E826 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks May 5, 2011 1992. She co-sponsored the domestic part- reproductive tract cancer, and adverse preg- health of our communities and nation as a ners ordinance extending benefits for unmar- nancy outcomes. whole. ried couples. Throughout her aldermanic ca- Due to various factors, including stigma, a f reer, Alderman Shiller has fought for afford- lack of health care coverage, and an inac- able housing and for city budget investments curate perception of risk among communities HONORING DELIA P. SANCHEZ to make Chicago a more affordable place to and providers, HIV and other long-term, ini- live. tially asymptomatic STIs often remain HON. KATHY CASTOR A strong voice for sustainability and green undiagnosed or are diagnosed at later stages. OF FLORIDA technologies, Alderman Shiller took the lead This leads to higher rates of mortality, mor- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES on a voluntary pilot program for multi-unit resi- bidity, disability, and transmission. Further- Thursday, May 5, 2011 dential building recycling and created a task more, the burden of HIV/AIDS and STIs falls Ms. CASTOR of Florida. Mr. Speaker, in force to improve the city’s recycling program. disproportionately on different populations, recognition of her recent honor, the 2011 Syd- She is an advocate for LEED certification in all with 15–24 year olds, men who have sex with ney & Thalia Potter Civic Leadership Award planned developments as well as in other de- men (MSM), and racial and ethnic minorities from the League of Women Voters of velopment projects throughout the city. facing the greatest risk for STIs. Hillsborough County, I rise to herald the In 1989, Alderman Shiller sponsored a reso- The Centers for Disease Control and Pre- achievements of Delia P. Sanchez, a cham- lution that created a sub-committee to focus vention (CDC) and the United States Preven- pion for children in Florida. Ms. Sanchez is a on ways to end domestic violence. As a result tive Services Task Force recommend that vol- wonderful example of the power of women to of her leadership, the city now funds domestic untary screening for HIV/AIDS and other STIs shape future generations and make a dif- violence counseling centers and programs for be integrated into routine clinical care. All indi- ference in their communities. Ms. Sanchez is supervised visitations. viduals engaging in sexual contact must have a lifelong learner. She obtained her bachelor’s Alderman Shiller has continuously worked to access to voluntary screening that is confiden- degree from Florida State University in Social keep the 46th Ward both economically and tial, rapid, accurate, and medically appropriate. Work with minors in Education and Spanish in culturally diverse, while at the same time In addition, supporting scientifically based, cul- 1945 and went on to get her Master’s in So- working to develop virtually every area of the turally competent, and age-appropriate inter- cial Work at Columbia University in 1947. Until ward. It is important to Alderman Shiller that ventions is key to reducing the incidence of 1991, nearly fifty years later, she took grad- the 46th Ward continue to be defined by its HIV/AIDS and other STIs. uate level courses in areas such as Pupil Per- unique mix of people with very different eco- The Increasing Access to Voluntary Screen- sonnel Services, Education, and Rehabilita- nomic and cultural backgrounds. She has ing for HIV/AIDS and STIs Act of 2011 takes tion. worked on many models to retain this diversity an aggressive and multifaceted approach to All the while, Ms. Sanchez was affecting and, with the City’s Department of Housing, combating HIV/AIDS and other STIs, including enormous change in lives of hundreds of chil- developed the Planned Purchase Price Assist- Chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, hepatitis B, dren in the Tampa Bay area. One of the great- ance Program (now called CPAN), which pro- hepatitis C, and human papillomavirus (HPV), est services that Delia Sanchez provided to vides opportunities for home ownership for by increasing access to voluntary screening the Tampa community was to work with Con- working families. and other preventive methods while preserving gressman Sam Gibbons to bring the first Head Alderman Shiller led a comprehensive and patient rights and confidentiality. Start initiative to Hillsborough County. She inclusive community planning process result- Among other things, this bill requires Med- began her career as a Child Welfare Worker ing in the development of affordable housing icaid to cover voluntary screening for HIV/ for the Florida State Welfare Board. From and thriving retail development at Wilson Yard AIDS and other STIs as a mandatory service there Ms. Sanchez went on to work for the in the heart of Uptown. for all individuals 13 and older, including when School Board of Hillsborough County as a Helen Shiller received her high school di- such services are provided at a Federally School Social Worker and a Case Work Con- ploma from Woodstock Country School in Qualified Health Center (FQHC). This legisla- sultant, working her way up the ranks to even- Vermont in 1965. She attended the University tion also requires the Centers for Medicare tually serve as the Administrative Supervisor of Wisconsin at Madison as a history major and Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide Medi- for Head Start for nine years. Then, in the last and received her BA in 1969. In 2005, she care reimbursement for voluntary HIV/AIDS three years of her career, she went into pri- graduated from DePaul University’s School for and STI screening for all beneficiaries 13 and vate practice to counsel troubled children. New Learning’s Master’s Program where her older. Throughout her career and in her retire- focus was public policy. In addition, this Act requires group health ment, Ms. Sanchez has served as a board I am confident that Helen will continue to plans, insurance issuers providing group or in- member or local representative to a number of contribute to her community and city. I wish dividual health insurance coverage, and fed- community organizations. The list is too large her the very best, and I am proud to call her eral employee health benefits programs to to mention them all, but they range from the my friend. cover routine screening for HIV/AIDS and University of South Florida’s Latin Community f other STIs; provides states with the support Advisory Committee, the Citizen’s Advisory they need to cover low-income individuals in- Council, the Child Abuse Council, the Ybor INTRODUCING THE INCREASING fected with HIV until Medicaid is expanded in City Museum Society, to the National Associa- ACCESS TO VOLUNTARY SCREEN- 2014 under the Patient Protection and Afford- tion of Social Workers. ING FOR HIV/AIDS AND STIS ACT able Care Act; and supports access to early For all of her hard work in education and OF 2011 medical and mental treatment by linking pa- the lives of children, countless organizations tients to appropriate medical and mental have recognized her. To name a few, Ms. HON. ALCEE L. HASTINGS health services. Sanchez is the recipient of the US State De- OF FLORIDA Lastly, this bill will help improve the accessi- partment Fellowship Award, the American Red IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES bility and effectiveness of screening and other Cross Service Award twice, the Retired Social preventive services for groups that have been Worker Outstanding Achievement Award, the Thursday, May 5, 2011 historically underrepresented in public health Hillsborough County Martin Luther King, Jr. Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I interventions for HIV/AIDS and other STIs, Award, the National Head Start Association rise today to introduce the Increasing Access such as people living with disabilities, the Lifetime Achievement Award and now the to Voluntary Screening for HIV/AIDS and STIs transgender community, women living with se- Sydney & Thalia Potter Civic Leadership Act of 2011, which will help reduce the spread vere physical disabilities, and women who Award. She is also a member of Sigma Delta and morbidities associated with HIV/AIDS and have sex with women (WSW). Pi Spanish Honor Society, was named Social other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Mr. Speaker, HIV/AIDS and STIs remain a Worker of the Year by the National Associa- Each year in the United States, almost 19 significant challenge to individual and public tion of Social Workers by the Tampa Bay Unit million new STIs occur and an estimated health. Through early detection and treatment, and then again by the Florida Chapter, re- 56,300 Americans are newly infected with HIV. as well as comprehensive education for health ceived an honorary Doctorate from the Univer- HIV/AIDS and STIs are syndemics. HIV infec- care providers and communities, we can begin sity of South Florida School of Social Work, tion can increase a person’s risk for acquiring to reverse the tide of infections. I urge my col- and in 1993 she was Hispanic Woman of the certain STIs, as well as affect their frequency, leagues to support this important bill, which Year. severity, and healing time, while STIs increase combines the effectiveness of voluntary, rou- Mr. Speaker, Delia P. Sanchez is a woman the risk of HIV transmission, impaired fertility, tine screening with smart policy to improve the of the highest regard who has dedicated her

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It prevents health savings accounts tolerance and hate, so that we can truly say, f (HSAs) from being used to pay for abortions ‘‘never again.’’ and protects the rights of conscience by mak- The Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust Education A TRIBUTE TO CAPTAIN ERIC ing the Hyde-Weldon provision a permanent Assistance Act is a positive step toward that NELSON fixture rather than having to be renewed annu- end. I urge my colleagues to support this leg- ally. This legislation is not only essential pol- islation. HON. TOM LATHAM icy, but it is also morally imperative. f OF IOWA Madam Speaker, the Obama Administration SUPPORT OF THE FORCE PROTEC- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is openly hostile to pro-life policies. We cannot TION AND READINESS ACT OF Thursday, May 5, 2011 allow the administration discretion over abor- tion policy, as with Obamacare. The perma- 2011 Mr. LATHAM. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to nent establishment of the prohibitions in H.R. recognize the achievement of Captain Eric 3 will reverse the erosion of protections for the HON. LOUISE McINTOSH SLAUGHTER Nelson of Madrid, Iowa. Captain Nelson is a unborn advanced by the Obama Administra- OF NEW YORK soldier in the Iowa Army National Guard. In tion. We must act now to preserve the rights IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 2011, Captain Nelson will be presented of the unborn for future generations. Thursday, May 5, 2011 the MacArthur Leadership Award in Wash- I firmly believe that every unborn life is pre- ington, D.C. cious and should be protected. Therefore, ab- Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise in The MacArthur Leadership Award is given solutely no taxpayer money should be spent support of the Force Protection and Readiness by the United States Army to those company- on abortions, directly or through subsidized Act of 2011. grade officers that demonstrate the ideals for health plans. The No Taxpayer Funding for This legislation will provide greater protec- which General MacArthur stood: duty, honor, Abortion Act ensures that these protections tions for our service women and men sta- and country. It is presented annually to 25 offi- are permanently established. I urge my col- tioned in the U.S. and abroad. Sexual assault cers that serve either in the Active Army, the leagues to join with me in supporting this im- is a pervasive and serious problem throughout Army National Guard, or the Army Reserves. portant bill. all branches of the military. Over 65,000 servicemen and women have Captain Nelson was the only Iowan selected f this year to receive the award. experienced some form of sexual assault or Captain Nelson recently returned in April INTRODUCTION OF THE SIMON rape since 2002. In the Department of De- 2011 from a year-long deployment in Kosovo. WIESENTHAL HOLOCAUST EDU- fense (DoD) Annual Report on Sexual Assault He served with the Iowa Army National Guard CATION ACT in the Military for Fiscal Year (FY) 2009, there Company C, 2nd Battalion, 147th Aviation unit was a total of 3,230 reports of sexual assault as part of the KFOR13 Peacekeeping Oper- HON. CAROLYN B. MALONEY involving military service members as either ations. His unit flew and maintained UH-60 OF NEW YORK victims or subjects. This represents an 11 per- Blackhawk helicopters while there, flying over IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cent increase over FY 2008. 2,400 hours conducting border patrol, recon- In 2008, in nearly half of all sexual assault naissance, and air movement flights. Thursday, May 5, 2011 cases the commander took no action, and I thank Captain Nelson for his honorable Mrs. MALONEY. Mr. Speaker, as we com- only 13 percent of reported cases were pros- service to our country. I know that my col- memorate Holocaust Remembrance Week, I ecuted and referred to courts martial. These leagues in the United States Congress will join am pleased to reintroduce the bipartisan figures are far below civilian prosecution rates, me in congratulating Captain Nelson in being Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust Education Act, where 40 percent of those arrested for rape selected to receive the MacArthur Leadership along with Representatives ACKERMAN, are prosecuted. We must ensure that there is Award. It is an honor to serve as his rep- PIERLUISI, BERKLEY, HASTINGS, RANGEL, WAX- zero tolerance for sexual assault in the military resentative, and I wish him the best of luck in MAN, DEUTCH, and GRIMM. In keeping with the services. the future. 2011 Holocaust Remembrance Week theme The Defense Task Force on Sexual Assault f of ‘‘Justice and Accountability in the Face of in the Military Services report released in De- Genocide: What Have We Learned?’’, it is im- cember 2009 estimates that as many as 90 NO TAXPAYER FUNDING FOR portant to provide educational opportunities for percent of sexual assaults go unreported. We ABORTION ACT the youth of our Nation to understand the re- hear too often that the reporting process may sponsibility we all share for the human rights be as traumatic for the victim as the attack SPEECH OF of others. itself. In order to fully support and protect our HON. MIKE POMPEO Named for the honored Holocaust survivor troops, we must ensure the rights of sexual OF KANSAS who spent his life working for justice for those assault victims are upheld every step of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES murdered by the Nazis and to hunt down way. those who perpetrated such atrocities, this leg- If a victim cannot access essential care for Wednesday, May 4, 2011 islation would provide federal grants to edu- fear of stigma, public embarrassment, threats Mr. POMPEO. Madam Speaker, I rise today cational organizations to teach students about to her career, or because they just do not in support of H.R. 3, the No Taxpayer Funding the Holocaust. Through grants from the De- know what resources are available, the mili- for Abortion Act. partment of Education, Holocaust organization tary will continue to lose valuable female and Over the past 35 years, Republican and programs would be able to apply for funds to male soldiers. These service members put Democrat Presidents, as well as Republican improve the awareness and understanding of themselves in harm’s way to protect us and and Democrat-controlled Congresses, have all the Holocaust through classes, seminars, con- our Nation from threats at home and abroad. agreed that American taxpayers should not be ferences, educational materials, and teacher This bill ensures they are protected when forced to fund abortions. Unfortunately, 14 training. dealing with the horrible tragedy of sexual as- months ago, with the passage of Obamacare, As the generations who survived the Holo- sault. President Obama and Democrats in Congress caust pass away, we must ensure that we The Force Protection and Readiness Act will rejected decades of consensus and aban- learn from their legacy and that it is remem- expand the rights and protections of victims. doned the American people. Crafted behind bered and honored. Over 11 million people, in- First, it will create confidentiality protocols to closed doors and manipulated through the leg- cluding 6 million European Jews as well as protect victim rights and raise the propensity islative process—despite major opposition by gypsies, the disabled and mentally ill, homo- for a soldier to report their case by ensuring the American people—Obamacare not only at- sexuals, and others, were systematically and they receive adequate legal assistance and tempts to destroy the American health care brutally murdered in the Holocaust as the appropriate privileged communications with system, but it fails to protect the most innocent Nazis swept across Europe, destroying entire victim advocates. Second, it will ensure ease among us, the unborn. villages and communities. of base or organization transfer for victims or H.R. 3 will fix this problem created by More than half a century later, persecution the offender, thereby decreasing fear of retal- Obamacare, while also establishing a govern- and murder on the basis of religion, ethnicity, iation and bolstering victim reports. Third, it

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