Andrews Butterfield Cohen The SPEAKER pro tempore. No. Only tleman will state it. Baca Capps Connolly (VA) sworn Members may serve on commit- Mr. WEINER. Am I to understand Baldwin Capuano Conyers tees. that under the rules that were just Barrow Cardoza Cooper passed, they are already exempting Bass (CA) Carnahan Costa f Becerra Carney Costello this resolution, which is of a question Berkley Carson (IN) Courtney RELATING TO THE STATUS OF of the interpretation of the Constitu- Berman Castor (FL) Critz CERTAIN ACTIONS TAKEN BY tion of the United States, that it is al- Bishop (GA) Chandler Crowley MEMBERS-ELECT ready being waived, that that new rule Bishop (NY) Chu Cuellar Blumenauer Clarke (NY) Cummings Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, pursu- requiring 3 days is already being Brady (PA) Clay Davis (CA) ant to House Resolution 26, I send to waived?

VerDate Mar 15 2010 23:49 Jan 07, 2011 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 0636 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A07JA7.008 H07JAPT1 tjames on DSKG8SOYB1PROD with HOUSE January 7, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H119 The SPEAKER pro tempore. The rule I ask the consent of the chairman for answered ‘‘present’’ 3, not voting 15, as that the gentleman cites applies only an additional 1 minute so we can have follows: to bills and joint resolutions. an understanding. [Roll No. 11] Mr. DREIER. I have no authority to b 1110 do that. We are living under this rule AYES—257 The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- that was passed by the House. Adams Gibbs Neugebauer ant to section 3 of House Resolution 26, Mr. WEINER. The gentleman may Aderholt Gibson Noem the gentleman from California (Mr. Akin Gingrey (GA) Nugent yield to a unanimous consent request. Alexander Gohmert Nunes DREIER) and the gentleman from New The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Altmire Goodlatte Nunnelee York (Mr. WEINER) each will control 2 time of the gentleman from New York Amash Gosar Olson minutes. has expired. Bachmann Gowdy Palazzo The Chair recognizes the gentleman Bachus Granger Paulsen Mr. WEINER. Only does Mr. DREIER Barletta Graves (GA) Pence from California. have the ability to accede to a unani- Barrow Graves (MO) Peterson Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I am mous consent request. Bartlett Green, Al Petri the only speaker on my side, so I will Bass (NH) Griffin (AR) Pitts The SPEAKER pro tempore. Does the Benishek Griffith (VA) reserve the balance of my time. Platts gentleman from California yield for Berg Grimm Poe (TX) Mr. WEINER. Madam Speaker, I such a request? Biggert Guinta Polis yield myself such time as I may con- Mr. DREIER. I have my time, and I Bilbray Guthrie Pompeo Bilirakis Hall Posey sume. will be utilizing that, Madam Speaker. Bishop (UT) Hanna Price (GA) I thought that the chairman was The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Black Harper Quayle Blackburn Harris going to say that he was going to be time of the gentleman from New York Reed Bonner Hartzler brief. Well, he had no choice with this Rehberg has expired. Bono Mack Hastings (WA) rule. It’s a pretty short one. The Chair recognizes the gentleman Boren Hayworth Reichert I just want to say in the brief 2 min- from California. Boustany Heck Renacci Ribble utes that we have here that this is a Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I ap- Brady (PA) Heller Brady (TX) Hensarling Rigell pretty important issue that we are preciate the fact that my friend from Brooks Herger Rivera faced with. And I should say just at the New York has stated his respect for Broun (GA) Herrera Beutler Roby outset that I have the greatest respect Mr. SESSIONS and Mr. FITZPATRICK. Buchanan Himes Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) for my friend, Mr. SESSIONS. I consider These two individuals were in this Bucshon Holden Buerkle Huelskamp Rogers (KY) him to be a friend. I hope to get to Capitol. They were in this Capitol Burgess Huizenga (MI) Rogers (MI) know Mr. FITZPATRICK as well and to when they took the oath of office. They Burton (IN) Hultgren Rohrabacher call him a friend as well. But what we didn’t happen to be in this exact room. Calvert Hunter Rokita Camp Hurt Rooney are dealing with today is perhaps the Under the standard of collegiality in Campbell Jenkins Ros-Lehtinen most basic test that we have of wheth- Jefferson’s Manual, it is indicated that Canseco Johnson (IL) Roskam er we’re going to take legislation seri- they have to be within the proximity of Cantor Johnson (OH) Ross (AR) ously. the Speaker. Capito Johnson, E. B. Ross (FL) Cardoza Johnson, Sam Rothman (NJ) To the great credit of the maker of Madam Speaker, any Member who Carter Jordan Royce this resolution, which we just got, it does not vote in favor of this resolution Cassidy Kelly Runyan stipulates right in the first couple of is allowing the problem to persist. This Castor (FL) King (IA) Ryan (WI) sections, we violated the Constitution resolution rectifies the problem which Chabot King (NY) Schilling Chaffetz Kingston Schmidt on our very first day. The constitu- we all realize has happened. I believe Chandler Kinzinger (IL) Schock tional requirement for oath was vio- that we have a responsibility to this Coble Kline Schwartz lated. And I give you great credit for institution, we have a responsibility to Coffman (CO) Labrador Schweikert Cole Lamborn recognizing that in the resolution. the Constitution, we have a responsi- Scott (SC) Conaway Lance Scott, Austin Now you do say that it created nul- bility to the American people, and this Costa Landry Sensenbrenner Lankford lities, which is, frankly, a way of say- resolution rectifies a problem that has Costello Shimkus Cravaack Latham Shuler ing we operated outside this document existed. Crawford LaTourette Shuster on the same day we were reading it. Madam Speaker, I yield back the bal- Crenshaw Latta Simpson Critz Lee (NY) When Mr. SESSIONS and Mr. ance of my time. Smith (NJ) Cuellar Lewis (CA) FITZPATRICK stood up in front of a tele- The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time Smith (TX) Culberson Lipinski vision set and held their right hand for debate has expired. Davis (KY) LoBiondo Southerland up—not unlike about 2,000 of my con- PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY Denham Long Stearns Stivers stituents, I suspect—they were vio- Mr. WEINER. Parliamentary inquiry, Dent Lucas DesJarlais Luetkemeyer Stutzman lating a very important part of these Madam Speaker. Diaz-Balart Lummis Sullivan proceedings, and yet we have a grand The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- Dold Lungren, Daniel Terry total of 2 minutes on each side, Mr. tleman will state it. Donnelly (IN) E. Thompson (PA) Thornberry DREIER, and to my colleagues, in which Mr. WEINER. Madam Speaker, under Dreier Manzullo Duffy Marchant Tiberi to debate how to fix that infirmity. the rules of the House, are the Mem- Duncan (SC) Marino Tipton Mr. SESSIONS presided over the Rules bers of Congress who are not duly Duncan (TN) McCarthy (CA) Turner Committee during a large portion in sworn entitled to be paid for the days Ellmers McCaul Upton Emerson McClintock Walberg which he was not even a duly sworn of service in which they were here and Farenthold McCotter Walden Member of the United States Congress. were not sworn in? Fattah McHenry Walsh (IL) Yet we are doing nothing to go back The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- Fincher McKeon Watt and see would that participation influ- tleman has not stated a proper par- Flake McKinley Webster Fleischmann McMorris West ence proceedings at all. liamentary inquiry. Fleming Rodgers Westmoreland I strongly urge my colleagues to vote Pursuant to section 3 of House Reso- Flores Meehan Whitfield against this resolution, not because lution 26, the previous question is or- Forbes Mica Wilson (SC) Fortenberry Michaud Wittman Mr. FITZPATRICK and Mr. SESSIONS are dered on the resolution. Foxx Miller (FL) Wolf not Members of Congress, they clearly The question is on the resolution. Franks (AZ) Miller (MI) Womack are and I congratulate them, but be- The question was taken; and the Frelinghuysen Miller, Gary Woodall cause for the first time in American Speaker pro tempore announced that Gallegly Mulvaney Yoder Gardner Murphy (CT) Young (AK) history, the first time in the history of the ayes appeared to have it. Garrett Murphy (PA) Young (FL) this body, we are going to pass a fix of RECORDED VOTE Gerlach Myrick Young (IN) a constitutional infirmity with—wait Mr. WEINER. Madam Speaker, I de- NOES—159 for it—4 minutes of debate when we mand a recorded vote. didn’t have the bill until just now. I A recorded vote was ordered. Ackerman Bass (CA) Bishop (GA) Andrews Becerra Bishop (NY) strongly urge my colleagues to think The vote was taken by electronic de- Baca Berkley Blumenauer about the precedent this sets. vice, and there were—ayes 257, noes 159, Baldwin Berman Braley (IA)

VerDate Mar 15 2010 23:49 Jan 07, 2011 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 0636 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07JA7.034 H07JAPT1 tjames on DSKG8SOYB1PROD with HOUSE H120 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 7, 2011 Brown (FL) Holt Peters sion/Fitzpatrick Clean up Resolution; and tive business. On Thursday and Friday, Butterfield Hoyer Pingree (ME) Capps Inslee Price (NC) ‘‘nay’’ on rollcall No. 11 on passage of H. Res. the House will not be in session to ac- Capuano Israel Quigley 27, Session/Fitzpatrick Clean up Resolution. commodate the Republican retreat. Carnahan Jackson (IL) Rahall f On Tuesday, we will consider at least Carney Jackson Lee Rangel one bill under suspension of the rules, Carson (IN) (TX) Reyes PERSONAL EXPLANATION Chu Johnson (GA) Richardson which will be announced later today. Clarke (MI) Kaptur Richmond Mr. BOSWELL. Mr. Speaker, I regret my ab- We will also begin consideration of Clarke (NY) Keating Roybal-Allard sence in the House today as I was in my dis- H.R. 2, the Repealing the Job-Killing Clay Kildee Ruppersberger trict attending to personal business. Had I Health Care Law Act. I expect the Cleaver Kind Rush Clyburn Kissell Ryan (OH) been present, I would have voted ‘‘no’’ on roll- House to complete debate on H.R. 2 Cohen Kucinich Sa´ nchez, Linda call votes 9, 10, and 11. Wednesday afternoon. Connolly (VA) Langevin T. f Also, on Wednesday, Madam Speaker, Conyers Larsen (WA) Sanchez, Loretta the House will consider H. Res. 9, in- Cooper Larson (CT) Sarbanes COMMUNICATION FROM THE Courtney Lee (CA) Schakowsky structing certain committees to report Crowley Levin Schiff CLERK OF THE HOUSE legislation replacing the job-killing Cummings Lewis (GA) Schrader The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- health care law. Davis (CA) Loebsack Scott (VA) Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman DeGette Lofgren, Zoe Scott, David fore the House the following commu- DeLauro Lowey Serrano nication from the Clerk of the House of for outlining the schedule. There was Deutch Luja´ n Sewell Representatives: an interesting article in The Wash- Dicks Lynch Sherman ington Post today about your job-kill- OFFICE OF THE CLERK, Dingell Markey Sires ing comments always being attached to Doggett Matheson Slaughter HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Doyle Matsui Smith (WA) Washington, DC, January 7, 2011. the health care bill. There are obvi- Edwards McCarthy (NY) Stark Hon. JOHN BOEHNER, ously some of us who know full well Ellison McCollum Sutton Speaker, House of Representatives, that was not part of the title, as I’m Engel McDermott Thompson (CA) Washington, DC. sure the gentleman would admit, and Eshoo McGovern Thompson (MS) DEAR MR. SPEAKER: Under Clause 2(g) of Farr McIntyre Tierney that in fact it does not do that at all. Filner McNerney Tonko Rule II of the Rules of the U.S. House of Rep- In fact, we think it creates jobs. But, Frank (MA) Meeks Towns resentatives, I herewith designate Robert in any event, I thank the gentleman Fudge Miller (NC) Tsongas Reeves, Deputy Clerk, to sign any and all pa- Garamendi Miller, George Van Hollen pers and do all other acts for me under the for announcing the schedule. Giffords Moore Vela´ zquez name of the Clerk of the House which they I want to say we’re disappointed, Gonzalez Moran Visclosky would be authorized to do by virtue of this however, as he was when he was in my Green, Gene Nadler Walz (MN) designation, except such as are provided by position, that we don’t have a com- Grijalva Napolitano Wasserman Gutierrez Neal Schultz statute, in case of my temporary absence or mittee process for this very important Hanabusa Olver Waters disability. piece of legislation. I think it’s impor- Harman Owens Waxman This designation shall remain in effect for tant from your perspective and it’s im- Hastings (FL) Pallone Weiner the 112th Congress or until modified by me. portant from our perspective, although Heinrich Pascrell Welch With best wishes, I am we may have different perspectives on Higgins Pastor (AZ) Wilson (FL) Sincerely, Hinchey Payne Woolsey whether it should pass or fail. But it is KAREN L. HAAS, Hinojosa Pelosi Wu Clerk of the House. an important piece of legislation. Hirono Perlmutter Yarmuth There was no committee process and ANSWERED ‘‘PRESENT’’—3 f no hearings; no opportunity for the DeFazio Fitzpatrick Sessions LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM public to be heard on the bill; no oppor- tunity for the Members to testify with NOT VOTING—15 (Mr. HOYER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 respect to that bill; no witnesses were Austria Honda Paul heard. Furthermore, under the rule, of Barton (TX) Issa Pearce minute.) Boswell Jones Scalise Mr. HOYER. Madam Speaker, I con- course we have been given no oppor- Cicilline Mack Smith (NE) gratulate the gentleman from Virginia tunity to amend. Davis (IL) Maloney Speier The gentleman, when he was in my on his election as majority leader of position, repeatedly indicated how dis- b 1132 his party. He and I have had the oppor- appointed he was that there were no tunity to work together over the re- So the resolution was agreed to. amendments allowed on certain bills. I cent years. It’s been a positive rela- The result of the vote was announced want to reiterate that concern. And tionship, and I look forward to con- as above recorded. given the lack of amendments, I want tinuing that positive relationship, al- A motion to reconsider was laid on to clarify when he believes will be the beit in my diminished status. the table. finishing of votes on Wednesday. I un- f I yield to my friend. derstand debate will begin on Tuesday Mr. CANTOR. Madam Speaker, I PERSONAL EXPLANATION and it will conclude on Wednesday. thank the gentleman from Maryland Mr. CANTOR. I would ask the gen- Mr. AUSTRIA. Madam Speaker, had I been for those kind remarks. I want to also tleman to repeat the question. present for votes, I would have voted for the reiterate my pleasure of being able to Mr. HOYER. What time do you ex- previous question and for adoption of the rule develop a positive working relationship pect to conclude business on Wednes- to repeal the Democrats’ job-killing health care with him, understanding full well there day? law, and for H. Res. 27. will be disagreements, but there is Mr. CANTOR. I would say to the gen- f probably a lot more that we can agree tleman, Madam Speaker, that it is our on, and I look forward to exploring intention to conclude by 7 p.m. on PERSONAL EXPLANATION those avenues. I want to congratulate Wednesday. Mr. HONDA. Madam Speaker, on Friday, him on his election to the position of Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman January 7th, I was unavoidably detained on Democratic whip, and I look forward to for that response. account of official business in California and working in this relationship. I know In light of the fact that your side has was not present for three rollcall votes on that that these roles have been reversed made a pledge to allow ample time for day. now in these colloquies, so I look for- Members to read and consider it, and Had I been present I would have voted: ward to that as well. notwithstanding that they have al- ‘‘Nay’’ on rollcall No. 9 on ordering the pre- Madam Speaker, on Monday, the ready not pursued that as vigorously as vious question on H. Res. 26; ‘‘nay’’ on rollcall House is not in session. On Tuesday, I think you would have hoped and per- No. 10 on passage of H. Res. 26, rule pro- the House will meet at 12 p.m. for haps we would have hoped as well in viding for consideration of H.R. 2, Patients morning-hour debate and 2 p.m. for leg- the 112th Congress, I was wondering if Rights Repeal Act, H. Res. 9, Instructing cer- islative business, with votes postponed the gentleman can enlighten us on tain committees to report legislation replacing until 6:30 p.m. On Wednesday, the what he expects to consider the rest of the Affordable Care Act, and H. Res. 27, Ses- House will meet at 9 a.m. for legisla- January, after next week, so that

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As to the inquiry We also intend to focus on what it is again, I have had when we had signifi- about openness and the ability for that is impeding job growth in the cant tax cuts in the 1980s and in the Members to have time to read the bills economy, and we will be asking our last decade of 2000—2001 to 2003—when as well as for the public to realize its committees to begin focusing on regu- we created very large deficits. right to know, we on our side believe in lations that are being promulgated and My presumption is that you will be making sure there is that adequate pursued throughout the administration finding commensurate reductions in time, and we posted on Monday legisla- and its agencies that are precluding job spending to your tax cuts that you will tion coming to the floor for this week growth. It is our hope, though, Madam want to continue. If you don’t do that, and next. So I would say to the gen- Speaker, that these committees—our deficits will inevitably follow. The ma- tleman from Maryland, Madam Speak- committees—will be fully organized by jority party has not done that in years er, that it is our intention to uphold the end of the month so we can begin a past. Is it your expectation that that our commitment to the 3-day rule to process of regular order. will occur in the future? allow for the public’s right to know, as Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman The question I want to ask you as well as Members themselves to under- for his comments. well is that you have provided in your stand, what it is we’re voting for. Obviously, the health care bill that rules for essentially ignoring CBO As to the gentleman’s comments re- he and his party seek to repeal had scores—the nonpartisan Congressional garding the up-or-down vote on probably more consideration, more Budget Office, which has issued a pre- ObamaCare repeal, if the gentleman open debate, more transparency, more liminary score for the Republican Pa- has looked at the postings online, he amendments, and more hearings than tients’ Bill of Rights. They believe it will know that the repeal resolution is almost any bill that I have considered will increase the deficit by $230 billion in the first 10 years by repeal and $1.2 a page and a half. This is a repeal of a as a Member of this Congress over the trillion in the second 10 years. bill that was the subject of significant last three decades—full and open con- My question is: Having deemed in the legislative time and other over the sideration, amendments offered from both sides in committee on a very rule today a provision allowing the course of the last 2 years. It is clear chair of the Budget Committee, Mr. that the public has litigated and, in es- ample basis; but I am glad to hear that RYAN, to ignore the CBO score, will the sence, has decided its position on that you agree that there has been ample debate time for that. There has not majority continue to ignore CBO scores bill, given the results of November’s on legislation for the rest of Congress election. been any debate time in committees— or amendments—on the repeal of that or will we be fiscally responsible, in my b 1140 law. view, and adhere to the advice and It comes down to whether you are for I am certainly hopeful that the gen- counsel we receive from CBO? I yield to my friend. ObamaCare or you are against it. That tleman does not mean to say that if Mr. CANTOR. I thank the Demo- is what the vote is. the majority party concludes that the cratic whip. Again, a page and a half is what the American people have already decided Madam Speaker, I respond to his first bill is, so we have committed to con- on the issue that that will be the ex- question by saying that Washington tinuing in the vein of an open process ception to the rule that you have put doesn’t have a revenue problem; it has when it comes to trying to get it right forth in terms of full and ample notice, a spending problem. We believe that it as far as replacing the health care sta- debate, the amendment process, and is better to allow folks to keep more of tus quo. We have committed and the transparency. I would certainly hope their hard-earned money so we can see Speaker has committed to making sure that that would not be the case. I don’t a return to growth in our economy, and that our committees will go through expect it will be the case, and I hope it we are dedicated to making sure we regular order. Members of the minority won’t be. deal with the spending problem here in and majority will have ample time to Let me say in addition that I am Washington. engage and participate in the discus- very pleased that the majority party As I said before to the gentleman, we sions around what type of health care allowed in order the amendment by Mr. are intending and will bring to the Americans deserve and what type of MATHESON. As you know, we tried to floor each and every week a bill to cut health care they want, which is how we have a permanent fix to the reimburse- spending. We are very focused, as you will proceed when it comes to the so- ment of doctors who took Medicare pa- know, on bringing spending down to called ‘‘replacement’’ resolution and tients. Unfortunately, the minority 2008 levels to make sure that we are its implementation. party in the Senate, which had the op- abiding by our commitment to live ac- I would also point out to the gen- portunity to do that, precluded us from cording to the same rules that every- tleman from Maryland that the Rules accomplishing that objective. So I am one else does. While businesses and Committee has accepted the amend- pleased. That needs to be done. We families are living within their means ment proposed by the gentleman from need to have a stable funding expecta- and tightening their belts, there is no Utah as far as a suggestion that he had tion by doctors when they provide serv- reason in the world that Washington regarding the SGR formula and the re- ices to Medicare patients—to seniors— can’t as well. I am sure the gentleman imbursements for physicians under the as we want them to do and as we want agrees with me on that. Medicare program. them to continue to do. So I am As for the issue surrounding the CBO, Again, we are trying to work in a pleased that you allowed that amend- the issue that we have and the dispute fashion that is as open and as inclusive ment, and I would hope Members on we have is not with the Congressional as we can. As the Speaker said in his your side will be supporting that Budget Office. The CBO score is what is remarks—and he was correct—we had amendment as we will on this side. put in front of them, and the reality is no open rules under the last Congress. Let me ask you now, Mr. Majority the ObamaCare bill, Madam Speaker, We intend for that not to be the case Leader, as I am very concerned, and I relied on smoke and mirrors and budg- here. I know that the gentleman joins expressed this on the floor. Your rules, etary shell games in order to present me in the desire for us to be able to in my view, provide for some $5 trillion the picture that it presents or alleges work together, and we believe that to be incurred in additional deficits. to represent. that will provide the best way forward They allow that because you have ex- Madam Speaker, there is nothing for that. empted almost all of the possible re- that has changed about the flawed as- As to the gentleman’s question about ductions in revenues—tax cuts, reduc- sumptions underlying the old score of the remainder of January, Madam tions in revenues—notwithstanding no the ObamaCare bill. Only the dates Speaker, we intend to focus on the reduction in spending. Well, if you re- have changed. These are the same gim- theme of this Congress, which is ‘‘cut duce revenues and you don’t reduce micks, producing more false deficit re- and grow.’’ We are going to be talking spending commensurately, inevitably, duction and, in fact, real spending in- about ways to cut spending. We are you will create large deficits, which in- creases. In fact, as the gentleman

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They to stop arguing about ‘‘inside baseball’’ got two messages during this past elec- all voted against that legislation in budget gimmicks. tion, in my view, it was, A, focus on 1993, and in fact, some of my colleagues b 1150 creating jobs. We’ve got to get to work. on my side of the aisle lost their elec- Americans are hurting. We had some tion because of voting for that piece of There’s no question that a new, open- good job numbers this month. We’ve legislation. In fact, however, it helped ended entitlement program will grow created over 1.3 million jobs this past create the most robust economy any- unsustainably fast, will drive costs up, year as opposed to losing almost 4 mil- body in this Chamber has experienced and could potentially bankrupt this lion jobs in the last year of the Bush in their lifetime. It created over 22 mil- Federal Government, as well as our administration. That’s progress. But as lion jobs, as opposed to losing 8 million States. Mr. HOYER. I want to say to my I’ve said so often, it’s not success. Suc- jobs in the last administration under friend, the continuing rhetoric is Wash- cess will be when every American who President Bush, so that there was a ington doesn’t have a revenue problem, wants a job, willing to work, can find a substantial difference which you can it has a spending problem. Americans job, and they can support him or her see, touch, and feel and read about and in every family that I know understand and their families. know about. that their revenues directly impact on But we need to not pretend that reve- So I tell my friend, yes, there’s a dif- their spending and vice versa, and if nues and spending are not inextricably ference of opinion, but there’s no dif- they don’t, they have a real problem. If related, and that if we give up revenues ference of opinion on what happened, they don’t have enough revenue to before we do the difficult thing, the and when Winston Churchill, who you meet their expenditures, they’ve got a tough thing, the adult thing, as Mr. quoted before and of whom I’m a great problem, and if their spending exceeds BOEHNER said, and cut the spending, fan, one of the things that Winston their revenue, they have a problem. then cut the revenues if Americans are Churchill was most known for was try- I tell my friend, I understand what buying it, then we ought to be paying ing to remind his British friends: don’t you’re saying, and I’ve heard this rhet- for it and not passing along the bill to forget what dictators and despots do— oric all of my career here in the Con- our grandchildren, and I would hope and I make no aspersions, I want to gress. When President Reagan was the gentleman would pursue that. make that clear. I’m simply saying he President, we never overrode a Presi- If the gentleman wants to respond to believed strongly in learning from the dential veto of an appropriation bill be- that, I want to say something about past and not continuing to make mis- cause it spent too much. If he vetoed health care briefly. takes and not continue to do what it, it spent too much, he never had a Mr. CANTOR. You know, Madam failed in years before. veto overridden. Nevertheless, we in- Speaker, the gentleman and I have So I agree with the gentleman in curred an additional $1.5 trillion in gone through these discussions for the looking at the past for instruction on deficits. Under President George H.W. last 2 years, and when we get into dis- how to make the future better and to Bush, we didn’t override any veto of cussing the past, I normally posit a create those jobs that both he and I his, and we incurred an additional $1 quote from Winston Churchill when he want to create and that America cer- trillion. That was $2.5 trillion plus. said, If we open a quarrel between the tainly is looking for us to create. Under the Clinton administration, of past and the present, we shall find we I thank the gentleman for this col- course, in the economic program as have lost the future. loquy. you and I both know that your party And what my response is, Madam f Speaker, we are looking to see that we universally opposed, we had a surplus, HOUR OF MEETING the only President in your lifetime and do take the tough steps and cut spend- I think in mine, which is substantially ing. So I’m hopeful with all the re- Mr. CANTOR. Madam Speaker, I ask longer, that’s had 4 years of surplus. newed enthusiasm that all of us have unanimous consent that when the Now, I know you say, the response that gained after the election towards fiscal House adjourns today, it adjourn to Mr. DREIER gave to me, is that, well, sanity that the gentleman and his cau- meet at noon on Tuesday next for yes, we took over the Congress in 1995. cus can join us and vote with us in morning-hour debate and 2 p.m. for leg- That’s correct. And of course not only terms of the spending cuts that we’ll be islative business. did you take over the Congress in 1995, bringing to the floor every week. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there but in 2000, you took over the Presi- The gentleman speaks about reve- objection to the request of the gen- dency as well and controlled the House nues, and absolutely, as an ongoing tleman from Virginia? and the Senate and the Presidency. concern, this government has to be There was no objection. And during that period of time, we concerned with that. But we first and f didn’t pass any appropriation bills on foremost must understand—and I think b 1200 our side. You were in full charge during both of us realize, Madam Speaker, the Bush administration’s first six that in order to have revenues, we’ve COLOMBIA FREE TRADE years, and $3.5 trillion of deficit spend- got to have a growing economy—and so AGREEMENT ing was incurred, making a total of there is balance, and that is where per- (Mr. RIVERA asked and was given over $5 trillion of deficit spending dur- haps our two visions diverge, but it is permission to address the House for 1 ing the time that your party took the my hope that we can work together by minute and to revise and extend his re- position that we didn’t have a revenue putting priorities in place, cutting marks.) problem, we had a spending problem. spending, growing the economy. And Mr. RIVERA. Madam Speaker, I rise Well, it ended up being a $5 trillion that’s the formula by which we will be today for the first time to address the deficit problem, adding to the deficit operating, and I’m hopeful we can oper- House and express my strong support for our children and for my grand- ate in that formula together. for passage of a free trade agreement children and for my great-grand- Mr. HOYER. I appreciate the gentle- with Colombia. Colombia is America’s daughter, and I’m concerned about man’s comment, and briefly in closing, fourth-largest trading partner in Latin that. And that is why I’m so concerned Madam Speaker, let me say this. I hope America, and the U.S. Department of about statutory PAYGO, sticking with we can cooperate, but we do have a di- Commerce estimates that 9,000 Amer- CBO scores, and accommodating our vergence, as my friend pointed out, and ican companies trade with Colombia, spending and revenue. They are both that’s of course the nature of what the most of which are small businesses and related, obviously, and to ignore that House of Representatives does, debates many of which operate in my district eliminating revenue without elimi- different points of view. Frankly, my in south Florida. nating spending does cause deficits I experience, as I have said, is that when While 90 percent of Colombian goods think is to ignore reality. we diverged in a point of view in 1993, enter the U.S. duty free, American

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Mr. Speaker, mittee hearings, no effort to find out ating thousands of jobs in the United those who are watching this today may what’s going on out there in the com- States. The Colombia Free Trade wonder what just happened in the munity. It’s a political document for a Agreement is also a positive foreign House of Representatives. And I want political purpose for a part of the Re- policy gesture to one of our most reli- to talk a little bit about it so they un- publican Party. It is not what the able allies in the region and the oldest derstand what goes on next week on American people are actually feeling. continuously functioning democracy in the floor of this House. Today we set Now, what you will hear next week is all of South America. the stage for the passage of the Repub- even more interesting because we are Madam Speaker, it’s time to stand lican health care plan. It won’t be a re- going to get a fraudulent piece of legis- with one of our best allies in Latin peal of what the Democratic Congress lative hot air. They will say, Well, yes, America and create thousands of jobs did before. It will be returning us to we are repealing ObamaCare. You here at home with passage of a Colom- the status quo where the health care know, it’s strange. They never call bia Free Trade Agreement. insurance industry in this country is Medicare ‘‘Johnson Medicare.’’ It totally in control of the private insur- passed under President Johnson. I won- f ance industry. der why not. Because it was for all NO HEALTH CARE REPEAL Now, yesterday I was on a conference Americans. It’s not the President. It’s call with groups that represent 18,000 the body that sits here that passes the (Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas asked physicians who want us not to act and legislation that covers all Americans. and was given permission to address repeal the Affordable Health Care Act And yet we are now, next week, going the House for 1 minute.) next week. They have taken resolu- to be offered this piece of fraudulent Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. Mr. tions in every district around this hot air. It’s House Resolution 9. They Speaker, I am wondering whether country among physicians. They have will say, Yes, we’re repealing that, but many people understand what we did delivered them to the Speaker’s Office, we have this. today. Frankly, we gave permission for Mr. BOEHNER in Cincinnati. They have more Americans to die from a lack of taken them to Mr. CANTOR’s office in b 1210 good health care. In fact, as I presented Virginia. Because doctors know what And when you read H. Res. 9, it’s one my amendments to the Rules Com- this act really does. page of nothing. Read it. You’ve got mittee last evening, I was reminded, if I listened to a couple of my col- the weekend. you will, of those who really suffer be- leagues who are physicians, and I heard cause of a lack of access to good health them say they wanted to repeal it all. f care. I offered an amendment to ensure But the 18,000 physicians who I was THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE that H.R. 2, to repeal this good health talking to, or their representatives, on care bill, would not eliminate what we the phone yesterday were talking The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a call community health clinics and about what the real experience is out previous order of the House, the gen- deny rural and urban areas of good doc- in the doctors’ offices, not on the floor tleman from California (Mr. MCCLIN- tors and nurses who treat the children of the House or not in some political TOCK) is recognized for 5 minutes. and seniors. And then I asked that we arena where we are making points, but Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, protect the middle class and not have when you are actually dealing with pa- much of my district comprises forests the insurance rates go up. And finally, tients. managed by the U.S. Forest Service. an amendment to make sure that we I am a physician. I have been there. Over the last 2 years, I have received a don’t have Medicaid and Medicare I have done it also. I have had phone growing volume of complaints pro- fraud and abuse and to protect those calls from Omaha, Nebraska, about testing the increasingly exclusionary who need Medicaid, as my State of whether I could continue to see a pa- and elitist policies of this agency. Texas is going to eliminate it. So peo- tient. And every doctor who has prac- These complaints charge the Forest ple will die as we proceed in this un- ticed in this country in the last 30 Service, among other things, with im- timely and ludicrous process. years knows that is what goes on. They posing inflated fees that are forcing the But I’m glad that Pastor D.Z. Cofield know that patients don’t have health abandonment of family cabins held for in my district will ascend to the presi- insurance because they have a pre- generations, charging exorbitant new dency of the NAACP in our local com- existing condition. They know that fees that are closing down long-estab- munity. I believe with all of these good people who thought they had insurance lished community events upon which thinking people, we will be able to rise suddenly get an illness and then find many small and struggling mountain up and save the lives and oppose any out their insurance company won’t towns depend for tourism, expelling repeal of this good affordable care bill. cover them because of some techni- longstanding grazing operations on specious grounds, causing damage both f cality or whatever they find. They worry about their own children who to the local economy and to the Fed- SPECIAL ORDERS finish college at age 21 or 22 and can no eral Government’s revenues, and ob- The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. longer be covered on their insurance structing the sound management of our forests through a policy that can only FLEISCHMANN). Under the Speaker’s an- policy. But with the bill that we passed nounced policy of January 5, 2011, and last year, those young people can be be described as benign neglect, cre- under a previous order of the House, covered from age 22 to 26 until they get ating both severe fire dangers and mas- the following Members will be recog- a job where they have health care bene- sive unemployment. nized for 5 minutes each. fits. Those are the reasons why doctors Practiced in the marketplace, we want to see this bill stay in place and would renounce these taxes as preda- f be enacted. tory and abusive. In the public sector, The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a Now, what we’re going to see out they are intolerable. previous order of the House, the gen- here next week is political theater. I Combined, these actions evince an tleman from Oregon (Mr. BLUMENAUER) call it the Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing ideologically driven hostility to the is recognized for 5 minutes. Follies Act of 2011. We have a piece of public’s enjoyment of the public’s land (Mr. BLUMENAUER addressed the legislation which we weren’t told about and a clear intention to deny the pub- House. His remarks will appear here- today. It is exactly one page long and lic the responsible and sustainable use after in the Extensions of Remarks.) repeals everything that happened. It of that land.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 02:39 Jan 08, 2011 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 0636 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07JA7.043 H07JAPT1 tjames on DSKG8SOYB1PROD with HOUSE H124 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 7, 2011 Most recently, the Forest Service has tion’s economy, and to take whatever great buildings we build and how many placed severe restrictions on vehicle actions are necessary to restore an at- people we can cut out of health care. access to the Plumas National Forest, titude of consumer-friendly public It’s not going to be measured by the despite volumes of public protests. Su- service, which was Gifford Pinchot’s people that we can put in the streets of pervisor Bill Connelly, chairman of the original vision, and for which the U.S. life. The greatness of America will be Butte County Board of Supervisors Forest Service was once renowned and measured by how we treat people in the writes that ‘‘the restriction applies to respected. streets of life. This bill addresses peo- such activities as collecting firewood, f ple in the streets of life, real people retrieving game, loading or unloading who can die because they don’t get the HEALTH CARE ACT—SIGNED WITH horses or other livestock and camp- health care that the richest country in BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS ing.’’ the world can provide. He goes on to write: ‘‘The national The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a forests are part of the local fabric. The previous order of the House, the gen- b 1220 roads within the national forests are tleman from Texas (Mr. AL GREEN) is I respect those who vote however used by thousands of residents and visi- recognized for 5 minutes. they choose. But as for me, I am going tors for transportation and recreation. Mr. AL GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speak- to stand with those people who need These activities generate revenue for er, I was there when the President of health care and who are going to get it our rural communities which is critical the United States of America signed under this bill because preexisting con- for their survival.’’ into law the health care act that is ditions no longer exist. Mr. Speaker, this is not a small mat- sought to be repealed. I was within 20 And for edification purposes, for ter. The Forest Service now controls feet or so of the President; and at the those who do not know, pregnancy was 193 million acres within our Nation, a time he signed it, there was a feeling of a preexisting condition at the time the land area equivalent to the size of great jubilation, but also there was a bill was signed. For those who do not Texas. feeling of great consternation because, know, children under the age of 26, During the despotic eras of Norman as he signed it, in ink, I knew that it many of them required to get health and Plantagenet England, the Crown was written in tears, written in the care because they couldn’t stay on declared one-third of the land area of tears of the many parents who saw their parents’ policies, they can now southern England to be the royal for- their children with preexisting condi- stay with their parents. The doughnut est, the exclusive preserve of the mon- tions and could not get insurance for hole for seniors is being closed with arch, his forestry officials and favored the illness that their children had; this bill. The doughnut hole, for edifi- aristocrats. The people of Britain were signed in ink, written in tears, but it cation purposes, is that point in time forbidden access to and enjoyment of was also written in sweat, the sweat of when a senior has to pay for all of the these forests under harsh penalties. the many persons who toiled for more pharmaceuticals that a senior might This exclusionary system became so than 50 years to get health care for all receive and need. And these pharma- despised by the British people that in Americans; signed in ink, written in ceuticals are expensive. This bill ad- 1215 no less than five clauses of the sweat, tears and in blood, written in dresses these things. Magna Carta were devoted to redress of the blood of the millions of people who This bill is a lifeline for many per- grievances that are hauntingly similar suffered because they couldn’t get sons in this country. I will support it to those that are now flooding my of- health care, and also of the many who and I will say more about it in the fu- fice. died because they could not get the in- ture. I stand with the American people Mr. Speaker, the attitude that now surance that would afford them health who need health care. permeates the U.S. Forest Service from care. top to bottom is becoming far more I was there. I knew what the cir- f reminiscent of the management of the cumstances were. At the time the bill The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a royal forests during the autocracy of was signed, we were spending $2.5 tril- previous order of the House, the gen- King John than of an agency that is lion per year on health care; $2.5 tril- tleman from Indiana (Mr. BURTON) is supposed to encourage, welcome, facili- lion is $79,000 a second on health care. recognized for 5 minutes. tate and maximize the public’s use of That was approximately 17.6 percent of (Mr. BURTON of Indiana addressed the public’s land in a Nation of free our GDP. And by 2018 it would have be- the House. His remarks will appear men and free women. come $4.4 trillion per year, which hereafter in the Extensions of Re- After all, that was the vision of the would have been more than 20 percent marks.) Forest Service set forth by its leg- of GDP and $139,000 a second. Signed in endary founder, Gifford Pinchot, in ink, written in blood, sweat and tears. f 1905: ‘‘To provide the greatest amount I knew where we were at the time it REINTRODUCTION OF TITLE X of good for the greatest amount of peo- was signed. In my State, we had 6 mil- ABORTION PROVIDER PROHIBI- ple in the long run.’’ lion uninsured, 1.1 million in Harris In May of 2009 and April of 2010, some County, and 20 percent of the children TION ACT of my California colleagues and I sent in Texas uninsured when that bill was The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a letters to the Forest Service expressing signed. Still in America we have mil- previous order of the House, the gen- these concerns. I’ve also personally lions that are not getting the proper tleman from Indiana (Mr. PENCE) is met with senior officials of that agency attention that they need, but there is recognized for 5 minutes. on several occasions in which I have the potential to get it because of this Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, the largest referenced more than 500 specific com- bill. abortion provider in America should plaints of Forest Service abuses re- At the time it was signed, we had not also be the largest recipient of Fed- ceived by my office. more than 40 million people uninsured. eral funding under title X. All that I have received to date from The bill covered some 30-plus million Today, with the support of more than these officials are smarmy assurances people. We had 21 million people who 120 of my colleagues, I introduced the that they will address these concerns, were working full-time and did not Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition assurances that their own actions have have insurance; 45,000 people per year Act. I am grateful for the support of belied at every turn. were dying because they didn’t have in- my colleagues within this House and Mr. Speaker, it is time for Congress surance. That’s one person every 12 the support of millions of Americans to conduct a top-to-bottom review of minutes. Twenty-one million people who long to see this Congress take this the abuses by this increasingly unac- were working full-time and did not decisive action on behalf of our values. countable and elitist agency to demand have insurance. That bill brought peo- The Title X Abortion Provider Prohi- accountability for the damage it has ple under the umbrella of health care bition Act would deny any family plan- done and is doing to our forests’ and health insurance. ning funds under title X from going to health, to the public’s trust, to the The greatness of America is not Planned Parenthood or other organiza- government’s revenues and to the Na- going to be measured by how many tions that perform abortions. It would

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And they said that that tant work that is done at title X clin- the sake of the defenseless unborn and was the most expensive race in U.S. ics across this country: breast cancer vulnerable young women who find history, and Wall Street financiers screening, HIV protection, education, themselves in a crisis pregnancy, we were the major contributor in that counseling, pregnancy diagnosis. This must enact the Title X Abortion Pro- Presidential race. legislation simply prevents family vider Prohibition Act and end the day How is it that as our country is fight- planning funding from aiding organiza- of taxpayer support for these organiza- ing to recover from near economic col- tions that profit from the abortion in- tions. lapse and the average American is dustry. f struggling to make ends meet, with na- Federal funding should reflect the The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a tional unemployment still at 9.4 per- priorities and the values of a majority previous order of the House, the gentle- cent, somehow billions and billions of of the American people. Whatever peo- dollars were able to be thrown by big woman from California (Ms. WOOLSEY) ple think about abortion across this is recognized for 5 minutes. interests to affect the election? It is country since Roe v. Wade, survey (Ms. WOOLSEY addressed the House. because, unlike the average American, after survey has shown that an over- Her remarks will appear hereafter in big financial players, big business, whelming majority of Americans op- the Extensions of Remarks.) multinational corporations, all kinds pose the use of taxpayer dollars to sup- of well-funded ideological groups have port, subsidize, or promote abortion at f deep pockets, and they do try to buy home or abroad. It is for that reason CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISING AND access and influence what happens. that I would assume that most Ameri- SPENDING IS OUT OF CONTROL And this situation makes it much more cans would be surprised, if not shocked, difficult for ordinary Americans to to learn that the largest abortion pro- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a have their voices heard here. vider in America is also the largest re- previous order of the House, the gentle- cipient of Federal funding under title woman from Ohio (Ms. KAPTUR) is rec- b 1230 X. But that is most certainly the case. ognized for 5 minutes. The American people know this. According to their own annual re- Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, campaign They are frustrated. These big inter- port, Planned Parenthood received fundraising and spending is way out of ests should not outweigh the American more than $363 million in government control. We need a constitutional people’s voice nor vote. The American funding in 2009 alone. During that amendment to fix it. The American people should have the primary access time, they performed an unprecedented people have to help this Congress, be- and influence here, not deep-pocketed 324,008 abortions, a heartbreaking sta- cause it will not do it by itself. interests. Truly the American cam- tistic. Planned Parenthood of America Many years ago, Will Rogers, whose paign finance system is out of control. continues to receive a greater amount statue sits just outside the doors to We all know it, and we all know it of Federal funding each year while si- this Chamber, joked, ‘‘We have the best needs to be fixed, and that ought to be multaneously taking over an increas- Congress money can buy.’’ Unfortu- a priority of this new Congress. ing share of the devastating abortion nately, that joke has not grown old. Real campaign finance reform thus market in this country. After witnessing this past election far has been unattainable because nei- Now, look, Planned Parenthood and cycle, the campaign money expended ther party wants to stop the money its defenders will claim that the money to elect this Congress, both Chambers, chase because they both think that they have received from the govern- is way out of bounds. The Center for next time out they might be the ones ment has not been used to fund abor- Responsive Politics estimates that a to really grab all those gold rings. Too tions, but that is only technically true. record-breaking $4 billion was spent in much of that money is playing insider Current law prohibits the use of title X the 2010 midterm elections. politics, and that is why the American family planning funds ‘‘in programs Now, $4 billion equals 4,000 millions. people feel that they are being forced where abortion is a method of family So 4,000 millions was spent to elect the to the sidelines rather than the front planning.’’ Therein lies the loophole. current sitting Congress. The number lines in our elections. They feel like While title X money cannot directly of Members being elected didn’t they are pushing a big boulder up the be used to fund abortions, common change. The amount of money being hill, and every time they cast their sense says there is no question that raised changed. It skyrocketed. The op- vote, that somehow that boulder comes taxpayer dollars received by Planned portunity for people of ordinary means right back down on them. Parenthood are used to cover allowed with great talent to gain election to of- Reform is being thwarted again and expenses, like overhead, operational fice in our country is disappearing again by outside interest groups and costs, thus freeing up other money for election after election. It’s very hard deep-pocket interests. The Congress is the clinics that do provide abortion. for talented people of ordinary means unwilling and seemingly unable to act And in many of our largest cities, title to raise 4,000 millions. on its own, along with Supreme Court X clinics run by Planned Parenthood To put that number in perspective, 4 rulings like Citizens United v. FEC and are literally just steps away from abor- billion, or 4,000 millions, divides up to Buckley v. Valeo. tion clinics operated by Planned Par- about $8.5 million spent on each of the Mr. Speaker, I have introduced H.R. enthood, many times in the same 435 seats in this Chamber and those 8, a new constitutional amendment building. who are up for election in the other; that I put in every session to bring this This legislation would close that $8,500,000 having to be raised every 2 system under control. There could be loophole that has forced millions of years. Yes, an average of $8.5 million no more important priority to our pro-life Americans to subsidize the Na- per Member was expended in each of country than giving our politics back tion’s leading abortion provider sus- the races. That is 50 times more than to the American people again. taining and underwriting this nefarious the amount of money the job pays. We trade. would be better off to say to the Amer- f I urge my colleagues to support the ican people, ‘‘We’re going to get rid of The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition all of this campaign donation stuff and previous order of the House, the gen- Act. I urge our new majority to bring just beg our salaries from the public.’’ tleman from North Carolina (Mr. this legislation forward with all delib- It would be a lot cheaper, and we JONES) is recognized for 5 minutes. erative speed. wouldn’t have to spend it on all those (Mr. JONES addressed the House. His Let me say again. The largest abor- ridiculous ads. Imagine the outrageous remarks will appear hereafter in the tion provider in America should not amount of fundraising that sits on the Extensions of Remarks.)

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But it is the truth or life or the Constitution or tory, heritage and symbols of the flying in the breeze and offends the as- the Declaration of Independence or United States are constantly under sociation because the flapping causes American values or the values of West- criticism in this country. Even yester- irreparable injury. ern Civilization or Judeo-Christianity, day when we read the Constitution of Well, flapping in the breeze has all those people out there are full of in- the United States on the House floor, brought safety to the United States. dignities. the first time it has ever been done in The flag flying throughout the world So an American flag and a marine 200 years, there were some who com- and the noise, if we can use that word, flag offends somebody? I say tough. I plained that it is irrelevant. It is kind the sound of freedom, is the sound of am glad you are there. Fly that flag. of like folks in church that cover their that flag flying in the United States Fly it proud and fly it long. ears when certain sections of the Bible and throughout the world. It is free- I especially appreciate the statement are read. They don’t want to hear it be- dom of speech, and it trumps the elitist made by Mr. POE about the sound of cause it may apply to them. concept that the flag and the flagpole that flag. My flag is on a flagpole about People go to court nowadays to try are offensive to the association. that same height, 20 foot. I step out my to remove our national motto, In God You know, Mr. Merola is a marine. door in the morning, I check the wind We Trust. It is above the flag, Mr. Once a marine, always a marine. And and the weather and I look at that flag, Speaker, although television very sel- we are proud of our marines in the and I listen to that sound. And there is dom shows our national motto. United States. They are a unique times I am sitting there in the dark at Then there are those who are of- bunch. That was best said by an Army night on my deck and I am hearing fended by the American flag, Old general about the Marines, ‘‘There are that flag from the light that shines on Glory. It is not even displayed in parts only two groups that understand the it around the corner just a little bit, of the United States because it offends marines—the marines, and the enemy.’’ and I hear that ripple of Old Glory. It some people. Some people that are in- And that is correct. gives me comfort and it gives me pride, cluded in the group are foreigners who So good for you, Mike Merola. Keep and it reminds me of the privilege of are offended by the American flag. your flagpole up. Fly Old Glory. Fly serving here, anywhere you can serve Now we get to today, a report by the the marine flag. We are proud of you. Americans anywhere on this globe. Houston Chronicle about Marine Mi- Keep fighting for the flag, because free- I think of a time also on March 18, chael Merola, a 60-year-old vet from dom of flying the flag trumps the con- 2003, where I went out here to Pershing the United States Marine Corps, and he cept that it is offensive to some people. Park, this side of the White House, flies, here he is, he still looks like a God bless our marines, God bless you, when there was an antiwar demonstra- Marine, this is a photograph from the Mike Merola, and semper fi. tion that took place. I actually walked Chronicle that shows Old Glory and, of And that’s just the way it is. around through the Mall, around the Washington Monument as they pre- course, the Marine flag, flying in his f pared their demonstration. I remember backyard on a 20-foot flagpole. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a former chairman of the Judiciary Com- No one has complained. His neighbors previous order of the House, the gen- like it. Kids walk by and actually com- mittee, John Conyers, standing on a tleman from Oregon (Mr. DEFAZIO) is little stage there with great big speak- pliment him on flying Old Glory and recognized for 5 minutes. the Marine flag. But the neighborhood ers calling for the impeachment of (Mr. DEFAZIO addressed the House. President Bush because it looked like association has complained and sued. His remarks will appear hereafter in Now, who is this guy? Well, he served there was an impending liberation of the Extensions of Remarks.) in the United States Marines from 1969 Iraq. And I saw a man there. to 1977. He trained with the United f Every kind of discontented, counter- States Navy SEALs. After he left the The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a cultural, anti-American group was rep- Marine Corps, he was responsible as previous order of the House, the gen- resented in those thousands of people sergeant of the guard for raising the tleman from Arizona (Mr. FRANKS) is that came here that day. I saw the Jap- flag at NSA right down the road. He is recognized for 5 minutes. anese communist flag. I saw Vegetar- from New York, but he got to Texas as (Mr. FRANKS of Arizona addressed ians for Peace. I saw every counter- fast as he could, and he has no inten- the House. His remarks will appear culturalist group you can imagine. And tion of taking down this flag or flag- hereafter in the Extensions of Re- I saw a man there, an aging hippie. He pole. He is a passionate American. He marks.) had on a jacket. He was a photog- is a marine. f rapher, you could tell, and he was tak- But the association doesn’t like it, ing pictures with great pride of this HEALTH CARE AND OTHER ISSUES and here is what they have said in anti-Americanism. their lawsuit: the flagpole is a det- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under He reached in his pocket of his jack- riment to the association. It causes im- the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- et, a worn leather jacket, and pulled minent harm and irreparable injury to uary 5, 2011, the gentleman from Iowa out of his pocket a flag, an American the association. The problem with the (Mr. KING) is recognized for 60 minutes flag, a silk American flag, a small flag, flagpole of that height and that signifi- as the designee of the majority leader. and he used it to wipe the lens of his cance is it flaps in the wind and causes Mr. KING of Iowa. Thank you, Mr. camera. That is an image I will never noise to other homeowners. That is Speaker. I very much appreciate the forget. their problem. So they sued him. privilege to address you here on the But no one stepped up to say he Now, first of all, we have an issue of floor of the House in this leadership couldn’t do that. Where were they freedom of speech. The Supreme Court hour designated by the majority lead- then? Where were the critics of Mr. has said it is a right to fly the flag. er. Merola then? When flags are used as Speech includes the flying of the Amer- There are a number of subjects I grease rags to scrub the lens of a cam- ican flag. It is the symbol of every- wanted to take up this afternoon, but I era that is taking pictures of anti- thing that is good and right about am first inspired by the statement Americans joined together to protest America. That is why it is behind you, made by the gentleman from Texas, the saving of our freedom that Marine Mr. Speaker, when we go into session Judge, Congressman, Mr. POE, about Merola has stepped up to defend. every day. Marine Mike Merola. Those actions against him are offen- Marines and sailors and soldiers and This is one of these recurring stories sive to me, and I say guard the flag, de- members of the Coast Guard have that we hear across the country. Some- fend the flag, and I will stand with you, fought under that flag all over the body that is an ACLU individual, some- and I know Judge POE will too. Thanks

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Freedom-loving foreign policy credentials and he had to ‘‘immigrant’’ with ‘‘illegal immigrant’’ Americans fought this for a long time. build himself health care credentials. and then they have the audacity to ac- It began to roll out at us in the sum- And so they turned the Presidential cuse people of being anti-immigrant, mer of—I’ve got to roll my years back nomination debate into a health care when everybody I know is pro-immi- now—in the summer of 2008, when debate, a health insurance debate. And grant—pro-legal immigrant. And ev- President Obama was elected. I should as they battled their ideas out, they erybody in here ought to be anti-illegal actually take you back through a little had to find ways that they could sepa- immigrant. But that’s how they use bit of this history, Mr. Speaker, be- rate themselves from each other and the language to distort the argument cause there’s some of these components still remain Democrats. and get people confused on where they that the American people forget about. And so we heard all kind of state- stand on the issue. There was a relatively unknown ments out of Barack Obama as he com- So they did that with health care and State senator from Illinois named peted for credibility on the policy of health insurance. And when Barack Barack Obama, and he gave a speech health care. And in the process of doing Obama was establishing his credentials before a national convention of the that, they convinced the American peo- on health care, they began to convince Democratic Party. That elevated him ple that they were in a health care cri- the American people that we had 47 into some level of national promi- sis in America. They intentionally and million people in this country that are nence. There were those that decided willfully, and I’m talking about Demo- uninsured. Well, that actually may be they wanted to move him forward to crats in general, conflated two terms. true. It may have been true. And you become President of the United States. They ended up duping the American can start down through the list of 47 Hillary Clinton also decided she wanted people. They conflated the term health million and start to subtract from that to be President of the United States. care and the term health insurance, to the numbers that are here that are And these two found themselves—actu- the point now where, when we hear here illegally. That’s at least 12 mil- ally, after John Edwards, anyway— someone say health care, we don’t lion, 12.1 million. I believe it’s more locking horns, the two of them, for the know whether they’re saying health in- than 20 million, but I’ll take the 12 mil- nomination of the Presidency of the surance or whether it’s actually taking lion. And I have to guess at the totals United States under the Democrat care of someone’s health. here because it’s been a little while Party. I know a little bit about this. I recall then the newly elected Gov- since I’ve run through these. Barack Obama’s movement began in ernor of Iowa, Chet Culver, now just But, generally speaking, you take 47 Iowa. He brought his people over from voted out of office, came out here to million that are listed as uninsured by Chicago and they started a movement the Capitol to sit down with the con- the Democrats and you subtract from and they did battle with Hillary Clin- gressional delegation meeting, the that those that are here illegally, those ton in Iowa. John Edwards was there, Iowa congressional delegation. We sat that qualify for Medicaid but don’t of course. That went on for 4 years. in a conference room over in the Sen- bother to sign up, those that make But we have to remember that here, ate. And he said, There are 40,000 kids over $75,000 a year and presumably in 1993 and 1994, when Bill Clinton was in Iowa that don’t have health care. could provide their own health insur- elected President, remember, he said We’ve got to get them health care. And ance, those that qualify under their you get at twofer—you get Hillary and I looked at him and I said, Governor, I employer but have turned down that you get Bill. Well, I wasn’t all that don’t think that’s true. I don’t think opportunity for that health insurance. happy getting Bill, let alone Hillary. there are any kids in Iowa that don’t And when you get done subtracting But he assigned Hillary the job of writ- have health care. Could you give me an those that do have options, including ing a national health care act. And this example of a child in Iowa that doesn’t affordable options, and you narrow the was a complete takeover of our health have health care. Well, no, he couldn’t 47 million down to those who do not care in the United States. Socialized do that. Neither could he actually even have their own health insurance policy medicine in an even purer form than tell me that he really meant health in- and do not have affordable options, ObamaCare is today. surance. I had to feed that line to him that’s 12 million. That’s actually the We watched as this unfolded and she so he could understand the difference. 12.1 million number I reached to re- set up closed-door meetings and they It was so embedded in his head that member. cooked up this bill. And I recall the health care and health insurance, the That’s less than 4 percent of the flow chart of the HillaryCare bill. I had conflated terms, could be used inter- United States population without their a laminated copy of it in my office, my changeably. own health insurance policy and with- construction office in Odebolt, Iowa. Mr. Speaker, if people are having out an affordable option. Less than 4 And it gives me chills to think yet trouble understanding this, I’d use an- percent. What percent of the health about the expansion of government other example of conflated terms—the care industry did they want to take that emerged from the HillaryCare pro- difference between immigrant and ille- over in order to address that less than posal. gal immigrant. I was asked earlier 4 percent, those 12.1 million? A hundred But we need to remember, Mr. Speak- today what do I have to say about peo- percent. Barack Obama proposed to er, the relevant component of that is ple that accuse me of being anti-immi- take over 100 percent of our health care yes, a government takeover of health grant. I said, That’s offensive. There industry in America in order to get at care that had been advanced and advo- isn’t anybody in this entire Congress those less than 4 percent that are unin- cated in this country for quite a few that’s anti-immigrant. And the re- sured, without an affordable option. years. But America’s rejection of porter stopped. Well, what kind of a He told us—remember these things— HillaryCare was resounding. And if Bill statement is that? Surely there are. I We’re in an economic crisis. We’re in Clinton were going to maintain his said, No, there isn’t anybody in this en- an economic crisis, and we can’t fix capital as a President, they had to pull tire United States Congress that’s anti- this economic crisis—Barack Obama— that bill down. The American people legal immigrant. Everybody I know in unless we first fix health care. And how were against HillaryCare. I was against here—and there’s a new class I don’t do we do that? Well, the argument it. It actually animated me into get- know that, but I suspect they’d fit the against it by him, and Hillary Clinton ting engaged in politics. I do not think same mold—everybody I know in here as well: We spend too much money on I would be here today if it weren’t for is supportive of legal immigrants. We health care. What’s their solution? Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton decid- cheer them. We’re proud of them. When Spend a lot more. Throw a trillion dol- ing they were going to step in and take they take the oath of naturalization, I lars at health care. He also argued that our liberty. often go and give a little speech and if you like your policy, you can keep it.

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A great, giant leap came Federal Government under ObamaCare surance policy if the company doesn’t down this hallway in a reconciliation regulates every single health insurance exist any longer. package from the Senate, actually policy, and they will decide which poli- The President said we needed to have threaded right into this ObamaCare cies you can keep and which policies more competition in the health insur- bill. are banned by regulations to be written ance industry. The demagoguery’s been What’s another pattern? later by a gentleman by the name of going on here for the last couple of There was a time—let’s just say, oh, Berwick, who believes that we should days about not turning over this coun- at about the time of the Bay of Pigs— ration health care and not spend try to the health insurance companies, when the Federal Government wasn’t money on the lives of people who may again who get accused of being vipers. engaged in flood insurance. All of the be at the end of their lives. Well, they’re in a free market system. property and casualty flood insurance Now, Sarah Palin called that ‘‘death They need to be able to compete in America was privately provided in panels.’’ If you have to put something against each other. The President the marketplace. We know what free down in a Twitter that explains it all, wants to have—and was not successful enterprise does. If there is a demand, I think she did that. in this component—wants to have a somebody will come up with a business We’ve seen the manifestation of that Federal health insurance policy, a pro- idea to supply that demand. That was out of the Obama administration—with gram, to compete against the health going on in the early part of the 1960s his appointments, with the actions, until the Federal Government decided insurance companies. He argued that with their taking the initiative to that, really, they needed to get in and there needed to be more competition in want to pay doctors to counsel people compete with that a little bit, so they the health insurance industry. to accept death when there is medicine set up the Federal Flood Insurance And so, what does he do? He wants to there that may save them or extend Program. have the Federal Government do that. their lives. I don’t think that’s the So what did they do? They drove out business of the Federal Government to Does the President even know how all of the private sector competition. many health insurance companies we Today, if you’re worried about your pay people to counsel others to die have or had at the passage of house being flooded or your factory quicker. That’s what turns out of that ObamaCare? Probably not. He’s prob- being flooded, you have to buy flood in- policy, and I’m glad that they re- ably not watching C–SPAN right now, surance from the Federal Government. scinded it. I am hopeful that it isn’t Mr. Speaker, but if any of his staff are In order for them to compete with the something that creeps back again, but out there, I can tell you what that private market, they passed legislation if you’ve got a Dr. Donald Berwick number was: 1,300 health insurance that, if there were a real estate loan there, it is going to creep back on us. companies in America. 1,300 companies from a Federal bank, they were com- That’s his philosophy. He is there for a competing against each other. Not all pelled to buy flood insurance. So they reason. of them against each other, not one wired in a customer base; they set the ObamaCare cannot be allowed to stay competing against all the other 1,299, premium rates, and they drove every- in this code. It must go. It has got to because there’s a McCarran-Ferguson body out of the flood insurance indus- be repealed, and we are about to do Act that allows the States to protect try. that. the insurance companies within their While all that’s going on, what do we The first legislative steps on this States and set up monopolies or quasi- get out of that? We get a Federal Flood took place yesterday with the rules de- monopolies within the States. Insurance Program that’s $19.2 billion bate upstairs—hours of debate on the rule, on how this debate would go on. b 1250 in the red and no private sector com- petition whatsoever and no way to We debated the rule here on the floor I think we should repeal that. judge, actually, the risk because the today, and it passed. The chairman of If we repeal that, we will allow then industry hasn’t developed. the Rules Committee, Mr. DREIER, did people to buy insurance across State You know what government does: it an outstanding job of ushering this all lines, and we would instantly put those atrophies. Anybody who doesn’t have through; and he has been useful, I 1,300 health insurance companies in competition atrophies. They don’t de- think, in also negotiating the types of competition with each other. That velop the technology. They don’t de- language that allow for a legitimate would achieve the goal to lower the velop the new approaches and the inno- debate on the floor of the House—far costs and increase the options and pro- vative ways to market, and they don’t more legitimate than the debate that vide for people to have more choices streamline. They don’t have to find actually crammed ObamaCare down themselves, and it would help sustain savings. They just raise fees or borrow the throats of the American people. the doctor-patient relationship at the money from a general fund. That’s So, Mr. Speaker, I come here to cele- same time. where the $19.2 billion came from. brate the opportunity to begin taking Mr. Speaker, of the 1,300 health in- Then, of course, that’s the American back a significant measure of Amer- surance companies, how many policy people going into debt for $19.2 billion. ican liberty, that is, the repeal of varieties existed a year ago? 100,000 Why? Because the Federal Govern- ObamaCare—pulling it out by the roots health insurance policy varieties ex- ment decided they wanted to go in and lock, stock and barrel. We must pull it isted a year ago. That’s not enough provide a little competition so that all out, and we can’t leave one visage competition—1,300 companies and they could keep the private sector of it in. 100,000 policies? The President wanted flood insurance industry honest be- This ObamaCare the American people a new Federal company to compete cause the people who passed that are understand. They diagnosed it. They against them. Now, that’s because he not free market personnel. They are looked at it. They felt it and they ran understands this pattern. anti-capitalists. They are not capital- the tests on it. They began to find out We’ve seen this pattern happen sev- ists. They are not free enterprise peo- what was in it. Remember Speaker eral times in the past. It happened ple. PELOSI saying we have to pass this bill most recently with the Student Loan So we have some of the pattern in order to find out what’s in it? Well, Program. The Federal Government that’s there. We’ve got the flood insur- there is actually some truth in that be- took it all over. They started out with ance pattern. We’ve got the pattern of cause no matter how brilliant people the argument that they needed to have the student loan program. Then we are, no matter what their experience, another option—a public option—for have the pattern of the President want- there is not one person alive who could school loans, student loans, so that ing to step in and drive out the com- have shut themselves up in a room for they could provide a little more honest petition in the health insurance indus- I don’t care how long they would competition with the free market. try. want—a week, a month, a day, or a

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It’s ad- an analysis and be able to comprehend thing that we just couldn’t do without, justed for COLA, and so we go up, that the implications of that monstrosity that should take us all down because amount would go up each year as they that has now become the albatross we’re willing to repeal the idea that in- went through their happy married bliss around the neck of the President and surance policies must all have a Fed- for the next 45 years until they quali- the Democrat Party in the United eral mandate in them that your chil- fied for Medicare. States of America. dren shall stay on there until they’re 26 Now, I’d like to see that expanded, No, no one could understand it. It is years old. Now, I’m astonished by this. but here’s how this works. If you look that complicated; but over time, we I’m astonished that Republicans would historically back over the last 30 or 40 began to see the implications. Repub- think that’s a good idea. I can actually years, you will see that that type of an licans predicted many of the implica- name you two Republicans that were investment like an HSA would accrue tions that were in the bill. We pointed elected to Congress at age 25. Now, I at a 4 percent compounded interest to a lot of the parts of it that were bad; don’t know what kind of pride they rate, not over the last 2 or 3 but over but there wasn’t time, and there would have in their newfound adult- the last 30 or 40. That’s a reasonable weren’t enough people and enough hood to walk down the aisle, like they number to predict. And so your couple voices to raise all of the issues that are did here a couple of days ago to swear that started with an HSA with $5,150 bad about something of this nature. into the new 112th Congress, and up and deposited the max in it every year When you take away people’s liberty, until the moment they take the oath of and spent $2,000 a year out for normal that is a big deal, Mr. Speaker—when office, they’re still on Mommy and medical expenses would arrive at Medi- you take away the right of people to Daddy’s health insurance. care eligibility age with about $950,000 buy a health insurance policy of their Now, that’s how bad this idea is that in their health savings account. Boy, choice. No matter what money they we would raise kids up and give them what a glorious opportunity that is. have, no matter what their health, you the keys to the car at age 16, and give The Federal Government’s interested have to buy a health insurance policy in that $950,000 because they want to that is approved by Uncle Sam. them the right to vote and choose the next leader in the free world at age 18, tax it. They want to tax it as ordinary Now, I kind of like Uncle Sam. I like income when it’s taken out of the his image. I like his colors—red, white and give them the right to drink at age 21, and keep them on Mom and Daddy’s health savings account if it’s not used and blue—but I don’t like the tarnished for health along the way. image that he was given by insurance until they’re 26. Why? I wanted my kids to grow up. I an- I suggest this. Why wouldn’t we say ObamaCare. I don’t like the idea of be- to that couple, take the money that’s smirching the memory of Madison and nounced to them when they were 18 that I’m now legally off the hook, in your health savings account, buy a Washington and Franklin and Jeffer- Medicare replacement policy, a paid- son. I don’t like the idea that these guys. We nurtured you as long as we can. We’re still doing that. We don’t up-for-life Medicare replacement pol- God-given rights that we have, that icy—be worth about $72,000 per person clearly our Founding Fathers defined have to anymore. I’m so proud of what they’ve accomplished and what they’ve at this point, so $144,000 out of this with precision that do come from God, $950,000, and so you get what, $806,000 promised to accomplish, but I wanted can be besmirched and can take away left over. That’s the change. my kids to grow up, and that should be the freedom of a freedom-loving people. I would say to Americans who had But the American people don’t like it our goal when we’re raising them, not that kind of responsibility and pru- either. The American people rose up, to keep them children forever, keep dence, Keep the change. Take yourself Mr. Speaker. them on our insurance until age 26. To off the Medicare entitlement rolls Those who argued that they wanted what purpose? Can’t they defend them- when you’re eligible by buying a paid- to offer a whole series of amendments selves and find a way? up replacement policy, annuitized pol- on the repeal of ObamaCare said it’s And by the way, insurance compa- icy. Keep the change tax free. Travel not an open rule; it’s not an open proc- nies, if there’s a market for this, isn’t the world. Will it to your kids. Do what ess, that they want to come down here there going to be a policy out there you want to do. and be able to offer amendment after that you can buy, at your own choice, And if we do that, we turn health amendment under an open rule. Then that will allow you to keep insurance savings accounts into life management they think that somehow, by doing so, on until your kids are 26? If there’s a accounts, Mr. Speaker, these kind of they can perfect a bad piece of legisla- market for it, keep them on there until accounts that young people would tion. Well, in their piece of legislation, they’re eligible for Medicare. It’s all savor the day that they could start even they can only name four things right if it’s driven by the free market. their account in their health savings that they are willing to defend in 2,500 It’s actually constitutional if the account, and they would nurture it and pages. Of course, they’ll demagogue us States want to impose such a ridicu- protect it and want it built up to the on every single one of those. lous mandate, but it’s not constitu- point where it’s 20, 30, 40, $50,000, The four things that they defend are: tional and it’s not all right if the Fed- Preexisting conditions language. Re- $100,000. They would be there in this eral Government imposes such a thing publicans will address preexisting con- private market of insurance that we because it raises the cost of ditions, not with socialized medicine, must preserve and protect—actually everybody’s premium, and it limits our but with a practical, constitutional, got to go back and restore it by repeal- choices and it taxes people that don’t free market approach. That’s fine. We ing ObamaCare. have any kids, people that are on indi- need to have that debate and advance They would be in that marketplace vidual policies. that kind of policy, and that has been saying, I want a $10,000 deductible pol- So there’s three things in ObamaCare part of our agenda all along, for several icy. I want a major medical deductible that they are proud of, and I’m not par- years now. That’s the first one. policy. I can have a higher copayment The second one is they claim they ticularly proud of any of those three. policy. I need lower premiums. I have closed the doughnut hole. Well, I Actually, the fourth one may come to the prospect of good health. I exercise. thought the doughnut hole was a bad me and I’ll bring it up in a moment, I watch my diet. I watch my weight. I idea in 2003. It was there because of the Mr. Speaker, but here’s another rub. get regular checkups, and so I’m will- constraint in the funding that was ObamaCare wipes out more than half ing to—and, in fact, it’d be prudent to available; but they closed the doughnut of the health savings accounts oppor- have catastrophic policies with high hole by increasing fees and taxing oth- tunity that’s there. We established deductibles and potentially a higher ers, and low-income people are already health savings accounts in part D in copayment for people who have the exempt from it. 2003. A young couple could start in funds in their health savings accounts today with $5,150 in their health sav- so that they are protected by insurance b 1300 ings account, and let’s just say they for its proper form. So it isn’t of significance from a pol- got married—fell in love, got married, Insurance should not be for hang- icy standpoint. It is philosophically age 20. I can do the math, which is why nails. It should not be for the little

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Still, the their health insurance premiums. was torn up and they took him into the regal Speaker PELOSI marched through They’d be advocating for lower pre- emergency room, they had to patch the throngs with her magnum gavel in miums. They’d be saving more money him up, put him on crutches, and he her ‘‘let them eat cake’’ moment, and in their health savings account, man- had to gimp around for 6 months with still they don’t get the message. aging their health for a lifetime while a torn-up knee to go in and have the We swore in 87 new freshmen Repub- their health savings account transi- government doctor look at his knee licans here, nine freshman Democrats. tions into a pension plan. and approve that he needed surgery. The majority changes, every gavel This is a full lifetime management Well, then you would think that that changes hands in the entire Capitol. account, and why can’t we do that in surgery might happen, oh, the next day It’s amazing. It’s amazing that it’s so the United States of America? These like it would in America. But it didn’t hard for them to hear the message free people that we are, why can’t we happen until another 6 months. Mr. from the American people. Do they do that in the United States of Amer- Speaker, 6 months to wait for govern- still have the level of arrogance? Is it ica? ment approval for surgery that would still an intellectual elitism of lib- Well, ObamaCare goes in and cuts out have happened the next day in the eralism, the leftists that think that more than half of the amount that United States of America with this they have apparently some kind of gift they can contribute into their health doctor, another 6 months just to ap- of intelligence that supersedes the savings account because ObamaCare is prove, then another 6 months to get common sense and the wisdom of the about, yes, a Federal takeover of our the schedule to work through to get American people? I reject that. The health care, and a health insurance in- the knee surgery. And how much rehab American people rejected that. And we dustry eventually, but it’s about also does it take to put somebody back in have 87 new faces over here that I be- expanding the dependency class in shape after their leg is atrophied for a lieve are God’s gift to America, Mr. America. It’s about causing people to year and they have drug it around on Speaker. give up on trying and taking care of crutches? And I so look forward to the impact. themselves and just finally sighing and b 1310 We have already seen the impact. We get in the herd with the rest of the So he’s out of work for a year and a have seen the impact in the rules pack- sheep and go submit to the govern- half. His productivity has been stopped. age vote. We have seen the impact in ment-run health care plan. And when And additionally, his development pro- the rules vote here today. And we’ll see they tell you you can’t have a test, fessionally has been diminished sub- the impact on the repeal of ObamaCare then you don’t go for a second opinion; stantially. This is the kind of thing on Wednesday after this rule that pro- you’ve already been trained to accept that happens when government gets in- vides for—I guess I didn’t keep it with the rule of the State. So they either volved setting up formulas. It’s what me—but this rule that provides for I test you or they don’t; they give you the people on that side of the aisle believe 7 hours of debate, 7 hours. treatment or they don’t. want to do. And that’s why the roof NANCY PELOSI would give us an hour You can look up to Canada to see the caved in, and there was a cataclysmic split, 30 minutes on each side, no waiting list times for hip replace- electoral change that took place on No- amendments. Seven hours of debate, a ments, knee replacements. One of vember 2, the election when the Amer- debate on the rule, full debate up in the those, I believe it’s the knee replace- ican people said, Enough, enough to Rules Committee. And we are going to ment, is 194 days that you wait. The the ruling troika, the Obama, Pelosi, start this process of repealing hip replacement then is three-hundred- and Reid ruling troika. Enough to the ObamaCare. It began with the rules and-some days. It’s possible it’s the liberty-stealing legislation that was votes here yesterday in the Rules Com- other way around, but we’re dealing coming out of this Congress one after mittee and here on the floor today. We with half a year or more, almost a year another after another, with cap-and- have begun the long, hard slog of the in waiting time. trade and government takeover of busi- repeal of ObamaCare, Mr. Speaker. I remember a presentation that was nesses, and the government takeover of It is, I believe, a new precedent to see given downstairs in HC–9 a year or so the health care industry, including the American people rise up this in- ago. A doctor from northern Michigan, their massive regulation of the health stantaneously to reject a piece of legis- Dr. Jansma as I recall, has written a insurance industry. lation that was passed. I recall when it book on this, but he went up across the The American people rejected was passed here November 7 out of the border to work within the emergency ObamaCare. The American people came House, it went back to be worked room in a hospital in Canada, and he to this city by the tens of thousands to through the—let me say worked had done a lot of orthopaedic surgery. protest against ObamaCare. The Amer- through the procedures. I withdrew And there was an individual that tore ican people, for the first time, I be- that ‘‘shenanigan’’ word and replaced up a leg playing ball, came in. He lieve, in the history of this country, it with the ‘‘procedures’’ in the United looked at it, diagnosed it. He needed to came to this Capitol in such massive States Senate. have surgery. He said, I can schedule numbers that they not only crowded But in an unprecedented fashion, you for surgery in the morning. We out here on the west lawn by the tens they put that legislation together in should move on this quickly. of thousands, there were so many peo- the Senate. And on Christmas Eve Well, the surgery couldn’t be sched- ple, they surrounded the Capitol. They morning, they circumvented the fili- uled. He didn’t know it at the time, but formed a human chain to surround the buster, and they pushed through on a he didn’t meet the government regula- Capitol and say, Keep your hands off of reconciliation package, they called it, tions. They had to go through and get our health care. And it wasn’t just a a piece of legislation that had to come another bureaucrat to approve it, and stretched human chain where people through to marry up with the House they had to wait to get it approved, were barely hanging onto each other by legislation in order to, some say in the and then they had to wait to schedule their fingertips. They were six- and press, ‘‘buy the votes’’ to get barely the surgery. This young man, in the eight-deep all the way around the Cap- enough to pass ObamaCare here in the prime of health, had a job, couldn’t do itol building saying, Keep your hands House. Well, that legislation, their it with his leg torn up. It took 6 off our health care. They were shoul- version of ObamaCare, passed in the months to schedule this young man to der-to-shoulder, and they were six and Senate on Christmas Eve morning. go before the specialist to do the sec- eight deep, a full doughnut. Around 9 o’clock was when they opened ondary diagnosis to approve the need Talk about the doughnut hole. The the vote. They had a chance proce- for the surgery so that they could ra- Capitol of the United States of Amer- durally—the Republicans did—to delay

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They had to Obama, which he did on March 30. blizzard would have come along and have their reconciliation package out So I laid down and slept for about 21⁄2 shut this Capitol down, and they of the Senate that would be married up hours, and it was the sleep of the ex- wouldn’t have been able to put the with and effectively amend some of the hausted. And I woke up. I sat down at votes together? Look how close that ObamaCare legislation itself. my computer and I wrote up a request came, if you look back upon it. So, Mr. Speaker, the convolution of for a bill to repeal ObamaCare. That But in any case, when ObamaCare all of this, it was a legislative circus of bill draft request went in at the open- passed the Senate, I asked a question every legislative shenanigan that I can ing of business that following morning. to one of the senior Senators over think of to put this together in such a It was waiting for them to unlock the there who opposed ObamaCare, and did way that they finally got stuff to the doors, my staff was. And that request so well: What do we do now? What’s our President’s desk signed in the proper turned into a draft within a couple of next step? We had 9 more hours we sequence and order so that the attor- hours, and got back into my hand, 40 could have fought, or 12 more hours we neys and the constitutional scholars words, 40 words. And those 40 words are could have fought. We didn’t fight all could look at that and say, Well, actu- included in this repeal that is coming, 12 of those hours. What do we do next? ally there is a piece of legislation that that is now before this House that will His answer was, Well, we pray, and we somebody’s going to have to follow the be debated on Wednesday of next week. pray for a victory in the special elec- direction of. I introduced those 40 words into the tion in the Senate race in Massachu- So we had a Presidential Executive legislation and ironically, coinciden- setts. order that was designed to amend legis- tally and perhaps providentially, Well, at that time, a lot of people in lation passed by the people’s House and MICHELLE BACHMANN of Minnesota was America didn’t know the name SCOTT the United States Senate that was doing the same thing at perhaps the BROWN, and I thought that that was a promised before the legislation was same time and put in a bill draft re- pretty big reach, to think we were presented to the floor as a condition of quest almost simultaneously, and our going to put our stakes in saving its passage here so they could get the bills came down within 3 minutes of America’s liberty in a special election votes from the Stupak Dozen and oth- each other, exactly the same 40 words U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts. ers. And there was a reconciliation that said the same thing: pull Massachusetts had a full, at the time, package from the Senate that amended ObamaCare out by its roots. That’s not 100 percent congressional delegation of the legislation. They passed it out of the quote; that’s the summary, Mr. all Democrats, the strongest Democrat the Senate before the legislation was Speaker. And, actually, I’m not going State in the Nation that I know of. So brought before the House. When do you to summarize the bill this time. We I thought it was a bit of a presump- ever bring legislation that is designed don’t have 2,500 pages in this repeal, tuous thing to talk about asking the to amend legislation that’s not yet but I would just say a few more words Lord to intervene in Massachusetts, passed? You only do that if you don’t about that. which was the message that I got. But have the support of the majority of the We started then the repeal process I took a look and I decided, that’s our people in either body. within hours of the passage of best chance. I ended up going to Massa- And I will tell you this, Mr. Speaker: ObamaCare and it being messaged to chusetts, and I spent 3 days there. On the day ObamaCare passed, as the President within hours. And people On January 19, SCOTT BROWN was stand-alone legislation, that big 2,500- said, well, that’s just throwing a tan- elected to fill what’s commonly known page package, if there are no extra- trum. You’re just frustrated. You’ve as ‘‘the Kennedy seat’’ in the United neous issues, like promises of Execu- lost. Why can’t you just pack up your States Senate, from Massachusetts. He tive orders from the President or a rec- things and move on? We’ve got to move had pledged to vote ‘‘no’’ and kill onciliation package in the Senate that on. Put that behind us. That debate’s ObamaCare. That made it the veto- amends it, if it was ObamaCare stand- over with. proof Republican minority in the Sen- alone, 2,500 pages dropped here in the Well, the debate’s not over with when ate. Most people thought on that night House of Representatives for an up-or- a Congress defies the will of the Amer- that ObamaCare was dead, and that down vote, anybody that was here, any ican people. And this Congress, the was January 19 last year. student of what was here knows, Mr. 111th Congress, the one just passed, de- Well, subsequent to that, the Presi- Speaker, they did not have the major- fied the will of the American people. dent held a health care summit at the ity votes to pass ObamaCare. And the result was 87 new freshmen Re- Blair House February 25. That’s where publicans courageous, bold, principled, he identified his health care plan as b 1320 constitutional conservatives, young, ‘‘ObamaCare.’’ And in that health care It was done on the condition that the vigorous, with ideology, driven people, summit, there were certain selected President would sign an executive statesmen and women in the group Republicans who were invited to sit order and the Senate reconciliation that will emerge as national leaders. with the Democrats around this big package would be brought in the form I believe there’s a Speaker in that table. And there were rules. Of course that they demanded it. class. I know there are committee the rules applied to people differently. So, we watch all this process and we chairs in that class. I believe there’s a The President interrupted Republicans think it’s making sausage. You don’t reasonable chance that there’s a Presi- 72 times. Somehow he got his mojo want to eat the sausage when you dent of the United States in this class back. Somehow they put together this watch them make it. I’m happy to eat that was elected in 2010. There may be legal maneuvering to be able to bring the sausage when they make it. I really more than one. We have leaders there. legislation here and say they got it— don’t want to eat this one. The Amer- They came to this Congress to repeal and actually, they got it passed. I’m ican people didn’t want to eat this one ObamaCare. And the filing of the re- not taking that issue. either. The American people rejected peal of ObamaCare on that late March The then-chair of the Rules Com- it. The American people brought their day, that early morning of the late mittee wanted to just deem ObamaCare voice and their effort. March day, started the process. The passed because they didn’t want to And I went home that night, the last start of that process began within take a vote on it. They couldn’t get the one to leave this Capitol. And I told hours of the passage of ObamaCare and votes out of their own conference be- myself I will lay down, and I’m going well before its actual signing into law, cause there were 12 anonymous individ- to sleep until I’m completely rested up, it was introduced before the President uals in a list called the Stupak Dozen and I’ll wake up fresh in the morning, actually signed it into law to repeal it. that would not vote for a bill that and I’ll retool, and I’ll start a new plan And MICHELLE BACHMANN and I and would use Federal funding for abortion. and see what I can do to save America, CONNIE MACK and, let me see, Parker

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:45 Jan 08, 2011 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00027 Fmt 0636 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K07JA7.065 H07JAPT1 tjames on DSKG8SOYB1PROD with HOUSE H132 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 7, 2011 Griffith, they come to mind as people such act is repealed, and the provisions No. To reflect back on Winston Church- that have introduced legislation to re- of law amended or repealed by such act ill, it’s not the end. It’s not even the peal, and we worked that together with are restored or revived as if such act beginning of the end of ObamaCare, but many others. There wasn’t hesitation. had not been enacted.’’ it is perhaps the end of the beginning Republicans wanted to sign on to the Boy, that sounds pretty good, doesn’t of the end of ObamaCare. That’s what I repeal, and they did so quickly. And it? Now, that’s just the first part. believe is coming. over a period of time, the numbers of And it repealed, effective as of the I heard the gentleman from Texas signatures accumulated to about 86, enactment of the law, ObamaCare, such bring up Churchill when he said, and 86 were ready to sign for repeal. act is repealed, and the provisions of ‘‘sweat, blood, and tears.’’ There are Then we decided, let’s turn this into law amended are repealed by such act some people out there that bring some a discharge petition. NANCY PELOSI are restored or revived as if such act quotes to mind that stand out for me, won’t let this come forward until it had not been enacted. It doesn’t take a and one of them is the Congressman does. So we did that. And I filed a dis- lot of complicated language to say pull from Indiana, MIKE PENCE. His state- charge petition here on the floor, Mr. it all out by the roots as if it had never ment on our persistence and due dili- Speaker, and Members began to go been there. That’s what we get with gence in bringing about ObamaCare is down and sign the discharge petition. the repeal that’s before us now that this—and I wrote it down because it And the numbers of signatures went up will be debated on and voted on impressed me, not the words but the on the discharge petition, when they Wednesday of next week. manner in which he says it. It is al- said it was impossible to repeal This is the language that I intro- ways superior to my delivery. But it is ObamaCare, all the way up to 173; and duced long back when people said it’s this, Mr. Speaker. Congressman PENCE it became bipartisan with the signa- just a frustrating, political exercise. of Indiana said, if House Republicans ture of Gene Taylor, whom, I believe, You will never repeal ObamaCare. You got the message from the American would have been re-elected to this Con- can’t get a vote on ObamaCare, so why people last November, ‘‘we won’t just gress had he not voted for NANCY are you going through the motions? vote once to repeal ObamaCare; we will PELOSI. He did lose his election. And he It’s just a legislative tantrum. No, it’s vote to repeal ObamaCare again and served well here in this Congress. not. It’s tangible. It’s not a tantrum. again until we consign their govern- But the result of this is that the ex- It’s tangible. It’s here. It’s here before ment takeover of health care to the istence of the bill to repeal ObamaCare us now. ash heap of history—where it belongs.’’ in the last Congress was inspiring to Here’s the second component of it. Nice quote, MIKE PENCE. It sounds new candidates that ran for office. It This is the reconciliation package that like Ronald Reagan to me. ‘‘We will was inspiring to their supporters. It couldn’t be addressed on the day it vote . . . again and again until we con- was inspiring to their constituents and passed but can now. It says this: ‘‘Ef- sign their government takeover of their voters. And the discharge peti- fective as of the enactment of the health care to the ash heap of history— tion, with 173 signatures said, Repub- Health Care and Education Reconcili- where it belongs.’’ licans have the resolve to repeal ation Act of 2010,’’ the Senate Rec- I intend to stay with this with an ObamaCare. Republicans have the re- onciliation Act, ‘‘Public Law 111–152, even heightened level of persistence, solve. title I and subtitle B of title II of such Mr. Speaker, to bring about the final And so the inspiration and the re- act are repealed, and the provisions of and complete repeal of ObamaCare, Mr. solve, along with a fairly long list of law amended or repealed by such title Speaker, to be able to one day watch as anti-free market, anti-freedom things or subtitle, respectively, are restored the President of the United States, the that took place out of the Pelosi Con- or revived as if such title and subtitle next President probably, puts an end to gress and the Obama administration, had not been enacted.’’ ObamaCare. It will take persistence on all contributed to give us the inertia to Once again, the repetition of that our part. It will take determination. get to this point to where we are today. language, for the two major compo- We will pass this out of the House. We But the legislation that I introduced nents of ObamaCare now, they are re- can pass it again and again, send it then, actually amended at the end of pealed, and the provisions of law over to the Senate where HARRY REID the last Congress because it needed to amended or restored by such title or gets a hot potato on his lap that gets consider the reconciliation package subtitle, respectively, are restored or hotter and bigger each time. that came from the Senate after the revived as if such title or subtitle had We have appropriations bills coming bill was passed. It wasn’t possible for not been enacted. through here. We have a CR that ends me to introduce legislation to repeal March 4th, and everything that funds that because it hadn’t passed. So pack- b 1330 our government, we should put into aged it up together and put that in as Well, isn’t that refreshing, Mr. that language that prohibits any of the a squared away, on point, full 100 per- Speaker, that we have a piece of legis- dollars from being used to implement cent repeal of ObamaCare legislation lation here that’s not 2,500 pages. It’s or enforce ObamaCare. We can shut off that I introduced, again with MICHELLE not so long and complicated that we all of the implementation of BACHMANN on the last day of the last can’t read it here on the floor. It’s not ObamaCare. If this House stands reso- Congress, and on the first day of this so complicated that anybody that lute and determined, there is not a Congress. And that’s the legislation, might be sitting in the gallery or dime that can be spent by the Federal that’s the language that is considered watching on C–SPAN or might be read- Government without our approval. So before this Congress and will be voted ing through the CONGRESSIONAL we can shut off the funding that imple- on Wednesday of next week and will re- RECORD can understand what is going ments or enforces ObamaCare, and we sult in the House repealing ObamaCare, on here. This is in the full light of day must. And we must stick with it. Mr. Speaker. with the support of the American peo- We must stick with it with the deter- And so it’s a 2,500-page bill. I ple. mination that comes from people like wouldn’t presume to come to the floor Sixty percent of the American peo- MIKE PENCE, with the tone that comes and read a 2,500-page bill, Mr. Speaker. ple, according to a Rasmussen poll here from Ronald Reagan that comes from But I would do this: I think it’s a de- sometime back, support the repeal of his mouth, and I think the determina- lightful experience to read a bill that’s ObamaCare, as do I. And, Mr. Speaker, tion that comes from Winston Church- short and to the point. And this is H.R. I look forward to the debate on ill. We will fight on this. We will fight 2; H.R. 2, the repeal of ObamaCare. And Wednesday. I look forward to the vote until the end. We have the majority to I’m going to just read this into the going up on the board on Wednesday. I start with now in the House. We shall RECORD, Mr. Speaker, aside from the look forward to the beginning of the re- not flag or fail. We shall go on to the titles, just down to the meat of the peal of ObamaCare. end. We shall fight with growing con- bill. And it won’t take very long. It’s The press asked me a question on fidence and growing strength, whatever actually, altogether now, 131 words. that earlier today: If you pass the re- the cost may be. We shall never sur- But it reads this way: ‘‘Effective as peal of ObamaCare—we will pass the render. We will carry on this struggle of the enactment of Public Law 111–148, repeal of ObamaCare—is that the end? until, in God’s good time, with all His

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(The following Members (at the re- anic and Atmospheric Administration, trans- The day will come, Mr. Speaker, that quest of Mr. POE of Texas) to revise and mitting the Administration’s final rule — the next President of the United extend their remarks and include ex- Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; States, I pray, stands on the west por- traneous material:) Northeast Multispecies Fishery; Emergency tico of the Capitol here in this building Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, for 5 minutes, Rule Extension, Pollock Catch Limit Revi- down that hallway and off to the left to today. sions [Docket No.: 100427197-0207-01] (RIN: take the oath of office. And when the Mr. PENCE, for 5 minutes, today. 0648-AW86) received January 4, 2011, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Chief Justice steps forward and he Mr. BARTLETT, for 5 minutes, Janu- Natural Resources. takes his oath on the Bible, I want to ary 11 and 12. 51. A letter from the Chief Counsel, Depart- see that next President of the United Mr. PAUL, for 5 minutes, January 11 ment of the Treasury, transmitting the De- States take that oath with pen in hand, and 12. partment’s final rule — Regulations Gov- Mr. Speaker, and I want him to take f erning Book-Entry Treasury Bonds, Notes the oath, ‘‘preserve, protect, and de- and Bills Held in Legacy Treasury Direct and fend the Constitution of the United ADJOURNMENT Regulations Governing Securities Held in States, so help me God.’’ And before he Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I Treasury Direct received January 4, 2011, move that the House do now adjourn. pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- even shakes the hand of the Chief Jus- mittee on Ways and Means. tice to be congratulated as the next The motion was agreed to; accord- 52. A letter from the Chief, Publications President of the United States, I want ingly (at 1 o’clock and 43 minutes and Regulations, Internal Revenue Service, that pen in that hand to come down on p.m.), under its previous order, the transmitting the Service’s final rule — Nu- the podium and sign into law the final House adjourned until Tuesday, Janu- clear Decommissioning Funds [TD 9512] repeal of ObamaCare as the first act of ary 11, 2011, at noon for morning-hour (RIN: 1545-BF08) received December 23, 2010, office of the next President of the debate and 2 p.m. for legislative busi- pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- mittee on Ways and Means. United States, and I will support the ness. 53. A letter from the Director, Office of man or woman that’s willing to do f Regulations, Social Security Administra- that. tion, transmitting the Administration’s final EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, Mr. Speaker, I appreciate your atten- rule — Amendments to Regulations Regard- tion and the honor to address you. ETC. ing Withdrawal of Applications and Vol- I yield back the balance of my time. Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive untary Suspension of Benefits [Docket No.: SSA 2009-0073] (RIN: 0960-AH07) received Jan- f communications were taken from the Speaker’s table and referred as follows: uary 4, 2011, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); RECESS to the Committee on Ways and Means. 44. A letter from the Director, Regulatory The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Review Group, Department of Agriculture, f ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair transmitting the Department’s final rule — PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Tobacco Transition Payment Program; To- declares the House in recess subject to Under clause 2 of rule XII, public the call of the Chair. bacco Transition Assessments (RIN: 0560- AH30) received January 4, 2011, pursuant to 5 bills and resolutions of the following Accordingly (at 1 o’clock and 35 min- titles were introduced and severally re- utes p.m.), the House stood in recess U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Ag- riculture. ferred, as follows: subject to the call of the Chair. 45. A letter from the Associate General By Mr. BROUN of Georgia (for himself, f Counsel for Legislation and Regulations Di- Mr. AKIN, Mr. ALEXANDER, Mr. BART- b 1342 vision, Department of Housing and Urban LETT, Mr. BISHOP of Utah, Mr. Development, transmitting the Depart- CARTER, Mr. CHAFFETZ, Mr. COLE, Mr. AFTER RECESS ment’s final rule — Conforming Changes to CONAWAY, Mr. FLEMING, Mr. FORBES, The recess having expired, the House Applicant Submission Requirements; Imple- Ms. FOXX, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, menting Federal Financial Report and Cen- was called to order by the Speaker pro Mr. GARRETT, Mr. GINGREY of Geor- tral Contractor Registration Requirements gia, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. JONES, Mr. tempore (Mr. FLEISCHMANN) at 1 [Docket No.: FR-5350-F-02] (RIN: 2501-AD50) KING of Iowa, Mr. KINGSTON, Mr. o’clock and 42 minutes p.m. received January 4, 2011, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. KLINE, Mr. LAMBORN, Mr. LATTA, Mr. f 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Financial MANZULLO, Mr. MARCHANT, Mr. Services. LEAVE OF ABSENCE MCHENRY, Mr. MCKINLEY, Mr. MILLER 46. A letter from the General Counsel, Na- of Florida, Mrs. MYRICK, Mr. By unanimous consent, leave of ab- tional Credit Union Administration, trans- NEUGEBAUER, Mr. OLSON, Mr. ROE of sence was granted to: mitting the Administration’s final rule — Tennessee, Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky, Mr. JONES (at the request of Mr. CAN- Corporate Credit Unions, Technical Correc- Mr. ROGERS of Alabama, Mr. ROONEY, tions (RIN: 3133-AD58) received January 4, TOR) for today on account of personal Mr. SCALISE, Mr. SCHOCK, Mr. TERRY, 2011, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the reasons. Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania, Mr. Committee on Financial Services. WESTMORELAND, Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Mr. SMITH of Nebraska (at the re- 47. A letter from the Secretary, Securities Texas, Mr. HERGER, Mr. BURTON of quest of Mr. CANTOR) for today on ac- and Exchange Commission, transmitting the Indiana, Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin, Mr. count of attending his grandmother’s Commission’s final rule — Temporary Rule GARY G. MILLER of California, Mr. funeral. Regarding Principal Trades with Certain Ad- ADERHOLT, Mr. BACHUS, Mr. visory Clients (RIN: 3235-AJ96) received De- f CRAWFORD, Mr. LONG, Mr. PEARCE, cember 29, 2010, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. Mrs. BLACK, Mr. GIBBS, Mr. SPECIAL ORDERS GRANTED 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Financial HUELSKAMP, Mr. LUETKEMEYER, Mr. By unanimous consent, permission to Services. ROKITA, and Mr. WITTMAN): 48. A letter from the Secretary, Securities address the House, following the legis- H.R. 212. A bill to provide that human life and Exchange Commission, transmitting the shall be deemed to begin with fertilization; lative program and any special orders Commission’s final rule — Amendments to to the Committee on the Judiciary. heretofore entered, was granted to: Form ADV; Extension of Compliance Date By Mr. YOUNG of Alaska (for himself, (The following Members (at the re- (RIN: 3235-AI17) received December 29, 2010, Mrs. MYRICK, and Mr. BURTON of Indi- quest of Ms. KAPTUR) to revise and ex- pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- ana): tend their remarks and include extra- mittee on Financial Services. H.R. 213. A bill to establish a moratorium neous material:) 49. A letter from the Deputy Director, Reg- on regulatory rulemaking actions, and for Mr. BLUMENAUER, for 5 minutes, ulations Policy and Management Staff, De- other purposes; to the Committee on Over- today. partment of Health and Human Services, sight and Government Reform, and in addi- transmitting the Department’s final rule — tion to the Committee on the Judiciary, for Mr. MCDERMOTT, for 5 minutes, Amendments to General Regulations of the a period to be subsequently determined by today. Food and Drug Administration [Docket No.: the Speaker, in each case for consideration Mr. AL GREEN of Texas, for 5 min- FDA-2010-N-0560] (RIN: 0910-AG55) received of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- utes, today. January 4, 2011, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. tion of the committee concerned.

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By Mr. YOUNG of Alaska: WALBERG, Mr. MICA, Mr. RENACCI, Mr. area where the facility is located, and for H.R. 214. A bill to establish a Congressional LAMBORN, Mr. CARTER, Mr. other purposes; to the Committee on Energy Office of Regulatory Analysis, to require the CULBERSON, Mr. ROKITA, Mr. PLATTS, and Commerce, and in addition to the Com- periodic review and automatic termination and Mr. LANKFORD): mittee on Homeland Security, for a period to of Federal regulations, and for other pur- H.R. 217. A bill to amend title X of the be subsequently determined by the Speaker, poses; to the Committee on the Judiciary, Public Health Service Act to prohibit family in each case for consideration of such provi- and in addition to the Committee on Over- planning grants from being awarded to any sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the sight and Government Reform, for a period entity that performs abortions, and for other committee concerned. to be subsequently determined by the Speak- purposes; to the Committee on Energy and By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: er, in each case for consideration of such pro- Commerce. H.R. 226. A bill to strengthen the Notifica- visions as fall within the jurisdiction of the By Mr. BACA: tion and Federal Employee Antidiscrimina- committee concerned. H.R. 218. A bill to amend the Immigration tion and Retaliation Act of 2002, and for By Mr. YOUNG of Alaska: and Nationality Act to provide for natu- other purposes; to the Committee on Over- H.R. 215. A bill to repeal the Patient Pro- ralization for certain high school graduates; sight and Government Reform, and in addi- tection and Affordable Care Act and title I of to the Committee on the Judiciary. tion to the Committee on the Judiciary, for the Health Care and Education Reconcili- By Mr. PAUL: a period to be subsequently determined by ation Act of 2010 while preserving the reau- H.R. 219. A bill to amend title II of the So- the Speaker, in each case for consideration thorization of the Indian Health Care Im- cial Security Act to ensure the integrity of of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- provement Act; to the Committee on Energy the Social Security trust funds by requiring tion of the committee concerned. and Commerce, and in addition to the Com- the Managing Trustee to invest the annual By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: mittees on Education and the Workforce, surplus of such trust funds in marketable in- H.R. 227. A bill to prevent children’s access Ways and Means, House Administration, terest-bearing obligations of the United to firearms; to the Committee on the Judici- Rules, the Judiciary, and Appropriations, for States and certificates of deposit in deposi- ary. a period to be subsequently determined by tory institutions insured by the Federal De- By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: the Speaker, in each case for consideration posit Insurance Corporation, and to protect H.R. 228. A bill to provide for the collection of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- such trust funds from the public debt limit; of data on traffic stops, and for other pur- tion of the committee concerned. to the Committee on Ways and Means. poses; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of Cali- By Mr. PAUL: By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: fornia: H.R. 220. A bill to amend title II of the So- H.R. 229. A bill to amend title 23, United H.R. 216. A bill to require the Secretary of cial Security Act and the Internal Revenue States Code, to establish national standards Homeland Security to issue a rule with re- Code of 1986 to protect the integrity and con- for State safety inspections of motor vehi- spect to border security searches of elec- fidentiality of Social Security account num- cles, and for other purposes; to the Com- tronic devices, and for other purposes; to the bers issued under such title, to prohibit the mittee on Transportation and Infrastruc- Committee on Homeland Security. establishment in the Federal Government of ture. By Mr. PENCE (for himself, Mrs. any uniform national identifying number, By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: H.R. 230. A bill to authorize the Secretary BACHMANN, Mr. SCALISE, Mr. OLSON, and to prohibit Federal agencies from impos- of Energy to make loan guarantees for cellu- Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky, Mrs. ing standards for identification of individ- losic ethanol production technology develop- MCMORRIS RODGERS, Ms. JENKINS, uals on other agencies or persons; to the ment; to the Committee on Energy and Com- Mr. ROE of Tennessee, Mr. STUTZMAN, Committee on Ways and Means, and in addi- merce, and in addition to the Committee on Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. MCKEON, Mr. tion to the Committee on Oversight and Gov- Science, Space, and Technology, for a period JONES, Mr. SULLIVAN, Mr. GARRETT, ernment Reform, for a period to be subse- to be subsequently determined by the Speak- Mr. MCCLINTOCK, Mr. NEUGEBAUER, quently determined by the Speaker, in each er, in each case for consideration of such pro- Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. AKIN, Mr. BURTON case for consideration of such provisions as of Indiana, Mr. JORDAN, Mr. MAN- visions as fall within the jurisdiction of the fall within the jurisdiction of the committee committee concerned. ZULLO, Mr. TURNER, Mr. CHAFFETZ, concerned. Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin, Mr. GARY G. By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: H.R. 231. A bill to increase the evidentiary MILLER of California, Mr. WESTMORE- H.R. 221. A bill to amend title 18, United LAND, Mr. PAUL, Mr. BARTLETT, Mr. standard required to convict a person for a States Code, to provide penalties for dis- drug offense, to require screening of law en- PITTS, Mr. POE of Texas, Mr. BACHUS, playing nooses in public with intent to har- Mr. BRADY of Texas, Mr. BROUN of forcement officers or others acting under ass or intimidate a person because of that color of law participating in drug task Georgia, Mr. ADERHOLT, Mr. TERRY, person’s race, color, religion, or national ori- Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky, Mr. forces, and for other purposes; to the Com- gin; to the Committee on the Judiciary. mittee on the Judiciary. CONAWAY, Mr. MILLER of Florida, Mr. By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: KING of Iowa, Mr. BISHOP of Utah, Mr. By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: H.R. 222. A bill to amend title XVIII of the H.R. 232. A bill to recognize the extraor- SIMPSON, Mr. FLAKE, Mrs. MILLER of Social Security Act to require hospitals re- dinary performance of the Armed Forces in Michigan, Mr. HENSARLING, Mr. imbursed under the Medicare system to es- achieving the military objectives of the HERGER, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. tablish and implement security procedures United States in Iraq, to terminate the Au- CRAWFORD, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, to reduce the likelihood of infant patient ab- thorization for Use of Military Force Against Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio, Mr. GARDNER, duction and baby switching, including proce- Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107-243), Mr. CANSECO, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. dures for identifying all infant patients in to require congressional reauthorization to THOMPSON of Pennsylvania, Mr. ROSS the hospital in a manner that ensures that it continue deployment of the Armed Forces to of Florida, Mr. POMPEO, Mr. BUCSHON, will be evident if infants are missing from Iraq, and for other purposes; to the Com- Mr. FLEMING, Mr. COLE, Mr. LATTA, the hospital; to the Committee on Ways and mittee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to Mr. MCHENRY, Mr. MARCHANT, Mr. Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Committee on Armed Services, for a pe- DUFFY, Mr. CAMPBELL, Mr. MURPHY the Judiciary, and Energy and Commerce, riod to be subsequently determined by the of Pennsylvania, Mr. RIGELL, Mr. BU- for a period to be subsequently determined Speaker, in each case for consideration of CHANAN, Mr. DUNCAN of South Caro- by the Speaker, in each case for consider- such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- lina, Mr. MCCAUL, Mr. MCKINLEY, Mr. ation of such provisions as fall within the ju- tion of the committee concerned. GOSAR, Mr. CRAVAACK, Mr. WALSH of risdiction of the committee concerned. By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: Illinois, Mr. REED, Mr. PEARCE, Mr. By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: H.R. 233. A bill to reform the provisions re- ROGERS of Alabama, Mr. GIBBS, Mr. H.R. 223. A bill to amend title 18, United quiring ‘‘one-strike’’ eviction from public LONG, Mr. KLINE, Mr. PRICE of Geor- States Code, to provide an alternate release and federally assisted housing; to the Com- gia, Mr. LUETKEMEYER, Mr. COFFMAN date for certain nonviolent offenders, and for mittee on Financial Services. of Colorado, Mr. YOUNG of Indiana, other purposes; to the Committee on the Ju- By Mrs. BLACKBURN (for herself, Mr. Ms. BUERKLE, Mr. HALL, Mrs. diciary. AKIN, Mr. CARTER, and Mr. MAN- ELLMERS, Mr. HUELSKAMP, Mr. WEST, By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: ZULLO): Mr. RIBBLE, Mr. NUNNELEE, Mr. H.R. 224. A bill to enhance Federal enforce- H.R. 234. A bill to amend title II of the So- MULVANEY, Mr. BROOKS, Mr. ment of hate crimes, and for other purposes; cial Security Act to establish a Social Secu- SOUTHERLAND, Mrs. SCHMIDT, Mr. to the Committee on the Judiciary. rity Surplus Protection Account in the Fed- HUNTER, Mrs. BLACK, Mr. MCCOTTER, By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: eral Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Mr. FORBES, Mr. QUAYLE, Mr. DUNCAN H.R. 225. A bill to provide that no Federal Fund to hold the Social Security surplus, to of Tennessee, Mr. GRAVES of Georgia, funds may be used by the Secretary of Home- provide for suspension of investment of Mr. CALVERT, Mr. HUIZENGA of Michi- land Security to approve a site security plan amounts held in the Account until enact- gan, Mr. GINGREY of Georgia, Mrs. for a chemical facility, unless the facility ment of legislation providing for investment LUMMIS, Mr. SHUSTER, Mr. POSEY, meets or exceeds security standards and re- of the Trust Fund in investment vehicles Mrs. HARTZLER, Mr. GOWDY, Mr. quirements to protect the facility against other than obligations of the United States, HARPER, Mr. SCHOCK, Mr. GOODLATTE, acts of terrorism established for such a facil- and to establish a Social Security Invest- Mr. SHIMKUS, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. ity by the State or local government for the ment Commission to make recommendations

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A bill to amend title 35, United sludge was applied; to the Committee on En- spending; to the Committee on Appropria- States Code, to modify the penalty for false ergy and Commerce, and in addition to the tions, and in addition to the Committees on marking, and for other purposes; to the Com- Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be Foreign Affairs, Financial Services, Natural mittee on the Judiciary. subsequently determined by the Speaker, in Resources, Oversight and Government Re- By Mr. LATTA (for himself, Ms. JEN- each case for consideration of such provi- form, House Administration, Education and KINS, and Mr. TURNER): sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the the Workforce, Ways and Means, Transpor- H.R. 244. A bill to prohibit the use of cer- committee concerned. tation and Infrastructure, Science, Space, tain stimulus and disaster relief funds for By Mr. SERRANO: and Technology, Armed Services, Agri- business relocation incentives; to the Com- H.R. 255. A bill to lift the trade embargo on culture, and Energy and Commerce, for a pe- mittee on Oversight and Government Re- Cuba, and for other purposes; to the Com- riod to be subsequently determined by the form, and in addition to the Committees on mittee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to Speaker, in each case for consideration of Financial Services, and Transportation and the Committees on Ways and Means, Energy such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- Infrastructure, for a period to be subse- and Commerce, Financial Services, the Judi- tion of the committee concerned. quently determined by the Speaker, in each ciary, Oversight and Government Reform, By Mr. BUCHANAN: case for consideration of such provisions as and Agriculture, for a period to be subse- H.R. 236. A bill to provide that rates of pay fall within the jurisdiction of the committee quently determined by the Speaker, in each for Members of Congress shall not be ad- concerned. case for consideration of such provisions as justed under section 601(a)(2) of the Legisla- By Mr. PENCE: fall within the jurisdiction of the committee tive Reorganization Act of 1946 in the year H.R. 245. A bill to amend the Federal Re- concerned. following any fiscal year in which outlays of serve Act to remove the mandate on the By Mr. SERRANO: H.R. 256. A bill to waive certain prohibi- the United States exceeded receipts of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve tions with respect to nationals of Cuba com- United States; to the Committee on House System and the Federal Open Market Com- ing to the United States to play organized Administration, and in addition to the Com- mittee to focus on maximum employment; professional baseball; to the Committee on mittee on Oversight and Government Re- to the Committee on Financial Services. Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Com- form, for a period to be subsequently deter- By Mr. PLATTS: H.R. 246. A bill to repeal the provision of mittee on the Judiciary, for a period to be mined by the Speaker, in each case for con- law that provides for automatic pay adjust- subsequently determined by the Speaker, in sideration of such provisions as fall within ments for Members of Congress; to the Com- each case for consideration of such provi- the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. mittee on House Administration, and in ad- sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the By Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia: committee concerned. H.R. 237. A bill to amend the Homeowners dition to the Committee on Oversight and By Mr. SERRANO: Assistance Program of the Department of Government Reform, for a period to be sub- sequently determined by the Speaker, in H.R. 257. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- Defense to give the Secretary of Defense enue Code of 1986 to allow taxpayers to des- flexibility regarding setting the commence- each case for consideration of such provi- sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the ignate income tax overpayments as contribu- ment date for homeowner assistance for committee concerned. tions to the United States Library Trust members of the Armed Forces permanently By Mr. RYAN of Ohio (for himself and Fund; to the Committee on Ways and Means, reassigned during the mortgage crisis; to the Ms. SUTTON): and in addition to the Committee on Edu- Committee on Armed Services, and in addi- H.R. 247. A bill to provide for the retention cation and the Workforce, for a period to be tion to the Committee on Financial Serv- of the name of Mount McKinley; to the Com- subsequently determined by the Speaker, in ices, for a period to be subsequently deter- mittee on Natural Resources. each case for consideration of such provi- mined by the Speaker, in each case for con- By Mr. SERRANO: sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the sideration of such provisions as fall within H.R. 248. A bill to provide for identification committee concerned. the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. of members of the Armed Forces exposed By Mr. WITTMAN: By Mrs. EMERSON: during military service to depleted uranium, H.R. 258. A bill to require the Office of H.R. 238. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- to provide for health testing of such mem- Management and Budget to prepare a cross- enue Code of 1986 to allow a refundable credit bers, and for other purposes; to the Com- cut budget for restoration activities in the to military retirees for premiums paid for mittee on Armed Services. Chesapeake Bay watershed, to require the coverage under Medicare Part B; to the Com- By Mr. SERRANO: Environmental Protection Agency to de- mittee on Ways and Means. H.R. 249. A bill to permit Members of Con- velop and implement an adaptive manage- By Mrs. EMERSON: gress to administer the oath of allegiance to ment plan, and for other purposes; to the H.R. 239. A bill to amend title II of the So- applicants for naturalization; to the Com- Committee on Natural Resources, and in ad- cial Security Act to provide for an improved mittee on the Judiciary. dition to the Committee on Transportation benefit computation formula for workers af- By Mr. SERRANO: and Infrastructure, for a period to be subse- fected by the changes in benefit computation H.R. 250. A bill to provide discretionary au- quently determined by the Speaker, in each rules enacted in the Social Security Amend- thority to an immigration judge to deter- case for consideration of such provisions as ments of 1977 who attain age 65 during the 10- mine that an alien parent of a United States fall within the jurisdiction of the committee year period after 1981 and before 1992 (and re- citizen child should not be ordered removed, concerned. lated beneficiaries) and to provide prospec- deported, or excluded from the United By Mr. BROUN of Georgia (for himself, tively for increases in their benefits accord- States; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. DUNCAN ingly; to the Committee on Ways and Means. By Mr. SERRANO: of Tennessee, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, By Mr. FILNER: H.R. 251. A bill to authorize the Secretary Mr. GINGREY of Georgia, Mr. JONES, H.R. 240. A bill to amend title 38, United of the Interior to study the suitability and Mr. PITTS, Mr. LAMBORN, Mr. States Code, to promote jobs for veterans feasibility of designating Oak Point and MCCLINTOCK, Mr. LONG, Mr. GIBBS, through the use of sole source contracts by North Brother Island in the Bronx in the Mr. WEST, Mr. GRAVES of Missouri, Department of Veterans Affairs for purposes State of New York as a unit of the National and Mr. BASS of New Hampshire): of meeting the contracting goals and pref- Park System; to the Committee on Natural H.J. Res. 11. A joint resolution proposing erences of the Department of Veterans Af- Resources. an amendment to the Constitution of the fairs for small business concerns owned and By Mr. SERRANO: United States to balance the Federal budget; controlled by veterans; to the Committee on H.R. 252. A bill to require an annual report to the Committee on the Judiciary. Veterans’ Affairs. on Federal funds distributed by Federal By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: By Mr. GALLEGLY: agencies through grant programs, formula H.J. Res. 12. A joint resolution denouncing H.R. 241. A bill to authorize the convey- programs, or otherwise, and for other pur- the practices of female genital mutilation, ance of certain National Forest System poses; to the Committee on Oversight and domestic violence, ‘‘honor’’ killings, acid lands in the Los Padres National Forest in Government Reform. burnings, dowry deaths, and other gender- California; to the Committee on Natural Re- By Mr. SERRANO: based persecutions, expressing the sense of sources. H.R. 253. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- Congress that participation, protection, rec- By Mr. HERGER (for himself, Mr. enue Code of 1986 to provide a business credit ognition, and equality of women is crucial to MCCLINTOCK, Mr. MCCARTHY of Cali- relating to the use of clean-fuel and fuel effi- achieving a just, moral and peaceful society, fornia, and Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of cient vehicles by businesses within areas des- and for other purposes; to the Committee on California): ignated as nonattainment areas under the Foreign Affairs. H.R. 242. A bill to clarify the implementa- Clean Air Act; to the Committee on Ways By Mrs. EMERSON: tion and enforcement of Subpart B of the and Means. H.J. Res. 13. A joint resolution proposing Travel Management Rule (36 C.F.R. 212), re- By Mr. SERRANO: an amendment to the Constitution of the lating to the designation of roads, trails, and H.R. 254. A bill to amend the Food, Drug, United States giving Congress power to pro- areas for motor vehicle use, in administra- and Cosmetic Act and the egg, meat, and hibit the physical desecration of the flag of

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By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: to the Committee on the Judiciary. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 224. By Mr. PLATTS: lation pursuant to the following: Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.J. Res. 15. A joint resolution proposing Section five of the 14th article of Amend- lation pursuant to the following: an amendment to the Constitution of the ment to the Constitution of the United This bill in enacted pursuant to the power United States to authorize the line item States, which states ‘‘The Congress shall granted to Congress under Article 1, Section veto; to the Committee on the Judiciary. have power to enforce, by appropriate legis- 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution. By Mr. KING of Iowa (for himself and lation, the provisions of this article.’’ Sec- By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: Mr. WOODALL): tion two of this article states ‘‘. . . nor shall H.R. 225. H.J. Res. 16. A joint resolution proposing any State deprive any person of life, liberty, Congress has the power to enact this legis- an amendment to the Constitution of the or property, without due process of law . . .’’ lation pursuant to the following: United States to repeal the sixteenth article By Mr. YOUNG of Alaska: This bill in enacted pursuant to the power of amendment; to the Committee on the Ju- H.R. 213. granted to Congress under Article 1, Section diciary. Congress has the power to enact this legis- 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution. By Mr. SERRANO: lation pursuant to the following: By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: H.J. Res. 17. A joint resolution proposing Clause 18 of Section 8 of Article 1 of the H.R. 226. an amendment to the Constitution of the Constitution. Congress has the power to enact this legis- United States to repeal the twenty-second By Mr. YOUNG of Alaska: lation pursuant to the following: article of amendment, thereby removing the H.R. 214. This bill in enacted pursuant to the power limitation on the number of terms an indi- Congress has the power to enact this legis- granted to Congress under Article 1, Section vidual may serve as President; to the Com- lation pursuant to the following: 8, Clause 18 of the United States Constitu- mittee on the Judiciary. Clause 18 of Section 8 of Article 1 of the tion. By Mr. TERRY: Constitution. By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: H.J. Res. 18. A joint resolution proposing a By Mr. YOUNG of Alaska: H.R. 227. balanced budget amendment to the Constitu- H.R. 215. Congress has the power to enact this legis- tion of the United States; to the Committee Congress has the power to enact this legis- lation pursuant to the following: on the Judiciary. lation pursuant to the following: This bill in enacted pursuant to the power By Mrs. EMERSON: Clause 3 of Section 8 of Article 1 of the granted to Congress under Article 1, Section H. Con. Res. 7. Concurrent resolution ex- Constitution. 8, Clause 18 of the United States Constitu- pressing the sense of Congress regarding the By Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of Cali- tion. need to prevent the closure or consolidation fornia: By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: of post offices; to the Committee on Over- H.R. 216. H.R. 228. sight and Government Reform. Congress has the power to enact this legis- Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mr. SERRANO: lation pursuant to the following: lation pursuant to the following: H. Con. Res. 8. Concurrent resolution enti- Section 1 of Amendment Number 4 of the This bill is enacted pursuant to the power tled the ‘‘English Plus Resolution’’; to the Constitution. granted to Congress under Article 1, Section Committee on Education and the Workforce. By Mr. PENCE: 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution. By Mr. DREIER: H.R. 217. By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: H. Res. 27. A resolution Relating to the Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 229. status of certain actions taken by Members- lation pursuant to the following: Congress has the power to enact this legis- elect; considered and agreed to. The Congress enacts this bill pursuant to lation pursuant to the following: By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article I of the This bill is enacted pursuant to the power H. Res. 28. A resolution expressing the United States Constitution. granted to Congress under Article 1, Section sense of the House of Representatives that By Mr. BACA: 8, Clause 18 of the United States Constitu- the Transportation Security Administration H.R. 218. tion. should, in accordance with existing law, en- Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: hance security against terrorist attack and lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 230. other security threats to our Nation’s rail Article I, Section 8, Clause 4. Congress has the power to enact this legis- and mass transit systems and other modes of By Mr. PAUL: lation pursuant to the following: surface transportation; and for other pur- H.R. 219. This bill is enacted pursuant to the power poses; to the Committee on Homeland Secu- Congress has the power to enact this legis- granted to Congress under Article 1, Section rity. lation pursuant to the following: 8, Clause 18 of the United States Constitu- By Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of Cali- The constitutional authority for the Social tion. fornia (for herself, Ms. ZOE LOFGREN Security Preservation Act is Article 1, Sec- By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: of California, and Mr. ROYCE): tion 9, Clause 7 giving Congress the author- H.R. 231. H. Res. 29. A resolution calling for Internet ity to control the expenditures of the federal Congress has the power to enact this legis- freedom in Vietnam; to the Committee on government. lation pursuant to the following: Foreign Affairs. By Mr. PAUL: This bill is enacted pursuant to the power By Mr. DEUTCH: H.R. 220. granted to Congress under Article 1, Section H. Res. 30. A resolution amending the Congress has the power to enact this legis- 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution. Rules of the House of Representatives to re- lation pursuant to the following: By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: quire that plain English section by section The Identity Theft Prevention Act is con- H.R. 232. analyses be posted on the Internet for bills stitutional because it protects the American Congress has the power to enact this legis- and joint resolutions reported by commit- people’s rights to be free from federal viola- lation pursuant to the following: tees; to the Committee on Rules. tions of their privacy as protected by the This bill is enacted pursuant to the Power f fourth and ninth amendments to the United granted to Congress under Article 1, Section States Constitution. 8, Clause 12. PRIVATE BILLS AND By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: RESOLUTIONS H.R. 221. H.R. 233. Under clause 3 of rule XII, Congress has the power to enact this legis- Congress has the power to enact this legis- Mr. KING of New York introduced a bill lation pursuant to the following: lation pursuant to the following: (H.R. 259) for the relief of Alemseghed Mussie This bill is enacted pursuant to the power This bill in enacted pursuant to the power Tesfamical; which was referred to the Com- granted to Congress under Article 1, Section granted to Congress under Article 1, Section mittee on the Judiciary. 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution. 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution. By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: By Mrs. BLACKBURN: f H.R. 222. H.R. 234. CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY Congress has the power to enact this legis- Congress has the power to enact this legis- STATEMENT lation pursuant to the following: lation pursuant to the following: This bill is enacted pursuant to the power Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1; Article 1, Pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII of granted to Congress under Article 1, Section Section 8, Clause 3; and Article 1, Section 8, the Rules of the House of Representa- 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution. Clause 14.

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According to Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 tion 8, Clause 18, which gives Congress the Congress has the power to enact this legis- of the Constitution: The Congress shall have power ‘‘To make all Laws which shall be nec- lation pursuant to the following: the power to enact this legislation to pro- essary and proper for carrying into Execu- The constitutional authority on which this mote the progress of science and useful arts, tion the foregoing Powers.’’ joint resolution rests is the power of Con- by securing for limited times to authors and By Mr. SERRANO: gress as enumerated in Article I, Section 9 of inventors the exclusive right to their respec- H.R. 251. the United States Constitution. tive writings and discoveries. Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia: By Mr. LATTA: lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 237. H.R. 244. Clause 2 of Section 3 of Article IV of the Congress has the power to enact this legis- Congress has the power to enact this legis- Constitution: lation pursuant to the following: lation pursuant to the following: The Congress shall have Power to dispose The constitutional authority on which this According to Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of and make all needful Rules and Regula- bill rests in at least two clauses enumerated of the Constitution: The Congress shall have tions respecting the Territory or other Prop- in Article I, Section 8 of the United States power to enact this legislation to regulate erty belonging to the United States; and Constitution. commerce with foreign nations, and among nothing in this Constitution shall be so con- Clause 14 grants the power of Congress ‘‘to the several states, and with the Indian strued as to Prejudice any Claims of the make Rules for the Government and Regula- tribes. United States, or of any particular State. tion of the land and naval Forces.’’ By Mr. SERRANO: Clause 18 grants the power of Congress ‘‘to By Mr. PENCE: H.R. 245. H.R. 252. make all Laws which shall be necessary and Congress has the power to enact this legis- Congress has the power to enact this legis- proper for carrying into Execution the fore- lation pursuant to the following: lation pursuant to the following: going Powers, and all other Powers vested by This legislation is introduced pursuant to The Congress enacts this bill pursuant to this Constitution in the Government of the Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 of the United Clause 5 of Section 8 of Article I of the United States, or in any Department or Offi- States Constitution, which states that ‘‘The United States Constitution. cer thereof,’’ as enumerated in Article I, Sec- Congress shall have power to dispose of and By Mr. PLATTS: tion 8, Clause 18 of the United States Con- make all needful rules and regulations re- H.R. 246. specting the territory or other property be- stitution. Congress has the power to enact this legis- Specifically, this bill amends the Dem- longing to the United States . . .’’ In addi- lation pursuant to the following: onstration Cities and Metropolitan Develop- Article I, Section 6—The Senators and tion, this legislation is introduced pursuant ment Act of 1966 to expand access to Depart- Representatives shall receive a Compensa- to Article I, Section 8, Clause 18, which ment of Defense (DOD) homeowners assist- tion for their Services, to be ascertained by states that Congress shall have the power ance for qualified members of the Armed Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the ‘‘To make all laws which shall be necessary Forces permanently reassigned during a des- United States. They shall in all Cases, except and proper for carrying into execution the ignated mortgage crisis to allow the Sec- Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be foregoing powers, and all other powers vest- retary of Defense greater flexibility regard- privileged from Arrest during their Attend- ed by this Constitution in the government of ing the dates of the availability of such as- ance at the Session of their respective the United States, or in any department or sistance. Houses, and in going to and returning from officer thereof.’’ By Mrs. EMERSON: the same; and for any Speech or Debate in ei- By Mr. SERRANO: H.R. 238. H.R. 253. ther House, they shall not be questioned in Congress has the power to enact this legis- Congress has the power to enact this legis- any other Place. lation pursuant to the following: lation pursuant to the following: The constitutional authority on which this No Senator or Representative shall, during This legislation is introduced pursuant to bill rests is the power of Congress to raise the Time for which he was elected, be ap- Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the Constitu- and maintain armed forces, as enumerated in pointed to any civil Office under the Author- tion, which states that ‘‘The Congress shall Article I, Section 8, Clauses 12, 13, and 14 of ity of the United States, which shall have have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, the United States Constitution, as well as been created, or the Emoluments whereof imposts and excises . . .’’ In addition, this the power to lay and collect taxes, provide shall have been encreased during such time; legislation is introduced pursuant to Article for the common defense and general welfare, and no Person holding any Office under the I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution, as enumerated in Article I, Section 8, Clause United States, shall be a Member of either which states that Congress shall have the 1. House during his Continuance in Office. power ‘‘to make all laws which shall be nec- And Amendment XXVII—Originally pro- By Mrs. EMERSON: essary and proper for carrying into execution posed Sept. 25, 1789. Ratified May 7, 1992. H.R. 239. the foregoing powers, and all other powers By Mr. RYAN of Ohio: Congress has the power to enact this legis- vested by this Constitution in the govern- H.R. 247. lation pursuant to the following: ment of the United States, or in any depart- Congress has the power to enact this legis- The constitutional authority on which this ment or officer thereof.’’ lation pursuant to the following: bill rests is the power of Congress to provide By Mr. SERRANO: The Congress enacts this bill pursuant to for the general welfare, as enumerated in Ar- H.R. 254. ticle I, Section 8, Clause 1. Clause 18 of Section 8 of Article I of the Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mr. FILNER: United States Constitution. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 240. By Mr. SERRANO: Clause 3 of section 8 of article I of the Con- Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 248. stitution— lation pursuant to the following: Congress has the power to enact this legis- The Congress shall have Power . . . To reg- Clause 18 of Section 8 of Article I of the lation pursuant to the following: ulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and Constitution. Article I, Section 8, Clause 14, which gives among the several States, and with the In- By Mr. GALLEGLY: Congress the power ‘‘To make Rules for the dian Tribes. H.R. 241. Government and Regulation of the land and In addition, Congress has the power to Congress has the power to enact this legis- naval Forces,’’ and Article I, Section 8, enact this legislation pursuant to the fol- lation pursuant to the following: Clause 18, which gives Congress the power lowing: Clause 18 of section 8 of article I of Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 of the U.S. ‘‘To make all Laws which shall be necessary the Constitution— Constitution, relating to the power to make and proper for carrying into Execution the The Congress shall have Power . . . To all laws necessary and proper for carrying foregoing Powers.’’ make all Laws which shall be necessary and out the powers vested in Congress. Also this By Mr. SERRANO: proper for carrying into Execution the fore- legislation can be enacted under the author- H.R. 249. going Powers, and all other Powers vested by ity granted in Article 4, Section 3, Clause 2, Congress has the power to enact this legis- the Constitution in the Government of the relating to the power of Congress to dispose lation pursuant to the following: United States, or in any Department or Offi- of and make all needful rules and regulations Article I, Section 8, Clause 4, which gives cer thereof. respecting the territory or other property Congress the power ‘‘To establish an uniform By Mr. SERRANO: belonging to the United States. Rule of Naturalization,’’ and Article I, Sec- H.R. 255. By Mr. HERGER: tion 8, Clause 18, which gives Congress the Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 242. power ‘‘To make all Laws which shall be nec- lation pursuant to the following: Congress has the power to enact this legis- essary and proper for carrying into Execu- Article I, Section 8, Clause 3, which gives lation pursuant to the following: tion the foregoing Powers.’’ Congress the power ‘‘To regulate Commerce

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with foreign Nations,’’ and Article I, Section Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 54: Mr. WELCH. 8, Clause 18, which gives Congress the power lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 61: Mr. WITTMAN, Mrs. LUMMIS, Mr. ‘‘To make all Laws which shall be necessary Article V.—The Congress, whenever two DUNCAN of South Carolina, Mr. GRAVES of and proper for carrying into Execution the thirds of both Houses shall deem it nec- Georgia, Mr. COFFMAN of Colorado, Mr. foregoing Powers.’’ essary, shall propose Amendments to this BILBRAY, Mr. CHAFFETZ, Mr. MCHENRY, Mr. By Mr. SERRANO: Constitution, or, on the Application of the LATTA, Mr. COLE, Mr. KLINE, Mr. GIBBS, Mr. H.R. 256. Legislatures of two thirds of the several LAMBORN, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. Congress has the power to enact this legis- States, shall call a Convention for proposing MCCLINTOCK, and Mr. PEARCE. lation pursuant to the following: Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be H.R. 96: Mr. MCKINLEY, Mr. MILLER of Flor- Article I, Section 8, Clause 3, which gives valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of ida, and Mrs. ELLMERS. Congress the power ‘‘To regulate Commerce this Constitution, when ratified by the Leg- H.R. 97: Mr. SCHOCK, Mr. NEUGEBAUER, Mr. with foreign Nations,’’ Article I, Section 8, islatures of three fourths of the several MACK, Mr. LUETKEMEYER, Mr. LAMBORN, Mrs. BIGGERT, Mr. POE of Texas, Mr. DUNCAN of Clause 4, which gives Congress the power States, or by Conventions in three fourths ‘‘To establish an uniform Rule of Naturaliza- South Carolina, Mr. YOUNG of Indiana, Mr. thereof, as the one or the other Mode of MCKINLEY, Mrs. ELLMERS, Mr. GERLACH, Mr. tion,’’ and Article I, Section 8, Clause 18, Ratification may be proposed by the Con- GINGREY of Georgia, Mrs. HARTZLER, Mr. which gives Congress the power ‘‘To make gress; Provided that no Amendment which GALLEGLY, Mr. FLORES, Mr. SHIMKUS, and all Laws which shall be necessary and proper may be made prior to the Year One thousand Mr. SULLIVAN. for carrying into Execution the foregoing eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner H.R. 103: Mr. ROHRABACHER. Powers.’’ affect the first and fourth Clauses in the H.R. 104: Mr. FILNER. By Mr. SERRANO: Ninth Section of the first Article; and that H.R. 111: Ms. BORDALLO and Ms. KAPTUR. H.R. 257. no State, without its Consent, shall be de- H.R. 120: Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. ROGERS of Congress has the power to enact this legis- prived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate. lation pursuant to the following: Kentucky, and Mr. WITTMAN. By Mr. KING of Iowa: H.R. 121: Mr. LANKFORD. The Congress shall have Power to lay and H.J. Res. 16. collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, H.R. 140: Mr. CAMPBELL, Mr. BARTLETT, Mr. Congress has the power to enact this legis- BURTON of Indiana, Mr. WEST, Mr. BILBRAY, to pay the Debts and provide for the common lation pursuant to the following: Defence and general Welfare of the United Mr. BROUN of Georgia, Mr. HUNTER, Mrs. This joint resolution is enacted pursuant SCHMIDT, Mr. STUTZMAN, Mr. HALL, Mr. GAR- States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises to the power granted to Congress to propose RETT, Mr. WOMACK, Mr. MCKINLEY, Mr. shall be uniform throughout the United amendments to the Constitution under Arti- JONES, Mr. COFFMAN of Colorado, Mr. FLEM- States. (Article I, Section 8, Clause 1) cle V of the United States Constitution. ING, Mr. POSEY, Mr. AKIN, Mr. CALVERT, Mr. The Congress shall have Power to make all By Mr. SERRANO: CARTER, Mr. ROSS of Florida, Mr. WESTMORE- Laws which shall be necessary and proper for H.J. Res. 17. LAND, and Mr. CRAWFORD. carrying into Execution the foregoing Pow- Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 143: Mrs. LUMMIS, Mr. HUELSKAMP, Mr. ers, and all other Powers vested by the Con- lation pursuant to the following: RIBBLE, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mrs. SCHMIDT, and stitution in the Government of the United This proposed constitutional amendment is Mr. ROKITA. States, or in any Department or Officer introduced pursuant to Article V of the Con- H.R. 144: Mr. KING of New York, Mr. thereof. (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18) stitution. In Whitehill v. Elkins (1967), the SCHOCK, Mr. HUELSKAMP, Ms. GRANGER, and By Mr. WITTMAN: Supreme Court’s majority opinion stated Ms. BERKLEY. H.R. 258. that ‘‘there is no restraint on the kind of H.R. 168: Mr. LEWIS of Georgia. Congress has the power to enact this legis- amendment that may be offered,’’ under Ar- H.R. 178: Mr. JONES. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 192: Ms. LEE of California, Mr. SCHIFF, Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the Con- ticle V of the Constitution. In addition, this proposed constitutional amendment is intro- Mr. STARK, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Ms. SPEIER, stitution of the United States grants Con- Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California, Mr. HIN- gress the authority to enact this bill. duced in relation to the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, which this joint resolution CHEY, Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Ms. RICHARDSON, By Mr. KING of New York: Mr. FARR, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. HONDA, Ms. ZOE seeks to repeal. H.R. 259. LOFGREN of California, and Mrs. CAPPS. By Mr. TERRY: Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.J. Res. 3: Mr. MANZULLO, Mr. ROGERS of H.J. Res. 18. lation pursuant to the following: Alabama, Mr. MCHENRY, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. Article I, Section 8, Clause 4—The Con- Congress has the power to enact this legis- KING of Iowa, and Mr. BURTON of Indiana. lation pursuant to the following: gress shall have Power to establish an uni- H.J. Res. 9: Mr. BURTON of Indiana and Mr. form Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Article Five of the Constitution—The Con- POE of Texas. gress, whenever two thirds of both Houses Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies H. Con. Res. 3: Mr. HALL, Mr. WITTMAN, and throughout the United States. shall deem it necessary, shall propose Mr. SCHOCK. By Mr. BROUN of Georgia: Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the H. Res. 19: Ms. LEE of California, Mr. RUSH, H.J. Res. 11. Application of the Legislatures of two thirds and Ms. MOORE. Congress has the power to enact this legis- of the several States, shall call a Convention H. Res. 20: Mr. BERMAN, Ms. FUDGE, Mr. lation pursuant to the following: for proposing Amendments, which, in either MCDERMOTT, Mr. MARKEY, and Mr. Article Five of the Constitution of the Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Pur- BUTTERFIELD. United States, which states ‘‘The Congress, poses, as part of this Constitution, when H. Res. 21: Mr. CONYERS and Mr. STARK. whenever two thirds of both Houses shall ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in deem it necessary, shall propose Amend- f ments to this Constitution . . .’’ three fourths thereof, as the one or the other By Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas: Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the CONGRESSIONAL EARMARKS, LIM- H.J. Res. 12. Congress; Provided that no Amendment ITED TAX BENEFITS, OR LIM- Congress has the power to enact this legis- which may be made prior to the Year One ITED TARIFF BENEFITS lation pursuant to the following: thousand eight hundred and eight shall in Under clause 9 of rule XXI, lists or This bill in enacted pursuant to the power any Manner affect the first and fourth statements on congressional earmarks, granted to Congress under Article 1, Section Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Ar- limited tax benefits, or limited tariff 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution. ticle; and that no State, without its Consent, benefits were submitted as follows: By Mrs. EMERSON: shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the H.J. Res. 13. Senate. OFFERED BY MR. CAMP Congress has the power to enact this legis- The provisions that warranted a referral to lation pursuant to the following: f the Committee on Ways and Means in H.R. 2 The constitutional authority on which this ADDITIONAL SPONSORS do not contain any congressional earmarks, bill rests is the power of Congress to estab- Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors limited tax benefits, or limited tariff bene- lish Post Offices and post roads, as enumer- fits as defined in clause 9 of rule XXI of the were added to public bills and resolu- Rules of the House of Representatives. ated in Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the tions as follows: United States Constitution. OFFERED BY MR. ROGERS OF KENTUCKY H.R. 21: Mr. SCHOCK, Ms. JENKINS, Mr. By Mrs. EMERSON: HUNTER, Mr. ROKITA, Mr. WALBERG, and Mr. The provisions that warranted a referral to H.J. Res. 14. RENACCI. the Committee on Appropriations in H.R. 2 Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 23: Ms. BORDALLO and Mr. KING of New do not contain any congressional earmarks, lation pursuant to the following: York. limited tax benefits, or limited tariff bene- fits as defined in clause 9 of rule XXI. The constitutional authority on which this H.R. 27: Mr. KILDEE, Mr. SARBANES, Mr. bill rests is the power of Congress to propose HOLDEN, Mr. ISRAEL, Mr. DAVID SCOTT of OFFERED BY MR. UPTON Amendments to the Constitution, as enumer- Georgia, and Mr. CARNAHAN. The provisions that warranted a referral to ated in Article V of the United States Con- H.R. 38: Mr. HUNTER and Mr. RENACCI. the Committee on Energy and Commerce in stitution. H.R. 44: Ms. LEE of California, Mr. FILNER, H.R. 2 do not contain any Congressional ear- By Mr. PLATTS: and Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. marks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff H.J. Res. 15. H.R. 53: Mr. WELCH. benefits as defined in clause 9 of rule XXI.

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HONORING HARRELL FLETCHER CONGRATULATORY REMARKS FOR nity Well-Being at the New York Theological THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL Seminary, viewed the premiere showing of a FLORIDA film about their East Harlem ministries directed HON. LOIS CAPPS by the award-winning producer/director Jan Al- bert, shared heart-warming and sometime OF CALIFORNIA HON. SANDY ADAMS OF FLORIDA light-hearted reminiscences about Norman and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Margaret, and celebrated Norm’s 90th Birth- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES day over a communal meal at the Church. Friday, January 7, 2011 Friday, January 7, 2011 The celebrations are richly deserved, be- Mrs. CAPPS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Mrs. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to cause the devotion of Norman and Margaret mark the passing of an exemplary citizen of congratulate the University of Central Florida Eddy to the well-being of East Harlem resi- dents is truly remarkable. I came to know California’s Central Coast: Mr. Harrell Fletcher. on their historic victory over the Georgia Bull- dogs on December 31, 2010 in the Liberty them during the nine years I served as the Mr. Fletcher lived in the Santa Maria Valley Bowl. The Knights edged out the Bulldogs 10– New York City Council Member representing a for 80 years, moving to the area from Arkan- 6 in a fantastic game that demonstrated what district that included all of East Harlem. As sas as a young boy. He attended San Luis this young athletic program has to offer to the ministers of the East Harlem Protestant Parish Obispo High School and California State Poly- world of collegiate sports. on East 100th Street and later of The Church technic University, San Luis Obispo. He This was UCF’s first bowl game victory cap- of the Resurrection on East 1051st Street, moved to Santa Maria with the architecture ping off an astonishing year of being ranked they were involved in a myriad of community firm responsible for building Camp Cook, now for the first time in school history in the top 25 organizations that formed a vital network in ‘‘El Barrio.’’ These included but were not limited to Vandenberg Air Force Base, in the early of the AP Poll, USA Today Coaches Poll, Har- ris Poll and finishing their season at number the East Harlem School of Faith, East Harlem 1940’s. 25 in the BCS Standings. These achievements Healing Community, the East Harlem Church- Over his decades in the Santa Maria Valley, are a testament to the determination and es, the Community Urban Center, and East he seemed to fill every role in the community strength of the young people that this univer- Harlem School of Faith, and East Harlem at one time or another: local business owner, sity is turning out as the future leaders in our Interfaith. They also led a local neighborhood County Supervisor, school board member, community and country. committee to help those who became addicted founding member of the Los Padres National As the second largest university in the Na- to narcotics. Each was an open, friendly, and Bank, Fair board member and Coastal Com- tion, and my district’s flagship university, UCF vital presence who readily warmed to others mission member. He was the most senior land has been breaking barriers and earning its and infected others with their laughter and place at the top of every measure of student positive spirits. When Norman and Peg Eddy use consultant in the region and was the long- achievement, and this year was no exception. ministered to others in need, no matter how est serving member of the Santa Maria Valley I offer my warmest congratulations to the play- dire their circumstances, they always main- Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Fletcher also ers of this championship team, Coach O’Leary tained a sense of joy and optimism that served on literally dozens of other groups, or- and the entire Administrative staff for all their proved infectious. With courage and compas- ganizations and committees over the years, determination and hard work. sion, they reached out to those suffering from with each organization benefiting from his f HIV and AIDS at a time when misinformation strong work ethic and unique insight into our and a lack of public awareness created an im- community. IN HONOR OF THE REVEREND penetrable stigma around those infected with NORMAN EDDY AND THE LATE the virus. Mr. Fletcher and his wife Betty have been REVEREND MARGARET EDDY In recognition of their outstanding contribu- acknowledged frequently for their pivotal role FOR THEIR DECADES OF DEDI- tions to the well-being of the people they in the growth of Santa Maria Valley commu- CATED AND FAITHFUL SERVICE served and their extraordinary the civic life of nity. In March 2004, the City of Santa Maria, TO THE EAST HARLEM COMMU- our Nation’s greatest city, I ask that my distin- in honor of Harrell and Betty Fletcher, dedi- NITY guished colleagues join me in honoring the cated ‘‘Fletcher Park’’ on their behalf. In 2009, Reverends Norman and Margaret Eddy. the City Council declared July 24, 2009 as HON. CAROLYN B. MALONEY f ‘‘Harrell Fletcher Day.’’ OF NEW YORK RULES OF THE HOUSE On a personal note, Mr. Fletcher always ex- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tended a gracious hand when working with Friday, January 7, 2011 SPEECH OF both me and my late husband U.S. Rep. Wal- Mrs. MALONEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay HON. CORRINE BROWN ter Capps on a range of issues. We may have tribute to the Reverend Norman Eddy and his OF FLORIDA been of different political parties but that did late wife, the Reverend Margaret Eddy. Nor- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES not matter to Mr. Fletcher. He was always man and Margaret Eddy devoted themselves Wednesday, January 5, 2011 generous and affable, and always interested in to the Manhattan community of East Harlem, addressing the issues to make life better for one of the most underserved and impover- Ms. BROWN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise Santa Marians. Like my late husband, I con- ished communities in our Nation. Graduates of today to comment on clause 7 of House Rule sidered it an distinct honor and privilege to the Union Theological Seminary, they went on XII, which requires that Members submit a to minister to congregations at the East Har- statement citing the constitutional authority for work with someone so dedicated to his com- lem Protestant Parish and The Church of the any bill introduced in the House of Represent- munity, and who influenced so much of its Resurrection, helping countless individuals atives. Every member of this body takes an growth for so many years. and families better their lives. oath to support and defend the Constitution. Harrell Fletcher is survived by his wonderful At the end of February, the decades of serv- Therefore, this new rule adds nothing to the wife of almost 60 years, Betty, and their chil- ice to others by Norman and Margaret Eddy responsibilities we have already pledged to dren, grandchildren and great grandchildren. I were recognized at twin celebrations held at undertake. It does, however, add to the costs thank them for sharing Harrell and his many the New York Theological Seminary and at of government. Publishing each statement in talents with us these many years and offer my The Church of the Resurrection. Celebrants the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD will cost the tax- learned about the effort to launch a Program payers an estimated $570,000 each year for deepest condolences on their loss. Center for Spiritual Coordination and Commu- supplies, labor and delivery.

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Born and raised in Court has struck down laws a mere seventeen causes led to recognition as the Outstanding Paphos on Cyprus, he came to the United times. The number of acts courts have upheld Feminist 2001 by Florida NOW and Woman of States in 1984 after serving as an officer in is surely in the thousands. So I ask, what is the Year in 2008 by the Democratic Women’s the Cyprus National Guard. He earned a the Constitutional crisis this requirement ad- Club Palm Beach County. Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engi- dresses? Mr. Speaker, Katherine was deeply loved neering from the City College of New York The rule itself demonstrates the lack of ur- and widely respected by everyone who knew and an M.B.A. degree from Adelphi University gency here. It requires a perfunctory state- her. Today, our nation has lost someone who while working his way through school. He be- ment without explanation. Committees need represented all that is good in the world. came a principal at CY Electric Corp. not consider the statement, no Member will f Throughout his studies and his subsequent ever vote on it, and Senate bills can be con- professional success, he has remained ex- sidered without one. By omitting any teeth, the IN RECOGNITION OF THE traordinarily devoted to the cause of justice for rule clearly indicates that Members are al- PANPAPHIAN ASSOCIATION OF Cyprus; to the PanPaphian Association, which ready capable of ensuring that bills comply AMERICA ON THE OCCASION OF he has served as Vice President, Cultural Offi- with the Constitution. In the rare instance we ITS ANNUAL DINNER-DANCE cer, and Treasurer; and above all to his be- go too far, the courts are perfectly capable of loved family, Nancy (Nafsika), who was born correcting us. HON. CAROLYN B. MALONEY in Asgata, Cyprus, and his beautiful daugh- Sometimes, the Constitution itself must be OF NEW YORK ters, Demetra and Maria. corrected. For example, the original Constitu- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Speaker, I ask that my distinguished tion expressly allowed for slavery and counted Friday, January 7, 2011 colleagues rise to join me in paying tribute to slaves as three-fifths of a person. Certainly, I the PanPaphian Association of America, the would not be here to make this statement if no Mrs. MALONEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today recipients of its awards, and all its many con- one had challenged those provisions. Without to pay tribute to the PanPaphian Association tributions to the civic life of our Nation. the Fourteenth Amendment, the Constitution of America for its tremendous contributions to f would not guarantee the rights to due process our cultural and civic life. Founded more than and equal protection that are now fundamental two decades ago by Hellenic Cypriot Ameri- TRIBUTE TO CLARK COUNTY principles throughout American life. For over cans of Paphian ancestry, the Association has SHERIFF’S DEPUTY SUZANNE one hundred years, until 1920, it failed to en- carried out its vital educational, cultural, chari- WAUGHTEL HOPPER sure that women had a right to vote. Imagine table, and humanitarian mission while helping a country in which only white, land-owning promote peace, unity, and understanding on HON. STEVE AUSTRIA men could vote—that is the world we would the occupied island of Cyprus. OF OHIO live in if we were bound by the words of the The PanPaphian Association of America IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Constitution as written. held the Ninth Evagoras Pallikarides Award of Finally, while we respect the Constitution’s Merit dinner-dance last month. The Evagoras Friday, January 7, 2011 limits on governmental action, we must re- Pallikarides Award of Merit was bestowed Mr. AUSTRIA. Mr. Speaker, today I will be member that the framers purposely created a upon Mr. Alkinoos Ioannidis for his dedication traveling back to Ohio to express my sym- living document and intended it to grow and to promoting Hellenic culture through music pathy to the family of Clark County Sheriff’s change with the country. The Constitution is a and song. Born and raised in Nicosia, Cyprus, Deputy Suzanne Waughtel Hopper. Deputy work in progress and what we do in Congress Mr. Ioannidis studied classical guitar at the Hopper’s funeral will be at 11:00 a.m. on Fri- can help push it forward. Clauses we cite now European Conservatory, moved to Athens, day, January 7, 2011. may not exist or may be understood differently and was signed by Universal Music at age 23. Deputy Hopper was killed in the line of duty in the future. Pretending otherwise through He went on to pursue a successful career in on New Year’s Day while responding to shots empty (and costly) formalities does a dis- acting and music, eventually focusing his ef- fired in a local community. Because of her de- service to its spirit and the causes of freedom forts as a thriving musical performer and com- cisive action, courage and bravery lives were and justice. poser with many successful recordings. Influ- saved. She is a true American hero. f enced by traditional Cypriot music, the Greek f composers of the last decades, and classical, HONORING THE LIFE OF jazz and rock genres. He often performs with IMAN ABBASI KATHERINE C. KELLY orchestras and ensembles. Above all, he re- HON. ALCEE L. HASTINGS mains devoted to the Cypriot people, their cul- HON. TED POE ture, and their struggle for justice, donating his OF TEXAS OF FLORIDA time and talent to numerous concerts and per- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES formances benefitting various Hellenic organi- Friday, January 7, 2011 zations and causes associated with justice for Friday, January 7, 2011 Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I Cyprus. Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, in just a rise today to honor the life of a great Amer- The PanPaphian Association awarded the few days, on January 9, Iraqi authorities will ican, Katherine C. Kelly, a lifelong champion Distinguished Fellow Cypriot Award to Mr. deport the Abbasi family to Iran where they of human rights and universal health care, Polys Kyriacou, a distinguished poet and lyri- face certain persecution. who died on the morning of January 6, 2011 cist who has distinguished himself in his pas- The Abbasis are political refugees. Their fa- at the age of 86. sionate commitment to justice for Cyprus and ther got in trouble in Iran because he dared to Katherine was a good friend and supporter his love for Hellenic culture. Born in Nicosia, write that Iranians actually deserve freedom. for more than 40 years. Over the course of he served in the Cyprus National Guard be- He wrote that every man should be able to her life, she and her late husband, Edward M. fore his studies at Pantios University in Ath- have a say in who governs them. This simple Kelly, were prominently active in the civil rights ens. He came to New York City in 1982 to idea is the very foundation on which our great movement, the fight for women’s rights, gay earn a Master’s Degree in Communication and Nation was built and the fundamental, uni- rights, and every progressive movement in the Graphic Design at the Pratt Institute and then versal human right of all mankind. But the tiny United States. Katherine dedicated her life to worked as an Art Director at the Proini daily tyrant of Iran did not like that. He saw Mr. the Democratic Party, serving as State Com- newspaper. He served for many years on the Abbasi as a threat to his power. mitteewoman from Palm Beach County for 26 board of the Cyprus Federation of America The regime, having tasted power, is doing years. and the Justice for Cyprus Committee, pub- whatever it can to keep it. That includes im- Additionally, she was named to the Electoral lished two volumes of poetry, including prisoning, torturing, and murdering anyone College and served as a delegate to five Sximata, which won First Prize for a Young who so dares speak against it. But these are Democratic National Conventions. Poet from the Cyprus Ministry of Education. A desperate actions from a desperate regime.

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But when he did, Iranian authorities start- Mr. Speaker, Ms. De Venanzi’s compassion, Honor for his contributions to our national ed going after his family still in Iran. So they concern, devotion, and brilliance are to be identity while preserving the distinct values fled too, but could only get to Iraq before lauded. Moreover, her efforts represent the and heritage of our ancestors. In 1998 he be- being imprisoned by Iraqi authorities for not kind of community activism that is key to ad- came an Archon of the Ecumenical Patri- having their immigration papers. Now the Iraqi dressing the serious public health challenge archate, an honor conferred upon individuals government wants to deport his daughter, that is HIV/AIDS. for their services and dedication to the Greek Iman Abbasi, back to Iran, which is all but a f Orthodox Church. He is a member of Leader- death sentence for her. I talked to the State ship 100 and a founding member of the Faith Department about Iman today and they are PERSONAL EXPLANATION Endowment of Orthodoxy. Peter was honored working on making sure that Iman is allowed by various Greek American organizations, to remain in Iraq until they can sort out her HON. GUS M. BILIRAKIS churches and professional associations. refugee status. OF FLORIDA Peter continues to serve tirelessly various We have seen enough of Iraqi authorities IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES causes of the Greek American community. He doing favors for its neighbor to the East. At Friday, January 7, 2011 resides in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife Camp Ashraf, a camp in the middle of the Nasia. They have two daughters, Elizabeth Iraqi desert full of freedom fighters from Iran, Mr. BILIRAKIS. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. and Elena. Iraqis and their Iranian buddies psychologically 8, I was unavoidably detained due to celebra- Mr. Speaker, I ask that my distinguished torture the residents. They put up dozens of tion of the Greek Orthodox Epiphany. Had I colleagues rise and join me in honoring Mr. loudspeakers surrounding the camp and shout been present, I would have voted, ‘‘yes.’’ Panayiotis ‘‘Peter’’ Papanicolaou, a great New at residents around the clock, telling them to f Yorker and a great American who has made go home to their motherland and stop being outstanding contributions to the civic life of our IN RECOGNITION OF PETER traitors. Nation. PAPANICOLAOU We must send a clear message to Iraq: as f long as it is ruled by the tiny tyrant and his henchmen, Iran is not a friend you can trust. HON. CAROLYN B. MALONEY PERSONAL EXPLANATION If you side with them, then you side with op- OF NEW YORK pression and tyranny. So stop imprisoning po- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. ADAM SMITH litical refugees and stand up for the freedom Friday, January 7, 2011 OF WASHINGTON that so many of our countrymen and yours IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES have given their lives for. Mrs. MALONEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to my good friend, Mr. Friday, January 7, 2011 f Panayiotis (Peter) Papanicolaou, the distin- Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Speaker, RECOGNIZING THE ACTIVISM OF guished President of the Cyprus Federation of yesterday morning, Thursday, January 6, MS. YOLANDA DE VENANZI IN America. Last month, Mr. Papanicolaou was 2011, I was unable to record my presence on RAISING HIV/AIDS AWARENESS being honored by the Asgata Association at its the Floor of the House at the quorum call, roll- AND EDUCATION annual Dinner at Towers on the Green in Flo- call No. 7, because I was unavoidably de- ral Park, New York. tained in a meeting related to my role on the HON. ALCEE L. HASTINGS Peter Papanicolaou was born and raised in House Armed Services Committee. OF FLORIDA Nicosia, Cyprus, where he received his pri- f mary and secondary education. Following two IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES years of service with the National Guard of TRIBUTE TO ROBERTO ALOMAR Friday, January 7, 2011 Cyprus, he came to the United States to pur- Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I sue a higher education. He attended the New HON. JOSE´ E. SERRANO rise today in honor of Ms. Yolanda De Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), enrolling OF NEW YORK Venanzi and her efforts to raise HIV/AIDS in a special program for honors students. He IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES awareness and education within the Hispanic earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil community in South Florida. Engineering and a Master of Science degree Friday, January 7, 2011 Yolanda De Venanzi is an outreach worker in Construction Engineering and Construction Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to with the Comprehensive AIDS Program of Management. pay tribute to one of the greatest players in Palm Beach County, working within the His- He launched his business career with a re- the history of baseball, Roberto Alomar. This panic community to help promote HIV/AIDS search position at NJIT, where he developed week, Alomar was inducted into the Baseball awareness, testing, and prevention. Among new technology for industrial sites and military Hall of Fame, a recognition for the many years her many activities, she organizes discussion bases for the cleanup of soils contaminated by he played the sport at its very highest level. groups and distributes literature throughout the toxins. He is now a principal of J.F. Con- To many, being a 12-time All-Star, a 10-time County. Her efforts indeed reach far and wide, tracting, a Brooklyn-based construction and Gold Glove recipient and a four-time Silver including barbershops, the El Sol migrant engineering firm. He is professionally affiliated Slugger and batting over .300 nine times labor center in Jupiter, and the Caridad Center with the American Society of Civil Engineers, would suffice, but for Roberto Alomar, these in Boynton Beach, which provides health serv- the National Society of Professional Engi- were simply milestones along his route to the ices to Hispanic farm workers. neers, and he is a member of the Civil Engi- Hall of Fame. Induction into the Hall of Fame Furthermore, Yolanda also trains volunteers neering Honor Society. is a time-honored tradition in America re- to spread information about HIV/AIDS preven- Peter Papanicolaou is the Supreme Presi- served only for the game changers. It is not tion. One of her ideas that has proven ex- dent of the Cyprus Federation of America, an merely that these men played the sport with tremely successful is recruiting drivers who umbrella organization for all Cypriot Ameri- superior skill, it is that they so often trans- work for the Golden Cab Company to dis- cans. He is also president of the Archdiocesan formed the game and our conception of what tribute packets containing condoms and bro- Metropolitan Youth Choir, a member of the is possible. Roberto Alomar revolutionized the chures about the disease. As with all volun- Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Council, and a position of second baseman. He combined of- teers, they are trained to discuss and promote member of the Advisory Board of Queens Col- fensive power and consistency with a range behavior that helps prevent the spread of HIV/ lege, the Saint Basil’s Academy, the Albert and fielding ability few had ever seen and AIDS. This creative approach is truly a stroke Dorman Honors College at NJIT, and the Har- fewer still have been able to emulate. of genius. vard School of Public Health. He is a member Roberto is part of a Puerto Rican baseball A native of Venezuela, Yolanda has had a of the board of the Cyprus—U.S. Chamber of dynasty that deserves recognition, too. His fa- varied career, working as a psychology teach- Commerce, and Vice President of the Cyprus ther and brother, Sandy Alomar and Sandy er and a mental health counselor. This experi- Children’s Fund. Alomar Jr. had distinguished careers in Major

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:15 Jan 08, 2011 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A07JA8.004 E07JAPT1 smartinez on DSKB9S0YB1PROD with REMARKS E40 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks January 7, 2011 League Baseball. They must realize that their Baptist Church who branched off to form the ing the summer of 1787. They spent the fol- guidance and support helped guide Roberto to Disciples of Christ on October 10, 1810. This lowing two and a half years securing the sup- his great career and that they, too, deserve makes them one of the oldest Disciples of port of each of the thirteen original colonies. recognition as he is inducted into baseball’s Christ Churches in America. They were able Since the constitutional convention in Philadel- most elite and hallowed club. to establish themselves as a permanent fixture phia, the Constitution has been debated and I am sure that the joy of winning the World on Manhattan’s Upper East Side as the Park successfully amended a total of 27 times. Series twice was quite indescribable for Ro- Avenue Christian Church in 1945, at a site Today, we take an important step by recog- berto, but the thrill of being inducted into the that formerly housed the South Dutch Re- nizing this important history of debate and Hall of Fame must be just as sweet. It is a fit- formed Church and later the Park Avenue change. ting end to a great career. Along with the rest Presbyterian Church. The Park Avenue Chris- of the baseball world and millions of Puerto tian Church has since become a blessed When it was originally drafted, the American Ricans on the island and in the 50 states, I sanctuary for Disciples of Christ and a familiar Constitution laid out a framework of govern- applaud Roberto Alomar and look forward to and beloved institution in the community. ment that reflected their best of understanding seeing his plaque placed among baseball’s The Church’s design by Ralph Adams of the world as it existed in 1787. That docu- other legends. Cram, Bertram Goodhue & Frank Ferguson ment included many important insights and Mr. Speaker, induction into the Hall of Fame provided a church of the purest gothic revival compromises, but the drafters realized that the is more than the highest honor a player can style, inspired by the famous Sainte Chapelle Constitution—and the great Nation it created— receive—it is how fans and lovers of orga- in Paris. It is constructed of local New York would only last if the Constitution could adapt nized baseball are able to say ‘thank you’ to stone, salvaged from the construction of Cen- and change to meet the challenges of the day. their heroes. Thank you, Roberto, for so many tral Park, with its spire surmounting the edi- That is why the drafters included a mechanism wonderful memories. Thank you for pushing fice, arches and fluted pilasters supporting the in the Constitution to change the very docu- the sport to new heights. Thank you for giving rounded ceiling that covered three naves, a ment they spent months crafting. millions of people so many reasons to smile wide cornice extending around the nave and and celebrate and feel joy. Mr. Speaker, I ask at the middle height of the apse, soaring As we are all aware, the first exercise of this that my colleagues now join me in saying stained glass windows designed by Louis amendment mechanism concluded in Decem- thank you to Roberto Alomar, a player whose Comfort Tiffany, a majestic 52-rank William ber 1791 when our young Country ratified the character and quality we may never see Jackson Jarman Memorial Organ, and an im- Bill of Rights. Those ten amendments embody again. pressive approach of church-wide steps. The some of our most important protections from f building’s cornerstone at 1010 Park Avenue at government power including the freedom of the corner of East 85th Street was laid in speech, protection from unreasonable SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE ACT 1909, and the new Church was completed two searches and seizures, and the guarantee of HON. PAUL C. BROUN years later. due process. The Park Avenue Christian Church remains During the 19th and 20th Centuries the OF GEORGIA a thriving, vibrant institution to this day, offer- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES American people amended the Constitution by ing spiritual sanctuary, education, social serv- adding to Congress’s express constitutional Friday, January 7, 2011 ices, and a wide range of other programs to powers and ensuring Congress has all the the people of our Nation’s greatest city. In Mr. BROUN of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, today, tools necessary to address national problems 1963, the church opened a day school, which I am honored to introduce as my first bill in the and protect the rights of all Americans. Shortly 112th Congress H.R. 212, the Sanctity of has since become a top private nursery school in the area. Its ‘‘Camp Ten Ten’’ has provided after the U. S. Civil War, the Constitution was Human Life Act, with the support of 54 original amended to abolish slavery, guarantee the cosponsors. My bill will simply define human children from diverse backgrounds with a safe and educational summer programming experi- equal protection of the law to all Americans, life as beginning with fertilization and guaran- and guaranteeing the right to vote. With these tees the constitutional right to life in each ence. The Church’s lively musical program- changes, ‘‘We the People’’ expanded the human being. ming, including several choirs, concert series, The right to life is our most important funda- and other musical ensemble performances power to Congress to protect the promises of mental right. Unfortunately, the judicial branch provide a wonderful outlet for community freedom and equality for all Americans. through court decisions has created a complex members. Its Saturday Community Lunch Pro- I could go on, but my point is not to give a formula of when life can be taken. My bill gram provides hot meals and warm compan- history of the Constitution but to explain how makes clear that section two of the 14th ionship to some of the most vulnerable New the Constitution has changed for the better. Amendment of the Constitution, which pro- Yorkers. Park Avenue Christian Church’s inter- Without these changes, a Chinese-American hibits any state from depriving any person of faith program with the Temple of Universal Ju- woman, like me, would never be able to vote daism has provided an invaluable forum for life without due process of law, affords the in this Country much less serve as a member interfaith discussion and relationships. Under right to life of each human being at concep- of Congress. With these powers, Congress the able stewardship of the Reverend Dr. Alvin tion. has not only been given great power by the As a physician, I know on the basis of med- O’Neal Jackson, the Park Avenue Christian Church continues to uphold its proud and his- American people, it has also been given great ical and scientific evidence, that human life responsibility. That responsibility includes en- begins with fertilization, and I hope other toric tradition of seeking justice, embracing di- suring that all Americans, regardless of race, Members of Congress will join me in sup- versity, and inspiring the imagination. ethnicity, religion, creed, gender, gender iden- porting the Sanctity of Human Life Act. Mr. Speaker, I ask that my distinguished tification, or sexual orientation, have the op- f colleagues rise to join me in recognizing the extraordinary contributions to the civic and portunity to pursue their own version of happi- IN RECOGNITION OF THE PARK spiritual life of New York City made by the his- ness. AVENUE CHRISTIAN CHURCH ON toric Park Avenue Christian Church and its pa- I welcome this reading today as a symbol of THE OCCASION OF ITS BICEN- rishioners, past, present and future. the Constitution as a living document. Our un- TENNIAL CELEBRATION f derstanding of the Constitution is constantly AMERICAN CONSTITUTION changing and evolving just as the words of the HON. CAROLYN B. MALONEY constitution have changed over time. If any- OF NEW YORK thing has remained constant, it is the prin- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. JUDY CHU ciples espoused by that great document. OF CALIFORNIA Friday, January 7, 2011 Those principles ensure that we will have a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mrs. MALONEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay representative government, ‘‘of the people, by tribute to the Park Avenue Christian Church in Friday, January 7, 2011 the people, and for the people,’’ and that this New York City. The Church began commemo- Ms. CHU. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in sup- government will protect the core values of lib- rating its 200th anniversary year last year at port of the reading of the American Constitu- erty, equality, and opportunity. I look forward its 2010 Homecoming Celebration. tion on the Floor of the House of Representa- to working with my friends across the aisle to The Park Avenue Christian Church began tives. Our founding fathers spent nearly four ensure this Congress uses its broad powers to as a group of nine members of the Ebenezer months debating the original Constitution dur- promote these values.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:15 Jan 08, 2011 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A07JA8.008 E07JAPT1 smartinez on DSKB9S0YB1PROD with REMARKS January 7, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E41 RECOGNIZING THE ACHIEVEMENTS from the many lives he has touched through- For thirty-two years, Jean served as a dili- OF REV. DR. NELSON ‘‘FUZZY’’ out our community. gent employee at Freedman’s Hospital as a THOMPSON f Dietitian. While working at Freedman’s Hos- pital, Jean met the love of her life, James REMEMBERING FORMER CON- ‘‘Jimmy’’ Harper. The couple soon married and HON. EMANUEL CLEAVER GRESSMAN WILLIAM RATCH- OF MISSOURI had one daughter, Barbara Jean. In 1954, FORD IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Jean and Jimmy moved to Taylor Street where she currently resides. Jean is a proud Friday, January 7, 2011 HON. JOHN B. LARSON member of Trinity A.M.E. Zion Church where Mr. CLEAVER. Mr. Speaker, today I have OF CONNECTICUT she serves as a missionary and works actively the great pleasure of recognizing the remark- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in the Pastor’s Aide Club. able achievements of Reverend Doctor Nelson In addition to working enthusiastically in her Friday, January 7, 2011 ‘‘Fuzzy’’ Thompson. Rev. Thompson is a min- church, Jean devotes the majority of her time ister, community activist, humanitarian, and Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, I to her family. Invariably, she can be found with resident of the Fifth District of Missouri, which rise today to pay tribute to Congressman Wil- her daughter, her grandchildren, and her great I proudly represent. liam Ratchford who passed away on Sunday grandson. Jean enjoys traveling, shopping, Rev. Thompson graduated from Lincoln Uni- at the age of 76. He served in this body for cooking, and socializing with friends and ex- versity in Jefferson City, Missouri, with a three terms from 1979 to 1985 representing tended family. Bachelor of Science in Education, and re- Connecticut’s fifth congressional district. Bill For her commitment to her family, to her ceived a Master of Divinity and Doctorate of was born in Danbury, Connecticut in 1934 and community, and to her Nation, it is my privi- Ministry at St. Paul School of Theology. led a remarkable life that was most notable for lege to wish Jean Harper a very happy 90th ‘‘Fuzzy,’’ as he is affectionately known, has putting public service first. His father was a birthday. represented the Fifth District of Missouri in an hat-factory worker and Bill went on to grad- f exemplary manner locally and nationally. In uate from the University of Connecticut and service to our community, Fuzzy was an origi- then to Georgetown University Law School. IN TRIBUTE TO QUEENSVIEW ON nal Board Member of Black Adoption Program After graduating from law school, he became THE OCCASION OF ITS 60TH AN- and a member of the Executive Committee of a lawyer in Danbury and served in the Con- NIVERSARY the Kansas Children’s Service League, show- necticut National Guard. He was first elected ing a commitment to our community’s youth. to office in 1962 as a representative in the HON. CAROLYN B. MALONEY During my term as Mayor, he also served as Connecticut General Assembly where he OF NEW YORK member and chair of the Human Rights Com- served for six terms and rose to the position IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mission. ‘‘Fuzzy’’ now serves as President of of Speaker of the House during his last four Friday, January 7, 2011 the Southern Christian Leadership Conference years. While in the State House, he became of Greater Kansas City. involved in the issue of aging, which came to Mrs. MALONEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay Politically, Rev. Thompson served as a Re- define his legacy. He made a tremendous tribute to Queensview, a cooperative apart- gional Coordinator for Rev. Jesse Jackson’s contribution to the state as chairman of the ment complex in the borough of Queens in the Presidential Campaign in 1984 and Missouri Governors’ Blue Ribbon Committee on Nurs- district that I represent. Queensview cele- State Coordinator for Rev. Jackson’s 1988 ing Homes, and in 1977 he was tapped by brated its 60th anniversary last month. presidential campaign. Furthermore, he was a Governor Ella Grasso to become the state Initially organized as the Joint Queensview delegate to the Democratic National Conven- commissioner on aging. Housing Enterprises Inc., under the Redevel- tion from 1984–2000. In 1979, Bill won a seat in the U.S. House opment Companies Law of New York State, Reverend Thompson has also represented of Representatives in the Fifth Congressional Queensview was created as a model of mid- our nation on an international platform. At the District in Northwestern Connecticut. During dle class housing. The co-op’s founders were request of Bishop Desmond Tutu, President his three terms in Congress, he served on the a group of public-spirited New Yorkers, includ- Nelson Mandela, and the South African Coun- committees on appropriations, transportation, ing Louis H. Pink, who was then president of cil of Churches, he was one of 22 U.S. min- education and labor, and interior. Bill contin- the New York State Housing Board and State isters that traveled to South Africa on a fact- ued to have an active career after leaving Superintendent of Insurance, and Gerard finding educational exchange. Reverend Congress, remaining involved in government Swope, former president of General Electric Thompson traveled to South Africa a second and teaching at Georgetown University. He and former chairman of the New York City time as an official observer for the first elec- was appointed by President Clinton to be as- Housing Authority. tion held in South Africa granting the right to sistant administrator at the General Services Queensview’s first Board of Directors in- vote to all races. He called the experience Administration where he served until 2001. cluded Mr. Pink (who was President of humbling, as he watched people line up for Bill Ratchford was an honest public servant Queensview), Mr. Swope (Chairman of the blocks in order to exercise their right to vote who cared deeply about making the world board of Queensview), and such prominent for the first time. He was also one of three around him a better place and advocating for citizens as Henry Morgenthau, Jr., former U.S. U.S. ministers to conduct Easter services for the issues that he passionately cared about. Secretary of the Treasury; David Sarnoff, hostages being held in Tehran, Iran. He will always be remembered for his focus chairman of the board of RCA; Mary K. As well as a strong advocate for human on senior citizens and children and will be Simkhovitch, director emeritus of Greenwich rights around the globe, he is just as strong an missed by all who knew him. I offer my deep House; Thomas J. Watson, vice-president of advocate for civil rights and economic rights condolences to his wife Barbara of 53 years, IBM; Howard S. Cullman, chairman of the within our community. When South Africa was his three sons, and to his family and friends. New York Port Authority; Bernard Gimble, a nation which practiced apartheid, Dr. f president of Gimble Brothers; Howard C. Thompson helped organize a protest against a Shepard, president of National City Bank (now Frank Sinatra concert. The purpose was to CONGRATULATING JEAN HARPER Citibank); the Very Reverend E. Roberts draw attention to American celebrities who ON HER 90TH BIRTHDAY Moore, formerly of the New York City Housing performed in racially exclusive venues. He has Authority; Mrs. Yorke Allen of the Citizens organized pickets in opposition to monies from HON. ALCEE L. HASTINGS Housing and Planning Council; Albert Lasker the local school district awarded to contractors OF FLORIDA of the Lasker Foundation; Beardsley Ruml, who had failed to include minority contractors. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES chairman of the Board of Macy’s; and G. Mr. Speaker, please join me in expressing Howland Shaw, president of the Welfare our appreciation to Reverend Dr. Nelson Friday, January 7, 2011 Council of New York. ‘‘Fuzzy’’ Thompson for serving the State of Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I The complex, which opened its doors on Missouri and our nation. He is a true role rise today to honor Jean Harper on the occa- November 14, 1950, is comprised of 14 build- model to the citizens of our country and his sion of her 90th birthday. Jean was born on ings, with 52 apartments per building (726 successes serve as a stepping stone for many January 14, 1921 to David and Alda Sims Hart apartments in all). Each building has 4 apart- others eager to serve. I offer this small token in Avondale, North Carolina. At a young age, ments per floor, meaning that every tenant of appreciation to an exceptional civil servant Jean relocated to her home of Washington, can enjoy a corner apartment, with views in for all of the work he has done, taking strength District of Columbia. two directions. The buildings are situated on 9

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Some of the land has been made which includes the community of Carmichael. ing should be shared with our colleagues so I available for on-site parking, an amenity that is Susan was first elected in 2004, re-elected in ask that it be printed here. a great convenience for residents. Several 2008, and chosen by her colleagues to be EXPERTS LETTER ON DEFENSE SPENDING TO buildings have community or club rooms that chair in 2009. THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON FISCAL RE- are used by a variety of local groups. As a Susan also serves on a number of boards SPONSIBILITY AND REFORM, NOVEMBER 18, mark of gratitude, the cooperators dedicated including the Sacramento Area Flood Control 2010 the community rooms in Buildings 7 and 14 to Agency, which she chaired in 2009, the Sac- DEAR CO-CHAIRMAN BOWLES AND CO-CHAIR- Queensview’s founders, Mr. Pink and Mr. ramento Area Council of Governments, where MAN SIMPSON: We are writing to you as ex- Swope. she currently serves as vice chair, and the perts in national security and defense eco- Sacramento Transportation Authority, where nomics to convey our views on the national In 1987, Queensview paid off its initial mort- security implications of the Commission’s gage. In 1989, Queensview reconstituted as a she served as chair in 2006. work and especially the need for achieving private corporation known as Queensview, Her career started in banking, leading her to responsible reductions in military spending. Inc., but since it is a limited equity corporation, serve as treasurer of McCuen Properties be- In this regard, we appreciate the initiative prices remain affordable. As a cooperative, side her late husband, Peter McCuen. Susan you have taken in your 10 November 2010 Queensview is a self-governing organization, also served as Board Chair of the Sacramento draft proposal to the Commission. It begins a overseen by the Queensview Council. The Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, where necessary process of serious reflection, de- Council consists of two representatives and an she was a forceful voice for business and pri- bate, and action. vate enterprise in the region. At the chamber, The vitality of our economy is the corner- alternate elected by each building. Residents stone of our nation’s strength. We share the make decisions about management of the she worked to locate Raley Field in West Sac- Commission’s desire to bring our financial building, including the nature of the amenities, ramento and was the founding chair of the house into order. Doing so is not merely a upkeep of the building, staffing and security. Chamber’s ‘‘Perspectives’’ program, an annual question of economics. Reducing the na- As a result of their diligence and conscien- conference hosting national and world leaders tional debt is also a national security imper- tiousness, Queensview is impeccably main- discussing topical subjects. ative. tained and is a wonderful place to live. In addition to her duties as a member of the To date, the Obama administration has ex- Queensview is a naturally-occurring retire- Sacramento County Board of Supervisors, empted the Defense Department from any Susan currently serves as Board Chair of the budget reductions. This is short-sighted: It ment community (NORC), meaning that a sig- makes it more difficult to accomplish the nificant number of residents are seniors. The Leland Stanford Mansion Foundation which re- task of restoring our economic strength, NORC program, operated by Selfhelp Com- stored the historic home of California’s eighth which is the underpinning of our military munity Services, provides residents with a governor. power. wide range of on-site services including health Susan has worked tirelessly to improve the As the rest of the nation labors to reduce and wellness, case management, counseling, quality of life for the Sacramento region in its debt burden, the current plan is to boost social, recreational, educational, home care, both the private and public sectors. She is a the base DOD budget by 10 percent in real technology, transportation, community trips true public servant who is always accessible terms over the next decade. This would come to her constituents. on top of the nearly 52 percent real increase and volunteer opportunities. in base military spending since 1998. (When Since 1951, the Queensview Nursery It has been my pleasure to know Susan Pe- war costs are included the increase has been School & Kindergarten has provided day care ters and more importantly, to call her my much greater: 95 percent.) and early education. Currently serving children friend. I am pleased to congratulate her on We appreciate Secretary Gates’ efforts to aged 2.9–5, the Queensview Nursery School being named the Carmichael Chamber of reform the Pentagon’s business and acquisi- & Kindergarten gives parents peace of mind Commerce’s 2011 Person of the Year. tion practices. However, even if his reforms by providing a caring and nurturing environ- f fulfill their promise, the current plan does ment for their children. not translate them into budgetary savings ‘‘EXPERTS LETTER ON DEFENSE that contribute to solving our deficit prob- Mr. Speaker, I ask my distinguished col- SPENDING’’ lem. Their explicit aim is to free funds for leagues to join me in recognizing the success other uses inside the Pentagon. This is not of Queensview, a warm, welcoming and gra- good enough. cious community and a terrific place to live. HON. BARNEY FRANK Granting defense a special dispensation f OF MASSACHUSETTS puts at risk the entire deficit reduction ef- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fort. Defense spending today constitutes over PERSONAL EXPLANATION 55 percent of discretionary spending and 23 Friday, January 7, 2011 percent of the federal budget. An exemption HON. TOM REED Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, for defense not only undermines the broader I have been encouraged to see some signs call for fiscal responsibility, but also makes OF NEW YORK that the mind set that would not only exclude overall budget restraint much harder as a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the military budget from deficit reduction ef- practical economic and political matter. Friday, January 7, 2011 We need not put our economic power at forts but would in fact inflate an already exces- risk in this way. Today the United States Mr. REED. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 4 I sive allocation has been weakening. Secretary possesses a wide margin of global military was unavoidably detained and unable to cast Gates’ statement on Thursday, January 6, of superiority. The defense budget can bear sig- my vote. Had I been present, I would have a recognition of many to take the deficit into nificant reduction without compromising voted ‘‘yea.’’ account in budgeting for the Pentagon is en- our essential security. We recognize that larger military adver- f couraging, although he does not go far enough. I think that there is no issue more im- saries may rise to face us in the future. But the best hedge against this possibility is vig- A TRIBUTE TO SUSAN PETERS, portant than to recognize that reducing the ex- CARMICHAEL CHAMBER OF COM- ilance and a vibrant economy supporting a tent to which America engages in an ex- military able to adapt to new challenges as MERCE’S 2011 PERSON OF THE tremely expensive worldwide subsidy for many they emerge. YEAR of our wealthy allies in the area of defense We can achieve greater defense economy has contributed significantly to our deficit, and today in several ways, all of which we urge HON. DANIEL E. LUNGREN it is clear that we can substantially reduce mili- you to consider seriously. We need to be more realistic in the goals we set for our OF CALIFORNIA tary spending without in any way reducing the security of the United States. armed forces and more selective in our IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES choices regarding their use abroad. We In November of last year, a wide-ranging Friday, January 7, 2011 should focus our military on core security group of people very knowledgeable about na- goals and on those current and emerging Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Mr. tional security needs met. I am encouraged threats that most directly affect us. Speaker, I rise today to recognize and honor that the Commission recognized the impor- We also need to be more judicious in our Susan Peters, who on January 7, 2011, the tance of including military spending restraints, choice of security instruments when dealing

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An honors graduate of achieve greater efficiency today without di- David Hendrickson, Colorado College; Mi- Brandeis University and Harvard Law School, minishing our security by better discrimi- chael Intriligator, UCLA and Milken Insti- he previously served as Chief House Counsel nating between vital, desirable, and unneces- tute; Robert Jervis, Columbia University; of the Democratic National Committee and as sary military missions and capabilities. Sean Kay, Ohio Wesleyan University; Eliza- Executive Assistant to the Secretary of the There is a variety of specific options that beth Kier, University of Washington; Charles State of Connecticut. would produce savings, some of which we de- Knight, Project on Defense Alternatives; A skilled and tireless political activist who scribe below. The important point, however, Lawrence Korb, Center for American has dedicated his life to progressive causes, is a firm commitment to seek savings Progress; Peter Krogh, Georgetown Univer- through a reassessment of our defense strat- sity; Richard Ned Lebow, Dartmouth Col- Stu Appelbaum was elected a Delegate to the egy, our global posture, and our means of lege; Walter LaFeber, Cornell University; 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008 Democratic Na- producing and managing military power. Col. (USA, Ret.) Douglas Macgregor; Scott tional Conventions and an Alternate Delegate Since the end of the Cold War, we have re- McConnell, The American Conservative; to the 1992 Democratic National Convention. quired our military to prepare for and con- John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago; In 2008, he served as a member of the Elec- duct more types of missions in more places Steven Metz, national security analyst and toral College as an Obama elector from New around the world. The Pentagon’s task list writer; Steven Miller, Kennedy School, Har- York. now includes not only preventive war, re- vard University and International Security; By honoring Stuart Appelbaum last month, gime change, and nation building, but also Janne Nolan, American Security Project. vague efforts to ‘‘shape the strategic envi- Robert Paarlberg, Wellesley College and ADA is upholding its finest progressive tradi- ronment’’ and stem the emergence of Harvard University; Paul Pillar, Georgetown tions. Founded by Eleanor Roosevelt, John threats. It is time to prune some of these University; Barry Posen, Security Studies Kenneth Galbraith, Walter Reuther, Arthur missions and restore an emphasis on defense Program, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- Schlesinger, and Reinhold Niebuhr, the ADA and deterrence. nology; Christopher Preble, Cato Institute; seeks to promote and preserve Franklin D. U.S. combat power dramatically exceeds Daryl Press, Dartmouth College; Jeffrey Roosevelt’s vision for a New Deal for the that of any plausible combination of conven- Record, defense policy analyst and author; American people resulting in a more just soci- tional adversaries. To cite just one example, David Rieff, author; Thomas Schelling, Uni- Secretary Gates has observed that the U.S. versity of Maryland; Jack Snyder, Columbia ety. Navy is today as capable as the next 13 na- University; J. Ann Tickner, University of With the election of President Obama, the vies combined, most of which are operated Southern California; Robert Tucker, Johns ADA’s mission of promoting progressive Amer- by our allies. We can safely save by trim- Hopkins University; Stephen Van Evera, Se- ican values has gained renewed momentum. ming our current margin of superiority. curity Studies Program, Massachusetts In- Past presidents of the ADA include several of America’s permanent peacetime military stitute of Technology; Stephen Walt, Har- my distinguished colleagues in this House: presence abroad is largely a legacy of the vard University; Kenneth Waltz, Columbia BARNEY FRANK, CHARLES RANGEL, JOHN LEWIS, Cold War. It can be reduced without under- University; Cindy Williams, Security Studies and JIM MCDERMOTT. Stuart Appelbaum is a mining the essential security of the United Program, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- States or its allies. nology; Daniel Wirls, University of Cali- proud heir to the ADA’s long and honored tra- The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have re- fornia, Santa Cruz. dition, and it is therefore entirely fitting that his vealed the limits of military power. Avoiding lifetime of extraordinarily effective and pas- f these types of operation globally would allow sionate advocacy has been recognized by us to roll back the recent increase in the size IN TRIBUTE TO STUART Americans for Democratic Action. of our Army and Marine Corps. APPELBAUM Mr. Speaker, I ask that my distinguished The Pentagon’s acquisition process has re- peatedly failed, routinely delivering weapons colleagues join me in honoring Stuart and equipment late, over cost, and less capa- HON. CAROLYN B. MALONEY Appelbaum, a great American and a great ble than promised. Some of the most expen- OF NEW YORK New Yorker whose life’s work has improved sive systems correspond to threats that are IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the lives and working conditions of countless least prominent today and unlikely to regain Friday, January 7, 2011 individuals. prominence soon. In these cases, savings can f be safely realized by cancelling, delaying, or Mrs. MALONEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay reducing procurement or by seeking less tribute to Stuart Appelbaum, an extraordinary PERSONAL EXPLANATION costly alternatives. man and my good friend, who has served with Recent efforts to reform Defense Depart- ment financial management and acquisition distinction as President of the Retail, Whole- HON. MIKE PENCE practices must be strengthened. And we sale and Department Store Union, rep- OF INDIANA must impose budget discipline to trim serv- resenting thousands of working men and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ice redundancies and streamline command, women across our nation. Last month, Mr. support systems, and infrastructure. Appelbaum was honored by the venerable Friday, January 7, 2011 Change along these lines is bound to be Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) orga- Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably controversial. Budget reductions are never nization at its annual Roosevelt Day Dinner at detained on the legislative day of January 6, easy—no less for defense than in any area of the Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan. government. However, fiscal realities call on 2011 and missed rollcall vote 8. Had I been us to strike a new balance between investing Stuart Appelbaum became President of the present, I would have voted ‘‘yea.’’ in military power and attending to the fun- Retail, Wholesale and Department Store f damentals of national strength on which our Union on May 1, 1998, and has been re-elect- true power rests. We can achieve safe savings ed to the position twice since then. He pre- RECOGNIZING THE CONTRIBU- in defense if we are willing to rethink how viously served as International Secretary- TIONS OF DR. BILLY TAYLOR we produce military power and how, why, Treasurer, Vice President, Executive Board and where we put it to use. Member, Assistant to the President and Coor- HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL Sincerely, dinator of Special Projects for the union. Stu Gordon Adams, American University; Rob- OF NEW YORK ert Art, Brandeis University; Deborah Avant, Appelbaum is also an International Vice Presi- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dent and member of the Executive Board of University of California, Irvine; Andrew Friday, January 7, 2011 Bacevich, Boston University; Richard Betts, the 1.4 million-member United Food and Com- Columbia University; Linda Bilmes, Kennedy mercial Workers International Union. He is the Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, it brings me School, Harvard University; Steven Clemons, President of the Jewish Labor Committee, and sadness and honor to pay final tribute to Dr. New America Foundation; Joshua Cohen, an officer of two global union federations: the Billy Taylor. He died Tuesday, December 28, Stanford University and Boston Review; Carl International Union of Food, Agricultural, 2010, of heart failure in Riverside, New York. Conetta, Project on Defense Alternatives; Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Al- He was 89. Owen R. Cote Jr., Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Mi- lied Workers’ Associations and Union Network For eight decades, Dr. Taylor remained vig- chael Desch, University of Notre Dame; Mat- International. He is a Vice President of the orously dedicated to nurturing jazz and cre- thew Evangelista, Cornell University; Ben- Consortium for Worker Education. ating new forums and opportunities for the art- jamin H. Friedman, Cato Institute; Lt. Gen. Mr. Appelbaum has also served as a Vice ists who perform it. He encompassed that rare (USA, Ret.) Robert G. Gard, Jr., Center for President of the national AFL–CIO, a member combination of creativity, intelligence, vision,

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He im- evision program, ‘‘CBS Sunday Morning’’ in Friday, January 7, 2011 mersed himself in the jazz scene over the next the early 1980s. Mr. BROUN of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, today, few years, playing with many jazz greats of In the 90s, Dr. Taylor was named Artistic I am honored to introduce H.J. Res. 11, an the day, such as Slam Stewart, Eddie South, Advisor for Jazz to the Kennedy Center for the Amendment to the Constitution to balance the Stuff Smith, Coleman Hawkins, Jo Jones and Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Since federal budget. This Amendment to the U.S. Roy Eldridge. Constitution will require Congress and the 1949 marked the beginning of his two-year 1994, under the umbrella of Jazz at the Ken- President to balance the federal budget every stint as house pianist at Birdland, the leg- nedy Center, he developed numerous concert fiscal year. endary New York City jazz club. He played series including the Art Tatum Pianorama, the To prevent our national debt from increasing with everybody—Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gil- Louis Armstrong Legacy series, the annual above the already unsustainable $14 trillion lespie, Miles Davis, Oscar Pettiford, Art Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival, current level, my Amendment simply does Blakey, Milt Jackson, Zoot Sims, Roy Haynes, Beyond Category, Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead, what 49 other States have required—keep and Kenny Dorham. He often played opposite and the Jazz Ambassadors Program. spending levels equal to tax revenues. Unlike such bands as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, ‘‘Dr. Taylor was a remarkable musician and other similar Amendments that require a sim- Stan Kenton and Lennie Tristano. Birdland humanitarian. He was a primary advisor for ple majority or 3/5 majority vote in both Cham- provided Taylor one of his greatest learning experiences. both the creation of the National Endowment bers of Congress to allow an excess of federal During the 1950s Dr. Taylor made some re- for the Arts Jazz Masters program in 1982 and outlays over receipts or to raise the debt ceil- cordings with his own group for such labels as was invaluable as the agency sought to ing, my Amendment requires a 2/3 majority Prestige, Riverside, ABC Paramount, and strengthen its support for the jazz field in vote. Also, it limits spending growth of the en- Capital Records. He also recorded albums 2004,’’ said Wayne Brown, Director, Music & tire budget to no more than population growth with Quincy Jones, Sy Oliver, Mundell Lowe, Opera Programs, NEA. Dr. Billy Taylor was plus inflation and only allows for waivers of Neal Hefti, Eddie ‘‘Lockjaw Davis’’, Sonny named an NEA Jazz Master in 1988. these strict requirements during actual Dec- Stitt, Lucky Thompson, Coleman Hawkins and larations of War by Congress. Additionally, it Throughout his career, Dr. Billy Taylor was Dinah Washington. He started his own music forces the next fiscal year to account for any publishing company, Duane Music, Inc. one of those rare artists who was also a imbalance in the previous fiscal year’s esti- Dr. Taylor worked regularly with his trio and scholar of his art. He was a premiere pianist mates by placing such amount in the spending hosted his own daily radio show on New and an elegant stylist. Many acclaimed him as column for the following fiscal year. Lastly, my York’s WLIB during the 1960s. He made guest the most exciting pianist in the jazz world. Amendment will return all excess revenue at shots on various TV shows and recordings for Dr. Billy Taylor will be remembered as one the end of the fiscal year to the American tax- Capital Records. Taylor started writing about of the jazz world’s historians, master musi- payer. It is past time that the federal government jazz and giving lectures/clinics to music teach- cians, an educator, storyteller, sage, and jazz put in place responsible budgeting measures. ers interested in teaching jazz. virtuoso. He was a strong advocate for the arts. Tay- In order to restore the public trust that Con- lor concentrated many of his efforts on gener- I extend my sincere condolences to his fam- gress can indeed budget their tax dollars wise- ating funding for the arts and humanities. He ily for this tremendous loss and share their ly, we must pass a balanced budget amend- focused on radio and television in order to enormous pride in all that he accomplished. ment.

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Next Meeting of the SENATE Next Meeting of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 10 a.m., Tuesday, January 25 12 noon, Tuesday, January 11

Senate Chamber House Chamber Program for Tuesday: Senate will be in a period of Program for Tuesday: To be announced. morning business.

Extensions of Remarks, as inserted in this issue

HOUSE Chu, Judy, Calif, E40 Pence, Mike, Ind., E43 Cleaver, Emanuel, Mo., E41 Poe, Ted, Tex., E38 Adams, Sandy, Fla., E37 Frank, Barney, Mass., E42 Rangel, Charles B., N.Y., E43 Austria, Steve, Ohio, E38 Hastings, Alcee L., Fla., E38, E39, E41 Reed, Tom, N.Y., E42 Bilirakis, Gus M., Fla., E39 Larson, John B., Conn., E41 Serrano, Jose´ E., N.Y., E39 Broun, Paul C., Ga., E40, E44 Lungren, Daniel E., Calif., E42 Smith, Adam, Wash., E39 Brown, Corrine, Fla., E37 Maloney, Carolyn B., N.Y., E37, E38, E39, E40, E41, Capps, Lois, Calif., E37 E43

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