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The Senate met at 9:30 a.m. and was The assistant legislative clerk pro- sume we are back to normal every time called to order by the Honorable TOM ceeded to call the roll. we hear encouraging news. We don’t UDALL, a Senator from the State of Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- have that luxury because it is not true. New Mexico. imous consent the order for the We can’t let our guard down and we quorum call be rescinded. can’t waste any more time on symbolic PRAYER The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- votes. The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- pore. Without objection, it is so or- The fight to repeal the patients’ fered the following prayer: dered. rights enshrined in the health reform Let us pray. f law is behind us now. The arguments have been made, the votes have been Eternal God, whose Name is love, SCHEDULE draw our Senators to You by the cords counted, and similar to the majority of of Your eternal love. Help them to Mr. REID. Mr. President, there has the American people, the Senate has strive to know You, cultivating a rela- been a minor change in the schedule. It decided the law of the land is better tionship of peaceful trust in Your prov- has been cleared on both sides. I ask than the broken system it replaced. idential leading. Lord, may the experi- unanimous consent that, following any I don’t wish to spend a lot of time ence of being in Your presence enable leader remarks, the Senate proceed to talking about health care because the them to better comprehend the role a period of morning business until 10:30 vote speaks for itself, but I will say You desire for them to play in fulfilling a.m. this morning, with Senators per- this. Those who want to deny Ameri- Your purposes on Earth. Sharpen their mitted to speak during that period of cans the right to afford a healthy life vision to perceive Your movements in time for up to 10 minutes each. had their say in 2008, when President our Nation and world. Where there is The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Obama was elected on the promise of anxiety, give them the poise that pore. Without objection, it is so or- change. They had their say in 2009, comes from a confident faith in You. dered. when we first passed this law. They had We pray in Your merciful Name. Mr. REID. Following that morning their say in 2010, when we finalized it. Amen. business, the Senate will resume con- Now they have had their say in 2011, sideration of S. 223, the Federal Avia- when they tried to repeal it. Each time f tion Administration authorization bill. the votes fell on the side of patients, PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Currently, we have one amendment patients’ rights—more rights, not The Honorable TOM UDALL led the pending. Other Members are waiting to fewer. The Senate voted each time to Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: offer their amendments. It is my un- put people, not insurance companies, in I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the derstanding Senator WICKER is ready to control. The Senate voted each time United States of America, and to the Repub- offer his as soon as the bill is reported. for health, not sickness. So it is time lic for which it stands, one nation under God, Senators should expect rollcall votes to to move on. indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. occur throughout the day in order to Let’s talk about jobs. We are on a f make significant progress on this most jobs bill right now, the Federal Avia- tion Administration authorization. The APPOINTMENT OF ACTING important legislation. Aviation Modernization Act, which is PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE f this bill, is to bring to America modern The PRESIDING OFFICER. The THE ECONOMY air travel, travel into the 21st century. clerk will please read a communication Mr. REID. Mr. President, we have a This legislation will create hundreds of to the Senate from the President pro long way to go before our economy is thousands of jobs—not hundreds, not tempore (Mr. INOUYE). back to normal. Ask any American and thousands but hundreds of thousands. The legislative clerk read the fol- they will tell you: We have a lot more That is why we are fighting so hard for lowing letter: jobs to create and fill, a lot more this legislation. It is a bipartisan piece U.S. SENATE, homes to save, and a lot more con- of legislation. It is not a Democratic PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, sumer confidence to recover. bill. It is not Republican. It is a bipar- Washington, DC, February 3, 2011. I hear every day from families in Ne- tisan bill. The same bill passed the To the Senate: vada who still need us to fight for Senate unanimously last year. So I Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, them. I know every Senator hears the of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby hope we come together in the spirit of appoint the Honorable TOM UDALL, a Senator same from citizens in their State. compromise we all promised and finish from the State of New Mexico, to perform There are currently bits and pieces of it as quickly as possible. This bill alone the duties of the Chair. good news. They are not enough, that will not eradicate unemployment, but DANIEL K. INOUYE, is for sure. But the Dow Jones opened it will help. It is going to move us fur- President pro tempore. this morning above 12,000. That is the ther toward that goal, and the quicker Mr. UDALL of New Mexico thereupon highest in many years. Manufacturing we pass it the quicker 280,000 Ameri- assumed the chair as Acting President is rising more than expected. Consumer cans will breathe easier by knowing a pro tempore. spending is beating forecasts also. Cor- good, consistent paycheck is on the f porate profits are higher than anyone way. predicted. We got a decent jobs number We are all concerned about the def- RECOGNITION OF THE MAJORITY today, better than most economists icit. There is nothing more important LEADER predicted—not good enough but decent. than creating jobs, though. We can The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- So it is not all bad news. But I am not never have a healthy economy when we pore. The majority leader is recog- satisfied hearing that things are sim- have 15 million people out of work. We nized. ply better than expected. Nevada, simi- can never have a balanced budget when Mr. REID. Mr. President, I suggest lar to every other State, is still hurt- we have 15 million people out of work. the absence of a quorum. ing, and our job is not to beat expecta- The deficit is something that is very The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- tions, it is to beat unemployment and important. Jobs, as I indicated, will pore. The clerk will call the roll. beat back the deficit. We cannot as- work toward solving that problem, but

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There are some things we have to ribly thoughtful or well informed, not ter- America and a free world, and his ac- be careful to avoid, such as jeopard- ribly honest, and in most other ways not up complishments to achieve that are izing the full faith and credit of our to the most important job in the world. most assuredly in the history books. great country. That is what will hap- But it seems a lot of people just did I yield the floor and I suggest the ab- pen if we don’t raise our Nation’s debt not understand Ronald Reagan’s vision sence of a quorum. limit. If we don’t act, if we allow the at the time—not just his Communist The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- country to default on our legal obliga- adversaries, not just his political oppo- pore. The clerk will call the roll. tions, we will send our economy into nents here at home, even those in his The assistant legislative clerk pro- default for the first time in its history. own party, and on his own staff some- ceeded to call the roll. That will certainly not save a single times failed to see the strength of the The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- job or save a single home from fore- man’s commitment to freedom—or his pore. The Senator from Washington. closure or encourage the domestic and courage in seeking it. Ms. CANTWELL. Mr. President, I ask foreign investment we need to grow. It I can think of one prominent exam- unanimous consent that the order for will be just the opposite. Each of these ple: The words that we now think of as the quorum call be rescinded. steps is an important stride toward re- Reagan’s most powerful utterance as The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- covery. Together, they are a powerful President were almost never spoken. pore. Without objection, it is so or- leap forward. On June 12, 1987, Reagan traveled to dered. what was then West Berlin to make un- We might be on the right track and f heading in the right direction, but we mistakably clear his commitment to still have a ways to travel. Let’s avoid increasing freedom in Soviet-domi- RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME the temptation to get distracted and nated Eastern Europe. As the draft of The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- derailed. Let’s keep driving toward his prepared remarks was circulated pore. Under the previous order, leader- that goal. If we work toward putting through the many byzantine layers of ship time is reserved. people back to work, soon Nevada and bureaucracy that come with the mod- f every other State will not just read ern presidency, one little phrase kept good news in a headline here or there, getting edited out. FAA AIR TRANSPORTATION MOD- they will see it before their eyes—in Virtually the entire foreign policy ERNIZATION AND SAFETY IM- their workplaces and in their wallets apparatus of the U.S. Government was PROVEMENT ACT and throughout our country. opposed to what Reagan wanted to say. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- His Secretary of State, his National f pore. Under the previous order, the Security Adviser—they told him he Senate will resume consideration of S. RECOGNITION OF THE MINORITY would embarrass his host, West Ger- 223, which the clerk will report by LEADER man Chancellor Helmut Kohl. They title. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- said he would anger and provoke Soviet The legislative clerk read as follows: pore. The Republican leader is recog- Premier Mikhail Gorbachev. They A bill (S. 223) to modernize the air traffic nized. warned he would arouse false hopes control system, improve the safety, reli- f among the East Germans unlucky ability, and availability of transportation by enough to live on the wrong side of the air in the United States, provide for mod- CENTENNIAL OF RONALD Berlin Wall. ernization of the air traffic control system, REAGAN’S BIRTH It finally got to the point where reauthorize the Federal Aviation Adminis- tration, and for other purposes. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, this Reagan had to have a confrontation month we celebrate the 100th anniver- with his own deputy chief of staff. ‘‘I’m Pending: sary of the birth of Ronald Reagan, our the president, right?’’ he is reported to Whitehouse amendment No. 8, to amend Nation’s 40th President. He was born in have asked. ‘‘So I get to decide whether title 18, United States Code, to provide pen- a second-story apartment above a tav- the line about tearing down the wall alties for aiming laser pointers at airplanes. ern in small-town Tampico, IL, on Feb- stays in?’’ When assured that he was, Ms. CANTWELL. Mr. President, we ruary 6, 1911. and he did, Reagan said, ‘‘Then it stays are continuing this morning on this The values he learned there he would in.’’ important FAA bill, which is a very carry with him throughout a long and Only after pulling rank on his own important jobs bill for America. I know momentous life—from the radio an- staff this way did Reagan finally ad- my colleagues have been down on the nouncer’s booth, the Hollywood sound dress the crowd of 20,000 gathered at Senate floor—the chairman of the full stage, and the union leader’s negoti- the Brandenburg Gate and issue his fa- committee, Senator ROCKEFELLER, and ating table to the Governor’s mansion, mous declaration, ‘‘Mr. Gorbachev, the ranking member, Senator the White House and the world. tear down this wall.’’ HUTCHISON—and they have been doing a One hundred years after his birth, 30 Two years later, Germans East and good job of explaining why it is so im- years after his inauguration as Presi- West did exactly that, presaging Ger- portant to move ahead on something dent, and only 7 years after his passing, man unification and the fall of the So- that can create hundreds of thousands it is already widely acknowledged by viet Union. A piece of the Berlin Wall of jobs both in construction at our air- both sides of the aisle that Ronald is preserved today at the Ronald ports across America and on the imple- Reagan was a great man and a great Reagan Presidential Library in Simi mentation of the NextGen system, President. His role in ending the Cold Valley, CA, to remind us of the power which is really about making a digital War, with America victorious and the one man’s words can have. conversion to air transportation so our forces of Marxism-Leninism, as he so Ronald Reagan once said, ‘‘We don’t flights can be safer, so they can be eloquently put it, ‘‘on the ash heap of have to turn to our history books for more fuel efficient, and so there can be history,’’ has been assured. You could heroes; they are all around us.’’ That is coordination on the ground with the almost say we are all Reaganites now. true even if you don’t know where to flights and all of our transportation But oh, how so much has changed. look. Thirty years ago some dismissed systems. For when Ronald Reagan was still a Reagan as a man of no great impor- So this morning we want to keep force actively shaping history, and not tance. With hindsight it is much easier moving through this process to get this

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So the spirit of amend- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- 2011.’’. ment No. 14 would be to continue TSA pore. The Senator from Mississippi. (d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments employees in that same vein. AMENDMENT NO. 14 made by this section shall take effect on the TSA workers have fared well indeed Mr. WICKER. I thank the Senator date of enactment of this Act and apply to during the past decade. It is a good job. from Washington, and I thank the Pre- any collective bargaining agreement (as de- I enjoy seeing them, I enjoy working siding Officer. fined under section 7103(a)(8) of title 5, with them, and we are glad to have I ask unanimous consent to set aside United States Code) entered into on or after that date, including the renewal of any col- them. But for good reason, they have the pending amendment so that I may lective bargaining agreement in effect on been excluded from collective bar- call up my Wicker amendment No. 14, that date. gaining rights. which is at the desk. The TSA and TSA leadership need Mr. WICKER. Mr. President, this The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- the flexibility to innovate and to move amendment deals with the notion of pore. Without objection, it is so or- quickly during times of national emer- collective bargaining by TSA employ- dered. gency on issues involving the security ees. The Transportation Security Ad- The clerk will report. of the traveling public, and for that ministration was formed approxi- The legislative clerk read as follows: reason I submit that adding the bur- mately 10 years ago by the Aviation The Senator from Mississippi [Mr. WICKER] densome responsibility of union de- and Transportation Security Act of proposes an amendment numbered 14. mands and dealing with collective bar- 2001, Public Law 107–71. Since that Mr. WICKER. Mr. President, I ask gaining demands could limit the abil- time, Transportation Security Admin- unanimous consent that the reading of ity of those responsible for the very istration employees have fared very the amendment be dispensed with. important function of security at some well. They are a familiar sight in our The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- of the most high-risk targets and make airports. They are familiar to any of us pore. Without objection, it is so or- it harder for our security personnel to who fly and who frequent the airports dered. do their job. of the United States. It is a good job, The amendment is as follows: So I will be urging my colleagues and they are well taken care of. (Purpose: To exclude employees of the Trans- during this day—we will be urging the During that 10-year period, TSA em- portation Security Administration from American people to contact their Sen- the collective bargaining rights of Federal ployees have not been allowed to col- ators and to let their voices be heard. employees) lectively bargain. There is a reason for TSA has worked well in this regard, At the appropriate place, insert the fol- that. First of all, under that act which and we do not need to burden it with lowing: I referenced, as a compromise back in extra responsibilities when they need SEC. ll. EXCLUSION OF EMPLOYEES OF THE that day, the Under Secretary of to be concentrating on security. TRANSPORTATION SECURITY AD- Transportation for Security, who is MINISTRATION FROM THE COLLEC- I yield the floor. TIVE BARGAINING RIGHTS OF FED- now the TSA Administrator, was given The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- ERAL EMPLOYEES. the ability to fix the compensation and pore. The Senator from Oregon is rec- (a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be terms thereof, and included in that was ognized. cited as the ‘‘Termination of Collective Bar- the determination about whether col- PROTESTS IN EGYPT gaining for Transportation Security Admin- lective bargaining rights would be af- istration Employees Act of 2011’’. Mr. MERKLEY. Mr. President, over forded to these TSA employees. (b) IN GENERAL.—Section 7103(a) of title 5, the last week, I have watched the af- In a 2003 memo, the Under Secretary United States Code, is amended— fairs in Tahrir Square in Cairo, as mil- of Transportation for Security at that (1) in paragraph (2)— lions of Americans have, and I was (A) in clause (iv), by striking ‘‘; or’’ and in- time prohibited TSA security screeners deeply impressed by the peaceful dem- serting a semicolon; from unionizing with collective bar- onstration of Egyptian citizens calling (B) in clause (v), by striking the semicolon gaining rights. The Under Secretary for change in their nation—change that and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and wrote: (C) by adding at the end the following: would respond to the economic plight ‘‘(vi) an officer or employee of the Trans- I hereby determine that individuals car- of ordinary citizens, change that would portation Security Administration of the De- rying out the security screening function give ordinary citizens the opportunity under section 44901 of Title 49, United States partment of Homeland Security;’’; and to be a part of the voice directing the (2) in paragraph (3)— Code, in light of their critical national secu- rity responsibilities, shall not, as a term or course of their nation. (A) in subparagraph (G), by striking ‘‘; or’’ Until yesterday, those protests were and inserting a semicolon; condition of their employment, be entitled (B) in subparagraph (H), by striking the pe- to engage in collective bargaining or be rep- absolutely peaceful. But that did riod and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and resented for the purpose of engaging in such change yesterday when pro-Mubarak (C) by adding at the end the following: bargaining by any representative or organi- forces entered the fray. Last night, I ‘‘(I) the Transportation Security Adminis- zation. was watching as Molotov cocktails tration of the Department of Homeland Se- The determination was made by the were being thrown by pro-Mubarak curity;’’. predecessor of the TSA Administrator forces down from adjacent buildings (c) AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 49.— that in light of their critical national onto the protesters below. I watched as (1) TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRA- security responsibilities, it was not ap- organized thugs proceeded to stone TION.—Section 114(n) of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding ‘‘This propriate for collective bargaining those protesters. I watched as there subsection shall be subject to the amend- rights to be included. was sporadic gunfire in the square. I ments made by the Termination of Collec- Now we have every reason to believe watched as a group of horsemen gal- tive Bargaining for Transportation Security that under this new administration, loped through the crowd whipping peo- Administration Employees Act of 2011.’’ at that decision is about to be reversed. A ple with their whips. the end. decade of experience and practice will This thuggery against citizens who (2) PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.—Sec- be ended unless this Congress acts, and were peacefully protesting is abso- tion 40122 of title 49, United States Code, is the appropriate vehicle on which to act lutely unacceptable. The United States amended— (A) by redesignating subsection (j) as sub- is this reauthorization bill before us. has had a long and close relationship section (k); and Wicker amendment No. 14 would sim- with Egypt. We channel a tremendous (B) by inserting after subsection (i) the fol- ply exclude TSA personnel from form- amount of economic development aid lowing: ing a union with collective bargaining to Egypt. But let me be very clear.

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What happened yesterday, Transportation for Security to approve ap- This is an option that is no longer with thugs attacking peaceful dem- plications from airports to authorize pas- available to local airport boards. onstrators on behalf of the government senger and property screening to be carried This amendment would reach the out by a qualified private screening com- conclusion that the local airport board must not happen again. pany) is still an important determiner of In no way can America turn a blind On page 311, between lines 11 and 12, insert eye to this ruthless assault on ordinary the following: which system works best in an airport. citizens. This morning, there were SEC. 733. APPROVAL OF APPLICATIONS FOR THE Essentially, this amendment would tell voices from within the Egyptian Gov- SECURITY SCREENING OPT-OUT the TSA that if local airports apply, ernment calling what happened yester- PROGRAM. the TSA would allow them to become Section 44920(b) of title 49, United States part of the screening partnership pro- day a fatal error. Prime Minister Code, is amended by striking ‘‘The Under Shafik called it a fatal error. This gram and treat them as they are treat- Secretary may approve any application sub- ing the 16 airports that have been in morning, there were signs that the mitted under subsection (a).’’ and inserting army, instead of allowing and orga- ‘‘Not later than 30 days after receiving an that program—some for as long as a nizing thugs and allowing them on the application submitted under subsection (a), decade now, since the beginning of square to assault the demonstrators, the Under Secretary shall approve the appli- screening as we see it in airports was standing in to protect them. This cation.’’ today. I hope we get to where we actually is a right turn of events. Mr. BLUNT. Mr. President, this is an amendment that deals with an issue give authority back, or maintain au- Let it be noted by all who would care thority at the local airport level to de- to listen that the citizens of the United going back to the beginning of the TSA screening program, almost 10 years ago termine which system works better for States of America are not going to them. A competitive system allows stand by and support a government now, at the end of 2001. We had signifi- cant discussion between the House and flexibility, and flexibility allows more that is attacking peaceful demonstra- adaptability, more innovation and, tors in a square in Cairo. If we see a re- the Senate about how that program would run. In fact, the House, which I frankly, I think, encourages the gov- peat of this violence, America must ernment-run systems to be more com- send a very strong message that there was a Member of at the time and the occupant of the chair was a Member of petitive and responsive. will be no further aid to the Mubarak That is why I am offering this at the time, passed a bill which said government. amendment. I hope it becomes part of the screening would continue to be this bill, and I look forward to working We do not know what the ultimate competitive and private and deter- with the committee on this amend- outcome of these protests will be, but mined by local airports. The Senate’s ment and over the next few days as we peaceful action against government is view at the time was this was a new re- continue to debate FAA. This has a a hallmark of democracy, a hallmark sponsibility that would be taken over real impact on a number of the au- of freedom. We should ensure that everywhere by the Federal Government those protests could continue—those thorities that are under the Federal and the TSA. Aviation Administration. I think this peaceful protests—calling for a voice The final determination was that, is an important time to solve this prob- for ordinary citizens, and that Egypt while the Federal Government would lem. It is one that was created, in my can move toward free and fair elec- take this responsibility, there would be view, totally by TSA deciding on their tions. allowed to be pilot airports that would own something that the law never en- I yield the floor. be determined and be monitored to de- visioned. I was part of that debate a termine whether a pilot project would Ms. CANTWELL. Mr. President, I decade ago. I know what the intention verify that another alternative would suggest the absence of a quorum. was, and it was not the intention of the The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- be a competitive, private screening as pilot program, or of the determination pore. The clerk will call the roll. one of the options available to airports. we made at the end of 2001, that TSA The legislative clerk proceeded to In fact, in 2004, the screening partner- would determine for local airport au- call the roll. ship program was created. thorities what was best for their air- The pilots had worked. The verifica- port. Mr. BLUNT. Mr. President, I ask tion was that the private screeners unanimous consent that the order for This amendment would require the were performing at a level that was TSA to work with local airports and the quorum call be rescinded. equal to that of the government-paid The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- implement their desire to change from screeners, that the cost was com- the system they have at the time—to- pore. Without objection, it is so or- parable, and that airports in the future dered. tally run by TSA—to a system under would be able to apply to go from the the screening partnership program. AMENDMENT NO. 5 government-run program to a competi- That is the essence of this amendment, Mr. BLUNT. Mr. President, I ask tive program, and about 16 airports and I urge its adoption and inclusion in unanimous consent to temporarily set have done that. I think the biggest one this bill. aside the pending amendment so I can is probably the San Francisco airport. I yield the floor. call up my amendment, No. 5, which is The Kansas City airport, which I use Mrs. HUTCHISON. Mr. President, I at the desk. and that I represent, may be the second suggest the absence of a quorum. biggest of those. Rochester, NY, is also The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. in this program, as are a number of pore. Is there objection? BROWN of Ohio). The clerk will call the smaller airports. roll. Without objection, it is so ordered. In fact, as recently as a few months The legislative clerk proceeded to The clerk will report. ago, the TSA was still telling airports call the roll. The legislative clerk read as follows: and recommended to four airports in Mr. KIRK. Mr. President, I ask unan- Montana—a State where seven of their The Senator from Missouri [Mr. BLUNT] imous consent that the order for the proposes an amendment numbered 5. airports are currently in this pro- quorum call be rescinded. gram—the TSA recommended to four The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Mr. BLUNT. Mr. President, I ask more airports in Montana that they objection, it is so ordered. unanimous consent that reading of the look at this program as a potential bet- AMENDMENT NO. 8 amendment be dispensed with. ter alternative for them. Only in recent Mr. KIRK. Mr. President, today I am The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- weeks did TSA determine in responses pleased to join Senator WHITEHOUSE, pore. Without objection, it is so or- to the Springfield, MO airport, the four Senator BOXER and a growing list of dered. Montana airports, and perhaps as many my colleagues in support of the White- The amendment is as follows: as a handful of other airports that, no, house-Kirk-Boxer amendment that will

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improve airline safety throughout the ator WHITEHOUSE’s on laser use into pi- active commercial pilot, on a regular Nation. lots’ eyes will probably be accepted by basis, in the Senate. So I have these Most individuals are familiar with voice vote. But he may want a vote. If two amendments I am very interested laser pointers that are often used in I were he, I would want a vote because in. I will yield the floor. When such presentations. What you may not know it is so important to emphasize the time comes—what the Senator from is the growing danger these devices issue. West Virginia said is true. Right now, pose to pilots. But we need to have Democrats—I because of the Prayer Breakfast that is Last month, the FAA released na- know we have some amendments that taking place, I happen to be hosting tionwide data on lasers pointed at air- Democrats want to offer. But they are the African dinner tonight, so I have craft. From 2009 to 2010, incidents near- not coming to the floor to offer those groups coming by every 30 minutes ly doubled from 1,527, to 2,836. To show amendments. So this is my plea, throughout the day. how quickly this has become a prob- through the distinguished Presiding Of- At some time today, I wish to be able lem, when the FAA first began to track ficer, for Democrats please to come to to get two amendments, Nos. 6 and 7, in this problem in 2005, incidents were the floor and do their amendments. the queue. under 300. I suggest the absence of a quorum. I yield the floor. Transportation Secretary LaHood The PRESIDING OFFICER. The The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- has acknowledged this is a serious safe- clerk will call the roll. ator from Arkansas. ty issue. Lasers can temporarily blind The assistant legislative clerk pro- REMEMBERING DON TYSON pilots, which is incredibly dangerous, ceeded to call the roll. Mr. PRYOR. Mr. President, I come to but even more so during the critical Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, I ask the floor to honor a great man, a great time of takeoff and landing. Advance- unanimous consent that the order for Arkansan and a great American, Don- ments in laser technology also are the quorum call be rescinded. ald John Tyson. making the problem worse. Certain The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Don Tyson was one of the three color variations, such as green lasers, objection, it is so ordered. iconic Arkansans who helped move our are 35 times brighter than comparable Mr. INHOFE. First of all, let me say State forward. Don Tyson, Sam Wal- red lasers. that the manager has been very kind to ton, and J.B. Hunt transformed the This is a particular worry for me and me in offering to allow me to come up northwest part of our State and made for my State’s busiest airport—O’Hare. at some point. I do not care so much Arkansas a mecca for business. According to the FAA, last year O’Hare when it is, but I do have two amend- had the second-highest number of laser ments I have already discussed on the When I think of Don, one of his favor- events in the Nation at 98. floor. I would like to get them in the ite phrases comes to mind. He would The Whitehouse-Kirk-Boxer amend- queue so at some time we will be able say: ‘‘I don’t have time to have a bad ment creates new penalties for know- to do that. So I would wait until such time.’’ Don lived life to the fullest and ingly pointing a laser pointer at an air- time as the majority feels it would be enjoyed every minute of it. Don came craft, or at the flight path of an air- appropriate, and then I would be ask- to Arkansas in very humble cir- plane. Commonsense exemptions are ing them if I can do that. cumstances. He was born in Kansas but provided to allow further research and Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, I moved to Springdale as an infant when, testing activities. understand the Senator from Okla- as Don liked to tell it, his father’s Current law has not kept up to date homa has a particularly difficult truck ran out of gas. with this new threat. It is time we give scheduling problem right now and for There in Springdale, Don took over law enforcement and prosecutors addi- most of the afternoon. So putting his the family business when his father tional tools to reduce the likelihood of amendments in and talking about passed away. Don’s hard work helped a tragedy. them, whatever he wishes to do, is im- turn his father’s small poultry business The amendment is supported by the portant to him and also is hard to do in into the most successful meat proc- Air Line Pilots Association and the Na- terms of the schedule. So that renews essor in the world. As chairman of the tional Association of Police Organiza- my offer, my request, my prayer, that board and CEO of Tyson Foods, Don tions which includes the Federal Flight Democrats who have amendments will revolutionized the poultry industry Deck Officers Association. come down and offer them. and made protein more accessible to I thank Senator WHITEHOUSE and his It is called the Federal aviation bill. Americans, helping create Chicken staff for their leadership on this issue, It reauthorizes it. It is monumental, McNuggets, chicken tenders, chicken and I urge my colleagues to support and we are kind of sitting here. So the sandwiches, and much more. this bipartisan proposal to help make Republicans are sort of doing their He was responsible for developing the our Nation’s pilots, and especially part, but the Democrats are not doing Rock Cornish game hen, smaller birds their passengers, safer. our part. So please come down, if you that weigh only a few pounds that were I yield the floor and suggest the ab- have amendments, because I wish to more profitable but also immensely sence of a quorum. accommodate not just Senator INHOFE popular. Under Don’s leadership, the The PRESIDING OFFICER. The but all others who have amendments, company’s revenue increased from $51 clerk will call the roll. many of which we can probably work million to more than $10 billion. The assistant legislative clerk pro- out. As the Washington Post said: ‘‘For ceeded to call the roll. Some will be accepted by voice, oth- many Americans, Tyson products be- Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, I ers may have to be voted on. But we came the answer to a daily question: ask unanimous consent that the order have to have amendments before we What’s for dinner?’’ for the quorum call be rescinded. can get to any of that. So that is my Even as he rose to great heights, Don The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without request. remained true to his roots—his trade- objection, it is so ordered. Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, reclaim- mark khaki Tyson uniform with ‘‘Don’’ Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, ing my time. First of all, I thank you embroidered on the front pocket. He re- we are sitting here, and what is good is very much. The one set of amendments ferred to all staff members as cowork- we are not doing health care amend- I have, I would hope to get into the ers, never employees. Don understood ments. What is bad is we are not doing managers’ amendment or somehow that the truck drivers and plant work- any amendments. have them come up and even be voice ers were as essential to Tyson’s success The Republicans have proffered a voted. But they are issues I have as the executives in the corner offices. number of amendments. We need to do talked about in the past quite often. I Don was also committed to giving them by pairs so we can work them think we all understand—or most of us back to his community. A noted phi- out. Some of them will be able to be ac- do—that when our good friend Senator lanthropist, Don created the Tyson cepted by voice vote. I expect that Sen- Glenn retired, that left me as the last Family Foundation, which provides

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He also was a great friend to Ronald Wilson Reagan is the only it all began. veterans. One of his most recent American President born in Illinois. Ronald Reagan was President when I projects was helping preserve the Fay- He entered this world on Feb. 6, 1911, was first elected to the House of Rep- etteville National Cemetery. An avid in the little town of Tampico, IL, in an resentatives in 1982. While our views of fisherman and devoted conservationist, apartment above a bakery on Main government differed remarkably, I ad- Don created the Billfish Foundation, Street. mired his optimism and his unshakable which promotes catch-and-release His father Jack sold shoes to support faith that America’s best days were practices for billfish to conserve their his wife and two sons. ahead of us. He restored a sense of con- populations. Don’s charitable work had Over the first 9 years of his life, the fidence in many Americans at a time a real impact on Arkansas and commu- Reagan family moved four times, from when we really needed it. nities across the country. Tampico to Galesburg, to Monmouth, He told us: Finally, Don understood the impor- and the south side of Chicago before fi- tance of family. Tyson Foods has al- America is too great to dream small nally settling in Dixon, IL, population dreams. ways been and remains a family-run 10,000. And he was right. business, starting with Don’s father Today, the white frame house at 810 John Tyson and continuing with his In 1992, 2 years before he announced South Hennepin Street in Dixon, the son John. Don’s emphasis on family, he had Alzheimer’s disease, Ronald Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home, draws from his father-son collaborations to Reagan addressed his party’s nomi- visitors from around the world. the way he treated all his coworkers as nating convention for the last time. It was in Dixon that the shy boy extended family, is what made Tyson He said then: would begin to discover self-confidence Foods great. Whatever else history may say about me In looking back on Don Tyson’s life, and the talents that would serve him when I’m gone, I hope it will recall that I ap- I see a man who loved his business, who so well in life. He acted in his first play pealed to your best hopes, not your worst loved his community, who loved his in Dixon, and he was elected student fears, to your confidence rather than your doubts. family, and who lived life. Today, I join body president during his senior year all Arkansans in celebrating a life well at Dixon High School. In 1983, in one of the most important lived. From Dixon, Ronald Reagan went to accomplishments of his Presidency, Don, you will be missed. Eureka College, a small college near Ronald Reagan brought together Mr. INHOFE. Will the Senator yield? Peoria. The tuition was $180 a year, Democrats and Republicans to head off One of the things that is interesting twice that much with room and board, a funding crisis in Social Security. about northwest Arkansas is that you more than the Reagan family could af- That bipartisan agreement helped add were just talking about Don Tyson. ford. But Ronald Reagan did not let years of solvency to one of the most You could just as well have been talk- that discourage him. He received a successful programs this government ing about Sam Walton, Hunt, and ‘‘needy student scholarship’’ and wait- has ever created. It brought 50 years of many others. ed tables and washed dishes at his fra- solvency to Social Security and is one I do not know what it is about north- ternity house to help pay his way. of the crowning jewels of his leader- west Arkansas, that these great entre- Once again, he was elected president ship. preneurs who changed the world seem of his senior class. In 1986, he signed America’s last to all come from that area, as the Sen- 1935, Ronald Reagan was working as a major tax reform act to simplify the ator from Arkansas knows. I am very radio sports announcer. He followed Income Tax Code, broaden the tax base familiar with that area, since my the Chicago Cubs to spring training in and eliminate loopholes that allowed daughter Molly is a professor at the California and slipped away one day to some to avoid their obligations while University of Arkansas. visit Hollywood and explore whether unfairly increasing the tax burden on I have been over there many times. I there might be a future for him in mov- others. was just listening to you describe the ies. Today we face a far greater chal- life of Don Tyson and how consistent Two years later, Ronald Reagan lenge. Not only do we have to protect that is with many of the other entre- packed his possessions into a Nash con- Social Security for the long run, we preneurs. I salute all those guys up vertible and moved to California, also have to simplify our Tax Code there and you for bringing that to the where he would become a successful again, and put in place a responsible floor. actor and later Governor. But he never plan to reduce our deficits even as we Mr. PRYOR. I thank the Senator forgot his Illinois roots. invest in a stronger economic future. from Oklahoma. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- In his first inaugural parade in 1981, In this centennial year of his birth, it ator from Illinois. Ronald Reagan included the Dixon would be a fitting tribute to President Mr. DURBIN. I ask unanimous con- High School band. Reagan if Democrats and Republicans sent to speak as in morning business. On a visit to Eureka College in 1992, could work together to solve our chal- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without President Reagan told students, ‘‘Ev- lenges in the same spirit of patriotic objection, it is so ordered. erything good that happened to me, ev- pragmatism that President Reagan and REMEMBERING PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN erything, started here on this campus.’’ others brought to protecting Social Se- Mr. DURBIN. Sunday is the 100th an- In 1990, 2 years after he left the White curity a generation ago. I hope we can niversary of the birth of President House, President Reagan travelled to work together to help get Americans Ronald Reagan. Abilene, KS, for a ceremony marking back to work today and to lay the When Ronald Reagan was born, his the 100th anniversary of President Ei- foundation for a strong economic fu- father Jack looked at his new son and senhower’s birth. ture so that our children can continue exclaimed, ‘‘He looks like a fat little He said that day: to say, as President Reagan said so Dutchman but who knows, he might I learned long ago that in order to find the often, that America’s best days are grow up to be President some day.’’ heart of America you need only visit the still ahead. In fact, Ronald Reagan grew up to be- heartland of America. After Ronald Reagan clinched the come not just a President but one of It was a lesson he had learned years delegates needed to win his party’s 1980 America’s most memorable Presidents. earlier in those small towns in Illinois. Presidential nomination, a newspaper

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Improving more than 1.2 billion by 2030. Our out- bued with their ideology that if they can’t runway safety, according to the NTSB, dated air traffic control system cannot get everything they want, they’ll jump off is the highest priority. There were 988 handle this increase in traffic. But the cliff with the flag flying. As Governor, I runway incursions last year. This year with NextGen we hope to triple the ca- found out that if I could get half a loaf, in- there have already been 66. This bill pacity of our national aviation system stead of stalking off angrily, I’d take it. will require the FAA to review all com- and not compromise at all when it Ronald Reagan was a man who be- mercial service airports in the United comes to safety. This technology will lieved deeply in his core principles. He States and initiate action to improve allow planes to fly the straightest, would not want any of us to com- lighting, signage, and runway and taxi- quickest route from point A to point B. promise our own core principles in his way markings. With more precise information and bet- memory. Another key component of this bill is ter communication, we can fit more But there is such a thing as prin- NextGen. NextGen is the term we use planes safely in our airspace. Doing so cipled compromise. President Reagan to describe our transition to a more will save airlines fuel and money. It understood that. He knew that accom- modern satellite-based air traffic con- will reduce airport delays signifi- modation was needed to make the sys- trol system. I mentioned on the Senate cantly. tem work. We would honor his memory floor before that I recently read a book Chicago’s Midway Airport was by remembering that lesson and work- by Steve Johnson about innovation. He ranked dead last over the past few ing to restore to our politics the same told a fascinating story that on Octo- months for ontime departures. Chi- civility that we associate with him. ber 4, 1957, when the Soviets launched cago’s O’Hare has won that dubious Let’s remember that there is no dis- sputnik, America was caught by sur- distinction more than once. The main honor in accepting half a loaf. That is prise. Here our adversaries in the Cold reason is the lack of capacity in our how democracy works. War had the capacity, with a missile, aviation control system. Fully imple- Finally, I wish to express my admira- to launch a satellite that circled the menting NextGen could reduce these Earth. It was the first manmade sat- tion for Mrs. Reagan. Her love and delays dramatically. It will also save a ellite. We knew they had the bomb. steadfast devotion to her husband dur- lot of fuel and money for the airlines. Now they had these missiles and the ing his illness moved us all, and her This is a great investment. courageous work in support of new capacity to launch a satellite. Illinois is in the middle of the largest The Russians, to prove to the world treatments for Alzheimer’s disease will airport expansion project in American they had launched the satellite, had surely help other families. Our history at O’Hare. The $6.6 billion this basketball-sized sputnik satellite thoughts are with her and the rest of project will completely reconfigure the emitting a signal. There were two sci- President Reagan’s family as we mark runways and make sure traffic moves entists near Baltimore working for the this historic centennial. in and out of O’Hare more efficiently. (Mrs. HAGAN assumed the chair.) Federal Government who decided they would try to track this signal. They Moving this project along means a lot Mr. DURBIN. Madam President, the to the people of Chicago and Illinois. FAA authorization expired in October found it. As they tracked it, they used their scientific expertise and the Dopp- O’Hare already generates 450,000 jobs of 2007. For more than 3 years we have and $38 billion in economic activity for been operating on short-term exten- ler effect to determine not only the trajectory of this satellite but its Chicago and my State. This moderniza- sions—17 total short-term extensions. tion project will create 195,000 more The Federal Aviation Administration, speed. They reported their findings to the Department of Defense. They could jobs and another $18 billion in annual airlines, and the flying public, all de- economic activity. We need to move serve a long-term authorization to pro- tell the Department of Defense where sputnik was and how fast it was mov- forward as a nation, with the FAA, to vide certainty to our national aviation make certain O’Hare is modern and system. The bill before us will improve ing. The Department of Defense chal- safe and can accommodate the in- the safety of air travel, modernize our creased capacity in air service. air traffic control system, boost the lenged them and said: If you can tell us where that satellite is and how fast it I hope we can take up this bill and economy, and create thousands of jobs. is moving, could you tell where that the amendments that have been offered This is a jobs bill. to it in a timely fashion and pass the The FAA estimates commercial avia- signal is being received on Earth? They went to work. It took them several legislation soon. This bill will help air- tion is responsible for over 5 percent of weeks. They came up with the means ports the size of O’Hare, but also small- our gross domestic product and gen- to determine from a satellite where the er airports around the United States. It erates $1.2 trillion a year in economic signal was being received on Earth. We has already helped us in many ways. activity. The aviation industry pro- know it as GPS. The Essential Air Service Program vides $346 billion in earnings and 11 GPS is in our pockets. We carry it has been critical for a lot of small air- million jobs. This bill will help grow with our cell phones. People can locate ports, and certainly that is true in Illi- those numbers. The funding provided in us based on the cell phone we carry in nois. We need to make sure that com- this bill will support over 280,000 jobs. our pockets. The problem is, airplanes munities large and small across Amer- Economist Mark Zandi said: don’t have GPS. They still rely on ica have access to passenger air serv- Aviation is the glue that keeps the global aging technology, radar and the like, ice. economy together. to locate the planes and to move them There is a provision in this bill that We know that in Illinois. We know it safely. This bill is going to move us tries to coordinate some of the book- because of that great airport called into this new generation of technology. ings between Amtrak and airlines. Dur- O’Hare, which we are currently in the It is about time. ing floor consideration of this bill in process of modernizing. This bill will NextGen will give pilots and air traf- the previous Congress, my amendment boost our economy now and keep the fic controllers the ability to accurately was adopted that I hope can help trav- United States competitive in the glob- pinpoint aircraft in the sky, to avoid elers better coordinate and use both al marketplace. The Senate Commerce problems, to move things more passenger rail and air travel. Particu- Committee, chaired by Senator ROCKE- smoothly, safely, and efficiently. The larly for travel to and from less urban- FELLER, with ranking member Senator FAA has called for action on imple- ized areas, this option will help move INHOFE, has held dozens of hearings menting NextGen. people more efficiently. We can do offer

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The Sen- money, but my father—I think that here. It would keep that from hap- ator from Oklahoma. was the first race he got involved with pening. So I think it is very important, Mr. INHOFE. Madam President, let financially, and Ronald Reagan never and I think it means a lot to our troops me say that most everything the Sen- forgot it. I can remember when I came over there. The only alternative—if ator from Illinois has talked about I to Congress he was in his second term, you take the blood example—is, you agree with. We have been talking about and he would always comment: There would have to find, from maybe Qatar this bill for a long time. is young Congressman INHOFE. His or some other place, a military plane, a I join Senator ROCKEFELLER in en- daddy was one of my first financial C–130 or a C–17, to take them in. As you couraging anyone, Democrats particu- contributors. know, right now the OPTEMPO of our larly, to bring any amendment down So anyway, I will just say this: When lift capacity is to the point we cannot they want. Procedurally, I don’t think you lose somebody like him, you do not take on anything more. So I think this I can get my two amendments in the just lose a leader that in retrospect is a life-and-death type of thing. queue until that happens. looks good to everyone, but you lose The other amendment I feel strongly For the moment, I ask unanimous someone who is very warm and loving. about—I mentioned a minute ago when consent that I be recognized as in Here is a guy who, in the Oval Office, Senator Glenn retired, that left me as morning business. would never ever walk in without a the last active commercial pilot in the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without coat and tie on. This is the way he dis- Senate and I still am and have been objection, it is so ordered. tinguished the office, and this is the flying for 50 years. Many times in the REMEMBERING PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN way the office distinguished him. past I have, at my own expense and in Mr. INHOFE. Madam President, the So we dearly miss him on this, his my own aircraft, done things where we Senator from Illinois was talking 100th birthday anniversary. are helping out people because there is about our friend, our beloved Ronald Madam President, let me make one no one else to do it, either taking peo- Reagan. I thought I would make a cou- comment about the two amendments I ple for medical treatment or taking, in ple of comments that might surprise a have on the bill. I think it is important one case, a limb that had been ampu- few people. we address both of them, but one of tated back to be reattached, this type I was not from Oklahoma originally. them is, in particular, very significant. of thing. I was actually born in Iowa. When I We have a subpart S version of the So for people to do it—the pilots and was a very small child, Ronald Reagan FARs that affects scheduled and non- the equipment, such as my equip- ment—it costs us money to do it. But was the sports announcer for WHO scheduled airlines. A scheduled airline we feel, in order to encourage them to radio. can live with the flight crew rest and do it, they should be exempt from li- My father was a claims adjuster. duty time because they can adjust ability should something happen so They officed in the same room—not the their schedules to do that. The un- they do not have frivolous lawsuits. If same building but the same room. They scheduled cannot. So the subpart S in you do, then it discourages people from played the pinball machine together. I the FARs today allows a subpart S to being generous. So this is kind of a can remember at that time they never work longer hours, but they also have said Ronald Reagan; they said Dutch Good Samaritan type of amendment. longer rest hours in between. They av- These are amendments Nos. 7 and 6. I Reagan. That was his name. That was erage out actually with longer rest am hoping to get them in the queue. I his name as a sports announcer too. He hours per active hours than under the cannot do that at this time. I want to would actually come by and we re- law that affects the scheduled airlines. cooperate with Senator ROCKEFELLER, ferred to him as Uncle Dutch. That was Let me give you a couple examples but as soon as we can, I want to get in Des Moines. That was back during why it is important. Ninety-five per- these in. the Depression and shortly after. cent of our troop movement over in With that, I yield the floor and sug- When my family moved to Okla- theater, where the Presiding Officer gest the absence of a quorum. homa, we didn’t have a lot of money. and I just came back from, after having The PRESIDING OFFICER. The So we never went to movies. At that spent New Year’s Eve with our troops clerk will call the roll. time they didn’t have TV. The only over in Kabul and Afghanistan—during The legislative clerk proceeded to time we would ever see a movie is if that time, there were several times call the roll. Dutch Reagan had a movie. I went when they had to bring blood in. Mr. NELSON of Florida. Madam down once to Atoka, OK, which was If a nonscheduled airline has to bring President, I ask unanimous consent probably roundtrip driving about 4 the blood in, they cannot do it because that the order for the quorum call be hours. We went down to see a Dutch that is too far. They would have to rescinded. Reagan movie. leave the plane there and have crew The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Later on, I became the mayor of rest in Kabul and come back. Well, objection, it is so ordered. Tulsa. During that time Reagan was in they cannot do that because we have Mr. NELSON of Florida. I am waiting his first term. He had me do all of his rules against it. just momentarily to receive the docu- domestic work. I was debating Demo- Ninety-five percent of the troop ac- mentation on offering an amendment. cratic mayors from all over the coun- tivity, movement, comes from non- But in the meantime, I would like to try on the policies that Ronald Reagan scheduled airlines. Forty percent of the speak as in morning business. had initiated and tried to perpetuate, material comes in and out. That is The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without and they were all very successful, I what we are talking about. We are objection, it is so ordered. might add. Now, in retrospect, a lot of talking about getting blood over to our EGYPT people on the other side of the fence re- troops in the AOR. Mr. NELSON of Florida. Madam alize they were. So it has worked well. There has not President, it is very apparent that Saying this was a personal relation- been, in 15 years, one case where an ac- President Mubarak must step down. ship, I look beyond what everyone cident on a nonscheduled airline has The longer he waits to realize he has to knows about Ronald Reagan, what his taken place due to the fatigue of any- step down, the more difficult it is going persona was, and I can say he was such one. So it is a problem that does not to be in order to have an orderly tran- a warm and personable person. It never exist, and I have always had this hang- sition and to keep the peace in Egypt.

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Madam to other agencies of government would If he had done this several days ago, President, the NASA bill we passed last clearly jeopardize the success of this then that transition would have been fall strongly reaffirmed that aero- extraordinary R&D program. so much easier because General nautics research is an integral part of The amendment, to which we have no Suleiman is well respected in Egypt, the agency and made the point in that objection, is to take this part out of certainly by the military. He is well re- bill of increasing a focus on NASA’s the bill with the new NASA bill that spected by the Arab neighbors in the aeronautics research programs. As a was passed, with the robust aero- region, and he is well respected in matter of fact, what does NASA stand nautics research and development that Israel, as well as the United States. for? It has become a noun, but it actu- is within NASA, be the operative pol- But every day there is violence and ally stands for the National Aero- icy. bloodshed in these clashes, it makes nautics and Space Administration. The If it is appropriate, if this is the prop- the Arab street much more difficult to first A in NASA stands for ‘‘aero- er parliamentary procedure, I ask for accept any semblance of authority that nautics.’’ It is vital to our research the yeas and nays—or I would ask for a would come from Mubarak, even programs in both air and space, the re- voice vote. I am told we are not in the though, under the Egyptian Constitu- search that is going on. proper venue for that. So I have offered tion, there is a Vice President, albeit We have existing aeronautics re- the amendment, it is laid down, and we that Vice Presidency has been vacant search facilities that are national as- will deal with it appropriately. for years and years and years. But, nev- sets, and they are in places such as the I yield the floor, and I note the ab- ertheless, there is a Vice President who Ames Research Center in California; sence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The is in the constitutional line of succes- the Glenn Research Center named after sion to become President. clerk will call the roll. our former colleague, Senator John The legislative clerk proceeded to Again, I say what I said several days Glenn, which is in Cleveland; Langley ago: President Mubarak needs to recog- call the roll. Research Center in Virginia; the Dry- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- nize, despite his long years of great den Flight Research Center, and that is service in keeping Egypt stable, espe- ator from California. at Edwards Air Force Base in Cali- Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Madam President, cially in the aftermath of the assas- fornia. sination of President Anwar Sadat, I ask unanimous consent that the order These NASA centers are unique in for the quorum call be rescinded. that it is time for him to step down, their ability to leverage the com- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without that there is a new nation of Egypt out plementary and ever-increasing objection, it is so ordered. there and they want reform and they synergies between space and aviation REMEMBERING PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN want free and fair elections and most systems through these incredibly expe- Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Madam President, of them want a peaceful and orderly rienced technical researchers, and they as a native Californian, I come to the transition of power. make remarkable advances in aero- I would again call on the President of floor now to honor the 100th birthday space-related disciplines such as mate- of President Ronald Reagan. Egypt to step down and step down im- rials and structures, flight controls, Former First Lady Nancy Reagan mediately and let the Presidency be as- aerospace systems health management, asked that I serve on the Ronald sumed by his Vice President, with the and high speed aerothermal analysis Reagan Centennial Commission and I guarantee of free and fair elections in tools. We take for granted when we get was very honored to accept. Today, I September and the guarantee that on commercial airliners some of the join Senator JIM WEBB, also a member, President Mubarak is not going to run improvements that have been made. and ORRIN HATCH, to continue Presi- for reelection. Well, where do we think a lot of that dent Reagan’s spirit of bipartisanship. Madam President, I yield the floor came from? It came from NASA and We have invited Senators on both sides and I suggest the absence of a quorum. of the aisle to join us here on the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The the research there. These advances not From Simi Valley, in his beloved clerk will call the roll. only accelerate space and aviation sys- California, to our Nation’s capital, The legislative clerk proceeded to tems but also other very complex sys- Americans this month are honoring call the roll. tems such as the smart grid, remote The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- medicine and medical robotics, smart President Ronald Reagan. These cen- ator from Florida. cars, a whole bunch of things. tennial events are intended to reach all Mr. NELSON of Florida. Madam NASA’s fundamental aeronautics re- Americans, including many born after President, I ask unanimous consent search capability happens to be also in- President Reagan left office. Those who that the order for the quorum call be tegrated with enabling the future space remember Ronald Reagan as Governor rescinded. missions of NASA. The Nation’s aero- or as President know how he impacted The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without nautics research and development in- history. But there are some who may objection, it is so ordered. vestment currently is planned and well not realize that the society we live in AMENDMENT NO. 34 coordinated through the National Aer- today is, in part, due to the policies of Mr. NELSON of Florida. Madam onautics Research and Development President Reagan. Young adults today President, I ask unanimous consent Policy as well as in Executive Order grow up without the fear of nuclear that the pending amendment be set 13419 in which the roles and respon- war in the back of their mind, and stu- aside in order to call up amendment sibilities of executive departments and dents of tomorrow will work to achieve No. 34. agencies in Federal aeronautics R&D President Reagan’s dream of a world The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without are clearly defined and delineated all without nuclear weapons. objection, it is so ordered. the way through the rest of this dec- It can be said that every great Presi- The clerk will report. ade, until 2020. dent can be remembered in just one The legislative clerk read as follows: What happened when this FAA bill sentence. Some examples: ‘‘He freed The Senator from Florida [Mr. NELSON] was put together years ago is that it the slaves;’’ ‘‘He made the Louisiana proposes an amendment numbered 34. had a transfer to some committee of Purchase.’’ Yet, 22 years after he left Mr. NELSON of Florida. I ask unani- NASA’s successful aeronautics R&D in- office and 7 years after his death, the mous consent that the reading of the vestment leadership and this competi- name Ronald Wilson Reagan can still amendment be dispensed with. tiveness, this investment has supported provoke a complex debate. There is no The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without springing forth key technologies that one phrase that can describe his leg- objection, it is so ordered. directly contradict a national policy of acy. Some come to mind: ‘‘The great

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He also knew the road policy disagreements one may have had Mr. Shultz believes if he were around to greatness was through an individ- with him, one has to admire his style today, President Reagan would have ual’s effort, not through expanded gov- of politics. He was a conservative Re- been in favor of the New START trea- ernment. So President Reagan set publican, but he understood that in ty. At the famous Reykjavik Summit about reinvigorating the stagnant order to get anything done, he had to with Soviet President Mikhail Gorba- economy. work across the aisle, which he did. chev in October 1980, President Reagan He cut government spending. He re- In his 1983 State of the Union Ad- went far beyond Gorbachev’s proposal duced government regulation. He ended dress, President Reagan said: to slash strategic arms by 50 percent. the practice of wage and price controls. Let us, in these next 2 years—men and He truly believed we should go to zero. He passed tax cuts for all Americans. women of both parties, every political The Reykjavik talks may not have He famously noted that ‘‘Government’s shade—concentrate on the long-range, bipar- worked out, but the idea that we first duty is to protect the people, not tisan responsibilities of government, not the should create a world free of nuclear run their lives.’’ The American econ- short-range or short-term temptations of omy responded with sustained growth, partisan politics. weapons endures to this day. Secretary Shultz thinks President and a new era of economic prosperity Also, Ronald Reagan had common- Reagan would want to be remembered had been ushered in. sense conviction that helped his for his complete faith in freedom and Reagan’s vision of the greater good achievements. his conviction that you had to be also extended beyond our shores. He He was a true gentleman in American strong to defend that freedom. And was a fierce advocate for freedom. With politics. You would not have seen him that is certainly true. our Cold War adversary, the Soviet giving a speech—like some do today— Ronald Reagan came into office with Union, imposing the tight grip of com- calling his opponents names or giving character and charisma, traits that munism on much of the world, Presi- out generalized insults. Dignity and take other elected officials years to de- dent Reagan launched a resurgence of wit were his weapons of choice. velop. It was that charisma that im- American military might through the Also, President Reagan served during pressed California’s Republicans and Strategic Defense Initiative. As he times of divided government, when one led to his nomination as Governor of said: party had the White House and the my great State. Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came other controlled at least one Chamber Ronald Reagan was elected Governor about because the United States was too of Congress, giving each side some gov- of California in 1966 by nearly a 1 mil- strong. erning responsibility to find solutions. lion-vote margin. He was elected to a It was his firm resolve to negotiate It was a time when a financial and second term in 1970. He did not seem to from a position of strength that led to fiscal crisis brought the two parties to- mind that people underappreciated him successful arms talks with the Soviets gether to compromise on tough choices at the time. and ultimately to the downfall of the about taxes and spending. In 1983, Decades later, as volumes of his Soviet Empire. During his first inau- President Reagan and Speaker Tip handwritten essays were released to gural address, he clearly stated where O’Neill came together to compromise the public, Americans saw just what a America stood: on Social Security, based on proposals thoughtful and visionary man he was. As for the enemies of freedom, those who from a commission led by Alan Green- If we remember Ronald Reagan with are potential adversaries, they will be re- span. President Reagan is credited with one sentence, let’s remember him as minded that peace is the highest aspiration creating the conditions that led to the one who took big ideas, a crafting of of the American people. We will negotiate end of the Cold War, reviving the econ- words, and a conviction of freedom to for it, sacrifice for it; we will not surrender for it—now or ever. omy, and returning a sense of opti- change the entire world. mism to our country. On the 100th anniversary of the birth President Reagan understood that all One of the things I most admired was of ‘‘The Great Communicator,’’ I hope people, regardless of where they live, his work to reduce the number of nu- we can embody his spirit of bipartisan- long for liberty and freedom. He be- clear weapons in the world and his ship to keep our country strong and lieved that America was a beacon of dream of a world one day free of these united today. hope to all of the oppressed people of awful weapons. I yield the floor. the world, a ‘‘shining city on the hill,’’ President Reagan expressed this vi- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- as he described it. As Jeffrey Bell sion during his second inaugural ad- ator from Texas is recognized. wrote in the Weekly Standard, Ronald dress on January 21, 1985. He declared: Mrs. HUTCHISON. Madam President, Reagan ‘‘believed that people all over We seek the total elimination one day of I rise to speak also on the 100th anni- the world craved self-government just nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth. versary of the birth of Ronald Reagan, as much as Americans did.’’ Even It was a remarkable statement from and I am so pleased to follow my col- today, he is still being proven right. He a President who had deployed tactical league from California who has been said: nuclear missiles in Europe to counter under the weather for a little while. We Concentrated power has always been the the Soviet Union’s fearsome SS–20 mis- are very glad she is back. enemy of liberty. sile fleet. But President Reagan under- I think all of us will have an oppor- These words still echo in today’s tu- stood the grave threat that nuclear tunity to talk about one of the great multuous times. We witnessed the weapons pose to humanity, and he Presidents of the last century and to poignant photographs of women in Iraq boldly set himself to achieve their mark the 30 years since Ronald Rea- voting and joyously holding up their eventual elimination. gan’s inauguration. purple-stained thumbs. We are now see- My good friend, George Shultz, who When Ronald Reagan was elected in ing the marches of people in Egypt who was Secretary of State under President 1980, America faced an anemic econ- long to be able to vote in a real elec- Reagan, remembers that many at that omy, high unemployment, and a sense tion for the first time in 30 years. He time thought the President’s initial ne- of malaise emanated from Washington. also understood the importance of in- gotiations to reduce strategic arms But President Reagan never doubted formation in promoting freedom, call- were not serious—even quite ridicu- that America’s potential was unlim- ing it the ‘‘oxygen of the modern age. lous. A classified report released re- ited. During his second inaugural ad- It seeps through the walls topped by

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They are the founda- This amendment would expand the or played his speeches over the camp tion of our economic prosperity, and number of sites to 10, which would re- loud speakers. No matter. We knew these precious assets have been pro- quire the FAA to explore the most use- about him. New additions to our ranks tected by the service and sacrifice of ful and safest way for unmanned aerial told us how the Governor and Mrs. patriots in every generation from the systems to be integrated into the air- Reagan were committed to our libera- beginning of America’s history to space. tion and our cause. today. Ronald Reagan understood and The amendment would require at When we came home, all of us were appreciated the duty we all have to least one of these test sites to inves- eager to meet the Reagans, to thank preserve these American ideals. tigate how unmanned aerial systems them for their concern. But more than As he said: can be useful in monitoring public gratitude drew us to them. We were Democracy is worth dying for, because it is land. As the chairman of the Sub- drawn to them because they were the most deeply honorable form of govern- committee on Public Lands and For- among the few prominent Americans ment devised by man. ests, I have heard repeatedly from law who did not subscribe to the then-fash- When President Reagan died in 2004, enforcement officials that remote pub- ionable notion that America had en- there was a spontaneous, worldwide lic lands are too often being used as a tered her inevitable decline. outpouring of grief and tribute that place for criminals to grow drugs with- We prisoners of war came home to a caught some seasoned political pundits out detection. The Bureau of Land country that had lost a war and the by surprise. Throughout his political Management and the Forest Service, best sense of itself, a country beset by career, Ronald Reagan was underesti- two agencies that work in this field, social and economic problems. Assas- mated by ‘‘establishment’’ political in- simply don’t have the resources to use sinations, riots, scandals, contempt for tellectuals of the day. He was dis- expensive helicopters and do all the political, religious, and educational in- missed sometimes by the media. But necessary work to root out these ille- stitutions gave the appearance that we when he spoke, the American people gal operations. had become a dysfunctional society. listened, they understood, and they I will conclude by saying that I be- Patriotism was sneered at, the mili- agreed with this down-to-Earth but lieve unmanned aerial systems could tary scorned. The world anticipated very profound man. And so did the be a cost-saving way to address this the collapse of our global influence. world. We all remember him fondly, with problem. By getting the ball rolling The great, robust, confident Republic great respect, and are honored to have with my amendment, I believe it will that had given its name to the last cen- known him. be possible to more significantly fight tury seemed exhausted. I yield the floor. these reprehensible drug operations Ronald Reagan believed differently. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- that are taking place on public lands. He possessed an unshakable faith in ator from Oregon is recognized. I hope this amendment, No. 27, will America’s greatness, past and future, Mr. WYDEN. Madam President, I be accepted as part of the Rockefeller that proved more durable than the pre- want to take a quick minute or two to legislation, and I look forward to work- vailing political sentiments of the talk about an amendment that will be ing with the bill’s managers to encour- time. His confidence was a tonic to called up later in the afternoon on my age the development in this sector, men who had come home eager to put behalf to expand and improve the un- which I think is right at the heart of the war behind us and for the country manned aerial systems—known as UAS what we need to do to promote innova- to do likewise. programs—that are part of the Federal tion in the aviation field. I thank Our country has a long and honorable Aviation Administration reauthoriza- Chairman ROCKEFELLER. history. A lost war or any other calam- tion bill. My amendment is No. 27. I yield the floor. ity should not destroy our confidence I thank Chairman ROCKEFELLER and f or weaken our purpose. We were a good his staff because they have worked nation before Vietnam, and we are a closely with me on this and several MORNING BUSINESS good nation after Vietnam. In all of other amendments. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under history, you cannot find a better one. Growth in the unmanned aerial sys- the previous order, the Senate will pro- Of that, Ronald Reagan was supremely tems sector of the aviation business ceed to a period for the transaction of confident, and he became President to has been extraordinary in the last few morning business until 3 p.m., with prove it. years. I think it is well known that Senators permitted to speak therein His was a faith that shouted at ty- these systems are proven critical to for up to 10 minutes each for the pur- rants to ‘‘tear down this wall.’’ Such military operations in Iraq and Af- pose of giving remarks relative to the faith, such patriotism requires a great ghanistan. But they also have tremen- upcoming centennial of the birth of deal of love to profess, and I will al- dous potential in the civilian sector President Ronald Reagan. ways revere him for it. When walls whether it is for firefighting, law en- The Senator from Arizona. were all I had for a world, I learned forcement, border control, search and f about a man whose love of freedom rescue, or environmental monitoring. gave me hope in a desolate place. His REMEMBERING PRESIDENT Law enforcement uses for this tech- faith honored us, as it honored all RONALD REAGAN nology would be especially helpful in Americans, as it honored all freedom- rural areas like much of my home Mr. MCCAIN. Madam President, loving people. State of Oregon. Unfortunately, the there are many of us who will come to Let us honor his memory especially FAA has not yet been able to come up the floor this afternoon to pay tribute today by holding his faith as our own, with a real plan for how to integrate to one of the great Presidents in Amer- and let us too tear down walls to free- these unmanned aerial systems vehi- ican history. Many of us will recollect dom. That is what Americans do when cles into our airspace. That is why I times and experiences and contacts we they believe in themselves. am pleased the Rockefeller bill before had with President Reagan and the way I suggest the absence of a quorum. us includes requirements for the FAA he inspired us personally as well as a The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. to get to work on a plan in this area nation. COONS). The clerk will call the roll. and to establish test sites for un- When I was a prisoner of war in The legislative clerk proceeded to manned aerial systems research. North Vietnam, the Vietnamese went call the roll.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:29 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 0686 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\S03FE1.000 S03FE1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD February 3, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 1187 Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. President, I ask ity, confidence, and vigor. His policies These kinds of things happened unanimous consent that the order for brought down the Soviet Empire. ‘‘Mr. throughout the government. It in- the quorum call be rescinded. Gorbachev, tear down this wall’’ still creased productivity of our govern- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without resonates in our minds, and it liberated ment. It reduced the take of the Fed- objection, it is so ordered. untold millions. eral Government of the private econ- Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. President, I was Today, more than 20 years after omy. The private economy grew, and honored to hear Senator MCCAIN’s com- President Reagan left office, we find the government sector became more ef- ments on Ronald Reagan. This Sunday ourselves facing many of the same ficient and more productive. That is is indeed the 100th anniversary of his challenges: a sagging economy, a grow- what we need to return to. birth. It is an opportunity for the ing government, and a diminished It was such a fabulous honor to have whole Nation to honor the memory of a standing in the world. We would be the opportunity to serve in that posi- man who honored us with his leader- wise to remember the lessons of that tion. I hope I was faithful to the values ship. era: peace through strength, prosperity of the President who appointed me. I In the 1980s, we were a weakened through freedom. He understood that have to say, I think I knew what they country. Inflation and unemployment our future greatness lies in the same were, and I know I gave my best effort were in double digits. The hostage cri- place it always has—through our pio- to be worthy of the trust he placed in sis in Iran dragged on, with no end in neering, restless, enterprising spirit me. That was true of many more people sight. Our standing abroad was waning that is filled with ambition and excite- throughout the Federal Government. and so too was our military strength. ment, and a deep sense of honor and de- Mr. President, I yield the floor and Challenges at home were answered cency that defines who we are as a peo- suggest the absence of a quorum. with one failed Washington program ple and who we will be tomorrow. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The after another. We had lost confidence In President Reagan’s farewell ad- clerk will call the roll. The assistant legislative clerk pro- in our future and really in the prin- dress, he issued a word of caution: ciples that made us exceptional. ceeded to call the roll. If we forget what we did, we won’t know Mr. ISAKSON. Mr. President, I ask Ronald Reagan changed that. Part of who we are. I am warning of an eradication unanimous consent that the order for that change began with 12 simple, cru- of that—of the American memory that could the quorum call be rescinded. cial words: result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Government is not the solution to our objection, it is so ordered. problem; government is the problem. As we face daunting, defining chal- Mr. ISAKSON. Mr. President, I rise It is a big part of our problem. lenges of our time, I hope we look back for a moment to join my colleagues in He stirred the passions of our coun- to the leadership he provided. paying tribute to the late Ronald try, revitalizing not only our economy On a personal note, I was tremen- Reagan, President of the United but our identity and confidence as free dously honored to have been appointed States—a great conservative leader of people. What some have called the a U.S. attorney in the Southern Dis- our country and an inspiration to Reagan revolution he called the great trict of Alabama by President Reagan many, many Americans. rediscovery. He instilled us with a new in 1981. It was an office in which I had I want to dedicate my remarks to a confidence in our future and in Amer- served as an assistant a number of lady named Kathie Miller. Kathie ica’s role as the last best hope of man- years before. To be able to come back works for me here in Washington. She kind. and lead that office was such a per- has loved Ronald Reagan since the day His achievements are well known, sonal thrill. he came on the scene and can probably but they bear repeating. The President did not give me any di- quote him verbatim much better than I Working with Paul Volcker, Chair- rections as to what we were to do, but can. He had a meaningful impact on man of the Federal Reserve, he tamed I absolutely knew—and I have often her life, and so I dedicate these re- the inflation which was robbing Ameri- said it is a great example of true lead- marks to her today. cans of their life’s work and savings. It ership—I knew exactly what he wanted My speech will be about two events I was a tough course, a tough road, but me to do. I gathered the staff, many of happened to attend where Ronald he saw it through. He stayed on the whom I had worked with years before, Reagan was speaking and the impact of course, and we were stronger as a re- and used these words: President those events not only on me but on ev- sult. We need to get on a tough road Reagan sent me here to prosecute erybody else who was there, and actu- and stay the course today. criminals and protect the U.S. Treas- ally on the future of our country. One He lowered taxes dramatically, in- ury. I believe that is what he did. I be- took place in 1975, when he was begin- cluding a reduction in the top rate lieve that was implicit in his cam- ning his pursuit of the nomination for from nearly 70 percent, and he reined paign, his consistent leadership, that the Presidency of the United States. in a runaway bureaucracy that had he believed in law and order and effi- Gerald Ford was still President at that trapped innovation and productivity in ciency, and he wanted us to fight cor- time and Ronald Reagan was running a labyrinth of regulation and redtape. ruption and try to help produce a more for the nomination for a full term. His faith in the free market was not efficient government. Ronald Reagan came to Cobb County, misplaced. It rewarded us. He created I remember in those days we went to GA. Cobb County, GA, is where I live. 20 million new jobs, grew our gross na- a U.S. attorneys conference. I attended It is a very Republican county right tional product by 26 percent, and began with my good friend, recently the Dep- now, but in 1975 it was not a very Re- the longest peacetime boom in our his- uty Attorney General of the United publican county. In fact, there was tory. Conditions improved for Ameri- States, Larry Thompson. We would only one elected official in the entire cans in every walk of life. The net share rooms on the trips to save money county who was a Republican, out of worth of families earning between because we knew and believed Presi- literally 100 or more who were Demo- $20,000 and $50,000 rose by 27 percent. dent Reagan wanted us to save money. cratic officials. Reagan’s stunning success debunked Our spending was out of control, and Ronald Reagan came to the civic cen- every myth of those who believe a big- we had a serious financial problem. Our ter in Cobb County, and an unantici- ger government is more compassionate budgets were frozen. But we worked pated thing happened, not by plan, cer- and can do more for more people. The harder and we produced more. tainly, not by the generation of politi- growth and potential productivity of That can be done today. This whining cians, but a crowd so large came to the private sector is what has made that we cannot reduce spending—and hear him that the fire marshals shut America the most prosperous Nation. many times, they define ‘‘reducing the building down. This is a very good- This success at home was matched by spending’’ as a reduction of the pro- sized, 4,000-seat auditorium. People his success abroad. He defended our jected rate of growth. It is not even a came to hear a positive message about principles and our way of life with clar- reduction of current level spending. America.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:29 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 0686 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\S03FE1.000 S03FE1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD 1188 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 February 3, 2011 I was fortunate enough, because I had not a weak country subservient to any- thing which I think motivated every- been in politics a little bit, to be able body else. one who served in his administration. to get in that room and listen to his In that auditorium of 16,000 people, If we go back to that time period, speech. In 1975, for America, it was not he stood up before them and did the those of us who were of age, 1980 was a the most prosperous of times. In fact, a same thing he did in the auditorium in bad time in this country. Our country lot of the things we have been suffering 1975. He inspired them to believe in was in tremendous turmoil. We were through these last couple of years we their country, inspired them to believe demoralized in the wake of the fall of went through in 1974 and 1975. We had in what was right, and inspired them to South Vietnam and the bitterness that a difficult housing market, higher in- believe in peace through strength. And had affected so many of us along class terest rates, higher unemployment, when he left, everybody was uplifted. lines, particularly between those who and things of that nature. I think when Ronald Reagan left the opposed the Vietnam war and those So this former actor came to Cobb Presidency in 1988, we would all agree who had fought it, and what we were County and he lit a fire under every- our country was uplifted. It was a pe- going to do in terms of resolving those body, and not necessarily about him riod of prosperity and a period of issues here in this country and then but about ourselves. He uplifted people strength, and it was a renaissance of our reputation internationally. Infla- who needed uplifting and he did it with the American spirit. That is the test of tion was rampant, sometimes in the a message of a belief in ourselves, a be- true leadership. So I am honored and high teens. People were saying that the lief in our country, pride in America, privileged to join many of my col- Presidency was too big a job for any and defense through strength. Those leagues on the floor today to pay trib- one person. Our military was over- messages were so clearly Ronald ute to the memory and the commit- worked, underpaid, and dramatically Reagan. It inspired me. And it inspired ment of Ronald Reagan, President of underappreciated. me so much that I hoped he would get the United States. I had friends with whom I had served that nomination and be elected Presi- Mr. President, I suggest the absence or I had gone to the Naval Academy dent of the United States. But he of a quorum. with, who had gone into the Navy, who failed. He did not get the nomination. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The were saying during this time period if Ultimately, Gerald Ford got it, not clerk will call the roll. you make commander you may as well Ronald Reagan. But Ronald Reagan The assistant legislative clerk pro- get your divorce because you are going didn’t go home and pout. He did not ceeded to call the roll. to go to sea for 4 years. The Navy had stop participating. He didn’t drop out. Mr. WEBB. Mr. President, I ask gone from 930 combatant ships during He set his sights on the 1980 Republican unanimous consent the order for the the Vietnam war down to 479, precipi- nomination for President of the United quorum call be rescinded. tously, at the same time our country States, and history reflects that he The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without had assumed the obligations in the In- achieved it. He won it, and it was 8 objection, it is so ordered. dian Ocean and the Persian Gulf, obli- great years for our country, 8 great Mr. WEBB. Mr. President, I wish to gations it didn’t have before. years with a man who could inspire and join my other colleagues who have The Soviet Union, it is hard to re- who could lead. come to the floor at this time to speak member right now, was in a state of I have oftentimes said that two of in honor of our late President, Ronald high activity, diplomatically and mili- the truly great Presidents we have Reagan, on the occasion of his 100th tarily. It had invaded Afghanistan, had—John Kennedy and Ronald birthday. I wish to begin by giving my threatening instability in that part of Reagan—had something in common. best wishes to Mrs. Reagan and wish the world. It had a massive naval build- They were from different parties, but her all the best for her continued up in the Pacific following our with- they could stand before a group of peo- health. Also, as someone who had three drawal from Vietnam. Our diplomatic ple and make a speech about a subject different positions in the Reagan ad- and military personnel in Tehran had they didn’t agree with and, by the time ministration, I am thinking of a lot of been taken hostage by the Iranian re- they finished, they got a standing ova- very fine people with whom I had the gime and were being taunted daily on tion. So, first, they were great commu- opportunity to serve, especially Cap TV. Our national self-image was in a nicators. Second, they were committed Weinberger whom I met and worked crisis state. Who were we as a country? to a safe and prosperous America. They with every day for about 4 years, who Did we really have a future? were hawks on defense. They con- is one of the finest people I ever Ronald Reagan campaigned based on fronted our enemies straight up, as worked with, and also John our national greatness and on the in- Kennedy did with Khrushchev and Herrington, who was the Director of trinsic good of our society and on re- President Reagan did. Third, and most White House Personnel, who first storing our place at the top of the important, they reduced taxes and brought me into the Reagan adminis- world community. I can vividly re- brought prosperity to the economy of tration and later served our country as member in the summer of 1980 when the United States. Secretary of Energy. Ronald Reagan made a speech at the The second occasion I met Ronald As I mentioned, I had three different Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention Reagan was an interesting one. It was positions in the Reagan administra- and mentioned, as he was so wont to in the Omni Coliseum in Atlanta, tion, first as a member of the National do, with symbolic phrases that Viet- where professional basketball was Advisory Committee, and then I spent nam had been a noble cause. He had the played at the time. The coliseum seats 4 years to the day in the Pentagon as media following him around the coun- 16,000 people. I was then the minority Assistant Secretary of Defense, and try mocking the comment at this leader of the Georgia House of Rep- then as Secretary of the Navy. It was point, only 5 years after the fall of resentatives and was elected to be the truly an inspiring time in my life, to South Vietnam, but for those of us who MC of a program that featured Senator have worked for an individual who had had stepped forward and served in Mack Mattingly, running for reelection the leadership qualities Ronald Reagan order to attempt to bring democracy to from Georgia, but the keynote speaker demonstrated. He knew how to inspire South Vietnam, that was a great mo- was Ronald Reagan. In fact, he flew our country. He knew how to bring ment of inspiration. from Washington to Atlanta to make strong personalities together to work Once he was elected, Ronald Reagan that speech and then went to Rey- toward the good of the country and for governed with the same sense of cer- kjavik, Iceland where he confronted its future. He knew how to make deci- tainty about the greatness of our sys- Gorbachev and Brezhnev and the Rus- sions, he knew how to make hard deci- tem and the goodness of our people. He sians and he stood for peace through sions, and one of the great qualities he convinced strong, talented people to strength, and a strong buildup of forces had was he was never afraid to take re- join his administration. With George in America so we could be a strong sponsibility for the consequences of Shultz as Secretary of State and Cap country that could defend ourselves, any of those decisions. That is some- Weinberger as Secretary of Defense, he

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Yet through it all, Presi- petitive intellects with decades of valu- an influential leader as he successfully dent Reagan’s resolve never wavered, able experience. navigated the upheaval in the Holly- his confidence that the American peo- When Ronald Reagan left the White wood community. ple would meet the myriad challenges House, our military had been rebuilt, In 1964, Ronald Reagan was thrust they faced never faltered. This was a our people had regained their pride in into the national spotlight as he gave man who, after surviving an assassina- our country and their optimism for its his televised speech entitled, ‘‘A Time tion attempt, continued to meet with future. The United States was again for Choosing,’’ in support of the Presi- congressional leaders in his hospital recognized as the leading nation in the dential nominee Barry Goldwater. room as he recovered because he be- world community and the failed gov- Following his speech, a group of in- lieved it in the best interest of the ernmental concept that had produced fluential citizens became convinced American people that he continue the Soviet Union was on the verge of that Ronald Reagan should become the working to the extent his body would imploding, not because of external at- next Governor of California. After win- allow. It was that type of steadfast de- tack but soon to disappear at the hands ning in the primary and enduring a termination that allowed the negotia- of its own citizens, who could look to very hard-fought campaign, Ronald tions with Soviet leader Mikhail the West and see a better way of life. Reagan unseated the two-time Gov- Gorbachev to move forward and even- To paraphrase an old saying, ‘‘You ernor of California, Pat Brown, to be- tually led to the tearing down of the never know when you are making his- come the 33rd Governor in California’s Berlin Wall, the signing of the I.N.F. tory. You only know when you did.’’ history. Treaty and eventually the end of So- Ronald Reagan did make history and During his 2 terms as Governor, Cali- viet oppression in Eastern Europe. The I was proud to be a small part of it. fornians enjoyed a smaller, less costly, issue that got him into politics, ending I yield the floor and suggest the ab- and more efficient State government. the spread of communism, became the sence of a quorum. Governor Reagan returned $5 billion to crowning achievement of his Presi- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The the taxpayers and used his line-item dency. clerk will call the roll. veto authority 943 times to ensure that His constant refrain throughout his The assistant legislative clerk pro- the State’s budget matched its prior- time in the White House was that gov- ceeded to call the roll. ities. ernment was becoming too big, too in- Mr. KIRK. Mr. President, I ask unan- Ronald Reagan had once again efficient, too unresponsive and too imous consent the order for the proved himself a determined and capa- wasteful. As Governor, Reagan dem- quorum call be rescinded. ble leader in difficult times, but soon onstrated the ability to exercise fiscal The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the American people would learn that restraint and he urged leaders in Con- objection, it is so ordered. his best days were very much ahead of gress to do the same thing. I think it Mr. KIRK. Mr. President, as the jun- him. After an unsuccessful Republican appropriate that we are celebrating Reagan’s 100th birthday at a time when ior Senator representing the State of Presidential attempt in 1976, he knew national debt and the deficit are at an Illinois, and one who will lead a cele- that he wanted to be President but all-time high. While we know that bration of President Reagan’s life in would only enter the race if the people Reagan possessed the willingness to Chicago Saturday night, for Sunday, of the United States actually wanted tackle such issues, I believe the lesson the 100th birthday of our native Illi- him to run. In the years following the we can learn most from his Presidency noisan, our 40th President, Ronald 1976 primary, Ronald Reagan became is the endlessly optimistic attitude he Reagan, I want to talk for a moment increasingly concerned about the direc- had that the United States and its peo- about his life and what he has meant to tion the country was headed, especially ple would meet challenges of the day the United States, now on the 100th an- in the areas of national security, un- and emerge stronger because of the niversary of President Reagan’s birth. employment, and the economy. More struggle to overcome. On February 6, 1911, in Tampico, IL, than anything, Reagan sensed that His assertion that America was ‘‘the with a population of 820, John and Americans had lost their sense of con- shining city on a hill’’ guided him, as it Nelle Reagan welcomed a child who fidence, not just in themselves but also should us. A hard-nosed, gritty politi- would one day change the direction not in the country. cian, Reagan would have jumped at the just of our country but the world. Ac- Interestingly, the concerns Mr. chance to take on the responsibility of cording to the Reagan family lore, Reagan felt as he weighed the decision leading this country out of this reces- when he first gazed upon his son, John to run for President are not unlike sion, just as he did in 1981. So as we Reagan prophetically quipped: ‘‘He many of the challenges we face today. celebrate Ronald Reagan’s 100th birth- looks like a fat little Dutchman. But Ronald Reagan was confident that he day, let us take a moment to reflect who knows, he might grow up to be was the man who could lead the coun- upon the life of a man who, as Presi- President someday.’’ try out of a dark recession and into the dent, always did what was necessary to His father was a strong believer in light of a new prosperity and national move the country forward in the way the American dream and Nelle Reagan pride. After winning a landslide elec- he felt was most beneficial to those passed on to her son her penchant to tion in November, Ronald Reagan was who mattered most, the people. always look for the good in people, re- sworn in as our 40th President on Janu- I know his legacy is most associated gardless of their current position. ary 20, 1981. He immediately went to with the people of California, but as It was those early lessons in perse- work on repairing a broken economy the junior Senator for Illinois, we will verance and faith that would inspire by enacting the Economic Recovery claim our right to note his birth in Ronald Reagan to pursue his dream of Tax Act of 1981, with his solid belief Tampico, his childhood in Dixon, and becoming a Hollywood actor. He signed being that if people had more money in his college years at Eureka College. We his first professional acting contract in their pockets and confidence to invest, will be very happy to mark the 100th 1935 and went on to enjoy a successful the country would get back on a sound birthday on Saturday in Chicagoland career on the silver screen. But by 1946, financial footing. During his first and through celebrations in other parts after serving 3 years in the Army Air months in office, Reagan was as much of the State, one of our great Presi- Force Intelligence Corps during the to thank for the new found economic dents who very much changed the height of World War II, he began to stability as he was for a heightened course and direction of this country have ambitions beyond Hollywood. A 5- sense of optimism that was returning and this world for the better. year stint as the president of the to the United States after very hard I yield the floor, and I suggest the ab- Screen Actors Guild laid the founda- times. sence of a quorum.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:29 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 0686 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\S03FE1.000 S03FE1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD 1190 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 February 3, 2011 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The deliver those remarks and evermore that some things are worth dying for. One’s clerk will call the roll. confident of the importance of Ronald country is worth dying for, and democracy is The assistant legislative clerk pro- Reagan’s legacy to us and the genera- worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply ceeded to call the roll. tions of Americans to come. The opti- honorable form of government ever devised Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, I by man. All of you loved liberty. All of you mism, moral clarity, and confidence were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew ask unanimous consent that the order President Reagan radiated inspired a the people of your countries were behind for the quorum call be rescinded. generation, and they are precisely the you. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ideals we need today to rekindle and It is thrilling just to read those objection, it is so ordered. reinspire the current generation of words again. Yet President Reagan Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, in 3 Americans and others, frankly, living days’ time, across our country, from never spoke about America’s enemies without freedom around the world. belligerently; rather, he spoke firmly the North Country of New Hampshire I didn’t always agree with President to his final resting place in Simi Val- and frankly about the deep divide be- Reagan. That is a matter of public tween our morality and that of the So- ley, CA, Americans will celebrate the record. But I always understood the en- legacy of President Ronald Reagan. It viet Union. In doing so, I think he re- during value and strength and sin- awakened in all of us the belief that will be the occasion of the 100th anni- cerity of his faith in America’s values versary of his birth. I am very honored every human being has the potential to and America’s destiny. In 1980, Ronald change history because history, as to rise today to join other colleagues of Reagan promised to make America both parties and others throughout the Reagan knew, was not by abstract in- great again. And he did. He expressed exorable forces, but by real live men United States and, I am sure, the world with total confidence that those who in paying tribute to America’s 40th and women. would challenge our hard-won freedoms President. It was President Ronald Reagan who would collapse. And they did. I cannot speak as personally about came to the defense of the dissidents in He led our country and the free world President Reagan as some in this their fight against the Soviet Union to victory in the Cold War against So- Chamber can. I met him only a few and reminded the world that a single viet communism, and he never doubted times when, as a visiting State attor- courageous human face, a single coura- for a moment that America and our ney general during the eighties, I was geous voice can tear down the faceless cause could and would prevail. When in at the White House. He was always gra- inhumanity of a massive repressive 1977 Ronald Reagan was asked about cious, always responsive to us. But I system such as the Soviet Union. his vision for the end of the Cold War— did have one meeting that I might call The great Soviet dissident and later remember, he was not yet President— a virtual meeting with President Israeli leader and human rights activ- he responded with characteristic and Reagan that reminds me of his endur- ist Natan Sharansky once shared with refreshing directness. He said: ing importance for our country today. me his memory of the moment he first Twenty-two years ago, on January 4, My idea of American policy toward the So- learned of President Reagan’s 1982 viet Union is simple, and some would say speech before the British Parliament, 1989, as President Reagan was depart- simplistic. It is this: We win and they lose. ing the White House, having completed the speech in which Reagan described Well, President Reagan’s under- his second term, I had just arrived in the Soviet Union as an evil empire. standing of world affairs was far from Washington as a freshman Senator There were some in this country who simplistic. He was an optimist without from Connecticut. President Reagan thought that was much too stark and illusions, who guided by and, frankly, was set to give his final weekly radio disrespectful. But Sharansky, who was expressed moral judgments about what address on that brisk Saturday morn- a prisoner for nearly a decade in the was right and what was wrong. We do ing, and then-Senate majority leader Soviet gulag, described to me how word not see that enough today. There is a George Mitchell had honored me by of Reagan’s speech spread through that kind of relativism afoot. But some asking me if I would give the Demo- heartless prison and he and his fellow things are just plain wrong, and some cratic response. It was a real honor, al- dissidents tapped on walls and talked things, thank God, are just plain right. though a daunting one, for me to be through pipes and even toilets to com- President Reagan had the moral clar- municate the extraordinary news that asked to do that on that occasion. ity to make distinctions between good Looking back, I believe President the leader of the free world had spoken and evil and the moral courage to Reagan’s 331st and final radio address the truth, a truth, as Sharansky put it, speak the truth of those distinctions on that January morning was among ‘‘that burned inside the heart of each unambiguously and to support them the most masterful and moving of his and every one of us.’’ unwaveringly. Indeed, President Reagan was willing career. In it, he captured the very es- When he addressed an audience of sence of the American spirit. He said: to expose an inconvenient truth about veterans and world leaders commemo- the Soviet Union that unsettled and Whether we seek it or not, whether we like rating the 40th anniversary of D-day, it or not, we Americans are keepers of the unnerved some of his contemporaries miracles. We are asked to be guardians of a standing as he spoke on the windswept who feared his undiplomatic words place to come to, a place to start again, a coast of northern France, the very were a threat to stability. The truth is, place to live in the dignity God meant for his clifftop in Normandy where courageous they were. President Reagan refused to children. May it ever be so. allied soldiers fought to liberate Eu- accept the stability of an authoritarian President Reagan concluded that rope from the yoke of Nazi tyranny, status quo that consigned millions of morning. Needless to say, President President Reagan magnificently, mas- people to live under perpetual tyranny. Reagan’s final radio address was quite terfully, compellingly revealed again So he did challenge the stability of the literally a tough act to follow. In my his moral clarity, and I am honored to Berlin Wall and the gulag as the Stasi. remarks, I praised him for his love of quote these words today on this floor. In doing so, his moral courage helped country, for his fervent devotion to The men of Normandy had faith that what inspire the men and women who freedom, and for his commitment to they were doing was right, faith that they brought down the Iron Curtain and ex- the values of faith, flag, and family. I fought for all humanity, faith that a just panded the frontiers of freedom. God would grant them mercy on this beach- In his approach to foreign policy, was, as I put it then, inspired and en- head, or on the next. It was the deep knowl- couraged by his patriotism, and I urged edge—and pray God we have not lost it—that President Reagan embodied that all Americans to ‘‘work on our unfin- there is a profound moral difference between quintessentially American combina- ished business and the challenges the use of force for liberation and the use of tion of idealism and pragmatism. He ahead with the spirit of purpose and force for conquest. You were here— understood what America was about, confidence that is the legacy of the He said to the veterans— which is freedom and opportunity. He Reagan years.’’ to liberate, not to conquer, and so you and fought to extend those great values Today, 22 years later, I continue to those others did not doubt your cause. And here at home and throughout the feel deeply honored that I was able to you were right not to doubt. You all knew world.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:29 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 0686 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\S03FE1.000 S03FE1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD February 3, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 1191 In his final words to the Nation as percent of the people in the audience to come. It took 30 years of unfashionable our President, in a radio address on that members of the press had a dif- principled leadership by the last Republican that January morning 22 years ago, ferent point of view on politics than he Washington outsider who became President President Reagan shared a story about did, but they liked him anyway, and to help collapse the evil empire. Now is a good time to give another Republican Wash- a meeting Winston Churchill had with they respected him, just as he re- ington outsider the opportunity to help put a group of American journalists in 1952. spected them. I remember that evening some humility into the arrogant empire in It was a time when many doubted that he strode into the Gridiron dinner Washington, D.C. whether the West could meet the chal- smiling and looking like a million So we see that the issues of 1964, the lenges of the Cold War and prevail. bucks. The press rose and smiled back issues of 1994, the issues of 2010, and Churchill asked the reporters: and applauded him. President Reagan most likely the issues of 2012 and 2016 What other nation in history, when it be- stood in front of the media until the and beyond have a lot of similarities. came supremely powerful, has had no applause subsided and then he said: Over that half century, Ronald thought of territorial aggrandizement, no Thank you very much. I know how hard it Reagan was the finest spokesman for ambition but to use its resources for the is to clap with your fingers crossed. that point of view, the finest and the good of the world? I marvel at America’s al- The media laughed. They had a won- truism, her sublime disinterestedness. most persuasive. derful time with President Reagan. We Americans say anything is pos- Churchill’s friend and physician, The first thing we think about, those sible. Nothing symbolizes that more Lord Moran, described the Prime Min- of us who had a chance to know him— than the American Presidency. We see ister’s demeanor as he spoke: and that was a great many of us—is it in President Obama today, we saw it that Ronald Reagan was a very friend- All at once I realized Winston was in tears. in President Lincoln, we saw it in His eyes were red. His voice faltered. He was ly, congenial man, an easy person to President Truman, we saw it in Presi- deeply moved. know, the kind of person one would dent Eisenhower, and we saw it in Ron- President Reagan was drawn to that enjoy spending time with. He was very ald Reagan. No President symbolized story in his final radio address to the comfortable, as we say, in his own that more in the last half century than Nation 22 years ago because he under- skin. What we saw in private was what President Reagan did, though. He re- stood that in that moment Churchill everybody else saw in public. minded us of what it means to be an understood and acknowledged the Ronald Reagan was about more than American. He lifted our spirits, he greatness of the American spirit. Im- being friendly and congenial. Each of made us proud, he strengthened our perfect though we are as human beings, us has a personal story of his or her character, and he taught us a great it is the spirit that explains who we are connection to President Reagan. I have many lessons. We celebrate the centen- and expresses all we aspire to be. He mine, and I wish this as an example. nial of his birth and the half century of saw America’s devotion to a cause that Sixteen years ago this month I stood, his influence in public life. has defined us for over two centuries, a as a great many Members of this body I ask unanimous consent to have cause greater than our own individual have, on the front porch of my home- printed in the RECORD Ronald Reagan’s self-interest or even national self-in- town courthouse. In my case, it was in speech ‘‘A Time for Choosing,’’ given terest very often and that has given an Maryville, TN. There I announced my on October 27, 1964, which launched enduring purpose to our national des- candidacy for President of the United him into public debate in the United tiny. That is the cause of human dig- States. It was an offer the people of the United States did not accept. My States. nity and human freedom. There being no objection, the mate- At a time when we face many chal- preacher brother-in-law said I should rial was ordered to be printed in the lenges both at home and abroad and consider that defeat as a reverse call- RECORD, as follows: when it has, unfortunately, become ing. I have, and I have gone on to other fashionable to suggest that our best things. RONALD REAGAN—‘‘A TIME FOR CHOOSING’’ days as a nation are behind us, Presi- As an example of the influence Presi- (October 27, 1964) dent Reagan’s optimism and his abid- dent Reagan had on my generation and Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank ing faith in America are more impor- others, let me read an example of what you and good evening. The sponsor has been I said in 1995, 16 years ago: identified, but unlike most television pro- tant to remember than ever before. grams, the performer hasn’t been provided They are as wise as they are true. Our Thirty years ago Ronald Reagan, before he was elected to any public office, made an ad- with a script. As a matter of fact, I have shared national destiny has always in- dress called ‘‘A Time For Choosing.’’ He said been permitted to choose my own words and spired us as Americans and propelled that in America freedom is our greatest discuss my own ideas regarding the choice us forward together. It is the spirit value, and that then there were two great that we face in the next few weeks. that Ronald Reagan reinspired in threats: communism abroad and big govern- I have spent most of my life as a Demo- America at a time of great peril. It is ment at home. crat. I recently have seen fit to follow an- spirit, at this time of peril here at Looking back over those last 30 years, I other course. I believe that the issues con- suppose we could say, one down and one to fronting us cross party lines. Now, one side home and around the world, that can in this campaign has been telling us that the carry us forward and continue to make go. Communism, the evil empire, has vir- tually disappeared. But big government at issues of this election are the maintenance of us the greatest Nation on Earth and home has become an arrogant empire, obnox- peace and prosperity. The line has been used, the last best hope of mankind. ious and increasingly irrelevant in a tele- ‘‘We’ve never had it so good.’’ I yield the floor. communications age. In every neighborhood But I have an uncomfortable feeling that The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. in America, the government in Washington this prosperity isn’t something on which we SANDERS). The Senator from Ten- is stepping on the promise of American Life. can base our hopes for the future. No nation nessee. The New American Revolution is about lift- in history has ever survived a tax burden Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, I ing that yoke from the backs of American that reached a third of its national income. Today, 37 cents out of every dollar earned in appreciate the remarks of the Senator teachers, farmers, business men and women, college presidents, and homeless shelter di- this country is the tax collector’s share, and from Connecticut. I am glad I had the rectors and giving us the freedom to make yet our government continues to spend 17 opportunity to hear them. decisions for ourselves. million dollars a day more than the govern- I, too, am here to celebrate Ronald Ronald Reagan put it this way in 1964: ment takes in. We haven’t balanced our Reagan’s life, born 100 years ago, but ‘‘This is the issue of the election. Whether budget 28 out of the last 34 years. We’ve also his nearly 50 years of influence on we believe in our capacity for self govern- raised our debt limit three times in the last American public policy. I begin in this ment or whether we abandon the American twelve months, and now our national debt is way. A few years ago when he was Revolution and confess that a little intellec- one and a half times bigger than all the com- bined debts of all the nations of the world. President, President Reagan attended tual elite in a far distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan our- We have 15 billion dollars in gold in our one of the many Washington press din- selves.’’ treasury; we don’t own an ounce. Foreign ners held here. I think it was the Grid- That was also the issue of the election in dollar claims are 27.3 billion dollars. And iron dinner. It was well known to 90 1994. It will be the issue of 1996, and for years we’ve just had announced that the dollar of

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:29 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 0686 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\S03FE1.000 S03FE1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD 1192 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 February 3, 2011 1939 will now purchase 45 cents in its total ‘‘meeting the material needs of the masses we’ve only built them in the hundreds. But value. through the full power of centralized govern- FHA [Federal Housing Authority] and the As for the peace that we would preserve, I ment.’’ Veterans Administration tell us they have wonder who among us would like to ap- Well, I, for one, resent it when a represent- 120,000 housing units they’ve taken back proach the wife or mother whose husband or ative of the people refers to you and me, the through mortgage foreclosure. For three dec- son has died in South Vietnam and ask them free men and women of this country, as ‘‘the ades, we’ve sought to solve the problems of if they think this is a peace that should be masses.’’ This is a term we haven’t applied unemployment through government plan- maintained indefinitely. Do they mean to ourselves in America. But beyond that, ning, and the more the plans fail, the more peace, or do they mean we just want to be ‘‘the full power of centralized government’’— the planners plan. The latest is the Area Re- left in peace? There can be no real peace this was the very thing the Founding Fa- development Agency. while one American is dying some place in thers sought to minimize. They knew that They’ve just declared Rice County, Kansas, the world for the rest of us. We’re at war governments don’t control things. A govern- a depressed area. Rice County, Kansas, has with the most dangerous enemy that has ment can’t control the economy without two hundred oil wells, and the 14,000 people ever faced mankind in his long climb from controlling people. And they know when a there have over 30 million dollars on deposit the swamp to the stars, and it’s been said if government sets out to do that, it must use in personal savings in their banks. And when we lose that war, and in so doing lose this force and coercion to achieve its purpose. the government tells you you’re depressed, way of freedom of ours, history will record They also knew, those Founding Fathers, lie down and be depressed. with the greatest astonishment that those that outside of its legitimate functions, gov- We have so many people who can’t see a fat who had the most to lose did the least to pre- ernment does nothing as well or as economi- man standing beside a thin one without com- vent its happening. Well I think it’s time we cally as the private sector of the economy. ing to the conclusion the fat man got that ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms Now, we have no better example of this way by taking advantage of the thin one. So that were intended for us by the Founding than government’s involvement in the farm they’re going to solve all the problems of Fathers. economy over the last 30 years. Since 1955, human misery through government and gov- Not too long ago, two friends of mine were the cost of this program has nearly doubled. ernment planning. Well, now, if government talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman One-fourth of farming in America is respon- planning and welfare had the answer—and who had escaped from Castro, and in the sible for 85 percent of the farm surplus. they’ve had almost 30 years of it—shouldn’t midst of his story one of my friends turned Three-fourths of farming is out on the free we expect government to read the score to us to the other and said, ‘‘We don’t know how market and has known a 21 percent increase once in a while? Shouldn’t they be telling us lucky we are.’’ And the Cuban stopped and in the per capita consumption of all its about the decline each year in the number of said, ‘‘How lucky you are? I had someplace produce. You see, that one-fourth of farm- people needing help? The reduction in the to escape to.’’ And in that sentence he told ing—that’s regulated and controlled by the need for public housing? us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, federal government. In the last three years But the reverse is true. Each year the need there’s no place to escape to. This is the last we’ve spent 43 dollars in the feed grain pro- grows greater; the program grows greater. stand on earth. gram for every dollar bushel of corn we don’t We were told four years ago that 17 million And this idea that government is beholden grow. people went to bed hungry each night. Well to the people, that it has no other source of Senator Humphrey last week charged that that was probably true. They were all on a power except the sovereign people, is still Barry Goldwater, as President, would seek to diet. But now we’re told that 9.3 million fam- the newest and the most unique idea in all eliminate farmers. He should do his home- ilies in this country are poverty-stricken on the long history of man’s relation to man. work a little better, because he’ll find out the basis of earning less than 3,000 dollars a This is the issue of this election: Whether that we’ve had a decline of 5 million in the year. Welfare spending [is] 10 times greater we believe in our capacity for self-govern- farm population under these government than in the dark depths of the Depression. ment or whether we abandon the American programs. He’ll also find that the Demo- We’re spending 45 billion dollars on welfare. revolution and confess that a little intellec- cratic administration has sought to get from Now do a little arithmetic, and you’ll find tual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan Congress [an] extension of the farm program that if we divided the 45 billion dollars up our lives for us better than we can plan them to include that three-fourths that is now equally among those 9 million poor families, ourselves. free. He’ll find that they’ve also asked for we’d be able to give each family 4,600 dollars You and I are told increasingly we have to the right to imprison farmers who wouldn’t a year. And this added to their present in- choose between a left or right. Well I’d like keep books as prescribed by the federal gov- come should eliminate poverty. Direct aid to to suggest there is no such thing as a left or ernment. The Secretary of Agriculture asked the poor, however, is only running only right. There’s only an up or down—[up] for the right to seize farms through con- about 600 dollars per family. It would seem man’s old—old-aged dream, the ultimate in demnation and resell them to other individ- that someplace there must be some over- individual freedom consistent with law and uals. And contained in that same program head. order, or down to the ant heap of totali- was a provision that would have allowed the Now—so now we declare ‘‘war on poverty,’’ tarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, federal government to remove 2 million or ‘‘You, too, can be a Bobby Baker.’’ Now do their humanitarian motives, those who farmers from the soil. they honestly expect us to believe that if we would trade our freedom for security have At the same time, there’s been an increase add 1 billion dollars to the 45 billion we’re embarked on this downward course. in the Department of Agriculture employees. spending, one more program to the 30-odd we In this vote-harvesting time, they use There’s now one for every 30 farms in the have—and remember, this new program terms like the ‘‘Great Society,’’ or as we United States, and still they can’t tell us doesn’t replace any, it just duplicates exist- were told a few days ago by the President, how 66 shiploads of grain headed for Austria ing programs—do they believe that poverty we must accept a greater government activ- disappeared without a trace and Billie Sol is suddenly going to disappear by magic? ity in the affairs of the people. But they’ve Estes never left shore. Well, in all fairness I should explain there is been a little more explicit in the past and Every responsible farmer and farm organi- one part of the new program that isn’t dupli- among themselves; and all of the things I zation has repeatedly asked the government cated. This is the youth feature. We’re now now will quote have appeared in print. These to free the farm economy, but how—who are going to solve the dropout problem, juvenile are not Republican accusations. For exam- farmers to know what’s best for them? The delinquency, by reinstituting something like ple, they have voices that say, ‘‘The cold war wheat farmers voted against a wheat pro- the old CCC camps (Civilian Conservation will end through our acceptance of a not un- gram. The government passed it anyway. Corps), and we’re going to put our young peo- democratic socialism.’’ Another voice says, Now the price of bread goes up; the price of ple in these camps. But again we do some ‘‘The profit motive has become outmoded. It wheat to the farmer goes down. arithmetic, and we find that we’re going to must be replaced by the incentives of the Meanwhile, back in the city, under urban spend each year just on room and board for welfare state.’’ Or, ‘‘Our traditional system renewal the assault on freedom carries on. each young person we help 4,700 dollars a of individual freedom is incapable of solving Private property rights [are] so diluted that year. We can send them to Harvard for 2,700! the complex problems of the 20th century.’’ public interest is almost anything a few gov- Course, don’t get me wrong. I’m not sug- Senator Fullbright has said at Stanford Uni- ernment planners decide it should be. In a gesting Harvard is the answer to juvenile de- versity that the Constitution is outmoded. program that takes from the needy and gives linquency. He referred to the President as ‘‘our moral to the greedy, we see such spectacles as in But seriously, what are we doing to those teacher and our leader,’’ and he says he is Cleveland, Ohio, a million-and-a-half-dollar we seek to help? Not too long ago, a judge ‘‘hobbled in his task by the restrictions of building completed only three years ago called me here in Los Angeles. He told me of power imposed on him by this antiquated must be destroyed to make way for what a young woman who’d come before him for a document.’’ He must ‘‘be freed,’’ so that he government officials call a ‘‘more compat- divorce. She had six children, was pregnant ‘‘can do for us’’ what he knows ‘‘is best.’’ ible use of the land.’’ The President tells us with her seventh. Under his questioning, she And Senator Clark of Pennsylvania, another he’s now going to start building public hous- revealed her husband was a laborer earning articulate spokesman, defines liberalism as ing units in the thousands, where heretofore 250 dollars a month. She wanted a divorce to

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:29 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 0686 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\S03FE1.000 S03FE1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD February 3, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 1193 get an 80 dollar raise. She’s eligible for 330 peace. But I think we’re against subordi- over that business or property? And such ma- dollars a month in the Aid to Dependent nating American interests to an organiza- chinery already exists. The government can Children Program. She got the idea from two tion that has become so structurally un- find some charge to bring against any con- women in her neighborhood who’d already sound that today you can muster a two- cern it chooses to prosecute. Every business- done that very thing. thirds vote on the floor of the General As- man has his own tale of harassment. Some- Yet anytime you and I question the sembly among nations that represent less where a perversion has taken place. Our nat- schemes of the do-gooders, we’re denounced than 10 percent of the world’s population. I ural, unalienable rights are now considered as being against their humanitarian goals. think we’re against the hypocrisy of assail- to be a dispensation of government, and free- They say we’re always ‘‘against’’ things— ing our allies because here and there they dom has never been so fragile, so close to we’re never ‘‘for’’ anything. cling to a colony, while we engage in a con- slipping from our grasp as it is at this mo- Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is spiracy of silence and never open our mouths ment. not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they about the millions of people enslaved in the Our Democratic opponents seem unwilling know so much that isn’t so. Soviet colonies in the satellite nations. to debate these issues. They want to make Now—we’re for a provision that destitution I think we’re for aiding our allies by shar- you and I believe that this is a contest be- should not follow unemployment by reason ing of our material blessings with those na- tween two men—that we’re to choose just be- of old age, and to that end we’ve accepted tions which share in our fundamental beliefs, tween two personalities. Social Security as a step toward meeting the but we’re against doling out money govern- Well what of this man that they would de- problem. ment to government, creating bureaucracy, stroy—and in destroying, they would destroy But we’re against those entrusted with this if not socialism, all over the world. We set that which he represents, the ideas that you program when they practice deception re- out to help 19 countries. We’re helping 107. and I hold dear? Is he the brash and shallow garding its fiscal shortcomings, when they We’ve spent 146 billion dollars. With that and trigger-happy man they say he is? Well charge that any criticism of the program money, we bought a 2 million dollar yacht I’ve been privileged to know him ‘‘when.’’ I knew him long before he ever dreamed of means that we want to end payments to for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for trying for high office, and I can tell you per- those people who depend on them for a liveli- Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya[n] sonally I’ve never known a man in my life I hood. They’ve called it ‘‘insurance’’ to us in government officials. We bought a thousand believed so incapable of doing a dishonest or a hundred million pieces of literature. But TV sets for a place where they have no elec- dishonorable thing. then they appeared before the Supreme tricity. In the last six years, 52 nations have This is a man who, in his own business be- Court and they testified it was a welfare pro- bought 7 billion dollars worth of our gold, fore he entered politics, instituted a profit- gram. They only use the term ‘‘insurance’’ and all 52 are receiving foreign aid from this sharing plan before unions had ever thought to sell it to the people. And they said Social country. of it. He put in health and medical insurance Security dues are a tax for the general use of No government ever voluntarily reduces for all his employees. He took 50 percent of the government, and the government has itself in size. So governments’ programs, the profits before taxes and set up a retire- used that tax. There is no fund, because Rob- once launched, never disappear. ment program, a pension plan for all his em- ert Byers, the actuarial head, appeared be- Actually, a government bureau is the near- ployees. He sent monthly checks for life to fore a congressional committee and admitted est thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this an employee who was ill and couldn’t work. that Social Security as of this moment is 298 earth. He provides nursing care for the children of billion dollars in the hole. But he said there Federal employees—federal employees mothers who work in the stores. When Mex- should be no cause for worry because as long number two and a half million; and federal, ico was ravaged by the floods in the Rio as they have the power to tax, they could al- state, and local, one out of six of the nation’s Grande, he climbed in his airplane and flew ways take away from the people whatever work force employed by government. These medicine and supplies down there. they needed to bail them out of trouble. And proliferating bureaus with their thousands of An ex-GI told me how he met him. It was they’re doing just that. regulations have cost us many of our con- the week before Christmas during the Ko- A young man, 21 years of age, working at stitutional safeguards. How many of us real- rean War, and he was at the Los Angeles air- an average salary—his Social Security con- ize that today federal agents can invade a port trying to get a ride home to Arizona for tribution would, in the open market, buy man’s property without a warrant? They can Christmas. And he said that [there were] a him an insurance policy that would guar- impose a fine without a formal hearing, let lot of servicemen there and no seats avail- antee 220 dollars a month at age 65. The gov- alone a trial by jury? And they can seize and able on the planes. And then a voice came ernment promises 127. He could live it up sell his property at auction to enforce the over the loudspeaker and said, ‘‘Any men in until he’s 31 and then take out a policy that payment of that fine. In Chico County, Ar- uniform wanting a ride to Arizona, go to run- would pay more than Social Security. Now kansas, James Wier over-planted his rice al- way such-and-such,’’ and they went down are we so lacking in business sense that we lotment. The government obtained a 17,000 there, and there was a fellow named Barry can’t put this program on a sound basis, so dollar judgment. And a U.S. marshal sold his Goldwater sitting in his plane. Every day in that people who do require those payments 960–acre farm at auction. The government those weeks before Christmas, all day long, will find they can get them when they’re said it was necessary as a warning to others he’d load up the plane, fly it to Arizona, fly due—that the cupboard isn’t bare? to make the system work. them to their homes, fly back over to get an- Barry Goldwater thinks we can. Last February 19th at the University of other load. At the same time, can’t we introduce vol- Minnesota, Norman Thomas, six-times can- During the hectic split-second timing of a untary features that would permit a citizen didate for President on the Socialist Party campaign, this is a man who took time out who can do better on his own to be excused ticket, said, ‘‘If Barry Goldwater became to sit beside an old friend who was dying of upon presentation of evidence that he had President, he would stop the advance of so- cancer. His campaign managers were under- made provision for the non-earning years? cialism in the United States.’’ I think that’s standably impatient, but he said, ‘‘There Should we not allow a widow with children exactly what he will do. aren’t many left who care what happens to to work, and not lose the benefits supposedly But as a former Democrat, I can tell you her. I’d like her to know I care.’’ This is a paid for by her deceased husband? Shouldn’t Norman Thomas isn’t the only man who has man who said to his 19-year-old son, ‘‘There you and I be allowed to declare who our drawn this parallel to socialism with the is no foundation like the rock of honesty and beneficiaries will be under this program, present administration, because back in 1936, fairness, and when you begin to build your which we cannot do? I think we’re for telling Mr. Democrat himself, Al Smith, the great life on that rock, with the cement of the our senior citizens that no one in this coun- American, came before the American people faith in God that you have, then you have a try should be denied medical care because of and charged that the leadership of his Party real start.’’ This is not a man who could a lack of funds. But I think we’re against was taking the Party of Jefferson, Jackson, carelessly send other people’s sons to war. forcing all citizens, regardless of need, into a and Cleveland down the road under the ban- And that is the issue of this campaign that compulsory government program, especially ners of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin. And he makes all the other problems I’ve discussed when we have such examples, as was an- walked away from his Party, and he never academic, unless we realize we’re in a war nounced last week, when France admitted returned til the day he died—because to this that must be won. that their Medicare program is now bank- day, the leadership of that Party has been Those who would trade our freedom for the rupt. They’ve come to the end of the road. taking that Party, that honorable Party, soup kitchen of the welfare state have told In addition, was Barry Goldwater so irre- down the road in the image of the labor So- us they have a utopian solution of peace sponsible when he suggested that our govern- cialist Party of England. without victory. They call their policy ‘‘ac- ment give up its program of deliberate, Now it doesn’t require expropriation or commodation.’’ And they say if we’ll only planned inflation, so that when you do get confiscation of private property or business avoid any direct confrontation with the your Social Security pension, a dollar will to impose socialism on a people. What does it enemy, he’ll forget his evil ways and learn to buy a dollar’s worth, and not 45 cents worth? mean whether you hold the deed to the—or love us. All who oppose them are indicted as I think we’re for an international organiza- the title to your business or property if the warmongers. They say we offer simple an- tion, where the nations of the world can seek government holds the power of life and death swers to complex problems. Well, perhaps

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:29 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 0686 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\S03FE1.000 S03FE1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD 1194 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 February 3, 2011 there is a simple answer—not an easy an- nity and the right to make our own decisions saw, what Ronald Reagan said about the 1964 swer—but simple: If you and I have the cour- and determine our own destiny. campaign. He said, ‘‘This is the issue of the age to tell our elected officials that we want Thank you very much. election whether we believe in our capacity our national policy based on what we know Mr. ALEXANDER. I ask unanimous for self-government or whether we abandon in our hearts is morally right. the American Revolution and confess that a consent to print in the RECORD as well We cannot buy our security, our freedom little intellectual elite in a far distant Cap- from the threat of the bomb by committing remarks I made in Orange County, CA, itol can plan our lives better than we can an immorality so great as saying to a billion on October 28, 1994, on the 30th anniver- plan our lives ourselves.’’ human beings now enslaved behind the Iron sary of the speech ‘‘A Time for Choos- Replace the words ‘‘little intellectual Curtain, ‘‘Give up your dreams of freedom ing.’’ elite’’ with an arrogant empire and you have because to save our own skins, we’re willing There being no objection, the mate- the issue of this election, the one in 10 days, to make a deal with your slave masters.’’ rial was ordered to be printed in the as well. In 1964, Ronald Reagan’s talk of Alexander Hamilton said, ‘‘A nation which RECORD, as follows: peace overseas could have just as easily ap- can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for plied to the dangers of the approaching en- a master, and deserves one.’’ Now let’s set 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF RONALD REAGAN croachments of Washington, DC, into our ev- the record straight. There’s no argument REVOLUTION eryday lives at home. He said it. ‘‘Every les- over the choice between peace and war, but (By Lamar Alexander, Oct. 28, 1994) son of history teaches us that the greater there’s only one guaranteed way you can I don’t think Ronald Reagan would mind if risk lies in people. There is a price we will have peace—and you can have it in the next before we get down to business, I told you not pay. There is a point beyond which our second—surrender. one Minnie Pearl story. They are pretty good enemies must not advance. You and I have a Admittedly, there’s a risk in any course we friends. Most people who have run for gov- rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for follow other than this, but every lesson of ernor of Tennessee in the past 30–40 years our children this, the last best hope of man history tells us that the greater risk lies in have done so in order to live next door to on earth that we will sentence them to take appeasement, and this is the specter our Minnie Pearl. Her house is next door to the the last step into a thousand years of dark- well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face— governor’s mansion. And, you learn very ness.’’ that their policy of accommodation is ap- quickly living next door to Minnie that you Those were dramatic words, but these are peasement, and it gives no choice between don’t try to tell a better story than she can; dramatic events with dramatic con- peace and war, only between fight or sur- because, she’ll one up you. sequences. Sometimes we forget just how render. If we continue to accommodate, con- I was telling her after I left office about unproven Ronald Reagan’s thinking gen- tinue to back and retreat, eventually we how people would look at me, but they could erally was. Even after he was president. At have to face the final demand—the ulti- not remember why they knew they had seen Westminster, he predicted that the Soviet matum. And what then—when Nikita Khru- me before. One man up in the mountains Union would wind up in the ash heap of his- shchev has told his people he knows what walked up and stared me in the face and tory. No other world leader would say any- our answer will be? He has told them that said, ‘‘Ain’t you Alexander?’’ I said, ‘‘Yes, thing like that. we’re retreating under the pressure of the sir.’’ He stared a while longer and said, I remember one Sunday in 1984, when I was Cold War, and someday when the time comes ‘‘Well, you sure don’t favor yourself.’’ sitting in a church in Amsterdam, our family to deliver the final ultimatum, our surrender Minnie said, ‘‘Well, let me tell you what had just left Anne Frank’s house and were will be voluntary, because by that time we happened to me. . . . I was in the elevator in remembering the stories how on another will have been weakened from within spir- Opryland Hotel, minding my own business, Sunday morning the German tanks had un- itually, morally, and economically. He be- and this tourist from California gets on and expectedly arrived in 1940. I was listening to lieves this because from our side he’s heard looks me up and down and says, ‘I’ll bet a lot the minister in that church in Amsterdam voices pleading for ‘‘peace at any price’’ or of people tell you that you look like Minnie denounce the cold war policies, as he said, of ‘‘better Red than dead,’’ or as one commen- Pearl.’ ’’ She said, ‘‘and I said very sweetly, Reagan and Begin and Hitler. tator put it, he’d rather ‘‘live on his knees ‘Yes, sir, they do,’ and, he looked me down a In 1987, when Pres. Reagan was preparing than die on his feet.’’ And therein lies the while longer and said, ‘And, I’ll bet it makes for his speech at the Brandenburg gate, some road to war, because those voices don’t speak you mad, don’t it?’ ’’ nervous aides wanted to eliminate the for the rest of us. It was reported that several Goldwater phrase, ‘‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this You and I know and do not believe that life aides warned against letting Ronald Reagan wall.’’ They were afraid it was so unlikely is so dear and peace so sweet as to be pur- make a speech this summer. He’ll be inflam- that it would seem un-presidential. Pres. chased at the price of chains and slavery. If matory, they said. Sen. Goldwater inter- Reagan told Martin Anderson, not long ago, nothing in life is worth dying for, when did vened and made sure he didn’t. And, Ronald that, ‘‘When I called them the evil empire I this begin—just in the face of this enemy? Or Reagan didn’t disappoint those aides. He did it on purpose. I wanted them to know should Moses have told the children of Israel began in this way, ‘‘I am going to speak of that we saw them for what they were.’’ to live in slavery under the pharaohs? controversial things and I make no apologies The evil empires collapsed; the Berlin Wall Should Christ have refused the cross? Should for this.’’ The speech that we saw has made has come down. And we should never forget the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown a landmark. It defines the things we Ameri- that Germany would not be united, that we down their guns and refused to fire the shot cans value most, our freedom. And, what and the Russians would not be dismantling heard ’round the world? The martyrs of his- most menaced that freedom, communists weapons of mass destruction, that Arafat tory were not fools, and our honored dead abroad and big government at home. It be- and Rapine would not have shaken hands, if who gave their lives to stop the advance of came a call to arms for conservatives, a ral- the Cold War hadn’t ended, and the Cold War the Nazis didn’t die in vain. Where, then, is lying point, a promise of hope for the future. would not have ended unless President the road to peace? Well it’s a simple answer We are here tonight less than two weeks Reagan had persisted in that bold and after all. before another election, one that has taken unfashionable thinking that he outlined in You and I have the courage to say to our on all the characteristics of a presidential his speech in 1964. enemies, ‘‘There is a price we will not pay.’’ election. It’s become a referendum on the di- Unfortunately, the second great menace ‘‘There is a point beyond which they must rection of our country. I would like to talk that Ronald Reagan pointed to in 1964 is if not advance.’’ And this—this is the meaning tonight for a few minutes about what the anything more menacing. He said in ’64, in the phrase of Barry Goldwater’s ‘‘peace speech, ‘‘A Time for Choosing,’’ has meant to ‘‘Our government continues to spend $17 mil- through strength.’’ Winston Churchill said, America during the last thirty years and lion a day more than our government takes ‘‘The destiny of man is not measured by ma- what lessons we might learn for the next in.’’ 30 years later our government spends terial computations. When great forces are thirty. $643 million a day more than our government on the move in the world, we learn we’re If I had to put it in one sentence, what we takes in. Ronald Reagan said in 1964, we spirits—not animals.’’ And he said, ‘‘There’s have learned from the last thirty, that the haven’t balanced our budget for 28 out of the something going on in time and space, and principle threat to freedom abroad has been last 34 years. Well, that is still true today, beyond time and space, which, whether we defeated and the principle of threat at home except it is 57 out of the last 64. like it or not, spells duty.’’ has gotten more menacing. The evil empire But we don’t need statistics to prove that, You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. in the Kremlin has collapsed but the govern- we see that in our everyday lives. I saw it We’ll preserve for our children this, the ment in Washington has become an arrogant this summer. Between the 4th of July and last best hope of man on earth, or we’ll sen- empire; spreading its tentacles into our ev- Labor Day when I did something many tence them to take the last step into a thou- eryday lives. Americans do, I drove across the country. I sand years of darkness. I was a student at New York University on came to Orange County on that drive. I spent We will keep in mind and remember that October 27, 1964. And, to tell you the truth, many of the nights on that drive with fami- Barry Goldwater has faith in us. He has faith I wasn’t paying much attention to politics. lies I had never met before; eating supper; that you and I have the ability and the dig- So, I was struck when I read what we just staying up late talking.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:29 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 0686 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\S03FE1.000 S03FE1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD February 3, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 1195 Driving across America, there are several President Clinton and Senator Feinstein authority and an education bill that would ways to take the temperature of the coun- held a press conference here in California to free local schools from Washington control; try. Bumper stickers, for example. One of say, in effect, that they were proud of the privatize all public housing. All of this will them on Interstate 10 in Louisiana said, fact that they had taken away the freedom increase our freedoms at home by preventing ‘‘Make welfare as hard to get as a building of a thousand California school boards to as- someone in Washington, DC, from making permit.’’ Another one, in Florida said, ‘‘I sign a weapons policy for 7,100 schools and those decisions for us. love my country but I fear my government!’ more than 5 million children. Senator Ken- An agenda like this will catch plenty of But, as I drove along, I found a better way to nedy and President Clinton held a press con- flak. Remember Reagan and Begin and Hit- take the temperature of the country. And ference of their own in Massachusetts. And ler. Already the Washington establishment that was by asking a question of the families for what? To pat themselves on the back for has said it can’t imagine a dumber idea than with whom I stayed, and tonight I would like taking away your freedoms to make deci- a citizen Congress. I cannot count the num- to ask you to ask yourselves that question, sions in your own neighborhoods in your own ber of nights that I have been in editorial and it is this: ‘‘Looking ahead 30 years, do schools about how to educate your own chil- board meetings and been accused of trying to you believe your children and your grand- dren. destroy public schools because I suggested children will have more opportunities grow- Here is the most powerful lesson of ‘‘A that at least poor children ought to have ing up in this country than you have had?’’ Time for Choosing’’ in the last 30 years. With more of the same choices of the best When I asked that question this summer, I the evil empire, President Reagan did ex- schools—the ones that the members of the got a lot of long pauses and most people were actly what a president ought to do. He solved editorial board send their children to. afraid to say yes. This ambivalence about the menace to freedom. He put aside less im- Approved thinking is not always right our future, if it is allowed to persist, will de- portant issues. He developed a strategy. He thinking. We’ll be accused of turning and stroy what is special about this country. persuaded at least half the people he was taking America back to the dark ages. We Namely, our almost irrational belief in the right. He persisted. He threw himself have already been accused by the Democrats unlimited future of America and that every unfashionably into it until he wore everyone in this election of going as far back as the one of us, no matter where we come from, no else out, and then he succeeded. days of Ronald Reagan. If that is an issue on matter what our station in life is, has a Now we must do the same at home. We Election Day, I think I know how the ref- chance to have a piece of that future. On my should train our sights on the arrogant em- erendum will come out. But, eventually, we drive, I was reminded that we Americans pire in Washington, DC. That is the issue of will be seen for what we are. Painters of a know exactly what is causing that loss of op- this election, and it will be issue of 1996 as picture of America’s future based on freedom timism. It is, first, the government in Wash- well. and opportunity. ington, and it is, second, our drift away from In 1992, Bill Clinton had a wonderful oppor- I have this prediction to make. The arro- standards and principles and values that tunity. This country was ready for a new gant empire at home will also be consigned have made this such a remarkable country in generation of leadership; it wanted to look to the ash heap. It will for a while be the first place. outside Washington for its answers. Presi- unfashionable to say this and it will seem This is not something that I just heard at dent Clinton gave us five minutes of hope overly dramatic to suggest that calling a Republicans dinners. Father Jerry Hill, for and then proceeded to lead us in exactly the halt to this ‘‘too big for its britches’’ govern- example, runs a homeless shelter in Dallas, wrong direction. Washington taxes, Wash- ment in Washington, DC, is a rendezvous Texas. He won’t take a federal grant any- ington healthcare, a national school board, with destiny for this generation but I believe more because he has grown tired of filling reinventing everything in Washington, DC. that it is so. And, just as the collapse of the out forms all day Friday to justify what he He has help in 2 years to create an even more Soviet Union didn’t solve all of our problems has done Monday through Thursday. He says arrogant empire. Which is why in California, abroad—in fact it created a much more un- federal grants have made a nation of liars of and why in this country, we will be having a certain and unstable world that we have yet us; applying for money that we don’t need to Republican sweep in 10 days. to learn how to grapple with—the devolution spend for things we do need. And he is abso- Whether that dream comes, something else of responsibility from Washington, DC, to lutely outraged that the government in will have been created which is an oppor- families, to churches, neighborhoods and Washington is paying $446 a month in Social tunity a mile wide for the Republican Party. schools will put plenty of problems in your Security disability benefits to drug addicts. Because the voters will then turn around to hands; the problems that trouble us the most He says, ‘‘I can’t help it when they have that us and say, ‘‘Well, what are you guys for?’’ every day. But that is where the responsi- kind of support for their addiction.’’ And we should not kid ourselves. The voters bility ought to be. Whether it is a school board member, are not going to be expecting too much from I was reminded every day, on that drive whether it is a small business man or us because our Republican agenda has either across America, that we know exactly what woman, a teacher, a hospital director, a been non-existent, or too tempered, so much to do in this country to put our nation back housing project director, a former Cherokee so that it sounds like usually that about all on track. We will have to do it community Indian Chief—I have visited them all and we can do is be against what the Democrats by community; family by family; school they have had it up to here. They have had are for. board by school board. In Murfreesboro, TN, it up to here, and they can hardly say in civil So let us remember Ronald Reagan’s exam- families now have choices of schools 12 hours terms how much they resent, not just the ple and his boldness and train our sights on a day; all day, every year at no extra cost to meddling, but the arrogance of the govern- the menace of freedom at home in the same the taxpayer. Reuben Greenberg, the police ment in Washington, DC. way he trained his sights on the mask of chief of Charleston, SC, has made even the Let me give you an example close to home. freedom abroad. For example, instead of con- housing projects as safe as any part of Many of you are candidates for the school gressional reform at the margins, I say we Charleston now that the government lets boards of Orange County. I salute you. I can- should cut their pay and send them home. I him kick criminals out of the housing not think of anything more important, but, mean by that that the United States Con- projects. Reverend Henry Delaney has let me ask you this in very blunt terms: Do gress should spend six months in Wash- cleaned up the crack houses on 32nd street in you really believe that you are too stupid to ington; six months at home and have half as Savannah and he knows what to do about set the weapons policy for the schools of Or- much pay. Let them take a real job, live welfare if someone in Washington will stop ange County? Well, your United States Sen- alongside the rest of us. If you want a Con- reinventing it long enough to ask him. And, ator does and most of the Congress agrees gress of citizens who’s more responsive to Dan Biederman is taking whole blocks of with her. you than to the lobbyist in Washington, this New York City and with a private company In fact, the entire Congress passed a thou- is the way to do it. The eleven states with making those blocks safe and clean and free sand-page education bill that takes a great the lowest taxes have a legislature that is from homeless. My own answer to the ques- many decisions from you, if you should be limited to meeting for 90 days. That would tion, ‘‘Looking ahead 30 years, do you be- elected: The decision about what to say in a be one thing. lieve your children and grandchildren will parent/teacher conference. The decision Instead of reforming welfare in Wash- have more opportunity growing up in this about how much school choice could be ington, DC; let’s end welfare in Washington, country than you have had?’’ is absolutely granted to parents. A definition of what a DC. Send them home and send the tax base yes, because I am going to do everything in family is. The decision about whether text with them back to the states. Send most of my power to see that they do, because that books should be replaced with new textbooks elementary and secondary education and was done for me. that focus on gender equity as defined by the jobs-related there as well. Send some of the When I was appointed Secretary of Edu- new Assistant Secretary of Education. That departments and agencies, too. No more en- cation, the New York Times felt obligated to all passed in the last week of this session of titlements, period. Not one more law that write that, Mr. Alexander grew up in a this Congress. Congress decided all of it and imposes an unfunded mandate on a state lower-middle class family in the mountains established in addition a sort of national government or a federal government. Term of Eastern Tennessee. That was alright with school board, and they are not even embar- limits; balanced budget; line-item veto; a me, but not, I discovered, when I called home rassed about it. wholesale review of the federal rule making the next week, alright with my mother, who

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He liked the idea. It fit his thing you needed that was important.’’ had fun with them, just as they did with unconventional brand of thinking. He advo- And, I also had a grandfather who ran him. cated it. It was a little too revolutionary for away from home when he was eight; some- I remember on that evening he strode into most people in Washington in the early 1980s. how got to Oklahoma and became a railroad the Gridiron Dinner looking like a million He had the same sort of unconventional at- engineer and finally retired back to the dollars, smiling big. The press rose, smiling titude toward national defense policy. Many mountains just in time to instruct us grow- back, applauding. Pres. Reagan stood in people overlooked the fact that Ronald ing up in Maryville, ‘‘Aim for the top there’s front of them until it subsided, and then he Reagan did not just want us to have as many more room there.’’ So we grew up thinking said to his adversaries in the media, ‘‘Thank nuclear weapons as the Soviet empire did; he we could be the railroad engineer, or the you very much—I know how hard it is to wanted to get rid of nuclear weapons. He saw English teacher, or the school board mem- clap with your fingers crossed.’’ And they them as wrong, as bad, and he wanted a ber, or the principal or the governor or even laughed, and they had a wonderful time with world without nuclear weapons. Instead of the President of the United States. Pres. Reagan. mutual assured destruction, which was the If some president had come on the radio of- The first thing we think about, those of us doctrine at the time, he built up our fering me and my friends growing up a gov- who had any opportunity to get to know strength so we could begin to reduce nuclear ernment credit card with benefits for the him—a great many of us—was that Ronald weapons and then unilaterally begin to do it rest of my life, my grandfather would have Reagan was a very friendly man. He was a before the Soviets did, hoping they would thrown his boot through the radio because congenial person, an easy person to know, then follow. We can see the results. that was not his idea of America’s future. the kind of person you want to spend a lot of At the time, some people said Ronald When I was 5 years old, I visited my grand- time with, if you had the opportunity, and Reagan was naive to think we could transfer father who was then a switch engineer in that what you saw in private was what ev- power from Washington, from an arrogant Newton, Kansas, a division point of the eryone else saw in public. empire at home or naive to think we could Santa Fe Railway. His job was to push and Howard Baker, the former majority leader face down an evil empire abroad. And espe- pull those huge belching steam engines into of the Senate when Ronald Reagan was presi- cially naive to think our policy should be the round house put them on the turntable, dent, got to know him especially well. And based upon getting rid of nuclear weapons. It turn them around and head them in the right then in 1987, Pres. Reagan invited former turned out Ronald Reagan saw further than direction. Sen. Baker to come to be his chief of staff, most of those critics did. Our country today is like one of those which he was for nearly two years. Perhaps his most famous speech, not my steam engines. It is headed in exactly the I remember Sen. Baker telling me that, to favorite speech—my favorite speech is the wrong direction, and in the election 10 days his surprise, when his 9 a.m. meetings came one we heard a lot about this weekend, 20 from now, we have to slow it down and get it every morning with Pres. Reagan, he discov- years ago at Normandy, which moved the on the turntable and turn it around and, at ered that Mr. Reagan had a funny little story whole world to tears and reminded Ameri- least by 1996, get it headed in the right direc- to tell to Sen. Baker, his chief of staff. What cans why we are Americans and what we tion. That is the challenge for our party and surprised Sen. Baker even more was Pres. fought for—but his most famous speech may for our country. Reagan expected Sen. Baker to have a funny be the one in 1987 at the Brandenburg Gate in I couldn’t conclude this evening without little story to tell back. So for that two Berlin where he said, ‘‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear acknowledging the magic of Ronald Reagan. years, virtually every morning at 9 a.m., down this wall.’’ The storyteller in this case was at least as when the president of the United States and Earlier this year, I visited Berlin with important as the story. The speech would the chief of staff of the White House met, John Kornblum who at the time was U.S. have just been a speech in anyone else’s they swapped funny little stories. It is very minister and deputy commandant in the hands. He made sure he had his feet planted reassuring to me that two men who have American sector of West Berlin where tanks firmly on the ground before he entered pub- maybe the two biggest jobs in the world were challenged tanks and white crosses marked lic life and he kept them there. He knew and comfortable enough with themselves, each grave sites of those who were killed trying to we knew where he stood. He assumed no false other, and their responsibilities to begin the escape over the wall from East Berlin. Mr. importance. day in that sort of easy way. That is the part Kornblum talked about the development of He seemed to know his job was not to of Ronald Reagan we think more about. that speech that Ronald Reagan gave that change everyone’s mind but to speak the Another part of Ronald Reagan which I day. Those words, or the thought, ‘‘tear mind of the voters, of the citizens, and not think is often overlooked is that he was a down this wall,’’ went into the speech at an be swayed by elites who told ordinary people man of big ideas. I would say intellectual, al- early stage. Some fought to keep it in. Many they were too stupid to know what to do. He though I guess there is a little difference be- fought to take it out. Those who had thought was firm and civil and eloquent and opti- tween being devoted to ideals and being in- Ronald Reagan was wrong to say the Soviet mistic in his presidency. He appealed to the tellectual but not much difference. Union was an evil empire were not anxious best of us. He knew and knows the value of Unlike most people who are candidates for for him to say, ‘‘tear down this wall.’’ a good story. And he knew, as President, president of the United States, Ronald Some suggested that Pres. Reagan try his that with the right purpose in that office, if Reagan wrote many of his own speeches. hand at German as Pres. Kennedy had in a he threw everything he had into it, he could When he had a few minutes, he would sit in memorable speech at the Berlin Wall in the wear everybody else out. That is how he the back of a campaign airplane and make early 1960s. Some suggested that the speech helped to defeat the evil empire that threat- notes on cards in the shorthand that he had. should not be made at the Brandenburg ened freedom in his generation and that is His former aide, Marty Anderson, has writ- Gate. That was too provocative, Mr. how in this generation that we, standing on ten a book about that and told that, to a Kornblum remembers. But the speech was Ronald Reagan’s shoulders, can finish his great extent, Ronald Reagan’s words were made at the Brandenburg Gate, and Mr. work and expand our freedoms by disman- his own words, ideas he expressed or ideas he Reagan did keep his words in that speech. He tling the arrogant empire at home. gathered himself and ideas he had thought did make his point, and his point was clear, Thank you. through and wanted to promulgate. ‘‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.’’ Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, I Maybe that is partly why he seemed so For those of us who had a chance to see the ask unanimous consent to print in the comfortable with himself when he finally en- new countries of Eastern Europe and their RECORD remarks I made in tribute to tered public life. He came to it late in life. enthusiasm for freedom and for a free mar- President Reagan in June of 2004. He was age 55 when he became governor of ket system, we can see the legacy of Ronald There being no objection, the mate- California, so by then he knew what he Reagan and his unconventional thinking. rial was ordered to be printed in the thought, and he had a sense of purpose, and I think it is important for us to remember he knew what he wanted to do. that this genial president was a man of RECORD, as follows: I got an idea of that kind of big thinking ideas, of all the presidents I have worked SENATE FLOOR REMARKS OF SEN. LAMAR when I went to see Pres. Reagan in my third with, as much a man of ideas as any one of ALEXANDER—TRIBUTE TO FORMER PRESI- year as governor, his first year as president those presidents. DENT RONALD REAGAN in 1981. I talked to him about a big swap Ronald Reagan also taught us something (June 7, 2004) which I thought would help our country. about leadership. I recall in 1980 when he and Mr. President, a few years ago when Ron- I suggested, the Federal Government take Mrs. Reagan visited the Tennessee gov- ald Reagan was President of the United over all of Medicaid and let the State and ernor’s mansion during the presidential cam- States, he attended one of the many press local governments take over all responsi- paign. I had not known him very well. He

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He was al- presidency than anyone I have ever been That is why we say we will ‘‘pay any price, ways referred to as ‘‘Dutch Reagan’’ in privileged to meet. bear any burden,’’ as Pres. Kennedy said, to his growing up, his formative years. I Ronald Reagan understood what George defend peace, even though we know that is a think the impact he had on this coun- Reedy said in his book, ‘‘The Twilight of the work in progress, and we may never reach it. try was because he saw himself as just Presidency,’’ is the definition of presidential That is why we say more recently we want an ordinary American like every other leadership: First, see an urgent need; second, to leave no child behind when it comes to learning to read. We know that is a work in American, and he was able to connect develop a strategy to meet the need; and, progress, and we may not reach it, but that and identify with the challenges and third, persuade at least half the people that is our goal. the opportunities that were facing you are right. Ronald Reagan was as good as We Americans say that anything is pos- anyone at persuading at least half the people Americans across this country at the sible, and nothing symbolizes that more than time. that he was right. He taught that and he also the American presidency. And no president taught us the importance of proceeding from I think he also possessed, although has symbolized that more in the last century he was the Governor of California, a principles. than Ronald Reagan. He has reminded us of Sometimes we are described in Washington what it means to be an American. He lifted midwestern sensibility that never left. these days as being too ideological, too un- our spirits, he made us proud, he strength- He had, in many respects, values that, compromising, too partisan. Pres. Reagan ened our character, and he taught us a great as I said before, many of us in the Mid- was a principled man. He operated from prin- many lessons. west find really important—his belief ciples in all of his decisions, insofar as I Mr. ALEXANDER. I yield the floor. that you ought to live within your knew. He advocated his principles as far as means. His sort of midwestern bedrock he could take them, but he recognized that The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- the great decisions that we make here are ator from South Dakota. values of individual responsibility were often conflicts between principles on which Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I rise to things he always touched upon, themes all of us agree. It might be equal opportunity join with my colleagues. I appreciate he referenced in his remarks. I think versus the rule of law. And once we have ar- what the Senator from Tennessee had those were the types of qualities that gued our principle and the solution, and to say about our former President, as really differentiated him on the na- strategy has been taken as far as it could go, we look upon his 100th birthday coming tional stage. if we get, as he said 75, 80, or 85 percent of up this weekend and all of us pay trib- I remember, too, as a young person what we advocated, well, then that is a pret- ute to the legacy he gave this country being impressed with his sense of ty good job. and the tremendous contributions he humor. Often today there are serious So, he was very successful because he ar- gued from principles. He argued strenuously. made during his time in office. matters we deal with, matters of great He was good at persuading at least half the We all have different remembrances gravity and great weight, and they people he was right. Then he was willing to of his Presidency. I was a sophomore in need to be taken with the right level of accept a conclusion because most of our poli- college when he was elected to his first seriousness. But he also was able to see tics is about the conflict of principles. term as President. It was the first elec- the best in people and to use his sense There is another lesson that he taught us, tion in which I had the opportunity to of humor to connect with people about and that was to respect the military. Now, vote. I guess I could say I was sort of what was really distinctive and really that seems unnecessary to say in the year coming of age at the time he was com- unique about America. 2004 where we have a volunteer military that ing on the national political stage. He I remember the story that was told is better than any military we have ever had had run for President 4 years earlier. while we were fighting the Cold War in our history; when we have witnessed the thousands of acts of courage, charity, kind- I remember, as a young person, be- about the guy in the Soviet Union who ness, and ingenuity in Iraq and Afghanistan ginning to pay a little bit of attention went in to buy a car, and he said: I recently; when the men and women of our to politics, at the time being so im- want to buy a car. National Guard and reserves are also being pressed with the attributes that char- The guy at the transportation bureau called up. We have a lot of respect for our acterized him personally and were pri- said: Well, you can have your black military. marily responsible for his tremendous sedan and you can pick it up 10 years In 1980, we were showing a lot less respect success as President and for the great from today. for the men and women of our military. I re- legacy he left behind. The guy thought about it for a member riding with Pres. Reagan in a car in I was someone who grew up in a minute, and he said: Will that be in the Knoxville during the 1980 campaign. As we small town in South Dakota, and my morning or in the afternoon? pulled out of the airport by the National The guy at the transportation bureau Guard unit, there were a number of the sol- father and mother had both come diers waving at him, understanding and sens- through the Great Depression. They said: What difference does it make? It ing that he respected them. He turned to me were similar in terms of their remem- is 10 years from now. and said something like this: I wish we could brances of that period and could iden- And the guy said: Well, because I think of some way to honor these men and tify in many respects with some of the have the plumber coming in the morn- women more. He said we used to do that in things President Reagan talked about. ing. the movies in the 1930s and 1940s. We would But he was a person of strong convic- Ronald Reagan had a way of putting make movies honoring men and women in tions. I think he had a strength of con- into very simple and understandable the military and that is how we showed our viction that was really appealing to a and sometimes humorous terms what respect for them. lot of Americans. He was someone who was so distinctive and unique about the Well, he did find a way to honor them dur- American experience. I think that is ing his presidency in the 1980s, and by the believed in American exceptionalism. time he left at the end of that decade, there He understood that the greatness of something that also really set him was no question that the American people this country was not in its government apart. remembered to honor the men and women in institutions but in its peoples and its When it came to the big issues of the the military. ideals. day, he had a statement he made that There is one other aspect of Pres. Reagan’s He was someone who was willing to I quote. He said: There are no easy an- leadership that I would like to mention, confront the threats we faced around swers, but there are simple answers. I which is probably the most important aspect the world. The way he took on the think oftentimes we face these com- of the American character, and that is the threat of communism and promoted plex problems, and we overanalyze a belief that anything is possible. The idea little bit. And the truth is, in a lot of that we uniquely believe in this country, and freedom and democracy around the people all around the world think we are a globe is something for which he will al- the challenges we face today, not un- little odd for believing it, is that no matter ways be remembered, not only here at like the times when he was President, where you come from, no matter what race home but by other countries around there are not easy answers, but I be- you are, no matter what color your skin, if the world. lieve there are simple answers. Those

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Maybe nobody said a labor union president and then Presi- When we believe in the greatness of that better than former British Prime dent of the United States. During his America, when we look at the founda- Minister Margaret Thatcher in a lifetime, he developed a philosophy of tion of this country—personal freedom, prerecorded eulogy that was played at faith, life, and government that Ameri- personal liberty, coupled with indi- President Reagan’s funeral at the Na- cans understood. vidual responsibility—he believed pro- tional Cathedral. I would like to read During his Presidency, the people of foundly that you achieve peace just a little of that eulogy. It starts: this country had an extraordinary un- through strength. He was willing to We have lost a great president, a great derstanding of what their President confront communism at a point in this American and a great man. And— would think and how their President Nation’s history when it posed a great Mrs. Thatcher said— would react to events and cir- threat to freedom-loving countries I have lost a dear friend. cumstances. The strength of the cer- around the world. I think those are the In his lifetime, Ronald Reagan was such a tain trumpet, the strength of the clar- types of qualities for which President cheerful and invigorating presence that it ion call is, I believe, impossible to Reagan will be remembered. was easy to forget what daunting historic overestimate. Knowing how your Presi- As, again, someone who was very im- tasks he set for himself. He sought to mend dent, how your leader views the world pressionable at that time, he was a America’s wounded spirit, to restore the and views the circumstances that may great inspiration to public service. I strength of the free world and to free the meet us in the world is an incredibly think he represented the very best of slaves of communism. These were causes hard to accomplish and heavy with risk. comforting feeling. public service. He got into it for all the In fact, there is an epic Greek fable, right reasons. He understood the im- Mrs. Thatcher went on: more often applied to President Lin- portance of what he was doing, the Yet they were pursued with almost a light- coln, about the fox and the hedgehog. issues with which he was dealing, but ness of spirit. For Ronald Reagan also em- In the epic Greek fable of the fox and always had an eye toward making a bodied another great cause—what Arnold Bennett once called ‘‘the great cause of the hedgehog, the fox is wily, the fox is difference and providing a better future clever, the fox knows lots of little for the next generation. That is a les- cheering us all up.’’ His politics had a freshness and optimism that won converts things, but the hedgehog knows one son that I think all of us need to re- from every class and every nation—and ulti- really big thing. In that fable and in re- member: that sometimes we have a mately from the very heart of the evil em- ality, the fox can never defeat the tendency to believe it is about us, it is pire. hedgehog. about today. We always have to keep Yet his humor often had a purpose beyond Now, neither Lincoln—I am really an eye on tomorrow, on the future, and humor. In the terrible hours after the at- not comfortable referring to either tempt on his life, his easy jokes gave reas- what we are doing to build a better and Lincoln or Reagan and characterizing brighter and more prosperous and surance to an anxious world. They were evi- dence that in the aftermath of terror and in them as a hedgehog, but I am com- stronger nation for future generations. fortable characterizing them as men of When I think about and remember the midst of hysteria, one great heart at least remained sane and jocular. They were big ideas, men who understood the big President Reagan as we come upon his truly grace under pressure. things, leaders who understood the big 100th birthday, those are the types of And perhaps they signified grace of a deep- things. With President Lincoln, it was things that strike me as really stand- er kind. the Union. With President Reagan, it ing out—his humility, his sense of Mrs. Thatcher said: humor, his belief in American was a focus on the big things, with an Ronnie himself certainly believed that he exceptionalism. Those are what history understanding that you measured the had been given back his life for a purpose. As circumstances and events that came up has already written about him, but he told a priest after his recovery, ‘‘What- they certainly are permanently im- by your view of the big things that ever time I’ve got left now belongs to the Big guide the country, that guide us indi- pressed upon my mind, my experience, Fella Upstairs.’’ in my time in public life—just the And surely it is hard to deny that Ronald vidually, that guide lives and, in fact, types of qualities I want to apply and Reagan’s life was providential, when we look guide the lives of a nation. bring to the work we do in the U.S. at what he achieved in the eight years that President Reagan understood big Senate. followed. things. He could quickly evaluate any So I rise along with many of my col- Others prophesied the decline of the West; issue or challenge through that prism he inspired America and its allies with re- and the prism of those core values. leagues today to pay tribute to our newed faith in their mission of freedom. 40th President and to his family. Of Ronald Reagan inspired freedom and Others saw only limits to growth; he trans- changed the world. The centennial course, we thank them for their great formed a stagnant economy into an engine of service and sacrifice too, because any- opportunity. celebration of his birth that begins this body who has been in this arena knows Others hoped, at best, for an uneasy co- week and officially begins this week- the sacrifice that comes with public habitation with the Soviet Union; he won end gives us an opportunity to think service. But we are indeed grateful for the Cold War—not only without firing a about what it was that made this his great service to our country, for shot, but also by inviting enemies out of President great; what it was that puts their fortress and turning them into friends. the way he impacted so many, both this President on the cover of news here at home and around the world, Mrs. Thatcher goes on to say: magazines, in the decade before the and for the way he continues through I cannot imagine how any diplomat, or any centennial, in one recent cover arm in his legacy to impact generations of dramatist, could improve on his words to Mi- arm with the current President of the Americans today. khail Gorbachev at the Geneva summit— United States; and what it was that Mr. President, I yield the floor. Quoting President Reagan— made this extraordinary man so ex- I suggest the absence of a quorum. ‘‘Let me tell you why it is we distrust traordinary. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The you.’’ I will just say again, Ronald Reagan clerk will call the roll. Mrs. Thatcher said: inspired freedom and changed the The assistant editor of the Daily Di- Those words are candid and tough and they world. gest proceeded to call the roll. cannot have been easy to hear. But they are Mr. President, I suggest the absence Mr. BLUNT. Mr. President, I ask also a clear invitation to a new beginning of a quorum. unanimous consent that the order for and a new relationship that would be rooted The PRESIDING OFFICER. The the quorum call be rescinded. in trust. clerk will call the roll.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:29 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 0686 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\S03FE1.000 S03FE1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD February 3, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 1199 The assistant editor of the Daily Di- President Reagan was a conservative, As a California Senator, certainly gest proceeded to call the roll. but he was not an ideologue. He ful- Ronald Reagan is one of our most fa- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- filled his campaign promise to appoint mous residents as Governor and then as ator from California. the first woman to the Supreme Court, President. I was in the House of Rep- Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I ask choosing Sandra Day O’Connor as the resentatives while he was the Presi- unanimous consent that the order for first female Justice of the U.S. Su- dent. Clearly, there were a lot of dis- the quorum call be rescinded. preme Court, even though she was con- agreements between President Reagan The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without sidered too moderate by many conserv- and many of those in Congress such as objection, it is so ordered. atives. myself who didn’t believe government Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I rise Of course, there were many areas of was the problem, which was his defi- today to pay tribute to one of Califor- disagreement—from offshore oil drill- nite belief at that time. We certainly nia’s own, President Ronald Reagan. ing to the role of the national govern- had a loyal opposition, and we cer- It has been nearly 7 years since ment, to the fight against AIDS, to tainly worked together when we could. President Reagan passed away, but he policies in Central America. Those dis- One of the things that was so inter- is still fondly remembered by so many agreements were deep, but they were esting to me compared to working with in California, across this country and never taken personally by President other Presidents—because I have had across the globe. Reagan. He and House Speaker Tip The first time I met President the honor of serving for so long that O’Neill were genuinely fond of each actually President Obama is the fifth Reagan was right after I was elected to other. They often shared a drink after Congress in 1982. I was invited to the President I have had the honor of serv- work, and they laughed after a day of ing with. I went to every State of the White House as part of a large Demo- locking horns. Their good nature was cratic freshman class, and I wondered Union Address, all of which were very infectious. It raised the level of comity impressive. how President Reagan would greet us. throughout the Nation’s Capital. After all, he had campaigned hard for a I think the thing about Ronald I believe that President Reagan will Reagan that I grew to admire was, as Republican Congress. When we arrived be remembered for his focus on free- at the White House, he and First Lady hard as one might debate with him on dom for the people behind the Iron Cur- his vision of what the priorities should Nancy Reagan could not have been tain. He saw in Soviet President Mi- more warm and gracious to us. I still be—what should we invest in, what was khail Gorbachev a leader he could suc- important—when those debates were have the photo from that evening cessfully challenge to step to the plate. hanging in my home office. over and a decision was made, regard- And when President Reagan said, tear less of who won the day, we just moved Ronald Reagan showed all of us that down this wall, he said it directly to you can disagree without being dis- on to the next issue. We tried to find Mr. Gorbachev. He touched Mr. Gorba- common ground, and if we didn’t we agreeable, and that even if you have chev, he touched America, and he had the respectful debate. It was never sharply different views on some issues, touched people all around the world. taken personally. you can still work to find common After President Reagan passed away, Again, there were many things I dis- ground. Mr. Gorbachev wrote in the New York agreed with him about. I remember President Reagan once said: ‘‘I’ve al- Times: ‘‘Reagan was a man of the being a young Member of Congress at ways believed that a lot of the troubles right. But, while adhering to his con- of the world would disappear if we were victions, with which one could agree or the time when the AIDS epidemic came talking to each other instead of about disagree, he was not dogmatic; he was out, and I remember I was so frustrated each other.’’ looking for cooperation. And this was because President Reagan was very He believed if we were all respectful the most important thing to me: he compassionate, but he didn’t want to to each other, we could find those areas had the trust of the American people.’’ discuss the issue of AIDS. We had to of agreement. We could get things As we honor President Reagan today, work very hard with the Surgeon Gen- done. That was an important lesson for I believe the greatest tribute we can eral at the time, and we finally made a me and for all of us that evening be- pay is to find a cure for the disease little bit of progress. cause, in the Senate, with the rules of that took his life, took him away from So, yes, there were many tough de- the Senate, the only way to get things his loved ones and from the world. bates. Of course, his presence, his very done for our constituents and for our Ten years before his death, Ronald sunny presence, his optimism about country is by working together. Reagan knew he was battling Alz- the country’s future was very impor- I believe he had learned this lesson in heimer’s. He knew he was losing the tant to a Nation that had been torn California, where as a Republican Gov- battle. In an act of enormous courage asunder because of many tough issues ernor, he worked with a Democratic and in a handwritten open letter, he that separated the generations. State legislature. He brought that told the American people he was suf- I add my voice on this day when we same approach from Sacramento to the fering from the illness. He wrote: ‘‘I remember former President Ronald Nation’s Capital. now begin the journey that will lead Reagan, someone whom California is As Governor, in keeping with the val- me into the sunset of my life.’’ very proud of and someone who has ob- ues and wishes of most Californians, he And he movingly wrote: ‘‘I know that viously gone down in history for the helped to establish the Redwood Na- for America there will always be a many things he accomplished, particu- tional Park. He regulated auto emis- bright dawn ahead.’’ Even in his dark- larly his rapprochement with the So- sions to reduce pollution. He opposed est hour, President Reagan’s eternal viet Union at that time. It was a big the State proposition that discrimi- optimism shone through. contribution to the world. nated against teachers based on sexual Nancy Reagan stood by her husband Thank you very much. orientation. He was willing to reach throughout his long ordeal and pro- I yield the floor, and I note the ab- across party lines and find consensus. tected him in his most vulnerable time. sence of a quorum. He continued these efforts to work She has become a leading champion for The PRESIDING OFFICER. The across the aisle when he became Presi- increased funding for medical research clerk will call the roll. dent. Although there were serious dis- to fight Alzheimer’s and other diseases. The assistant editor of the Daily Di- agreements on important issues, Presi- She has been brave and courageous in gest proceeded to call the roll. dent Reagan worked closely with a her advocacy. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- Democratic House to ratify and sign In memory of Ronald Reagan, in ator from Utah. important arms control agreements, honor of Nancy Reagan and all of the Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I ask increase investments in math and families who have lost loved ones to unanimous consent that the order for science education, and reauthorize the Alzheimer’s, we must continue to seek the quorum call be rescinded. Superfund hazardous waste cleanup a brighter dawn for Alzheimer’s vic- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without program. tims and their families. objection, it is so ordered.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:29 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 0686 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\S03FE1.000 S03FE1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD 1200 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 February 3, 2011 Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, just over That was the story of Ronald Reagan, to the Nation. Senator Barry Gold- 30 years ago, Ronald Reagan was inau- who was born in tiny Tampico, IL, pop- water went on to lose that election in gurated as the 40th President of the ulation 772 as of the 2000 census, and an epic landslide. United States. It is hard to believe that came to the world’s attention in Cali- Today we know that conservatives three decades have passed since he fornia, home of suburban life and the might have lost that battle, but they stood in front of this Capitol, just American highway. He became a Cali- would ultimately win the war. yards away, and announced to this Na- fornian through and through. He loved A week before the election, Ronald tion and the world that America’s mo- his ranch, and he loved being on the Reagan delivered a taped address—‘‘A ment had not passed. It is hard to back of a horse. The large landscapes of Time for Choosing’’—on Goldwater’s think that we have been without him California and of the entire West sug- behalf. He spoke as a partisan for lib- now for over 6 years. I think of him and gested the boundless opportunity that erty, and he urged his fellow Ameri- his wonderful, lovely wife Nancy quite is afforded those who work hard in this cans to join him in that struggle. He often. I knew them both very well. I country. It was there that Ronald concluded his remarks telling a na- know Nancy very well to this day. She Reagan found his professional and po- tional television audience: is a terrific human being, as was he. litical success. It was where he met You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. One of my first campaign trips for Nancy and raised his family, and it is We’ll preserve for our children this, the last Ronald Reagan was with Nancy, and I where he was finally laid to rest. best hope of man on earth. can tell my colleagues there never was Ronald Reagan did not have it easy. This speech resonated with the a stronger advocate for her husband. As he put it, he did not grow up on the American people. It raised $8 million As a man, he had the rare combina- wrong side of the tracks. But he could for Goldwater, an astronomical sum at tion of good humor and a commitment hear the train. He lived through the the time. More importantly, it made to principle. As the leader of his party Great Depression. Yet like countless Ronald Reagan a formidable presence and as President, he reminded us of the Americans before and after him, with on the political scene. need for constant recommitment to our dogged determination and a good deal I knew Barry Goldwater. I knew him constitutional ideas, and as a couple of pluck, he succeeded. well. When I ran for the Senate, he was Ron and Nancy were a pair for the At a time when college was a luxury, one of two people I came to visit in ages. If there was any doubt, my col- Ronald Reagan graduated from Eureka Washington just to get some advice. I leagues have confirmed today in their College. He went on to have a success- admired him so much, and it was a tributes to President Reagan on the ful career in radio as a sportscaster. privilege to serve with him. The other centennial of his birth that Ronald But that was not enough, so he moved one was CHUCK GRASSLEY who was then Reagan might have passed on, but he is to Hollywood where he became an in the House, and I count him as one of most certainly not forgotten—not by a actor. Of all the roles Ronald Reagan my dearest friends on Earth. long shot. would play, we eventually identified Against the odds and conventional When Reagan was President, he in- him most closely with the character of wisdom, Ronald Reagan ran for Gov- spired great reactions from both par- George Gipp in ‘‘Knute Rockne: All ernor of California in 1966. The Cali- ties. I can attest, particularly with re- American.’’ It should come as little fornia establishment made the mistake spect to my colleagues on the other surprise that we would associate a good of underestimating this actor from the side of the aisle, that not all of those Irishman such as Ronald Reagan with a Midwest, and he went on to beat his reactions were positive. Yet today’s bi- movie about Notre Dame and the more liberal primary opponent and the partisan celebration of President Rea- Fighting Irish. popular incumbent Governor. gan’s legacy shows that he has become When George Gipp first appears on Underestimating Reagan was a mis- as much a part of the American story screen, Knute Rockne, the head coach take that the Washington establish- as his greatest predecessors in office. of the Irish, is at his wit’s end with his ment would make time and again when Like other great men before him, team. Seeing Gipp—who was not a he arrived there 14 years later. They Ronald Reagan seemed to embody the member of the team—lying around, never seemed to understand what was times during which he lived. The man Rockne asked him if he could go in and so obvious to President Reagan. himself, his personal story, in many run the ball against the varsity. Rea- For all of the superficial differences, ways personified America’s 20th cen- gan’s Gipp responded, with an Irish Americans of his age were not so dif- tury. twinkle in his eye: How far? Naturally, ferent than the generation that found- Ronald Wilson Reagan was born in he ran down the field, scored a touch- ed this Nation, fought the Civil War, the Midwest and became a westerner, down, and took his place in Notre worked through the Great Depression, moving to California like so many Dame lore. and struggled for civil rights. In the other of his fellow Americans. The For Ronald Reagan, like George end, Americans of today are committed country he grew up in looked very dif- Gipp, there was no challenge too big. It to the same principles of liberty and ferent from our own today. As Michael is a good thing he thought that way be- equality that animated the authors of Barone recently reminded us in an arti- cause he faced plenty of obstacles. our Declaration of Independence and cle in the Claremont Review of Books, With the outbreak of World War II, his Constitution. when America entered the Second promising acting career was put on This shared commitment to our World War, one-quarter of Americans hold. Yet he would go on to serve as founding principles served him well, still lived on farms, and half of those President of the Screen Actors Guild, because he took office at a time of were either without electricity or only and later he worked in television as the great uncertainty, a time not unlike recently acquired electricity. host of ‘‘General Electric Theater.’’ It our own. A combination of factors America’s population was at the was that association with General seemed to be putting the aspirations of same time both more diffuse and more Electric that sent Reagan on his path Americans out of reach. concentrated than it is today. Amer- toward the Presidency. To be blunt, America was on its ica’s nonrural population was clustered Going on what he called the ‘‘mashed heels. The prime interest rate was 15 in a few great cities. Again, as Barone potato circuit,’’ he spoke across the percent. Inflation was 121⁄2 percent. And explained, at the outbreak of the Sec- country to the thousands of GE em- civilian unemployment was at 7 per- ond World War, 2 percent of all Ameri- ployees, giving what would later be cent. Government regulations and tax cans lived in Brooklyn, NY. America in called ‘‘The Speech.’’ Giving these rates were smothering American inno- the 20th century became a less rural, after dinner remarks, Reagan honed his vation, and with it the American less agricultural nation. Yet instead of thoughts about freedom, the size of dream. And abroad the picture was just concentrating in existing urban cen- government, and the Soviet menace. as grim. An imperialist Soviet Union ters, new communities grew and sub- In 1964, on the eve of the Presidential had invaded Afghanistan, and was sup- urbs expanded. election, he would deliver that speech porting revolutionary movements

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:29 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00025 Fmt 0686 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\S03FE1.000 S03FE1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD February 3, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 1201 across the globe. The American hos- President Reagan took a flyer on me ‘‘[w]e did it. We weren’t just marking tages had not yet been freed from Iran. when I first ran for the Senate, sup- time. We made a difference. We made Yet when Ronald Reagan left office 8 porting me in my primary. I have tried the city stronger. We made the city years later, he had left his mark. Ac- to do him proud. I remember well the freer, and we left her in good hands. All cording to his biographer, Lou Cannon, blistering hot day in the Rose Garden in all, not bad, not bad at all.’’ when he came into office, there were when he signed the Hatch-Waxman leg- Indeed. 4,414 individual tax returns with an ad- islation into law in 1984. In his signing It has been said that Ronald Reagan justed gross income of more than $1 statement, he joked that with this law had a love affair with the American million. By 1987, fueled by tax cuts, the ‘‘[e]veryone wins, particularly our el- people. He did. But it took two to breaking of inflation, and explosive derly Americans. Senior citizens re- tango. Ronald Reagan loved his coun- economic growth, there were 34,944 quire more medication than any other try. But I think his country loved him such returns. When he entered the segment of our society. I speak with more. That includes people on both White House, only 1 in 6 Americans some authority on that.’’ sides of the aisle. owned a microwave, and VCRs were a In my opinion, that law typified the Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, in early luxury for the wealthy. By the time he commitments of President Reagan. 1983, the Soviet dissident Natan left office, these were common house- Since its passage it has saved the Fed- Sharansky was in an 8-by-10 foot cell in hold goods. He helped to restore our eral Government and consumers hun- a Siberian prison when jailers per- understanding of a limited judiciary dreds of billions of dollars—some say mitted him to read the latest issue of that respects the traditions of the trillions—and it essentially created the the official Communist Party news- American people and their elected rep- generic drug industry and incentives paper. resentatives. And he restored faith in for the creation of the next generation The front page was filled with global our men and women in uniform. of life saving drugs. condemnations of American President Just before he left office, President I worked with him when he was in of- Ronald Reagan for calling the Soviet Reagan reviewed the troops at Andrews fice. And as I work today for the citi- Union an ‘‘evil empire.’’ Tapping on Air Force Base one last time. During zens of Utah, his principled example is the walls and whispering through that visit, he said that serving as com- always on my mind. We still have work plumbing pipes, political prisoners mander-in-chief was ‘‘the most sacred, to do. Reagan understood the danger of spread the word. Rather than being de- most important task of the presi- what is today called progressivism, but moralized by the criticisms, they were dency.’’ was then called liberalism. It knows no ecstatic. The leader of the free world Barely five years after America left bounds. had spoken the truth. There was hope. South Vietnam, Reagan spoke at the As he put it, ‘‘No government ever By the end of the decade, hope be- Veterans of Foreign Wars convention voluntarily reduces itself in size. Gov- came freedom, freedom for the hun- and reminded America that Vietnam ernment programs, once launched, dreds of thousands imprisoned in the had been a ‘‘noble cause.’’ The rush to never disappear. Actually, a govern- Soviet gulag and for the hundreds of ‘‘blame America first’’ in our conflict ment bureau is the nearest thing to millions trapped behind the Iron Cur- with totalitarian regimes, and the days eternal life we’ll ever see on this tain. Countless men and women of of holding our military men and Earth.’’ courage and determination, their women in low esteem, came to an end In some respects, Ronald Reagan be- names lost to history, stood up to tyr- with the Reagan Presidency. And longed to a different age. He was gov- anny and won a great victory with a though his greatest achievement—the ernor during the student protests of leader whose name will forever be re- collapse of the Soviet Empire—would the 1960s. He entered the national po- membered by history. Lech Walesa, the occur on his successor’s watch—the litical consciousness during a presi- founder of the valiant Solidarity move- writing was on the wall by the time dential campaign where the possibility ment, said this of President Reagan: Ronald Reagan left office. His recom- of global nuclear conflict was an immi- ‘‘We in Poland . . . owe him our lib- mitment to freedom during our twi- nent threat. When he became Presi- erty.’’ light struggle with what was truly an dent, he was only a few years removed In this centennial year, we are expe- evil empire quite literally saved the from widespread urban riots and the riencing something rare. While many world and liberated millions. end of the Vietnam war. When he spoke great figures of their time diminish It is no surprise that he will be hon- at Pointe-du-Hoc on the 40th anniver- over time, our regard for Ronald ored in Prague, Budapest, and sary of D-Day, he spoke to the men Reagan only grows. This cannot be ex- Krakow—the home of his great partner who actually scaled those cliffs and lib- plained by merely citing the qualities Pope John Paul II—later this summer erated a continent. Today, most of for which he was so well known: his for his role in exposing the great lie those veterans have passed on. But ul- confidence in America, his wit, and his that was the Soviet Union. timately, Reagan remains one of us. I optimism. It goes beyond his courage Ronald Reagan succeeded as presi- think that his advisor, David Gergen, when attacked by an assassin’s bullet dent because he knew what he was got it wrong when he mused that Rea- or, at the end, a devastating disease or about. In his farewell address from the gan’s legacy was how much he changed even his skills as the ‘‘Great Communi- Oval Office, he said, ‘‘I went into poli- our minds. cator.’’ Ronald Reagan looms ever larg- tics in part to put up my hand and say, In my view, Ronald Reagan was a er because of his ideas and the endur- Stop. I was a citizen politician, and it success because he understood that the ing convictions that gave those ideas seemed the right thing for a citizen to American people did not need to their power. ‘‘History comes and goes,’’ do. I think we have stopped a lot of change their minds. Americans, in 1980, he said, ‘‘but principles endure and in- what needed stopping. And I hope we had the same beliefs and hopes that we spire future generations to defend lib- have once again reminded the people have always had. Ronald Reagan’s ge- erty, not as a gift from government, that man is not free unless government nius was in giving voice to those hopes. but a blessing from our Creator.’’ is limited. There’s a clear cause and ef- Ronald Reagan was a big man, made Ronald Reagan knew that liberty was fect here that is as neat and predict- for a big screen, and eventually the not a blessing merely to enjoy but one able as a law of physics: As government biggest stage. He played his part well. that must always be defended. He ex- expands, liberty contracts.’’ To borrow from Hollywood, he knew pressed his faith in our ability to rise I could not agree more. that even as time goes by . . . the fun- to its defense with these words: ‘‘No And that Reagan Revolution—the as- damental things apply. weapon in the arsenals of the world is piration of citizens for greater freedom Before leaving office, President so formidable as the will and moral and greater futures for the generations Reagan addressed the Nation one last courage of free men and women.’’ His that follow—continues. I am proud to time. Speaking to the citizens of this optimism sprang from his belief in the be a part of that revolution. shining city upon a hill, he told us, nobility of the human spirit.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:29 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00026 Fmt 0686 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\S03FE1.000 S03FE1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD 1202 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 February 3, 2011 The very ideas that are the founda- wood. All of the fame and notoriety overnight things changed. There was a tion of this great Nation were the foun- that came from his acting days would renewed sense of confidence in our dation of Ronald Reagan’s character. have been enough for most people, but shared destiny as a nation, a new feel- He became President at a time when not for Ronald Reagan. He was just ing of hope and opportunity about the America had begun to question its getting warmed up. The best was yet to future, and a return to the spirit of place in the world and the values upon come. America that had been lost. In just a which this Nation was built. He tore With his beloved wife Nancy by his short time, with his words and his ac- down the wall of doubt and reminded side, Ronald Reagan began to pursue a tions, he inspired a generation to look us that our many blessings carried bigger dream. He wanted to make an to the future with the kind of con- with them great obligations. Ronald impact on the world that would put fidence that comes from our belief in Reagan was a great communicator be- him on a bigger stage. He wanted to and commitment to the principles upon cause he had something great to com- get more involved in politics and put which our Nation was founded. municate: the exceptionalism of the his principles and values into action in I remember those days very well. I United States of America. the work that had to be done to solve was the mayor of Gillette, WY, and The birthday of one who has passed the problems facing the Nation. when the National League of Cities from this life is always a bittersweet His first effort was a run for Gov- held its national meeting the President occasion as we remember what we had ernor of California. People thought flew to California to speak to our and reflect on what we have lost. I that was an impossible dream of his group. I had a chance to meet with him would like to extend my best wishes to and he would never make it. Ronald again and enjoyed having an oppor- President Reagan’s beloved First Lady, Reagan proved them wrong—not for tunity to speak to him. He was the Nancy, and to the entire Reagan fam- the first or the last time. He took his greatest ambassador for the West and ily. case to the people, put together a coali- our Western way of life that we have Ronald Reagan was the right man for tion of both Republicans and Demo- ever had. He understood rural life and his time. He now belongs to the ages. crats and when the votes were counted, because of it he understood the prob- He is missed, but his ideals will always he had won. lems of our rural communities. He also be with us. I still remember meeting him when I understood public service for what it Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, we will was the president of the Wyoming Jay- is—service—and he continued to see soon mark the 100th anniversary of the cees. We held our national convention himself as a public servant throughout birth of Ronald Reagan, one of our in California and Ronald Reagan spoke his career and his life. greatest Presidents. In the days and to us. I had a chance to meet him and I always thought the years he spent months to come, in cities and towns all I was quickly impressed by his person- living on his ranch in California were across this great Nation of ours, people ality and his style. He clearly had a responsible for his passion for speaking will pause for a moment to reflect on way not only with words, but to con- the truth, regardless of whether or not the past and remember him, each in nect to people one on one. Still, I don’t it was politically expedient to do so. It their own way, for the greatness in him think any of us could have guessed is a trait that people in Wyoming ap- that inspired a nation. I know he would what would happen next in his life. preciate and expect from their leaders. be humbled by and greatly appreciative Reagan had his sights set on the It quickly led to some of his best mo- of our remembrance of his legacy of Presidency of the United States. He ments. service and touched by the great admi- knew it wasn’t going to be easy, but for I believe we all have strong memories ration and affection with which we will Ronald Reagan the only failure would of Ronald Reagan speaking by the Ber- always remember him. be to fail to try. He wasn’t successful lin Wall, taking advantage of the occa- I don’t think anyone is a better ex- at first, but he never gave up. He kept sion to challenge Mikhail Gorbachev to ample of the American dream than traveling around the country, speaking ‘‘tear down this wall.’’ He then went Ronald Reagan. He was born in Illinois, to groups, and sharing his message of counter to the advice of his staff and the son of a shoe salesman. His mother hope and opportunity with the people referred to the Soviet Union as the loved to read and she encouraged him who came to hear him speak. This ‘‘evil empire.’’ For Ronald Reagan, life to do the same by reading to him. In seemed to be another impossible was that simple. If it was the truth, it books Reagan was able to tap into the dream, but once again Reagan made it must be said for there are two kinds of wisdom of our Founding Fathers and happen. He won the Republican nomi- people in the world—the good guys and many other great leaders of our past. nation for President, facing an incum- the bad guys. If the good guys worked What he learned from his reading bent who spoke often about the terrible hard and were willing to sacrifice and would help to shape his character and problems facing the Nation. Ronald do whatever it took to succeed, they ultimately mold his destiny. Reagan didn’t speak with doubt and won. In Ronald Reagan’s world, we It wasn’t long before Reagan’s nat- uncertainty about the future; he spoke were the good guys and, during his ural confidence and his determination with strong and passionate certainty Presidency, more often than not, we to do something with his life began to that things would get better if we all won. show itself, first during his school worked together. Still, no matter how harsh the rhet- years and later when he pursued a ca- Unfortunately, optimism will only oric may have seemed, his political op- reer as an actor. He proved to be a born get you so far—so when the time came ponents always knew that it wasn’t leader and he took a leadership role at for him to take the oath of office, he personal—it was principle based. That every stage of his life. While in college, knew he had a lot of work to do. He is why, after all that he said, he was he served as student body President. In often referred to our economic prob- still able to form a friendship with Mr. his acting days he served as the presi- lems as the ‘‘misery index.’’ We were in Gorbachev. Our two countries were two dent of the Screen Actors Guild. In be- the middle of a time of high unemploy- of the biggest superpowers in the world tween he worked hard and built a ca- ment, high interest rates and high in- and he knew he would have to find a reer as a successful actor in film and flation. The Nation seemed to have lost way to keep the lines of communica- television as he became a familiar face its self-confidence and no longer be- tion, trust and understanding open be- in Hollywood. lieved that it could dare to do great tween them, a necessity that gave way If that had been all he had done, he things—and succeed. The experts all to another of his trademark lines, would be remembered for his talents seemed to say that there was little if ‘‘Trust but verify.’’ and abilities as an actor. He would anything that one person could do to Over the years he turned many a have earned his reputation for being change things and reenergize the Na- phrase that reflected the strength of unafraid of hard work and his life tion. his character, his sense of humor and would have inspired others to follow Once again, Ronald Reagan proved more. He had a unique way of express- his path just by his success in Holly- the experts wrong. It seemed almost ing complex truths in simple sentences

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I, for one, am that made a difference—it was the con- and deeds inspired our entire country fully committed to honoring Ronald tent. I wasn’t a great communicator, to take pride in our patriotic values Reagan’s legacy by standing up for the but I communicated great things.’’ and the free market principles that principles that defined him and have Ronald Reagan did communicate have made America exceptional. He made America exceptional for more great things and he communicated also comforted us during moments of than two centuries. them in a number of ways—most im- national tragedy. And his willingness Mr. HOEVEN. Mr. President, today, portantly by the way he lived his life. to speak out against communism—as when our country faces enormous chal- There is an old saying that reminds us both a bankrupt economic system and lenges—both domestic and inter- that we can play it safe and take the an immoral violation of human dig- national—we have an opportunity to well worn path or we can dare to go nity—was a ray of sunlight to those recognize President Ronald Reagan on where few have gone before and blaze living in its darkness. the 100th anniversary of his birth. our own trail in life, leaving a path for I will never forget my parents’ reac- Today—when we need big doses of op- others to follow. Such was Ronald Rea- tion the day the Berlin Wall fell in timism and a renewed faith in Amer- gan’s philosophy and by so doing he 1989. Having lost their country to Fidel ica—the memory of Ronald Reagan helped to give us an example of what Castro’s communism, they had spent 30 tells us that our challenges can be met was possible for us as individuals and years divided from their homeland, and our obstacles can be overcome. for our Nation. friends, and relatives—just as the Wall I remember the Reagan era well. The In the end, Ronald Reagan will be re- had done to millions in Europe. late seventies and early eighties were membered for many things. He found a Especially for my parents’ generation tough times. I had just finished college cure for an ailing economy. He helped of Cuban exiles, whose hopes and and returned to North Dakota, and to bring an end to the Cold War. He did dreams were shattered by communism, America was clearly hurting. It was the era of stagflation—stag- all of that and so much more but he the Wall’s fall was a historic event nant economic growth and inflation, also did something else that was to they questioned would ever come. It all at the same time. prove to be far more important. He was a day of celebration and rekindled It was an era of fuel shortages, long helped us to regain our spirit as Ameri- hope that all lands within com- lines at the gas station, and sticker cans. He helped us to regain that great munism’s grip would soon be free as shock when you got to the pump. pride we had always had for our herit- well. Ronald Reagan helped bring A few years later, America was age. He helped us to believe in our- about the change that made com- emerging from that recession and the selves again and in our ability to serve munism’s fall possible. By joining with country was on the mend. We could see as the leaders of the free world, a title other world leaders like Pope John light on the horizon. President Reagan we were always meant to carry. Paul II, he seized the opportunity to told us: ‘‘It’s morning again in Amer- Thanks to Ronald Reagan, it is a title highlight communism’s failures. In ica.’’ And it was. we have carried proudly and with pur- doing so, he helped make millions of It was also the era of the Cold War. pose ever since. Through his words and oppressed people more self-aware of For more than a generation, the Soviet his enthusiasm for life and living, the their intrinsic dignity, more confident Union had kept Eastern Europe and its Great Communicator was able to infuse that their pursuit of freedom was justi- own people under its heel, and threat- our country with optimism, patriotism fied, and more hopeful that they were ened the West with belligerent rhetoric and an unashamed hope for a better to- not alone in their struggles. and an arsenal of nuclear weapons. morrow. Thanks to him, the United In commemorating Ronald Reagan’s In 1987, at a time when much of the States of America became a brighter, 100th birthday, we also remember the world was resigned to a tense doctrine better place for us all to live as the im- work that remains to be done to tear of coexistence, with a literal and figu- pact he had on the world around us down other oppressive walls that still rative wall between us, President Ron- continues to be felt to this day. stand. America’s responsibilities in ald Reagan would have none of it. He Ronald Reagan’s burial site is in- this effort cannot be underestimated. stood at the Berlin Wall, and chal- scribed with the words he delivered at Economically, we cannot allow Wash- lenged: ‘‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this the opening of his Presidential Library. ington’s borrow-and-spend binges to di- wall!’’ And made it happen. ‘‘I know in my heart that man is good, minish our free enterprise system, nor In some of our Nation’s darkest that what is right will always eventu- can we allow our debt to make our hours, President Ronald Wilson Reagan ally triumph and that there is purpose commitment to freedom and human was there to remind us that we are a and worth to each and every life.’’ rights subservient to our debt holders. great nation and a great people—a na- As in so many things in life, just like Militarily, as Ronald Reagan said, tion kind and generous beyond meas- the old show business adage reminds ‘‘Of the four wars in my lifetime, none ure, when deserved, but tough and en- us, he left us wanting more. And that is came about because the U.S. was too during when circumstances warranted. why he will never be forgotten by those strong.’’ A free and secure world re- He knew that believing in ourselves who knew him and those who remem- quires a strong America led by our was vital, and then working together ber how he touched a generation for brave men and women in uniform. to get the job done. That is a lesson the better just by the great strength of America’s commitment to the defense worth remembering, today, 100 years his character and the warm gentleness of our allies should never waver. Dip- after the birth of one of America’s of his soul. lomatically, we must not confuse a de- greatest presidents. Mr. RUBIO. Mr. President, I am sire for security and the promotion of We can—and we will—build a bright- proud to honor Ronald Reagan on the democratic values as mutually exclu- er future for ourselves and for future 100th anniversary of his birth. Presi- sive goals. generations. We will continue to truly dent Reagan was a man who inspired The United States and the world owe be that shining city on a hill—a beam millions of Americans to serve their a great debt to Ronald Reagan for his of light and liberty for the world. country and fulfill its promise as the decisive leadership, adherence to con- Mr. LUGAR. Mr. President, I have shining city on a hill. His genial de- servative principles and inspiring ex- had numerous opportunities to com- meanor, resilience, no-nonsense ap- ample during a tumultuous period. And ment on the amazing life and Presi- proach to governing and rock solid we owe a special debt of gratitude to dency of Ronald Reagan. He had bold

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It has Hudson Institute’s James H. Doolittle Award rageous persons seeking freedom had lost luncheon to Celebrate the Patriotism, per- always been a point of great pride to their lives in that pursuit. Everything still sonal courage, and strategic wisdom which appeared to be so locked up and grim, and so- me that my voting record was sup- has made the United States of America his- portive of President Reagan’s positions phisticated observers were barely patron- torically unique. izing in comment on his Berlin Wall chal- more than any other Member of the I am grateful to Governor Du Pont for the lenge. Senate. extraordinary public service he gave to the When Germans hacked the Wall down in Congress of the United States and to the November of 1989 and Eastern Europeans As the Senate commemorates the State of Delaware and for the remarkable 100th anniversary of President Rea- drove authoritarian communists from posi- years of public witness he has given as a tions of power, many scholars and journal- gan’s birth, I want to share with my champion of market economics and vital fed- ists applauded President Gorbachev as Man colleagues and the public a speech I eralism. I admire the strength of his ideas, of the Decade. These awards revealed virtual wrote when President Reagan was the skill of his advocacy, and i am grateful ignorance of the actual history of Europe in given the Hudson Institute James Doo- for the constancy of his loyal friendship. the 1980s and a deliberate attempt to ignore little Award. I thank the Hudson Institute for giving me the very public words and leadership of Ron- this opportunity to visit with President and ald Reagan for eight years. It was November 22, 1991, and it was Mrs. Reagan. It was my privilege to sit be- The Evil Empire crumbled, the Berlin Wall a tumultuous time for Washington and side Mrs. Reagan during several White House and other walls fell, all of the intermediate the world. Yet you could still see the and Republican Party events and to under- nuclear force weapons were destroyed ex- sparkle in the President’s eyes and his stand the strength of her ideals and her actly in three years as the INF Treaty pro- warmth and good humor. What we did hopes for our country as she worked vided, and the United States became the not know was that President Reagan’s thoughtfully with the President, day by day, only superpower with the strongest economy effort to end the Cold War was quickly to make those dreams come true. and the ability, uniquely, to extend military I begin with mention of dreams, hopes, vi- authority around the world. coming to fruition. Within days, on De- sions because the service of President All of this occurred because President cember 1, Ukraine would vote to break Reagan to our country can only be ap- Reagan persuaded the Congress and his coun- away from the Soviet Union, and on proached by understanding how wide he cast trymen to build our armed forces, to build Christmas Day, Mikhail Gorbachev an- the net of potential achievement. our economy through the growth incentives nounced the end of the USSR. President Reagan actually believed and ar- termed ‘‘Reaganomics,’’ to maintain the suc- ticulated that our country had a special des- cessful strategies of our NATO alliance, to During his Presidency, when Presi- tiny, that no barriers were insurmountable utilize military force to support foreign pol- dent Reagan decided to renew arms because we are Americans. He actually be- icy as required, and to commence Strategic control negotiations with the Soviets, lieved and said that the Soviet Union was an Defense Initiative research. he had the wisdom and political Evil Empire, that its political and economic We now know that the Soviets were much strength to ask the Senate to form an institutions were disintegrating, and that if weaker than experts estimated. We now official observer group so that there its leadership and people knew the alter- know that they could not keep up the pace natives which our country presented, they and that desperate attempts to do so led to would be understanding and support for the collapse of the Soviet Empire and then any treaty coming out of the negotia- would choose democracy and market eco- nomics. to the collapse of the Union, itself. tions. As cochair of the Arms Control President Reagan was prepared to invest President Reagan advocated two more Observer Group, I worked closely with an increasing portion of our national treas- things which were inspiring and critically Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia and ure in military defense with the certainty important in world history. began a partnership with him that con- that we would negotiate successfully with First, he rejected the Brezhnev Doctrine— the idea that territory which socialism has our adversaries from a position of strength. tinued for many years. occupied can never be reclaimed. When he He shocked foreign policy and defense spe- advocated this roll back of the Iron Curtain, Subsequently, after the failed coup cialists by proposing that all intermediate he created deep anxiety and alarm among against Gorbachev in the summer of nuclear missiles be destroyed, a negotiating most international foreign policy advisers 1991, we heard from Soviet officials we position labelled universally as a bizarre who loved liberty a lot, but loved stability had met that they were worried about arms-control non-starter. even more. the control of the Soviet nuclear arse- He affirmed the staying power of NATO by U.S. Stinger missiles shipped to the expert nal as political events unfolded. By deploying Pershing missiles to Germany and ministrations of the Mujadahin in Afghani- that November when President Reagan cruise missiles to Italy even after the Sovi- stan were a major instrument of the Soviet was being honored, Senator Nunn and I ets declared that such deployment would end roll back, and the world watched in awe as all arms control negotiations and stimulate the Soviet troops withdrew to a smaller so- succeeded in passage of the Nunn- Soviet nuclear buildup. Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction cialist world. Add to this President Reagan’s startling Second, President Reagan enunciated a Act. proposal that the United States should de- new policy in a statement sent to Congress Thanks to his leadership and vision, velop a Strategic Defense Initiative to pro- after the Philippine election and revolution. President Reagan helped build the tect our country against incoming missiles He stated that henceforth, we would oppose foundation for the Nunn-Lugar Pro- fired upon us. He contended that we should tyranny of the left and tyranny of the right, and could try to defend ourselves against the gram. Now thousands of missiles and that we were for democracy developed by the so-called balance of terror. people who sought to know and enjoy democ- warheads, any one of which could have He proposed to President Gorbachev that racy and human rights. This statement was destroyed my city of Indianapolis, have the United States and the Soviet Union ban severely criticized by experts who suggested been eliminated. The success of the all nuclear weapons. In fact, he was con- that in the ‘‘real world’’ a good number of Nunn-Lugar Program is a clear deriva- fident that if he could take Gorbachev on an dictators were friendly to the U.S. and cer- tive of President Reagan’s legacy. extended tour of America that Gorbachev tainly useful in waging the Cold War against Thank you, President Reagan. would want to shape the Soviet Union into communism. many of our successful traditions. In articulating his vision on the roll back Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- Meanwhile, President Reagan knew that of the Iron Curtain; in identifying with na- sent to have printed in the RECORD the substantial new growth must occur in our tions all over the world who applauded our speech I wrote in honor of President domestic economy to pay for the special passion for building democratic institutions; Reagan when he received the Hudson leadership role he had envisioned in foreign in celebrating human rights and free market Institute James Doolittle Award. policy. He was confident that substantial principles; in all of these areas, Ronald cuts in individual marginal tax rates and a Reagan was far ahead of the prevailing wis- There being no objection, the mate- host of investment incentives would estab- dom. Yet he ultimately brought other lead- rial was ordered to be printed in the lish and sustain the longest peacetime pros- ers in America and around the world to his RECORD, as follows: perity we have ever enjoyed. Our prosperity point of view in a relatively short interval.

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He is charismatic, he is determined Cold War, and reeling from the Iran hill.’’ On the occasion of his 100th and consistent, and he enjoys a remarkable hostage crisis. On the domestic front, birthday, we express our eternal grati- batting average of being right. our economic vitality had been sapped tude to President Reagan for his time- We now have an important responsibility by double-digit inflation, hampered by less leadership of our Nation which he to make certain that our children com- interest rates that would soar to 21 per- prehend the greatness of his presidency, his aptly described in his first inaugural optimism about the particular uniqueness of cent, stifled by massive tax burdens in- address as ‘‘the breed called Ameri- our future opportunities in this country, and cluding a top tax rate of 70 percent, cans.’’ the foundations for world peace which his and idled by an energy crisis, exempli- Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. President, I leadership established and which we are fied by half mile long lines at the gas rise to join my colleagues from both charged to build upon. pump. We now also have the opportunity today to sides of the aisle today to mark the Against that backdrop, President 100th birthday of former President correct the historical mistake made a few Reagan arrived in Washington with an years ago in designating Mikhail Gorbachev Ronald Reagan. ‘‘Man of the Decade.’’ It has to be a high mo- unflagging conviction that the greatest It is fitting that this is a bipartisan ment in each of our lives to be able to untapped potential lies in the Amer- tribute. After all, Reagan had been a present to President and to Mrs. Reagan ican people themselves. And by em- Democrat, then a Republican, in his even a small fraction of all of the tributes bracing hope, not resignation, he political career, and he transformed which well up in our minds and hearts today. charted a course for America that led On behalf of all of your friends assembled the political landscape for both parties to greater prosperity and security. by appealing to a broad cross-section of to celebrate your life and service, President As Commander-in-Chief, President Reagan, it is my honor to announce that you Americans. Reagan was steadfast in his uncompro- are the recipient of the James H. Doolittle Much has been written about Presi- mising foresight and ultimate success Award and to express the unbounded grati- dent Reagan’s life. His story is well- in building up our military, and dis- tude which we have come here to dem- known, and is a classic tale of the onstrate today. played unequivocal mettle in con- American dream—a boy from the Na- fronting the world’s only other super- Ms. SNOWE. Mr. President, I rise tion’s heartland makes good. power, laying the foundation for vic- today to join with my colleagues in And Ronald Reagan was a surprising tory in the Cold War. With peace this august Chamber, especially Sen- man, a man of paradoxes: An actor af- through strength, Ronald Reagan ators FEINSTEIN, HATCH, and WEBB, fectionately remembered by a genera- called America to a purpose he de- members of the Ronald Reagan Centen- tion of Americans for his authenticity, scribed in his own hand in 1980. He nial Commission, as we pause to pay a former union leader who fired strik- tribute to the indelible legacy of one of wrote: ‘‘I believe it is our pre-ordained ing union members, and the oldest America’s truly great Presidents, Ron- destiny to show all mankind that they president who was most popular among ald Reagan, who would have turned 100 too can be free without having to leave young Americans, many of whom are years old on February 6, 2011. It is in- their native shore.’’ And nothing in leadership positions today, and some deed fitting that as this month of Feb- evoked that immutable faith in hu- ruary is filled with historic birthdays manity and belief in the possibilities of whom are in this very Chamber. But what I would like to focus on in of transformational Presidents like for a better future more than his de- George Washington, who founded our mand at the Brandenburg Gate forever my time here today is the part of Nation, and Abraham Lincoln, who pre- etched in our memory: ‘‘Mr. Gorba- Reagan that is still with us today: his served it, that we honor the President chev, tear down this wall!’’ Two years legacy. who reignited its spirit, Ronald later, that wall did crumble, and not One of the most frequently cited Reagan. long after, so too did the Soviet Em- achievements of Ronald Reagan is end- A friend of freedom, a foe of tyranny, pire. ing the Cold War. and always—always an advocate for President Reagan battled to reduce Behind his eloquence and warmth America, President Reagan inspired the size of the Federal bureaucracy—to was a steeliness that sent a clear mes- our Nation eloquently and powerfully return tax dollars to the families who sage to Moscow: You cannot hope to to recapture and reaffirm our founding had earned them and disseminate compete with us. We will beat you. ideals of individual freedom, common power out of Washington and back to And so we did. Thanks to Reagan’s sense, and limited government. He re- local governments. And I well recall steadfastness and the rise of a Soviet minded us with unshakable optimism meeting with President Reagan numer- leader who recognized America’s that America, as the great experiment ous times to discuss issues as far rang- toughness under Reagan’s leadership, in self-government, had planted an ing as the MX missile, the budget, the Iron Curtain ultimately clanged eternal stake along the timeline of women’s issues, or the impact of pro- into a pile of rubble. human history as, in the words of posed trade policies on traditional Reagan also gave birth to the Repub- Abraham Lincoln, ‘‘the last best hope Maine industries such as potatoes or lican Party that those of us on this of Earth.’’ lumber. side of the aisle belong to today. Many of my colleagues will be shar- And I can attest to the fact that, as Thanks to Reagan’s efforts to broad- ing their own personal remembrances a problem solver on every front, Presi- en the tent of the Republican Party, of this threshold figure whom we rank dent Reagan understood that in order for the first time in many years, scores as among the most rarefied of Amer- to bring to fruition his core principles of religious, socially conservative ican Presidents. What I recall is a and also ensure he could be resolute in Americans finally found a political President who brought his passionate implementing his vision for the coun- home. belief in the ideals of America to bear try, he had to make it happen with per- His became a party of pro-military, in advancing our Nation and projecting suasion and openness. After all, it was pro-business, pro-small-government, the hope of freedom as a force for good President Reagan who believed ‘‘if I anti-tax, anti-Communist Americans. in the world and a leader who was, con- can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is And while communism worldwide has trary perhaps to conventional wisdom, I’m trying to get . . . I’ll take that and been largely designated to oblivion, not averse to consensus-building in im- then continue to try to get the rest in Reagan’s legacy of tax-cutting, smaller plementing his vision for this country. the future.’’ government, personal responsibility Like those rising to speak in this In the end, President Reagan’s deeds and fewer onerous regulations from venerable Chamber today, I remember and words summoned America’s resolve Washington have stood the test of time

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I pumps, a 21-percent inflation rate and steel, we have done and will do the met my partner in life, my wife Gayle, the taking of 52 of our citizens from heavy lifting that has built America. in West Virginia. We raised our three America’s own embassy in Tehran, But this great responsibility to serve children in the State we love. Iran. We were a deflated Nation. as a Senator for West Virginia would I have long believed in the impor- But Reagan, in many ways through never have come about had our State tance of public service, beginning with the sheer force of his personality, gave not lost a true giant, our beloved Sen- my days supporting a volunteer rescue Americans hope, gave us the urge to ator Robert C. Byrd. Senator Byrd was squad in Marin County and working dare to dream, and the confidence to be a mentor to me, a great friend to West with the United Way more than three great again. When he told us it was Virginia, and a tireless advocate for us decades ago. morning again in America, we believed all. West Virginia would not be the As for my public life, my first days as him. And it was. State it is today without the inex- a State legislator to my last days as When Reagan was born on February haustible commitment he made every Governor, I realized that none of us in 6, 1911, the airplane had only been in- day. Every day without Senator Byrd this or any body are simply elected to vented 8 years earlier. The horrors of is a loss for us all, but we can all take an office. We are not here for the title. World War I, the Great War that helped comfort that he made not just West We are here to make a difference. spawn the modern Soviet Union, were Virginia a better State, but he made I am here to work hard and do this still several years away and Teddy America a greater nation. While no one job, and I will work with anyone who Roosevelt had been out of the White will be able to fill his shoes, I hope to offers commonsense solutions on how House for just 2 years. honor his memory by continuing down to best move this country forward. In my maiden inaugural address as How fitting that Reagan’s lifetime the path he blazed fighting to better West Virginia’s 34th Governor, I said and legacy would book-end such ad- the lives of West Virginians and all that in order for us to be successful, it vances in technology, foreign policy Americans. I would also like to recognize the un- was going to take the commitment of and even his own Republican Party. wavering leadership of West Virginia’s civic leaders, public employees, That includes the space flight that distinguished senior Senator who has businesspeople and laborers, educators, helped America surpass its Soviet ri- left a dynamic mark on history, my students and parents, lawyers and doc- vals and his words of consolation to a dear friend Senator JAY ROCKEFELLER. tors, veterans, young professionals, grieving Nation when the Space Shut- He has committed his life to giving senior citizens, and Republicans, tle Challenger disintegrated. And outstanding public service to a very Democrats, and Independents. outlasting the Soviet Union after a grateful State. At the time, very few thought such a lifetime of opposition. And becoming a Throughout my 20 years in public diverse coalition could ever be forged, worthy successor to Roosevelt as an service, I have been fortunate beyond let alone actually accomplish some- optimistic Republican leader who left a words to have been able to serve the thing in the process. But we West Vir- lasting imprint on a changing Nation. great people of West Virginia. Again ginians put politics aside. We listened As usual, Reagan put it best when he and again, I have been inspired by West to each other, we worked together, and told us, ‘‘America’s best days lie ahead. Virginians’ devotion to family, their we came together to find common You ain’t seen nothing yet.’’ love of country, their belief in hard ground and develop commonsense solu- Ms. SNOWE. Mr. President, I yield work and sacrifice and, above all, their tions. the floor and suggest the absence of a undeniable spirit to weather any storm As a result, we changed the direction quorum. by coming together. of our State for the better. We got our The PRESIDING OFFICER. The I have seen our State endure the financial house in order. We lowered clerk will call the roll. most devastating challenges—horrific our taxes for both families and busi- The bill clerk proceeded to call the flooding, the tragic mining accidents— nesses. We paid down unfunded liabil- roll. and I have seen our State in the best of ities. We created thousands of new Mr. MANCHIN. Madam President, I times. But at all times, the spirit of jobs. ask unanimous consent that the order West Virginia has never been broken. There was a surplus every year I was for the quorum call be rescinded. It is this spirit of working together and Governor. West Virginia became a The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. finding commonsense solutions to any stronger State and one of the very few MCCASKILL). Without objection, it is so challenge that inspires me. It is this fiscally solvent States in this Nation, ordered. spirit that also inspired both sets of all during the worst recession in gen- f my grandparents to immigrate to erations. We solved the actual prob- lems that were holding our State back, FINDING COMMONSENSE America—one from Italy and the other and those problems were not solved SOLUTIONS from Czechoslovakia. My grandparents came here with the same goals shared with partisan rhetoric and the men- Mr. MANCHIN. Madam President, it by countless generations of immi- tality ‘‘If you win, I lose.’’ Not at all. is my great honor to speak on the floor grants: to provide a better quality of West Virginians came together with a for the first time as a Senator. I am life for their families through hard shared vision and a common purpose. truly humbled by this auspicious occa- work and sacrifice. They did just that. By working together, we found com- sion and the enormous privilege to This is what I learned growing up in monsense solutions. In doing so, we serve the greatest people in America— West Virginia: When things are tough, made the future we all share better. the people of West Virginia. West Vir- we do not back down. When we are hav- This commonsense model is by no ginia may be a small State, but our im- ing trouble paying our bills, we do not means unique to only West Virginia. I pact on our Nation’s history and our think of spending more money. When truly believe we can develop common- future is far greater than the size of we face difficult times, we work to- sense solutions to the problems our Na- our geography or population. gether to make things better. When tion faces—commonsense solutions de- West Virginia was borne out of the faced with a problem, we do not avoid fined not by party or ideology but by turmoil of the Civil War, founded by what needs to be done; we try to solve doing what is right and what makes patriots who shared a united pursuit it. This is what West Virginians would sense for our State and our country. I for justice and freedom for all. Since call common sense. am committed to doing just that.

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While the legislative reality we paperwork and regulatory obstacles and be willing to make the right in- face is divided government, it does not that make doing business more dif- vestments and the difficult choices. mean we must be divided. In fact, since ficult. Doing so for West Virginians is just the day I was sworn in as a Senator, I I believe that to create a thriving common sense. West Virginians do not have been fortunate to sit and talk economy and jobs, we must lessen the go out and spend more money when with many of my Democratic and Re- burdens of unnecessary rules and regu- they face tough financial problems. publican colleagues. Every time, what I lations. Bureaucrats should not be able They cut back and live within their heard was a profound love for this to regulate what has not been legis- means. I believe we all in America great Nation and an unbreakable com- lated. We need to make government must do the same, especially in Wash- mitment to leave this country better work smarter and its agencies operate ington. To that end, I believe we must and stronger for future generations. more efficiently and effectively. We are declare a bipartisan war against waste- While disagreements in how we solve not asking government to be our pro- ful spending and begin to take respon- our Nation’s great challenges will vider; we are asking government to be sible steps to scour our Nation’s budget occur, they need not divide us. I see our partner. for all waste and redundant programs. these disagreements as an opportunity I truly hope that we in this session of In the coming weeks, I look forward for us to seek the common ground that Congress will work together to reform to working with my colleagues on both will unite us and move our Nation for- our Federal bureaucracy so we can sides of the aisle to develop a common- ward. I am committed to working with make sure our government works for sense strategy on how to best cut both sides to do what is right to ad- us instead of the other way around. spending and address our rising debt dress the serious economic and policy As a small businessperson, I know and deficits. While these steps will re- challenges we face as a nation and firsthand the last thing any small busi- quire difficult decisions, I believe if we which are of deep concern to the hard- ness owner needs is more regulation or put partisanship aside and work to- working people of West Virginia. paperwork. It is why I was proud to be gether, we can have a bipartisan, com- I heard these concerns loudly and one of the lead Democrats to work monsense plan that improves our fiscal clearly during our most recent work across the aisle to cosponsor legisla- future and sets our Nation on a new period. During those 2 weeks in Janu- tion with my friend, Senator MIKE course for fiscal responsibility. But strengthening our economy will ary, I traveled more than 2,100 miles on JOHANNS, to repeal the 1099 provision also depend on our Nation achieving my ‘‘Call for Common Sense’’ tour. I from our health care reform. I was even not just independence from debt but held more than 28 events and met with more proud to add my voice last night real energy independence. As a Senator the unemployed, seniors, veterans, to the many Senators from both par- from a true energy State, the second small business owners, young profes- ties who showed we can and will work leading producer of coal with abundant sionals, labor leaders, educators, lead- together on commonsense reform of resources, a net exporter of electricity, ers from our coal and energy industry, health care legislation. It is why I will I am very proud of the critical role continue to work with any of my col- as well as leaders in manufacturing. I West Virginians play in providing en- leagues to ensure we do everything we held townhall meetings in Wheeling ergy to our Nation. I imagine the can to help small businesses, not just and Elkins, where West Virginians lights in this very Chamber would be a by improving health care reform but with diverse concerns came together to little dimmer were it not for West Vir- also by strengthening the access to the share their opinions. ginia and West Virginia coal. Again and again, I heard their seri- capital and investment that small busi- Moving forward, achieving true en- ous concerns about the economy and nesses so desperately need to create ergy independence demands that we jobs, the need to protect coal and our jobs. not only start realizing the importance energy industry, as well as their fears Improving the opportunity for small coal has in achieving this goal, it from rising debt and deficits. I heard businesses and boosting job creation means we must stop demonizing one re- about what government was doing or will also depend on making difficult source and start realizing we must de- not doing to ensure that we keep our choices to rein in wasteful spending velop a comprehensive plan that uti- promises to our seniors and our vet- and rising debt. As we learned last lizes all of our domestic resources— erans. week, the fiscal 2012 deficit is projected coal, natural gas, the development of What I also heard was a lot of com- to be $1.5 trillion. The Congressional nuclear, wind, and solar—so we can, monsense ideas about what our coun- Budget Office projects that under cur- once and for all, end our dependence on try needs to focus on and what we must rent law, our national debt will reach foreign oil within this generation. do to provide a more secure future for $25 trillion by 2021. If we are going to truly be secure, we our children and grandchildren. What I heard from my fellow West must declare our country to be energy Addressing these top concerns—job Virginians is that we must get our fi- independent, and every State in this creation, deficit reduction, energy nancial house in order. My proud great Nation must do its part. West independence, and keeping our prom- grandfather always told me crippling Virginia is using every ounce of its ises to our veterans and our seniors— debt will lead us to make cowardly de- natural resources—our coal, our abun- matters not only to West Virginians cisions. dant supply of natural gas, biomass, and me, but they matter to every one America is not a country of cowards. wind, hydroelectric, solar—all of which of you and all of America. During a recent townhall meeting I should be used in the most environ- With respect to job creation, our Na- held in Wheeling, a young college stu- mentally responsible way. tion continues to struggle with high dent, worried about getting married As a country, we must stop buying unemployment and a great recession and having a family in the near future, oil from the countries that promote vi- that feels too much like a Great De- told me she was worried because of the olence against their own people and the pression for the millions of Americans debt and fiscal burdens her child would United States. That is just common looking for work. inherit. For me, this young woman’s sense. For too long, we have seen America’s words are a tragic reminder of the con- I am also strongly committed to manufacturing sector decimated by the sequences that will come from inac- working with my fellow Senators to de- cruel irony of rules and regulations tion. In America, no one should have to velop a realistic and responsible clean that make it easier to create jobs have second thoughts about starting a energy policy for the future that bal- abroad than in the United States. West family because of his or her worries ances the needs of our country and our

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environment. I believe we can achieve ROCKEFELLER’s legislation—giving the The assistant bill clerk proceeded to this commonsense balance while pro- National Guard their rightful place on call the roll. tecting the vital role that coal and nat- the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Our National Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Madam Presi- ural gas and our other resources play Guard and Reserve forces have bravely dent, I ask unanimous consent that the in our Nation’s economy. assumed a major role in our combat order for the quorum call be rescinded. Defending the critical role coal and missions, and they deserve a seat at The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without West Virginia play in our Nation’s en- the table along with our Active-Duty objection, it is so ordered. ergy production is one reason I sub- Forces. West Virginia National Guard Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Madam Presi- mitted today my first piece of legisla- and Reserve forces are the best in the dent, you have just heard a classic JOE tion—the EPA Fair Play Act of 2011— Nation, and as Governor I was proud to MANCHIN speech. It truly is. It is full of which will check the power of the Envi- be their commander-in-chief. Not only optimism, strength, common purpose, ronmental Protection Agency. are they an operational force to be no problem cannot be solved, and the I believe it is fundamentally wrong reckoned with on the front lines de- desire for bipartisan cooperation. If for any bureaucratic agency, including fending our Nation abroad, they are anybody can bring our two sides to- the EPA, to regulate what has not been also first on the scene during disasters gether, surely he can do that. He is ag- legislated, to have absolute power to here at home. gressive, he is thoughtful, but above all change the rules at the end of the game Looking ahead, addressing the issues he is optimistic. He has a positive ap- and to revoke a permit, as the EPA did of job creation, rising debt and deficits, proach, a constructive approach. He is in southern West Virginia’s Spruce energy independence, keeping our unafraid of any problem and thrilled Mine, after it was lawfully granted and promises to our seniors and our vet- about doing whatever kinds of public employees were hired. Giving any agen- erans will demand not just common- service he does. cy such absolute power will have a sense policies but a renewed bipartisan We actually have fairly common ca- chilling effect on investment and job spirit. No matter how large a divide reers. We both served in the State leg- creation far beyond West Virginia, and may seem at times, we must work to- islature. He served in both branches. I I am proud there is already bipartisan gether to find common ground to served in one branch. We were both support for this legislation. achieve commonsense solutions. I truly Secretaries of State and we both ran Achieving a brighter future for our believe Republicans and Democrats and for Governor. Now we are both in the Nation will also depend on us keeping Independents can and will work to- Senate. So I have known the Manchin our promises to our seniors and vet- gether to chart a new course for this family for years. erans. West Virginia’s seniors and vet- Nation. I have known JOE MANCHIN for years. erans helped build and defend this Na- It is why I am so proud and honored I have always been proud of his work. tion and we have an obligation to them to have been selected to serve on such He is fun. He loves sports. That is very we must never break. esteemed committees as the Armed important in life—very important in As I traveled the State last month, I Services Committee, the Energy and life. He loves sports. He is a devoted heard from seniors at breakfasts, in Natural Resources Committee, and the Mountaineer. Sometimes I think he nursing homes, in courthouses, and at Special Committee on Aging. I look calls the plays for our team. This is townhalls about their Social Security forward to working with Senators going to be a better Senate because of LEVIN and MCCAIN, BINGAMAN and MUR- being at risk. I made it clear to them JOE MANCHIN, because of his person- that I will never support going back on KOWSKI, KOHL, CORKER, and all my com- ality. our promises. I also heard there are mittee colleagues to address the wide I have watched him in the couple of concerns about living for 2 years with- array of issues and challenges that will months he has been here—couple of come before these important bodies. out a COLA increase, and I am com- weeks, a month, two—and he has been Whether it is my work on these com- mitted to finding a commonsense solu- all over the floor. It is fun to watch mittees or elsewhere, I am committed him. Somebody sits down that side, tion—a recalculation of the COLA for- to working hard and being the best this side, and all of a sudden Senator mula to make sure it reflects the re- Senator I can be for the State I love. JOE MANCHIN is seated right beside ality of the cost of living today. Like all 99 of my colleagues, who are To our seniors, Social Security and here for the right reasons, I will rep- him, grabbing an arm, making a point, Medicare are not just government pro- resent my State to the best of my establishing a friendship, bonding. grams, they are promises made by a abilities and work to make America That is the way he is with our people. thankful nation to ensure a quality of stronger and my State proud. I pledge He comes from the very heart of West life well earned from years of hard to you that I will not only work with Virginia—coal mining country—and work and sacrifice. each and every one of my fellow Sen- that is the way he acts. That is the For our veterans, their sacrifices and ators to find commonsense solutions, I way his father acted. It is the way his patriotism know no bounds. They have will do what I can to usher in a new bi- family has always acted. They are part answered the call of our State and this partisan spirit in the Senate and in and parcel of the blood, the beginning Nation again and again. They have this Congress. In that spirit, I will and the struggle of West Virginia. served with unparalleled honor and dis- strive to always find that common- One of the reasons I am in public tinction. As Governor, I was so proud sense bridge that unites our parties service is because West Virginia is al- and honored to have been commander- and reminds us and the world that we, ways fighting uphill. People don’t pay in-chief of the West Virginia National no matter what State we may rep- attention to us the way we think they Guard, the greatest guard in the Na- resent, share one common and un- should. They do not pay attention to tion. breakable bond—we are all Americans. what our economy has to offer the way West Virginia is one of the most pa- We all share a love for this Nation, for they should. That is what motivates triotic States in the country and we our families and for our children, and JOE MANCHIN. If you are a West Vir- are proud of the number of veterans it is this bond which will unite us in ginian, you simply have to fight hard- and active-duty members who have these difficult times and which gives er. If you are a West Virginia public served our military and served honor- me the hope and optimism that once servant, at whatever level, you have to ably and proudly. During this session again we will rise above any challenge fight harder and you have to have an of Congress, I am strongly committed we face. optimistic view. You have to believe to working with my colleagues on leg- Madam President, I yield the floor. things can work. You have to be deter- islation that will ensure our veterans Mr. UDALL of New Mexico. Madam mined things can work, and you have and their families have the best care President, I suggest the absence of a to see the course all the way to end. and benefits they deserve. That is why quorum. That is exactly who JOE MANCHIN is. I am so proud to be a cosponsor with The PRESIDING OFFICER. The I am incredibly proud to serve with the leader of this bill—Senator JAY clerk will call the roll. him. I read his speech before. He said

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We worked together in his days who we are. It is not always a pretty Senate family. I know she is here as Governor and certainly I look for- sight, but everybody here takes public today, so we welcome her and look for- ward to working with him as Senator. life seriously. Senator MANCHIN has the ward to learning from her as well. Our States share many interests. One problem—some would say the oppor- I join Governor Rockefeller in saying of those interests is coal. I want to ex- tunity, but not many—to have to be re- it was a great speech. Your maiden press my intent today to join as a co- elected again in 2 years. So life already speech is always your best speech. I re- sponsor on legislation regarding EPA is more complicated for him, because member walking with the University of regulation that Senator MANCHIN is that is the way the election system has Tennessee basketball coach in Knox- putting forward. That is a good exam- worked out. But he is a bright light, ville in the dogwood parade—or in ple where we can work together to cre- and a young, aggressive bright light some parade before the season started. ate jobs and opportunities. I certainly with an absolutely marvelous wife who He was very popular before the season look forward to doing that. is now part of us. began. And Senators who make maiden Again, I congratulate the good Sen- I think he has a unique perspective— speeches always have their best speech- ator on his speech today. it is a classic West Virginia perspec- es then, as basketball coaches always I yield the floor. tive—and I look forward to his making are most popular at the beginning of Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Madam Presi- an enormous difference in this body, to the year. dent, are we back in regular order? our State, and to our country. So I wel- But I look forward to working with f come him, and I congratulate him on Senator MANCHIN. He will make a tre- CONCLUSION OF MORNING his opening statement. mendous contribution to the Senate. I BUSINESS I made an opening statement some am glad I was here to hear his out- years ago. It was actually one of the standing address, and I thank the Sen- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Morning most boring speeches I ever listened to. ator from New York for his courtesy in business is closed. But those were the days when you letting me make my remarks. f weren’t allowed to make a speech until The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- FAA AIR TRANSPORTATION MOD- you had been here for 6 months, and ator from New York. ERNIZATION AND SAFETY IM- then everybody turned out. All the old Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, I PROVEMENT ACT—Continued too want to join in the accolades for guard—you know, such as the senior The PRESIDING OFFICER. S. 223 is our Senator from West Virginia, Sen- Senator from New York over there. the pending measure. The guys with gray beards, the wise old ator MANCHIN. He is one fine guy. I got Mr. ROCKEFELLER. I thank the men, would turn out, and they all to know him when he was Governor Chair. planted themselves around here and and then campaigning, and he is doing The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- listened to this incredibly boring a wonderful job here already. ator from Kentucky. speech of mine, which was all about a To have passion about where you AMENDMENT NO. 21 come from is noble. I think the great steel company because that is what I Mr. PAUL. Madam President, I ask poets from Greek times on have writ- happened to be working on at the time. unanimous consent to set aside the Russell Long stood up afterwards and ten that, and nobody has more passion pending amendments and call up said: that is the most brilliant speech I about where he comes from and his amendment No. 21. roots than Senator MANCHIN—JOE ever heard. But those were the days of The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there MANCHIN. You can see it and feel it in a certain type of protocol. Times are objection? Without objection, it is so everything he does, as we could in this much faster now. We have to react ordered. much faster. We don’t have time for speech today. So I too join in thanking The clerk will report the amendment. that. So Senator MANCHIN has made his him for coming here. America needs The assistant bill clerk read as fol- speech, but he goes from his speech to his perspective and his wisdom, and I lows: his work, and there he will simply not know he will make a great Senator. We The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. PAUL] stop until we get a better State and a are already great friends, and so I proposes an amendment numbered 21. better country. thank him. Mr. PAUL. I ask unanimous consent I congratulate him and I welcome I also compliment my colleague, the the reading of the amendment be dis- him officially and forever to the Sen- senior Senator from West Virginia as pensed with. ate. well, Senator ROCKEFELLER, for his The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- kind remarks. He is a great leader. JOE objection, it is so ordered. ator from Tennessee. and I have talked about how you can- The amendment is as follows: Mr. ALEXANDER. Madam President, not go wrong watching and imitating I will say that I join the Senator from (Purpose: To reduce the total amount au- and emulating Senator ROCKEFELLER. thorized to be appropriated for the Federal New York in welcoming another West With the two of them, I believe West Aviation Administration for fiscal year Virginia Governor to the Senate. Gov- Virginia might have the tallest delega- 2011 to the total amount authorized to be ernor Manchin succeeds a man who is tion in the Senate, not just tall in appropriated for the Administration for irreplaceable in the Senate’s history— inches but in stature, ability to get fiscal year 2008) Senator Byrd—but he brings to our things done, and passion for the State At the end of title I, add the following: Senate the skills of a Governor. Gov- they represent. It is my honor to be SEC. 108. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS ernor Rockefeller and I are very partial here as well and to congratulate JOE on FOR FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINIS- to those skills. We think the Senate TRATION AT FISCAL YEAR 2008 LEV- a very fine and introductory speech. ELS. needs more Governors. Governors are I yield the floor. Notwithstanding any other provision of, or accustomed to looking for consensus, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- amendment made by, this title, the total to making things work, to making ator from North Dakota. amount authorized to be appropriated by things happen. We have a different sort Mr. HOEVEN. Madam President, I this title to the Federal Aviation Adminis- of job here in the legislature, but those also rise today to congratulate the tration for fiscal year 2011 is $14,719,000,000. qualities are important, and especially Senator from West Virginia on his Mr. PAUL. Madam President, the important now when we have such speech and welcome him to the Senate amendment I have presented to the

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If we were to do that at the in- ask unanimous consent that amend- families, and their future. flated levels of 2010, we would add $3.8 ment No. 27, offered by the Senator Other Federal security employees trillion to the debt over the next 5 from Oregon, Mr. WYDEN, be added to also have these protections—the right years. It does nothing to the looming the list of pending amendments. to collective bargaining—including debt crisis to leave things at 2010 levels The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without Border Patrol agents, Capitol Police because these were levels where we had objection, it is so ordered. officers, Customs and Border inspec- already increased spending by over 20 The clerk will report the amendment. tion officers, and Federal Protective percent. The legislative clerk read as follows: Service officers. What I am asking is a very modest That is right. All these wonderful po- The Senator from West Virginia [Mr. proposal; that is, that all spending go licemen we see out here day after day, ROCKEFELLER], for Mr. WYDEN, proposes an back to the 2008 levels. This is not a amendment numbered 27. who are doing a hard job protecting us, significant cut. We have increased protecting all the people who work in The amendment is as follows: things dramatically in recent years. the Capitol and all these buildings FAA has been increased in funding by (Purpose: To increase the number of test around here, all our Capitol Police offi- 50 percent over the last 8 years. We can sites in the National Airspace System used cers—guess what—have the funda- for unmanned aerial vehicles and to re- fund the upgrading of NextGen and var- quire one of those test sites to include a mental right of being organized and ious things by looking for cost savings significant portion of public lands) collectively bargaining for their hours, within the bill. These are things we On page 96, lines 4 and 5, strike ‘‘at 4 test wages, and conditions of employment. must do. sites in the National Airspace System by Do we feel any less safe because of The American people are demanding 2012’’ and insert ‘‘by 2012 at 10 test sites in that? Of course not. cost savings. The American people do the National Airspace System, one of which Despite working side by side with not understand why we must pay in- shall include a significant portion of public these colleagues, transportation secu- flated rates for our wages for the work- lands (as defined in section 203 of the Public rity officers, TSOs, are denied the ers on Federal projects. They do not Lands Corps Act of 1993 (16 U.S.C. 1722))’’. rights these other employees enjoy. understand why Davis-Bacon wages, Mr. ROCKEFELLER. I suggest the They do not have a voice at work. They which were often 30 percent higher absence of a quorum. do not have statutory whistleblower than the wages paid on other projects, The PRESIDING OFFICER. The protections or the right to appeal if private projects, must be paid. People clerk will call the roll. they are subject to discrimination or are familiar with this even in their The legislative clerk proceeded to unfair treatment by their supervisors. home States when you talk about the call the roll. The absence of collective bargaining building of schools, how schools cost 20 Mr. HARKIN. I ask unanimous con- rights has made TSA less effective. Our and 30 percent more because of having sent that the order for the quorum call transportation security officers, TSOs, to have inflated wages and extra regu- be rescinded. have twice the average rate of injury lations, extra paperwork that the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without for Federal employees. A recent Best Davis-Bacon laws require. objection, it is so ordered. Places to Work survey ranked TSA 220 What we are looking for is cost sav- Mr. HARKIN. Mr. President, I rise to out of 224 Federal employers, and turn- ings everywhere—in this bill, in every discuss an alarming trend that seems over rates are among the highest for bill that comes forward. As long as I to be developing on this, the first sub- any Federal agency. Let me repeat am able to and as long as I am allowed, stantive legislation we are considering that. Turnover rates at TSA are among we will ask for spending reductions. in this new Congress. At least three the highest for any Federal agency. Many people in this city are for a amendments have been filed—one of I submit that low morale and high balanced budget. They say they are for which has already been offered, others turnover at a frontline security agency a balanced budget amendment. But expected to be offered shortly—that are a recipe for disaster, and Senator how can they be for a balanced budget make unnecessary and misplaced at- WICKER’s amendment will only exacer- amendment if they are not willing to tacks on basic rights and protections bate the problem and make it worse. I have heard some deeply disturbing cut spending? This is a very small, al- for American workers. rhetoric from my Republican col- most token cut in spending, but we I find it deeply disturbing that in leagues about the effects of granting have to do it everywhere. this difficult economy, some of my col- TSOs collective bargaining rights. When people ask how will you bal- leagues on the other side of the aisle ance the budget, you have to say I will They say collective bargaining rights seem to be chomping at the bit to bring keep security workers from performing cut spending. This is a very small first American workers down a notch or two step to take the spending for this par- their jobs effectively. Well, these in- more. I don’t think the safety of our sinuations are an insult to every man ticular department to 2008 levels. I skies has to come at the expense of fair think it is a step long overdue. It is a and woman in uniform who works wages, safe working conditions, and under a collective bargaining agree- chance for Members who say they are other basic workplace rights. I hope all for a balanced budget to put their vote ment across this country. To suggest Republicans in this Chamber don’t that unionized workers will not do where their mouth is. share that radical viewpoint. Let’s vote to cut spending. Let’s vote what is best for our country in the AMENDMENT NO. 14 to cut spending on this bill now. event of an emergency is scandalous. I yield the floor. The first amendment I will focus on How many remember that image of 9/ The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- today would deny transportation secu- 11—9/11—when we saw the towers come ator from Texas. rity officers basic collective bargaining crumbling down, and we saw men and Mrs. HUTCHISON. I suggest the ab- rights. That amendment was offered by women running to escape the disaster, sence of a quorum. my friend, the distinguished Senator running away from it? Who was run- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The from Mississippi. Well, that is fun- ning into it? Our firefighters, our emer- clerk will call the roll. damentally unfair and a poor way to gency medical teams, our police offi- The assistant bill clerk proceeded to treat hard-working people who are on cers—all of them unionized, members call the roll. the frontlines of our effort to keep of organized labor, operating under a Mr. ROCKEFELLER. I ask unani- America safe. collective bargaining agreement. mous consent that the order for the Currently, most Federal employees— Does anyone question their loyalty, quorum call be rescinded. including other employees at the De- their devotion to duty—many of whom

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We are saying somehow they are vided between Senators WHITEHOUSE build 20 to 30 percent more airports if less, they are less than others simply and HUTCHISON or their designees; that we don’t force union wages that are because they belong to a union? upon the use or yielding back of time, above the market wages on our govern- Also, on 9/11, Department of Defense the Senate proceed to vote in relation ment projects. employees, operating under a collec- to the Whitehouse amendment, to be I think it is inexcusable, at a time tive bargaining agreement, were re- followed by a vote in relation to the when we run a deficit of between $1.5 quired to report wherever they were Paul amendment; further, that there trillion and $2 trillion in a year, that told, regardless of their usual work as- be no amendments or points of order in we want to inflate the cost of govern- signments. No Federal union tried to order to the amendments prior to the ment projects. The marketplace should hold up this process in any way to bar- votes; and that the motions to recon- determine market wages, and we gain or seek arbitration, and not one sider be considered made and laid upon should have a marketplace that allows single grievance was filed to challenge the table, with no intervening action us to build more airports and more the redeployments after the fact—not or debate. schools. one. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without I think it is not a good idea to have Increasing employees’ voices at work objection, it is so ordered. the government get involved by forcing has the potential to improve the func- Mr. REID. That being the case, we wages above the market wage. If you tioning of our security systems. Think will have votes probably around 5:30, pass this and you allow an exemption about this: When you travel abroad, give or take a few minutes. Everyone from Davis-Bacon, you will save about you go through screening devices. Go should be alerted that there is likely to $500 million just in this department. If to London, go to Paris, go to Luxem- be some time yielded back. If that is you would allow this across govern- bourg, go to Rome, go to Tokyo, go to the case, we will begin voting sooner. ment, you would save $11 billion. Brisbane, go to Sydney, go anywhere The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- My point in bringing this up is that around the world where they have air- ator from Kentucky. this won’t balance the budget, but you port screeners and—guess what—they AMENDMENT NO. 19 have to start somewhere. Everybody all work under collective bargaining Mr. PAUL. Mr. President, I ask unan- says we have to do something, but no- agreements. The unions that represent imous consent to temporarily set aside body is willing to do anything that will these screeners have worked hand in the pending amendment so I may call reduce government expenditures. I hand with their governments to im- up my amendment, amendment No. 19, think this is one small step forward, prove security procedures and to make which is at the desk. and if you can’t vote for this one small our skies safer. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The step forward, you are not serious about Senator WICKER referenced a 2003 clerk will report. balancing the budget. That is why the memo from the Under Secretary of The assistant editor of the Daily Di- American people are unhappy with us Transportation for Security for the ra- gest read as follows: in Congress, because we won’t do any- tionale for his bill. Well, currently TSA thing, we won’t step forward, we will The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. PAUL] is reviewing that 2003 decision and is proposes an amendment numbered 19. not be bold, and we will not start cut- expected to make a determination soon ting spending. Mr. PAUL. I ask unanimous consent about the relationship between safety I recommend to the Senate that we that the reading of the amendment be and collective bargaining. I think we pass this amendment as one small step dispensed with. should defer to that agency’s expertise forward but an important step toward The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without on this issue rather than hastily ap- trying to get our fiscal house in order. objection, it is so ordered. proving an amendment that would I yield to Senator HUTCHISON. The amendment is as follows: limit the administration’s ability to Mrs. HUTCHISON. Mr. President, adapt. (Purpose: To limit the application of the how much time does Senator PAUL con- Collective bargaining, I believe, is Davis-Bacon Act in the case of projects trol? funded under this Act) the best way to bring dignity, consist- The PRESIDING OFFICER. There is On page l, between lines l and l, insert ency, and fairness to a workplace. It 121⁄2 minutes remaining. the following: will make our TSO workforce more Mrs. HUTCHISON. Mr. President, I safe and stable, enhancing the security SEC. ll. NONAPPLICATION OF DAVIS-BACON. want to withhold until the other side None of the funds made available under has had a chance to speak. Then I will of our skies. Restoring these essential this Act (or an amendment made by this rights is long overdue. I urge my col- Act) may be used to administer or enforce take part of Senator PAUL’s time. leagues to oppose the Wicker amend- the wage-rate requirements of subchapter IV The PRESIDING OFFICER. Who ment. of chapter 31 of part A of subtitle II of title yields time? I yield the floor. 40, United States Code (commonly referred Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum. to as the ‘‘Davis-Bacon Act’’) with respect to does the Senator from Iowa wish to The PRESIDING OFFICER. The any project or program funded under this speak? clerk will call the roll. Act (or amendment). Mr. HARKIN. Yes, I will. Mr. Presi- The assistant editor of the Daily Di- Mr. PAUL. Mr. President, the amend- dent, I assume the chairman of the gest proceeded to call the roll. ment I have offered to the FAA bill is committee yields me whatever time I Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- an amendment to exempt the FAA want to consume, and I am reserving imous consent that the order for the from the Davis-Bacon restrictions. some time also for the chairman. quorum call be rescinded. Most of us know, when we talk about Here we go again. It is not the first The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without schools being built in our district or in time we have had an attack on Davis- objection, it is so ordered. our neighborhood, the cost of schools Bacon. I am sure it will not be the last. Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- and anything built under Davis-Bacon Again, we have to get the facts out and imous consent that Senator PAUL be determines prevailing wages. This not be led astray by misconceptions recognized to call up amendment No. 19 means if you are a carpenter making and by lack of really good data. which deals with the Davis-Bacon usually $14 an hour in Bowling Green, The fact is that Davis-Bacon doesn’t issue; that there be 30 minutes of de- KY, the government comes in and says, just create good jobs, it saves govern- bate equally divided between Senators Well, you need to pay $35 an hour. It in- ment money in Federal construction PAUL and ROCKEFELLER or their des- flates the cost of building projects and costs. Again, my friend from Kentucky ignees; that upon the use or yielding it does us no good as a society. What has said this is going to cost more back of time, there be 10 minutes of de- happens is we build less schools, less money. Well, I would like to see the

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One of them, count the cost of living in that area. prevailing wage, higher productivity, for example, is it protects communities No one can argue that the cost of liv- and fewer safety problems. and employers by keeping the wage ing in New York is very different from We need Davis-Bacon so that our in- standards of low-wage areas from being the cost of living in Texas or West Vir- frastructure projects are built safely imported into high-wage areas, and ginia or Tennessee. We should not be for the hundreds of millions of Ameri- also the reverse. What do I mean by trying to change the norm in an area cans who rely on them, because con- that? Obviously, West Virginia has a by artificially inflating the costs, and tractors that pay prevailing wages hire very different wage level than New that is exactly what Davis-Bacon does. higher skilled and better trained work- York or Maryland or many parts of If we are going to hear the voice of ers, and they produce safer buildings, Virginia. They could come in and bid the people, who said last November: We airports, bridges, roads, and tunnels. on a contract and either bid very low are tired of business as usual in Wash- Senator PAUL’s amendment would un- and do a bad job or bid very high and ington and in Congress, we will pass dermine public safety by making it get it, for whatever reason. This pre- the Paul amendment because this is much easier for less responsible con- vents artificially inflating wages. the first step toward efficiency—to say tractors to build important public in- The inference was that it costs more that the projects going forward in this frastructure projects with shoddy con- to have Davis-Bacon. Some people bill will not be subject to Davis-Bacon; struction. don’t like Davis-Bacon, and I under- they will be subject to bidding on con- Congress has rejected attacks on stand that. But the law specifically re- tracts. And bidders do not necessarily Davis-Bacon before, going clear back quires that all workers must be paid no win because they have the lowest bid. to 1931. It should do so again. In the less than the prevailing wages and ben- The person who is doing the con- most recent vote in the Senate, in 2007, efits that are paid in similar projects tracting has the leeway to take into a bipartisan vote of Democrats and Re- in that area. So it attaches the Davis- account quality and the reputation of publicans voted against an amendment Bacon concept onto the regional local the builder. So it is not as if the lowest to strip Davis-Bacon protection from wage area. Virginia and Maryland are bidder gets every bid. It is a process funds to repair bridges. There has al- not far from West Virginia, so people that is orderly. But Davis-Bacon does ways been bipartisan support in this want contracts, and they are likely to inflate the cost. body for Davis-Bacon. In fact, we ought bid. I think the Paul amendment is an ex- to read history. Senator Davis and Since it was enacted, Davis-Bacon cellent one. I think it will show that Representative Bacon were both Re- has protected taxpayers and workers the people in this Senate got the mes- publicans. It was originally a Repub- from low-ball contractors who try to sage in November—that we don’t have lican bill. I hope my colleagues will compete. You know that song. We all to sit with a 1931 law that is no longer recognize the value of continuing to see it so much. They come in and bid a necessary because the protections are in place, and we need to build our tax- support fair wages in these difficult low price, and they get it, and there payer-funded facilities in the most effi- economic times. are all kinds of extra things added on— This is the wrong time to start pull- cost-plus. It doesn’t happen under this; cient way that saves taxpayer dollars. I support the Paul amendment and ing the rug out from underneath our it isn’t allowed. So the law effectively hope it will pass. construction workers. Our fair wages makes sure the taxpayers get their The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- that we have under Davis-Bacon are a money’s worth. As the Senator from ator from Tennessee. key component of middle-class secu- Iowa indicated, numerous studies indi- Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, I rity for working families. Now is the cate that projects built under Davis- congratulate the Senator from Ken- wrong time to be attacking these es- Bacon are more likely to be completed tucky. He is on the mark. Our prior- sential protections. on time, within budget, and with fewer ities are two: One, to make it easier Prevailing-wage laws, such as Davis- repair costs. and cheaper to create private sector Bacon, require that workers be paid So this is a very significant amend- jobs; two, to reduce the Federal debt. the prevailing local wages and benefits. ment. But it is not about bilking the The Paul amendment makes it easier These laws ensure that federally sup- taxpayers. It is protecting the tax- and cheaper to create private sector ported construction projects don’t un- payers. Davis-Bacon puts the contract jobs. Why? Because it permits more dermine local labor standards. By re- wages in line with what is prevailing contractors to hire more people to do moving these protections, Senator locally. That is the law. It makes sense more work at the lowest possible cost PAUL’s amendment would drive down to me. I strongly oppose the amend- to the taxpayer. wages, creating a dangerous race to the ment. Also, according to the General Ac- bottom. Again, that is the wrong ap- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- counting Office, it will help lower the proach to take in this troubled econ- ator from Texas is recognized. Federal debt. In fact, the GAO has rec- omy, the wrong approach to take for Mrs. HUTCHISON. Mr. President, I ommended changes to the Davis-Bacon worker safety, the wrong approach to rise to speak in favor of the Paul Act as a means for trimming the Fed- take for making sure what we build amendment. eral deficit. Leaving the law the way it with taxpayer money is built well, with The Davis-Bacon Act was passed in is, applying the Davis-Bacon law to well-trained, well-motivated, and well- 1931. We had a very different labor and construction projects all over the coun- paid workers. diversity of wages. There were not min- try, will mean fewer jobs, less con- We want a real recovery. These work- imum wages to the extent we have struction, higher taxes, and a higher ing families—construction workers today. Today, every State has a dif- Federal debt. who haul steel, pour concrete, build the ferent cost of living, different stand- Passing the Rand Paul amendment bridges and the walls and do all these ards of what kinds of construction re- will mean that we will make it easier things—build the infrastructure of our quirements there are, and thousands of and cheaper to create private sector country. We want to make sure they buildings in this country are built in jobs. Day after day in this Senate, we have good, family-supporting jobs, with the private sector very safely, very ef- should be acting on legislation that re- fair wages and decent benefits. That is ficiently. But when Davis-Bacon kicks members that in Tennessee, for exam- what Davis-Bacon is about. in, for a government program, it skews ple, we have had 24 straight months of I urge a defeat of the Paul amend- the entire wage scale of that commu- unemployment above 9 percent. ment. nity, causing an inflation to other I am glad to be a cosponsor of the I yield the floor. projects. Paul amendment because, in my State

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It is not a good efficient use of report: FRANKEN). Who yields time? your money. Glendale, CA, police Sgt. Steve Robertson Mrs. HUTCHISON. Mr. President, if I With regard to quality, to imply that remembers the first time he encountered a may, I ask the Senator from Kentucky you cannot have quality unless it is laser strike. He says his helicopter was hit if he is ready to yield back time and I union labor, unless it is prevailing by a powerful beam of green light one night ask the majority if they are ready to wage, completely ignores what goes on while he was on patrol. ‘‘It immediately [lit] yield back time on the Paul amend- in our economy; that is to say, the 90 up the whole cockpit and it hit both of my eyes and burned both of my corneas,’’ said ment. If so, we can move on to the percent of things that are made in our Whitehouse amendment. the veteran pilot. ‘‘Instantly, I was blinded. country that are nonunion and nonpre- It felt like I was hit in the face with a base- Mr. HARKIN. I say to my friend from vailing wage do not have quality. The ball bat—just an intense, burning pain.’’ Texas, I would like to have an addi- argument is specious. It has no sub- Robertson was momentarily incapacitated tional 2 minutes. stance. and would have crashed if his co-pilot hadn’t Mrs. HUTCHISON. I will reserve an What this is about is making a first been able to land the chopper. additional 2 minutes for Senator PAUL, step toward controlling our deficit. We Thankfully, he recovered from his in- and we can close this out. need to cut costs in government. If we juries. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- cannot do these little things—this I express my appreciation to both ator from Iowa. would save $500 million on this bill. It Senators BOXER and FEINSTEIN who are Mr. HARKIN. Mr. President, I heard is a small amount in Washington. It is cosponsors of this amendment. Clearly, my friend from Tennessee—and he is a large amount to us in Kentucky, to it is a major issue in California. I my friend—talk about how this will be individuals. It is a small amount, but it thank Senator MARK KIRK of Illinois cheaper, it would be cheaper to build is a first step toward saying we are who is the lead Republican cosponsor. things. The new Senator from Ken- going to be responsible as a Congress O’Hare Airport is one of the busiest tucky referred to that too. airports in the country. It had 98 of Sometimes cheapest is not always and say: Enough is enough; we cannot these events take place in 2010. the least expensive. Sometimes cheap- live with $2 trillion deficits each year. Senator DURBIN also of Illinois is a est can turn out to be the most expen- It is out of control. We are headed to- cosponsor as well. I express my appre- sive, depending upon the quality of the ward financial ruin, and this is one ciation to him. work, how long these projects are, and first step forward. I hope the rest of the Senate will sup- The House has passed a similar meas- whether they are done on time. ure. There is every reason to believe I have a friend in Iowa who happens port this amendment to exempt from that if we take this step we will be able to be one of the largest contractors in the FAA bill the considerations of to help defend our airspace from these the Midwest, if not in the entire coun- Davis-Bacon. attacks. Obviously, they are most dan- try. He has big earth-moving equip- I yield back the remainder of my gerous near airports when planes are ment. He is a huge contractor. He prob- time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is all taking off or landing or in low level ably does work in Tennessee, Ken- time yielded back on the pending flight, as police sergeant Steve Robert- tucky, Texas, and everyplace else. He told me once: I will only hire amendment? son was. union labor. I asked him why. He said: Mr. ROCKEFELLER. We yield back It has the support of the National As- Because they have a great apprentice- all time. sociation of Police Agencies and the ship and training program. Plus, he Mrs. HUTCHISON. Mr. President, I Pilots Association. said: I know I get well-trained workers ask for the yeas and nays on the Paul I hope very much that my colleagues on my construction jobs. amendment. will vote in favor of it and take this He said: I don’t mind Davis-Bacon be- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a simple step to protect our aircraft cause I get apprenticeship, I get train- sufficient second? travel from a new and emerging risk. ing, plus I get workers I don’t have to There is a sufficient second. Does the chairman wish to speak? I look over their shoulders all the time. The yeas and nays were ordered. yield back our time but for the 2 min- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- I get quality work done. utes to the chairman. He said: I didn’t get big by undercut- ator from West Virginia. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- ting everybody. I got big because I did Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, I ator from West Virginia. good work, and I got good quality. move to table the amendment. I ask for Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, He is able to go head to head with the yeas and nays on the motion to this is an enormously important nonunion contractors, and he has be- table. amendment. To be quite truthful, I come the largest contractor because of The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a think Senator WHITEHOUSE would have the quality of his work. sufficient second? been satisfied with just having it ac- That is why I say to my friend, some- There is a sufficient second. cepted by both sides, which it would times the cheapest is not always the The yeas and nays were ordered. have been. I said: Please bring it to a best in terms of the interest of the tax- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The vote. payers and of this country. amendment will be set aside. This is a national security threat. I yield back the remainder of my AMENDMENT NO. 8 The technology is going to get much time. There is now 10 minutes evenly di- better. He spoke about the pilot who The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- vided on the Whitehouse amendment. was temporarily blinded, whose cor- ator from Kentucky. Who yields time? neas were affected. As the technology Mr. PAUL. Mr. President, this The Senator from Rhode Island. increases, it is going to blind pilots amendment is not about quality. It is Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, I permanently. Maybe if they are accu- not about unions. It is about a Federal wish to speak to this amendment rate, they can get both the pilot and Government that is spending too much which makes it a Federal criminal of- the copilot. money, and it is about an enormous fense to target an aircraft with a laser. All of this will take place around air- debt we have. It is about starting The prevalence of this activity has ports where there is obviously room to somewhere. increased enormously. According to sight in on these people taking off and

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It is a very power- Cardin Lautenberg Shaheen made good progress on this bill. We are Carper Leahy ful vote because there will be a future working through the amendments. The Stabenow for terrorists in this business, so the Casey Levin staff has been doing yeomen’s work. Conrad Lieberman Tester Udall (CO) criminal penalties have to be estab- The Finance Committee is going to Coons Manchin Durbin McCaskill Udall (NM) lished. The Whitehouse amendment, meet on Tuesday to report out funding which I strongly support, does that. Feinstein Menendez Webb for this bill. They have a path forward Franken Merkley Whitehouse The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Sen- to do that. We need to keep the amend- Gillibrand Mikulski Wyden ator from Texas. ments relative to the Federal Aviation Hagan Murkowski Mrs. HUTCHISON. Mr. President, I Administration and that has been NAYS—42 support the Whitehouse amendment. It good. We have made, as I indicated, Alexander DeMint McConnell will add to the security of our aircraft progress. We have had some sub- Ayotte Ensign Moran Barrasso Enzi Paul flying. I urge my colleagues to support stantive amendments we worked on. it as well. Blunt Graham Portman We are voting on a couple here this Boozman Grassley Risch If time has been yielded back, I call evening and staff have worked on a Brown (MA) Hoeven Roberts for a vote. number that they can resolve. Burr Hutchison Rubio Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, I Chambliss Inhofe Sessions We are going to make more progress Coats Isakson Shelby ask for the yeas and nays. next week. We hope to complete action Cochran Johnson (WI) Snowe The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a early in the week of February 14. As in- Collins Kyl Thune sufficient second? Corker Lee Toomey dicated—it has been scheduled for a Cornyn Lugar Vitter There appears to be a sufficient sec- long period of time—the Democratic Crapo McCain Wicker ond. Senators have a retreat next week. We NOT VOTING—3 If all time is yielded back, the ques- are going to have votes Monday night Coburn Hatch Warner tion is on agreeing to amendment No. and Tuesday morning. Everyone can 8. The clerk will call the roll. count on that. But we believe, looking The motion was agreed to. The assistant legislative clerk called at the schedule tomorrow, we can ac- AMENDMENT NO. 6 the roll. complish just as much with having the The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senate in session tomorrow. The ma- pore. The Senator from Oklahoma is Senator from Virginia (Mr. WARNER) is jority will be here taking amendments recognized. necessarily absent. or doing whatever is necessary on this Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, I ask Mr. KYL. The following Senators are bill. If somebody wants to give a speech unanimous consent to set aside the necessarily absent: the Senator from on whatever their heart desires, they pending amendment for consideration Oklahoma (Mr. COBURN) and the Sen- will be able to do that tomorrow also. of Inhofe amendment No. 6. ator from Utah (Mr. HATCH). This next vote will be the last vote of The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there the week. pore. Is there objection? any other Senators in the Chamber de- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Re- Mr. KERRY. Reserving the right to object, I ask the indulgence of the Sen- siring to vote? publican leader. ator, before he engages in a discussion The result was announced—yeas 96, Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, we nays 1, as follows: are making good progress on this bill. of his amendment, if he would permit This bill is being handled as we have Senator MCCAIN and me to send to the [Rollcall Vote No. 10 Leg.] desk a resolution with respect to YEAS—96 been accustomed in the old days to handling bills in the Senate. I com- Egypt. We would both like to speak Akaka Feinstein Merkley mend the majority leader for that. We very briefly on it. Alexander Franken Mikulski Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, all I Ayotte Gillibrand Moran are going to be able to work our way want to do is get two amendments in Barrasso Graham Murkowski through it with amendments related to Baucus Grassley Murray the queue in 30 seconds. the subject from here on in and wrap it Begich Hagan Nelson (NE) Mr. KERRY. I have no objection. Bennet Harkin Nelson (FL) up, as he suggests, the week of Feb- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Bingaman Hoeven Portman ruary 14. pore. Without objection, it is so or- Blumenthal Hutchison Pryor The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Blunt Inhofe Reed dered. Boozman Inouye Reid question is on agreeing to the motion The clerk will report. Boxer Isakson Risch to table the amendment of the Senator The legislative clerk read as follows: Brown (MA) Johanns Roberts from Kentucky. The yeas and nays The Senator from Oklahoma [Mr. INHOFE] Brown (OH) Johnson (SD) Rockefeller have been ordered. Burr Johnson (WI) Rubio proposes an amendment numbered 6. Cantwell Kerry Sanders The clerk will call the roll. Mr. INHOFE. I ask unanimous con- Cardin Kirk Schumer The bill clerk called the roll. sent that reading of the amendment be Carper Klobuchar Sessions Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the dispensed with. Casey Kohl Shaheen Senator from Virginia (Mr. WARNER) is Chambliss Kyl Shelby The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Coats Landrieu Snowe necessarily absent. pore. Without objection, it is so or- Mr. KYL. The following Senators are Cochran Lautenberg Stabenow dered. Collins Leahy Tester necessarily absent: the Senator from The amendment is as follows: Conrad Lee Thune Oklahoma (Mr. COBURN) and the Sen- Coons Levin Toomey (Purpose: To provide liability protection to Corker Lieberman Udall (CO) ator from Utah (Mr. HATCH). volunteer pilot nonprofit organizations Cornyn Lugar Udall (NM) The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- that fly for public benefit and to the pilots Crapo Manchin Vitter pore. Are there any other Senators in and staff of such nonprofit organizations, DeMint McCain Webb the Chamber desiring to vote? and for other purposes) Durbin McCaskill Whitehouse Ensign McConnell Wicker The result was announced—yeas 55, At the end of title VII, insert the fol- Enzi Menendez Wyden nays 42, as follows: lowing:

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Without objection, it is so or- we call attention to the need at this (A) Many volunteer pilot nonprofit organi- dered. moment for the Government of Egypt zations fly for public benefit and provide val- The clerk will report. and for all the parties involved to take uable services to communities and individ- The legislative clerk read as follows: uals. every step possible to avoid violence, (B) In calendar year 2006, volunteer pilot The Senator from Oklahoma [Mr. INHOFE] to respect the rights of people to as- nonprofit organizations provided long-dis- proposes an amendment numbered 7. semble, to express their rights, to fight tance, no-cost transportation for more than Mr. INHOFE. I ask unanimous con- for and demonstrate for a transition in 58,000 people during times of special need. sent that reading of the amendment be their lives and in their country. (C) Such nonprofit organizations are no dispensed with. This is now a many-days-long dem- longer able to purchase non-owned aircraft The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- onstration, the longest in the history liability insurance to provide liability pro- pore. Without objection, it is so or- of Egypt. Hundreds have been killed, tection at a reasonable price, and therefore dered. face a highly detrimental liability risk. many thousands wounded. It is our (D) Such nonprofit organizations have sup- The amendment is as follows: hope—and we express this—that over ported the homeland security of the United (Purpose: To require the Administrator of the next days, responsible leadership States by providing volunteer pilot services the Federal Aviation Administration to will stand on all sides and work toward during times of national emergency. initiate a new rulemaking proceeding with a transition process that respects peo- (2) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section respect to the flight time limitations and ple’s rights and that builds a future is to promote the activities of volunteer rest requirements for supplemental oper- that meets the aspirations expressed so ations before any of such limitations or re- pilot nonprofit organizations that fly for passionately in the streets of cities all public benefit and to sustain the availability quirements may be altered) of the services that such nonprofit organiza- On page 230, between lines 7 and 8, insert across Egypt. We hope this process will tions provide, including the following: the following: respect the right of journalists to re- (A) Transportation at no cost to finan- SEC. 565. RESTRICTION ON ALTERATION OF port on the events in Egypt to the peo- cially needy medical patients for medical FLIGHT TIME LIMITATIONS AND ple of Egypt as well as the people of the treatment, evaluation, and diagnosis. REST REQUIREMENTS FOR SUPPLE- world who are watching. We ask the (B) Flights for humanitarian and chari- MENTAL OPERATIONS. leadership there to find a path by table purposes. (a) IN GENERAL.—The flight time limita- which they can transition to some kind (C) Other flights of compassion. tions and rest requirements for supplemental operations under subpart S of part 121 of of interim government over these next (c) LIABILITY PROTECTION FOR VOLUNTEER title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (as in days that will build toward elections PILOT NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS THAT FLY effect on the day before the date of the en- that can be free and fair and set an ex- FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT AND TO PILOTS AND actment of this Act), shall remain in effect ample for how any country in this kind STAFF OF SUCH NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS.— unless and until the Administrator of the Section 4 of the Volunteer Protection Act of of crisis can deal with it and, most im- Federal Aviation Administration issues a portantly, meet the aspirations of their 1997 (42 U.S.C. 14503) is amended— final rule in a rulemaking proceeding de- (1) in subsection (a)(4)— people. scribed in subsection (b). I am privileged to join with Senator (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (b) RULEMAKING PROCEEDING DESCRIBED.—A (B) as clauses (i) and (ii), respectively; rulemaking proceeding described in this sub- MCCAIN, Senator GRAHAM, and others (B) by striking ‘‘the harm’’ and inserting section is a rulemaking proceeding— in an effort to try to send this message ‘‘(A) except in the case of subparagraph (B), (1) with respect to modernizing the flight from the Senate about our deep con- the harm’’; time limitations and rest requirements only cern over the violence and our hopes (C) in subparagraph (A)(ii), as redesignated with respect to supplemental operations and prayers that in the next hours and by this paragraph, by striking the period at under subpart S of part 121 of title 14, Code the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and days responsible leadership will step up of Federal Regulations; and and do what is right. (D) by adding at the end the following: (2) that is not a part of, or otherwise con- ‘‘(B) the volunteer— I yield the floor. nected to, the rulemaking proceeding under The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- ‘‘(i) was operating an aircraft in further- Docket No. FAA–2009–1093, as described in ance of the purpose of a volunteer pilot non- the notice of proposed rulemaking published pore. The Senator from Arizona. profit organization that flies for public ben- in the Federal Register on September 14, 2010 Mr. MCCAIN. Mr. President, on be- efit; and (75 Fed. Reg. 55852). half of Senator KERRY, the distin- ‘‘(ii) was properly licensed and insured for (c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in guished chairman of the Foreign Rela- the operation of such aircraft.’’; and this section requires the Administrator of tions Committee, myself, and others, (2) in subsection (c)— the Federal Aviation Administration to con- we will send this resolution to the (A) by striking ‘‘Nothing in this section’’ duct a rulemaking proceeding with respect and inserting the following: desk. I will send it after I finish my re- to the flight time limitations and rest re- marks. We will not be seeking a vote at ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in quirements for supplemental operations paragraph (2), nothing in this section’’; and under subpart S of part 121 of title 14, Code this time because we are hotlining the (B) by adding at the end the following: of Federal Regulations, if the Administrator resolution. ‘‘(2) EXCEPTION.—A volunteer pilot non- determines that the flight time limitations This is a seminal moment in the his- profit organization that flies for public ben- and rest requirements under that subpart (as tory of the Middle East and the world. efit, the staff, mission coordinators, officers, in effect on the day before the date of the en- We are seeing an uprising and a move- and directors (whether volunteer or other- actment of this Act) are sufficient to ensure ment that spread across the entire wise) of such nonprofit organization, and a the safety of supplemental operations. referring agency of such nonprofit organiza- Middle East. Egypt is the heart and tion shall not be liable for harm caused to Mr. INHOFE. I yield the floor. soul of the Arab world. What we have any person by a volunteer of such nonprofit The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- been watching unfold in the last week organization while such volunteer— pore. The Senator from Massachusetts. has grieved and concerned all of us. ‘‘(A) is operating an aircraft in furtherance EGYPT There is every possibility that this cri- of the purpose of such nonprofit organiza- Mr. KERRY. Mr. President, I will not sis lurches into a genuine massacre. We tion; send the resolution to the desk. It is cannot afford that. We must do every- ‘‘(B) is properly licensed for the operation currently being hotlined in both of- thing in our power to see that it stops. of such aircraft; and ‘‘(C) has certified to such nonprofit organi- fices. It may actually be dealt with in Our resolution urges the Egyptian zation that such volunteer has insurance a short period in wrap-up. Senator military to demonstrate maximum covering the volunteer’s operation of such MCCAIN and I wish to speak briefly to professionalism and restraint and em- aircraft.’’. this resolution. phasizes the importance of working to

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peacefully restore common order, while MCCAIN said it well: To the Army, I gether on this resolution. A lot of peo- allowing for free and nonviolent free- doubt if they are watching C–SPAN, ple try to bring us apart in this institu- dom of expression. We do not want the but they have a chance to bring order tion. But they were counted here today Egyptian military to encourage thugs. out of chaos and to continue to have with one voice. I was in Vietnam with We do not want the Egyptian military respect throughout the world and with- Senator MCCAIN. I couldn’t get over all to be a party to increased violence. in the borders of Egypt. Do not let this the people who came up to him and We are concerned about an interim opportunity pass. An interim govern- still talked about the work he and Sen- government. That interim government ment should be formed quickly, as this ator KERRY had done together, with must be representative of all demo- resolution urges. When it comes to the POWs and other issues, how they had cratic forces within Egypt. In the reso- Egyptian people, I have faith that the gone to Vietnam together. Well, once lution, we call on President Mubarak young women who are risking life and again, they have come together at a to immediately begin an orderly and limb in the square tonight and tomor- time of great crisis to have the Senate peaceful transition to a democratic po- row are not doing so to be required to tell the people of Egypt that we are litical system, including the transfer of wear a burqa in the future. I have faith there with them and we are behind power to an inclusive interim care- that the young men who are risking them. taker government in coordination with life and limb tonight and tomorrow Mr. President, I yield the floor. leaders from Egypt’s opposition, civil would not want such a fate for their The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- society, and the military. daughters and their wives. I have great pore. The Senator from Hawaii is rec- Again, I emphasize, I know my col- respect for Islam. Radical Islam, simi- ognized. leagues know, the Egyptian military is lar to any other form of radical reli- AMENDMENT NO. 14 the most respected institution in gion, is a threat to all we hold dear. Mr. AKAKA. Mr. President, I rise Egypt. They risk turning the people of The Egyptian people have a chance to today to strongly oppose Senator Egypt against them unless they act as chart a new way for the future of the WICKER’s amendment to prevent Trans- a genuine peacemaker in Egypt. Arab world and the world at large. This portation Security Administration em- I have been involved in Middle East- resolution is a statement of principle ployees from being able to collectively ern affairs for many years. I have trav- by the Senate that we stand with you bargain. There is no need for the Senate to eled many times to the region. What is and all those who believe in tolerance use valuable time considering this happening is a seminal event. How it and the dignity of mankind. issue right now. Congress gave the Ad- turns out will affect the future of the This statement is bipartisan. It is ministrator of TSA the authority to 21st century. If Egypt turns to radical well thought out. I think it reflects determine if and how collective bar- Islamic extremism and other countries where the American people want to be gaining should take place in the Air as well, it poses not only a threat to in relation to Egypt. Transportation Security Act, which es- America’s national security but to the To those in Congress who want to act tablished TSA in the wake of the at- well-being of tens or hundreds of mil- quickly about defunding our relation- tacks of September 11. lions of people who have the God-given ship with Egypt, please consider the Administrator Pistole, who has a right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of consequences of such action. Give the strong national security background, is happiness as we guarantee to all peo- Egyptian people a chance to work this evaluating this issue in detail and I be- ple. out. Give the Army a chance to bring lieve we should let him complete his I thank Senator KERRY again. We are order out of chaos. It is in our national review. sending a message from the Senate security interest that we have a stable Although I believe Administrator that I am sure the overwhelming ma- Egypt. The army is the most respected Pistole should be given time to make jority of my colleagues will agree with: institution. the decision on granting collective bar- Stop the bloodletting. Let’s start a Mr. MCCAIN. Will the Senator yield? gaining rights to TSA employees, I peaceful transition to a free and open Mr. GRAHAM. Yes. want to address the arguments some society and a government that can re- Mr. MCCAIN. Isn’t it time to urge de- are making in opposing TSA workers’ gain and hold the trust of the people of mocracy and freedom and not the time rights. Egypt. This is a seminal moment and to threaten? There is plenty of time to I believe giving TSA employees a one that I believe the future of peace in threaten the Government and people of greater voice in the workplace would the world will be relied upon. Egypt with reprisal. The time now is to be good for security. TSA suffers from I thank my colleagues. We look for- urge democracy and freedom. low morale, high attrition, and high in- ward to further discussion. We wanted Mr. GRAHAM. Well said. It is now jury rates. to bring this up now. It is very impor- time for the United States to say what National security is jeopardized when tant, since tomorrow could be a very we are for and urge the Egyptian peo- agencies charged with protecting our critical day in the history of the Egyp- ple to realize their hopes and dreams safety continually lose trained and tal- tian people’s struggle for independence and that we want to be their partner. ented employees due to workplace inju- and freedom. Now is not the time to sever the part- ries and a lack of employee protec- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- nership. Now is the time to stand by a tions. pore. The Senator from South Caro- future partnership that would be bene- Moreover, the vast majority of Fed- lina. ficial to both countries. This resolution eral employees have collective bar- Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, I con- is a statement of principle that I hope gaining rights. This includes other em- gratulate and compliment my col- the Egyptian people will see as an ac- ployees of the Department of Homeland leagues from Massachusetts and Ari- knowledgment by the Senate that we Security performing similar security zona. This resolution represents the are with them when it comes to their functions, such as Border Patrol best of the Senate. We have two people best hopes and dreams. agents, Federal Protective Service offi- who are very well versed in the ways of The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- cers, and Immigration and Customs the world and understand America and pore. The Senator from Minnesota. Enforcement officers. what we stand for. They have crafted a Ms. KLOBUCHAR. I also ask unani- In addition, there currently are some document I would like to cosponsor. mous consent to be added as a cospon- private airport screeners with full col- I ask unanimous consent that I be sor of the resolution. lective bargaining rights. Airport secu- added as a cosponsor. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- rity is handled by contract screeners in The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- pore. Without objection, it is so or- a handful of airports, including some pore. Without objection, it is so or- dered. large ones. These contract employees dered. Ms. KLOBUCHAR. I also commend have full collective bargaining rights. Mr. GRAHAM. Tomorrow is a big day these two great leaders, Senator KERRY Ironically, some have recently been ar- for the future of Egypt. Senator and Senator MCCAIN, for coming to- guing for contracting security at more

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Mr. President, I federalized airport security, but if certification and flight standards for mili- ask unanimous consent that the Sen- there are any benefits where security is tary remotely piloted aerial systems in the ate proceed to a period of morning National Airspace System) contracted, perhaps it is because the business, with Senators permitted to Beginning on page 96, strike line 9 and all screeners are unionized, not because speak for up to 10 minutes each. they are privatized. that follows through page 97, line 8, and in- sert the following: The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Proponents of collective bargaining pore. Without objection, it is so or- restrictions say they are necessary so (3) establishes a process to develop— (A) air traffic requirements for all un- dered. that TSA has the flexibility to respond manned aerial systems at the test sites; and f to emergencies. That is simply not (B) certification and flight standards for true. Under Federal law, agencies are nonmilitary unmanned aerial systems at the REMEMBERING EDDIE ESCOBEDO provided authority to take any actions test sites; Mr. REID. Mr. President, I extend my they deem necessary to carry out their (4) dedicates funding for unmanned aerial condolences to the family of my good missions during an emergency. Grant- systems research and development relating friend Mr. Eddie Escobedo, who passed ing collective bargaining rights would to— (A) air traffic requirements; and away in Las Vegas, NV, on October 15, not in any way hinder TSA’s flexibility 2010. He was 77 years old. to transfer employees in the event of a (B) certification and flight standards for nonmilitary unmanned aerial systems in the Eddie left behind his loving wife of 50 national emergency. years, Don˜ a Marı´a Escobedo, his chil- Moreover, under civil service laws, National Airspace System; (5) encourages leveraging and coordination dren, Eddie, Jr., Hilda, Nicolas, Victor, TSA employees, as other Federal em- of such research and development activities and nine grandchildren. His passing ployees, would be prohibited from with the National Aeronautics and Space Ad- leaves an empty place in the lives of striking if they are granted collective ministration and the Department of Defense; bargaining rights. those who knew and loved him, but it (6) uniquely addresses the requirements of also leaves an enormous void in the We all remember the heroic first re- military and nonmilitary unmanned aerial sponders who rushed into the World system operations; Las Vegas community. Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sep- (7) ensures the unmanned aircraft systems Eddie was best known as the pub- tember 11, 2001. I vividly recall the Cap- integration plan is incorporated in the Ad- lisher of the Spanish-language El itol Police officers working frantically ministration’s NextGen Air Transportation Mundo newspaper and a strong advo- to protect our safety when it appeared System implementation plan; and cate for the Hispanic community. He the fourth plane could strike the Cap- (8) provides for integration into the Na- arrived in southern Nevada when ap- tional Airspace System of safety standards itol. These were unionized workers. proximately 60,000 people lived in the and navigation procedures validated— Las Vegas Valley. His assertive leader- Like the heroes of 9/11, the brave men (A) under the pilot project created pursu- and women of TSA have dedicated ant to paragraph (1); or ship drew attention to the issues that themselves to protect our security. (B) through other related research and de- pertain specifically to the Latino com- There is absolutely no basis for the Re- velopment activities carried out pursuant to munity, paving the way for hundreds of publicans to argue that TSA employees paragraph (4). thousands of them who now reside in would invoke union contract restric- (b) TEST SITE CRITERIA.—The Adminis- Nevada. tions rather than rise to the occasion trator shall take into consideration geo- Eddie was born in Juarez, Mexico, in graphical and climate diversity in deter- 1932, and as a teenager immigrated to in an emergency. mining where the test sites to be established I urge all Senators to protect TSA under the pilot project required by sub- the United States. He recognized early employees’ opportunity to have a voice section (a)(1) are to be located. on that in America he would have the in their workforce by opposing the (c) CERTIFICATION AND FLIGHT STANDARDS opportunity to accomplish his dreams. Wicker amendment. FOR MILITARY UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS.— He enlisted in the Air Force and earned Mr. President, I yield back my time. The Secretary of Defense shall establish a his citizenship after serving with dis- I suggest the absence of a quorum. process to develop certification and flight tinction. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- standards for military unmanned aerial sys- Several years ago I received a call pore. The clerk will call the roll. tems at the test sites referred to in sub- section (a)(1). from my friend Eddie to invite me to The legislative clerk proceeded to Christmas in the Barrio, where he call the roll. f would help give toys to needy children. Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, I VOTE EXPLANATION Seeing those little faces glow because ask unanimous consent that the order Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I was they would have a little bit of Christ- for the quorum call be rescinded. mas even though their families were The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- unable to vote today because of a fam- struggling is a memory that I keep pore. Without objection, it is so or- ily emergency. I want to be clear that very fondly. Eddie’s actions that day dered. if I were present in the Chamber, I would have voted in favor of Senator crystallized who he was in this commu- AMENDMENT NO. 32 SHELDON WHITEHOUSE’s amendment No. nity, and it reinforced my commitment Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, I 8 to provide penalties for pointing laser to public service. ask unanimous consent to set aside the pointers at airplanes. Instances of this Eddie spread democracy through his pending amendment to call up, on be- dangerous practice doubled last year, incisive columns published in his news- half of Senator ENSIGN, Ensign amend- and I believe we need to take the paper, which often became the voice of ment No. 32. the Latino community in Las Vegas. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- strong actions necessary to protect our His columns also inspired his 175,000 pore. Without objection, it is so or- flight crews and the flying public from weekly readers to become active in the dered. dangers such as this. The clerk will report. I also would have voted in support of community and to exercise their right The legislative clerk read as follows: the motion to table Senator RAND to vote. The Senator from West Virginia [Mr. PAUL’s amendment No. 19 to prohibit Eddie Escobedo’s dedication to Ne- ROCKEFELLER], for Mr. ENSIGN, Mr. CONRAD, any funds made available by the FAA vada changed the community that he and Mr. HOEVEN, proposes an amendment Reauthorization Act to be used to ad- loved and fought for. He will be missed. numbered 32. minister or enforce wage-rate require- His legacy and big heart will live on Mr. ROCKEFELLER. I ask unani- ments with respect to any project or through his publication—El Mundo mous consent that the reading of the program funded under the bill. I will Newspaper—as it continues to play a amendment be dispensed with. continue to work with my colleagues vital role in the lives of Hispanics The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- on both sides of the aisle to protect throughout Nevada by conveying the pore. Without objection, it is so or- American workers, especially in these challenges and experiences Latino fam- dered. tough economic times. ilies face on a daily basis.

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I will cheer Flozell tors from across the Nation each year throughout the State and to certify Adams of Michigan State University; who have the opportunity to experi- over 525 farms and processors to the Charlie Batch and T.J. Lang of Eastern ence the splendor and excitement these USDA national organic program stand- Michigan University; Larry Foote, natural resources provide for our state. ards. They are passionate about in- LaMarr Woodley and Charles Woodson That is why I am so thrilled to ac- creasing the acreage of certified or- of the University of Michigan; Greg knowledge the work of the Missouri ganic land in Vermont, while also in- Jennings of Western Michigan Univer- River Relief program. creasing access to local organic food by sity; and Nick McDonald of Grand Val- Founded in 2001, Missouri River Re- all Vermonters. The entirety of their ley State University. lief began with just a few Missouri programs strives to meet these goals, But what is perhaps most extraor- River enthusiasts dedicated to cleaning whether it involves working with dinary is the fact that four of the play- up our State waters. Ten years later, schools to bring local foods into the ers on the field this Sunday will come 12,000 Missourians have joined their cafeteria, or providing business plan- from a single Michigan institution, communities in fighting for this cause, ning services to farmers to ensure their Central Michigan University. As re- removing over 1 million pounds of businesses stay viable. ported by the Morning Sun of Mount trash and debris, making our waters With a vision that consists of small Pleasant, CMU’s hometown paper, only safer for all to enjoy. In 2010 alone, farms and agriculturally based busi- three other schools—Louisiana State, over 1,100 student and teacher volun- nesses that are improving the ecology Ohio State and Tennessee—will have as teers helped clean over 70 miles of of Vermont foodscapes, where organic many players on the field, and none river. farms and gardens supply food to all will have more. Missouri River Relief has contributed members of their communities and The four CMU players—Steelers re- to promoting river education through- where everyone knows their farmers, I ceiver Antonio Brown and Packers cor- out the State. By sponsoring rec- see NOFA-VT as an exemplary national nerback Josh Gordy, linebacker Frank reational activities and festivals that leader for the USDA campaign ‘‘Know Zombo and defensive tackle Cullen incorporate the arts alongside river your Farmer, Know your Food.’’ Jenkins—each enjoyed stellar careers education, this organization has made Executive director, Enid Wonnacott, for the Chippewas. Brown, Gordy and it their mission to teach Missouri fami- has led this exceptional organization Zombo all played on multiple Mid- lies about our local rivers and how the for the past 30 years. She and her dedi- American Conference championship rivers contribute to our environment. cated team offer technical assistance teams. The presence of these four play- This project has received an out- and revolving loan funds; and supply ers shows that it’s not the size or the pouring of State and corporate spon- information on energy management, fame of the football program, but the sorships that have made this growing apprenticeships, and educational and effort and determination of its people, cause a reality. Neighboring States electronic resources. They have built that bring success. have also included their support, clean- direct markets between farmers and That is true not just in athletics, but ing up almost 400 miles of the Missouri consumers through the VT Farmers academics as well. CMU is ranked River. The trash gathered from these Market Association and have sponsored among the Nation’s top 20 research in- clean ups have included recyclable and outstanding conferences yearly. This stitutions with 16 or fewer doctoral environmental friendly particles that year they expect more than 1,500 farm- programs. It offers groundbreaking have been turned into useful resources. ers to attend their winter conference, programs in fields such as athletic Working to preserve one of our coun- which is extremely well-run, worth- training and public relations. Its re- try’s most affluent and beautiful riv- while, and fun. They provide knowl- search efforts are helping the Depart- ers, this organization deserves our edgeable speakers, workshops brim- ment of Defense develop water filtra- gratitude and commemoration. Mis- ming with information and healthy at- tion technology to protect service- souri River Relief is committed to titudes for the 21st century of farming. members from harm, and helping de- water safety and education and its Finally, I have been very impressed velop new treatments for Parkinson’s service to the community stands as an with their commitment to Vermont’s disease. CMU’s efforts to educate the inspiration to all Missourians and a future and our children as NOFA-VT next generation and conduct research strong signal of our State’s continued has been a significant partner in the that improves lives embody the growth and success. advancement of the Vermont Food and school’s motto, ‘‘Sapientia, Virtus, Mr. President, I ask that the Senate Farm Education program, FEED. This Amicitia’’—wisdom, virtue, friendship. join me in recognizing the 10th anni- critical program provides schools, So Sunday’s game will be a great re- versary of the Missouri River Relief.∑ farmers, food service directors, and minder to all who are watching of what f community partners with technical as- Central Michigan University and its sistance, training, and professional de- NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING velopment to advance student achieve- students have accomplished. And in ad- ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT dition to cheers for the Packers and ment, improve childhood nutrition, and ∑ Mr. SANDERS. Mr. President, today Steelers, I hope we will hear a few cries create community-based farm to I honor the Northeast Organic Farming of ‘‘Fire Up, Chips!’’ school programs. It is through pro- Association of Vermont. NOFA grams such as these that children are f Vermont is a nonprofit association of able to connect with the farm in their ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS farmers, gardeners, and consumers community, understand where their working to promote an economically food comes from, and have the oppor- viable and ecologically sound Vermont tunity to eat local healthy food in MISSOURI RIVER RELIEF food system for the benefit of current their school meal programs. ∑ Mrs. MCCASKILL. Mr. President, I and future generations. This year it I offer my sincerest congratulations ask the Senate to join me in honoring celebrates its 40th anniversary of help- to NOFA-VT on the occasion of their the 10th anniversary of Missouri River ing farms thrive, making locally grown 40th anniversary of service to our great Relief and their dedication to pre- and organic foods available to all, and State of Vermont and wish them many serving Missouri rivers. increasing consumer access at farmers more years of continued success.∑

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:29 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00043 Fmt 0686 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\S03FE1.001 S03FE1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD February 3, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 1219 RECOGNIZING NORTH EAST for their inventiveness, and wish them Eligibility’’ ((44 CFR Part 64)(Docket No. WIPERS much success in the future.∑ FEMA–2011–0002)) received in the Office of ∑ the President of the Senate on February 2, Ms. SNOWE. Mr. President, America f 2011; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, is home to millions of innovative and MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT and Urban Affairs. forward-thinking small businesses, EC–418. A communication from the Chief of which is critical to our future. And, as Messages from the President of the Staff, Media Bureau, Federal Communica- President Obama said in this State of United States were communicated to tions Commission, transmitting, pursuant to the Union Address, ‘‘We need to out-in- the Senate by Mrs. Neiman, one of his law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Television novate the . . . rest of the world’’ to secretaries. Broadcasting Services; Huntsville, AL’’ (MB maintain our position of global eco- Docket No. 08–194, DA 11–27) received in the f Office of the President of the Senate on Feb- nomic power. As such, I rise today to EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED ruary 1, 2011; to the Committee on Com- recognize a small company from my merce, Science, and Transportation. home State of Maine that represents a As in executive session the Presiding EC–419. A communication from the Chief of shining example of America’s inge- Officer laid before the Senate messages Staff, Wireline Competition Bureau, Federal nuity and innovative spirit. from the President of the United Communications Commission, transmitting, North East Wipers got its start a lit- States submitting sundry nominations pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled tle over a year ago after a conversation which were referred to the appropriate ‘‘Preserving the Open Internet; Broadband between two long-time friends. Gerard committees. Industry Practices’’ ((FCC 10–201)(GN Docket Dubois, the owner of Pioneer Transport (The nominations received today are No. 09–191)) received in the Office of the in Waterville, told his friend Ray Law- President of the Senate on February 2, 2011; printed at the end of the Senate pro- to the Committee on Commerce, Science, rence, a machinist with 25 years experi- ceedings.) and Transportation. ence, about an idea to create mini f EC–420. A communication from the Acting wiper blades that can be affixed to Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, De- rearview mirrors on big rig trucks, so MEASURES DISCHARGED partment of Commerce, transmitting, pursu- that the driver would not have to stop The following bill was discharged ant to law, the report of a rule entitled every few minutes during inclement from the Committee on Rules and Ad- ‘‘Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Sculpins, Sharks, Squid, and Oc- weather to clear off snow or remove ministration, and referred as indicated: dirt and salt. Not only was this a com- topus in the Gulf of Alaska’’ (RIN0648–XA156) S. 126. A bill to reduce the amount of fi- received in the Office of the President of the monsense idea, it was a matter of safe- nancial assistance provided to the Govern- Senate on February 2, 2011; to the Com- ty for truckers who are often forced to ment of Mexico in response to the illegal mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor- drive in unforgiving weather conditions border crossings from Mexico into the United tation. to deliver timely goods on which the States, which serve to dissipate the political EC–421. A communication from the Attor- American people rely. discontent with the higher unemployment ney, U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Home- As a result of the conversation, Ray rate within Mexico; to the Committee on land Security, transmitting, pursuant to and Gerard gathered $10,000 in startup Foreign Relations. law, the report of a rule entitled ‘‘Passenger costs and set to work on creating a The following bill was discharged Weight and Inspected Vessel Stability Re- number of prototypes. They eventually from the Committee on Finance, and quirements’’ ((RIN1625–AB20)(Docket No. referred as indicated: USCG–2007–0030)) received in the Office of the coalesced around a simple yet durable President of the Senate on February 2, 2011; model that attaches to mirror mounts S. 109. A bill to amend the Atomic Energy to the Committee on Commerce, Science, without using electrical or motorized Act of 1954 to require congressional approval and Transportation. parts that cannot clog or freeze. Once of agreements for peaceful nuclear coopera- EC–422. A communication from the Chair- affixed to the mirror, all the driver has tion with foreign countries, and for other man of the Council of the District of Colum- to do is push a button for the wipers to purposes; to the Committee on Foreign Rela- bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report tions. work. Even more appealing is that the on D.C. Act 18–651 ‘‘Closing and Dedication of system costs $500, roughly the amount f Portions of a Public Alley in Square 5260, S.O. 10–13494, Act of 2010’’; to the Committee it costs to fill a tractor trailer with MEASURES READ THE FIRST TIME on Homeland Security and Governmental Af- diesel fuel. fairs. While originally designed for logging The following bills were read the first time: EC–423. A communication from the Chair- trucks facing difficult conditions on man of the Council of the District of Colum- roads across Maine and other snow- S. 289. A bill to extend expiring provisions bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report plagued States, Gerard Dubois and Ray of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Re- on D.C. Act 18–652 ‘‘Corrupt Election Prac- authorization Act of 2005, the Intelligence Lawrence are seeking to make their in- tices Amendment Act of 2010’’; to the Com- Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- vention available to other major com- 2004, and the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 mercial vehicles on the road. Recog- mental Affairs. until December 31, 2013, and for other pur- EC–424. A communication from the Chair- nizing the merits of North East Wipers’ poses. man of the Council of the District of Colum- product, the Maine Technology Insti- S. 290. A bill to extend the sunset of cer- bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report tute recently announced it will be pro- tain provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, on D.C. Act 18–653 ‘‘Sustainability Energy viding the company with a seed grant and for other purposes. Utility Amendment Act of 2010’’; to the Com- to support further development and S. 291. A bill to repeal the sunset provi- mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- sions in the USA PATRIOT Improvement commercialization of the wiper blades. mental Affairs. and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and other re- EC–425. A communication from the Chair- Such capital is critical for the success lated provisions and permanently reauthor- of a project like this, and it recognizes man of the Council of the District of Colum- ize the USA PATRIOT Act. bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report the value and practicality of this f on D.C. Act 18–654 ‘‘Thelma Jones Way Des- unique invention. Gerard and Ray’s ul- ignation Act of 2010’’; to the Committee on timate goal is to work with a truck EXECUTIVE AND OTHER Homeland Security and Governmental Af- manufacturer on making the wipers COMMUNICATIONS fairs. standard equipment for its big rigs. The following communications were EC–426. A communication from the Chair- Maine is home to scores of laid before the Senate, together with man of the Council of the District of Colum- groundbreaking entrepreneurs and cre- bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report accompanying papers, reports, and doc- on D.C. Act 18–655 ‘‘Closing of Public Streets, ative thinkers, and clearly Gerard uments, and were referred as indicated: Dubois and Ray Lawrence fit that bill. Dedication of Land for Street Purposes, and EC–417. A communication from the Chief the Elimination of Highway Plan Encum- I am extremely proud of the ingenuity Counsel, Federal Emergency Management brances, in and abutting Squares 3655, 3656, they have demonstrated and the dedi- Agency, Department of Homeland Security, and 3657, S.O. 09–10589, Act of 2010’’; to the cation they have shown in making transmitting, pursuant to law, the report of Committee on Homeland Security and Gov- their product a reality. I thank them a rule entitled ‘‘Suspension of Community ernmental Affairs.

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Act 18–690 ‘‘Not-for-Profit Hospital By Mr. LEAHY for the Committee on the on Homeland Security and Governmental Af- Corporation Personnel Administration Tem- Judiciary. fairs. porary Amendment Act of 2010’’; to the Com- James E. Graves, Jr., of Mississippi, to be EC–428. A communication from the Chair- mittee on Homeland Security and Govern- United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth man of the Council of the District of Colum- mental Affairs. Circuit. bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report EC–440. A communication from the Chair- Amy Totenberg, of Georgia, to be United on D.C. Act 18–679 ‘‘Prohibition on Govern- man of the Council of the District of Colum- States District Judge for the Northern Dis- ment Employee Engagement in Political Ac- bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report trict of Georgia. tivity Act of 2010’’; to the Committee on on D.C. Act 18–691 ‘‘Southeast Federal Cen- Paul Kinloch Holmes III, of Arkansas, to Homeland Security and Governmental Af- ter/Yards Non-Discriminatory Grocery Store be United States District Judge for the West- fairs. Temporary Act of 2010’’; to the Committee ern District of Arkansas. EC–429. A communication from the Chair- on Homeland Security and Governmental Af- Anthony J. Battaglia, of California, to be man of the Council of the District of Colum- fairs. United States District Judge for the South- bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report EC–441. A communication from the Chair- ern District of California. on D.C. Act 18–680 ‘‘Human and Environ- man of the Council of the District of Colum- Edward J. Davila, of California, to be mental Health Protection Act of 2010’’; to bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report United States District Judge for the North- the Committee on Homeland Security and on D.C. Act 18–692 ‘‘Rent Administrator ern District of California. Governmental Affairs. Hearing Authority Second Temporary Diana Saldana, of Texas, to be United EC–430. A communication from the Chair- Amendment Act of 2010’’; to the Committee States District Judge for the Southern Dis- man of the Council of the District of Colum- on Homeland Security and Governmental Af- trict of Texas. bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report fairs. Max Oliver Cogburn, Jr., of North Caro- on D.C. Act 18–681 ‘‘Private Fire Hydrant Act EC–442. A communication from the Chair- lina, to be United States District Judge for of 2010’’; to the Committee on Homeland Se- man of the Council of the District of Colum- the Western District of North Carolina. curity and Governmental Affairs. bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report Marco A. Hernandez, of Oregon, to be EC–431. A communication from the Chair- on D.C. Act 18–696 ‘‘Residential Tranquility United States District Judge for the District man of the Council of the District of Colum- Act of 2010’’; to the Committee on Homeland of Oregon. bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report Security and Governmental Affairs. Steve C. Jones, of Georgia, to be United on D.C. Act 18–682 ‘‘Health and Safety 911 EC–443. A communication from the Chair- States District Judge for the Northern Dis- Abuse Prevention Amendment Act of 2010’’; man of the Council of the District of Colum- trict of Georgia. to the Committee on Homeland Security and bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report James Emanuel Boasberg, of the District Governmental Affairs. on D.C. Act 18–697 ‘‘Lead Hazard Prevention of Columbia, to be United States District EC–432. A communication from the Chair- and Elimination Amendment Act of 2010’’; to Judge for the District of Columbia. Amy Berman Jackson, of the District of man of the Council of the District of Colum- the Committee on Homeland Security and Columbia, to be United States District Judge bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report Governmental Affairs. for the District of Columbia. on D.C. Act 18–683 ‘‘Adams Morgan Main EC–444. A communication from the Chair- Street Group Clarification Amendment Act man of the Council of the District of Colum- (Nominations without an asterisk of 2010’’; to the Committee on Homeland Se- bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report were reported with the recommenda- curity and Governmental Affairs. on D.C. Act 18–698 ‘‘Green Building Technical tion that they be confirmed.) EC–433. A communication from the Chair- Corrections, Clarification, and Revision f man of the Council of the District of Colum- Amendment Act of 2010’’; to the Committee bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on Homeland Security and Governmental Af- INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND on D.C. Act 18–684 ‘‘Transportation Infra- fairs. JOINT RESOLUTIONS structure Amendment Act of 2010’’; to the EC–445. A communication from the Chair- Committee on Homeland Security and Gov- man of the Council of the District of Colum- The following bills and joint resolu- ernmental Affairs. bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report tions were introduced, read the first EC–434. A communication from the Chair- on D.C. Act 18–699 ‘‘Disorderly Conduct and second times by unanimous con- man of the Council of the District of Colum- Amendment Act of 2010’’; to the Committee sent, and referred as indicated: bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on Homeland Security and Governmental Af- By Mr. BROWN of Massachusetts: on D.C. Act 18–685 ‘‘Returning Citizen Public fairs. S. 262. A bill to repeal the excise tax on Employment Inclusion Amendment Act of EC–446. A communication from the Chair- medical device manufacturers; to the Com- 2010’’; to the Committee on Homeland Secu- man of the Council of the District of Colum- mittee on Finance. rity and Governmental Affairs. bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report By Ms. LANDRIEU (for herself, Mr. EC–435. A communication from the Chair- on D.C. Act 18–700 ‘‘Open Meetings Amend- ALEXANDER, and Mr. COCHRAN): man of the Council of the District of Colum- ment Act of 2010’’; to the Committee on S. 263. A bill to provide for child safety, bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report Homeland Security and Governmental Af- care, and education continuity in the event on D.C. Act 18–686 ‘‘Ballpark Fee Clarifica- fairs. of a presidentially declared disaster; to the tion Act of 2010’’; to the Committee on EC–447. A communication from the Chair- Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Homeland Security and Governmental Af- man of the Council of the District of Colum- Pensions. fairs. bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report By Mr. COCHRAN (for himself and Mr. EC–436. A communication from the Chair- on D.C. Act 18–701 ‘‘Anti-SLAPP Act of 2010’’; WICKER): man of the Council of the District of Colum- to the Committee on Homeland Security and S. 264. A bill to direct the Secretary of the bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report Governmental Affairs. Interior to convey to the State of Mississippi on D.C. Act 18–687 ‘‘Perry Street Affordable EC–448. A communication from the Chair- 2 parcels of surplus land within the boundary Housing Tax Exemption and Relief Act of man of the Council of the District of Colum- of the Natchez Trace Parkway, and for other 2010’’; to the Committee on Homeland Secu- bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report purposes; to the Committee on Energy and rity and Governmental Affairs. on D.C. Act 18–702 ‘‘Residential Housing Tax Natural Resources. EC–437. A communication from the Chair- Abatement Clarification Amendment Act of By Mr. COCHRAN (for himself and Mr. man of the Council of the District of Colum- 2010’’; to the Committee on Homeland Secu- WICKER): bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report rity and Governmental Affairs. S. 265. A bill to authorize the acquisition of on D.C. Act 18–688 ‘‘Kelsey Gardens Redevel- f core battlefield land at Champion Hill, Port opment Project Real Property Limited Tax Gibson, and Raymond for addition to Vicks- Abatement Assistance Act of 2010’’; to the REPORTS OF COMMITTEES burg National Military Park; to the Com- Committee on Homeland Security and Gov- mittee on Energy and Natural Resources. ernmental Affairs. The following reports of committees By Mr. COCHRAN: EC–438. A communication from the Chair- were submitted: S. 266. A bill to redesignate the Noxubee man of the Council of the District of Colum- By Mr. LEAHY, from the Committee on National Wildlife Refuge as the Sam D. Ham- bia, transmitting, pursuant to law, a report the Judiciary, with amendments: ilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge; to on D.C. Act 18–689 ‘‘Rhode Island Avenue S. 23. A bill to amend title 35, United the Committee on Environment and Public Metro Plaza Revenue Bonds Amendment Act States Code, to provide for patent reform. Works.

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By Mr. BINGAMAN (for himself, Mr. Pike National Historic Trail; to the Com- By Mr. MCCONNELL (for himself, Mr. ISAKSON, and Mr. KOHL): mittee on Energy and Natural Resources. GRASSLEY, and Mr. CHAMBLISS): S. 267. A bill to amend the Employee Re- By Mr. BURR (for himself, Mrs. HAGAN, S. 291. A bill to repeal the sunset provi- tirement Income Security Act of 1974 to re- Mr. NELSON of Florida, and Mr. sions in the USA PATRIOT Improvement quire a lifetime income disclosure; to the GRASSLEY): and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and other re- Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and S. 277. A bill to amend title 38, United lated provisions and permanently reauthor- Pensions. States Code, to furnish hospital care, med- ize the USA PATRIOT Act; read the first By Mr. TESTER (for himself and Mr. ical services, and nursing home care to vet- time. BAUCUS): erans who were stationed at Camp Lejeune, By Mr. LEE (for himself, Mr. KYL, Mr. S. 268. A bill to sustain the economic devel- North Carolina, while the water was con- BARRASSO, Mr. BURR, Mr. DEMINT, opment and recreational use of National For- taminated at Camp Lejeune, and for other Mr. GRAHAM, Mr. PAUL, Mr. RISCH, est System land and other public land in the purposes; to the Committee on Veterans’ Af- Mr. RUBIO, Mr. THUNE, Mr. TOOMEY, State of Montana, to add certain land to the fairs. Mr. VITTER, Mr. CRAPO, and Ms. National Wilderness Preservation System, to By Mr. UDALL of Colorado (for himself AYOTTE): release certain wilderness study areas, to and Mr. BENNET): S.J. Res. 5. A joint resolution proposing an designate new areas for recreation, and for S. 278. A bill to provide for the exchange of amendment to the Constitution of the other purposes; to the Committee on Energy certain land located in the Arapaho-Roo- United States requiring that the Federal and Natural Resources. sevelt National Forests in the State of Colo- budget be balanced; to the Committee on the By Mr. CORNYN (for himself and Mrs. rado, and for other purposes; to the Com- Judiciary. mittee on Energy and Natural Resources. HUTCHISON): f S. 269. A bill to designate the Department By Mr. UDALL of Colorado (for himself of Veterans Affairs medical center in Big and Mr. BENNET): SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND S. 279. A bill to direct the Secretary of the Spring, Texas, as the George H. O’Brien, Jr., Interior to carry out a study to determine SENATE RESOLUTIONS Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Cen- the suitability and feasibility of establishing ter, and for other purposes; to the Com- The following concurrent resolutions Camp Hale as a unit of the National Park mittee on Veterans’ Affairs. and Senate resolutions were read, and System; to the Committee on Energy and By Mr. WYDEN (for himself and Mr. referred (or acted upon), as indicated: Natural Resources. MERKLEY): By Ms. COLLINS (for herself and Ms. By Mr. NELSON of Nebraska: S. 270. A bill to direct the Secretary of the SNOWE): S. Res. 41. A resolution expressing the Interior to convey certain Federal land to S. 280. A bill to provide for flexibility and sense of the Senate that Congress should re- Deschutes County, Oregon; to the Committee improvements in elementary and secondary duce spending by the amount resulting from on Energy and Natural Resources. education, and for other purposes; to the the recently announced earmark morato- By Mr. WYDEN (for himself and Mr. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and rium; to the Committee on the Budget. MERKLEY): Pensions. By Mr. REID: S. 271. A bill to require the Secretary of By Mrs. HUTCHISON (for herself, Mr. S. Res. 42. A resolution to constitute the Agriculture to enter into a property convey- COBURN, Mr. CRAPO, Mr. ENSIGN, Mr. majority party’s membership on certain ance with the city of Wallowa, Oregon, and INHOFE, Mr. JOHANNS, Mr. JOHNSON of committees for the One Hundred Twelfth for other purposes; to the Committee on En- Wisconsin, Mr. KYL, Mr. MORAN, Mr. Congress, or until their successors are cho- ergy and Natural Resources. RISCH, Mr. ROBERTS, Mr. WICKER, Mr. sen; considered and agreed to. By Mr. MANCHIN (for himself, Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. COATS, Mr. BLUNT, By Mr. MCCONNELL: ROCKEFELLER, Ms. MURKOWSKI, Mr. and Mr. CORNYN): S. Res. 43. A resolution to constitute the WICKER, Mr. BOOZMAN, Ms. LANDRIEU, S. 281. A bill to delay the implementation minority party’s membership on certain Mr. HOEVEN, and Mr. PORTMAN): of the health reform law in the United States committees for the One Hundred Twelfth S. 272. A bill to amend the Federal Water until there is a final resolution in pending Congress, or until their successors are cho- Pollution Control Act to clarify and confirm lawsuits; to the Committee on Finance. sen; considered and agreed to. the authority of the Environmental Protec- By Mr. COBURN (for himself and Mr. By Mr. KERRY (for himself, Mr. tion Agency to deny or restrict the use of de- BEGICH): MCCAIN, Mr. GRAHAM, Ms. KLO- fined areas as disposal sites for the discharge S. 282. A bill to rescind unused earmarks; BUCHAR, Mr. CARDIN, Mr. NELSON of of dredged or fill material; to the Committee to the Committee on Appropriations. Florida, Mr. DURBIN, and Mr. LEVIN): on Environment and Public Works. By Mr. LEVIN: S. Res. 44. A resolution supporting democ- By Mr. LAUTENBERG (for himself, S. 283. A bill for the relief of Marco Anto- racy, universal rights, and the peaceful tran- Mr. UDALL of New Mexico, Mr. nio Sanchez; to the Committee on the Judi- sition to a representative government in FRANKEN, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. ciary. Egypt; considered and agreed to. MENENDEZ, and Mr. BEGICH): By Mr. LEVIN: By Mrs. MURRAY (for herself and Ms. S. 273. A bill to amend chapter 1 of title 23, S. 284. A bill for the relief of Guy Vang, CANTWELL): United States Code, to condition the receipt Genevieve Chong Foung, Caroline Vang, and S. Res. 45. A resolution congratulating the of certain highway funding by States on the Meline ‘‘Melanie’’ Vang; to the Committee Eastern Washington University football enactment and enforcement by States of cer- on the Judiciary. team for winning the 2010 National Colle- tain laws to prevent repeat intoxicated driv- By Mr. LEVIN: giate Athletic Association Division 1 Foot- ing; to the Committee on Environment and S. 285. A bill for the relief of Sopuruchi ball Championship Subdivision title; consid- Chukwueke; to the Committee on the Judici- Public Works. ered and agreed to. By Mrs. HAGAN (for herself, Mr. ary. f FRANKEN, Mr. BROWN of Ohio, and Mr. By Mr. LEVIN: S. 286. A bill for the relief of Anton Dodaj, JOHNSON of South Dakota): Gjyljana Dodaj, Franc Dodaj, and Kristjan ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS S. 274. A bill to amend title XVIII of the Dodaj; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Social Security Act to expand access to S. 21 By Mr. LEVIN: medication therapy management services At the request of Mr. REID, the name S. 287. A bill for the relief of Luay Lufti under the Medicare prescription drug pro- Hadad; to the Committee on the Judiciary. of the Senator from Delaware (Mr. gram; to the Committee on Finance. By Mr. LEVIN: CARPER) was added as a cosponsor of S. By Mr. LAUTENBERG (for himself, S. 288. A bill for the relief of Josephina 21, a bill to secure the United States Mr. ROCKEFELLER, Mr. MENENDEZ, Valera Lopez; to the Committee on the Judi- against cyber attack, to enhance and Mr. BEGICH): ciary. American competitiveness and create S. 275. A bill to amend title 49, United By Mrs. FEINSTEIN: jobs in the information technology in- States Code, to provide for enhanced safety S. 289. A bill to extend expiring provisions and environmental protection in pipeline of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Re- dustry, and to protect the identities transportation, to provide for enhanced reli- authorization Act of 2005, the Intelligence and sensitive information of American ability in the transportation of the Nation’s Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of citizens and businesses. energy products by pipeline, and for other 2004, and the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 S. 81 purposes; to the Committee on Commerce, until December 31, 2013, and for other pur- At the request of Mr. ISAKSON, the Science, and Transportation. poses; read the first time. name of the Senator from Colorado By Mr. BENNET (for himself and Mr. By Mr. LEAHY: UDALL of Colorado): S. 290. A bill to extend the sunset of cer- (Mr. UDALL) was added as a cosponsor S. 276. A bill to amend the National Trails tain provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, of S. 81, a bill to direct unused appro- System Act to provide for the study of the and for other purposes; read the first time. priations for Senate Official Personnel

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:29 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00046 Fmt 0686 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\S03FE1.001 S03FE1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD 1222 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 February 3, 2011 and Office Expense Accounts to be de- S. CON. RES. 5 AMENDMENT NO. 29 posited in the Treasury and used for At the request of Mr. ROCKEFELLER, At the request of Mr. NELSON of Ne- deficit reduction or to reduce the Fed- the name of the Senator from Massa- braska, the names of the Senator from eral debt. chusetts (Mr. BROWN) was added as a New Hampshire (Mrs. SHAHEEN), the S. 210 cosponsor of S. Con. Res. 5, a concur- Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. WHITE- At the request of Mr. COBURN, the rent resolution authorizing the use of HOUSE) and the Senator from Hawaii names of the Senator from Utah (Mr. the rotunda of the Capitol to honor (Mr. AKAKA) were added as cosponsors HATCH) and the Senator from Rhode Is- Frank W. Buckles, the longest sur- of amendment No. 29 intended to be land (Mr. WHITEHOUSE) were added as viving United States veteran of the proposed to S. 223, a bill to modernize cosponsors of S. 210, a bill to amend First World War. the air traffic control system, improve title 44, United States Code, to elimi- S. RES. 20 the safety, reliability, and availability nate the mandatory printing of bills At the request of Mr. JOHANNS, the of transportation by air in the United and resolutions for the use of offices of name of the Senator from Wyoming States, provide modernization of the Members of Congress. (Mr. BARRASSO) was added as a cospon- air traffic control system, reauthorize S. 244 sor of S. Res. 20, a resolution express- the Federal Aviation Administration, At the request of Mr. BARRASSO, the ing the sense of the Senate that the and for other purposes. name of the Senator from Georgia (Mr. United States should immediately ap- AMENDMENT NO. 32 prove the United States-Korea Free CHAMBLISS) was added as a cosponsor of At the request of Mr. ENSIGN, the S. 244, a bill to enable States to opt out Trade Agreement, the United States- name of the Senator from New Mexico of certain provisions of the Patient Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, (Mr. BINGAMAN) was added as a cospon- Protection and Affordable Care Act. and the United States-Panama Trade sor of amendment No. 32 proposed to S. Promotion Agreement. S. 249 223, a bill to modernize the air traffic AMENDMENT NO. 8 At the request of Mr. HATCH, the control system, improve the safety, re- At the request of Mr. WHITEHOUSE, name of the Senator from Alaska (Ms. liability, and availability of transpor- the names of the Senator from Cali- MURKOWSKI) was added as a cosponsor tation by air in the United States, pro- fornia (Mrs. FEINSTEIN) and the Sen- of S. 249, a bill to amend the Endan- vide modernization of the air traffic ator from Hawaii (Mr. INOUYE) were gered Species Act of 1973 to provide control system, reauthorize the Fed- added as cosponsors of amendment No. that Act shall not apply to any gray eral Aviation Administration, and for 8 proposed to S. 223, a bill to modernize wolf (Canis lupus). other purposes. the air traffic control system, improve AMENDMENT NO. 34 S. 255 the safety, reliability, and availability At the request of Mr. ENSIGN, the At the request of Mr. NELSON of Flor- of transportation by air in the United ida, the name of the Senator from Ohio name of the Senator from Mississippi States, provide modernization of the (Mr. BROWN) was added as a cosponsor (Mr. WICKER) was added as a cosponsor air traffic control system, reauthorize of S. 255, a bill to require the Congres- of amendment No. 34 proposed to S. 223, the Federal Aviation Administration, a bill to modernize the air traffic con- sional Budget Office and the Joint and for other purposes. Committee on Taxation to use dynamic trol system, improve the safety, reli- AMENDMENT NO. 11 ability, and availability of transpor- economic modeling in addition to stat- At the request of Mr. LAUTENBERG, ic economic modeling in the prepara- tation by air in the United States, pro- the name of the Senator from New Jer- vide modernization of the air traffic tion of budgetary estimates of proposed sey (Mr. MENENDEZ) was added as a co- changes in Federal revenue law. control system, reauthorize the Fed- sponsor of amendment No. 11 intended eral Aviation Administration, and for S. 260 to be proposed to S. 223, a bill to mod- other purposes. At the request of Mr. NELSON of Flor- ernize the air traffic control system, ida, the names of the Senator from improve the safety, reliability, and f New York (Mr. SCHUMER) and the Sen- availability of transportation by air in STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED ator from New Jersey (Mr. LAUTEN- the United States, provide moderniza- BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS BERG) were added as cosponsors of S. tion of the air traffic control system, By Mr. BROWN of Massachusetts: 260, a bill to amend title 10, United reauthorize the Federal Aviation Ad- S. 262. A bill to repeal the excise tax States Code, to repeal the requirement ministration, and for other purposes. on medical device manufacturers; to for reduction of survivor annuities AMENDMENT NO. 19 the Committee on Finance. under the Survivor Benefit Plan by At the request of Mr. PAUL, the name Mr. BROWN of Massachusetts. Mr. veterans’ dependency and indemnity of the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. President, I rise today to introduce leg- compensation. VITTER) was added as a cosponsor of islation to repeal the tax imposed on S.J. RES. 3 amendment No. 19 proposed to S. 223, a medical device manufacturers. At the request of Mr. HATCH, the bill to modernize the air traffic control As my colleagues know, this 2.3 per- name of the Senator from South Da- system, improve the safety, reliability, cent sales tax imposed on medical de- kota (Mr. THUNE) was added as a co- and availability of transportation by vice manufacturers—a tax that will ul- sponsor of S.J. Res. 3, a joint resolu- air in the United States, provide mod- timately be passed on to consumers—is tion proposing an amendment to the ernization of the air traffic control sys- part-and-parcel of the Federal health Constitution of the United States rel- tem, reauthorize the Federal Aviation care reform bill that passed last Con- ative to balancing the budget. Administration, and for other pur- gress. S. CON. RES. 4 poses. Like others in this chamber, I am ex- At the request of Mr. SCHUMER, the AMENDMENT NO. 27 tremely concerned that this tax could names of the Senator from Rhode Is- At the request of Mr. WYDEN, the threaten jobs in my State, reduce do- land (Mr. WHITEHOUSE) and the Senator name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. mestic investment in research and de- from Maryland (Mr. CARDIN) were MERKLEY) was added as a cosponsor of velopment and ultimately diminish ac- added as cosponsors of S. Con. Res. 4, a amendment No. 27 proposed to S. 223, a cess to life-saving medical devices for concurrent resolution expressing the bill to modernize the air traffic control patients. sense of Congress that an appropriate system, improve the safety, reliability, Medical technology companies em- site on Chaplains Hill in Arlington Na- and availability of transportation by ploy more than 375,000 workers in the tional Cemetery should be provided for air in the United States, provide mod- United States. In Massachusetts alone, a memorial marker to honor the mem- ernization of the air traffic control sys- we have more than 225 medical device ory of the Jewish chaplains who died tem, reauthorize the Federal Aviation firms, which employ more than 20,000 while on active duty in the Armed Administration, and for other pur- workers, and contribute nearly $1 bil- Forces of the United States. poses. lion in payroll. Medical devices are one

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:29 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00047 Fmt 0686 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\S03FE1.001 S03FE1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD February 3, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 1223 of our State’s top exports, contributing double-taxed by way of the medical de- tions and the pattern of Federal land $6 billion to our State’s economy. vice tax and the pharmaceutical tax. ownership. These are powerfully good numbers. With the rolling implementation of My first bill, the La Pine Land Con- These are the numbers that make my the Federal health care reform bill, veyance Act, would convey two parcels State tick, help drive our economy, this Congress will provide many oppor- of property to Deschutes County, Or- and keep people working. I want to tunities for me to protect the interests egon and a third parcel to the City of make certain that what happens in of and work on behalf of Massachusetts La Pine. The bill directs the transfer of Washington does not reverse these families, Massachusetts taxpayers, Bureau of Land Management, BLM, numbers, does not undermine my Massachusetts workers, and Massachu- lands to Deschutes County and the State’s ability to compete, and does setts businesses. City of La Pine to enable the small not hamper our chances to grow and I hope my colleagues will join my ef- town of La Pine to develop rodeo and hire workers. forts to find opportunities to correct equestrian facilities, expand a sewage Massachusetts’ position as an indus- what is wrong with the Federal health treatment site, and develop the library try leader, a hub of innovation and en- reform law—to protect innovation, the or other public facilities. trepreneurship must be preserved. That jobs, and the development and growth La Pine has a set of unique chal- has been and will continue to be my that can occur in a sector that is vi- lenges but the town’s incorporation has focus in the U.S. Senate. tally important to our Nation’s health. brought a feeling in the community So how do I intend to accomplish I know that a robust medical device that good things can happen if they this? sector translates into a healthier work together to make their town as For starters it means working to America—physically, economically, good as it can possibly be. eliminate the medical device tax, and socially. The same is true for Mas- My bill proposes the transfer of 150 which I believe will diminish our abil- sachusetts. acres of BLM land contiguous to the La ity to compete, will increase costs for Pine city limit to enable construction consumers, and could result in our By Mr. WYDEN (for himself and of public equestrian and rodeo facili- medical device and technology jobs Mr. MERKLEY): ties that have become increasingly im- being sent overseas, where the costs of S. 270. A bill to direct the Secretary portant in La Pine. In addition, the labor and production are cheaper. of the Interior to convey certain Fed- land will provide a location for devel- The effort that I am spearheading— eral land to Deschutes County, Oregon; opment of ball fields, parks, and recre- and that I ask my colleagues to join— to the Committee on Energy and Nat- ation facilities, which can be developed eliminates the medical device tax in a ural Resources. as the town grows and budgets allow. way that does not add to the deficit. I Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, today I My bill also directs the transfer of propose eliminating this harmful tax— am pleased to introduce two bills that approximately 750 acres of BLM lands a tax that will stifle innovation, be will provide two important commu- to Deschutes County for the purpose of passed on to consumers, and increase nities in rural Oregon with the means expanding the town’s wastewater treat- the cost of care—and propose that we to promote their cultural history and ment operation. For several years this offset the cost by using unobligated their economic development opportuni- has been the City’s top priority for a discretionary dollars. This is the same ties. These are bills that I introduced land transfer under the Recreation and source of funding, the same offset, that in the last Congress and were reported Public Purposes Act. Although the 81 of my colleagues supported yester- out of the Energy and Natural Re- BLM began an administrative transfer day. sources Committee, but were unfortu- it was not completed, limiting this As my colleagues know, I worked on nately not passed in the Senate. I am small community’s ability to be com- an amendment that would repeal the pleased to be joined by Senator petitive for state and federal economic medical device tax last Congress. I will MERKLEY in this effort. stimulus funds. This project is too im- continue this work because the harm- These bills both are intended to help portant to let languish. ful effects of this tax are the last thing leaders in rural communities in my Perhaps the most important issue af- Massachusetts needs—more industry State continue to grow their economies fecting water quality in Deschutes jobs lost, our workers at a competitive and make the most of the abundant re- County involves the threat to ground- disadvantage. sources surrounding their commu- water and the Deschutes River from But the medical device tax doesn’t nities. As in many rural communities household septic systems in southern just lead to job uncertainty, it leads to in my State and in many places in the Deschutes County, the region around investment uncertainty as well, which Western United States, not much hap- La Pine. This project directly reduces results in private capital staying on pens without the Federal Government’s nitrate loading into south county the sidelines rather than being in- involvement. In fact, the Federal Gov- groundwater in two ways. First, by en- vested in Massachusetts based compa- ernment owns much of the land sur- abling expansion of the District service nies and their workers. rounding these small communities. boundary to residential areas where The medical device tax, coupled with While many of these lands are treas- septic systems are generating elevated other provisions in the Federal health ures, this high percentage of Federal groundwater nitrate levels; and second, reform bill, increases the level of un- land ownership sometimes limits the by closing the current location for certainty at a time when businesses, ability of local governments and civic spreading treated effluent, over a rel- consumers and investors are craving leaders to solve problems and serve the atively high groundwater area, to this the exact opposite. public. I firmly believe the Federal new location which is judged not to For example, some medical devices Government can and should be an ac- threaten groundwater. That is why I are approved as combination products, tive partner in strengthening commu- am introducing legislation today to both as medical devices and drugs and/ nities and improving a region’s quality make sure this transfer moves forward. or biologics. The Secretary has yet to of life. The third parcel that would be trans- determine how these medical devices That is why I am re-introducing ferred under this legislation would con- will be captured under the law, how these two pieces of legislation today. vey approximately 10 acres to the City they will be taxed. These bills—both passed out of the of La Pine. This is a parcel right in the I pledge to work with my Senate col- Senate Energy and Natural Resources heart of downtown La Pine. The City is leagues—and during the Medical De- Committee in the last Congress with exploring its use for expansion of li- vice User Fee Modernization Act reau- minor modifications—demonstrate the brary space or using it as an open thorization slated for next year—to en- possibilities that can come when the space. sure that the medical device companies Federal Government partners with My second bill, S. 271, the Wallowa whose products are approved as com- proactive, innovative communities to Forest Service Compound Conveyance bination products by the FDA are not tackle challenging economic condi- Act would convey an old Forest Service

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For many years it was the cle I just referenced found that better To ensure pharmacists and health center of town and this site continues adherence to antihypertensive treat- care providers are able to provide MTM to represent the natural and cultural ment alone could prevent 89,000 pre- to seniors, this bill requires that they history of one of Eastern Oregon’s mature deaths in the U.S. annually. are appropriately reimbursed for their most beautiful communities. The City With as much as one half of all pa- time and service. This provision will of Wallowa, along with County Com- tients in the U.S. not following their permit pharmacies and other health missioners, the local arts organiza- doctors’ orders regarding their medica- care providers to spend considerable tions, and a broad group of community tions, medication therapy management time and resources evaluating a per- leaders intend to restore this impor- could help reduce some of the wasted son’s drug routine and educating them tant example of Pacific Northwest rus- health care costs in our system. on proper usage—all critical compo- tic architecture and tribute to bygone North Carolina has implemented nents of a successful MTM program. times, making a valuable community some very successful MTM programs. Finally, this bill would establish interpretive center at this site. The The Asheville Project, which focuses standards for data collection to evalu- conveyance of this property will allow on diabetes, asthma, and cardio- ate and improve the Part D MTM ben- the community to move forward with vascular disease, has seen improved efit. this project. The community worked health outcomes and significant sav- The value of MTM is widely known hard to list the Ranger Station on the ings among city employees since it and discussed. I am proud that North National Register of Historic Places, began in 1997. For example, in the Carolina is a leader in this arena. Ex- and ownership by the City will allow Asheville Project’s diabetes MTM pansion of MTM to more seniors will this coalition to restore the buildings Project, they have seen a decrease in no doubt improve their overall health, and again develop a vibrant commu- medical costs of between $1,622 to $3,356 while at the same time reducing waste nity center. Oregon Public Broad- per patient per year; a decrease in in- in our health care system. casting aired a segment depicting an surance claims of $2,704 per patient in I urge my collegues to support this early 20th century railroad logging year one and a $6,502 decrease in year bill. community—a significant part of the five; a 50 percent decrease in use of sick rich and diverse history and traditions days; and increased productivity gains By Mr. UDALL of Colorado (for that will be preserved and celebrated as estimated at $18,000 annually. himself and Mr. BENNET): this Forest Service Compound is devel- In 2007, the North Carolina Health S. 278. A bill to provide for the ex- oped as an interpretive center. and Wellness Trust Fund Commission change of certain land located in the I want to express my thanks to all launched an innovative statewide pro- Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forests in the citizens and community leaders gram, Checkmeds NC, to provide MTM the State of Colorado, and for other who have worked to build their com- services to North Carolina seniors. purposes; to the Committee on Energy munities and develop these projects. During the program’s first year, more and Natural Resources. They represent the pioneering spirit than 15,000 North Carolina seniors and Mr. UDALL of Colorado. Mr. Presi- and vision that defines my State. 285 pharmacists participated. A total of dent, fighting fires is very serious busi- 31,000 seniors have participated since ness in my home State of Colorado. By Mrs. HAGAN (for herself, Mr. 2007. The seniors bring all of their pre- Just a few months ago, we experienced FRANKEN, Mr. BROWN of Ohio, scriptions, over-the-counter medicines, the most expensive fire in our history— and Mr. JOHNSON of South Da- vitamins and supplements to the phar- the Fourmile Fire, near Boulder. This kota): macy to be thoroughly reviewed in a fire destroyed more than 150 homes and S. 274. A bill to amend title XVIII of one-on-one session. The pharmacist fol- burned over 6,000 acres. the Social Security Act to expand ac- lows up and educates the patient about We could not have stopped this fire cess to medication therapy manage- his or her medication regimen. The without the dedicated efforts of hun- ment services under the Medicare pre- program has saved an estimated $34 dreds of public servants, including vol- scription drug program; to the Com- million to date, and countless health unteer firefighters from local fire dis- mittee on Finance. problems have been avoided. tricts. These individuals saved lives Mrs. HAGAN. Mr. President, today, I During consideration of health care and property, often risking their own am proud to reintroduce the Medica- reform, I was pleased to have success- lives. That is, in part, why I believe we tion Therapy Management, MTM, Em- fully secured language in the bill that should do everything we can to help powerment Act of 2011, with my col- built off these North Carolina models these fire districts and the volunteers leagues from Minnesota, Senator and implemented MTM nationally for who serve them. FRANKEN, from Ohio, Senator BROWN, seniors suffering from two or more One fire district involved in the and from South Dakota, Senator JOHN- chronic conditions. Fourmile Fire—the Sugar Loaf Fire SON. The bill I am reintroducing today District—lost 17 homes in the fire. The A recent analysis conducted by the takes MTM one step further. Specifi- Sugar Loaf Fire District is critical to New England Healthcare Institute esti- cally, this bill would expand MTM eli- protecting thousands of Coloradans, mates that the overall cost of medica- gibility to seniors with any chronic but instead of being able to focus on tion nonadherence is as much as $290 condition that accounts for high spend- fighting fires this District has been billion per year. According to a recent ing in our health care system, such as wrapped up trying to resolve a land article published in the New England heart failure and diabetes. Currently, issue with the Forest Service for many Journal of Medicine, over $100 billion is only 12.9 percent of Part D bene- years now. It is a very simple land ex- spent annually on avoidable hos- ficiaries are eligible under the MTM change to make sure that the Fire Dis- pitalizations because patients do not criteria for multiple chronic condi- trict owns the land under two of its take their medications correctly. tions. However, of those, more than 85 three fire stations. Not only does nonadherence cost our percent have chosen to participate in The Fire District has occupied and system billions of dollars, nonadher- the benefit. Clearly this program is operated the fire stations on these ence to medication regimens also af- very popular and widely utilized by properties for nearly 40 years. If they fects the quality of life for seniors and those who are already eligible. By ex- can secure ownership, the lands will may lead to early death. The elderly panding eligibility to more seniors, continue to be used as sites for fire sta- typically take many more prescription MTM will certainly result in Medicare tions and training. The Fire District is medicines than the general population savings. willing to trade the property it owns,

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:29 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00049 Fmt 0686 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\S03FE1.001 S03FE1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD February 3, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 1225 an undeveloped inholding in Forest (A) the parcel of approximately 1.52 acres (B) any sale carried out under subsection Service land, for the property under of land in the National Forest that is gen- (e). the stations. This is a simple and fair erally depicted on the map numbered 1, enti- (2) USE OF PROCEEDS.—Amounts deposited exchange that will serve the public tled ‘‘Sugarloaf Fire Protection District Pro- under paragraph (1) shall be available to the posed Land Exchange’’, and dated November Secretary, without further appropriation and good and help protect the local area 12, 2009; and until expended, for the acquisition of land or from growing wildfire threats. (B) the parcel of approximately 3.56 acres interests in land in the National Forest. The Fire District has made a strong, of land in the National Forest that is gen- (g) MANAGEMENT AND STATUS OF ACQUIRED persistent, and good faith effort to ac- erally depicted on the map numbered 2, enti- LAND.—The non-Federal land acquired by the quire the land under the stations tled ‘‘Sugarloaf Fire Protection District Pro- Secretary under this section shall be— through administrative means by posed Land Exchange’’, and dated November (1) added to, and administered as part of, working with the Forest Service. Fur- 12, 2009. the National Forest; and (3) NATIONAL FOREST.—The term ‘‘National (2) managed by the Secretary in accord- thermore, the Fire District has dem- Forest’’ means the Arapaho-Roosevelt Na- onstrated its sincere commitment to ance with— tional Forests located in the State of Colo- (A) the Act of March 1, 1911 (commonly this project by expending its monetary rado. known as the ‘‘Weeks Law’’) (16 U.S.C. 480 et resources and the time of its staff to (4) NON-FEDERAL LAND.—The term ‘‘non- seq.); and satisfy the requirements set forth by Federal land’’ means the parcel of approxi- (B) any laws (including regulations) appli- the Forest Service. mately 5.17 acres of non-Federal land in un- cable to the National Forest. incorporated Boulder County, Colorado, that However, those efforts have not suc- (h) REVOCATION OF ORDERS; WITHDRAWAL.— is generally depicted on the map numbered 3, ceeded and it has become evident that (1) REVOCATION OF ORDERS.—Any public entitled ‘‘Sugarloaf Fire Protection District order withdrawing the Federal land from legislation is required to resolve the Proposed Land Exchange’’, and dated No- situation. entry, appropriation, or disposal under the vember 12, 2009. public land laws is revoked to the extent To help facilitate this land exchange, (5) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ I am introducing the Sugar Loaf Fire necessary to permit the conveyance of the means the Secretary of Agriculture. Federal land to the District. Station Land Exchange Act of 2011 SEC. 3. LAND EXCHANGE. (2) WITHDRAWAL.—On the date of enact- today. This language is the same as (a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the provisions ment of this Act, if not already withdrawn or what passed the Senate Energy and of this Act, if the District offers to convey to segregated from entry and appropriation Natural Resources Committee in the the Secretary all right, title, and interest of under the public land laws (including the the District in and to the non-Federal land, mining and mineral leasing laws) and the last Congress. and the offer is acceptable to the Secretary— Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 (30 U.S.C. 1001 Under the bill, the land exchange will (1) the Secretary shall accept the offer; and et seq.), the Federal land is withdrawn until proceed if the Fire District offers to (2) on receipt of acceptable title to the the date of the conveyance of the Federal convey acceptable title to a specified non-Federal land, the Secretary shall convey land to the District. parcel of land amounting to about 5.17 to the District all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the Federal land. acres. This land resides between the By Mr. UDALL of Colorado (for communities of Boulder and Nederland (b) APPLICABLE LAW.—Section 206 of the himself and Mr. BENNET): in an unincorporated part of Boulder Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1716) shall apply to the land S. 279. A bill to direct the Secretary County within the boundaries of the exchange authorized under subsection (a), of the Interior to carry out a study to Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest. In except that— determine the suitability and feasi- return, the land—about 5.08 acres— (1) the Secretary may accept a cash equali- bility of establishing Camp Hale as a where the two fire stations are located zation payment in excess of 25 percent of the unit of the National Park System; to will be transferred to the Fire District. value of the Federal land; and The lands transferred to the Federal (2) as a condition of the land exchange the Committee on Energy and Natural Government will become part of the under subsection (a), the District shall— Resources. (A) pay each cost relating to any land sur- Mr. UDALL of Colorado. Mr. Presi- Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest veys and appraisals of the Federal land and and managed accordingly. dent, today I am introducing the Camp non-Federal land; and Hale Study Act of 2011, which would di- This is a relatively minor bill but one (B) enter into an agreement with the Sec- that is important to the Sugar Loaf retary that allocates any other administra- rect the Secretary of the Interior to Fire District and the people it serves. tive costs between the Secretary and the study the feasibility and suitability of As public lands bills pile up in Congress District. establishing Camp Hale, near because of ideological obstruction, this (c) ADDITIONAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS.— Leadville, CO, as a national historic fire district is being forced into wast- The land exchange under subsection (a) shall district. Camp Hale is an important be subject to— ing time and money trying to resolve part of our Nation’s proud national de- (1) valid existing rights; and fense legacy, and it deserves to be rec- an otherwise commonsense and tech- (2) any terms and conditions that the Sec- nical public lands fix. I think this bill retary may require. ognized and protected. deserves enactment without unneces- (d) TIME FOR COMPLETION OF LAND EX- This bill concerns an important mili- sary delay. CHANGE.—It is the intent of Congress that tary legacy from the World War II and Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- the land exchange under subsection (a) shall Cold War eras. Camp Hale, located in be completed not later than 1 year after the the mountains of central Colorado, was sent that the text of the bill be printed date of enactment of this Act. in the RECORD. (e) AUTHORITY OF SECRETARY TO CONDUCT a training facility for combat in high There being no objection, the text of SALE OF FEDERAL LAND.— alpine and mountainous conditions. the bill was ordered to be printed in (1) IN GENERAL.—In accordance with para- Principally, it was a training venue for the RECORD, as follows: graph (2), if the land exchange under sub- the Army’s 10th Mountain Division and S. 278 section (a) is not completed by the date that other elements of the U.S. Armed is 1 year after the date of enactment of this Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- Forces. The geography of the area was Act, the Secretary may offer to sell to the resentatives of the United States of America in ideal for winter and high-altitude District the Federal land. Congress assembled, training, with steep mountains sur- (2) VALUE OF FEDERAL LAND.—The Sec- SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. retary may offer to sell to the District the rounding a level valley suitable for This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Sugar Loaf Federal land for the fair market value of the housing and other facilities. The facil- Fire Protection District Land Exchange Act Federal land. ity itself was located in Eagle County of 2011’’. (f) DISPOSITION OF PROCEEDS.— along the Eagle River, and its training SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall de- boundary included lands in Eagle, In this Act: posit in the fund established under Public Summit, Lake, and Pitkin Counties. (1) DISTRICT.—The term ‘‘District’’ means Law 90–171 (commonly known as the ‘‘Sisk the Sugar Loaf Fire Protection District of Act’’) (16 U.S.C. 484a) any amount received In addition to the 10th Mountain Di- Boulder, Colorado. by the Secretary as the result of— vision, the 38th Regimental Combat (2) FEDERAL LAND.—The term ‘‘Federal (A) any cash equalization payment made Team, 99th Infantry Battalion, and sol- land’’ means— under subsection (b); and diers from Fort Carson were trained at

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:29 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00050 Fmt 0686 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\S03FE1.001 S03FE1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD 1226 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 February 3, 2011 Camp Hale from 1942 to 1965. Through- SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. to discuss their concerns with the law. out this time, the Army tested a vari- This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Camp Hale In response to their concerns, Senator Study Act’’. ety of weapons and equipment at Camp SNOWE and I commissioned the Maine SEC. 2. SPECIAL RESOURCE STUDY OF THE SUIT- Hale. ABILITY AND FEASIBILITY OF ES- NCLB Task Force to examine the im- Between 1956 and 1965, the camp was TABLISHING CAMP HALE AS A UNIT plementation issues facing Maine also used by the Central Intelligence OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM. under both NCLB and the Maine Learn- Agency as a secret center for training (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the In- ing Results. Our task force included Tibetan refugees in guerilla warfare to terior, acting through the Director of the members from every county in our resist the Chinese occupation of their National Park Service, (hereinafter referred State, and had superintendents, teach- to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall complete a spe- ers, principals, school board members, mountainous country. Just last year, cial resource study of Camp Hale to deter- at my urging, the Forest Service put in mine— parents, business leaders, former State place a plaque honoring these Tibetan (1) the suitability and feasibility of desig- legislators, special education special- Freedom Fighters. I joined many of nating Camp Hale as a separate unit of the ists, assessment experts, officials from those brave Tibetans, their CIA train- National Park System; and the Maine Department of Education, ers, and their families in a moving (2) the methods and means for the protec- and was chaired by a former Maine ceremony to honor those who trained tion and interpretation of Camp Hale by the commissioner of education and a dean at Camp Hale. National Park Service, other Federal, State, from the University of Maine’s College In July 1965, Camp Hale was deacti- or local government entities or private or of Education and Human Development. nonprofit organizations. vated, and in 1966, control of the lands (b) STUDY REQUIREMENTS.—The Secretary In other words, it was a broad-based was returned to the Forest Service. shall conduct the study in accordance with commission that brought a great deal Today the site is part of the White section 8(c) of Public Law 91–383 (16 U.S.C. of expertise, experience, and perspec- River and San Isabel National Forests. 1a–5(c)). tive to the task force’s work. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is (c) REPORT.—Not later than 3 years after After a year of study, the task force working to clean up potentially haz- the date on which funds are made available presented us with its final report out- to carry out this Act, the Secretary shall ardous munitions left over from weap- lining recommendations for possible submit to the Committee on Natural Re- statutory and regulatory changes to ons testing at the site, particularly in sources of the House of Representatives and the East Fork. the Committee on Energy and Natural Re- the act. The task force recommenda- Camp Hale was placed on the Na- sources of the Senate a report containing— tions highlighted the need for greater tional Register of Historic Places in (1) the results of the study; and flexibility for the Maine Department of 1992, but this bill would direct the Sec- (2) any recommendations of the Secretary. Education and local schools in order to retary of the Interior to complete a SEC. 3. EFFECT OF STUDY. address various implementation con- special resource study of Camp Hale to Nothing in this Act shall affect valid exist- cerns facing Maine. The legislation we determine the suitability and feasi- ing rights or the exercise of such rights, in- are introducing today would make sig- cluding— nificant statutory changes designed to bility of designating Camp Hale as a (1) all interstate water compacts in exist- separate unit of the National Park Sys- ence on the date of the enactment of this Act provide greater local control to Maine tem. That would include an analysis of (including full development of any appor- and greater flexibility to all States in the significance of Camp Hale in rela- tionment made in accordance with the com- their implementation efforts, not just tion to the defense of our Nation dur- pacts); Maine. ing World War II and the Cold War, in- (2) water rights decreed at the Camp Hale First, our legislation would provide cluding the use of Camp Hale for train- site or flowing within, below, or through the greater flexibility to states in the ways ing of the 10th Mountain Division and Camp Hale site; that they measure student progress in (3) water rights in the State of Colorado; for training by the Central Intelligence meeting state education standards. (4) water rights held by the United States; Current NCLB law has proven to be too Agency of Tibetan refugees seeking to (5) the management and operation of any resist the Chinese occupation of Tibet. reservoir, including the storage, manage- restrictive. Our legislation would per- I have worked with Representative ment, release, or transportation of water; mit states to use additional models to LAMBORN on this bill since he first in- and more accurately track the progress of troduced it in the House in the 110th (6) the ability, subject to compliance with all students over time. Specifically, it Congress, when I proudly cosponsored lawful existing local, State, and Federal reg- would allow States to use a cohort it. I introduced this bill in the Senate ulatory requirements, to construct and oper- growth model, which tracks the ate that infrastructure determined necessary in the last Congress and shepherded it progress of the same group of students by those with decreed water rights to de- over time. It would also permit the use through the Senate Energy and Nat- velop and place to beneficial use such rights. ural Resources Committee. However, of an ‘‘indexing’’ model, where progress because of opposition from a few Sen- By Ms. COLLINS (for herself and is measured based on the number of ators to all public lands bills, we could Ms. SNOWE): students whose scores improve from, not pass this bipartisan bill on the Sen- S. 280. A bill to provide for flexibility for example, a ‘‘below-basic’’ to a ate floor. and improvements in elementary and ‘‘basic’’ level, and not simply on the Camp Hale should be recognized for secondary education, and for other pur- number of students who cross the ‘‘pro- the role it played in our country’s na- poses; to the Committee on Health, ficient’’ line. Even if a school is unable tional security. The people who trained Education, Labor, and Pensions. to meet the trajectory targets set by there are proud of their accomplish- Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, I rise the NCLB time-line, a school would not ments, and I am proud to join Rep- today to introduce the No Child Left be identified as failing to make AYP resentative LAMBORN in supporting this Behind Flexibility and Improvements provided it demonstrates improved stu- legislation. I am confident that we will Act. I am pleased to be joined in this dent achievement according to these have more success in passing this legis- effort by my colleague from Maine, additional models. We would also re- lation in this Congress. Senator SNOWE. Our legislation would quire the Secretary to provide exam- Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- give greater local control and flexi- ples of these models to give practical sent that the text of the bill be printed bility to Maine and other states in assistance to States in the design of in the RECORD. their efforts to implement the No Child these systems. While the trajectory There being no objection, the text of Left Behind Act, NCLB. It provides goals set in the statute are certainly the bill was ordered to be printed in common sense reforms in the statute valuable, our legislation seeks to clar- the RECORD, as follows: while retaining elements to help ensure ify that States should be granted S. 279 transparency and accountability. greater flexibility in the design of dif- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- Since the enactment of NCLB 9 years ferent accountability systems provided resentatives of the United States of America in ago, I have had the opportunity to that they are consistent with the prin- Congress assembled, meet with numerous Maine educators ciple of improved student performance.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:29 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00051 Fmt 0686 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\S03FE1.001 S03FE1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD February 3, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 1227 Second, our legislation would provide dress those key NCLB challenges iden- The letter states that ‘‘S. 149, the schools with better notice regarding tified in Maine. Our goals remain the FISA Sunsets Extension Act of 2011, possible performance issues, allowing same as those in NCLB: a good edu- would avoid these difficulties by reau- schools a chance to identify and work cation for each and every child; well- thorizing the three expiring provisions with a particular group of students be- qualified, committed teachers in every until December 2013, together with the fore being identified. It would expand classroom; and increased transparency provisions of Title VII of FISA that are the existing ‘‘safe-harbor’’ provisions and accountability for every school. I currently scheduled to sunset next to allow more schools to qualify for look forward to working with my col- year. We look forward to working with this important protection. The changes leagues on both sides of the aisle on you to ensure the prompt enactment of made in our bill are in keeping with these issues during the upcoming this or similar legislation.’’ what assessment experts and teachers NCLB reauthorization process. Yesterday, the House and Senate In- know—that significant gains in aca- telligence Committees also received a demic achievement tend to occur By Mrs. FEINSTEIN: classified report from the Attorney gradually and over time. In addition, S. 289. A bill to extend expiring provi- General and the DNI on the important the legislation addresses my concern sions of the USA PATRIOT Improve- intelligence collection made possible about the statute’s current require- ment and Reauthorization Act of 2005, by authority that is subject to the ap- ment that all schools reach 100 percent the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism proaching sunset. The Department of Prevention Act of 2004, and the FISA proficiency by 2013–2014 by requiring Justice and the Office of the DNI have Amendments Act of 2008 until Decem- the Secretary of Education to review asked for our assistance in making this ber 31, 2013, and for other purposes; progress by the States toward meeting classified report available, in a secure read the first time. setting, directly and personally to any this goal every three years, and allow- Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Mr. President, on ing him to modify the time-line as nec- January 25, I introduced S. 149, the Member of the Senate. We did so for a essary. FISA Sunsets Extension Act of 2011 to similar report a year ago when Con- Furthermore, the Task Force report extend the three expiring provisions of gress considered the last sunset exten- raised important concerns that in some the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance sion. schools, special education students fear Each Senator is invited to read this Act—the authority to conduct, subject that they are being blamed for their classified report in the Intelligence to court order, so-called ‘‘roving wire- Committee’s offices in 211 Hart Senate school not making adequate yearly taps,’’ ‘‘lone wolf’’ surveillance, and progress. Our legislation would allow collection of business records. S. 149 Office Building. The Attorney General the members of a special education was referred to the Committee on the and DNI have offered to make Justice student’s Individual Education Plan, Judiciary. Department and intelligence commu- IEP, team to determine the best assess- Today, I am reintroducing that legis- nity personnel available to meet with ment for that individual student, and lation with a new, identical bill. This any Member who has questions. Our In- would permit the student’s perform- new bill, just as S. 149 would do, will telligence Committee staff is also pre- ance on that assessment to count for extend these three authorities, other- pared to meet with Members. Vice all NCLB purposes. This legislative wise set to expire on February 28, to Chairman CHAMBLISS and I are sending change is also based on principles of December 31, 2013. The bill will also a Dear Colleague letter to each Senator fairness and common sense. Many change the expiration date of the intel- conveying this invitation. times, it simply does not make sense to ligence collection authorities provided In concluding, I call upon my col- require a special needs student to take in the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 so leagues in the Senate and House to a grade-level assessment that edu- they, too, last until the end of 2013. heed the Attorney General’s and DNI’s cators and parents know he or she is The sole purpose of reintroducing the concern about the uncertainty created not ready to take. Many special edu- measure is to begin the process under by short-term extensions. The 3-year cation students are referred for special Senate rule XIV to place the reintro- extension that my legislation proposes education services precisely because duced extension bill on the Senate cal- will give our law enforcement and in- they cannot meet grade-level expecta- endar. The three provisions of FISA telligence officials the tools and cer- tions. Allowing the IEP team to deter- will sunset in a little more than 3 tainty they need in protecting the Na- mine the best test for each special weeks. One of those weeks is a congres- tion. It will align the several sunsets so needs student will bring an important sional recess. By placing the extension that Congress can review FISA more improvement to the act while still en- bill on the Senate calendar, we will, at comprehensively in 2013. In setting suring accountability. least, be one procedural step closer to that date Congress will wisely be sepa- Finally, our legislation would pro- acting. rating that review of FISA from the de- vide new flexibility for teachers of On January 28, Attorney General bates of a presidential election. multiple subjects at the secondary Eric Holder and Director of National Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- school level to help them meet the Intelligence James Clapper wrote to sent that a letter of support be printed ‘‘highly qualified teacher’’ require- urge Congress to grant a reauthoriza- in the RECORD. ments. Unfortunately, the current reg- tion of sufficient duration to provide There being no objection, the mate- ulations place undue burdens on teach- intelligence and law enforcement agen- rial was ordered to be printed in the ers at small and rural schools who cies with reasonable certainty and pre- RECORD, as follows: often teach multiple subjects due to dictability concerning the tools avail- Hon. JOHN BOEHNER, staffing needs, and on special education able to them. Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives, teachers who work with students on a The FISA sunsets have most recently Washington, DC. variety of subjects throughout the day. been the subject of two short-term ex- Hon. HARRY REID, Majority Leader, U.S. Senate, Under the bill, provided these teachers tensions: a 2-month extension from De- Washington, DC. are highly qualified for one subject cember 31, 2009 to February 28, 2010, Hon. NANCY PELOSI, they teach, they will be provided addi- and then a 1-year extension from that Democratic Leader, U.S. House of Representa- tional time and less burdensome ave- date to February 28, 2011. tives, nues to satisfy the remaining require- In their January 28 letter, the DNI Washington, DC. ments. and the Attorney General expressed Hon. MITCH MCCONNELL, While it has been some time since their concern about the devolution of Republican Leader, U.S. Senate, Maine’s Task Force issued its report, FISA sunsets ‘‘into a series of short- Washington, DC. its findings and recommendations re- term extensions that increase the un- DEAR SPEAKER BOEHNER AND LEADERS REID, PELOSI, AND MCCONNELL: main valid. Our legislation is still nec- certainties borne by our intelligence In the current threat environment, it is essary to provide greater flexibility and law enforcement agencies in car- imperative that our intelligence and law en- and common sense modifications to ad- rying out their missions.’’ forcement agencies have the tools they need

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No court of the United States or of 2011: section 206 of the USA PATRIOT Act, resentatives of the United States of America in any State shall order any increase in rev- which provides authority for roving surveil- Congress assembled, enue to enforce this article. lance of targets who take steps that may SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. ‘‘SECTION 7. The Congress shall have the thwart FISA surveillance; section 215 of the This Act may be cited as the ‘‘USA PA- power to enforce this article by appropriate USA PATRIOT Act, which provides expanded TRIOT Reauthorization Act of 2011.’’. legislation. authority to compel production of business SEC. 2. USA PATRIOT IMPROVEMENT AND REAU- ‘‘SECTION 8. Total receipts shall include all records and other tangible things with the THORIZATION ACT REPEAL OF SUN- receipts of the United States except those approval of the FISA court; and section 6001 SET PROVISIONS. derived from borrowing. Total outlays shall of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Section 102(b) of the USA PATRIOT Im- include all outlays of the United States ex- Prevention Act, which provides the author- provement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 cept those for repayment of debt principal. ity under FISA to target non-United States (Public Law 109–177; 50 U.S.C. 1805 note, 50 ‘‘SECTION 9. This article shall become effec- persons who engage in international ter- U.S.C. 1861 note, and 50 U.S.C. 1862 note) is tive beginning with the second fiscal year rorism or activities in preparation therefor, repealed. commencing after its ratification by the leg- but are not necessarily associated with an SEC. 3. REPEAL OF SUNSET RELATING TO INDI- islatures of three-fourths of the several identified terrorist group (the so-called VIDUAL TERRORISTS AS AGENTS OF States.’’. FOREIGN POWERS. ‘‘lone wolf’’ amendment). f It is essential that these intelligence tools Section 6001(b) of the Intelligence Reform be reauthorized before they expire, and we and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (Public SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS are committed to working with Congress to Law 108–458; 50 U.S.C. 1801 note) is repealed. ensure the speedy enactment of legislation to achieve this result. By Mr. LEE (for himself, Mr. SENATE RESOLUTION 41—EX- We also urge Congress to grant a reauthor- KYL, Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. BURR, PRESSING THE SENSE OF THE ization of sufficient duration to provide Mr. DEMINT, Mr. GRAHAM, Mr. SENATE THAT CONGRESS those charged with protecting our nation PAUL, Mr. RISCH, Mr. RUBIO, SHOULD REDUCE SPENDING BY with reasonable certainty and predictability. Mr. THUNE, Mr. TOOMEY, Mr. THE AMOUNT RESULTING FROM When Congress enacted the PATRIOT Act, it VITTER, Mr. CRAPO, and Ms. included a three-year sunset on these au- THE RECENTLY ANNOUNCED AYOTTE): EARMARK MORATORIUM thorities. While we welcome Congressional S.J. Res. 5. A joint resolution pro- oversight into the use of these tools, Con- posing an amendment to the Constitu- Mr. NELSON of Nebraska submitted gress did not contemplate that this sunset the following resolution; which was re- would devolve into a series of short-term ex- tion of the United States requiring tensions that increase the uncertainties that the Federal budget be balanced; to ferred to the Committee on the Budget: borne by our intelligence and law enforce- the Committee on the Judiciary. S. RES. 41 ment agencies in carrying out their mis- Mr. LEE. Mr. President, I ask unani- Whereas the debt of the United States ex- sions. mous consent that the text of the joint ceeds $14,000,000,000,000; S. 149, the FISA Sunsets Extension Act of resolution be printed in the RECORD. Whereas it is important for Congress to use 2011, would avoid these difficulties by reau- There being no objection, the text of all tools at its disposal to address the na- thorizing the three expiring provisions until the joint resolution was ordered to be tional debt crisis; December 2013, together with the provisions Whereas Congress will not earmark funds printed in the RECORD, as follows: of Title VII of FISA that are currently for projects requested by Members of Con- scheduled to sunset next year. We look for- S.J. RES. 5 gress; and ward to working with you to ensure the Resolved by the Senate and House of Rep- Whereas the earmark ban should be uti- prompt enactment of this or similar legisla- resentatives of the United States of America in lized to realize actual savings: Now, there- tion. Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House fore, be it The Administration also remains open to concurring therein), That the following article Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate proposals that enhance protections for civil is proposed as an amendment to the Con- that Congress should reduce spending by the liberties and privacy while maintaining the stitution of the United States, which shall be amount resulting from the recently an- effectiveness of these and other intelligence valid to all intents and purposes as part of nounced earmark moratorium. collection tools. the Constitution when ratified by the legis- f Finally, we are prepared to provide addi- latures of three-fourths of the several States: tional information to Members concerning ‘‘ARTICLE— SENATE RESOLUTION 42—TO CON- these critical authorities in a classified set- ‘‘SECTION 1. Total outlays for any fiscal STITUTE THE MAJORITY PAR- ting, as we did in connection with the pre- year shall not exceed total receipts for that TY’S MEMBERSHIP ON CERTAIN vious reauthorization of the expiring provi- fiscal year. sions. COMMITTEES FOR THE ONE HUN- ‘‘SECTION 2. Total outlays shall not exceed The Office of Management and Budget has DRED TWELFTH CONGRESS, OR 18 percent of the gross domestic product of advised us that there is no objection to this UNTIL THEIR SUCCESSORS ARE the United States for the calendar year end- letter from the perspective of the Adminis- ing prior to the beginning of such fiscal year. CHOSEN tration’s program. ‘‘SECTION 3. The Congress may provide for Mr. REID of Nevada submitted the Sincerely, suspension of the limitations imposed by sec- JAMES R. CLAPPER, following resolution; which was consid- tion 1 or 2 of this article for any fiscal year ered and agreed to: Director of National Intelligence. for which two-thirds of the whole number of ERIC H. HOLDER, JR., each House shall provide, by a roll call vote, S. RES. 42 Attorney General. for a specific excess of outlays over receipts COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, NUTRI- or over 18 percent of the gross domestic prod- TION, and FORESTRY: Ms. Stabenow By Mr. MCCONNELL (for himself, uct of the United States for the calendar (Chairman), Mr. Leahy, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Con- Mr. GRASSLEY, and Mr. CHAM- year ending prior to the beginning of such rad, Mr. Baucus, Mr. Nelson (Nebraska), Mr. BLISS): fiscal year. Brown (Ohio), Mr. Casey, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. S. 291. A bill to repeal the sunset pro- ‘‘SECTION 4. Any bill to levy a new tax or Bennet, and Mrs. Gillibrand. visions in the USA PATRIOT Improve- increase the rate of any tax shall not become COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS: Mr. ment and Reauthorization Act of 2005 law unless approved by two-thirds of the Inouye (Chairman), Mr. Leahy, Mr. Harkin, and other related provisions and per- whole number of each House of Congress by Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Kohl, Mrs. Murray, Mrs. manently reauthorize the USA PA- a roll call vote. Feinstein, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Johnson (South ‘‘SECTION 5. The limit on the debt of the Dakota), Ms. Landrieu, Mr. Reed, Mr. Lau- TRIOT Act; read the first time. United States held by the public shall not be tenberg, Mr. Nelson (Nebraska), Mr. Pryor, Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I increased, unless two-thirds of the whole Mr. Tester, and Mr. Brown (Ohio). ask unanimous consent that the text of number of each House of Congress shall pro- COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES: Mr. the bill be printed in the RECORD. vide for such an increase by a roll call vote. Levin (Chairman), Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Reed,

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Dakota) (Chairman), Mr. Reed, Mr. Schumer, Casey (Chairman), Mr. Bingaman, Ms. Klo- COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET: Mr. Ses- Mr. Menendez, Mr. Akaka, Mr. Brown (Ohio), buchar, Mr. Webb, Mr. Warner, and Mr. sions, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Enzi, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Mr. Tester, Mr. Kohl, Mr. Warner, Mr. Sanders. Ensign, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Graham, Mr. Thune, Merkley, Mr. Bennet, and Mrs. Hagan. SELECT COMMITTEE ON ETHICS: Mrs. Mr. Portman, Mr. Toomey, and Mr. Johnson COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, Boxer (Chairman), Mr. Pryor, and Mr. Brown (Wisconsin). AND TRANSPORTATION: Mr. Rockefeller (Ohio). COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ADMINIS- (Chairman), Mr. Inouye, Mr. Kerry, Mrs. COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS: Mr. TRATION: Mr. Alexander, Mr. McConnell, Boxer, Mr. Nelson (Florida), Ms. Cantwell, Akaka (Chairman), Mr. Inouye, Mr. Conrad, Mr. Cochran, Mr. Chambliss, Mrs. Hutchison, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Shelby, and Mr. Blunt. Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Pryor, Mrs. McCaskill, Mr. Johnson (South Dakota), Ms. Cantwell, COMMITTEE ON SMALL BUSINESS AND Mr. Tester, Mr. Udall (New Mexico), and Mr. Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Udall (New Mexico), Mr. ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Ms. Snowe, Mr. Vit- Warner, and Mr. Begich. Franken. ter, Mr. Risch, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Paul, Ms. COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NAT- f Ayotte, Mr. Enzi, Mr. Brown (Massachu- URAL RESOURCES: Mr. Bingaman (Chair- setts), and Mr. Moran. man), Mr. Wyden, Mr. Johnson (South Da- SENATE RESOLUTION 43—TO CON- COMMITTEE ON VETERANS’ AFFAIRS: kota), Ms. Landrieu, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Sand- STITUTE THE MINORITY PAR- Mr. Burr, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Wicker, Mr. ers, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Udall (Colorado), TY’S MEMBERSHIP ON CERTAIN Johanns, Mr. Brown (Massachusetts), Mr. Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Franken, Mr. Manchin, COMMITTEES FOR THE ONE HUN- Moran, and Mr. Boozman. and Mr. Coons. DRED TWELFTH CONGRESS, OR SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON AGING: Mr. COMMITTEE ON THE ENVIRONMENT UNTIL THEIR SUCCESSORS ARE Corker, Ms. Collins, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Kirk, Mr. AND PUBLIC WORKS: Mrs. Boxer (Chair- Moran, Mr. Johnson (Wisconsin), Ms. Ayotte, man), Mr. Baucus, Mr. Carper, Mr. Lauten- CHOSEN Mr. Shelby, Mr. Graham, and Mr. Chambliss. berg, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Sanders, Mr. White- Mr. MCCONNELL submitted the fol- SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTEL- house, Mr. Udall (New Mexico), Mr. Merkley, lowing resolution; which was consid- LIGENCE: Mr. Chambliss, Ms. Snowe, Mr. and Mrs. Gillibrand. ered and agreed to: Burr, Mr. Risch, Mr. Coats, Mr. Blunt, and COMMITTEE ON FINANCE: Mr. Baucus Mr. Rubio. (Chairman), Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Conrad, S. RES. 43 JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE: Mr. Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Wyden, Mr. COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, NUTRI- DeMint, Mr. Coats, Mr. Lee, and Mr. Schumer, Ms. Stabenow, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. TION, AND FORESTRY: Mr. Roberts, Mr. Toomey. Nelson (Florida), Mr. Menendez, Mr. Carper, Lugar, Mr. Cochran, Mr. McConnell, Mr. SELECT COMMITTEE ON ETHICS: Mr. and Mr. Cardin. Chambliss, Mr. Johanns, Mr. Boozman, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Roberts, and Mr. Risch. COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: Grassley, Mr. Thune, and Mr. Hoeven. COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS: Mr. Mr. Kerry (Chairman), Mrs. Boxer, Mr. COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS: Mr. Barrasso, Mr. McCain, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Casey, Mr. Webb, Cochran, Mr. McConnell, Mr. Shelby, Mrs. Hoeven, Mr. Crapo, and Mr. Johanns. Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Coons, Mr. Durbin, and Hutchison, Mr. Alexander, Ms. Collins, Ms. f Mr. Udall (New Mexico). Murkowski, Mr. Graham, Mr. Kirk, Mr. COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, EDUCATION, Coats, Mr. Blunt, Mr. Moran, Mr. Hoeven, SENATE RESOLUTION 44—SUP- LABOR, AND PENSIONS: Mr. Harkin and Mr. Johnson (Wisconsin). PORTING DEMOCRACY, UNI- (Chairman), Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Bingaman, COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES: Mr. VERSAL RIGHTS, AND THE Mrs. Murray, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Casey, Mrs. McCain, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Cham- PEACEFUL TRANSITION TO A Hagan, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Franken, Mr. Ben- bliss, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Brown (Massachu- REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT net, Mr. Whitehouse, and Mr. Blumenthal. setts), Mr. Portman, Ms. Ayotte, Ms. Collins, IN EGYPT COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY Mr. Graham, Mr. Cornyn, and Mr. Vitter. AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS: Mr. Lie- COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, Mr. KERRY (for himself, Mr. MCCAIN, berman (Chairman), Mr. Levin, Mr. Akaka, AND URBAN AFFAIRS: Mr. Shelby, Mr. Mr. GRAHAM, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. Mr. Carper, Mr. Pryor, Ms. Landrieu, Mrs. Crapo, Mr. Corker, Mr. DeMint, Mr. Vitter, CARDIN, Mr. NELSON of Florida, Mr. McCaskill, Mr. Tester, and Mr. Begich. Mr. Johanns, Mr. Toomey, Mr. Kirk, Mr. DURBIN, and Mr. LEVIN) submitted the COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY: Mr. Moran, and Mr. Wicker. following resolution; which was consid- Leahy (Chairman), Mr. Kohl, Mrs. Feinstein, COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, ered and agreed to: Mr. Schumer, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Whitehouse, AND TRANSPORTATION: Mrs. Hutchison, S. RES. 44 Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Franken, Mr. Coons, and Ms. Snowe, Mr. Ensign, Mr. DeMint, Mr. Mr. Blumenthal. Thune, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Blunt, Whereas the United States and Egypt have SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTEL- Mr. Boozman, Mr. Toomey, Mr. Rubio, and long shared a strong bilateral relationship; LIGENCE: Mrs. Feinstein (Chairman), Mr. Ms. Ayotte. Whereas Egypt plays an important role in Rockefeller, Mr. Wyden, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NAT- global and regional politics as well as in the Nelson (Florida), Mr. Conrad, Mr. Udall (Col- URAL RESOURCES: Ms. Murkowski, Mr. broader Middle East and North Africa; orado), and Mr. Warner. Burr, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Risch, Mr. Lee, Mr. Whereas Egypt has been, and continues to COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET: Mr. Con- Paul, Mr. Coats, Mr. Portman, Mr. Hoeven, be, an intellectual and cultural center of the rad (Chairman), Mrs. Murray, Mr. Wyden, and Mr. Corker. Arab world; Mr. Nelson (Florida), Ms. Stabenow, Mr. COMMITTEE ON THE ENVIRONMENT Whereas on January 25, 2011, demonstra- Cardin, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. AND PUBLIC WORKS: Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Vit- tions began across Egypt with thousands of Warner, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Begich, and Mr. ter, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Crapo, protesters peacefully calling for a new gov- Coons. Mr. Alexander, Mr. Johanns, and Mr. Booz- ernment, free and fair elections, significant COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ADMINIS- man. constitutional and political reforms, greater TRATION: Mr. Schumer (Chairman), Mr. COMMITTEE ON FINANCE: Mr. Hatch, economic opportunity, and an end to govern- Inouye, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Nel- Mr. Grassley, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Kyl, Mr. Crapo, ment corruption; son (Nebraska). Mrs. Murray, Mr. Pryor, Mr. Mr. Roberts, Mr. Ensign, Mr. Enzi, Mr. Cor- Whereas on January 28, 2011, the Govern- Udall (New Mexico), Mr. Warner, and Mr. nyn, Mr. Coburn, and Mr. Thune. ment of Egypt shut down Internet and mo- Leahy. COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: bile phone networks almost entirely and COMMITTEE ON SMALL BUSINESS AND Mr. Lugar, Mr. Corker, Mr. Risch, Mr. Rubio, blocked social networking websites; ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Ms. Landrieu Mr. Inhofe, Mr. DeMint, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Whereas on January 29, 2011, President (Chairman), Mr. Levin, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Barrasso, and Mr. Lee. Hosni Mubarak appointed Omar Suleiman, Kerry, Mr. Lieberman, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, EDUCATION, former head of the Egyptian General Intel- Pryor, Mr. Cardin, Mrs. Shaheen, and Mrs. LABOR, AND PENSIONS: Mr. Enzi, Mr. ligence Directorate, as Vice President and Hagan. Alexander, Mr. Burr, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Paul, Ahmed Shafik, former Minister for Civil COMMITTEE ON VETERANS’ AFFAIRS: Mr. Hatch, Mr. McCain, Mr. Roberts, Ms. Aviation, as Prime Minister; Mrs. Murray (Chairman), Mr. Rockefeller, Murkowski, and Mr. Kirk. Whereas the demonstrations have contin- Mr. Akaka, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Brown (Ohio), COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY ued, making this the longest protest in mod- Mr. Webb, Mr. Tester, and Mr. Begich. AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS: Ms. Col- ern Egyptian history, and on February 1,

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:29 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00054 Fmt 0686 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\S03FE1.002 S03FE1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD 1230 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 February 3, 2011 2011, millions of protesters took to the tion to a democratic political system, in- Levi Mitchell threw a 22-yard touchdown streets across the country; cluding the transfer of power to an inclusive pass to Brandon Kaufman; Whereas hundreds of Egyptians have been interim caretaker government, in coordina- Whereas Mitchell then threw another killed and injured since the protests began; tion with leaders from Egypt’s opposition, touchdown to Nicholas Edwards with 8 min- Whereas on February 1, 2011, President civil society, and military, to enact the nec- utes and 16 seconds left in the fourth quar- Hosni Mubarak announced that he would not essary reforms to hold free, fair, and inter- ter; run for reelection later this year, but wide- nationally credible elections this year; Whereas Mitchell threw a third touchdown, spread protests against his government con- (7) affirms that a real transition to a le- again to Kaufman, with 2 minutes and 47 sec- tinue; gitimate representative democracy in Egypt onds left in the game, clinching a win in the Whereas on February 1, 2011, President requires concrete steps to be taken as soon Eagles’ first trip to the National Collegiate Barack Obama called for an orderly transi- as possible, including lifting the state of Athletic Association Division 1 Football tion, stating that it ‘‘must be meaningful, it emergency, allowing Egyptians to organize Championship Subdivision game; must be peaceful, and it must begin now.’’ independent political parties without inter- Whereas the Eagles began the 2010 season He also affirmed that: ‘‘The process must in- ference, enhancing the transparency of gov- in the newly renovated and dedicated Roos clude a broad spectrum of Egyptian voices ernmental institutions, restoring judicial su- Field, named after Eastern Washington Uni- and opposition parties. It should lead to elec- pervision of elections, allowing credible versity alumnus and offensive lineman Mi- tions that are free and fair. And it should re- international monitors to observe the prepa- chael Roos of the National Football League’s sult in a government that’s not only ground- ration and conduct of elections, and amend- Tennessee Titans; ed in democratic principles, but is also re- ing the laws and Constitution of Egypt as Whereas Roos Field is the only Division 1 sponsive to the aspirations of the Egyptian necessary to implement these and other crit- college football stadium to feature a red people.’’; ical reforms; playing surface, leading Roos Field to be Whereas despite President Hosni (8) pledges full support for Egypt’s transi- aptly nicknamed ‘‘The Inferno’’; Mubarak’s pledge in 2005 that Egypt’s con- tion to a representative democracy that is Whereas head coach Beau Baldwin was troversial emergency law would be used only responsive to the needs of the Egyptian peo- named the Coach of the Year by College to fight terrorism and that he planned to ple, and calls on all nations to support the Sporting News; abolish the state of emergency and adopt people of Egypt as they work to conduct a Whereas the 2010 Buck Buchanan Award, new antiterrorism legislation as an alter- successful transition to democracy; honoring the most outstanding defensive native, in May 2010, the Government of (9) expresses deep concern over any organi- player in the Division I Football Champion- Egypt again extended the emergency law, zation that espouses an extremist ideology, ship Subdivision, was awarded to Eagles line- which has been in place continuously since including the Muslim Brotherhood, and calls backer J.C. Sherritt; 1981, for another 2 years, giving police broad upon all political movements and parties in Whereas Big Sky Conference honors were powers of arrest and allowing indefinite de- Egypt, including an interim government, to awarded to Eagles running back Taiwan tention without charge; affirm their commitment to non-violence Jones, who was named Offensive Player of Whereas the Department of State’s 2009 and the rule of law, the equal rights of all in- the Year, and Eagles linebacker J.C. Human Rights Report notes with respect to dividuals, accountable institutions of jus- Sherritt, who was named Defensive Player of Egypt, ‘‘[t]he government’s respect for tice, religious tolerance, peaceful relations the Year; human rights remained poor, and serious with Egypt’s neighbors, and the fundamental Whereas the Eagles clinched a share of the abuses continued in many areas. The govern- principles and practices of democracy, in- 2010 Big Sky Conference title, with a con- ment limited citizens’ right to change their cluding the regular conduct of free and fair ference record of 7-1 and an overall season government and continued a state of emer- elections; record of 13-2, and finished the 2010 season gency that has been in place almost continu- (10) underscores the vital importance of with an 11-game win streak; and ously since 1967.’’; any Egyptian Government continuing to ful- Whereas the Eagles enjoyed widespread Whereas past elections in Egypt, including fill its international obligations, including support from their dedicated and spirited the most recent November 2010 parliamen- its commitments under the Egypt-Israel fans, as well as the entire Eastern Wash- tary elections, have seen serious irregular- Peace Treaty signed on March 26, 1979 and ington University community: Now, there- ities at polling and counting stations, secu- the freedom of navigation through the Suez fore, be it rity force intimidation and coercion of vot- Canal; and Resolved, That the Senate— ers, and obstruction of peaceful political ral- (11) ensures that United States assistance (1) congratulates the Eastern Washington lies and demonstrations; and to the Egyptian Government, military, and University football team for winning the Na- Whereas any election must be honest and people will advance the goal of ensuring re- tional Collegiate Athletic Association Divi- open to all legitimate candidates and con- spect for the universal rights of the Egyptian sion 1 Football Championship Subdivision ducted without interference from the mili- people and will further the national security title; tary or security apparatus and under the interests of the United States in the region. (2) recognizes the hard work and dedication oversight of international monitors: Now, f of the players, head coach Beau Baldwin, and therefore, be it the assistant coaches and support personnel Resolved, That the Senate— SENATE RESOLUTION 45—CON- who all played critical roles in helping the (1) acknowledges the central and historic GRATULATING THE EASTERN Eastern Washington University Eagles win importance of the United States-Egyptian WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY FOOT- the Subdivision title; and strategic partnership in advancing the com- BALL TEAM FOR WINNING THE (3) respectfully requests the Secretary of mon interests of both countries, including 2010 NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATH- the Senate to transmit an enrolled copy of the resolution to— peace and security in the broader Middle LETIC ASSOCIATION DIVISION 1 East and North Africa; (A) the President of Eastern Washington (2) reaffirms the United States’ commit- FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SUB- University, Dr. Rodolfo Are´valo; ment to the universal rights of freedom of DIVISION TITLE (B) the Athletic Director of Eastern Wash- assembly, freedom of speech, and freedom of Mrs. MURRAY (for herself and Ms. ington University, Bill Chaves; and access to information, including the Inter- CANTWELL) submitted the following (C) the Head Coach of the Eastern Wash- net, and expresses strong support for the resolution; which was considered and ington University football team, Beau Bald- people of Egypt in their peaceful calls for a win. agreed to: representative and responsive democratic f government that respects these rights; S. RES. 45 (3) condemns any efforts to provoke or in- Whereas on January 7, 2011, the Eastern AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED AND stigate violence, and calls upon all parties to Washington University football team (re- PROPOSED refrain from all violent and criminal acts; ferred to in this preamble as the ‘‘Eagles’’) SA 36. Mr. VITTER submitted an amend- (4) supports freedom of the press and defeated the University of Delaware Blue ment intended to be proposed by him to the strongly condemns the intimidation, tar- Hens by a score of 20 to 19, to win the 2010 bill S. 223, to modernize the air traffic con- geting, or detention of journalists. National Collegiate Athletic Association Di- trol system, improve the safety, reliability, (5) urges the Egyptian military to dem- vision 1 Football Championship Subdivision and availability of transportation by air in onstrate maximum professionalism and re- title; the United States, provide modernization of straint, and emphasizes the importance of Whereas the Eagles were down for most of the air traffic control system, reauthorize working to peacefully restore calm and order the championship game, trailing 0 to 19 until the Federal Aviation Administration, and for while allowing for free and non-violent free- late in the third quarter; other purposes; which was ordered to lie on dom of expression; Whereas, it was not until 1 minute and 48 the table. (6) calls on President Mubarak to imme- seconds remained in the third quarter of the SA 37. Ms. KLOBUCHAR submitted an diately begin an orderly and peaceful transi- championship game that quarterback Bo amendment intended to be proposed by her

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(2) projections of the total revenues to be develop detection techniques for small un- 223, supra; which was ordered to lie on the generated by the Department of the Interior manned aerial vehicles and validate sensor table. due to domestic resource production for each integration and operation of unmanned aer- SA 39. Mr. CHAMBLISS (for himself and of fiscal years 2011 through 2015. ial systems. Mr. ISAKSON) submitted an amendment in- tended to be proposed by him to the bill S. SA 37. Ms. KLOBUCHAR submitted SA 39. Mr. CHAMBLISS (for himself 223, supra; which was ordered to lie on the an amendment intended to be proposed and Mr. ISAKSON) submitted an amend- table. by her to the bill S. 223, to modernize ment intended to be proposed by him SA 40. Mr. BEGICH (for himself and Ms. the air traffic control system, improve to the bill S. 223, to modernize the air MURKOWSKI) submitted an amendment in- the safety, reliability, and availability traffic control system, improve the tended to be proposed by him to the bill S. safety, reliability, and availability of 223, supra; which was ordered to lie on the of transportation by air in the United States, provide modernization of the transportation by air in the United table. States, provide modernization of the SA 41. Mr. BAUCUS (for himself and Mr. air traffic control system, reauthorize TESTER) submitted an amendment intended the Federal Aviation Administration, air traffic control system, reauthorize to be proposed by him to the bill S. 223, and for other purposes; which was or- the Federal Aviation Administration, supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. dered to lie on the table; as follows: and for other purposes; which was or- dered to lie on the table; as follows: SA 42. Mr. MERKLEY (for himself and Mr. Strike section 214, and insert the fol- YDEN) submitted an amendment intended W lowing: At the end of title II, add the following: to be proposed by him to the bill S. 223, SEC. 224. TWO-YEAR PROHIBITION ON EXPAN- SECTION 214. ALLOWABLE PROJECT COSTS FOR supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SION OF BULLDOG MILITARY OPER- AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. SA 43. Mr. DURBIN submitted an amend- ATING AREAS. Section 47110(b)(2)(D) is amended to read as ment intended to be proposed by him to the The Administrator of the Federal Aviation follows: bill S. 223, supra; which was ordered to lie on Administration may not amend, expand, or ‘‘(D) if the cost is for airport development the table . modify, or approve an amendment, expan- and is incurred before execution of the grant SA 44. Ms. CANTWELL submitted an sion, or modification of, the Bulldog Mili- agreement, but in the same fiscal year as amendment intended to be proposed by her tary Operating Area (MOA) A or Bulldog execution of the grant agreement, and if— to the bill S. 223, supra; which was ordered to Military Operating Area (MOA) B until 2 ‘‘(i) the cost was incurred before execution lie on the table. years after the date of enactment of this of the grant agreement due to the short con- SA 45. Ms. CANTWELL submitted an Act. struction season in the vicinity of the air- amendment intended to be proposed by her port; to the bill S. 223, supra; which was ordered to SA 40. Mr. BEGICH (for himself and ‘‘(ii) the cost is in accordance with an air- lie on the table. Ms. MURKOWSKI) submitted an amend- port layout plan approved by the Secretary SA 46. Ms. CANTWELL (for herself, Mr. ment intended to be proposed by him and with all statutory and administrative re- ISAKSON, and Mr. CHAMBLISS) submitted an to the bill S. 223, to modernize the air quirements that would have been applicable amendment intended to be proposed by her to the project if the project had been carried traffic control system, improve the to the bill S. 223, supra; which was ordered to out after execution of the grant agreement; safety, reliability, and availability of lie on the table. ‘‘(iii) the sponsor notifies the Secretary be- transportation by air in the United f fore authorizing work to commence on the States, provide modernization of the TEXT OF AMENDMENTS project; and air traffic control system, reauthorize ‘‘(iv) the sponsor’s decision to proceed with the Federal Aviation Administration, SA 36. Mr. VITTER submitted an the project in advance of execution of the and for other purposes; which was or- amendment intended to be proposed by grant agreement does not affect the priority dered to lie on the table; as follows: him to the bill S. 223, to modernize the assigned to the project by the Secretary for the allocation of discretionary funds;’’. Beginning on page 307, strike line 1 and all air traffic control system, improve the that follows through page 310, line 10, and in- safety, reliability, and availability of SA 38. Mr. BROWN of Ohio (for him- sert the following: transportation by air in the United SEC. 730. TRANSPORTATION OF COMPRESSED OX- ORTMAN self and Mr. P ) submitted an YGEN AND OXIDIZING GASES WITHIN States, provide modernization of the amendment intended to be proposed by air traffic control system, reauthorize ALASKA. him to the bill S. 223, to modernize the In circumstances in which it is impracti- the Federal Aviation Administration, air traffic control system, improve the cable to transport compressed oxygen and and for other purposes; which was or- safety, reliability, and availability of other oxidizing gases within the State of dered to lie on the table; as follows: transportation by air in the United Alaska through transportation modes other On page 311, between lines 11 and 12, insert States, provide modernization of the than by aircraft, the transportation of such the following: gases within Alaska shall not be subject to air traffic control system, reauthorize the requirements under— SEC. 7ll. UPDATES TO FEDERAL BUDGET DEF- the Federal Aviation Administration, ICIT CALCULATIONS; OMB REPORT (1) paragraphs (3), (4), and (5) of section TO CONGRESS. and for other purposes; which was or- 173.302(f) of title 49, Code of Federal Regula- (a) UPDATES TO FEDERAL BUDGET DEFICIT dered to lie on the table; as follows: tions; CALCULATIONS.—Thirty days after the date of On page 97, strike lines 4 through 8 and in- (2) paragraphs (3), (4), and (5) of section enactment of this Act, the Director of the sert the following: 173.304(f) of such title; and Office of Management and Budget and the (b) TEST SITE CRITERIA.—In determining (3) appendices D and E of part 178 of such Director of the Congressional Budget Office where the test sites to be established under title. shall update the Federal budget deficit cal- the pilot project required by subsection (a)(1) culations to take into account any loss of are to be located, the Administrator shall— SA 41. Mr. BAUCUS (for himself and Federal revenue resulting from projected re- (1) take into consideration geographical Mr. TESTER) submitted an amend- ductions in oil and gas production during and climate diversity; and ment intended to be proposed by him each of the 5- and 10-year periods beginning (2) consult with the Secretary of the Air to the bill S. 223, to modernize the air on the date of enactment of this Act due to Force and the Administrator of the National traffic control system, improve the the moratorium on oil and gas leasing in the Aeronautics and Space Administration to de- safety, reliability, and availability of Gulf of Mexico set forth on May 25, 2010, and termine the test sites with available re- transportation by air in the United all following notice to lessees, rules, and reg- search radars to most efficiently meet na- States, provide modernization of the ulations by the Department of Interior per- tional defense and civilian aerospace needs. air traffic control system, reauthorize taining to offshore energy production. (c) SYSTEMS AND DETECTION TECHNIQUES.— (b) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—As soon as prac- Within 6 months after date of enactment of the Federal Aviation Administration, ticable after the date of enactment of this this Act, the Administrator shall submit to and for other purposes; which was or- Act, the Director of the Office of Manage- the Committee on Commerce, Science, and dered to lie on the table; as follows: ment and Budget shall submit to Congress a Transportation of the Senate and the Com- Strike section 320, and insert the fol- report that provides— mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure lowing:

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(iii) a variety of terrain, topography, and conducted by other air carriers granted ex- (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year vegetation, including forested and moun- emptions pursuant to this section, with the after the date of the enactment of this Act, tainous terrain, a diversity of crop and graz- highest scheduling priority to be afforded to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation ing lands, and areas inhabited by wildlife and beyond-perimeter operations conducted by Administration shall develop and implement livestock. new entrant air carriers and limited incum- a plan to accelerate the integration of un- (B) ACCESS TO MARITIME AREAS.—The Cen- bent air carriers.’’. manned aerial systems into the National ter shall also have access to maritime and Airspace System. The plan shall— gulf areas through collaborative agreements SA 43. Mr. DURBIN submitted an (1) create a pilot project to integrate un- with other universities and research insti- amendment intended to be proposed by manned aerial systems into the National tutes. him to the bill S. 223, to modernize the Airspace System at 4 test sites in the Na- (3) CERTIFICATION PROCESS.—The Adminis- air traffic control system, improve the tional Airspace System by 2012; trator of the Federal Aviation Administra- safety, reliability, and availability of (2) create a test and development center to tion shall expedite the approval process for transportation by air in the United research new applications for unmanned aer- Certificate of Authorization (COA) requests States, provide modernization of the ial systems in the National Airspace System from the UAS Test and Development Center. air traffic control system, reauthorize through a partnership with public univer- (d) REPORT.—Not later than 12 months sities and private industry; after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Federal Aviation Administration, (3) create a safe, nonexclusionary airspace and annually thereafter, the Administrator and for other purposes; which was or- designation for cooperative manned and un- of the Federal Aviation Administration shall dered to lie on the table; as follows: manned flight operations in the National report to the Committee on Commerce, At the end of title II, add the following: Airspace System; Science, and Transportation of the Senate SEC. 224. REPAYMENT OF FEDERAL GRANTS BE- (4) establish a process to develop certifi- and the Committee on Transportation and FORE PRIVATIZATION OF AIRPORTS. cation, flight standards, and air traffic re- Infrastructure of the House of Representa- Section 47134(b)(2) is amended to read as quirements for such unmanned aerial sys- tives on the progress of integrating un- follows: tems at each of the test sites; manned aerial systems into the National ‘‘(2) REPAYMENT REQUIREMENTS.— (5) dedicate funding for unmanned aerial Airspace System. ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Before a sponsor that systems research and development for cer- (e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— has received an exemption under this section tification, flight standards, and air traffic re- There are authorized to be appropriated to sells or leases an airport as described in sub- quirements; the Administrator of the Federal Aviation section (a), the sponsor shall repay to the (6) encourage leveraging and coordination Administration for each of the fiscal years Secretary— of such research and development activities 2011 through 2013 such sums as may be nec- ‘‘(i) the Federal share of the fair-market with the National Aeronautics and Space Ad- essary to carry out this section. value of any land that is part of the airport ministration and the Department of Defense; and that was purchased after September 3, (7) address both military and civilian un- SA 42. Mr. MERKLEY (for himself 1982, with a Federal grant; and manned aerial system operations; and Mr. WYDEN) submitted an amend- ‘‘(ii) the lesser of— (8) ensure the unmanned aircraft systems ment intended to be proposed by him ‘‘(I) the Federal share of the remaining integration plan is incorporated in the Fed- to the bill S. 223, to modernize the air unamortized portion, as determined by the eral Aviation Administration’s NextGen Air traffic control system, improve the Secretary, of any grant made under this sub- Transportation System implementation safety, reliability, and availability of chapter after September 3, 1982, for improve- plan; and ments to the airport; or (9) provide for verification of the safety of transportation by air in the United ‘‘(II) the Federal share of the value of the the unmanned aerial systems and navigation States, provide modernization of the improvements to the airport made with the procedures before their integration into the air traffic control system, reauthorize grant described in subclause (I). National Airspace System. the Federal Aviation Administration, ‘‘(B) DETERMINATION OF VALUE OF IMPROVE- (b) TEST SITE CRITERIA.—The Adminis- and for other purposes; which was or- MENTS.—For purposes of subparagraph trator of the Federal Aviation Administra- dered to lie on the table; as follows: (A)(ii)(II), the value of the improvements to the airport shall be the value of the improve- tion shall take into consideration geo- On page 146, after line 23, add the fol- ments at the time of the sale or lease of the graphical and climate diversity in deter- lowing: mining where the test sites authorized under airport approved under subsection (a), as de- SEC. 435. FLIGHT OPERATIONS AT RONALD termined by the Secretary. subsection (a)(1) are to be located. REAGAN WASHINGTON NATIONAL (c) UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS TEST AND AIRPORT. ‘‘(C) EFFECT OF AMOUNT OF COMPENSA- DEVELOPMENT CENTER.— (a) BEYOND PERIMETER EXEMPTIONS.—Sec- TION.—A sponsor shall repay the amounts re- (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 12 months tion 41718(a) is amended by striking ‘‘24’’ and quired by subparagraph (A) without regard after the date of the enactment of this Act, inserting ‘‘40’’. to the amount of compensation received pur- the Administrator of the Federal Aviation (b) LIMITATIONS.—Section 41718(c)(2) is suant to the sale or lease of the airport ap- Administration shall designate, through amended by striking ‘‘3 operations’’ and in- proved under subsection (a). partnerships with State public universities serting ‘‘6 operations’’. ‘‘(D) EFFECT OF REPAYMENT ON CERTAIN OB- and private industry, an Unmanned Aerial (c) ALLOCATION OF BEYOND-PERIMETER EX- LIGATIONS.—The repayment of the amounts Systems (UAS) Test and Development Center EMPTIONS.—Section 41718(c) is amended— required under subparagraph (A) shall not that focuses on the development of new com- (1) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) terminate— mercial unmanned aircraft systems. The as paragraphs (4) and (5), respectively; and ‘‘(i) any obligation of the Federal Govern- Center shall focus on— (2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol- ment to operate the airport; or (A) the use of biofuels and alternative fuels lowing: ‘‘(ii) any obligation of the sponsor, or to power the unmanned aerial systems; ‘‘(3) SLOTS.—The Administrator of the Fed- owner or lessee of the airport, with respect (B) the applied research of commercial ap- eral Aviation Administration shall reduce to— plications of unmanned aircraft systems, in- the hourly air carrier slot quota for Ronald ‘‘(I) funding airport land or improvements cluding the application of such systems in Reagan Washington National Airport in sec- to the airport; or forest and wildfire management; tion 93.123(a) of title 14, Code of Federal Reg- ‘‘(II) any Federal land conveyed to be used (C) the application of such systems in agri- ulations, by a total of 16 slots that are avail- for airport purposes.’’. culture and livestock management; able for allocation. Such reductions shall be (D) the application of such systems in wild- taken in the 6:00 a.m., 10:00 p.m., or 11:00 p.m. SA 44. Ms. CANTWELL submitted an life and predator management; and hours, as determined by the Administrator, amendment intended to be proposed by (E) the application of such systems in a in order to grant exemptions under sub- her to the bill S. 223, to modernize the maritime and gulf environment. section (a).’’. air traffic control system, improve the (2) LOCATION OF CENTER.— (d) SCHEDULING PRIORITY.—Section 41718 is safety, reliability, and availability of (A) IN GENERAL.—The Center shall be in amended— transportation by air in the United close proximity to a test area that is suit- (1) by redesignating subsections (e) and (f) States, provide modernization of the able for unmanned aircraft systems that in- as subsections (f) and (g), respectively; and air traffic control system, reauthorize cludes— (2) by inserting after subsection (d) the fol- (i) Class G airspace with low air traffic use lowing: the Federal Aviation Administration, located in a sparsely populated, low-density ‘‘(e) SCHEDULING PRIORITY.—Operations and for other purposes; which was or- area within the continental United States; conducted by new entrant air carriers and dered to lie on the table; as follows: (ii) a diversity of climate and weather con- limited incumbent air carriers shall be af- At the appropriate place insert the fol- ditions; and forded a scheduling priority over operations lowing:

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(A) is a plan described in section 401(a) of ‘‘The Administrator may take into account (2) TRANSFER OF AMOUNTS ATTRIBUTABLE TO the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 which in- the matters considered under section 40101(a) AIRLINE PAYMENT AMOUNT FOLLOWING ROLL- cludes a trust exempt from tax under section in determining what is in the public interest OVER TO ROTH IRA.—A qualified airline em- 501(a) of such Code, and under this paragraph in matters related to— ployee who has contributed an airline pay- (B) was terminated or became subject to ‘‘(A) carrying out subpart II of this sub- ment amount to a Roth IRA that is treated the restrictions contained in paragraphs (2) title; and as a qualified rollover contribution pursuant and (3) of section 402(b) of the Pension Pro- ‘‘(B) those provisions of subpart IV applica- to section 125 of the Worker, Retiree, and tection Act of 2006. ble in carrying out subpart II.’’. Employer Recovery Act of 2008, may transfer (3) TRADITIONAL IRA.—The term ‘‘tradi- (b) SAFETY REGULATION.—Section 40109(b) to a traditional IRA, in a trustee-to-trustee tional IRA’’ means an individual retirement is amended by adding at the end the fol- transfer, all or any part of the contribution plan (as defined in section 7701(a)(37) of the lowing: ‘‘The Administrator may take into (together with any net income allocable to Internal Revenue Code of 1986) which is not account the matters considered under sec- such contribution), and the transfer to the a Roth IRA. tion 40101(a) in determining what is in the traditional IRA will be deemed to have been (4) ROTH IRA.—The term ‘‘Roth IRA’’ has public interest under this paragraph in mat- made at the time of the rollover to the Roth the meaning given such term by section ters related to— IRA, if such transfer is made within 180 days 408A(b) of such Code. ‘‘(1) carrying out subpart II of this sub- of the date of the enactment of this Act. A (d) SURVIVING SPOUSE.—If a qualified air- title; and qualified airline employee making such a line employee died after receiving an airline ‘‘(2) those provisions of subpart IV applica- transfer may exclude from gross income the payment amount, or if an airline payment ble in carrying out subpart II.’’. airline payment amount previously rolled amount was paid to the surviving spouse of a over to the Roth IRA, to the extent an qualified airline employee in respect of the SA 45. Ms. CANTWELL submitted an amount attributable to the previous rollover qualified airline employee, the surviving amendment intended to be proposed by was transferred to a traditional IRA, in the spouse of the qualified airline employee may her to the bill S. 223, to modernize the taxable year in which the airline payment take all actions permitted under section 125 air traffic control system, improve the amount was paid to the qualified airline em- of the Worker, Retiree and Employer Recov- safety, reliability, and availability of ployee by the commercial passenger airline ery Act of 2008, or under this section, to the transportation by air in the United carrier. No amount so transferred to a tradi- same extent that the qualified airline em- States, provide modernization of the tional IRA may be treated as a qualified roll- ployee could have done had the qualified air- over contribution with respect to a Roth IRA line employee survived. air traffic control system, reauthorize within the 5-taxable year period beginning (e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall the Federal Aviation Administration, with the taxable year in which such transfer apply to transfers made after the date of the and for other purposes; which was or- was made. enactment of this Act with respect to airline dered to lie on the table; as follows: (3) EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE CLAIM FOR payment amounts paid before, on, or after On page 297, line 19, insert ‘‘(a) IN GEN- REFUND.—A qualified airline employee who such date. excludes an amount from gross income in a ERAL.—’’ before ‘‘Not’’. f On page 298, strike lines 7 through 10 and prior taxable year under paragraph (1) or (2) insert the following: may reflect such exclusion in a claim for re- AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO (2) the potential impact to the aerospace fund filed within the period of limitation MEET industry from the degradation of capabilities under section 6511(a) (or, if later, April 15, due to the loss or change to the radio fre- 2012). COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES quency spectrum allocated to the aero- (b) TREATMENT OF AIRLINE PAYMENT Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, I nautical mobile telemetry service. AMOUNTS AND TRANSFERS FOR EMPLOYMENT ask unanimous consent that the Com- (b) NO IMPACT ON FCC ORDER.—Nothing in TAXES.—For purposes of chapter 21 of the In- mittee on Armed Services be author- this section shall prohibit, delay, or interfere ternal Revenue Code of 1986 and section 209 ized to meet during the session of the of the Social Security Act, an airline pay- with the Federal Communications Commis- Senate on February 3, 2011, at 10 a.m. sion’s issuance of an order in FCC ET Docket ment amount shall not fail to be treated as No. 08–59. a payment of wages by the commercial pas- The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without senger airline carrier to the qualified airline objection, it is so ordered. SA 46. Ms. CANTWELL (for herself, employee in the taxable year of payment be- COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL Mr. ISAKSON, and Mr. CHAMBLISS) sub- cause such amount is excluded from the RESOURCES mitted an amendment intended to be qualified airline employee’s gross income Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, I proposed by her to the bill S. 223, to under subsection (a). ask unanimous consent that the Com- (c) DEFINITIONS AND SPECIAL RULES.—For modernize the air traffic control sys- purposes of this section— mittee on Energy and Natural Re- tem, improve the safety, reliability, (1) AIRLINE PAYMENT AMOUNT.— sources be authorized to meet during and availability of transportation by (A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘airline pay- the session of the Senate to conduct a air in the United States, provide mod- ment amount’’ means any payment of any hearing on February 3, at 9:30 a.m., in ernization of the air traffic control sys- money or other property which is payable by room SH–216 of the Hart Senate Build- tem, reauthorize the Federal Aviation a commercial passenger airline carrier to a ing. Administration, and for other pur- qualified airline employee— The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without poses; which was ordered to lie on the (i) under the approval of an order of a Fed- objection, it is so ordered. eral bankruptcy court in a case filed after table; as follows: September 11, 2001, and before January 1, COMMITTEE ON FINANCE At the appropriate place, insert the fol- 2007, and Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, I lowing: (ii) in respect of the qualified airline em- ask unanimous consent that the Com- SEC. lll. ROLLOVER OF AMOUNTS RECEIVED ployee’s interest in a bankruptcy claim mittee on Finance be authorized to IN AIRLINE CARRIER BANKRUPTCY. against the carrier, any note of the carrier meet during the session of the Senate (a) GENERAL RULES.— (or amount paid in lieu of a note being on February 3, 2011, at 10 a.m., in room (1) ROLLOVER OF AIRLINE PAYMENT issued), or any other fixed obligation of the AMOUNT.—If a qualified airline employee re- carrier to pay a lump sum amount. 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Build- ceives any airline payment amount and The amount of such payment shall be deter- ing, to conduct a hearing entitled transfers any portion of such amount to a mined without regard to any requirement to ‘‘Status of the Airport and Airway traditional IRA within 180 days of receipt of deduct and withhold tax from such payment Trust Fund.’’ such amount (or, if later, within 180 days of under sections 3102(a) and 3402(a). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the date of the enactment of this Act), then (B) EXCEPTION.—An airline payment objection, it is so ordered. such amount (to the extent so transferred) amount shall not include any amount pay- COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR, shall be treated as a rollover contribution able on the basis of the carrier’s future earn- AND PENSIONS described in section 402(c) of the Internal ings or profits. Revenue Code of 1986. A qualified airline em- (2) QUALIFIED AIRLINE EMPLOYEE.—The Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, I ployee making such a transfer may exclude term ‘‘qualified airline employee’’ means an ask unanimous consent that the Com- from gross income the amount transferred, employee or former employee of a commer- mittee on Health, Education, Labor,

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Res. 42) was agreed objection, it is so ordered. have to move toward funding author- to, as follows: COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY izations that are in line with our ac- S. RES. 42 Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, I tual resources and I look forward to Resolved, That the following shall con- ask unanimous consent that the Com- working with my friend, the majority stitute the majority party’s membership on mittee on the Judiciary be authorized leader, to accomplish this. the following committees for the One Hun- Mr. REID. I thank my friend, the Re- dred Twelfth Congress, or until their succes- to meet during the session of the Sen- sors are chosen: ate, on February 3, 2011, at 10 a.m., in publican leader, and ask unanimous COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, NUTRI- SD–226 of the Dirksen Senate Office consent that a joint leadership letter TION, AND FORESTRY: Ms. Stabenow Building, to conduct an executive busi- be printed in the RECORD. (Chairman), Mr. Leahy, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Con- ness meeting. There being no objection, the mate- rad, Mr. Baucus, Mr. Nelson (Nebraska), Mr. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without rial was ordered to be printed in the Brown (Ohio), Mr. Casey, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. objection, it is so ordered. RECORD, as follows: Bennet, and Mrs. Gillibrand. COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS: Mr. COMMITTEE ON SMALL BUSINESS AND JOINT LEADERSHIP LETTER Inouye (Chairman), Mr. Leahy, Mr. Harkin, ENTREPRENEURSHIP We mutually commit to the following for Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Kohl, Mrs. Murray, Mrs. Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, I the 112th Congress: Feinstein, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Johnson (South ask unanimous consent that the Com- The budgets of the Committees of the Sen- Dakota), Ms. Landrieu, Mr. Reed, Mr. Lau- mittee on Small Business and Entre- ate, including Joint and Special Committees, tenberg, Mr. Nelson (Nebraska), Mr. Pryor, preneurship be authorized to meet dur- and all other subgroups, shall be apportioned Mr. Tester, and Mr. Brown (Ohio). ing the session of the Senate on Feb- to reflect the ratio of the Senate as of this COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES: Mr. ruary 3, 2011, at 10:30 a.m. date, including an additional ten percent Levin (Chairman), Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Reed, Mr. Akaka, Mr. Nelson (Nebraska), Mr. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without (10%) to be allocated to the Chairmen for ad- ministrative expenses, to be determined by Webb, Mrs. McCaskill, Mr. Udall (Colorado), objection, it is so ordered. the Rules Committee. However, the amount Mrs. Hagan, Mr. Begich, Mr. Manchin, Mrs. SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE of funding authorized for each individual Shaheen, Mrs. Gillibrand, and Mr. Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, I Committee in the 112th Congress is being re- Blumenthal. ask unanimous consent that the Select duced by the amount that was allocated to COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, Committee on Intelligence be author- that Committee from Special Reserves in the AND URBAN AFFAIRS: Mr. Johnson (South last Congress. Dakota) (Chairman), Mr. Reed, Mr. Schumer, ized to meet during the session of the Mr. Menendez, Mr. Akaka, Mr. Brown (Ohio), Senate on February 3, 2011 at 2:30 p.m. Special Reserves is being restored to its historic purpose. Requests for funding will Mr. Tester, Mr. Kohl, Mr. Warner, Mr. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without only be considered when submitted by a Merkley, Mr. Bennet, and Mrs. Hagan. objection, it is so ordered. Committee Chairman and Ranking Member COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON SUPERFUND, TOXICS, AND for unanticipated, non-recurring needs. Such AND TRANSPORTATION: Mr. Rockefeller ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH requests shall be granted only upon the ap- (Chairman), Mr. Inouye, Mr. Kerry, Mrs. Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, I proval of the Chairman and Ranking Member Boxer, Mr. Nelson (Florida), Ms. Cantwell, ask unanimous consent that the Sub- of the Rules Committee. Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Pryor, Mrs. McCaskill, Funds for Committee expenses shall be Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Udall (New Mexico), Mr. committee on Superfund, Toxics, and Warner, and Mr. Begich. Environmental Health of the Com- available to each Chairman consistent with Senate rules and practices of the 111th Con- COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NAT- mittee on Environment and Public gress. URAL RESOURCES: Mr. Bingaman (Chair- Works be authorized to meet during The Chairman and Ranking Member of any man), Mr. Wyden, Mr. Johnson (South Da- the session of the Senate at 10 a.m., on Committee may, by mutual agreement, mod- kota), Ms. Landrieu, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Sand- February 3, 2011, in Dirksen 406. ify the apportionment of Committee funding ers, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Udall (Colorado), The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without and office space. Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Franken, Mr. Manchin, objection, it is so ordered. The division of Committee office space and Mr. Coons. shall be commensurate with this funding COMMITTEE ON THE ENVIRONMENT f agreement. AND PUBLIC WORKS: Mrs. Boxer (Chair- COMMITTEE FUNDING man), Mr. Baucus, Mr. Carper, Mr. Lauten- f berg, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Sanders, Mr. White- Mr. REID. Mr. President, over the house, Mr. Udall (New Mexico), Mr. Merkley, last 20 years, the apportionment of CONSTITUTING MAJORITY PAR- and Mrs. Gillibrand. committee funding has gone a straight TY’S MEMBERSHIP ON CERTAIN COMMITTEE ON FINANCE: Mr. Baucus two-thirds for majority and one-third COMMITTEES FOR THE ONE HUN- (Chairman), Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Conrad, for minority during the 1990s, regard- DRED TWELFTH CONGRESS Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Schumer, Ms. Stabenow, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. less of the size of the majority and mi- Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- Nelson (Florida), Mr. Menendez, Mr. Carper, nority, to biannual negotiations during imous consent that the Senate proceed and Mr. Cardin. the past decade. It is my intention that to the consideration of S. Res. 42. COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: the approach adopted for this Congress The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Mr. Kerry (Chairman), Mrs. Boxer, Mr. will be used in the future. This new pore. The clerk will report the resolu- Menendez, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Casey, Mr. Webb, funding allocation for Senate commit- tion by title. Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Coons, Mr. Durbin, and tees is based on the party division of Mr. Udall (New Mexico). The legislative clerk read as follows: COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, EDUCATION, the Senate, with 10 percent of the total A resolution (S. Res. 42) to constitute the LABOR, AND PENSIONS: Mr. Harkin majority and minority salary baseline majority party’s membership on certain (Chairman), Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Bingaman, going to the majority for administra- committees for the One Hundred Twelfth Mrs. Murray, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Casey, Mrs. tive expenses. However, regardless of Congress, or until their successors are cho- Hagan, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Franken, Mr. Ben- the party division of the Senate, it is sen. net, Mr. Whitehouse, and Mr. Blumenthal. also intended that the minority share There being no objection, the Senate COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY will never be less than 40 percent, and proceeded to consider the resolution. AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS: Mr. Lie- Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- berman (Chairman), Mr. Levin, Mr. Akaka, the majority share will never exceed 60 Mr. Carper, Mr. Pryor, Ms. Landrieu, Mrs. percent. imous consent that the resolution be McCaskill, Mr. Tester, and Mr. Begich. Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, it is agreed to, the motion to reconsider be COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY: Mr. my intention also that this new ap- laid upon the table, with no inter- Leahy (Chairman), Mr. Kohl, Mrs. Feinstein,

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Mr. Schumer, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Whitehouse, S. RES. 43 Moran, Mr. Johnson (Wisconsin), Ms. Ayotte, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Franken, Mr. Coons, and Resolved, That the following shall con- Mr. Shelby, Mr. Graham, and Mr. Chambliss. Mr. Blumenthal. stitute the minority party’s membership on SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTEL- SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTEL- the following committees for the One Hun- LIGENCE: Mr. Chambliss, Ms. Snowe, Mr. LIGENCE: Mrs. Feinstein (Chairman), Mr. dred Twelfth Congress, or until their succes- Burr, Mr. Risch, Mr. Coats, Mr. Blunt, and Rockefeller, Mr. Wyden, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. sors are chosen: Mr. Rubio. Nelson (Florida), Mr. Conrad, Mr. Udall (Col- COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, NUTRI- JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE: Mr. orado), and Mr. Warner. TION, AND FORESTRY: Mr. Roberts, Mr. DeMint, Mr. Coats, Mr. Lee, and Mr. COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET: Mr. Con- Lugar, Mr. Cochran, Mr. McConnell, Mr. Toomey. rad (Chairman), Mrs. Murray, Mr. Wyden, Chambliss, Mr. Johanns, Mr. Boozman, Mr. SELECT COMMITTEE ON ETHICS: Mr. Mr. Nelson (Florida), Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Thune, and Mr. Hoeven. Isakson, Mr. Roberts, and Mr. Risch. Cardin, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS: Mr. COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS: Mr. Warner, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Begich, and Mr. Cochran, Mr. McConnell, Mr. Shelby, Mrs. Barrasso, Mr. McCain, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Coons. Hutchison, Mr. Alexander, Ms. Collins, Ms. Hoeven, Mr. Crapo, and Mr. Johanns. COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ADMINIS- Murkowski, Mr. Graham, Mr. Kirk, Mr. f TRATION: Mr. Schumer (Chairman), Mr. Coats, Mr. Blunt, Mr. Moran, Mr. Hoeven, Inouye, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Nel- and Mr. Johnson (Wisconsin). SUPPORTING DEMOCRACY, UNI- son (Nebraska). Mrs. Murray, Mr. Pryor, Mr. COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES: Mr. VERSAL RIGHTS, AND PEACEFUL Udall (New Mexico), Mr. Warner, and Mr. McCain, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Cham- TRANSITION TO A REPRESENTA- Leahy. bliss, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Brown (Massachu- TIVE GOVERNMENT IN EGYPT COMMITTEE ON SMALL BUSINESS AND setts), Mr. Portman, Ms. Ayotte, Ms. Collins, Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Ms. Landrieu Mr. Graham, Mr. Cornyn, and Mr. Vitter. (Chairman), Mr. Levin, Mr. Harkin, Mr. COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, imous consent that the Senate proceed Kerry, Mr. Lieberman, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. AND URBAN AFFAIRS: Mr. Shelby, Mr. to the consideration of S. Res. 44. Pryor, Mr. Cardin, Mrs. Shaheen, and Mrs. Crapo, Mr. Corker, Mr. DeMint, Mr. Vitter, The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Hagan. Mr. Johanns, Mr. Toomey, Mr. Kirk, Mr. pore. The clerk will report the resolu- COMMITTEE ON VETERANS’ AFFAIRS: Moran, and Mr. Wicker. tion by title. Mrs. Murray (Chairman), Mr. Rockefeller, COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, The legislative clerk read as follows: AND TRANSPORTATION: Mrs. Hutchison, Mr. Akaka, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Brown (Ohio), A resolution (S. Res. 44) supporting democ- Ms. Snowe, Mr. Ensign, Mr. DeMint, Mr. Mr. Webb, Mr. Tester, and Mr. Begich. racy, universal rights, and the peaceful tran- Thune, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Blunt, SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON AGING: Mr. sition to a representative government in Mr. Boozman, Mr. Toomey, Mr. Rubio, and Kohl (Chairman), Mr. Wyden, Mr. Nelson Egypt. (Florida), Mr. Casey, Mrs. McCaskill, Mr. Ms. Ayotte. Whitehouse, Mr. Udall (Colorado), Mr. Ben- COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NAT- There being no objection, the Senate net, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Manchin, and Mr. URAL RESOURCES: Ms. Murkowski, Mr. proceeded to consider the resolution. Blumenthal. Burr, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Risch, Mr. Lee, Mr. Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE: Mr. Paul, Mr. Coats, Mr. Portman, Mr. Hoeven, imous consent that the resolution be Casey (Chairman), Mr. Bingaman, Ms. Klo- and Mr. Corker. agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, COMMITTEE ON THE ENVIRONMENT buchar, Mr. Webb, Mr. Warner, and Mr. the motions to reconsider be laid upon Sanders. AND PUBLIC WORKS: Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Vit- ter, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Crapo, the table, with no intervening action SELECT COMMITTEE ON ETHICS: Mrs. or debate, and that any statements re- Boxer (Chairman), Mr. Pryor, and Mr. Brown Mr. Alexander, Mr. Johanns, and Mr. Booz- (Ohio). man. lating to the resolution be printed in COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS: Mr. COMMITTEE ON FINANCE: Mr. Hatch, the RECORD. Akaka (Chairman), Mr. Inouye, Mr. Conrad, Mr. Grassley, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Kyl, Mr. Crapo, The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Mr. Johnson (South Dakota), Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Ensign, Mr. Enzi, Mr. Cor- pore. Without objection, it is so or- Mr. Tester, Mr. Udall (New Mexico), and Mr. nyn, Mr. Coburn, and Mr. Thune. COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: dered. Franken. Mr. Lugar, Mr. Corker, Mr. Risch, Mr. Rubio, The resolution (S. Res. 44) was agreed f Mr. Inhofe, Mr. DeMint, Mr. Isakson, Mr. to. Barrasso, and Mr. Lee. The preamble was agreed to. CONSTITUTING MINORITY PARTY’S COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, EDUCATION, The resolution, with its preamble, MEMBERSHIP ON CERTAIN COM- LABOR, AND PENSIONS: Mr. Enzi, Mr. reads as follows: MITTEES FOR THE ONE HUN- Alexander, Mr. Burr, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Paul, S. RES. 44 DRED TWELFTH CONGRESS Mr. Hatch, Mr. McCain, Mr. Roberts, Ms. Whereas the United States and Egypt have Murkowski, and Mr. Kirk. Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY long shared a strong bilateral relationship; imous consent that the Senate proceed AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS: Ms. Col- Whereas Egypt plays an important role in to the consideration of S. Res. 43. lins, Mr. Coburn, Mr. Brown (Massachusetts), global and regional politics as well as in the The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Mr. McCain, Mr. Johnson (Wisconsin), Mr. broader Middle East and North Africa; pore. The clerk will report the resolu- Ensign, Mr. Portman, and Mr. Paul. Whereas Egypt has been, and continues to COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY: Mr. be, an intellectual and cultural center of the tion by title. Arab world; The legislative clerk read as follows: Grassley, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Kyl, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Graham, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Lee, and Mr. Whereas on January 25, 2011, demonstra- A resolution (S. Res. 43) to constitute the Coburn. tions began across Egypt with thousands of minority party’s membership on certain COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET: Mr. Ses- protesters peacefully calling for a new gov- committees for the One Hundred Twelfth sions, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Enzi, Mr. Crapo, Mr. ernment, free and fair elections, significant Congress, or until their successors are cho- Ensign, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Graham, Mr. Thune, constitutional and political reforms, greater sen. Mr. Portman, Mr. Toomey, and Mr. Johnson economic opportunity, and an end to govern- There being no objection, the Senate (Wisconsin). ment corruption; proceeded to consider the resolution. COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ADMINIS- Whereas on January 28, 2011, the Govern- ment of Egypt shut down Internet and mo- Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- TRATION: Mr. Alexander, Mr. McConnell, Mr. Cochran, Mr. Chambliss, Mrs. Hutchison, bile phone networks almost entirely and imous consent that the resolution be Mr. Roberts, Mr. Shelby, and Mr. Blunt. blocked social networking websites; agreed to, the motion to reconsider be COMMITTEE ON SMALL BUSINESS AND Whereas on January 29, 2011, President laid upon the table, with no inter- ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Ms. Snowe, Mr. Vit- Hosni Mubarak appointed Omar Suleiman, vening action or debate, and any state- ter, Mr. Risch, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Paul, Ms. former head of the Egyptian General Intel- ments related to the resolution be Ayotte, Mr. Enzi, Mr. Brown (Massachu- ligence Directorate, as Vice President and printed in the RECORD. setts), and Mr. Moran. Ahmed Shafik, former Minister for Civil The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- COMMITTEE ON VETERANS’ AFFAIRS: Aviation, as Prime Minister; Mr. Burr, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Whereas the demonstrations have contin- pore. Without objection, it is so or- Johanns, Mr. Brown (Massachusetts), Mr. ued, making this the longest protest in mod- dered. Moran, and Mr. Boozman. ern Egyptian history, and on February 1, The resolution (S. Res. 43) was agreed SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON AGING: Mr. 2011, millions of protesters took to the to, as follows: Corker, Ms. Collins, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Kirk, Mr. streets across the country;

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:29 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00060 Fmt 0686 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\S03FE1.002 S03FE1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD 1236 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 February 3, 2011 Whereas hundreds of Egyptians have been interim caretaker government, in coordina- The preamble was agreed to. killed and injured since the protests began; tion with leaders from Egypt’s opposition, The resolution, with its preamble, Whereas on February 1, 2011, President civil society, and military, to enact the nec- reads as follows: Hosni Mubarak announced that he would not essary reforms to hold free, fair, and inter- run for reelection later this year, but wide- nationally credible elections this year; S. RES. 45 spread protests against his government con- (7) affirms that a real transition to a le- Whereas on January 7, 2011, the Eastern tinue; gitimate representative democracy in Egypt Washington University football team (re- Whereas on February 1, 2011, President requires concrete steps to be taken as soon ferred to in this preamble as the ‘‘Eagles’’) Barack Obama called for an orderly transi- as possible, including lifting the state of defeated the University of Delaware Blue tion, stating that it ‘‘must be meaningful, it emergency, allowing Egyptians to organize Hens by a score of 20 to 19, to win the 2010 must be peaceful, and it must begin now.’’ independent political parties without inter- National Collegiate Athletic Association Di- He also affirmed that: ‘‘The process must in- ference, enhancing the transparency of gov- vision 1 Football Championship Subdivision clude a broad spectrum of Egyptian voices ernmental institutions, restoring judicial su- title; and opposition parties. It should lead to elec- pervision of elections, allowing credible Whereas the Eagles were down for most of tions that are free and fair. And it should re- international monitors to observe the prepa- the championship game, trailing 0 to 19 until sult in a government that’s not only ground- ration and conduct of elections, and amend- late in the third quarter; ed in democratic principles, but is also re- ing the laws and Constitution of Egypt as Whereas, it was not until 1 minute and 48 sponsive to the aspirations of the Egyptian necessary to implement these and other crit- seconds remained in the third quarter of the people.’’; ical reforms; championship game that quarterback Bo Whereas despite President Hosni (8) pledges full support for Egypt’s transi- Levi Mitchell threw a 22-yard touchdown Mubarak’s pledge in 2005 that Egypt’s con- tion to a representative democracy that is pass to Brandon Kaufman; troversial emergency law would be used only responsive to the needs of the Egyptian peo- Whereas Mitchell then threw another to fight terrorism and that he planned to ple, and calls on all nations to support the touchdown to Nicholas Edwards with 8 min- abolish the state of emergency and adopt people of Egypt as they work to conduct a utes and 16 seconds left in the fourth quar- new antiterrorism legislation as an alter- successful transition to democracy; ter; native, in May 2010, the Government of (9) expresses deep concern over any organi- Whereas Mitchell threw a third touchdown, Egypt again extended the emergency law, zation that espouses an extremist ideology, again to Kaufman, with 2 minutes and 47 sec- which has been in place continuously since including the Muslim Brotherhood, and calls onds left in the game, clinching a win in the 1981, for another 2 years, giving police broad upon all political movements and parties in Eagles’ first trip to the National Collegiate powers of arrest and allowing indefinite de- Egypt, including an interim goverment, to Athletic Association Division 1 Football tention without charge; affirm their commitment to non-violence Championship Subdivision game; Whereas the Department of State’s 2009 and the rule of law, the equal rights of all in- Whereas the Eagles began the 2010 season Human Rights Report notes with respect to dividuals, accountable institutions of jus- in the newly renovated and dedicated Roos Egypt, ‘‘[t]he government’s respect for tice, religious, tolerance, peaceful relations Field, named after Eastern Washington Uni- human rights remained poor, and serious with Egypt’s neighbors, and the fundamental versity alumnus and offensive lineman Mi- abuses continued in many areas. The govern- principles and practices of democracy, in- chael Roos of the National Football League’s ment limited citizens’ right to change their cluding the regular conduct of free and fair Tennessee Titans; government and continued a state of emer- elections; Whereas Roos Field is the only Division 1 gency that has been in place almost continu- (10) underscores the vital importance of college football stadium to feature a red ously since 1967.’’; any Egyptian Government continuing to ful- playing surface, leading Roos Field to be Whereas past elections in Egypt, including fill its international obligations, including aptly nicknamed ‘‘The Inferno’’; the most recent November 2010 parliamen- its commitments under the Egypt-Israel Whereas head coach Beau Baldwin was tary elections, have seen serious irregular- Peace Treaty signed on March 26, 1979 and named the Coach of the Year by College ities at polling and counting stations, secu- the freedom of navigation through the Suez Sporting News; rity force intimidation and coercion of vot- Canal; and Whereas the 2010 Buck Buchanan Award, ers, and obstruction of peaceful political ral- (11) ensures that United States assistance honoring the most outstanding defensive lies and demonstrations; and to the Egyptian Government, military, and player in the Division I Football Champion- Whereas any election must be honest and people will advance the goal of ensuring re- ship Subdivision, was awarded to Eagles line- open to all legitimate candidates and con- spect for the universal rights of the Egyptian backer J.C. Sherritt; ducted without interference from the mili- people and will further the national security Whereas Big Sky Conference honors were tary or security apparatus and under the interests of the United States in the region. awarded to Eagles running back Taiwan oversight of international monitors: Now, f Jones, who was named Offensive Player of therefore, be it CONGRATULATING THE EASTERN the Year, and Eagles linebacker J.C. Resolved, That the Senate— Sherritt, who was named Defensive Player of (1) acknowledges the central and historic WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY FOOT- the Year; importance of the United States-Egyptian BALL TEAM Whereas the Eagles clinched a share of the strategic partnership in advancing the com- Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unan- 2010 Big Sky Conference title, with a con- mon interests of both countries, including imous consent the Senate proceed to ference record of 7-1 and an overall season peace and security in the broader Middle the immediate consideration of S. Res. record of 13-2, and finished the 2010 season East and North Africa; 45, submitted earlier today. with an 11-game win streak; and (2) reaffirms the United States’ commit- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Whereas the Eagles enjoyed widespread ment to the universal rights of freedom of support from their dedicated and spirited assembly, freedom of speech, and freedom of pore. The clerk will report the resolu- fans, as well as the entire Eastern Wash- access to information, including the Inter- tion by title. ington University community: Now, there- net, and expresses strong support for the The legislative clerk read as follows: fore, be it people of Egypt in their peaceful calls for a A resolution (S. Res. 45) congratulating the Resolved, That the Senate— representative and responsive democratic Eastern Washington University football (1) congratulates the Eastern Washington government that respects these rights; team for winning the 2010 National Colle- University football team for winning the Na- (3) condemns any efforts to provoke or in- giate Athletic Association Division 1 Foot- tional Collegiate Athletic Association Divi- stigate violence, and calls upon all parties to ball Championship Subdivision title. sion 1 Football Championship Subdivision refrain from all violent and criminal acts; There being no objection, the Senate title; (4) supports freedom of the press and proceeded to consider the resolution. (2) recognizes the hard work and dedication strongly condems the intimidation, tar- Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent of the players, head coach Beau Baldwin, and geting, or detention of journalists. the resolution be agreed to, the pre- the assistant coaches and support personnel (5) urges the Egyptian military to dem- amble be agreed to, the motions to re- who all played critical roles in helping the onstrate maximum professionalism and re- consider be laid upon the table, with no Eastern Washington University Eagles win straint, and emphasizes the importance of the Subdivision title; and working to peacefully restore calm and order intervening action or debate, and any (3) respectfully requests the Secretary of while allowing for free and non-violent free- statements be printed in the RECORD. the Senate to transmit an enrolled copy of dom of expression; The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- the resolution to— (6) calls on President Mubarak to imme- pore. Without objection, it is so or- (A) the President of Eastern Washington diately begin an orderly and peaceful transi- dered. University, Dr. Rodolfo Are´valo; tion to a democratic political system, in- The resolution (S. Res. 45) was agreed (B) the Athletic Director of Eastern Wash- cluding the transfer of power to an inclusive to. ington University, Bill Chaves; and

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:29 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00061 Fmt 0686 Sfmt 0634 J:\BR_BACKUP\S03FE1.002 S03FE1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD February 3, 2011 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 1237 (C) the Head Coach of the Eastern Wash- 706, adopted December 22, 2010, the ap- To be lieutenant general ington University football team, Beau Bald- pointment of the following Senator as LT. GEN. PURL K. KEEN win. a member of the Senate National Secu- THE FOLLOWING ARMY NATIONAL GUARD OF THE f rity Working Group for the 112th Con- UNITED STATES OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT IN THE RE- SERVE OF THE ARMY TO THE GRADE INDICATED UNDER DISCHARGE AND REFERRAL—S. 126 gress: the Senator from Connecticut TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 12203 AND 12211: AND S. 109 (Mr. LIEBERMAN). To be brigadier general Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent f COL. JOHNNY M. SELLERS that S. 126 be discharged from the Com- THE FOLLOWING ARMY NATIONAL GUARD OF THE ORDERS FOR FRIDAY, FEBRUARY UNITED STATES OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT IN THE RE- mittee on Rules and Administration 4, 2011 SERVE OF THE ARMY TO THE GRADE INDICATED UNDER and be referred to the Committee on TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 12203 AND 12211: Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent To be brigadier general Foreign Relations. that when the Senate completes its The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- business today, it adjourn until 10 a.m. COL. JANSON D. BOYLES IN THE AIR FORCE pore. Without objection, it is so or- on Friday, February 4, 2011; that fol- dered. lowing the prayer and pledge, the Jour- THE FOLLOWING NAMED INDIVIDUALS FOR APPOINT- Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent MENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE REGULAR AIR nal of proceedings be approved to date, FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 531(A): the Finance Committee be discharged the morning hour be deemed expired, To be major from further consideration of S. 109 and the time for the two leaders be re- STEPHEN L. BUSE the bill be referred to the Committee served for their use later in the day, CYNTHIA J. CAPUTO on Foreign Relations. and following any leader remarks, the ANGELA P. PETTIS The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Senate proceed to a period of morning THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT pore. Without objection, it is so or- TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE AIR business, with Senators permitted to FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: dered. speak for up to 10 minutes each. To be colonel f The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- THOMAS J. COLLINS pore. Without objection, it is so or- JUDITH P. PATTON MEASURES READ THE FIRST TIME LINDA A. STOKESCROWE dered. EN BLOC—S. 289, S. 290, AND S. 291 THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT f TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE AIR Mr. REID. Mr. President, I am told FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: there are three bills at the desk due for ADJOURNMENT UNTIL 10 A.M. To be colonel their first reading. TOMORROW PHILLIP M. ARMSTRONG The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- THOMAS D. KELLY Mr. REID. Mr. President, if there is pore. The clerk will report the bills en ROBERT C. LEIVERS no further business to come before the RICHARD E. SPEARMAN, JR. bloc. Senate, I ask unanimous consent that THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT The legislative clerk read as follows: it adjourn under the previous order. TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE AIR FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: A bill (S. 289) to extend expiring provisions There being no objection, the Senate, of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Re- To be colonel at 7:27 p.m., adjourned until Friday, authorization Act of 2005, the Intelligence LLOYD H. ANSETH Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of February 4, 2011, at 10 a.m. BRENDAN M. DONOGHUE 2004, and the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 DON A. GOLDSMITH f MARK T. MEANS until December 31, 2013, and for other pur- KARL B. ROSS poses. NOMINATIONS THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT A bill (S. 290) to extend the sunset of cer- Executive nominations received by TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE AIR tain provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, the Senate: FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: and for other purposes. To be colonel SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA A bill (S. 291) to repeal the sunset provi- KATHLEEN M. FLARITY sions in the USA PATRIOT Improvement JENNIFER A. DI TORO, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, KATHLEEN Z. MAGUIRE and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and other re- TO BE AN ASSOCIATE JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT JANET D. POUNCY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FOR THE TERM OF FIF- JULIA K. SCOTT lated provisions and permanently reauthor- TEEN YEARS, VICE JUDITH E. RETCHIN, RETIRED. KAREN R. WADE ize the USA PATRIOT Act. DONNA MARY MURPHY, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUM- TONI L. WILKINS BIA, TO BE AN ASSOCIATE JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR JENNETTE L. ZMAEFF Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask for a COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FOR THE TERM second reading of these matters en bloc OF FIFTEEN YEARS, VICE KAYE K. CHRISTIAN, RETIRED. THE FOLLOWING NAMED INDIVIDUALS FOR APPOINT- YVONNE M. WILLIAMS, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, MENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE REGULAR AIR but object to my own request en bloc. TO BE AN ASSOCIATE JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 531(A): The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FOR THE TERM OF FIF- To be major TEEN YEARS, VICE BROOK HEDGE, RETIRED. pore. Objection is heard. The bills will MELINA T. DOAN IN THE AIR FORCE be read the second time on the next MEDIRINA B. GILLIAM THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT LENONIE M. HANLEY legislative day. IN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE TO THE GRADE INDI- EDWARD M. LOPEZ GREGORY L. MASIELLO f CATED WHILE ASSIGNED TO A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE AND RESPONSIBILITY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION MICHAEL C. OTT FELIPE D. VILLENA, JR. APPOINTMENT 601: To be lieutenant general THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES AIR pore. The Chair announces, on behalf of MAJ. GEN. ELLEN M. PAWLIKOWSKI FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT To be colonel the majority leader, pursuant to the IN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE TO THE GRADE INDI- provisions of S. Res. 105, adopted April CATED WHILE ASSIGNED TO A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE MICHAEL D. DIETZ AND RESPONSIBILITY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION BRENT J. ERICKSON 13, 1989, as amended by S. Res. 149, 601: BONNIE E. GOODALE adopted October 5, 1993, as amended by FREDERICK H. GRANTHAM To be lieutenant general NORMAN T. GREENLEE Public Law 105–275, adopted October 21, DAVID L. JOHNSON 1998, further amended by S. Res. 75, MAJ. GEN. MICHAEL J. BASLA JOHL K. KLEIN IN THE ARMY DANIEL S. MCNULTY adopted March 25, 1999, amended by S. STEPHEN M. MOUNTS Res. 383, adopted October 27, 2000, and THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT CATHERINE M. NELSON IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY TO THE GRADE INDICATED SUSAN J. PIETRYKOWSKI amended by S. Res. 355, adopted No- WHILE ASSIGNED TO A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE AND DOREEN F. WILDER RESPONSIBILITY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 601: vember 13, 2002, and further amended THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT by S. Res. 480, adopted November 21, To be lieutenant general TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: 2004, further amended by S. Res 625, MAJ. GEN. RHETT A. HERNANDEZ To be colonel adopted December 6, 2006, and further THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT amended by S. Res. 715, adopted No- IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY TO THE GRADE INDICATED VILLA L. GUILLORY WHILE ASSIGNED TO A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE AND MARTIN J. HAMILTON vember 28, 2008, and amended by S. Res. RESPONSIBILITY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 601: MARK R. HENDERSON

VerDate Mar 15 2010 12:29 Jan 09, 2014 Jkt 099102 PO 00000 Frm 00062 Fmt 0686 Sfmt 9801 J:\BR_BACKUP\S03FE1.002 S03FE1 WREIER-AVILES on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with BOUND RECORD 1238 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 157, Pt. 1 February 3, 2011 KENN K. KANESHIRO ANTHONY JOHN DEVITO To be major JOHN W. KERSEY, JR. JOHN R. DIDONNA JAMES F. KNOWLES REED C. DRAKE MARCIA A. BRIMM SCOTT C. MALTHANER THOMAS C. DUKE PENNY H. CUNNINGHAM DONALD SHEETS, JR. ANNE MARIE DUTCHER HEATHER V. SOUTHBY CHARLES A. STOCK RICHARD LEWIS EDWARDS, JR. BRADLEY M. TURNER BRIAN C. ELBERT THE FOLLOWING NAMED INDIVIDUALS FOR REGULAR MICHAEL N. WAJDOWICZ ERIC K. ELY APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADES INDICATED IN THE DANNY K. WONG ROBERT R. ERICKSON UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, LAURIE M. FARRIS U.S.C., SECTIONS 531 AND 3064: THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT JOHN T. FERRY To be lieutenant colonel TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE AIR PAUL E. FOLLETT FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: FREDERICK W. FRENCH DUSTIN C. FRAZIER To be colonel JOHN M. GAEDKE WAYNE W. KIM CLAY L. GARRISON ALFRED P. BOWLES II SHARON ALINE GATTENS To be major CURTISS B. COOK BARRY D. GORTER JAN I. MABY RICHARD J. DINSDALE BRADLEY G. GRAFF JIMMIE J. DRUMMOND, JR. ROBERT J. GREGORY III THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT MANUEL H. ENRIQUEZ CHET P. HAHN TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE THOMAS EARL FRANKLIN JOEL LON HARRIS ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: BRAD S. GOLDMAN PETER K. HARRIS MEREDITH ANN GOODWIN JAMES P. HARTLINE, JR. To be colonel EVAN ZACHARY KAPP MARK A. HEDLUND ROBERT L. BIERENGA HENRY T. LEIS GREGORY MICHAEL HENDERSON DOUGLAS A. ETTER JUAN C. NARVAEZ MERLE ELISE HERETH ANDREW L. GIBSON REBECCA A. REYNOLDS ELIZABETH ANNE HILL GENE G. HENKE JOSEPH W. THOMPSON STEVEN R. HILSDON BENJAMIN K. HODGE HERMINIGILDO V. VALLE RICHARD DALLAS HOWARD PETER J. LAWSON TIMOTHY M. JONES THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT CARL N. STEELE LORINDA C. KECK JOHNNIE M. TOBY TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES AIR PAUL K. KINGSLEY FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: PETER L. LINDE THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT To be colonel WAYNE A. LITHERLAND TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE JOHNNY S. LIZAMA ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: BRIAN F. AGEE KERRY RAYELLE LOVELY DANIEL J. BALOG KEITH G. MACDONALD To be colonel CATHERINE A. BOBENRIETH MATTHEW J. MANIFOLD DON A. CAMPBELL MARK E. BOSTON MICHAEL J. MAWSON AUSTIN J. COE DANIEL B. BRUZZINI WAYNE M. MCCAUGHEY STEVEN M. EDDY WILLIAM D. CLOUSE THOMAS J. MCENTEE JOHN W. GIBBON DAVID L. CUNNINGHAM CURTIS N. MCLAIN LEONARD R. HIGGINS CARLO GREG N. DEMANDANTE MICHAEL A. METZLER RONALD R. HUFFMAN DEVIN L. DONNELLY DAVID J. MEYER DAVID J. HUNTER MARK D. ERVIN GREGORY SCOTT MYERS HOWARD R. LUCAS, JR. CARLOS R. ESQUIVEL JEFFREY T. NAMIHIRA THOMAS R. SHEPARD MERLIN B. FAUSETT SCOTT W. NORMANDEAU JOSEPH W. SMITH EARL E. FERGUSON III MAYNARD S. OSBORNE BENNIE J. WIGGINS II MICHAEL R. GAURON BARTLEY MITCHELL OTOOLE KEVIN T. WILKINSON WILLIAM HALLIER ERIK A. PETERSON ALDEN D. HILTON KEVIN D. PHILPOT IN THE MARINE CORPS MARK E. HUBNER RUSSELL L. PONDER KEITH W. HUNSAKER BRIAN L. PRESTON THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT RONALD B. JOHNSTON, JR. KYLE DOUGLAS REID TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES MA- KATHLEEN M. JONES FERMIN ANTHONY RUBIO RINE CORPS RESERVE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION PATRICK J. KEARNEY MICHAEL D. RUMSEY 12203: LESLIE A. KNIGHT MARK SAKADOLSKY To be colonel ERIK K. KODA LORI J. SCHEUERMANN TAMMY J. LINDSAY JOSEPH H. SCHULZ ERNEST L. ACKISS III JOSEPH A. LOPEZ JAY NELSON SELANDERS WILLIAM S. EBELING PATRICK D. LOWRY JOSEPH B. SIMMONS II ROBERT F. JABLONSKI DAVID J. LUTHER BRIAN MALCOLM SIMPLER GEORGE A. MASSEY LOUIS MARTINEZ, JR. DAVID ANDREW SMITH JAMES P. MCGUIRE RICHARD J. MAYERS WILLIAM LEBARON SPARROW CLAY O. RUNZI TIMOTHY A. MCGRAW KARL BRIAN STARK THEODORE SILVESTER III JEFFREY D. MEDLAND CHARLES G. STEVENSON WILLIAM P. MUELLER JAMES ROBERT STEVENSON, JR. THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT ALAN D. MURDOCK URIEL B. STRICKLAND TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES MA- STEVEN E. PFLANZ CLAUDE C. SWAMMY RINE CORPS RESERVE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION BILLY D. PRUETT DAVID T. TRIMBLE 12203: CHARLES D. REILLY GLEN R. WASS To be colonel MATTHEW G. RETZLOFF JOHN MARK WEEK DAVID M. ROSSO PATTY R. WILBANKS PHILIP Q. APPLEGATE WANDA L. SALZER WALTER FREDERICK WINTSCH, JR. RODERICK T. ARRINGTON JAMES L. SANDERSON MICHAEL C. WOLFE KENNETH M. BRANDEL DALE M. SELBY JOHN F. WOLVERTON JOSEPH A. CABELL PAUL M. SHERMAN CHARLES E. WOODS JOHN C. CHURCH, JR. DANIEL A. SHOOR BRIAN P. WYNEKEN MICHAEL K. CLAUSEN PAMELA D. SMITH DANIEL S. YENCHESKY STANTON S. COERR ERIKA J. STRUBLE DAVID B. CRIST LYNDA K. VU IN THE ARMY MARTIN F. CROXTON KELLY N. WEST ROBERT A. DEROZIERE THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR REGULAR AP- BRADFORD WILLIAMS DAVID C. DEVORE POINTMENT IN THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED ANITA JO ANNE WINKLER DANIEL J. DEWHIRST STATES ARMY JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL’S CORPS DOUGLAS A. DREW UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 531 AND 3064: THE FOLLOWING NAMED AIR NATIONAL GUARD OF THE WALTER B. ESTEP III UNITED STATES OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT TO THE To be lieutenant colonel ROBERT D. FREEMAN GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE AIR FORCE JAVIER GARCIA UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 12203 AND 12212: EDWARD J. BENZ III ROBERT J. GOETZ To be colonel JAMES W. F. GREEN THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT RICHARD HAROOTUNIAN EARL R. ALAMEIDA, JR. TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE MARK V. HARRISON DAVID J. ALEXANDER ARMY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: ROBERT H. HASHIMOTO JOHN R. ANDERSON To be colonel ROBERT W. JACKSON JEFFREY F. ARNDT WILLIAM B. JOHNSON JAMIE L. BAGGSTROM CHARLES E. LYNDE BARRY R. KIMBROUGH JANEL K. BENNETT GUS KOSTAS DONALD R. BEVIS, JR. THE FOLLOWING NAMED INDIVIDUALS FOR REGULAR THOMAS M. KRUGLER DAVID A. BRADLEY APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE CURTIS T. LEE DAVID SCOTT BRENTON UNITED STATES ARMY DENTAL CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, DAVID V. LITTLE NICHOLAS A. BROCCOLI U.S.C., SECTIONS 531 AND 3064: STEVEN P. LOGAN BARBRA S. BULS MARIA S. LONG STEVEN JOSEPH BUTOW To be major ROBERT B. LUCAS III KEVIN J. CAMPBELL OZREN T. BUNTAK TODD J. MACDONALD DAVID ALAN CASS ADAM R. LIBERMAN STEVEN R. MARAVILLAS DOUGLAS SCOTT CHAMPAGNE JOSEPH MIR DONALD A. MARKWARD CHRISTOPHER J. CHARNEY RUTH NELSON MICHAEL P. MCCARTHY JULIAN L. CLAY PAUL H. MCCONNELL KIRBY R. COLAS THE FOLLOWING NAMED INDIVIDUALS FOR REGULAR JOHN G. MCGINNIS MAC ALAN CRAWFORD APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE JAMES E. MEAD KEVIN K. DAWKINS UNITED STATES ARMY NURSE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, JULIA A. MEADE ROBERT CARL DESKO U.S.C., SECTIONS 531 AND 3064: JOSEPH C. MORRIS

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STEPHEN B. NORDHOFF ERIC R. DENT KRISTIN L. MCCANN DARIUS NOVICKIS JOHN J. DEPINTO, JR. FRANK L. MCCLINTICK HARRY D. OAKLEY KEVIN L. DIGMAN ROBERT W. MCCRACKEN IV PAUL R. OZMER KEVIN J. DOBZYNIAK LYLE L. MCDANIEL, JR. KOREEN K. PARRY JOSEPH E. DONALD III ERIK P. MCDOWELL JAMES W. PRICE WILLIAM P. DONNELLY III GEOFFREY J. MCKEEL STEVEN T. RAMOS ERIC J. DOUGHERTY ANDREW J. MCNULTY TIMOTHY A. RAYNOR BRIAN S. DRYZGA JOHN L. MEDEIROS, JR. MICHAEL J. REILLY II JAN R. DURHAM JOSE R. MEDINA DARREN L. RICHARDSON JUSTIN W. DYAL CHRISTOPHER L. MEDLIN ROB B. ROBERSON ANDREW D. DYER DOWAL E. MEGGS, JR. ANDREW T. ROBERTO AMY R. EBITZ PAUL C. MERIDA JAY R. RODNE JASON M. EBY MANUEL A. MERINO GEOFFREY R. ROLLINS AARON D. ECKERBERG MARK A. MERRILL WILLIAM J. RUSCIOLELLI JUSTIN W. EGGSTAFF THOMAS B. MERRITT, JR. HOWARD D. RUSSELL GEORGES T. EGLI ANDREW A. MERZ WILLIAM T. RYAN MARK W. ELFERS MARK W. MICKE LUIS R. SANCHEZ JHAKE ELMAMUWALDI BRIAN L. MILAN STEPHEN P. SANTIAGO KEVIN M. ERKER NATHAN A. MILLER JON W. SHELBURNE ARMANDO ESPINOZA PAUL R. MILNE SCOTT H. SMITH JAMEY M. FEDERICO MICHAEL J. MONROE PAUL L. STARITA JOHN D. FERGUSON DONALD B. MOOR KURT W. STEIN GREGORY L. FIELD TOBY F. MOORE BRADLEY R. STILLABOWER PAUL F. FILLMORE JONATHAN C. MOREL MARSHALL L. SWOR MICHAEL J. FITZGERALD MICHAEL M. MOTLEY RICHARD D. THOMPSON, JR. KISHA M. FLAGG DAVID A. MUELLER MICHAEL A. TORMENTI JOHN P. FLYNN BRIAN W. MULLERY ROBERT J. VEHE, JR. DARIN J. FOX KENNETH C. MUSIAL RICHARD R. WARMBOLD II FRANK I. FRITTMAN BARTON K. NAGLE STEVEN D. WEINTRAUB TRAVIS T. GAINES KIRK B. NELSON SCOTT C. WERTZ MATTHEW C. GANLEY BRIAN J. NEWBOLD KURTIS P. WHEELER THOMAS H. GARNETT IV JASON L. NICKERL LAWRENCE L. WHITE III CHRISTOPHER E. GEORGI THOMAS B. NOEL JAMES D. WILMOTT JEREMY L. GETTINGS BRENDAN G. OCONNELL TRENT A. GIBSON CHRISTOPHER P. OCONNOR THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT STEVE E. GILLETTE JONATHAN R. OHMAN TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES MA- SEAN M. GLEASON WILLIAM C. OLIVER RINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: ARMANDO GONZALEZ DAVID A. OLSON To be lieutenant colonel MATTHEW T. GOOD JEFFREY M. ONEILL MICHAEL S. GOODWIN JEFFREY M. OPSITOS CARLTON W. ADAMS JOSHUA S. GORDON NEIL J. OWENS JOHN B. ADAMS BRIAN T. GRANA BENJAMIN J. PAPPAS JOSEPH S. AGRES DANIEL GRANADO RICHARD A. PARADISE ANDREW P. ALBANO EDWARD C. GREELEY TEAGUE A. PASTEL JUSTIN J. ANDERSON BRUCE V. GREENE LANCE G. PATRICK KAIN C. ANDERSON JOHN F. GRIFFIN TOBY D. PATTERSON RYAN L. ANDERSON RICHARD R. GRIMM TERRY M. PAUSTENBAUGH ERIC M. ARBOGAST JAIME L. GUTIERREZ CORNELL A. PAYNE JOSEPH J. ATHERALL MATTHEW J. HAEFNER LESLIE T. PAYTON THOMAS A. ATKINSON EDWARD J. HANDLER IV CHRISTOPHER M. PERRINE JOSEPH T. BACHMANN SEAN M. HANKARD FORD C. PHILLIPS ANTHONY BAGGS JEFFREY D. HANSON JOSEPH M. PLENZLER ANTHONY J. BANGO JOHN W. HARMAN JEFFREY S. POOL DAVID M. BANNING JOHN E. HARRIS TIMOTHY R. POWLEDGE STEVEN K. BARRIGER BRIAN K. HARWELL KEVIN J. PRINDIVILLE JOHN C. BARRY KELLY K. HASTINGS THOMAS R. PRZYBELSKI SHAWN M. BASCO ROBERT C. HAWKINS STEVEN D. PUCKETT SHAWN B. BELTRAN BRIAN G. HEATHERMAN RORY B. QUINN BRIAN D. BERNTH WILLIAM D. HILL MICHAEL P. QUINTO JAMES W. BISHOP GREGORY S. HOFFMAN MARK A. RAFFETTO WILLIAM E. BLANCHARD JOEL M. HOFFMAN OMAR J. RANDALL SPENCER S. BLODGETT CHRISTOPHER L. HOLLOWAY DANIEL N. REBER JAMES A. BOERIGTER ROBERT A. HUBBARD CHESTER T. REESE DARYL S. BOERSMA DAVID T. HUDAK JABARI J. RENEAU JAMES Y. BOUNDS II ROBERT C. HUNTER JERSEY Y. REYES MICHAEL A. BOWERS JOSEPH R. HUTCHESON BRIAN T. RIDEOUT COLIN J. BRAINARD CHRISTOPHER S. IEVA JOSHUA A. RIGGS SEAN C. BRAZIEL JOHN B. JACKSON III WILFRED RIVERA CHRISTOPHER J. BRONZI SAMUEL E. JACKSON MICHAEL J. ROACH JAMES J. BROWN TIMOTHY J. JENT MARK C. ROBINSON JASON P. BROWN JASON E. JOLLIFF PATRICK R. ROBINSON MICHAEL D. BROYAN JAMES B. JONES ADRIAN B. ROMERO VINCENT R. BRYAN RICHARD D. JOYCE ERIC S. ROTH, JR. SHAWN J. BUDD STEPHEN P. KAHN WILLIAM H. ROTHERMEL BRYANT E. BUDDE JEFFREY S. KAWADA RICHARD A. ROYSE THOMAS A. BUDREJKO JOHN K. KELLEY LEE M. RUSH MICHAEL J. BUTLER MELISSA P. KELLEY BRIAN E. RUSSELL WALTER J. BUTLER, JR. ERIC W. KELLY RAUL L. SALCIDO RUSSELL P. BUTTRAM JEFFREY R. KENNEY ALFRED M. SANCHEZ MICHAEL K. CAGLE MATTHEW D. KERLIN DENNIS A. SANCHEZ RICHARD D. CALLAHAN JASON D. KINDRED DOUGLAS C. SANDERS LOUIS A. CAMARDO II CHESTER J. KING MARK K. SAUER LEO J. CANNON JUSTIN W. KNOX KURT J. SCHILLER CHARLOTTE J. CARPENTER BRIAN T. KOCH WILLIAM F. SCHOEN, JR. MICHAEL J. CARREIRO SCOTT M. KOLTICK SAMUEL C. SCHOOLFIELD ANITA W. CARROLL KEVIN R. KORPINEN LOUIS M. SCHOTEMEYER MICHAEL A. CARTER JAMES R. KYTE DEAN A. SCHULZ ROMAN K. CASON SAMUEL LABOY GREGORY G. SEAMAN MICHAEL V. CAVA MATTHEW J. LANDRY ANDROY D. SENEGAR GABRIELLE M. CHAPIN DAVID L. LANE BRIAN P. SHARP MICHAEL J. CHARNEY GREGORY J. LANE RYAN P. SHEEHY JAMES F. CHERRY, JR. LUIS F. LARA JAMES L. SHELTON, JR. WILLIAM D. CHESAREK, JR. VINCENT G. LARATTA LADD W. SHEPARD LESLEY W. CHIU DANNY R. LEDFORD WILLIAM SHERIDAN IV BRETT A. CLARK BRIAN R. LEWIS MATTHEW R. SIMMONS ADRIAN K. CLEYMANS FREDERICK L. LEWIS DANIEL B. SMITH THOMAS E. CLINTON, JR. MICHAEL E. LINDBLOM TRES C. SMITH SCOTT E. COBB MICHAEL J. LIVINGSTON ROBERT B. SOTIRE II DANIEL H. COLEMAN JONATHAN P. LONEY MARTIN V. STARTA COREY M. COLLIER JOHN P. LONGSHORE ERICH I. STEFANYSHYN TERENCE M. CONNELLY HENRY K. LYLES GARRY T. STEFFEN WILLIAM J. CONNER JOHN J. LYNCH II MICHAEL W. STEHLE JAMES B. CONWAY JAIME MACIAS JEFFREY R. STEVENSON SCOTT M. CONWAY FRANK A. MAKOSKI, JR. WILLIAM C. STOPHEL TOMMY D. CORNSTUBBLE, JR. ERIC C. MALINOWSKI JARROD W. STOUTENBOROUGH BRIAN P. COYNE STEPHANIE L. MALMANGER ROBERT A. SUCHER PATRICK R. CRAWFORD SCOTT D. MANNING BYRON D. SULLIVAN CHRISTOPHER J. CURTIN TODD M. MANYX JAMES G. SWEENEY JON W. DAVENPORT DONALD G. MARASKA DANIEL E. TARBUTTON BRADLEY T. DAVIN CHRISTOPHER M. MARISE JAMES T. TAYLOR CORY E. DEKRAAI ANDREW V. MARTINEZ DANIEL W. TEMPLE JOHN Y. DELATEUR JACOB M. MATT GARY W. 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ANDREW J. THOMPSON SHANE J. BURSAE AARON F. FISHER ERIC N. THOMPSON ALFRED L. BUTLER IV DANIEL S. FIUST JEREMY S. THOMPSON JACOB D. BUTZ JOHN V. FLANAGAN KELSEY R. THOMPSON LAUCHLIN D. BYRD IV JAMES D. FLEMING BRADFORD W. TIPPETT ARMANDO D. CABRALES JULIAN X. FLORES KEITH H. TOPEL BRYAN M. CADDEN GEORGE J. FLYNN III STEWART T. UPTON MARC W. CALDWELL SEAN C. FLYNN SCOTT E. VASQUEZ JAMES D. CALLICOATT CHAD G. FOLEY CHARLIE R. VONBERGEN CARIN O. CALVIN DAVID W. FORBELL BRIAN J. VONHERBULIS JULIET H. CALVIN SEAN M. FORESTER DANIEL C. WAGNER SHAWN M. CAMPBELL GARRY L. FRANCIS II WILLIAM F. WAHLE BETHANNE CANERO DANIEL B. FRANK STEVEN O. WALLACE SHAWN A. CAPPS JOSEPH F. FRESHOUR RANDAL M. WALSH TRAVIS D. CARLSON JAMES C. FULLER, JR. LAWRENCE M. WALZER DANIEL W. CAROFFINO BRADLEY N. FULTZ CHRISTIAN M. WARD EMMANUEL T. CARPER THOMAS D. FUSS ROBERT S. WASHINGTON DOUGLAS N. CARR JOHN L. GALLAGHER IV ROBERT S. WEILER JOSE L. CASTILLO BLAIR J. GARNER ANDREW J. WEIS MARCELO B. CASTRO ROMMUELLE E. GATONGAY SIDNEY R. WELCH NATHAN B. CHANDLER TODD P. GAY BRADLEY C. WESTON JESUS A. CHAPAGARCIA BETTINA L. GEHRIS DON M. WHITE JOHN T. CHARLTON II ORLANDO GIARRATANO WILLIAM T. WILBURN, JR. KENNY K. CHASE THOMAS J. GIBBONS MICHAEL B. WILLIAMS TUNG T. CHAU JOSHUA B. GIBBS PHILIP A. WILLIAMS BENJAMIN J. CHAVEZ RAYMOND N. GILETA CHARLES P. WINCHESTER CARLOS CHAVEZ DOUGLAS A. GIVEN ERIC S. WOLF NEAL J. CHERAMIE, JR. FRED GLENCAMP III MATTHEW J. WORSHAM LORENA CHILDERS JONATHAN C. GLOVER JUDY J. YODER JOSHUA C. CHRISMON SEAN D. GOBIN ERIC W. YOUNG RYAN E. CHRIST JERRY A. GODFREY THOMAS G. ZIEGLER, JR. TRAVIS E. CHRISTENSEN CHARLES D. GODWIN, JR. WAYNE R. ZUBER JEFFREY J. CISEK RUSSELL G. GOGAN JASON K. CLARK ALBERT J. GOLDBERG THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT NICOLE M. CLARK DANIEL O. GOMES TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES MA- MATTHEW B. CLINGER EVERETT M. GOOD RINE CORPS UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: ZACHARY A. COATES MELISSA I. GORDON To be major GARRY M. COLBERT BRANDON J. GORMAN AMANDA A. COLEMAN CAINE M. GOYETTE PAUL M. ABOUD LEE G. COLLINS MATTHEW J. GRABOWSKI ADRIAN S. ADAME CRAIG J. COLTEY ANDREW J. GRAHAM BENJAMIN S. ADAMS DARREL F. COMMANDER EDWARD P. GRAHAM JOSEPH K. ADAMS, JR. JEFFREY A. COMPTON MICHAEL R. GREENE MATTHEW J. AGNOLI ANTONIO M. CONTRERAS INDIGO M. GREGORY TOM E. AGUILAR BENJAMIN G. COOK ERIC D. GRENERT ANTONY E. ALEXANDER DUSTIN B. COOK CHAD R. GRIMMETT STEVEN ALFONSO THEODORE D. CORBEILL, JR. MATTHEW J. GRUBA JAMES G. ALLEN RICARDO J. CORDEROTORRES ADAM C. GUGELMEYER KELLY B. ALLEN LEROY R. CORTEREAL DOUGLAS L. HACKL MICHAEL D. ALLEN DAVID J. COTE GARRETT W. HAGER STEVEN C. ALLSHOUSE SEAN P. COX MATTHEW L. HAGER ROBERT C. ALMENDAREZ ZANE K. CRAWFORD JAMES D. HALE CHRISTOPHER D. ALVINO HEATHER M. CRENSHAW DONALD P. HALL II ANDREW M. ARANDA KEITH S. CRIM, JR. RICHARD D. HALLETT JUSTIN K. ARCHIBALD DORIAN L. CROCKER BRADLEY W. HANSON DAVID ARJONA BENJAMIN L. CROES MACKALYNN J. HARMON JASON C. ARMAS TODD A. CRUMBO RYAN F. HARRINGTON CHERYL A. ARMSTRONG EDWARD F. CUNNINGHAM IV ADRIAN B. HASKAMP JOHN P. ARNOLD SAMUEL M. DABNEY JONATHAN L. HAYES ERIK L. AUBEL SALEH P. DAGHER JOHN D. HECKER GREGORY H. AVEDIKIAN JASON N. DALE WILLIAM A. HEFTY WILLIAM V. BACKLUND III SHAWN H. DALEY TERRY W. HEICHELBECH JOHN BACON, JR. ANTHONY G. DAVIS AARON E. HEISINGER SHAWN S. BAHK JEREMY H. DAVIS LEE W. HEMMING BARET L. BAILEY PHILLIP B. DAVIS JOSE H. HERNANDEZ, JR. CARL A. BAILEY JIMMY W. DEAN OMAAR HERNANDEZ MARK E. BAILEY ROBERT C. DEIS PAUL M. HERZBERG CHRISTOPHER M. BAKER LOUIS T. DELIA III RONALD A. HESS KATHRYN E. BAKER CHRISTOPHER J. DENARDO MICHAEL S. HESTER PETER A. BAKER DAVID R. DENIAL BRAD A. HIGGINS GABRIEL M. BALCH NATHAN M. DENSFORD JUSTIN J. HILL JENIFFER P. BALLARD ARTURO J. DERRYBERRY COLE B. HODGE JEREMIAH S. BARBRE JARROD A. DEVORE BENJAMIN J. HODGINS JASON T. BARNES GABRIEL L. DIANA BRETT D. HOHMANN GEORGE R. BARTIMUS ERIK S. DICKERSON TYLER J. HOLLAND PAUL T. BARTOK JOHN B. DIEFENBACH ROGER A. HOLLIDAY, JR. NATHAN P. BASTAR NICHOLAS J. DIGUIDO GEOFFRY M. HOLLOPETER ANDREW J. BAUGHER EDWIN B. DILLARD, JR. WILLIAM J. HORTON BENJAMIN J. BEACH JOSEPH R. DIMAMBRO JOSEPH C. HORVATH MICHAEL S. BEAMES JONATHAN S. DISBRO DONALD L. HOTCHKISS STANLEY E. BEDNAR DAVID W. DODGE CHRISTINE M. HOUSER IVAN L. BEJARANO ORONDE S. DOMINIQUE JONATHAN C. HOWARD SHON S. BELCHER AIXA R. DONES THOMAS W. HUDSON CHARLES F. BENBOW GREGORY G. DONO MELVIN L. HUNGATE, JR. NOAH R. BENGUR ANGELA S. DOTSON ALFRED E. HUNTER LYNN W. BERENDSEN JAMES P. DOYLE CHRISTIAN P. HUR JUSTIN P. BETZ TIMOTHY R. DRIESLEIN CHARLES E. INGOLD, JR. HENRY G. BILLINGS, JR. JASON T. DUKE JAMES K. ISAACS II RICHARD A. BIRT II ANDREW M. DURNING BROGAN C. ISSITT MICHAEL D. BLAKEMORE ROBERT M. DYKMAN WILLIAM D. IVINS III JEFFREY C. BLAND WILLIAM B. EASTER JOSHUA M. JABIN CHARLES B. BLANKENSHIP BRETT H. EBERHARDT WILLIAM T. JACOBS CHRISTOPHER G. BLOSSER TIMOTHY B. EGAN PAUL D. JARR PAUL B. BOCK MAJDI M. 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MATTHEW T. RITCHIE SCOTT J. WERT ERIC J. MARTINDALE DAVID N. ROBERTS DANIEL W. WHITE ISAIAH G. MARTINEZ NATHAN M. ROBERTS ROBERT F. WHITE, JR. ADAM C. MARTZKE BENJAMIN A. ROBLES BRAD E. WHITED MONICA A. MARUSCEAC MICHAEL C. ROCK NEIL D. WHITNEY CHEDDY W. MATTHEWS ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ JAMES Y. WHITTAKER JUSTIN W. MAY PAULINA S. ROJAS MICHAEL W. WIEDL DONALD R. MAYO, JR. MATTHEW C. ROMOSER STEPHEN F. WILDT, JR. JOSHUA J. MAYORAL JEFFERY M. ROPER JEREMY S. WILKINSON CHRISTOPHER B. MAYS JULIAN D. ROSEMOND MICHAEL P. WILLIAMS CHRISTY L. MCCUTCHAN KIM R. ROSSITER PATRICK S. WILLIAMS CRAIG W. MCDERMOTT KENNETH K. ROSSMAN ROBERT G. WILLIAMS CHARLES T. MCDONALD JAMES M. ROWLETT III JOHN D. WILSON SEAN P. MCGEE BENJAMIN B. ROY MARSHALL N. WIMBERLY III RICHARD P. MCKENZIE JESSE RUBIO JOSHUA D. WINFREY DAX R. MCLENDON CHRIS RUGE JUSTIN R. WIRTH JOSEPH J. MCMENAMIN KEVIN A. SAMUELS ARON K. WISHERD TAVIS C. MCNAIR JUSTIN M. SANDERS RICHARD H. WITT III JOSEPH A. MCNULTY ELIEZER SANTANA, JR. MARLA J. WOHLFELD MATTHEW T. MCSORLEY KURTIS L. SARGENT LUCAS M. WOOD MICHAEL S. MCTEAGUE LARRY L. SATTERFIELD JAMES P. WOODARD SHAUN M. MEALING DAVID E. SAUNDERS DAVID E. WRIGHT FRANK P. MEASE, JR. TROY M. SAYLER SEAN B. WRIGHT JOE M. MEDEROS JONATHAN D. SCHAAFSMA MICHAEL D. WYRSCH JENNIFER L. MEEK RANDALL T. SCHINDLER CHRISTOPHER R. YANITY LUIS F. MEJIA LAURA A. SCHMITZ SHAYNE P. YENZER ANTHONY M. MERCADO BENJAMIN M. SCHNEIDER TAYLOR N. YOUNG CARLOS A. MERCADO MARK D. SCHOUTEN RICHARD V. YUDT, JR. MICHAEL J. MIKLOS JOEL C. SCHUMACHER JAY M. ZARRA SHAWN A. MILLER ROBERT D. SCHWAAB DEREK C. ZEIGLER TIMOTHY M. MILLER RAYMOND J. SCOTT, JR. MANUEL O. ZEPEDA TODD A. MILLER ROBERTO SCRIBNER RICHARD M. ZJAWIN SANTIAGO MIRAMONTES MICHAEL S. SEELY KEVIN A. MISNER ARNOLD B. SELVIDGE IN THE NAVY NORMAN A. MITCHELL III SCOTT G. SHADFORTH JON D. MOHLER THOMAS F. SHORT THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT SAMUEL MONK CHARLES S. SIEDLECKI, JR. TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY MARK L. MONTGOMERY THOMAS A. SIKORA UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: ISAAC D. MOORE CHRISTINE M. SILVA NATALIE E. MOORE MARK J. SIMPSON To be captain SEAN R. MOORE WILLIAM H. SIMS IV JEFFREY K. HAYHURST JOHN C. MORGAN MATTHEW J. SINNOTT RICHARD E. MORITZ PATRICK J. SISE THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT KENNETH W. MORROW RAY B. SLABBEKORN IN THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE REGULAR NAVY WILLIAM J. MURPHY II ARLON D. SMITH UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 531: STEPHEN L. MUSICK THEODORE R. SMITH CHAD E. NAGEL TIMOTHY J. SMITH To be lieutenant commander SUMMER J. NAGY AARON C. SMITHLEY CAROLYN M. NELSON DAVID P. SNIPES STEVEN D. ELIAS LINDSAY M. NELSON RICHARD A. SOFGE THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT BRANDON H. NEWELL ALAN J. SOLIS TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY FRANKLIN S. NEWTON JOHN F. SOTO, JR. UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 624: MARK D. NICHOLSON RICHARD M. SOUTHWORTH RANDALL L. NICKEL, JR. BROOKE J. SPEERS To be commander ANDREW S. NIX LESLIE M. 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THE FOLLOWING NAMED INDIVIDUALS FOR APPOINT- PATRICIA N. BEYER COAST GUARD RESERVE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION MENT TO THE GRADES INDICATED IN THE REGULAR CHRISTINE R. BOSAU 12203(A): NAVY UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 531: MICHAEL E. JONASSON THOMAS A. MONHEIM To be captain To be commander CARL J. TIERNEY PHILLIP F. BROOKING AMY R. GAVRIL ADAM E. TOREM To be lieutenant commander THE FOLLOWING NAMED INDIVIDUALS FOR APPOINT- THE FOLLOWING NAMED INDIVIDUALS FOR APPOINT- MENT IN THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE REGULAR AIR MENT AS PERMANENT COMMISSIONED REGULAR OFFI- GRANT A. KIDD FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTIONS 531(A) AND 716: CERS IN THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD IN THE GRADE INDICATED UNDER TITLE 14, U.S.C., SECTION 211: IN THE AIR FORCE To be major THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS FOR APPOINTMENT RICHARD C. ALES To be lieutenant commander TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE RESERVE OF THE AIR DEREK C. UNDERHILL IVAN R. MENESES FORCE UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., SECTION 12203: IN THE COAST GUARD To be colonel To be lieutenant THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT STEVEN L. ARGIRIOU TO THE GRADE INDICATED IN THE UNITED STATES WILLIAM A. SCHULZ

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