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

Vol. 160 WASHINGTON, MONDAY, JUNE 16, 2014 No. 93 House of Representatives The House was not in session today. Its next meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 17, 2014, at 12 p.m. Senate MONDAY, JUNE 16, 2014

The Senate met at 2:00 p.m. and was U.S. SENATE, At 5:30 p.m. there will be three clo- called to order by the Honorable CHRIS- PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, ture votes on U.S. district court TOPHER MURPHY, a Senator from the Washington, DC, June 16, 2014. judges: Mendoza, from Washington, State of Connecticut. To the Senate: Yandle from Illinois, and Gayles from Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby Florida. PRAYER appoint the Honorable CHRISTOPHER MURPHY, 2014 WORLD CUP The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- a Senator from the State of Connecticut, to Mr. President, on the lower level of fered the following prayer: perform the duties of the Chair. the Statue of Liberty, there is a poem. Let us pray. PATRICK J. LEAHY, It says a lot. It was written by Emma Lord of all, You loved us before we President pro tempore. Lazarus. loved You. Accept our thanksgiving for Mr. MURPHY thereupon assumed the Give me your tired, your poor, the gifts of life, love, and laughter. Chair as Acting President pro tempore. Your huddled masses yearning to breathe Come among our lawmakers and f free, manifest Your unifying love. Strength- The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY en them in their work, leading them Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to LEADER with Your wisdom. Lord, empower me. them to do Your work on Earth, even The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Those words encapsulate what is as it is done in Heaven. May they labor pore. The majority leader is recog- good about America. Those few lines with the confidence that they are kept nized. represent the very makeup of this by Your power. Guide them into the fu- f great country. Over its history our Nation has wel- ture inspired by the knowledge that COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, their times are in Your hands. comed the tired and poor of the world AND RELATED AGENCIES APPRO- and made them strong. We have opened We pray in Your mighty Name. PRIATIONS ACT, 2015—MOTION TO Amen. our doors to the best the world has to PROCEED offer, and the United States has be- f Mr. REID. I now move to proceed to come better for it. Our country is a PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Calendar No. 428, the appropriations melting pot. Every aspect of our soci- The Presiding Officer led the Pledge bill at the desk. ety reflects that, especially our ath- of Allegiance, as follows: The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- letes and soccer in particular. I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the pore. The clerk will report the motion. I can remember when my middle son United States of America, and to the Repub- The legislative clerk read as follows: came home one night—he was just a lic for which it stands, one nation under God, Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 428, boy; I assume he was maybe 10 years indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. H.R. 4660, a bill making appropriations for old—and he said, ‘‘I want to play soc- f the Departments of Commerce and Justice, cer.’’ Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal I said, ‘‘What?’’ APPOINTMENT OF ACTING year ending September 30, 2015, and for other ‘‘I want to play soccer.’’ PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE purposes. Soccer was not much of a sport in The PRESIDING OFFICER. The SCHEDULE Nevada at that time. I thought, you clerk will please read a communication Mr. REID. Mr. President, following know, if you are going to be an athlete, to the Senate from the President pro my remarks and those of Senator you have to play football, basketball, tempore (Mr. LEAHY). MCCONNELL, the Senate will be in a pe- baseball, run track, high jump, long The legislative clerk read the fol- riod of morning business until 5:30 p.m. jump. lowing letter: this afternoon. ‘‘I want to play soccer,’’ he said.

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The roster is a reflection The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- a freshman in high school and suffered of America itself. It is diverse, yet it is pore. The clerk will call the roll. a very badly broken leg playing soccer, united. It is a reflection of us. The legislative clerk proceeded to so his career ended there. Our head coach Jurgen Klinsmann call the roll. My next boy was a baseball player. was a legendary soccer player. I can re- Mr. MURPHY. Mr. President, I ask My youngest boy was a gifted ath- member his playing in the World Cup. unanimous consent that the order for lete. I boasted about him for many He was from Germany and played for the quorum call be rescinded. years. He was a soccer player, and he West Germany. He has lived in the The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. also played basketball. He played soc- United States for a number of years. KING). Without objection, it is so or- cer on two national championship One of the team’s defenders is a man dered. by the name of —Texas- teams for the . f By the time he went there, I had born, Mexican American—who played GUN VIOLENCE watched hundreds of soccer games. For professionally in Los Angeles for Bruce him to play at this premier school with Arena. Mr. MURPHY. Mr. President, I hope Our striker, Aron Johannsson, is a 23- great athletes, playing soccer across the Presiding Officer and my col- year-old Alabama-born Icelander who the country, was really an experience leagues had a great Father’s Day this plays in the Netherlands. past Sunday. I had maybe the best Fa- and, again, an education. DaMarcus Beasley is the team’s 32- ther’s Day you can imagine because I For example, one of my son’s team- year-old veteran defender from Indi- got to spend part of it with my two mates was the famous . ana, who plays professionally in Mex- sons and my father. We all went out to Claudio was so good. It was a team of ico. many great athletes. My son was a Jermaine Jones, who plays midfield, dinner with my wife, and it was a real- gifted athlete and everybody on the is the German-born son of an American ly special day. team was good, but Claudio Reyna was soldier and plays professionally in Tur- I come to the floor with both a light better than anyone. key. and heavy heart, light because I got to Claudio’s dad emigrated from Argen- These are just a number of examples. experience Father’s Day in a way I tina. His mom was from a Portuguese There are so many more. The entire wish thousands of other people across family. They lived in New Jersey, roster is an illustration of America’s the country could experience it. The where he was recruited to play for the diversity. We are, after all, a nation of statistics of the number of people who University of Virginia. My son came immigrants. are killed by guns every year is pretty from a different background. His Under Klinsmann’s direction, these stunning. There are tens of thousands grandfather was born in Russia, emi- players will bring their unique talents of people all across this country who grated to the United States. His grand- and experiences from across the world are losing their fathers and sons, in mother on my wife’s side had Lithua- and coalesce under one flag—the Amer- part because the Senate doesn’t do nian blood. My grandmother emigrated ican flag. I wish the team all the best anything to try to stem the scourge of from England. tonight against Ghana. I will be watch- gun violence across the country. So he and Claudio were on that team, ing and cheering on the team. As the Presiding Officer knows, I try and it would be hard to find two young Another reason I love soccer: You to come to the floor every week for men with more different backgrounds don’t have all those advertisements in- about 10 minutes or so to try and give than they. They were teammates. terrupting the game. It is a free-flow- voice to the victims of gun violence. Their other teammates had back- ing athletic contest. There is the back- Today, 24 hours having passed Fa- grounds that were similarly unusual, ground of announcers talking about ther’s Day, maybe we can talk a little different—a young man from Spain, what just took place, and sometimes bit about those who have lost their fa- one from Jamaica. An All-American we don’t fully understand it, but the thers and their sons—little boys such named Damien Silvera was from Ja- game goes for 45 minutes and then an- as Logan Soldo. maica. These young men, 11 players— other 45 minutes, for a total of 90 min- Logan is about to turn 1. He cer- and some who didn’t play all the utes, plus whatever penalty time they tainly doesn’t know what happened to time—came from different cities and get—an extra 3 to 5 minutes after the his father Igor, but when he is old different cultures, but they were one. 45 minutes is up—not interrupted by enough, unfortunately he will hear a They were a team. They were in commercials. pretty horrific story. His father—hav- So I admit I will be watching and rhythm, always united in purpose. ing fled war-torn Bosnia as a 13-year- cheering on the game. I hope our col- They were coached by the great old to settle in the United States—was leagues do the same, and I have con- Bruce Arena, a famous coach who killed in a shooting at a Walmart, fidence they will. When we do watch which got a lot of attention about a coached the Olympic team—in fact, this team out there, watch what our week or so ago. coached one of the first championships team represents, what America stands Jared and Amanda Miller—fairly here, playing for the Washington pro- for. See what makes this great country fessional team here. He is now coach- of ours so special. The United States well-known radicals in the Las Vegas ing for L.A. They won the champion- really has given refuge to the tired, the area—walked into a Walmart and shot ship there many times. He was good poor, the huddled masses of the world, Igor Soldo, a police officer, while he with a diverse group of men and women and they have become strong Ameri- was eating at a restaurant. playing in sync. It was really beautiful cans, and we as a nation are better for People talked about Igor and his to watch. I guess that is why they call it. journey. As I mentioned, he came here from the Balkans when he was 13 years soccer the beautiful game. RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME Tonight our men’s soccer team will Mr. President, I would ask the Chair old and graduated from Southeast High play Ghana in its first game—since to announce the business of the day. School in Lincoln, NE. Following high being twice knocked out by Ghana—in The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- school, he studied criminal justice at the 2014 World Cup. pore. Under the previous order, the the University of Nebraska-Lincoln The World Cup is special, watched by leadership time is reserved. and worked part time as a corrections more people than the Olympics. It officer for 3 years in Lincoln where he f comes around every 4 years, and Amer- met his wife Andrea. The couple were icans from all walks of life and all MORNING BUSINESS married in 2009. They were planning on backgrounds watch together in support The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- celebrating their son’s first birthday. of our Nation’s soccer team. But our pore. Under the previous order, the His birthday will be on July 7. They

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