Congressional Record United States Th of America PROCEEDINGS and DEBATES of the 113 CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION

E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record United States th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 113 CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION

Vol. 160 WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2014 No. 87 House of Representatives The House met at 3 p.m. and was PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE APPOINTMENT AS MEMBER TO called to order by the Speaker pro tem- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The WORLD WAR I CENTENNIAL COM- pore (Mr. PETRI). Chair will lead the House in the Pledge MISSION f of Allegiance. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The The SPEAKER pro tempore led the Chair announces the Speaker’s ap- DESIGNATION OF THE SPEAKER Pledge of Allegiance as follows: pointment, pursuant to section 4(b) of PRO TEMPORE I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the the World War I Centennial Commis- United States of America, and to the Repub- sion Act (Public Law 112–272) and the The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- lic for which it stands, one nation under God, order of the House of January 3, 2013, of fore the House the following commu- indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the following individual on the part of nication from the Speaker: f the House to the World War I Centen- WASHINGTON, DC, nial Commission to fill the existing va- June 5, 2014. I hereby appoint the Honorable THOMAS E. COMMUNICATION FROM THE cancy thereon: PETRI to act as Speaker pro tempore on this CLERK OF THE HOUSE Ms. Monique Seefried, Atlanta, Geor- day. The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- gia JOHN A. BOEHNER, fore the House the following commu- f Speaker of the House of Representatives. nication from the Clerk of the House of SENATE BILL REFERRED f Representatives: A bill of the Senate of the following OFFICE OF THE CLERK, title was taken from the Speaker’s PRAYER HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, table and, under the rule, referred as Reverend Oran Warder, St. Paul’s Washington, DC, June 4, 2014. Hon. JOHN A. BOEHNER, follows: Episcopal Church, Alexandria, Vir- Speaker, House of Representatives, S. 2270. An act to clarify the application of ginia, offered the following prayer: Washington, DC. certain leverage and risk-based requirements Using the words of those who have DEAR MR. SPEAKER: Pursuant to the per- under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform led our Nation in times past and who mission granted in Clause 2(h) of Rule II of and Consumer Protection Act; to the Com- have been led by their faith: the Rules of the U.S. House of Representa- mittee on Financial Services. tives, the Clerk received the following mes- Gracious God, give us clear minds f and good intentions, ‘‘with malice to- sage from the Secretary of the Senate on ward none, with charity for all. With June 4, 2014 at 10:30 a.m.: ADJOURNMENT That the Senate passed S. 2270. firmness in the right, as God gives us With best wishes, I am The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- to see the right, let us strive on to fin- Sincerely, ant to section 3(b) of House Resolution ish the work we are in.’’ KAREN L. HAAS. 604, the House stands adjourned until And help us always to remember the noon on Monday, June 9, 2014, for limits we face and the One we serve. f morning-hour debate. ‘‘With a good conscience our only sure APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS TO Thereupon (at 3 o’clock and 4 min- reward, with history as the final judge CANADA-UNITED STATES INTER- utes p.m.), under its previous order, the of our deeds, let us go forth and lead PARLIAMENTARY GROUP House adjourned until Monday, June 9, the land and people we love, asking 2014, at noon for morning-hour debate. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The God’s blessings and God’s help, but f knowing that, here on Earth, God’s Chair announces the Speaker’s ap- work must truly be our own.’’ pointment, pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 276(d) EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, Amen. and the order of the House of January ETC. 3, 2013, of the following Members on the Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive f part of the House to the Canada-United communications were taken from the States Interparliamentary Group: Speaker’s table and referred as follows: THE JOURNAL Mr. HIGGINS, New York 5861. A letter from the Director, Office of The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Ms. SLAUGHTER, New York Legislative Affairs, Federal Deposit Insur- ant to section 3(a) of House Resolution Mr. MEEKS, New York ance Corporation, transmitting the Corpora- 604, the Journal of the last day’s pro- Mr. LARSEN, Washington tion’s ‘‘Major’’ final rule — Regulatory Cap- ceedings is approved. Mr. DEFAZIO, Oregon ital Rules: Regulatory Capital, Enhanced

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A letter from the Assistant General Financial Protection Act of 2010 to provide Counsel for Legislation, Regulation and En- REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON requirements that must be followed by the ergy Efficiency, Department of Energy, PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection transmitting the Department’s ‘‘Major’’ when carrying out certain examinations; to final rule — Energy Conservation Program: Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of the Committee on Financial Services. Energy Conservation Standards for Commer- committees were delivered to the Clerk By Mrs. BLACK (for herself, Mr. GRIF- cial and Industrial Electric Motors [Docket for printing and reference to the proper FIN of Arkansas, Mr. HARRIS, Mr. No.: EERE-2010-BT-STD-0027] (RIN: 1904- calendar, as follows: TIBERI, Mr. FINCHER, Mr. SAM JOHN- AC28) received May 30, 2014, pursuant to 5 [Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 604, the SON of Texas, Mr. DUNCAN of Ten- U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on En- following action occurred on June 4, 2014.] nessee, Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania, ergy and Commerce. and Ms. JENKINS): Mr. ADERHOLT: Committee on Appropria- 5863. A letter from the Deputy Chief, Pol- H.R. 4805. A bill to delay the provision of tions. H.R. 4800. A bill making appropria- icy Division, International Bureau, Federal the Affordable Care Act premium and cost- tions for Agriculture, Rural Development, Communications Commission, transmitting sharing subsidies until the eligibility Food and Drug Administration, and Related the Commission’s ‘‘Major’’ final rule — Revi- verification process for such subsidies is Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending sions of Parts 2 and 25 of the Commission’s completed, and for other purposes; to the September 30, 2015, and for other purposes Rules to Govern the Use of Earth Stations Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in (Rept. 113–468). Referred to the Committee of Aboard Aircraft Communicating with Fixed- addition to the Committee on Ways and the Whole House on the state of the Union. Satellite Service Geostationary-Orbit Space Means, for a period to be subsequently deter- Stations Operating in the 10.95-11.2 GHz, [Submitted June 5, 2014] mined by the Speaker, in each case for con- 11.45-11.7 GHz, 11.7-12.2 GHz and 14.0-14.5 GHz Mr. LUCAS: Committee on Agriculture. sideration of such provisions as fall within Frequency Bands [IB Docket No.: 12-376] re- H.R. 4413. A bill to reauthorize the Com- the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. ceived May 13, 2014, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. modity Futures Trading Commission, to bet- By Mrs. CAPPS: 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Energy and ter protect futures customers, to provide end H.R. 4806. A bill to provide family members Commerce. users with market certainty, to make basic and close associates of an individual who 5864. A letter from the Chairman, Council reforms to ensure transparency and account- they fear is a danger to himself, herself, or of the District of Columbia, transmitting ability at the Commission, to help farmers, others new tools to prevent gun violence; to Transmittal of D.C. Act 20-336, ‘‘Better ranchers, and end users manage risks to help the Committee on the Judiciary. Prices, Better Quality, Better Choices for keep consumer costs low, and for other pur- By Mr. ISRAEL (for himself, Mr. Health Coverage Amendment Act of 2014’’; to poses (Rept. 113–469). Referred to the Com- COURTNEY, Mr. GERLACH, Mr. the Committee on Oversight and Govern- mittee of the Whole House on the state of CLEAVER, Ms. SHEA-PORTER, Mr. ment Reform. the Union. RAHALL, and Mr. MICHAUD): 5865. A letter from the Chairman, Council Mr. SMITH of Texas: Committee on H.R. 4807. A bill to amend title 10, United of the District of Columbia, transmitting Science, Space, and Technology. H.R. 4412. A States Code, to provide for the award of a Transmittal of D.C. Act 20-337, ‘‘Transpor- bill to authorize the programs of the Na- military service medal to members of the tation Infrastructure Improvements tional Aeronautics and Space Administra- Armed Forces who served honorably during GARVEE Bond Financing Amendment Act of tion, and for other purposes; with an amend- the Cold War, and for other purposes; to the 2014’’; to the Committee on Oversight and ment (Rept. 113–470). Referred to the Com- Committee on Armed Services. Government Reform. mittee of the Whole House on the state of By Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania: 5866. A letter from the Chairman, Council the Union. H.R. 4808. A bill to amend the Clean Air of the District of Columbia, transmitting Mr. SMITH of Texas: Committee on Act to prohibit the regulation of emissions Transmittal of D.C. Act 20-338, ‘‘Shiloh Way Science, Space, and Technology. S. 1254. An of carbon dioxide from new or existing power Designation Act of 2014’’; to the Committee act to amend the Harmful Algal Blooms and plants under certain circumstances; to the on Oversight and Government Reform. Hypoxia Research and Control Act of 1998, Committee on Energy and Commerce. 5867. A letter from the Paralegal Spe- and for other purposes; with an amendment cialist, Department of Transportation, trans- f (Rept. 113–471, Pt. 1). Referred to the Com- mitting the Department’s final rule — mittee of the Whole House on the state of CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY Standard Instrument Approach Procedures, the Union. STATEMENT and Takeoff Minimums and Obstacle Depar- ture Procedures; Miscellaneous Amendments DISCHARGE OF COMMITTEE Pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII of [Docket No.: 30953; Amdt. No. 3586] received [The following action occurred on June 5, 2014] the Rules of the House of Representa- May 12, 2014, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. Pursuant to clause 2 of rule XIII, the tives, the following statements are sub- 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Transpor- Committee on Natural Resources dis- mitted regarding the specific powers tation and Infrastructure. charged from further consideration. S. granted to Congress in the Constitu- 5868. A letter from the Director, Regu- latory Management Division, Environmental 1254 referred to the Committee of the tion to enact the accompanying bill or Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- Whole House on the state of the Union. joint resolution. cy’s ‘‘Major’’ final rule — National Pollutant f By Mr. ADERHOLT: Discharge Elimination System — Final Reg- H.R. 4800. ulations to Establish Requirements for Cool- PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Congress has the power to enact this legis- ing Water Intake Structures at Existing Fa- Under clause 2 of rule XII, public lation pursuant to the following: cilities and Amend Requirements at Phase I bills and resolutions of the following The principal constitutional authority for this legislation is clause 7 of section 9 of ar- Facilities [EPA-HQ-OW-2008-0667, FRL-9817-3] titles were introduced and severally re- (RIN: 2040-AE95) received May 21, 2014, pursu- ticle I of the Constitution of the United ant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee ferred, as follows: States (the appropriation power), which on Transportation and Infrastructure. By Mr. KINZINGER of Illinois (for states: ‘‘No Money shall be drawn from the 5869. A letter from the Chief, Publications himself and Mr. MCNERNEY): Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropria- and Regulations Branch, Internal Revenue H.R. 4801. A bill to require the Secretary of tions made by Law . . . .’’ In addition, clause Service, transmitting the Service’s final rule Energy to prepare a report on the impact of 1 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution — Pilot Penalty Relief Program — Late An- thermal insulation on both energy and water (the spending power) provides: ‘‘The Con- nual Reporting for Non-Title I Retirement use for potable hot water; to the Committee gress shall have the Power . . . to pay the Plans (‘‘One-Participant Plans’’ and Certain on Energy and Commerce. Debts and provide for the common Defence Foreign Plans) (Revenue Procedure 2014-32) By Mr. HUDSON: and general Welfare of the United States received May 15, 2014, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. H.R. 4802. A bill to improve intergovern- . . ..’’ Together, these specific constitutional 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Ways and mental planning for and communication dur- provisions establish the congressional power Means. ing security incidents at domestic airports, of the purse, granting Congress the author- 5870. A letter from the Deputy Director — and for other purposes; to the Committee on ity to appropriate funds, to determine their ODRM, Department of Health and Human Homeland Security. purpose, amount, and period of availability, Services, transmitting the Department’s By Mr. SANFORD (for himself and Mr. and to set forth terms and conditions gov- ‘‘Major’’ final rule — Medicare Program: HUDSON): erning their use. Contract Year 2015 Policy and Technical H.R. 4803. A bill to require the Transpor- By Mr. KINZINGER of Illinois: Changes to the Medicare Advantage and the tation Security Administration to conform H.R. 4801.

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Congress has the power to enact this legis- Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Con- H.R. 3833: Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD. lation pursuant to the following: stitution. H.R. 3858: Mr. LANCE and Mr. WHITFIELD. Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 of the Con- By Mr. ISRAEL: H.R. 3877: Mr. COHEN and Ms. BASS. stitution states that; a regular statement H.R. 4807. H.R. 3978: Mr. COHEN. and account of receipts and expenditures of Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 3992: Mr. FORTENBERRY, Mr. CULBER- all public money shall be published from lation pursuant to the following: SON, Mr. FLEISCHMANN, Mr. DIAZ-BALART, Mr. time to time. Article I, Section 8 CARTER, and Mr. ROONEY. By Mr. HUDSON: By Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania: H.R. 3997: Mr. MCDERMOTT and Mr. BARROW H.R. 4802. H.R. 4808. of Georgia. Congress has the power to enact this legis- Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 4060: Mr. RICHMOND, Ms. MENG, and lation pursuant to the following: lation pursuant to the following: Mr. NUGENT. Article I, Section 8, the Congress shall The Congress enacts this bill pursuant to H.R. 4106: Mr. PEARCE. have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, Clause 3 of Section 8 of Article I of the H.R. 4143: Mr. O’ROURKE. imposts and excises, to pay debts and provide United States Constitution. H.R. 4349: Mr. STEWART. for the common defence and general welfare of the United States. f H.R. 4365: Mr. FATTAH, Mr. PASTOR of Ari- zona, and Mr. PETRI. By Mr. SANFORD: ADDITIONAL SPONSORS H.R. 4803. H.R. 4411: Mr. DELANEY, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. Congress has the power to enact this legis- Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors SENSENBRENNER, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. lation pursuant to the following: were added to public bills and resolu- MATHESON, Mr. GARRETT, Mr. RENACCI, Ms. Article I, Section 8, the Congress shall tions, as follows: MATSUI, Mr. ENYART, and Mr. MILLER of have the power to lay and collect taxes, du- Florida. H.R. 182: Mr. PERLMUTTER. ties, imposts and excises, to pay debts and H.R. 4450: Ms. KUSTER, Mr. WALDEN, Mr. H.R. 543: Mrs. KIRKPATRICK. provide for the common defence and general FARENTHOLD, and Mr. GINGREY of Georgia. H.R. 713: Mr. VALADAO. welfare of the United States. H.R. 4510: Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. H.R. 721: Mr. MATHESON. By Mr. MULVANEY: H.R. 4521: Ms. JENKINS and Mrs. NOEM. H.R. 949: Mr. BRALEY of Iowa. H.R. 4804. H.R. 4584: Ms. SPEIER. H.R. 1015: Mr. DOGGETT. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 4589: Mr. SMITH of Washington. H.R. 1176: Ms. JENKINS. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 4592: Ms. NORTON and Mrs. MILLER of H.R. 1429: Mr. BRALEY of Iowa. Article I, Section 8, Clause 1. ‘‘The Con- Michigan. H.R. 1518: Mr. FARENTHOLD, Mr. FLORES, gress shall have Power To lay and collect H.R. 4605: Mr. HALL and Mr. TONKO. and Mr. WALDEN. Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay H.R. 4626: Mr. HUIZENGA of Michigan and H.R. 1566: Mr. PEARCE. the Debts and provide for the common Ms. MOORE. H.R. 1666: Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Defence and general Welfare of the United H.R. 4630: Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. H.R. 1750: Mr. SMITH of Nebraska, Mr. States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises HONDA, Ms. NORTON, and Mr. ISRAEL. shall be uniform throughout the United KINZINGER of Illinois, Mr. GOODLATTE, Mr. HUIZENGA of Michigan, Mr. MCKINLEY, and H.R. 4648: Ms. ESHOO, Ms. SHEA-PORTER, States.’’ Ms. NORTON, and Ms. BROWNLEY of Cali- Article I, Section 8, Clause 3. ‘‘To regulate Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. H.R. 1775: Mr. DEFAZIO. fornia. commerce with foreign nations, and among H.R. 4714: Mr. BLUMENAUER. the several states, and with the Indian H.R. 1857: Mr. ISRAEL. H.R. 1998: Mr. JONES. H.R. 4717: Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio and Mr. tribes.’’ LANGEVIN. Article I, Section 8, Clause 18. ‘‘To make H.R. 2077: Mr. COOPER. H.R. 4719: Mr. STIVERS. all Laws which shall be necessary and proper H.R. 2594: Mr. MAFFEI. H.R. 4775: Mr. BILIRAKIS and Mr. YOUNG of for carrying into Execution the foregoing H.R. 2673: Ms. JENKINS. Indiana. Powers, and all other Powers vested by this H.R. 2764: Mr. JONES. H.R. 4781: Mr. BACHUS, Mr. HINOJOSA, Mr. Constitution in the Government of the H.R. 2827: Ms. LOFGREN. ROE of Tennessee, and Mr. CLAY. United States, or in any Department or Offi- H.R. 2957: Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio and Ms. H.R. 4790: Ms. KAPTUR. cer thereof.’’ TSONGAS. H.R. 4799: Mr. MCKINLEY. By Mrs. BLACK: H.R. 2994: Mr. BRALEY of Iowa, Mr. ENYART, H.R. 4805. Mr. BENTIVOLIO, and Mr. KELLY of Pennsyl- H.J. Res. 68: Ms. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM Congress has the power to enact this legis- vania. of New Mexico. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 3333: Mr. GRIJALVA and Ms. BROWNLEY H. Res. 72: Mr. TIBERI and Mr. SCHNEIDER. Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution which of California. H. Res. 109: Mr. OLSON. states, ‘‘The Congress shall have power to H.R. 3367: Mr. PAULSEN, Mrs. BROOKS of In- H. Res. 600: Mr. HUNTER. lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and diana, and Ms. BROWNLEY of California. H. Res. 601: Ms. JENKINS, Mr. FINCHER, Ms. excises, to pay the debts and provide for the H.R. 3389: Mrs. WAGNER. SHEA-PORTER, Mr. GOWDY, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. common defense and general welfare of the H.R. 3422: Ms. TITUS. WHITFIELD, Mr. ROSS, Mr. GIBSON, Mr. ROD- United States.’’ H.R. 3560: Mr. GEORGE MILLER of Cali- NEY DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. FOR- By Mrs. CAPPS: fornia. TENBERRY, Mr. POMPEO, Mr. BISHOP of Geor- H.R. 4806. H.R. 3576: Mr. ROSS, Mr. STIVERS, Mr. gia, Mr. PITTENGER, Mr. TERRY, Mr. GRIFFIN Congress has the power to enact this legis- BUCHANAN, Mr. TIBERI, Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN, of Arkansas, Mrs. LUMMIS, Mrs. BLACKBURN, lation pursuant to the following: and Mr. FORBES. and Mrs. BLACK. The Constitutional authority in which this H.R. 3670: Mr. LANGEVIN. H. Res. 606: Mr. GALLEGO. bill rests is the power of the Congress to reg- H.R. 3698: Mr. KILMER and Mr. MCALLISTER. H. Res. 608: Mr. MCDERMOTT and Mr. ulate Commerce, as enumerated by Article I, H.R. 3717: Mr. LOWENTHAL. MCKEON.

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Vol. 160 WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2014 No. 87 Senate The Senate met at 10 a.m. and was appoint the Honorable JOHN E. WALSH, a MEASURE PLACED ON THE CALENDAR—S. 2432 called to order by the Honorable JOHN Senator from the State of Montana, to per- Mr. REID. Mr. President, I under- E. WALSH, a Senator from the State of form the duties of the Chair. stand S. 2432 is at the desk and due for Montana. PATRICK J. LEAHY, a second reading. President pro tempore. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- PRAYER Mr. WALSH thereupon assumed the pore. The clerk will read the bill by The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- chair as Acting President pro tempore. title for the second time. fered the following prayer: The bill clerk read as follows: Let us pray. f A bill (S. 2432) to amend the Higher Edu- Eternal Spirit, Your ways are right. cation Act of 1965 to provide for the refi- Make Your face to shine upon us and RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY nancing of certain Federal student loans, keep us under the shelter of Your LEADER and for other purposes. wings. Thank You for the life that stirs The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Mr. REID. Mr. President, I would ob- within us and for our bright and beau- pore. The majority leader is recog- ject to any further proceedings with re- tiful world. Lord, the works of Your nized. spect to the legislation at this time. hands bring us joy, creating in us a de- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- sire to bless Your Name. f pore. Objection is heard. The bill will Today fill the hearts of our Senators be placed on the calendar. with praise and peace as they seek to BIPARTISAN SPORTSMEN’S ACT INVASION OF NORMANDY accomplish Your purposes. Give them OF 2014—MOTION TO PROCEED Mr. REID. Mr. President, I am aware wings of faith to rise above the chal- Mr. REID. Mr. President, I now move of the remarks I am about to make in lenges that keep them tethered to sec- to proceed to Calendar No. 384, S. 2363, recognition of the Presiding Officer tarian paralysis. Provide them with ev- the Hagan sportsmen’s legislation. who has, prior to coming to this body, erything they need to live a life that The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- led hundreds of troops into Iraq during glorifies You. pore. The clerk will report the motion. some of the most difficult combat that Lord, we thank You for our gifted The bill clerk read as follows: any soldiers faced during that conflict. Senate pages who faithfully serve You When I first came to the Senate, we Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 384, S. had many combat veterans, but that and country. 2363, a bill to protect and enhance opportuni- We pray in Your great Name. Amen. ties for recreational hunting, fishing, and has changed over the years, quite re- f shooting, and for other purposes. markably. We all look to Senator MCCAIN as RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY LEADER PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE someone who certainly understands The Presiding Officer led the Pledge The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- what it means to be in a conflict in of Allegiance, as follows: pore. The majority leader is recog- war, but things have changed since we nized. I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the lost Medal of Honor winners: Dan United States of America, and to the Repub- SCHEDULE Inouye on his passing; Bob Kerrey as a lic for which it stands, one nation under God, Mr. REID. Mr. President, following result of his retiring; Fritz Hollings, a indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. my remarks and those of the Repub- Silver Star winner, combat veteran of f lican leader, the Senate will be in a pe- World War II; Ted Stevens flying air- APPOINTMENT OF ACTING riod of morning business until 1:45 planes into the Far East, a dedicated PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE p.m., with the majority controlling the heroic pilot; and many other people, so first 30 minutes and the Republicans there aren’t many left anymore. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The controlling the next 30 minutes. That is why I focus attention on the clerk will please read a communication At 1:45 p.m. the Senate will proceed Presiding Officer today, because he is to the Senate from the President pro to executive session for at least one representative of the best of people tempore (Mr. LEAHY). rollcall vote. First, there will be a vote who fight for freedom. The bill clerk read the following let- on the confirmation of Sylvia Burwell On June 6, 1944, President Franklin ter: to be Secretary of Health and Human Roosevelt began his national radio ad- U.S. SENATE, Services and then a vote on the con- dress in a very unusual way, one not PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, firmation of Carolyn Hessler Radelet to entirely common then or now, because Washington, DC, June 5, 2014. To the Senate: be Director of the Peace Corps. We the Commander in Chief, the President Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, hope to confirm the Radelet nomina- of the United States, asked the Amer- of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby tion by voice vote. ican people to join him in prayer. Why

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Can you est generation’’ with each passing As he implored the American people imagine going onto the beach with the year—including the last of the original on behalf of those soldiers, he said: machine gun fire coming down on top Navajo code talkers whom we lost just They will be sore tried, by night and by of you. yesterday—the heroism of these brave day, without rest until the victory is won. Tomorrow is the 70th anniversary of Americans can never be forgotten. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. D-day. On that day 156,000 heroic sol- I have one constituent, Bob Williams Men’s souls will be shaken with the violence from Boone County, KY, who jumped of war. For these men are lately drawn from diers turned the tide against Adolf Hit- the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust ler’s savagery and unshackled the na- on D-day, jumped again 50 years later, of conquest. They fight to end conquest. tions of Europe. This afternoon there and was on the front cover of Time They fight to liberate. are about 10 or 11 Senators who are magazine. I saw him earlier this year, That was part of his request, that the going to go to that 70th anniversary and he says he is not going to jump American people pray for these valiant which is being held on the beaches of again because his wife will not let him, soldiers. Of course, while this battle for Normandy. President Obama will be but Bob Williams is still in good shape Europe was going on throughout the there, world leaders will be there, and 70 years after the day he jumped into South Pacific, people were dying as he I appreciate very much those Senators the night of D-day. spoke. Virtually all of the troops who going and representing the Senate, as Tomorrow I will be honored to com- stormed the beaches of France that day well as the Presiding Officer. memorate the most important anniver- were not professional soldiers. They Proof of these soldiers’ bravery can sary by meeting with a number of Ken- were schoolteachers, farmers, ranchers, be seen in faraway France today, every tucky heroes—veterans from World mechanics, and clerks. These fathers, day, not just for the celebration that is War II and the Korean war—who will husbands, sons, and brothers were going to take place recognizing the be visiting the national monuments pulled away from their peaceful lives 70th anniversary of this conflict—every built here in the Nation’s Capital to and instead were sent to liberate an en- day—because there are massive graves honor their service and sacrifice. They tire continent. They fought coura- there, all over Europe. These seemingly will be making a trip with the help of geously for liberty. They hurtled them- endless rows of white headstones tes- the Bluegrass Chapter of the Honor selves into the line of fire to defeat tyr- tify to their valor. Crosses and Stars of Flight Program, which has already anny. David are reminders of the debt we owe brought more than 1,000 veterans— We can probably all look back at peo- to those who refused to balk in the face mostly from Kentucky—to Washington ple who fought in World War II. They of the evil, and that was Hitler. Adolf for this very purpose. The program pro- were our relatives, our neighbors, and I Hitler’s Nazis were evil. vides transportation, lodging, and food mentioned a few whom I served with in May we always honor their sacrifice for the veterans. the Senate. and never forget the price they paid to Without Honor Flight, many would From the little town I come from in protect, not only this Nation but the not be able to visit the World War II Nevada, Searchlight, there was a man entire world. Memorial—a memorial erected to there named Junior Cree. His name was HONORING VETERANS honor the sacrifice of the men and Junior Cree. That was his given name. One of the ways in which we honor women who served on D-day and I grew up there as a little boy. soldiers in our democracy is to care for throughout that era. I have met with groups of Honor He had a service station, a little bar, our veterans. As we celebrate the 70th Flight veterans before, and it is always and did a number of different things. anniversary of D-day, it is fitting that a moving experience. It is gratifying to He was an entrepreneur, as was his dad. Members of this body are working on a see these heroes receive the recogni- Many years after I was no longer a bipartisan basis to ensure that Amer- tion they deserve. Many of them never little boy, he came to my home in ican veterans get the help they need thought they would be able to make Searchlight and wanted to see my new and deserve. In light of the disturbing the trip, and for every veteran who home. Junior and I sat and talked with reports of the practices of the Depart- does, I am sure they hold cherished his daughter Sandy. I had asked him: ment of Veterans Affairs hospitals and memories of their fellow soldiers in Junior, what did you do in the invasion other facilities, chairman BERNIE arms who did not. of Normandy? He proceeded to tell me. SANDERS, of the Senate Veterans’ Af- I look forward to greeting them to- Yet at this time he was an 80-year-old fairs Committee, is leading the effort morrow and thanking them for their man. to craft a bill to improve care at VA extraordinary service to our country. I He told me he had fought in the hospitals. am proud and honored that Kentucky North African conflict first. He was in I applaud his efforts. I applaud the ef- the infantry. He was not in the first is home to so many of these brave he- forts of Senator MCCAIN. As we speak, roes. wave to go onto the beaches, but he they are meeting to try to come up BURWELL NOMINATION was in one of the first, in one of the with some bipartisan solution to the Today the Senate will vote on Presi- amphibious vehicles. There were about problems of wait times at VA facilities. dent Obama’s newest choice to head 35 or 40 people on one of those. I am hopeful an agreement will be His job—he had his rifle of course but the Department of Health and Human reached that guarantees American vet- his job was to carry signs—he was a big Services—in other words, the person he erans are receiving the care we as a man—into the water onto the beaches, will be sticking with the impossible grateful nation have promised. It is the and he had instructions on what to do task of trying to make ObamaCare least we can do for these gallant men with the signs, to designate who they work. and women who have fought to protect were and what they were supposed to By most accounts Sylvia Burwell is a our great country. do. The water was much deeper than smart and skilled public servant, but anyone said. Well, this man, who was RECOGNITION OF THE MINORITY LEADER her embrace of ObamaCare calls her well over 6 foot, went right to the bot- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- policy judgment into question. When it tom and nearly drowned because these pore. The Republican leader is recog- comes to the task of implementing this signs were so heavy. He made it onto nized. ill-conceived and disastrous law, the the beach and found security under a NORMANDY INVASION President may as well have nominated damaged half-track, I think he called Mr. MCCONNELL. Tomorrow marks Sisyphus because, as I indicated, Ms. it. He was shot in the rear end, and the 70th anniversary of the invasion of Burwell is being asked to do the impos- that ended his military adventures dur- Normandy, a day known across the sible. ing World War II. world as D-day. ObamaCare has already inflicted tre- These people were everyplace. Junior On this fateful day, which proved to mendous pain on the lives of countless Cree was one of 156,000 people on those be such a decisive turning point for the middle-class Americans, including

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It has caused embrace of this disastrous law is rea- deployed with Headquarters and Head- Kentuckians to lose the plans they son enough to oppose her confirmation. quarters Company, 82nd Airborne Divi- liked and wanted to keep—despite end- I will be voting against this nominee sion, until in 2009 he was reassigned to less promises to the contrary. because I think we need to focus on re- 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry A constituent of mine from Pulaksi pealing and replacing this law, not try- Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, County wrote to tell me that as a re- ing to do the impossible by pretending 82nd Airborne Division, based out of sult of ObamaCare he lost his insur- we can make it work. Fort Bragg. It was with this unit that ance and that he was ‘‘floored’’ when HONORING OUR ARMED FORCES Chris deployed to Afghanistan for what he saw the cost of the ObamaCare-ap- STAFF SERGEANT CHRISTOPHER T. STOUT would be his final deployment. proved plan to replace it. With a spike Mr. President, I rise to mourn the In late July 2010, shortly after he was in his premium and a $6,300 deductible, loss and celebrate the life of one brave killed, his family, friends, and those he wrote to ask me how ‘‘[he] or any soldier from Kentucky who died while who wished to pay their respects gath- working man [could] afford the Afford- serving this country. SSG Christopher ered at the veterans memorial in Gen- able . . . Care Act.’’ He makes an im- T. Stout of Worthville, a chaplain’s as- eral Butler State Park in Carrollton, portant point. sistant, was killed on July 13, 2010, in KY, to remember Christopher Stout. Nearly every major ObamaCare Kandahar City, Afghanistan, from Daughter Jacqueline Stout sang promise from several years ago is a wounds suffered when the enemy at- ‘‘Amazing Grace’’ in his honor to a broken ObamaCare promise today. tacked his unit with rifles, rocket-pro- crowd of nearly 500. Even more recent promises from the pelled grenades, and small-arms fire. Chaplain LTC David Graetz told the administration can’t be relied on ei- He was 34 years old. crowd that Chris lived by the chap- ther. In January the Secretary cer- For his service in uniform, Sergeant lain’s motto ‘‘Pro Deo et Patria’’— tified to Congress that she would verify Stout received several medals, awards, Latin for the phrase ‘‘For God and that people were actually eligible for and decorations, including the Bronze Country.’’ ObamaCare subsidies before they were Star Medal, the Purple Heart, two The Reverend Raymond Sharon of sent out. In recent weeks we learned Army Commendation Medals, the Chris’s hometown church also spoke. from media accounts and testimony Army Achievement Medal, three Army ‘‘He is a hero,’’ Reverend Sharon said that many of the systems needed to Good Conduct Medals, the National De- of Chris. ‘‘He has set an example for all protect taxpayers against inaccurate fense Service Medal, two Afghanistan the young people here today. Nothing or fraudulent payments still have not Campaign Medals with Bronze Service can stop you from accomplishing in life been built, tested, or used. Yesterday Stars, the Global War on Terrorism a great place in society, as Chris has we learned that nearly one in four ap- Service Medal, the Army Service Rib- done. Chris stood for the truth. He plications may have an inconsistency bon, the Overseas Service Ribbon, the lived it. He talked it.’’ that could affect the accuracy of these NATO Medal, and the Combat Action With that, the crowd stood at re- payments from American taxpayers. Badge. spectful attention for the firing of a Any wasted tax dollar is a problem, but Staff Sergeant Stout’s commanding three-volley salute by the American when you consider that many of these officer, chaplain CPT Ludovic O. Legion Post No. 41, followed by a bu- are dollars raised from tax increases or Foyou, said this of his fallen comrade: gler playing ‘‘Taps.’’ Then the Carroll raided from Medicare to make payouts Staff Sergeant Christopher Stout was not County judge-executive unveiled for by mistake or through fraud, it is just a chaplain assistant; he was my friend, Chris’s family a brick to be placed in enough to make your head spin. brother and shield of armor. His immensely the veterans memorial to honor his This is just the kind of thing every- pure love for his fellow paratroopers epito- sacrifice. one warned about as Washington mizes the spirit of the Army Chaplain Corps. His mother said: Democrats tried to ram this law His love for his wife Misty and three Thank you, Chris. You gave your all. I through, and it will only get worse if princesses, Jacqueline, Audreanna, and hope my mind stays healthy so that I always we give up now and just accept the Kristen, always kept a radiant smile on his have my memories of your smiling blue eyes, giant mess they have made of our face. your warm smile, those dimples and freckles, health care. I mean, if they can’t even Christopher’s hometown pastor, the and our time of you and me against the get a Web site fixed after spending hun- Reverend Raymond Sharon of world. Those will have to do me until we meet again at Heaven’s gates. dreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, Worthville United Pentecostal Church, how can they possibly regulate such a added: We are thinking of Chris’s family huge sector of our economy in any ef- [Chris] was just a fantastic good boy all today as I share his story with my col- fective way? the way around. Faithful to church, faithful leagues, including his wife Misty, his How can any administration official to his family, his wife. daughters Jacqueline, Audreanna, and possibly repair all the broken Chris was born on New Year’s Day in Kristen, his parents Sharon and Billy ObamaCare promises? The question an- 1976 in Louisville and graduated from Neuner, and many other beloved family swers itself: They can’t. The nominee Carroll County High School. members and friends. I wish for them before us can’t. No one can. The prob- His mother, Sharon Neuner, remem- to know that this Senate is privileged lem is the law itself. ObamaCare is bers Chris’s childhood fondly: to pay tribute to SSG Christopher T. what prevents the successful imple- We had some hard times because I was a Stout for his life of service in honor of mentation of ObamaCare. And Ameri- single parent . . . but those things just the ideals of ‘‘Pro Deo et Patria’’— cans don’t want it. They want real brought us closer together. Our song name ‘‘For God and Country.’’ We recognize health reforms—reforms that can actu- was ‘‘You and Me Against the World.’’ I re- his service, and we honor his ultimate member you used to want name-brand things sacrifice. He truly was a man of God ally lower costs, increase choice, and that we couldn’t afford, so you went to work help the middle class. So, in my view, who died defending our country. Ken- in an elderly woman’s flower garden. You tucky is proud to call this good and the Senate shouldn’t be focusing on a weeded, painted, and mowed lawns to get new captain for the Titanic; it should money for those name-brand things. In doing faithful servant one of our own, and we focus on steering away from the ice- so, you learned that it isn’t the clothes or mourn his loss. berg. the shoes that make the man, but who you Mr. President, I yield the floor. As HHS Secretary, the nominee are as a person that makes you a great man. RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME would oversee many important pro- Chris was an accomplished singer and The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- grams aimed at protecting public often preached the gospel at Worthville pore. Under the previous order, the health, promoting medical research, United Pentecostal Church. He joined leadership time is reserved.

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We the people providing care for them can Senate will be in a period of morning will reduce it again this year and again do it in a better coordinated and business until 1:45 p.m., with Senators next year, but among the things we had smarter way and a more cost-effective permitted to speak therein up to 10 in the military is an annual physical. way, providing better results for less minutes each, with the time equally di- The idea is that you actually get an money. vided between the two leaders or their annual physical in your birthday The other thing we had in the mili- designees, with the majority control- month. My birthday month is January. tary was the medicine. If someone ling the first 30 minutes and the Re- I got my first annual physical, I think, needed to take medicine, prescription publicans controlling the next 30 min- when I was 17 from a Navy doctor, and medicines or that sort of thing, they utes. I got them for years and years after could actually get a medicine that was The Senator from Delaware. that. going to help them, keep them well or A lot of people in this country, in- help them stay well, be productive. We f cluding people on Medicare—they could adopted about 7 or 8 years ago the pri- BURWELL NOMINATION have lived to be 105—and until about 3 mary Medicare Part D prescription years ago with the option of the Af- drug program in Medicare which has Mr. CARPER. Mr. President, while fordable Care Act they got one annual turned out to be a great success, al- Senator MCCONNELL is still here in the physical paid for by Medicare when though they had a big problem with it Senate Chamber, I wish to follow up on they turned 65 and joined Medicare. when people would fall into the dough- his comments about the loss of Chris- That was it. It was called the Welcome nut hole. A lot of folks who got pretty topher Stout. to Medicare physical. If they could good coverage for maybe the first half My wife and I have a son of our own have lived another 40 years, they would of the year would lose their coverage named Christopher. He is roughly 10 have gotten another one paid for by and have to pay. They didn’t get any years younger than Christopher Stout Medicare. help from Medicare Part D. We started at his death. So as soon as Senator The reason the military provides an- fixing—filling the doughnut hole—with MCCONNELL began talking about the nual physicals for its members, Active the passage of the Affordable Care Act, loss of his life, it resonated with me as Duty and Reserve, is in order to catch and over the next 6 or 7 years we will a father. It also resonated with me as a health care problems when they are complete fixing that doughnut hole and former commander chief in the Na- small, when they can be treated, and people will not fall off the cliff, the tional Guard for 8 years and as a Navy we do this to save money. I served in Medicare Part D participants, as they veteran who served three tours in the military and in and out of military have been, because of what is in the Af- Southeast Asia in the Vietnam war. bases all over the country, all over the fordable Care Act. Do you know who Sometimes we don’t focus enough on world, and in almost every one of them pays for that? The pharmaceutical what is being accomplished by our there was not just a doctor, a Navy companies pay for that, not the tax- service men and women such as Chris- corpsman and so forth, but there was a payers. The pharmaceutical companies topher Stout and their service to our place to go—if you had a problem and pay for that expansion, making Medi- country in Afghanistan and our pur- needed medical attention, you could care Part D a good program, cost-effec- pose there. Our role has been to go into get it—a clinic. Today we have thou- tive, under budget, and 85 percent of a place in which 9/11 attacks were con- sands and thousands of clinics all over the people who use it like it. All of ceived and guided, killing thousands of this country where people, whether those things coincide with the benefits Americans. Our purpose is, as we draw they have 5 cents or $5 or $50 to their we enjoyed in the military, and they down on our troops there at the end of name, have health care coverage. They are made available in part and parcel this year, to be down to about 9,800 can go get primary health care. They for more people through the adoption troops, roughly half a year from now, can get primary health care. We have of the Affordable Care Act. and even fewer in the years to come. grown dramatically access to primary Are there problems with the Afford- But our goal is threefold; that is, when health care in places all over America, able Care Act? Sure there are. Are we leave, we leave behind not only a not just Delaware but all the other 49 there things we need to fix? Sure we place that is less likely to foment and States as well. should. Will Sylvia Mathews Burwell launch attacks against this country or There has been a lot of attention on help us fix those? She will provide any other country, but also we leave the VA, some of the very disappointing great leadership. She and I, interest- behind a country that can feed itself, circumstances that are going on in ingly, have our lives intertwined in a defend itself, and govern itself. Phoenix and other places such as that strange way. We found out when I first The Presiding Officer was adjutant in terms of waiting lists, and they need met her. I called Erskine Bowles. I general for the State of Montana, and to be aggressive and they will be, but learned over 1 year ago the President he understands full well, having served one of the great innovations the VA had nominated Sylvia Mathews in combat and for a long period of came up with 15 or more years ago was Burwell to be President Obama’s OMB time, the importance of the role the electronic health care records. Director. I noticed she had worked in Christopher Stouts have played and the When I was in the Navy and on Ac- the Clinton White House with Erskine reverence we hold for them and for tive Duty, and the Presiding Officer Bowles when he was Chief of Staff to their service in life and beyond. may remember, we used to carry President Clinton the second term. I also hasten to add in following up around with us—roughly this size—a So I called Erskine, and I said: Tell on the minority leader’s comments, brown manila folder, and it included me about Sylvia Mathews Burwell. there are some things we had in the my medical records for years, from the He said: I will tell you about Sylvia military. I served 5 years Active Duty, time I got my first physical as a 17- Mathews Burwell. I have known people 18 years Reserve as a P–3 aircraft naval year-old Navy midshipman until my as smart as Sylvia. I have known peo- flight officer and later as a mission last one. People on Active Duty don’t ple who are as good at working with commander. There are some things we carry these around anymore. We have other people as Sylvia is. I have known had in the military that frankly a lot electronic health records pioneered by people as good as Sylvia at getting of people in this country haven’t had the VA and now we have them in the things done. I have not known one per- for too many years. Until last year Department of Defense. The reason we son who does all three of those things about 40 million people in this country have them is because it enables us to as well as she does. did not have health care. They did not better coordinate delivery of health He told me a story when she was have access to health care, and we have care to people who otherwise may not working as Bob Rubin’s right-hand per- changed that. We have changed that have it. The Affordable Care Act actu- son, top assistant. Bob Rubin was then dramatically. ally introduces for the first time for the Secretary of the Treasury. Presi- Does everybody have access to afford- millions of people electronic health dent Clinton was meeting with Chief of able health care today? No, but we no care records, not for them to carry Staff Erskine Bowles, Bob Rubin, the

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Steven Beshear has led, Treasury Secretary Rubin on a par- them that has enabled them both to go provided great leadership in his State ticular issue and Secretary Rubin was on and do extraordinary things with to make sure the hundreds of thou- kind of struggling to respond in an ap- their life. sands of people who needed health care propriate way to the President’s in- I say thank you to Stephen, who pro- have it today who didn’t have it before. quiries. Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the posed marriage to then-Sylvia Mat- We want to make sure the oppor- assistant, wrote a note, and when the hews at that Blue Stone Dam on the tunity they have realized in Kentucky President was not looking, handed it New River all those years ago. I thank and those States that don’t have that discreetly to advise Bob Rubin, who him for sharing his wife with our coun- opportunity, that have no exchange to glanced at the note and then reengaged try. These are tough jobs, demanding sign up in—they have no expansion of the President on the issue, and the jobs, and in some cases thankless jobs, the Medicaid Program—my hope is President said: That is a brilliant in- and he is willing to take on some extra they will look to Kentucky as an exam- sight. That is really a brilliant insight, responsibility as a dad in helping to ple and to Delaware as an example, to Bob. raise their children, both under the age see what we can do for our people. Erskine Bowles, not to be deterred, of 10. I think Helene is about 6 and I Last point. Most of the people who serve here are people of faith—some said to the President: Mr. President, think the younger daughter is maybe 4 are Protestant, some are Catholic, Sylvia wrote a note and gave it to him. years old. They know their mom is some are Jewish, different religions. That is how he was able to give you changing jobs. They know she still has Most people here are people of faith. that answer. a job. If we confirm her today, it is a If I had people as smart as Sylvia on Most of our sacred Scriptures have a huge job. couple things in common. One of the my staff, I would look a lot smarter Is there work to do? Sure, there is. Is things they have in common is the too. But she covered herself with glory there work to do in implementing the Golden Rule. Chaplain Barry Black, in those years at the White House. She Affordable Care Act? Sure, there is. Is who gives the opening prayer most finished up. This is a gal who grew up there work to do in tweaking it and days the Senate is in session, likes to in Hinton, WV, a little coal mining making it better? Sure, there is. say that the Golden Rule is: Treat town on the New River where I lived I will close with this for my Repub- other people the way you want to be when I was 4 years old. Her husband lican friends—and I love them all. For treated, love thy neighbor as thyself. Stephen proposed to her at the Blue my Republican friends who moan and He says those are the CliffsNotes of the Stone Dam on the New River where my groan about the enormous burden the New Testament. As it turns out, the grandfather and father used to take me Affordable Care Act is putting on the Golden Rule is the CliffsNotes of every as a little boy to fish. American people, let me say this: I major religion in the world. I don’t She later graduated from Hinton have a friend who if you ask him: How care if you are Protestant, Catholic, High School, a public high school, a lit- are you doing, says: Compared to what? Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, al- tle coal mining town. Where did she go If things are so bad now with the Af- most all of them have something like to school? She went to Harvard. After fordable Care Act, let’s just say: Com- the Golden Rule in their sacred Scrip- that where did she go to school? She pared to what? tures. was a Rhodes Scholar. She went to Ox- Here is where we were 3 or 4 years In the New Testament, in the Book of ford, and she came out and she went to ago. The country of Japan spends 8 per- Matthew, Matthew 25, there is some- work for a great consulting company, cent of their GDP on health care. We thing we have all heard. Not everybody McKinsey & Company, and started spent 18 percent, until recently, with knows where it came from or even that working in the White House doing all the Affordable Care Act. They get bet- it is in the Bible, but it is. The Scrip- kinds of things during the Clinton ad- ter results, higher rates of longevity, ture talks about, when I was hungry, ministration, higher and higher respon- lower rates of infant mortality, argu- did you feed me? When I was thirsty, sibilities, ending up as OMB Deputy Di- ably better results than we did until at did you give me to drink? When I was rector the last part of the year, when least a couple of years ago, and in naked, did you clothe me? When I was we actually had four balanced budgets Japan they cover everybody. Until this sick and in prison, did you come to see in a row, if you will recall. year we had about 40 million people me? She knows how to manage. She who went to bed at night who did not Matthew 25 doesn’t say anything knows how to manage people, she have health care coverage. about when I had no health care, and knows how to manage financial re- I regret that anybody who is incon- when I had to depend on the emergency sources, and she is terrific working venienced or disadvantaged all because room for health care when I got very with people. That is why Senator TOM of the adoption of the Affordable Care sick and ran up a big tab that some- COBURN, my wingman in terms of lead- Act. I regret it for every one of those body else had to pay for because I was ership on the Senate Committee on people, but you know what. I regret hospitalized for a while—a long while. Homeland Security & Governmental that all those folks in this country, It doesn’t say that in Matthew 25, but Affairs, actually came along with Sen- tens of millions of them, didn’t have the intent is the same. ator JAY ROCKEFELLER from West Vir- access to health care. I regret the fact Where were you? We were here, and ginia, actually came, a Republican and that all those people on Medicare never we voted to try to do something about a Democrat, to introduce her for her got a second physical, and if they had it, to make sure people did have better confirmation hearing before the Senate gotten one, they would have a much access to health care, and we can im- Finance Committee, on which I served, better life. I regret that all the folks in prove on what we have done and we to endorse her candidacy. I thank Dr. the Medicare prescription drug pro- need to do that. We have a moral im- COBURN for doing that. One would ex- gram—millions of senior citizens—fell perative to the least of these in our so- pect Senator ROCKEFELLER to do that. into the doughnut hole and stopped ciety to look out for them, to help He has been a longstanding huge fan, taking their medicines and got sick, them look out for themselves as well. but Senator COBURN and I have only had to be hospitalized, and ended up in We also have the fiscal imperative gotten to know her for the last year nursing homes. It cost a lot of money given our budget constraints to meet and a half and have loved working with and they died with not a happy life. I that moral imperative in a fiscally re- her and think she has done a terrific feel badly for them. sponsible way. Sylvia Mathews Burwell job at OMB and that she will do a ter- My dad used to say to us, rather than understands that as well as anybody I rific job at the Department of Health moan about our problems, fix them— know. She has demonstrated that in and Human Services. fix them. There are plenty of things we her leadership in OMB. She will dem- I wish to say a special thank-you to can do to make the Affordable Care Act onstrate that if we confirm her today her parents who are still alive and who better. I know what they are. But the to be the Secretary at the Department still live in Hinton, WV, a real thank- idea about going back to where we of Health and Human Services.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 02:11 Mar 21, 2015 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD14\JUN 2014\S05JN4.REC S05JN4 bjneal on DSK2TWX8P1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE S3438 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE June 5, 2014 I hope my colleagues, Democrats and is a year overdue, and it has been sig- I yield the floor and suggest the ab- Republicans, will follow the leadership nificantly altered from the statute. sence of a quorum. of Senator TOM COBURN, a Republican The Department is supposed to imple- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- from Oklahoma, and his wingman TOM ment risk corridors this year, although pore. The clerk will call the roll. CARPER, a Democrat from Delaware, in the legal authority to distribute funds The bill clerk proceeded to call the supporting this nomination. is questionable and the standards used roll. With that, I yield back the floor and to make those distributions will likely Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask suggest the absence of a quorum. be kept very quiet. unanimous consent that the order for The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Speaking of things that will be kept the quorum call be rescinded. pore. The clerk will call the roll. quiet, Congress is going to want to The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- The bill clerk proceeded to call the know what the premiums will be next pore. Without objection, it is so or- roll. year for health insurance. We consider dered. Mr. GRASSLEY. Madam President, I the information very important and Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, the ask unanimous consent that the order relevant. ObamaCare train wreck just keeps roll- for the quorum call be rescinded. My State of Iowa is considered to be ing on. Every day it seems there is an- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- one of the States most at risk for pre- other story about another ObamaCare pore. Without objection, it is so or- mium spikes. The Department will failure. dered. Mr. President, 80,000 Oregonians Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, this want to use any means necessary to hide the premiums until after the No- must reenroll in health plans after the afternoon we are going to vote on the State’s ObamaCare exchange site nomination of Ms. Burwell to be the vember elections unless, of course, the premium numbers are good, and then I failed. The health care coverage of 2 Secretary of HHS. I am going to sup- million Americans enrolled on the export that nomination. I am here on the am sure the Department will shout them from the rooftops, much as they changes could be in jeopardy. floor to alert people to some of the The Congressional Budget Office says problems she will face and hopefully did with enrollment numbers. We have heard over and over about there have been so many delays and she can correct. changes to ObamaCare that it can no For starters, I hope that everybody enrollment numbers, but the enroll- longer estimate the fiscal effects of the remembers the government has checks ment numbers don’t tell the whole law. And that is just the ObamaCare and balances. Congress passes laws, the story—not even close. I was under the executive branch enforces them, and it impression that the law was supposed news from yesterday. The Democrats’ is our responsibility to make sure that to increase coverage and lower costs. victory lap is a distant memory re- those laws are enforced according to So far that is not the case. The inde- placed by the constant flow of stories the intent of Congress. When they are pendent research firm McKinsey found about ObamaCare’s many failures. not enforced, we have a responsibility that 74 percent of the people getting Americans are losing their health in- to point that out, and that is what I coverage through ObamaCare plans surance, Americans are losing their will be doing. I hope she will be able to were previously insured. If those num- doctors, Americans are unable to ob- correct the issues that my colleagues bers are accurate, that means one in tain medications, employers are facing and I will be pointing out this morning. four people getting coverage was pre- higher costs, and employees are facing We also have a situation where Con- viously uninsured. Certainly that is higher costs. The list goes on. gress passed the Affordable Care Act, what I hear from my constituents. The President promised that his and in that process the President has They have had to change their cov- health care law was going to be a solu- done a lot of things that some of us erage, and often that coverage has been tion for American families. If they think are illegal and in some cases much more expensive. liked their health care plans and their even unconstitutional. Hopefully, she, Furthermore, the McKinsey research doctors, they could keep them. If they as the new director, will make sure also found that the majority of people didn’t like their health care or if they that those practices don’t continue. who shopped for an ObamaCare plan didn’t have health care, they would be When Ms. Burwell was nominated, I but did not purchase that plan cited af- able to get an affordable plan. Those said that anyone put in charge of fordability as the No. 1 reason for not were the promises that were made. ObamaCare would be set up to fail. The buying that insurance. Unfortunately, Americans quickly theme of this law has really been ‘‘by A poll released by the Kaiser Founda- discovered those promises were not to any means necessary.’’ In other words, tion found that roughly 4 in 10 unin- be kept. Millions of Americans were it doesn’t really matter what the law sured Americans named affordability forced off their health care plans and says, do whatever it takes to get this as their primary reason for going with- into the exchanges where they fre- program underway: the President can out health insurance. It is not working quently found they were paying more fix it later. He has done that 38 times— as it was intended. and getting less. Too many Americans and surely sometimes contrary to what I hope Ms. Burwell will change the discovered their new health care cov- the law says and contrary to the oath relationship the Department has with erage meant losing doctors and hos- he took to uphold the laws of this Congress. I hope she will be willing to pitals they liked and that their choice country: The legislative process was break the ‘‘by any means necessary’’ of replacement was limited. certainly, by no means, necessary; if mindset that we have seen for the last When the President was campaigning you want to change it, change it. 5 years. I hope she doesn’t disappear for his health care law, he claimed The implementation of this law has into the bunker over there in that of- families would see their health care operated similarly. The department we fice building and that we will never premiums drop by $2,500. In fact, health are considering Ms. Burwell to lead has hear from her again. care premiums have increased by al- ignored the plain read of the statute Her challenge is very severe. The law most $3,700 under the President, and whenever it was considered necessary. appears to be shifting around the pre- they are still going up. In other words, don’t bother to come to viously insured more than it is cov- Middle-class Americans are hurting. Congress to correct something you ering the previously uninsured. The The past 51⁄2 years of the Obama admin- think is not working; just correct it previously uninsured are citing costs istration have brought higher prices yourself. Deadlines were considered to as a primary reason for not purchasing and fewer opportunities. Gas prices be written in pencil. insurance. have almost doubled. Food prices have If the statute needed to be creatively I will support the nomination of Ms. risen. Meanwhile, Americans’ house- reinterpreted to make the program Burwell today and hope that down the hold income has declined by more than work, the Department of HHS did so, road—several months from now—I am $3,500 on the President’s watch. So and that still continues today. Con- not sorry I did that. I think she is a Americans who once confidently ex- sequently, that is why I am pleading person who has the capability of turn- pected to be able to put their children with Ms. Burwell to change things. ing things around, and that she will do through college and retire comfortably The Department is supposed to im- that. But the law remains far from are now struggling to make ends meet. plement the employer mandate, which being worthy of support. Too many families are living paycheck

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He said State—thousands and thousands—have much worse. that. It is cheaper than your cell phone had letters of cancellation. If they have Today the Senate will vote on Sylvia bill. And, of course, he said people gone onto the Web site and bought in- Burwell’s nomination to be Secretary could keep their doctor if they liked surance, they found they paid a lot of the Department of Health and their doctor. more for what they had to buy, because Human Services. As much as Demo- When people see how this rolled out a lot of times it wasn’t actually what crats might want it to be true, a and the problems they have had with they needed for themselves or for their change in personnel at the Department it, they now have huge concerns about family or what was best for them; it in- of Health and Human Services won’t whether they can actually trust the cluded coverage they would never use make the mess ObamaCare has created Federal Government with anything. and don’t want but still had to pay for, disappear. Changing HHS Secretaries They see all of the problems coming because the President seems to think isn’t going to lower Americans’ health out of Washington and they are saying, he knows better what that family in care costs or give them back the doctor Why should we trust the government, Wyoming wants or needs than they do. or the health plan they lost. It is not the Washington-based government, That is not what America was built going to help the small businesses that with anything? on—the government telling people Let’s take a look at some of the are struggling under ObamaCare’s bur- what they have to buy, what they have States that set up their own exchange. densome mandates or restore the $1 to choose, what they have to have as Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal: State trillion Americans will lose in wages, their health insurance or their care. Exchanges Seek Costly Fix. Five It is interesting that even National thanks to the health care law. It is not States that launched health exchanges going to bring back the jobs that have Public Radio has a story about a cou- under the Affordable Care Act expect ple, a family—because one of my col- been lost as a result of ObamaCare. to spend as much as $240 million to fix Every Senator who voted for this law leagues from Connecticut comes to the their sites or switch to the Federal owes the American people an expla- floor and says he thinks ObamaCare is marketplace. nation. Every Senator who voted for working. This couple says it doesn’t Not one person is going to get care work—does not work. ‘‘Frustrated By this law ought to be telling American because of that. That is $240 million to families what he or she is going to do The Affordable Care Act, One Family fix the bad sites that have already Opts Out.’’ This is a family in Texas, to fix this mess. Americans deserve wasted money. How can people in these better than ObamaCare, and we could reported on National Public Radio. Ra- States of Oregon, Minnesota, Massa- chel’s husband wanted to make sure give them better than ObamaCare, if chusetts, Maryland, Nevada—how can Members of the Senate would decide they had insurance. Rachel was skep- they say this is good for them? This tical, but Nick, her husband, went on this was the wrong approach and decide health care law—for people who wanted to go in a different direction. I hope line and started shopping. He had a lot the care they need from a doctor they of trouble getting through the glitchy eventually they will come to that con- choose at lower cost find more wasted Web site at first, but eventually he clusion. government money—in Oregon alone, found a plan that would work just for I yield the floor. $255 million, money previously spent. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- his wife. He was concerned about his The FBI is investigating them now in wife. She was pregnant. So this past pore. The Senator from Wyoming. Oregon because of this. They say they Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I January, as soon as the plan began, want more money to upgrade the sys- come to the floor today with huge con- Nick printed out a list of obstetricians tem. Minnesota: $141 million. What are from the plan’s Web sites. He said: I cerns about the Obama health care law. we hearing from Minnesota? We are I do it as a physician, as a doctor, who handed it to Rachel, fully confident, hearing school districts say we have to fully feeling like I had accomplished has taken care of families all around pay a lot more, so we are not going to the State of Wyoming for a couple of something for her, I had come through be able to pay for teachers. We are not for my wife. decades; as a past president of our going to be able to pay for bus drivers. State medical society; as someone Well, they called obstetricians be- We are going to have to take it away cause she was pregnant. Some would committed to preventive care, coordi- from students to pay for the mistakes just say, We don’t take Obama. One of nated care; as the medical director of of this administration, this govern- the best was: ‘‘The doctor takes it here the Wyoming health fairs to give peo- ment, this law forced down the throats in the actual practice, but whatever ple low-cost screenings for health care of the American public and voted for hospital you use’’—none of those hos- around the State Those continue by many in this Chamber who never pitals take ObamaCare. today. There is one in the small com- read it. They never read the bill, be- She said: It was mind numbing, be- munity of Afton, WY, this very Satur- cause they trusted NANCY PELOSI. She cause I was sitting there thinking, I day—2 days from today. So the effort said, First you have to pass it before am paying close to $400 a month just continues to actually make sure people you get to find out what is in it. for me to have insurance that doesn’t can get prevention, early recognition We don’t have to turn the clock back even work. What am I paying for? of problems, and actual care. very far to go to the June 4 article How could this not be working, her The President’s health care law posted in Roll Call, the local paper. husband said. The United States Gov- hasn’t done that. The President keeps Headline: Fiscal diagnosis—now, as a ernment has set this up. It is this focusing on the word ‘‘coverage’’ in- physician we do a physical diagnosis, whole big deal, he said. They are hav- stead of what people wanted, which was but they are talking about a fiscal di- ing commercials everywhere saying we care. It is interesting today, because in agnosis: Fiscal Diagnosis Only Gets need to use this, and these people are the Wyoming Tribune Eagle, front Tougher for Health Care Law. The first just saying, no, no, no, and it just made page, today’s newspaper, headline: paragraph says, For Democratic law- me so mad. Health-care law plagued by inconsist- makers who were hesitant to sign onto So, as the headline says, they opted encies. At least 2 million people, the this sweeping 2010 health care law, one out. headline says, enrolled in insurance of the most powerful selling points was That is what the President has given have problems with data that could af- that the Affordable Care Act would the American people; not affordable fect their coverage. This is an Associ- actually reduce the federal budget def- care, not available care, not quality ated Press article on the front page of icit . . . care, not access to care but a lot of the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. A huge Four years later, headline: Fiscal Di- promises not delivered upon. Many peo- paperwork headache for the govern- agnosis Only Gets Tougher for Health ple across this country have been hurt ment could also be jeopardizing cov- Care Law. by this health care law.

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Yesterday the As- When I learned of these reports—and floor. sociated Press reported that the num- they have been in the Washington Post The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tember is actually closer to 2 million peo- and they have been in Politico—I hoped pore. The Senator from Ohio. ple who are receiving subsidies, despite they were mistaken. So I wrote to the Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. President, my apparent discrepancies between what Secretary of Health and Human Serv- colleague from Wyoming, Dr. BAR- they are submitting—the data they are ices. I also wrote to the IRS Commis- RASSO, has been talking about a lot of giving about their income informa- sioner—this was last month—asking if the issues related to the Affordable tion—and what the IRS already has. By these allegations were true and, if they Care Act, otherwise known as the way, the Health and Human Serv- were, what HHS was planning on doing ObamaCare. He has talked about the ices folks and CMS confirmed this re- about them. fact that the mandates in this legisla- port yesterday when they said: ‘‘The If the Post or Politico got the story tion don’t work for many Americans. typical family of four generated 21 sep- wrong, I would have expected a quick The one-size-fits-all approach that was arate pieces of information that re- response saying: No, these reports are taken doesn’t work in my State of Ohio quired verification, and all were at- wrong. The internal reports they are and around the country. tested to under penalty of perjury.’’ referring to are inaccurate. He also spoke about the cost. Unfor- Given that we expect this subsidy pro- But instead I did not get an answer. tunately, it is not the Affordable Care gram to cost about $36 billion this year I gave them until June 1 to give me an Act; it tends to be, for a lot of people, alone, these improper payments would answer, to give them some time to get the unaffordable care act. Costs have likely result in billions of wasted tax- back to me. It is now June 5 and I have gone up already too high. We are now payer dollars. received nothing—nothing to address finding a lot of small businesses in my So at the very least, I am concerned my concerns. In fact, I have received home State of Ohio are simply that folks are going to find they have no answer at all. I know some of my squeezed to the point where they are some very unpleasant and unexpected colleagues have raised similar concerns worried whether they will be able to tax bills coming up, and the most we without receiving answers. Like so provide health care at all, given the are seeing is a lot of taxpayer dollars many issues that have arisen with the huge increases in cost. that aren’t going to the intended pur- implementation of ObamaCare, the ad- These are all very serious concerns pose. ministration’s response has been noth- and reasons that I think we need to re- It is not as if we did not anticipate ing but silence and stonewalling—no peal and replace with policies that this problem. This is obviously some- transparency. work better to provide people more thing a lot of people thought about and We do not have time for political choices and provide people lower cost talked about. In fact, we knew it would games. The American people do not of care so they can get health care for be difficult to verify all these dozens of have time for it. We have true budget themselves and their families. pieces of information we just heard pressures. Folks are already paying a I want to talk about a very specific about from CMS. That is why last year lot in terms of income taxes. They do aspect of ObamaCare and its implemen- Congress acted in a bipartisan fashion not want to pay more. They certainly tation that concerns me. I came to the to require the Department of Health do not want the income taxes they are floor a couple of days ago to talk about and Human Services to certify that it paying going to folks who are not eligi- this because I had just learned, actu- had these controls in place to verify ble for this $36 billion worth of benefits ally from some press reports, about the eligibility of subsidy recipients. We going out this year. some potential problems with imple- enshrined that requirement in law as Since the administration refuses to mentation. Unfortunately, since that part of what was called the Continuing voluntarily provide the information we time it has been confirmed through Appropriations Act—better known as need to do our job overseeing the ex- other sources that many of my con- the Ryan-Murray budget agreement— penditure of these funds, I think seri- cerns are legitimate. The concern is at the end of last year. Part of the ous action is necessary. That is why very simple: That despite assurances Ryan-Murray budget agreement was to today I am making a formal written re- by the administration to the contrary, say that CMS at HHS had to have in quest to HHS Inspector General Daniel they have yet to put in place a mecha- place these controls to ensure people R. Levinson to begin an investigation nism to assure that the people who are were getting the funds that were appro- into these reports which call into ques- getting the subsidies under ObamaCare priate for them. tion the accuracy of the Secretary’s are eligible for them. This is a major On January 1, as required by law, certification required, again, by the problem because we are talking about Secretary Sebelius certified to Con- Continuing Appropriations Act, the billions and billions of dollars. It is a gress ‘‘that the American Health Ben- Ryan-Murray legislation at the end of surprise, probably, to a lot of my con- efit Exchanges [the so-called market- the year. stituents and other folks who might be places] verify that applicants for ad- I know the IG is scheduled to provide listening today that the administra- vance payments of the premium tax a report to Congress next month re- tion hasn’t even put in place the basic credit and cost-sharing reductions are garding how effective HHS has been in processes, the mechanisms we would eligible for such payments and reduc- preventing subsidy payments on the expect in an automated system, to en- tions, consistent with the requirements basis of inaccurate or fraudulent infor- sure that when people apply for these of [the Affordable Care Act].’’ So Sec- mation, but in light of the apparent in- subsidies—which are substantial; up to retary Sebelius made certain commit- consistencies between the Secretary’s 400 percent of poverty, remember, and ments there. She also further told Con- certification and the recent media re- up to 10,000 bucks for a family of 4, for gress that the exchanges had ‘‘imple- ports, I think a more in-depth and tar- instance—that they may or may not be mented numerous systems and proc- geted investigation is warranted. The eligible and yet they may be getting esses to carry out’’ their verification IG’s office has promised that ‘‘ensuring these payments. Some people may be responsibilities, including their income that taxpayer dollars are spent for overstating their income and some peo- verification responsibilities. So this is their intended purposes’’ under ple may be understating their income, an assurance given to us by the Sec- ObamaCare is its ‘‘top priority.’’ That and some folks may get a very unfortu- retary of Health and Human Services. is what that said. So these allegations nate surprise of a big tax bill because We are now learning through reports in certainly should strike at the very of it. the press—which were spurred by con- heart of that mission. It is unbelievable that after a few fidential sources within HHS, by the If it is true that HHS has failed to years of implementation, still there is way—that these verification methods implement a modern, effective system

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Let us know what crickets, no response whatsoever. collapse of integrity and consistency in is going on. Just yesterday the Associated Press the implementation of ObamaCare. I hope the Obama administration reported that more than 1 in 4—or at There are a couple things I care and, after her confirmation—I think least 2 million—ObamaCare exchange about, but I really think it time for she will be confirmed—Secretary enrollees have data discrepancies, cast- this administration to stop moving Burwell will show their commitment to ing even more doubt on HHS’s com- around insiders, political allies, and responsible government by joining me petency to administer the ObamaCare put some people in these critical posi- in calling for this investigation and re- subsidies. tions capable of operating them at the sponding quickly and accurately to Families could be in for a shock next highest possible level. whatever shortcomings it uncovers. April when the IRS notifies them that Ms. Burwell violated the Medicare But if the administration does not, they must repay money to the Treas- trigger, for example. If the trustees of then it will fall to those of us in this ury because HHS miscalculated their Medicare issue a report that it is head- Chamber on both sides of the aisle to subsidy. This is troubling because Ne- ing to insolvency, it is a critical mat- take action. I sincerely hope it will not braskans are definitely feeling the ef- ter. The administration by law is re- come to that. fect of ObamaCare, just like citizens quired within 2 weeks to submit a plan I plan to support Director Burwell’s across the country. Let me talk about to fix Medicare. They have been sub- nomination today because I think she a couple of stories quickly. mitting this report for years. is a manager, and I think that is what A college instructor from Nebraska As the President’s director, under 31 we need right now at the Department wrote to me saying: U.S.C. 1105, Ms. Burwell was the person of Health and Human Services. I would Due to ObamaCare, I will be unable to responsible for submitting Medicare say this ought to be one of her top pri- teach more than two courses per term. legislation to Congress. We asked her orities as the new manager at HHS—to Overall, I am losing at least 20 percent of about that before she was confirmed. ensure that the problems we have seen my adjunct income, and I will definitely be During her hearings, she said she would with the implementation of in a rough situation with zero money coming ‘‘do everything in her power’’ to com- ObamaCare do not continue and spe- in this summer. ply with the Federal law. Yet, despite cifically that we are not seeing huge Regarding ObamaCare, she explains: this assurance, she refused to comply amounts of taxpayer dollars being We have a one-shoe-fits-all situation, and I with the law and never submitted a misspent, being wasted through inac- don’t wear that shoe. plan. Don’t we need a plan to fix Medi- curate verification of these subsidies. A young college student in Nebraska care? Don’t we need the Chief Execu- With that, I yield the floor for my shared identical or similar concerns. tive of America, through the budget di- colleague from Nebraska. She says: rector, to submit a plan to fix it? The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Through my job, I was previously able to She also violated the law and denied BOOKER). The Senator from Nebraska. work 32 hours a week, but am now only al- Congress needed transparency with re- Mr. JOHANNS. Mr. President, at the lowed 28 hours. spect to the health care law, the very start of my comments, let me That is a very significant amount of my al- ObamaCare law. The Omnibus appro- make it clear that the nominee we are ready small college student budget. priations bill signed into law in Janu- voting on today will have my support. Americans like these constituents do ary required HHS to include in its fis- I like her from a personal standpoint. I not want a law that decreases their cal year 2015 budget a detailed account- think she is competent. I think she is earnings and mandates Washington- ing of spending to implement the able to do the job that is before her. prescribed insurance that costs more health law. But neither the budget di- But I do believe the problem she is with fewer benefits. rector, Ms. Burwell, nor the agency she going to face is that this law is so fa- My colleagues and I stand ready to now will head submitted sufficient in- tally flawed that she cannot be suc- work toward a better health care alter- formation to comply with that. cessful in implementing it. native. We are committed to vigilant My time is up, but I will say that I The simple fact is that it is deeply oversight of ObamaCare because Amer- am very much taken with Ms. Burwell. flawed, and it was from the beginning. icans’ health care and trillions in tax- She is a delightful person. Many of my The policy simply does not work. We payer dollars are at stake. colleagues think highly of her, and know now that ObamaCare drives up But it is my hope that Ms. Burwell, if some, like our West Virginia Senators costs, it comes between the doctor and confirmed, will reverse these troubling and others, really think she will do a the patient, and it limits health care patterns at HHS and provide Congress good job. But this is not the right posi- choices for individuals and for their and the American people with the re- tion for her. This government is drift- families. But I urge the new head of sponsiveness, the accountability, and ing into disarray in a whole host of HHS—when and assuming she is con- the transparency this post requires. ways. We need the strongest possible, firmed—to address all those things With that, I yield the floor for my capable leader, with proven health care that are within her control. colleague, Senator SESSIONS. managerial experience for the good of It is critical that the new leader The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- America and for the good of President work to restore the transparency and ator from Alabama. Obama. This is not the right nominee. accountability that has been lacking at Mr. SESSIONS. I thank my col- I thank the Chair and yield the floor. this Department. One of the latest has league. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- been mentioned in other comments by I serve as the ranking member of the ator from Maryland. Senators, but it is especially dis- Budget Committee and have worked Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, first let turbing. It comes from the Washington with Ms. Burwell in her now just 13 me comment on Sylvia Burwell, the Post. The article from the Post said: months, I think, of service in the tre- nominee who is before us. She has done ‘‘The government may be paying incor- mendously important position of Direc- an excellent job as the Director of rect subsidies to more than 1 million tor of the Office of Management and OMB. Her credentials are incredible. Americans.’’ Mr. President, 1 million Budget. I do not believe she has the She is acknowledged by both Demo- Americans are getting incorrect sub- background, the qualities, and experi- crats and Republicans as being an out- sidies. The article goes on to say that ence—proven managerial leadership— standing manager, a person who is the computer systems necessary to required at that huge Department of fully capable to manage HHS, an ex- verify individuals’ income were either Health and Human Services. She has tremely important agency that has defective or they were not even built. 500 people working in the budget office, over 70,000 workers who work for That calls into question Secretary and that is an important office. At Health and Human Services, has a

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But we can get the care they need. try. have not had that type of cooperation As the Presiding Officer knows, when For Maryland, I take pride because in the Congress. we passed the prescription drug plan, some of the agencies are headquartered So more people are insured. The cost we had what is known as the doughnut in my State. The National Institutes of rates have been brought down. We re- hole, which is a coverage gap. After Health—world class. The best research duced the debt and deficit of this coun- you incurred a certain amount of cost, in the world is done right here as a re- try. But for the passage of the Afford- then 100 percent was your expense. sult of U.S. leadership, and that comes able Care Act, our deficits would be Many seniors had to leave prescription under HHS. larger today. That is not one Member drugs on the counter at the drug store The FDA, which insures us safe prod- saying that. Look at what those who because they could not afford to pay ucts in food and drugs, is are charged with doing the projections for the cost of prescription drugs, even headquartered in Maryland. But, again, for this country have said. They have though they thought they had cov- that is world class—the best in the said that the debt today is smaller as a erage. world. It is important that we get the result of the passage of the Affordable Thanks to the passage of the Afford- very best person as our Secretary, and Care Act. able Care Act, that is being eliminated Sylvia Burwell is that person. As far as those who pay the costs, the today. We are providing full coverage. CMS is headquartered in Baltimore, consumers who pay the health insur- Despite the claims on the other side of with Medicare and Medicaid—over 100 ance premiums and pay the doctor bills the aisle, take a look at the facts. million people. Again, it is the best in and hospital bills, they have seen relief Medicare is more solvent today than it the world. So I am very pleased that under the Affordable Care Act. There is was before the passage of the Afford- Sylvia Burwell is willing to step for- guaranteed value for their insurance able Care Act. We helped ensure the fu- ward at this time to head that agency. premium. At least 80 to 85 percent of ture of Medicare by the passage of the I encourage my colleagues to confirm that premium dollar must go to direct Affordable Care Act. That is the fact. her nomination. We will have that vote benefits. As a result, millions of Ameri- That is the record. We are on this path to improve our a little later today. cans in 2012—over 8 million Ameri- health care system. It is working. We I wanted to take a moment to thank cans—received rebates from their in- have reduced hospital readmissions. Secretary Sebelius for her service to surance company. They actually got The accountable care organization is a our country. Through very difficult checks back equaling about half a bil- provision where we take the creativity times—and these have not been easy lion dollars. of private operators where they can political times—she has steered a very Consumers are getting better value work together to figure out how they steady ship at HHS and did this coun- for their dollars. We know it is not can help people be healthier. In my try proud. I thank her very much for easy at times for actuaries to be able State of Maryland, there are several her service to our country and for help- to predict the exact costs of health that are working, that are figuring out ing the hundreds of millions who have care. But now we have protection in ways they can use community facili- benefited from the services at HHS. the code. If the premium they charge ties and health care to keep people But a significant part of the mission you is too much, you will get a rebate healthier and to reduce the cost of at HHS is the implementation of the for the excess that you paid—real pro- health care and make it more efficient Affordable Care Act of 2010. I have tection. by delivery system reform. It is work- heard my colleagues talk about it, so I must tell you, as I go around the ing. It is working. let me point out how much progress we State of Maryland—I know the Pre- We strengthened the primary care have made. What a difference the Af- siding Officer finds the same thing in network. We all talk about that. We fordable Care Act has made. I would the State of New Jersey—families are knew we had to provide more primary urge the people in this country to look happy they can keep their adult chil- care doctors and nurses. We have done at the facts. My colleagues make com- dren on their insurance policies until that under the Affordable Care Act. It ments that just are not true. Look at the age of 26. Millions of Americans takes time. But we are already seeing the facts. The growth of health care have taken advantage of that provision the benefit of that. We have increased costs has gone down. The projected ex- in the Affordable Care Act. They are dramatically community health center penses are less today than they were in very happy about that. budgets. I have visited the community 2010 when we passed the Affordable I cannot tell you how many people I health centers in my State. I now see Care Act. have talked to in Maryland who have where they have mental health services We have bent the cost curve of health benefited from the elimination of pre- being provided in the community that care. Yes, the Affordable Care Act has existing conditions or the fear of losing was not being provided before the Af- helped us do it. One of the reasons is their insurance policy because someone fordable Care Act. we have more people who have health has gotten sick. Insurance companies They now have dental services that insurance today and who have third- can no longer do that. So if you have a are being provided in underserved areas party payment. They go to doctors child with asthma and you are trying that were not being provided before the rather than emergency rooms. That to get insurance, before the Affordable Affordable Care Act. We now have pre- brings down the growth rate of health Care Act they would not have covered natal services that are being provided care costs. We are keeping people the cost of taking care of that child’s in communities that did not have that healthier. That was the whole concept asthma. Today you get full coverage. service before the passage of the Af- of the Affordable Care Act. We have eliminated preexisting con- fordable Care Act. What is the result? Unfortunately, for my friends on the ditions because that is what insurance For low birth-weight babies we have re- other side of the aisle, their answer is: should do. It should cover your needs. duced that number. Infant survival Repeal, repeal, repeal. They have no Now it does. Before the Affordable Care rates are increasing. plan for health care. We have seen Act, there were limits, caps—no longer I take pride that in supporting the under the Affordable Care Act that we caps. People had insurance and still Affordable Care Act I helped bring have implemented delivery system re- had to file personal bankruptcy. Those about those results. We are providing forms that keep people out of hos- days are over thanks to the Affordable more resources in our communities. pitals, keep readmission rates down, Care Act. It is being implemented in a That is the record of the Affordable that provide preventive health care, so way that Americans are benefiting Care Act. That is what we have been that we keep people healthy. That was from the passage and implementation able to do. I am particularly proud of the concept of the Affordable Care Act. of the Affordable Care Act. the fact that under the essential health Now that we are implementing it—and In regard to our seniors and our dis- benefits, we now provide pediatric den- it takes time to implement it because abled population who are covered under tal benefits. That is a little personal to

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He had no insurance. fair, legal implementation of do go to the exchange get a huge tax- His tooth decay became an abscessed ObamaCare. I paid attention very much payer funded subsidy—nowhere in the tooth. That problem went into his to that discussion. I was hopeful about statute and nowhere available to any brain. He had two emergency surgeries it. Unfortunately, it was disappointing, other American at the same income costing a quarter of a million dollars. in my view, in terms of her responses. levels. He should have had $80 of dental care. During the nomination process, Ms. For all of these reasons, because of That would have taken care of his Burwell was asked on a number of oc- this disparate treatment, because of ig- needs. As a result of that, he lost his casions how she would continue to im- noring the law, because of amending life. plement and enforce various aspects of the law over and over by administra- This bill is making a huge difference. ObamaCare. Again, these concerns ob- tive fiat, I have to oppose Ms. Burwell’s My point is this. For small businesses, viously arose because of the adminis- nomination. they have greater choice and they have tration’s decisions to make more than She gave no indication in any of her credits available to make it easier. We 20 unilateral changes to the law as testimony or in any discussions leading have expanded Medicaid. We have done written, to timing, to applicability of up to this confirmation vote that she a lot. We have the best health care in various provisions. would change any of that, and it is the world that is provided right here in One of these decisions which was par- pretty clear she will not. the United States. We are now on the ticularly highlighted in my House col- I will oppose the nomination. path of having the best health care sys- leagues’ letter of April 29 was to give If Ms. Burwell is passed by the Sen- tem in the world. The Affordable Care big business relief from the employer ate as Secretary of the HHS, I urge her Act helps us get there. We can take a mandate while there was no relief for to take heed of these calls. We have a giant step in that direction by approv- individuals. Millions will face a steep law before us. We need to follow the ing the nomination of Sylvia Burwell penalty—face it right now under the law—not in some cases but in all cases, as Secretary of Health and Human individual mandates. Not only did Ms. not implement here but not there, not Services. Burwell punt to the Treasury Depart- give some folks special treatment and I yield the floor. ment, her response failed to even ac- special exemptions not found under the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- knowledge that the administration has statute but implement the law as writ- ator from Louisiana. failed to execute the law as written be- ten. Mr. VITTER. Mr. President, on April cause the law is broken. That will be her responsibility as 29 of this year, Louisiana’s House Re- The American people have really had much as anyone in the administration. publican delegation wrote a letter to enough of the administration passing I urge her to be a true leader in the ad- Senator LANDRIEU, as well as myself, blame through certain Federal agen- ministration, to start doing that in an urging us to represent a majority of cies or to bureaucrats or to Congress or appropriate, legal way. Louisianan’s opinions and oppose the to political parties. They have had I ask unanimous consent to have nomination of Sylvia Burwell to be- enough of the blame game. They have printed in the RECORD the April 29, come HHS Secretary unless significant had enough of finger pointing. What I 2014, and May 19, 2014, letters I referred changes were made to the path we are find even more hypocritical in this re- to previously. on regarding the implementation of gard is that the administration worked There being no objection, the mate- ObamaCare. with many Members of Congress behind rial was ordered to be printed in the They asked us to oppose Ms. closed doors to give Congress and RECORD, as follows: Burwell’s nomination until an agree- Washington insiders special treatment CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, ment is reached to provide for the equi- under ObamaCare, to give them a way Washington, DC, April 29, 2014. table treatment and protection of all to avoid higher costs and lower quality Senator MARY LANDRIEU, U.S. Senate, Hart Senate Office Building, Americans under ObamaCare, and until care, the way Americans are suffering the administration, including Ms. Washington, DC. from that. Senator DAVID VITTER, Burwell, committed not to pick and So I will also oppose Ms. Burwell’s U.S. Senate, Hart Senate Office Building, choose what parts of the law they nomination until the American people Washington, DC. would implement; not to pick and get the same relief from ObamaCare as DEAR SENATOR LANDRIEU AND SENATOR VIT- choose what deadlines they would the Washington elite, as the Wash- TER: We write to respectfully request that meet, what deadlines they would ig- ington exemption from ObamaCare, as you place a hold on the nomination of Ms. nore; not to pick and choose mandates the Congressional subsidy. To date, at Sylvia Burwell for Secretary of the Depart- they would enforce, such as the indi- ment of Health and Human Services until an least 4.7 million Americans, including agreement is reached to provide for the equi- vidual mandate, and what mandates 92,000 Louisianans, have had their table treatment and protection of all Ameri- they would ignore, such as the em- health insurance plans canceled as a cans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). ployer mandate. result of the mandates of the law. The President’s signature health care law, This is that letter dated April 29. I Many of these folks were then dealt which contains a laundry list of job-killing ask unanimous consent that it be with a choice of going without health mandates and taxes, is wreaking havoc on printed in the RECORD. I agreed with insurance or taking the gamble of pur- our economy and creating hardships for that sentiment. I agreed with those chasing an expensive plan on the gov- hardworking taxpayers who received can- concerns. So I responded shortly there- cellation letters for their health insurance ernment-run ObamaCare exchange. policies due to unworkable ACA require- after in a letter dated May 19 that I Again, the law, as written, was in- ments. To date, at least 4.7 million Ameri- would oppose Ms. Burwell’s nomination tended to make every Member of Con- cans, including at least 92,000 Louisianans, because of those concerns, because gress and our staff walk in those same have had their health insurance plans can- there is no evidence that Ms. Burwell shoes, but the administration, again, celled as a result of this law. In addition to would put an end to any of that, would was fast and loose with the law and losing their health insurance coverage, put an end to the administration’s created a special rule contrary to stat- Americans across the country are seeing common practice of creating special ute. Ms. Burwell was part of that ad- their health insurance premiums and rules for big business, special rules for ministration, creating a special exemp- deductibles skyrocket while their provider networks become narrower. In Louisiana, Washington insiders, for not simply tion, a special subsidy, a special rule some individuals are seeing premium in- following the law, not simply imple- not found in the statute. creases greater than 100%. menting the law but picking, choosing, So in contrast to that experience of Since the passage of the ACA, the Obama and doing parts of the law, such as de- many Louisianians, millions of Ameri- Administration, through the Department of

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Members of Congress and gram, even with all the challenges and For instance, the Administration has de- their staff would be facing these exact con- layed the enforcement of the employer man- sequences had they not bent the rules last the rollout, within 1 year providing in- date for large employers until 2015 and for summer to keep their generous employer- surance to more people than the com- businesses with between 50 and 99 employees based, taxpayer funded subsidy to avoid bined population of these 10 States, sig- until 2016. In December, the Department of higher costs and only make available high- nificantly more than the Virginia pop- Health and Human Services decided to vastly quality, gold level health plans to ensure ulation as well. expand the ‘‘hardship exemption’’ to include they were able to keep their doctors. Gallup has polled, since 2008, the per- individuals who ‘‘received a notice saying To date, at least 4.7 million Americans, in- centage of Americans who don’t have that your current health insurance plan is cluding at least 92,000 Louisianans, have had health insurance—American adults being cancelled, and you consider the other their health insurance plans canceled as a re- plans available unaffordable.’’ These actions, sult of this law. Many of these people were who don’t have health insurance. The among many others, are tacit admissions then dealt with the choice of going without number was down to 13.4 percent when that the Obama Administration knows this health insurance or taking the gamble of the poll was last taken in April, which law is both unworkable and unpopular. Un- purchasing an expensive plan on the govern- is the lowest monthly uninsured rate fortunately, the Administration has yet to ment run Obamacare exchange. In contrast, since Gallup started taking this poll. provide this relief to all Americans. high level Congressional staff who often ne- Have there been challenges? Sure. Families across Louisiana have faced can- gotiate directly with the Administration Have there been those who have had celled health insurance plans, rising health were able to alleviate the inconvenience of some difficulty? Sure. We have been insurance premiums, and the loss of access procuring their health insurance on the bro- to doctors and hospitals while watching the ken federal exchange and keep the plan they dealing with them on the phone—as the Administration pick political favorites liked on the Federal Employee Health Bene- Presiding Officer has too. But the unin- through selective exemptions from the ACA. fits Program (FEHBP). sured rate is dropping dramatically. It is wholly unfair for families to still be I join your efforts in calling for fairness for Even at 1 year with the problems, peo- threatened with penalties from the IRS at all under the law, and will oppose Ms. ple are receiving insurance as a result the same time as insurance companies and Burwell’s nomination and any other bureau- of the ACA. businesses are granted unilateral relief. crat that puts the needs of the political elite Each one of them has a story. Each Please join us in calling for fairness for all before the American people. one of them has a story of what it was under the law by placing a hold on Ms. Sincerely, Burwell’s nomination until she agrees to DAVID VITTER, like to live without health insurance provide equitable treatment for all Ameri- U.S. Senator. and what it is like to live now with the cans under the Affordable Care Act. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- security and comfort of health insur- Sincerely, ator from Virginia. ance—not only for when you get ill but STEVE SCALISE, Mr. KAINE. I rise today also to speak also for when you are going to bed at Member of Congress. night worried about what will happen BILL CASSIDY, about health care issues, the Afford- Member of Congress. able Care Act, and Sylvia Mathews to you if you get ill, what will happen VANCE MCALLISTER, Burwell, the nominee to be Secretary to you if your spouse is in an auto acci- Member of Congress. of Health and Human Services. dent, what will happen to you if your CHARLES BOUSTANY, The Affordable Care Act has com- children get diagnosed with something Member of Congress. pleted its first year of open enrollment. that might well be a preexisting condi- JOHN FLEMING, Despite some significant technical tion under an earlier day. Member of Congress. challenges, 8 million Americans have The stories aren’t just about the 14 million who have health insurance be- U.S. SENATE, used the State or Federal health insur- Washington, DC, May 19, 2014. ance marketplaces, as created by the cause of the ACA. They are also stories Congressman STEVE SCALISE, ACA, to access insurance. of the nearly 20 million Americans who House of Representatives, Rayburn House Office I want to talk about the status of the have received rebates because they Building, Washington, DC. ACA today, some challenges—including overpaid premiums and the insurance Congressman CHARLES BOUSTANY, some comments made by my colleague companies now have to send them House of Representatives, Longworth House Of- from Louisiana—and then talk about money. It is people who cannot be fice Building, Washington, DC. Sylvia Mathews Burwell. charged discriminatory rates because Congressman VANCE MCALLISTER, Of the 8 million Americans who have they are women. It is seniors who are House of Representatives, Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC. used the exchanges to access health in- able to get preventive care under Medi- Congressman BILL CASSIDY, surance, over 216,000 of them are Vir- care for free or reduced-price prescrip- House of Representatives, Longworth House Of- ginians. In addition to the 8 million, 3 tion drugs for free. It is all the Ameri- fice Building, Washington, DC. million more people have been enrolled cans who had preexisting conditions Congressman JOHN FLEMING, in Medicaid or CHIP as of February—in which would have blocked them from House of Representatives, Cannon House Office addition to the marketplaces open— insurance coverage before the ACA Building, Washington, DC. and those Medicaid and CHIP expan- passed. DEAR LOUISIANA CONGRESSIONAL COL- sions were because of the Affordable Just briefly, I am one of these sto- LEAGUES: I write in response to your letter asking to hold the nomination of Ms. Silvia Care Act provisions. ries. When I went onto the open mar- Burwell for Secretary of the Department of In addition, an estimated 3.1 million ket to buy health insurance a couple of Health and Human Services until an agree- young adults have gained coverage by years ago—and like most good fami- ment is reached to provide the American being able to stay on family policies lies, when you want to do something, people the same treatment under Obamacare until age 26. The combined number, you put this really smart person on it— as large businesses. 1 share your opinion that just in this expansion of coverage, is my wife. She started to call around the Administration’s decision to give large now more than 14 million Americans. about health insurance. Two insurance businesses relief from the employer mandate Let me put that in context. One year companies said to her: We can write while millions still face a penalty under the in, 14 million Americans have insur- individual mandate is both unfair and drives you a policy on four of your five family a deeper wedge between the American people ance through the ACA. That is more members. and those with powerful lobbyists and access than the total population of the fol- One wouldn’t insure me. I think poli- to power. What I find even more hypocritical lowing States: West Virginia, Idaho, tics is viewed as a dangerous line of is that Congress worked behind closed doors Hawaii, New Hampshire, Montana, work. to give themselves special treatment under Delaware, South Dakota, North Da- One wouldn’t insure one of my chil- Obamacare to avoid higher costs and lower kota, Vermont, and Wyoming. One dren. Well, here is an important safety quality care. I will oppose Ms. Burwell’s year in, more people have insurance tip. Don’t tell my wife or any wife or nomination until the American people get through the ACA than the combined mother: We will only insure part of the same relief from Obamacare as the Wash- ington elite and their corporate allies. populations—entire populations—of your family. Like you, I have heard from hardworking those 10 States. My wife said in each instance: I actu- Louisianans every day on skyrocketing pre- The number dwarfs the population of ally think this is against the law now. miums, higher out of pocket costs as a result New Jersey, which is about 9 million I think you have to provide insurance

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Wheth- This is what we should be doing. We Americans have employers who con- er it’s coverage or a preexisting condi- shouldn’t be talking about repealing tribute to the health insurance pre- tion ban or equal treatment in rates the Affordable Care Act and taking 14 mium of their employees. Hard-work- between men and women, these stories million people who have insurance ing men and women who are working are starting to accumulate and are through the ACA and telling them: in this Senate or working in the House showing us that this ACA can and will Back out into street with you. or who are working on congressional be successful. We shouldn’t be talking about staffs have every bit as much right to Of course, there are measures to im- stonewalling a wonderful public serv- have an employer that would con- prove it that we still need to embrace. ant from coming in and being head of tribute part of the premium cost for I am proud to cosponsor today a bill the HHS. We should be engaged in the them as do the people who work at that the lead sponsor, Senator business of reforms and improvements. newspapers, automobile manufactur- FRANKEN, called the Family Coverage This is what legislators do. When I ers, retail stores, and restaurants. All Act. It was introduced today. was Governor of Virginia, my legisla- over this country, employer provision The ACA requires large employers to ture would pass about 1,000 bills a year. of a portion of the premium is a stand- offer affordable health care coverage to They would come to my desk for my ard feature of how insurance has been the employees. The IRS definition of review, editing, amending, signing, and provided for decades. affordability suggests that means that potentially vetoing. What I noticed was For those who say that Members of an employee’s share of the premiums of that of the action of my legislative Congress are getting some special individual coverage, rather than family body, 800 bills were reforms to existing treatment, some congressional subsidy, coverage, is less than 9.5 percent of law. Only about 200 were new laws. when the reality—and they know the family income. What legislative bodies do is they go reality—is that this subsidy is just the If the employee has an offer of afford- into existing laws, improve them, fix employer-provided share of a premium able insurance, the employee in the them, and make them better, and that that is standard among all Americans, family cannot receive premium tax is what we should be about here. I find it very troubling. credits. If it is not affordable, you can Certainly we have learned, through What would they propose? Would receive tax credits. the bad rollouts and some other things, they propose that uniquely, if you hap- This measure of affordability, based that nobody can stand back and say pen to work for the article I branch— on what the premium is for the indi- this thing is perfect and no reforms are the legislative branch—you should be vidual, versus what the family pre- needed. Reforms are always needed. denied an employer contribution to mium is, leaves a lot of spouses and But I would also hope my colleagues your health insurance, just like other families cut out from the possibility of might have learned something—those Americans get, because you work for receiving tax credits under the ACA. who wanted to repeal the Affordable An average plan for an individual Care Act. Those who were willing to the article I branch that is specified in costs about $5,600, but according to the shut down the Government of the the Constitution? I think that is essen- Kaiser Family Foundation, that aver- United States to advocate a repeal of tially their argument. age rises to about $15,700 for families. the Affordable Care Act should also be I had not intended to get into this GAO estimates that the currently used focused now on reforms not repeals, be- topic today, but I think it is very clear definition of affordability would pre- cause repeals mean those 14 million we should make plain to the American vent nearly 460,000 uninsured kids from would lose insurance and families like people that public servants who do accepting tax credits, even though mine would now be subject again to work in this Chamber and in the House their parents qualify for the tax credit being turned down because of pre- Chamber, and for Members who were under the ACA. This is known as the existing health conditions. elected in the States and districts in family glitch. It was sort of an unfore- It strikes me that the reform caucus this country—they are entitled to the seen consequence when the bill was is growing and the repeal caucus is same kind of treatment by their em- written. shrinking—as it should. Every day ployer, which is a standard feature of The Family Coverage Act, which finds more and more people who have life in most American companies, non- Senator FRANKEN is championing with had this experience and understand profits, State and local governments, many other cosponsors, would change that the ACA should not be allowed to and other institutions. the definition of affordability within be repealed. I am thrilled that is occur- I have known Sylvia Mathews the ACA so that family members of the ring. Burwell for 25 years. I met her when parent who works for a company that One more item about the Affordable she was working for the Clinton admin- offers health insurance can qualify for Care Act. It has been stated by some, istration as a young hotshot West Vir- tax credits as well. including some in this Chamber, that ginia student, educated at Harvard, a I have cosponsored fixes and improve- the Affordable Care Act has done a hor- Rhodes scholar like some other notable ments to the ACA in the Small Busi- rible thing by allowing Members of Members of this body. ness Tax Credit Accessibility Act, a Congress and their staffs to get a sub- I am proud to support her confirma- small business tax credit enhancement, sidy in their health insurance that the tion to be Secretary of Health and and in the Expanded Consumer Choice American public doesn’t get. Then Human Services. She has had a strong Act. Through a plan called the ‘‘copper there are those who have stood and background not only in the public sec- plan,’’ it provides all of the coverage made that case on the floor of this tor, most recently as the Director of but at a lower premium, because those body, on television, and in this coun- the Office of Management and Budget, choosing the plan will pay more on the try. They have talked about that sub- but she has also had a superb track deductible so they can buy down their sidy as this horrible thing that these record in the private sector. When deal- premium by more cost sharing. congressional staffers—such as those ing with health care issues, we know There is the Commonsense Reporting who are sitting here at the desk or that strong private sector experience is Act of 2014, introduced by Senator those who work in my office—shouldn’t very important in an issue that is so WARNER, to ease the compliance burden be getting. significant. on employers, and the Protect Volun- The Presiding Officer knows—and I I have been very impressed with Syl- teer Firefighters and Emergency Re- know—that statement is inaccurate. via Mathews Burwell’s work in the Of- sponders Act. Many of us were cospon- The subsidy that anyone gets in this fice of Management and Budget. I sors of that bill. There is an act called building is an employer contribution to think she brought a more businesslike

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We have a trust fund that finances much of the whole portfolio of issues which are so lot of infrastructure needs, but we sim- highway, bridge, and tunnel work critically important. ply aren’t keeping up with them today. around the country on the Interstate We have got to be about reforms and This is about the end of the school Highway System—because the gas tax improvement. Sylvia Mathews Burwell year for most families with kids in that funds it hasn’t risen in 20 years, is a person who walks in to work every school around the country. Like many but the amount of gas being consumed day, wanting things to be better today other parents, I was going over with and thus gas tax revenue generated has than they were yesterday, and she has my kids what they think their grades gone down. Yet we don’t seem here to the experience to do this job. I am are at the end of the year. Well, the have the political will to implement a proud to stand and support her nomina- country also gets a grade. We get a solution to this basic problem that tion. grade from the American Society for folks have been saying is coming at us, Mr. President, I yield the floor and I Civil Engineers. These are the folks hurtling like an oncoming truck for suggest the absence of a quorum. whose job it is to manage and supervise years. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- and survey the health and capabilities We talk a lot about our children— pore. The clerk will call the roll. of our infrastructure—our bridges and about the kind of world we want to The assistant bill clerk proceeded to roads and highways. This group, the leave them, about our hopes for the fu- call the roll. American Society for Civil Engineers, ture, and it is just one of the reasons I Mr. COONS. Mr. President, I ask gave our roadways a D. am so concerned about our Nation’s unanimous consent that the order for The Federal Highway Administration long-term balance sheet. Many of us the quorum call be rescinded. estimates that we are dramatically be- talk about our Nation’s deficits and The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- hind in investing in keeping our high- our potentially crippling Federal debt. pore. Without objection, it is so or- ways and bridges and tunnels up to It is irresponsible of us to continue to dered. speed. They say we need $170 billion rack up debt on our national balance f more in capital investments every year sheet and leave it to our children and TRANSPORTATION to improve road conditions and per- grandchildren. But I highlight today INFRASTRUCTURE formance. that when we neglect our transpor- That group of civil engineers, the tation infrastructure—our highways Mr. COONS. Mr. President, in my ASCE, has also determined a quarter of and tunnels and roads and ports and home State of Delaware today we have our bridges are functionally obsolete or bridges—these are things we use every a problem. Just this week the critical structurally deficient. In little old single day in transporting our families I–495 bridge over the Christina River in Delaware, that comes to 175 bridges and ourselves or goods to and from Wilmington—which carries more than that fail to meet what we would all ex- work or to and from home, to school, 90,000 drivers each and every day, north pect of our government—Federal and to soccer, to vacation. These are crit- and south on this critical artery on the State and county and local govern- ical pieces of the American infrastruc- east coast of the United States—was ments—that we maintain bridges to ture. We are also racking up a huge closed indefinitely. the highest level of safety that we debt there too. These investments have While engineers and workers were on would expect. to be made one way or the other. I an unrelated project in the area, they We will always face unforeseen crises know we value these systems because noticed that four of the key pillars and challenges, but this is one we can we depend on them every day. holding up the bridge were alarmingly see coming. There may be hurricanes So if we can’t come together in the slanted, causing widespread concerns such as the great Superstorm Sandy short term to fix the highway trust about the bridge’s safety and prompt that wiped out a lot of infrastructure fund, I am left to wonder how we are action to shut it down. in my region or there may be other un- going to come together on the much Now as the Delaware Department of foreseeable events that impact our larger problem of meeting our broader Transportation and the Federal High- transportation infrastructure. But this infrastructure needs, of which that way Administration do everything one we have been seeing coming for trust fund is one small but crucial they can to get to the bottom of this years. part. We face short-term, medium- problem and to work to make this This inconvenience in Delaware—the term, and long-term problems. As I bridge safe again, tens of thousands of closing of the critical bridge on 495 said, we have to fix this highway trust commuters are forced onto already that has put so many at inconven- fund before it runs out of funding this crowded streets and highways, creating ience—was nowhere near the biggest summer. It is what often funds 80 per- even worse traffic for everyone in our transportation disaster we have had in cent of State highway work. It is a area, hurting our economy, and taking recent years. Just last year in Wash- critical part of construction projects people away from where they need to ington State, the Skagit River Bridge, already scheduled to go on this sum- be. built in 1955, literally collapsed after a mer. We have kept it funded by trans- It is, sadly, yet another example— truck drove into its framework. Sev- ferring money from the general fund one that hits particularly close to enty-one thousand drivers were using for the last few years, but that is not home for me—in a string of major in- that bridge on a daily basis. how it is supposed to work. So we have frastructure emergencies, some due to I think many of us remember, way got to come to terms with a solution unforeseeable events, and some due to back in August of 2007, tragedy struck that is responsible and meets this chal- a long-term critical lack of investment Minneapolis when its I–35 West Bridge, lenge. that signifies why investment in our which extends over the Mississippi We have a range of options, but none infrastructure is so important. River, literally collapsed under the of them are appealing: Increasing the Every day when Americans drive to rush hour traffic weight. More than 100 gas tax, putting a surcharge on vehi- work or drop off their kids at school, cars were thrown into the water, 13 cles, charging for vehicle miles trav- they make a simple bargain, an uncon- people lost their lives, and 145 were in- eled. All of these are unappealing po- scious bargain with their government: jured. litically, but it is essential that we They assume the roads will be safe to If we don’t act soon—together—we come up with something to solve this drive on. They expect that if they drive are going to face many more such trag- long-term problem. safely, they will be able to get to where ic incidents like these. We have to ad- I thank Chairman WYDEN of the Fi- they need to go in a reasonable amount dress this problem and get over our un- nance Committee, who is working hard of time. willingness together to invest in infra- with other members of that committee Unfortunately, it has been quite structure that we all depend on and even today to find a path forward and clear that while Americans keep doing value. a solution.

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We need to remember those member of the relevant committee— what we want, to pay the bill that is important events on a day such as this, BARBARA BOXER of California and DAVE long overdue for our long-overdue im- and we need to tell the story not only VITTER of Louisiana—have shown, as provements to the infrastructure of to remind ourselves, but we also need has my senior Senator TOM CARPER this great country. to tell the story to our children and from Delaware, who also serves on this Fixing this problem is going to take grandchildren because they will, before committee, that Federal infrastructure a great deal of revenue. We can reform long, have a responsibility for pre- investment is a bipartisan value. They taxes, we can involve the private sec- serving this great experiment we have have been able to come out of that tor, we can reprioritize funding, and we had in America for over 230 years—a committee with bipartisan reauthor- can reform the way government works. self-governing democracy that has been izations a number of times over the We don’t lack for innovative ideas, but purchased by the blood and the treas- last couple of years, and that is encour- at the end of the day what we currently ure of those who have gone on before. aging to me. lack is our will. The free world as we know it owes its We also, a few minutes ago, came out The people of the United States, existence to the courage, grit, and sac- of the transportation subcommittee through us, need to step up to the chal- rifice of those who fought in places like markup on appropriations, the com- lenge of paying the bill. In my home- Normandy, and, of course, they will mittee that says: Here is how much we town, just in the last few hours and not be forgotten. will spend. That came out with a very over the last few days, we have become For me personally, I can’t help but strong bipartisan vote earlier today more engaged in this debate than we think about Normandy—which my wife and will come to the floor in the next have been in a long time because a and I had an opportunity to visit a few few months. This progress is encour- bridge that is critical, a vital artery years ago—without thinking of my fa- aging, but it doesn’t mean anything if for our community, has stopped. It is ther-in-law, who landed on Utah Beach we don’t have a way to pay the bill closed indefinitely. We need to work on the second day of the Normandy in- when the bill comes due. We need to together to find the resources to fix vasion. He said that after the first day figure out how to finance infrastruc- this bridge and get America moving to- it was much easier to get on the beach, ture for the long term in this country. gether again. It is my hope and plea but the effort to clear out the German There are several bills with good that my colleagues will step up to this Army and the hedgerows was mur- ideas that have been put forward in challenge, which I know every commu- derous work and very dangerous. this committee and in this Chamber. I nity in our country faces. Thankfully, he came home, like so have supported two bills. One is called I thank the Presiding Officer. many, as part of the ‘‘greatest genera- the BRIDGE Act and the other is called I yield the floor. tion’’ that helped to build America into the Partnership to Build America Act. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- the powerhouse we are today. These bills will provide the critical pore. The Republican whip. My father-in-law passed away re- steps we need to bring private sector f cently at the age of 96 and lived a long money in off the sidelines and facili- and rewarding life. But I can’t let the D-DAY tate a real partnership between govern- occasion pass without remembering ment money and private sector money. Mr. CORNYN. Mr. President, as all of him as one of those brave men who These bills have been led by Senators us know, tomorrow, June 6, marks the stormed the beaches at Normandy 70 WARNER, BLUNT, and BENNET, are genu- 70th anniversary of the Normandy years ago. inely bipartisan, and enjoy support landings, which we have come to know Of course, there is another chilling from groups who often don’t work well as D-day. D-day, of course, was the number when we think about World together—from industry to labor, from greatest military operation in his- War II. Fifty million people lost their the AFL–CIO to the U.S. Chamber of tory—one that brought together 150,000 lives during World War II. It was the Commerce and the National Associa- troops, 5,000 ships, and 13,000 aircraft in bloodiest conflict in the history of the tion of Manufacturers. a sweeping attack on Nazi-occupied world—50 million people. There are several strong bipartisan France and marked the beginning of During World War II, of course, we bills that show the way forward, but we the end for Adolf Hitler and the Third recall that brutal dictators and totali- don’t seem to be able to get them to Reich. The Allied Powers, of course, tarian ideologies threatened the very the floor, get them approved, and get united as one and changed the course existence of the civilized world, and we them moving forward. of history. It was our troops and our al- are reminded of people like Adolf Hit- Right now, the truth is that the de- lies who freed a continent from the ler and what he did and what other bate on this floor comes nowhere close clutches of tyranny and our troops who countries did in response either by way to matching the reality of the scope of helped win a war. of appeasement or by way of chal- the problems in front of us. As I men- As a country, it is important that we lenging his aggression. And then we tioned earlier, we have an enormous in- recall occasions such as the 70th anni- know about the war, of course, fol- frastructure debt. By 2020—in just the versary of the Normandy invasion and lowing the Pearl Harbor attack in Ha- next 6 years—it is estimated that our D-day because the greatest danger is waii. America had to fight wars on two Nation will need $3.6 trillion of new in- that we forget—we forget about the fronts—one in Asia and the other in frastructure investment so we can fix face of evil and what it means to life, Europe. and maintain our roads, bridges, rail, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness— When the United States crossed the transit, drinking water, ports, sewers, but it also means we need to remind Atlantic and joined its allies on the wastewater treatment, and beyond. ourselves on a regular basis about the beach of Normandy, the rescue of Eu- This is an enormous debt which is un- heroism and courage and sacrifice of rope had begun. History tells us that paid and for which we currently have the people who gave all they had, in- the weather and conditions that day no path forward. cluding their lives, in order to preserve were harsh. In fact, one soldier de- I know many of us who serve on the for us what we now have and what we scribed the battle as everything going Budget Committee and pay attention too often take for granted. wrong from the beginning. Without a to the balance sheet of our country are We often hear that freedom is not doubt, they knew what awaited them concerned about our structural na- free, and, of course, we all agree with there, and they were not deterred. tional debt. I wanted to take a minute that, but it almost has become a cli- You might wonder, as I have from today—on a day when everyone in my che, and it should not be. When we time to time, what it took for our men hometown and home State is concerned think about our freedom, we ought to and women in uniform to charge a about how we will tackle the problem think about those men who stormed beach occupied by the German military

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As I indicated a month ago, Civil War.’’ When you learn about the tered the waters off Point du Hoc on that was the first and only time as a brutality of the Civil War and how June 6, 1944, is now on public display at Senator that I ever asked a Cabinet many people lost their lives and, in- the Houston Museum of Natural Secretary to depart his or her posi- deed, the likelihood of losing your Science in honor of D-day’s 70th anni- tion—and I didn’t do it lightly—but life—being tragically injured, acquir- versary. Crewman Emil Saul, who was what had transpired, and what has ing an infection, and then losing your aboard the USS Texas, preserved the transpired over a period of time, is a life in some of the most painful and flag for 48 years and gave it to the mu- Department of Veterans Affairs that horrendous ways you can imagine—it seum in 1992. Now possessing the space many veterans no longer believe is ca- was instructive for me to realize not and conditions to properly exhibit the pable of caring for them. In fact, what only did they fight for our country, but flag, the museum has made this flag was so discouraging and disappointing they fought for each other as well, public for the first time in honor of the to me was the number of veterans, men which, of course, is the lesson of all 70th anniversary of D-day. This flag, of and women who served our country, wars—fighting for a cause and fighting course, symbolizes the valor our troops who had lost faith, who had lost hope for each other. demonstrated that day and makes sure in the Department of Veterans Affairs. That Department was created in 1930 Undeniably, much of the success on future generations will never, ever for- for purposes of providing the benefits D-day was the result of a great strat- get their sacrifices. and health care supporting those who egy and plan by American war plan- I yield the floor. were called to duty, those who re- ners, including a man born in Denison, The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- sponded to their country’s call. I cer- TX, by the name of Dwight David Ei- pore. The Senator from Kansas. Mr. MORAN. Mr. President, thank tainly know that throughout the senhower, who served as the Supreme course of history the Department of Allied Commander. you. I certainly appreciate the remarks of Veterans Affairs has had its challenges, I see my colleague from Kansas on but what seems so compelling to me the floor, and I know Kansas lays claim my colleague, the Senator from Texas, in regard to honoring those who served over the last several years is the sense to Dwight D. Eisenhower, but I want to that no longer was there a plan, no state here on the floor of the Senate our country so nobly and so courageously 70 years ago, as we recognize longer was there the effort to make that he was born in Denison, TX, and certain that Department lived up to its not in Kansas, although we are proud this weekend the anniversary of that invasion of Europe, called D-day. commitment to those who previously to share his legacy between both of our served our country. States and as a country. We have many veterans in our country, many military men and women A lot has transpired in the last General Eisenhower’s address to the month, and there is now an Acting Sec- who continue to serve and many who troops on the eve of the landing stands retary of the Department of Veterans now are veterans and have served in as one of the most memorable exhor- Affairs. And of course we have reports the past, and I am here today to pay tations to bravery in the face of evil in from across the country of secret lists, tribute not only to those D-day mili- the annals of world history. I would concerns about waiting times, and the tary men and women and those who like to take a moment to read some of potential of service men and women, served our country on such a special those words. veterans, who have suffered as a result occasion in which the course of history Here is what General Eisenhower of those lists, as a result of having to was changed, but also to pay tribute to wrote: wait. I guess we will know more about all of those who served our country in Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied that over the course of time. Expeditionary Force! You are about to em- all circumstances. I am surprised and disappointed to bark on a great crusade, toward which we I am not a veteran. I have great re- learn that Kansas hospitals, Kansas fa- have striven these many months. The eyes of gard for those who are. My life is cilities, the VA hospital in Wichita is the world are upon you. The hopes and pray- shaped by the fact that the Vietnam on that list where investigations are ers of liberty loving people everywhere war was ongoing during my days as a now ongoing and where the Depart- march with you. high school student, and much of my ment of Veterans Affairs has admitted He continued: time was spent talking to those a few to a list that delayed access to health The free men of the world are marching to- years older than I who were volun- care. I would not have expected that in gether to victory! I have full confidence in teering or who were drafted, and those our State. I think we are different. We your courage, devotion to duty and skill in who were a little bit older than that are special. But the reality is this chal- battle. We will accept nothing less than full who returned home after service in victory! lenge and the problems we face are sys- Vietnam. I clearly remember as a 16- or temwide and across the country. What At a different time, Eisenhower once 17-year-old watching the evening news, we want is a Department of Veterans said: ‘‘Morale is the single most impor- ‘‘CBS Evening News with Walter Affairs that is worthy of the sacrifice tant factor in successful wars.’’ Morale Cronkite,’’ and every day the news was and service of the men and women who was what united the Allied Powers— consumed with reports from Vietnam, served in our military. We don’t want not the desire to conquer real estate the consequences we found ourselves damage control from the Department but the desire to defeat the tyrants of in, and the sacrifice men and women of Veterans Affairs. What we want is Europe, to liberate the prisoners of war were making on that battlefield every the end of damage to those who served and those in concentration camps, and day. our country. to forever defeat the evil ideology that Again, I didn’t serve in Vietnam, but The purpose of my conversation on motivated Adolf Hitler and his ilk. I learned a couple of things from my the floor today is to make certain we We know the world we live in is al- time observing our country and seeing don’t lose sight. The news cycle comes ways filled with great uncertainty and, the sacrifice and service of those who and goes, and while there are serious unfortunately, with evil men and those were willing to serve in that war. One issues our country faces in many fac- who would smash democracy and self- of the things I take from that experi- ets, I don’t want this Senate to lose government under the boot heel of dic- ence is we will always honor, care for, sight of its responsibility to make cer- tators and tyrants. So while we always respect those who serve our country in tain the Department of Veterans Af- pray fervently for peace, we must also the military in whatever circumstance fairs is caring for those who need our be ready to defeat tyrants, dictators, they have been called to do that. care and treatment. and those who would crush democracy It was a month ago that I was on the I am worried, and I hope my worries under their boot heel. D-day reminds floor on this spot, concerned about the are unfounded. I have only served in

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I think it is because vidual Senators, whatever party they to deal with the issues necessary legis- most people feel she has done an excel- are: Let’s not follow the path we have latively to resolve and address the lent job at OMB. followed so many times in the short pe- problems of the Department of Vet- In this Senator’s experience with her, riod of time I have been here in which erans Affairs and to make certain that discussing with her one of the smaller there is a Republican plan to fix a every veteran who has served our coun- agencies of government, where this problem and there is a Democratic plan try has the ability to access quality Senator felt as though OMB had tar- to fix a problem. Surely our veterans health care provided in a timely fash- geted that little agency, instead of al- deserve something more than each of ion, and that once again the Senate lowing the experts who were driving us being able to say we cast a vote for doesn’t do what it has done too many that agency—and specifically I am their benefit. Surely they deserve the times, and that is we all cast a vote talking about NASA—purely from a fi- opportunity to actually have legisla- and we can claim we have done some- nance and budgetary standpoint, in- tion that will address the challenges thing, we supported something, but the stead of what we wanted to accomplish and problems the Department of Vet- end result is that nothing happened. in the Nation’s space program, Ms. erans Affairs has. My plea and my re- Let’s avoid nothing happening. Burwell understood that, and she tried quest of all in this body is, for these Finally, let me conclude by saying to help out from an agency that is veterans, to make certain we conduct that World War II Memorial is special more concerned just with budgetary as- ourselves in a different way than unfor- to me. I have a 98-year-old father home pects of government, and she under- tunately I have seen in most instances in Plainville, KS, a World War II vet- stood you have got to get into what as a Senator. eran. I walked up to the World War II you want the agency to accomplish in- We have this phrase around here, Memorial 10 years ago, just a few days stead of just looking at the budgetary ‘‘Well, we will get a side-by-side,’’ before it was being dedicated, and I aspects. I appreciated that very much. meaning there is a Democratic plan wanted to see what it was going to I think we are going to have a similar and a Republican plan; and when you look like. It was an inspiring moment. kind of experience at HHS with Ms. talk about that. What that means is we I happened to have my cell phone with Burwell. never expect either one of those plans me and I walked over to the Kansas pil- Now, goodness gracious, she takes to pass. So to the chairman and rank- lar and thought about those who served over an agency that certainly has its ing member of the Senate Veterans’ Af- our country in that war, including my hands full, as we are, for example, just fairs Committee, to Senator REID, the dad back home. I walked away from trying to continue to expand Medicaid majority leader of the Senate: Please the memorial and used my cell phone and expand it to all of the people in the take us down a path that demonstrates to call my dad at home. The message I States that have denied the expansion once again the Senate can rise to the delivered to my dad that day was: of Medicaid. So what we asked during occasion and do something worthy of ‘‘Dad, I am at the World War II Memo- the confirmation hearings is that she the veterans who have served our coun- rial. It is a memorial built for you. consider working with the States to try. Dad, I want you to know that I thank find some types of compromises on a Every once in a while in this frustra- you for your service. I respect you and way to do that—to expand Medicaid— tion about the way this place doesn’t I love you.’’ when the States are balking. Twenty- work, I will put on my running shoes That conversation, fortunately, took four States have not taken the Federal and I will walk down to the Lincoln place on an answering machine and not Government up on the offer to pay the Memorial. It certainly is an inspiring in person, and was easier to deliver, al- full cost of expansion for the first 3 visit to the Lincoln Memorial, but per- though a few minutes later my cell years, and then after the year 2020 the haps more importantly on that walk phone rang and it was my dad, who Federal Government will pay 90 per- you now go by the World War II Memo- said, ‘‘Gerald, you left me a message, cent of the cost of expansion. rial that memorializes those the Sen- but I couldn’t understand it. Could you I offer an example in my own State of ator from Texas was talking about. tell me again?’’ Florida. The State of Florida, osten- You then walk by the Vietnam Wall, The point I want to make is, we are sibly because they did not want to the war that was ongoing in my teen- called upon as American citizens and incur the 10-percent cost of Medicaid age years. On your way back you come certainly as members of the Senate to expansion after the year 2020—that was by the Korean War Memorial, the for- do all that is possible to demonstrate the reason they gave, but it really gotten war. What I am reminded of and that we thank our veterans for their wasn’t the real reason they didn’t want what I would call to the attention of service, we respect them, and we love to expand; they just didn’t want to my colleagues is not a person recog- them. The Senate needs to rise to the have anything to do with the Afford- nized in any of those memorials volun- occasion and not let the partisan poli- able Care Act. Many of them labeled it teered or was drafted for purposes of tics of this place and this country di- ‘‘ObamaCare.’’ As a result, what they advancing the cause of the Republican vide us in a way in which we only sym- have done in Florida is denied a popu- Party or the Democratic Party. There bolically respond but the end result is lation of over 1 million people—specifi- was no interest in partisan politics by that we fail those who served, and we cally 1.2 million people in Florida—the those who served our country. They fail our veterans who depend upon us availability of health care by expand- served their country because they be- just as we have depended upon them for ing the eligibility for all Medicaid up lieved in a higher calling. They be- their service to our country. to the level of 138 percent of poverty. lieved they could make a difference. Mr. President, I yield the floor. That level is for a family of four— They believed it mattered to their kids The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- $32,500 a year. and grandkids. It was about freedom pore. The Senator from Florida. A person thinks of a million people— and liberty. It wasn’t about who scores f over a million who otherwise could get points in the next election. health care—and they are making Please, leaders of the Senate, all of BURWELL NOMINATION $32,000 or less, we can’t expect them to my colleagues, make certain we rise to Mr. NELSON. Mr. President, I want buy health insurance if they are only the occasion, that we have the same to speak on behalf of Sylvia Mathews bringing in $32,000 for a family of four. standard, the same motivation, the Burwell. We have had a lot of com- That is not reasonable. That is why we same reason that we come here every mentary out here that she has shown expanded Medicaid in the Affordable day to be the same as theirs: to make her capability in her time as the head Care Act. But politics has a way of get- America a better place, to make sure of the Office of Management and Budg- ting in the way, and there are 24 States our kids and grandkids live with free- et, OMB, and she is going to have a that did not expand.

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Of the 8 million peo- decided early on to build their own ex- first of all, it is an issue of quality of ple nationwide who signed up on the changes in order to help support the life. Why don’t we want people to have State exchanges, almost 1 million of development and early implementation health care who can’t afford it? That is that 8 million were in our State of of the necessary information tech- the whole idea of increasing the per- Florida. So it shows us the hunger of nology systems. centage of the poverty level in order to folks there, knowing that if they can All told, States received $4.7 billion make people eligible for Medicaid. get health insurance or health care from HHS to assist them in building But aside from that, if the Federal through Medicaid, they certainly want their exchanges. money is available for providing that that very much. I hope that under the The problem we are seeing now is health care—in this case, $51 billion— leadership of Ms. Burwell, we are going that, apparently, this money was just why wouldn’t we want to take the Fed- to be able to make that a reality in the handed out with little or no account- eral money to pay for the health care coming year. I know she is going to do ability. At least seven States—seven States— of the people—and ‘‘the people’’ being a a great job as Secretary of HHS. have failed to build a successful Web substantial number of people—over 1 Mr. President, I yield the floor, and I site and exchange, even though they million. note the absence of a quorum. received and accepted Federal taxpayer In addition, if we care about the cre- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- dollars specifically for that purpose. ation of jobs, we are talking about pore. The clerk will call the roll. Now these States are scrambling to ei- 125,000 jobs additionally created be- The assistant bill clerk proceeded to ther rebuild their entire systems or to cause of this expansion of providing call the roll. Mr. HATCH. Madam President, I ask transition to the Federal exchange. health care. These seven States received roughly So all the way around, it is a win- unanimous consent that the order for $1.3 billion from HHS to build their ex- win-win. It provides jobs, it certainly the quorum call be rescinded. changes. That is $1.3 billion—with a provides quality of life by providing The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. ‘‘B’’—to just seven States in the Union. health care, and the Federal money is HIRONO). Without objection, it is so or- That is more than one-quarter of the dered. already dedicated. total amount HHS provided to States Again, politics gets in the way, and Mr. HATCH. Madam President, today for the purpose of building their own politics got in the way in the State of the Senate is expected to vote on the State health care exchanges. And ap- Florida and 23 other States. nomination of Sylvia Mathews Burwell parently these States have little or Now, what to do about it. OK. The to be the next Secretary of the Depart- nothing to show for it. In fact, at least stated reason was that we don’t want ment of Health and Human Services. I three of them are looking to drop their our State to have the obligation of ad- expect her to be confirmed, and I ex- own exchanges entirely and use the ditional spending—10 percent—after pect she will receive a fair number of Federal exchange instead now. the year 2020. What we have shown is a votes from both sides of the aisle. I, for You heard that right, three States— program that is already in place in one, plan to vote in favor of confirming that between them received hundreds State law to provide for poor people’s Ms. Burwell. I believe she is well quali- of millions of dollars from the Federal health care through the low-income fied and well suited for this position. Government to build their exchanges— pool and other assistance to hospitals But let’s be clear. If Ms. Burwell is now want to abandon the prospect en- that serve that poor population, a tax confirmed, she will have a difficult job tirely and join the Federal exchange. base that already pays for that, taxes ahead of her, particularly when it Let’s keep in mind that adding them at the local level. comes to implementation of the so- to the Federal exchange will not be We suggested this: We don’t have to called Affordable Care Act. simple, nor will it be cheap. More mil- raise any new taxes to pay the State’s While I support Ms. Burwell’s nomi- lions will be spent to transition these share of the 10 percent. Those taxes are nation, no one should mistake that to States—along with any other States already being paid. We shift the money mean that I have somehow softened in that may choose the same course in that is there because we are going to my resolve against ObamaCare. Indeed, the future—into the Federal exchange. expand Medicaid and take care of all I am as committed as ever to repealing This is simply preposterous. Where is the poor people—some of whom are and replacing this horribly misguided the accountability? Where is the out- being taken care of now—and just use law. rage from HHS over those lost and that tax base in place of the State of I hold this position not due to poli- misspent funds? There does not seem to Florida share of 10 percent. tics or partisanship but due to the be any. The Legislature of Florida would not real—very real—problems this law is For her part, the President’s nominee buy it in the closing days and weeks of causing for our citizens, for our govern- to run HHS, Ms. Burwell has at least the session. It is my hope they will in ment, and for our Nation’s health care acknowledged that there is a problem the future. But that is the kind of ex- system. here. ample that the new Secretary of HHS I would like to take a few minutes During her confirmation hearing in will be dealing with, as the previous today to talk about some of the spe- the Finance Committee, I asked her Secretary of HHS has already dealt cific problems we are seeing with whether States that have negligently with in iterations of how to cover addi- ObamaCare and what some of my col- mismanaged their exchange funds tional Medicaid populations. States leagues and I are doing to address should be required to reimburse the such as Arkansas and Michigan have them. taxpayers for those losses and for their worked with HHS to find ways, some of As we all know, under the Affordable failures? Her answer was somewhat en- them using the private marketplace to Care Act, States are required to have couraging. She said that if she was con- expand coverage. an online exchange where citizens can firmed she would want to get to the So it is my hope that with the new go to purchase health insurance. The bottom of this problem and ‘‘use the Secretary, with the obvious need of ad- law gives the States the option of cre- full extent of the law to get those funds ditional health care for people who ating their own exchange, using the ex- back for the taxpayers.’’ cannot afford it in the private insur- change provided by the Federal Gov- Unfortunately, in answer to my fol- ance market, we will see this turned ernment or using a hybrid of the two. lowup question—whether she would around in the next session of the legis- The Department of Health and commit to withholding additional ex- lature; otherwise, every day the State Human Services gave every State $1 change-related funds from those failing of Florida loses $7 million that would million to fund research and analysis States—she was not quite so definitive. be coming to the State for health care to determine what type of an exchange Still, I was glad to hear her at least ac- for people of low income. they would use. Additional grants were knowledge the problem and make a

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Ms. Burwell is committed this matter, we are going to need to do with the State health care exchanges to changing that practice. I respect her something besides waiting around for demonstrate that the Affordable Care for it. It is part of the reason I led the HHS to address the problem. Indeed, if Act has been flawed from the begin- charge to have her confirmed. Once our experience has taught us anything, ning. Indeed, it was the law itself that again, I surely hope she does help it is that commitments made in the included an open-ended appropriation change that practice. context of a confirmation hearing often to help States build their exchanges I mentioned the other major commit- fall by the wayside. I do not intend to without any mechanism to make ment she made to me earlier in dealing have this one fall by the wayside. States accountable for wasting those with the failed State exchanges. Ms. That has been particularly true, funds. Given these fundamental prob- Burwell committed to doing everything though, with this administration, espe- lems, I expect we will see more States in her power to retrieve the wasted cially when the commitments deal take this route, especially if there are taxpayer funds. This commitment is with ObamaCare. That is why I have no steps taken to make them account- also important, because thus far HHS joined with the ranking member of the able. has refused to acknowledge many of Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Congressional oversight into these the problems they faced in imple- GRASSLEY, in an investigation into this failings is vital. I hope the administra- menting the Affordable Care Act. The matter. Congress needs to exercise tion will cooperate in our effort to re- fact that she made this commitment to proper oversight on this issue. We need solve these problems. Our legislation is me demonstrates she is at least willing to get answers. We need to get them no less important. It is the only way to to admit there are some major prob- now. One way or another we are going guarantee the American taxpayers get lems with the program. to get them. their money back. But that is not all I support Ms. Burwell’s nomination Last month Senator GRASSLEY and I we need to do. Make no mistake, in large part because of these commit- sent a letter to CMS Administrator ObamaCare is doing serious damage to ments she has made. I hope she lives up Tavenner asking for information about our Nation’s health care system and to them. I think she has the ability to CMS’s communications with the States our Nation’s fiscal future. live up to them. I have high hopes of with regard to the difficulties they When it comes to his health law, the that. No one should misread my vote have had setting up exchanges and President’s favorite argument is that today as an acknowledgement that all their use of Federal funds. As I said, all Republicans have not produced an al- is now right in the world of ObamaCare told, these failures amount to over $1 ternative of their own. However, this is and at HHS, because nothing can be billion in lost funds. The American simply untrue. I suspect the President further from the truth. But Ms. people deserve to know where the knows that. Earlier this year two of Burwell has, for her part, acknowl- money went and why it was so horribly my colleagues and I unveiled a legisla- edged that problems exist and has com- misused. tive proposal that would undo the dam- mitted to doing what she can to fix That is not all the American people age ObamaCare has inflicted on the those problems. Under this administra- deserve. They also deserve to be paid American people. Unlike the Afford- tion, that is probably the best we can back for these losses. That is why I able Care Act, our proposal would actu- hope for. have joined with Senator BARRASSO in ally reduce costs and shore up our enti- This is an important nomination. introducing the State Exchange Ac- tlements. It would do so without all of She is a very qualified woman, in my countability Act, a bill to require the the harmful distortive mandates and opinion. She has had some significant States to pay back these wasted funds. regulations we see under ObamaCare. experience in the Federal Government. Every Senator here, Democrat or Re- Once again, in the immediate future, I have high hopes that she will turn out publican, ought to be willing to back we need to solve this problem with the to be a wonderful Administrator at that bill. failed State exchanges. But we also HHS. It is almost an uncontrollable, Specifically, if enacted, our bill need to keep our eyes focused on the unadministratable agency. I am going would require those States that oper- long-term goal of repealing ObamaCare to give her all the help I possibly can ated a State exchange in 2014 and sub- once and for all and replacing it with to help get that agency under control sequently chose to use the Federal ex- something that will actually work for and get it right again. change to repay all of their establish- the American people. This is important. I feel deeply about ment and early innovator exchange I hope that as time wears on, more of it. People in the bureaucracy know if grants. The bill would give them a 10- my colleagues, particularly those on they work with me I will move heaven year timeframe to do so. States would the other side of the aisle, will recog- and Earth to try to help them. It is have to enter into an agreement with nize this is what we really need to do. time our government is more respon- HHS to repay at a minimum 10 percent As I said, I intend to vote today in sive to its citizens, more responsive to of the total grant money they received favor of Ms. Burwell’s nomination to what people believed when they were every year. States that fall under these lead HHS. I have helped that process to confirmed, and more responsive in requirements but fail to enter into go smoothly. I want it to go smoothly. solving those problems that are so sig- such an agreement would see their Fed- I believe she is a good choice for this nificant, so costly, and so important to eral assistance medical percentages, or job. I am hoping with all my heart that the American people. FMAP, reduced by HHS. The FMAP re- she will be that good choice she has in- Ms. MIKULSKI. Madam President, I duction would be uniform and take dicated she is, and I have deduced she wish to speak in strong support of Syl- place over a 10-year period and would is. But I still have a number of con- via Mathews Burwell, who has been be equal to the amount of exchange cerns about the direction the agency is nominated to serve as Secretary of the grant money the State received. headed. During the course of her con- Department of Health and Human Under the bill, HHS would be explic- firmation hearing, Ms. Burwell made Services, HHS. itly prohibited from reducing the two very important commitments to HHS is a $1 trillion agency respon- amount of reimbursement that States me. The first commitment she made sible for, among other things, man- owe to the Federal Government. I ex- was to respond promptly, within 30 aging Medicare, Medicaid, and imple- pect some would deem this approach to days, to questions and inquiries sub- mentation of the Affordable Care Act, be too punitive, but they should not. I mitted to HHS from Members of Con- ACA. HHS needs a strong leader. I be- do not think anyone can reasonably gress. lieve Sylvia Burwell is up to the job. dispute there is a problem that needs This is an important commitment, President Obama could not have se- to be dealt with. Our solution is rea- one I hope she lives up to. Under this lected a better person to lead HHS into

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Budget, OMB. She played a pivotal role 8 million Americans have obtained For example, she will be responsible in helping Congress come to agreement health insurance thanks to healthcare for research efforts at the National In- on a budget deal last December. reform. More than 3 million young stitutes of Health, among other agen- Her work at OMB has prepared her to adults have been able to stay on their cies. This federally sponsored research step up to challenge of leading HHS. parents’ health insurance plans. More has made the United States the world She is a problem solver who knows how than 3 million people have been newly leader in biomedical innovation, and to work with Congress. She is also a enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s has resulted in countless discoveries mom with kids. I am confident that Health Insurance Program, CHIP. and breakthroughs, from the extraor- Sylvia will be an outstanding HHS Sec- Thanks to healthcare reform, being a dinary application of genomics to cut- retary. woman is no longer a preexisting con- ting-edge pharmaceuticals to an un- It is my hope that she is confirmed dition and people can no longer be de- precedented understanding of the quickly. It is important that HHS has nied coverage or charged more for pre- human brain. a leader in place. It is important that existing conditions. And thanks to As Secretary, Ms. Burwell will also Congress has a point person in place as healthcare reform’s provisions to close be in charge of another long-time pri- we work to pass the fiscal year 2015 the dreaded doughnut hole, more than ority of mine, disease prevention. She Labor-HHS appropriations bill. And it 7 million seniors have saved $9 billion will lead our Nation’s efforts to trans- is important for the country to have a in prescription drug costs. form our health care system from a Secretary of HHS confirmed so we can Despite the many successes of ‘‘sick care system’’ into one that fo- move forward with implementation of healthcare reform, there is still much cuses on wellness and prevention, not healthcare reform. to be done, and we need a Secretary in just at the doctor’s office but also in I would like to take a moment to ex- place to get that job done. We need a our schools, workplaces, and commu- press my deep appreciation to Ms. Secretary focused on ensuring smooth nities. Kathleen Sebelius—our current HHS open enrollment periods that are Ms. Burwell will oversee the Food Secretary. Whether it was as Secretary glitch-free. We need a Secretary who is and Drug Administration—a critically of HHS or Governor of Kansas, Ms. willing and able to work with States important agency that protects and Sebelius has always been a bright, who are not yet where they need to be. promotes public health by helping to hard-working, and devoted public serv- We need a Secretary focused on pro- keep our Nation’s food and medical ant. Despite constant and relentless tecting people’s privation information product supplies safe, among other opposition, she fought every day in in an ever-dangerous cyber climate, things. In fact, FDA now oversees every way to make health insurance a and we need a Secretary focused on items that account for 25 cents out of reality for millions of Americans. She getting young people enrolled in health every dollar spent by Americans. was a phenomenal partner and tireless insurance plans and focused on keeping The Department also ensures that we advocate in efforts to improve women’s premiums low for individuals and small can meet the health care and education health, expand mental health benefits businesses. needs of our most vulnerable citizens and services, fight childhood obesity, Running HHS is a big job. Ms. through programs like the community and protect people from dangerous in- Burwell is the right woman for the job. health centers, Ryan White HIV pro- fluenza strains. She was a fierce advo- I urge my colleagues to join me in sup- grams, and the Head Start program. cate for those most in need and she will port of her confirmation to serve as The Secretary is also charged with be missed. I wish her and her family Secretary of HHS. oversight of programs that support well in all future endeavors. Mr. HARKIN. Madam President, millions of Americans with disabilities. As I mentioned earlier, HHS is a $1 today we consider the nomination of Medicaid makes it possible for many trillion agency. Every single person Sylvia Mathews Burwell to be the next with chronic disabilities to remain in worldwide benefits from work done at Secretary of the Department of Health their homes, to go to work or school, HHS. For instance, HHS oversees the and Human Services. Ms. Burwell cur- and to be active members of society. In National Institutes of Health, NIH— rently serves as Director of the Office tandem, the Administration for Com- our Federal agency responsible for of Management and Budget, a position munity Living implements policies finding cures and treatments for the to which she was confirmed by a vote that help people with disabilities to illnesses and diseases that impact our of 96–0 in April 2013. Through a dy- stay in their homes, neighborhoods and families. HHS also oversees the Centers namic career in both public service and places of work, with the result that for Disease Control and Prevention, private sector leadership, she has prov- people are healthier, happier, and have CDC—our Federal agency responsible en herself as an effective manager with better quality of life. for protecting the public health by pre- experience and skill in leading a wide And of course Ms. Burwell will have venting, tracking, and managing the range of organizations. During her con- the critical role of overseeing imple- spread of disease. HHS also oversees firmation hearing in the HELP Com- mentation of the Affordable Care Act. the Food and Drug Administration, mittee last month, she garnered strong We can be proud that thanks to the Af- FDA—our Federal agency responsible support from Members on both sides of fordable Care Act we have seen over 6 for protecting our Nation’s food and the aisle. Clearly, I am not alone in million new Medicaid enrollees, and drug supply. HHS oversees the Admin- concluding that she is a deeply impres- more than 8 million more Americans istration on Children and Families, sive nominee and is eminently quali- have signed up for health insurance in ACF—our Federal agency responsible fied to serve as the next Secretary of the marketplaces. But there is more for running the Head Start Program Health and Human Services. work to be done to continue success- and helping lower income families af- The United States faces serious pub- fully implementing the law and re- ford childcare. In addition, HHS is re- lic health challenges, many of which forming our health care system. sponsible for overseeing the Centers for require urgent answers. Very often, the The list goes on and on, but I have Medicare and Medicaid Services, entire world looks to HHS for leader- made my point that as Secretary, Ms. CMS—our Federal agency responsible ship. Just last month, this country Burwell will shoulder incredibly impor- for managing Medicare for our Nation’s confronted the first ever incident of tant responsibilities that matter deep- seniors and Medicaid for those in need. MERS, Middle East Respiratory Syn- ly to the health and wellness of the These are only a few examples of how drome, within our borders. HHS re- American people. I have no doubt that we rely on HHS agencies. sponded quickly to educate the public, Ms. Burwell is up for the challenge. We also rely on HHS for implementa- investigate the situation, and develop a Since her nomination Ms. Burwell tion of Affordable Care Act. Unfortu- path forward. has met with numerous members of

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Senator BURR continued: gotten short shrift in Washington, DC. I suggest the absence of a quorum. It didn’t come up a whole lot in the de- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The I look forward to her confirmation being quick and our ability to then work together bate about the Affordable Care Act on clerk will call the roll. to be every bit as quick. any side, and yet it is going to be the The assistant legislative clerk pro- issue that dominates the future of the These are statements that reflect a ceeded to call the roll. flagship health care program in this nominee who is going to be, in my Mr. WYDEN. I ask unanimous con- country, Medicare; and much of what is view, an active agent of bipartisanship. sent that the order for the quorum call done for chronic disease for the Medi- She is somebody who has already be rescinded. care population will also be copied for shown she can bring Democrats and The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the under-65 population, since the Republicans together to solve big chal- objection, it is so ordered. trend historically, when Medicare lenges, and I think she is going to show Mr. WYDEN. To close for our side, I takes bold action, is often replicated in it at the Department of Health and would like to strongly urge my col- the private sector. leagues in a few minutes to support the Human Services. Suffice it to say, we know Health and Some of this work has begun, but the nomination of Sylvia Mathews Burwell fact is we need a strong leader with bi- to be the next Secretary of the Depart- Human Services will need to have strong leadership in the days ahead. We partisan support, as I have tried to ment of Health and Human Services. highlight with Dr. COBURN’s comments, I want to start with a simple fact. know the debate about the Affordable Care Act is going to continue. It is Senator BURR’s comments, and others. Sylvia Mathews Burwell’s nomination I think it was all summed up when Dr. has a breadth of bipartisan support be- going to continue in Hawaii, Oregon, and across the country. COBURN and Senator ROCKEFELLER—the cause she is really that good, she is senior Democratic Senator from her really that capable, and she is really My hope, as chair of the Finance Committee, is that Sylvia Mathews home State—teamed up that first day that qualified. and set the mood about how this would I am going to say to colleagues, no- Burwell can help bring together Demo- crats and Republicans to build on the be a nominee with exceptional ability body has to take my word for it. We all to reach out and tackle the big chal- know that our colleague on the other Affordable Care Act, just as many of us did to work with former President lenges of our time. side of the aisle, Senator COBURN, is a Medicare, of course, in my view, is man of strong views. He says what he George W. Bush, to strengthen the Part D Program, the Medicare prescription the biggest. But the issue of family means, and he means what he says. As support, the child welfare programs the a ranking member of the Homeland Se- drug program. Many of the first stories about Medicare Part D were much like Department manages, these are pro- curity and Governmental Affairs Com- grams that are critical lifelines for mittee, Senator COBURN has had many the first stories about the Affordable Care Act. Yet Democrats and Repub- struggling Americans across the coun- opportunities to work closely with Ms. try. So many of our people are now Burwell during her service as the OMB licans came together, were able to strengthen Part D to the point where falling between the cracks—falling be- Director. tween the cracks into poverty since the For example, he emphasized the now—enormous support among sen- recession. The Department of Health nominee’s competence, saying: The iors—it has come in at more than 30 and Human Services plays a powerful fact is when you have somebody who is percent below the cost projected by the role ensuring that we have a strong confident, competent, and also has Congressional Budget Office. safety net. strong character, you find a way to get So let’s all work together with Syl- I have talked about her credentials past your differences to try to solve via Mathews Burwell to do for the Af- before, but her education includes a problems. fordable Care Act what we did with stellar background, a graduate of Har- He emphasized she is a good listener George W. Bush’s program on prescrip- vard and Oxford, where she was a and that she is communicative. tion drugs, and that has worked in a bi- He said: partisan way. Rhodes scholar. She was a staff direc- One of the reasons I am so enthused tor of the National Economic Council. Responsiveness is key for the Congress, This is someone who is very savvy on and I have to tell you I found her remark- about Sylvia Mathews Burwell is we ably responsive. The fact is she is going to be have big challenges that both sides, the big economic challenges, and she committed to do the right thing and to keep Democrats and Republicans, are going has superb experience. In 1977 she be- Congress involved. to have to team up on to tackle in the came Deputy Chief of Staff to the Finally, in a quote that I thought days ahead. For example, Medicare in President and moving the following was particularly striking, Senator 2014 is dramatically different than year to become the Deputy Director of COBURN said: Medicare when it began in 1965. In 1965, the Office of Management and Budget. Even when she has made up her mind, for example, if a senior broke their She also has extensive experience in which sometimes happens, she will listen to ankle, if he or she needed to see a doc- the nonprofit world. At the Gates another point of view to get information she tor, they went perhaps to an outpatient Foundation she led efforts to tackle might not have. program, Part B of the Medicare Pro- some of the most pressing global Senator COBURN also said: gram. If they needed more attention— health challenges of our time. That is a characteristic too often that we perhaps the ankle needed to be reset— At the Walmart Foundation, where don’t see, as Members of Congress, and in they had to go to the hospital, they she served in 2011, she offered out- members of the administration, whether would get assistance in the hospital standing leadership in the fight against they are Republican or a Democrat. under Part A. hunger and to improve economic oppor- Senator COBURN is not the only one Today that is not primarily what tunity for women. who is part of this we could call it Medicare is all about. Today, well over As Senators consider this nomination choir of bipartisan support for Sylvia 80 percent of Medicare is tackling in the last couple of minutes before the Mathews Burwell. chronic disease. We are talking about vote, I only want to remind—perhaps When she went before the HELP diabetes, we are talking about cancer, not subtly—the Senate confirmed Syl- Committee, our Republican colleague we are talking about strokes and heart via Mathews Burwell for the position of from North Carolina, Senator BURR, disease. Certainly if you add Alz- Director of Office of Management and said: heimer’s on top of it, that is 90 percent Budget 96 to 0. I think that is a very I support her nomination. I will vote for of the Medicare Program. That broken rare statement of bipartisanship for an her in the Finance Committee, and it is for ankle, when the senior has one, of extremely important position that not

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In fact, the agency re- That is what Senators have said Begich Graham Murphy peatedly stated that certain provisions Bennet Grassley Murray throughout the process, and they have Blumenthal Hagan Nelson of the Kate Puzey Act override the In- said it whether you have a D or an R Booker Harkin Portman spector General Act. That was never next to your name. What the country Boxer Hatch Pryor the intent of Congress. But the Peace Brown Heinrich Reed Corps withheld most of the information needs, in short, is somebody who is a Burr Heitkamp Reid true agent of bipartisanship. Cantwell Hirono Rockefeller that the inspector general requested I conclude my remarks by saying I Cardin Hoeven Sanders from the agency. have gotten to know Sylvia Mathews Carper Isakson Schatz Fortunately, the Peace Corps and the Casey Johanns Schumer Burwell well in the past few years. She Chambliss Johnson (SD) Shaheen inspector general recently agreed on a is the right choice for the right time, Coats Johnson (WI) Stabenow memorandum of understanding, MOU. and I strongly urge my colleagues on Coburn Kaine Tester This MOU was agreed to only after I Collins King Toomey placed a hold on the Acting Director’s both sides of the aisle to join me this Coons Klobuchar Udall (CO) afternoon in supporting her nomina- Corker Landrieu Udall (NM) nomination, and only after I sent three tion. Crapo Leahy Walsh letters to the agency about the dispute, I yield the floor. Donnelly Levin Warner along with several other Members. Durbin Manchin Warren f Enzi Markey Whitehouse Under the MOU, the Peace Corps has Feinstein McCain Wicker agreed to provide the inspector general CONCLUSION OF MORNING Fischer Menendez Wyden with more information than before. BUSINESS NAYS—17 For the time being, the inspector gen- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Morning Ayotte Kirk Rubio eral believes that the MOU will allow business is closed. Blunt McConnell Sessions her to carry out her oversight duties. f Cornyn Moran Shelby However, the inspector general has Cruz Paul Thune made it clear to me that the MOU has EXECUTIVE SESSION Heller Risch Vitter Inhofe Roberts many shortcomings. Most importantly, the Peace Corps still refuses to ac- NOT VOTING—5 knowledge the inspector general’s legal NOMINATION OF SYLVIA MAT- Boozman Lee Scott HEWS BURWELL TO BE SEC- right to access the records in question. Cochran McCaskill In addition, the MOU can be termi- RETARY OF HEALTH AND The nomination was confirmed. HUMAN SERVICES nated by either party at any time. So f the inspector general believes that she The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- NOMINATION OF CAROLYN would be back at square one if the par- pore. Under the previous order, the ties ever disagree in the future on the Senate will proceed to executive ses- HESSLER-RADELET TO BE DI- RECTOR OF THE PEACE CORPS amount of information she needs to sion to consider the following nomina- independently evaluate how the agency tion, which the clerk will report. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. handled a specific case of sexual as- The assistant legislative clerk read KAINE). Under the previous order, the sault. the nomination of Sylvia Mathews Senate will proceed to the consider- Still, the MOU represents progress. Burwell, of West Virginia, to be Sec- ation of the following nomination, So I am voting in favor of this nomina- retary of Health and Human Services. which the clerk will report. tion. The law says that the inspector The PRESIDING OFFICER. The The legislative clerk read the nomi- general is entitled to full and timely question is, Will the Senate advise and nation of Carolyn Hessler-Radelet, of access to the records in question. So I consent to the nomination of Sylvia Virginia, to be Director of the Peace will monitor this situation closely. Mathews Burwell, of West Virginia, to Corps. And I will count on the nominee to be Secretary of Health and Human Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I will guide the agency into full compliance Services? vote to confirm the President’s nomi- with the law. Mr. MORAN. I ask for the yeas and nee for Director of the Peace Corps. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The nays. However, I want explain why I objected question is, Will the Senate advise and The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a to any unanimous consent request re- consent to the nomination of Carolyn sufficient second? There appears to be lating to this nomination in March and Hessler-Radelet, of Virginia, to be Di- a sufficient second. why I have withdrawn my objection. I rector of the Peace Corps? The clerk will call the roll. objected because I was informed by the The nomination was confirmed. The assistant legislative clerk called Peace Corps inspector general that she The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the roll. was having difficulty accessing records the previous order, the motions to re- Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the from the agency. The nominee is the consider are considered made and laid Senator from Missouri (Mrs. MCCAS- acting director of the agency. The upon the table, and the President will KILL) is necessarily absent. records relate to sexual assaults re- be immediately notified of the Senate’s Mr. CORNYN. The following Senators ported by Peace Corps volunteers. actions. are necessarily absent: the Senator The inspector general is entitled to The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- from Arkansas (Mr. BOOZMAN), the Sen- access these records under the Inspec- ator from Wyoming. ator from Mississippi (Mr. COCHRAN), tor General Act and the Kate Puzey THE ENVIRONMENT the Senator from Utah (Mr. LEE), and Act. Both acts reinforce the principle Mr. ENZI. I rise to talk about the the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. that agency operations should be mon- new regulations President Obama pro- SCOTT). itored by an independent and objective posed this week that are obviously Further, if present and voting, the inspector general. The Kate Puzey Act aimed at the coal industry, but let’s be Senator from Arkansas (Mr. BOOZMAN) requires the agency to better respond frank, these regulations go far beyond would have voted ‘‘yea’’ and the Sen- to volunteers who report sexual assault the President’s campaign to put coal ator from Utah (Mr. LEE) would have and implement certain protections for out of business. These regulations tar- voted ‘‘nay.’’ victims of sexual assault. To ensure get energy to make it less affordable The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. that these protections are actually im- and less abundant. Once again we are COONS). Are there any other Senators plemented, it also requires the inspec- seeing how consumers, students, and in the Chamber desiring to vote? tor general to conduct ‘‘a case review low-income families are getting priced

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I cannot think of a single tremely expensive idea, and the in- say enough is enough. The President is person who likes dirty water or pol- creased costs would be passed along to proposing to leave a permanent stain luted skies, but if we listen to my col- consumers, who must pay to use more on our economy. We should not be put- leagues on the other side of the aisle, expensive energy sources. But the fact ting people out of work or driving up we would assume Republicans have that Congress rejected this proposal energy prices. made it their life’s work to kill the seems to have encouraged the adminis- I hope every American will call on planet. It makes for great sound bites tration to yet again sidestep Congress their representatives to oppose this and it can help rally their base; it does and implement another costly back- President’s proposal. It is our constitu- not, however, contribute much to the door regulation. Even some of my col- ents who keep us accountable. The Republican leader has already discussion at hand or make much of a leagues on the other side of the aisle introduced legislation to stop this difference. say they are angry about this tax im- reckless move by the EPA, and I am Actions have consequences and these posed on the people without approval proud to join him in that effort. Our proposed regulations will have a real, from their representatives in Congress. tangible, measurable impact on the I have heard comments about how bill is simple. It requires that the economy at a time when job creation courageous the President is for finally President prove that this rule will not cause job losses, that it will not in- should be our focus. The truth is coal going after coal. It is not as if the crease energy rates, and that it will powers America. Almost 70 percent of President ever hid his disdain for en- not hurt our country’s economic out- all energy produced in this country ergy that comes from the ground. He put. We know the President’s regula- came from the ground and most of it has been targeting it with redtape his tions will put America at an economic was coal. entire Presidency. These ideas are disadvantage, but I worry we won’t get Even electric cars are powered by purely political and will have a heavy coal, but sadly you won’t see that on a a vote on this commonsense bill—or impact on the economy with little or bumper sticker. That is what I call an even done as an amendment—and that no measurable impact on the environ- inconvenient truth. If we were to shut is a real shame because I think a ma- ment. jority of this body would support the down our coal facilities for even a sin- The Wall Street Journal pointed out bill and oppose the President’s pro- gle day, I think even my colleagues in a recent editorial that ‘‘based on the posal. from the other side of the aisle would EPA’s own carbon accounting, shutting quickly be calling for these plants to I thank the Presiding Officer and down every single coal-fired power be turned back on. yield the floor. plant tomorrow and replacing them In my State coal is one of our largest The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- employers. It provides high-paying jobs with zero-carbon sources would reduce ator from Ohio. the Earth’s temperature by about one- to our residents, as it does to folks all D-DAY across the country. The revenue from twentieth of a degree Fahrenheit in a Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. President, a mo- energy production even provides schol- hundred years.’’ mentous occasion is occurring tomor- Let me repeat that. The Wall Street arships for our students to get an edu- row; that is, the 70th anniversary of D- Journal pointed out in a recent edi- cation. For our State coal is not just day. Seventy years ago tomorrow, as an energy source, it is a livelihood. torial that ‘‘based on the EPA’s own the American people slept in their The President may want us to run carbon accounting, shutting down beds, the greatest naval invasion in from coal, but I think we should be every single coal-fired power plant to- history was underway. running toward it. George Washington morrow and replacing them with zero- On D-day, June 6, 1944, tens of thou- Carver developed over 100 products carbon sources would reduce the sands of American soldiers, sailors, and from peanuts. Think what we could do Earth’s temperature by about one- airmen joined allies from around the with coal if we spent more time and re- twentieth of a degree Fahrenheit in a free world to begin what General Eisen- sources developing our most abundant hundred years.’’ hower called a great crusade—one that resource instead of trying to destroy it. When government tries to pick win- sought to free a continent. They came American ingenuity would lead to our ners and losers in any part of the mar- by amphibious landing craft, and I next energy revolution. But that is not ket, everyone loses. Just look at how think my colleague from Louisiana is happening. Instead, a project that the great our health care system is doing. going to talk more about that in a mo- University of Wyoming and the private If we as a body allow the President to ment. They also came by gliders laden sector were working on to produce get his way on this regulation, we will with men and materiel and by para- cleaner energy from coal was canceled be looking at billions in annual eco- chutes deployed deep behind enemy because of the President’s efforts to nomic losses. Hundreds of thousands of lines. At beaches called Omaha and kill coal. There is no future in selling people will lose their jobs. We will bur- Utah and at the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, the products that would be developed den our businesses with billions of dol- they struck a mortal blow to the Nazi to enhance coal. lars in costs, all of which will be passed regime. Thousands would give their We have to trust American inge- on to the consumers in the form of dou- lives that day for that noble cause. nuity. No one likes to sit in the dark, ble-digit energy price increases. If you Like many in this Chamber, I have and I imagine most folks like being are elderly, a low-income or even mid- seen the American cemetery over there able to run their air-conditioner in the dle-class family or living on a fixed in- with rows of white crosses and Stars of summer. States that rely on coal for come, are you willing to pay this en- David. They are a stark reminder of their power see an average of 30 per- ergy tax that won’t make a dent in CO2 the price those brave heroes paid for all cent lower electricity costs than States emissions? I can’t imagine you would of us. These men did not go into battle that use other fuels. An increase of be. These new regulations will only alone. General Eisenhower said to the that size would be noticed by almost succeed in making the pocketbooks Allied Expeditionary Force on the eve everyone regardless of political affili- lighter and the country darker. of the battle, ‘‘The hopes and prayers ation. When we have affordable and abun- of liberty loving people everywhere We could learn a thing or two from dant energy, America stays competi- march with you.’’ Eisenhower was not Germany. They are going back to coal tive with the rest of the world. Low- exaggerating. As word of the invasion after experimenting with alternative cost energy could help create more spread through the predawn hours of sources. They realized that coal is than 1 million jobs over the next dec- Tuesday morning, people gathered all readily available and will help them ade, and it could lure more investment over this country in churches, syna- bring down energy prices. into American manufacturing. The gogues, meeting houses, public places

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He did not choose to ad- fought is the most important lesson for spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, in- dress the American people with a our country and the people of the world voking Thy help to our efforts. speech; instead, he delivered words of to know. Some of that is expressed in Give us strength, too—strength in our prayer by radio address as the fate of this prayer. More of that is expressed daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we Europe and, indeed, the entire free in the museum itself. make in the physical and the material sup- world hung in the balance. It is a very The Senator from Ohio would want port of our armed forces. powerful prayer, transcending all And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the to know that hundreds of citizens from long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, faiths. It is a prayer that tells the New Orleans and Louisiana are actu- to impart our courage unto our sons story of why America fought and ally on their way by boat to Normandy, wheresoever they may be. makes evident the sacrifices we were and, of course, many of our elected offi- And, O Lord, give us faith. Give us faith in willing to make to see through to vic- cials, including the President, will be Thee; faith in our sons; faith in each other; tory with God’s help. It is a prayer that celebrating the 70th anniversary. faith in our united crusade. Let not the speaks to the horrors of war and the The reason this museum is in New keenness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events, of tem- beauty of peace. It is a prayer that cap- Orleans is because the Higgins boats tures—perhaps better than anything poral matters of but fleeting moment—let were actually built in New Orleans, and not these deter us in our unconquerable pur- else written since—the magnitude of it is unusual that such a small city pose. what happened that day as we hit the would have contributed so much. Ei- With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over beaches of Normandy. senhower himself said that without the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to I hope that prayer will never be for- these landing craft, we never could conquer the apostles of greed and racial arro- gotten, and that is why Senator LAN- have gotten to the Normandy beach. gances. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister nations into a world DRIEU and I believe that prayer should They were built by an entrepreneur be added as part of the World War II unity that will spell a sure peace—a peace who had a small factory at the time invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy monument pursuant to bipartisan leg- that then grew, with 43,000 people em- islation we have been working on for a men. And a peace that will let all of men live ployed. Men, women, African-Ameri- in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their few years. I previously cosponsored it cans, and disabled workers were all honest toil. with Senator Lieberman and now with being paid the same. Thy will be done, almighty God. Amen. Senator LANDRIEU. It has gone through There is a remarkable story about Ms. LANDRIEU. Amen. the Energy Committee twice with the boats themselves that landed at Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. President, that unanimous votes. It is called the World Normandy, but this effort today is was the prayer that Franklin Roo- War II Memorial Prayer Act of 2013. about a memorial prayer that I think sevelt gave on that fateful day. Of This legislation also passed the House we should remember and be reminded course, many of the men who fought of Representatives by a significant of. that day have gone on to their eternal vote, 286 to 26. reward, and some of them will mark to- I would like to recite that prayer I will begin by reciting this prayer morrow with quiet remembrances with now with my colleague from Louisiana. which was given by President Roo- families and friends. I would like her to begin this prayer. sevelt, and he asked the American peo- Senator LANDRIEU has noted that After nearly 70 years, it still has the ple on that day to join him in this prayer. there will be people from Louisiana power to bring us together as a people going over to the D-day celebrations— and remind us that while we may have He said: Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our na- it sounds like some by boat—also from differences at times, there are so many Ohio and from all over the country. things that do unite us. tion, this day have set upon a mighty en- Our President will be there. Some will Mr. President, I defer to my col- deavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set go there to retrace their steps and to league from Louisiana. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- free a suffering humanity. see where they were on those beaches. Lead them straight and true; give strength Others will go just to see the ceme- ator from Louisiana. to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, Ms. LANDRIEU. Mr. President, I teries and remember their fallen com- steadfastness in their faith. rades. There is a 93-year-old gentleman thank my colleague for sharing this They will need Thy blessings. Their road moment with me on the Senate floor will be long and hard. For the enemy is from Ohio named Jim Martin. He will and allowing me to work closely with strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success be there too. He will be jumping from him to present this bill to the Senate may not come with rushing speed, but we an airplane at 93 years old and para- today. He has worked on this for sev- shall return again and again; and we know chuting onto the same soil he took eral years, and I am pleased to join him that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness back from the Nazis 70 years ago. On for any number of reasons. of our cause, our sons will triumph. behalf of all of us, I wish Jim Godspeed. One thing I wish to mention before I They will be sore tried, by night and by There is very little we can add to the day, without rest—until the victory is won. legacy they have created for them- share the reading of this prayer with The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. him is that the official World War II Men’s souls will be shaken with the violences selves, but we can honor it and we can museum happens to be located in New of war. remember it, and that is what this bi- Orleans, LA. It was initiated by the For these men are lately drawn from the partisan legislation is all about. Again, great historian Stephen Ambrose. It ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of I crafted it originally with then-Sen- has been promoted by an extraor- conquest. They fight to end conquest. They ator Joe Lieberman and now have dinarily stellar group of civic and po- fight to liberate. They fight to let justice joined with Senator LANDRIEU to intro- litical leaders in our Nation. Former arise, and tolerance and goodwill among all duce it in this Congress. It directs the Thy people. They yearn but for the end of Secretary of the Interior to install in Senator Stevens and Senator Inouye the battle, for their return to the haven of joined arms together as brothers in the home. Some will never return. Embrace the area of the World War II Memorial Senate and helped us to establish this these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic a plaque with the inscription of the official museum. It is almost complete. servants, into Thy kingdom. prayer we have just read. Last Congress, the House of Rep- On the eve of D-day, it is particularly Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. President, the resentatives passed this legislation striking that the two of us would be prayer continues: here to remember this prayer and to with an overwhelming vote of 386 to 26, And for us at home—fathers, mothers, chil- and after a hearing on May 29, they are say to the country that this prayer, in dren, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave our view, should be on the memorial men overseas, whose thoughts and prayers moving forward with doing so again. here in DC. are ever with them—help us, Almighty God, Today, on the eve of this historic anni- I am also hoping, just as a sugges- to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in versary, it is time for the Senate to tion, that it will be placed somewhere Thee in this hour of great sacrifice. lead the way toward enshrining this

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But I will afternoon, and we hope in doing so we cations about people manipulating tell you, if we do not have the primary will achieve unanimous consent to be data, pretending veterans were getting care physicians, the other physicians, able to have the Senate proceed to con- care in a timely manner when that was the nurses we need to treat veterans, sideration of this legislation, and then not the case. they are not going to get the care they ask unanimous consent for it to be It is my strong belief, as chairman of need. passed by this body. This is legislation the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Com- This legislation will target $500 mil- we have worked on carefully. It has mittee, that every veteran in this lion in unobligated balances for the gone through the process of working country is entitled to high-quality hiring of new VA doctors and nurses. I with the Department of the Interior. medical care and that they should get see that as a significant step forward. We have ensured that it is consistent that care in a timely manner. I am One of the great embarrassments or not just with the Department of Inte- going to do everything I can to make shocks that all of us feel is that within rior but also specifically with the Com- that happen. the military we have seen in recent memorative Works Act. It is something We live, as everybody knows, in a po- years horrendous accounts of sexual as- that, again, has been bipartisan and litically divided country and a divided sault. What this legislation does is say something that helps to bring this Con- Congress. Reaching agreements is not to those women and men who were sex- gress and this country together during easy and, quite frankly, does not take ually assaulted in the military that a critical time. place very often in the Senate. Unfor- when they get into the VA, there is I thank my colleague from Louisiana tunately, for whatever reason—without going to be quality care for their needs. for working with me. I think it is an casting blame—it just does not happen. This legislation also touches on a incredibly important opportunity for The American people understand that couple of issues that are not directly us, on the eve of the 70th anniversary, and are not happy about that. So related to health care but have over- to pass this legislation here in the Sen- reaching a compromise among people whelming support in the House and the ate, thereby doing something positive who look at the world very differently Senate. for the future by telling them the im- is not easy, but in this process, Senator We have heard from many young vet- portance of the past. This prayer is cer- JOHN MCCAIN of Arizona and I have erans who are in college as a result of tainly part of that. tried our best to come forward with an the post-9/11 GI bill who right now can- I yield for my colleague from Lou- agreement. It is an agreement which I not afford it because they are not get- isiana. am sure he is not 100 percent happy ting instate tuition. This legislation The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- about and I can fully assure you I am addresses that issue. ator from Louisiana. not 100 percent happy about. I would I have talked, as I know Senator Ms. LANDRIEU. Mr. President, let have written a very different bill. I MCCAIN has, to Gold Star Wives. These me join my colleague in asking for thank Senator HARRY REID for his are the women who have lost their hus- unanimous consent for this particular strong support for this process, and bands in combat who, I think for not a individual bill to pass by unanimous CHUCK SCHUMER, PATTY MURRAY, and sensible reason, are unable to take ad- consent. It would be lovely if we could DICK DURBIN for pushing this effort for- vantage of the post-9/11 GI bill. They do this today because of the timing of ward. I hope we will be back on the want to get their lives together. They our D-day celebration tomorrow. For floor to continue the effort to deal with want to be able to go to college or the information of our colleagues who the many unmet needs of veterans, but whatever. This bill addresses that have other bills pending that are called right now we have a crisis on our hands issue. lands bills, we are still working on a and it is imperative we deal with that There is another provision which was smaller package in addition to this. crisis. strongly supported by Senator MCCAIN But we felt that this has such signifi- To my mind, the essence of the crisis and other Republican leaders—and Sen- cance and importance and it is so time- is that we have learned in many parts ator MCCAIN, I am sure, will go into it ly today that it would really be impor- of this country—not all parts but in at great length, but essentially what tant for us to do this. many parts of this country—veterans this provision does is say if someone is So I hope our staffs can clear this on cannot get the timely care they need. 40 miles or farther away from a VA both sides and we can get this done be- They cannot walk into a VA facility health care facility—a medical center, fore close of business today. and within a reasonable period of time a CBOC or whatever it may be—they I thank the Senator from Ohio. get the treatment they need. will be able to go to the doctor of their Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. President, I So this bill, in a significant way, be- choice, under the strict supervision of thank the Senator from Louisiana and gins to address that important issue. the VA. I look forward to being back on the Let me very briefly tell you how it What this will do is prevent people floor shortly to propound the unani- does that. from, in some cases in very rural mous consent request to pass this leg- For a start, there are many locations areas—I think this is mostly a bill for islation and to do so prior to this mo- around the country where we need new people in very rural areas who now mentous 70th anniversary tomorrow. facilities, we need refurbished facili- have to travel long distances to get I yield back my time, and I note the ties, we need expanded facilities. In their health care—this will make their absence of a quorum. fact, there are 26 locations in 18 States lives easier. This is a 2-year trial The PRESIDING OFFICER. The where that is the case. This legislation project. We will see how it turns out, clerk will call the roll. would allow the construction of 26 but that is in the bill as well. The legislative clerk proceeded to major medical facility leases in 18 The last point I wish to make is I do call the roll. States around the country. I believe not think there is any disagreement in Mr. SANDERS. Mr. President, I ask that will help us in many parts of the the Senate nor among the American unanimous consent that the order for country in providing the quality, time- people that when we have incompetent the quorum call be rescinded. ly care our veterans deserve. people in the VA or worse—dishonest The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without In my view, there are areas of the people in the VA—they should be re- objection, it is so ordered. country where we simply do not have moved from their jobs immediately and VETERANS CARE the doctors, the nurses, and the other that the Secretary of the VA should Mr. SANDERS. Mr. President, I be- staff we need to provide the care our have the power to get rid of them. I do lieve every Member of this Senate and veterans deserve. Many primary care not think there is any debate about every American understands the very physicians get burned out by working that. deep debt of gratitude we owe to the 12, 14 hours a day. They quit. The turn- Where there has been some debate is men and women who put their lives on over rate is too high. It is my view that that in my view those employees de- the line to defend this country. That the VA, by and large—and this is serve due process. I say that because I

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I do in the ensuing days since that began, my colleagues understand, that this is not want to see a situation where but there should be no doubt in any- in no way a comment on the Veterans’ somebody is fired because she is a one’s mind that we should accept the Administration—I will leave that to woman or Black or Hispanic or maybe word of the inspector general who said others and other judgments—because gay, and maybe that is the underlying these are systemic problems. This is there are things done in the veterans motive and that person has no course not a scheduling problem. These are health care system that only the vet- of appeal. systemic problems that need to be ad- erans health care system can handle: So what we have done is developed a dressed. PTSD, traumatic brain injury, spinal very expedited process in terms of dis- Our hope—as we concluded this legis- cord injury, prosthesis, war wounds, missal. We say if someone is dismissed, lation—was that perhaps we could put that only the VA can do. None of this they are off the payroll tomorrow, they some of our other differences aside that that we are saying in any way deni- are gone, but they are going to have a have beset this body and move forward grates or does anything that is uncom- week to file an appeal, and the appro- and address this legislation as quickly plimentary to the outstanding men and priate body will have 3 weeks to rule as possible and begin to repair the women who work in this system. We on their appeal. I think that makes damage because we have, for all intents are proud of their work. It is the sys- sense. I think when you think about it, and purposes, in some ways betrayed tem that needs to be fixed. So I do not it does make sense. the brave men and women who were want anybody who is associated with There are a few other important pro- willing to go out and sacrifice for the the Veterans’ Administration to be- visions. It is important, in my view, for well-being and freedom of the rest of lieve we are criticizing them. the Nation to take advantage of the ex- us. We are talking about a system that pertise that is out there in the private So, again, I say to Senator SANDERS, must be fixed. It is urgent that it be sector. How do we develop information I appreciate his leadership and I appre- fixed. Every single day that goes by a technology for people accessing the ciate the fact that we both had to veteran is deprived of the care he or VA? We want to do that. We have a make some very tough compromises, she has earned serving this country is commission that would help us do that. but I have found in my experience that wrong. That is why I urge my col- We have another Presidential commis- when tough compromises are made, leagues: If you have amendments, if sion that will help us with construc- usually that is a sign of bipartisanship you think you can make this bill bet- tion, which has been an ongoing prob- and a sign that it is a good piece of leg- ter, we welcome it. We would be glad to discuss with you amendments to this lem in the VA. islation. I know that is not the popular That is a brief overview of what is in thing to say nowadays in today’s polit- legislation. We would be glad, if you know how to make it better. the legislation. Does it solve all of the ical environment, but I do not believe, But in the meantime, can we sort of if compromises had not been made, problems facing our veterans? Abso- pledge that we are committed to seeing that we would be bringing to the floor lutely not. Should we come back and this thing all the way through? I would of the Senate—and working with the continue to deal with this issue? Abso- urge my colleagues to do that. Again, I lutely. But I think, given the crises we House’s chairman JEFF MILLER over know I speak for Senator SANDERS have right now, this is an important there—that we would be doing what we when I say: If you have a way to make step forward. are introducing today. this bill, this legislation, better, come I would also like to say a word about I thank Senator MCCAIN. Senator on in. But let’s not get hung up on cer- two other individuals; that is, Senator MCCAIN’s views on many issues are not tain other aspects of our differences BURR, the ranking member of the Vet- my views. We look at the world dif- that have characterized what most peo- erans’ Affairs Committee, whom I ad- ferently, but that is what democracy is ple would view as gridlock in this body. about. Our job was to sit down and mire enormously—he has worked tire- I urge my colleagues to look at this work out the best agreement. We did. I lessly on behalf of the veterans and he compromise. It is a compromise. If you think from day one Senator MCCAIN is a most respected member of our con- think you can make it better, we wel- showed absolute good faith in this, a ference—and of course our most unique come your input. But also, we would desire to reach a compromise. I hope he treasure, Dr. TOM COBURN, who had like to have your commitment to see- feels I did the same. We are where we been my nominee to take over the Vet- ing this through to the President’s are today. erans’ Administration, which almost desk. I know that over on the other So with that I yield the floor for Sen- destroyed a long and beautiful friend- side of the Capitol they are working ator MCCAIN and thank him very much ship, but Dr. COBURN is the conscience hard on this issue too. for his efforts. of our conference. He is the person So we bring up, as I mentioned, vet- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- whom we look up to and admire the erans should have that card. That vet- ator from Arizona. most for his integrity, for his honesty, eran should be able to go to a facility Mr. MCCAIN. I thank the Presiding his intelligence. I thank both Senator of his or her choice. Accountability. Officer. BURR and Dr. COBURN for their enor- Senator RUBIO and others, Congress- I would like to say to the Senator mous work. In some ways, I am sort of man MILLER and others, have intro- from Vermont that I respect a great the spokesperson, when they did a duced legislation. Senator SANDERS has deal the work he has done on this legis- great majority of the work. improved on it. This calls for the im- lation. I respect his commitment and As Senator SANDERS pointed out, I mediate firing—an immediate firing if his leadership of the Veterans’ Affairs would like to just cover several aspects there is evidence of work that is not in Committee. I respect the fact that BER- of this legislation and try to explain a keeping with the standards we expect NIE SANDERS is known as a fighter, and little bit why some of these provisions of our employees. it has been a pleasure to do combat are there. During that period, under appeal, with him. Of course, a top priority for me for that person will not receive a salary. But I also would like to say that at many years has been to give the vet- That person will have some due proc- the end of the day with strongly held eran a choice. We ought to give the ess: 7 days to appeal to the Merit Sys- views on different aspects of this issue, veteran a choice—the same choice as tems Protection Board and there are 21 we were able to come together in a way people who are Medicare recipients, days for that Merit Systems Protection that will help to relieve this terrible those who have TRICARE; that is, the Board to render a final decision. Yes, tragedy that seems to have befallen military health care program—where if we should have, as many of our col- our Nation’s veterans. It started in they are outside of 40 miles from the leagues want, accountability. But that Phoenix, AZ, as my colleagues know, nearest VA facility, if there is a wait accountability also in this proposal al- but it has spread all over the country. time which is unacceptable, then they lows for due process for someone to at It begins with the terrible story of per- should be able to go to the health care least have their case heard.

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But I would also hope we could Virginia in adding accolades to our out, in some cases doctors and nurses focus our attention on the bill and the Senators from Vermont and Arizona in have to work harder where they are. efforts to help our veterans, as opposed putting together this proposal. I would Also, there are now pending, over the to other issues which seem to be with like to make a few points here. First, years, administration requests for 26 us on a daily basis. the veterans should come first. These major facility leases to be entered into. I yield the floor. are people whom we sent overseas to This has been the President’s re- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. WAR- risk their lives for us. When they come quest. This has been a bipartisan agree- REN). The Senator from Vermont. back injured, nothing should stand in ment on the need for these facilities. I Mr. SANDERS. Madam President, I the way of us giving them the best believe we should proceed with it. I thank Senator MCCAIN again. I think medical care possible. would also point out to my colleagues, his remarks were right on in terms of Senators MCCAIN and SANDERS, of dif- this legislation has some expenses. But describing what is in this legislation. I ferent political philosophies—if they the major expense is to move forward support his appeal. each had to write their own bill would with the construction of these major Look, everybody has an issue. Every write different bills—came together, medical facilities all over America. In time a bill comes up, I have my pet not for their ideology’s sake, not for the view of all, it is necessary. concerns that I could bring forth political advantage, but for the good of This improves the access to health amendments on, Senator MCCAIN has these veterans. That is the highest care for individuals who are the vic- his. But what we are appealing to right duty we have here. The second point I would make is tims of military sexual assault. Sexual now is if you have a way to improve this: In a body that has been wracked assault is probably one of the most this bill for our veterans, bring forth by partisanship, I was hoping and pray- vexing issues we face in the military that amendment. But please, please, do ing that that partisanship would not today outside of combat. We do not not bring forward extraneous amend- stand in the way of us helping our vet- know exactly what causes some of this. ments. Let’s focus on the needs of veterans. Because of this good work of We do know many times it is because erans. Let’s not make them political Vermont and Arizona’s Senators, that of a lack of discipline. But there is no footballs. I hope very much we can pro- doubt this is a problem in the military has happened. That has happened. We ceed in that direction. are not home yet. We hope no one will that needs to be addressed; otherwise, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- be so selfish that they feel their own mothers and fathers will be not agree- ator from Virginia. amendment or amendments have to be able—in fact reluctant—to have their Mr. KAINE. Madam President, I rise voted on if they are extraneous, be- sons and daughters serve in the mili- to offer a few words about the colloquy cause that could blow up the deal. We tary unless we address this issue of sex- that just was completed. I often find, all know how fragile, even for our vet- ual assault. when I am on the floor or presiding, erans, bipartisan agreements are in There are many efforts going on, in that I feel sorry for the spectators in the Defense authorization bill, in the this body. This is a higher calling. the Chamber. Either they are seeing military, many other areas where we I talked at length over the last sev- the body not work as well as it should are working on this issue. But I think eral days with Senator SANDERS. I or sometimes they are watching a lot this provision in the bill will be very know how heartfelt this is for him. As of silence, depending on when they are helpful in attempting to address that he said: If he wrote his own bill, he here. But I have been in the chair for issue. would have done a lot more. But each A commission needs to be appointed the last hour. I think the spectators of us writing a bill and giving a speech on scheduling and care. We know one of have been treated to what the Senate about it is not going to help a single the problems is scheduling, and this does when we do our best. First Sen- veteran. The way this body works is, whole issue of phantom lists and wait- ators PORTMAN and LANDRIEU put a bill we have to come together. There is no ing lists that disappeared. We have to on the floor dealing with a commemo- one on the other side of the aisle, per- get to the bottom of it. I think the ration in connection with the 70th an- haps no one in this Chamber, who bet- smartest people in America could help niversary of D-day, which is tomorrow. ter respects what veterans have gone us on that. There is another commis- It was a bill they are seeking unani- through than Senator MCCAIN after sion on capital planning. What are the mous consent for. It was a very worthy what he went through himself as a needs of our veterans? one. prisoner of war. He was just the right One of the things we do know is we But, second, I know many of us, all of person for the chairman of our Vet- have an aging veteran population from us in the Chamber, have been very dis- erans Committee, BERNIE SANDERS, to World War II, those who are, God bless couraged about the recent revelations reach out to. Because they both cared them, still with us, Korea and Viet- and challenges within the VA. Many of so much about veterans, they came to- nam. That is an aging veterans popu- us feared earlier this week that what gether. It is now up to the rest of us, lation and requires a different kind of we would get in this discussion were the other 98, to do the same, to come care than those of Iraq and Afghani- competing proposals or bills that would together, to pass this bill quickly. This stan. To be frank, a lot of that is geri- be partisan, where each side would fall does not mean this will be the last atric care. To be frank, geriatric care short of doing what they wanted, and thing we will do for veterans. This is is very expensive. But we have to un- the veterans would not receive the an issue we are going to have to re- derstand who this population is and kind of relief they should get. visit, given the sickness we have in what their needs are, just as we have to What we have seen, with Senator parts of the Veterans Administration, understand the Iraqi and Afghanistan SANDERS and Senator MCCAIN putting given the long waiting lists, given the war veterans and what their needs are. this bill on the floor just now, is ex- fact that while most veterans get very Very frankly, our planning so far has actly how this should work for the vet- good care in our VA, not every veteran not been very impressive to me. We erans, but in the legislative process does. Our goal is to have every veteran need to have—this is a pure Senator more generally. So I am pleased to con- get good care in our VA. SANDERS initiative—a GI bill tuition, gratulate my colleagues for taking two Hopefully this bill will pass. Hope- eligibility for surviving spouses of different approaches to this veterans fully maybe this will set a precedent those who died in the line of duty. It challenge and working it out so a bi- that we can work together on impor- seems to me that is only fair. And a partisan bill can be offered. I think we tant issues; we can each submerge provision also that in-State tuition owe it to the veterans, and especially some of our heartfelt feelings that it will be provided for all veterans at pub- in light of these recent challenges, to has to be our way and reach com- lic colleges and universities. show a unified face in trying to fix promise with the other side. That is

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Government experts have while we may have been pushed to the clerk will call the roll. determined that approximately 10 to 20 edge of getting nervous, we have been The assistant legislative clerk pro- percent of existing coal capacity could able to meet that reliability require- ceeded to call the roll. be retired by the middle of the next ment Americans have just come to ex- Ms. MURKOWSKI. Madam President, decade. This is a calculation that real- pect. They want to know that when I ask unanimous consent that the order ly dwarfs EPA’s number and one that they want to have the lights on or keep for the quorum call be rescinded. doesn’t include the potential impact of cool or keep warm, there is that avail- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the latest proposal. ability. Reliability is key here. I am objection, it is so ordered. Now, I know that the EPA has an im- even more troubled that the EPA, EPA REGULATIONS portant job to do, and I appreciate which has conceded that a single rule Ms. MURKOWSKI. Madam President, that, but I also recognize that it does may result in what they have called a I come this afternoon to speak about not and cannot regulate in a vacuum. ‘‘localized effect,’’ has not sought from the regulations proposed by the admin- Baseload coal and the ancillary serv- our grid regulators, FERC and NERC, istration on Monday relating to the ices that it provides account for almost an analysis of the cumulative impact Environmental Protection Agency. 40 percent of our power. In many in- its rules may have. Understanding the This time the agency’s target is a 30- stances the EPA’s regulations will impacts of these rules by checking in percent reduction in greenhouse gas render generating units uneconomic, with our grid regulators, FERC and emissions from existing powerplants by with compliance requiring retrofitting, NERC, as part of a formal process is an the year 2030. the use of best available technology, important part of what needs to go on. The regulation that has been an- and downtime for installation. So I am Yet we are not seeing that follow- nounced, which has been the subject of concerned—greatly concerned—that through. Instead, EPA appears to be a great deal of conversation this week, the EPA’s rules, particularly when you morphing into an industrial planning should not be confused with EPA rules combine them with one another, will agency for the energy sector. That is for cooling water intake or for pro- result in a grid that is less stable and not what they are designed to do. This posed powerplants or for cross-state air less reliable. The cumulative effect of latest rulemaking makes it even more pollution or for boilers or for ozone or federal regulations on baseload capac- important for FERC and the Depart- for incinerators or for regional haze or ity resources, whether they are coal or ment of Energy to step up, to really go for fuel economy or for the waters of nuclear, which produce electricity on toe-to-toe here with EPA to protect the United States or for renewable demand has to be looked at. We have to the reliability and the affordability of fuels or for cement kilns or for coal ash examine and appreciate the cumulative our power supply. or for effluent limitations or for any effect of this loss of production and not The current chairwoman of FERC, other number of regulatory actions discount or ignore it. while she has not called for a formal of- that the agency has taken or is ex- Many this past winter got a taste of ficial role for the commission—as pected to take. what life in Alaska is like in the win- many of us would like—is certainly up This rule—and there have been so tertime when we experienced the polar to the task in my view. But with that many of them, it almost feels like this vortex here in the lower 48. The polar situation at play right now within the should be EPA’s rule of the week or vortex caused 50,000 megawatts of pow- Federal Energy Regulatory Commis- rule of the month—is a unilateral ef- erplant outages. For one key system 89 sion, it appears that the White House fort to bypass Congress and to force percent of the coal capacity that is doesn’t want to keep the acting chair into place policies that we in Congress scheduled for retirement next year be- in charge. Its nominee to serve as have not approved. The goal is to push cause of an EPA rule was called upon chairman is both short on energy expe- our electric supply away from coal and, to meet the rising demand. rience and largely unaware of the elec- I think, ultimately, away from natural So again, just think about that. tricity reliability implications of gas as soon as possible. We had a tough winter. We had coal- EPA’s rules. As the ranking member on the en- fueled facilities that were able to step In response to a hearing question ergy committee, I can attest that en- up and provide for that increased de- about grid reliability from Senator ergy is always the flip side of the envi- mand—89 percent of that capacity was MANCHIN, the nominee conceded that ronmental debate. If we have a discus- utilized during this polar vortex. That he ‘‘has not been following the sion about energy, we always have a is fine. But what happens when those decisional process at EPA closely discussion about the environment. facilities are now offline, when they enough to know.’’ I believe we should advance policies are in retirement, when you do not I find that response not only dis- that make our energy abundant, af- have that backup? turbing, but I think it raises the ques- fordable, clean, diverse, and secure. To The question we really need to be tion of whether anyone within the ad- that end, our environmental goals asking is, What happens when that ca- ministration is actually following the must be balanced with our energy pacity is gone? Hoping for a mild win- EPA process closely enough to know needs. ter isn’t a viable strategy. You cannot what will happen to our electric grid. I Because of this, I have for years ex- have a hope-and-prayer energy policy, can tell you that I don’t think the EPA pressed concern that EPA’s relentless hoping that the weather is not going to knows the impact for my State of Alas- onslaught will harm the affordability be so bad. Our Nation relies on in- ka. The Agency readily admits that its and the reliability of our electric sup- stalled dispatchable power generation proposal ‘‘fails to account for the ex- ply. In fact, I even released a white during extreme weather, which is why pected costs and benefits for areas out- paper on this matter earlier this year. we need to ensure grid reliability side of the contiguous United States.’’ We still do not have an accurate ac- through a diversity of baseload capac- Alaska is one-fifth the size of the counting of the cumulative costs asso- ity. country, and we are part of the coun- ciated with all of these EPA rules that Today it is unclear how many plants try. But the EPA, in advancing these I just gave in the laundry list, but we will retrofit to comply with various proposed regulations, admits that ‘‘we do know not to trust their math be- EPA regulations—including this most don’t know.’’ We don’t know the cost- cause EPA has dramatically underesti- recent one—as opposed to making a de- benefit for Alaska. We don’t know the mated the powerplant retirements in cision to just shut down. It is uncertain cost-benefit for Hawaii. That does not very recent past. if there will be enough time—to say mean that my State is exempt from I will give you some examples. For nothing of sufficient capital available this rule as some reports have led Alas- the mercury and air toxic rules, EPA for investment—to build these new fa- kans to believe. Instead, without the

VerDate Mar 15 2010 02:11 Mar 21, 2015 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00028 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD14\JUN 2014\S05JN4.REC S05JN4 bjneal on DSK2TWX8P1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE June 5, 2014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S3461 benefit of any analysis, EPA has di- ficult for Alaska to reach our 26-per- cially administered, and only Con- rected Alaska to reduce our emissions cent emissions reduction without seri- gress—not the EPA—should decide by 26 percent and this while EPA ig- ous economic impact. such consequential changes for our en- nores—totally ignores—the likely in- Electricity is already more expensive ergy supply, our economy, and our peo- flationary costs and increases inherent in Alaska than in most of the rest of ple. I think anything less is unaccept- in requiring the revamping of so much the Nation. We have to reduce these able and could very well yield signifi- power production likely within a single prices, not engage in policies that will cant negative consequences for a wide decade. raise those prices even higher. In the variety of American families and our The EPA has recommended that lower 48 States, on average, an Amer- businesses. States work together, work together to ican family spends a little over 4 per- I thank the Presiding Officer for her figure out how we are going to make cent of their household budget towards attention and the opportunity to dis- these cuts. But again, when you are not their energy—keeping the lights on and cuss a very important issue for our en- part of the contiguous United States, it keeping the house warm or cool—de- tire country. is a little more difficult for us in Alas- pending on the season. In many parts With that, I yield the floor. ka and our neighbors to the south in of my State of Alaska we have house- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. MAR- Hawaii if we are not part of an inter- holds that pay between 40 and 50 per- KEY). The Senator from Ohio. state electricity grid. Alaska is really cent of their household budget to stay Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. President, I com- in many ways on its own. Because of warm and to keep the lights on. So I mend my colleague from Alaska, who our constant need for Federal approv- am looking at this very, very criti- is the ranking member, and thank her als or at best Federal cooperation that cally. While I want to ensure that our for her hard work. She mentioned the is too often slow to come, we are not air is clean, that we are working to re- energy efficiency bill. I know she even able to develop our clean hydro- duce health risks, we don’t have any strongly supports that bill, and I hope power. room in Alaska to increase our energy it will come back to the floor. It is a Some may ask: Well, I understand costs. We have to be working aggres- more logical way to get at some of that you have about 25 percent of your sively with one another to reduce those these issues. power in the State of Alaska coming costs. I come to the floor to follow up on from hydro. That is correct. But be- So I look at the proposal that has the conversation I had earlier with cause of other Federal policies—wheth- come out from the EPA this week, and Senator LANDRIEU. She and I an- er it is the roadless rule or other poli- I am very concerned about how a State nounced earlier this afternoon that we cies—we are truly hamstrung in our such as mine will achieve the level that were going to offer unanimous consent ability to build out more hydro. Based the EPA has imposed on it without ex- in the Senate on bipartisan and non- on more than 50 years of delay or bro- traordinary increases to cost. controversial legislation. I had hoped ken Federal promises, there is no guar- Some have labeled this recent EPA Senator LANDRIEU would come back to antee that we will be able to develop proposed regulation ObamaCare 2.0, the floor, but apparently she can’t, so I fully our abundant natural gas or even and in many ways it is. The adminis- will offer this on behalf of both of us. our vast renewable resource potential. tration insists that there will be no DIRECTING THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR TO We have challenges and we acknowl- cost increases associated with this INSTALL A WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL PLAQUE edge them. We are working on those rule. All we are missing here is an Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. President, I ask challenges. We are working diligently awful Web site and a pledge that if you unanimous consent, as if in legislative because there is nobody who wants to like your current electricity bill, you session, that the Senate proceed to the get reliable, affordable, clean diverse can keep it. The President promises immediate consideration of Calendar energy supplies to our State more hon- the electricity bills will shrink, but I No. 339, S. 1044. estly and earnestly than myself. But it am not buying that. The Wall Street The PRESIDING OFFICER. The is challenging. So as we work towards Journal has rightly labeled this a huge clerk will report the bill by title. that transition, we need that flexi- tax on the poor and the middle class, The assistant legislative clerk read bility. We need that time. and no one understands what will hap- as follows: Now the EPA has suggested a series pen if States perhaps refuse to move A bill (S. 1044) to direct the Secretary of of strategies for reducing greenhouse forward with their own plans. Again, the Interior to install in the area of the gas emissions. But of the five power- you have to ask the question: Does World War II Memorial in the District of Co- plants in Alaska that are directly im- anybody really think that the EPA has lumbia a suitable plaque or an inscription pacted by this proposed rule, four are the ability to impose its Federal will with the words that President Franklin D. natural-gas-fired plants, and they are while simultaneously keeping the Roosevelt prayed with the United States on located near each other and Anchorage. lights on and keeping power affordable D-day, June 6, 1944. So in the whole State of Alaska there to all 50 States? There being no objection, the Senate are only five plants that are impacted Despite negative economic growth proceeded to consider the bill. by this regulation. Everything else is last quarter and despite far better ap- Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. President, I ask small enough or doesn’t sell its power. proaches pending in Congress to pro- unanimous consent that the bill be So of the five, four of them are already mote energy efficiency and energy in- read a third time and passed and the natural gas. The fifth already has clean novation, such as an energy efficiency motion to reconsider be considered coal technology. The proposed strate- bill that my colleague from Ohio has made and laid upon the table. gies of switching to natural gas, dis- been working doggedly to try to ad- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without patch changes or retiring plants are vance—a measure that I think is smart objection, it is so ordered. really just unworkable given the con- and sound and built on good policy—to The bill (S. 1044) was ordered to be figuration we have in my State. Given not only help States like mine but all engrossed for a third reading, was read that we live in this polar vortex every across the country, we do have some the third time, and passed, as follows: winter—everywhere is polar vortex in good proposals out there. We have ini- S. 1044 Alaska—many of our houses are well tiatives we can move forward. But in- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- insulated to protect from the cold. So stead the President has decided to push resentatives of the United States of America in efficiency programs will provide com- ahead and to propose sweeping new reg- Congress assembled, paratively small gains. ulations on our still weak economy. SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. Having said that, I know that we can We must keep costs and reliability in This Act may be cited as the ‘‘World War and must do more when it comes to ef- mind as regulatory mandates push II Memorial Prayer Act of 2013’’. ficiencies, and I will continue to push more and more baseload coal plants SEC. 2. PLACEMENT OF PLAQUE OR INSCRIPTION on that because that is an area where I offline. FERC must be the unambig- AT WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL. The Secretary of the Interior— think we can make a difference. But uous champion of reliability with a for- (1) shall install in the area of the World trying to get to this 26-percent reduc- mal and a documented role with re- War II Memorial in the District of Columbia tion is a challenge. I am still can- spect to EPA’s rulemaking process. a suitable plaque or an inscription with the vassing my State, but it will be dif- Powerful regulatory laws must be judi- words that President Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Give us faith in pacity at the VA health care system to (2) shall design, procure, prepare, and in- Thee, faith in our sons; faith in each other take care of the surging numbers of stall the plaque or inscription referred to in ... soldiers coming home, sailors coming paragraph (1); and (3) may not use Federal funds to prepare or Again, I appreciate the work of Sen- home, marines coming home, air men install the plaque or inscription referred to ator LANDRIEU and, before her, Senator and women coming home. in paragraph (1), but may accept and expend Lieberman, who was the original co- We also know at the same time what private contributions for this purpose. sponsor with me on this legislation. happened with Agent Orange, and the SEC. 3. COMMEMORATIVE WORKS ACT. I thank my friends from Ohio, the Agent Orange presumptive eligibility. Chapter 89 of title 40, United States Code Christian Alliance, and others who As Vietnam veterans were beginning to (commonly known as the ‘‘Commemorative have brought this to my attention over get sicker, were beginning to show Works Act’’), shall apply to the design and the years. more and more symptoms, the govern- placement of the plaque within the area of I thank my colleagues in the House, ment made the right decision, Congress the World War II Memorial. who passed this legislation last year made the right decision, if a soldier D-DAY with a resounding vote. I hope they had boots on the ground, they were eli- Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. President, the will take up this legislation and pass it gible. If a soldier had an illness defined clerk just read part of the description again in the House this year so we can by the law that was connected to Agent of this legislation, and I thank this indeed move to have this inscription Orange, then they were presumed to be body on both sides of the aisle for placed in the World War II Memorial in eligible. They didn’t have to go back working with us. order to remind us of a day in our Na- and prove they were actually exposed Tomorrow we mark a momentous oc- tion’s history where our country did at a certain place at a certain time in casion. It is the 70th anniversary of D- come together and where we, as Ameri- Vietnam. All of those were good things, day. It is a day, of course, that will go cans—not as conquerors but as lib- as our country, our government, our down in history as one of the greatest erators—provided for the liberation of VA, embraced war, men and women, to naval invasions in the history of our a continent and established this prece- get the VA care they earned. country but also a day when we lost dent for our country that with God so The bad news was Congress and the many brave American soldiers and one much is possible. President didn’t prepare for it a decade where the country came together to I yield back my time and note the ab- ago as this surge of new people, the pray for them and give them the sence of a quorum. veterans coming home, veterans living strength they would need not just on The PRESIDING OFFICER. The here for a number of years after doing that D-day but to go through Europe to clerk will call the roll their service, that they could get the ultimately vanquish the Nazis and lib- The assistant legislative clerk pro- health care they needed. That is the erate that continent. ceeded to call the roll. reason we have had these long delays. On that day, 70 years ago tomorrow, Mr. BROWN. Mr. President, I ask There are certainly issues of leader- Franklin D. Roosevelt decided not to unanimous consent that the order for ship within the VA. There are issues of give a speech at the White House but the quorum call be rescinded. administrators not doing their jobs. instead to give a prayer for the troops The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without They should be held accountable. They and for the Nation. This body has just objection, it is so ordered. should pay a price for that—sometimes passed legislation to make that prayer VETERANS CARE termination, certainly disciplinary ac- a part of the World War II Memorial. Mr. BROWN. Mr. President, there is tion if shown to have failed to live up That prayer will help to give it some good news for America’s veterans this to their responsibilities ethically and additional context and interpretation afternoon. Senator MCCAIN and Sen- efficiently and correctly and respon- at a critical time. The prayer helps us ator SANDERS, the chairman of the Vet- sibly. look at our history and shows how our erans’ Affairs Committee, have appar- It is clear this new agreement will country came together at a critical ently come to a tentative agreement take us forward. It will mean a couple time. It is a very powerful prayer. My on what we should do to deal with of things. One, it means those adminis- dad was a World War II veteran, and I some of the serious problems at the trators, those VA officials who didn’t always found it to be one of the most Veterans’ Administration. do their jobs, will be held accountable. moving prayers in our Nation’s his- We know a couple of things. First of Secondly, and most importantly, it tory. all, we know that health care in the will mean veterans who have had long I will mention a couple of aspects of veterans hospitals, in the VA system, delays or who live in rural areas and this prayer. President Roosevelt ex- in the community-based clinics in simply can’t get the coverage, can’t get plained—I thought in very powerful places such as Akron and Canton and to the VA clinic, the community-based words—why America fought. When Youngstown and Springfield and Mans- outpatient clinic or the VA hospital, talking about the troops, he said: field and the care in the big hospitals, the VA center, if they can’t get that They will be sore tried, by night and by such as Wade Park and Dayton, is su- health care treatment today, or soon, day, without rest—until the victory is won. perb and there is overwhelming support they can go to a private hospital, they The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. among veterans for the care they have can go to a community-based health Men’s souls will be shaken with the violences earned and deserve and are getting. clinic and get the coverage, get the of war. The problem is getting access to that For these men are lately drawn from the care they need at no cost to the vet- ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of care in a number of cases. Too many eran. conquest. They fight to end conquest. They veterans have waited too long, been The third thing is, to make up for the fight to liberate. They fight to let justice forced to wait too long to get the med- neglect of a decade ago that we have arise, and tolerance and goodwill among all ical care and the medical treatment tried to remedy by almost doubling the Thy people. They yearn but for the end of they need. VA budget over the last 5 years to take battle, for their return to the haven of home. That is a product, frankly, of a his- care of all these people who are now in That is why we fight. torically underfunded VA. We know a the system who have suffered much Again, I think that prayer is an im- decade ago, when the President a dec- more serious illness and disability than portant part of our history but also an ade ago—more than a decade ago—and the veterans of a generation ago who important message for us even today. the Senate and the House took the might have died on the battlefield from The prayer also includes a number of country to war the Veterans’ Adminis- these same injuries, that we scale up other very powerful messages that tration funding was put pretty flat. the training of doctors and nurses in brought the Nation together in a single There was no real preparation by the these VA facilities. day for prayer and thanksgiving. It Congress, by the President—then Presi- There has been an agreement reached asks for God’s help in a number of dent Bush—and by the VA to scale up among a group of us on the veterans ways, and one that I think is particu- veterans’ capacity, the VA capacity, committee and both parties that we larly poignant is where it asks God to veterans’ health care—not enough will fund a number of new facilities give us the ability to deepen our faith. nurses, not enough doctors, not enough around the country as we train more

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We know the VA The legislative clerk proceeded to in our lives. I would just say to Ches- is a huge health care system, with 85 call the roll. ter’s family, we send them our heart- million veteran visits, patient visits to Mr. UDALL of New Mexico. Mr. felt condolences. the VA over the last year and 8 million President, I ask unanimous consent I suggest the absence of a quorum. different veterans have used the VA that the order for the quorum call be The PRESIDING OFFICER. The over the last 12 months. We have to rescinded. clerk will call the roll. make sure we do our jobs as Senators The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without The legislative clerk proceeded to and Members of Congress and in the objection, it is so ordered. call the roll. White House to take care of our vet- TRIBUTE TO NAVAJO CODE TALKER CHESTER NEZ Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent erans. For those who served us, it is Mr. UDALL of New Mexico. Mr. that the order for the quorum call be time we served our veterans. President, my State of New Mexico has rescinded. Mr. President, I yield the floor. a great tradition of military service. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- When the Nation has called, New Mex- HEITKAMP). Without objection, it is so ator from South Dakota. ico has always answered. Today I want- ordered. D-DAY ANNIVERSARY ed to say a few words to remember FAREWELL TO PAGES Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I rise Chester Nez, the last of the original 29 Mr. REID. As we leave for the week, today to honor the 70th anniversary of Navajo code talkers of World War II. I wanted to say something on the the heroic landings of D-day. Mr. Nez passed away Wednesday record regarding the pages. They are The incredible bravery exhibited on morning in Albuquerque, NM. We are going to graduate tomorrow morning June 6 of 1944, in the first phase of Op- forever indebted to him and his fellow at 10 a.m. I look forward to these grad- eration Overlord to liberate Western warriors. They turned the Navajo lan- uations every year. These are fine Europe from the clutches of Nazi Ger- guage into an unbelievable code, using young men and women who come here many, is one of the defining moments the language they were forbidden to and spend a semester of school with us. of modern history. speak in school, as a weapon to defend This is a tradition we have been The images of American GIs landing our freedoms in war, freedoms they doing for a long time. Two of my at Omaha Beach, Utah Beach, and themselves did not always enjoy. This grandchildren were pages, and even Pointe du Hoc have come to represent is a great story of courage, of love of though my family has been involved in not only the great sacrifices made dur- country, of tremendous sacrifice. In government through me for all these ing World War II, but the enduring battle after battle in ferocious combat, many years, they were never exposed cause of freedom for which the United the Navajo code saved countless lives to it like coming here and being pages. States still stands. and helped secure the allied victory. In It really changed their lives, and I am I have had the humbling experience 2001, the original code talkers received sure some of these young men and of visiting the American cemetery at the Congressional Gold Medal, the women’s lives have been changed also. Normandy that honors those who fell highest honor the Congress can give. I can remember when I was about during the invasion. As I walked the Our former colleague, Senator Jeff their age and I went to Boys State and peaceful fields of brilliant white Bingaman, fought hard for this. I was the friends I made at that weeklong headstones in perfect formation, it was pleased to push for it in the House. It program—friends I still have. These hard to imagine the terrifying land- was richly deserved and long overdue. young men and women—friends they scape that greeted those American and Mr. Nez was there for the ceremony, make here, they will have for the rest allied soldiers, many of them not yet 20 and the Presiding Officer, who was in of their lives. years old, when they lowered the ramps the House with me, may remember we These boys and girls are not the sum- of their landing craft in the shallows had that ceremony in the Capitol Ro- mer pages. We have two classes of sum- off of Normandy. Yet they understood tunda. It was a great and uplifting day mer pages, and they are here for a the importance of their mission, and to finally see the Navajo code talkers month, and that is it. These young men they held fast against one of the great- receive their medals. and women are here for a semester, and est evils the world has ever faced, and I said then what I continue to feel the school is hard. It is not some kind they prevailed. now: Their service can never be forgot- of a lark back in Washington. They The men and women who answered ten and can never be diminished. Ches- studied hard. We look for good stu- the call to serve in World War II and ter Nez was modest in his own life but dents, and that is what we get. They those who supported them on the home proud of the code talkers and proud of get up early in the morning, they go to front are often revered as the ‘‘greatest the Navajo traditions. In his later school, and they come here and try to generation,’’ and deservedly so. They years, he visited schools and colleges learn more about government. They gave up their lives and their liveli- all across the Nation to tell the story really get to know us, personalities. hoods and endured separation from of those Navajo code talkers. Some of us are nicer to them than oth- their loved ones and fought in unspeak- In his memoir, written with Judith ers. They recognize that. able conditions. Avila, he said: I congratulate these pages because From the beaches of Normandy to I recommended myself that my Navajo they are an integral part of what goes the islands of the Pacific, where my fa- people had always been warriors, protectors. on around here. They really do things ther served as a Navy pilot, the United In that there was honor. I would concentrate that are hard. We don’t ask them to States and allied forces fought for free- on being a warrior, on protecting my home- write dissertations, at least here in the dom and for the dignity of mankind, land. Senate; for the school, they do that. and we owe them a tremendous debt of As we mark Chester’s passing, we But they run bills around the Capitol gratitude. honor his memory with a renewed dedi- Complex, and they help us on some of As we honor the memory of those cation to preserve our Native lan- the more mundane things we take for who served before us, we honor their guages, to keep alive the story of our granted. legacy by upholding the values for code talkers, the heroic story of the I really look forward to meeting which they fought. Navajo, and also of other Native Amer- them. I try to meet all the pages every We are here today because of the im- ican tribes, their codes and their com- year. Sometimes I don’t get to meet all mense burdens our men and women in mitment forever unbroken. of the Republican pages, but I try. I uniform have carried on our behalf. Today we say goodbye to this great want them to know that even though May we never forget their sacrifices or hero, this humble man who served our they won’t hear from every one of us,

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The assistant legislative clerk read great political career. She has held a The PRESIDING OFFICER. The as follows: number of statewide offices in the question is on agreeing to the motion. CLOTURE MOTION State of North Dakota. In all of what The motion was agreed to. We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- we do in life, there are disappointments The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the that come. She would have been the clerk will report the nomination. Standing Rules of the Senate, hereby move Governor of the State of North Dakota, The assistant legislative clerk read to bring to a close debate on the nomination but she was stricken with breast can- of Leo T. Sorokin, of Massachusetts, to be the nomination of M. Hannah Lauck, of United States District Judge for the District cer, which, I understand, messed up her Virginia, to be United States District campaign. But she came back and as a of Massachusetts. Judge for the Eastern District of Vir- Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Chris- real underdog decided to run for the ginia. topher A. Coons, Sheldon Whitehouse, Senate, and she won. She has made a CLOTURE MOTION Christopher Murphy, Al Franken, Jon tremendous difference in this body. I Mr. REID. I send a cloture motion to Tester, Richard Blumenthal, Jeff hope each of you can look around here Merkley, Richard J. Durbin, Kirsten E. the desk. and see people, such as the Presiding Gillibrand, Benjamin L. Cardin, Bill The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clo- Officer, whom you would like to be like Nelson, Dianne Feinstein, Elizabeth ture motion having been presented someday. Warren, Tom Harkin, Mazie K. Hirono. under rule XXII, the Chair directs the When I first came to this body—I say Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent clerk to report the motion. to these young women especially—BAR- that the mandatory quorum under rule The assistant legislative clerk read BARA MIKULSKI was a Senator from XXII be waived. as follows: Maryland. I came with her to the Sen- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ate, and she was the woman. That was CLOTURE MOTION objection, it is so ordered. it. And now, I couldn’t help but smile We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- f earlier this week because a number of ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, hereby move LEGISLATIVE SESSION women—seven or eight women—had to bring to a close debate on the nomination Mr. REID. I move to proceed to legis- congregated here, and one of the Sen- of M. Hannah Lauck, of Virginia, to be ators said to me—a female Senator lative session. United States District Judge for the Eastern The PRESIDING OFFICER. The said: Look, many of us wore turquoise District of Virginia. today. And it was so bright and the Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, Chris- question is on agreeing to the motion. The motion was agreed to. clothes looked so vibrant and added so topher A. Coons, Sheldon Whitehouse, much to this body. Christopher Murphy, Al Franken, Jon f So it used to be boys, that the Sen- Tester, Richard Blumenthal, Jeff Merkley, Richard J. Durbin, Kirsten E. EXECUTIVE SESSION ators we had here, with rare exception, Gillibrand, Benjamin L. Cardin, Bill were men, but that is not the way it is Nelson, Dianne Feinstein, Elizabeth anymore. And I can speak from experi- Warren, Tom Harkin, Mazie K. Hirono. NOMINATION OF RICHARD FRANK- LIN BOULWARE II, TO BE ence—the Senate is a much better Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask UNITED STATES DISTRICT place because of the input of women. unanimous consent that the manda- JUDGE FOR THE DISTRICT OF Men and women are different. They tory quorum under rule XXII be NEVADA have different views and outlooks on waived. life. As a result of that, this is a much The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Mr. REID. I now move to proceed to better place. objection, it is so ordered. executive session to consider Calendar I can remember a number of years No. 739. ago when I looked here on the floor—I f The PRESIDING OFFICER. The was whip at that time, taking care of LEGISLATIVE SESSION question is on agreeing to the motion. the floor—it was stunning to me, on The motion was agreed to. Mr. REID. I now move to proceed to the military construction bill, appro- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The legislative session. priations bill, two women were running clerk will report the nomination. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The it. Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Republican The assistant legislative clerk read question is on agreeing to the motion. from Texas, was the ranking member, the nomination of Richard Franklin The motion was agreed to. and DIANNE FEINSTEIN from California Boulware II, of Nevada, to be United was the chair of that committee, deter- f States District Judge for the District mining billions of dollars for construc- EXECUTIVE SESSION of Nevada. tion of military facilities around the CLOTURE MOTION world. So things have changed a great Mr. REID. I send a cloture motion to deal. You have been part of watching NOMINATION OF LEO T. SOROKIN the desk. this great change take place, young TO BE UNITED STATES DISTRICT The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clo- men and women. Thank you for your JUDGE FOR THE DISTRICT OF ture motion having been presented service here, and I hope someday some MASSACHUSETTS under rule XXII, the Chair directs the of you will be serving in this august clerk to report the motion. Mr. REID. Madam President, I move body. The assistant legislative clerk read to proceed to executive session. as follows: f The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion. CLOTURE MOTION LEGISLATIVE SESSION The motion was agreed to. We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- Mr. REID. I now move to proceed to The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, hereby move legislative session. clerk will report the nomination. to bring to a close debate on the nomination The PRESIDING OFFICER. The The assistant legislative clerk read of Richard Franklin Boulware II, of Nevada, question is on agreeing to the motion. the nomination of Leo T. Sorokin, of to be United States District Judge for the The motion was agreed to. Massachusetts, to be United States District of Nevada.

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POW- unanimous consent that the manda- CLOTURE MOTION ELL TO BE A MEMBER OF THE tory quorum under rule XXII be Mr. REID. Madam President, there is BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE waived. a cloture motion that I ask to be re- FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ported. objection, it is so ordered. Mr. REID. I now move to proceed to The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clo- f executive session to consider Calendar ture motion having been presented No. 771. under rule XXII, the Chair directs the LEGISLATIVE SESSION The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk to read the motion. Mr. REID. I now move to proceed to question is on agreeing to the motion. The assistant legislative clerk read legislative session. The motion was agreed to. as follows: The PRESIDING OFFICER. The The PRESIDING OFFICER. The CLOTURE MOTION question is on agreeing to the motion. clerk will report the nomination. We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- The motion was agreed to. The assistant legislative clerk read ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the f the nomination of Jerome H. Powell, of Standing Rules of the Senate, hereby move Maryland, to be a Member of the Board to bring to a close debate on the nomination EXECUTIVE SESSION of Governors of the Federal Reserve of Stanley Fischer, of New York, to be Vice System. Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. CLOTURE MOTION NOMINATION OF LAEL BRAINARD Harry Reid, Tim Johnson, Christopher A. TO BE A MEMBER OF THE Mr. REID. Madam President, there is Coons, Tim Kaine, Brian Schatz, Ron BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE a cloture motion I ask to be reported. Wyden, Richard Blumenthal, Benjamin FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clo- L. Cardin, Jack Reed, Tom Harkin, Richard J. Durbin, Tom Udall, Sheldon Mr. REID. I now move to proceed to ture motion having been presented under rule XXII, the Chair directs the Whitehouse, Christopher Murphy, Eliz- executive session to consider Calendar abeth Warren, Bill Nelson, Robert No. 769. clerk to read the motion. The assistant legislative clerk read Menendez. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask question is on agreeing to the motion. as follows: CLOTURE MOTION unanimous consent that the manda- The motion was agreed to. tory quorum call under rule XXII be We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The waived. clerk will report the nomination. ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, hereby move The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without The assistant legislative clerk read objection, it is so ordered. the nomination of Lael Brainard, of the to bring to a close debate on the nomination of Jerome H. Powell, of Maryland, to be a f District of Columbia, to be a Member Member of the Board of Governors of the of the Board of Governors of the Fed- Federal Reserve System. LEGISLATIVE SESSION eral Reserve System for a term of 14 Harry Reid, Tim Johnson, Christopher A. Mr. REID. Madam President, I move years from February 1, 2012. Coons, Tim Kaine, Brian Schatz, Ron Wyden, Richard Blumenthal, Benjamin to proceed to legislative session. CLOTURE MOTION The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Mr. REID. I send a cloture motion to L. Cardin, Jack Reed, Tom Harkin, Richard J. Durbin, Tom Udall, Sheldon question is on agreeing to the motion. the desk. Whitehouse, Christopher Murphy, Eliz- The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clo- abeth Warren, Bill Nelson, Robert f ture motion having been presented Menendez. under rule XXII, the Chair directs the Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask MORNING BUSINESS clerk to report the motion. unanimous consent that the manda- Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask The assistant legislative clerk read tory quorum call under rule XXII be unanimous consent that the Senate as follows: waived. proceed to a period of morning business CLOTURE MOTION The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without with Senators permitted to speak for We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- objection, it is so ordered. up to 10 minutes each. ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Standing Rules of the Senate, hereby move f objection, it is so ordered. to bring to a close debate on the nomination LEGISLATIVE SESSION of Lael Brainard, of the District of Columbia, f to be a Member of the Board of Governors of Mr. REID. I move to proceed to legis- the Federal Reserve System. lative session. 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY Harry Reid, Tim Johnson, Christopher A. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Mr. CARDIN. Madam President, I Coons, Tim Kaine, Brian Schatz, Ron question is on agreeing to the motion. wish to commemorate the 70th anni- Wyden, Richard Blumenthal, Benjamin The motion is agreed to. L. Cardin, Jack Reed, Tom Harkin, versary of the Normandy invasion by Richard J. Durbin, Tom Udall, Sheldon f Allied Forces. On June 6, 1944, a date Whitehouse, Christopher Murphy, Eliz- known ever since as D-day, a mighty abeth Warren, Bill Nelson, Robert EXECUTIVE SESSION armada crossed a narrow strip of sea Menendez. from England to Normandy, France Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent and broke the Nazi grip on Western Eu- NOMINATION OF STANLEY FISCH- that the mandatory quorum under rule rope. The day before—June 5, 1944—a ER TO BE VICE CHAIRMAN OF XXII be waived. fleet of 3,000 landing craft, 500 naval THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without vessels, and 2,500 miscellaneous ships THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM objection, it is so ordered. left English ports bound for Normandy, f Mr. REID. Madam President, I move France. The amphibious landing was to proceed to executive session to con- the largest effort ever in the history of LEGISLATIVE SESSION sider Calendar No. 767. mankind with the simultaneous land- Mr. REID. I now move to proceed to The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ings of U.S., British, and Canadian legislative session. question is on agreeing to the motion. forces on five separate beachheads in

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You are about to em- those heroes by safeguarding all that shoreman for the Port Battalion 297th bark upon a great crusade, toward which we they fought and sacrificed for. Port Company. During the invasion of have striven these many months. The eyes of Today, there are one million sur- Normandy, Private Benza worked tire- the world are upon you. The hopes and pray- viving World War II veterans in the lessly, while under heavy enemy fire, ers of liberty loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave U.S., and 17,346 of them are Maryland- to ensure that the soldiers that landed Allies and brothers in arms on other fronts, ers. These same heroes who landed on were equipped for battle. After spend- you will bring about the destruction of the those beaches in Normandy and ing 4 months at Omaha Beach, he German war machine, the elimination of parachuted behind enemy lines 70 years moved to La Havre, France, where he Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of ago are joined by veterans who have would remain until the end of the war. Europe, and security for ourselves in a free served in conflicts spanning from the Awarded for his service to our country, world. Korean war to the war in Afghanistan. Private Benza received the World War And by the end of August 1944, all of Today, I call on each of my colleagues II Victory medal. Once he returned northern France was liberated and the to commit themselves to the work of home, he continued his education and invading forces were reorganized for meeting our obligations to all of these became a barber at Nellis Air Force the drive into Germany where they veterans. The best way to honor their Base. While retired from the Armed would eventually meet up with Soviet sacrifices is to ensure that we are un- Forces, 89-year-old Private Benza re- forces advancing from the east to bring wavering in our support for them and fuses to retire from his active lifestyle an end to the Third Reich and its tyr- their families. and is still a barber in the Las Vegas anny of terror. f area. The aftermath of World War II saw Their commitment to this country, NEVADA’S FRENCH LEGION OF much of Europe devastated in a way as well as their dedication to their HONOR RECIPIENTS that is now difficult to imagine. Over families and communities, exemplified 36 million Europeans died in the con- Mr. HELLER. Madam President, why the legacy of all World War II vet- flict; 19 million of them were civilians. today I wish to congratulate two of Ne- erans must be preserved for genera- Millions more were left homeless, the vada’s own, MSG Davis B. Leonard and tions to come. These veterans truly are European economy had collapsed, and Private Gaetano R. Benza, for being the ‘‘greatest generation’’—selflessly much of the European industrial infra- awarded the National Order of the serving not for recognition but because structure was destroyed. French Legion of Honor in the rank of it was the right thing to do. As a mem- But from these ashes of war came the chevalier. Their service to our country ber of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs beginning of a new era for inter- and dedication to ensuring freedom be- Committee, I recognize that Congress national cooperation and diplomacy. In yond America’s borders earn them a has a responsibility not only to honor the wake of World War II, the United unique place among the outstanding these brave individuals but to ensure Nations agreed to outlaw wars of ag- men and women who have valiantly de- they are cared for when they return gression in an attempt to prevent a fended our Nation. home. I remain committed to uphold- third world war. With the creation of As we approach the anniversary of D- ing this promise for our veterans and the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- day, nearly 70 years after World War II, servicemembers in Nevada and tion, NATO, in 1949 and the institu- these heroes are being honored with throughout the Nation. tionalization of the Helsinki Accords 25 the Legion of Honor, France’s highest Please join me in congratulating years later, we committed ourselves to distinction. Veterans who risked their these men for their acts of heroism and the work that began with the assault lives during World War II and fought valor that helped to defend France on those beachheads—Utah, Omaha, on French territory have this award from the greatest enemy they or we Juno, Sword, and Gold Beach—in June bestowed upon them as a token of grat- have ever faced. May we never forget 1944. itude from France for defending liberty the brave actions by these heroes that The guiding principles of the Hel- on their soil. The sacrifices these brave allowed the Allied troops to begin a sinki Final Act are the foundations of soldiers made set America and the march across Europe and defeat tyr- lasting peace. These principles are world on a path to peace, freedom, and anny. Today, I join the Clark County worth enumerating: sovereign equality, liberty that we as Americans enjoy community and citizens of the Silver respect for the rights inherent in sov- today. Master Sergeant Leonard and State to congratulate these courageous ereignty, refraining from threat or use Private Benza are joining the ranks of men and honorable Nevadans. of force, inviolability of frontiers, ter- other notable Americans, such as GEN f ritorial integrity of States, peaceful Dwight D. Eisenhower and Douglas settlement of disputes, non-interven- MacArthur and even, as an institution, ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS tion in internal affairs, respect for the U.S. Military Academy at West human rights, self determination of Point, by receiving this honorable rec- peoples, co-operation among States, ognition. TRIBUTE TO GORDON STEWART and fulfillment in good faith of obliga- A highly decorated veteran from ∑ Mr. CRAPO. Madam President, I wish tions under international law. Addi- Henderson, NV, MSG Davis Leonard to honor Gordon Stewart, who is retir- tionally, the Helsinki Final Act reserved in the U.S. Army Air Force Re- ing from serving as the air traffic man- affirmed mankind’s fundamental free- serve as part of the 8th Air Force. He ager at Boise Airport. doms, including the freedom of was transferred to England, where he Gordon channeled his early exposure thought, conscience, and religion or be- flew his first of 64 combat missions as to aviation, through family members lief. a bombardier and navigator. Master who owned airplanes, into a distin- Today, we remember the tremendous Sergeant Leonard was active in the guished career. Gordon got his start in efforts of Allied Forces as they sig- Battle of Northern France, Ardennes, aviation through his military service. naled to the world that unprovoked ag- Rhineland, and Central Europe. For his He served for 3 years in the U.S. Army, gression and genocide have no place in service, he earned several medals, in- through which he received his air traf- our international order and will be met cluding the Distinguished Flying Cross fic control training. He was a distin- with our greatest resolve. I am re- with two bronze and one silver oak leaf guished graduate at Fort Rucker, AL, minded of the Maryland National medal. Upon his return home, he in both basic and advanced individual Guard units who participated in the D- worked to rebuild our country working training. He then went on to work at day landings. These brave Marylanders for Pacific Telephone Company for 30 various helicopter training airports,

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They teach me to never give up ing obtained through his military serv- I want to thank all the students from They teach me to live a good life ice in his numerous Federal Aviation across Minnesota who helped us honor Administration assignments that built our veterans for their commitment and ‘‘CELEBRATING MY VETERAN’’ up his deep knowledge of air traffic service. I also want to recognize and (By Ellie Wachenheim) control. After returning to his family thank the judges of this year’s contest: 3RD PLACE GRADES K–6 farm in Montana and serving as acting the Adjutant General of the Minnesota I like to celebrate my mom manager at the Flight Service Station National Guard, MG Richard Nash; The veteran in the house in Cut Bank, MT, he spent 3 years at Minnesota commissioner of veterans She isn’t really bossy. Missoula International Airport, where affairs Larry Shellito; Minnesota com- And she doesn’t scream or shout. he learned about nonradar approach. missioner of education Brenda I like to make her happy He went on to work for more than a Cassellius; and Minnesota poet lau- I like to make her proud year at Billings Logan International reate Joyce Sutphen. And she can tell that I try Airport and then at the Salt Lake City I ask that nine winning poems from Because I show her how. Terminal Radar Approach Control, the 3rd Annual Minnesota Military I tell her how to do it TRACON, before returning to the Mis- Children’s Poetry Contest be printed in I tell her what to say I tell her that I love her soula International Airport, where he the RECORD. In every single way. served as acting air traffic manager be- ‘‘DELVIN MENZE’’ fore obtaining a position at Boise Air- I know my mom is smart (By Riley Menze) So she must know a lot port. 1ST PLACE GRADES K–6 One thing that she knows Gordon worked as a supervisor for 12 A little boy turned two, Is that I love her a lot. years at Boise Airport before becoming The day Pearl Harbor went boom! When me and my younger brother the air traffic manager for the past You could call him my grandpa, Know that my mom’s coming home nearly 12 years. His leadership during You could call him my friend, We get all excited his time there has been instrumental You could say his job wasn’t that great, and call her on the phone. I’d say it was more awesome than cake. in making the airport successful. The She says that she loves us Without him, the crew might’ve starved, numerous recognitions he received for And we tell her that we know But they lived through the night, his outstanding work include multiple But one of the times she’s happy Have you guessed it yet? Is when we celebrate that she’s home. facility of the year awards and a Fire Yep, he was an Army cook. Fighting Award for support of fire He might slice potatoes all day, ‘‘GRANDPA THE VETERAN’’ fighting in the Northwest Mountain Or make soup to warm cold souls, Region. But he is the greatest, (By Chineng Vang) Gordon’s effort to remain true to his The greatest beyond great. 1ST PLACE GRADES 7–9 core values and manage the same way Today he’s a farmer, This poem can be read forwards and he has parented—fair but firm—has A dairy farmer to be exact, backwards. been exemplary. Integrity has been a Lives with his wife in the countryside, You are the best veteran I know central element of Gordon’s work. He Of a little town called Ottertail. 50 years from now, I’ll still believe that He taught me to milk cows, You are the greatest can always be counted on to do what is Or feed romping heifers, right. His principled approach to work- There’s no doubt To drive tractors, four-wheelers, You’re amazing ing through considerable challenges Plus snowmobiles too. I’ll never forget the fact that has been indispensible. This especially You could call him my grandpa, You always try your best includes his work on the development You could call him my friend, Everyone knows of the new Boise Air Traffic Control Either way, he’s better than a king, You’re intelligent and smart Tower and the effort to locate the And worth more money than the world. The whole military believes TRACON. You are gifted ‘‘THANK YOU TO THE GREAT VETERANS IN MY With many talents Thank you, Gordon, for your out- LIFE’’ standing and dedicated service. As you You’ve fought and won many battles (By Sabastian Carlo Cerda) It’s clear that retire, you deserve to reflect on your 2ND PLACE GRADES K–6 You are special extraordinary career with pride in a I wish I could be like you because job well done. I hope that retirement He is the oldest veteran I know He is the oldest veteran I love You’re awesome affords you more time with your He is my Lolo, how Filipino grandpas are There’s nothing bad about you because friends and family, including your six called You always do the right thing children. I congratulate you on your Philippines is where he was born I can always know that retirement and wish you all the best.∑ and where he served in World War II You’ll be there for me Like you did for Grandma f He was with the U.S. Army Lolo only has three toes on one foot Be the best veteran you can be MINNESOTA POETRY CONTEST He said one morning during the war WINNERS He was shot many times from the sky, from ‘‘NUMBERS’’ (By Ezekiel Town) ∑ Mr. FRANKEN. Madam President, a Japanese airplane today I am proud to enter into the He lost some toes 2ND PLACE GRADES 7–9 My Lolo and Lola wanted to bring the family Men in bitter rage of war RECORD the poems of the winners of the to a new country 3rd Annual Minnesota Military Chil- People scared and wounded Called the United States of America They bleed upon the ground dren’s Poetry Contest. The theme of He came to a Veterans Convention in Min- And I saw only numbers this year’s competition was ‘‘Cele- neapolis 40 years ago Many lie forever crippled and wounded brating the Veteran in My Life.’’ Each It was very cold with lots of snow Few will rise again of the poems submitted by a Minnesota They had a parade or something like that And I saw only numbers child paid tribute to the men and A friend let him borrow a thick coat to wear Every dollar spent on war women who have honorably served and He was very happy and proud to be in the pa- A joy never felt by the fallen rade Their futures are never told have had a profound impact on the My Lolo is a strong and brave man lives of children and families in Min- And I saw only numbers He is honest and wise Their blood is spilt upon the ground nesota and across our great Nation. Lolo’s sons, my three uncles are veterans too The guilty and the not Seventy students from kindergarten, They serve in the U.S. Navy Children in their youth middle and high school submitted en- Lolo is proud of all my Uncles Dead and shot tries for this year’s contest. There were I am proud of my Lolo and my Uncles And I saw only numbers

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The horrors are too much My mother would hand out his shirts to us I have always believed in account- For I know their faces are there children to sleep in. ability for public officials, and this, my Never to be touched At the age of six, I had seemingly come to final year in the Senate, is an appro- I look upon this barren land terms with the chance, priate time to give an accounting of that one day my mother would hold a folded Full of blood and hate my work across four decades rep- I don’t understand their pain flag instead of her husband. For I can see only numbers on this slate I had asked my mother one day that, resenting Iowa in Congress. I take My tears they fall on burning sands ‘‘If daddy died, would we go and visit him at pride in accomplishments that have As blood comes from their wounds the cemetery?’’ been national in scope—for instance, I still cannot understand My mother immediately tried to reassure me passing the Americans with Disabil- For I see only numbers that daddy was ok, to which I replied, ities Act and spearheading successful These numbers do not tell the story ‘‘I said IF.’’ farm bills. But I take a very special Of these woman and these men I don’t truly remember my father at home pride in projects that have made a big For the only thing I can see is these heart- all that well, difference in local communities across But I can remember what I did when my fa- less numbers my State. That burn inside my head ther was gone. Wake up, Today, I would like to give an ac- All these people crying counting of my work with leaders and For their wounded and their dead Get dressed, I cannot feel them Good morning mommy, residents of Cerro Gordo County to All I have is these numbers in my head Go to school, build a legacy of a stronger local econ- Learn, omy, better schools and educational ‘‘DEEP DOWN’’ Go home, opportunities, and a healthier, safer (By Alarie Chu) Mommy, I’m home is daddy back?, community. 3RD PLACE GRADES 7–9 Eat supper, Between 2001 and 2013, the creative Get daddy’s shirt, Friend leadership in your community has Pray for daddy to come home safe, worked with me to secure funding in Dear and old And sleep. Veteran My father was never truly in danger, Cerro Gordo County worth over $13 Part of World War 2 He was just a loadmaster. million and successfully acquired fi- Fragile I never understood that, nancial assistance from programs I But hard willed so the joy of seeing him was not just that. have fought hard to support, which Herman Czeck It was the joy of hugging a father, Greatest man to live have provided more than $182 million not a flag. You only see a pale-old soul to the local economy. But now I understand. But deep down there are acts of greatness; Of course, one of my favorite memo- My father served in the US Air Force for 24 Kindness, sweetness ries of working together is working to years, Deep down hides a boy of twenty help Northern Iowa Community Col- As a weapons loader and then as a A young draftee to fight in the army; C–130 Hercules loadmaster. lege obtain over $2 million in Federal Soldier, military funds to support their programs, help- Deep down suffers a man who’s seen death And I couldn’t be any more proud of him. I love my veteran, ing the city to improve the drinking The deaths from a world’s disaster; water supply, and working to improve The Second World War I love my dad. It’s hard to imagine, area lakes and waterways. People being scared ‘‘LIFE SAVERS’’ Among the highlights: investing in Of such a harmless chum (By Taylor Van de Streek) Iowa’s economic development through Since my birth in 2001 3RD PLACE GRADES 10–12 targeted community projects: In north- There was an extra family member; You see them on the street, ern Iowa, we have worked together to Dad, Uncle You see them in your school, grow the economy by making targeted A selfless giver You see them at home. investments in important economic de- A man of joy and love; They’re the ones who take the risk for free- velopment projects including improved Admirable, marvelous dom. A Christian companion roads and bridges, modernized sewer One loved by all; They come home in hopes and water systems, and better housing A stupendous gift from God That life will be the same. options for residents of Cerro Gordo It’s hard to see, But nothing can stop the memories County. In many cases, I have secured The deep down truth Of all the destruction they’ve seen. Federal funding that has leveraged Of a life long lived I pray for all of them local investments and served as a cata- Just last month When I can, lyst for a whole ripple effect of posi- A stroke came along So they return safe and in peace tive, creative changes. For example, To the strongest man I know To sleep calm in their beds. working with mayors, city council Who still is recovering They could be a Physics Teacher, It just goes to show members, and local economic develop- A Family Friend, ment officials in Cerro Gordo County, I We live life one day at a time A Father or Mother, Not knowing which one will be the last. Or maybe even the man begging on the have fought for more than $8.4 million street. for water treatment facilities which ‘‘BROTHER’’ have allowed major food processing en- (By Joseph Gabel) They are our Veterans, We have many in our lives. tities to operate in the region, knowing 1ST PLACE GRADES 10–12 So the next time you see one that the water they need to use is He is a wind rider gliding above the clouds Thank them; they might have saved your clean and healthy, helping to create He is a predator dominating the sky life.∑ jobs and expand economic opportuni- He is homeland security aloft f ties. I have also secured over $310,000 to He is America’s ever present air wall clean up area lakes and waterways, He is an eagle with piercing gaze CERRO GORDO COUNTY, IOWA over $393,000 to rehabilitate the City He is a guardian for the defenseless ∑ Mr. HARKIN. Madam President, the He is talons snatching our defenders from National Bank Building, and over danger strength of my State of Iowa lies in its $444,000 for repairs to the Delaware He is courage with wings vibrant local communities, where citi- Street bridge. He is the American heart patrolling the zens come together to foster economic Main Street Iowa: One of the greatest skies development, make smart investments challenges we face—in Iowa and all

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Main strong, progressive conservation assist- across my State, and it has been deeply Street Iowa helps preserve Iowa’s heart ance for agricultural producers; renew- gratifying to see how my work in Con- and soul by providing funds to revi- able energy opportunities; and robust gress has supported these local efforts. talize downtown business districts. economic development in our rural I have always believed in account- This program has allowed towns such communities. Since 1991, through var- ability for public officials, and this, my as Mason City to use that money to le- ious programs authorized through the final year in the Senate, is an appro- verage other investments to jumpstart farm bill, Cerro Gordo County has re- priate time to give an accounting of change and renewal. I am so pleased ceived more than $8.4 million from a my work across four decades rep- that Cerro Gordo County has earned variety of farm bill programs. resenting Iowa in Congress. I take $150,000 through this program. These Keeping Iowa communities safe: I pride in accomplishments that have grants build much more than buildings. also firmly believe that our first re- been national in scope for instance, They build up the spirit and morale of sponders need to be appropriately passing the Americans with Disabil- people in our small towns and local trained and equipped, able to respond ities Act and spearheading successful communities. to both local emergencies and to state- farm bills. But I take a very special School grants: Every child in Iowa wide challenges such as, for instance, pride in projects that have made a big deserves to be educated in a classroom the methamphetamine epidemic. Since difference in local communities across that is safe, accessible, and modern. 2001, Cerro Gordo County’s fire depart- my State. That is why, for the past decade and a ments have received over $1.19 million Today, I would like to give an ac- half, I have secured funding for the infor firefighter safety and operations counting of my work with leaders and novative Iowa Demonstration Con- equipment and more than $879,000 in residents of Muscatine County to build struction Grant Program—better Byrne Justice Assistance Grants. a legacy of a stronger local economy, known among educators in Iowa as Wellness and health care: Improving better schools and educational oppor- Harkin grants for public schools con- the health and wellness of all Ameri- tunities, and a healthier, safer commu- struction and renovation. Across 15 cans has been something I have been nity. years, Harkin grants worth more than passionate about for decades. That is Between 2001 and 2013, the creative $132 million have helped school dis- why I fought to dramatically increase leadership in your community has tricts to fund a range of renovation and funding for disease prevention, innova- worked with me to secure funding in repair efforts—everything from updat- tive medical research, and a whole Muscatine County worth over $4.8 mil- ing fire safety systems to building new range of initiatives to improve the lion and successfully acquire financial schools. In many cases, these Federal health of individuals and families not assistance from programs I have fought dollars have served as the needed in- only at the doctor’s office but also in hard to support, which have provided centive to leverage local public and our communities, schools, and work- more than $10.2 million to the local private dollars, so it often has a tre- places. I am so proud that Americans economy. mendous multiplier effect within a have better access to clinical preven- Of course, one of my favorite memo- school district. Over the years, Cerro tive services, nutritious food, smoke- ries of working together is the commu- Gordo County has received $2.2 million free environments, safe places to en- nity’s success in obtaining over $2.5 in Harkin grants. gage in physical activity, and informa- million for airport improvements since Disaster mitigation and prevention: tion to make healthy decisions for 2001. As a strong supporter of small In 1993, when historic floods ripped themselves and their families. These community airports, I have long fought through Iowa, it became clear to me efforts not only save lives, they will for funding from programs that support that the national emergency-response also save money for generations to service to small communities and in- infrastructure was woefully inadequate come thanks to the prevention of cost- frastructure support to keep these air- to meet the needs of Iowans in flood- ly chronic diseases, which account for ports modern. ravaged communities. I went to work a whopping 75 percent of annual health Among the highlights: dramatically expanding the Federal care costs. I am pleased that Cerro Investing in Iowa’s economic devel- Emergency Management Agency’s haz- Gordo County has recognized this im- opment through targeted community ard mitigation program, which helps portant issue by securing more than projects: In Southeast Iowa, we have communities reduce the loss of life and $460,000 for community wellness activi- worked together to grow the economy property due to natural disasters and ties. by making targeted investments in im- enables mitigation measures to be im- This is at least a partial accounting portant economic development plemented during the immediate recov- of my work on behalf of Iowa, and spe- projects, including improved roads and ery period. Disaster relief means more cifically Cerro Gordo County, during bridges, modernized sewer and water than helping people and businesses get my time in Congress. In every case, systems, and better housing options for back on their feet after a disaster, it this work has been about partnerships, residents of Muscatine County. In means doing our best to prevent the cooperation, and empowering folks at many cases, I have secured Federal same predictable flood or other catas- the State and local level, including in funding that has leveraged local invest- trophe from recurring in the future. Cerro Gordo County, to fulfill their ments and served as a catalyst for a The hazard mitigation program that I own dreams and initiatives. And, of whole ripple effect of positive, creative helped create in 1993 provided critical course, this work is never complete. changes. For example, working with support to Iowa communities impacted Even after I retire from the Senate, I mayors, city council members, and by the devastating floods of 2008. Cerro have no intention of retiring from the local economic development officials in Gordo County has received over $9 mil- fight for a better, fairer, richer Iowa. I Muscatine County, I have fought for lion to remediate and prevent wide- will always be profoundly grateful for $450,000 to improve the water system as spread destruction from natural disas- the opportunity to serve the people of well as more than $894,000 in funds for ters. Iowa as their Senator.∑ flood control, helping to create jobs Agricultural and rural development: f and expand economic opportunities. Because I grew up in a small town in School grants: Every child in Iowa rural Iowa, I have always been a loyal MUSCATINE COUNTY, IOWA deserves to be educated in a classroom friend and fierce advocate for family ∑ Mr. HARKIN. Madam President, the that is safe, accessible, and modern. farmers and rural communities. I have strength of my State of Iowa lies in its That is why for the past decade and a been a member of the House or Senate vibrant local communities, where citi- half I have secured funding for the in- Agriculture Committee for 40 years— zens come together to foster economic novative Iowa Demonstration Con- including more than 10 years as chair- development, make smart investments struction Grant Program—better man of the Senate Agriculture Com- to expand opportunity, and take the known among educators in Iowa as

VerDate Mar 15 2010 02:11 Mar 21, 2015 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00037 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD14\JUN 2014\S05JN4.REC S05JN4 bjneal on DSK2TWX8P1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE S3470 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE June 5, 2014 Harkin grants for public schools con- and without disabilities. And they triple by 2050—resulting in 16 million struction and renovation. Across 15 make us proud to be a part of a com- Americans over the age of 65 living years, Harkin grants worth more than munity and country that respects the with Alzheimer’s. Today, one in three $132 million have helped school dis- worth and civil rights of all of our citi- seniors will die with Alzheimer’s districts to fund a range of renovation and zens. ease. Currently, in my home of State of repair efforts—everything from updat- This is at least a partial accounting Florida, 480,000 residents over the age ing fire safety systems to building new of my work on behalf of Iowa, and spe- of 65 are living with Alzheimer’s, and schools. In many cases, these Federal cifically Muscatine County, during my the number is project to rise to 720,000 dollars have served as the needed in- time in Congress. In every case, this by 2050. centive to leverage local public and work has been about partnerships, co- Given these staggering numbers, it is private dollars, so it often has a tre- operation, and empowering folks at the important we focus our resources to mendous multiplier effect within a State and local level, including in address this disease as outlined in the school district. Over the years, Muscatine County, to fulfill their own National Alzheimer’s Plan, a roadmap Muscatine County has received more dreams and initiatives. And, of course, for confronting Alzheimer’s and demen- than $3.5 million in Harkin grants. this work is never complete. Even after tia. The National Alzheimer’s Plan is Similarly, schools in Muscatine County I retire from the Senate, I have no in- released annually and outlines steps have received funds that I designated tention of retiring from the fight for a the government should pursue in the for Iowa Star Schools for technology better, fairer, richer Iowa. I will always fight against Alzheimer’s. Last year, totaling $32,500. be profoundly grateful for the oppor- the Special Committee on Aging, for Agricultural and rural development: tunity to serve the people of Iowa as which I am privileged to serve as chair- Because I grew up in a small town in their Senator.∑ man, held a hearing to assess the rural Iowa, I have always been a loyal f progress made in combatting Alz- friend and fierce advocate for family heimer’s disease and examined the first farmers and rural communities. I have CONGRATULATING NICHOLAS year of the National Alzheimer’s Plan been a member of the House or Senate CAROTHERS NIMMO as it continues its ongoing efforts to Agriculture Committee for 40 years, in- ∑ Mr. HELLER. Madam President, find an effective treatment by 2025. cluding more than 10 years as chair- today I wish to congratulate Nicholas This June, the first Alzheimer’s and man of the Senate Agriculture Com- ‘‘Cole’’ Carothers Nimmo, on obtaining Brain Awareness Month, we must ini- mittee. Across the decades, I have one of the Boy Scouts of America’s tiate a global conversation about Alz- championed farm policies for Iowans highest ranks of Eagle Scout. heimer’s disease and other dementias. that include effective farm income pro- Cole began his journey to the rank of Despite the prevalence of the disease, tection and commodity programs; Eagle Scout when he became a Boy it is still widely misunderstood. The strong, progressive conservation assist- Scout in 2008. Throughout his time in Alzheimer’s Association, the world’s ance for agricultural producers; renew- the Boy Scouts, he has tirelessly leading voluntary health organization able energy opportunities; and robust worked to achieve this next rank and in Alzheimer’s care, support, and re- economic development in our rural honor. He completed his Eagle project search, is working to reduce stigma communities. Since 1991, through var- this past fall by leading a team of surrounding the illness, promote edu- ious programs authorized through the friends, family, and leaders in raising cation on the realities of the disease, farm bill, Muscatine County has re- money for the materials and building a and help promote research to end Alz- ceived more than $1.1 million from a large storage shed for a local girls sum- heimer’s disease. The Alzheimer’s As- variety of farm bill programs. mer camp. Becoming an Eagle Scout sociation is also encouraging Ameri- Keeping Iowa communities safe: I enabled Cole to develop an apprecia- cans to ‘‘Go Purple’’—the color of the also firmly believe that our first re- tion and love of the outdoors. Biking in Alzheimer’s movement to fight Alz- sponders need to be appropriately the Acadia National Forest with Troop heimer’s disease and promote public trained and equipped, able to respond 388, canoeing on the Susquehanna awareness of this month’s mission. to both local emergencies and to state- River, and earning his favorite merit Recently, the Alzheimer’s Founda- wide challenges such as, for instance, badge in camping were highlights of his tion of America, AFA, released a cost the methamphetamine epidemic. Since tenure in the scouts thus far. analysis report of the caregiver provi- 2001, Muscatine County’s fire depart- As one of tomorrow’s leaders, Cole’s sions in the 2012 National Alzheimer’s ments have received over $2.1 million dedication to his local community en- Plan. The AFA works to ensure the for firefighter safety and operations hances my faith in our great Nation’s best care and services are available to equipment. future. His training has enabled him to improve quality of life for individuals Disability rights: Growing up, I loved develop skills and knowledge that will confronting Alzheimer’s disease. I be- and admired my brother Frank, who help him serve those around him his lieve that the work of the AFA and was deaf. But I was deeply disturbed by whole life. It is truly an honor for me other Alzheimer’s advocacy organiza- the discrimination and obstacles he to help in celebrating his advancement tions is increasingly important as we faced every day. That is why I have al- to Eagle Scout. Continuing at this continually work to improve the care ways been a passionate advocate for level of accomplishment, with such a and well-being for those living with full equality for people with disabil- strong commitment to civic duty, Cole Alzheimer’s disease while also improv- ities. As the primary author of the will become a strong, contributing citing the quality of life for caregivers Americans with Disabilities Act, ADA, izen of this great Nation. He knows and family members as they care for and the ADA Amendments Act, I have that achieving the rank of Eagle is just their loved ones. had four guiding goals for our fellow the beginning of a life filled with lead- AFA’s recent report, ‘‘Cost of Care: citizens with disabilities: equal oppor- ership and service opportunities. Quantifying Care-Centered Provisions tunity, full participation, independent I ask my colleagues to join me in of the National Plan to Address Alz- living and economic self-sufficiency. congratulating Cole on his loyal serv- heimer’s Disease,’’ evaluates the costs Nearly a quarter century since passage ice and contributions to his troop and and benefits associated with implemen- of the ADA, I see remarkable changes community.∑ tation of coordinated care delivery in communities everywhere I go in f models, transitional care programs, Iowa—not just in curb cuts or closed and expanded caregiver supports in the captioned television but in the full par- ALZHEIMER’S AND BRAIN 2012 National Alzheimer’s Plan. AFA ticipation of people with disabilities in AWARENESS MONTH found that implementation of these our society and economy, folks who at ∑ Mr. NELSON. Madam President, I caregiver provisions provide significant long last have the opportunity to con- recognize this June as the inaugural cost savings while promoting better tribute their talents and to be fully in- Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness health outcomes for those living with cluded. These changes have increased Month. Alzheimer’s remains one of our Alzheimer’s disease by reducing hos- economic opportunities for all citizens Nation’s leading causes of death, and pital readmissions and emergency of Muscatine County, both those with the number of diagnoses is expected to room visits and delaying nursing home

VerDate Mar 15 2010 02:11 Mar 21, 2015 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00038 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD14\JUN 2014\S05JN4.REC S05JN4 bjneal on DSK2TWX8P1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE June 5, 2014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S3471 placement. The enactment of these ties of the Department of Defense, for mili- of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant to law, provisions could result in Federal sav- tary construction, and for defense activities the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Framework Ad- ings that exceed $110 billion over 10 of the Department of Energy, to prescribe justment 51 to the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan’’ (RIN0648–BD88) years. military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes. received during adjournment of the Senate I am well aware of the hardships for H.R. 4587. An act to impose targeted sanc- in the Office of the President of the Senate those living with this disease and their tions on individuals responsible for carrying on May 29, 2014; to the Committee on Com- loved ones. I hear frequently from my out or ordering human rights abuses against merce, Science, and Transportation. constituents about the importance of the citizens of Venezuela, and for other pur- EC–5951. A communication from the Dep- continuing to appropriate research dol- poses. uty Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, lars for Alzheimer’s research and the f Department of Commerce, transmitting, pur- necessity of making Alzheimer’s a na- suant to law, the report of a rule entitled tional priority. For example, Jeff from EXECUTIVE AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS ‘‘Sector Operations Plans and Allocations for Palm Beach Gardens has been caring Fishing Year 2014’’ (RIN0648–XC995) received for his mother for the last 5 years as The following communications were during adjournment of the Senate in the Of- her disease slowly progresses. And laid before the Senate, together with fice of the President of the Senate on May 29, Heather of Winter Park, who wrote to accompanying papers, reports, and doc- 2014; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. me last October, shared the heart- uments, and were referred as indicated: EC–5952. A communication from the Dep- breaking ‘‘loss and grief that comes EC–5944. A communication from the Direc- uty Assistant Administrator for Operations, slowly and constantly’’ with her moth- tor, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, Depart- Office of Sustainable Fisheries, Department er’s illness and the mourning for the ment of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant to law, person her mother was before her diag- to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Tem- the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Final Interim nosis. The work to improve care serv- porary Rule to Implement a 2014 Gray 2014 Pacific Sardine Harvest Specifications’’ Triggerfish Recreational Sector Quota Re- (RIN0648–XD020) received during adjourn- ices for those living with Alzheimer’s duction and Recreational Harvest Closure in ment of the Senate in the Office of the Presi- as well as support services for their the Gulf of Mexico’’ (RIN0648–XD033) re- dent of the Senate on May 29, 2014; to the loved ones is a growing necessity as ceived in the Office of the President of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and our Nation’s population ages and the Senate on June 3, 2014; to the Committee on Transportation. number of individuals confronting the Commerce, Science, and Transportation. EC–5953. A communication from the Sec- disease dramatically increases over the EC–5945. A communication from the Asso- retary of Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the Department’s Annual Re- coming decades.∑ ciate Bureau Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau, Federal Communications Commis- port of the Maritime Administration f sion, transmitting, pursuant to law, the re- (MARAD) for fiscal year 2012; to the Com- MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT port of a rule entitled ‘‘Connect America mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- Fund; Developing an Unified Intercarrier tation. EC–5954. A communication from the Acting Messages from the President of the Compensation Regime’’ ((RIN3060–AG49) (DA Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, De- United States were communicated to 14–434)) received in the Office of the Presi- partment of Commerce, transmitting, pursu- the Senate by Mr. Pate, one of his sec- dent of the Senate on June 3, 2014; to the ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘At- retaries. Committee on Commerce, Science, and lantic Highly Migratory Species; Atlantic f Transportation. Bluefin Tuna Fisheries; Temporary Rule; EC–5946. A communication from the Direc- EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED Inseason Angling Category Retention Limit tor, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, Depart- Adjustment’’ (RIN0648–XD251) received dur- As in executive session the Presiding ment of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant ing adjournment of the Senate in the Office Officer laid before the Senate messages to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Green- of the President of the Senate on May 29, land Turbot in the Aleutian Island Subarea 2014; to the Committee on Commerce, from the President of the United of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands’’ States submitting sundry nominations Science, and Transportation. (RIN0648–XD260) received during adjourn- EC–5955. A communication from the Acting which were referred to the appropriate ment of the Senate in the Office of the Presi- Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, De- committees. dent of the Senate on May 29, 2014; to the partment of Commerce, transmitting, pursu- (The messages received today are Committee on Commerce, Science, and ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Clo- printed at the end of the Senate pro- Transportation. sure of the Commercial Harvest of Gray ceedings.) EC–5947. A communication from the Assist- Triggerfish in South Atlantic Waters’’ ant Secretary of Legislative Affairs, U.S. De- (RIN0648–XD271) received during adjourn- f partment of State, transmitting, pursuant to ment of the Senate in the Office of the Presi- MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE law, a report relative to certifications grant- dent of the Senate on May 29, 2014; to the ed in relation to the incidental capture of Committee on Commerce, Science, and At 3:58 p.m., a message from the sea turtles in commercial shrimping oper- Transportation. House of Representatives, delivered by ations; to the Committee on Commerce, EC–5956. A communication from the Acting Mr. Novotny, one of its reading clerks, Science, and Transportation. Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, De- announced that the House has passed EC–5948. A communication from the Chief partment of Commerce, transmitting, pursu- the following bill, in which it requests of Staff, Media Bureau, Federal Communica- ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘2014 the concurrence of the Senate: tions Commission, transmitting, pursuant to Gulf of Mexico Greater Amberjack Rec- law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘2014 Quad- reational Sector Annual Catch Limit and H.R. 4435. An act to authorize appropria- Annual Catch Target Reduction’’ (RIN0648– tions for fiscal year 2015 for military activi- rennial Regulatory Review—Review of the Commission’s Broadcast Ownership Rules XD230) received during adjournment of the ties of the Department of Defense, for mili- Senate in the Office of the President of the tary construction, and for defense activities and Other Rules Adopted Pursuant to Sec- tion 202 of the Telecommunications Act of Senate on May 29, 2014; to the Committee on of the Department of Energy, to prescribe Commerce, Science, and Transportation. 1996’’ ((MB Docket No. 14–50) (FCC 14–28)) re- military personnel strengths for such fiscal EC–5957. A communication from the Dep- year, and for other purposes. ceived in the Office of the President of the uty Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Senate on June 2, 2014; to the Committee on f Programs, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Department of Commerce, transmitting, pur- MEASURES PLACED ON THE EC–5949. A communication from the Dep- suant to law, the report of a rule entitled CALENDAR uty Assistant Administrator for Regulatory ‘‘Correction for Final Rule to Modify Bottom Programs, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, Trawl Rockfish Conservation Area Bound- The following bill was read the sec- Department of Commerce, transmitting, pur- aries for Vessels in the Pacific Coast Ground- ond time, and placed on the calendar: suant to law, the report of a rule entitled fish Fishery’’ (RIN0648–BD37) received during S. 2432. A bill to amend the Higher Edu- ‘‘Fisheries off West Coast States; West Coast adjournment of the Senate in the Office of cation Act of 1965 to provide for the refi- Salmon Fisheries; 2014 Management Meas- the President of the Senate on May 30, 2014; nancing of certain Federal student loans, ures’’ (RIN0648–XD072) received during ad- to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and for other purposes. journment of the Senate in the Office of the and Transportation. The following bills were read the first President of the Senate on May 29, 2014; to EC–5958. A communication from the Assist- the Committee on Commerce, Science, and ant Administrator for Fisheries, Office of and second times by unanimous con- Transportation. Sustainable Fisheries, Department of Com- sent, and placed on the calendar: EC–5950. A communication from the Dep- merce, transmitting, pursuant to law, the re- H.R. 4435. An act to authorize appropria- uty Assistant Administrator for Operations, port of a rule entitled ‘‘Final Rule to Imple- tions for fiscal year 2015 for military activi- Office of Sustainable Fisheries, Department ment an Accountability Measure for the

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A communication from the Acting of the Senate on June 4, 2014; to the Com- ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, De- mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- partment of Commerce, transmitting, pursu- tation. ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ant to law, the report of a rule entitled EC–5968. A communication from the Attor- ‘‘Safety Zone; Belt Parkway Bridge Con- ‘‘Temporary Rule to Implement a 2014 Red ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department struction, Gerritsen Inlet, Brooklyn, NY’’ Grouper Recreational Sector Accountability of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- ((RIN1625–AA00) (Docket No. USCG–2013– Measures in the Gulf of Mexico’’ (RIN0648– ant to law, the report of a rule entitled 0471)) received in the Office of the President XD231) received during adjournment of the ‘‘Safety Zone; Captain of the Port Boston of the Senate on June 4, 2014; to the Com- Senate in the Office of the President of the Fireworks display zones, Boston Harbor, mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- Senate on May 29, 2014; to the Committee on Boston, Ma’’ ((RIN1625–AA00) (Docket No. tation. Commerce, Science, and Transportation. USCG–2013–0503)) received in the Office of the EC–5977. A communication from the Attor- EC–5960. A communication from the Attor- President of the Senate on June 4, 2014; to ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department ney-Advisor, Office of the Secretary, Depart- the Committee on Commerce, Science, and of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- ment of Transportation, transmitting, pur- Transportation. ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Spe- suant to law, a report relative to a vacancy EC–5969. A communication from the Attor- cial Local Regulations for Marine Events, in the position of Deputy Secretary, Depart- ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department Atlantic Ocean; Ocean City, MD’’ ((RIN1625– ment of Transportation, received in the Of- of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- AA08) (Docket No. USCG–2014–0056)) received fice of the President of the Senate on June 4, ant to law, the report of a rule entitled in the Office of the President of the Senate 2014; to the Committee on Commerce, ‘‘Safety Zone: Tiburon’s 50th Anniversary on June 4, 2014; to the Committee on Com- Science, and Transportation. Fireworks, San Francisco Bay, Tiburon, CA’’ merce, Science, and Transportation. EC–5961. A communication from the Attor- ((RIN1625–AA00) (Docket No. USCG–2014– EC–5978. A communication from the Attor- ney-Advisor, Office of the Secretary, Depart- 0175)) received in the Office of the President ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department ment of Transportation, transmitting, pur- of the Senate on June 4, 2014; to the Com- of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- suant to law, a report relative to a vacancy mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- ant to law, the report of a rule entitled in the position of Under Secretary of Trans- tation. ‘‘Safety Zone, Fifth Coast Guard District portation for Policy, received in the Office of EC–5970. A communication from the Attor- Fireworks Display Cape Fear River; Wil- the President of the Senate on June 4, 2014; ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department mington, NC’’ ((RIN1625–AA00) (Docket No. to the Committee on Commerce, Science, of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- USCG–2014–0148)) received in the Office of the and Transportation. ant to law, the report of a rule entitled President of the Senate on June 4, 2014; to EC–5962. A communication from the Sec- ‘‘Drawbridge Operation Regulation; Atlantic the Committee on Commerce, Science, and retary of Transportation, transmitting, pur- Intracoastal Waterway, Titusville, FL’’ Transportation. suant to law, a report entitled ‘‘2014 Annual ((RIN1625–AA09) (Docket No. USCG–2014– EC–5979. A message from the President of Report: U.S. Department of Transportation’s 0279)) received in the Office of the President the United States, transmitting, pursuant to Status of Actions Addressing the Safety of the Senate on June 4, 2014; to the Com- law, an Executive Order that terminates the Issue Areas on the NTSB’s Most Wanted mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- prohibitions contained in section 1 of Execu- List’’; to the Committee on Commerce, tation. tive Order 13303 of May 22, 2003, as amended Science, and Transportation. EC–5971. A communication from the Attor- by Executive Order 13364 of November 29, EC–5963. A communication from the Attor- ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department 2004; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- and Urban Affairs. of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled EC–5980. A communication from the Chair- ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Spe- ‘‘Safety Zone; BMA Media Group Fireworks, man and President of the Export-Import cial Local Regulation; Jones Beach Air Presque Isle Bay, Erie, PA’’ ((RIN1625–AA00) Bank, transmitting, pursuant to law, a re- Show; Atlantic Ocean, Sloop Channel (Docket No. USCG–2014–0258)) received in the port relative to transactions involving U.S. through East Bay, and Zach’s Bay; Wantagh, Office of the President of the Senate on June exports to Thailand; to the Committee on NY’’ ((RIN1625–AA08) (Docket No. USCG– 4, 2014; to the Committee on Commerce, Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. 2014–0250)) received in the Office of the Presi- Science, and Transportation. EC–5981. A communication from the Assist- dent of the Senate on June 4, 2014; to the EC–5972. A communication from the Attor- ant Secretary for Export Administration, Committee on Commerce, Science, and ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department Bureau of Industry and Security, Depart- Transportation. of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- ment of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant EC–5964. A communication from the Attor- ant to law, the report of a rule entitled to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Amend- ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department ‘‘Safety Zone, Atlantic Ocean; Virginia ments to Existing Validated End-User Au- of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- Beach, VA’’ ((RIN1625–AA00) (Docket No. thorizations in the People’s Republic of ant to law, the report of a rule entitled USCG–2014–0111)) received in the Office of the China: Samsung China Semiconductor Co. ‘‘Drawbridge Operation Regulation; Bush President of the Senate on June 4, 2014; to Ltd and Semiconductor Manufacturing River, Perryman, MD’’ ((RIN1625–AA09) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and International Corporation’’ (RIN0694–AG15) (Docket No. USCG–2013–0972)) received in the Transportation. received during adjournment of the Senate Office of the President of the Senate on June EC–5973. A communication from the Attor- in the Office of the President of the Senate 4, 2014; to the Committee on Commerce, ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department on May 29, 2014; to the Committee on Bank- Science, and Transportation. of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- ing, Housing, and Urban Affairs. EC–5965. A communication from the Attor- ant to law, the report of a rule entitled EC–5982. A communication from the Assist- ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department ‘‘Safety Zone, Atlantic Ocean; Virginia ant Secretary for Export Administration, of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- Beach, VA’’ ((RIN1625–AA00) (Docket No. Bureau of Industry and Security, Depart- ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Spe- USCG–2014–0007)) received in the Office of the ment of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant cial Local Regulations and Safety Zones; Re- President of the Senate on June 4, 2014; to to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Revi- curring Marine Events and Fireworks Dis- the Committee on Commerce, Science, and sions to the Export Administration Regula- plays within the Fifth Coast Guard District’’ Transportation. tions Based on the 2013 Missile Technology ((RIN1625–AA00 and RIN1625–AA08) (Docket EC–5974. A communication from the Attor- Control Regime Plenary Agreements’’ No. USCG–2014–0095)) received in the Office of ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department (RIN0694–AG02) received during adjournment the President of the Senate on June 4, 2014; of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- of the Senate in the Office of the President to the Committee on Commerce, Science, ant to law, the report of a rule entitled of the Senate on May 29, 2014; to the Com- and Transportation. ‘‘Waiver of Citizenship Requirements for mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Af- EC–5966. A communication from the Attor- Crewmembers on Commerical Fishing Ves- fairs. ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department sels’’ ((RIN1625–AB50) (Docket No. USCG– EC–5983. A communication from the Assist- of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- 2010–0625)) received in the Office of the Presi- ant Secretary, Legislative Affairs, Depart- ant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Spe- dent of the Senate on June 4, 2014; to the ment of State, transmitting, pursuant to cial Local Regulation; Stuart Sailfish Re- Committee on Commerce, Science, and law, a six-month periodic report relative to gatta, Indian River; Stuart, FL’’ ((RIN1625– Transportation. the national emergency that was originally AA08) (Docket No. USCG–2014–0089)) received EC–5975. A communication from the Attor- declared in Executive Order 12938 of Novem- in the Office of the President of the Senate ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department ber 14, 1994; to the Committee on Banking, on June 4, 2014; to the Committee on Com- of Homeland Security, transmitting, pursu- Housing, and Urban Affairs. merce, Science, and Transportation. ant to law, the report of a rule entitled EC–5984. A communication from the Sec- EC–5967. A communication from the Attor- ‘‘Drawbridge Operation Regulation; Eliza- retary of the Treasury, transmitting, pursu- ney-Advisor, U.S. Coast Guard, Department beth River, Elizabeth, NJ’’ ((RIN1625–AA09) ant to law, a six-month periodic report on

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A communication from the Assist- retary of Education, transmitting, pursuant ant to law, a six-month periodic report on ant Secretary, Legislative Affairs, Depart- to law, the Semiannual Report of the Office the national emergency with respect to the ment of State, transmitting, pursuant to of the Inspector General for the period from Western Balkans that was declared in Execu- law, a report consistent with the Authoriza- October 1, 2013 through March 31, 2014; to the tive Order 13219 of June 26, 2001; to the Com- tion for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Committee on Homeland Security and Gov- mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Af- Resolution of 1002 (P.L. 107–243) and the Au- ernmental Affairs. fairs. thorization for the Use of Force Against Iraq EC–6006. A communication from the Chair- EC–5986. A communication from the Sec- Resolution (P.L. 102–1) for the February 15, man of the National Credit Union Adminis- retary of the Treasury, transmitting, pursu- 2014–April 15, 2014 reporting period; to the tration, transmitting, pursuant to law, the ant to law, a six-month periodic report on Committee on Foreign Relations. semi-annual report of the Inspector General the national emergency with respect to EC–5996. A communication from the Assist- for the period from October 1, 2013 through North Korea that was declared in Executive ant Secretary, Legislative Affairs, Depart- March 31, 2014; to the Committee on Home- Order 13466 of June 26, 2008; to the Com- ment of State, transmitting, pursuant to land Security and Governmental Affairs. mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Af- law, a report relative to section 36(c) of the EC–6007. A communication from the Chair fairs. Arms Export Control Act (DDTC 14–024); to of the Equal Employment Opportunity Com- EC–5987. A communication from the Assist- the Committee on Foreign Relations. mission, transmitting, pursuant to law, the ant General Counsel for Legislation, Regula- EC–5997. A communication from the Direc- Commission’s Semiannual Report of the In- tion and Energy Efficiency, Department of tor of the Regulatory Review Group, Com- spector General and the Semiannual Man- Energy, transmitting, pursuant to law, the modity Credit Corporation, Department of agement Report for the period from October report of a rule entitled ‘‘Energy Conserva- Agriculture, transmitting, pursuant to law, 1, 2013 through March 31, 2014; to the Com- tion Program: Energy Conservation Stand- the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Continuation of mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- ards for Walk-In Coolers and Freezers’’ Certain Benefit and Loan Programs, Acreage mental Affairs. (RIN1904–AB86) received in the Office of the Reporting, Average Adjusted Gross Income, EC–6008. A communication from the Assist- President of the Senate on June 3, 2014; to and Payment Limit’’ (7 CFR Chapter XIV) ant Secretary of Defense (Legislative Af- the Committee on Energy and Natural Re- received in the Office of the President of the fairs), transmitting, legislative proposals sources. Senate on June 4, 2014; to the Committee on relative to proposed legislation entitled the EC–5988. A communication from the Direc- Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. ‘‘National Defense Authorization Act for Fis- tor, Office of Surface Mining, Department of EC–5998. A communication from the Asso- cal Year 2015’’; to the Committee on Armed the Interior, transmitting, pursuant to law, ciate Administrator of the Fruit and Vege- Services. the report of a rule entitled ‘‘North Dakota table Programs, Agricultural Marketing EC–6009. A communication from the Sec- Regulatory Program’’ ((SATS No. ND–053– Service, Department of Agriculture, trans- retary of Health and Human Services, trans- FOR) (Docket No. OSM–2012–0006)) received mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule mitting, pursuant to law, the Department of in the Office of the President of the Senate entitled ‘‘Oranges, Grapefruit, Tangerines, Health and Human Service’s Semiannual Re- on June 3, 2014; to the Committee on Energy and Tangelos Grown in Florida; Relaxing port of the Inspector General for the period and Natural Resources. Grade Requirements for Valencia and Other from October 1, 2013 through March 31, 2014; EC–5989. A communication from the Direc- Late Type Oranges’’ (Docket No. AMS–FV– to the Committee on Homeland Security and tor, Office of Surface Mining, Department of 14–0041; FV14–905–2 IR) received in the Office Governmental Affairs. the Interior, transmitting, pursuant to law, of the President of the Senate on June 4, EC–6010. A communication from the Execu- the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Utah Regu- 2014; to the Committee on Agriculture, Nu- tive Director, Interstate Commission on the latory Program’’ ((SATS No. UT–049–FOR) trition, and Forestry. Potomac River Basin, transmitting, pursu- (Docket No. OSM–2012–0015)) received in the EC–5999. A communication from the Direc- ant to law, the Commission’s Seventy-Third Office of the President of the Senate on June tor of Congressional Activities (Intel- Financial Statement for the period of Octo- 3, 2014; to the Committee on Energy and Nat- ligence), Office of the Under Secretary of De- ber 1, 2012 through September 30, 2013; to the ural Resources. fense, transmitting, pursuant to law, a re- Committee on Homeland Security and Gov- EC–5990. A communication from the Assist- port relative to the results of a study of se- ernmental Affairs. ant Secretary, Legislative Affairs, Depart- curity measures on United States military EC–6011. A communication from the Sec- ment of State, transmitting, pursuant to installations by June 24, 2014; to the Com- retary of Education, transmitting, pursuant law, a report relative to the extension of mittee on Armed Services. to law, the Department’s Semiannual Report waiver authority for Turkmenistan; to the EC–6000. A communication from the Acting to Congress on Audit Follow-up for the pe- Committee on Finance. Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and riod of October 1, 2013 through March 31, 2014; EC–5991. A communication from the Sec- Readiness), transmitting the report of an of- to the Committee on Homeland Security and retary of Health and Human Services, trans- ficer authorized to wear the insignia of the Governmental Affairs. mitting, pursuant to law, a report entitled grade of major general in accordance with EC–6012. A communication from the Chair ‘‘Medicare Gainsharing Demonstration: title 10, United States Code, section 777; to of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Final Report to Congress’’; to the Committee the Committee on Armed Services. transmitting, pursuant to law, the Semi- on Finance. EC–6001. A communication from the Prin- annual Report of the Inspector General and a EC–5992. A communication from the Dep- cipal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Of- Management Report for the period from Oc- uty Director, Centers for Medicare and Med- fice of Legislative Affairs, Department of tober 1, 2013 through March 31, 2014; to the icaid Services, Department of Health and Justice, transmitting, pursuant to law, a re- Committee on Homeland Security and Gov- Human Services, transmitting, pursuant to port entitled ‘‘Status of the Tribal Law and ernmental Affairs. law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Patient Order Act Pilot Program Report to Con- EC–6013. A communication from the Prin- Protection and Affordable Care Act; Ex- gress’’; to the Committee on the Judiciary. cipal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Of- change and Insurance Market Standards for EC–6002. A communication from the Assist- fice of Legislative Affairs, Department of 2015 and Beyond’’ ((RIN0938–AS02) (CMS– ant Secretary, Legislative Affairs, Depart- Justice, transmitting, pursuant to law, the 9949–F)) received during adjournment of the ment of State, transmitting, pursuant to fourth quarter of fiscal year 2013 quarterly Senate in the Office of the President of the law, a report relative to section 36(d) of the report of the Department of Justice’s Office Senate on May 27, 2014; to the Committee on Arms Export Control Act (DDTC 14–028); to of Privacy and Civil Liberties; to the Com- Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. the Committee on Foreign Relations. mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- EC–5993. A communication from the Dep- EC–6003. A communication from the Asso- mental Affairs. uty Director, Centers for Medicare and Med- ciate Administrator of the Fruit and Vege- EC–6014. A communication from the Chair- icaid Services, Department of Health and table Programs, Agricultural Marketing man of the Council of the District of Colum- Human Services, transmitting, pursuant to Service, Department of Agriculture, trans- bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Patient mitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule on D.C. Act 20–337, ‘‘Transportation Infra- Protection and Affordable Care Act; Ex- entitled ‘‘Grapes Grown in a Designated Area structure Improvements GARVEE Bond Fi- change and Insurance Market Standards for of Southeastern California; Increased Assess- nancing Amendment Act of 2014’’; to the 2015 and Beyond’’ ((RIN0938–AS02) (CMS– ment Rate’’ (Docket No. AMS–FV–14–0010; Committee on Homeland Security and Gov- 9949–F)) received in the Office of the Presi- FV14–925–1 FR) received in the Office of the ernmental Affairs. dent of the Senate on May 20, 2014; to the President of the Senate on June 5, 2014; to EC–6015. A communication from the Chair- Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, man of the Council of the District of Colum- Pensions. and Forestry. bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report EC–5994. A communication from the Assist- EC–6004. A communication from the Acting on D.C. Act 20–336, ‘‘Better Prices, Better ant Secretary, Bureau of Political-Military Commissioner of the Social Security Admin- Quality, Better Choices for Health Coverage Affairs, Department of State, transmitting, istration, transmitting, pursuant to law, the Amendment Act of 2014’’; to the Committee

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Act 20–338, ‘‘Shiloh Way Designation Liability Act of 1980 to modify provisions re- 5, United States Code, to provide that any Act of 2014’’; to the Committee on Homeland lating to grants, and for other purposes hours worked by Federal firefighters under a Security and Governmental Affairs. (Rept. No. 113–186). qualified trade-of-time arrangement shall be EC–6017. A communication from the Sec- By Mrs. BOXER, from the Committee on excluded for purposes of determinations re- retary of Labor, transmitting, pursuant to Environment and Public Works, with an lating to overtime pay; to the Committee on law, the Department’s fiscal year 2013 annual amendment in the nature of a substitute: Homeland Security and Governmental Af- report relative to the Notification and Fed- S. 741. A bill to extend the authorization of fairs. eral Employee Antidiscrimination and Re- appropriations to carry out approved wet- By Mr. SCOTT: taliation Act (No FEAR Act) of 2002; to the lands conservation projects under the North S. 2436. A bill to amend title 5, United Committee on Homeland Security and Gov- American Wetlands Conservation Act States Code, to provide that agencies may ernmental Affairs. through fiscal year 2017 (Rept. No. 113–187). not deduct labor organization dues from the EC–6018. A communication from the Direc- By Mrs. BOXER, from the Committee on pay of Federal employees, and for other pur- tor, Office of Civil Rights, Environmental Environment and Public Works, with amend- poses; to the Committee on Homeland Secu- Protection Agency, transmitting, pursuant ments: rity and Governmental Affairs. to law, the Agency’s fiscal year 2013 annual S. 969. A bill to amend the Neotropical Mi- By Ms. MIKULSKI: report relative to the Notification and Fed- gratory Bird Conservation Act to reauthor- S. 2437. An original bill making appropria- eral Employee Antidiscrimination and Re- ize the Act (Rept. No. 113–188). tions for Departments of Commerce and Jus- taliation Act of 2002 (No FEAR Act); to the By Mrs. BOXER, from the Committee on tice, and Science, and Related Agencies for Committee on Homeland Security and Gov- Environment and Public Works, without the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, and ernmental Affairs. amendment: for other purposes; from the Committee on EC–6019. A communication from the Direc- S. 1077. A bill to amend the Chesapeake Appropriations; placed on the calendar. tor of the Diversity and Inclusion Division, Bay Initiative Act of 1998 to provide for the By Mrs. MURRAY: Office of the Secretary, Department of reauthorization of the Chesapeake Bay Gate- S. 2438. An original bill making appropria- Health and Human Services, transmitting, ways and Watertrails Network (Rept. No. tions for the Departments of Transportation, pursuant to law, the Department’s fiscal 113–189). and Housing and Urban Development, and re- year 2013 annual report relative to the Noti- S. 1080. A bill to amend and reauthorize lated agencies for the fiscal year ending Sep- fication and Federal Employee Antidiscrimi- certain provisions relating to Long Island tember 30, 2015, and for other purposes; from nation and Retaliation Act of 2002 (No FEAR Sound restoration and stewardship (Rept. the Committee on Appropriations; placed on Act); to the Committee on Homeland Secu- No. 113–190). the calendar. rity and Governmental Affairs. S. 1451. A bill to provide for environmental By Mrs. MCCASKILL (for herself, Mr. EC–6020. A communication from the Asso- restoration activities and forest manage- COATS, Ms. MIKULSKI, Mr. TESTER, ciate General Counsel for General Law, De- ment activities in the Lake Tahoe Basin, to and Ms. COLLINS): partment of Homeland Security, transmit- amend title 18, United States Code, to pro- S. 2439. A bill to amend the Inspector Gen- ting, pursuant to law, a report relative to a hibit the importation or shipment of quagga eral Act of 1978 to provide for the Inspector vacancy in the position of Assistant Sec- mussels, and for other purposes (Rept. No. General of the National Security Agency to retary, Policy, Department of Homeland Se- 113–191). be appointed by the President, by and with curity, received during adjournment of the S. 2080. A bill to conserve fish and aquatic the advice and consent of the Senate, and for Senate in the Office of the President of the communities in the United States through other purposes; to the Select Committee on Senate on May 29, 2014; to the Committee on partnerships that foster fish habitat con- Intelligence. Homeland Security and Governmental Af- servation, improve the quality of life for the By Mr. UDALL of New Mexico (for fairs. people of the United States, enhance fish and himself, Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. HEINRICH, EC–6021. A communication from the Dis- wildlife-dependent recreation, and for other Mr. HOEVEN, Mr. ENZI, Mr. UDALL of trict of Columbia Auditor, transmitting, pur- purposes (Rept. No. 113–192). Colorado, Mr. HELLER, Mr. WALSH, suant to law, a report entitled, ‘‘District of S. 898. A bill to authorize the Adminis- Mr. INHOFE, and Ms. HEITKAMP): Columbia Agencies’ Compliance with Fiscal trator of General Services to convey a parcel S. 2440. A bill to expand and extend the Year 2014 Small Business Enterprise Expend- of real property in Albuquerque, New Mex- program to improve permit coordination by iture Goals through the 1st Quarter of the ico, to the Amy Biehl High School Founda- the Bureau of Land Management, and for Fiscal Year 2014’’; to the Committee on tion. other purposes; to the Committee on Energy Homeland Security and Governmental Af- By Mrs. BOXER, from the Committee on and Natural Resources. fairs. Environment and Public Works, with an By Mr. REED (for himself, Ms. AYOTTE, f amendment in the nature of a substitute and Mr. LEAHY, Mr. MARKEY, and Mr. an amendment to the title: WHITEHOUSE): REPORTS OF COMMITTEES S. 1934. A bill to direct the Administrator S. 2441. A bill to extend the same Federal The following reports of committees of General Services to convey the Clifford P. benefits to law enforcement officers serving were submitted: Hansen Federal Courthouse back to Teton private institutions of higher education and County, Wyoming. rail carriers that apply to law enforcement By Ms. MIKULSKI, from the Committee on officers serving units of State and local gov- Appropriations, without amendment: f S. 2437. An original bill making appropria- ernment; to the Committee on the Judiciary. INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND By Mr. WALSH (for himself and Mr. tions for Departments of Commerce and Jus- JOINT RESOLUTIONS tice, and Science, and Related Agencies for TESTER): the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, and The following bills and joint resolu- S. 2442. A bill to direct the Secretary of the for other purposes (Rept. No. 113–181). tions were introduced, read the first Interior to take certain land and mineral By Mrs. MURRAY, from the Committee on rights on the reservation of the Northern and second times by unanimous con- Cheyenne Tribe of Montana and other cul- Appropriations, without amendment: sent, and referred as indicated: S. 2438. An original bill making appropria- turally important land into trust for the tions for the Departments of Transportation, By Mr. MARKEY: benefit of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, and and Housing and Urban Development, and re- S. 2433. A bill to provide assistance to for other purposes; to the Committee on In- lated agencies for the fiscal year ending Sep- Ukraine to reduce the dependence of Ukraine dian Affairs. tember 30, 2015, and for other purposes (Rept. on imports of natural gas from the Russian By Mr. BROWN (for himself, Ms. No. 113–182). Federation, and for other purposes; to the AYOTTE, Ms. LANDRIEU, Mrs. GILLI- By Mrs. BOXER, from the Committee on Committee on Foreign Relations. BRAND, Ms. BALDWIN, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Environment and Public Works, without By Mr. FRANKEN (for himself, Mr. and Mr. NELSON): amendment: KAINE, Mrs. BOXER, Mr. BROWN, Mr. S. 2443. A bill to direct the Attorney Gen- S. 51. A bill to reauthorize and amend the SANDERS, Mr. LEAHY, Ms. HEITKAMP, eral to make grants to States that have in National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Es- Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. UDALL of Colo- place laws that terminate the parental tablishment Act (Rept. No. 113–183). rado, Mr. MERKLEY, Mr. BENNET, Mrs. rights of men who father children through S. 212. A bill to approve the transfer of Yel- HAGAN, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. SCHATZ, rape; to the Committee on the Judiciary. low Creek Port properties in Iuka, Mis- Mrs. SHAHEEN, Mr. UDALL of New By Mr. BEGICH (for himself, Mr. sissippi (Rept. No. 113–184). Mexico, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. KING, Mr. ROCKEFELLER, Mr. RUBIO, Mr. THUNE, S. 224. A bill to amend the Federal Water HEINRICH, Mr. COONS, and Mr. and Ms. CANTWELL): Pollution Control Act to establish a grant BEGICH): S. 2444. A bill to authorize appropriations program to support the restoration of San S. 2434. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- for the Coast Guard for fiscal years 2015 Francisco Bay (Rept. No. 113–185). enue Code of 1986 to ensure that working through 2016, and for other purposes; to the

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A bill to provide family members S. 1011 and close associates of an individual who At the request of Mr. JOHANNS, the ignated allocations for areas impacted they fear is a danger to himself, herself, or name of the Senator from South Caro- by a decline in manufacturing. others new tools to prevent gun violence; to lina (Mr. SCOTT) was added as a cospon- S. 1905 the Committee on the Judiciary. sor of S. 1011, a bill to require the Sec- At the request of Mr. MANCHIN, the By Mr. JOHNSON of Wisconsin: retary of the Treasury to mint coins in name of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. S. 2446. A bill to require the Congressional commemoration of the centennial of Budget Office to annually report changes in KIRK) was added as a cosponsor of S. direct spending and revenue associated with Boys Town, and for other purposes. 1905, a bill to provide direction to the the Patient Protection and Affordable Care S. 1040 Administrator of the Environmental Act; to the Committee on the Budget. At the request of Mr. PORTMAN, the Protection Agency regarding the estab- By Mr. PORTMAN: names of the Senator from Mississippi lishment of standards for emissions of S. 2447. A bill to amend title 31, United (Mr. WICKER), the Senator from Ari- any greenhouse gas from fossil fuel- States Code, to clarify the use of credentials zona (Mr. MCCAIN), the Senator from fired electric utility generating units, by enrolled agents; to the Committee on Fi- Alaska (Ms. MURKOWSKI), the Senator and for other purposes. nance. By Mrs. HAGAN: from Wyoming (Mr. ENZI), the Senator S. 2048 S. 2448. A bill to protect servicemembers in from Florida (Mr. RUBIO), the Senator At the request of Ms. HIRONO, the higher education, and for other purposes; to from Georgia (Mr. CHAMBLISS) and the name of the Senator from Connecticut the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. Senator from Illinois (Mr. KIRK) were (Mr. MURPHY) was added as a cosponsor f added as cosponsors of S. 1040, a bill to of S. 2048, a bill to include New Zealand provide for the award of a gold medal in the list of foreign states whose na- SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND on behalf of Congress to Jack Nicklaus, tionals are eligible for admission into SENATE RESOLUTIONS in recognition of his service to the Na- the United States as E–1 and E–2 non- The following concurrent resolutions tion in promoting excellence, good immigrants if United States nationals and Senate resolutions were read, and sportsmanship, and philanthropy. are treated similarly by the Govern- referred (or acted upon), as indicated: S. 1141 ment of New Zealand. By Mr. REID (for himself and Mr. At the request of Mr. CARDIN, the S. 2091 MCCONNELL): name of the Senator from Massachu- At the request of Mr. HELLER, the S. Res. 468. A resolution to authorize the setts (Mr. MARKEY) was added as a co- name of the Senator from North Caro- production of records by the Permanent Sub- sponsor of S. 1141, a bill to amend the lina (Mrs. HAGAN) was added as a co- committee on Investigations of the Com- Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ex- mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- sponsor of S. 2091, a bill to amend title mental Affairs; considered and agreed to. pand the rehabilitation credit, and for 38, United States Code, to improve the other purposes. f processing by the Department of Vet- S. 1156 erans Affairs of claims for benefits ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS At the request of Mr. FRANKEN, the under laws administered by the Sec- S. 635 name of the Senator from Colorado retary of Veterans Affairs, and for (Mr. UDALL) was added as a cosponsor At the request of Mr. BROWN, the other purposes. of S. 1156, a bill to amend the Higher name of the Senator from Illinois (Mr. S. 2095 Education Opportunity Act to add dis- DURBIN) was added as a cosponsor of S. At the request of Mr. MORAN, the 635, a bill to amend the Gramm-Leach- closure requirements to the institution name of the Senator from Montana financial aid offer form and to amend Bliley Act to provide an exception to (Mr. TESTER) was added as a cosponsor the annual written privacy notice re- the Higher Education Act of 1965 to of S. 2095, a bill to reauthorize and quirement. make such form mandatory. modify the pilot program of the De- At the request of Mr. MORAN, the S. 1431 partment of Veterans Affairs under name of the Senator from Texas (Mr. At the request of Mr. THUNE, the which the Secretary of Veterans Af- CRUZ) was added as a cosponsor of S. name of the Senator from Idaho (Mr. fairs provides health services to vet- 635, supra. CRAPO) was added as a cosponsor of S. erans through qualifying non-Depart- At the request of Mr. MCCONNELL, his 1431, a bill to permanently extend the ment of Veterans Affairs health care name was added as a cosponsor of S. Internet Tax Freedom Act. providers, and for other purposes. 635, supra. S. 1799 S. 2103 S. 822 At the request of Mr. COONS, the At the request of Mr. TOOMEY, his At the request of Mr. LEAHY, the name of the Senator from North Da- name was added as a cosponsor of S. name of the Senator from Connecticut kota (Mr. HOEVEN) was added as a co- 2103, a bill to direct the Administrator (Mr. BLUMENTHAL) was added as a cosponsor of S. 1799, a bill to reauthorize of the Federal Aviation Administration sponsor of S. 822, a bill to protect crime subtitle A of the Victims of Child to issue or revise regulations with re- victims’ rights, to eliminate the sub- Abuse Act of 1990. spect to the medical certification of stantial backlog of DNA samples col- S. 1803 certain small aircraft pilots, and for lected from crime scenes and convicted At the request of Mr. DURBIN, the other purposes. offenders, to improve and expand the name of the Senator from West Vir- At the request of Mr. PRYOR, his DNA testing capacity of Federal, ginia (Mr. ROCKEFELLER) was added as name was added as a cosponsor of S. State, and local crime laboratories, to a cosponsor of S. 1803, a bill to require 2103, supra. increase research and development of certain protections for student loan At the request of Mr. DONNELLY, his new DNA testing technologies, to de- borrowers, and for other purposes. name was added as a cosponsor of S. velop new training programs regarding S. 1874 2103, supra. the collection and use of DNA evidence, At the request of Mr. REED, the name S. 2107 to provide post conviction testing of of the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. At the request of Mrs. SHAHEEN, the DNA evidence to exonerate the inno- WHITEHOUSE) was added as a cosponsor name of the Senator from West Vir- cent, to improve the performance of of S. 1874, a bill to amend the Higher ginia (Mr. ROCKEFELLER) was added as counsel in State capital cases, and for Education Act of 1965 to strengthen a cosponsor of S. 2107, a bill to increase other purposes. Federal-State partnerships in postsec- students’ and borrowers’ access to stu- S. 887 ondary education. dent loan information within the Na- At the request of Mr. PAUL, the name S. 1896 tional Student Loan Data System, and of the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. At the request of Mr. BROWN, the to encourage improved outreach to and WICKER) was added as a cosponsor of S. name of the Senator from Montana communication with borrowers.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 02:11 Mar 21, 2015 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00043 Fmt 4624 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD14\JUN 2014\S05JN4.REC S05JN4 bjneal on DSK2TWX8P1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE S3476 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE June 5, 2014 S. 2152 ficiaries in rural areas to health care resolution proposing an amendment to At the request of Ms. HEITKAMP, the providers under the Medicare program, the Constitution of the United States name of the Senator from Montana and for other purposes. relating to contributions and expendi- (Mr. WALSH) was added as a cosponsor S. 2370 tures intended to affect elections. of S. 2152, a bill to direct Federal in- At the request of Mr. COBURN, the S.J. RES. 36 vestment in carbon capture and stor- name of the Senator from Arizona (Mr. At the request of Mr. MENENDEZ, the age and other clean coal technologies, FLAKE) was added as a cosponsor of S. name of the Senator from New Hamp- and for other purposes. 2370, a bill to rescind unused earmarks shire (Mrs. SHAHEEN) was added as a co- S. 2171 provided for the Department of Trans- sponsor of S.J. Res. 36, a joint resolu- At the request of Mr. FRANKEN, the portation, and for other purposes. tion relating to the approval and im- name of the Senator from California S. 2374 plementation of the proposed agree- (Mrs. FEINSTEIN) was added as a co- At the request of Ms. LANDRIEU, the ment for nuclear cooperation between sponsor of S. 2171, a bill to address vol- name of the Senator from West Vir- the United States and the Socialist Re- untary location tracking of electronic ginia (Mr. ROCKEFELLER) was added as public of Vietnam. communications devices, and for other a cosponsor of S. 2374, a bill to improve S. CON. RES. 32 purposes. college affordability. At the request of Mr. DURBIN, the S. 2192 S. 2401 names of the Senator from Connecticut At the request of Mr. MARKEY, the At the request of Mr. TESTER, the (Mr. BLUMENTHAL) and the Senator name of the Senator from Maine (Mr. name of the Senator from California from New York (Mrs. GILLIBRAND) were KING) was added as a cosponsor of S. (Mrs. FEINSTEIN) was added as a co- added as cosponsors of S. Con. Res. 32, 2192, a bill to amend the National Alz- sponsor of S. 2401, a bill to amend title a concurrent resolution expressing the heimer’s Project Act to require the Di- 38, United States Code, to establish the sense of Congress regarding the need rector of the National Institutes of Office of the Medical Inspector within for investigation and prosecution of Health to prepare and submit, directly the Office of the Under Secretary for war crimes, crimes against humanity, to the President for review and trans- Health of the Department of Veterans and genocide, whether committed by mittal to Congress, an annual budget Affairs. officials of the Government of Syria, or estimate (including an estimate of the S. 2414 members of other groups involved in number and type of personnel needs for civil war in Syria, and calling on the At the request of Mr. MCCONNELL, the Institutes) for the initiatives of the the name of the Senator from Kansas President to direct the United States National Institutes of Health pursuant Permanent Representative to the (Mr. MORAN) was added as a cosponsor to such an Act. of S. 2414, a bill to amend the Clean Air United Nations to use the voice and S. 2238 Act to prohibit the regulation of emis- vote of the United States to imme- At the request of Mr. COATS, the sions of carbon dioxide from new or ex- diately promote the establishment of a name of the Senator from Oklahoma isting power plants under certain cir- Syrian war crimes tribunal, and for (Mr. INHOFE) was added as a cosponsor cumstances. other purposes. S. RES. 410 of S. 2238, a bill to ensure that the S. 2422 United States Government in no way At the request of Mr. MENENDEZ, the At the request of Mr. SANDERS, the recognizes Russia’s annexation of Cri- names of the Senator from California name of the Senator from Colorado mea. (Mr. BENNET) was added as a cosponsor (Mrs. FEINSTEIN), the Senator from of S. Res. 410, a resolution expressing S. 2307 Minnesota (Mr. FRANKEN) and the Sen- the sense of the Senate regarding the At the request of Mrs. BOXER, the ator from North Carolina (Mrs. HAGAN) name of the Senator from Minnesota were added as cosponsors of S. 2422, a anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. (Mr. FRANKEN) was added as a cospon- bill to improve the access of veterans f sor of S. 2307, a bill to prevent inter- to medical services from the Depart- STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED national violence against women, and ment of Veterans Affairs, and for other BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS for other purposes. purposes. S. 2338 S. 2424 By Mr. SCOTT: At the request of Mr. THUNE, the At the request of Mr. MCCAIN, the name of the Senator from Missouri S. 2436. A bill to amend title 5, names of the Senator from Georgia United States Code, to provide that (Mr. BLUNT) was added as a cosponsor (Mr. CHAMBLISS), the Senator from of S. 2338, a bill to reauthorize the agencies may not deduct labor organi- West Virginia (Mr. MANCHIN) and the zation dues from the pay of Federal United States Anti-Doping Agency, and Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. JOHNSON) for other purposes. employees, and for other purposes; to were added as cosponsors of S. 2424, a the Committee on Homeland Security S. 2349 bill to provide veterans with the choice and Governmental Affairs. At the request of Mr. SANDERS, the of medical providers and to increase Mr. SCOTT. Mr. President, the Em- name of the Senator from West Vir- transparency and accountability of op- power Employees Act prohibits Federal ginia (Mr. ROCKEFELLER) was added as erations of the Veterans Health Admin- agencies from automatically deducting a cosponsor of S. 2349, a bill to estab- istration of the Department of Vet- union dues from the pay of Federal em- lish a grant program to enable States erans Affairs, and for other purposes. ployees. The current system provided to promote participation in dual en- S. 2432 for under title 5 of the United States rollment programs, and for other pur- At the request of Ms. WARREN, the Code permits taxpayer resources to be poses. names of the Senator from Maryland used for the collection of these dues, S. 2352 (Ms. MIKULSKI), the Senator from which in turn are often used for polit- At the request of Mr. COATS, the Vermont (Mr. LEAHY), the Senator ical purposes. This legislation takes an name of the Senator from Maine (Ms. from Washington (Ms. CANTWELL) and important step in eliminating this tax- COLLINS) was added as a cosponsor of S. the Senator from Michigan (Mr. LEVIN) payer subsidy to organized labor by 2352, a bill to re-impose sanctions on were added as cosponsors of S. 2432, a shifting the administrative burden of Russian arms exporter bill to amend the Higher Education Act funding public sector unions to labor Rosoboronexport. of 1965 to provide for the refinancing of organizations and away from the S. 2359 certain Federal student loans, and for American taxpayer. Federal union em- At the request of Mr. FRANKEN, the other purposes. ployees enjoy benefits far greater than name of the Senator from New Mexico S.J. RES. 19 those in the private sector and the (Mr. UDALL) was added as a cosponsor At the request of Mr. UDALL of New unions’ power to bargain is supported of S. 2359, a bill to amend title XVIII of Mexico, the name of the Senator from by the dues they automatically collect the Social Security Act to protect and West Virginia (Mr. MANCHIN) was added from employees’ paychecks. This bill preserve access of Medicare bene- as a cosponsor of S.J. Res. 19, a joint in no way prohibits Federal workers

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To TRANSPORTATION KEY, and Mr. WHITEHOUSE): honor Officer Collier’s service and sac- Mr. KAINE. Mr. President, I ask S. 2441. A bill to extend the same rifice, this bill would be retroactive to unanimous consent that the Com- Federal benefits to law enforcement of- April 15, 2013, the day of the Boston mittee on Commerce, Science, and ficers serving private institutions of bombings. Transportation be authorized to meet higher education and rail carriers that I am pleased that Senators AYOTTE, during the session of the Senate on apply to law enforcement officers serv- LEAHY, MARKEY, and WHITEHOUSE have June 5, 2014, at 9:15 a.m. in room 253 of ing units of State and local govern- joined me in introducing this legisla- the Russell Senate Office Building to ment; to the Committee on the Judici- tion, which would ensure that officers conduct a hearing entitled, ‘‘Pre- ary. who give their full measure and their serving Public Safety and Network Re- Mr. REED. Mr. President, today I am families are eligible for the benefits as- liability in the IP Transition.’’ reintroducing the Equity in Law En- sociated with law enforcement work, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without forcement Act to extend Federal bene- and that they have access to the pro- objection, it is so ordered. fits to law enforcement officers who tective equipment they need. COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS serve private institutions of higher The bill would only apply to officers Mr. KAINE. Mr. President, I ask education and rail carriers. This legis- who are sworn, licensed or certified to unanimous consent that the Com- lation would make these individuals el- enforce the law within their jurisdic- mittee on Foreign Relations be author- igible for the same benefits provided to tion, and is supported by the National ized to meet during the session of the public law enforcement officers, includ- Association of Police Organizations Senate on June 5, 2014, at 10 a.m., to ing line-of-duty death benefits under and the International Association of conduct a hearing entitled, ‘‘Develop- the Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Campus Law Enforcement Administra- ments in Ukraine.’’ Program and bulletproof vest partner- tors. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ship grants through the Department of I urge our colleagues to join us in co- objection, it is so ordered. Justice. sponsoring and passing the Equity in SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE The Public Safety Officers Benefits, Law Enforcement Act. PSOB, Act of 1976 was enacted to aid in Mr. KAINE. Mr. President, I ask the recruitment and retention of law f unanimous consent that the Select enforcement officers and firefighters SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS Committee on Intelligence be author- by providing a one-time financial ben- ized to meet during the session of the efit to the eligible survivors of public Senate on June 5, 2014, at 2:30 p.m. safety officers whose deaths are the di- SENATE RESOLUTION 468—TO AU- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without rect result of traumatic injury sus- THORIZE THE PRODUCTION OF objection, it is so ordered. tained in the line of duty. RECORDS BY THE PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, The same risks also apply to officers SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGA- INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS, AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA protecting our private universities and TIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON railways. However, the PSOB Act does HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOV- Mr. KAINE. Mr. President, I ask not include these officers, even though ERNMENTAL AFFAIRS unanimous consent that the Sub- they enforce the law. These brave indi- Mr. REID of Nevada (for himself and committee on Emergency Manage- ment, Intergovernmental Relations, viduals, who protect our college and Mr. MCCONNELL) submitted the fol- university campuses and railways lowing resolution; which was consid- and the District of Columbia of the every day and receive similar training ered and agreed to: Committee on Homeland Security and to their government counterparts, are Governmental Affairs be authorized to S. RES. 468 meet during the session of the Senate thus excluded from receiving the line- Whereas, the Permanent Subcommittee on of-duty federal death benefits available on June 5, 2014, at 2:30 p.m. to conduct Investigations of the Committee on Home- a hearing entitled, ‘‘Wildfires: Assess- to law enforcement officers serving land Security and Governmental Affairs con- units of State and local governments. ducted an investigation into Caterpillar ing First Responder Training and Capa- Over the last 50 years, 35 college or Inc.’s Offshore Tax Strategy; bilities.’’ university law enforcement officers Whereas, the Subcommittee has received a The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without have lost their lives in the line of duty, request from a federal regulatory agency for objection, it is so ordered. access to records of the Subcommittee’s in- according to the National Law Enforce- f vestigation; ment Officers Memorial Fund. The Whereas, by the privileges of the Senate of PRIVILEGES OF THE FLOOR names of these officers, including Pa- the United States and Rule XI of the Stand- trol Officer Joseph Francis Doyle who ing Rules of the Senate, no evidence under Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, I ask unani- was killed in the line of duty at Brown the control or in the possession of the Senate mous consent for floor privileges for University in 1988, as well as the rail- can, by administrative or judicial process, be the day for Daniel Head of my staff. way officers who have been killed in taken from such control or possession but by The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the line of duty are inscribed on the permission of the Senate; objection, it is so ordered. memorial. Whereas, when it appears that evidence Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I under the control or in the possession of the ask unanimous consent that privileges A recent name on the memorial is Senate is needed for the promotion of jus- Patrol Officer Sean Collier. We re- tice, the Senate will take such action as will of the floor be granted to Cathy Cahill cently marked the first anniversary of promote the ends of justice consistent with for the remainder of the 113th Con- the bombing at the Boston Marathon, the privileges of the Senate: Now, therefore, gress. an act of terror that tragically killed be it The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without three and injured over 260 others. Resolved, That the Chairman and Ranking objection, it is so ordered. Minority Member of the Permanent Sub- Three days later, during the manhunt f for the attackers, the perpetrators shot committee on Investigations of the Com- mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- and killed Officer Collier of the MIT AUTHORIZING DOCUMENT mental Affairs, acting jointly, are authorized PRODUCTION Police Department on the university’s to provide to law enforcement officials, regu- campus. Officer Collier was not only latory agencies, and other entities or indi- Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask bravely serving the students and fac- viduals duly authorized by federal, state, or unanimous consent the Senate proceed

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HAGGRAY production of records by the Permanent Sub- on confirmation of the nominations in CHARLES E. HAMLIN LADISLAO HERNANDEZ, JR. committee on Investigations of the Com- the order listed. DOUGLAS C. HOOVER mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without WILLIAM H. HORTON II mental Affairs. TERRELL L. JONES objection, it is so ordered. MOON H. KIM There being no objection, the Senate YOUNG D. KIM f EDDIE KINLEY, JR. proceeded to consider the resolution. KENNETH M. LEBON Mr. REID. Madam President, the Per- PROGRAM JAMES B. LEE WILLIAM A. LOVELL manent Subcommittee on Investiga- Mr. REID. Madam President, for the ROBERT A. MILLER tions of the Committee on Homeland benefit of all Senators, there will be JOHN L. MORALES STEVEN J. MOSER Security and Governmental Affairs has three rollcall votes at 5:30 p.m. on Mon- LINDA D. NORLIEN received a request from a Federal regu- day evening. STEVE W. PROST IBRAHEEM A. RAHEEM latory agency seeking access to records f CELESTENE ROBB that the Subcommittee obtained dur- WILLIAM H. SCRITCHFIELD ADJOURNMENT UNTIL MONDAY, MUHAMMAD K. SHABAZZ ing its recent investigation and hear- JUNE 9, 2014, AT 2 P.M. SCOTT E. SIMPSON ing on Caterpillar Inc.’s offshore tax DOUGLAS C. SWIFT, JR. Mr. REID. Madam President, if there ROBERT R. THOMAS strategy. DAVID K. TROGDON This resolution would authorize the is no further business to come before ROBERT K. WALKER chairman and ranking minority mem- the Senate today, I ask unanimous THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY ber of the Permanent Subcommittee on consent that it adjourn under the pre- NURSE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 624 AND Investigations, acting jointly, to pro- vious order. 3064: vide records, obtained by the Sub- There being no objection, the Senate, To be lieutenant colonel committee in the course of its inves- at 5:31 p.m., adjourned until Monday, DENISE K. ASKEW June 9, 2014, at 2 p.m. DANIEL A. BLAZ tigation, in response to this request KEVIN T. BOJAR and requests from other government f TAMEKA D. BOWSER DAVID F. BOYD III entities and officials with a legitimate NOMINATIONS JAMEY L. BROACH need for the records. CRAIG S. BUDINICH Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask Executive nominations received by BRETT G. BUEHNER the Senate: SEAN W. BURKE unanimous consent the resolution be JENNIFER R. BUTERA DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITIES SAFETY BOARD JACQUELINE A. CLEMENTS agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, MICHELLE M. COUNTOURIOTIS and the motions to reconsider be laid JESSIE HILL ROBERSON, OF ALABAMA, TO BE A MEM- SHANE A. CRASK BER OF THE DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITIES SAFETY JOELLEN S. FIELDEN upon the table, with no intervening ac- BOARD FOR A TERM EXPIRING OCTOBER 18, 2018. (RE- MITZI A. FIELDS tion or debate. APPOINTMENT) JIMMIE C. FOSTER DANIEL J. SANTOS, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE A MEMBER OF BRAD E. FRANKLIN The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without THE DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITIES SAFETY BOARD FOR STACEY S. FREEMAN objection, it is so ordered. A TERM EXPIRING OCTOBER 18, 2017, VICE JOSEPH F. SUSAN K. FRISBIE BADER, TERM EXPIRED. The resolution (S. Res. 468) was ANDREA J. FULLER DEPARTMENT OF STATE EDWIN S. FULLER agreed to. MATTHEW K. GARRISON KEVIN F. O’MALLEY, OF MISSOURI, TO BE AMBAS- JAMES B. HACKER The preamble was agreed to. SADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF JOSEPH J. HOFFERT (The resolution, with its preamble, is THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO IRELAND. TELESHIA L. HORTONHARGROVE GEORGE A. JOHNSON IN THE ARMY printed in today’s RECORD under ‘‘Sub- DENAR D. JOYNER mitted Resolutions.’’) THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT JULIE H. JUDD TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY CHARLES S. KUHENS f VETERINARY CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS GREGORY L. LARA 624 AND 3064: MARKUS D. LEE SIGNING AUTHORITY THERESA L. LEWIS To be lieutenant colonel LARRY J. LINVILLE, JR. Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask ROBERT P. LONG II JEREMY J. BEARSS RANAE T. LOWE unanimous consent that during the ad- DALE R. BEEBE ALICIA A. MADORE TODD M. BELL journment or recess of the Senate from DANIEL N. MOBIT ROBIN L. BURKE MICHAEL U. NNADOZIE Thursday, June 5, through Monday, GWYNNE E. KINLEY BIRGIT B. NOSALIK SHANNON H. LACY June 9, the majority leader be author- RACHEL E. PARK AUDREY C. MCMILLANCOLE JOSHUA D. PAUL ized to sign duly enrolled bills or joint JODI L. NICKLAS LORNA D. PEAY resolutions. THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT BARRY P. RAINWATER The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY ERNESTO A. RAYMUNDO MEDICAL SPECIALIST CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SAUNDRA C. RIVERS objection, it is so ordered. SECTIONS 624 AND 3064: THURMAN J. SAUNDERS To be lieutenant colonel HOLLY L. SHENEFIEL f TIMOTHY M. SNAVELY NORMAN W. AYOTTE JENNIFER V. SNELSON ORDERS FOR MONDAY, JUNE 9, DAVID J. BAUDER GUY G. STLOUIS 2014 THOMAS A. BRYANT JERRY B. STOVER RENEE E. COLE ALICIA D. SURREY Mr. REID. Madam President, I ask MICHAEL J. COOTE JODI L. B. TERPENNING DAVID N. FELTWELL JIMMIE J. TOLVERT unanimous consent that when the Sen- OWEN T. HILL ANA M. UKACHUKWU ate completes its business today, it ad- AMY L. JACKSON SARA I. VILLACORTA CYNTHIA L. MCLEAN KEVAN S. WEAVER journ until 2 p.m. on Monday, June 9, ELIZABETH E. PAINTER MATTHEW D. WELDER 2014; that following the prayer and CHARLES D. QUICK GORDON F. WEST DEJUANA L. RIAT HAROLD E. WILLIAMS pledge, the morning hour be deemed SCOTT R. SCHMIDT JOHN T. WILSON expired, the Journal of proceedings be RONNA L. TRENT BRET G. WITT approved to date, and the time for the BRENDA D. WHITE THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT D001875 TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY two leaders be reserved for their use D005191 MEDICAL SERVICE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SEC- until later in the day; that following THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT TIONS 624 AND 3064: TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY any leader remarks, the Senate be in a AS CHAPLAINS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 624 AND To be lieutenant colonel period of morning business until 5:30 3064: DOREENE R. AGUAYO p.m., with Senators permitted to speak To be lieutenant colonel FELY O. ANDRADA MIGUEL A. ARROYOCAZURRO therein for up to 10 minutes each; that DAWUD A. A. AGBERE WERNER J. BARDEN

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JASON C. BARNHILL NICHOLAS E. JOHNSON DAVID C. SLOAN JOHN E. BEZOU, JR. BRADLEY D. LADD JACOB C. SMITH KYLE P. BOURQUE ROBERT J. LANG KIRSTEN S. SMITH DAVID W. BRINES ROBIN W. LEA KENNETH D. SPICER MICHAEL A. BUKOVITZ DEIDRE B. LOCKHART JAMES G. STANLEY KEITH M. BURNETTE ELIASIB LOZANO HARRY M. STEWART, JR. OSCAR A. CABRERA KEVIN J. MAHONEY JENNIFER S. STOWE CLAYTON A. CARR TRANG N. MALONE STUART D. TYNER ROBERT CARTER III MATTHEW J. MAPES JOHN A. URCIUOLI BRIAN CHAMPINE KURT N. MARTIN GEORGE C. WALKER JINJONG CHUNG RAYMOND MCCLENEN BRIAN J. WALLACE, JR. TRISHA A. COBB DAVID M. MELTZER MICHAEL J. WATKINS TRACY A. COFFIN JOHN A. MERKLEY CHAN L. WEBSTER JAMES F. COLE TRACY MICHAEL ABDUL R. WILLIS DAVID B. COWGER DAVID R. MILLER MAX WU MATTHEW M. CURLEE MATTHEW A. MOSER MATTHEW M. WYATT CHRISTOPHER L. DURK JOHN G. NGUYEN GEORGE J. ZECKLER DEBORAH A. ENGERRAN DAN F. OHAMA STEFAN FERNANDEZ BRIAN D. OLEARY NATHANAEL C. FORRESTER DENNIS J. OREILLY f CHARLA E. GADDY ROBERT V. PARISH ROBERT A. GEDDIE ADAM J. PETERS JOHN D. GOETTE, JR. GORDON W. POMEROY JEREMY L. GOODIN NATHAN C. RAUCH CONFIRMATIONS MARIO K. GOULD COLLEEN M. REICHENBERG PAUL C. GRAVES KEVIN J. RIDDERHOFF Executive nominations confirmed by JAMES H. HALL FRANK E. RIGGLE, JR. the Senate June 5, 2014: JAMES T. HAMACHER EDWIN H. RODRIGUEZROSA MICHELLE HARRIS MICHAEL D. RONN PEACE CORPS CHARLOTTE L. HILDEBRAND THOMAS M. ROUNTREE JEFFERY S. HOGUE WILLIAM H. RUDDER III CAROLYN HESSLER RADELET, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE DI- MARCUS A. HURD GINNETTE RUTH RECTOR OF THE PEACE CORPS. DOMINICK J. IVENER JOY A. SCHMALZLE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES RICHARD G. JARMAN III THOMAS W. SHERBERT THOMAS A. JARRETT KIMBERLEE J. SHORT SYLVIA MATHEWS BURWELL, OF WEST VIRGINIA, TO LAURA D. JOHNSON ANDREW G. SIMS, JR. BE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES.

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RECOGNITION OF RIO VISTA HIGH Vice Chair Bui Thanh Ha, retired Vice Chair and I am sure many others will always cherish SCHOOL AP GOVERNMENT CLASS Nguyen Thanh Xuan, as well as Director this day, too. Hoang Thi Thao, and the entire staff of the f HON. JOHN GARAMENDI Committee on Religious Affairs. HONORING MRS. ANGETTI R. OF CALIFORNIA I am grateful to H.E. President Nguyen Sinh MCLAUGHLIN IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Hung, Vice President Madam Tong Thi Phong, Vice President Madam Nguyen Thi Doan of Thursday, June 5, 2014 the National Assembly, as well as Vice Chair- HON. HENRY C. ‘‘HANK’’ JOHNSON, JR. Mr. GARAMENDI. Mr. Speaker, on behalf of man Ha Huy Thong of the Foreign Committee OF GEORGIA the people of California’s 3rd Congressional and all other Members of the National Assem- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES District, I want to congratulate the AP Govern- bly. ment students and their teacher Mr. Paul I thank Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh as Thursday, June 5, 2014 Heaney at Rio Vista High School for com- well as any and all associated with the For- Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I pleting a class report on three major policy eign Ministry. submit the following Proclamation. issues: welfare reform, health care, and un- I also express my deepest appreciation to Whereas, Thirty years ago a virtuous equal access to education. Ambassador Nguyen Quoc Cuong, Dr. Luan woman of God accepted her calling to serve The students, Victor Aguilera, Frederick Al- Thuy Duong, and Mr. An Nguyen at the Em- in the Educational System; and varez, Jamie Moe, Dylan Coito, Alexandra bassy of Vietnam in the United States for their Whereas, Mrs. Angetti R. McLaughlin began Correia, Hannah Cronin, Christina Curiel, Eric tireless efforts. her educational career in teaching and this Del Aguila, Diana Elisea, Tyler Gomes, I also thank officers of The Church of Jesus year she retires as a Teacher at Dunaire Ele- Jonathon Heaney, Alexis Johnson, Rebekah Christ of Latter-day Saints, including The First mentary School in Stone Mountain, Georgia, Kinser, Chace Marlowe, Alexa Martinez, Presidency, the Quorum of the Twelve, the she has served the DeKalb County, Talbot Melanie Oakes, Lily Roberts, Christina Rut- Asia Area Presidency, as well as local leaders County, and Atlanta City Public Schools Sys- ledge, Alyssa Schneider, Caroline Schulz, in Vietnam. In particular, I thank members of tem well, and our community has been Kimberly Scneder, Maria Silva, Brady Swing, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day blessed through her service as a community Dora Uribe, Raven Vance, Elizabeth Ventura, Saints in Vietnam and abroad. activist; and Antonio Wright, and Emily Zepeda dem- I thank all those who have participated in Whereas, this phenomenal woman has onstrated hard work in this inspiring program. this marvelous work and glory—those named shared her time and talents as a Teacher, Ed- Education is about developing knowledge and in addition to all those who have added their ucator and Motivator, giving the citizens of critical thinking skills. These students are efforts and prayers to ours, including those Georgia a person of great worth, a fearless civically engaged, reaching their lawmakers who have gone before us. leader, a devoted scholar and a servant to all with policy recommendations on key issues May 30, 2014, the official day of recognition, who want to advance the lives of our youth; facing our nation. is a special occasion, a sacred occasion. Viet- and I was honored to learn more about their rec- nam is a multi-religious society with approxi- Whereas, Mrs. McLaughlin is formally retir- ommendations during a class visit on Tues- mately 25,000 places of worship and about 24 ing from her educational career today, she will day, May 28. They engaged in a robust de- million followers of various faiths. In my official continue to promote education because she is bate and succeeded in finding compromise on capacity as former Chairman and current a cornerstone in our community and has en- complex issues. Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs’ hanced the lives of thousands for the better- Their willingness to work together in good Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, I have ment of our District and Nation; and faith and to build consensus is laudable and a attended religious services in diverse houses Whereas, the U.S. Representative of the lesson for us all. of worship in Vietnam, and did so unan- Fourth District of Georgia has set aside this f nounced. Always, I found Vietnam to be a day to honor and recognize Mrs. Angetti R. COMMENDING THE SOCIALIST RE- place favorable for religious activities and I McLaughlin on her retirement from the DeKalb PUBLIC OF VIETNAM FOR OFFI- thank Vietnam for encouraging and protecting County Public Schools System and to wish CIAL RECOGNITION OF THE IN- the rights of individuals, families, and con- her well in her new endeavors; now therefore, TERIM REPRESENTATIVE COM- gregations to practice their religions and con- I, HENRY C. ‘‘HANK’’ JOHNSON, Jr. do hereby MITTEE OF THE CHURCH OF tribute as good parents and good citizens proclaim May 27, 2014 as Mrs. Angetti R. JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY under the law. McLaughlin Day in the 4th Congressional Dis- SAINTS IN VIETNAM I am very proud of the Socialist Republic of trict of Georgia. Vietnam for the work it does to protect activi- Proclaimed, this 27th day of May, 2014. HON. ENI F.H. FALEOMAVAEGA ties of religious groups, including those of my f faith. I consider the followers of The Church of OF AMERICAN SAMOA Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Vietnam TRIBUTE TO MAJOR GENERAL IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES my brothers and sisters. I feel the same about GREGORY J. SCHWAB Thursday, June 5, 2014 the leaders and officials of Vietnam. With mu- Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA. Mr. Speaker, I rise tual understanding, respect and trust, we have HON. TOM LATHAM today to express my deepest appreciation to walked together to this day of recognition. We OF IOWA the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for officially have walked together with faith in every foot- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES recognizing the Interim Representative Com- step. And, as we journey forward, I am con- Thursday, June 5, 2014 mittee of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- fident we will do so side by side. day Saints in Vietnam, of which I am a mem- When President Brigham Young led the fol- Mr. LATHAM. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ber. I thank the Politburo, Prime Minister lowers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Lat- recognize and congratulate Major General Nguyen Tan Dung, President Truong Tan ter-day Saints into the Salt Lake valley in Gregory Schwab of the United States Air Sang, the Fatherland Front, the National As- 1847, he declared: ‘‘This is the right place. Force on his illustrious military career span- sembly, Foreign Ministry, Public Security, and Drive on.’’ To members of The Church of ning more than four decades. Major General any and all government agencies, especially Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to govern- Schwab will be honored at a ceremony at the Committee on Religious Affairs, for sparing ment and party officials in Vietnam, to friends Camp Dodge on Saturday by Iowa’s Adjutant no effort to bring this day about. and family, I echo Brigham Young’s words. General, Major General Timothy Orr. I would be remiss if I did not mention the ef- Drive on knowing that May 30, 2014 will for- Before he was a Major General, Gregory forts and leadership of Chairman Pham Dung, evermore be one of the best days of my life, Schwab spent his childhood growing up on a

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Force through the ROTC program. He earned Center estimates that the 50 percent restric- f his wings in 1973 and would begin his storied tion will delay the launch of the demonstration career serving as an A–7 pilot and Forward by seven months, pushing the project comple- TRIBUTE TO GRACE GARCIA, VI- Air Controller across the world before joining tion date to April 2018 and incurring about $10 SIONARY, ACTIVIST, AND FIERCE the Iowa Air National Guard in May of 1978. million in cost growth. WARRIOR FOR TEXAS WOMEN Since joining the 132nd Fighter Wing, Major It is my understanding that the intent of the AND EQUALITY General Schwab’s remarkable efforts have bill’s language is not to damage or derail been invaluable to the State of Iowa. Initially these important modernization efforts, but HON. SHEILA JACKSON LEE serving a number of squadron roles in and out rather to compel the timely completion of the OF TEXAS of the A–7, Major General Schwab Department’s ongoing Analysis of Alternatives IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES transitioned to the F–16 with the unit and led for the missile warning architecture. I support Thursday, June 5, 2014 two combat deployments to Southwest Asia in that goal, but I believe it should be achieved 1996 and 1997 as the 124th Fighter Squadron without limiting funds for the modernization ini- Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise to Commander. By 2002, he had ascended to tiatives for the SBIRS program. pay tribute and remember one of the most influential and prominent leaders in the move- Commander of the 132nd Fighter Wing. His f remarkable leadership and management of ment to empower women and groom the next such a renowned unit led to his service as the PERSONAL EXPLANATION generation of women Democratic political Deputy Adjutant General for the Iowa National leaders. Guard in 2008. In this role, Major General HON. CHRIS STEWART Grace Garcia died on Monday, June 2, in a Schwab assisted leading Iowa’s 9,000 OF UTAH traffic accident in Waxahachie, Texas. She was 59 years old. She died doing what she Guardsmen in meeting mission requirements IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES loved and what she was put on earth to do, at the state and federal level. His outstanding Thursday, June 5, 2014 work in Iowa resulted in his selection as the and that was to help women gain the skills, re- Air National Guard Assistant to the Com- Mr. STEWART. Mr. Speaker, I am recorded sources, and opportunities to become leaders mander of Air Combat Command in which he as voting ‘‘aye’’ on rollcall vote No. 254, an in their communities. has served since 2011. amendment by Mr. MORAN that would facilitate Powerful and courageous, compassionate Mr. Speaker, our state and nation owes closing the detention center at Guantanamo and sympathetic; this was the rare and beau- Major General Schwab a great debt of grati- Bay, Cuba, by allowing the transfer of those tiful blend that was Grace Garcia. tude for his decades of service and sacrifice. dangerous detainees, who were captured on Grace Garcia came from a military family His unwavering commitment to honorably the battlefield in the war on terror, to be trans- and the ethic of duty and service to others serving his country and fellow Americans has ferred to the United States of America. Mr. was embedded in her soul. Although the fam- been recognized through numerous decora- Speaker on this vote I was misrecorded. I duly ily relocated often, Grace claimed San Anto- tions and continues to positively impact both intended to vote ‘‘no’’ on rollcall No. 254. nio, Texas, as her home. Iowa and our nation as a whole. I know all of f Grace Garcia attended Jefferson High my colleagues in the United States Congress School in the San Antonio Independent School TRIBUTE TO REVEREND DR. T. will join me in thanking Major General Schwab District and went on to earn her B.A. from the NATHANIEL HERCULES for his years of faithful service and congratu- University of Texas at Austin, and afterwards, lating him on a truly stellar career. I wish him, moved on to live out her dreams. and his wife Debey, the very best as they HON. HENRY C. ‘‘HANK’’ JOHNSON, JR. From the start of her career, Grace Garcia begin a new chapter in their lives. OF GEORGIA was actively involved in government and politics. She went on to hold prestigious senior f IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES level positions from the state to the national EXPRESSING OPPOSITION TO SEC. Thursday, June 5, 2014 level. 217 OF H.R. 4435, WHICH PLACES Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I She played prominent roles in the manage- COSTLY AND UNNECESSARY LIM- submit the following Proclamation. ment of President Clinton’s successful 1992 ITATIONS ON MODERNIZATION Whereas, Reverend Dr. T. Nathaniel Her- and 1996 presidential campaigns, Senator Hil- INITIATIVES FOR THE SPACE- cules is celebrating fifty-five (55) years in min- lary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, and BASED INFRARED SYSTEMS istry this year and has provided stellar leader- was an advisor and confidante of Texas State ship to his church on an international level; Senators Wendy Davis and Senator Leticia HON. HENRY A. WAXMAN and Van de Putte in their bids for Governor and OF CALIFORNIA Whereas, Reverend Dr. T. Nathaniel Her- Lieutenant Governor of Texas. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cules, under the guidance of God has pio- During the Clinton Administration, Grace neered and sustained Saint Paul AME Wor- Garica held the position of Deputy Director in Thursday, June 5, 2014 ship Center, as an instrument in our commu- the Office of Presidential Scheduling and Di- Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to nity that uplifts the spiritual, physical and men- rector of the Office of Intergovernmental Af- express my opposition to Sec. 217 of H.R. tal welfare of our citizens; and fairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior. 4435, the ‘Buck’ McKeon National Defense Whereas, this remarkable and tenacious Grace Garcia later went on to work in the Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015. During man of God has given hope to the hopeless, Obama Administration as Senior Advisor to the committee markup of this bill, language fed the hungry and is a beacon of light to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the Office was added that limits the availability of funding those in need; and of the Chief of Protocol at the U.S. Depart- for the modernization initiatives for the Space- Whereas, Reverend Dr. T. Nathaniel Her- ment of State. Based Infrared System (SBIRS) program. cules is a spiritual warrior, a man of compas- Upon her return to Texas, Grace Garcia This provision fences off 50 percent of the sion, a fearless leader and a servant to all, but was named Executive Director of Annie’s List, funds for the SBIRS SMI Hosted Payloads most of all a visionary who has shared not an organization dedicated to ‘‘advancing pro- and Wide Field of View Testbed projects until only with his Church, but with our District and gressive women in Texas from the ballot box the ongoing analysis of alternatives for the the world his passion to spread the gospel of to the halls of power.’’ SBIRS is completed and reported to the con- Jesus Christ; and She was a mentor to many women who had gressional defense committees. Whereas, the U.S. Representative of the dreams and ambitions to become leaders in I am concerned that restricting funding for Fourth District of Georgia has set aside this the Democratic Party. But she was more than these initiatives will derail important efforts to day to honor and recognize Reverend Dr. T. that: she was a beacon of light. develop future architecture concepts for the Nathaniel Hercules as he celebrates fifty-five Annie’s List flourished as a result of leader- missile warning platform. Fencing funds for years in ministry and to salute him as he re- ship and organizational genius as reflected in

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Their marriage would last for public service. provement Act (IHCIA) in 1998. After his serv- over five decades until Kenneth passed away Women like Grace Garcia are diamonds. ice as Tribal Co-Chair for the Tribal Leaders in 2013. They are sharp, shine brightly, are unbreak- Diabetes Committee, President Bill Clinton ap- In 1956, when Janet Gray’s husband Ken- able, and perfectly suited for their mission. pointed him to the White House Commission neth took a job as a physician at Agnews Grace Garcia loved to defy the odds; where on Complementary and Alternative Medicine State Hospital, they moved to San Jose. Hav- others were deterred by obstacles, she saw Policy. The National Congress of American In- ing been raised in an active Republican family, and seized opportunity. dians recognized his leadership by appointing Janet Gray was introduced to politics at a As a founder of the National Latina Political him to the NCAI Tribal Leaders Health Infor- young age when her family home became an Action Committee and leading member of the mation Technology Task Force in 2001. Dia- official campaign base for Wendell Willkie, the National Latino Finance Council for Hillary betes prevention has long been a focus of Republican presidential nominee in 1940. But Clinton’s presidential bid, Grace Garcia proved Rolin’s leadership, and just last year, he re- her real impetus for launching into the world of to be an influential leader for the Latino com- ceived the IHS Director’s Special Recognition civics and politics came when she was eight munity. Award for his many years devoted to tackling months pregnant and made an appeal to the Grace Garcia’s modesty belied her remark- this challenge. City Council for a school crossing guard in her able ability to influence events and improve Chairman of the Poarch Band of Creek Indi- neighborhood. people’s lives. ans since 2006, Rolin has been a tenacious That battle for a simple community issue Her departure came all too soon, but the and devoted advocate for tribal sovereignty, would ultimately take sixteen years, but it un- trail she blazed leaves us a path to follow. the duty of the trust responsibility, and the leashed Janet Gray’s involvement in San Jose Grace Garcia opened doors of opportunity health and prosperity of his people. Today, the politics. By 1960 she became the president of for women, and to honor her memory, we state-of-the-art Buford L. Rolin Health Cen- both the San Jose and Bay Area Leagues of must continue that effort. ter—named in recognition of a lifetime improv- Women Voters. Six years later she was ap- Mr. Speaker, today we remember the gift ing health across Indian Country—carries for- pointed to the San Jose Redevelopment with which we were abundantly blessed with, ward his great work, caring for his home com- Board and rose to become chair. and that is the life of Grace Garcia. munity with a host of primary care, nutrition, In 1971, Janet Gray won election to the San I hope it is a comfort to her family that so diabetes, diagnostic, and rehabilitative serv- Jose City Council, and four years later, sought many of us mourn with them at this sad time. ices. to succeed Mayor Norman Mineta after he But through our sadness, we draw strength As he enters the next chapter of his life, I was elected to Congress. Against tremendous from the legacy she left behind. join with many others in thanking him for the odds, and against a deeply entrenched estab- Grace Garcia will never be forgotten. She many years of service and leadership he has lishment that fought her candidacy, she won. lives on in lives and deeds of progressive given Indian Country and our Nation. For while Her election threw the doors open for other women political leaders in this generation and Chairman Rolin is ending his career, we know women to follow, sparking a movement for those to come. that his achievements will make a difference in women to get actively involved and seek pub- So long my friend. We will miss you dearly, the lives of his community for generations to lic office. Over the next two elections, women and forever hold you in our hearts. come. Congratulations on a well-earned were elected to eight of the eleven City Coun- I ask the House to observe a moment of si- retirement. cil seats and three out of the five Santa Clara lence in memory of the remarkable Grace f County supervisor seats—including a future Garcia. Member of Congress named ZOE LOFGREN. f PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE LIFE OF San Jose was declared the ‘‘feminist capital JANET GRAY HAYES of the world.’’ And as Janet Gray welcomed MARKING THE RETIREMENT OF delegates at the 1977 National Women’s Polit- CHAIRMAN BUFORD ROLIN HON. ZOE LOFGREN ical Caucus, hosted in the city, she proudly re- OF CALIFORNIA marked that ‘‘In sunny Santa Clara Valley, you HON. NANCY PELOSI IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES are in the heartland of women in power.’’ However, Janet Gray’s accomplishments were OF CALIFORNIA Thursday, June 5, 2014 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES not limited to her milestone election. Ms. LOFGREN. Mr. Speaker, I rise with my Her successful stewardship running a major Thursday, June 5, 2014 colleagues, Congresswoman ANNA G. ESHOO city shattered long held myths that women Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to and Congressman MIKE HONDA, to honor the could not be successful executives. Janet pay tribute to the distinguished career of a life of our friend Janet Gray Hayes, the first Gray made a commitment to improving access great tribal leader, Chairman Buford Rolin. For woman elected as Mayor of San Jose, Cali- to the mayor’s office and presided over San more than three decades, Chairman Rolin has fornia. Jose’s growth during the high-tech develop- worked tirelessly to build stronger, healthier We often use words like pioneer and trail- ment years by laying out a vision to make the and more prosperous communities—for his blazer in tribute to inspiring and remarkable in- city ‘‘better before we make it bigger.’’ That vi- fellow Poarch Band of Creek Indians and for dividuals, and that certainly is true for Janet sion for San Jose is present today in a city native peoples across the country. He retires Gray Hayes. She made a profound impact on that has focused on smart growth and urban with a towering legacy of leadership and ac- our community in San Jose, and in a larger planning to avoid urban sprawl and achieve a complishment, built through the vision, deter- sense, was one of the pioneers who helped better quality of life for its citizens. mination and energy that has long defined his open the doors for women to serve their com- When asked by her son to name her big- many years of service. munities in public service. gest source of pride, Janet Gray replied ‘‘I was Rolin was born in Atmore, Alabama in 1940. Born Janet Gray Frazee in Rushville, Indi- proudest of the fact that I could open doors. He spent eight years in the Army, occasionally ana, on July 12, 1926, she was the second of I had a lot to do with these women getting hitchhiking home from Fort Benning, Georgia two daughters of John P. Frazee, Jr., and Lu- where they are today.’’ Her generous assist- to enjoy his weekend passes back in Poarch. cile Charman Gray Frazee. Like other mem- ance, guidance, leadership and friendship His first job after the army was as a haber- bers of the famed ‘‘Greatest Generation,’’ she helped emerging women leaders after her suc- dasher in Pensacola, Florida. Eventually Rolin grew up in the hard scrabble years of the ceed. found a job with Dixie Asphalt and Paving. Great Depression. These humble beginnings, Mr. Speaker, more than fifty years ago, Over the years, his insight and expertise and the personal challenges she overcame, Adlai Stevenson praised another pioneering has fueled work in positions involving diverse taught Janet Gray about character, empathy woman when he said of Eleanor Roosevelt groups including the National Committee on for others, and standing strong when it came that she would ‘rather light a candle than Indian Work, the Episcopal Church, the Cham- to matters of principle. curse the darkness.’ Those words are also fit- ber of Commerce Board of Directors, the Janet Gray would go on to pursue a higher ting for Janet Gray Hayes. Because of her, Creek Indian Arts Council, Creek Indian Herit- education, graduating as a Phi Betta Kappa at and other pioneering women like her, future

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Purple Heart with one oak leaf cluster, Meri- Schools Systems well, and our community has We invite all of our colleagues in Congress torious Service Medal with two oak leaf clus- been blessed through her service; and to join us in paying tribute to the remarkable ters, Joint Service Commendation Medal with Whereas, this phenomenal woman has life and legacy of Janet Gray Hayes. one oak leaf cluster, Iraqi Campaign Medal shared her time and talents as a Teacher, Ed- f with three stars, Afghanistan Campaign Medal ucator and Motivator, giving the citizens of with four stars, Combat Infantryman Badge Georgia and New York a person of great HONORING JANICE T. CRAWFORD with one star, Expert Infantryman Badge, worth, a fearless leader, a devoted scholar Ranger Tab, Master Parachutist Badge with and a servant to all who want to advance the HON. HENRY C. ‘‘HANK’’ JOHNSON, JR. bronze star, Military Freefall Badge and Path- lives of our youth; and OF GEORGIA finder Badge. Whereas, Mrs. Lewis is formally retiring IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CSM Barreras was respected by both his from her educational career today, she will Thursday, June 5, 2014 community and colleagues, and deeply loved continue to promote education because she is a cornerstone in our community and has en- Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I by his family and friends. He was 49 years old hanced the lives of thousands for the better- submit the following Proclamation. and left behind a wife, a young son and two Whereas, Thirty-five years ago a virtuous daughters. ment of our District and Nation; and woman of God accepted her calling to serve This husband, father, and friend cannot be Whereas, the U.S. Representative of the in the Educational System; and replaced, but his sacrifice will always be re- Fourth District of Georgia has set aside this Whereas, Mrs. Janice T. Crawford began membered and his legacy of compassion and day to honor and recognize Mrs. Cynthia V. her educational career in teaching and this service will live on after him. He is gone but Lewis on her retirement from the DeKalb year she retires as a Principal at Dunaire Ele- not forgotten. County Public Schools System and to wish mentary School in Stone Mountain, Georgia, Mr. Speaker, I salute Command Sergeant her well in her new endeavors; now therefore, she has served the DeKalb County Public Major Barreras, and I thank him for all he I, HENRY C. ‘‘HANK’’ JOHNSON, Jr. do hereby Schools System well and our community has gave back to the people of this great Nation. proclaim May 27, 2014 as Mrs. Cynthia V. been blessed through her service; and f Lewis Day in the 4th Congressional District of Whereas, this phenomenal woman has Georgia. IN RECOGNITION OF DOUG Proclaimed, this 27th day of May, 2014. shared her time and talents as a Teacher, Ed- HAWTHORNE ucator and Motivator, giving the citizens of f Georgia a person of great worth, a fearless RECOGNIZING ANDREW GARCIA leader, a devoted scholar and a servant to all HON. MICHAEL C. BURGESS who want to advance the lives of our youth; OF TEXAS and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM Whereas, Mrs. Crawford is formally retiring Thursday, June 5, 2014 OF NEW MEXICO from her educational career today, she will IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to continue to promote education because she is Thursday, June 5, 2014 a cornerstone in our community that has en- honor Doug Hawthorne, who is stepping down Ms. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM of New hanced the lives of thousands for the better- as chief executive officer of Texas Health Re- Mexico. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor the life of ment of our District and Nation; and sources after 44 years of outstanding service Whereas, the U.S. Representative of the to the communities of North Texas. New Mexico resident Andrew ‘‘Andy’’ Garcia, Fourth District of Georgia has set aside this Hawthorne played a vital role in 1997 with a man of iconic proportions who developed, day to honor and recognize Mrs. Janice T. the merger of Presbyterian Healthcare Re- refined, and transformed New Mexican cuisine Crawford on her retirement from the DeKalb sources, Harris Methodist Health System and in our great State of New Mexico. County Public Schools System and to wish Arlington Memorial Hospital. He created the Andy began his entrepreneurial pursuits on her well in her new endeavors; now therefore, Texas Health Resources health care system, his own, 50 years ago with his first venture which has grown to become one of the largest selling New Mexican food at carnivals and I, HENRY C. ‘‘HANK’’ JOHNSON, Jr. do hereby proclaim May 21, 2014 as Mrs. Janice T. faith-based, not-for-profit health care systems street fairs. It was not until a few years later Crawford Day in the 4th Congressional District in the nation under his leadership. that Andy founded the wildly successful Gar- of Georgia. Hawthorne received many awards and rec- cia’s Tents and Events. Andy’s life success Proclaimed, this 21st day of May, 2014. ognition for his work. He was named to Mod- culminated with the establishment of eight ern Healthcare magazine’s annual list of the Garcia’s Kitchen restaurants, a popular food f 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare in choice throughout the Albuquerque metro HONORING COMMAND SERGEANT 2012 and 2013 after being on the list six times area. MAJOR MARTIN BARRERAS in prior years. For those visiting Albuquerque, as locals will As a physician, I can say that his dedication tell you, a stop at Garcia’s is a must. Today HON. DAVID G. REICHERT and commitment have been instrumental in at Andy’s establishments, business leaders, OF WASHINGTON transforming the delivery of healthcare in political icons, and New Mexicans enjoy great IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES North Texas. He is truly deserving of recogni- food, hospitality and camaraderie. Garcia’s tion for his exceptional work, and I wish him embodies the spirit of New Mexico culture and Thursday, June 5, 2014 all the best on his next endeavor. I am proud is a historic pillar in the Albuquerque commu- Mr. REICHERT. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to to represent him in Congress. nity—still today and for years to come. honor the life of Command Sergeant Major f The truth is that Andy’s life is a testament Martin Barreras, who died on May 13, 2014 to the American Dream and the idea that with from wounds suffered while serving in Afghan- HONORING CYNTHIA V. LEWIS hard work, persistence, and dedication nothing istan. CSM Barreras was serving with the 2nd is unattainable. His vision and accomplish- Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment when enemy HON. HENRY C. ‘‘HANK’’ JOHNSON, JR. ments serve as an inspiration for future gen- forces attacked his unit with small arms fire. OF GEORGIA erations of entrepreneurs and small business CSM Barreras joined the Army in 1988 after IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES owners, and demonstrate the impact one indi- serving five years in the Marine Corps and vidual can have on an entire community. As a Thursday, June 5, 2014 served 22 years in the 75th Ranger Regiment proud family man, Andy was fortunate to see in both 1st and 2nd Battalions. During his time Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I these values passed down to his children and in the Ranger Regiment, he served in a large submit the following Proclamation. grandchildren who continue to manage and range of positions and completed multiple Whereas, Thirty years ago a virtuous build his enterprises. combat deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, Op- woman of God accepted her calling to serve His family will tell you that he: eration Just Cause in Panama, Operation Re- in the Educational System; and Shared his love, his wisdom, his will to store/Uphold Democracy in Haiti, and other Whereas, Mrs. Cynthia V. Lewis began her love life and all it brings. He has had many special operations missions. educational career in teaching and this year peaks and valleys, highlights and adventures

VerDate Mar 15 2010 03:52 Jun 06, 2014 Jkt 039060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K05JN8.004 E05JNPT1 jbell on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS June 5, 2014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E911 in his 90 years of life, more than most of us. As Jesus was passing through Samaria, he The force of Theodosia’s presence and ex- He lived everyday with passion to do his best met a woman at a well. Thirsty, he asked for ample on our family history is impossible to and to be happy. He is now on his journey water. ‘‘Who are you,’’ she said, ‘‘a Jew, a calculate, but I am thinking that her impact into somewhere we will all meet again. man, asking me, a woman of Samaria, for was enormous. After everything, and no A successful businessman, loving father, water?’’ That’s when he said: ‘‘If you knew small thanks to her, we know our family as the gift of God, and who it is that asks you a blessing. We won’t let it be less. and community icon, Andy was indeed a tal- for a drink, he would give you living water.’’ If you knew Theodosia, you know that, not ented man of courage and integrity. His char- If you knew the Gift of God. If you knew only was she devoted to a family, she was de- acter, love of life, enthusiasm and selflessness Theodosia. voted to a place: El Dorado, Arkansas. were felt by all who knew him. It is individuals If you knew Theodosia, then you know the Let’s think on this place. Growing up in like Andy that make our Nation a sought-after story; that her father was already forty-five, Arkansas, we learn early on of our three dis- home for those with a dream. My thoughts her mother thirty—old for those days—when tinct geological regions: mountains to the they married; that in the first two preg- north and west, delta to the east and, in be- and prayers are with family, and everyone tween, spreading south from Little Rock, the who has enjoyed Andy’s hospitality and a nancies, they lost their baby. Now came a daughter, beautiful and healthy. With thank- gulf coastal plane. Of the three regions, this meal at one of his restaurants. May the mem- ful hearts, they named her Theodosia. is the one that seems to have lacked a na- ory of Andy live on in our hearts. You know that she grew up gentle, respect- tional identity: Hillbillies, they know, delta f ful and devoted to her parents, but not meek; planters, they know, but who are we? that at sixteen, she owned and flew an air- Well, there is a lot of wood, so I will start HONORING ELIZABETH JONES plane, setting a dangerous example for her with that. Wood means deer, and I will men- sister, in the opinion of my father; and that tion that. Then came oil. My wife Julie re- at eighteen, she married William, over objec- cently took on a project to salvage and re- HON. HENRY C. ‘‘HANK’’ JOHNSON, JR. tions from her parents. She was too young; store a Steinway piano at Central High OF GEORGIA about William, there were questions. As she School in Little Rock. This instrument had IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES stood her ground opposite her parents, she been purchased for the school in 1927. Julie tracked down the original Steinway distribu- Thursday, June 5, 2014 was being every inch their daughter. Firm and loving, they gave their children rope to tor’s ledger that recorded the sale. That par- Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I make and accept the consequences of their ticular ledger page shows 73 sales from submit the following Proclamation. own decisions. It was her life and she would throughout the Mid-South. Looking it over, Whereas, A virtuous woman of God accept- get to live it as she saw fit. Julie noticed a sale, December 28, 1926, to Bertie Wilson Murphy. When Julie showed ed her calling to serve in the Educational Sys- So how did she live it? As a firm and loving wife and mother, devoted to her family—and me her find, I noticed that, of the entries on tem; and with William, who was a keeper. that page, no fewer than twenty were to buy- Whereas, Ms. Elizabeth Jones began her If you knew Theodosia, you know Bubba. ers in El Dorado, Arkansas. It made perfect educational career in teaching thirty-five (35) For our guests, Bubba is our term of endear- sense! The Busey-Armstrong well came in years ago, and this year she retires from ment for Bertie Wilson Murphy, Theodosia’s 1921. Through the twenties, El Dorado was a teaching at Stephenson Middle School in mother. I guess Charlie Nolan must have boomtown. What are you going to do with all Stone Mountain, Georgia, she has served the been the first to call her that. Eventually, that new money? The good citizens of El Do- DeKalb County School District well and our Bubba was her name to everyone in El Do- rado were going to purchase Steinways, rado. which we now know is what people did with community has been blessed through her When Bubba died almost forty years ago, extra cash before the invention of the bass service; and Theodosia—now ‘‘Dosia,’’ thanks to Diny— boat. Just three weeks ago, Julie brought Whereas, this phenomenal woman has assumed the matriarchal mantle for our that ledger down to 900 North Madison and shared her time and talents as a Teacher, Ed- wider family, including siblings Charles, showed it to Theodosia. They sat down on ucator and Motivator, giving the citizens of Polly and Bertie, plus all their progeny and the couch beside Bubba’s Steinway, and Georgia a person of great worth, a fearless in-laws. Ours has been a fruitful, multiplying Julie caught Theodosia up on Keller family leader, a devoted scholar and a servant to all clan, now sprawled out across the planet stories. El Dorado’s early glory day was back be- who want to advance the lives of our youth; from Seattle to Beirut. The family center, though, is here in El Dorado: 900 N. Madison, fore the great depression. Even then, it and where you can dangle your feet in the pool, would not have been the kind of town that is Whereas, Ms. Jones is formally retiring from sucking scuppernongs and muscadines. full of its own importance. There are such her educational career today, she will continue If you’ve read King Lear, or Faulkner, or places. Great ladies in such places are not to promote education because she is a corner- Genesis and 2nd Samuel, or the Wall Street called Bubba. I have lived in such places and stone in our community that has enhanced the Journal, or watched Dallas, then you should I appreciated and enjoyed them. But they lives of thousands for the betterment of our know that life in families isn’t simple, nec- don’t care. They don’t need our loyalty and District and Nation; and essarily. love. If we want the kind of instant self-es- Theodosia, however, doesn’t bring to mind teem they offer, we can have it just by living Whereas, the U.S. Representative of the the complexity of family life. She represents there. They give us that, needing nothing in Fourth District of Georgia has set aside this its grace. It was Robert Frost who said: return. These places are in New York or Cali- day to honor and recognize Ms. Elizabeth ‘‘Home is the place where, when you have to fornia. I am told there may be some in Jones on her retirement from the DeKalb go there, they have to take you in.’’ True Texas. They are not in Arkansas. They are County School District and to wish her well in enough, I suppose, but it doesn’t capture not El Dorado. her new endeavors; now therefore, I, HENRY Theodosia. With her, you wanted to go there The big oil play petered out and the economics of the region began to favor disper- C. ‘‘HANK’’ JOHNSON, Jr. do hereby proclaim and she wanted to take you in. She wanted sion: raise your kids and send them off, pack May 25, 2014 as Ms. Elizabeth Jones Day in to feed you a heart-healthy breakfast: quail and scrambled eggs, Talla Bena sausage with up the Steinways and move on. But El Do- the 4th Congressional District of Georgia. a side order of bacon, pancakes with Ribbon rado defied that fate with muscular deter- Proclaimed, this 25th day of May, 2014. Cane syrup (maple syrup only if you begged, mination, as well as cultured sensibility and f served with a slight frown of disapproval). aesthetic flair. Does that sound like anyone She wanted you to plop down beside her on we know? HONORING THEODOSIA MURPHY the couch, get comfortable, and tell her the As much as Theodosia’s love for family was NOLAN latest chapter of your story. She would know unconditional, so was her commitment to that you weren’t telling her the whole truth. South Arkansas. The taxes are a little high- You would know that, even if you did, she er here than Florida or Texas, the lights a HON. TIM GRIFFIN would love you. There was nothing you could little brighter in New York, but she belonged OF ARKANSAS do or say that would warrant expulsion. You to El Dorado, case closed. She stayed put, as IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES were family, period. did her brother; and, as they insisted, so did A word to my younger Nolan cousins: I the companies they founded. So Madison Thursday, June 5, 2014 used the word ‘‘grace.’’ If you have heard stayed too, with Suzanne; and Bill, with Mr. GRIFFIN of Arkansas. Mr. Speaker, that word and wondered what it means, then Deborah; and Bob with Candi, and in came today I submit the homily of Theodosia Mur- think of where you stood with Dosia. Claiborne with Elaine; now Raymond with phy Nolan, a legendary Arkansas business- Remember your worst day. You know that Liza; and back come Mike and Sydney. And on that day she still loved you. That is now El Dorado is recognized throughout the woman and philanthropist, delivered on May grace. Jesus made that point through par- country as the town where anyone and ev- 28, 2014, and authored by her godson, the ables, like the prodigal son returning to his eryone can get a college education. There are Reverend Doctor Christoph Keller III. father. You can understand the father in no such towns in Texas, New York or Cali- Theodosia; from theos (God) and dosis that parable just by knowing Dosia. Once fornia. El Dorado has an impressive new (gift). ‘‘Gift of God.’’ you understand that father, you know God. identity; and a remarkable town square; and

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HENRY C. ‘‘HANK’’ JOHNSON, JR. to stand the tests of reason—in this case, If you know Theodosia, you know that, OF GEORGIA economic reason—and it does, but there are good Methodist that she was, her faith in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES other factors in the blend: appreciation for Christ was first and last a matter of the tradition; memories of loved ones; love of Thursday, June 5, 2014 heart. neighbor. As Newman said of faith, belief in Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I El Dorado lives in the desire for that which She had a good one, didn’t she. She was a gift. submit the following Proclamation. it confesses. There are things between earth Whereas, Bishop Dr. Stewart Reese, Jr., is and heaven, my dear Horatio, undreamt of celebrating forty five (45) years in pastoral by Investor’s Weekly. To Theodosia, such f things were real and exceedingly impor- leadership this year as the founder of Be- tant—and in some small part because she RECOGNIZING OPPORTUNITY VIL- thesda Cathedral of the Apostolic Faith, Inc., saw them as such, they took hold. Through LAGE AND THE ABILITYONE and has provided stellar leadership to his grace, grit and imagination, El Dorado per- PROGRAM church; and severes against the tide. Whereas, Bishop Reese, under the guid- If you knew Theodosia, you know where ance of God has pioneered and sustained Be- else her love of place and family coalesced: thesda Cathedral as an instrument in our com- the Coast and Cherokee. When we say HON. STEVEN A. HORSFORD ‘‘coast’’ we don’t mean the Pacific Palisades, munity that uplifts the spiritual, physical and OF NEVADA we mean Pass Christian and the Mississippi mental welfare of our citizens; and Sound—waveless, brown and shallow. We IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Whereas, this remarkable and tenacious couldn’t wait to get there: slathered up with man of God has given hope to the hopeless Off and Coppertone, fishing from the pier, Thursday, June 5, 2014 and is a beacon of light to those in need; and catching crabs and speckled trout and occa- Whereas, Bishop Reese is a spiritual war- sionally a stingray; swinging in a hammock Mr. HORSFORD. Mr. Speaker, I rise today rior, a man of compassion, a fearless leader with a good or trashy book; zooming up and to recognize Opportunity Village and the and a servant to all, but most of all a visionary down the Gulf Coast Highway; eating better AbilityOne Program. The AbilityOne Program than kings. All that, we lost to Hurricane who has shared not only with his Church, but harnesses the purchasing power of the Fed- with our District and the nation his passion to Katrina. Even the house that Bubba built eral Government to buy products and services couldn’t hold against that primal tide. Safe- spread the gospel of Jesus Christ; and ly inland, Cherokee endures. from participating community-based nonprofit Whereas, the U.S. Representative of the If you knew Theodosia, you know that, as agencies that are dedicated to training and Fourth District of Georgia has set aside this we reckon long, she lived a long time: from employing individuals who have significant dis- day to honor and recognize Bishop Reese, as Model T to Prius. Not that she would drive a abilities or are blind. Organizations like Oppor- he celebrates forty five years in pastoral lead- Prius: she belonged in Thunderbirds. She tunity Village, located in every state of our lived through social revolutions. I always ership on this the Founder’s Day of Bethesda great nation, employ nearly 50,000 Americans Cathedral of the Apostolic Faith; now there- knew what Polly Keller thought about those who are blind or have significant disabilities revolutions as they happened. I also had a fore, I, HENRY C. ‘‘HANK’’ JOHNSON, Jr. do solid take on William Nolan’s views, which through this Program. hereby proclaim June 1, 2014 as Bishop Dr. reliably ran opposite to Polly Keller’s. Theo- AbilityOne affiliated non-profit agencies like Stewart Reese, Jr. Day in the 4th Congres- dosia held her opinions closer to the vest. Opportunity Village offer people who are blind sional District. She seemed neither restless with the way or who have significant disabilities opportuni- Proclaimed, this 1st day of June, 2014. things were, nor much disturbed by the ties to acquire the job skills and training nec- thought that they were changing. There f would still be town and family to attend to, essary to receive good wages and benefits and ultimately improve their quality of life. COMMENDING THE SALVATION come what may. ARMY OF BROWARD COUNTY ON I do know that in 1966 she supported David Today, over 75 percent of people with signifi- Pryor’s run for Congress in the Fourth Dis- cant disabilities do not have jobs. Census sta- THE LAUNCH OF THE OPEN trict, because I read that in his book (actu- tistics indicate there are 9.4 million people with DOOR PROJECT ally, my son Christoph read the whole book significant disabilities in the United States who and showed this to me. I read only the two or could work given the appropriate opportunity HON. ALCEE L. HASTINGS three sentences concerning Theodosia.) In and support. OF FLORIDA the primary, Charles Murphy was backing Richard Arnold. (Show me a congressional Opportunity Village is a shining example, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES election from New York to California that providing employment opportunities and train- Thursday, June 5, 2014 involved such commendable opponents.) The ing to over 1,990 individuals with disabilities; battle went to Pryor and Theodosia over Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I many of whom live in the 4th district of Ne- rise today in recognition of the Salvation Army Charles and Richard Arnold. As I said, meek vada; through this Program. Opportunity Vil- she was not. of Broward County, Florida. In the coming Watch over thy child Theodosia, O Lord, as lage helps them to lead more productive lives, week, the Salvation Army will launch the Open her days increase. Bless and guide her, wher- support their families, gain important work ex- Door Project, a new homeless shelter in Fort ever she may be. perience, and share in the same pride that Lauderdale that will focus on helping the If you know Theodosia, you know her each of us has after a day’s work. Many of faith: Methodist, with the occasional Epis- chronically homeless. these individuals work in support of our men Our nation is currently faced with a harsh copal accoutrements; and you know that she and women in uniform, doing their part to im- called her children, and their children, and reality. Roughly 2 million Americans face theirs, on their birthdays, to pray with them prove our country and ensure safety and se- homelessness every year. We have made from the Book of Common Prayer. curity for us all. great progress in reducing the number of Strengthen her when she stands, comfort Mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I Americans without a home, but there is much her when discouraged or sorrowful . . . extend my support to the AbilityOne Program more to be done. The Open Door Project will Well, certain aspects of that prayer are no more applicable to Theodosia. She leaves and to Opportunity Village. I also want to com- be instrumental in helping vulnerable individ- sorrow and discouragement behind. She mend the dedication and commitment of Mr. uals in Broward County find shelter, support, leaves you, her beloved family, with that Ed Guthrie, the Executive Director of Oppor- and eventually, a permanent home. prayer, to say for one another as you carry tunity Village, and to his staff for helping indi- The Salvation Army of Broward County has on. As you say that prayer, as I know you’ll viduals who are blind or have significant dis- been serving the South Florida community do, you will think of her. As you think of abilities find employment opportunities. Their since 1926, tirelessly working to serve the her, remember her in faith. The faith in that work helps people live fuller lives and become needs of the less fortunate. The organization prayer imbues our attitude towards place more active members of society. I also com- offers transitional housing, life-skill training, and family—actually, our attitude towards everything, Theodosia’s death included. At mend each of the nearly 50,000 AbilityOne and a structured support system to help indi- least, it should; and for her, it did. employees who work every day to improve viduals and families escape the cycle of This place, First United Methodist, was their lives, and make our country a better homelessness. 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County has again demonstrated its dedication HONORING FREDERICK LEE Georgia; now therefore, I, HENRY C. ‘‘HANK’’ to providing resources for anyone grappling MCHENRY, SR. JOHNSON, Jr. do hereby proclaim May 17, with homelessness in the Fort Lauderdale re- 2014 as Frederick Lee McHenry, Sr. Day in gion. HON. HENRY C. ‘‘HANK’’ JOHNSON, JR. the 4th Congressional District of Georgia. Proclaimed, this 17th day of May, 2014. The Open Door Project is a low demand fa- OF GEORGIA cility. All they ask of their guests is their name, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES f and do not require more private information. Thursday, June 5, 2014 TO RECOGNIZE BOY SCOUTS FROM This ensures that individuals suffering from Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I TROOP 28 drug and alcohol addiction, mental illness, or submit the following Proclamation. those who would otherwise avoid these serv- Whereas, Mr. Frederick Lee McHenry, Sr., a HON. MICHAEL G. FITZPATRICK ices can still find a safe place to sleep for the tenacious and illustrious man from OF PENNSYLVANIA night. By providing homeless individuals with a Lawrenceville, Georgia, utilizes his gifts, tal- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ents and wisdom everyday to ensure that citi- safe bed and a meal the following morning, Thursday, June 5, 2014 the Open Door Project will build a system of zens are inspired and lives are touched; and trust, in hope that these individuals may be Whereas, Mr. Frederick Lee McHenry, Sr., Mr. FITZPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today is a renowned advocate, business leader, to recognize three Boy Scouts from Troop 28 comfortable seeking further help in the future. motivator and community leader in the state of of Southampton, Bucks County. Harrison Mr. Speaker, as the Co-Founder and Co- Georgia; and Kampf, Dylan McKernan, Ron Brown and one Chairman of the Congressional Homelessness Whereas, he is the Grandmaster of the of their Scoutmasters Tom McCullough were Caucus, I believe that ending homelessness Genesis Willingham Grand Lodge of Georgia, on a white water rafting trip last October when must be one of our top priorities as a nation. Chief Deputy Supreme Commander of the another rafter became trapped underwater due Allowing men, women, and children to live on United Supreme Council of Scottish Rite Ma- to the strong river current and pinned up the streets is not a standard America should sonic Order and has been an active Mason for against a rock formation. Realizing the situa- be willing to accept. I am pleased to offer my over thirty years; and tion at hand, the Scouts acted quickly and de- Whereas, this model citizen has shared his cisively to stabilize their own raft and pull the deepest appreciation and congratulations to time and talents for the betterment of his com- man out of the water—saving his life. For their the staff and volunteers of the Salvation Army munity and his nation through his tireless courageous and life-saving action, the Boy as they continue in their mission to combat works, words of encouragement and inspira- Scouts of America recognized these young homelessness in Fort Lauderdale. I look for- tion that continue to be a beacon of light to men with the Honor Medal, which has only ward to working with the Open Door Project in those in need; and been awarded to 2,354 scouts since its incep- the future to advocate for those who so often Whereas, the U.S. Representative of the tion in 1923. I am honored to recognize these cannot advocate for themselves. Fourth District of Georgia has set aside this individuals and proud to say that the values day to honor and recognize Mr. Frederick Lee and skills taught by the Boy Scouts of America McHenry, Sr., for his outstanding leadership are alive and well in Pennsylvania’s 8th Con- and service to the citizens in the state of gressional District.

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HIGHLIGHTS Senate confirmed the nomination of Sylvia Mathews Burwell, of West Virginia, to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. Senate Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Watertrails Network. Chamber Action (S. Rept. No. 113–189) Routine Proceedings, pages S3433–S3479 S. 1080, to amend and reauthorize certain provi- Measures Introduced: Sixteen bills and one resolu- sions relating to Long Island Sound restoration and tion were introduced, as follows: S. 2433–2448, and stewardship. (S. Rept. No. 113–190) S. Res. 468. Pages S3474–75 S. 1451, to provide for environmental restoration Measures Reported: activities and forest management activities in the S. 2437, making appropriations for Departments Lake Tahoe Basin, to amend title 18, United States of Commerce and Justice, and Science, and Related Code, to prohibit the importation or shipment of Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, quagga mussels. (S. Rept. No. 113–191) 2015. (S. Rept. No. 113–181) S. 2080, to conserve fish and aquatic communities S. 2438, making appropriations for the Depart- in the United States through partnerships that foster ments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban fish habitat conservation, improve the quality of life Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year for the people of the United States, enhance fish and ending September 30, 2015. (S. Rept. No. 113–182) wildlife-dependent recreation. (S. Rept. No. S. 51, to reauthorize and amend the National Fish 113–192) and Wildlife Foundation Establishment Act. (S. S. 898, to authorize the Administrator of General Rept. No. 113–183) Services to convey a parcel of real property in Albu- S. 212, to approve the transfer of Yellow Creek querque, New Mexico, to the Amy Biehl High Port properties in Iuka, Mississippi. (S. Rept. No. School Foundation. 113–184) S. 1934, to direct the Administrator of General S. 224, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Services to convey the Clifford P. Hansen Federal Control Act to establish a grant program to support Courthouse back to Teton County, Wyoming, with the restoration of San Francisco Bay. (S. Rept. No. an amendment in the nature of a substitute. 113–185) Page S3474 S. 491, to amend the Comprehensive Environ- mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of Measures Passed: 1980 to modify provisions relating to grants, with World War II Memorial Prayer Act: Senate amendments. (S. Rept. No. 113–186) passed S. 1044, to direct the Secretary of the Interior S. 741, to extend the authorization of appropria- to install in the area of the World War II Memorial tions to carry out approved wetlands conservation in the District of Columbia a suitable plaque or an projects under the North American Wetlands Con- inscription with the words that President Franklin servation Act through fiscal year 2017, with an D. Roosevelt prayed with the United States on amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. D–Day, June 6, 1944. Pages S3461–64 No. 113–187) S. 969, to amend the Neotropical Migratory Bird Authorize the Production of Records: Senate Conservation Act to reauthorize the Act, with agreed to S. Res. 468, to authorize the production amendments. (S. Rept. No. 113–188) of records by the Permanent Subcommittee on Inves- S. 1077, to amend the Chesapeake Bay Initiative tigations of the Committee on Homeland Security Act of 1998 to provide for the reauthorization of the and Governmental Affairs. Pages S3477–78 D604

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Page S3465 consent agreement was reached providing that dur- A motion was entered to close further debate on ing the adjournment or recess of the Senate from the nomination, and, in accordance with the provi- Thursday, June 5, 2014 through Monday, June 9, sions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the 2014, the Majority Leader be authorized to sign duly Senate, a vote on cloture will occur upon disposition enrolled bills or joint resolutions. Page S3478 of the nomination of Lael Brainard, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the Board of Gov- Lauck Nomination—Cloture: Senate began consid- ernors of the Federal Reserve System. Page S3465 eration of the nomination of M. Hannah Lauck, of Virginia, to be United States District Judge for the Fischer Nomination—Cloture: Senate began con- Eastern District of Virginia. Page S3464 sideration of the nomination of Stanley Fischer, of A motion was entered to close further debate on New York, to be Vice Chairman of the Board of the nomination and, in accordance with the provi- Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Page S3465 sions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the A motion was entered to close further debate on Senate, and pursuant to the unanimous-consent the nomination, and, in accordance with the provi- agreement of Thursday, June 5, 2014, a vote on clo- sions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the ture will occur at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, June 9, Senate, a vote on cloture will occur upon disposition 2014. Page S3464 of the nomination of Jerome H. Powell, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Sorokin Nomination—Cloture: Senate began con- Federal Reserve System. Page S3465 sideration of the nomination of Leo T. Sorokin, of Massachusetts, to be United States District Judge for Lauck, Sorokin, and Boulware Nominations— the District of Massachusetts. Page S3464 Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was A motion was entered to close further debate on reached providing that at 5:30 p.m., on Monday, the nomination and, in accordance with the provi- June 9, 2014, Senate resume consideration of the sions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the nominations of M. Hannah Lauck, of Virginia, to be Senate, and pursuant to the unanimous-consent United States District Judge for the Eastern District agreement of Thursday, June 5, 2014, a vote on clo- of Virginia, Leo T. Sorokin, of Massachusetts, to be ture will occur at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, June 9, United States District Judge for the District of Mas- 2014. Page S3464 sachusetts, and Richard Franklin Boulware II, of Ne- vada, to be United States District Judge for the Dis- Boulware Nomination—Cloture: Senate began trict of Nevada, and vote on the motions to invoke consideration of the nomination of Richard Franklin cloture on the nominations in the order listed; and Boulware II, of Nevada, to be United States District that if cloture is invoked on any of the nominations, Judge for the District of Nevada. Page S3464 at 10 a.m., on Tuesday, June 10, 2014, all post-clo- A motion was entered to close further debate on ture time be considered expired and Senate vote on the nomination and, in accordance with the provi- confirmation of the nominations in the order listed. sions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, and pursuant to the unanimous-consent Page S3478 agreement of Thursday, June 5, 2014, a vote on clo- Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the fol- ture will occur at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, June 9, lowing nominations: 2014. Pages S3464–65 By 78 yeas to 17 nays (Vote No. EX. 175), Sylvia Brainard Nomination—Cloture: Senate began con- Mathews Burwell, of West Virginia, to be Secretary sideration of the nomination of Lael Brainard, of the of Health and Human Services. Pages S3454, S3479 District of Columbia, to be a Member of the Board Carolyn Hessler Radelet, of Virginia, to be Direc- of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. tor of the Peace Corps. Pages S3454, S3479 Page S3465 Nominations Received: Senate received the fol- A motion was entered to close further debate on lowing nominations: the nomination, and, in accordance with the provi- Jessie Hill Roberson, of Alabama, to be a Member sions of Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board for a Senate, a vote on cloture will occur upon disposition term expiring October 18, 2018.

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Daniel J. Santos, of Virginia, to be a Member of Commissioners, all of Washington, DC; and Gigi the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board for a Smith, Association of Public-Safety Communications term expiring October 18, 2017. Officials International, Daytona Beach, Florida. Kevin F. O’Malley, of Missouri, to be Ambassador to Ireland. DEVELOPMENTS IN UKRAINE Routine lists in the Army. Pages S3478–79 Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded Messages from the House: Page S3471 a hearing to examine developments in Ukraine, after Measures Placed on the Calendar: receiving testimony from former Representative Jane Pages S3433, S3471 Harman, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and former Representative Mark Green, Executive Communications: Pages S3471–74 International Republican Institute; and Steven Pifer, Additional Cosponsors: Pages S3475–76 The Brookings Institution, James F. Jeffrey, The Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and Ken- Pages S3476–77 neth Wollack, National Democratic Institute, all of Washington, DC. Additional Statements: Pages S3466–71 Authorities for Committees to Meet: Page S3477 WILDFIRES Privileges of the Floor: Page S3477 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Af- Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. fairs: Subcommittee on Emergency Management, Intergovernmental Relations, and the District of Co- (Total—175) Page S3454 lumbia concluded a hearing to examine wildfires, fo- Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m. and ad- cusing on assessing first responder training and capa- journed at 5:31 p.m., until 2 p.m. on Monday, June bilities, after receiving testimony from James E. 9, 2014. (For Senate’s program, see the remarks of Hubbard, Deputy Chief, Forest Service, Department the Majority Leader in today’s Record on page of Agriculture; Mayor Mike Navarre, Kenai Penin- S3478.) sula Borough, Alaska; and William R. Dougan, The National Federation of Federal Employees, and Committee Meetings Kevin B. O’Connor, International Association of Fire Fighters, both of Washington, DC. (Committees not listed did not meet) BUSINESS MEETING USA FREEDOM ACT Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favor- Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a ably reported the following business items: hearing to examine H.R. 3361, to reform the au- An original bill (S. 2437) making appropriations thorities of the Federal Government to require the for Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agen- production of certain business records, conduct elec- cies, for fiscal year 2015; and tronic surveillance, use pen registers and trap and An original bill (S. 2438) making appropriations trace devices, and use other forms of information for and Transportation, Housing and Urban Devel- gathering for foreign intelligence, counterterrorism, opment, and Related Agencies for fiscal year 2015. and criminal purposes, after receiving testimony from James M. Cole, Deputy Attorney General, and INTERNET PROTOCOL TRANSITION Mark F. Giuliano, Deputy Director, Federal Bureau Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Sub- of Investigation, both of the Department of Justice; committee on Communications, Technology, and the Richard H. Ledgett, Deputy Director, National Se- Internet concluded a hearing to examine preserving curity Agency; Robert S. Litt, General Counsel, and public safety and network reliability in the Internet Stephanie O’Sullivan, Deputy Director, both of the Protocol (IP) transition, after receiving testimony Office of the Director of National Intelligence; and from Henning Schulzrinne, Chief Technology Offi- Harley Geiger, Center for Democracy and Tech- cer, Federal Communications Commission; Jonathan nology, Dean C. Garfield, Information Technology Banks, United States Telecom Association, Jodie Industry Council, Michael J. Woods, Verizon Com- Griffin, Public Knowledge, and Colette D. Honor- munications Inc., and Stewart A. Baker, Steptoe and able, National Association of Regulatory Utility Johnson, LLP, all of Washington, DC.

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Next Meeting of the SENATE Next Meeting of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2 p.m., Monday, June 9 12 p.m., Monday, June 9

Senate Chamber House Chamber Program for Monday: After the transaction of any Program for Monday: To be announced. morning business (not to extend beyond 5:30 p.m.), Sen- ate will resume consideration of the nominations of M. Hannah Lauck, of Virginia, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, Leo T. Sorokin, of Massachusetts, to be United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts, and Richard Franklin Boulware II, of Nevada, to be United States Dis- trict Judge for the District of Nevada, and vote on the motions to invoke cloture on the nominations in the order listed.

Extensions of Remarks, as inserted in this issue

HOUSE Hastings, Alcee L., Fla., E912 Lujan Grisham, Michelle, N.M., E910 Horsford, Steven A., Nev., E912 Pelosi, Nancy, Calif., E909 Burgess, Michael C., Tex., E910 Jackson Lee, Sheila, Tex., E908 Reichert, David G., Wash., E910 Faleomavaega, Eni F.H., American Samoa, E907 Johnson, Henry C. ‘‘Hank’’, Jr., Ga., E907, E908, E910, Steward, Chris, Utah, E908 Fitzpatrick, Michael G., Pa., E913 E910, E911, E912, E913 Waxman, Henry A., Calif., E908 Garamendi, John, Calif., E907 Latham, Tom, Iowa, E907 Griffin, Tim, Ark., E911 Lofgren, Zoe, Calif., E909

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