H582 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 15, 2019 Yes, we are a nation of immigrants. I Lieutenant Governor Pinnell is, like- On January 5, the Bison defeated the know firsthand. My grandparents emi- wise, a business owner and has been an Eastern Washington Eagles, 38–24. The grated from Sweden to the Upper Pe- advocate of the Republican Party and Eagles are a good team and attempted ninsula to start a new life in the 1890s, conservative agenda in our State for several comebacks, but the Bison held but Congress has a constitutional duty many years. strong for the win. to provide for the safety and security Commissioner Mulready is a long- Quarterback Easton Stick led the of our citizens. Right now, our immi- term insurance professional and busi- Bison with a spectacular performance. gration system is broken, making ille- nessman, most recently serving in the He had five touchdowns—two passing gal entry into the U.S. a common oc- House of Representatives as and three rushing—for a combined 319 currence rather than a random act. the majority floor leader. yards. President Trump is right to call this State Superintendent Joy The Bison players were cheered on by a crisis. It is a crisis of our own mak- Hofmeister, another business owner, is 17,000 dedicated NDSU fans who trav- ing, and it is time for Congress to do beginning her second term in the role eled over 1,000 miles south to Frisco, our job. and will continue to work hard for Texas, for what has become an annual We are on day 25 of the longest and Oklahoma’s students. journey. most avoidable government shutdown A new day is dawning in Oklahoma Victory also sealed Coach Klieman’s in U.S. history. Those most vital to with the leadership of Governor Stitt, place in college football history. In his protecting our borders, coasts, and Lieutenant Governor Pinnell, Commis- five seasons, he has coached the team ports have now missed at least one sioner Mulready, and Superintendent to four national championships and paycheck, with little to no progress Hofmeister. I congratulate them on just four conference losses. being made in Washington. this accomplishment and wish celebra- Madam Speaker, this incredible It is time to end this shutdown, se- tion and joy this week. achievement is the result of months of hard work and preparation. Congratu- cure our borders, and get our govern- f ment open and working for the people. lations to all Bison players, coaches, KEYSTONE TAILORED Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues and fans. They earned it. MANUFACTURING PLAN CLOSURE to join me in supporting efforts to f build a wall. (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given AN IMPORTANT VICTORY FOR f permission to address the House for 1 DEMOCRACY minute.) (Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of A SHUTDOWN IS NOT THE ANSWER Ms. KAPTUR. Madam Speaker, I rise New York asked and was given permis- (Ms. BROWNLEY of California asked today to highlight yet another grim sion to address the House for 1 minute.) economic headline, another broken and was given permission to address Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New promise on jobs and trade from Presi- the House for 1 minute.) York. Madam Speaker, today, we had Ms. BROWNLEY of California. dent Trump to the people of northern an important victory for democracy. A Madam Speaker, President Trump is Ohio, and more pink slips by another Federal judge in New York ordered the forcing more than 37,000 Californians, factory shuttered. Trump administration to remove a including many veterans, to go without Keystone Tailored Manufacturing planned citizenship question from the pay. From Coast Guard members at will close by March. Approximately 150 2020 Census in response to a lawsuit Naval Base Ventura County and Chan- employees will lose their jobs. filed by the State of New York, which nel Islands Harbor to local air traffic Keystone has made men’s suits at the was joined by 17 other States in sup- controllers, Ventura County residents site since 2015. Before that, it was a port. I am proud to have led an amicus and their families are trying to make Hugo Boss men’s suit plant. Since 2010, brief of 126 Members of Congress, also ends meet without their paychecks. workers fought to keep the facility in support of this lawsuit. On the first day of this Congress, I from closing twice. There won’t be a The court affirmed what we already joined my Democratic colleagues to third time. knew: adding a citizenship question pass legislation to reopen the govern- As Mark Milko, the area director for was driven by partisan politics, in vio- ment and provide for sensible border the Workers United union put it: ‘‘It lation of the law. The Constitution re- security. doesn’t look like there is anything to quires that the Census count every per- The President should not use people’s fight to save.’’ son living in our country, and the ad- lives and our economy as hostages to Madam Speaker, this company plans ministration’s attempt to add a citi- build a campaign slogan. The President to shift these jobs to Canada. There zenship question was a deliberate effort closed the government. A shutdown is they can save $15 a suit on imported to scare away noncitizens and their not the answer. buttons, zippers, shoulder supports, and families in order to undercount this Mr. President, reopen our govern- tariffs—because Canada isn’t involved community. ment now. in a trade war with China that the Fortunately, the court agreed, but f President has started. Under NAFTA, there will likely be an appeal. That is they can then turn those suits right OKLAHOMA INAUGURATION DAY why I will be introducing legislation to back around to sell here in America for remove the citizenship question. We (Mr. KEVIN HERN of Oklahoma nothing. must act quickly. asked and was given permission to ad- This President’s trade strategy is a Our democracy depends on a full and dress the House for 1 minute and to re- disaster. American workers suffer the accurate count of our Nation, and we vise and extend his remarks.) ultimate sacrifice. Our Nation must cannot allow the Trump administra- Mr. KEVIN HERN of Oklahoma. put someone in charge who knows what tion to compromise that. Madam Speaker, I rise in celebration of they are doing. f the inauguration of Oklahoma’s Gov- f ernor , Lieutenant Gov- END THE GOVERNMENT ernor , Insurance Commis- CONGRATULATING THE NORTH DA- SHUTDOWN KOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOOT- sioner , and State Super- (Ms. GARCIA of Texas asked and was BALL TEAM intendent Joy Hofmeister. These lead- given permission to address the House ers come from Oklahoma’s First Con- (Mr. ARMSTRONG asked and was for 1 minute.) gressional District and will represent given permission to address the House Ms. GARCIA of Texas. Madam Speak- Tulsa well in our capital. for 1 minute and to revise and extend er, I rise to object to the administra- Governor Stitt, like our President his remarks.) tion’s threat to issue a national emer- and myself, is an entrepreneur and a Mr. ARMSTRONG. Madam Speaker, gency declaration and reprogram businessman. He has a vision for Okla- the North Dakota State University money that has been allocated for Hur- homa to be a top ten State, shaking up football team brought home their ricane Harvey. the status quo in Oklahoma City and record seventh FCS championship tro- I join a bipartisan group of Texas leg- turning the State around. phy in 8 years. islators in opposition to this diversion,

VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:33 Jan 16, 2019 Jkt 089060 PO 00000 Frm 00036 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K15JA7.069 H15JAPT1 lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with HOUSE January 15, 2019 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H583 including my former colleagues from Let’s talk about the reality that the How long can he hang on? How long the Texas Senate. This administration President proposed in his budget for will that escrow remain open before is seeking any funds or any means to 2019 that we should spend somewhere this deal tanks? Well, it is 25 days thus go around Congress to build his wall. around $1.6 billion for border security, far. Apparently, the deal is still in Congress is a coequal branch of gov- not specifying walls or all of it, but place. But businesses all across this ernment, Madam Speaker, with a duty just border security. Nation are not moving forward. to appropriate funds for Hurricane Har- We, of course, do what we always do. Recent estimates show that two- vey. Any action to delay or divert We took that, and we put it through tenths of a percent of the economic those funds puts lives at risk and po- the ringer. We came out with $1.6 bil- growth of this Nation in this 25-day tentially displaces people from their lion for border security, including some shutdown has been removed from this homes, many in my own district in wall in there. economy. We are looking somewhere Houston. But we didn’t finish the task, so we just north of 21⁄2, 3 percent, in that We must do more to mitigate the did a continuing resolution last Sep- range, but two-tenths of that is now damages caused by flooding. Diverting tember and kicked the ball down the gone as a result of this shutdown. disaster funds to pay for a wall will not road, which is what we really do best, Let us remind ourselves: This is en- accomplish that goal. boom, boom, boom, bounce down the tirely the making of the President who I am proud of the bipartisan opposi- road until right after Thanksgiving. parachuted—no, bombed into our nego- tion to this effort, and I hope that we Then we hadn’t quite completed it, so tiation process here, $5 billion in the 12 can work together in that same spirit in a day when none of us were here, by hours between the passage of a com- to end this Trump shutdown. unanimous consent, again, we kicked promised, unanimous vote by the Sen- ate to keep government going and the f the ball down the road until December 11. arrival and the vote on that bill here OPEN OUR GOVERNMENT Then the Senate sent over a piece of on this floor. (Mrs. LAWRENCE asked and was legislation that was unanimously Madam Speaker, I will also state given permission to address the House passed in the Senate by voice vote, and that our Republican colleagues accom- for 1 minute.) it wound up over here the next day. modated the President and put the $5 Mrs. LAWRENCE. Madam Speaker, Sometime between that evening when billion into the legislation and sent it day 25. There is no reason for President it passed the Senate and it wound up back to the Senate, and there it sat, Trump to keep the government shut over here, the President decided that sine die. That legislation is gone. However, we want to open govern- down over his demands for an ineffec- he needed $5 billion for a border wall. tive border wall. Now, perhaps there was a discussion ment. We think it is really important On day one, the Democrats passed of appropriations sometime during that that those veterans across this Nation who want to get their records are able legislation to reopen our government. process. I don’t know. But in any case, to do so, and those men and women Today, we are taking further action, it was in none of the bills. Suddenly, who want to start a small business are bringing forward a continuing resolu- we had a $5 billion addition to border able to get their Small Business Ad- tion to fund the government through security. All of that happened over- February 1, giving the President and ministration loans approved. night. How about Foreign Service officers? the Senate GOP yet another oppor- At the same time, the President calls Oh, yes, the State Department isn’t tunity to end the shutdown, while al- into his Oval Office the leadership, and lowing time for us to do our work and funded. Foreign Service officers are not he says that he will shut down the gov- able to get the training that they need. negotiate. ernment, and he will take the mantle President Trump should stop holding They go through a whole course before of the shutdown. they are sent off to some part of the the health, the safety, and the pay- So, my good friends from the Repub- checks of the American people hostage. world—language, culture courses. None lican side of this aisle, here we are on of that is happening, to say nothing of We need border security, and Demo- day 25. crats stand strong on that issue, but we the fact that about a third of the ap- A lot of things are going on out pointments in the State Department will not waste taxpayers’ dollars. We there. There is not much going on will not waste billions of taxpayer dol- have never been filled to begin with. around here, unfortunately. But what Department of the Interior? Some of lars on an ineffective wall. is going on out there? us stuck around here over the weekend. Mr. President, Congress, open our I got a phone call from a mayor of Normally, we would go down to the government. one of the small cities that I represent Smithsonian and take a look, or the f down in the agricultural part north of National Museum of African American b 1600 Sacramento. He said: Can you help us? History and Culture, or maybe the Na- One of the veterans in my district, a tional Museum of American History. END THE SHUTDOWN World War II veteran, is in hospice, Maybe we would go watch one of the The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under and, over the years, he lost his Purple presentations that are made at the na- the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- Heart for injuries that he suffered in tional parks. No, that doesn’t happen uary 3, 2019, the gentleman from Cali- World War II. We would like to get that either. Woe on us here in Washington, fornia (Mr. GARAMENDI) is recognized back for him before he dies, but we but all across this Nation, the national for 60 minutes as the designee of the can’t. We can’t help him. parks are shut down. majority leader. We can’t get that Purple Heart back Fish and wildlife, now, we have a real Mr. GARAMENDI. Madam Speaker, I before this veteran dies because the problem here. The fish and wildlife ref- think I just heard that we are in the National Archives is shut down. Nor- uges in California are shut down, and 25th day of the shutdown. I see some of mally, we could. We would make our we are approaching the end of duck my good Republican friends over there, request, and we would go to the Na- season. Oh, my goodness. You mean we and perhaps we ought to engage in a tional Archives. Somehow we would can’t go duck hunting, as we might debate about the wisdom of this shut- find the record, and we would get a re- want to do, at the fish and wildlife ref- down. placement Purple Heart. We can’t do uges? That is right. You are not going Can anybody find any good reason for that now. The National Archives is to go duck hunting at the fish and the shutdown? shut down. wildlife refuges, as you have normally Mr. MEADOWS. Will the gentleman Another one of my constituents done, even though you put your bid in yield? wants to start a new business in one of and you had January 15 for your date Mr. GARAMENDI. At the moment, the towns that I represent west of Sac- to hunt ducks at the refuge. Nope, Mr. MEADOWS, perhaps I would yield ramento. It is a little restaurant coffee can’t do that. and you can give me a 30-second expla- shop. He needs an SBA loan. He worked Transportation, the Department of nation of why the shutdown makes it all through the bank. The bank is Transportation is shut down. sense, but let’s talk about the shut- ready to make the loan. The papers You tell me it is a small portion of down. can’t be signed. SBA is shut down. the Federal Government. Well, it is a

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