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Vol. 157 WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2011 No. 136 House of Representatives The House met at 10 a.m. and was through a trade regimen that absolute falsehood. Obviously, they called to order by the Speaker pro tem- outsources U.S. production and Amer- were all wrong, dead wrong. Instead, pore (Mr. DENHAM). ican jobs, financed by the same big we saw over a third of all manufac- f Wall Street banks that caused the fi- turing jobs in the United States dis- nancial meltdown. appear since we signed that agreement DESIGNATION OF SPEAKER PRO Year after year the United States and $1 trillion accumulated trade def- TEMPORE continues to rack up enormous trade icit with Mexico. Not a single year The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- deficits with nation after nation. The since NAFTA’s is passage was the U.S. fore the House the following commu- numbers don’t lie. They tell us that in the black. nication from the Speaker: over 2.7 million manufacturing jobs We heard the exact same fairy tale WASHINGTON, DC, alone were lost just during the Bush regarding China’s Permanent Most Fa- September 14, 2011. administration. Washington must fi- vored Nation Status. We were told that I hereby appoint the Honorable JEFF nally confront our so-called free trade that agreement in 1998 would create DENHAM to act as Speaker pro tempore on failed policies if we are going to be se- millions of jobs in America. Instead, this day. rious about creating jobs in order to the result has been a cumulative $2 JOHN A. BOEHNER, balance the budget. trillion trade deficit with China alone. Speaker of the House of Representatives. Last year, the trade deficit was an- When you think about the budget f other astonishing half a trillion dol- deficit, you’d better think about the MORNING-HOUR DEBATE lars. Imagine a half a trillion, plus a trade deficit because they are abso- half a trillion, plus a half a trillion, lutely interlinked. You’re not going to The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- plus a half a trillion year after year balance the budget until the American ant to the order of the House of Janu- after year. That equaled, just for last people go back to work, and they can’t ary 5, 2011, the Chair will now recog- year, 7 million American jobs that go back to work when their jobs are nize Members from lists submitted by were not created here because of our being sent elsewhere. the majority and minority leaders for job-killing trade policies. If you always do what you have al- morning-hour debate. Rather than stopping this enormous ways done, you will always get what The Chair will alternate recognition outsourcing of America, we’re being of- you always got. between the parties, with each party fered up more of the same, more failed The Economic Policy Institute’s limited to 1 hour and each Member free trade agreements, this time with analysis predicts that the agreement other than the majority and minority Korea, Panama, Colombia. that’s proposed with South Korea will leaders and the minority whip limited Has Washington learned nothing, or cost us an additional 159,000 jobs in our to 5 minutes each, but in no event shall are the economic powers that country. Since this January, we have debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. outsource these jobs bearing down on already rung up, look at the numbers, f Washington so greatly that the Amer- over $7 billion trade deficit with South ican people can’t be heard? The public’s Korea. With passage of the proposed WE NEED A REAL JOBS AGENDA, interest is being suppressed. agreement, do you think it’s going to NOT ANOTHER ROUND OF These agreements are another expan- make the job situation better? NAFTA-STYLE DEALS sion of the same policies and processes If you want to see just how poorly ne- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The that were enacted with NAFTA. We gotiated the Korea deal is, take a quick Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from were all told in 1993 that NAFTA would look at the auto provisions. There’s no Ohio (Ms. KAPTUR) for 5 minutes. create millions of jobs. Instead, we reciprocity. Last year, Korea sold near- Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, you want have seen exactly the opposite, mil- ly half a million cars in our country; to know why we have a budget deficit? lions of jobs decimated. 500,000 cars. The United States, you We have a budget deficit because we Our trade deficit with Mexico last know how much we sell to them? Six have a jobs deficit, and we have a jobs year was over $66 billion in the red. In thousand. What kind of deal is that? deficit because our Nation has been 1993, proponents of NAFTA, like Gary And we’ll be lucky if, under this outsourcing millions of jobs for over a Huffbauer and economist Jeffrey agreement, where there’s a hope that quarter century. White House after Schott, promised we would have, and I we might sell perhaps, 75,000 cars to White House and Congress after Con- quote them, ‘‘an annual current ac- Korea, so, they get a half a million, we gress have allowed our manufacturing count surplus with Mexico of about $10 get a handful? How’s that a credible and jobs base to be whittled away billion through the 1990s.’’ That was an plan to create jobs in our country?

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A balanced approach The Government Accountability Of- erated once again what we already that looks at defense spending, reve- fice has identified Panama as a major know, our Nation’s current fiscal posi- nues, and entitlements is the only real haven for, guess what, tax avoidance. tion is not sustainable. way we’re going to put America’s fiscal Panama is a popular destination for We also know that the problem we’re house back in order. the very same multinational corpora- facing stems, in part, from buying A balanced approach is also key to tions that want to avoid paying their things without paying for them, in- making sure everyone pays their fair fair share of U.S. taxes by creating off- cluding two wars, tax cuts for the share. We cannot ask the middle class shore subsidiaries. wealthiest in America, and a prescrip- families and seniors to bear the entire And how about Colombia, which is tion drug program. But what matters burden of balancing the budget. The the most dangerous country in the now is taking action. most well-off among us, which is most world if you care about labor rights, b 1010 of us, by the way, in this body must and no free country in the world does Over the month of August, we heard also contribute to that objective. not have labor rights. Over 2,000 trade But as we focus on ways to restore very clearly from the American public unionists, 2,000 have been assassinated our budget balance, we cannot and there since 1990. What a pleasant place that they want us to work together on the issues they are most concerned must not forget the immediate jobs cri- to do business. And there has been no sis that too many families face. justice for their victims and their fam- about: jobs and the deficit. Action on one issue will directly impact on the Any plan to bring down the deficit ilies in the majority of those murder must start, as Bowles-Simpson and cases. other. Creating jobs and growing the econ- Domenici-Rivlin both observed, with And what is the largest economic in- getting people back to work. That is terest we have with Colombia? It has omy is one of the most important things we can do to bring down the def- why I hope Republicans and Democrats three letters. It isn’t a place to export will work together to bring the Presi- U.S.-made goods. Rather, it’s more oil icit. And getting a handle on our fiscal situation will give confidence to en- dent’s proposed American Jobs Act to imports. the floor for a vote without delay. As How can those that support these courage economic growth and job cre- the President said, we have 14 months failed trade agreements want more? ation. Both the Bowles-Simpson and to wait until the next election. People We need to create jobs in this coun- Domenici-Rivlin fiscal commissions without jobs, people’s whose homes are try again because, in order to balance supported this tenet by calling for im- underwater, people who have lost their the budget, you have to put the Amer- mediate action to boost the economy homes, they don’t have 14 months to ican people back to work, and you while laying out a plan to reduce the wait. can’t do that when you’re outsourcing deficit over the long term. This is why The jobs program suggested by the more of their jobs and importing more the joint select committee must suc- President mirrors many components into our nation than we export. ceed. We have a responsibility to show included in the House Democrats’ f Americans and the international com- Make It In America agenda and will PASS E-VERIFY TO CREATE munity that we can meet the chal- help create jobs in the short term. AMERICAN JOBS lenges we face, that we can join to- All of us, Democrats and Republicans The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gether and make the tough decisions alike, must be invested in the commit- Chair recognizes the gentleman from necessary to spur growth and to bring tee’s success. I urge my colleagues on Texas (Mr. SMITH) for 1 minute. our debt under control. both sides of the aisle to be committed Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I believe the committee must go be- to the success of reaching agreement in for 2 years, 14 million Americans have yond the $1.5 trillion target in the def- this committee of 12. This is a time to been out of work. Yet illegal workers icit reduction bill if we hope to put partisan politics aside and do the hold 7 million jobs. It is inexcusable strengthen our economy and seriously hard things, very hard things, the cou- that American workers have to com- change our Nation’s fiscal outlook. rageous things that we have to do for pete with illegal immigrants for scarce Over 60 economists and former Mem- our country. jobs. bers of Congress signed a letter encour- I believe we’re equal to the task. And Congress has the opportunity to open aging the joint select committee to I say to my colleagues on both sides of up millions of jobs for unemployed reach the biggest agreement possible, the aisle, if we are not equal to the Americans by requiring all U.S. em- and I want to join with them in that task, then all of our citizens will right- ployers to use E-Verify. This program request. In their letter, signed by co- fully be extraordinarily disappointed, checks the Social Security numbers of chairs of both the Bowles-Simpson and as they are today, in their elected rep- new hires. E-Verify is free, quick and Domenici-Rivlin fiscal commissions, resentatives on both sides of the aisle. easy to use. Individuals eligible to among others, they state, ‘‘We believe Success of this committee, success of work in the U.S. are confirmed 99.5 per- that a ‘go big’ approach that goes well this House and the Senate in reaching cent of the time. beyond the $1.5 trillion deficit reduc- and meeting the challenge that con- The public also supports E-Verify. tion goal that the committee has been fronts us is essential if the confidence According to a recent Rasmussen poll, charged with and includes major re- level of our own citizens and the inter- 82 percent of likely voters think busi- forms of entitlement programs and the national community is to be raised and nesses should be required to use E- Tax Code is necessary to bring the debt given the level necessary for future Verify to determine if a new employee down to a manageable and sustainable success. is in the country legally. This is one of level, improve the long-term fiscal im- f balance, reassure markets, and restore the most important job creation bills AMERICAN LAND ACT Congress should pass and the President Americans’ faith in the political sys- should sign. tem.’’ The SPEAKER pro tempore. The I am in absolute agreement with that Chair recognizes the gentleman from f proposition. As the letter I just quoted Texas (Mr. POE) for 5 minutes. JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE ON indicates, the committee must also put Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, DEFICIT REDUCTION all options on the table. That’s a chal- many, many years ago the second The SPEAKER pro tempore. The lenge on the Republican side; that’s a American Revolution took place when Chair recognizes the gentleman from challenge on the Democratic side. But Washington, D.C., was invaded by the Maryland (Mr. HOYER) for 5 minutes. it must be done because we cannot get British in the War of 1812. Many forget Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, this week to where we need to get without doing that the Capitol, the White House, and the Joint Select Committee on Deficit so. Washington, D.C., were burned to the

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The American Land Act who took unfair advantage as well as out of money. would require that the Federal Govern- others who were not as vigilant as they So what did people decide to do here ment sell a portion of that land over a should have been in the financial melt- in this body of Congress about how to period of years. down; but the truth is they were part get more money into the Federal Now, I want to be careful to state of an unprecedented economic scheme Treasury? They thought of a unique we’re not talking about the national that played on those weaknesses, the approach that maybe we ought to parks. We’re not talking about Yosem- gullibility and some individual greed think of and do today. ite. We’re not talking about the to make it into a vast industry. Right now we talk about raising marshes and environmentally sensitive Are there some areas where unions taxes, cutting spending, and we need areas in this country. We’re talking are too effective in securing benefits more revenue. Maybe we ought to about unused land by the Federal Gov- for their members? That probably de- think outside of the box when it comes ernment. And then we could raise some pends on who you ask about the give to revenue instead of more government revenue. and take of the collective bargaining taking from the people and giving it to I believe that this could be up to process. The leadership of unions are, its special groups. Let’s do what they about $200 billion of revenue that in fact, much more democratic than their corporate counterparts. Union of- did at the end of the War of 1812. would be brought into the United ficials are routinely challenged for re- The Federal Government decided States. Sell it to Americans and that election. There are insurgents even in that it would sell some of the land to will bring revenue into our treasury. Americans—what a novel thought—and the most powerful and entrenched When Americans own America, they let Americans own America. They unions, something one seldom sees on can also develop that land. Then they could produce that land, and then they the boards of public corporations. How can be productive and then they can could pay more taxes. And that’s what many business directors are defeated? pay even more taxes. they did at the end of the War of 1812. It’s not easy to even have opposing We talk about the land in America. b 1020 nominees through today’s shareholder Who is the biggest landowner in this When people own land, they pay democracy. It’s pretty sketchy com- country? Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam owns property tax. That tax primarily goes pared with what happens with unions. 27 percent of the land mass in the to local and State governments, which There is a very direct remedy for United States. This poster here shows pays for our school systems. So that union power in the negotiation process. the land area in red, including Alaska, undeveloped land, that unused land, For 18 years, I was a local elected offi- that is owned by the Federal Govern- some of that should be sold to Ameri- cial, part of that time responsible for a ment, Uncle Sam. Twenty-seven per- cans. Let Americans buy American. collective bargaining program. I like to cent of the land! Half of the land west Real property in the hands of real think that I bargained tough but that I of the Mississippi, or in the West, be- Americans. What a novel thought that bargained fair—but I bargained. I’ve longs to the Federal Government. is. supported collective bargaining rights for public employees since I was first in Those folks in the West, half of it be- Uncle Sam, the Federal Government, the Oregon legislature and still believe longs to Uncle Sam. He’s their neigh- is all about power and control over ev- that honest, tough, principled negotia- bor in every western State. It’s dif- erything. Loosen up a little, and let ferent in the East because much of that tions will lead to the best results. Americans buy part of America. Uncle land was sold at the end of the War of Having someone attempt to dictate Sam shouldn’t prevent Americans from 1812. working conditions unilaterally is not Now, 27 percent, what does that having a real stake or share in our calculated to produce enhanced produc- mean? That’s really hard to understand country, the United States of America. tivity. It matters how people are treat- how much that is. If you were to super- It doesn’t belong to Uncle Sam—at ed and how they feel. Employee-owned impose the 27 percent of the land mass least it shouldn’t. It should belong to corporations illustrate this principle in in the United States into Europe, you Americans. The United States owns spades, some of which are not only em- would find that Uncle Sam would own most of the grand estate in this coun- ployee-owned but have unions in addi- almost all of Europe. Western Europe try, and it’s time to let more Ameri- tion. One of the best performing of the is about 27 percent of the land mass of cans own it because America should be- world’s economy is Germany, where the United States. And of course that long to Americans. they still manufacture and have a huge includes the United Kingdom, the And that’s just the way it is. export market for high-value products. Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzer- f The Germans work hard to integrate land, Germany, Austria, Italy, Poland, A REFLECTION ON THE COLLEC- labor and business with government in and even Spain. TIVE BARGAINING SYSTEM AND the decision-making process, some- Now, we’re talking about a lot of LABOR UNIONS thing that is, sadly, too rare in the land. Does Uncle Sam really need all of United States. that land? Much of it’s unproductive, The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Unions are not the answer for every not paying any taxes, not paying any Chair recognizes the gentleman from employee and every company, but revenue to local and State govern- Oregon (Mr. BLUMENAUER) for 5 min- every employee and every company ments. utes. ought to have that option. Even com- So maybe we should do something Mr. BLUMENAUER. It is unfortunate panies that are nonunion benefit. I’ve that our forefathers, our ancestors there is an attempt to scapegoat Amer- had executives from successful compa- did—sell some of that land to Ameri- ica’s unions for the economic problems nies candidly tell me that they treat cans and allow that revenue to come that beset us. their employees right because they into the Federal Treasury so we can After all, it was not America’s gro- don’t want them to unionize. Even pay off all of our debts that we have ac- cery clerks, nurses, teachers, postal these nonunion company employees cumulated over the years. Twenty- workers, and electricians who nearly benefit from higher wages, better bene- seven percent of the land mass is 623 caused the meltdown of the economy. fits, and a system that respects worker million acres in this country. It wasn’t America’s labor unions that rights because of the competition with Ronald Reagan tried to do that when were pushing for tax loopholes that the unions. he was President, but it did not go very made our revenue system a hopeless, Instead of treating employees fairly far at all. You know, even President inefficient mess. It wasn’t unions that by allowing them to organize, far too Obama mentioned about a month ago pushed for shortcuts for worker safety many corporations have chosen instead that there’s 300 acres in Los Angeles that produced the tragedy that we’ve to attack the fundamentals of collec- County that’s owned by the Federal seen in our mines. America’s working tive bargaining. It is today an art form Government. We could sell that for $2 men and women didn’t engineer poor in some companies to stall, delay, in- billion. loans, systematically cheat consumers, timidate, even to flagrantly violate the

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The DOJ report states that lican administrations have fought to tion has given us another proposal of the Governor of Puerto Rico has ‘‘su- make a National Labor Relations the same old failed policies. Unfortu- preme authority’’ over the police. Did Board that is toothless, passive and un- nately, their latest solution to our 9 he use that supreme authority to re- able or unwilling to protect the rights percent unemployment rate comes spond to Puerto Ricans who asked for of employees to organize. This is not with a price tag of almost a half tril- help? Yes, he did. calculated to produce a spirit of co- lion dollars, money that we just simply The Governor’s ruling party took im- operation. It is not clear that people do not have. So to pay for the Amer- mediate action after I detailed the need to cheat in order to avoid any ex- ican Jobs Act, as I like to call it ‘‘stim- abuse. The ruling party was outraged. cesses of collective bargaining. ulus part II,’’ our Democrat leaders It was outraged at me. Facing a civil I would argue the opposite. want to hike taxes on families and job rights crisis, the ruling party of Puerto It’s not just workers in companies, creators. Rico acted without hesitation, con- union and nonunion, who benefit from We’ve been down this road before. vening the legislature to urgently pass unions. American society benefits. It The stimulus did not work 2 years ago, legislation to censure me for speaking was organized labor that spearheaded and it will not work today. Hiking out. the effort for a 40-hour workweek. It is taxes in the middle of a recession will In part, the censure reads: ‘‘Congress- not just rhetoric that unions brought make our economy worse, not better. man LUIS GUTIERREZ made false allega- you the weekend. Unions have played a When will this administration learn tions about a supposed human rights key role in extending security to mil- that more of the same just simply isn’t crisis in Puerto Rico; he expressed him- lions of Americans in the workplace, in good enough anymore? Jobs will come self in a denigrating and malicious consumer safety and in environmental when government gets out of the way— manner about the honorable body of protections. by getting rid of ObamaCare, by stop- the Puerto Rico police; all of which Again I don’t pretend unions are per- ping the reckless spending here in tends to hurt the good image and good fect and I’ve had some differences with Washington and the threat of higher name of Puerto Rico.’’ them over the years. But make no mis- taxes, and by ending the uncertainty in Here’s the problem: The ruling party take: Unions are amongst the few who the marketplace. of Puerto Rico has made clear time and stand up to some of the more egregious time again they are not concerned b 1030 economic follies, for justice in the about the abuse of their people, only workplace, for protecting the unorga- Congress needs to pass my jobs bill, that the world might notice that nized, fighting for a minimum wage, which would immediately and perma- abuse. They don’t seem to understand even a living wage. nently lower the corporate tax rate to that if you love people, you stand up It’s important to reflect about our zero, and it will permanently lower the and you speak out, not pretend that ev- collective bargaining system. I’m all capital gains tax to zero. This will erything is all right. for fine tuning, but I am adamantly op- stimulate our small businesses so that For standing up, the Government of posed to gutting rights and protection they can do what they do best, grow, Puerto Rico gave me a 600-word cen- of workers. expand and to thrive. sure. But the government didn’t give I think we all should start by ac- In the words of Mr. Marcus, the one word, not one word of censure, to knowledging the debt we owe to unions founder of Home Depot, ‘‘It’s time to what happened to Rachel Hiskes. and work to stop this wholesale assault stand up and fight.’’ Here’s what the DOJ describes hap- on America’s workers. The free enterprise system has made pened to her: f this country what it is today, and we ‘‘A student journalist, Rachel Hiskes, must have policy that makes it pros- entered the Capitol with other individ- THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, per. uals and attempted to access the sen- ‘‘THE SINGLE BIGGEST IMPEDI- f ate chambers. MENT TO JOB GROWTH’’ ‘‘Puerto Rico Police Department offi- CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOR The SPEAKER pro tempore. The cers, who had been dispatched to the PUERTO RICAN CIVILIANS Chair recognizes the gentleman from capitol earlier in the day, stopped Georgia (Mr. BROUN) for 5 minutes. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Hiskes and hit her. Mr. BROUN of Georgia. A legendary Chair recognizes the gentleman from ‘‘She was not resisting or combative. Georgia businessman recently called Illinois (Mr. GUTIERREZ) for 5 minutes. Hiskes then sat in the hallway with the Obama administration ‘‘the single Mr. GUTIERREZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise other visitors in protest. A capitol em- biggest impediment to job growth.’’ today to ask us to take action on a ployee then sprayed Hiskes and others That same man, Mr. Bernie Marcus, scathing Department of Justice inves- with chemical irritants. also says the business that he founded tigation of a police department that ‘‘As Hiskes tried to get up, an officer would have never succeeded if he were ‘‘regularly violates the constitutional hit her across the back with a baton, trying to start it today. Home Depot, rights of civilians through illegal causing her to fall. An officer contin- his Georgia-based company, currently searches, detentions, and arrests,’’ that ued to push and strike her with his has more than 2,200 stores all across ‘‘continues to demonstrate a deliberate baton, driving her toward the doorway. the United States. They support more indifference to the public’s safety and ‘‘When she reached the door and had than 300,000 American jobs, and they the civil rights of individuals engaging her back to the officer, the officer generated $68 billion in revenue just in protected speech activities during shoved her out onto the concrete stairs last year. protests,’’ a police force where ‘‘offi- using his baton and hitting her in the Now, imagine the impact on our cers engage in a pattern and practice of neck. country if companies that start out unreasonable force and other mis- ‘‘Hiskes was never arrested or like Home Depot—which started as an conduct to suppress the exercise of pro- charged with any crime.’’ individual store—or other small busi- tected First Amendment rights.’’ Instead of protecting people like Ra- nesses weren’t able to flourish. That is The report details the abuse against chel, the government derided the peo- what the Obama administration is try- the people of Puerto Rico that they are ple. ing to do to the American Dream facing by the Puerto Rico Police De- This Governor’s chief of staff, a man today. By creating a huge bill with partment. Underscore, I said, ‘‘I rise to he has absurdly tasked with responding ObamaCare and a failed stimulus bill bring the urgent attention of the U.S. to the Department of Justice report, and by piling thousands of new govern- House of Representatives to a human said protesting workers would be treat- ment regulations onto the backs of rights and civil rights crisis.’’ I further ed as ‘‘terrorists’’ and boasted he would

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He was also awarded the ital. It’s just the latest piece of evi- And, to be clear, the many honorable Daughters of the American Revolution dence that the military occupation of and brave Puerto Rican police officers, Medal of Honor. I would need an hour Afghanistan is having exactly the op- men and women who are incorruptible, on this floor, Mr. Speaker, of time just posite of its intended effect. Nearly a who do their jobs right and risk their to list all the rest of Ted’s accomplish- decade after we allegedly defeated the lives every day, they deserve more too. ments. Taliban and drove them from power, When crimes like these are brought His education did not stop at Auburn they remain as fearless and undaunted to light, we expect criminal indict- University. In addition to the military as ever. ments. professional education programs of- The longer we have boots on the I want to see a special prosecutor ap- fered through the Air Force, Ted is also ground, the more we prop up the very pointed, the grand jury seated, the an alumnus of the John F. Kennedy enemy we are supposed to be fighting. trials begun and see those responsible, School of Government at Harvard Uni- And for this, the American people have not just the police officers following versity. the privilege of shelling out $10 billion orders but those who directed the po- After he left active duty service, Ted a month. lice to systematically suppress free entered into the Air National Guard, I ask my friends on the other side of speech, sent to jail. where he served for 30 years and held the aisle, the ones who are lecturing us The goal must be to reestablish the the roles of group commander, wing every day about cutting spending, isn’t rule of law and to reestablish a police commander, and chief of staff. He was there something better we can do with department in Puerto Rico that pro- promoted to major general in 1997 and the taxpayers’ money? tects and serves the people. The goal retired in 2001 as commander of the Air Well, it turns out there is, and it must be a police department fighting National Guard/Air Education and would do more to promote security and crime, not committing crime. The goal Training Command. counterterrorism than waging a bloody must be that no government can act While serving in the Air National and violent war. with impunity against its own people. Guard, he remained active in his com- For years now, I’ve been promoting a And I have one last recommendation. munity, serving on the Fayette County platform I call ‘‘SMART Security.’’ The Governor of Puerto Rico should school board for 10 years as chairman, SMART Security represents a whole- apologize to his people. Puerto Ricans and on the Georgia School Board Asso- sale change in the way we protect our have called out for help. In response, ciation as president in 1986. Ted served country and promote our values the Governor and the ruling party have on several additional boards, including abroad. It puts us in a position of part- led an effort to demonize them for my academy nomination board, and ner, not invader. It’s smart because it was president of the Joseph Sams standing up for their civil rights. treats warfare as a very last resort. It’s Governor, the Department of Justice School board of directors, a school smart because it uses different tools to serving the needs of children with men- of the United States of America has engage other nations and resolve global tal and physical disabilities, and Ted just made clear that your people were conflicts. It’s smart because it empha- took me on a tour of that facility right and you were wrong, and it is sizes diplomacy, pursues about 2 months before he passed away. time for you to say you’re sorry. multilateralism, promotes democracy, His accomplishments reach far be- and respects human rights. And it’s f yond military service, though. Ted was smart because it would dramatically also a very successful businessman in HONORING MAJOR GENERAL increase our investment in inter- the aviation industry. His focus was al- THEODORE MALLORY III national development projects that ways on safety and flying, where he The SPEAKER pro tempore. The will lift people up instead of tearing was training new pilots, or as a senior Chair recognizes the gentleman from their country down. vice president of Flight Operations and Georgia (Mr. WESTMORELAND) for 5 What we need in Afghanistan and minutes. chief safety and security officer for poor countries around the world is a ci- Mr. WESTMORELAND. Mr. Speaker, ASTAR Air Cargo. vilian surge, one that will rebuild in- there are men who watch life go by as b 1040 frastructure, power lines, schools, hos- a spectator, and then there are the Ted General Mallory is now flying sorties pitals, economic opportunity, and Mallorys of the world. In one of life’s far above us all, watching down on his much more, whatever that nation greatest mysteries, Ted Mallory’s time loved ones left behind. My wife, Joan, would find useful that we could help on Earth came to an end June 26 after and I will continue to pray for Alice, with. a late diagnosis of stomach cancer. his wife of 44 years, his soul mate; his You think it sounds expensive? It’s a Major General Theodore ‘‘Ted’’ Mal- children, Teddi and T.J. and their fami- drop in the bucket. I’m talking about lory III had embraced his many gifts lies; his grandchildren, Mallory and pennies on the dollar compared to a 10- and lived one of the fullest lives I have Thomas; and his sister and brother-in- year military occupation. In fact, The ever been privileged enough to encoun- law, Molly and Tom. May all those who Washington Post noted last week that ter. The Bible says: As iron sharpens have been touched by Ted’s life find civilian efforts in Afghanistan have iron, so one man sharpens another. Ted comfort knowing that his legacy will cost the United States about $1.7 bil- made it his personal mission to sharp- live on in both our lives and our memo- lion over the last 2 years. Let’s com- en the lives of those men and women ries. pare $1.7 billion over 2 years to $10 bil- around him, and he pushed people to So Ted, until we meet again one day, lion a month in Afghanistan. And even their highest potential. I want to thank you for everything you that level of funding is now facing After attending Auburn University, did to better our lives and our country. tough scrutiny here on the Hill. Are Ted entered into the U.S. Air Force Of- I miss you, Teddy. We all miss you. you kidding me? Let’s put this into ficer Training School in 1965 and grad- f perspective—$1.7 billion, we spend that uated with the U.S. Air Force Out- much on the war in Afghanistan in less standing Graduate Officer Award, A COST-EFFECTIVE CIVILIAN than a week, and that’s what we invest among many other awards that he ob- SURGE FOR AFGHANISTAN in 2 years of civilian efforts. tained while in training. These were The SPEAKER pro tempore. The If we ended this war, we could rein- the first of many commendations Ted Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from vest the money in the bigger, bolder would receive throughout his 36-year California (Ms. WOOLSEY) for 5 min- surge that we really need and still have military career. A recipient of the Dis- utes. plenty left over to create jobs right

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Mr. Speaker, I After 10 years, it’s time to bring our I urge my colleagues to join me in rise today to discuss the topic of under- troops home, make the change we so supporting the Texas legislature’s re- age drinking. It is an issue that chal- desperately need. quest for prompt passage of a balanced lenges every generation of public offi- Embrace and adopt the principles of budget amendment. cials, parents, educators, law enforce- SMART Security. THE STATE OF TEXAS HOUSE OF ment, industry members, and con- f REPRESENTATIVES cerned citizens. But through bipartisan TEXAS LEGISLATURE CALLS ON HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 18 leadership and almost three decades of CONGRESS TO PASS BALANCED Whereas, the gravity of federal debt and public and private effort, our Nation BUDGET AMENDMENT federal obligations was established early in has made some substantial progress. I American history, with deficit occurring mention ‘‘bipartisan’’ because it was The SPEAKER pro tempore. The only in relation to extraordinary cir- President Reagan who teamed up with Chair recognizes the gentleman from cumstances, such as war; yet for much of the Democrats in Congress to enact the Texas (Mr. MARCHANT) for 5 minutes. 20th century and into the 21st, the United National Minimum Drinking Age Act Mr. MARCHANT. Mr. Speaker, in the States has operated on a budget deficit, in- of 1984. last few weeks as I traveled across my cluding the 2010 budget year, which sur- district, the 24th District of Texas, it passed an astounding $1.3 trillion, an annual b 1050 became very obvious to me that the deficit that exceeded the entire gross state At the signing ceremony, the Presi- number one issue on the minds of my product of Texas; and dent’s remarks are a great lesson in constituents is out-of-control Federal Whereas, the federal debt is greater than federalism and national leadership that $14 trillion, a sum that if shared equally by spending. remains very important today. He said In the last legislative session in each person in America would be a burden of over $45,000 per person, and yet the federal that underage drinking is a problem Texas, my former colleagues in the government continues to accrue debt; and that is ‘‘bigger than the individual Texas legislature passed a resolution Whereas, the higher the deficit, the more States.’’ He called underage drinking a addressing this out-of-control Federal the government must spend on paying inter- ‘‘grave national problem’’ that ‘‘touch- spending. The resolution requested est on the debt; compounding the problem is es all our lives.’’ President Reagan con- that the Congress pass a balanced the use of deficit spending, which becomes a cluded, ‘‘With the problem so clearcut budget amendment to the Constitution responsibility for future generations of and the proven solution at hand, we and send it to the States for ratifica- Americans to assume without their consent; have no misgiving about this judicious and tion. use of Federal power.’’ This is the resolution I have in my Whereas, Congress has attempted to set budgetary restraints for itself in the form of I said that this was a bipartisan ef- hand that was sent to me by the State a balanced budget amendment; the proposal fort. Our colleague from the other representatives and the senators in my won wide support in 1995, failing by only one body, Senator LAUTENBERG from New district that I represent. By over- vote in the senate; and Jersey, was instrumental in guiding whelming votes in both houses, the Whereas, many states have previously re- the measure through Congress, and he house and the senate, the Texas legis- quested that Congress propose a constitu- continues to be a forceful advocate for lature passed this resolution that I’m tional amendment requiring a balanced young people today. holding right here in my hand. The budget, but Congress has proven to be unre- According to the National Highway Texas House of Representatives ap- sponsive; and Safety Administration, the number of proved this bill by a vote of 115–17 on Whereas, this growing burden of public fatalities in teen drunk driving crashes April 13, and the Senate adopted the debt is a threat to the nation’s economic health, and action must be taken to restore has declined 74 percent since the early bill on May 19 by a vote of 28–3. fiscal responsibility; a balanced budget 1980s. Studies from the Department of This resolution calls on Congress to amendment would require the government Transportation and Government Ac- enact the best measure to stop run- not to spend more than it receives in reve- countability Office indicate that the away Federal spending. We can best en- nues and compel lawmakers to carefully con- 21-year-old drinking age has saved tens sure our future prosperity by passing a sider choices about spending and taxes; by of thousands of lives. Most government balanced budget amendment. I would encouraging spending control and discour- measures of underage drinking have like to personally thank the members aging deficit spending, a balanced budget also declined. of the Texas legislature that represent amendment will help put the nation on the Parents, educators, and other adults parts of my district, the 24th District path to lasting prosperity; Now, therefore, be who have influence on young people it of Texas. I applaud them for sending Resolved, That the 82nd Legislature of the need to recognize that older teens are this resolution urging us to take ac- State of Texas hereby respectfully urge the still capable of making youthful mis- tion. My sincere thanks go to State Congress of the United States to propose and takes, and some of these mistakes can Senator Jane Nelson, State Senator submit to the states for ratification an be fatal. We should not do anything Chris Harris and State Senator John amendment to the United States Constitu- that allows our young people to obtain Carona, and to State representatives tion providing that except during a war de- alcohol before they reach the legal Vicki Truitt, Burt Solomons, Linda clared by the Congress of the United States drinking age. We need to remain in- Harper-Brown, and Todd Smith. These pursuant to Article I, Section 8, Clause 11, volved in their lives and do everything brave men and women have taken a United States Constitution, or other na- we can to encourage and insist that tional emergency, the total of all federal ap- courageous stand on this issue, and I propriations for a fiscal year may not exceed they make responsible decisions. feel it’s my obligation to follow the total of all estimated federal revenue for Back in 2006, our colleague LUCILLE through with their request. that fiscal year and providing for a spending ROYBAL-ALLARD led the effort to enact The Federal Government must end limitation; and, be it further the Sober Truth on Preventing Under- sustained deficit spending. In fiscal Resolved, That the Texas Secretary of age Drinking Act, better known as the year 2010, the Federal Government ac- State forward official copies of this resolu- STOP Act. The law established a cumulated a deficit in excess of $1.3 tion to the president of the United States, to framework for cooperation among Fed- trillion, an annual deficit that exceeds the speaker of the house of representatives eral agencies with responsibility to ad- the entire gross State product of and the president of the senate of the United dress underage drinking. In mid-July, Texas. In order to finance our current States Congress, and to all the members of the Texas delegation to the congress with we received a report from the Federal deficit, we borrow 40 cents of every dol- the request that this resolution be officially Interagency Coordinating Committee lar we spend—40 cents on the dollar— entered in the Congressional Record as a me- that was formally established by the money that could easily go to pay our morial to the Congress of the United States STOP Act. It documents Federal Gov- national debt down. of America. ernment prevention initiatives across

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I want to remind every- pose of the We Don’t Serve Teens ini- We know that this crisis is even worse one that many middle-income people tiative is to inform parents and all in communities of color. are on the verge of falling into poverty. adults that teen drinking is not inevi- The national average of children liv- As we say, many are one paycheck table. Crown Imports and MillerCoors, ing in poverty in America is 20 percent. away from poverty. It is critical that the number two and number three That’s outrageous. For African Amer- America returns to the land of oppor- American beer suppliers, are both ican children, it’s 36 percent; for tunity for all. Latino children, it’s 31 percent. That’s headquartered in the district I rep- f resent in Chicago. Both companies hard to believe. The median net worth have supported the We Don’t Serve of white families in 2009 was 20 times b 1100 greater than that of the average black Teens program since it began in 2006. STOP MILITARY RAPE I am pleased that these two compa- family, and 18 times greater than the nies have joined the FTC, Members of average Hispanic family. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The These are not just statistics. These Congress, Chicago officials, and thou- Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from are real human beings who deserve an sands of concerned citizens to support California (Ms. SPEIER) for 5 minutes. opportunity to live the American We Don’t Serve Teens. We need every- Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Speaker, I rise Dream, which to our dismay, unfortu- one at the table. Industry members today, as I have done virtually every nately, has turned into a nightmare for have a unique ability to reach out di- week, to tell a story of a man or a millions. So the Out of Poverty Caucus rectly to local stores, bars, res- woman in the military who has been cochairs, Congressmen BACA, taurants, and other places where alco- raped. Nineteen thousand are raped BUTTERFIELD, CONYERS, HONDA, and every year in the military. Only 13 per- hol is served. myself, sent a letter to the President The We Don’t Serve Teens message is cent report the rapes because there has asking him to address our Nation’s job reinforced. I commend these efforts. I been such an ineffective addressing of crisis, which is a national emergency, especially commend the distributors of this issue. So today, I rise again to tell through a bold package of direct in- another story. these alcoholic beverages in their ef- vestment which is aimed at our Na- fort to make sure that teens handle al- I hear from victims who have been tion’s most vulnerable—those facing or sharing their stories with me by cohol responsibly. The best way is to living in poverty. We asked that he not drink at all. emailing me at consider including programs like the [email protected]. It is f TANF Emergency Contingency Fund, time for us to act. We have known of POVERTY which gets money out of the door this problem for over 16 years. We have across the country efficiently and ef- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The had 18 hearings and reports on this fectively, and it puts people to work. Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from issue, and yet nothing changes. We asked for job training at commu- California (Ms. LEE) for 5 minutes. So today I’m going to tell you about nities affected by the Great Recession, Ms. LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today as Darchelle Mitchell, an airman. And she which of course is the depression for the founding member and a cochair of writes: ‘‘I never thought that I would these communities, and we asked for the Congressional Out of Poverty Cau- be a victim of such a horrible and trau- programs that will help train and put cus. The 42 members of the caucus matic event, nor did I believe that it our Nation’s young people to work. would occur under the blanket of free- work every day to ensure that we meet We are pleased and thankful that in dom I swore to fight for. I decided to our economic and, yes, our moral obli- the President’s jobs bill he did embrace serve my country as an example for my gation to the most vulnerable across some of our suggestions, including two boys and to do my share to better this Nation—those people facing or liv- building on programs like the TANF my Nation. ing in poverty. Emergency Contingency Fund and on ‘‘In my first year, I began to accept Yesterday, the United States Census the job training, youth employment, Bureau released data showing that 2.6 extension initiatives, and extending the unwanted comments of my shape, million more Americans fell into pov- unemployment compensation, but we size and looks as though it was part of erty, making it 46.2 million people liv- also still believe that unemployment something to deal with when working ing in poverty in America. This is the compensation must be extended to and living with men on a ship. It esca- highest number since the Census Bu- those who have exhausted their bene- lated to the uncomfortable motions by reau started keeping these records in fits after 99 weeks until we create these a superior trying to pull me into a two- 1959. Fifteen percent of Americans jobs, because there are four individuals manned rack that was in the office. I lived in poverty last year. The poverty looking for one job. After 99 weeks, reported the incident to my immediate rate among African Americans in 2010 these individuals are no longer eligible supervisors requesting that they speak was 27.4 percent; for nonwhite His- for unemployment compensation. So with him, and the responses were al- panics it was 26.6 percent; for Asian Pa- we’re asking that H.R. 589 be consid- ways that the superior meant no harm cific Islanders it was 12.1 percent; and ered, which is a bill by Congressman and that he was just being playful. for non-Hispanic whites it was 9.9 per- BOBBY SCOTT and myself, to extend this This led to my superior grabbing me by cent. unemployment compensation by 14 the top of my head and pushing it into Digging deeper into the disparities, weeks. That’s the least we can do. his genital area, stating, ‘‘I bet I can the data reveals that the real median Make no mistake about it, people are make you say ‘oh, God.’ ’’ income declined for white and black suffering. Children don’t have enough ‘‘After the reporting of this incident, households between 2009 and 2010. Real to eat. People want and need jobs, as I suffered the backlash of being black- median income for each race and His- we saw during the Congressional Black balled. My job assignments became panic-origin groups have not recovered Caucus’ very important and successful very difficult, and I bounced around to the pre-2001 recession all-time highs. jobs tour and the Congressional Pro- from command to command until According to the Center for Budget gressive Caucus’ Speak Out for Jobs someone was willing to take the and Policy Priorities, the Census data Now tour. People want our economy to chance to allow me to perform as an reveals that both the number and per- grow, but they know that they need a airman trying to advance. centages of people living in deep pov- job to do this. ‘‘I worked very hard to remove the erty hit record highs, meaning that Our country needs full employment negative light that was cast upon me. I some 20.5 million Americans had cash for people to turn the economy around. went on to advance to a dual-qualified

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Within the first 3 months steadily with high hopes for a better AMERICAN JOBS ACT of my tour in Italy, I was raped by an- future for our great Nation. other servicemember. I did everything Deepen their faith, widen their sym- (Mr. BACA asked and was given per- in accordance to the training provided pathies, heighten their aspirations, and mission to address the House for 1 by the military. I reported the incident give them the strength to do what minute.) to NCIS and suffered through a rape ought to be done for this country. Give Mr. BACA. Madam Speaker, last kit. My children were present and had them the wisdom and perseverance to week President Obama laid out a plan to experience something that no parent work together constructively to ad- of action to create new jobs and could ever dream of allowing their chil- dress the pressing issues facing our Na- strengthen our economy. Now the dren to go through. tion. American Jobs Act has been sent to ‘‘With his DNA found in my rape kit, May Your blessing, O God, be with Congress, and it is up to us to catch the his fingerprints found throughout my them and with us all this day and every ball and run it into the end zone. room, and ripped clothing, the service- day to come, and may all we do be done The American people are suffering. member was found not guilty. The ex- for Your greater honor and glory. They are in pain. They are hurting. planation given to me was, ‘It is no Amen. They need and deserve our help now, question that his genitals touched your not tomorrow. They don’t need more f genitals, but it is reasonable to believe excuses. that he thought he had your consent.’ THE JOURNAL The American Jobs Act contains tax From that, I was expected to return to The SPEAKER. The Chair has exam- incentives, Federal incentives that will work as if tomorrow was just another ined the Journal of the last day’s pro- give our economy an immediate boost. day. My superiors continued to treat ceedings and announces to the House Ninety-eight percent of businesses will me as if I brought shame to their com- his approval thereof. have payroll tax cut in half. The new mand. The trauma was so over- Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the Jour- tax credit will encourage businesses to whelming that I attempted to take my nal stands approved. hire returning veterans, and 280,000 life on two occasions. teachers will be saved from being laid ‘‘Despite the constant reminder that f off. New investments will help build the military is a man military, I grad- PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE our roads, our bridges, our airports and uated with my master’s in business ad- rail systems, and not the bridges to no- The SPEAKER. Will the gentle- ministration, volunteered at numerous where. woman from Massachusetts (Ms. TSON- organizations, and regained some con- Let’s invest in the American people GAS) come forward and lead the House fidence in my safety around people. and work together to build our econ- in the Pledge of Allegiance. This was not supposed to be the in- omy. This is not about allowing Presi- Ms. TSONGAS led the Pledge of Alle- tended meaning of the sacrifices that dent Obama a win. This is about the giance as follows: veterans go through to serve their American people, people who need jobs country. I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the now, and building our economy. ‘‘I pray that my experiences are not United States of America, and to the Repub- Let’s work together. Let’s help the lic for which it stands, one nation under God, American people who are suffering. completely in vain and that one day no indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. one will ever have to suffer what my f family and I are still suffering.’’ f A JOBS PLAN THAT WORKS For Darchelle and every other serv- ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER icemember, we must take steps to pre- (Mr. FLEMING asked and was given vent this crime from happening and The SPEAKER. The Chair will enter- permission to address the House for 1 punish the perpetrators when it does. tain up to 15 requests for 1-minute minute.) We should not be a country in which it speeches from each side of the aisle. Mr. FLEMING. Madam Speaker, in- is more likely to be taken into some- f stead of President Obama’s no-jobs one’s room to be violated, to have vio- plan, which is just more of the same, FREE STUFF lence committed against you by an- I’d like to give my 2 cents worth on other member of the service, more (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was what it takes to create jobs right here likely than by the enemy. given permission to address the House in America. Why? Because I know what f for 1 minute.) it’s like to take a risk and open a busi- Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Ron ness, to hire someone and make a pay- RECESS and Cynthia Barrs from Texas sent me roll. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- this email: Putting a moratorium on all new reg- ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair ‘‘The folks who are getting the free ulations would be a good start. Repeal- declares the House in recess until noon stuff don’t like the folks who are pay- ing the job-killing ObamaCare and today. ing for the free stuff because the folks Dodd-Frank financial reform laws— Accordingly (at 11 o’clock and 4 min- who are paying for the free stuff can no which are actually no reform at all and utes a.m.), the House stood in recess longer afford to pay both for the free are already decimating our economy— until noon. stuff and their own stuff. And the folks and putting forth a balanced budget f who are getting the free stuff want amendment to the Constitution. If even more free stuff on top of the free President Obama adopted these ap- b 1200 stuff that they’re already getting. So proaches, immediately capital would AFTER RECESS now the ones who are forcing the peo- start flowing, which would then create The recess having expired, the House ple to pay for the free stuff have told jobs. was called to order by the Speaker at the people who are receiving that free What we can no longer afford are the noon. stuff that the people who are paying current, Big Government, socialist f for the free stuff are mean and greedy. policies that will only put us further So the people who are getting the free into debt and hurt job creation. PRAYER stuff have been convinced they need to I have created hundreds of jobs in my The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick despise the people who are paying for district in Louisiana. How many jobs J. Conroy, offered the following prayer: the free stuff. And they are promised has the President created in his 21⁄2

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Madam Speaker, on (Ms. HAHN asked and was given per- invest in the next revolution—clean en- January 21, 1990, over 300,000 Ukrain- mission to address the House for 1 ergy technologies. We export billions of ians joined hands to create a 300-mile minute.) dollars each year to import the energy human chain from Kiev to Lviv in a Ms. HAHN. Madam Speaker, the that powers our country. If we can har- show of unity and support for Ukrain- American people have waited too long ness the power of clean, renewable en- ian independence. One year later, on for this Congress to put the focus ergy, we will not only create high-pay- August 24, 1991, Ukraine rose from where it belongs—on creating jobs and ing jobs but we can begin to address under its Soviet yoke and declared its getting the Nation back to work. Now the real threat of climate change as independence. we must boldly make up for lost time. well. I stand here today to commemorate We need a plan as serious as the chal- By investing in clean energy tech- the 20th anniversary of Ukraine’s inde- lenges we face. The American Jobs Act nologies, such as wind and solar, we pendence and to commend them on is that plan. can begin to replace many of the manu- their many democratic achievements We will harness the industry and en- facturing, construction, and high-tech over the last two decades. Yet as we ergy of the American people. We will jobs lost during the recession. We celebrate Ukraine’s severing of its So- give small businesses, the backbone of should take advantage of this unique viet chains, we must be aware of new our economy, the incentives and assist- opportunity to immediately create restraints, for new shackles in the form ance that they need to hire and to good jobs here in America while safe- of press crackdowns and opposition in- grow. We will put people to work build- guarding the future of our children and timidation threaten to re-enchain ing a transportation infrastructure grandchildren at the same time. Ukrainians and reverse their many worthy of the 21st century. We will hard-fought freedoms. stop teachers from being laid off and f I have faith in the spirit of the help end the outrage of our crumbling Ukrainian people and hope they will schools. PRESIDENT’S SCORECARD ON JOBS join hands again, as they did 20 years The American Jobs Act is good news (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina ago, and continue to stand strong for for veterans, construction workers, asked and was given permission to ad- freedom and democracy, knowing teachers, firefighters, the long-term dress the House for 1 minute and to re- America will always be standing beside unemployed, and good news for all vise and extend his remarks.) them. Americans who can look forward to a Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. As they say in Ukraine: Together we stronger economy and a more competi- Madam Speaker, the Nation’s unem- are many. We cannot be defeated. tive Nation. Let’s work together to ployment rate is a gruesome 9.1 per- f pass this bill and get the American cent. This marks the largest period of HONORING CHIEF WARRANT people the help they need and the sup- high unemployment since the Great OFFICER DAVID R. CARTER port they deserve. Depression. More than 14 million (Mr. COFFMAN of Colorado asked f Americans are unemployed. More than and was given permission to address TIME TO GET AMERICA WORKING 25 million Americans who want a full- the House for 1 minute.) AGAIN time job don’t have one. In today’s Po- litico, Josh Boak reported that ‘‘Long- Mr. COFFMAN of Colorado. Madam (Mr. BUCHANAN asked and was Term Jobless at 50-year Record.’’ The Speaker, today I rise to honor a soldier given permission to address the House State’s front page revealed the Na- who made the ultimate sacrifice and for 1 minute.) tion’s poor have swelled to a sad record laid down his life for our freedom: U.S. Mr. BUCHANAN. Madam Speaker, of 46.2 million people. The Democrat Army Warrant Officer 4 David R. Car- there are 14 million Americans out of chairwoman says the President ‘‘owns’’ ter. work. We have a record 30 straight the economy. Chief Warrant Officer Carter dedi- months of unemployment at 8 percent The President’s policies are sadly cated himself to over 24 years of mili- or above—the longest stretch since the failing. He’s on the wrong track, as evi- tary service. As a member of the Colo- Great Depression. That’s simply unac- denced in New York. He needs to rado Army National Guard, he de- ceptable. The President and the Con- change course with a bipartisan tax cut ployed to Afghanistan this summer. On gress must work together to grow the in the tradition of Presidents Kennedy August 6, 2011, he was piloting a CH–47 economy and create jobs. As a busi- and Reagan. The President’s proposal helicopter on a mission to reinforce a nessman for over 30 years, I have seen for a second half-trillion dollar stim- unit under attack in Wardak province. firsthand that the government does not ulus is a repeat of failure. Out-of-con- On that tragic day, he was one of 30 create jobs. The private sector does. trol borrowing and spending and the Americans who lost their lives when Small business does. their helicopter was brought down by My jobs plan would expand overseas failed stimulus have aggravated unem- enemy fire. markets for U.S. goods and services, ployment. Tax increases destroy jobs. David Carter was regarded as one of lower taxes on business, eliminate friv- House Republicans will continue to the most highly trained aviators in olous lawsuits, and abolish unneces- lead bipartisan efforts of creating an Colorado, with multiple combat de- sary regulation. We need to get our fi- environment for job creation that pro- ployments and over 4,000 flight hours. nancial house back in order and move motes small businesses. He is also remembered for the tremen- towards a constitutional balanced In conclusion, God bless our troops, dous impact he had on his family, budget amendment. It’s time we work and we will never forget September the friends, and community. Friends recall together to get America back to work. 11th in the global war on terrorism. that he was never too busy to help out f with a problem. f Chief Warrant Officer David Carter INVESTING IN CLEAN ENERGY personified the honor and selflessness TECHNOLOGIES PASS THE AMERICAN JOBS ACT of service as a citizen soldier. His brav- (Ms. TSONGAS asked and was given (Mr. BUTTERFIELD asked and was ery and dedication to duty will not be permission to address the House for 1 given permission to address the House forgotten. minute.) for 1 minute.)

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One example is the section er, despite the fact that we face per- it was mandated by the NASA author- that creates, in 17 pages, a wholly gov- sistent unemployment and slow eco- ization bill passed in the last Congress. ernment-owned corporation—that’s nomic growth, Republicans would rath- This announcement combines existing right, government-owned corporation— er waste time with debt ceiling dis- technologies while enabling new ones, complete with a chief financial officer, approval resolutions and risk default all the while attempting to maintain chief risk officer, chief compliance offi- again than come up with real answers the most skilled and dedicated work- cer, chief operations officer, chief lend- to our most pressing problems. Demo- force in existence in human space ing officer, general counsel, board of crats want to pass the American Jobs flight. NASA’s plan still lacks the des- directors, and billions of dollars in new Act right now to get people back to tination focus I would like to see, and taxpayer money. work. We want to offer payroll tax we must be diligent in keeping costs It appears once again that this ad- breaks to small businesses that create manageable, especially in these dif- ministration is more focused on grow- jobs, not continue corporate welfare to ficult economic times. But the invest- ing government than it is on growing major oil companies. We want to create ment in our Nation’s space program en- jobs. infrastructure banks to repair and re- ables men and women like those at the f build our communities, not delay these Stennis Space Center to do what they AMERICAN JOBS ACT highway projects to score political do best—test rocket engines for space (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked points. flight. Monday, in Politico, a senior Repub- America is the leader in human space and was given permission to address lican aide was quoted as saying he flight. Today’s decision helps continue the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) ‘‘didn’t want to hand Obama a win’’ on that leadership role. Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Madam jobs legislation. It’s clear that Repub- f Speaker and Members, jobs are the licans care more about beating the b 1220 issue, and the American Jobs Act is the President than beating unemployment. DISASTER RELIEF solution that this House should con- The jobless of this country cannot wait sider on the floor immediately. This SUPPLEMENTAL another 14 months. Pass the American bill will help reverse the flow of jobs Jobs Act today. (Mr. SIRES asked and was given per- overseas and will help rebuild the man- f mission to address the House for 1 ufacturing base in America, providing COMMONSENSE SOLUTIONS FOR minute.) good jobs for hardworking Americans. Mr. SIRES. Madam Speaker, 2 weeks JOBS Make It In America creates jobs in ago, Hurricane Irene ravaged the east America. This bill builds America. The (Mr. FLORES asked and was given coast, including the State of New Jer- long-term FAA reauthorization will permission to address the House for 1 sey. Earlier this year, tornados leveled create 150,000 jobs, and reauthorizing minute.) parts of the Midwest, and now Texas is the surface transportation bill will sup- Mr. FLORES. Madam Speaker, our experiencing one of the worst wildfires port 134,000 projects around the coun- country is facing record deficits, high in its history. Furthermore, on the try, 5,000 mass transit projects, and unemployment, and stagnant economic heels of Hurricane Irene, Tropical nearly 1 million jobs over the next growth. Yet President Obama is dou- Storm Lee hit New Jersey, causing year. The national infrastructure bank bling down on the triple threat of tax- more damage and forcing more people proposal would combine public and pri- ation, regulation, and spending that is from their homes. Homes have been de- vate resources to build, rebuild, and re- crushing job growth. This week, the stroyed, businesses are suffering, and pair the country’s key infrastructure. President has been touting his so- many areas are still covered in water. This bill also helps create jobs called ‘‘jobs plan.’’ But his detrimental While many major disaster declara- through the Tax Code. The proposal policies have forced a power generation tions have been made, the availability cuts the payroll tax in half for 98 per- company in Texas to close five facili- of Federal assistance remains uncer- cent of businesses on their first $5 mil- ties and sacrifice 500 middle class jobs. tain. Today, I rise to ask my colleagues lion in payroll; it offers a $4,000 tax The impact of this EPA shutdown will to work in a bipartisan manner to im- credit to employers for hiring long- reduce generating capacity in Texas by mediately pass emergency disaster re- term unemployed workers—get them 1,300 megawatts, a move which the lief legislation to support recovery ef- on the tax rolls and not on the unem- Electric Reliability Council of Texas forts. Communities across the country ployment rolls—and it starts a ‘‘Re- says could spur future power outages. have witnessed unthinkable destruc- turning Heroes’’ hiring tax credit, be- These regulations hurt middle class tion and endured great loss, and it is tween $5,600 and $9,600 for firms that jobs and harm electric reliability in the Federal Government’s responsi- hire unemployed veterans. Texas with no scientific evidence that bility to replenish the Disaster Relief We have the responsibility to help power generation in Texas is causing Fund to ensure that these communities our country climb out of this tough nonattainment of clear air standards in receive help in their time of need. economy, and this bill is a proposal other States. Not only are this admin- I urge my colleagues to join me in that deserves bipartisan support to istration’s disastrous policies pre- supporting supplemental disaster re- help accomplish that. venting future job creation; they’re de- lief. We must come together now to f stroying existing jobs. Instead of pro- provide disaster assistance to these posing the same failed idea that Wash- devastated areas. REGULATIONS DON’T CREATE JOBS ington can create jobs, we need to get f Washington out of the way and rely on (Mr. YODER asked and was given commonsense Main Street solutions PRESIDENT OBAMA’S JOBS BILL permission to address the House for 1 that put Americans back to work. (Mr. SOUTHERLAND asked and was minute and to revise and extend his re- f given permission to address the House marks.) for 1 minute.) Mr. YODER. Madam Speaker, I rise NASA ANNOUNCEMENT ON SLS Mr. SOUTHERLAND. Madam Speak- today to join the chorus of Americans (Mr. PALAZZO asked and was given er, I rise today with great disappoint- asking Washington to stop damaging permission to address the House for 1 ment in the President’s most recent the economy with job-killing regula- minute.) proposed bill to create jobs. I was hope- tions. Small businesses don’t thrive Mr. PALAZZO. Madam Speaker, this ful that the President would offer a when they’re hit with additional bur- morning, NASA announced the design commonsense, pro-growth agenda. Un- dens from the Federal Government. of a new space launch system which fortunately, the House continues to As unbelievable as it sounds, some in will be the basis for future exploration stand ready without a proposal that is this body actually believe that new beyond low Earth orbit. It is a critical acceptable. regulations create jobs because they step, but one among many we need to But this administration continues to force businesses to hire people to com- take. Although I am pleased this deci- offer the same tired, Big Government ply with the new mandates. Madam

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HOUSE RESOLUTION 352 the impact of their new rules on jobs The time for political games—which and to find the least costly alternative (Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of Cali- are costing jobs and creating economic for each new business mandate. fornia asked and was given permission uncertainty—has passed. I urge the Madam Speaker, let’s come together to address the House for 1 minute and House leadership, help us pass the and agree that regulations don’t create to revise and extend her remarks.) American Jobs Act, and let’s pass it jobs. And let’s pass commonsense legis- Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of Cali- now. fornia. Madam Speaker, 53 years ago, lation to get America working again. f f China declared ownership of the islands in the Eastern Sea, which include the b 1230 THE URGENT NEED FOR JOB Spratly and the Paracel Islands. AMERICANS LIVING IN POVERTY CREATION IN AMERICA On September 14, 1958, then-Prime (Mr. MCNERNEY asked and was Minister Pham Van Dong of North (Mr. MORAN asked and was given given permission to address the House Vietnam issued a diplomatic note af- permission to address the House for 1 for 1 minute.) firming the declaration from China re- minute.) Mr. MCNERNEY. Madam Speaker, I garding the Chinese ownership of those Mr. MORAN. Madam Speaker, today rise today to discuss the urgent need to islands. When this decision became we learned that 46 million Americans create jobs in America. known, Vietnamese students and are living in poverty. More people are Millions of Americans have lost their bloggers organized unprecedented pro- suffering economically than at any jobs through no fault of their own, and tests in Hanoi and in Saigon against time since the Great Depression. But finding a job now is as hard as it has China’s violations of Vietnam’s sov- we learned from an excellent article by been in generations. Our country needs ereignty in the Eastern Sea. The Viet- Scott Lilly of the Center for American decisive action, and we need it now. namese security police were ordered to Progress that history may be repeating Earlier this week, the President sub- end the public demonstrations regard- itself. mitted the American Jobs Act to Con- ing the issue of the Spratly and In 1937, conservative Republicans gress, and I ask my colleagues in both Paracel Islands and detained over 40 succeeded in virtually eliminating the parties to put partisanship aside and activists who were involved in this pro- Federal jobs programs of the New Deal, work together to create jobs our coun- test. so as to eliminate the Federal deficit. try desperately needs. Many of the pro- Since early August of this year, at But the results were catastrophic to posals included in the American Jobs least 13 young patriots have been ar- America’s economy and society. Half of Act enjoy bipartisan support, and I call rested by police and the Ministry of the 8 million jobs that had been cre- on Speaker BOEHNER and Leader CAN- Public Security in Vietnam, and sev- ated by the New Deal were lost, and un- TOR to work together in good faith to eral of these activists are prominent employment went over 19 percent. bring forward good jobs proposals from bloggers, such as the Vinh Diocese of Economists generally classified the both parties to Congress. the Congregation of the Most Holy Re- economic reversal in 1937 and 1938 as a We won’t have an economic recovery deemer, for this same issue. second depression. Not until military without putting people back to work. As a cosponsor of House Resolution spending began to revive activity in 1940 did unemployment again drop to f 352, I call for a framework in accord- ance with the United States Conven- less than 15 percent. AMERICAN JOBS ACT tion on the Law of the Sea for a peace- That was a long and painful experi- (Mr. LANGEVIN asked and was given ful resolution to this conflict. ence. It would be tragic if we permitted permission to address the House for 1 Furthermore, I urge the Vietnamese the new conservative crowd in Wash- minute.) Government to unconditionally release ington to repeat it by killing President Mr. LANGEVIN. Madam Speaker, too all advocates who were exercising their Obama’s jobs act and sending us back many people in America are out of rights as citizens to call for social jus- into a double-dip recession. work, and as the President said in his tice and protesting the sovereignty of Those who don’t learn from the past speech last week, too many people are Vietnamese territories from China. are doomed to repeat it. living day to day, paycheck to pay- f f check, struggling to find work. That is why we need to pass the American Jobs AMERICAN JOBS ACT JOBS IN AMERICA Act now. (Mrs. CAPPS asked and was given (Mr. OWENS asked and was given A consequence of such high unem- permission to address the House for 1 permission to address the House for 1 ployment is poverty. Yesterday, the minute and to revise and extend her re- minute.) Census Bureau reported that our coun- marks.) Mr. OWENS. Madam Speaker, I rise try’s poverty rate last year was an as- Mrs. CAPPS. Madam Speaker, as I today to discuss the all-important tonishing 15.1 percent, the highest it traveled throughout my district these issue of jobs in America. has been in almost two decades. With last few weeks, one issue dominated all As I travel around my district, I fre- 22 percent of our children living in pov- conversations—jobs. quently hear discussions about jobs. erty, this report makes clear who has As my colleagues on the other side But more importantly, I hear discus- borne the brunt of our country’s eco- created the default crisis this summer, sions about jobs that have gone un- nomic woes. the American people threw up their filled. In my district alone, that is 2,600 I believe that all of my colleagues hands in disgust and dismay, and I jobs. In America it is 3.2 million jobs share a strong love of this Nation and don’t blame them. Our constituents that are ready to be filled today. its children, but in order for them to know the number one issue facing this We must come together, as Members succeed, we must ensure that they country is jobs, and they know this of Congress, to provide assistance that have access to health care, housing, Congress must take concrete actions to helps us train people, relocate them, or modern classrooms, and qualified grow our economy, and it must take do whatever is necessary to bring peo- teachers. We must also put their par- them now. ple to jobs; 3.2 million people back to ents on a path back to work. The good news is we have a plan. The work, that’s significant. I hope that Madam Speaker, it is a travesty to American Jobs Act is a commonsense, my colleagues in Congress will work have even one child living in poverty in bipartisan plan to put Americans back with me to put 3.2 million Americans this country, let alone one in five of to work and strengthen our economy. back to work.

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(C) by striking ‘‘one of the members’’ and ‘‘(g) APPLICATION OF ANTIDISCRIMINATION inserting ‘‘the other member’’; and LAWS.—For purposes of providing remedies f (4) in clause (iii)— and procedures to address alleged violations INVEST IN DETROIT (A) by striking ‘‘Three members’’ and in- of rights and protections that pertain to em- serting ‘‘Two members’’; ployment discrimination, family and med- (Mr. CLARKE of Michigan asked and (B) by striking ‘‘two of the members’’ and ical leave, fair labor standards, employee was given permission to address the inserting ‘‘one member’’; and polygraph protection, worker adjustment House for 1 minute and to revise and (C) by striking ‘‘one of the members’’ and and retraining, veterans’ employment and extend his remarks.) inserting ‘‘the other member’’. reemployment, intimidation or reprisal, pro- (b) TERMS.—Section 201(c) of the Inter- Mr. CLARKE of Michigan. Madam tections under the Americans with Disabil- national Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (22 ities Act of 1990, occupational safety and Speaker, I offer this Congress and this U.S.C. 6431(c)) is amended— country a simple, yet powerful, way to health, labor-management relations, and (1) in paragraph (1), by striking the last rights and protections that apply to employ- create new, good-paying manufacturing sentence and inserting the following: ‘‘An in- ees whose pay is disbursed by the Secretary jobs in the United States, and that’s by dividual is not eligible to serve more than of the Senate or the Chief Administrative Of- investing in Detroit, by allowing the two consecutive terms as a member of the ficer of the House of Representatives, all em- tax dollars that Detroiters pay to be Commission. Each member serving on the ployees of the Commission shall be treated Commission on the date of enactment of the invested back in Detroit; invested to as employees whose pay is disbursed by the United States Commission on International Secretary of the Senate or the Chief Admin- help make the streets of Detroit safer, Religious Freedom Reform and Reauthoriza- istrative Officer of the House of Representa- to help improve Detroit schools, to tion Act of 2011 may be reappointed to not tives and the Commission shall be treated as help train Detroiters for jobs, to help more than one additional consecutive an employing office of the Senate or the term.’’; rebuild our city. House of Representatives.’’. You see, this type of investment will (2) in paragraph (2)— SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. definitely create jobs in Detroit. But (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘May Section 207(a) of the International Reli- more importantly, Detroit’s manufac- 15, 2003, through May 14, 2005’’ and inserting ‘‘May 15, 2012, through May 14, 2014’’; gious Freedom Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6435(a)) turing know-how, our trained work- (B) in subparagraph (B) to read as follows: is amended by striking ‘‘for the fiscal year force, investing in Detroit will help put ‘‘(B) PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS.—The 2003’’ and inserting ‘‘for each of the fiscal Americans back to work. So by helping member of the Commission appointed by the years 2012 and 2013’’. put Detroiters back to work, you’re President under subsection (b)(1)(B)(i) shall SEC. 5. STANDARDS OF CONDUCT AND DISCLO- going to help put this country back to be appointed to a 1-year term.’’; SURE. work. (C) in subparagraph (C)— Section 208 of the International Religious (i) by striking ‘‘three members’’ and in- Freedom Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6435a) is f serting ‘‘two members’’; amended— ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER (ii) by striking ‘‘the other two appoint- (1) in subsection (c)(1), by striking PRO TEMPORE ments’’ and inserting ‘‘the other appoint- ‘‘$100,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$250,000’’; and ment’’; and (2) in subsection (e), by striking ‘‘Inter- The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mrs. (iii) by striking ‘‘2-year terms’’ and insert- national Relations’’ and inserting ‘‘Foreign EMERSON). Pursuant to clause 8 of rule ing ‘‘to a 2-year term’’; Affairs’’. (D) in subparagraph (D)— XX, the Chair will postpone further SEC. 6. TERMINATION. proceedings today on the motion to (i) by striking ‘‘three members’’ and in- serting ‘‘two members’’; Section 209 of the International Religious suspend the rules on which a recorded (ii) by striking ‘‘the other two appoint- Freedom Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6436) is vote or the yeas and nays are ordered, ments’’ and inserting ‘‘the other appoint- amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 2011’’ or on which the vote incurs objection ment’’; and and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2013’’. under clause 6 of rule XX. (iii) by striking ‘‘2-year terms’’ and insert- SEC. 7. REPORT ON EFFECTIVENESS OF PRO- Any record vote on the postponed ing ‘‘to a 2-year term’’; and GRAMS TO PROMOTE RELIGIOUS question will be taken tomorrow. (E) in subparagraph (E), by striking ‘‘May FREEDOM. 15, 2003, and shall end on May 14, 2004’’ and (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year f inserting ‘‘May 15, 2012, and shall end on May after the date of the enactment of this Act, UNITED STATES COMMISSION ON 14, 2013’’; and the Comptroller General of the United States INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS (3) by adding at the end the following new shall submit to the appropriate congres- paragraph: sional committees a report on the implemen- FREEDOM REFORM AND REAU- ‘‘(3) INELIGIBILITY FOR REAPPOINTMENT.—If tation of this Act and the amendments made THORIZATION ACT OF 2011 a member of the Commission attends, by by this Act. Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Madam being physically present or by conference (b) CONSULTATION.—The Comptroller Gen- Speaker, I move to suspend the rules call, less than 75 percent of the meetings of eral shall consult with the appropriate con- and pass the bill (H.R. 2867) to reau- the Commission during one of that member’s gressional committees and nongovernmental terms on the Commission, the member shall organizations for purposes of preparing the thorize the International Religious not be eligible for reappointment to the report. Freedom Act of 1998, and for other pur- Commission.’’. (c) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.—The report poses, as amended. (c) ELECTION OF CHAIR.—Section 201(d) of shall include the following: The Clerk read the title of the bill. the International Religious Freedom Act of (1) A review of the effectiveness of all The text of the bill is as follows: 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6431(d)) is amended by insert- United States Government programs to pro- ing at the end the following: ‘‘No member of H.R. 2867 mote international religious freedom, in- the Commission is eligible to be elected as cluding their goals and objectives. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- Chair of the Commission for a second, con- (2) An assessment of the roles and func- resentatives of the United States of America in secutive term.’’. tions of the Office on International Religious Congress assembled, (d) QUORUM.—Section 201(e) of the Inter- Freedom established in section 101(a) of the national Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (22 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘United U.S.C. 6431(e)) is amended by striking ‘‘Six’’ and inserting ‘‘Four’’. (22 U.S.C. 6411(a)) and the relationship of the States Commission on International Reli- Office to other offices in the Department of gious Freedom Reform and Reauthorization (e) APPLICABILITY.—A member of the United States Commission on International State. Act of 2011’’. Religious Freedom who is serving on the (3) A review of the role of the Ambassador SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT AND COMPOSITION. Commission on the date of enactment of this at Large for International Religious Free- (a) MEMBERSHIP.—Section 201(b)(1)(B) of Act shall continue to serve on the Commis- dom appointed under section 101(b) of the the International Religious Freedom Act of sion until the expiration of the current term International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6431(b)(1)(B)) is amended— of the member under the terms and condi- (22 U.S.C. 6411(b)) and the placement of such (1) in the matter preceding clause (i), by tions for membership on the Commission as position within the Department of State. striking ‘‘Nine’’ and inserting ‘‘five’’; in effect on the day before the date of the en- (4) A review and assessment of the goals (2) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘Three mem- actment of this Act. and objectives of the United States Commis- bers’’ and inserting ‘‘One member’’; SEC. 3. APPLICATION OF ANTIDISCRIMINATION sion on International Religious Freedom es- (3) in clause (ii)— LAWS. tablished under section 201(a) of the Inter- (A) by striking ‘‘Three members’’ and in- Section 204 of the International Religious national Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (22 serting ‘‘Two members’’; Freedom Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6432b) is U.S.C. 6431(a)).

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Iran, many Buddhist monks in Burma tic Christians girls, some as young as (6) A review of the relationship between and, of course, this rising pernicious 14 and 15, are kidnapped. They are the Ambassador at Large for International tide of anti-Semitism, not just in the forced into Islam, and then they are, at Religious Freedom and the United States Middle East but in many parts of Eu- age 18 or thereafter, given in marriage Commission on International Religious Free- rope, and even in the United States, forcibly to an Islamic man. dom, and possible reforms that would im- the ability to live their faith without b 1240 prove the ability of both to reach their goals threat of persecution is a distant and and objectives. That is an outrage against women’s unrealized promise. (d) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term rights, human rights, and religious ‘‘appropriate congressional committees’’ has I was pleased to work with Mr. WOLF years ago, as I mentioned, on this leg- freedom as well. the meaning given the term in section 3 of The Commission has been an invalu- the International Religious Freedom Act of islation. And I actually chaired the able resource to Congress as we mon- 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6402). hearings on the legislation. And again, itor the protection and promotion of there was considerable opposition that The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- religious freedom around the world and ant to the rule, the gentleman from was turned around, and at the end of the response of the administration on New Jersey (Mr. SMITH) and the gen- the day this legislation did become this very important issue. They have tleman from California (Mr. BERMAN) law. also a resource to governments seeking The U.S. Commission on Inter- each will control 20 minutes. to remedy religious freedom abuses The Chair recognizes the gentleman national Religious Freedom was an im- within their own borders. For instance, from New Jersey. portant part of this effort. It was cre- in Indonesia, the Commission worked ated as an independent body of experts GENERAL LEAVE with members of the Indonesian House to review the facts and make policy Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Madam of Representatives and civil society recommendations from a vantage point Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that groups and introduced measures to outside of our diplomatic corps, where all Members may have 5 legislative strengthen provisions in the criminal bilateral and other concerns had some- days to revise and extend their re- code regarding attacks on religious times resulted in the soft-pedaling of marks and to include extraneous mate- gatherings and amend the law gov- severe ongoing violations of religious rial on the bill under consideration. erning the building of religious venues. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there freedom around the world. The Commission also continues to Even today, when the quality of objection to the request of the gen- help network human rights and legal State Department reporting on reli- tleman from New Jersey? advocates in Indonesia and elsewhere gious issues, while it’s improved, the There was no objection. around the world working to defend in- commission continues to serve as a Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. I yield dividuals accused of blasphemy and re- critical role and a sounding board and myself such time as I may consume. ligious minorities facing intimidation Madam Speaker, first of all, let me a catalyst. One indicator is the fact and violence from extremist groups. thank ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN, the chair- that the commission’s list of rec- The Commission’s work in Indonesia woman of our committee, and HOWARD ommended, what is called ‘‘countries of will have practical impact on the exer- BERMAN for their fine work in helping particular concern’’ for severe viola- cise of human rights and the preserva- to bring this very important legisla- tions of religious freedom, remains tion of peace in that country. tion to the floor today. larger than the number actually des- Other governments have looked to I want to thank especially Congress- ignated by the State Department. They the Commission as a model for their man FRANK WOLF, the author of this ought to be the same, but they are not. own religious freedom commissions. legislation, who is also the author of Just yesterday, Secretary Clinton The bill before us today includes a the original International Religious rightfully designated the People’s Re- number of bipartisan reforms to the Freedom Act that was passed back in public of China, Burma, Eritrea, Iran, Commission authorities and operations 1998, against considerable odds, opposi- North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and to make their work even more effec- tion from the Clinton administration, Uzbekistan as countries of particular tive. for example, opposition from a number concern. But the State Department’s Again, I want to thank Ms. ROS- of people on both sides of the aisle. But list does not add any new countries LEHTINEN, the chairwoman, and thank at the end of the day, that legislation, from last year, and one of the most HOWARD BERMAN for their leadership in historic, was signed into law and was glaring omissions of all is Vietnam, ensuring the bill came to the floor signed by President Clinton. So he whose policies have more than earned today and for their support for the bill. came around and actually put his sig- that badge of shame. I reserve the balance of my time. nature on that historic legislation. Secretary Clinton did not designate Mr. BERMAN. Madam Speaker, I So I again want to thank Mr. WOLF Egypt either, or Iraq, Nigeria, yield myself such time as I may con- for his famous leadership. He has been Turkmenistan and Pakistan, as rec- sume. a leader on human rights and on reli- ommended by the commission. So, un- I rise in strong support of H.R. 2867, gious freedom in particular for more fortunately, their recommendations the United States Commission on than 30 years. And that culminated, at went unheeded. But it does provide an International Religious Freedom Re- least on the religious freedom side, important backdrop and framework to form and Reauthorization Act of 2011. with the enactment of the Inter- review and to look at what it is that I would like to thank the sponsor of national Religious Freedom Act. the State Department is doing. this legislation, the gentleman from Madam Speaker, religious freedom, We need, Madam Speaker, this com- Virginia (Mr. WOLF), who has been a the right to worship and practice one’s mission more than ever. Already in the leader on this issue for, as my col- faith according to the dictates of one’s Congress, we have had three com- league Mr. SMITH pointed out, well over own conscience, is a foundational prehensive hearings on religious free- a decade on the question of inter- human right. Not only is it an essen- dom: one in the Tom Lantos Human national religious freedom. tial element in our Constitution; it is Rights Commission in January regard- We’re fortunate to live in a country intrinsic to the human dignity of every ing the religious freedom of minorities that was founded by religious refugees man and woman on this Earth and was in the Middle East; one in the com- on principles of tolerance. We strive to enshrined in the universal declaration mittee that I chair, the Africa Global adhere to article 18 of the Universal of human rights. Health global Human Rights Com- Declaration of Human Rights, which But it is a right denied or curtailed mittee, regarding the prioritization of states that ‘‘everyone has the right to for millions, really billions, according religious freedom in U.S. foreign pol- freedom of thought, conscience, and re- to some estimates, even a majority of icy; and one just last month in the Hel- ligion. This right includes freedom to

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Madam They’re representing filth and garbage secution, and discrimination because of Speaker, it is a distinct privilege to in certain cases, but no one represents their faith. Violent extremist attacks yield such time as he may consume to human rights and religious freedom. have taken place in the Middle East the chairman of the Appropriations So there are all the Members who and South Asia. The regimes in North Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, have agonized and pushed and pulled Korea and Iran actively repress reli- Science, and Related Agencies, the au- and want to kill this. I’m concerned be- gious freedom. Apostasy and blas- thor of the original International Reli- cause as we stand here today and de- phemy laws have fueled discrimination gious Freedom Act, an historic piece of bate, and you’ve got to know this, Iraqi against religious minorities in Afghan- legislation and today’s reauthoriza- Christians are being killed. People who istan, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. tion, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. speak the same language as Jesus, the Other religious minorities like Ti- WOLF). Aramaic language, and more biblical betan Buddhists, Uighur Muslims, Mr. WOLF. Madam Speaker, before I activity took place in Iraq than almost Ahmadis, Baha’is, Assyrian Christians begin, I want to thank Foreign Affairs any other country other than Israel, in Iraq, Copts in Egypt face violence Committee Chairman ROS-LEHTINEN; they’re being killed; and Iraqi women and government restrictions. And anti- ranking member, Mr. BERMAN; the are being forced to do terrible things in Semitism is still prevalent around the Human Rights Committee chairman, order to keep their families. world. Mr. SMITH, who’s been a champion on And there are some who don’t want Just yesterday, Secretary Clinton all of these issues from the very first this bill to pass. They never talk about designated Burma, China, Eritrea, day he got in here; and their staffs. The the Iraqi Christians. Yet many of them Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, staffs have made all the difference in supported the Iraqi war and yet they Sudan, and Uzbekistan as countries of the world. say nothing. particular concern that have ‘‘engaged I want to particularly thank the The Baha’is in Iran and Egypt are in or tolerated particularly severe vio- chairman’s staff, Yleem Poblete and being marginalized, and I never hear a lations of religious freedom.’’ Doug Anderson, for their help, and also word said. While these may be the worst offend- the leadership on both sides and my Chinese Bishops. I can remember ers, we have serious concerns about re- side, and the leadership staff who have Congressman SMITH took Holy Com- munion from Bishop Su. Bishop Su was ligious freedom in many other coun- really tried to work this and get this arrested and has never been seen since, tries around the world. More than ever, thing through. I’m going to say some maybe once being forced into a public we need the U.S. Commission on Inter- things that hopefully are not too con- security police car and taken away. national Religious Freedom to con- troversial, but I do want to thank them tinue its important work. for getting this thing out and getting b 1250 The bipartisan bill before us today it moving because, if it didn’t move Protestant pastors are being arrested reauthorizes the Commission, also today, it may very well come to an today as we speak in China, and yet known as USCIRF, which is set to ex- end. this doesn’t really seem to bother this pire at the end of the month. The bill I rise in support of this critical legis- place. It’s almost like, Well, you know, also contains some sensible reforms lation to reauthorize and reform the what are we going do? You know, man that will strengthen USCIRF’s efforts U.S. Commission on International Reli- does not live by bread alone. These are to monitor and report on the status of gious Freedom. The sad truth, though, important issues. Go back to Scoop freedom of religion abroad. These re- Madam Speaker, this bill has been held Jackson. Go back to Ronald Reagan. forms include the process of selecting hostage by the other body—and keep Go back to the Constitution. Go back the chair, terms of service for members the word ‘‘hostage’’ out there as we to the Declaration of Independence. of the Commission, and a GAO study think in terms of what this bill would Shabaz Bhatti, the Christian min- on improving the effectiveness and co- do and what’s taking place around the ister in the government, was gunned ordination of all U.S. Government bod- world. And if we do not pass this bill in down because of his faith, because he ies that focus on international reli- this form today, the likelihood of this was a Christian. The Ahmadiyya Mus- gious freedom. Commission shutting down is very, lims in Pakistan are being persecuted. In particular, I would like to thank very high. They’re going through a very, very dif- Mr. WOLF for agreeing to include a pro- I wish I could name—I know the ficult time. There are the Coptic Chris- vision that clarifies that USCIRF is House rule—and I would name the tians. I was in Egypt in July, and the subject to the same workplace restric- members over there if anyone asks me, Coptic Christians—8.5 million—are tions and civil rights laws as the rest but it’s being held hostage. Some in going through a very difficult time. of the Federal Government. the other body are now saying that As Mr. SMITH just said, anti-Semi- Congress has long provided that the even these are not the changes that tism is running rampant. Anti-Semi- Federal Government, including the ex- they would like to see to the Commis- tism is running rampant in this world, ecutive and legislative branches, is sion. And, quite frankly, I believe that and yet there are some who are trying subject to laws intended to keep the some over there and this very adminis- to kill this Commission, for some rea- American workplace safe and free from tration would not mind seeing this son, over in the other body. We’re hav- discrimination, including the Family Commission shut its doors. ing such a hard time. and Medical Leave Act, Title VII of the This was a bipartisan issue for years. The Buddhists in Tibet, they can’t Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Scoop Jackson, the leader, Jackson- even have a picture of the Dalai Lama. Disabilities Act, OSHA, and workplace Vanik, President Reagan. To my side, Hu Jintao, who is the current Presi- protections for veterans. Reagan said the words in the Constitu- dent of China, was the one who cracked However, under current law, it is un- tion were a covenant to the entire down on Tibet and raided all those clear whether USCIRF’s employees world, not just to the people in Phila- monasteries, and yet, with this bill, could resolve disputes over workplace delphia in 1787 but to the entire world. some are just saying, Well, you know, protections through the procedures de- And yet religious freedom, often re- I don’t know, and I don’t know, and I signed for executive branch workers or ferred to as the first freedom, is central don’t know. under the procedures that apply to leg- to our American values and should be Though this bill is not what we origi- islative branch employees through the featured prominently in foreign policy. nally planned, the Commission has said Congressional Accountability Act. This But, sadly, the constituency for they can live with these provisions so legislation will ensure that all claims human rights and religious freedom that the Commission may remain a re- will now be resolved under the proce- issues is growing smaller and smaller liable voice for the world’s persecuted

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Since the are being killed, Baha’is are being Constitution Day speech, President Ronald passage of this legislation, religious marginalized in Iran, Chinese bishops and Reagan famously described the United States freedom has been elevated at times in Protestants pastors sit in jail, Christian and constitution as ‘‘a covenant we have made not U.S. foreign policy, but it still does not Ahmadis continue to be repressed in Pakistan, only with ourselves, but with all of mankind.’’ enjoy the preeminence it deserves. Coptic Christians are having a difficult time in Passage of this legislation will go a long Sadly, a strong U.S. voice on these Egypt, and anti-Semitism is growing around way in helping us keep that covenant. I urge critical issues has arguably never been the world. my colleagues’ support. We must let the world more needed. The Commission faces ex- Though this bill is not what we originally know that the U.S. Congress continues to be- tinction at the end of the month. Mem- planned, the commission has said they can lieve in the importance of protecting the first bers of Congress know, if you knock live with these provisions so that the commis- freedom for every person in this world. this bill down, if you want to kill this sion may remain a reliable voice for the Mr. BERMAN. Madam Speaker, I Commission and if they vote ‘‘no,’’ it world’s persecuted people. have no further requests for time, and will go out of business by the end of Recognizing that this critical issue and other I yield back the balance of my time. this month if the Congress fails to pass human rights related issues are often rel- Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. I yield it. egated to the sidelines within the State De- myself the balance of my time. I just want to again thank Congress- Just yesterday, as Mr. SMITH said, partment, I authored legislation more than 10 man FRANK WOLF, Chairman WOLF, for the State Department released its an- years ago, in 1998, to establish the Inter- his eloquence and for his passion for nual International Religious Freedom national Religious Freedom Office at the State those men and women and children of Report. In the report, several chal- Department, headed by an ambassador at- faith who suffer terrible, terrible injus- lenges to religious freedom were pin- large, and to create the U.S. Commission on tices around the world, including perse- pointed. People around the world con- International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)— cution. tinue to face violent extremist attacks, an independent, bipartisan Federal Govern- apostasy and blasphemy laws, repres- There were two books that got me in- ment commission, charged with monitoring the volved, in all candor, in religious free- sion, and anti-Semitism. According to status of freedom of religion or belief abroad a Pew Research Study released in 2009, dom issues—there were two incidents and providing policy recommendations to the in my first year in Congress in 1981— one-third of all nations, containing 70 President, Secretary of State, and Congress. percent of the world’s population, se- ‘‘Tortured for Christ,’’ by Richard Since the passage of this legislation reli- Wurmbrand, who was a great evan- verely restrict religious freedom. gious freedom has been elevated within U.S. I want to thank again Ms. ROS- gelical pastor who spent years being foreign policy. But it still does not enjoy the LEHTINEN and Mr. BERMAN and my good tortured by the Securitate in Romania preeminence it deserves. And sadly, a strong friend Mr. SMITH and their staffs. because of his faith. He made an ap- I don’t know what we would say to U.S. voice on this critical issue has arguably peal, and he said, Do not sit idly by the Christian community around the never been more needed. USCIRF faces ex- while men and women of any faith are world and to the Baha’is and to those tinction at the end of this month if Congress being tortured and persecuted because concerned about anti-Semitism and the fails to pass the bill before us today and it is of that faith, because it’s not just the Buddhist community in Tibet and the not signed into law. individual who suffers; the entire fam- Uyghurs in China if this thing fails to Just yesterday, the State Department re- ily suffers; and very often they’re in- pass. They would say, What’s taking leased its annual International Religious Free- carcerated and tortured as well. place in Washington? Why is this no dom Report. In the report, several challenges The other was the trip to the Soviet longer an issue that this Congress and to religious freedom were pinpointed. People Union with the National Conference on this administration care about? So I around the world continue to face violent ex- Soviet Jewry in 1982, January. It was 10 would hope we should pass it. I think tremist attacks, apostasy and blasphemy laws, days in Moscow and Leningrad, meet- we should have a roll call vote. Every repression, and anti-Semitism. According to a ing Soviet Jewish refusniks who were Member should stand up and explain Pew Research Study released in December persecuted, who were put into psy- what they’re going to do. 2009, one-third of all nations, containing 70 chiatric prisons simply because of their Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank Foreign percent of the world’s population, severely re- faith. Affairs Committee Chairman ROS-LEHTINEN, strict religious freedom. A couple of years later, Mr. WOLF and Ranking Member BERMAN, Human Rights Sub- This legislation will reauthorize the U.S. I went to Perm Camp 35 in the Ural committee Chairman SMITH, and their staffs for Commission on International Religious Free- Mountains. It took years to negotiate working tirelessly in a bipartisan manner to dom until September 30, 2013. USCIRF, un- our way in. This was in 1987. We met continue to fight for those who are persecuted like the State Department, is unencumbered with persecuted Jewish refusniks and for their religious beliefs. I would like to par- by the impulse to maintain good bilateral rela- Christians and political prisoners who ticularly thank the chairman’s staffers, Yleem tions above all else . . . an impulse which were there simply because of their Poblete and Doug Anderson, for their help. sadly can result in critical issues of religious faith. It was where Natan Sharansky Thank you also to our leadership for bringing freedom being sidelined in the pursuit of had spent a number of his years incar- this bill to the floor. broader foreign policy goals. cerated by the cruel dictatorship of the I rise in support of this critical legislation to USCIRF regularly holds briefings and hear- Soviet Union. reauthorize and reform the U.S. Commission ings on and off the Hill and is frequently called In China today, the believer Chris- on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). upon to provide expert witness testimony to tians, Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Bud- The sad truth is that this bill has been held Congress. dhists are tortured beyond anyone’s hostage in the other body, and if we do not Just in the last year the commission has imagination. It’s real. It’s happening pass this bill in the form it is in today, the taken a leadership role on a series of key today. In Vietnam, there has been a commission will shut down. issues. It was quick to recognize the strategic backlash against people of faith ever Some in the other body are now saying that importance and courageous voice of the late since they got trading benefits and the even these are not the changes they would Shabaz Bhatti, Pakistan’s federal minister of bilateral trade agreement and MFN like to see to the commission, and quite frank- Minorities Affairs, an outspoken critic of his were extended to them, or PNTR. They ly, I believe that some over there and this very nation’s draconian blasphemy laws. have done a backlash to men and administration would not mind if the commis- During a critical time for the people of women of faith that is unprecedented, sion were to shut its doors. Sudan, the USCIRF issued special rec- and ought to be on the CPC list of the Religious freedom, often referred to as the ommendations on the implementation of the International Religious Freedom Com- first freedom, is central to our American values historic Comprehensive Peace Agreement. mission. I hope people will go to the and should be featured prominently in U.S. It made a series of policy recommendations Web site. Check out this wonderful foreign policy. Sadly, the constituency for aimed at preserving and protecting Iraq’s be- Commission, which if it is not renewed human rights and religious freedom issues is sieged religious minorities. by the end of this month, goes out of growing smaller and smaller in Washington It has actively worked with dozens of Hill of- business. and in Congress. These issues have become fices on combating the ‘‘defamation of reli- I would call out our Members on the second class citizens in this Congress. gions’’ resolution before the United Nations. other side of this Capitol, the other

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This study was conducted by striking $3,000,000 for the fiscal year 2003, This is the quintessential watchdog prior to the Arab Spring. Many of the nations to $4,291,000 for fiscal years 2012 and 2013. agency in this town. It doesn’t get the with increasing religious restrictions are the I firmly believe that H.R. 2867 will allow the big press, as Mr. WOLF said. It doesn’t very nations that have seen popular uprisings Commission to continue to address inter- have the big bucks—no K Street lobby- and subsequent crackdowns—among them national religious persecution, provide much ists—but it is a wonderful and a very Egypt, Yemen, Syria and Libya, a clear indica- needed discrimination protections, and will important and effective Commission tion that we need this Commission more than garner the appropriate amount of oversight to that keeps track of religious persecu- ever. ensure that the Commission operates as ef- tion globally, that keeps us in line in I firmly believe that the Commission has a fectively. the House and the Senate and also the positive impact on the lives of millions of peo- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The State Department. I read their reports. ple of faith throughout the world, especially at question is on the motion offered by I read them from cover to cover. a time when many governments continue to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Please, I would ask the Members of repress religious freedom and persecute per- SMITH) that the House suspend the this body to support this legislation sons on the basis of their religion. Such re- rules and pass the bill, H.R. 2867, as and call on our friends in the Senate to pression only stands to marginalize vulnerable amended. do likewise. populations, emboldens extremists, fuels sec- The question was taken. I yield back the balance of my time. tarian tensions, and robs societies of the The SPEAKER pro tempore. In the Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. Madam moral and charitable contributions of faith opinion of the Chair, two-thirds being Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 2867, communities. in the affirmative, the ayes have it. ‘‘United States Commission on International Repression of religious freedom runs con- Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Madam Religious Freedom Reform and Reauthoriza- trary to shared universal values and under- Speaker, on that I demand the yeas tion Act of 2011.’’ This legislation mandates mines genuine stability. In the words of Sec- and nays. the United States Commission on International retary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ‘‘Reli- The yeas and nays were ordered. Religious Freedom (Commission) compliance gious freedom provides a cornerstone for The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- with federal anti-discrimination laws, restricts every healthy society. It empowers faith-based ant to clause 8 of rule XX, further pro- the Commissioner to two consecutive terms, service. It fosters tolerance and respect ceedings on this question will be post- and requires the Commissioner to attend 75 among different communities. And it allows poned. percent of Commission meetings. H.R. 2867, nations that uphold it to become more stable, f extends the Commission’s sunset date by two secure, and prosperous. years, and appropriates $4.29 million for FY12 The Commission monitors religious freedom DISAPPROVAL RESOLUTION RE- and FY13. In addition, H.R. 2867 requires through the lens of international human rights LATING TO DEBT LIMIT IN- study to determine the Commission’s effective- standards, such as those found in the Uni- CREASE ness to ensure that the act is being imple- versal Declaration of Human Rights and the Mr. REED. Madam Speaker, pursuant mented properly. International Covenant on Civil and Political to section 3 of House Resolution 392 As a senior Member of the Judiciary and Rights. Forty-five years ago the nations of the and as the designee of the majority Homeland Security Committees, I understand world signed the International Covenant on leader, I have a motion at the desk. the importance of protecting the religious Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which codi- The SPEAKER pro tempore. The rights of men, women, and children throughout fied in international law the right to religious Clerk will report the motion. the world. By advocating for religious stability, freedom. The ICCPR affirmed under Article 18 The Clerk read as follows: we in turn decrease the likelihood of religious of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Mr. Reed moves that the House proceed to extremism and advance the growth of healthy that ‘‘everyone shall have the right to freedom consider the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 77) nations. The United States Commission on of thought, conscience and religion; this right relating to the disapproval of the President’s International Religious Freedom serves as an includes freedom to change his religion or be- exercise of authority to increase the debt essential fact finder and impartial advisor on lief and freedom, either individually or in com- limit, as submitted under section 3101A of these matters. munity with others and in public or private, to title 31, United States Code, on August 2, The 18th District of Texas is home to many manifest his religion or belief in worship, ob- 2011. different faiths and religious backgrounds and servance, practice and teaching.’’ The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- welcomes a variety of views on religion. This The Commission is not a tool to advance re- ant to section 3101A(c)(3) of title 31, reflects the principles of freedom of religion ligious beliefs or any specific values. It is fo- United States Code, the motion is not upon which our nation was founded. The cused on addressing the religious climate in debatable. founding fathers understood the importance of each country based upon the ICCPR. By rely- The question is on the motion. freedom of religion and the perils of religious ing on international human rights standards as The motion was agreed to. persecution. Respect for the religious prac- specified in ICCPR, The Commission guards The SPEAKER pro tempore. The tices of others is woven into the very fabric of against any attempts to impose American val- Clerk will report the title of the joint the United States. ues on other nations, but rather examines the resolution. The United States Commission on Inter- actions of foreign governments against these The Clerk read the title of the joint national Religious Freedom is an independent, universal standards and by their freely under- resolution. bipartisan commission. The Commissioners taken international commitments. This Com- The text of the joint resolution is as are appointed by the President and Congress. mission is a vital resource in learning to ad- follows: The Commission’s core mission is to review dress conflicts between religious groups, es- H.J. RES. 77 international violations of religion freedom and pecially in the wake of the Arab Spring. Resolved by the Senate and House of Rep- make policy recommendations to the Presi- As the Commission serves to address the resentatives of the United States of America in dent, the Secretary of State and Congress. violations of religious freedom abroad, Con- Congress assembled, That Congress dis- These recommendations impact the lives of gress is charged with ensuring the Commis- approves of the President’s exercise of au- millions of people of faith around the world. I sion itself is in compliance with laws that pro- thority to increase the debt limit, as exer- believe in the importance of protecting those tect the rights of workers and those they cised pursuant to the certification under sec- who are being persecuted based upon their serve. H.R. 2867 reflects the principle that dis- tion 3101A(a) of title 31, United States Code. religious beliefs. crimination has no place within our govern- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- According to a Pew Research Study re- ment and will ensure that the commission ant to section 3101A(c)(4) of title 31, leased in December 2009, 198 countries, con- itself complies with all federal anti-discrimina- United States Code, the joint resolu- taining 70 percent of the world’s population, tion laws. This is an essential distinction from tion is considered as read, and the pre- severely restrict religious freedom. The study the current law, which lacks these robust dis- vious question is considered as ordered found that 101 governments used force crimination protections. This legislation further on the joint resolution to its passage

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Borrowing even more before we can publicans want to prolong the agony of b 1300 enact significant spending cuts to the debt limit debate and take us back begin dealing with the root problem is to the brink of default, which would be Mr. REED. Madam Speaker, I yield a foolish errand. We have a responsi- where we would be if you succeeded. myself such time as I may consume. I bility to future generations to take im- This bill can pass the House only if also ask unanimous consent that all mediate action. Members who voted ‘‘yes’’ in August on Members have 5 legislative days in I will continue along the path of this issue decide in essence to vote which to revise and extend their re- working on both sides of this Chamber ‘‘no’’ in September. ‘‘Yes’’ in August, marks and to include extraneous mate- to try to identify common ground to ‘‘no’’ in September. rial on the subject of the bill under solve this crisis on the national debt. This Nation wants us to be guided by consideration. The continuing resolution last spring the needs of the Nation, not the inter- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there and the Budget Control Act, which re- nal politics of a caucus or a conference. objection to the request of the gen- quires this vote, are only the begin- We have seen the consequences of that tleman from New York? ning. kind of Republican brinkmanship. There was no objection. This war on our national debt is Standard & Poor’s said, in downgrading Mr. REED. I am pleased to offer this going to go on for many years to come; our credit rating: ‘‘It involved a level resolution of disapproval of the request but we need to take those first steps of brinkmanship greater than what we from the President of the United because with every journey it takes the had expected earlier in the year.’’ States to borrow an additional one-half first step to get us on the path too suc- In August, consumer confidence trillion dollars. Dealing with this na- cess. I know the battles ahead will not dropped by the largest amount since tional debt is one of the primary rea- be popular, and there will be tremen- the peak of the financial crisis in 2008, sons why I ran for Congress. It is to dous political pressure on all of us to and the conference board noted a direct stop the endless borrowing of Wash- continue to borrow and spend as usual, link between the fall and the debate ington, D.C. on the backs of our chil- but we must stand up to that political over default. I think we need only to dren and our grandchildren. I am also pressure. We must honor our oath to do check 401(k) statements from August pleased to offer it in the House as the our duty and do our job in this Cham- to remember the precipitous drop in demonstration of a commitment to ber, and that means standing up and the stock market. ending the decades-old borrow-and- changing the path of Washington, D.C. Were this resolution to become law, spend practices and mentality that Making difficult decisions now is the all those who speak or vote for it have runs rampant here in Washington. only way we can win this war on what to understand that the U.S. would de- Our national debt has reached its is a common enemy we all face, our na- fault on its obligations for the first breaking point. The need to make seri- tional debt. time in our history. This would throw ous decisions to get our spending under It is my hope this resolution con- our economy back into deep recession, control has never been more urgent. tinues to show the President how seri- trigger $400 billion in immediate job- We have all heard the words of Admiral ous we are about this issue and at the destroying cuts, and call into question Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint same time that we are dealing with our ability to pay earned Social Secu- Chiefs of Staff. When asked what is the this issue we will focus on jobs, we will rity and Medicare benefits. most direct threat to our Nation, his focus on the economy. We, in the Madam Speaker, we should not be immediate and clear response was that United States Congress, have to be able considering this resolution today. We our national debt is the greatest threat to walk and chew gum at the same should be moving forward on the Presi- to our national security. The recent time. We are competent men and dent’s plan to jump-start our economy downgrade of our national credit rating women in this Chamber who love our and create jobs for American workers. by S&P further demonstrates the ne- great Nation. b 1310 cessity of making significant struc- We must come together on all fronts tural changes to the way we spend at all times, not only on the national The American Jobs Act will put more money in Washington, D.C. debt but on our economy, on getting money in workers’ pockets through a My focus here today, because we Americans back to work. And I think, temporary tax cut, saving the average know the Senate has acted and this with that bipartisan attitude, it will be family $1,500. It would also keep over 6 resolution did not pass the Senate—and amazing what we can accomplish in million workers from losing their un- is likely not to result in the borrowing order to achieve all those goals, the na- employment benefits while they con- of the President getting the additional tional debt being one of the critical tinue searching for work and provide half a trillion dollars of borrowing—but ones that we must face head on today. new employer incentives to help get it’s to send a message to the Nation With that, I reserve the balance of them hired. that we need to act proactively in this my time. If we don’t act on these issues, over a Chamber and in both Chambers of this Mr. LEVIN. I yield myself such time million people will lose their unem- House. We need to recognize the na- as I may consume. ployment benefits in January and over tional debt. And rather than deal with Madam Speaker, we should not even 2 million in February. So we need to it in a crisis situation, we should be be considering this resolution. I repeat, act. We need to look ahead, not just mindful of it in a proactive, strategic, we should not even be considering this try to go backwards. open and honest manner so that we resolution. We should be moving for- So I strongly urge my colleagues to have good, sound policy responses to ward, not backwards. This resolution is vote ‘‘no’’ on this resolution so we the issue that we face and finally tame a dangerous distraction from the un- don’t waste one more minute on a re- this beast known as the national debt. precedented challenge before us. newal of Republican brinksmanship. We have spent over $15 trillion of Fourteen million Americans are Fourteen million Americans who are money we did not have. That national looking for work. The Census Bureau looking for a job and 43 million Ameri- debt is growing at the rate of $58,000 reported just yesterday that the pov- cans who are living in poverty cannot per second. That’s $55,000 owed by erty rate is higher than it’s been in 17 afford to wait 1 minute longer. every man, child and woman in Amer- years, and median income in this coun- I reserve the balance of my time. ica. That level of borrowing, that level try is at 1996 levels. Mr. REED. Madam Speaker, I am of spending is just not acceptable be- The President has proposed a jobs pleased to yield 5 minutes to the gen- cause it jeopardizes our Nation and, bill that one knowledgeable observer, tleman from Florida (Mr. MACK).

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The gentleman across the With this plan, we can balance the give millionaires a tax cut that they aisle would like to say this is going budget in 8 years by capping spending didn’t need and that had no beneficial backwards. Every time I hear someone at 18 percent of GDP in the 7th year effect on the economy. But I did, out of on the left speak, it ends up costing us and cutting 1 penny out of every Fed- a sense of responsibility, vote to raise more money. We need to stop the in- eral dollar for 6 years. One penny. Ev- the debt limit. Now, I voted against sanity here in Washington. We need to erybody at home, every business, every one of them, but I voted for several stop this overspending. It seems like individual has had to take more than 1 others. the only proposals that are coming our penny out of their home budget or 1 What this bill says is this: Yes, we way are more spending and more taxes, penny out of their business budget over had to, because we were getting a lot of so I strongly support this resolution. the last 4 to 6 years. And for the Fed- pressure, vote to raise the debt limit, I opposed the debt deal because we eral Government to instead be talking but now that that is safely behind us, can no longer wait to make deep spend- about spending more money every we’re going to pretend that we were ing cuts and balance our Federal budg- year, we need to cut spending. We need really against it. So this is the ‘‘never et. We need to act now. Today we have to balance our budget. My plan will mind’’ resolution. People should under- an opportunity to prevent some of the balance the budget in 8 years. stand this. What this resolution would debt deal from going into effect and And for those people who might want do would be to undo what just hap- disallow the government from bor- to say we’re not for just across-the- pened. rowing another $500 billion—borrowing board cuts, great. What we’ve said is So we have Members on the majority another half trillion dollars. Congress decides where the 1 percent side who have trouble explaining to Recently, we heard the President comes from. But if the Congress fails, their primary voters why they had a keep saying on his new proposal: Pass then we’re going to require an across- temporary embrace of reality. Now this bill now. Pass this bill now. Pass the-board cut. So we can either work they’re not comfortable with that. this bill today. I’m saying and the together, or one way or another we’ll Their primary voters aren’t com- American people are saying: Stop the get the 1 percent across the board. fortable with that. So having done spending now. Stop the spending today. The deficit spending has to stop. Like what they had to do, they now want to Stop putting this burden on our chil- I said before, enough is enough. I sup- pretend that they’re going to undo it. dren and grandchildren. Yet the Presi- port this resolution, and I would en- The Senate has already killed this. dent wants to continue to go out there courage all of my colleagues, Demo- They don’t want it to pass because, un- and sell a jobs plan that is more of the crats and Republicans, to join me in derstand what it would do, it would put same, and he wants to pay for it mys- supporting this resolution. teriously, shockingly, by raising taxes Mr. LEVIN. Madam Speaker, I yield us right back in the debt limit situa- that will do nothing but kill jobs. So myself 15 seconds to say to the gen- tion crisis. his own proposal that he wants the tleman, working together won’t work And, by the way, these are people Congress to take up, in effect, will de- if you undo the work that we did to- who are putting this resolution forward stroy jobs. gether. who purport to believe that a major Somehow we have to convince the I now yield 5 minutes to the ranking concern with the economy today is the people here in Washington and the member of the Financial Services Com- uncertainty that faces investors. So President that it’s not the government mittee, the gentleman from Massachu- what do they do? They bring up a reso- that creates jobs. It’s the individual. setts (Mr. FRANK). lution today that would re-create—if It’s the entrepreneurs, the people will- Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. anyone took it seriously, and I will ing to take risks. But they are not Madam Speaker, I’m a great fan of the give them the credit of saying that willing to take risks in an economy tradition of comedy in America, and I they don’t. But if anyone took it seri- where the President continues to try to want to salute my Republican col- ously, it would re-create the greatest push more regulation and more laws leagues for this tribute to one of our source of uncertainty we’ve seen in a and more taxes. It just doesn’t make great comedians who died tragically long time, whether or not the Federal sense, and the American people are fed early, Gilda Radner, who in the early Government was going to shut down. up. They’ve had it. Enough is enough. days of ‘‘Saturday Night Live’’ in- So that’s the phoniness of this. We’ve spent way too much money. vented the character of Roseanne b 1320 During the August district work pe- Roseannadanna, who would get on the riod, over 500 people showed up to my news segment and say something out- Now let’s talk about the substance. town hall meeting in Fort Myers, Flor- landish. And then when she was cor- My colleagues claim to be against ida. And do you know what I heard rected, her response was, ‘‘Never spending. Apparently, in their world, over and over again? ‘‘Hold the line on mind.’’ the nearly $700 billion that is spent an- government spending.’’ ‘‘Stay strong.’’ This is the ‘‘never mind’’ resolution nually by the Pentagon isn’t spending. ‘‘Reduce government.’’ that the Republicans have brought for- I don’t know what it is. We have a situ- And this one I love: ‘‘It’s not your ward. People should understand what ation in which this year in the budget money; it’s my money.’’ See, only in this says. It says that the bill that we the Republicans brought forward a bill Washington do the people in this room passed that kept the government from to increase military spending by $17 look at it as their money. They look at shutting down—and I didn’t like the billion while funds for local police and your money as their money. It’s not. bill, but I liked the part of it that kept funds for local street repair were cut. It’s the people’s who have earned it. the government from shutting down. I So that’s the problem. Now a comment was made by a con- was ready to vote just for an increase Yes, I am for reducing spending. I am stituent of mine, Edward Benet, which in the debt limit. Singling out the in- for reducing a swollen Pentagon budg- I think speaks directly to this issue. He crease in the debt limit and canceling et. We had the President reduce by said: ‘‘We have to reduce the size and it, that’s what this does. What this 10,000 the troops in Afghanistan. Many scope of government. I’m unemployed, says is—and here’s the problem. We on the Republican side, including their but just because I don’t have a job have a majority that has a problem leadership, criticized him for that. Do doesn’t mean my neighbor should have with reality. They have a problem with they think 10,000 troops in Afghanistan to pay for me.’’ And then he continued reality in the field of science. They are paid for with ‘‘funny’’ money? on: ‘‘The best way for government to have a problem with reality in the field The fact is that while on the one help is to step aside, get out of the of the economy. hand we hear these complaints about way, and let individuals and businesses One of the manifestations of that is spending, we have people who are push- do what they do best.’’ their objection to raising the debt ing for more and more spending. And I

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That will only fur- only thing Americans should build to- this—and, by the way, why are we ther degrade employers’ confidence in gether are roads and a Defense Depart- keeping troops in Iraq? One of the lead- our economy and hinder their ability ment. That is what the U.S. Govern- ing advocates for keeping troops in to create jobs. We cannot allow that to ment is all about. Nothing else makes Iraq, a leading Republican Senator, happen. I was elected by the people of any difference. We don’t need to invest Senator GRAHAM, said we must keep Tennessee’s Fourth Congressional Dis- in health or science. What do we need our troops in Iraq because we have to trict to come to Washington to finally science for? It will work out. Don’t police the border between the Arabs make the Federal Government learn to worry. and the Kurds, that at a time when we live within its means. No more bor- In this resolution the Republicans are denying funds to our cities to po- rowing 40 cents out of every dollar, no are voting for the United States not to lice their own areas. more trillion-dollar deficits, no more pay its bills. That’s what we’re spend- So, let’s be clear. First of all, this stimulus spending, and, most impor- ing time on. Today is just another day sham says, You know what? We had to tantly, no more expecting our children in the Alice in Wonderland of the Re- vote to raise the debt limit. We’re now and grandchildren to pay for all of this. publican House. Pure politics and noth- going to engage in this mock exercise The debt limit debate provided us ing to help the American people get of taking back what we did. If anybody with a real opportunity to put our Na- jobs. This whole Republican Congress takes it seriously, it will send waves of tion back on a fiscally sustainable path is about the Presidential election. It uncertainty back into the economy. by finally forcing the Federal Govern- has been from the beginning back in But, secondly, going forward, yes, join ment to make difficult, but badly need- January. Not helping the middle class. us. And that includes some on the Re- ed, spending decisions—decisions that I What have they done for foreclosures publican side—unfortunately, a small am more than willing to make. I be- in this country? What have they done minority. Don’t give more and more lieve that we missed an opportunity to for youngsters trying to go to school? and more for the military not to defend open up the books and do something What have they done for anything ex- America, not to fight terrorism. Those that should have been done years ago— cept try and get the President? They things are not in controversy, but to prioritize our spending. are trying it by stopping the economy subsidize the wealthy European na- It is hard to believe that with all the from moving forward. tions. waste, fraud, and abuse that occurs I urge my colleagues not to just vote Madam Speaker, the NATO nations within the Federal Government that ‘‘no’’ on this but for the majority to outside the United States spend an av- we would have any problem cutting withdraw it and bring up the American erage of 1.7 percent of their gross do- enough spending so that raising the Jobs Act. The President brought it up mestic product on the military. We debt limit would be unnecessary. When here. It deserves to be brought up to spend 5.4 percent—more than three families in my district have spent more the floor and debated and amended and times as much. And my Republican col- than their budget allows, they look to passed. leagues have resisted reducing that. how they can cut back, not how they I sometimes wonder when I listen to What they want to do is subsidize the can borrow more money. Maybe they the discussion about this doing stuff to social safety nets and the spending of don’t take a vacation that summer. pay someplace down the road, some Western Europe at the expense of Maybe they go out to eat less often or long-term investment, if a Republican spending here. And how do we do that? hold off on purchasing a new car. The has ever bought a house. I remember By allowing them to hold down the point is they know that the answer to when I bought my first house in Se- military. getting back on the right fiscal track attle. I was 25 years old. I was a med- So people who want to keep troops in is spending less, not borrowing more. ical resident. I paid $16,400 for it. And I Iraq; people who objected when the The same should hold true for the Fed- wondered if I would ever be able to pay President began a withdrawal that was eral Government. for it, because I wasn’t making that too timid, in my judgment, from Af- I urge my colleagues to join me in much money in those days. ghanistan; people who want to con- voting in favor of this joint resolution The SPEAKER pro tempore. The tinue to spend unnecessarily and un- of disapproval. time of the gentleman has expired. wisely not to defend America but to Mr. LEVIN. I yield 3 minutes to an- Mr. LEVIN. I yield the gentleman 1 keep America the worldwide policemen other member of the Ways and Means additional minute. have no credibility in complaining Committee, the gentleman from Se- Mr. MCDERMOTT. Lo and behold, I about spending. attle, Washington (Mr. MCDERMOTT). bought the house. And you know what? Mr. REED. Madam Speaker, I am Mr. MCDERMOTT. Madam Speaker, I Thirty years later I paid off that house. pleased to yield 5 minutes to my col- rise in opposition to this resolution be- That’s what investment is about. What league from Tennessee (Mr. cause it is in favor of the United States the President is saying is that we have DESJARLAIS). defaulting on its debts. The Republican to invest in this country if we’re going Mr. DESJARLAIS. I thank the gen- Party is calling for the United States to bring it out of the problems it’s in. tleman. to default, to tell the whole world: we And that means infrastructure on the For too long, the Federal Govern- don’t pay our debts. That’s what this is ground and it means in human beings ment has been allowed to engage in an about, and it doesn’t do one single in education. irresponsible spending spree that has thing to help American workers or resulted in the accumulation of over businesses with jobs. b 1330 $14 trillion of debt, and $3 trillion of Now, make no mistake: The House of If we don’t invest, as the Greatest that debt occurred in just the last 3 Representatives is being used by the Generation did after the Second World years under President Obama. Tea Party as an attack machine on the War—here came Eisenhower and said, Does anyone really believe that the President. They will delay action on hey, we’ve got to build roads. Nobody American people have received a good anything that helps the economy. The said, well, you know, we can’t go in return on their investment? I know President came up here on Thursday debt for all that. Nobody said we can’t that many of my constituents in Ten- with a plan. Where’s the schedule for invest in human beings. nessee’s Fourth District don’t. Unem- bringing it out on the floor to create We did the GI Bill of Rights, and ployment is still above 9 percent, and jobs? No, we have to come up here with that’s what made us the strongest our economy is still not creating jobs. this resolution. For the majority, de- country in the world. We took every And now this President claims to need laying economic recovery is a small veteran who came back from the war a $2.4 trillion blank check to continue price to pay if they can win an elec- and said here’s a college education; get

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And beyond that, what is our trade frastructure. We’ve got bills right now Mr. BOUSTANY. I thank the gen- policy? This country is losing credi- that would improve our maritime in- tleman from New York for yielding bility globally and it’s losing its lever- frastructure without costing one penny time to me. age because we have no trade strategy, more in deficit spending. Why aren’t Madam Speaker, it’s been said that a strategy that’s going to promote we acting on these things? leadership is willing to make hard American-manufactured goods, Amer- We’re tired of rhetoric. We’re tired of choices, fact-based choices to come up ican farmers and their commodities so political talking points. And what we with solutions to solve problems and that we can sell these around the world need is action. The American people deliver results. to open markets. That will get our have had enough. And I say let’s get to Now, we gathered here last Thursday economy going. work. Let’s get this House moving on in this Chamber to hear the President, If we want to solve our debt problem, fundamental changes that will improve with a much-touted plan beforehand yes, we’ve got to balance our budgets, that he was going to bring forth to the this economy and create private sector yes, we’ve got to deal with the debt American people that was going to help jobs. problem—we’ve taken some steps—but solve the high unemployment in this Mr. LEVIN. Madam Speaker, I yield I saw nothing that the President of- country and get our economy back on myself 30 seconds. fered. That’s why I’m here supporting a competitive basis. I can tell you, I want to say to the gentleman from this resolution, to push this President Madam Speaker, I sat there and I lis- Louisiana, I listened intently, and I tened very intently, and I left this to consider the steps that need to be don’t understand how he could have Chamber with great disappointment taken to promote American competi- voted ‘‘yes’’ to raise the debt ceiling in because it’s not enough. tiveness, private sector job growth. August and now, in essence, he’s going Furthermore, he is proposing taxes, That’s what we need in this economy. to vote ‘‘no’’ and bring this country new taxes, taxes on energy production, Now, the President had the answer. back to the brink of chaos. American energy production. Now, He was standing here at this podium I now yield 3 minutes to the very dis- let’s look at the facts of what hap- and he had the answer right up there tinguished gentleman from Massachu- pened. on the wall of the House behind him. setts, a very active member of our Yes, we had an oil spill in the Gulf of There is a plaque up there, and it’s a committee, Mr. NEAL. Mexico, and it was dealt with. It was a quote from Daniel Webster. And that Mr. NEAL. Madam Speaker, I’m fas- tragic situation, but it has been dealt first sentence of the quote says, ‘‘Let cinated by this argument, for the peo- with. The fact of the matter is we need us develop the resources of our land.’’ ple that are viewing it, largely because American energy production to move What’s wrong with that, Mr. President? this is not an argument about new this country forward. And now what For God’s sake, we need American spending; this is an argument about we’re seeing with the lifting of the energy production, and it’s simple. paying for past spending. So when Bill moratorium is this continued de facto With the stroke of a pen, he could solve Clinton said ado, said goodbye to the moratorium because of slow-walking of this permitting problem and at least American people on January 19, 2001— exploration plans and permits. get us back to where we were, create this is fact, not opinion—America was Now, what does this mean? If we 230,000 jobs next year and add to our staring at a $5.6 trillion surplus. On brought back the permitting process to GDP growth. And this would be a start, January 20, George Bush took the oath the same timeframe we had before— a down payment to a comprehensive of office, and when he left 8 years later, without sacrificing safety—bring it energy strategy for this country. This we were looking at a $10.6 trillion def- back into a reasonable amount of time, is a no-brainer. icit. let’s say 30 days to take care of these We need natural gas as part of our Let’s recount those years: Two wars, permits, in 1 year, the year 2012, 230,000 transition strategy. His policy is going $2.3 trillion worth of tax cuts, and a jobs would be created, new jobs, good, to lock out natural gas production in prescription D benefit that was un- high-paying jobs. And not only that, a this country. Ninety-seven percent of funded. And all of the money they ap- third of those jobs would be beyond the it is done by small domestic companies plied to those arguments—and I am Gulf Coast States around this country, here in the U.S., and these taxes will very pleased by the fact I voted against in California and Florida and in the put many of these companies out of those tax cuts, spoke against them, central part of the country. This would business. and voted against the war in Iraq. But add $34 billion to our GDP. And that’s Mr. President, read the plaque. Let’s all of the money that I’ve just ref- just getting things back to where they develop our natural resources. Let’s do erenced was borrowed money by the were. That’s not even talking about ex- what we have to do. Let’s promote a Republican Party. They borrowed all of panding exploration in these shale for- very aggressive, export-oriented trade the money for it—fact, not opinion. mations or looking at the east and policy. And now the bill has come due, and west coast where we can do more or And we need a willing partner to they’re on the floor talking about fis- Alaska. These energy jobs are good- move forward with tax reform. We’re cal rectitude. paying jobs. And not only that, it getting half-hearted signals. This coun- Now, here’s what I think is impor- would bring in, in 1 year, $12 billion try needs fundamental tax reform. We tant: The gentleman from Florida more into the Treasury and reduce our want to do it on the House Ways and opened this debate, my friend, Mr. bill on foreign oil by $15 billion. And Means Committee. We’re ready. We MACK, by talking about our money and that’s just getting us back to where we stand ready as willing partners, but yet how that money is utilized. Well, guess were. we’re getting signals—mixed signals. what? The veterans hospitals, 35,000 Now, I stood here and listened to the This administration has not shown a men and women wounded in Iraq and President. Instead, he offers taxes, $45 serious intent to move forward with Afghanistan, is he saying that that’s billion more in new taxes on inde- fundamental tax reform that will un- not our money that ought to pay for pendent oil and gas companies. That’s leash American ingenuity and entre- those hospitals? going to hurt American energy produc- preneurship in this country. tion, it’s going to kill American jobs, And that’s what I heard all through b 1340 and it’s going to do nothing to help August when I was back home in my Joe Stiglitz has estimated that the solve our economy. district when I talked to folks. They cost of disability for the war in Iraq Furthermore, he chided us about the want to see an energy strategy. They will be between $500 billion and $900 bil- trade agreements. We have three trade want to see comprehensive tax reform lion.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:59 Sep 15, 2011 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K14SE7.039 H14SEPT1 mstockstill on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE September 14, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H6161 I hope people pay attention to what Washington, D.C. We’re passing on debt is a part of what the American fabric is I’m about to say. Almost one out of to our kids and our grandkids. This is built upon. I believe that this Joint two people who have served us honor- an opportunity for us to come to- Deficit Committee needs to find com- ably in Iraq and Afghanistan, they’re gether, both parties, and say, let’s for- mon ground for actual cuts and that coming back with a long-term dis- get about the sins of the past. Let’s pay the Senate will pick up the job growth ability. Those VA hospitals are going those bills. But let’s not continue to bill that we passed right here on the to be stretched for years to come. spend the way that we’re spending floor of the House of Representatives Now, whether you were for Iraq or today. this Congress. against it, our responsibility is to pay From a debt of $79 million when the We all knew that this debt ceiling de- for those men and women who served Revolutionary War ended, the United bate was never going to be our final us honorably: 20 years old, life expect- States has racked up a debt of nearly battle in a struggle for balanced budg- ancy of 80, they’re in our care for the $14.6 trillion. It would take nearly ev- ets and fiscal responsibility. It gives us next 60 years. erything that Americans produced in the chance to continue to talk about I would note with some humor that all of last year to pay off the existing it. And if we want to continue to raise the Republican leadership did not send national debt. the debt, if we want to continue to in- out, today, people that were here for Right now I see two competing vi- crease spending, we’ll continue to talk the tax cut vote or for the vote on the sions in Washington and across this about why we need to restrain Wash- war in Iraq. Remember weapons of country, Madam Speaker. The first vi- ington politicians. I’m going to continue the dialogue. I mass destruction and how that vote sion is the ‘‘business as usual’’ vision. believe it’s crucial. It’s an important was to take place? And we see a lot of that right here in part of saving this country’s economic Friends, this is about paying our Washington. It says we need to blindly future for my kids, for our children and bills. This is not about new spending. increase our debt; and if people com- for our grandchildren across this coun- And I hope there’s no confusion in the plain, call it investment instead of try. hinterlands. Today, because of the wars debt. Government has, for too long, contin- in Iraq and Afghanistan, every Amer- In May, President Obama called for a ued this business as usual and the sta- ican citizen has a bill of $17,000. no-cuts-attached increase to the debt tus quo vision that I talked about ear- They helped bring us to this path of ceiling. He didn’t give up his call for a lier. Americans are going to have to fiscal irresponsibility during their blank check until his request had pay back all of this debt. This may not years of borrowing and borrowing and failed here in this House by an over- be a tax increase, but inevitably and borrowing, and they ask the American whelming and bipartisan vote of 97–318. indirectly it is. people to embrace amnesia. They set The second vision that I hear a lot The SPEAKER pro tempore. The the fire, and now they’re calling the about back in Indiana is the same vi- time of the gentleman has expired. fire department. sion and the same work that families Mr. REED. I yield the gentleman an This is a very simple vote. It’s about do every year. You figure out how to additional minute. paying our bills. live within your means. You have real Mr. STUTZMAN. So, Madam Speak- Mr. REED. I am pleased to yield 5 cuts, not budgetary gimmicks. You er, I come to the floor in support of minutes to my colleague from Indiana don’t fool yourself when you’re sitting this resolution because I believe that (Mr. STUTZMAN). around the kitchen table trying to fig- we need to all agree, Republicans and Mr. STUTZMAN. Madam Speaker, I’d ure out the mess that you find yourself Democrats, that we’re going to limit like to thank the gentleman from New in. It’s based on the truth. spending, we’re going to stop bor- York for yielding on such an important Families sit down at the kitchen rowing. subject that we’re talking about today. table and have the heart-to-heart talks We can pay our bills back. But at the I would like to make a couple of about the situation that they’re in. same time we’re going to focus on job points in reference to what the gen- Two conclusions that they usually creation, getting people back to work, tleman from Massachusetts just made come to are, we have to cut spending, as the gentleman from Louisiana men- regarding the Republican Party. And I and we’re going to have to figure out tioned, the energy jobs that were would say that the Republican Party how to bring more dollars in. It accepts talked about. That was one of the did make mistakes at the beginning of the challenge, Americans accept the things the President didn’t discuss in this decade. I would say the Democrat challenge, knowing that these things his address the other night is he didn’t Party has made some mistakes in the are not easy. talk about energy. last several years. I think there’s plen- We know that the ‘‘business as We are the leaders in the world on ty of blame to go around for both par- usual’’ vision, it’s broken, and it will production. I come from a district of a ties in Washington. inevitably lead us to ruin and more lot of manufacturing; and I believe But there’s a new crew in town. ruin. This vote is a vote against that that if we would focus on energy, cut There’s 87 new Republicans that were vision. spending, we need to reform govern- elected last November from all across I come to the floor to support the ment. That’s what’s going to get people back to work. The economy’s going to this country who have joined those in second vision, the vision that Ameri- grow. We will still be number one in our party who are saying stop the cans across this country support, a vi- the world. spending. Stop the madness. We’re sion that is shared by the men and Mr. LEVIN. I yield myself 30 seconds. working against ourselves, folks. women of northeast Indiana. It is a vi- This resolution isn’t about a new vi- Madam Speaker, I would say that we sion of prudence, honest conversations, sion. It’s really about blind rage. There wouldn’t have to continue having this and optimism. may be a new crew in town; but if this discussion if we would stop spending, When we get pulled into these discus- were to pass, it would be a wrecking stop borrowing, and then we would sions because of the continual discus- crew because, essentially, we would be focus on the economy. It’s going to sion about more spending, we cannot back on the edge, once again, of de- take both sides to come together to fix focus on the important part of getting fault. the problem within our economy. people back to work and growing our I now yield 2 minutes to the very dis- We’re going to have to control our economy. Government doesn’t create tinguished gentleman from Georgia spending. We’re going to have to help jobs. Governors don’t create jobs. (Mr. JOHNSON). those Americans who are out there and Americans create jobs. I believe in the Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Madam those who are actually establishing American people, and that hope is still Speaker, America was united in its dis- jobs, those who are creating jobs. It’s a part of our vocabulary. gust at the spectacle in Washington not the U.S. Government that is going I believe that we’re also changing the during the debt ceiling fiasco. The Re- to create the jobs for those who are un- discussion here in Washington. Career publican threat of default ranks among employed. politicians have had their day in Wash- the most reckless and destructive po- I believe that we have a great oppor- ington, and it’s time to talk about litical stunts in modern American his- tunity right now to again say, let’s cuts. And since we’ve talked about tory. It undermined the fragile, but re- stop this sort of spending binge in cuts, the sky has not fallen. Optimism covering, economy and reduced faith in

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It just threatens our cred- President signed, was supposed to be most anything else. it, and it weakens our country. about putting an end to Washington’s Of course, how did we end up with the That’s why I, Representative NAD- business as usual: spend and borrow, debt that we have today? Much of it is LER, and Representative MORAN intro- spend and borrow some more. Yet when directly related to the policies of the duced this morning the Full Faith and the President came before us here in Bush-Cheney years when Republicans Credit Act, a bill to do away with the this very room a week ago tomorrow, were totally ignoring the issue of debt: debt ceiling once and for all. all we heard was a recycled idea: an- unpaid wars, tax cuts based on the my- thology that they would pay for them- b 1350 other stimulus, another $450 billion ex- ercise in excessive spending that will selves when they just dug us deeper But if we are going to have a debt underperform and underdeliver. into debt. And now we face the need to ceiling, the threat by Members of Con- Spend, spend, spend, raise taxes and try to get our economy moving again. gress to refuse to raise it is an outrage. borrow more to pay for that spending. Their solution? Do less. Jeopardize the We’ve already made these commit- Raise those taxes from the very indi- full faith and credit of the United ments; yet some would have us default. viduals and businesses that can actu- States. I think one of the problems that we Some would undermine the full faith ally create jobs that will get the econ- have here, and it afflicts the Demo- and credit of the United States. Some omy out of this rut and put millions of cratic Party to some extent as well as would do irreparable damage to our Americans to work. And along the way, economy and our standing in the the Republicans, but especially with let’s demonize job creators. That’s our Republican colleagues, is that world. It’s a disgrace. It’s a total dis- what happened in this Chamber. grace. we’ve just got too many certified smart I believe the Federal Government people here in Washington. They’re so And the American people see it for should function as efficiently and as ef- what it is: part of a concerted effort to smart they know what they know; they fectively as a private business; but it, just don’t know what the American undermine this economy in order to by no means, should be able to brag undermine the President and fulfill the people are experiencing. You don’t about a large budget that fails to de- have very many people advising about congressional Republicans’ Inaugura- liver and which only adds to the red this economic recovery. tion Day vow to do everything within ink each year. Whoever had to drive a truck for a their power to ensure that President Before adding to the $15 trillion in living? You don’t have people who even Obama would be a one-term President. debt this country already has or sus- had to worry about whether they could Mr. REED. Madam Speaker, I am taining more years of trillion dollar make their next truck payment. And pleased to yield 5 minutes to the gen- annual deficits, we have no choice, and you sure don’t have people advising tleman from Kansas (Mr. HUELSKAMP). the American people expect no less, cut who’ve had their house foreclosed and Mr. HUELSKAMP. I appreciate the current spending and cap future spend- had to move their family into a truck. gentleman from New York yielding to ing obligations and pass a balanced But that’s the plight that too many me. budget amendment. Americans face today, and we need to I do support this resolution. I support this resolution. be responding to their legitimate con- Here in this Chamber—actually, here Mr. LEVIN. It is now my privilege to cern that what we need to do is focus in America—we often talk about yield 3 minutes to another active mem- on the demand side of the equation and achievements in terms of metrics: the ber of our committee, the gentleman help improve demand and get this larger, the better. For a private com- from Texas (Mr. DOGGETT). economy going again. pany, it’s impressive when it has a Mr. DOGGETT. I thank the gen- I like the idea of focusing on our large budget, a large workforce, and a tleman. roadways, our trucks, our crumbling large profit and a large presence. I think it’s clear that this resolution bridges and the like, building the infra- The Federal Government, as an insti- is just not my cup of tea, but I can tell structure that will help American busi- tution, should not talk this way, even you if we followed the path that was ness as well as the people who would do though similar assertions would all be just recommended, Republicans could that construction work. true. Washington spends too much, em- drive us deeper into recession or even The SPEAKER pro tempore. The ploys too many people, and is too in- depression. time of the gentleman has expired. trusive in the lives of all Americans. It’s as if the Republicans who are Mr. LEVIN. I yield the gentleman an The major difference is that private here today wanted to start Halloween additional minute. business makes investments that de- early because they keep trying to bring Mr. DOGGETT. I believe that focus- liver returns, and failure to do so is the back to life, as if it were some zombie, ing on our infrastructure, our roads, demise of the business. The Federal the specter of debt default that has al- bridges, our schools, focusing on what Government’s spending, though, often ready caused us so many problems. is happening inside our schools with so fails to deliver real results. But the Building on their earlier success in many teachers threatened with dis- Federal Government does not meet its sowing panic and reaping fear in our missal around the country with the cutback in State and local budgets, demise; rather, the all-too-often nega- global financial markets that contrib- that’s the kind of focus that can help tive consequences fall on taxpayers and uted to the first-ever downgrade of our get America moving and address the usually result in a new government Nation’s credit rating, these profes- debt issues at the same time. program or one or dozens more. sional obstructionists are determined I would urge my colleagues to vote But if we were thinking like a busi- to keep trying to wreak havoc. ‘‘no’’ on today’s empty political resolu- nessperson, we would consider the re- As families are demanding action on tion so we can focus on what really sults that have come from past invest- the economy, a response to jobs, the makes a difference to working families ments before making another. Republicans instead are focusing on across this country. Two-and-a-half years ago, the pre- pandering to a small group of people Mr. REED. Madam Speaker, I reserve vious Congress and this current Presi- for whom reality doesn’t seem to make the balance of my time. dent implemented a stimulus that ulti- much difference. The problem is reality Mr. LEVIN. It is now my privilege to mately will cost Americans more than has a Democratic bias when it comes to yield 3 minutes to the very distin- $1 trillion. This mega-investment was this question of the economy and job guished gentleman from New York, supposed to create 3.5 million jobs. creation. CHARLES RANGEL. This investment was supposed to bring I think if the Republicans really (Mr. RANGEL asked and was given an unemployment rate of 6.4 percent want to help us close the debt gap, the permission to revise and extend his re- last month. But what has actually hap- best way to do that is to get this econ- marks.)

VerDate Mar 15 2010 02:32 Sep 15, 2011 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K14SE7.042 H14SEPT1 mstockstill on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE September 14, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H6163 Mr. RANGEL. Madam Speaker, I rise tion is not speaking for the country or The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. against this resolution. the Congress, but probably for the Re- SIMPSON). The time of the gentleman I had thought that the Congress had publican National Committee. has expired. already passed this very, very embar- Mr. REED. I continue to reserve the Mr. LEVIN. I yield the gentleman an rassing experience. balance of my time. additional 1 minute. When you read the papers today and Mr. LEVIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 Mr. BLUMENAUER. Most tellingly, see the pain that exists throughout minutes to another member of our we should be accelerating the reforms these United States, it is not Repub- committee, the gentleman from Oregon that the last Congress enacted. When they started, most of them were bipar- lican or Democratic pain. It’s pain that (Mr. BLUMENAUER). tisan ideas that have been imple- they’re feeling as a result of the lack of Mr. BLUMENAUER. This pointless mented, in some cases, by Republican economic growth in our great country. exercise that the House has embarked Governors. The difference between And when you see the number of upon here today illustrates the chal- what America spends on health care years and decades that this Congress lenge that we have to try and deal this year and what the second most ex- has approved the President’s authority meaningfully with the very real prob- pensive country, Switzerland, spends is to increase the debt ceiling for the pur- lems that America expects us to make $3,000 a person, $3 trillion over 10 years. pose of maintaining the fiscal integrity progress on. This resolution has al- of our country and, therefore, the de- If we could just spend as much as the ready been laid to rest in the Senate. It second most expensive country in the mocracy-loving countries that depend has been defeated. Ain’t going to hap- on the credibility of our fiscal condi- world. pen. So, no matter what the result of We ought to be working on things tion, I would have hoped that we would the hours of debate that we have here think of this issue not in terms of the like this that will make a difference today, it will make absolutely no dif- for America, put them back to work, political implications, but how does ference. the world perceive us to be. have fiscal stability—and maybe regain It is an extension of what happened a little confidence in the political proc- Quite frankly, without being polit- with the totally manufactured crisis ical, in watching the debate the other ess instead of pointless exercises like surrounding the debt ceiling earlier this. I hope—I hope—that we will get night, it wasn’t that it annoyed me, this year. The debt ceiling increase was but I was just so embarrassed that the this out of our system, get down and to deal with bills that we had already get to work. America deserves our best, world might think that that rep- incurred, for which Congress over the not our worst, which is on exhibit here resented the principles of my country, years had already approved the spend- today. people laughing about execution and ing, and we’d borrowed the money for Mr. REED. I continue to reserve the laughing about people dying. it. It made no difference about future balance of my time. I’m certain nobody in this body takes debt. It made no difference about the Mr. LEVIN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 pride in that type of thing. But to go spending commitments that had al- minutes to the gentleman from Vir- against the President’s ability to main- ready been made. Yet we watched ginia (Mr. CONNOLLY). tain the integrity of the United States tremors go through international mar- Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia. I thank of America, I think it is just so wrong. kets, not because America couldn’t pay my good friend from Michigan for There are good reasons that we can’t its bills, but because some politicians, yielding. challenge as to why our polling as a for their own purposes, were willing to Let me take this opportunity to body is so low. risk that America didn’t pay its bills. thank the 174 Republican Members of b 1400 Unprecedented. this House who voted with us in a bi- partisan fashion just last month to I don’t think anyone can walk away We’ve raised the debt ceiling over 100 times. There was no doubt that we avert the first Federal default in the feeling proud—liberal, conservative— Nation’s history. It may not have been about what’s going on. The reason is would, in fact, honor our commit- ments; but there were people talking an easy vote for some, but it was the because people don’t go to sleep at right thing to do to prevent a catas- night worried about what we’re doing crazy enough that cast doubt. That, I think, at least in part, is why we have trophe that would have certainly shak- and debating on the question of revok- en further our fragile economic recov- ing, of giving the power to the Presi- seen the markets in the United States be on a roller coaster and people watch ery. Today’s vote is no different. dent to protect the integrity of our I urge my colleagues to not give in to their 401(k)s maybe become 301(k)s one great Nation. No. They’re going to bed the political gamesmanship that afternoon before they go up a little at night having hope that maybe to- Standard & Poor’s cited as the very again and then go back down. morrow they’ll get a job, that maybe reason for its bleak downgrading of the they’ll be able to guarantee their It doesn’t have to be this hard if, in- United States’ credit rating. We must health insurance, that maybe their stead of a pointless exercise, we would reaffirm our commitment that Amer- kids will have a better life, that maybe spend some time on areas where actu- ica will meet its obligations, and we we’ll stop fooling around, playing poli- ally Congress could come together and don’t want to find ourselves politically tics with the future of this great coun- cooperate on dealing with the infra- explaining how we voted for it before try, that just maybe, one day, we’ll be structure crisis in this country, where we voted against it. more concerned about the lack of de- there is broad support from the busi- Make no mistake that voting in favor fault and the credit of our country ness community, organized labor, con- of this resolution will, in fact, lead to than our own reelections. tractors, local government, environ- the very default we voted to avoid with I know it seems absurd that we can mentalists to move forward to rebuild the Budget Control Act. You cannot wish that; but if you think about it, and renew this country, putting not now be for default after having just they’re not talking about Democrats’ tens of thousands but millions of voted against it. We must reject this polls being low, and they’re not just Americans to work in strengthening resolution and move on to the real talking about Republicans’ polls being our country and our economy. We challenge of working with a bipartisan low. They’re talking about all of us. could be dealing with something like supercommittee to restore fiscal re- The greatest thing about America, this, but we’re not. sponsibility, revive our economy and, far beyond our military and economic We could deal with reforms in agri- most importantly, re-instill confidence wealth, is the trust that people used to culture that would put more money in in the American citizen and the Amer- have in government. Once they lose the hands of America’s farmers and ican business community. that, whether they’re poor or whether ranchers, less in mega-agribusiness. Mr. REED. I continue to reserve the they belong to that small number of We’d save money, and we’d improve the balance of my time. people who hold the Nation’s wealth, state of agriculture. While we’re at it, Mr. LEVIN. Does the gentleman from then the country is in desperate trou- we could probably improve the health New York have any more speakers? ble. of our children in school with their nu- Mr. REED. I have one additional So I hope that people who witness trition, but we’re not dealing with speaker, and then I am prepared to this debate recognize that the opposi- that. close after that, I believe.

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I know of the inten- paid the ultimate price and that are going to stand up and say, yes, we tions of my colleagues across the aisle. scraped and saved and were responsible voted to pay for it but, guess what, we You want to try to make America a in Congresses for 200—well, not 200, but had our fingers crossed; we are not better place. 150 years or so that lived within their going to do it. We said we were going We had the prior speaker indicate means. We can’t repay them, but we to do this. We took some tough action. that tremors were sent through the fi- can repay them by being responsible Both sides joined together, both leader- nancial markets because some politi- for the future. ships joined together and said we are cians, for their own purposes, put the So to come in and to have a debt ceil- going to do this. financial integrity at risk. The Demo- ing increase time after time after time Now, this bill is a phony. This is pos- cratic speaker before that indicated is not a real debt ceiling. And it is not turing. This is politics. This is pure that we should not go against the an adequate defense to say, well, Bush politics because the United States Sen- President’s ability to protect the integ- did it; well, Clinton did it; well, Bush ate has already rejected this bill and rity of the United States. The Demo- did it before him or Reagan did it, and only one House needed to reject it. We cratic speaker before that said that no just go on down, Carter did it. At some are going to have an extension of the one was apparently advising Repub- point we have to be responsible for our debt. licans who had missed a truck pay- own actions and quit playing the point- The extension of the debt will simply ment. Things like that. ing game and say, look, our time is mean that those items that we all Guess what. I know that was not in- now. We are elected to be responsible voted on will be paid for, that we won’t tended to be misleading. I know the in- now. Our own purposes are to be re- welsh on our debts, that America will tent was not that, but the fact is some sponsible for the debt that we are in- pay its debts. of us go home as we did in August. curring now. The $4.5 trillion more Now, this bill is about, oh, no, let’s not pay our debts. Let’s pretend that b 1410 than has been brought in is pretty irre- sponsible. That’s no way to go. they don’t occur, that we really don’t Some of us get out into the far The SPEAKER pro tempore. The have to pay them. America’s welshing reaches, the most rural areas of Amer- time of the gentleman has expired. on its debts really won’t have much ica, our districts. We talk to those peo- Mr. REED. I yield the gentleman 1 consequence; although the over- ple. They’re struggling with gas prices. additional minute. whelming majority of people believe They are having all kinds of trouble Mr. GOHMERT. But if you want the that if we welsh on our debts it will making ends meet, and they cannot un- numbers, if we are only able to save a have extraordinary consequences. In derstand how the people that are sent trillion dollars over 10 years, which is fact, it’s having extraordinary con- to Washington as representatives don’t quite possible under the debt ceiling sequences on our economy right now, get it, how we could come up here and deal that passed, then it will take 150 as we speak. It’s undermined the con- we can’t control our spending. years before the budget balances if we fidence in America that we had this So I wanted to help illuminate those continue to cut 1 trillion every year, confrontation about whether America friends who are mystified as to what and it will only add about $120 trillion was going to pay its bills. our own purposes were in opposing a to the 14 trillion we have now. If we I rise, Mr. Speaker, to urge my col- debt ceiling bill that jacked up the could save 2 trillion every 10 years, leagues to vote down this resolution of debt ceiling and then says, you know, then we are looking at 80 years before disapproval which is transparently po- we are going to cut 1, maybe 2, 2.5 tril- we balance the budget and only adding litical and which will do nothing to se- lion over 10 years when everyone in 72 trillion to the debt that we have. cure our Nation’s fiscal future. In fact, this body either knows or needs a good That’s irresponsible. This country this resolution is premised on the as- education to know that there is not a won’t be around in this form, this Con- sumption that the American people are court, there is no way in the world you gress, and therefore that is our special ignorant—I don’t believe that—igno- can bind a future Congress into making purpose for doing this. That is why we rant about the nature of our debt ceil- cuts that they have not agreed to. You say it’s time to stop the debt ceiling ing and the sources of America’s fiscal can’t do that. It’s not enforceable. So bill from where it was, get responsible, challenges. the trick here in Washington is to back and propose real cuts so this Congress As often as some in this House at- load all of the massive cuts, have a lit- does what the people who are missing tempt to falsely persuade the American tle trickle of cuts now. payments are trying to do—live within people that raising the debt ceiling So our own purposes boil down to their means. means taking on more debt, we will be this: I didn’t deserve to be born in Mr. LEVIN. I yield myself 30 seconds. here to repeat the truth. This is about America. None of us that were born I want to say to the gentleman from nothing more than paying the bills we here did. We weren’t born here because Texas I disagree with his position, but have already incurred. The American in the womb we did something deserv- I respect it. I can understand that people understand that fact, as evi- ing of being born in America. We are those who voted ‘‘no’’ will now vote denced by their disgust with the par- the most blessed nation in the history ‘‘yes.’’ What is not understandable is tisan brinksmanship that almost of the world, and it’s not because of that those on the Republican side who brought America to the brink of de- what anybody living today has done. voted ‘‘yes’’ are now voting ‘‘no.’’ fault. We were blessed. We were born here. So I yield 4 minutes to our distinguished What Americans want to see is us many have been able to immigrate whip, the gentleman from the proud coming together to take real action on here and be blessed because of what State of Maryland (Mr. HOYER). two issues they are deeply concerned prior generations have done: the re- Mr. HOYER. I thank the gentleman about: jobs and our mounting deficit. sponsibility, putting their lives on the for yielding. One of the most important things we line in war, struggling through depres- The previous speaker voted to go can do to reduce the deficit is to create sion to be accountable, struggling deeply into debt. Frankly, I voted for jobs, grow our economy, get people through the earliest days when they some of those programs myself, two of back to work. pledged their lives, their fortunes, which were to support the efforts in Af- The President has put forward the their sacred honor. Those people are ghanistan and Iraq. We didn’t pay for American Jobs Act, which incorporates the reason we have been blessed. them. many elements of House Democrats’ So to make clear about what our own As has been said, I didn’t vote for it Make It in America agenda to create purposes were in opposing that debt initially, but I think it’s a good pro- jobs. I hope my Republican colleagues ceiling, that didn’t really do any kind gram. We have made it better for the bring it to the House floor for a vote as of significant cuts in the next year, 2 prescription drug program, and the soon as possible.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:59 Sep 15, 2011 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K14SE7.046 H14SEPT1 mstockstill on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE September 14, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H6165 Over the long term, though, we must the parameters for this discussion. We been burned to the ground in Texas. lay out a path to restore fiscal sustain- can see by the throngs that are on the Who is going to help those folks besides ability. And the only path that is fea- floor of the House how keenly impor- their private insurance? They need the sible fiscally, politically, and morally tant this is to the American people. Federal Government, the rainy day is one that is balanced and asks every- The reason why I say that is because umbrella on a rainy day or when a fire one to pay their fair share, not let important discussions draw Members is there, the hose for the fire. some of the special interests and fa- even away from their duties elsewhere. So I ask my colleagues to consider vored few be left out of the obligations But we know that the reason why we being realistic and rational. Vote this to bring fiscal responsibility to this are speaking to empty seats is, one, be- down. Put a jobs bill on the floor and Nation. All of us need to be included. A cause the other body has resoundingly do what the people want, create jobs balanced solution is favored by an denounced and voted this particular now. overwhelming majority of Americans provision down because we have Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposi- and even three-quarters of Repub- reached a compromise, a respectable tion to H.J. Res. 77, a Resolution of Dis- licans. compromise that we realize we have to approval intended to prevent President Obama The SPEAKER pro tempore. The pay our bills. from raising the debt ceiling by $500 billion as time of the gentleman has expired. But of course those who believe that he is authorized to do by the debt ceiling Mr. LEVIN. I yield the gentleman 1 they are not in the people’s House, agreement reached last month. This resolution additional minute. they can put this resolution on the will obstruct the federal government from Mr. HOYER. The Joint Select Com- floor because if they look to what the meeting their financial obligations; measures mittee on Deficit Reduction must put people want, 46 percent of the Amer- like this one have already failed in the Senate. aside partisan politics and put some ican people believe that jobs are more This is a colossal waste of valuable legislative hard choices on the table, choices that important than reducing the deficit. time. The message has been heard loud and encompass both spending and revenue, More than 65 percent believe we should clear, we must address the debt limit; however and we must support their efforts to be doing a jobs bill. We have the great- another message is being muffled—the need reach agreement. est poverty among children of all sec- to focus on jobs. Here we are once again with b 1420 tors in all areas of the country right another proposal before the House that ap- That’s what the American people de- now as I speak. And the new population pears to throw caution to the wind. This joint serve. That’s the difference between of the impoverished are those recent resolution is gambling on our financial future, posturing on our fiscal future, as this college graduates. All of the stars in if this amendment passes then we will fail to vote today does, and leading on our fis- the eyes and excited parents who’ve raise our nation’s debt limit and will allow our cal future. I urge my colleagues, let’s paid large amounts of dollars to ensure nation to default. vote down this empty resolution which that their young ones have an oppor- We should have learned a valuable lesson is a pretense, a pretend, a statement tunity for a college education, there from what happened the last time my col- that we don’t like debt. Nobody likes are no jobs. leagues on the other side of the aisle tried to the debt we’ve incurred, and everybody Now, I don’t concede to the fact that suggest that we should allow our nation to de- ought to join together in paying it the only initiative that should come fault. The stock market reacted immediately down. about should be from the government, and a well known credit company lowered our Ladies and gentlemen, this is an but we are the umbrella on a rainy day. nation’s credit rating. We need to maintain our issue of responsibility. It’s not easy. This is a small measure that the Presi- creditworthiness to meet the needs of the very It’s not always politically popular. dent has offered, a small, constructive people we have been sent here to serve. I am We’ve incurred a debt. It is our respon- measure, his jobs bill. It is balanced disappointed that my colleagues on the other sibility collectively, not as Repub- across the board. It provides relief for side of the aisle are more interested in playing licans or Democrats, but as Americans small businesses. It provides the jobs political games than creating jobs or improving to come together and pay down this that they will create. It gives incen- the economy. debt and not pretend that simply by tives to hire someone. It works with Attempting to prevent the President from defeating a resolution, or passing a res- our larger companies as well. And, of raising the debt ceiling to pay for the needs of olution of so-called disapproval—which course, it puts back to work what has the country and functions of the government is already a dead letter, and everybody been a devastating phenomenon in our will only lead us to the brink of another crisis. on your side of the aisle knows it’s a communities, taking away firefighters, This is a continued effort by my Republican dead letter because the Senate has al- police and teachers. You’re going to friends to ransom the American economy in ready voted. feel the pinch when your young chil- order to extort the American public. This is just a statement that I don’t dren are in classes that are 50 and 60 Instead of working toward a bipartisan job like debt. None of us like debt. Let’s persons. So this is realistic. creation bill, congressional Republicans are at- join together and reduce it as we did in It also addresses the question of the tempting to constrain the ability of Congress to the nineties. 46.2 million Americans who are living deal effectively with America’s economic, fis- Mr. REED. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased in poverty. As I indicated, a dispropor- cal, and job creation troubles. to yield 1 minute to the gentleman tionate share of those are children. There has been a consistent theme this from Texas (Mr. GOHMERT). So what we are doing today goes Congress of failing to bring forward measures Mr. GOHMERT. I just wanted to smack against what the people want, that will create jobs. My Republicans col- make sure the record was clear. and this is the people’s House. I am leagues have set the agenda. They seem fo- My dear friend from Maryland said concerned that we are not only being cused on cutting programs that benefit the there were those on this side who want- redundant, but we’re saying to the public and those in need, while making no ed to welsh on our debt, and that’s not world: smack us as irresponsible. We concrete attempt to focus on job creation and the case. The thing that we want to do have the money to pay our bills, but we economic recovery. This bill is wasting a tre- is stop incurring debt. We are all about want the word to go out: we are irre- mendous amount of time when we should be being good for the debt we incur. We sponsible. We’re not paying any bills. focused on paying our nation’s bills and re- don’t want to welsh on any agree- We’re not Greece, we’re not Spain, solving our differences. ments. I didn’t ask my friend for time, we’re not Italy. We are Americans, and In my district, the Texas 186, more than so my time is very limited. I just want- we have the know-it-all and the com- 190,000 people live below the poverty line. ed to correct the record. We’re not out mitment to be the greatest country. We must not, we cannot, at a time when the to welsh on anything. We’re here to I’ve never taken seriously the pun- Census Bureau places the number of Amer- say, let’s quit incurring debt. That’s dits about America’s decline; but it is a ican living in poverty at the highest rate in the whole point. decline if we get on the floor of the over 50 years, cut vital social services. Not in Mr. LEVIN. Mr. Speaker, I now yield House and ignore the needs of our the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and per- 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from brothers and sisters, ignore the needs sistent unemployment, when so many rely on Texas (Ms. JACKSON LEE). in the Northeast where there’s been a federal benefits to survive, like the Supple- Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. Mr. devastating hurricane, ignore those in mental Nutrition Access Program, SNAP, that Speaker, I think we have already set the Southwest where 1,400 homes have fed 3.9 million residents of Texas in April

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According to the ised to debt holders that were already agreed I believe, $31 billion over last year. 2010 Federal poverty threshold, determined by to by Presidents and Congresses, both past That’s a good step. That’s a step in the the US Census, a family of four is considered and present. right direction, but it’s only a small impoverished if they are living on less than This resolution is a petulant attempt to un- step when you realize that this year’s $22,314 per year. dermine President Obama. The bill itself says deficit is $1.3 trillion. So $31 billion is Children represent a disproportionate it is a joint resolution ‘‘relating to the dis- only a small step in the right direction. amount of the United States poor population. approval of the President’s exercise of author- So this would give us more time and In 2008, there were 15.45 million impover- ity to increase the debt limit’’. Exercise of au- seriousness of purpose to look at addi- ished children in the nation, 20.7% of Amer- thority. It does not say unlawful exercise of au- tional savings. ica’s youth. The Kaiser Family Foundation es- thority, or unconstitutional exercise of author- So with that prospect in mind, I timates that there are currently 5.6 million Tex- ity. The language of the bill itself makes it would urge my colleagues to support ans living in poverty, 2.2 million of them chil- clear the President has the authority to raise this resolution. Let’s slow down the dren, and that 17.4% of households in the the debt ceiling as indicated in the agreement adoption of an additional half trillion state struggle with food insecurity. reached on August 2. of debt. I urge support. Attempts to prevent President Obama from Passing this resolution will not decrease Mr. LEVIN. I yield myself the bal- raising the debt ceiling threaten our ability to spending; it will merely compromise our ability ance of my time. Very briefly, in one sense this is a keep paying for programs that benefit the least to pay for spending already authorized. This meaningless resolution. My guess is among us, and I for one, will not turn my back bill does nothing to reduce the deficit, or ad- that opinion makers in this country on the Americans who are the most in need dress the budget, it only risks our economic and I think abroad will consider it not of compassionate leadership and responsible standing and ability to pay our nation’s bills, meaningful, that it’s going through the governing. while simultaneously hurtling the nation toward motions. Threatening an increase in the debt ceiling another debt ceiling crisis. But there is a real danger here, and threatens our ability to pay for Medicare, Instead of spending time on resolutions de- that is what it says about the dynam- which guarantees a healthy and secure retire- signed to cast the President in a negative ics on the majority side. That’s the ment for Americans who have paid into it for light, it is time for this Congress to come to- worrisome thing. It isn’t that we would their entire working lives. Protecting Medicare gether, and pass meaningful legislation that slow things down. If this were to pass represents the basic values of fairness and re- will benefit the American people. In his ad- and become law, indeed, the ceiling spect for our seniors, including the 2.9 million dress to a joint session of Congress last would fall. We would go into default Texans who received Medicare in 2010. Thursday, President Obama gave this body a very soon. Yes, we must take steps to balance the great opportunity to achieve bipartisan, job And I guess what this resolution budget and reduce the national debt, but not creating legislation that will invest in small being allowed to be brought up says is at the expense of vital social programs. It is business, help families that have been strug- that there’s a feeling within majority unconscionable that in our nation of vast re- gling with chronic unemployment, assist vet- ranks that we have to let some bring sources, my Republican colleagues would erans in finding jobs, and invest in our infra- this up, and perhaps a lot who voted pass a budget that cuts funding for essential structure. ‘‘yes’’ now in essence vote ‘‘no’’ in social programs. Poverty impacts far too many It is time for a new sense of bipartisanship. order to bring some kind of peaceful Americans and social safety nets provide It is time for Congress to work together to ag- equilibrium within the ranks of the these individuals with vital assistance. gressively take on job creation. It is time to majority. Perhaps my friends on the other side of the end these divisive tactics and compromise to The problem is that we need to be aisle are content to conclude that life simply is encourage the rapid job growth the American able to reach across the aisle. Having not fair, equality is not accessible to everyone, people deserve. I urge my colleagues, Demo- set up a select committee, it says we and the less advantaged among us are con- crats and Republicans alike, to stand up and need to worry less about the dynamics demned to remain as they are, but I do not vote no on this partisan resolution; we can, within our caucus or conference and accept that. That kind of complacency is not and we must take this opportunity to declare more about reaching common ground. fitting for America. our intent to do what is right, face what is Prior to the existence of the debt ceiling, hard, and achieve what is great. b 1430 Congress had to approve borrowing each time Instead of attempting to embarrass the That’s why this exercise isn’t mean- the federal government wished to borrow President, I urge my friends on both sides of ingless. The danger is that it will be- money in order to carry out its functions. With the aisle to come together, and focus on pass- come very meaningful and that we will the onset of World War I, more flexibility was ing legislation that will help the American peo- become—this Congress—essentially needed to expand the government’s capability ple by improving the economy and creating handicapped, if not imprisoned, by the to borrow money expeditiously in order to jobs. Now is not the time for partisan malice, inability of the majority on this side to meet the rapidly changing requirements of now is not the time for H.J. Res 77; now is the step up to the plate and realize that in funding a major war in the modern era. time for this Congress to do all it can to usher order to solve our problems there needs To address this need, the first debt ceiling in a new age of American ingenuity and pros- to be a balanced instead of imbalanced was established in 1917, allowing the federal perity. H.J. Res. 77 is simply a way to engage approach; that we have to look at reve- government to borrow money to meet its obli- in past battles, and I am voting against it in nues as well as spending cuts. That’s gations without prior congressional approval, order to focus on the future. the significance of this being brought so long as in the aggregate, the amount bor- Mr. REED. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 up here. rowed did not eclipse a specified limit. minutes to the gentleman from Colo- I think all of us need to take another Since the debt limit was first put in place, rado (Mr. LAMBORN). look before we essentially change our Congress has increased it over 100 times; in Mr. LAMBORN. Mr. Speaker, I thank votes. And, essentially, it would mean fact, it was raised 10 times within the past the gentleman from the great State of ‘‘signaling.’’ It will be still more dif- decade, and last month, we were able to ne- New York, Representative REED, for ficult than the present perilous path to gotiate another compromise, and keep the recognizing me, but most of all for make meaningful our effort to move country from default. I urge my colleagues not bringing this resolution. I support it, ahead in this country to address the to undermine the agreement that was reached and I urge everyone here to support it. job needs in this country, and yes, to by attempting to block the President’s ability to As you may remember, it was a two- address the deficit, but mainly or es- raise the debt ceiling. step process when the debt ceiling was sentially to get our economy growing Once again, the American economy hangs increased: an initial $400 billion imme- again. If we don’t send that right sig- in the balance as the act of the President rais- diately to avert the possibility of a de- nal here today, and send the wrong sig- ing the debt ceiling becomes an irrelevant fault. That has been done. But an addi- nal, I’m afraid this vote will become spending debate that is as unnecessary as it tional $500 billion will not go out if this too meaningful.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:59 Sep 15, 2011 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00026 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A14SE7.012 H14SEPT1 mstockstill on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE September 14, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H6167 I strongly urge that people vote decision by the President to raise the debt Capito Hunter Platts Carter Hurt Poe (TX) ‘‘no.’’ I strongly urge on the Repub- ceiling was not one made in haste or taken Cassidy Issa Pompeo lican side that those who stepped up to lightly, but rather it is one that absolutely must Chabot Jenkins Posey the plate last time, step up to the plate be made. The consequences of not acting are Chaffetz Johnson (IL) Price (GA) this time and not duck for what is es- so grave that we could not let it be an option Coble Johnson (OH) Quayle Coffman (CO) Johnson, Sam Reed sentially an internal political dynamic. as it would do great irreparable damage to our Cole Jones Rehberg The dynamics of this country in terms economy. We played with fire last month, and Conaway Jordan Reichert of jobs and job growth, those dynamics although we ultimately approved an increase, Cravaack Kelly Rigell are too essential for partisan internal Crawford King (IA) Rivera we spooked world markets and caused an un- Crenshaw King (NY) Roby politics to reign supreme on this floor precedented downgrading of our country’s Culberson Kingston Roe (TN) at this time. heretofore sterling credit rating. In brief, we Davis (KY) Kinzinger (IL) Rogers (AL) I yield back the balance of my time. must raise the debt ceiling to prevent a default Denham Kissell Rogers (KY) Mr. REED. Mr. Speaker, I yield my- Dent Kline Rogers (MI) on our Nation’s obligations, avert an inter- DesJarlais Labrador Rohrabacher self the balance of my time. national economic crisis, and prevent further Diaz-Balart Lamborn Rokita I truly appreciate the sentiments of harm from being visited upon middle class Dold Lance Rooney my colleague from Michigan, and I Duffy Landry Ros-Lehtinen families. Duncan (SC) Lankford Roskam truly appreciate the debate that we’ve My colleagues have failed to recognize the Duncan (TN) Latham Ross (FL) had today on this resolution. damage their political posturing is doing to our Ellmers LaTourette Royce It is time that we come together. As economy. We have wasted plenty of floor time Emerson Latta Runyan a member of the freshman class that’s Farenthold Lewis (CA) Ryan (WI) on theater, and in the meantime have let our Fincher LoBiondo Scalise come to Washington, DC, I can tell you Nation dangle on the precipice of default. In- Fitzpatrick Long Schilling it is not a group of radical extremists, stead of rehashing old arguments and playing Flake Lucas Schmidt but men and women who have left their the same political blame games, we should Fleischmann Luetkemeyer Schock families, who have left their busi- Fleming Lummis Schweikert come together and focus on the main problem Flores Lungren, Daniel Scott (SC) nesses, and have come down here to facing Americans today: jobs. When I was Forbes E. Scott, Austin Washington, DC to accomplish what back home in Michigan during the August re- Fortenberry Mack Sensenbrenner needs to be accomplished, that is, to Foxx Manzullo Sessions cess, I heard firsthand from my constituents Franks (AZ) Marchant Shimkus get the fiscal house of Washington in about the urgent need to create jobs, regen- Frelinghuysen Matheson Shuster order; it is to have the ability and skill erate our economy, and get America going Gallegly McCarthy (CA) Simpson to deal with the economy and put peo- again. People across our Nation are hurting Gardner McCaul Smith (NE) ple back to work. Garrett McClintock Smith (NJ) and are sick of the inaction in Washington. Gerlach McCotter Smith (TX) We have the energy, we have the de- President Obama should be commended for Gibbs McHenry Southerland sire to reignite this country so that taking the initiative on this important issue by Gibson McIntyre Stearns generations of our children and grand- Gohmert McKeon Stivers unveiling the American Jobs Act. While we Goodlatte McKinley Stutzman children will be able to enjoy the bene- may disagree on the specifics of his proposal, Gosar McMorris Sullivan fits that we have all benefited from. We it should be considered on merit alone and Gowdy Rodgers Terry come here sincerely to reach across the Congress should come together to reach con- Granger Meehan Thompson (PA) aisle to have an open and honest dia- Graves (GA) Mica Thornberry sensus on what can be done to improve the Graves (MO) Miller (FL) Tiberi logue with each and every one of the economy. Resolutions such as this one are Griffin (AR) Miller (MI) Tipton Members of this House, and that is why nothing but a distraction from this important Griffith (VA) Miller, Gary Turner this debate is such a positive thing, in Guinta Mulvaney Upton mission, which is why I am voting against it Guthrie Murphy (PA) Walberg my mind. Because we are now starting today. Hall Myrick Walden down the path of recognizing that the The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time Hanna Neugebauer Webster debt has to be dealt with once and for for debate has expired. Harper Noem West all, but at the same time we must work Harris Nugent Westmoreland Pursuant to the statute, the previous Hartzler Nunes Whitfield together to heal our country, to re- question is ordered. Hastings (WA) Nunnelee Wilson (SC) ignite our country’s economy so that The question is on the engrossment Hayworth Olson Wittman people can afford the American Dream Heck Palazzo Wolf and third reading of the joint resolu- Hensarling Paul Womack that they so deserve and as each and tion. Herger Paulsen Woodall every one of us has always benefited The joint resolution was ordered to Herrera Beutler Pearce Yoder Huelskamp Pence Young (AK) from. be engrossed and read a third time, and So I come here this afternoon and Huizenga (MI) Petri Young (FL) was read the third time. Hultgren Pitts Young (IN) offer this resolution to send a message The SPEAKER pro tempore. The to the President, to the world, to my question is on the passage of the joint NOES—186 colleagues on the other side of the aisle resolution. Ackerman Clarke (NY) Farr that we cannot take our eye off the The question was taken; and the Andrews Clay Fattah ball. We have to do all things. Because Baca Cleaver Filner Speaker pro tempore announced that we are in a historic time when the Baldwin Clyburn Frank (MA) the ayes appeared to have it. Barrow Cohen Fudge issues we face can no longer be pushed Bass (CA) Connolly (VA) RECORDED VOTE Garamendi down the road. It is now time to lead. Becerra Conyers Gingrey (GA) It is now time to come together and Mr. LEVIN. Mr. Speaker, I demand a Berkley Cooper Gonzalez act for this great Nation, the United recorded vote. Berman Costa Green, Al A recorded vote was ordered. Bilbray Costello Green, Gene States of America. Bishop (GA) Courtney Grijalva The vote was taken by electronic de- Bishop (NY) Critz In this vote, I urge all my colleagues Gutierrez Blumenauer Crowley to support the passage of this resolu- vice, and there were—ayes 232, noes 186, Hahn Boren Cuellar answered ‘‘present’’ 2, not voting 11, as Hanabusa tion to send that message that we will Boswell Cummings deal with the debt, we will deal with follows: Brady (PA) Davis (CA) Hastings (FL) the economy, we will deal with the [Roll No. 706] Braley (IA) Davis (IL) Heinrich Brown (FL) DeFazio Higgins jobs, and we will create an environ- AYES—232 Buchanan DeGette Himes ment upon which the private sector Adams Benishek Brooks Butterfield DeLauro Hinchey will blossom again and people will ben- Aderholt Berg Broun (GA) Capps Dicks Hinojosa efit for generations to come. Akin Biggert Bucshon Cardoza Dingell Hirono Alexander Bilirakis Buerkle Carnahan Doggett Hochul Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance Altmire Bishop (UT) Burgess Carney Donnelly (IN) Holden of my time. Amash Black Burton (IN) Carson (IN) Doyle Holt Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong Austria Blackburn Calvert Castor (FL) Dreier Honda opposition to H.J. Res. 77, a resolution dis- Bachus Bonner Camp Chandler Edwards Hoyer Bartlett Bono Mack Campbell Chu Ellison Inslee approving of President Obama’s exercise of Barton (TX) Boustany Canseco Cicilline Engel Israel authority to increase the debt limit. The recent Bass (NH) Brady (TX) Cantor Clarke (MI) Eshoo Jackson (IL)

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Madam Speaker, I Kucinich Payne Fortunately, last week, the President Shuler rise today to honor the Cumberland Langevin Pelosi Sires of the United States came before this Larsen (WA) Perlmutter American Little League team from my Larson (CT) Peters Slaughter home State of Rhode Island. Cum- Congress, stood there where the Speak- Lee (CA) Peterson Smith (WA) er is now standing, and presented to Speier berland American reached its first Lit- Levin Pingree (ME) tle League World Series after winning the American people an answer to the Lipinski Polis Stark question that all of us heard during the Loebsack Price (NC) Sutton the New England Regional Champion- Lofgren, Zoe Quigley Thompson (CA) ship. It was one of 16 teams out of 6,800 recess. And he said: We can and we will Lowey Rahall Thompson (MS) Little League All-Star teams that put Americans back to work when Con- Luja´ n Rangel Tierney made it to the World Series in Wil- gress acts on this jobs act. Lynch Renacci Tonko The American Jobs Act is now before Maloney Reyes Tsongas liamsport, Pennsylvania. Markey Richardson Van Hollen Congratulations to Cumberland the United States Congress and the Matsui Richmond Vela´ zquez American for working so hard and for United States Senate, and it’s time for McCarthy (NY) Ross (AR) Visclosky showing such great sportsmanship in us to act so that Americans can go McCollum Rothman (NJ) Walz (MN) back to work. McDermott Roybal-Allard Wasserman the World Series. In my record book, McGovern Some say we could delay until after Ruppersberger Schultz Cumberland American is a champion, McNerney Rush Waters the next election. It will be 17 Meeks Ryan (OH) not because it drove in the most runs Watt months—just short of a year and a Michaud Sa´ nchez, Linda or caught the most fly balls, but be- Miller (NC) T. Waxman half—before the next Congress will be Welch cause of the dedication and respect and Miller, George Sanchez, Loretta sportsmanship they showed while play- in session and we will be able to pass Moore Sarbanes Wilson (FL) legislation. There is not an unem- Moran Schakowsky Woolsey ing this great game. Little League baseball is more than a ployed American in this Nation that ANSWERED ‘‘PRESENT’’—2 game. It’s an enrichment activity that can or wants to wait 17 months to get Ribble Walsh (IL) fosters community spirit and helps a job. We have the opportunity today NOT VOTING—11 young people develop critical skills. to put Americans back to work with the American Jobs Act. Bachmann Giffords Nadler The coaches, sponsors, Little League Barletta Grimm Towns officials, and parents who cheered from The American Jobs Act works. It Capuano Lewis (GA) Yarmuth the stands all played valuable roles in works. Americans can immediately go Deutch Marino making Cumberland American a suc- back to work as soon as that legisla- cess and providing a safe and nurturing tion is passed by this House and the b 1502 environment for these young people to Senate and put on the President’s desk. Mr. DREIER changed his vote from grow. This afternoon, we’re going to take ‘‘aye’’ to ‘‘no.’’ Thank you to all who made this pos- maybe an hour with my colleagues to Messrs. ROGERS of Alabama, GOOD- sible. Again, my congratulations to talk about various parts of the Amer- LATTE, WHITFIELD, ALEXANDER, each of our Cumberland American Lit- ican Jobs Act, and we’re going to start and Ms. HERRERA BEUTLER changed tle League Baseball players. right now with the Representative from Illinois. their vote from ‘‘no’’ to ‘‘aye.’’ CUMBERLAND, RHODE ISLAND AMERICAN JAN, if you would join us, you talked So the joint resolution was passed. LITTLE LEAGUE TEAM ROSTER earlier about this very eloquently on The result of the vote was announced Players: Jacob Glod; Austin Cabral; Ste- as above recorded. phen Dugas; Max Hanuschak; Cam Rosa; the steps of the Capitol. Please share Stated for: Connor Lavallee; Chris Wright; Connor with us. Mr. GRIMM. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. Mastin; James Belisle; Thomas Faltus; Matt b 1510 706, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been Murphy; Colin Cannata; Ryan McCormick. Coaches: Dave Belisle; Chris Gold; Matt Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Let me add a present, I would have voted ‘‘aye.’’ Wright. personal twist to all of this about jobs. f When I grew up in Chicago—I was the f daughter of a furniture salesman and a AMERICAN JOBS ACT Chicago public schoolteacher—the HOUR OF MEETING ON TOMORROW The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. American Dream was alive and well. Mr. SCALISE. Mr. Speaker, I ask WEST). Under the Speaker’s announced On my dad’s modest income, we could unanimous consent that when the policy of January 5, 2011, the gen- afford a little house in a quiet, middle House adjourns today, it adjourn to tleman from California (Mr. class neighborhood. meet at 9 a.m. tomorrow. GARAMENDI) is recognized for 60 min- Back then, a man could work in the The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there utes as the designee of the minority steel mills on Chicago’s South Side— objection to the request of the gen- leader. one good union job with family health tleman from Louisiana? Mr. GARAMENDI. Mr. Speaker, I care benefits and a decent pension—and There was no objection. suspect that all of us, all 435 of us, really live a middle class life. The fam- went back to our districts during the ily could own a home and buy a car and August recess. Now, I would suspect even send the kids to college. That was f that most every Member of this House the 1950s, and anything seemed possible heard what I heard. I suspect that all if you were willing to work hard. In- REMOVAL OF NAME OF MEMBER of us who were listening heard the comes were going up for everyone. In- AS COSPONSOR OF H.R. 2881 same message: When can I go back to come inequality was shrinking, and Mr. WEST. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani- work? When will there be a job for me? Americans were experiencing the mous consent for Representative HAS- I’m going to lose my house because I greatest growth in living standards in TINGS of Washington to be removed as lost my job. I can’t afford to put my history. For most working families, a cosponsor of H.R. 2881 and be replaced kids through school. You guys have got that American Dream was in reach, with Representative HASTINGS of Flor- to get the job engine working once and that was the normal. ida. again. You’ve got to get Americans But today, after decades of attacks The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there back to work. on organized labor, the passage of tax objection to the request of the gen- Well, we are back here at work, and policies that favor wealthy individuals tleman from Florida? we’re probably at the 257th day of this and corporations, the growing dis- There was no objection. Congress, and yet the Republican ma- parity of income, the squandering of a

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:59 Sep 15, 2011 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00028 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A14SE7.005 H14SEPT1 mstockstill on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE September 14, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H6169 budget surplus, and the turning of a Mr. GARAMENDI. I thank the gen- I know we were talking earlier about blind eye to Wall Street greed and tlelady from Illinois who speaks so elo- some of your favorite subjects. I be- recklessness, that dream is drowning in quently on this. lieve it was infrastructure. So please, if a sea of joblessness. I feel like the Re- As you were talking about the you will, DONNA, join us in this con- publicans are pushing this as the new schools, 44 percent of the principals versation. normal: that the rich get richer and across this Nation say clearly that Ms. EDWARDS. I want to thank the the rest of the country gets poorer. their schools are not up to the standard gentleman because I think that we’ve Fortunately, our President, President that they want to have their own chil- received some rather sobering news Barack Obama, has made it perfectly dren in. In the classrooms, paint on the about the state of America and the clear that we are not helpless in the walls is falling off and bathrooms are state of American workers—the state face of our daunting but man-made inadequate, playgrounds and the like. of Americans. economic challenges, and he has pro- There are 35,000 schools across this It is that here we are at a time when posed a jobs bill that will immediately country that can be repaired, that can we’ve reached the highest poverty improve people’s lives and jump-start be rebuilt—new classrooms, science rates in 52 years in this country, where the economy. classrooms, upgrading the Internet sys- median incomes are down lower than The answer to this jobs crisis is sur- tems in these schools, and the play- they’ve been in a generation—7 percent prisingly simple. If you want to create grounds. All of that is possible. less, in fact, than what median incomes jobs, then create jobs, good jobs—jobs How correct you are when you say were even in 1999—where nearly a third that can provide people with a middle there are men and women out there of African American families in this class life, that can rebuild our middle who are ready to do that work. These country live in poverty, where millions class, jobs like the 35,000 schools that are a lot of jobs. This isn’t heavy upon millions of children in this coun- under the President’s bill will be re- equipment work. This is heavy ‘‘person try go to bed hungry because they live paired. power’’ work. Let’s put these people to in poverty, because their families— There are children all over this coun- work. their parents—don’t have a chance for try right now who are sitting in class- Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. May I say one a job and an opportunity. rooms where the ceilings are crum- more thing about it? I think that that should be sobering bling, that have dangerous asbestos in Mr. GARAMENDI. Please. Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. These are jobs news for us, not as Democrats and Re- them, that are leaking energy, that publicans; it should be sobering news don’t have the wiring for the new tech- that can be created right away. I’m from the Midwest, so we actually have for us as Americans. That’s why, when nologies that our children need to suc- a construction season; but for fixing I heard President Obama in this House ceed in this world and to get those 21st schools, you can do that around the speaking to the American people about century jobs. We don’t have the kind of year, around the calendar. We can put the need to create jobs right now, I schools and classrooms in which our these people to work within a few know what I heard was a message that children are going to be able to com- months. They can be on the job, earn- said: I suppose with the politics we pete in this 21st century world. At the ing money. This is such a sensible pro- could politic this out for 14 months, same time, we have hundreds and thou- gram. that we could fight amongst ourselves sands of construction workers and elec- Mr. GARAMENDI. Actually, in dis- as Democrats and Republicans for 14 tricians and boilermakers and mainte- cussing this with the administration, months, that we could in the political nance workers who are jobless right the day the bill is signed, the schools arena just raise millions and millions now, who are sitting home, unem- can begin the work because the admin- of dollars to run campaign ads and ployed, who are more than willing to istrative process is very straight- make annoying phone calls to people roll up their sleeves and give our forward. This is a very, very important across this country for 14 months—or schoolchildren the kind of classrooms one. We’re talking 35,000 schools, per- we could take a different path. that they deserve. haps several hundred thousand or a b 1520 So here we have a tremendous need, couple hundred thousand men and and we have the people who can answer women going to work immediately to We could take a path that’s really that need. Not only will they be back repair our schools. Wouldn’t that give about creating jobs and opportunities to work, but it will jump-start our us community pride? My school is get- for people who are living in poverty, economy and be good for everyone. It is ting repaired. It’s getting a paint job. for Americans who want to work right not rocket science. We can do this, and The toilets are getting fixed and the now. we need to do it now. As the President classroom, the science classroom. I had a really interesting experience said, the election isn’t until 14 months This is community pride. This is for me over the break that the Con- from now. The Republicans seem to American pride in our most basic of in- gress had. I visited the new Martin Lu- want to adjudicate this issue at that vestments—the investment in our chil- ther King, Jr., memorial with my time, but this isn’t about politics. This dren. mother—my mother, who was born at is about all those families who simply Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. The sign you the beginning of the Depression, my want a job. They don’t want to be re- have there says that poor conditions of mother, who lived in a community in ceiving unemployment benefits. As a their schools interfere with students’ North Carolina where she would visit matter of fact, they want to pay taxes. learning. So we are also depriving our the local town and had segregated If we want to reduce the deficit, jobs children of that sense of pride that will water fountains, where people really are the answer once again. Jobs equal motivate them to be good students, to struggled. They were farmers who deficit reduction. That’s why we can’t learn, to be ready to take over in this struggled greatly to put food on the wait to pass this American Jobs Act. 21st century job market. table. We need to enlist the help of all Ameri- Mr. GARAMENDI. One of my favorite On the way to the Martin Luther cans to call their Members of Congress, subjects is Making It In America. The King, Jr., memorial, we passed the me- Republicans and Democrats—I’m talk- way the legislation is written, when morial to FDR. I saw there the statues ing about the people out there regard- that gallon of paint, when that heat- representing people who were standing less of party—to say, ‘‘We need to pass ing/air-conditioning system or the in employment lines and in food lines, this right now.’’ This is the way that playground equipment is brought to and I saw the words of that wonderful we can get back to what the normal the school, it’s going to be made in President who recognized that he had was when I was growing up, when there America. It’s going to be made in to get beyond the politics to a point was opportunity. People lived a middle America because the legislation that where we were creating jobs, not just class life. Instead, we’re watching that the President brought to us says that meaningless jobs, but jobs that were middle class disappear and that Amer- the money will be used to buy equip- about rebuilding the Nation’s infra- ican Dream slip through our fingers. ment made in America. structure, that were about putting peo- The economy needs to be revived. The I notice that our colleague from ple to work so that they could put food President has the answer. We need to Maryland, DONNA EDWARDS, has joined on their tables so that they could make do it now. us. a contribution to this country.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:59 Sep 15, 2011 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00029 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K14SE7.057 H14SEPT1 mstockstill on DSK6TPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H6170 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE September 14, 2011 So as I walked, as we walked from are not engaged in rebuilding all of our for three of us and our staffs here and the FDR memorial over to the Martin infrastructure that was decades in the the desk crew, were to act tomorrow on Luther King, Jr., memorial, I said to making from FDR and beyond and is the legislation that the President has myself that the United States right now falling apart. brought before us—it’s in proper form; now, in this time of great need, with 14 I owe that to my mother and my it’s before us—we could take it up, and million people unemployed, that we grandmother and my grandfather for these people, all that you talked about, need an FDR moment, that the Amer- the generation that did all of that for could be at work in the next couple of ican people need an FDR moment and us. We owe it to them not to allow it to weeks. That’s the possibility. that that moment has to be about cre- fall apart. Ms. EDWARDS, thank you so much for ating jobs for people right here in So I say, yes, let’s pass the American joining us and for your eloquence and America, for rebuilding our manufac- Jobs Act now. for your determination to make this turing sector, for investing in research Mr. GARAMENDI. Representative happen. and development and innovation and EDWARDS, thank you so very much for Our friend from Tennessee (Mr. creativity, for taking those 150,000 your compassion and passion for these COHEN) has joined us. Please share with bridges across this country that are issues. Bringing FDR, the monument, us your thoughts from middle America. and Martin Luther King together falling apart. b 1530 And I know when I drive over a around this set of issues is really im- bridge, I don’t say, Is this a Republican portant. Mr. COHEN. Thank you, and I appre- bridge or is this a Democratic bridge? This is the worst economy since the ciate your leading this hour. What I say is, Is this a bridge that I Great Depression, and I remember on Just last week, the President stood can get my car over that waterway one of those plaques at the FDR memo- just behind where you’re standing and safely? And when I look at that bridge rial—and I may get this wrong a little addressed this Congress—bipartisan, bi- and I see the steel beams, I know that bit—but he said, we measure our cameral, Senators and House Mem- those are steel beams manufactured by progress not by those who have much bers—and laid out a plan to fix this people right here in the United States. could have more, but by those who economy. Pass this bill, he said. And When I look at the asphalt and the have little have enough. He had the we need to pass the bill. The President cement that covers that bridge, I see compassion. and his team have put a lot of work work that took place right here in the Last week, the President brought to into it. People want jobs. They want to United States. When I look at those us an answer to the compelling ques- work. bridges and these 150,000 bridges all tion that we hear—what are you going In my district, there are more unem- across the country that need to be re- to do about jobs?—the American Jobs ployed. Every weekend when I go out built by hardworking Americans, what Act. in my district, people come up to me I see are the light posts up by the You spoke so eloquently about the and tell me they are either looking for bridge with the electricity running infrastructure—the streets, the a job, have lost their job and are look- through them or the solar panels on bridges, the schools—and that 2 million ing for a job. We need to find ways to them that are put there and built there construction workers are out of jobs. put those people to work. We are work- by American workers. The President has proposed a $50 bil- ing on ways to make schools better. So when the President says to pass lion immediate infusion of money into Building infrastructure which is so im- the American Jobs Act right away, the America’s infrastructure—into our portant to Memphis, Tennessee, where reason he is saying that is because roads, our bridges, our water systems, we have rails, roads, rivers, and run- those are jobs right now for hard- our airports. There is $50 billion avail- ways, the distribution center of Amer- working Americans who actually want able this year to put Americans back ica, is so important. And if you put the to work hard, building things in this to work. money in infrastructure, which this country, rebuilding all of our infra- It’s not just the construction workers plan plans on, Make It In America, if structure, our bridges, our roadways, that will have those jobs, because these you do infrastructure, it’s got to be our water and sewer systems that are people will be able to keep their homes. made in America. You can’t export falling apart. They want to do this. They will be able to buy their food; those jobs overseas, and you put people I think it’s really incumbent on us to they will be able to bring that money to work immediately. What they are do it, and I think that the American back into their economy with what is building are avenues that make com- people ought to hold each and every called the multiplier effect. And so merce move and work. one of us to account for failing to do it. that $50 billion may run through the Federal Express moves more pack- I note, as Mr. GARAMENDI is showing economy three times, two and a half ages around the world than any other here and that we will see, that nearly 2 times, so that instead of 2 million, American company, and Memphis million construction workers across maybe it will be 3 million that will get International Airport is the largest this country are unemployed. When our their jobs. American cargo airport in the world. colleague, JAN SCHAKOWSKY from Illi- I know that you want to add to this, We create jobs by putting money into nois, talks about the 35,000 schools that Ms. EDWARDS. infrastructure. Teachers, policemen, need to be reconstructed for the 21st Ms. EDWARDS. Thank you for that. and firefighters, 3 million kept their century so that our young people can I just want to remind our colleagues jobs because of the recovery bill that learn in a 21st-century learning envi- that for every $1 billion, $1 billion that we passed that did successfully help ronment, it is not just because it feels we invest in repairing the Nation’s in- this country stay out of a great depres- good but because it will make a dif- frastructure, we create 35,000 jobs: $1 sion. ference to our own competitiveness for billion, 35,000 jobs. Sometimes, Mr. GARAMENDI, I’m the 21st century. What I know is that So the multiplier effect is really tre- amazed at the rhetoric that you hear those are those 2 million construction mendous. It is the construction worker from some people, particularly from workers who are unemployed across on the site, but it’s also the canteen the other side, who blithely tell people this country who can do that work in truck that drives up—that’s the small that the American Recovery and Rein- our schools, in their communities. business person at that site. It’s the en- vestment Act was $770 billion that So I think that this is a real impera- gineers and all of the technicians who didn’t make a difference. The fact is tive, and I would just urge our col- develop that amazing engineering for that 40 percent of the American Recov- leagues to look beyond the D and an R these construction sites. It’s the archi- ery and Reinvestment Act, so as to and look to a job for the American peo- tects who are designing a revamped pass the Senate where we needed Sen- ple who are asking us to do this for school in a neighborhood to educate ator COLLINS’ and Senator SNOWE’s them, but also to do this for us. I don’t our children to compete in the 21st cen- votes, were the Republican endorsed know how it is that we survive in a tury. So $1 billion equals 35,000 jobs. and loved tax cuts. How can they talk global economy when we are not pro- Mr. GARAMENDI. There you have it. out of both sides of their mouth and ducing anything, when we are not put- That’s when we have the opportunity if say that a bill, 40 percent of which— ting our people back to work, when we we act now. If this Chamber, empty but which means over $300 billion of tax

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That was strictly Congress and the Senate, and we have duced expenses, taxes, to that com- Democrats. But when we passed tax an opportunity for a better deal for pany. That means that they can im- cuts with a few Republicans in the Sen- America. It’s an investment in Amer- prove the warehouse. That means they ate, in their minds, it didn’t create any ica. We talked about the infrastruc- can expand or hire more workers. This jobs. But when they propose tax cuts, ture. That’s an investment that will is in the President’s American jobs pro- this is Christopher Columbus’ new way last for 50 to 100 years because it’s in gram specifically for small businesses. to find the New World. Well, it’s hypo- the ground. It’s the roads, the sanita- Listen up, America. Listen up busi- critical. tion system. It’s also a critical invest- nesses out there. There is an oppor- We need to support our President be- ment in tomorrow’s workers, in our tunity here for you to immediately ex- cause he is the President. There isn’t a children. pand your business, reduce your pay- red America and a blue America. There The American Jobs Act has money roll taxes, hire new workers, bringing a is, as he said in his speech at the 2004 for 280,000 teachers; 280,000 teachers new worker on that has been on long- Democratic Convention, the United will be able to stay on the job. Right term unemployment and paying no States of America. People need to un- now in California, teachers are getting payroll taxes for the next year. This is derstand that. We need to be here for laid off as they are in most other very, very important and very big, and that red, white, and blue flag, for this States of this Nation. That means that it is immediately available as soon as country, to put this country back to classroom sizes are going up, and the the leadership, the Republican leader- work, to keep it as the most competi- educational opportunity for our chil- ship in this House, brings the American tive country in the world so we don’t dren is diminishing. We have no more jobs bill to the floor. fall behind China and India in engi- important investment. Roads are im- Mr. COHEN, if you would like to carry neering and science, and coming up portant and bridges are important, but on here, I know you have some more with programs that give our children the most important investment in any thoughts. an opportunity to be able to fill the society, in any economy is the invest- jobs of the 21st century—the green jobs b 1540 ment in education, in the children, in that the President has proposed that tomorrow’s workforce. 280,000 teachers Mr. COHEN. Well, just the whole are the jobs of the 21st century, and the will be able to stay in the classroom. prospect. Jobs are so important. I was technology jobs that we haven’t done a This money flows directly to the school thinking back about Stiglitz. I think good enough job in filling, giving you were there at the caucus. He and money to colleges to do the research districts, not a big administrative task at all but one that goes there directly. Krugman say the same thing, that for industry to create jobs. there’s several ways you can get your- In our caucus yesterday, we had Jo- Small businesses. Our Republican colleagues love to talk about small self out of this deficit. He went back seph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winning into a little bit of history about how economist. I read Krugman a lot, a businesses, and they say, correctly, most jobs are created by small busi- during the Clinton years we had a big Nobel Prize winning economist. Both deficit from the Reagan-Bush years and say basically the same thing: The aus- nesses. That’s true. That’s accurate. Sixty-four percent of the new jobs over that President Clinton, with a bill that terity programs proposed by the other was passed in this Congress with all side don’t work. They’ve used them in the past 15 years were created by small Democrat votes in about 1994, I think, Japan; didn’t work. Greece, England, businesses. But what are they doing for put us on a road to balance the budget, didn’t work—unless you’re in the upper small businesses? Cutting the con- and got us a surplus. It got us a surplus 1 percent. If you wear a crown and tracts that the small businesses depend by the time President Clinton left of- you’re the queen or the prince or the upon as they push an austerity budget. fice. leaders of whatever, it works. But in The American Jobs Act takes a dif- Stiglitz said, which is so true—it’s a this country, we don’t have that kind ferent path. It tells small businesses: factoid—the surplus was lost because of of royalty, but we’re starting to have a You get an immediate tax break; 3.1 two wars, one of which was a volunteer separate society with the upper 1 per- percent of your payroll tax will be war, not related to 9/11—Iraq—and Af- cent who the Republican Party won’t eliminated in the next year. That’s a ghanistan, that were both passed raise their taxes no matter what, and lot of money, and I’ll explain how through these Congresses, which were the rest. much it is. In addition to that, if you The President is right. We need to hire a long-term unemployed worker, Republican-controlled, Republican think about the whole country. We your entire payroll tax will disappear. Congresses, without being funded. Then need to come together as a United Let me tell you what that means. the Bush tax cuts giving the wealthiest States of America, not a red, a blue, a Let’s take a warehouse. people the largest tax cuts and contrib- Democrat or Republican, and create You’ve got warehouses in your dis- uting to the largest disparity in wealth jobs. The President’s plan, over half of trict? that we’ve ever had in this Nation. it, is tax cuts. Mr. COHEN. We’ve got lots of ware- Now, the wealthy can only spend so Our colleagues on the other side of houses. They’re full of goods ready to much. There are only so many Chanel the aisle say we can go for what we go on Federal Express planes and serv- purses a woman can buy. There are like there even though they said it ice the rest of this Nation. It all starts only so many Rolex watches a guy can didn’t work when the President and the in Memphis, Tennessee, and goes out have, but we are losing a middle class. Democrats passed it in the Recovery from there. Then we put all this wealth through Act, but they can’t go for the infra- Mr. GARAMENDI. I thought they these tax cuts on the richest, making structure jobs that, of course, help might have some of that Tennessee their tax rates the lowest since the businesses—trucking businesses, the whiskey in them. Some of that, too? 1950s, and then extended it for 2 years, airline industry, and the transpor- Mr. COHEN. Some of that, too. the inheritance tax, to where the tation industry. Automobiles and Mr. GARAMENDI. So a warehouse wealthy get to keep more and more in trucks have to have highways. So we with a payroll last year of $7 million perpetuity. need to pass this. that this year hires 40 new workers, it The middle class is disappearing in I support the President. I took an would add $2 million to its payroll. It this country. Jobs are being shipped oath to do what I could to make this would get a full refund of the 6.2 per- overseas. Taxes stay high on them. country better. We need to come to- cent payroll taxes paid on the $2 mil- They’re living paycheck to paycheck. gether now because this is a crisis lion of payroll. How much is that? They’ve got their children in school. time. That’s $124,000 that goes immediately Pell Grants are in danger. They almost

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It’s an economy to service people who are district—and people can’t get along right in San Francisco, just outside my making goods and services. You’ve got without having a job. district. The San Francisco Bay to have a customer. We’re losing the Mr. GARAMENDI. Exactly right. Bridge, a multibillion-dollar rebuilding customer base. Twenty-two million children living in of the Bay Bridge because it falls down We can ship all the jobs we want off poverty, not knowing where their next in an earthquake. It did once. We don’t to Southeast Asia and China, where meal is going to come from. At the want it to happen again. Multibillion they don’t pay any salaries and don’t same time, they’re cutting the food dollars. To save 10 percent, the con- give any benefits; but those people programs. tract went to Chinese steel companies. aren’t our market, and if our people This is our program. This is the All of the steel manufacturing in that can’t buy goods, then we’re not going President’s program. Every one of the bridge comes from China. Thousands of to have any manufacturing base and things that is in the American Jobs jobs in China. And to make things the opportunity to make it in America. Act is here. Taxes. There are tax worse, the inspectors were over there, So we’ve got to build up the middle breaks for businesses. And this entire and they didn’t do a good job. Beyond class. We’ve got to produce jobs, and program is paid for by ending the give- that, when the bridge parts came over we’ve got to see to it that the middle away of our tax money to the oil com- here, Chinese workers came with the class is given priority and not the rich- panies. That’s $4 billion a year—$40 bil- bridge. No more of that. We’re going to est 1 percent. lion over the next decade—of our tax make it in America. The President’s plan, which is so money going to support the oil indus- I’ve got a bill in—others are working great, is it’s all paid for. It’s paid for. try, the wealthiest industry in this on this—and that is, if it’s American But paid for by a tax that’s appropriate world. taxpayer money, by God, it’s going to for the people who can afford it. Mr. COHEN. How about the hedge be used to buy American taxpayer Tell us how we can deal with that fund guys? There’s another Steve goods and services. We can do this, and and keep this as a paid-for program. Cohen. There’s the one in New York the first step is the American Jobs Act. Mr. GARAMENDI. I’ve been kind of that’s got all the money, the hedge Mr. COHEN. You mention on there— shuffling the boards down here because fund guy, billions and billions of dol- I looked at your chart—education. Part you went through several subjects lars. of the American Jobs Act is to rebuild along the way, and each one is so ter- What does he pay on his income? our schools and to go to work and ribly important and pertinent to the Mr. GARAMENDI. Well, he pays 15 make them structurally sound and also issue. But I think I can wrap it all up percent. Somehow or another they got energy efficient. When you look at in this, and that is, America lost about into the law. The hedge fund folks that labor, it’s work. The labor movement 50 percent of its manufacturing jobs in are making hundreds of millions of dol- has been attacked all over this coun- the last 20, 25 years. We went from 20 lars a year—in some cases, billions— try, and it’s labor who’s created the million, 21 million manufacturing jobs are paying 15 percent on their income. middle class and seen to it they got to just over 10 million today, but we Now they’ve got it classified as capital good jobs and opportunities and wages can once again rebuild the American gains when, in fact, it’s their labor. and benefits. manufacturing sector. That’s where That is, it’s their work. As you and I In my community, we just had a gro- the middle class jobs are. are working here and as people are cery store taken over by a large na- You had talked about tax policy, working in the manufacturing plants, tional grocery store. A grocery store that the tax policy has shifted from it’s their work, but it’s taxed at 15 per- from another city had come in and one that was broad based and which the cent, not at 35 or 38 percent. What’s taken over some local owners. One man wealthy and everybody participated in that all about? Where are we going to worked there for 44 years. He’d been in a progressive mechanism in which end that tax break? That’s about $17 making $9.85 an hour and working 40 now the wealthy—and Warren Buffett billion over 10 years. hours a week. They came in and said, has said it so very well—he actually Mr. COHEN. And that shouldn’t You can work 16 hours. You’ll get $7.50 pays a lower tax rate than does his sec- exist. That’s absurd. There’s another an hour. You won’t get your benefits retary. He said, This is wrong. This is Steve Cohen, the magician, and appar- that you had accumulated, and you’ll upside down and wrong. And he’s quite ently he had something to do with the go to another store. He quit. They did correct. But if we take a look at the Tax Code when they took care of the a lot of employees that way. manufacturing sector of America and other Steve Cohen. What happened yesterday? Help in- we apply a couple of principles, that is, Mr. GARAMENDI. So taxes are part form me. Because I heard this, and it’s that we’re going to buy American—and of it. The energy policy, we haven’t difficult to believe: Bank of America, this has to do with our policies here. talk about that. We talked about did they make something like $7 bil- Trade policies. We’ve been giving it labor—putting men and women back to lion last year? And how many people away in these international trade work. And the education system, did they lay off yesterday? deals. On the taxes, we just talked 280,000 new teachers or teachers in the about that. The tax burden has shifted classroom. Research and infrastruc- b 1550 from the wealthy down to the middle ture, this is part of the Make it in Mr. GARAMENDI. They’re talking class, further eroding the purchasing America agenda which can be carried about laying off 40,000 people across power and the status of the middle out with the American Jobs Act. America in the next year. class, so much so that just yesterday So, if we pass the American Jobs Act, Mr. COHEN. So how does that jibe the Bureau of Labor Statistics came we’ve got a really good opportunity to with what we hear from the other side out with a report that the poverty once again make things in America, about just trust business to hire peo- level in America has reached the high- because the legislation calls for about ple, that the jobs come from business est level in 52 years. That’s the pushing $50 billion in infrastructure and the es- and the private sector? down of the American middle class so tablishment of an infrastructure bank They’re making $7.8 billion. They that those at the bottom have been for sanitation, water systems, Internet, benefited from the TARP—a President pushed out of the middle class into high-speed cable, and all of those kinds Bush/Secretary Paulson plan that I poverty. of things in the infrastructure bank. So supported in a bipartisan manner that Mr. COHEN. Out of six adults—think we may be looking at $60 billion, $70 kept Bank of America alive. I think about that—one out of six adults. Now billion a year of investment in these they’re on the hook, maybe, since some this body of which I am extremely infrastructure projects. Coupled with Federal recent action considering their proud to be a Member is not represent- that is Buy America, Make it in Amer- loans and all. But $7 billion, and

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What does because they are not there. But the Iraq, in Afghanistan it gives them an it do? It helps the wealthy because people at the top are making more opportunity. It gives every employer they’re immune to it. The benefit for money than ever. They’re eating at an incentive to hire those workers. We the low-cost labor they get overseas Masa in New York. They’re eating the owe it to these men and women. And and the salaries they get here, they get $500 dinner at the Japanese restaurant when these men and women go back to great tax rates, helps them. and not thinking twice about it, and work, they become taxpayers. And But what else does it help? It helps they’re firing people right and left. The when men and women in America go what Senator MCCONNELL said was the limousines are still moving. The back to work and become taxpayers, number one job of this Congress the wealthy are still doing whatever then the deficit will be resolved, then first day after President Obama was they’ve been doing. They’ve got their we will solve the deficit. elected, to defeat President Obama. jets—not the football team—their pri- We need to make cuts, we need to do That’s what Senator MITCH MCCONNELL vate jets. They’re living great, but the those things, but those are in the out said was the number one priority that American Dream is disappearing. The years. Right now, it is about jobs. The he had. He’s a focused man. I admire American Dream disappeared for my President has given us the legislation. him for the fact that he gets an issue grocery workers. It’s disappearing for The question for our Republican lead- and he stays on it and he’s focused. Bank of America employees. It’s dis- ership here is—they control this House; And he thought that and thinks that appearing for a lot of people. they’re the ones that set the agenda; when he works on the debt ceiling, Mr. GARAMENDI. The American they’re the only ones that can bring a when he works on the deficit, when he public, through the TARP program, bill to the floor—When will you bring works on the American Jobs Act. It’s bailed out Wall Street, bailed out the the American Jobs Act to this floor so all about one thing—not employing banks, and the banks have done noth- that we can put Americans back to Americans, but taking two Americans, ing. The big Wall Street banks have work? Barack Obama and JOE BIDEN, and done nothing except enrich themselves Mr. COHEN, I know how deeply you making them unemployed. That’s not at the expense of the American tax- feel about this. I know that in your dis- appropriate. payer. Those days should be over. We trict your people that you represent Mr. GARAMENDI. We have a dif- need to move in a different direction. are hurting. They want jobs. ferent view here. I’m confident that the One of the groups we really need to We’re going to wrap this up in just a President will be reelected because he help are those men and women that few moments. So for our closing re- understands very clearly that we need have been fighting the wars. Now, my marks, go for it. to put Americans back to work, And he personal view is that the war in Af- Mr. COHEN. Thank you, Mr. has given us the American Jobs Act— ghanistan ought to stop tomorrow. We GARAMENDI. complete legislation. All the sections ought to bring that $120 billion a year Every weekend I’m home—and the are there. All the writing is done. All that we’re spending in Afghanistan, weeks that I’m home, because we’re the legal work is done. It is now before bring it back here, invest it in America home many weeks now, this Congress the United States Congress and the in education and bridges, infrastruc- doesn’t work them very much. We Senate, and it’s up to us, 435 of us in ture and debt relief; 120 billion a year spend a lot of time at home. And that’s this House. Are we ready to act? Are in Afghanistan, and we’re still spend- a beautiful thing for us, but not a great we ready to do what Americans want ing a vast amount of money in Iraq. thing for America because we need to us to do? And that is to put them back End those wars, bring that money be here, working on trying to get a jobs to work. home. Bring the soldiers home. And bill passed, which hasn’t been intro- Mr. COHEN. Pass the bill. when we do, we’re bringing home a lot duced by the majority yet. Mr. GARAMENDI. Pass the bill. Pass of wounded Americans, wounded Amer- But Professor Stiglitz talked about the bill. Put Americans back to work. icans who need our respect and who the causes of the loss of the surplus I’m going to quickly go through some need jobs. that President Clinton and the Demo- of the parts of this bill and the way in In the American Jobs Act there is a cratic Congress got in the late part of which they affect Americans. special place for veterans, special ad- the 20th century. It was the two wars— It’s about investment, investing in vantage. They deserve it. They’re the voted for by this Congress, supported our infrastructure: $50 billion directly ones that have sacrificed. They’re the by President Bush, the Bush tax cuts— available for the transportation sec- ones that took time out of their lives passed by this Congress, proposed by tor—rail, high-speed rail, intercity rail, to fight those wars. Whatever we may President Bush; and Medicare part D, bridges, roads, $50 billion available this think about those wars, we can only President Bush’s Medicare plan to take year to put men and women back to think good thoughts and honor the vet- care of the insurance companies. work repairing our transportation in- erans, and here’s a way to do it. That’s what did it. Those were the frastructure. Another $10 billion for an There are 877,000 unemployed vet- causes. infrastructure bank in which the pen- erans in America today—nearly 1 mil- Professor Stiglitz, and he has a lady sion funds of America, the public pen- lion; 877,000 looking for work. In the that works with him—I think her name sion funds, could invest. And perhaps American Jobs Act, there is a very spe- is Linda Bilmes—they’ve studied what another $20 billion or $30 billion in that cial tax credit available to any em- it’s going to cost in America in the infrastructure bank to once again aug- ployer who hires a veteran. You can re- years to come with the veterans. Now, ment the development of the infra- duce your taxes by $5,600 right off the the ones we can employ, we need to structure that we need—water systems, bottom, $5,600 tax credit—not a deduc- employ. But 1 to 2 percent are going to sanitation systems, all of those com- tion, but a credit. And if you happen to come back disabled, and they’re going munications systems that we des- hire one of those wounded vets—and we to need veteran services and they’re perately need. know them, we’ve seen their pictures, going to need money for the rest of we know what post-traumatic stress their lives. So these wars, particularly b 1600 syndrome is all about—hire a wounded the Iraq war—President Bush and the That’s on the infrastructure side. vet, and it’s a $9,600 tax credit to every Republican Congress’ war—is going to On the education side, repairing our employer, whomever it happens to be, cost this country for another 70 years, schools: across this Nation. Now that’s what we at minimum; and we need to be pre- Thirty-five thousand schools to be re- need to do. pared for that. paired, repainted, classrooms, science All the talk about balancing the We need to come together. And laboratories, as well as the play- budget, all the talk about a deficit there’s no question that when Pro- grounds; 35,000 schools out there. Your

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The Ann Arbor, have, the blessings, we’ve received be- But some years back there was a Michigan, stadium filled 2.8 times over. cause of those who’ve gone before us. group of us that went to China, and we Teachers in the classroom. This is ex- The country is in trouble. People met with a number of CEOs of inter- citing. around the world cannot believe that national corporations that have taken Veterans, a very powerful incentive the greatest nation in the history of their American jobs by the thousands, where a business can reduce its tax mankind just cannot make itself live taken their businesses, their manufac- burden. That is the bottom-line tax re- within its means. So businesses, manu- turing production and gone to China. I duced by $9,600 when you hire a dis- facturing have flocked away from had the feeling that when we talked to abled veteran. That man, that woman America. them and asked them the question, is going back to work, becoming a tax- I know there are some who believe ‘‘Why did you move all these jobs to payer. Once again, pride in our Nation. that the greatest thing that can hap- China?’’ that they would say, well, This is powerful. pen for America is for those manufac- they just couldn’t work with the labor For the unemployed, an extension of turing jobs to leave America because unions. The price of labor was too high. unemployment benefits, and we didn’t they believe, gee, they hurt the envi- even get to that today—and all of this Regulations were too much. But the ronment because they pollute, so just in the context of rebuilding the Amer- number one answer was because of the as well they go to some other Third ican manufacturing sector. corporate tax. The corporate tax in More than 10 million American man- World country or China or other place, America, in the United States, is the ufacturing jobs have been lost in the when the truth is, apparently, when highest corporate tax in the world. those same manufacturing companies last two decades. We can put them b 1610 back to work if we use our public pol- leave the United States, they go to na- Now corporations, those that under- icy, use our tax money that’s going to tions that, on average, pollute, depend- stand business law, corporations, direc- build those bridges or those roads, ing on the nations, 4 to 10 times more tors, and officers, have a fiduciary duty buses and locomotives, use our tax than we do here in the United States. money to buy American-made, Amer- For those that understand the way the to their stockholders to try to make as ican-made equipment. All it takes is a world turns, as pollution goes up in much money as they can. Unless some, law, and it works. Asia, we usually breathe it here in the Mr. Speaker, do not know who the Sacramento, California, near where I United States. So that hasn’t worked stockholders are, more and more live, has built—or Siemens, a German out so well for the environment of the they’re union workers; they’re Amer- company, has built a major manufac- planet. We’re hurting the planet as we ican workers across their countries; turing plant in Sacramento, California, drive manufacturing jobs out of Amer- they’re small business owners and op- to manufacture light railcars and Am- ica. erators, franchise operators; they’re trak locomotives. This administration has used the the rank and file across the country— Why did they do that? They did that EPA as a sword, as a tool to drive more State employees, local employees, Fed- because the American Recovery Act, and more manufacturing and produc- eral employees. But more than that, the stimulus bill that our Republican tion out of the United States, hurting businesses across America, they have colleagues like to trash, said that the the country more and more, not be- retirement accounts that invest in money for transportation systems— cause, necessarily, they want to inten- these companies. buses, light rail, and trains—must be tionally hurt the country. I’m not say- Those companies’ officers and direc- spent on American-made equipment. ing that. They just think we’re better tors have a fiduciary duty that they So Siemens said, well, if that’s the law, off. have to—or they could be sued—have we want the business. They built the If they’re not willing to have a draco- the best interests of the company and plant, and they’re manufacturing light nian EPA being, as the President said the stockholders at stake in the deci- rail cars and locomotives today in in his speech, working side by side with sions they make. If you go to law America, using American equipment, them in private business, good rid- school—I hopefully have saved some- using American workers. That’s what dance. Go somewhere else. Because, in body a lot of money—that’s it in a nut- we can do if we are willing to pass the the President’s own words, that’s what shell. laws to make it in America. he said, and it was the scariest thing I So, when a group of corporate leaders Photovoltaic systems, wind turbines, heard that the President said last is trying to decide how can we avoid all of these things supported with our week, standing right here at the second being sued by the stockholders by tax dollars. Why not use those tax dol- level in this Hall, the line, and I’ll read doing the best thing to help them cre- lars to buy American-made solar cells from his speech directly. He said, ‘‘We ate the most revenue for their stock— and wind turbines? need to look for ways to work side by what can we do? What will enhance The President has given us the oppor- side with America’s businesses.’’ their dividends?—they have to look. tunity to do what we should do, as rep- America’s businesses do not need a When they see the United States of resentatives of the American people. government that wants to be their America is taxing corporations at 35 Put Americans back to work. Pass the partner. The government in this coun- percent and they see that China taxes American Jobs Act. Pass the American try, according to the Constitution, at 17 percent, you would think it was Jobs Act. metaphorically speaking, is supposed pretty much a no-brainer. That’s basi- Mr. COHEN, wrap this up for us. Mr. COHEN. I just thank you, Mr. to be a referee—keep the playing field cally what they said. fair, keep it level, make sure every- I was gratified to hear that, whether GARAMENDI, for the leadership and for putting this hour together and allow- body has a chance to compete and com- it’s union labor or nonunion labor, ing me to join you. And let’s say it to- pete fairly, and stay out of the way. Do across the board, the experience that gether. Pass the bill. not interfere. Don’t try to be a partner the corporate leaders that I talked to Mr. GARAMENDI. Pass the bill. with business. Stay out of the way and in China say really their best workers Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance be a referee. are right here in the United States— of my time. It’s when this United States Govern- union workers, nonunion workers—and ment has tried to be a partner that so that, generally speaking, they have f often it gets in trouble, and it kills better quality control over products OUR COUNTRY IS IN TROUBLE businesses and it kills jobs, and people produced here in the United States of The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under flee and go to some other country America. So, when they move plants the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- where they’re allowed to produce from here in the United States to other

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It in- by the billions, then they could afford the rig have to count on each other, creases every year. to build state-of-the-art facilities, kind of like in a military operation, b 1620 where facilities here in the United the equipment is so dangerous, if some- States, their manufacturing plants, body has taken drugs and is not at Now, I was here in ’05 and ’06, and I may be falling apart and getting older. peak performance, they can get some- am embarrassed that, as Republicans, Well, you could go build a state-of-the- body killed. It’s happened far too many our party did not have the nerve to art facility in a place like China, and times. They have to have people pass a eliminate the CBO, to eliminate the ri- because of the tremendously reduced drug test. diculous rules by which bills are corporate tax, by the time you really That’s just this afternoon. Well, scored. The actual reality and history get around to paying much tax, you’ve think about it. If we had manufactur- and recurrent numbers of what hap- paid for the plant. ers coming back into America because pens—when you do this, you get this ef- I was advised privately that it was the corporate tax rate was less than 17 fect—you can’t consider that. They possible the Chinese Government would percent, then the manufacturing jobs have to use rules that don’t apply in make deals with some companies if show up like crazy. the real world and without taking into they were big enough, and it might be, Now, I realize from hearing all of the consideration the effects that have for example, they would say, Look, you news, apparently the big emphasis of been had when an action is taken every move your manufacturing plant, hire the national union leaders, who sure time. these thousands of employees here in don’t seem to be speaking to all of the So we get terribly inaccurate scoring China instead of in the United States, union folks I know, but their emphasis from a government entity, and we also and we’ll make a deal with you. No cor- seems to be basically we’re not doing have this automatic baseline that in- porate tax for 5 years. very well getting union members from creases every year. There is not a busi- Then, depending on the company and private corporations. So they’ve gone ness or home in America that can plan the negotiations, they might say, And all after government employees: Let’s a budget by saying, We’re automati- then for the next 5 years, maybe 5, 7 try to unionize government employees cally going to increase our budget percent, maybe 10 percent. Maybe then because maybe we can pick them up. every year from now on. No matter it goes to 17, or maybe by 15 years you And what I think eventually rank- how much income or revenue we have get to the 17 percent rate. and-file union workers for private com- each year, we’re going to keep increas- But in those kind of scenarios, they panies will begin to understand is it ing our budget. That is what has been say, We paid for a state-of-the-art fa- seems that they’re being thrown under happening for 37 years, since 1974. cility by the time we ever get around the bus. The concentration seems to be The Budget chairman back in ’05 and to paying corporate tax. Whereas, if we for more government workers, less pri- ’06 was not willing to do it, but I am kept those jobs in America, facilities vate workers, which means they’re extremely gratified that our bright getting older, we just can’t produce driving for more jobs in the govern- chairman of the Budget, this Budget dividends and returns on money for ment sector, which kills off the private chairman, is going to do it, in that this stockholders. We’re just treading sector, which will kill off those jobs for year he’s going to take up a zero base- water. Here, because the corporate the union members who have jobs in line budget. I filed one in my first Con- rates are half as expensive, then we can the private sector. gress back in ’05 and ’06, in my second produce, we can compete anywhere in So, as I sat back here listening to the Congress in ’07 and ’08, in my third the world. Our goods are that much President’s speech last Thursday night Congress in ’09 and 2010, and in this cheaper. and as I struggled with what the Presi- Congress. I am delighted. I don’t care Now, it is true our labor is more ex- dent was saying—because some of it whose name is on the bill; but when we pensive, but, in general, we have good didn’t seem to me that it was going to finally eliminate the automatic in- laborers in this country, and there are create the jobs he was promising, but I creases in the Federal budgets every Americans that are willing to work, was willing to wait for the bill and not year, that’s going to be huge, and it’s willing to do the jobs. From talking to judge from a speech, because it’s been going to be better than anything that employers, though, we could use a lot said around here before that CBO can- the President has proposed by way of more people willing to be employees not score a speech. Well, that was be- producing revenue and balancing the who can pass a drug test. That’s kind fore, a couple years ago, when the ad- budget. of important. ministration got on to them, and basi- I do appreciate the White House Now, I have had so many constitu- cally they did score a speech, but emailing their version of the American ents say, Look, you have to pass a drug that’s because the White House is able Jobs Act. test in order to get employment for to exert pressure on CBO that the Re- PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY most important jobs nowadays, wheth- publicans have not been able to see fit Mr. GOHMERT. If I might inquire of er it’s with a grocery company back to do. the Speaker, a parliamentary inquiry: home or a small operator. I was talking I know Mr. Elmendorf was not happy If there are charts around on the floor, to an independent oilman this after- with my reference, but the fact is, after can anybody use those? noon that drills wells from Longview, Mr. Elmendorf met with the President The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- Texas, and he was saying, We have to in the woodshed, or the Oval Office, he tleman is free to use charts in debate. give people drug tests. came back and was able to bring down Mr. GOHMERT. Thank you, Mr. He was telling me, because of the the scoring of ObamaCare by about a Speaker, because I saw my friends drilling that’s currently going on in quarter of a trillion dollars or so. Then across the aisle using a chart that said east Texas, he’s having trouble finding after ObamaCare passed, they said, the ‘‘American Jobs Act.’’ It makes a enough workers right now, today. Whoops, looks like maybe we under- wonderful chart if it’s still on the floor, While people are unemployed around estimated by about a quarter of a tril- because that’s what we’re talking the country, he’s having trouble right lion dollars. about, an American Jobs Act. now, today, finding enough people who That makes for a pretty big plus-or- The President kept saying, Pass it can pass a drug test and are willing to minus margin of error when CBO can’t right away. Act now. Pass this jobs work hard on an oil well, and he would do better than that, but CBO and the bill. Pass it right away. Pass it again put them to work. rules were created by the most liberal right away. Pass the bill right away. In fact, he was telling me this after- Congress in history until about 5 years They’ll get back on their feet right noon, they’d start out at $50,000 a year. ago. They created CBO. They created away if we pass the bill. Anyway, just They’d have health care. It’s hard, the rules for scoring. They yanked us on and on—pass the bill, pass the bill,

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We heard think about it and when you think this would say that doesn’t make sense be- the speech Thursday night. We didn’t is the same guy who’s going to appoint cause we know that Wall Street is get a bill Friday. We didn’t get a bill all these people to run the brand-new mainly Republicans. Saturday. Obviously, it can’t be filed American Infrastructure Financing Au- But if you look into it, as the Herit- Saturday or Sunday if we’re not in ses- thority. That’s AIFA, and it is just an- age Foundation has—my friend Mike sion. We didn’t get it, though, through other nightmare. It’s going to help Franc there has done the research—you email. They send the stuff when it’s bankrupt America quicker than this found out that, in essence, corporate needed, but nothing Saturday, nothing administration has already been doing. executives on Wall Street, when you Sunday. I know people like to throw blame include their immediate family that On Monday, we were inquiring of the around. There is plenty of blame to go donates with them, donate about 4–1 or White House by email, by phone, Look, around because I know, in 2006, I was donate about 4–1 for Obama over when are you going to let us see what on this side of the aisle, hearing people MCCAIN. And Mike had said, when he this bill we’ve got to pass last week is? stand up at the Democratic micro- first saw that, he thought, wow, that’s We finally got a copy, and I was up phones, saying what I knew to be true. intriguing. That may be different from until 5 a.m. on Tuesday morning going They were right. We had no business prior years, But as he checked on it, it through it—tagging it, highlighting it, spending $160 billion more than we wasn’t that different from prior years, being staggered by the stuff in here took in. That was un-American. It was donations from Wall Street. Then you get to realizing, wait a that will kill jobs instead of create outrageous. This body had no business minute, Democratic Presidents, Mem- them—oh, other than the jobs that are authorizing expenditures of $160 billion bers here in this body are constantly created for the government that will more than we took in. They were right. deriding these greedy, evil people on help kill the economy. I couldn’t be- The Democrats were right when they Wall Street; and yet they’re generally lieve this was being called an American said we should not spend in a year $160 giving 4–1 to Democrats over Repub- Jobs Act, but it was not a surprise to billion more than we took in. licans. There are 4–1 Democrats on me even at noon today when we in- Nowadays, people like to say, Well, Wall Street in executive positions than quired and found that no one had been it’s Afghanistan and Iraq that have willing to file an American Jobs Act in there are Republicans. Well, no wonder. broken this country and have made us It starts making more sense that they the House of Representatives. It had bankrupt. That’s not the case. We were been available. The President had been would do much better under Demo- in Afghanistan; we were in the worst cratic administrations since it helps to talking about it since last Thursday, part of the expenditures in Iraq during know people in those kinds of posi- but nobody had been willing to actu- those days, and we overspent what we tions. ally file that bill in the House. had coming in by about $160 billion. If But we were told by the President I have been through the President’s anybody back then had told me that he’s going after Big Oil. The provisions American Jobs bill, and I am abso- within 4 years those same people who in this President’s bill—it’s at page lutely convinced—absolutely no ques- condemned this side of the aisle for 151—repeal the deduction for intangible tion—that this will hurt our economy. overspending by $160 billion would be drilling and development costs in the It creates massive, bigger government just fine with overspending by $1.6 tril- case of oil and gas wells. Now, the bill intrusion. If you like Freddie and lion, I would never have believed it. has a dishonest word here. It says re- Fannie Mae, you will love the new b 1630 pealing oil ‘‘subsidies.’’ American Infrastructure Financing Au- A subsidy, you can look it up, Web- thority. What a wonderful government There is no way, with the speeches ster, wherever you want to, but the def- creation that is. We’re going to provide that were given here in ’05, ’06, ’07 inition will basically be the same wher- billions and billions of dollars to create about the Republicans’ irresponsibility ever you look it up. A ‘‘subsidy’’ is a this new government entity. But not to in ’05 and ’06, my freshman year, over grant or a gift of money. There are no worry—these are people who will be $160 billion more being spent than we grants or gifts of money, and there running it who really know what brought in, that they would have any wasn’t anybody that wanted to go after they’re doing—right?—because the Sec- nerve or ability to stand up and say British Petroleum more than I did retary of Transportation is going to be I’m voting to spend $1.6 trillion more around here when we found out 800 vio- in charge. I do know the Secretary of than we’re going to take in. I just lations or so and when all the other Transportation right now, and I like didn’t think, I wouldn’t have believed majors were having maybe one or two him very much. He’s a good guy. None- that anybody would be willing to do in the gulf. theless, we’re creating another govern- that. Well, they have, and we as a Yet they were involved in crony cap- ment nightmare called the American country have. italism. So the administration looked Infrastructure Financing Authority. But I went through the President’s the other way over and over and over Unbelievable. bill. Yesterday I went through much of again until the Deepwater Horizon You would have thought we would it, but there is a little more that needs blew out. People were killed, you have learned a lesson—but not to to be said, for example, to illuminate know, not only lives lost but fortunes worry. These are people who will be ap- the President’s comments about he lost. The Gulf of Mexico was dev- pointed by the President. Some other wants to go after the profits of Big Oil; astated all because this administration people here in Congress can throw in and he does that in his bill, we were and those inspectors that were sent some recommendations, but they’re ap- told. He was going to fix it for Big Oil. looked the other way to all of this piti- pointed. The seven voting members are Well, I was a little cynical, I was a ful way that drilling was done because appointed by the President. So that little leery, because I have heard the they were buddies, crony capitalism. will be wonderful. They’ll run all our President call the Wall Street execu- So when you look here at what the infrastructure requirements for us, and tives fat cats. He has called them President actually has in his bill, who of course the President will appoint the names, said we wouldn’t be letting it’s going to help and who it’s going to chief executive officer. them do that, that we ought to go after hurt, what you see are these deduc- Having been a history major in col- them, that kind of stuff. tions here that he’s repealing—the re- lege, I do believe that the best indica- Yet I knew that, while he was calling peal of deduction for tertiary tion of future performance is past his- them names, at the same time his gov- injectants, the repeal of the percentage tory, past performance. With the auto erning made sure that an entity like depletion allowance for oil and gas czars and the private committee com- Goldman Sachs made more money than wells. Section 199, the deduction attrib- posed of a bunch of auto czars, I read they’ve ever made in their history. utable to oil, natural gas or primary

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Of course, experts and find out, CPAs, people that and if they don’t, they’re going to have when you’re in the military, you can’t do the tax returns for independent oil people who need to go eat somewhere. say anything negative about the Com- companies, and I was reminded, this It is hard, nasty, 24-hour-a-day work. mander in Chief or you’ve committed stuff basically applies only as a deduc- You don’t stop 8–5. You have to do an offense under the UCMJ. You can’t tion for an oil company that produces shifts because you can’t afford to get criticize someone in your chain of com- less than a thousand barrels of oil. All somebody too tired for staying on a rig mand, including the Commander in of the majors that this President says too long. But they employ millions of Chief. So we just had to bite our he wants to go after and go after their people. They cause the employment of tongues, but we could see Jimmy Car- profits, they’re majors. millions around America even though ter was doing such damage to this All of the deductions that he is try- there aren’t that many that actually country economically and in the for- ing to repeal, they’re not going to af- work on the wells, themselves. eign arena. It was just tragic. fect, they’re not really going to hurt b 1640 I liked Ronald Reagan. He said he the major oil companies. They’re going was going to be able to help bring down They create jobs. They don’t just to devastate the independent oil com- double-digit inflation, double-digit un- save them like this President says he’s panies. That will be the result here. employment and double-digit interest So he says he wants to go after the been doing. And so what’s the Presi- rates. As much as I liked him, I recall dent doing? He, in his bill, is not touch- majors, but that’s just not what he is telling my wife, Kathy, back at Fort ing, he’s not going to hurt the Big Oil doing in his bill, and I know that, being Benning, I like him, but I don’t care companies. They’re going to appar- a community organizer, he’s not that who the President is, there’s no way a ently do as well as his good friends at well up on what he’s going to hurt and President can actually help do all that, General Electric. really have that kind of effect. what he’s going to help. But the fact is So what we have seen is, if you’re there are figures that indicate Amer- He proved me wrong. With Laffer’s really friends with this administration, guidance, taxes were cut 30 percent, ican production activities are domi- or to be fair, the parties in power, then nated by independent producers, who and the economy took off. Because the odds are you’re going to get your tax economy took off and there were more drill 95 percent of the Nation’s natural bills through and you are going to be gas and oil wells, accounting for 67 per- jobs, unemployment dropped dramati- like General Electric, you’re going to cally. Interest rates were able to come cent of total U.S. natural gas and oil be like Warren Buffett, and you’re down dramatically. We had a 121⁄4 per- production. That’s the independent oil going to be able to skate through with- companies of America. Ninety-five per- cent or something loan on our first out paying virtually any tax. home in Georgia just off post in Fort cent of the drilling, 67 percent of the I loved the way Art Laffer explained Benning. It may have been 123⁄4 per- production is not ExxonMobil. It’s not to it me in his living room after a Sun- Shell. It’s not British Petroleum. It’s cent. Some folks told me that was day lunch one day last year. We talked crazy—it was too high—but it wasn’t the independent oil companies in about these taxing concepts. I just love America. long before interest rates some places the guy. He is so brilliant. He’s charm- were 18 percent, so 12 wasn’t so bad. And who are they? They’re people ing and funny. He sure got us out of a that cannot go to the banks, for the Now, interest rates came down under mess back in 1980–1981 because he was Reagan, but it was Laffer who said most part, to get a loan. Any bank that the adviser to Ronald Reagan. Art would loan an oil company money to bring down the taxes by 30 percent, and Laffer was his economic adviser. you’ll do dramatic work on creating a drill a particular well is probably going Many people have heard about the to get shut down because the chances better economy. Laffer curve because for people in gov- I love the story Art Laffer tells about are, in most cases—certainly in the in- ernment who want to maximize the getting a call from President Reagan. vestments I have had—you are more amount of revenue to the Federal Gov- He said, Art, great news. We got your likely to have a dry hole than you are ernment so they can spend more, how tax cut. to hit anything that’s really going to do you do it? Well, if you don’t have Art said, in essence, this is my para- be of a sufficient, productive nature. any kind of tax at all, the government phrase: That’s great, Mr. President. So, of course, once you have estab- has no tax at all, then the revenue of Congratulations. lished a field, the odds go up dramati- the Federal Government would be zero Art, you don’t seem excited. Why cally, but most of these wells, when it’s on this end. If the government taxed a aren’t you excited? This is great news. not an established field and it’s just 100 percent tax, very, very quickly no- We got the tax cut with the Demo- helping produce more from a known body would work. Nobody’s going to cratic House and Senate. They’re going field, you can’t get loans. The only way work to produce 100 percent revenue to cut it 30 percent. independent oil companies have to be for the Federal Government unless the He said, Congratulations, Mr. Presi- assured of being able to drill oil wells whole Nation is enslaved, and God for- dent. That’s great. is not to go get a loan, and they also bid that that will happen. President Reagan said, Why aren’t know that if they invest and pay all of So on the two ends of the graph, you you more excited? the 100 percent of their own drilling have zero revenue to the Federal Gov- He said, Mr. President, I understand and they hit a few dry holes in a row, ernment, if it is zero percent tax alto- you’re going to cut it like half a per- they’re going to be bankrupt, if there gether, and on the other end you have cent the first year, 10 percent the next were so many of them. zero revenue to the Federal Govern- year, and another 20 percent the third What most independent oil compa- ment if there’s 100 percent tax. So year. nies do, they do studies geologically. somewhere in between, you reach the He said, Well, that’s the deal we had They have to hire geologists most of maximum efficiency for bringing in to cut with Congress. We couldn’t get the time. I am told they were inde- revenue to the Federal Government. If all 30 percent at once. pendent geologists. I know a great you tax too high, then you start hurt- As I recall, he said something like, number of those. They do great work. ing the amount of revenue percentage- Mr. President, if you were going shop- They will study an area, and they will wise coming in, and so you actually get ping and the place you were going to go hire a landman to come in and study less revenue when you pass that max- shopping had a half of one percent sale who owns what interests in the min- imum point. Before that point, you can this month and then 10 percent sale erals, who owns what rights that continue to raise taxes and actually in- next month and then 20 percent sale they’re going to have to acquire in crease revenue. Beyond that, the rev- the next one after that, when are you order to do drilling, and then they hire enue starts coming down. So as Art has going to go shopping? people that are involved in drilling. described it, you need to cut taxes 30 He said Reagan was quiet for awhile They’re not like the majors where percent, and you will get us out of this and then finally said, Are we going to they’ve got all they need to go do all horrific doldrums of an economy. have a couple of bad years?

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That’s what he said. amended by striking $1.5 trillion that The problem, though, is that the What he’s counting on, what he ref- they have to find in cuts in the next Democratic Party got so excited con- erences on page 4 of his speech—and month or so and inserting $1.95 trillion trolling the House and Senate—Reagan it’s on page 155—yes, there is elimi- in cuts. That’s it. Magically, he just and Laffer had set up such a situation nation of deductions. In reality, it’s found $450 billion in cuts, but it’s be- here, and there was so much more going to cost this government revenue. cause he told the supersubcommittee: money coming into the coffers, the It’s not going to create more Federal Go find this extra money. What a great Federal revenues—that they started revenue. revenue-enhancing deficit spending cut spending like never before. They can that is. b 1650 blame Reagan, but the Constitution This bill is a disaster. It sets up a makes very clear, Congress spends the It’s going to cost jobs. There will be program that will allow people who money. fewer people paying as much income have their hours reduced by 10 percent So really, this year, we are still tax. That will hurt the Federal coffers to start collecting unemployment com- working off of what Congress did or more. We’ll have more deficit spending. pensation. It requires State agencies to didn’t do last year under Speaker We can’t get that under control. But start mandating that those employers PELOSI. Next year, beginning October 1, we just passed a deficit bill I didn’t involved certify that even if they cut will be the first full year we are back support because it didn’t have adequate an employee’s hours, they’re going to at least as Republicans being in control cuts in there. There was no restraint still have the same health care bene- of one House. So I think it is very, very on spending that was really adequate. fits, retirement benefits. I talked to important what we try to do to gen- If you only cut $1 trillion over a 10- some employers today about it. They erate jobs and when you know that year period, and we all know—every- said, We’ll have to give up providing these provisions are going to devastate body in here knows—you can’t bind fu- health care and retirement benefits be- independent oil companies that do 95 ture Congresses. So all the cuts that do cause we need the flexibility. If we’re percent of the drilling in continental not occur within the next year or year all taking a cut, then let’s take a cut. I want to challenge my own Repub- America and won’t hurt Exxon, British and a half, there’s no reason to think lican leadership, Mr. Speaker. Most of Petroleum, and, in fact, because 95 per- that they will happen. You can’t bind America is not even aware that this cent of the drilling will not get done in future Congresses. year we put our mouth where our the continental United States. Anyway, even if we did cut $1 tril- money is, and we actually voted to cut I guess that’s why the President was lion—not much the next year, but it our own budgets by 5 percent. And next trying to do this. They apparently gets heavier toward the end of the 10 year we’re cutting our own budget by 6 don’t like drilling. They don’t like years. If we were to cut $1 trillion over percent. Well, we haven’t done enough mining. They don’t like any of this 10 years and we were to do that every with that. I would challenge our own stuff occurring on our soil. They would 10 years, within exactly 150 years we leadership, and I hope that we’ll seize rather it go somewhere else where they will finally balance the budget, and we the day—seize the moment—and be pollute a lot more. But we are talking will have only added $120 trillion to the $14.3 trillion or $14.6 trillion that we’ve able, because we would have the right about millions of jobs that will be lost to do this since we’re cutting our own because of the devastating effect of de- run up in deficit spending now. If we were able to reach this wonderful goal budgets. America doesn’t know that, stroying independent oil and gas busi- but we are. of $2 trillion in cuts in the next 10 nesses—and all of that when we’ve got- Okay. All Federal Government, years and do that ever 10 years, then ten such great news over the last few here’s the deal. We’re cutting our own years. We went from having basically we can balance the budget in only 80 budget in Congress by 5 percent this no natural gas reserves to having 100— years. We’ll only add around $72 tril- year, 6 percent next year, and we’re some say 200, some say 300—years of lion in additional deficit spending to doing it to every department In the natural gas reserves. our deficit. country. We have the moral authority Some fleets of trucks are starting to So the joint committee was charged: to do that since we’re cutting our own. convert to natural gas. If we converted Find $1.5 trillion somewhere between We should do that. Let’s get spending cars and trucks—you can’t order them now and basically Christmas, the end under control. But the President uses, from Detroit yet that come equipped of the year. Actually, we found out apparently, Rahm Emanuel’s own phi- with natural gas. You can get them today they’re really going to need to losophy about: Don’t let a good crisis done after they leave the factory. But find it by the 1st of November. This is go to waste. So he’s got this 155-page if we started getting natural gas vehi- how the President pays for his $450 bil- bill that he finally made available cles like some fleets have done, travel lion spending spree, where we create Monday night but that nobody has is a lot cheaper. You don’t have the the American Infrastructure Financing filed here in the House. pollution you have with gasoline. It Authority—a new Fannie and Freddie We need American jobs. We need burns clean. You do have CO2. on steroids. We create a new massive American jobs now. I am convinced So look out. We’re going to grow government bureaucracy. that if we eliminated the corporate tax more plants, because plants have to The FCC wanted to have a fairness altogether, you would hear a gigantic have CO2 in order to have photosyn- doctrine and control what people said sucking sound, I believe Mr. Perot used thesis, in order to produce O2 as a by- on the airwaves. They want to dictate to say, of manufacturers leaving other product from growing as a plant. So, everything that gets done in the media countries and flocking back to Amer- gee, if we use more natural gas, we on the airwaves, but they were real- ica, making more income than they may end up with more healthy plants. izing more and more people are going had in the past, because for the first So that may be a difficult thing if peo- to broadband and less and less to the time—Donald Trump is a sharp man. ple don’t like green plants. airways. They’re losing control of He has made a lot of money. He has ad- I couldn’t help but notice on page things. So the President addresses vocated that we put a 25 percent tariff 155—and I have read through here—the that. It’s not a jobs bill in the private on everything we buy from China. President has things like eliminating sector, but it creates a brand-new au- If you studied the situation and un- deductions. He says this bill is paid for. thority, government entity. Well, actu- derstand the treaties—I don’t like most In his speech he says—and I want to ally, he describes it in his bill as a pri- of them, but if you look at what we’ve read it correctly. He told us back 2 vate nonprofit group. He appoints the done, if we set a 25 percent tariff on ev- years ago during his health care directors, of course, and it’s called the erything America buys from China, we

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The one thing they seem to As Ben Franklin said in 1787, we will wins a trade war that that would start. have in common is they’re paying in- become a byword down through future So inspired by Donald Trump saying, come tax, and they’re tired of carrying generations because we had the great- Why don’t we put a 25 percent tariff on half of the country on their backs. So est country ever given to mankind, and everything we buy from China—and this is a start, I believe—it is a jobs we became irresponsible and lost it. I’ve talked to Art Laffer. He likes the bill—and you will see jobs flood this It’s time for major changes. idea. He’s got some other alternatives country, and we’ll get on track. With that, I yield back the balance of as well, but one of them is you elimi- In the few minutes I have left, let me my time. nate the corporate tax altogether. I just tell you about a man that prob- f ably had the most influence on my life really think it’s one of the most insid- RECESS ious taxes in America because people behind my father. His name was Sam have had to be sold a bill of goods to Parker. There have been wonderful The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. believe that you won’t have to pay it. men in my life, women in my life, FARENTHOLD). Pursuant to clause 12(a) We’re going to make these evil, greedy teachers in my life that affected me. of rule I, the Chair declares the House corporations do it. Sam Parker was hired by the Mount in recess subject to the call of the Pleasant School Board in 1952 to be a Chair. And I will admit to you, sometimes coach and to teach history. He was the Accordingly (at 5 o’clock and 4 min- unions are very helpful because greed head coach of the Mount Pleasant Ti- utes p.m.), the House stood in recess does take over. But the thing is, if you gers football team. In 2 years’ time, in subject to the call of the Chair. eliminate the corporate tax, who’s been 1953, he had led them to being f paying that? The consumers and lower undefeated after the first nine games. wage earners in those corporations. In He turned the program around. He was b 1841 some cases, there are studies that have a devoted Christian, belonged to the AFTER RECESS indicated that. But it’s the consumers Methodist church there, started teach- The recess having expired, the House that have to pay the corporate tax. If a ing Sunday school. His wife, Norween, was called to order by the Speaker pro corporation doesn’t pass that tax on, was the librarian at the junior high. tempore (Mr. FARENTHOLD) at 6 o’clock they can’t stay in business. After nine games, we went to play and 41 minutes p.m. If you eliminate the corporate tax, Sulphur Springs, and people were say- you’ll have jobs flooding back into ing, This looks like the best team in f America, and you’ll have more people 3A, in Texas; they very well could win LEAVE OF ABSENCE paying income tax. The Laffer curve the State. They went to Sulphur By unanimous consent, leave of ab- won’t be zero taxes on this side with Springs. Some team members told me sence was granted to: zero revenue. It will be zero corporate it was their fault; they didn’t take it Mr. CAPUANO (at the request of Ms. tax. But even at the same tax levels, serious enough, and they lost by one PELOSI) for today and September 15 on you will have dramatic increases in the touchdown. That was Friday night. account of a death in the family. Federal revenue because so many more Monday morning, the school board Mr. NADLER (at the request of Ms. people will be employed, things will be fired Sam Parker. PELOSI) for today and September 15 on going well, and the economy will have Then he and his wife had a tough de- account of a family emergency. a jump-start like we’ve never seen be- cision. They believed that God had Mr. BARLETTA (at the request of Mr. fore. called them to Mount Pleasant to plant CANTOR) for today and the balance of So after nobody else would file an their roots, invest their lives, and change America from that small place. the week on account of severe flooding American Jobs Act, as the President in his district. proposed, and having examined it over Well, he did the unthinkable. He stayed and taught American history after Mrs. NOEM (at the request of Mr. CAN- and over in the last couple of days, TOR) for September 12 until 2 p.m. and having checked today at noon to see if being fired as head football coach. And 7 years later, I met him in a September 13 on account of family rea- anybody had the nerve to file this dis- park recreation program he put on for sons. astrous bill that will kill jobs, run up young kids in the public park down f the price of gasoline and oil and make there each summer. I worked with him everybody’s life more miserable, more ADJOURNMENT one summer as a teenager with the government intrusion into broadcast, kids. He taught more kids how to play The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without more government intrusion into fi- baseball in Mount Pleasant during objection, the House stands adjourned nancing things—not Fannie or Freddie those years than anybody else in town. until 9 a.m. tomorrow. because we’ve still got them around, He was my scoutmaster. He had a troop There was no objection. but a new infrastructure financing au- there. He was my scoutmaster through Accordingly (at 6 o’clock and 41 min- thority—I realize this is a disaster for my becoming an Eagle Scout there at utes p.m.), under its previous order, the America. Mount Pleasant, and he taught me House adjourned until tomorrow, So I filed not a 115-page bill but actu- American history. He continued to Thursday, September 15, 2011, at 9 a.m. ally a 2-page bill today at about 1:20, teach Sunday school. f and it says: To amend the Internal The man that coached 2 years at EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the cor- Mount Pleasant High School changed ETC. porate income tax. Be it enacted by the Mount Pleasant in an incredible way. Senate and House of Representatives of He was still alive in 1991. Before he Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive the United States of America and Con- died, they renamed the football field communications were taken from the gress assembled. This Act may be cited Sam Parker Field. He taught me Amer- Speaker’s table and referred as follows: as the ‘‘American Jobs Act of 2011.’’ It ican history. He served in World War 3094. A letter from the Director, Regu- repeals the corporate income tax, re- II. He loved this country. His son was latory management Division, Environmental peals the alternative minimum tax, my best friend—is still a dear friend. Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- and there will be so many more people Those are the kinds of people that cy’s final rule — Change of Address for Re- paying income tax, people will not be- have changed America. Those are the gion 1; Technical Correction [FRL-9449-3] re- ceived August 3, 2011, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. lieve the kind of money that will flow kinds of people who are the reason we 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Energy and into the Federal Government, not that have been blessed like we’ve been Commerce. that’s a good thing, but we can at least blessed, And if we don’t have more peo- 3095. A letter from the Director, Regu- pay down our debt if we’re responsible. ple willing to put pettiness aside, goofy latory Management Division, Environmental

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A bill to create an emergency cy’s final rule — Cobalt Lithium Manganese Department of Homeland Security, transmit- jobs program that will fund 2,242,000 posi- Nickel Oxide; Significant New Use Rule ting the Department’s final rule — Special tions during fiscal years 2012 and 2013; to the [EPA-HQ-OPPT-2009-0922; FRL-8878-2] (RIN: Local Regulation; Extreme Sailing Series Committee on Education and the Workforce, 2070-AB27) received August 3, 2011, pursuant Boston; Boston Harbor, Boston, Massachu- and in addition to the Committees on Nat- to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on setts [Docket No.: USCG-20114-0103] (RIN: ural Resources, Agriculture, the Judiciary, Energy and Commerce. 1625-AA08) received August 1, 2011, pursuant Science, Space, and Technology, and Energy 3096. A letter from the Director, Regu- to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on and Commerce, for a period to be subse- latory Management Division, Environmental Transportation and Infrastructure. quently determined by the Speaker, in each Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- f case for consideration of such provisions as cy’s final rule — TSCA Inventory Update Re- fall within the jurisdiction of the committee porting Modifications; Chemical Data Re- REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON concerned. porting [EPA-HQ-OPPT-2009-0189; FRL-8872- PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS By Mr. MCCLINTOCK: 9] (RIN: 2070-AJ43) received August 3, 2011, H.R. 2915. A bill to repeal the Western Area pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of committees were delivered to the Clerk Power Administration borrowing authority, mittee on Energy and Commerce. and for other purposes; to the Committee on 3097. A letter from the Director, Regu- for printing and reference to the proper Natural Resources. latory Management Division, Environmental calendar, as follows: By Mr. CULBERSON (for himself and Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- Mr. BACHUS: Committee on Financial Mr. BISHOP of Utah): cy’s final rule — Approval and Promulgation Services. H.R. 1070. A bill to amend the Secu- H.R. 2916. A bill to enforce the tenth arti- of Air Quality Implementation Plans; West rities Act of 1933 to authorize the Securities cle of amendment to the Constitution of the Virginia; Section 110(a)(2) Infrastructure Re- and Exchange Commission to exempt a cer- United States as it relates to the autono- quirements for the 1997 8-Hour Ozone and the tain class of securities from such Act; with mous sovereign police powers of the States; 1997 and 2006 Fine Particulate Matter Na- an amendment (Rept. 112–206). Referred to to the Committee on the Judiciary. tional Ambient Air Quality Standards [EPA- the Committee of the Whole House on the By Mr. CULBERSON (for himself and R03-OAR-2010-0157; FRL-9447-6] received Au- state of the Union. Mr. BISHOP of Utah): gust 3, 2011, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); f H.R. 2917. A bill to restore State sov- to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. ereignty, and to dedicate excess grant funds 3098. A letter from the Director, Regu- PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS to deficit reduction; to the Committee on latory Management Division, Environmental Under clause 2 of rule XII, public Oversight and Government Reform, and in Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- addition to the Committee on Appropria- cy’s final rule — Approval and Promulgation bills and resolutions of the following titles were introduced and severally re- tions, for a period to be subsequently deter- of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Dela- mined by the Speaker, in each case for con- ware; Section 110(a)(2) Infrastructure Re- ferred, as follows: sideration of such provisions as fall within quirements for the 1997 8-Hour Ozone and the By Mr. HULTGREN: the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. 1997 and 2006 Fine Particulate Matter Na- H.R. 2910. A bill to require parental con- By Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN (for herself, tional Ambient Air Quality Standards [EPA- sent to release records of home-schooled stu- Mr. CHABOT, Mr. DIAZ-BALART, Mr. R03-OAR-2010-0158; FRL-9447-7] received Au- dents; to the Committee on Education and ANDREWS, Mr. ROYCE, and Mr. BUR- gust 3, 2011, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); the Workforce. TON of Indiana): to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. By Mr. GOHMERT (for himself, Mr. H.R. 2918. A bill to strengthen and clarify 3099. A letter from the Director, Regu- BURGESS, Mr. ROSS of Florida, Mr. the commercial, cultural, and other rela- latory Management Division, Environmental MICA, and Mr. FARENTHOLD): tions between the people of the United Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- H.R. 2911. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- cy’s final rule — Approval and Promulgation States and the people of Taiwan, as codified enue Code of 1986 to repeal the corporate in- in the Taiwan Relations Act, and for other of State Implementation Plans; State of Col- come tax; to the Committee on Ways and orado; Attainment Demonstration for the purposes; to the Committee on Foreign Af- Means. fairs, and in addition to the Committees on 1997 8-Hour Ozone Standard, and Approval of By Mr. LARSEN of Washington (for Related Revisions [EPA-R08-OAR-2010-0285; the Judiciary, and Ways and Means, for a pe- himself and Mr. INSLEE): riod to be subsequently determined by the FRL-9276-8] received August 3, 2011, pursuant H.R. 2912. A bill to establish the San Juan to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Committee on Speaker, in each case for consideration of Islands National Conservation Area in the such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- Energy and Commerce. San Juan Islands, Washington, and for other 3100. A letter from the Director, Regu- tion of the committee concerned. purposes; to the Committee on Natural Re- latory Management Division, Environmental By Mr. BACHUS (for himself, Mr. sources. Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- ADERHOLT, Mr. BONNER, Mr. ROGERS By Mr. COFFMAN of Colorado (for cy’s final rule — Limited Federal Implemen- of Alabama, Mr. BROOKS, and Ms. SE- himself and Ms. FOXX): WELL): tation Plan; Prevention of Significant Dete- H.R. 2913. A bill to amend title 5, United rioration; California; North Coast Unified H.R. 2919. A bill to eliminate the reim- States Code, to provide for the termination bursement requirement for certain tornado Air Quality Management District [EPA-R09- of further retirement benefits for Members OAR-2011; FRL-9448-5] received August 3, shelters constructed with Federal assistance, of Congress, except the right to continue 2011, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the and for other purposes; to the Committee on participating in the Thrift Savings Plan; to Committee on Energy and Commerce. Transportation and Infrastructure. 3101. A letter from the Director, Regu- the Committee on House Administration, By Mr. CLARKE of Michigan: latory Management Division, Environmental and in addition to the Committee on Over- H.R. 2920. A bill to establish the Detroit Protection Agency, transmitting the Agen- sight and Government Reform, for a period Jobs Trust Fund; to the Committee on Ways cy’s final rule — Protection of Stratospheric to be subsequently determined by the Speak- and Means, and in addition to the Committee Ozone: Adjustments to the Allowance Sys- er, in each case for consideration of such pro- on Oversight and Government Reform, for a tem for Controlling HCFC Production, Im- visions as fall within the jurisdiction of the period to be subsequently determined by the port and Export [EPA-HQ-OAR-2010-1040; committee concerned. Speaker, in each case for consideration of FRL-9448-4] (RIN: 2060-AQ82) received August By Ms. SCHAKOWSKY (for herself, Ms. such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- 3, 2011, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to BASS of California, Mrs. tion of the committee concerned. the Committee on Energy and Commerce. CHRISTENSEN, Mr. CICILLINE, Mr. By Ms. CLARKE of New York: 3102. A letter from the Chief, Broadband COHEN, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. CUMMINGS, H.R. 2921. A bill to amend the Small Busi- Division, Wireless Telecommunications Bu- Ms. DELAURO, Ms. EDWARDS, Mr. ness Act with respect to assistance under reau, Federal Communications Commission, ELLISON, Ms. FUDGE, Mr. GRIJALVA, section 8(a) of that Act and goals for pro- transmitting the Commission’s final rule — Mr. GUTIERREZ, Mr. HASTINGS of Flor- curement contracts, and for other purposes; Amendment of Part 101 of the Commission’s ida, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. HOLT, Mr. to the Committee on Small Business. Rules to Facilitate the Use of Microwave for HONDA, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Ms. By Ms. DEGETTE: Wireless Backhaul and Other Uses and to JACKSON LEE of Texas, Mr. JOHNSON H.R. 2922. A bill to designate certain lands Provide Additional Flexibility to Broadcast of Georgia, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHN- in the State of Colorado as components of Auxiliary Service and Operational Fixed SON of Texas, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. KUCI- the National Wilderness Preservation Sys- Microwave Licensees Petition for Rule- NICH, Mr. LARSON of Connecticut, Ms. tem, and for other purposes; to the Com- making Filed by Fixed Wireless Communica- LEE, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. NADLER, mittee on Natural Resources. tions Coalition to Amend Part 101 of the Ms. NORTON, Mr. OLVER, Mr. RANGEL, By Mr. DONNELLY of Indiana: Commission’s Rules to Authorize 60 and Ms. RICHARDSON, Mr. SCOTT of Vir- H.R. 2923. A bill to direct the Secretary of 80MHx Channels in Certain Bands for ginia, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. STARK, Ms. Defense to establish a Quality Assurance Broadband Communications [WT Docket No.: WOOLSEY, Mr. FILNER, Ms. BROWN of Surveillance Plan for security contractors 10-153, RM-11602] received August 22, 2011, Florida, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Ms. operating in Afghanistan and in support of pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A); to the Com- CLARKE of New York, Ms. WATERS, other contingency operations; to the Com- mittee on Energy and Commerce. and Mr. COURTNEY): mittee on Armed Services.

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A bill to establish a smart card Mr. GUTIERREZ, Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Article I, Section 6, Clause 1 of the United pilot program under the Medicare program; Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Mr. KISSELL, Mr. States Constitution, as amended by the 27th to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in CARNAHAN, Ms. LEE, Mr. CONYERS, Amendment to the United States Constitu- addition to the Committee on Energy and Ms. FUDGE, Mr. WELCH, Mr. PETERS, tion. Commerce, for a period to be subsequently Mr. CLAY, Ms. HAHN, Mr. QUIGLEY, By Ms. SCHAKOWSKY: determined by the Speaker, in each case for Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. HASTINGS of Flor- H.R. 2914. consideration of such provisions as fall with- ida, Mr. CLARKE of Michigan, Ms. Congress has the power to enact this legis- in the jurisdiction of the committee con- CLARKE of New York, Ms. EDDIE BER- lation pursuant to the following: cerned. NICE JOHNSON of Texas, and Mr. GRI- Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 By Mr. GOWDY (for himself and Mr. JALVA): The Congress shall have Power to lay and MULVANEY): H. Con. Res. 78. Concurrent resolution sup- collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, H.R. 2926. A bill to abolish the National porting the goals and ideals of Sickle Cell to pay the Debts and provide for the common Labor Relations Board and to transfer its en- Disease Awareness Month; to the Committee Defence and general Welfare of the United forcement authority to the Department of on Education and the Workforce. States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises Justice and its oversight of elections to the By Mr. HASTINGS of Florida: shall be uniform throughout the United Office of Labor-Management Standards of H. Con. Res. 79. Concurrent resolution ex- States. the Department of Labor; to the Committee pressing the sense of Congress that Libya’s Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 on Education and the Workforce. frozen assets be utilized to pay for NATO’s No Money shall be drawn from the Treas- By Mr. GRIFFIN of Arkansas: military campaign; to the Committee on ury but in Consequence of Appropriations H.R. 2927. A bill to give priority to local Foreign Affairs. made by Law; and a regular Statement and and State artists when selecting appropriate Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of f artwork for Federal buildings; to the Com- all public Money shall be published from mittee on Transportation and Infrastruc- CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY time to time. ture. STATEMENT By Mr. MCCLINTOCK: By Mr. KILDEE: H.R. 2915. H.R. 2928. A bill to provide relief to the Pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII of Congress has the power to enact this legis- Pottawatomi Nation in Canada for settle- the Rules of the House of Representa- lation pursuant to the following: ment of certain claims against the United tives, the following statements are sub- Article I, section 1 and Article I, section 8, States; to the Committee on Natural Re- mitted regarding the specific powers clause 18 of the Constitution of the United sources. granted to Congress in the Constitu- States of America. By Mr. LABRADOR (for himself and tion to enact the accompanying bill or By Mr. CULBERSON: Mr. SIMPSON): joint resolution. H.R. 2916. H.R. 2929. A bill to amend the Endangered Congress has the power to enact this legis- Species Act of 1973 to provide an exception to By Mr. HULTGREN: lation pursuant to the following: that Act for actions carried out against griz- H.R. 2910. Tenth Amendment, Constitution of the zly bears in self-defense, defense of others, or Congress has the power to enact this legis- United States a reasonable belief of imminent danger; to lation pursuant to the following: By Mr. CULBERSON: the Committee on Natural Resources. Clause 3 of section 8 of article I of the Con- H.R. 2917. By Mr. MCHENRY: stitution. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 2930. A bill to amend the securities By Mr. GOHMERT: lation pursuant to the following: laws to provide for registration exemptions H.R. 2911. Tenth Amendment, Constitution of the for certain crowdfunded securities, and for Congress has the power to enact this legis- United States other purposes; to the Committee on Finan- lation pursuant to the following: By Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN: cial Services. U.S. Constitution Article I Section 8 H.R. 2918. By Mr. NADLER (for himself, Mr. Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To Congress has the power to enact this legis- JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. MORAN, and lay and collect Taxes... lation pursuant to the following: Mr. BLUMENAUER): U.S Constitution—Amendment XVI Article 1, Section 8. H.R. 2931. A bill to amend title 31, United By Mr. LARSEN of Washington: (The Constitutional authorities cited in States Code, to eliminate the statutory cap H.R. 2912. our Committee reports on legislation during on the public debt and to place limitations Congress has the power to enact this legis- the past several years are highlighted on the on the purposes for which public debt may be lation pursuant to the following: other side of this page. issued; to the Committee on Ways and Under Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitu- The overwhelming majority have cited Means. tion, ‘‘the House of Representatives shall be ‘‘article I, section 8 of the Constitution.’’ By Mr. PENCE: composed of Members chosen every second A handful had slightly more specific cita- H.R. 2932. A bill to maintain the free flow Year by the People of the several States.’’ As tions to ‘‘article I, section 8, clause 18 of the of information to the public by providing described in Article 1, Section 1 ‘‘all legisla- Constitution.’’ conditions for the federally compelled disclo- tive powers herein granted shall be vested in A couple bills with trade/sanctions compo- sure of information by certain persons con- a Congress.’’ I was elected in 2010 to serve in nents have cited ‘‘article I, section 8, clauses nected with the news media; to the Com- the 112th Congress as certified by the Sec- 3 and 18 of the Constitution.’’ mittee on the Judiciary. retary of State of Washington state. And one anti-trafficking bill (with signifi- By Mr. POLIS: Article III, Section 2 states that the Su- cant domestic law enforcement components) H.R. 2933. A bill to amend title 17, United preme Court has ‘‘the judicial power’’ that cited ‘‘article I, section 8 of the Constitution States Code, to remove the exclusion from ‘‘shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Con- Federal copyright of sound recordings fixed arising under this Constitution, the laws of stitution.’’ before February 15, 1972; to the Committee the United States.’’ Article II, Section 1 of The one consistent exception is Resolu- on the Judiciary. the Constitution provides that the Supreme tions of Inquiry, which always cite ‘‘article By Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of Cali- Court is the supreme law of the land when I, section 1 of the Constitution.’’) fornia (for herself, Mr. CAMPBELL, stating ‘‘The judicial power of the United By Mr. BACHUS: and Mr. ROYCE): States, shall be vested in one supreme H.R. 2919. H.R. 2934. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- Court.’’ Congress has the power to enact this legis- enue Code of 1986 to clarify the treatment of The power of judicial review of the Su- lation pursuant to the following: certain retirement plan contributions picked preme Court was upheld in Marbury v Madi- Article I, section 8, clause 1 (relating to up by governmental employers; to the Com- son in 1803, giving the Supreme Court the au- the general welfare of the United States). mittee on Ways and Means. thority to strike down any law it deems un- By Mr. CLARKE of Michigan: By Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky: constitutional. Members of Congress, having H.R. 2920. H.J. Res. 79. A joint resolution making been elected and taken the oath of office, are Congress has the power to enact this legis- continuing appropriations for fiscal year given the authority to introduce legislation lation pursuant to the following: 2012, and for other purposes; to the Com- and only the Supreme Court, as established Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the Con- mittee on Appropriations, and in addition to by the Constitution and precedent, can de- stitution of the United States the Committees on the Budget, and Ways termine the Constitutionality of this author- By Ms. CLARKE of New York: and Means, for a period to be subsequently ity. H.R. 2921.

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Congress has the power to enact this legis- By Mr. PENCE: H.R. 923: Mr. DIAZ-BALART. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 2932. H.R. 931: Mr. SCALISE. This bill, the ‘‘Expanding Opportunities for Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 984: Ms. JENKINS. Small Business Act of 2011’’ is enacted pursu- lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 1001: Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Mr. ant to the power granted to Congress under The Congress enacts this bill pursuant to PETERSON, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. GALLEGLY, and Article I of the United States Constitution Amendment I of the United States Constitu- Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. and amends the Small Business Act with re- tion. H.R. 1090: Mr. SCHOCK. spect to assistance under 8(a) of that Act and By Mr. POLIS: H.R. 1167: Mr. ROYCE, Mr. FLORES, and Mr. goals for procurement contracts. H.R. 2933. POMPEO. By Ms. DEGETTE: Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 1172: Mr. LEWIS of Georgia. H.R. 2922. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 1173: Mr. WALDEN. Congress has the power to enact this legis- Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 H.R. 1175: Mr. MCNERNEY. lation pursuant to the following: The Congress shall have Power to regulate H.R. 1195: Mr. CICILLINE. Article I, section 8 and Article IV, section Commerce with foreign Nations, and among H.R. 1259: Mr. ROGERS of Michigan, Mr. 3 of the Constitution of the United States. the several States, and with the Indian TURNER, Ms. GRANGER, and Mr. CRENSHAW. By Mr. DONNELLY of Indiana: Tribes. H.R. 1283: Mr. SARBANES. H.R. 2923. By Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of Cali- H.R. 1297: Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Congress has the power to enact this legis- fornia: H.R. 1307: Mr. MANZULLO. lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 2934. Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution H.R. 1314: Mr. CICILLINE. Congress has the power to enact this legis- (Clauses 12, 13, 14 and 16) grants Congress the H.R. 1335: Ms. MCCOLLUM. lation pursuant to the following: authority to raise and support Armies, pro- H.R. 1340: Mr. CHAFFETZ. Section 8 of Article I: The Congress shall vide and maintain a Navy, make rules for H.R. 1348: Mr. DOYLE. have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, the government and regulation of the land H.R. 1356: Mr. MANZULLO. imposts and excises, to pay the debts and and naval forces, and regulate the militia. H.R. 1366: Mrs. NAPOLITANO and Mr. provide for the common defense and general By Mr. FORBES: BUTTERFIELD. welfare of the United States; but all duties, H.R. 2924. H.R. 1370: Mrs. CAPITO. Congress has the power to enact this legis- imposts and excises shall be uniform H.R. 1404: Mr. KISSELL and Mr. CICILLINE. lation pursuant to the following: throughout the United States; H.R. 1416: Mr. WATT. Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 Amendment XVI: The Congress shall have H.R. 1418: Mr. FARR. By Mr. GERLACH: power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, H.R. 1427: Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi and H.R. 2925. from whatever source derived, without ap- Mr. CHAFFETZ. Congress has the power to enact this legis- portionment among the several states, and H.R. 1456: Mr. HINCHEY. lation pursuant to the following: without regard to any census or enumera- H.R. 1465: Mr. OLVER and Mrs. MALONEY. The Congress enacts this bill pursuant to tion. H.R. 1558: Mr. THORNBERRY, Mr. SHUSTER, Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article I of the By Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky: and Mr. HULTGREN. United States Constitution. H.J. Res. 79. H.R. 1612: Ms. SUTTON. By Mr. GOWDY: Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 1672: Mrs. MILLER of Michigan, Mr. H.R. 2926. lation pursuant to the following: BILBRAY, and Ms. WOOLSEY. Congress has the power to enact this legis- The principal constitutional authority for H.R. 1699: Mr. WALSH of Illinois. lation pursuant to the following: this legislation is clause 7 of section 9 of ar- H.R. 1744: Mrs. CAPITO and Mr. WALDEN. Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. ticle I of the Constitution of the United H.R. 1749: Mr. ROTHMAN of New Jersey, Mr. By Mr. GRIFFIN of Arkansas: States (the appropriation power), which CONYERS, Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut, Ms. H.R. 2927. states: ‘‘No Money shall be drawn from the HOCHUL, Ms. LEE, Mr. ELLISON, Mr. NADLER, Congress has the power to enact this legis- Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropria- Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas, and Ms. EDWARDS. lation pursuant to the following: tions made by Law . . . .’’ In addition, clause H.R. 1756: Mr. PETRI. Article I, Section 8, Clause 18. 1 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution H.R. 1834: Mr. NUGENT and Mr. MARCHANT. The Congress shall have Power to make all (the spending power) provides: ‘‘The Con- H.R. 1864: Mr. FORBES. Laws which shall be necessary and proper for gress shall have the Power . . . to pay the H.R. 1916: Mr. KEATING and Mr. JOHNSON of carrying into Execution the foregoing Pow- Debts and provide for the common Defence Illinois. ers, and all other Powers vested by the Con- and general Welfare of the United States . . H.R. 1941: Mr. GONZALEZ and Mr. LIPINSKI. stitution in the Government of the United . .’’ Together, these specific constitutional H.R. 1971: Mr. ROSS of Arkansas. States, or in any Department or Officer provisions establish the congressional power H.R. 1993: Ms. GRANGER. thereof. of the purse, granting Congress the author- H.R. 2009: Mr. MACK. By Mr. KILDEE: ity to appropriate funds, to determine their H.R. 2016: Mr. MCNERNEY. H.R. 2928. purpose, amount, and period of availability, H.R. 2042: Mr. KIND and Mr. CALVERT. Congress has the power to enact this legis- and to set forth terms and conditions gov- H.R. 2069: Mr. LARSEN of Washington. lation pursuant to the following: erning their use. H.R. 2077: Mr. WALDEN. Section 8: The Congress shall have Power H.R. 2092: Mr. KINGSTON. . . . To regulate Commerce with foreign Na- f H.R. 2108: Mr. SMITH of Washington. tions, and among the several States, and H.R. 2193: Ms. MOORE. with the Indian Tribes. ADDITIONAL SPONSORS H.R. 2236: Mr. MCGOVERN. By Mr. LABRADOR: Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors H.R. 2929. H.R. 2245: Ms. NORTON, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, were added to public bills and resolu- and Ms. ESHOO. Congress has the power to enact this legis- tions as follows: lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 2250: Mr. CUELLAR and Mr. MANZULLO. Article I, Section 8, Clause 18: To make all H.R. 23: Mr. LOBIONDO and Ms. HANABUSA. H.R. 2267: Ms. PINGREE of Maine, Mr. Laws which shall be necessary and proper for H.R. 36: Mr. CONYERS. BUTTERFIELD, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. LOEBSACK, carrying into Execution the foregoing Pow- H.R. 58: Mrs. HARTZLER. Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. HOLT, and Mr. MEEHAN. ers, and all other Powers vested by this Con- H.R. 104: Mr. DOLD. H.R. 2299: Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina, Mr. stitution in the Government of the United H.R. 192: Mr. BLUMENAUER. SESSIONS, Mr. GRAVES of Missouri, and Mr. States, or in any Department or Officer H.R. 250: Ms. CLARKE of New York. DENHAM. thereof. H.R. 333: Mr. SARBANES. H.R. 2304: Mr. CALVERT. By Mr. MCHENRY: H.R. 369: Mr. KINGSTON. H.R. 2307: Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of California. H.R. 2930. H.R. 409: Mr. SCHIFF. H.R. 2324: Mr. STARK. Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 420: Mr. DUFFY. H.R. 2369: Mr. ANDREWS, Ms. BROWN of lation pursuant to the following: H.R. 451: Mr. JACKSON of Illinois. Florida, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Mr. CAMPBELL, Article One, Section Eight. H.R. 618: Mr. CICILLINE. Mr. PALAZZO, Mr. PASTOR of Arizona, Mr. By Mr. NADLER: H.R. 640: Mr. ALTMIRE and Mr. OLVER. BILBRAY, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Mr. BRADY H.R. 2931. H.R. 646: Mr. CONYERS. of Texas, Mr. BRALEY of Iowa, Mr. CLEAVER, Congress has the power to enact this legis- H.R. 674: Mr. PETERS, Mrs. ADAMS, Mr. Mr. COOPER, Mr. CRAVAACK, Mr. DENT, Ms. lation pursuant to the following: WALDEN, Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN, Mr. PEARCE, EDWARDS, Mrs. ELLMERS, Mr. HONDA, Mr. Art. I, sec. 8, cl. 1 (to pay Debts), cl. 18 (To and Mr. ROONEY. HUIZENGA of Michigan, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. make all Laws which shall be necessary and H.R. 687: Mr. SARBANES. LEVIN, Mrs. LOWEY, Mrs. MALONEY, Mr. proper for carrying into Execution the fore- H.R. 719: Mr. CALVERT. GEORGE MILLER of California, Mr. PALLONE, going Powers, and all other Powers vested by H.R. 734: Mr. ROSS of Florida. Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, Mr. SCOTT of this Constitution in the Government of the H.R. 735: Mr. HUIZENGA of Michigan. Virginia, Mr. STARK, Mr. TERRY, Mr. THOMP- United States, or in any Department or Offi- H.R. 817: Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee. SON of California, Ms. WATERS, and Mr. cer thereof). H.R. 876: Ms. SCHWARTZ. WATT.

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H.R. 2401: Mr. ROONEY, Mr. FLAKE, and Mr. H.R. 2834: Ms. JENKINS, Mr. POMPEO, Mr. Mr. ROE of Tennessee, Mr. HERGER, Mr. FARENTHOLD. LATTA, Mr. MCCOTTER, Mr. WITTMAN, Mr. PEARCE, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. KING- H.R. 2407: Mr. TIBERI. SHUSTER, Mr. THORNBERRY, Mr. SENSEN- STON, Mr. BILBRAY, Mr. ROSS of Florida, Mr. H.R. 2432: Mr. MANZULLO. BRENNER, Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia, and BURTON of Indiana, and Mr. WESTMORELAND. H.R. 2453: Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. HUELSKAMP. H.R. 2457: Mr. MCKINLEY. H.R. 2840: Mr. LANDRY. f H.R. 2471: Mr. WAXMAN. H.R. 2847: Mr. ROE of Tennessee. H.R. 2483: Mr. MANZULLO. H.R. 2848: Mr. POMPEO and Mr. PITTS. CONGRESSIONAL EARMARKS, LIM- H.R. 2485: Mr. OWENS. H.R. 2852: Mr. PRICE of Georgia, Mr. ITED TAX BENEFITS, OR LIM- H.R. 2499: Mr. TONKO. QUAYLE, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. PEARCE, ITED TARIFF BENEFITS H.R. 2505: Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA and Ms. Mr. CAMPBELL, Mr. HERGER, and Mrs. LUM- WOOLSEY. MIS. Under clause 9 of rule XXI, lists or H.R. 2514: Mr. ROYCE. H.R. 2853: Ms. SLAUGHTER. statements on congressional earmarks, H.R. 2524: Ms. WOOLSEY. H.R. 2854: Mrs. ADAMS, Mr. LONG, Mr. limited tax benefits, or limited tariff H.R. 2528: Mr. WOMACK and Mr. LATHAM. CHAFFETZ, Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee, Mr. benefits were submitted as follows: H.R. 2529: Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio and Mr. CRAWFORD, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. BILIRAKIS, OFFERED BY MR. CAMP ROSS of Florida. Mr. PEARCE, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. The provisions that warranted a referral to H.R. 2568: Mr. GRIMM. SOUTHERLAND, Mr. RIBBLE, and Mr. the Committee on Ways and Means in H.R. H.R. 2569: Mr. MORAN. HUELSKAMP. H.R. 2579: Mrs. NOEM. H.R. 2855: Mr. GRIJALVA, Ms. FUDGE, Ms. 2883, the Child and Family Services Improve- H.R. 2580: Mr. ROSS of Florida and Mr. PAS- LEE, and Ms. CLARKE of New York. ment and Innovation Act, do not contain any CRELL. H.R. 2865: Mr. LONG and Mr. WOLF. congressional earmarks, limited tax bene- H.R. 2634: Mr. GRIJALVA. H.R. 2867: Mr. LAMBORN. fits, or limited tariff benefits as defined in H.R. 2674: Mr. DICKS. H.R. 2882: Mrs. MALONEY, Mr. SERRANO, and clause 9 of rule XXI. H.R. 2681: Mr. ROONEY, Mr. WOMACK, Mr. Mr. RANGEL. OFFERED BY MR. RYAN OF WISCONSIN BENISHEK, Ms. JENKINS, and Mr. WOODALL. H.R. 2884: Ms. RICHARDSON, Mr. HINOJOSA, The provisions that warranted a referral to H.R. 2752: Mr. FLORES, Mr. LANDRY, and Mr. STARK, and Mr. CLAY. the Committee on the Budget in H.R. 2883, Mr. BRADY of Texas. H.R. 2885: Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. CAMP- the Child and Family Services Improvement H.R. 2759: Ms. RICHARDSON. BELL, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. BILBRAY, Mr. and Innovation Act, do not contain any con- H.R. 2760: Mr. ROTHMAN of New Jersey. CHAFFETZ, Mr. ROGERS of Michigan, Mr. gressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or H.R. 2763: Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. FILNER, Mr. YOUNG of Florida, Mr. FORBES, Mr. ROYCE, limited tariff benefits as defined in clause 9 MORAN, and Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. MCCAUL, Mr. WEST, Mr. YOUNG of Alas- of rule XXI. H.R. 2815: Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. ka, Mr. ROE of Tennessee, Mr. ROSKAM, Mr. OFFERED BY MR. ROGERS OF KENTUCKY H.R. 2820: Mr. CLARKE of Michigan. KING of New York, and Mr. PALAZZO. H.R. 2822: Ms. BORDALLO, Mr. YOUNG of H.J. Res. 20: Mr. WOODALL. H.J. Res. 79, the Continuing Appropriations Alaska, and Mr. PIERLUISI. H.J. Res. 69: Mr. PIERLUISI. Resolution, 2012, does not contain any con- H.R. 2830: Mr. CAPUANO and Mr. ADERHOLT. H.J. Res. 72: Mr. DEFAZIO. gressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or H.R. 2833: Mr. SMITH of Nebraska, Mr. H. Con. Res. 39: Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio. limited tariff benefits as defined in clause 9 HUELSKAMP, Mr. GINGREY of Georgia, Mr. H. Res. 134: Mr. NUGENT. of rule XXI. CONAWAY, Mr. PAULSEN, Mrs. ROBY, Mr. H. Res. 137: Mr. MORAN, Ms. WILSON of DIAZ-BALART, Mrs. MYRICK, Mr. SCHWEIKERT, Florida, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. KEATING, Mr. NEAL, f Mr. PENCE, Mr. FLORES, Mr. DUNCAN of South and Mr. OLVER. Carolina, Mr. BUCSHON, Mr. ROE of Ten- H. Res. 241: Mr. AUSTRIA. DELETIONS OF SPONSORS FROM nessee, Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. H. Res. 333: Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin and Mr. PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS CAMPBELL, Mr. FLEISCHMANN, Mr. HUNTER, CARDOZA. Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors Mr. SOUTHERLAND, Mr. LANDRY, Mr. FLEM- H. Res. 378: Mr. TOWNS. ING, Mr. MCHENRY, Mr. PRICE of Georgia, Mr. H. Res. 385: Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. were deleted from public bills and reso- HARRIS, Mr. GUINTA, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, H. Res. 394: Mr. FLEMING, Mr. FLORES, Mr. lutions as follows: Mr. AUSTRIA, and Mr. ROKITA. DUNCAN of South Carolina, Mr. MULVANEY, H.R. 2881: Mr. Hastings of Washington.

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Vol. 157 WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2011 No. 136 Senate The Senate met at 9:30 a.m. and was KIRSTEN E. GILLIBRAND, a Senator from ator said he doesn’t want to vote; he called to order by the Honorable the State of New York, to perform the just wants to hold up the bill. He said KIRSTEN E. GILLIBRAND, a Senator from duties of the Chair. if we put in what we got from the the State of New York. DANIEL K. INOUYE, House and stuck his provision in that, President pro tempore. then he would be happy. Well, I guess PRAYER Mrs. GILLIBRAND thereupon as- anyone would. It is a pretty good way The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- sumed the chair as Acting President to legislate around here—just be a dic- fered the following prayer: pro tempore. tator and say: Either take this or leave Let us pray. f it. That isn’t the way things work As we come into Your presence around here. We have to have votes on RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY today, O Lord, we, like Isaiah of old, issues to find out how people feel. LEADER need to be cleansed from our sinful- I am convinced his issue would lose ness. Forgive us for our failures and The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- overwhelmingly, but he is holding up cleanse us from all unrighteousness. pore. The majority leader is recog- this legislation, and we are in a posi- Today, use our lawmakers so that nized. tion now legislatively that I can’t get their actions will help provide for the f to this bill. We cannot get to this bill prior to Friday, when the FAA expires. security and well-being of all people. SCHEDULE Sustain our Senators with the protec- So it is unfortunate that is the posi- tion of Your providence and give them Mr. REID. Madam President, fol- tion we are in. One Senator is holding Your peace. Give them also a spirit of lowing leader remarks, the Senate will this up, and what it will do is—the unity and the wisdom to have respect be in morning business for 1 hour. The highway bill does not expire on Friday; one for the other. Republicans will control the first half FAA does. But they are a package. If Lord, thank You for the redemption and the majority will control the final this continues, we will have about You provide for Your people. Holy and half. Following morning business, the 80,000 people out of work by Saturday, awesome is Your Name. Amen. Senate will resume consideration of 4,000 who work for the FAA and about the motion to proceed to H.J. Res. 66, 70,000 or 75,000 who are working on air- f which is now a resolution regarding port construction jobs. In Las Vegas, PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Burma sanctions and the legislative ve- for example, there is a new tower being The Honorable KIRSTEN E. hicle for additional FEMA funding. We built because of McCarran Field being GILLIBRAND led the Pledge of Alle- expect to be in consideration of this overwhelmed—the old tower can’t han- giance, as follows: legislation today. We also hope to con- dle things well—and those people will sider the FAA and highway extension, I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the be laid off. That is the way it is all United States of America, and to the Repub- which was received from the House yes- over the country. That is very unfortu- lic for which it stands, one nation under God, terday. Senators will be notified when nate. indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. votes are scheduled. I really appreciate, Madam Presi- f f dent, and I have tried to say individ- ually—I have been to each Republican APPOINTMENT OF ACTING FEMA VICTIMS Senator—the Senators who have voted PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE Mr. REID. Madam President, the to help us move forward on funding for The PRESIDING OFFICER. The House sent us a package, and I appre- FEMA, I really appreciate it. As you clerk will please read a communication ciate that very much. It funds the know, we have a majority, but it is not to the Senate from the President pro highway bill for 6 months, and it funds a huge majority, and to get things done tempore (Mr. INOUYE). the FEMA bill for 4 months. That is on issues that are specialized, we need The assistant bill clerk read the fol- terrific. We should move to this as seven Republicans, and we have eight lowing letter: quickly as we can; however, we are told Republicans in this instance who U.S. SENATE, it is going to be held up by the Repub- helped us pass this legislation. All the PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, licans. If someone wants to have a vote Democratic Senators voted for this, Washington, DC, September 14, 2011. on an amendment as it relates to this, and we got those Republicans. This al- To the Senate: I will be happy to discuss this with the lows us now to fund FEMA. Under the provisions of rule I, para- Republican leader and see if we can I have told my friends on the Repub- graph 3, of the Standing Rules of the work something out. In the instance I lican side of the aisle, if it is some- Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable am talking about, however, the Sen- thing that—if they want to change the

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In Nebraska, my a couple of women; one is a tropical RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME home State, more than 19,000 jobs and storm, and the other is a hurricane. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- more than $5.5 billion in revenue were They are not spending money other pore. Under the previous order, the directly tied to exports last year. places. Why? Because they don’t have leadership time is reserved. In trade discussions, we often hear the money. about the need to level the playing f As the Presiding Officer knows, there field. Well, these agreements do ex- are people in her State who have lost MORNING BUSINESS actly that. They eliminate tariffs and a whole host of other barriers on most their homes. This is all up and down The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- agricultural products, including prod- the coast, from the coast of Florida up pore. Under the previous order, the ucts that are important to my State: to Maine, and even places inward. As Senate will be in a period of morning beef, corn, soybeans, and pork. No we talked about yesterday, some of the business for 1 hour, with Senators per- doubt about it, they increase the eco- very severe damage was not on the mitted to speak therein for up to 10 nomic opportunities for Nebraska coastline but, for example, in the State minutes each, with the time equally di- of Vermont, the worst storm likely farmers and ranchers, for businesses vided and controlled between the two and for workers. they have ever had, and those people leaders or their designees, with the Re- are trying to get from one place to the Well, for 3 years, we have heard the publicans controlling the first half and President say the right thing. In fact, next, but they have scores of bridges the majority controlling the final half. that are inoperable. And that money— every time he would say something what money they have left in FEMA— f about this, I thought, finally, the trade agreements are going to bust loose and will run out I think he said on the 25th. MEASURES PLACED ON THE CAL- we are going to have an opportunity to If things keep going the way they are, ENDAR—S. 1549, H.R. 2832, AND on the 25th of this month, they will be vote on them. H.R. 2887 He said in last year’s State of the out of money—no money. Mr. REID. Madam President, there Union: So we need to get this done. Proce- are three bills at the desk due for a sec- durally, we are on this, and I can’t If America sits on the sidelines while other ond reading. Nations sign trade deals, we will lose the move to the highway bill and the FAA The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- chance to create jobs on our shores. bill. And, I repeat, the FAA bill ex- pore. The clerk will report the bills by Then again in May, the President pires. So I hope we can have something title for the second time en bloc. called for a ‘‘robust, forward-looking worked out with this Senator so we can The bill clerk read as follows: trade agenda that emphasizes exports get this bill done. and domestic job growth.’’ The disasters facing this country are A bill (S. 1549) to provide tax relief for American workers and businesses, to put Just last week, the President noted untoward. Forty-eight States have al- workers back on the job while rebuilding and that now is the time. He said, of ‘‘a se- ready had emergency declarations. modernizing America, and to provide path- ries of trade agreements that would Some States have had multiple emer- ways back to work for Americans looking for make it easier for American companies gency declarations. Only two States— jobs. to sell their products in Panama, Co- West Virginia and Michigan—have not A bill (H.R. 2832) to extend the Generalized lombia and South Korea,’’ now is the had emergency declarations. We have System of Preferences, and for other pur- time. If now is the time, why is the ad- poses. had in the State of Texas, as an exam- ministration continuing to fail to act? ple, 20,000 fires since the first of the A bill (H.R. 2887) to provide an extension of surface and air transportation programs, and It has been 1,538 days since the Korea year; on Sunday alone, 19 fires. Mil- for other purposes. agreement was signed. It has been 1,540 lions of acres have burned, and 2,000 Mr. REID. Madam President, I would days since the Panama agreement was homes have burned to the ground. That signed. It has been 1,758 days since we is what FEMA is all about. object to any further proceedings with respect to these three bills. completed negotiations with Colombia. FEMA is an organization that is rel- As I said, I have colleagues with me The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- atively new, but as a country we have today who are in a much better posi- pore. Objection is heard. The bills will been helping people who have experi- tion than I would be to explain the be placed on the calendar. enced disasters since we have been a positive impacts of these trade agree- The Senator from Nebraska. country. ments. I am going to ask that Senator In the early 1800s, there was a big fire f ROBERTS speak first, Senator PORTMAN, in the State of New Hampshire. I be- ORDER OF PROCEDURE Senator HOEVEN, Senator BLUNT, and lieve the date was 1813. The Federal Senator ISAKSON. It is my hope that if Government stepped in to help with Mr. JOHANNS. Madam President, I there is time permitting, I will wrap the rebuilding there. That is the way it ask unanimous consent that I be al- up. should be. That is what our country is lowed to engage in a colloquy with my I ask Senator ROBERTS, as former all about. I am sorry, Madam Presi- Republican colleagues—Senators ROB- chairman of the House Agriculture sub- dent, it was 1803. In 1803, the Federal ERTS, PORTMAN, HOEVEN, BLUNT, and committee and ranking member of the Government played a role in rebuilding ISAKSON—and in the event the minority Senate Agriculture Committee today, after a calamity in New Hampshire. leader does appear to offer comments, how important are these agreements to Congress passed legislation that year that we interrupt our colloquy for the agriculture and job creation in the to help New Hampshire recover from minority leader to speak. United States? the devastating fire they had. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Mr. ROBERTS. Madam President, I FEMA was established in 1979. To pore. Without objection, it is so or- thank my colleague and dear friend this point, it appears this could very dered. from Nebraska for the question. likely be the worst disaster year in the f In the end, the biggest consequence history of the country. Irene alone is for inaction that is now facing our Na- one of the five worst disasters mone- TRADE AGREEMENTS tion, our biggest challenge, is jobs. In tarily we have had in this country. Mr. JOHANNS. Madam President, I regards to his question, the three pend- So I hope my Republican colleagues rise today with my colleagues to talk ing trade agreements add up to $13 bil- will work with us and help us move about trade and the importance of lion in additional exports and an esti- these things along. It is important that trade and specifically to talk about mated 250,000 jobs. From the agricul- we do that. It is important that we do three pending trade agreements. And tural perspective, the three pending

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For folks on the farm, these ex- Senator PORTMAN is an expert on this jobs and need those exports. port markets are absolutely critical. issue. There is not anybody in this Sen- We have to move forward. It is really Approximately one-third of our crop ate who is more of an expert on trade. a crime that we have not been able to production is exported. For wheat, that If you apply the administration’s own provide our farmers, workers, and serv- number jumps to one-half. metrics, how many jobs will be cre- ice providers these opportunities. The administration’s prolonged delay ated—I am not talking about lost but Mr. ROBERTS. Will the Senator is causing U.S. businesses and pro- will be created by these pending agree- yield for one quick question? ducers to simply lose market share. We ments? Mr. PORTMAN. Yes. Absolutely. are losing out. Other countries are not Mr. PORTMAN. I thank my colleague Mr. ROBERTS. The Senator has been waiting. They are enacting trade agree- from Kansas, who has just made the there and done the negotiating. He ments without the United States. case eloquently as to why we need to knows these trade agreements not only Let me give a very good example. move forward. apply to our exports but our national The Colombia-Canada trade agreement To answer his question, when you security. What has this continued went into force on August 15 of this apply the metrics the President of the delay done—what does it do to the year. Already, Nutresa, the largest United States and his administration credibility of the people who are actu- food processor in Colombia, has an- have used for these three trade agree- ally negotiating, our trade representa- nounced it will source all of its wheat ments alone, they would create 250,000 tives? from Canada to take advantage of the new jobs. I ask my colleagues, with 9 Mr. PORTMAN. Unfortunately, I lower duties the Canadian wheat will percent unemployment and continued think some of these countries—all receive from the trade agreement. bad economic news, can’t we use those three of which are great allies of the Nutresa’s wheat demand alone rep- jobs? By the way, jobs that are related United States: Panama, Colombia, and resents 50 percent of all wheat imports to trade tend to be higher paying, tend South Korea—feel as though the to that country. Our Kansas Farm Bu- to have more benefits. This is exactly United States has let them down. reau estimates that Kansas farmers what we need to do in this Senate and We are going to move forward here, I stand to lose $21 million from lost in the House and here in Washington— believe. I am more optimistic than the wheat sales alone and $38 million from put the partisanship aside and move Senator from Kansas. I believe the all agricultural exports just by doing forward on what makes sense to create President will finally send these for- nothing on the trade agreement. jobs. ward. He has to. The logic is difficult Soon after the United States nego- I can’t think of anything that would to escape. Why wouldn’t you? And that tiated the trade agreement with Korea, have a more immediate impact on is good. We will be able to move for- the European Union followed suit. In those exporters Senator ROBERTS ward, I hope, with not just opening July, the Korea-European Union trade talked about, who right now are seeing more markets but helping on our rela- agreement went into effect. According their market share eroded because the tionships with these incredibly impor- to Korean customs, within the first 29 United States is sitting on its hands. In tant allies. But in the meantime, there days of July, I say to my friend, the 2006, the Colombia agreement was fi- has been damage done. The Senator is European exports were up 34 percent. nalized. It has been tinkered with since absolutely right. I think they believe Get this one: Notably, aerospace then, but we are talking 5 years ago. It in some respects that the rug has been equipment increased by a whopping is unbelievable. When we have sat on pulled out from under them. They 1,693 percent. That is astounding. Kan- our hands and not moved forward with made huge concessions and commit- sas is a major player in the aviation giving our farmers and our workers and ments to the United States and politi- sector, exporting $2.7 billion in trans- our service providers the chance to go cally took great risks. portation equipment last year. As the into that Colombian market, you are Frankly, in Colombia and Panama, aviation capital of the world, Wichita’s exactly right, they have gone ahead where they moved forward imme- aviation companies and 17,000 workers and made trade agreements with other diately to ratify these agreements in have much to lose in trying to compete folks. their legislature, it wasn’t just the ad- against the European Union. Colombia is a great example. Back ministration, it was the elected rep- It is long overdue time for the Presi- when we negotiated this agreement and resentatives of the people, as we are, dent to put some action behind his completed it—and I was the U.S. Trade who took risks to say: Yes, we want to words. Send the three trade agree- Representative then, as the Senator in- be a partner with the United States of ments to Congress immediately. dicated, and I negotiated with the America, the greatest economy on the I am going to make a statement that then-President of Colombia, President face of the Earth and this beacon of I regret to say. Trade assistance not- Uribe, who made lots of concessions, hope and opportunity, and here we are withstanding, I am very sad to say that including on manufacturing and agri- in America letting them down. I do not believe we are going to see any cultural services. At that time, we had So in both its commercial impacts on trade agreement this year or the next. a 71-percent market share in terms of the United States—we have lost mar- I hope my prediction is not correct. exports of agricultural products— ket share, we have lost jobs because of This is ridiculous. wheat, corn, and soybeans—into Co- it, but it also has had an impact, as Every third foggy night, the Presi- lombia—a 71-percent market share. Senator ROBERTS says, in terms of our dent makes a speech and says: We need Today, that market share is about 26 standing in the world. these trade agreements. We are losing percent. Why? Because after we com- We have to move forward not just market share. pleted our agreement with Colombia, with these three, but the important Well, I don’t see the trade agree- they engaged with other countries, in- point is that we have to move forward ments. These are not the trade agree- cluding the Mercosur countries of Ar- with additional agreements. There are ments. Maybe somebody can find them gentina and Brazil, and now they are over 100 trade agreements being nego- here on the floor or in the House. buying their products instead from tiated right now around the world, and Maybe they are somewhere. But I those countries that got their act to- because the United States does not think they are in the White House, and gether and moved forward with trade have a trade promotion authority, the until we get the politics out of this and agreements that this President will not ability for the President to negotiate the President sends the trade agree- get his act together on and send to us. and bring an agreement back here for ments here, what on Earth is he doing As Senator ROBERTS said, just re- an up-or-down vote, we are not engaged saying we should be passing these trade cently, in August, this summer, they in these agreements. We are engaged in

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This Congress, I hope, will ator ROBERTS, with Senator BLUNT and in trade, a million jobs in this country address it in the context of the votes Senator ISAKSON. I think, coming from are created. How important is that? we are going to have in connection our different States, we show how im- The United States-South Korea free with the trade agreements. We are portant these trade agreements are not trade agreement alone means more going to promote getting the United only to our individual States across than a quarter of a million jobs, more States back in the game of expanding the country but how important these than $10 billion in increased U.S. ex- our trade and helping U.S. jobs. trade agreements are to our Nation ports to that country alone. I cannot By the way, it was mentioned earlier right now. think of a time when it is more impor- that it is not just that we have the op- When we are talking trade, we are tant to create those jobs than right portunity to create over 200,000 jobs. It talking jobs. We need to create more now when we have more than 14 mil- is also that if we do not move forward jobs in this country, and it is the pri- lion people out of work and many more on these three agreements, the U.S. vate sector that creates jobs. It is busi- who are either not working because Chamber of Commerce has done some ness investment, it is companies that they have not been able to get a job or analysis showing we would lose 380,000 create jobs. Our job, our task, our role who are underemployed. Unemploy- jobs. is to create an environment where our ment is more than 9 percent. This sort of goes both ways. There is companies and our entrepreneurs and This is one of the ways we create a cost to not moving forward, and that American ingenuity that built the that environment that gets our people is also hundreds of thousands of jobs greatest economic engine in the his- back to work by empowering the pri- we desperately need in States such as tory of the world—this country, this vate sector to make that investment Ohio and the States represented by the economy, this U.S. economy—we have and create those jobs. Senators who are here with us on the to create that environment so they can I was just back in North Dakota, and floor today. The International Trade invest and create those jobs. one of the many events I went to was Commission now says these three One of the important ways we do that an expansion of one of the Caterpillar agreements alone would expand exports is with good trade agreements. Let’s company’s locations in West Fargo, annually by $13 billion—again meaning make sure our companies can export ND. They remanufacture a lot of their jobs and opportunity. their great products and services all equipment in West Fargo, ND. This It is time for us to move forward. over the world. We have to compete in equipment goes all over the world. It is Senator ROBERTS has talked about a global, high-tech economy, and these part of the huge machines that Cat what is happening with the European trade agreements let us do it. That is makes. They use these machines for ex- Union, which actually negotiated its why it is so important that we move cavating, for mining, road building, for agreements after we completed ours. all these things all over the world, and In the auto sector, by the way, there forward. Today, we are on the floor of the Sen- is an EU-Korea agreement that says they are the technology leader in the ate saying: Why do we have these trade the 8-percent tariff on imported cars world in this huge equipment. They agreements? Thursday night, we heard has already started being reduced. bought Bucyrus, which is huge in min- from the President that we need to That has resulted in the companies ing, so now they are big in the mining move forward with these trade agree- sending UK cars, including Hondas that business. Getting into places such as ments. We want to move forward with are being produced in the United King- Colombia and Panama is incredibly im- these trade agreements. We are ready dom—they are being exported to South portant for Caterpillar. It is not just to go. We have been for some time. In Korea. We have a Honda plant in Ohio. about creating jobs in North Dakota, fact, the Senators here on the floor and I visited it recently. There are 4,200 but think of the impact throughout the others have been working very hard to Ohio workers there. We want to export heartland in Indiana or in Illinois or, do everything we can to make sure we Hondas from Ohio to Korea. We can do as Senator ROBERTS talked about, agri- have cleared the path so these trade that with these export agreements. culture. It is time for us to move forward. It agreements can come to the Senate In North Dakota we have more cattle is not the time for us to play politics. floor. than people. I think we have more than We have to move forward because we It was not too long ago that Senator 3 million cattle. Right now to send need these jobs and because, again, the JOHANNS, myself, and Senator PORTMAN them to South Korea, we pay more United States should be at the fore- went with Senator MITCH MCCONNELL than 40 percent tariff. How do we com- front of these agreements in order to and Senator MORAN over to South pete with Argentina or Australia in not just protect the market share we Korea to meet with President Lee. He that situation? This is an opportunity. have but expand it. Ninety-five percent wants the agreements. He is ready to This is absolutely an opportunity. We of the consumers live outside of our go. As a matter of fact, he said, please need to reach out and grab it with both borders, and we need to access those ratify the agreements in your country, hands. We have the President right consumers. get them over to me, because I am now saying, pass those trade agree- I now ask, if I could, one of my col- ready to take that to my legislators ments. Absolutely. Please get them leagues to talk a little about his expe- and get this approved. down here to us. We have worked so rience in his State. Second, our President said there are hard to make sure we have cleared all JOHN HOEVEN was Governor of North some concerns we need to deal with as the hurdles, TAA, or whatever else is Dakota, so he was like the trade rep- part of these trade agreements. He said required. Bring those trade agreements resentative from North Dakota. He was we need to address TSA, trade assist- to us. We stand ready to pass them. out there promoting trade as Governor, ant adjustment. We said we will work Mr. PORTMAN. Would the Senator and North Dakota is a State that has a with TSA. We will make sure we have yield for a second? The Senator talked lot of exports, including wheat, as we enough Senators so it is squared away. about being at home and talking to his talked about earlier, so they are being We have it covered. That has been com- constituents about this, and I am sure hit by what Senators ROBERTS and municated. So the question is: Why at all of us have stories like this, but I JOHANNS talked about in terms of what this point don’t we have the trade will tell you this morning we had one is happening in Colombia today with agreements? That is the question I of our weekly coffees and the Ohio pork the Canadian agreement and also the think that has to be asked. Where are producers came. There were about 12 EU agreement with Korea. they? Why aren’t they here on the Sen- pork producers from around the State I ask Senator HOEVEN if he would ate floor so we can move forward with of Ohio. Do you know what the No. 1 talk a little about why these agree- them? In our State, as others men- issue was they raised with me? Trade

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As we have talked to the teresting that of all the issues they them unless you send them up. You are White House and the President about could have raised with me, the one absolutely right, this is one of the easi- that, my good friend from Georgia, they are most concerned about is to est things we could do to create jobs, JOHNNY ISAKSON, has been in the mid- make sure we get these three agree- Mr. President, but we have to have the dle of all of those discussions. We know ments done, and then move forward agreements from you before we can what can happen. For it to happen, we with the additional agreements. vote on them. Don’t tell the American have to get these agreements sooner It is our job to provide the environ- people all we have to do is pass the bill rather than later. Let’s get them up ment for success. Part of that environ- when you know that you have to send here. Let’s get them passed. Let’s get ment is to give our exporters the abil- the bill up before we can pass the bill. them back in the hands of our new ity to have a level playing field to ac- We need these three agreements. As trading partners and see these jobs in- cess these markets. They are the best Senator PORTMAN has pointed out, we crease. farmers in the world. We have some of need more agreements, but that is not I am pleased to recognize and encour- the most productive land in the world. happening right now. We do need the age the ongoing efforts for this effort They just need a fair shake. President to have the authority that I, with my good friend, Mr. ISAKSON. Mr. HOEVEN. It is absolutely true. and I think all of us, would be more Mr. ISAKSON. I thank Senator In handing off the ball in this discus- than willing to give him, but that is BLUNT. sion, I want to go back to the trade ad- not part of this package, the trade pro- I thank Senator JOHANNS for orga- justment assistance, which I men- motion authority we wish to see ex- nizing this colloquy. tioned earlier. There were a number of tended into the future. I represent a State that is home to things the administration wanted to Right now we have three agreements the second largest port on the eastern see before bringing these trade agree- that have been negotiated for a long seaboard in the United States of Amer- ments forward to us for ratification. time, and whether it is the Missouri ica. The port is Savannah. We are talk- Senator BLUNT and Senator PORTMAN and North Dakota beef industry or the ing about creating jobs in America. were instrumental—and along with Missouri and Ohio pork industry or the The port of Savannah directly employs these two, Senator JOHANNS, myself, grain industry that we all are impacted 300,000 people in the southeastern by, there is a real opportunity here and Senator ISAKSON, and others. We even United States. Can you think of what signed on to a letter not once but I these markets are waiting for us. an impact this is going to have to in- To look at our State, since 2002, ex- think twice, to make sure we got it crease that employment if we get these ports have increased more than three right. Senator BLUNT’s leadership in free trade agreements? times faster than the State domestic making sure we had taken all the nec- Let me give you an example that is product has grown. So for those who essary steps so the administration was amazing. South Korea surpassed Japan say, well, exports cost American jobs prepared and willing to bring these in 2010 as the second largest Northeast or Missouri jobs, they clearly provide agreements to the Senate floor has Asian destination for South Atlantic those jobs. U.S. farm exports reached been covered. I thank the Senator for an all-time high in 2010, amounting to exports behind only China—second that leadership. He may want to touch more than $115 billion in sales. For largest in all of Asia behind only on that, but I know how important the every $1 billion worth of agricultural China—most of that going out of the trade agreements are to the State of exports, there are an estimated 8,000 port of Savannah, most of that being Missouri. But I also thank the leader- jobs. So these countries are waiting for agricultural products from your State ship of Senator PORTMAN, as well, in agreements that will increase trade in and from your State and from mine. making sure we addressed TAA and all soybeans and beef and corn and pork Senator PORTMAN talked about pork. of the issues that needed to be ad- and dairy products and processed food; In Georgia it is all about chickens and dressed as part of moving forward with in fact, in processed goods of all kinds. cattle. We are No. 1 in poultry, and these trade agreements. We cannot get to those markets until South Korea is a huge importer of our Mr. BLUNT. I think what Senator we pass these trade agreements. poultry. They would be a lot bigger PORTMAN and I thought when the Presi- All of us are eager to work with the with a free trade agreement. dent said for these three trade agree- President to get that done. All of us Let me give another number that is ments to be voted on, we had to have are eager for him to send us those chilling. South Korea’s imports from trade adjustment assistance. We looked trade agreements. Since these agree- South Korea into the United States at the negotiated package. It was not ments were negotiated, others have ne- went up by 26 percent last year. Our ex- exactly what any of us who signed the gotiated agreements and launched ports to them went up by 15 percent. letter would have negotiated. We said, them—and it may have been mentioned That is an 11-percent negative in the look, these are the jobs that are the already this morning, but if it has not, trade deficit, which causes us tremen- low-hanging fruit of job creation if we it is important to understand that on dous problems. get these three trade bills. We are will- July 1, the European Union trade The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- ing to look at the Baucus camp-nego- agreement with South Korea went into pore. The Senator’s time has expired. tiated TAA, and support it in a way the place and they had a 1-month, 38-per- Mr. ISAKSON. Madam President, I White House can sign it and send these cent increase year over year the first ask for unanimous consent for 5 addi- agreements up. month of that trade agreement. tional minutes to close. Senator HOEVEN mentioned, as he The Canada-Colombia agreement The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- and I and all of us were sitting in the went into place on August 15. Having pore. Without objection, it is so or- House Chamber last Thursday night, been to Colombia and worked on this dered. listening to the President’s remarks for some time, there is no question Mr. ISAKSON. So my point is very when he said we need to pass these there is a preference for our goods, but simply this: We can help to balance our three trade agreements, I was almost once they start buying these other trade deficit. We can help to increase sure the next sentence would be: And products, then you have to convince employment in the southeastern so tomorrow, I am sending these trade them you need to come back to the United States. We can help poultry, we agreements up. That next sentence did product you would rather have had to can help pork, and we can help beef. It not occur. Just like the week in Au- start with if that product had had an has been 968 days since the President gust where the President was on his even shot at the marketplace. could have sent us these free trade bus tour and every single day on the Panama is negotiating all kinds of agreements, and he has not. My point bus tour he said Congress can do some- work agreements and expansion agree- in this debate is very simple. There is

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It is a devastated by these unprecedented end my comments today by saying to powerful and moving struggle. The citi- floods and other natural disasters, such all of my fellow Senators, thank you so zens of Connecticut, similar to the citi- as hurricanes, wildfires, floods, and very much for coming to the floor zens of New York and others struck by tornadoes. today and making the case. There is an this storm, have acted with determina- Turning disaster assistance into a po- old saying in a profession I used to be tion and resolve, not with desperation litical football is unacceptable and un- engaged in: I rest my case. Well, after or despair. They are determined and conscionable. It is a recipe for gridlock hearing from these fine gentlemen dedicated to rebuild and recover from and it is just plain wrong. It is wrong about the importance of these agree- this storm, but they need the help that and a disservice to the men and women ments and why we need to have the is provided by FEMA. We are here, whose homes and businesses have been President send them here, I rest my hopefully in a bipartisan effort, to hit by the forces of nature that are un- case. It is going to improve job cre- make sure these communities and oth- predictable and unpreventable. Now ation. It is going to improve our oppor- ers like them throughout the North- they are attempting to rebuild their tunity to export our products. It is east and throughout the United States lives, and we owe it to them to match going to level the playing field. It is have the help and the real consequen- their courage and resilience with ef- going to give our producers the oppor- tial aid they need to make this recov- forts from FEMA. tunity to reclaim market share that ery in rebuilding their lives. We can’t prevent those hurricanes or has been lost while we have been wait- The early estimates suggest that the tornadoes or wildfires, but we can step ing for these agreements to come here. damage caused by Irene could reach forward when these disasters occur and The final point I wish to make is more than $10 billion, making it one of lend a hand to our neighbors, as we this. I come from a State where unem- the 10 costliest disasters in U.S. his- have done throughout our history, and ployment is right above 4 percent. In tory. The suffering and real sadness of we can provide these communities with this recession in Nebraska, unemploy- Connecticut citizens gives us a bond the real resources they need to recover, ment never went over 5 percent. In and a cause in common with millions without distinguishing between what fact, as I was doing my townhall meet- of other Americans who have suffered State or what part of the country. ings across the State, I had members of from hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and There is one story from Connecticut my business community coming to me other natural disasters across the which I think tells a lot about the and saying: One of the challenges we country. This year alone, we have seen choices we face right now. Mel Gold- are facing is finding the workers for flooding on the Mississippi and Mis- stein and his wife Arlene, whose home the jobs we are creating. Therefore, in souri Rivers and other rivers in the was completely destroyed by flooding my State, trade adjustment assistance Midwest, devastating tornadoes in the caused by Hurricane Irene, are being would not be the high priority it is in South, wildfires in the South and West, told their homeowners insurance will many States. Notwithstanding that and now Hurricane Irene and Tropical not cover the damage. Their only hope fact, when Senator BLUNT came to me Storm Lee. of recovery is FEMA flood insurance and said, look, the President is insist- In times of natural disaster, Ameri- and other FEMA assistance. Right ing on trade adjustment assistance as a cans come together. In times when now, they are using their savings to condition to move these agreements they face crises, Americans rally as stay in a hotel while they rebuild their and would I sign on to a letter that will neighbors, as a community. Regardless lives. Mel is one of the best known back trade adjustment assistance, I of specific States where they live, they weathermen in the State of Con- said I would. Why? Because the trade come together to rebuild their homes, necticut. He is an icon in the broad- agreements are important to us. to make common cause, to recognize casting world and a hero to many of us It is my hope that after the many our bonds as a nation. The spirit of our for his struggle against cancer. His speeches we have all given—the many Nation is that we put people above pol- treatment in this unstable environ- speeches I have given on the impor- itics every time, without exception; ment at this point in his recovery adds tance of these agreements not only on that we provide disaster relief for vic- an unnecessary toll and stress to their the Senate floor but across this coun- tims, such as Connecticut residents lives. As we have in the past, we must try—the President is listening and will now, and with the resources they need come together to help folks such as Ar- finally send us these agreements so we to rebuild. lene and Mel Goldstein move on after can work with the President. We can Currently, FEMA is funding disaster the unthinkable happens in their lives. join forces on these agreements and do relief for over 550 disasters, including The unthinkable happened to them and everything we can to get the votes in 29 in Oklahoma, 21 in Kentucky, 17 in to many of their neighbors in East the Senate and in the House to pass Texas, 19 in Mississippi, and 18 in Kan- Haven along the shores of Connecticut. them and to put them on his desk and sas. Yet 2 weeks ago, House majority I have heard their voices and seen create 250,000 new jobs. leader ERIC CANTOR stated that relief their faces throughout our State, in I yield the floor. funds for Hurricane Irene would need communities big and small, where The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- to be offset by savings found elsewhere flooding has put a small business out of pore. The Senator from Connecticut. in the Federal budget. I reject that business and where homes have been f contention and so should this body and destroyed and people are living in shel- my colleagues from those States I have ters or with their neighbors or were for DISASTER RELIEF just named and all the other States in awhile. These kinds of human stories Mr. BLUMENTHAL. Madam Presi- the Union. In fact, all but a handful or are part of the fabric of the larger dent, over the past 2 weeks, I have less have received and are receiving story we need to recognize. I hope my traveled the State of Connecticut, as disaster relief just since January of colleagues will come together, as we the Presiding Officer has done in the this year. did on the vote yesterday, to approve State of New York, and she has de- We need to do everything we can to this measure. The vote yesterday sig- scribed eloquently the damage she has put Connecticut and America back to naled perhaps a return to the biparti- seen in her State. I have seen much the work, to make sure our economy sanship that should prevail when the same in mine. I have seen the destruc- moves forward again, to create jobs, Nation confronts crisis and disaster. tion of small businesses, of homes; riv- and to reduce the deficit. Yes, we need Our No. 1 goal, which should be a bipar- ers swelling, flooding of historic di- to reduce the deficit and the debt and tisan goal, must be to deliver help to mensions causing significant destruc- cut unnecessary and wasteful spending. our fellow Americans as quickly as pos- tion; the wind and rain striking Con- However, we cannot permit Wash- sible.

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High Peaks, the rain came down so ask unanimous consent that the order But I watched these business owners hard it brought huge chunks of the for the quorum call be rescinded. begin to rebuild. I could see them lit- mountainside with it, creating slides The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. erally bringing the mud from the base- that have changed the face of the Adi- BLUMENTHAL). Without objection, it is ments, bringing the mud from their rondacks for generations. so ordered. ground floors, pulling down all the As you can see, this is just four com- Mrs. GILLIBRAND. Mr. President, drywall because obviously the damage munities. Throughout New York Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm was so great it would cause long-last- State—the North Country, the Capital Lee left a trail of devastation across ing damage. People are very worried Region, the Mohawk Valley, the Hud- New York State. I saw firsthand the about how they can make sure their son Valley, the Southern Tier, and impact they left on our communities: business is safe. Long Island—no one can question the hundreds of families living in shelters, This is just a snapshot right here in absolute devastation that these storms complete homes destroyed, belongings this picture of the town of have left in our communities. We must piled up on people’s front yards, small Middleburgh. This is the farming com- stand with them in their greatest time businesses uncertain whether they munity within Schoharie County. of need. would even reopen and worrying about These farmers have lost everything. I Federal assistance is essential to whether they could hire back their em- can tell you, the water was so strong, help these families, these farmers, ployees, farms that had no feed for the surge was so great, it literally took these businesses, and communities not livestock for days, crops and liveli- trees out of the ground, completely up- only recover but rebuild and be strong- hoods vanishing without any trace in a rooted and overturned. The crops that er than they were before. single day, crumbling bridges, washed- we could see on this farm—they were We need immediate funding for out roads, heating oil soaking into so covered with silt from the river, we FEMA and the USDA disaster assist- buildings and the ground. I was born could not even recognize what kind of ance to provide relief for these commu- and raised in upstate New York, and I crops they were. I saw potatoes that nities all across New York and for all can say we have never seen this kind of had been uprooted from the ground all the other States that were affected by devastation—certainly not in my life- over the road. That farmer could sal- these storms. time. vage nothing of their farm. f We had one farmer who came down to America has always stood by those SYRIA SANCTIONS ACT OF 2011 who have suffered greatly from disaster meet with me because her cows were Mrs. GILLIBRAND. Mr. President, I and we have always helped them to re- stranded. They had 800 cows stuck be- cause the roads had been completely would now like to address a second build. We have an obligation to these issue that is causing me very grave families, businesses, and farmers to washed out. They had no way to get feed up to those cows. They had no way concern. I would like to talk for a mo- help them rebuild today. ment about a piece of legislation I have This picture is of downtown Bing- to deal with manure and dump all the introduced with Senators KIRK and hamton. I met with hundreds of fami- milk that had to be destroyed. They LIEBERMAN to toughen the sanctions on lies displaced and placed in a Red Cross needed a rescue effort. Because of the efforts of our Governor—he reacted Syria. shelter at the University of Bing- Syrian President Assad has killed hamton. They were on day four at the quickly—our National Guard got up there, got food and water up to those over 2,000 of his own people in an shelter, unclear if they would be able farmers, they fixed the road, and the alarming torrent of violence from one to see what was left of their homes. of the world’s most repressive re- I can’t fully describe the worry and feed was delivered. But this is the kind of reaction we need from government. gimes—2,200 people are estimated to fear in the eyes of parents who are in a This is why the Federal Government have died so far. shelter with their children. I talked to must be there to help and protect these Assad’s aggression against the Syr- one mother who has 10 children, the families and businesses. ian people is matched by his subversive youngest of whom was 2 years old, try- Our next picture is of Greene County. aggression abroad. His regime is a ing desperately to keep them fed, keep In Greene County, waters rushed down state sponsor of terrorism, one of them safe but literally having no sense the main street of Windham—this is a Iran’s closest allies, and a key backer of when she could return to her home picture of Windham—and destroyed all of Hamas and Hezbollah. Assad’s re- and what it would look like when she businesses in its wake. The homes of gime has for years helped foreign fight- returned. families were also destroyed. There was ers enter Iraq and kill our U.S. sol- I talked to one father whose daughter absolute destruction throughout diers. turned 13 years old that day in the Greene County. In response to this violent crack- shelter and his worry was mostly: I I talked to just one business owner, down, I introduced the bipartisan Syria don’t know what is in front of us. I and she had a business for children’s Sanctions Act of 2011 to hold Assad’s don’t know when we will be able to go clothing, children’s needs, children’s regime accountable. This legislation home. I don’t know how much has been toys. She had just a couple employees, would block access to the U.S. market destroyed, and I don’t know how I will but she said: I have nothing to rebuild. for companies that invest in Syria’s en- rebuild. I have no way that I can rebuild my ergy sector, purchase the county’s oil, One parent I talked to was a young business. I don’t think I could rehire and sell gasoline to Syria. This sanc- mother. She held a 6-week-old infant in those employees. tion is critical, since Syria’s energy her arms, and she said to me: I have ev- So there is the feeling of hopelessness sector accounts for one-third of that erything I need right here. That exem- and worry and dread and concern on state’s revenue. plified the courage of Americans when top of a very tough economy anyway. I ask my colleagues to sponsor S. 1472 they fight through suffering—the These are the businesses and families and send a clear message to Syria that strength of New Yorkers that they will and farmers we need to help because we until the Assad regime responds to the pull themselves up by their own boot- need them to rebuild. We need them to democratic urging of its people, halts straps and make the difference. But we have the ability to rehire those em- its nuclear development, and ends sup- in Washington must help. ployees, to produce food for our fami- port for terrorism, Syria will not and In Schoharie County, on the main lies, to make sure we have thriving should not have access to the global street of the villages of both Schoharie communities once again. economy, and any company that does and Middleburgh, every single home The last picture I wish to show is of business with Syria will no longer have was flooded. The water mark was at Keene, up in the North Country. In access to the global economy.

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That is clerk will call the roll. and our families. We need to respond. what they are proposing. The legislative clerk proceeded to That is our responsibility. Right now I absolutely oppose this. They pro- call the roll. the droughts are worse in Texas where pose paying for this critical disaster Ms. STABENOW. Madam President, I the damage is also in the billions of bill by taking dollars out of a very suc- ask unanimous consent that the order dollars. We have more than 1,000 homes cessful advanced manufacturing retool- for the quorum call be rescinded. that have been lost. ing program that we passed in the 2007 The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Already this year there have been Energy bill—and it took a while to get pore. Without objection, it is so or- natural disasters in 48 of our States—48 it up and going. The previous adminis- dered. out of 50 States have had natural disas- tration never administered it. I thank the Obama administration for coming f ters. Michigan, thank goodness, is one of the two States that has not been af- in in 2009 and beginning the process of CONCLUSION OF MORNING fected by the weather. But throughout putting it together and all of the rules BUSINESS our Nation’s history when men and it took, and so on. So it took a while to The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- women in one part of the country were get up and going. It has not moved as pore. Morning business is closed. hit with a natural disaster, all of fast as I would like at all. But, thank goodness, the Obama administration f America came together to support them and to help rebuild. saw it as a priority and has moved for- APPROVING THE RENEWAL OF IM- That is what this effort is about, ward to put it in place. PORT RESTRICTIONS CONTAINED coming together as Americans. That is So what has happened already? Well, IN THE BURMESE FREEDOM AND who we are as Americans. We stand these retooling loans have meant 41,000 DEMOCRACY ACT OF 2003—MO- with each other in times of trouble. jobs in Tennessee, California, Indiana, TION TO PROCEED This is not the time to play politics, Michigan, Delaware, Illinois, Ken- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- not when hundreds of thousands of tucky, Ohio, and Missouri. These re- pore. Under the previous order, the families, farmers, and businesses have tooling loans have helped companies retool older manufacturing plants to Senate will resume consideration of been devastated by an unprecedented build the products of the future in the motion to proceed to H.J. Res. 66, string of floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, America rather than shipping those which the clerk will report by title. wildfires, and other natural disasters. The legislative clerk read as follows: Already, FEMA has had to halt re- jobs overseas. It has been extremely successful. Motion to proceed to the consideration of a building efforts in 41 States. So it is In Michigan retooling loans made it joint resolution (H.J. Res. 66) approving the critical that we get this done. This leg- possible for Ford Motor Company to renewal of import restrictions contained in islation in front of us needs to pass, the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of save 1,900 jobs at the Michigan assem- and it needs to pass quickly. bly plant in the city of Wayne so they 2003. But I also want to tell you about an- could build the all new Ford Focus and The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- other emergency that has taken place the battery-electric Focus in America. pore. The Senator from Michigan. in my State and in too many other In the process of that, as we partnered Ms. STABENOW. Madam President, I States. It is called a jobs emergency. with them on battery funding as well— rise to speak about the need to have a We may not have been affected by the disaster assistance effort to support in the process of that, with the help of natural disasters of the weather, but as these retooling loans they are bringing those in New York, your State, as well we look over the last decade in a global as across the country and the tremen- jobs back from Mexico to support the economy, as the economy has changed work they are doing on the new vehi- dous needs we have as a result of what we have been through the same kind of has happened regarding the weather. cles. devastation—over a longer period of I do not know how many economic This year we have seen a terrible string time, but our people are affected as development efforts we can stand on of natural disasters that have shut much as any other State disaster. the Senate floor today and talk about down businesses, farms, and left fami- We have 14 million people out of in the Senate or House that are actu- lies homeless all across our country. As work in this country—14 million people ally bringing jobs back from overseas. chair of the Agriculture Committee, I out of work. We have a huge national This is the program that the House Re- am particularly focused, of course, on deficit. We will never get out of debt publicans want to cut. This loan—and what has happened to our farmers in with more than 14 million people out of it is a loan, so it has to be repaid—is America. work. We have to make smart decisions allowing them to be able to have lower I am concerned about the flooding on cutting what is not important, and costs to be able to do the retooling on along the Mississippi and Missouri Riv- we have to grow. We have to create those older plants, to be able to make ers, the record droughts that have dev- jobs for people and support the efforts these new high-tech vehicles. astated the livelihoods of men and of the private sector to create jobs. As I said, in the case of the Ford women who grow our food all across For each and every one of those fami- Motor Company, they have saved 1,900 America. Earlier this year we had the lies, their job search is an emergency. jobs and are bringing jobs back from worst drought in recorded history in It is an emergency every time they Mexico. Another Michigan company, Oklahoma, with about $1.6 billion in think about how to put food on their Severstal North America, was able to crop losses. In Kansas I have had the table. It is an emergency every month secure a retooling loan to retool an old opportunity, and my staff has, to join when they have to scrape together steel mill, the Rouge steel mill in with my ranking member, my col- money for the rent or the mortgage. It Michigan, into a cutting-edge plant league, Senator ROBERTS, to talk with is an emergency every minute of every building advanced, high-strength steel folks and a chance to see that the day when those men and women are for automotive production. drought had wiped out about $2 billion filling out applications, going to job Jobs here. That does not count what in crops. fairs, trying their best to get back to is happening in States across America. Floods in the Mississippi River Val- work. That loan, along with private loans and ley washed over 3 million acres—3 mil- So I find in the middle of all of this, a billion-dollar investment from the lion acres—of farmland. Hurricane in the middle of support for all that is company, will help create over 2,500 Irene destroyed more than 450,000 acres going on around the country in terms constructive jobs and will bring the of cotton and 300,000 acres of corn in of natural disasters, it is extremely total number of permanent manufac- North Carolina. In New York we have concerning—and in fact outrageous to turing jobs at that plant, again, to

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We are coming out of it because we it was difficult to get the IRS to co- Michigan and States all across the have been creating partnerships to sup- operate with the local and State law country are feeling and have been feel- port the private sector to make things enforcement agencies, because the IRS ing. Right now there are 35 to 40,000 in America again. is prohibited because of privacy from jobs at stake in this proposal by the I strongly urge everyone involved not sharing any of this information. And, House Republicans. to come forward with something that of course, we want to protect the pri- We have other companies that want will in fact jeopardize these jobs. It vacy of people, but we also want to go to use the retooling loans to make makes absolutely no sense to me, and after these crooks. things in America—in Michigan, Illi- it is certainly something I will strong- We had done it a few years ago with nois, Ohio, Indiana, Louisiana, and ly oppose if it does. regard to inmates in the Federal prison Florida. These loans are expected to be I yield the floor and suggest the ab- system by allowing the IRS, under the approved in the next few months. They sence of a quorum. law we passed back in 2008, to cooper- are very close, and we would see 35 to The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- ate with the Federal prison system in 40,000 jobs disappear—the opportunity pore. The clerk will call the roll. order to get the inmates who were fil- for those jobs to disappear—if we were The assistant legislative clerk pro- ing false tax returns to get tax refunds. to accept the House proposal. ceeded to call the roll. That was extended administratively After the next round of manufac- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- into the State prison system with the turing retooling loans, we could see an- pore. The Senator from Florida. IRS. But then this has been taken to a Mr. NELSON of Florida. Madam other 10,000 jobs created across the new level, one in which it is a great President, I ask unanimous consent country. But if these retooling loans do rip-off of the taxpayers. that the order for the quorum call be not happen, those jobs will not happen What was incredible is when the rescinded. either. To add insult to injury, these Tampa police department and the sher- companies have been working closely The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- pore. Without objection, it is so or- iff’s department ended up arresting with the Department of Energy, in some of these people, it was as if they some cases for several years, in order dered. Mr. NELSON of Florida. I ask unani- didn’t know they had done anything to qualify for these loans. wrong. They have had to undergo the must mous consent that I speak as if in What is going on? They did not know rigorous screening to make sure the morning business. they had done anything wrong, and products and companies are in sound fi- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- they are driving around in BMWs, with nancial shape, as they should. We need pore. Without objection, it is so or- Rolex watches and gold chains all over to make sure they are going through dered. them. It is the use of tools in the elec- rigorous screening not only so they can IRS TAX SCAM tronic age just the same as yesterday, be successful but to make sure that we Mr. NELSON of Florida. Madam when the thief used a crowbar to break are making products in America. It is President, there is a tax scam that is in and steal somebody’s possessions. an important project and partnership. going on in this country for which you These companies have invested certainly have to give some creativity This has to stop. countless hours and, frankly, a lot of to these thieves and robbers—and that What we do not know is the extent to money to get these projects off the is exactly what they are. which this is all over the country. So ground and to get to this point. As I in- I first started to get wind of this the first thing we have to do is get the dicated, we have a number of compa- when people in the Tampa Bay region legal ability for the IRS, without di- nies in States around the country that of my State called in saying an inter- vulging people’s private financial infor- are within a month or 2 months or 3 esting thing happened. They had sent mation, to be able to cooperate with months from being able to complete in their income tax return, and they local and State law enforcement and the deal and create the jobs. got back a notice from the IRS that the U.S. attorney to be able to go after We are so close, and the rug will be their return had already been filed. these people, to identify them so the pulled out from under not only the What they found out was that some- U.S. attorney and the State attorney companies but the communities and body had stolen their Social Security can prosecute. the families who are affected. These number, had in their name filled out a Additionally, we have to help the vic- businesses are America’s job creators. tax return, and then, guess what. It tims. In this legislation we filed, we They are doing the right thing. They showed they had a tax refund due. say the IRS will give the victims a spe- want to invest in America. While oth- When I started hearing from about 25 cial PIN number so they can file a re- ers have been on the sidelines waiting, or 30 people, I knew there was some- turn and that PIN number will identify they have jumped in. They are com- thing going on. Sure enough, law en- them as a victim and it will not be mitted to creating jobs. They want to forcement in the Tampa Bay region— kicked out of the system. make things here, and they have the sheriff’s office, the city police, Additionally, since so much of this is moved through a process, spent time, combined with the State attorney and being done electronically, we have to money—a tremendous amount of time. the U.S. Attorney—a couple of weeks give the taxpayer the option to file In fact, in my judgment, it hasn’t ago had a bust and arrested 49 people what we called in the old days a paper moved as fast as it should. But they who were in a scam whereby they pro- tax return and in the process see if we are now at a point to actually make it cure people’s Social Security numbers. can stop this; otherwise, if $100 million happen. What is unbelievable is the amount of has been stolen from the American tax- I am outraged that we would see an money they were getting back, esti- payer just in the Tampa Bay region of effort to end the creation of these jobs. mated at being, just in the Tampa Bay Florida, you can imagine how exten- There is no question, as I said, that we region, something like $100 million in sive this crime probably is across the have had a series of natural disasters, refunds. That is a rip-off of the Amer- entire country. and families, businesses, and farmers ican taxpayer because that is their It is important we act and that we who are affected across this country. money. get to the bottom of it. If we pass a Even though those natural disasters, But the story doesn’t stop there. Oh, law, a crook will try to figure out a fortunately for us, did not come to if you were one of the victims whose way to get around it. But when some- Michigan, I support the effort to ad- Social Security number had been sto- body in this electronic age can just sit dress them. We are all in this as Ameri- len and you wanted to file your tax re- at a computer, steal a Social Security cans. But I will not—I will not—sup- turn, the IRS is telling you you can’t number and then file a false tax return, port an effort that, in the process, do it because you have already filed a enough is enough.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:35 Jun 03, 2012 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD11\RECFILES\SEPT\S14SE1.REC S14SE1 bjneal on DSK2TWX8P1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE S5596 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE September 14, 2011 It is my delight to see my colleague and agriculture. Our agricultural com- substations were damaged and rendered from Maryland. It looks as if he has munity was hit hard. Our water treat- inoperable during Irene, resulting in some good stuff to tell us. ment facilities, the plants we depend widespread power outages for many I yield the floor. upon to keep our waters clean and to customers and that forced businesses Mr. CARDIN. Madam President, I am keep our neighborhoods safe, were to close for several days. You heard not sure it is good stuff, but it is what damaged severely by this storm. I have about power outages. We had whole has happened in our State. I thank the talked to our transportation people. counties where everyone was out of Senator from Florida for his leadership Roads were knocked out. Damage was power—everyone. In most of our coun- on so many of these issues and his com- caused. ties the majority of people lost their ments on the floor of the Senate. On the Eastern Shore of Maryland, as power, not for a couple hours, for many About 2 weeks ago, right before Hur- I have already indicated, there was a days, causing major disruptions to our ricane Irene struck, I was at the Mary- mandatory order for evacuation of businesses, to our families, to schools land Emergency Management Center Ocean City the weekend before the that could not open and, therefore, par- located in Reisterstown, MD. I was Labor Day weekend, resulting in heavy ents who could not go to work because with Governor O’Malley, the Governor economic losses during one of the most they had to deal with the unexpected of our State, and other leaders. I saw profitable periods during the summer news that the schools would be closed our team there to prepare the people of for that city. The flooding in Queen because there was no power in the Maryland for the onslaught of Irene Anne’s County destroyed railroad schools themselves. and later from Tropical Storm Lee. I tracks. I have a photograph. This is, by In the Washington metro region, saw Maryland preparing the best it the way, railroad tracks. They have Irene and the additional storms caused possibly could to minimize the risk to been knocked out by the hurricane. As severe power outages and flooding in the people of our State from a natural you can see, this required emergency Montgomery and Prince George’s storm. I saw the local officials do the attention. Counties. In Prince George’s County, right thing and tell people in our coast- Multiple roads were closed and nu- the loss of power caused thousands of al areas to evacuate their homes be- merous homes were flooded in the town basements to flood. As you know, with- cause of the potential risk to life and of Millington after the Chester River out power you cannot use your sump property from this massive storm. flooded over its banks. In Millington, pumps. Without that, there is signifi- I also saw another agency that was the wastewater treatment plant was cant damage. located right there, side by side with disabled, also affecting the residents in Frankly, because the water came in the Maryland agencies, and that was Kent County. The storm in Talbot from the low level rather than from the FEMA, the Federal officials. These County caused roads and pipeline dam- roof, these property owners are now were people I met for the first time. age. being challenged as to whether their They were not from Maryland. They Let me show you this photograph, if insurance will cover this damage. That had come in from other States to help I might, because I think it points out raises the importance, I might say, of the people of Maryland and provided the problem. When that amount of the Federal protections that are avail- the expertise to our State officials so water goes through the storm pipes, it able when a disaster is declared an we could properly prepare for this can cause significant damage because emergency by the President because of storm that was potentially damaging these pipes were not able to handle the the altercations over what insurance to the people of Maryland. They were amount of water that was brought does not cover. All the more reason there. down by the hurricane and tropical why the Federal Government must be I thank President Obama for declar- storm. As a result, the pipes burst, there in its traditional role to help ing, before the storm hit, emergency causing the road which the pipe was communities when a storm or emer- declarations to Maryland so we could under to give way, bringing about a gency occurs. utilize Federal resources and we could road closure. That was terribly incon- Hurricane Irene and subsequent take maximum steps to minimize the venient, of course, to the people of that storms required governments to incur loss of life and property. It was the area, the businesses, et cetera. I am additional expenses due to overtime right thing to do. showing an example in Talbot County, needed for first responders who save I take this time on the floor—I am MD, on the Eastern Shore. We could lives and property after the storm. I going to talk a little bit about the show numerous other examples of the must tell you, I saw those first re- damages that occurred in my State—to failure of stormwater management sponders. I saw them out there working point out that we have always come to- pipes as well as roads that had to be 24-hour shifts in some cases. They gether as a nation to stand by those closed for public safety. In Caroline didn’t get home to their families be- who have been devastated through County, the towns of Federalsburg and cause they were there to help us main- these natural disasters. This has been a Greensboro experienced major flooding tain order and help reduce the loss of particularly rough year. We have seen of the Choptank River, including the life and the loss of property. I thank hurricanes and storms and tornadoes malfunctioning of a wastewater treat- President Obama for making a timely and flooding and even an earthquake ment plant. In Cecil and Harford Coun- major disaster declaration for the on the east coast of the United States. ties, Irene led to the opening of a sig- State of Maryland in advance of the This has challenged our ability to re- nificant number of floodgates at the hurricane. Maryland is now eligible for spond in a timely way. We have a re- Conowingo Dam, due to rising water Federal disaster recovery dollars sponsibility to make sure our Federal levels feeding in from the Susquehanna through the Federal Emergency Man- agencies have the resources to re- River. This was the first time the engi- agement Agency. The State budget has spond—how they were able to be about neers took such measures since Trop- already been very much impacted. We Maryland before the storm, during the ical Storm Isabel hit Maryland in 2003. all understand our States do not have storm and after the storm and they are Opening the floodgates led to flooding the flexibility of our country. It is dur- there now to help the people of Mary- and property damage in many areas, ing emergencies that our State and land. Our governments—our local gov- and mandatory evacuation orders were local leaders look to Washington, look ernments, our businesses, and our resi- issued for Port Deposit and Havre de to their Federal Government to be dents are counting on that continued Grace, in Maryland. there as a partner to deal with this Federal purpose to get us through this People had to leave their homes. The issue that States cannot deal with. very difficult period. streets were underwater. When the Congress has always acted in a bipar- Hurricane Irene caused severe water receded, there was muck and tisan manner to help Americans and storms, flooding, and strong winds in damage to the towns. their communities recover from nat- the State of Maryland. It was followed In southern Maryland, damage from ural disasters. Congress has never in- by Tropical Storm Lee, which aggra- metal on a roof that was blown into a sisted that disaster fund being offset. vated the flooding and other damage transformer forced the shutdown of a Let me explain this issue because it throughout the State, including dam- reactor at Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power may be confusing to the people who are age to roads, water treatment plants, Plant. In Calvert County, many of the watching. Yes, the Federal Emergency

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His budget face or a name for so many members of tire east coast of the United States. request to us reflects the resources we this very large Senate family, and al- FEMA did not have in its budget that need so we have the recommendation ways having a kind word for every one type of a scenario, along with the tor- from our Appropriations Committee. of them. nadoes we had, along with what has We have the leadership from the White The disbursing office moved in 1980 happened in the Midwest. During this House. Now it is time for us to act. We when my predecessor, Howard Baker, period, we have seen 48 of our States have the vehicle on the floor of the expanded the Republican leader’s suite declared eligible for FEMA assistance. Senate. It is time for us to give the re- of offices. That is how Tim and his co- This affects our entire country. Now sources to the Federal agencies so they workers ended up in their now familiar the people on the east coast of the can be there in all parts of this coun- location on the first floor of the Hart United States are looking to the Fed- try—including helping the people of Building. Tim has kidded me about eral Government to be there. We have Maryland cope with the disaster of that a few times over the years. So on always done this, as I said, in a bipar- Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm behalf of the Republican leader’s office, tisan manner, without the requirement Lee and the other natural disasters let me take this opportunity to apolo- that if additional moneys are needed, that have happened in other parts of gize to him for being booted from his those moneys will be appropriated by the country by—taking up this issue perch. Congress. We will not ask other agen- now, passing it at this moment so the Tim is a native Washingtonian. He cies to have to contribute toward that funds are there and the resources are attended St. John’s College High because that was not anticipated when there. School and the University of South we did the budget. I might point out We can live up to the historical mis- Carolina, which has a heck of a good that we had a very contentious fight sion of the United States to always be football team this year. Just as Tim is over the Budget Control Act. That is there to help any part of our Nation af- loyal to the Senate, he is a loyal alum- the bill we passed that allowed us to fected by a natural disaster. I hope we nus of both those institutions. He goes increase our debt ceiling and set our will be able to bring up this issue to Columbia, SC, every year to see budget allocations for fiscal year 2012, quickly. As the vote in the Senate Ap- South Carolina play football. Tim is the year that will start on October 1. propriations Committee indicated, it also a great fan of the Washington Red- As you know, there was an agree- should not be delayed because of offset skins who, amazingly enough, are off ment in that Budget Control Act that issues. We should get the needed funds to a good start this year. He has season permits the modification of the fiscal and resources to the agency, working tickets, and has been attending their year 2012 discretionary cap to be ad- with our State and local governments, games since his boyhood. He loves to justed to accommodate additional dis- working for our local communities so talk football, college or pro, with folks aster relief funding without an offset. we can try to restore and rebuild those in the office, but be careful if you are That is what we did. We came together areas that have been devastated by a Cowboys fan. as one entity recognizing we cannot these natural disasters. I would urge us Tim’s father George O’Keefe was a predict the next hurricane, storm, to do that as quickly as possible. distinguished veteran who fought in earthquake, flood, or tornado. We just Mr. President, I would yield the floor World War II. His mother Gisela cannot predict that. Therefore, Demo- and suggest the absence of a quorum. O’Keefe worked for the District of Co- crats and Republicans said adjust the The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. lumbia school system at Alice Deal cap. Meet whatever disaster is out FRANKEN). The clerk will call the roll. Middle School. I know they would both there. Whether it was Katrina in Lou- The bill clerk proceeded to call the be proud to see how well liked and well isiana, whether it is a bridge falling roll. respected their son has become. Tim down in Minnesota that the Presiding Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I also has a brother, Dennis, who lives in Officer had to deal with, whether it is ask unanimous consent that the order South Carolina, and Tim lives in Alex- tornadoes as we had in the Midwest, for the quorum call be rescinded. andria with his teenaged son Connor. droughts and floods that occurred in The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without When the disbursing office held a re- our country, we will be there to help objection, it is so ordered. tirement party for Tim a few weeks the people of America. We helped re- TRIBUTE TO TIM O’KEEFE ago, he got quite the sendoff. It was the build countries around the world. We Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I day of the historic earthquake, felt all want to make sure we help the commu- rise today to bid a fond farewell to a along eastern North America from Que- nities. man who has been a fixture in the Sen- bec City to Atlanta and centered about I was with my colleagues from ate for 33 years. Mr. Tim O’Keefe of the 90 miles away in central Virginia. As Vermont, and they shared with us the Senate Disbursing Office is retiring Tim was opening his presents, the number of bridges that had been wiped today after more than three decades of ground began to shake and the Capitol out, people who have been isolated as a service to this body and his country. complex was soon evacuated. It is al- result of Hurricane Irene and then Known to many as a loyal friend and most as if Washington, DC, itself was Tropical Storm Lee. We have a respon- well liked by nearly everyone he has protesting that it did not want Tim to sibility, and we recognize that in the met in these halls—including most of go. budget agreement, that we adjust the my colleagues and thousands of Senate Indeed, it will be hard for many to caps without setoffs so the Federal staffers—he will be greatly missed. imagine the Senate with Tim gone. He Government can be there as a true Tim began his career with the dis- has the longest tenure of anyone in the partner in dealing with these issues. bursing office, and in the Senate, in disbursing office today, and thousands We were there for preparation. It is 1978. Every Senate employee becomes of Senate staffers know him as the man now time to help restore the commu- familiar with that office early in their who led them in the Federal oath of of- nities. In some cases it will take tenure because that is the office in fice they take on their first day on the months before we are back to normal. charge of the Senate payroll as well as job—the same oath the Vice President We know that, the people know that, everything relating to an employee’s of the United States administers to but they have a right to expect that compensation, payroll deductions, re- Senators at the beginning of their 6- the Federal Government will be there tirement, life and health insurance, year terms. to help. and other benefits. The disbursing of- In his retirement, Tim will have time I commend Senator LANDRIEU, the fice used to be located in the Capitol to pursue his many interests, including chair of the Homeland Security Sub- when Tim started. In fact, it was lo- his love of horse racing. He is particu- committee of the Appropriations Com- cated in S–233, which is now part of the larly a fan of Lexington, Kentucky’s mittee; Senator INOUYE and the mem- Republican leader’s office. During Keeneland racetrack. And I would be

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So if we give in to this to make sure I was one of them. He will pared with 12.5 percent of those with- budget hysteria, the first people who be missed here in the Senate, and we out disabilities. That is twice the are usually hurt are the most vulner- are very grateful for his 33 years of amount. able of our citizens. service. Minorities also face devastating lev- The Census Bureau’s numbers show, Mr. President, I suggest the absence els of poverty. More than a quarter of again, without question how effective of a quorum. Blacks and Hispanics—more than 25 and important these safety net pro- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The percent or 1 in 4—are in poverty in grams are to keeping millions of people clerk will call the roll. America. Again, keep in mind, for a out of poverty. Social Security alone— The bill clerk proceeded to call the family of four, that is just $22,000 a according to the census numbers, kept roll. year. So 25 percent of Blacks and His- 20 million people above the poverty Mr. HARKIN. Mr. President, I ask panics are in poverty, 10 percent of line. Unemployment insurance kept 3.2 unanimous consent that the order for Whites, 13 percent of Asians. These dis- million more people out of poverty. the quorum call be rescinded. parities are deeply troubling. More We have always known these are cru- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without than 10 million Black and Hispanic objection, it is so ordered. cial programs, but now we know just children woke up this morning in a how important they are. And other POVERTY IN AMERICA household struggling with poverty. Mr. HARKIN. Mr. President, yester- programs, if they were counted by the Again, we have to remember, while I official poverty measure, which they day the Census Bureau released infor- talk about these as numbers, there is a mation about poverty, income, and are not, would have lifted millions real story, there is a real family, a real more people out of poverty. For exam- health insurance in our country, and individual, a real child behind every the news was, in short, devastating. ple, the SNAP program—food stamps— one of them. would have lifted 3.9 million people The number of people in poverty is at There are 46 million stories about above poverty. The earned-income tax an all-time high. Income gains over the families sitting around their kitchen credit would have lifted 5.4 million peo- last decade have been totally wiped table—if they are even lucky enough to ple. Without these crucial safety net out. Americans are struggling more have one—struggling to figure out how programs, the poverty situation would than ever before. to make ends meet, stories of people be much worse. Yet, mark my words, I am appalled by these facts and I choosing between whether to pay the with this supercommittee that is meet- know my colleagues are too. Today I rent or pay the utility bills, choosing ing or whether we go into some kind of wish to talk about these numbers, but whether to pay for diapers or medica- a sequestration or whatever that I wish to talk about what we can do tion for their kids, choosing whether to means around here, are we going to cut about them and about where our coun- put food on the table or gasoline in the back on the food stamp program, are try’s priorities must be and how we car—so they might get to a minimum we going to cut back on unemployment have to focus on rebuilding the middle wage, part-time job someplace. This insurance, maybe cut back on Social class in light of the new census num- should not be happening in America. bers. We have heard a lot of talk and I Security, as some would want to do, Yesterday we learned that 46.2 mil- have heard Senators and Members of and Social Security benefits? That just lion people in America were poor last the House in speeches recently talking means more people will fall below the year. That is more than 15 percent of about how we cannot afford this and we poverty line. Americans. Let me remind my col- cannot afford that because, let’s face I think the second lesson we can leagues what this means. The poverty it, we are broke, we are deeply in debt learn from this report is about the line for a family of four with two in this country and we are broke. I beg crippling effect falling paychecks and adults and two children is $22,000—just to differ. The United States of America rising inequality are having on our slightly over $22,000 a year. Can anyone is today the richest country in the economy. Income went down again last here in this body—and we all know world—the richest country in the his- year. Real median household income what we make; every Senator, every tory of the world. was $49,500. That is down 2.3 percent Congressman, except leadership who If we are so rich, why are we so from the year before and down 6.4 per- get paid a little bit more, makes broke? We are not poor. We are the cent since the start of the recession. $174,000 a year. If we think to ourselves: richest country in the world. So what This is not just the effect of the reces- Could we and our spouses and two chil- this census report yesterday points out sion; these are long-term economic dren live on $22,000 a year, $425 a week? is this is a wake-up call that we are trends that have caused a dramatic in- But, beyond that, we also learned that failing. We are failing our most vulner- crease in the income inequality in this deep poverty; that is, families with in- able citizens. We are failing to provide country, and it has been going on for at comes less than half the poverty line, a ladder of opportunity for people to least the last three decades, little bit is also at the highest rate on record. become part of the middle class. We are by little bit by little bit, to the point More than 20 million Americans lived destroying futures, destroying hope now where we have a huge disparity in in deep poverty last year. That is just among our children. income equality in this country. over $11,000 a year for a family of four. First and foremost, I think this re- Again, paychecks for American work- That is almost mind-boggling. How do port yesterday graphically illustrates ers are not falling because they are not people live like that? how dangerous it would be if we as law- working as hard or producing less. Ac- Our children are suffering incredibly makers give in to the current atmos- cording to testimony from former Sec- high levels of poverty. The Census Bu- phere of budget hysteria—budget retary of Labor Robert Reich to the reau pointed out that 22 percent—1 out hysteria—fear, and fatalism that is HELP Committee, the typical Amer- of every 5 kids in America—were poor now going on on Capitol Hill. By giving ican family is working more than 500 last year. When compared to other in- in to it, we eviscerate the essential hours longer per year now than they dustrialized nations—the OECD coun- economic security programs just be- were in 1979. Got that. The typical tries—the United States has one of the cause somehow we want to score polit- American family is working 500 hours highest rates of child poverty in the ical points. longer per year than they were in 1979. world. That is inexcusable. It is a na- Well, people all know that most peo- In addition to working longer, their tional crisis. It is something we should ple in poverty have a higher rate of not productivity, as measured by the Bu- be discussing here on the Senate floor voting than wealthier people. We know reau of Labor Statistics, has continued daily. that. So I guess, if you want to get to rise.

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It is our future—minimum wage jobs at mer recess. It has taken some by sur- not that companies cannot afford to $7.25 an hour? That is barely $15,000 a prise. But even more striking than the pay their workers more. Profit margins year, under the poverty line for a fam- new tone is that it has brought with it of Standard & Poor’s 500 companies are ily of four. Is that something to brag a few modest signs of a new spirit of at their highest levels since the late about, that we are creating more min- cooperation. 1960s. So what has happened during the imum wage jobs that will just keep The House this week sent us the last three decades, since 1979, is that families in poverty? As I said, we need highway extension and an aviation ex- the executives have shifted revenues jobs to lift families out of poverty, not tension that are clean. During August, from workers’ paychecks to the cor- keep them down, under the poverty there were clamors from some corners porate bottom lines and their own level. in the other party to mount a fight pockets—more to profit, more to cap- Lastly, I have said so many times over the gas tax or insist on harmful ital, less to labor. here on the floor that we will not be cuts to road and bridge repair, even if We cannot allow these trends to con- able to tackle the problem of poverty these demands risked a shutdown of tinue. Economists across the political in this country until we have a strong road construction projects. As recently spectrum agree that a major cause of middle class and a clear path for people as last Friday, Republicans were plan- our current economic stagnation is a to become middle-class citizens. That ning to insist on a 5-percent cut to the chronic lack of demand. For nearly means we should invest more in edu- FAA budget—a move that could well three decades, workers’ incomes have cation, more in innovation, more in in- have threatened another shutdown of been stagnant. Working families lack that agency like we saw in August. But the purchasing power to drive Amer- frastructure-building in this country. It means restoring a level playing field both fears, fortunately, have receded. ica’s consumer economy. Without ade- Barring a setback in the Senate, we quate demand, businesses are reluctant with fair taxation—fair taxation. To repeat something the President said should be able to extend both the FAA to invest and hire. Simply put, until we and highway measures on time and raise the numbers on people’s pay- the other night—why should Warren Buffett pay less of a percentage of his without controversy. checks and the number of people work- This is a very positive sign. There ing and making a paycheck, the econ- income than his secretary? You wonder why people get cynical about govern- was a sour taste left in everyone’s omy will never recover. mouth at the end of the debt ceiling de- The final lesson I think we can learn ment. Of course they are cynical. They bate, and that is causing a change in from yesterday’s census report is about have every reason to be cynical when behavior. It is actually bringing us to- health care. There is a small silver lin- we pass these laws around here and we gether. That process was made unnec- ing here. While the recession is obvi- tax capital at a lower rate than we tax essarily difficult because of the ex- ously continuing to impact health care labor. Why should someone who is la- treme tactics of a bloc within the coverage, there are some signs that the boring and working be taxed at a high- House. The political process broke early stages of implementation of the er rate than a wealthy person who down and the public noticed. affordable care act, that is, the health maybe invested a lot of money, and In the aftermath of that debate, it care reform bill, are making a dif- they are putting it all into capital seems everybody finally realizes there ference. While the census data shows gains, and they are paying a lower rate is a premium on reasonableness. The that the number of uninsured increased of taxes than someone who is out there public does not want to see more of the from 16.1 percent to 16.3 percent of the working for a living? Why is that fair? ‘‘my way or the highway’’ approach population—the Census Bureau deemed Well, we also need vibrant unions, vi- that has been exhibited by some in the this ‘‘not statistically different’’—the brant unions that can bargain collec- House. That is why there was head affordable care act’s requirement that tively for their people for wages, hours, scratching earlier this week to hear a health plans provide dependent cov- conditions of employment. We need a erage to young adults to stay on their strong ladder of opportunity to give new rumor in the Capitol that the parents’ policy until age 26 is making a every American access to the middle House Republican leadership might difference. class. consider seeking to reopen the debt ceiling fight, ignoring the agreed-upon The data from the Census Bureau So, again, yesterday’s poverty num- spending level for the 2012 fiscal year. shows that the 18-to-24 age group was bers told a bleak story about 46 million As you know, the deal included a top- the only group ‘‘to experience a signifi- Americans who cannot make ends line budget number of $1.043 trillion for cant increase in the percentage with meet. I hope that next year at this the fiscal year that begins October 1. health insurance over the past year,’’ time, when the new census numbers This was a significant cut, an actual up to 72.8 percent from 70.7 percent in come out, we can begin to tell a dif- cut from the fiscal 2011 level of $7 bil- 2009. So, again, there is a small silver ferent story about how we acted boldly, lion. This agreement was ratified by all lining there in terms of health care with imagination and vision, to help of those who voted for the final debt coverage for our younger population. these people turn their lives around ceiling agreement. It was hailed as one So it is a modest step forward for and build a better future. In a nation of the better aspects of the overall debt young Americans. as strong and as vibrant and, yes, as ceiling deal because it would mean a But the overall picture the census re- rich—as rich—as the United States of lesser likelihood of another budget port reveals is a nation—the United America, no one who works hard for a fight on September 30. States of America—on the brink of a living should have to live in poverty, crisis. It should be a call to action. I However, since this number was and we should not rest until that vision agreed to, some extreme Republicans think the President’s jobs bill is a good becomes a reality. start. We have to create more jobs, not have started looking to cause trouble. Mr. President, I yield the floor and just any job but good-quality jobs that They have tried to see the $7 billion in suggest the absence of a quorum. pay decent wages and benefits, a job to cuts represented by the $1.043 trillion lift a family out of poverty and not to The PRESIDING OFFICER. The figure as a floor, not a ceiling. This keep a family in it. clerk will call the roll. would be a violation not just of the Again, I have been paying attention a The legislative clerk proceeded to spirit of the debt limit deal but the let- little bit to some of the debates that call the roll. ter of it. have been going on in the other party. Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I ask The public will not stand for another I was looking at the figures from the unanimous consent that the order for budget fight. Republicans should un- State of Texas that more jobs have the quorum call be rescinded. derstand that more brinkmanship on

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We have numbers the Office of Management and CANTOR, in a memo to the House Re- six astronauts doing research in the Budget and the White House have publican caucus sent in August, warned zero gravity of orbit. scrubbed to make sure they are real- against picking another budget fight The future rockets going to and from istic, and that is what has been an- on the CR. Leader CANTOR wrote: the space station—a space taxi, if you nounced today. While all of us would like to have seen a will—are a competition among com- Here it is. This is the rocket. Just to lower discretionary appropriation ceiling for mercial rocket companies, and we give an idea of the scale of this mon- the upcoming fiscal year, the debt limit think that competition will bring down ster, the space shuttle in the stack, agreement set a level of spending that is a significantly the cost of those rockets with the external tank and the two sol- real cut from the current year. I believe it is to take cargo and crew, and at the end ids on either side, the tallest point of in our interest to enact into law full-year ap- of this year one version of those rock- that stack is the top of the external propriation bills at this new lower level. ets will in fact launch, rendezvous, and tank. From here that would come up to Leader CANTOR affirmed these re- dock with the space station and deliver right there. That gives an idea of how marks earlier this week: cargo. much larger this rocket is. This rocket I say to my Republican colleagues, a deal To make those human rated, with all will launch more payload than any is a deal. It’s hard to imagine you would go of the redundancies and escape systems rocket in America’s space program and back on the debt limit agreement, but if you to save human life, it is going to take probably the Russian/Soviet space pro- are even considering it, please stop. another few years. Of course, it is a dis- gram, certainly, now. Back in the old We already will likely need to take appointment for so many of us that the Soviet days I don’t think the Soviets time next week resolving what level of new rocket, ready to go to and from had one that was anywhere near this FEMA funding we should appropriate the space station, as the space shuttle one. for fiscal year 2012. Earlier indications used to, is not ready for humans, even What this rocket has is a core, and are that some House Republicans may though we are launching cargo. Thus, this is a core with liquid oxygen, liquid want to shortchange the level of fund- in the interim, we have to rely on the hydrogen fuel tank. It is taking the ing FEMA says it needs for next year. Russians with their spacecraft, which space shuttle engines—so we can keep I can’t imagine why anyone would we have done before, because when the the cost down, and a lot of this has al- want to play games with disaster re- Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed ready been developed—and putting five lief. But if they want to debate that, on reentry back in 2003, for well over 2 in the tail of this first stage. So first they should not also be tying it to an- years we were down and not flying the stage, liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen. other budget fight that we have al- space shuttle, until we could make sure But it is boosted on either side by ready resolved and that nearly caused that it was fixed. We relied on the Rus- those solid rocket boosters—in this a default for the first time in American sian Soyuz to get to and from the space case a new one. Under the space shuttle history. We should not go back over station. it was four segments, but this one has those pages. We have had enough de- All right, that is going to low-Earth five segments. So it is elongated and bates on the docket without reopening orbit. But NASA, with its human space gives more thrust. These, on future the ones we have already done. program, has another mission. Now, versions, will be competed as to wheth- The public is tired of these fights, with the nonmanned space program, we er it is going to be solid rockets—and, and the public understands who keeps just launched to Jupiter, we just by the way, the consistency of this instigating them. To the House Repub- launched a mission to the Moon, next pencil eraser is what the solid rocket licans I say: Don’t go back on your month we are going to launch a mis- material looks like—or whether those word on the CR. Leader CANTOR was sion on Earth observations, and before in the competition will be liquid boost- right when he said in August you Thanksgiving we are launching a ers. should abide by the level agreed to over Volkswagen-size Recovery to Mars, All right, that is the core. That the summer. Stick with that decision with six wheels powered by a pluto- comes up all the way to here. Then and let’s move on to other issues. nium source so it doesn’t have to go to there is the second stage. We have sec- Mr. President, I yield the floor. sleep in the Martian night. This will ond-stage engines we have been using The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- rove all over. in the past called the J–2. They are ator from Florida. It has a pole that will stick up, with now updated with a new, more powerful INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION a laser, and it can zap rocks so we can version called the J–2X. So we have a Mr. NELSON of Florida. Mr. Presi- analyze their chemical content. It has lot of history on these engines. That is dent, I am very happy to announce to a big scooper that can also get us addi- what is going to be the second stage, the Senate that today NASA an- tional samples. It has two eyes that which then takes the housing for a lot nounced its new, big rocket design, will pop up as it roams around so we of the electronics, and then the cap- with the President stepping forth to in- can see in real time the surface of sule. dicate that he will request funding for Mars. The tower at the top is an escape the design and building of this rocket. So we have a vigorous space program. tower. We could actually have an ex- I want to take the opportunity to But we still have to do what NASA is plosion right here on the pad, and the share with the Senate what this rocket supposed to do; that is, leave the orbit crew could survive because they would is going to be. To set the stage, you of the Earth and venture out into the eject in the full capsule, being thrust will recall that we have the Inter- heavens with humans. That is what away from the explosion, and then the national Space Station up in orbit now. was announced today—announced by parachutes would deploy and the crew There is a combination of six astro- Senator HUTCHISON and myself, with saved; likewise, we could save the crew nauts on board. It is an international NASA Administrator General Charlie on this rocket all the way to orbit. So crew. The space station itself—people Bolden making the formal announce- if there was a problem, we could still don’t realize how big it is. If you think ment. The President has signed off on save the human life of the four to seven about sitting in a football stadium on the specifics. astronauts who are going to be in this the 50-yard line, and looking from one I am going to explain this rocket. crew capsule. We could save their lives, end zone to the other, that is how big But before I do, let me say there have and that was one of the mandates after the space station is—120 yards long. been a lot of critics saying: Oh, it will we lost Columbia in the reentry over The space shuttle has been the vehi- cost too much. Remember, last year we Texas. The investigation board said: cle that we have used now for 30 years, passed the NASA bill unanimously in Build a safer rocket, and certainly one the last 10 of which have been used to the Senate and passed it in the House that is more economical. build the International Space Station. with an overwhelming three-quarters This is now on a schedule for its first The Russians have been taking up vote. That set the parameters on the test—this version. This is the smaller some components, but the major com- funding for this new rocket, and all of version. This thing can evolve. This is

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They one of the top 10 costliest disasters in and, according to local reports, the line are then scheduled to rendezvous, or U.S. history. I am here to tell the story for that ferry was 15 miles long this land, on an asteroid—this will be the of North Carolina. weekend. first time that has ever been done—as In the early morning of August 27, That is the picture in North Caro- a way of preparing us to then go to Irene first touched down over eastern lina. It is not the only picture. While Mars. North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Even be- there were scenes of destruction and So that is what NASA has announced fore it made landfall, the storm loss, I also saw tremendous acts of de- today. I want to give great credit— brought on several tornadoes along the termination and kindness. If winds and great, great credit—to Senator coast that swept away entire homes. rains may have swept away our posses- HUTCHISON. She has been the ranking This is a photo of what is left of sions, they also stirred up the best member and, alternately, chairman of three homes hit by tornadoes in parts of North Carolina spirit. Our in- the Subcommittee on Science and Tyrrell County. I was there, and it was trinsic devotion to community and to Space and is now the ranking member truly devastating. One elderly man assisting those in need produced count- of the full Committee on Commerce, who had one of these homes was there less heroes across our State the past 2 Science, and Transportation. She has the next day with a rake, forlorn look weeks. been a princess in helping guide, first in his eyes, and said: The only thing I Everywhere I went, I saw emergency of all, the NASA authorization bill and own now are the clothes on my back. workers, volunteer organizations, and the funding. Tomorrow, she and Sen- By the time Irene finally moved be- members of the community reaching ator MIKULSKI—the chair of the Sub- yond the State of North Carolina, six out to their neighbors in need. In Cra- committee on Commerce, Justice, North Carolinians had been killed, ven and Tyrrell Counties, the Amer- Science, and Related Agencies of the storm surges 6 to 9 feet high had flood- ican Red Cross and the North Carolina Committee on Appropriations—will be ed many towns, more than 500,000 were Baptist Men and Women provided hot taking up NASA’s budget as they get without power, and countless homes, meals. The North Carolina Baptist Men ready to come to the floor. businesses, and schools had been de- and Women were there, distributing This rocket will now allow us to get stroyed or severely damaged. 5,000 meals one afternoon when I was out of low-Earth orbit, assemble com- Fortunately, our State had prepared with them and also helping shelter and ponents—heavy components—that ulti- diligently for days leading up to the debris removal for those affected by mately will take us out into the heav- storm, boarding up houses and busi- the hurricane. nesses and declaring mandatory evacu- ens exploring in ways we never have The North Carolina National Guard ations for tourists and residents in our even started to design. Remember, 40 activated 400 members—including a most at-risk towns. years ago we went to the Moon. That member of my own staff who serves in A lot of pundits woke after Irene hit was quite an accomplishment. But the the Guard—to provide emergency and started saying: Hey, it wasn’t that Moon is about 250,000 miles from Earth. water, food, and supplies to some of the bad. I wish to invite those individuals With rockets like these, we are going hardest hit areas. Emergency workers to come to eastern North Carolina and to go far out into the heavens to ex- throughout the State continue to help see what I saw in the wake of Hurri- plore the origins of the universe, to ex- families, businesses, and entire com- cane Irene. plore that which we have never even munities recover and rebuild. I saw small business owners in down- dreamed of, as we fulfill our destiny as While the people of the great State of a people who are explorers and adven- town Manteo emptying stores they have run for decades, tossing their wa- North Carolina are committed to get- turers by nature. ting themselves and their neighbors Mr. President, I yield the floor, and I terlogged inventory, moving their fur- back on their own feet, we have to do suggest the absence of a quorum. niture to the curb, moving out carpet the same in Congress. For the North The PRESIDING OFFICER. The totally destroyed, and these business Carolina families, farmers, fishermen, clerk will call the roll. owners wondering if it was even worth educators, seniors, and small busi- The bill clerk proceeded to call the reopening their stores. nesses struggling to recover, govern- roll. There was a bookstore, and a resi- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- dent in the community came up to me ment assistance cannot come fast enough. It must not leave too soon. ator from North Carolina is recognized. and he said: Senator HAGAN, I have Mrs. HAGAN. I ask unanimous con- raised my children by sitting on this Here is my bottom line: Congress sent that the order for the quorum call man’s knees having books read to him must fully fund Irene recovery efforts be rescinded. day in and day out. We need this book- now. But we must also fund the emer- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without store back in Manteo. gency funding needs in tornado-dev- objection, it is so ordered. I wish to be sure it gets there. astated Joplin, MO, and Alabama, and Mrs. HAGAN. Mr. President, I rise to I also saw crops that had been beaten the flooded communities of the Mid- join my colleagues in imploring Con- by wind and rain for 15 hours, and it west, also, and in the wildfire disaster gress to provide needed assistance to looked like they had gone through the currently in Texas. our families, our communities, and our spin cycle of a washing machine. I saw Without a doubt, this year, our coun- businesses suffering from the rash of flooding in the fields so severe that Ag- try has been ravaged by an unprece- natural disasters that have hit our ricultural Secretary and former Iowa dented series of natural disasters. country hard this year. Gov. Tom Vilsack said it was the worst Since January 1, the President has While many of us who represent agricultural flooding he recalled see- issued disaster declarations in 48 States on the east coast planned to ing. States, and the hurricane season is far spend our final week of our August I saw families clearing and burning from over. work period traveling our State, tour- debris, pumping floodwater, tossing We are aware of this trend all too ing factories, stopping by schools, and aside their soaked possessions that well in North Carolina. Just about 4 visiting military bases, Mother Nature were beyond saving. months before Irene hit, 28 tornadoes had other plans. I also stood along Highway 12, eerily touched down across central and south- We still traveled to our States, but quiet, a highway that is usually busy ern North Carolina, the most severe we saw a very different scene: whole with traffic, totally still at the point weather to hit our State since 1984. streets and towns flooded, homes and where Irene had left a gaping hole, More than 20 North Carolinians were businesses washed away from their blocking any vehicle travel to and killed, 6,200 homes damaged, and about foundations, destroyed crop fields, and from Hatteras Island and the towns of 440 homes were completely destroyed;

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Shaw University, located in State that I believe is particularly rel- Congress Monday afternoon does not downtown Raleigh, was forced to close evant at this time when communities contain any fiscal tables, costs for any for the remainder of the semester due across the country are in the process of of his provisions, actually how those to the immense damage to its campus. recovery. Back in April, one of the provisions will be paid for and when We will never be able to predict the most recognizable scenes from the the pay-for will occur, or even an over- whims of Mother Nature, but we are post-tornado coverage was of a Lowe’s all pricetag for the bill. able to prepare and prepare we must. store in Sanford, NC. Unlike with How can the President call on Con- Right now, FEMA’s Disaster Relief Irene, there were few warnings of the gress to ‘‘pass this bill immediately’’ Fund is running dangerously low. Even tornado’s arrival. But when Michael when no one even knows how much it before Hurricane Irene arrived we were Hollowell, the store manager, saw the will cost or where the money is coming using $400 million a month on disaster storm approaching his store—and it from? relief efforts. Today the fund is down was very fast—he calmly moved every I sent a letter yesterday to the Presi- to $377 million, not enough for a week customer to the back corner where he dent’s Director of the Office of Manage- of spending before Hurricane Irene hit, knew—because he had been trained— ment and Budget, Jack Lew, asking and we still have 3 weeks to go in this they would be the safest. I saw that that this information be provided to fiscal year. Lowe’s the very next day. the Congress at once. But so far we If we do not act now to fix this short- This is what that store looked like. have had no response. Part of the rea- fall, millions of Americans will be left It was completely demolished. But son we need this information is that behind. Already, FEMA is shifting every single person in the store when the total cost of the President’s bill funds away from vitally needed recon- the storm hit was alive. Mike may be much higher than advertised. struction projects in previously hard- Hollowell is a hero, not just to those That has been the pattern around here. hit areas to what they call ‘‘immediate people in the Lowe’s store but to peo- No one should be surprised. When the needs’’ assistance. I do not believe any ple all over North Carolina. Last week, President said his plan would be ‘‘paid one of us wants to be in the position of not even 5 months after this devasta- for,’’ he did not specify if he meant the telling one of our constituents—one of tion, that same Lowe’s reopened, and it total cost—to include increased inter- our small business owners, one of our reopened with 2,000 more square feet est resulting from the borrowed money school principals—that we can’t help than it had before. It just shows that to be spent immediately—or just the because they are not considered an North Carolinians and people across cost of the jobs provisions alone, actu- ‘‘immediate need.’’ American victims the country are committed to a recov- ally how much goes out the door. De- of natural disasters should not be left ery that will leave our communities pending on whether the money is spent at the mercy of a rob-Peter-to-pay- better than ever. out and when it is paid back—assuming The people of this great country are Paul system. That is not who we are as it is ever paid back—interest costs re- stronger than any storm. They will re- Americans. sulting from just this bill’s borrowing We have a choice right now. In my build and recover. But that process could top $100 billion. In other words, mind and in the minds of all North may take many months, it may take the interest on the money over the 10- Carolinians affected by the storms of many years. As their representatives, year window, the 10-year budget we are Irene and the tornadoes that took we have a responsibility to provide a talking about—if we spend $450 billion place in April, the choice is clear: Con- reliable, comprehensive program of re- now, we pay interest on that money. It gress must make these FEMA supple- lief for that duration. To do any less is is borrowed money. People loan us the mental funds available. a dereliction of duty. money and we pay interest. Interest The Budget Control Act that we I call on all my colleagues to pass rates alone now—CBO projects them to passed in early August established this FEMA supplemental bill as soon as go up, our Congressional Budget Office. strict spending caps to get our fiscal possible. Certainly they will. They are extraor- Mr. President, I suggest the absence house in order while also allowing for a dinarily low today. But, at any rate, we of a quorum. limited amount of funds to be made The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. could easily see the interest on this available in case disaster struck. Dis- money over 10 years reaching $100 bil- CARDIN). The clerk will call the roll. aster struck, and now is the time to The bill clerk proceeded to call the lion. make those funds available. Meeting roll. The problem with looking at it as a these needs is not just a necessity for Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. President, I ask 10-year scenario is that the debt is the people of my State and many oth- unanimous consent the order for the probably not going to be paid off in 10 ers, but it is also wholly consistent quorum call be rescinded. years. Most of the debts we run up will with the fiscal discipline that we The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without be part of our deficit. If we want to agreed on and voted on in August. objection, it is so ordered. raise taxes to fund a new program, But FEMA funding is not enough. STIMULUS BILL maybe we ought to raise taxes to pay Our farmers in North Carolina and Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. President, in re- off the debt we have instead of spend- across the eastern coast were dev- cent days the President has repeatedly ing it on a new program. The debt we astated by Irene, and they are in des- told Congress to pass the stimulus have distributes American wealth to perate need of assistance. North Caro- package immediately. This began dur- people who hold our debt all over the lina is an agricultural State. Agri- ing his joint address to Congress last world. culture generates about $78 billion a week when he said at one point: In my letter to OMB, I request tables year in economic activity, and it em- I am sending this Congress a plan that you showing the year-by-year data for this ploys close to one-fifth of the workers should pass right away. You should pass this bill’s budgetary impact, including pro- in North Carolina. Our agricultural in- jobs plan right away. Pass this jobs bill— jected changes to the deficit for each of dustry, particularly our cotton and to- pass this jobs bill. the next 10 years. In other words, how bacco farmers, are in trouble. Immediately following the Presi- will it play out? If we spend $450 billion At the end of the day, when all of the dent’s joint address to the Congress, in 1, 2, or 3 years, how much does that damage assessments are completed, our Press Secretary Jay Carney declared: run up the debt? When does the repay- farmers could be out more than $400 The President will submit a bill early next ment begin? How will it be paid, and at million from Hurricane Irene, and week, the American Jobs Act, which will what rate? If the President wants to these crops were just getting ready to specify how he proposes paying for the Amer- advocate for a sharp, near-term in- be harvested. Our farmers in our State ican Jobs Act. crease in the deficit in exchange for absolutely cannot afford a blow like As ranking Republican on the Budget the possibility of some undefined eco- this one. We in Congress need to work Committee and wrestling with these nomic future, with the possibility of a

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So we are going to have the low- the kind of tax reform of a permanent year resulting from the debt limit deal. est—and he says this is going to pay nature that creates confidence in our In other words, we went through this down the debt and wouldn’t be adding economy—the kind of tax reform that long, painful exercise that resulted in more to the debt if we passed his budg- advances economic growth rather than an agreement in the eleventh hour and et, when his budget spent more, taxed increasing taxes to give Washington the 59th minute to save $900 billion, more, and ran up more debt. I believe more money. and then, hopefully, form a committee this is the most irresponsible budget Those are my suggestions about how that would save another $1.1 trillion to ever submitted to the Congress of the to deal with this. First and foremost, $1.5 trillion, only a fraction of this $2.1 United States, at a time of national we are going to look at this proposal. billion in savings, of the $13 trillion the crisis, when all experts are telling us We certainly are worried about the sta- Congressional Budget Office tells us the greatest threat to our national se- tus of the economy today. We are deep- will be added to the debt in the next 10 curity is our debt. ly disappointed in the job numbers that years. So it would save a little over $2 Forgive me if I want to see the fine continue to fall and, hopefully, we will trillion over 10 years but, at the same print on this legislation, when an ad- find the key to changing that. But fun- time, we are running up over $10 tril- ministration tells us that—and the damentally the economy will come lion in debt. So it is not a big enough President said very similar things; the back and jobs will come back when step. It is a step. There is progress. I President himself said very similar growth occurs and growth will occur certainly respect that, but it wasn’t things—we would not be adding more not in the public sector but in the pri- much. to the debt. vate sector. We need to ask ourselves To show us how small it is, next year We in Congress raised the legal debt what it is we can do to create a better we are projected, under the agreement limit—I did not vote for that particular climate for growth and job creation. Congress ratified, to reduce spending bill—but we have breached, I am afraid, We need to be rigorous in analyzing the by $7 billion. That is all. That is all it our economic debt limit. America’s President’s proposal, and to look at the would be reduced from this year to $14.5 trillion gross debt is now 100 per- details of it and how much it is going next year in actual spending levels. So cent of our GDP, our economy. Experts to cost and how we plan to pay it back. I ask my colleagues: Don’t we need to tell us we have already crossed a dan- I think at a very minimum, we are en- be careful? After all the effort we took gerous threshold. Our debt is pulling titled to that. to achieve that much savings, down growth and putting a damper on I thank the Chair and yield the floor. shouldn’t we think very carefully job creation right now. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The as- about a new stimulus plan that would We have to ask ourselves: Can we sistant majority leader. spend $450 billion, obliterating that continue to borrow, running up even Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I thank savings? I think we should. But, at any more debt in the hope that we can my friend and colleague from Alabama rate, we do need to know precisely how spend it today in a sugar-high type who has come to the floor. We see the much it is going to cost and precisely stimulus to create jobs in the short world differently, but we both acknowl- how the money would be spent. run? The Congressional Budget Office edge we are at a moment where action Let’s flash back to February. The Of- scored the first stimulus package 2 is the only alternative. Doing nothing fice of Management and Budget Direc- years ago that has come nowhere near is unacceptable. When President tor, Jack Lew, said this. This was when achieving what was promised for it. Obama came to speak to us in a joint the President submitted his budget for They said, OK, if you spend $825 billion session of Congress last week, that is the next 10 years. It was brought up now, you will get some short-term eco- what he told us. He basically said, here on the floor of the Senate. In fact, nomic benefit, but scored over a dec- Let’s roll up our sleeves, work to- I brought it up. It was voted down 97 to ade, we would have an economic de- gether, both parties in Congress, for a nothing. But this is what Mr. Lew said cline. The net growth of the United change, and do something about this about that budget: States would be less over 10 years than economy. Our budget will get us, over the next sev- if we didn’t pass a stimulus package at There are 14 million Americans out eral years, to the point where we can look all. When we get up to 100 percent of of work. The report now from the Joint the American people in the eye and say we’re GDP, I submit it is even more dan- Economic Committee and others cites not adding to the debt anymore; we’re spend- gerous to keep running up debt. the highest level of poverty in our ing money that we have each year, and then country in decades; the problems work- we can work on bringing down the national This is a dilemma. We are in a fix. debt. The economy is not growing the way ing families are having week to week, We all know there is a certain we wish it to grow. CBO was projecting month to month, and year to year, fall- amount of political license people get in January of this year that economic ing behind, despite all of their hard to utilize in the political world, and ex- growth for the first 6 months would be work. Their wages aren’t rising to keep aggeration sometimes is forgiven. But about 2.9 percent. We were hoping that up with the cost of living. Many are let me tell my colleagues, this is the would be true. But what happened? The surviving paycheck to paycheck. A survey was taken recently across Office of Management and Budget talk- first quarter of this fiscal year it was .4 America asking working families the ing about the President’s budget that percent—not 2 percent, not 2.9 per- following question: Could you come up he had just submitted to Congress. He cent—and the second quarter was ex- with $2,000 in 30 days if you had to, ei- said: tremely low also. We have averaged about 1 percent growth the first half of ther from savings or borrowing it? Our budget will get us, over the next sev- Fifty-three percent of working families eral years, to the point where we can look this year. the American people in the eye and say we’re We want to do something to help this said yes and 47 percent said no. That is not adding to the debt anymore; we’re spend- economy grow. I submit we should do how close to the edge almost half of ing money that we have each year, and then everything we can that would help our working families are living. A $2,000 we can work on bringing down our national economy grow now that does not run medical bill at an emergency room is debt. up the debt. What are some of those almost nothing these days—it is for a What is the truth? The Congressional things? Producing more energy at minor injury—and these families could Budget Office scored this budgetary home, creating jobs here; pumping not come up with it. That is what they plan and this is what they concluded: more energy supply which could bring are facing. That is why the President that over a 10-year period there would down the cost of energy. We can bring said let us focus on doing things that be huge deficits every single year. In down the cost of energy, create jobs, will help these families and equally, if about year 6 or 7, the lowest deficit create tax revenue, and create growth not more importantly, help small busi- would occur—$750 billion would be the that way. We should eliminate every nesses create jobs.

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I outbuild them. troubled that they are on food stamps; took a look at what it would mean in I went to China over Easter. What is I am troubled because they have to be the State of Illinois. It would mean happening in that country is incred- on food stamps. I hear critics come to that for the average income, which is ible. They are building in every direc- the floor who say: There are too darned $53,000 a year, that family would get tion—building cranes and construction many people on food stamps. There is $1,400 in tax cuts or $120 a month. I activity everywhere. They are building something wrong here. think it is worth something to working the infrastructure in China to become What is wrong is not the food stamps; families to have that much more in the No. 1 economic power of the world what is wrong is hunger and low-in- their pockets to meet the needs of in the 21st century. What are we doing? come and working families struggling their families and perhaps make some We are hearing speech after speech say- to get by paycheck to paycheck. That critical purchases for their children, ing that because of the deficit, we can- is what is wrong. The number of Amer- for their future, whatever it might be. not invest in America. Some say we icans now qualifying for this food That is a tax cut the President has pro- cannot invest in education. They argue stamp assistance is even going up posed. that we cannot invest in research, we among those who are employed, such He also proposed a tax cut for small cannot invest in building America. I as the lady I met in Champagne, IL. businesses if they will hire unemployed think they are wrong. That is a reality. people, a tax credit of up to $4,000 to The deficit is a serious challenge. Something else is happening too. As hire these folks, take them off the un- Even the Bowles-Simpson Commission, more and more people lose their jobs, employed rolls, and put them to work. which I served on and voted for, said: I went to several job centers during When you get serious about cutting they lose their health insurance. When the August recess. One was in spending, do it when this recession is I sit down with the unemployed, that is McHenry, IL, and one was in Elgin, IL. behind you. They know, we know you one of the first items that comes up. I spent the better part of the day sit- can’t balance the budget with 14 mil- Once you have lost that health insur- ting with unemployed people and talk- lion Americans out of work. ance premium your employer helps you ing to them. You ought to go there. If Let me say a word about the safety pay, most folks can’t afford it. It is you think unemployed Americans—the net in America. I made a visit in Cham- just way beyond them. So they are out 14 million on whom we hear the statis- pagne, IL, to a food-distributing oper- there without insurance, and they are tics—are living the life of luxury on ation. They distribute food to pantries vulnerable. Some of them have sick their unemployment checks, they are and soup kitchens all around central Il- kids, chronically ill children, and they not. Most of them are struggling to linois. Unfortunately, their business worry about it. They go to the free survive, and many of them come each has never been better. More and more clinics. We are seeing more and more day to a job center to brush up their families are showing up in these places working families showing up at free re´sume´, to find out the latest people for a helping hand. I went in there to clinics across America. That is a re- asking for new workers and put in new hear how they are doing. They are get- ality of this economy too. applications day after day. Many of ting a lot of help from the private sec- When we talk about cutting spending them are discouraged after submitting tor that donates food that is near expi- on Medicaid, keep in mind who receives hundreds of applications with no re- ration, for example, and a lot of con- Medicaid payments in America. In my sponse. Some go back to school. I met tributions from churches and chari- State of Illinois, 36 percent of Illinois a few who really made the right life table individuals. It is very heart- children are covered by Medicaid insur- choice by going back to take courses at warming to see it. ance. When it comes to births in the community college, where they could As I went to tour this place, there State of Illinois, 52 percent of all births afford it, or at job-training centers was a young woman there. She was an in Illinois are paid for by Medicaid. But where there would be no charge to attractive, well-dressed woman. I as- the biggest single expense in Medicaid them, so they could pick up a new skill sumed she worked for this food deposi- is neither one of those. Mr. President, in an area in which they could get a tory. She said to me that she had a job 20 percent of the Medicaid recipients in job. That is the reality. The President in a local school district as a teacher’s my State account for 60 percent of the is trying to create tax incentives for aide. I was a little bit puzzled as to cost of the program: the elderly—par- small businesses to hire those people. whether she was on the board of direc- ents, grandparents, great-grandparents Usually the Republicans who come to tors or what her connection was. She in nursing homes and convalescent cen- the floor applaud tax cuts. My experi- came there to tell me that as a single ters, on Medicare and broke and stay ence is that they are for tax cuts when mom with two little kids, even with a there because Medicaid steps in and times are good and bad, but this time job in the school district, which she helps them keep things together, so they are against these tax cuts. What was happy to have, she still needed they have at least some care and some is the difference between these tax cuts food stamps to put food on the table attention in the late years of their and the ones the Republicans histori- every day for her kids. lives. When we talk about cutting cally support? There are two dif- I don’t think Americans—those of us spending in Medicaid, we are talking ferences: The President’s tax cuts are lucky enough to never have to worry about hurting the most vulnerable peo- focused on middle-income families, not about the next meal—know what fami- ple in America: children, such as the the wealthiest, and they are the Presi- lies are going through, working fami- kids of that single mom I met; those dent’s tax cuts. Those are the two dif- lies struggling with low income, trying who need prenatal care so their babies ferences. to keep their kids well-fed and to do will be healthy; and, of course, the el- I hope some on the Republican side what every parent wants to do. More derly who are stuck in that situation. will reflect on the fact, as the Presi- and more of these families are going to The same thing is true with Medi- dent said, that the American people are soup kitchens very quietly because care. I understand Medicare costs are not going to reward us for our cam- that is a meal they don’t have to pay going up dramatically. I also under- paign rhetoric if this economy does not for. They are going to the pantries to stand the number of people under So- turn around. They want us to work to- pick up the groceries. I have seen them cial Security and Medicare is going to gether to solve the problems facing our in one of the nicest and most pros- rise as baby boomers reach that age. economy. They want tax cuts for work- perous counties in my State, DuPage But we have to take care that at the ing families. They want small busi- County. I went to the pantries there, end of the day we protect the basic pre- nesses to have an incentive to hire peo- and I saw the people coming through miums and benefits that are presently ple. They want us to focus on creating the door. You would not be able to pick available under Medicare. For a lot of

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We Finally, when it comes to Social Se- more in taxes. lose $1.2 trillion a year to the Tax curity, let me just say that this is a Those are the people I run into. But Code. Credits and deductions and exclu- program which means a lot. For 70 per- you hear from the other side that is to- sions and special favors written in the cent of Social Security recipients, it is tally unacceptable. Some of them have Tax Code for businesses and individuals a majority of their retirement. For 25 said the President’s plan is going to have to come to an end. I actually percent of the Social Security recipi- fall flat on its face because it taxes the think that is a good way to raise rev- ents, it is all they get. That is it. So wealthy in America. I think the enue and maybe even reduce marginal guarding Social Security and pro- wealthy should pay their fair share, tax rates for corporations and individ- tecting its future is important for our and I think the President’s plan is an uals in the process. parents and grandparents. It is impor- honest, good plan that moves us for- That is what Bowles-Simpson said. tant for our country and for its future ward. So for those who are critical of So even my friend from Alabama who as well. it, give me your alternative. spoke earlier—even he and I can find The President came forward, and he I wrote down here what the Senator some common ground. I hope he will said: This is my jobs bill. This is what from Alabama suggested. He wants agree with me and the President: doing I think will help move America for- more energy produced here at home. I nothing is unacceptable. The President ward, put more spending power in the am for that. I think we ought to go to has said: No more games, no more hands of working families, create in- places where it is environmentally re- delay, no more politics. Do something. centives for small businesses to hire sponsible and produce more energy That is the message I got in August, as people, focus on putting firefighters, here in the United States. But I will I returned to Illinois. It is a message I cops, and teachers back to work. That say two things to keep in mind: hope my colleagues share as well. is a priority in our country for sure, No. 1, all of the known oil and gas re- Mr. President, I yield the floor and and investing in building in America. serves in the United States of America suggest the absence of a quorum. One of the few lines the President that we could reach onshore and off- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The had that got a bipartisan standing ova- shore equal 3 percent of the known oil clerk will call the roll. tion—and there were not many last and gas reserves in the world. Each The assistant editor of the Daily Di- Thursday—was when he said it is an year, the United States of America gest proceeded to call the roll. embarrassment that 10 percent of our consumes 25 percent of the oil and gas Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I ask returning veterans are unemployed. consumed in the world. unanimous consent that the order for Let’s put our veterans back to work. We cannot drill our way into energy the quorum call be rescinded. That is part of our President’s plan. independence. We can expand the base The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without When I listened to the Senator from and do it in an environmentally re- objection, it is so ordered. Alabama—he doesn’t like the way the sponsible way, perhaps find better The Senator from Wyoming is recog- President is paying for the plan, but he sources, newer sources for things such nized. does pay for it. How does he pay for it? as natural gas, but this is not the an- A SECOND OPINION One thing he does is he reduces the swer to our prayers. Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I Federal subsidy to oil and gas compa- Secondly, moving toward energy effi- come to the floor, as I do almost on a nies. Filled your tank lately? Take a ciency is not only good for the environ- weekly basis, to talk about the health look at what they are charging at the ment, it is good for the bottom line for care law and, I do that as a physician, pump. In Illinois and most places, it is a family and for a business, promoting someone who has practiced medicine in over $4. That is translating into the efficiency. Wyoming for a quarter of a century, highest reported profits in the history My wife and I take a little pride in taking care of Wyoming families. I of American business. Oil companies the fact that we own a car, a Ford Fu- come to the floor because I have great have never ever had it so good. Presi- sion Hybrid, and we were kind of pat- concerns about this health care law. dent Obama has said—and I agree with ting ourselves on the back a little bit. We know—history proves—that land- him—that if there were ever a moment As we came back from vacation in mark pieces of legislation written in in time when the Federal subsidies to Michigan, we were getting 36 miles a Congress often contain drafting errors these oil companies should come to an gallon. We felt pretty good about it. I at one stage or another during the end, this is it. The money saved should was bragging to my friends about it, bill’s development. This is one of the go to small businesses and families and now I am bragging on the Senate main reasons most landmark bills are across America in this difficult econ- floor. It can be done. We can create written and negotiated in an open and omy. more fuel-efficient vehicles. We didn’t transparent manner. Writing and nego- The President also believes—and I compromise anything, and we bought tiating bills in this way helps Members agree with him—that the wealthiest American. of Congress minimize mistakes. It among us, those who are most com- I think that is what we need to en- helps uncover any unintentional con- fortable, should be asked to share in courage in this country: cars and other sequences. It helps fix problems. This is the sacrifice. There are some on the energy-saving equipment made in this done through rigorous committee and other side who would not accept one country, creating jobs, reducing the floor debate, as well as House-Senate penny more in taxes on the wealthiest need for energy to be imported from conference committees, as the bills go people in America. I don’t get it. As I overseas and reducing the pollution through the process. travel around Illinois, a lot of families that, unfortunately, hinders our envi- Most importantly, doing something are sacrificing in this tough economy. ronment and our health. I think that is in an open and transparent manner They know they have to. It is the only a good thing. gives the American people, the folks at way they are going to make it. They So on the Senator’s first point, sure, home, an opportunity to read a bill, to know that some of the government pro- more energy at home, but put it in per- study it, to think about it, to discuss it grams which have been around in the spective. That is not the answer to during townhall meetings with their past are not going to be there in the fu- America’s economic needs. Members, and ask questions and weigh ture or may be not as generous. The second point he says is to elimi- in. If working families and middle-class nate certain regulations. That could be Well, unfortunately, we all know the families across America accept that re- true. I am sure the President agrees largest health care law ever enacted ality, why can’t the wealthiest families there are regulations now that don’t did not undergo an open, transparent, in America accept it too? Honestly, I make any sense. Get rid of them. I am or bipartisan process. President Obama

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Pass sweeping individuals can use their government take up S. 1376 and pass it. This is $13 health care legislation based on stealth subsidy to buy health insurance. Now, billion we can save right now, today. and speed. Use sound bites to sell if a State declines to set up their own Let’s show the American people that America about expanding coverage, exchange, then section 1321 mandates when we see our country spending about cutting costs, about improving that the Federal Government set it up money that it shouldn’t, we will take a quality, and then offer very few details and run it for them. stand, collectively as a Senate, and explaining exactly how the bill would Here is the catch: The health care stop it. impact individual Americans, nor what law, as written, as signed by the Presi- These examples—these two exam- it would cost the country. dent, explicitly says the taxpayer-fund- ples—inevitably beg the question: What Well, while this entire strategy was ed subsidies can only go to people who next? Clearly, the self-described ‘‘most being played out, the President and are enrolled in exchanges set up by the transparent Administration in his- Washington Democrats were writing State. Nowhere does the health care tory’’ has a lot of explaining to do. I do the legislation behind closed doors. law mention that the subsidy can be not believe my friends on the other Why? Well, to limit the time the bills given to people enrolled in the Federal side of the aisle, who wrote this very could be read and reviewed by the exchange. flawed health care law—and they did it American public. Some in Washington So the American people are now find- behind closed doors—I do not think thought rushing a health care bill into ing out that their family might actu- they knew what they were doing when law before America could read it was ally qualify for government help to buy they wrote these provisions. How do I the perfect way to avoid public debate health insurance, but they are not know that? Well, if they understood and public questioning. going to receive the help. Instead, indi- how devastating their policies would Many of us recall when former viduals enrolled in federally run ex- be, I think they might have had second Speaker of the House NANCY PELOSI in- changes could be forced to buy health thoughts. famously said: First, you have to pass insurance that, absolutely, they cannot How many more disruptive, ticking the bill to find out what is in it. Well, afford. time bombs are there lurking in this Not only might this law cause indi- the President passed his health care law and in the regulations that still viduals to spend money they do not law, and the American people continue, have not been written about this have, the law may also offer taxpayer- on a daily basis, to find out what is in health care law that was signed a year funded subsidies to people who do not it. They do not like it, and it is easy to and a half ago? We do not know. We do actually need it. Let me repeat that. understand why. not know because many of the provi- The law may actually offer taxpayer- As the American people had a chance sions do not even go into effect until funded subsidies to people who do not to read the details, they started asking the year 2014 or later. more questions. The numbers simply actually need it. At a time when our country can As a physician who has practiced were not adding up. Health care costs, hardly afford to spend money we do not medicine a long time, cared for pa- they were seeing, were going up, even have, Medicare’s Chief Actuary, Rich- tients all around the State of Wyo- though the President promised that ard Foster, exposed yet another glitch ming, been active in the Wyoming health care costs would go down. There in the President’s health care law. The health fairs, bringing low-cost health were costly mandates on small employ- law allows approximately 3 million screenings to people all around the ers, and that was going to discourage middle-class early retirees to qualify Cowboy State, I intend to fight each hiring. NANCY PELOSI said they would for Medicaid. Well, Medicaid is a safety and every day in this Senate to make hire 400,000 people immediately. They net program designed to help low-in- sure the American people will not have have not been hired. She said 4 million come Americans. to find out what kind of additional new workers would be hired ulti- Here is how this one works: The ticking time bombs there are in the mately. We have not seen it yet. health care law defines how the Fed- health care law. That is because I am Mandates we have seen come out of eral Government will set an individ- more committed than ever to repeal the health care law do nothing to spur ual’s Medicaid eligibility. The calcula- the health care law and replace it with economic growth and help the 9.1 per- tions are all based on income. Here is patient-centered care, replace it with cent of individuals nationwide—14 mil- the glitch: The health care law ex- health care reforms that help Amer- lion Americans—who are currently un- cludes a large part of an individual’s ican families get the care they need, employed and are looking for work. Social Security income from that cal- from the doctor they want, at a price Then there are even more government culation. Well, today, Federal low-in- they can afford. orders forcing individuals to buy one- come assistance programs are required Mr. President, I yield the floor and size-fits-all, government-approved in- to count Social Security benefits as suggest the absence of a quorum. surance or face a fine. part of an individual’s income. Thanks The PRESIDING OFFICER. The The American people have had 17 to the health care law, early retirees clerk will call the roll. months to find out what is in the earning up to $58,840 a year could now The assistant editor of the Daily Di- President’s health care law. One news be eligible for Medicaid. gest proceeded to call the roll. report after another has been uncover- Here is what Mr. Foster said in an Ms. LANDRIEU. Mr. President, I ask ing a laundry list of so-called glitches Associated Press article. He said: unanimous consent that the order for in the health care law. Well, former I don’t generally comment on the pros or the quorum call be rescinded. Speaker PELOSI wanted the American cons of policy, but that just doesn’t make The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without people to find out what was in the law, sense. objection, it is so ordered. and 17 months later the American peo- This is the Chief Actuary of Medi- The Senator from Louisiana is recog- ple are finding out that the President care. ‘‘I don’t generally comment,’’ he nized. and Washington Democrats did not says, ‘‘on the pros or cons of policy, but Ms. LANDRIEU. Mr. President, I even write it correctly. that just doesn’t make sense.’’ know we have had several speeches On Wednesday, September 7, of this Well, I agree. That is why I cospon- over the last couple of hours on very year, Investor’s Business Daily printed sored legislation introduced by Senator important topics—the jobs bill, our ef- an article titled, ‘‘Oops! No ObamaCare MIKE ENZI closing this loophole. Sen- forts to stimulate the recovery, a re- Tax Credit Via Federal Exchanges?’’ ator ENZI’s bill, S. 1376, changes the sponse from one of our Democratic The article explains that the way health care law subsidy eligibility cal- leaders to Senator SESSIONS, and the ObamaCare was written, individuals culation to include all nontaxable So- good Senator who was just speaking who qualify for a taxpayer-funded sub- cial Security income. talking about health care—but I have

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Potentially, people are still some immediate and comprehensive branch, by all accounts, even Repub- receiving electricity. I do not think thought and attention on this subject, licans have come to the floor from people are sitting in the dark. I am which is affecting so many of our con- States that have been hard hit and hoping not. But whatever they were stituents—Republicans, Democrats, said: It is a more muscular FEMA, it is planning to repair and fix in Iowa has and Independents—in big cities, small a more dynamic FEMA, it is a more been halted because we have run out of towns, and rural areas all over this flexible FEMA. money. country. I wish to thank Senators LIEBERMAN In Texas, repairs to the University of In fact, this is the first year in our and COLLINS. They are the authorizers. Texas medical facility have been memory and in, I think, the recorded Yes, I have had a part of it—others stopped. In Louisiana, roadway con- recent history, we have had a Presi- have, but they have worked tirelessly struction has been stopped. In fact, dentially declared disaster in 48 of our after Katrina and the disaster that there was an article in our paper, the 50 States. Just a few days ago, we along happened on the gulf coast, where we Times-Picayune, just this week that the eastern seaboard and the gulf were all shamed when we saw what did said $100 million for Jefferson Parish— coast, where I am from representing not happen that should have. $100 million—that is just 1 of my par- Louisiana, suffered from the original We fixed a lot of it, and that is some- ishes, 1 of 64, the suburban parish that hit and then remnants of Tropical thing to be happy and proud about. sits right beside Orleans that was very Storm Lee and then Hurricane Irene. When government does set its mind to hard hit by these storms, not as hard There are some Senators who joined improve things, it can. But we cannot as Orleans Parish but received billions me in a press conference earlier today. do anything without the funding. Right of dollars of damage—those projects I think it was the Senator from North now, FEMA is empty. The pot of have been put on hold while we move Carolina who said it has actually been money is empty. Projects, millions, that money to help the victims in the three disasters: an economic disaster, hundreds of millions of dollars today, Northeast. That should not be the case. in terms of an economy that is weak not just in my State but in California, We need to act quickly to refill the and fragile and we are doing our best to in Tennessee, in Iowa, in Texas, and in FEMA funds. In addition, I understand lift it and to strengthen it, and then North Dakota—and I could go on and in North Dakota and in other places Tropical Storm Lee and then Hurricane on—but for the Record let me say a there are problems. It is not just the Irene. couple. DRF. The Corps of Engineers in its It has been millions and millions of In Tennessee, mitigation of private budget last year did not have enough dollars of damage. Unfortunately, we residences from the 2010 floods has been money for emergencies. I slipped out of on the gulf coast tragically are getting halted. For those who might not be fa- the Chamber a few minutes ago to go to be experts in this field because we, miliar with the word ‘‘mitigation,’’ actually meet with the mayor of Grand as Senators and House Members from which most people are, it means one Isle, who was here, as he is quite often, the gulf coast, have battled multiple could be elevating their house, one advocating on behalf of the only bar- disasters over this last decade. Katrina could be putting shutters or storm win- rier island that is inhabited in the and Rita, which broke all records, sur- dows on their windows. Let’s see what State of Louisiana, and he brought up passed any planning this government else. A person could be potentially pictures. Again, they are too small to has ever done. strengthening the frame of their house see, but I am going to have them blown We had a FEMA that showed up not if they are trying to mitigate against up for tomorrow. But I have in my ready, not comprehensive enough in its high winds from a tornado. There are hand pictures of the levees that were view. Our people have suffered. But we rules that allow people to try to im- just ripped up and destroyed again have made a lot of changes since then, prove their home so the next time it from Tropical Storm Lee. These were and here we are today with actually a happens not only are they not home- levees on the gulf that we just com- better FEMA, from all accounts. I wish less, but taxpayers are not paying pleted. to give a lot of credit to this adminis- again for the same sort of incident. But because the Corps of Engineers, tration, particularly, and not just The Federal Government, under good when they rebuild levees, in their au- Homeland Security. But the Cabinet of policy, requires a certain portion of all thorizing legislation are prohibited— this President has been extraordinary disaster funding to be specific, to go to which makes no sense whatsoever, it is in their reasonableness when it comes mitigation because taxpayers think, a complete waste of taxpayer money— to this subject. when we are trying to rebuild from a they are prohibited from betterment. I have seen the opposite. So I think I flood or a storm or a tornado or a They can build back what was there, am in a position to see the difference. bridge collapse, do not just build the but they cannot build it better or high- It is a big difference in this Obama ad- same old thing, try to mitigate so it er, unless they are directed to do so. ministration in terms of the Cabinet. does not happen again. That is smart I am about ready to direct them be- They want to say yes to disaster vic- because then we are not double, triple cause I am tired, on behalf of my peo- tims. They did not want to say no. spending taxpayer money. ple and the people of this country and That is very important. They cannot But in Tennessee this family, let’s the taxpayers, from rebuilding levees always say yes to everything, to re- say, is in the middle of elevating their 10 times in a matter of 5 years. It is a build every building, repave every home. Let’s say they have gotten it off waste of money—it is aggravating to street, elevate every home. But they the ground by 2 feet, and the con- the people whose homes are behind are trying to say yes. Most impor- tractor showed up on Monday. They these levees—because we do not even tantly, the lawyers have been in- were sent home because this project have a policy, when we are building structed to find a way forward, as op- has been stopped. So somewhere there levees, to be ordered to build them posed to instruction that came from are homes in Tennessee—I am not sure stronger, higher, except, of course, in the last administration which was to in what particular community—where the case of some levee systems in find a way to say no. private sector contractors, many small Katrina. That was specifically directed, So let me give credit where credit is business owners and their employees, and it is being done. due, to the Obama administration and showed up to work and were told: Go We are building around the city of their willingness to be flexible, to be home. FEMA is out of money. New Orleans a much stronger, much forward leaning, to have attorneys who We have to fix this this week before better system. One would think that are trying to be on the side of the tax- we leave and, if not, at the latest by would be being done all over the coun- payer, on the side of the victims, and next week. try. It is not. Why? Because we are

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So are the people I rep- aggravating is that we already sort of said, OK, next year, this is what the resent. made this deal 1 month ago, when we Federal Government can spend and, in I am asking the other side of the negotiated that big agreement we all addition to that, you can go up to the aisle to step up and to provide funding, came to, about how the levels of fund- average. You can spend an additional funding that is not offset in the middle ing would be for 2012. $11 billion, which is a very small of a disaster. We will figure out how to Everybody remembers that, before amount of money compared to the pay for these later—these disaster we left for August, and we had this big whole Federal budget. funds later. But as I think Senator knock-down, drag-out—in that agree- You would think we would not be LEAHY said so eloquently in our press ment, our leadership, Republicans and having this debate. Why? The need is conference today: Do the Republicans, Democrats, already agreed to do some- very evident, the history would dictate some people in the Republican Party, thing that I think is very smart. I want that we don’t have debate over disas- actually believe we want fire depart- to show what they agreed to. They ters, and the Republican and Demo- ments all over the United States, when agreed—because it is a puzzlement— cratic leadership has already provided someone’s house is on fire and they how do we fund in advance disasters, a way, over and above our 2012 num- show up with the engines, to debate in how do we know how much to set aside. bers, to pay for these disasters. I ask this: Why are we having to the middle of the street how they are It is a problem because every year is fight for this? That is a very good ques- going to pay for the extra overtime to different. tion. I think it is because some people put out the fire? I do not think so. I wish to show what our problem is, on the other side of the aisle think this Even if the fire department is broke, so people listening can give me their is a good thing to fight about. They even if the funding has run out, we do own suggestions about how to solve it. think they have to find a pay-for for not want to have a debate over how In 2003, we set aside, in the whole budg- everything we do even, as I have de- they are going to pay for overtime et of the United States—we can see scribed, when you cannot predict. Even when the fire is burning. Put the fire this a little bit—$800 million for disas- if you do plan responsibly, you never out. Bring the people to safety. Put the ters. But we had $1.7 billion. So we know, as in the cases of Katrina, Rita, families in shelter. Then go back to the were short $984 million. We funded it. and Wilma. But our leadership nego- city council meeting next week and That went on our books. The next year we said: Well, this year tiated a way forward. they can debate for as long as they we had $1.7 billion in disasters. So the Yet we have people all over the coun- want how they are going to ultimately next year we put $1.8 in our bill, think- try looking to the Republican leader- pay for it. ship and listening to Representative We paid for World War II, obviously. ing we would cover it because last year was $1.7. But, lo and behold, we had an CANTOR and to Speaker BOEHNER say- It was a long time ago. It is completely additional $3 billion worth of disaster ing: I want to help you, ladies and gen- paid for. We paid for World War I. We funding. We did not know these disas- tlemen, but we have to find an offset. are paying for Afghanistan. We are ters were going to happen. I think people might say: Why didn’t paying for Iraq, which, by the way, not So the next year we increased the we hear that when they sent troops one, single, solitary Republican—and amount of money in our base budget. into Afghanistan or Iraq? Why didn’t not many Democrats, for that matter, Then, lo and behold, in that year, we we hear that when they are rebuilding but not one Republican whom I can re- put in $2 billion dollars. Katrina hit. Iraq and Afghanistan? The same people call stood and asked or debated for 5 The levees broke. Do you know what are not yelling and screaming—or seconds how we were going to pay for the bill came in for? It was $43 billion. didn’t do it when we went in there. I the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We had budgeted $2 billion because in think we have a good point. But when the people of Vermont the history of the past that is all we I am saying I am proud of the Senate stand in front of their bridges col- needed to cover disasters. It went from for last night, with Democrats most- lapsed, their homes collapsed, their $2 billion to $43 billion. Who would ly—and, yes, about 8 Republicans—who schools collapsed, and say: We need have had a crystal ball to know that? voted to move this debate forward. I help, we have to have now a month- Did we sit and debate? Some people thank particularly Senator BLUNT from long debate on how we are going to pay tried to, until I said there was no way Missouri, who is an outspoken leader for it. We have not done this since the I was going to have to find a $43 billion on the Appropriations Committee, for 1800s. offset before we can let the people of the need to act now, act quickly, to We will eventually pay for it. Amer- the gulf coast know that help was on fund the DRF, the Corps of Engineers. ica has to pay for everything. We will the way. We spent what was required to Of course, Missouri has had terrible pay for it. We do not have to have that help the gulf coast. tornadoes and flooding. Not only did debate now. What we do have to have a You can see the next year here. they have Joplin, but they had the debate about is how do we repair levees These numbers are very erratic, unpre- great flood of the Mississippi River, and what is the best way to mitigate dictable. So what our leadership did, which was the highest in 50 years. It it. What are the new technologies that looking back on these 10 years and lis- was so high along our capital city when can be used to make our communities tening to the debate and argument, I visited our mayor a couple months stronger and smarter? How can we was come up with a pretty good plan. ago—that is Baton Rouge, which is our streamline the process? How can we They said, OK, we will throw out the largest city, since 100,000 people left eliminate the redtape? How can we get high number, we will throw out the low New Orleans to literally live on higher help to people faster? That is what we number—in 2009 we didn’t have any ground, although it has broken their should be debating. emergencies. Can you imagine 1 year hearts and divided their families. They Instead, I have CANTOR and BOEHNER that you have no declared emergencies, have moved to Baton Rouge, as we are making us argue about what offsets and the next year you have one in al- rebuilding levees and our flood control there are. So I have to go to the State most every State? That is how erratic is stronger in the southeastern part of of Maryland and say: Senator, what this is. It is not as though we are not our State. People spend time walking can you give up this year in your trying to plan. It is just impossible by on levees and riding bikes on the lev- State? I have to go to Michigan: What the nature of what an emergency or ees. Of course, mechanical vehicles are can you up in Michigan? I have to go to disaster is. You can plan for them, but not allowed. You cannot have cars, California: What can you give up in you cannot always predict how many trucks, and four-wheelers because that California, so we can pay for people you are going to have and where they would be destructive to our levees. Our who are underwater in Vermont and will be. Of course, everybody under- levees are quite huge. They are almost North Carolina? stands that. like linear parks. For the first time in What kind of government is this? I do What our leaders did is they threw the history of anybody who can re- not want to be a part of that and I am out the top one and the bottom one and member, the mayor had to declare that

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It where, what materials do you want to our people are hurting, as they are was a frightening situation for millions use, and which kids should go to which now—and we will eventually pay for and millions. schools? this; we don’t have to figure that out in In some parts of Missouri, and other I have been in these meetings. I am the next 30 days. We have to give them parts north of us, the levees did breach. not going to allow the mayors and Gov- a green light and the billions of dollars Sometimes the levees will blow to pro- ernors to call their people together and they need to operate for a year. Every- tect other areas. It is frightening if say we lost six schools and we don’t thing else is negotiable. But this is not your business is behind one of those know when the money is coming to going to be negotiated. We are not levees, as North Dakota residents know build them, and we cannot make any going to rebuild pieces of 48 States 4 all too well. plans because the Republican leader- weeks at a time. That will not happen. Nonetheless, we should not be debat- ship has decided that every 6 weeks Whatever amount of money we give, let ing this. I hope our bill will pass this they are going to let us know how it be for as long as we can make it, let week and get over to the House for a much money we are going to get. it be as robust as it can possibly be, quick vote. If the House decides to send That is not going to happen. and let’s give a green light to our Re- us a continuing resolution, please, I I want Speaker BOEHNER to think publican Governors, Republican may- want the leadership to hear clearly about this, and I want MITCH MCCON- ors, Independents, and Democrats out what I am saying—and I will send them NELL to think about this, and I want there, who are shellshocked about the a message by letter in the next few the Republican leadership to think work before them. minutes—please do not think you can about it. I will negotiate on the top The people in neighborhoods are still nickel and dime recovery efforts, that number. I will talk about maybe FEMA crying and in shock about what they you can fund it 6 weeks at a time, or 4 doesn’t need quite this much. I will have to do in making decisions. Should weeks at a time. Disaster recovery talk about maybe the Corps of Engi- we come back? Should we not come doesn’t operate that way. Our mayors, neers doesn’t need that much. But I back? What should our neighborhood or Governors, the Republican Governor of will not, under any circumstances, community do? Maybe we should all New Jersey, the Republican Governor agree to a 6-week or 4-week continuing move to higher ground. These decisions of Virginia, the mayor of Patterson, resolution. You may run the Govern- are being made right now. The last who was with us today, and mayors up ment of the United States that way. thing they should worry about is Con- along the east coast who are with their We have, unfortunately, gotten used to gress debating whether there is money people every day—the mayor of Joplin, it. That is a sad commentary, I might there to turn that hose on. MO, who has to be able to know that he say, that we run the greatest govern- Let’s do our job the way we have can plan a year out or 2 years out— ment ever created in the eyes and vi- done it for 150 years. having to rebuild an entire town is sion and hearts of mankind, but we op- Let’s continue to do it and let our overwhelming even if you have the erate it on a 6-week basis. That might people know we are there for them, as money and the plan. Can you imagine be the game we play with the govern- we try to be there for other people in if you sort of have a plan, but you don’t ment, but I am not going to allow that the world who are caught in situations know if the Federal Government will game to be played with people who such as this. We most certainly need to provide you money? Do you know the have lost their homes, lost their busi- be here for our people in America. frustrating council meetings and nesses, and who look up from a storm I thank the Chair. I yield the floor school board meetings that will be had, and say, my gosh, what happened to and suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. and they will say, well, the Republican me? Then they don’t know what is MERKLEY). The clerk will call the roll. party in Washington cannot figure out going to happen because we cannot The assistant legislative clerk pro- if we should get funding, but it is 6 make a decision that lasts more than 6 ceeded to call the roll. weeks at a time? months or a year. So the minimum will Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I ask I will not allow that to happen. I am be 6 months. I hope we can find the will unanimous consent that the order for going to draw the line in the sand right to do a whole year, because without the quorum call be rescinded. now. You may get around me on it, but that you are going to shut down recov- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without it will take a huge effort to get around ery operations at a time when it is objection, it is so ordered. this desk on that subject—a huge ef- heartbreaking to think of small busi- Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I come fort. If I have to shut the Senate ness owners who have lost their print to the floor today to talk about a site down—and I have done it before—I will shop or their dress store or their shoe of particular historic significance to do it again, because I can tell you, as store, and they see everybody talking the Commonwealth of Virginia and an much as my name is MARY LANDRIEU, about creating jobs. They used to have action we in Virginia are requesting you cannot rebuild communities with three of them last week—selling print- the President make. But before I get to 6-week plans. It took us 2 years to put ing material or selling shoes or what- that subject, I want to take a moment together the Road Home Program—2 ever—and they are trying to get their to echo what I know the Presiding Offi- years after we got the funding. The business back, and we cannot decide— cer said, and my colleague, the distin- reason we could not put it together be- even though we have the money, even guished Senator from Louisiana, and so fore was—even though Mississippi had though we already budgeted the many other of my colleagues who have their money because President Bush money, and although we already made come to the floor over the last few days gave it to them right away but made an agreement about how we would do to express concern and talk about the the people of Louisiana wait—because this—we are going to still argue. series of natural disasters and calami- Congress would not decide how much I will tell you, if this is on the tea ties our various States have experi- money to give us. No mayor, no Gov- party’s agenda, I suggest they take it enced over the last few weeks and ernor, no matter how great they are, off. If it is somebody else’s agenda, months. no matter how smart they are, no mat- please speak up. I have not had one sin- We have had, in effect, the trifecta in ter how many engineers they have, no gle Republican Senator come down and the Commonwealth of Virginia in the matter how many Rotary Clubs are defend this position, because it is inde- last month, where, about a month ago, helping, no matter what the chamber fensible. I hope when the leadership is we had an earthquake hit—something of commerce is doing, I am telling you negotiating—and they are doing so that was a bit unprecedented in Vir- that it cannot be done without a reli- now—they will hear me in summary ginia—which shut down schools in Lou- able source of funding, so the planners very quickly: The FEMA pot is empty. isa County. That earthquake also can say something like this: We lost The Corps of Engineers is always run- caused damage at the Washington eight schools in this flood. They bring ning on fumes. Levees are breaking and Monument and at the National Cathe- the community together—and these flooding, and it is occurring in places dral, but in central Virginia—in Louisa

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Edgar called Confederate States, after the cently, we had Tropical Storm Lee, Allan Poe, the famous poet—and I am Civil War had begun in April of 1861, to where I had the opportunity to visit a sure our pages, at one point, hopefully, still turn slaves back over to their community not far from where I know had to memorize ‘‘The Raven’’ in high owners. some of the distinguished folks who school—was a soldier at Fort Monroe. Baker, Mallory, and Townsend had to work in the Clerk and Parliamentar- Abraham Lincoln, during the midst of know if they were returned as run- ian’s Offices live—in Alexandria. Not the Civil War, paid a critical visit to aways, they could expect the most Dra- too far away from there is a neighbor- Fort Monroe. And Harriet Tubman, an conian of punishments. But they fig- hood named Huntington, VA. This incredibly important American—who ured the choice should be theirs to community I walked through has been was only recently, in the last 50 or so make, so they made it. They soon flooded out three times in the last dec- years appropriately recognized—nursed found themselves standing before the ade. So we have a 100-year floodplain. wounded soldiers there in 1865. new commander of Fort Monroe, MG Yet three times in the last decade they Another historic American figure had Benjamin Franklin Butler. have been flooded out. maybe mixed feelings about his visits Deciding it might be easier to apolo- So all these folks—whether in Hamp- to Fort Monroe. Jefferson Davis was at gize later rather than seek permission ton Roads in Richmond or the folks in Fort Monroe on two very different oc- beforehand, General Butler made a Louisa County and central Virginia casions: First, as the U.S. Secretary of huge and historically courageous deci- with the earthquake or the folks in War, and later, as the former President sion. He classified the three slaves as Huntington—are saying: We just need of the Confederacy, he was imprisoned ‘‘contraband of war,’’ a policy that was that assistance that other commu- at Fort Monroe for 2 years. later adopted across the Union to pro- nities have when they have been met By World War II, Fort Monroe was tect any slaves who managed to reach by natural disasters. What purpose do the headquarters of our military’s suc- Union lines. As a result, Virginia’s we have for government other than to cessful efforts to protect the mid-At- Fort Monroe ultimately became a bea- make sure there is an emergency re- lantic coast. After World War II and to con of hope for thousands of enslaved sponse, and then after that response the current day it has been home of the people seeking freedom. In fact, Fort that there is an ability to get people Army Command responsible for train- Monroe became known as the Freedom back on their feet? ing our warfighters. Fort. So I thank my colleagues again, par- For all of these various events alone, ticularly the Senator from Louisiana, I would argue, as a Virginian, that The day after General Butler’s edict, who has been tireless on this issue of would warrant the designation of Fort eight more slaves showed up at Fort making sure FEMA has the resources Monroe as part of the National Park Monroe. The day after that, 47 more it needs to address these disasters, and Service. But its true historic signifi- appeared. By the war’s end, thou- that we do so in a meaningful way. We cance goes back, actually, to a night in sands—literally thousands—had ap- recognize, of course, we can’t just put May of 1861. pealed for contraband status at Fort these on a credit card forever; that we During the Civil War, Fort Monroe Monroe. General Butler’s declaration have to have a rational way to pay it had an important strategic role as one of this decision of ‘‘contraband of war’’ back and figuring out a 10-year rolling of the very few Union military installa- helped change the course of the Civil cycle to budget for emergencies ought tions located in the South that was War and our Nation’s history. to be part of our discussions going for- never occupied by Confederate forces. This Thursday, September 15, the ward. But trying to say that must be For the folks who have traveled down U.S. Army will officially hand over done at this moment, with the eco- to Norfolk and Virginia Beach, they Fort Monroe to the city of Hampton nomic downturn and the recession, know that Fort Monroe is the point and the Commonwealth of Virginia as while communities are in need—wheth- that sticks out right before they go part of the 2005 BRAC process. I proud- er they are in Oregon or in Virginia or through the bridge-tunnel that takes ly join with my colleague Senator one of the other 48 States that have them over to Norfolk and Virginia WEBB, the bipartisan Virginia House had a disaster declaration issued over Beach. It has a commanding view of delegation, Virginia’s Governor Bob the last year—is not the way we ought the whole gateway into what we call McDonnell, local residents, and the Na- to be doing business. Hampton Roads. tional Trust for Historic Preservation FORT MONROE On May 23, 1861, three slaves—Frank in urging the President to take this op- Mr. President, in addition, I rise Baker, Shepard Mallory, and James portunity to declare Fort Monroe a na- today to encourage President Obama to Townsend—got into a small boat in tional historic treasure. By using the use his authority under an act that Hampton, crossed the James River, and Antiquities Act to grant this designa- probably most in this Chamber are not presented themselves at the front gate tion, it also will allow us to begin the that familiar with—called the 1906 An- of Fort Monroe seeking safety and work to create a national park at Fort tiquities Act—to designate Hampton, sanctuary. For the previous many Monroe. VA, Fort Monroe, as a national monu- weeks, Baker, Mallory, and Townsend For more than 100 years, Presidents ment, which would make it an official had been forced by their owners to help have used the Antiquities Act to pro- part of the National Park Service. Our construct a Confederate artillery post tect some of America’s most important hope is that the President will consider aimed directly at Fort Monroe. Obvi- and beloved historic places. As a mat- designating this in the coming days as ously, that was not something these in- ter of fact, it was use of the Antiquities this historic fort is turned back over to dividuals wanted to be part of. Act that first designated the Grand the State of Virginia, having gone I want you to think a moment about Canyon as well as the Statue of Lib- through the BRAC process, with the the choices that were being made by erty. So there is obviously enormous Federal Government disposing of it. these three men—these three slaves— historical precedent. And there is no Let me take a moment on the Senate Frank Baker, Shepard Mallory, and dispute over the historical significance floor this afternoon to tell you a bit James Townsend. They left behind the of Fort Monroe. about this special place. This fort was community where they had spent most, Over the last few years, I have spent built in the early 1800s, but, actually, if not all, of their lives. At least two of a considerable amount of time, both as the fortifications go back much earlier the three left behind wives and chil- Governor and then subsequently during than that. It is an area called Point dren. It was entirely possible that once the BRAC process and now as a Sen- Comfort. As early as 1608 Captain John these three men reached Fort Monroe, ator, working with State and local Smith recognized the importance of the Union soldiers would simply turn residents and officials to explore the

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I her father’s work in manufacturing—if standing up on currency we know am hopeful we will have promising you will, his union card—and assist- doesn’t cost American taxpayers and it news in short order. ance from government Pell grants and will, in fact, mean American jobs. It would certainly be timely if the all they were able to do so the kids A paper mill in Butler County, down President’s decision could be an- didn’t graduate with huge debt the way near Dayton and Cincinnati, someone nounced this week, as the Army pre- they too often do now. who worked at that paper mill told me pares to exit Fort Monroe, as our Na- The trade deficit with China through they are now competing with China for tion marks the 150th anniversary of the July 2011 totaled $160 billion, up from coated paper, which is a higher tech Civil War, and as many Virginians $145 billion over the same period in manufacturing of paper—the kind of focus anew on the future of this very 2010. We debate the budget deficit, as magazine paper we all touch and use— special place. we should. But too many politicians in that the pulp comes from Brazil, it is I feel this is an especially appro- this city, too many editorial writers, shipped to China, it is milled in China priate time for the President to recog- too many pundits and economists ig- and shipped back to the United States nize the crucial role Fort Monroe has nore the trade deficit. They are too fo- and they undercut American prices. played in our Nation’s history, and I cused on things such as pay-fors. They Yet only 10 percent of the cost of paper again urge him to use his long-estab- ignore how the trade deficit has a dan- production is labor. What does that lished power under the Antiquities Act gerous effect on American jobs. mean? It means they are gaming the to keep this process on track. The best way to get our fiscal house currency system. They are subsidizing Mr. President, I yield the floor and I in order is to get America working water and capital and land and they note the absence of a quorum. again, and one way to do that is by are paying low wages. How do we com- The PRESIDING OFFICER. the clerk cracking down on unfair trade prac- pete when they are not playing fair? will call the roll. tices of some of our so-called trading Forget the low wages even for a The bill clerk proceeded to call the partners. When the President steps up minute. How do we compete when they roll. and enforces trade rules—and while I are playing these currency games? By Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Madam Presi- do not agree with the President send- continuing the currency manipulation, dent, I ask unanimous consent that the ing the Korea, Panama, and Colombia we lose far too many jobs. By com- order for the quorum call be rescinded. trade agreements to the Congress for bating it, we help level the playing The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. votes because I don’t think they serve field for our manufacturers, we help HAGAN). Without objection, it is so or- America’s interests, I do believe this our workers, we help spur our eco- dered. President, more than his predecessors, nomic recovery. That is why I introduced the Cur- Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Madam Presi- has been, relatively—I say ‘‘relatively’’ rency Reform for Fair Trade Act. It dent, I ask unanimous consent to speak but blessedly so, and in some cases ag- would strengthen countervailing duty for up to 10 minutes as in morning gressive at enforcing trade rules. I have laws to consider undervalued currency business. seen that in Youngstown in creating as an unfair subsidy in determining The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without jobs. I have seen it in Loraine, where it objection, it is so ordered. duty rates. has created jobs, and in Fenway, where So when we contest on a trade agree- TRADE it has created jobs, and it has helped ment, all we are saying when we con- Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Last week, new our industry in Butler County in steel, test is that undervalued currency is trade figures were released. I know the in paper, and in tires. considered an unfair subsidy, because Presiding Officer from North Carolina It is clear that part of this problem is it is. It is not hard to convince people is very concerned about what has hap- currency manipulation from the Chi- of that. It is not hard to illustrate or pened with these trade figures and nese, which undermines American prove that. So when an industry such what it means for jobs in her State and manufacturing and our very own job- as the coated paper company in Ham- in my State. creating efforts. In June, the Economic ilton or the oil country tubular steel The trade deficit with China widened Policy Institute released a new report used in drilling in Lorain or in Youngs- from $26.7 billion in June to $27 billion showing that addressing Chinese cur- town, where there is a new steel mill in July. That is one country in one rency manipulation could support the because of a trade decision the Presi- month. Granted, it is the country we creation of 2.25 million jobs. Put that dent made—thank you—or aluminum have the biggest trade deficit with, but in contrast to what they say—the ‘‘free in Sidney—when an industry petitions it is 1 month. President Bush, Sr., traders at any cost’’ sort of free mar- the International Trade Commission some years ago, said that a $1 billion ket, free-trade fundamentalists who for relief against unfair subsidies, cur- trade surplus or trade deficit trans- preach: Pass NAFTA. It will mean hun- rency manipulation under this new bill lated into some 13,000 jobs. Whether dreds of thousands of jobs. Pass and amendment we are going to offer that number is precise or quantifiable CAFTA. Pass PNTR with China. It will on the floor will be part of that inves- or measurable is not the point. The mean millions of jobs. tigation. point is that when we have persistently It never does. It means job growth, This is a designation that would en- large trade deficits month after month, but the job growth usually takes sure the government has the tools to year after year, now decade after dec- place—with NAFTA, it was in Mexico; respond on behalf of American manu- ade, we know what it means to the in- CAFTA, in Central America; and facturers and workers by imposing dustrial base in our country. PNTR, in China, which is East Asia. countervailing duties on subsidized ex- I spent much of August in places There is job growth, but there is noth- ports from China. such as Belmont County, St. ing close to net job growth in our coun- We have broad support here. Senator Clairsville, Cleveland, Dayton, Mans- try. Even that, the President is saying, SCHUMER from New York, a Democrat, field, and Springfield, OH, where, in my with this new agreement with South has been very involved. Senator SNOWE State alone, these cities and commu- Korea, that it will sustain or keep or from Maine, a Republican, has been nities had proud industrial heritages. contribute to sustaining or keeping very involved. Senator STABENOW, a They are places where people had real 100,000 jobs or so. So even the promises Democrat from Michigan, and Senator opportunity to join the middle class. aren’t that great on this new trade GRAHAM from South Carolina, a Repub- After they graduated from high school, agreement, and we know they never lican, have been very involved in un- they could go and be trained and work live up to their promises. But we do derstanding that these kinds of cur- in manufacturing and usually buy a also know if we stood up to currency rency manipulations cost us American home, a car, and send their child to manipulation, it could create 2.25 mil- jobs and undermine our economy. This college. My wife is the daughter of a lion American jobs. My friends on the designation would ensure the govern- utility worker, since deceased, in other side of the aisle don’t ever want ment has the tools to respond on behalf

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From Presi- $70 billion a year and somewhere be- forth with NASA, I was encouraged to dent Kennedy’s first challenge that we tween $500 billion and $800 billion over see the design approved by both NASA would put men on the Moon, Ameri- 10 years if sustained. Addressing our and the OMB, and I think it is going— cans have been excited about that op- trade deficit should be part of the de- well, it will be the heaviest, biggest, portunity. They have not just been ex- bate in reducing our budget deficit. If strongest, most robust vehicle we have cited, though, about the exploration we are going to create jobs, we have to seen since we put men on the Moon. and the pushing of the envelope, they ensure that our trading partners don’t I was very concerned because of the have also been excited with the quality stack the deck. We want trade, and we long timeframe. Congress asked that of life that has been produced by what want more of it, but we want fair trade, this design be delivered by January of came from the research: the advance- not this kind of phony free trade. this year. We kept getting delays and ments we have had in medical treat- Almost every country in the world delays and delays. Finally, Senator ment, MRIs, the advancements in prod- practices trade according to their na- BILL NELSON and I just got frustrated ucts we have been able to discover. tional interests. The United States in about that timeline, so we had meet- ings. I fully expect that with the space sta- this body and the President of the tion we are going to be able to do the United States—typically, Presidents in As recently as yesterday, I met with the director of OMB, Mr. Jack Lew, research on cancers that will grow in both parties—have practiced trade ac- the microgravity conditions in space cording to some economics textbook who did come to my office to meet with Senator NELSON and myself and Gen- that will not grow the same way on that is 20 years out of date. If we are Earth, and that maybe we will be able serious about standing for American eral Bolden, who is the NASA Adminis- trator, to get his commitment that we to test antidotes and medicines for workers and companies that continue those. That is why I was pleased the to play by the rules, we need to pass would be on a robust timeline and that it would be as much a priority of NASA President did announce we would ex- this legislation. tend the space station until 2020. We With each passing week, more com- to go beyond low earth orbit as the ferry to the space station would be for have international partners as well. So panies and workers are faced with the we want to make sure we are a good harsh realities of unfair competition NASA. We got those assurances from Mr. Lew and the NASA Administrator. partner, that we are a reliable partner, and unwanted cutbacks due to Chinese and that we do some things for man- currency manipulation. In towns and Senator NELSON and myself, Senator ROCKEFELLER was represented, Senator kind that might make a difference in cities across our country—go anywhere BOOZMAN—we had all the relevant peo- our lives. in this country, including Texas, where ple in the loop on this issue because we National security. We have gained so Senator HUTCHISON is from and who is want to make sure Congress and the much in satellite-guided missiles for awaiting a chance to speak on the administration are on the same goal our national security. And being able floor, or North Carolina, the Presiding with a timeline to achieve that goal. to put a missile into a window from 1 Officer’s State, or my State, and we see What worried us about the delays mile out is because we have been able that companies and workers are faced were the loss of cost efficiencies and to discover in space the use of sat- with the harsh realities of that unfair the loss of experienced personnel to de- ellites. Earlier this summer the space competition. sign that new heavy launch vehicle. shuttle carried the magnetic spectrom- Workers have the proud tradition of We want to have the most experi- making products that matter to Amer- eter that Dr. Ting, the Nobel laureate enced engineers who will use the prov- from MIT, built and insisted on putting ica. From the tanks made in Lima, OH, en technology that has been time test- supporting our troops abroad, to steel on the space station, it will help us un- ed and add to that proven technology derstand the nature of dark energy and tubes created in Lorain, equipping our the added boosters, the added capabili- energy markets, Ohio manufacturers its relationship to the origins and func- ties that we know we must have to go tion of the universe. are vital to our Nation’s security and to Mars, to an asteroid, and to make economy. Our national security, our We are looking at how matter was sure we do it in a safe manner. formed. We are looking at the cosmic economic security, our family security, I am very encouraged by the commit- rays. I went to the Johnson Space Cen- all those are dependent on making ments that were made and the time- ter in Houston and saw from the space things in the United States of America. tables we are seeing. I am told by the station the magnetic spectrometer My State is the third largest manu- NASA personnel that we are now going that was getting the hits from cosmic facturing State in the country. We are to look, in 1 week or 2, to have the con- seventh in population, but we are third tract modifications in place that will rays. There were 60 scientists in the in manufacturing. We have lost far too tell the workers that they are going to room who were tracking these hits, many jobs in Zanesville and Jackson have those jobs, that we are going to trying to determine what was hap- and Columbus and Akron because of have that expedience, that they have a pening when those cosmic rays hit the this undermining of currency, because project to work on. I think it is essen- magnetic spectrometer because they of this gaming of the system by China, tial we have that kind of experienced want to see if we can understand the its gaming of the system on currency. personnel to do this. nature of dark energy. There are things It is time to take bold action. It is I am very pleased we now have this we have not even thought of that we time to stand up to China. It is time to way forward. It is the most powerful hope to find by using the space station, practice trade according to our com- vehicle we will have seen in many and then going to an asteroid or going munities and our national interests. It years. I think the announcement today to the Moon. is time to do that. It is time to pass is going to set us on a path. If we can We have taken a first step today. I this legislation. see those contract modifications going think many people in America were I yield the floor. out from NASA in the next week—or a waiting for the blueprint for the fu- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- little more, but no more than 2 weeks ture. Now I think we have one. As long ator from Texas. from now—then we will know there is as we stay on a regular timetable and NASA’S VISION progress and that we are going toward with the funding levels that have been Mrs. HUTCHISON. Madam President, the time when we will have the build- approved already in the authorization I wish to mark today, September 14 of ing of that rocket, that we will have bill passed by Congress and signed by 2011, as the day that NASA announced the design, followed by the building, the President—if we can stick with our vision for the future. Since the and then, of course, testing, and then those, this has the potential to bring us shuttle was retired earlier this year the launch. energy, health, possibly curing breast

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We must fund the prior- ever recovered from the situation in to put money into the trust fund, and ities and not fund the lesser priorities. which we find ourselves in terms of our our No. 1 priority ought to be safety In today’s markup of our committee, debt-to-GDP ratio and our debt-to-ex- and quality roads and bridges, to spend our Appropriations subcommittee that port ratio. significant funds on things that are not does fund NASA, we have found the pri- In August, before we left, we passed a a priority now—not when we are head orities. We also cut programs. Senator piece of legislation that goes—a small over heels in debt, not when the trust MIKULSKI said in her whole time in the amount—toward fixing the very real fund is precarious—then we ought to Senate she has never been an appropri- problems that are in front of our coun- not force States to spend money they ator who actually cut programs. But try in terms of spending money we don’t want to spend. Yet in this bill 10 we did today. We cut programs that don’t have on things we don’t abso- percent of the surface transportation were lesser priorities in different areas lutely need. But we have before us, and moneys have to be spent on enhance- of our jurisdiction. But we funded coming before us, two different pieces ment. NASA so we would have this heavy of legislation: One is a shell piece of So that tells Oklahoma, or any other launch vehicle. We would fund the legislation, and the assumption is the State: If you have an excess number of commercial vehicle that is going to majority leader will utilize it to fund bridges, it doesn’t matter that that is a take our astronauts to the space sta- supplementation for disaster relief for safety problem for your citizens; we are tion. That is going to be done in the the many areas in our country that still going to make you spend this 10 private sector. That was the balance need that funding. There is not a dis- percent money over here that doesn’t we did in our authorization bill last pute that we should be doing that. have anything to do with safety or true year. Then we fund the Webb Space There is a dispute about how much transportation, but we are going to re- Telescope because that is part of the that should be. But the greatest dis- quire it because we can—except, the scientific advances we must make if we pute is, when we are running $1.3 tril- problem is, the people in your State are going to know what is out there in lion and $1.4 trillion deficits, and we pay the taxes in the first place for space that we might be able to utilize know we have significant waste, dupli- their highways and their bridges, not or utilize the knowledge for better life cation, and fraud in the Federal Gov- for the museums, not for all the hun- on Earth. ernment, whether we ought to spend dreds of other things that are spent I am very pleased we have the Appro- another $6 billion or $7 billion by bor- that are low priority. priations Committee that will, hope- rowing or we ought to actually reduce So I thought I might give us a little fully, approve the bill tomorrow and spending somewhere else to pay for a flavor of what some of those things are. that we have made those tough deci- much more important and proper need If we were at a different time where we sions. We came in under the 2011 con- in which the Federal Government has a had an excess of funds, I am not saying tinuing resolution on our overall bill. role. That is the real debate. they are necessarily bad. But when we We came in under the President’s re- I think we have worked a way to have bridges falling down in this coun- quest. But we have fully funded the pri- have appropriate amendments to try to try, and concrete—like the summer be- orities which have the possibility to pay for that, and we should probably go fore last in Oklahoma—falling out of reap the benefits from exploration and forward. There are, however, two other an interstate highway bridge injuring assure that America remains the No. 1 programs that are precarious in their somebody, falling onto their car as country in the world in space explo- funding: One is FAA—and we have they drove under it, I would think that ration. Our economy has benefitted, coming to us the 22nd temporary reau- we would want to repair these 146,000 our national security has benefitted, thorization—and the Transportation bridges rather than spend money re- and now we are going to be looking at bill, which is, I believe, its sixth tem- decorating a sign. health care possibilities, energy possi- porary reauthorization. So I will not go through all of them— bilities, and living in space, and seeing Now, there are some real questions I will put all of them into the RECORD— how we can do that in a better way. the American people ought to be ask- but let me go through a few of them I think we have a plan that will ex- ing about why 22 times we have tempo- just to see. If the American people ac- cite the American people again about rarily reauthorized the FAA for a short tually believe we should not fix bridges what we can do in space if we put our period of time, and why now we are on or roads and we ought to spend money, minds to it, if we prioritize, if we are our sixth temporary—or fifth; I may be I am fine. If the Senate believes we efficient with the taxpayer dollars, and wrong on one of those numbers but ought to not fix bridges, we ought not we do not lose sight of the vision that close—temporary reauthorization. concentrate on safety, we ought not is the spirit of America. That is because we are not prioritizing concentrate on the quality of our roads Madam President, I yield the floor what is important for the country in and bridges and they vote it down, I am and suggest the absence of a quorum. terms of our legislative agenda. We fine too. But the fact is, we ought not The PRESIDING OFFICER. The don’t control that, but there are some to be spending money when we have clerk will call the roll. things that the American people are in- the hundreds of thousands of bridges The assistant editor of the Daily Di- terested in that we do control. that are dangerous to people in this gest proceeded to call the roll. The highway trust fund has received country. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- a supplementation over the last 4 years All we are saying is, if a State wants ator from Oklahoma. of $35 billion from the American tax- to continue to spend money on some- Mr. COBURN. I would ask unanimous payer outside of the taxes they collect thing other than safety and bridges and consent that the order for the quorum for that trust fund. Out of that amount roads, fine, it can, but don’t make call be rescinded. of money billions of dollars have been those of us who already have a big The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without spent on things other than highways problem with safety have to spend objection, it is so ordered. and bridges. money on something that doesn’t pro- Mr. COBURN. Madam President, I We now have 146,000 deficient bridges tect our citizens, doesn’t enhance their would like to spend a few minutes dis- in our country, some in every State in highways by spending money on some- cussing some things in general. the country. We have more now after thing that is called an enhancement In making a couple points today, I the floods in the Northeast. We have but doesn’t enhance their safety or was referred to by one of our colleagues significant problems and we have a their ability to commute. as a dictator. I am not offended at limited amount of money, and what is So what are some of them? Lincoln that; I understand the frustration of in front of us is another short-term ex- Highway 200-Mile Roadside Museum in

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What we are Shrine to Tennessee state history costs murals, refurbishing a large coffee pot. doing is we are following the rules of federal government $23 million— Nashville, Notably, Pennsylvania ranks No. 1 in Washington when we have greater Tennessee received $23 million in federal en- the country in terms of bridge defi- needs. We are in trouble as a nation be- hancement funding to construct its bicenten- ciency levels. Forty-six percent of the cause Congress does not set priorities, nial ode to Tennessee state history. The bridges in Pennsylvania are either and when they do set priorities, there project included the building of ‘‘a 1,400-foot structurally deficient or functionally Wall of History etched with historic events is no connection to the reality of our from the state’s first two centuries, 31 foun- obsolete. Mr. President, $300,000 would financial situation. tains that each represent one of the state’s have fixed two of them. So we chose to We have some options on how to go rivers, and a 200-foot granite state map.’’ not fix two but spend the money else- forward. One of the options would be to The only thing more egregious than federal where. At a different time, sure, or if take the FAA bill, split it out, approve funds used for a clearly state interest, is Pennsylvania wants to spend it, let it, send it back to the House, and FAA that 20 percent of Tennessee Bridges are ei- them. But don’t force them to spend is taken care of. The second option ther structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. money on something that does not pro- would be to pass the highway extension ARTwalk—ARTwalk is tagged as a unique tect the quality of transportation for for 6 months with the elimination of outdoor experience that constructs pathways their citizens. enhancements and send it back to the between shopping areas, galleries, and muse- How about Chinatown Gateway, a House. But I will not give a unanimous ums in Rochester, Vermont. The project used $250,000 enhancement to supplement consent, as is my right as a Senator of $234,000 in federal enhancement dollars to the construction of the Twin Dragons the United States, for us to continue to build the artsy outdoor museum, while 861 of Gateway to the Chinatown area? Cali- spend billions of dollars on things that Vermont’s bridges remain either struc- fornia has over 7,000 bridges that are turally deficient or functionally obsolete. are not a priority when the country is Old Roman Bath House Renovation— structurally deficient or functionally struggling to survive. Its very survival $160,000 worth of enhancement funding was obsolete. One out of every three bridges depends on us changing the way we do used in Berkeley, West Virginia for the ren- in California is in trouble, and we are business. If that means the highway ovation of the oldest building in town, an doing aesthetics instead of fixing transportation bill does not get ap- Old Roman Bath House. While local residents bridges. proved, so be it. But there has to be a may be interested in visiting a bath house where George Washington used to frequent, How about the White Squirrel Sanc- point in time in this country when we tuary in Tennessee? Kenton, TN, lo- federal taxpayers may find the connection to change direction and we start meeting critical infrastructure more puzzling. More- cated in Gibson County, calls itself the obligations that are put before us. ‘‘the Home of the White Squirrel.’’ over, 36 percent of West Virginia’s bridges re- The No. 1 obligation is to start main structurally deficient or functionally They received $110,000 in transpor- spending money where it does the most obsolete. tation enhancement funding to con- good and quit spending money we do Saddletree Factory Renovation—The Ben struct a white squirrel sanctuary with not have on things we do not abso- Schroeder Saddle Tree Factory, a historical factory in Madison, Indiana, received trans- walking trails, brick crosswalks, a lutely need. With a 35-percent deficit— footbridge, and a parking lot. There are portation enhancement funding for histor- and we are going to run another $1.3 ical preservation purposes because the fac- 3,856 bridges that are structurally defi- trillion deficit next year, which will cient in the State of Tennessee. They tory used to make Saddletrees, the founda- cost a significant amount of funds for tion of a saddle. 21.5 percent of Indiana’s didn’t necessarily want to do this. our kids and our grandkids just to bridges are either structurally deficient or They did not have any choice. They repay what we are going to waste next functionally obsolete. had to spend 10 percent of their surface year—there ought to be a time at Toledo Harbor Lighthouse—The Toledo transportation money on things such Harbor Lighthouse in Toledo, Ohio, pro- which we say enough is enough. as this. tected by the ‘‘phantom’’ officer Frank, will I know there will be several, includ- Tuscumbia Landing in Sheffield, receive a $500,000 enhancement grant to re- AL—$104,000 to investigate Tuscumbia ing my own senior Senator, who will be store windows, doors, bricks, and shutters. Landing’s archaeological features. The unhappy with my position, but I be- This grant will not only help to restore the lieve it is time to draw a line in the facade of the historical lighthouse, but also only problem is, 23 percent of Ala- carry on the legendary ghosts of the haunted bama’s bridges are structurally defi- sand for the American people, for our future. It is not popular. It is certainly lighthouse. Unfortunately, ‘‘phantom’’ offi- cient. That could have fixed two of cer Frank will not be able to protect Ohio them. not expedient. But it is absolutely the drivers from the 6,598 bridges that are either How about the National Corvette Mu- right thing to do. structurally deficient or functionally obso- seum Simulator Theater in Warren If the Senate wants to solve the prob- lete. County, KY—$200,000 to build a grand lem of these two bills, we can split Critter Crossing—The Monkton, Vermont simulator theater. Mr. President, 31 them or we can keep them together, Conservation Commission received $150,000 in federal grant money to build a—critter percent of the bridges they cross in but we need to end the enhancements right now until we get the highway crossing, to save the lives of thousands of Kentucky are structurally deficient or migrating salamanders and other amphib- functionally obsolete. trust fund healthy again, No. 1, and, ians that would otherwise be slaughtered by The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum— No. 2, until we get our country healthy vehicle traffic on a major roadway. Thou- $400,000 to construct the Pennsylvania again. When we do, I will be happy to sands of blue- and yellow-spotted salaman- Trolley Museum. It is a great idea if we defer. ders, frogs, and other amphibians spend the are in the black and have a good Remember, we are not saying you winter months in the rocky uplands near cashflow. But when Pennsylvania leads cannot do it. We are just saying you Monkton, but must return to low-lying wet- ought to have the option to not do it. lands in order to reproduce. To travel be- the Nation in deficient bridges and tween these two areas, the salamanders must dangerous bridges, why would we spend EXHIBIT 1 cross the heavily-traveled Monkton- that money? Why would we force them Kalanianaole Highway, Ka’lwi Scenic Vergennes Road. While some conservation- to spend that money? Shoreline Trail—Federal Transportation en- ists have celebrated the project, others re- I can go on. I will add to the record hancement funds were used to intervene in a main skeptical. ‘‘I certainly respect all spe- many other examples, all the way up to local land use dispute in Hawaii. A decades cies. However, I don’t see the need to pay 40 separate examples of where we are long dispute over the preservation of Hawai- $150,000 for a salamander crossing’’, read one spending money but we are not fixing ian shoreline versus local developmental in- email reportedly sent to the Burlington terests was assisted by the Department of bridges. [Vermont] Free Press newspaper. ‘‘I realize Transportation, which used $11 million in en- there are a lot of other stupid things my tax I ask unanimous consent that those hancement funds to acquire land for con- dollars go toward, but this one is near the examples be printed in the RECORD at servation purposes, effectively meddling in top of the list.’’ Maybe the local commu- the conclusion of my remarks. the local land use. In the mean time, 45 per- nities will prevent the critters from crossing The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without cent of Hawaii’s bridges are either struc- one of the 861 bridges that are either struc- objection, it is so ordered. turally deficient or functionally obsolete. turally deficient or functionally obsolete.

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As of 2010, North tial amount of their required transportation would welcome their transportation funds Carolina has nearly 5000 bridges that are ei- enhancement spending to build highway rest upgrading their bridges, as Iowa ranks 3rd in ther structurally deficient or functionally areas. Texas plans to spend $262 million to bridge deficiency rates in America. obsolete. build or overhaul roadside stops along its Michigan Receives Transportation funds to Massachusetts bike and pedestrian allotted highways, with a majority of the funds com- plant flowers and rehabilitate an engine millions, but remain unspent—Massachu- ing from enhancement grants. However, house—In 2010, the Michigan awarded $5 mil- setts has received $135 million in federal some residents question the construction of lion in federal transportation enhancement funds for bike and pedestrian projects since rest stops in such close proximity to other grants to various projects including recon- 1991, of which it has spent little more than commercial areas, leading one local resident structing cobblestone roads, purchasing and $51 million, according to The Boston Globe. to surmise about the $10 million Salado rest installing bicycle racks, and ‘‘streetscaping’’ That means nearly two-thirds of the funds area, ‘‘I think $10 million would have made a a downtown street in Bridgetown, Michigan provided in the last two decades by Congress nice third lane in a lot of spots . . . It’s pret- with ‘‘decorative sidewalk treatments, street to the state for such projects remain ty spectacular for a rest area, for, I guess, $2 trees, perennial flowers and other decorative unspent. Perhaps Massachusetts would like million worth . . . $10 million? That’s a lot plantings, planters, and ornamental street to use their unspent funds to work on their of money.’’ Additionally, the Texas Depart- lighting.’’ One grant awarded $336,490 to re- 2,548 bridges that are either structurally de- ment of Transportation spent $16.2 million in habilitate the historic Quincy and Torch ficient or functionally obsolete. enhancement funding on a Battleship Texas Lake Railroad Engine House while another Nevada spending millions of federal trans- restoration project. grant awarded $1,490,280 to the Detroit portation dollars to make Vegas highways California Sculpture Competition—Federal Science Center to construct an exhibit de- beautiful—In 2008, Nevada received its trans- transportation enhancement dollars were picting ‘‘how roads, tunnels and bridges are portation enhancement allotment of used as prize money for an art competition constructed.’’ $6,287,466. They decided to spend it in a vari- to find a sculpture fitting to place in a park- Transportation Funding used to replace ety of ways, a few million went to biking fa- ing lot for a Laguna Beach, California Friday unaesthetic fencing around Oklahoma Cap- cilities and trails, a few million went to wel- Film Series event. itol Oil Derricks—The Oklahoma Depart- come centers and interpretive centers. Merchant and Drovers Tavern Museum— ment of Central Services, the controller of $498,750 even went for ‘‘decorative rocks, na- The Merchants and Drovers Tavern Museum Capitol Grounds, received $216,000 in trans- tive plants, some pavement graphics, a few in Union County, New Jersey received a portation enhancement funding to replace walls, and some great big granite boulders’’ $210,790 transportation enhancement grant to fencing around active oil wells on Lincoln to beautify an interchange to Las Vegas’ 215 create a museum on the second floor of the Boulevard with a more aesthetically pleas- Beltway. recently renovated building. The Merchants ing form of fencing. Unfortunately while A couple miles down the highway, N–DOT and Drovers Tavern Museum touts its amen- Capitol Complex may look better, Oklahoma beautified another interchange with ‘‘strip- ities by letting visitors ‘‘experience the hos- bridge deficiency rates remain 2nd in the ing in the rocks and some native plants.’’ pitality of the 1820s’’ and ‘‘quench his thirst United States. That project has cost $319,163 so far this in the taproom, sit for a while in the parlor Over $150,000 in Gasoline Taxes directed to- year. or, perhaps, try a bed for size at this ‘hands- wards making brochures—Over the last 10 The people of Nevada might have been able on’ museum.’’ Meanwhile, visitors should years, federal transportation enhancement to think of some better things to spend that also be wary of driving over any New Jersey grants have been used to produce brochures money on. One local who uses the inter- bridges on the way to the museum, as 35 per- for various purposes including monuments change frequently was not impressed by the cent of them are either structurally defi- paths, scenic trails, and bicycle safety. The expensive beautification project. ‘‘I’m busy cient or functionally obsolete. State of Kansas even received a federal grant Museum uses transportation funds for its watching where I’m going. I’m not looking to install and replace their brochure display Heating and Air Conditioning system—The at landscape improvements and stamped cases at SRA. Sayre Historical Society Museum in Brad- concrete.’’ Enhancement funds used to help construct Unfortunately, there is little that local of- ford County, Pennsylvania received a trans- replica of historical schooner—In 2001, Bur- ficials can do to re-direct the money to bet- portation enhancement grant of $74,704 for lington, Vermont received a $20,000 grant to ter uses. ‘‘We applied for the federal en- the ‘‘Sayre Historical Society RR Museum subsidize the building a full scale replica of hancement dollars and those federal en- Heating and AC project.’’ You read that cor- the 1862-class sailing canal boat, the Louis hancement dollars can only be used for land- rectly, American gas taxes are being di- McClure. scaping and pedestrian type improvements,’’ rected towards heating and air installation. Crandall Farm Restoration project—Wash- explains the top civil engineer at the Clark War of 1812, Bladensburg, Maryland exca- ington County, Rhode Island received a County Public Works Traffic Management vation—Enhancement funding was used to $120,000 transportation enhancement grant Division. excavate several historical buildings in for renovation of Crandall Farm. The project The N–DOT deputy director for southern Bladensburg, Maryland to study the ‘‘trans- consisted of renovating the 1870 house on the Nevada is just as frustrated as many citizens portation history’’ of the area. Bladensburg farm into a welcome center and educational that federal restrictions prohibit states from was used for troop movements during the tool for the traveling public. directing money where it is really needed. War of 1812, as well as being a transportation South Carolina uses gas taxes to purchase ‘‘It’s really getting out of hand to where hub during early America. these pots of money have these constraints Funding for a Transportation Exhibit— $15,000 ‘‘Welcome Signs’’—Orangeburg Coun- associated with them and you can’t spend $300,000 in federal money will pay for a new ty, South Carolina received a $34,965 trans- money where you want to.’’ These restric- exhibit on the history of transportation at a portation enhancement grant o help pur- tions sometimes leave states no choice but local museum in Missouri. The fresh display chase three signs at a cost of $44,500, or to spend money on frivolous projects or lose at the St. Charles County Heritage museum $14,833 per sign. Unfortunately, South Caro- it entirely. The deputy director notes, ‘‘if N– will explain the influence of rivers, railroads, lina bridges are not as welcoming, as 22 per- DOT doesn’t spend that money and employ roads, and trails in the region over the years. cent of them are structurally deficient or workers in Nevada, another state is gonna The grant application highlights how ‘‘The functionally obsolete. have that money up for grabs.’’ County and its residents have had to rely on The State of Michigan receives nearly Washington, DC receives Transportation multiple forms of transportation and as $100,000 to celebrate mysterious centennial— Enhancement grants for murals and valet technology changed, the area had to adapt to In 2004, Michigan received a $99,540 transpor- bikes—Washington, DC received nearly $2 the changing transportation methods/pat- tation enhancement grant for publications, million in transportation enhancement terns.’’ historical commemorative items, and dis- grants in Fiscal Year 2010, ranging from Not everyone in the community agrees the plays for a ‘‘centennial celebration.’’ The $50,000 to $579,000. These grants include items federal government should fund this type of only thing more puzzling than how these ac- such as the stabilization of historic murals project. A county executive said, ‘‘It’s the tivities are related to transportation is that and a grant for bicycle parking and valet kind of thing the federal government can’t the centennial for Michigan Statehood oc- services, along with the creation of a ‘‘Room afford to do.’’ Other officials however have a curred in 1937. to Breathe’’ poster. The $2 million allotment different perspective on the federal funding. Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Madam Presi- would be much better used for bridge repair, The county parks director explained how dent, today I rise to offer my support as 158 of the 244 bridges in the District are ei- ‘‘the $300,000 grant is ‘a pretty insignificant for the President’s request for imme- ther structurally deficient or functionally amount of money compared to that total diate supplemental assistance for the obsolete. pool’ of federal transportation spending.’’ Railroad Caboose Relocation and Renova- Maybe a more significant number should be Federal Emergency Management Agen- tion—The Princeton Railroad Museum re- 7,021, the number of Missouri bridges that cy. This funding will enable FEMA to ceived a $78,280 transportation enhancement are either structurally deficient or function- continue to provide critical aid to vic- grant to help pay for the relocation of a his- ally obsolete. tims left in the wake of Irene’s deadly

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He had been ill for some hand how hard homeowners, busi- easy walk to freedom anywhere.’’ time but had had a very active life and nesses, and municipalities have strug- The walk to freedom for the Burmese made a great deal of difference to this gled to recover, even with Federal as- people has certainly not been easy, and body. We were very fortunate to have sistance programs. it is far from complete. Malcolm Wallop represent us in the This is not the time to play politics. The military-controlled government Senate for 18 years. For all of his three If Congress fails to provide this emer- that rules Burma continues to main- terms he was a powerful and effective gency funding between now and Sep- tain its tight grip over the Burmese presence in the Congress, assuring the tember 30, we run the risk of com- people through fear, intimidation, and people of Wyoming they were heard pletely running out of disaster funds. violence. and that their concerns were being ad- Our fellow Americans need this funding According to the State Department, dressed. Although there are many ac- to recover from catastrophic disasters. over the last year the Burmese regime complishments I could mention—and Mother Nature does not distinguish be- has ‘‘severely restricted and frequently tomorrow I will probably mention tween blue and reds States, and both violated freedoms of assembly, expres- quite a few more—I want to mention Democratic and Republican Gov- sion, association, movement, and reli- two of them today, as they were very ernors—and in Rhode Island’s case an gion.’’ significant efforts. Independent Governor—have asked for And in furthering its hold over Bur- The first was the establishment of immediate disaster aid. mese society, the regime has com- the Republican Steering Committee. This supplemental funding will help mitted crimes of murder, abduction, He and two other Senators considered replenish FEMA’s Disaster Relief rape, torture, recruitment of child sol- themselves to be the conservatives of Fund, which pays for Federal disaster diers, and forced labor—all with impu- the Senate and formed a special caucus response and recovery activities. The nity. that today has grown to include almost fund has been running dangerously low In recent months however, we have all the Republicans. It was for a small- as a result of the devastating tornado seen some encouraging steps. er government and constitutional prin- in Missouri, tornados in Alabama, Last November, the Burmese regime ciples and spending constraints, and he major flooding in the Midwest and released Aung San Suu Kyi, the Bur- stuck to those principles throughout South, wildfires in Texas, and the his- mese democracy leader and winner of his entire Senate career. toric flooding caused by Hurricane the Nobel Peace Prize, after a long and His other accomplishment—and I can Irene and Tropical Storm Lee. unjustified incarceration. And the re- think of none that would make him This year’s disasters have been par- gime has made some modest movement more proud than the mention that he ticularly destructive and I urge my col- towards dialogue with the opposition. started the Congressional Awards Pro- gram. This is a program for young leagues to remain committed to all the But it is far too soon to think that Americans where they can do service victims as they struggle to become the walk to freedom has succeeded. for their community and receive an whole again. We should approve this Just 2 months after releasing Aung San award from Congress. Congress puts no disaster aid to ensure that commu- Suu Kyi, the regime dissolved the Na- dollars into this, which would be part nities aren’t left in ruins. tional League for Democracy, which of the philosophy of Malcolm Wallop. The shortfall in funding has already has sought to bring democracy to He helped to provide for a number of forced the administration to put cer- Burma for more than 20 years. people through the years to be able to tain disaster recovery activities on And the regime keeps more than 2,000 come to Washington and receive the hold. My State, like many others, sus- political prisoners in detention. As Aung San Suu Kyi herself has Gold Award. It is set up so when you do tained a federally declared disaster last said, ‘‘If my people are not free, how 100 hours of community service, you month as a result of Hurricane and can you say I’m free? We are none of us can get a bronze medal. When you do Tropical Storm Irene. In order for free.’’ another 100 hours of service, you can FEMA to ensure it had the resources to In order to help the Burmese people get a silver medal. When you do 200 or provide immediate relief for new disas- on their march to freedom, I urge my more hours of service, you get a gold ters such as Hurricane Irene, the agen- colleagues to extend our sanctions medal. cy had to freeze long-term recovery against Burmese imports for another He helped to promote the community and mitigation projects. year. spirit and his community service has This funding conundrum really hits Several of our trading partners—in- made a huge difference to Wyoming home because in Rhode Island commu- cluding the European Union, Canada, and has spread across the Nation. Of nities are still reeling from the historic and Australia—have joined us in im- course, we are always very proud in flooding that occurred in the spring of posing trade and investment sanctions Wyoming that more kids from Wyo- 2010. Rhode Island saw more rain dur- against Burma. And these sanctions ming have gotten the gold medal than ing that disaster than any month on have put significant pressure on the from any other State. It partly has to record, and the devastation wrought by Burmese leadership. with his founding of it and the time those storms exceeded anything in liv- So let us extend the import sanctions and effort he put into it, and that suc- ing memory. on Burma for another year. Let us do ceeding Senators have. Over the years I was on the ground during the flood- our part to help the Burmese people it has served to inspire countless young ing last year and have been intimately complete their long walk to freedom. Americans to believe in themselves and involved in the recovery process. I Madam President, I suggest the ab- their ability to change the world begin- know how important FEMA’s long- sence of a quorum. ning in their own backyard and to start term recovery and mitigation pro- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The some good habits. Thanks to his initia- grams are for revitalizing damaged clerk will call the roll. tive, the young people of our Nation communities, especially in States like The assistant legislative clerk pro- will continue to dare to do great serv- mine that were already hurting from ceeded to call the roll. ice in their neighborhoods and commu- the difficult economic environment. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. nities, and I cannot think of a better I urge my colleagues across the aisle WHITEHOUSE). The Senator from Wyo- way to have Senator Malcolm Wallop to let us pass this critical legislation ming. be remembered. to provide supplemental funding for Mr. ENZI. I would ask unanimous I yield the floor. FEMA. Not only will it go a long way consent that the order for the quorum The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. BEN- toward providing peace of mind should call be rescinded. NET). The Senator from Wyoming. another disaster strike, it will also en- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, I join sure that communities across the coun- objection, it is so ordered. my colleague from Wyoming because

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Cardin. service, and all of Wyoming is grateful. The amendments made by this division CLOTURE MOTION Whether he was serving in the Army, shall become effective 2 days after enact- Mr. REID. I have a cloture motion on the Wyoming legislature, or in the U.S. ment. the underlying joint resolution which Senate, Malcolm Wallop always stood Mr. REID. I ask for the yeas and is at the desk. for freedom. For decades he worked to nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clo- strengthen America’s national security The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a ture motion having been presented and to protect States rights. His com- sufficient second? There is a sufficient under rule XXII, the Chair directs the mon sense and his commitment helped second. clerk to read the motion. break down Washington’s barriers to The yeas and nays were ordered. The legislative clerk read as follows: American energy development. Our Na- AMENDMENT NO. 604 TO AMENDMENT NO. 603 CLOTURE MOTION tion continues to benefit from his lead- Mr. REID. I have a second-degree We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- ership. amendment which is at the desk. ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the There will be much more to say Standing Rules of the Senate, hereby move The PRESIDING OFFICER. The to bring to a close debate on H.J. Res. 66, a about Malcolm in these coming days clerk will report. and in the weeks ahead as we seek to joint resolution approving the renewal of im- The legislative clerk read as follows: port restrictions contained in the Burmese honor his legacy. The Senator from Nevada [Mr. REID] pro- Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003. I will miss Malcolm’s friendship and poses an amendment numbered 604 to amend- Harry Reid, Patrick J. Leahy, John F. his support. My wife Bobbi and I send ment No. 603. Kerry, Barbara Boxer, Patty Murray, our very heartfelt condolences to his The amendment is as follows: Debbie Stabenow, Carl Levin, Kent family and to his friends throughout Conrad, Dianne Feinstein, Tom Harkin, this great country. We will continue to In the amendment, strike ‘‘2 days’’, and in- Jeff Bingaman, Tim Johnson, Daniel K. sert ‘‘1 day’’. keep the entire Wallop family in our Inouye, Richard J. Durbin, Joseph I. thoughts and in our prayers. AMENDMENT NO. 605 Lieberman, Mary L. Landrieu, Ben- I yield the floor and suggest the ab- Mr. REID. I have an amendment at jamin L. Cardin. sence of a quorum. the desk to the language that is pro- MOTION TO COMMIT The PRESIDING OFFICER. The posed to be stricken. Mr. REID. Mr. President, I have a clerk will call the roll. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion to commit the joint resolution The legislative clerk proceeded to clerk will report. with instructions, which is also at the call the roll. The legislative clerk read as follows. desk. Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- The Senator from Nevada [Mr. REID] pro- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The imous consent that the order for the poses an amendment numbered 605 to the clerk will report the motion. quorum call be rescinded. language proposed to be stricken by amend- The legislative clerk read as follows: The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ment No. 602. The Senator from Nevada [Mr. REID] moves objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: to commit the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 66) to the Finance Committee with instructions f On page 2, line 17, strike ‘‘on’’ and insert ‘‘3 to report back with an amendment numbered days after’’. APPROVING THE RENEWAL OF IM- 607. PORT RESTRICTIONS CONTAINED Mr. REID. I ask for the yeas and nays The amendment is as follows: IN THE BURMESE FREEDOM AND on that amendment. On page 2, strike line 17 through 19 and in- DEMOCRACY ACT OF 2003 The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sert the following: sufficient second? There is a sufficient This joint resolution shall take effect on Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- second. July 26, 20ll. imous consent that the remaining time The yeas and nays were ordered. Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask for postcloture be yielded back and the AMENDMENT NO. 606 TO AMENDMENT NO. 605 the yeas and nays on that motion. Senate proceed to consideration of H.J. Mr. REID. I have a second-degree The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a Res. 66. sufficient second? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without amendment at the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The There is a sufficient second. objection, it is so ordered. The clerk The yeas and nays were ordered. clerk will report. will report the bill by title. AMENDMENT NO. 608 The legislative clerk read as follows: The legislative clerk read as follows: Mr. REID. Mr. President, I have an A joint resolution (H.J. Res. 66) approving The Senator from Nevada [Mr. REID] pro- amendment to the instructions at the the renewal of import restrictions contained poses an amendment numbered 606 to amend- ment No. 605. desk. in the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act The PRESIDING OFFICER. The of 2003. The amendment is as follows: clerk will report. AMENDMENT NO. 602 In the amendment, strike ‘‘3 days’’ and in- The legislative clerk read as follows: Mr. REID. I have a substitute amend- sert ‘‘2 days’’. The Senator from Nevada [Mr. REID] pro- ment which is at the desk. CLOTURE MOTION poses an amendment numbered 608 to the in- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Mr. REID. I send a cloture motion to structions on the motion to commit H.J. clerk will report. the desk. Res. 66. The legislative clerk read as follows: The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clo- The amendment is as follows: (The amendment is printed in today’s ture motion having been presented In the amendment, strike ‘‘July 26’’ and in- RECORD under ‘‘Text of Amendments.’’) under rule XXII, the Chair directs the sert ‘‘July 25’’. Mr. REID. On that amendment I ask clerk to read the motion. Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask for for the yeas and nays. The legislative clerk read as follows: the yeas and nays on this amendment. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a CLOTURE MOTION sufficient second? There is a sufficient sufficient second? second. We, the undersigned Senators, in accord- There is a sufficient second. The yeas and nays were ordered. ance with the provisions of rule XXII of the The yeas and nays were ordered. Standing Rules of the Senate, hereby move AMENDMENT NO. 603 TO AMENDMENT NO. 602 to bring to a close debate on the Reid sub- AMENDMENT NO. 609 TO AMENDMENT NO. 608 Mr. REID. I have a perfecting amend- stitute amendment No. 602 to H.J. Res. 66, a Mr. REID. Mr. President, I have a ment at the desk. joint resolution approving the renewal of im- second-degree amendment at the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The port restrictions contained in the Burmese The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003. clerk will report.

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Mr. President, I ask unan- wants a vote to get rid of bike paths. ard Herald celebrated over a century’s imous consent that the mandatory He is willing to do that. In fact, we worth of news coverage by publishing a quorum under rule XXII be waived for have given him the same vote on an 100th-anniversary edition of its morn- the two cloture motions just filed. amendment before. In 2009, the Senate ing paper. The Herald is, and has been, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without voted down the very same amendment. the most trusted source of local and objection, it is so ordered. He has had this vote before, and it has national news to the people of Hazard Mr. REID. Mr. President, sadly, in failed before. He is not willing to even and Perry County for decades. just 2 days, about 80,000 people will be take a vote anymore. This is how far Founder and prominent lawyer and out of work because of the obstruc- afield this is. He doesn’t want a vote. statesman Bailey P. Wootton, who tionism of one man. This Senator, the He wants to put whatever he thinks is eventually served one term as Ken- junior Senator from Oklahoma, is put- the right thing for the world and the tucky attorney general in the 1930s, en- ting his own petty priorities ahead of country as it relates to highways in visioned that the Herald would serve as the thousands of safety inspectors, con- this bill and say: Just do it; I am a dic- the primary medium for progress and struction workers, and contractors who tator, and I am going to put it in the information for the local community are about to lose their health care and bill, and you are not going to do any- when he began publishing the paper in their livelihoods for the second time in thing around here. 1911. Over the years, the Herald became the last few months. These workers We are willing to vote on this again, the heart of the community, sharing in will be furloughed or laid off on Friday but we cannot get to a vote because he both the triumphs and sorrows of citi- if we don’t reauthorize the Federal is blocking us from doing so. So one zens of the county as it grew alongside Aviation Administration. Senator out of 100 is holding up the im- them. The same Senator is holding up portant work of this body, demanding From the arrival of the first train to emergency funding for thousands of that we make this amendment law or Hazard Depot in 1912, which a year Americans—hundreds of thousands, ac- else put 80,000 people out of work. This later would pave the way for boosting tually—whose homes have been de- kind of obstruction should end. This is the region’s coal industry, to the dec- stroyed by tornadoes, floods, and not logical, not rational. I have strong ade-defining flood of 1927 that dev- wildfires. Keep in mind what I just feelings about this part of the highway astated the county, the Herald was said. We have a bill that came from the bill. But this is a bill that has billions front and center. In the 1930s the Her- House of Representatives that funded of dollars in it. About 1.7 or 1.8 million ald followed Bailey during his cam- for 4 months the Federal Aviation Ad- jobs will be eliminated if we don’t get paign to be elected Kentucky attorney ministration. We have a bill that came this bill passed. So I urge my Repub- general, as well as the Hazard High from the House—they put them to- lican colleague to reconsider how this School boys’ basketball team as they gether—to fund the highway bill for 6 gridlock harms real people in this were eventually crowned state cham- months. With those two bills together, country. It is hard for me to explain. pions. almost 2 million jobs will be elimi- In Las Vegas we have a new tower World War II in the 1940s forced the nated if we don’t pass the highway bill that is being built for the air traffic Herald to begin printing daily to keep by the end of the month but FEMA by controllers. It is needed very much. Air people informed with the war efforts in Europe, and it remained so until the Friday. traffic into Las Vegas is heavy—about mid-1950s when it then alternated to a The Senator from Oklahoma, to 60 million people a year arrive, and so biweekly publication. The paper whom I referred, doesn’t like a provi- we need a new tower. We started con- mourned President Kennedy’s death sion in the highway bill. Stopping that struction on it a few months ago. It with the nation in the 1960s, and pro- is one thing. But now he is stopping us was held up once because of this prob- vided an in-depth account of President from doing something about people lem we have with this bill. Now it is to Bill Clinton’s visit to Hazard in 1999— who are in desperate need of help, who be held up again. which was printed in color after the have been hit hard by fires—in Texas But this isn’t just a Nevada issue, it paper adopted color printing tech- alone, we have had 2,000 homes burned is all over the country. About 75,000 nology in the middle of the decade. to the ground. So he is holding up construction workers are working on emergency aid for Americans whose Most recently, the Herald has adopted essential parts of our airports, and online publications and social media to homes have been destroyed by torna- these jobs are badly needed. It is just does, floods, wildfires, and millions of keep pace with the technological ad- the wrong thing for my friend to do. I vancements that define news and acres of farmland are underwater, and hope he will allow us to move forward he is jeopardizing almost 2 million jobs media today. on FEMA and allow us to move forward Perry County is fortunate to have by blocking the highway bill. How he on the Federal Aviation Administra- gets these together is something I can- such an established and trusted news tion legislation. Of course, on the high- source to inform the great people of not logically understand. He is stop- way bill, we will give him his vote. If ping us from doing something on the Kentucky. In the 100th anniversary edi- he wants another vote, we will give tion of the Herald, printed July 27, 2011, FAA bill but also FEMA. him another vote if there is another On Friday, as I said, it is going to there is an article that highlights the part of the bill he doesn’t like. But it paper’s founding and first decade of cause 80,000 workers, thousands of is something we need to get done as whom are responsible for the millions printing. To help celebrate this land- quickly as possible—like in the next 24 mark occasion, Mr. President, I ask of air travelers’ safety every day. We hours. have just been through this. A short unanimous consent that the full article time ago, we had the same issue, where f be printed in the RECORD. There being no objection, the mate- the safety inspectors were paying for rial was ordered to be printed in the their own lunches when they would go MORNING BUSINESS RECORD, as follows: out inspecting airplanes, and buying Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- their own plane tickets, paying for imous consent that the Senate proceed [From the Hazard Herald, Centennial Edition, July 27, 2011] their own hotel and motel rooms, and to a period of morning business, with Senators permitted to speak for up to The first decade 1911–1919: The Hazard Her- not being reimbursed. ald publishes first issue, begins a tradition It is interesting to note this same 10 minutes each. still alive a century later. Senator voted for the highway bill in The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without The first edition of The Hazard Herald was 2005—we do a major highway bill about objection, it is so ordered. hand set and came off the gasoline powered

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Wootton, tor. the 1970s—the era of de´tente, of defeat and of along with officers George W. Humphries, f retreat. The idea of placing morality at the James B. Hoge, and W.C. Trosper. center of our dealings with other nations was During that first year, a one-year subscrip- FOREIGN POLICY derided by supposed sophisticates as unreal- tion to the Herald could be purchased for one Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, I istic and uninformed. dollar as the paper’s staff covered the growth rise today to commend my friend and But then Ronald Reagan took these words of Hazard, which at the time was still look- to heart and he made them the center of his colleague, Senator MARCO RUBIO of ing forward to the coming of the railroad a foreign policy—a foreign policy that even his year later, a move that would open up a town Florida, on the outstanding speech he critics now admit was remarkably success- that in the years prior was a remote hamlet delivered yesterday at the Jesse Helms ful. nearly cut off by the rough and tumble foot- Center in Wingate, NC. I share Senator President Reagan challenged the ‘‘evil em- hills of the Appalachian Mountains. RUBIO’s conviction that America is at pire.’’ The first two years of the Herald’s publica- our best in the world when we put our ‘‘Tear down this wall,’’ he demanded—and tion were certainly not easy ones, as noted it came down. He won the Cold War not by in Perry County Kentucky: A History, pub- values at the center of our foreign pol- icy, beginning with a commitment to coddling dictators but by confronting them— lished by the Hazard Chapter of the Daugh- and by standing up for the principles that ters of the American Revolution during the the cause of freedom. Senator RUBIO’s have defined us since the formation of our 1950s. A publisher in Hazard at that time cer- thoughtful warning against the danger great Republic. tainly lacked some of the modern conven- of withdrawing behind our borders is As I think about the challenges of the 21st iences that newspaper staff today may take especially timely and important. He is century—challenges that range from upheav- for granted: ‘‘With power still not available absolutely right that, when we do not als in the Middle East to the fiscal crisis in 1911, a two H.P. gasoline engine was in- confront monsters like al-Qaida back home—I am mindful of Ronald Rea- stalled to run the press. After 1912, elec- gan’s example and of Jesse Helms’. tricity was available and the changeover was abroad, they will sooner or later come to threaten us here at home. I am guided by their understanding that made.’’ America’s strength lies in its ideals, and I thank Senator RUBIO for delivering In those first years the Herald also served that if we are to make this century another as a chronicler of Hazard’s history (as it still such a lucid and visionary speech. His American century, we must be prepared to does today). One of the most important remarks reaffirm for me the critical fight for those ideals. events in that history was the arrival of the leadership role that I am convinced he Now, fundamentally, I believe that the railroad. In the July 20, 1911 edition, the pa- will play in this chamber, and in our world is a better place when the United per’s fifth that first year, a story details country, in the years to come. His States of America is strong and prosperous. work being completed by the Jones-Davis Now, I don’t believe that America has the Company regarding construction of a section voice is an important one. I ask unani- mous consent to have printed in the power or means to solve every issue in the of the L&E Railroad which extended ‘‘from world. But I do believe there are some criti- RECORD Senator RUBIO’s remarks as below Yerkes to the head of the river of the cally important issues where America does mouth of Buckeye Creek, about 18 miles.’’ prepared for delivery. have a meaningful role to play in resolving The first train arrived at the Hazard Depot There being no objection, the mate- crises that are tied to our national interests. in 1912, and it not only opened avenues of rial was ordered to be printed in the If we refuse to play our rightful role and travel in and out of the county, but it also RECORD, as follows: shrink from the world, America and the en- paved the way for a more robust coal indus- SENATOR MARCO RUBIO’S REMARKS AS tire world will pay a terrible price. And it is try, as noted in the Herald’s October 7, 1912 DELIVERED TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2011 our responsibility to clearly outline to the edition: ‘‘It will not be long before the coal American people what our proper role in the from this city will be counted by the train- Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very world is and what American interests are at loads instead of the carload.’’ much. Thank you. First of all, thank you all Other notable events during the decade in- for coming. I am honored and privileged to stake when we engage abroad. clude a fire in December 1913 that ravaged be here. I’m impressed by the good work, by At the core of our strength are the ‘‘self- the business section of town, destroying the way, that the Helms Center is doing in evident’’ truths of the Declaration of Inde- $50,000 worth of property, according to a teaching young people the foreign policy pendence: ‘‘that all men are created equal, headline of the day. Consumed in the fire principles that Senator Helms stood for. And that they are endowed by their Creator with was the D.Y. Combs Hotel as well as the of- I’m honored by this opportunity to speak to certain unalienable Rights, that among fices of Dr. Gross and Dr. Hurst. you for a few moments eight and a half these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of On August 17, 1914, the Herald reported on months into my Senate career on what I Happiness,’’ that government exists to ‘‘se- the first automobile to arrive in Perry Coun- think is a historic and important moment in cure these rights’’ and that it derives its ty: ‘‘Last Thursday, Hazard and Perry Coun- American history. And I hope by the end of ‘‘just powers from the consent of the gov- ty (sic) were honored by the first automobile our time here together tonight we’ll all erned.’’ ever inside the county limits. We have had share that belief irrespective of where we fall These are not just our rights as Americans. the railroad trains upward of two years, and on the individual issues. These are the rights of all human beings. that has ceased to be a wonder; we have had I have come to deeply appreciate Jesse Nurtured in thirteen embattled colonies one autocycle, which remained for a few days Helms’ willingness to fight for his views— along the Eastern seaboard more than two and departed from whence it came. But the particularly in foreign policy—and his un- centuries ago, the blessings of liberties have crowning glory of all was the advent of the willingness to compromise on matters of since spread to more than 100 countries Ford touring car which passed through our basic principle. That made him rare in Wash- around the world. city last Thursday. Now we are on the qui ington, and it also made him influential. I Freedom’s domain now stretches from vive for the first aeroplane.’’ want to read what a distinguished journalist Mexico to Mongolia. Some of the world’s de- By 1916, Wootton was still listed as the once wrote that it was ‘‘his relentless, un- mocracies are ancient nations. Others are president, with James B. Hoge and W.C. swerving application of conservative prin- more recent in origin. Some are poor. Others Trosper as secretary and manager respec- ciples to practically every issue’’ is what are rich. Some are Christian. Others Muslim, tively, and a weekly editorial appeared in ‘‘made him a major player in Washington Jewish, Buddhist, Confucian, Hindu. All are the newspaper as well. In the January 27, and [in] national politics.’’ united by their respect for certain funda- 1916 edition, the Herald took to task the City Jesse Helms was, in particular, an un- mental human rights—even if they do not al- of Hazard for allowing the city’s sidewalks to swerving champion of freedom fighters. ways achieve in practice the ideals they seek fall in disrepair, writing: ‘‘In any case, there When he was still a junior Senator, he and a to honor. America should take pride in has been no excuse on the part of either Big former governor of California—a fellow knowing that so many of the freedom move- Bottom residents or the City government for named Ronald Reagan—they worked to- ments we have seen around the world since leaving the walks up that way in the shape gether to introduce a ‘‘morality in foreign 1776 draw their inspiration from the courage it has been for such a long time.’’ policy’’ plank to the 1976 Republican plat- and the words of our own Founding Fathers. While the Herald maintained a local flavor form. The honor roll of free countries does not during its first decade, in this age before the Here is what it said, it said: ‘‘The goal of yet include the land of my parents or grand- Internet and instant news delivery, the paper Republican foreign policy is the achievement parents—Cuba—but that I believe is only a also made note of issues of national impor- of liberty under law and a just and lasting matter of time. Because sooner or later, the tance. By 1918, World War I ended with the peace in the world. The principles by which tides of freedom will wash against the shores abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II on November we act to achieve peace and to protect the of this island nation that has been trapped 9. The Herald carried the story with the interests of the United States must merit for too long in a prison constructed by Fidel headline: ‘‘War Is Ended; Kaiser Abdicates.’’ the restored confidence of our people.’’ and Raul Castro.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:35 Jun 03, 2012 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00033 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD11\RECFILES\SEPT\S14SE1.REC S14SE1 bjneal on DSK2TWX8P1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE S5620 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE September 14, 2011 Why am I so confident about the future? have experienced for themselves the right- Korea is one of the world’s freest countries— Because in our time, we have seen how dicta- eous wrath of a democracy bestirred from its and one of the richest. Yet only forty years torships have fallen and democracies risen— peaceful pursuits. ago, it was poorer than North Korea and even in the most unpromising surroundings. I applaud President Obama for ordering the nearly as poor as Syria. Its transformation Just in the past year, in the Middle East— raid that finally brought Osama bin Laden to shows what is possible when free people are the region whose governments have been his just fate. I applaud the President, too, for allowed to harness their full potential. most resistant to freedom—we have seen the his stirring words in support of reformers in This is the change that we must encourage first stirrings of democratic upheavals. We the Middle East. I only wish that he had in the Middle East. Now unfortunately the do not know how the Arab Spring will ulti- shown more commitment to the cause of views of some of the protestors distasteful. I mately turn out, but it has already proven freedom. He has been slow and hesitant, and certainly condemn the anti-Israel senti- one thing: that no faith, no ethnicity, no re- we have missed some significant opportuni- ments uttered by protest leaders, and I can gion, and no people are immune to the funda- ties to alter the strategic landscape in Amer- understand why many Israelis are alarmed mental desire to control their own destiny. ica’s favor. And the President’s failure to by the recent turn of events. As dissidents and freedom fighters battle lead has served to magnify the damage done Israel is one of America’s closest allies in dictators around the world, they look for to U.S. interests. the world, and our closest and most reliable support to the greatest democracy in the For example, in the summer of 2009, the friend in the Middle East. It is a shining bas- world. And America must answer their call. young people of Iran took to the streets to tion of democracy, liberty, and opportunity We do not seek to impose our vision of gov- protest against mullahs that had consigned in one of the most blighted parts of the ernment. We do not insist that every nation them to poverty, while squandering oil world. But the naı¨ve strategy of trying to ap- must have a presidency, a supreme court or riches to build nuclear weapons and support pease Islamist extremists like Iran, and a bicameral legislature. Nor do we have any foreign terrorist groups. The President was turning our back on Israel, will only em- intention of using force to depose every des- so intent on negotiating with Iran’s tyrants bolden our common enemies and weaken the potic regime on the planet. that he did little to help its people. As the prospects for peace—and for democracy But we must do what we can to champion Green Revolution fizzled, protesters de- itself. the cause of freedom—not only with the manded to know, ‘‘Obama, are you with us or For the sake of peace, and out of principle, power of our example but also with our against us?’’ the United States must strongly affirm its money and our resources, our ingenuity and This year, the Administration did come to commitment to Israel, not just in words but our diplomacy, and on rare occasion, when the aid of the people of Libya, but only after in deeds. there is no good alternative and when our weeks of hesitation that allowed Moammar At the same time, the people of Tunisia, national interest is clearly at stake, our Qaddafi—an anti-American criminal—to get Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, and other Mid- armed might. back on his feet and resume slaughtering his dle Eastern lands are in the streets because Without our commitment to the rights of own people. they want a better life for themselves and man enunciated by our forefathers, what are Then it took another four months before their children. They aren’t asking for the we? Just another big, rich country. But when the President was willing to recognize the imposition of a Taliban-style rule. They are we champion our ideals, we gain moral au- Transitional National Council as the rightful asking for the ballot box and for economic thority—and we gain physical security. government of Libya. And even then, the Ad- opportunity. And if their desires are ful- You see, we may not always agree with our ministration refused to commit the re- filled, they will move closer to Thomas Jef- fellow democracies, but seldom, if ever, do sources and make the tactical decisions that ferson’s vision of the world than Osama bin we fight them. The more functioning democ- could have shortened this conflict. Laden’s. racies there are—‘‘functioning’’ being the The regime was so lacking in popular sup- That is why I am so concerned that the Ad- important quality—the easier we can port that it finally fell, but the fact that the ministration may let this historic oppor- breathe. war dragged on so long has, at a minimum, tunity pass. I am glad that the President is States that do not respect the rights of raised the costs of reconstruction and trying to bring along our allies. But our al- their citizens seldom respect the rights of lengthened the toll of the dead and wounded. lies would be the first to tell you that noth- their neighbors. They become breeding An anonymous presidential adviser justi- ing important or difficult happens without grounds for all sorts of ills—from the traf- fied this by claiming that it was part of a de- American leadership. Unfortunately, that ficking of humans and drugs to contagious liberate strategy to ‘‘lead from behind’’. leadership has been missing at a critical diseases and famine, from nuclear prolifera- We could see the same doctrine in effect in juncture during the last few years. tion to terrorism—that threaten our own se- Syria where the President waited a full six Most recently, for example, it has been curity. months after the start of a popular upris- suggested that the advice of military com- Now some suggest that America should ing—six months that Bashar Assad and his manders in Iraq be completely ignored in heed the famous words of John Quincy goons spent indiscriminately slaughtering favor of a dramatic troop drawdown that Adams and go ‘‘not abroad, in search of mon- their own people—before calling for Assad’s even Iraqis say is too drastic. sters to destroy.’’ The problem is if America removal. And even then, the Administration It’s a reminder that, in our republic, elec- turns inward and ignores the monsters refused to recall our ambassador or impose tions have consequences not just at home, abroad, they are likely to come here. the entire list of sanctions that some of us in but all over the world. Because while pre- It happened in 1917 when German U-boats Congress had been pressing for. vious generations of leaders—and even some torpedoed American merchant ships. Now the President’s defenders suggest that I serve with today—have stood up for un- It happened in 1941 when Japanese aircraft it was right not to get more involved because popular but necessary measures, even at the bombed Pearl Harbor. they worry about the consequences of tur- risk of losing elections, others are simply And it happened ten years ago when Al moil in the Middle East. I’ve often hear it too willing to do what is politically self-serv- Qaeda carried off the deadliest terrorist at- said that: ‘‘Better the devil you know.’’ We ing. America, and the entire world for that tack in history from a base in the Hindu should be concerned about what will come matter, needs resolute leadership in this era Kush. If we do not have the luxury of ignor- next in places like Egypt that have been of historic but volatile transformation, par- ing developments in lands as remote as Af- American allies. ticularly in the Middle East—and particu- ghanistan, then there is no corner of the I can understand why President Obama larly in Iraq. world from which we can safely turn our hesitated before finally withdrawing our sup- Beyond the Middle East, in our own hemi- backs. port from Hosni Mubarak, which I believe, sphere, a combination of narco-trafficking The fanatics who orchestrated the attacks under the circumstances, was the right thing networks, anti-American strongmen, and the of 9/11 were nurtured in lands that knew no to do. But it is hard to see why we would increasing penetration of Iranian influence freedom, in countries where, for too long, the hesitate in the case of Iran, Syria or Libya— is raising dangers of a special kind. Individ- people’s pursuit of happiness had been subor- all avowed enemies of America. It is hard to uals like Hugo Chavez, who have no business dinated to the rulers’ pursuit of power. A imagine a ruler worse than Ahmadinejad, running anything in the first place much less lack of economic, social and political oppor- Assad or Qaddafi, and easy to imagine that a country, have worked strenuously to build tunity helped to create the conditions that their successors might be much more ame- a bloc of countries to work against U.S. in- enabled a radical few—deluded by demented nable to our interests. terests—and at great risk to great friends doctrines of hate—to commit mass murder Even in countries such as Egypt, Bahrain like Colombia. simply to make a statement. and Saudi Arabia, we simply do not have the Again, the Administration has missed easy The form of the threat was relatively luxury of endorsing the status quo. opportunities to stand with our allies, for in- novel: We were attacked not by another na- Instead of tying our fate to discredited dic- stance, through free trade agreements. We tion-state but by a band of terrorists who tators, we would be better advised to build cannot continue to ignore or be complacent took shelter in a failed state. But this constructive alternatives. That’s what Ron- about Latin America, nor can we relegate threat—like the threats of Nazism, fascism, ald Reagan did when he pushed Ferdinand our friends in the region to anything less and communism—comes from a sick and Marcos out of power in the Philippines in than high priority partnerships for us to con- failed ideology. 1986. The following year he did the same tinue nurturing. With Osama bin Laden’s recent demise, the thing when he helped push a military ruler After all, the security of our democratic founder of Al Qaeda joined a long list of ty- out of power in South Korea and supported society depends on the success of liberty in rants—Adolf Hitler to Saddam Hussein—who the transition to civilian rule. Today, South our own hemisphere. The fight against drug

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These are allies in the future 1981, the agency’s workforce included And by the way, the notion that we should that can be our partners, not just in our po- such diverse professionals as econo- ‘‘lead from behind’’ would have been incom- litical struggles on the world stage, but in mists, social scientists, attorneys, and prehensible even to the Democrat who pre- economic trade. And a world where people computer experts—all career employ- ceded President Obama. In his second inau- are prosperous and free to grow their econo- ees hired on the basis of their knowl- gural address, President Bill Clinton said mies and pursue their own dreams is a better edge, skills, and ability. that ‘‘America stands alone as the world’s world for all of us. Under Elmer Staats, GAO took a lead indispensable nation.’’ That is as true today I began by quoting the words of Jesse role in issuing auditing guidance. In as it was in 1997. Helms and Ronald Reagan. In closing, let me If America refuses to lead, who will combat recall the great words of one of the most im- 1972, the Comptroller General issued international outlaws? Who will stop terror- portant Democrat leaders of the 20th Cen- the first edition of what has come to be ists and weapons proliferators? Who will deal tury—Harry S. Truman. In 1951, speaking to known as the ‘‘Yellow Book’’—the final with the Iranian and North Korean nuclear the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church word on government auditing stand- programs? The rising disorder in Pakistan, in Washington, D.C., this is what he said: ards. He also directed GAO to issue Yemen and Somalia? The growing challenge ‘‘I have the feeling that God has created us guidance to help state and local audi- from China which seeks to dominate East and brought us to our present position of tors and was instrumental in estab- power and strength for some great purpose. Asia, but won’t even let its own people use lishing intergovernmental audit fo- Google? It is not given to us to know fully what that The world counts on America. And whether purpose is. But I think we may be sure of one rums in the 1970s. we like it or not, there is virtually no aspect thing. And that is that our country is in- In addition, Elmer Staats sought to of our daily lives that is not directly im- tended to do all it can in cooperating with strengthen ties with the international pacted by what happens in the world around other nations to help create peace and pre- auditing community through his active us. We can choose to ignore global problems, serve peace in the world. It is given to us to involvement and leadership in the but global problems will not ignore us. defend the spiritual values—the moral code— International Organization of Supreme Yet our ability to lead is threatened. It’s against the vast forces of evil that seek to Audit Institutions. He founded GAO’s threatened not by any external foe, but rath- destroy them.’’ er by our own fiscal woes. There are still vast forces of evil seeking International Auditor Fellowship Pro- This year, the national debt surpassed the to destroy us. The form of the threat has gram in 1979, which enables auditors size of our economy and it will continue to changed since Truman’s time. But evil re- from other countries to meet with GAO grow unless we get it under control. mains potent—and America remains the staff and acquire new knowledge and Now, I am a strong advocate of cutting un- strongest line of defense, often the only line perspectives. necessary and wasteful spending, but the de- of defense. His is a living legacy that is still de- fense budget is not the biggest driver of our I pray that we will continue to find the livering results, both for Congress and debt—it accounts for roughly twenty percent wisdom and courage—and resources—to act the American people. Just name a Fed- of our annual federal spending. By contrast, effectively in the defense of our moral code— entitlement programs swallow more than the same code that we share with all civ- eral program or policy, GAO has prob- half the budget and they are the main driv- ilized people. The world needed a strong ably reviewed it and made suggestions ers of our debt. America in Truman’s time. And if this is to for improvement. Last year, measur- The Pentagon already faced sharp cuts. be another American Century, the world able financial benefits from GAO work During his last two years in office, Secretary needs a strong America now. totaled nearly $50 billion, an $87 return of Defense Gates cut or curtailed procure- Because freedom cannot survive without on every dollar invested in GAO. ment programs that, if taken to completion, us. Elmer Boyd Staats was born in Rich- Thank you so much for having me. May would have cost $300 billion. This summer, field, KS, in 1914. His family were the President and congressional leaders God bless all of you and may God bless our agreed to cut another $350 billion from the country. Thank you. wheat farmers. The only one of his eight siblings to attend college, Elmer defense budget over the next ten years. f Those cuts by themselves alone are worri- Staats graduated Phi Beta Kappa from some enough but what is more worrisome is REMEMBERING COMPTROLLER McPherson College in 1935, and later what’s looming: In the worst case scenario, if GENERAL ELMER B. STAATS earned a master’s degree in political the so-called Debt Super Committee doesn’t Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, science and economics from the Uni- reach any deal at all, the Pentagon could today I pay tribute to the memory of versity of Kansas and a doctorate in stand to be slashed by more than $1 trillion Elmer B. Staats, one of the great civil political economy at the University of over ten years. Our new secretary of defense—himself is a servants of the post-World War II era. Minnesota, where he wrote his dis- well-known budget hawk—has warned that A former Comptroller General of the sertation on the new Social Security cutbacks of this scale would have a ‘‘dev- United States and head of the General Administration. astating effect on our national defense.’’ I Accounting Office, as GAO was then Elmer Staats’ career in the Federal can but echo Leon Panetta’s words. called, Mr. Staats died July 23 in Wash- Government began in 1939, when he The American armed forces have been one ington at the age of 97. joined the Bureau of the Budget, now of the greatest forces of good in the world Elmer Staats had the distinction of the Office of Management and Budget. during the past century. They stopped Na- serving under every U.S. President His talents were recognized early on, zism and Communism and other evils such as Serbian ethnic-cleansing. They have helped from Franklin Roosevelt to Ronald and he served in high-level posts at the birthed democracies from Germany to Iraq. Reagan. But more important than the Bureau under Presidents Truman, Ei- They have delivered relief supplies, and per- longevity of his career was his record senhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. formed countless tasks in service to our na- of professional achievement. A leading Eventually, he became the Bureau’s tion. figure in the world of public adminis- Deputy Director before President John- All they have ever asked for in return is tration and government account- son appointed him to a 15-year term as that we provide them the tools to get the job ability, Elmer Staats was renowned for the fifth Comptroller General of the done—and that we look after them and their families. They have never failed us in our his dedication to constructive change United States. He held that post time of need. and good government principles. through the administrations of Presi- We must not fail them now. We must main- Appointed Comptroller General in dents Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and tain a strong national defense. 1966, Elmer Staats helped lay the foun- Carter, and into the early months of Foreign aid is also an important part of dation for the modern-day GAO. He the Reagan administration. America’s foreign policy leadership. While transformed it from an agency pri- After leaving GAO, Elmer Staats be- we certainly must be careful about spending marily known for financial audit work came the president and later chairman money on foreign aid, the reality is that it is to one that evaluates the effectiveness of the board of trustees of the Harry S. not the reason we have a growing debt prob- lem. of virtually every Federal activity at Truman Scholarship Foundation. He If it is done right, and when done in part- home and abroad, from antipoverty was a member of the Governmental Ac- nership with the private sector and faith- programs to military spending to in- counting Standards Board from 1984 to based community, foreign aid spreads Amer- vestments in infrastructure. 1990. During the 1990s, he served as the

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Since the inclusion of the finished within the top 25 in 10 others. also a founding member in 1967 of the Bill of Rights in 1791, the Constitution Even more impressively, Keegan National Academy of Public Adminis- has been amended just 17 times. There Bradley has spent many of his younger tration and remained a trusted advisor has been much discussion of late about years living in the New England area, on many Academy projects over the amending our Nation’s fundamental with seasonal weather that did not al- years. He received numerous awards for charter. As chairman of the Senate Ju- ways afford him the luxury of training distinguished public service, along with diciary Committee, that is not some- year-round. This resulted in much honorary degrees from eight univer- thing that I take lightly. Proposing time-sensitive dedication and focus, as sities. He was elected to the Account- amendments to the Constitution winter weather inhibits year-round ing Hall of Fame in 1981. should not be a reflexive response to outside practice in our part of the When asked whether he was a Repub- political threats. Each Member of Con- country. lican or a Democrat, Elmer always po- gress swears to support and defend the Keegan Bradley was born in Wood- litely but firmly declined to answer. In Constitution; it should be treated with stock, VT, in 1986 and attended Wood- fact, he was famous for having a nee- the reverence it deserves, not as lever- stock High School. He is the son of Mr. dlepoint pillow in his office that fea- age in heated political debate. While I Mark Bradley, golf professional at tured an elephant on one side and a certainly believe that the Constitution Crown Point Golf Club, and Mrs. Kay donkey on the other. The message has been improved over time in our ef- Bradley. Keegan is also the nephew of about his and GAO’s nonpartisan role fort to create a more perfect union, Ms. Pat Bradley, a Ladies Professional in government was clear. those amendments were thoroughly Golf Association Hall-of-Famer. I am As Bob Schieffer observed in a recent considered and debated over time. Be- proud to recognize Keegan Bradley for commentary on ‘‘Face the Nation,’’ fore we alter our national charter, we his accomplishment, both as a Elmer Staats’ reputation in Wash- must openly consider whether such Vermonter and a professional golfer. I ington was such that you ‘‘knew you amendment would hamstring future join all Vermonters in wishing him could take what his agency reported to generations. many more years of success. the bank—its facts were seldom dis- Pressure groups may demand that f puted, its neutrality never challenged, elected representatives sign pledges his political affiliation never known.’’ about what they will and will not do if MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT I want to express my gratitude for elected to office. The pledge I follow— Messages from the President of the Elmer Staat’s many years of exem- the one I was honored to make again at United States were communicated to plary service to our Nation. His intel- the beginning of this Congress—is to the Senate by Mr. Pate, one of his sec- ligence, dedication, and integrity will uphold the Constitution. I take that retaries. be missed. At the same time, Elmer pledge seriously. ‘‘We the People’’ owe Staats set an example for the type of a great debt to the Framers of our Con- f men and women who will be needed to stitution. And as we commemorate the EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED help lead our government in the fu- signing of the Constitution of the As in executive session the Presiding ture—individuals of outstanding abil- United States of American 224 years Officer laid before the Senate messages ity, sound character, and a genuine ago, I hope all Americans will take this from the President of the United commitment to the greater good. opportunity to read the words of our States submitting sundry nominations My thoughts and prayers go to his founding charter and learn about how which were referred to the appropriate three children—David Staats, Deborah it protects us all. committees. Sanders, and Catharine Taubman—and f to his three grandchildren and great- (The nominations received today are granddaughter. TRIBUTE TO KEEGAN BRADLEY printed at the end of the Senate pro- ceedings.) f Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, with the Senate now back in session, as a f CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION Vermonter I would like to call the Sen- Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, this Sat- ate’s attention to Mr. Keegan Bradley’s MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE urday, the Nation marks the 224th an- first-place finish in the 93rd Profes- At 1:23 p.m., a message from the niversary of the day when the Found- sional Golf Association’s Championship House of Representatives, delivered by ers signed the fundamental charter for Tournament on Sunday, August 14. Mr. Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, an- our democracy—the Constitution of Bradley is the first male golfer born in nounced that the House has passed the the United States. During the Con- Vermont to win a major PGA Cham- following bill, in which it requests the stitutional Convention, the delegates pionship. concurrence of the Senate: debated hundreds of issues and pro- Keegan Bradley has earned a perma- H.R. 2218. An act to amend the charter posals before crafting the final charter. nent place for himself, and Vermont, in school program under the Elementary and Thankfully, the Founders had the fore- the record books. As a rookie golfer, Secondary Education Act of 1965. sight to know that their debate would his participation in the 2011 PGA f not be the final word on the subject. Championship is his first major tour- The work of defining our Nation—en- nament, making him one of only three MEASURES REFERRED suring protection of rights for all rookie golfers ever to place first in a The following bill was read the first Americans—would continue, as we major tournament debut. This win also and the second times by unanimous strive to create ‘‘a more perfect marks the end of a six-major tour- consent, and referred as indicated: union.’’ nament dry spell for American golfers. H.R. 2218. An act to amend the charter It was through the leadership of the In order to win this year’s PGA Cham- school program under the Elementary and late Senator Robert C. Byrd that the pionship, Bradley needed to dem- Secondary Education Act of 1965; to the Congress began to officially celebrate onstrate tenacity and determination. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and the signing of the Constitution, calling Keegan successfully came back from a Pensions. the September 17 anniversary Constitu- four-shot deficit in the last three holes f tion Day. Senator Byrd understood the of the tournament, proving his ability importance of ensuring that future to focus and overcome obstacles. MEASURES PLACED ON THE generations value our Nation’s found- His PGA Championship win extends CALENDAR ing charter. This week, in schools Mr. Bradley’s successful start to his The following bills were read the sec- across the country, students will learn professional golf career. Most notably, ond time, and placed on the calendar:

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:35 Jun 03, 2012 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00036 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD11\RECFILES\SEPT\S14SE1.REC S14SE1 bjneal on DSK2TWX8P1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE September 14, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S5623 S. 1549. A bill to provide tax relief for received in the Office of the President of the the President of the Senate on August 11, American workers and businesses, to put Senate on September 7, 2011; to the Com- 2011; to the Committee on Commerce, workers back on the job while rebuilding and mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- Science, and Transportation. modernizing America, and to provide path- tation. EC–3232. A communication from the Pro- ways back to work for Americans looking for EC–3225. A communication from the Acting gram Analyst, National Highway Traffic jobs. Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, De- Safety Administration, Department of H.R. 2832. An act to extend the Generalized partment of Commerce, transmitting, pursu- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to System of Preferences, and for other pur- ant to law, the report of a rule entitled law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Make In- poses. ‘‘Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone operative Exemptions; Vehicle Modifications H.R. 2887. An act to provide an extension of Off Alaska; Pacific Ocean Perch in the West to Accommodate People with Disabilities, surface and air transportation programs, and Yakutat District of the Gulf of Alaska’’ Head Restraints’’ (RIN2127–AK22) received for other purposes. (RIN0648–XA610) received during recess of the during recess of the Senate in the Office of Senate in the Office of the President of the the President of the Senate on August 11, f Senate on August 11, 2011; to the Committee 2011; to the Committee on Commerce, EXECUTIVE AND OTHER on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Science, and Transportation. EC–3233. A communication from the Pro- COMMUNICATIONS EC–3226. A communication from the Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, De- gram Analyst, National Highway Traffic The following communications were partment of Commerce, transmitting, pursu- Safety Administration, Department of laid before the Senate, together with ant to law, the report of a rule entitled Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to accompanying papers, reports, and doc- ‘‘Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘New Car Assessment Program; Safety Labeling’’ uments, and were referred as indicated: Off Alaska; ‘Other Rockfish’ in the Western Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alaska’’ (RIN2127–AK51) received during recess of the EC–3219. A communication from the Acting Senate in the Office of the President of the (RIN0648–XA613) received in the Office of the Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, De- Senate on August 11, 2011; to the Committee President of the Senate on September 6, 2011; partment of Commerce, transmitting, pursu- on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. to the Committee on Commerce, Science, ant to law, the report of a rule entitled EC–3234. A communication from the Pro- and Transportation. gram Analyst, National Highway Traffic ‘‘Fisheries of the Northeastern United EC–3227. A communication from the Acting Safety Administration, Department of States; Atlantic Mackerel, Squid, and Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, De- Butterfish Fisheries; Closure of the 2011 Tri- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to partment of Commerce, transmitting, pursu- law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Federal mester 2 Directed Loligo Squid Fishery’’ ant to law, the report of a rule entitled (RIN0648–XA617) received in the Office of the Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Electric- ‘‘Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Powered Vehicles; Electrolyte Spillage and President of the Senate on September 6, 2011; Off Alaska; Pacific Ocean Perch, Northern to the Committee on Commerce, Science, Electrical Shock Protection’’ (RIN2127–AK80) Rockfish, and Pelagic Shelf Rockfish in the received during recess of the Senate in the and Transportation. Western Regulatory Area and the West Yak- EC–3220. A communication from the Acting Office of the President of the Senate on Au- utat District of the Gulf of Alaska’’ gust 11, 2011; to the Committee on Com- Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, De- (RIN0648–XA544) received in the Office of the partment of Commerce, transmitting, pursu- merce, Science, and Transportation. President of the Senate on September 6, 2011; EC–3235. A communication from the Pro- ant to law, the report of a rule entitled to the Committee on Commerce, Science, gram Analyst, National Highway Traffic ‘‘Fisheries of the Northeastern United and Transportation. Safety Administration, Department of States; Spiny Dogfish Fishery; Commercial EC–3228. A communication from the Dep- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to Period 1 Quota Harvested’’ (RIN0648–XA632) uty Assistant Administrator for Operations, law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Federal received in the Office of the President of the National Marine Fisheries Service, Depart- Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Air Brake Senate on September 7, 2011; to the Com- ment of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant Systems’’ (RIN2127–AK84) received during re- mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Magnu- cess of the Senate in the Office of the Presi- tation. son-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Man- dent of the Senate on August 11, 2011; to the EC–3221. A communication from the Acting agement Act Provisions; Fisheries of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, De- Northeastern United States; Atlantic Sea Transportation. partment of Commerce, transmitting, pursu- Scallop Fishery; Amendment 15 to the Atlan- EC–3236. A communication from the Trial ant to law, the report of a rule entitled tic Sea Scallop Fishery Management Plan’’ Attorney, Federal Railroad Administration, ‘‘Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, (RIN0648–BA71) received during recess in the Department of Transportation, transmitting, and South Atlantic; Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Office of the President of the Senate on Au- pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled Fishery; 2011 Commercial Quota and 2011 gust 11, 2011; to the Committee on Com- ‘‘Hours of Service: Passenger Train Employ- Commercial Fishing Season for Greater merce, Science, and Transportation. ees’’ (RIN2130–AC15) received during recess of Amberjack’’ (RIN0648–XA592) received in the EC–3229. A communication from the Dep- the Senate in the Office of the President of Office of the President of the Senate on Sep- uty Assistant Administrator for Operations, the Senate on August 11, 2011; to the Com- tember 7, 2011; to the Committee on Com- National Marine Fisheries Service, Depart- mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- merce, Science, and Transportation. ment of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant tation. EC–3222. A communication from the Acting to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Magnu- EC–3237. A communication from the Chair- Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, De- son-Stevens Act Provisions; Fisheries of the man of the Office of Proceedings, Surface partment of Commerce, transmitting, pursu- Northeastern United States; Northeast Transportation Board, Department of Trans- ant to law, the report of a rule entitled Multispecies Fishery; Amendment 16, portation, transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Regulations Gov- ‘‘Fisheries of the Northeastern United Framework Adjustment 44, and Framework erning Fees for Services Performed in Con- States; Scup Fishery; Adjustment to the 2011 Adjustment 45’’ (RIN0648–AY95) received dur- nection with Licensing and Related Serv- Winter II Quota’’ (RIN0648–XA555) received ing recess of the Senate in the Office of the ices—2011 Update’’ (RIN2140–AB08) received in the Office of the President of the Senate President of the Senate on August 25, 2011; to during recess of the Senate in the Office of on September 7, 2011; to the Committee on the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Commerce, Science, and Transportation. the President of the Senate on August 25, Transportation. 2011; to the Committee on Commerce, EC–3223. A communication from the Dep- EC–3230. A communication from the Assist- uty Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Science, and Transportation. ant Secretary for Export Administration, EC–3238. A communication from the Dep- Programs, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, Bureau of Industry and Security, Depart- uty Chief Counsel for Regulations and Secu- Department of Commerce, transmitting, pur- ment of Commerce, transmitting, pursuant rity Standards, Transportation Security Ad- suant to law, the report of a rule entitled to law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Addi- ministration, Department of Homeland Se- ‘‘Atlantic Highly Migratory Species; Modi- tion of Persons Acting Contrary to the Na- curity, transmitting, pursuant to law, the re- fication of the Retention of Incidentally- tional Security or Foreign Policy Interests port of a rule entitled ‘‘Air Cargo Screening’’ Caught Highly Migratory Species in Atlantic of the United States; and Implementation of (RIN1652–AA64) received during recess of the Trawl Fisheries’’ (RIN0648–BA45) received in Additional Changes from the Annual Review Senate in the Office of the President of the the Office of the President of the Senate on of the Entity List’’ (RIN0694–AF22) received Senate on August 22, 2011; to the Committee September 6, 2011; to the Committee on Com- during recess of the Senate in the Office of on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. merce, Science, and Transportation. the President of the Senate on August 11, EC–3239. A communication from the Assist- EC–3224. A communication from the Assist- 2011; to the Committee on Commerce, ant General Counsel for Regulatory Affairs, ant Administrator for Fisheries, Office of Science, and Transportation. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Sustainable Fisheries, Department of Com- EC–3231. A communication from the Pro- transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of merce, transmitting, pursuant to law, the re- gram Analyst, National Highway Traffic a rule entitled ‘‘Substantial Product Safety port of a rule entitled ‘‘Fisheries of the Safety Administration, Department of List: Hand-Supported Hair Dryers’’ (16 CFR Northeastern United States; Atlantic Mack- Transportation, transmitting, pursuant to Part 1120) received during recess of the Sen- erel, Squid, and Butterfish Fishery; Emer- law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Event ate in the Office of the President of the Sen- gency Rule Extension, Revision of 2011 Data Recorders’’ (RIN2127–AK71) received ate on August 23, 2011; to the Committee on Butterfish Specifications’’ (RIN0648–BA86) during recess of the Senate in the Office of Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

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A bill to amend the Public Health heritage and culture of Latinos in the United transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of Service Act to facilitate emergency medical States and the immense contributions of a rule entitled ‘‘Substantial Product Safety services personnel training and certification Latinos to the United States; considered and List: Children’s Upper Outerwear in Sizes 2T curriculums for military veterans; to the agreed to. to 12 with Neck or Hood Drawstrings and Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and f Children’s Upper Outerwear in Sizes 2T to 16 Pensions. with Certain Waist or Bottom Drawstrings’’ By Mr. HELLER: ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS (16 CFR Part 1120) received during recess of S. 1554. A bill to prohibit the further exten- S. 170 the Senate in the Office of the President of sion or establishment of national monu- the Senate on August 23, 2011; to the Com- ments in the State of Nevada except by ex- At the request of Mrs. BOXER, the mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- press authorization of Congress, and for name of the Senator from New Jersey tation. other purposes; to the Committee on Energy (Mr. MENENDEZ) was added as a cospon- EC–3241. A communication from the Assist- and Natural Resources. sor of S. 170, a bill to provide for the af- ant General Counsel for Regulatory Affairs, By Mr. VITTER: fordable refinancing of mortgages held Consumer Product Safety Commission, S. 1555. A bill to authorize the use of cer- by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of tain offshore oil and gas platforms in the a rule entitled ‘‘Poison Prevention Pack- Gulf of Mexico for artificial reefs, and for S. 309 aging Requirements; Exemption of Powder other purposes; to the Committee on Energy At the request of Mr. LUGAR, the Formulations of Colesevelam Hydrochloride and Natural Resources. name of the Senator from North Caro- and Sevelamer Carbonate’’ (16 CFR Part By Mr. VITTER (for himself and Mr. lina (Mr. BURR) was added as a cospon- 1700) received in the Office of the President JOHNSON of Wisconsin): sor of S. 309, a bill to authorize the ex- of the Senate on September 6, 2011; to the S. 1556. A bill to require an accounting for tension of nondiscriminatory treat- Committee on Commerce, Science, and financial support made to promote the pro- ment (normal trade relations treat- Transportation. duction or use of renewable energy, and for EC–3242. A communication from the Dep- other purposes; to the Committee on Home- ment) to the products of Moldova. uty General Counsel, Office of the General land Security and Governmental Affairs. S. 676 Counsel, National Aeronautics and Space Ad- By Mr. BINGAMAN (for himself and At the request of Mr. AKAKA, the ministration, transmitting, pursuant to law, Mr. KERRY): name of the Senator from Michigan the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Claims for Pat- S. 1557. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- (Ms. STABENOW) was added as a cospon- ent and Copyright Infringement’’ (RIN2700– enue Code of 1986 to expand personal savings sor of S. 676, a bill to amend the Act of AD63) received during recess of the Senate in and retirement savings coverage by allowing the Office of the President of the Senate on employees not covered by qualified retire- June 18, 1934, to reaffirm the authority August 4, 2011; to the Committee on Com- ment plans to save for retirement through of the Secretary of the Interior to take merce, Science, and Transportation. automatic IRAs, and for other purposes; to land into trust for Indian tribes. EC–3243. A communication from the Ad- the Committee on Finance. S. 805 ministrator of the National Aeronautics and By Mr. SANDERS (for himself, Mrs. At the request of Mr. BAUCUS, the Space Administration, transmitting, pursu- BOXER, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mr. AKAKA, name of the Senator from New York ant to law, a report providing a statement of Mr. LEAHY, Mrs. MCCASKILL, Mr. (Mrs. GILLIBRAND) was added as a co- actions with respect to the Government Ac- FRANKEN, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, and Ms. countability Office report entitled ‘‘Reim- MIKULSKI): sponsor of S. 805, a bill to amend the bursable Space Act Agreements: NASA Gen- S. 1558. A bill to amend the Internal Rev- Consolidated Farm and Rural Develop- erally Adhering to Fair Reimbursement Con- enue Code of 1986 to apply payroll taxes to ment Act to improve the business and trols, but Guidance on Waived Cost Jus- remuneration and earnings from self-em- industry direct and guaranteed loan tifications Needs Refinement’’; to the Com- ployment up to the contribution and benefit program of the Department of Agri- mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- base and to remuneration in excess of culture. tation. $250,000; to the Committee on Finance. EC–3244. A communication from the Ad- By Ms. CANTWELL (for herself and S. 829 ministrator of the National Aeronautics and Mrs. MURRAY): At the request of Mr. CARDIN, the Space Administration, transmitting, pursu- S. 1559. A bill to establish the San Juan Is- name of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. ant to law, a report providing a statement of lands National Conservation Area in the San MORAN) was added as a cosponsor of S. actions with respect to the Government Ac- Juan Islands, Washington, and for other pur- 829, a bill to amend title XVIII of the countability Office report entitled ‘‘Training poses; to the Committee on Energy and Nat- Social Security Act to repeal the Medi- Necessary to Address Data Reliability Issues ural Resources. care outpatient rehabilitation therapy in NASA Agreement Database and to Mini- By Mr. KOHL: mize Potential Competition with Commer- S. 1560. A bill to enhance access to con- caps. cial Sector’’; to the Committee on Com- trolled substances for residents of institu- S. 920 merce, Science, and Transportation. tional long-term care facilities, and for other At the request of Mr. BLUNT, the EC–3245. A communication from the Acting purposes; to the Committee on the Judici- name of the Senator from Louisiana Chief of the Division of Habitat and Resource ary. (Mr. VITTER) was added as a cosponsor Conservation, Fish and Wildlife Service, De- f partment of the Interior, transmitting, pur- of S. 920, a bill to create clean energy suant to law, the report of a rule entitled SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND jobs and set efficiency standards for ‘‘Marine Mammal; Incidental Take During SENATE RESOLUTIONS small-duct high-velocity air condi- tioning and heat pump systems, and for Specified Activities (Beaufort Sea)’’ The following concurrent resolutions (RIN1018–AX32) received during recess of the other purposes. and Senate resolutions were read, and Senate in the Office of the President of the S. 967 Senate on August 4, 2011; to the Committee referred (or acted upon), as indicated: At the request of Mr. MERKLEY, the on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. By Mr. CONRAD (for himself, Mr. ENZI, name of the Senator from Virginia (Mr. f and Mr. CARDIN): S. Res. 266. A resolution supporting the WEBB) was added as a cosponsor of S. INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND goals and ideals of ‘‘National Save for Re- 967, a bill to establish clear regulatory JOINT RESOLUTIONS tirement Week’’, including raising public standards for mortgage servicers, and The following bills and joint resolu- awareness of the various tax-preferred retire- for other purposes. ment vehicles and increasing personal finan- S. 1030 tions were introduced, read the first cial literacy; to the Committee on Finance. and second times by unanimous con- By Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself, Mr. At the request of Ms. SNOWE, the sent, and referred as indicated: CORNYN, Mr. REID, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, name of the Senator from Massachu- By Mr. CRAPO (for himself and Mr. Mr. UDALL of New Mexico, Mrs. setts (Mr. BROWN) was added as a co- RISCH): BOXER, Mr. BEGICH, Mr. LAUTENBERG, sponsor of S. 1030, a bill to reform the S. 1552. A bill to amend the Endangered Mr. NELSON of Florida, Mr. SCHUMER, regulatory process to ensure that small Species Act of 1973 to provide an exception to Ms. MIKULSKI, Mr. BINGAMAN, Mr. businesses are free to compete and to that Act for actions carried out against griz- BENNET, Mr. INOUYE, Mr. REED, Mr. create jobs, and for other purposes. zly bears in self-defense, defense of others, or BROWN of Ohio, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. a reasonable belief of imminent danger; to UDALL of Colorado, Mr. WYDEN, Mr. S. 1224 the Committee on Environment and Public MERKLEY, Mr. AKAKA, Mrs. HAGAN, At the request of Mr. BINGAMAN, the Works. Mr. CASEY, and Mr. CRAPO): name of the Senator from Colorado

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At the request of Mrs. FEINSTEIN, the currently covered by a workplace re- S. 1265 name of the Senator from Florida (Mr. tirement plan would be given the op- At the request of Mr. BINGAMAN, the NELSON) was added as a cosponsor of portunity to save through regular pay- name of the Senator from New Mexico S.J. Res. 17, a joint resolution approv- roll deposits that continue automati- (Mr. UDALL) was added as a cosponsor ing the renewal of import restrictions cally, unless they elect out. The sav- of S. 1265, a bill to amend the Land and contained in the Burmese Freedom and ings will be deposited into the worker’s Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to Democracy Act of 2003. own IRA, which will be subject to the provide consistent and reliable author- S.J. RES. 27 laws already in place governing IRA ity for, and for the funding of, the land At the request of Mr. PAUL, the name accounts. Employers’ administrative and water conservation fund to maxi- of the Senator from Texas (Mr. functions will be minimal. And the ar- mize the effectiveness of the fund for CORNYN) was added as a cosponsor of rangement is market-oriented; other future generations, and for other pur- S.J. Res. 27, a joint resolution dis- than the smallest of accounts, auto- poses. approving a rule submitted by the En- matic IRAs will be provided by the S. 1392 vironmental Protection Agency relat- same banks, mutual funds, insurance At the request of Ms. COLLINS, the ing to the mitigation by States of carriers, and other institutions that name of the Senator from West Vir- cross-border air pollution under the currently provide them. ginia (Mr. MANCHIN) was added as a co- Clean Air Act. The automatic IRA approach is in- sponsor of S. 1392, a bill to provide ad- S. RES. 132 tended to help these households over- ditional time for the Administrator of At the request of Mr. NELSON of Ne- come the barrier of inertia. It builds on the Environmental Protection Agency braska, the name of the Senator from the successful use—encouraged by re- to issue achievable standards for indus- Maryland (Mr. CARDIN) was added as a forms I strongly supported the Pension trial, commercial, and institutional cosponsor of S. Res. 132, a resolution Protection Act of 2006—of automatic boilers, process heaters, and inciner- recognizing and honoring the zoos and features in 401(k) plans that encourage ators, and for other purposes. aquariums of the United States. employees toward sensible decisions, S. 1467 f while allowing them to make alter- At the request of Mr. BLUNT, the native choices. We have already seen name of the Senator from Kentucky STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS evidence that automatic 401(k) enroll- (Mr. PAUL) was added as a cosponsor of ment can dramatically boost employee S. 1467, a bill to amend the Patient By Mr. BINGAMAN (for himself participation rates, from seven in ten Protection and Affordable Care Act to and Mr. KERRY): eligible workers to 9 in 10. In the 401(k) protect rights of conscience with re- S. 1557. A bill to amend the Internal context, the gains are even more strik- gard to requirements for coverage of Revenue Code of 1986 to expand per- ing for population groups least likely specific items and services. sonal savings and retirement savings to save, including women, Latino, and S. 1472 coverage by allowing employees not low-income workers. At the request of Mrs. GILLIBRAND, covered by qualified retirement plans the name of the Senator from Florida to save for retirement through auto- Of the 75 million American workers who now are not covered by employ- (Mr. RUBIO) was added as a cosponsor of matic IRAs, and for other purposes; to S. 1472, a bill to impose sanctions on the Committee on Finance. ment-based retirement plans, an esti- persons making certain investments Mr. BINGAMAN. Mr. President, I rise mated 42 million would be eligible to that directly and significantly con- today to introduce the Automatic IRA save and enroll under Automatic IRA tribute to the enhancement of the abil- Act of 2011. When fully phased in, this legislation. This includes more than ity of Syria to develop its petroleum bill will give nearly 42 million Ameri- 250,000 in my home state of New Mex- resources, and for other purposes. cans nationwide an easy, effective way ico. Many of these individuals are fa- miliar with IRAs. But when asked why S. 1523 to take responsibility for their finan- they haven’t used the existing pro- At the request of Mr. MCCONNELL, his cial futures and plan for a secure re- name was added as a cosponsor of S. tirement. The Act incorporates the gram, about half point to issues relat- 1523, a bill to prohibit the National President’s call, in his Proposed fiscal ing to setup and decision-making as Labor Relations Board from ordering year 2010, 2011, and 2012 Budgets, for the key barriers. The automatic IRA any employers to close, relocate, or Congress to enact Automatic IRA leg- would eliminate these barriers, and the transfer employment under any cir- islation. Retirement Security Project estimates cumstance. Currently, about half of American that automatic IRA legislation could increase net national saving by nearly S. 1527 workers have no opportunity to save At the request of Mrs. HAGAN, the for retirement at work. In my home $15 billion annually. name of the Senator from Virginia (Mr. State of New Mexico, that share is This is the fourth consecutive Con- WEBB) was added as a cosponsor of S. nearly 60 percent. Among those lacking gress in which I have introduced Auto- 1527, a bill to authorize the award of a coverage at work, only one in ten con- matic IRA legislation. The concept was Congressional gold medal to the tributes annually to an individual re- initially developed by scholars at the Montford Point Marines of World War tirement account, IRA; the rest gen- Brookings Institution and Heritage II. erally make no dedicated savings for Foundation. Indeed, the Automatic S. 1538 retirement. The result? An alarming IRA concept has long enjoyed broad At the request of Ms. COLLINS, the number of American workers are woe- support across the political spectrum. name of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. fully unprepared for a financially se- For instance, Martin Feldstein, chief PORTMAN) was added as a cosponsor of cure retirement. According to Boston economic advisor to President Reagan, S. 1538, a bill to provide for a time-out College’s Center for Retirement Re- has described himself as ‘‘a great en- on certain regulations, and for other search, ‘‘in 2009 half of today’s house- thusiast of automatic enrollment purposes. holds will not have enough retirement IRAs’’ who thinks ‘‘as a policy, it’s a S. 1539 income to maintain their pre-retire- no-brainer’’ and ‘‘can’t imagine why At the request of Mr. CORNYN, the ment standard of living, even if they there would be any significant opposi- names of the Senator from Connecticut work to age 65, which is above the cur- tion from political players on either (Mr. BLUMENTHAL) and the Senator rent average retirement age.’’ Espe- side of the aisle.’’ from Connecticut (Mr. LIEBERMAN) cially in this period of economic uncer- Finally, this bill seeks to send a were added as cosponsors of S. 1539, a tainty, it is imperative that Congress strong signal of preference for employ- bill to provide Taiwan with critically focus on this retirement savings crisis. ers to offer qualified retirement plans,

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Washington State Department of Nat- S. 1559 I am grateful that my colleague on ural Resources made a unilateral deci- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- the Senate Finance Committee, Sen- sion to divest itself of all its properties resentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, ator KERRY, is joining me in intro- in San Juan County, including Mitchell ducing this bill. I am also pleased to Hill, a popular and scenic hiking trail SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. on San Juan Island. While these lands This Act may be cited as the ‘‘San Juan Is- note the broad range of stakeholders lands National Conservation Area Act’’. supporting the Automatic IRA concept, were actively pursued by a private, out-of-state, real-estate developer, I SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSES. including AARP; the American Society (a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that— of Pension Professionals & Actuaries; was proud to work with the San Juan (1) land managed by the Bureau of Land Aspen Institute’s Initiative on Finan- Island community to help secure Fed- Management in the San Juan Archipelago in cial Security; the Business and Profes- eral funding to keep these lands in the the State of Washington comprising nearly sional Women’s Foundation; CFED; public domain. 1,000 acres of small islands, rocks and reef, Consumers Union; FINRA; the Minor- Unfortunately, the Bureau of Land headlands, historic lighthouses, and eco- Management lands in the San Juan Is- logically important areas are of great value ity Business Roundtable; New Econom- to people in the State of Washington and the ics for Women; the United States Black lands are not permanently protected or preserved in public ownership. Last United States; Chamber; the United States Women’s (2) the area described in paragraph (1)— Chamber of Commerce; Women Impact- July, Congressman LARSEN, the Bureau (A) provides recreational opportunities for ing Public Policy; and the Women’s In- of Land Management, and I visited hiking, wildlife viewing, boating, picnicking, stitute for a Secure Retirement. with residents and businesses that have photography, sea kayaking, and camping; Ensuring easy access to a retirement been working for years to permanently and (B) is enjoyed by residents of the area and account and the ability to have part of protect these special places. The legislation I introduce today is a visitors; their wages go directly from their pay- direct result of our efforts and rep- (3) in 2010, the area described in paragraph check into this account are proven resents a consensus between the San (1) received more than 65,000 visitors in a strategies to encourage retirement sav- county with a population of 15,769 residents; Juan Island community, Congressman ings. I call on the Senate to take up (4) the area described in paragraph (1) pre- LARSEN, and the Department of the In- this bill and give it full consideration. serves important local, national, and tribal terior. If enacted, the San Juan Islands cultural and historic sites, such as— By Ms. CANTWELL (for herself National Conservation Area Act will (A) lighthouses on Patos Island, Turn Point, and Cattle Point, which are registered and Mrs. MURRAY): designate all 1,000 acres of BLM lands in the San Juans as a National Con- as State Historic Structures; S. 1559. A bill to establish the San (B) numerous archaeological sites, includ- Juan Islands National Conservation servation Area, ensuring that these natural treasures remain protected, ac- ing shell middens, plank-house sites, and Area in the San Juan Islands, Wash- burial markers; and ington, and for other purposes; to the cessible to the public, and better man- (C) areas of cultural importance, including Committee on Energy and Natural Re- aged to accommodate visitor use. ancient Coast Salish camas cultivation sites, National Conservation Area des- sources. homesteads, reef-net sites, and settler cab- ignated lands are considered some of Ms. CANTWELL. Mr. President, I ins; the most important Bureau of Land (5) the area described in paragraph (1) in- rise today to introduce the San Juan Management properties and are there- cludes vanishing coastal flower meadows, Islands National Conservation Area fore a higher priority for management spruce bogs, groves of Garry oaks and en- Act. funding than non-designated lands they demic coastal junipers, and other rare and The San Juan Islands in northwest manage. Specifically, National Con- fragile ecosystems that support numerous Washington host some of the most plant species and provide nesting habitat for servation Area status would ensure the beautiful, serene spots in the world. seabirds, songbirds, bats, and other small na- San Juan Island properties are appro- The San Juans are made up of 172 is- tive mammals; priately managed to protect their lands with over 300 miles of shoreline, (6) the area described in paragraph (1) is unique qualities and not grouped in used by several nonprofit, government, and some little more than rocks, others with other BLM lands where activities educational organizations for scientific re- home to towns, farms, and forests. The such as mining, oil and gas explo- search and education, including the San coastlines are a mix of sandy and rocky ration, off road vehicle use, and grazing Juan Islands Experimental Education Out- beaches, shallow and deep harbors, and are allowed. Importantly, my legisla- door Classroom; and (7) establishing the San Juan Islands Na- placid and reef-studded bays. And be- tion requires that the management tween the many islands run channels of tional Conservation Area is the best way to plan drafting process allows for local preserve, protect, enhance, and restore a water that support many of Washing- input into how these properties are to ton’s most important marine species, landscape that is of local and national im- be managed for the long-term. portance. including abundant salmon runs and A National Conservation Area des- (b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this Act our majestic regional icon, the orca ignation will also foster a stronger are— whale. working relationship with other agen- (1) to conserve, protect, and enhance for Included in the San Juan Islands are cy partners such as the U.S. Fish and the benefit and enjoyment of present and fu- nearly 1,000 acres of land owned by the Wildlife Service and provide increased ture generations the ecological, scenic, wild- life, recreational, cultural, historical, nat- Federal Government, spread out over opportunities for sharing resources. 60 separate locations and managed by ural, educational, and scientific resources of I am looking forward to working to the National Conservation Area; and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, advance this legislation through the (2) to protect each species that is— BLM. These parcels, which range from Senate Energy and Natural Resources (A) located in the National Conservation pine forests to lighthouses, provide rec- Committee, and through the full Sen- Area; and reational, ecological, historical, cul- ate. Through our efforts we will work (B) listed as a threatened or endangered tural, and scientific benefits to island to ensure that future generations will species on the list of threatened species or residents and around 70,000 tourists be able to enjoy these special parts of the list of endangered species published that visit each year. the San Juan Islands. under section 4(c)(1) of the Endangered Spe- Despite their value, no long-term I would also like to thank my col- cies Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533(c)(1)). comprehensive management plan ex- SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. league Senator MURRAY for agreeing to In this Act: ists for these Federal parcels, threat- cosponsor this legislation, and Con- (1) ADVISORY COUNCIL.—The term ‘‘Advi- ening continued preservation and pub- gressman LARSEN for his leadership sory Council’’ means the San Juan Islands lic access to these sites. Many of these and introducing companion legislation National Conservation Area Advisory Coun- areas are fragile, increasing the chal- today in the House of Representatives. cil established under section 4(e).

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:35 Jun 03, 2012 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00040 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD11\RECFILES\SEPT\S14SE1.REC S14SE1 bjneal on DSK2TWX8P1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE September 14, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S5627 (2) MANAGEMENT PLAN.—The term ‘‘man- land outside the National Conservation Area By Mr. KOHL: agement plan’’ means the management plan can be seen or heard within the National S. 1560. A bill to enhance access to for the National Conservation Area devel- Conservation Area shall not preclude the ac- controlled substances for residents of oped under section 4(b). tivity or use outside the boundary of the Na- institutional long-term care facilities, (3) NATIONAL CONSERVATION AREA.—The tional Conservation Area. and for other purposes; to the Com- term ‘‘National Conservation Area’’ means (3) ACQUISITION OF LAND.— the San Juan Islands National Conservation (A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may ac- mittee on the Judiciary. Area established by section 4(a). quire non-Federal land within the boundaries Mr. KOHL. Mr. President, I rise (4) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ of the National Conservation Area only today to introduce the Nursing Home means the Secretary of the Interior. through exchange, donation, or purchase Resident Pain Relief Act of 2011. This SEC. 4. SAN JUAN ISLANDS NATIONAL CONSERVA- from a willing seller. legislation will help ensure that nurs- TION AREA. (B) MANAGEMENT.—Land acquired under ing home residents have timely access (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Subject to valid ex- subparagraph (A) shall become part of the to pain medication as needed in emer- isting rights, there is established in the National Conservation Area. State of Washington the San Juan Islands gency situations. By streamlining (e) ADVISORY COUNCIL.— processes that can now cause delays in National Conservation Area, consisting of (1) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 180 approximately 1,000 acres of public land in days after the date of enactment of this Act, administering these vital drugs, the the State of Washington, as generally de- the Secretary shall establish an advisory bill will also allow designated health picted on the map entitled ‘‘Proposed San council, to be known as the ‘‘San Juan Is- care professionals to administer con- Juan Islands National Conversation Area’’ lands National Conservation Area Advisory trolled substances to residents whose and dated June 30, 2011. Council’’. (b) MANAGEMENT PLAN.— medical conditions warrant quick pain (2) MEMBERS.— (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 3 years relief. after the date of enactment of this Act and (A) COMPOSITION.—The Advisory Council To accomplish these ends, the legis- in accordance with paragraph (2), the Sec- shall be composed of 7 members, to be ap- lation amends the Controlled Sub- retary shall develop a comprehensive plan pointed by the Secretary. stances Act, CSA, in several ways. (B) QUALIFICATIONS.—To the maximum ex- for the long-term management of the Na- First, it allows nurses and other appro- tional Conservation Area. tent practicable, the members appointed under subparagraph (A) shall— priately licensed health professionals, (2) CONSULTATION.—In developing the man- designated by the nursing home and agement plan required under paragraph (1), (i) reside in or within reasonable proximity the Secretary shall consult with— to San Juan County, Washington; with approval from the physician, to (A) appropriate State, tribal, and local (ii) have backgrounds that reflect— order and administer pain medication governmental entities; and (I) the purposes for which the National to residents upon a physician’s oral (B) members of the public. Conservation Area was established; and prescription. The bill also establishes a (c) MANAGEMENT.— (II) the interests of the stakeholders that clear chain of accountability for these (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall man- are affected by the planning and manage- ment of the National Conservation Area; and licensed health professionals, physi- age the National Conservation Area— cians, as well as for nursing homes and (A) in a manner that conserves, protects, (iii) be fairly balanced in terms of the and enhances the resources of the National points of view represented and the functions long-term care pharmacies. Conservation Area; and to be performed by the Advisory Council. Last year, the Special Committee on (B) in accordance with— (3) DUTIES.—The Advisory Council shall ad- Aging, which I Chair, held a listening (i) the Federal Land Policy and Manage- vise the Secretary with respect to the prepa- session where we heard about a recent ment Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.); ration and implementation of the manage- Drug Enforcement Agency, DEA, en- (ii) this Act; and ment plan. forcement initiative that has kept (iii) any other applicable law (including (4) APPLICABLE LAW.—The Advisory Coun- nursing home residents from receiving regulations). cil shall be subject to— (A) the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 much-needed medication to manage (2) USES.—The Secretary shall only allow their pain. For many years, nurses had uses of the National Conservation Area that U.S.C. App.); and the Secretary determines would further a (B) the Federal Land Policy and Manage- been able to call urgently-needed pre- purpose described in section 2(b). ment Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.). scriptions into pharmacies upon a phy- (3) MOTORIZED VEHICLES.—Except as needed (5) TERMINATION.—The Advisory Council sician’s order over the phone. Phar- for administrative purposes or to respond to shall terminate on the date that is 1 year macies would fill the order, residents an emergency, the use of motorized vehicles after the date on which the management would get their pain medication, and in the National Conservation Area shall be plan is adopted by the Secretary. physicians would follow up with writ- (f) INCORPORATION OF ACQUIRED LAND AND permitted only on roads designated by the ten confirmation of the prescription. INTERESTS.—Any land acquired by the United management plan for the use of motorized Now, DEA requires physicians to di- vehicles. States after the date of enactment of this (4) WILDLAND FIRE OPERATIONS.—Nothing in Act that is located in the National Conserva- rectly issue prescriptions in writing for this Act prohibits the Secretary, in coopera- tion Area shall— Schedule II pain medications before tion with other Federal, State, and local (1) become part of the National Conserva- they can be dispensed, including in agencies, as appropriate, from conducting tion Area; and emergency circumstances. This poses a wildland fire operations in the National Con- (2) be managed in accordance with— problem for nursing home residents be- servation Area, consistent with the purposes (A) the Federal Land Policy and Manage- cause facilities often do not have phy- of this Act. ment Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.); (B) this Act; and sicians on site to fill out the necessary (5) INVASIVE SPECIES AND NOXIOUS WEEDS.— paper work in time to provide criti- In accordance with any applicable laws and (C) any other applicable law (including reg- subject to such terms and conditions as the ulations). cally needed pain medicine. The DEA’s Secretary determines to be appropriate, the (g) WITHDRAWAL.— enforcement initiative has created an Secretary may prescribe measures to control (1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to valid existing unintended consequence where nursing nonnative invasive plants and noxious weeds rights, all Federal land (including interests home residents often have to suffer for within the National Conservation Area. in the Federal land) located in the National several hours or even days before they (6) TRIBAL CULTURAL USES.—The Secretary Conservation Area is withdrawn from— receive pain medication. shall, in consultation with Indian tribes— (A) all forms of entry, appropriation, and These delays have serious con- (A) ensure the protection of religious and disposal under the public land laws; (B) location, entry, and patenting under sequences. Here is an all-too-common cultural sites in the National Conservation scenario: an elderly resident that re- Area; and the mining laws; and (B) provide access to the sites by members (C) operation of the mineral leasing, min- turns to a nursing home after surgery of Indian tribes for traditional cultural and eral materials, and geothermal leasing laws. may be in more pain than his physician customary uses, consistent with Public Law (2) ADDITIONAL LAND.—Any land acquired anticipated and need more medication 95–341 (commonly known as the ‘‘American by the United States after the date of enact- than the physician prescribed to man- Indian Religious Freedom Act’’) (42 U.S.C. ment of this Act that is located in the Na- age the pain. In order to access the 1996). tional Conservation Area shall be withdrawn medication he needs, the nursing home from operation of the laws referred to in (d) NO BUFFER ZONES.— employees must first have his physi- (1) IN GENERAL.—Nothing in this Act cre- paragraph (1) on the date of acquisition of ates a protective perimeter or buffer zone the land. cian send a written prescription to a around the National Conservation Area. (h) EFFECT.—Nothing in this Act alters, pharmacy. If the physician is difficult (2) ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE CONSERVATION modifies, enlarges, diminishes, or abrogates to locate or slow to respond, this can AREA.—The fact that an activity or use on the treaty rights of any Indian tribe. take hours or even days. The resident’s

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The physician must then send ment, and the actual amount of retirement fragile resident’s recovery from sur- the endorsed document, confirming the savings of workers is much less than the gery. Our legislation would make these oral prescription, to the pharmacy amount needed to adequately fund their re- situations entirely avoidable. within five business days. tirement years; DEA’s enforcement initiative effec- Diversion of controlled substances Whereas the financial literacy of workers tively put nursing home providers in a for illicit purposes is of great concern in the United States is an important factor difficult position: If they follow the to me. That is why we have included to workers understanding the true need to letter of the law, they are in danger of save for retirement; numerous provisions to protect against Whereas saving for retirement is a key violating Health and Human Services diversion in nursing homes. For exam- component to overall financial health and regulations requiring them to admin- ple, the bill requires careful record- security during retirement years, and the ister medications in a timely manner. keeping by facilities and pharmacies, importance of financial literacy in planning Failure to do so can result in monetary which can then be reviewed by DEA as for retirement must be advocated; penalties. In addition, pharmacies necessary. It requires each actor—the Whereas many workers may not be aware could face fines under the CSA if they physician, facility designee, and phar- of their options in saving for retirement or respond to the nursing home’s order— macist—to make a record of his or her may not have focused on the importance of, which is almost always transmitted by and need for, saving for retirement; role in the process. Long-term care fa- Whereas many employees have available to a nurse—if they fill the order. As a re- cilities are asked to maintain a written them, through their employers, access to de- sult, a number of pharmacies, includ- or electronic logbook that memorial- fined benefit and defined contribution plans ing several in the Midwest, are facing izes prescriptions and their administra- to assist them in preparing for retirement, tens of millions of dollars in fines im- tion. yet many of those employees may not be posed by DEA. Additionally, the legislation en- taking advantage of those plans at all or to Last year DEA issued a policy state- hances criminal and civil penalties for the full extent allowed by Federal law; ment to provide a way for nursing long-term care facility administrators Whereas the need to save for retirement is important even during economic downturns home residents to access some kinds of and facility designees who divert drugs, medication more quickly. Under this or market declines, which make continued or who violate recordkeeping require- contributions all the more important; new policy, a nursing home’s licensed ments. These steps will help to ensure Whereas all workers, including public and health care professionals may, on a that pain medications get to those private sector employees, employees of tax- physician’s behalf, transcribe the phy- nursing home residents who need them. exempt organizations, and self-employed in- sician’s oral prescription for Schedule I appreciate the great interest of the dividuals, can benefit from increased aware- III, IV or V medications to a pharmacy stakeholders, including long-term care ness of the need to develop personal budgets to be filled. While we appreciated facility, physician and pharmacy orga- and financial plans that include retirement savings strategies and to take advantage of DEA’s efforts, without amending the nizations, in solving this problem and I CSA the agency does not have the stat- the availability of tax-preferred savings ve- look forward to working with them to hicles to assist workers in saving for retire- utory authority to allow licensed finally end the needless delay in pain ment; and health care professionals to transmit relief. I would like to thank Attorney Whereas October 16 through October 22, prescriptions for Schedule II controlled General Holder, DEA Administrator 2011, has been designated as ‘‘National Save substances, the category under which Michelle Leonhardt, and their staff for for Retirement Week’’: Now, therefore, be it nearly all pain medications fall. Legis- working with me on this legislation, Resolved, That the Senate— lation is required in order to provide and I look forward to continuing our (1) supports the goals and ideals of ‘‘Na- tional Save for Retirement Week’’, including nursing home residents prompt, reli- work together to assure rapid approval able pain relief when they are suffering raising public awareness of the various tax- by Congress. preferred retirement vehicles as important from severe injury or illness. Nursing home residents cannot wait tools for personal savings and retirement fi- Our bill would provide a remedy by for pain medication when they are in nancial security; modifying the CSA to permit pain debilitating pain and our straight- (2) supports the need to raise public aware- medication to be dispensed in emer- forward bill can help provide some ness of the availability of a variety of ways gency situations by nursing home pro- needed relief. I urge my colleagues to to save for retirement which are favored fessionals without a direct written support this important legislation. under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and order by a physician prior to its dis- are utilized by many people in the United pensing. Let me explain how this would f States, but which should be utilized by more; work. A physician, if he or she chooses, (3) supports the need to raise public aware- SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS ness of the importance of saving adequately would be able to authorize the adminis- for retirement and the continued existence trator of a long-term care facility to of tax-preferred employer-sponsored retire- designate one or more licensed health SENATE RESOLUTION 266—SUP- ment savings vehicles; and care professionals employed by the fa- PORTING THE GOALS AND (4) calls on the States, localities, schools, cility to act as a ‘‘facility designee.’’ In IDEALS OF ‘‘NATIONAL SAVE universities, nonprofit organizations, busi- emergency situations only, and upon FOR RETIREMENT WEEK’’, IN- nesses, other entities, and the people of the receiving an oral prescription from the CLUDING RAISING PUBLIC United States to observe National Save for physician, a facility designee would be AWARENESS OF THE VARIOUS Retirement Week with appropriate programs and activities, with the goal of increasing re- permitted to contact a pharmacy to TAX-PREFERRED RETIREMENT tirement savings for all people in the United have the prescription filled and then VEHICLES AND INCREASING PER- States. dispense Schedule II medications to SONAL FINANCIAL LITERACY f long-term care facility residents. Mr. CONRAD (for himself, Mr. ENZI, This would allow a physician to pro- and Mr. CARDIN) submitted the fol- vide the prescription information to SENATE RESOLUTION 267—RECOG- lowing resolution; which was referred the facility designee via phone when a NIZING THE HISPANIC HERITAGE to the Committee on Finance: resident urgently needs pain medica- MONTH AND CELEBRATING THE tion and the physician is unavailable S. RES. 266 HERITAGE AND CULTURE OF to transmit a written prescription to a Whereas people in the United States are LATINOS IN THE UNITED STATES pharmacy for a Schedule II controlled living longer, and the cost of retirement is AND THE IMMENSE CONTRIBU- increasing significantly; substance. The facility designee must TIONS OF LATINOS TO THE Whereas Social Security remains the bed- UNITED STATES document the physician’s prescription rock of retirement income for the great ma- in writing and transmit the written jority of the people of the United States but Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself, Mr. document to a pharmacy so that the was never intended by Congress to be the CORNYN, Mr. REID of Nevada, Mr.

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Res. 66, approv- ing the renewal of import restrictions con- EMERGENCY CONSERVATION PROGRAM DURBIN, Mr. UDALL of Colorado, Mr. tained in the Burmese Freedom and Democ- For ‘‘Emergency Conservation Program’’ WYDEN, Mr. MERKLEY, Mr. AKAKA, Mrs. racy Act of 2003. for expenses resulting from a major disaster HAGAN, Mr. CASEY, and Mr. CRAPO) sub- SA 603. Mr. REID proposed an amendment designation pursuant to the Robert T. Staf- mitted the following resolution; which to amendment SA 602 proposed by Mr. REID ford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assist- was considered and agreed to: to the joint resolution H.J. Res. 66, supra. ance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122(2)), $78,000,000, to re- SA 604. Mr. REID proposed an amendment main available until expended: Provided, S. RES. 267 to amendment SA 603 proposed by Mr. REID That the amount in this paragraph shall not Whereas beginning on September 15, 2011, to the amendment SA 602 proposed by Mr. become available for obligation until Octo- through October 15, 2011, the United States REID to the joint resolution H.J. Res. 66, ber 1, 2011: Provided further, That such celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month; supra. amount is designated by Congress as being Whereas the Census Bureau estimates the SA 605. Mr. REID proposed an amendment for disaster relief pursuant to section Hispanic population in the United States at to the joint resolution H.J. Res. 66, supra. 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and almost 50,500,000 people, making Hispanic SA 606. Mr. REID proposed an amendment Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Pub- Americans the largest ethnic minority with- to amendment SA 605 proposed by Mr. REID lic Law 99–177), as amended. to the joint resolution H.J. Res. 66, supra. in the United States; EMERGENCY FOREST RESTORATION PROGRAM Whereas 1 in 5 United States public school SA 607. Mr. REID proposed an amendment For ‘‘Emergency Forest Restoration Pro- students is Hispanic, and the total number of to the joint resolution H.J. Res. 66, supra. gram’’, for expenses resulting from a major Hispanic students enrolled in public schools SA 608. Mr. REID proposed an amendment disaster designation pursuant to the Robert in the United States is expected to reach to amendment SA 607 proposed by Mr. REID T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 28,000,000 by 2050; to the joint resolution H.J. Res. 66, supra. Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122(2)), $49,000,000, Whereas the purchasing power of Hispanic SA 609. Mr. REID proposed an amendment to remain available until expended: Provided, Americans is nearly $1,000,000,000,000, and to amendment SA 608 proposed by Mr. REID That the amount in this paragraph shall not there are more than 2,300,000 Hispanic-owned to the amendment SA 607 proposed by Mr. become available for obligation until Octo- firms in the United States, supporting mil- REID to the joint resolution H.J. Res. 66, ber 1, 2011: Provided further, That such lions of employees nationwide and greatly supra. amount is designated by Congress as being contributing to the economic sector, espe- f for disaster relief pursuant to section cially retail trade, wholesale trade, food 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and services, and construction; TEXT OF AMENDMENTS Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1958 (Pub- Whereas Hispanic Americans serve in all lic Law 99–177), as amended. branches of the Armed Forces and have SA 601. Mr. PAUL submitted an bravely fought in every war in the history of amendment which was ordered to lie on NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE the United States; the table; as follows: EMERGENCY WATERSHED PROTECTION PROGRAM Whereas, as of May 31, 2011, there are 29,204 At the appropriate place, insert the fol- For ‘‘Emergency Watershed Protection Hispanics serving with distinction in Af- lowing: Program’’ for expenses resulting from a ghanistan and Iraq; SEC. ll. OFFSET. major disaster designation pursuant to the Whereas 140,000 Hispanic soldiers served in There is rescinded on a pro rata base from Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emer- the Korean War; the unobligated balances made available to gency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122(2)), Whereas more than 80,000 Hispanics served the President, the Department of State, or $139,000,000, to remain available until ex- in the Vietnam War, representing 5.5 percent the United States Agency for International pended: Provided, That the amount in this of individuals who made the ultimate sac- Development for foreign assistance programs paragraph shall not become available for ob- rifice for their country in that conflict even for fiscal 2011 an amount equal to the ligation until October 1, 2011: Provided fur- though Hispanics comprised only 4.5 percent amount appropriated under this Act to the ther, That such amount is designated by Con- of the United States population at the time; Federal Emergency Management Agency for gress as being for disaster relief pursuant to Whereas, as of May 31, 2011, 605 United disaster relief for fiscal years 2011 and 2012. section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget States military fatalities in Iraq and Af- and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ghanistan have been Hispanic; SA 602. Mr. REID proposed an amend- (Public Law 99–177), as amended. Whereas, as of September 30, 2009, there ment to the joint resolution H.J. Res. TITLE II were approximately 1,332,033 Hispanic vet- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE erans of the United States Armed Forces; 66, approving the renewal of import re- Whereas 41 Hispanic Americans have re- strictions contained in the Burmese ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION ceived the Congressional Medal of Honor, the Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003; as ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE highest award for valor in action against an follows: PROGRAMS enemy force that can be bestowed upon an Strike all after the resolving clause and in- For an additional amount for ‘‘Economic individual serving in the United States sert the following: Development Assistance Programs’’ for ex- Armed Forces; DIVISION A—RENEWAL OF IMPORT RE- penses related to disaster relief, long-term Whereas Hispanic Americans are dedicated recovery, and restoration of infrastructure public servants, holding posts at the highest STRICTIONS UNDER BURMESE FREE- DOM AND DEMOCRACY ACT OF 2003 in areas that received a major disaster des- levels of government, including 1 seat on the ignation in 2011 pursuant to the Robert T. Supreme Court, 2 seats in the Senate, 24 SECTION 1. RENEWAL OF IMPORT RESTRICTIONS Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency As- seats in the House of Representatives, and 2 UNDER BURMESE FREEDOM AND sistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122(2)), $135,000,000, to DEMOCRACY ACT OF 2003. seats in the Cabinet; and remain available until expended: Provided, (a) IN GENERAL.—Congress approves the re- Whereas Hispanic Americans harbor a deep That the amount in this paragraph shall not newal of the import restrictions contained in commitment to family and community, an become available for obligation until Octo- section 3(a)(1) and section 3A (b)(1) and (c)(1) enduring work ethic, and a perseverance to ber 1, 2011: Provided further, That such of the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act succeed and contribute to society: Now, amount is designated by Congress as being of 2003. therefore, be it for disaster relief pursuant to section (b) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—This division 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Resolved, That the Senate— shall be deemed to be a ‘‘renewal resolution’’ Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Pub- (1) recognizes the celebration of Hispanic for purposes of section 9 of the Burmese lic Law 99–177), as amended. Heritage Month from September 15, 2011, Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003. through October 15, 2011; TITLE III SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. (2) esteems the integral role of Latinos and This division shall take effect on the date DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE—CIVIL the manifold heritage of Latinos in the econ- of the enactment of this joint resolution or DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY omy, culture, and identity of the United July 26, 2011, whichever occurs earlier. States; and CORPS OF ENGINEERS—CIVIL (3) urges the people of the United States to DIVISION B—SUPPLEMENTAL MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES observe Hispanic Heritage Month with appro- APPROPRIATIONS For an additional amount for ‘‘Mississippi priate programs and activities that appre- The following sums are appropriated, out River and Tributaries’’ for expenses result- ciate the cultural contributions of Latinos of any money in the Treasury not otherwise ing from a major disaster designation pursu- to American life. appropriated, to provide emergency supple- ant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:35 Jun 03, 2012 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00043 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD11\RECFILES\SEPT\S14SE1.REC S14SE1 bjneal on DSK2TWX8P1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE S5630 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE September 14, 2011 and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. For an additional amount for ‘‘Flood Con- the discretion of the Secretary: Provided fur- 5122(2)), $890,177,300, to remain available until trol and Coastal Emergencies’’, for expenses ther, That prior to the obligation of funds a expended for repair of damages to Federal resulting from a major disaster designation grantee shall submit a plan to the Secretary projects: Provided, That the amount in this pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster detailing the proposed use of all funds, in- paragraph shall not become available for ob- Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 cluding criteria for eligibility and how the ligation until October 1, 2011: Provided fur- U.S.C. 5122(2)) and as authorized by section 5 use of these funds will address long-term re- ther, That the Assistant Secretary of the of the Act of August 18, 1941 (33 U.S.C. 701n), covery and restoration of infrastructure: Army for Civil Works shall provide a month- for necessary expenses to prepare for flood, Provided further, That funds provided under ly report to the Committees on Appropria- hurricane and other natural disasters and this heading may be used by a State or local- tions of the House of Representatives and support emergency operations, repair and ity as a matching requirement, share, or the Senate detailing the allocation and obli- other activities in response to recent natural contribution for any other Federal program: gation of these funds, beginning not later disasters as authorized by law, $66,387,000, to Provided further, That such funds may not be than 60 days after enactment of this Act: remain available until expended: Provided, used for activities reimbursable by, or for Provided further, That each amount in this That the amount in this paragraph shall not which funds are made available by, the Fed- paragraph is designated by Congress as being become available for obligation until Octo- eral Emergency Management Agency or the for disaster relief pursuant to section ber 1, 2011: Provided further, That the Assist- Army Corps of Engineers: Provided further, 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and ant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works That funds allocated under this heading Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Pub- shall provide a monthly report to the Com- shall not adversely affect the amount of any lic Law 99–177), as amended. mittees on Appropriations of the House of formula assistance received by a State or OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE Representatives and the Senate detailing the subdivision thereof under the Community For an additional amount for ‘‘Operation allocation and obligation of these funds, be- Development Fund: Provided further, That a and Maintenance’’, $60,000,000, to remain ginning not later than 60 days after enact- State or subdivision thereof may use up to 5 available until expended to dredge naviga- ment of this Act: Provided further, That each percent of its allocation for administrative tion channels and repair damage to Corps amount in this paragraph is designated by costs: Provided further, That in administering projects nationwide related to natural disas- Congress as being for disaster relief pursuant the funds under this heading, the Secretary ters: Provided, That the Assistant Secretary to section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budg- of Housing and Urban Development may of the Army for Civil Works shall provide a et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 waive, or specify alternative requirements monthly report to the Committees on Appro- (Public Law 99–177), as amended. for, any provision of any statute or regula- priations of the House of Representatives TITLE IV tion that the Secretary administers in con- nection with the obligation by the Secretary and the Senate detailing the allocation and DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY obligation of these funds, beginning not later or the use by the recipient of these funds or than 60 days after enactment of this Act: FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY guarantees (except for requirements related Provided further, That the amount in this DISASTER RELIEF to fair housing, nondiscrimination, labor paragraph is designated by Congress as being For an additional amount for ‘‘Disaster standards, and the environment), upon a re- for an emergency requirement pursuant to Relief’’, $500,000,000, to remain available quest by a State or subdivision thereof ex- section 3(c)(1) of H. Res. 5 (112th Congress) until expended: Provided, That the amount in plaining why such waiver is required to fa- and to section 403(a) of S. Con. Res. 13 (111th this paragraph is designated by Congress as cilitate the use of such funds or guarantees, Congress), the concurrent resolution on the being for an emergency requirement pursu- if the Secretary finds that such waiver would budget for fiscal year 2010. ant to section 3(c)(1) of H. Res. 5 (112th Con- not be inconsistent with the overall purpose For an additional amount for ‘‘Operation gress) and to section 403(a) of S. Con. Res. 13 of title I of the Housing and Community De- and Maintenance’’ for expenses resulting (111th Congress), the concurrent resolution velopment Act of 1974: Provided further, That from a major disaster designation pursuant on the budget for fiscal year 2010. the Secretary shall publish in the Federal to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and For an additional amount for the ‘‘Disaster Register any waiver of any statute or regula- Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122(2)) Relief’’ for expenses resulting from a major tion that the Secretary administers pursu- to dredge navigation channels and repair disaster designation pursuant to the Robert ant to title I of the Housing and Community damage to Corps projects nationwide related T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Development Act of 1974 no later than 5 days to natural disasters, $88,003,700, to remain Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122(2)), before the effective date of such waiver. available until expended: Provided, That the $4,600,000,000, to remain available until ex- This division may be cited as the ‘‘Emer- amount in this paragraph shall not become pended: Provided, That the amount in this gency Supplemental Disaster Relief Appro- available for obligation until October 1, 2011: paragraph shall not become available for ob- priations Resolution, 2011’’. Provided further, That the Assistant Sec- ligation until October 1, 2011: Provided fur- retary of the Army for Civil Works shall pro- ther, That such amount is designated by Con- SA 603. Mr. REID proposed an amend- vide a monthly report to the Committees on gress as being for disaster relief pursuant to ment to amendment SA 602 proposed Appropriations of the House of Representa- section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget by Mr. REID to the joint resolution H.J. tives and the Senate detailing the allocation and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and obligation of these funds, beginning not (Public Law 99–177), as amended. This Act Res. 66, approving the renewal of im- later than 60 days after enactment of this may be cited as the ‘‘Emergency Supple- port restrictions contained in the Bur- Act: Provided further, That each amount in mental Disaster Relief Appropriations Reso- mese Freedom and Democracy Act of this paragraph is designated by Congress as lution, 2011’’. 2003; as follows: being for disaster relief pursuant to section TITLE V At the end, add the following new section: 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Pub- DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN SECTION ll. EFFECTIVE DATE. lic Law 99–177), as amended. DEVELOPMENT The amendments made by this division FLOOD CONTROL AND COASTAL EMERGENCIES COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT shall become effective 2 days after enact- ment. For an additional amount for ‘‘Flood Con- COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND trol and Coastal Emergencies’’, as authorized For an additional amount for the ‘‘Commu- by section 5 of the Act of August 18, 1941 (33 nity Development Fund’’, for necessary ex- SA 604. Mr. REID proposed an amend- U.S.C. 701n), for necessary expenses to pre- penses related to disaster relief, long-term ment to amendment SA 603 proposed pare for flood, hurricane and other natural recovery, and restoration of infrastructure, by Mr. REID to the amendment SA 602 disasters and support emergency operations, housing, and economic revitalization result- proposed by Mr. REID to the joint reso- repair and other activities in response to re- ing from a major disaster designation pursu- lution H.J. Res. 66, approving the re- cent natural disasters as authorized by law, ant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief newal of import restrictions contained $244,000,000, to remain available until ex- and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. in the Burmese Freedom and Democ- pended: Provided, That the Assistant Sec- 5122(2)) in 2011, $100,000,000, to remain avail- retary of the Army for Civil Works shall pro- able until expended, for activities authorized racy Act of 2003; as follows: vide a monthly report to the Committees on under title I of the Housing and Community In the amendment, strike ‘‘2 days’’, insert Appropriations of the House of Representa- Development Act of 1974 (Public Law 93–383): ‘‘1 day’’. tives and the Senate detailing the allocation Provided, That the amount in this paragraph and obligation of these funds, beginning not shall not become available for obligation SA 605. Mr. REID proposed an amend- later than 60 days after enactment of this until October 1, 2011: Provided further, That ment to the joint resolution H.J. Res. Act: Provided further, That the amount in such amount is designated by Congress as 66, approving the renewal of import re- this paragraph is designated by Congress as being for disaster relief pursuant to section strictions contained in the Burmese being for an emergency requirement pursu- 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and ant to section 3(c)(1) of H. Res. 5 (112th Con- Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Pub- Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003; as gress) and to section 403(a) of S. Con. Res. 13 lic Law 99–177), as amended: Provided further, follows: (111th Congress), the concurrent resolution That funds shall be awarded directly to the On page 2, line 17, strike ‘‘on’’ and insert ‘‘3 on the budget for fiscal year 2010. State or unit of general local government at days after’’.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 01:35 Jun 03, 2012 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00044 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD11\RECFILES\SEPT\S14SE1.REC S14SE1 bjneal on DSK2TWX8P1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE September 14, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S5631 SA 606. Mr. REID proposed an amend- during the session of the Senate, to privileges for the duration of today’s ment to amendment SA 605 proposed conduct a hearing entitled ‘‘Securing proceedings. by Mr. REID to the joint resolution H.J. the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain,’’ on The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Res. 66, approving the renewal of im- September 14, 2011, at 10 a.m., in room objection, it is so ordered. port restrictions contained in the Bur- 430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Build- Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I ask mese Freedom and Democracy Act of ing. unanimous consent that Sarah Bab- 2003; as follows: The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without cock and Danielle Fidler from Senator In the amendment, strike ‘‘3 days’’ and in- objection, it is so ordered. BAUCUS’s staff be allowed floor privi- sert ‘‘2 days’’. COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY AND leges during the consideration of the GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS pending Burma and disaster relief bill. SA 607. Mr. REID proposed an amend- Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I ask The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ment to the joint resolution H.J. Res. unanimous consent that the Com- objection, it is so ordered. 66, approving the renewal of import re- mittee on Homeland Security and Gov- f strictions contained in the Burmese ernmental Affairs be authorized to Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003; as meet during the session of the Senate EXECUTIVE SESSION follows: on September 14, 2011, at 10 a.m. On page 2, strike line 17 through 19 and in- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without NOMINATIONS DISCHARGED sert the following: objection, it is so ordered. This joint resolution shall take effect on COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- July 26, 2011. Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I ask imous consent that the Senate proceed to executive session and the Foreign SA 608. Mr. REID proposed an amend- unanimous consent that the Com- Relations Committee be discharged ment to amendment SA 607 proposed mittee on the Judiciary be authorized from further consideration of PN 828, by Mr. REID to the joint resolution H.J. to meet during the session of the Sen- Mary B. DeRosa, to be Alternate Rep- Res. 66, approving the renewal of im- ate, on September 14, 2011, at 10 a.m., resentative to the United Nations; PN port restrictions contained in the Bur- in room SD–226 of the Dirksen Senate 829, Frank E. Loy, to be Alternate Rep- mese Freedom and Democracy Act of Office Building, to conduct a hearing resentative to the United Nations; and 2003; as follows: entitled ‘‘The Trafficing Victims Pro- tection Reauthorization Act: Renewing PN 830, Kendrick B. Meek, to be Rep- In the amendment, strike ‘‘July 26’’ and in- resentative to the United Nations; that sert ‘‘July 25’’. the Commitment to Victims of Human Trafficking.’’ the nominations be confirmed en bloc; SA 609. Mr. REID proposed an amend- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the motions to reconsider be consid- ment to amendment SA 608 proposed objection, it is so ordered. ered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate; that by Mr. REID to the amendment SA 607 SUBCOMMITTEE ON HOUSING, TRANSPORTATION, proposed by Mr. REID to the joint reso- AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT no further motions be in order to the lution H.J. Res. 66, approving the re- Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I ask nominations; that any related state- newal of import restrictions contained unanimous consent that the Com- ments be printed in the RECORD; that in the Burmese Freedom and Democ- mittee on Banking, Housing, and the President be immediately notified racy Act of 2003; as follows: Urban Affairs’ Subcommittee on Hous- of the Senate’s action, and the Senate then resume legislative session. In the amendment, strike ‘‘July 25’’ and in- ing, Transportation, and Community sert ‘‘July 24’’. Development be authorized to meet The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. f during the session of the Senate on September 14, 2011, at 2 p.m., to con- The nominations considered and con- AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO duct a hearing entitled ‘‘New Ideas for firmed en bloc are as follows: MEET Refinancing and Restructuring Mort- GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UNITED NATIONS COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND gage Loans.’’ Mary B. DeRosa, of the District of Colum- TRANSPORTATION The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without bia, to be an Alternate Representative of the Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I ask objection, it is so ordered. United States of America to the Sixty-sixth unanimous consent that the Com- Session of the General Assembly of the SUBCOMMITTEE ON PERSONNEL United Nations. mittee on Commerce, Science, and Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I ask Frank E. Loy, of the District of Columbia, Transportation be authorized to meet unanimous consent that the Sub- to be an Alternate Representative of the during the session of the Senate on committee on Personnel of the Com- United States of America to the Sixty-sixth September 14, 2011, at 10 a.m., in room mittee on Armed Services be author- Session of the General Assembly of the 253 of the Russell Senate Office Build- ized to meet during the session of the United Nations. ing. The Committee will hold a hearing Kendrick B. Meek, of Florida, to be a Rep- Senate on Wednesday, September 14, resentative of the United States of America entitled, ‘‘Moving Intercity Passenger 2011, at 2 p.m. Rail into the Future.’’ to the Sixty-sixth Session of the General As- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without sembly of the United Nations. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. objection, it is so ordered. f SUBCOMMITTEE ON SECURITIES, INSURANCE, AND COMMITTEE ON FINANCE INVESTMENT LEGISLATIVE SESSION Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I ask Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I ask The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under unanimous consent that the Com- unanimous consent that the Com- the previous order, the Senate will re- mittee on Finance be authorized to mittee on Banking, Housing, and sume legislative session. meet during the session of the Senate Urban Affairs’ Subcommittee on Secu- f on September 14, 2011, at 10 a.m., in rities, Insurance, and Investment, be room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office authorized to meet during the session HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH Building, to conduct a hearing entitled of the Senate on September 14, 2011, at Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- ‘‘Tax Reform Options: Marginal Rates 9:30 a.m., to conduct a hearing entitled imous consent the Senate proceed to on High-Income Taxpayers, Capital ‘‘Emerging Issues in Insurance Regula- consideration of S. Res. 267. Gains and Dividends.’’ tion.’’ The PRESIDING OFFICER. The The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without clerk will report the resolution by objection, it is so ordered. objection, it is so ordered. title. COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR, f The legislative clerk read as follows: AND PENSIONS PRIVILEGES OF THE FLOOR A resolution (S. Res. 267) recognizing His- Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I ask panic Heritage Month and celebrating the unanimous consent that the Com- Mr. HARKIN. Mr. President, I ask heritage and culture of Latinos in the United mittee on Health, Education, Labor, unanimous consent that Christina States and the immense contributions of and Pensions be authorized to meet, Wright of my staff be granted floor Latinos to the United States.

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Mr. President, I ask unan- FEDERATION. RECORD. imous consent that when the Senate IN THE COAST GUARD The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without completes its business tonight, it ad- THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT objection, it is so ordered. journ until 9:30 a.m., tomorrow morn- IN THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD RESERVE TO THE The resolution (S. Res. 267) was GRADE INDICATED UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: ing, Thursday, September 15; that fol- To be rear admiral (lower half) agreed to. lowing the prayer and pledge, the Jour- The preamble was agreed to. CAPT. KURT B. HINRICHS nal of proceedings be approved to date, The resolution, with its preamble, THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT reads as follows: the morning hour be deemed expired, TO SERVE AS THE DIRECTOR OF THE COAST GUARD RE- and the time for the two leaders be re- SERVE PURSUANT TO TITLE 14, U.S.C., SECTION 53 IN THE S. RES. 267 GRADE INDICATED: served for their use later in the day; To be rear admiral (lower half) Whereas beginning on September 15, 2011, that following any leader remarks, the through October 15, 2011, the United States RDML DAVID R. CALLAHAN Senate be in a period of morning busi- celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month; IN THE ARMY Whereas the Census Bureau estimates the ness for 1 hour, with Senators per- THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT Hispanic population in the United States at mitted to speak for up to 10 minutes IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY TO THE GRADE INDICATED almost 50,500,000 people, making Hispanic each during that time, with the time WHILE ASSIGNED TO A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE AND Americans the largest ethnic minority with- equally divided and controlled between RESPONSIBILITY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 601: in the United States; the two leaders or their designees, with To be lieutenant general Whereas 1 in 5 United States public school the majority controlling the first half MAJ. GEN. RAYMOND V. MASON students is Hispanic, and the total number of and the Republicans controlling the THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT Hispanic students enrolled in public schools IN THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE in the United States is expected to reach final half; that following morning busi- ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: 28,000,000 by 2050; ness, the Senate resume consideration To be colonel Whereas the purchasing power of Hispanic of H.J. Res. 66, a joint resolution re- HYUN S. SIM Americans is nearly $1,000,000,000,000, and garding Burma Sanctions and the legis- THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT there are more than 2,300,000 Hispanic-owned lative vehicle for additional FEMA TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY NURSE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 624 AND firms in the United States, supporting mil- funds; and I also ask that when the lions of employees nationwide and greatly 3064: contributing to the economic sector, espe- Senate completes its business today, it To be major cially retail trade, wholesale trade, food adjourn as a further mark of respect to OLGA BETANCOURT services, and construction; the memory of the late Senator Mal- THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR REGULAR AP- Whereas Hispanic Americans serve in all colm Wallop of Wyoming. POINTMENT IN THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., branches of the Armed Forces and have The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without SECTIONS 531 AND 3064: bravely fought in every war in the history of objection, it is so ordered. the United States; To be major Whereas, as of May 31, 2011, there are 29,204 f MICHAEL C. FREIDL Hispanics serving with distinction in Af- THE FOLLOWING NAMED INDIVIDUAL FOR REGULAR PROGRAM APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE ghanistan and Iraq; UNITED STATES ARMY NURSE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, Whereas 140,000 Hispanic soldiers served in Mr. REID. We are now considering U.S.C., SECTIONS 531 AND 3064: the Korean War; the Burma Sanctions and FEMA regu- To be major Whereas more than 80,000 Hispanics served lations. As a reminder, I filed cloture NATACHA L. MILLER in the Vietnam War, representing 5.5 percent on the substitute amendment and the of individuals who made the ultimate sac- THE FOLLOWING NAMED INDIVIDUAL FOR REGULAR joint resolution today. If no agreement APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE rifice for their country in that conflict even UNITED STATES ARMY DENTAL CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, though Hispanics comprised only 4.5 percent is reached, a cloture vote on the sub- U.S.C., SECTIONS 531 AND 3064: of the United States population at the time; stitute amendment will occur Friday To be major Whereas, as of May 31, 2011, 605 United morning. The filing deadline for all BENJAMIN D. OWEN States military fatalities in Iraq and Af- first-degree amendments to H.J. Res. 66 THE FOLLOWING NAMED INDIVIDUALS FOR REGULAR ghanistan have been Hispanic; and the substitute amendment is 1 p.m. APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADES INDICATED IN THE Whereas, as of September 30, 2009, there tomorrow. However, we hope to reach UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, were approximately 1,332,033 Hispanic vet- U.S.C., SECTIONS 531 AND 3064: an agreement to complete consider- To be lieutenant colonel erans of the United States Armed Forces; ation of H.J. Res. 66 and the FAA and Whereas 41 Hispanic Americans have re- HEIDI J. COX highway extensions during tomorrow’s ceived the Congressional Medal of Honor, the To be major highest award for valor in action against an session. Senators will be notified when JORDY C. COX enemy force that can be bestowed upon an votes are scheduled. CHRISTOPHER A. KOVELL individual serving in the United States As things now stand, we will have a RAFAEL NUNEZ Armed Forces; series of votes on Friday. MARK A. RICH Whereas Hispanic Americans are dedicated THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR REGULAR AP- f POINTMENT IN THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED public servants, holding posts at the highest STATES ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 531: levels of government, including 1 seat on the ADJOURNMENT UNTIL 9:30 A.M. To be major Supreme Court, 2 seats in the Senate, 24 TOMORROW seats in the House of Representatives, and 2 COLIN A. BITTERFIELD KENNETH H. SCHLORF II seats in the Cabinet; and Mr. REID. If there is no further busi- STEPHEN J. SHANK Whereas Hispanic Americans harbor a deep ness to come before the Senate, I ask ANDREAS W. WOOTEN commitment to family and community, an unanimous consent that it adjourn THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT enduring work ethic, and a perseverance to TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE under the previous order, as a further ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: succeed and contribute to society: Now, mark of respect to the memory of Sen- therefore, be it To be colonel Resolved, That the Senate— ator Malcolm Wallop of Wyoming. RICHARD J. ALLINGER (1) recognizes the celebration of Hispanic There being no objection, the Senate, DALE J. BECK JAMES D. BELLAMY Heritage Month from September 15, 2011, at 7:12 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, KENNETH W. BRACE through October 15, 2011; September 15, 2011, at 9:30 a.m. DANIEL W. CLARK (2) esteems the integral role of Latinos and WILLIAM J. CLERKIN f CLAUDE N. CRESSY the manifold heritage of Latinos in the econ- ROBERT G. CROSWELL omy, culture, and identity of the United NOMINATIONS TIMOTHY D. EVANS States; and WILLIAM G. FRANKENBERG Executive nominations received by ELIZABETH F. HARRISON (3) urges the people of the United States to ADRIANNE M. HOLT observe Hispanic Heritage Month with appro- the Senate: ANA I. KUEHNE

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JONATHAN R. LANE RONY R. LEE, JR. JON R. FREDERICK KEITH L. LAWSON MICHAEL D. MONETA KYLE D. GADBOIS WILLIAM R. MCSKIMMING III JONATHON L. PARK MICAH J. GASPARY JAMES H. MURPHY LEE A. PIETRANGELO SARAH B. GENDERNALIK ALAN NAPIER CARL T. REESE ANTONINO GERMANA FREDERICK S. REGEL HECTOR L. ROSADO ANTHONY A. GIBERMAN RICHARD B. SMESTAD STEPHEN B. SHOOP LISA K. GIBSON GREGORY J. SWATKOWSKI TERRENCE A. SMITH ERIC E. GLASS PARIS D. UM THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT JOSEPH P. GORMLEY MICHAEL T. VAVREK TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE RYAN K. GOULD SHAWN A. WAGNER ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: SUZANNE R. GUDEMAN ANGELA D. WOODS PHILIP A. HAGAN MARGARET A. YOUNGBLOOD To be colonel JESSICA M. HAMEED NATHAN C. HAMMEL THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT GEORGE V. HANKEWYCZ JUSTIN A. HARDER TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE SU T. KANG TRAVIS E. HARRELL ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: RALPH W. OGILVIE NIEKA K. HARRIS To be colonel DEAN J. ROBINSON JARED L. HARWOOD BARRY STEINBERG ERIC W. HEWITT BRIAN R. BENJAMIN HENRY K. THOMAS YOREL C. HICKERSON THOMAS A. JOHNSON THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT AMANDA I. HIGGINSON GERALD L. LEMASTERS TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE JENNIFER L. HIPFLORES CAROL M. PASCO ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: GEORGE J. HNATH BRADLEY T. RICHARDSON ERROL C. HULL DELAINA L. SAWYERS To be colonel MARK E. HUMPHREY RICHARD C. SWOOPE, JR. JOHN F. BOWLEY MEGHAN E. HUNTER MARK D. YOUNG ROBERT C. BYRD MATTHEW S. IRWIN THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT LILLIAN M. CONNER ASHLEY Y. JACKSON TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE CHRISTOPHER M. COSHATT SHANE D. JENSEN ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: GLENN E. GARLAND PAUL D. JOHENK CHARLES E. JOHNSON RICHARD J. GREEN JAMIE S. JOHNSON To be colonel ROBERT D. HARRINGTON JULIE L. KAESBERG ROBERT B. KOHL TERESE B. ACOCELLA JEAN D. KEMP MARY D. LEE DANIEL F. BOHMER JONATHAN S. KERR CAM W. LITTLE WALTER H. CONNERY CECILIA M. KIPNIS DAVID C. MATHIS JUAN J. FLORES LEAH K. KOHLER TERRY A. MCCOOE MARIA E. OTERO KELLY G. KOREN KRISTIN L. RAJALA BRYCE J. TAGGART KATHERINE J. KOSS JAMES H. TIMMONS KIMBAL R. TAYLOR JENNIFER A. KRUSE RONALD S. WALLS MAUREEN E. WEBER TREVOR L. KUTTLER JEFFREY J. WEBB IN THE NAVY MARCY G. LAKE LAURA A. WHEELER IAN A. LANG GARY L. WILLIAMSON THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT MATTHEW A. LANGFORD THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY MICHAEL F. LAROCHELLE TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: KELLY S. LARSON ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: To be lieutenant commander SUZAN M. LEWIS SCOTT LIU To be colonel DAMON M. ARMSTRONG DEREK N. LODICO CODY B. AULL MICHAEL D. ALPERIN DAWN M. LONG CHARLES D. BAKER JAMES C. ANDERSON ADRIENNE M. LOPATA SARAH B. BALLARD PEDRO J. ARROYO KATHLEEN M. LOVE JASON S. BALLIN DAVID A. BALT MARTIN W. LUNCEFORD DEBRA D. BANKS ROBERT C. BASS DIANA M. MACIAN SEAN M. BARANIAK JAMES L. BUDNY JOHN S. MADDOX PATRICK D. BARKER DARRELL L. CASS PATRICK W. MAGAJNA THOMAS K. BARLOW KEVIN B. COSTELLO RYAN A. MAKAR PETER J. BAUMEISTER TIMOTHY C. COUNIHAN KATHERINE L. H. MALOZZI CARRIE A. BEATY MANUEL A. ECHANDI VENKAT R. MANGUNTA JASON R. BERNHARD EDGAR A. FIKE IV DALICE A. MARRIOTT DANA L. BOE VICENTE E. FONT, JR. MALCOLM C. MASTELLER STEVEN P. BOE JOE B. FOX DOUGLAS C. MCADAMS DENISE BOGGSWILKERSON LAURENCE W. GEBLER ELEXIS C. MCBEE FRANK J. BOGNI BERNARD T. GEISER AMANDA C. MCCAULLEY JACK R. BRANDAU DENNIS A. GORT JONATHAN D. MCDIVITT KENT C. BRANDEBERRY JONATHAN R. GREIFER CHRISTINE E. MCDONALD ANDREW M. BRANHAM PIETRO GUADALUPI PATRICK T. MCVEY NICHOLAS J. BREMER SIMON HAMID ELLIE C. K. MENTLER BRIDGET S. BROWN CARL T. HASSELMAN CAROLINE T. MESSMER KEVIN A. BROWN JOHN W. HUNNICUTT MATTHEW F. MESSOLINE ANDREW S. CAMARATA CYRUS S. KUMP JORDAN J. MICHELENA JACOB L. CAMP EDWARD A. LELONEK DEREK M. MILETICH HELEN L. CANN CHARLES D. MAGRUDER JONATHAN P. MILLER AMY A. CANUSO LAWRENCE MARTINEK CHRISTINE M. MINEROWICZ SAMUEL N. CAOILE TAMARIN L. MCCARTIN TINIKA A. MONTGOMERY GREGORY G. CAPRA BRIAN P. MCGLINCH HEIDI K. MORGAN PETER N. CARBONE JEFFREY J. MCINTURFF LUCAS A. MUELLER BROOKE A. CAUFIELD ALEXANDRE F. MIGALA LYNITA H. MULLINS KAI Y. CHENG CARL M. MINAMI KRISTINE B. MUNOZ REGINA R. CHINSIOKWONG EDWARD A. PEREZCONDE NOREEN E. MURPHY CHRISTINA M. CHIRICO ANDREW C. PETERSON ERIK J. NAGEL ANNA Y. CHOE SCOTT D. PICKER JOSHUA D. NASSIRI JAMES K. CLARK STEPHEN E. POST BENJAMIN E. NELSON JUSTIN S. CLARK FABRIZIO REMOTTI NICHOLAS T. NELSON THERESA R. CLARK RICHARD A. REUTLINGER LUKE C. NICHOLAS JOHN T. CLEAVES HERBERT W. RIDYARD, JR. ANDRES A. NIETO JAMES C. CLIFFORD STEVEN L. ROMITI JUSTIN J. NORK CAROLYN F. COGHILL NELSON G. ROSEN THAYS S. NOVIKOFF JOSHUA S. COLMAN BROOK D. SCOTT MICHAEL J. OKASINSKI KRISTIN A. CONLEY ROBERT L. SHERIDAN NIELS H. OLSON JONATHON COOKE LANCE S. SMITH CHRISTIAN W. ORAM JAMES S. CORTES WILLIAM J. STANTON YAN T. ORTIZPOMALES WILLIAM J. COTTER III JERRY J. SVOBODA BENJAMIN J. OSBORNE STACY L. COULTHARD JACQUELINE S. THOMPSON AMANDA E. OWENS BRADY B. COX JOHN E. TIS ALFRED J. OWINGS II PATRICK D. CRONYN GINO T. TREVISANI MICHAEL B. PAUL BRYAN A. CURRIE KURT VONFRICKEN JAMI J. PETERSON GREGORY A. DADEKIAN BARRY K. WADE HOANGANH PHAN BRANDON L. DAVALLE STEVE W. WAXMAN AARON J. PHARISS LAWRENCE C. DECKER DAVID S. WILLIAMS CHRISTOPHER R. PHILLIPS KRISTINA L. DEPAOLO HUY Q. PHUN THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT JENNIFER R. DERBY KEVIN A. PINKOS TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE JOSHUA P. DETTMER ALEXANDRA L. PINON ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: JAY R. DIAZPARLET MARINELLE PLATON To be colonel ANGELA M. DICARLOMEACHAM AJA E. POLLARD BRIAN M. DIMMER MICHAEL W. PRUITT CLAYTON T. ABE MARK S. DOUGLAS TAMEKA J. PYLES DANIEL W. ALLEY ROBERT W. ENGELEN SARA J. QUAN ROY G. BASSETT JEREMY S. ENNIS JOSHUA D. QUICK NATHANIEL F. BROWN SARAH M. ESCOTT JODIE D. RAPPE WAYNE A. CAROLEO LINETTE J. EWING ROBERT M. REED PAUL N. CERVONE JERRY J. FASOLDT SHANNON F. REEVE PHILIP A. DINGMANN DARYL B. FICK, JR. KEITH E. REID ALBERT F. DINICOLA SETH Y. FLAGG AARON J. REILLY SANTOSH DODDAMANE DANIEL A. FOSTER JASON P. RICE STEVEN C. ESHENAUR ELIZABETH M. FOWLER JAMES R. RIPPLE CLARENCE L. KEMP JAMES R. FREDERICK JOHN S. ROBERTSON

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MATTHEW W. ROSE WILLIAM O. BENNETT THOMAS M. WILLIAMS JONATHAN M. ROTH WILLIAM R. BERG SEAN O. WILSON LEAH S. SAG HYRUM T. BROSSARD CHRISTINE M. ZOHLEN ADAM M. SANBORN FELECIA E. BROWN MICHAEL A. ZUNDEL MICHELLE J. SANGIORGI JERRY BROWN III THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT ROXANNE G. BURRUS BRENDA J. SCHMIDT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY LINDA P. BYRNE BRIAN L. SCHMIDT UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: BREMEN K. SCHULTZ TILFORD L. CLARK PETER G. SEGUIN JANIESE A. CLECKLEY To be lieutenant commander JEREMY K. SELLEY HEATH M. CLIFFORD KELLI K. SHANNON KAARIN E. COE MICHAEL W. BLOOMROSE ANDREW E. SHEEP KATHLEEN A. COLTER DYLAN T. BURCH ANGELA Y. SHEN JOHN O. COOKE HEATHER L. CASSIDY ALEXANDRA L. SINGER BARRY A. COOPER JASON W. CONNORS MANISH SINGLA WILLIAM T. CRIDER BRETT D. COOK KRIS SIRIRATSIVAWONG TIMOTHY V. CRUICKSHANK MARIO M. CORREA, JR. MONIQUE E. SMITH MICHAEL A. CZIGLER MATTHEW P. CUTCHEN ROBERT B. SMITH GRAHAM T. DANYLEYKO CHRISTOPHER J. DEERWESTER JENNIFER L. SOGGE DAVID P. DAY JONATHAN T. FLYNN JEFFREY S. SORENSEN CHRISTOPHER S. DEANGELIS NATHANIEL R. GROSS CLAIR K. J. ST NANCY C. DELAHOYA JUSTIN C. HENDERSON SHANNON M. STACY PRASAD B. DIWADKAR JAMES M. KENNEDY, JR. JAMES E. STANTON KYLE D. DOHM RUSSELL A. LANNUTTI EDWARD T. STICKLE, JR. EMILY M. DOVER GREGORY W. MANZ CORRIE E. STOFCHO MARIA D. EDUSADA DAVID A. MELSON CHAD A. STORCH TESHARA E. FELDER BENJAMIN C. ROBERTSON JOHN J. FRASER JIMMY SUVATNE JACOB W. ROMELHARDT REINA GOMEZ NICHOLAS N. SWEET LISA M. SENAY PAUL C. GRAF AARON W. SWENSON DAVID M. SHULL DANIEL O. GRAJEDA NADINE S. TASSIN CHRISTOPHER C. SWAIN TOBIJAH T. GRIFFIN VIRGINIA P. TETI JAMES M. TOOHEY FERNANDO S. GUEVARRA, JR. ANGELA L. TOMASCHKO CHRISTOPHER P. TOSCANO SAACHA L. HAKE ARTURO G. TORRES THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT MELISSA J. HARNLY KATHERYNN H. TRAN TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY JOHN R. HAWLEY DOUGLAS M. TURNER UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: WILLIAM P. HAYWOOD ROBERT N. UNISZKIEWICZ SCOTT A. HAZELRIGG To be lieutenant commander TYLER A. VACHON AMY E. HENDRIX FRANK E. VILLAUME IV NATALIA C. HENRIQUEZ HECTOR ACEVEDO SHELTON A. VIOLA MONICA E. HERNANDEZ ERICA L. ARNOLD CATHERINE M. VISINTAINER MATTHEW J. HORNER DAVID M. AUERBACH HERRMANN P. F. VON WILLIAM J. HOWES RAFAL B. BANEK ROBERT B. WALTON DANIEL L. IMMEKER DORA M. BERRIOS KARA B. WANCHICK SAMUEL H. JARVIS SHAWN R. BOWDOIN WILLIAM H. WARD ELMER L. JIMENEZ ARON W. BOWLIN REX S. WATSON BRADLEY E. JOHNSON KELLY J. BOWMAN AMY M. WELLS JASON M. JONES JENNIFER M. BROOKS NICHOLAS J. WELLS PAMELA M. KLEPACTULENSRU BRANDI M. BROWN DARYL W. WILLIAMS AUSTIN W. LATOUR CORNELIUS B. BROWN RAQUEL T. WILLIAMS SAMUEL Y. LEVIN JEAN E. BRUTON DERIC M. WILSON CHRISTOPHER P. LINGARD CRYSTAL A. BRYANT MATTHEW R. WILSON CARL E. LONG, JR. MELISSA K. BURKE BENJAMIN D. WIND DAVID J. LOOMIS II MARGARET A. S. BUSH KRISTI M. WOOD KEVIN J. LYLE REGINALDO F. CAGAMPAN JEFFREY C. WORTHLEY SHAWNNA M. LYNCHCHEE LORI A. CAMPBELL BRUCE A. YEE MICHAEL R. A. MABRY RICHARD B. CANONG MARISOL C. ZIEMBA RESSURRECCION J. MACASPAC WARREN L. CANTRELL THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT NICHOLAS J. MARTIN TREVOR W. CARLSON TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY KIMBERLY L. MARYMAN CECILIA R. COLEMAN UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: ELENA M. MATHIS TAMERA A. CORSON VENANCIO MAYSONET CURT P. CUNNINGHAM To be lieutenant commander JOHN W. MCAFEE JOANNE E. DANA JAMES P. ALDERETE II KEVIN P. MCMULLEN CHRISTINE D. DAVIES JENNIFER D. ANDERSON TERRY D. MILES DIANE L. DAVIS RANDY L. BALL JOSHUA A. MILLER WALTER J. DAVIS ERIC F. BAUMAN WILFREDO MORALES CHEVAUX DAWKINS SAMUEL S. BECK GINA L. MOROSKY LISA L. DOBISON ROBIN C. BENNETT MARLO M. NARRO DANA DONES KITTIMA BOONSIRISERMSOOK JULIA A. NEFCZYK LANCE K. DOWNING MARK A. BUCKNER JAMES F. NOEL JAMES J. DRISCOLL JORDAN N. BUZZELL JAMES M. NOGLE NICOLE J. DUFFY LAURA N. CARLE KIMBERLY A. OELSCHLAGER STEPHANIE L. DUFFY JOSHUA E. COHEN AYODELE O. OLABISI CHRISTA D. DUNCANARFAA ANTHONY L. DAVIS TERRI K. OSNER VANESSA R. DUNN JEFFREY A. DRAUDE ANTHONY D. OWENS BRIAN E. ELLIS MICHAEL G. FOUST EMILY A. OWENS CAROL M. ELLSWORTH EDWARD J. GIVENS, JR. TOBY W. PALMER BROOKES A. ENGLEBERT JAYSON H. HUBER MARGARET M. PARKS JAMES L. ESTOESTA DIANA H. KIM MICHAEL S. PAYNE ARNOLD FAJAYAN PAUL E. KOCIAN TREVOR S. PETROU CHERIE D. FERRIS JASON W. MATHYS DARREN J. PIERCE KIMBERLEE P. FLANNERY DAVID C. MYHRE ROBERT A. PILLITIERE THOMAS N. FULLER CALEB J. NOORDMANS BRYAN L. PYLE GERALD T. GAMBALA CHRISTOPHER S. OSWALD ADAM C. RAE LACY L. GEE KENNETH J. OTTERSTEDT CALVIN W. RALLS, JR. ERINN V. GELAKOSKA MELANIE A. PERRY JEROME E. RANDLE ELIZABETH K. GLOOR BARRY E. PETERSON MATHEW A. RANDOLPH KOREY A. GOULETTE JOHN J. PETRINI, JR. ROY J. RANGLIN NOELLE M. GRIFFITH AARON E. QUITMEYER ALBERT RICCARDI III STACEY M. HAMLETT VERNE F. REED II MEGAN J. RIEMAN JASON A. HARRISON ANGELA C. SESSA DAVID R. ROBISON BRADLEY S. HAZEN ANDREW D. SILVESTRI CARMEN F. ROWE JOHN F. HENLEY SHAWN D. TEUTSCH MICHELLE L. SCHOLL LAWRENCE B. HENRY PHILLIP S. TIMMONS NATHAN L. SEAMAN RACHEL S. HERNANDEZ VINH T. TON ANTON SHUFUTINSKY DANETTE R. HINELY JOSHUA C. TREESH NATHANIEL M. SMITH JAMES T. HINKLE DUANE A. VANNIEUWENHUYZEN JOSEPH A. SORCIC TINA M. HITCHNER WALTER B. VOLINSKI, JR. DARCY L. SOWARDS TODD A. HLAVAC JOHN P. WALSH LOREN R. STANDLEY, JR. PATRICIA A. HORN EVAN R. WHITBECK KEVIN L. STARKEY PENNY J. JIMENEZ SETH T. WILLIAMS JOSEPH G. STASTNY ROBERT D. JOHNS SAM STEPHENS GREGORY A. JONES THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT GEORGE H. STERNS ELIZABETH A. JORDAN TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY MELISSA J. STRAHAN JAMES A. KETZLER UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: LEEDJIA A. SVEC CASEY V. KIRBERGER To be lieutenant commander FRANCIS TAM SHERRI L. LAMMERDING ELMER F. TAYLOR, JR. SHANE E. LAWSON SAAD M. ALAZIZ JESUS S. THOMPSON SARAH A. LEDFORD DAVID H. ALLGOOD SHANNON K. THOR BRANDON J. LIMTIACO EFLAND H. AMERSON TYLER J. TOWERS MARY F. LISEC CLEMIA N. ANDERSON JAMES R. TUBERSON JOHN LITCHFIELD JOHNFRITZ E. ANTOINE MONIKA J. TURNER LEAH M. LIZADA RAOUL ARCHAMBAULT KATHERINE L. VOGEL RODRIGO F. LOPEZ JANETTE B. ARENCIBIA DEAN J. WAGNER, JR. RUBEN A. LOPEZ LAURA J. BARKER SCOTT F. WEIDNER CAROLE N. LOUIS CHRISTOPHER E. BARNES JEREMY D. WILKINSON SCOTT M. MACDONALD ALLISON L. BENNETT BRANDON J. WILLIAMS JOSEPH D. MCBEAIN

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CHRISTOPHER J. MCCOMB MORDOCAI KIFLU ALAN W. EICHELMAN TONIA M. MCGHEE CRAIG A. KNOX TIMOTHY W. GLEASON ALEAH J. MCHENRY WALTER L. LAPTEW, JR. CRYSTINE M. GOOD HILARY A. MEYER SCOTT A. LONG MICHAEL A. GUZZI ERIC J. MILLER TAQUINA T. LUSTER JACKSON R. HABECK JESSICA M. MILLER MICHAEL J. MACOMBER PHILLIP R. HAMROCK MARK J. MILLER MICHAEL H. MALONE BENJAMIN P. HOFMAN ERIN C. MOHAN THELMA L. MANNING DANIEL E. LUTZ SHAYNE O. MORRIS ERIC A. MELO CHAD M. MARSHALL AARON C. MYERS JOHN R. MEYER ANDREW W. OLSEN DENISE D. NEUMANN JAMIE L. MITCHELL ERNESTO S. PADILLA SO Y. NEWTON JASON A. MORGAN BRYAN M. PARNELL ERIN R. OCKER SEAN A. NEER WILLIAM R. PITCAIRN IV KAREN L. ORTOLANI THUAN M. NGUYEN AARON J. RIPPLE NANCY M. PEREZ TONY N. NGUYEN CHARLES E. ROY GLORIA C. PIERCE DAVID J. OZECK CLINTON R. ROY JOSE L. PINON ANNE R. PAINE DANIEL J. SCHMITT TINA PLAGGEMEYER DERRICK L. PASLEY BRIAN B. SCHONEFELD TREVA POERSCHMANN MICHAEL J. PEREIRA JACOB W. SEGALLA SHANNA C. POWELLSEARCEY DOUGLAS M. QUINN JAMES W. SHEFCHIK SHARON QUALLIO CHRISTOPHER C. RADKE SPENCER L. SHIH JAMES D. REICHERT RICO A. REYES THOMAS J. SOLETHER MICHAEL J. RIEGLER RICARDO R. RODRIGUEZ JUSTIN D. SPINKS JESSICA J. ROBINSON DAVID M. ROSS BENJAMIN H. TURNER WILLIAM J. ROLFES JASON W. ROSS REBECCA L. WALDRAM GAYLORD M. ROMEROSA ERIKA M. SCHOENTHAL THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT MICHELLE E. SANABIA FRANK W. SHERMAN TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY STEVEN K. SARRO MATTHEW J. SHIELS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: PETER W. SCHENKE MICHELLE A. SIMMONS EILEEN SCOTT ALBERT T. SONON IV To be lieutenant commander ANGELA M. SMITH JOSEPH K. SPEDE FIDEL S. SORIANO ROBIN L. TAYLOR FABIO O. AUSTRIA, JR. CHAD M. SPRINGER NICHOLAS A. ULMER MARVIN G. BOONE KIMBERLY STUART ERNESTO M. URETA NOEL A. FONTANILLA STACEY M. STUMP THOMAS G. WALKER ERIC W. HASS KENDER W. SURIN LAWRENCE S. WATKINS, JR. RHYSS B. HIZON JAMES A. TAMPLEN MATTHEW D. WILCOX DANIEL C. LEWIS STEPHEN V. THATE KRISTOPHER F. WILLIAMS ROLANDO R. PAGADUAN FRANK D. TRATCHEL CHRISTOPHER T. WILSON LEON QUARLES BETTY A. ULMER RYAN J. WODELE DONNA L. SMOAK SHERWIN VALDEZ RAYMOND C. YAU LIGIA B. VILLAJUANA MICHELLE L. WESTCOTT THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT f CAROL E. WHEELER TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY ABIGAIL T. WHITE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: DISCHARGED NOMINATIONS MARIA WILLIAMS To be lieutenant commander RILEY L. WILLIAMS, JR. The Senate Committee on Foreign ALFONZA WILLIS THOMAS T. COOK BRANDON K. WOLF JERRY D. DURHAM Relations was discharged from further DARCY T. WRIGHT PAUL B. GREER consideration of the following nomina- ANTHONY D. YARBROUGH SONG S. HWANG JAY ZULUETA JEFFERY B. JENKINS tions by unanimous consent and the THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT JOHN F. KEITH nominations were confirmed: TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY RONALD J. KENNEDY MARY B. DEROSA, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: NEAL R. KREISLER TAVIS J. LONG BE AN ALTERNATE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED To be lieutenant commander HARVEY C. MACKLIN STATES OF AMERICA TO THE SIXTY-SIXTH SESSION OF MYRON D. MCCONVILLE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UNITED NATIONS. JAVIER ARAUJO ROBERT S. NELSON FRANK E. LOY, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO BE FLORENCE D. BEATO MICHAEL Q. OBANNON AN ALTERNATE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED KRISTINA J. BICKING GLENN W. ORRIS STATES OF AMERICA TO THE SIXTY-SIXTH SESSION OF BRYAN A. BOGGS JEFFREY B. PARKS THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UNITED NATIONS. CLINTON S. BRYANT CARL P. RHOADS KENDRICK B. MEEK, OF FLORIDA, TO BE A REPRESENT- TIMOTHY J. CALVO RAY F. RIVERS ATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE KURT A. CELIS LESZEK M. SIKORSKI SIXTY-SIXTH SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PETER CHANG TIMOTHY A. SPRINGER THE UNITED NATIONS. KELLY M. CHUFO MICHAEL A. TAYLOR BRIAN D. COLBURN GUY A. THOMPSON ERIC J. COOMES f COREY T. THORNTON TANYA K. CORMIER WAYNE N. TOMASEK AUTUMN L. DANIEL ULYSSES L. UBALDE CONFIRMATIONS EUGENE DAWSON, JR. LEROY C. YOUNG ANTHONY R. DICOLA Executive nominations confirmed by KIRK A. ENGLER THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT LEE H. EUBANKS TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY the Senate September 14, 2011: UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: JOEL B. FREY DEPARTMENT OF STATE MONICA M. FREY To be lieutenant commander SCOTT W. FUTRELLE MARY B. DEROSA, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO PHILLIP J. GAGEN ADNAN S. AHSAN BE AN ALTERNATE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED JESUS M. GARZON CHRISTOPHER L. ALMOND STATES OF AMERICA TO THE SIXTY-SIXTH SESSION OF JUAN C. GONZALEZ PETER R. BENSON THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UNITED NATIONS. TERRY C. GRIGSBY BLAKE E. BURKET FRANK E. LOY, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO BE IVAN R. GUMBS PETER R. CALI AN ALTERNATE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED ANTHONY D. HARPER JUAN CHAVIRA STATES OF AMERICA TO THE SIXTY-SIXTH SESSION OF JARRED S. HENLEY BRIAN J. CRYSTAL THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UNITED NATIONS. JACKIE B. HURSE ARCE D. DOBLE, JR. KENDRICK B. MEEK, OF FLORIDA, TO BE A REPRESENT- SCOTT T. HUTTLESTON JAMES M. DOHM ATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE WILLIAM M. JAKUBOWICZ GRADY D. DONATHAN IV SIXTY-SIXTH SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF KEVIN J. KENT ELIZABETH A. DURIKA THE UNITED NATIONS.

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COMMEMORATING THE 300TH ANNI- LETTER FROM AMBASSADOR OF process. Participation of Members of Con- VERSARY OF WARMINSTER THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN, gress in these events may be qualified as sup- TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA YASHAR ALIYEV port for the separatist regime and negatively affects the honest broker image of the HON. DAN BOREN United States as a Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group tasked to find just and peaceful OF OKLAHOMA HON. MICHAEL G. FITZPATRICK solution to the conflict. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Azerbaijan is an important strategic part- OF PENNSYLVANIA Wednesday, September 14, 2011 ner of the United States. Azerbaijan provides IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES multi-faceted support for U.S. operations in Mr. BOREN. Mr. Speaker, as co-chairmen Afghanistan and remains a steadfast sup- Wednesday, September 14, 2011 of the Congressional Azerbaijan Caucus, Con- porter of Israel. Our two countries cooperate gressman BILL SHUSTER of Pennsylvania and on counterterrorism and nonproliferation Mr. FITZPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, it is with I would like to bring a letter to the attention of issues. Moreover, Azerbaijan greatly contrib- great pleasure that I rise today to recognize our House colleagues that we received from utes to the energy security of the United the township of Warminster, Pennsylvania, the Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan, States and Europe. I ask you to refrain from participating in upon the celebration of its 300th anniversary. Yashar Aliyev. this event that is directed against the sov- The township derives its name from the EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF AZER- ereignty and territorial integrity of the Re- town of Warminster, in Wiltshire, England. BAIJAN TO THE UNITED STATES OF public of Azerbaijan, a key ally of the United Warminster is the twin township of South- AMERICA, States in the strategic Caspian region and to Washington, DC. ampton, Pennsylvania, which lies immediately voice your opposition to using Capitol Hon. DAN BOREN, grounds for such activities. southeast and adjoining. It is also bounded by Rayburn House Office Building, Sincerely, the townships of Northampton, Warwick, and Washington, DC. YASHAR ALIYEV, Warrington, all of which lie in my Congres- DEAR REPRESENTATIVE BOREN, I am writing Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan. to express my concerns of the reports that on sional district, the 8th District of Pennsylvania. f To this day, Warminster has the same limits September 13, 2011 the so-called ‘‘Office of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic in the as when originally laid out, with an area of IN RECOGNITION OF NICHOLAS USA’’, the Embassy of Armenia to the CARL GOTTUSO over six thousand and ninety-nine acres. United States and major Armenian-Amer- Warminster was one of the earliest town- ican organizations are organizing event on HON. JACKIE SPEIER ships settled in America, with roots tracing all the premises of the U.S. Congress, dedicated to the so-called ‘‘20th Anniversary of Inde- OF CALIFORNIA the way back to the 17th century. John Hart pendence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Repub- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and John Rush were among the most promi- lic’’. According to the news reports Mr. Wednesday, September 14, 2011 nent early settlers in Warminster, both arriving Ashot Ghulian, who presents himself as the shortly after William Penn in the latter part of ‘‘Chairman of the NKR Parliament’’, will be Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor the 17th century. Combined, Hart and Rush visiting Washington D.C. and will be the Police Captain Nicholas Carl Gottuso, ‘‘Nick,’’ owned over one thousand acres of land in the keynote speaker at the event. for his 32 years of service with the Warminster area. They, along with many other In this regard, I draw your attention to the Hillsborough Police Department. fact that so-called ‘‘Nagorno-Karabakh Re- early settlers and statesman, helped to foster Captain Gottuso began his career in law en- public’’ is a self-proclaimed entity created forcement in 1976 as a Dispatcher for San growth in Warminster by aiding in road and on the occupied territories of Azerbaijan, Mateo County Communication. In 1980 he church construction, and farm development, supported by Armenia and essentially is was hired by the Pacifica Police Department thus laying the groundwork for the beautiful under its direction and control. It is entirely as a Patrol Officer, where he served for two township of Warminster. unrecognized as such, even by Armenia. As a result of the Armenia-Azerbaijan con- years. In January 1983 he was hired by the Many years later, Warminster became a ref- flict hundreds of thousands of the Town of Hillsborough as a Police Office, pro- uge for American soldiers during the Revolu- Azerbaijanis were expelled from the moted to Corporal in 1990, Inspector in 1992, tionary War, at the battle of Crooked Billet. In Nagorno-Karabakh region and surrounding Sergeant in 1993, Lieutenant in 1999, Police the skirmish action, British forces launched a territories of Azerbaijan. Four UN Security Commander in 2002 and achieved the rank of surprise attack against Brigadier General John Council resolutions adopted in 1993 following Police Captain that same year. During Captain Lacey and three regiments of Pennsylvania the armed seizure of Azerbaijani territory re- Gottuso’s employment with the Hillsborough militia, forcing them to retreat into the farms in affirm the sovereignty and territorial integ- rity of the Republic of Azerbaijan, demand Police Department, he trained as a Field Warminster. immediate, complete and unconditional Training Officer, a Background Investigator, During the wake of WWII, Warminster also withdrawal of the occupying forces from all and a Traffic Investigator; and he served as became the home of one of the largest naval occupied regions. the Head Range master and was responsible modification units in the area. At the Naval Air By engaging in public campaigns using the for the selection and designation of a stand- Congress premises the agents of the sepa- Development Center in Johnsville, large quan- ardized firearm, the Beretta 92F. ratist regime pursue the goal of distracting Captain Gottuso proved to be invaluable to tities of aircraft parts were modified for use in the attention of the Members of Congress the war, and progress was made on the devel- his community as both a field agent and an and broad American public from the contin- administrator. He was one of the Founding opment of guided missiles. The NADC also ued occupation of the territories of Azer- Commanders of the North Central Regional played a critical role in training mercury astro- baijan by the Armenian armed forces, ac- SWAT Team, served as a Sniper Team Com- nauts and establishing the United States as companied by gross violation of human mander and led and participated in dozens of the world leader in technology and space ex- rights of hundreds of thousands of the Azer- baijani IDPs. Their ultimate goal is to con- successful operations, many of which led to ploration. During the cold war era, the NADC solidate the occupation of these territories the capture of criminals and the saving of in- employed over 2600 people, including 1600 and to prevent return of the displaced Azer- nocent lives. scientists and engineers, and 300 members of baijani population to their homes and prop- As a police captain, Captain Gottuso re- the military. erties from which they were forcibly ex- sponded to numerous bank robberies and With such a rich history, it is clear that War- pelled. Allowing organization of such activities on other active shooter incidents. Time and minster Township deserves much recognition American soil encourages the Government of again, Captain Gottuso put his life on the line and praise. I am honored to represent the Armenia to hold on to its uncompromised for the residents of Hillsborough, and the com- people of Warminster Township, and wish position in peace negotiations and com- munity will forever be indebted to him for his them all the best on this momentous occasion. plicates the already difficult settlement bravery, selflessness, and competence.

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VerDate Mar 15 2010 04:04 Sep 15, 2011 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\K14SE8.001 E14SEPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS E1620 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks September 14, 2011 Even when Captain Gottuso wasn’t on the there. But I urged them to make sure they are their own sadness, nor make their own emo- front lines, he worked tirelessly to improve the well-integrated in the public school system in tional convalescence the focus of their lives. lives of Hillsborough’s residents, as well as the their community. Instead, in the spirit of the selflessness of their lives of the men and women serving our coun- We need to reinvigorate America’s edu- courageous sons, they chose to create an try abroad. Gottuso worked with overseas Unit cation system and give each and every child event devoted to enriching the lives of others. Commanders during his time as the adminis- the opportunity to learn and thrive. I am an ad- The event, the annual Heroes Run/Walk, trator of the Adopt-a-Troop program, a non- vocate of alternative forms of education includ- will take place for the fifth time this Saturday, profit organization that sends much-needed ing charter schools. I think these institutions September 17, 2011, at Green Cove Yacht care packages to our troops fighting overseas can be viable and beneficial in promoting aca- Club in Millsboro, Pennsylvania. The majority in Iraq and Afghanistan. demic achievement and diversity. of the proceeds from the event will benefit the In 2004, I worked closely with Captain It is important to remember that charter memorial funds that have been established to Gottuso to redesignate the Eugene A. Doran schools are part of the public school system, honor the sacrifices of Specialist Cox and Memorial Bridge which spans the scenic Crys- and we must hold them to the same standards Lance Corporal Phillips. Specialist Cox’s fund tal Springs Dam on I–280 in San Mateo Coun- of broad educational access and same stand- provides support to graduates of Greene ty. The bridge was named after the slain ards of accountability—which means we have County High Schools entering the Army Re- Hillsborough police officer and we passed a to be willing to shut down charter schools that serve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) or in- California Senate Resolution to include Officer fail to meet expectations. Otherwise, charter tending to pursue a field of study that will lead Doran’s son who died in the line of duty in schools are not true to their reason for being: to a career in public service. Lance Corporal Vietnam. The Bridge was renamed the Officer to inject innovation and experimentation into Phillips’ fund provides support to the com- Eugene and Marine Lance Corporal Patrick M. the public school system. I am pleased that puter-aided technology drafting program at Doran Memorial Bridge. this bill increases accountability for charter Greene County Career and Technology Cen- Despite Captain Gottuso’s extensive service schools and ensures states use a schools per- ter. Part of the proceeds from the Heroes Run/ on the front lines of law enforcement, he never formance as a primary factor for charter re- Walk will also be used to fund the transpor- lost his sense of humor or desire to entertain. newal. tation of veterans living in Greene County who Captain Gottuso’s ability to lighten the mood I have long believed that charter school in- are receiving treatment at the Veterans Affairs delighted generations of schoolchildren during novations and best practices must be shared Pittsburgh Healthcare System. police presentations. His yearly narration of with other school districts—urban, rural, and Last year, the race’s over 400 registrants the K–9 squad demonstration made it a truly suburban school districts alike. This requires raised in excess of $15,000. Sponsors and or- enjoyable and memorable event for anyone work on both sides: outreach by the charter ganizers of the event expect a strong turnout who witnessed it. schools and acceptance by the traditional pub- again this Saturday, and are eager to once Nicholas Carl Gotusso was born in Ft. Car- lic school system to learn what there is to be more honor the memory of Specialist Cox and son, Colorado in 1954 and attended Mills High learned. I worked with Rep. POLIS to include Lance Corporal Phillips. School in Millbrae, California. In his spare time such language in his ALL-STAR Act. The Heroes Run/Walk is a testament to its he enjoys boating, karate, flying, coaching That is why I am pleased that the bipartisan founders, John and Mary Anne Cox, and Jim soccer and he is an avid Marksmanship advo- legislation before us today includes provisions and Paulette Phillips, and demonstrates their cate. to require charter schools to disseminate best capacity to turn tragedy into an amazing gift In 1991 he married his wonderful wife Pau- practices with other public schools. for others. They deserve both our support and lette and they are the proud parents of This legislation also ensures that States appreciation. Dominic, Marisa, Nicolette and Samantha. work with charter school authorizers to put in f Captain Gottuso’s dedication to public safe- place the quality controls necessary for hold- ty, effective enforcement of the law, record of ing charter schools accountable, including an- IN RECOGNITION OF ANN BARLOW bringing criminals to justice and protecting in- nual performance data and financial audits. nocent life and property while maintaining the These provisions will lead to more replication HON. JACKIE SPEIER highest level of professionalism and an infec- of high-quality charter schools nationwide. OF CALIFORNIA tious sense of humor all warrant special grati- I share the concerns of some that more can IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tude and recognition. be done to improve the accountability, equity Wednesday, September 14, 2011 Mr. Speaker, I ask the members of this and transparency of charter school, and as we body to join me in honoring Nicholas Gottuso continue to move this bill through the process, Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor upon his retirement for his dedication to public I hope additional improvements can be made. Ann Barlow who served as president and service at the Hillsborough Police Department. But we should all recognize that this bill chairperson of the board for the Professional Businesswomen of California for the last four f makes a great deal of progress from the exist- ing program and deserves our support today. years. Ann has been an inspirational and ef- EMPOWERING PARENTS THROUGH f fective leader of PBWC which I founded 23 QUALITY CHARTER SCHOOLS ACT years ago to help women advance profes- IN RECOGNITION OF JOHN AND sionally. The board of directors is very fortu- SPEECH OF MARY ANNE COX, AND JIM AND nate to retain her as a member, but will cer- HON. RUSH D. HOLT PAULETTE PHILLIPS, FOR THEIR tainly miss her gracious leadership. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE HE- Ann became involved with PBWC as soon OF NEW JERSEY ROES RUN/WALK as she moved from New York to the Bay Area IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in 2005. She happened to move in next door Tuesday, September 13, 2011 HON. MARK S. CRITZ to the former president, Debra Boblitt, who im- The House in Committee of the Whole OF PENNSYLVANIA mediately recognized Ann as a perfect can- House on the state of the Union had under IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES didate for the board. She was voted in as consideration the bill (H.R. 2218) to amend president two years later. the charter school program under the Ele- Wednesday, September 14, 2011 Ann possesses all the qualities and quali- mentary and Secondary Education Act of Mr. CRITZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to rec- fications it takes to be a successful business 1965. ognize the extraordinary fortitude and abiding woman; she is smart, creative, professional, Mr. HOLT. Mr. Chair, I rise today in support generosity of two sets of parents of fallen he- funny, warm, beautiful and generous. She has of the Empowering Parents through Quality roes. lent her talents to Peppercom for the last ten Charter Schools Act, H.R. 2218, which is a bi- John and Mary Anne Cox lost their son, years. She is a partner and the president of its partisan bill to reform and strengthen the char- Army Specialist Gregory Cox, in Iraq in Sep- West Coast operations and led the founding of ter school program. tember of 2004. Less than 2 years later, in GreenPepper, Peppercom’s environmental I recently gave the graduation speech at the February of 2006, Jim and Paulette Phillips sustainability services. Princeton Charter School, a high quality char- lost their son, Marine Lance Corporal Steven Before she joined Peppercom, Ann led the ter that opened its doors more than a decade Phillips, in the same war. New York office of Interpublic Group-Owned ago and was recognized as a blue ribbon In the face of such horrific personal loss, the Mindstorm Communications. school by the U.S. Department of Education in parents of Army Specialist Cox and Lance Ann is a master communicator and has writ- 2004. And I was pleased to see the success Corporal Phillips chose neither to languish in ten numerous articles and given many

VerDate Mar 15 2010 04:04 Sep 15, 2011 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\K14SE8.003 E14SEPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS September 14, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E1621 speeches on environmental issues and digital HONORING LEO J. HULSEMAN was honorably discharged from the Army at communication. In 2009, Ann was named one the rank of Sergeant. of the Bay Area’s most influential women by HON. HENRY C. ‘‘HANK’’ JOHNSON, JR. Mr. Sanders’s first professional job was as the San Francisco Business Times. This year OF GEORGIA an educator in the Jefferson County School District, where he also served as principal, as- she was chosen to participate in the pres- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tigious Tedwoman conference. sistant principal and football and basketball Ann was born in Davenport, Iowa on August Wednesday, September 14, 2011 coach. He would go on to teach in the Hatties- 15, 1960. She went to Freeport High School in Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I burg and Brookhaven School District, and con- Freeport, Illinois and received her B.A. in Jour- submit the following proclamation. cluded his career in education with the Hinds nalism from the University of Illinois. Whereas, seventy-five (75) years ago Leo J. County School District. Mr. Sanders worked She lives in San Ramon, California with her Hulseman established the Paper Container towards a master’s degree during the sum- husband Bob, two children Chris and Vivian Manufacturing Company in Chicago, Illinois, mers in Boston and Indiana Universities. Mr. and her two spoiled beagles Kipper and and by the 1940s began manufacturing a Sanders was the Chief Financial Officer for Osgood. In her spare time she enjoys reading, paper cone cup known as the ‘‘Solo Cup’’ the first Head Start Program in the state of cooking, playing golf, talking politics and walk- which provides unparalleled hygiene and con- Mississippi, the Child Development Group of ing with Kipper and Osgood. venience to consumers; and Mississippi (CDGM). Mr. Speaker, I ask this body to join me in Whereas, the ‘‘Solo Cup’’ was such an in- Mr. Sanders did not limit his education to honoring Ann Barlow for her extraordinary spiration that the company itself was renamed the classroom; he remained active in his com- contributions to improve the lives and careers Solo in the 1940s and become a brand that munity, socially and politically, as well as of thousands of women in California and all would become ubiquitous across America and entrepreneurially. Upon leaving CDGM, Mr. over the world. the world; and Sanders successfully, owned and operated the Whereas, Solo Cup has grown to be a $1.6 Delta Drive Texaco service station in Jackson, f billion company and has demonstrated its con- Mississippi, where his greatest satisfaction COMMENDING RANDY BURGESS cern for the environment by introducing many was employing others in his community. He FOR 33 YEARS OF OUTSTANDING product lines relying on compostable and re- was an industry pioneer and received several SERVICE TO THE U.S. FOREST newable sources; and awards in recognition of his shrewd business SERVICE Whereas, Solo Cup is a recognized industry sense. leader in the areas of sustainability and beau- Mr. Sanders married Emma Dunbar Sand- tification receiving the 2010 Keep America ers and had six children. He and his family HON. HEATH SHULER Beautiful Corporate Leadership Award; and were actively involved in the Civil Rights OF NORTH CAROLINA Whereas, The Solo plant in Conyers, Geor- movement and made enormous sacrifices in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gia is a place where 400 of our citizens are an effort to amplify the voice of oppressed Wednesday, September 14, 2011 employed and is an enthusiastic participant in blacks in the segregated south. His actions Georgia’s Work Ready Program; and helped shape future civil rights policy in the Mr. SHULER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Whereas, The Solo Company has proven to segregated south and advance the rights and honor Mr. Randy Burgess who recently retired be a great corporate citizen supporting com- freedoms of African Americans. from the Pisgah National Forest with 33 years munity outreach and educational initiatives by Mr. Sanders, a loyal Democrat, was actively of outstanding service to the U.S. Forest Serv- working closely with public officials, the Con- involved in local, state and national politics. ice. yers-Rockdale Economic Development Council He attended the Democratic National Conven- Mr. Burgess began his work in forests dur- and the Rockdale Chamber of Commerce; and tions in New York, Boston, Chicago, Los An- ing summers while in college at Eldorado and Whereas, the U.S. Representative of the geles and most recently the 2008 Democratic Stanislaus National Forests in California. After Fourth District of Georgia has set aside this Convention in Denver where Senator Barack he graduated from Virginia Tech with a bach- day to honor and recognize the Solo Com- Obama received the Democratic Party’s nomi- elor’s degree in wildlife and forest manage- pany, it’s management and employees for nation. He took great pride in the election of ment, he worked as a ranger at several na- leadership and service to our district; the first African American president and tional forests such as those in Sumter, South Now Therefore, I, HENRY C. ‘‘HANK’’ JOHN- viewed this as a logical result of the Civil Carolina, and Rio Grande, Colorado. He SON, JR., do hereby proclaim September 13, Rights Movement. began work at the Pisgah National Forest in 2011, as Solo Cup Company Day in the 4th Again, I ask that my colleagues please join 2003. Congressional District of Georgia. me in saluting the life and legacy of educator, During his 8 year tenure as head of the Pis- Proclaimed, This 13th day of September, community leader and businessman Mr. Wil- gah District Operations, Mr. Burgess was in- 2011. liam Sanders. strumental in the upkeep and renovations in f f and around the forest. Mr. Burgess helped im- prove water quality through stream stabiliza- HONORING THE LIFE OF MR. WIL- HONORING THE 40TH ANNIVER- tion projects, supported various volunteer cor- LIAM SANDERS, EDUCATOR, SARY OF COMMUNITY SHARES porations, implemented upgrades at the Cra- COMMUNITY LEADER AND BUSI- OF WISCONSIN dle of Forestry, provided public restrooms in NESSMAN the forest, and built a connector trail from the HON. TAMMY BALDWIN city of Brevard to the Pisgah National Forest. HON. BENNIE G. THOMPSON OF WISCONSIN The 5.5-mile-long Estatoe Trail opened to the OF MISSISSIPPI IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES public on October 15, 2010, and has been a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tremendous benefit to the citizens of that area. Wednesday, September 14, 2011 Mr. Burgess also served as a Forest Service Wednesday, September 14, 2011 Ms. BALDWIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Liaison to my office, lending his expertise in Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speak- honor the 40th anniversary of Community conservation to positively impact national pol- er, I rise today to recognize the life of educa- Shares of Wisconsin and to recognize the icy. Mr. Burgess’ leadership over the last few tor and community leader, William Sanders. commitment of its participants to serving their years has left a great mark on the Pisgah Na- Mr. Sanders was born March 27, 1928, in communities. tional Forest and provided positive influence Monticello, Mississippi. In 1971, amidst a deep societal divide over on Congressional policy. Upon graduation from McCullough High civil rights issues and the Vietnam War, a Mr. Burgess has shown extraordinary dedi- School in Lawrence County, Mr. Sanders con- number of area volunteers created the Madi- cation to our community and has had an indel- tinued his education at Alcorn College, where son Sustaining Fund, America’s first social ac- ible impact on the Pisgah National Forest. The he played basketball. While attending Alcorn, tion fund. Today, the fund now known as service that Mr. Burgess has contributed to Mr. Sanders was called to fulfill his military du- Community Shares of Wisconsin (CSW) part- Western North Carolina and the U.S. Forest ties and later completed his degree in Agri- ners with donors and non-profit member Service is truly inspiring and I am proud to culture Research. Mr. Sanders served in the groups to address social, economic, and envi- represent him. I ask my colleagues to join me Army in the 31st Artillery Brigade and was sta- ronmental challenges through grassroots ac- in recognizing the exceptional career and tioned in Alaska during his tour. Additionally, tivities, advocacy, research, and public edu- service of Mr. Randy Burgess. he was assigned to the Special Services. He cation.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 04:04 Sep 15, 2011 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\K14SE8.004 E14SEPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS E1622 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks September 14, 2011 CSW continues to effect change in all as- ways to improve their education and learn im- ter schools and traditional public schools to pects of our society by supporting the work of portant leadership skills. Mike also formed a share best practices. However, I am worried its non-profit member groups. The sixty-three partnership with San Francisco State Univer- about the authority given to the Secretary to non-profit member groups currently supported sity, the South San Francisco Unified School dispense charter planning grant money. We by Community Shares of Wisconsin are District and Serramonte Shopping Center to have often seen this discretionary authority groups independently involved in tackling so- conduct an annual college fair, providing stu- used to coerce school districts or states into cial and environmental issues both locally and dents access to representatives from nearly adopting policies that do not fit within the nationwide. By working with CSW, each mem- 70 colleges and universities. state’s education framework. ber non-profit group gains access to a larger In 2007, he was named Regional Super- While I appreciate the bipartisan nature of network of supporters and more abundant re- intendent of the Year by the Association of this legislation, and the important advances it sources with which to advance its mission. California School Administrators, a recognition makes for accountability and access issues, I For 40 years, CSW has utilized this pooled justly deserved. hope that the discretionary authority given to resource model to devise innovative solutions Mr. Speaker, Mike Crilly is not an adminis- the Secretary is used judiciously. and ideas that generate lasting changes in so- trator who feels that public service ends at the f cial justice across the United States. It is due close of business. He gives tirelessly to his IN RECOGNITION OF KAREN to the hard work of CSW member organiza- community, having served as President or PHILIP tions like the Fair Housing Center of Greater Chairperson of the San Mateo County Super- Madison that more Wisconsinites can live in intendents’ Association, Daly City—Colma affordable housing complexes that offer per- Chamber of Commerce and Western Associa- HON. JACKIE SPEIER manent shelter and community safety. Other tion of Schools and Colleges Accrediting Com- OF CALIFORNIA members of the CSW, like the Wisconsin mittee. Mike has also served on the Associa- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Women’s Network, are committed to the bet- tion of California School Administrators, Daly Wednesday, September 14, 2011 terment of women’s health, safety, and work- City Economic Development Advisory Com- Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Speaker, it is with im- place protections. Although these are just a mittee, Daly City—Quezon City Sister City mense appreciation and a tinge of regret that few examples, it is without a doubt that the Committee, Pacifica Library Task Force, Sky- I rise today in honor of Karen K. Philip, who civil rights and liberties of our family, friends, line College President’s Council and the Seton retires at the end of this month as Deputy Su- and neighbors stand better protected today Medical Center Board of Directors. perintendent of the San Mateo County Office thanks to the dedication and commitment of A native San Franciscan, Mike Crilly was of Education. CSW member groups. educated in local schools. He received his There is no doubt that she has earned her In addition to advancing social justice, the Bachelor of Arts from St. Patrick’s University retirement, after thirty-eight years educating pursuit for environmental preservation is one and his Secondary Teaching Credential and the children—and impressing the parents—of of CSW’s highest priorities. By supporting non- Administrative Services Credential from the California’s 12th Congressional District. profit groups such as Clean Wisconsin, University of San Francisco. Mike and his in- Mr. Speaker, I doubt that anyone has ever Friends of Wisconsin State Parks, and the credible wife, Patricia, raised three inspiring met Karen Philip where they did not learn River Alliance of Wisconsin, CSW works to im- daughters—Jennifer, Megan and Erin—and something. She is the consummate educator, prove the condition of Wisconsin’s waters and Mike’s retirement will leave even more time to beginning in 1973 in the South San Francisco its air quality. The great State of Wisconsin enjoy his family, especially grandchildren Unified School District, where she served for now thrives as a haven for residents and tour- Brayden and Ellie. seventeen years as a teacher, speech thera- ists who take pleasure in the outdoors and de- If I know Mike, retirement will also encour- pist, special education administrator and prin- pend on the State’s natural resources on a age more home remodeling and gardening cipal, Karen has dedicated her life to the chil- daily basis. projects but I’m sure there’ll be plenty of base- dren of San Mateo County. Today, CSW continues to bring together ball squeezed in as well. From there, she was recruited by the thousands of donors to benefit a multiplicity of Mr. Speaker, Superintendent Crilly has Millbrae School District to serve as Assistant causes through its non-profit member groups. served his students and his community with Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction I extend my sincerest congratulations to Com- the greatest honor and distinction. I am privi- and, after just two years, was appointed Su- munity Shares of Wisconsin on its 40 years of leged to call him a friend and fellow public perintendent of the District, a post she held for forward thinking and its steadfast pursuit of servant. I ask my colleagues in the House of fifteen years. During her tenure in Millbrae, the justice and environmental protection for our Representatives to join me in thanking Super- schools in her charge received many pres- community, both here in Wisconsin and across intendent Michael J. Crilly for his service to tigious awards, including three California Dis- this great Nation. our nation and to the students and taxpayers tinguished School Awards and the National f of the Jefferson Union High School District. Blue Ribbon, awarded in Washington D.C. to f Taylor Middle School. IN RECOGNITION OF MICHAEL J. Throughout her career, Deputy Super- CRILLY EMPOWERING PARENTS THROUGH intendent Philip has been tapped for numer- QUALITY CHARTER SCHOOLS ACT ous leadership positions, including serving as HON. JACKIE SPEIER President of the San Mateo County Super- SPEECH OF OF CALIFORNIA intendents Association, the Special Education IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. EARL BLUMENAUER Local Plan Area Board, and Soroptomist Inter- national of Millbrae/San Bruno. She has also Wednesday, September 14, 2011 OF OREGON been named a ‘‘Woman of Distinction’’ by IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Speaker, it is with great Soroptomist International, received the Cali- respect and admiration that I rise today to pay Tuesday, September 13, 2011 fornia ‘‘Schoolmasters Award’’ in 2011 and tribute to Superintendent Michael J. Crilly, who The House in Committee of the Whole was inducted into the San Mateo County retires this month from the Jefferson Union House on the state of the Union had under ‘‘Women’s Hall of Fame’’. High School District. consideration the bill (H.R. 2218) to amend Mr. Speaker, as with all true educators, Superintendent Crilly came up through the the charter school program under the Ele- Karen’s greatest achievement is in the many ranks, spending 39 years in the Jefferson mentary and Secondary Education Act of thousands of children—most who are now Union High School District as teacher, vice 1965: adults—who have benefitted from her passion principal, principal, associate superintendent Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Chair, I voted in and extraordinary talent for teaching. No and, for the past 17 years, superintendent. favor of House Resolution 2218, the Empow- doubt, our county’s loss is Karen’s grand- During his tenure at the helm, Mike led the ering Parents Through Quality Charter children’s gain. Now they get to spend even district through two successful bond cam- Schools Act. While I support most of the legis- more time soaking in all the incredible lessons paigns, allowing school buildings and fields to lation, I have a few concerns which I would their brilliant grandmother has to offer. be upgraded and modernized to better serve like to highlight. Karen was born and raised in Michigan and a growing and changing student body. He I welcome the additional accountability re- attended Detroit’s Wayne State University, partnered with the City of Daly City to develop quirements and the increased access meas- where she received a Bachelor of Arts in the Challenge Leadership Program, bringing ures incorporated into this legislation, as well Speech and English and her Master Degree in students from various schools together to find as the specific encouragement for public char- Communication Disorders and Sciences.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 04:04 Sep 15, 2011 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A14SE8.006 E14SEPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS September 14, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E1623 Mr. Speaker, I have been honored to work duced a series of instructional videos on Earth tion Annual Training Conference, the San with this incredible woman on promoting and space science for high school students. Mateo County Prevention Coordinators Meet- sound education policy for more than two dec- For more than two decades, Dr. Carruthers ing, and the National School Transportation ades. I ask my colleagues in the House of has been an active member of Science, Math- Association Convention on Gang Awareness, Representatives to join me in thanking Deputy ematics, Aerospace, Research, and Tech- School Safety and Gang Intervention. Superintendent Karen Philip for her remark- nology (S.M.A.R.T.), Inc., where he has Rick has also served as Chairperson of the able service to our nation’s children and wish shared his knowledge through presentations WASC School Accreditation Process and the she and her husband, Lou, a phenomenal re- and hands-on activities with students, edu- San Mateo County Gang Task Force Schools tirement filled with exciting travel, good health cators, families, and the general public. Dr. Division. In addition, Rick is a member and and the love of their amazing family: Kimberly Carruthers spent six years coordinating work- past-president of St. Pius Catholic Church and her husband Keith, Jeff, and his wife shops in aerospace, science and technology Mens’ Club. Jenn, and grandchildren Lydia, Mark, Caitlin, for African-American students in the D.C. met- Rick Boitano was born and raised in San John, Emma and Amelia. ropolitan area for S.M.A.R.T. and the National Francisco, having received his Bachelor of f Air and Space Museum. Arts, Secondary Teaching Credential and Ad- Dr. Carruthers is the editor of the National ministrative Services Credential from the Uni- RECOGNIZING DR. GEORGE R. Technical Association (NTA) Journal and versity of San Francisco. He and Beverly, his CARRUTHERS newsletter, is the President of the D.C. Chap- lovely wife of 35 years, have raised four ter of NTA, and was a secretary of the Devel- boys—Tim, Jonathan, Matt and Andrew—and HON. ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON opment Fund for Black Students in Science his retirement will provide extra time for his OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA and Technology for more than two decades. grandson, Jude. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES For a lifetime of achievements and for con- Mr. Speaker, I commend Rick for his dec- Wednesday, September 14, 2011 tinuing contributions to science, engineering, ades of service to the young people of Califor- and astronomy, as recognized throughout the nia’s 12th Congressional District. He has Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to nation and the world, I ask the House to join earned his retirement and I wish him nothing ask the House of Representatives to join me me in celebrating the uniquely distinctive place but the best, which is exactly what he gave in recognizing Dr. George R. Carruthers, a of Dr. George R. Carruthers in science. the students and parents of the Jefferson world-renowned scientist, an innovative leader f Union High School District every day for thirty- in astronomy and engineering, and a resident eight years. PERSONAL EXPLANATION of the District of Columbia. f Through the guidance and encouragement of his father, Dr. Carruthers discovered his in- HON. JAMES A. HIMES RECOGNIZING AZERBAIJAN AND THE AZERI PEOPLE terest in engineering. After graduating from OF CONNECTICUT Englewood High School in Chicago, Dr. Car- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ruthers earned a bachelor’s of science degree HON. BILL SHUSTER Wednesday, September 14, 2011 in aeronautical engineering, a master’s degree OF PENNSYLVANIA in nuclear engineering, and a doctorate de- Mr. HIMES. Mr. Speaker, I was unable to be IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gree in aeronautical and astronomical engi- present to cast my vote on Mr. HOLT’s amend- Wednesday, September 14, 2011 neering at the University of Illinois. ment to H.R. 2218—Empowering Parents Though born in Ohio and raised in Illinois, through Quality Charter Schools Act. I wish Mr. SHUSTER. Mr. Speaker, as the Co- Dr. Carruthers has spent most of his distin- the record to reflect my intentions had I been Chairman of the Congressional Azerbaijan guished career as a resident of the nation’s able to vote. Caucus, I would like to take this opportunity to capital. Since joining the U.S. Naval Research Had I been present for rollcall No. 702, I recognize Azerbaijan and the Azeri people for Laboratory in 1964, Dr. Carruthers has co-in- would have voted ‘‘yes.’’ their ongoing support of the United States and vented the far-ultra violet electrographic cam- f our allies in the Global War on Terror. Azer- era, which was first used in sounding rockets baijan has been a consistent supporter of U.S. in 1966 and was used during the Apollo 16 IN RECOGNITION OF RICHARD efforts in the fight against terrorism, and the mission to the moon in 1972, giving scientists BOITANO Azeris have worked with us to strengthen eco- fresh, revealing images of Earth and space. nomic and political stability in the Caspian re- He was also the first to detect molecular hy- HON. JACKIE SPEIER gion. It is important that we recognize the sac- drogen in deep space in 1970. Dr. Carruthers OF CALIFORNIA rifices made by our allies and continue to has been a driving force in the use of ultra- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES thank them for their support. violet astronomy. Not only was he involved in As we reflect back on the recently passed the review of the early design of the Hubble Wednesday, September 14, 2011 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Space Telescope, which was carried into orbit Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Speaker, I rise this today September 11, we must remember that the in 1990, where it remains and continues to op- to ask my colleagues in the House of Rep- fight against terrorism is not a fight against erate, he has refurbished the telescope in the resentatives to join me in recognizing Richard Islam. On September 11, 2001, Americans of Observatory on the campus of Howard Univer- Boitano as he retires as Associate Super- all faiths and citizens from around the world sity, enabling students, educators, families, intendent of Education for the Jefferson Union tragically lost their lives. and the general public to use the telescope to High School District. Today, uniformed and civilian men and view special astronomical events. Rick Boitano has served his community for women around the world work shoulder to Dr. Carruthers was inducted into the Na- 38 years as a teacher, Vice-Principal, District shoulder to combat the ongoing threat of ter- tional Inventor’s Hall of Fame in 2003, and Director of Pupil-Personnel Services and As- rorist attacks that don’t just affect the United has received numerous awards, including the sociate Superintendent. In addition, he has States, but virtually every nation. This effort is Black Engineer of the Year in 1987, the Arthur been active in numerous organizations dedi- not one of faith; rather it is an effort to keep S. Fleming Award in 1971, the Exceptional cated to helping young people and the com- citizens of all nations safe from barbaric acts Achievement Scientific Award from the Na- munity at large, including the San Mateo of terrorism. tional Aeronautics and Space Administration in County Juvenile Justice Planning Council, San Immediately after 9/11, Azerbaijan, a major- 1972 and the Warner Prize from the American Mateo County TANF Planning Council, San ity Muslim nation, was among the first to offer Astronomical Society in 1973. Mateo County Community Schools Task strong support and assistance to the United The District of Columbia and its residents Force, Board of Directors of Youth Empow- States. Azerbaijan participated in operations are particularly grateful for Dr. Carruthers’ ering Systems, Inc., San Mateo County Juve- Iraq and is actively engaged in Afghanistan, work in helping to develop the next generation nile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Com- having recently doubled its military presence of engineers by creating the Science and En- mission, Pacifica Youth Service Bureau, Every there. Azerbaijan has extended important gineering Apprentice Program, a summer pro- 15 Minutes Alcohol Abuse Prevention Program over-flight clearances for U.S. and NATO gram in which D.C. Public Schools high school and the Association of California School Ad- flights to support ISAF and has regularly pro- students work side-by-side with professional ministrators. vided landing and refueling operations at its scientists. Dr. Carruthers has also edited and In addition, Rick has been a presenter at airports for U.S. and NATO forces. Also, Azer- co-authored several publications and co-pro- the California State Juvenile Officers’ Associa- baijan plays an important role in the Northern

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They may contribute to mately 40 mass graves, officially recognized Afghan civilian and military medical doctors, a Thrift Savings Plan that has a match similar for the first time, that pock mark the landscape and medical treatment of Afghan citizens at to many private sector 401(k) plans. of this long troubled region. This disturbing Azeri hospitals. Azerbaijan has provided med- My legislation will honor any retirement ben- revelation, while horrific in scale and heart- ical equipment and supplies to Afghanistan as efits accrued prior to the passage of this bill, breaking in scope, has the potential to serve well as assisting in the construction of schools and will keep the Social Security and Thrift as a catalyst to propel Kashmir forward, away and hospitals there. Savings Plan in place. from its violent past. For the first time, every- Azerbaijan remains a reliable partner of I believe that Members of Congress should one in Kashmir, as well as the rest of the NATO and the EU in the South Caucuses feel the same economic pressures the rest of world, will be forced to acknowledge the wan- through its consistent and effective contribu- society does, and I firmly believe that the cur- ton violence and unrest that have torn their tion to common goals and objectives. Azer- rent effort to reduce spending and constrain communities apart. baijan is also an active partner of the United the size and scope of government requires History has taught us that in conflicts like States in efforts regarding the nonproliferation that all possible solutions be taken, including the one propagated on Kashmir and its peo- of weapons of mass destruction through its cuts to the Congressional budget. I urge the ple, the first casualty is always the truth. The participation in programs such as Caspian passage of this bill. findings in this inquiry have now irrefutably Guard and Cooperative Threat Reduction. f confirmed the very worst fears people like my- On July 5, 2011, an Azerbaijani aircraft fly- self who have been concerned about this ing a support mission for NATO troops IN RECOGNITION OF THE BUILD- issue since 1989. It is my sincerest hope that crashed as it descended into Bagram Airfield ING OWNERS AND MANAGERS when finally faced with the sum of their ac- in Afghanistan. While it is my understanding ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRAN- tions to this point, those responsible for these that investigations are ongoing, it has come to CISCO crimes will see the error of their ways and my attention that one leading theory is that summarily be brought to justice; I also hope Taliban fighters may have shot down the air- HON. JACKIE SPEIER that all of the well intentioned people of the re- craft as it made its final approach. While we OF CALIFORNIA gion, whether they are Kashmiri, Pakistani, or await further information on exactly what hap- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Indian, can use this tragic circumstance to pened that night in Afghanistan, it is important Wednesday, September 14, 2011 begin to work towards reconciliation, and fi- that we recognize the loss of life of the nine nally move towards a peaceful resolution for crew members on board that flight who made Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor everyone living in Kashmir. I am submitting an the ultimate sacrifice. the Building Owners and Managers Associa- article from the August 23, 2011 edition of the While we can take comfort knowing that we tion of San Francisco on the historic occasion New York Times and strongly urge my col- are not alone in this fight, we must also make of its 100th anniversary. leagues to read it. sure we comfort those who make sacrifices BOMA San Francisco has been advocating MASS GRAVES HOLD THOUSANDS, KASHMIR alongside us. It is with a heavy heart that I for commercial real estate interests, training INQUIRY FINDS offer my thanks and appreciation to the family, future leaders and promoting sustainable prac- (By Lydia Polgreen) tices. I have partnered with BOMA since my friends, and countrymen to those crew mem- NEW DELHI.—Thousands of bullet-riddled bers of Silk Way Airlines IL–76. The world is days on the San Mateo Board of Supervisors bodies are buried in dozens of unmarked a safer place due to their commitment to sup- and in the California Legislature and have wit- graves across Kashmir, a state human rights port and supply our troops and allies in their nessed its effective work that supports busi- commission inquiry has concluded, many of hunt for those seeking to harm peace-loving ness growth which in turn creates tax dollars them likely to be those of civilians who dis- people around the world. for important public services. appeared more than a decade ago in a brutal insurgency. f Healthy commercial real estate provides homes for countless businesses that employ The inquiry, the result of three years of in- ENDING CONGRESSIONAL our workforce. BOMA always strives to create vestigative work by senior police officers PENSIONS working for the Jammu and Kashmir State better work environments for our future gen- Human Rights Commission, brings the first erations. It has been honored for its progres- official acknowledgment that civilians HON. MIKE COFFMAN sive environmental policies to help promote might have been buried in mass graves in OF COLORADO energy conservation and sustainable practices Kashmir, a region claimed by both India and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in office buildings. BOMA is also a tireless ad- Pakistan where insurgents waged a bloody vocate of emergency preparedness. battle for independence in the early 1990s. Wednesday, September 14, 2011 For 20 years BOMA has partnered with the The report sheds new light on a grim chapter Mr. COFFMAN of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, San Francisco Fire Department and put big in the history of the troubled region and con- today I am introducing legislation to put an firms a 2008 report by a Kashmiri human smiles on children’s faces. The San Francisco rights organization that found hundreds of end to the defined-benefit retirement plan cur- Firefighter Toy Program is the oldest program bodies buried in the Kashmir Valley. rently available to Members of Congress. of its kind in the country and has donated over Tens of thousands of people died in the in- These are extremely difficult economic a million toys to disadvantaged children. surgency, which began in 1989 and was partly times. We are in a debt crisis that will require Mr. Speaker, the Building Owners and Man- fueled by weapons, cash and training from sacrifices on the part of all Americans. I agers Association of San Francisco has left its Pakistan. served in both the U.S. Army and the Marine mark on San Francisco and made it a more According to the report, the bodies of hun- Corps, and I was taught that leaders should beautiful, healthy and happier city for a cen- dreds of men described as unidentified mili- never ask others to do anything that they tants were buried in unmarked graves. But tury. I ask this body to honor BOMA on May of the more than 2,000 bodies, 574 were identi- themselves would be unwilling to do. Con- 19, its 100th anniversary. fied as local residents. gress needs to set an example and lead the f ‘‘There is every probability that these un- way for the country. I think this is a good start. identified dead bodies buried in various un- The defined benefit retirement plan gives MASS GRAVES HOLD THOUSANDS, marked graves at 38 places of North Kashmir Members of Congress an averaged percent- KASHMIR INQUIRY FINDS may contain the dead bodies of enforced dis- age of their annual salary (currently $174,000) appearances,’’ the report said. for every year they serve in Congress. To be HON. DAN BURTON The report catalogs 2,156 bodies found in eligible for the retirement plan they must first graves in four districts of Kashmir that had OF INDIANA been at the heart of the insurgency. It called serve at least five years. They will then re- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for a thorough inquiry and a collection of ceive 1.7% for every year up to 20 that they Wednesday, September 14, 2011 DNA evidence to identify the dead, and, for serve in Congress, and 1% for every year the future, proper identification of anyone after 20. For example, if a Member of Con- Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, to- killed by security forces in Kashmir to avoid gress served for 20 years, and they were at night I wish to call the attention of my col- abuse of special laws shielding the military

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The wives they left behind are Mr. Speaker, Matteo Rizzo is a living exam- gram completely bankrupt. In fact, the Con- known as half-widows, because the fates of ple of the benefits of public education and the gressional Budget Office estimates the current their husbands are unknown. Parents keep fruits of hard work. A product of local schools, policy embraced by this ‘‘clean’’ Transportation vigil for sons who were arrested two decades he is a graduate of San Francisco State Uni- Extension would require future billion dollar ago. versity, where he received a Bachelor of Arts bailouts in 2013 and every year thereafter Parveena Ahanger’s son Javed was taken in Mathematics, his California Teaching Cre- over the next decade. Unlike the FY2012 plan away by the police on Aug. 18, 1990, and dential and two Masters of Arts—one in Edu- never seen again. An investigation found called for in the House Budget, the action we that he had been killed by security forces, cation and another in Educational Administra- took yesterday simply avoids the necessary but they have not been prosecuted, she said. tion. dirty work associated with making sound fiscal ‘‘I never got any response from the govern- He has been honored at every step of his decisions. ment,’’ she said. ‘‘I never got his dead body.’’ career, including earning a ‘‘California Distin- Second, I was appalled by the procedure After years of fighting in the courts to find guished School’’ award for Fernando Rivera the House used in passing this bill. While I out what happened to Javed, Ms. Ahanger Middle School in 2001, while serving as the recognize the need to quickly move this bill by was skeptical that the human rights report school’s principal. the start of Fiscal Year 2012, October 1, 2011, would get her son’s body back, or bring her Mr. Speaker, Superintendent Rizzo has cer- I do not believe that justifies suspending the justice. ‘‘If the high court doesn’t give any justice tainly earned his retirement. On behalf of the House rules to move a bill that will cost tens on this issue, what will the state human Congress of the United States of America, I of billions of dollars over six months without rights commission do?’’ she said. wish to thank him for his exceptional service any opportunity to offer amendments either in Zahoor Wani, an activist who works with to our nation and wish him only the best as he the Rules committee or on the House floor. the families of people who disappeared dur- now has time to travel with his amazing wife, While such action does not technically violate ing the insurgency, said that the report was Clydie, play a lot more golf, do a little more our House or Conference rules, it certainly a welcome first step but that the govern- duck hunting and, as rumor has it, learn to flies in the face of the higher standards those ment must identify the dead and allow fami- play the guitar. rules and protocols promote. Most notably, lies to bury their relatives. Matteo Rizzo, simply put, is a good man ‘‘It is a very good thing that they acknowl- this multi-billion dollar Transportation Exten- edge it,’’ Mr. Wani said. ‘‘These families who spent his entire professional career doing sion was only available for no more than a 24- have been living in a hope to see these people good for his community. There’s no need to hour review period, as opposed to the three- again. tell that to the thousands of children he edu- day review standard. Also, the bill failed to in- ‘‘They are neither dead nor alive,’’ he said. cated, or his son, Matthew, and daughter-in- clude a Congressional Budget Office cost esti- ‘‘We need to move them to one pole or the law, Jill, but the rest of America can benefit mate. Finally, it was unexpectedly voice voted other.’’ from knowing that extremely capable and without the opportunity for Representatives to Hari Kumar contributed reporting. committed professionals like Matteo Rizzo record the collective voice of their constitu- f show up at school districts across this country ents. As a result, we are left to less desirable every day with no other goal than to move our IN RECOGNITION OF MATTEO means to record their vote. country forward, one student at a time. RIZZO Ultimately, yesterday’s action is a missed It is for these reasons and more that I ask opportunity to ‘‘advance policies that promote my colleagues to join me in thanking Super- greater liberty, wider opportunity, . . , and na- HON. JACKIE SPEIER intendent Matteo Rizzo for his service. tional economic prosperity,’’ as well as, ‘‘to OF CALIFORNIA f make government more transparent in its ac- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tions, careful in its stewardship, and honest in SURFACE AND AIR TRANSPOR- its dealings.’’ Had I the chance yesterday to Wednesday, September 14, 2011 TATION PROGRAMS EXTENSION vote, I would have voted against this Trans- ACT OF 2011 Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Speaker, I rise this portation Extension. evening to pay tribute to Matteo Rizzo, a life- long educator who is retiring as Super- SPEECH OF f intendent of the Jefferson Elementary School HON. MICK MULVANEY PERSONAL EXPLANATION District, serving the communities of Daly City OF SOUTH CAROLINA and Colma, California. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. ADAM SMITH In his tenure as Superintendent, Mr. Rizzo OF WASHINGTON has been known for his personal involvement Tuesday, September 13, 2011 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES with all the stakeholders in his district, from Mr. MULVANEY. Mr. Speaker, I have seri- teachers, to parents, to administrators and, ous concerns about the policies of H.R. 2887, Wednesday, September 14, 2011 most importantly, the students themselves. He Transportation Extension, and the procedures Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Speaker, on served as the District’s representative in staff the House used to pass it. the afternoon of Tuesday, September 13, contract negotiations, oversaw budget deci- First, I applaud the House Leadership’s nu- 2011, I recorded an erroneous vote on Final sions, coordinated the recruitment, selection merous statements and actions on working to- Passage of the bill H.R. 2218. I intended to and assignment of teachers, principals and wards fiscally responsible policies that begin vote ‘‘no’’ on rollcall vote No. 705, on passage other personnel and put his imprint on every to close our deficit and balance our budget. of H.R. 2218, the Empowering Parents aspect of life and learning in the Jefferson Ele- Achieving those two goals will certainly help through Quality Charter Schools Act. mentary School District. create an environment for the private sector to f As is the case in school districts across our create jobs. H. Con. Res. 34, the House country, Superintendent Rizzo was asked to Budget for Fiscal Year 2012, laid a solid blue- IN RECOGNITION OF THOMAS do the impossible—educate a diverse student print for leaders in this Congress to follow to- MOHR population in an environment of dwindling fi- wards that end. nancial resources, all the while staying fo- Unfortunately, the actions taken yesterday HON. JACKIE SPEIER cused on preparing them to achieve to their fail to follow the spending plan that 235 mem- OF CALIFORNIA utmost ability in an increasingly competitive bers of the House agreed upon earlier this IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES world. year. The House Budget calls for a transpor- To do this, Matteo relied heavily on the tation policy that puts the bankrupt Highway Wednesday, September 14, 2011 skills he gained as an Assistant Super- Trust Fund and the insolvent Airport Improve- Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Speaker, it is with great intendent, Principal, Vice-Principal and teach- ment Program back operating within their pleasure that I rise to recognize the tireless er—all within the Jefferson Elementary School means. Unfortunately, the bill we passed public service of Thomas Mohr, who is retiring District. His unsurpassed institutional knowl- today sacrifices fiscal sanity for continued as President of Can˜ada College in Redwood edge and commitment to bettering the lives of chaos. City, California.

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The the United States imposed economic sanc- leadership will be sorely missed. center was originally founded under the parent tions on Libya and froze the assets of its lead- While serving as President, Tom revamped organization, East Harlem Churches and Com- ership, promising to hold Qaddafi, his family, Can˜ada College’s planning process and munity Urban Center by Reverend Leroy and the government of Libya accountable for turned it into a state leader in the accreditation Ricksy who decided to help four children being its human rights abuses. It is estimated that process. He helped establish new four-year raised by their grandmother. Today, the learn- the value of these assets exceed $30 billion. degrees in art, psychology, human services ing center led by Executive Director, Reverend On March 19, with the authority of the and business administration by forging new re- Kimberly Wright, has expanded its services to United Nations, the United States Armed lationships with nearby Notre Dame de Namur include an after school program, Saturday Forces and our coalition partners launched University. Under Tom’s watch, Can˜ada start- readings, adult education, summer camp, col- Operation Odyssey Dawn in an effort to en- ed the Center for Teacher Efficacy to provide lege preparation and support, and art therapy. force the Security Council resolution. That professional development opportunities for There is a very personal approach taken at mission has since come under NATO com- San Mateo County high school teachers. He Booker T. They offer children, teens, and mand and is now called Operation Unified also developed an Honors Transfer Program adults the extra that they need in order to find Protector. Our Armed Forces have assisted in designed to support highly motivated students success. combat operations including providing intel- as they pursue their educational goals. The Learning Center is able to look back ligence, aerial refueling, targeting, and other Tom attracted more than $3 million in grants over these 25 years and feel proud of the in- aspects of NATO’s daily bombardment of Liby- for Science, Technology, Engineering and vestment that they have made in so many an forces loyal to Qaddafi. We have already Mathematics education at the college, estab- lives. They have watched their children grow spent over one billion taxpayer dollars on this lished the Veterans Resource and Opportunity up to be extremely responsible, hard working, effort, with operations costing millions more Center, and expanded the school’s study and productive citizens. There are so many every day. abroad program. For these and other accom- who have overcome learning disabilities, When the United States recognized the plishments, President Mohr received the 2010 achieved academic success—even in a failing Transitional National Council as the legitimate Shirley B. Gordon Award of Distinction from school system, graduated high school and governing authority of Libya on July 15, it Phi Theta Kappa, the national honor society gone on to college. It continues to be a cor- paved the way for the Council to access some for two year colleges. nerstone in my beloved East Harlem Commu- of the frozen assets to be used for humani- Tom holds a Bachelor of Science from St. nity for families who would otherwise not be tarian relief and reconstruction efforts. With Louis University and a Master of Arts from the able to afford quality services for their children the Qaddafi regime at an end and the dictator University of San Francisco. He has been an and have no place to turn. Their programs himself on the run and in hiding, the United educator on the San Francisco Peninsula meet the needs of many who are in desperate States will be moving into a posture that puts since working as a Chemistry teacher in the need of guidance and academic support. The less emphasis on military operations and more Jefferson Union High School District in 1961. small group of young people the learning cen- focus on supporting the Transitional National Since then, Tom has served in nearly every ter started with are all enjoying their careers, Council’s efforts to establish a working govern- capacity an educator can—teacher, principal, their families, and their lives. They have over- ment. assistant superintendent, superintendent and come poverty and beaten the odds. The United States should pursue with the most recently, college president. Booker T. could not exist if it were not for Council the viability of using some of those as- Ironically, Tom thought he had retired six people who believe in our youngsters and sets to reimburse NATO members for the cost years ago when he left the San Mateo Union their work. They are most fortunate in having of their military operations in support of the High School District. But, ever the public serv- the most dedicated group of staff and volun- Libyan people. I urge my colleagues to sup- ant, when his community came calling, Tom teers that continue to ensure that Booker T. port this resolution. answered. He agreed to serve as Can˜ada’s offers quality enrichment programs that move f President on an interim basis, not knowing people from poverty and despair to independ- IN RECOGNITION OF THE 50TH that it would stretch into a six-year commit- ence and hope. ANNIVERSARY OF BRISBANE ment. Mr. Speaker, I ask that you and my col- Mr. Speaker, everyone in this body knows leagues join me in celebrating with the staff HON. JACKIE SPEIER that there are no easy solutions to improving and wonderful volunteers at the Booker T. OF CALIFORNIA education in America. Were it only possible to Washington Learning Center on their mile- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES clone a thousand or so Tom Mohrs, our na- stone. Let’s encourage others to help pro- tion’s students would, indeed, be in capable grams like these to ensure that they continue Wednesday, September 14, 2011 hands. Since we can’t do that, we are best to offer a helping hand to our fragile families Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to cele- served to simply follow his example and learn and make certain that each child in our great brate the 50th anniversary of the city of Bris- from the many lessons this lifelong educator nation find a second home, a second family, bane, California. Nestled in the lower slopes of has taught us. and a second school in our learning institu- San Bruno Mountain, ‘‘the City of Stars’’ f tions. stands as a symbol of light in the Bay Area. f Back in the sixth century the Ohlone Indians PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE BOOKER enjoyed the abundance of resources the land T. WASHINGTON LEARNING CEN- INTRODUCING A RESOLUTION RE- offered. They thrived as hunters and gatherers TER ON THEIR 25TH ANNIVER- GARDING THE USE OF LIBYA’S until the Spanish conquistadores claimed the SARY FROZEN ASSETS land in the early 16th century. The deed to the land changed hands sev- HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL HON. ALCEE L. HASTINGS eral times before any significant development OF NEW YORK OF FLORIDA occurred. The need for real estate triggered by IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake brought new focus to the valley. Developers immersed Wednesday, September 14, 2011 Wednesday, September 14, 2011 themselves in the area with new vigor, naming Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, it is with great Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I their new hope for future growth ‘‘Visitacion enthusiasm that I rise to congratulate The rise to introduce a resolution expressing the City.’’ Booker T. Washington Learning Center as sense of Congress that Libya’s frozen assets It wasn’t until the arrival of Arthur Annis that they reach their 25th milestone. This accom- be used to pay for humanitarian relief and mili- the town finally got off the ground. The plishment has been achieved through dedica- tary operations associated with the current ‘‘Daddy of Brisbane’’ came to the area in tion and committed service to the most vulner- conflict in that country. 1929, bringing hope to an area that des- able children and their families in my Congres- Since Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi re- perately needed it. During the worst years of sional District. sponded to peaceful demonstrations by attack- the Great Depression, Annis encouraged set- Since 1986, thousands of families have ing Libya’s own citizens, the United States has tlement and development through extremely found support, opportunity and resources that been actively engaged with our international cheap land prices. Between 1929 and 1933, have made a life-changing difference through allies in thwarting the ability of the Qaddafi re- over 400 homes were built.

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My staff and I are each deeply af- its origins, the name Brisbane has come to fected by her loss. mean a city that draws its strength from hope, HON. CHARLES A. GONZALEZ I am honored to have been one of the many even in the darkest times. OF TEXAS people touched by Sherri’s kindness and gen- This strong spirit can be seen in the tradi- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES erosity. Sherri lived the principle of gratitude— tion from which Brisbane draws its nickname, Wednesday, September 14, 2011 always expressing her appreciation to others the ‘‘City of Stars.’’ In 1940, Brisbane pre- Mr. GONZALEZ. Mr. Speaker, I ask my col- and making them feel valued. Sherri was per- pared to employ its citizens in the ongoing war leagues to join me in recognizing Margaret petually positive and instantly brought a smile efforts and the future was once again uncer- Fuentes Gonzalez Zepeda on the occasion of to all those with whom she came in contact. tain. Resident Arthur Kennedy struck out her 96th birthday and tribute at the Guadalupe Her love of life and sincere caring was con- against the doubt by placing a simple star Community Center in San Antonio, Texas. tagious and welcomed by all. above his house for the holiday season. Soon, Born in 1915 Margaret ‘‘Margarita’’ Gon- Sherri was involved in politics for all the this symbol of brightness could be found zalez was the daughter of Simon Gonzalez right reasons. She was the first volunteer in above many a house, and the tradition lives and Maria Fuentes Gonzalez. Margaret and Jon Huntsman’s 2004 gubernatorial campaign, on today during every Christmas. her family grew up in San Antonio, and in April she was a prolific grass roots organizer, orga- The city was incorporated in 1961. Since in- 1931, she married Manuel Zepeda, a union nizing the efforts to incorporate Taylorsville as corporation, Brisbane has had twenty-five that would last 44 years, produce three girls a city, and she was a stalwart employee serv- mayors, including John Turner, James Wil- and one boy. ing all who needed assistance. Sherri simply liams, Jess Salmon, Ed Schwenderlauf, John Margaret worked for the San Antonio Hous- wanted to help people and strengthen our Bell, Robert McLennan, S.J. Guardino, Julius ing Authority for over 20 years and rose to the community. She was known and loved by peo- Stern, Anja Miller, Art Montenegro, Paul position of Assistant Manager. Additionally, ple all across the Salt Lake Valley. But no Goercke, Jeannine Hodge, Don Bradshaw, Margaret was extremely active in the commu- more so than by the five loving children she Fred Smith, Bill Lawrence, Ray Miller, Lou nity, and she used sports as a method to and her husband Kent raised together. Graham, Steve Waldo, Brad Kerwin, Lee mentor San Antonio youth. Through sports Sherri Winder leaves behind a legacy of Panza, Clara Johnson, W. Clarke Conway, Margaret developed a strong sense of dis- service and gratitude. She is survived by her Cyril Bologoff, Michael Barnes, and Sepi Rich- cipline that she took to the Guadalupe Com- husband, Kent, and their five adult children, ardson. munity Center and to the City of San Antonio Mike and Karyn Winder, Aimee and Matt New- Brisbane also holds the distinction of being as a recreation leader. ton, Tami and Tom Larsen, Nathan Winder, the first community in the United States in After retirement Margaret accelerated her and Isaac and Candalyn Winder, as well as 11 which a habitat conservation plan (HCP) was own participation in sports, and in the late grandchildren with one on the way. developed. This historic plan, developed in the 1980s began her journey into the Senior On behalf of both my staff and the constitu- 1980s, helped to save the Mission Blue but- Olympics. Since 1990 Margaret has partici- ents of the Third Congressional District who terfly and the Callippe Silverspot butterfly. The pated in Senior Olympics in a variety of sports were served so well by Sherri, I extend my HCP served as a model for an amendment to including: bowling; walking; horse shoes; soft- deepest sympathies to Kent and his family. the Endangered Species Act. In addition to ball and football for accuracy and distance; Our thoughts and prayers go out to them dur- legal protections related to land use, Bris- and each year has qualified for the National ing this most difficult time. bane’s fog and ample rains succor the flora Games. At the age of 96, Margaret has won And although we mourn the loss of Sherri at needed to create an environment in which over 100 gold and silver medals. She has this time, we will always celebrate her brilliant these and other species of butterflies may been to the National Games in Baton Rouge, life, cherish her wonderful friendship, strive to roam largely unmolested over 3,000 acres of Louisiana (twice); San Antonio, Texas; Tuc- emulate her amazing qualities, and work as undeveloped land. son, Arizona; Orlando, Florida and has she did to improve the world and community Brisbane’s reputation as a can-do commu- brought home the Gold or Silver (Tucson) around us. She will be sincerely missed, but nity received national attention in 1990 when every time. her profound legacy will never be forgotten. residents came together to rescue Humphrey, Margaret Zepeda has a ‘‘never give up’’ f a disoriented humpback whale who regularly spirit that impacted the self worth of each child SURFACE AND AIR TRANSPOR- became stranded at various locations around she mentored. She instilled in them pride and San Francisco Bay. When Humphrey found TATION PROGRAMS EXTENSION discipline, and an understanding that love and ACT OF 2011 himself stuck on an embayment very close to command of sports was the great equalizer. Brisbane’s Sierra Point, hundreds of Brisbane For her half century of community work and SPEECH OF citizens gathered to cheer the Coast Guard leadership to the children of San Antonio, I and Humphrey onward towards the whale’s join in celebrating the tribute hosted at the HON. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN successful extraction. Guadalupe Community Center by the cadre of OF MARYLAND Brisbane hosts a thriving economy including successful women who began their lives under IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a booming biotechnology sector, a popular the tutorage of Margaret Fuentes Gonzalez harbor for private boats, and other more tradi- Tuesday, September 13, 2011 Zepeda. tional businesses such as a 100-year-old man- Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to ufacturer of fruit juices, A.C. Calderoni. Even- f support the Surface and Air Transportation tually, Brisbane will likely also be the site of a TRIBUTE TO SHERRI WINDER Programs Extension Act, which would author- booming clean tech energy sector as the city ize surface transportation programs through redevelops vast parcels of unused lands near HON. JASON CHAFFETZ March and the Federal Aviation Administration the bay. Brisbane’s economy is so vibrant that OF UTAH through January. the population of the city doubles during the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, workday. the construction sector faced 13.5 percent un- While not every step in its history has been Wednesday, September 14, 2011 employment in August. The programs we au- easy, its residents have always pressed to- Mr. CHAFFETZ. Mr. Speaker, today I honor thorize in this bill create the projects to help wards the future. Even as it has grown from Sherri Winder, a beautiful and devoted wife, put this industry back to work—to rebuild its decidedly humble origins to its current pop- mother, grandmother, and excellent member roads and bridges, renovate airports, and ex- ulation of 4,282 residents, the sense of family of my staff. Sherri passed away on Sunday, pand mass transit options. These are good and community that spurred its development September 11th, 2011 in a tragic car accident jobs, here at home, that improve efficiency has never diminished. in southern Utah. We are all stunned by the and economic competitiveness. Mr. Speaker, I ask this body to join me in sudden and devastating loss of this wonderful But this bill is not enough. We cannot con- celebrating the history and future of the city of woman. tinue short-term extensions and stop-gap

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JC for those FAA employees who were fur- was a member of President-elect Bill Clinton’s HON. JO BONNER loughed through no fault of their own when Transition Team and has led efforts to ensure OF ALABAMA Congress failed to extend authorization this cooperative working relationships between IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES summer. It is important to make these workers other governments and the Seneca people. Wednesday, September 14, 2011 whole, and we should work quickly to provide You know, Mr. Speaker, we all are a prod- retroactive pay. uct of our upbringing, and JC is no different. Mr. BONNER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay Mr. Speaker, we need an ambitious agenda JC’s father, William Seneca, an ironworker tribute to the life of a truly great American, Mr. of investment that will put Americans back to and World War II Marine veteran, served hon- R. Cater Lee, of Gulf Shores, Alabama, who work, repair our crumbling infrastructure, and orably as President of the Seneca Nation, and passed away on August 13, 2011, at the age jumpstart our economy. We need a long-term later served as Special Liaison Officer for the of 90. reauthorization of these critical programs. The Bureau of Indian Affairs. JC’s mom practiced Mr. Lee was a veteran of World War II and American people are waiting—it’s time to get nursing, and was later elected Clerk of the a member of America’s ‘‘Greatest Generation’’ the job done. Seneca Nation. Without question, JC’s parents who helped to liberate Europe from Nazi tyr- f served as a strong example for the value of anny. He flew 31 missions with the 448th public service and instilled in him a dedication Bomb Group, Second Air Division, of the PERSONAL EXPLANATION to make contributions back to his own commu- Eighth Air Force in the European Theatre. He nity. As a result, all of those who comprise all proudly served as a bombardier and navigator HON. JACKIE SPEIER of his communities—on a large or small aboard the B–24 Liberator. For his courage OF CALIFORNIA scale—are better for the contributions he con- and service he was awarded the Distinguished IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tinues to make. Flying Cross and the Air Medal with four Oak JC’s new enterprise will add dozens of addi- Leaf Clusters. Mr. Lee so loved his country Wednesday, September 14, 2011 tional names to the list of employees—native that he continued to serve in the U.S. Air Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Speaker, I would like to and non-native—for whom he has helped cre- Force Reserves during the Korean War, at- state for the record that my vote against the ate jobs in Western New York. That is why, taining the rank of Major. Holt amendment to the Empowering Parents Mr. Speaker, I urge you to join with me and After his service to his country, Mr. Lee through Quality Charter Schools Act was with all Western New Yorkers in wishing the came home to Alabama, eventually settling in made in error. I strongly support this amend- very best of luck to JC Seneca upon the open- Birmingham, where in 1966 he was one of the ment that requires the Secretary of Education ing of the new Armor Inn Tap Room, and to co-founders of Vulcan, Inc. He would serve as to give priority to schools that make invest- thank JC and his family for the many signifi- president of the company for twenty years. At ments in green building improvements. We cant contributions that they make to life here the time of his death, he was chairman of the must ensure that Federal investments in our in Western New York. board of Vulcan Inc., in Foley. Not only a pa- schools set the highest standard for green f triot and successful businessman, Mr. Lee school building practices. I remain a staunch was also a leader in his community. supporter of green building innovation and I A TRIBUTE TO CHARITY He was a past chairman of the South Bald- look forward to advancing this important cause CAMPBELL win Chamber of Commerce and of the Gulf in Congress. Shores Water Board. He was a former mem- f HON. TOM LATHAM ber of the Gulf Shores City Council and recipi- OF IOWA ent of the Free Enterprise Person of the Year HONORING J. CONRAD (JC) SENECA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Award. Mr. Lee’s love of country was only ri- ON HIS NEW RESTAURANT, THE valed by his love of family, community, and Wednesday, September 14, 2011 ARMOR INN TAP ROOM golf. He served as president of Gulf Shores Mr. LATHAM. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to Golf Club for many years. HON. BRIAN HIGGINS recognize Ms. Charity Campbell, a Norwalk Mr. Lee cherished all four generations of his OF NEW YORK physical education teacher known for her lead- family. The loss of Mr. Lee is one that should IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ership and high expectations, in receiving the be mourned throughout the state and nation, 2012 Iowa Teacher of the Year Award from Wednesday, September 14, 2011 as he was the embodiment of American ideals Governor Terry Branstad. of patriotism, hard work and giving back to Mr. HIGGINS. Mr. Speaker, today I rise Along with teaching sixth and seventh grade one’s community. today to honor J. Conrad (JC) Seneca upon physical education at Norwalk Middle School, On behalf of the people of South Alabama, the occasion of the opening of his new res- Ms. Campbell is the Norwalk Middle School I offer condolences to his daughter, Linda Lee taurant, the Armor Inn Tap Room, in Western girls’ track coach and girls’ varsity track coach Koniar and her husband, John, and his two New York. at Norwalk High School. It’s her outstanding sons, Bubba and his wife, Cheryl, and Tommy An entrepreneur with a diversified portfolio leadership qualities in addition to skills in and his wife, Sandra. Mr. Lee had eight grand- of business interests, JC recently purchased physical education that make her special to children and seven great-grandchildren, all of the former Hoak’s Armor Inn, located in the the Norwalk community. whom he loved with all his heart. My thoughts town of Hamburg. That establishment has un- For example, Ms. Campbell helped her craft and prayers go out to all his family. dergone a tremendous rehabilitation, and will and create a mentoring program for first-year f feature upscale dining in an historical atmos- teachers at Norwalk schools. She instructs phere. Located where it is, it is certain to draw teachers how to use activities that will in- VOTE ON H.R. 2587, PROTECTING the attention of Buffalo Bills fans, tourists and crease the student’s hands-on learning di- JOBS FROM GOVERNMENT IN- the local community. rected at helping them focus and succeed in TERFERENCE ACT None of this comes as much of a surprise, the classroom. however, because JC has been a substantial In 2010, Ms. Campbell’s physical education HON. DANIEL WEBSTER member of our community throughout his life. program was named as a top observation pro- OF FLORIDA A native of the Cattaraugus Reservation in Ir- gram through PE4Life, a nonprofit organization IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ving, JC was a multi-sport star athlete while at dedicated to improve children’s health and Silver Creek High School. After graduation, JC wellness in their everyday lives. Wednesday, September 14, 2011 served with honor and distinction with the I am honored to represent Ms. Campbell in Mr. WEBSTER. Mr. Speaker, on Thursday, United States Air Force, eventually studying at the United States Congress, and I wish her September 15, 2011, I will be absent and un- Bryant and Stratton and at Buffalo State Col- the best in her continuing service to the Nor- able to cast my vote in favor of H.R. 2587, the lege. walk community. I know my colleagues in the Protecting Jobs from Government Interference

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I was saddened by Dave’s Red Army Faction, RAF, and other German conducting classified collection and special op- death on September 8, 2011, which came based terrorism groups. He was also assigned erations support regarding terrorists just after soon after his diagnosis with ALS (Lou to the Army’s New York City Resident Office the 9/11 attacks. Gehrig’s disease). Although I wish to cast my during a critical period when foreign terrorists During his two undercover combat tours in vote in favor of H.R. 2587, my long-time were targeting the United States. Afghanistan, he participated in the search for friendship with Dave and his wife, Wendy, re- In 1988 he attended training at ‘‘The Farm’’ senior Al Qaeda leadership in Afghanistan and quires me to attend the memorial service in where he graduated first in his class of the is credited for helping to break the back of the Dave’s honor. Military Operations Training Course, MOTC, at Taliban’s first attempt to return to power in Af- I support the Protecting Jobs from Govern- Camp Perry, VA. ghanistan. ment Interference Act, and I voted in favor of He was promoted to Captain in 1990 and Col. Shaffer received the Bronze Star H. Res. 372, the rule for H.R. 2587, in the was brought to active duty by the Army for the Medal, BSM, for performance as an Oper- Rules Committee hearing held on July 26, first Gulf War in 1991 where he worked to de- ations Officer of the HUMINT Support Detach- 2011. (Rules Committee Record Vote No. velop a key classified program named ment in Afghanistan supporting CJTF 180 and 121.) I strongly believe in the right of Amer- STARWATCHER B. After the conclusion of CJFT 121. ican business owners to make decisions re- the first Gulf War, he was appointed to serve After promotion to lieutenant colonel in garding where and when to conduct business, as the chief of the Army’s global clandestine 2005, he was attached to Navy’s premier and the right of states to determine the best HUMINT collection program, and ran specific counterterrorism think-tank, DEEP BLUE at labor policies for their citizens. I oppose ex- the Special Access Program, SAP, operation, the Pentagon where he worked on key situa- cessive governmental regulation and inter- unclassified nickname: CAROLINA MORNING, tional awareness and counterterrorism tech- ference by federal executive agencies that do which netted highly significant information that nology and tools. not have the authority to supplant the best was critical to the national leadership during In 2005 to 2006, Tony worked with the U.S. operational judgment of businesses in their the 1990s. Congress and testified on multiple issues that He was the senior HUMINT advisor to the employment, production, location, and other relate to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and intel- J2/Senior Intelligence Officer of Joint Inter- investment decisions. Recently, the National ligence failures. agency Task Force East, JIATF–E. JIATF–E Labor Relations Board has taken unprece- In 2006 he was assigned to and com- conducted counter-drug operations in the dented, protectionist actions on behalf of labor manded the Special Troops Battalion, STB, of Transit Zone between Columbia and the unions that fly in the face of federalism, and the 9th Theater Support Command, Ft. United States southern border. During this tour this cannot be allowed to continue. I am proud Belvoir, VA. he was successful in integrating highly spe- to represent the constituents of the 8th Con- He was then, in 2007, selected to serve as gressional District of Florida, which is a right- cialized hybrid technology/human intelligence operations to obtain high value intelligence in- the G6/Senior Information Officer, Anti-Ter- to-work state, and I will continue to oppose ef- rorism Officer and Public Affairs Officer of the forts to impede American private enterprise, formation to support the operational forces. In 1995, Tony transitioned to Defense Intel- 94th Division, Force Sustainment, Ft Lee, capitalism, and economic freedom. VA—the 94th Division was re-activated in Mr. Speaker, I would have voted ‘‘yea’’ in ligence Agency, DIA, as part of the consolida- 2008 and was one of Gen George Patton’s favor of H.R. 2587, had I been present, rather tion of all Service, Army, Navy, Air Force, and key divisions that participated in the Battle of than in Florida for the memorial service for my USMC, controlled HUMINT into the Depart- the Bulge, Ardennes, in 1944–45. He re- friend, David Bitner, in support of his wife, ment of Defense. mained with the 94th Division until he reached Wendy. He created and directed Task Force STRA- his mandatory retirement date, MRD, in July of f TUS IVY—a one-of-a-kind special mission task force that harnessed the skills of officers 2011. HONORING LT. COL. ANTHONY from the National Security Agency, NSA, Army He continues to serve this great nation SHAFFER, SENIOR INTEL- Intelligence and Defense Intelligence Agency through his work at the Center for Advanced LIGENCE OFFICER, UNITED that conducted direct support to Department of Defense Studies where, as a Senior Fellow, STATES ARMY RESERVE (RE- Defense, Special Operations Command and he continues to influence national defense TIRED) other non-DoD agencies. strategy and policy through research and ad- After his promotion to Major, due to his vocacy of critical national security issues. HON. WALTER B. JONES highly sought after skills, he was assigned to Over these three decades Lt. Col. Shaffer has served with distinction and unmatched OF NORTH CAROLINA serve at both the HUMINT Support Element, willingness to conduct high risk operations, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HSE, at both Special Operations Command, SOCOM, and the Joint Special Operations while always recognizing the ethical and moral Wednesday, September 14, 2011 Command, JSOC. He also served as a team responsibly of his office. Mr. JONES. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to rise leader of classified element that provided di- Lt. Col. Shaffer’s keen operational judgment today to honor Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, Military rect support to the Director of Operations of and dynamic leadership has contributed sub- Intelligence Corps, for his twenty-five years of Defense HUMINT Service, DHS. stantially to the development of critical national service as a field intelligence operative aid During this period of his career he partici- level intelligence capabilities—many of which more than three decades of service to the na- pated in multiple highly classified operations— remain in operation today. His influence over tion in both the Army National Guard and the most notable, a project known as ABLE national defense and security is indelible and Army Reserve. DANGER—the controversial counterterrorism significant—his service has constantly worked Col. Shaffer’s extensive career started in operation that was designed to detect, de- to identify threats and then develop capability January 1981, while still in high school, when grade and counter Al Qaeda capabilities that to protect the American people. He consist- he enlisted in the Ohio Army National Guard. was successful in detecting Al Qaeda cells op- ently worked to influence national intelligence He went on to graduate from Wright State erating within the United States before the policy and capabilities to insure the security of University in 1986. And this year, 2011, Col. 9/11 attacks. the American people and has done so in Shaffer was chosen as their College of Liberal He had two peacetime overseas deploy- keeping with the highest traditions of the U.S. Arts Alumnus of the Year. ments—the first to Thailand where he was at- Army. Col. Shaffer’s storied career has been dis- tached to the III Marine Expeditionary Force, On behalf of my colleagues on both sides of tinguished by his willingness and ability to MEF, to attend Exercise COBRA GOLD 1991; the aisle, I would like to recognize Col. work at the cutting edge of our nation’s intel- the second to New Zealand with attachment to Shaffer’s outstanding accomplishments, coura- ligence community. He has successfully en- the New Zealand Defense Force for Joint geous attitude and past and present devotion deavored to adapt new technology and use Warrior Interoperability Demonstration in mid to this nation. I wish to congratulate him, his these capabilities to ensure the protection of 2001. wife Rina, and sons Alexander and Ryan on the American people. It is likely that most of Just after the 9/11 attacks, in December the completion of long and distinguished ca- Lt. Col. Shaffer’s work will never be fully rec- 2001, he was returned to active duty for a 30- reer.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 04:04 Sep 15, 2011 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A14SE8.020 E14SEPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS E1630 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks September 14, 2011 HONORING MACK STRONG AND devastating future which may close thousands facility closures in the second year. It also ZOE HIGHEAGLE-STRONG of post offices, eliminate hundreds of mail ends Saturday deliveries. processing facilities, lay off 120,000 of their Mr. Speaker, 6-day delivery is an important HON. DAVID G. REICHERT colleagues, cut their pay, and end their collec- service that the USPS provides to the Amer- OF WASHINGTON tive bargaining rights. ican people and is vital to its long-term sus- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Each day, the USPS processes an average tainability. Ending Saturday deliveries reduces of 584 million pieces of mail and delivers to incentive for the American people to send mail Wednesday, September 14, 2011 146 million addresses. In my home State of through USPS and would lead to more jobs Mr. REICHERT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in California alone, there are a total of 38,000 lost and larger reductions in service. recognition of a husband-and-wife team filled active and retired letter carriers. If Saturday delivery ends, it is possible that with love, faith, and determination. I’m proud These employees are fixtures within their 80,000 full- and part-time jobs could be elimi- to call them constituents and friends and I’m communities and are some of the most dedi- nated. At a time when we are still recovering honored to be able to recognize their efforts cated, hardworking people out there. That is from the worst economic recession since the on this floor today. why I have been a strong advocate for letter Great Depression, now is not the time to put Mack Strong and Zoe Higheagle-Strong will carriers throughout my career in public serv- thousands of jobs in jeopardy. be honored on Saturday evening, September ice. The USPS estimates that cutting deliveries 17 by the Association of Washington Generals The United States Postal Service offers the on Saturday will cut costs by 5 percent, but as the Washingtonians of the Year. Mack and most affordable postage in the industrialized will slash mail delivery by 17 percent. Clearly Zoe earned the honor by founding and leading world, while being able to sustain efficient de- the money saved by eliminating Saturday de- the TEAM–WORKS Academy, a program that livery schedules at no expense to the tax- livery is negligible and does not justify the ‘‘develops strong minds, strong bodies, and payer. lapse in efficiency and the loss of jobs that strong character in underserved youth.’’ Established in 1775, the Postal Service and would certainly follow. Founded in 2002 by Mack and Zoe, TEAM– the thousands of families who depend on it Reducing mail delivery service to 5 days a WORKS Academy grew out of many years of now face an unprecedented crisis. week would cause delays in the delivery of dedicated community service and a strong be- Since 2006, an unsustainable retiree mail and would inevitably lead to increased lief in the validity of their vision for the future. healthcare system has saddled the USPS with costs due to the overtime Postal Service work- I am thankful that Mack, a graduate of the a $5.5 billion overcharge to be paid in full at ers will be forced to endure in order to handle University of Georgia and a longtime fullback the beginning of every year. Based on the backlog of mail. It is also vital for seniors of the Seattle Seahawks, put down roots in longterm projections which are routinely called who depend on mail-order prescription drugs the community. His selfless and tireless work into question, this fund has established an and small businesses that need Saturday de- on behalf of at-risk youth in my District and enormous, unused surplus, estimated by the livery to meet payroll. beyond is an inspiration. And his wonderful Postal Regulatory Commission and the In- Most importantly, ending Saturday service wife Zoe, a member of the Nez Perce tribe spector General of the Postal Service to be will remove the Postal Service’s key strategic and the Executive Director of TEAM–WORKS, between $55–75 billion. advantage over its competitors and result in a is an inspiration to us all. The tandem of Mack No other Federal agency or private business massive loss of revenue for the program. and Zoe in the Puget Sound region represent is forced to pre-fund retiree health benefits in We can’t allow House Republicans to pur- an unstoppable force in the betterment of our this manner. Since it is not funded by tax- sue an agenda that threatens the wellbeing of communities, schools, and families. payers, this requirement puts the USPS at a thousands of working families in California and It is clear that TEAM–WORKS is having a distinct competitive disadvantage. Fixing this across the Nation. They want to turn back the positive effect on the young people it directly problem would allow the Postal Service to clock on the progress that has been made serves. Over and over again, I hear stories compete more effectively with the private sec- over the last century to ensure that American and see the results of improved performance tor and return to profitability. workers have the right to organize and de- in the classroom and on the field of play. Without this mandate, the USPS would have mand fair wages and benefits. Mack, an accomplished athlete, believes that actually been profitable to the tune of $611 We cannot stand by while thousands of the link between consistent physical activity million over the last 4 years, saving its $15 bil- American workers lose their jobs, and House and school performance in our young people lion line of credit from the U.S. Treasury to Democrats are putting forth solutions that will is a strong one. I couldn’t agree more. I think ride out the bad economy. Instead, the entire take immediate steps to end this crisis without the tactics of TEAM–WORKS should be rep- agency, which has not taken taxpayer funds cutting jobs or resorting to taxpayer funded licated across this Nation. Mack and Zoe are for 30 years, is facing default. Its line of credit bailouts. doing remarkable things. Reading and math is nearly exhausted. Take for instance H.R. 1351, the United scores are up. Relationships at home have Mr. Speaker, the real financial struggles at States Postal Service Obligation Recalculation never been better. TEAM–WORKS is a god- USPS do not stem from the cost of labor, but and Restoration Act of 2011, which would re- send and Mack and Zoe show no signs of from the 2006 congressional mandate requir- align the Postal Service’s retiree health slowing down. ing the USPS to pre-fund future retiree bene- prefunding schedule to a larger time period Again, Mr. Speaker, please join me in fits. consistent with what the Postal Service can af- thanking Mack and Zoe for their efforts and Unfortunately, House Republicans are bent ford. It would do this by first establishing the congratulate them on their well deserved on destroying the Postal Service as we know exact size of the surplus and then transferring honor. They truly represent the best of the it and using this crisis as an opportunity to it to the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits State of Washington. In addition, Mr. Speaker, weaken collective bargaining rights. Fund where it belongs. I want to thank the Association of Washington The House Oversight and Government Re- Furthermore, when the Post Office Depart- Generals for recognizing their efforts and pro- form Committee conducted a hearing in April ment became the Postal Service in 1971, em- viding Mack and Zoe with the kind of official entitled: ‘‘Are Postal Workforce Costs Sustain- ployees who belonged to the Federal pension recognition too many of our best community able?’’ Led by Committee Chairman DARRELL fund started contributing to the new Postal leaders go without. ISSA, this hearing was held to investigate a re- Service. For employees who worked for both f cent agreement between the USPS and the the Post Office Department and the Postal American Postal Workers Union. Service, the Federal and the postal pension IN SUPPORT OF THE WORKERS OF Chairman ISSA’s decision to hold a hearing funds shared responsibility. However, the Fed- THE UNITED STATES POSTAL to scrutinize and interfere with the collective eral fund paid for retirements based on 1971 SERVICE bargaining process represents a dangerous salaries, not final salaries. In essence, the precedent that could lead to more GOP inter- Federal fund collected full contributions, but HON. LAURA RICHARDSON ference in labor-management agreements. paid only partial benefits. The USPS was OF CALIFORNIA In June, Chairman ISSA proposed H.R. shortchanged $75 billion as a result of this IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2309, the Postal Reform Act of 2011, which error. would establish a ‘‘solvency authority’’ with the H.R. 1351 takes necessary steps to correct Wednesday, September 14, 2011 power to unilaterally cut wages, abolish bene- this by altering the methodology used to deter- Ms. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise in fits, and end protection against unfair layoffs. mine the allocation of costs for retirement ben- support of the 685,000 workers of the United It orders $1 billion worth of post office closures efits between the Federal government and the States Postal Service (USPS), who face a in the first year and another $1 billion worth of USPS. By making these changes, Congress

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And, in Gilliard is the CEO of Savannah Feed the mote the value of the services that the work- 2003, he was honored with the Award of Grat- Hungry where twice a week he offers a short ers of the United States Postal Service pro- itude from the Semmes Community Park. message of encouragement and prayers to vide to millions of Americans every day. Professionally, he was an active member of the hundreds who come seeking food at the H.R. 1351 is supported by the National As- the Associated General Contractors (AGC) newly opened Life Center. sociation of Letter Carriers, the National Asso- and the Associated Builders & Contractors. He I congratulate Reverend Gilliard on his ciation of Postal Supervisors, the American was a board member of the Mobile Water and many years of service. He has devoted his life Postal Workers Union, the National Rural Let- Sewer Board, the Abba Shrine Temple, Trade and time to helping others and continues to ter Carriers’ Association and the National Builder’s Association and Woodman of the make invaluable contributions to the city of Postal Mail Handlers Union. Advocating for World. His considerable involvement with con- Savannah and the state of Georgia, and I wish working people is very personal and important tracting gave him the opportunity to play a him many more years to come. to me. You see, you are looking at a Member major role in numerous construction and ren- f of Congress who had the opportunity to have ovation projects like the Mobile Convention a mother who was part of a bargaining unit, Center and Mobile Government Plaza, the res- CONGRESS NEEDS A FRESH, who was a member of a union. toration of the historic Alabama Capitol in BIPARTISAN START She had an opportunity to have someone Montgomery, and the Beau Rivage Resort and advocate on behalf of not only herself, but her Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. HON. DALE E. KILDEE two daughters as well. And because my moth- Melvin Pierce was the epitome of a commu- OF MICHIGAN er had that support, she was able to send her nity-minded businessman and volunteer and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES daughters to good schools, she was able to his involvement in so many different aspects Wednesday, September 14, 2011 put braces on our teeth, and she was able to of South Alabama will be hard to replace. In ensure that, yes, that little girl back in Los An- addition to possessing a charitable heart and Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, I submit for the geles, California, would have an opportunity to an unequalled love of community, he helped RECORD, a thoughtful, clear and eloquent opin- one day become a Member of Congress. found the Christmas parade, Azalea Festival, ion piece written for The Washington Post by Now more than ever, postal workers, teach- Easter Egg Hunt and a food pantry in my friend Congressman JOHN DINGELL. As the ers, firefighters, police officers and all other Semmes. Dean of the House and one of the hardest public employees must stand together to pro- On behalf of the people of South Alabama, working members of this body, Congressman tect their jobs and their families, in California I would like to extend my deepest condo- DINGELL has seen many Congresses come and across America. lences to his wife of 50 years, Evelyn, as well and go and has witnessed countless suc- Mr. Speaker, the alternative to H.R. 1351 is as his surviving children, George, David, cesses and failures. His wisdom and experi- a violent downgrade of Postal Service oper- Deborah, Jay, Regina and Rebecca, as well ence is unmatched. Every member of Con- ations which would cost tens of thousands of as his grandchildren, and his family and gress, and those who aspire to be, will benefit jobs immediately. Between their recent willing- friends. You are all in our thoughts and pray- from reading this and historians will find this ness to hold the nation’s economy hostage for ers. article valuable in understanding the changes spending cuts and their attacks on worker’s f that have take place in Congress throughout rights in Wisconsin, it appears that House Re- the 20th century. It certainly is an important publicans would risk a total shutdown of the HONORING REVEREND CARL document that will continue to be a source of Postal Service if it meant further weakening GILLIARD FOR TWENTY-EIGHT information about Congress for years to come. YEARS OF SERVICE the rights of public sector unions. [From the Washington Post, Sept. 9, 2011] That is why I stand with 192 of my col- CONGRESS NEEDS A FRESH, BIPARTISAN START leagues in our support for the thousands who HON. JACK KINGSTON (By John D. Dingell) play an essential role in connecting our people OF GEORGIA and building our communities. We cannot af- I am saddened by what I heard when I was IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES home for the August congressional recess. ford to lose so many jobs and hard-won bene- Wednesday, September 14, 2011 The American people are fed up with finger- fits by failing to act on a common sense fix to pointing, blame games and infighting by all an immediate crisis. Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to of us in Washington—the president, Congress f recognize Reverend Carl Scott Gilliard for and the media. twenty-eight years of service to the Savannah, They are angry and frustrated, and they TRIBUTE TO MR. MELVIN E. Georgia community. Reverend Gilliard, a na- want Congress to do its constitutional duty. PIERCE tive of Savannah, has been diligently working Only 12 percent think we are doing a proper to make Georgia a better place through his job. It is easy to see why the public is losing HON. JO BONNER leadership, community service and passion. confidence in the federal government. Reverend Gilliard has dedicated his life to In our debates over the fiscal 2011 spending OF ALABAMA bill and the debt limit, Congress put off its IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES helping others and serving his community. duties until the eleventh hour in favor of A graduate of Alfred Ely Beach High School Wednesday, September 14, 2011 partisan squabbling and stubborn political and Morris Brown College, he first became ac- games. I am ashamed of our performance—of Mr. BONNER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to tive in civic affairs in 1984 when he served as us all, on both sides of the aisle. As a mem- pay tribute to the memory of a truly wonderful the youth coordinator for the presidential cam- ber of Congress who takes pride in this insti- man, Mr. Melvin E. Pierce, a longtime resident paign of Reverend Jesse Jackson. After work- tution and holds its history and procedures of Semmes, Alabama, who passed away Au- ing with Reverend Jackson, Pastor Gilliard in high regard, I am deeply disappointed by gust 19, 2011, at the age of 73. began his public affairs talk show, ‘‘Tell It Like the unwillingness of members of all parties to come together for the common good. Mr. Pierce was a husband, father, friend, an It Is,’’ which became the number-one rated Our Founding Fathers intended no parties entrepreneur and community leader. He wore radio program for ten consecutive years. In when they created this institution. And until many hats over his professional career, and is 1995, Reverend Gilliard was ordained and recently, members took the time to stay in perhaps best known for his successful painting served as pastor of the Miracle Christian Life Washington and learn the substance of business. He began a career in painting as an Center for six years until he was appointed issues, as well as the rules laid out by our apprentice and used his knowledge to later President of the Georgia Coastal Southern forefathers in the Constitution and by pre- found and develop the Melvin Pierce Painting Christian Leadership Conference. vious generations in Congress. We learned Company. He subsequently established Melvin Throughout Reverend Gilliard’s years as a how to draft good, bipartisan bills. Most members of Congress wouldn’t remember, Pierce Marine Coatings, Melvin Pierce Sand- community activist, he has led a variety of and for many Americans this may seem hard blasting, Highway Maintenance, Inc., and successful efforts to improve the lives of his to believe, but there was a time not so very Dothan, Inc. of Semmes. fellow citizens, including founding the Chat- long ago when Republicans and Democrats His community involvement ranged from ham County Youth Commission, chairing Unity worked well together. We worked long hours, president and founding member of ‘‘Friends of in Our Community, starting the Savannah Out typically five days a week or more for

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Members DEBT Through the efforts of Shelly Beaver, Certified didn’t engage in partisan misbehavior for the Therapeutic Recreation Specialist, and Sherri sake of a good Twitter hit or the opportunity HON. MIKE COFFMAN McGregor, Education and Training Specialist to call out the other side on cable news. OF COLORADO at Penn State Altoona, ‘‘Sense-ational En- Rather, members had respect for one another IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES deavors’’ was developed. The program cre- and for the political spectrum. They man- ates a combination of sensory activities, phys- aged to limit outside parties from disrupting Wednesday, September 14, 2011 ical movement, and social skill development. the legislative process for political gain. We in Congress are tearing our country Mr. COFFMAN of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, In addition to therapeutic programs, campers apart and weakening the foundation estab- today our national debt is engage in recreational activities and exercise lished by great leaders before us. Is anyone $14,717,868,058,346.24. tailored to their ability. Both Shelly and Sherri in Congress truly proud that we have not On January 6, 2009, the start of the 111th have dedicated their lives to enriching the produced a budget? That we caused the Congress, the national debt was lives of countless children. downgrading of U.S. government securities, $10,638,425,746,293.80. Joe Reed is also the recipient of the as well as appalling disorder and confusion in This means the national debt has increased HealthSouth Advocate Award. Joe is respon- financial markets? Or that this situation by $4,079,442,312,052.44 since then. This sible for bringing a Miracle League to Blair caused the lack of job creation and economic County. The Miracle League provides baseball growth that has contributed to the hopeless- debt and its interest payments we are passing ness and misfortune of millions of Ameri- to our children and all future Americans. for all children with special needs. The field is cans? f constructed using a cushioned rubber surface Wrangling by all parties, from the top with everything flat and level so there is noth- down, cripples our work, and media that en- ‘‘CONSIDER THE POSSIBILITIES’’ ing to trip over. Joe first heard about the Mir- courage confrontation instead of negotiation PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENT acle League during a trip to Moody, Alabama fuel the fire. Being locked into this system AWARD WINNERS while visiting friends in the fall of 2003. About of starting from the far left or the far right two weeks later he read about it in the and then doing just enough for passage may Kiwanis Magazine and knew this was some- get a single bill done, but it’s not a system HON. BILL SHUSTER that produces the best law that does the OF PENNSYLVANIA thing that Blair County needed. He returned to most good for all Americans. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Moody field, and then went to see the This partisan viciousness needs to stop. original Miracle League field in Conyers, Geor- I am ashamed of our recent record. I am Wednesday, September 14, 2011 gia. There, he met with the Executive Director disgusted with our performance, Republican Mr. SHUSTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to of the Miracle League Association, Diane and Democratic alike. There has been failed recognize the winners of the ‘‘Consider the Alford. After getting permission to use the land leadership and, worse, failed following with- Possibilities’’ Personal Achievement award owned by the Kiwanis Club of Eldorado, he in the ranks—and we owe the country far better. My daddy taught me that if God had from the HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital assembled a Board of Directors in early 2004 wanted us to talk more and listen less, he of Altoona, given to encourage and reward and began fundraising and promotion. Joe would have given us two mouths and one ear. personal achievement within its community. raised over $150,000. Construction began in In our most combative moments, we must HealthSouth has presented rehabilitation the fall of 2006. The total cost of the project remember that no cause is greater than this awards to members of their community who was $497,000. Opening day was July 21, institution and the ideals on which it was have remained steadfast in overcoming an ill- 2007 with 24 children. Today they have 125 founded; no single man or woman is greater ness or disability. This year I congratulate: players and over 175 volunteers. than this body and the collective wisdom we Danielle Gibbons and Frank Germino, winners Congratulations to Danielle, Frank, Shelly, are capable of exhibiting. If we hold on to Sherri, and Joe. Their accomplishments are a that core principle, we can make changes of the ‘‘Consider the Possibilities’’ Personal that will be better for Congress as an institu- Achievement Award; and Shelly Beaver, testament to us all that with hard work, per- tion and for the American people. Sherri McGregor, and Joe Reed, winners of sistence, and a big heart, we can overcome We must all help this body improve and the Advocate Award. any hardship. I congratulate each of them on call upon our colleagues to join in doing bet- Danielle Gibbons is the winner of the their perseverance, and I wish them the best ter. It is our duty. If we do not, the people, HealthSouth ‘‘Consider the Possibilities’’ Per- as they continue to overcome illnesses and in their righteous and justified outrage, will sonal Achievement Award. On June 18, 2010, disabilities while setting an example for the get rid of us all—as well they should. I beg Danielle, 37 years old at the time and a single rest of the community. my friends in Congress and the administra- tion to put the interests of this great nation mother of two, was involved in a motor vehicle f accident. Danielle was driving when another before partisan political interests and not let TRIBUTE TO LANCE CPL. TRAVIS vehicle crossed the center line and hit her the rivalries of the past prevent us from act- MICHAEL NELSON ing in ways that will better the future of our head on. The other driver was killed and nation. Danielle was left with life threatening injuries. The writer, a Democrat from Michigan, is Danielle had to be cut out of the car, and was HON. JO BONNER dean of the U.S. House of Representatives transported to the hospital where surgeons OF ALABAMA and a senior member of the House Energy IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and Commerce Committee. were ready to amputate her right leg. Instead, she insisted that she be flown to Pittsburgh Wednesday, September 14, 2011 f where she underwent nine surgeries in order Mr. BONNER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay PERSONAL EXPLANATION to keep her right leg. In October 2010, tribute to Lance Cpl. Travis Michael Nelson Danielle began physical therapy and she who recently lost his life in the service of his HON. ADAM SMITH made remarkable progress. In less than one country. We will always be indebted to his OF WASHINGTON year, she was ambulating independently. sacrifice for our freedom and we join his family IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Danielle has returned to work full time as a and many friends in mourning his loss. nurse practitioner. I commend her for her per- Lance Cpl. Nelson was assigned as a rifle- Wednesday, September 14, 2011 severance and good attitude. man with the 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regi- Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Speaker, on Frank Germino is also the recipient of the ment, 2d Marine Division from Camp Lejeune, Monday, September 12, 2011, I was unable to HealthSouth ‘‘Consider the Possibilities’’ Per- North Carolina. He lost his life during combat be present for recorded votes. Had I been sonal Achievement Award. On October 9, operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan present, I would have voted ‘‘yes’’ on rollcall 2010, Frank’s life was changed forever when on August 18, 2011, one month after his unit’s vote No. 699 (on the motion to suspend the he fell 12 feet from a tree stand while hunting. arrival. rules and pass H.R. 2076, as amended), Frank broke his back in five places. After a He was a dedicated Marine who loved his ‘‘yes’’ on rollcall vote No. 700 (on the motion five hour surgery, he was told that he would country and loved the Marine Corps. He al- to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 2633, as never walk again due to the extensive damage ways wanted to be a Marine and beginning at

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Mr. Speaker, the attack nearby South Alabama towns of Atmore, HER 104TH BIRTHDAY against our nation ten years ago today was Brewton, East Brewton and Daphne. our generation’s Pearl Harbor. Indeed, in On behalf of the people of Alabama, I wish many ways it was far more infamous. More to extend condolences to his parents, Scott HON. ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON Americans died on September 11th than in the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was an attack not and Beckie Nelson; his brother, Daniel Nelson; OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA his half brother, Chandler Case; sisters, Jenna upon some distant outpost but upon our na- Nelson, and Anna Nelson; and grandmothers, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion’s greatest city and our nation’s capital city. It was an attack not upon heavily armed war- Anna Sanspree and Louise Nelson; as well as Wednesday, September 14, 2011 his fiance, Madeline Cates. ships, but upon defenseless Americans peace- You are all in our thoughts and prayers. Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to fully going about their business. Mr. Speaker, I would like to add to this trib- ask the House of Representatives to join me This atrocity set new records for its ruthless- ute the words of Sherry Digmon, publisher of in celebrating Alyce L. Dixon on her 104th ness and barbarity and depravity. Benjamin Atmore magazine made in honor of Lance birthday on September 11, 2011. Netanyahu called it a ‘‘wake-up call from hell,’’ and that’s exactly what it was. It is appro- Cpl. Nelson. As the nation and the city recalled a tragic ‘‘In tragedy, we come together. Atmore and priate, though, to note one constant that de- day ten years ago that changed the lives of the surrounding area came together in August fines us as a people and that guarantees us many and altered American history, the Dis- as we all mourned the death of Marine Lance that all will come right. I speak of something trict of Columbia celebrated Alyce’s birthday Cpl. Travis Nelson who was killed while on that can only be described as the Spirit of and applauded her for her support to the duty in Afghanistan. He was 19. America. Most of us didn’t know LCpl. Nelson, but we country and to the city. The attack on our nation ten years ago re- all knew him. His was the face of the young Alyce Dixon has spent most of her life as a minded us that the American spirit is still very man who always wanted to be a Marine, who resident of the District of Columbia. After grad- much alive, and that this generation is more loved the flag and country, and who enlisted uating from Paul Lawrence Dunbar Senior than capable of rising to great acts of heroism. to preserve our freedoms. High School, she attended Howard University The attack ten years ago produced a pan- On Friday, August 26, as we waited for the in the District. Ms. Dixon worked at the Lincoln theon of heroes—Americans who had gone funeral procession to make its way down Main Theatre, at an insurance company, and was about their business one peaceful morning, Street from the First Baptist Church to Oak Hill one of the first civilian employees at the Pen- and in a few brief moments found themselves Cemetery, we looked at the people around us, tagon, from which she retired after 35 years of facing well prepared, intractable and barbaric almost all holding flags—the veterans lined up service to the federal government. adversaries. At that fateful moment, they rose to the oc- on the sidewalk in front of the American Le- Alyce Dixon was one of the first women to casion. They resisted with everything they gion building; the kids and the older folks; join the military and one of the first African- had. On December 7th, cooks became gun- people who came out of their businesses and American women to become a member of the ners and nurses passed the ammunition. On stood in the mid afternoon sun. Women’s Army Corps. While in the Army dur- September 11th, office workers became res- The Patriot Guard Riders came to Atmore to ing World War II, Ms. Dixon served as part of accompany the body of LCpl. Nelson and his cue workers and businessmen laid down their the 6888th Postal Battalion in France, Scot- cell phones and took up hand-to-hand combat family from Petty Eastside Chapel Funeral land, and England, where she and other Afri- Home to First Baptist Church, then from the in the skies over Pennsylvania. can-American women sorted mail for soldiers. Centuries from now, Americans will proudly church to Oak Hill Cemetery. My hat is off to Before retiring from the military, Ms. Dixon re- remember the story of the young men and this fine group of men and women on motor- ceived the Good Conduct Medal to commemo- women aboard Flight 93 as it headed for our cycles who show their respect to the fallen rate her service to the Army. She continued to nation’s Capitol: how they responded instantly soldier by honoring and protecting the sanctity serve the public by volunteering at Wash- to their country’s peril — and armed only with of his funeral and burial. ington Hospital Center and Howard University their bare hands stopped cold those who Someone in our group said, ‘‘That’s Amer- Hospital for 12 years. ica.’’ We agreed. And then I said, ‘‘That’s would destroy our nation. In his last words Atmore.’’ As a resident of the Washington, DC VA heard over his cell phone, Todd Beamer This was one event I hope never to witness Medical Center, Alyce is loved by the hospital asked—not just of his fellow passengers, but again—the funeral of a young soldier. I hope staff, personnel, and residents alike. She has of all of his fellow countrymen: ‘‘Are you guys never again to think about how a mama feels the unique ability to bring joy to others, and is ready’’? His answer on behalf of us all was, when she sees the officers standing at her known especially for her bubbly personality ‘‘Then let’s roll.’’ front door. How a fiance´e feels when she finds and comedic storytelling. The memory of firefighters and police offi- cers rushing into the burning buildings as ev- out her intended has been killed. How the Ms. Dixon is a member of Jones Memorial eryone else rushed out personified duty and men in his unit felt when they heard he didn’t United Methodist Church, where she has honor for an entire generation. make it.’’ graced the congregation with inspirations for a For those young people in our nation who long life, filled with joy and laughter. She has f were not alive to experience, or were too also supported D.C. students in their pursuit of PERSONAL EXPLANATION young to remember that day just over ten higher education through generous donations years ago, we have an obligation as a society to church scholarships and youth programs. HON. PETER J. VISCLOSKY to pass on our memories and the lessons we In celebrating this significant milestone, we OF INDIANA learned, purchased at the high price of inno- acknowledge the extraordinary personal quali- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cent life and years of conflict. ties and contributions of Alyce Dixon to her I rise today in recognition of the ongoing Wednesday, September 14, 2011 family and to our community. Her birthday work of the Young America’s Foundation to Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Speaker, on Sep- gives me, her family, and friends, as well as preserve our history for future generations. tember 13, 2011, I was absent from the House the residents of the District of Columbia, an Each year Young America’s Foundation and missed rollcall votes 702 and 703. opportunity to thank her for her many gifts of helps students—many of whom comprise the Had I been present for rollcall 702, on love, friendship, and consideration for others. ‘‘9/11 generation’’—to properly remember the agreeing to the amendment, Holt of New Jer- I ask the House to join me in celebrating the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist at- sey Amendment No. 7 to H.R. 2218, the Em- 104th birthday of Alyce L. Dixon, a special tacks through their 9/11: Never Forget Project. powering Parents through Quality Charter woman whose service to this country and Young America’s Foundation began this pro- Schools Act, I would have voted ‘‘Aye.’’ community is greatly appreciated. gram in 2003.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 04:04 Sep 15, 2011 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\K14SE8.018 E14SEPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS E1634 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks September 14, 2011 Young America’s Foundation works with stu- Mrs. BIGGERT. Mr. Chair, I rise today in HONORING SERGEANT KEVIN dents to establish American flag memorials— support of H.R. 2218, the Empowering Par- GLASER displays consisting of 2,977 American flags ents through Quality Charter Schools Act. representing each person tragically killed in While there is no silver bullet to resolve all HON. JO ANN EMERSON the terrorist attacks. This year, students at the problems facing our nation’s education OF MISSOURI more than 280 schools erected such memo- rials on their school grounds. Students held system, this bill represents a critical step to- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES campus-wide moments of silence or prayer on ward better preparing our children to meet the Wednesday, September 14, 2011 September 11, at 9:11 a.m., hosted patriotic challenges of a 21st century economy. It is also the first major element of reform to be Mrs. EMERSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today speakers and first responders at their schools, in honor of Sergeant Kevin Glaser of Sikeston, and provided 9/11: Never Forget posters and acted on this year by either chamber of Con- gress. Missouri, for his 28 years of dedicated law en- other materials to distribute on the anniver- forcement with the Missouri State Highway sary. Young America’s Foundation is making We all want our kids to be able to attend a Patrol. The people of my congressional district sure that future generations understand the great school. It’s like my father told me, ‘‘If you and the state of Missouri are grateful for events of that horrific day, remember its vic- have a good education, you can accomplish Kevin’s commitment to ridding our commu- tims and remember the many examples of anything.’’ nities of illegal drug activity. courage, patriotism and dedication which For 22 years Kevin has been on the front have, and will continue to inspire so many. That’s why transparent and accountable This tenth anniversary year is not just a time charter schools are so important. They ensure lines of drug enforcement in Missouri as the to memorialize the fallen—as important as that greater access among our children to the leader of the Southeast Missouri, SEMO, Drug is. This upcoming September 11, we humbly high-quality education they deserve. Moreover, Task Force. The SEMO Drug Task Force’s celebrate America’s endurance, strength, and charter schools often operate in flexible and main objective is to crack down drug creation, goodness. In doing so, we will ensure that fu- innovative ways that promote student success. distribution and use through the southern Mis- ture generations will never forget. souri. Kevin commanded the task force for Unfortunately, demand for these opportuni- over 16 years. While we can erect grand edifices and give ties continues to outpace supply. Over speeches about 9/11, it is this simple and Kevin displayed courageous leadership in 400,000 U.S. students remain on waiting lists poignant tribute in remembrance of those we the face of great challenges in the name of for enrollment in charter schools. have lost and all those who serve that speaks safer Missouri communities. As methamphet- loudest across the years. It is my privilege to That’s why I support H.R. 2218, which con- amine use spread across rural America, Kevin rise today and thank the Young America’s tains provisions that will remove barriers to the and his squad made record arrests and sei- Foundation for its ongoing service to our na- establishment of charter schools, improve aca- zures. In fact, over 75 percent of their efforts tion and our posterity. demic performance, and reduce the number of in drug enforcement were fighting the scourge of meth use in southern Missouri. f students waiting for admission. This legislation also establishes commonsense quality con- In a 1997 L.A. Times article, Kevin was EMPOWERING PARENTS THROUGH trols that will protect students and taxpayers quoted as saying: ‘‘It’s hard to imagine a drug QUALITY CHARTER SCHOOLS ACT alike. The bill requires accurate assessments controlling you the way it does . . . They see of schools though independent financial au- their family falling apart, their bodies falling SPEECH OF apart, but the only thing that matters to them dits, and establishes clear academic and per- is the dope.’’ This drug was Kevin’s enemy HON. JUDY BIGGERT formance standards. OF ILLINOIS and the SEMO Drug Task Force’s enemy, and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Following passage in the House, this bill will they fought the enemy tirelessly. Thursday, September 8, 2011 be sent to the Senate, where I hope it re- I am thankful for Kevin’s dedicated service ceives the consideration it deserves. And, with the Missouri State Highway Patrol. I am The House in Committee of the Whole should it be signed into law, I will continue to excited for his retirement, although I hear he House on the state of the Union had under consideration the bill (H.R. 2218) to amend work with my colleagues to monitor its impact is still playing an advisory role with the offi- the charter school program under the Ele- and ensure that our nation’s charter school cers’ training. Kevin, I wish you the very best mentary and Secondary Education Act of system continues to reflect the transparency on this new venture. 1965: and accountability required by this legislation.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 04:04 Sep 15, 2011 Jkt 099060 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K14SE8.020 E14SEPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with REMARKS September 14, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E1635 SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS 2:30 p.m. duction Act, S. 1207, to protect con- Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, Judiciary sumers by requiring reasonable secu- To hold hearings to examine certain rity policies and procedures to protect agreed to by the Senate on February 4, nominations. data containing personal information, 1977, calls for establishment of a sys- SD–226 and to provide for nationwide notice in tem for a computerized schedule of all Appropriations the event of a security breach, S. 1307, meetings and hearings of Senate com- Departments of Labor, Health and Human to authorize the Secretary of Com- mittees, subcommittees, joint commit- Services, and Education, and Related merce to convey real property, includ- tees, and committees of conference. Agencies Subcommittee ing improvements, of the National Oce- This title requires all such committees Business meeting to markup proposed anic and Atmospheric Administration to notify the Office of the Senate Daily budget estimates for fiscal year 2012 for in Ketchikan, Alaska, S. 1401, to con- Digest—designated by the Rules Com- Labor, Health and Human Services, serve wild Pacific salmon, and S. 1430, mittee—of the time, place, and purpose and Education, and Related Agencies. to authorize certain maritime pro- SD–124 grams of the Department of Transpor- of the meetings, when scheduled, and Intelligence tation, and promotion lists in the any cancellations or changes in the To hold closed hearings to examine cer- United States Coast Guard and the Na- meetings as they occur. tain intelligence matters. tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad- As an additional procedure along SH–219 ministration. with the computerization of this infor- SR–253 mation, the Office of the Senate Daily SEPTEMBER 21 Homeland Security and Governmental Af- Digest will prepare this information for 10 a.m. fairs printing in the Extensions of Remarks Finance To hold hearings to examine trans- section of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD To hold hearings to examine dually-eligi- forming wartime contracting, focusing on Monday and Wednesday of each ble beneficiaries, focusing on improv- on recommendations of the Commis- sion on Wartime Contracting. week. ing care while lowering costs. SD–215 SD–342 Meetings scheduled for Thursday, Energy and Natural Resources September 15, 2011 may be found in the Foreign Relations To hold hearings to examine the nomina- National Parks Subcommittee Daily Digest of today’s RECORD. tions of Robert A. Mandell, of Florida, To hold hearings to examine a recently to be Ambassador to Luxembourg, released report by the National Park MEETINGS SCHEDULED Thomas Charles Krajeski, of Virginia, Service, focusing on ‘‘A Call to Action SEPTEMBER 20 to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Preparing for a Second Century of Bahrain, and Dan W. Mozena, of Iowa, Stewardship and Engagement’’. 9:30 a.m. SD–366 Armed Services to be Ambassador to the People’s Re- public of Bangladesh, all of the Depart- To receive a closed briefing on Iran. SEPTEMBER 22 SVC–217 ment of State. Budget SD–419 9:30 a.m. To hold hearings to examine promoting Homeland Security and Governmental Af- Armed Services job creation in the United States. fairs To hold hearings to examine the United SD–608 Business meeting to resume consider- States strategy in Afghanistan and Homeland Security and Governmental Af- ation of S. 1546, to authorize certain Iraq. fairs programs of the Department of Home- SH–216 Oversight of Government Management, the land Security. 2:15 p.m. Federal Workforce, and the District of SD–342 Indian Affairs Columbia Subcommittee Veterans’ Affairs To hold an oversight hearing to examine To hold hearings to examine intelligence To hold joint hearings to examine the the ‘‘Tribal Law and Order Act’’ one community contractors, focusing on legislative presentation of The Amer- year later, focusing on improved public striking the right balance; to be imme- ican Legion. safety and justice throughout Indian diately followed by a closed hearing in SDG–50 country. Senate Security Conference Room 1. 10:15 a.m. SD–628 SD–342 Judiciary 2:30 p.m. 10 a.m. Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee Intelligence Finance To hold hearings to examine countering To hold hearings to examine the nomina- To hold hearings to examine tax reform terrorist financing, focusing on tion of Irvin Charles McCullough III, of options, focusing on incentives for in- progress and priorities. Maryland, to be Inspector General of novation. SD–226 the Intelligence Community, Office of SD–215 2 p.m. the Director of National Intelligence. Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Judiciary SH–216 Housing, Transportation and Community Antitrust, Competition Policy and Con- Development Subcommittee sumer Rights Subcommittee POSTPONEMENTS To hold hearings to examine new ideas to To hold hearings to examine Google, fo- address the glut of foreclosed prop- cusing on consumers and competition. SEPTEMBER 20 erties. SD–226 10 a.m. SD–538 2:30 p.m. Judiciary Joint Economic Committee Commerce, Science, and Transportation To hold hearings to examine if today’s To hold hearings to examine the debt Business meeting to consider S. 1119, to political rhetoric is true to the United limit. reauthorize and improve the Marine States Constitution. 210, Cannon Building Debris Research, Prevention, and Re- SD–226

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Routine lists in the Army and Navy. Page S5632 United States Air Force, all of the Department of Messages from the House: Page S5622 Defense; and Benjamin J. Freeman, Project on Gov- ernment Oversight, Washington, D.C. Measures Referred: Page S5622 INSURANCE REGULATION Measures Placed on the Calendar: Pages S5588, S5622–23 Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Executive Communications: Pages S5623–24 Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Invest- ment concluded a hearing to examine emerging Additional Cosponsors: Pages S5624–25 issues in insurance regulation, after receiving testi- Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions: mony from Baird Webel, Specialist in Financial Eco- Pages S5625–29 nomics, Congressional Research Service, Library of Amendments Submitted: Pages S5629–31 Congress; Therese M. Vaughan, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Washington, D.C.; Authorities for Committees to Meet: Page S5631 Mary A. Weiss, Temple University, Philadelphia, Privileges of the Floor: Page S5631 Pennsylvania; and Daniel Schwarcz, University of Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis. adjourned, as a further mark of respect to the mem- REFINANCING AND RESTRUCTURING ory of the late former Senator Malcolm Wallop, at MORTGAGE LOANS 7:12 p.m., until 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, September 15, 2011. (For Senate’s program, see the remarks of Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: the Majority Leader in today’s Record on page Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation and S5632.) Community Development concluded a hearing to ex- amine new ideas for refinancing and restructuring mortgage loans, including S. 170, to provide for the Committee Meetings affordable refinancing of mortgages held by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, after receiving testimony from (Committees not listed did not meet) Senators Boxer and Isakson; Richard A. Smith, APPROPRIATIONS: FINANCIAL SERVICES Realogy Corporation, Parsippany, New Jersey; Mark AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT A. Calabria, Cato Institute, and David H. Stevens, Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Finan- Mortgage Bankers Association, both of Washington, cial Service and General Government approved for D.C.; Ivy Zelman, Zelman and Associates, full committee consideration an original bill making Beachwood, Ohio; Marcia J. Griffin, HomeFree- appropriations for Financial Services and General USA, Hyattsville, Maryland; Mark Zandi, Moody’s Government for fiscal year 2012. Analytics, West Chester, Pennsylvania; Anthony B. Sanders, George Mason University Mercatus Center, APPROPRIATIONS: COMMERCE, JUSTICE, Fairfax, Virginia; and Christopher J. Mayer, Colum- SCIENCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES bia Business School, New York, New York. Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Com- INTERCITY PASSENGER RAIL merce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies ap- proved for full committee consideration an original Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Sub- bill making appropriations for Commerce, Justice, committee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Science, and Related Agencies for fiscal year 2012. Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security concluded a hearing to examine moving intercity passenger rail GENERAL AND FLAG OFFICER into the future, after receiving testimony from Jo- REQUIREMENTS seph C. Szabo, Federal Railroad Administrator, and Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Per- Mitchell Behm, Assistant Inspector General for Rail, sonnel concluded a hearing to examine general and Maritime and Economic Analysis, both of the De- flag officer requirements, after receiving testimony partment of Transportation; and Joseph H. from Clifford L. Stanley, Under Secretary for Per- Boardman, President and CEO, and Ted Alves, In- sonnel and Readiness, Vice Admiral William E. spector General, National Railroad Passenger Cor- Gortney, USN, Director, Joint Staff, General Peter poration, both of AMTRAK. W. Chiarelli, USA, Vice Chief of Staff, United States Army, Admiral Mark E. Ferguson III, USN, Vice TAX REFORM OPTIONS Chief of Naval Operations, United States Navy, Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., USMC, Assistant to examine tax reform options, focusing on marginal Commandant, United States Marine Corps, and Gen- rates on high-income taxpayers, capital gains and eral Philip M. Breedlove, USAF, Vice Chief of Staff, dividends, after receiving testimony from Dennis

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Mehiel, U.S. Corrugated, Inc., New York, New Marcia Crosse, Director, Health Care, Government York; Stephen J. Entin, Institute for Research on the Accountability Office; Kendra A. Martello, Pharma- Economics of Taxation, and Bill Rys, National Fed- ceutical Research and Manufacturers of America eration of Independent Business, both of Wash- (PhRMA), Gordon Johnston, Generic Pharmaceutical ington, D.C.; and Leonard E. Burman, Syracuse Uni- Association (GPhA), and Allan Coukell, The Pew versity Maxwell School, Syracuse, New York. Charitable Trusts, all of Washington, D.C.; and BUSINESS MEETING Martin VanTrieste, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, Cali- fornia, on behalf of Rx–360. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Af- fairs: Committee began consideration of S. 1546, to TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION authorize certain programs of the Department of REAUTHORIZATION ACT Homeland Security, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on Wednesday, Sep- Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a tember 21, 2011. hearing to examine renewing the commitment to victims of human trafficking, including S. 1301, to SECURING THE PHARMACEUTICAL SUPPLY authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2012 to CHAIN 2015 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: 2000, to enhance measures to combat trafficking in Committee concluded a hearing to examine securing person, after receiving testimony from Mary Lou the pharmaceutical supply chain, focusing on how Leary, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, the Food and Drug Administration faces challenges Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice; overseeing the foreign drug manufacturing supply Luis CdeBaca, Ambassador-at-Large, Office to Mon- chain, after receiving testimony from Deborah M. itor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, Department Autor, Deputy Commissioner for Global Regulatory of State; and Kelly Ryan, Acting Deputy Assistant Operations and Policy, Food and Drug Administra- Secretary of Homeland Security, Office of Immigra- tion, Department of Health and Human Services; tion and Border Security. h House of Representatives United States Commission on International Re- Chamber Action ligious Freedom Reform and Reauthorization Act Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 25 pub- of 2011: H.R. 2867, amended, to reauthorize the lic bills, H.R. 2910–2934; and 3 resolutions, H.J. International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. Res. 79 and H. Con. Res. 78–79, were introduced. Pages H6152–56 Page H6180 Motion to Proceed: Pursuant to section 3 of H. Additional Cosponsors: Pages H6182–83 Res. 392, Representative Reed moved that the Report Filed: A report was filed today as follows: House proceed to consider H.J. Res. 77. The motion H.R. 1070, to amend the Securities Act of 1933 was agreed to by voice vote. Page H6156 to authorize the Securities and Exchange Commis- Relating to the disapproval of the President’s ex- sion to exempt a certain class of securities from such ercise of authority to increase the debt limit: The Act, with an amendment (H. Rept. 112–206). House agreed to H.J. Res. 77, relating to the dis- Page H6180 approval of the President’s exercise of authority to Speaker: Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he increase the debt limit, as submitted under section appointed Representative Denham to act as Speaker 3101A of title 31, United States Code, on August pro tempore for today. Page H6141 2, 2011, by a recorded vote of 232 ayes to 186 noes with 2 voting ‘‘present’’, Roll No. 706. Recess: The House recessed at 11:04 a.m. and re- Pages H6156–68 convened at 12 noon. Page H6148 Pursuant to section 3101A(c)(4) of title 31, Suspension—Proceedings Postponed: The House United States Code, H.J. Res. 77 was considered as debated the following measure under suspension of read, and the previous question was considered as or- the rules. Further proceedings were postponed: dered on the joint resolution to its passage without

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Committee on the Judiciary: Business meeting to consider Improve and Enhance the Securities and Exchange Com- S. 1151, to prevent and mitigate identity theft, to ensure mission.’’ 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn. privacy, to provide notice of security breaches, and to en- Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and hance criminal penalties, law enforcement assistance, and Trade, hearing entitled ‘‘The Impact of the World Bank other protections against security breaches, fraudulent ac- and Multi-Lateral Development Banks on National Secu- cess, and misuse of personally identifiable information, S. rity.’’ 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn. 1408, to require Federal agencies, and persons engaged in Committee on the Judiciary, Full Committee, markup of interstate commerce, in possession of data containing sen- the following: H.R. 2885, the ‘‘Legal Workforce Act’’; sitive personally identifiable information, to disclose any and H.R. 2847, the ‘‘American Specialty Agriculture breach of such information, S. 1535, to protect consumers Act.’’ 11:15 a.m., 2141 Rayburn. by mitigating the vulnerability of personally identifiable Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Energy information to theft through a security breach, providing and Mineral Resources, hearing on legislation regarding notice and remedies to consumers in the wake of such a to establish in the Department of the Interior an Under breach, holding companies accountable for preventable Secretary for Energy, Lands, and Minerals and a Bureau breaches, facilitating the sharing of post-breach technical of Ocean Energy, an Ocean Energy Safety Service, and an information between companies, and enhancing criminal Office of Natural Resources Revenue, and for other pur- and civil penalties and other protections against the unau- poses, 9:30 a.m., 1324 Longworth. thorized collection or use of personally identifiable infor- Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public mation, H.R. 2480, to amend title 5, United States Code, to authorize appropriations for the Administrative Lands, hearing on the following bills: H.R. 1162, to pro- Conference of the United States for fiscal years 2012, vide the Quileute Indian Tribe Tsunami and Flood Pro- 2013, and 2014, and the nominations of Edgardo Ramos, tection, and for other purposes; H.R. 2087, to remove re- of Connecticut, Andrew L. Carter, Jr., and Jesse M. strictions from a parcel of land situated in the Atlantic Furman, all to be a United States District Judge for the District, Accomack County, Virginia; H.R. 2336, the Southern District of New York, and James Rodney ‘‘York River Wild and Scenic River Study Act of 2011’’; Gilstrap, to be United States District Judge for the East- H.R. 2351, the ‘‘North Cascades National Park Service ern District of Texas, 10 a.m., SD–226. Complex Fish Stocking Act’’; H.R. 2352, to authorize the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: To hold Secretary of the Interior to adjust the boundary of the hearings to examine disaster recovery, focusing on evalu- Stephen Mather Wilderness and the North Cascades Na- ating the role of America’s small business in rebuilding tional Park in order to allow the rebuilding of a road out- their communities, 10 a.m., SR–428A. side; H.R. 2606, the ‘‘New York City Natural Gas Sup- Select Committee on Intelligence: To hold closed hearings ply Enhancement Act’’; and H.R. 2687, the ‘‘Fort Pulaski to examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., National Monument Lease Authorization Act.’’ 10 a.m., SH–219. 1334 Longworth. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Sub- House committee on TARP, Financial Services, and Bailouts of Committee on Armed Services, Panel on Defense Financial the Public and Private Programs, hearing entitled Management and Audibility Reform, hearing on organi- ‘‘Crowdfunding: Connecting Investors and Job Creators.’’ zational challenges in achieving sound financial manage- 9:30 a.m., 2154 Rayburn. ment and audit readiness, 8 a.m., 2212 Rayburn. Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland De- Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, hearing on sus- fense, and Foreign Operations, hearing entitled ‘‘Defense taining GPS for national security, 11:30 a.m., 2212 Ray- Department Contracting in Afghanistan: Are We Doing burn. Enough to Combat Corruption?’’ 10:30 a.m., 2247 Ray- Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on burn. Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, hearing entitled Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Full Com- ‘‘Internet Privacy: The Impact and Burden of EU Regula- mittee, hearing entitled ‘‘Out of Thin Air: EPA’s Cross- tion.’’ 9:30 a.m., 2322 Rayburn. State Air Pollution Rule.’’ 9:30 a.m., 2318 Rayburn. Subcommittee on Health, hearing entitled ‘‘Cutting Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Con- the Red Tape: Saving Jobs from PPACA’s Harmful Reg- tracting and Workforce, hearing entitled ‘‘Helping Small ulations.’’ 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn. Businesses Compete: Challenges within Programs De- Committee on Financial Services, Full Committee, hearing signed to Assist Small Contractors.’’ 10 a.m., 2360 Ray- entitled ‘‘Fixing the Watchdog: Legislative Proposals to burn.

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Next Meeting of the SENATE Next Meeting of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 9:30 a.m., Thursday, September 15 9 a.m., Thursday, September 15

Senate Chamber House Chamber Program for Thursday: After the transaction of any Program for Thursday: Consideration of H.R. 2587— morning business (not to extend beyond one hour), Senate Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act. will continue consideration of H.J. Res. 66, Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act, with the filing deadline for all first-degree amendments to the joint resolution and the substitute amendment at 1 p.m.

Extensions of Remarks, as inserted in this issue

HOUSE Gonzalez, Charles A., Tex., E1627 Rangel, Charles B., N.Y., E1626 Hastings, Alcee L., Fla., E1626 Reichert, David G., Wash., E1630 Baldwin, Tammy, Wisc., E1621 Higgins, Brian, N.Y., E1628 Richardson, Laura, Calif., E1630 Biggert, Judy, Ill., E1634 Himes, James A., Conn., E1623 Shuler, Heath, N.C., E1621 Blumenauer, Earl, Ore., E1622 Holt, Rush D., N.J., E1620 Shuster, Bill, Pa., E1623, E1632 Bonner, Jo, Ala., E1628, E1631, E1632 Johnson, Henry C. ‘‘Hank’’, Jr., Ga., E1621 Smith, Adam, Wash., E1625, E1632 Boren, Dan, Okla., E1619 Jones, Walter B., N.C., E1629 Burton, Dan, Ind., E1624 Kildee, Dale E., Mich., E1631 Speier, Jackie, Calif., E1619, E1620, E1622, E1622, Chaffetz, Jason, Utah, E1627 Kingston, Jack, Ga., E1631 E1623, E1624, E1625, E1625, E1626, E1628 Coffman, Mike, Colo., E1624, E1632 Latham, Tom, Iowa, E1628 Thompson, Bennie G., Miss., E1621 Critz, Mark S., Pa., E1620 McClintock, Tom, Calif., E1633 Van Hollen, Chris, Md., E1627 Emerson, Jo Ann, Mo., E1634 Mulvaney, Mick, S.C., E1625 Visclosky, Peter J., Ind., E1633 Fitzpatrick, Michael G., Pa., E1619 Norton, Eleanor Holmes, D.C., E1623, E1633 Webster, Daniel, Fla., E1628

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